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Date night dress up Fashion columnist Emily

Modrowski and Associate Commu-nity Editor Joe Heidenescher have advice on what to wear on Valentine’s Day.

COMMUNITY / 9 »

Coming into her ownJunior guard Ana Capotosto

is developing into a prominent player. Capotosto averages 9.1 ppg as a starter this season.

SPORTS / 5 »

Trustees look at budget

A past, present and future budget comparison was the main topic of discussion on the Feb. 10 full Board of Trustees meeting.

NEWS / 3 »

UT’s Campbell preaches trust when recruiting

Matt Campbell uses his philoso-phy of trust to determine who will be part of the football team.

SPORTS / 5 »

““But we truly believe this plan will be good for students as well as the university. It will allow those who can’t afford college an opportunity to go as well as a baseline level of education for incoming students.”

EDITORIALFree college in the future

OPINION / 4 »

Administrators voice thoughts

By Alexandria SabaCommunity Editor

Students will strut down the runway and strike a pose during the 46th-annual Black Student Union Schol-arship Fashion Show.

The fashion show will take place on Friday, Feb. 13 in the Student Union Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. “One should expect to hear a lot of great and meaningful music as well as see some great clothing ensem-

bles,” said Teddi Covington, a second-year psychology major and director of the BSU Fashion Show. The theme for this year’s show is Black Revolution.According to Covington, the theme captures the fight for and progression of freedom of expression

throughout the black community.“The fashion will be inspired by the different black movements that has happened from the 1960s to pres-

ent,” said Autumn Baker, a second-year communication major and co-director of the fashion show. Covington and Baker agree that the music selected is inspired by the struggle that

African-Americans experienced and the adversity they still face. Along with music and fashion, comedian Tanisha

Long from MTV’s Girl Code will host the event and perform stand-up comedy.

The fashion show will be divided into two parts with an extended intermission.

“During intermission, we will announce the scholar-ship winners and have UT’s

own rendition of a Girl Code episode,” said Tiffany Fulford, producer of the fashion show and vice president of BSU.

All of the show’s profits will go toward the two BSU scholar-

ships, both worth $1,000. They will be awarded at intermission to one male and one female student of African-American

decent. The students selected must be in good academic and judicial stand-ing and an undergrad in the 2015-2016 school year.

“We put on the show every year to raise scholarship money for African-American students in support of their

PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH SERIES EVENT

Ubuntu- themed lunch kicks off Black History MonthBy Amanda PitrofNews Editor

Hundreds of community members and University of Toledo students and staff gathered Feb. 7 to kick off Black History Month with a soul food luncheon.

The event, which took place in the auditorium of UT’s Student Union, featured performances from the UT Gospel Choir, a guest speaker and soul food.

Merida Allen, a member of the Black History Month celebration planning com-mittee, said the theme of this year’s celebration is the South African proverb Ubuntu, or “I am because we are.”

“To me it means that I don’t stand alone in my suc-cess and in my challenges,” Allen said. “I am who I am because of my community, because of my ancestors, be-cause of my support system.”

She said it reflects American history, and helps students realize and under-stand that their success was built upon the foundation of someone else who supported them or helped them in one way or another.

“It’s something that I personally live my life by. I’m very legacy-driven, and want to make my family proud in the things that I do in life, and I do the things I do always with them in mind to know that I stand on their shoulders,” Allen said.

Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Kaye Patten Wallace said she reverses the phrase to “You are because I am” because she has had that kind of support in the past and wants to give that to others.

“We’re all in this together,” Patten Wallace said. “What I do, what happens to me, impacts you and I can make a difference in your life.”

According to Allen, students should remember, “there’s someone who’s root-ing for you. There’s someone who had a hard time before you, whether it’s a friend or a teacher, someone’s there part of your ‘we.’”

Guest speaker and UT professor Willie McKether said a way he incorporates the meaning of Ubuntu in his

BLACK STUDENT UNION

MTV comedian to perform at scholarship fashion show

If you goWhat: BSU Scholar-

ship Fashion Show.Where: Student Union

Auditorium.When: Friday, Feb. 13

at 7:30 p.m.Sponsored by: The

Black Student Union.

Search prompts discussion of desired presidential qualitiesBy Trevor StearnsAssociate News Editor

This is the third of a four-part series, allowing individuals to voice what they want in the next president.

In the past two weeks, we have covered what the students and the faculty would like to see in the new

president of the University of Toledo. This week, the administration voiced their opinion.

External FocusJohn Barrett, interim provost and executive vice

president for academic affairs, said he thinks the next UT president needs to have an external focus in order to push UT to the next level.

“They need to help us create a division for where UT is going to go under the presidency and put a team in place to help get us there and then focus his or her energy on a number of things that are exter-nal,” Barrett said.

On Barrett’s list of what need to be addressed are opportunities for research and student placement, fundraising and the recruitment of good students and good faculty.

He also said he thinks the president should “ultimately be someone who is a dynamic, external-looking president.”

Barrett’s condition is that the new president acts with integrity, is transparent and values shared governance.

Johnnie Early, dean of the college of pharmacy

and pharmaceutical sciences, said engaging with the community is important for the new president to do.

“I think one of the things, of course, is to be engaged to the community, engaged and visible,” Early said. “I know that’s a lot in a city of this size with the number of community organizations but they can be managed so that while leading the university, those living ... where we share a common name have contact with our leadership.”

Early said the same is true internally, and presi-dents in the past have always handled exposure to the faculty, staff and students well.

“That’s also important because every organization has social components that helps move the organiza-tion along,” Early said.

FinancesCam Cruickshank, vice president for enroll-

ment management and online education, said state funding has changed funding for higher education,

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“It’s important to be able to listen to all of the different constituents and their perspectives on some of these complex issues.”

CAM CRUICKSHANKVice president for enrollment

management and online education

“We’re all in this together. What I do, what happens to me, impacts you and I can make a difference in your life.”

KAYE PATTEN WALLACE

Senior Vice President for Student Affairs

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What are your plans for Valentine’s Day?

“I will be hanging out with my room-mates and my cat since none of us have Valentines.”

Jeremiah PopovThird-year

Pre-physical therapy

“My fiancé and I will have a quiet dinner at home that I’m preparing for us. We will also be going to the movies or a show at Stranahan.

Kristian EmerichFifth-year

Film

“I will eat choco-late-covered straw-berries and go on a date.”

Paige PetermanThird-year

Early childhood education

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IN BRIEF

Corpus Christi social to take place Feb. 19 at OB’s Bar and Grill

Corpus Christi University Parish and the Diocese of Toledo Office of Young Adults and Campus Ministry are teaming up to host a social on Feb. 19.

The event, complete with food and bever-ages, will take place at 6:30 p.m. in OB’s Bar and Grill, located at 2243 Tremainsville Road.

Guest speaker Phil Smith, a priest from Corpus Christi, will give a talk titled “Faith, Rome and Beverages” with a question-and-an-swer style conversation afterward.

The event is open to anyone at least 21 years old.

For more information, contact the parish office at 419-531-4992 or email Lauren Farrell at lfar-rell@ccup.org.

Professor emeritus to give partition of India lecture Feb. 11

The Humanities Institute will feature S. Amjad Hussain as part of its Everyday Humanities: Occasional Talks on the Meaning of the Humani-ties to Our Lives Series.

Hussain’s lecture is titled “The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent Through the Prism of Literature,” and the free, public event will take place Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. in Libbey Hall.

The partition of India was the process of dividing the subcontinent along religious lines that took place in 1947 as the country gained its independence from the British Raj. The northern, predominantly Muslim sections of India became the nation of Pakistan, while the southern and majority Hindu section became the Republic of India. More than 1 mil-lion people were killed as a result of religious conflicts.

Hussain is a Univer-sity of Toledo professor emeritus of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, a member of the UT Board of Trustees, and a colum-nist for The Blade.

Funeral service Feb. 11 for Mayor CollinsToledo Mayor D. Michael Collins died Feb. 6 after being removed from life support. According to the Toledo Blade, he crashed

his car five days earlier after suffering cardiac arrest. A viewing will be held at 6 p.m. Feb. 11 in Savage Arena, followed by the funeral at 7 p.m. A funeral mass will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 12 at Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral.

By Samuel DerkinStaff Reporter

A past, present and future budget comparison was the main topic of dis-cussion on the Feb. 10 full Board of Trustees meeting.

Director of Budget and Planning Rhonda Wing-field gave a presentation to the board of detailed and general information about how the Univer-sity of Toledo budgets have changed and adapted to “a tumultu-ous time in higher educa-tion.”

According to Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee John Szuch, the board looked at the finances from the past years and said UT has “navigated the waters pretty well.”

Szuch said the purpose of the report was to take

a look at how UT has handled its financialcircumstances.

“What we wanted to do here was put together a very comprehensive look at where we’ve been, how we handled the issues we’ve dealt with, what we an-

ticipate the future will look like and take a look at some moves that we can make to continue to navigate the difficult environment that we’re in,” Szuch said.

Accord-ing to the report given at the meet-ing, some of

the challenges UT has faced include:

• A 12 percent decline in enrollment — which equivo-cates to a roughly $26 million loss in UT profits.

• A state share of instruc-tion subsidy decline of 13

percent, or roughly $17 million.

• Sales and service revenue decline of 16 percent, orapproximately $13 million.

• Rising healthcare and benefit cost — approximately $3 million.

The report stated that the total impact of these factors reduced income by about

$60 million. The report listed things UT

management used to mitigate impacts to its budget and how UT has maintained a positive cash flow. Theseactions included:

• Increasing tuition and fees

• Reducing interest ex-pense, or refinancing debt

• Reduced salaries• Reduced capital

expenditures• Reduced non-salary

expensesLooking forward, the report

anticipated a 3 percent increase in student enrollment and a 5.5 percent investment income. UT’s budget plan for fiscal year 2016 is not yet finalized.

CRIME LOG

Feb. 14 - Stolen cell phone

All crime logs are based on University of Toledo Police Depart-ment reports.

On Feb. 4, an officer was dispatched to UTMC regarding a stolen cell phone. A woman told the officer that her phone was stolen, but she was able to track its loca-tion to Lot 41. She also told the officer that she believed the people who had taken it were driving a gray Dodge Charger.

Upon arriving at the scene, the officer saw the described vehicle and approached it. The occupants said they were waiting to pick someone up from the hospital and had no knowledge of the phone. When the officer approached the passen-ger side of the vehicle, he noticed a phone matching the description on the stolen one on the pavement just outside the front passenger door and was just behind the front tire, indicating that it had just been placed there because otherwise it would have been ran over by the car. The oc-cupants of the car were questioned and the pas-senger of the vehicle was issued an APC for receiv-ing stolen property and then released. The stolen phone was returned to its owner.

ALEX CAMPOS / ICExecutive Vice President of Finance and Administration David Morlock speaks Feb. 9 to the University of Toledo Board of Trustees. The board members discussed how UT has handled past budgetary challenges during their meeting.

BOARD MEETING

Trustees look at budget

“What we wanted to do here was put together a very comprehensive look at where we’ve been, how we handled the issues we’ve deal with”

JOHN SZUCHChair of Finance and

Audit Committee

life is through service.“I give a lot of time in mentoring

young men, in church, and trying to be a good role model for others, always fight-ing for what’s right, for those who don’t have a voice,” McKether said. “That’s my personal commitment to this notion of me being the person who’s now giving.”

In his speech at the luncheon, McKether discussed the importance of service and remembering those who came before these generations. He said that many people go through a “wilder-ness experience,” or a period in life full of struggle, and without that struggle, people would not be where they are now.

“One of the last questions that I asked people is how they want to be remem-bered. Almost all said, ‘That I helped somebody. That I made a difference in somebody else’s life.’” McKether said.

He said he would like to see future celebrations reflect the flipped motto, “We are because I am.”

Patten Wallace said McKether did a great job, and that his speech “really puts a different feel in the sense of…talking about members of the community who are here or who are related to people who are here and people can identify with our he-roes and our she-roes.”

McKether said he was nervous about being the keynote speaker at this event.

“It can be nerve-wracking because, as a professor, I’m used to lecturing in the

classroom and to do something like this, this huge, this important, it’s intimidat-ing, but I feel honored and privileged to have been asked to do it,” he said.

McKether had attended previous Black History Month celebrations held by UT, so he knew what the atmosphere would be like.

“I found it’s a very warm and engag-ing crowd, a very supportive crowd,” McKether said. “It’s been a great day.”

The Black History Month kickoff is an on-campus event that has occurred for 40 or 50 years, according to Allen.

“It has evolved over time, you know, this being a month where there is so much to reflect on and to cele-brate,” she said. “We thought it would be very important to have something of this nature where more than just UT are attracted to; we wanted to at-tract it to the community as well.”

Patten Wallace said the event has gotten “better and better” each year, and the difference comes from the new collaborative efforts of the To-ledo community and UT.

Tiffany Fulford, president of the Black Student Union, had not been to the event before, and was impressed with how it turned out.

“There’s a lot of people from the com-munity that came out,” Fulford said.

Fulford helped to inform people about the event by speaking with the members of BSU as well as working with the Office of Excellence and Multicultural Student Success.

Allen said the event has been pub-

licized more to the public recently than in years past.

“It was always open to the public,” Allen said. “This is the second year really partnering with community or-ganizations to help publicize it more

and make it a more large-scale event.”Allen said the event has an average

of close to 500 people in attendance.“We set up for about 450 [people],”

she said. “Our RSVP [for this year] was for 449.”

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JESSICA THOMAS / ICS. Amjad Hussain, UT professor emeritus and UT Board of Trustees member, gives reflections at the 13th annual Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue. Hussain spoke following a talk from James Bacik titled “Karen Armstrong and Pope Francis on Compassion: Theological Perspectives and Practical Strategies.”

Jewish-Christian-Muslim talk

ADELLYN MCPHERON / ICGuest speaker and University of Toledo professor Willie McKether speaks at the Black History Month celebration kickoff and soul food luncheon. His speech focused on the importance of service and of remembering those who paved the way for current generations.

Presidential candidates to visit UTUT announced this morning via email when each of

the presidential candidates will be holding forums.

Forums for Michele Wheatly:· Feb. 19, from 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. in Doermann Theater on Main Campus

· Feb. 20, from 8:30 - 10:15 a.m. in Collier Building 1000B on the Health Science Campus

Forums for Christopher Howard:· Feb. 23, from 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. in Doermann Theater on Main Campus

· Feb. 24, from 8:30 - 10:15 a.m. in Collier Building 1000A on the Health Science Campus

Forums for Sharon Gaber:· Feb. 26, from 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. in Doermann Theater on Main Campus

· Feb. 27, from 8:30 - 10:15 a.m. in Collier Building 1000B on the Health Science Campus

Catholic Student Association seeks volunteers for upcoming events

By IC Staff

The Catholic Student Association will host Pizza for the Poor on Feb. 11. They will also deliver Valentine’s Day cards to residents at The Laurels Retirement Home on Feb. 14. They are looking for volunteers to help with both events.

Those interested in helping Pizza for the Poor should meet in the Newman Room in Corpus Christi University Parish at 7 p.m. The group will be making 40 pizzas and do-nating them to a local shelter. According to the parish bul-letin, the event will only take about 30 minutes to complete.

Those interested in helping deliver Valentines to the elderly should meet in the Newman Room at 10:30 a.m. Participants will carpool to the Laurels and take part in Valentine’s Day related activities.

For more information about either of these events, contact Griso Barrios at Grisoranyel.Barrios@rockets.utoledo.edu.

The University of Toledo’s culture and problems are built by systems. What we deal with in Student Government is the fallout of those systems. Every time a student is dissatisfied with a class, food or in-frastructure, that prob-lem exists because of policy or mistakes the system encour-ages. Therefore, stu-dent life is currently being destroyed by its system.

When I talk about systems I mean institu-tional habits, procedures and routines.

Our system makes it impossible for students to coordinate effectively. In order to plan an event, for example, stu-dent leaders fill out paperwork in an office that most students don’t know exists. Paperwork for over 200 orga-nizations is then funneled to an email account of a single staff member.

That member uses manual spread-sheets. All of the events go into an online database with lag. Eventu-ally they pass it on to another staff member with stacks of paper. Half the time they’ll send it back, partially because the student leader filled it out wrong. Then they file it away in alphabetical order.

Let’s jump across the pond and see what a worse system can do.

In 1987, London’s Kings Cross Sta-tion caught fire and killed 31 people and injured over 100. The system

that made trains run on time was not designed for anything else and instead orchestrated a tragedy.

Ticket takers were instructed never to leave their booths. If they had they might have noticed the fire, but years of efficiency created a habit of ignoring anything that might distract them. In the stairway, decades of flammable

paint layered on top of each other, because no department was in con-trol of maintenance for them. The first employee to notice, Philip Brickell, didn’t report to anyone when he stomped out a burning wad of tissue.

The reason was be-cause he wasn’t in charge

of fire safety and he wasn’t going to go against the system, step on toes, and report outside of his department. That was how Kings Cross worked for years because of gradual policy changes — mind your own business, stay divided.

The results were fatal. At Kings Cross, the system was

retooled with less siloing of people and a station-wide procedure for fire safety. Now, when we think of Kings Cross it’s because of platform nine and three-quarters and not the tragedy that happened just ten years before Harry Potter was written.

Looking at UT, we can use the recent Title IX investigations and sexual assault as an example of the same problem. Research shows it’s the system

that hires bad employees, encourages institutions to hide rape, and discour-age survivors from seeking help. That’s why the Office of Civil Rights, Depart-ment of Education, and the White House have been so focused on how UT designs student grievance councils and procedures.

Social theorist Max Weber insisted on a system where individuals were logically placed in their own spheres of influence and had a transparent and logical chain of command. When we look at how student organizations are forced to interact with opaque systems or encouraged through a lack of advi-sors and resources to work indepen-dently we can begin to see the emerg-ing problems.

The point of addressing systems as the source of our problems is that it clears the blame of people. Every year we complain that we don’t have the right kind of students to succeed — they’re unspirited or lazy. After a year of being president, I’ve heard adminis-trators, faculty and students suggest the same solutions since I was a freshman senator. How many spirit weeks, leader-ship programs, and honors dorms do we need to build before we stop blam-ing a lack of “good” students?

I propose that maybe it’s the en-vironment we’ve created — or more importantly let evolve of its own accord like Kings Cross — that is the problem. If UT can retool its systems just enough, we might get to that state where we can start to focus on something new instead of fighting a losing battle.

Clayton Notestine is a fourth-year majoring in political science.

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Free college in the future

Flaws in the system

CLAYTON NOTESTINE

STUDENT GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT

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Imagine a world where free college exists. It might be hard, because according to projectonstudentdebt.org, 69 percent of graduating University of Toledo students leave with debt. But, free college might be possible in the future with President Barack Obama’s proposed America’s Col-lege Promise.

The proposal would make the first two years of commu-nity college free. This would either let people finish the first two years of a bachelor’s degree or complete an associate’s degree. They could attend community college full-time or part-time. There is a catch though: students would have to keep a 2.5 GPA.

We think this is a great plan if it all works out, especially for people who wouldn’t be able to afford college on their own, or couldn’t afford all four years at a university for a bachelor’s degree. It would allow them to get a full-fledged associate’s degree which would help when applying for higher-paying jobs. It would also help people get credits and improve their GPA enough to get scholarships at other universities they could transfer to.

The America’s College Promise proposal would alleviate the financial strain on students. For students, two years of free college could mean 60 transferable credits, 100 percent paid for. To obtain 60 credits alone with no scholarships at UT would cost $20,129. Now what’s better, something being free or costing $20,000?

It could also theoretically help universities as well. If you look at the course catalogue at prerequisite classes like college composition, there are upwards of 100 different classes being taught. Now imagine students going to community college for two years. That means there will be fewer people who need to take those introductory classes at UT. The professors then have the ability to spend their time working on upper-level courses that require more work.

Students taking prerequisite classes in community col-leges would also mean there would be a baseline level of knowledge for professors to expect from new students. Currently it seems like there is a big division in first-year students; some of them are very prepared for college and others have trouble. Some students are behind because they weren’t taught things in high school or they were taught different information on how to do things. This is a problem for professors who have to accommodate for their students’ academic level. They have to teach the students who are behind as well as keep the more advanced students interested. With the proposal, students would take courses in community college where they would learn preliminary information. When they get to UT they would hopefully know what is expected in the class.

The plan could also help with UT’s graduation rate. There is a large disparity in the amount of incoming freshmen and gradu-ating seniors. According to Forbes.com’s list of America’s best colleges, only 23 percent of students graduate from UT. This is because UT is a rolling admission school that accepts most of the people who apply. Those who aren’t prepared often drop out before they can graduate. But with the proposal, students would come to UT after they are prepared for upper-level courses. That means more of the people who apply and enroll will actually graduate from UT. Therefore there won’t be such a large gap between incoming students and outgoing graduates.

The main concern for us is how the problem is going to be funded. The program will cost around $60 billion — that is a lot of money — and how does the government get money? Through taxes paid by all of us.

From the Jan. 9 press release from the Office of the Press Secretary at the White House, the $60 billion proposal would be funded three-quarters by the government and one quarter by the states. The key wording in the press release is that a quarter will be paid for by “states that choose to participate.” This means that this program would be optional for states. And optional usually means that states won’t go for it. Plus with the Republican Congress, this proposal will be hard to have passed because conservatives are usually against govern-ment spending.

But we truly believe this plan will be good for students as well as the university. It will allow those who can’t afford college an opportunity to go as well as a baseline level of education for incoming students. What do you think? Email a letter to the editor at editor@independentcollegian.com to give a voice to what you believe. We might even publish your letter next week.

I have a secret obsession. When-ever I’m swamped with a lot of things to do — writing this column, work-ing on homework, actually going to work — I like to research my future career. It might just be a way I try to rationalize my procrastination, but I like seeing how the things I’m doing now will pay off in the long run when I’m working in my Chi-cago office as a book publisher reading over manuscripts from well-known authors.

And when I’m doing my research, I see a lot of internship opportu-nities. Not a ton, but a lot. And I get so excited when I read about them. I feel like my work so far has been validated because I would love to intern for those companies. Then I look to see where they are located, and none of them are in the Toledo area, most aren’t even in the Midwest — they are on the coasts with the occasional in Boston and Chicago. And because of this, realistically I can’t afford an internship.

Everywhere you go, no matter what

you do, it costs money. Unless you rely on someone else to support you, you need to make money to pay your bills — to survive. I’m pretty sure a lot of us came to the University of

Toledo, not for its reputation or its name on my future diploma, but because it was affordable with a plethora of scholar-ships, and you could commute from home; at least, that was a main concern for me. So I think internships

might be hard for many of us to do.

Many of the competi-tive internships that I’m looking into, like being an editorial intern for a monthly magazine, are in big cities like New York and San Fran-

cisco. If you live in one of these cities, internships are easier to get to. But it costs money to live there and you need a way to make money — this isn’t Monopoly when you get money from just circling the block. Even the small-est apartments with the maximum amount of roommates will create a big dent in your budget.

You could get a job while you are

interning, but then your focus isn’t on what you are supposed to be learning. Or you could save all of your money from the job you have in the school year just to use it on rent and food.

As a student who works off-campus part time, there is no way that I can use the money I’ve saved just to use it all for a summer-long internship. I actually need that for books and when I have to pay for things.

Like it or not, the people participat-ing in internships are working. They are learning a skill, and are also complet-ing tasks along the way. Since they are working, they deserve to be paid. Paying interns demonstrates that someone’s work is valid and valued. You are not just a mindless drone filing paperwork and dropping off coffee. You are with the company for a reason, and they see a potential career in this field with you.

Paid internships might just be wishful thinking because other people are willing to learn for free. I would love to be one of those people. But internships seem to be easier for those whose families can bankroll the en-deavor and harder for those who have to support themselves.

Morgan Rinckey is a second-year English and communication major, and is the Opinion editor at The Independent Collegian.

MORGAN RINCKEY

OPINION EDITOR

All internships should be paid

The America’s College Promise proposal would be beneficial to

students and the university.

By Marcus DodsonSports Reporter

Junior guard Ana Capotosto has been on an emotional roller coaster ever since she first stepped on the court as a member of the University of Toledo women’s basketball team.

As a freshman, Capotosto played alongside former Rocket Naama Shafir during the latter’s final season in To-ledo. UT finished 29-4 and reached the Sweet 16 round of the WNIT.

During her sophomore campaign last year, Capotosto and the Rockets stumbled to a .500 finish, losing in the second round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.

Needless to say, Capotosto has seen a lot in a very short time span.

“It has been exciting to grow up with players and become adults together and I think [Capotosto] has made an awesome transition,” said senior guard Inma Zanoguera. “She has become more mature on the court and gets better every day.”

On the court, Capotosto brings a lot of energy. She has averaged 9.1 ppg and 5.6 rpg this season and has become a fan favorite for her high-arching three-point shot.

But she was not always known for posting up from three-point land.

“In high school I was a driver,” Capotosto said. “That was the only thing I wanted to do and somehow I developed into this shooter role. It was what our team needed, so that was what I was going to do.

“That role was a big-time change for me because I didn’t shoot much until after I got to college.”

Over the past five games, Capo-tosto has been more physical on the boards than potent from be-yond the arch. She averaged 7.6 rpg but only reached double-digit scoring figures twice over that span.

“I had been in a shooting drought, I wasn’t scoring much,” Capotosto said. “When you are not doing that, you have to find other ways to help your team and for me that was going hard on the glass and

getting more physical.”Leadership ability and a will to win

earned Capotosto a spot as a team captain in her third season in Toledo. This from a player who came off the bench and played limited minutes just last season.

“As a leader it is amazing to see her speak up sometimes,” Zanoguera said. “Last year she was not a captain, but she was asked to take that role sometimes because there were only two of us and this year she has gotten out of her comfort zone and that’s good to see.”

Capotosto has had some impres-sive mentors in leadership, being one of the few players to have taken the court with both Shafir and Zanoguera.

“Naama was a tremendous leader by example,” Capotosto said. “She was the person everyone went to on and off the court and I was able to take so much from her.

“I was able to see Inma grow and she has developed into a leader that I can follow. I can feed off of the inten-sity that she brings every day.”

Zanoguera, for her part, has been impressed with Capotosto since day one.

“She has always been that type of player to bring hustle and [was] that little kid who kept every-one to-gether,” Zanoguera said. “And on top of that she has improved all her skills, she is a big-time three-point shooter for us and I never hesitate to give her the ball when I see her open.”

Capotosto has earned that level of trust from all her teammates, even when she doesn’t have a basketball in her hands.

“Off the court it has been a transi-tion,” she said. “As an upperclassman you are expected to lead as example on this team and that is something I feel like I have always done well. But as a leader I needed to become more vocal and say something when things need to be said.”

Next year, Capotosto will need to be a good leader and an even bet-ter basketball player. She has seen enough during her time as a Rocket to know there is always room for improvement, both as a team and as an individual.

“I need to improve on my ball-handling skills,” Capotosto said. “This year, the ball has been in Inma hands so much that she is that comfort person.

“Not saying I will be that next year but I will need to take a little bit of that responsibility, if not more of it.”

By Blake BachoSports Editor

In college football, recruit-ing can be an exercise in patience, frustration and en-durance. It is a long, grueling process for everyone involved and a journey full of surprises as well as disappointments.

But for Toledo head coach Matt Campbell, recruiting always boils down to one simple philosophy.

“We talk about trust in our recruiting and we talk about trust in our program,” Campbell said. “We are going to play the players we trust. If I’m not telling you the truth on the front end, once you get here how are you ever going to trust me and our coaches once you get into our football program?

“[Trust] is so critical today, maybe not as much in short-term success but certainly in long-term success in your football program.”

Campbell has been on both sides of the recruiting process. Originally com-mitting to Pittsburgh, the Rockets’ head coach trans-ferred to Mount Union to play under legendary coach Larry Kehres.

Campbell’s own experience as a young player now plays a major role in how he approach-es the process as a coach.

“It is certainly different,” he said of the experience. “Everything is accelerated today more than it was when I was going through this

process, but I think through my own process in going and playing Division I football and ending up at Mount Union, I think I wish I‘d had more transparency. I wish I would have approached it a different way.”

For Campbell, transpar-

ency allows him and his staff to build trust with recruits and their families. That means making sure all these young men understand the difficulties and hardships that will stand between them and their goals.

“No matter what you’ve done, it has given you this op-portunity, but that’s not going to carry you through the rest of your career here,” he said. “Every school has 85 scholar-ship football players. It’s not what you did in the past that declares what happens, it is really the work ethic and the mindset that you come in with that is really going to help that transition piece.”

The Toledo approach to recruiting has paid off.

Scout.com ranked the Rock-ets’ most recent class of recruits second in total points and first in points per signee in the Mid-American Conference. This level of success on signing day is nothing new for Campbell and his staff, as their classes have ranked in the top echelon of the MAC since 2010.

UT’s recruiting success can’t be pinned solely on Campbell, who has an entire staff that painstakingly devotes its time to each potential signee.

That means spending qual-ity time with both the player and his family.

“That part for us is really big, where they come from, who is that support system in their life,” Campbell said. “We are going to become that. These parents or guardians are giving us their most-prized possessions. That’s a big step.”

The philosophy UT’s staff utilizes is one Campbell preaches day-in and day-out both on and off the football field. It’s one that matters as much on signing day as it does at kickoff on Saturdays.

In the end, it all comes down to trust.

“The decision these guys make, it’s a four-year decision, but it’s a 40-year outcome,” Campbell said. “What happens in the next four to five years of their life dictate the next 40. They have to do a really good job of making sure they dot all their ‘Is’, they cross all their ‘Ts’ and they know exactly what they are getting themselves into.

“The more they know that coming into it, the more suc-cess rate you’re going to have at the end of it.”

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UT golf team defeats Miami 4-2 to finish as co-champion of Shortened Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play

No. 3 seed Toledo defeated No. 2 seed Miami 4-2 on Tuesday to con-clude the shortened Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play event at Lake Jovita Golf Course in Dade City, Fla.

Mid-American Confer-ence member Ball State hosted the tournament. The second round, which pitted UT against the RedHawks, began on Monday but was sus-pended due to rain.

The Rockets finished 2-0-0 at the fourth-annual event, sharing champion-ship honors with Eastern Michigan since the third and final round was cancelled due to time constraints.

Toledo will return to the course on Friday and Sat-urday, March 6-7 at the Desert Mountain Intercol-legiate in Carefree, Ariz.

UT to team with Kroger at Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

UT head coach Matt Campbell and his play-ers will make an ap-pearance at the Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank this Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. to present a check for $675 as part of Kroger’s “Sacks for Cash” program.

Kroger donated $25 for every sack made by a Toledo player this past season. The Rock-ets notched 27 sacks, and since Kroger also made the same dona-tion for every sack made by Bowling Green University players, the total donation amount is $1,200.

Campbell and his team will represent UT and the Rockets’ football program to thank Kroger for their continued support and for giving back to the community.

Toledo women’s basketball team set to face off against Central Michigan on ESPN3

UT will hit the road Wednesday, Feb. 11, to face the defending Mid-American Conference West Division champs.

The Rockets (12-9, 5-5 MAC) will take on Central Michigan (11-10, 6-4 MAC) in McGuirk Arena at 7 p.m. The game, which will be televised on ESPN3, is a chance for UT to snap a two-game losing streak and also stay in contention in the crowded West Division.

Toledo is currently fifth in the division, only two games out of first place and just one out of last. CMU is tied for third place in the division.

UT dropped a pair of losses last week, one at Buffalo and another to Ball State at home. This will be the first of two meetings between the Rockets and the Chippewas this season and the 74th meeting ever between the two programs.

It’s not Rocket Science (Trivia)

How many times during her collegiate career did former Rocket Naama Shafir earn All-MAC recognition?

COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSJunior guard Ana Capotosto takes a shot against Ferris State earlier this season. Capotosto is averaging 9.1 ppg as a starter this season. The Michigan native averaged 7.6 rpg over Toledo’s last five contests.

Coming into her ownCapotosto developing into a prominent player

“...[Capotosto] has become more mature on the court and gets better every day.”

INMA ZANOGUERASenior guard

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

FOOTBALL

UT’s Campbell preaches trust when recruiting

PHOTO COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSRockets head football coach Matt Campbell watches his team’s game against the Mizzou Tigers this past season.

Shafir is the only player in school history to earn All-MAC recognition four times.

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meaning that the president will have to look at how to handle some admissions issues.

“The state has changed the funding level such that they subsidize. They give us resources based on the number of courses that students complete and the number of students that graduate,” Cruickshank said.

A possible way to in-crease graduation rates is to try to bring in an increased amount of “well-prepared students” who are more likely to complete their programs, according to Cruickshank.

In regard to finances, Early said employees at the university have been victims of salary freezes for quite a few years.

“Most people haven’t gotten them [raises], ex-cept for those with con-tract renewals or some-thing like that,” Early said. “We’ve been starving for that kind of recognition of a job well done and there’s some great jobs being done at our university.”

According to Early, giv-ing raises helps to keep employees from being attracted away to different positions and that it helps to “keep you in the game, in regards to retaining your best talent.”

Barrett said he believes UT needs to put itself into a much stronger financial position.

“When you have more money, you can hire great faculty more easily, you

can create new programs, you can do exciting new initiatives, you can serve the community better and you can offer more scholarships to students,” Barrett said.

In addition to having an external focus and address-ing the financial aspects of the university, there are a few qualities the adminis-tration would like the next president to have.

Academic Background

Larry Burns, vice presi-dent for external affairs, said the new president should have an academic background in order to relate to employees of the university.

“I also think that some-body who has experience in a larger university, like UT, that would help too,”

Burns said. “It doesn’t have to be their last job, but it should be part of their repertoire.”

He also said the new president should have some experience in deal-ing with athletics because “athletics are a big part of our culture.”

Early agreed with Burns, explaining that an academ-ic background is important for the new president to be able to work well between all of the campuses.

“In order to work with all of these smart people who are so capable in what they do, you’ve got to have a pretty good brain to start with,” Early said.

On the other hand, Barrett said he did not think the type of background the candidates had mattered as much.

“I’m going to be very weird here and say back-ground is less important than person,” Barrett said. “If somebody is smart, hardworking and has integrity and a certain amount of charisma for dealing with and attracting students, attracting donors, and things like that, they’ll learn the details of the job.”

Barrett said he would take somebody with any background as long as they had those personality traits.

Shared Governance/Listening

Two of the main con-cepts the administrators said were important for the new president to was the aspect of shared gover-nance and listening.

Early said the new president should be able to listen because it will aid in making major decisions.

“The new president has to engage people in a way so that one: people know you’re listening, and two: that you’re using this to help make big decisions to run an enterprise like this,” Early said.

Cruickshank said he thinks the new president’s ability to listen, not only to the administration, but

the faculty and the student body as well is significant.

“When you come on into a new situation, it’s important to be able to listen to all of the differ-ent constituents and their perspectives on some of these complex issues,” Cruickshank said. “And I think that under President Naganathan the last few months, we have made great strides in shared governance.”

Burns agreed that the next president should be willing to talk and share with his co-workers more.

“They need to be some-one that embraces a team approach, someone that empowers his or her team and really creates a culture of teamwork on the admin-istrative side,” Burns said.

Opinions On The Search

The administrators seemed optimistic about the outcomes of the search and each of the candidates’ visiting campus starting Feb. 19.

“I think they [the com-mittee] did a fabulous job, I think they were very open-minded,” Burns said. “They were very clear on what they were looking for

and I think they selected three wonderful finalists.”

Barrett agreed and said that each of the candidates have excellent resumes and that they are an impressive group.

“I’m hopeful, and based on what I’ve seen so far, we’re going to have a great new president,” Barrett said. “It’s going to be a great new chapter for UT and I think we should all be excited about that.”

Although Cruickshank has not met or talked to the candidates, he said he is looking forward to meeting them while they are here.

“I’m eager to meet them myself and make an impression,” Cruickshank said.

According to Early, whichever candidate is elected will push the uni-versity forward and onto better things.

“I wish I had a crystal ball to see how all of this is going to end because it’s going to be exciting as we pick new leadership,” Early said.

Administrationfrom page 1

“Most people haven’t gotten them [raises], except for those with contract renewals or something like that. We’ve been starving for that kind of recognition of a job well done and there’s some great jobs being done at our university.”

JOHNNIE EARLYDean of the College of Pharmacy and

Pharmaceutical Sciences

“I’m going to be very weird here and say that background is less important than person. If somebody is smart, hardworking and has integrity and a certain amount of charisma for dealing with and attracting students, attracting donors and things like that, they’ll learn the details of the job.”

JOHN BARRETTInterim Provost and

Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

“They need to be someone that embraces a team approach, someone that empowers his or her team and really creates a culture of teamwork on the administrative side.”

LARRY BURNSVice President for

External Affairs

“The state has changed the funding level such that they subsidize. They give us resources based on the number of courses that students complete and the number of students that graduate.”

CAM CRUICKSHANKVice President for

Enrollment Management and Online Education

ANDREA HARRIS/ ICThe Office of Excellence and Multicultural Student Success hosted a black history trivia game on Feb. 9 to kick off Black History Month. The event took place in the Student Union Trimble Lounge from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Black history trivia tests students’ knowledge

Catholic Student Association to visit Sky Zone Trampoline Park

The Catholic Student Asso-ciation will visit the Sky Zone Trampoline Park on Feb. 13.

The indoor trampoline park features a giant pit filled with over 10,000 foam cubes. The park is located in Canton, Mich.

The event will be followed by a free dinner.

Interested students should bring $20 and meet in the Newman Room at Corpus Christi University Parish at 5 p.m.

For more information, contact Jess Bihn at Jessica.Bihn@rockets.utoledo.edu.

Study abroad table to inform students of opportunities Feb. 17

The Center for International Studies and Programs will host an educational table on Feb. 17 for students seeking more information about trav-eling abroad while in college.

The table will be set up in the Student Union and will be staffed with former student ambassadors who will answer student questions regarding National Student Exchange or Camp Adventure programs worldwide.

For more information, visit the CISP website at utoledo.edu/cisp or call 419-530-5268.

Job skills workshop to take place Feb. 11

The College of Graduate Studies and the Center for Experiential Learning and Career Development will host a workshop on Feb. 11 to teach students how to more effectively search and apply for jobs.

Other advice such as how to network and maximize job search results will also be discussed.

The event will take place in Student Union Room 2591 from 2-3 p.m.

For more information, call 419-530-5249.

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COMMUNITYCALENDAR

Friday, Feb. 136 p.m. -- Tinder

Night, the UT Bas-ketball team plays against Kent St. at Savage Arena. Find your Valentine on Tin-der during the game. One couple that matches on Tinder during the game will win $100 in cash and two tickets to a Cleve-land Cavilers game on March 3.

Saturday, Feb. 14All day -- Music

Department Audi-tion Day, UT students are encouraged to audition for the music department; in order to be admitted into the department, an audition is required. Auditions also deter-mine various levels of scholarships that can be awarded. To set up a scholarship, visit the music depart-ment’s web page at http://www.utoledo.edu/comm-arts/music/audition.html. Sunday, Feb. 15

3 p.m. -- Great Gallery Concert, UT Department of Mu-sic faculty member, Denise Ritter Bernar-dini, will perform with accompanist Michael Boyd. Bernardini is a soprano and Boyd will accompany on the piano. The event will take place at the Toledo Museum of Art in the Great Gallery and is free and open to the public. Monday, Feb. 16

12 p.m. -- Mental Health Panel, The Student Wellness Or-ganization will hold a panel discussion with 3-4 speakers on the topic of mental health. Attendants will have the chance to ask questions and get re-sponses from medical professionals about mental health. The panel will be held in the Health Education Building Room 110.

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BASHCon 30 Celebrating 30 years of the gaming convention at the University of Toledo By Lauren GilbertCopy Editor

Brace yourselves — games are com-ing. BASHCon will be celebrating its 30th anniversary Feb. 20-22 in the University of Toledo Student Union by continuing to bring gaming to the masses.

BASHCon is entirely student-run by members of UT-BASH, which is short for the Benevolent Adventurer’s Stra-tegic Headquarters. UT-BASH is one of the oldest organizations on campus, founded in 1984.

The convention is “certainly worth a visit,” according to Kelson Craigs, vice president of UT-BASH and staff coordi-nator for BASHCon 30.

What is BASHCon?

“[BASHCon] is a 1,000-person gaming convention where we will play any type of game,” said Laura Zielinski, assistant treasurer of UT-BASH and BASHCon. “We have board games, card games, videogames, RPGs [role-playing games] — we’ll play it all, and it’s just a fun time. Everyone shows up, we all game for three days and hopefully noth-ing gets broken.”

The convention is entirely self-suffi-cient, Zielinski said.

“This year, instead of trying to intro-duce new events, we tried to take what we had and make it stronger. This is BASHCon 30…we really wanted to take what we had and build a strong ground-work so the Con can keep continuing to grow from here on out,” Craigs said.

Jared Hightower, a copy editor for The Independent Collegian, has been involved with planning the convention his whole collegiate career. He served as exhibitor’s department coordinator for two semesters, and then for the past three years he has served as executive coordinator.

“Everyone plays games, even on their smartphone or on their video game console or a computer or on Facebook,” Hightower said. “You ask anybody and they’ve played a game…[even] when they’re 7 years old sitting at the diner

with the little paper on the table with their father playing tic-tac-toe.”

For the volunteer members of UT-BASH who staff the event, it’s more than a typical gaming convention or a job.

“When everything is taken care of you kind of just get to walk around and see it all happen at once and it stops being something you organized; it’s something that’s happening around you,” Craigs said. “We always joke that BASHCon happens whether we do anything or not, it’s just how good the Con is. So really you just try to give it the best push you can and watch it roll.”

Hightower has served on planning committees for several other gaming conventions, and takes great pride in his work.

“It really is exciting to see how we can make 1,000 people excited and happy for a weekend,” Hightower said. “It’s such a change from the drudgery of the work life. That’s why I like BASHCon the most.”

Why should students go to BASHCon?

Craigs said that for students, this is the best time to experience and try new things.

“There’s all kinds of things to do, so there’s just such a breadth that I think a lot of people hear ‘gaming’ and they just think it’s just guys sitting in a dark room,” Craigs said, “But there’s so many different kinds of things that are so exciting…I recommend people come to BASHCon so they can find and try something new because new things are what makes life exciting.”

Zielinski believes that, “for the most part, everyone’s a gamer, so it’s easy to mix.” She said that games are something you have to experience to form an opin-ion about for yourself.

“You hear ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and you’re like ‘oh, no,’ but you have a chance to use your imagination and you can make up anything that you want to do. You can interact with your environment 100 percent,” Zielinski said.

Hightower said that coming out to BASHCon is “all about forgetting the stress of daily life for three days and just having fun.”

What can I do at BASHCon?

For just $1, attendees can participate in Santa’s Toy Box throughout the week-end, according to Zielinski. The Toy Box is an event run by Tom and Sue Pellitieri, honorary members of UT-BASH. The Pellitieris bring their personal collection of over 150 board games to the Con for attendees to learn and play.

Craigs said it’s the best dollar that someone can spend at BASHCon.

“Some of the games are super old too. They’re from the 60s and 70s — weird,

old board games that you just can’t find anymore,” Craigs said.

There will also be a games bazaar at the convention, run by Craigs and Clayton Notestine, president of Student Government. Here, people can come in with games they want to sell and BASH-Con attendees can bid on them.

According to Hightower, there will be a variety of tournaments that attendees can participate in throughout the weekend. There will be a Super Smash Bros. Melee tourna-ment, a full-scale Magic: The Gath-ering tourna-ment (modern-constructed format) and an Android: Netrunner tournament.

Hightower also said that there will be a large miniatures-game presence at the convention.

“Those are games where they’re played on a larger table. We get stage pieces and actually raise them up and they play on the stage pieces, so to speak,” Hightower said. “Then they’re standing around the stage moving around these little, tiny plastic figurines around the board and they figure out how far they can go with measuring tape, and they play a game.”

Our House Games, a local game store based out of Monroe, Mich. will be host-ing collectible card game events at the

convention, according to BASHCon 30’s Facebook page.

BASHCon 30 is free to all UT stu-dents, faculty and staff with presentation of a valid Rocket Card. Students from other universities or high schools can attend at a discounted price with presen-tation of a valid student ID for $5 for a single day or $10 for a weekend pass. For the general public, admission is $10 for

a single day or $15 for a weekend pass. Most events will have a $1 cover charge.

According to Hightower BASHCon is going to be giving away board games to attendees. About 100 copies of City of Rem-

nants and about 300 copies of BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia will be given out.

BASHCon 30 will run from 5 p.m. to midnight on Friday, Feb. 20, from 9 a.m. to midnight on Saturday, Feb. 21 and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 22.

For more information or to pre-register for the event, visit their website at bashcon.com, email coordinator@bashcon.com or go to their Facebook page at facebook.com/BASHCon.

“BASHCon is primarily about bring-ing people together and games are the medium,” Hightower said.

Disclosure: General Manager Danielle Gamble is also an executive coordinator for BASHCon 30.

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ASSOCIATE COMMUNITY EDITOR

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and if you’re lucky you might have a date to prep for. Here are some tips on how to dap-per up and impress whoever you’re taking out. If your gentlemanly skills match your on-point outfit, then you should have no problem scoring another date.

ShirtsNo matter what type of date you go on,

a dress shirt is a must. Even though it’s Valentine’s Day, I’m going to advise you against a solid-red dress shirt. Solid colors are boring. Instead, find a nice dress shirt with a pattern, and not a distracting one. Plaid, checkers, stripes and small pat-terns are in style right now. Depending on where you are going for your date it will determine how many colors should be in your pattern. If it is classier, stick to only two color patterns. Unless you’re wearing cufflinks, it is OK to roll up your sleeves.

LayersThe key to an on-point outfit is a layered

effect. Since it is colder outside, it works well to wear sweaters and blazers. A plain gray sweater or cardigan will match almost any type of dress shirt you wear underneath it. A sweater and dress shirt combo give a more casual vibe which would be okay for a coffee date or the movies, but if you’re going out to a nicer din-ner, I suggest a blazer. Do not wear your black funeral blazer. Go to a store like Marshall’s or TJ Maxx and buy a blazer of a different color. Blue blazers work well with a lot of different patterns and colors. For the full effect, wear your gray sweater underneath your new blazer, and you’ll be layered well and warm.

NeckwearA real gentleman doesn’t forget his neckwear.

Depending on the type of date, you can wear a bowtie or a skinny tie. Bowties are an excellent way to add some class to your layered look. You can wear patterned or solid-colored bowties, but make sure they match your dress shirt. Don’t wear a navy shirt with a navy bowtie; instead wear a pink shirt with a patterned navy bowtie. For regular ties, I suggest wear-ing skinny solid-color ties. With any patterned dress shirt, you don’t want a patterned tie — that’s too much for the eye to handle. Your ties can be worn with sweaters or blazers, but to keep it from flying all over the place, buy a gold or silver tie clip to hold it in place. If your date isn’t the most formal, you can also unbutton the top few buttons on your dress shirt — but not too many buttons, save that for the bedroom.

ExtrasIn addition to the layers and ties, you’re

going to probably want a nicer watch. Leather-strapped watches are what I would suggest for a date — they refine the look. Don’t wear too much other jewelry; you probably don’t want to be wearing more than your date. As for cologne, it is a must on the musk. Wear your signature, or favorite cologne (that is not Axe body spray; this isn’t junior high). Remember, when putting on a scent, do not go overboard. One or two sprays is more than enough.

Maybe with these tips in mind, you’ll have a nice Valentine’s Day date. With a great attitude and kickass outfit, you’ll be a shoe-in for another date. Good luck gentlemen, and stay classy.

Joe Heidenescher is a second-year English major.

EMILY MODROWSKIFASHION COLUMNIST

Ladies: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and if any of you out there have a date planned for Feb. 14, I know what you’re worried about most: what are you going to wear? Here are a couple ideas from me to you.

The Main EventFor a night out on the most romantic night of

the year, dressing up is a must. I would go for it, and go full-out with a dress. Leave the jeans at home for a night and slip into one of your nice dresses. Skirts are in the running, but they tend to look more casual than a dress, and you deserve to feel as fancy as a queen on your Valentine’s Day date night.

Color Pallets Tradition says that Valentine’s Day means red

and pink, and I agree to a point. Maybe keep your cherry-red dress and your bubblegum-pink pumps to a minimum. I’m all for color pallets including red or pink, but overkill on this holiday is easily achieved. Try a plain black or white dress with cherry-red or bubblegum-pink accents. The neutral black or white will allow the accent color to really pop and make a statement.

But if you’d rather have your traditional Val-entine’s Day colors be the star of the show, then I would suggest a pink or red dress with accent col-ors. Any red or pink works, a nice, deep burgundy or maroon is a good way to show your holiday spirit in a more muted tone. The same applies to pink — nice pastel or soft pinks make for a pretty color option.

ShoesWhat color shoes you choose all depends on

what color dress you pick. For the red family, I would stick with black or silver. Black shoes with a red dress really make the red stand out, and silver (metallic or glittery) compliments red tones. For pinks, I would go with silver or gold colors for shoes. Black shoes with a pale pink dress may look a bit awkward because of how dark the shoes are compared to the dress. Silver and gold both go beautifully with any pink. I wouldn’t suggest gold shoes with a red dress, not because it wouldn’t work, but because it can sometimes look a bit Christmas-y. If you’re going with red or pink as an accent color, then I would say either red or pink shoes works won-

ders with either a black or a white dress.As for the type of shoe you might want to pair

with your ensemble, I would pick something in between casual and dressy. Wingtip saddle shoes with a baby-doll heel are a great option because they’re classic and look nice while also being more casual and fun. An all-black pair or a black and white pair would go well with a red dress. Gold or silver sandals would look nice with a pink dress, but I know it’s still winter so a more-covered shoe may be best. Silver or gold Mary Jane heels have a dressier feel but the straps make them look a bit more casual in the sense that they

look more fun. Especially the T-strap Mary Jane’s, they give a fun and flirty look to your outfit.

Jewelry I am definitely not a person who got on the

chunky jewelry train. I personally really like simple jewelry. A nice, thin gold necklace and bracelet paired with gold earrings, or the same in silver, makes for nice accents to your outfit and doesn’t distract from your color pallet. However, if you’re the conductor of the chunky jewelry train and you can’t go on a night out without it, go for it. But try to remember not to wear too many thick bracelets; balance them out with thinner ones.

Emily Modrowski is a second-year communica-tion major.

ADELLYN MCPHERON / ICFashion columnist, Emily Mowdrowski, and Associate Community Editor, Joe

Heidenescher pose for a photo wearing their date night clothing choices.

Date night dress upWednesday, February 11, 2015 | The Independent Collegian | 9

10 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, February 11, 2015

By IC Staff

A resolution to add a new bus stop by Sav-age Arena passed unanimously during the weekly Student Government meeting. The additional bus stop would be added near Lot 4 on the University of Toledo’s main campus.

The resolution was proposed by SG Senator Ian Michalak, who said the idea behind the resolution was to decrease the

walking distance in between bus stops. The resolution itself said an adjustment “would not deviate far from original routes,” and added that little time would be added to the bus schedule.

Michalak said he plans to talk to members of UT’s transportation department to see whether or not it is feasible and how much of an inconvenience it would be.

academic success,” Fulford said. “This show is also put on as a way to celebrate Black History Month. Lastly, we like to display the creative side of students on campus.”

Covington said this is one of BSU’s largest events, and she takes pride in the fact that the event allows students to come out and experience great entertainment.

“The music selection is great and the celebrity host is very interactive. And I think students should support this great cause of granting students scholarship money to help them stay in school,” Fulford said.

As a graduating senior, Fulford said this show is “very special to me.”

“I put a lot of work into this show and tried to bring it to the next level,” Fulford said.

According to Covington,

the fashion show is a great opportunity for students to get involved in such a big production.

“It’s always amazing to get to see the final result of something that so much work has been put into,” Covington said.

Tickets are on pre-sale in Ask Rocky in the Student Union for $10 general admission and $15 for run-way seats. General admis-sion tickets at the door will cost $15.

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SG approves resolution to add new bus stop near Savage