Independent Collegian

Faculty sees unfinished business

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The Faculty Senate's last meeting of the year missed the presence of its most anticipated guests.

Rick Stansley, the chairman of UT's Board of Trustees, and Olivia Summons, one of the co-chairs of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee, were invited to attend the Tuesday meeting.

UT blocks file sharing network

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

UT Information Technology blocked access to a network used by several popular peer file sharing programs yesterday. This came after receiving a number of illegal use notices from the Recording Industry Association of America.

Access at UT to the Gnutella network, which is used for programs such as LimeWire, FrostWire and Cabos, was terminated yesterday evening, according to team leader for quality, communication and security Melissa Crabtree.

SG Senate wraps up year

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

UT's Student Senate held its last session of the semester on Tuesday night, and during it, two resolutions were passed in hopes of helping students get their opinions to the administration.

One of the passed resolutions, written by Student Senators Glenn Mains and Mark D'Apolito, asks UT President Lloyd Jacobs to hold office hours every week.

Rally held for concealed carry

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Students gathered yesterday to fight for the right to defend themselves by carrying concealed weapons on campus.

UT Students for Concealed Carry on Campus held a rally this week on campus, led by campus leader Matt Rubin, a freshman majoring in political science and public administration.

SG hopeful for Dorr Street

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Mike Betz, former Student Government president, said students can expect a lot of progress on Dorr Street development by fall if plans move forward properly.

"A large portion of Dorr Street will be developed [by then]," he said.

Matthew Schroeder, the director of business enterprise for the UT Foundation said, to date, the foundation has received many requests for information about the development.

UT seeks new food contract

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The AVI Foodsystems Inc. contract with UT ends in July.

A search committee, headed by Kaye Patten Wallace, vice president for student affairs, is to make a decision regarding whom to award the next food service contract by May 2.

The process begins by sending out requests for proposals, or RFP's.

Baseball falls to 12-24

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Despite a combined nine errors by their opponents, the UT baseball team lost two games this week to Wright State and Michigan State after owning early leads in both games.

Yesterday, UT (12-23, 5-7) lost 10-6 to Michigan State (13-21, 4-11) at Kobs Field in East Lansing, Mich.

Boley twins attribute success to family values

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

For senior baseball players Sean and Scott Boley, family is the centerpiece of their success, especially their parents. What we are taught as children becomes vital as we grow older, and those lessons develop into the fibers that hold together our lives.

"They taught us a lot of stuff growing up-how to manage time and a good work ethic," Scott said.

UT goes 1-1 on the road

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The Rockets' softball team was shutout in the second game of a doubleheader against Cleveland State yesterday after taking a 5-2 victory in the first game.

UT managed just three hits over five innings in the 8-0 loss in the second game.

Senior Erica Singer, sophomore Whitney Erickson and freshman Sam Toy were the only Rockets with a hit.

Boring draft for Browns' fans

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

With their first round pick, the Cleveland Browns select quarterback Brady Quinn. With their second round pick, defensive end Corey Williams. With their third, defensive tackle Shaun Rogers.

Sure the Browns do not pick in this Saturday's NFL draft until the middle of the fourth round, 122nd overall, but considering where those first three picks went, the franchise is well on its way to improving on last season's 10-6 record.

UT breaks the silence

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

One-and-a-half million women are raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year according to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

If it were up to Diane Docis and many other determined women, that number would be zero.

Best album 'of the' year

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

After parting ways with Maverick Records after their last album In The Wake of Determination Story of the Year failed to create any buzz on radio, but now the group is back with a new album and a new record label, Epitaph. So how does this new record compare to the previous CD as well as its major debut, Page Avenue?

The lead single from the new album Black Swan, "Wake Up," is a song that does just that -- wake you up.

Not worth '88' seconds

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

For legendary actors who are known for their craft, as opposed to their good looks and star power, the bar is always set high when they release new films. The last movie Al Pacino acted in was 2007's "Ocean's Thirteen," with George Clooney and Matt Damon, where he dominated the screen with his great acting as a devious business owner.

One last hit of IC

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

I'm a junky. Well, at least I was. I'm quitting cold turkey, and now that I'm realizing that now that my name hasn't been at the top of this page for a week, withdrawals are beginning. The world doesn't really make sense anymore.

You're probably sick of reading these weepy goodbye pieces from The Independent Collegian's graduating seniors, but give me a break.

A degree and so much more

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The night before I left for college, I had a sleepover with three of my closest friends from high school. We made a fort using the kitchen table and some blankets. We crawled into our fort and wondered what life would look like away from each other, away from our parents, away from the town we had been raised in.

Fare thee well IC readers

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

An apology is in order. But not the kind you're thinking. As I write my last column I feel compelled to offer an account of my work for The Independent Collegian. Even more than an autobiography, a "farewell column" is a pretentious thing to write. Its composition assumes 1) that people care and 2) that such a piece is warranted or necessary (as if someone actually had read one's random musings over the past two academic years).

The oil companies' scheme

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

aWe all get mad when we have to fill up our gas tank these days, unless we work for ExxonMobile or Chevron. Who wouldn't be mad? Look at gas prices: $3 is suddenly cheap! It's flat-out ridiculous when oil companies are making 40 billion-dollar-a-year profits, and we're paying 200 percent more for gas than we did 10 years ago.

We must not leave the Iraqis vulnerable

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Today's soldiers know history. They know that abandoning their allies is deadly for those left behind.

Two weeks ago, I joined more than 10 other Michigan Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to attend the Vets For Freedom, Vets on the Hill event in Washington.

Opportunity in merger

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The past few months have been turbulent ones for the University of Toledo, capable of wrenching the institution from its foundations and inspiring ruinous upheaval. Many faculty members feel disenfranchised as of late at UT, cut out from the decision-making process that so intimately affects their careers and livelihoods.

Campus vigilantes

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

In the wake of the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech University last year and Northern Illinois University earlier this year, campus safety has begun to seem like something of a contradiction in terms. Here at UT, we have adopted the RED ALERT warning system and have created instructional videos on how to respond in the unthinkable event that a deranged gunman would appear on this campus.

Wastefulness on campus

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The picture featured in the March 20 edition of The Independent Collegian of a MacKinnon Hall chair being thrust to the pavement of Area 14 on the surface seems to fit a story about renovation. For me, however, as the former assistant director of residence life for operations from 1981 to 1999, the picture evoked a question - Who's in charge?

The chair being tossed is a $110, two-position PlyLok chair with basswood laminated construction made by Sauder Manufacturing of Archbold, Ohio.

Ode to my department

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

My feet move rhythmically over old pinkish-orange linoleum floors down a hallway inside the Center for Performing Arts building which houses my department within the College of Arts and Sciences. Light is falling in cheerful patterns across the faded texture of my path.