The University of Toledo invites baseball players from northwest Ohio to improve their skills during spring training camps with the Rockets coaching staff.

Toledo Rockets Head Coach Cory Mee and his staff will host on Sunday, Feb. 12 in the Fetterman Training Center a Prospect Camp for athletes in grades 7-12 and a Youth Skills Camp for ball players in grades kindergarten through six.

The Prospect Camp will be 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12 in which the athletes will go through a professional style workout and fundamental work for offense and defense. The cost is $100.

The Youth Skills Camp from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. is designed to provide individual instruction in all aspects of the game, including offensive and defensive drills and base running. Enrollment is limited and cost is $$60.

“This is the time of the year for athletes to prepare for the baseball season and UT coaches are here to help ball players be their best,” said Brett Merritt with the Rockets Baseball coaching staff. “These camps give young athletes the opportunity to train at a college facility and learn from the UT coaching staff.”

For more information and to register for the camps, visit www.toledobaseballcamps.com or contact Merrit at brett.merritt@utoledo.edu.

In a 5-4 decision in January 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations, unions and other organizations have the same political speech rights as individuals under the First Amendment. The Citizens United ruling has left room for debate among many scholars and researchers that is already especially heated for a presidential election year.

The University of Toledo will host “Citizens United, Corporate Personhood and Democracy: Point/Counterpoint” from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8 in the Law Center Auditorium on UT’s Main Campus.

The free, public debate will feature Bradley Smith, the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at Capital University Law School, and Greg Coleridge, director of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee and a Move to Amend Ohio committee member.

“Both sides of this debate are very passionate about their understanding of the ruling’s significance,” said Dr. Cynthia Ingham, UT assistant professor of history and Phi Alpha Theta adviser. “Some regard Citizens United as a victory for free speech, reversing a legislative and judicial trend to proscribe corporate involvement in elections. Others see the decision as a step backward for democracy because it is based on the principle that corporations are entitled to the same rights as persons.“

The debate is sponsored by the UT Chapter of the Federalist Society, UT College of Law, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Toledo).

The University of Toledo chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is accepting applications for its Awards of Excellence.

Three awards of $500 will be awarded. Two of the awards will be given to undergraduates, and one award will be given to a graduate student who is returning to UT the following year.

To be eligible, students must have a GPA of 3.6 or higher or equivalent. Each applicant must submit a resumé, a 500-word essay and two letters of recommendation. The deadline for submitting applications is Friday, March 16.

The application form is available at http://www.pkptoledo.org/pkpscholarship.pdf or by contacting Barbara Floyd at 419.530.2170, Wade Lee at 419.530.4490, Dr. TomBarden at 419.530.6033 or Dr. Mohamed Hefzy at 419.530.8234.