“No. I just

don’t.

Joshua CarltonFresh., Leisure studies

Do you frequent the Toledo Metroparks? Why or why not?

“No. I don’t have a car on campus, so I pretty much

stay on campus.

Nyema IgweFresh., pre-pharm

“No. I don’t have time.

Cody MohlerFresh., finance

“No. I stay on campus for

the most part.

Jason SmithFresh., pre-law

“I haven’t been yet,

but I might in the

future.

Meagan WallaceFresh., music ed.

Check out our story on the Toledo Metroparks in our Arts & Life section on page B4.” ” ” ” ”

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Rockets set to face Bowling Green Wednesday on ESPN2

Sports, B4

An evening of stargazing in the dome.

Arts & Life, B1

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Toledo Mayor Mike Bell sits in his office in One Government Center and discusses his future plans to foster good working rela-tions with China. Bell travelled to China with a delegation from Toledo in Sept. to establish business ties with the country.

Bell discusses future relations with ChinaToledo mayor looks to build international ties for communityBy DC GuastellaIC Staff Writer

Toledo Mayor Mike Bell spent 11 days in China in

S e p t e m -ber with D e p u t y M a y o r Dean Mon-ske to help form fu-ture eco-nomic, ed-ucat ional and busi-ness rela-t ionships b e t w e e n China and Toledo.

D u r i n g an exclu-sive inter-view, he s h a r e d with the I n d e p e n -dent Col-legian his t h o u g h t s

and visions for future rela-tions with China.

Building for the future

Bell said he believes he is taking the proper steps to nur-ture a relationship with China that would be mutually benefi-cial, and result in economic development in Toledo and northwest Ohio, a place Bell called “one of the most under-marketed regions in the state of Ohio, if not the whole Unit-ed States.”

“I’m open to anything,” he said. “It could be bringing their companies here; we’re already buying their products, and if we had a portion of their prod-ucts produced here, it could be a win-win for everybody.”

Bell’s philosophy was clear: attracting business from other American states and cities are not his goal. For him, such de-velopment strategies net no “true economic growth.”

Instead, Bell plans to attract business abroad, including not only China, but Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and In-dia as other potential sources.

In order to create this

relationship, the impor-

tant thing is to look peo-

ple in the face, shake

their hands. They need to

hear your voice, even

if it’s through an interpreter.

Mike BellMayor,City of Toledo

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”— China, Page A8

By Sura KhuderIC Staff Writer

The University of Toledo’s Initiative for Religious Under-standing addressed “Islamo-phobia” from the angle of an Islamic studies professor, a law professor, a journalist and a pastor last Wednesday at the Law Center Auditorium.

The panel consisted of Imam Khattab, Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies

Ovamir Anjum, Professor of Law Benjamin Davis, Religion Editor for the Toledo Blade David Yonke and Pastor of Park Congregational United Church of Christ Ed Heilman.

Each expert gave a 15-min-ute analysis of the growing aversion toward Islam and had an open dialogue with the audience after each speech.

“This is not a standard event

Panel talks about Islamophobia

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Panelists, from L to R: Benjamin Davis, J. D., M. B. A., Assistant Professor of Law, David Yonke, Religion Editor for the Toledo Blade, and Ed Heilman, Pastor, Park Congregational United Church of Christ.

Escaping through the silver screenMovies prove an escape for viewers during down economyBy Vincent D. ScebbiFeatures Editor

The following is the fi-nal part of a four-part IC series on the effects of the cinema industry on the local community.

Whether it’s to get away from the everyday stress or from tough economic problems, the need to es-cape is a staple reason why people go out to mov-ie theaters.

Trends in ticket sales show that, despite the slowing economy, the cin-ema industry tends to re-main a solid, profit-mak-ing market.

UT Assistant Professor of Film Matt Yockey said the industry was at a high point during the 1930s and early 1940s.

“In the United States, film-going was at its peak period from the Depres-sion to World War II,”

— Escape, Page A3

Photo Illustration by Nick Kneer / IC

During difficult economic times, movies provide an escape from reality for their viewers.

— Islam, Page A2

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Kevin Sohnly / IC

‘Poet’s Love’ in the Great GalleryDr. Eric Johanson, professor of music at the University of Toledo, performs “Dichterliebe” (The Poet’s Love) at the Great Gallery Series Faculty Recital yesterday at the Toledo Mu-seum of Art.

that we have,” Philosophy of Religion Professor Jeanine Diller said. “But in response to what we perceive as a growing anti-Muslim rheto-ric and actions in America, we decided that we need to just talk about that as a com-munity with the people who know it well.”

Diller pointed to the Park51 community center, labeled by many the “Ground-Zero Mosque,” and Reverend Terry Jones’ planned but later cancelled Quran-burning event as evi-dence of the rise in “Islamo-phobia,” or fear and hatred toward Islam.

Other issues concerning Islam mentioned in the dia-logue included the recent banning of Sharia law, or Is-lamic law, in Oklahoma, and some political candidates’ defamations towards Islam in the recent midterm elections.

“Phobias are rising and are even getting much worse than in the wake of Septem-ber 11,” Anjum said. “Today, Muslims in America are fac-ing mounting phobias which are justified with reference to the actions of a few who were neither elected nor supported by American

Muslims.” Davis explained that al-

though people may have a rational fear of the terrorist group that carried out the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the lines between Islam and Muslims as a whole have been blurred and much of the current Islamophobia is based on irrational fears.

He also credited the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as commentators, pun-dits and members of con-gress for contributing to this irrationality.

“We have the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, we have American soldiers in harm’s way who are being killed and wounded by per-sons of different customs and cultures,” he said. “As with any country at war, there is a tendency to pres-ent our side as the right side and good and to demonize the other side as the wrong side and evil.”

Davis said this is nothing new as history has shown that phobias of cultures are built on these sorts of generalizations.

He added that there is nothing specific about Is-lamophobia and its rise that distinguishes it from past de-monizing of minorities.

Anjum referenced a

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David Gosser, a sophomore majoring in nursing, gives a point of praise to the panelists at Islamaphobia Tuesday night in the Law Center.

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Pete Silverman asked. “Part of the way phobia grows is if you’re afraid to discuss the hard issues.”

Silverman said that while there is evidence of an increase in irrational Islamophobia in the United States, he believes there is a whole area of legiti-mate criticism to the religion that was not discussed.

“I wanted to ask the pastor what he thought about Muslims killing Christians in the Middle East or how Christians are leav-ing the Middle East in droves, but I realized I already made the panel too uncomfortable,” he said.

As for the majority of Mus-lims in the United States who are law-abiding and have always been, Davis argues that they should not accept how others are demonizing their religion.

“I think it’s important that Muslims in America should feel comfortable with saying ‘This is not possible in Ameri-ca,’” he said.

He believes Islamophobia is an unfortunate part of Ameri-can reality and Muslims should react to discrimination they may be facing with non-violence and by reaching out to non-Muslims and engaging

IslamFrom Page A1

Gallup poll conducted last year that indicated Muslim youth as being the saddest youth in America.

Muslim youth are also the least likely to identify them-selves as thriving compared to the rest of the general popula-tion according to this poll.

“Unlike their parents, [Mus-lim youth] are totally at the mercy of how other Ameri-cans, both people and media, think of them and say about them,” Anjum said. “Young American Muslims, who in fact ought to represent the hope for Muslims in America, are at the risk of being stunned by hopelessness.”

An argument often made by critics of Islam has been ques-tioning why moderate or pro-gressive Muslims are not do-ing enough to denounce radi-cal Muslims and terrorist organizations.

Anjum argues that Muslims have in fact been screaming against violence and terrorism at the top of their lungs, how-ever, the media has shunned American Muslims as a whole.

Yonke has covered several stories on Islam in the Toledo area and said he has witnessed numerous sermons at local mosques condemning the acts of Al Quada and other terror-ist organizations.

“A lot of times I hear people ask ‘well if Muslims are so against terrorism why don’t they denounce it, why don’t they speak out against it,’” he said. “This is such a misper-ception because I’ve been in Friday prayers and heard the imams denounce terrorism and clearly, strongly, no com-promise, and I’ve written about that. They are doing what they can, but people are not listening.”

Although each member of the panel was meant to bring a different standpoint on Islam-ophobia, some members of the audience thought the pan-el was one-sided and did not address legitimate criticism of Islam.

Some of these issues brought forth by audience members were honor killings committed by Muslims both in the United States and over-seas, inequality of women, discrimination of Jews, ston-ing as a form of punishment and Sharia law movements trying to “overthrow the world.”

“If you are really going to talk about [Islamophobia], how do you tackle the real is-sues that are there?” retired member of the Toledo Public School Board of Education

in dialogue with them.“If you have this abstract

theory of what a Muslim is or what a Hindu or Jew is and you don’t meet them and talk to them, you can only have an abstract concept,” Yonke said. “It’s easy to hate an ab-stract concept.”

By Jaimee HiltonIC Staff Writer

Maria Diakonova, assistant professor of biology at the University of Toledo, works with four graduate students and two undergraduate stu-dents to research ways to stop breast cancer cells from mov-ing throughout the body.

Diakonova and her team re-ceived a grant of $1.5 million from the National Institute of Health to continue their re-search, which uses invitro hu-man breast cancer cells to study prolactin, the hormone responsible for regulating breast milk.

Apart from being found in breast milk, prolactin can stimulate cell movement away from the original tumor.

“If you have the original tu-mor, the cancer can be re-moved,” Diakonova said. “It would be nice if from there the cancer would stop. Unfor-tunately, that doesn’t happen. The cells can move from the primary tumor to other tissues

in the human body.” According to Diakonova, if

the main players in the breast cancer spreading are known, something can be done to pre-vent it. Once those factors are established, they can then use anti-bodies that recognize the activated protein, making it possible to predict to where the cells are moving.

Diakonova and her research team plan to inhibit cell move-ment by manipulating the mi-gration of breast cancer cells. In order to do that, they plan on modifying the DNA in the proteins to make the cells move.

In January, the team will be testing one of these antibodies for diagnostic purposes.

Diakonova said that she “cannot say we have the tools to do it in medical practice.”

The level of lab research used to create the protein PAC-1, which modifies the as-sets needed to stop breast cancer movement, is not avail-able, and the protein is not usable for patient treatment.

“Maybe in the future with some kind of drug,” the pro-tein may eventually become usable, Diakonova said.

The research helps scien-tists begin to understand how the cells function and why breast cancer works the way that it does, and the basic sci-ence would begin to work for usable treatments in the future.

“Basically, we just need to know how it works,” Diakon-ova said.

Although several side ef-fects are associated with this research, the knowledge from the lab research can be used for some diagnostic purpose.

To Diakonova there really are no negative effects to this research, except for one thing.

“You can’t cure it,” she said.Diakonova said she was in-

spired to focus on researching breast cancer due to the fact that it is the second leading cause of death in women.

“One in eight women in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer,” she said.

The size of the issue isn’t the only contributing factor to her study of it. Diakonova has also experienced many inci-dents of women being diag-nosed with the disease.

Diakonova teaches under-graduate and graduate stu-dents at UT. This semester she is teaching a “Writing Across the Curriculum” course, a bio-logical communication course and a course that teaches stu-dents to read scientific pa-pers. In the spring, she plans on teaching an advanced cell biology course for graduate students.

Prof studies spread of cancer cellsMaria Diakonova receives $1.5 mil NIH grant

UT unveils hospital room of the future

Dean Mohr / IC

The new rooms at UTMC are displayed above. They are more technology capable and aesthetically pleasing.

By Vincent J. CurkovIC Staff Writer

An old man wanders out of his hospital room late at night, wheeling his IV bag around with him, wearing nothing but a hospital gown and exposing his rear end to the other hospi-tal patrons.

This a common stereotypical joke involving the revealing na-ture of hospital gowns. But the University of Toledo Medical Center is breaking it by re-vamping their look with new patient gowns, uniforms and a room redesign.

The new gowns are designed with a more “conservative look” and go along with the UTMC’s goal to increase

patient comfort and privacy, according to a press release from the university.

The new gowns look very similar to graduation gowns, except they have snaps down the front and from the collar to the end of the sleeve. The gowns have also been designed to match UT’s colors and are mostly blue with yellow stripes along the buttons.

Old patient gowns were tied in the back and were designed to give the physician easy ac-cess, said Interim Executive Director of UTMC Scott Scar-borough, but as a result they were less than private.

There has never

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Department of Chemistry

There will be a chemistry seminar today at 4 p.m. in Bowman Oddy Laboratories Room 1059. The seminar is entitled, “A New Strategy in Synthetic Biology: From En-zyme Inhibition, Natural Prod-ucts Synthesis to PET Imaging by 6pai-Azaelectrocyclization.” It is free and open to the pub-lic. For more information, con-tact Kana Yamamoto at (419) 530-1507.

Department of Women and Gender Studies

The WGST Student Re-search Showcase is tomorrow from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. in University Hall Room 4180. “Domestic Violence Related Suicide in 20th Century Plays by Women” with Shelly Terry and “Women and Why: Ques-tions for a New Generation of Feminism” with Shannon Orr. will be presented. The show-case also demonstrates to stu-dents, faculty, staff and alum-ni. For more information, con-tact Linda Curtice at (419) 530-2233.

American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Soci-ety marked the 35th Great American Smokeout to be No-vember 18. The day is to en-courage smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking that day. By doing so, smokers will be taking an im-portant step towards a healthi-er life. The event will include tables with any information needed to help quit, a photo simulation, a lung machine and a quit kit. Tables will be in the Student Union Building from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Native American Heritage Appreciation Month

There will be a screening of the movie, “Thunderheart” Fri-day from noon to 3 p.m. in the Health Science and Human Services Building Room 1600. Following the movie will be a discussion with Barbara Mann of the department of English.

UT BandsUT Bands will host a free

clinic for brass instruments Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Center for Performing Arts.. The event is free and is part of the Accent Series, host-ed by the UT Department of Music and UT Bands. For more information, contact An-gela Riddel at (419) 530-2452.

UT Choir Department

The Community Choral Con-cert will be Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. Members of the community, the UT faculty and students comprise this talent and versatile choir. The con-cert is free. For more informa-tion, contact Angela Riddel at (419) 530-2452

— Hospital, Page A8

Photo courtesy of University of Toledo

Diakonova pictured above (third from left) with her students.

Independent CollegianTheMonday, November 15, 2010 A3

By Sam FettersIC Staff Writer

The failure of a $7.8 mil-lion school levy earlier this month leaves Toledo Public Schools with big problems.

Even if the levy had passed, the district would have needed to make huge budget cuts. Currently, the TPS budget deficit is at $38 million.

“We can’t get there just by cutting back; we need to re-think how we do business,” said Interim Dean of the Ju-dith Herb College of Educa-tion Thomas Brady.

School closings and con-solidation, teacher layoffs and additional program cuts in athletics and transporta-tion are currently proposed to help solve the deficit problem.

Leigh Chiarelott, chair of curriculum and instruction at UT, said many of the prob-lems stem from “trying to run a school district with too much personnel.”

He said while enrollment has declined over the past two decades, the number of teachers has remained rela-tively stable.

Brady added TPS has been spending nearly $13,000 per student per year. This num-ber is much higher than the $7,000 to $11,000 per student per year many other school districts and charter schools are spending, according to Brady.

The TPS school board de-clined to comment.

Brady said drastic cuts can be made while still raising the quality of education by asking if these dollars are going toward instruction.

“We pay teachers to do a lot of non-teaching functions like hall and lunchroom monitoring and recess duty,” he said.

Brady believes TPS can save money by increasing class sizes and keeping teachers in the classroom.

Brady’s solution would re-quire the hiring of additional personnel to monitor hall-ways and perform security duties, but it would also free teachers up to be more in-volved in instruction.

Chiarelott said while many classes in the TPS district currently have a fairly man-ageable 15 to 20 students, that number could soon climb to 25 to 30 students if proposed layoffs happen.

“That certainly won’t help achievement,” he said.

Brady said while schools have been moving toward increasingly smaller class sizes, there is “not a whole lot of evidence that lower class size is necessarily bet-ter or worse.”

Brady said economic effi-ciency could be improved by raising class capacity across the board to 25 students.

He believes this would save the district nearly $1.4 million. He acknowledged this would not be possible in some situations such as spe-cial needs classes.

Due to the failure of the

TPS levy fails, budget troubles loom

levy, Brady said, efficiency needs to be improved across the district.

“To efficiently use some buildings, we will have to close others,” he said.

Though closing schools may seem like a bad thing, Chiarelott said it could pro-vide a possible opportunity for TPS to make money to help fill their budget gap.

“TPS might try to rent them out, or the buildings could be used by charter schools or nearby districts,” he said.

Another problem with combining schools is that putting groups who do not get along together in the same building can have cata-strophic effects.

“We’ve already seen the ef-fects of rivalries [in schools] whether it be sports rivalries or gangs or neighborhood ri-valries,” Chiarelott said.

Chiarelott cites ongoing discipline problems at Scott High School with former Lib-bey High School students. The two schools were con-solidated earlier this year.

Another proposed solution for the budget problems could be for TPS to “share resources” with other strug-gling local districts. Brady said information technology and accounting services as well as some administrative and purchasing systems could be shared with other districts.

Brady said TPS needs to find a way to minimize all costs that are “necessary but don’t go directly to the edu-cation of a child.”

On Thursday, the school board announced TPS had been shortchanged by the state at least $12 million over a three-year period.

TPS plans to sue the state for the money.

According to the Blade, the missing money is the product of a miscalculation and TPS could propose an-other levy for the Spring 2011 election.

District’s $38 mil budget gap will force cuts in many programs

File Photo by Kevin Sohnly / IC

The administrative offices of the Toledo Public School District is pictured above. TPS is suffering from $38 million budget shortfall, which will lead to a cut in programs such as varsity sports and busing. A $7.8 million levy to help curb the shortfall was rejected by voters during the midterm elections.

Yockey said. “These are times of tough national and international times. These were at the times when people were really cutting back.”

In an article from the New York Times published in 2009, movie attendance increased 17.5 percent from 2008 to 2009 despite the slow-moving economy.

“People see it as a good value and they are really watching their pennies,” said Patrick Corcoran of the National Association of Theatre Owners in an arti-cle from ABC News pub-lished in 2008. “And they want to get out and get enter-tained, and this is a very r e a s o n a b l e way to do it.”

At the core of every hu-man being is a desire to be social and in-teract with other hu-mans. Ac-cording to Yockey, a movie theater is able to satisfy that desire as well as being able to al-low people to connect with each other through the film.

“We are not just social animals, we are creative and we like to share our dreams,” Yockey said. “Film more vividly articu-lates a kind of shared, col-lective dream we can tap into and respond to indi-vidually. It can speak uniquely to us individually, but confirm our belonging to a group. It comforts us and inspires us to get connected.”

Referring to the 1942 classic “Casablanca,” Yock-ey said that despite its pro-pagandistic script trying to persuade Americans to support the war effort, au-dience members can still connect with the film be-cause they can understand and relate to the love story of main characters Rick and Ilsa.

“The audience can under-stand the whole story of love,” he said. “It also has the ideological plot and to support the supposedly side of good versus the supposedly side of evil.”

Stacey McPhail, a sopho-more majoring in political science, said audience members in the theater can enhance the social experi-ence because everyone cheers or laughs at the same time, helping people

feel more connected.“You and everybody in

that theater have one thing in common for three hours: you’re there to watch that movie,” she said.

Like a roller coaster that grabs your attention, UT professor of psychology Stephen Christman said a film distracts someone’s voluntary attention, which is used when a person thinks, reads or studies.

“What I think movies are good for is they distract you. Your conscious, top-down voluntary executive functions we use to think and solve problems and make plans are completely

shut down by movies -- they com-pletely grab us,” he said. “ W h e n y o u ’ r e strapped in that ride, you’re not t h i n k i n g about the h o m e w o r k that’s due or the tax bill that’s due, you’re total-ly in the mo-ment. So, from a cog-nitive per-s p e c t i v e , that’s why

people like [movies].”McPhail said the movies

are her time to herself and a way to relax and take time away from the stress of college life.

“It’s my time away from everything; it’s my time away from school,” she said. “It’s my time away from everyday stress. I get to forget everything that’s going on in my life for two and a half hours and get to watch someone else go through their problems.”

People don’t just escape to movies just to avoid stress and tough times. President of Great Eastern Theatre Company Jim Wal-ters said a film gives some-one a chance to see things out of the ordinary.

“You like to see the kinds of things that James Bond gets involved in with all of his gadgets and his fantas-tic locations, hotels, beach-es and women,” Walters said. “Men like to see beau-tiful women. Just like how women get to see good-looking guys.”

Escapism is only one rea-son as to why going out to the movies is popular. Wal-ters said other reasons are to be entertained for a rea-sonable price.

“People like to be enter-tained,” he said. “They can escape to a movie they want to see easier than to a $125 concert.”

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Native Americans sue over solar power plant in desertBy Tiffany HsuLos Angeles Times(MCT)

LOS ANGELES — A Native American tribe has filed a law-suit against the federal govern-ment in an attempt to block construction of Tessera Solar's Imperial Valley solar power plant in the Sonoran Desert.

The 709-megawatt solar farm, planned for more than 6,000 acres of public land near El Centro, wrapped up its ap-proval process in October.

But the Quechan tribe al-leged in a complaint against the Interior Department that the installation could damage "cultural and biological re-sources of significance."

The tribe said that depart-ment officials ignored

Quechan concerns and rushed through or skipped important permitting steps, violating fed-eral law.

State and federal agencies have fast-tracked several ma-jor solar projects, aiming to break ground by the end of the year to take advantage of ex-piring federal stimulus funds.

More than 28,000 SunCatch-er solar dishes intended for the site could harm a region known for the flat-tailed horned lizard, which plays a key role in the tribe's creation mythology, the complaint said.

Tessera, which is also mov-ing ahead on a similar installa-tion near Barstow, has agreed to buy 6,600 acres of lizard habitat to offset its activity on the Imperial Valley project.

In a region that has been ec-onomically hard hit, the proj-ect is expected to create up to 700 jobs during construction along with 160 permanent op-eration positions.

The Quechan tribe, which has about 3,500 members, is asking a federal judge in San Diego to issue an injunction against the project. For thou-sands of years, the tribe has lived on a broad sweep of des-ert crossing from Arizona into Southern California, accord-ing to the complaint.

Tessera now joins Bright-Source, SunPower and other solar energy companies that have been stymied, if only temporarily, by wildlife con-cerns on proposed solar farm sites.

Environment

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By Mike SwiftSan Jose Mercury News (MCT)

Facebook may be on the verge of offering e-mail to the 500 million members of its so-cial-networking site, making it the largest e-mail service on the planet.

More significantly, the offer-ing could lead to a fundamen-tal transformation of e-mail. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already scrambling to re-tool their e-mail services to build them more around peo-ple's social connections. Face-book would have a tremen-dous advantage because it owns a vast trove of data about people's relationships and would find it easier to graft e-mail onto its existing social services such as photo-sharing.

Facebook has invited the media to what appears to be a significant announcement in San Francisco on Monday morning, adding a prominent hint that the news could in-volve a new e-mail service — a press invitation bears a mes-sage icon. However, while tech blogs hummed Friday with speculation that Facebook will release "a Gmail killer," the Palo Alto-based company de-clined to confirm or deny those rumors, and a source with knowledge of the social net-work's plans said at least part of the speculation was incor-rect — adding even more uncertainty.

If it is announced, a Face-book e-mail service would al-low its more than 500 million members to communicate with anyone inside or outside the walls of the social network. If they use it, Facebook would leapfrog the 361 million global users of Windows Live Hot-mail, Yahoo Mail's 273 million users and Gmail's 193 million users, according to comScore.

However, a Facebook e-mail service would be most remark-able not for the size of its net-work, but for how it could use its web of social connections to transform one of the oldest — and perhaps still the most important — functions of the Internet.

"There is a huge opportunity for these guys to fundamental-ly change the nature of e-mail," said Matt Cain, an analyst for the research firm Gartner who expects Facebook to unveil an external e-mail service Monday.

Imagine, Cain said, a Face-book system that could priori-tize mail from any external source based on the closeness of your relationship to the sender, or that allows you to easily flip a one-to-one e-mail exchange into a conversation with a group of friends.

Facebook now offers an in-ternal message service that is less functional than most Web-based e-mail, and only allows members to communicate with other Facebook accounts. But Facebook may hope to use a new external e-mail service to capture even more adherents, said Augie Ray, senior analyst for social computing for For-rester Research. Forrester says that while about 90 percent of U.S. adults check e-mail regu-larly, only 59 percent use social networking tools such as Face-book or Twitter.

An e-mail service "makes sense just largely from a reach perspective. Facebook has grown so large that we forget that it still has room for growth," Ray said.

And by adding e-mail to the Internet's most popular photo-sharing service, smartphone location-sharing service and social gaming site, Facebook would make an even stronger claim as a hub of personal communications, placing "Facebook as much into com-petition with AT&T as it is now with Google," Ray said.

The tech blog TechCrunch first reported in February that Facebook was working on an e-mail service, internally dubbed "Project Titan." And while it is possible that Mon-day's announcement will be something more modest, both TechCrunch and VentureBeat claimed Friday to have con-firmed the e-mail service with anonymous sources.

Google and Yahoo are work-ing to make e-mail more re-flective of people's personal

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connections by adding social-networking features to existing e-mail services. Google had di-sastrous results when it based its Google Buzz social-net-working service on people's Gmail contacts, running into a privacy Waterloo when it auto-matically imported people into the service. Yahoo, the most popular U.S. e-mail provider, recently launched a new ver-sion of Mail that allows users to broadcast their status on both Twitter and Facebook _ just as if they were actually on those sites.

Unhappy with Facebook's unwillingness to let people ex-port their contacts from Face-book into a service like Gmail, Google last week blocked Facebook from allowing users to import their Google contacts directly into the social network.

Gmail is the hot property in e-mail right now, with its global audience up 21 percent during the 12 months ending in Sep-tember, while Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have both lost share, according to comScore data.

Given Gmail's momentum, a Facebook e-mail service "puts tremendous pressure on Google," Cain said. "Gmail is the place to be, and all of sud-den, in one fell swoop, Face-book can enable e-mail for 500 million users, and I would sus-pect there is a huge overlap."

Army studies Great Lakes Asian carp travel patterns

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Asian Carp try and make their way upstream on the Kansas River near Edwardsville, Kansas, August 19, 2010. The invasive fish, which starting to take over rivers across the Midwest, has had a population explosion in the Kansas River between Lawrence and Kansas City.

By Joel HoodChicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — The vast number of twisting rivers, canals and backwater chan-nels funneling into the Great Lakes present a daunting challenge for those

safeguarding the lakes from dangerous invasive fish, mollusks and algae.

Though a federal judge soon will decide whether to close Chicago-area shipping locks to block the move-ment of Asian carp, most on both s ides of

the contentious debate say sealing locks may disrupt shipping routes but are un-likely to stop the carp's northward migration.

There are simply too many alternative pathways for Asian carp and other inva-sive species to enter the

Great Lakes, officials say, putting pressure on govern-ment officials, scientists and environmental advo-cates to come up with a solution.

The Army Corps of Engi-neers is embarking on an exhaustive, multiyear study of the Great Lakes water basin to find out how many alternative pathways exist and to better understand the depth of the invasive spe-cies problem threatening the world's largest freshwa-ter body of lakes.

The price tag for this study, which was born out of the Water Resources De-velopment Act passed by Congress in 2007, is esti-mated at $25 million. But officials concede it could ultimately be much higher before the study's expected completion in 2015.

"The scope of this study is massive and complex," said Maj. Gen. John Pea-body, commander of the Army Corps' Great Lakes and Ohio River Division. "It deals with dozens of differ-ent kinds of aquatic species which migrate naturally through a variety of means, and there is no known or

simple single or set of ap-parent solutions for this problem."

Asian carp, a voracious species of fish introduced into the U.S. from China in the 1970s, have over-whelmed native fish popula-tions in the Mississippi and Illinois rivers on its 30-year trek toward Lake Michigan. However, the carp are just the latest in a long line of invasive species that have threatened or upset the en-vironmental balance of the Great Lakes.

The Army Corps' study will look at how easily Asian carp and other inva-sive species navigate the Chicago waterway system to reach Lake Michigan, but it also will focus on alterna-tive routes where dozens of small canals and channels form a direct connection between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River wa-tersheds. This will include areas where rising flood water could allow species to breech land masses and enter a new water pathway, such as the upper Des Plaines River or waterways in Indiana, Ohio and other states.

"This s tudy is

another accomplishment in the aggressive strategy to protect our Great Lakes from Asian carp," said John Goss, the so-called carp czar appointed by the White House this summer to lead the federal response against Asian carp.

In compiling the research, the Army Corps will lean heavily on departments of natural resources in various states and other experts whose local knowledge of water routes and topogra-phy will provide clues to how invasive species move through the system, Pea-body said.

Some environmental ad-vocacy groups have criti-cized the Army Corps for reacting too slowly to the Asian carp problem, sug-gesting this multiyear study is just the latest example. But Peabody said that it takes time to understand the complexities of invasive species migration and that the corps is interested in the best long-term solution, not a quick fix.

"I'm not personally con-cerned about the level of public interest waning on this issue, given my experi-ences over the last year," Peabody said.

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The failure of Toledo Public Schools’ $7.8 million levy will have drastic and unfortunate consequences on the city’s youth. While the funds would have only dented the massive budget shortfall facing the district, they would have at least allowed for basic services to be continued. Instead, students will face an increasingly grim situation. In order to maintain a minimum operating bud-get, the district will further cut pro-grams as well as transportation.

Most sports and extracurricular ac-tivities will be cut, leaving students with no means or incentive to involve themselves in their school. Countless studies have shown the impact of extra-curricular programs on academic per-formance. With fewer school-sponsored activities to occupy their after-school time, students will be more tempted to delve into drug abuse, gang violence and other destructive activities.

Busing will probably be eliminated as well, forcing parents and children to arrange alternative transportation. For the many parents who are employed full time, this will force them to com-promise on working hours or leave their children to walk. For younger children who live miles away from their school, walking several city blocks presents a danger that is avoid-ed when riding a bus. The added stress of this situation upon students and par-ents will further damage an already suffering educational atmosphere.

To reduce staffing costs, even teach-ers with many years of seniority may be fired. Increased class sizes means decreasing the quality of each student’s education. Basic classroom supplies like tissues, crayons and paper, once supplemented by students, will now depend fully on student contributions. If parents cannot afford to send the supplies with their children, the class-

room will have to do without.In spite of the negative consequences

of the levy’s failure to pass, the perspec-tive of the Toledo taxpayer is under-standable. Ohio homeowners have suf-fered among the worst in this recession, losing huge portions of their property value and household income. It is of little surprise that families are hesitant to make further sacrifices from their already strained household budgets.

Furthermore, the TPS administra-tion of recent years has made some highly-publicized mistakes that may have a considerable impact on voters’ decisions. It is unlikely that the public will support any funding measure for a school district whose leadership they see as untrustworthy. The recent dis-appearance and reappearance of near-ly $1 million from the TPS budget is just one example of such blunders that reduced Toledoans’ trust in TPS administrators.

No matter what faults are perceived in the leaders of the district, taxpayers should keep their priorities in order and realize who and what suffers most from shortfalls in public school bud-gets. The many elements adversely af-fected by the levy’s failure — transpor-tation, extra-curricular activities, staffing, etc. — combine to present a dim future for the city’s youth and thus its future.

Perhaps more important than the day-to-day struggles of classrooms is the lasting psychological impact on stu-dents in failing education systems whose communities cannot or will not help them recover. How can a child be-lieve in the importance of education if their community will not help provide that education? How does a child find self-value if society refuses to grant the basic tools for improvement?

In spite of the inflammatory criticism he leveled at Strickland regarding the Governor’s responsibility in Ohio’s ris-ing unemployment, Governor-elect Ka-sich vows to prevent future work on the proposed 3C passenger rail system that would connect Cleveland, Colum-bus and Cincinnati. Making constant claims that Strickland personally led to 400,000 jobs disappearing from Ohio, Kasich campaigned heavily on the is-sue of unemployment and stated that creating jobs would be a top priority of his administration.

Having made such promises, it is an interesting contradiction for Kasich to oppose an action that would bring fed-eral funds to the state and provide em-ployment for thousands. The state of Ohio received $400 million in federal funds to start construction on the new transit system, which is estimated to create 16,000 permanent jobs for Ohioans.

With rising oil prices making long-dis-tance auto transportation increasingly

impractical, is it prudent to kill a project that would provide energy-efficient transit between Ohio’s largest metro ar-eas? Also, considering the dearth of federal funds available for state infra-structure projects, should we reject mil-lions in federal subsidies that other states are eagerly waiting to absorb? Of-ficials from New York and Florida are already pressuring Washington to real-locate Ohio’s $400 million to them if Kasich refuses to make use of it.

As Strickland has already said, he will not reject federal money and abandon the program simply because the Gover-nor-elect plans to nullify it when he takes office. If Kasich wants to be re-membered as the governor who surren-dered federal funding and new jobs to other states, then that is his prerogative. No matter how thoroughly Ohioans were convinced that Kasich would re-verse Ohio’s trend of job loss, the im-pact of his decisions, not the content of anti-Strickland attack ads, will be the real judge of his performance.

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‘Corrective rape’South Africa leads the

world in rapes per capita. In June of 2009, the Huffington Post reported that one in four South African men have admitted to raping someone at some point in their life. It is believed that “only a fraction of those rapes go reported and of those rapes that are, only 7 percent lead to conviction.”

On Thursday, a friend of mine posted an article on Facebook from Gayrights.Change.org about yet anoth-er “corrective rape” perpe-trated in South Africa.

Millicent Gaika, a young woman in her mid-twenties, was forced into her own home by her neighbor, beat-en, choked with barbed wire, raped repeatedly for five hours and was nearly strangled to death. It was only after hearing her screams that several neigh-bors charged the home and caught the man in the act.

What is even more dis-gusting is that this isn’t the first time Millicent was raped. Just a few years prior she’d experienced a “correc-tive rape” at the hands of a gang who felt, as many men in South Africa do, a civic responsibility to punish Mil-licent for being a lesbian. And although this case should have been pretty open-shut and her rapist should be in prison, the South African legal system has proved their inadequa-cies yet again by releasing

her violent attacker on bail after only a few short hours of interrogation.

I don’t want to give off the impression that this phenomenon is unique to South Africa, as you may recall the brutal rape and murder of a transgender male by the name of Bran-don Teena who inspired the movie “Boys Don’t Cry.” He was beaten, raped and mur-dered after a group of males

discovered that he was a biological female.

With all of the recent at-tention given to bullying, I think now is as good a time as any to discuss the brutal victimization of women, children and LGBTQ-identi-fied individuals from all around the world who are subjected to rape, torture and murder on a continuous basis. In the past year I’ve read over a dozen more sto-ries of women in South

Africa who were raped, whether they are lesbians or not, simply because men know their chances of pun-ishment are minimal and gang rape is looked upon as some perverse form of male bonding.

In frustration, I called UNIFEM and the South Afri-can Embassy in Washington to see if there were any agencies capable of facili-tating any form of asylum, legal or financial support to Millicent and other women in her situation, but I have yet to hear a response.

Regardless, I refuse to give up and I am hoping a few of you will lend me a helping hand by contacting both the South African Em-bassy and UNIFEM to ques-tion their policies and sup-port the women in South Africa because many voices are more powerful than one.

If the women of South Af-rica cannot rely on their own government to support and defend their freedoms then I believe it is our duty as citizens of the world to assist them to the best of our ability. Please call.

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Natives respect nature and sustainability

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Whenever I am on a long drive, I often gaze at the land-scape and imagine what it must have looked like several hundred years ago, before

E u r o p e a n e n c r o a c h -ment.

I imagine the clusters of forest, e n c a m p -ments of tribes and stretches of prairie dot-ted with herds of grazing bi-

son. No roads, buildings or traffic lights: just open land and open sky. Rivers running unobstructed, air free from pollution, people living in a reciprocal relationship with nature.

This month celebrates Na-tive American heritage. Out of all the unique qualities Na-tive Americans possess, it is their connection to nature that attracts me the most. There are hundreds of tribes, and all of them are culturally different. Each have different ways of dressing, song, cere-monies, stories and dance, but they all seem to be linked by their relationship with

nature.It is tempting to go on a

rant detailing the injustices stacked upon the stoic peo-ple who first inhabited this land: the treaties broken, the small-pox blankets, the ma-nipulation of warring tribes, the relocating of tens of thou-sands to undesirable land and so on.

But what I think is most important to consider is the difference between Native Americans’ and Western civi-lization’s relationships with nature.

Native Americans believe the Earth is sacred and they are connected to it and every-thing on it. As Chief Seattle once said, “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

Clearly, as settlers pushed west, these ideas were not adopted, at least not on a large scale. Forests were cleared away. Factories pol-luted rivers. Bison and elk were slaughtered en masse to make room for settlers and deprive the Native Americans of a primary food source.

Once the Native Americans

were sequestered to reserva-tions and the United States stretched from coast to coast, there was no longer a frontier to advance forward geo-graphically, but the industrial civilization now in place urged the nation to expand further and to secure a domi-nant position within the glob-al hierarchy.

The history of United States military’s foreign inter-

ventions is long and compli-cated. Generally, many of the interventions occurred to se-cure financial investments, create a cooperative environ-ment for American corpora-tions, prevent the rise of any successful government as an alternative to the capitalist model and to secure the po-litical and economic hege-mony of US power.

Today, much of the world is

either industrialized or striv-ing to become industrialized, yet this way of life categori-cally divorces human beings from the natural world.

Human beings have be-come more familiar with the levers and gears of machines than the textures and uses of plants. They have a stronger relationship with digital in-terfaces than the soil of the earth.

Industrial civilization is de-stroying the natural world. It is an unsustainable way of life. It systematically exploits people, land and resources. It is a beast that consumes more resources than it re-plenishes. To think this way of life can continue is insane.

It hasn’t been until recent-ly that power apparatuses of industrial civilizations have

truly considered proposing caps on carbon emissions, manufacturing hybrid auto-mobiles and engineering ways to produce cleaner energy.

These solutions, although well intended, are impotent. Climate change is happening now. Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising and aver-age temperatures are increas-ingly warmer.

The EPA website states there is clear evidence that the atmosphere is being al-tered by human activities and the climate is changing. Greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, from human activities have in-creased 26 percent from 1990 to 2005 worldwide.

Electricity generation is the biggest contributor of greenhouse gases; the second biggest is transportation.

The entire system of indus-trial civilization is based on violent control of the natural world. Its economic system depends on the continuation of this violence. People rely on automotive transportation to get to work, coal powered electricity to heat their homes, wood to construct buildings, dams to provide water and electricity, etc.

The Native Americans that once thrived throughout this land knew that the needs of the natural world are greater than the needs of any eco-nomic system. They believed no one could own the land, that we belong to the land, and we must honor that relationship.

I’m not saying we should all go live in teepees and longhouses, just that we need to consider the conse-quences of our current way of life. We must ask our-selves what must be done in order to live sustainably and we must be willing to make the sort of sacrifices required to accomplish this.

So if you’re ever out driv-ing, looking out at the land-scape of an unfamiliar town and you happen to turn down a street named Cree, think of this Cree prophecy: “Only af-ter the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.”

—Stephen Bartholomew is

an IC columnist and an Eng-

lish education student at UT.

Democrats face immense challenges to hold onto their majorities in Congress and state governorships. As a par-tisan, I want my party to do as well as it can.

But democracy is more than what’s best for a party. It’s what best for voters. Among Americans’ inalienable rights should be a commitment of their elected officials to set aside partisan calculations when structuring the rules governing our democracy.

Too often, that’s not what we see. In the redistricting soon to take place across the na-tion, for example, expect ram-pant partisan ugliness as legis-lators pick their voters before their votes pick them. But oth-er leaders sincerely want de-mocracy to work for voters.

That helps explain increas-ing adoptions of ranked choice voting, a reform that addresses two of the most ur-gent problems in our democ-racy: upholding majority rule when voters have more two choices and curbing the in-creasingly negative character of campaigns.

Debated vigorously when Ross Perot earned 19 percent of the presidential vote in 1992 and Ralph Nader tipped Flori-da away from Al Gore in 2000, split votes have become a reg-ular feature of our elections. It wouldn’t surprise me if a doz-en races for governor and U.S. Senate were won with less than 50 percent of the vote.

Ranked choice voting han-dles voter choice with a sen-sible change. After indicating your first choice, you have the option to rank alternate choices.

If no candidate wins a 50 percent plus one majority, then those rankings are used

to simulate an instant runoff: the weak candidates are elim-inated, and their backers’ votes are added to the totals of the frontrunners. The can-didate who wins a majority in the final instant runoff is the winner.

I learned to appreciate ranked choice voting in 1998, when running for governor of Vermont. I faced strong nomi-nees of both the Republican and Progressive party. With votes split three ways, I barely won a majority. Major parties

can react to such an election in one of two ways: fight the very existence of third parties or change laws to handle in-creased voter choice. Ranked choice voting represents this more democratic approach.

My state has had ongoing debates about it — the legis-lature even approved it for congressional races in 2008. Elsewhere, it’s now law in cit-ies like Minneapolis, Oakland, Calif., and Memphis, Tenn. North Carolina is using ranked choice voting to fill a statewide judicial vacancy. Several Utah Republicans won RCV lections to fill state legislative vacancies.

The United Kingdom next year will vote in a referendum on whether to join Australia and Ireland in using it for na-tional election. Ranked choice voting is even used now to

pick the Best Picture Oscar.This year’s elections demon-

strate why it makes sense. In races for governor in Rhode Island and Colorado and for U.S. Senator in Alaska and Florida, major party nominees are running third, put in the “spoiler role” usually assigned to third parties. Elsewhere, the very lack of such viable independent and third party candidates will keep potential voters from the polls.

Having more competition forces candidates to clean up negative campaigning and stick to the issues. Knowing they may need support from supporters of other candidates to win, candidates have to tone down personal attacks.

Reaching out to more vot-ers also helps them govern better when they win.

The fundamental issue is majority rule. Without a ma-jority standard, you can’t hold power accountable. It’s a blight on democracy when an incumbent can be returned to office even though 60 percent of voters reject that candidate as their last choice.

That’s why both Sen. John McCain and President Barack Obama have actively backed ranked choice voting. No par-ty has a lock on majority rule, and both major parties can stand up for it.

With ranked choice voting, we can uphold majority rule, make campaigns less negative and foster less partisan elec-tions. Let’s make democracy work for all of us.

—Dr. Howard Dean was

governor of Vermont, chair

of the Democratic National

Committee and a candidate

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Much has been said about the recent Arizona law that requires police to verify the immigration status of any-one they suspect of being in the country illegally.

Critics argue the law is vague, unconstitutional, and will lead to racial pro-filing as police try to en-force it. Defenders respond that it is simply a means to enforce the rule of law — if people are committing crimes, shouldn’t the police be empowered to bring them to justice?

On its face, there seems to be a conflict between two compelling cases: the rights of citizens on the one hand, and the rule of law on the other. The issue has become a confusing maze of seemingly unrelated as-pects. A short list would include racial profiling, po-lice-public relations, feder-al versus state jurisdiction, drug smuggling, employ-ment of undocumented workers, untaxed welfare benefits, and social impacts on immigrant families.

Consequently, our me-dia pundits and politicians offer up uncertain, incon-clusive attempts at solu-tions. Despite this, the Ar-izona law has done some-thing clarifying: The chill-ing image of a police offi-cer demanding proof of citizenship from a person they “suspect” of being il-legal has reminded us of the fact that all one has to do to break the law is to have been born in the wrong country.

What papers represent

is the fact that even the most peaceful, hardwork-ing, and good-natured per-son is considered a crimi-nal simply by lacking the permission of the federal government to pursue his peaceful, hardworking life in the United States. But there is no rational basis for such policies, and nev-er has been.

America’s founding doc-trine of freedom rightly

framed a society where no man is causelessly pre-sumed a threat to his neighbor. So long as one respects the freedom of others, he was to be grant-ed the same.

Unfortunately, that idea was distorted and re-placed by the contradic-tion that still persists to-day: that a nation literally born of immigrants con-siders outsiders criminals until and unless they are granted legal permission to breathe, walk, and work inside our borders.

Fundamentally, there is only one thing to say about

the issue of immigration: the very existence of the term “illegal immigrant” is a disgrace. Immigration is a legitimate human activi-ty fully consistent with in-dividual rights.

Provided he poses no ob-jective threat to anyone else, any man who wants to work or live in America should have his freedom respected by our govern-ment — not violated by it. Politically, this means a policy of open immigra-tion, where immigrants are able to register with the government upon arrival in order to properly partici-pate in the legal system and receive protection of their rights.

So long as a would-be im-migrant poses no clear threat by entering the coun-try — for example, by hav-ing a criminal background or an infectious disease — the government imposes no obstacle to entrance.

Immigrants would then be free to live their lives as any other resident, bearing full responsibility for earn-ing their own livelihood. The other issues — racial profiling, legality, alleged economic impact — only serve to distract from the crucial question that the Arizona law prompts us to confront: what has a man done wrong by standing on an American street with-out permission?

—Noah Stahl is a colum-

nist for The Undercurrent.

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I’m not saying we should all go live in teepees and longhous-es, just that we need to consid-er the consequences of our cur-

rent way of life. We must ask ourselves what must be done in

order to live sustainably. ”

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Having more competition forces

candidates to clean up negative campaigning and

stick to the issues.

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The very exis-tence of the

term ‘illegal im-migrant’ is a dis-grace. Immigra-tion is a legiti-

mate human ac-tivity fully con-

sistent with indi-vidual rights.

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Stephen Bartholomew

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Success may already be on its way for Bell – since his trip, two delegations from China have already come, and at least one additional delegation is planned.

“Right now, when you look at a city, or the state or federal government, most of them are running a fairly wide deficit, and what we need is new sources of money,” Bell said. “We need to go global.”

Bell believes much can be learned from China’s forward thinking expansion.

“They build for the future, we build for the present,” he said. “What we need to do is to be able to develop long-term strategies. Both can learn from each other. I think that as we move forward we need to be able to have that relationship.”

Some economic develop-ment involving Toledo and China is already underway.

During his 11-day trip, during which he meet with politicians and businessmen, Bell empha-sized, some Toledo businesses were already there, including many American companies such as Caterpillar and Owens Corning.

Bell also mentioned Xunlight Corporation, a Toledo-based solar cell production company founded by UT professor on-leave Xunming Deng.

Xunlight, along with First So-lar and UT are competing for a $23 million federal grant from the Department of Energy.

“I think that we have already attracted international interest. Just look at the visitors from the UAE and other places,” Deng said.

Deng said he hopes the part-nered proposal is accepted by the DOE.

Bell expects to reap the ben-efits of these and other meet-ings with Chinese companies within the next year.

The right relationshipsGuanxi, the Chinese term

for developing networks and interpersonal relationships in the business and political world, is quickly becoming an important term for those heads of American corporations looking to expand to China and invest in Chinese companies. The central tenant is building friendly relationships with po-tential new business partners.

While Bell promises that he was never specifically employ-ing guanxi, his policy on devel-oping closer ties overseas re-flects its spirit.

“In order to create this rela-tionship, the important thing is to look people in the face, shake their hands. They need to hear your voice, even if it’s through an interpreter,” Bell said. “[The Chinese business-men we met] may have been practicing guanxi, but mine is basically North Toledo — what I learned growing up as a kid, and what my parents taught me.”

The enthusiasm for personal administrative relationships seems to be mutual.

Bell mentioned excitement on the part of Chinese business-men, and research by the dele-gates into Toledo and north-west Ohio’s resources —some-thing he believed expressed real interest in future progress.

He even recounted his origi-nal intentions to travel to China — a delegate named Mr. Chang from Toledo’s sister city Qin-huang Dao made a visit early in his term. After a dinner at Real Seafood Co., Bell told him bluntly “I’ll see you in China.” Chang was there months later to greet Bell when he arrived at the Beijing International Airport.

“It’s very easy to do business and not go visit their country, to say ‘They should take the 16 hour flight, not us,’” Bell said.

Bell said criticism didn’t both-er him, and other mayors should consider international options for curbing economic downturn.

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Bell said that a major lesson to be learned from the Chinese is that they build for the future, not just the present. That is something he would like to see Toledo adopt.

“For mayors waiting for this to happen, I salute them; but I’ll be on a plane,” he said. “You can’t worry about criti-cism. Accept it and move forward.”

Bell said the natural re-sources, business opportuni-ties, geographic location and the city’s friendliness, com-menting that Toledoans are some of the “friendliest peo-ple in America,” make Toledo a “marketable American city.”

Bell will be returning to Chi-na soon to continue building this relationship, as well as a possible visit to a sister city in India.

“I guess I’m going to be an international mayor,” he said.

Bell’s optimism goes be-yond the office.

He said he is not concerned so much with whether he re-ceives credit for his visit, only that the success comes.

His potential success he be-lieves is based on his idea of nurturing relationships and di-rectness when communicating with delegates overseas.

“I didn’t go with political rhetoric, I didn’t go with a bunch of notes. When develop-ing relationships, you want something real. We cut to the chase.”

The university’s roleThe proposed partnership

would not just include busi-ness and political ties with China, but also educational.

Chinese delegates reported-ly showed interest in UT, and expressed a desire to create a student-exchange program.

“Education is a big point for them. The idea of establishing contacts with universities came up multiple times at meetings, and it was interest-ing how much they under-stood the University of Tole-do,” Bell said. “You should feel good as UT students, because

you’re well-known over there.”Bell also believes potential

partnerships could result in green industry advancements — something UT has made a priority. He mentioned tech-nological advancements in clean coal and solar power.

He believes that he and the delegates with whom he met were concerned with lessen-ing China’s “carbon footprint.”

Bell said he hopes UT will expand its foreign language programs.

“It would be beneficial if we had places to teach for-eign language,” he said. “It is a global economy, and things are more international. Speaking the language is part of that. You’re at a bit of a disadvantage if you’re at a meeting and your interpreter isn’t there yet.”

Vice President for Re-search Development and Economic Development at UT Frank Calzonetti said UT was particularly interested in economic development and promoting job growth and business expansion in northwest Ohio.

“The University in particu-lar is interested in forming alliances with these compa-nies that are working on de-veloping new products, and [we] are interested in having our students and faculty members work with them,” Calzonetti said.

UT Vice President for Ex-ternal Affairs Larry Burns feels the same.

In September he told the Independent Collegian, “I see China as an important part of our future at this university.”

Bell said he’s “hanging tough” and is looking to make international busi-ness one of the targets of his tenure as mayor.

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An alumnus of the University of Toledo, Bell still wears his class ring. He hopes UT and China can foster business ties.

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Vice Chancellor of the Health Science Campus Jeff Gold discusses the new-age hospital rooms with members of the media and hospital staff on Wednesday.

been a standard scrub color, according to Scarborough, but now all of the hospital staff must wear UT’s blue and gold. The new uniform is already hospital-wide.

“The whole idea is to mod-ernize the hospital,” Scar-borough said.

The new “suite style” pa-tient rooms are the largest change at the UTMC, de-signed with a new aesthetic that goes against the normal sterile hospital look.

The room has a lot of earth tones on both the wall and the sleeper sofa.

“Healing is not just about the biological,” Scarborough said.

“We will turn the double bed rooms into single bed rooms,” Scarborough said.

However, the hospital will not lose any beds because more patient rooms are being added in other parts of the hospital.

The new rooms also come with several high-tech ame-nities such as Internet ac-cess, iTunes, and a digital picture frame.

“The idea was that we would take a flash drive and put their own family pictures up,” Scarborough said.

The demonstration room also includes a restroom that resem-bles a spa and patient beds that help monitor patients who are at risk of falling out of the bed.

The “demo” room built in the stroke unit on the fifth floor cost UTMC $75,000, Scarbor-ough said, but the cost per room will come down when they are mass-produced.

Fortunately, these renova-tions are not going to increase the cost of a hospital stay.

“Medicare is not going to pay us because we have prettier

rooms,” said Charton Budd, an UTMC systems analyst.

UTMC is already starting to create rooms like this on the third floor in their new addi-tion, but will need the Board of Trustees to provide more money to make the changes hospital wide.

The changes to the rooms and patient gowns will only go into effect in minor ways until UTMC goes to the BOT to request $35 million to help with the renovations.

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New hospital rooms at UTMC will have iPod ports available.

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www.IndependentCollegian.com Zach Davis – Editor

We wouldn’t want any other team to play after a

loss like that. B.G. is our rival and we need that Peace Pipe back where it belongs.Desmond MarrowUT Senior Cornerback ”“

Toledo set to face arch-rival Falcons Wednesday on ESPN 2

Bowling Green at Toledo

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The Glass Bowl Toledo, Ohio

Wednesday, Nov. 17 8 p.m.

Toledo: 6-4 (5-1 MAC)

Bowling Green: 2-8 (1-5 MAC)

- The Rockets will look to regain the Peace Pipe Trophy by beating BGSU for the first time since Nov. 2006.

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Senior cornerback Desmond Marrow and his team prepare for the start of the Northern Illinois game last week. Marrow is one of just five players (Nate Cole, Archie Donald, Alex Johnson and Douglas Westbrook) on the roster who have beaten BG in their career.

By Zach DavisSports Editor

The Rockets will look to rebound from a 65-30 loss to Northern Illinois last week while trying to regain the Peace Pipe Trophy against arch-rival Bowling Green Wednesday in the Glass Bowl at 8 p.m. on ESPN 2. The award is given annually to the winner of the rivalry game.

“I’ve been involved in this game for a long time, longer than any of our players have been involved,” said UT head coach Tim Beckman, who was the defensive coordina-tor/assistant head coach at Bowling Green from 1998-2004. “I know the importance of it to not only the university but to the community, city and everybody.”

“We wouldn’t want any oth-er team to play after a loss like that,” senior cornerback Desmond Marrow said. “B.G. is our rival and we need that peace pipe back where it belongs.”

Toledo’ s (6-4, 5-1 MAC) chances of reaching the Mid-American Conference Cham-pionship game took a major hit after losing to the Huskies (7-2, 6-0) in a battle of the league’s last unbeatens. The Rockets would have to win their final two games while NIU lost both of their last con-tests. UT finishes up the sea-son with a pair of home games against the Falcons (2-7, 1-4) and Central Michigan (3-7, 2-5) on Nov. 26. Northern

Rockets lose to second ranked opponent at No. 22 Temple

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Freshman guard Zack Leahy led the Rockets with 15 points in an 82-49 loss at No. 22 Temple yesterday.

UT qualifies for NCAA Title meetBy IC Staff

The University of Toledo women’s cross country team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championship yester-day. The Rockets have never competed in the champion-ship meet in school history.

“We felt all year that we are talented and tough enough to make it,” said Head Coach Kevin Hadsell. “We controlled our own destiny and the wom-en proved themselves every meet. To earn our way into the meet on our own merit is particularly satisfying. We are honored to be representing the University of Toledo and the Mid-American Conference at the most exclusive NCAA Championship.”

The Rockets are one of 31 teams to be selected to the championship meet. In NCAA history only three MAC schools have ever qualified for the NCAA Championship and UT will be the first since 2002.

“This is a great testament to how hard work and sacrifice can put you in a position for greatness,” Hadsell said.

Toledo finished in third place at the Great Lakes Re-gional meet on Saturday fin-ishing short of an automatic bid into the tournament. Since they were not automatically eligible, the Rockets had to rely on a résumé which in-cluded wins over two auto-matic qualifiers (Florida and Rice) and the MAC Champi-onship. Toledo also has the fifth-most votes of any team ranked outside of the top 25 polls.

This year’s NCAA Champi-onships will be hosted at Indi-ana State University in Terre Haute, Ind. at noon. The race will be televised online on NCAA.com.

By Joe MehlingAssistant Sports Editor

In their second-straight game against a Top 25 oppo-nent, the Rockets fell to No. 22 Temple 82-49 yesterday. Toledo opened their season on Nov. 10 at No. 13 Illinois with an 84-45 loss.

“If I had to do this whole scheduling stuff all over again, I would do it again,” UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk said. “For this team and this pro-gram at this point in our re-building process, they needed to be humbled and they need-ed to understand how hard you have play and how hard you have to defend. Let’s be honest, we have got embar-rassed in two games. I would like to think I as a coach and our coaching staff have a lot more of their attention, which I am not sure we had before these two games.”

Toledo held an early 4-2 lead but trailed by 24 at the break as they were held score-less for over six minutes dur-ing the opening half.

“I think we came out and had a good start,” Kowalczyk said. “The first five or six min-utes of the game we played well—we were right there. Then I think we went into a lull of turnovers and bad shots, which turned into lay-ups for them. Then we just couldn’t get stops.”

The Owls controlled the second half as well and out-scored Toledo 42-33 to take the 33-point victory. This was the 34th consecutive road loss for the Rockets in the past three seasons.

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Illinois ends the year on the road against Ball State (3-7, 2-4) on Nov. 20 and Eastern Michigan (1-8, 1-4) on Nov. 26.

“We are refocused already,” senior center Kevin Kowalski said. “Records don’t really mean anything in rivalry games. They are going to come as hard as they possibly can because they want this more than anything and we want it too. It’s going to be a fight and a struggle for four quarters.”

“I’m disappointed in the way we played [against NIU] and I’m sure the players and fans are but we were in that game and we haven’t been in that type of game for a long time,” Beckman said. “We just didn’t perform the way we were capable of performing and now we have an opportu-nity to play the Falcons here at the Glass Bowl.”

Against the Huskies Ter-rance Owens made his first

start for Toledo after sopho-more quarterback Austin Dan-tin’s season-ending shoulder/collarbone injury. The red-shirt freshman quarterback completed 18-of-38 passes 186 yards and two touchdowns with one interception against NIU.

“I thought he played like it was his first game as a start-er,” Beckman said. “I’m sure that there was a little bit of jitters, he’s 19 years old and starting in his first college game on ESPN for the cham-pionship. We believe in him and he’s got to step up and be ready to make plays.”

Although the Rockets have reached bowl eligibility with six victories on the season, there is still no guarantee UT will be selected to a bowl game, which makes the final two games important to win.

“We are still talking about getting this program back to championship years and we were last week playing for one,” Beckman said. “Seven or eight wins is huge to

getting back to that. We have to play one at a time and if we take care of business and that seventh game is a win then we have to do that same thing against Central Michigan. These are huge games for this program.”

Toledo hasn’t defeated Bowling Green since Nov. 2006. The Rockets have just five players on their roster from that year in seniors Na-te Cole, Archie Donald, Alex Johnson, Douglas Westbrook and Desmond Marrow, who made his first start against the Falcons in a 31-21 victory.

“I was nervous,” Marrow said. “It was such a big game. The older guys stressed the importance of the game to me and the rivalry. I just wanted to go out there and make plays and help us win. Now I’m trying to tell [the younger players] history, but this year there’s more to it because it gets us closer to that eighth win and a nice bowl.”

Nick Kneer / IC

Adonis Thomas rushed for a game-high 152 yards with two touchdowns against Northern Illinois in a 65-30 loss in Dekalb, Ill. The junior running back also caught three passes for 32 yards against the Huskies.

FalconsFrom Page B1 Shafir clinches opening

game win with late three

By Zach DavisSports Editor

Junior point guard Naama Shafir clinched a season-opening victory for Toledo after hitting a near half-court shot with 20 seconds remain-ing to give the Mid-American Conference West Division Champions a 71-66 victory over St. Francis (PA) in the opening round of the Pre-season WNIT on Friday at Savage Arena.

After missing near the bas-ket and missing the rim, Shafir came back out to the top of the key where the ball came to her with just two seconds remaining on the shot clock. Shafir heaved up the shot from between the three-point arc and mid court as the ball bounced off the backboard and in as the shot clock expired. The Red Flash missed two three-pointers on the other end as Toledo (1-0) came away with the victory.

“After all the easy baskets that we had designed and missed all game, for us to hit the half court one it’s almost like it was meant to be,” UT head coach Tricia Cullop said. “The hardest shot of the night we hit and the easiest ones we missed. It was one of those nights.”

The Rockets shot just 36.8 percent (25 of 68) against St. Francis (0-1) and will move on to the second round of the WNIT today in their second round matchup at Purdue, Cullop’s alma mater, in West Lafayette, Ind. at 7 p.m.

“I think this is a great

tour- nament for us to be playing in,” Cullop said. “It’s not about me it’s about our players having an opportuni-ty. I know the Purdue system very well. There have been a lot of coaches since then so it’s not the same program that I came from but the thing is they’ve won continu-ally through those coaches. They are going to be pre-pared for us. We look for-ward to the challenge.”

Toledo fell behind early 15-4 and didn’t capture their first lead until taking a 49-48 advantage four minutes into the second period.

“We just tried to focus on the fact that we knew we were better than we had played and things weren’t ex-actly going our way but if we kept push-ing and staying to-gether then we would push through it and pull out a win,” senior center Melissa Goodall said. “No matter what they did we knew that we could play our game and still pull out the game.”

Shafir had a game-high 21 points and six assists with six rebounds while Goodall had 20 points, six boards and five blocks and senior guard Jessica Williams scored 15. Sophomore center Yolanda Richardson made just 3-of-11 attempts but had a game-high 11 rebounds.

“Hopefully the next game we can put defense and of-fense together,” Goodall said.

“The first half I didn’t feel proud of either end. We just didn’t get off to a very good start. In the second half our team rebounded and played more inspired.”

“I wanted to find five peo-ple that would play defense,” Cullop said. “I was really puzzled by why we weren’t getting back in transition and why we weren’t stepping in for charges. We want to be the team that outhustles the other team and I felt like in the first half that was St. Francis, unfortunately. The second half we buckled

down and I didn’t have to fiddle as much because we found five people (Lecretia Smith, Goodall, Courtney In-gersoll, Shafir, Wil-liams) that wanted to play defense.”

St. Francis is the reigning Northeast Conference Champi-ons after winning the

title for a record 10th time last season following a 17-15 campaign. The Red Flash lost in the NCAA Tourna-ment’s first round to Ohio State.

“The one thing that I told our players before tonight’s game is that we are facing a team that’s been in the NCAA Tournament,” Cullop said. “They have something we’ve not experienced late-ly and something that we want. They play passion-ately. They are very aggres-sive and well coached team.”

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Junior point guard Naama Shafir had a game-high points and six assists with six re-bounds in a 71-66 victory over St. Francis (PA) on Friday.

Leahy led the Rockets with 15 points knocking down 5-of-9 from the floor but was just 1-for-4 beyond the arc. Other Rockets reaching dou-ble digits were sophomore guard Malcolm Griffin with 11 points and senior Michi-gan transfer Anthony Wright, who also added 11 points. This was Wright’s first action of year as he had been deal-ing with a foot injury during the exhibition season.

“I think the first half [Wright] looked very rusty and tried to force things,” Kowalczyk said. “Often times guys who come back from injury and don’t get practice time do that. The second half he settled in and gave us some good minutes.”

The Rockets hope to be at full strength for their home opener on Fri. Nov. 19 against Illinois-Chicago as freshman point guard J.T Thomas is

still questionable as he re-covers from foot surgery.

“We are trying to get him cleared for practice on Thursday,” Kowalczyk said. “I can tell you this, we drasti-cally need him”

The Rockets host the sec-ond round of the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer as the University of Rhode Island, College of Charleston, and UIC will be playing Savage Arena this weekend.

Rockets sign four recruits

The Toledo men’s basket-ball team officially signed four players to their Letter of Intent Wednesday, including Illinois point guard Juice Brown, and three Michigan recruits in shooting guards A.J. Matthews and Ryan Mar-ley and power forward Justin Moss.

“We are delighted to add

four quality players to our program”, UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk said. “The first thing that comes to mind is that they are all winners.

“All four of them have an opportunity to come in and make an impact for us. Julius Brown is someone that we needed to bring in at point guard. With J.T. Thomas be-ing the only point guard in the program so that was cer-tainly a huge need for us. We absolutely think we hit a home run with him.”

This was Kowalczyk’s first class for Toledo after recruit-ing the last eight years at Wisconsin-Green Bay.

“UT just has so much more to offer, so much more campus-wise, socially, di-versity-wise and facility-wise with its location,” Kowalczyk said. “You really cant compare the two as far as recruiting ability and thats why I chose to take this job.”

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year on telescopes, amateur observing, astro-photography and other topics of similar interest.

Since the planetarium is partially self-supporting, all monetary income from such programs goes directly to its funding.

The planetarium assists all students, particularly those studying astronomy or in the Astronomy 1010 course. Jes-sica Ostrander, a junior ma-joring in New Media with a concentration in Photogra-phy, is a student in Astronomy 1010. Not only did she find the Friday night program she at-tended in the planetarium quite helpful, but she also added, “I like that it shows what the night sky looks like here in Toledo,” and says that “the program really went in depth with the planets and extrasolar planets.”

Aside from the collegiate learning aspect of the plane-tarium, the dome has brought other simple enjoyments to campus as well.

Stephanie Horne, a gradu-ate student and employee of the planetarium, has wit-nessed her fair share of mem-ories beneath the faux stars.

While the demographics of those in attendance are wide in range, generally consisting of college students, families, senior citizens, former profes-sors and astronomy enthusi-asts, her favorite part of her job is the kids’ reactions.

“I love when the little kids look through the telescope for the first time and they’re like, ‘Whoa,’” Horne said.

Alex Mak, associate direc-tor of the planetarium, feels similarly. He loves working with grade school students, especially when he sees them come to a greater understanding.

His reward comes from the light-bulb going off in their heads, or “the moment that I can see it in their eyes that they finally get something.”

While Mak matter-of-factly states that the planetarium is “basically a cheap date,” Horne notes that proposals and even marriages have even taken place under the stars.

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with the visual concept of the piece,” Lingan said. “I give pictures that resemble what’s going on in my head to the designers, and the designers work off of that.”

The designer for “The Labyrinth” is Frankie Teu-ber, a senior majoring in theatre.

“The Labyrinth” also in-corporates elements of vid-eo and film, put together by student designer Meg Scia-rini, who worked on last year’s production of “Machi-nal” at UT.

“She’s a really creative video designer, and I liked her work,” Lingan said. “She has a good handle on the experimental and ab-stract, which I really liked about her. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to work

with her.”The text of the play is

very abstract and experi-mental. Posters describe “The Labyrinth” as “Alice in Wonderland meets S&M,” which, Lingan explains, is the way Arrabal wrote it, describing the play as com-bining several opposing concepts: funny and horri-fying, control and chaos, comedy and tragedy.

Lingan, who has read the play about 20 times, de-scribed “The Labyrinth” as one of his favorite plays and said he has wanted to direct it for 17 years.

“I choose to direct plays that I keep reading over and over, and that’s how I decide what to direct,” he said. “If I don’t feel com-pelled to read something more than once, I more than likely won’t direct it unless somebody just pays me to.”

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around them because “it is unpredictable and re-quires our voluntary at-tention at all times,” Christman said.

He also explained an-other psychological treatment called ecother-apy, where therapists take their patients out-of-doors to help them to feel calm and less stressed.

“It provides innumera-ble benefits because we need that regular expo-sure to nature,” he said.

So when college stu-dents need something new to do, or simply need to relax, they should visit the Metroparks of Tole-do, where everything is constantly changing and there is something for ev-eryone to enjoy. Plus, it is always free to get in. Students might even im-prove their test scores or lower their anxiety levels before their next big ex-am thanks to the healing power of nature.

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These two machines inside Ritter Planetarium compare a person’s weight on both the Moon and Earth. Tickets for programs are $5 for UT students, facutly and staff, seniors and children from three to 12 years old and $6 for adults.

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A squirrel in a tree at Wildwood Preserve. The Metroparks offer a variety of free programs open to the public.

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Arts“When I read ‘Labyrinth,’ I see a really disgusting bathroom.”

Edmund B. Lingan, assistant professor of theatre and director of “Labyrinth” andLife

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The UT Department of

Theatre and Film’s current production takes place in one of the least desirable places students can imag-ine: inside a park latrine.

“When I read ‘Labyrinth,’ I see a really disgusting bathroom,” said Edmund B. Lingan, assistant professor of theatre and the director of the production. “[The Labyrinth’s] a play about what happens when human beings are subjected to the rules of any kind of a sys-tem – political, religious, educational, whatever – in which maintaining control over human beings has be-come more important than serving the needs of human beings.”

“The Labyrinth” is second in this season’s theme of “Imprisonment” in the De-partment of Theatre and Film.

Written in 1961 by Fer-nando Arrabal under the ti-tle “Le labyrinthe,” the play follows the “Everyman” Eti-enne, who awakens in a park latrine and finds him-self in a strange maze of blankets from which no one has ever found a way out.

Lingan said the protago-nist is a “normal person trapped in an inhumane system.”

“In the ‘Labyrinth’ I see a world in which the needs of human beings are com-pletely ignored and the le-gal formalities of the world in which the person lives dominates every aspect of the person’s life,” Lingan said. “That’s why there’s this giant labyrinth that will

kill you if you try to go in it and why [Etienne] lives in these really squalid, horri-ble conditions: because his physical and his mental health are not a concern in this world.”

Etienne is played by Pat Miller, a senior majoring in film, in UT’s production. Heis at first chained to Bru-no, played by Christopher Douglas, a sophomore ma-joring in psychology with a minor in theater.

Bruno is described by Lingan as “practically a pile of mobilized, barely-moving flesh that just sort of ac-cepts” the confines of the labyrinth.

“We can’t see his face. He’s kind of lost his human-ity,” Lingan said. “He’s the opposite of Etienne, who is trying to fight the system and escape.”

The primary antagonist, Justin, set up the weird bu-reaucracy that Etienne is in, according to Lingan.

“He refuses to bend the rules to help anybody, but he pretends he will help you,” he said.

Etienne also interacts with Michaela, Justin’s daughter.

“She’s somebody who’s part of a system that is es-sentially inhumane, and she likes to think that she’s hu-mane, but she’s actually promoting the system by being a part of it,” Lingan said. “She’s promoting the inhumaneness of the system.”

The “inhumane system” of the labyrinth inspired much of the set design.

“The director comes up

‘Labyrinth’ director talks about concepts behind the play

An evening of stargazing in the dome

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Ritter Planetarium holds educational events on a regular basis. Friday, the Planetarium will hold a program titled “The Search for Life,” which will discuss the possibility of life on other planets.

By Weslie DetwilerIC Staff Writer

The view of the stars in To-ledo is more often than not smothered by a blanket of light pollution. However, sim-ply looking up at the night sky isn’t the only way of gaining an accurate view of the cosmos.

UT’s Main Campus is home to Ritter Planetarium. This 40-foot domed auditorium seats 92 and holds a vast amount of knowledge-en-hancing programs geared to-ward all ages.

Their mission is to “provide educational and entertaining activities for the dissemina-tion of material related to as-tronomy, the sky, and our place in the universe,” as well as to “provide opportunities for the university community and the public to view celes-tial phenomena with medium-sized telescopes.”

About 120 public programs and 200 school programs are held per year in hopes of ful-filling this mission.

Beginning the first Friday of every month, a new program is launched that repeats every

Friday for the remainder of the month. Annual programs are held as well, such as “The Moonwitch” that occurs near Halloween, focusing on the face of a folkloric witch in the moon.

Around Christmas, “Santa’s Secret Star” tells the story of the North Star and how it has proven itself capable of guid-ing those who are lost, includ-ing the beloved Santa Claus.

A variety of resources go hand-in-hand with these pro-grams to make the experience educational as well as entertaining.

An interactive lobby is lo-cated just outside the doors of the planetarium, and while it is mostly aimed at children, there is still plenty of informa-tion to be found within each display, including large scales estimating both your weight on earth and in space.

The most integral part of the star and planet-based pro-grams comes from the con-tent of the complex Spitz A3P central projector, which has the ability to reproduce the sky as it would be seen from anywhere on earth and can speed up time to show

progression of the sky as it changes.

While it is seemingly just a mid-sized sphere with light il-luminating from miniscule holes poked precariously into its surface, the Spitz A3P im-pressively and accurately scales the stars down to make them viewable in the planetarium.

Also, if weather conditions permit, guests are invited to the roof of McMaster Hall af-ter each program where they can peer through the one-me-ter telescope located in Brooks Observatory to get a

feel for what planets and stars look like just a bit closer up.

This Ritchey-Chretien re-flecting telescope is the larg-est one found in Ohio.

For happenings such as comets, eclipses or other un-usual astronomical events, the observatory may also pro-vide planetarium interpreta-tions or additional public viewings.

For those interested in still furthering their knowledge, there are six workshops that can be found throughout the

Just a walk in the parkMitchell RohrerIC Staff Writer

The next time you need to study, you can literally make it a walk in the park.

While the more common places college students look for entertainment in-cludes clubs, bars and mov-ies, a less well-known site for some weekend fun are the Metroparks of Toledo.

The Metroparks have al-ways been open to the pub-lic with free admission to anyone. Aside from walk-ing through the miles of trails, there are many events and programs the parks have to offer that ap-peal to a b r o a d e r audience.

The free p r o g r a m guide, which is released quarterly by the parks sys-tem, outlines events such as bike tours around the trails, pho-tography con-tests or ex-hibits run by the National Center for Nature Photog-raphy at the Secor Me-tropark and trips through time, such as the historical Manor House at the Wild-wood Preserve, all of which are completely free.

The parks also hold op-portunities for students looking for volunteer hours in their area, like the proj-ect with the “Helping Hands Team” on Dec. 4 or through “Volunteer Naturalist Train-ing” happening Friday and Saturday.

From the wide open spac-es to relax and read a book to the deep woods filled with unique plants, animals and extensive hiking trails, it is hard to imagine some-one couldn’t be entertained with the 10,500 acres of

beautiful scenery the parks have to offer.

What if visiting the trails could improve test scores and overall cognition? This is the idea behind Ecopsychology.

Ecopsychology is a belief that human beings feel more comfortable and in-spired while being outside, such as in the parks -- not just while running or skat-ing the trails for exercise, but by simply being out of noisy city environments and in the quieter, more serene wildlife landscape.

“Generally exercise is good for you,” said UT Pro-

fessor of Psy-chology Ste-phen Christ-man. “But we need regular exposure to being outside due to our past.”

C h r i s t m a n described a study at the University of Michigan in which a group

of volunteers were asked to memorize a set of numbers and then repeat those num-bers back in reverse order. However, the difference was that some of the group had taken a stroll through downtown Ann Arbor that day while the other half walked through UM’s Arboretum.

“The nature group per-formed significantly bet-ter,” he said.

The results are thought to show that, while humans can drown out the sounds of the city after a while, they are less attentive. But when they were out in the arboretum, the subjects were more engaged with w h a t w a s

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A study at the University of Michigan said those who walk through nature perform intellectual tasks better than those who walk through a more urban environment.

Metroparks offer fun things to do around the Toledo area

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Generally exercise is good for you,

but we need regular ex-posure to being outside

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