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music Faculty concert to spotlight professors Professors to perform in opera concert at the By Lindsay Sraj concert every year, this year’s If you go ing pieces in other languages. Staff Reporter is a little different because it Besides showcasing differ- Professors from the music will be held at the Toledo What: Faculty concert ent language, Ritter Bernar- department will be stepping Museum of Art, she said. Where: Great Gallery at dini is excited to also be per- out of their roles as teachers This location is not a usual the Toledo Museum of Art forming with her husband. for a night and stepping into venue for these When: Sunday, April 21 Don Benardini is an inter- the spotlight to perform. performances. at 3 p.m. nationally-acclaimed Ameri- Michael Boyd, a piano pro- Each year the concert can tenor and has been sing- fessor, will accompany assis- highlights different types of ’n’ roll heroes of their era.” ing for about 25 years. tant professor of voice, De- music, Ritter Bernardini said. Both Ritter Bernardini and “I enjoy singing with my nise Ritter Bernardini, and Last year’s concert focused Boyd picked the songs they husband. It’s easy to perform her husband, Don on French cabaret music of will be performing on Sun- with each other and it makes Bernardini. 1889. Then the performers day, which include pieces in the experience better,” she This concert will to feature worked their way up to mod- French, Spanish, English and said. songs from a variety of opera ern cabaret. Italian. In past years, these con- composers. While getting ready for Most advanced music stu- certs have gotten big turn- “The composers would this concert, a challenge Rit- dents are trained in nine lan- outs, filling the halls where take great poems from liter- ter Bernardini faced was hav- guages, and undergrads are faculty performs. Ritter Ber- ary greats like Jean Cocteau ing time for her own music Michael Boyd (left) will be playing piano at the concert just trained in four, Ritter nardini sees no reason why and set them to music. They between teaching UT’s Wom- with Denise Ritter Bernadini, who will be singing opera Bernardini said. this year won’t be the same. would try to make the music en’s Chorus, Opera Ensemble alongside her husband, Don Bernadini. Music students are trained The faculty concert will part of the story,” Ritter Ber- and private voice lessons. to be able to read foreign open Sunday, April 21 at 3 nardini said. “They are small However, this concert gives favorites from some of music exist if it weren’t for those words and then use their p.m. in the Great Gallery at little pieces of art.” her a chance to perform history’s greatest composers. ‘dead guys,’” Ritter Bernardi- training to the best of their the Toledo Museum of Art Even though they do this some songs that are her “A lot of music wouldn’t ni said. “They were the rock ability when it comes to sing- and is free for everyone.

zombies Virus outbreak brings walking dead back to campus By Josh Egler onslaught of zombies, who Staff Reporter wear a bandanna tied around Even though Walking Dead their head. is over, UT students will still All students start out as hu- be living through a zombie mans with the exception of apocalypse on campus when one student who starts as the oUTbreak begins on Wednes- “original zombie.” The original day, April 17. zombie’s identity is unknown UT oUTbreak is a weeklong and they are not required to event in which students try to wear a bandanna for the first survive a role-played, campus- 24 hours of the game. wide zombie apocalypse. The goal of the zombies is to The event involves over infect and turn all of the hu- 200 students and is spon- mans into zombies. They in- sored by UT Benevolent Ad- fect students by two-hand tag- venturers’ Strategic Head- ging a human, thus turning quarters (BASH) and UT them into a zombie. Ad-Hoc. When this happens, the hu- Alex Holewinsiki, the mans move their bandanna oUTbreak planning commit- from their arm to their head. tee chairman, said the game’s All’s not darkness, though. premise of a zombie out- Humans are permitted to break is why it has had con- carry around Nerf blasters tinuous success. and balled-up socks in order “The line we’ve been using to “stun” the zombies, which on the flyers asks, ‘Can you means they’re out of the survive a week-long campus- game for 15 minutes after wide zombie outbreak?’ I think getting hit. To signal they’re that’s the real selling point of stunned, they must put their the game,” Holewinsiki said. bandana around their neck. Every semester has a differ- Throughout the week, hu- ent plot that the players find mans and zombies will par- themselves wrapped up in. Ac- take in different missions cording to oUTbreak planning with different objectives. The committee member Jerry missions will change the tra- Rand, this semester is no jectory of the week’s game different. play by either helping or “This semester’s oUTbreak hurting one of the teams. sends [the players] back in The objectives will be time to 1956, where zombies changed daily depending on may or may not be interrupt- the result of the previous mis- ing a presidential campaign,” sions. The missions will be re- he said. vealed to the players the The premise includes two morning before the mission. bob taylor / IC Participants of last year’s oUTbreak gear up in preparation of the zombie attacks that are sure to await them teams, humans and zombies. The game begins Wednes- during the weeklong outbreak. During this event, players arm themselves with Nerf blasters and socks to “stun” The humans are represented day, April 17 at 5 p.m. and zombies as they accomplish different missions. Each year’s outbreak has a different plot and each team must by a bandanna tied around goes until Tuesday, April 23 accomplish different tasks. Players mark themselves with bandannas during the week. their arm or leg. at 10 p.m. May the odds be Their goal is to survive the ever in the humans’ favor.

Earth Day Celebrate the planet with UT’s 14th annual EarthFest event By Jayme Mersing and nuclear energy, according to Local businesses will have Staff Reporter Sasha VonSacken, a junior business booths set up at the event. The To- Spring is finally here, so why not major and EarthFest coordinator. ledo Zoo, Metro Parks of the Tole- celebrate everything nature has to “We need to take a balanced ap- do Area, Sage Organics and Toledo offer by attending EarthFest? proach,” he said. “We shouldn’t Farmers’ Market are looking for The ’s Soci- dive off the deep end and say we students interested in internships ety for Environmental Education can’t burn oil or coal. We just need and seasonal or full-time jobs. (SEE) is sponsoring to understand what Applications will be accepted at the 14th annual What to bring: true costs are of EarthFest. EarthFest Tuesday, n Your bike every decision we Other activities include live April 23 from 11 a.m. n Your portable drums make and make the music, free food, free bike to 4 p.m. in Centen- n Ten used plastic best one based on tune-ups, yoga and a drum nial Mall. bags or bottles all the information circle. EarthFest is completely EarthFest is about n Your resume available.” free and open to students and celebrating the Earth One way SEE is the general public. If students and recognizing the efforts that lo- trying to teach students about going bring 10 plastic bags or bot- cal businesses have been trying to green is through the Sustainability tles to EarthFest, they are giv- accomplish, said SEE president Pledge, which is a list of 10-20 little en reusable water bottles. Lauren McCafferty. things students can do to help the McCafferty wants to not She said she hopes students real- environment. Students check off only to get students more ize people can impact the world by the goals they will try to accom- aware of environmental prob- doing little things because those plish and put brown and green lems, but to spread awareness of actions accumulate and make it a leaves with their names on them, the event in general. She hopes better place. which they will shape into a tree to EarthFest will become bigger and “One of the things that I want it be displayed in Bowmen-Oddy more popular within the next few to show students is that going green Laboratories. years. is something that everyone can do Little things like turning off the “I think it would be cool to have in different ways,” McCafferty said. water while brushing their teeth an entire Earth Week, like we have the week and end Going green doesn’t necessarily can help preserve the Earth’s re- Homecoming and Diversity weeks. the week with the big EarthFest,” mean cutting all use of oil, coal sources, McCafferty said. Have different events throughout McCafferty said. B6 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Arts BFA Exhibition II highlights different UT students’ art By Amanda Eggert students in their living to recognize our work,” she Staff Reporter spaces. Drawing was her said. Senior fine art students first passion, and photogra- Students should attend tackled different media phy wasn’t something she the event for the overall ex- with their own spin during mastered until college. perience, Roszczipka said. the second half of the “Once I got comfortable “I think it’s good to have Bachelor of Fine Art Thesis enough with the technique culture in your life,” he Exhibition. of photography I sort of said. “I feel like a lot of The exhibition will run switched it over and went people don’t understand from April 19 to May 12 at from film photography to the benefit of looking at the Center for the Visual digital photography, which art. I think if you look at it, Arts Main Gallery and fea- is what the pieces are that it can change the way you ture the talents of Alyssa will be on display,” she look at things.” Brown, Jeremy Pellington, said. For him, looking at art Josh Kline, Jessica Ostrand- Ostrander’s work focuses has opened him up to see- er and Noah Roszczipka. on her family relationships ing things through alter- “It’s pretty exciting and through photographs and nate lenses. I’m definitely thrilled about sculpture. She wants people “There is a lot of revela- it,” Brown said. “I have to see her work and think tion that can happen in the been wanting this for a about their own self when you look at it long time.” relationships. [art] so it’s kind of like This show exhibits a va- The BFA exhibition isn’t you’re discovering different riety of artwork, from por- about displaying one’s own ways to view something on trait photography, sculp- art, but celebrating works your own,” he said. “It [art] ture, abstract art, illustra- of other art students who can have a really meaning- tions and conceptual have made the journey ful impact on someone.” installations. through UT as a whole as Brown said art is a cre- “It’s really a dynamic well. ative process which allows group of people and sepa- “I think it makes it all her to express herself. rate ideas,” Roszczipka said. the better because I care “Art to me is the manifes- “None of us are making the about them and I know the tation of thought,” she said. same type of artwork so meaning behind their piec- “I really find it to be an in- you can get every basis es, and for me I find all of credibly empowering oppor- covered almost in the show. them to be very strong art- tunity to express ones feel- So there will literally be ists themselves,” Brown ings, and I think every single something there for said. “It’s really exciting to person in the whole world everyone.” be able to present with could benefit from an outlet Roszczipka focuses on them and it’s encouraging or a creative process that al- abstract paintings and the to work together.” lows them to express concept of using physical Ostrander said the more themselves.” space to display them. He’s people who show up to the An artist reception, excited to be working with event, the better. which will be free and open other students. “We get our stuff out to the public, is scheduled lindsay sraj / IC Brown’s work consists of there, our names out there for Friday, April 19, from 6 Jeremy Pellington prepares for the opening of BFA Exhibition II at Center for the Visu- environmental portraits of and then people are going to 9 p.m. at the CVA. al Arts Main Gallery.

lindsay sraj / IC Jessica Ostrander decorates her space for the BFA Exhibition II. Ostrander, a Bachelor of Fine Arts student in new media, captures her family through photographs and sculp- ture. The BFA Exhibition is the final showcase event for students graduating in the BFA program. Due to the high number graduating this year, there were two BFA exhibitions.

music Recycling UT gets trashy in recycling contest By Jessica Liner Arts & Life Editor Rubbish and trash were anything but a waste for stu- dents competing in the eight-week long RecycleMa- nia competition. “RecycleMania is a na- tional competition where Courtesy of Tyler Mattson colleges and universities compete against each other to see who can recycle the most during the eight-week WXUT is rocking out with a competition period,” said Brooke Mason, interim sus- tainability specialist. “It new event, Rocket Radiofest started in , but now By Josh Egler for the past 3 years. They’ve want to come play three or there’s over 600 schools that Staff Reporter always wanted to do some- four songs,’” he said. participate across the WXUT is partnering with thing but it’s never happened. WXUT only asks that you country.” the Office of the Student In- This year we finally just said email the station at wxute- In an effort to spread volvement to create the ‘that’s it, we’re going to do it,’” [email protected] if you are awareness about recycling, Rocket Radiofest in con- he said. interested in performing for Mason, her intern Caroline junction with Student Ap- The event will be split into Rocket Radiofest. Beck and workers in Resi- preciation Day. two parts, a morning set Tryouts for the event will dence Life informed stu- “If you can get students in the habit of re- “This year what we’re do- from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and be held on April 8, 9 and 10 dents about recycling by cycling throughout the weeks of those ing is that we’re collaborating an evening set from 7 p.m. to in the WXUT office. Mattson previewing documentaries with Student Appreciation 10 p.m., according to says all acts are welcome, in- and offering trade-in ses- competitions, you can hope those habits Day, which is on April 22,” Mattson. cluding singing, dancing, sions where students could will stay. Even though the competition is said WXUT Station Manager The first set will include DJing, rapping and any other exchange recycled goods for over, they still remember to take the time Tyler Mattson. individual student acts and talents the students might other things. The senior studying organizations including the have. “If you can get students in to recycle their plastic bottles… because pharmacy says he hopes winners of Songfest, and the Mattson says there will be the habit of recycling it’s the right thing to do.” this event will become a evening set will include stu- free food supplied to those at throughout the weeks of new UT tradition like Mu- those competitions, you can Brooke Mason dent and local bands. the event. UT Interim Sustainability Specialist sic Fest. “We want students to show “We want to get a bunch hope those habits will stay,” “Everybody knows about what they can do,” Mattson of free food too, so we’re go- Mason said. “Even though Music Fest, and everyone said. “This year we want to ing to talk to local businesses the competition is over, they most paper, which placed well as number of bins we knows how Music Fest is mainly feature students and to get them involved,” he still remember to take the them first in the Mid-Amer- have on campus to make it community-centered. WXUT community artists.” said. time to recycle their plastic ican Conference school convenient for students,” wants to do one that is more To try out for Rocket Ra- For more information on bottles … because it’s the rankings. UT also recycled Mason said. student-centered,” he said. diofest, stop by the WXUT the event, contact the Office right thing to do.” 36,512 pounds of electron- Overall, UT saved the Mattson explained this is office, Student Union room of Student Involvement at Recycling categories that ics, averaging about 2 planet by recycling the first year WXUT has ever 2515 to become an act. 419-530-4944 or via email at UT competed in included pounds per person. 175,443 pounds of goods done an event like this, after “We want the word to be studentinvolvement@utoledo. paper, cardboard, bottles, “Since I’ve gotten here, during the eight-week years of discussion. out, we want students to edu. To contact WXUT, call cans and electronics. UT I’ve been working really period, with an average “Every year WXUT has al- know, we want students to 419-530-4172, or email them was the 42nd school in the hard to ramp up recycling, ways wanted to do something say, ‘Hey, I can play guitar; I at [email protected]. nation that contributed the in terms of education, but as See Recycle / B8 Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | The Independent Collegian | B7

bob taylor / IC The Kitka Bulgarian Macedonian Folk Dancers (above, below) celebrate their Bulgarian heritage through traditional song and dance at the festival Saturday, April 13. International Festival The International Festival featured food, music, language lessons and games from a variety of cultures. Eight different ethnic restaurants offered food, and 21 musical groups performed. Lessons were offered in 15 languages throughout the day.

bob taylor / IC El Corazón de Mexico Ballet Folklorico performs at the International Festival. bob taylor / IC B8 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Recycle the most per resident, with thankful for the help of Beck from page B5 promises of a pizza party and and Residence Life, particu- t-shirts to egg them on. larly project manager Erin of 6 pounds of paper recy- “There were fluctuations in Baker, for supporting her. cled per person. the ranking throughout the However, she has higher An internal competition competition. We weren’t sure hopes for the university with also took place among UT’s who was going to come out next year’s competition. resident halls. on top in the end,” she said. “I hope next year we can Parks Tower, International Parks Tower won, with an blow those numbers out of House, Ottawa House East & average of 3.5 pounds being the water,” she said. “I’m hop- West, the Crossings, Carter recycled per resident at the ing that next year, up until Hall East & West, McComas end. the next competition, we’ll be Village and the Academic Mason didn’t accomplish increasing recycling the House competed to recycle this feat alone. She said she’s whole time.”