By Lindsay MahaneyNews Editor

Signs covered with images of coat hangers lined Bancroft Street April 19, as community members and students protested the University of Toledo’s de-cision to cancel its transfer agreement with one abortion clinic and end talks with another.

A steady stream of cars honked at the gathering, which included about 45 people from the Toledo chapter of the National Organization for Women (Toledo NOW), the UT Feminist Alliance and Medi-cal Students for Choice.

Protestors stood in front of University Hall for about an hour to demonstrate their disproval of UT President Lloyd Jacobs.

“I am extremely embarrassed and I’m sickened with Lloyd Jacobs that he would allow himself to be bullied by somebody who is not even from Toledo . . . who doesn’t represent Toledo’s women and fami-lies,” said UT alum Grace Powers, 25.

The protest came after a letter, signed by Jacobs,

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 94th year • Issue 31

By Lindsay MahaneyNews Editor

President Lloyd Jacobs this week defended the University of Toledo’s decision to back out of a patient transfer agreement with a local abortion clinic and end talks with another, saying UT should take a “neutral stance” on abortion.

Jacobs also said he was not influenced by anti-abortion group Ohio Right to Life, which had said that the agree-ments amounted to taxpayer funding of abortion. UTMC signed a transfer agreement with Capital Care Network of Toledo in August. Ohio Right to Life held a press conference March 26 criticizing the agreement, and Jacobs sent a letter April 4 telling Capital Care Network the agreement would not be renewed.

A transfer agreement with a full-service medical facili-ty like the UT Medical Cen-ter is necessary for the clin-ic to stay open.

Jacobs said he believes the decision to break the transfer agreement is the right one, but the university will remain committed to helping every-one in need of care.

“We will take care of any patient, any time, from any place; it doesn’t make any difference where the patient came from,” he said. “So those people that would characterize this position as denying care to someone would be incorrect. We’ve never done abortions and we cannot under the rules of the state, but we will take pa-tients from anywhere, at any-time, anyplace.”

Jacobs said he felt the choice was not made too quickly and it was a “pretty clear decision.”

Additionally, he said, the de-cision was not influenced by Ohio Right to Life’s accusations or Right to Life president Mike Gonidakis’ comments.

“I never knew there was such as a thing as the Ohio Right to Life until pretty much after the fact,” he said.

InsIde

Students discuss upcoming summer study abroad / 7

Catharine S. Eberly Center graduates Women’s Success Series class / 7

Danielle Gamble: Student leaders need to work together / 4

In brIef

CorreCtIons

Extended library hours for finals week

Carlson Library will open for extended hours during exam week and the weekend before.

All floors will be open until midnight on Friday, April 26, and from 9 a.m. to midnight on Sat-urday, April 27.

From 9 a.m. Sunday, April 28, all floors will be open continuously until Thursday, May 2 at midnight. The first floor will remain open all night Thursday, May 2. All floors will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, May 3.

A valid UT ID is needed to enter the li-brary after midnight.

UT African American recognition program set

The UT African Amer-ican Graduation Recog-nition Program will be held Friday, May 3, from noon to 2 p.m. in the Student Union Ingman Room. For more infor-mation, contact Merida Allen at merida.allen@utoledo.edu or 419-530-3824 or Roberta Edge-combe at roberta.edge-combe@utoledo.edu or 419-530-2471.

In our April 10 is-sue’s story “CVA replac-es lights to save ener-gy,” we should have stated that Jim Graff used money from his UT department to fund the Center for Visual Arts lighting renovations.

We also should have stated that Saudarine Mubenga started the project.

We regret these errors.

bob TAyLoR / ICAbout 45 protesters gathered in front of University Hall Friday to urge the Uni-versity of Toledo to reverse its decision to not renew a patient transfer agree-ment with one local abortion clinic and end talks with another.

Abortion clinic debate continues

By Kevin BucherStaff Reporter

The two students who rep-resent their peers on the Uni-versity of Toledo Board of Trustees can’t vote on board decisions — but a bill in the Ohio House of Representa-tives aims to change that.

The bill, House Bill 111, would give voting rights to student trustees at all of Ohio’s public colleges and universities.

Rep. Mike Duffey, R-Worthington, said it is im-portant for students to have a say in what affects their future.

“At a time when tuition rates are increasing dramati-cally, when students need to graduate in four years and yet sometimes they’re unable to do so because of the cur-riculum … there’s a role for students in the government structure to make sure that universities and colleges in Ohio put students first,” said Duffey, a co-sponsor of the bill.

HB 111 was introduced earlier this year after a simi-lar bill, HB 377, was struck down last year.

HB 377 was amended after members of the Ohio Inter-University Council objected to student voting rights being mandatory. That bill passed the Ohio House of Represen-tatives, but failed to make it out of the Senate.

Rep. Mike Stinziano, D-Columbus, another co-spon-sor of the bill, said he has heard several rumors as to why the original legislation did not make it to the Senate, but there’s no definitive answer.

“We’ve heard that schools still didn’t like it even though it was permissive; we’ve heard that they just ran out of time,” he said.

Stinziano said opponents of the bill argue that student trustees with voting rights would have too much power. But he doesn’t agree.

“They’re already a voice [on] the board,” he said. “Thirty-nine states allow stu-dent trustees; of that, 32 have voting rights or provide a section where at least one student trustee has a voting right — and I have yet to hear any of those states say, ‘This changed our dynamic with the students.’”

CroWD proTESTS DECiSion oUTSiDE UnivErSiTy HALL

FACULTy SEnATE rESoLUTion ASKS UT To rEConSiDEr

prESiDEnT JACoBS SAyS HE SoUGHT

‘nEUTrAL STAnCE’

STATE LAW

Proposed law would let student trustees vote

Student Government inducts next year’s leaders

bob TAyLoR / ICAlicia Boreman-Menke, a 2009 UT graduate, protests April 19 outside of University Hall.

Last regular issue of the iC until fall

This is The Indepen-dent Collegian’s final issue of the 2012-13 school year. We will publish a special section for orientation at the be-ginning of June and will resume regular weekly publication on Wednes-day, August 14.

Follow us at facebook.com/icollegian for news updates over the summer.

See Trustees / 6SUMMEr LEADErSHip

By Lindsay SrajStaff Reporter

The University of Toledo Student Government’s sum-mer plans include recruiting new members and transi-tioning into a new system of government with a new constitution.

The members in office will be working to reach out to incoming freshmen dur-ing the summer by setting up tables at Rocket Launch orientation sessions, said Public Relations Chair Clay-

ton Notestine. The members plan on

talking to local high school students since many UT students come from the To-ledo area. Notestine said he wants those students to know that they can get in-volved and gain leadership roles within student government.

The other main focus of the summer will be transi-tioning to a new government.

“There is going to be a lot

of questions and hiccups coming with this transition,” Notestine said.

SG members will be working with the new chairs for the internal, external, student and campus com-mittees. They will have to meet with those groups and formulate a game plan for what they want to do in the upcoming school year, No-testine said.

Within the internal com-mittee, the members will be briefed on how to handle fi-

nances, how to run the of-fice and other behind-the-scenes tasks.

The new internal com-mittee chair is Senator Kev-in Samson.

The external committee will be taught about recruitment, outreach and how to use more channels for communication and public relations.

The new external com-mittee chair is Senator Nick McCullough.

See SG leaders / 6

See president / 3 See protest / 3

A look back at

this year in UT

athletics / 10

serving the University of toledo since 1919 www.IndependentCollegian.com

Protesters urge UT to reverse stance

President breaks his silence

2 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, April 24, 2013

rocket digestFollow us on Twitter @TheICToledo www.IndependentCollegian.com

Web pollWhat are you doing this summer?

8%Looking for a job after graduation

31%Getting a regular summer job

23%Taking a class

38%Working in an internship

This week in UT history

5 years ago: UT Stu-dents for Concealed Carry on Campus held a rally on campus, led by campus leader Matt Rubin.

60 years ago: “They sell them there, why can’t we smoke them there?” Al Sing voiced in last Fri-day’s Student Council meeting, referring to the ban on smoking in the bookstore.

80 years ago: A re-cord vote was cast in the recent general election with 965 out of 1,465 stu-dents entitled to vote ex-ercised their right. Jacob Folger, Sigma Delta Rho, defeated Donald McLean, Alpha Phi Omega, for Student Council presidency.

BOB TAyLOR / IC

Burning rubberAJ Lesiecki, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, puts the University of Toledo Formula SAE car through its paces in the parking lot next to Nitschke Auditorium during an early morning testing session on Tuesday.

Purpose: WXUT provides a non-profit broadcast service to the University and the city of Toledo as well as a profes-sional broadcast training ground and a place for students and staff to express their individuality at the University of Toledo.

Leaders: Station Manager, Tyler Mattson; Production Di-rector, Sean Weirich.

History: WXUT was born November 2, 1990 when the station went on the FM air waves at 88.3 on the dial.

Upcoming events: WXUT plans to have open mic nights at the Student Union to promote Student Talent begin-ning in the Fall.

How to learn more: If you are interested and would like to be involved in WXUT please visit WXUT.com and click “Join WXUT” or email us at wxutmgr@gmail.com.

Would your group like to be featured as The Independent Collegian’s Student Group of the Week? Email Benjamin Jendrzejak at bjendrzejak@independentcollegian.com.

STUdENT groUP oF THE WEEk

WXUT

What is your favorite bar, and why?

“Chasers — It’s one of the few that I’ve been to and it’s really close to campus.”

Lavelle ridleyFreshman

English

“Arnie’s — it’s really down to earth and I know a lot of people that go there.”

Alex BornSenior

Pharmacy Administration

“Jed’s — because they have the best atmosphere.”

Brittney JamesJunior

Respiratory Therapy

“Frogtown Johnnies — They have a good wait staff and crowd.”

rob NearyJunior

Education

QUESTioN oF THE WEEk

EdiToriALEditor-in-Chief Danielle GambleNews EditorLindsay MahaneyRocket Life EditorJessica LinerSports EditorJay SkebbaOpinion EditorBenjamin JendrzejakDirector of PhotographyBob TaylorCopy EditorJasmine Townsend

BUSiNESSCirculation Manager Jennah RomanskyAccountant Clint HardmanSales RepresentativesHeaven Clark Eddie Miller Lucas Wall Ad DesignerAdrielle HenryAdviserErik GableThe Independent Collegian is published by the Collegian Media Foundation, a private, not-for-profit corporation. ©2013

The independent Collegian staff

Visit us at Carlson Library, Suite 1057 Write to us at 2801 W. Bancroft St., Mail Stop 530 Toledo, OH 43606 Contact the editor at editor@independentcollegian.com Advertise by emailing sales@independentcollegian.com Phone: 419-530-7788 Fax: 419-530-7770

“That did not enter into the decision. I still don’t know who that person is that they’re quoting in the paper.”

Carolyn Payne, president of UT Medical Students for Choice, said she does not think Jacobs’ decision is neu-tral, but rather “anti-choice” because it threatens the exis-tence of the clinics. If the clin-ics close, she said, women will have fewer opportunities to receive safe, legal abortions.

“Even though the hospital will take these patients no matter what, the clinics can-not exist without writing on a piece of paper ‘this health system will accept our pa-tient,’” she said.

Medical Students for Choice have gathered over 260 signatures on a petition stating their concerns, saying it affects both their educa-tions and the health of wom-en in the community.

Faculty Senate members also gave their support to re-instating the transfer agree-ment when they passed a res-olution at their April 23 meeting that requested Ja-cobs reconsider his stance.

“I am concerned for the ed-ucation of our students,” said Sharon Barnes, a professor of women and gender studies.

“Over 250 students have al-ready signed a petition stating their concerns,” said Barnes, who is also vice president of the Toledo chapter of Nation-al Organization for Women.

“We should support them.” Jacobs said the belief that the

education of UT medical stu-dents would suffer is incorrect.

“If there should be some-thing with those clinics that should be involved with teaching, we certainly have other resources and we cer-tainly have access to plenty of other resources,” Jacobs said. “So we will definitely meet the requirements of students and other residents. There’s no question of that.”

Payne said Medical Stu-dents for Choice have set up

a meeting April 26 to discuss their concerns with Jacobs and Health Science Campus Chancellor Jeff Gold.

Payne said she feels nei-ther UTMC nor ProMedica, the health system that oper-ates Toledo Hospital, want to take responsibility.

“From what I see … nei-ther one of these health sys-tems wants the clinic to actu-ally close; they just want the other system to pick up the transfer agreement. So no one wants to step up to the plate. It’s really going to be an

issue of who is going to be the bigger man and do the right thing,” she said.

Jacobs said it is too soon to tell if the university will change its decision should the clinics be threatened with closure.

“If that issue is in front of us, there are other approach-es,” he said. “… I personally think the law that transfer agreements are required should be looked at. I’m not at all certain that it’s a rea-sonable law. There are other ways than just doing that.”

By Jayme Mersing and Lindsay MahaneyStaff Reporter and News Editor

David Hunke has worked in media for over 35 years, in-cluding as the CEO of USA Today. Now he’s the chief strategy officer at Digerati in Detroit — and one of the key-note speakers at the Universi-ty of Toledo’s UHeart Digital Media Conference on May 10.

In an email interview with the IC, Hunke talked about his career and his expectations for the conference. He said he plans to speak about the need to present an honest and factu-al story via social media.

Q: How do you think so-cial media is integrated into businesses today?

A: I believe most businesses

today have a very limited few of the impact social media is playing in shaping their brand and reputation.

Q: What do you hope people who attend the

UHeart Digital Media Con-ference will get out of it?

A: First, an appreciation that the University of Toledo is taking a leading role con-vening this conversation. Second, [they get] a clear view that a nexus exists be-tween curriculum and real world conversations.

Q: What are some of the greatest challenges you’ve faced in getting where you are?

A: That everyone isn’t go-ing to go your way all the time. You will fall short, and sometimes fail. Learn from it, but [get] up and get going.

Q: What are some of the benefits to your job?

A: I got to travel the world, meet very

interesting people and hopefully, helped some folks along the way.

Q: Do you have advice for someone looking to enter your field?

A: Be a news junkie. Be incredibly curious. Don’t be satisfied with easy an-swers. Love what you do. Be first; but first, get it right.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | The Independent Collegian | 3

Summer shuttle routes start May 6

UT transit route changes for the sum-mer semester will be effective from Monday, May 6.

UT Transit Services will operate three shuttle routes to the Health Science Cam-pus, Toledo Museum of Art and Kenwood Gardens.

Shuttles will run Monday through Fri-day at scheduled times. During the summer breaks and holidays, shuttle ser-vice will not be available.

The changed sched-ules will be available at www.utoledo.edu/facilities/transit/ begin-ning Sunday, May 5.

UT-sponsored marathon in Toledo on April 28

The annual Medical Mutual Glass City Mar-athon will take place Sunday, April 28, start-ing on UT’s Main Cam-pus and finishing on the field of the Glass Bowl.

As a host and spon-sor, UT will provide ac-cess to its facilities as well as support from a number of depart-ments, including Ath-letics, Facilities and the UT Police Department.

People can register at the Health and Fit-ness Expo Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Savage Arena.

Parking Area 10 north of the Glass Bowl will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday, April 26, through 5 p.m. Sunday, April 28. All cars remaining in the lot at 6 a.m. Satur-day, April 27, will be towed.

Access to Main Campus will be limited starting at 5 a.m. the day of the marathon and several roads both on and off campus will be closed.

To learn more about the marathon events and to register, visit glasscitymarathon.org.

Dancing Rockettes to host auditions on April 27

The Dancing Rock-ettes will host audi-tions on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Health Education Building second-floor dance studio.

Interested students are advised to look performance-ready and wear form-fitting dance apparel, jazz shoes and perfor-mance makeup.

For more information or to register, contact Tenethia Beamon at tbeamon22@yahoo.com.

In brIef

Former USA Today CEO to speak at UT conference

Faculty union in legal dispute with former executive director

DAviD HUnke

Q&A

AAUP

By Samantha RhodesStaff Reporter

The University of Toledo’s faculty union is in a legal dispute with its former ex-ecutive director, with the union accusing Mary Jane Erard of misusing funds and Erard’s lawyer saying the al-legations are “nonsense.”

The American Associa-tion of University Profes-sors (UT-AAUP) terminat-ed Erard on April 11 and filed a civil complaint in Lucas County Common Pleas Court the same day.

Erard had been placed on unpaid administrative leave Feb. 8. She was hired as of-fice manager for the orga-nization in 1994 and given the title executive director in 2001.

According to the lawsuit, Erard made unauthorized credit card charges, collect-ed unauthorized compensa-tion and made unauthor-ized electronic transfers of union funds to an E-Trade account which totaled over $50,000.

Additionally, the suit stat-ed Erard did not have the authority to issue or sign checks from UT-AAUP

bank accounts and that she used UT-AAUP money for personal expenses and had not reimbursed them.

Erard’s attorney Alan Kir-shner said there is no evi-dence behind the allegations.

Kirshner said he believes Erard was hacked and ha-rassed, among other cir-cumstances which he said have been overlooked.

“It’s apparent it’s an at-tempt to blacken her name before she filed something on them,” he said.

Kirshner said that he be-lieves evidence exists in au-dits filed in the Ward M. Canaday Center that will prove Erard’s innocence.

There are no numbers or specific information in the complaint regarding the au-dits, he said.

“They’re not going to have anything more than the couple accidental things like $36 to a nail salon — things that always get straightened out when the statements come,” he said.

Erard intends to file a counterclaim which will force the UT-AAUP to be specific in its charges and complaints, Kirshner said.

About the eventWhat: UHeart Digital Media conferenceWhen: Friday, May 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. with

an after-party from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.Where: University of Toledo Student Union Ingman Room.Cost: $50 for the general public and $20 for students;

register online at uheartdigitalmedia.com.Why: Larry Burns, vice president for external affairs, said

the festival is intended to gain more regional and national recognition for UT as well as provide participants with op-portunities to connect with other individuals interested in the media field.

“We hope that people engage with one another, that they do some networking, that they visit our campus maybe for the first time, and really enjoy and feel that it was well worth their time,” he said.

was sent to the Capital Care Network stating that the uni-versity would not renew a transfer agreement between UT Medical Center and the abortion clinic. A similar let-ter was sent to the Center for Choice, ending negotiations with the clinic to enter into an agreement.

An abortion clinic in Ohio must have a transfer agree-ment with a full-service medical facility in case of emergencies; without one, the clinic cannot legally operate.

Anita Rios, president of the Toledo NOW, said she helped organize the protest because UT’s action could cause the abortion clinics to close.

“I feel that we are here as a small reminder to Lloyd Ja-cobs that he is part of a com-munity,” she said. “He has a very high position in our community. He has the abili-ty to do tremendous good and tremendous harm.”

Rios said her experience working at the Center for Choice influenced her pas-sion on this topic.

“I’m really scared what someone like Lloyd Jacobs could do to all the women in Toledo who see an abortion every year,” Rios said. “These women have so many rea-sons and some of them are so heart-wrenching.”

Avneet Singh, a member of

Medical Students for Choice and first year medical stu-dent, said as a medical stu-dent she was feeling a direct effect of the decision through her education.

“We’re kind of ground ze-ro for what’s happening,” she said. “From our perspective as medical students who weren’t consulted, this affects our education, this affects our patient population.”

Singh also said she worries that the university’s move could affect not only the clin-ics, but the university itself.

“If these clinics close, our residency program will be in danger of shutting down,” she said. “It will lose its accredi-tation. I think that’s some-thing we should definitely consider. How are we train-ing our students – our future doctors?”

Singh said an online peti-tion was started and signed by over 265 individuals, in-cluding faculty, students and residents. The petition, host-ed through the site Change.org, is still gathering signatures.

Zach Hocanson, a protes-tor and graduate student studying clinical mental health, said he hopes the pe-tition and protests will make a difference and reverse the decision.

“What I’d like to see is a kind of win in our column,” he said. “It’s their right to choose absolutely, but I’d like them to have the ability to choose.”

Lauren Merrell, a senior social work major and a member of the UT Feminist Alliance, said she thinks transfer agreements are ben-eficial for women’s health.

“No matter what, women who feel they need an abor-tion are going to get one,” she said. “These transfer agree-ments are keeping them safe.”

Sharon Barnes, vice presi-dent of Toledo NOW and a UT professor in women and gender studies, said many of her students did not under-stand why Jacobs would de-cide to cancel the agreements.

“They’re disappointed,” she said. “And to be honest I think some of them are con-fused about why the univer-sity would treat the clinics any different from any other out-patient surgical procedure.”

Barnes said that looking ahead, Toledo NOW is only interested in improving women’s health and working to find care providers for women in the community.

“I think that, in terms of trying to be active for women in the community, Toledo NOW is interested in engag-ing ProMedica as well as UT to sign transfer agreements,” she said.

In a statement released April 19, ProMedica Toledo Hospital said that “given re-cent developments that may impact clinics, we will con-tinue to assess the broader community needs.”

Protest from page 1

Presidentfrom page 1

This week, I had a very insightful conversation with one of UT’s student leaders. I didn’t even know her be-fore that eve-ning; I sat next to her mostly because my feet were hurt-ing. No matter the reason, it was the right move.

We dis-cussed the rocky relation-ships that some of UT’s key stu-dent organiza-tions have with each other. Over a couple of hours, we discovered one disturbing theme that seems to plague our student organizations: the groups that are sup-posed to hold UT’s most impressive student leaders are locked in a battle of egos.

Of course, one evening of conversation (that some would consider gossip) is not a fair way of diagnosing a leadership problem. But that’s not the only lens I’m looking through — I’ve spent years not only as a re-porter for The Independent Collegian, but as the presi-dent of a female music fra-ternity, a leader in the Rock-et Marching Band and — for an extremely brief time — as a member of the Stu-dent Judicial Council on Student Government.

The reason that talk is still rattling around in my brain is because it hit on something I’ve noticed through my four years as an active student. There are large groups which simply refuse to work together.

They’d rather work in some sort of backward competi-tion that awards points to the group with the most

power or the most members.

And when student or-ganizations and student leaders en-gage in the campus rat race, guess who loses?

Everyone.Has UT

completely suc-cumbed to this backward system? Some of your more pessimistic students say yes. They furrow their eyebrows and call student leaders “brown-nosers” and scream that even if they wanted to, a “regular” student couldn’t make a difference at UT.

However, I say that’s un-fair. Maybe it’s the idealist in me, or maybe I’m just hopped up on too much coffee while studying for fi-nals. Either way, I firmly believe that there are several students on this campus that still care about UT and are working to make this the best university it can be.

But I also think they’re fighting against a growing habit that, if not caught soon, could become a tradition.

The beautiful thing about a university is that there are seasons. This one is coming to a close, which makes it

easy to shut the book on any missteps made or grudges formed.

Students, do you really want to chain yourself to a sad merry-go-round of backbiting? No, I’m sure you don’t. I’m sure you, like me, wouldn’t mind blazing a new trail of understanding and team-work.

Now, what I’m proposing is seriously hard to put into practice. It’s hard to get out of the rut of a win/loss men-tality. It takes a lot of under-standing to hear a critique and to turn it into some-thing positive. It’s even harder to honestly self-eval-uate yourself and the orga-nization you love, even if the resulting outcome could be better.

But I know the student leaders we have at UT can do it. The ones I’ve met, at least, are passionate and smart individuals who care

about the stu-dents and who are brave enough to be different.

And who am I to make these sugges-tions, and to make these claims of trust?

Well, I’m a student. I’m a

student who cares very much for this university and who isn’t afraid of change.

And I know I’m not alone.

Danielle Gamble is a senior double majoring in communication and music, and is the editor-in-chief of The Independent Collegian.

OPINIONSend letters to the editor to Editor@IndependentCollegian.com www.IndependentCollegian.com

Student suffrage

editorial

When it comes to the student voice having a direct impact on what decisions a university makes, students should be able to vote on the decisions that really matter.

The Board of Trustees calls the shots for the decision-mak-ing process at public universities. And although there are stu-dent representatives on the board, they have never had a di-rect vote regarding the decisions the board makes.

Some Ohio state representatives are currently trying to pass legislation so student board reps at public universities can have a vote that counts. An attempt last year to pass the same legislation was watered down by opponents of the bill, and never reached a full vote from the State Senate.

The main responsibility that student representatives have had is to report what happens at board meetings to the Stu-dent Government. Even though no SG experience is required, it is still an important position — one where candidates are selected by the governor.

But is allowing student representatives to vote on decisions as large as the ones the board makes a good idea?

Only if the students assuming power take responsibility for connecting the student voice to the Board’s decisions.

“With great power, comes great responsibility” were Uncle Ben’s famous words in the first “Spider-Man.” The weight of carrying a vote that may make or break a major decision is a huge deal. Students will count on them to vote in favor of their needs, and trustees must realize what they are putting on their shoulders.

The student representatives must also have a feel for stu-dents across campus as well. Do two students truly under-stand the feelings of over 25,000 students? Maybe not a lot, but there are definitely some, and those students deserve a shot. And we shouldn’t swing the bat just because we’re afraid we might strike out.

We need a student with the right intentions voting for the students who can’t be heard. The weight of carrying the stu-dent voice, however, comes with great responsibility.

Student reps on the Board of Trustees should be able to vote

5 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, April 24, 2013

commentary

Danielle GambleEditor-in-Chief

Ben JendrzejakOpinion Editor

Lindsay MahaneyNews Editor

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

of their authors, not those of The Independent Collegian.

It is the end of the year, and we can see people getting that summer break fever. Classes are all but over, and graduation is just around the corner. Those who are living on campus are counting down the days when they can check out with their resident advisers, leave campus for the summer and the commuter stu-dents don’t have to make the some-times daily trips. While a break is al-ways a welcome time, we have to re-member that life doesn’t end, and many of us have to come back to school in the fall, wherever that may be. So, there are some things that we can keep in mind, and keep the shock level to a minimum in the fall.

May is the month to definitely relax. After coming off a hard semester, I know I always appreciate a vacation, or time at home, so I can bring myself back to reality. No exams, no classes and hopefully minimal responsibility.

All in all, I like to tell people to stay away from heavy tasks. While you don’t have to take the whole month off, some time off is essential. A break restores mental stability, erases shadows of stress and can make a per-son significantly happier.

June should be focused on building

up your resources, whether it be working a summer job, doing an in-ternship or volunteering. Nothing says productivity like June. The sun keeps you going, and it is sufficiently far enough away from either semester that you won’t get all burnt out.

I work the “Rocket Launches” in the summer with the Office of New Stu-dent Orientation Programs as a New

Student Orientation Leader. I also work with several of the stu-dent organizations I am involved in over the summer, so they can maintain a running sta-tus when students re-turn in the fall. So, while it’s not a rule, I like using June as my productive time, be-cause I

feel the best about it.Although work and

school all are extreme-ly important, July is the month to balance all of them out and en-joy summer in all its glory. This is the ste-reotypical summer month, with the Fourth of July holiday and many fairs and outdoor festivals happening. Fun in the sun is an important part of the summer, so after you get off work or classes end for the day head outside

and throw a Frisbee around or lay out to get a dose of vitamin D. This is the last full month for a summer hur-rah, so enjoy yourself.

August is the month of school. Resident advisers have to be back in the beginning of August, and on-campus move-in begins mid-August. Finally, classes start, and we begin the whole cycle over again, from get-ting to know everyone in classes to re-establishing patterns of commut-ing. It’s back to the grind, and full-force motion forward.

Overall, make sure you enjoy this summer. It will go faster than you think, and you can get a lot done. So whatever you do, whether it be a job, a volunteer opportunity or whatever you decide to do, balance it out and be productive.

This being the last paper of the year, I would like to thank ev-eryone at the Indepen-dent Collegian, especial-ly Nate and Ben, who al-lowed me to write for the paper. I also want to thank everyone who read my columns and ap-proached me saying that they recognized me. It was great! I hope that ev-eryone has a great sum-mer, and I will see you in

the fall. Go Rockets!

Michael Baker is a junior majoring in biology.

How to enjoy a healthy summer

Reserving judgments from Boston

Work together: A call for student leaders to answer

Katherine Russell is the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the late Boston Marathon bombing suspect. As she mourns the death of her husband, she has been ap-proached by the FBI ask-ing to inter-view her. She says she had no idea of the plot and was just as shocked as everyone else to hear her husband’s name in news report. Tsarnaev was the father of her two-year-old daughter. Her lawyer told CNN reporters that she is “very distraught.”

I can already see the fin-gers being pointed, and all the comments people are go-ing to make. In fact, I’ve al-ready read some on cnn.com. People have been call-ing her and the rest of this family “worthless.” Others are going as far as saying that she must be hanged for being a so-called traitor. These people who com-mented have neglected to take a close look at what Russell has revealed about her relationship with Tsar-naev. There are police re-cords of Tsarnaev being abu-sive, according to her lawyer. Tsarnaev was described by Russell’s friends as control-ling and manipulative. Rus-sell pulled away from her friends and family, and worked tirelessly to provide for her two-year-old daughter.

Even with these facts, it’s easy to assume something was hidden.

A lot of questions are left un-answered. While it’s ques-tionable how much she may have known, we also need to

give her the benefit of the doubt. As any American, she is inno-cent until proven guilty.

During Prison Week here at UT, I had to deal with some tough ques-tions myself.

A childhood friend whom I had lost contact with was sentenced to over a decade in prison for something I never thought he could do.

Not only did it impact me, but I almost felt guilty. I looked back on what I could have done differently to help him to get away from the crowd that was misleading him. It took some time, but even-tually I realized it wasn’t any of my doing or misdoing that led him to make those decisions.

When some-one you love does something you could never have imagined, it leaves you wondering how well you ac-tually know people. It’s harder to trust others; it’s harder to open up. Howev-er, this is a time for mourn-ing; insults and judgments aren’t helpful in any way.

Looking from the outside, one could have many rea-sons to be angry, and right-fully so, but we never have a reason to be cruel. Even when others have let us down, or even hurt us or our loved ones, we need not be bitter. Try to put it in per-spective. If Tsarnaev had been someone you loved and trusted, you would have ev-ery right to be upset like the rest of America, but to you it would be something very personal. Insults towards him, and towards you by as-sociation, would not help you heal and think straight. I imagine Russell is going through a very confusing period in her life right now,

and if we can’t have respect for Tsarnaev, we can at the very least show some for her.

During these times of rumors of wars and ten-sion building with other na-tions, and be-tween our-selves here in America, we should not forget to be compassion-ate. I want to leave us with

a quote from one of my favorite films: “True courage is about not know-ing when to take a life, but when to spare one.”

Veralucía Mendoza is a former University of Toledo student who last attended in the spring of 2012.

commentary

Veralucía MendozaIC Columnist

Michael BakerIC Columnist

Overall, make sure that you en-joy this summer. It will go faster than you think, and you can get a lot done.

commentary

When some-one you love does some-thing you could never have imagined, it leaves you wondering how well you actually know people. It’s harder to trust others; it’s harder to open up.

When student organizations and student leaders engage in the campus rat race, guess who loses? Everyone.

Danielle Gamble

Editor-in-Chief

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | The Independent Collegian | 5

commentary

Through the invention of the computer, many things in our daily lives have got-ten much easier. We have any tidbit of information at the tip of our fingertips, at any point with the internet of our computers and our smartphones. We can type up papers so people can read them and not have to squint and guess whether that “h” is a “k.” We have spell check at our disposal, so we should never be able to misspell any word, no mat-ter how many silent letters it has in it. The problem is, when we don’t have com-puters, many of us forget the English language alto-gether. I can only assume that I’m not the only person that will whip out my phone, open a text message, and type a word, just to make sure I’m not autocor-rected. Especially before I write something down that I’m unsure about on a piece of paper.

One of my biggest pet peeves in this world is someone who incorrectly uses homophones. A homo-phone, for those who don’t already know, is a set of words which sound like each other but have differ-ent meanings. For example, the words “to,” “too,” and “two” all sound the same but mean vastly different things. I could make a long list of all of the different ho-mophones I have seen in-correctly used interchange-ably, but I will save everyone the time and frustration of having to read through all

of them. Instead, I will just skip ahead and posit that, because of this amazing gift that we have, called spell-check, we have just given up on trying to use the correct word for the sentence, and become accustomed to let-ting the computer do the

thinking for us.

Now, in-correct spelling isn’t a new issue. The only reason the issue is more of a concern to-day is be-cause of

our technolo-gy. Actually, historic writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Wil-liam Faulkner all were known for being pitiful spellers. The on-ly difference is that they may deserve the benefit of the doubt, since they actually had to write by hand or typewriter.

A further is-sue which comes along with apathetic spelling, is a lack of concern for things like tense, conjuga-tion and the like. For what-ever reason, people must feel as if the fact that the computer will catch a spelling error of theirs, it may just edit and correct their entire paper for them, which it actually does to some extent now.

With the prevalence of

email and text, people will send notes to friends, co-workers, bosses and anyone else a person may need to be in contact with, tens to hundreds of times a day. Written communication has become increasingly impor-tant since talking on the phone has started to give way to electronic messaging. How can we maintain suc-cessful and efficient written communication, especially in important situations, like a conversation with a boss if we have difficulty stringing together a sentence without misspelled words, incorrect tenses, improper conjuga-tions or whatever other writing errors we may come up with?

A study by the Organiza-tion for Economic Co-oper-ation and Development in 2009 found that the United States ranked 33rd in litera-

cy among all countries in the world. I would like to think that it has something to do with our having difficulty prying ourselves away from being so dependent on our technology to help us write. Over the past century, that ranking has fall-en dramatically for the United States. The corre-lation may or may not be there, but the fact is, we need to continue

to teach and learn the lan-guage well in order for us to continue to have a fighting chance on a global scale.

Christian Davis is a senior in accounting.

Auto-correct: the fall of spelling

Christian DavisIC Columnist

With the semester com-ing to its high point, and ex-ams on the horizon, politics may be the last thing on your mind. However, I for one think you should be forev-er aware of poli-tics as long as you have breath in your body, since it affects so many areas of life; including business, educa-tion, your safety and obviously your wallet. With that being said, I’m going to make the wild assumption that you have breath in your body, because if you didn’t you wouldn’t be reading this, so you should be con-cerned with politics.

Now that you have a de-sire to be connected with politics, I have the desire to tell you about an event you’d definitely be interested in: Toledo Liberty. Toledo Lib-erty will be held this Friday, April 26 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Union room 2582.

Since I’m an opinion writer, I have to take an opinion on this event to dis-cuss it, and that is Toledo Liberty will most likely be the most effective and en-joyable way you could use the hours between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Friday, April 26. The topic of this year’s Toledo Liberty will be: “How to make Toledo great again.”

In my opinion, Toledo can do better than what it is currently doing and I’m sure no matter the political party, Libertarian, Democrat or

Republican you’d probably agree with me on that. The differences come when we talk about how we want to achieve that. One side of the spectrum says we need more

government and the other side says we need more liberty. Toledo Liberty will be focusing on talking about the latter. The organi-zation I lead, and the host of Toledo Liberty, The Young Americans for Liberty, be-lieve more liberty creates prosperity and, except in very rare cases, more gov-ernment destroys prosperity. To go into more detail of what I mean by rare, I mean Shiny Pidgey rare (For those of you who don’t know/care, shiny Pokemon have less than a 1/1,000 chance of ap-pearing; 1/8192 to be exact) not someone blaring their music in Carlson rare.

Speakers coming to ad-dress this issue of making Toledo better, via more lib-erty minded ideals, will go as follows. The first speaker will be myself, discussing the need for more liberty from a student perspective and a few other subjects. Next will be Republican

Toledo Councilman Tom Waniewski, who will be dis-cussing how he thinks Tole-do could be made great again. After him will be Lib-ertarian City Councilman Todd Grayson addressing the same matter. Our final speaker will be a mystery speaker covering for blogger Joe Wurzelbacher, who had to cancel due to a family emergency. To wrap up the whole event we will host a “Q&A” with all our speakers so the audience can learn more about the liberty minded perspective, or just see how our speakers indi-vidually stand on certain issues.

Toledo Liberty is what I think is the best way that anyone could possibly spend the hours of 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this upcoming Friday, of course I have a little of a biased opinion. However I think no matter your political persuasion you will have fun challeng-ing your thought process, or just eating a dessert from our on-site bake sale. So stop on by to room 2582 in the Student Union this Friday at 11 a.m. and have a ball celebrating liberty. Also, on a final note, thank you for reading my col-umns this semester and I hope you have an excellent summer. I’ll see you next fall, but in the meantime, keep it classy Toledo!

Ron Johns is a junior majoring in marketing.

commentary

Ron JohnsIC Columnist

Discussing Liberty is eye-opening

For whatever reason, people must feel as if the fact that the computer will catch a spelling error of theirs, it may just edit and correct their entire pa-per for them, which it actual-ly does to some extent now.

6 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, April 24, 2013

By IC staff

The memory of a former Collegian editor will be hon-ored with a new scholarship fund bearing his name.

John N. Grigsby, who died in 2011, graduated from the University of Toledo in 1936 and spent 53 years as a re-porter for The Blade. As a student, he was executive ed-itor of what was then called The Campus Collegian.

Grigsby’s son, Richard Grigsby, spoke at a press con-ference Monday outside The Independent Collegian’s of-fice in Carlson Library. He said his father valued the time he spent at the Colle-gian and “always said the knowledge, experience and friendships he got from his time there were among the

most rewarding of his career.”Interest from Grigsby’s be-

quest of $110,000 will fund scholarships for IC editors through the UT Foundation.

Danielle Gamble, the IC’s current editor-in-chief, said the gift is a reflection of the impact working at the newspaper has had not just on Grigsby, but on

many other students through the years.

“It’s a privilege to be a member of an institution that so strongly impacted some-one of Mr. Grigsby’s talent and character,” she said.

The Independent Collegian is published by the Collegian Media Foundation, a non-profit organization.

BenjAmIn jendrzejAk / ICRick Grigsby, son of former IC editor and Blade report-er John Grigsby, speaks about his father at an April 22 news conference.

Collegian alum funds scholarship for the IC

foRmeR edItoR honoRed

The campus and student committees will be focusing on legislation. The new cam-pus committee chair is Sena-tor Ben Lynn and the new student committee chair is Senator Mikaela Kucera. Though they are separate, the campus and student committees will be working closely together on similar items, Notestine said.

“We are going to instill this new idea or culture within Student Government that in-stead of making lots of legis-lation, we make less legisla-tion but better quality legisla-tion,” he said.

Notestine said he also hopes to continue the Ad-ministrative Meet and Greet, a workshop where students meet with Student Affairs administrators to promote a more personal relationship with the administration.

In other news:n Former Green Fund

representative Tony Bova nominated Ben Lynn to suc-ceed him in the position at

the SG meeting April 23. Senate members approved unanimously.

Lynn said he wants to con-tinue Take Back the Tap, an initiative to help preserve water, over the summer. Cur-rently he said he has nothing else planned, but will contin-ue brainstorming. n President Emily Kramp

and Vice President Lauren Jencen were contacted by the APO service fraternity about

starting a point system by going to sporting events and other events around campus. Students would get a certain amount of points for each event. Once a certain amount of points is reached, students could then receive some rocket gear.

“This idea is still in the planning stages, and we have to find out about funding and how we would calculate all the points,” Kramp said.

SG leadersfrom page 1

BoB TAylor / ICLauren Jencen (left) is sworn in as Student Govern-ment’s new vice president by SJC’s associate chief jus-tice Kaitlyn filzer at tuesday night’s meeting.

William Koester, chair-man of the University of Toledo’s Board of Trustees, said letting student trustees vote would create a conflict of interest.

“I believe there would be a conflict of interest in areas where the board is making de-cisions about tuition and stu-dent fees,” he said.

Duffey said students would have to be able to put their personal interests aside, but that is what cur-rent board members must also do.

“I think that as a [stu-dent] trustee, they’ll have to recuse themselves from cer-tain matters, but that’s no different than a current trustee that is a non-student who has a son or daughter

at that particular universi-ty,” Duffey said. “In that sense, I don’t see there’s anything different than any other situation.”

Koester said whether stu-dents have a vote or not, their voices will still be heard, as long as they at-tend meetings.

“People in national elec-tions have the right to vote and half the country does not show up,” he said. “That’s why it’s more important to show up.”

Duffey said every public university board in Ohio that has not currently passed a resolution on this issue should demand that their administration take a posi-tion for or against it.

Koester said he does not object to allowing student trustees the right to vote, but he does not know if he would vote for a resolution at UT in

support of the measure.“My general thought is

that it would not be mean-ingful,” he said. “To me, it is a state issue.”

Duffey disagreed.“Silence is, to some extent,

a reasonable interpretation of opposition,” he said. “Not taking a position is trying to avoid being opposed.”

trustees from page 1

“I believe there would be a con-flict of interest in areas where the board is making decisions about tuition and stu-dent fees.”

WILLIAm KoeSteRUT Board of Trustees chair

on whether student trustees should get a vote

By Amanda EggertStaff Reporter

Learning the classroom ba-sics of a foreign language just isn’t enough for some pas-sionate students — so they fly overseas.

“I just feel like there’s no better way to learn the lan-guage than to immerse your-self in the culture and to be around it and hear it and to have no choice but to use it,” said Erinn Odon, a junior majoring in psychology, who is going to Spain this summer.

Nicole Moon, a sophomore majoring in psychology, said all students should consider the opportunity.

“People should definitely take part in it,” Moon said. “It’s always beneficial to broaden your life outside of Toledo, Ohio.”

Moon said she is looking forward to everything about Spain.

“We have one weekend to travel,” Moon said. “I’m going to go to Barcelona and just kind of seeing how people there do things.”

Culture shock is common and part of the study abroad experience. Moon said stu-dents who have traveled abroad before gave her good advice for dealing with it.

“Just take it one day at a time and just try to respect what they do differently,” Moon said.

Joseph Hara, director of study abroad for Japan, said studying abroad helps stu-dents learn the language more efficiently.

“The importance is that learning the language here is not really effective,” Hara said. “You really have to be at the country where you are studying abroad; otherwise language does not really hit you.”

Hara said learning the ba-sics of the language can be done at UT, but the best way for students to gain actual experience in using the lan-guage by studying abroad.

Hara leads students in the three-week Japanese study abroad summer session, dur-ing which they will travel to Tokyo, Toyohashi and Kyoto.

In Toyohashi, students par-ticipate in an internship with Aichi University. When there is down time, students are able to learn more about the culture.

“The rest of the time is a cultural experience, such as learning how to play the Jap-anese musical instruments, to tea ceremony, to flower ar-rangement, to how to shoot a Japanese bow and arrow and judo,” Hara said.

Hara said in Kyoto, one day excursion trips include visiting sites in Hiroshima, Nara and Osaka.

Halah Mohamed, a senior majoring in art, said knowing the language before traveling abroad is important. Mo-hamed went on the Japan trip two years ago.

“Having the ability to speak was a lot more enjoy-able because people who usu-ally wouldn’t be comfortable speaking will talk with you,” Mohamed said. “If you spoke to them in their native lan-guage they become all friendly and ‘yeah, let’s keep talking about everything.’”

Mohamed said going to Ja-pan was an experience she will never forget.

“It was really life changing because before that, I was re-ally just focused on my art,” she said. “When I went there I was minoring in Japanese and I didn’t know if I could really pursue a career there, but I met a lot of people and

rOCKET LIfEFollow us on Twitter @IC_Arts www.IndependentCollegian.com

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | The Independent Collegian | 7

Study ABroAd

Bon voyage, ut studentsMany students will travel overseas over summer break

See travel / 8

EBErly cEntEr

Women graduate from Success Series

bob TAyloR / ICMarna ridenour-Ward (left) poses with a Women’s Success Series graduate. the nine-week classes are aimed towards helping women in a transition period readjust to their life. this year 27 women from a variety of ages and cultures graduated.

By olivia contrerasStaff Reporter

The Driscoll Alumni Cen-ter buzzed with excitement April 22 as the 27 graduates of this year’s Women’s Suc-cess Series exchanged greet-ings and weekend stories.

The Women’s Success Se-ries (WSS) is the Catharine S. Eberly Center’s signature program and is offered every year over a course of nine weeks.

friends and family gath-ered to support the women as they gave thanks and shared their WSS experienc-es. All of the women had on-ly positive things to say of the program and made sure that Marna ridenour-Ward, the facilitator, and Jeffery Witt, the program manager,

knew how much they appre-ciated their time with them during the program.

There was an overwhelm-ing consensus that the WSS program helps women step out of the box and discover direction.

Shanda Gore, associate vice president of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Com-munity Engagement, opened up the ceremony. She com-pared WSS to the season of spring because it blossomed feelings of hope and growth.

She said WSS was about the renewed opportunity for growth for women who may-be experienced a job loss or a career change.

WSS is as an opportunity

See Graduation / 8

phoTo CouRTeSy of joSeph hARASeveral students pose for a photograph at Meiji Shrine in tokyo during last year’s trip to Japan with Joseph Hara, director of study abroad for Japan. Students also traveled to the Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, the Hikone castle in Hikone and the Itsukushima Shrine on the island of Itsukushima.

By Angela PelusoStaff Reporter

There are only 24 hours in a day, which is just enough time to write and direct a play, fundraise and get stu-dents more involved in the theater department.

The 24-hour plays are co-ordinated by Alpha Psi Omega, the National The-atre Honor Society, and will show Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Center The-atre at the Center for Per-forming Arts.

Sean Koogan, president of Alpha Si Omega and overall

producer of the 24-hour plays said, “It allows stu-dents the opportunity to voice their feelings and their emotions as well. As stu-dents we’re told to read this and read that, and after you read so much you want to get out there and explore something in an artistic way.”

The process starts with a sign-up, with this year having about 25-30 people regis-tered. Students write down what they’re most interested in doing and are split into four-five groups. Each group

consists of one playwright, one director, three actors and a technician if desired.

The playwrights join the rest of the group 7:30 p.m. friday, April 26 to begin writing, with only one limi-tation: they must incorpo-rate one prop. for 12 hours, they’re allowed to write.

“Sometimes the plays turn out very political, sometimes funny. It depends on the playwright,” said Lynnette Bates, senior theater major and production manager.

Koogan added, “Everyone

who writes the plays are stu-dents and it’s really interest-ing when students go to see the plays; there’s a connec-tion in a completely relatable way.”

After the plays are written, the actors and producers are given the scripts. This leaves 12 hours for the director to shape the play.

Everyone must stop re-hearsing by 7:30 p.m. April 27 so the show can begin.

In the past, the theater department hosted the plays during fall semester, but due to late advertising

and a low number of par-ticipants, the plays didn’t happen fall 2012.

This year Alpha Psi Omega assumed responsi-bility for the play. Dona-tions received go towards the Alpha Psi Omega fund-raiser to send students to national conferences and festivals to complete against other students.

“Students gain a lot of knowledge and make good connections by taking play-writing, acting, technique,

Series of student plays to be created, performed in a day

In brIeF

tHEAtEr

Iota Phi theta plans April 26 fundraiser

The men of Iota phi The-ta fraternity will be hosting “Clip It for Childhood Can-cer” on friday, April 26, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Centennial Mall.

participants will shave their heads in partnership with St. baldrick’s founda-tion. The event also in-cludes a canned good drive for Nightingale’s harvest and a fundraiser for the jaxson R. houser founda-tion. All three benefit chil-dren and families dealing with cancer.

Spring cleanup day to be held April 24

“Respect uT/Spring Clean up Day” will be held on Wednesday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Centennial Mall.

Students can volunteer for picking up trash and cigarette butts and receive a free T-shirt.

new recycling bins donated to university

A total of 75 new 60-gal-lon bins have been donat-ed to uT for recycling bot-tles and cans, adding to more than 900 bins already present across all three campuses.

because of hefty recy-cling goals of Recycle Ma-nia, a nationwide college competition between schools to see who can re-cycle the most, the campus needs more bins for bottles and cans, said brooke Ma-son, interim sustainability specialist at uT.

The bins have been donat-ed by The Alcoa foundation.

See Plays / 8

for women from any walk of life to gain confidence and courage to stand up for her-self professionally and per-sonally — “to help put your toes in the water,” Gore said.

Most women in the group exchanged networking cards they had designed them-selves so they could all keep in contact with each other.

As the graduates received their certificates and cards, each had a chance to share their thoughts. Fearing they’d cry, most women rejected the opportunity to speak.

Bertha Fiason, who seemed to be the biggest cri-er of all, took the micro-phone reluctantly as the sur-rounding crowd playfully chanted, “We want tears.”

And tears Fiason gave them in a few very touching words thanking Ridenour-Ward, who heads the classes.

Ridenour-Ward said there is always uncertainty and un-easiness when the class first begins but that quickly changes as the women all grow more comfortable with each other.

Topics covered in the class included dealing and differ-entiating transition and change, job hunting, job skills and so on.

The group of women in the class is from all different ages, groups and cultures.

Fiason, along with Afaf Doumani, who are both mothers, enjoyed the

financial and budgeting courses that the program covered.

Through the courses, Fia-son received a chance to use her voice, while discovering what she wanted and how to articulate herself.

Doumani said the classes helped her find herself and feel more independent, as she has spent most of her six years in the United States raising her children at home.

Fiason was directed to the program by Georgette Wim-berly, a second-year partici-pant in the WSS program.

Wimberly said the process was so uplifting and that the center has been beneficial to her as a nontraditional older student. She went on to say that each time taking the class has been a different but equally positive experience, so those who go through the program once shouldn’t be afraid to experience it again.

Odiri Omobien, a junior social work major, took the class because of her intern-ship with the center. A pro-fessor suggested she take the class to share her emotions, but Odiri felt that wasn’t nec-essary. She now says the pro-gram is much more than that and it taught her “to be pa-tient” with herself.

Odiri said the program gave her guidance and taught her to set goals up for herself and she now has an idea where she wants to go to graduate school.

While Odiri plans on at-tending graduate school,

another participant, Mikaela Kucera, a freshman pre-med biology major, took the course to get more involved at the university.

“I did the course because I really hadn’t done anything at Toledo yet, and I just really wanted to get involved, and it was a really great choice,” she said.

She viewed the class as a “two hour break from every-thing.” Since the class was every Monday, Kucera saw it as “a good start to a new week.”

When asked her what her favorite aspects of the pro-gram were, she said, “The whole communication with-in the group, like discussing how our weekend was, get-ting on a personal level with all of the other colleagues.”

Kucera appreciated the classes on employment.

“The whole resume and cover letter that we had to do was in a sense more benefi-cial to me,” she said.

Perhaps more important than employment, the pro-gram helped Kucera realize UT was the right place for her.

“It showed me that UT was definitely where I want-ed to be, and it definitely showed me where I am sup-posed to be right now,” she said. “This is one of my stepping stones.”

She said she definitely will recommend this class to oth-er people and intends to re-turn as a participant in the program or a volunteer.

design and a lot of other helpful workshops which are taught by industry profes-sionals and overall [the con-ferences] are a great network-ing tool,” Koogan said.

The 24-hour plays are also utilized to get new students involved in the theatre de-partment, Bates said.

“It’s a fun event with a

simple time commitment that is minimal compared to other plays,” she said. “A lot of freshmen usually get in-volved and a lot of the time it is somebody’s first show.”

Bates has been involved in the plays twice before, once as an actor and then a direc-tor. This is her first show as production manager.

“I look forward to see the new students bond in this crazy, hectic experience. It

was really helpful for me,” she said.

Alpha Psi Omega’s antici-pating 75-100 people at this event. Students are asked to donate $3 and all non-students are recom-mended to donate $5. Three door prizes will also be given out.

“It’s good to see what other students are experiencing and a great way to support fellow Rockets,” Koogan said.

Plays from page 7

bob taylor / ICTwo students dance during the 13-hour-long RockeTHON on April 20. Over 700 people were signed up for the event, and $73,982 was raised for the Mercy Chil-dren’s Hospital Autism Center, Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric In-tensive Care Unit.

Dancing the night away

8 | the Independent Collegian | Wednesday, april 24, 2013

I really fell in love with the culture.”

Michael Kistner, program coordinator of study abroad for Spain, said students should study abroad to be exposed to language and culture.

ESTO, Espanol in Toledo, is the month-long program in which students will travel to Toledo, Spain.

Students have the option of applying for grants through Center for Interna-tional Students Study Abroad and Phi Kappa Phi. Phi Kappa Phi awards $1,000 to eligible students.

Additionally, a scholarship is offered through Association of Two Toledos.

One year of Spanish is re-quired in order for students to participate in ESTO. Stu-dents concerned about af-fordability can apply for trav-el grants and scholarships, Kistner said.

“I just want to experience it firsthand because it’s so different from learning about it in the textbooks,” Odon said.

She also said students should consider studying abroad because it is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

“I know this will be an ex-perience that I won’t get

again and it’s just an experi-ence I don’t want to miss out on,” Odon said. “I just want to be able to say that I did it and if I can do it, other peo-ple can, too.”

Odon said she loves the Spanish culture and can’t wait until she can experience everything.

“It’s just really eye-open-ing … to understand and to see that there’s a world out-side of our world,” she said. “You know we are so accus-tomed to how things are here, and just to be able to have that experience, to know there are people that aren’t like us, that’s just real-ly interesting to me.”

Travelfrom page 7

Graduationfrom page 7

9 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, April 24, 2013

puzzlesTHEME: HISTORY 101

ACROSS1. Debra Messing’s NBC

show6. Distress call9. Pack down13. *Coat used by army

starting in Korean War

14. It can be electric15. Of the kidneys16. E.T., e.g.17. *Progressive or

Victorian one18. O. Henry’s specialty19. *a.k.a. “Father of

U.S. Constitution”21. *Underground

Railroad conductor23. Presidential election

mo.24. Arizona city25. Auction call28. Poet ____ Angelou30. *George W. Bush is

the ______ son of George H.W. Bush

35. Keats’ works, e.g.37. Magnifying glass39. Eastwood’s _____

Harry40. Hippocrates’ promise41. Monument to

Buddha43. Steam engine fuel44. Of them46. Prayer leader in

mosque47. Upper hand48. “The Green ______”50. Any thing52. Ever, to a poet53. Chapter 11 issue55. Cranberry habitat57. *Site of first shot of

Civil War60. New Hebrides64. Something unusual,

perhaps worthy of collecting

65. Exclamation of surprise

67. Back of mandible68. Comprehend69. Waste of time, in text

lingo70. Sheep-like71. Not working72. Clinton ___ Rodham73. Dog-_____ book

DOWN1. Unsubscriber’s focus2. ____ fide, in bad faith3. Desert-like4. Coil of yarn5. Type of horse-drawn

carriage6. Espied7. “___ the fields we go”8. List of candidates9. *FDR was only

president elected to more than two

10. Dwarf buffalo

11. *Father of American Education, Horace ____

12. Layer15. Like risqué

entertainment20. Stretched circles22. “It’s no ___!”24. Free from slavery25. *Lincoln’s assassin26. *Known for potatoes,

it achieved statehood in 1890

27. Block29. Supposed giant

Himalayan31. Vegas cube32. Wear away33. “All the world’s a

_____”34. *Tippecanoe’s

running mate36. Leg bone38. Quarrel or argument42. Single-cell protozoan45. Grass valued for hay

for cattle49. Driver’s aid51. *Non-interference

doctrine creator, 1823

54. *1954 Board of Education opponent

56. Tropical fruit57. Voiceless consonant58. Europe/Asia

mountain divide59. ____ en scene60. *15th Amendment

subject61. Gulf V.I.P.62. Ditty63. CPO in auto industry64. Computer-generated

imagery, acr.66. Garden cultivator

Last Week’s Puzzle Solved

Last week’s solution

classifiedsFOR RENT

UTRENTALS.NETTwo, three and four-bed-

room houses, appliances in-cluded, central air. Leases begin Aug. 1. Go to www.ut-rentals.net or call Shawn at 419-290-4098.

FOR RENT1917 Alvin, 3 bedroom,

$900 a month. 1730 Alvin, 4 bedroom, $1,100 a month. 419-376-2419.

ROOM FOR RENTRoom for rent this summer,

or next school year. This awesome house is located across the street from the University on Bancroft and Meadowood. Rent includes free internet, Direct TV, and access to the laundry room. Room goes for $350 with parking, $300 without. No pets, smoking or illicit drug use permitted. Call TJ @419-705-2880.

ONE-BEDROOM IN DUPLEXOne-bedroom home in the

upper of a duplex, behind Engineering. Off-street park-ing, laundry machines in basement, private balcony. Visit picahomes.weebly.com for more info or call Steve at 419-283-5304.

1bdrm @Carskaddon/ Middlesex $569/mo, 695sqft, May/June move in, 2ndfl+ balcony, central heat/air, FREE parking, cats ok, you pay electric, julie.scardina@rockets.utoledo.edu

HELP WANTEDTYPIST WANTED

6 to 8 hours per week, evenings. Please call 419-531-7283 between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m.

FULL TIME SUMMER POSITIONS AVAILABLE:

COLLEGE PRO is now hir-ing painters all across the state to work outdoors w/oth-er students. Earn $3k-5k. Ad-vancement opportunities + internships. 1-888-277-9787 or www.collegepro.com.

KIDZ WATCH NOW HIRINGWe are looking to fill posi-

tions for infant, toddler and preschool. Days, evenings and weekends; Central Ave-nue and Perrysburg loca-tions. Email resume to info@kidzwatch.net. See www.kid-zwatch.net for addresses.

Earn $1000-$3200 a month to drive our brand new cars with ads. www.DriveCar-Jobs.com

MODELS NEEDED FOR MARY KAY EVENT

Joan Watson, Mary Kay in-dependent beauty consultant: Looking for models for our weekly event. You will re-ceive a complete facial and/or glamour makeover with a special gift. 419-350-4253.

CALL TODAY, START TOMORROW

Green Company has Im-mediate Openings. Registra-tion Agents. Scholarship Program Avx. Call 419-469-5935.

LIFEGUARDPart-time position. Must

have Red Cross Senior Life Saving or equivalent and Red Cross Adaptive Aquatics course helpful. Varied hours including weekends and eve-nings. This position offers year around employment and new therapeutic aquatics equipment. Experience pre-ferred. Position in Maumee. Submit application online at:

www.sunshine.org/employment

PAINTERS WANTEDPainters wanted. Some ex-

perience required. Good pay and hours; drug-free work-place. Call Mark at 419-360-4120.

AUTOMOTIVENEED A CAR?

See someone you can trust! I’m a 2011 UT graduate and I understand your needs. Call Aaron Marcum at Brown Honda, 419-841-2222 or aaja.marcum@gmail.com.

10 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, April 24, 2013

sportsFollow us on Twitter @IC_Sports www.IndependentCollegian.com

In brIeFThree Rockets receive All-MAC recognition for academics

Seniors Naama Shafir, Yolanda Richardson and sophomore Inma Za-noguera were named to the Academic All-MAC team Monday, April 22, the league announced.

Shafir led the team with a 3.61 GPA majoring in business. She also led the team in scoring with 12.8 points per game.

She ended her career with the most assists in school history (722) and fifth in points (1,874).

Richardson carried a 3.28 GPA as a recreational therapy major. She aver-aged 9.5 points per game last season and led the team with 7.2 rpg.

She concluded her ca-reer as the all-time leading shot blocker in program history with 213.

Zanoguera is majoring in individualized studies with a concentration in history and currently has a 3.38 GPA. She more than dou-bled her points per game average to 10.2 in 2012-13 and also contributed 2.6 assists and 1.9 steals per game.

Kowalczyk hires new assistant

Former Kent State play-er Jordan Mincy was named the new assistant men’s basketball coach Friday, April 19, the school announced.

At just 26 years old, Mincy served as an assis-tant at College of Charles-ton for a year and two years at Kent State before coming to Toledo.

“He’s an exceptionally well-rounded coach, a tre-mendous recruiter and has the ability to form great re-lationships with players,” Kowalczyk said in a state-ment. “He understands what it takes to win a championship and pos-sesses a great basketball mind.”

Mincy was a standout guard for the Golden Flashes, especially on the defensive end.

“I’m very excited to be coming to Toledo, and I know that we have a lot of talent to work with and the program is striving to do great things,” he said. “I’m really looking forward to working with the guards, especially Julius Brown and Josh Lemons at the point, since I’m very hands-on when working with players at my former position.”

Kyle Shaw named MAC West Pitcher of the Week

Senior left-handed pitch-er Kyle Shaw was named the MAC West Pitcher of the Week for the period of April 15-21, the league of-fice announced Monday, April 22.

Shaw pitched a three-hitter against Central Mich-igan Saturday, April 20, and struck out a career-high nine hitters.

Men’s golf cards ninth-place finish at Purdue

The UT men’s golf team finished ninth this past weekend at the Boilermak-er Invitational in West La-fayette, Ind.

Toledo was 30-over par in the three-day event with a total score of 894, 16 shots behind Louisville and Iowa for first.

Sophomore Chris Self-ridge led UT and finished ninth individually with a two-over par 218 (73-73-72). His round of even par Sunday, April 21, was the low round of the day for the team.

Toledo’s next event will be the MAC Championship at Longaberger Golf Club in Nashport, Ohio May 3-5.

COURTeSY OF UT ATHLeTICSFormer Toledo star Kim Knuth is the leading scorer in Toledo and MAC history, men or women, scoring over 2,500 points from 1995-99. She helped the Rockets qualify for three NCAA Tournament appearances during her career. She will become the seventh Rocket to join the MAC Hall of Fame when she’s inducted May 30.

Jay Skebbasports Editor

CoMMeNTARy

Closing the book on a successful

athletic yearsitting in the newsroom a

week ago trying to think about what would go in the final sports page of the school year, something sud-denly occurred to me.

other than some minor shortfalls and an embarrass-ing resignation from a cross country coach, it’s been a banner year for toledo rock-et athletics.Soccer

It all started around the time students returned to campus in August and wom-en’s soccer player Natalia Gaitan returned home from her native Colombia, the country she so proudly rep-resented in the summer olympics.

Even though Colombia didn’t make it out of the qualifying round in Glasgow, scotland, — or even score a goal — that certainly doesn’t diminish what Gaitan did, representing her country and her school.

she played every minute of Colombia’s three games as one of their captains and was one of the most deco-rated players in the history of toledo’s program. A mi-croscopic percentage of ath-letes can call themselves olympians, but Gaitan proudly can.

And it’s awfully neat that the rockets can call her one of their own.Football

there’s a man on the grid-iron that Ut fans are happy to claim as well.

Matt Campbell took over in December 2011 after tim Beckman suddenly bolted for Illinois. Campbell won the Military Bowl in his first game as a head coach — and he was barely 32 years old, an infant by NCAA football standards.

He coached wise beyond his years in his first full sea-son and never was that on display more than the night of oct. 20, 2012 when the 5-0 and No. 21 Cincinnati Bearcats walked into the Glass Bowl.

trailing for the first time all night and possessing an offense that couldn’t quite find its rhythm, toledo need-ed a spark late in the third quarter.

that spark turned out to be an explosion – a 91-yard explosion to be exact – as Bernard reedy took the en-suing kickoff to the house near the end of the third quarter to put toledo back in front 26-20.

the Bearcats made the whole stadium stand with anticipation and maybe a hint of anxiety as they drove down to the Ut 46 with less than a minute to go.

that’s when cornerback Jordan Hayden jumped in front of the pass from Munchie Legeaux, picking it off and sealing a 29-23 victo-ry and improving Ut’s all-time record to 5-0 at home against ranked opponents.

A kneel-down later and the green Glass Bowl turf was quickly covered in blue and gold as students rushed the field in celebration.

See Athletic year / 12

WoMeN’S bASKeTbAll

Former Rocket to enter the MAC Hall of Fame

by blake bachoSports Reporter

Former University of to-ledo women’s basketball star Kim Knuth was selected to be part of the Mid-Ameri-can Conference Hall of Fame’s 2013 class, the league announced April 18.

Knuth — the MAC’s all-time leading scorer (2,509 points) for both men’s and women’s basketball — will become only the seventh Ut athlete in the Hall of Fame when her and the six other 2013 members from across the conference are inducted next month.

“It is a huge honor for me to represent not only the University of toledo, but al-so women’s basketball,” Knuth said. “It feels very special and humbling at the same time.”

Basketball coaching leg-end Bob Nichols, who passed away last month, was the last rocket to join the

Hall of Fame when he was inducted in 2012. prior to his induction, the last Hall of Fame class to include a Ut athlete was the 1994 group.

the 1998-99 second-team Academic All-American can still be found on almost ev-ery page of toledo’s career record book, maintaining her first-place rankings in scor-ing average, three-point field goal percentage and steals.

Knuth is also tied for first in free throws made, third in free throw percentage, fourth in overall field goal percentage and minutes played, fifth in assists and ninth in rebounds.

During her sophomore through senior years, the st. Joseph, Mich., native led toledo in scoring. she played in three NCAA tour-naments during her time at Ut, and advanced to the WNIt with toledo during the 1998 season.

the rockets had a record of 101-23 while Knuth wore the jersey, including a 60-10 record in MAC play. the 1995-96 MAC Freshman of the Year was a three-time Academic All-MAC selection.

For Knuth, the teamwork and friendship meant just as much as the many victories.

“I think the best memories really are the camaraderie between the coaches and the teammates,” she said. “We spent such a long time — not only months but hours every day — with your team-mates, and you really do rely on them so much through-out your four years.

the friendships I have built with them have lasted over the years; that is probably the best memory that I have — along with winning some of those im-portant games like the MAC championship.”

Former Ut women’s

coach Mark Ehlen recalls that Knuth’s competitive na-ture and incredible athletic ability made her very easy to instruct.

“she is the most dominant player that I have ever coached — the most domi-nant player in MAC history,” Ehlen said during a phone in-terview. “It was easy for me because I just had to find ways to put the ball in her hands and she would do the rest.”

Knuth’s ability to play whatever type of game was called for impressed her for-mer coach most of all.

“she could score in so many ways,” he said. “she could hit the three but she was also very ball quick. she wasn’t necessarily a fast ath-lete but a quick one, espe-cially with the ball in her hands. [Knuth] had one of the best mid-range games that I have ever seen.

BOB TAYLOR / ICJunior catcher James Miglin (15) is congratulated at home plate after smacking a home run in UT’s win over Notre Dame Tuesday. Four Rockets hit a round-tripper.

bASebAll

Toledo takes two of three from Central Michigan over the weekend, then blasts Notre Dame 15-3 by Nick DelwicheSports Reporter

the University of toledo baseball team won two of three over the weekend against the Central Michigan Chippewas. the rockets (14-24, 6-9 MAC) split a double header sunday after a domi-nant 11-0 victory saturday.

senior Kyle shaw (4-5) pitched a gem saturday, al-lowing only three hits in nine innings of play. shaw struck out nine of the 33 batters he faced with no walks. shaw currently leads Ut with four wins.

“We all came out ready to-day, all 31 of us,” shaw said. “We got ahead in the count really good and me and James [Miglin] worked good together today.”

Head coach Corey Mee knew he needed a good start out of his veteran.

“Kyle shaw was great to-day; he worked ahead in the count, kept his pitches down in the zone, he was able to mix his pitches and throw them for strikes,” Mee said. “Not only did he pitch a shutout, but he went the dis-tance which is huge with a doubleheader the next day.”

toledo was excellent offen-sively as well with two hits each from senior Ben Ham-mer, junior tyler Grogg, ju-nior Jacob North and fresh-man Deion tansel. Hammer had the hot bat, going 2-for-3 with two runs scored and three rBI’s.

the rockets opened up the scoring in the first inning, bringing in two runs after a sac-fly from Hammer and an

See Knuth / 11

rBI groundout from senior Matt Delewski.

CMU saw their best chance to score in the fol-lowing inning when they loaded the bases with one out but shaw had a different plan, striking out back-to-back batters to work out of the jam.

Ut took advantage of the

Chippewas’ defensive woes, scoring three runs on three errors in the middle innings.

“the key thing is scoring again and again and again,” Mee said. “our key phrase has been relentless and to-day I thought we were. [shaw] was relentless as well and never gave them a chance to breathe.”

It was a much tighter con-test for the sunday twin bill as the rockets took the first game 4-3 but fell short of the sweep later in the day with a 2-1 loss.

With the series win, tole-do snapped a three-year se-ries losing streak to CMU.

See Toledo / 11

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | The Independent Collegian | 11

She could really stop and pull up and she was so strong that she could finish inside and get fouls. Every part of her game was so fun-damentally sound.”

Ehlen points to Knuth’s numerous still-standing MAC records as proof of her extraordinary athleticism.

“The fact that she is the all time leading scorer in both men’s and women’s his-tory in the MAC is pretty significant I think,” Ehlen said. “There have been some great players in men and women’s history in MAC basketball and her name is right at the top.”

Knuth’s desire to become the best did not go unno-ticed by her coach, nor does Ehlen overlook her impact on his team’s success during her years as a Rocket.

“She was just driven to be the best,” he said. “She was at times hardest on herself and part of a coach’s job is to help a player through that. She was a tough com-petitor who was driven to be very good. In those four years we won a lot of games and she was a big reason why — a huge reason why.”

Knuth graduated Cum Laude from the UT’s Col-lege of Engineering in 1999 and married former UT football player Robert Klaer soon after. She continues to keep up with her former

teammates as well as the current team of whose suc-cess she is immensely proud.

“I do talk with quite a few of the girls throughout my years that I was there,” said Knuth. “I think [the team’s recent success] is fabulous; I actually went to the WNIT that they won a couple years ago. I think it is really great for the program what [head coach Tricia Cullop] has done and it makes me even more honored and proud to have once been a lady Rock-et and part of the University of Toledo.”

Knuth and the other new members will be inducted at the MAC Honors Dinner at the Cleveland Renaissance Hotel Thursday, May 30.

Knuth from page 10

Junior Cameron Palmer (2-3) started the day off strong for UT, finishing with eight shutout innings and allowing only four hits with eight strikeouts. He did not allow a hit until the fifth inning.

UT got things started in the third inning after a two-out RBI single from Ham-mer (1-for-2, 2 RS, RBI) put the Rockets ahead by one. Toledo grabbed two more runs in the sixth after an RBI double from junior James Miglin (1-for-4, RBI) and took advantage of two CMU errors for another. The Chips were quiet until the ninth inning when they scored three runs and placed the tying runner on first with one out. Sopho-more Adam Tyson managed to squash the rally, inducing a double play to end the game and seal the series vic-tory for UT.

Toledo lost a pitcher’s du-el in the evening game, los-ing 2-1 and missing their chance to get the sweep. Ju-nior Ryan Wilkinson (3-3) took the tough loss but pitched well, allowing two earned runs on eight hits with five strikeouts and threw a complete game..

Things were quiet until

the sixth inning when CMU scored both of their runs on three straight singles. Wilkinson was able to stop the bleeding and didn’t al-low another run all day.

The Rockets managed to come within one run in the seventh, loading the bases and scoring on a walk, but were unable to avoid the following double play to end the inning.

Toledo couldn’t get the wheels moving in the final two innings and missed their chance at a sweep.

“We pitched and played defense well all day and that’s why we had a chance to win two games today,” Mee said. “We need to do a better job of executing our

approach offensively and do a better job of getting ahead in the count.”

The Rockets pounded the Fighting Irish Tuesday after-noon, banging out 15 runs on 14 hits en route to a 15-3 throttling of Notre Dame.

The game was initially scheduled to take place at Notre Dame, but was moved to Toledo because of a dicey weather forecast.

UT put up crooked num-bers in the first, third, fifth and seventh innings.

Ben Hammer had a mon-ster day, going 4-for-4 with two homers and five RBI.

UT is back in action to-day when they host Defi-ance at 4:05 p.m.

Toledo from page 10

bob TAylor / ICSophomore shortstop Nate Langhals tries to avoid a runner sliding into second.

Campbell’s squad rattled off eight wins in a row and was ranked No. 23 in the AP poll and 25 in the coaches poll and the BCS Standings.

They lost a heartbreaker to Northern Illinois in what was essentially the MAC West title game, coming up short in their bid for a MAC Champion-ship. But the future has possibly never looked brighter for the Toledo football program.

Campbell’s recruiting ability is unrivaled in the MAC and he regularly wins battles with bigger schools like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and lower-tier Big 10 teams for big prospects. His 2013 class was the rated the best in the league by a decent margin for the second year in a row.

If he remains a Rocket long enough, this might be the closest they’ll ever come to replicating that 35-0 run in the late 60’s and early 70’s.Cross Country

Not everything was as smooth for the women’s cross country team; there’s was a roller coaster of a year, to say the least.

They won their third straight MAC Champion-ship and rose to No. 16 in the top 25, the highest any MAC school has ever been ranked. Led by coach Kev-in Hadsell, UT had become a force on the national scale.

That is, until he suddenly resigned Jan. 24.

About three weeks later, we all found out from Deadspin.com and The Blade that Hadsell sent lewd and inappropriate text messages to All-American runner Emma Kertesz, which were turned over by Kertesz to the athletic department.

Other allegations — some of which were denied by Hadsell — claimed he often

drank alcohol during prac-tices and meets and even drove the team bus drunk returning from an event in Wisconsin.

The five-time MAC Coach of the Year admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with one of his runners 10 years ago.

This incident wasn’t as big of a black eye as the point-shaving scandal that rocked the university in 2007, but it’s still a shiner that won’t fade for at least a little while.Basketball

There are some awfully talented (and better-be-haved) coaches roaming the sidelines at Savage Arena as well.

On the women’s side, Tri-cia Cullop had her best sea-son yet, capturing her sec-ond MAC Championship in three years and leading UT to a 29-4 record, tying the school mark for wins in a season.

Like Campbell, her squad also cracked the AP poll, landing at No. 25. It was the first time Toledo had been ranked in 11 years.

The Rockets had winning streaks of 11 and 15 games, but perhaps none of those wins was more impressive than Feb. 24 at Central Michigan.

The Chippewas handed UT their only loss of the MAC season about six weeks earlier and the win-ner of this rematch would grab a stranglehold on the conference title race.

In a loud and raucous McGuirk Arena, Toledo trailed for almost the whole first half and trailed by a dozen with 13:45 to play.

Naama Shafir put on one of the best displays of her career, putting the Rockets on her back and scoring 14 points in that final stretch to bring Toledo from behind and leave with a huge 76-63 victory to make their vision of another conference crown awfully clear.

Of course, CMU got the

ultimate revenge when they upset UT in the semifinals of the MAC Tournament, bringing Toledo’s hopes for their first NCAA Tourna-ment appearance since 2001 to a screeching halt.

However, that didn’t stop Ohio State from pur-suing Cullop, who con-firmed she interviewed for the job about a week ago but did not give her an offer.

It’s impossible to know for sure how long Cullop will stay at Toledo. But as long as she does, expect more of the same from the women’s team.

The same can be said for men’s coach Tod Kowalc-zyk, who led UT to a 15-13 (10-6) record, despite fac-ing heavy restrictions stem-ming from failing to meet the NCAA’s Academic Per-formance Rate requirements.

The Rockets were banned from postseason play, had scholarships and some weekly practice time taken away and were even forced to remove some home games from the schedule – all from a time period that nobody on the current team was involved with.

Perhaps the most ridicu-lous consequence of all was one that nobody knew about until the season was almost over.

By way of a tiebreaker, Toledo won the MAC West – or so they thought.

Days before clinching the division, the MAC office in-formed Kowalczyk that due to their postseason ban, the league would not recognize their title.

His response? Saying his team will raise a pennant anyway.

In this banner year, it seems more than appropriate.

Jay Skebba is a senior ma-joring in communication. He is also a senior writer for ChatSports.com and has con-tributed to ESPNWisconsin.com

12 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Athletic Year from page 10