MLK Unity Celebration to Kick Off Week of Service to Honor Civil Rights Leader
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utnews.utoledo.edu JAN. 9, 2017 VOLUME 17, ISSUE 17 MLK Unity Celebration to kick off Week of Service to honor civil rights leader By Christine Billau he 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students, families and leaders in the parents and the Kings titled “Partners to and helping serve others,” UT President TUnity Celebration will kick off a Week Toledo community will gather at UT on the History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Sharon L. Gaber said. “Selfless acts of of Service for students at The University of holiday for the annual Unity Celebration David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights generosity combined with conversations Toledo. and then spread out throughout the city to Movement.” about issues that in the past have kept us honor King’s passion to help others. The Unity Celebration will feature separate will allow us to celebrate our The theme of the 16th annual event performances by the Scott High School differences.” on Monday, Jan. 16, is “Reconciliation marching band, UT gospel choir, UT Fire “Through meaningful work and Through Service: Education, Social Justice Squad dance team, and students from the ‘Reconciliation Through Service: and Religion,” named in honor of the three Toledo School for the Arts, as well as Education, Social Justice and Religion,’ we pillars that defined the philosophy of the recognition of MLK Scholarship recipients can make real our celebration of Dr. King’s civil rights leader who created a nonviolent and African-American Leadership Council life in 2017 and beyond as we strive as social movement that changed the course of of United Way Scholarship Award winners. individuals and as a city to define ourselves American history. Throughout the week, UT students will by these peaceful and powerful activities,” The free, public Unity Celebration will volunteer at local agencies, including the Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson said. take place at 9 a.m. in Savage Arena on Friendly Center, Padua Center and J. Frank Several events are scheduled at UT the UT Main Campus. A free community Troy Senior Center. throughout the week, starting with Cost luncheon will follow the ceremony. In addition, UT is partnering with the of Poverty Experience training sponsored The keynote speaker will be United Way of Greater Toledo and other by the United Way of Greater Toledo. The Donzaleigh Abernathy, award-winning local colleges and universities for service two-hour event will guide students through actress and daughter of civil rights icon activities throughout the month. a role-playing simulation to give them Ralph David Abernathy. She published “We are proud to commemorate the life a glimpse into the lives of low-income Abernathy a book about the friendship between her and legacy of Dr. King by working together individuals continued on p. 6 Pancreatic cancer survivor credits aggressive, unconventional Academic research treatment at UT in successful fight uses hacked Ashley By Christine Billau Madison data to map areas with erri Musser of Oregon, Ohio, didn’t Gthink she would be around to celebrate most cheating Christmas and the New Year with her fam- husbands ily. “I am very lucky to be alive,” Musser, 62, said. “The odds were overwhelmingly By Christine Billau against me.” The day-care worker and great- he Bridgeport, Conn., metropolitan grandmother of seven believed she was Tarea led the nation last year in active delivered a death sentence when doctors use of Ashley Madison, the matchmaking diagnosed her with pancreatic cancer in website for extramarital affairs, with 6.23 August 2015. subscriptions and $1,127 spent for every “You hear awful stories about how 1,000 men between the ages of 18 and 79, it’s too late when symptoms of pancreatic according to research at The University of cancer surface — people died within Toledo. weeks,” Musser said. “I was at stage IV Graduate student researchers used when they found it. The shocking diagnosis customer data exposed by anonymous sounded like instantaneous death. They gave hackers last year to analyze the geography me six months to live.” Photo by Christine Billau and market characteristics of active users. Musser said her cancer journey started The research titled “Infidelity and the GRATEFUL PATIENT: Dr. Changhu Chen and Gerri Musser posed for a photo in the Edge Internet: The Geography of Ashley Madison when she couldn’t keep any food down and Radiosurgery Suite in UT Medical Center’s Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center. Under Chen’s care, Musser received a 10-day, high-dose, targeted radiation treatment for a tumor in her pancreas, liver, continued on p. 5 stomach and bile duct. continued on p. 7 JAN. 9, 2017 NEWS Graduation day President Sharon L. Gaber applauded the graduates. Toledo native Dr. Timothy Law Snyder, president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, returned to his alma mater to deliver the fall commencement address Dec. 17 in Savage Arena. The distinguished American educator and academic administrator’s career includes success as a computational mathematician, musician, published scholar, lecturer and podcaster. High-fives abounded during the ceremony. He graduated from UT in 1981 with bachelor’s degrees in both psychology and mathematics, and a master’s degree in mathematics in 1983. Snyder received an honorary degree during the ceremony. Happy faces filled Savage Arena. UT recognized as first university in U.S. to dedicate both Blue UT receives award and Gold Star Memorial markers on campus for being military friendly By Christine Billau By Josephine Schreiber he University of Toledo is nationally recognized as the first University T he University of Toledo has campus in the country to simultaneously consistently been recognized for honor all service members of the armed T accommodations to student veterans and forces and the families who lost a loved one their families. defending the United States by dedicating After being recognized as a top school both a Blue Star Memorial marker and a for supporting student veterans by Victory Gold Star Memorial marker. Media, UT has been named a Bronze Award UT unveiled the new markers at the recipient for being a Military Friendly Veterans Memorial Plaza on Veterans Day. School. Andrea Little, national chair of the Blue Star and Gold Star Families Memorial continued on p. 7 Marker Program, recently wrote a letter on behalf of the program and National Garden Clubs to Navy Reserve Lt. Haraz Ghanbari, UT director of military and veteran affairs, to notify the University of the pioneering honor. “By these actions taken, you and your staff have elevated this program’s standards; and a distinct precedent has been established Photos by B&K Photography by which all other university campuses should emulate,” Little noted. “There is no SPECIAL RECOGNITION: The Gold and Blue Star Memorial markers were unveiled in November greater way to honor all our armed forces at the UT Veterans Memorial Plaza, an outdoor area that honors individuals and groups who served and their families.” in the U.S. military. continued on p. 6 2 NEWS JAN. 9, 2017 Board of Trustees approves conversion UT Medical Center earns national safety to 15-week semesters recognition By Meghan Cunningham n increased Afocus on patient he University of Toledo will offer 15- success. It would improve student time to safety has earned The Tweek semesters beginning in the 2017-18 degree through intersessions and enhance University of Toledo academic year to provide students with more student success through experiential learning Medical Center a place flexibility for success in the classroom and opportunities. And it also will help our on a ranking of the experiential learning opportunities. faculty members by giving them two weeks country’s safest teaching The Board of Trustees approved more time to do their research and scholarly hospitals by Consumer last month the conversion from a 16-week activities.” Reports. semester to a 15-week semester. The change in the academic calendar UTMC was named The new academic calendar setup will brings UT in line with peers in Ohio, including one of America’s 32 best continue to provide the required 750 minutes Ohio State, Cincinnati, Miami, Kent State, teaching hospitals at of instruction during a semester while also Akron, Cleveland State, Wright State and preventing central-line infections in intensive allowing additional flexibility for students. Ohio University. Photo by Rachel Nearhoof The shorter semesters would allow students Some universities have implemented care units. The study to participate in more summer and winter the conversion by adding five minutes of used federal data from 2011 to 2015. Experts believe central-line infections intersessions, which can improve their instruction to each course, and others have Central-line infections involve IV tubes are highly preventable, and Barbee said, “As time to degree, or add experiential learning made adjustments to fall break to maintain and are particularly dangerous because they a teaching hospital, we feel it’s vital to focus opportunities, such as internships, research or instructional time, Hsu said. The Provost’s allow germs to directly enter a patient’s on safety as we prepare the next generation study abroad. Office will work closely with Faculty Senate, bloodstream. Up to a quarter of all central- of physicians to serve northwest Ohio.” “It brings benefits to both students which had previously approved the measure, line infections are deadly. This honor comes on the heels of recent and faculty,” Provost Andrew Hsu told the to implement the shorter semester schedule at “Patient safety is our top priority at patient satisfaction surveys that give UTMC trustees. “Our main goal, of course, is student the University. UTMC, and this report reflects the hard high marks in outpatient surgery. Barbee work that our doctors, nurses and entire added, “It’s great to see our staff’s efforts staff have put in to reduce the number of to improve the patient experience being these infections,” said Dan Barbee, UTMC recognized, and we continue to focus on In memoriam interim CEO.