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Sports: 42Based on the number of professional sports

teams played in the city.

Manly Lifestyle: 5Covers various consumer behaviors in a city

such as the number of registered pickups and mo-torcycles, sports TV viewing and fishing.

Concentration of manly retail stores: 21Businesses described as manly in the city in-

clude BBQ and chicken wing restaurants, steak houses, Harley Davidson dealerships and home improvement stores.

Manly occupations: 27This covers the number of construction workers,

police officers, firefighters based on the “Occupa-tional Employment Statistics” survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Salty Snack Sales: 7Total sales of salty snacks and crackers were

measured for each city.

Emasculating criteria: 48Cities lost points for the number of cupcake

shops, coffee shops, sushi restaurants, “modern” male apparel stores, and home furnishing and dé-cor stores.

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Toledo’s manly rankings out of 50 cities Toledo ranked 12th ‘manliest’ cityBy Jennifer Ison and John GummersellIC Staff Writers

Cupcake shops, coffee shops and sushi restaurants make a city more feminine.

A lack of these establish-ments increase the “mascu-linity” of an area.

This is why Toledo was ranked as one of the manliest cities in the nation in a non-scientific survey funded by Mars Incorporated.

This year, the Glass City climbed 14 spots to 12th place in the third annual Combos “America’s Manliest Cities” survey.

The study looked at 50 of the largest metropolitan cit-ies in the country and ranked them based on a list of qualifications.

The broad categories ci-ities were ranked on include the number of professional sports teams, manly lifestyle, concentration of sports bars, home improvement stores, number of manly occupa-tions such as police officers and construction workers and salty snack sales.

Toledo rose in manliness due to its rise to fifth place in the manly lifestyle category.

This category includes the number of registered pickup

trucks and the amount of sports TV viewed in the city. The sale of salty snacks also rose, moving Toledo up to seventh place in that category.

A city’s ranking drops if there is an excess of coffee shops, sushi restaurants, home décor stores, cupcake shops and other stores listed in the “emasculating crite-ria.” Toledo ranked 48 out of 50 in this category, which means they are very low on the non-mascu-line scale.

W e n d y Skaff, man-ager of local r e s t u r a n t Star Diner, said she credits the success of the restaurant to Toledo’s masculine atmosphere.

“I definitely believe the manly aspect of the city has fueled our business,” Skaff said. “Our owner plans on opening a Star Bar within the Toledo area due to our suc-cess here.”

The Star Diner wait staff uniform is similar in concept to the Hooters uniform.

Winning title of “manliest city” was Nashville, Tenn.

Other Ohio cities on the list were Cleveland in sixth, Cin-cinnati in 14th and Columbus placing 18th.

Only two cities from Michi-gan made the list. Detroit ranked 25th and Grand Rap-ids was 29th.

Olugbenga Ajilore, a pro-fessor of economics at UT,

said being man-ly is a part of the Midwestern culture.

“The Mid-western struc-ture of geogra-phy lends itself to motorcycle recreation,” he said. “Working with your hands is a historical

factor of Toledo.”Matias Hidalgo, a sopho-

more with a pre-law concen-tration, said the Jeep plant is a strong masculine industry in Toledo.

Like other students and faculty interviewed, he does not agree with the masculine criteria cities were judged under in the survey.

Charlene Gilbert, chair of the Women’s Studies Depart-ment, said she is skeptical

POD to open in Stranahan HallLibrary databases cut

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The POD in Stranahan South will be similar to the ones in Carter Hall and the North Engineering building.

Students compare two-year and four-year colleges

This study seems to be defining

‘manliness’ in ways that do not reflect the realities of men’s lives

in the 21st century.

Charlene GilbertChair,Womens and Gender Studies”

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about the survey because it was sponsored by a snack company.

“[This] makes me hesitant to draw any substantive con-clusions based on this re-search,” she said.

According to Gilbert, one of the motives of the study is to gain the attention of con-sumers who might represent its targeted demographic.

“This study seems to be defining ‘manliness’ in ways that do not really reflect the realities of men’s lives in the 21st century,” she said.

Gabriella Edgar, a sopho-more majoring in psycholo-gy, said the businesses used in the survey to measure a city’s masculinity, such as hardware stores and steak shops, are a regular part of any large city.

“I don’t think that these ‘manly’ businesses thrive here because of the mascu-linity,” she said. “I think if these businesses were any-where else, the ‘masculinity’ would be higher there, too.”

By Allison SeneyIC Copy Editor

Some students believe a four-year degree holds more value than a two-year degree — at least at UT.

Students from across the na-tion are looking to the different types of career pathways pro-vided by two-year degrees due to a stagnant economy and high unemployment.

That trend, however, has not caught on at UT, which only of-fers 10 associate degree pro-grams, according to their website.

When asked about how they view a four-year degree versus a two-year degree, some students

at UT thought that a four-year degree was worth more.

Sydney Drexler, a freshman majoring in pre-physical therapy, said it is smarter to have a four-year degree.

“A two-year de-gree in my field is for a physical therapist assis-tant,” she said. “You can make more money as a physical therapist. The more advanced degree you have, such as a doctorate, will pay even more money.”

According to the Bureau of

Labor Statistics, the most recent median annual wages of a physi-cal therapist assistant is $49,810,

compared to a physi-cal thera-pist who can earn $77,990 a year.

“It is im-plied that you make more mon-ey [with a] four year

degree,” said Chaz Boes, a soph-omore majoring in computer en-gineering and technology. “If I could make more money with a

two-year degree, I would do it.”Though investing in college is

costly, developing the skills to-ward a high-paying job is the ulti-mate goal.

According to the College Board website, 47 percent of all full-time undergraduate college students attend a four-year uni-versity where tuition and fees add up to less than $9,000 per year.

At a two-year college, howev-er, the average cost is $2,713.

“Four-year versus two-year de-grees is simply different opportu-nities for different people at dif-ferent stages in their lives,” said Paul Many, a professor of com-munication. “A two-year degree,

among other things, may be all someone wants or needs to qual-ify for particular employment, or it may be a way of taking courses close to home while someone saves up money to continue their education later at a four-year college.”

Many said students not in a rush may find it more conve-nient to attain a four-year degree.

“A four-year college degree, for example, may be useful for someone who is more academi-cally inclined or who doesn’t have particular employment needs at the time, like someone still being supported by parents,” he said. “Some may use the four-year degree as a springboard to

higher degrees such as degrees in law, for example.”

Janet Rozick, a visiting profes-sor of history, believes a two-year degree isn’t as respected as a four-year degree, but she be-lieves that a degree is better than not having any degree.

“A two-year degree may work, depending on the institution, though a completed two-year de-gree transfers better than just taking assorted courses,” Rozick said.

It is impled that you make more money

[with a] four year degree. If I could make more

money with a two-year degree, I would do it.

Chaz BoesSophomore,Computer engineering ”

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Students at the College of Business and Innovation in Stranahan South will soon be able to have lunch without having to leave the building

A new Provisions on De-mand Market, similar to the ones in the North Engineering Building and Carter Hall, will be set up on the first floor of Stranahan South and will open no later than Friday.

It will occupy a former stu-dent lounge that used to in-clude vending machines.

“It will include pizza by the slice, grab-and-go sandwiches, salads, ice cream, soda, water and coffee,” said Joy Gramling, director of auxiliary services. “We renovated the old student lounge and vending machines have been moved to the basement.”

— POD, Page A5

By IC Staff

Budget cuts to the univer-sity library system will re-sult in the cancellation of 37 electronic resources, the most significant cut to re-sources the university has made in recent years.

According to Vice Provost Ben Pryor, dean of the De-partment of Learning Ven-tures, UT’s library budget is a little more than $2 million, slightly below the median of institutions the university’s size in Ohio.

He said the library exceed-ed this budget in the past by subscribing to electronic re-sources that resulted in long term commitments the uni-versity could not afford. As a result, cuts to the library needed to be made.

According to Pryor, enough library staff was cut,

therefore resources were the next option.

“We asked where else can we cut and we had two ques-tions: one, are we spending money on things that no-body uses anymore? Do we want to maintain a museum consisting of books people aren’t reading or checking out anymore,” he said.

The cuts to electronic re-sources were made in order to sustain services students wanted, such as keeping the library open longer.

Pryor said electronic re-sources were cancelled based on how little the mate-rials were used. This includ-ed how many people ac-cessed and download the journal articles and how of-ten the articles were cited.

Some of the journals the

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Muslim Student Association

The Fast-a-Thon takes place today from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the student union auditorium. Fast-a-Thon is one of MSA’s ma-jor events of the year. In its fifth year, Fast-a-Thon will benefit victims of the Somalia famine. MSA will donate a certain amount of money to the Ohio Food Bank on be-half of each student who pledges to fast for one day. Students who fast are invited to a free din-ner/iftar.

Department of Theatre and Film

An event to honor the life of Evelyn Davis, for-mer costumer for the UT Theatre Department, will take place tomorrow from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Center for Perform-ing Arts Studio Theatre. Some of Evelyn’s cloth-ing will be shown and a memorial service will fol-low. Refreshments will be served afterward.

Department of Music

Professor of Music Mi-chael Boyd and UT piano students will perform pieces by Mozart, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel and Arlen in a piano con-cert at the Toledo Muse-um of Art Great Gallery Sunday at 3 p.m. Contact Angela Riddel at TheArts@utoledo.edu for more information.

Commuter Student Services

An ice cream social for commuter students will be held at the Cold Stone Creamery on Talmadge Road Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Students must have a valid Rocket ID and Rocket number to get a free ice cream voucher. Vouchers are limited to one per student.

Chemistry Department

The UT Student Ameri-can Chemical Society Presents: The Changing Seasonality of Tundra Plant-Soil Chemical In-teractions in the Alaskan Arctic, presented by As-sistant Professor of Ecol-ogy Dr. Michael Wein-traub. The lecture will take place Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Wolfe Hall Room 1201. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Muslim Student Association and the Multi-Faith Council of Northwest Ohio

The annual Catholic-Muslim dialogue will take place Thursday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Student Union Building Auditorium. This year’s event will discuss the principles of interpreta-tion of scripture in Chris-tianity and Islam. Dr.Amjad Hussain will discuss Islamic thought, while Dr. Geoffrey Grubb will present the Catholic thought.

university will cancel include the Historical New York Times, the Wall Street Jour-nal, Oxford Scholarship On-line, American Physical Soci-ety Journal and Henry Stew-art Talks.

Accesses to some of these journals have already ex-pired, with the remainder to expire on specific dates until fall 2012.

Pryor said the number of journals cut does not repre-sent the significance these journals hold to the people who rely on them.

“The sad thing to say in this situation is that there is

no resource that isn’t of sig-nificance to someone at the university,” he said. “We tried to take that into account, but there was no way to avoid crossing someone.”

Pryor said if future cuts to the library need to be made, they will be to library materi-als such as the books that sit on the shelves.

“Every book that sits on our shelves is money,” he said. “There’s a cost associ-ated with books that sit on the shelf, which sounds odd, but it’s true. It’s a few dollars a year, but when you talk about hundreds of thousands of volumes, that adds up.”

Pryor said the elimination of resources is a part of a na-tional trend of fewer materials

being offered immediately for access. Resources such as OhioLINK or Interlibrary Loan are being used more frequently. Although the same articles will take more time to access, they will be less expensive for libraries to use.

According to Pryor, the university is also trying to generate revenue for the li-brary by offering courses to students in information literacy.

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Every generation has its profound mo-ment in history, traumatically engraved in their minds. For our grandparents, it was World War II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor and our parents recall the assassi-nation of President John F. Kennedy.

For us, it was the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with the fear we all felt in the midst of a terrorist attack.

It seems surreal that 10 years ago Sun-day, the United States was attacked for the second time since the Civil War.

Do we remember how we felt or where we were the morning of 9/11? What was going through our young minds as our el-ders tried to explain what was happening on television? In 2011, most college and high school students are probably split down the middle about the event.

The older crowd and young adults re-members it as if it was yesterday. The younger crowd, however, may have no rec-ollection of the event except for the facts they’ve absorbed from the news.

What will happen in 10, 15 or 20 years when September 11, 2001 seems like a faded memory? Holidays, like Memorial Day, were originally created with this rea-son and purpose in mind.

Memorial Day was observed to honor those who lost their lives in the 1800’s dur-ing the Civil War. As the years went by, the last Monday in May was meant to remem-ber those who fought for the U.S. in any conflict.

Since the early 20th Century, Memorial Day has become a “vacation day” with shopping trips, no school, media events and cookouts with fireworks. Even the Indianapolis 500 is on the Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend.

Is this how 9/11 will be in 50 or more years, its original meaning forgotten? That day should, and will hopefully, live in infamy.

Can you believe how 10 years have gone by so fast? Our country changed in so many ways. Memorials for the lost loved ones of the 9/11 attacks are held every year. Our security systems have increased dramatically. Now a trip on a plane is no longer fun; it’s more of an inconvenience and hidden fear.

Our lives were drastically changed for-ever. We couldn’t seem to understand how or why this was happening to us. Didn’t everyone like the U.S.? But some people in this world, like Osama Bin Laden didn’t have a heart.

The innocent lives stolen made Ameri-cans shake with anger and revenge. We wanted to fight and take back what was stolen from us: our sense of security.

Bin Laden’s initial objective was to de-stroy the U.S. economy by targeting the world’s financial capital. Bin Laden was looking to deal both a psychological and economic blow. He failed in delivering a knock-out blow to America, but the cost in human lives in 2001 is what hurt us most.

Approximately 3,000 people were killed in the attacks. Another 6,200 Americans

were killed in the ensuing invasions of Af-ghanistan and Iraq. While the U.S. has scaled back its military presence in Iraq, we are still in Afghanistan with no end in sight.

We may have been caught off guard and lost the battle that September day, but we fought through the war. With the recent death of Osama Bin Laden, it’s time to real-ize we have overcome a mountain of struggle for our country. Just think what changes we will see on Sept. 11, 2021.

In the past decade, people have grown up, gained and lost jobs, felt the effects of the stock market and experienced severe natural disasters -- but we’re still here.

Time will go on and people will grow up, but the U.S. should never forget the day they were backed into a corner and with no way out.

But there was a way out. The people of the United States discovered how strong they really were. We fought hard, cried hard and pushed through every obstacle in front of us.

So much is up ahead for our country; the future is filled with options. Even though the recession set us back, things can still improve.

That was the thinking process during 9/11, right? Things could get better. We just needed to have faith in ourselves and in our country. We needed faith in each other.

A monumental event that will occur this year is the dedication and opening of the World Trade Center Memorial and Muse-um. The museum will include the names of the victims and “reflecting pools”, water-falls that are in the footprints of the twin towers.

There is also a very visible skyscraper starting to rise in lower Manhattan. One World Trade Center will rise to a trium-phant 1,776 feet and will be the tallest building in North America. It is one of the most visible signs of life returning to nor-mal in lower Manhattan.

Please keep the victims of 9/11 and their families in your hearts Sunday.

September will forever and always be a month of remembrance for the United States of America.

So many people feel differently about the war on terrorism. It’s an ongoing de-bate, but voicing an opinion is what being an American citizen is about. We will al-ways know what being an American means when we remember Sept. 11, 2001.

Even though that day is hoped to never be repeated again, we must never forget its impact on the world, on our country and on each of us.

Editor’s Note: We encourage you to send your thoughts to the Independent Colle-gian in the form of a letter to the editor. Let us hear how you feel about the ten year anniversary of the most historic U.S. event in the 21st century. How do you think we’ve changed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks? How does that event define us as a country?

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Technological disadvantagesSome think that the more you

use technology, the better things work. Well, this isn’t always true. For the first time the University of Toledo has abandoned the use of the physical parking passes and is taking the idea of ‘going digital’ to an extreme.

This year, the university has implemented a system that scans the license plate number of a ve-hicle to determine whether or not the vehicle is in an authorized lot.

In previous years, students could purchase a physical parking pass and the amount of credits earned would deter-mine where the student was allowed to park. Vehicles must be registered online now and new problems may have been created.

Due to the uniqueness of the system, license plates must be visible at all times. The system works by scan-ning the license plate number to determine what lots a car is eligible to park in. If a license plate cannot be viewed, then the car will be ticketed.

This means that vehicles can no longer back into a spot.

This rule seems to be just a bit too picky. It’s understandable that license plates need to be viewed in order for the system to work, but this is something that can be forgotten by drivers, not to mention inconvenient. This new rule could cause a ticket for park-ing in the right spot the “wrong”

way.Another problem with this

new system is that only one car can be registered for the parking. I am sure that sometime during the school year, someone will have a problem with their car that causes them to drive a differ-ent one to class.

The second vehicle wouldn’t be registered under the parking pass purchased at the beginning

of the semester. The student could get ticketed for parking in a lot that they are actually allowed to park in.

Of course, you can change which vehicle is registered by go-ing online to your account, but that seems like an unnecessary hassle that would easily be for-gotten. Also, no one is sure if the online registration updates as au-tomatically as the administration

assures us it will. With the old parking passes,

you just had to take the pass out of your usual vehicle and place it in another one. No one wants a ticket for around $40 for parking in the right spot with the “wrong” car.

Maybe we just need some time to get used to this new system, but my first impressions are that these new parking rules are more

of a hassle than they are helpful.

I hope for the sake of all UT drivers this system ends up working out in the long run. The mass scanning of plates is supposed to allow for faster results and fewer mistakes.

People must pay close at-tention to the specific rules that are now implemented.

Parking tickets are the last thing a college student wants, especially with how much money we already pay to attend school.

Supposedly the new parking system was put in

place simply to ease the budget.

Well, whether it’s budget cuts or a

system upgrade, I hope the tech-

nological advances benefit us students.

— Justin Gross is an IC Col-umnist and a sophomore major-ing in pharmacy at UT.

Parking tick-ets are the last thing a college student wants, especially with

how much money we al-ready pay to

attend school.”

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The normal price for tick-ets to a UT home football game are $24.00. However, for the Boise State game the tickets are $49.00.

I’m a former Ohio State and UT student, and current-ly attend Kent State none of which ever changed prices for football game based on the opponent during my enrollments.

For example, an Ohio State ticket for “The Game” with Michigan costs the same as a ticket to see them play Ohio U or Toledo, of course getting a ticket is another story for Michigan.

If you pay a scalper a $1000 plus for great seats to The Game that is your business but the university price re-mains the same.

I hope people get smart, realize this and the UT / Boise State game does not come close to selling out. Maybe Ohio State should charge double for all the UT tickets to see that game in Columbus .... fair is fair.

— David Lindholm Cortland, OH

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CorrectionIn the Sept. 5 edition of the Independent Collegian, we inaccurately reported the “Mag-

ic Bus” system installed in the Blue and Gold Loop buses was only accessible on a Smart-phone. Students can access the arrival time of the next bus from any cell phone if they text UToledo and the name of the bus stop where they are waiting to 41411.

The IC regrets these errors.

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Joy Gramling, director of auxiliary services, said the POD Market in Stranahan South will in-clude pizza by the slice, grab-and-go sandwiches, salads, ice cream, soda, water and coffee.

Nick Kneer / ICThe POD Market in Carter Hall accepts meal swipes for some

Gramling said the College of Business. spent $70,000 for the renovations through donations.

The POD was also funded through meal plan surcharges.

Gramling encourages stu-dents to go check it out.

“In the old Stranahan, the windows are really skinny and sometimes it gets dark in there,” Gramling said. “We didn’t want to block any of the windows, so the POD will go all the way around the elevators.”

Gramling said the idea to put a POD in Stranahan came from a market-match study of Main Campus two years ago.

In the survey, students said the Stranahan buildings were too far from any kind of uni-versity food service.

Gramling said she wants students to take advantage of the new POD.

“It is my hope that students and faculty are happy with their food services,” she said.

Student Government Presi-dent Matt Rubin was also up-beat about the POD.

“[The survey takers] talked to business students, and we’re all just really excited about it,” Rubin said.

Rubin said the POD will be an improvement over the

lounge that was there. Bryan Valentine, a graduate

of The Ohio State University and a University of Toledo MBA student, said he spends most of his time in the Strana-han buildings.

“I think it will be good to have something close,” Valen-tine said. “Because business students have a tendency to lounge near their classroom, I think it will be good to have something right there.”

Valentine said the cost might sound high to some, but it means an improvement for

business students.“Seventy thousand dollars

might sound like a lot of mon-ey, but it might just be a drop in the bucket compared to what other universities spend,” he said.

Other students think it will be positive to have some sort of food service near their classrooms.

“If I only have 15 minutes between my classes, there is no time to go to the [Student Union Building],” said Xuan-lin Li, a senior majoring in finance.

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Russian plane with ice hockey team crashes, 43 deadBy Stefan Korshak

MCT

MOSCOW _ A passenger

plane with an ice hockey team

aboard crashed in central Rus-

sia on Wednesday, leaving 43

dead and two survivors in criti-

cal condition, the Interfax

news agency reported.

Officials at Russia’s state

aviation agency Rosaviatsia

said the plane, with 37 passen-

gers and a crew of eight,

crashed after taking off from

an airport near the central Rus-

sian city of Yaroslavl, 200 miles

northeast of Moscow.

By the officials’ accounts,

the plane suddenly veered to

the left and then struck the

ground 500 yards from the

airport.

An eyewitness told Interfax

the plane ran off the end of the

airport runway, then lifted just

a few feet into the air before

striking a fence with its landing

gear and hitting a navigation

antenna.

The aircraft then burst into

flames and broke in half. One

part slid into a gully, while

other debris including much of

the plane’s passenger section

flew into the nearby Volga Riv-

er, he said.

A team of investigators was

quickly on the scene. Search-

ers had recovered a reported

three dozen corpses from the

plane’s wreckage. Twenty-six

were removed from the water.

Early evaluation of the crash

site seemed to indicate either a

technical failure in the plane,

or pilot error, the news agency

RIA Novosti said, citing investi-

gators on the scene.

The plane was operated by a

local air charter company and

was certified as safe to fly. Its

certification was scheduled to

run out by late September, ac-

cording to news reports.

Members of the Russian

First Division hockey team Lo-

komotiv Yaroslavl had char-

tered the flight, with team play-

ers and staff accounting for 36

of the dead.

Aleksandr Galimov, 26, a

forward for the team, was one

of two survivors of the crash.

He was in a Yaroslavl hospital

and doctors were fighting to

save his life, Galomov’s wife,

Marina, told Interfax.

He suffered 80 percent burns

over his body and would need

to undergo “several” operations

in order to have a chance of liv-

ing, she said.

Team victims reportedly in-

cluded players from Sweden,

Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Re-

public, Germany, Belarus and

Latvia.

Lokomotiv had been en route

to the Belarusian capital Minsk

for a league match scheduled

for Thursday.

The other survivor was a

crew member, flight engineer

Aleksandr Sizov, who was be-

ing treated for severe burns and

multiple broken bones, the

newspaper Komsomolskaya

Pravda reported.

Viktor Berezin, a spokesman

for the Yarslavl regional hospi-

tal, said both survivors were in

“extremely critical” condition.

Russian President Dmitry

Medvedev was planning to visit

the crash site on Thursday, ac-

cording to a Kremlin

statement.

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it’s hard to fix a roof in the winter, [but] it

seems like we’ve been forgotten over here.

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Fall semester’s late-night

Film Fridays“Young at Heart” (2007, 107 min. PG) Sept. 23 A documentary on

a chorus of senior citizens from Massachusetts who cover songs by Jimi

Hendrix, Coldplay, Sonic Youth, and other unexpected musicians.

“Victor, Victoria” (1982, 132 min. PG) Sept. 30 A struggling female

soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it compli-

cates her personal life.

“Velvet Goldmine” (1998, 124 min. R) Oct. 7 In 1984, British news-

paper reporter Arthur Stuart is investigating the career of 1970s glam

rock star Brian Slade.

“Tommy” (1975, 111 min. PG) Oct. 21 Featuring the music of The

Who, a rock opera about Tommy, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and

blind boy who becomes a master pinball player and then the object of a

religious cult as a result.

”Cannibal the Musical” (1993, 95 min. R) Oct. 28 The sole survi-

vor of an ill-fated mining expedition tells how his taste for gold is re-

placed by that of human flesh. Information provided by:

http://www.utoledo.edu/cvpa/theatrefilm/seaon20112012.html

thursdayToledo Museum of Art- Remembering 9/11. Both a sculptor and printmaker, artist Werner Pfeiffer’s memorial “Out of the Sky-Remem-bering 9/11” is in display in Sept. in the Herrick Lobby. Pfeiffer wit-nessed the attack on the World Trade Center and immediately began sketching forms for a tribute. The tribute evolved “into a book with a sculptural component, or a sculpture in the form of a book,” the artist

said.

fridayDowntown Bowling Green-Black Swamp Arts Festival. Running

through Downtown Main Street are 100 juried fine art displays from art-

ists across the country. Over 60,000 people attend to enjoy the art, music

and atmosphere. It is a three day festival open Fri. 5-11 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-7

p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The main stage and food court are only open

Fri. night.

saturdayGrumpy’s Deli-“Witness to the Bizarre”. Grumpy’s Deli welcomes back Toledo playwright Larry Dean Harris on Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. for a new show, “Witness to the Bizarre.” Harris left in 1997 to live in Los Angeles where he pursued playwriting. “It’ll be dinner theater Grumpy’s style just like the old days,” said Dustin Hostetler, Grumpy’s co-owner, in a

news release. “We’ll have a buffet of sandwiches and cook-ies. And we’ll enjoy a show by an old friend.” Admis-sion for the performance, including a buffet dinner, is

$25. To reserve a spot, email GrumpysDeli@gmail.com.

sundayMaumee Bay Brewing Company-OKTOBERFEST. Maumee Bay

Brewing Company will be celebrating OKTOBERFEST with the beer

release and outdoor lawn party from 2-10 p.m. The Polka Floyd Show

will be entertaining the crowd from 3-9 p.m. Mutz will also be open.

mondayRave Motion Pictures Franklin Park Mall 16-“The Elephant in the Living Room”. The documentary explores the dangers of domesti-

cating exotic animals, states “There are 15,000 big cats living with exotic

animal owners in the U.S. There are more tigers in captivity in Texas

than in the wild of India.” A real-time question-and-answer session be-

tween the audience and Michael Webber, writer-director-producer of

“The Elephant in the Living Room,” will immediately follow the film

presentation. Kirk Baird, Toledo Blade film critic and St. Andrew’s pa-

rishioner, will host and moderate the event. Admission is FREE!

tuesdayFrankies Inner City-Rockabilly Riot Summer Series (bands and car show) The night features Triple Aces, designated parking for hot rods, customs, classics and motorcycles and ven-dors including Rockin’ Rose Boutiques, Roll of the Dice Clothing, Rock N Rummage and Shakin Street Records. The

event starts at 7 p.m. and is $5 at the door.

Around townAug.26-Sept 1

the ghosts of costumes pastBy IC Staff

Evelyn Davis, beloved cos-tumer for the Department of Theatre, passed away July 9 at the age of 91.

Davis was born and raised in Toledo where she reared five children.

She worked in the costume shop for nearly 20 years until her retirement in 1981.

“She just recently passed away and there will be a me-morial service for her that Bill [Smith, former faculty de-signer for the costume shop] and some other people that worked with her here on campus are putting together. I am pulling a few things that Evelyn built and putting them on display on mannequins for the memorial,” said the

current costume shop direc-tor Kaye Pope.

Davis worked for Bill Smith who was the faculty costume designer for about 20 to 30 years.

“He retired the first year I started, almost 20 years ago,” Pope said.

Pope said Evelyn’s exper-tise was in Victorian and Ed-wardian styles of the 18th Century.

“This one dress is a gray silk chiffon Edwardian style and it’s pretty frail,” Pope said. “The shoulders are rip-ping every time you pick it up, so it’s not worthy to go on stage anymore, but we want to display it because it really demonstrates her cutting skills. She did real

quality work.” Davis’ costumes have

gone unused because no recent performances have been set in Victorian or Edwardian styles.

Smith will be in atten-dance at the memorial and will be giving a presenta-tion on her work.

“[She] was his cutter or draper and he absolutely adored her. He [still] raves about the quality of her cutting skills,” Pope said.

Two years after her re-tirement, Davis became housemother of Mauck Hall and costumer at Hills-dale College in Hillsdale, Mich.

She held her position at Hillsdale for 15 years.

The memorial service

Music tells the stories of love gone wrongBy Leila GumFor the IC

The Department of Film recently released its lineup for this semester’s series of late-night Film Fridays with the theme “Love Gone Wrong,” be-ginning Sept. 23.

“The whole idea is not to mimic a commercial theatrical place, but to create an environment where the UT and out-side community can merge together in a fairly inexpensive way and share a common experi-ence by watching the same movie,” said Holly Hey, assistant professor of theatre, who is also in charge of presenting the movies.

Film Fridays is an an-nual event hosted by the UT Film department that includes fall and spring lineups.

The fall series will have films shown every Friday until Oct. 28.

These films begin at 10 p.m. in the Lab Theatre.

In previous years the start time was 7:30 p.m.,

How video games changed my lifeI’ve always considered

myself a bit of a nerd. Ever since I can remember, I was interested in all of the “weird” things. I used to run around and chase class-mates with plastic fangs say-ing I was a vampire, or some-times I’d quote random mov-ies and television shows. I played with weird toys and loved watching strange mov-ies like “Beetlejuice,” my fa-vorite movie.

The most important thing I enjoyed and loved as a child is something I still treasure today -- video games.

The Nintendo Entertain-ment System came into my life when I was just a toddler and it changed my whole outlook on life.

I have been a fan of video games since I held the Nin-tendo Zapper in my little

hands and hunted ducks while an evil dog laughed in the background.

I became obsessed with Mario and Luigi. I was al-ways eager to save Princess Toadstool and I was willing to bounce on any Goomba or Koopa in my way.

For my third birthday, my mother baked me a cake and decorated it with Mario characters and bought me a big Mario doll as well.

According to her, when I unwrapped Mario, I shook violently and squealed like a mouse. I also did this when I got a Nintendo 64 for Christ-mas, when I got a Nintendo GameCube and when I was given a Nintendo Wii.

If you haven’t guessed, I’m more of a Nintendo geek than anything else. That doesn’t mean I won’t give PlayStation or the Xbox a

try, but because I’ve grown up with Nintendo, I’m biased.

The reason I love Ninten-do is not just because its characters were the closest things I had to friends, but the creativity and work put into its games.

As much as I love hearing Toad say, “Your princess is in another castle,” I also re-ally enjoy playing Ocarina of Time.

That game was nonstop challenges and sometimes I thought I could never beat it. When I finally sealed away evil forever using the Master Sword, it was as if I had just saved the world from a giant dinosaur-laser-fight. I was the Hero of Time; the world was peaceful again.

Today, there are three main companies in video games, Microsoft, Sony and

Nintendo. All of them have certain strengths and weak-nesses when being com-pared to each other.

Xbox has the “Red Ring of Death,” PlayStation has in-ternet problems and Ninten-do didn’t make the Wii DVD or HD compatible. However, the only thing that matters to me is the quality of the game.

It doesn’t matter what Su-per Mario Bros. looks like as long as it’s fun and gives me what I want in a game. Nin-tendo always makes gaming fun and exciting for people of any age group. This is why I’m a big fan of Nintendo and video games in general. I will stay this way for many, many years.

— Dannielle Laws is an IC Staff Writer and a junior majoring in English.

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for Davis is tomorrow at 6

p.m. in the Center for Per-

forming Arts.

(Mhari Scott/Philadelphia Dai-ly News/MCT)

Choir director Bob Cilman appears on TV with his choir, “Young at Heart,” comprised solely of senior citizens.

but to avoid conflicts with theatre department rehears-als and other student re-sponsibilities, the time was changed to 10 p.m.

“I wanted to figure out a way that I could draw more students into the screenings

and I wanted to program more kinds of musicals or movies that use music to tell their stories,” Hey said.

To kick-start the year’s new theme will be “Young at Heart,” a 107-minute docu-mentary about a group of senior citizens who form a chorus group.

“Young at Heart” follows each senior citizen, observ-ing how the group both indi-vidually and collectively comes to love their partici-pation in the chorus.

The chorus assembles in Massachusetts then travels to different places in Amer-ica, most notably the North-east, performing songs.

They cover songs ranging from classic artists such as Jimi Hendrix to more con-temporary bands like Coldplay.

The choir members go through struggles with their health, personal lives and the chorus, trying to find a way to balance it all. Ulti-mately, their love for music prevails over all.

Some other films that will be shown this fall include “Victor, Victoria,” “Velvet

Goldmine,” “Tommy” and “Cannibal, The Musical.”

These films all use music to tell their stories of love in and outside of art.

“Tommy,” shown on Oct. 21, includes music from The Who and “Velvet Goldmine” and portrays artists from the glam-rock movement.

The spring series runs from Jan. 20 to Feb. 10. and includes “The Jazz Singer,” “Truth or Dare,” “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party” and “Pink Floyd’s The Wall.”

A new addition to Film Fridays is a $3 charge for admission, which includes a free soda and popcorn.

“The reason for charging is to generate back some of the money that we spend to pay for screening rights,” Hey said. “Because the screenings are open to the public and not contained in a classroom setting, any-time we show a movie, we have to pay for the rights, and screening rights for films can range from $200 to $500. It’s a more than fair price considering you get admission to the film, pop-corn and soda.”

Nintendo/MCTMario and Luigi in Mario Kart DS.

Nintendo/MCTNintendo’s GameCube controller.

Evelyn Davis’ memorial ceremony will feature pieces she built

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By Moira MacdonaldThe Seattle Times

Twenty-eight thousand, five hundred and twenty-six minutes of film; 123 world premieres; 33 screens; 65 countries; and enough mov-ie stars to fill dozens of red carpets: That’s the 36th an-nual Toronto International Film Festival, which begins Thursday. Attendees this year will include George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Her-zog, Glenn Close, Cameron Crowe, Lynn Shelton, U2, Alexander Payne, Catherine Deneuve _ and, racing through multiplexes with a bag of notebooks, me.

This will be my 10th visit to North America’s most prestigious film festival, which I’ve come to see as a

fall movie preview. Last year at TIFF, I saw “The King’s Speech” (which went on to become the big win-ner at the Oscars), “127 Hours,” “Black Swan,” “Rab-bit Hole,” “Never Let Me Go,” “Another Year” and other movies that turned into highlights of the season.

This year, a couple of films at the fest have a Se-attle pedigree. Local film-maker Lynn Shelton (“Humpday”) will be in To-ronto with her latest, “Your Sister’s Sister,” filmed here in the Northwest and star-ring Emily Blunt, Rosema-rie DeWitt and Mark Du-plass. Former Seattleite Cameron Crowe (“Singles,” “Almost Famous”) returns with the documentary “Pearl Jam Twenty,”

profiling the first 20 years of the iconic local band.

Clooney, at the fest two years ago with “Up in the Air” and “Men Who Stare at Goats,” returns with his first directorial effort in six years, the political drama “The Ides of March,” star-ring himself, Ryan Gosling and Paul Giamatti. Other actor/directors at the festi-val will be Ralph Fiennes, bringing his Shakespearean drama “Coriolanus”; Jenni-fer Westfeldt, in “Friends with Kids”; Duplass, in “Jeff Who Lives at Home” (di-rected with his brother Jay Duplass); and Madonna, in “W.E.,” a story that overlaps with last year’s hit “The King’s Speech,” about King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.

Glenn Close, mostly

absent from the big screen in recent years, appears with a movie already getting Oscar buzz: “Albert Nobbs,” a period drama set in Ire-land, directed by Rodrigo Garcia and written by Irish author John Banville and Close herself. It looks like a strong year for period/liter-ary films: TIFF also will present “The Deep Blue Sea” from British filmmaker Terence Davies (who hasn’t made a feature since his beautiful 2000 adaptation of “The House of Mirth”); An-drea Arnold’s new version of “Wuthering Heights”; Ro-land Emmerich’s “Anony-mous,” a thriller about the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays; and Michel Hazanavi-cious’ “The Artist,” a black-and-white tribute to silent films and a prizewinning

crowd favorite at spring’s Cannes Film Festival.

Payne, who hasn’t direct-ed a feature since “Side-ways” (seen at TIFF in 2004), is back with “The De-scendants,” a tale of a trou-bled family in Hawaii, star-ring the busy Clooney. Cop-pola’s latest, “Twixt,” is the Gothic-inspired tale of a mystery writer, played by Val Kilmer. Pitt attends with the baseball drama “Money-ball,” directed by Bennett Miller (“Capote”).

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, whose films regularly debut at TIFF, re-turns with the thriller “The Skin I Live In,” starring An-tonio Banderas as a terrify-ing-sounding plastic sur-geon. David Cronenberg brings “A Dangerous Meth-od” to the festival, an

adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s stage play about Sigmund Freud (played by Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). Gus Van Sant’s “Restless,” with Mia Wasikowska (so good recently in “Jane Eyre”) will be at TIFF, as will Lars von Trier’s “Melan-cholia,” with Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Favorites from the Sun-dance Film Festival making a stop at TIFF include Jeff Nichols’ drama “Take Shel-ter,” with Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain; Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” about a young woman (Elizabeth Olson) caught in the web of a charismatic cult leader; and the love story “Like Crazy” from director Drake Doremus.

Toronto International Film Festival is like a fall movie preview

‘Rescue Me’ ends with a salute to fallen firefightersBy Rick BentleyMcClatchy Newspapers

“Rescue Me” is more than a TV show to Denis Leary.

The FX Network series Leary and Peter Tolan created three years after 9/11 was meant as a continuing memorial to the 343 firefighters who died in New York the day of the terrorist at-tack. It’s a reminder that firefight-ers run into burning buildings when everyone else is running out.

Now, the series is coming to an end Wednesday night.

In keeping with the spirit of the show, the final images will be one last salute to the fallen firefighters.

Leary brought a personal un-derstanding to the show. His cousin, a firefighter in western Massachusetts, was killed in the line of duty in 1999. He saw how

firefighters, especially the ones who are still working, avoid deal-ing with loss and tried to show that through his character, Tom-my Gavin _ a character Leary says tried to “to drink it away or (expletive) it away.”

The show has been a labor of love for Leary, who not only starred in it but was the execu-tive producer and one of three main writers, along with Tolan and John Scurti.

Like a good commander, Leary gives most of the credit to his team _ Larenz Tate, Andrea Roth, Callie Thorne, Steven Pasquale, John Scurti, Daniel Sunjata, Mike Lombardi _ for making the show work so well. He knew he had a great cast when he heard them read the first script.

Leary says that reading made him realize the show could go

from silly to serious and each ac-tor would be able to handle the challenge.

The hardest part about ending “Rescue Me” was coming up with the proper finale.

Ideas ranged from Gavin sit-ting down in the middle of a burning room in a chair _ as ei-ther a suicide or a heroic gesture _ to having him swim out into the ocean.

The ending they picked was based on one question: Will a man who has survived this great tragedy actually survive it or not?

“I think in the face of seven seasons of television, you don’t want to say no to that question. You don’t want to bring people along on a journey that long and then say, ‘No, he’s not going to survive.’ It’s just a very negative message. So we decided to, at

that point, go with something a little more hopeful,” Tolan says.

As has been the case through-out the show, even “hopeful” can come with a lot of dark humor and touching moments. Whether dealing with life or death, “Res-cue Me” found the humor in sad situations and the sadness of lighter moments.

Leary had always hoped the series would remain popular enough to stay on the air until the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. It not only survived, it’s such a part of pop culture that Tommy Gavin’s bunker gear was donat-ed to the Smithsonian Institu-tion. That’s when Leary and To-lan realized they created a cultur-ally significant TV show.

“Working in television, that’s the last thing you expect to hap-pen to anything you write. It made me really stop and think about how this show is how we

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Denis Leary stars in the TV drama “Rescue Me.” He is shown filming a scene in New York City on Wed. June 30, 2004.

really deal with things,” Tolan says. “This is how people move forward. They continue to live, and they laugh, and they bust each other’s balls. Life goes on.

“You don’t think that when you are starting it. You just think, ‘Oh, let’s do the show, and let’s make it the best it can be.’ And then, all of a sudden, it’s significant.”

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were touchdowns. He saw ear-ly targets in the red zone while Bauserman was behind center and I can easily see that pat-tern continuing without a big play receiver like Posey on the field.

Other wide outs had their chances for big plays, like freshman Evan Spencer, who claimed the play of the game with a one handed grab on the down the sideline, or red-shirt freshman Verlon Reed who shows great hands to go long with his size and speed. It’s a young but talented receiving corps that could give the UT secondary a challenge.

If you’re a “warm weather” Ohio State fan and don’t have any idea who I am talking about on offense, then the only two words you need to hear about the defense is, Etienne Sabino.

The new Buckeye defense is full of players like Sabino, guys you have never heard of but bring a ton of talent to the ta-ble. They lost notable players like Cameron Heyward, Brian Rolle, Russ Homan, and Chim-di Chekwa and must rely on names like John Simon, Na-than Williams, Tyler Moller, and Travis Howard to fill the holes and stop a powerful UT attack.

Simon and Williams along the defensive line will

provide a challenge up front for the Rocket offensive line and the speed of Sweat, Moller and Sabino at the line-backer position will make it difficult for Toledo running backs to get around the edge.

If Ohio State wants to keep that unblemished record against the Mid-American Con-ference then this defense will have to step up quickly.

I may be the only smelling this upset but I really like what Coach Beckman has cooked up this season. The recipe for an upset is staring him right in the face, and all he has do is make sure to get the ingredi-ents right.

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have a duo of wideouts with the ability to give any defen-sive backfields fits.

Combine that with the backfield presence of senior Adonis Thomas (nine rushes for 115 yards and touchdown against NH),who appears poised for another 1,000 yard rushing season, and the Rock-ets should have enough fire-power to keep the Buckeyes hard-nosed defense honest.

“We are going to have to take advantage of what we do well,” Beckman said. “That is getting the ball to our play-makers as quickly as we can out in the open so they can make plays.”

The “Tattooed Five” saga has left OSU without antici-pated starters at the quarter-back, running back and wide receiver positions, but last week’s trampling of Akron should be taken as a sign that the Rockets defense which forced five turnovers in the season opener must be at the height of their game if they hope to upset the Buckeyes.

With the departure of Ter-rell Pryor, Ohio State’s first-year head coach Luke Fickell set out to employ a two-quar-terback system of his own against the Zips but 26-year-old senior Joe Bauserman played the majority of the contest, going 12 for 16 with 163 yards and three touchdowns.

But Toledo would be fool-ish to underestimate the high-ly-touted freshman Braxton Miller. The duel-threat quar-terback shined when he took the reigns in the fourth quar-ter of the season opener, throwing for 130 yards and a touchdown.

“In today’s football game, as a defensive minded guy, if you do not effect the quarterback you are going to have a hard time being successful, regard-less of who it’s against,” Beck-man said.

Miller was not the only fledgling Buckeye to put up impressive numbers in the contest, as underclassmen tailbacks Carlos Hyde and Rod Smith rushed for 93 and 74 yards respectively last Sat-urday in the stead of suspend-ed junior running back Jordan

Hall. With senior DeVier Posey

out until week six, a number of young Buckeye receivers also stepped up against Ak-ron, including Verlon Reed, Devin Smith, T.Y. Williams, Evan Spencer and tight end Jake Stoneburner who in a breakout performance be-came the first Buckeye tight end to score three touch-downs in a single game.

Even this shorthanded OSU squad wields no shortage of weapons, and with a signifi-cant size advantage to boot, the Rockets will need to man-age the clock and keep the Buckeyes on their heels with the big play ability they showed last week if they in-tend to keep Saturday’s con-test interesting.

“Week in and week out we’re going to stay with the same things that we’ve felt have been successful if we’re playing Ohio State, if we’re playing New Hampshire, if we’re playing Miami of Ohio or whoever it might be.”

The Rockets clash with Ohio State is scheduled to kickoff at noon this Saturday at Ohio Stadium.

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Back to Back ?The Green Bay Packers begin their quest for back-to-back titles tonight against the Saints.

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Ohio State will attempt to wear down the Rocket defensive line with a trio of running backs in-cluding redshirt-freshman Rod Smith (above). Smith had 74 yards and TD last weekend.

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UT wide out Bernard Reedy looks to build on a stellar week one performance in Columbus.

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www.IndependentCollegian.com Joe Mehling – Editor

Yes it will be a challenge but it’s one that you build

your program for and try to get better from the last time you played them.Tim BeckmanUT Football Coach ”“

Rockets set to take their talents to the Horseshoe

Does anyone else smell that?

(Insert team name here) travels to Columbus this weekend to battle the Buck-eyes at the Horseshoe.

Usually this sentence would mean that whoever is travel-ing to the banks of the Olen-

t a n g y w o u l d most like-ly be fac-ing one of the best teams in the na-tion, one of the b e s t coaching staffs in the na-tion, and possibly a Heisman t r o p h y c a n d i -date. This s e a s o n O h i o State of-fers none of the a b o v e , well at least not y e t anyway.

E v e r y -one who acciden-tally sat on the re-mote and watched

ESPN for three minutes this summer knows about the “Tattoo Five”, the “Tressel Controversy.” They know that Jim Tressel and Terrelle Pryor are no longer apart of the Ohio State program. Some, however, seem to forget that along with Tressel and Pryor they lost their two biggest threats in wide out DeVier Posey and running back Dan-iel “Boom” Herron for the first five games of the season.

Allow me to lay it out for you incase your confused, the Buckeyes are without their head coach, their starting quarterback, their starting running back and their num-ber one receiver from last season.

If you looked up “Vulnera-bility” in the dictionary there would be a scarlet block O right next to it.

With all that said, Ohio State is still Ohio State. They recruit with the best teams in the na-tion year in and year out. They reload on both sides of the ball in 2011 but are very young and highly unproven.

The Buckeyes are using the two-quarterback system for at least the first part of the sea-son, much like Toledo is, and will play both senior (citizen) Joe Bauserman and true freshman Braxton Miller on Saturday.

The original game plan from OSU head coach Luke Fickell was to have them play an equal amount of snaps against Akron but Bauserman was the man who saw most of the snaps in the first half. Miller came on strong in the second half to blow the game out of reach, more than it already was, and showed solid poise in the pocket.

It’s a two-headed monster at QB for the Bucks but I just don’t know how good the monster can be this year.

With “Boom” out of the pic-ture the backfield belongs to a committee of young talent, spearheaded by sophomore Carlos Hyde. The 6-0, 238 pound bowling ball from Na-ples Fla. was the most explo-sive player for the Buckeyes against Akron as he gained 93 yards on 19 carries.

He will share carries with red-shirt freshman Rod Smith and newly reinstated junior Jordan Hall. Hall was sus-pended for the first game of the season for receiving im-proper benefits during a char-ity event.

Joining Hyde with the high-lights of game one for OSU was junior tight end Jake Stoneburner, who had just four catches but three of them

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UT wide out Eric Page celebrates a touchdown during the Rockets win over New Hampshire.

Former Toledo standout signs contract with Uni-Tenerife

IC File photo by Jason Mack

Former Rocket forward Melissa Goodall signed with a professional team in Spain on Aug. 30

By Nate PentecostIC Assistant Sports Editor

Having completed her colle-giate career, former UT basket-ball player Melissa Goodall is headed to Spain to play profes-sionally for Uni-Tenerife in their upcoming season.

Goodall signed with Uni-Te-nerife on Aug. 30 and will join her new team in Santa Cruz of the Canary Islands on Septem-ber 14th. Her one-year deal with the member of the Span-ish Second Division Profes-sional Basketball League is set to begin Sept. 15 and runs through the end of April next year.

“I know that last year the team did well and if they have another good season then they should be able to move up to division one,” Goodall said. “Hopefully I’ll be able to help them do that.”

Along with the opportunity to play professional basketball, Uni-Tenerife will be providing Goodall with a fully furnished apartment which she will share with a teammate.

UT head coach Tricia Cullop’s agent Tom Cross and his part-ner have been working with Goodall, and after narrowing down her choices, she decided that Uni-Tenerife would be the best fit.

“We are all very excited for Melissa to have the opportuni-ty to continue her playing ca-reer professionally in Spain,” Cullop said. “She has worked her tail off to improve each year and is very deserving of this wonderful experience. She is a proven leader who will positively impact her new team.”

As for the challenge of ad-justing to a Spanish-speaking country both on and off the

court, Goodall seems unconcerned.

“I didn’t take Spanish in high school or anything like that so I don’t have much to go off of but I’m learning some basic phrases and I’ll be immersed in it,” Goodall said. “I have to pick up on it but everybody over there at least speaks a little English so I’ll be alright.”

Goodall will follow in the footsteps of numerous former Toledo women’s basketball players who have gone over-seas to play professionally, some of whom have reached out to lend support as she be-gins her transition from stu-dent-athlete to professional.

“You’re no longer a student-athlete getting a scholarship and going to school,” Goodall said. “It’s your job and you have to take it seriously. I was able to use those players from re-cent history to give me an idea of what to expect and get words of encouragement.”

Goodall finished her colle-giate career tied for first at UT in games played (131), fourth in blocked shots (83), 10th in min-utes played (3,161), and 16th in scoring (1,131).

As a senior, Goodall aver-aged 12.9 points, 1.1 blocks and a team-high 6.9 rebounds in just under 31 minutes per con-test en route to earning third-team All-MAC honors. She was a catalyst in Toledo’s record-breaking 29-win season, in which the Rockets won the WNIT.

During the Rockets post-season run Goodall averaged 9.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per game, highlighted by a 12 point, 9 rebound perfor-mance in Toledo’s 76-68 de-feat of Southern California in the WNIT Finals.

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By Nate Pentecost IC Assistant Sports Editor

The odds will be stacked sky high against the Rockets this week as they head to Columbus to take on No. 18 Ohio State at the Horseshoe.

The Buckeyes enter Satur-day’s matchup 17-0 all-time against the MAC, including last week’s 42-0 season open-ing thumping of Akron.

Toledo accounts for two of those defeats, having suf-fered a 38-0 shutout in their 2009 meeting at Cleveland Brown Stadium and 49-0 beat down at No. 1 ranked OSU in 1998.

“I think it’s night and day from where we were a few years ago,” UT head coach Tim Beckman said. “Just from the fact that these play-ers understand exactly the expectation level that this coaching staff and this pro-gram has on their performance.”

The Rockets will look to put up crooked numbers for the first time against Ohio State on Saturday, and in the process, they will seek to be the first in-state school to beat the Buckeyes since Oberlin squeaked out a 7-6 victory back in 1921.

“We as a team can look and see that they might be the best team in the state,” Beck-man said. “They might be the best team in the nation.

“Yes it will be a challenge but it’s one that you build your program for and try to get better from the last time you played them.”

The Rockets are coming off a 58-22 route of FCS foe New Hampshire, their first

season opening win since 2005, but calling UT’s week one opponent a crash course for this weekend’s match-up is a colossal understatement.

But this Toledo team is not akin to the Buckeyes typical early season confidence-building tune-ups, and a win for OSU may not come as easily as it did in the previous meetings of the series.

Toledo’s two-quarterback system proved very effective last week as junior Austin Dantin went 15 of 21 for 161 yards and three touchdowns while sophomore Terrance Owens completed 10 of 13 passes for 122 yards and a pair of scores in the win.

“The reason we can do what we do here is not the type of players we have but the type of unselfishness that these players play with,” Beckman said. “That’s the greatest thing about being the UT head football coach. We have players here who understand that they want the success of this football team so that we can play two quarterbacks.”

On the receiving end, wide receiver Eric Page did not necessarily light up the stat book with his five catches for 60 yards and a score against New Hampshire but there is no doubt he remains an elite talent.

With the emergence of speedy sophomore Bernard Reedy, who led the Rockets with a breakout performance of five receptions for 113 yard and two touchdowns last week, UT appears to

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