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INSIDE

Music stu-dent Frank Klett passed away Dec. 14, 2013, at the age of 72. He returned to UT in 2009 about 50 years after he first at-tended the university.

COMMUNITY / 6 »

3D sketching Nearly 60 UT art students and

some faculty will be showcas-ing their work in an evolving art exhibit titled “Three-Dimensional Sketching — Repurpose on Pur-pose,” starting Monday, Jan. 13, at the Center for Visual Arts.

COMMUNITY / 6 »

Button ups: start the semester off like a boss

Rocket holiday sports recap

SPORTS / 3 »

HEALTH SCIENCE CAMPUS RENOVATION

ORGAN-IZED FUN

By Samantha RhodesAssociate News Editor

Nearly 300 preserved organs and specimens from humans and animals have found a new home in the basement of the Paul Block Health Science Build-ing at the University of Toledo.

These samples are on display as part of UT’s new Liberato Didio and Peter Goldblatt In-teractive Museum of Anatomy

and Pathology, which opened to UT students and the public in December.

Carlos Baptista, associate professor of neurosciences and museum director, said the museum is mainly intended for medical students and healthcare professional students to examine both normal and pathological specimens side by side.

“One reason for both the

specimens is to compare the normal and abnormal, but also to educate the students about diseases that are in the books but only a few would have a chance to see it up close,” Baptista said.

Prior to the museum’s opening medical students, as well as high school students and graduate students, helped with the dissec-

By Samuel DerkinNews Editor

The Larimer Athletic Complex is set to undergo a $5 million renovation and expansion, with work beginning in February and ending in mid-July.

The renovation will add new offices, double the size of the football team’s weight room, bump out the east and west sides of the building, and expand the complex’s academic center to in-clude four new tutoring rooms, according to Assistant Athletics Director Tim Warga.

David Nottke, senior associate athletic director for development and external affairs, said the University of Toledo Foundation has raised nearly $3 million in private donations for the project after almost a year and a half of fundraising.

“We’re looking forward to wrapping up our campaign and getting the project moving,” said Nottke, who hopes to have the remaining $2 million raised within three to six months.

Nottke said UT is fronting the cost of the renovations through a direct loan, but he expects the money to be repaid over the course of five years as donors make good on their pledges.

The renovations will tempo-rarily cause the football team and staff to move into various buildings around campus.

“We want to be back in the building before pre-season foot-ball starts,” Warga said.

Warga said the renovations will add new lockers to the facil-ity as well as a new lobby and decorative graphics.

“There will be a nice, grand entrance to the facility, similar to the lobby at the Sullivan complex in the Savage arena,” Warga said.

The complex will house academic advisory offices for athletes, as well as a study room and tutoring facilities.

“A key part of this project is the academic center for our student athletes,” Warga said. “We’re excited about that as well. I think it’s a nice shot in the arm for our department for the football program.”

By Destiny WashingtonStaff Reporter

Opening lines of communica-tion with students and wrapping up unfinished business are two of the many items on Student Government’s agenda for this spring semester at the University of Toledo.

SG President Emily Kramp said that a few issues students can expect to hear about include:

• A proposed UT bike-sharing program.

• Rocket Discounts, an initia-tive that aims to provide ways for businesses that offer student discounts to promote themselves on campus.

• Ways for students to give

feedback about UT professors and services.

Kramp said she and Vice President Lauren Jencen are proud of SG’s progress.

“With the new structure, we’ve been able to accomplish more and allow all levels of SG members to have active roles in the improvement of our univer-sity,” Kramp said. “We’ve also been more present to the student body through our interaction hours, and have thus been able to generate feedback and ideas which have been placed in the hands of many influential people on campus.”

Senator Tiara Green said she thinks SG’s level of efficiency has risen since Kramp and Jencen

were elected last spring. “I feel as though as an

organization, SG has gotten a lot closer and has been able to create greater communications within the SG, which is differ-ent than last year,” Green said. “We are now working with ad-ministrators to meet the needs of the student body.”

External Affairs Senator Nicholas McCullough said social media has played a large role in hearing student voices.

By Samantha RhodesAssociate News Editor

Adults and teens in the North-west Ohio area will be able to sharpen their golfing skills this winter at the University of Toledo’s Rocket Golf Performance Center.

UT’s Women’s Golf Coach Nicole Hollingsworth will host adult golf practice sessions and junior golf clinics for youth in grades seven through twelve — all in the Rocket Golf Performance Center at the Fetterman Training Center through January, February and March.

“If you love golf, this is a no-

brainer,” Hollingsworth said. “Awesome facility, Division I golf coach and great price to use a half-million dollar facility that is not available anywhere else.”

These sessions are intended to help golfers get ready for the spring and will be held Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings for $60 a session, which includes three 60-minute practices.

Sessions are available starting Jan. 13 through March 13 and run from 6 to 7 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. Both pri-vate and group lessons are available.

The Rocket Golf Performance

Center is part of the Fetterman Training Center, which opened in February of 2010.

The facility includes a 3,500-square foot chipping and putting green with real course

variable elevations. It possesses a sand-based surface and multiple hitting areas with removable nets. Rocket golfers also have access to

COURTESY OF CARLOS BAPTISTAThese are just a few of the 300 preserved organs and specimens on display at UT’s new Liverato Didio and Peter Goldblatt Interactive Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, which opened to to the public in December. Specimens include an entire spinal cord, a fetus and various animal organs. The museum was entirely funded with resources generated by the Laboratory of Plastination, according to museum director Carlos Baptista

Educational museum of organs and specimens now open on UT’s Health Science Campus

Athletic complex to get a $5M facelift

NICOLE BADIK / ICUT’s Rocket Golf Performance Center, housed in Fetterman Training Center, is now open to students and the general public three evenings a week through March for $60 a session.

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Passing of a

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““You probably don’t need Al Gore around to tell you that plas-tic bags are bad for the environment.”

IC EDITORIALBYOB: Bring your own bag

OPINION / 4 »

Fashion Editor Isis Darks ex-plains how to properly wear the uniform of corporate battles: the button up shirt.

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This week in UT history

10 years ago: The food court situation at UT con-tinues to evolve. Orville & Wilbur’s Wings has replaced the Iron Grille in the Student Union Building. The new establishment serves Tyson chicken products, including chicken wings,wraps, strips and salads.

30 years ago: For 15 years now, UT students have been rocking from the soundwaves produced by one of Toledo’s only progres-sive rock stations, WERC. The campus station, which broadcasts from the Student Union, airs from 8 a.m. till midnight on AM 600 cable to the dorms.

80 years ago: A new constitution which provides for the election of the editor-in-chief of the Campus Col-legian by a publication board was adopted by a unanimous vote of the Student Council members present at the meeting Tuesday. The pub-lication board will consist of five members, three students and two faculty members.

JACKIE KELLETT / IC

Snow-mageddonAndrew Michalo, a first-year majoring in chemical engineering, scrapes the thick layer of snow and ice off his car on Jan. 8. After the snow storm on Jan. 5 where the first two days of spring semester were cancelled, Toledo was under a level 3 snow emergency, which some are nicknaming the snow-mageddon.

STUDENT GROUP OF THE WEEK

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Nu Phi Psi Fraternity Inc.Purpose: The pur-

pose is to promote aca-demic excellence, unity and brotherhood — as well as being a voice for outreach to the overall surrounding community.

Leaders: Advisor and president: Marcel Rivers; vice president: Dequan Justice; secre-tary: Shanye Royster

Upcoming events: We will be having our annual Hoops for Hun-ger event Jan. 25, Po-etry Contest Feb. 7, and an informational meet-ing in early January.

Learn more: To learn about us, you can contact Marcel Riv-ers at 612-212-8044 or email at nppgamma@yahoo.com.

Would your group like to be featured as the IC’s Student Group of the Week? Email Morgan Rinckey at mrinckey@independentcollegian.com.

What is your New Year’s resolution?

“To leave the past in the past.”

“To lose weight.” “To talk to more people, and be hap-pier in general.”

“Get more active and stay fit.”

Kristen Harter Second-year

Early childhood education

Holly O’Rourke First-year

Criminal justice

Kyle Thomas Third-year

Business marketing

Emily Gilreath Fourth-year

Biology

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IN BRIEF

Coach Kowalczyk receives Hugh Durham mid-season coaching award

University of Toledo men’s basketball head coach Tod Kowalczyk re-ceived the CollegeInsider.com Hugh Durham mid-season coaching award the University of Toledo announced Tuesday.

Kowalczyk has led To-ledo to a 12-1 record going into the opening of Mid-American conference play Wednesday night – one of the best starts to a season in school history.

The Rockets finished 2013 with a No.2 ranking in the final Mid-Major Top 25 of the calendar year, which is the highest Toledo has ever been ranked.

The Hugh Durham Award is given annu-ally to the nation’s top mid-major coach. The award is named in honor of Hugh Durham who retired at the end of the 2004-05 season as one of just twelve coaches to have led two different programs to the NCAA Final Four (Florida State in 1972 and Georgia in 1983). He is the only coach among that group to have led both schools to their lone Final Four appearance.

Men’s basketball to be televised on ESPNU

The Mid-American Conference announced on Thursday that the Uni-versity of Toledo men’s basketball game at Akron on Saturday, Jan. 18 will be televised across the country on ESPNU. Tip-off time for the game is set for 11:00 a.m. ET.

This will be the team’s first nationally televised game since Toledo appeared on ESPN2 on Jan. 31, 2009 at Buffalo. Akron and UT were picked as the two favorites to win the MAC’s East and West Divisions, respec-tively, in the league’s preseason media and coaches poll.

The Rockets will open MAC home play on Saturday, Jan. 11 when they host Central Michigan. Tip-off is set for 6:00 p.m. with the contest being televised by Time Warner Cable’s Sports Channel.

Kerin, Reedy to play in East-West Shrine Game on Jan. 18

Two University of Toledo seniors – wide receiver Bernard Reedy and of-fensive lineman Zac Kerin – have been invited to play in the 2014 East-West Shrine game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla. on Jan. 18.

The East-West Shrine Game is the longest running college all-star game in the country. The game, which has been a college football staple sine 1925, has consistently proven to be a launch pad for play-ers seeking professional careers in the NFL.

More than 100 players from the 88th East-West Shrine Game signed with NFL teams in 2013, and, on average, more than 275 East-West Shrine Game alumni are on NFL rosters each year.

In our Dec. 4, issue we incorrectly reported the year of Frank Laut-erbur’s wife’s death in the story, “A UT legend remembered.” She passed away in 2006. We regret the error.

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BLAKEBACHO

SPORTS EDITOR

Rocket football: look forward, not

behind

COMMENTARY

The college football season is over for the University of Toledo Rockets.

Actually, it’s been over for a couple months.

Toledo lost to the Northern Illinois Huskies to once again knock themselves out of conten-tion for the Mid-American Con-ference championship. They then added insult to injury by losing to a less talented Akron team to close out their year.

And as winter began threat-ening to cover the Glass Bowl with snow and ice, the Mid-American Conference deliv-ered the last nail in the 2013 coffin.

UT was denied a post-season bowl bid for the first time since 2009, adding a final disappointing and depressing note to what became a disap-pointing and depressing season for the Rockets.

That’s it, show’s over folks. The lights were turned off, the team emptied out their lockers and the fat lady stopped sing-ing — and has headed over to Savage Arena to watch some pretty good college basketball.

But just as the snow and ice will melt away to reveal emerald green turf in a few months, the defeats and failure of this past season will also melt away to be replaced with a new determination and hope for next season.

And there is plenty to look forward to for fans returning to watch the Rockets next fall.

Yes, countless seniors such as star running back David Fluellen, wide receiver Bernard Reedy, quarterback Terrance Owens, and defensive ends Jayrone Elliott and Christian Smith will have moved on from their days as Rockets.

But like every college team, even the most talented seniors will be and can be replaced.

Freshman running back Kareem Hunt has already proven from semi-limited ac-tion this past season that he can more than hold his own in the backfield, and sophomore wide receiver Alonzo Russell didn’t get on SportsCenter for nothing.

The defense is young and much improved from seasons past, and head coach Matt Camp-bell and his staff will answer the quarterback question during the offseason.

And a quarterback change might be just the fresh new step Toledo needs to get over the late-season hump that continues to be the Northern Illinois Huskies.

Owens, who showed equal flashes of brilliance and inconsis-tency during his last season as a Rocket QB, showed more of the latter during Toledo’s loss to NIU that knocked UT out of the MAC championship discussion.

His successor will have to be much more consistent for the Rockets to compete against NIU, as well as the other big hitters in the MAC.

Nothing can stop the previous season from feeling like a failure for Toledo. The Rockets were faced with lofty expectations that they simply didn’t live up to. They then faced the consequences of that failure by being denied a bowl invitation.

But while looking behind won’t bring anything but a bad taste to the team’s collective mouths, looking forward will ensure they don’t have to experience next season’s championship game, or bowl season, from a couch.

By Blake BachoSports Editor

Winter break is a time for rest. It is an opportunity for the University of Toledo student body, as well as the faculty, to unwind and recharge after a long fall semester.

For UT’s various athletic programs, however, winter break is anything but relaxing.

While the student body gets settled in for the spring semester, here’s what you may have missed during the holiday season.

Rocket football wraps up

The Rockets saw a staffing change over break, when it was announced that defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Tom Ma-tukewicz would leave to take the head coach position at Southeast Missouri State.

But Toledo’s football season finished up well before winter break came around.

The Rockets dropped their crucial matchup against Northern Illinois to fall out of contention for the Mid-American Conference championship title, and then lost to Akron to end their season with a 7-5 overall record.

It wasn’t until right before

break, however, that head coach Matt Campbell and his program experienced the final effects of their last two losses.

Toledo’s post-season hopes were crushed when it was announced that for the first time since 2009 they did not receive a post-season bowl invitation. UT was forced to stay home and watch as five other MAC schools played in bowl games over the break.

In Campbell’s previous four seasons as either head coach or assistant coach, Toledo has attended three bowl games.

UT men shineThe University of Toledo

men’s basketball team has so far shown that they are every bit the squad so many thought they would be com-ing into this season.

The Rockets are 12-1 heading into the start of Mid-American Confer-ence play this Wednesday. Their only loss so far in the season came on December 30 against the No. 16 Kansas Jayhawks at Allen Field-house where UT lost 93-83.

Toledo’s 12-win start to the season was the best start the program has seen since the 1966-67 squad went

14-0 on their way to a 23-2 record. It also tied them up with the 1940-41 team for the second-best opening to a season in program history.

UT’s starting five — senior guard Rian Pearson, junior guard Justin Drummond, ju-nior guard Juice Brown, junior forward J.D. Weatherspoon, and sophomore center Nathan Boothe — are all averaging double-digit scoring figures.

Pearson, who has been named MAC West Divi-sion player of the week for the 10th time in his career, currently ranks fourth in the MAC in scoring. He has ranked among the league’s top four scorers in each of his three seasons as a Rocket.

The Rocket men will return to Savage Arena Saturday, Jan. 11, to face Central Michigan with a 6 p.m. tip-off.

UT women struggleToledo’s two basketball

teams appear to be heading in opposite directions this season.

While the Rocket men have only experienced one loss so far, the Toledo women have tasted defeat seven times. UT is 5-7 this season (0-1 in the MAC), and head coach Tricia

Cullop’s team lost three straight games over holiday break.

The Rockets already have more losses this season than they finished with last year, when Cullop led her team to the second Mid-American Confer-ence regular-season title of her six-year UT coaching career.

The Rockets’ struggles so far this season have largely been blamed on the youth of the team, and more specifically on

the loss of Naama Shafir. Junior forward Inma Zanoguera and co-captain junior guard Andola Dortch have been tasked with filling Shafir’s shoes.

The Toledo women will next host Northern Illinois at Savage Arena at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9.

Holiday wrap-up

CORRECTION

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

UT women’s track and field team freezes up in first event back from break

IC FILE PHOTOThe Toledo women’s track and field team, pictured here at last year’s Toledo Collegiate Challenge, will now look to bounce back from their tough loss this past Sunday to the Western Michigan Broncos.

By Austin HenrySports Reporter

The University of Toledo women’s track and field team returned from winter break last Sunday only to freeze up in an 81-58 loss to the Western Michigan Broncos in the Western Michigan Dual Meet in Kalamazoo, MI.

The Rockets hadn’t com-peted in an event since they recorded three wins at the Eastern Michigan Holiday Meet on December 6th, and, while the rust was evi-dent, some of Toledo’s team members still performed well individually.

Freshman Ty’Shai Free-man placed first in the high jump and triple, with dis-tances of 1.60 meters and 11.16 meters respectively.

Seniors Amber Brown and Devyn Ramsay also scored some first place points for UT. Brown took the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.68, and Ramsay racked up five points in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10:18:72.

“I thought this meet was a decent start to the sea-son,” said head coach Linh Nguyen in an interview after the meet. “We com-peted well and had some personal bests and some nice event wins. I think

with the weather we’ve had and only being back from break for a day, the team is in a pretty good place.

“It’s very early in the season and I expect to see some nice improvements as we get more practice time together and more meets under our belt. We held out some women but should run a full squad next week-end.”

Sophomore Lindsey Burdette finished only two spots behind Ramsay, claiming third place in the 3,000 meter run.

In the pole vault, sopho-more Alexa Jarrett placed first, while freshman team-mate Hannah Saba ranked third.

Juniors Sharon Morgan and Jackie Koza placed sec-ond and third in the mile, with times of 5:25:16 and 5:25:99. And senior Sarah Woodrum added two more points in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:00:12.

The Rockets will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 11 at the Bowling Green Opener.

UT women’s basketball team falls to ChippewasSports Reporter Marcus Dodson recaps the Rockets’ Saturday afternoon

loss to Central Michigan. You can read his story by visiting www.independentcollegian.com/sports

ATHLETICS

What’s ahead for the Rockets:

The University of Toledo basketball teams now look ahead to their Mid-American Conference seasons. The men’s team will host Central Michigan at Savage Arena Saturday, Jan. 11, while the women will return to action Thursday morning by host-ing Northern Illinois at Sav-age Arena at 11:00 a.m.

What’s next for Toledo:The Rockets will next travel down I-75 to compete in the Bowling Green Opener. The

event is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 11. They then will travel to Geneva, OH for the two-day SPIRE Midwest Invite.

A quick recap of the action students missed over winter break

When I was five years old my parents took me to a local pet food store for an adoption day.

I remember timidly approaching a large enclosure in the center of the store where a tiny, black Labrador-beagle puppy separated herself from her brothers and sisters to see what I was all about. The furry animal licked and nibbled on me in that way puppies do, choosing the small boy in front of her as her lifelong owner and friend.

No other dogs would be looked at by me that day. Chance was my first pet.

Fifteen years later, after more happy memories and moments than anyone could count, my dog passed away. She left behind a mourning family that couldn’t imagine going on without a furry four-legged presence in their lives.

Wow, sad right? I painted this sickly sweet picture of a boy and his dog and then I just ripped it away, didn’t I?

Don’t worry — there is a point to this tearjerker, I promise.

Seven months after our beloved dog’s passing, my sister Hope walked into a local puppy store and picked out a small white and brown ball of fluff to be the next member of the family.

A puppy store — I remember shud-dering with disgust and fear when I heard. A shop where they sell dogs for obnoxiously expensive prices to any family with a credit card?

That wasn’t where I expected our next pet to be found.

I had visions of horrible puppy mills swimming before my eyes — awful places that mean terror and torture for dogs in exchange for a little profit.

A quick Google search of the location seemed to confirm my fears, as I hap-pened upon news articles and protest sites devoted to eliminating this establishment

from the city. I called this research, and presented it to my parents as evidence against adopting from this location.

But they refused to listen. A few weeks later, Lucy was brought, sniffing and yapping, into our

home.I loved the little

animal in spite of my fears. I played with her and cared for her like I had done most of my life for Chance.

But all the while, those original worries still nagged at my conscience.

I once again took my fears to my parents, and they assured me that they had done much more research than I had. They had looked into the owners’ histories with breeders and shop ownership, and they had done their absolute best to ensure this place wasn’t what I feared it was.

In short, they did their own home-work instead of listening to the first negative voice they heard or read.

So I decided to do a little more research too.

I found information that explained that just by observing a dog you can determine a lot about its origins.

I stared very intently at my sister’s little puppy, something the animal seemed to find very amusing. Lucy was sociable, healthy and capable of being left alone should the family need to be away from the house for a few hours at a time.

She never made messes in her crate unless she was sick, and she didn’t seem to

be frightened of the world like I had read puppy mill dogs were supposed to be.

She seemed like a perfect — albeit noisy — little animal.

Now as you should already be able to tell by what you have read, I love dogs. I think they are essential components to people’s lives.

They are not just pets but family mem-bers, and just the idea of a dog being mis-treated angers me more than any sports debate or political movement ever could.

This is why I was again filled with doubt and fear when I heard that a store known as “The Family Puppy” had now set up shop inside of Franklin Park Mall.

This is not, however, a column of condemnation against that place.

I’m not going to demand that you stay away until the owners are forced to close, and I will not ask you to put Sharpie to poster board and start protesting again at the corner of Monroe and Talmadge.

I’m also not encouraging anyone to purchase a dog from this new shop.

I just ask that every person who is considering adding a dog to their lives do what my parents did — and abstain from doing what I did — and maybe use this advice in other aspects of your life as well.

If you go to research the family-owned Michigan-based establishment, don’t just click on one link or story — click on ten, twenty or as many as it takes to get a comprehensive view of what this company is about.

And visit the store. Ask questions, observe and use every tool you know of to determine for yourself if this is truly a place you want to purchase a dog from.

In short, I’m asking that you do your own research, your own homework and that you don’t let anyone else de-cide what you believe.

Blake Bacho the IC sports editor, and is a fourth-year majoring in communication

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You can also call 419-530-7788 or email classifieds@independentcollegian.com. Ads must be received by 5 p.m. Monday.

Toledo city council should look at a ban on plastic grocery bags.

Plastic grocery bags can be found everywhere. You usu-ally find them at the end of the grocery store checkout line or bundled under the kitchen sink. But often you see bags drift-ing along the side of the road like modern day tumble weeds — and that’s why governments across the world, including in our country, are banning them.

Most recently, Los Angeles pledged to be more eco-friendly by introducing a ban on plastic bags on New Year’s Day of this year. But other places around the U.S. have had bag bans for years, like Washington, D.C. in 2009 and San Francisco in 2007. And world-wide, Bangladesh has had a ban since 2002, and Mexico City in 2009. In these places, plastic bags are banned by law in their cities’ ordinances, and stores that don’t comply are fined.

This plastic bag issue is one Toledo should consider looking into. The University of Toledo is on the floodplain of the Ottawa River and near Lake Erie, making it easy for garbage to end up as pollution. Bags are preventable pollution and a bag ban in a city as big as Toledo could make a big environmental impact.

You probably don’t need Al Gore around to tell you that plastic bags are bad for the environment. According to the Toronto En-vironmental Alliance, plastic bags take hundreds of years to break down naturally in landfills. They clog drainpipes and get into water ways. Animals can potentially swallow parts of the bag that contain the lead that’s in the ink, or they can get entangled in them.

Of course, there could be another answer — why not recycle them? But there are a lot of drawbacks to that decision. Be-sides the fact that many people don’t recycle regularly, plastic bags aren’t accepted in recycling bins because they clog the sorting machines. Pretty much the only place where they are accepted is at grocery stores that collect used bags.

Plus, straight up banning the use of plastic bags will decrease the amount of oil used — to make the 100 billion plastic bags that get thrown away annually by Americans, 12 million barrels of oil are used. And that’s only a portion of the one trillion plastic bags, sacks and wraps discarded every year around the world.

Those who don’t agree with the plastic bag ban may not think the results will be beneficial enough to warrant a full scale ban. The U.S. alone drills about 7 million barrels of oil each day.

But on the worldwide scale, one trillion bags wasted are made out of millions of barrels of oil — millions of barrels that could be used for something more productive. And limiting the amount of plastic bags in circulation will help reduce the amount of garbage in dumps.

It might only be a percentage of waste, but it’s ground to start on. It’s a percentage that won’t collect and trap water and prevent evaporation. It’s a percentage that won’t end up around an otter’s neck or in a walleye’s stomach. It’s a percentage that won’t be decomposing when our great-grandchildren are try-ing to solve the pollution problems that we’re adding to today.

A ban on plastic bags would fit right in with many of the eco-friendly programs Toledo already has. Everyone who lives in the city has access to a recycling bin (paid for with taxes). The TARTA busses are being replaced with hybrid-electric busses. Every year, there are programs like Clean Your Streams, and even ones that are university-led, such as The Big Event which happens every spring.

The city council should look at some plastic bag-banning models and figure out a good one for Toledo. Hopefully it will be one that not only makes it inconvenient to use plastic, but also incentivizes good recycling behavior.

Think of all of the times you’ve gone shopping and come back with a new collection of plastic bags. Sure, you might have used the extra bags for something, but ultimately they all ended up in the same place — the trash can, and then a land-fill. To stop this cycle, we hope Toledo finds a way to encour-age all its citizens to BYOB: bring your own bag. FOR SALE

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Student Government president disregarding the senate is wrong

Student Government President Emily Kramp has taken her first step on the road of becoming a tyrant by treating SG’s constitu-tion like trash, much like President Obama does with our nation’s constitution.

I honestly hoped better for Kramp and her administration. As SG presi-dent, you are given many “perks” that the average student can only dream of like free tuition, free rent or a stipend and an office overlook-ing our beautiful campus. All you really need to do is be a cheerleader in a business suit for the university, or find a way to make it appear like a better place.

We all know Kramp has chosen the second route by attempting to turn our campus into a smoke-free nanny state. She has planned to do this by kicking the minority (smok-ers) and their rights under the bus with an unfair smoking ban. Ban-ning smoking everywhere on main campus — even in smoke huts.

However, thanks to twelve brave senators who stood up for liberty and the student’s right to choose to smoke or not, the legislation failed by one vote. With that, the Senate spoke and didn’t harm individual freedoms. Apparently, though, Kramp isn’t one for listening to her senate, because she ignored the rul-

ing of the student senate and headed straight to Faculty Senate...

Finish reading this piece online at

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RON JOHNSIC COLUMNIST

the Video/Launch Monitor Area, which provides ball flight and putting analysis.

Hollingsworth said after two winters in a row, the pro-gram keeps “getting bigger and bigger.”

“The people who have come have loved their time using our facility,” she said. “They have gotten advice on their golf game and have gotten better. It is nice to be able to share our facility with adults in particular because what other sports camp has adults? None. Just us in golf.”

David Wise, 71, of Per-rysburg, and an attorney at Spengler Nathanson in To-ledo, attended the program a year ago. He said the sessions met all his expectations.

“The coaches helped to tweak swing and give mental clues,” Wise said. “[The expe-rience was] very beneficial, especially for my wife who was a beginner and got confi-dence hitting her drive under the tutelage of Coach Nicole.”

Jennifer Elsholz, a third-year psychology major and member of the UT golf team, said in an email interview that she believes these winter ses-sions are money well spent.

“I think these clinics are great,” Elsholz said. “Being in Ohio is tough with the snow

and cold weather, but being able to still hit balls and putt keeps your game tuned up for when the weather gets nicer again.”

Elsholz added that stu-dents should take advantage of an opportunity “in your own backyard.”

“I think UT students would love to not only learn about the sport, but being able to see where us athletes work on this sport is pretty neat in it-self,” she said. “It’s like enter-ing our world for a few hours and experiencing what we do every day which is something pretty special and fun.”

Hollingsworth recom-mended interested students “get out there” and take a few lessons.

“If you keep working hard at it and learning new things about the game, then you’ll see improvements,” Elsholz said. “Golf has its highs and lows, but it’s about sticking through the lows that’ll really help you grow as a golfer.”

For more information or to schedule a session, contact Hollingsworth at nicole.hol-lingsworth@utoledo.edu or 419-530-7761.

PUZZLESTHEME: THE

GRAMMYS

ACROSS1. Leigh is to Scarlett as

_____ is to Rhett6. ___ de deux9. “Through” in text

message13. “___ __ fair in love

and war”14. Under the weather15. Sand bar16. Disturb17. “New” prefix18. Equestrian’s attire19. *Eminem’s 2013 hit21. *Rogers’ duet partner23. Driver’s aid24. Sub station25. Acid28. Often held on

sandwich30. *Girl on Fire35. Creole vegetable37. Poverty-stricken39. Bank ware, pl.40. Bit attachment41. Israel’s neighbor43. Catch-2244. Weight watcher’s

choice, pl.46. Black cat, e.g.47. First rate48. Take to one’s heart50. Aquarium dweller52. *”___ at Work,” Best

New Artist of ‘8353. Conceited55. Lt.’s inferior, in the

Navy57. *Macklemore’s kind

of shop60. *This year’s Grammy

host64. Song of praise65. Shed tears67. The _____,

Netherlands68. Take down masts69. Clod chopper70. Blatant71. Gardener’s storage72. *”Owner of a Lonely

Heart” band won one Grammy

73. Offends with odor

DOWN1. Clothing of distinctive

style2. Medicinal house plant3. Something that

happens so fast4. Famous Hungarian

composer5. High regard6. *”Just Give Me a

Reason” nominee

7. Barley brew8. North face, e.g.9. “___ does it!”10. Tramp11. *In ‘85 Prince won

two for “Purple ____”12. Final, abbr.15. High-pitched20. Gathers harvest22. Chicken _ __ king24. Kind of security

guard25. *”Royals” nominee26. Knitter’s quantity27. Often done to fruit29. It goes up and down31. Bit32. Billiards bounce33. Cuckoo34. Ski destination36. A chip, maybe38. Cambodian money42. Clarence in “It’s a

Wonderful Life”, e.g.45. Pinching pennies49. Churchill’s “so few”51. Boat load54. Nervous and antsy

56. Dry white Italian wine57. Hyperbolic tangent58. At this point59. Police action60. Potassium hydroxide

solution, pl.61. Curved molding

62. Lie in wait63. *Multi-Grammy

winner Elton’s, “Bennie and the ____”

64. From a wound66. Poor man’s caviar

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Last week’s solution

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sections of many of the speci-mens. Their names are on a plaque outside the museum.

Andrew Lichter, a third-year graduate medical student, conducted research with Baptista during his first year of medical school and said he dissected six different specimens currently in the museum.

“I am just one of at least thirty to forty students who worked hard over the last five to ten years to make the museum a reality,” Lichter said. “…it’s a rather unassum-ing door in the basement of the Health Science Building, but inside, there are fantas-tic displays that give you a glimpse into how our human bodies work.”

Brendan Parker, a second-year graduate medical student, also worked with Baptista over the past year to dissect the specimens. He feels that the museum is rel-evant to all different groups of people ranging “from young elementary students to current medical students and even practicing physicians.”

“I think that every stu-dent has some interest in how the human body looks and operates at some point,” Parker said. “Every one of us deals with medical issues at some point, whether that is us personally, a family member, a neighbor, whom-ever it may be.”

About 300 specimens are currently on display, and with

just as many in storage, Bap-tista said they will be rotated in and out with the exception of the rare ones.

Specimens include an entire spinal cord, a fetus and various animal organs.

According to Baptista, each specimen is complete with a description and is organized by function: diges-tion, breathing, circulation, filtration, control, support, development and compara-tive anatomy.

Lichter said the museum also makes available tablet interface pads to provide visuals and virtual tours of the exhibit.

The museum was entirely funded with resources gener-ated by the Laboratory of Plastination, and has been a dream of Baptista’s since he came to Toledo in 1987.

Specimens were donated from the university’s body donation program, many of which Baptista said were col-lected in 1967 and 1968.

“The museum would not exist if we did not have a body donation program,” Baptista said. “Thanks to the unselfish act of the body donors that we are able to make the specimens available

for teaching. It is an incred-ible gift.”

The museum is named for Dr. Liberato Didio, the first faculty member of the former Medical College of Ohio and first chair of the Anatomy Department, who created the body donation program, as well as Dr. Peter Goldblatt, who served as the second chair of pathology and as a professor until his retirement in 2000.

“This small room is filled with years and years of medi-cal learning and has organs that will outlive both you and I,” Lichter said

The museum is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and medical students have 24/7 access with their ID. Other students or members of the public interested in seeing the museum can contact the department at 419-383-4109 to schedule a visit.

“Because specimens dis-played are part of a human being, we need to make sure they are respected by visitors at all times,” Baptista said. “But we want everyone interested to see and learn to be able visit the museum.”

Organs from page 1

Golfing from page 1

SG in spring from page 1

Although SG’s Facebook page hasn’t been updated since April 2012, the group’s Twitter account had 355 fol-lowers as of Wednesday.

“There are a lot of people on social media these days, which allows different groups of students to reach out to the senate body as a whole,” McCullough said.

Kramp said not all big-picture ideas can be executed as quickly as SG would like.

“We were able to efficiently see through to completion many of the smaller bills that moved through senate,” Kramp said. “However, many of the projects that Student Government has started under our leadership are ideas that take much longer to come to fruition.”

“Many of these programs and plans have taken our full term in order to become fea-sible, so it would be great to leave office knowing that we left some improvements to the university.” Kramp said.

Kramp said students with issues or concerns about the university are welcome to attend SG meetings on Tues-days at 8:15pm in Student Union room 2592.

If you go What: UT’s new Liberato Didio and Peter Goldblatt

Interactive Museum of Anatomy and Pathology.Where: The basement of the Paul Block Health Sci-

ence Building in room 002.To schedule a visit: Contact the department at

419-383-4109. The museum is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION

HURRY WEEK!!

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IT’S TIME FOR NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS...

RESOLVE TO HELP OTHERSMAKING A MEAL FOR THE HOMELESS MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014- 6:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGETRIVIA NIGHT TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014- 7:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO LEARN SOMETHING NEWCOOKING CLASS- PIEROGIS!!WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2013- 6:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO BE MORE CREATIVECRAFT NIGHT THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2014- 7:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO TRAVEL MOREROAD TRIP TO ANN ARBOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2014- 5:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO BROADEN YOUR HORIZONSFOOD FOR THOUGHT SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2014- 9:00 A.M.

And don’t forget to join us for MASS...

Saturdays 4:30 p.m.Sundays 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

FREE MEAL FOLLOWING 6:00 p.m. MASS!

Meet at CCUP for ALL events! 2955 Dorr St. (right across from Main campus)

CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION

HURRY WEEK!!

ccup.org // utoledocsa.org/ utoledocsa.org/Questions? Contact Chelsea Rosfeld (Chelsea.rosfeld@rockets.utoledo.edu) Or call the Parish Offi ce at 419-531-4992

IT’S TIME FOR NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS...

RESOLVE TO HELP OTHERSMAKING A MEAL FOR THE HOMELESS MAKING A MEAL FOR THE HOMELESS MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014- 6:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGETRIVIA NIGHT TRIVIA NIGHT TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014- 7:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO LEARN SOMETHING NEWCOOKING CLASS- PIEROGIS!!COOKING CLASS- PIEROGIS!!WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2013- 6:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO BE MORE CREATIVECRAFT NIGHT CRAFT NIGHT THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2014- 7:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO TRAVEL MOREROAD TRIP TO ANN ARBOR ROAD TRIP TO ANN ARBOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2014- 5:00 P.M.

RESOLVE TO BROADEN YOUR HORIZONSFOOD FOR THOUGHT FOOD FOR THOUGHT SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2014- 9:00 A.M.

And don’t forget to join us for MASS...And don’t forget to join us for MASS...

Saturdays 4:30 p.m.Saturdays 4:30 p.m.Sundays 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.Sundays 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

FREE MEAL FOLLOWING 6:00 p.m. MASS! FREE MEAL FOLLOWING 6:00 p.m. MASS!

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ISIS DARKSFASHION EDITOR

The gift to a bright future is in your hands — and I’m not talking intellect. It’s the holy grail of success, the uniform of corporate battles equipped with tiny, circular hardware. It’s…a button up.

We’ve gotten the first semester under our belts; we’ve tackled the back to school blues, and took a ride on the wild side with a Bohemian rhapsody of style. Now it’s time to buck-le down and clean things up a little with professionalism.

Here are three ways to command attention literally like a boss.

Color

While a traditional white button up is nice, noth-ing is wrong with a pop of color. By wearing the right color, you can bring posi-tive attention your way, especially as a guy.

When we approach the transition months from season to season, a hot pink button up is an ideal hue for the changeover. It isn’t too dark, like the jewel tones of winter can be, and it isn’t too soft, like the pastels of spring. Women can keep their professional wear feminine, while any man can look good in pink. To pull everything together, add a black blazer and pants. Men, add a black cardigan and tie, or a blazer and tie.

You can find solid color button ups at Express, Banana Republic and at J. Crew. Since the holiday season is winding down, retailers will be holding

sales as they receive spring shipments. Take advantage and purchase the great transition colors of pink, blue and a lighter purple!

DesignIf you want to spice up

the office attire, or stand-out at your internship, opt with a button up that has a pattern. There is no longer much of a barrier of what is “too much” in the area of design, and I’ve seen every-thing from army fatigue to floral print button ups.

To rock a print in an interview setting without becoming too overbearing, try paisley. The kidney-shaped print with Iranian and Indian origin comes in a variety of colors, but for subtlety go with a light blue or white. Employers will notice your clean style, but won’t be so distracted from the design.

Department stores like Macy’s or Dillard’s carry interview appropriate prints, while Forever 21 and H&M carries fun prints that can be office appropriate if toned down with a blazer.

Fit

To leave the greatest impression with those around you, make sure your button up fits. Women, I don’t need to see your buttons ready to bust at the seams in the bust area, and men, no one wants to see a baggy shirt puffing out of the back of your pants.

Button ups give a tai-lored, clean look, but only when they are appropri-ately fitted. Retailers offer “slim fit” button ups, and both men and women should ask for help when trying to figure out what looks best. A button up should not be able to fold over once you tuck it in — don’t add extra bag-gage, especially if you are not comfortable with your midsection. There also shouldn’t be extra room under the arms and around the collar. Your shirt is letting you know that it is too big! Take a friend with you if you aren’t comfort-able asking sales associates for help.

Add slim-fitting trousers with oxfords or heels, and you’re ready to go! You’ll look clean, stylish and up-to-date with the tailored trend that should be around forever.

Isis Darks is a fourth-year majoring in marketing and has a blog at The Naiive.com.

FASHION

Button ups: start the semester off like a boss

ART EXHIBITION

Reduce, reuse and recycle: Three-Dimensional SketchingBy Angela PelusoStaff Reporter

Nearly 60 University of Toledo art students and some faculty will be showcasing their work in an evolving art exhibit titled “Three-Dimensional Sketching — Repurpose on Pur-pose,” starting Monday, Jan. 13, at the Center for Visual Arts.

During that week, from 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., the public is invited to watch the process of one drawing class and four 3-D and sculp-ture classes create sculptures.

The students must find their own objects to create sculptures with, said Barbara Miner, UT associate art chair.

Throughout the week, faculty will be film-ing the evolution of all the sculptures being created. The video will be shown Friday, Jan. 17, when the exhibitors will host a free recep-tion for the public from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the main gallery of the Center for Performing Arts.

During the second week of creation, students will work on their projects alone. But before Jan. 25, they will work with the help of physician-turned-artist, Dewey Blocksma.

Currently, Blocksma is known for creating kinetic, outsider art by transforming normal objects — teapots, spoons, violins, baseballs — into human-like sculptures.

But Blocksma originally worked on the literal human form in the medical field. He changed careers at age 36 to pursue his dream sculpting.

Blocksma began his art career shortly after in the 80s by doing solo shows in Boston, West Hollywood and Michigan.

“People showed up for the openings in dog collars, but they were all into art so I’d sell half of my pieces in one night.” Blockma said, “But that was still a 90 percent pay cut from my ER career. I had to learn how to live all over again.”

On a trip up north, Miner approached Blocksma about doing a workshop after seeing a peacock, made from an old fash-ioned, 8 feet in diameter, aluminum mesh satellite dish in an outdoor gallery near Beulah, Mich.

“Many of his pieces have a political edge and many are really humorous, but it’s bril-liant because his work is very intuitive,” Miner said. “It’s something you can relate to, and when you watch him work, you can just really understand the artwork.”

Blocksma will be taking a break from the exhibit at the CVA to give a lecture in the Carlson Library, Ward M. Canaday Center Jan. 15 at noon, open to all.

Angela Riddel, promotions specialist for the UT departments of theatre, film, music and art, said “Three-Dimensional Sketching — Repurpose on Purpose” is just the first project of a series called CVA PROJECT SPACE 2014.

FRANK KLETT 1941-2013

Passing of a music man

COURTESY OF DEWEY BLOCKSMA‘Puzzle Head’ sculpture created by Dewey Blocksma.

NICOLE BADIK / ICIsis Darks wears a blue pinstripe button up with a navy blue blazer.

By Amanda EggertCommunity Editor

Active music student and be-loved member of the University of Toledo community, Frank Klett, passed away over winter break at the age of 72.

Klett passed on Dec. 14, leav-ing behind a legacy of compassion and love for music and the arts. A fu-neral service was held on Dec. 19 at Newcomer Funeral Home, and he was laid to rest at Toledo Memorial Park.

Born on Nov. 10, 1941, to the late Margaret and Frank Klett Sr. in Toledo, Klett was preceded in death by his son, Erik. Left to cherish his memory is his wife of 14 years, Pam, his 8 children and 12 grandchildren.

Klett was a retired textile in-dustry worker, who returned to UT in 2009 to pursue an education in music, about 50 years after he first attended the university.

As an involved music student, Klett was part of UT’s choral ensembles and also participated in piano concerts.

“He had a really pretty voice and he played piano really well,” said Stephen Hodge, UT music professor and choral director. “He had a good background as a singer for many years with Toledo Cho-ral Society. He was the past president of Toledo Choral Society.”

Klett was also a member of the Church of God for over 50 years where he served as choir director.

Hodge said he not only knew Klett as a student, but as a friend and helper.

“He would let you know what his thoughts were on things and you would never second guess Frank Klett,” Hodge said. “There was no wishy-washy aspect about that guy.”

Hodge said Klett was a “fixture” in the Center for Performing Arts (CPA).

“If he wasn’t in the practice room practicing or if he wasn’t in the classroom, he was out in the lobby sitting and talking to students,” Hodge said.

Angela Riddel, promotions specialist for the departments of theatre, film, music and art, said Klett helped many stu-dents by coaching and giving them advice.

“The students really ap-preciated his wisdom and his insight, so I think they really appreciated him being around,” she said.

Trey Coburn, a third-year recording engineer major, said he met Klett in choir class during Coburn’s freshman year. He remembers that Klett “was never late, and he would always take some of the courses that he was interested in.”

“I think how much he cared for the music department here and how much he cared about the students and the faculty and I think that’s what he is going to leave,” Coburn said. “People are going to remember Frank, that he was a nice guy.”

Coburn said he was im-pressed by Klett’s singing style and voice.

“He had that Frank Sinatra/Michael Buble kind of, like jazz — that kind of singing — which he was into, which was cool. I love that,” Coburn said.

Wesley Forney, a third-year piano major, said Klett asked Forney to accompany him on the piano for his voice lessons.

“He gave me music and I remember really appreciating it. He put it in a nice folder and he had it laid out so I didn’t have to turn pages as a pianist,” For-ney said. “Most voice students wouldn’t go to this trouble.”

“Frank really reminds me that … life isn’t all about the grandeur — the waterfall, the mountaintop scenes. It’s really the small things that are really important, that he really took the time for,” he said.

Forney recalled Klett play-ing Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” on the piano, which he described as “one of his pieces” that “lead into the softer side of him.”

“The way he talked, the way he walked and dressed, you would think he was a little bit disgruntled,” Forney said, “but he would play [Clair de Lune] tenderly; he wouldn’t kill the notes or kill the phrases — he had a sense of what it was sup-posed to sound like.”

Forney said Klett’s dedica-tion to music is something that he admired.

“He kept coming back,” For-ney said. “He wouldn’t let his aching body, or his legs that couldn’t walk, or his hands or his throat get in the way of doing what he wanted to do, and doing it well — doing it with expertise.”

Riddel said since her office is next to a practice room, she could often hear Klett on the other side of the wall.

“Frank would be on the other side of the wall playing the piano and singing and he was very good,” she said. “I am so going to miss hearing him play because he was fantastic. He could really play.”

Besides taking an interest in playing piano and singing, Klett also enjoyed gardening.

Under his own initiative, Klett planted flowers outside of the CPA in the patio area of the building, and Riddel said most of the plants are still at the CPA.

“Whenever those flowers bloom in the spring, that will be a real tribute to what Frank did,” Hodge said.

But Hodge said the more enduring legacy Klett will leave behind is his philosophy of living life to the fullest.

“He is going to leave behind that if you are a musician and if you thought of yourself as a musician, that you will always have passion in what you are doing regardless of what your age,” Hodge said.

FRANK KLETT