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INSIDE

March on the Mall

Presentation allows students to be united by their differences.

NEWS / 3 »

Student physicians changing the world The International Service Learning Organization gives students the opportunity to travel around the world and help improve the quality of life of those with poor healthcare.

COMMUNITY / 8 »

Organize your computer files

Copy Editor Jared Hightower explains how to easily organize files on a computer in 30 minutes or less with any operating system.

COMMUNITY / 8 »

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle for a boat

A group of University of Toledo students and a passionate profes-sor took recycling to the next level this past summer by building a boat made entirely out of repurposed materials.

COMMUNITY / 8 »

UT vs. Mizzou part II

CONSTRUCTION

AUXILIARY SERVICES

INITIATIVE

Multi-million dollar project paves way for safer intersection

President walks with students to hear inputBy Emily Johnson Staff Reporter

“I need your help: I am determined to lose 20 pounds by May, with the help of Walk with the President,” said UT interim president Nagi Naganathan, with a smile and a laugh, at New Student Convocation.

The heat from the sun burned down on the Student Activities Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 27, but Naganathan didn’t seem to mind. Wearing a dark grey suit, he walked the fair without breaking a sweat and stopped to talk to students and organizations as part of the first official Walk with the President.

“It was fascinating to see all of the organizations that are in place, that are function-ing, and to see the student enthusiasm associated with that,” Naganathan said.

The newly named interim president said Walk with the President wasn’t initially his idea; it was actually that of a former student whose son is now going to UT. When he pitched the idea, Naganathan started Walk with the Dean last year.

Karen Bell, assistant to the interim provost, is in charge of working with Student Affairs in planning the walks so they fit with Naganathan’s schedule. She will also be with him on the walks so there will be a log of what the students ask in order to give attention to them in a timely fashion.

According to Naganathan, there were three informal Walks before the Student Activities Fair: two of which took place at the health sci-ence campus and the third at a College of Pharmacy event.

During the first Walk, he met some of his old engineer-ing students and talked to other students about their time at UT and anything they had concerns about.

“These are real issues presented in a real way, not always about a PowerPoint presentation. It is really speaking about the issues in a plain way. I wanted to make sure I was listening to the voice,” Naganathan said.

He also said that when he was the dean of the College of Engineering, he made it his passion to listen to his students, and to make sure that they were comfortable talking with administration.

“The real issue is not so much the walk, even though it will do wonders for this body,” Naganathan said. “It’s about communicating to the students and anyone who wants to talk to me about the issues and things they are curious about.”

According to Naganathan, it is very important to have a successful mindset. “It’s like condition your body, but instead you are conditioning your mind.” He said that he advocated this when he was teaching at the College of Engineering.

“I want to look back and say that we got things done when I step down from of-fice.” Naganathan said. He said that he wants to paint UT in a positive way, he wants “UT be a top choice in choosing where you go to college.”

One student expressed ap-proval of Naganathan’s work as interim president.

TEDDY LIST / ICThe intersection of Dorr and Secor has been a dangerous area for anyone who has traveled through it. The construction and renovations to make it safer are estimated to cost about $5 million in total.

Questions answered about latest UT Auxiliary Services changesBy Amanda PitrofNews Editor

While some changes made this summer — like the construction on Dorr Street — are very obvious, other changes are more behind-the-scenes.

What was changed and why?The University of Toledo has made

a couple major changes to its auxiliary services department.

Jennifer Pastorek, Director of Sup-ply Chain Management at UT, said the goal of this project was to improve the level of service offered to students.

“We took a look at the auxiliary services umbrella, everything that was underneath it, and we started to ask ourselves some questions of, ‘Are there folks that have some expertise within our ranks?’” Pastorek said.

The search for expertise to enhance the student experience led to the separation of dining and parking from Auxiliary Services.

What is in Auxiliary Services?

According to Pastorek, Joy Seifert’s position as Director of Auxiliary Ser-vices did not change much, “she just has a scaled-down footprint now.”

After parking, food service and the bike share program were removed; Seifert still takes care of the copy cen-ter and all the print services work, the Rocket Wireless program and the new Rocky’s Technology Central.

Additionally, “She still has the Rocket ID card and all of its ‘arms and legs’ … that go with it because it’s responsible for your financial aid, for the dining dollars that go on that could be done with our off-campus merchants,” Pastorek said.

Students will be able to see Seifert around campus, as she will be attending student meetings and events “to hear the voice of the student.” Pastorek also said Seifert will still supply the pre-term tables of information about the areas covered under Auxiliary Services.

What’s going on with dining?

Dining services has been moved out from under the auxiliary services um-

brella, but that’s not the only change affects food.

“Students … have consistently over the past couple, two, three years, complained about dining services,” said Kaye Patten Wallace, the senior vice president for stu-dent affairs. “What I try to do is look at student complaints and concerns and see if they’re systemic, and if it’s consistent, if there are large numbers of students complaining about it, we look for many opportunities to get the feedback from students.”

This is an effort Patten Wallace calls, “You speak, we listen.”

She said they try to make changes and let students know those changes are in response to the feedback the students gave. An example of this is the addition of a few meal plans to offer more options, as students had requested.

While looking for a way to improve the student experience with dining, Patten Wallace said they found a similar initiative the Health Science Campus began a couple years ago that had since been very successful.

“We talked to them about how they did that,” she said, “and it really boiled down to the person that they had who was holding staff kind of in a different way of setting expectations and then holding people to those expectations.”

The person mentioned is Mario Toussaint, who was recently appointed senior director of operations--dining, retail and clinical nutrition services for the entire food system for both campuses.

I-House dining hall renovations“We have opened I-House, which is

a major undertaking,” Toussaint said.The project was huge; Patten

Wallace said students have been asking for it to reopen for two years now, and not only was I-House dining reopened, but it was renovated inside.

“I am very proud of that … we updated it, we upgraded it, we painted it. It’s more friendly, and I think that’s going to be a huge venue that students will appreciate,” Patten Wallace said.

The reopening of a dining hall means new staff as well, including more jobs for students.

“It created — I believe — 30 more jobs, whether part-time or full-time,” Toussaint said.

What is Agave?KFC was removed from the SU, leav-

ing room for something new to move in a couple weeks ago.

“We have the Agave restaurant, which is a Southwest-style. So it’s like our ‘Chipotle’ brand,” Patten Wallace said. “We are trying to respond to what students told us that they want.”

How do we give feedback about dining?

• Suggestion cards at dining halls• Facebook page: https://www.face-

book.com/UToledoDiningServices/reviews?ref=page_internal

• Office for the Student Experience online feedback system

• Ask Rocky• Surveys will be passed out later

and put online later in the semesterWho do we see about parking, then?The way parking services had been

set up, according to Pastorek, it was split between two different people.

“Joy [Seifert] had a piece of it with parking services so when you got your permit, you worked through her camp,” Pastorek said, “and then Parking Enforce-ment with Sherri Kaspar under Jeff Newton and the police division.”

The confusion for students came with not knowing which person to talk to, or which office or website to go to, about parking issues and concerns. All parking matters are now dealt with by UT’s police department.

By Colleen Anderson Staff Reporter

The Dorr Street Corridor, with two of its intersections previously ranked by the Ohio Department of Transpor-tation as two of the most dangerous in Ohio, is currently undergoing almost 3.9 million dollars’ worth of construc-tion to make the area safer for pedes-trians and cars alike.

The intersection of Dorr and Secor in particular has long been a danger area for anyone who travels through it. Jason Toth, Assistant Vice President of Facilities and Construction, said Dorr’s intersection with Secor and Byrne is “one of the worst in the city in terms of accidents.”

It’s not just a matter of opinion, either. Richard Martinko, Director of

the Intermodal Transportation Insti-tute at UT, performed a crash analysis study through the Office of Research and Innovation on a volunteer basis, and found that between 2006 and 2008, there were over 100 accidents each in both intersections.

In comparison, intersections in the surrounding areas had anywhere from 1 to 35 accidents — a drastic decrease that serves to highlight the necessity of the current construction.

In July 2010 the city of Toledo, collaborating with the university, held a meeting to inform the public about the construction being done in the area. Martinko, who put together the application for the project, said there was no significant negative reaction from the local

businesses at the meeting. Ultimately, the application for the

project was submitted to the Ohio Department of Transportation, who are the primary providers of funding for the work being done. The con-struction itself costs nearly 4 million dollars, with over 1 million being spent additionally on preliminary engineering and environmental costs, purchasing right of way and design and development, making the total cost of the project roughly 5 million dollars.

Following the beginning of the actual construction, the University has corresponded closely with the city on the project, as, according to Martinko,

TORRIE JADLOCKI / ICStudents stand in line Aug. 28 to get food at Magic Wok.

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SPORTS / 5 »

““There are still knots in the yarn ball — little kinks that get in the way and make the student experience more difficult than it should be.”

EDITORIALChanges made,

changes needed OPINION / 4 »

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This week in UT history

Five years ago: As college campuses across the country prepare for the upcoming flu season, the University of Toledo has reported its first case of the H1N1 “swine flu” virus infecting one of its students.

10 years ago: UT administrators have re-pealed a parking regulation that automatically withdrew money from faculty and staff paychecks to pay parking fines. The policy had received strong opposition from UT faculty and staff.

50 years ago: The University of Toledo is in the midst of an intensive expan-sion program. The Ritter Planetarium and Observa-tory building, although still in the planning stages, has already led to the reloca-tion of the Bancroft Street entrance. Carter Hall, the newest building on campus, is ready for its quota of 180 male students, and the cafeteria there will soon be in operation.

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The Blue Crew sees youThe Blue Crew walks around with other students at the President’s Tailgate Sept. 30. The Tailgate provided opportunities to meet interim president Nagi Naganathan, eat free food and play games like cornhole. The next home football game will be against Missouri on Sept. 6 at noon in the Glass Bowl.

STUDENT GROUP OF THE WEEK

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

The University of Toledo Student American Chemical Society

Purpose: We bring various groups of students together from the sciences to help the community in a variety of ways. Volun-teering at local events as well as demo shows at local schools are a big part of the group. However, it is also a place for students to learn about STEMM, to encourage younger students to be safe with chemistry and to show that chemistry can be fun too.

Leaders: President: Christina Onyskiw; VP: Jonathan Tomko; treasurer: Zane Wilhelm

Upcoming events: First general meeting, Sept.10 at 7:30 p.m. in or near BO 2082. These meetings will take place every other week. Clean your Streams, Sept. 20 at 8 a.m. at the patio behind the law building. STEM in the Park, Sept. 27 at Bowling Green State University.

Learn more: Email our advisor, Professor Edith Kippenhan, at [email protected]. Check out our Facebook page: UT American Chemical Society and Twitter @utstacs

Who would you like to see at Music Fest next year?

“The Black Eyed Peas, because they are hype.”

Ashley Lacey First-year

Criminal justice

“Lissie because her music is so easy to relate to.”

Kit McBeeSecond-year

Sociology

“SoMo because his playing would bring him more of an audience.”

Halle CampFirst-yearBusiness

“Coldplay because they have been my favorite band since high school.”

Curtis LaneFourth-year

Human resources

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IN BRIEF

Veteran’s Lounge to open Sept. 4 in Rocket Hall

The grand opening of the University of Toledo’s Veteran’s Lounge will take place Thursday, Sept. 4, at 11:30 a.m.

The University of Tole-do Military Service Cen-ter will host the opening of the lounge, which is located in Rocket Hall Room 1529.

The lounge is the former location of the Military Service Center, an all-in-one center for students utilizing military educational benefits. This service is now located in Rocket Hall Room 1350. Dependents and spouses who are using Department of Veterans Affairs education benefits are also welcome to utilize the new lounge.

Donations, which include a refrigerator and freezer, microwave, one-cup coffee maker, toaster and couches, are all from Whirlpool-Clyde Opera-tions and the Ohio Army National Guard, made the new lounge possible.

Other donations include a flat-screen TV with a cable and Xbox game system as well as two computer stations and a study table. Active-duty National Guard and reserve members can use common access cards at the computer stations, which are ca-pable of reading them.

An open house and small lunch are sched-uled following the open-ing ceremony.

Society to host meet and greet Sept. 4

The Biology Under-graduate Society is hosting a meet and greet event Sept. 4 in Wolfe Hall Room 1240.

The event, which will take place at 7 p.m., will have free pizza and drinks. The group will inform attendees about new opportunities for bi-ology research, commu-nity service, study help and other related topics.

For more information, contact [email protected].

51ST ANNUAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON

Marching on the MallI have a dream; I am the dream

By Amanda Pitrof and Tara ChlebowskiNews Editor and Staff Reporter

“The power to change everything is in your hands.”

This is how Robert Delk, Black Student Union president, described the revolution that the youth have the ability to create at the sec-ond annual BSU commemorative “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” on Aug. 28.

The march began at the bike trail next to Rock-et Hall and ended at the Student Union steps.

“We bring students together once a year to re-member how far we came from that time period,” Delk said. “That was the most, the biggest dem-onstration during the civil rights movement and it sped up the civil rights [activity] in the past.”

Some of those who participated held signs high throughout the entire walk while the group chanted “I have a dream” and “I am the dream.”

One of the students, fourth-year religion major Shane Royster, seemed to be very pas-sionate about the significance of the march.

“We are taking a step in the right direction. It shouldn’t take a black leader dying to bring us together. I want to be able to see a consis-tent change in society,” Royster said.

Upon reaching the Student Union steps, several speakers addressed the crowd about the importance of coming together peacefully and educating the community to promote activism.

David Young, advisor to BSU, said he was very proud of the leadership provided in this march, and even more happy at the variety of students that “came together in unity.”

“I see international students,” Young said. “I

see students from other Greek organizations, other African American organizations, Latino organizations coming together to talk about some very serious subjects.”

One of the speakers, Donovan Thompson, ran through a timeline of injustices that have been occurring for years and should not have. He explained the community’s need to take part in change and awareness to prevent such incidents in the future.

The injustices Thompson mentioned pro-duced grief for a lot of people, but Delk remind-ed the audience that this march was not about the anger and sadness created by those events.

“Remember what Dr. Martin Luther King stood for and what this March on Washington was about,” Delk said. “It was about peace. This isn’t a protest, or a violent rally. This isn’t a time to show off for the cameras, this is a time for us to get united as one.”

Katrina Bacome, a community member who works with Students for Justice in Palestine, said she hopes this march will begin to bring greater solidarity between all issues for justice.

“I just want to see people coming together and understanding these issues for justice are con-nected, all issues for justice are connected because justice is a human rights issue,” Bacome said.

The marchers did not expect immediate change to come from their actions.

“This march isn’t the end all to be all. It is steps after this we need to take to make sure we are taking care of our own communities and uplifting each other,” Delk said. “The students have the power.”

AMANDA PITROF / ICStudents marched together, some with their fists in the air and others with banners and signs, to commerate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington.

To be united is to be joined together politically, for a common purpose, and that is exactly what students did this past Thursday on the campus of the University of Toledo.

The Black Student Union and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. joined together to cel-ebrate how far we have come — and how far we still have to go. As a director of education in the BSU, I got to march and express my feelings not only as a student, but as a young black man.

The march made me feel like I was actually making a difference and spread-ing awareness on what the public and media need to hear. We held up signs reading, “Alone we can do so little,” “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” and “We Shall Overcome.” Our demonstration made me feel as though the black unity on UT’s campus is increasing.

There was not some hu-mongous crowd watching the march, but the crowd we had was filled with much diversity. I have never been to a march, so the experience was amaz-ing. To be able to join together with my fellow BSU members and walk with a common purpose created a moment to remember. The bright smiles on people’s faces as they were being filmed and the power of the chants that were repeated is indescribable.

Tiffany Fulford, a fourth-year education major as well as the BSU vice president, was the first spokeswoman at this event, and I remember her saying, “There is strength in numbers.” Those words go to show what has to be

done in order to keep mov-ing forward. One hundred African-Americans as a unit have a much stronger voice than 10 African-Americans as a unit. We, as black students on campus, must join together in order to be strong.

With students, faculty and staff present, the march had an outstanding turnout. Marches like this inspire and unite great young minds that, in the end, do great things. Donovan Thompson, a fourth-year criminal justice major as well as president of UT Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., spoke on the injustice that has re-cently been going on and what African-Americans have done to gain freedom.

With the ongoing Ferguson trial of 2014, we are witness-ing blacks coming together as one. According to a USA Today video, the Ferguson trial involves Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-Ameri-can, who was shot and killed by a police officer. “Hands up, don’t shoot,” which is the slogan being repeated all over social media, originated from the Ferguson protest Aug. 14, according to Vox.com.

This slogan shows how African-Americans have put a positive, nonviolent spin on the recent violent events in the news.

Robert Delk, a fourth-year mathematics major and BSU president, led the march’s chants saying, “I Have a Dream,” and “I am the Dream,” showcasing that we are living how Martin Luther King Jr. hoped for us to live as a society.

It excites me to know that I can be engaged in an event like this with no problems and only positivity to spread.

JOSHUAH HAMPTONSTAFF REPORTER

ASSAULT

On-campus brawl the two have a good working rela-tionship.

Douglas Collins, Director of Grounds at UT, added that thanks to input from university members dur-ing the construction, the landscaping being done in the Dorr Street Corridor is modeled to match elements found on campus. A few examples are LED light fixtures and landscape piers that share a similar appearance to ones that students and faculty pass by on a day to day basis.

The improvements to the corridor have taken several different forms, all aimed at increasing the safety of the area. Several concern traffic control, which has been tackled in a number of ways.

The first involves the addition of a concrete median, which helps control access points along the corridor and prevents, for example, cars from cut-ting across four lanes of traffic while leaving a gas station or local business.

Along with the median, Collins notes that the crosswalks were made bigger as

well for pedestrian crossing safety. The main focus of the project is the in-

tersection of Dorr with Secor and Byrne, where cumulatively over 200 accidents occurred between 2006 and 2008.

Martinko explains that the city aims to change this by adding a lane specifically for right turns, as well as two “thru” lanes, going west-bound on Dorr and Secor.

The cars planning on turning right will have their own lane and the traffic planning on going forward will have two of their own lanes as well, which should ease traffic congestion. Similar measures are being taken heading east-bound in the same area by adding two left turn lanes, and two more thru lanes.

Safety isn’t the only word on the street, though giving the corridor a metaphorical facelift and adding to the aesthetic value is also on the agenda.

The university provided around half a million dollars for streetscaping in addition to the 3.89 million already put toward construction. Among other things, the changes involve moder-ate landscaping, and moving utilities underground, both for the sake of

improving the appearance of the area.Despite the ongoing changes, Oasis,

Taco Bell and Burger King, a few of the businesses located on Dorr Street, said that their business has not been affected by the ongoing construction.

The bulk of the construction is ex-pected to finish by the end of this year, with the remaining construction set to conclude in the spring, according to Martinko.

In addition to the safety improve-ments to the area, Martinko said the project is expected to save road users 2 million dollars annually due to a reduc-tion of crashes in the area, and added that the breakeven for the 5 million dol-lar project will be in roughly 2.5 years.

Overall, Toth said, “When complete we believe that the Dorr Street Cor-ridor improvements will not only im-prove the aesthetics along the southern border of main campus, but greatly improve safety.”

Future projects include a possible addition of an interchange to increase traffic flow through the area, which will be presented to ODOT for consid-eration Oct. 8th.

Presentation allows students to be united by their differences

By IC Staff

A man was punched, kicked and stomped into uncon-sciousness on Aug. 24 in front of President’s Hall in an as-sault and attempted robbery.

Toledo resident Darius Gloves, 24, has been charged with rob-bery and felonious assault.

According to the University of Toledo police report, three officers responded to a fight of “approximately 100 people” Aug. 24 near President’s Hall and Ottawa House West. Upon arrival, most of the group scattered. An injured victim, Raymone L. Wells Jr., 19, was discovered “laying in the grass on the southwest end of Presi-dents Hall” by an officer.

Raymone Wells said in the report that while he was being assaulted, “suspects were trying to get into his pockets and that they tried to take his shoes off his feet.”

The report said “a large group of approximately 30” people still remained at the scene after po-lice arrived, some “watching the commotion” and others “yelling obscenities.” Raymone Wells’ twin brother, Rayshawn Wells, was also identified at the scene and the report states that he was “extremely irate” and was “run-ning around like a wild man, refusing to answer our questions about what had happened.”

According to the report, many bystanders “were highly agitated” and refused to disperse when UT police officers asked them to. The report said “at least four people had to be physically moved by police before Ray-mone Wells could be evaluated.”

The Toledo Fire Department arrived on the scene and evalu-ated Raymone Wells, who had wounds on his head and shoul-der, according to the report.

After being reported as con-tinuously aggressive and hav-ing “interfered with [the fire department’s] ability to treat Raymone Wells,” the UTPD report said “we took [Ray-shawn] Wells to the ground and handcuffed him.”

The report said Raymone Wells was taken to The Toledo Hospital and Rayshawn Wells calmed down after being taken to the police depart-ment for questioning.

According to the report, Ray-shawn Wells said Gloves started trouble at a fraternity party off campus, and was trying to “start a Toledo vs. Cleveland fight.” The party was later shut down by Toledo Police and about 45 minutes later, Rayshawn Wells and his group came to Presi-dent’s Hall to drop off some friends, according to the report.

A physical altercation report-edly ensued after Gloves re-started the same argument. The Wells brothers were reportedly assaulted with “hands, feet, water bottles and parking barricades.”

The report states that Ray-shawn Wells was returned to his apartment by an officer so he could go visit Raymone Wells in the hospital with friends.

According to The Blade, Po-lice stopped looking for Gloves around 3:40 a.m. Aug. 31 when he arrived at The Toledo Hospi-tal with a gunshot wound. He is currently recovering.

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“I think that he’s doing an amaz-ing job,” said Brianna Cochran, a second-year social work student. “He has brought everyone together. Things were really jumbled last year, but he has been great at organizing everyone. Everyone knows their job and where they belong.”

University staff and faculty mem-bers also expressed their approval.

“He’s trying to keep everyone focused on what they do, and not on the fact that there was a change in leadership.” said Khaled Shahrour, a urologist at UTMC. “This has been great for people who are new and want to know that they will move ahead in their careers and they

won’t stagnate.” Dan Saevig, associ-ate vice president of alumni rela-tions, said Naganathan “has done a wonderful job in a very short period of time. He is well liked by our alumni and the campus community and, as importantly, is also very well respected.”

Naganathan said he hasn’t made

a decision as to whether he will put his name into the pool for the presi-dential search.

“The search is managed internally by the Board of Trustees,” Naga-nathan said. “I have the option to apply for the president, but I haven’t yet; I’d like to ... see how the next few months go.”

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“He has brought everyone together. Things were really jumbled last year, but he has been great at organizing everyone. Everyone knows their job and where they belong.”

BRIANNA COCHRANSecond-year social work student


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EDITORIAL

COMMENTARY

Changes made, changes needed

Samantha Rhodes Morgan Rinckey

I have been obsessed with my per-sonal safety after watching too much CSI: Las Vegas when I was younger.

One year for Halloween I dressed up as some kind of safety offi-cer/post-apocalyptic garbage woman. I was decked out from head to toe with my dad’s hard helmet, safety goggles, rubber gloves, orange safety vest with reflec-tors and a purple respirator. This was during the time when adults warned us about razor blades in candy, stranger danger and kids being run over from walking on unlit streets — so don’t judge me, I was more than a little nervous.

And even though I only see my dad using that respirator anymore, I am still concerned with my safety as I walk around — especially around campus.

For those of you who don’t already know — some people are terrible drivers.

I’m a self-proclaimed terrible driver, but that doesn’t mean I don’t abide by the rules of the road. I always do, but there can be problems when you are paying attention to the rules and someone else isn’t.

There are a bunch of crosswalks

around the University of Toledo. And if someone doesn’t know what they are doing, it could get dangerous.

I have already almost been hit once on a crosswalk this year. The car was

slowing down at the intersection, I started to cross, and we made awkward eye contact as I was almost halfway across the street and then continued to drive leaving me in the center of the cross-

walk. On Secor Road past

the intersection at Central Avenue head-ing towards UT there’s a crosswalk that goes over four lanes of traffic. There is also a flash-ing yellow light next

to a sign to make sure motorists are aware of potential street crossers. But I’ve seen people wait for traffic to pass before they start across, because there is too much traffic and no one abides by the sign.

I need to say this because I’m not sure if everyone knows. At a crosswalk, pedestrians have the right of way. Let me repeat that, pedestrians have the right of way.

It’s nonnegotiable. If there is some-

one walking, running, cycling or skat-ing, the person in the car, truck, SUV, motorcycle, semi, mo-ped or any other motorized vehicle has to wait for them to cross on the crosswalk.

Did you notice that I said cross-walk and not the street? This is because in the Digest of Ohio Motor Vehicle laws it says on page 71 that, “When not crossing at a crosswalk, the pedestrian must yield the right of way to vehicular traffic.”

So if there isn’t a crosswalk nearby and you cross the street you have to play Frogger and go when cars aren’t going to hit you.

But let’s face it — I jaywalk, you jaywalk, we all jaywalk. If you say you haven’t jaywalked you are probably a liar. If the quickest path from point A to point B is a straight line, sometimes the crosswalk is out of the way.

Yeah, sometimes people are stupid and jaywalk, but that doesn’t mean you are allowed to hit them with your car. So pay attention to people who look like they are going to cross the road.

I know that this may have seemed like rehashing driver’s education, but I really don’t want to die by being hit in a crosswalk. Watch out for pedestrians.

Morgan Rinckey is a second-year double majoring in English and commu-nication, and she is the opinion editor at The Independent Collegian.

MORGAN RINCKEY

OPINION EDITOR

Pedestrian safety is a must

PUZZLES

Last Week’s Puzzle Solved

THEME: MOVIE QUOTES

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Changes made to auxiliary services have helped clear confusion, but

there is still more to be done.What is Auxiliary Services? It’s where the University of To-

ledo puts all the student services that don’t have a home, like the student ID card, dining services and the copy center.

To be blunt, Auxiliary Services is a tangled ball of yarn that has only recently begun to unravel.

One strand that tied up a lot of resources was Dining Ser-vices. Those involved with re-organizing the mass of strings decided it would be better to separate it completely, making all things food-related their own entity.

Not only is it separated, but someone new is in charge of it. Mario Toussaint — senior director of operations for dining, retail and clinical nutrition services — has been asked to focus all his time and energy solely on dining.

He seems to be on top of things; his department has made a lot of adjust-ments based on student feedback, like adding a couple of meal plans to give students more options, and extending dining hall and restaurant hours to better fit students’ needs.

This is good. Dining wasn’t getting as much attention as it deserved when it had to compete with everything else in Auxiliary Services.

Parking was another string in the Auxiliary Services mess that is now completely detached.

Previously, students would be unsure of where to go for any issues with parking because it was split between two offices. Auxiliary Services had half; UTPD had the rest. ‘Divide and conquer ’ in this instance, did not work.

UTPD eased some of the confusion by moving all aspects of parking under its supervision.

This, too, creates clarity and a better allocation of resources for both Auxiliary Services and UTPD.

What’s left over is a more neatly wound bundle of services available to students.

And yet, they can do better.There are still knots in the yarn ball — little kinks that get in

the way and make the student experience more difficult than it should be.

One such knot is the copy center. In addition to not being advertised to students all that well, both students and editors on staff have described it as difficult to use and expensive.

The new technology center is another snarl that could use some work to untangle. It appears to have low traffic, possibly because students feel the products available are overpriced, despite the center’s assurance that the prices there are lower than at Best Buy.

Intrigued by this statement, we looked through Best Buy’s website to compare the prices of a laptop, a printer and a tablet. Our search showed that the tech center prices were not always better.

The Macbook Pro 15.4” laptop is currently on sale at the technology center at about $100 less than the regular price, which is only 99 cents cheaper than at Best Buy. Great.

The HP OfficeJet 6600 e-All-in-One printer, on the other hand, was the same price in Best Buy as it was here.

And then the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet — $100 cheaper at Best Buy.

Clearly, the “better than Best Buy” prices sales pitch isn’t the most accurate. Most college students don't have the extra $100 to spend. If an administrator says the prices are lower than Best Buy, it should be so.

So progress is apparent, but there is still some work to do. We hope to see the copy center cater more to student orgs, and we would like every price at the technology center to truly be the best buy.

Auxiliary Services is a tangled ball of yarn that has only recently begun to unravel.

To all University of Toledo students,

On behalf of the coaches and players on the Uni-versity of Toledo football team, I would like to

personally thank all of you who came out and packed the student section of the Glass Bowl vs. New Hampshire on Saturday.

Your energy and en-thusiasm fired us up and helped us overcome a very good Wildcat team.

Now we have an even greater challenge ahead of us this Saturday when the University of Mis-souri comes to town in a nationally televised game on ESPN at 12 noon.

The Tigers are No. 24 in the country and the first-ever team from the SEC to visit the Glass Bowl. ESPN has chosen this to

be their featured game, with millions of fans tun-ing in from all across the country.

This is our chance to show them what the Rocket Nation is all about! We need you to show your Rocket Pride and pack the

student section. So roll out of bed,

come out early, bring signs, cheer like crazy and definitely wear your Midnight Blue! This would be a great game to bring a friend, too. If they are not a UT student you can purchase a guest ticket for them at a reduced price at our ticket office at Savage Arena.

We have had some great moments in the Glass Bowl and we need you there Sat-urday to cheer us on against the Tigers!

Go Rockets!Head Coach Matt Campbell

Until last weekend’s sea-son opening 54-20 route of the New Hampshire Wild-cats, University of Toledo junior quarterback Phillip Ely hadn’t tasted a lick of competitive collegiate foot-ball in nearly three years.

To put that in perspec-tive, the last time Ely threw and completed a pass was in backup duty in 2012 for then-Alabama quarterback A.J. McCaron before Brent Musburger transformed Mc-Carron’s girlfriend Katherine Webb into an internet sensa-tion. Ely threw 4 passes for 63 yards that season.

Flash forward to 2014, after sitting out the 2013 season due to NCAA trans-fer rules, and it was Ely who emerged as the starter from Toledo’s fall camp, showcasing what made him the right decision in UT’s season opening victory against New Hampshire at the Glass Bowl.

After a shaky first quarter, and falling behind 14-3, Ely lead the Rockets’ offense to eight consecutive scoring drives, racking up 337 yards through the air and 4 touchdowns.

Not only did Ely look solid from a mechanical standpoint, he appeared to be in complete control of the offense, poised in the pocket and communicating well with teammates.

The stellar performance left no doubt that Ely will be holding onto the offensive reigns moving forward into Saturday’s game versus SEC opponent Missouri.

But here’s the three-letter catch that will echo through this week’s prac-tice and film rooms, an echo that will continue to reverberate in and around campus until Saturday’s game is in the books.

By Blake BachoSports Editor

Talk to the Rockets and they will assure you that Toledo’s upcoming matchup with No. 24 Missouri is no different than any other game on the 2014 schedule.

It doesn’t matter to them that this is the first SEC team to ever visit the Glass City. It’s insignificant that the Toledo football program sits at 499 wins, and that the first crack at the 500 mark falls on a game in which the Rockets will welcome back their own former head coach, Gary Pinkel.

The current head coach of Miz-zou, incidentally, remains UT’s all-time victory leader with 73 of To-ledo’s wins to his name. But ask any player or coach about the 38-23 loss

on the road last season against the Tigers, and they would still probably just shrug in response.

According to the Rockets, it’s just another game.

“With who this football team is and where we are in our football program, it’s about the process,” said UT head coach Matt Campbell. “It’s about the process of getting bet-ter one day at a time, one game at a time, and I think that’s what you really understand when you get in this thing.

“If you put so much stock into who you’re playing, what type of game it is, you get lost in the season and you can really get yourself in trouble.”


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IN BRIEF

UT men and women’s teams compete in Toledo Home Opener last Friday night, men finish second while women win tri-meet

The UT cross country teams kicked off their 2014 season with the Toledo Home Opener on Friday night at Pearson Metro Park in Oregon, Ohio.

The UT women’s team won the tri-meet over Bowling Green and Eastern Michigan, while the men’s team finished second behind the Eagles.

The women’s team had five runners place in the top 10 and were led by senior Macken-zie Chojnacki’s third place finish with a time of 17:55:9. Fellow senior Megan Wright rounded out the top five with a time of 17:57:50 while classmates Liz Weiler, Brooke Tullis and Megan Gaysunas placed sixth, eighth and ninth, respectively.

“I’m very happy with the results from the women,” said UT head coach Linh Nguyen. “My instructions before the race were for our top seven to run togeth-er and under control. They were specifically told not to chase other runners, but to focus on themselves and running in a strong pack. They showed great teamwork and communication which is what I was hoping to see. We had a 3.6 second spread which is great for this time of year. In two weeks I’ll let some of the top women loose to allow them to get after it some more.”

On the men’s team, senior Adam Smercina paced the Rockets with a fifth place finish and time of 16:02:30. Fellow senior Hillary Serem was the only other Rocket to place in the top ten with a time of 16:17:00.

“I’m pleased with the way the men ran tonight,” Nguyen said. “Adam Smercina had a nice opener and so did Matt Leis. We were running without three of our top guys so that hurt the team score but it gave the younger guys a chance to step up. I’d like to see us close down the gaps a little in our spread but overall it was a solid start. We’ll run our first 8K in two weeks, which should give us a good test.”

Both Rocket teams will return to action on Friday, September 12th in Bowl-ing Green, Ohio for the Mel Brodt Invitational.

Hunt happy to take center stage in UT rushing attackSports Editor Blake Bacho features sophomore running back Kareem Hunt, who opened the

2014 season by recording the sixth 100-yard rushing performance of his collegiate career.

UT/MIZZOU PART II

JACKIE KELLETT / ICThe University of Toledo welcomes No. 24 Missouri to the Glass Bowl this Saturday. This will be the first SEC team to ever visit UT, and only the third game the Rockets have ever played against a member of the division.

FOOTBALL PREVIEW COMMENTARY

ROBERTHEARONS

SPORTS REPORTER

Rockets host No. 24 Missouri, game will be televised nationally on ESPN

FOOTBALL LETTER

See Mizzou / 6 »

Ely will face

true test against Tigers

A letter to all UT students

See Test / 6 »

If you goWhat: University of Toledo’s

rematch against No. 24 MissouriWhere: Glass BowlWhen: Saturday, September 6,

at 12 p.m. noon ETTelevision: ESPN Radio: Rockets Radio NetworkSeries record: Mizzou leads

the Rockets 1-0 having won on their home turf last season

Prediction: Pinkel comes back and reminds Toledo’s older fans of the type of football they saw when he ran the UT program. Ely continues off of a strong first week performance, but it isn’t enough to make up for a depleted defense, which lets the Tigers come out with a win. Mizzou: 35, UT: 28

MATTCAMPBELL

HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

Your energy and enthusiasm fired us up and helped us overcome a very good Wildcat team.

Story on page 6 »

F.C.S. The Football Championship Subdi-vision in which New Hampshire belongs. Ely’s first win, let alone game, in nearly three years came against an F.C.S opponent that participates in a lower tier division than Toledo.

I, and many fans and coaches aren’t going to be able to really judge this quarterback’s level of play until the great pocket presence and mechanics witnessed last Saturday are put to the test against Division I talent.

Players and coaches will tell you that they take the same approach week in and week out no matter who is on the other side of the field — pressure the quarterback, force turnovers, capitalize on mistakes etc.

But Saturday is different. Regardless of how big

or small the talent gap between the SEC and the other 4 power conferences may ultimately be in 2014, there is a gap. These are the big boys — not just an SEC team — a competitive SEC team that won that conference’s West Division last season and played the eventual national cham-pion runner-ups, Auburn, to the brink.

The caliber of talent on the Missouri side of the football on Saturday will eclipse anything Ely saw in the New Hampshire game, even with Mizzou being forced to replace some starters from last season.

These are three in some cases four star athletes that have been recruited their whole lives — and for good reason.

Missouri has even managed to pluck a few blue chip Ohio recruits right from our own back yard, including quarter-back Maty Mauk, considered a hidden gem and the future of Missouri football.

Ely didn’t give us many reasons to doubt him moving forward from last Saturday, and that’s why he is now the unquestioned starter going into the Missouri game.

Once he settled his feet after the first few posses-sions and got on the same page as his wide receivers, the junior signal caller certainly displayed the talent and poise that once garnered the attention of football powerhouse Alabama.

The practice reps against Alabama defensive squads, let alone any SEC defensive squad, are also something on Ely’s resume that can’t be overlooked going into Saturday. Ala-bama is no joke.

You’re going to learn what Ely is made of on Saturday. It will be a true test in a sink or swim atmosphere that will provide us with a bigger sense of what this quarter-back will be able to bring to his football team in 2014 and beyond.

By Blake BachoSports Editor

University of Toledo sophomore running back Kareem Hunt was never going to tiptoe quietly through his collegiate career.

When a guy shows up as a high school senior on his official campus visit wearing a hoody emblazoned with the slogan ‘You’ve just got Kareemed,’ it kind of throws the possibility of anonymity right out the window.

“Kareem didn’t come up with that,” said UT head coach Matt Campbell when asked about the slogan. “That was something the high school came up with.”

It was actually a couple of cheerleaders at South High, Hunt’s alma mater, back in Willoughby, Ohio, that came up with his catchphrase. The shirts were created in response to his 2012 senior perfor-mance, in which he ran for 2,685 yards and 44 touch-downs to set the all-time rush-ing record for Lake County.

Hunt averaged 11 yards per carry during his final year in high school, helping the Rebels to a 10-1 record.

“They made the sweatshirt and they started giving them out and it just exploded from there,” he said. “I made sure my mom got a sweatshirt, that they got her one.”

Junior quarterback Phillip Ely, who arrived last year as a transfer, didn’t know about the sweatshirt or the slogan, but he wasn’t shocked to learn the story.

“It really does not surprise me, a guy with such a big personality,” Ely said. “You can kind of just see his joy, it feeds everyone else around him and everyone feeds off of it, especially at practice.”

Sweatshirt aside, it was Hunt’s powerful presence on the foot-ball field and youthful approach to the sport that really got his teammates’ attention and put him in the spotlight.

“He is a big physical back

that plays like a man and loves the game like a kid,” Ely said. “A guy that wants the ball every series. It doesn’t matter the circumstances; he just wants the ball in his hands.”

In a relief role last year for former Rockets RB David Fluellen — who is currently on the roster of the Indianapolis Colts — Hunt had a breakout freshman campaign. The 2014 All-Mid-American Conference Candidate finished second on the team with 866 yards rush-ing, ninth in the MAC in rush-ing yards per game (72.2) and second among MAC running backs with 6.3 yards per carry.

Hunt only had to look one up on the depth chart at Fluellen to see the only MAC rusher who averaged more yards per carry last season.

“He wants to be a playmak-er and that’s who he is,” Ely said. “He’s just a real joy to be around and definitely a relief on my end. It’s not all on me to make those big plays, I can give him the ball and see what he does with it.”

Ely gave Hunt the ball plenty in Toledo’s 2014 season opener against New Hamp-shire. The Blue and Gold’s No. 3 led a stable of UT rushers in an all-out ground attack against the Wildcats’ defense.

Hunt finished with 136 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries, the sixth 100-yard game of his career and evidence that he hasn’t lost a step over the summer.

The scary thing for op-posing defenses, according

to Campbell, is how much Hunt has possibly improved since his freshman season.

“He may even be a little bit better than what showed up last year,” Campbell said. “That was my challenge to him in the offseason, continuing to get better and continuing to chal-lenge yourself at being the best you can be.”

Hunt’s love for the game goes back to his childhood, when he was a seven year-old running around in the street with his older brother Clarence and Clarence’s friends.

Even at that early age, and ever since those childhood games in the street, Hunt has always been a running back.

“The one thing Kareem loves to do is he loves to play the game of football,” Campbell said. “I think that is evident when you watch him run, the passion and the strength that he really runs the football with.”

Good luck to fans trying to decide which NFL rusher Hunt most resembles.

The sophomore criminal jus-tice major likes them all, and he will run like whichever one he needs to whenever he is asked to.

“I try to mix my style up a little bit,” Hunt explained. “I try to be like Jerome Bettis sometimes, [but] sometimes you’ve got to be like Chris Johnson. You can’t let them know what’s coming, you’ve got to switch it up.”

Things have switched up pretty dramatically for Hunt from his freshman year with the Rockets to now, his sopho-more season. Instead of a relief role, he will be asked to be the featured back at the head of a potent group of rushers.

It is a position Hunt seems to feel no pressure in filling. For him, football will always be what he loves, the sport that placed him in the spotlight, and the game he has been en-amored with since childhood.

“I’ve been doing this for so long I feel like it’s nor-mal,” he said. “I just go out there and play the sport that I love and that’s it.”

Not even earning college football’s top televised slot — a noon kickoff time on ESPN — is enough to impress this team.

“Last year, I think we played six or seven games on national television,” Campbell said. “That piece of the puzzle, I think it’s great to have that, it’s great that our program is in a place where people want to put us on the national television scene. I think those things are all tremendous, but we’ve done that.”

It isn’t just Toledo’s head coach who refuses to blink at this revenge matchup against last season’s SEC East Division champions.

“It’s the same game, no matter who we play,” said ju-nior quarterback Phillip Ely. “We prepare the same. It will just be a good overall game and one to look forward to.”

“It’s all the same game. What we do to prepare our-selves is still the same thing.”

Ely knows the SEC well, having played in it as a backup at Alabama before transferring to Toledo last year. But even the chance to show he can compete against members of one of col-lege football’s premier confer-ences won’t make UT’s signal caller change his mantra.

“It’s all the same,” Ely said. “Whether we’re playing New Hampshire or Missouri, I’d still prepare the same way. [They’re] a great defense, a great team, well-coached just like New Hampshire was.”

But Missouri is not New Hampshire. In 94 seasons of football, the Rockets have only faced an SEC school twice, both face-offs coming last season, one of them against Mizzou and both games end-ing in losses for Toledo.

To finally earn a win against this division, Toledo will first have to figure out how to contain Missouri sophomore quarterback Maty Mauk, a task the Tigers’ first opponent of the year failed at.

Mauk kicked off his 2014 season by throwing for three touchdowns without an in-

terception in Mizzou’s 38-18 defeat of South Dakota State.

“He’s kind of that quarterback that just makes things happen,” Campbell said. “It doesn’t mat-ter if it’s a drop back pro style offense or it’s a shotgun spread. At the quarterback position it always comes back to your understanding of the game of football and where to get the ball and how to get the ball into your playmakers’ hands.

“That’s a knack and you have to have the ability to do that. Maty definitely has that ability.”

Campbell and his coaching staff first became acquainted with Mizzou’s QB when they were evaluating him as a potential recruit out of high school. Mauk played under his father at Kenton High, breaking national records for passing yards, touchdown passes, pass completions and total offense.

“It was almost like a work of art watching him play under his dad’s scheme,” Campbell said. “He was excellent in what he did. Ev-erybody wanted Maty Mauk.”

Instead of Mauk, Toledo has Ely, who opened his Toledo career with 337 yards passing and four touch-downs to bring the Rockets back from a 14-3 deficit against New Hampshire.

“Phillip continued to get better as the game went on,” Campbell said. “He really settled into the game extremely well, did a great job managing the football game and made some great plays. It’s a great foundation for him as he continues to build as the season goes.”

Ely and UT’s offense will have to maintain the production and be even quicker out of the gate to keep up with the Tigers.

No matter what, however, this game is one that promises to be anything but ordinary.

“It’s great for our city, for our university, it’s great for our campus to have an oppo-nent of this magnitude come in here,” Campbell said. “That piece of the puzzle just cre-ates a general excitement.

“I think we will all be excited to see what it looks like here in the Glass Bowl on Saturday.”


Mizzou from page 5

KAREEM HUNT

Hunt happy to take center stage in UT rushing attack

“He is a big physical back that plays like a man and loves the game like a kid.”

PHILLIP ELYUT junior quarterback

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IC FILE PHOTOSophomore running back Kareem Hunt finished last season with 866 rushing yards, good for ninth overall in the Mid-American Conference. The Ohio native ran for 136 yards and two touchdowns in Toledo’s 2014 home opener.

IC FILE PHOTOKareem Hunt after a long touchdown run last season.

JACKIE KELLETT / ICUT junior quarterback Phillip Ely finished last weekend’s season opener against New Hampshire with 337 passing yards and four touchdowns, leading Toledo to a victory.


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COMMENTARY

Organize your

computer files

Difficulty: Easy – no experi-ence required

Time Requirement: approx. 30 minutes, depending on how much data you have

Applicable OS: Any; this article leans toward Windows

My father’s computer is a clut-tered mess of files and programs randomly strewn across his file system. Since I’m the de facto in-house tech support for my family, I’m the one who navi-gates it when he gets angry that he can’t find something. A little bit of planning and organization would make it easier for him to find his files and save me a head-ache in the process. Two birds with one stone, right?

But before I begin spouting “best ways,” an introduction to file systems seems appropriate. Your file system is the figura-tive tree of files and programs that are saved to your disk. You have the root, which is your drive. Windows users will be familiar with C:\ represent-ing root. All of the folders are branches of the tree, and your files are the leaves.

Every time you do something, you are at a specific “location” on your hard disk. When you save a file to your hard disk, you probably use a graphi-cal file browser like Explorer, Finder or Files (for Windows, Mac and Mint, respectively) to put it somewhere. That’s a visual representation of your file system. You can point and click and open files through your file browser. (Sounds like “Web browser,” right? It’s essentially the same thing!)

The question becomes, “What is the best way to organize my computer files?” The answer will differ between each user because in the final analysis, who you are and what you do will determine the best system for you.

My father’s computer is old. It’s a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop from 2003. It’s a fossil. It can’t do much in the way of contem-porary computing because it simply doesn’t have the power for it. He uses it primarily for browsing the Web and occasion-al word processing and spread-sheet making. His projects are few and far in between, and often self-initiated.

For someone like him, I would recommend an organi-zation structure divided into years, and then by project. Each project’s main directory — that’s a “folder” in Windows and Mac jargon — should begin with the number of the month it started in. A good example of a main direc-tory name for a project about organizing my brother’s soccer team information would be “7_u8villaSoccer”: “7” for July and “u8villaSoccer” for my brother’s U-8 soccer team.

He rarely downloads things, so his Downloads folder can stay unorganized — except that it should be in reverse-chron-ological order instead of the Windows default of alphabetical. He can do that by clicking on the Date Modified heading in Explorer. (That would be Finder on an Apple computer.)

Linux users who have a GUI probably have something similar

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE LEARNING

Student physicians changing the worldBy Stephanie ElkinsStaff Reporter

In countries where people see a physician once a year, basic healthcare knowledge can be life-changing — and University of Toledo students are changing lives.

The International Service Learning Or-ganization (ISL) can be found on college campuses around the world and it gives students the opportunity to travel around the world and help improve the quality of life of those with poor healthcare.

“Our main projects are traveling to other countries whose health care systems are not as fortunate and devel-oped as the U.S. health care system,” said Brandon Stewart, a fourth-year majoring in healthcare administration.

According to their website, islon-line.org, “These programs are not artificial or ‘practice’ programs — they are the real thing. We provide health care to tens of thousands in develop-ing communities annually.”

Stewart currently serves as vice president of the University of Toledo chapter and went with the group to Be-lize this past May. He said 11 students, including himself, traveled to San Igna-cio in the Cayo District of Belize.

“We paired up with local physi-cians in the country and set up free medical clinics in the area,” he said. “As students, we get to make a general prognosis of what we think might be wrong with a patient then consult a physician for an absolute diagnosis.”

Jessica Schulte, a first-year graduate student earning a master’s in public health, said the first step to setting up clinics is visiting members of the com-munity in their homes.

“We went door-to-door and assessed if anyone was sick, living conditions, if anyone had offered a clinic to them before and if they would be interested in coming to the open clinic the next day.”

In some communities, the group

visits schools as well, according to Anna Crisp, a second-year public health major and ISL secretary.

“Our group will hold a general healthcare presentation and talk to the kids about proper hygiene techniques and last year we even made up a song about brushing teeth,” Crisp said.

Schulte said in addition to serving the community, ISL gives students an opportunity to experience the culture of the countries they visit.

“While on our trip we went cave tub-

ing, learned authentic dances, snorkeled and swam with the stingrays,” she said.

According to Schulte, before stu-dents are able to make the trip, exten-sive planning needs to occur as well.

“The trips are all roughly differ-ent and can be focused on different aspects of medicine. They are around seven to 14 days typically and do cost money. These trips are not cheap and work must be done to get sponsors and raise money,” Schulte said. “Also,

COURTESY OF JESSICA SCHULTEJessica Schulte, a first-year graduate student earning a master’s in public health, went on the ILS trip to Belize. Above, Schulte is taking the blood pressure of community members who cannot always receive or afford medical care in their area.

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RECYCLE RAFT

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle for a boatBy Josie SchreiberStaff Reporter

A group of University of Toledo students and a passionate professor took recycling to the next level this past summer by building a boat made entirely out of repurposed materials.

Initially, this was a printmaking class, but Arturo Rodriguez, an as-sociate professor of art and overseer of this project, said it also involved a lot of sculptural aspects as well.

The class spent a lot of their time between the sculpture studios and printmaking. Rodriguez said a lot of the visual things on the boat are prints that the students made.

Jesse Quaintance, a third-year majoring in visual arts and one of the students involved, said he wasn’t aware of the tasks awaiting him, but Aaron Brandt, a fourth-year major-ing in new media said he knew about the project, but wasn’t sure what the project entailed.

Having had another class with Rodriguez, Quaintance said he knew they would both get along well.

“It’s the most fun I’ve had taking a class,” Quaintance said.

The class was informed via email that this project meant to raise aware-ness on Toledo’s water problem.

By doing this project, Rodriguez said they can inform other people so they can spread the word and keep the chain going to try to be good stewards of our water resources.

Brandt said he was ignorant to the scale of the issue of Toledo’s water situation and how everything in the ecosystem is so closely linked together.

“We treat our water very badly,” said Rodriguez. “It’s a great resource and it’s underutilized.”

As a fisherman, Rodriguez said he loves water and believes it needs to be treated better.

“I grew up in Miami, so anything that was along the water was really valuable,” Rodriguez said.

The boat is made up of three 4 feet by 8 feet floating docks that are bolted together, three rain barrels under each of the sections, scrap metal, bicycles and other pieces of wood as well as the cloth with the prints on them.

To get it down to the river, they took the boat down in sections and then bolted it back together when they got to the water.

Although the class had just six weeks to complete the boat, they only had one mishap.

Rodriguez said the paddle wheels of the boat were too low on the water, causing the students to use too much force to drive the boat, so they had to raise the wheels up.

Rodriguez said the boat was sur-prisingly stable, even after attempts to purposely sink the boat.

All of the materials that made up the boat were repurposed and donated. Whatever items they needed that didn’t get donated were

purchased from local salvage shops.Quaintance said recycling is a

necessity, not an option. “We live with a finite number of

resources and it’s imperative that we use them efficiently,” Quaintance said.

Brandt said he always tries to find new ways to reuse something rather than throwing it away.

Quaintance said he hoped that the class could create something that was relatively unified and could convey their intended message of recycling and the better treatment of Toledo’s water source.

“It was gratifying to be involved with something so big and impor-tant,” Quaintance said. “It felt good to do something to raise awareness about the water, which became a hot issue with the water shut off.”

Rodriguez saw a project similar to this one done before by an artist called Swoon, who made a boat and sailed it through the entire Mississippi River.

Rodriguez thought it would be a good idea to do it here, too.

“I thought, let’s make something to bring attention to the water,”

Rodriguez said. As a part of the class, Rodriguez

brought in a few speakers including Jeffrey Miner, the department chair for biology at Bowling Green State University, who talked about all of the pollution problems with the water.

“It’s not just runoff from farm-land, it’s a whole contingency of things that are threatening our water,” said Rodriguez. “From flush-ing meds down the toilet, to inva-sive species, to dumping garbage.”

Rodriguez and the class took the raft onto the water three times before they went on their maiden voyage on Aug. 1.

Rodriguez said that if there is an interest and other students want to do it then he would like to do some-thing like this again.

“It doesn’t necessarily have to be a boat, but there are endless possibili-ties,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez and his class plan to showcase the boat at various art events including PARK(ing) day and the Main Event, as well as possibly using it for a homecoming float.

JOSIE SCHREIBER / ICThe actual boat that the students created is parked in the Center for Visual Arts courtyard at the Toledo Art Museum. The boat is able to be viewed during museum hours. The museum’s hours are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. The museum is closed every Monday and on certain holidays.

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“It felt good to do something to raise awareness about the water, which became a hot issue with the water shut off.”

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(like “Files,” depending on their build), and for the truly antiquated, the command “ls -lt” can do it for you (though if you’re reading this, you probably already knew that).

Unlike my father, however, I pretty much live my life on my computer. I have every-thing: an array of programs, documents, downloaded files, images, music — the whole ten yards. I’m also a student, a copy editor, a convention organizer and a fledg-ling radio show producer. The flow of my files is too immense to divide chronologi-cally. What good is a monthly system, or even a weekly system, when I save so many files every day?

Because I’m task-oriented, my files are organized by category. PR homework? Goes in the PR folder which is inside the “1Fourth-year” folder (the ‘1’ in front puts it at the top of the alphabetical list) which is in the Documents folder. Cat picture? Goes in Pictures\Catz.

If you’re like me, you need an organi-zational scheme like this. But they don’t appear overnight. If you’ve had your com-puter for a while and you’re still scrolling through an unorganized list of files — or worse, searching your entire disk because you’ve misplaced yet another one — try my method:

Step 1: look at each file and determine what category it should be filed under. Put it in that directory, or if one doesn’t already exist, make one.

Step 2: now take each category folder and

weigh its importance. Immediate proj-ects and long-term important things (like classwork and cat pictures) get 1s in front of their names. This puts them right at the top of your list every single time. Prefix a lowercase Z on anything that you want at the very end of the list.

Step 3: if you have leftover single files that don’t fit in any category or if the left-overs aren’t important enough for direc-tories, then those are the ones that stay in <Username>\Documents.

To recap, here are the settings to remember:• put 1s in front of file and directory names

to move them to the top of the list• put lowercase Zs in front of names to

move them to the bottom of the list• put a 6-digit date code in front of names

to list them chronologically in an alphabeti-cal structure, but only in subfolders (fold-ers within folders), which are used for one specific thing

• click column headers in file browsers to organize the list. This is also useful for finding a certain type of file (just click the “Type” column header).

In addition to my examples, there’s a whole bunch of ways you can choose to organize your files. If you right-click the header bar (where it says “Name” and “Modified Date” and “Type,” et. al.), you’ll bring up a menu that has a few customizations, and a rather liberating “More…” option at the bottom. (Dis-claimer: I don’t know if it’s possible to do this on a Mac.)

Once you know what works for you, it only takes a cup of coffee to get it done.

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since I am the fundraising chair I am here to help with setting up events and helping people raise money on their own.”

Crisp said she gets to organize a lot of the supplies and equipment for the trips.

“Our projects mostly consist of the trips we take, however, we do a good deal of fun-draising as well,” Crisp said. “Last year we sold T-shirts and we also set up a table with hot chocolate, coffee and baked goods.”

Schulte said aside from fundraising for the trips, ISL also wishes to raise awareness and increase their presence on campus.

“We do attend other events on campus; this year we are looking to expand since we are still relatively new,” Schulte said. “We would like to put together an event to raise awareness about global health and how everyone can help.”

One of these events will take place off campus, according to Stewart.

“One of our goals this year is to reach out to local Toledo high schools and put on medical educational clinics for those who may be interested in the medical field,” Stewart said. “We will share with them how to take a general blood pressure and pulse, share what our organization does and advo-cate for The University of Toledo.”

According to their website, the Interna-

tional Service Learning Organization also works with students in the countries they visit to improve their quality of education.

“Anyone is welcome to join and they do not have to be pre-med or within the medical field,” Schulte said. “ISL is open to anyone who shares a passion to help spread healthcare with those in need.”

Students interested in being a part of ISL can contact the Chapter President, Hannah Kissel, or send an e-mail to [email protected]. They can also attend an informational meeting on Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Student Union Room 2584.

Schulte said she hopes the members of ISL will acquire a “passion for philanthropy and helping others in our society and in other countries.”

“Members should gain insight into global healthcare and the needs around the world and how we all have the means to help,” she said.

According to Stewart, knowing that other places in the world do not have access to healthcare and actually expe-riencing that reality are two completely different things.

He and Crisp both said they have hopes for the members of ISL and their experiences.

“I hope that members of ISL will be humbled and inspired by the strength of the people they meet, the beauty of the country they travel and the importance of accessible healthcare,” Crisp said.

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