By Samantha RhodesAssociate News Editor

Extensive renovation plans to Rocky’s Pub and Grill — which included a new patio, a new stage area and an extended parking lot — were announced at a Student Government meeting Tuesday.

Director of Auxilliary Services Joy Seifert pre-sented several new plans for Rocky’s Jan. 21, along with Sammy Spann, vice provost for the Center for International Studies and Programs.

Spann said the atmosphere was re-thought to mimic the restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings.

“We want it to be something that students really like, but administrators can come in and have lunch,” Spann said.

Seifert and Spann said the renovations are tenta-tively set for completion in Fall 2014, but they are looking for student opinions and inputs regarding

the details of the renovation. Both said they are set to come back to SG in the coming weeks to get more feedback.

According to Spann, the new renovations will include two walls of flat screen televisions, an open and spacious layout, an unexposed kitchen area and a new parking lot outside with about 72 new parking spaces.

Adding outdoor seating was also mentioned as a possibility.

Seifert and Spann are also considering using an outside vendor for the new Rocky’s cuisine, rather than using the UT-affiliated Armark food vendor.

If an outside vendor did rent Rocky’s Pub, Spann said the possibility of using meal swipes with a student rocket card was still negotiable.

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INSIDE

UT aims for world record while fighting cancer

This marks the fourth year the University of Toledo’s Tie One On event will serve as a fundraiser for prostate cancer awareness and outreach. But UT is upping the ante — by also shooting to break a world record.

NEWS / 3 »

Scandalous ScarvesFashion Editor Isis Darks ex-

plains three ways to wrap your scarf this winter so you can stay warm but still be whimsical.

COMMUNITY / 7 »

On the road again The Rocket’s road woes con-

tinued over the weekend with a 78-72 loss at Western Michigan on Saturday.

SPORTS / 5 »

““Crazy how the mind of someone who could be sitting right next to you could be thinking of ways to kill themselves but never speaking about them aloud.”

PARIS BLACKUnderstand before you judge

OPINION / 4 »

UNIVERSITY COUNCIL

DINING SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

TOBACCO BAN LIKELYUniversity Council approves campus tobacco ban

UT planning renovations to Rocky’s Pub and Grill

City council approves new housing near campus

By Samuel DerkinNews Editor

In a nearly unanimous vote, the University of Toledo’s University Council voted in support of a resolution proposing a campus-wide tobacco ban.

This resolution, which includes all tobacco products except for electronic cigarettes, is now in the hands of President Lloyd Jacobs,

who will decide whether or not to introduce the resolution before the UT Board of Trustees on Feb. 10.

“The executive committee of the University Council put the smoking ban discussion on the agenda,” said UTMC Chancel-lor Jeffrey Gold, a member of the council. “And the reason we did was because we know that it

was something the students and Faculty Senate were both inter-ested in discussing and moving forward with.”

The resolution was proposed by Student Government President Emily Kramp during Friday’s University Council meeting, and Gold drafted it for the council to vote on.

“There was a whole lot of

discussion as to whether or not it would be all tobacco or just smoke tobacco; whether or not e-cigarettes would be part of it,” Gold said. “And the decision was made after a lengthy, lengthy dis-cussion to limit it to all tobacco products, but not include e-cigarettes, just because there is no

NICOLE BADIK / ICJoy Seifert, director of auxilliary services, presents plans to renovate Rocky’s Pub and Grill on Jan. 21 alongside Sammy Spann, vice provost for the Center for International Studies and Programs. The tentative plans include changes like a new outdoor patio, two walls of flat screen televisions, an open and spacious layout, an unexposed kitchen area and a parking lot outside with about 72 new parking spaces. Seifert and Spann said they are also considering using an outside vendor to run the new Rocky’s.

New VP to lead several student services

STUDENT HOUSING

Mozart’s music

comes to Toledo

COMMUNITY / 7 »

JACKIE KELLETT / ICThis map shows the location of a planned apartment complex just off campus.

By Destiny WashingtonStaff Reporter

Rocket Solution Central (RSC) and several other student services will now be overseen by a newly-hired employee in a newly-created position.

Steve Schissler, an Ohio native who recently moved back from San Diego, is now the vice president of financial aid and enroll-ment services, which oversees Rocket Solu-tion Central, Admissions Operations and New Student Orientation at the University of Toledo.

“I am excited and proud to be joining the enrollment staff at UT,” Schissler said. “Everyone on this team is dedicated to finding ways to help students succeed. While I might be a little nervous because everyone wants to succeed in a new job, I am also confident that my back-ground will help me accomplish our goals.”

This position came about shortly after the retirement of Carol Baumgartner, UT’s previ-ous director of financial aid.

Schissler said that his respon-sibilities are broader than his predecessor’s and are meant to ease the workload of Cam Cruickshank, vice provost of enrollment.

“The expansion happened in order to reduce the VP of Enrollment’s span of control,” Schissler said. “This allows the VP to focus on getting enroll-ment where it needs to be.”

Schissler said he feels his experience will suit his new position’s needs.

“In my previous university positions, making changes was one of my primary responsi-bilities and one that I enjoyed,” Schissler said. “Higher education is dynamic and always changing; therefore, you must be will-ing to change to offer the best educational experience possible. My experience has prepared me

STEVE SCHISSLER

Newly appointed vice president of financial aid and enrollment

services

See Administrator / 3 »

By Lauren GilbertCopy Editor

A new four-story housing complex geared toward students at the University of Toledo is set to be constructed on Bancroft Street.

The Toledo City Council voted 9-2 on Jan. 14 to approve a zoning change that was required in order for the project to proceed.

Councilman Tyrone Riley was one of the two councilmen who voted against al-lowing the $27 million project. He stated during the meeting that his reservations stemmed from his concerns about the neighborhood and its inhabitants.

See Housing / 3 »

See Renovation / 8 »

See Tobacco / 8 »

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This week in UT history

25 years ago: Dr. Frank Horton officially assumed office Wednesday as the 13th president of the university. Part of his first day was spent touring the Student Union and other campus buildings.

35 years ago: The Sher-man Room restaurant, located on the third floor of the Univer-sity of Toledo Student Union, has not reopened for business for winter quarter and will remain closed permanently. Gladieux Food Services Inc. was sustaining losses of $500 a week on the operation.

75 years ago: A liquor-less night club, long antici-pated by students, will open on the campus Friday, Feb. 10. The entertainment spot, management of which will be by students, will be known as the El Aboodo, and will be open to University students only. Student talent will be used for entertainment. The downstairs of the Student Union, transformed for one night into a take-off on the swanky cafes, will be the set-ting for the club.

80 years ago: Uni-versity of Akron hoopsters decisively trounced Coach Connelly’s Blue and Gold clad courtmen, the score be-ing 35 to 22.

NICOLE BADIK / IC

Assemblages of found artKristen Guerra’s piece, pictured above, was made from picture frames and other re-purposed materials. Students from multiple art classes ventured into the Center for Visual Arts gallery on Jan. 14 and 16 to create art from found objects with Dewey Blocksma. The student-made pieces were then added to Blocksma’s “Re-purpose on Purpose” exhibition. The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 25.

STUDENT GROUP OF THE WEEK

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Theta Tau: Chi Beta ChapterPurpose: The

purpose of Theta Tau is to develop and maintain a high standard of profes-sional interest among its members, and to unite them in a strong bond of fraternal fel-lowship.

Leaders: Regent: Ryan Oaks; vice regent: Stephen Kluesner; treasurer: David Tennant

Upcoming events: Rush from Jan. 20 through 24 and Jan. 27 through 31. All you can eat pancakes, a jello fight, meet and greet (with pizza).The Gear Run 5k raises money for a new charity every spring semester. Teetering 4 Tots is 24 hours before the homecoming football game every year to raise funds for the Sunshine Foundation .

Learn more: The best way to obtain information is to con-tact Ryan Oaks at ryan.oaks@rockets.utoledo.edu.

Would your group like to be featured as the IC’s Student Group of the Week? Email Morgan Rinckey at mrinckey@independentcollegian.com.

What is your favorite website?

“Google.” “Pinterest.” “Instagram.” “StumbleUpon.”

Denise Wilder Second-year Social work

Stacy Barnes First-year

Nursing

Tiffany Curry First-year

Accounting

Zach Haskinson First-year

Undecided

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IN BRIEF

Biology seminar to be held Jan. 24

Hans Wildschutte, assistant professor of biological sciences at Bowling Green State University, will be giving a lecture titled “A Pop-ulation-Level Approach to Study the Structure and Function of Wild Bacteria.” This seminar is presented by the University of Toledo’s Department of Biological Sciences and will take place Friday, Jan. 24 at 3:30 p.m. in Wolfe Hall, room 1240. For more information, contact Douglas Leaman at 419-530-2066.

UT Jazz Night to be held Jan. 27

UT Jazz faculty group CrossCurrents will per-form with student Jazz combination groups on Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Crystal’s Lounge at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center. This Center is located at 3536 Secor Road, one mile north of main cam-pus. Tickets will be sold at the door for $5. For students and seniors 60 or older, tickets will be $3. For more informa-tion, email Angela Riddel at TheArts@utoledo.edu or call 419-530-2452.

Organic studies lecture to be held Jan. 27

Ruth Adams, a nation-ally recognized artist and associate professor of Art with the Univer-sity of Kentucky, will speak about her exhibit “Organic Studies” on Monday, Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m. in the Center for Vi-sual Arts building, Haigh Auditorium. Adams uses 3-D Direct Scan tech-niques to create vivid photographs of decaying plant life. The event is free to the public.

University Hall to receive lighting upgrade

University Hall’s lamps are being re-placed to reduce energy use. The work began on Jan. 20 and will be completed by Jan. 24 at the latest. Laibe Electric is doing the work during second shift. For more information, contact N. Sandrine Mubenga at 419-530-1422.

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By Samantha RhodesAssociate News Editor

This marks the fourth year the University of Toledo’s Tie One On event will serve as a fundraiser for prostate cancer awareness and outreach. But UT is upping the ante — by also shooting to break a world record.

On Feb. 5 at the Fetterman Training Facility in Savage Arena, UT will try to break the world record for the num-ber of bow ties tied and worn simultaneously in one room. The current record sits at 417.

“We’ve had three very suc-cessful years of Tie One On to raise funds for cancer pre-vention and cancer care,” said Larry Burns, vice president for external affairs during a press conference on Jan. 14. “Last year we had over 400 people attend our event.”

Approximately $15,000 was raised last year during the event for UT’s Dana Cancer Care Center in support of prostate cancer care, accord-

ing to UT News.This year’s Tie One On

event will take at 7 p.m. before the UT men’s bas-ketball team plays Bowling Green. Tickets are $100 for general attendees and $20 for students, which include admittance to the pre-game reception and a Tie One On bowtie.

Attendees are asked to remain in the building so UT can pursue recognition and clarification from the Guin-ness Book of World Records.

Since it’s inception in 2011, UT’s annual Tie One On event has quickly become a widely recognized campus and community tradition.

Mike O’Brien, UT Athletic Director, said he was proud of how involved UT students have been in this event, and expects to see similar partici-pation this year.

“I also want to commend our students on campus that take a very active role in this event, but that’s the norm

around here,” O’Brien said. “Our students are very, very active.”

“It’s also been branded as a national thing,” said UT Men’s Basketball Coach Tod Kowalczyk. “We’ve gotten a lot of great national recog-nition for our institution because of Tie One On, and I’m just extremely proud that we’re associated with it.”

The UT bowtie has made two appearances in the World Series when worn by Fox Sports’ baseball ana-lyst Ken Rosenthal in both Detroit on Oct. 27, 2012 and in St. Louis on Oct. 26, 2013. Each year, Rosenthal holds a Bow Tie Cause competition on Facebook and organiza-tions submit their bow tie to support a cause. Rosenthal then wears the most popular choices, in which UT has been a winner two consecu-tive years running.

“It [Tie One On] has been a tremendous event for our program, but more

importantly to fight a deadly cause, and all the money and proceeds go to fight prostate cancer here at UTMC,” Kow-alczyk said.

In addition to the world-record attempt, UT will host a silent jersey auction that will remain open until Feb. 3, with the highest bidder of each jersey having his or her name placed on the back of the basketball player’s warm up. After the game, that

bidder will then receive the player’s warm up and jersey to keep.

To register for the event, visit utoledo.edu/tieoneon. The $100 donation includes a bow tie as well as a ticket to the basketball game and reception.

“I’m really, really excited about the Tie One On event,” Kowalczyk said. “Please get the word out and get your friends there.”

with the skills to make this happen along with the very good teams that are already in place.”

Although Schissler believes that the service of RSC is efficient, he said there are changes that need to be implemented, which includes making RSC’s pro-cesses less bureaucratic.

“Even in the short time that I’ve been here I’m looking at ways we can be even more student friendly,” Schissler said. “And in some ways, cut out the hassles of the business side of being a student.”

Shortly after Schissler was hired, a meeting with the entire staff was held to dis-cuss how RSC could make their policies friendlier by eliminating excess paper-work and financial aid steps.

“We are going to look at all policies and see if we can make getting students admitted, keeping students at UT, and helping students retain their scholarships easier,” Schissler said.

Schissler said that he is considering allowing students who slip slightly under a 3.0 to keep part of their financial aid awards with an incentive of earning the full amount back when the recipients’ grades rise.

This change is one he hopes will take effect in the fall.

Schissler said dealing with the Department of Education will be one of RSC’s largest roadblocks while trying to amend poli-cies.

“The Department of Edu-cation’s regulations have us up against a wall,” Schissler said. “Some of the regula-tions we understand, and then some of the regulations we think are unnecessary.”

Such regulations include verification, a process by which the government randomly selects students to send in tax information upon enrollment in order to verify FAFSA information.

Although labor inten-sive for college families, Schissler said that in some cases, the process helps the student.

“If students have less money than what they put on the FAFSA, then they can qualify for more finan-cial aid,” Schissler said.

“All we can do is advocate on a federal level, like a lot of schools do and tell them what they need to change,” he said.

Schissler said he antici-pates change to occur by the 2014-2015 school year.

“There are a lot of things that are in progress; however, it will take time,” Schissler said.

Administrator from page 1

Riley said residents he talked to had expressed “grave concerns and reservations” about parking, the height of the four-story building, vehicle traffic in that area and the oversaturation of student housing.

“It’s a question mark, and many could say that those concerns that I’ve just outlined have not been adequately addressed to their satisfaction, and now the result: they are opposed to this particular project,” Riley said.

Diane Schreiner, presi-dent of the Bancroft Hills Neighborhood Association for Block Watch, is among the residents who oppose the project.

She said one of her major concerns is crime.

“There’ll be a lot of car break-ins,” Schreiner said. “Somebody’s going to get hurt down there for sure because it’s right up by the street.”

Councilman Larry Sykes said the four-story facility will have 143 units, 480 beds and 456 parking spaces.

Sykes said that the types of businesses to be built there would be retail, not liquor stores, and that they would cater to students.

He also said there would be security for the building,

including cameras and two security guards.

“I think it will challenge owners that may be renting to students now — they will be forced to do a better job maintaining their properties, and that will help increase the value of our city,” Sykes said. “I think with more indi-viduals being in the vicinity, I hope it will deter any and all

type of crime.”The district this land occu-

pies is represented by Coun-cilman Tom Waniewski, who said during the city council meeting that the project will be good for the area.

“Those buildings are already being started to be torn apart — and not by the developers — so they’ve been vandalized. It’s a blight now. It has been a problem for my district and that area since I’ve been on council with the Omni,” Waniewski said. “This is an opportunity to in-ject $27 million of economic development construction

jobs in the area that will add taxes to our coffer.”

Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins was also present at the council meeting and said, “The neighborhoods are important, and development is important, and Toledo is open for business.”

He said his view on this project keeps in mind the advancement of the city of Toledo.

“If you go to that corner and you look from Westwood over to the creek, the funda-mental question that I think you have to ask yourself: is it in the state of affairs today that you wish to keep it in, or is this a better option in terms of the neighborhood? Does this bring value to the neigh-borhood? Does this comple-ment the University of Toledo and their synergy as it relates to economic development?” Collins said.

“I think this sends the right message, that in Toledo you will do better and that’s really what we’re all about,” he said. “… We do indeed have an open door and we do want business to come in here and we want businesses to flourish — and student housing is a business.”

UT Student Government President Emily Kramp said members of SG plan to meet with the development com-pany within the next three weeks to discuss the project.

Housing from page 1

“There’ll be a lot of car break-ins. Somebody’s going to get hurt down there for sure...”

DIANE SCHREINERPresident of Bancroft Hills Neighborhood Association

CANCER FUNDRAISER

UT aims for world record while fighting cancer

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Wishing for a better alternative to Facebook

The smoking ban needs careful

implementationIt has been nearly three months

since the majority of UT’s student body voted in favor of banning tobacco on our campus. One of the most contentious aspects of the now-inevitable smoking ban at UT is its implementation. Will I be fined if I get caught smoking once? Will faculty be in danger of losing their jobs if they smoke? Is it realistic to expect UTPD to yank cigarettes out of people’s mouths instead of fight-ing real crime? These are legitimate questions, and as the author of the

original resolution in Student Sen-ate, I sincerely hope the answer is no to all of those. The intention of this smoking ban is to make our com-munity healthy and educated, not to turn our university into a police state.

While researching tobacco bans at colleges across the country, I noticed that there was a wide variation in enforcement of such bans. Some universities did not enforce their to-bacco ban at all, in which case there is no point in having one. Other universities were extremely strict, fining offenders upon each instance, including visitors. Both of these extremes are ridiculous and do not fit in with UT’s culture. I hope that our administration balances educa-tion with enforcement when imple-

menting this ban and advertises it well ahead of time such that smokers are well aware of the policy change. Furthermore, educating members of our community on the benefits of a smoke-free lifestyle should be done at all levels, from residence halls to athletic events. It is time that we take responsibility for our lives and our health.

The current status-quo of forcing smokers into unsafe huts where rec-reational drugs are used frequently does good for none. While I am glad the University of Toledo listened to the student body and passed this smoking ban, the administration must be careful to implement it in a responsible, respectful, and effective manner.

—Mike Peachock, student senator

Editor’s note: This column contains imagery that may be disturbing to some readers.

Maybe if I were to swallow a half a bottle of Vicodin and chase it with a bottle of 1800, slice my wrist with that cheap razor from Family Dollar or maybe even drown my sorrows in my bathtub — the pain will eventually all go away.

Crazy how the mind of someone who could be sitting right next to you could be thinking of ways to kill themselves but never speaking about them aloud.

Have you ever heard the phrase “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade?” My next door neighbors’ mission to commit suicide didn’t go as planned when life kept giving her lemons; she let them pile up in a corner, growing mold until they made her sick.

I remember her lying on the bath-room floor where her 5-year-old sister found her. The water from the tub overflowing, cold, surrounding her motionless body. She was 11, the same age as me.

We were next door neighbors for about three and a half years, but were never really friends. Her little sister found her unconscious 15 minutes after she had taken her mother’s pain killers. The words of her little sister continued to play in my head: “I just wanted to see if she would play Barbie’s with me.” She cried heavily, clenching my hand and T-shirt as they hauled her

big sister’s body off in the ambulance. I cried a little myself; not because

she tried to kill herself, but because her little sister cared so much about losing

her that I just didn’t know or un-derstand why she would want to. But, that was just it. I didn’t know or understand what was going on with her; I didn’t know that her stepdad was raping her when her mom wasn’t around. I didn’t

understand why she felt ugly and I didn’t know she didn’t have any friends. I still sit and wonder sometimes what if I did know.

“My husband would never touch my daugh-

ter,” her mother screamed at the inves-tigator, a yell that seeped through the thin walls of our apartment. Can you imagine reaching out about what’s hap-pening to you at the age of eleven and your own mother not believing you?

The opinions of others are deadly. What you wear, how you look, what you say, even the way you breathe is being judge by people who don’t have a say in the way you live your life. Who am I to say that the thought of suicide is a product of selfishness, when I may have thought it myself? Who is my professor to tell me that I’ll never make it further than undergraduate school because my GPA doesn’t brand me as intelligent enough? Who are the people who don’t even know me, to place a label on my name because of what they hear about me? Who am I, who are you, and who are they?

I ask myself these questions the night I confessed to my best friends that I too have let the opinions of oth-ers get me down to the point where I closed the walls in on myself and shut the world out. That I too have let the struggles of my everyday life get to me when I know someone else out there may have it worse. That I too never thought that I could reach out to people about the way I feel because of the way they may look at me, judge me and talk about me.

In my opinion, not everybody knows or understands your story because it’s not their place to. It is you who holds the pen to your book of life and writes the words of who you are and what you do. Stop letting the opinions of others white them out. Admitting to yourself that you need help is the first step to becoming happier with who you are and the way you live. It is a big step, and it’s not easy. Reach out for help or be that helping hand that someone needs — in today’s condemnatory society, you could possibly save someone’s life.

Paris Black is a fourth-year majoring in English.

PARIS BLACKIC COLUMNIST

For me, “I'm going to quit Face-book” carries the same connotation as flying pigs.

I signed up for a Facebook account several years ago, right after the Myspace bust. All the cool kids were doing it, and I wanted to be a cool kid too. For a few years, Facebook was all the rage among my friends and even my family.

Now, however, it seems the Facebook train has left the sta-tion and is embark-ing on a harrowing journey to its end. According to new data by British anthropologist Dan-iel Miller, fewer teenagers are using Facebook, and instead are using more specialized social media such as Twitter and Instagram.

But we're still using it. I'm still using it.

What happened to striving to be hip and young? Do what the kids are doing and you'll live forever, right? As it turns out, I can't get away from Facebook. Even through all of the annoying updates and all of the “Facebook drama,” I still can't

tear my eyes away until I find better social media to use.

It recently dawned on me that the only reason I use Facebook is

to stay in touch with my friends. I sign in, read what they have to say, look at what they have to show, contribute my bit, become bored and leave. I don’t play Facebook games.

I stopped updating my favorite books, musicians and films years ago. I sub-scribe to a few feeds, like The Onion and NPR, but I can just as easily point my browser to their

websites.If I had no friends, I would

have no reason to use Facebook. It doesn’t provide any service that could be considered useful or meaningful. The connections I have with my friends are the only things keeping me on Facebook. It's almost as if Facebook's business model is to profit off of peoples' friendships.

If there were some other social media platform that promoted only relevant and non-intrusive advertisements, posted no annoy-

ing sponsored posts, provided no always-on DRM (distraction from real motivation), included file-shar-ing and group organizing tools and had all of my friends using it — I'd be sold.

Oh, and it mustn't watch my every move and collect tons of unnecessary data about me. Sorry, Google Plus.

There are plenty of alternative social networks, but none of them quite have the file sharing and group organizing tools while also being accessible, useful and user-friendly. Twitter has micro-blogging, which is nice if I want to send a 140-char-acter update to my friends. Howev-er, it isn't very good for one-on-one or group interaction or for posting an update viewable only by specific audiences.

Google Groups has file sharing and group organizing tools and doesn’t require any more personal information, but the service is styled as a dry and uninviting forum of the late 1990s and early 2000s. It's good for having discussions with a single audience about a single topic, but not for personal networking.

Diaspora looks interesting, as it’s a self-hosted, open-source network-ing platform that works almost like Facebook. The drawback is that Diaspora requires someone (or a

group, I suppose, if your friends are cool like that) to shell out the money and invest in a computer with a server that's always provided with a high-speed Internet connec-tion — and all the accompanying electricity. Even then, one must convince one's friends to move away from Facebook onto the private server. Unless everyone in your network is dedicated and technically-oriented, it isn't worth the investment.

And then there's Path. Path has a unique service that is geared toward users who invite their close friends and family, with a limit of 150 contacts. To balance this, users may choose to post privately or to four other social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr.

However, Path has a glaring problem apparent from the moment of signing up — it’s only accessible on a "smart" device: iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire. I don't have any of those — sorry to burst the first-world bubble, but not every-one has a smartphone. There is no interface accessible from a standard computer, and the barrier to entry for many people becomes an expen-sive phone and an expensive data service. Even if I did have a smart device, I wouldn't feel comfortable

leaving all of my friends without smartphones behind on Facebook.

Note that I didn't include Tumblr or Pinterest in my list of potential Facebook replacements. Tumblr has tumblogs, which are great for sharing stories and interesting Web finds, but not for communicating with a small group or for having instantaneous interaction. Pinterest is a great tool for finding and collecting interesting things, but aside from sharing the images I pin, it has none of the common features of social networking — and really shouldn't be called a social net-work. It has a lot of visitors, but so do Pandora and NPR.

I want a simple social network with one purpose: to communicate with my friends. No games, no ad-vertisements, no sensitive personal data, no tracking, no empty feeling of wasting time. All of the potential replacements will do that, but they don't quite have the right func-tionality or accessibility to actually replace Facebook.

I'd like to leave for something less life-consuming, but until there's something better that catches the collective eye of my friends, I can't put the 'book down.

Jared Hightower is a third-year majoring in information technology.

JARED HIGHTOWER

IC COLUMNIST

The opinions of oth-ers are deadly. What you wear, how you look, what you say, even the way you breathe is being judged by people who don’t have a say in the way you live your life.

Students should take an interest in campus activites

What did you do today? Hopefully, you went to class if you had it, or did that homework you’ve been putting off. Maybe you went to a meeting with a student group you’re a part of, or went to work at the job that’s helping you pay your way through school.

But did you do anything outside your daily grind? Did you look up from your schedule and think, “Hey, I’m going to do something different today. I wonder if there’s anything special going on around campus?”

If you did, great! But if you didn’t… you’re probably not alone.Those colored pieces of paper decorating the Student Union

walls — they’re not just avant-garde wallpaper. Those are fliers advertising on-campus events, many of which are educational, or fun, or both. Some of these events — a lot, actually — cover serious topics that are important to being a productive member of our global community.

But of all these great things happening, some of these events are poorly attended. A lot, actually.

For example, at Unity Week (which is going on now), UT has been offering opportunities for students to get involved, to learn about each other and to have fun.

But at a screening for the film “Freedom Riders” on Jan. 14, only two students attended.

Unity Week isn’t singular in its inability to draw droves of inter-ested students. Many a staff member at The Independent Collegian could tell you a story about putting an event on their radar, hoping to get a good story or even just a picture, only to show up and find a room full of staff members and zero attendees.

Sure, we can bring up advertising, timing events, commuter stu-dent schedules — there are a multitude of excuses why students just can’t make it out to things. But do you really think the administra-tion can carry all the blame? Isn’t there a chance that there are just a few too many students who aren’t trying hard enough to make the most out of their college experience?

Even though some events for Unity Week didn’t draw many people, there are still a few more coming up that are worth your time to go see.

Does anyone know who Diane Nash is? Well, you might know her as a guest speaker for a lecture that you can get extra credit for attending. She strategized, planned and participated in some of the Freedom Rides and in sit-ins during the early 60s to help end segregation. She will be speaking at Toledo Excel's Conference for Aspiring Minority Youth that will take place on Jan. 25 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Someone who influenced history directly is coming to speak at the University of Toledo. That seems like a good reason to face the cold temperatures, and listen to someone speak.

It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day battle of just getting your homework done. But taking the time to mix it up and go to an on-campus event can be really fun if you let it . Checking your email or reading the newspaper, along with many other outlets, can let you know what awesome activities and events are hosted here at UT.

Getting out of your comfort zone is as easy as reading a flyer to see that UT has groups like Spectrum, the Latino Student Union and the Black Student Union, as well as many other organizations, to promote equality among students.

So the next time you see there is an event on campus, actually read what it will be about instead of just assuming you don’t want to go. It might change how you see things.

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By Austin HenrySports Reporter

The University of Toledo men and women’s tennis teams played several away matches over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, but neither team tasted victory.

The men fell to No. 28 Michigan, No. 29 Notre Dame and No. 69 Purdue, while the women opened their 2014 season with losses to Cincin-nati and Michigan State.

Toledo’s first action of the weekend, the women’s matchup in Cincinnati on Friday, was also the closest to victory either team was able to get during their collective consecutive road contests. The Rockets fell 4-3 after failing to rally against the Bearcats.

“This was a building kind of match” said head coach Tracy Mauntler. “I was very im-pressed with the performance of the girls. But we found things we need to critique.”

The Rockets came out victorious in one of the

three doubles matches when sophomore Emily Mazzola and junior Lexy Pitt won No. 2 doubles 6-3, but the team was still down 1-0 as they headed into singles play.

Toledo managed to remain on top for three of the six singles matches, looking to sophomores No. 4 Katelyn Nguyen, No. 5 Mackenzie Bow-man and No. 6 Pitt for the wins.

Nguyen managed a 6-2, 7-5 triumph over Cincinnati’s Katya Bure in the fourth spot, Bowman defeated Lauren Bellinger in No. 5 singles 7-5, 6-4, and Pitt put an end to Hannah Willie in the sixth spot by winning 7-5 and 6-1.

But during the singles match-es, senior Chrissy Coffman fell short in the number one spot to Kelly Poggensee-Wei 6-1 and 6-3, and junior Pia Rygh was cut short 6-4 twice by Ashleigh Witte. Mazzola lost to Caitilin O-Gara 6-1, 6-3.

Two days later, on Sunday, the women’s team traveled up to Michigan State where

they fell 7-0 to the Spartans.UT looked to Mazzola and

Pitt who recorded the Rockets’ only victory for the team by defeating Spartan’s Catherine Parentau and Athena Trouil-lor 6-3 in No. 2 doubles.

Toledo also had three different players take their opposition into the final set before they came up short.

Rygh lost in the second spot to Erin Faulkner 6-0, 6-7; Nguyen suffered a loss to Emily Meyers in No. 4 singles 2-6, 6-2, 10-6; and freshman Kayleigh Hall was defeated by Julianne Gruber in the No. 6 singles spot 3-6, 6-3, and 10-8.

“It was a very disappoint-ing loss, and we learned a lot from the past weekend” head coach Tracy Mauntler said. “We will be focusing on clos-ing out matches. We learned a lot about our weaknesses and what we need to focus on individually as well as a team.”

The Toledo men’s tennis team did not have any better luck than the women over the holiday. The Rockets began the weekend by travel-

ing to Ann Arbor, Mich., where they suffered their first of three consecutive losses.

Junior Mark Singnil cap-tured a singles match in the No. 2 slot for the Rockets with a 6-5, 6-5 victory, defeating the Wolverine’s Justin Rossi for the only point Toledo would score against Michigan.

The Rockets did show a lot heart though. Junior Roberto Meza played 6-2, 6-2 loss in No. 4 singles. While sopho-more Nicky Wong suffered a loss to UM’s Alex Petrone 6-2, 6-3 in the No. 3 slot.

“We definitely improved in certain aspects of our game,” said head coach Al Wermer. “At the same time we figured out what we must focus on more.”

Toledo was back on the road the next day for a matchup against No. 29 Notre Dame — their second con-secutive Intercollegiate Tennis Association Top 30 opponent of the weekend. The Rockets fell to the Fighting Irish 7-0.

“We performed very well

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IN BRIEF

Fluellen to play in senior bowl on Jan. 25

Former University of Toledo running back David Fluellen has been selected to play in the 2014 Senior Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala. on Satur-day, Jan. 25. Kick-off is at 4:00 p.m. ET and the game will be televised on the NFL Network.

Fluellen, who will play on the North squad, finished his time as a Rocket with 3,336 rushing yards – good for fourth all-time in the Toledo record books. He was a two-time first-team All-MAC selection during his college career, and he rushed for 100 or more yards 13 times in his career.

Despite missing most of four games during the 2013 season due to injuries, Fluellen gained 1,121 yards in his last season as a Rocket.

Pair of Rock-ets compete in New Year’s Invitational

A pair of University of Toledo men’s golfers par-ticipated in one of the old-est amateur tournaments in the country last week at the New Year’s Invitational in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Junior Chris Selfridge tied for 21st place and Rocket redshirt Daniel Brennan tied for 52nd at the event held at St. Peters-burg, Fla., on January 9-12.

“The New Year’s Invitational is one of the top amateur events in the country and was a good way for Chris and Daniel to play some competi-tive golf during the winter months,” said Toledo head coach Jamie Broce.

The New Year’s Invita-tional has been played at St. Petersburg Country Club every year since 1927, beginning as a match play event before changing to a stroke play format in 1956.

Toledo opens its spring campaign on Feb. 10-11 at the Mid-American Match Play event in Dade City, Fla.

Junior guard Julius Brown earns MAC West Division Player of Week for third time this season

For the third time this season, and for the sev-enth occasion in his Toledo career, junior guard Julius Brown has been named Mid-American Confer-ence West Division Player of the Week, the league announced on Monday. This also marks the fifth time this year that a Rocket has been honored with the weekly award.

Brown averaged 22.5 ppg and a team-high 3.5 apg to help UT post wins over a pair of teams that sit atop the MAC’s East Division. Juice opened the week with 20 points and six assists in a 67-65 home win over Buffalo, and he scored Toledo’s last eight points, includ-ing a buzzer-beating game-winning shot and the 1,000th point of his collegiate career.

The junior point guard then shot a season-high 25 points, including a season-high four treys, in Toledo’s convincing 75-61 victory at Akron. The Rockets’ win snapped the Zips’ 18-game win streak against the MAC West Division, and it also marked just the fourth Akron loss in their last 47 home games.

Juice currently leads the MAC this season with 6.8 assists per game and a 2.7 assist/turnover ratio, and he ranks ninth in the league with 14.1 points per game.

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On the road againToledo women fall 78-72 at Western Michigan; loss marks fourth straight road defeat for RocketsBy Marcus DodsonSports Reporter

The University of Toledo women’s basketball team’s road woes continued over the week-end with a 78-72 loss at West-ern Michigan on Saturday.

The Rockets have lost four straight games away from Sav-age Arena. Their last road win was over a month ago, on Dec. 15, at St. Bonaventure. This last loss drops UT to a 7-9 overall record (2-3 in Mid-American Conference play).

Senior point guard An-dola Dortch was one of four Rockets to score in double digits with a game high 19 points, but she only had six points going into half time.

“Dortch has to be offensive-ly aggressive for this team,” said head coach Tricia Cullop in a post-game interview.

“We’ve got to get those kids more aggressive and involved in the offense early on.

“We played kind of passive today and [we] need to be aggressive from the tip.”

Fourth-year center Brian-na “Crunch” Jones had a ca-reer tying best 13 rebounds to go with 16 points. Crunch leads the team this season with five double-doubles.

Junior forward Inma Zanoguera also helped her team with 16 points, and sophomore Ana Capotosto finished with 15.

A continued lack of pro-duction from the Rockets’

other players forced Toledo to lean on their starters for most of the team’s produc-tion. Only two of UT’s 72 points came from their bench.

“Our bench hasn’t really done much the last two games and we need more from them.” Cullop said.

Zanoguera gave her team a spark early in the game by scoring seven of their first 16 points and giving them a three point lead with just under 13 minutes left to play in the opening period.

This lead didn’t last long as WMU went on a 10-4 run to give themselves a 29-21 lead with 6 minutes left to play in the half.

UT didn’t have any an-swers to the Broncos’ quick shooting. The Rockets allowed WMU to shoot 50 percent from the field through the entire game.

Toledo struggled with shooting for the remainder of the half, making just 32 percent of their shots and trailing 38-29 at the break.

The Rockets started the second half with a bang by going on a 13-4 run to tie WMU 42-42 with 15:50 left in the game. Toledo depended heavily on Crunch and Capotosto and the two combined for nine of the 13 points during the run.

After a Morton layup, Capotosto received a pass from Dortch and knocked down a three to give her team their first lead since the 11:30 mark in the first half.

“Anna hit some big shots for us [and] that was good to see,” Cullop said. “She is somebody that continually keeps getting better as the season goes on.”

The two teams exchanged baskets over the next few pos-

sessions and the lead changed five times over the next two minutes, with Western holding a 50-49 lead with 13:28 left to go in the game.

Toledo refused to allow the Broncos more than a three-point lead for the next five minutes, and their fierce defensive effort was rewarded when Dortch put Toledo back in control with 8:05 left to play.

After a WMU timeout, UT saw their 62-61 lead disap-pear as the Broncos went on a 7-0 run to give them a lead they would not surrender.

This loss drops Toledo to last place in the MAC West divi-sion — a hole the team hasn’t

fallen anywhere near through-out the current coaching regime’s time in the Glass City. The Rockets haven’t tasted vic-tory since their last home win, a 68-52 victory over Miami, on Sunday, Jan. 12.

“We could easily bury our heads after what we’ve been through the last week going one-for-two,” Cullop said. “Or we can decide we want to get better and learn from what we just found out,”

Toledo will get the chance to decide when they return to action against Ball State on Thursday, Jan. 23. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. in Savage Arena.

JACKIE KELLETT / ICJunior forward Inma Zanoguera goes up for the basket during Toledo’s home win over Miami on Jan. 12. Zanoguera scored 16 points during UT’s loss to WMU.

“We played kind of passive today and [we] need to be aggressive from the tip.”

TRICIA CULLOPUT women’s head coach

UT men’s basketball program is set up for long-term

success Anyone who’s known me

for more than five seconds knows that I enjoy feel-good stories — and I absolutely loathe depressing ones.

It is one of several reasons why I cover sports instead of writing about politics or crime. True, there are plenty of heart-breaking athletic moments, but then there are just as many hopeful and exciting times.

And just because a par-ticular sports’ story leaves you feeling hopeful for the future doesn’t mean it can’t also show you how it feels to live through discouraging defeat. After all, victory tastes so much sweeter if those who won have also seen what it is like to lose.

Take the University of Toledo men’s basketball pro-gram, for example.

When Wisconsin native Tod Kowalczyk arrived in Toledo on March 30, 2010, to become the 18th head coach of the UT program, the Rock-ets’ team he inherited had a very intimate relationship with defeat — and failure.

Toledo had suffered three-straight losing seasons after claiming the 2006-07 Mid-American Conference title. The young men wear-ing Rocket uniforms through that dark time also recorded dismal marks in the class-room that would come back to bite the program long after they could be affected by their own mistakes.

Under the watchful eye of the NCAA — thanks to the last few Toledo coaches — Kowalczyk took on the herculean task of re-building the program from the ground up.

The new coach and his team worked through a 4-28 season in 2010-11 to post a 19-17 record in 2011-12. They achieved a 15-win improvement — without a single senior on the roster.

By preaching (and practic-ing) accountability in the classroom and on the basket-ball court, Kowalczyk and his staff forged the Rockets into consistent winners, leading to a 10-6 league record and a share of the MAC West Divi-sion title last season.

But Coach K, as his players call him, wasn’t done yet.

The Rockets are 15-2 (3-1 in the MAC) this season, and they’re eying an outside chance at an invitation to the NCAA tournament should the rest of the year go as they’ve planned.

Junior guard Juice Brown is having his best collegiate sea-son to date, and senior guard Rian Pearson is closing out his UT career just as well as any player can hope to, even discovering new success from the three-point line.

Junior transfers J.D. Weath-erspoon and Justin Drum-mond are having exceptional Rocket debut seasons, sopho-more center Nathan Boothe is successfully continuing off his freshman campaign, and Toledo’s freshman trio — guards Jordan Lauf and Johnathan Williams, and cen-ter Zach Garber — have

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UT men and women’s tennis teams spend MLK weekend on the road

PHOTO COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSSophomore Katelyn Nguyen’s (pictured above) defeat of UC’s Katya Bure wasn’t enough to help Toledo win.

PHOTO COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSJunior Mark Singnil (pictured above) managed two singles wins over the weekend, first winning at Purdue and his second coming versus the Michigan Wolverines. See Tennis / 6 » See Success / 6 »

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This season, in short, is shaping out to be the fruits of all of Kowalczyk’s labor during his brief time in Toledo.

Yes, things are good for the men who play basket-ball inside Savage Arena. Sure, there is plenty of room for improvement, particularly on the defen-sive side of the ball. But the team has a healthy dose of self-awareness, courtesy of its coach; even after the most complete

victories this season, Kowalczyk is the first to point out what his squad can do better.

And the players almost always seem to make the improvements he desires.

Kowalczyk has done more than anyone could have asked him to do in only four short years at the helm of this program. He has built a foundation that can and will be built upon for many seasons to come, and he has Toledo in a more competi-tive position this year than the team has been in since well before I graduated high school.

Whatever the 2013-14 season turns into for the University of Toledo men’s basketball team will be thanks to the vision of the team’s stern-faced head coach from Wisconsin. The squad became his baby, and he now he has it all set to graduate and get that suc-cessful job in the big city.

Kowalczyk, his staff, and his players are giving the

fans inside Savage Arena what they have been beg-ging for. They have given them a reason to cheer, and they have given them a reason to pack the seats for every single game.

And Coach K still doesn’t seem to be anywhere near done yet. So sit back Rockets fans, get comfortable; get your popcorn and a refresh-ing beverage.

Let’s see how far Toledo can go.

against Notre Dame,” Werm-er said. “We improved a lot since the night before against Michigan.”

Singnil managed to take Notre Dame’s Josh Haglar to the third set before fall-ing 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (10-5) in No. 3 singles. Junior Nicky Wong fell to Eddy Covals-

chi in the third spot and Kenny Sabacinski defeated sophomore Garret Cona in the No. 5 slot.

The third match of the weekend brought yet another Rockets’ loss at the hands of a nationally ranked team, as No. 69 Purdue handed Toledo a 6-1 defeat.

Singnil scored his second win of the season — and of the weekend — in No. 2 singles by beating Purdue’s Ricky Medinilla 2-6, 6-3, 10-3.

Sisko battled the Boiler-maker’s Szymon Tartczyk until the end of the third set, but he eventually fell in a 3-6, 6-4. 11-9 decision.

“We had a few well played singles matches.” Wemer said. “Our team was beginning to show that it was the third day on the road [and that we had gone] against two top 30 teams.

“Overall, I thought it was a well-played weekend consid-ering who we were playing.”

The women’s tennis team will return on Friday, Jan. 24, while the men’s team will next play on Saturday, Jan. 25. Both games will be the first home matches of the year for the two Rocket teams.

Success from page 5

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What’s ahead for Toledo men’s basketball:

Head coach Tod Kow-alczyk and his team will face off against their Mid-American Conference foes, the Northern Illinois Huskies, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, in Savage Arena. Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m. and you can read the game story afterwards by visiting www.independent collegian.com/sports.

The squad became his baby, and now he has it all set to graduate and get that successful job in the big city.

“We had a few well played matches. Our team was begin-ning to show that it was the third day on the road [and that we had gone] against two top 30 teams.”

AL WERMERUT men’s tennis coach

What’s next for Toledo tennis:

The University of Toledo men’s tennis team will host Duquesne in the Rockets’ 2014 home de-but on Saturday, Jan. 25, before traveling to Ohio State the next day. They will then travel to Louis-ville, Ky., to face Tennes-see Tech and Louisville back-to-back on Thursday, Jan. 30.

The Women will also host Duquesne for their first home match of the season on Friday, Jan. 24 as the first of four con-secutive home matches. Their other three oppo-nents during that time are IUPUI, UIC, and Detroit.

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By Angela PelusoStaff Reporter

Poet Paul Vallery said, “An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” That’s exactly what most Univer-sity of Toledo students are doing when participating in “Unfired,” the most recent endeavor of the Center for the Visual Arts’ Project Space Events.

None of the clay creations will be placed in a firing kiln to be pre-served, getting the name “Unfired.”

Monica Valdez, a fifth-year visual art major, said she started working with ceramics in high school and fell in love with it, so she kept practic-ing. Now she’ll showcase her talents to the public, along with instructors and other students in UT 3-D pro-grams such as sculpting, ceramics and all other forms of three dimen-sional art.

“‘Unfired’ is such a cool idea be-cause it’s actually like performance art and people see what it’s like to build something from scratch with clay, and I think that’s really impor-tant,” she said.

Students will begin working on Tuesday, Jan. 28, and will work through Feb. 8 during the scheduled class times.

Each class is responsible for

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EVENTS

UT lecture series highlights MozartBy Sohan MuthaStaff Reporter

Dust off your petticoat and bring Mozart’s music back to life at this year’s third annual arts and humanities festival.

The University of Toledo College of Communication and the Arts (CoCA) collaborated with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra on a series of events that include four lectures and two concerts, all centered around the life of classical composer Ama-deus Mozart and the time period in which he lived. The festival began Jan. 7 and will continue through Feb. 15.

One of the bigger events is the play “Ama-deus: In Concert,” which is set to be per-formed on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7 and 8 at 8 p.m. The performance will be accompa-nied by live music at the Toledo Museum of Art in the Peristyle.

“It won’t be necessarily a concert, but theatre,” said Cornel Gabara, associate profes-sor of theatre, who is directing the theatrical production. “It is a piece that explores human nature as it is, the good sides and the bad sides. We as a theater company — we’re not shying away from showing it.”

Gabara described his approach to theatre as active and engaging that is not just for en-tertainment purposes, but also to tackle issues pertaining to people.

“That’s because I think that the function of art or the role of art in society is actually to move us one way or another, but not to keep us comfortable,” Gabara said. “It is to make us think, to make us desire to look deeper into our souls and to discover what we have to fix within ourselves.”

Additionally, Gabara said that the audience will be able to see the full symphony orches-tra on the stage and that will give a dramatic structure to the play.

“There are moments of choreography, there are moments of physical engagement, and it’s not just about speaking,” Gabara said. “There’s

also a visual element involved in how the ac-tors are moving, what they are doing on stage could also be acrobatic.”

While the play is based on histori-cal documents, Gabara said the play is “a spectacle” that uses fiction to bring Mozart’s story to life.

“It’s going to be live music set to the play, it’s going to be awesome with amazing costumes,” said Erica Frank, theatre lecturer on costume design. “We’re entertainers and besides it being entertaining and sort of food for the eye from an art standpoint, it will be fun because it’s theater.”

Tickets for the play are priced from $22 to $55 and can be purchased from www.ToledoSymphony.com or by calling 419-246-8000.

Leading to the concerts is a lecture series throughout the month of January about Mo-zart and the 18th century time period.

“It actually makes the play more fun to watch when you know more about it,” Frank said. “You’ll get so much more out of it when you go to see the lecture series.”

Frank gave a lecture, “Under Mozart’s Pet-ticoat: Period Costuming,” on Tuesday, Jan. 21, with Daniel Thobias, assistant professor of

theatre and costume design.Frank talked about Rococo, an art style

from that time period.“It’s considered as one of the most

frivolous and aesthetically extreme in its romantic, witty, playful and extravagance to the point where they wore wigs with real birds in birdcages and just extreme and frivolous in the pursuit of pleasure,” Frank said.

Frank said that people think fashion is just fashion, but it is a political and social state

FASHION

Scandalous Scarves: three ways to tie the knot

ISIS DARKSFASHION EDITOR

Despite our desire to look fabulous in the winter, Level 3 snow storms and wind chills have brought us back to reality. The morning routine has turned into choosing the warmest socks versus the cutest top, and parts of our wardrobe are now starting to collect dust.

Everything has become thick. Thick tights under those pants, thick sweaters, and — heaven forbid — a thick coat. But one thing that don’t need to thicken is your scarf of choice. Fashion scarves are generally made with a thinner material than traditional winter fabrics like wool and alpaca, but that doesn’t mean you can’t wear them. Wrapped the right way, a fashion scarf is just as warm as any other scarf, and twice as whimsical.

A winter knit can be appealing, but ditch the itchiness and pull out the cheetah print scarf from last spring. Here are three ways to tie your scarves to ensure maxi-mum warmth.

The Hollywood Glam

This look screams ‘Audrey Hepburn meets your average student.’ Also known as the Kelly, this scarf is used as a headpiece, and it is tied in the back to secure it. Take a large, square shaped scarf with a funky print, and then put it over your head. Next, wrap each end diagonally to the other side of your chin. To add a modern touch, tuck the ends in instead of tying them in the back. To protect from the cold, I like to pull the fabric up above my nose and mouth so only my eyes show. This protects me from the harsh winds and helps with the long walks from building to building on campus.

Once inside, pull the hood of the scarf down so that it circles around your neck. You can match it up with your O.O.T.D (Outfit of the Day) so that you’ll feel comfortable enough to take your coat off if needed. Scarves suit-able for “Hollywood Glam” can be found at Charlotte Russe for as low as $5, and no more than $12.

The Wrap

A long, printed rectangu-lar scarf is ideal. You’ll want enough fabric to be able to wrap the scarf around you multiple times. I prefer a thicker type of fabric for this tie, so a winter scarf can be used. Start by plac-ing one end of the scarf in front of your neck and then wrap the scarf around until it is secure. With a longer scarf, you will be able to shield your face from the unfavorable weather condi-tions.

For a winter bohemian look, let the scarf drape down your shoulders a bit. This look goes great with slouchy boyfriend jeans, and it can be worn to class or on a comfortable day out. Retailers like H&M and Urban Outfitters carry the long rect-angular scarves you’ll want and they sell them from $10-$20. This investment is worth it and you can use them for the ‘Hol-lywood Glam’ tie as well.

The Loop

Scarves are pulled in a loop tra-ditionally, and this classic look will never die. Fold your medium to large scarf in half and place the fold behind your neck, then tuck the end through the loop. Next, pull the scarf down to the front and let it hang. For thin-ner fabrics, wear it under your coat instead of outside it. You’ll be able to style the scarf with your outfit, and still feel insulated. For thicker fabrics, place it outside of your coat, but don’t go too thick — you may start to sweat from the heat and fast-paced walking (if you’re running late to class).

The loop can also be done with silkier fabrics. Department stores like JC Penney, Macy’s and Dillard’s carry the dressier fabric, starting as low at $7 and range to $25 or more. If you buy a shorter scarf, pair it with a button up. Now you’ve made business casual accessories for the workplace!

Isis Darks is a fourth-year major-ing in marketing and has a blog at TheNaiive.com.

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COURTESY OF JANTZEN RIDENOURIsis Darks wears three different scarves to help visualize three ways to tie them while still being fashionable in the winter weather.

NICOLE BADIK / ICErica Frank, theatre lecturer on costume design, gave a lecture, “Under Mozart’s Petticoat: Period Costuming,” on Tuesday, Jan. 21 with Daniel Thobias, assistant professor of theatre and costume design.

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NICOLE BADIK / ICWeslie Detwiler, an art student, spins clay on a pottery wheel as part of her project.

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ment of the time.“I hope they get some

insight on how people were dressing back then and how we actually build garments in theatre,” Thobias said. “It’s

our challenges and what we have to deal with and hope-fully they’ll learn something about that.”

The next in this series of events is “Mozart from a Performer’s Perspective” with conductor Robert Mirakian and violinist,

Merwin Siu that will take place Tuesday Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in Libbey Hall.

The UT Symphony Orchestra and Choirs will perform a free “All Mozart Concert” on Saturday, Feb. 15 at 3 p.m. in UT’s Doer-mann Theatre.

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bringing their own mate-rials into the CVA, such as pottery wheels and clay.

“Many students and visi-tors to the CVA and To-ledo Museum of Art never get the chance to visit or see what we do in our buildings, so we decided to bring our studios to them,” said Karen Roder-ick-Lingeman, lecturer of studio art, art education and 3-D studies.

Roderick-Lingeman said the students might feel a little “in the spot-light” because instead of working in their normal workshops, the classes will be working in the same project space.

For example, advanced ce-ramic students will be work-

ing in the gallery during the same hours as the introduc-

tory 3-D foundation course students, she said.

She added that she is excited about the unique blend of students sharing the same room.

“I can imagine an advanced student think-ing, ‘I remember when…’ but I can also imagine a beginning student look-ing to where they might be in a few years when they are further along in their degree,” she said.

Being watched is causing more excitement and pres-sure for some students like fourth-year communication major and art minor, Weslie Detwiler.

“I’m kind of nervous because I’m kind of new at this,” she said, “but at the same time I’m really look-ing forward to it being open for people to come and see what we do.”

NICOLE BADIK/ ICChristopher Keith Anderson molds his art.

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Restaurant Week Toledo 2014 to fire up Feb. 24-March 2

Restaurant Week Toledo 2014 is scheduled to run from Feb. 24 through March 2. This week, pre-sented by Medical Mutual, is a dining opportunity that features special menus from local Toledo restau-rants. Each restaurant has developed special prix-fixe menus, which are only available during the seven days of Restaurant Week Toledo 2014, and will feature lunch and dinner

options priced at $10, $20 or $30 (excluding bever-ages, tax and gratuities). The promotions are dine-in only and because of the event’s popularity, reserva-tions are recommended. A portion of the proceeds will support Leadership Toledo, a nonprofit organization that promotes leadership and development for area youth and adults. Partici-pating restaurants include 5th Street Pub, Avenue Bistro, Beirut, Black Kite, Bluewater Grille, Bobby V’s, Burger Bar 419 Heatherdowns, Burger Bar 419 Monroe Street, Café at the Oliver House,

Capers Restaurant & Bar, Cousino’s Steakhouse, El-ement 112, Gradkowski’s, ICE Restaurant, Koreana, LaScola Italian Grill, Loma Linda’s, Mancy’s Italian Grille, Mancy’s Steak-house, The Original Tony Packo’s, Packo’s at the Park, Plate 21, Poco Piatti, Registry Bistro, Revolution Grille, Rockwell’s, Rosie’s Italian Grille, Shorty’s BBQ, social. a gastropub, Treo, Ventura’s, and Zinful.

To learn more, visit www.restaurantweektoledo.com. The site features participating restaurants’ special menus, maps and locations.

IN BRIEF

Spann said the plan is to keep costs low by working with the underlying plumb-ing system and repurposing existing structures. He added after the meeting that there are currently no estimates for the renovation costs, but necessary funds will be pulled from the university’s capital funds.

“I’m excited,” Spann said during the presentation. “I don’t know if you understand how much of a cost saving this will be instead of just tearing the whole place down and starting from scratch.”

Another significant point Seifert mentioned was the idea to build a stage in Rocky’s Pub, complete with a sound system for music and microphones so student organizations and bands can use it to entertain.

“We would use a sound system that’s down there and we’d add some mics so that we could really have a stage,” Seifert said. “…We could re-ally make this a place to go

Relocating Starbucks was also a mentioned as a pos-sibility to better control the traffic of students and add another cash register.

“One of the reasons Starbucks was mentioned in this rendition is that you’ve all seen that line that goes all the way to the doors of the library and out and almost up the stairs in some cases,” Spann said. “This will create ropes like they have in the movie theatre where the line will be contained mostly inside…Also seating in there will be kind of like a real Starbucks or Panera seating.”

When the meeting was opened up to questions from students, Seifert and Spann encouraged student input and told students that any

concern they had could be voiced because nothing was set in stone yet.

“All is negotiable,” Seifert said. “This is just trying to see if Sammy and I captured the essence of what this was…”

Spann agreed with Seifert in that the details of the renovation are negotiable and that student input is crucial for this renovation project.

“This is keeping the theme of what we did from the very beginning of the year- keeping the students’ voices involved.”

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conclusive evidence that the e-cigarettes produce an envi-ronmental hazard to others, where it is pretty clear that tobacco products produce an environmental hazard to others.”

Although a smoking ban has been in place for several years now on the Health Sci-ence Campus, Gold said it took a number of years for the rule to be uniformly followed.

“It takes an extensive amount of programming for tobacco cessation for students and faculty and others that need to be medically helped in order to free themselves of tobacco,” Gold said. “But over time it is probably the single most important thing we can do to increase the quality of life and longevity of life for our students and for our faculty. I think it sends a very positive message to families

and future students and I would hope that students on this campus embrace it as much as the students on the other campus.”

University Council mem-ber Kristen Keith, an associ-ate professor of economics, opposed the proposal. She said a tobacco ban would be much harder to implement on UT’s main campus be-cause of its diversity of tra-ditional and non-traditional students as well as staff, faculty and administrators.

“This is where students live,” she said.

Keith said it is one thing for UT to have a tobacco ban for faculty and staff, because they are university employ-ees, but that students should not be bound by the same requirement.

“You guys, you aren’t our employees,” she said. “You guys come here and this is where you live, if you live on campus. You come here and

you buy a product from us, which is education, but you are not our employees.”

She added that if Student Government hadn’t voted down a smoking ban resolu-tion, she wouldn’t have been as opposed to the Faculty Senate and University Coun-cil pushing a ban.

During the Jan. 21 SG meeting, Laura Halpin, who is a student representative on the board of trustees, asked senators how they would like her to represent them if the proposal reaches the board.

“From what I heard from people here, it sounds like the student senators in gen-eral support the spirit of the smoking ban and that there’s concern from smoking,” Hal-pin said.

Halpin does not have a vote on the board.

“My role as the student trustee is really just voicing the opinion of the students,” Halpin said.

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