UTutnews.utoledo.edu NewsSEPT. 9, 2013 VOLUME 14, ISSUE 4 Education innovator Salman See you at Music Fest 2013! Khan to kick off distinguished Special section features interviews lecture series Sept. 17 with Reel Big Fish, Josh Gracin, The White Panda and The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts! By Jon Strunk Psyche up for the UT-Eastern Washington game at the pep rally! globally renown education Ainnovator will launch The University of Toledo’s Jesup Scott Honors College Distinguished Lecture Series Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. in UT’s newly renovated Doermann Theater on the third floor of University Hall. Salman Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to bring a top-tier education to anyone with Khan an Internet connection. Khan Academy has College, to flip classrooms — having a library of more than 3,000 web videos students listen to lectures prior to class and Read about everything slated ranging from algebra and chemistry to art then completing interactive activities during just for Rocket fans at the history and economics. class time with a professor’s assistance. free, public extravaganza, “People like Salman Khan are the A hedge fund analyst, Khan walked which will take place inspirations for the innovative approaches away from Wall Street and began what Friday, Sept. 13, from we are taking at The University of Toledo became Khan Academy as a simple effort 3 p.m. to midnight in the as we make sure the education our students to provide tutoring for his niece. As grassy field south of the receive keeps pace with rapid societal word spread and the videos became more changes UT graduates will face once and more popular, Khan found himself Memorial Field House. they begin their career,” said Dr. Scott working with people like Microsoft founder Complete coverage in a Scarborough, provost and executive vice Bill Gates to find new ways to enhance special section, pages 7-10. president for academic affairs. education across the nation. Scarborough pointed to plans, particularly in the Jesup Scott Honors continued on p. 2

Canaday Center holds papers of Nobel Student academic gains up as UT Peace Prize nominee continues strategy to diversify collegiate populations By Casey Cheap

By Jon Strunk he papers of Betty A. Reardon, a significantly, it facilitates reflection upon world-renowned champion of peace and preparation to strive toward alternatives T he University of Toledo’s strategic Cruickshank, vice president for enrollment education and a 2013 nominee for the Nobel to violence.” push to attract higher performing management and online education. “We Peace Prize, are preserved and available to The Reardon collection consists of T students as it strengthens the Jesup Scott knew the cost of more academically well- researchers in the Ward M. Canaday Center publications, unpublished manuscripts, Honors College and diversifies the student prepared students would be short-term for Special Collections in The University of curricula, reports, scholarly presentations populations that make up its fall 2013 enrollment dips. Today’s numbers fall Toledo’s Carlson Library. and correspondence related to her work and first-year class continues to bear fruit, in line with our budget and enrollment “Peace education is a complex field activism for peace, disarmament and gender UT officials announced last week as they projections.” because the world is complex,” Reardon equality. released 15-day census numbers. Across all campuses, UT enrolled said. “One of the goals of peace education “Betty Reardon is an example of how “We’re very pleased to see increases 20,782 undergraduate and graduate students is to equip people to think critically about one person can start a movement to change in GPA and ACT scores among our first- this semester. A total of 21,501 were those complexities and their implications the world,” said Barbara Floyd, director year students as well as higher first-year to enrolled at this time last year. in war and other forms of violence. Most of the Canaday Center. “Preserving her second-year retention rates,” said Dr. Cam continued on p. 4 continued on p. 2 SEPT. 9, 2013 NEWS University partners with online Kahn portfolio company to bolster continued from p. 1 job prospects During his 2012 annual address to • Business strategy expert Richard the University community, UT President Rumelt Monday, Jan. 13; and

By Tobin J. Klinger Lloyd Jacobs touted Khan as an education • Arizona State University President game-changer who “will be recognized in Michael Crow Monday, March 10. echnology has touched nearly subsequent decades, perhaps centuries, as All lectures will take place at 7 p.m. Tevery facet of modern life in the real innovator in teaching and learning.” in Doermann Theater, and speakers will one way or another. Communicating. “Knowledge is now fluid, moveable, take audience questions. Visit utoledo.edu/ Dating. Driving. Shopping. Now a mercurial and exists in cyberspace,” Jacobs honorslecture to order tickets and learn partnership between The University said last September. “Khan’s transmission more about the speakers. of Toledo and Seelio is infusing a new and bring the typical resumé to life in a digital of knowledge freely and for free will have “I remember when I was in college technology into the way students present way. tremendous transformative power. the impact that lecture series with the themselves in a job hunt. “The thing that excited me most about “Already the great universities of the leading minds of the day had on me and Beginning this fall, students in the Jesup Seelio was not just the ability to showcase world are emulating him,” Jacobs said my education,” Scarborough said. “A Scott Honors College and the College of a student’s work, but rather the way that it at the time, urging UT to embrace these distinguished lecture series sponsored at Communication and the Arts will have access encourages students to start preparing from transformations and help lead the effort. the University-wide level is something that to Seelio, an online portfolio technology day one to market themselves,” said Lawrence Khan is the first of four guests who will top-tier universities provide to their students that enables users to showcase their J. Burns, vice president for external affairs. speak during the 2013-14 academic year as and to their communities, and UT is proud accomplishments, provide immediate access “The University of Toledo is truly on part of the Honors College Distinguished to offer the same for Toledo and northwest to projects and publications, demonstrate the leading edge of preparing students to enter Lecture Series. Also speaking will be: Ohio.” connections to collaborators, and provide the job market with a body of showcase-ready • Political consultant James Carville potential employers with a multidimensional work that will help them convey their abilities Monday, Nov. 18; look at their portfolios. and identify a role that matches their skills and “The University of Toledo is focused on interests,” said Moses Lee, Seelio’s co-founder helping our students take their degrees into the and CEO. “We are excited to be a partner in Student academic gains marketplace and earn their dream jobs,” said this effort.” Dr. Scott Scarborough, provost and executive Use by the Honors College and the continued from p. 1 vice president for academic affairs. “The College of Communication and the Arts will Seelio partnership is another example of how begin soon as a pilot for the University, with we are enhancing the student experience and the technology expected to be particularly “The University of Toledo — like all 67.4 percent, we’re doing a better job of long-term value of a UT degree.” advantageous to students in these areas, with a public higher education institutions — is matriculating all student populations once Coupled with the University’s potential expansion to other colleges based on facing a new paradigm,” Cruickshank said. they enroll.” relationship with Intern in Ohio, an online the success of the partnership. “As we look at state funding models, it is no More than 270 students enrolled in matching technology, Seelio will enable For more information about the portfolio longer about how many students you recruit; the Jesup Scott Honors College this fall, an students to demonstrate the work they technology, visit seelio.com. it is about how many students you graduate. increase of some 50 students and a trend UT performed in an experiential learning setting Everything we are doing is to adjust to this officials expect to continue. new paradigm.” “We’re enrolling higher numbers of As the number of direct-from-high- high-ability students both in the Honors school students declines in Ohio and across College and across the University. These the Midwest, Cruickshank said UT is students will retain and graduate at higher working to rebalance its portfolio of student rates, and their success is what will get subpopulations. the attention of prospective students as “We’ve seen increases in international well as leaders across the community and student populations, out-of-state student throughout our region,” said Dr. Scott populations and in our online programs,” he Scarborough, provost and executive vice said, adding that seven years of marketing president for academic affairs. in Michigan has resulted in a jump of “We’re creating a habit of success that nearly 130 students from fall 2012 to fall will build upon itself and become stronger 2013. “And with our retention rate up to with time,” he added.

GREEN DAY: Students, from left, Chase Helmick, Deion Johnson, Marcus Blocher and Mackenzie Parsons chatted recently on Centennial Mall. They are four of UT’s 20,782 undergraduate and graduate students who are enrolled this semester.

Photo by Crystal Hand 2 NEWS SEPT. 9, 2013

3 SEPT. 9, 2013 NEWS Chinese Moon Festival to Nobel Peace Prize nominee debut Sept. 17 continued from p. 1

By Cathy Zimmer papers in the Ward M. Canaday Center is perspective —­ a fact that is testified by a privilege. Her papers have been used by the number of visiting professorships and he campus community is invited to with the full moon on this night, as well as many researchers, and with this honor of advisory positions she has been invited to Tjoin the UT Confucius Institute for the the traditions of lunar worship and moon being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, take up in locations all over the world,” he inaugural Chinese Moon Festival Tuesday, gazing. are likely to be used by many more.” wrote. Sept. 17, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the The festival consists of three “UT is the depository for work I “At 80-plus, she continues to produce Student Union Auditorium. fundamental meanings that are closely tied did with colleagues in other parts of the new ideas and new publications, and “This event is free and will feature a to one another: gathering, such as family world that contributed to the substance she continues to tour the world inspiring variety of activities celebrating Chinese and friends coming together; thanksgiving, and methodology of contemporary peace educators at different levels and in culture,” said Minhua Wu, assistant director to give thanks for the harvest; and praying education,” Reardon said. “Everything that different countries. She has in her work of the Confucius Institute. “Participants will such as for babies, a spouse or other family I can find among my papers relating to the given particular emphasis to disarmament be able to do a variety of art projects such members for a good future. development of the field is at the Canaday education and human security from a gender as make a Chinese bracelet, design a paper The Confucius Institute at The Center. There is no other collection like it. perspective.” lantern, or create wish cards for friends and University of Toledo is committed to The Canaday Center has real international The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate will be family. serving the region of northwest Ohio significance.” announced in October and receive the honor “We will have an opportunity where by providing education in Chinese Reardon was nominated for the Nobel during a ceremony in December. people can practice Chinese calligraphy, language and culture, the development Prize for the work she has done since the Reardon’s collection was brought to take a photo under the full moon at the of and enhancing China-related scholarly 1960s, especially her 1982 founding of the the University in 2007 by her longtime photo booth, learn to speak a little Chinese, research/discovery, academic programs, International Institute on Peace Education, colleague in peace education studies, and visit an Asian market featuring Chinese and educational/training programs that which she organized with colleagues in Dr. Dale Snauwaert, UT professor of souvenirs.” support business outreach/engagement, and universities around the world, held each foundations of education and director of Wu added, “We also will be handing offering opportunities for cultural exchanges year in a different country. Now under the Center for Nonviolence and Democratic out samples of traditional moon cakes. We between China and the United States. the direction of her former students, the Education. have a lot planned, and we encourage the The institute is part of the Center for institute continues to be a major factor in the “Betty Reardon is the founder of the campus community to turn out for what we International Studies and Programs, which ongoing development of the field. Reardon contemporary field of peace education,” hope will become our signature event on is committed to the belief that effective has taught all over the world, including at Snauwaert said. “Her scholarship, teaching UT’s campus.” cross-cultural interaction leads to global universities in Oregon, Hawaii and Japan. and activism have defined the field. She The Moon Festival is a popular harvest understanding and ultimately to a more “She helped lay the intellectual has worked tirelessly for over 50 years event celebrated by Chinese people. The rewarding human experience and to a better, foundations for a whole new cross- articulating and defending the basic idea festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth more peaceful world. disciplinary field at a time when the political and ideal of peace education, its theoretical month in the Chinese calendar. It is called For more details on the Chinese atmosphere was intensely hostile,” wrote foundations, curriculum and pedagogy. Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival Moon Festival, visit utoledo.edu/cisp/ Tomas Magnusson, co-president of the She is an inspiration and mentor to many because of the celebration’s association moonfestival. International Peace Bureau, in nominating scholars and teachers working in the field.” Reardon for the Nobel Prize. The collection was organized by “She has influenced thousands of graduate students from the Judith Herb educators who have read her work and College of Education and by Sara Mouch, attended her courses. In particular, she has manuscripts processor in the Canaday contributed powerfully to the development Center. The Reardon collection is supported of a feminist analysis of peace questions and by a grant from the Biosophical Institute in has been able to place it in a fully global Cleveland.

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE: The papers of Betty Reardon, champion for peace education and a nominee for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, are housed in the Canaday Center in Carlson Library. 4 ARTS SEPT. 9, 2013 Sundance Institute Fellow to Collaborative concert to present pre-release screening explore ‘Life, Love & Sorrow’ of indie film Sept. 13 By Angela Riddel

irector Laura Colella will present a Learn more about the film at he UT Symphony Orchestra and Wind The University choral group, Da Dpre-release screening of her award- breakfastwithcurtis.com. TEnsemble, and the University cho- Capo, will perform two works from Franz winning independent film “Breakfast With Colella, who has been honored as a ral group, Da Capo, will perform works Josef Haydn. Normally sung in German, Curtis” Friday, Sept. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sundance Institute Fellow, also will present by German composers Johannes Brahms, “Harmony in Marriage” and “Eloquence” Center for Performing Arts Center Theatre. a workshop for UT theatre and film students Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner and others have been translated and will be performed “Breakfast With Curtis” centers on the during her visit to Toledo. Sunday, Sept. 22, at 3 p.m. in English, said Dr. Stephen Hodge, new friendship between a troubled teen and She began making films as an This free, public concert titled “Life, professor of music and director of choral an eccentric bookseller who lives next door. undergraduate at Harvard and was a Love & Sorrow” will be held in Doermann activities. An incident five years ago left bad blood Sundance Fellow with her second feature Theater. The UT Wind Ensemble also will between their neighboring households, titled “Stay Until Tomorrow” in 2004. The UT Symphony Orchestra will take the stage. Set for the program are but when Curtis gets mixed up with the Colella teaches film production and perform Johannes Brahms’ Suite of Richard Wagner’s Trauersinfonie, based on freewheeling bohemians next door, it shakes directing at the Rhode Island School Liebeslieder Waltzes. These are waltzes themes by fellow German composer Carl up the neighborhood, bringing a season of of Design and screenwriting at Brown from Brahms’ op. 52 and 65 Liebeslieder Maria von Weber, and Gustav Mahler’s change for all. University, and serves as founding faculty Waltzes, originally written for piano Um Mitternacht for low voice and chamber The film is Colella’s third narrative chair of film at Vermont College of Fine four hands and vocal ensemble, that the winds, featuring UT graduate student Molly feature as writer/director/editor. It premiered Arts. composer re-scored for performance with Bock. at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival, This summer, Colella has been shooting orchestra and voices. Robert Mirakian, instructor of music, and has been touring the festival circuit behind-the-scenes footage on Paul Thomas The concert program also will include will conduct the UT Symphony Orchestra, since, earning several awards and excellent Anderson’s new film “Inherent Vice.” movements from Brahms’ Serenade No. and Dr. Jason Stumbo, associate professor reviews. For more information about the 2 in A major, op. 16. This was an early and chair of music, will conduct the Wind At the 2013 Independent Spirit free, public screening, contact the UT predecessor to Brahms’ symphonies and was Ensemble. Awards, the film was nominated for a Department of Theatre and Film at dedicated to Clara Schumann, the celebrated For more information on the event, Cassavetes Award and won the Jameson 419.530.2202. pianist, wife of Robert Schumann, and visit the UT Department of Music at FIND Distribution Award. Brahms’ lifelong friend. It was written for utoledo.edu/cvpa/music. an orchestra without violins, trumpets, trombones or timpani.

BATON MASTER: Dr. Jason Stumbo, associate professor and chair of music, will conduct the Wind Ensemble at the “Life, Love & Sorrow” concert.

5 SEPT. 9, 2013 NEWS Supreme Court of Get your Music Ohio to hold session at Fest T-shirts College of Law in April By Rachel Phipps

now! he Supreme Court of Ohio will hold session Tin The University of Toledo College of Law’s McQuade Auditorium Wednesday, April 9, as part of its Off-Site Court Program. Just $10! The Supreme Court last sat in Lucas County in Stop by the merchandise tent, which will 1987, the first year of the Off-Site Court Program, and open at noon the day of the event! has never appeared at The University of Toledo. Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger, a 1977 alumna of the UT College of Law, is a Toledo resident and former trial and appellate judge in Lucas County. “We are honored to have been selected for the Friday, Sept. 13 Off-Site Court Program. This will be a wonderful opportunity for lawyers, students and other members 3 p.m. to midnight of the public to observe the state’s highest court in Memorial Field House lawn person,” said Daniel J. Steinbock, dean of the College of Law. “It will also give alumna Justice Judith If you want a souvenir after Lanzinger a chance to hear cases in the law school she the free concert, go to attended.” utoledogear.com! The UT College of Law will host the court in conjunction with the Toledo Bar Association, the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals and the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas. “I was delighted to accept the law school’s invitation to hold court in Toledo, and my colleagues and I are looking forward to the visit,” said Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor. The Off-Site Court Program was founded in 1987 by the late Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer and is designed to teach Ohioans about the state’s judicial system. Twice each year, once in the spring and once in the fall, the Supreme Court relocates from Columbus to hold session in another city, selecting a different county each time. Area high school students will be invited to attend, and volunteers from the Toledo Bar Association will brief students on the cases to be argued before the session. Background information and a video illustrating the program, including footage from past off-site court sessions, is available on the court’s website, supremecourt.ohio.gov.

In memoriam

Genevieve M. Gunn, Toledo, a computer operator in data entry at MCO from 1978 to 1989, died Aug. 26 at age 77. Lawrence “Larry” J. Hilton, Swanton, auto mechanic 3 in the UT Motor Vehicle Department, died Aug. 31 at age 54. He joined the University staff in 1988. Marc L. Moralez, Toledo, a former For breaking news, go to utnews.utoledo.edu instructor of theatre, died Aug. 27 at age 43.

6 MUSIC FEST SEPT. 9, 2013 The White Panda to mix it up at Music Fest

By Vicki L. Kroll

are bear alert: Be on the lookout for one with ‘Magic’ by Pilot that immediately RThe White Panda, known for bringing drew me into mash-ups.” the party by mashing up music bits. The ani- Evans and Griffith, who have been mal is armed with thousands of samples and friends since grade school, started spinning should be considered highly entertaining. songs together in 2009. Their debut hit big. Subjects are two 25-year-old males “‘What You Know About Little Secrets’ from northern California: Tom Evans uses featured Passion Pit and T.I. and was the the alias Procrast, and Dan Griffith is known first song we ever released; it went to No. 1 as DJ Griffi. Both don LED panda masks on Hype Machine,” Evans wrote. and use computers to blend music to make “[A good mash-up] should sound the public dance and have a good time. natural. When you hear it, it should sound Case in point: Bearly Legal, the mash- like the song was written to be recorded and up/remix duo’s fifth disc released online in released exactly that way,” he explained. June. “And it should let you hear recognizable “We wanted this album to appeal to a samples in a different light. Maybe you’re larger audience,” Evans wrote in an email tired of hearing an overplayed pop song interview. “The challenge was to pull sam- from the early 2000s, but hopefully our ples from all different generations of music mixes allow you to enjoy it again.” and keep it appealing for everyone.” The two have been on a tear, serving up Imagine Bryan Adams’ “Summer of high-energy smashes on Versus, Rematch, ’69” and Swedish House Mafia’s “Don’t Pandamonium and Bambooyah! You Worry Child” melting into each other. Check out the mix-masters’ music, Or Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler’s which is available for free download at recognizable riff from “Money for Nothing” thewhitepanda.com. layered with LMFAO’s “Sorry for Party “We’ve been fortunate enough to have Rocking.” fans that will go out and buy tickets to come And there’s “Boulevard of Heart At- see us. It’s kept us going for four years so tacks,” which marries Green Day and Demi far,” Evans wrote. Lovato, while “Modern Reaper” reanimates The White Panda has played at Lol- the Blue Öyster Cult classic courtesy of The lapalooza, Bamboozle and Electric Zoo, Knocks. toured with Wale and Ghostland Observato- “Sometimes you’ll get lucky and can ry, and shared the stage with Tiësto, Benny just hear a workable mix in your head. Usu- Benassi and Gym Class Heroes. ally, it’s a lot more trial and error,” Evans “We both run Ableton Live [loop-based explained. “Finding one sample you want to software music sequencer and digital audio use, like ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper,’ and then workstation] and have our mixes broken mixing it into a handful of combinations into their component parts ready to mix,” with songs of similar tone, cadence, key Evans explained. signature, etc., until you find one that really “Every show is going to be different in The White Panda pops.” some way, but there are definite commonali- It was Girl Talk’s mash-ups and digital ties. We know which tracks do the best with sampling that caught Evans’ ear. live crowds, and we’re going to play those Be ready to dance when The White Don’t let the cool-looking light-up “Hearing Girl Talk’s ‘Night Ripper’ in ones every time.” Panda takes the stage Friday, Sept. 13, at masks fool you. high school was huge,” he wrote. “I can’t He added, “Seeing people react to your 10:30 p.m. to close Music Fest. The free, “[They’re] incredibly [hot]. It’s a mess remember the exact mixes, but there was mixing never gets old.” public event will take place on the Memo- up there,” Evans wrote. one with [Elton John’s] ‘Tiny Dancer’ and rial Field House lawn.

Friday, Sept. 13 • The University of Toledo’s Main Campus 3 p.m. The Lonely Friends 7:30 p.m. Josh Gracin 4:30 p.m. The Contours featuring 9 p.m. Reel Big Fish Sylvester Potts 10:30 p.m. The White Panda 5:30 p.m. Pep Rally 6 p.m. Alexander Zonjic with The Motor City Horns

7 SEPT. 9, 2013 MUSIC FEST Reel Big Fish lures fans to dance, laugh with high-energy music

By Samantha Watson

eel Big Fish’s latest album Candy the trumpet — it’s crazy that I RCoated Fury returns to the energetic can do that in 2013.” ska and biting wit the band specializes in. Christianson was pursuing The group’s first album of original a degree in music when he was material in five years mirrors the music asked to join Reel Big Fish of its first two discs when ska bands such by front man Aaron Barrett, as Sublime and No Doubt ruled American who had worked with him airwaves. That upbeat, fun music that mixes previously when they were with modern sound with jazzy brass instruments The Forces of Evil. Although is back with the songs “I Know You Too the band often plays on college Well to Like You Anymore” and “Your campuses, Christianson is the Girlfriend Sucks.” only member to have graduated “When you come to a Reel Big Fish from college. show, you come to have a good time,” said Reel Big Fish — John Christianson, trumpet player for the Christianson, Barrett, California-based band. “You come to laugh trombonist Dan Regan, with us, you come to dance … You come for drummer Ryland Steen, bassist a good experience.” Derek Gibbs and saxophonist “Don’t Stop Skankin’” is his Matt Appleton — will go back favorite off the new album because it’s to school to perform at Music an instrumental that can still get people Fest Friday, Sept. 13, at 9 p.m. Reel Big Fish to dance. It also features a solo by outside the Memorial Field Christianson. House on UT’s Main Campus. as well as some songs from Candy Coated Josh Gracin, Alexander Zonjic with The “I’ve wanted to be able to make The band will play some of its most Fury, which was released in 2012. Motor City Horns, The Contours featuring a living playing music all my life,” popular songs like “Beer,” “Take on Me,” Music Fest 2013, which is free and Sylvester Potts and The Lonely Friends. Christianson said. “To be able to just play “Sell Out” and “She Has a Girlfriend Now,” open to the public, will start at 3 p.m. and For more information, visit feature performances by The White Panda, utoledo.edu/musicfest and reel-big-fish.com.

The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts still grooving

By Vicki L. Kroll

t’s a stage-setting scene: Frances “Baby” Houseman “We thought it was a good song, that it would be a I(Jennifer Grey) helps carry watermelons to a secret party hit, but we had no idea just how big of a hit,” the Detroit where resort staffers are “Dirty Dancing” as The Contours’ native recalled. “Do You Love Me” blares. More singles followed: “Shake Sherry,” “Can You That pivotal placement meant The Contours were back Jerk Like Me,” “Just a Little Misunderstanding,” “First I to really shake ’em down. Look at the Purse.” “The second time around, it was bigger,” Sylvester None rivaled what the singer called the group’s Potts said in a 2006 interview with the Toledo Free Press. national anthem. “That tune sold 1 million for us in 1962. But during the “Wherever we go, we can’t leave until we sing ‘Do Dirty Dancing Tour in 1988, it sold 10 million for us. And it You Love Me.’ People still want to hear it,” Potts said. was exactly the same record.” Some are new fans, thanks to the 1987 movie. Penned by Motown founder Berry Gordy, that fun, “[‘Dirty Dancing’ is] a blessing. People who probably feisty single topped Billboard’s R&B chart and reached weren’t even born when the song came out are coming to No. 3 on the Hot 100 in 1962. the shows. It’s been amazing.” Included on the 1988 disc More Dirty Dancing, “Do Potts and The Contours — Tony Womack, Kim Green You Love Me” worked its way up the charts for eight weeks and Tee Turner — will do the mashed potato and the twist and hit No. 11. at Music Fest Friday, Sept. 13. The group will take the “We kind of had it made. We had the boss of the com- stage at 4:30 p.m. on the Memorial Field House lawn. pany writing for us,” Potts said. “That was the biggest song Potts, who was unavailable for an interview due to his Berry Gordy ever wrote. When he sees us, he says, ‘There’s wife’s illness, plans to perform, according to manager Jack my boys!’ ” Ryan. Thanks to his soulful singing and sweet steps, Potts was “I just love to see the smiles on people’s faces out invited to join The Contours in 1961 to replace Leroy Fair. there in the audience,” Potts said in the 2006 interview. The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts “Leroy was a good singer, but he couldn’t dance at all,” “Once we get them going, it’s even better. They’ll be bob- Potts said. “That was a problem.” bing their heads, clapping their hands.” “Yes,” Potts said and laughed. “We see some out of Enter Potts, whose smooth moves include the splits, just Do the Contours see some bad dancers out there? sync, but they’re enjoying it, so that puts great big smiles on in time to record the smash. our faces.”

8 MUSIC FEST SEPT. 9, 2013 Country star set to bring the The Lonely Friends to open party to Music Fest free festival

By Casey Cheap By Kim Goodin

e was one of the first singers to local quartet turned to the game Rock Described as “old-school rock with Hadd a country twang to “Ameri- ABand’s name generator and it offered influences of blues and some metal to can Idol,” but Michigan native Josh The Lonely Friends. keep it fresh,” the band was selected from Gracin doesn’t want only those in And guitarist Travis Geiman, singer performance videos uploaded to the Music 10-gallon hats dancing in the audience Michael Barlos, bassist Anthony Kitts and Fest Facebook page in July. Community at Music Fest Friday, Sept. 13. drummer Nick Duszynski thought it was members voted for the local group they “A lot of people who don’t listen funny. wanted to see perform at Music Fest, and to country have a view of country The group formed in 2011 to play a the majority of votes — more than 8,000 — music,” the 32-year-old said during marching band fundraiser for Maumee High came for The Lonely Friends. an interview for the radio show “The School. “I was surprised that we won,” Geiman Relevant University: Toledo.” “I en- Alumni of the school, Geiman, Kitts said. “We kept posting the competition to courage them to come to my live show. and Duszynski had been in the marching Facebook throughout the week and were in It’s more in-your-face, very loud, lots band and Barlos was in choir, so they gave the top 10, but we didn’t think it would be of movement on stage, and happy-go- it a shot, thinking it was temporary. us. Everyone is happy that we won.” lucky interaction with the crowd.” Fast-forward two years and the four Music Fest will be the biggest show the During the interview, it was sug- released their first disc, Paper Bridges, band will play to date. gested that fans arrive early, as Gracin, last month. Tracks include “Light a Fuse,” “I hope everyone enjoys Music Fest, a former Marine who finished fourth “Home,” “Do You Remember,” “Humaniz- and hopefully they take something away during the second season of “American ing,” “Gold” and “Loud Day, Quiet Night.” from the music we play and can relate to it Idol,” expects many from his home- The Lonely Friends will play some in some way,” Geiman said. town of Westland, Mich. — about two songs from that disc at Music Fest 2013. For more information about Music hours from Toledo — to trek south for The group, which won the UT Local Band Fest, visit utoledo.edu/musicfest, and for his 7:30 p.m. show. Challenge, will open the free event at 3 p.m. more about The Lonely Friends, visit Gracin The Music Fest crowd will hear facebook.com/TheLonelyFriends. Gracin’s newest single, “Drink it Gone,” de- songwriters pen and interpreting how they scribed as an anthem celebrating the rowdy wrote it.” fun of “it’s five o’clock somewhere” with a In a tour bus about 200 days of the responsible bent. year, Gracin said he fills his time away from “Drink it Gone,” also the name of his wife, Ann Marie, and their four children Gracin’s national tour that began in April, is with songwriting and is an active participant one of several songs to be released as part of in social media, maintaining his own Face- an EP this fall. With technology providing book and Twitter accounts. His posts di- a transitional era for music-buyers, Gracin verge from leaking new lyrics for feedback, said he and his new recording company, personal revelations (his father was recently Private Label Studios, debated whether to diagnosed with cancer), and trying his hand release a fourth album in an industry domi- at controversial social commentary. nated by digital media. Following singer/actress Miley Cyrus’ “The music business has changed,” performance on the Video Music Awards The Lonely Friends Gracin said. “Everybody knows that. Be- Aug. 25, Gracin posted a statement to her cause of iTunes, people download singles father, country singer/actor Billy Ray Cyrus, more now than they do albums. We’re trying remarking that she needed her dad “desper- to feel it out, be ahead of the curve.” ately” and that he would no longer allow His three previous releases — 2004’s his 11-year-old daughter to follow Miley’s self-titled debut, 2008’s We Weren’t Crazy career. and 2011’s Redemption — have been suc- The post spurred 1,148 comments of cessful. “Nothin’ to Lose” was a No. 1 differing opinions on Gracin’s Facebook smash, and Josh Gracin was certified gold page. by the Recording Industry Association of When asked about his experience America. We Weren’t Crazy produced five on the television show that launched his Jazz flutist Alexander Zonjic chart singles, with the title track peaking in career as “American Idol” readies for a 13th with The Motor City Horns the top 10. Redemption showcased Gracin’s season, Gracin reminisced fondly: “I believe will take the stage at 6 p.m. skills as a songwriter, with one tune, “Long everything happens for a reason. It was just Way to Go,” appearing on adult contempo- a coincidence that, after I joined the Marine rary charts. Corps, of all the places I could get stationed, “Since Redemption, I’ve been pretty I get stationed an hour away from where much doing nothing but writing,” Gracin they were filming ‘American Idol.’ said. “I think that’s the way the industry’s “I just got lucky. It definitely was a going, seeing artists as actual singer- good experience, definitely a lot of fun, and songwriters rather than singing whatever it really prepared me for what I’m doing now.” 9 SEPT. 9, 2013 MUSIC FEST

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11 SEPT. 9, 2013 NEWS Parking lot closures for football games announced

he first Rocket football game at home in the In conjunction with game lot closures listed, TGlass Bowl will be against Eastern Washington Lots 1N, 1S and Lot 2 will be closed starting at Saturday, Sept. 14. 6 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, for the Homecoming parade The University of Toledo Police Department has and football game. released it schedule of lot closures for that contest The 2013 home football schedule is: and all other home games for the 2013 season to ensure parking availability for the Toledo community • Saturday, Sept. 14, Eastern attending the games. Washington, 7 p.m.; Lots 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, including the Greek Village Loop and Parks Tower Loop, will close starting at • Saturday, Oct. 5, Western Michigan 7 a.m. on game days. Vehicles that are parked in Lot (Homecoming), 3 p.m.; 9 on game days will be towed. Lots 3, 4, 18 and 28 will be closed beginning at • Saturday, Oct. 19, Navy, 7 p.m.; noon. While lot closures can be an inconvenience for • Saturday, Nov. 2, Eastern Michigan, faculty, staff and students, Rocket football games 7 p.m.; and other campus events are an important way the University interacts with the outside community, said • Tuesday, Nov. 12, Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.; Sherri Kaspar, police support services manager for and UT Police. The UT Police Department has a text message • Wednesday, Nov. 20, Northern Illinois, and email alert program that will remind those who 8 p.m. regularly park in Lot 9 of towing on game days. To register, sign in or create a UT Alert account at https://stuweb00.utoledo.edu/redalert, click on “groups” and subscribe to the UT Football Lot 9 tow alert group.

12 SPORTS SEPT. 9, 2013 IT staffer psyched for Rocket home opener

By Casey Cheap

nthony “A.J.” Muniz is a was always a fan of UT football expect was for the Rockets to totally Ahardcore Toledo Rockets despite not always living in the area. dominate the game.” football fan, and he’s got the man “I’ve always been a Rockets The Rockets beat the Nittany cave in University Hall to prove it. fan,” he said. “During football season, Lions, 24-6, in State College, Pa. The college computing while most other people were big fans Muniz enjoys showing off his administrator who provides cheering for Ohio State, Michigan, mini helmet collection in his office technology support for University UCLA, USC, I would be doing the and talking about them with people Hall and surrounding buildings same thing with Toledo.” who stop by. created a special space to showcase Often times, Muniz would get In addition to his Toledo his Rocket pride. strange looks from his counterparts in collection, Muniz also has multiple Inside is an extensive collection the military because many of them did helmets from Bowling Green of UT mini football helmets, a stuffed not follow or had never heard of the State University, the University of Rocky, the 2013 Rockets football Mid-American Conference. This was Massachusetts, Virginia Tech and schedule poster and other UT posters, especially true while he was stationed Marshall University, where he was a UT flag, a framed jersey with at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, employed before coming to UT. legendary quarterback Chuck Ealey’s Texas. Also included with the college No. 16, a framed news story from His favorite moment as a Rocket and National Football League UT’s 2008 victory over Michigan, and fan? When UT played Penn State helmets, Muniz has helmets from the a custom Toledo jacket Muniz had and he was able to watch the Rockets Arena Football League, Canadian manufactured while he was in South game despite being stationed far from Football League and several now- Korea more than 20 years ago. the Glass City. defunct leagues. His sports memorabilia includes “It was 2000 when Toledo took “My most prized helmet has to more than 250 autographed college on Penn State and Head Coach Joe be a Notre Dame one signed by none Photo by Daniel Miller and professional mini football Paterno was on his way to becoming other than legendary former coach Ara ROCKET MAN: Anthony “A.J.” Muniz, college computing helmets. the winningest coach in Division I Parseghian,” Muniz said. administrator, showed off some of his UT football memorabilia. Muniz, who was born in Toledo football,” Muniz said. “What I didn’t and raised in rural northwest Ohio,

ROCKETS READY TO ROLL: Everyone will know when the Rocket football team rolls into town for an away game thanks to a tractor-trailer emblazoned with UT images. The use of the truck, which will transport UT equipment to all road games, is part of a marketing partnership between Rocket Sports Properties and K-Limited Carrier Ltd. in Toledo. “We are very excited to be making The University of Toledo brand more visible when our football team travels around the country,” said Vice President and Athletic Director Mike O’Brien. “The truck is a great representation of the pride we feel for this University. The trailer covered with Rocket football images of the Glass Bowl and other game action made its debut at Toledo’s game at Missouri. Photos by Daniel Miller

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14 NEWS SEPT. 9, 2013 Second annual Startup Weekend Toledo set for Sept. 20-22

By Bob Mackowiak

rea entrepreneurs, web and software developers, participants were very motivated and committed to Adesigners and others will be pleased to know the see their ideas come to fruition. Second Annual Startup Weekend Toledo will be held from “The Toledo event is the result of the 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, to 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, involvement of many people and organizations, at The University of Toledo in the Nitschke Technology including UT President Lloyd Jacobs, Richard Commercialization Complex. Stansley, UT Innovation Enterprises, INCENU, “This event demonstrates that entrepreneurism is alive Rocket Ventures and others,” Ariss noted. and well in northwest Ohio and nourished by the UT College “Furthermore, Startup Weekends are taking of Business and Innovation,” said Dr. Sonny Ariss, professor place across the United States, so we are part and chair of the UT Management Department, who is an of a global network of passionate leaders and organizer, host and one of the judges of the event. entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate and All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic empower individuals, teams and communities.” model: Anyone is welcome to pitch a startup idea and Participants in the Startup Weekend Toledo receive feedback from peers. Teams form around top ideas, also will be invited to enter the fourth annual as determined by popular vote, and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy Innovation Enterprises Challenge Business Plan of business model creation, coding, designing and market Competition (for UT faculty, staff and students) validation. or the next Pitch & Pour Start-Up Business Plan The weekend will culminate with presentations in front Competition. of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for For more information about Startup Weekend critical feedback. Toledo, contact Ariss at [email protected]. “The inaugural Startup Weekend Toledo was a great success,” Ariss said. “Startup Weekend Toledo enriched the ecosystem of entrepreneurship in northwest Ohio. The business ideas proposed were all excellent ideas, while the

Register for UT’s Internet Marketing Conference set for Oct. 1

By Bob Mackowiak

he University of Toledo College of • “Going Full Circle With Social UT News is published for faculty, staff and students by the University Communications TBusiness and Innovation’s Department Media: Timing, Personalities and Office weekly during the academic year and periodically during the summer. Copies of Marketing and International Business’s Promotion on Social Media” by are mailed to employees and placed in newsstands on the Main, Health Science, Scott Fifth Annual Internet Marketing Conference Patrick Giammarco, marketing Park and Toledo Museum of Art campuses. UT News strives to present accurate, fair will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 1, from 8 a.m. consultant at PWG Marketing; and and timely communication of interest to employees. Story ideas and comments from until noon in the Student Union. • “Mobile Trends for Business” by the UT community are welcome. Send information by campus mail to #949, University The conference will provide Toledo- Andrew Newby, co-founder and Communications Office, Vicki Kroll. E-mail: [email protected]. Fax: 419.530.4618. area business professionals with critical strategy leader for AVATAR. Phone: 419.530.2248. Mailing address: University Communications Office, The University insights into the successful use of today’s Conference attendees also will have of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390. powerful Internet marketing tools and an opportunity to connect and partner with techniques. Internet marketing service providers and Keynote speakers will be Forrest vendors who will be sharing their expertise VICE PRESIDENT FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Lawrence J. Burns Walden, founder and CEO, and Jim Cavale, in the exhibition hall during the conference. ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS The University of Toledo is committed to chief operating officer, of Iron Tribe Fitness. Continental breakfast and breaks will AND MARKETING OPERATIONS: Tobin J. Klinger a policy of equal opportunity in education, They will address their success in using provide great networking opportunities Editor: Vicki L. Kroll employment, membership and contracts, and ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Cynthia Nowak marketing strategies to grow their business among conference attendees and exhibitors. no differentiation will be made based on race, Graphic Designer: Stephanie Delo color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual through online platforms. Group discounts are available. There Photographer: Daniel Miller orientation, veteran status or the presence of Additional topics and speakers will is also an optional lunch with the panel of Contributing Writers: Amelia Acuna, Kevin Bucher, Casey Cheap, a disability. The University will take affirmative Meghan Cunningham, Kim Goodin, Khyara Harris, Jon Strunk, action as required by federal or state law. include: speakers at noon. Samantha Watson • “How to Get Found on the To register or for more information, go Editorial Assistants: Laurie Flowers, Joanne Gray Distribution assistantS: Tyler Mattson, Chad Rankin Internet” by Jeremy Losek, Thread to utinternetmarketing.info. Marketing/Google ad words Read UT news at utnews.utoledo.edu and myut.utoledo.edu. specialist; • “Create a Mini Publishing Empire” by Kevin Cesarz, digital strategy leader at Communica;

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