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Rockets raise $30K in one day Photos by Juan Arismendy RockeTHON, UT’s annual 13-hour dance marathon, held an event Feb. 15 to raise $30,000 in one day in a series of events leading up to the big day of fundraising. The group raised $30,444 in the 24-hour period, with groups such as Kappa Delta Rho and Phi Kappa Psi promising certain amounts of money for retweets and likes on Twitter.
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During the day, the group had raffles and games in the Student Union (left). RockeTHON’s day of dancing is on Saturday, April 7 and support the Children’s Miracle Network.
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“It shouldn’t be hard to give credit where it’s due unless we’re still so blinded by our attachment to unfounded stereotypes.”
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UT’s youngest receive the 5-star treatment By Samantha Gerlach Associate News Editor
“You don’t get love and snuggles from behind an office chair; that’s why I love working at the daycare,” said Christine Jeffers, a 26-year Educare instructor for the University of Toledo Early Learning Center. The university boasts one of only 26 5-star rated daycare centers in Ohio that is accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, daycare director Caryn Salts said. The daycare opened its doors in 1953 in affiliation with the Medical College of Ohio, but it wasn’t until MCO merged with UT in 2006 that the daycare became part of UT, Salts said. The daycare offers programs for children beginning at 18 months of age up to kindergarten and an early intervention program, she said. She added that children can also attend an intensive summer program. The daycare utilizes a former Toledo Public Schools building that contains large classrooms, a full-size gym, a kitchen and an outdoor playground. Salts said UT’s medical campus prepares hot meals daily to serve at the daycare. The daycare accepts assisted funding from Lucas County Job and Family Services to help parents afford the daily and weekly
fees, Salts said. Because of the spacious classrooms and gym, kids can engage in sensory activities, painting and music activities daily, regardless of the weather outside, a 20-year Educare instructor Karen Kirby said. The daycare has an on-site nurse and teacher-to-child ratios lower than state requirements, Salts said. April Workman has worked as an Educare instructor at UT’s daycare since 1988. She said the low turnover rate among the staff is part of what makes the childcare unique and consistent. UT police perform daily checks on the daycare to ensure upto-date security measures, said Cathy Kolodziejski, a 10-year UT Educare instructor. Lorissa Orhowski is a 24-year Educare instructor from Ukraine who moved to America in 1992. “Working at the daycare makes me feel like I belong somewhere, like I fit in,” she said. UT academic adviser Michelle Sullivan said her children attended UT’s daycare while she finished school at UT, and her kids still attend the summer program. “The instructors there not only care for my children, they support me as a mother,” Sullivan said. Part-time fees are between $40 and $85 a day, and full-time fees See Daycare / 4 »
The UT Police Department has logged an average of 27 reports of trespassing on UT property per year since 2010. In January, UTPD arrested a man for sleeping in University Hall, but UT police did not report the incident because he was looking for a place to stay warm, said Jeff Newton, UT police chief. If a person is transported to a local shelter, UTPD does not file a report; however, if the individual has an outstanding warrant, they are arrested, Newton said. Instead of pressing charges, police usually send the trespasser off with a warning because the only crime committed was trespassing. Individuals found trespassing on UT property have been cooperative and have not committed any assaults, according to Newton. “This year, there have not been as many situations that we responded to involving homeless persons as I would have imagined since we’ve had particularly cold bursts of winter,” Newton said. Because UT is a public institution, people can enter the buildings that are open. To prevent people from sleeping and living on campus, Newton
said to report suspicious activity and shut the doors behind when entering or leaving a building. “If we get a report saying that someone who looks out of place is going into a less traveled area, then we will respond,” Newton said. UT police officers may discover activity when they conduct building tours, but people in the building will notice more unusual things because they are there day in and day out. If there are signs of someone living there, as was the case with the faculty breakroom in University Hall, Newton said UTPD will investigate. See Report / 4 »
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Ending the gun-control debate
With the recent death of 17 people at the hands of an armed assailant in Florida, the time to end the gun debate is now. This isn’t a call for heightened gun control or even a call for the most minor improvements in policy changes to make purchasing firearms harder. It’s a call for gun control advocates to realize that no number of dead children will ever change the minds of policymakers who control gun-right laws. Truthfully, this debate ended six years ago when a gunman murdered 20 students ages six to seven at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since that shooting, Congress passed zero gun-control laws, despite conservative fears that President Obama would round up every gun in America and maybe melt them into participation trophies for millennials. Again, I thought maybe there would be some movement on the gun control debate when a shooting at a Las Vegas concert resulted in 59 deaths and 527 injuries, but, yet again, the deaths came and went, and nothing changed. The same talking points came out: mental health issues and healthcare coverage, plus “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Well, background checks are run on people, but conservative lawmakers still find that to be an infringement on our God-given right to own a sick-ass machine gun. I thought the church shooting that killed 26 people in a rural town in Texas would actually make some change in the national stance on gun control, yet this one was so quickly in and out of the news cycle that you may have forgotten about it. The one where dozens of people were gunned down with a military grade weapon by a troubled white male with mental health issues. Should I be more specific? With the recent Florida shooting, I finally realized the entire debate is worthless. Unless the victims can make Republicans’ bank accounts go up like the National Rifle Association can, I don’t think anything will change. Given that the victims are often poor and most times dead, I doubt that will happen. I can sit here and list argument after argument about why gun control works. I can talk about how Australia once had similar gun laws to the United States but, after a devastating mass shooting, the country implemented a multitude of nationwide gun control laws. Australia now holds a firearm homicide rate of 1.4 deaths per one million people. The U.S. has a rate of 29.7 per one million. But that politicizes the tragedy, which Republicans
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like Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan certainly do not want us to do. We need to look at underlying causes for this violence, like better mental healthcare for this country. Republican lawmakers also want to slash funding and regulation for healthcare, so maybe talking about that is politicizing the issue too. Maybe we can talk about how the shootings in this country relate to a lack of education in the United States, which ranks 17th in education performance. After all, the NRA itself believes better education about gun control would solve the problem. We run into the same problem though, because Republicans want to slash the education budget, so talking about it is politicizing the issue. Maybe the issue is the disgusting wealth disparity in America, leaving the poor and the disappearing middle class feeling abandoned and helpless. The top one percent of wealthy families in America control twice the amount of wealth the bottom 90 percent control. The ones at the bottom can find their answers in radicalization, in violence. Would the ones at the bottom feel nearly as hopeless if this wealth was more evenly redistributed from the top? Don’t worry, that trickle-down wealth will get here any day now. The only real answer you will get from Republican lawmakers is that there is nothing we can do about it. So why try? Like the Onion article that gets reprinted every time we have a mass shooting, we’re the only nation where this happens, yet there’s nothing we can do about it. This article prints almost a full week after the Florida shooting, so it will probably already be out of the news cycle. Maybe President Trump will say something derogatory about some other rich celebrity and that will become the new 24-hour topic. The victims will be shuffled out for another new batch of victims in a month or two when there’s another mass shooting in America. We can do this whole debate again when that happens, but if this massacre doesn’t change things, what will? Sam Williams is a secondyear communication major.
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Editorial: Supporting ProMedica Just last week, ProMedica Toledo Hospital signed a patient-transfer agreement to allow Capital Care Network, Toledo’s last abortion clinic, to remain operational. We believe the hospital made the best choice and are proud to be part of a university affiliated with ProMedica. ProMedica and UT have shared an academic affiliation since 2015. According to its webpage, ProMedica supports a wide range of programs at UT, including the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, the College of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy and the College of Health Sciences. As UT students, we look to ProMedica to support the education of those seeking to enter the medical fields, coinciding with the long-standing role of providing health care to the community. Finish reading this piece online at www.IndependentCollegian.com
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The losing flag should never be flown
Even though Toledo is not in the South, the confederate flag is not an unusual sight in this city. You see it displayed on bumper stickers, clothing or maybe even the flag itself hanging in someone’s front yard. Why do we fly confederate flags in Ohio? For those who do not know, the confederate flag represented the south, or the Confederacy, during the Civil War. The Confederacy supported keeping slavery legal throughout the country and tried to sever themselves from the U.S., resulting in the Civil War. As a northern state, Ohio played a huge role in helping the slaves attain freedom. Ohio had the largest number of routes in the Underground Railroad to help the enslaved reach freedom into the north according to www. ohiohistorycentral.org. Over 150 years have passed
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since the last shot was fired in the Civil War, yet the recent public display of the confederate flag and monuments stirred up controversy. Most confederate monuments were not constructed until a generation after the war ended; many were built around the time of Jim Crow laws and then again during the Civil Rights Movement. Are we supposed to believe that that these shrines were established coincidentally
during the same time African Americans made advancements in the country and fought for equal rights? Today, about 700 confederate monuments stand in America, and not only in the South; some exist in border states such as Missouri, West Virginia and Maryland who fought with the Union during the war. North Carolina has added 35 monuments since 2000. Ohio has five, with the most recent addition coming in 2003. Some monuments became rally points for white nationalists and other hate groups, which enforces the idea that these statues aren’t here to preserve history but to preserve these prejudiced views. In fact, another common occurrence is to find a confederate flag waving during hate rallies. That symbol displayed during these assemblies is not so that we can take a moment for the
fallen soldiers; they show the flag because it represents African-American oppression that these groups still fight for today. Many justify these symbols as history that should never be forgotten, but why do we need to remember a time in history that caused so much pain to our fellow Americans? Why do we need to display signs all over the country to be reminded of the suffering that our people had to go through? The losing flag never flies, so why should the confederacy be any different? This predominant symbol of injustice in our society today proves that many still do not accept the loss of the South. We need to work together to erase these traumatic symbols throughout our country. No one should ever feel like they are not welcome in their own home. Riley Clifton is a secondyear communication major.
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Stereotypes have real consequences The MLK Day celebration in difficult for some of these success- that second chance opportuniSavage Arena became an anful black people, the ones that the ty simply because of the color nual staple on my calendar. dominant narrative ignores, to of their skin. That is a travesty. As a child in Africa, I proudly assert their blackness. By attending programs like read about Harriet TubSadly, they’re conscious of MLK Day celebration, listening man’s bravery during the being the “exception.” They to revisionist narratives about Civil War. After all, Ghana’s take pride in being perceived black people and engaging Asante Kingdom had its as anything but black in their more with the black commuown legend in Yaa Asattitude, the tone of their voice, nity, I better appreciate the isantewaa, the female warrior the friends they keep or even sues of African-Americans and who led the charge against in where they live. I don’t say their contributions to social European imperialism. this only about blacks born and economic life. I read W. E. B. Du Bois and in America but also about People like the Obamas, Booker T. Washington. I also blacks that came from the LeBron James, Oprah Winfrey, memorized Martin Luther African continent. Denzel Washington, Ben King’s “I Have a Dream” In all honesty though, I Carson and Elijah Cummins, GUEST COLUMNIST speech and studied his “Letter can’t blame them but the among a multitude of black from Birmingham Jail.” society that makes them into people living accomplished I heard so much about abWhat eloquence and what they do. The thinking family, political and business sentee black fathers, single-par- seems to be that being black foresight! Of course, I read the lives, continue to inspire me. critical narrative on Malcom X’s ent homes, unintelligent and means being evil or being preIt shouldn’t be hard to give “inappropriate” radicality. These simple-minded black children disposed to socially pathologicredit where it’s due unless we’re growing to inevitably take their cal behavior. among others were the definistill so blinded by our attachplace in the gangs and prison tion of black excellence and So much of what we do or ment to unfounded stereotypes. complexes. achievement. Admittedly so. become and the opportunities The black boy or girl is caThe black woman played a Despite what I thought I we have depend on just how pable of whatever any other boy big role in that. She controlled knew, being a black man from much people think our ideas, or girl is capable of. Let us not and pushed men away from Africa, I cannot pretend to mannerisms or aspirations be quick to write people off. the home. She possessed little fully understand the struggle fit the “mainstream culture,” So when you see that black to no maternal compassion and resilience of the Africanwhich is anything but black. man or woman down the and only had children so she American. I’m not fantasizing about a street, don’t be quick to assume could cash in on those welfare When I first arrived in perfect black culture because that he or she is poor. Don’t and child-support checks. America, I tried to learn as that is not possible. We cannot assume that their children will As I continued to accumulate expect perfection from any much I could about these grow without their parents or my years in America, I realized people with whom, clearly, I group of people. This is exactly that they will end up in the that the prevailing narrative share ancestors. what is wrong with taking gangs or in prison. lacked merit. Daily, I experiTV programming, podisolated behavior of a few Black people are not a enced successful and responcasts and articles became my people and equating that with burden on society, that idea is sible black men and women in allies. But I don’t think I was the behavior of what every preposterous. They bring so my neighborhood, my church, prepared for the number of member of that group is. much more to the table. my school and in checkout line stereotypes I encountered, Perpetuating black steLong live black excellence. at the grocery store. and I was not even naïve to reotypes, and even educated Long live black ingenuity. Yet, the unfoundedly negastereotypes. people do this, means that Philemon Abayateye is a tive portrayal of black people Remember I come from we’re more willing to give other Ph.D. student in geography and continued. 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The University of Toledo Board of Trustees approved a program Monday that provides students lower-cost, digial course materials for certain classes. The program, called Includsive Access Program, adds a course fee to the student’s tuition and goes into effect in fall 2018. Fourteen high-enrollment classes in the Colleges of Business and Innovation and Natural Sciences and Mathematics are part of the program.
Engineering Career Expo The University of Toledo invited over 140 companies to attend this year’s Engineering Career Expo. Companies include Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., Dana Inc., Rudolph Libbe/ GEM Inc. and The Lathrop Co. The career fair is Wed. Feb. 21 from 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. on the first floor of Nitschke Hall. UT College of Engineering Students and alumni are eligible to attend.
Chemical sensing topic of lecture University of Toledo professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry will discuss the everyday impact of chemical analysis. The lecture is Thurs. Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. in Doermann Theatre.
National sales competition The Edward Schmidt School of Professional Sales at UT will host a sales competition dedicated to freshmen, sophomores and juniors from 34 Universities around the U.S. The competition is Feb. 23 and 24 in Savage & Business Complex from 9:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Winners will be recognized at an awards luncheon Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in the Thompson Student Union Auditorium. Participating students may also attend a career fairs from 9:15 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday in the Thompson Student Union Ingman Room featuring sales leaders and recruiters from sponsoring companies.
NASA lecture Ken Sembach, director of the Space Telescope Institute in Baltimore, which operates NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope, will speak Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m. in Wolfe Hall Room 1205.
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Communication department chair discusses curriculum plans By Ben Morse
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Leaning back in a leather office chair and sipping black coffee from the stained rim of his Starbucks cup, David Tucker recalled his past, from his time as a morning disk jockey in 1974 “telling jokes to the cows” to, just recently, his position as the University of Toledo’s Communication Department chair. Decades out of the studio, Tucker received a Ph.D. in communication and has years of experience in academia. He moved from communicating over the airwaves in the ‘70s to communicating with students about their future. Through his conversations and years in the classroom, Tucker determined, “millennials tend to want to know where they’re supposed to go and what they’re supposed to do.” So, to tend to that need, he set goals for the department and himself. “The first goal is to go back through the curriculum as a department and…
institute the concept of tracks on the communications side,” Tucker said. As a result, he hopes that students will focus in one area of the communication department. “Someone could say, ‘Yeah, I concentrated in [a specific area]’ so they’re not kind of just floating
“Someone could say, ‘Yeah, I concentrated in [a specific area]’ so they’re not kind of just floating around and taking a bunch of classes.” DAVID TUCKER Communication Department Chair
around and taking a bunch of classes,” Tucker said. For first-year communication major, Katherine Zieber, a concentrated path would erase her grievances
with the department. Under the current curriculum, Zieber is required to enroll in print journalism classes, and for someone who is focused on a career in broadcast media, she found that “while having a professor who wrote for print is beneficial for those wanting to go into print,” it is isn’t very helpful to her. But, the work sprawled on Tucker’s desk—binders, media textbooks and piles of paperwork—displayed his efforts to address student’s concerns and answer his question: “What is it we really want our students to be able to do, and, how [do] we want them to be able to perform?” Tucker plans to incorporate a blend of the “skills classes,” such as feature writing and broadcast, to get students job-like experience with upper level classes. The idea is “to force the student to do a lot of writing, to do a lot of thinking,” in preparation for a career change or graduate school, Tucker said. “It is about the students,” he said.
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David Tucker, communication department chair, plans to incorporate classes that expand students’ skills needed to find jobs after graduation. Tucker was appointed to the position in January.
Motioning towards the back wall of his office and shifting away from his strategic plans, Tucker pointed out his love for the Browns, made evident by the small cloth marked “Cleveland” hanging on his office bookshelf. But, it’s what was behind the football shrine that stood out.
A centuries-old book by Plato sat feet away from a guide to social media. This juxtaposition, coupled with his graying beard and seasoned taste in literature, shows Tucker is capable of rolling with the times and educating a new generation.
Professor celebrates Toledo’s historic politician By Gabrielle Huff Staff Reporter
Rebecca Zietlow, a professor with UT’s College of Law since 1995, recently published “The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and The Ideological Origins of Reconstruction,” a book about the 13th Amendment and the Toledo native who pushed for its ratification. The book focuses on the historic era of Reconstruction in America, through the life and work of James Mitchell Ashley, a member of the House of Representatives from 1858 to 1868 and a Toledo native. “The book is about the anti-slavery movement and the labor movement in the early 19th century in the U.S. and how political activists in those movements developed a theory
of rights they thought were being violated by the institution of slavery and also a theory of rights for working people in general,” Zietlow said. These movements greatly influenced Ashley, who became a leader in Congress and spearheaded the campaign to approve the 13th Amendment along with other legislation to end slavery and establish rights for freed slaves and workers, Zietlow said. Zietlow said she first became interested in researching Ashley at a Constitution Day celebration at UT in the early 2000s where there was a presentation about Ashley. The lack of public knowledge and research about him immediately drew her to him, and “his ideas were sort of exactly what I was in-
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terested in, which was being both very supportive of race equality rights and workers’ rights,” Zietlow said. A relatively small amount of
that a close friend of hers from Yale Law School is Ashley’s great-great-great-grandson. He and his family also attended and spoke at the conference.
“Professor Zietlow is one of the nation’s leading scholars of the Reconstruction Era, and her new book is a great contribution to the literature on the 13th Amendment.” BENJAMIN BARROS Dean of the College of Law
scholarly research focuses on the 13th Amendment, Zietlow said, partly due to the lack of court cases surrounding the measure. “Professor Zietlow is one of the nation’s leading scholars of the Reconstruction Era, and her new book is a great contribution to the literature on the 13th Amendment,” said Benjamin Barros, dean of the College of Law. Zietlow began piecing together the now completed book after a UT conference in 2006 that she organized to discuss the 13th Amendment. Another factor that motivated her in this research was
In one of the reviews for Zietlow’s novel, Eric Foner of Columbia University said, “Thanks to Zietlow, we can now appreciate Ashley’s pivotal role in the pre-Civil War struggle against slavery, abolition during the war and the battle for black rights during Reconstruction.” Zietlow also developed the 13th Amendment Project in cohesion with the development of her book. A group of scholars devoted themselves to researching the “Emancipation Amendment” — how it came to be, how it was passed and its effects throughout American history. They will host their inaugural event as part of a conference
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at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas next month. They plan to focus the conference on economic inequality within the 13th Amendment, Zietlow said. The 13th Amendment Project will unveil its website at the conference, which Zietlow explained will be a “repository of research on the 13th Amendment.” Zietlow also hosts a website of her own, rebeccazietlow.com, which features other articles and books she has written, including “Enforcing Equality: Congress, The Constitution and The Protection of Individual Rights.” Zietlow will talk about her novel in the Law Center’s McQuade Auditorium on March 22 at 12 p.m.
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Because the winter months bring frigid temperatures, faculty and staff have mixed feelings. “It is sad that they do not have shelter, especially when the weather is below freezing,” said Matthew Martinez, a
second-year exercise science major. First-year biology major Jake Willet said that homeless people sleeping in buildings could be dangerous for students and faculty. “I do not think that homeless people should be sleeping on campus, but I do not have a strong say either way,” said Kate Bryant, an associate lecturer in the department of mathematics.
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Fourth-year exercise science major Tariro Mupaso collects trash around Toledo for her art. Her passion for environmental issues encourages her to repurpose garbage.
From trash to treasure By Emily Jackson Managing Editor
“I feel like a strong piece of my life is artistic and a strong piece of my life is really scientific, and science and art always go hand in hand.” Like many others in her field of study, Tariro Mupaso, a fourth-year UT student majoring in exercise science, plans to attend graduate school and become a physical therapist. Many of her classes are scientific in nature and her diploma will soon declare “bachelor of science,” but there is more to Mupaso than just equations and experiments.
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She is also an artist – a trash artist. Last summer, she began collecting trash she found lying around the city of Toledo and UT’s campus to create collages, sculptures and other works of art. “I’ve always been really creative,” Mupaso said.
“People are always so surprised when I tell them my major is sciences.” She said she became interested in repurposing trash when she met her boyfriend, who is also a trash artist. She discovered that they both follow the modernist art movement of Dadaism, which often declares even the most basic objects such as spoons and urinals to be works of art. She began helping him make pieces, which inspired her to start collecting trash and create her own works of art. “Actually, now I’m more popular than him even though he inspired me,” she said, laughing. Unlike her boyfriend, who searches garbage bins to find the next best piece of art, she said searching for her simply means looking down. “I just go walk to class and then if I go to pick up a sandwich from Subway or something and I find something on the floor that would be a potential collage piece or a sculpture piece, I pick it up,” Mupaso said. She has created 58 pieces to date, and each one includes at least one piece of trash. “I repurpose a lot of stuff,” she said. “I never really buy anything new for my pieces.” Mupaso has always loved art and had a passion for environmental issues. In recent years, she even joined in a UT campus cleanup with an environmental club, she said. “Freshman year, I realized how messy campus is,” Mupaso said. “Even though our school does try to do a
good job of keeping it clean, there still are environmental problems on campus.” Creating art with trash is just one way Mupaso works to combine science and art. Her artistic endeavors have paved a way for a better environment and will soon enhance the lives of people too. Mupaso said she wants to specialize in neuro-rehabilitation and work with patients with traumatic brain injuries. She hopes to find a way to incorporate the art of music therapy into her future career as a physical therapist. “I feel like a lot of people think music therapy and art therapy aren’t important, but they definitely do have an influence on physical therapy and getting patients on their feet again,” she said.
“I feel like a strong piece of my life is artistic and a strong piece of my life is really scientific and art always go hand in hand.” TARIRO MUPASO Fourth-year Exercise Science Major
Mupaso plans to attend Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia this fall to earn her doctorate in physical therapy. She hopes to have some of her artwork published soon in “Inside Out,” Thomas Jefferson University’s annual art and literary journal, and someday even sell a few of
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Participants in LARP (live action role play) last weekend during BASHcon 2018. LARPing involves character portrayal and fighting with fake weapons.
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A “Star Wars” cosplayer wields his lightsaber. Cosplaying is when an individual dresses up as a character from popular culture.
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Q&A with Angela Duran IC Staff
The Center for Success Coaching helps University of Toledo students all over campus with academic and personal issues during their college careers. Angela Duran joined UT as a success coach in 2013 and specifically works with Adult/NonTraditional students. Why did you get into success coaching? I started off with a work-study position on campus in CISP and then had a graduate assistantship in the same office. I love being a Rocket! I was an adult student coming back to school and knew I could relate to the adult/nontraditional student. I enjoy helping others and find it very rewarding. I love coaching. What is your favorite thing about UT? The collaboration across campus to make UT awesome! If you could turn any activity into an Olympic sport, what would you have a good chance at winning a medal for? I love dancing! If it has a beat, I will dance to anything. What are some small things that make your day better? A smile from my
daughter every morning, heated seats and car starter, coffee, students’ success stories, my coworkers, free samples from Jimmy Johns…. I mean it really is the little things! A new semester means new groups to join. How should students decide where they fit best? I always tell students to do informational interviews with anyone they are interested in. That is the best way to find out more about the group and see if that’s the best fit for them. How can students tell if joining a Greek group is the right thing for them? (And how can they decide which one is the right one?) I would say if a student wanted to go Greek, check out their tables at all events on campus, email them, find out what it is you are looking for in a sorority or fraternity. It is a great way to build friendships, become more involved on campus, engage in leadership opportunities and hold yourself academically accountable. The student needs to decide if they can afford it, manage time commitments and maintain their grades while going Greek. It’s finding a bal-
ANGELA DURAN UT Success Coach
ance with your personal life and Greek life. Do some research and write down pros and cons. Greek life isn’t for everyone. Six more weeks of winter! What’s your favorite thing to do in Toledo during the winter? Attending my nephew’s hockey and basketball games, spending time with my family playing games, going out for dinner and having movie marathons with my daughter at home on the couch. I pretty much hibernate in the winter. How should students handle classes and professors if they catch the flu? It is very important to keep your professors in the know of what is going on with you. Communication is so important. The professor doesn’t know what he/she doesn’t know. Everyone assumes no news is good news, and a lot of the time that is not the case with students.
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Rockets tame Broncos
By Jackson Rogers Associate Sports Editor
On Saturday, the UT women’s basketball team claimed a 69-68 victory over Western Michigan. The win improves the Rocket record to 16-10 overall, 7-7 in Mid-American Conference play. “I’ve seen too many times where a basket at the end of a game like that three, that dagger, and that momentum makes the game switch,” UT head coach Tricia Cullop said. “We’ve been on the back end of that sometimes. I was so proud of our kids for not letting it affect them and just going into the overtime ready to play.” Third-year center Kaayla McIntyre converted a layup with 0.2 seconds left in overtime to give the game to UT. McIntyre shot 12-of-13 from the floor. McIntyre led the Rocket offense with a game-high 25 points, a contest-best 12 rebounds, four assists and a career-high four steals to post her seventh double-double of the year. Fourth-year forward Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott added 21 points and a season-high seven rebounds. Second-year guard Mariella Santucci helped Toledo
with seven points and seven assists and third year Mikaela Boyd helped with six points, 11 rebounds, eight assists and two steals. As a team, the Rockets shot 45.2 percent (28-of-62) from the field, including 22.2 percent (4-of-18) from beyond the arc, and 45.0 percent (9-of-20) from the free throw line. The Broncos got the early advantage by scoring the last nine points in the first quarter to take a 19-16 lead. In the second quarter, Western Michigan went on an 11-2 run to take a 36-29 lead into the break.
day and couldn’t play. It’s not easy to juggle things around.” Toledo came out firing in the third quarter, pulling to within three points at 42-39, following Bravo-Harriott’s second three-pointer with 5:57 remaining in the quarter. WMU answered by scoring eight of the next 10 points to set the score at 52-45 heading into the final quarter. UT went on another run, rattling off seven straight points to close the margin to 54-52 with 4:47 remaining in the game. A pair of jumpers by Bravo-Harriott were key to the rally.
“I was so proud of our kids for not letting it affect them and just going into the overtime ready to play.” TRICIA CULLOP Women’s Basketball Head Coach
“The first half kind of started out rocky for us and obviously going into the locker room with a deficit, we had a lot to talk about,” Cullop said. “I was proud of how we handled that situation, especially without the services of one of our starters in Sarah St-Fort. She had a concussion in practice yester-
The two teams went back and forth over the final three minutes until McIntyre scored on back-to-back layups to give Toledo a 60-59 advantage with 25 seconds left in the final quarter. The Rockets locked down on defense during WMU’s next possession, and the Broncos had to foul Bravo-
Harriott with 4.9 seconds left in the game. Bravo-Harriott knocked down both free throws to give the Rockets a three-point lead, 62-59. Following a Western Michigan timeout to advance the ball to midcourt, the Broncos converted a corner three-point field goal just before the final buzzer sounded to send the game into overtime. The Rockets went on a 3-0 run to start overtime, but the Broncos countered with back-to-back layups to put them in front, 66-65, at the 1:59 mark. Bravo-Harriott stepped up and converted a layup on the next possession to give Toledo the advantage. WMU converted on two free throw shots to take a lead 68-67 with 3.4 seconds left. After advancing the ball to midcourt, McIntyre received the inbound pass from Boyd in the low post. She converted a layup to give UT the nail-biting win. The Rockets will be back in action Feb. 21 when they host Eastern Michigan. Game time versus the Eagles is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Savage Arena and will stream live on ESPN3.
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Toledo baseball begins 2018 season
Rockets go 0-2 against Green Bay and Marquette
By Kenny Kruse Staff Reporter
UT’s baseball team began the 2018 campaign this past weekend in the Sunshine State Series Tournament in Kissimmee, Fla. The midnight blue and gold now stand at 2-2 on the season. Iowa – Friday
UT opened the season against the Iowa Hawkeyes on Friday. The first two innings were scoreless until the Rockets hopped on the board with a pair of runs in the top of the third. Dalton Bollinger, fourth-year infielder/catcher, hit a fly ball deep into right field. Iowa dropped it, giving John Servello, first-year outfielder/pitcher, and Ross Adolph, third-year outfielder, the opportunity to score, 2-0. The Hawkeyes cut Toledo’s lead in half, 2-1, with a run in the bottom of the fourth with an RBI single. The Rockets responded with a run in the following inning, which put them up 3-1. Bollinger brought Adolph home on an RBI single. Iowa wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon. A Hawkeye home run came
around in the bottom of the eighth to cut Toledo’s lead again, 3-2. With bases loaded for the Hawkeyes in the bottom of the ninth, Iowa brought a pair of runs in for a walk-off win, 4-3, against the Rockets. Michael Jacob, third-year left-handed pitcher, had a terrific first-career start. His game consisted of seven innings with seven strikeouts, allowing a run and a walk. Austin Calopietro, second-year right-handed pitcher, came in the eighth and Luke Schaefer, third-year righthanded pitcher, received a loss. St. Louis – Saturday
Toledo took on the St. Louis Billikens in game one of a doubleheader. Matt Hansen, fourth-year infielder, reached base and later scored on a wild pitch to Bollinger in the first inning, 1-0. The Rockets kept the lead until the bottom of the sixth when St. Louis tied the game at 1. Adolph responded the following inning with an RBI double to regain the lead for UT, 2-1. In the ninth inning, the midnight blue and gold secured the victory with a Finish reading this piece online at www.IndependentCollegian.com
By Adam Jacobs Staff Reporter
The Rocket men’s tennis team suffered two tough losses to Marquette University and University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Marquette knocked off the Rockets with a match score of 6-1. Second-year Thawin Suksathaporn was the only Rocket to win his match, sweeping his sets 7-5 and 6-0. Marquette swept doubles as well, 3-0. The Rockets have seen a tumultuous start to the season thus far, head coach Al Wermer said. “Every day is a chance for renewal, as is every point and every game,” he said. The Rockets got their chance to redeem themselves after their tough loss to Marquette in their match against UW Green Bay the next day. This seemed to be the spark the Rockets needed to turn their season around, but Green Bay proved too much. Green Bay won the match 4-3 and the doubles play 2-1, as both sets of games proved to be stout competi-
tion from both sides. The Rockets fell into a 2-0 hole in singles, but rallied to win three straight on the heels of Suksathaporn and third-years Luka Vitosevic and Reid Teatsorth. However, the turning point of the match came during the exchange between second-year Ivan Radomirovic of Green Bay and first-year Nikola Arsic of Toledo. The match had three exhilarating sets, in which Radomirovic’s win ultimately set up Green Bay’s exciting 4-3 victory over the Rockets. Coach Wermer said afterward, “It sounds crazy but we’re so proud of the effort and perseverance these guys are showing.” The Rockets now fall to 1-7 on the season. MAC play has yet to start, so the Rockets still have an opportunity to salvage the season. Ball State leads the MAC so far, with a record of 7-1. Western Michigan and Northern Illinois are close behind them, both with a record of 8-2. Toledo will need to improve in the MAC play to have a chance in the tournament. Finish reading this piece online at www.IndependentCollegian.com