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UT www.utnews.utoledo.eduNEWS March 28, 2005 CWA rejects Volume 5, Issue 22 Hendricks to receive contract proposal Governor’s Award for the Arts By Jon Strunk The University of Toledo chapter of the Communication Workers of America Local 4530 (CWA) rejected a contract offer Thursday. Of CWA’s approximately 620 members, 252 members voted to reject the University’s latest proposal and 206 members voted to accept it. Jim Sciarini, associate vice president for human resources, said negotiations will enter a fact-finding phase over the next several weeks. Photo by Daniel Miller Eye-opening view Classy jazzman: Jon Hendricks talked about saxophonist Charlie Parker, drummer Roy Haynes and bass player Charles Mingus in his History of UT Foundation page 2 Jazz class last week. board approves By Deanna Lytle land purchase on Hendricks, Distinguished Univer- will present the awards as part of the Arts By Sherry Stanfa-Stanley sity Professor of Jazz, will receive a Day celebration. he University of Toledo Founda- 2005 Governor’s Award for the Arts on Hendricks was selected to receive an J tion board of trustees approved the Wednesday, April 6, in Columbus. award in the special recognition category purchase of land at the southwest The ceremony will take place in the for his work in vocal jazz. T corner of Dorr Street and Secor Road. Verne Riffe Center for Government and the “There is a saying in the Bible that a At their March 18 quarterly meeting, Arts Capitol Theatre. Ohio Senate President prophet is without honor in his home,” trustees approved the purchase at a price Bill Harris and House Speaker Jon Husted continued on page 2 of $335,000, pending final closing details. The University has not yet determined a specific purpose for the land, according Art blooms Local hip-hop project looks to reboot to Brenda S. Lee, Foundation president. page 3 Toledo’s music scene She added that UT is partnering with the By Vicki L. Kroll Toledo-Lucas County Planning Commis- sion regarding the development of the This is the gateway to the future Dorr Street corridor, and a feasibility Get linked or they mute you study will be conducted. Show your spirit Technology is moving Minimum endowment level raised It’s about time that you should The Foundation board has increased “Holiday (Browse With Me)” by Jameelah, the minimum gift level for individual Str8 Caine and Frank Swisher endowments under its management. Trustees approved raising the gift xperience the revolution. Go online Africana Studies Program; the W.J. minimum for endowed accounts from and check out ToledoHipHop.org. Murchison Community Center, which $10,000 to $25,000, effective Sept. 1. Any EHear some of the tracks that will be provides computers and Internet access in funds already endowed or in the process included on Reboot! —a compilation CD central Toledo; the Toledo Area Lenix of being established at that time will be to be released in early April. User Group, an open-source network; and grandfathered in at the $10,000 level, Student Government is selling UT “What we’re trying to do is reboot local hip-hop and rap artists. according to Lee. Endowments are funds in which the Rocket P.R.I.D.E. bracelets to fund hip-hop culture,” said Brian Zelip, a “When we say cultural revolution, gifts are preserved, in perpetuity, as its designated driver program, research associate in the Africana Studies what we’re talking about is changing the principal. Expenditures are made from a Rocket Rides, for fall semester. The Program. He and some 40 people — UT relationship between the generations. And portion of the endowment’s annual earnings. bracelets are $2 each and can be pur- students and alumni as well as Toledo one of the things we want to do with this The new endowment level is more in chased at Rocket Copy in the Stu- community members — started working rap project that is focusing on information line with current trends, Lee said. dent Union. on ToledoHipHop.org in December. technology is create a transgeneration “Although obviously still beneficial, the The project brings together UT’s continued on page 4 continued on page 2 2 News March 28, 2005 Hitting home UT professor offers stronger, more effective policing solutions in new book By Ann Elick and Jon Strunk epending on a person’s life Harris offers five core strategies of experiences, the concept of “good preventive policing: Dcops” may seem either redundant • Building connections and partnerships or an oxymoron. But as University of based on trust between the police and Toledo Professor David Harris describes in the communities they serve; his new book, Good Cops: The Case for • Problem solving instead of just Preventive Policing, swelling the ranks of responding; good cops is just what American policing • Building accountability in everything needs. police do; What makes a police officer “good”? • Demonstrating leadership initiatives Photo by Daniel Miller Harris, Balk Professor of Law and Values, that push harder for change and higher A display designed to call attention to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and will explain the concept of preventative standards; and Afghanistan was on campus last week. It was sponsored by the policing as he discusses his new book • Changing police culture so the new Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition, Veterans for Peace and the UT realities of prevention can take hold. women’s and gender studies department. Thursday, March 31, at noon in the Law Center Auditorium. Harris spent the last five years “Preventive policing is a series of traveling to police forces in big cities and President takes higher related strategies for increasing public small towns across the country, collecting safety and reducing crime by preventing it case studies of preventive law enforcement education’s case to legislators before it happens rather than simply and exploring why these tactics work. He By Tobin J. Klinger responding to it afterward,” Harris writes. said the solutions to reducing crime, n an attempt to further highlight the for higher education is the fundamental In Good Cops, Harris introduces a fighting terror and preserving civil detrimental consequences declining reason tuition rates are increasing.” new generation of law enforcement that liberties begin at the community level and Istate funding has on public university Johnson said the state’s high tuition builds bridges between police officers and must involve citizens and cops in one of students, UT President Dan Johnson asked prices are exacerbating Ohio’s “brain the citizens they serve and protect. He the most important dialogues for the future Ohio legislators to stop looking at higher drain,” as students attend out-of-state highlights strategies that cut crime of the country. education as one more cost item on the universities for less money and rarely dramatically without alienating or For more information on the free, state budget during testimony before the return to start a life in Ohio. intimidating the public, arguing citizens public talk, call the UT Law Alumni House Higher Education Subcommittee The president also discussed several need not trade their rights for safety — Affairs and Communication Office at March 9. alternative-funding models he has been even in the age of terrorism. Ext. 2628. “Parents of high school, junior high pressing since his State of the University and elementary school children are Address in January. These include a frightened that they may not be able to proposed half-cent sales tax dedicated to afford to send their sons and daughters to public four-year universities, which Hendricks continued from page 1 college,” Johnson said. “I know of parents Johnson says would cut students’ tuition in vocalese and his tenure with the legendary who are actually lowering their children’s half, and converting UT to a public-private Hendricks began. “But I am being honored jazz trio Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. The expectations because they don’t know university, a funding model that has in [my home state of] Ohio and Toledo, my letter concluded, “Jon’s greatest contribu- how to pay for college. gained notoriety in the state of Virginia. hometown … I know that the governor and tion may still be to come as he sets his sights “Although it is hard to believe,” he State Rep. Peter Ujvagi of Toledo, the lawmakers are very busy doing their on the creation of the Jazz Performance Pro- continued, “higher education receives 14 ranking minority member of the Higher business, and for them to take time out to gram at The University of Toledo. As Art percent less support in real dollars than we Education Subcommittee, invited Johnson honor artists says a lot.” Tatum helped Jon realize a dream, Jon received in 1996. Declining state support to Columbus to express his views and concerns. The Governor’s Awards for the Arts Hendricks now is doing the same for today’s began in 1971 to recognize people and or- students of jazz.” ganizations that are vital to the growth and Hendricks said his rhythm section UT Foundation continued from page 1 development of Ohio’s cultural resources from New York is coming to Ohio to ac- The national average for comparable and to increase awareness of the value of company him during a performance at $500 generated each year from a $10,000 institution endowments is 5.1 percent. arts in Ohio. This year, eight winners were 3 p.m. in the Capitol Theatre. Following the endowment does not have the same value The spending policy is designed to selected from over 60 nominations. performance, the awards ceremony will as it did a decade ago. As educational provide the University with a reliable, The Toledo Jazz Society and The Uni- begin at 3:30 p.m., when he and other win- costs at universities continue to rise, the year-to-year flow of funds, regardless of versity of Toledo joined forces to nominate ners will receive an original piece of art amounts generated by small endowments interim market fluctuations, and to provide Hendricks for the award.