March 16, 2016

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By Jessica HarkerNews Editor

Senator Bernie Sanders visited the Toledo Seagate Center March 11 for a rally to gain support for his presidential nomination in anticipation of the Ohio Primary.

The rally started around 1:30 p.m. when Sanders was introduced by Baldemar Velas-quez, labor leader for the Mexican-American farm workers and member of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority Board of Trustees, according to an article by the Toledo Blade.

“I stand with Bernie,” Velasquez said during his introduc-tory speech at the rally, “because Bernie stands with us.”

The article said that Sanders received a surprise introduction

as well from U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who is the only member of the Ohio Democratic Congressional delega-tion not vouching support for Hillary

By Callie StatonStaff Reporter

Former President Bill Clinton visited the University of Toledo Memorial Field House on March 12 to attend a rally in support of his cam-paigning wife.

Roughly 520 students and Toledo community members attended, along with several other members of the media and national news teams. Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson and Arizona Con-gresswoman Gabby Giffords

and her hus-band, Mark, opened for Clinton with speeches of their own: encouraging the crowd to vote ‘Yes’ on issues that would fix the dilapidated streets of our community, and a continu-ance of support for further gun control and regulatory actions.

Former President Clinton was warmly welcomed follow-ing this commentary, offering support for the community and vowing to “return to Toledo.” He spoke in support of his wife concerning issues such as gun control and regulation, education and tuition reform, a reform on college debt interest rates for graduating students, prison reform and tax reform. He also said “it was about time” that a woman sat in office at the

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““The nation does not recognize a post on Facebook as a vote. Only your stamp at the voting booth has value..”

EDITORIAL

Election fever OPINION / 4 »

UT stumbles in opening round of MAC tourney

Rockets fall 69-60 to Eagles.

SPORTS / 7 »

The BIGGEST day of service comes to UT

Students volunteer for projects as a way to give back to the community.

COMMUNITY / 6 »

Caught on camThe traffic camera on Douglas

reached the highest number of tickets given out this year, with the number reaching over 8,300.

NEWS / 3 »

““Filmmaking is hard — really hard. Despite the diffi-culty, it is impossi-ble for us to divorce ourselves from the moving image.”

EVAN SENNETT

Students produce films with diverse perspectives

OPINION / 4 »

Students build houses over spring breakCOMMUNITY / 6 »

COURTESY OF HALEY MUSSERHaley Musser, a third-year University of Toledo student majoring in communication, faces the camera as she talks to Jimmy Kimmel live with Cousin Sal. “It was the perfect end to my spring break getting to meet all these hilarious people that work with Jimmy Kimmel,” Musser said. In Los Angeles for break, she got on the show by stopping and talking to the right person, who offered for her a spot playing a game on set. The safety gear she is wearing was for her protection, as people were throwing random things off the roof for contestants to catch.

Student on Jimmy Kimmel Live

POLITICS

Bill Clinton comes to UT to promote Hillary’s campaign

Sanders speaks at Seagate Center

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

SAVANNAH JOSLIN / IC[Left] Freshman Sarah St-Fort seeks comfort from redshirt freshman Mikaela Boyd after Toledo’s overtime loss in MAC tournament.[Top right] Rocket fans yell angrily at the referees during the game.[Bottom right] Senior Ana Capotosto mourns the end of her Toledo basketball career. She served as one of the team captains for two years.

BERNIE SANDERS

BILL CLINTON

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“I stand with Bernie because Bernie stands with us.”

BALDEMAR VELASQUEZ

Labor leader for the Mexican-American farm

workers

By Jenna NanceAssociate Sports Editor

CLEVELAND, Ohio – After securing a first round bye to Quicken Loans Arena in the 2016 Women’s Mid Amer-ican Conference Tournament, the No. 4 seed Rockets were defeated in a quarterfinal battle with the No. 5 seed Akron, 73-71 in overtime.

Following the loss, UT did not make the bid for the Women’s National Invitation Tournament, making that the last time we will see seniors Brenae Harris and Ana Capotosto in a Rocket uniform.

“I think this game could have easily gone either way,” said Head Coach Tricia Cullop. “It’s because of the fight and effort of our team, we were down and had to fight back to make it a game and we did.”

Harris led the Rockets with 24 points; a game-tying high six assists while playing 44 minutes, a career-tying best.

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IN BRIEF Rocket Wheels restarts in the warm weather

The Rocket Wheels Bike Sharing program returned to campus Mon-day, March 14. To kick the season off, Wednesday, March 16 at noon, a mass ride will be held starting at the Rocket Hall bike rack near the horse sculptures. There will be 30 bikes available, but students are also encouraged to bring their own.

The ride will be about an hour long and end at the Q between Parks Tower and the Academic House. After the ride, free food and prizes will be provided, including a bike that will be raffled off. The bike share program allows people to borrow bikes for 4 to 6 hours at a time. Bikes can be checked out near the northeast entrance of Rocket Hall, by the south entrance of Palmer Hall, and on the northeast side of the West Parking Ramp. Supreme Court justice to speak at UT

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger, a 1977 UT law school alumna, will discuss the Ohio constitu-tion, the modernization commission, and possible changes to the constitu-tion at the McQuade Law Auditorium in the UT Law center at noon on Thurs-day, March 17. The Ohio Constitution is currently under review and the Ohio Constitutional Moderniza-tion Commission was created in order to study the constitution and make amendments to it. Other experts will include Marc Wagoner, a member of the Ohio Constitutional Mod-ernization Commission and a partner at Shumak-er, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, Steven Hollon, execu-tive director of the Ohio Constitutional Moderniza-tion commission, and Steven Steinglass, senior policy advisor for the Ohio Constitutional Moderniza-tion Commission who will all be speaking at the event. The event is free to the public and will last two hours. More information is available at http://www.utoledo.edu/law/events/ocmc-cle.html. Juried student exhibition awards

The 2016 Juried Student Exhibition in the Center for the Visual Arts Gallery on the University of Toledo’s Museum of Art Campus will hold an award ceremony on Thursday, March 17 from 6-8 p.m. Students of all ages and areas were encouraged to submit three pieces of their original artwork for the annual com-petitive event. The student artwork displayed can be viewed until Wednesday, March 23. Two vocal performances

The Department of Music will present two student vocal perfor-mances this week. The first performance will be Thursday, March 17 when the UT Concert Chorale, the Women’s Chamber Ensemble and the University Chorus will perform a program titled “The Drumsound Rises” at 7 p.m. in Doermann Theater. Pieces will be performed by Daniel Elder, Sydney Guillaume, Moira Smiley and Arturs Mas-kats. Tickets for this event at $4 for students and $8 for general admission. On Sunday, March 20, the Opera Ensemble will perform selections from favorite operas at 3 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. Pieces will range from Mozart to Bernstein. Tickets are $7 for students, $12 for general admission, and $10 for faculty and senior citizens.

St. Patrick’s DaySt. Patrick’s Day is coming up this Thursday March 17. Make sure to have

a good holiday and be safe. Don’t forget to wear something green!

TRAFFIC

ENVIRONMENTAL

Students gain $15,000 to grow GreenBox project

By Lauren GilbertCopy Editor

Speed demons be-ware — at least while passing the traffic camera on Doug-las Road near the University of Toledo’s campus.

According to an article by The Blade, city records show that the traffic camera on Douglas Road near campus has generated nearly twice as many tickets as any other camera in Toledo this past year, totaling more than 8,300 tickets.

Jessica Castel-lani, a second-year double majoring

in psychology and religious studies, received a $125 ticket from the traffic camera at the intersection of Douglas Road and University Hills.

“All of Douglas is 45 pretty much the whole way and then I feel like pretty close to that camera it slows down to 40 and I don’t think I noticed that. I only got the ticket going 51 in a 40, so had the speed limit been 45, I felt like I was only going six over, but it was 40 so I was going 11 over,” Castellani said.

Castellani said that she thinks having the camera next to the light makes it

more likely for you to get a ticket since people commonly speed up to make it through a light before it turns red.

She also said she thinks it would be better to be pulled over by a police officer for speeding rather than be tick-eted by the traffic camera.

“For a police officer you could say, ‘I thought the

speed limit was 45 and I was just speeding up to make it through this light,’ and then they’re more likely to kind of let you go or give you a warn-ing, but with the cameras it’s like, that’s it,” Castellani said.

Chief of Police Jeff Newton supports the traffic cameras because their goal is to have an impact on speeding and red light violations. Newton said the intersection of Dorr Street and Secor Road used

to have many blown red lights before a traffic camera was installed there.

“Secor used to be one of my most common offenses for a traffic stop. Once that red light camera was put into place, there was a noticeable difference in the number of red light violations that I witnessed at that same inter-section. So it seemed that the community did take notice of the camera and it had the intended effect, to reduce the number of red light viola-tions,” Newton said.

Newton said that the importance of speed enforce-ment in general around the university stems from the amount of pedestrians, cy-clists and “people that are just more vulnerable and in need of motorists in compliance with the law to be safe.”

To Newton, while he thinks the cameras have a positive impact on protect-ing motorists, he does not think they can completely replace traditional, in-per-son policing of traffic.

“I think that the cameras have been helpful. I don’t think it replaces the old-fashioned traffic enforcement that we provide on campus and on the edges of campus, so it’s kind of a multifaceted approach. The University of

ECONOMICS

By Carl MacaulayStaff Reporter

Staff Norman Rapino, the executive director of Rocket Innovations, took the helm of the organi-zation with the task of promoting university re-search and development.

Rocket Innovations’ mission is to promote entrepreneurship through faculty and student engagement in research, technology commercial-ization and economic development.

Rapino said he will not make significant changes to the organization’s goals and directions, but will work to improve efficiency.

“We are bringing a par-ticular process into use that really helps faculty and others — as efficient-ly as possible — see if there is a place out there in the world for their ideas and technology,” Rapino said.

He said this process is called a lean launch methodology, which helps in identifying promising

technology.Rapino brings experience

from the University of Michigan, where he was the Mentor-in-Residence in the office of technology transfer, as well as a vast entrepreneurial experience.

“I learned by watch-ing very smart people in Michigan where they have a particular kind of organizational set-up that has been very effective,” Rapino said.

Rapino also said he has visited numerous presti-gious institutions nation-wide — including Stanford and MIT — and has dis-covered UT’s tech transfer process is no different.

“It turns out that the people here at tech trans-fer really do things about the same way, so the tech transfer process here is very high level and I’m looking forward to work-ing with them,” he said.

Rapino also said he was impressed by the level of passion shown by UT

By Morgan KovacsStaff Reporter

If you’re like most Ameri-cans, it’s probably a regular habit to scrape a half-full plate into the garbage, or dump a box of leftovers after they get left in the fridge a few days too long.

It might not seem excessively wasteful on an individual level, but accord-ing to engineering professor and GreenBox project advi-sor Matthew Franchetti, Americans end up generat-ing 34 million tons of food waste a year. A team of students at the University of Toledo is aiming to turn that waste into opportunity through their new

GreenBox project. John Martillotta, a

fourth-year mechanical engineering student who has been working on the project since fall for his senior project, said Green-Box is a system of collecting food waste and recycling it to convert what would have become waste into usable forms of energy. The project has been awarded $15,000 to continue developing GreenBox.

“GreenBox incorporates community involvement through the recycling of each participant’s indi-vidual and household food

Norman Rapino, the Executive Director of Rocket Innovations on UT campus.

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“Our faculty believes that it is important to have what they care about have an impact on the world and it is wonderful to see how excited everybody here is to actually do this.”

NORMAN RAPINOExecutive director of Rocket Innovations

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Caught on cam Traffic camera clocks more violations than any in city

Primary election results

Clinton and Kasichclaim Ohio

Clinton 56.5 % Sanders 42.7 % 35.9 % Trump

47.0 % Kasich

Percentage votes claimed with 99 percent of Ohio polls reporting.

Rapino named as new director

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“It seemed that the community did take notice of the camera and it had the intended effect, to reduce the number of red light violations.”

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Amanda PitrofJessica HarkerMaisha Rashid

Colleen Anderson

Election fever has struck the country. The 2016 presidential primaries and caucuses beat on as the candidates frantically and sometimes humorously race to gain their party’s nomination.

Every factor will influence how the election shapes up, including the broad and significant influence of social media. However, there are just as many pitfalls and misus-es of social media that can endanger a campaign through misinformation as there are benefits to take advantage of.

Utilizing social media to sway the vote has successfully been done. In 2008, the Obama campaign reached out to a younger voter population through successful and targeted social media presence. This gave them an overwhelming edge in the election, where they commanded about 66 percent of the young-adult votes. Almost eight years later, the Internet continues to evolve and shape how campaigns function.

There is no denying the massive amounts of informa-tion readily available on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, which are social media sites predominantly populated by younger users. Millennials are heavily reliant on digital technology that provide them with world and political news, topics being discussed globally, or any current event or incident that takes place. As a result, it is absolutely nec-essary that the campaigners tap into the technology-depen-dent and media-frequenting young adults of the nation.

Bernie Sanders is one candidate who has a particularly strong presence on the Internet, partially through his social media efforts but also largely through information spread by his supporters. Because of the disproportionate amount of his supporters frequenting social media sites, the picture presented by the Internet is not necessarily reflective of how the poll results have turned out.

While Sanders had several upsurges, notably by winning New Hampshire and Michigan, they are only viable if the youth support he garners on the Internet translates to the polling booths, which has not always been the case. Out of Michigan primary voters, only about 20 percent were under 30. If you spend more than 20 minutes on the Inter-net, you’d quickly conclude that the world, or the younger crowd, seems to aggressively loathe Donald Trump and worship Bernie Sanders as an idol. Why is it, then, that the primary polls do not reflect these same sentiments?

This effect represents a disparity between those voic-ing their opinions on social media and translating those opinions into votes on Election Day. Posting opinions on Facebook does not count as a vote, and aggressively shar-ing and spreading support or hatred for candidates does not equal actual poll numbers. The Internet also does not provide an accurate voice that speaks for the U.S. It speaks for a cross-section, a small percentage of people who feel comfortable speaking up about politics online.

A large sum of the information available on social media is not exactly fact either. Countless posts are aimed at swaying the opinion of possible voters through the use of image distortion of candidates, which is nothing more than persuasive propaganda. For example, memes that intentionally misquote Clinton and Sanders aim to make Bernie seem friendly and Clinton seem cold. The memes ignore facts, but still subtly persuade voters.

Looking at the Internet with these parameters in mind, the U.S. political opinion is not accurately captured by Facebook posts. The general electorate is not solely made up of tech-savvy Sanders supporters, and the polls dem-onstrate this. But the polls also show that tapping into the digital world influences and can win campaigns.

Although there is widespread coverage and influence on youth votes via social media sites, the youth votes for the Democrats are showing a drop. On the other hand, the Republican youth votes are surging for the 2016 presidential election in November.

This would mean that for example, if young Democrats want Sanders to win, they will have to ramp up their ef-forts. A Facebook post voicing support for a candidate is not going to get the win. Unless they are translating their virtual support into a physical one at the polling booth, they will never see the changes that they want, whether that means from a Republican or a Democratic president.

It is equally important for those active on the Internet to real-ize that just the voice of support on a digital place does not give results. The nation does not recognize a post on Facebook as a vote. Only your stamp at the voting booth has value. To enact change, you have to physically make an effort to be a part of the movement. Getting down to the voter booth is most important if you want your chosen candidate, who promises the changes you want, to win.

Emily Schnipke

It is absolutely necessary that the campaigners tap into the technology-dependent and media-frequenting young adults of the nation.

I have a bug inside of me that will never go away. It is a virus without a cure: the constant urge to create moving images. Films.

Perhaps you have that bug too. I know that there are at least a handful of other UT students who work countless hours, tire-lessly staring at a com-puter screens or film viewers as if it were their lifeline — an ex-tension of themselves.

Filmmaking is hard — really hard. Despite the difficulty, it is impos-sible for us to divorce ourselves from the mov-ing image. It is a part of us forever, in the same way that a virus can never truly be eliminated.

The Center for Performing Arts is holding the annual Student Filmmak-er’s Showcase at Center Theatre this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. It is the only time every year when the Department of

Theatre and Film opens its doors to the public and showcases the blood, sweat

and tears of those of us who have “the bug.”

Film professors hand-pick the best student’s work from the year and showcase it as one, but diverse, packaged collec-tion of short films. There is no running theme or motif for the showcase other than variety.

The diverse films show us and project the different psyches of our peers. Not every filmmaker at the University of Toledo

makes black and white 16 mm film dramas, similar to how not all painters use water color. The great thing about the annual showcase is that each film is sprung from a different perspective of the world.

Not only do we share our different views of the world, but we share different views of our university as well. All of the films in the showcase are products of the students at UT. Many of them were filmed right here on campus. Some will look like they were made right here at UT, while some will transform the university into another world.

James Aponte’s “Pursuit” was filmed on the engineering campus, but through clever lighting and framing looks almost unrecognizable. “Pur-

suit” exists in a space that we all share, but you would never know it. Other projects, like John Troth’s experimen-tal documentary, “I’m Sorry For Being Such an Asshole” defy space entirely. Troth’s film seems to exist nowhere but in the filmmaker’s head.

The showcase is like an invitation to the many subjective angles of space and time. With the excessive use of cellphones and social media taking away our imaginations, we may not all be able see like filmmakers. However, that is not the point of filmmaking. The point is that we are all UT stu-dents — bug or no bug. We share a campus, a generation and a humanity. The Student Filmmaker’s Showcase is a celebration of that shared humanity — oh, and there’s a pretty cool free party after the show, too.

Evan Sennett is a first-year major-ing in film studies, and he is also an IC cartoonist.

COMMENTARY

COMMENTARY

The skills of a Ph.D. are not limited to a single, specific field

The filmmaking “bug” in UT students produce films with diverse perspectives

EVANSENNETTIC COLUMNIST

As a Ph.D. student, I’ve been look-ing at the myriads of non-academic and non-traditional positions that are there for us now. Lately, the tradi-tional career track of Ph.D. students is changing. It was in-teresting to discover how the recipient of the Ph.D., someone who has been tradi-tionally defined as a specialist in a par-ticular field, has now become the exact opposite: a trained specialist with skill sets that could cater to a wide variety of analytical, written and management positions.

The occupa-tions that have become relevant to Ph.D.s include management consultant, writing positions, quantita-tive analysts and so on. Even industry positions have discarded the traditional association of a Ph.D. as being another cog in a machine, useful only for serv-ing a specialized or repetitive role. Companies have also realized it is more profitable to restructure the Ph.D. role to head individual projects, rather than doing routine experiments on projects decided by the general conglomerate of the company.

The management consultant position is a perfect example of how Ph.D. skills have become transferable, and how Ph.D.s in something as different as the various STEM fields can fit in this posi-tion. Management consultants work on the strategy, management and opera-tions of a business. They are essentially the problem solvers, analysts and strat-egists just like Ph.D.s. The core work of a management consultant is under-standing the fundamentals of each of the sections so as to be able to guide and direct them in the most effective way. I often think that a management consultant is someone who is looked to for providing both the innovation and the critical thinking required for any

part of the project. If any graduate student has been

reading, I’m sure the management con-sultant work will resonate very strongly

with their own — I know it did with me. The long hours and the undefined work are only the superficial layers of similarity between being a man-agement consultant and being a doctoral student, at least in the STEM fields.

The innovative function of finding the most effective methods with limited resources, data analysis and the use of data to plan a strategy are all things that come naturally to

those with a Ph.D., and from what I understand, these are core for managing a business as well.

The skills mentioned above are also useful for positions that require analytical skills, strategic planning and leadership. Leadership is a quality that isn’t intuitively associated with a Ph.D. However, I’ve learned that having to learn from a principal investigator, as well as mentoring other students in lab, gives a graduate student the perspectives of both dealing with upper management and delegating people working with you.

It is time that the traditional perspec-tives of a Ph.D. change, and that institu-tions realize they need to develop the analyst, strategist and problem-solver in their doctorate students, rather than just developing them as a specialized employee of a certain field.

Understanding and realizing this will only go so far, though, if this is not met with change and action. This change can take shape in the form of courses and workshops at universities which will cater to the characteristics in Ph.D.s that make them so transferable and versatile. Univer-sities have already started offering business and journalism classes to their Ph.D.s. University of Toledo needs to get on board with this as well.

Tomer Avidor-Reiss, a professor of biological sciences at UT, once told me that when you graduate with a Ph.D. and get out into the world, you’re not going to be judged simply based on the techniques you know as a doctorate. He told me I was going to be judged on the basis of whether I have the ability to figure out a problem, learn a new tech-nique by myself within a short period of time — essentially, on whether I can take the project handed to me and just make it go. That was a very different, yet real, perspective he had given me.

There is an Academic Leadership Academy workshop that the UT busi-ness school holds to educate graduate students about industry and how to suc-ceed outside of academia. Here, Ph.D.s from the mathematics, engineering, biological sciences, chemistry and other such non-business departments are brought in and given knowledge about business, something we don’t otherwise get in our graduate courses.

This workshop is a small step, but a step nonetheless. It is important for UT to integrate non-STEM courses in graduate curricula. It is time UT and other universi-ties realize that they aren’t just molding an expert in a small section of a certain subject area. Rather, they are molding a person who should be able to fulfill vari-ous roles in various subject areas.

Maisha Rashid is a Ph.D. student in cancer biology and the IC opinion editor.

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OPINION EDITOR

Filmmaking is hard — really hard. Despite the difficulty, it is impos-sible for us to divorce ourselves from the mov-ing image. It is a part of us forever.

The occupations that have become relevant to Ph.D.s include management consul-tant, writing positions, quantitative analysts and so on. Even indus-try positions have dis-carded the traditional association of a Ph.D. as being another cog in a machine.

The diverse films show us and project the differ-ent psyches of our peers. Not every filmmaker at the University of Toledo makes black and white 16 mm film dramas, similar to how not all painters use water color.


Election fever

Why isn’t social media hype translating to the polls?

A Facebook post voicing support for a candidate is not going to get the win. Unless they are translat-ing their virtual support into a physical one at the polling booth, they will never see the changes that they want.

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The Catholic Student As-sociation will be collecting prom dresses for Toledo Public Schools high school students at the Corpus Christi University Parish on Dorr Street. Dress donations will be accepted on March 18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will be held in UT’s Rec Center on March 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will have raffle events, food and prizes. All donations for the dresses will go to Bethany House, a transi-tional shelter for victims of domestic violence.

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Susan Coll, author of Ac-ceptance, will speak at the Academic Novel event on Thursday, March 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the Maumee Indoor Theater. Acceptance has since been turned into a movie with the help of Coll. The Academic Novel event is being hosted by the John H. Russel Center for Educa-tional Leadership. The event is free with a student ID and will begin with a 45-minute Q&A with Coll, followed by a screening of the film. For more information, contact Camila Taormina at 419-530-2152 or [email protected].


COMMUNITYCALENDAR

Phi Kappa Phi ‘Awards of Excellence’ Scholarship

Friday, March 18The University of

Toledo chapter of Phi Kappa Phi will be awarding three $500 scholarships to continuing graduate and undergraduate students. The scholarship recognizes and rewards superior academic achievements for students with a 3.6 or higher GPA. To be considered for the scholarship, applicants must complete the online application and include an essay of 500 words and two recommenda-tions from academic professors.

“Goghing, Goghing, Gone! The Analysis of Color Fading in Masterpieces by Vincent Van Gogh” Saturday, March 199:30 a.m.

Gregory Smith, the Otto N. Frenzel III Senior Conservation Scientist at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, will be giving an art lecture in Wolfe Hall on Saturday, March 19 at 9:30 a.m. The lecture will highlight the investigation of color fading in Vincent van Gogh’s 1890 painting, “Undergrowth with Two Figures.” Smith will give a brief history of eosin and its importance in 1800’s artwork. A virtual restoration of “Undergrowth” will be shown using realistic colored layers to give a better sense of van Gogh’s artwork. Admission is free for all.

2016 Student Filmmaker’s Showcase

Saturday, March 19

7:30 p.m.The University of

Toledo Department of Theatre & Film will be hosting its annual Student Filmmakers Showcase in the UT Center for Performing Arts on main campus on March 19 at 7:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. The showcase will show films by UT students, including comedies, dramas, documentaries and animations. Following the movies will be an after-party open to all, with free food, music and door prizes. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for UT students.

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BIGGEST day of service comes to UTVOLUNTEERING

Students volunteer to say ‘thank you’ to Toledoans

SPRING BREAK

UT students spend Spring Break sweatingBy Emily SchnipkeAssociate Community Editor

Spring Break — it’s what every student looks for-ward to from the moment the spring semester begins. Just three more papers until relaxing on a beach in Day-tona. Just two exams until hitting the slopes in Colora-do. Just one more class until sleeping in for a week.

One group of students, however, anxiously awaited their Spring Break for a whole different reason. Students with the University of Toledo’s

chapter of Habitat for Human-ity spent their break volun-teering in Dade City, Fla.

“Habitat means a lot to me,” said Shannon Sfero, fourth-year nursing major and co-president of Habitat for Humanity. “It means giving less fortunate people the chance to feel normal, the opportunity to raise a family in a stable environ-ment and it gives them hope for the future. Habitat for Humanity doesn’t just build houses — we help families get their lives back

and give them hope when nothing else in their life seems to be going right.”

Sfero says she was instant-ly hooked with Habitat when she was a freshman search-ing for an organization to join. She participated in last year’s Habitat trip to Clear-water, Fla., and her enjoy-ment of the trip prompted her to volunteer again.

“I went on the Spring Break trip last year, because I was actually in charge of setting it up and I had an amazing time and met

amazing people,” Sfero said. “There is nothing better than meeting the family you built the home for and seeing that look of their face. A look like that is absolutely priceless.”

Similarly to Sfero, Jen-nifer Leis enjoyed her trip with Habitat last year and says her experiences last time convinced her to return. A third-year double major in accounting and fi-nance, Leis said she joined Habitat for the opportu-nities to volunteer in the Toledo area and in places where their help is needed.

“To me, Habitat is more than an organization on campus, it’s a way to give back to those in need,” said Jennifer Leis, a third-year double major in accounting and finance. “Habitat’s vision is ‘a world where everyone has a decent place to live.’ I want to help restore a sense of hope and community in people’s lives.”

This year’s crew consisted of nine UT students, from all different majors and back-grounds. The group worked at a local ReStore for two days of their trip. The store, which provides the main source of income for Habitat, sells gently used furniture,

appliances, clothes and other miscellaneous goods. The volunteers spent the rest of their time in Florida paint-ing the inside of a house, building a deck and helping to construct the framework of another house.

“Our group actually worked together to raise the front wall of the house that we were working on,” Leis said. “I personally cut a lot of the wood that was needed to construct the framework COURTESY OF UT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

Nine members of UT Habitat for Humanity spent their Spring Break in Dade City, Fla, working on building a house and doing other volunteer work.

“Habitat for Humanity doesn’t just build houses — we help families get their lives back and give them hope when nothing else in their life seems to be going right.”

SHANNON SFEROUT Habitat for Humanity

co-president

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By Amber ThomasStaff Reporter

Each spring, students at the University of Toledo take one day out of their busy schedules to spend time in the community. This year on March 19, volunteers will take part in one of the BIGGEST events on campus.

“The BIG Event is the largest one-day service event that takes place at the University of Toledo,” said Anthony Strother, director of the 2016 BIG Event. “This is the way we give back to the community and the sur-rounding Toledo area.”

According to Strother, the BIG Event was first established at Texas A&M University and is currently at 110 schools across the country. This year, the Uni-versity of Toledo will invite Bowling Green State Uni-versity and the University of Detroit Mercy to UT’s

event in hopes of eventually starting a similar event at their own schools.

Compared to some of

the other events held at the university, the organizers of the BIG Event say this one is unique because its sole focus to help Toledoans.

“Events like the Relay For

Life and RockeTHON are also ways the University of Toledo give back, but those impact so many things outside of Toledo,” Strother said. “The money raised by those events affects other states across the country aside from the Toledo area. However, the BIG Event is local and it covers campus all the way to townships such as Sylvania.”

According to Joseph Leech, assistant director of the BIG Event, about 1,300 people have signed up so far, but they are expecting an increase of 200 to 400 more volunteers.

Volunteers perform a variety of tasks during the day of work. From cleaning up the community by doing yard work at residential areas to cleaning up the streets of Toledo, students and community members are working together to give back.

“Students do everything from painting houses at The Cherry Street Mission to going to reading books to the children at the Ronald McDonald House,” Leech said. “One big thing we’re doing this year is working with the Botanical Garden, doing things such as gar-

dening and raking leaves at their multiple job sites.”

Lindsay Shepherd, a third-year majoring in ac-counting and management, said she participated in the BIG Event for the past two years with her sorority,

Habitat for Humanity

SAVANNAH JOSLIN / ICUT student Talore Browning picks up leaves at last year’s BIG Event. More than 60 student organizations are registered for this year’s day of volunteering

“The BIG Event is the largest one-day service event that takes place at the University of Toledo. This is the way we give back to the community and the surrounding Toledo area.”

ANTHONY STROTHERDirector of BIG Event 2016

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IN STANDINGS

For next week...Check out next week’s sports edition for a special article on long time radio play-by-

play man, Mark Beier. He has called Toledo football and men’s basketball games for 20 years before annoucing his retirement at the end of this men’s basketball season.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

UT stumbles in opening round of MAC tourneyBy Marcus DodsonSports Editor

The University of Toledo men’s basketball team couldn’t hang on to a late second half comeback, falling 69-60 to Eastern Michigan in an exciting first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament at Eastern on Monday, March 7.

“I thought this was a very physical game,” said Head Coach Tod Kow-alczyk. “I’m proud of the guys and the way they responded. Like many games this year, coming down the stretch we were right there.

“Sometimes you just have to give your opponent some credit.”

With the loss, Toledo’s (17-15, 8-10 MAC) season came to an end on a four-game losing.

In senior Nathan Boothe’s last game in the midnight blue and gold he led the Rockets with a team-high 16 points and 10 rebounds for his 14th double-double of the season.

Joining him in double-figures were sophomore guard Stuckey Mosley, junior guard Jonathan Williams and freshman forward Nate Navigato with 12, 11 and 10 points respectively.

The Rockets struggled in the first half shooting 29.2 percent from the field and knocking down just a single three-pointer. The second half proved better for UT, draining 6-of-14 from be-yond the arch and shooting 51.7

percent from the field. “First half turnovers put us in a

hole,” Kowalczyk said. Toledo finished the contest with

19 turnovers, seven more than Eastern, a reoccurring problem in UT’s four-game losing streak.

Eastern was led by Raven Lee with 19 points and Tim Bond who finished with 15 points but came up big late for the Eagles.

James Thompson IV finished with 11 points to go along with a game-high 13 rebounds for EMU.

Both teams struggled in the open-ing minutes with the score tied at 5 a piece at the first media timeout.

After the break, Eastern broke out on a 9-0 run which forced a timeout by Kowalczyk down 14-5 with 12:30 remaining in the opening period.

Williams eventually ended EMU’s 11-0 run with a trey from the wing but the Eagles got things going again quickly.

After an air ball by freshman Jordan Sanford, Lee got the ball on an Eastern fast break and pulled up from the top of the key to drain a three. The Rockets found them-selves trailing 25-12 with 5:38 to go.

The Eagles took their largest lead of the game, 36-16, follow-ing senior forward Brandon Nazione’s three-pointer with two minutes before halftime.

SOFTBALL BASEBALL

SoftballSchool MAC OverallEAST DIVISION Kent State 0-0 13-5Ohio 0-0 8-6Akron 0-0 13-10 Bowling Green 0-0 11-10Miami 0-0 7-8Buffalo 0-0 4-14

WEST DIVISION Northern Illinois 0-0 8-6Central Michigan 0-0 11-12Ball State 0-0 12-14Western Michigan 0-0 7-9Eastern Michigan 0-0 6-9Toledo 0-0 4-14

BaseballSchool MAC OverallEAST DIVISION Kent State 0-0 10-3Miami 0-0 5-4Ohio 0-0 5-6 Bowling Green 0-0 6-8Buffalo 0-0 3-6

WEST DIVISION

Ball State 0-0 5-7Eastern Michigan 0-0 4-9Central Michigan 0-0 2-9Toledo 0-0 1-9-1Northern Illinois 0-0 1-10Western Michigan 0-0 0-9

Rockets fall 69-60 at Eastern Michigan

RACHEL NEARHOOF / ICSenior Nathan Boothe looks to pass in Toledo’s 69-60 loss to Eastern Michigan. This was Boothe’s final game as a Rocket.

RACHEL NEARHOOF / ICJunior Jonathan Williams splits a pair of Eastern defenders. Williams finished the game with 11 points in Toledo’s loss.See Bounced / 10 »

Toledo struggles in CaliUT goes 2-7 in California road tripBy Marcus DodsonSports Editor

The University of Toledo softball team competed in nine games during spring break. The Rockets won their opening game against St. Peter’s 5-0 on March 4 in the SLO Cal Poly Mustang Clas-sic, but fell short in game two to the host Cal Poly 9-0.

The Rockets went on to lose their next three games by a combined score 19-8.

UT ended the winning drought with a 6-5 win over Cal-State Northridge on March 10 in the sec-ond game of the Cal State Northridge Matador Classic before dropping the next three in the classic.

Toledo moved to 4-17 on the season, with all their games played outside of Ohio so far.

Against St. Peter’s senior RHP Marla Gooding (3-5) took command of the rubber throwing a complete game shutout with four strikeouts.

Leading the Rockets was junior Chandler Rice going 2-for-3 with a homerun and two RBI’s. Sophomore Kaitlyn Bergman joined her with two hits including a solo homerun.

Toledo got things going with a run in the bottom of third to take a 1-0 lead. The Rockets tacked on another run in the bottom of the fifth following an RBI single by sophomore Ashley Rausch.

In the bottom of the third UT busted the game open with a two-run homer by Rice and a solo shot by Bergman to close out the scoring at 6-0.

Toledo took on UC River-side for a double header on March 8 in between the two tournaments. The Rockets dropped the first game 5-3 before losing the second game of the double header in a very competitive 3-2 match.

Toledo out hit River-side 7-4 but it wouldn’t be enough in the 3-2 loss.

The Rockets got on the board first with two runs in the top of the first. Neither team scored over the next five innings.

UC Riverside cut the lead to 1 in the bottom of the sixth with two triples in the inning.

Riverside tied things up with small ball in the bottom of the seventh inning. With runners on first and sec-ond, Stephanie Tickemyer sacrifice bunt advanced the runners over to second and third. The next batter, Han-nah Rodriguez, grounded out to first bringing in a run-ner to tie things up at 2 each.

With two outs, Richards singled to shortstop for an RBI single for the walk-off win.

The Cal State Northridge Matador Classic was not kind to UT, as the Rockets were outscored 38-15. To-ledo opened up the Classic with a 11-3 loss to Grand Canyon before defeating the host Cal-State Northridge 6-5 in game two of day one double-header.

Gooding (4-6) threw her seventh complete game of the season picking up her fourth win in the process. She finished the game allowing four runs and striking out five.

Toledo got the scoring

going in the top of first following a walk by senior Jessica Lemieux. She stole second and third base before crossing the plate after a throwing error on North-ridge’s catcher.

The Matadors tied things up in the bottom half of the opening frame.

Toledo went on to score a single run in each of the next five innings to take a 6-1 lead going into the bot-tom of the sixth.

Cal State scoring drought ended with a run in the bottom of the sixth to cut the UT lead to four. In the Matadors last attempts, Katie Hooper cranked a three-run homer to pull Northridge back to one with no outs.

Gooding stuck out the next two batters before forc-ing the final batter to pop-out to end the game.

The Rockets fell short to San Diego in a 5-2 loss the next day before losing to Grand Canyon for a second time by eight runs, this time 10-2.

Toledo closed out their California road trip with a 7-2 thumping to Oregon State.

UT will return to the dia-mond when they travel to Huntington, WV to take on Marshall on March 15 for a double-header.

Rockets’ woes continue

By Marcus DodsonSports Editor

The Toledo baseball team early season struggles continue dropping four of five games over spring break and drop-ping to 2-13-1 on the season.

Toledo was crushed 12-4 in their first game against Florida A&M University on Tuesday, March 15, before a close 3-2 defeat to Florida State on Wednesday, with both games played in Tallahassee.

The Rockets traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to take on Jacksonville University in a three-game series that began Friday, March 11. UT dropped the opener 2-1 before winning the second game 6-1. The Dol-phins won the rubber match with a 5-1 victory.

FAMU got things started off in the bottom of the first inning with a solo homerun hit to left field.

UT responded with a run in the top of the second be-fore the Rattlers jumped out to seven runs in the bottom of the third, taking com-mand of the game.

FAMU picked up four more runs over the course of the fifth, sixth and sev-enth innings.

The Rockets picked up a run in each of the last three in-nings but it wouldn’t be nearly enough in the 12-4 loss.

Redshirt freshman pitcher Alex Wagner picked up the loss after giving up seven hits and six runs in 2.1 innings.

UT finished the day with six hits and 10 men left on base.

“We found ourselves be-hind early but I thought we generated some opportuni-ties,” Head Coach Cory Mee said. “We had guys in scoring position in six-out-of-nine innings but we weren’t able to come up with a big hit or able to string hits together.”

The Rockets had a much better performance against the No. 14-ranked Semi-noles in Wednesday’s 3-2 defeat, according to Mee.

“I was proud of the way we played tonight,” Mee said. “We played with passion, poise and

really got after it tonight.”UT was no-hit in the

contest and lost on a walk-off suicide-squeeze in the bottom of the ninth.

Freshman Michael Jacob took the loss after giving up the bunt in the ninth. Jacob pitched 1.2 innings, sitting down two batters and working out of jams in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings to keep the game tied at 2.

FSU jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first with a two-out single by Ben Deluzio to left field bringing home Cal Raleigh from second.

Toledo took the lead in the top of the fourth without recording a hit. Matt Hansen was hit by a pitch and Deion Tansel was walked to put run-ners on first and second. Se-nior Dan Zuchowski reached on a throwing error allowing Hansen and Tansel to score, giving Toledo a 2-1 lead.

Raleigh scored again for the Seminoles in the bottom of the sixth to tie things up at 2 be-fore going on to win the game in the bottom of the ninth.

The Rockets opened up the series against Jacksonville with a close 2-1 defeat on Friday.

“It was a game that went right to the final out,” Mee said. “I’m proud of the way

our guys are competing. It’s tough for us right now.”

Down 2-0 in the top of the eighth, freshman Ross Adolph picked up his first collegiate hit with an RBI double but the Rockets weren’t able to bring him in.

Steven Calhoun picked up the loss for UT after tossing 6 innings, allowing two runs while striking out six.

The Rockets lone win over the break came on Saturday in game two of the three-game series.

Jacksonville got on the board first with a run in the bottom of the second. The Rockets jumped out to a 2-1 lead in the top of the third following a fielding error by the Dolphins.

Toledo busted the game wide open in the fifth in-ning with a bases-clearing double by senior center-fielder John Martillotta to give UT a 6-1 advantage.

Senior LHP Ross Achter earned the win after throwing 6.0 innings of two-hit baseball and striking out three.

“Ross pounded the zone and was ahead in count all day,” said Mee. “He made some big pitches and was much more efficient today.”

Jacksonville got on top of

Toledo drops four of five over break

NICOLE BADIK / ICJordan Kesson hurls a pitch to home plate from the 2014 season. He finished that year with a 4.85 ERA.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSSenior Jessica Lemieux throws to the cut-off from center field in a game during the 2015 season.


Clinton. During the rally, Sanders

discussed many different issues, in-cluding his economic stance against big business, a hot-button issue in this year’s presidential race.

“Create an economy that works for all of us and not just wealthy campaign contributors,” Sanders said during his speech.

Sanders also took the oppor-tunity to outline the differences between himself and his competi-tor, Hillary Clinton.

Sanders said the two key differ-ences are their stances on trade — including positions over NAFTA

and trade with China — and how they raise their campaign funds.

He also stated that he was the only candidate without a Super PAC and was able to raise more individual campaign contributions than any candidate in the history of North America: over 5 million.

Sanders from page 1

RACHEL NEARHOOF / IC[Top] Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks to a crowd at the Seagate Centre in downtown Toledo. [Bottom left] Sanders smiles at supporters after speaking about his position on several issues. [Bottom right] Supporters at the rally held up signs expressing their approval of Sanders on issues such as nurses’ values.

“Create an economy that works for all of us and not just wealthy campaign contributors.”

BERNIE SANDERS2016 presidential candidate

waste. By dropping their food waste off at a Green-Box unit, the participant will receive rewards or points towards gift cards or things of that nature,” Martillotta said.

The team is participating in the People, Prosperity and Planet Student Design Competition. According to the competition guidelines on the EPA website, the goal of the competition is for students to benefit people, promote prosperity and protect the planet by designing environmental solutions that move to-wards a sustainable future.

If the GreenBox pro-totype receives positive feedback in Washington, D.C. this spring during Phase II of the competi-tion, the team could be awarded another $75,000.

The team of Toledo students chose to cre-ate the GreenBox last semester as a senior

project, and is made up of both engineering students and business students. The students spend 5-10 hours a week working on GreenBox and will be competing against 38 other universities at the competition.

“GreenBox is very important to me. It at-tacks a nearly untapped issue in our country and presents a great oppor-tunity to advance our country further into the sustainability move-ment. GreenBox helps our nation grow closer to utilizing its incredible resources through active and rewarding com-munity involvement,” Martillotta said.

Martillotta said the award money will be used to create the prototype as well as allow the team to travel to D.C. to present it to the EPA. Franchetti said he plans to have a functional prototype on campus by the end of the semester. He plans on

GreenBox taking about three years to take off.

Even if the U.S. EPA does not choose to award the team $75,000, Franchetti said the Ohio EPA is highly interested in the project, so GreenBox will likely still be pursued.

Franchetti said Green-Box not only helps solve landfill issues, but also creates this green renew-able energy source. He explained that if the US were able to convert half

the food waste generat-ing into energy, it would create enough energy to power 2.5 million homes for a year.

“One way to think of GreenBox is as a food waste collection kiosk. It can be compared to Redbox, but instead of dropping off a disk, people drop off food waste,” Franchetti said.

The GreenBox also provides a business aspect too. Restaurants could deposit food waste and re-ceive points, which could help their public relations. The GreenBox will also record savings and envi-ronmental protection for a company or individual person by allowing de-positors to swipe a card or enter a number, as if they have their own account.

“This project helps push the knowledge on food waste, which has been a big problem for years. Hopefully it will at least create solutions that could branch into bigger things,” Franchetti said.

Project from page 3

“One way to think of GreenBox is as a food waste collection kiosk. It can be compared to Redbox.”

MATTHEW FRANCHETTIProject Adviser

faculty.“Our faculty believes that it

Is important to have what they care about have an impact on the world and it is wonderful to see how excited everybody here is to actually do this,” he added.

University of Toledo Vice-President of Research William Messer spoke about the aim of Rocket Innovations.

“The aim of Rocket Innova-tions is to help faculty and students with entrepreneurial interests move their technology forward towards commercial-ization,” Messer said.

According to Messer, Rocket Innovations tries to find ways to connect research with tech transfer so that innovation can be supported and developed.

“And when [discoveries are made], our tech transfer office can work with faculty to file pat-ent applications and work with them to license that technology to outside groups,” he said.

Rapino also said Rocket Inno-vations works with the Launch-pad Incubator.

“[The Launchpad Incubator] is a place where ideas that have been identified as having commercial po-tential go to get help with training for mentors and advisors, introduc-tions to funding sources,” he said.

Rapino, who received a Ph.D. in chemistry and an MBA from the UT in 1971, said he has now returned to give back to the univer-sity and the community.

“Toledo is a place that helped my family and myself grow and have a nice life so it’s nice to return to the area and be a part of making things better,” Rapino said.

White House.Clinton’s views on

tuition reform sparked a particular interest among the student population, and reducing the interest rates on student loans for graduating students. Such views include allowing student loans to be refi-nanced, as they currently are the only sorts of loans unable to do so, allot-ting more tuition funds

toward individuals who are in the most need of it, allowing individuals who are capable of paying their own way through school to do so, and erasing the student loan debt of students who have given five years after graduation to community service activities.

Lucy Frank, a third-year political science major and intern for the Ohio Democratic Party, was really excited that Clinton came to UT, writing in an email interview it was like a dream come true.

“My favorite part of the rally occurred when a heckler yelled out to Former Presi-dent Bill Clinton about gun policies in Russia,” Frank wrote. “Instead of having security rush the young man out of the rally … President Clinton attempted a conversation with the heckler about the issue. When the young man was finally escorted out, Clinton addressed the crowd with an encour-aging nod to the consti-tution about freedom of speech.”

While many seemed to be pleased with Clinton’s statements, some in atten-dance were skeptical. One such person was second-year student Nathan Krebs.

“The rally itself gave

me the information I had neglected to take the time to research myself, which was convenient,” Krebs said. “However, there was quite a large disconnect for me in what was being said, and what was actually sincere. There was just no way for me to be sure that the issues of gun control and the dismantling of Corporate America were truly going to be addressed by Hillary, and perhaps

Mr. Clinton was just say-ing certain words to please the crowds of people.”

Clinton’s closing remark included an insistence that we as a nation must “get off the ground, life up, look forward, and all rise together,” or we will collec-tively achieve nothing that is essential to improving our nation as a whole.

“We can do this,” in-sisted Mr. Clinton. “I want to, and she wants to.”

Clinton from page 1

“My favorite part of the rally occurred when a heckler yelled out...Instead of having security rush the young man out of the rally … President Clinton attempted a conversation with the heckler about the issue.”

LUCY FRANKThird-year in political

science and intern for the Ohio Democratic Party

COURTESY OF TRAVIS PETERSONBill Clinton speaks at a rally to promote Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential democratic nomination on Saturday March 12 at UT.

Entrepreneurship from page 3

Toledo Police Department doesn’t operate or own any of the camera systems, they’re all city-owned, but again, I do think that they have a noticeable impact,” Newton said.

Newton said the recent renovation to Dorr Street with the new medians, lights and turnarounds that happened in the last couple of years succeeded in having a “traffic-calm-ing effect on Dorr Street.” Some key tenets of the project were to make it more pedestrian-friendly and to slow traffic down.

“There’s been a lot of intention into making the streets safer around

campus particularly for pedestrians,” said Newton.

Jane Bradley, direc-tor of creative writing in UT’s English department, received a ticket from the traffic camera. She said that once you turn onto Douglas Road from Dorr Street, you drive a long while before seeing a sign stating the speed limit.

“You go for a long stretch without seeing a sign. The sign is no-where near that light, and at night, all those roads are clear — this is at 8 at night — and you can get up some speed once you’ve turned onto Douglas from Dorr because there’s no traffic and there’s nothing to slow you down until that light,” Bradley said.

Bradley said that at night it’s easier to speed without realizing it because you’re alone on the road more often.

“It didn’t seem like I was speeding because I was just cruising down the road. And there are a lot of roads here in town like Dorr especially when you get over to Reynolds and Glendale — people are doing 50 on those roads all the time. That’s how the traffic moves. There are lot of streets in town like that, especially at night when there’s nothing to slow you down,” Bradley said.

When asked about pedes-trian safety and if that was good enough reason to have the traffic cams, Bradley said she understood New- ton’s perspective.

“I get that perspec-tive, especially during the day, that has got a lot of pedestrians and cyclists … And I was speeding, I will say that. I’m not going to say it’s an unfair ticket,” Bradley said. “I can get why it’s there because yes, there’s so many pedestri-ans there.”

Bradley said she doesn’t object to the traffic camera, but thinks there should be a speed limit sign nearer to the intersec-tion of Douglas Road and Dorr Street.

“I think a lot of people get accustomed to get-ting away with speeding. I don’t have an objection to it being there; I think they should have better signage about the speed limit … coming from Dorr.”

Cameras from page 3

RACHEL NEARHOOF / ICTraffic cameras are placed at intersections to regulate the speed of passing cars. The traffic camera on Douglas contributed to the issuance of over 8,300 tickets in this past year alone almost double the other cameras in the city of Toledo.

“I think a lot of people get accustomed to getting away with speeding. I don’t have an objection to it being there; I think they should have better signage about the speed limit … coming from Dorr.”

JANE BRADLEY Professor of English


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of the house. Through this opportunity, strangers were turned into friends and lum-ber and nails were turned into a home.”

Founded in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller, Habitat for Humanity has helped 6.8 million people find strength, stability and independence through safe, decent and affordable shelter, according to their website.

“Habitat is a way for me to give hope to the com-munity,” said Alec Weiker, a fourth-year chemistry major and the organizer of this year’s trip. “I know it sounds cheesy, but seri-ously, when we participate in making food for home-less citizens or building homes for those who truly wish for a fresh start, we are potentially giving hope and second chances.”

During his stay in Florida, Weiker listened as one of the volunteers shared some words of wisdom that he said resonated with him.

“Last week, I learned a saying: ‘Habitat is not a handout; it’s a hand up,’” Weiker said, “and I think that sums it up perfectly.”

Meeting the families that

Habitat for Humanity helps gave Weiker insight into the power of his actions. He said he hopes his peers on the trip learned the same lesson.

“That kind of insight is what changed me, and I hoped to give new perspec-tive to my peers as well,” Weiker said. “My greatest success was simply giving them the opportunity and seeing them grow first-hand.”

Brian Hoffman, a fourth-year pharmacy major, said he joined Habitat to “to make a difference and helped those who aren’t as fortunate as myself.”

“I believe it is a judg-ment-free organization of people coming together to promote one cause,” Hoff-man said. “Also, I thought it would be a great experience rather than simply working all break so it let me branch out and get out of my com-fort zone a bit.”

Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity experience similar emotions when helping these families and as these UT students found out, helping others allows for growth as a person.

“Habitat is a way to not only help others but to also better myself,” said Nicole Albright, a fifth-year major-ing in biochemistry. “Know-

ing I am able to do a task, whether it is simple or takes time, I know I am helping someone in need. By helping someone, I am also able to give them a new start.”

Joining Habitat and volunteering on trips such as this one has allowed her to be the kind of person she wants to become. That per-son that always puts others before herself.

“I was happy to see students from Habitat for Humanity Toledo chapter simply take time out of our own Spring Break and put in hard work just to help others less fortunate,” Al-bright said. “We were able to grow as a small group and get the job done.”

“I was happy to see students from Habitat for Humanity Toledo chapter simply take time out of our own Spring Break and put in hard work just to help others less fortunate,”

NICOLE ALBRIGHTUT Habitat for Humanity

member

“I know it sounds cheesy, but seriously, when we participate in making food for homeless citizens or building homes for those who truly wish for a fresh start, we are potentially giving hope and second chances.”

ALEX WEIKEHabitat for Humanity trip

organizer

COURTESY OF JENNIFER LEISShannon Sfero helps Habitat for Humanity volunteers build the frame for a house in Dade City, Fla., over Spring Break.

COURTESY OF JENNIFER LEISJordan Fiorletta, a UT student and member of UT Habitat for Humanity, helps build the house’s framework.

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Kappa Delta.“We were assigned

streets that had to be cleaned up. It was small, but knowing that I can help in any way makes me feel good,” she said.

Through the efforts of The BIG Event, students are really able to show their gratitude for all that Toledo has done.

“Students want to participate because the University of Toledo and the community of Toledo give so much to us, they give us a home, and I feel like students really want to give back and say ‘thank you’ to the community by going out and picking up trash or painting a fence,” said Emily Yablonski, co-director of recruitment for the BIG Event.

Although each volunteer experience is different, students said they all get a lot out of the event.

“I volunteered through

the University of Toledo’s Gospel Choir and loved every minute of it,” said Shayla Humphrey, a third-year majoring in market-ing and human resources. “I do a lot of service work and projects, so this is something that I actually enjoy. Helping out people is a passion of mine.”

The BIG Event focuses not only on helping people in the UT community, but has changed into an op-portunity to get to know the other volunteers.

“(We are) trying to make it more of a commu-nity aspect and put more student orgs together so people get to network and bond at the same time while giving back to the community,” Strother said. “Since doing that, there has been a huge increase in the amount of people signing up.”

More than 60 organiza-tions have registered to volunteer at this year’s event, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 4

p.m., starting at the Stu-dent Recreation Center. UT President Sharon Gaber will give the key-note speech, followed by special guests from Red Bull, Gift of Life Bone Marrow Donation and UT Bridge Club.

“This is the only time we really can go out and say ‘thank you’ to the com-munity that has allowed us to have so many oppor-tunities. Supporting us, whether it is an event we’re holding on campus, spon-sorships, and just general support of the U of T that allows us to get our educa-tion,” Strother said.

If you or your group are interested in participating, visit the University of To-ledo’s BIG Event web page.

SAVANNAH JOSLIN / ICUT student Gina Todd rakes leaves in the Toledo area during last year’s BIG Event.

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EVENT

UT organization takes a stand against ‘Big Tobacco’By Emily JacksonStaff Reporter

University of Toledo students will unite and take a stand against ‘Big Tobacco’ on March 16 to celebrate Kick Butts Day, a national day of activism that empowers youth to stay tobacco-free.

On Kick Butts Day, kids and adults alike can par-ticipate in events that range from small classroom activities about the ingre-dients in cigarettes to large rallies at state capitols.

According to the na-tional Kick Butts website, more than 1,000 events are planned by indepen-dent organizers across the United States and around the world each year.

UT’s Eta Sigma Gamma, the national honorary for health education, will host their own event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in

the Health and Human Services building’s lobby. Their goal is to raise awareness of the problem of tobacco here in Toledo and to encourage youth to reject the tobacco indus-try’s deceptive marketing.

“I believe that there needs to be more funding for programs in schools to educate our youth on how tobacco use costs them their lives,” said Emily Samaritani, Eta Sigma Gamma’s vice president. “Kick Butts Day should be enforced in schools so that there is awareness of tobacco use.”

The typical plans for the day include setting up a table with flyers, fact sheets and posters. They will also place trash bags full of clothes and other items around the display to resemble body bags.

“We want this to catch

everyone’s eyes as they walk by,” Samaritani said.

Samaritani also hopes Eta Sigma Gamma’s Kick Butt Day event will urge elected officials to take action to protect kids from tobacco.

Tobacco use in Ohio is attributed to 20,200 deaths and costs $5.64 billion in health care bills each year, according to the event’s website. The US National Data report-ed that in 2013 that 17.8 percent of adults smoke on a daily basis.

Although UT officially banned the use of tobacco products in the spring of 2014, Samaritani believes there is still a smoking problem on campus.

“Just because we say that you can’t smoke on campus doesn’t mean that everyone is going to fol-low the policy,” she said.

BRIEF

10th Annual ‘Shamrockin’ the Blarney’ St. Patrick’s Day CelebrationIC Staff

The Blarney Irish Pub will be holding their 10th-annual, three-day celebra-tion in downtown Toledo, starting on St. Patrick’s Day. The Blarney will pro-vide a full Irish Breakfast with Bagpiper perform-ers, as well as heated tents from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Live music will be pro-vided from local bands nonstop for 24 hours. A portion of proceeds from the weekend will be do-nated to Toledo Firefight-ers Local 92 Charities.

“This being our 10th year celebrating St.

Patrick’s Day festivities on this corner, we really wanted to bring in great local and regional acts to entertain the masses with over 24 hours of live en-tertainment spanning the course of three days,” said Ed Beczynski, owner of The Blarney Irish Pub.

On Saturday, the pub will be hosting The Shamrockin’ Shuffle, a three-mile walk, begin-ning at 4 p.m. Admission for the weekend is free for those who purchase The Blarney’s St. Patrick’s Day T-shirts or a $5 entrance fee for the tents.

If you goWhat: 10th Annual

Blarney Irish Pub St. Patrick’s Day celebration

Where: The Blarney Irish Pub in downtown Toledo

When: March 17 to 19 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Activities: Full Irish breakfast, heated tents, nonstop live music, three-mile walk. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/blarneytoledo

“(We are) trying to make it more of a community aspect and put more student orgs together so people get to network and bond at the same time while giving back to the community.”

ANTHONY STROTHERDirector of BIG Event 2016

“Students want to participate because the University of Toledo and the community of Toledo give so much to us, they give us a home.”

EMILY YABLONSKICo-director of recruit-

ment for BIG Event

If you goWhat: The BIG EventWhere: UT’s Rec

CenterWhen: Saturday,

March 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.


best. Behind Harris was Junior Janice Monakana with 14 points and 10 rebounds, landing a fifth career double-double.

Capotosto finished with 11 points in her final game as a Rocket.

On the other side of the court, Akron’s Anita Brown sunk 37 of the Zips 73 points.

Toledo shot 39.3 percent from the field but struggled at the line, shooting 20-29 free throws.

“We missed nine free throws today,” Cullop said. “We make our free throws, we win.”

The Rockets started things off with a quick 6-0 run after a pair of three’s from Capotosto and Mon-akana in the first quarter.

The lead was held short after the Zips were able to tie things up at ten apiece halfway through the first quarter.

After taking a 13-12 lead late in the first, Brown tallied nine more points for the Zips to end the quarter with Akron’s lead expanding to 22-17.

Harris buried three consecutive jumpers at the five-minute mark of the second quarter to bring the Rockets back within one at 27-26 with 5:13 left

in the opening half. Akron closed out the half on top,

taking a 40-36 lead in to the locker room for halftime.

The Rockets started the third quarter cold, unable to connect from the field for the first seven minutes of the half. The Zips jumped out to a 48-38 lead: it’s largest of the night.

Sophomore Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott fi-nally got things going for the Rockets after sinking a three to end the Zips 10-2 run.

The three jump started a UT 14-0 run and with 7:14 remaining in the game Toledo reclaimed the lead at 52-50 forcing Akron into a timeout.

“I think we were doing a great job at executing on offense,” Harris said. “Once we started to get stops, our defense liked our offense and that was what led us to that run.”

Akron cut the lead to one and after both teams traded layups. It was a 57-56 game with three minutes remain-ing in regulation.

A pair of made free throws from Capotosto with a minute and nine seconds left ended up saving the Rockets during regulation as Akron made a layup to tie it at 60 with ten seconds remaining.

Both teams could not find the basket on their late efforts and the game was headed into overtime.

Akron was off to a hot start in OT, quickly leading the Rockets 64-61 with 3:04 remaining in the five-minute period.

Shortly after, Akron’s Hannah Plybon sunk a three to give the Zips the mo-mentum they needed and took a 67-63 lead over UT.

With a minute left in OT, Toledo was able to bring it within two after a pair of free throws from Harris.

The Zips then went on to take a six point advantage with 23 seconds re-maining in OT, all but ending Toledo’s chances of a MAC Championship.

Two late threes from Capotosto and Harris brought the Rockets within two but it was not enough as Akron took the ballgame 73-71.

“I felt like our kids never gave up and just kept fighting,” Cullop said. “That’s what embodies what this team is, we fight and we give everything we got and I think we did that tonight.

“We just came up on the short end of the stick.”

That loss marked the end of the road for Toledo, whereas Akron went on play No. 8 Buffalo where they lost 88-87. Buffalo later went on to win the tournament.

The Rockets will return start-ers Bravo-Harriott, Monakana and Junior Sophie Reecher to the 2016-2017 season.

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UT trailed at the break 36-20.The second half proved to be much differ-

ent for Toledo. In the opening minute Mosley accounted

for six quick points to cut the lead to six. At the 17:51 mark Boothe knocked down a jumper to cut the lead to single-digits for the first time since the opening minutes of the first half.

Over the next eight minutes the Rockets struggled to cut the lead any closer than 9 but fought hard to keep the gap close, never letting the Eastern lead grow larger than 12.

Sanford sparked a 11-2 run with a three at the 9:26 mark, letting the Rockets cut the 20-point first half deficit to just 3, 53-50 with 5:41 to play.

“We started making shots against that zone and things opened up for us a little bit,” Kowalczyk said.

Williams tied things up for UT with a deep three with just under three minutes to play. Seconds later Sanford took the lead the with a fast break layup, Toledo’s largest lead of the game.

“I’ll think about the turnovers we had but I thought we played hard and stuck togeth-er,” Williams said.

The Rockets wouldn’t score again until 23

seconds to play in the game.Eastern closed out the game on a 14-3

run to end Toledo’s season.

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the Rockets early in the rub-ber match taking a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first. The Dolphins picked up two more in the bottom of the third inning, taking a 4-0.

Junior pitcher Sam Shutes picked up the loss and was credited with all four runs. He was pulled after three innings

of work, giving up five hits and four earned runs.

Toledo’s lone run came in the top of the eighth with a sacrifice fly to center field bringing in Marillotta.

The Rockets will try to get their season going in the right direction when they travel to South Bend, Indi-ana, to take on Notre Dame on March 16. First pitch is scheduled for 6:05 p.m.

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RACHEL NEARHOOF / ICHead Coach Todd Kowalyczk stands unpleased during the first half of the Eastern Michigan game.

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