they give blood three or four times a year,” Reising said. “That has just really gotten me excited.”

He said between all of his classes, about 10 to 20 stu-dents take advantage of the option each semester, includ-ing four so far this semester.

Reising said he intro-duced an alternate policy his first year teaching at UT when a student who wanted to participate could not give blood because she was underweight.

“Those who can’t give blood can volunteer,” he said. “I wanted this to be as fair as possible.”

Reising said he has also allowed students to offer up other types of community service for extra credit, like for those who participated

at UT’s Dance Marathon.“I have never had a

complaint,” he said. “The students have been uni-versally happy with the option, and a lot of them have taken it seriously and it’s something they have continued to do.”

Lundquist said while she agrees that blood donation is a “wonderful thing,” she said the fact that it is not connected to the curriculum makes it unfair to students.

“Maybe if you’re a nurs-ing student and you’re tak-ing a course in hematology, the study of blood, maybe it would be appropriate to even require students to give blood — I don’t know,” she said.

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Prof told to stop giving extra credit for blood donations

Chief: Cameras helped with crimes this semester

BoB Taylor / ICEnglish professor Russell Reising stands in front of a Red Cross truck during Tuesday’s blood drive on campus. Reising was told to discontinue his extra credit policy, which gives 10 points to students who donate blood.

By Danielle GambleNews Editor

For most of the 30 years he has taught, English pro-fessor Russell Reising has been offering 10 extra cred-it points for students who donated blood or volun-teered at a blood drive.

That practice came to an end last week after English department chair Sara Lun-dquist found out and told him to stop — and Reising isn’t happy about it.

Lundquist said the policy is inappropriate, while Reising said he doesn’t see the harm.

The issue arose when a student emailed Reising with concerns about her grade, and mentioned that she had taken advantage of the extra credit option. When Reising forwarded the email to Lundquist, she noticed the reference.

“Please tell me that you did not give students extra credit for donating blood,” she wrote in a reply to Reising.

Reising said he then spoke with Lundquist by phone and she emailed him later that day, telling him to stop.

“I’m just confused — it all happened so fast,” he said. “It struck me as such a strange thing to be upset about. Why would they say don’t give blood?”

But Lundquist said ex-tra credit shouldn’t be given for things like donating blood.

“I think it’s a very bad aca-demic practice,” she said Tuesday. “You’re giving extra credit for something that is not related to the content of the course. You’re trading something else for credit that leads to a grade.”

Reising said he first came up with the idea when he was teaching at Marquette Univer-sity and students responded positively. When he came to UT 18 years ago, he contin-ued to offer the same deal.

“I’ve had people write let-ters, saying they had never given blood before, but now

Business professor nominated for international honor

PhoTo CourTEsy of DaN MIllEr / uTClint Longenecker has been nominated for Business Professor of the Year, an award sponsored by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

By Lindsay Mahaneystaff reporter

A University of Toledo busi-ness professor is in the running for an award honoring business professors across the world.

Clint Longenecker, a pro-fessor of management in the College of Business and In-novation, was nominated by several former students for the Business Professor of the Year award.

The award is sponsored by the Economist Intelligence Unit, which is connected to The Economist magazine. It was created to find the best business professor in the world and recognize their talents publicly.

The winner is chosen through online voting by stu-dents, which began Oct. 23

and closes Nov. 23. “Clint is a positive role

model for all students, espe-cially those in the business college, just in the way he carries himself and goes about his life,” said UT graduate Dan Gatins, a former student of Longenecker. “He taught me to have a positive approach to all situations.”

Gatins said he was able to get a job right out of college with Longenecker’s help and has been working there since 2010.

“He’s always moving around and can command a

2 1/2-hour class for the whole 2 1/2 hours,” Gatins said. “There is never a dull time. Everybody is engaged

way, way, way above average.”

Longenecker has been a UT profes-sor for more than 30 years, and is also a UT graduate.

Longenecker said he believes in setting high standards for his students to help

them better themselves. While knowing his students on a pro-fessional level is important, Longenecker said knowing each student on a personal level helps them excel and become professionals in their field.

“I believe that this is best achieved by me working very hard to make a personal con-nection with each and every

By Danielle GambleNews Editor

The installation over the summer of 156 new camer-as in residence halls has helped police investigate some of this semester’s more high-profile crimes, said University of Toledo Police Chief Jeff Newton.

“In some cases we’ve had this year, they’ve been very helpful in making identifica-tions,” he said.

Newton cited the recent case in which two students were robbed at gunpoint their room at Horton International House. One of the suspects was caught on surveillance video letting another suspect into the resi-dence hall.

“I’m pleased in that we were able to make identifica-tions and arrests within 24 hours,” Newton said.

When cameras caught the image of a bike thief Oct. 5, he was later arrested after people who saw the video identified him.

Newton said he hopes the cameras will help prevent crimes.

“As we utilize these camer-as again and again to solve cases, folks will hopefully un-derstand that there’s a higher probability of catching the bad guys,” he said.

Although police have dealt with some unusual incidents this year, Newton said offi-cers have been prepared.

“Up until these past few in-cidents, we’ve had a really quite year,” he said. “You have 23,000 students and 4,000 resi-dential students, so while these things aren’t common they’re still going to happen over the course of the school year.”

Newton said unusual cases include the recent Academic House disturbance in which resident JaVonn Morgan al-legedly assaulted three police officers and four students.

“It’s very hard to prevent someone who’s a resident of the hall coming into the build-ing in some kind of manic state… and causing a distur-bance in the building,” he said.

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student in a wide variety of ways,” he said. “Students care how much you care before they care how much you know, so I want my students to see in clear and tangible

ways that I am committed to their development as people and professionals as well as the information they receive.”

More onlinestudents can vote by

going online at business professoraward.com and completing a form. once a vote is cast, it must be verified via email before the 1 p.m. deadline on friday, Nov. 23.

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Costume sale helps theatre program

Members of the al-pha Psi omega Nation-al Theatre honors so-ciety and the Depart-ment of Theatre and film Costume shop will host a costume sale today from noon to 4 p.m. in the Center for Performing arts.

all costumes are unique pieces which have been featured in uT theatre productions. Prices range from $1 to $15.

for more informa-tion, email sean.koogan @rockets.utoledo.edu.

Historian to discuss divide between India, Pakistan

ayesha Jalal, profes-sor of history at Tufts university, will give a speech titled “The Pity of Partition: The Per-sonal and Political across the India-Paki-stan Divide” friday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in libbey hall.

The free, public talk will last two hours and be followed by a ques-tion-and-answer session.

In addition to friday’s speech, there will be a faculty seminar Thurs-day, Nov. 1 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in univer-sity hall room 4180.

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Open house set for adult student services

The office of adult student Extended ser-vices, part of the Col-lege of lifelong learn-ing, will have an open house Monday in rocket hall room 1800.

Women’s cross country takes home MaC title / 7

“You’re giving extra credit for something that is not related to the content of the course..”

SaRa LUnDqUISTChair, English department

“It never dawned on me that there would be anybody who would have any objection to it.”

RUSSELL REISInGProfessor, English

“But I think if you’re teach-ing a course on 19th-centu-ry American literature … I think it’s inappropriate to give credit for it.”

“There’s lots of good things we could do in the world and every professor could choose their favorite charity and give their stu-dents credit for it, but that’s not what the class is for,” she said.

Reising described the de-cision as “wrongheaded.”

“Giving blood is an un-equivocal good — helping save lives is an unequivocal good,” he said. “I think for university students to start cultivating a sense of responsi-bility is an unequivocal good.”

“I think this was han-dled sort of hysterically, sort of frantically, he said. “It never dawned on me that there would be any-body who would have any objection to it.”

He said he wants to speak with the person from UT’s legal affairs department who advised Lundquist before deciding what to do next.

“I hate the idea that I would have to stop doing this, but I can’t legitimately

claim that it’s an infringe-ment on my rights,” he said. “I mean, I’ll still encourage students to give blood, but I just can’t give extra credit.”

Lundquist said while the final decision may not be hers, she is confident in her position.

“It’s up to the university and the university’s policies, but I would recommend that he cease doing it,” she said. “The person I spoke to recommended that the pro-fessor cease.”

“A student could give blood, eat the cookie, drink the juice and look fine, and then faint on the way home while driving,” she said.

Lundquist said she sees nothing wrong with profes-sors encouraging students to do charitable things, but “at-taching credit to it, to me, is taking another step.”

The Independent Colle-gian emailed a few of the students who have taken ad-vantage of the extra credit offer this semester.

Grace Henry, a senior in middle childhood education, said she enjoyed donating, al-though she did become slightly dizzy as a result.

“My safety was never in danger,” she said.

Henry, who has donated

blood five times, said the grade boost was important to her, but she plans on do-nating again, even without the extra credit.

Kurt Graver, a junior ma-joring in middle childhood education, said Reising’s of-fer encouraged him to put aside his fear of needles and give blood.

“I don’t see how this is less appropriate than any other offer of extra credit in classes,” he said, adding that he once had a professor of-fer credit for going to a UT football game.

“I can only assume that is allowed because UT is mak-ing money off it,” he said.

Graver said the university shouldn’t have to worry about any liability issues.

“If anything happens to the donor it is on their hands,” he said. “They are an adult in college — it is time that they start taking responsibility for their lives. If the university is so worried about student health, then why do they continue to run blood drives on campus?”

“It’s 10 points,” Graver add-ed. “I am not going to jump from a C to an A because I donated blood. It is merely an incentive to do a good deed.”

The following reports were issued by the UT Police Department. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

Property reported stolen from Toledo Hil-ton: several bags were re-ported stolen from a room in the Toledo hilton, oct. 5 at 6:05 a.m. The bags were said to contain toiletries, makeup, medications and jewelry. hotel staff stated they would speak with housekeeping supervisors and staff to investigate. There are currently no sus-

pects for this case. Suspects arrested on

Rocket Drive for disorderly conduct: an officer observed Dale schiefer sleeping alongside rocket Drive near the inter-section of West rocket and College oct. 5 at 2:54 a.m. schiefer was offered a ride home but could not provide an accurate address upon repeated request. schiefer was placed under arrest and booked into jail for disorder-ly conduct by intoxication.

Car window broken in Lot 26: an officer on patrol noticed a vehicle in lot 26 with a broken rear passenger window at 10:45

a.m. on oct. 2. The victim stated he parked his car in lot 26 at approximately 10 a.m. Taken from the vehicle was a Jensen DVD Deck and Power aMP. There are no suspects at this time.

Student’s card stolen off-campus: a university of Toledo student lost his wallet while off-campus at Cold stone Creamery on Talmadge road sept. 29 at 6:15 p.m. he stated that he canceled his credit/debit cards but his international card was used at an off-campus business called Project 360 before it could be canceled. There are no suspects at this time.

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Longenecker believes much of his success is due to the support from col-leagues he worked with

and students he taught. “During my career I

have been blessed with lit-erally thousands of great students here,” Longeneck-er said. “Over the years as I have worked hard to make

a difference in the lives students, they have done the exact same. My stu-dents know I care about them and want people to care for each other.”

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Pulled fire alarm evacuates Carlson LibraryBy Vincent D. ScebbiEditor-in-Chief

A pulled fire alarm evacuated people in Carl-son Library for almost 45 minutes Tuesday evening.

Shortly after 6 p.m., the fire alarms in Carl-son went off, causing students to leave the premises. Toledo Fire Department arrived soon after and investi-gated the building.

Lt. Kevin Williamson of Station 25 of the Toledo Fire Department said someone pulled the fire alarm on the third floor near the restrooms.

By 6:40 p.m., students were allowed to re-enter the library.

Lt. Tony Oberneder of the University of Toledo Police Department said someone who falsely pulls a fire alarm can potentially be charged with inducing panic.

“Obviously it disrupts flow; people here are studying when all of a sudden this happens,”

BoB Taylor / ICSome students waiting outside of Carlson Library after someone pulled a fire alarm Tuesday evening.

Oberneder said. Mark Chase, a sophomore

majoring in environmental sciences who waited throughout the duration of the incident, said he was studying calculus in the li-brary’s basement when the alarm sounded.

“Once I saw the firefight-

ers, I thought it was some-thing serious,” he said.

Chase said whoever pulled the fire alarm was “certainly being moronic.”

“A lot of us were working on serious projects for seri-ous classes, we are here to study. We’re not here to fool around,” he said.

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In brIefnew laws on water quality topic of Great Lakes Water Conference

New laws impacting Great lakes water quality and quantity will be the topics discussed at the 12th annu-al Great lakes Water Con-ference friday, Nov. 2, at the university of Toledo Col-lege of law.

The free, public event ti-tled “New laws Impacting Water Quality and Quantity” will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the McQuade law Center auditorium.

Three panels of experts will discuss the newly amended Great lakes Wa-ter Quality agreement, pollu-tion and water use legisla-tion stemming from the Great lakes-st. lawrence

river Basin Water resourc-es Compact. Tom henry, award-winning environmen-tal writer for The Blade, will be the keynote speaker.

The conference is spon-sored by the College of law and its affiliated legal Insti-tute of the Great lakes.

UT, Toledo Symphony join for festival

The university of Toledo College of Visual and Per-forming arts is partnering for a second season with the Toledo symphony orchestra to offer a festival. In april, the symphony and college teamed up for the Wartime reflection festival.

faculty and artists who work in theatre, dance, mu-sic, film and literature will provide context and back-ground to enhance the au-dience’s experience during musical pieces performed

by the Toledo symphony in its presentation of stravin-sky’s “The soldier’s Tale” friday. and saturday Nov. 16-17 at 8 p.m. in the Tole-do Museum of art Peristyle Theatre.

Cornel Gabara, uT associ-ate professor of theatre, will direct the production about a fiddle-playing soldier who makes a deal with the devil.

Tickets for the concert range from $24 to $54 with student prices of $10 and $5 at the door. They can be purchased by calling 419-246-8000 or visiting Toledosymphony.com.

Trees to be removed from Main Campus

The facilities and Grounds Department is planning to remove trees near university hall and along Bancroft street.