95th year • Issue 3
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
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Student groups to have marketing help Two student interns have been hired by UT to help groups with creating marketing plans. NEWS / 3 »
Noteworthy Neutrals Fashion columnist Isis Darks explains why black and white work in your wardrobe. COMMUNITY / 9 »
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“Why do we know more about our favorite star’s Instagram than our senators’ stand on gun control?” JACKIE KELLETT “Is Miley out of line, or are we?” OPINION / 4 »
Rockets head to Florida for first game of the season Toledo will head down to Gainesville Aug. 31. SPORTS / 5 »
THE ROAD TO TOLEDO
CRIME
UT’s Matt Campbell discusses his coaching journey
By Danielle Gamble and Samantha Rhodes
Falling back in love with football
UT unveils two new apps for students NEWS / 3 »
Editor-in-Chief and Associate News Editor
By Jay Skebba Sports Editor
Spend just a few minutes talking to University of Toledo head coach Matt Campbell, and you’ll quickly realize how much the man loves football — which is why it’s hard to believe there was a time when he wanted almost nothing to do with it. Like most coaches, Campbell played at the Division-I level. He was a highly-coveted recruit coming out of Massillon Perry High School, an area of Ohio known as a hotbed for college football prospects. With offers in hand from some bigtime programs, Campbell committed to Pittsburgh, a choice that he still says he made for the wrong reason. “I chose them because they told me I could go play tight end, everyone else was recruiting me defensively,” Campbell said during an interview in his office two weeks ago. “Back then, you took your five official visits and you made a decision. I went to West Virginia the first week of official visits and then went to Pitt.” With the chance to play on offense and simply wishing his recruitment would be over with, Campbell began his career as a Pitt Panther. It wouldn’t last long. As a true freshman, Campbell got into the first two games of the season, an honor usually not bestowed upon 18 year olds. After the second game, he injured his ankle and was forced to sit out the rest of the year, a season in which Pittsburgh won just two games. “I remember almost falling out of love with football,” Campbell said. “There was a rift in the program between the coaches and the kids. Everything that you would think about what a poor football program looks like, it looked liked it. For me, it was shocking because I had never been part of something like that. “I think that experience more than anything is an experience that has defined who I am today.” In less than a year, Campbell went from big-time recruit to unsure about his football future. That summer during a drive back
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Coach Matt Campbell sits in his office at Larimer Athletic Complex, with pictures of his daughters, Katelyn and Isabella, on display. Campell has served as head coach since the the 2011 Military Bowl on Dec. 28., which the Rockets won 42-41 against the Air Force Falcons. Since then, Toledo has gone 10-4.
home from Pittsburgh, he traveled through Alliance, Ohio – home of Division-III power Mount Union – and all of a sudden, he was literally stopped in his tracks. It was a July day when Campbell came across a herd of about 60 guys crossing the street. They were non-scholarship Mount Union football players going to get some work in on a volunteer basis. “That day was divine intervention,” Campbell said. “I’m like, ‘Where these guys going?’ I followed them; they went to go throw the ball. Here are these non-scholarship football players and they are going to work out.
“I work at 6 in the morning until 3 and I’m pounding out the little molds that hold the hooks of these [cement] culverts. I remember thinking, ‘What in the heck am I doing?’” MATT CAMPBELL University of Toledo head football coch
And here are 60 scholarship players at Pittsburgh and none of those guys were going to work out.” Campbell’s mother and father both attended Mount Union, and father Rick Campbell played for the head coach Larry Kehres – the winningest coach in college football history at any division. However, Matt Campbell had never been to a Mount Union game and had never even been on campus — but it didn’t take long for him to realize where he wanted to be. “[Coach Kehres] stopped me; I was telling him about what was going on [at Pitt] and he really didn’t even recruit me,” Campbell said. “He just said, ‘Hey, I wish you the best of luck. If you ever need anything or want to talk, let me know.’ I remember going home that day and telling my parents, ‘I’m going to transfer.’ “The next four years at Mount Union changed my life.” Now paying his own way to play football, Campbell hit the reset button and went over to the defensive side of the ball, a role in which he thrived. As a defensive lineman, he totaled 207 tackles, 49 tackles for loss and 22 sacks. He played a key role in the Purple Raiders’ string of three straight National Championships from 200002 and was a two-time All-American. See Campbell / 8 »
UNIVERSITY POLICY
Faculty Senate, other groups safe after threat of dissolution fizzles By Lindsay Mahaney News Editor
A dispute that some professors feared would cause the University of Toledo to dissolve the governing bodies like the Faculty Senate appears to have fizzled. The board passed a resolution at the Aug. 12 Trusteeship and Governance Committee meeting stating that, “in the event of a conflict between the governing documents and respective charges of any constituent body,” University Council will have final say.
Two people charged after McComas stabbing
UT board members voted in January to require large-scale university organizations like Faculty Senate to include a clause in their constitution stating that all decisions must be made in accord with the Board of Trustees and that if any organization failed to comply, its constitution would be “null and void.” As of June 30, several organizations on campus, including Faculty Senate, the College of Engineering and the College of Business and Innovation had rejected adding the clause
to their constitutions. The board decided to take no action against groups that did not include the clause in their constitution, instead passing a resolution asserting the board’s final authority. “It turned out we couldn’t figure out where all these documents were, so the board passed it as a blanket resolution,” said UT President Lloyd Jacobs. Alexandra Bodie, review committee member and recent UT graduate, said, the process was “very in-depth,” and “each
constitution was read through and scrutinized multiple times by each of us on the committee.” Review committee member Mike Dowd said he doesn’t see the purpose of including the supremacy clause when it is already known that the trustees have the final say. “Anything they decide, it’s decided,” he said. Faculty Senate President Linda Rouillard said Faculty Senate will continue functioning as it normally would, and focus on academics.
One student and a Michigan resident face charges after an on-campus brawl at the University of Toledo ended in a stabbing and car chase the morning of Aug. 23. UT Police Chief Jeff Newton said about 2:30 a.m., a fight involving two small groups of people broke out near McComas Village during which Cody Halka, 17, was stabbed once in his abdomen. Joseph Bialecki, 18, of 10307 Stark St. in Temperance, MI, allegedly stabbed Halka, according to court documents. Bialecki’s bond was set Saturday at $15,000 with the option to post 10 percent cash, and he was released Sunday. Domenic Hudson, 18, a first-year business major, was charged with felonious assault, failure to comply, obstruction of official business and resisting arrest for allegedly kicking and punching Bialecki. Before his arrest in front of 2465 Douglas Rd., Hudson, who remains in Lucas County jail, reportedly led university police on a brief car chase around campus. Hudson’s bond was set at $30,000 with the option to post 10 percent in cash. According to Newton, Halka was transported to the hospital to treat non-life threatening injuries. After Bialecki was detained, he was also sent to the hospital for injuries he received during the fight, which court records say include a left orbital fracture, a broken nose, and cuts on his hands and feet. Newton said the incident occurred at a sidewalk next to the southeastern corner of McComas Village, residential housing for Greek sororities and fraternities. He could not say if the incident involved any Greek students. Both the Toledo and Ottawa Hills police departments assisted with the situation. Bruce Boerst, Jr., Hudson’s attorney, declined to comment at this time. However, The Blade wrote that at the arraignment, Boerst said his client was on full scholarship at the university, and that bond should be lowered because Hudson was “defending a friend.” When describing the brawl, Newton said alcohol was “certainly a factor,” though he said “it’s safe to say it began at an off-campus location.” “This situation here, as I described before, it seemed like minus the knife it could have been a fight between people who had too much to drink, but somebody chose to have a weapon on them and use it,” Newton said.