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INSIDE

Rockets stay cold over weekend

Toledo softball loses first two games, third cancelled due to weather.

SPORTS / 6 »

Man eating plant comes to Toledo

UT theater department presents Little Shop of Horrors.

COMMUNITY / 8 »

UT raises water crisis awareness

Students carry water jugs to symbolize the struggle for water in un-derprivileged countries.

COMMUNITY / 8 »

Corrections: In last weeks story

“Carlson Library ‘transforms’ during National Library Week” we printed that author Blair Grubb will be hosting a book sign-ing on the wrong date. The correct date of the signing is April 19. We regret this error.

““The library is a symbol of the students, and a symbol of what our university means. That symbol is worth spending our money on.”SAVE THE LIBRARY

Editorial OPINION / 3 »

Kowalczyk loses three to transfer SPORTS / 6 »

CEO resigns ADMINISTRATION

Alumni continue green efforts

SUSTAINABILITY

Emily Schnipke Community Editor

Going green for some people means something as simple as bringing reusable bags into Kroger for groceries or sorting their plastics and their metal cans into the right bins. For University of Toledo alumni and Green Fund founders Tony Bova and Jeff Beegle, working to help our planet keep on living is a constant work-in-progress.

Bova and Beegle launched their interest in environmental issues at UT as Green Fund founders. Now they are participating in the People’s Choice voting challenge, a part of the Rice Business Plan Competi-tion, which is running until April 16 at 1 p.m. They are competing against 41 other teams for a prize of $5,000.

Bova and Beegle worked together in BOSEF and the Student Green Fund while earning their undergraduate degrees. Now they are working together once again. Bova said his Ph.D. research focuses on the study of renewable plastics made from lignin, a natural polymer found as the “glue” that holds all woody plants and grasses together. In the startup he and Beegle created, they turn lignin into a biodegradable plastic that can be used in the farming industry.

“Modern farms use plastics to cover their soil and keep it warm, moist, and

Library renovations planned for summer

By Colleen Anderson Managing Editor

Student Government presidential and vice presi-dential candidates outlined their platforms and answered students’ questions dur-ing a debate hosted by The Independent Collegian on Wednesday, April 6.

The two leadership tickets kicked things off by discussing the experience that qualifies them for the positions. Amal

Mohamed, the current SG External Affairs chair and presidential candidate, said she and her running mate, Cameron Forsythe have more than enough experience both inside and outside SG to lead, referring to her member-ship in student groups and Forsythe’s experience with the Eagle Scouts.

Ian Michalak, current SG vice president, heavily emphasized the three years

both he and his running mate, and current SG recording secretary, Dakota Ulrich, have served in student government. The bike share project and the book fee reduction petition are two project successes Mi-chalak said he achieved during his year as vice president.

The candidates discussed campus safety, diversity, dining, administration and campus culture during the hour-long debate. Both platforms agreed on the necessity to make changes on campus; however, they disagreed on how to ap-proach them.

The IC moderators asked the two tickets both what they felt the biggest problem is on UT’s campus. Ulrich said the biggest problem is needing to fix Stu-dent Union, which will in turn help improve campus culture and the student experience.

“I believe that the biggest problem that we have currently is our Student Union, and roll-ing along with that it has a lot to do with our campus culture ... a place that everybody

wants to be on campus would really bring our student body together,” Ulrich said.

Mohamed said that while she agrees the Student Union renovations are important, the biggest problem is the student experience itself, because she feels there is nothing for students to do or that they are not aware of events. Mohamed emphasized the need for connecting with campus groups to improve the

student experience. “Our vision of a new kind

of campus is a campus where Rockets are proud to be Rock-ets,” Mohamed said.

As far as their focus as an organization, Mohamed said SG should focus on relating to students rather than on inter-nal affairs and internal projects. Forsythe, current SG campus affairs chair, added on by

UTMC begins national search for new candidateby Morgan Kovacs Staff Reporter

The University of Toledo Medical Center needs a new CEO.

Executive VP and UTMC CEO, Dave Morlock, announced his resignation on April 5 from his position after hold-ing the job since fall 2013. Morlock’s resignation is effective as of June 1.

“Dave has helped make sure that our hospital is not losing money, has in-creased patient satisfaction, as well as patient numbers,” said UT President Sharon Gaber. “He also helped negotiate the academic af-filiation with ProMedica.”

The affiliation with ProMedica will transition medical students from completing residency at UTMC to instead com-pleting residency at the ProMedica Toledo Hospital and the Toledo’s Children Hospital. Gaber said this affiliation will give students greater opportunities to be in more complex situations

since those hospitals are much larger than UTMC.

“Dave Morlock set the hospital up for a bright future,” said Alex Wilhelm, a fourth-year nursing stu-dent. “I believe developing a relationship with a large health care system such as ProMedica can only benefit UTMC.”

Dan Barbee, who cur-rently serves as the VP for clinical services, will be serving as interim CEO while UT searches nation-ally to find a permanent person for the position. Barbee will report to Chris-topher Cooper, executive vice president of clinical affairs and dean of the College of Medicine, while serving as interim.

“Dan has been with the hospital a long period of time and has sort of risen through the ranks,” Gaber said. “My under-standing is he has been almost the Chief Operat-ing Officer, the COO. There is a good level of respect for his work.”

Gaber also said that it is important to remain com-munity focused during the transition with ProMedica, and that Barbee focuses on the community.

“I have seen Barbee around the hospital and he seems to take his job seriously,” Wilhelm said. “I think he has the best in-terest of the employees in mind and expects them to perform their jobs to the best of their abilities.”

Gaber knew of Morlock’s choice to step down 90 days in advance of June 1.

After Barbee spends some time as interim CEO, Gaber said UT will begin to conduct their search.

“When looking for a new CEO, I can only hope that UTMC looks for someone who can continue to put prior-ity on fiscal responsibil-ity, but also maintain a patient-first attitude,” Wilhelm said.

Although there will be a national search, Barbee could potentially become

the next CEO. “We will do a national

search for the CEO and I would assume that Dan is within that mix if he is good at it, and he likes it, and he wants to be consid-ered for it. I want to give him an opportunity to get his arms wrapped around it and see how things are going,” Gaber said.

Unlike Morlock’s busi-ness background, Barbee’s background is in nursing.

“I kind of like that,” Gaber said. “Dan has been in the trenches, so it’s a dif-ferent perspective.”

Morlock will be starting a new career in investment banking based out of New York City after his official resignation in June.

“Dave has helped to position us for the future and that’s really what he came in to do and that’s what he has accomplished,” Gaber said. “Now it’s up to Dr. Cooper, Dan Barbee and me to continue to move forward.”

CONSTRUCTION

RockeTHON 13-hour dance

marathon raises money for reasearch at Mercy Children’s Hospital.

COMMUNITY / 7»

SG candidates debate for presidential roles STUDENT GOVERNMENT

COURTESY OF UT FACILITIES AND CONSTRUCTIONThis floor plan of the second floor of Carlson Library shows the space undergoing renovations from a 2014 facilities plan. The orange space represents the area where renovations are still unfinished. The red lined area is the existing student information commons.

By Morgan Kovacs Staff Reporter

After discussions of renovations to the library for the past six years, Carlson Library will be undergoing a $3 million, multi-year renovation plan beginning this May.

Phase one of the plan is to renovate the third and fourth floors of the library, which will be closed from May 9 until August 15 for construction.

“The library is a resource for the entire academic community,” said John Barrett, UT provost. “We are trying to make that resource robust and welcoming so that students and faculty use it and have the tools that they need for what they are trying to do research wise.”

The second phase of the renovations are going to finish the second floor renovations that have talked about since 2010.

The money for the renovations is coming

from state capital fund.“We’re going to create a lot of group and

individualized study rooms on the third and fourth floors. That is something that students have really wanted and so it’s a good opportu-nity to be able to do that,” said Barbara Floyd, interim director of University Libraries.

The third and fourth floors are two of the quietest places in the library and the most common floors to study on. As Floyd pointed out, though, it is not incredibly invit-ing. The hope of the renovations is to make the library a more welcoming place.

The walls around the elevators will be torn down so the third and fourth floor will more closely resemble the second floor. New furni-ture, carpeting and fresh paint will replace the old brown and off-white colors.

“The color pallet is sort of a blue and gray,

SAVANNAH JOSLIN / ICDakota Ulrich and Ian Mitchalak participate in the IC-hosted Student Government debate for the positions of president and vice president.

SAVANNAH JOSLIN / ICAmal Mohamed sits next to Cameron Forsythe as he makes his case for their campaign during the Student Government debate held April 6 in the SU.

DAVE MORLOCK

See Debate / 7 »

See Library / 7 »

See Alumni / 7 »

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I have cried alone in my car in the past month more times than I should admit in a published col-umn. It is all because of the song “7 Years” by the Danish band Lukas Graham.

There are certain songs that al-ways make me feel something — the best songs should always make you feel something. “Hey Ya” by OutKast makes me happy, “You Are My Sunshine” makes me nostal-gic, and “Hey, Soul Sister” by Train makes me want to change the channel immediately.

I was riding in the car with my mom a couple of weeks ago before watching a Michi-gan State bas-ketball game on TV. The radio was playing commercials so I changed the station and “7 Years” came on. I asked if she had heard it before because it is always on the radio, but she said she hadn’t which confirmed my suspicion that she lives under a rock. Then those cursed lyrics came on. From under my sunglasses I teared up, and few tears fell. My mom saw my tears and just laughed at me. She ended up leaving me in

the car to have a moment by myself while she went inside The Ander-son’s to get her snack.

I’ve heard “7 Years” probably 20 times, and when it gets to a certain part it makes me feel really sad. The lyrics go, “I made a man so happy

when I wrote a let-ter once. I hope my children come and visit once or twice a month.” Instant tears. And I think to myself, “Why? Why do I feel this way? I shouldn’t be so affected by this.”

I think the reason that line affects me so much is because my parents are getting older (like everyone else) and they will be retiring at the same time I will be the busiest with my life. I don’t want to become the

kind of person that only sees their family on holidays or just once or twice a month, but I have a secret fear that I will, and it might even be less often than that. I don’t want to be like the Papaw’s grandchildren who went viral when they didn’t show up to his dinner where he made them all burg-ers. I have all the time in the world to visit my parents now, because I live at home, but in the years ahead I won’t have that kind of convenience.

“7 Years” is all about growing up and the problems we face with age. It goes from someone being seven years old and struggling to make friends, to an 11-year-old who faces social pressure, and then they’re 20, working on a career, imagining what they will be like at age 30 and 60. They imagine older life as someone who has children and only gets to see some of their friends from the past. It is a coming-of-age tale, and I think the reason the song is getting so much air time is because the song resonates with so many people.

So if you catch me crying alone in my car, there is a 78 percent chance that I am listening to “7 Years.” And there is also a good chance the same song affects you in some way, too.

Morgan Rinckey is a third-year double-majoring in English and Communication.

The Independent Collegian recently hosted a debate for Student Government. Going up against each other for the positions of presi-dent and vice president of SG, Ian Michalak and Dakota Ulrich versus Amal Mohamed and Cameron Forsythe.

While we moderated the debate impartially, we believe one group of candidates strongly stood out. This year, we’re casting our vote for Amal and Cameron because we believe they have both the passion for and the knowledge of the university and what it needs.

In the wake of President Sharon Gaber’s new diversity plan, diversity has become a hot button issue on campus, as we believe it should be. Diversity is one of the things that makes the University of Toledo so great, and Amal and Cameron have made this sentiment the key to their campaign. They said repeatedly that their focus is to increase student involvement in SG and also in-crease the types of students getting involved. They plan to reach out to all the student organizations, citing many multicultural orgs includ-ing the Black Student Union, the Students for Justice in Palestine and others. Amal also said she hoped to see a variety of students with differ-ent majors join SG, so that all dif-ferent student perspectives can be voiced. We put diversity on campus as one of our main priorities and we think that a group which is as sup-posed to be important as SG should reflect the diversity of the whole university.

We also found that Amal and Cameron talked a lot during the debate about student and adminis-tration relationships. Amal vowed to stop SG from being “an admin-istrative mouthpiece” and to shift the focus of the group back to the students and their experiences at UT. Having a student-centric cam-paign is a very important element to this race. The SG website states that one of their purposes is to

“bridge the gap between students and university admins,” yet we have not noticed this in past year. Amal and Cameron have identi-fied this as a problem they plan to address if they were to be elected, which we believe will be the key to getting SG back to the thriving and powerful student group that it was before.

It is also important to state that Amal and Cameron would balance each other out as president and vice president. Amal displayed a large amount of passion and desire for change during the debate. She was often the first to speak on matters such as campus safety and diversity. She often cited personal experiences as examples, exempli-fying not only that she is con-stantly observing things that affect the student body, but that she has a personal desire to change them. Cameron, on the other hand, had a vast knowledge of the different workings at the university. Tak-ing an almost technical approach, like the true engineering student that he is, he knew how and when things within the master plan were going to occur, as well as different administrative roles in different offices. These two very different personality types play off of each other’s strengths and if done cor-rectly can be a very efficient team, as seen through Amal and Cam-eron.

Not only do we feel that these things put Amal and Cameron above their competition, but we also find some issue with their op-ponents. Ian and Dakota appeal to a small subset of people on cam-pus. Though they possess a lot of needed experience, we believe they won’t be able to solve the problems SG faces.

In conclusion, we believe that Amal and Cameron are the right people for the job. Their combination of passion, experience, and technical knowledge is exactly what SG requires to make the changes needed for next year.

Amal and Cameron for SG The Carlson library is due for much

needed renovations and repairsCarlson Library —

the beating heart of Main Campus. Without it, the students cannot survive. It is crucial to their time here: wheth-er it means checking out a book for research, studying long and late in a study room, or get-ting together to study with friends. A library’s purpose is to serve the students, and ideally, it reflects on the univer-sity as a whole. And if the heart stops, the rest of the body will, too.

Right now, if UT’s library is a reflection of our university, then it shows that we’ve got a lot of work to do. With huge chunks of the second floor half torn up and closed off, and the third and fourth floors old and in need of renovation, our library needs more attention and funds than administration acknowledges.

To understand how big the problem is, we have to go back and look at the start. In

September 2011, Ben-jamin Pryor, vice pro-vost and dean of the College of Innovative Learning, said the ren-ovations on the second floor were in response to the depressing state of the second floor in January. That was five years ago. Five years is longer than most students even spend at the university. At the time, renovations were planned to happen in three phases, which would be completed in Spring 2012.

However, after a cut from state fund-ing, more than half of the second floor has remained neglected. Instead of having a new, modern library, with increased study space for collaboration, a patio, a bridge between the second floor and the Student Union, or new technology as planned accord-ing to Pryor in our 2011 article about the renovation, we’re stuck with an old-fashioned relic. We understand money is tight, but money has been tight for several years now, and the university has still managed to com-plete other projects. Even the renovations of the third and fourth floor, which are finally beginning to happen, push the second floor renovation back onto the back burner.

Without a doubt, this editorial is late. This is the edito-rial we should have written three years

ago when we realized the library renovations were being dropped. The university let the renovation ideas slowly wither and die, and instead of rallying attention to that issue, we did the same thing. It took the first stage of the library renova-tions actually being announced for us to notice the problem. We understand this isn’t the fault of the library staff, or the people in charge of the library. The library has operated with severely limited funding for the past few years, and we wrote about cuts in several previous articles. This problem is that the university administration needs

to make the decision to prioritize, fix and focus.

Right now, the li-brary is often crowded and cluttered. Students often go to the third and fourth floors look-ing for individual study rooms and find them full. On the second floor, the tables are almost always crowded. Clearly, the library is a resource students care about and want to uti-lize. Student Govern-ment even had a peti-tion to keep the library open longer so stu-dents could keep using it during exam week. For something so im-portant to the students to be so underpriori-tized by administration is disappointing.

The university has to decide where to spend their money with great discretion. However, the library needs a full, complete renovation from the second to the fourth floor. Reno-vating the third and fourth floors is finally happening, and the decision to renovate it has our full support. However, the progress must not stop there. The library is a symbol of the students, and a symbol of what our university means. That symbol is worth spend-ing our money on, not just because it repre-sents us, but because it is practical. We have to fix this problem, and we can’t wait another three years to do it. We’ve waited long enough.

Right now, if UT’s library is a reflection of our university, then it shows that we’ve got a lot of work to do.

SG candidates promise a government for the students

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of their authors, not those of The Independent Collegian.

EDITORIAL BOARDJoe HeidenescherJessica Harker

Maisha Rashid Colleen Anderson

Emily Schnipke Save the library

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Growing older doesn’tmean growing apart

Dear Editor:Many think getting a col-

lege education is the key to closing the wage gap, but it is not. In fact, the wage gap actually widens as women pursue jobs requiring higher education. That is why Equal Pay Day, celebrated on April 12 this year, is important as it brings to light many econom-ic issues women face because we are not compensated for the same work as men.

The gender pay gap is an issue for all women, but es-pecially Millennial women. Young female college gradu-ates experience a wage gap right off the bat, earning less on average in our first job compared to men.

Also, high student loan debt continues to be a major hurdle in the fight for equal pay. The American Associa-tion of University Women notes that, among full-time workers repaying loans one year after college gradua-tion, 53 percent of women were paying more than what they could reasonably afford toward their debt — com-pared with 39 percent of men. This creates financial instability for many women entering adulthood.

Ultimately, Ohio women lose out on hundreds of

thousands of dollars of income over the course of their careers because of the wage gap. This is not OK and should be changed imme-diately. It is time to support economic policies such as the Paycheck Fairness Act that would ultimately help Millennial women in Ohio like me succeed. Please contact your congressional representative and encourage them to vote for the Pay-check Fairness Act!

Jennifer ThurauPublic Health Undergraduate l University of

Toledo Resident Adviser l Interna-

tional HouseCampus Ambassador l Gift of

Life Bone Marrow Foundation

Decrease the gender pay gap

COMMENTARY

I don’t want to become the kind of person that only sees their family on holi-days or just once or twice a month, but I have a secret fear that I will, and it might even be less often than that.

MORGANRINCKEYIC COLUMNIST

The gender pay gap is an issue for all women, but especially Millennial women. Young female college graduates experi-ence a wage gap right off the bat.

With huge chunks of the second floor half torn up and closed off, and the third and fourth floors old and in need of renovation, our library needs more attention and funds than adminis-tration ac-knowledges.

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COMMUNITYCALENDAR

Wednesday, April 13 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.The Clothesline Project

Held this year on the front steps of the Student Union, the Clothesline Project is a way for women affected by violence to express themselves and spread awareness by decorating a shirt. The shirt is hung on a clothesline to be viewed by others as a testimo-ny to the problem of violence against women.Wednesday, April 13 3 - 5 p.m.

Holi ToledoHoli, the traditional

Indian festival of colors, will once again paint the grass in front of Memorial Field House. Presented by the Center for Religious Understanding and other organizations, this event allows students, faculty and staff to participate in UT’s own version of the festival of colors. The first 200 people to arrive will receive a free T-shirt.Wednesday, April 13 7 p.m.

Greek Goddess Pageant

Cheer on your favorite contestant during the fourth annual Greek Goddess Pageant in Nitschke Hall Auditorium. Nine women from UT sororities will compete in Greek history, talent and interview rounds. Tickets will be on sale Tuesday in the Student Union for $5, as well as at the door by credit card only. All proceeds will benefit RockeTHON.Thursday, April 14 6 - 11 p.m.

Come and enjoy a night of board games with Rocket Recess, UT-BASH, Extra Life and UT Libraries in Carlson Library Room 2010. The free event will provide snacks and host a euchre tournament, along with other classic games such as Monopoly, UNO!, Pictionary and Scrabble. RSVPs are encouraged and the link to do so is on the Rocket Recess Facebook page.Wednesday, April 20 1 - 3 p.m.

Student Appreciation Day

Join the Division of Student Affairs and Kaye Patten Wallace, VP of that division, in Centennial Mall on April 20 for the fifth annual Student Appreciation Day. Food, prizes, music and more will be available to students.

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FUNDRAISER

MUSICAL

UT raises water crisis awareness

FUNDRAISER

By Yasmeen HamdahStaff Reporter

Would you run a 5K race with heavy jugs of water strapped to your back? You can do just that next weekend at the fourth annual Walk for Water Toledo. And it’s for a good reason: to raise aware-ness about the difficulty of finding clean drinking water in third-world countries.

Kristy Kagy is the president of the Catholic Student Asso-ciation, which is one of three student organizations hosting the event alongside the Chris-tian Service Program and Clean Water for the World.

“We walk in solidarity, car-rying water jugs to promote clean water for the world,” Kagy said. “One billion people lack clean water in the world. That’s one in six individuals.”

During the race, par-ticipants can carry as many containers of water as they are able. There will be half- and full-gallon jugs of water for participants to carry as they complete the five-kilometer race. Participants have the option of walking or running, and the student organiza-tion which carries the largest amount of water is declared the winner of the competi-tion. There will also be a com-petition to see which student organization raises the most money for those in need.

The five-kilometer journey parallels the distance a person in an underprivileged country must carry heavy jugs of water in order to survive.

The money raised

during Walk for Water will be donated to Clean Water for the World, a nonprofit orga-nization that manufactures water purification systems

and assists in distributing these units to communities in need of them. Countries such as El Salvador, Haiti, Gua-temala and Honduras have communities which benefit from these water purifica-tion systems. The systems use ultraviolet light to kill bacteria in contaminated water. The removal of bacteria prevents illnesses from spreading in the communities.

Kayla Nagle, a fourth-year chemical engineering major, is part of a group of Univer-sity of Toledo engineering students producing water filtration systems.

“We have all the pieces

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Man-eating plant comes to ToledoBy Sydney BrasicStaff Reporter

What do you get when you mix a florist in love and a blood-thirsty talking plant?

You can find out the answer in the University of Toledo’s production of “Little Shop of Horrors” on April 15-17 and April 22-24.

In the famous horror musi-cal set in 1960s Los Angeles, nerdy florist Seymour Krel-boyne comes across a blood-thirsty talking plant that promises to make his dreams come true and he falls prey to its plans for world domi-nation. He names the plant Audrey II, after his co-worker that he’s in love with.

“The musical is based on a non-musical film, directed by Roger Corman, who’s a 50s/60s camp horror film di-rector. He directed pieces like ‘Attack of the Crab Monsters,’” said Ed Lingan, director of UT’s production. “‘Little Shop of Horrors’ was a thing he shot in three days with no budget and I saw it as a kid on TV as a rerun. It was the first film that made me understand that horror could be funny. I think that’s probably why it translated into a musical comedy so well.”

The show is brought to life by Daniel Tho-bias, the set and costume designer, and Jacob Gaietto, who designed the Audrey II that the audience sees.

Lingan said that while working with Thobias, they decided to model the set after the original 1960s film rather than the typical colorful set of the 1980s musical.

“We add more color as it goes on, but it starts with a very film noir look,” Lingan said. “The creature is designed to look like a bad creature from a Roger Corman film, so it’s very intentionally designed to look fake and kind of comic.”

Joining the cast as the main character Seymour is third-year theatre major Nolan Thom-aswick. He has been involved in many productions at UT, including Henry V and Twelfth Night. To get into character, Thomaswick said that he thinks about the arc of the play and what happens to Seymour dur-ing the progression.

“Seymour is kind of a doo-fus. He’s uncoordinated, he’s a putz, but he’s very in love with

Audrey,” Thomaswick said about his character. “Seymour finds himself in a struggle with morality — does he feed people to the plant in order to get the girl or does he stick to his moral compass and not allow it to happen?”

Thomaswick said that there were a lot of physical movements and manner-isms specific to his character that he had to get the hang of, and over the course of the rehearsal, they all mashed together to form his own ver-sion of Seymour. He also said that the musical is the most song-heavy he’s done at UT.

“I really just immerse myself in his thoughts and emotions, and his point of view of the world opposed to my own,” Thomaswick said.

Ashley Roark, a first-year

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“We walk in solidarity, carrying water jugs to promote clean water for the world. One billion people lack clean water in the world. That’s one in six individuals.”

KRISTY KAGYPresident of Catholic Student Association

By Emily JacksonStaff Reporter

Savage Arena comes alive every year with the sounds of laughter, music and dancing for the annual 13-hour RockeTHON.

University of Toledo students, faculty, friends and family come together to dance in support of the kids and families of Mercy Children’s Hospital. In the 15 years since RockeTHON began, thou-sands of people have come together to raise more than $700,000 in the annual dance marathon.

The money raised supports the funding of new research and technol-ogy needed to uphold the standard of care for the children and helps to provide care to families who could otherwise not afford it. The funds also help to support a multitude of therapies and services including Mercy Autism Services, hippotherapy (horse-assisted physical therapy) and Mercy Family Care Team.

Each year, at least 15 “miracle families” from the hospital are present during the event.

“We get to interact and play with the kids; then we work hard to pro-vide them with the care they need,” said Sean Reck, overall director of RockeTHON’s executive board.

UT will host the event on April 16

from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. in Savage Arena.During the day, there will be live

music, entertainment and competi-tions. Each hour, on the hour, par-ticipants will learn a new dance move and, at the end of the night, they’ll perform the whole dance together.

Jennifer Solanics, staff adviser of RockeTHON and a three-year participant, said their goal is to see 1,300 participants come out and dance the day away.

“RockeTHON is always a magi-cal day,” Solanics said. “It will be great to see the miracle families in-teracting with the students, as well as the significant amount of money that is raised for the kids.”

Claire Caryer, a sister of Delta Phi Epsilon, will be participating in RockeTHON for the first time this year and said she will definitely be dancing in the coming years.

“Everyone talks about how fun it is and how much fun miracle kids have,” Caryer said. “It is a great

way to raise money and it is so much fun for everyone involved.”

In addition to participating in the event, the sisters have set up an online fundraising account and each girl has their own donor drive website which they promote on social media.

“It fills me with so much delight being able to be a part of such an awesome cause,” said Autumn Beverly, another sister of Delta Phi Epsilon.

This year’s fundraising goal is $130,000, which is about $24,000 more than the amount raised last

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“RockeTHON is always a magical day. It will be great to see the miracle families interacting with the students, as well as the significant amount of money that is raised for the kids.”

JENNIFER SOLANICSRockeTHON staff adviser

“It is a great way to raise money and it is so much fun for everyone involved.”

CLAIRE CARYERRockeTHON participant

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BASEBALL

Toledo drops twoBy Keith BoggsSports Reporter

The Toledo Rockets dropped two of three games this weekend on the road against the Mid-American Conference leaders Kent State.

UT fell 3-0 in the opening game of the series on Friday. In the first game of Sunday’s double header, the Rockets tied the series with a 4-1 victory before dropping the decid-ing game 2-1 in extra innings.

With the dropped series, the Rockets (7-25-1, 3-6 MAC) are still in search of their first three-game series win of the season.

The Rockets ran into an absolute buzz-saw in game one, thanks to junior Kent pitcher Eric Lauer. The lefty tossed a com-plete game shutout, striking out ten and giving up two hits en route to his fifth win of the season.

Coming up with UT’s only hits were senior Ryan Callahan and sophomore A.J. Montoya.

The home team didn’t get a bad effort from their starter either. Fellow lefty junior Steven Cal-houn brought his A game, allowing three earned runs over six innings and fanning five batters.

The Golden Flashes got things going with small ball early. With a runner on third in the bottom of the second a sacrifice fly gave the Golden Flashes an early 1-0 lead.

In the fourth inning Kent tacked on one more with an RBI double before getting their final run in the sixth inning following a sacrifice bunt.

Lauer ended any hopes of a ninth inning rally by striking out the final two batters.

Game 2 was scheduled for Saturday, but was cancelled due to the bad weather conditions and moved to Sunday for a double header.

Senior Ross Acther took the mound for Toledo in UT’s 4-1 victory in game two of the series. Acther tossed seven innings, striking out six and giving up the lone run. With the win the righty picked up his third win of the season.

Kent State took an early lead with a solo home run in the bottom of the second but only managed to get two hits after that.

The Rockets tied things up in the top of the third with some help from a Golden Flashes misstep. After a single and a throwing error to get the runner to third, senior Deion Tansel drove the runner home on a sacrifice fly.

The game stayed tied until the seventh inning when Toledo took a 2-1 lead. A bloop single by senior John Martillotta led to a score by freshman Riley Campbell.

Toledo added a couple of insurance runs on sacrifice flies in the top of the ninth to take a 4-1 lead with three outs to go.

The Golden Flashes had the tying run at the plate and with a runner on second but failed

to keep up their momentum. Little offense was found in the rubber

match of the series, with the first run of the game not coming until the ninth inning.

After a walk from Ross Adolph, his second of the game, senior Dalton Bollinger ripped a single to center to drive Adolph in.

The Golden Flashes responded dramati-cally, with a two out RBI single in the bottom of the inning to tie the score and send the game into extra innings.

The scoring went silent again until the bottom of twelfth when sophomore Nolan Silberhorn walked in the game winning run with the bases loaded.

Toledo travels to Dayton on Friday, April 15, where they will look to win their first series of the season. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

SAVANNAH JOSLIN / ICSophomore A.J. Montoya makes contact with a pitch in a game against Buffalo earlier this season. The Rockets lost that series against the Bulls two games to one.

By Jenna NanceAssociate Sports Editor

The University of Toledo men’s basketball team will lose three familiar faces before the start of the 2016-17 season. Freshmen Nick Rogers and Chandler White, and sophomore Stuckey Mosley, have all decided to transfer at the end of the school year.

“They’re just really good guys from great families, they’re people who have represented our program the right way,” said head coach Tod Kowalczyk. “We certainly wish them well in their future endeavors.”

While he doesn’t know where he’ll go next, Mosley is looking to attend a school closer to his Orlando, Fla. home. Kowalczyk said the team will miss his skill and experience, but wish him and his family well.

Mosley averaged 30.5 minutes

per game last season while scoring 10.2 points per game. He finished the season averaging 4.8 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game as well as shooting .423 percent from the field on the season.

White and Rogers are both transferring because of their low playing time, Kowalczyk said. White and Rogers played an aver-age of four and nine minutes per game last season, respectively.

“They want to go someplace where they have more of an oppor-tunity,” Kowalczyk said.

Both Rogers and White are also undecided about their future plans.

Even with the buzz about players coming and going, Coach Kowalczyk is confident the team has remained focused.

“Our core group has been unbelievably focused,” said Kowalczyk. “I don’t think the re-

turning guys are missing a step because of any of this. They’re looking forward to having a great offseason and a having a great year next year.”

The Rockets finished the season 17-15 (8-10 MAC) before losing to Eastern Michigan in the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament by a 69-60 score.

Looking forward, Kowalczyk says UT is putting their focus on strong finishes after losing many close games during the season.

“Our perimeter defense has to get better, we need to do a better job at staying in front of the dribble,” said Kowalczyk. “But also, this time of year it is so much more about work-ing on each player’s individual skill level and trying to get them better.”

Toledo will look to add more talent to the roster after National Signing Day on April 13.

Kowalczyk loses three to transfers

Rockets lose 2-1 in extra innings

FOOTBALLSOFTBALL

Rockets stay cold over weekend

By Marcus DodsonSports Editor

The University of Toledo’s soft-ball team dropped back-to-back home games to Ohio University, 4-2 and 8-0, on Friday at Scott Park. The final game of the series, scheduled for Sunday, was can-celled due to thunderstorms.

The Rockets fell to 8-27 on the season and 3-7 in Mid-American Conference play.

Senior Jessica Lemieux and junior Celeste Fidge brought the lumber for UT with solo homers in the opening game.

On the wrong end of things was freshman Heather Webb, picking up her ninth loss of the season. She tossed six innings, giving up four earned runs while sitting down four.

Throwing for OU was junior Savannah Jo Dorsey, the national strikeout leader. She finished the first game with seven Ks, giving up only two runs to pick up her 17th win of the season.

The Bobcats got on the board in the top of the first following a throwing error with junior catcher Ashley May-nard’s wild attempt to throw out the runner stealing third. The bad throw sailed into the outfield, allowing the first run of the game.

Lemieux tied things up in the bottom half of the frame with a leadoff home run. In the following inning, Fidge gave UT the lead with a solo homer to center field, but the Rocket bats went quiet from there.

OU tied things up with an RBI single off of Webb in the top of the third, one of nine hits the freshman gave up.

Ohio finally broke the dead lock with an RBI double by redshirt freshman Michaela Dorsey in the top of the sixth. She later came

around to score the final run of the afternoon following an RBI single by freshman Deanna Cole.

Toledo bats stayed cold in the second game of the doubleheader, accounting for only two hits that afternoon.

Sophomore Danielle Stiene tossed a complete game, two-hit shutout for the Bobcats. She struck out seven batters and walked just one for her seventh win of the season.

OU jumped on Rocket freshman pitcher Kimberly Frank with a three-run home run to start things off in the top of the first inning. Frank went on to give up ten hits and six earned runs in five innings of work.

Things went quiet until the top of the fourth following a sacrifice fly to right field by Dorsey to extend the Bobcat lead to 4-0.

Ohio tacked on two more in the fifth and seventh innings on their way to an 8-0 victory.

Junior Chandler Rice and sopho-more Kaitlyn Bergman were the only Rockets to pick up a hit in the loss.

The Rockets will try to return to their winning ways when they host Eastern Michigan on Wednesday, April 13 at Scott Park. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.

PHOTO COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSSophomore Samantha Showalter eyes a pitch in the batters box in a game earlier this season.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSThe University of Toledo football team’s annual spring game was cancelled Saturday due to inclement weather. The team decided to hold an inter-squad scrimmage inside the Fetterman Indoor practice facility for former players and members close to the team.

2016 Spring Game cancelled

Toledo’s Softball Leading Batting

AveragesName G Avg.

Jessica Lemieux.......... 35 .356

Chandler Rice............. 35 .327

Samantha Showalter....28 .307

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CURTIS LANE / ICParticipants in the 2015 RockeTHON danced in the 13-hour marathon to raise money for the children and families of Mercy Children’s Hospital. Last year’s event raised around $115,000 in donations.

year. Reck said the students who take the initiative to fun-draise are changing the world.

“To lead the team that drives a movement with this level of impact for such an amazing group of people is the most rewarding ex-perience that I will perhaps ever have,” Reck said.

In addition to the dance marathon, RockeTHON is hosting Miracle Week dur-ing the week of April 11-15 to help raise more funds for their cause.

UT’s Centennial Mall will be filled with activities for all students, faculty and staff. Festivities include giant

Twister, cornhole, a dunk tank and dogs from the To-ledo Area Humane Society.

RockeTHON is also partnering with Sky Zone trampoline park, which will donate 25 percent of sales from 6-8 p.m. on April 12.

Those who wish to register for RockeTHON’s dance marathon can do so until 6 a.m. April 16, though donations can be made until midnight on April 25.

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If you goWhat: RockeTHON

dance marathon.Where: University of

Toledo Savage ArenaWhen: Saturday, April

16, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

saying they wanted to focus on using feedback gathered from students to steer SG’s agenda. Ulrich agreed, also saying stu-dents must be SG’s focus.

“If we gain more guidance from the students, we will be able to make positive changes for the students that they would like to see,” Forsythe said.

The role of SG was a regularly recurring topic, specifically in relation to the administra-tion. Forsythe said since he felt administration’s voice is heard 100 percent of the time, that the student voice should be SG’s primary focus.

“We’re acting as an adminis-trative branch, we’re sitting on the committees but we’re not relaying that back to students. We need to be more open and have more people in our organization that are going to sit on those committees and are actually passionate about relay-ing those messages back to the students,” Mohamed said.

Michalak said they aim to increase student representation on committees, giving examples

of how his ticket has done so and the changes that have resulted from their input.

“We have a proven record of fighting for students against parking increases, and also fighting for students in hiring UT administrators who have the students’ best interests at heart,” Michalak said.

Both tickets agreed on the need to improve campus safety, although they differed on the best method to do so. Michalak said he wanted to add additional lighting after hearing from female students that they felt unsafe, as well finding safety innovations like the safety app Rave released by UTPD this year.

Mohamed agreed, although she also suggested utilizing already existing measures like the blue poles used to make emergency calls. Her oppos-ing ticket said they disagreed with this point, and that emer-gency poles are rarely used.

Diversity was another hot topic addressed by both candi-dates. Michalak said he is happy to have contributed to sev-eral events this year, including helping to organize Diversity

Week, and that he thinks events celebrating diversity are key.

“Many times we look at the negatives, things that hap-pen about diversity, and that’s how we find learning experi-ences, but if we’re proactive in celebrating diversity, I think it’s a fun way we can all learn a little bit more about each other,” Michalak said.

Mohamed said she also appreciates the diversity on campus and events like Diver-sity Week, but thinks that the events are still under attended by students. In order to increase diversity, Mohamed said she thinks SG should be more ac-tive in promoting these events.

“The diversity on this campus is absolutely amazing and we need to celebrate it … I think we have the good ideas, we have the diversity on campus and everyone wants to celebrate it, but nobody knows how to, we’re not doing it well enough,” Mohamed said.

Voting for president and vice-president began on April 11 and will continue through April 15. Students can log onto their student portals to vote for their chosen candidate.

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muted, quiet feel. It will be a much quieter color scheme than the second floor,” Floyd said.

Because of this, the collections on the third and fourth floor will not be available between May 9 until end of the project unless checked out by May 6 at 6 p.m. However, if a student or faculty member forgets to check out a book prior to May 6, Floyd said that Ohio Link will be available.

“We have about 300,000 to 500,000 books and journals between these two floors which we cannot possibly move,” Floyd said. “We will be shrink wrapping the books to prevent damage.”

The next phases will involve changing the façade of one side of the library by taking off the brick and replacing it with glass and focusing on the second floor. The fifth floor, which was renovated in 2010 and cost $75,000, will not be touched. However, Floyd said the plans regarding the other phases depends on the cost of phase one.

“Next, the plan is to do the first and second floor, primary among that is completing the second floor renovations,” Floyd said.

Renovation plans are not new for the li-brary, although the plans for the different floors have had various success. Accord-ing to a UT press release in 2007, the first floor of the library successfully finished its $3.7 million renovations then.

Conversely, the second floor of Carlson was supposed to undergo renovations to transform into a Center for Innovative Design and Tech-nology beginning in 2013. A 2012 UT press release stated, “The groundwork for this center is expected to be complete by spring 2013.”

According to Heather Klatt, a student alumna of the class of 2013 and previous Student Government member, talks about the second floor renovations began around 2010 and it seemed to be under construction during much of her four years at UT.

The second floor is still incomplete, with several tables surrounded by nothing but unpainted walls, cement flooring and an unfinished ceiling.

An article published in the IC in 2011 quotes Benjamin Pryor, who was vice provost and dean of the College of Innovative Learning, University Libraries and Learning Ventures at the time, as saying the goal was to have second floor renovations completed by 2013.

The plan for the second floor was to build “more group study rooms, learning spaces for

collaboration and study and art centers for student display,” the IC article states.

According to a 2014 floor plan from Facilities and Construction, over 50 percent of the sec-ond floor was currently under renovation. This section is still closed off to students with signs that read “Construction area: Do not enter.”

Though work was done to improve the second floor in that time period, much of it was left vacant and remains that way today. How-ever, Floyd said finishing that is number one on the to-do list for the next phases.

“The project overlapped the change in pro-vosts,” said Jason Toth, Associate Vice President of Facilities and Construction at UT. “At the time, the new provost did not support the plans being considered.”

Barrett was not interim provost at the time, and had no comment on the previous unfin-ished renovations.

“We are, of course, anxious to finish the second floor, but renovations are desperately needed on the third and fourth floor,” Floyd said. “The work planned will make for a much improved study environment.”

Since those floors have not been reno-vated since Carlson was built in 1972, it is of higher importance to work on them, according to Floyd.

Barrett said that though phase one will be completed in the summer, the next few phases will be completed throughout the year, so stu-dents should expect construction in the library.

Barrett added that along with the construc-tion, you can also expect longer library hours starting next fall.

“I’m really pleased that the university is investing in the library,” Floyd said. “It’s nice to see that the administration values the library and wants to make it a better place. When the students come back in August it will be a whole different area.”

“I’m enthused to hear that they are redoing those floors this summer,” said Jessica Tonti, a second-year nursing student. “More study rooms will be beneficial and hopefully the modifications made will excite and attract more students to utilize the library.”

In addition to the added study rooms, there will also be individual study desks and lockers for the students to lock up their personal belongings.

“I’m glad they are redoing the third and fourth floors, but I hope they provide enough individual study desks,” said Eric Brown, a third-year engineering student. “I don’t think it should be too much like the second floor, though, because some people like to study in a more secluded area.”

Libraryfrom page 1

weed free for a longer and more produc-tive growing season,” Bova said. “At the end of every season, these farmers have to pull that plastic off and send it to the landfill for upwards of $300 an acre in labor and disposal costs. Our materials can replace those plastics at the same cost, but instead of going to the dump, they break up during the season and can just be plowed into the ground after harvest, saving farmers valuable time and money better spent growing food.”

Their startup is still in the research and development phase, but Bova says their research has yielded promising results. They’ve entered several competitions with their product and have won $16,000 in just a few months. Bova said they will be competing at the Rice Business Plan Competition hosted at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

“It’s one of the most prestigious and largest competitions in the country for companies started by students, with over $1 million in prizes,” Bova said. “We made it into the top 42 teams out of over 500 applications worldwide.”

Bova believes that projects funded by the UT Green Fund and startups like his own are crucial to making change because they counter the negative effects created by humans on our planet.

“Call me a Captain Planet kid,” Bova said. “There’s only one planet, and ap-parently a finite number of ways we

can work against our own best interests by destroying parts of it without really thinking about the near- and long-term consequences.”

Bova said their inspiration for the Green Fund came from a column written in The Independent Collegian by Braeden Gilchrist on UT’s need for green initia-tives. They were united through BOSEF and motivated by green initiatives other students had accomplished at universities across the country, such as BGSU or UC Berkeley. Bova said they thought, “Why can’t we do this as UT?”

“When we first were talking about the Green Fund, we took a look at how the University is rated on its sustainability ef-forts,” Bova said. “One of the report cards showed that, while marks were gener-ally good for UT, the rating for student involvement was a D or an F, depending on which year you looked at. This told us that all of the sustainability initiatives were top-down and had little to no student involvement. How could sustainability become part of student culture that way?”

As a joint venture with Student Govern-ment, Bova and a group of other students created a proposal for a grant program called the Student Green Fund.

“We thought that the best way for sustainability initiatives to actually be sus-tainable was to find a way to bake it into the culture of the student body, to create a sense of ownership in the university,” Bova said. “That’s hard enough to do anywhere, especially with what seemed like an ad-ministration that was slowly growing out

of touch with the students it served.”Now, the Green Fund legacy continues

in the hands of current UT students. As a student-funded program that accepts outside donations from faculty and com-munity members, the Green Fund hears proposals on environmentally friendly ventures that can be implemented at UT.

“This past year, we’ve reached out to many student organizations, such as CAP and BOSEF, as well as professors that may have students interested in submitting pro-posals,” said Carly Beck, current student manager of the Green Fund.

In the three years since its incep-tion, the Green Fund has funded several projects including water bottle refill stations, reusable water bottles and bags for Earth Week, large-scale recycling drop-off locations at all three campuses and three solar-powered picnic tables.

“Right now, we’re still trying to get many of our projects implemented, which can be a lengthy process, so we do not have the largest presence on campus yet,” Beck said. “However, once highly visible projects like the recycling drop-off locations and solar-powered picnic tables are installed, hope-fully many more people will be able to see the exciting things we can do and want to get involved or submit proposals.”

For more information, visit the Student Green Fund’s website on the UT website or email utgreenfund@utoledo.edu. You can learn more about Bova and Beegle’s project and cast your vote at https://rbpc-polls.fbapp.io/rbpc2016.

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and parts and we are building our own units on campus, as well as sending students to other countries to install them,” she said.

Brandon O’Shaughnessey, co-director of Walk for Water Toledo and CSA publicity direc-tor, said he believes more people will attend this year than in previous years.

“We’ve really reached out to the community

as well as the student body, and we’re hoping to get a big turnout,” he said.

Registration begins at 1 p.m. on Centennial Mall. The cost to participate in the race is $10. To register for the event or to donate to Clean Water for the World, visit firstgiving.com/cw4w/walk-for-water-toledo-2016.

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COURTESY OF WALK FOR WATER TOLEDOParticipants of the 2016 Walk for Water carry jugs of water during the 5K race.

studying vocal music educa-tion, plays Seymour’s love interest and co-worker, Au-drey Fulquard. Roark said she spent a lot of time preparing for her role as Audrey.

“My character is this really naive person who makes a lot of mistakes. She’s trying to make her way around them and become a better person in the process,” Roark said. “As soon as I was casted in January, I started doing char-acter research and character study, so Audrey and I have become very attached for the past couple weeks.”

Roark said that the most stressful part of preparing is the constant rehearsal with the rest of the cast, which she said can get a little exhausting. However, at the same time, she said it’s also the most

rewarding thing about the play.

“Everybody is just so great and I feel so blessed to be a part of this super amazing cast,” Roark said.

Second-year vocal perfor-mance major Mike Vander-pool, who plays a chorus member and the understudy for Audrey II, said that play-ing a plant is very different than playing a human charac-ter. The plant has otherworld-ly and supernatural traits that Vanderpool gets to interpret in his vocal performance.

“I watched a couple You-Tube clips over the songs he sings in,” Vanderpool said. “I interpreted the character for myself, that way I wasn’t bor-rowing too much from other performers and other voice actors for this part. I listened to what other people had done with it, and I did take that into consideration, but I looked at the script and made my own interpretation.”

In addition to the student cast, there are two faculty members playing characters in the production. Cornel Gabara, UT theatre lec-turer, plays Mr. Mushnik, the owner of the flower shop that Seymour and Audrey work at. Denise Bernardini, a UT professor who teaches voice and opera, acts as Chiffon, one of the three narrators of

the musical. Lingan said that among the students, there’s about an even split between

music and theatre majors, as well as a few outside majors.

“For me, the most reward-ing thing is knowing I cast a show right, and knowing I have the right people working in the design elements,” Lin-gan said. “The less I have to interject as a director during a piece, the more I know I cast right, and this has been a very relaxed show, where the art-ists are creating everything.”

“Little Shop of Horrors” will be performed April 15-17 and April 22-24. Showtimes and ticket information can be found on UT’s Theatre and Film Facebook page.

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“Everybody is just so great and I feel so blessed to be a part of this super amazing cast.”

ASHLEY ROARKFirst-year vocal music

education major

“For me, the most rewarding thing is knowing I cast a show right, and knowing I have the right people working in the design elements.”

ED LINGANDirector of “Little Shop

of Horrors”

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