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Thursday, March 17, 2011

By Bailey AllenFor the IC

As social networking sites such as Facebook become in-creasingly popular, potential employers have begun to use them as a way to look into job-seekers’ personal lives.

For this reason, Priyanshu Harshavat, a Rochester Insti-tute of Technology graduate, developed Socioclean.com to help people “clean up” informa-tion they have on Facebook that may make employers throw their job application in the trash.

It began as market research to see how many employers check Facebook before hiring an employee.

The results, according to Har-shavat, were phenomenal.

“Facebook is an extension of your resume and personality,” Harshavat said.

He believes Facebook is a main source of communication and corporations look at social networking sites before select-ing employees.

Socioclean scans Facebook wall posts, statuses and photo

Courtesy of Socioclean.com

Socioclean.com scans Facebook profiles for content that could scare off employers and informs customers about their findings.

Cleaning up social networks

Jason Mack / IC

Three for the leadToledo’s bench celebrates last night as senior guard Jessica Williams runs up the court after hit-ting a three-pointer to take a 55-53 lead with 53 seconds remaining. Williams made two triples in the final minutes as the Rockets erased an eight-point deficit and held on to beat Delaware 58-55.

‘Wholly Toledo’ Paquette

Nick Kneer / IC

Jack Paquette, retired vice president at Owens-Illinois Inc., speaks at Carlson Library yester-day as the first speaker in the series “Wholly Toledo: The Business and Industry That Shaped the City.” The exhibit is hosted by UT’s Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections.

tags in search of keywords ad-dressing obscene and aggres-sive words, racial slurs and profanity.

The website, however, does not scan for content. It only alerts the user if certain words that are deemed inappropriate are visible on their profiles.

After scanning the Face-book profile, Socioclean gives the user a grade based on the amount of negative posts found. The user can then de-cide whether they believe the post is truly inappropriate or

By Megan GrossFor the IC

Standing behind a decorat-ed podium in Carlson Library Jack Paquette tells his audi-ence he has been a “cheer-leader of Toledo” for the most of his adult life, yesterday.

Paquette, retired vice pres-ident at Owens-Illinois Inc., is the first speaker in the se-ries “Wholly Toledo: The Business and Industry That Shaped the City,” an exhibit hosted by UT’s Ward M. Can-aday Center for Special Collections.

Paquette has written sev-eral books about Ohio’s glass industry, “The Glassmakers Revisited” and “Blowpipes.” He also wrote a memoir ti-tled “A Boy’s Journey Through the Great Depression.”

From the beginning, Pa-quette loved to write, and he wrote for the Ohio State Jour-

— Paquette, Page A4

Negotiations of food services on HSCBy Oreanna CarthornIC Staff Writer

Approximately 70 University

of Toledo employees on the Health Science Campus may be laid off to help fill UT’s budget gap.

UT is in the process of rene-gotiating the contracts of food service and gift shop workers on the HSC, according to Larry Burns, vice president for exter-nal affairs and interim vice pres-ident for equity and diversity.

Burns said the university is discussing the idea of subcon-tracting food services on the HSC with the food company Aramark, which currently serves Main Campus.

“As part of the budget pro-cess that the university is going through, and as a part of the overall review of major ele-ments that can be possibly more efficient and more effec-tive, they have looked at the outsourcing of foodservices on the Health Science Campus,” he said.

The 70 food service and gift

shop employees are employed by UT and by subcontracting them, UT could potentially save $500,000.

There has not been any deci-sion yet, as administration is still negotiating and has not come to an agreement yet, ac-cording to Burns.

Burns said the two key things being considered when it comes to saving funds on the HSC are the ability to provide equal or better service to the patients, students, visitors and faulty while saving money at the same time.

Burns said he hopes some of the employees being laid off will be re-hired by Aramark.

“Also part of the negotiations is will they attempt to hire as many of our employees as pos-sible so that the least about of people currently employed are displaced,” Burns said.

Burns said the reason the decision has not been finalized yet is because they are looking at it from every angle and try-ing to figure out if there is an-other solution.

Departments move to Snyder

Nick Kneer / IC

Snyder Memorial is home to the Department of Geography and Planning and the Depart-ment of Science and Public Administration after a $1 million renovation to the third floor.

By Vincent J. CurkovIC Staff Writer

The Department of Political Science and Public Adminis-tration along with the Depart-ment of Geography and Plan-ning moved their offices to the Snyder Memorial Building dur-ing spring break.

The political science and public administration, and ge-ography and planning depart-ments can now be found on the third floor of Snyder Me-morial with their main offices located in room 3000.

The third floor of Snyder Me-morial saw a $1 million renova-tion prior to the move, said Patrick Lawrence, associate professor and chair of geogra-phy and planning.

“The space was in really bad shape and they considered tear-ing the whole building down,” said Mark Denham, professor and chair of political science

and public administration. The funds were provided by

the University of Toledo’s Board of Trustees and includ-ed new furniture, updated In-ternet wiring and wireless In-ternet among others.

“[This is] an example of the university trying to reuse the space rather than building new buildings,” Lawrence said. “We have two additional class-rooms and a new computer in-structional room.”

Faculty offices were also renovated and Center for Geo-graphic Information Sciences and Applied Geographics and space was made for graduate students.

The move was designed to help departments become more accessible to students, Denham said. The Depart-ment of Political Science and Public Administration moved from its prior location in Scott Hall, which is notorious for its

confusing layout. Scott Hall is located across

from the off-campus bookstore and next to Tucker Hall.

“I think the new facility is much more friendly to stu-dents and professors,” Den-ham said. “We are [in] a much more central location.”

The space left vacant will be used by the Language, Litera-ture and Science Department, Denham said.

“It is an example of the uni-versity making commitments to our department,” Lawrence said.

The political science and public administration depart-ment completed its move last Wednesday.

The Department of Geogra-phy and Planning moved from the fourth floor of University Hall. That space is currently vacant while UT decides what

— Snyder, Page A4

— Networks, Page A4

Our widely-held views and “common sense” in regards to our nation’s econo-my are caught in the past. Each decade displays endless nostalgia for the mid-20th century, when economic growth seemed unstoppable and the middle class constantly swelled to greater prominence. But the actual state of the nation’s economy has never been as glorious or full of widespread prosperi-ty as it is often “remembered” and it has fallen far from that point.

It was once legitimately expected that college graduation guaranteed decent middle-class employment; thousands of returning veterans and the GI Bill pro-vided the proof. Social mobility upward from the working class was a widely-realized goal, but recent decades have seen the reverse.

Even those born and raised in the up-per middle class are now dropping into unemployment or impoverished, work-ing-class status as middle-paying jobs disappear, replaced by a small number of high-paying and a slew of low-paying positions, often temporary jobs with poor conditions, no benefits and no hope of advancement.

Outsourcing has caused a great deal of this “hollowing out” of the econo-my. By now, we are all too familiar with the story: an American company employs tens of thousands at a com-fortable, sustainable wage. Then, the decision is made to replace domestic labor with a new source in another country, where people are paid much less and treated poorly.

The majority of the workers are then left with little or nothing, while the company’s executives and stockhold-ers receive a huge raise. To rub salt in the wounds, the government often

gives tax breaks to these companies, rewarding the outsourcing that drives our citizens to poverty and expands our already massive debt. We should be penalizing firms that outsource American labor.

Far more important than trying to force every individual into a general-ized idea of education, we should focus on imposing true equality and reform-ing a system of affirmative action that fails to achieve its intended good. In-stead of focusing on a person’s ances-try, we should consider the conditions in which they were raised. Poor, urban-dwelling whites are vastly more similar to poor, urban-dwelling blacks and His-panics than they are to wealthy, subur-ban whites in terms of education and potential for work.

Instead of perpetuating our false ex-pectation that college should be every-one’s goal, let us re-direct some of the funds wasted on people with no interest or aptitude for college to improving K-12 education. It boggles the mind to con-sider the dreadful conditions of many of the nation’s K-12 schools and then try to improve education in college.

Give young people a good education early on instead of trying to fix the situation long after a person has lost their motivation and faith in the edu-cational system. And if they are not fit for or desiring of college, don’t throw thousands of taxpayer dollars at them in scholarships and loans, thinking this will inspire a passion for learning that they probably lost years ago somewhere between overcrowded classrooms, lack of non-essential pro-grams and a system that tells them they need extra help because of their skin color.

Far more appropriately named than the law it aims to repeal, the Respect for Marriage Act is the next step in raising all American citizens to true civil equality. RMA was introduced in 2009, but did not gain the momentum needed to reach national attention. Re-introduced yesterday, this bill would end the Defense of Marriage Act and restore to all married couples the fed-eral rights guaranteed to them.

Anyone who argues that their mar-riage somehow suffers or loses value if others are allowed to share the legal status has bought into the egocentric and capitalism-inspired concept of greedy denial so prevalent in this coun-try — as if one’s enjoyment of some-thing depends on forbidding other groups of people to enjoy it.

Tens of thousands of same-sex cou-ples have already been legally married in states of this country and just over the border in Canada. Heterosexual couples of the United States: has your marriage suffered because of this?

And if one somehow answers yes — is a committed, loving union between two individuals of the same sex more

or less offensive to the idea of mar-riage than Britney Spears’ 55-hour marriage to Jason Alexander?

How about Republican former Speak-er of the House Newt Gingrich, who notified his first wife and mother of two children of his intent to divorce her while she lay in the hospital under-going cancer treatment? And his sec-ond wife, whom he divorced after dis-covering her medical difficulties, even-tually admitting the affair he had been engaged in with his third and current wife? All of this from the man who helped lead the impeachment charges against Clinton for his mistakes.

It’s hard to imagine a man more devi-ant from his own professed Conserva-tive Republican, Christian, family-val-ues background than Gingrich, yet he has used his sizable funds and politi-cal clout to fight same-sex marriage laws from California to Massachu-setts. There are none more damaging to the American family than these hypocrites and blasphemers who falsely claim to support Christian mor-als and family values.

- in our opinion -

Recognize fellow humans and their equal right to love each other — Respect for Marriage Act

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People of my generation, the kids of the 1990s and late 1980s, were not alive when the atom was first split or when two superpow-ers raced to see who could make the most powerful nu-clear weapon or a missile that could strike from the furthest distance.

We weren’t there to see the first photos come out of the Ukrainian town of Cher-nobyl showing abandoned buildings and statistics of increased rates of cancer, miscarriages and children born with extra or misshap-en chromosomes. We cer-tainly weren’t even close to being alive when two atomic bombs were dropped onto two Japanese cities.

We are quickly running out of the fuels that we burn to create energy and are be-ginning to truly understand that we need to either find a more viable source or we must seriously reexamine our energy-consumption habits. A number of alterna-tives have been and contin-ue to be tested, improved and expanded for commer-cial use: wind, solar, tidal, geo-thermal and biofuels, to name a few.

The option I excluded from the list is the one that keeps me up late at night with wor-ry. Nuclear energy is some-thing out of a science-fiction novel and the material that goes into producing it is the stuff of nightmares for those with an overactive imagina-tion. For the most part, ra-dioactive material is kept un-der strict control and surveil-lance by governments and companies who employ in-telligent and capable individ-uals to handle it.

There are fail-safe systems and backup upon backup in

place in the case of a power outage or one part of a nu-clear power plant not func-tioning as it should.

There is a great deal of nuclear material floating around the world and being traded under the table by il-licit organizations. Further-more, the safety regulations for storing nuclear waste in plants around the world are not as stringent as the nucle-ar power industry would like us to believe.

I encourage the reader to read an op-ed piece by Lee Dye of ABC news on this

subject, written this past Tuesday, where the writer describes documents in which numerous regula-tions at a major nuclear power plant were not fol-lowed and how this contin-ued, unchecked for decades, allowing waste to leak out of storage barrels.

As you may have noticed in recent headlines, earth-quakes can be the deadliest of tests to such a structure and a test for the govern-ment in charge of handling such dangerous material. Ja-pan is well-known for its strict building codes and feats of civil engineering,

made necessary once the na-tion realized the implications of its position along the Pa-cific Ring of Fire.

These building codes al-lowed many of the country’s skyscrapers and other build-ings to sustain minimal dam-age in the 9.0 earthquake and following aftershocks.

There has been a great deal of destruction and loss of life to be sure, and it seems cruel to ask a nation and its scientists to put their lives at further risk. But as you may have read in head-lines, the earthquakes did more than make buildings sway and kill thousands of people, it also has caused partial meltdowns and dam-age to the structure of sev-eral nuclear power plants on the main island.

For the next several weeks, scientists and other workers will be furiously trying to contain fuel rods that need to be submerged in water in order to prevent the emission of deadly radi-ation and possibly shaving years off their lifespans in the process.

It’s too early in this disas-ter to make safety precau-tions of US nuclear power plants the center and focus of the national discourse. For now, it is only human to bend relief efforts, time and energy toward the toil of Ja-pan’s citizens as they re-build. But it doesn’t hurt to keep this question in mind, somewhere toward the back where it can incubate: Is nuclear power really worth all this risk?

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joring in political science.

Nuclear nightmares

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Dr. Lloyd Jacobs appears to be determined to make the University of Toledo and the Health Science Campus ground zero, where the peo-ple of Ohio take back their state. He is convinced that he knows what is best for northwest Ohio and its citi-zens. In his written testimo-ny to the Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor com-mittee, he ignored facts and made statements without providing evidence to sub-stantiate his claims.

This Toledo community, which built this great insti-tution, should question Dr. Jacob’s statements and de-mand he provide proof. For example, Dr. Jacobs sup-ports Senate Bill 5, the anti-workers’ rights bill that at-tacks hard working middle class families, by claiming UT could save millions of dollars by quickly removing ineffective employees.

If that many employees are that ineffective, why wouldn’t Dr. Jacobs blame his administrators for not taking action against those employees who are less than effective? Instead, he rewards them with perfor-mance bonuses and con-tract extensions.

If Senate Bill 5 can really save UT and the state untold millions, then please publish your evidence Dr. Jacobs.

The public has weighed in on this matter. Numerous polls show that more than 60 percent of the people do not want SB 5. They don’t want classroom sizes in-creased to numbers that do not foster the student/pro-fessor relationship.

Taxpayers would rather see those lofty administra-tive salaries reduced in ex-change for cleaner class-rooms, better food, smaller class sizes, safe parking lots or any of the other thou-sands of items that make for a better educational experi-

ence, which increased staff-ing levels would provide.

When you support a bill that effectively eliminates collective bargaining at this university, and that does not force the institution to con-trol its administrative costs, you put your own financial interest and your cronies ahead of the interests of this community.

SB 5 would best serve this community if it mandated open debate on spending is-sues by the state’s colleges and universities where all expenses are examined and all arrangements affecting wages are open for reduc-tion if it is determined it is in the best interest of this insti-tution and ultimately the people of Ohio.

Your support of SB 5 should be a wakeup call to the most vulnerable citizens of our region. When you sup-port a bill that gives you ulti-mate power, as you have in-dicated you need to control costs, you ignore the good service provided by those health care workers on the Health Science Campus. To silence their voices, ex-pressed through collective bargaining, eliminates the ability of those employees to speak out when they recog-nize unsafe practices.

You were once a physi-cian and you took an oath to protect patients and pro-mote best practices. Sup-porting a policy that would eliminate a nurse’s right to say no when asked to prac-tice in an unsafe manner would put our sick at risk. SB 5 would eliminate the protections provided by se-niority, which have been vi-tal to the safety of patients while training the next gen-eration of caregivers.

When you silence the pharmacist who refuses an additional shift for fear of not qualifying for his/her next merit raise you increase

the likelihood of errors, which could cause harm or even death. When you sup-port bills that allow unfet-tered subcontracting you ex-pose the general public to employees who are not re-quired to meet the same standard as those employed by the state of Ohio.

When subcontractors bring in their own employ-ees the university puts stu-dents and patients at risk since the same statutory regulations regarding crimi-nal records cannot be moni-tored. When the university, through the administration, enters into subcontracting agreements, putting the in-stitution at financial risk, they not only jeopardize the finances of the university but also those of the com-munity at large in the form of increased costs or worst yet, decreased service to make up the loss.

If collective bargaining is eliminated, who will be the voice of those who depend on our services? Whether a student or a patient, they both have similar needs. They both want excellent service which is economical and they want to know they are safe. Collective bargain-ing has provided these pro-tections for decades.

Dr. Jacobs, live up to the oath you took so many years ago. Live up to your commit-ment to our community. Protect our sick and edu-cate our young. Support the democratic process you once swore to uphold as a marine. Withdraw your sup-port for SB 5 and stand up for the taxpayers of North-west Ohio.

Sally PowlessToledo Regional DirectorAFSCME Ohio Council 8419-539-6000419-539-6008 fax

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Advancing in the WNITThe UT women’s basketball team celebrates last night after a 58-55 win at home over Delaware in the opening round of the WNIT. The Rockets will host a second round game at noon on Saturday.

The following events oc-curred between March 1 and March 12. Anyone with information regard-ing these events should contact UT Police at 419-530-2600.

BurglaryOn March 12, a police of-

ficer was dispatched to Stra-nahan Hall to take a burglary report. The officers were ad-vised a tall, thin black male wearing a brown coat and black hat had just stolen a keyboard and fled across Bancroft Street. The officers checked the surrounding ar-ea including the Palmer Gar-den neighborhood and ob-served a black male wearing a green coat walking through the lot of an apartment com-plex, but he did not fit the description. The officers lat-er observed the same male wearing a blue coat. The of-ficers approached the sus-pect, who complied, and patted him down for weap-ons. They discovered the keyboard under his belt. The suspect was charged with burglary and criminal tres-passing and was booked in-to the Lucas County Jail.

TheftOn March 2, a police offi-

cer was dispatched to Carter Hall West to take a theft re-port. The victim stated his Xbox 360 had been stolen. The victim reported he sus-pected his roommate be-cause he found dandruff and clumps of hair he believed to be the roommate’s where the property was taken.

On March 3, a police offi-cer was dispatched to the Health Science and Human Services Building to take a theft report. The victim stat-ed she was in the computer lab working before she had to leave for a meeting. The victim left her Coach purse in the lab. When she realized she did not have her purse with her, she went to re-trieve it and it was missing. The purse contained $175 in cash. The victim was able to cancel her food stamp card, child support card, and debit card before they were used.

On March 10, a police offi-cer took a police report at the University of Toledo Po-lice Department. The report-ing person gave the officer a copy of a check that a victim had requested a stop pay-ment on. The check was a $205 refund from UT. The victim stated he never re-ceived the check and never cashed it, but the check had been cashed two months ago at South Food Mart.

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Employers are usually only concerned about your profile and how people respond to your posts according to Harshavat.

Socioclean.com scans posts made by a user and other users on a profile and gives all the details about them.

Though the website does not yet alert Facebookers of photos that may be off-putting to em-ployers, Harshavat said it is just as important.

“It is important to present yourself well,” Harshavat said.

Harshavat said future plans to scan images are, however, being initiated.

Beth Nicholson, director of Career Services at the Univer-sity of Toledo, also believes a clean Facebook is important.

“Monitor it very carefully,” she said. “It can be the differ-ence between being hired and not being hired.”

There are many red flags for employers that will keep them from hiring an individual.

Risqué photos with alcohol, bad language and inappropriate behavior are just some exam-ples, according to Nicholson.

Harshavat said any negativity about past employers or jobs is a major warning sign for future employers.

“Whenever something is put in writing it becomes more le-gitimate,” Nicholson said.

She believes students them-selves should take steps to make sure their Facebooks are clean and “positive posts” work well in a student’s favor when job-searching because employ-ers would be able to see pro-ductive activities a student is involved in and a student would

be viewed as well-rounded.Students at UT also believe

Facebook can greatly impact their chances of successfully being hired, but utilize other methods to ensure employers don’t find something they don’t like about possible employees.

To keep her Facebook clean, Nicole Beasley, a sophomore majoring in early childhood ed-ucation said she would make her profile private “so random people can’t see it.”

Lindsey Vaughn, a junior ma-joring in law and social thought thinks having a Facebook page in general is inappropriate when searching for a career.

“In all honesty if I was look-ing for a professional career I would probably get rid of Face-book altogether,” she said. “That way no one would see anything and there would be no way of self incrimination.”

When asked if they would utilize a service such as Socio-clean.com, students had mixed responses.

Sophomore Brian Hickson, a sophomore majoring in educa-tion for high school social stud-ies said, “I would just delete [my current] Facebook, make a new one, and keep it cleaner.”

“I would probably check the website out and see what it would say about my profile, but like I said, if I was looking for my career, I probably wouldn’t have a Facebook,” Vaughn said.

Beasley said she would use this service to make her profile more appropriate.

Socioclean only helps people clean up their Facebook pages for now, but Harshavat said he plans to make the service avail-able for Twitter, YouTube and all other comprehensive social networks in the next few months in order to better assist job-seekers in the future.

nal while in graduate school. As a journalism major at

The Ohio State University, he was allowed to choose be-tween two topics: liberal arts or business. Paquette chose the liberal side and was im-mediately unsatisfied with his choice.

Paquette, a Toledo native, had no intention of returning to his hometown. But when Owens-Illinois, the nation’s largest glass manufacturer at the time, offered him a writ-ing job in Toledo for more money, he accepted.

Paquette started at Owens-Illinois in 1951 writing about the company’s history. He fin-ished a book of research in 1994 about Owens-Illinois’ history from its foundation in 1888 until 1993. Paquette’s historical research has been used by several others inter-ested in the glass making industry.

Paquette moved to the po-sition of vice president of corporate relations for the last 20 years before he retired in 1984. His position was more along the lines of public relations in the business sec-tor. Nothing like what he was aiming for in graduate school.

to do with it, Lawrence said.

“We will be able to easily collaborate with our col-leges in geography [and planning],” Denham said. “It is easy for us to work together due to the layout of the new facility.”

The geography and plan-ning department completed its move into the new offic-es last Thursday.

There will be an open house showcasing the reno-vations on April 25 at 3:30 p.m.

“We have beautiful views of campus, with the mall and the [south side] of [Uni-versity] Hall,” Denham said.

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The Department of Geography and Planning moved to the third floor of Snyder Memorial along with the Department of Political Science and Public Administration.

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Jack Paquette wrote books about Ohio’s glass industry and wrote a memoir titled “A Boy’s Journey Through the Great Depression.

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The glass making industry had its debut in 1888 when workers from a factory in Boston, Mass. relocated to start a new factory in Tole-do, Ohio.

Son of a New England glass factory manager, Ed-ward Libbey became in-volved with glass produc-tion at a young age.

Libbey was later intro-duced to a young employee, Michael J. Owens, who had gathered years of knowl-edge and skill in the field. The two of them got togeth-er and focused their energy on the Northwest Ohio area.

The Toledo Glass Compa-ny began business in 1895. In 1903, the company had capitalized at almost $3 mil-lion with a new “mechanical marvel” to help blow glass faster and more efficiently than before.

Libbey and Owens decid-ed to add a third party to their business venture. Grandson to the owner of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Com-pany, George Ross Ford ran a factory that eventually be-came the largest of its kind in the country.

The two companies, Lib-bey-Owens Sheet Glass Company and Ford’s Plate Glass Company, decided on a merger in 1929.

In that same year, the Ow-ens Bottle Company merged with the Illinois Glass Com-pany, creating what we know today as Owens-Illi-nois. Illinois Glass was con-sidered the second largest glass factory behind Owens at the time.

From then on, Owens-Illi-nois has merged with sev-eral companies to improve

their production line. Pa-quette said they specialize in making one product and are still considered the number one glass-making corporation in the nation.

Looking back, Owens-Illi-nois made a huge impact on the economic development of Toledo. The Canaday Center felt this would be a good asset to their exhibit this year.

Director of the Canaday Center, Barbara Floyd, said the “Wholly Toledo” exhibit helps people understand how the city of Toledo has developed over time. Floyd added it’s a type of history lesson about how our city started in the business sec-tor and what has changed since then.

By looking back on Tole-do’s successful history, Floyd said the future of this city and the changes to be made can be seen more clearly.

Only time will tell what the future will bring for Ow-ens-Illinois and the city of Toledo.

“We’re going through a bad time because of this re-cession, but we’ve gone through worse times,” Pa-quette said. “I’ve always been an optimist about To-ledo. I really think there are possibilities.”

Upcoming speeches are from representatives of Da-na Corporation, Toledo Scale, Owens Corning and DeVilbiss Company will talk about company history and their opinion of eco-nomic development in To-ledo. The “Wholly Toledo” exhibit will be on display at the Canaday Center until August 2011.

Arts“You should have the luck of the Irish, and you’d wish you was English instead”— John Lennon, Luck of the Irish andLife

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todayCladdagh Irish Pub — The pub will be hosting a St. Patrick’s Day musical festival from 8 a.m. until close on St. Patrick’s Day. Doors open at 8 a.m. for an Irish Breakfast. The entertainment for the evening includes Bagpipers and Irish step dancers through-out the day. At noon, Extra Stout beings the lineup followed by The Bridges at 4 p.m. and Danger Brothers at 8:30 p.m. For more information, contact Claddagh Irish Pub at 419-472-1414.

The Distillery — There will be a St. Paddy’s Day Celebration beginning at 9 a.m. The Bridges will also grace the stage of this venue. For more information, contact The Distillery at 419-382-1444.

Blarney Irish Pub and Grill — The pub will be opening at 8 a.m. to being its St. Patrick’s Day festivities; however, the Blarney Bullpen won’t be open until noon for the lunch crowd. Bagpipers and dancers will be appearing at 9 a.m. Breakfast will be served all morning. A $5 cover will be charged all day and proceeds will be donated to the Toledo Firefighters Local 62 and the Syl-vania Firefighters Local 2243 then, in turn, distributed to se-lect charities these organizations sponsor. For more information contact the Blarney at 419-418-2339.

Mickey Finn’s Pub — There will be a St. Patrick’s Day cele-brated hosted by the pub, which begins at 11 a.m. Live music will begin at 3 p.m. and include Pad-dy Murphy, Don Binkley, Bare-foot Fred and Boogie Matrix. Two meal options will be offered and include a Hot Jiggs dinner for $10 and a corned beef sand-wich and chips for $5. For more information contact Mickey Finn’s Pub at 419-246-FINN.

fridayCladdagh Irish Pub — The St. Patrick’s Day festivities continue into the weekend at Claddagh Irish Pub. On Friday they boast $2.75 well drinks all day long and Fish & Chips. The Steve Mullan Band will take the stage at 8 p.m. For more information, contact Claddagh Irish Pub at 419-472-1414.

saturdayCladdagh Irish Pub — The pub will be offering $3.50 Long Island Iced Teas and $5 Irish Car Bombs all day long. Extra Stout will be performing traditional Irish pub music from 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. For more information, contact Claddagh Irish Pub at 419-472-1414.

sundayCladdagh Irish Pub — Clad-dagh will be offering a Irish Carvery Sunday Brunch from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. For more infor-mation, contact Claddagh Irish Pub at 419-472-1414.

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Michael Reynolds/MCTThe South Lawn Fountain in Washington, D.C. is dyed green in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.

traditions and tribulationsThe story of St. Patrick’s day, then and nowBy Weslie DetweilerIC Staff Writer

St. Patrick’s Day has ac-quired quite the reputation as an outlandish drinking-fest, particularly when it comes to college students.

However, there appears to be an art behind many aspects of this Irish holi-day, including tradition, history and creative ideas for getting in the green spirit.

Green beer, for instance, is just one of the many popular party hits of St. Patty’s Day. To concoct the colored liquid, all that’s

needed is green food coloring.

If your brew of choice is dark in color, the more green food dye you’ll need, so a light-colored beer is often chosen in order to make the festive color a bit brighter in shade.

The luck o’ the Irish can also be found in corned beef and cabbage, a tradi-tional dish that bring out the leprechaun in even the less than redheaded celebrator.

Needless to say, many local bars are getting in-volved in promoting their products during the green season.

Jed’s On Campus will be open at 7 a.m. for the clas-sically known St. Patrick’s Day “feast” of kegs n’ eggs. In addition, free pancakes will be served, as well as a variety of drink specials.

Chaser’s will be open at 10 a.m. and the party won’t end until 2:30 in the morn-ing. Several deals will be offered, including 16 oz. drinks at one dollar and no cover charge all day. To spice up the music scene, four DJs will be rendering their services.

Representatives from both Jed’s and Chaser’s agreed that St. Patrick’s Day is their busiest of the

year.Outside Toledo, cities

have much larger and more unique ways of cele-brating than local bars and parties. Chicago, for in-stance, commemorates St. Patrick’s Day by turning its local river into a green spectacle.

Ironically, St. Patrick’s Day was originally cele-brated as a religious feast for the death of St. Patrick in the fifth century. The holiday has been observed for over 1,000 years.

Some ascribing to the traditional observance of

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By A. SharpIC Staff Writer

Quips and tipsReviewing “Don’t Judge A Dick by Its Foreskin”

By DC GuastellaArts and Life Editor

What can you expect when a book’s dust jacket is printed on cheap lami-nated paper, but makes grandiose claims such as “What do Harvard profes-sors and garbage men have in common?” – sur-prisingly not an under-ground pressing of “Freakanomics.”

Canadian-born author Max Gold takes a crack at the preachy social sarcas-tic genre with “Don’t Judge a Dick by Its Foreskin.”

Though the title seems to suggest caution for quick judgments, the book is a straightforward neo-libertarian rant that leaves little to be learned and much to be desired.

Divided into two acts, Gold uses 208 pages to explain, indulge and decry every social topic from birth control to China’s economic growth. Act I appears to be dedicated to all woes related to religion and the meaning of life; Act II covers perceived ig-norance in the United States and the federal gov-ernment’s ideological follies.

Though the blog-to-book genre has been grow-ing in popularity in recent times (look no further than the rack at Urban Outfitters for “Stuff White People Like” and “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.”) it is already tired and loathsome.

While Gold’s short dia-tribes weren’t first made as posts, they are far too

pedantically didactic to pass for articles – most times it feels as if Gold is shouting at you through the pages.

Another similarity it bears to internet literature is that it hosts the same characteristic snottiness and is shallow on proof explanations.

“Guns are what keeps society free. Every a--hole that ever ruined and plun-dered a nation, achieved the ability to do so by dis-arming the obstacle to his unlimited power – the peo-ple,” Gold writes in his section on guns and gun rights.

The book is rife with claims of this nature and avoids any corroboration. Overall, the work is too simplistic, with every sec-tion labeled “Guns” or “The End of the World” and containing three to four paragraphs of easy-to-grab answers – some of which are factually incorrect.

He follows up his despot envisioning with the rhe-torical argument “Do you think the Communist Par-ty in China would have the ability to crack down on people like it does, if say 100,000 were armed and could fight for, or against things like democratic po-litical parties, freedom of speech, land ownership and confiscation, a free press and internet, or hu-man rights?”

In reality, a 2006 raid in China discovered over 178,000 guns, in 2008 Chi-nese marksmen seized 51 gold metals, and

the unrest in Xinjiang Province in 2009 reported numerous cases of civil-ians directly opposing Chi-nese soldiers. No laws ex-isted until 1966, years af-ter the Communist Party implemented the Great Leap Forward, which was arguably the most cata-strophic “crackdown” in the organization’s history. Conservative estimates speculate 14 million starved to death in the failed agricultural and in-

dustrialization campaign.Gold is a naturalized

American citizen, and sings praises of it to the tune of a Tea Party anthem.

“The founding fathers were the smartest, most enlightened group of men ever assembled in the his-tory of our species,” he writes.

A bit much from a man that returned to living in

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After attending the Student Organization Gala before spring break I had many more ques-tions about getting involved.

I decided to do a little re-search about the 200 or more organizations at the University of Toledo and it seems my be-liefs and concerns have been nothing but a misconception.

There is so much I didn’t know about student involve-ment and what it means to be a proud UT student.

Students in organizations con-sider it a great way to network as well as a social experience.

I no longer want to let my ig-norance foreshadow what seems like a great experience for any college student. I cannot ignore the fact that becoming more in-volved is something that I want before I leave this university. I wanted to dig a little deeper.

I had the pleasure of speaking with few individuals from UT’s Student Government to hear about personal experiences and their views about the success of student organization.

Andreya Williams, a senior majoring in early childhood edu-cation, is one face that is seen often, not only on our MyUT portals and the UT billboard ad-vertisements around Toledo.

Williams is the Vice President of the Black Student Union. She is also on the General Fee Com-mittee, a member of Delta Sigma Theta and a member of the Stu-dent Conduct Hearing Board.

Williams explained Student Government is supposed to rep-resent students as a whole.

“It is what bridges the gap be-tween the students and faculty to make sure that students are involved and make them aware of what is going on our campus.” Williams said. “We represent those students who feel that they don’t have a voice or feel that they can’t speak up,” Wil-liams said. “We want to know what they want to see change on campus. ”

Williams said members of SG treat each other. Like friends, not just like “senators or presidents.”

Anticipating my interview with graduate student Mark Carter, I didn’t know what await-ed me behind the door of the SG office. He sat chatting with SG President Matt Rubin, who seemed to be tuned in the con-versation before I intruded. I didn’t expect Rubin to be there but I was pleased that I was giv-en the opportunity to speak with two high-ranking student gov-ernment officials in one interview.

Carter is also heavily involved on campus in a various organiza-tions such as BSU and Alpha Sigma Phi along with Rubin, who joined this year.

“When you go out into the business world and they look at your resume, they don’t just look at your GPA, they look at what you were involved in,” Carter said.

I was surprised to learn that Rubin took a moment to read my latest series but what shocked me most was his response.

“To be honest it kind of made me a little sad because student involvement has been the most important thing of my college career. I am so passionate about it. I’ve learned so much and have had so many extraordinary ex-periences,” Rubin said.

I wanted to see how busy things get in the Office of Stu-dent Involvement, I spoke with

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the holiday are unhappy with the image that it has in the United States and the reper-cussions on the image of Irish-Americans.

“Traditionally it was a holy day, where you abstained from drinking,” points out UT Anthropology and Irish Histo-ry professor Seamus Metress. “To drink on St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland was unheard of. Now of course, there are so many tourists coming over there expecting to drink that you can now – it used to be that the bars were closed.”

Metress takes issue with the majority of the St. Patrick’s Day fanfare in the United

States; he and his wife, retired UT Anthropology Professor Eileen Metress, have spent 11 separate research trips to Ire-land and published academic works on the nation’s people ranging in topic from civil un-rest to medical conditions. Both trace their familial origin back to Ireland.

“I used to march in parades to protest,” Metress said. “The stereotypes that have been created do harm to your his-tory and it’s all marketing – it was all done to make money.”

Beyond excessive drinking, Metress added that many of the traditions of St. Patrick’s Day are based in falsehoods. Blue, not green, is the tradi-tional color of Ireland, and

leprechauns are largely un-known to the natives.

“I wear black on St. Pat-rick’s Day, because I’m in mourning,” he said.

Metress added that he doesn’t like the leprechaun image, stating “I don’t even like that leprechaun they use at Notre Dame University – and I’m a Notre Dame graduate.”

While St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish holiday, you certainly don’t need to be Irish in order to have a good time and cele-brate. The holiday is originally Catholic, and like most years it falls during the Catholic season of Lent this year; and there is an ongoing debate amongst Catholics about whether they should

be permitted to forgo their Lenten abstinences during the feast day.

Once a religious celebration steeped in austerity, the Amer-ican incarnation is not that far off from its version of the Mexican battle celebration of Cinco de Mayo – an easy ex-cuse to indulge in excessive behavior.

For a change of pace this year, pick up a copy of Me-tress’ “Irish in Toledo: History and Memory.” Then with an educated appreciation in the back of your mind, celebrate the holiday in whatever tradi-tion you see fit.

---Contribution by DC Guastella

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Canada and admits in so many words to be a non-functioning member of any society.

There are no pictures in the book, not even of the author. Even Bernard Goldberg’s bombastic “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America” had pictures.

One section is printed in reverse, and one with a Span-ish translation – it would seem that a book like this would have plenty of them for comedic distraction.

It’s a difficult read for any-body holding strong political opinions. If you disagree with Gold, you’re bound to be up-set 10 pages into it. In con-trast, when he and you share a

view, it’s bound to shake your faith in your conviction.

The only credence to the ti-tle of this manifesto comes in the purporting that the book is humorous. Jokes are few and far between; he writes in “Drugs” that “If your drug use causes harm to another, [you should be held responsible] unless of course, you are foreign.”

Comments like these made the book difficult to digest. While reading the book, it’s easy to ask yourself “Am I missing the point? Is this the digital age’s ‘A Modest Proposal’?”

Perhaps the work is so sa-tirical that your tongue should be firmly within your cheek with each word you read? To

add to this confusion, famous TV satirist and author of a more obvious effort of a simi-lar stripe “America: So Can You” endorses it on the back.

In the beginning of the book, Gold asks the readers “While the God vs. Devil no-tion is just a projection of our psyche, I can’t help but won-der that if there was a Devil,

who had full reign over our world… wouldn’t it dupe us by pretending to be the good guy?”

With complete control over the unchecked facts and con-flated suppositions in “Don’t Judge a Dick by It’s Cover,” Gold presents the perfect metaphor for his book.

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Sara Sheperd, a graduate stu-dent employed with the of-fice of student involvement.

“It’s like a zoo. It’s like or-derly chaos. We are like the go-to office,” she said.

This talk with the members of UT’s SG changed the way I view the organizations.

“Just because I decided to join a student organization I’ve had those opportunities to step up in leadership,”

Rubin said. “It’s one thing to go to class everyday and sit in a classroom and listen to a lecture but when you are ac-tually out there communicat-ing with people and contrib-uting to the political process of things working hard to achieve a goal that is bigger than yourself with another group of people its electrify-ing. It feels me with such a sense of pride that I wish oth-ers could have the same experience.”

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Definition: A tradition that requires participants to travel from one bar or pub to the next, most often in a small vicinity like a downtown area, drinking profusely until they can no longer walk, but instead are forced to crawl. This term has been used since the early 19th century and in-cludes variations such as “pub crawl,” “gin crawl” and “bohemian death march.”

This phenomenon can be found around the world, but are more prominent in Ger-manic and Celtic countries. In addition, the Guinness World Record for largest pub crawl is held by the World’s Greatest Pub Fest, which is held annually in Mary-borough, Queensland, Australia. This fes-tival boasts approximately 5,000 partici-pants in a city of 26,000 and breaks their own record each year.

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By IC Staff

Senior Jacy Dyer and ju-nior Laura Lindsay were in-vited to participate in the NCAA Swimming Champion-ships beginning on Thursday in Austin, Texas, the first time in program history two players have been invited to attend.

“We are very excited to have two people at the NCAA meet,” UT Head Coach Liz Hinkleman said. “We are looking forward to the com-petition and racing the best people in the nation.”

Dyer qualified after

posting a 16:12.58 in the 1650 Free at the Rutgers Invita-tional in January. She also will compete in the 200 Free and 500 Free after earning NCAA “B” cuts in the Mid-American Conference Cham-pionship with a 1:47.90 and 4:44.51, respectively.

“Qualifying for NCAAs was the perfect way to end my college swimming career,” Dyer said. “I am so excited to compete against the fastest swimmers in the country.”

Lindsay has qualifying times in both the 100 Breast (1:00.21) and 200 Breast (2:10.63). She placed first in

19 of 23 events on the year while finishing second in the remaining four.

Toledo has had just two players make the NCAA Championships in school his-tory, both within the last four years. Kylie Gamelier was the most recent in 2009 and Megan McKinley qualified in 2008.

Dyer competes in the 500 Free on Thursday, the 200 Free on Friday and the 1650 Free on Saturday. Lindsay’s first race begins on Friday with the 100 Breast before competing in the 200 Breast on Saturday.

Dyer, Lindsay invited to NCAA Championships

Golf finishes eighthLed by a three-under

round of 69 from sopho-more Josh Agin in the final round, The Rockets golf team placed eighth at the University of Central Flori-da’s Rio Pinar Invitational on Tuesday. Toledo finished ahead of the four other Mid-American Conference schools including Akron, Ball State, Miami (OH), and Northern Illinois.

The Knights of Central Florida took the tournament team championship for the fourth straight year with a score of 23 under-par, 43 shots better than the Rock-ets. Rounding out the top five of the 18-team tourna-ment was Liberty at 18 un-der-par, North Carolina State at three under-par, Wichita State at eight over par and Florida Gulf Coast at nine over par.

Tying for 18th place with Agin (74-73-69) was senior Jean Hubert-Trahan with scores of 74-69-73 to post a

score of an even-par 216. Senior Ben Boyer tied for 44th place at eight-over par 224 (76-72-76) and junior Mi-chael Cermak tied for 68th place at 12-over par 228 (78-74-76).

Daniel Mazziotta took the individual medalist crown after a one-hole playoff vic-tory over Liberty’s Robert Karlsson. Both men finished with a score of 12 under-par.

The Rockets travel to Lare-do, Texas for the Border Olympics on Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26.

Courtesy of UT Athletic Department

Jacy Dyer will participate in the 200 Free, 500 Free and 1650 Free in the NCAA Swimming Cham-pionships this week. Laura Lindsay will also compete for UT in the 100 Breast and 200 Breast.

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UT Head Coach Tricia Cullop led the Rockets to a win over Delaware in the WNIT last night.

would remain a one posses-sion game until the Rockets scored six unanswered to close the half at 29-23.

Delaware cut into the UT lead early in the second and a layup by Parker would give the Blue Hens a 38-36 advan-tage midway through the half.

UT responded with four straight points but Delle Don-ne would counter for Dela-ware by scoring the next nine to give the Blue Hens a 47-40 advantage with 6:28 remain-ing in the game before the Rockets comeback and Wil-liams’ clutch three-pointer.

“I think our fans are some of the best in the country,” Cullop said. “When we

needed them the most tonight they got loud and I think they helped us change the momen-tum. We could not be more thankful for the home court advantage they do provide.”

Toledo will host the win-ner of Auburn (15-15) and Tennessee Tech (23-7) in the second-round of the WNIT on Saturday, March 19 at noon in Savage Arena.

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After being kind of non-existent in the past

few games, it did not surprise me that she made the game-winner.Tricia Cullop UT Women’s Basketball Coach ”“

Late comeback propels UT past Delaware in WNIT openerBy Nate PentecostIC Staff Writer

The Rockets closed out Del-aware late in the second half to win 58-55 in Savage Arena on Wednesday in the first round of the Women’s Nation-al Invitation Tournament.

The victory extends Tole-do’s home winning streak to 13 and gives them an 9-6 re-cord in WNIT history.

“I thought they did whatev-er it took to win,” UT head coach Tricia Cullop said. “It was a hard-fought game.”

The Rockets (24-8) closed out the last four minutes of the contest on a 15-4 run which included a three-point-er by senior guard Jessica Williams from the corner with less than a minute remaining, giving the Rockets a 55-53 advantage.

Toledo held a 58-55 lead with eight seconds remaining when Del-aware’s (20-13) sophomore forward Elena Delle Donne had an opportunity to tie the game with a three-pointer but missed the contested shot at the buzzer.

After being held scoreless in the first half, Williams made 3-of-4 shots in the second half to help Toledo claim the victory.

“After being kind of non-existent in the past few games, it did not surprise me that she made the game-winner,” Cullop said. “Her whole ca-reer she has made big shots.”

Toledo was paced by sopho-more center Yolanda

Richardson (7 of 11), who had a team-high 14 points and nine rebounds off the bench. Red-shirt-freshman Andola Dortch (3 of 7) added 13 points, in-cluding a career-high three tri-ples from beyond the arc.

Williams (3 of 6) contribut-ed nine points. Leading scorer Naama Shafir (1 of 9) was held to eight points and grabbed five rebounds.

“It doesn’t matter who makes the shot as long as we win at the end of the day,” Shafir said.

Delaware was carried by Delle Donne (4 of 9) who led all scorers with 31 points to go with five rebounds and

three blocks. Sopho-more forward Dani-elle Parker (2 of 4) had the game’s only double-double, with 10 points and a game-high 11 re-bounds. Classmate Jocelyn Bailey (1 of

2) added six points and 10 rebounds.

Delle Donne’s 31 is the most points by a Toledo opponent since Casey Garrison of Mis-souri State scored 32 against the Rockets last November.

“She’s a great player,” Wil-liams said. “But I think my teammates did a phenomenal job guarding her.”

Delaware jumped out to an early 6-0 lead in the opening minutes of the contest and held the advantage until a Dortch three-pointer gave the Rockets a 12-10 lead at the 12:20 mark of the first half. It

Rockets matchup against Wright State canceledBy Tony BiblerIC Staff Writer

The University of Toledo baseball team will travel this weekend to Pittsburgh to take part in the PSC Panther Classic.

The Rockets, whose Wednesday night game against Wright State was canceled due to poor field condi-tions, hope to im-prove upon their 4-10 record.

“Being acknowl-edged by our peers is an honor,” said head coach Cory Mee of his team being picked to finish second in the Mid-American Conference in a pre-season coaches’ poll. “We haven’t held up our end of the bargain and per-formed. There are things we have worked hard to fix and it’s a shame ‘Mother Nature’ didn’t work out for tonight’s game against Wright State. Our boys are chomping at the bit to get out to the ball-park and we can’t wait for this weekend to show what we can do.”

The key to whether the Panther Classic will be deemed a success or not is through the Rockets pitch-ing staff which is led by sophomore right hander Mike Hamann (1-1).

“Mike Hamann, Kyle Shaw

and Lincoln Rassi have done an excellent job starting and when they take the mound they give us a chance to win,” Mee said. “Mike has walked four guys in 27 in-nings and struck out 30.

Mike, Kyle and Lin-coln all pound the strike zone and make teams swing the bats. They will only get better as the season goes on.”

In order to get back in the winning column, the Rockets must improve on their defense. Over the first 14 games of

the season, Toledo has com-mitted 24 errors.

“Baseball is about making plays in the clutch,” Mee said. “We talk to the guys about not flinching in the face of adversity. Not ev-erything is going to go to plan. They just need to try to focus on right now and we hope that they want the ball to be hit to them. If they do make that error, we expect them to want anoth-er opportunity to get back on the horse.”

Offensively, the Rockets are led by senior second baseman Chris Dudics, ju-nior shortstop Joe Corfman and junior first baseman

Matt Delewski, who over the past three games have bat-ted a combined .342 (12-for-35) with five runs batted in and five runs scored.

“Offensively, we have been inconsistent,” Mee said. “Du-dics, Corfman and Delewski have all showed signs of put-ting up good at-bats but as a team, we must be more con-sistent. We have been miss-ing the one big at-bat to put us ahead in games and bot-tom line we have to put up better at-bats. If we do that, we are going to be fine offensively.”

The Rockets have a dou-ble-header on Friday to be-gin the Panther Classic play-ing Youngstown State (1-12) and Niagara (2-14) at 3 and 6

p.m. respectively. The Rockets play the host Pittsburgh Panthers (8-5) Satur-day at 6 p.m. and finish the weekend with a rematch against Youngstown State, Sunday at noon.

“We have had a good week of prac-tice and we are ex-

cited for this weekend,” Mee said. “Our guys are dying to get on the field and I can’t wait to see our guys go out and compete. This is a big weekend and we are ready to go out and prove ourselves.”

Dudics

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Senior guard Jessica Williams helped prolong her career at Toledo with a game-winning three-pointer to give the Rockets a 55-53 lead with 53 seconds remaining.

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Sophomore center Yolanda Richardson had a team-high 14 points and nine rebounds off the bench in the Rockets victory.

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WNIT (15-15) or (23-7) vs. (24-8)Second Round, Women’s Basketball - Saturday, March 19 in Savage Arena at Noon