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U. Council constitution approved, raises debate

By Danielle Gamble News Editor

At their last meeting on May 14, the Board of Trustees’ approval of the constitution for a new advisory council made up of faculty, students, staff, alumni and administrators sparked compliments and controversy.

The University Council is meant to advise the board on topics like academic programs, budget issues and

university policies, as well as take up “responsibilities as may be delegated to it” by the board, according to the first draft of the constitution.

“This council will report directly to the board and is supposed to have representation from all the constituent bodies of the university,” said Linda Rouillard, presidentelect of Faculty Senate and associate professor of French.

The constitution projects

18 faculty members, six graduate and undergraduate student representatives, two staff members, two alumni members and six administrators, including suggested chair President Lloyd Jacobs, as representatives for their respective factions.

“By addressing challenges and opportunities across UT’s many and varied constituent groups, the council will offer trustees a broad spectrum of

insight as they make decisions to best position the university for the future,” Jacobs said in a statement.

Rouillard, however, does not believe the council is anything more than a “redundant body.”

“I believe all constituents currently have a chance to voice their concerns,” Rouillard said. “Why do we need to have another body? This is a duplication of process and structures already in place.”

Rouillard also raised doubts that members of the council, especially administrators, will have the proper educational background to make decisions concerning matters like academic programs.

Former Student Government President Matt Rubin said the council meetings will replace quarterly leadership meetings.

“This won’t be adding a layer,” Rubin said. “It’s something that’s a necessary step

to breaking down the silos across this university and creating better communication between factions.”

Rouillard agreed that lack of communication is a problem at our university, but she said this council was not the answer. She said Faculty Senate and other organizations are functioning correctly, but the proposals and advice they have been putting forth have gone unnoticed.

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Breaking ground Lloyd Jacobs (sixth from left) joined UT Alumni Association members in the groundbreaking ceremony for the William and Carol Koester Alumni Pavilion on May 12. The new structure is scheduled to open in fall as the new home of Alumni Association football tailgates.

Campbell resigns from Res. Life Replacement still not known, Virginia Speight filling in temporarily

By IC Staff

Jo Campbell, director of Residence Life, resigned from her position last month.

In a joint statement, UT President Lloyd Jacobs and Kaye Patten Wallace, vice president for the Student Experience, said Campbell was “permitted to resign in the face of concern about student-centeredness and safety issues in the Residence Life program.”

Patten Wallace said in a separate statement that UT is a safe environment for

students, citing swipe access into residence halls and educational programs on safety.

Patten Wallace said Virginia Speight, associate director of Residence Life, is currently filling in as the administration works to name Campbell’s p e r m a n e n t replacement.

“While no specific timeline is in place, we will move deliberately to establish a search committee

with the hopes of starting the process by the end of the summer,” Patten Wallace said. “We will establish a search committee and place advertisements for the position in various print and online forum,” Patten Wallace said much of the search will have a national reach and will be open to all who meet the Campbell qualifications.

“No matter who is in the leadership role, UT is

committed to ensuring that the university’s values continue to permeate the residence halls and students are living and learning in a safe, clean and respectful environment.”

According to UT’s website, the primary goal of the Resident Life’s director is to support the mission to foster academic and social successes for students.

The director works with the Living Learning Communities, Greek Life and the Greek Village Policy Committee concerning McComas Village. He or she

also oversees the counseling center and alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention efforts.

Other duties include developing the residence halls’ budget, coordinating maintenance improvements of facilities and administering social and educational programs.

While serving as a liaison with the campus food service director to develop food programs, they also oversee staff selection, training and evaluation.

Campbell could not be reached for comment.

UT President Lloyd Jacobs announced changes to the organization of his administration last month, specifically focusing on the offices of External Affairs, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President.

Jacobs said some of the specific changes to the Provost’s office are to help in the search for a new Main Campus Provost with Bill McMillen stepping down July 1.

“As we recruit a provost, one of the most important leadership positions at the university, we have made some organization changes designed to help attract the highest caliber leader possible,” Jacobs said in a statement.

One example of this is shifting Enrollment Services from External Affairs to the Provost’s office. Jacobs said in an interview the move mimics other universities which will help UT “recruit the best possible provost.”

In addition the Office of Assessment, Accreditation and Program Review and the Office of Student Services were created under the Provost’s office.

Penny Poplin Gosetti, vice provost for assessment, accreditation and program review, said part of her position will involve working with the feedback UT will receive from the Higher Learning Commission’s visit in Feb. Poplin Gosetti said they expect the assessment in the fall.

One effect of the reorganization is the discontinuation of the College of Innovative Learning.

Former Dean of COIL Ben Pryor, whose new title is vice provost for academic program development, said that while the college is disbanded, the components will still exist and continue to report to him.

Pryor said COIL consisted of Learning Ventures, which works to bring technology into the classroom to create “hybrid classes,” the libraries and the first year experience.

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Rocket Launch, the one-day, mandatory orientation program presented every year to new students, will begin next month.

The primary goal is to help incoming freshmen and transfer students have one of their first experiences begin their educational journey successfully, according to Julie Fisher-Kinney, coordinator of the Office of New Student Orientation.

“Students will have the opportunity to meet with their academic advisor, register for classes, complete the

U. Council From Page A1 “The part that people forget about communication is the listening part — if the board is concerned with communication, then they should concern themselves with listening,” she said.

However, Rubin said the style of communication was important, noting the difference between giving a report to administrative committees and sitting on the committee with them.

“For someone who was asked not to even give a report to Faculty Senate, I appreciate this opportunity the university is giving to students to voice their opinion,” Rubin said.

Another concern raised by Rouillard was the strength of the faculty voice being diminished.

The faculty representatives listed in the constitution include two members from Faculty Senate, two members from the Graduate Council and 14 faculty chairs from each College Council.

Even with a projected 51 percent voting advantage for faculty members, Rouillard said the College Council representatives are deans who may not vote on behalf of the faculty accurately.

She said though the deans are tenured faculty, their position as dean is not protected, making them vulnerable to the will of administrative representatives.

“Deans are administrators — they’re not exactly free

procedures for obtaining a rocket card and also learn about the educational opportunities that UT offers,” Fisher-Kinney said in a statement.

Some of the organizations involved in helping with Rocket Launch are the Office of Student Involvement and Student Government.

SG President Paulette Bongratz will speak at each Rocket Launch ceremony and Vice President Chris Dykyj will work at the SG recruitment table.

Dykyj said Rocket Launch is important to new students because it introduces and familiar-

agents,” Rouillard said.

“You’re less likely to go against the wishes of your boss when you’re beholden to your position. It seems to me like a way to dilute the voice of the faculty.”

SG Vice President Chris Dyjkj said he was optimistic about the representation available to students.

“With six students on this council, I feel we will have equal representation,” Dyjkj said. “This is another great opportunity for Student Government as a whole to work hard and find out exactly what our students want and need and make it aware to the council.”

But Rouillard said she is worried that undergraduate students may be under-represented in the council.

Currently, undergrads will be represented by SG president, vice president, and senate chair, while the Graduate Student Association will have two representatives and the Medical Student Council will have one.

Rouillard said if the number of representatives from either the GSA or the MSC changes, the balance of power will shift away from undergraduates.

“Student input has the potential of being skewed,” Rouillard said. “How is that going to make information gathering more efficient?”

But Rubin, who worked with administrators on this project during his SG presidency, said it was not the quantity of students that

izes them with student leaders.

Dykyj also said that he is very excited to work at Rocket Launch because it would allow him to get new students eager for SG and the whole college experience.

“I am excited because I get to be one of the first to meet these students and make sure we all start off on the right foot, and I love meeting new people.” he said. “At the table we will be having recruitment for Student Government with a few other resources. We can utilize like surveys with incoming students to see their

perspectives on things.

Dykyj said he will not be speaking to all of the incoming students as a whole, but he hopes to speak with most of the students individually.

“This is a great place to show school spirit and how great the university really is,” he said.

Dykyj said if there is one thing he would like the new students to walk away with is that each student at the university has the ability to create their own path that will stick with them for the rest of their lives.

A closer look at ... the University Council The members of the University Council will consist of:  President of the University (chair)  Faculty Senate President and President-elect  Graduate Council Chair and Vice Chair  Student Government President, Vice President, and Sen ate Chair (undergraduate)  Graduate Student Association President and Vice President  Medical Student Council President  Professional Staff Council Chair and Vice Chair Alumni Association Board of Trustees President  Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations  Chair of Deans Council  Faculty Chair of each College Council  Senior Executive Director, UT Innovation Enterprises  Chief Financial Officer  UTMC Senior Vice President  Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs  Chancellor and Executive Vice President for Biosciences and Health Affairs

mattered, but the diversity of their opinion.

“If you have a bunch of undergraduates talking about parking, you’re going to hear a lot of the same ideas and complaints because you only have one point of view,” Rubin said. “But if you have a medical student, a law student, a graduate student and an undergrad talking about parking, you’re going to find a

solution that works for all of them a lot quicker.”

Dyjkj said he has full faith in the new system.

“I believe that this will be a learning year for all of us and if the council continues we should only get stronger as one,” Dyjkj said. “There is always room for improvement, but as of right now it will take time and tweaking to find out what needs to be improved.”

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Changes From Page A1 Pryor said COIL was “withering away” to a state where it can be applied to all colleges.

“It’s really not for one college to be able to do anymore, it’s for all of us,” Pryor said. “This takes COIL’s commitments and builds them into new, emerging sites.”

Part of Pryor’s new job will involve looking to implement interdisciplinary schools at UT. “In order to better succeed at meeting the goals of the strategic plan and to better position ourselves to be truly 21st century university, [Jacobs] said that schools are the best way forward and schools that are focused on 21st century problems, interdisciplinary, respond to the needs of the region, country and world and so on,” Pryor said. “That’s the best way to develop new ways to approach undergraduate education and research.”

Sammy Spann will become the assistant provost for international studies

and programs.

Spann said his position will work to bring more international students to UT as well as continue to provide opportunities for UT students to study at other institutions.

Spann said he plans to add more structure to the study abroad program and make sure students do not lose time when away from UT. Spann said the number of students who participate in studying abroad increased from 123 to Pryor over 200 in one year.

He added that he is looking to double that number over the next three years.

Through more collaborative programs with the Office of Student Involvement, Spann said he hopes UT students will begin to become more “globally conscious.”

Jacobs said the Gateway Program, which houses students who are undecided, have not declared a major or have not been accepted into their major, will enroll in the Department of Exploratory Studies or General Studies Program in the College of Language, Literature and Social Sciences.

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Changes to the Jacob’s Administration  Enrollment Services will move from External Affairs to the Office of the Provost.  The Office of Assessment, Accreditation and Program Review and the Office of Student Success were created under the Office of the Provost.  College of Innovative Learning will be discontinued.  Students in the Gateway Program will enroll in the Department of Exploratory Studies or General Studies, both housed in the College of Language, Literature and Social Sciences.  The Office of Institutional Research will move from the Office of the Provost to the Office of the President.

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University Council bogs down already slow communication lines The University Council is meant to be a new governing body for our institution, allowing communication to flow openly between members of UT and the Board of Trustees that governs it. The council is meant to foster communication and teamwork, things no one would argue against. Indeed, lack of communication has led to some unhappy and wasteful consequences.

It is not uncommon to hear of two separate administrative bodies working on projects that address the same problem, such as earlier this year when a certain phone application geared toward students was being developed independently by both UT Human Resources and the Information Technology Department. Nor is it unfamiliar for confused students, facing some billing issue or health insurance snafu, to be shuffled between department after department without much more than a, “Sorry, but I think you should talk to this secretary — we don’t handle that here.”

Yes, improved communication is something we are in desperate need of, and it is nice to see the administration doing its best to address an issue of high importance. It is a laudable task they are undertaking as they strive to fit the largest thinking bodies under an umbrella of cooperation meant to enhance the knowledge of the powers that be, the trustees.

They believe there is no other way.

Members of the Board of Trustees are busy — it is impossible to ask them to attend every Student Government meeting, every Faculty Senate meeting and every administrative gathering.

But with this council, this new conglomeration of information, this academic think-tank, is the administration truly gaining the full scope of our university reality? Are they perhaps fostering disinterest in the bustling of the every-man, of the concerned student or faculty member whose voice has been swallowed by a council of advisors?

Perhaps that doesn’t matter — the idea of a republic government, a few speaking for many, is the preferred mode of governance by our country, and should therefore be good enough for our school. However, in our country, we are allowed to vote for our representation, to choose our fate. Without this luxury, it is up to the administration to hand-pick the party leaders who will decide our opinion and to balance the needs of every faction.

As the recently approved constitution stands, will it provide a council with balanced factions? Despite the best efforts of the administration, the answer is unclear.

At the heart of the confusion is the matter of faculty representation. Yes, appointing the dean of each college to represent faculty is an easy, seemingly harmless move — but are these well-meaning employees really faculty?

They are teachers who walk, talk and do their job like administrators, not professors. They

are tenured educators who depend on administrative approval to maintain an important position and a comfortable pay-bump.

Of course, to say that these individuals are inherently sullied with ill-intentions is to suppose much with little evidence. But to believe the dean of any college, when faced with a situation that pits faculty against administration, will not remember who has appointed him or her to an honored post is to dilute fact with a naïve dream.

Are there no other voices to bring to this meeting? Can members of serving terms on Faculty Senate not be brought in? The undergraduate voice is completely represented by SG members, a body eerily similar to Faculty Senate.

Perhaps the logistics of the council are not the problem. Maybe the problem is so fundamental, so simple, that it is almost too obvious to embrace.

The problem we go back to is communication, the burdensome ‘silo’ effect. Each department is stuffed to the gills with information, but the transportation system between idea and achievement seems to be bogged down.

What is the next logical step? To build a larger silo that each tower must transport information to before the final transformation of knowledge into action? To ask departments not to lose any nuggets of data or clods of invention as another step is added onto the journey to the top?

How about we simply repair the roads?

What if the departments were organized, strengthened and asked to manage themselves like the silos they are meant to be, and the necessity of an overbearing republic was replaced by a simpler grass-roots democracy?

Of course, there must be oversight at an upper-administrative level. There must be a filtering down of orders, a master plan to avoid repeats and dead-ends, just like there must be a filtering up of information, of completed objectives and successful initiatives. But is this council the answer?

The university should take their Green initiatives to heart and reduce, re-use, and reorganize the still-standing constructs of their communication system.

Of course, that will not happen — the university is well on its way to creating a new system, a long road to a vast silo of information, where the few knowledge nuggets that made it to the end will be stored and dispersed to the Board of Trustees. After all, this council was created as a fast answer to a deep, aching problem, with the good intention of uniting us.

And another road is paved with good intentions.

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Mom and Dad’s electronic tether to campus As college students return home this month for the summer break, their parents might not notice much of a difference. In a sense, for many of them, their kids never really left.

That's because some parents and college students keep in touch several times a day through cellphones, email, Skype and other technological marvels. A horrified English literature professor writes about this constant communication in a recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, in "Don't Pick Up: Why kids need to separate from their parents."

"One student — a delightful young woman whom I know to be smart and levelheaded — confesses that she talks to her mother on the cellphone at least five, maybe six, even seven times a day," writes Terry Castle, who teaches at Stanford University. The student says she calls her mom whenever she gets out of class to tell her about the professors, the exam _ whatever's going on at the moment.

"I'm stunned; I'm aghast," Castle writes. When she was an undergraduate, from 1971 to 1975, "all we wanted to do was get away from our parents! We only had one telephone in our whole dorm — in the hallway — for 50 people! If your parents called, you'd yell, 'Tell them I'm not here!'"

Castle never says whether her current students are

different from those she taught in the past — more docile, perhaps? More obedient? But she does say that the willingness to defy or just disappoint one's parents is essential to emotional and intellectual freedom. Is the Class of 2012 at risk of remaining in mental chains?

The online responses to her essay are fascinating.

One says that with parents paying as much as $55,000 a year for college, you bet they are going to check in. Another says this is probably a problem only at elite universities — the implication being that you needed to be a helicopter parent in the first place to get your kid into a top school. Another says parents are anxious because of the recession and feel they need to try extra hard to help kids find their place in the world.

Melissa Bares, who just finished her junior year at Stony Brook University, says she has friends with too-concerned parents who she describes as "babied." "They can't even make their own schedule without checking with their parents first," she says in an email.

Bares, a psychology major, speaks with her parents about school a couple of times a week — which seems normal to me. Both Bares and James Kim, another Class of 2013 student at SBU, defend parental involvement — but not over-involvement.

"If a parent nags, it brings a lot of pressure," says Kim, a

double major in chemistry and Asian-American Studies.

He calls home about once a week. "If it's the right amount of nagging, you see students excel more."

He mentions a friend — a slacker — who could use a lot more parental oversight.

Jenny A. Hwang, who heads up mental health services at SBU, says parental involvement is crucial and can protect against alcohol and drug abuse, as well as depression and even suicide.

But technology has made it so easy for parents to reach out that one of her roles is to counsel moms and dads about a healthy amount of communication.

"Parents can remain available and help students problem-solve," Hwang says, "without responding to that pull that's always there to make it all better."

Castle, the English professor, cites fictional orphans — Dorothy Gale, Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins — who are heroes of their own stories, to argue that psychological distance from parents is essential for kids to grow up.

That may be true, but distance, like many things, is better in moderation.

Anne Michaud is interactive editor for Newsday Opinion and a member of the Newsday editorial board. Her email address is anne.michaud@newsday. com.

What grads need to hear Something we haven’t heard many university commencement speakers discuss this year is our Western heritage — or the related topics of “Western civilization,” “Great Books” or “the classics.”

The hostility to such topics is not new; it goes back at least four decades. It reached its apex in 1988, when Jesse Jackson led a demonstration at Stanford University, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go” — referring to a Stanford course that featured such authors as Homer and Voltaire.

Stanford did, of course, drop the course, and since that time most schools that even bother to teach “Western Civ” have tended to apologize for doing so.

Many academics, politicians and self-professed intellectuals dismiss 2,000 years of Western writing and thinking as the offspring of an imperialistic, sexist and despotic European culture, whose last remnant is found in the United States. They view the Great Books of our heritage as antiquated and illegitimate, unworthy of a contemporary education.

To the contrary, if we delegitimize “Western civilization” we delegitimize humankind’s long march from drudgery to comparative luxury.

As Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, Jr., wrote in their book, “How the West Grew Rich,” “If we take the long view of human history and judge the economic lives of our ancestors by modern standards, it is a story of almost

unrelieved wretchedness.”

What made this transition from “unrelieved wretchedness” possible?

While experts offer many opinions, there is widespread agreement among serious scholars that the economic forces of the Industrial Revolution largely were responsible — and that these forces were closely intertwined with the development of ideas about liberty.

Liberty was a necessary precursor to the Industrial Revolution because it made possible the freedom to own property, the freedom of scientific inquiry, and the freedom to explore new ideas.

But how did we get those freedoms? The idea that people have an inalienable right to be free (however much they are enslaved in practice) must have come from somewhere.

The study of Western civilization explains the origins.

Some people (I am one) argue that the transformation of the West started with new concepts introduced as far back as early Judaism and Christianity, such as the separation of divine and earthly sovereignty. Others credit the Middle Ages, thanks to competition caused by fragmented power (popes, kings, nobility, and cities vying with one another) and the development of property rights out of feudalism. Others believe the phenomenon came much later, reflecting the science of Francis Bacon, the support of free speech by John Milton, the property theories of John

Locke, and the classical liberalism of Adam Smith.

To argue for the study of Western civilization is not to argue against the study of Eastern civilization or African or native American civilizations.

At the very least, however, the intellectual history of Europe — with its foundations in the cultures of Greece and Rome and in the religions of the Middle East, including Islam — chronicles the gradual, fitful, and often violent progress of humans toward freedom.

While the writings of “dead white males,” such as Bacon and Locke, may not have caused the transformation of the world into its modern condition, in which liberty is considered inalienable, those writings accompanied that development and shed light on it.

Not all “Great Books,” of course, are inherently great in terms of their insights, beauty of language, or precision of logic — though many are.

They are worth reading and studying, however, because they chronicle human progress and the monumental changes that enabled vast numbers of people to move out of desperate poverty to a decent life.

Commencement speakers who focus only on the here and now do us a great disservice.

Jane S. Shaw is president of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, 333 E. Six Forks Road, Raleigh, N.C. 27609; website: www.popecenter.org.

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Heat can cool doubters In the summer of 2010 Lebron James, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade stood together on a stage at American Airlines Arena in Miami in front of a packed house. A DJ spun some popular tunes, the Heat public address announcer took the mic and the amount of smoke pouring out of the machines Jay made it look Skebba like the Orange Bowl in the 80s. And don’t forget the pyrotechnics display.

If you didn’t know any better, you’d think you were watching a championship celebration. The world’s most absurdly elaborate dog and pony show rivaled that of the parade the Lakers had a few days earlier after they captured their seventeenth NBA title.

Lebron proclaimed they would win not one, not two, not three, four, five, six, or seven, but eight championships.

The hatred that spews out of NBA fans everywhere for Miami and the self-proclaimed “Big Three” — or as PA man Michael Baiamonte suggested — the “Three Kings,” is easy to understand. Glorifying yourselves and guaranteeing eight titles before your first practice together is a good way to draw the ire of many.

Fast-forward almost two years later, and not much has changed.

Most fans still hate the Heat and they still haven’t won anything.

Granted, they’ve only had one chance so far, but it doesn’t make it any less fair to discuss.

Miami knocked off the Indiana Pacers last week to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals to play the Boston Celtics for the second straight year. Chris Bosh’s status is still up in the air after straining an abdominal muscle in the first game of the semis, but the Heat have caught their fair share of breaks.

The top-seeded Chicago Bulls lost last year’s MVP Derrick Rose in the very first series and subsequently lost the series to the Sixers. It marked just the fifth time in NBA history an eight beat a one in the playoffs, eliminating Miami’s biggest competition.

The Knicks, who the Heat disposed of in just five games in round one, lost one of their best players in Amar’e Stoudemire after he tried to uppercut a glass fire extinguisher case and received several stitches in his hand.

Stoudemire, a six-time All-Star who averaged 17.5 points and 7.8 rebounds per game in 2011-12, was forced to miss a pivotal game three in New York and played in games four and five with a partial cast at much less than 100 percent.

The Knicks were a trendy pick to take the men from South Beach to a game seven or possibly even knock them out of the playoffs.

The Pacers were the three seed, but the lack of a superstar-type player and playoff experience was no match for Miami.

Now, they are facing the ancient and hurting Boston Celtics.

Kevin Garnett (36), Ray Allen (36) and Paul Pierce (34) are all past their prime and Pierce’s sprained MCL and Allen’s bone spurs certainly seemed to effect them in the Heat’s 93-79 Game 1 beatdown on Monday.

Boston guard Avery Bradley isn’t a household name, but he is one of the best perimeter defenders in the league. Luckily for the Heat and especially Mario Chalmers, he’s out for the rest of the playoffs after ripping up his shoulder.

There’s always a little luck involved in any championship run, but the Heat couldn’t have dreamed of an easier path than this.

With much speculation that the team might deal one of the three if they don’t win a ring this year, this could very well be the last chance the “Big Three” gets to do what they said they would.

The haters and doubters love when the Heat fail. This is likely the best shot they have to shut them up.

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Rockets 2012 campaign ends in MAC Tournament

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Senior second baseman Joe Corfman (.332) was essential to Toledo’s Mid-American Conference West title. Corfman became the Rockets all-time hit leader with 261, passing former teammate Chris Dudics against Ohio State on May 15.

By Nate Pentecost Managing Editor

It did not always appear that 2012 would be a successful year for the UT baseball team — especially with the expectations raised by onlookers who chose Toledo to finish near, or at the top of the conference standings before the season began.

The Rockets hit a six-game skid in the heart of non-conference play and dropped another half-dozen straight in Mid-American Conference action to start the season 1218 (3-5 in the MAC).

But after losing six consecutive games for the second time in the season, Toledo (30-27, 18-9 MAC) began living up to preseason prognostications, winning 16 of their final 19 conference games en route to capturing the program’s firstever MAC West title.

“In the middle of the year our guys really adjusted their approach,” said UT head baseball coach Cory Mee. “We really pressed and put a lot of pressure on ourselves early in the year. About halfway through, during our Central Michigan series, I think the guys began to realize that we just need to play the game.”

Mee also credits an over- improbable tear, last week’s haul of the rotation during the MAC Tournament brought Central Michigan series for one of the program’s best-ever the turnaround. Concerned campaigns to a close. that short starts were causing Toledo came out on the his relievers to tire, the coach wrong side of a 5-0 decision moved Ryan Wilkinson and against No. 7 Miami on May 23 Matt Kuna from the bullpen to before seeing their season end the weekend rotation. on a ninth inning score in a 3-2 “After that we got heartbreaker against quality outings from No. 3 Central Michiour starters the rest gan the next morning. of the year,” Mee said.

“We’ve been pitch“And our bullpen was ing and playing good even more dominant defense and executing because we didn’t very well offensively have to use them for the last month and a as many innings.” half of the season,” Invigorated by a Mee said. “But in the change in philosophy two games in the tourMee and a revamped rotanament we just really tion, the Rockets stopped the couldn’t get anything going bleeding with a 10-9 win over offensively.

Central Michigan on April 8 “A tournament setting is before taking two of three hard. Your entire season games from Western Michigan comes down to a couple of and sweeping Northern Illinois games. I think the regular and Ball State to end the month. season is probably a truer UT stumbled the first week evaluation of our team.” of May, losing two of three conThe season finale marked tests at home against Buffalo the last collegiate contest but the Rockets locked up the for the Rockets eight-memNo. 2 seed in the MAC Tourna- ber senior class — Kuna, ment by finishing the regular Jeff Cola, Joe Corfman, A.J. season with sweeps of Bowling DeMarco, Mark Lapikas, AlGreen and Eastern Michigan. ex Radon, Lincoln Rassi and Though the Rockets Tyler Scott. The class of wrapped up the season on an 2012 led the Rockets to 114

wins and a school-record four consecutive conference tournament appearances.

Corfman (second base), Kuna (starting pitcher) and Rassi (relief pitcher) were among five Toledo players to be named to the All-MAC team, with each earning First-Team honors. Designated hitter Matt Delewski and starting pitcher Ryan Wilkinson rounded out the Rockets selected, picking up Second-Team honors.

“Those guys poured their hearts into this program for four years and really provided a great example on and off the field for our team,” Mee said. “It’s never an easy thing when the season comes to an end and our seniors move on to bigger and better things. I hope what that class has accomplished really motivates are returning players and also our incoming players to go out and work hard and continue to build the tradition of our program next year.”

On the field, it is, perhaps, the bullpen which will be most affected by the departure of this year’s seniors.

Scott (43.1 IP) and Rassi (35.1 IP) were first and second among relievers in innings

pitched and first and third in ERA, posting an average of 1.53 and 2.08 respectively.

Wilkinson’s move to the starting rotation also takes away depth from the relief corp, but along with the two other returning starters, he should soften the blow of Kuna’s absence next season. The soon-to-be junior hurler tied Kuna with a team-high seven wins and was second among starters with a 3.00 ERA behind Kuna’s 2.61 mark.

On the offensive front, while Toledo loses its alltime hit leader in Corfman, one of the MAC’s hottest hitting teams down the stretch of the season will welcome back two of its top three hitters by batting average and three of its top five by RBI. “We got beat last Thursday at 9 a.m.,” Mee said.

“We met Friday morning as a team and started talking about our preparation for next year. Hopefully this year is a motivating factor for our guys to make them hungry to get back to (the MAC Tournament) so we can put ourselves in a position to compete for a championship next season.”

Kertesz advances to NCAA Championships

By Nick Delwiche IC Staff Writer

Courtesy of UT Athletics

Junior Emma Kertesz will compete in the NCAA Championship’s 10,000 meter run June 7 in Des Moines, Iowa June 7.

Toledo Junior Emma Kertesz qualified for the NCAA Championship meet after finishing 10th in the 10,000 meter run at the NCAA East Preliminary Championship meet with a time of 34:36.34.

“That’s a huge accomplishment,” said UT head coach Kevin Hadsell. “She’s really establishing herself as one the best female distance runners all time in MAC history.”

Kertesz overcame the hot and humid Jacksonville, Fla. weather, an unusual setting for a runner coming from a milder region like Toledo.

“It was really hot out,” Hadsell said. “You would have thought that the majority of the people that would advance on came from warmer weather climates. It was a little bit of a disadvantage for the kids from the north.”

Kertesz ran the 10k alongside senior Ari Fisher and sophomore Megan Vogelsong.

Fisher finished in 19th place (35:11.13) while Vogelsong finished in 29th (36:13.43).

“Both of them are already two of the top distance runners in MAC history,” Hadsell said. “For all of them to be on the same team, that’s pretty special.”

Junior Katie Bollin competed in the long jump, finishing in 44th place with a top leap of 18 feet, 1.5 inches.

“She was a little dinged up and it was her first time being in a situation like that,” Hadsell said. “Hopefully she can make it back next year and have a better showing.”

Kertesz and Vogelsong both qualified for the preliminary championship meet back in April after hitting their marks at the Stanford Invitational.

Kertesz finished with a time of 33:28.58, making her the new MAC all-time recordholder in the event.

Her time also qualified her for this summer’s Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore.

Vogelsong also made MAC history after she finished with a time of 34:15.00, placing her sixth all time in the conference.

Fisher earned her spot at the Penn Relays, finishing in first place with a time of 34:41.55 to become only the third woman in MAC history to win a championship at the event.

Bollin qualified after finishing in first place at the Toledo Invitational on May 3, jumping a distance of 6.05 meters (19-10.25). Bollin’s leap was the best mark of any MAC women this season.

Qualifiers, including Kertesz, will compete in the NCAA championship meet on June 7 in Des Moines, Iowa.

“There’s not a whole lot you can do from the first round to the final round to make you that much better, but there’s a whole lot you can do to make yourself a lot worse,” Hadsell said. “It’s more of maintaining your fitness and making sure you don’t go backwards.”

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Wind Orchestra provides summer breeze In Memoriam Donna Summer December 31, 1948 - May 17, 2012 Known as the “Queen of Disco,” Summer became famous for the ’70s hits “Love to Love You Baby,” “Hot Stuff” and “Bad Girls,” among others. She influenced several popular acts, such as Beyonce and Lady Gaga. She died from lung cancer at her Florida home.

Robin Gibb December 22, 1949 May 20, 2012

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UT Director of Bands Jason Stumbo leads a rehearsal for the UT Wind Ensemble. Stumbo’s current project, the Toledo Wind Orchestra, is scheduled to perform an hour long concert on Sunday, June 17, at Doermann Theatre at 7

By Russell Axon Arts and Life Editor

During the summer semester, students and faculty are given a break from the hectic routines of university work.

For Jason Stumbo, however, resting isn’t part of his plans.

Stumbo, the UT director of bands, used his break to conduct the Toledo Wind Orchestra for a series of free concerts over the season. The final concert of the series is scheduled for Sunday, June 17.

The orchestra is comprised of UT students, music teachers and community members who are highly experienced and talented with wind instruments.

The orchestra began as the UT Community Band which performed regularly on campus for four years. According to Stumbo, the ensemble disbanded for a couple years due to several minor issues.

“We abandoned it for maybe two years just because of time [and] we had some personnel issues,” he said.

“Nothing big, it just wasn’t working out anymore.”

However, several members wanted to continue the ensemble only with more challenging and artistic pieces.

Stumbo recruited students from the UT Wind Ensemble by suggesting that the

orchestra presented a unique opportunity. “[I told them] this is music you should know and music you may not necessarily play in your four years here,” he said.

“And it would be worth your while to participate.”

Word-of-mouth from former ensemble members helped to recruit community performers who were interested in the repertoire and format.

Although this passion project is similar to the work he does during the fall and spring semesters, Stumbo said the stress level is noticeably lower. Not to say he doesn’t enjoy the gameplay and improvement which are part of his college classes.

“With the college group... you set the bar high and you hope that you hit it for everybody involved,” he said.

While the orchestra focuses on playing specifically wind instrument-oriented pieces, Stumbo’s goal is to keep the music varied, contemporary and entertaining.

“A lot of the music we’re playing was composed by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers,” he said. “There’s a wide range of styles of music ... most of it was written in the last 50 years; very tuneful and classic.”

While the average music listener may be unfamiliar with the repertoire, Stumbo expects

every orchestra member to know these songs intimately.

“They’re pieces that anybody who played in band in high school or college would know of,” he said. “They’re core pieces for winds.”

The orchestra also reflects the scheduling and challenges of a professional ensemble, according to Stumbo. Despite the complexity of the selected pieces, the orchestra only rehearses two or three times before a performance.

“The music being played is at a very high level,” Stumbo said.

“It’s ‘art’ music; there aren’t a lot of marches or, [what I call], fluff tunes. It’s something unique and different.”

The rehearsals allow the orchestra to work on the subtleties of their performances, like tempo shifts and transitions.

Stumbo’s preparation as the orchestra’s conductor is also very minimal. He selected pieces already familiar to him for the repertoire, allowing him to quickly move through the pieces. “[They’re] very intense rehearsals, but minimal,” Stumbo said. “You just go in and run it and hit the things you need to hit. It’s actually pretty easy, and to be quite honest, it’s pretty enjoyable, too.”

The orchestra has held two concerts so far, each

with a different theme. The first concert featured classic “cornerstone” pieces from major wind composers.

“These are like top five of the [repertoire,]” Stumbo said.

The theme for the second concert was “Liturgical Music for Winds” and featured a piece

by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Peter Mennin. His tentative plan for the third show is to feature songs with “dance” themes and elements.

Stumbo’s goal is to keep the concerts brief — none of the shows go over an hour — and entertaining. The repertoire features world famous and prize winning compositions.

“Very rarely do you get all of those works on one program,” he said.

Stumbo hopes the orchestra will perform a fresh concert series every two or three months throughout the year, culminating in a December, holiday-themed concert.

“With [the orchestra]... it’s about playing this great music and enjoying pulling that together and making it happen,” he said.

The Toledo Wind Orchestra’s next concert is scheduled for Sunday, June 17 in Doermann Theatre at 7 p.m.

The concert is free and open to the public.

One-third of the band The Bee Gees, Gibb and his brothers harmonized their way to over 220 million records sold.

The groupd was inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

Additionally, Gibb released eight solo albums. Gibb was touring when he unexpectedly died from kidney and liver failure caused by cancer.

Maurice Sendak June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012 A prominent author and illustrator, Sendak is best known for his children’s books “Where the Wild Things Are” (1963) and “In the Night Kitchen” (1970).

He wrote over 15 books and illustrated over 70, and he won several notable awards for his work, including the Caldecott Medal. In 2008, he revealed he was gay and had been with his partner for 50 years. He died in Connecticut due to complications from a stroke.

Adam “MCA” Yauch August 5, 1964 - May 4, 2012 As a co-founder of the hip-hop group The Beastie Boys, Yauch sold over 40 million albums worldwide and won three Grammy awards. Also a director and activist, he established Oscilloscope Labaratories, an indie film company, and started the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit advocating Tibetan independence. He died after a three-year battle with throat cancer.

‘The Skills to Pay the Bills’ A must-hear and -see list of Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch’s best work with the Beastie Boys The passing of Adam “MCA” is for Adam and the lyrics true”) Yauch was a devastating loss. clever, offbeat humor (I’m fishing with my boat and I’m While Yauch was a fishing for trout / Mix prominent activist the Bass ale with the and philanthropist, Guinness stout”) and it’s his work with the gravelly voice. Yauch’s Beastie Boys that will raps are brilliantly be remembered for complimented by the years to come. Coinstrumental, a mixfounded by Yauch, ture of old school Mike “Mike D.” Diadrums with electronic mond and Adam “Adeffects to keep things Rock” Horovitz, the fresh. The section is group helped evolve

By Russell Axon arguably the stronthe sounds of rock Arts and Life Editor gest of the hodgeand hip-hop from the ’80s to today. Yauch’s work with podge track, and the ease with the band was integral to their sta- which Yauch pulls it off is imprestus as game-changers. Here, in no sive to say the least.

“Check Your Head” (album) particular order, are Yauch’s greatWhile “Paul’s Boutique” holds the est hits with the Beastie Boys.

“B-Boy Bouillabaisse: A Year title of best Beastie Boys album, and a Day” (song) Part of the their 1992 follow-up “Check Your 12-and-a-half minute finale to the Head” definitely holds the title of Beastie’s second and best album, best MCA album. The album saw “Paul’s Boutique,” “A Year and a the Beastie’s return to playing inDay” features Yauch’s speed-rap- struments, a move heavily influping solo over four different sam- enced by Yauch. He was commonples. For three minutes, Yauch ly regarded as the group’s musidominates your hearing with some cian, and he used the album to of his best rhymes, showcasing his showcase a fuller sound. Elements trademark simplistic honesty, from hip-hop, rock and the group’s (“MC for what I am and do / The A early punk rock days can be heard

in songs like “Jimmy James,” “Pass the Mic,” “Gratitude” and “So What’cha Want.” Yauch’s fingerprints are all over this album, and the sounds created here reverberate through much of today’s music.

“Shadrach” and “Intergalactic” (music videos) Yauch’s fingerprints can also be found in the handful of the Beastie’s music videos he directed under the pseudonym “Nathaniel Hornblower.”

One of his first videos was for the group’s 1989 single “Shadrach,” an animated film depicting an abstract Beastie Boys concert. Each individual frame was beautifully hand painted, and the video was selected for screenings at multiple film festivals. It remains as one of the most unique videos of all time.

Afterwards, Yauch’s personality and influences began to bleed into his music videos. With the band’s 1998 hit “Intergalactic,” he paid homage to low budget Japanese monster films. The video depicts an epic battle between a giant robot from outer space and Cthulu in the middle of a Japanese city. The tone and execution are perfect, from the exaggerated acting to the

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The Beastie Boys, (from left) Adam “MCA” Yauch, Mike “Mike D.” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, perform at 2004 concert. Yauch was instrumental to the group’s image and success. cheaply made costumes and sets.

Yauch’s love for movies shines through, and his skills as a director helped shaped the Beastie’s colorful, fun-loving reputation.

“Fight For Your Right (Revisited)” (short film) The progression of this reputation was the focus of Yauch’s final film, an 30-minute short about a confrontation between the young Beastie Boys

(played by Elijah Wood, Seth Rogen and Danny McBride) and the Beastie Boys from the future (played by Will Ferrell, John C. Rielly and Jack Black). The short also includes a ridiculous amount of celebrity cameos as targets for the young Beasties’ rowdy antics.

Yauch really gets to show off his skills here, and the script proves that the Beasties take themselves

about as seriously as any one would expect, not hesitating to poke fun at their image and reputation. Ultimately, it’s a love letter from Yauch to his bandmates, their fans and his career.

The work he left behind will ensure he’s remembered as someone who fought for creativity, honesty, individuality and, of course, the right to party.