By Nell TironeStaff Reporter

Rockets can once again show their support in the form of a bow tie for those affected by prostate cancer with the third annual Tie One On men’s basketball game.

The game will take place Saturday at 7 p.m. against archrival Bowling Green State University at Savage Arena. Both coaches will be sporting bow ties.

They are not the only ones invited to wear a bow tie, however. Rocket fans are also invited to participate in the festivities and are offered a $100 deal. The deal includes a game ticket, the bow tie and the photo. Students are offered the same deal at a discounted price of $20.

The fundraiser began three years ago when cancer survivor Larry Burns and Head Coach Tod Kowalczyk decided to bring Coaches vs. Cancer, run by the American Cancer Society, to UT. Rath-er than wear the tennis shoes the event traditionally called for, Burns and Kowalczyk decided to wear bow ties in honor of Burns’ reputation for wearing them.

UT also partnered with Bow Tie Cause, which is an organization devoted to cre-ating a platform for others to wear bowties for a cause they believe in, said Lindsay Ack-erman, event coordinator. The organization offers the bow ties at a reduced cost so more of the money raised

during the event can be donated.

Coaches vs. Cancer is a na-tionwide collaboration be-tween the American Cancer Society and the National As-sociation of Basketball Coaches in the fight to end cancer. According to a page on the American Cancer So-ciety website, this particular program has raised more than $87 million towards helping those with cancer as

well as finding a cure.“It’s been a great annual

event that has created a lot of awareness and helped to find the resources to help fight prostate cancer here on cam-pus,” Kowalczyk said.

Past years have raised al-most $20,000 in total dona-tions, and it is hoped that $25,000 will be raised with this year’s events.

“We are very honored to be part of this event and

know that it’s creating aware-ness in trying to fight a very terrible disease,” Kowalczyk said.

All money made in dona-tions will benefit the Univer-sity of Toledo Medical Center Dana Cancer Center in sup-port of research for prostate cancer, as well as provide funds to help those suffering from the disease as well as their families.

Other events besides the

basketball game will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. This will be a pre-game bow tie tying reception in the Fet-terman Gym. Donators will go there to receive their bow ties and have them tied on. During this time, donators will also have the chance to take a complementary photo in the provided photo booth.

In addition to the

By IC Staff

University of Toledo Vice President and Athletic Director Mike O’Brien announced Jan. 16 that UT’s student-athletes earned a grade point average of 3.131 in the 2012 fall semester.

It is the eighth-straight se-mester Toledo student-ath-letes have earned a combined GPA of 3.1 or higher and the 13th time in the last 15 se-mesters the group has accu-mulated a GPA above 3.0.

The academic efforts of UT’s student-athletes earned them a spot among the 11 col-leges with the smartest ath-letes, according to a list com-piled by thebestcolleges.org

“We are justifiably proud of

the continued excellence of our student-athletes in the classroom,” O’Brien said. “Their dedication to academ-ics is a source of pride for our university. We are also very proud of the efforts of the coaches, athletic department academic staff and university faculty members who support and nurture our student-ath-letes in their pursuit of aca-demic excellence.”

Twelve of 15 sports pro-gram registered GPAs of 3.0 or higher with the women’s soccer team earning a school-high 3.616 combined GPA. Women’s swimming (3.550) and women’s volleyball (3.549) also recorded GPAs above 3.5.

Of UT’s 373 student-athletes,

231 (61 percent) earned a 3.0 or higher GPA, marking the 18th consecutive semester in which over half achieved this status.

Twenty- six student-athletes ob-tained a perfect 4.0 this semester and 131 made the Dean’s List for achieving at least a 3.5 GPA.

The following day, UT was named “one of the 11 colleg-es with the smartest athletes” by ThebBestcColleges.org.

All but one of UT’s 15 NCAA athletic teams sported collective GPA’s of at least 3.0 last spring. The combined GPA of all Toledo student-athletes for the term was 3.266.

It was the seventh time in a row the school’s athletes scored at least a combined 3.1. Over 70 percent of ath-letes scored at least a 3.0., which is a school record.

Toledo won the Mid-Amer-ican Conference’s Institutional Academic Achievement Award last September, given each year to the school with the highest collective GPA.

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Mortar Board accepting applications

The University of Tole-do Mortar Board Chap-ter is accepting applica-tions for the 2013-14 Mortar Board class.

The organization is a National College Honor Society which recogniz-es students from the ju-nior and continuing se-nior classes for their achievements in the ar-eas of leadership, schol-arship and service. Po-tential members must al-so have a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA and pass through a selection procession conducted by the current Mortar Board Class.

Applications should be submitted to the Student Union Adminis-tration Office/Office of Student Involvement in Student Union Building Room 2525. Applica-tions must be received by no later than Friday, Feb. 1 at 4 p.m.

Questions concerning Mortar Board should be directed to Jillian Fabo at Jillian.Fabo@rockets.utoledo.edu.

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PHOTO COURTeSy OF THe UNIveRSITy OF TOledOPrevious Tie one on events raised approximately $20,000 in donations and it is hoped that $25,000 will be raised with this year’s fundraiser. All proceeds benefit the uTMC dana Cancer Center to research prostate cancer.

Student Government debates concealed carry on campusBy Lindsay MahaneyStaff Reporter

At the Student Govern-ment Meeting Tuesday Jan. 22, a concealed carry resolu-tion was voted to be post-poned for two weeks. In the meantime, a survey will be conducted via Survey Mon-key asking students if they support concealed carry.

Ben Lynn, Language,

Literature and Social Science Caucus chair, said the survey will allow SG to get a better feel for what the student pop-ulation wants.

Public Relations Manager Clayton Notestine said while he does believe Survey Mon-key is a secure voting system that cannot be easily “manip-ulated,” the results may not be accurate.

“Ultimately the people that are going to participate in those surveys are the peo-ple who usually participate in surveys, which usually aren’t the people on the fence about this,” Notestine said.

College Republican Presi-dent Scott Mazzola, a senior majoring in psychology,

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Zoo offers discount rate for upcoming programs

The Toledo Zoo is of-fering special activities and half-price admis-sion as part of its Win-ter Weekends program.

events on the week-end of Jan. 26-27 in-clude an ice-carving demonstration from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and performances by the Caribbean steel drum ensemble TSA Glass City Steel at noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday.

For more informa-tion, go to www.toledo-zoo.org/winter.

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By Lindsay MahaneyStaff Reporter

Members of the Univer-sity of Toledo community remember Beth Eisler as a beloved law professor who was devoted to her stu-dents. Eisler, 66, died Dec. 31, 2012 in Arbor Hospice in Ann Arbor after a battle with cancer.

Associate dean of stu-dents Lee Pizzimenti, friend and colleague of Eisler, remembered the dedication Eisler had for her job and students. She described Eisler as the “quintessential student-centered faculty member.”

“As with every other as-pect of her life, she was willing to share,” Pizzi-menti said. “Colleagues have appreciated her class notes, ideas for exams, and counseling about how to teach. We learned from conversations with her about legal doctrine, and legal education generally. But mostly, we just like having her around.”

Eisler began teaching for UT’s law school as a visit-ing professor in 1987. She taught for 26 years, mostly in the areas of contracts and evidence, primarily first-year courses.

“She was popular and her courses were popular,” Pizzimenti said.

Prior to teaching at UT, Eisler taught at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit for seven years. During that time she was also an attorney in the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Eisler also served as As-sociate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Law from 1993 -95 and 1999-2005 and as Interim Dean from 2005-06.

Daniel Steinbock, Dean of the College of Law, at-tributed much of the col-lege’s success to Eisler.

“This would be a very different, and not nearly as good, law school had Beth Eisler not been a part of

it,” Steinbock said in a statement published by the College of Law. “As an ad-ministrator and faculty member she was instru-mental in shaping our pro-gram and the composition of our faculty. Perhaps most importantly, she helped set the tone of the place, of caring for our col-leagues and most of all, for our students.”

Eisler received the Col-lege of Law’s Outstanding Professor Award three times and the University of Toledo’s Student Impact Award in 2011 and 2012.

“Professor Eisler was an extraordinary teacher and a great person,” David Fine, a former student of Eisler’s, wrote in an email excerpted in a tribute by the College of Law. “She not only taught us the law, she explained to us how it worked and why, and she did so with good humor and wonderful accessibili-ty. Professor Eisler never demanded respect, she earned it, and so many of us will remember her with gratitude and appreciation.”

Eisler’s memory will re-main with her family, stu-dents and colleagues.

“I am proud to have been her colleague, but I am most grateful that Beth was my friend,” Pizzimenti said. “I will miss her warmth, her wise counsel, and her great sense of hu-mor. I miss her, but I am happy she was in my life.”

Eisler’s family suggested memorial donations be giv-en to the Beth Eisler Student Assistance Fund, which will provide emergency grants to students in need.

Donations can be made to The University of Tole-do Foundation with “Beth Eisler Student Assistance Fund” included in the memo line. Checks may be mailed to The University of Toledo Foundation, P.O. Box 586, Toledo, OH 43697-0586.

Josiah Galat died Dec. 19 after an on-campus stabbing, just a few weeks shy of his 21st birthday. We reached out to his mother, Sheila Galat, and she sent us some personal thoughts about her son to share with the UT community.

First, I want to say that Jo-siah knew that his family of mom, dad, and three broth-ers (one older and two younger) loved him very much. We all also knew that Josiah loved us, and for that, we are so thankful.

About a year ago when we were talking about what his career would be, he said he only wanted to make old peo-ple and children laugh. Josiah volunteered at his home church to be a mentor for chil-dren with disabilities in a classroom during the service.

He also volunteered at his high school in the handi-capped class.

If someone was in trouble or being teased, Josiah tried to talk to the person caus-ing the problem and reason with them. He did this once when one of his brothers was getting bothered on Facebook. Josiah took it up-on himself to message the other kid and told him to stop doing it; he then con-tinued on by getting to know the boy and making a friendship. It worked. I ad-mire that part in him of be-ing a peace maker.

Josiah loved rugby, which he played for Ashland Uni-versity his freshman and sophomore year and then for the Toledo Celtics this fall season at the University of Toledo.

Once the 2012 season start-ed, he put on his Facebook status that he was in a rela-tionship. That relationship was with rugby. He just loved the people and the sport.

Josiah absolutely loved swimming and diving. At AU, he was on the swim and dive team his freshman and sophomore years. If I re-member correctly, his soph-omore year he was one spot away from going to nationals for diving. He was also the dive coach for a Mansfield local summer swim and dive team for the past couple years; his kids have been writing and telling us how much he meant to them and how fun he made the sport.

Josiah was inspiring! One year at church camp, he par-ticipated in a triathlon where one person swam a quarter mile, one person biked eight miles and one person ran two miles. On the way back home, he told us that the next year, he was going to do something new, he would do the whole race on his own. He never trained, but sure enough to his word, he did it that next year. On top of that, Josiah did his run-ning in bare feet. The next year, he and one of his brothers both did it.

Josiah loved hanging out

with his friends and watching movies, but he also loved to read. He read all “The Lord of the Rings” books at age 10. On the Sunday before he died, he got his wish of watching “The Hobbit” with his family. He was disap-pointed that it was to be continued!

Josiah always had a smile on his face. He would call his family in if he found some-thing hilarious that he thought

we should watch. Many times he would rewind a scene just be-cause he thought something was funny and he

wanted to laugh again.Josiah was an entertaining

actor; he starred in “A Christ-mas Story” in his home town theater.

Later, during high school, he shared acting with a group from youth group who did mini come-dy bits and shared them during church for upcom-ing youth group events and for YouTube fun.

During the song “I Am Free” by Newsboys, Josiah enjoyed screaming “Free!” and running around as the youth group band performed.

Josiah also enjoyed writing poetry, and had thoughts of writing a fictional book. Here is a poem he wrote in 2009:

“I’m falling nowBut my feet have already

hit the ground.Lord, You know what’s go-

ing to happenThere’s not a single breath

I takewithout You already know-

ing I’d take it.So I’ll trust YouAnd lean not on my own

understandingFor the things You have

planned for me...Are far different than my

own.And so much greaterSo I’ll lose my lifeTo keep one with You”

On Facebook the day he died, he wrote “For my 21st birthday I just want to share a beer with Je-sus.” His 21st was Jan. 2. He loved the Lord and always sought out all the informa-tion he could get.

At AU, Jo-siah majored in special ed-ucation teaching and mi-nored in math

and philosophy. After his sophomore year, he changed his major to mechanical en-gineering. Since AU did not have the mechanical engi-neering program he needed, Josiah transferred to UT. Af-ter graduating college, he wanted to make it through officer training school so he could be a Marine.

We miss this sweet young man very much. Jo-siah was so special and unique; no-body can ever fill his shoes. He never end-ed a con-versation with his

parents without saying “I love you.” We love him!

PhoTo CouRTeSy of SheIla GalaTJosiah Galat died in a stabbing incident at Horton Inter-national House on Dec. 19.

PhoTo CouRTeSy of The unIveRSITy of ToledoBeth Eisler died on Dec. 31 in Ann Arbor after a struggle with cancer.

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UT Law reflects on memory of beloved professor

A mother remembers her son

Sheila GalatMother of Josiah Galat

“We miss this sweet young man very much. Josiah was so special and unique; nobody can ever fill his shoes.

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So you’re from the Tole-do area and you hear about work being done on dia-lects and you ask yourself, “I don’t have one if I’m from Toledo, right?” Wrong. You do and just don’t realize how special your dialect is, especially if you are from Mau-mee, the city that I am studying.

Why is Toledo so special and why am I studying Mau-mee? Well, Toledo and its suburbs are from a specific region in the United States that is undergoing what is called the Northern Cities Sound Shift (NCS). This shift spans from all the way up in Saginaw down to right around Dayton, Ohio, and then all throughout the Great Lakes region.

Toledo happens to fall smack in the middle of this shift. The best known sound shift (known as the Great Vowel Shift) start-ed around the year 1400 and continued to morph into the English you know and love to-day. What makes the NCS dif-ferent from the Great Vowel Shift is that our shift is relatively new and was hypothesized to have started right around 1900. It is the start of what is known in linguistics as a chain shift that will affect how English will sound hundreds of years from now. Some regions may only have the first of many stages in the chain, while others may have completed nearly 75 per-cent of it.

Since Toledo is a larger metropolitan area in the re-gion of the shift, it will have some of it, but little work has been done to ana-lyze exactly how much shift-ing is being done in To-ledo. In my study, I am trying to rectify this research gap by studying a suburb of Toledo — Maumee. I am studying the phonetic features, or speech sounds, that character-izes the dialect of the Maumee speech com-munity and am exploring whether the NCS has estab-lished itself within Maumee.

My hypothesis is that since Maumee was historically iso-lated that it could be an iso-lated dialect of English unaf-fected by the NCS. If it is, then the permeability of the Northern Cities Sound Shift will need to be re-examined.

As evidenced by its history, Maumee was once isolated in terms of both diseases and geographical features which included the Black Swamp and the Maumee River. Dur-ing the 1800s when Maumee was still a swamp land, it was fraught with diseases that in-cluded, but were not limited to malaria, yellow fever, chol-era, smallpox, typhoid, and measles. As a result of the dis-eases, travelers heading west would avoid the area, and Maumee residents ostracized

members of their community who were caught having any diseases. Their hope was that the diseases would not spread; however, they still spread as a result of sanitation problems and the rampant mosquito

population. This ostra-

cization was, in effect, good for the town. It not only helped to pro-

tect them from death, but also created what is known in sociolinguistics as soli-darity, which is the feeling or action that binds a com-munity together. With Mau-mee allowing itself to only communicate internally and with outsiders avoiding the area, it only further in-creased the bond that held the community together and isolated it from other speech communities. This historic isolation points to the possibility that Maumee could be a dialectal isolate. If Maumee is in fact an iso-late, then the NCS is not as permeable as once thought.

In order to analyze the dialect, I will collect data on phonetic features, which can be a tricky process. First and foremost, the re-cording equipment needs to be cooperative. If the re-corder somehow dies dur-ing a session, then all the data is lost. Secondly, you need to have participants that fit the schema.

For Maumee, I’m collect-ing data from participants 18+ who have lived in Mau-mee essentially their entire lives. After collecting data from as many people as pos-sible, I then have to spend

hours analyzing the recordings. On a good day, processing a re-cording takes an hour for every minute of re-cording. The processing will focus on specific phonetic features known as for-mants. These

formants when looked through a spectrogram (think of it as an x-ray of a

sound wave) form bands at various frequen-cies. I will take the first

formant band and compare it against the second formant band for every vowel and for every speaker.

After comparing and crunching numbers, I will hopefully be able to deter-mine whether the Maumee speech community is an iso-late of the Northern Cities Shift and if it is, then there will need to be more studies done on its permeability.

For more information re-garding this study or to par-ticipate, please contact Sarah at sfox9@emich.edu.

Sarah Fox is a phonetics consultant for Speech Graph-ics and a graduate assistant for the LINGUIST List. She graduated from UT with her B.A. in Linguistics in 2010 and is finishing her Masters in Linguistics from Eastern Michigan University.

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Recently, I came across an article on CNN’s website titled, “America, the Saudi Arabia of tomorrow” by Frida Ghitis. Ghitis hypothesized that Amer-ica will become energy independent soon. She extrapolated this idea from a claim by the In-ternational Energy Agency that the U.S. will become the world’s leading oil producer in a few years. Ghitis wrote that, “The United States could produce more oil than Saudi Arabia as early as 2017 and become a net oil exporter by 2030.”

If the U.S. was energy indepen-dent, most of our current en-ergy concerns would be solved, making this idea quite exciting. Unfortunately, the notion that the U.S. will be able to rely securely on oil for future energy needs is, quite frankly, absurd. That notion ignores everything we have learned about producing oil through the years. Instead of wasting time and energy on the pursuit of oil, we should pursue renewable sources of energy that can be used in the long-term.

Oil significantly improved the human condition when we first discovered it and learned how to utilize it. It was so energy rich that the human population skyrocketed boundlessly. Initially, oil

was so profitable because it required lit-tle energy input. It takes energy to ob-tain energy, and originally, the invest-ment energy to acquire oil was very low.

The Energy Return on Energy Investment (EROEI), a ratio com-paring the amount of energy produced per

amount of energy inputted, for oil was around 100 barrels in the 1800s. This meant that for every barrel of oil used for drilling and transport, people

would gain 100 barrels of oil ener-gy. As the dig for oil continued, that figure dropped – and significantly, too. Today, we can expect a return of ten barrels for ev-

ery barrel of energy input. It is clear that there has been a huge drop in EROEI, and it is important to un-derstand why.

Oil is becoming harder and harder to retrieve. Soon, it will take more en-ergy to access oil than the oil can produce. Imagine that an apple can give you all the energy you need for a day. You find apples close to your house, so you eat those first. But soon, you will have eaten all the apples around your house, and you

have to go two miles, ten miles, or far-ther to retrieve those apples. Soon, al-though there are still apples in the world, you cannot access them because you do not have the energy to do so.

Unfortunately, this concept will soon become true of oil. This is why the pursuit of oil as a long-term energy source is wasteful and hopeless. There is a very limited amount of oil left in the world, and of that amount, we can access only a small portion.

For any chance of a continued life-style like the one we have now, we need to use our resources to invest in renew-able technologies. Instead of hoping for a decrease in gas prices, we must work toward energy sources that will be cheaper and sustainable. I encourage all of the members of this community to learn more about energy supply and the implications of it.

If you are interested in joining the discussion and effort, check out the stu-

dent organization Building Ohio’s Sus-tainable Energy Fu-ture (BOSEF). We meet every other Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Field House Room

1210, starting Feb. 6. Or feel free to con-tact me: jdeitz@rockets.utoledo.edu.

Julia Deitz is a senior majoring in math and minoring in mathematics and renewable energy

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Today, we rely on the internet as a source for ordering everything from books and electronics to clothing; how-ever, it may not always occur to you to think that prescription drugs could be ordered online as well. Further, much like the obvious items are subject to the work of scam art-ists, prescriptions can al-so be a the subject of on-line criminal activity.

Not only is it questionable to order prescription drugs online, but it could even be detrimental to one’s health. Be-yond endangering one’s health directly through the risk of scam, purchasing prescription drugs online results in the loss of valuable pa-tient-pharmacist in-teraction time.

Drugs are meant to be bought in per-son from a certified health professionals. According to Medicalnewtoday.com, pharmacists have had over 50% of their customers admit to purchasing medi-cations online. These patients state that it is much cheaper, convenient, and less embarrassing to certain matters. Even if one loses consultation with their physician or pharmacist in acquiring a specific drug, the embarrassment is worth eliminating the great health risks that could occur.

Ninety seven percent of websites selling drugs are scams. There is a high probability that the prescription could contain fake ingredients or simply too much or too little of the active ingredi-ent along with rat poison or arsenic.

The FDA stated that, many products of Tamiflu were ordered by Americans and what they received was an un-marked envelope from India with unla-beled white tablets that contained talc and acetaminophen, but no trace of the

active ingredient oseltamivir. Some customers are blind to the fact

that specific medications cannot be taken with others, severely worsening side effects, causing serious health im-

plications, or even bringing about death. Thelancelet.com wrote about an instance where an elderly wom-an with chronic fatigue syndrome purchased

oral steroids predinsolone from a Thai website. After a few months, her vision was rapidly declining and she was then rushed to the ER. Doctors found that she developed glaucoma and cataracts because of the medicine bought online.

Many of these websites look com-pletely factual and FDA approved. How-ever, there are many warning signs to look out for. Accord-

ing to Abcnews.com, one should be cautious of any site that sells drugs out-side of the country, outside regulators’ reach, give large dis-counts that seem ex-aggerated, allow one to purchase drugs without a prescrip-tion, or send unso-licited emails offer-ing a variety of cheap drugs.

One aspect completely overlooked by customers online is the significance of patient counseling. Purchasing drugs online does not give one the benefit of asking a certified pharma-cist questions regarding precautions or hazardous interactions.

Studies shown in a Yahoo!News article have contended that if a pa-tient knows their pharmacist by

name, they are more likely to in-quire about the side effects or words of advice regarding a specific medi-cation. Also, as a volunteer of the Main Campus Pharmacy, before I ring a customer’s prescription up, there are occasions in which a note is stapled to the bag notifying the volunteer that the patient must first be counseled by the pharmacist.

Another reason prescription drugs being bought online is not beneficial is because there are too many risks asso-ciated with the process. It may seem convenient, but there is always the point of trust and credibility. For one, the individual who purchases the drug is unaware as to whether or not the drug is safe or legitimate. Plus, an indi-vidual is unaware as to whether or not the medicine is right for them, or whether the side effects may have an everlasting effect on a person’s health in the long run.

It is best to schedule an appointment with a professional, so one is aware of what kind of drugs are being processed

in their bodies.Purchasing drugs

online can be ex-tremely dangerous to one’s health and avoiding embar-rassment or elevat-ed costs are not good enough rea-sons to avoid face-to-face interaction

with a health professional. I advise everybody to avoid tech-

nological advances, such as the inter-net, when it comes to one’s health, and go out to buy prescription drugs at their local pharmacy. It is better to be safe than sorry.

Yasmine Ayoub is studying pre-pharmacy.

Online prescriptions are a danger to our health

Yasmine AyoubIC Columnist

Julia DeitzIC Columnist

My hypothesis is that since Maumee was historically isolated that it could be an isolated dialect of English unaffected by the Northern Cities Sound Shift ...

Oil cannot be a route to American energy independence

commentary

... Instead of hoping for a decrease in gas prices, we must work toward energy sources that will be cheaper and sustainable.

Sara FoxAlumni Columnist

... If it is, then the permeability of the Northern Cities Sound Shift will need to be re-examined.

For any chance of a continued lifestyle like the one we have now, we need to use our resources to invest in renewable technologies ...

Purchasing drugs on-line can be extremely dangerous to one’s health ...

... and avoiding embarrassment or elevated costs are not good enough reasons to avoid face-to-face interaction with a health professional.

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MLK Unity ceLebration

BoB Taylor / ICMembers of the Toledo Community Youth Choir perform during Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Celebration.

BoB Taylor / ICJohn Barfield, the Keynote speaker, addresses the crowd Monday at Savage Arena at the MLK Unity Celebration. Barfield is the founder of the Bartech Group.

BoB Taylor / IC(Top) Kenneth Brown, right, awaits to receive his Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Award during Monday’s MLK Unity Celebration in Savage Arena. Brown was one of six students who received scholarships.

(Left) Toledo Mayor Mike Bell speaks to those at-tending Monday morning’s celebration.

entrepreneurship u. classes to begin Wednesday

The University of Toledo’s Catherine S. eberly Center for Women is sponsoring a business program called en-trepreneurship U. The class-es are open to all and are suited for early entrepreneurs hoping to create businesses in the Toledo area. Classes are Wednesdays 5:30 to 7 p.m. starting Jan. 30 to Feb.

27 and will be held in the eb-erly Center. Students must register ahead of time by calling the center at 419-530-8570. UT students can attend free of charge and non-stu-dents must pay a $10 fee. verification of identity should be brought to the first class.

u-M athletic official to speak at CoBi forum

david Brandon, director of intercollegiate athletics at the

University of Michigan and former CeO of domino’s Piz-za, will be the featured speaker at the KeyBank Global leaders Forum Fri-day, Feb. 1.

Presented by The Universi-ty of Toledo College of Busi-ness and Innovation, the fo-rum will be held at 8 a.m. at the hotel on UT’s Health Sci-ence Campus.

The theme is “leading Change in a Chaotic environ-ment.” The program is free, but seating is limited and reg-istration is required.

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pre-game festivities, the players will wear throw-back jerseys and each jer-sey is part of an auction. All the proceeds go to the UTMC Dana Cancer Center.

“Anyone has the option to bid on the jerseys and win one after the game,” Ackerman said.

The bidding page can be found online on the Tie One On event page. Bids began at $100 and must be done in increments of at least $25. Winners will also have their name placed on the back of their jersey.

“It’s an awful disease that affects everybody, so the more we can create awareness for it, the better off everybody will be,” Kowalczyk said.

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prepaid until sufficient credit has been established.

pointed out SG already tried surveying students with Sur-vey Monkey and received poor results.

“This is sort of a waste of time and resources,” Mazzola said. “The student senators

are elected for this very rea-son, to represent the student body. They don’t want to rep-resent the students, they’d rather let the students repre-sent themselves.”

Notestine said that de-spite his own views on con-cealed carry, he believed those supporting the resolu-tion deserved the chance to

be heard. “Because I am senator, I

felt I had an obligation,” No-testine said. “even though I was against it, I should give them the ability to have it up on the floor. They represent a portion of the student voice.”

The resolution will be ta-bled and voted on again at the SG meeting on Feb. 5.

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Theotokopoulos, a.k.a. El _____

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chip, for short18. Number of planets19. *Expensive Bowl

purchase21. *Tied with Steelers

for most appearances

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players35. Corner pieces37. Snoopy39. As opposed to best40. Etna output41. Where one is

treated for drug or alcohol dependence

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license50. Chapter 11 issue52. “___ for the

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releAses

WednesdayNoon: Screening, When

Abortion was Illegal: Untold stories, room 100, Health Education Building, Health Science Campus.

4 p.m.: Chemistry Seminar, Visualizing the Composition of Complex Mixture with Two-di-mesional Gas Chroma-tography, presented by John Seeley of Oakland University, room 1059, Bowman-Oddy Labs.

Thursday7:30 p.m.: The Big

debate, hosted by CAP, room 2592, Student Union Building.

8 p.m.: Performance, Michael duBois — solo Circus, hosted by CAP, Auditorium, Student Union Building.

8 p.m.: Screening, Milk, hosted by Spec-trum, room 3018, Student Union Building.

FrIday7:30 p.m.: Screen-

ing, Winter skies Over Toledo, Ritter Planetarium. Cost: $7, adults; $5, children 4-12, seniors, faculty, staff and students; free, children 3 and under.

saTurday1 p.m.: Screening,

Zula Patrol: Under the Weather, Ritter Plan-etarium. Cost: $7, adults; $5, children 4-12, seniors, faculty, staff and students; free, children 3 and under.

MOnday7:30 p.m.: Perfor-

mance, UT Jazz Ensem-ble, part of UT Jazz Night, Crystal’s Lounge, 3536 Secor Rd. Cost: $5, gen-eral admission; $3, senior citizens and students.

Tuesday7 p.m.: Performance,

Kind of Blue World, Recital Hall, Center for Performing Arts.

COMICssuperboy Annual #1,

by Tom DeFalco and Yvel Guichet. Published by DC. Available Wednes-day.

Uncanny X-Force #1, by Sam Humphries and Ron Garney. Published by Marvel. Available Wednesday.

Young Avengers #1, by Kieron Gillen and Ja-mie McKelvie. Published by Marvel. Available Wednesday.

MOVIesHansel & Gretel:

Witch Hunters, starring Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton and Famke Jans-sen. Opens Friday.

Movie 43, starring Hal-le Berry, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet and Gerard Butler. Opens Friday.

Parker, starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez. Opens Friday.

BOOKsThe legend of Zelda:

Hyrule Historia, by Patrick Thorpe. Available Tuesday.

speaking From Among the Bones, book five in the Flavia de luce series, by Alan Bradley. Available Tuesday.

Until the end of Time, by Danielle Steel. Avail-able Tuesday.

CdsBraveHeart, by Ashan-

ti. Available Tuesday.The divinity of

Purpose, by Hatebreed. Available Tuesday.

Feeling Mortal, by Kris Kristofferson. Available Tuesday.

Heartthrob, by Tegan and Sara. Available Tuesday.

love songs: Greatest Hits, by Destiny’s Child. Available Tuesday.

More onlineFor continued cover-

age of campus events and entertainment reviews over the summer, follow the IC Rocket Life on Twitter and Facebook and check the IC’s website.

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By IC Staff

As part of its “filM fri-days” events, Ut’s film de-partment will begin the “Ut faculty film Screening” se-ries on friday, 7:30 p.m. at the center for Performing Arts, room 1039.

charlene Gilbert, profes-sor and chair of Ut’s wom-en’s and gender studies de-partment, will screen her film “Home-coming...Sometimes i am Haunted by Memories of red Dirt and clay.” the documentary follows the history of Af-rican-Ameri-can famers in America, with a special focus on Gilbert’s own family’s struggles in Georgia.

on the film’s website, Gil-bert described her motiva-tions for di-recting and producing the film.

“for all of us who have nev-er toiled in 100-degree sun with our 6-year-old child at our knees, the South can sometimes be a romanti-cized dream of family, or a nightmare of burned bodies hanging from trees,” she

said. “What i discovered in the telling of this history was the importance of the land to those who continue to work it and in working it honor those who spilled their blood to escape it.”

two other faculty mem-bers will showcase their own work in february.

tammy kinsey, associate chair of the theatre and film department, will showcase

two of her works on fri-day, feb. 8, in cPA 1039 at 7:30 p.m.

According to a film de-scription, “Packages” examines how society objec-tifies the male image. the film employs archival and found foot-age, commer-cials and ad-vertisements to back up its argument. the film pro-fessor’s other piece, “trust,” is “made from digital and traditional el-ements [and chronicles]

the experience of traveling alone as a female … [through] an internal and external journey.”

Holly Hey, associate profes-sor of film, will screen her film, “the dumdum capital of the

world,” on friday, feb. 15, in cPA 1039 at 7:30 p.m. the film is described as a film “medita-tion that illuminates social con-structs and political barriers about sexuality, core values, self, and human instinct.” the film will also discuss the vio-lence which arises from these constructs and barriers.

All showings will be open to the public and free of charge. Popcorn and beverages will be provided.

PHOTO COURTESY THE UNIvERSITY OF TOLEDOClaude Black (right) plays piano, accompanied by bassist Clifford Murphy, during a 2007 performance at the university of Toledo. Black was diagnosed with cancer over a year ago. Members of the uT jazz department and the local Toledo jazz scene held several fundraiser concerts last year to assist Black with his medical bills.

By danielle Gamble and Josh eglerNews Editor and Staff Reporter

Jazz pianist claude Black, a former University of tole-do jazz faculty member, died early thursday morn-ing at age 80.

timothy Brakel, chair of Ut’s music department, said Black died while in hospice care.

During Black’s jazz career, he was a locally renowned soloist and collaborated with such greats as saxophonist charlie Parker and singer Aretha franklin.

Ut faculty members and other community members organized a benefit concert for Black in January 2012 after he had been hospital-ized with kidney failure, high blood pressure and the return of cancer. At the concert, he surprised well-wishers by attending the event and taking the stage with a piano solo.

Brakel said Black was known around the music department for his love of teaching and his devotion to his students.

“We are all saddened,” Brakel said. “We have a lost a great friend, colleague and mentor. He will be dearly missed.”

Matt Bates, a recent alum of Ut’s music education pro-gram, said his fondest mem-ories of Black were watching him play at various concerts or just for students.

“He didn’t really look like he was hitting keys; it was just like he was moving his hand,” Bates said.

Bates, who plans on attend-ing Black’s memorial service, said one of Black’s best attri-butes was how he “always had a smile on his face.”

“He never hesitated to sit down with anyone at any time, and he always made you feel like you were the most important thing at the time,” Bates said.

Matt lastra, a senior ma-joring in jazz trombone per-formance, met Black when he first started going to Ut in 2009. He said the toledo jazz community will suffer from the loss of one of the city’s “biggest jazz idols.”

“i’ve never heard anyone play piano like him,” lastra said. “there are some tunes that we’ll never know now, that we’ve lost, because he was the only one who knew them and had the chords memorized.”

lastra said Black was set to accompany him on a bebop jazz standard called “Donna lee” for lastra’s upcoming music recital. He said Black wanted to play the piece be-cause Black had worked on it several years ago when he played trombone.

Students, faculty reflect on life of local jazz musician

The passing of a legend

“As a person, he was in-credibly generous with his time,” lastra said. “He could be running around, doing a million things or not feeling well, but if you needed something he would sit down and chat, or throw you a piece of advice.”

Gunnar Mossblad, direc-tor of jazz studies, said Black was a mentor to ev-eryone around him.

“i looked at him as a bit of a father figure and he

looked at me like a brother,” Mossblad said.

When Black started to get sick, hospital bills left him destitute and money-stricken

so the Ut jazz department decided to put on fundraisers to help him pay his bills.

“He had no idea even how much he was appreciated but the jazz program stepped up and did some fundraisers to help pay,” Mossblad said. “i was so proud to see the tole-do community to step up to and give something back to this man who for 30, 40, 50, 60 years gave all of himself to the community. it was heartwarming.”

“We are all sad-dened. We have lost a great friend, colleague and mentor. He will be dearly missed.”

TIMOThy BraKelChair, Music Department

“I’ve never heard anyone play piano like him. There are some tunes that we’ll never know now, that we’ve lost, because he was the only one who knew them and had the chords memorized.”

MaTT lasTraSenior, Jazz Trombone

Performance

UT profs to screen personal films

If you goWhat: “Homecoming...

Sometimes I am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clay,” by Charlene Gilbert, chair of women and gender studies department

Where: Center for Per-forming Arts Room 1039

When: Friday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.

What: “Packages” and “Trust,” by Tammy Kinsey, associate chair of theatre and film department

Where: Center for Per-forming Arts Room 1039

When: Friday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.

What: “the dumdum capital of the world,” by Holly Hey, associate pro-fessor of film

Where: Center for Per-forming Arts Room 1039

When: Friday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.

If you goWhat: Informal memorial

service for Claude Black; The event is open to the public, and instruments are welcome

Where: Crystal’s Lounge in the Ramada Inn, 3536 Secor Rd.

When: Monday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m.

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UT men host red-hot Akron tonight

The Rockets welcome in the Akron Zips tonight who have won nine straight and enter play at 13-4 and 4-0 in the league.

Toledo (6-9, 2-2) is look-ing to right the ship after back-to-back losses to Western Michigan and Ohio last week.

The Zips (13-4, 4-0) have won nine straight and are led by center Ze-ke Marshall – one of three Zips averaging double fig-ures – who averages 12.6 points and 6.8 rebounds per game. UT freshman center Nathan Boothe will have his hands full with the skilled big man and will need to avoid foul trouble.

Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Savage Arena.

Toledo women travel to Akron tonight

The UT women will also battle the Zips tonight.

Toledo (15-2, 3-1) is coming off a pair of wins last week over Eastern Michigan and Buffalo.

Junior guard Andola Dortch struggled in her first two conference games, making just 6-of-29 from the field and 0-of-10 from beyond the arc.

However, those num-bers have improved to 10-of-23 and 6-of-15 over her last two.

Akron (12-5, 3-1) has three players averaging at least 14.8 ppg and are led by forward Rachel Tecca (18.1 ppg, 7.7 rpg).

Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. at James A. Rhodes Arena.

Men’s tennis sweeps the weekend

The Toledo men’s ten-nis squad won both of their events last week-end to improve to 4-2 on the year.

UT made easy work of Walsh Sunday afternoon in their home opener, beating the Cavaliers 6-1.

Redshirt freshman Ryan Jorgensen captured his first collegiate victory for the Rockets with a 6-2, 6-0 performance in the No. 6 singles match.

Sophomore Nicky Wong ‘s 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 singles vic-tory wrapped it up for UT as they were forced to come from behind to pick up the win.

Sophomore Tomas Stillman continued his solid start to the season (3-1), winning his singles match in straight sets 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.

UT returns to action this weekend when they host Binghamton and North-western Ohio this Satur-day. They travel to No. 4 Ohio State Sunday.

Three Rockets named pre-season All-MAC

CollegeSportsMad-ness.com has selected three Toledo baseball players to its preseason All-MAC team.

Junior pitcher Ryan Wilkinson and senior in-fielder Matt Delewski were named to the first team Tuesday, while junior catcher James Miglin found a spot on the sec-ond team.

Wilkinson — UT’s Fri-day starter last year — went 7-4 with a 2.99 ERA in 78.1 IP. He was 5-2 (2.50 ERA) in MAC games.

Delewski batted .306 in 2011 with 11 doubled and 20 RBI. He hit .340 during conference play.

Miglin — known as a skilled defensive catcher — hit .274 last season with five home runs and 33 RBI.

UT begins their season Feb. 15 at the Wright State Tournament in Cary, N.C.

WoMen’s bAskeTbAll

Four rockets qualify for championships, post strong showing at Gladstein Invite

TRACk And field

Rockets survive cold shooting to beat UB, improve to 3-1 in MACby Jay skebbaSports Editor

on a day when Naama shafir went more than 35 minutes without scoring, the University of toledo women’s basketball team had to look elsewhere for offense.

Enter Andola Dortch.the junior guard scored a

game-high 20 points and grabbed six rebounds to lead the rockets to a 59-44 victo-ry over Buffalo and improve to 15-2 (3-1) on the year.

Despite her seventh career 20-point game and second of the season, Dortch didn’t feel pressured into putting the team on her back.

“Everybody on our team is capable of scoring, especially this year,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be on any one per-son. It just depends on whose night it is.”

Dortch’s shooting has im-proved drastically in the last week when she mired a bad shooting slump.

Dortch made just 6-of-29 (21 percent) field goals in Ut’s first two Mid-American Conference contests and was 0-of-10 from downtown in that stretch.

In her last two, she’s hit 10-of-23 (43 percent) from the field and 6-of-15 (40 percent) from three-point range, scor-ing 34 points in the process.

Despite a quieter game, shafir got rolling early, con-verting a three-point play and then splashing a three pointer from the right wing less than a minute into the contest to put the rockets in front 6-0.

However, she went score-less for the rest of the half and did not score again until 2:37 to play in regulation.

senior center Yolanda richardson muscled her way to a layup to make it 15-7 with just under 12 minutes to play in the first.

Buffalo (5-13, 3-1) pulled within four after forward Kristen sharkey buried a tri-ple to make it a 24-20 game.

Cherridy thornton fol-lowed that up with a long three of her own from up top, making it 24-23 about 3:45 to play.

the Bulls took a 25-24 lead on a pair of free throws from guard Mackenzie Loesing with just over a minute and a half to go in the opening half.

“[It was] lack of focus,” said Ut head coach tricia Cullop. We were a little lack-adaisical in the first half. “We weren’t getting matched up in transition, which has been a little bit of a problem as of late. We were so com-fortable with Andola stop-ping the ball that when it was somebody else, we didn’t always stop it.”

toledo took back some momentum before the first

half buzzer when sopho-more forward Inma Za-noguera nailed a three pointer from the top of the circle to give them a 28-26 lead at the break.

“that was huge,” Cullop said. “We could tell by the way they were playing that they were giving that shot up. When we came off the ball screen, everybody was flood-ing the baseline. they were leaving that elbow to three-point shot open and so I switched somebody up there who could knock it down.”

the rockets used that big shot to their advantage and opened the second half on a 12-7 run to finally gain some separation from the Bulls.

Dortch knocked down a pair of three pointers and

gave toledo a 40-31 lead with just under 15 minutes to go.

But Buffalo wouldn’t go quietly as thornton backed down Dortch in the low post and scored over her to make it 42-37 with over 10 minutes still to play.

Junior center Briana Jones began halting the comeback bid by hitting a 12-footer and getting the and-one to put Ut in front 49-39 with five and half remaining.

shafir finally got back into the scoring column on a drib-ble-drive layup with about two and a half minutes left.

the ensuing in-bounds pass was intercepted by tole-do and Dortch took it to the hole to take a 58-42 lead with 2:22 left to put the final nail in the coffin.

Ut struggled offensively and shot just 33 percent from the field, which led to them pulling down more offensive rebounds (23) than defensive (22) — a new record for a sin-gle game — something Cullop knows isn’t a good sign.

“I just wish we would shoot it better and stop breaking of-fensive rebounding records,” she joked. “We could solve ev-erything by just making more baskets. It was hard to get into any kind of rhythm on offense or defense because it was a sporadic game, but it’s good to see us win a game like that when we’re constantly frustrated.”

toledo returns to the court tonight as they travel to Ak-ron to take on the Zips. tipoff is set for 7 p.m.

by nick delwicheSports Reporter

the University of toledo women’s indoor track team competed well at the Glad-stein Invitational hosted by Indiana on Friday and satur-day. Four rockets posted au-tomatic-qualifying marks for the Mid-American Confer-ence championships and Ut completed the meet with eight top-five finishes overall.

“I think we did really well,” said Ut coach Kevin Hadsell. “It’s still really early in the season, so a lot of these meets are to check our fitness if you’re a distance runner and to work on some things technically if you’re not. We ended up with a lot of really good performances even though at this point in the year you wouldn’t expect to have such great marks.”

the four rockets that qual-ified for the MAC Indoor Championships now find themselves in a good spot for the rest of the season.

senior Yuhong Fu, sopho-mores Mackenzie Cho-jnacky and Liz Weiler and freshman Brooke tullis no longer have to worry about posting qualify marks in their event and can focus on improving and preparing for the conference championships.

Fu finished second in the

BOB TAylOR / ICJunior guard Andola dortch goes up for a layup against buffalo saturday at savage Arena. dortch led the way for the Rockets by scoring a game-high 20 points to help Toledo earn a 59-44 victory. UT improved to 15-2 (3-1) this season and has won 13 of their last 14 games.

triple jump with a distance of 39-4 to surpass the MAC qualifying mark of 38-6.

“that score was actually her indoor [personal re-cord],” Hadsell said. “that was a really good jump for

her, particularly because it is so early in the season.”

Chojnacky and tullis both qualified in the 3,000-meter run with third and fifth place finishes, respectively. Cho-jnacky ran a time of 9

minutes, 32.6 seconds and tullis finished at 9:42.21.

Junior Kaylin Belair fin-ished 12th overall with a time of 9:58.80, which is just shy of the qualifying mark of 9:57.02.

“they ran amazingly, huge pr’s for both of them,” Hadsell said. “Mackenzie’s time ranks her fifth all time in toledo history and Brooke’s time lands her sev-enth all time.”

Weiler dominated the 5,000-meter run with a time of 17:05.12, beating the sec-ond-place runner by more than 12 seconds. she scorched the qualifying mark of 17:33.47 and now tops the MAC list by 18 seconds.

“she had to run that race basically by herself,” Hadsell said. “Literally nobody went with her and she ended up winning by over 100 meters. that’s huge as we head on in-to the championship part of the season.”

Up next for the rockets is the Bowling Green tom Wright Classic on Friday. Hadsell plans to use this tournament as an opportuni-ty to improve and gain experience.

“For the lack of a better term, it’s more of a practice meet,” Hadsell said. “A meet like this is an opportunity to really concentrate on tech-nique and not so much try-ing to go all out each time. our expectation for the peo-ple who are competing is to be able to work on control-ling emotions in a competi-tive situation while focusing on technique.”

FIlE PHOTO By BOB TAylOR / ICsophomore liz Weiler finished first in the 5,000-meter run and won by over 12 sec-onds. Weiler is one of four Rockets who qualified for the MAC indoor Championships, which begin saturday feb. 22 at eastern Michigan.