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“The House of

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Hayley SheltonFresh., biomedical eng.

“1984

Katie SimsSen., supply chain man.

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UT shows low retention rate for African American malesBy Abbey AglerFor the IC

The national average of graduation rates among Afri-can American males in the United States has steadily in-creased over the past four years. The opposite has been occurring at the University of Toledo.

According to a recent study conducted by the UT Office of Institutional Research, only 10.8 percent of African Ameri-

can male students will gradu-ate in five years from UT.

Since this year’s numbers were at an all-time low, Rubin Patterson, chair of the De-partment of African Studies and chair of the Department of Sociology, and Willie McK-ether, assistant professor of anthropology, decided to take action.

Patterson has been doing this by interviewing African American male professors and professional employees.

Approximately 30 African American male students were randomly selected and placed into two groups — those above and below a 2.5 grade point average. The students were all incoming freshmen in the fall of 2010 and received structured interviews.

From the results, Patterson concluded reasonable recom-mendations to help raise the percentage. He suggested ex-panding African Studies into majors that have a higher

retention rate for African American men, filling the Of-fice of Student development with more qualified staff and getting more involvement from African American men through dialogue and mentors.

Patterson said the overall university retention rate can be increased with these suggestions.

“The campus average five-year graduation rate isn’t high either in the upper 30 percent.

We developed concrete and doable recommendation that not only flowed from the in-vestigation, but would likely have a substantial positive im-pact on the graduation rates of black males and other groups on campus,” he said.

Patterson said the key part of his recommendations is the involvement in the Office of Student Development.

“[The Office of Student De-velopment] had a summer-bridge program to help

students with transitioning, and it provided academic sup-port throughout the academic year, including counseling, skill development and other critical services,” he said. “In its later years, however, it was allowed to come off the rails for a lot of reason and was subsequently cancelled.”

The Office of Institutional Research conducts a survey every year for the retention

Kasich and Bell rally in support of Issue 2Opponents of Issue 2 protest against rally By Allison SeneyIC Staff Writer

Ohio Gov. John Kasich and

Toledo Mayor Mike Bell rallied

supporters for Issue 2 Thursday

with one crowd cheering “Go

John, go” and another shouting

“Our town, union town.”

Seventy-five protestors stood

outside of the Omni Midwest An-

nex on Bancroft in the rain, op-

posing Kasich and Bell who gath-

ered supporters to boost moral

for Issue 2 after recent polls dis-

played unpopularity for it.

Kasich and Bell were joined by

Ohio Senator Mark Wagoner at

the ticket-only event. .

At the rally, Bell said he doesn’t

agree with laying more people off

and he is afraid that we might re-

visit that road.

“This city started off with a $40

million deficit. If we don’t fix this

thing, it doesn’t only hurt the city

of Toledo, it hurts everything

around us,” Bell said.

According to Wagoner, Issue 2

will allow the government to

solve problems with state money

and will allow Ohio to keep more

people employed since money

wouldn’t be locked in classified

contracts.

Bell said by voting yes to Issue

2, he is saving tax payers jobs and

money.

With the state having an $8 bil-

lion deficit, both Toledo and Ohio

have a lot of similar issues to

handle.

“We have one out of every four

Kasich

Bell

We have one out of every four children

that lives in poverty and we can’t live with

that

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Adjustments made to parking lotsBy IC Staff

Most parking changes made to Lot 25 located near Rocket Hall have been reversed.

In order to make the lot become more “student-cen-tered” and allow parking to be “smoother” during the Gateway Project construc-tion, employees with A Passes were forced to park in the north end of Lot 25, the area closest to the rail-road tracks and Main Cam-pus Medical Center said Joy Gramling, director of Auxil-iary Services.

Gramling said due to complaints from faculty and students regarding the amount of empty spaces, the lot is no longer segregated.

“[Employees] complained all summer and the decision to change wasn’t until stu-dents started to complain and when we saw that we could satisfy both custom-ers,” Gramling said. “It

sounded like a good idea and I do understand the im-pact. Now, everyone has that option.”

Gramling said she was ex-pecting more complaints from employees but was more surprised when she began received complaints from upperclass-commuter students, C Passes, who wanted to park closer to the railroad tracks.

In addition to those changes, Gramling said freshmen-commuter stu-dents, K passes, were moved out of Lot 25 and given spaces in Lots 3, 4 and 5, located near Savage Are-na in addition to the East Parking Garage.

“Because we took [the UT Gateway Project] up, we moved K’s to the East Ramp and lots surrounding Sav-age,” Gramling said.

Gramling said the new signs depicting the correct parking designations are be-ing delivered and will be put up as soon as they are in.

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Students with K passes will now be able to park in lots 3, 4 and 5 and the East Parking garage according to Director of Auxiliary Services Joy Gramling.

Eighth annual sex trafficking conference hosted at UTBy Russell AxonFor the IC

Toledo is an established hub for sex trafficking and prostitu-tion, but it is also at the center of several initiatives to address and solve these issues.

One of these initiatives taking place at UT is the One Dress, One Month Project where stu-dents wear the same dress ev-ery day for the whole month of October.

Several other projects used to address Toledo’s sex traffick-ing issue were addressed at the eighth-annual Human Traffick-ing, Prostitution and Sex Work Conference hosted by UT last Thursday and Friday.

The conference established a meeting place for experts and professionals to share and de-velop ideas, research and solu-tions for Toledo’s sex trade problem, according to the con-ference’s website.

According to the 2011

Trafficking in Persons Report, sex trafficking generates ap-proximately $58 billion annual-ly in the U.S. and is considered the world’s fastest-growing ille-gal enterprise.

The report ranks Toledo as the third-largest American city in human trafficking and/or sex trade.

Approximately over 1,800 children are trafficked through Ohio annually.

Daniella Soriano, a senior majoring in social work who has participated in the One Dress, One Month Project, said she hopes the event will spur a conversation among college students about how serious sex trafficking is “in [their] own backyard.”

The project is hosted by the UT chapter of the International Justice Mission, Soriano said. It began Saturday and will last for 30 days.

Soriano said approximately

50 to 60 girls are participating this year and will wear their dresses both on and off campus.

“They can put on whatever accessories they want and, of course, they’re allowed to wash the dress,” Soriano said.

The project was also held last March and April to raise funds for the Daughter Project, a faith-based, non-profit group in Northwest Ohio currently building a halfway house for sex trade victims, according to the group’s website.

Christopher Dean, a senior majoring in history, said he was impressed with the global scope of this year’s sex traffick-ing conference.

“These really are global is-sues, and it’s cool that Toledo is at the center of all these initia-tives to confront those issues,” Dean said.

The conference lasted from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Three

lectures occurred simultane-ously during the conference, each lasting an hour and a half.

Multiple lectures were packed to the door with stu-dents, faculty and visitors. Topics included debunking common myths about the sex trade, recognizing individuals involved in prostitution and strategies for ending the sex trade. Lecturers included pro-fessors and government work-ers from other states and coun-tries, such as Canada, Ghana, Liberia and Russia.

The south wing of the Union was also filled with information and merchandise booths.

The information booths of-fered highlights from several of the lectures, and the merchan-dise booth sold jewelry and topic-related books, with a por-tion of the profits benefitting charities and shelters in the To-

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rates of several ethnic groups. For the past decade, the graduation retention rate for African American males has been well below a stan-dard rate. This low rate was released to the public in the spring of 2011.

The study also reviews re-tention rates for multiple ethnicities. Data from 2005 showed that Hispanic stu-dents had a 35.4 percent re-tention rate and Asian and Island Pacifiers had a 38.3 percent rate in 2005 over five years, although current re-tention rates were not released.

Patterson said the gradua-tion rate for this demograph-ic is unacceptable, and he has been investigating rea-sons for this staggering low rate.

According to Patterson, one reason is due to the lack of effective mentoring op-portunities other predomi-nately white campuses use successfully.

Kenneth Harbin, a senior majoring in chemistry and an African American stu-dent, said he is outraged by the statistics.

“This is something that should have been looked at a very long time ago and it should never have gotten this bad,” Harbin said.

ledo area.Last year, Senate Bill 235

was unanimously passed, im-plementing stricter penalties for sex traffickers and better protection for trafficked and exploited victims. The bill was co-written and spear-headed by Celia Williamson, professor of social services at UT and co-founder of the Hu-man Trafficking, Prostitution and Sex Work Conference.

For more information on the Human Trafficking, Pros-titution and Sex Work Con-ference, visit www.prositu-tionconference.com.

children that lives in poverty

and we can’t live with that,”

Kasich told the Independent

Collegian. “Mike Bell is pre-

siding over a region where

people have gotten down on

themselves. I don’t like to say

that and frankly, I don’t think

it is right to be down on you.”

Kasich said he believes

unions have their place in

society.

Kasich also said he

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Ohio State University, will

present “Changing Minds: In-

tegrating Neuroplasticity with

Clinical Stroke Rehabilitation”

today at Driscoll Alumni Cen-

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Catholic Student Association

Come hear Ken Leslie, cre-

ator of Tent City, talk about

how students can get involved

and help those less fortunate.

Tent City is a weekend-long

event that helps homeless

men and women get supplies,

health screenings and other

much needed items. The meet-

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Multipurpose Room 1101, di-

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people are welcome. Please

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The first reader in the Alum-

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read from his new book

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reading will take place Thurs-

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book-signing and reception

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J.D. Michaels Physician Assistant Student Society

The fifth-annual Race for

Victory 5K Run and 3K Walk

will take place Saturday at the

University of Toledo Health

Science Campus. Registration

is from 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. The

race begins at 10 a.m. with the

walk immediately to follow.

All net proceeds will be do-

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eliminated the inheritance tax,

also known as the “death tax,” to

make it easier for a business to

be inherited by the next genera-

tion of family.

Kasich said Chrysler is invest-

ing its business back into

Toledo.

“When the Toledo Blade wrote

that jobs in Perrysburg were sta-

ble, it was a lot of thanks to

Chrysler,” Kasich said. “Mara-

thon corporate headquarters

down the road in Findlay…they

could have gone anywhere.”

Wagoner said it is great that

Kasich and Bell could talk about

the facts behind the issue.

“This isn’t about politics, this is

about making the math to work

so we can have knowledge about

reasonable reform,” he said. “We

need to make sure that we are

placing our most talented teach-

ers in front of our students, re-

warding good workers that work

in public service and we need the

tools in order to do that.”

He said some people feel they

have to retire because of pension

coming late.

“[State] pensions don’t have

the money they need to pay out

everybody who is getting to re-

tire,” Wagoner told the Collegian.

“Down the road, changes are go-

ing to be made in order to be

sound. People do work there

whole life to have pension, and

we need to honor that commit-

ment and make changes to pro-

tect it.”

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Last week, news reports from across the Mid-dle East reported American-born terrorist Anwar Awlaki was killed in an airstrike in Yemen. There were not many details reported about the attack.

Awlaki was the voice of al-Qaida to the west-ern people. He was born in New Mexico and spoke perfect English. Using his American back-ground to his advantage, he made video and au-dio recordings to post on the Internet, persuad-ing the American people to be part of his al-Qaida ideology.

One example of an American succumbing to the words of this al-Qaida ruler was the “Under-wear Bomber” in December of 2009 who was on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day.

Awlaki was the prominent al-Qaida figure who “spread Islamic extremism across the Arabian Peninsula and was behind failed attempts to blow up American airplanes,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

U.S. officials confirmed this terrorist’s death, but never discussed our country’s role, if any, in the attack.

Americans thought they could breathe a little easier last May after we heard of the attack or-dered by the Obama administration that killed Osama bin Laden. Now we’ve killed another less than a year later? Should we still breathe in easier?

The answer isn’t a very simple one. Americans can breathe easier knowing terrorism took a

blow again and we are still fighting for peace. However, we’ve come in contact with terror-ism from overseas and we need to realize terror-ism is everywhere. We live in a world that is filled with people who don’t accept the ideologies or beliefs of others.

These terrorists felt that their way of thinking was what was best for everyone, even those out-side of their country. As one of the most powerful countries in the world, the U.S. has been a major target for a long time.

Could we have stopped these al-Qaida terror-ists earlier than 2011? Some say it was a long time coming. Maybe we were so oblivious to ter-rorism prior to 9/11 that we just assumed it didn’t exist on our soil.

Now, though, we have American citizens par-ticipating in terrorist actions because they were convinced by Awlaki that it what the right thing to do. If our fellow citizens were planning attacks on us, who are we to trust?

Despite our frustration towards those who be-tray or harm our country, we remain thankful the U.S. is still standing regardless of who our oppo-nents have been.

We thought al-Qaida terrorism was defeated along with bin Laden’s death. Now it’s on our soil, tampering with the minds of U.S. citizens and convincing them to kill their fellow Americans.

But the faith of a U.S. citizen is strong, and the people of America will continue to stand for the destruction of terrorism and the acclamation of restored patriotism.

During “A Presidential Perspective” last Friday, UT President Lloyd Jacobs dis-cussed a question that came up at the last Town Hall Meeting. The question was in response to the recent graduation success rate of African American males and how it’s the lowest of the demographic groups on campus at 22.4 percent. This percent-age, according to Jacobs, is measured by a six-year average.

A study done by UT’s Office of Institu-tional Research, however, based their re-sults off of a five-year average, showing a 10 percent retention rate for African Amer-ican males at UT.

Some students are angered by these re-cent results and want to see action by UT in order to correct these numbers. Rubin Patterson, director of African Studies, be-lieves the reason for the low success rate in this demographic is a result of poor ef-forts to guide and mentor students of a non-white race.

To answer the question, “What are we do-ing about this,” Jacobs answered by saying UT has support groups, including the Lead-ership Through Service, Living, Learning Commitment, Rocket Ready and the Afri-can American Male Initiative.

Student Government President Matt Ru-bin was present and said UT houses many student organizations based around repre-senting a minority-friendly and diverse campus. “We want everyone to feel wel-come here,” Rubin said. “We want everyone to enjoy their college experience.”

According to Rubin, these statistics about low retention and success rates have been known since last spring. The question

is — why are these statistics just now com-ing to light? Perhaps the UT administration needed more time to develop an answer.

A student can only be so prepared com-ing into college. Depending on the previous schooling they’ve had, the college experi-ence may come as a total shock.

Maybe 22.4 percent, or rather 10 percent, isn’t representative of the entire African American male population at UT. How do you think that makes the dedicated African American scholar feel?

Is it possible that the free tuition to stu-dents of the UT Guarantee Program isn’t a strong enough incentive to do well in school? Perhaps UT should tighten their scholarship, student loan or grade point average requirements in order for students to work hard for the money they’re given.

Or maybe the student organizations meant to help these students should be more aggressive in achieving their intend-ed goals.

Wherever the blame falls, one thing is for certain UT must to meet the needs of their students. If a student, regardless of ethnic-ity, grew up in a poorer area in a below average academic environment, they will probably have a more difficult time adjust-ing to college.

With a strong commitment from the stu-dents in need and the university’s faculty, these students will receive the mentoring they need in order to successfully make it through college.

UT has reported another negative per-centage. As students of this university, we should all fight for equal mentoring, cam-pus recognition and university support.

Life, liberty and pursuit of education

This past Sunday was Ma-hatma Gandhi’s birthday, an event celebrated all across In-dia. A man hailed as the father of the nation, he commands a

lot of re-spect from I n d i a n s across the globe.

S o m e -thing that caught my eye on the eve of Gandhi’s birthday was the

autobiography of S.L. Kirloskar, one of the first few entrepre-neurs of the young, struggling country of India.

One incident in his life in par-ticular was striking -— his meeting with Gandhi.

Given the occasion, I thought it would be instructive to under-stand his views on Gandhian philosophy and the reasons for his judgment.

During the Indian indepen-dence movement, Gandhi had popularized a small wooden spinning wheel known as the charkha which spun Khaddar cloth. His purpose was to dis-courage the use of foreign goods among Indians and pro-mote local, Indian-made goods.

The charkha in the early 1920s was a patriotic symbol in India. Gandhi then introduced a competition in April 1931 to im-prove the Charkha.

An engineer working under Kirloskar’s father thought of an ingenious machine doing ex-actly what was required by the competition.

However, the engineer later received a letter informing him that Mahatma Gandhi “did not approve of the charkha.”

Kirloskar, his father, the engi-neer and an entourage went to meet Gandhi to find out why he

had not approved of the charkha in spite of the fact that it fulfilled all of the require-ments as laid down in the competition.

Gandhi disapproved of the charkha on the grounds that it was more of a modern machine and that an uneducated villager would be scared to make use of it — others objected.

They said that farmers enthu-siastically used them once their experience convinced them of the machine’s benefits. Gandhi, however, rejected their proposal.

At root, this rejection was based on Gandhi’s view that the use of machines was suspect, and therefore that widespread use was destructive in the long term. Moreover, it was at odds with his dream of India being a land of villages and cottage industries.

Kirloskar expands on the conversation elsewhere in his book saying:

“And here lay the heart of my difference of opinion with Ma-hatma Gandhi and his follow-ers. I see the machine as the friend and helper of man, not as a demon devised for man’s eco-nomic and spiritual destruction, which is the way Gandhians re-gard it. Our own experience had conclusively proved the benefits which thousands of farmers derived from our ploughs, our pumps, our crush-ers and shellers and other la-bour-saving devices. Were we

now to scrap all these benefits and revert to the traditional reli-ance on human and animal muscle-power, with all its slow-ness and inefficiency? No… On the contrary I was convinced that India needed machines and prime movers in thousands. If pumps and cane-crushers and groundnut-shellers were good for our economy could spin-ning-frames and power-looms be bad? I could find no virtue in the slow and tedious spinning of yarn by human finger-power.”

Given today’s political cli-mate with work-schemes, such as American’s Job Act, it is im-portant to note that machines are crucial for human progress. As a society, we progress by the means of wealth maximization, not by creating mindless, me-nial jobs as Obama and Gandhi would have us think.

I also do not think, as Gandhi did, that one should offer an-other cheek when one is slapped.

I think evil should be labeled as evil and fought every step along the way. Given his core beliefs, Gandhi himself absurd-ly asked Jews to willingly be slaughtered if that is what Hitler and Mussolini asked of them.

So, take the time to think who got the issue right -— Gan-dhi or Kirloskar -— because if we default on that critical issue, there will be a million more people like Gandhi offering the same advice as the last time around.

Discover for yourself what makes an ideology good or bad because in the long run, human life depends on it.

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Coming out here for our first MAC game and playing

arguably one of the best MAC teams at their place, getting a win was huge for us.Austin Dantin UT Junior Quarterback ”“

Rockets roll over Temple 36-13 at Lincoln FinancialBy Nate PentecostIC Assistant Sports Editor

PHILADELPHIA — Toledo clipped the Temple Owls 36-13 in their MAC opener in Saturday, snapping the Rock-ets three-game losing streak.

“There was definitely frus-tration for the team because we felt like we had two other games that we should have won,” said UT junior quarterback Austin Dantin. “Com-ing out here for our first MAC game and playing arguably one of the best MAC teams at their place, getting a win was huge for us.” The Rockets win was fronted by a stel-lar defensive effort which produced four takeaways and 11 tackles for loss before an announced crowd of 21,705 at Lincoln Financial Field.

Toledo’s defensive unit shut out the Owls in the sec-ond half and held the MAC’s leading rusher and Heisman hopeful Ber-nard Pierce to 75 yards on 24 carries. He saw limited time in the fourth quarter for unknown reasons.

Pierce entered the contest with 12 touchdowns in four games, highlighted by a five-touchdown performance last week at Maryland and a pair of three-touchdown games against Villanova and Akron.

“We just have to contribute that to our whole defense and coaching staff,” said UT junior safety Jermaine Rob-inson. “It was no one player out there. We knew we need-ed all 11 guys on the field to perform. We knew if we did that we were going to get the victory.”

UT Linebacker Robert Bell had a game-high 12 tackles, including 2 1/2 tackles for loss. UT defensive end T.J. Fatinikun registered a game-high three tackles for loss, including 1 1/2 sacks.

Faitinikun spoke after the game about the extra motiva-tion provided by Temple’s 40-

24 win at the Glass Bowl in 2009.

“When they came down to Toledo, they put a nice little spanking on us,” Fa-tinikun said. “We had that in the back of our minds.”

After Toledo’s of-fense went three-and-out on the first series of the game,

Temple drove steadily down the field, poised to put the first points of the day on the board.

A 20-yard screen pass to senior wideout Rod Streater gave the Owls first and goal at the eight-yard line but To-ledo’s defense stood strong,

forcing Temple to settle for a 30-yard field goal from junior kicker Brandon McManus.

The Rockets again went three-and-out on their next series but Matt Brown muffed the punt re-turn for Temple and UT freshman Kishon Wilcher fell on the

ball. Three plays later the Rock-

ets hit pay dirt on Dantin’s 1-yard QB keeper and went ahead 8-3 with less than six minutes remaining in the first quarter on Eric Page’s run for a successful two-point conversion.

Dantin completed 12 of 14 passes on the day for 115 yards and a throwing touch-down to go with his rushing score.

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UT running back David Fluellen ran for 41 yards and a touchdown on eight carries in the 36-13 win over Temple on Saturday.

“The defense did one heck of a job all day,” Dantin said. “Our win was definitely be-cause of how well they played.”

On the next drive, UT sophomore safety Ross Mad-ison picked off Temple quar-terback Chester Stewart’s pass over the middle.

Five plays later a direct snap to senior running back Morgan William resulted in a 32-yard touchdown scamper which put the Rockets ahead 15-3 with 2:14 to go in the first quarter.

Williams finished the game with 20 carries for 121 yards and a rushing touchdown. He also had three receptions for 26 yards.

“It was just fun,” Williams said. “The coaching staff put together great plays and put us in a position to make plays. I credit them and the offen-sive line.”

Temple scored their lone touchdown on the opening play of the second quarter on a 55-yard strike from Stewart to tight end Evan Rodriguez.

The Owls pulled within two points after 37-yard field goal

by McManus which made the tally 15-13 with 7:22 left in the first half.

A personal foul against Temple moved Toledo into Owls territory on the ensuing drive before Page took a handoff from redshirt -resh-man quarterback Dwight Ma-con on what appeared to be an end around. Instead, Page threw back across the field to Macon who made his way to the endzone to push the Rock-ets lead to 22-13.

Temple had a chance to cut into the lead before halftime but McManus’ field goal from

47 yards was wide right. The Owls would manage

just 130 yards of total offense in the second half, turning the ball over twice more. Temple was unable to score the re-mainder of the contest as To-ledo rolled to the 36-13 win.

“Our ultimate goal is to get to the MAC championship and win,” Dantin said. “This was the first step for us.”

The Rockets next step in obtaining their goal is a show-down with Eastern Michigan at the Glass Bowl on Satur-day. Kickoff is scheduled for 3 p.m.

Rockets blank Bowling Green and Miami (OH)

UT falls in both games at home this weekend

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The Rockets improved to 4-0 in the Mid-American Conference with wins over BG and Miami.

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UT won just one set in two games at Savage Arena this weekend.

Fatinikun

Williams

By Joe Mehling IC Sports Editor

The Toledo volleyball team dropped both games this weekend during a mini home stand at Savage Are-na. The Rockets fell in straight sets to Western Michigan, 25-20, 25-21, 25-20, on Friday then was shut down against Northern Illi-nois, 25-15, 25-19, 20-25, 25-21.

Junior Bethany Irwin led the Rockets with a .319 at-tack percentage and four blocks while senior Cassie Kleespies added eight kills against the Broncos. Senior libero Kassie Kadera had 12 digs in the back row for UT.

The last thing UT needed after an offensive struggle was to face a very powerful offense in NIU. Led by reigning Mid-American Con-ference player of the year Lauren Wicinski, the Hus-kies took the match 3-1. Wicinski notched a match-high 39 kills, a .484 attack percentage, 10 digs and three aces.

Sophomore Jordan Kietly led the team with 12 kills and notched seven during Toledo’s lone victorious set. Senior Amber DeWeerdt led the team with 13 digs.

The Rockets hit the road next weekend and travel to Eastern and Central Michi-gan for a pair of Mid-Amer-i c a n C o n f e r e n c e matchups.

By Joe MehlingIC Sports Editor

The Rockets opened the weekend with a 1-0 shutout over arch-rival Bowling Green then drilled Miami (OH) 3-0 on Sunday.

Sophomore Rachel Ma-cLeod netted her fourth goal of the season against BG in the 70th minute to give UT the lead. Senior Vickie Tavern held the Fal-con offense in check, mak-ing two saves en route to her second shutout of the season despite the rough weather conditions.

“There were a lot of fac-tors to deal with today in addition to the opponent, including the rivalry, points on the line and the weath-er,” said Toledo Head Coach Brad Evans. “I’m proud of the players’ focus throughout.”

“We came into today’s match knowing it was going to be a challenge and that’s exactly what it was,” Traven said. “The first half we had to weather the storm going against the wind, and we did a great job both physi-cally and mentally as we

remained focused.” Toledo used the momen-

tum against the Redhawks. The Rockets opened the

game quickly with another goal from MacLeod in the 15th minute and did not let up. Senior Daniele Case got a shot by the keeper in the 52nd minute while junior Megan Blake scored her first collegiate goal in the 75th minute.

Toledo is now 4-0 in the Mid-American Conference and returns to Scott Park on Friday to face Ohio at 4 p.m.

ArtsandLifeMonday, October 3, 2011

www.IndependentCollegian.com Megan Aherne — EditorPage 6

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“Naked Lunch” by William S. BurroughsMegan Aherne — Arts and Life Editor

“Brave New World” by Aldous HuxleyVincent D. Scebbi — Managing Editor

“Of Mice and Men” by John SteinbeckMegan Gross — Forum Editor

“Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. SalingerSura Khuder — News Editor

“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia PlathDanielle Gamble — Copy Editor

“The Da Vinci Code” by Dan BrownJoe Mehling — Sports Editor

“The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss Randiah Green — Editor-in-Chief“Farenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury

Nick Kneer — Director of Photography

‘Queen of Mean’ takes Toledo

Courtesy of Shearer Public Relations

Lisa Lampanelli will be performing at the Stranahan Theatre Saturday.

By Vincent D. ScebbiManaging Editor

Famous for her edgy, ra-cial, style of comedy, Lisa Lampanelli doesn’t hold anything back.

“The words and language during a show is to be iron-ic and point out how stupid stereotypes are,” she said. ”

Lampanelli, otherwise known as the “Queen of Mean,” is appearing at the Stranahan Theatre Satur-day night.

Aside from comedy, Lam-panelli is also currently col-laborating with Alan Zwei-bel on her own one-woman Broadway show.

Zweibel is an original writer of “Saturday Night Live” and worked with Billy Crystal’s successful one-man show “700 Sundays.”

“We’re about to pick a di-rector, we have a huge pro-ducer and it’s insane; when you put your mind to it, you really can accomplish any-thing,” she said. “I can’t be-lieve I made something hap-pen from nothing.”

The 2008 Grammy nomi-nee went into comedy in the 1990s and got her break in 2002 as the only female comedian at the NY Friars

Club roast of Chevy Chase.“I always had in the back

of mind I wanted to go into comedy and I’m lucky enough to have it take off,”

She quickly became fa-mous for being a hit at roasts, insulting celebrities such as Dennis Leary, Fla-vor Flav, Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff.

When choosing her roast victims, Lampanelli said she goes for people she likes and respects because it’s easier to pick someone apart when there is a known mutual respect.

“I could say the same joke to two people, but if I think I had something in my heart that I really didn’t like the person I’m not that great of an actor where I can pull off the ‘Oh we’re just kid-ding around,’” Lampanelli said. “So in a way, I was re-ally happy I was absent for the Charlie Sheen roast be-cause I think he’s freaking insane.”

Lampanelli said through-out her career, the gap be-tween her personal and stage life is starting to close, allowing more oppor-tunities to establish an inti-mate relationship with her audience.

“The audience knows when you’re full of it and when you’re not,” Lampan-elli said. “They’re going to know I’m holding back if I don’t talk real. Audiences don’t like people who aren’t real. It’s not this put-on character or put-on act. They stay loyal to you and they stay with you longer and they can relate to you.”

With regards to her 2009 memoir “Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks.” Lampan-elli said it was a struggle thinking about her “bad stuff,” such as ex-boy-friends, divorce and diets.

She said writing the book “sucked” and was “the worse thing ever,” while at the same time being a re-warding experience.

“But the cool thing is you have this product that has a lot of humor in it, but also people send you emails say-ing, ‘Oh my God, I went through that, too’ and ‘Oh my God, it was so funny the way you put it,’” she said. “It helps people not taking their problems as serious. It doesn’t come off as ‘Oh, poor me.’ I hate that.”

Lampanelli said her style of comedy — which

audience members should expect to see Saturday — although is part of her job as a comedian to continu-ally push the envelope.

“If you want to watch somebody boring, then you stay home and watch your wife,” Lampanelli said. “You want to see someone say something you’re not going to or [say] something you’re thinking. It’s comedians’ job to cause the audience to think more and differ-ently. It’s natural for come-dians to do it.”

As someone who moved from her career in journal-ism to comedy and now to Broadway, Lampanelli’s ad-vice to college students is to relax.

“It’s like, ‘Who cares?’ Major in something that tickles you, and it’s not the end of the world if you don’t know what you want — nobody knows what they want,” she said. “Don’t sweat it; you’re going to change your career path three times anyway.”

The show starts at 8:00 p.m. at the Stranahan The-atre and tickets are $34.75. The show is for mature au-diences only.

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From the Ozarks to ToledoOn Saturday, Missouri natives Ha Ha Tonka made their Toledo debut at Frankies Inner City, downtown. The band definitely impressed their audience with their folk rock feel.

Take my advice, apply for an internshipThis semester, I had the

privilege of landing a cov-eted paid internship as an assistant to the glass cura-tor at the Toledo Museum of Art.

This officially marks the first time I have a regular job with a regu-lar salary. As a double major in film/video and art history, my studies have pre-pared me for re-searching and bringing perti-nent information to the table. I’m finally doing something I actu-ally like and have studied in school — my education is literally and figuratively paying off.

I’m definitely not a job-getting or interning ex-pert, but after interning at several different places and failing to be hired for several internships, there are a few things I’ve learned. Here are some tips that might help those who have never interned

or who are looking to in the future.

First, try to be comfort-able with not getting paid.

While I’m honestly not really okay with unpaid internships, most posi-tions I have encountered

in art-related fields are un-paid. For the last two sum-mers, I’ve had unpaid intern-ships, one of which at Spac-es, an art gal-lery in Cleve-land, and I al-so volunteered at the Toledo Museum of

Art.The people I worked

with were wonderful and I got a lot of hands-on expe-rience I couldn’t have got-ten in a class.

So, while not getting paid is a bummer, it will pay off eventually. If you do land a paid internship, realize you are really lucky and try to be humble about it. I’m still trying to

get over feeling like “hot-stuff” for getting paid to work.

Second, it helps to try to impress your teachers and build a relationship with them.

Speak up in class, talk to them outside of class, make sure they know who you are and that you’re serious and enthusiastic about what you study. They are the people who can offer credible letters of recommendation and who might be able to give you work.

The third and maybe most important point is to know specifically what you want out of the intern-ship . I learned this from a terrible interview I once gave.

During the interview, conducted on the phone, the woman asked me to tell her about myself. As I did, I also went into why I wanted to intern there, or at least I thought I did.

Afterward, the woman said, “Okay, I don’t mean to put you on the spot, but

why exactly do you want to intern here?” I was speechless; I thought I had just explained myself. So, I told her again and she seemed less than enthused.

It wasn’t until after the interview ended I thought, “Hey, why do I want to intern there? What do I re-ally want to learn from there?”

It’s not enough to just want to get experience somewhere. You need to know what specific skills you want to learn, if there is someone there you want to work with and what that place has that other places don’t.

All of this probably seems obvious, but after learning the hard way, you realize how important all of it is.

— Kristen Breitenbach is a senior double major-ing in film/video and art history.

By Kristen BreitenbachFor the IC