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Disaster strikes in JapanBy IC Staff

A magnitude 8.9 earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean and caused a huge tsunami in Northeastern Japan on the Honshu island Fri-day afternoon resulting in black-outs, fires and fears of a nuclear meltdown.

Reports have counted the death tolls as being higher than 10,000. Hundreds of bodies have been found so far, according to the Washington Post.

Though most rescue efforts were frequently interrupted by tsunami alerts from ongoing af-tershocks, there have been sev-eral heart-wrenching rescue sto-ries including a 60-year-old man of Minamisoma who was “swept away with his house” and was found floating on a piece of his

roof 10 miles out at sea.Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto

Kan called the disaster Japan’s worst crisis since atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 during World War II.

Areas hit by the earthquake-induced tsunami include several cities and towns on Honshu such as Natori, Minami Sanriku, Sendai, Miyagi and Fukushima.

Many villages in Natori where houses used to stand are now covered almost completely in mud and rubble.

In Minami Sanriku, a north-eastern Japanese town, an esti-mated 9,500 people are unac-counted for. This is half the town’s population.

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A family looks over what is left of their destroyed home in the Natori neighborhood of Sendai, Japan, on Sunday, March 13, 2011, which was hit hard by the tsunami in the aftermath of an 8.9 earthquake.

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In the town of Fukushima, Japan, a two-hour drive south of Sendai, workers try to clear debris on Sunday, March 13, 2011, after the 8.9 earthquake damaged homes and roads in the area.

Electing the next provostBy IC Staff

UT has invited the “cam-pus community” to partici-pate in choosing the next Provost for main campus af-ter one provost left the uni-versity for a job in Texas and another was admitted as in-terim through an internal search last year.

The five candidates for Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Af-fairs will be interviewed in an “open forum” style set up in the Student Union Build-ing over a three-week period.

The candidates come from a wide range of colleges and universities including the University of Denver, Clari-on University and Temple University.

Interim Provost and Exec-utive President for Academ-ic Affairs currently at UT Bill McMillen, who also serves as vice president for governmental relations and chief of staff in the office of the president, is vying to have the “interim” stricken from his title.

Another candidate is Val-entine James, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clarion University. James holds several degrees including a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Sciences from Texas A&M University.

Vice Provost and Dean of Clemson’s Graduate School

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The debris of the destroyed Natori neighborhood of Sendai, Japan, on Sunday, March 13, 2011, that was hit hard by the tsunami in the aftermath of an 8.9 earthquake. Fires continue to burn in the neighborhood as civil servants are finally able to enter the area to search for victims.

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The debris of the destroyed Natori neighborhood of Sendai, Japan, on Sunday, March 13, 2011, that was hit hard by the tsunami in the aftermath of an 8.9 earthquake.

Kasich gives State of the State address

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Ohio Governor-elect John Kasich talks to reporters after meeting with House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-Ohio), right, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), left, and other GOP Governors-elect at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, December 1, 2010.

Residence halls face potential budget cuts

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Dowd Hall, Nash Hall and White Hall, pictured above, could potentially close next year to help fill the 20 percent deficit the University of Toledo faces for fiscal year 2012.

By Jennifer IsonIC Staff Writer

Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) delivered his annual State of the State Address last Tuesday.

Kasich spoke about is-sues troubling “our be-loved Buckeye State” in-cluding joblessness and poverty, and he discussed possible ways to solve

those issues. State Rep. John Barnes

Jr. (D) said “[Kasich] laid out his vision. His vision is the purpose of the State of the State.”

Kasich said joblessness and poverty are the ene-mies of Ohio.

“We’ve lost 600,000 jobs in the last 10 years,” he

— Kasich, Page A4

— Japan, Page A4

By Vincent D. ScebbiFeatures Editor

With budget cuts hanging over the university, UT’s Of-fice of Residence Life could potentially close one of its residence halls to fill the 20 percent deficit UT faces for fiscal year 2012.

Director of Residence Life Jo Campbell said if she had to make the decision prior to Ohio Governor John Kasich

revealing the state budget, she would close Dowd Hall, Nash Hall and White Hall.

The decision would be based on the number of va-cancies across the residence halls and this academic year’s lower admission numbers.

A second solution given by Campbell would be to turn Carter Hall back into double rooms instead of the current triple rooms to help fill vacancies.

Closing a building, accord-ing to Campbell, would help save money not only on staff costs, but also utilities, which fills a large portion of the Residence Life budget.

Campbell added no deci-sions can be made until the state budget is revealed Tues-day, putting Residence Life in “an unusual state of limbo” according to Horton

— Provost, Page A4

— Halls, Page A4

How would your view of the United States change if you found out the first people in North America actually mi-grated from Northern Europe 5,000 years before the Asian peoples com-monly accepted as the true Native Americans? Would your views on race relations or social equality be changed at all? Take a moment to consider how this information might affect you.

A University of Toledo law student, Kyle Bristow, published a book last year that challenges the established un-derstanding of the American continents’ early population. By claiming that light-skinned Northern Europeans settled and inhabited North America for mil-lennia before being wiped out by the ancestors of the group presently known as Native Americans, he implies that history be revised to show that it was white, European-Americans who had the original claim to the land and were brutally removed from it.

The idea that the systematic exploita-tion committed by whites against non-whites over recent centuries is in any way justified by the hypothetical slaugh-ter of ancient European Americans by ancient Asian Americans is absurd and offensive. But the most overlooked ele-ment of this debate is the hugely inap-propriate level of importance being giv-en to events long past and irrelevant.

In predicting the medical future of an individual, to whom do physicians look for clues? A person’s parents, grand-parents and great-grandparents are the most direct and therefore, relevant in-fluences on one’s genetic makeup and likelihood for certain diseases, talents, disabilities, etc.

While the killing of humans has long been a common occupation of individu-als and governments, violence has been progressively viewed in a less favorable light. Or at least, popular and organized opposition to violence has become more intense and visible as time goes on. It’s easier to “forgive” or “justify” violence the farther in the past it hap-pened — the further from our present sense of morality and human dignity.

This is obvious from peoples’

common reactions to hearing about a killing. The emotional response evoked sharply drops the further the event was in the past. Alarm and distress are com-mon when a “breaking news” story tells of a violent situation that just hap-pened or is still unfolding.

But such violent events are quickly forgotten and are less likely to elicit a strong response if they are heard about years later. The farther away in time, the less direct connection an event could possibly have on a person, their loved ones and acquaintances. Few, if any, shed tears at Julius Caesar’s assas-sination or wring worried hands at the millions who fell to Bubonic Plague.

Another interesting and humorous flaw in Bristow’s argument is the glar-ing contradiction presented by the idea of the Amerindians’ ancestors wiping out an ancient white American culture — who would have had 5,000 years to adapt and develop an effective lifestyle in the eastern woodlands of North America and are supposedly endowed with a superior genetic legacy. How was the “master race” overwhelmed and obliterated by “savages”?

So much of the socio-cultural change proposed in Bristow’s novel and other work relies on this idea of entitlement and justification — that Europeans have always been superior and there-fore belong in the top tier of a society that discriminates based on ancestry.

The conclusions drawn by Bristow and his supporters reveal the true mo-tivation and goals of their pursuit of this archaeological hypothesis. By at-tempting to provide a natural basis by which human groups can be socially evaluated and defined, he seeks to op-pose the recognition and correction of the rampant discrimination and in-equality still thriving in our nation’s social policies.

This line of thinking is yet another weapon in the arsenal of the wealthy and socially dominant, who as a group seek perpetually to resist human equal-ity and maintain their position as the self-righteous, comfortable masters of their world.

Many in the UT community have likely felt, at some point, that the selec-tion of food available on campus is less than satisfying. Whether the complaint targets the lack of variety, the nutri-tious quality or any other aspect of UT’s dining offerings, the basic argu-ment seems to be the same.

People have at least a general aware-ness of the merits of fresh vs. packaged, local vs. mega-farm, nutritious vs. fat- and sugar-filled. Eighty-eight percent of the 674 respondents to a study by the Urban Affairs Center expressed posi-tive interest in a locally-grown, fresh food buying club on UT’s campus.

It is a heartfelt desire that those sur-vey respondents and others will take their ideas to the next level, becoming a part of the popular movement that will be needed to get such a program off the ground. The Urban Affairs Cen-ter will host “Local Foods: Strategies

for Jobs and Health,” on Friday, April 15, on the Health Science Campus. One goal of this summit will be to generate discussion and interest in a local food buying campus organization.

By reducing the number of middle-men, the physical distance and the time food spends in storage and transport, we can make our system of food pro-duction and distribution much more efficient and health-promoting.

And to those who cry foul on any at-tempts to “interfere” with free-market capitalism: we as consumers have the right and responsibility to fight for our access to food that brings us a healthy, happy life. It’s about time we use them. If it means that massive and politically-entrenched food corporations must be induced to wither and die, then for the sake of our health and dignity, so be it.

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Two main topics have dominated the news recently and after this past Friday, there will be a third. Extreme weather events and high gas

p r i c e s have taken over the headlines, and Fri-d a y ’ s e a r t h -quake and resu l t ing t s u n a m i will be sure to grab atten-tion of the

media for weeks to come — and rightly so.

Gasoline prices have been rising consistently as a re-sult of higher oil prices. Oil has surged from around $85 dollars a barrel a few weeks ago to slightly above $100 dollars a barrel late last week. The primary source of this increase has been the violence and civil unrest in Egypt and now Libya.

It can be frustrating for consumers to watch gasoline prices go up and up and up in step with oil.

In effect, the extra cost of gasoline is similar to a tax. When the tax becomes too high, consumers will eventu-ally cut back on their con-sumption by either altering their driving habits or simply not driving.

However, even before con-sumers start cutting back their consumption of oil, they will likely be cutting back on their discretionary spending in other areas like dining and entertainment. This is not a good thing if you’re a clothing retailer, restaurant chain owner or sports franchise.

In addition, we absorb higher fuel prices indirectly when we purchase other goods. Food and clothing are delivered to their desti-nations by trucks that run on… diesel! Or gasoline. Plastics and other materials are produced using petro-leum products that are sensi-tive to oil prices.

In short, we are helplessly dependent on fossil fuels for almost any appreciable en-ergy production. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone reading this column.

However, if we are so de-pendent on oil, why don’t we try and change that? Why do we as a society continue to put up with such wild fluctu-ations in the price of some-thing that we are almost forced to buy?

It’s no wonder that con-sumers feel as though they are being preyed on by gas station owners or Saudi oil producers. The demand for gasoline is extremely inelas-tic — hardly sensitive to price at all up to a certain point — because there are so few alternatives to filling up our cars at the pump.

If prices are too high, it’s our own fault as a society.

We put up with wildly fluctu-ating prices because we have created our own predica-ment where there are no al-ternatives. Too many years of cheap energy that was un-derpriced and failed to ac-count for the externalities of fossil fuel consumption has created a market in which so called “alternative fuels” seem overpriced. This makes them anything but “alterna-tives” as far as the average consumer is concerned.

This problem extends be-yond private transportation. Many of us fail to recognize that anything made with fos-sil fuels is subject to wild fluctuations too. But we deal with it as consumers because we’ve built our manufactur-ing base on fossil fuels, infra-structure on fossil fuels, and even settled our population growths based on under-priced energy.

The fascinating thing is that all along we have known that fossil fuels are nonre-newable forms of energy. While I’m sure plants are de-composing and being ex-posed to the pressures of the Earth, this isn’t occurring anywhere near fast enough to replenish what we’re pumping out. Again, this is something we all learned in grade school yet as a global economy we somehow for-

got: one day there will be no more fossil fuels to extract.

I’m not trying to pull out the doomsday scenario card, but can we please just ac-knowledge that this means oil will one day run out? I’m not making some wacky pre-diction. It’s common sense.

Why haven’t alternative fu-els been very attractive? Well, the government tries to subsidize them, which is probably the wrong way to somewhat equalize fossil fu-els with alternative fuels in terms of price. Alternative fuels don’t really offer posi-tive externalities — which would be justification for the subsidy. Instead, they try to eat into the market for fossil fuels with the idea that pro-viding more alternative fuel equals less fossil fuels and therefore, less pollution.

The result of these subsi-dies is questionable because the amounts of the subsidies are arbitrary at best. You can’t easily quantify the “good” done by a hybrid, yet the government offers in-come tax credits to purchase such vehicles. Also, huge

grants and subsidies for “go-ing green” are arbitrary. When the government pays for you to install energy-effi-cient windows, the benefit to society is unlikely to be equal to the amount of the subsidy.

Furthermore, psychologi-cally, lowering the prices of alternatives would likely not make consumers switch from fossil fuels. But a tax on fossil fuels would. When gas prices were under two dol-lars a gallon a couple winters ago, how many people were looking into hybrids or more fuel-efficient cars? Probably very few. But how many are looking now?

That’s because people only really take notice of things that affect them. Everyone uses fossil fuels and so few use alternatives that the gen-eral public would more likely notice a raise in fossil fuel prices over a drop in alterna-tive prices.

Plus, it is a lot easier to at-tempt to quantify the nega-tive externalities and then tax fossil fuels. That would then give the true cost of fos-sil fuels, and it would make alternative energy more at-tractive without subsidizing it. The tax could be imple-mented over time so that consumers could adjust. And as more people and indus-tries switched over to alter-native fuels, the volatility would decrease. In addition, a tax would raise govern-ment revenues, whereas sub-sidies deplete government revenues.

We’re going to need a mix of energy sources going for-ward, and the question is whether we want to wait until astronomical oil prices force us to switch over, or do we as a country — or so-ciety — want to control our own destiny by planning ear-ly and switching over at our own pace?

Furthermore, do we want the government picking win-ners and losers by handing out arbitrary subsidies to cer-tain industries — i.e., wind vs. solar — or do we want to find the true cost of fossil fu-els and let the market devel-op the best alternatives?

Some analysts already are hinting at a “double dip” re-cession as consumers and businesses face higher fuel prices. And this is at oil around $100. The pain won’t really start to set in until around $120-$130. Do we re-member what $140 felt like? And that wasn’t in the middle of a recession.

I, for one, am sick of the volatility in the oil market. Whole books could be writ-ten about speculation. But until we finally bite the bullet and accept the consequences of our reckless actions, get used to the higher prices and wild swings.

—Anthony Russo is an IC columnist and a senior ma-joring in economics.

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said, “We’ve lost more than 400,000 jobs over these last four years. Things have been accelerating.”

More skilled workers and college graduates are leaving the state to take advantage of opportunities elsewhere.

“One-third of Ohio col-lege graduates are leaving this state within three years of graduating,” Ka-sich said.

Kasich went on to speak about Ohio’s rapid popula-tion decline.

“As a result, we’ve lost two congressional seats,” he said “It’s like taking a shotgun and blowing a piece of your body out. You lose those congressional seats, you lose your influence.”

Kasich addressed Ohio’s high taxes as a major prob-lem leading to most issues Ohioans face, stating resi-dents cannot “tax [their] way to prosperity.”

“You know, we are going to reform government,” he said. “I’m asking you all to keep an open mind about the possibilities of reform because you can’t keep do-ing the same thing in this state and avoiding the de-cisions that need to be made that have been put off for political reasons, frankly.”

Kasich also addressed changes in Ohio’s Medicaid

program to make good use of the taxpayers’ money, meant to allow the elderly to receive more in-home care and avoid nursing homes.

He said he would also like to break the trend of low birth weight babies through using more appro-priate prenatal care.

“The ones that have those serious health risks, they incur six times the cost as other babies,” Ka-sich said.

Kasich went on to ad-dress the issues involving public schools and stu-dents being unable to find jobs after graduation.

“We have not been able to connect both K-12 and the vocational education and the higher education and our technical schools and community colleges and our universities to real stuff,” he said “We have to get that done.”

A major problem Ohio is facing is the 63,000 unfilled jobs due to the lack of skilled workers.

“We need to recommit ourselves to education re-form. That will ensure stu-dents are equipped with skills for the work force in Ohio,” Barnes said, agree-ing with Kasich’s plan for education.

Kasich also pointed out that Teach for America, an organization committed to ending educational inequali-ty, has been kept out of Ohio.

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is coming to Ohio. I prom-ise you that,” he said.

Kasich pointed to Lake Erie as a potential job cre-ator for Ohio.

“If there has ever been a more underutilized asset and undersold asset in the history of our state it’s Lake Erie,” he said. “It is the crown jewel of the state of Ohio.”

Barnes agreed.“We need to look at that

resource and harness op-portunities to maximize that jewel.”

Other Ohio Democrats were dissatisfied with Ka-sich’s speech.

In an article by the Huff-ington Post, Ohio Senate Democratic Leader Capri Cafaro said she heard a similar speech at a Youngstown-Warren Cham-ber of Commerce event.

Cafaro said all she heard in Kasich’ speech were concepts and ideas.

“Talking about action, talking about change – I didn’t hear one concrete thing helping us go for-ward in Ohio,” she said.

Kasich ended the address by stressing the importance of both the Republican and Democratic parties work-ing together to mend the issues Ohio is facing.

“We’re not Republicans, we’re not Democrats, we are not Liberals and we are not Conservatives. We are Ohioans, and together we will climb the mountain and make Ohio great.”

Bruce Rafert, professor of physics and astronomy, received his Ph.D. in as-tronomy from the Univer-sity of Florida.

Robert Stroker is the interim dean of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and dean of the Boyer College of mu-sic and dance. He re-ceived his Doctorate in music education and Bachelor of Music from Michigan State University as well as a Master of Mu-sic degree from Pennsyl-vania State University.

Rahmat Shoureshi is the dean of the School of Engineering and Comput-er Science at the Univer-sity of Denver. He re-ceived his Ph.D. and M.S. in mechanical engineer-ing from the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology.

Each candidate will be interviewed over a two-day period between 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. in SU room 2592 starting with James whose interviews will be on Wednesday and Thursday.

More information on each candidate can be found on UT’s website.

According to CNN’s website nearly 5 million homes were without power.

Damage from the earth-quake, tsunami and fires will cost at least $100 million in-cluding $20 billion to residen-tial areas and $40 billion in damage to infrastructure, ac-cording to CNN.

The earthquake was preced-ed by several foreshocks two days prior.

Residents in Sendai have re-ported the water reaching the treetops as it swept through the town and being able to see the bottom of the sea after the waves withdrew.

Scientists are calling the earth-quake the worst Japan has expe-rienced since records began.

Though the devastation is im-mense and more than 70 coun-tries have come to aid the Japa-nese in rescue efforts, meteoro-logical agency officials warned yesterday that there is a 70 per-cent chance of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hitting Japan again in the next three days.

International House Resident Advisor Jantzen Ridenour.

“We’re all a little on edge to know what the final outcome of what will be,” Campbell said. “Hopefully that will give us a better picture of what is going to happen overall. I’m hopeful not too long after that we can make some decision.”

Because Residence Life is unable to cut big portions of their budget such as utilities and bond debt on buildings, Campbell said she has to look at cutting operation and staff costs.

“Everything is on the table,” she said.

Aside from rumors of clos-ing the Quad, RAs throughout the residence halls have heard other speculations ranging from closing dining halls, cut-ting 24 hour front desk service, cutting student desk worker positions and reducing the number of RAs by half.

RAs in Ottawa House feel

reducing the number of RAs could threaten security in the halls as well as the safety of the RAs on duty.

“Six hundred fifty people can fit in Ottawa and you leave that number but you cut from 17 RAs to eight or nine,” said Kaitlyn Conner, a junior major-ing in nursing and an RA in Ottawa House.

Conner added the quality of work done by RAs would de-crease because the cuts would cause them to focus on bigger security issues and let smaller incidents slide.

“I think the quality of RAs will come down because the really good RAs will realize this is not how you treat your employees and quit and then you’ll have poor RAs,” Conner said.

With the severe possible cuts, RAs trying to decide whether to stay or go have to decide if they are okay with working more for less.

“I think it makes things diffi-cult for RAs who are on the fence about whether or not to come back,” said Alyssa Brown,

a junior art major and RA in Ot-tawa. “Why would I want to come back to a job where they are asking me to work double and benefits are decreasing? It’s hard for a returner to com-mit to doing something like that and then say you don’t have your job yet.”

Campbell told the Indepen-dent Collegian Thursday she doesn’t believe she will have to cut resident advisor or house manager positions; however Residence Life sent emails to potential returning RAs saying they cannot guar-antee them positions.

“I don’t want to send a let-ter saying, ‘hey, take this RA job’ unless I am 100 percent confident we [Residence Life] are able to do that,” Campbell said.

Ridenour said if drastic cuts are made, then Resi-dence Life may need to change the responsibilities of the RA and create a more “adult atmosphere” by, for ex-ample, cutting some pro-grams residents feel they have outgrown.

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The 16 turnovers in the first half, when you look

back on it, really cost us the game.

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No. 4 Eagles shock top-seeded Toledo in MAC Tournament By Nate PentecostIC Staff Writer

The Rockets fell to East-ern Michigan 61-55 in the Mid-American Conference Tournament Semifinals on Friday at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. The MAC Tournament marks the first time Toledo has lost to the Eagles this season, win-ning in the previous regular season meetings.

“I am very proud of my team because I thought they fought extremely hard to come back,” UT head coach Tricia Cullop said. “They showed a lot of courage, like they have all season long, but we came up short to a very good team.”

Toledo finished the season with a 23-8 overall record and went 15-3 in the MAC.

The Rockets had 22 turnovers in the contest, 16 of which came in the first half. Eastern Michi-gan (15-16, 7-10) capitalized by scor-ing 21 points off turnovers.

Toledo shot under 40 per-cent from the field (22 of 58), including 26.1 percent from three-point range (6 of 23), while the Eagles shot just below 35 percent from the field (22 of 63) and made 17 of 21 free throws on the day.

“I really thought the differ-ence in the game was turn-overs,” Cullop said. “The 16 turnovers in the first half, when you look back on it, really cost us the game, in addition to the number of times we put them at the free throw line.”

Senior forward Melissa Goodall (7 of 11) fronted the Toledo effort with a double-double that included a team-high 18 points and

10 rebounds. Goodall also contributed three assists and two steals while sophomore center Yolanda Richardson (4 of 9) added eight points to go with nine rebounds and a game-high five blocks.

UT’s leading scorer, junior guard Naama Shafir (14.5 ppg), went scoreless in the first half and was held to five points in the game. Shafir had a game-high seven as-sists but turned the ball over as many times.

“They obviously have a good defense but we just did not attack it,” Shafir said. “We did not do what we are ca-pable of.”

The Eagles were paced by senior guard Cassie Schrock (6 of 24) who scored a game-high 20 points and grabbed five re-bounds to go with three assists. Junior

forward Paige Redditt (7 of 8) had a double-double with 18 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. Senior for-ward Kristin Thomas added 10 rebounds, two blocks, and two steals while class-mate Sydney Huntley (5 of 16) scored 12 points and had a game-high three steals.

“We are trying to earn respect as one of the better teams in this conference,” EMU head coach AnnMarie Gilbert said. “We did not come here to lose.”

Eastern Michigan jumped out to a 13-4 lead with the aid of six points from

Huntley before an 8-2 spurt by the Rockets closed the gap to 15-12 at the 8:06 mark of the opening half. The Ea-gles retaliated with a 12-2 run which gave them a game-high 13-point advantage at 27-14 with under three min-

utes to go in the first. Toledo scored five consecutive points to make the score 27-19 at the half.

The Eagles extend-ed their lead to 13 once again with a 39-26 advantage at the 13:30 mark of the second half. Toledo fought itself back in-to the game, cutting

the deficit to 50-47 with 5:32 left in the contest, but two quick buckets by junior guard Tavelyn James brought Eastern Michigan’s lead back to seven.

A Goodall three-pointer with less than 30 seconds to go would make it a three point contest yet again at 58-55, but the Eagles made three of their last four free throws to complete the up-set but fell 51-46 in the Championship game to

Bowling Green. “Obviously this

one hurts,” Goodall said. “This is not how you want to go out in your last MAC out-ing, but fortunately for us we did have a successful enough season that we are going to have more games coming up, so that is what we have to look forward to.”

The Rockets are a proba-ble candidate to earn a bid for the Postseason Women’s National Invitation Tourna-ment which begins March 16th.

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Naama Shafir and the top-ranked Rockets fell to EMU after beating them twice during the regular season. Toledo will likely earn a spot in the Womens National Invitation Tournament.

UT drops to 4-10 on the year after a 1-4 weekend By Tony BiblerIC Staff Writer

A dominant pitching per-formance and two UT errors thwarted the Rockets efforts this past Saturday as they lost to Massachusetts, 2-1, to close out their schedule at the RussMatt Invitational in Winter Haven, Fla. Toledo went 1-4 in their games at the Invitational and are now 4-10 overall.

“I told our team that we cannot let the results affect the way we go about our business,” UT head coach-Cory Mee said. “We have to keep playing hard and with enthusiasm. If we play the game hard and with enthusi-asm it will give us a chance to turn things around and I’m confident we’ll do that.”

Junior Lincoln Rassi (0-3) was handed the loss in relief after going 4.2 innings and allowing one unearned run. UMass starter Glen Misho (1-1) made it a difficult day for the Rockets offense as he threw a complete game, giv-ing up just one run and strik-ing out eight in the process.

“We have to find a way to be more productive offen-sively,” Mee said. “Baseball is a funny game and we are get-ting tested right now. All of these games are coming down to one play and we aren’t making that play. We must continue to put our-selves in these situations though because if we work hard and are consistent then things will turn out in our favor.”

Junior infielders Matt Delewski and Joe Corfman led the Toledo offense going 2 for 4 each and teamed up in the top of the 8th to score UT’s only run of the day when a Corfman double was followed up by a Delewski RBI single.

Massachusetts (1-4) scored an unearned run in the sec-ond after a Toledo error and wild pitch. The eventual win-ning run was an RBI single in the sixth by Tom Conley.

“We need to do a better job not putting ourselves in tough situations late in the game,” Mee said. “Our goal is to make the team earn every-thing they get and when we give them extra bases and runs through walks and er-rors. It makes it tough to win.”

The Rockets dropped both contests of a double-header on Friday, losing game one against Bradley 7-4 in 10 in-nings and followed that with a loss to Yale in the second game, 3-2.

Sophomore right-hander Mike Hamann started against Bradley (9-4) and gave up three runs (two earned) and tied a career-high of nine strikeouts over 7.1 innings. Junior reliever Alex Radon (3-1) came on in relief and was given the loss after al-lowing three runs (one earned) in one inning. Corf-man, outfielders Chris Du-dics and Jeff Cola, infielder Wes White and catcher James Miglin all had two hits in the losing effort against Bradley.

Junior left hander Kyle Shaw started against Yale (3-5) on Friday and gave up two runs in 7.2 innings then fresh-man reliever Adam Tyson earned the loss after 1.1 in-nings as the winning run crossed the plate in the bot-tom of the ninth.

Freshman Cameron Palm-er (0-1) started his first game for the Rockets on Wednes-day against Xavier (9-6) and was dealt the loss after work-ing 4.1 innings and allowing four runs. The score was tied at three going into the bottom of the fifth but Xavier would add two runs in the home half of the fifth, sev-enth and eighth to eventually beat the Rockets, 9-4.

Toledo did win the first game of the RussMatt invita-tional on Tuesday, taking a 9-4 decision against against Yale. Radon pitched 3.1 in-nings in relief to earn his third win of the year while Corfman produced two hits and a RBI in the first of two contests against Yale.

“Make no mistake about it,” Mee said. “We have to get better and we will work on some things in practice this week. I just can’t wait for Wednesday because when things are going like they are for us you can’t wait to hit the field and do something about it.”

The Rockets will travel to Dayton this Wednesday to take on Wright State (8-6). First pitch from Nischwitz Stadium is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

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Akron wins MAC TitleAkron topped Kent State 66-65 in an overtime thriller on Saturday to claim the Mid-American Conference Tournament Championship. Zips sophomore center Zeke Marshall, who had a school record nine blocks, swatted a potential game-winning shot at the buzzer to seal the upset victory. Akron will be the MAC’s lone representative as the No. 15 seed and will face No. 2 Notre Dame in Chicago on March 18.

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interesting to watch. Watching the raw footage is ultimately what makes edit-ing take up so much time.

When we sat down, we had 20 hours of footage to examine; after picking out the pieces we wanted to use for the video, the result was 20 minutes of video. That’s one hour of total filming for every one minute in the final proj-ect. It may sound outrageous, but it’s a fairly standard ratio.

Some raw footage includes mis-takes, like when one of the actors ac-cidentally pulled the microphone cord and yanked the camera into a strange position.

The most interesting parts of looking at raw footage, though, have to do with the odd consistency the actors have, which leads to different takes having almost exactly the same timing, which I noticed when Cornieles and I worked

on a few major dialog scenes from epi-sodes one and two.

Editing dialog is very different from editing musical sections, which is the type of editing I am used to. Editing for dialog involves using several different camera angles to get exactly what’s needed for the scene, which can mean moving the order of different clips.

Another aspect of editing a dialogue scene is the variety of takes available for use. In one scene, our biggest prob-lem was that we wanted to use two different takes to get different angles, but the actor was positioned in a dif-ferent way in all three takes.

While filming will wrap at the end of the month, editing will continue throughout March and possibly even the beginning of April, since less than half of the show has been edited.

But don’t worry: West Bancroft Side Story is slated to premiere its first epi-sode April 9 on UT’s on-campus chan-nel, Channel 31, as well as on UTTV’s YouTube channel.

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Above: crew member Larry Williams filming during a shoot at the Quad. Left: Megan Beckett (Sonia Long) performs during one of many takes. Below: When filming WBSS, crew members must film from multiple angles to achieve enough shots before the editing process even begins.

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Arts“I’m not cocky, I’m confident. So when you tell me I’m the best it’s a compliment.”— Jadakiss, New York andLife

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So far in this column, I’ve talked about choreography, filmography, the plot, the ac-tors and even the casting

process itself. It sounds like it might be a completed project, right?

Wrong – at least for a film-ing project.

Over spring break, several members of UTTV took scenes from West Bancroft Side Story on portable hard drives to begin the most time-consuming part of produc-tion: the editing process.

The team members use a computer program called Fi-nal Cut Pro to edit video. Fi-nal Cut Pro, a Macromedia

software application which is designed for professional film productions as well as inde-pendent projects, is one of the most flexible video editing programs available.

I joined Carina Cornieles, producer for WBSS, to work on editing several scenes – in-cluding singing scenes – dur-ing break.

Since I have never used Fi-nal Cut Pro, only Final Cut Express, a condensed version of the program. Cornieles gave me a crash course,

showing me shortcuts and other simple tricks for the program.

After that, we were off.On our first day working,

we focused on editing the scenes that included songs. Editing a scene with a song is different from a regular scene because of the lip-synching.

I know what you’re think-ing: “Lip-synching? How lame.” For a musical program, though, lip-synching is one of the only ways to assure the sound recording is good

quality. It would be nice to hear a live version of a song, but it really is better to record the song first so it sounds just the way it needs to.

Still, lip-synching makes ed-iting just that much harder, because the movement of people’s mouths should match the words of the music.

One of the most difficult songs to edit film for was the song “Fire Burning,” the big-gest choreographed song of the musical. This scene was difficult mainly because the

match of the song and the choreography had to be so exact, but editing the musical portions of the show is my fa-vorite part.

But here is the bad part about my enthusiasm: during editing, I would sometimes become overly excited about the video and spend too much time watching raw footage in-stead of working.

Raw footage – the video files from the camera – is

By Feliza CasanoCopy Chief

Riding the storm out

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Congratulations – the se-mester is half over. If you’ve come this far and, after look-ing over your midterm grades, you’re sure that you’ve got what it takes to make it to summer, than pat yourself on the back.

Success in school can be a unique recipe for each stu-dent. For many, it will be clocking long hours in Carl-son Library or in front of a laptop screen. Others use the wee hours of the morning be-fore a test or term paper to

cram as much information in-to their brains as possible. For the rest, pure luck and recitation may be all it takes.

Yet, every student should give credit where it is de-served to the other – seem-i n g l y i n c i d e n t a l

accoutrements that give the student the extra boost to succeed. Good friends, friend-ly professors, coffee sold by the pound and of course the necessary aesthetic aides, specifically the right music that can carry you through an

all-night study session, paper deadline or the morning walk to class.

For the numerous students that utilize the playlist options on their mp3 players, the fol-lowing are three suggestions for additions to your libraries.

These songs have been sug-gested to entertain, inspire, and pump up students - at least until the end of the semester. I submit to you three options for a “Second Half of the Se-mester Playlist.”

Mid-semester playlist recommendations by IC staff

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1. Shutterbug – Big Boi fea-turing Cutty – For those of you that haven’t yet picked up a copy (or more accurately, downloaded) of the more tactical, wordier half of Outkast’s latest album, you are missing out on an innovative and high energy hip hop work. This song is great right before a test if you haven’t slept a sufficient amount and need an extra boost to get into the necessary mental state.

2. Home – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – The Zeros recently had a song in a Ford Fiesta commercial. This song has been floating around the iPods of the indie-inclined since 2009, but stands the test of time for upbeat acoustic numbers. Fans of whistles, claps and horn sections will not be disappointed.

3. Dynamite (Going Postal) - Rhymefest – Protégé of Kanye West and famed British DJ Mark Ronson, the Chicago-based MC put together one of the most energetic bona fide hip-hop tracks of the last decade. This song goes equally well for the subtle but needed head clearing moments before turning on your computer to begin writing a paper, as it does for the drive to a night club.

4. Where Is My Mind - The Pixies – Aficionados of the cult-classic turned college mainstay film “Fight Club” may remember this song, which plays during the ending credits. Those unfamiliar with the Pixies’ catalogue would do well to start with this track. I suggest this song be played after the second pot of coffee while perusing Facebook to kill time at 3 am. If you’re partial to electronic music, I recommend the Bassnectar remix.

5. The Way We Get By – Spoon – Simple enough to be played while studying, fun enough to rock out to on the walk back to your dorm room. The song has the per-fect mix of deep piano, tambourine and a catchy, effortless chorus.

1. Get Back Up - T.I. -- This is a perfect song for those of you who feel drained after getting back your midterms or just need a little boost to push you through the rest of the semester (including through finals week). Featuring an appear-ance by Chris Brown, the song has a great motivational message throughout.

2. More - Usher -- This up-beat song by R&B superstar Usher

came out about a year ago, but the song has been used in commer-cials and advertisements world-wide. For those of you who want that extra grade, this song will push you as you do those late-night study (or, should I say cramming) sessions at Carlson.

3. The Show Goes On - Lupe Fiasco -- The Chicago-born rapper, who just released his latest album, has put together one of the

most highly-played singles in the past few months. For those of you who have not heard this song, pick it up on iTunes or catch it on the radio (or most likely, find it on YouTube). The song’s unique style is great for anyone who likes an upbeat tempo while traversing the UT campus throughout the day.

4. Never Say Never - Jus-tin Beiber - To serve as a dis-claimer, I have NEVER listened to

a Justin Beiber song, nor do I plan on doing it in the future. However, after reading the lyrics to the song by the teen pop star, the lyrics sug-gest the fight to succeed is never over, and that you can never quit. This would be a great song to lis-ten to when the class workload in-creases as the semester winds down, leaving you both stressed beyond belief and wondering how you will make it to May.

5. Coming Home – Diddy, Dirty Money & Skylar Grey -- Hip-hop mogul Diddy came back strong with this inspirational me-lodic tune. The combination of strong vocals mixed with a melod-ic background makes this song a must-have for any student who wants to go home on the Dean’s List (or not on academic probation)

1. Wait Until Tomorrow – The Jimi Hendrix Experience – While the title sounds like the pro-crastinator’s anthem, the lyrics discuss a woman named Dolly Mae putting off running away with Hen-drix. Her father shoots Hendrix at the end of the song, so the lyrics could be interpreted as a sign not to procrastinate. The John Mayer Trio does a great live cover of the song on the concert DVD “Where The Light Is.”

2. Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen – This song should speak to students who are reluctant to end the party of spring break and get back to school. It features lyr-ics such as, “Don’t stop me now. I’m having such a good time. I’m having a ball. Don’t stop me now. If you wanna have a good time, just give me a call.” Fans of “Shaun of the Dead” will recognize it instantly.

3. I Me Mine – The Beatles – When crunch time calls, you of-ten have to be selfish and prioritize your school work above all else. This song will put you in the selfish mindset. It is one of the more un-derrated Beatles songs. It’s also one of the best written by George Harrison along with “Here Comes the Sun” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”

4. Riding the Storm Out – REO Speedwagon – The title is a perfect metaphor for keeping your nose to the grindstone and power-ing through the storm that is the second half of the semester. For an even better experience, check out the unplugged version of the song.

5. Lover, You Should’ve Come Over – Jeff Buckley – There is really no connection be-tween this and school. It is just a great song that always helps me relax and focus when it’s time to work.

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