Serving the University of Toledo since 1919

ICIndependent Collegianwww.IndependentCollegian.com

Issue 4691st year

The

Rockets throttle Auburn 67-52,advance to WNIT’s Sweet 16

Sports, B1

Hillel celebrates with Jeopardy

Arts & Life, B4

“The govern-ment should not have the right to say when some-one should have their life ended.

Katelyn EtgenFresh., pre-pharmacy

What is your stance on the death penalty?

“I don’t think it should be

equal punish-ment. I think things could be tested on

them or some-thing, but not put to death.

Nicole SnyderJunior, medicinal chemistry

“People who do a crime

that deserves the death

penalty deserve it.

Robert LimasSoph., pharmacy

“I think they should just get life in

prison. It’s not our place as a human

being.Icee Johnson

Soph., communications

“A dispropor-tionate

number of poor and

minorities are on death

row.Jeff Gohrband

Senior, criminal justice

Check out our story above on the death penalty.” ” ” ” ”

Monday, March 21, 2011

Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/MCT

Gov. Pat Quinn, center, signs into law a bill ending the death penalty in Illinois, Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at the State Capitol in Springfield. With the governor are sponsors Karen Yarbrough and Kwame Raoul along with John Cul-lerton and Barbara Flynn Currie.

Photo courtesy of Daniel Miller

Robert Black, who matched in Internal Medicine at the Rhode Island Hospital Alpert Medi-cal School of Brown University, celebrates with Hala Al-Jiboury, who matched in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

By IC Staff

Two UT students trying to help out a pair claiming to be kidnap victims became vic-tims of robbery.

According to police, the two students were ap-proached by two women at the McDonalds on Reynolds and Ryan Road who said they had been kidnapped from Ari-zona and needed a ride to the police station.

The UT students helped the suspects by driving them to Main Campus to contact the UT Police Department, but the suspects said they changed their minds and did not want to contact police.

They instead asked the stu-dents for a ride to a friend’s house at Avondale Avenue and Division Street.

Once at the location, the two suspects assaulted one of the students, took both stu-

dents’ cell phones and a wal-let and then fled the scene.

Toledo Police Sgt. Phil Toney told WTOL the sus-pects were seen on video sur-veillance pretending they were trying to decide what to order at the McDonalds be-fore they approached the two students.

The suspects also told other McDonalds patrons the fake kidnapping story, but they were not convinced to give the suspects a ride.

Police are asking for any-one with information on the two suspects to contact the Toledo Crime Stoppers.

The suspects were both de-scribed as being African American, about 18 years old, around 5 feet, 3 inches tall with brown eyes and black hair. One suspect was around 180 pounds and the other was about 120 pounds.

They both were wearing black coats and blue jeans.

UT students foiled by “kidnapped” robbersMatch day at UT

By Vincent J. CurkovIC Staff Writer

Medical students around the country discovered where they would spend the next three to five years of their lives as they tore open envelopes Thursday afternoon.

UT held its 40th annual match day, an event in which fourth-year medical students discover which residency they have been matched with.

A residency is the next step for medical students after grad-uation and is required to be-come board certified in the United States.

“[Finding a residency] was very expensive and very nerve-wracking,” said Mike Loochtan, a fourth-year medical student with a specialization in Otolaryngology.

Loochtan was matched with his first choice of residency at Loyola University Chicago.

ASI discusses death penaltyBy Allison SeneyIC Staff Writer

A comparative study of Eastern and Western na-tions’ view on the death penalty was the theme of Friday afternoon’s forum hosted by the Asian Stud-ies Institute.

The goal of the forum was to educate the faculty and students about how to look at the death penalty across the scale. It intro-duced contexts of politi-cal, cultural and economic

understanding of Asia and how it compares to the U.S.

Scheduled to speak at the forum were Shanhe Ji-ang, professor of criminal justice, Morris Jenkins, as-sociate professor of crimi-nal justice, Eric Lambert, professor of criminal jus-tice at Wayne State Uni-versity and Sudershan Pa-supuleti, associate profes-sor of social work.

The professors worked

— Death, Page A4Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/MCT

In the town of Nakonosawa, Japan, rescue workers carry a body on Sunday, March 20, 2011.

Local reflections on JapanUT to lose $19 M in state funding for fiscal year 2012By Casey CheapIC Staff Writer

Students at UT and all across Ohio looking to fur-ther their education next fall may want to brace themselves for a possible tuition increase due to a 10.5 percent cut in state funding to universities.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich re-vealed his two-year budget plan for the state last week. In the new budget, spending for state universities has been re-duced by millions of dollars as Ohio prepares for state-wide cuts.

Schools across the state have been bracing for cuts to Ohio’s $55.5 billion budget for months as the state tries to reign in deficits and reduce spending, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

UT expects a $19 million cut in state funding from its $800 million budget for Fiscal Year 2012.

The $800 million budget covers expenses for Main Campus, the Health Science Campus and the hospital.

The good news for stu-dents: Kasich put a cap on tuition increases at 3.5 percent.

“We’re going to try and keep [tuition increases] as low as possible,” said Larry Burns, vice president for external af-fairs and interim vice presi-dent for equity and diversity.

Burns said a 3.5 percent tu-ition increase would only

— Match, Page A4

— Funding, Page A4

By Vincent D. ScebbiFeatures Editor

Following the news of the fourth worst earthquake since they have been moni-tored, Mari Sawai called her mother three times – the fi-nal time bringing the com-forting news that her family in Tokyo was okay.

“I couldn’t reach her for a couple of times, but luckily I got a hold of her after three times and she was still having trouble contact-ing my sister and my grand-parents saying they are okay,” said the senior ma-joring in math education and president of the Japa-nese Student Association.

Though Sawai is

thousands of miles from home, she and other JSA members partnered with the American Red Cross and have established collec-tion boxes at five restau-rants and one business in the Toledo area.

The restaurants include Sakura Japanese Steak House, Sori Sushi, Kotobuki Japanese Restaurant, Kyoto KA Restaurant and Korean-na Restaurant. The lone business is Seann’s Anime and Comics.

Aside from the donation boxes around Toledo, Sawai said JSA set up collection boxes in five locations at UT.

The location of the

donation boxes includes the offices of International Student Association, the Of-fice of International Stu-dent Services, the foreign language computer lab and the department of foreign language office.

“Even just $1 will help,” Sawai said.

An earthquake that mea-sured 9.0 magnitude struck off the Eastern coast of Ja-pan, causing a tsunami that swept across Northeastern Japan, sparking the fear of a nuclear meltdown.

Donald Stierman, an as-sociate professor of envi-ronmental science, said the

— Japan, Page A4

Whatever proponents of SB 5 claim, among its primary aims is the weaken-ing or elimination of labor unions. Not only does the bill increase costs for public employees, it strikes a moral blow at the very idea of unionized la-bor by mistakenly blaming it for our budgetary crises, which more likely result from outsourcing, corporate fraud, improperly-distributed public assistance and a preference for quick profits over long-term sustainability.

The concept of the labor union is not only a social positive but a well-intend-ed method of cultural adaptation to adverse conditions. People born in ur-ban environments in early industrial society or later have been faced with a dilemma: either sacrifice the culture one has been raised in as well as one’s loved ones to become a subsistence farmer or hermit, or bow to societal expectations in terms of sustaining oneself through wage labor and curren-cy-based consumerism.

In such environments, one cannot help but accept certain cultural de-mands. To acquire food and clothing, one must be employed in some manner. Faced with a limited number of em-ployment options, it is more advanta-geous for one to improve the condi-tions at the job they already have than try to find another. The only effective means of doing this is through some form of dialogue between the employ-ee and employer.

Given the immoral and unhealthy work practices of early industrial life, it is in the interests of survival and hap-piness that a worker seeks to improve the conditions of the labor he must per-form. But employers in most instances hold a nearly ultimate power — wheth-er they worked their way to the top or were handed the company by heredity.

The employee’s only bargaining chip is his own labor, which is nothing by

itself. Replacing an employee is far easier than increasing pay, making the workplace safer and more comfortable or ending unequal treatment. Alone, a single worker will always lose.

But if even a quarter of an employer’s workers agree to be heard as a single voice in the dialogue, they suddenly have leverage. This balancing of power has helped to end child labor, establish workdays and improve workplace safe-ty and product quality.

In each instance, employers sacri-ficed a small share of their dispropor-tionately large profit for the common good of their employees and custom-ers, increasing the public health and happiness. These measures are resist-ed by employers until public awareness and support grow too strong, demand-ing that harmful practices be changed. Always the changes yield a greater to-tal good than harm and often contrib-ute to other improvements for society.

Opponents often invoke fears of a “socialist takeover” to counter the need for collective action in both the work-place and government. This is nothing more than the terrifying success of the super-wealthy minority in convincing the masses they aren’t being exploited and that one’s neighbors and peers aren’t just as interested in changing the systems allowing their exploitation.

Sooner or later we have to accept that ‘society’ and ‘socialism’ are drawn from the same root word for a reason. Untainted by the exploitation and ex-cess of capitalist and communist ideol-ogy, true socialism is simply the real-ization of society in its ideal form — a system of interacting individuals that improves the lives of every member. If that’s not supposed to be the goal of society, then we’ve been mislabeling this system of ours for a long time, and it’s time to wake up.

President Obama’s decision to en-gage United States forces against tar-gets in Libya begs a number of impor-tant questions. Is the information being presented by the government the full extent of our knowledge about the situ-ation? Are there ulterior motives to a U.S. engagement in Libya?

Perhaps most importantly, will this truly be a quick and precise operation or, like Afghanistan and then Iraq, will predictions of ease and feasible cost be forgotten as weeks drag into months and months into years? Every day, we are digging ourselves further into the hole to the tune of billions of dollars and thousands of lives.

Are our intelligence agencies, which are probably the highest-funded and best-equipped in the world, as well as our military strategists really so terri-ble at their jobs that our leaders hon-estly believed these military engage-ments would not be drawn-out, expen-sive and requiring the sacrifice of our soldiers’ lives?

It may be more likely that our leaders simply ignore information that does

not support their cause, which is based on short-term gain and popular support generated through falsehood.

The most important duty of citizens right now is to hold our leaders ac-countable for their words and actions. Our involvement in Afghanistan is the longest U.S. military action ever and we just quietly passed the eighth anni-versary of Iraq’s invasion. Violent in-surgency persists in Iraq despite every Bush official’s assurance that the whole operation would be concluded in a few months, at most.

It is interesting to note that several other nations — Iran, North Korea, etc. — are led by dictators who have prov-en to be just as cruel and murderous to their own people as Muammar al-Qad-dafi, but the idea of military action to protect those nations’ citizens is raised much more reluctantly, if at all.

We must question whether Obama’s administration is advocating our in-volvement in Libya out of genuine care for its people or merely as a re-sponse to public pressure or another hidden agenda.

- in our opinion -

Shaky motivation — Americans should know by now to beware ‘necessary’ involvement

Unionized we stand

- in Your opinion -Forum A2Monday, March 21, 2011

Jason MackEditor in Chief Business Manager

Elizabeth Majoy

Forum EditorEthan Keating

Independent Collegian Staff

Contact usThe Independent Collegian

2132 Middlesex Drive

Toledo, OH 43606

The Independent Colle-gian encourages your letters and welcomes the chance to publish as many as possible.

Letters must be typed and include the author’s full name, rank, college and tele-phone number.

E-mailed letters must in-clude the same information, and can be sent to Forum@IndependentColle gian.com. Letters may be no longer than 500 words.

The IC reserves the right to condense letters; none will be returned.

When referring to a previ-ously published letter, arti-cle or column, please make sure to include the date it appeared.

Letters to the editor are due Monday at 5 p.m. for Thursday’s edition and Thursday at noon for Mon-day’s edition.

Fax 419-534-2884Phone 419-534-2438E-mail Editor@Inde pendentCollegian.com

This is a publication of the Collegian Media Foundation.

Copyright 2011, Collegian Media Foundation

The

Editorial

BusinessAssistant Business Manager& Classifieds Manager

Rachel RabbSales Manager

Kevin SmythAccounting Coordinator

Kunlun ChenAd Designer

Adrielle Henry

The editorials contained on this page represent the opinions of the student editors or the column’s listed author and not those of the Collegian Media Foundation.

News EditorRandiah Green

Features EditorVincent D. Scebbi

Arts and Life EditorDC Guastella

Assistant Art and Life EditorLaShae Naszradi

Sports EditorZach Davis

Assistant Sports EditorJoe Mehling

Director of PhotographyNick Kneer

Assistant Director of PhotographyKevin Sohnly

Copy ChiefFeliza Casano

Copy EditorsMatt Gunn

Web MasterSamir Deeb

From time to time it is dif-ficult for me to find a topic for this column that is timely, interesting and capable of upholding my journalistic in-

t e g r i t y . However, sometimes a topic just falls from the sky, right into my lap and ready for me to run with. This is one such time.

Perusing the vast wasteland that the Internet has become, I came across a headline from The Atlantic: “Rand Paul and the 19-Year Libertarian War on Low Flow Toilets.”

Wow! Juicy, eh?I had not known, but Re-

publicans have slowly been undoing minor changes that previous Democratic Con-gresses had been making over the past few years.

Nancy Pelosi had launched an initiative in 2007 called “Green the Cap-itol.” The program replaced French fries, plasticware and Styrofoam cups with locally grown organic food, recyclable utensils and cups made of cornstarch, according to Jonathan Karl of ABC News.

In addition, the program “converted the Capitol Pow-er Plant from coal to natural gas and installed more than 13,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) across the House of Representa-tives campus. A report from April 2010 found that those greener efforts actually re-duced energy consumption in Capitol buildings by 23 percent, and water con-sumption by 32 percent.”

But the funding is being cut because some Republi-cans don’t like the shoddy utensils, new foods and $475,000 price tag to send compostable waste off to Virginia. Apparently, some of the utensils have been known to melt after expo-sure to heat or moisture, and our Congressfolk need to eat unencumbered.

Pelosi’s initiative is being shunned at a cost of $50 mil-lion over ten years, accord-ing to Rep. Earl Blumenauer from Oregon. This is a calcu-lation based on unrealized savings resulting from end-ing the program before it was fully implemented.

Rand Paul was at a hearing on energy efficiency stan-dards for certain appliances when he began to rant about the restrictions facing con-sumers because of the De-partment. Here is a selection from Rand’s rant, courtesy of ABC News:

“Frankly, my toilets don’t work in my house. And I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house, what I can do. You restrict my choices… I find it insulting that a lot of these products that you’re going to make us buy and you won’t let us buy what we want to buy and you take away our choices.”

A tough problem to have, not being able to get rid of

your waste. The only prob-lem with Mr. Paul’s rant is that it no matter what Liber-tarians may say, less govern-ment regulation isn’t always desirable.

Fresh water is a valuable commodity. If everyone could just use as much as they wanted, there would be a problem. Do an Internet search for “tragedy of the commons” for a simple lesson.

I came across another col-umn entitled “Rand Paul, I can find you a good toilet!” by Bill Scher of Grist.org. It seems Sen. Paul didn’t do his homework. From that column:

“What the senator left out of his rant is that it is not the Department of Energy that dictates the water-efficiency standards for toilets. It’s the democratically elected, con-stitutionally empowered United States Congress and the president.

And it just so happens that roughly 20 years ago - 19 to be exact — is when our democratically elected

representatives passed a law, signed by President George H. W. Bush setting a 1.6 gallons-per-flush stan-dard for newly made toilets. [His father, Rep. Ron Paul, was a cosponsor of the bill.]

The law did not force any-one to replace older, water-wasting models…

The good libertarian sena-tor should understand that he can’t expect the govern-ment to do everything for him. He has to take some re-sponsibility and do some re-search if he is going to find a toilet that serves his needs.”

Scher goes on to lampoon Paul for failing to realize that there are plenty of choices for low flow toilets if he would just go to the store and look.

I understand what Rand Paul is saying, and I know he’s trying to rile up Liber-tarians and Conservatives by connecting with them from an “ordinary kind of guy” perspective. Many times our government bu-reaucracies are meddlesome and only serve the purpose of perpetuating their own existence — see the Bureau of Reclamation.

Is the government taking control of our lives by trying to conserve water? I doubt it. There is a market failure for water that justifies at-tempting to conserve it – if we just let everyone use as much water as they wanted, there would eventually be shortages. There is a reason that other states want access to the Great Lakes.

Sure, not having to devel-op more efficient toilets might save money in the short run, but many Liber-tarians don’t recognize that some personal choices are harmful to others — like flushing 3 or 4 gallons of water a time instead of 1.6.

If you don’t want to regu-late toilets, at least tax the heck out of those water-wasting antiquities. You can have all the choices you want, but at least recognize the true cost of each choice.

I like Rand Paul and a lot of the things he stands for. I like a lot of what Democrats stand for, too. But for crying out loud, if your toilet hasn’t been working for 20 years you should probably buy a new one.

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

Toilet tragedies

A tough problem to have, not being able to get rid of

your waste. The on-ly problem with Mr. Paul’s rant is that it no matter what Lib-ertarians may say, less government

regulation isn’t al-ways desirable.

”

“

Managing EditorRandiah Green

The American government functions as a plutocracy, a government of the wealthy.

Democracy is a disguise that has fooled the popula-

tion into c o m p l a -c e n c y . Votes are cast, but laws are b o u g h t . The Amer-ican sys-tem was rigged to favor the w e a l t h y elite from

the beginning.To be fair, progress has

been made since the time when only white property owners had a voice in government.

In terms of class struggle, such progress was a result of the working class suffer-ing brutal beatings, targeted assassinations, expulsion from company housing, loss of jobs and armed conflict with union-busting thugs and state militias.

Big business has never had much sympathy for workers. And government has typically favored big business, even as far as giv-ing corporations person-hood, which means they have as many rights, if not more than you or I.

Workers, on the other hand have had to battle for social progress. And now, state deficits across the country are being used as an excuse to eliminate

collective bargaining rights for public workers — rights enjoyed today as a result of the blood shed by those courageous enough to de-mand justice.

In Thibodaux, LA 1887, striking sugar cane workers were gunned down. 1892, steel workers of Homestead, PA were shot and killed while striking. Coal miners were massacred in 1914 at Ludlow, CO and again at Matewan, WV in 1920.

Unions without collective bargaining rights will be ren-dered virtually ineffective, restoring the level of influ-ence corporations enjoyed before organized labor.

Think about the strides unions have made histori-cally. Paid vacations, job safety, pensions, minimum wage, health insurance, the eight-hour workday and re-tirement benefits were made possible because workers organized to physically fight a cruel capitalist system.

When the systems of pow-er were created in this coun-try, the poor and working classes were deliberately ex-cluded. Seen as commodi-ties to be exploited, they struggled to earn their posi-tion in society — a meager position compared to the ex-travagantly wealthy. The hol-low promise of the American dream is being deferred.

Our consumer culture and celebrity obsessions propa-gate a stark historical amne-sia where loudmouthed news pundits can rewrite history. The growing

impoverishment of the working class is missing from public debate. There is no discussion about the ab-sence of legal and regulato-ry devices to avert mounting corporate fraud.

Corporate interests side-line the well-being of the general population. Middle class workers are pitted against each other, fighting for scraps leftover by a money-hungry machine.

We live an absurd exis-tence where 0.3 percent of Americans have more wealth than the lowest 40 percent. Corporate welfare and tax cuts for the wealthy increase national debt, yet it is insisted that the govern-ment cut public spending and remove collective bar-gaining rights from public employees in order to de-crease debt.

It is ridiculous that the largest wealth gap among industrialized nations is de-fined as a war between pub-lic employees and taxpay-ers. Irrational is the new rational.

This absurd, greedy pa-rade of corporate indulgence must end. We must resist the further theft of democracy. If the only power we have left is to say “no,” then we must refuse to cooperate in a system that limits the free-dom and diminishes the well-being of its citizens.

—Stephen Bartholomew is an IC columnist and an English education student at UT.

The new ‘rational’

Anthony Russo

Stephen Bartholomew

TuesdayTuesday

ExtendedForecast

ExtendedForecast

NBC24.comWednesdayWednesday ThursdayThursday

6034

High

Low 4135

High

Low28Low

High

4323

High

Low36

Deadlines All ads and ad material must be received by Thursday at 3 p.m. forMonday’s issue, and Monday at 3 p.m. for Thursday’s issue. The Independent Collegian reserves the right to pull any advertisement that misses this deadline.

Error responsibility Read your ad on the first day of publication. We accept responsibility only for the first incorrect insertion. If you cannot find your ad on the first day it is running, call us immediately. Adjustments will be limited to the cost of the first insertion.

Payment policy All Classified ads must be prepaid with a credit card or a check. You can stop by our office during regular business hours or mail us your ad and payment. All display advertising must be prepaid until sufficient credit has been established.

Phone in your order to Rachel Rabb at 419-534-2438. Fax in your order to 419-534-2884.E-mail in your order to Classifieds@IndependentCollegian.com.

Weather courtesy of Chief Meteorologist Norm Van Ness at NBC24.com

Classifieds Independent CollegianThe

Monday, March 21, 2011 A3

© 2011 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.

SolutionCompletethegridsoeachrow,columnand3-by-3box(inboldborders)containseverydigit1to9.

For strategies onhow to solve

Sudoku, visitSudoku.org.uk.

Instructions

Sudoku

MondayMonday

Help Wanted

FOR RENT:3 and 4 bedroom houses

for rent all close to UT, free lawn care, secruity systems, all appliances included call or text 419-250-2504

For Rent 2,3,4,5,6,&7 Bedroom Homes. 2&3 Baths, all appliances includ-ing washer & dryer, security systems, free lawncare, plen-ty of parking, less than 1/2 mile from campus, some within walking distance. Call Rick at 419-283-8507! www.universityproperties.net

Apartment; 2 Br, 3 Br, 4 Br Houses available.

Leases available begin-ning May, June, July, or August.

w w w. u t r e n t a l s . n e t Shawn 419-290-4098

Help Wanted For RentSUMMER WORK FOR

STUDENTS

Want men willing to learn and work on wood floors including gym floors. Start-ing when school is out for the summer until the mid-dle of August. Work con-sists of operating equip-ment, including floor buf-fers and floor sanding ma-chines. Also measuring, laying out and painting game lines and art work and applying gym floor fin-ish. We will thoroughly train you in all phases of the work. Job pays $8/hr. You can expect between 40-50 hours per week. Hours can be flexible. Must be punctual and reliable and willing to accept responsi-bility. Please contact Joe Koch, 419-340-6270 or fax resume to 419-825-1714.

Special Education, Social Work and Psychology Majors:

·PT positions $8.25hr·18+, high school diploma

or GED, valid drivers li-cense, auto insurance, clean driving record & criminal background check

·Afternoon/Evening and weekend availabil i ty required

·Working in residential setting with adults with De-velopmental Disabilities

·Assistance with partici-pation in community out-ings, meal preparation, medical appointments, home maintenance, etc.

·Interested applicants please contact Jenny Hues-man at 419-255-6060, ext. 106

4 Bedroom/2bath/full base-ment/washer/dryer/3 garages $475 includes utilities 12 mo lease: Maxwell 440-327-1837

KidzWatch now hiring care-givers for days, evenings, & weekends @ all locations. Send Resume to: KidzWatch 6819 W.Central Ave. Suite H, Toledo, OH 43617 or email info@kidzwatch.net

FOR RENT! Clean, spacious 4 Bedroom, 1 Full and 2 half bath home in Quiet, Safe neighborhood. Hardwood floors, full basement, large deck, plenty of parking. 3525 Rushland Ave. $1200 / mo. 419-236-2002 or email ut4rent@gmail.com

Apartment for rent, 4022 Walker, Huge 1 Bdrm, Fully Renovated, New Carpet/Vi-nyl, Basement Storage, Gas/Electric, $430/mo + Utilities 419-787-5571

2 Bedroom Apt. 10 min. from UT on Tremainsville Rd. All appliances includ-ed. $400/month plus gas & electric. Call Carole 419-787-2191

For RentHouse 2 bed - 1205 Bowlus

Ave. One block-main campus. Hardwood floors, wash/dryer, garage, basement, clean, $600 plus utilities. FREE RENT with 1 yr. lease. Call/Text (419)842-1004

Child Development Cen-ters. Internships are available with U.S. Military Child De-velopment Centers in Germa-ny, Italy, England, Belgium, and the U.S. (Florida and Ha-waii). Beginning August 2011 and ending December 2011. Related college coursework and experience required. Air-fare and housing are paid and a living stipend provided. In-terns receive 12 hrs of college credit (graduate or under-graduate). Make a Differ-ence! University of Northern Iowa, College of Education, School of HPELS. Email Su-san Edington at intern-shipd@campadventure.com for more information. Please put INTERNSHIP UT/CA in the subject line of your email.

Room for Rent in historic Old Orchard. Completely fur-nished including cable and wireless internet. Shared bath, kitchen, and laundry. Walking distance to UT. $300/month. 419-531-3213

Independent CollegianTheMonday, March 21, 2011A4

© 2011 MCTSource: Death Penalty Information CenterGraphic: Lauren Yoffe

Death penaltyIllinois is the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

States without death penalty

Year death penalty was abolished

*Abolished while Hawaii was a U.S. territory

19571957

1965

1887

1947

1846

1911

1973

200720092011

2004

1852

19641965

1853

1972

AlaskaHawaii*

Iowa

Maine

Mass.

Mich.

Minn.

N.D.

N.J.N.M.**Ill.

N.Y.

R.I.

Vt.W.Va.

Wisc.

D.C.

**Two inmates remain on death row in N.M.

NOTE: Alaska and Hawaii are not to scale

D.C.

Conn.Del.

R.I.

UT Jazz Lab BandThe UT Jazz Lab Band will

play a variety of literature to-night at 8 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. “Vocalstra” is a vocal perfor-mance ensemble with mem-bers ranging from first-year un-dergraduates to professionals. Tickets are $5 for general ad-mission and $3 for students and seniors. For more informa-tion, contact Angela Riddel at 419-530-2452.

Department of Physics and Astronomy

There will be a colloquium about cosmology from “Mas-sive Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Galaxy Clusters” tomorrow at 4 p.m. in McMaster Hall Room 1005. Fe-lipe Menanteau of Rutgers Uni-versity will present the collo-quium which is free and open to the public.

UT Urban Affairs Center

The UT Urban Affairs will present author Jonathan Bloom, who will discuss his re-cent book “American Waste-land” about food waste in the U.S. Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Augsburg Lutheran Church, located at 1342 Sylva-nia Avenue. The discussion is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jea-nette Eckert at 419-530-6048.

Catherine S. Eberly Center for Women

The Eberly Center will host a brown bag seminar Thursday from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Tucker Hall Room 0180. “Men-toring: Is It in You?” will be presented by Shanda Gore, as-sistant vice president for equity and diversity of the department of external affairs. For more information, contact Cheryl Skolmowski at 419-530-8570.

UT Department of Film

The Film Department will host its next installment of Film Fridays by showing “The Ma-chinist” Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Lab Theatre. Admission is free, but a $3 donation is welcome. For more information, contact Angela Riddel at 419-530-2452

CampusBriefly

together before and wrote several articles on the death penalty issue.

Each speaker represent-ed a different country, in this case India and China, and compared their rules on the death penalties to those in the United States.

Lambert, who represent-ed the U.S., spoke first with an economic theme.

“China, India and U.S. are the three largest coun-tries in population and are in the top five largest econ-omies in the world,” Lam-bert said “These econo-mies all have the death penalty.”

There are 95 other coun-tries that have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, according to Lambert.

Lambert laid out the style of government in all three countries.

“Both India and the U.S. are federal republic-based, while China on the other

hand is more centralized,” he said.

China’s structure was in-fluenced by the centralized government of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Centralized government is when the power of au-thority is exercised by a de facto political executive.

Social culture and politi-cal forces influence how each of the three countries use the death penalty.

“China is ranked number one,” Lambert said. “[The] U.S. is fourth, while India very rarely ever uses it.”

In the U.S, retribution is a driving factor for the death penalty, according to Lambert.

“We should take into ac-count morality, costs and administrative issues,” he said. “We should spend money on prevention pro-grams, because it is wrong to take life as punishment.”

Lambert also mentioned the death penalty in the U.S. has been used since

colonial times and a total of 19,000 people have been executed.

Over the years, support for the death penalty in the U.S. has dropped signifi-cantly. In the 1980s and 1990s the amount of sup-port was between 70 and 80 percent.

Today the number ranges from 60 to 65 percent.

“People’s views shape differently towards crime, criminals, punishment and treatment,” Pasupuleti said. “Social, cultural and political forces are differ-ent in every nation.”

In India, the country with the second largest popula-tion, the most popular reli-gion is Hinduism which in-fluences the justice system.

The criminal justice sys-tem in many parts of India is based on the Hindu con-cept of Dharma, which translates to Law or Natu-ral Law.

Sentencing is usually a longer process in India than in the U.S. because

India tends to show more mercy than America, ac-cording to Jiang’s studies.

The death penalty issue affects everyone partially or impartially.

“In India if one commits a murder or mass murder then yes one is tried, but if somebody cannot afford an attorney then one is pro-vided,” Pasupuleti said.

That right is also exer-

cised in the United States. The death penalty is dif-

ferent in China and can be used as a proper punish-ment in up to 68 violations.

“Between China and the U.S. when it comes to deter-rence, China is number one and America is second,” Ji-ang said, “Though when it comes to retribution it is the other way around.”

DeathFrom Page A1

happen in a “worst-case scenario.”

The budget calls for uni-versities to transition 10 per-cent of their undergraduate programs into a three-year timeline by 2012 and 60 per-cent of their programs by 2014, according to a press release.

This means students will be able to receive their un-dergraduate degree in three years instead of four.

The budget also calls for the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents to make it possible for universities to obtain charter status.

This would allow schools to face less state regulations but will allow for less in state subsidies.

Burns said UT administra-tors were not surprised by Kasich’s harsh cut to

education. “We have been working on

the budget for many months now,” he said “The 2012 fis-cal year starts on July 1.”

Burns also said the state has slashed the primary sub-sidy for undergraduate tu-ition by about 13 percent.

“But the light at the end of the tunnel will be a 3.7 per-cent increase in funding for 2013,” Burns said. “We just have to weather 2012.”

Burns also said much of the budget cuts were in-spired by the size of univer-sities, the size of their over-all budgets and student enrollment.

“From [the budget] stand-point, UT is the third largest university in Ohio, behind Ohio State University and the University of Cincinna-ti,” Burns said.

Burns remains confident that the recent budget cuts will not affect academic ser-

vices at UT.“Two of the most impor-

tant things we always try to avoid are raising tuition and laying employees off,” he said. “Currently, we have been reducing our work-force by attrition. Each job is thoroughly evaluated be-fore it is filled.”

Burns said UT will contin-ue to “attract the best talent and pay competitive wages.”

“At this point, academic services are not going to be touched,” he said.

Although not all of the de-tails have been worked out yet, Burns believes UT stu-dents and faculty will have a better idea of what to expect in upcoming weeks.

“The administration now knows more than we did at the beginning of the week, so we will have something to present to the board of trustees in May,” he said.

Photo courtesy of Daniel Miller

Erin Fuller, at left, matched in Pediatrics at Dartmouth-Hitch-cock Medical Center celebrates with Courtney Kauh, who matched in Ophthalmology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

“It had the best faculty and residents I met, plus I love the city,” Loochtan said.

“This is much more of a significant event than gradua-tion,” said Patricia Metting, vice chancellor for student affairs.

Residencies can last from three to seven years depend-ing on the area in which a student is specializing.

Students began applying for residencies in September and were offered interviews based largely on their performance evaluations, which Metting administered. Students then rank their preference of resi-dency while hospitals do the same for the students.

A computer program then matches students with hospitals.

“There are few things in life as finite as this,” said UT Health Science Chancellor Jeff Gold.

UT matched 154 medical students to residencies this year, with the most popular schools being UT’s College of Medicine, University

Hospitals of Cleveland Case Medical Center and the Uni-versity of Michigan.

The UT Medical Center takes 20 residents every year. This year, 11 will be UT graduates.

The medical field is becom-ing more competitive as medi-cal schools from outside the country start to compete for residencies in the U.S., Gold said.

“In previous years, there would be one or two positions left over, but not anymore,” Metting said.

Every medical student in the U.S. was matched to a residency in 2009. Last year nearly 200 students around the country were not matched, and this year close to 1,000 students went without a residency.

“These [matches] are the very top tier placements,” Gold said. “This is our third year having students recruit-ed into the Harvard system and we sent more to Brown [this year] than ever before.”

After a student completes their residency, UT sends out a questionnaire asking the hospital to rank their

performance, Gold said, and last year almost 80 percent of UT graduates ranked in the top fifth of their residency program.

“Medicine is the world’s best profession,” said UT President Lloyd Jacobs. “It is the world’s second [oldest] profession and the one by which all others are men-tioned. Medicine is a wonder-ful occupation, but it is not without its hazards.”

Besides the physical occu-pational hazards of being a doctor, including higher risk of infection and blood-borne illnesses, Jacobs advised stu-dents to “be careful of the hardening of the spirit.”

Doctors can become cyni-cal and desensitized to the world. They also are more prone to drug use, divorce and suicide, Jacobs said.

Natalie King, a fourth-year medical student with a spe-cialization in family medicine, was matched with her first choice at Christ Community Track at the University of Ten-nessee St. Francis.

“All [the] doctors [there] are committed to serving the un-derprivileged,” King said.

FundingFrom Page A1

source of the earthquake borders a subduction zone, an area where two adjacent plates meet and one slides above the other. The type of earthquake is called a mega-thrust earthquake, which is when an oceanic plate sinks under a continental plate.

Japan is located in an ar-ea where four plate tecton-ics meet: the Philippine, North American, Pacific and Eurasian Plates.

According to Stierman, earthquakes can be ex-plained by the elastic re-bound theory. Similar to how a rubber band stretch-es, plates move along a fault, causing a high amount of stress on the plates and the rocks return to their original shape. When the stress is released, a wave of energy is released.

Stierman said there is a hypothesis saying big earth-quakes change the stress on the whole tectonic plate and large quakes occur in clusters because of this, re-ferring to the two earth-quakes during the 1960’s

– the Valdivia earthquake off the coast of Chile and the 1964 Alaskan earth-quake. Following the two largest earthquakes record-ed since the invention of the seismograph, numbers show there was no greater earthquake until the 9.1 earthquake that occurred in 2004 off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

Since 2004, there have been three large earth-quakes over 8.5.

Based on these trends, Stierman said he would ex-pect another large earth-quake to occur in the near future.

“I wouldn’t bet this is the last one; there are lots of possibilities. I would watch all of the subduction zones all around the Pacific, espe-cially those that haven’t had one lately,” he said. “I don’t think the place where the Chilean earthquake or the Alaskan earthquake broke; those are going to take an-other 100 years. But any place that hasn’t had an earthquake in 100 or 150 years, I think are the best candidates.”

When asked where he thinks the next big earth-quake will be, Stierman said he expects a big one to oc-cur in Northwestern Cana-da, an area which has not seen a large earthquake in almost 150 years.

Reports show that two days prior to the March 11 earthquake, a 7.2 earth-quake occurred near the epicenter.

Stierman said the fore-shocks were recorded but the biggest difficulty is dis-tinguishing between an earthquake and a foreshock.

“The trouble is we still don’t know how to identify foreshocks,” he said.

Stierman added the only time when an earthquake was successfully identified occurred in China and they “just got lucky.”

Stierman said events such as the earthquake could be used as learning experienc-es in the classroom. His class “Geological Hazards and the Environment” is currently studying the earthquake phenomena.

“Now is the time to teach,” Stierman said.

JapanFrom Page A1

MatchFrom Page A1

SportsMonday, March 21, 2011Section B Page1

www.IndependentCollegian.com Zach Davis – Editor

It is exciting to see our team play with the pas-

sion, intensity and excite-ment that we have in this tournament.Tricia CullopUT Women’s Basketball Coach ”“

WNIT Sweet 16 (18-14) vs. (25-8)Third Round - Tuesday, March 22 in Savage Arena at 7 p.m. Student Admission is Free

Rockets throttle Auburn 67-52, advance to WNIT’s Sweet 16

Nick Kneer / IC

Sophomore center Yolanda Richardson had a career-high 20 points with eight rebounds in a 67-52 victory over Auburn on Saturday in the second round of the WNIT.

Host Alabama Tuesday in “Gold Out”By Nate PentecostIC Staff Writer

Toledo extended its home winning streak to 14 games on Saturday, routing Auburn 67-52 to advance to the third round of the Women’s Na-tional Invitation Tournament in Savage Arena.

“We have all the talent we need,” sophomore forward Yolanda Richardson said. “I feel like when we come out and play as a team we can beat anybody.”

Saturday’s victory marks the farthest run made by the Rockets (25-8) in the WNIT since the t o u r n a m e n t switched to a sin-g l e - e l i m i n a t i o n format.

The win over the Tigers (16-16) also gives To-ledo a 3-4 record at Savage Arena against teams from the Southeastern Confer-ence in school history.

“Any time you can play against a power conference and win it is a great win for your program,” UT head coach Tricia Cullop said.

Toledo held the Tigers to 31.3 percent shooting from the field (19 of 61) while shooting almost 45 percent (27 of 61) themselves. The Rockets were also dominant in the paint where they out-scored Auburn 48-20 on the day.

The Toledo charge was led by sophomore center

Yolanda Richardson (10 of 19) who tied her career-high with 20 points and collected a game-high eight boards. Richardson has scored in double-figures in four of the past seven games.

“I got a boost of confi-dence after these last couple of games,” Richard-son said. “I know what I can provide for my team.”

“She has continued to blossom as the season has gone on,” Cullop said. “I hope we can continue to play so we can see how far she can go.”

Senior forward Melissa Goodall (5 of

12) had 12 points against the Tigers, tying junior guard Naama Shafir for the most dou-ble-figure games on the team this sea-son at 26.

Shafir (4 of 7) scored 12 points as

well, to go with seven re-bounds and three assists.

“I just could not be more proud of the fact that we are get-ting our post game going,” Cullop said. “If we have both the outside and the in-side clicking this team is a lot of fun offensively.”

Auburn was front-ed by senior guard Alli Smal-ley (5 of 14) who put up a team-high 13 points in her final game as a Tiger. Fresh-men forward Tyrese Tanner (3 of 6) contributed 12 points and team-high 7 rebounds

for AU. Goodall and Richardson

helped the Rockets get out in front early, scoring four points a piece to spark a run that gave Toledo a 10-2 ad-vantage by the 14:11 mark of the first half. A layup by Shafir midway through the

half gave UT its first double-digit lead at 15-5 and the Rockets held steady to take a 29-18 lead into the locker room.

Toledo began the second half strongly as well. Going on a 14-3 run, including six points from Rich-ardson, giving the Rockets their largest lead at 43-21 with

15:01 to go in the contest. A three-pointer by fresh-

man guard Camille Glymph capped a 12-6 Auburn spurt to bring the score to 49-36 at the 9:47 mark. Toledo’s lead would not dip below 13 for the remainder of the game, finishing off the Tigers 67-52.

“We have great team play,” Cullop said. “It is exciting to see our team play with the passion, in-tensity and excite-ment that we have in this tournament.”

The Rockets are scheduled to take on Alabama (18-14) in the Sweet 16 on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in

Savage Arena. All students will receive

free admission as well as the first 100 fans to arrive at Sav-age Arena. The Rockets will also be encouraging all fans to dress in gold for the game.

ToledoAuburn

6752

Goodall

Richardson

By IC Staff

Toledo junior swimmer Lau-ra Lindsay earned All-Ameri-can honors in the 100 Breast-stroke following the NCAA Swimming and Diving Cham-pionships in Austin, Texas this weekend.

“I knew going into the meet that if I really concentrated on my races I had a chance of making it,” Lindsay said. “Ac-tually doing it though proved to be something I’d never forget.”

Lindsay finished 12th in the preliminary heat (1:00.33) and

became the first swimmer in program history to qualify for an event final, finishing 15th (1:00.95). She is the third swimmer in school history to be named an All-American, in-cluding Megan McKinley

Lindsay earns All-American honors

Courtesy of the UT Athletic Department

Junior swimmer Laura Lindsay became the third swimmer in school history to earn All-Amer-ican honors after finishing 15th in the 100 Breaststroke at the NCAA Championships.

— Lindsay, Page B2

Toledo stifled by YSU, lose 7 of last 8 games By Joe MehlingAssistant Sports Editor

The Rockets dropped three of their four games at the PSC Panther Classic in Pitts-burgh this weekend to fall to 5-13 on the year. Toledo closed the tournament with a 7-1 loss to Youngstown St on Sunday.

“Right now we need to make more plays in the clutch,” UT head coach Cory Mee said. “I think we are very capable of that and its about really wanting to be the hitter in that spot, want-ing to have the ball on the mound and really wanting to be that guy.”

Taking the mound for the Penguins was senior Phil Klein (1-3) who struck out a career-high 13 batters in eight innings and allowed just three hits. The right-hander had a no-hitter through 5.1 innings before UT senior outfielder Chris Dudics tripled to center and later scored the only earned run. Heading into the game Klein was winless with an ERA of 9.17.

“He pitched a very good game,” Mee said. “You have to give him a lot of credit with the performance he

File photo by Zach Davis / IC

Senior outfielder Chris Dudics was the lone Rocket to with a multi-hit game in an 8-1 loss to Youngstown State yesterday.— Stifled, Page B2

Independent CollegianTheMonday, March 21, 2011B2

(2008) and Reyna Smith (1995).

“Being here has been such an eye-opener for how small the MAC world is,” said Lind-say. “Having this experience under my belt will prepare me for greater swims to come.”

Lindsay also c o m -peted in the 200 Breaststroke on Saturday, missing the cut finishing 18th with a 2:11.17.

Senior captain Jacy Dyer also competed in the champi-onships this weekend, finish-ing 31st in the 1650 Free (16:27.02) in her last action at Toledo. It was the first time in program history two Rockets

were invited to the NCAA Championships.

“Even though the meet didn’t turn out the way I would have liked it to, I still had a great experience,” Dyer said. “It’s hard to believe this was my last mile as a Rocket. This was a really fun and fast meet and I’m glad I could be a part of it.”

“Both Jacy and Laura did a great job in their first appear-ance at the NCAA meet,” UT Head Coach Liz Hinkleman said. “We are proud of Jacy’s season and everything that she has given to this program, and for Laura to be named All-American in her first NCAA appearance makes us incredi-bly excited for the future.”

LindsayFrom Page B1

Courtesy of the UT Athletic Department

Senior caption Jacy Dyer participated in her last race at Toledo in the NCAA Championships this weekend in Austin, Texas.

had. He threw strikes and was ahead in the count the whole time. It was game where he had us hitting the pitchers pitch most of the time. We need to do a better job competing against a guy like that because were go-ing to have to beat good pitching.”

Sophomore Jar-ed Locke took the loss for Toledo af-ter giving up four runs, three earned, on three hits in 2.2 innings in his second start of the season.

“Jared has out-standing stuff,” Mee said. “The one thing I would like to see him do is throw more strikes and chal-lenge the hitters. He has a lot of ability and when he is ahead in the count he’s a very difficult guy to hit off of.”

The Rockets offense struggled overall but Dudics provided the bright spot in the line-up going 2 for 4, with a single in the eighth to go along with his triple.

“As the leadoff hitter he sets the tone for our of-fense,” Mee said. “He is an

experienced player and we count on him to set an ex-ample for us and jump-start our team. He is a real im-portant part of our team.”

Toledo has now lost sev-en of its last eight games and is 3-9 since taking two of three from No. 20 Louis-ville in Feb.

“We have played 18 games this season and we have

had 14 of those 18 games come down to the wire,” Mee said. “We have had a chance to win in all those games, so we are doing some stuff very well. The bottom line is we need to make more plays in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings of the game.”

Next up for the Rockets is a trip down I-75 to take on Cincinnati in a one game series on Wednesday at 4 p.m.

“The only way to make ourselves feel better is to get back out there, get on the horse and try to get it right,” Mee said. “I think our whole team can’t wait untill Wednesday and get down to Cincinnati and try to get back on the right track.”

StifledFrom Page B1

Youngstown Toledo

7 1

Pittsburgh ToledoSun, March 20

Sat, March 19

Fri, March 18

Toledo Niagra

YoungstownToledo

5 4

4 3

54

Nick Kneer / IC

Moving OnAfter a commanding victory against Auburn Saturday, Toledo will try to knock off Alabama Tuesday at Savage Arena.

Independent CollegianTheMonday, March 21, 2011 B3

Apps lead the wayThe iPad’s best feature con-

tinues to be Apple’s industry-leading app ecosystem. Apple boasts more than 65,000 apps built for the iPad’s 9.7-inch touch screen display.

The biggest competitor here, Google’s Android oper-ating system, has fewer than 100 apps built for a tablet screen.

Apple also upgraded the iPad’s Safari Web browser to

make navigating around the Internet snappier. Pages load much faster than on the origi-nal iPad.

Users of the original iPad should see a similar bump in speed when they upgrade to the new software version made available last week.

The iPad 2 continues Ap-ple’s feud with the popular video format Flash. Don’t ex-pect a compromise here, even as it renders much of the Web’s video unwatchable on the iPad.

The screen is also disap-pointingly the same as the model released last

year. Apple’s iPhone 4 has a stunning high-resolution dis-play and many had hoped that screen would be included on the iPad 2.

New smart coverOne of the most exciting

things about the iPad 2 is the innovative cover designed to protect it.

The Smart Cover was con-ceived alongside the iPad 2, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has said, and it shows. It works seamlessly with the new tab-let, snapping on and snapping closed using magnets.

Opening the cover

automatically turns the iPad 2 on, saving the few seconds that were required to wake up the previous version. It’s like a refrigerator light _ always on when you need it.

When the cover retracts and folds up, it serves as a stand in two positions _ one perfect for typing and one for watch-ing video.

The covers come in 10 ver-sions _ five vibrant colors in polyurethane ($39) and five more subdued tones in leath-er ($69).

The genius here is that the Smart Cover makes the iPad 2 feel like an entirely new

device. And while it seems silly to suggest buying a $500-plus device to use a $40 case, it now feels impossible to use the iPad 2 any other way.

Better than the competition The iPad 2’s only compelling competition, the Android-based Motorola Xoom, hit the market late last month without the features that were supposed to make it an iPad killer: support for Flash video, microSD cards and Verizon’s next-generation 4G

LTE wireless network. (All of those features are coming “soon,” though, through software upgrades.)

And it dropped with a gulp-worthy price tag: $800.

Placed next to the iPad 2, the Xoom looks clunky and bloated.

It’s not often that Apple gets mentioned as the company with a price advantage. But the California taste maker has managed to undercut its com-petition on price.

There is no better tablet on the market than the iPad 2.

___(c) 2011, Detroit Free Press.

iPad 2From Page B4

sometimes I don’t have free weekends to go home, but that’s okay because it’s just as much fun up here hanging out with everybody. It’s not always work. It’s a lot of hanging out with friends. And gas is expensive.”

His hardest scene was in the Field House: “The most involved scene I had to shoot was when I was yelling down at Greg from the balcony be-cause there are a lot of ‘your momma’ jokes – really, really bad – I mean, they’re really bad in themselves, but I had to make it sound like I thought they were kind of funny, but they’re really not at all. That was kind of tough.”

So was his most embar-rassing scene: “The one mo-ment when we were in the Field House and we were film-ing, Nick [Bellmyer as Greg Long] wasn’t there because he had to leave, and I was yelling down at nobody in particular, and there was just somebody – some freelancer walking around down there, and straight-up it looks like I’m yell-ing about their mother. Right after the scene is over, I’m yell-ing apologies down to him. That was pretty fun. I almost wanted us to stop, but I was already halfway into the scene.”

He’s the WBSS signature rapper: “My favorite is the ‘Down’ [parody of ‘Down’ by Jay Sean] song because I get to rap. My rapping song. It’s the most

fun I’ve had at recording because I’m not completely comfortable with my voice, so the fact that I can just get up there and rap and sound okay – I think – that’s pretty cool.”

Gage co-stars in the pre-view with male lead Nick Kneer: “‘Party in the Glass City’ [parody of ‘Party in the USA’ by Miley Cyrus] is basi-cally about new kids coming to campus, and they are ner-vous and not really sure what to expect, but they’re also excited because it’s some-thing completely new. That was the first thing we filmed.”

The music video actually IS about a party: “Marky, Joey and Ben riding the ele-vator – that part’s pretty fun-ny. We’re going to a party. That filming day was really extensive. I remember my legs seizing up from cramps and stuff. Yeah. I should’ve drank more water. Being in there was – it was hot. Not hot as in “soo hot,” the tem-perature was extremely high and us dancing around to techno music or whatever it was we danced to really didn’t help matters. But I think my favorite part that I got to do was grabbing Mu-nich’s Snuggie that he had on and trying to cover my – uh – my problem that I had at the party from seeing all the good-looking girls. That was my favorite part in that one.”

GageFrom Page B4

Nick Kneer/IC

Howell’s character Marky (above) is the instigator of the series. (Below) His character plays opposite the Quad’s Greg (played by Nick Bellmyer, left) in the show.

Jewish community] to open up to UT, that would be great. Diversity is not about liking everyone, but being open and respectful to the differences.”

Rubin and Gold both ex-pressed dissatisfaction con-cerning the recent “anti-Is-raeli” weeks and months at various universities across the nation, most notably at the University of California Los Angeles.

Recent anti-Israel events, dubbed “Israel Apartheid Week” and “Palestine Aware-ness Week” by others have been characterized by stu-dents gathering to protest, burn the Israeli flag, and lis-ten to anti-Semitic speeches by prominent figures within the movement.

Though events have not been specifically sanctioned by the universities that have been the sights for public demonstration, many orga-nizations have publically condemned the gatherings. The David Horovitz Free-dom Center recently pub-lished a newsletter, urging students to come forward to them, as they could “help you to expose the hatred and lies fueling these demonstrations.”

Jewish organizations across the country, as well as those who specialize in interfaith cooperation, have been working to prevent these events from gaining strength on a national scale.

“As a Jewish student, I would feel as uncomfortable as if I were a multicultural student,” Rubin said. “The silent majority can’t be si-lent. They can’t just sit and watch events such as this occur and not do anything. It takes the help of others to take action.”

When asked if there were any words of inspiration he could give to Jewish stu-dents attending universities where these anti-Israeli events are occurring or any multi-cultural student facing adversity at their university, Rubin was straight to the point: “Stand up for your heritage. Be proud of who you are. Don’t let anyone tell you that you are wrong.”

Students that succeeded in answering any of the ques-tions on the board were awarded coupons to be used at any of UT’s Residential Dining halls.

After two rounds of regu-lar Jeopardy, two final Jeop-ardy questions were an-swered – though neither cat-egory was answered cor-rectly. The answers were former Israeli Prime Minis-ter Golda Meir and 1920, the year women were guaran-teed the right to vote in the United States.

Following Jeopardy, UT Hillel invited students to enjoy Israeli tea, as well as snacks in a room near the South Lounge. The next event will be a game night at 7 p.m. in the Ingman Room

JeopardyFrom Page B4

Arts“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them”— Galileo Galilei andLife

Monday, March 21, 2011BSectionwww.IndependentCollegian.com DC Guastella– Editor

Page4

Photo Illustration by Nick Kneer/ IC

Multicultural Jeopardy is the first of five events UT Hillel organized for Jewish Heritage Month in March and April

By Mark W. SmithDetroit Free Press(MCT)

For Apple, the power is in the packaging.

Unwrapping a brand-new Apple device is an experience that no other technology com-pany has been able to match.

And while Apple has been chided for endlessly calling its devices “magical,” there are few better words to de-scribe this iPad 2, which is one-third thinner, 15 percent lighter and twice as fast as the original.

It is simply the best vessel on which to casually consume content _ an experience that has dropped users more com-pletely and comfortably into the Web than any other device in history.

It now boasts front- and rear-facing cameras, a dual-core 1 GHz processor and nine times the graphic performance.

The combination of those new features elevates the iPad 2 to a new level of usabil-ity _ a mark yet unmatched by any other tablet maker.

The iPad 2 is now available in 18 flavors. Users can choose from sizes of 16, 32 and 64 GB, between WiFi-only and 3G-connected models us-ing Verizon or AT&T, and also between black and white. Prices range from $499 to $829.

New cameras are best for video

The iPad 2’s front- and rear-facing cameras are clearly best suited for video

capturing. The higher quality camera on the back takes 720p video, which Apple calls HD.

The quality of that video is commendable, although much less so in low-light con-ditions. Paired with Apple’s new iMovie app ($4.99), the iPad 2 is an all-in-one video capturing and editing device.

The front-facing camera al-lows the iPad to join the suite of devices linked to Face-Time, Apple’s video chatting software. Users can place vid-eo calls to other Apple devic-es, including the iPod Touch, iPhone and Mac computers.

The FaceTime experience is slick and the quality of the video calls over WiFi is excellent.

Both the front- and rear-facing cameras on the iPad 2 allow users to take still photo-graphs, but the quality on both is less than poor. Apple isn’t saying how many mega-pixels the cameras have, but several reports rate the rear camera at less than one megapixel.

Apple rates the iPad 2’s bat-tery life at 10 hours. In my tests, the iPad 2 exceeded that mark, reaching just shy of 11 hours while streaming video through Netflix over WiFi.

That’s an important engi-neering accomplishment giv-en the iPad 2’s lighter weight and slimmer build.

Without constant use, ex-pect the iPad 2 to last several days between charges, just like the original version.

9.5 in. (24.1 cm)0.3 in.

(0.8 cm)(18.5 cm)

7.6 in.

Second time aroundAppleÕs iPad 2 is 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighterthan the original model.

Tweaks to design

© 2011 MCT

• Dual cameras for video chats• Faster processor, same

10-hour battery life as original model

16 GB32 GB64 GB

$499$599$699

$629$729$829

Wi-Fi3G,Wi-Fi

• Black, white models available

Take your pick

NOTE: 3G models require data plans

Source: AppleGraphic: Melina Yingling

9.7 in

. (24.6

cm)

1.3 lb. (601 g)

Back camera

Dock connector Home button

On/off

SilentVolumecontrol

Front camera

iPad 2Better than competitors

—iPad 2, Page B3

Nick Kneer/ IC

Gage Howell (left) plays second to Ottawa lead Nick Kneer (right) as Kneer’s best friend and side-kick in “West Bancroft Side Story.”

Hillel celebrates with Jeopardy

By Feliza CasanoCopy Chief

Gage Howell is a sophomore major-ing in education who plays Marky Lay-man in “West Bancroft Side Story.” I had a chance to sit down and talk with him yesterday about his involvement in the show.

Gage is the new kid on the block: “I have never been in a [theatre depart-ment] show at UT. I’ve never actually done a show ever before, so this is my first time being in one. It’s exciting.”

He’s new to the musical scene as well: “I haven’t seen too many musi-cals. When we watched ‘West Side Story,’ I really liked that one, if I could hear it – we had the whole cast over and they were talking about it, and there were only a couple of people who hadn’t seen it yet. We kind of got to see what was going on, but I’d like to see it again sometime.”

Marky’s pretty cool: “Marky is my favorite character. [laughter] I really do like Marky, though. He’s just – he’s

a tool, and probably because I like playing him too. I like being Marky sometimes. He usually holds the reins during fights, but he never really throws a punch ever.”

But he’s nothing like Marky: “It is completely different. I’ve described it as like turning on a switch, and when I’m in the mode of Marky, it takes a little while to get back out. In between takes, I will kind of be tool-ish in ways, just kind of as a joke to keep me in character, but it’s kind of fun because everybody understands. I think.”

Gage loves WBSS: “‘West Bancroft’ has been incredibly fun. Everybody loves each other. We’re all really good friends. We have all this crazy chemis-try. I think we’ve gotten a lot better working with each other. It’s less awk-ward and more fun.”

Even if that means staying in To-ledo: “It takes a lot – filming some of the dance scenes lasts all weekend, so

— Gage, Page B3

The two faces of Gage HowellAn interview with the face of Marky Layman of ‘West Bancroft’

Students gather to game, celebrate, discuss and kick off Jewish Heritage Month

By David HarrisIC Staff Writer

“I’ll take People, Places and Things…Oi Voy! for 200.”

This was one of the many statements made at yester-day afternoon’s Multicultural Jeopardy event in the Stu-dent Union South Lounge. The event was co-sponsored by the University of Toledo’s Office of Multicultural Stu-dent Services and Hillel, an international Jewish student organization with an office at UT.

The event featured a Jeop-ardy-style interactive ques-tion board on a projector. Categories covered such top-ics as Jewish events, holi-days and customs, as well as a category labeled “Who’s That Lady?” which paid hom-age to March also being Women’s History Month.

Any student present in the Student Union South Lounge was able to participate – Jews and gentiles alike.

Typically, Jewish Heritage Month is celebrated in May; however, most students will be leaving campus during May. The celebration was moved forward, and UT Hil-lel is sponsoring a series of events during the second half of March, including a Purim celebration yesterday and Is-raeli themed street fair on Centennial Mall on March 27.

During the Jeopardy match, the majority of the questions were hard for the participants, though many of the answers were informa-tive and sparked discussion among the participants and viewers.

Max Gold, a junior major-ing in philosophy and the current president of

UT Hillel, was one of the question presenters during the event.

“My goal for the event was to help educate people in Jewish culture, heritage and religion in an interactive manner,” Gold said.

Gold, and fellow UT Hillel members Marina Stepanski, Laura Nederezov, Jeff Moss and Naomi Fetterman are re-sponsible for planning and scheduling the event.

“My hope was that after the event, people would have an understanding of Judaism. There were a lot of things people did not know [about Judaism] that they found out about today,” Gold said.

Gold also believed that as a result of events put on by UT Hillel, such as Multicultural Jeopardy, people will under-stand what Judaism truly is and begin to embrace it.

“I just hope everything we do has some inspiration on someone,” he said. “When people say that they know something, it closes up your window to learn. However, when you say ‘I don’t know,’ it allows you to be open to trying and learning new things. And I hope that this month, people will embrace these new things.”

UT Student Government president Matt Rubin be-lieves that months such as Jewish Heritage Month are important for diversity amongst the students at UT.

“Jewish Heritage Month is important to highlight the University of Toledo, since we have a very diverse com-munity,” Rubin, who is also of the Jewish faith, say “Any-thing that we can do [as a

— Jeopardy, Page B3