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Students leave campus to perform in the local community

Music majors at UT perform at local jazz clubs to gain profes-sional experience.

commuNIty / 7 »

upgrades at the Rec Pool tables, new weight equip-

ment, and a new gender-neutral bathroom were added to the Rec this semester.

NEwS / 3 »

Student Government debates, tables bill about parking passes

Heated debate broke out dur-ing a discussion of a proposed bill that would allow students to put the money owed for parking tickets toward the purchase of a parking permit.

NEwS / 3 »

ut begins weekday series with trip to Kent State

The Rockets entered the final four-game stretch of the their season Tuesday by putting their undefeated conference record on the line with a trip to Kent State.

SpoRtS / 6 »

mid-2000s are backBlack Student Union is holding a

philanthropy comedy show featur-ing UT students in a rendition of MTV’s Nick Cannon’s Wild ‘n Out TV show on Nov. 12.

commuNIty / 7 »

““The success of this hiring plan can and will either make or break a student’s aca-demic career.”

EDItoRIalFive points to note

opINIoN / 4 »

Rockets win sixth mac title in program history / 6 »

StuDENt GovERNmENt caRlSoN lIbRaRy

pRESIDENtIal aDDRESS

Extended library hours expected for finals

quinn jernas / iCStudents play betrayal at House on the Hill, a supernatural mystery thriller where one player turns against the investigation team to thwart their search. other games were also played at monster baSH on oct. 31, an annual event hosted by ut-baSH.

Monster BASH celebrates Halloween with games

by Katelyn montgomerystaff reporter

Overnight library usage data from the last two weeks show early-week lows and late-week highs.

In the first extended-hour week, the least amount of stu-dents came in Sunday night with a total of 114 students and the most students came Thursday night with a total of 174 students.

The second extended-hour week also had the least amount of students on Sun-day night, but inconclusive data prevented a chance for a similar conclusion in the second week.

Data was collected during the trial hours of midnight to 7 a.m. from Oct. 19-23 and again from Oct. 26-30.

Failure to notify a library staff member who was sup-posed to count students in the library on Oct. 30 altered data for the second extended-hour week, according to Pro-vost and Interim Director of University Libraries Marcia King-Blandford and Senior Vice Provost of Academic Af-fairs Margaret Traband.

While numbers of students were reported, scanned re-ports – or names of students who used their RocketCards to get into the library during extended hours – have yet to be received.

King-Blandford said stu-dents were counted with both scan reports and headcounts.

“If you were in there before midnight and you just went into the first floor, you would probably be counted in these numbers,” she said. “If you came in after 12 a.m., it used scanned reports.”

King-Blandford said how important the scanned re-ports are not just in terms of numbers, but safety as well.

“It’s important to us be-cause it tells us who’s denied access, so people who are trying to get into the building that shouldn’t be getting into the building,” she said. “So

by colleen anderson staff reporter

With the introduc-tion of online program OrgSync, significant changes are in the works for how student life at the University of Toledo is organized.

Blackboard for student life

OrgSync is a Web-based system de-signed for organizing and keeping track of student life on col-lege campuses. The OrgSync website said it creates an online community that can be tailored for each user.

OrgSync’s website also said their prod-uct “helps [the client] connect and engage with the populations you serve, improves information shar-

ing, minimizes paper usage, tracks co-cur-ricular involvement, and allows [the client] to generate reports on all data collected for annual reports and ac-creditation.”

Clayton Notestine, Student Government president, said OrgSync is going to be the new online alternative to

the “old paper-and-pen version of organizing student life.”

“OrgSync is essen-tially the BlackBoard, but for student life,” he said. “It takes a lot of the process for inter-acting and doing pa-perwork or your day-to-day operations and makes it electronic, puts it online.”

Front end and back end

Notestine said Org-Sync is a program that both students and staff of the university will be able to utilize.

“OrgSync is both a front end and a back end; the front end is what the students inter-act with, it’s everything from having a website for your organization to having online rosters,” Notestine said.“If you’re a student organization president, it’s what al-lows you to keep track of your membership. On the back end, it’s every-thing that the University of Toledo staff has to do, whether that be reserv-ing a room, or renewing documents or updating liability forms.”

Tamika Mitchell, dean of students and SG’s

Naganathan highlights faculty hiring plan, student retention and other topics

by Katelyn montgomerystaff reporter

University of Toledo Interim President Nagi Naganathan — along with commentary from various UT administration, faculty and Student Government representatives — unveiled and addressed this academic year’s initiatives at the 2014 State of the University Address Oct. 29.

UT anticipated a disproportionately large amount of retirements due to changes in the state pension system, according to Nagana-than. Thus, a new faculty-hiring plan has been initiated under the leadership of Interim Provost John Barrett.

Barrett spoke about this plan via video dur-ing the address.

“The most important thing about this process is of course that we hire excellent faculty because faculty are the life-blood of this institution, and if we do this right, it’ll have a positive impact for twenty or thirty years,” he said.

Barrett said all of the lines they authorize will be open for three years, so departments get their top choice in faculty members. He said they may hire about 50 people for next year.

Naganathan said enrollment is important for financial sustainability and diversity at the university.

“Even more important is the value of a

large, diverse student body, which makes the university a vibrant learning community,” Naganathan said.

In recognition of the increasing diversity, he expanded the membership of the president’s council on diversity.

Naganathan also introduced an enrollment goal for fall 2015.

“If you don’t live on the edge, you are taking up entirely too much space,” he said. “In that spirit, today, I am publicly announcing an aggressive enrollment goal of 400 additional students for next fall.”

Students should have direct access to the Office of the President and likewise the presi-dent should have contact with the students, according to Naganathan.

The Division of Student Affairs now directly reports to the Office of the President and a new program, Walk with the President, was created.

According to SG Vice President Ali Elta-tawy, who spoke on video during Nagana-than’s presentation, the newly created Walk with the President program is for Naganathan to engage with students.

Senior Vice President of Student Affairs Kaye Patten Wallace also spoke on video, and

aLeX CaMPOs / iCInterim president Nagi Naganathan addresses this academic year’s initiatives at the State of the university address.

online system to be implemented by spring 2015

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Flu shots to be given Nov. 5

Flu shots will be given at the Law Center on Nov. 5 from 1-5 p.m. in the SLK lounge.

Register for a flu shot by filling out the regis-tration form on the UT website. The form will be located under Commu-nity Health/ Health and Wellness/ Influenza Vac-cine Registration.

For more information contact the Law Center at 419-530-4131.

CISP informational session to be held Nov. 5

The Center for Inter-national Studies and Programs will be holding an information session Nov. 5 from 3-4 p.m. in Snyder Memorial.

The session will cover Education Abroad, the National Student Ex-change, Camp Adventure and the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

For more information, email [email protected] or call 419-530-5268.

Tropical Smoothie Café to open Nov. 7

Toledo will become home to the 400th Tropi-cal Smoothie Café in the nation, Nov. 7.

There will be give-aways the entire day and the first 95 people will be leaving with a prize.

The first five people will receive an iPad Mini, a $25 gift card and a vouch-er for one free smoothie per week for a year. The next twenty people will receive a gift card and a voucher. The 70 people that follow will receive a voucher for a free smoothie or food item.

The café will be located at 5221 Monroe Street.

Gradkowski’s to accept Rocket Card

Gradkowski’s will soon accept the Rocket Card for students. Everything should be up and running by Nov. 7, according to former UT quarterback and restaurant owner Bruce Gradkowski.

“We want students to come make Gradkowski’s their hang out,” Grad-kowski said. “Lunch, din-ner, late night snack, after studying or whatever!”

He said students should not worry about what they are wearing and instead just get a “good home-cooked meal feel!”

Piano concert to be held Nov. 9

The Center for Performing Arts will be hosting a piano concert Nov. 9 at 3 p.m. in the recital hall.

The concert will host pianists perform-ing Spanish-inspired classical musical and two piano pieces. The performers include alumni, staff and cur-rent students of the Department of Music.

For more information, contact Angela Riddel at 419-530-2452.

Substance abuse seminar to take place Nov. 10

The Law Center will be holding a Substance Abuse Seminar on Nov. 10 from 5 - 6 p.m. in the auditorium.

The seminar will be presented by Scott Mote, the Executive Director of Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program. The seminar is required for all Ohio Bar Applicants.

For more information, contact Kate O’Connell at [email protected] or call 419-530-2937.

Submit to The Mill by Nov. 8The University of Toledo Premiere Literary Magazine will host a poetry reading Nov. 7 at 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Field House

Room 1310. There will be free food and drinks. Submissions for the magazine are open until Nov. 8 at midnight. Winning submissions will appear in the fall 2014 issue of The Mill. There will be cash prizes. For more details, email [email protected].

STUDENT RESOURCE UPGRADE

Upgrades at the Rec

By Trevor Stearns and Emily JohnsonStaff Reporter and Associate News Editor

The Student Recreation Center saw many upgrades this past summer and at the beginning of this semester, including pool tables, new weight equipment, and a new gender-neutral bathroom.

“We started this work during the shutdown, you know, right before school starts, and just completed it about two weeks ago,” said Nancy Burhans, associate director of the Rec Center. “We just had a lot of old equipment and the vice president was able to find some funding for us.”

Among the upgrades were more than 20 new pieces of weight equipment, new weight pads, window cleanings, pool tables, repa-rations of broken lockers, new paint and new tiling, according to Burhans.

“Throughout the year, we will repair the items that break and replace them with something similar or newer,” said Steve Hardy, assistant director of opera-tions and marketing. “At the end of the year then, with whatever money we have left or set aside, we will buy new equipment, depending on the need and the space or what is old and what might be trending.”

Most of the students have given positive feedback on the new machines. One such student is Kimberly Kaniadakis, a third-year marketing and organiza-tional leadership major.

“What we usually do is that any time that we get new

equipment, we usually put one or two out just to kind of see if everyone likes them,” Kaniadakis said. “Sometimes we even have a survey box next to them so people can rate them on if they like it, if they like the older ones better to see if we should invest in more of that machine.”

Some students, however, are still on the fence about the new equipment, such as Jessica Kukay, a fourth-year biology major.

“I like the machines for the most part, they took out some of the ones I really liked,” Kukay said. “The pec fly machine is re-ally awkward to use, too.”

She was glad the Rec Cen-ter has new equiment and that there is a big improve-ment in quality between the new and the old machines.

One of the biggest addi-tions to the Rec Center this year, according to Burhans, is the gender-neutral family locker room and restroom.

“About a year ago, we had a student who was transitioning genders, and he said to us that there was

no locker room facility for someone like that and that it was uncomfortable to be changing clothes in either of the restrooms,” Burhans said. “It took us awhile, you know, because we had to find the hot water in that area and the ventilation was a problem, but it is now all ready to go.”

She also said the new weight equipment cost around $46,000 and the new gender-neutral rest-room cost around $5,600.

As the Rec Center con-tinues to be upgraded, it is also receiving a new paint job and a multitude of new signage throughout.

“We’ve gotten a lot of the new signage through the university, so that hasn’t been much of an expense,” Hardy said. “Now the paint, what we

do is when something needs to be repainted, we repaint it in blue and gold, rather than the original green color.”

The new paint job has cost a total of $17,000 so far. With the expenses of the new weight equipment and new restroom, the total is $68,600.

Burhans said there are many things they hope to work on in the future, including cosmetic and infrastructure upgrades.

“We’re approaching 25 years being open and there’s a lot of things when you have that old of a building that you don’t see the money being spent on that you won’t see on like a treadmill, but it’s still happening in the building,” Hardy said. “As long as the equipment doesn’t break or go bad, that means we have more money

to spend cosmetically.”Next to the upgrades

taking place in the building itself, the Rec Center is also working on upgrading its online presence, including Twitter, Facebook and its own website, Hardy said.

“Right now, we are work-ing on making our website into a mobile app,” Hardy said. “It is updated by our student staff every half hour and it keeps track of how many people are on the courts, how many people are in the cardio area, the weight room and the pool.”

He said it also does more than keep track of the Rec’s current usage.

“It has more than just the usage as well,” Hardy said. “It has the building schedule, the lap lane schedule and the Rocket-Ex classes as well.”

ADDY MCPHERON / ICJessica Kukay, a fourth-year majoring in biology, added the new leg curl machine as an update to her workout routine. The machine was one of many new pieces of the equipment available for use at the Rec that have been added since summer.

New equipment, renovations and gender-neutral bathroom update Rec Center options

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SG debates, tables bill about parking passesBy Colleen AndersonStaff Reporter

Heated debate broke out during a discussion of a proposed bill that would allow students to put the money owed for parking tickets toward the purchase of a parking permit.

Student Government Senator Benjamin Lynn said receiving his own citation inspired him to write the legislation.

“I had come up with the idea after I firstly had received a non-registration ticket,” he said. “Even though the university is about 80 percent commuter-based non-traditional students, it is very un-friendly to commuters.”

“With the parking in general,” he continued, “the locations are lim-ited, minimal. The park-ing tickets, the prices for the permits are expensive, the lots are the first to close come football game, athletics games, so obviously the university values athlet-ics over its academics for the students.”

After the initial two-week grace period for parking without a per-mit elapse the changes proposed by the bill would take effect.

According to the bill, to have the $50 ticket fee paid out towards a parking permit, the ticket itself would have to be a ‘non-registration’ violation.

Any other type of citation, including

those issued concern-ing handicap spots, fire lanes, parking meters, and any reason other than non-registration, would not be applicable, according to the bill.

Senator Saleh Aburaad agreed with the bill re-gardless of whether UT’s administration would seriously consider it.

“Honestly, I thought the bill was a great idea,” she said, “just be-

cause it would help the students, and everyone was arguing the fact whether or not the ad-ministration would take it seriously. I said ‘screw that, if it gets through, it gets through, and we’ll just hope for the best.’ It wouldn’t hurt to try.”

However, several senators were opposed to the bill, including Katelynn Smith, SG’s legislative secretary, who was one of many who voted to table the bill for two weeks.

“In theory, I think that it’s a very good idea,” she said. “I just don’t think it would be wise to give [students] such a long grace period, and to give [students] such leeway, before they would actu-ally need to purchase a parking pass. I just don’t think it would work, I think it would be cha-otic,” Smith said.

Cody Spoon, internal affairs committee chair, thought tabling the bill

was not enough and that it would be better to vote the bill down completely.

“What I wanted is for the bill to be shut down altogether,” he said. “The bill should be re-written altogether, in a way that addresses Ben’s concern as to making the process easier, and straying away from giving people an option to not pay for a parking pass,” Spoon said.

The logistics of the bill were a serious concern for several senators, including Senator Ronald Tallon, who is currently on payroll with parking enforcement.

“The parking bill is a waste of time, and it will not fix anything at this university. The parking bill does not provide anything useful, it actu-ally encourages students to break the rules and

save money,” Tallon said. “For somebody who’s paid the money and followed UT policies, somebody who hasn’t shouldn’t be able to take their spot on campus be-cause they’re playing out a loophole in the rule.”

Tallon said he of-fered to work with Lynn to write a new bill, as he has his own ideas as to how best tackle the problem of parking at UT.

“The one different bill I would have sug-gested is rearranging what parking lots are available to what stu-dents. I would like to see more K [first-year commuter] parking on campus, there are only very few lots with commuters, freshman commuters to get on, and that’s a problem in my eyes,” Tallon said.

He suggested adding additional parking lots and parking garages, specifically in the lawn across the street on Bancroft.

QUINN JERNAS / ICStudent Government senators discussed and debated legislation Nov. 4 at the meeting. Among the topics discussed was the bill pertaining to parking tickets and passes, which was tabled for the next meeting.

that’s important to us because these hours are a safety issue.”

Scanned reports are expected to be in within the next few days, according to Traband.

Traband said they do not have a decision as of now, but students can expect all floors of the Carlson Library to be open during finals week.

She said historical data will also be used to determine if extended hours are kept.

“We have historical data that we will bring back and review,” she said. “The provost wanted a review of historical data and this new data to freshen the look of what we’re doing.”

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“The parking bill does not provide anything useful, it actually encourages students to break the rules and save money.”

RONALD TALLONSG Senator

“Even though the university is about 80 percent commuter-based non-traditional students, it is very unfriendly to commuters.”

BENJAMIN LYNNSG Senator

“We started this work during the shutdown, you know, right before school starts, and just completed it about two weeks ago.”

NANCY BURNSAssociate Director of the

Student Recreation Center

I’ve always been the klutz in my group of friends and family. I’ve broken count-less bones, sprained, bruised and twisted anything you can imagine. So it wasn’t a surprise when I called my mom in tears telling her I’d fallen down the gi-gantic hill near the Glass Bowl and Rec Center.

Now you might be laughing as you picture a freshman rolling down the hill, taking out everyone in her path, but it didn’t happen like that. What really happened was I simply stepped off the side of the sidewalk and my ankle gave out. I fell down and smacked my hand, knee and ankle on the cement. Of course, this event happened right as countless classes were getting out and a Life at College event had just been released making my fall the center of everyone’s attention.

Normally I would have just gotten up, shrugged it off and hobbled off to my next class but the strain of this rotten day suddenly hung over me. Earlier in the morning I had locked myself out of my dorm room, got hit by a car and forgot my laptop and paper for my class in my room. Then after I got my lunch, I proceeded to trip and drop it on the side-walk. I sat there for a second and thought what a crappy turn my life had just taken when I stood up and instantly felt the pain radiate up my leg. I was now wor-ried I had broken my ankle as I hobbled my way across the street and sat down in the grass by the large rocket sculpture.

Of course, the first thing any college student who is in a lot of pain and in tears does upon hurting themselves does what any other college student would do…I called my mom. Unfortunately, her advice was exactly what I didn’t want to hear; call campus police. After follow-ing this advice I had two campus police

officers in two different cars, a fire engine with five firemen and two EMTs with their ambulance show up, once again, making me a large spectacle. So eventu-

ally I’m sitting in the back of an ambulance on my way to Toledo Hospital thinking I should have just stayed in my bed this morning and slept right through my alarm.

When I got to the hospital the entire place

was packed with people who were a lot more deserving of medical care than I was. I began to feel like I was making a big deal out a small situation until the nurse touched my ankle and I screamed.

Many of the nurses were buzzing about Halloween and the events the hospital had planned for the children’s unit. Whispers were heard about Spider-man, Batman, Wolverine and Superman showing up to deliver candy and spread Halloween cheer. It wasn’t much in my opinion for someone missing Hallow-een, but later I began to realize then this was a big deal to kids.

After being X-rayed and wrapped up, I found out it was only a bad sprain. I crutched out of the emergency room with plenty of disdain for the situation I was in, and wondering how this day could get any worse. As I sat outside waiting for my ride to come pick me up, a little kid toddled up to me in a Transformers costume babbling about Spiderman and the roof. He pointed with his small, sticky fingers and I followed his gaze. He stood in wonder as a costumed man stood upon the roof of the hospital waving down at him. He jumped up and down as his father jogged over to retrieve him.

I had now become curious as to what was going on, on the other side of the building so I crutched over to the doors to see something that instantly made

my day a whole lot better: Superman with his red cape was rappelling down the side of the children’s hospital.

Children had gathered outside in their coats, pants and gowns with nurs-es and staff that had become a part of their family. These kids who have been in the hospital for days — sometimes months — were finally having a day in which they could enjoy themselves.

While to me the whole event didn’t seem like it made up for missing a holiday like Halloween, seeing the faces of the children humbled me.

There I stood complaining about the worst day of my life, acting as if a sprained ankle was the end, but sur-rounded by children currently experi-encing one of the best days they’ve had in a long time; it all seemed stupid. The wonder on their faces as Batman began his decent pausing at each window to wave at the children who weren’t for-tunate enough to be able to go outside and watch from my view point, who didn’t have the chance to walk down a hill — let alone attend a normal school or lock themselves out of their room. My problems seemed minuscule com-pared to the children surrounding me.

I stood there for a few minutes staring up at the heroes of the children around me, wondering who these men were that devoted their time to repel down the side of a building in order to make a child’s worst days a little bit brighter. I began to stop watching the superhe-roes and began to start watching the real heroes, the kids, the parents and staff of the hospital we all stood in front of. There were smiles and laughter all around, even with a few kids who sat in wheelchairs and were connected to IVs, they still had enough in them to smile.

So even though I felt like this was one of the unluckiest and worst days I’ve had in a long time, I looked at the heroes around me, and smiled.

Faith Snyder is a first-year majoring in English.

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We are entering November which means we are entering flu season. The flu season typically starts in October or November and peaks in December and January.

The flu’s signs and symptoms are: fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle aches, headaches and fatigue. Some complications that can come from having the flu are pneumonia, bronchitis, sinus infections, ear infections and increased occurrence of asthma attacks for people who have asthma. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that every year about 200,000 people are hospitalized due to flu complications.

I am a strong advocate for receiving vaccina-tions because they pre-vent certain diseases. To clarify any misconcep-tions, there is no link between vaccines and autism.

You might have the same mindset that I have of, “I don’t care if I get the flu, I’m young and strong and I will be sick and uncomfortable for a week if I catch the flu, but I will fight if off and everything will be fine.”

But I get the flu shot not for me, but for everyone around me. I come into contact with young children, pregnant women and the elderly population. I will probably be able to fight off the seasonal flu without a problem, but some of these people either cannot get the vaccine and therefore are more at risk for getting the flu, or they don’t get the shot for another reason and then are at a higher risk than the general population and could have complica-

tions or even death. Children under 6 months old are not eligible to receive the vaccine so they have no protection against the virus at all.

By getting a flu shot I am participating in something called “herd immunity” which is basically getting enough people in the population to become immune to

a disease which protects the rest of the population that has not become immune. If I get the flu shot and become immune to the flu for that year, then I won’t be able to pass it on to someone else that hasn’t gotten the

flu shot. So even if you don’t

care if you get the flu, get the flu shot to protect the people in your life who are not able to get the flu shot.

Hesitant about get-ting the flu vaccine? I can help discredit some popular views or myths

on about the flu shot.• You cannot get the flu from getting the

flu shot. It is a myth that people can get the flu from the vaccine, because there is no living virus in the vaccine. The vaccine is made up of fragments of a dead virus or inactive viruses and there is no way that the flu can become active inside of you.

• Some people who get the flu shot do not feel well afterwards. That can be caused by their body forming the antibodies that will help fight off the virus if you actually come into contact with the live virus.

• Other people come down with the flu after getting the shot because they already had the virus in them prior to getting the shot. The flu vaccine takes about two weeks to become effective due to your body creating antibodies to

fight off the flu. So, the person could be sick because they already had the virus in them before the vaccine had time to become effective in your body.

• If you got a flu shot in the past, you are not protected against this year’s flu season. Every year scientists get together and create a vaccine based on how the flu virus mutates and changes over time. This year is a different vaccine and you will have to get a new one next year if you choose to continue being vaccinated.

Many places in the Toledo area adminis-ter flu shots. The link to the University of Toledo schedule of flu shots is at this link: http://tinyurl.com/VaccineSchedule2014. Pharmacies like Kroger, Rite Aid, Wal-greens and CVS also administer flu shots.

No, the flu shot is not the only way you can protect yourself from the flu. Simple things like washing your hands can help to protect yourself. If soap and water are not available, hand sanitizer that has alcohol in it is also a good option. Cover your mouth if you are coughing or sneezing because the flu can be spread from water droplets up to six feet away. Avoid touching your eyes and mouth throughout the day. Sanitation of surfaces like counter tops and door handles is also important in stopping the spread of viruses.

Please talk to your doctor to know if you are eligible for the flu vaccine and stay informed.

I am an undergraduate studying public health, and I have taken biology, microbiology, anatomy and physiology classes, but I am not a doctor. I am not here to tell you what you should do; that is up to you and your primary care physician. I am here to give you options and information that you can use to make a decision for yourself with the help of a licensed doctor.

Mallory Rinckey is a fourth-year majoring in public health.

MALLORY RINCKEYIC COLUMNIST

We found out what is on the University of Toledo’s to-do list for the next year, at Interim President Nagi Naganathan’s 2014 State of the University Address. Naganathan covered a list of topics that affect students and faculty alike while also calling this the “year of transition.” Keeping students in mind, we’ve ranked the top five most important highlights of the speech along with our explanation of why you should care.

1. Faculty Hiring PlanOver the course of the next year, Naganathan said the uni-

versity will lose a large number of professors to retirement. In order to combat this campus-wide loss of educators, Naga-nathan created a hiring plan that will span over three years to ensure UT students aren’t faced with empty classrooms in the fall. He said hiring experienced and enthusiastic profes-sors is also essential for students’ learning and the fostering of personal interests in their studies.

The success of this hiring plan can and will either make or break a student’s academic career. Without effective implemen-tation, students who enroll at UT next year will face not only a lack of professors in general, but possibly a limited selection of courses and offered times for those classes. Without ample faculty and professors in place, students won’t have the amount of resources and time devoted to them that they deserve.

2. Recruitment/Retention RatesThis semester, we had a record high of 70 percent retention

in students between their first and second years at UT. To boot, Naganathan also is planning on initiating a recruitment plan for the Fall 2015 semester and wants to bring in 400 new students.

We ranked this second because enrollment rates across the country have been decreasing, an issue which seems to be a trend. The Blade reported in September of this year that UT’s enrollment dropped 1 percent, Bowling Green State Univer-sity’s enrollment dropped 2.8 percent and Owens Community College dropped 14 percent. Thus, our university’s enroll-ment should be treated with care, as should our efforts toward recruitment and retaining those students we have recruited.

If UT can maintain a trend of positive enrollment rates, the university’s national prominence will benefit, a goal Nagana-than explicitly discussed in his speech.

3. Student ExperienceNaganathan emphasized two things during the address –

the study abroad program, which had more participants this year than any previous year, and sexual assault education and prevention on campus.

The student experience is not something that only one group of people find important. It’s something that affects all students on campus. Naganathan is working hard on imple-menting a new sexual assault prevention plan that “meets and exceeds the recommendations and requirements of the White House Task Force on Sexual Assault.” It will provide trained professionals and resources to the UT campus.

The university will welcome a professional Title IX con-sultant to provide an external review of all the university’s policies and procedures, according to Naganathan. These addi-tions help make sexual assault awareness more prominent at UT and also further UT’s national prominence.

On the lighter side, over the last five years, the study abroad program has jumped from 120 students to over 450 students. This helps students get some of the real world experience that they may not get enough of on our campus alone, and it also allows them to expand on their cultural knowledge. This shows that students are taking advantage of the resources available to them on campus.

4. UT Master PlansThese plans are important, but not nearly as cool as they sound.

For the most part, it deals with the university’s external affairs. UT was part of a community effort that resulted in the proposal of the I-475/Dorr St. addition that will cost around $12 million.

This will be important for students who have driven around the campus or anybody in this area who drives a car. Com-muters will recognize the value of being able to get off an exit so close to campus instead of driving around to Secor Road.

5. Medicine and Health CareDave Morlock, CEO of UTMC, said that they wanted to

switch from “getting paid to do stuff to patients” to “getting paid to keep the entire population healthy,” meaning they are moving more towards a unity theme, just as Naganathan said the rest of the university is doing. However, there will be no major changes to the way UTMC functions, though you should keep it on your radar because it could intervene with students health care plans that go through the university.

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said the program has been a success so far.

“Basically it’s really the presi-dent walks to the students, and what he’s done is he’s identified student organization meetings, he’s gone to different pro-grams, and the goal is for him to be available and accessible to students,” she said.

Naganathan said a common element of interest for students is the vibrancy of our library system and also said one of this year’s goals is the reinvest-ment of library enterprise.

“The university library system is an essential resource for a robust research and edu-cational enterprise on all four campuses,” he said. “We have convened faculty cavities as well as the cavities of student representation as well, who are

developing plans to improve board facilities and collections in our library system.”

Naganathan said UT is also committed to help solve many societal problems, including human trafficking.

after a meeting with the Board of Trustees, he recom-mended the establishment of the human trafficking and social justice institute at UT.

among those topics, Na-ganathan also mentioned cam-pus safety and sexual assault.

“at the University of Toledo we are working diligently to prevent these attacks through education and to provide resources to assist survivors,” he said.

Naganathan said a Title iX consultant will come to UT in the coming weeks to help provide an external review of policies and procedures in terms of sexual assault.

Ultimately, UT wants to meet and exceed the recom-mendations and requirements of the White House Task force on sexual assault by the end of this academic year, Nagana-than said.

in terms of student experi-ence, Naganathan talked about the addition of the lloyd a. Jacobs immersive simulation center on UT’s campus.

“This new facility is already elevating the quality of learn-ing across various areas of study,” he said.

This new addition is avail-able to both the UT commu-nity and its partners, according to Naganathan.

Naganathan said while his title is interim, his responsibili-ties are not.

“When we look back at the end of this year, we want it to be clear to all that this was a year of accomplishments.”

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adviser, said Orgsync brings several organizational benefits to both groups, with features that are meant to assist both the students in the organiza-tions and the staff who are overseeing and keeping track of them, while fostering com-munication between the two.

“it also allows students to be able to promote and advertise events to one another, communicate with one another, have websites,” Mitchell said. “it’s a software that contains a lot of features to really benefit how an orga-nization organizes amongst itself, but also how the uni-versity and the staff in student life and the student Union can support the programs, the advertising, the organization, the leadership, development and that process of running an organization.”

Change is neededThe current system han-

dling student life is dated, according to Notestine.

“The biggest problem is infrastructure, how our process works,” Notestine said. “We have a lot less staff than we did ten years ago, and we have more student

organizations, a lot more diverse things happening on campus then we did a long time ago.”

eric diBell, sG chair of student affairs, said that students are discouraged from starting clubs or put-ting on events by the system in place, something that he feels Orgsync will change.

“students who are new to the university, that are trying to set up clubs or have never put on an event before, are finding them-selves put off of the idea by all the paperwork and the red tape,” diBell said.

Mitchell said Orgsync would simplify some of the procedures that currently surround student life, mov-ing them from paper ver-sions to electronic ones.

according to Notestine, the program is well worth the cost to the university.

“it’s about $50,000 a year, which comparatively to any-thing else that we’ve spent to try and improve UT student life, is not even remotely a huge cost to us,” he said.

Revolutionizing the system

Mitchell said Orgsync will have the biggest effect on the level of control students will

have over their organizations.sG has a cohesive plan

to implement the use of Orgsync. The first step is a large unveiling that will be done in the Trimble lounge with members of the bigger student organizations, and then sG will reach out to the smaller groups.

“What we want to do is have a large meeting in the Trimble lounge, invite a lot of the larger organizations, ones that we think that a lot of students are involved in,” diBell said. “We basically want to give them this huge PowerPoint — why Orgsync, what is Orgsync going to do, what benefits we will get from Orgsync and why we feel it’s a better system than what we had.”

Going forward Notestine said Kaye Pat-

ten Wallace, in agreement with the iT department, ultimately made the deci-sion to buy Orgsync for the university, and started to write a contract in early October which is currently being finalized.

Mitchell said student organizations will be of-ficially transitioning to implement the Orgsync system by spring of 2015.

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IN BRIEF

Rockets fall to Buffalo in MAC tournament

The women’s soccer team made an early exit from the Mid-American Conference tournament, losing 2-0 to top-seed Buffalo in the first round.

UT finished the season with a 7-11-2 overall record and 4-7-1 confer-ence record. The game was tied until the 63rd minute, when Bulls senior Katie Roberts scored her 11th goal of the season to give Buffalo a 1-0 lead.

Andrea Niper iced the game with a shot from the right side of the box. The Bulls stingy defense held the Rockets at bay and gained a 16-5 shot ad-vantage, including a 6-3 edge in shots on goal.

The loss was the final college action for cap-tains Kirsten Catloth and Meghan Topolewski and defenders Brooke Lawl-er, Alexis Tice and Rio James. This senior class has 42 wins in their four years, including two MAC regular-season titles in 2010 and 2011 and one conference tournament championship in 2011.

Lancaster named MAC Co-Golfer of the Week

Senior Mike Lancaster was named the Mid-American Conference Co-Golfer of the Week alongside Ball State’s McCormick Clouser, the MAC announced Monday.

This is the first time Lancaster has received the award, and he becomes the fifth Rocket this season to win the honor. He shot a three-round score of one over par (217) to achieve a ten-stroke victory at the Rocket Individual Classic at the Belmont Country Club.

Lancaster shot his collegiate-tying best two-under par in the second round of the tournament. UT resumes play with the MAC Match Play Championships in Lake Jovita, Fla. starting on February 9th.

Women picked to finish fourth

The University of To-ledo women’s basketball team was picked to finish fourth in the Mid-Amer-ican Conference West division for this upcom-ing season, according the league’s 12 head coaches.

Central Michigan was picked to win, not only the West, but the confer-ence championship, receiving ten first-place votes. In addition to the preseason standings, senior forward Inma Za-noguera was selected to the All-MAC West team for her second consecu-tive year.

Zanoguera aver-aged 14 points and 8.7 rebounds per game for the Rockets last sea-son and a league-best 35.4 minutes per game. Zanoguera’s work ethic has placed her as a can-didate for MAC player of the year. The two-time team captain has seen double digits in her scor-ing column 49 times in her career and has 12 double-doubles.

UT tips off the exhibi-tion season this Saturday against Ferris State at noon in Savage Arena. The regular season will then get underway just six days later on Friday, November 14, at Cleve-land State at 7:00 p.m.

It’s not Rocket science trivia

The Rockets’ men’s basketball team has appeared in four NCAA Tournaments, with their last appearance coming in 1980. Their combined record is 1–4 in the dance. What year did they get their lone win?

CROSS COUNTRY

PHOTO COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSThe University of Toledo women’s cross country team took home the program’s sixth-ever Mid-American Conference Championship last Saturday. Five of UT’s runners placed within the top 15 finishers during the Championships, and the team won with a score of 48. Head coach Linh Nguyen was named Women’s Coach of the Year following the Rockets’ victory. Toledo will now prepare for regionals, which begin Friday, Nov. 14, in Wisconsin. The Rockets are familiar with the trip, having traveled to Wisconsin previously to attend last month’s Wisconsin Adidas Invitational.

Taking home the gold

Rockets win sixth MAC title in program historyBy Keith BoggsSports Reporter

The University of Toledo women’s cross country team placed themselves atop the Mid-American Confer-ence last Saturday, taking home first place at the MAC Championships.

UT took home their sixth-ever MAC Champion-ship title with a team-score of 48. Five Rockets finished within the top 15 during the championships. East-ern Michigan finished in second place with 69 points, and last year’s champions, Miami of Ohio, finished in a somewhat distant third with 103 points.

“It feels great,” said sophomore runner Janelle Noe when asked about the victory. “It was actually the first MAC championship I ran in.”

The experience was noth-ing new for the Rockets’

senior members, and the younger runners on the team knew what it meant to win their graduating team-mates the conference title.

Especially after last year, when the Rockets lost in a devastating fashion, fall-ing three points short to Miami.

“It’s exciting,” said junior Priscilla Timmons. “It’s also emotional since we have a lot of seniors on our team. Last year we lost by three points, so to come back and win this year was awesome.”

It certainly wasn’t an easy goal to accomplish, but the Rockets managed to stay focused all season.

“We have a team full of hardworking individu-als,” said head coach Linh Nguyen, who was named Women’s Coach of the Year following his team’s victory. “We put in a lot of hard work during the summer.”

The runners on his team echoed that sentiment.

“Our workouts were awesome,” Timmons said. “Coach Linh had training in place for us.

“Winning the MAC was a huge goal of ours.”

That kind of confidence tends to start at the top, and the Rockets are no different.

“When we set our goals in the preseason, winning

the MAC was a byprod-uct of what we wanted to accomplish,” Nguyen said. “We focused internally. We didn’t worry about rankings or who we beat, we focused on what we did and how we could get better. There’s nothing we can do about what other teams do.”

A successful season left the Rockets with a positive outlook.

“We learned to keep striv-ing towards your goals and never give up,” Timmons said. “Stay motivated.”

In a sport like cross country, staying together

and working as a team can be essential, something UT’s squad understands.

“Staying close in races really helped us,” Noe said. “Teamwork was important.”

Toledo’s work isn’t done. The Rockets are happy with a MAC championship, but they want to make sure to avoid compla-

cency, as regionals and nation-als loom in the near future.

“Our season isn’t over yet,” Timmons said. “We want to do well at regionals and get a strong qualifying spot for nationals.”

Things are not going to get easier for the Rockets. Toledo will travel back to Wisconsin, where they ran at the Wis-consin Adidas Invitational on Oct. 17, for regionals, which begin Friday, Nov. 14.

“We’re happy we won the MAC; it was exciting,” Nguy-en said. “But we were back up at 7 a.m. Sunday morning, preparing for regionals.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSThe University of Toledo women’s cross country team posing after winning the Mid-American Conference Championship. The Rockets won’t have much time to enjoy the victory as they now have to prepare for regionals, which will kick off Friday, Nov. 14.

“We have a team full of hardworking individuals. We put in a lot of hard work during the summer.”

LINH NGUYENCross country coach

IC FILE PHOTOThe University of Toledo football team spent Tuesday night at Kent State facing the Golden Flashes. The Rockets travel to Northern Illinois next week to face the Huskies.

FOOTBALL

UT begins weekday series with trip to Kent StateBy IC Sports Staff

The University of Toledo football team has said goodbye to Saturdays.

The Rockets entered the final four-game stretch of their season Tuesday by putting their undefeated conference record on the line with a trip to Kent State.

To see how UT fared against the Golden Flashes, visit www.IndependentCollegian.com/Sports for a recap of all the night’s action.

While all three regular-season games left on UT’s schedule are all against Mid-American Conference opponents, none of Toledo’s remaining games will be played during the Rockets’ traditional Saturday slot.

Next week’s matchup with Northern Illinois kicks off Tuesday night, the following week’s game against Bowling Green lands on a Wednesday evening and the final game of the season against Eastern Michigan is set for Friday, Nov. 28.

Of UT’s final three contests, only the rivalry bout against BGSU will be played at the Glass Bowl. All three games will be either televised or streamed online by ESPN.

For coverage of all University of Toledo sports, as well as other exclusive content including our Weekly Launch fea-ture and columns, visit our website, or follow us on Twitter @IC_Sports and like us on Facebook.com/ICollegian.

The Rockets will kick off next Tuesday night against the Huskies at 8 p.m. in Dekalb, Ill.

“Our season isn’t over yet.”

PRISCILLA TIMMONSUT junior runner

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COMEDY SHOW

Mid-2000s are backBlack Student Union is holding a philanthropy comedy show featuring UT studentsBy Josie SchreiberStaff Reporter

The University of Toledo Black Student Union (BSU) is bringing back the mid-2000’s with its own rendition of MTV’s Nick Cannon’s Wildn’out TV show.

Ricki Robinson, a third-year communication major, BSU’s public relations chairman, and the head of this event said UT students should attend because not only is the show going to be entertaining, but the money being raised is going to a great cause.

BSU’S Wildn’out will be held Nov. 12 to ben-efit the Sickle Cell Project of Northwest Ohio.

Robinson is the head of the event this year and was last year as well.

Tiffany Fulford, a fourth-year education major and the vice president of BSU helped plan the event.

“This event will be a recreation of Nick Can-non’s show, Wildn’out,” Fulford said. “Bringing to the stage improv comedy from the funniest people on campus.”

Fulford said that BSU noticed other organiza-tions like Panhellenic Council and the Inter-fraternity Council had annual philanthropy programs and BSU wanted to take this oppor-tunity to raise money for those suffering from a disease that typically affects African Americans.

Along with the show, there will also be a pre-sentation about sickle cell disease.

Robinson said last year the event was so suc-cessful that they ran out of room and people were spilling into the hallways.

“The great turn out encouraged us to do it again this year as a philanthropy event,” Ful-ford said.

According to Fulford, over 100 people were in attendance last year.

Fulford said BSU stuck with the theme for a philanthropy event because it had one of their best event turnouts last year.

“I’m glad we’re having it in the auditorium this year,” Robinson said. “The larger space will give the teams more creative freedom and the audi-ence will get a better view with the stage and all.”

Fulford said they chose to do this event last year because Wildn’out had been re-aired on MTV for another season and it was really popu-lar at the time.

“We chose to do it on Wednesday because it’s a play on the words ‘Wildn’out Wednesday,” she said.

Fulford said students should attend because it is a fun way to fundraise for a great cause.

Laura Ferree, a fourth-year social work major, said while she was a residence advisor in Presi-dent’s Hall, she had a resident who had sickle cell disease.

“I had to occasionally check in to see it he was taking his medication,” Ferree said. “He had a lot of medications to take and I was surprised by the amount.”

Due to her work schedule, Ferree will not be attending BSU’s Wildn’out, but she said that sickle cell disease is something that people need to be educated about.

“I knew nothing about sickle cell until my resident told me about it,” Ferree said.

Wildn’out will cost $2 per person. Anyone who would like to attend can purchase their ticket at Ask Rocky, located on the second floor of the Student Union in the general lounge area by the Ingman Room.

BSU’s Wildn’out will be on Nov. 12 in the SU Auditorium located on the third floor of SU. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the show will start at 7:30 p.m.

STUDENT PERFORMERS

Students leave campus to perform in the local community By Catherine McGowanStaff Reporter

Getting off campus and playing gigs locally is important for any person pursuing a career in music, according to Norman Damschroder, professor at the University of Toledo Music Department.

“It’s that experience. They’re here to learn to be musicians — professional musicians,” Damschroder said.

Ben Maloney, a fourth-year jazz per-formance major, agrees.

“You’re not going to gain that ex-perience unless you go out and get it,” Maloney said.

By day, the music majors at the University of Toledo spend their time inside the Center for Performing Arts. By night, however, these musicians play a role in Toledo’s local music circuit.

“Little things come up on professional gigs that they’re maybe not going to be aware of or we were not thinking to make them aware,” Damschroder said.

He also warns against a student over-loading — a mistake he said he made while studying in college.

“It made it more difficult. It made the time more intense,” Damschroder said. “But, at the same time, I was making my living and paying for school doing that.”

As a graduate student studying jazz performance, Ruth Nichols understands the importance of off-campus gigs but also feels the pains of having a full schedule between school and gigging.

“It’s beneficial, but it’s also kind of taxing,” Nichols said.

Nichols’ last gig was on Saturday, Oct. 30 at Degagé where she was accompanied by pianist Ben Maloney, drum-mer Travis Aukerman, and bassist Steven Knu-rek. Her next gig is on Nov. 15 for the military ball at the Toledo Club, playing trumpet in a brass quartet.

The art of gigging is not a simple sys-tem according Maloney and Nichols.

Maloney said getting hired, hiring other musicians and compiling set lists is “a difficult and random thing.”

He said he has handed out busi-

ness cards since he was in junior high school making his network for gigs large enough that he plays roughly once or twice a week.

Nichols’ said her popularity in Toledo developed in a different way.

She started gigging a significant amount over this past summer and attri-butes that to meeting people on booking staffs through other musicians. She said developing relationships with the staff at gig locations is important, too.

According to Nichols, it is important to have good relationships with the musician you play with, but as a profes-sional she said she must be careful not to get overly involved with her fellow musicians personally.

“If it starts getting negative you want to be able to draw back, to be able to talk through things,” Nichols said. “It’s almost like having a lot of relationships, all at once.”

Nichols said many musicians set up, play, tear down and leave, without any acknowledgement towards the staff.

Nichols said she makes an effort to have a small conversation with others while she is on a set break.

“Booking people and bartenders are people, too. You show any kind of inter-est in someone’s life they’re going to be more liable to be like, ‘Oh, yeah can we

get them back sooner?’” Nichols said.

According to Ma-loney, close, personal relationships with other musicians are an im-portant facet of gigging and music as a whole.

“I’m lucky enough to be able to play with some very diverse mu-sicians,” Maloney said.

“I wouldn’t have been able to grow like I have been able to if I didn’t make friends with the people I’m friends with and play with them because we learn from

each other more than anything else. As for the staff at places Maloney gigs, he

said, “Dealing with people that don’t under-stand the art, in general, can be frustrating.”

The most important thing musicians need to realize, Maloney said, is that the will to play music has to be rooted deep inside.

“It’s well and good to attend all the classes and do all the lessons and get all of your work done, but the real thing you have to do it’s you have to do it for yourself,” Maloney said.

Gigs are not as plentiful as when Damschroder was in college.

“When I was in school I was playing sometimes six nights a week. I don’t think anyone’s really doing that now,” he said.

He also played with the Toledo Sym-phony and played at least two nights a week at Jazz clubs.

The symphony no longer hires many extras and most jazz clubs in Toledo have closed down, he said.

This doesn’t leave many opportunities for students to gig, but Damschroder said that students are versatile and are willing to play anything, anywhere.

“We do definitely encourage them to go work in a variety of places,” Dam-schroder said. “I have a student who one day he’s playing with a jazz group, the next day he’s playing with one of the local rock, hip-hop groups.”

The more styles a student can master, the better, Damschroder said.

“Because that’s how the world is going to be when they get out of school,” he said.

According to Maloney, Toledo’s local music circuit may be smaller than some cities, but it still provides UT students with real world opportunities.

“That’s honestly what it’s all about, we’re training here to be able to go out and do it,” Maloney said. “So, it’s nice that Toledo offers real experience.”

Festival of Lights celebrates Indian culture and cusine on Nov. 8

Each year the Indian Students Cultural Organization (ISCO) celebrates Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. Annu-ally ISCO hosts Diya, an event celebrating Indian culture and cuisine, in the fall to commemorate the festival of lights. This year the event will be held on Nov. 8 at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Auditorium.

The event will feature performances and traditional Indian cuisine. This year’s theme is “States of India.” Audience members will be informed about India’s 29 states, hundreds of languages, and thousands of traditional dishes.

“This event helps bring local community, the university and internationals to interact, learn and build relations with each other and get a glimpse of the rich and diverse Indian culture,” said Sreejit Menon, current president of the Indian Students Cultural Organization.

The Indian Students Cultural Organization is man-aged by a new executive committee, which has repre-sentatives elected from almost every part of India. The main role of ISCO has been to promote cultural aware-ness among university students, internationals and To-ledo community. ISCO volunteers at the Hindu Temple of Toledo during its events and community drives. ISCO has helped new students with airport pickups and provides temporary accommodations at the beginning of every semester. This year alone they made 42 airport pickups and accommodations.

“Diya symbolizes light,” Menon said. “It is celebrated in India on a big scale (Festival is known as Diwali- Festival of light). It showcases light prevails over darkness and shows good wins over evil always. It’s an event which will show case Indian culture and tradition through music, dance and food.”

Diya is a treat for the eyes and taste buds. In recent years it has attracted not just the university crowd but also people in and around Toledo. This event helps bring together the lo-cal community, the University community and internationals to interact, learn and build relations with each other and get a glimpse of the rich and diverse Indian culture.

Tickets are already on sale now and will be avail-able at the door. Tickets are $5 for ISCO members and $15 for general public. To buy tickets prior to the event contact Sreejit Menon at [email protected].

IN BRIEF

If you goWhat: Wildn’out.Where: Student Union Auditorium.When: Nov. 12.Time: 7:30 p.m. but doors will open at 6:30 p.m.Cost: $2 per person.Sponsored by: Black Student Union.

CATHERINE MCGOWAN / ICUniversity of Toledo graduate student Ruth Nichols performs Oct. 4 at Treo on Main Street in Sylvania.

“It’s well and good to attend all the classes and do all the lessons and get all of your work done, but the real thingyou have to do is, you have to do it for yourself.”

BEN MALONEYFourth-year jazz perfor-

mance major

“This event will be a recreation of Nick Cannon’s show, Wildn’out. Bringing to the stage improv comedy from the funniest people on campus.”

TIFFANY FULFORDFourth-year majoring in education

8 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, November 5, 2014