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BY CORINNE RUFFSTAFF WRITER
When Esther Patt stepped into an apartment at 2018 S. Fletcher St., her feet first felt the warp in the floor. The tenant of the apartment walked Patt through some of the violations that had yet to be fixed by the landlord. She saw cockroaches crawl-ing around in drawers, on countertops and manag-ing their way into the refrigerator through a crack in the seal.
“I am so frustrated,” said Patt, director of the Champaign-Urbana Tenant Union. “City government just lets landlords get away with it.”
The residents of this complex are not strangers to poor apartment maintenance. Two weeks ago, 18 occupants were relocated from their former resi-dences at 1302, 1304 and 1401 E. Silver St. City offi-cials condemned the complexes on Feb. 28 due to structural safety issues with the outdoor walkways between apartments.
Now just a few blocks south of the old apartments,
BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER
The Daily Illini sat down with new student trustee Mike Cunningham at the Illini Union and had a conversation about his views and goals for his term. Cunningham, junior in LAS, is originally from River Grove, Ill. His term starts July 1, but he said he has already been setting up meetings with different student lead-ers and administrators.
The Daily Illini: How would you characterize yourself?Mike Cunningham: Energetic. Definitely pro-active — through my experiences, I would call myself a leader. Outgoing. I love to joke around a lot. I’m not too serious all the time, but when I need to be, I can be. I like to have a good time; I like to work hard, play hard, sit down, have a good time, but at the same time get the work done. DI: What’s your past history with politics?MC: Sophomore year, I sat on the Illinois Stu-
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AS AGIRL
THINKSBy Melanie Stone
Editor’s note: This is the final part of a five-part series. In this personal essay, Daily Illini columnist Melanie Stone combines her story with that of experts and multiple women across the country.
More online: For a special presentation of this story, and for more insight on body image, visit InDepth.DailyIllini.com
When I started writing this series, it had been almost eight weeks since I left the
University. So much had happened by that
point: I started seeing a psycholo-gist and a counselor, applied to other colleges, enrolled in online classes, visited friends at their respective campuses, spent time with them when they came back to Hinsdale, Ill., dropped the sorority, started a new devotion-al plan, kept up with yoga, decid-ed to return to the University for the spring semester and live with other Christ followers in Stratford House, and devoted myself to this very story.
Today, I am finally at a healthy weight for my body. I don’t obsess over calories anymore, and I now know how to properly indulge in a slice of pie or a cupcake.
I have slip-ups sometimes. Food can still tempt me, and there are moments when I believe lies and lose the battle. My binges, though, are different these days. They are very rare, they are small, and each time it happens, I learn new truths about life and about myself and about God.
Instead of crying and wallowing in self-pity, I recover by spending time in the pages of my Bible.
Instead of shutting down, I open-ly share my struggle with others.
Instead of punishing myself, I choose forgiveness.
This, then, is what healing looks like.
Physically, I still wish my stom-ach was a little flatter or my arms were more toned. But I’m learning how to look at my body with love. God didn’t intend for me to be bony and small. I have curves, a cour-tesy gift from Him, and these days, I’ve been trying to embrace them.
The most important change is my heart. For the first time in my life, I feel peace. My time away from the University allowed me to rest my soul and renew my mind, and fill with hope once more.
It didn’t happen overnight. I had to recognize my weakness — my desire to control life and perfect myself and find acceptance — and lay it down before God. I didn’t heal myself. He did.
Over Christmas break and near the end of my semester at home, my best friends and I got to talk-ing about happiness.
“You know,” I said, “I don’t think I’ve ever been so content before. I just have this crazy sense of calm, of Christ in me. It’s amazing.”
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Plan seeks to move community toward increased safety, sustainability
Cunningham plans to create new ad-hoc RSO committees, focus groups
Bike path plan pedals forwardBY CLAIRE EVERETTSTAFF WRITER
University Facilities and Services is accepting feed-back on its currently unfunded $4 million “2013 Cam-pus Bike Plan” on the Illinois Climate Action Plan website.
The plan is a compilation of projects to improve bicycle infrastructure, education and enforcement on campus and will be finalized this summer.
“The University has not had a bike plan for several decades,” said Rebecca Bird, Urbana planning official. “The University owns some streets, and Champaign-Urbana owns others. The University is right in the middle, and that connection is missing.”
The plan’s goals include increasing safety and sus-tainability, improving mobility and accessibility for
cyclists on campus, funding future infrastructure improvements and renewing the University’s standing as a national leader in bicycle friendliness.
Its main focus is to improve the network of Univer-sity bike paths.
The first paths were created in the 1950s; because bicycle riding has increased, improvements on infra-structure, education and enforcement are called for in this plan.
“We have a lot that needs to be done,” said Morgan Johnston, sustainability coordinator. “People are glad to see this report that explains how it all fits together and how we’re going to move forward.
Johnston said funding would be requested from
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See CUNNINGHAM, Page 3A
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Bicycle path updates planned around campusThe University’s 2013 Campus Bicycle Plan was published earlier this month with the primary goal of improving campus bikeway networks. Projects have been categorized as high, medium or low priority. Some high-priority projects will begin as early as summer 2013.*Fourth Street (summer 2014)Phase 1: Adds bike lanes on Fourth Street from Armory Avenue to Kirby AvenuePhase 2: Removes side path on Fourth Street from Gregory Drive to Peabody DrivePhase 3: Adds bike lanes on Fourth Street from Kirby Avenue to St. Mary’s Road
Estimated cost: $256,925.84
First Street (fall 2014)Phase 1: Adds bike lanes and new sidewalks on First Street from Gregory Drive to Kirby Avenue
Estimated cost: $113,629.75
Armory Avenue (TBA)Phase 1: Adds off-road bike path from Lincoln Avenue to Goodwin Avenue
Dedicates bike path from Nevada Street to Armory Avenue PathDedicates bike path from Nevada Street to Gregory DriveDedicates bike path from Armory Avenue Path to Gregory Drive
Phase 2: Adds off-road bike path from Goodwin Avenue to Mathews AvenuePhase 3: Adds off-road bike path from Mathews Avenue to Wright StreetAdds shared use path by Undergraduate Library from Lorado Taft Path to Armory Path
Estimated cost: $397,799.74
Sixth Street (summer 2013)Phase 1: Adds bike lanes on Sixth Street from Armory Avenue to Gregory DrivePhase 2: Removes off-road bike path from Armory Avenue to Gregory DrivePhase 3: Adds bike lanes from Gregory Drive to Pennsylvania Avenue and removes off-road bike path from Gregory Drive to Lorado Taft Drive
Estimated cost: $124,102.40
Total estimated cost: $892,457.73
* The Small Starts Grant Proposal projects are also prioritized as high-priority, but are not included on the map as there are no cost estimates for them yet. As a temporary fix, bike paths will be repainted and stop signs will be added to improve bicycle traffic.
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SHANNON LANCOR Managing Editor for VisualsSource: 2013 Campus Bike Plan
New student trustee discusses refundable fees, Chief Illiniwek
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BRIAN YU THE DAILY ILLINI
The apartment building at 1401 East Silver St. in Urbana has been condemned due to weaknesses in the building’s exterior walkways and stairways. Two other apartments, located at 1302 and 1304 East Silver St., have had their occupants evacuated until repairs can be made.
Condemned Urbana apartments spur talk of new relocation ordinance
“People are glad to see this report that explains
how it all fits together and how we’re going
to move forward.”MORGAN JOHNSTON,
sustainability coordinator
Q&A: MIKE CUNNINGHAM
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Champaign Burglary from a motor ve-
hicle was reported at Walmart, 2610 N. Prospect Ave., around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Theft was reported at JC Penney, 2000 N. Neil St., around 10 a.m. Wednesday.
According to the report, the suspect made fraudulent trans-actions.
Residential burglary was reported in the 2000 block of West Bradley Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Monday.
According to the report, a cal-culator, computer and tablet were stolen from the victim’s residence.
Three 20-year-old males and a 19-year-old male were ar-rested on the charges of specific noise prohibited and retail theft in the 900 block of South Second Street around 3:30 a.m. Wednes-day.
According to the report, the
suspects had loud music com-ing from their apartment, which could be heard from outside. While dealing with the loud mu-sic, three suspects returned to the apartment with stolen liquor from Mobil Super Pantry.
Urbana Deceptive practices were
reported in the 1900 block of Cunningham Avenue around 6 p.m. Wednesday.
According to the report, the victim was scammed out of money twice over the past week by unknown offenders.
Domestic battery was re-ported in the 700 block of West-ern Avenue around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.
According to the report, the subjects were in a dating rela-tionship. Both subjects allege conflicting versions of events where they were each battered by the other, but there was no
evidence of physical violence by either party.
University Theft was reported at
CRCE, 1102 W. Gregory Drive, around 11 p.m. Wednesday.
According to a report, the of-fender stole the victim’s cell-phone in addition to other items. The stolen items are estimated to be worth $275.
A 22-year-old male was ar-rested on charges of posses-sion of cannabis with intent to deliver and possession of a controlled substance in the 300 block of East Daniel Street around 8:30 Wednesday.
According to a report, the University police narcotics unit served a warrant at the sus-pect’s residence and found 730 grams of cannabis, illegal pills and $7,000 in cash.
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Today’s Birthday You’re grounded and confident, which contributes to your relationships this year. If finances fluctuate, monitor closely and think outside the box for new income sources. Build skills. Love is all around, filling your home until summer, when your wanderlust awakens. Keep it playful and creative.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is a 9 — Your leadership is wanted and welcome. Take a brisk walk to clear your ideas. You’re very goal-minded right now. Love finds a way in the middle of the action.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is a 9 — You’re incredibly resourceful right now. Double your effectiveness by listening carefully and aligning your ideas with those of another. Having too much is a good thing.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is a 7 — Double-check so you don’t forget something. Trust your intuition. Obsession with details actually helps now. List the possible
miracles that you’re willing to have happen.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Today is an 8 — Make money from old items that you don’t need anymore. Don’t sacrifice your standards unless it’s really worth it. You’re up to the challenge. Make long-range plans.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) Today is an 8 — Look at the big picture. Voice your desires and concerns to your partner. Respect their considerations, and your own. Listening is key. Don’t bend the rules.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 9 — Stick to the practical. Do the work yourself and save. Ask your family to help. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs. Accept a challenge if it pays well. Review your lists. Results are better than expected.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Today is an 8 — Practice your pitch on a loved one before you go public (it makes your life easier). Take care not to provoke jealousies. Your core beliefs drive you. Keep your objective in mind. Consider what others would think.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) Today is a 9 — Try something new today. Circumstances could cause a change of route. You have more resources than you thought. Gather up
what you’ve got coming. Have faith. Re-assess your aspirations. Watch for a windfall profit.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) Today is a 9 — Discover a pleasant resolution in your favor. Look forward to a challenge in which an emotional argument may work best. A loved one provides inspiration; the better you know each other, the stronger the bond.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Today is an 8 — You’re getting smarter. Invest in your business. Costs can vary widely; don’t lose your receipt. Conserve resources, and recycle. Uncover practical objections, and keep to the philosophical high road. Then take some rest and relaxation.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) Today is a 7 — Others seek your wisdom and advice. Get together with a good group for solid counsel you can share. Keep asking questions for brilliant insight. You know how to find the answer.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) Today is an 8 — Expand your territory. You control the tap, and the profit. Enjoy the abundance; past deeds speak well for you. Handle family responsibilities. Find treasure while tidying up (someone will not be amused if you don’t).
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BY DON MELVIN AND RAF CASERTTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUSSELS — Some 10,000 workers from across the Euro-pean Union protested outside a summit of EU leaders Thursday, demanding they end years of aus-terity and focus instead on curb-ing runaway unemployment with more spending.
Trade unions and an increasing number of economists say auster-ity has inflicted severe economic
pain. Inside the summit, leaders made it clear that they realized that public anger was reaching dangerous levels, but they offered little in the way of new solutions, saying instead they were going to stay the course with enforced budget cuts.
“Tonight, in view of our bleak economic prospects, in view of growing social distress, we looked very carefully at the situation,” said Herman Van Rompuy, pres-
ident of the European Council, after the meeting ended. But he added, “The only way out of the crisis is to keep tackling its root causes. ... We reconfirmed our overall economic strategy.”
Much of that strategy includes measures to cut spending and raise tax revenues — mea-sures that take money out of the economy, something that many economists say contributes to unemployment.
Most leaders remain commit-ted to reducing public debt quick-ly, primarily through spending cuts and raising taxes.The two-day EU spring summit, which will stretch into Friday, tradi-tionally centers on the economy, and peaking unemployment has given it special urgency.
“No leader can be happy with the situation where 26 million people are out of work in the European Union. That is why we
are here,” said Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
Protesters at Thursday’s labor demonstration are calling for fundamental changes to the cur-rent measures, however.
Europe’s manufacturing industry has been hit by a suc-cession of plant closures and job losses.
AP writers Robert Wielaard and Juer-gen Baetz contributed to the story.
campus administration, the Uni-versity endowment and the Stu-dent Sustainability Committee on a project-by-project basis. Facilities and Services is ask-ing for $1 million a year for four years, although this will be a challenge because most infra-structure work can only happen over summers.
“We’re showing why (funding is) needed, and we’re working with campus and anyone else that will help fund it,” Johnston said.
Last Thursday, Facilities and Services held a feedback ses-sion at the ARC where the public was invited to make suggestions about the plan. Johnston said so far, the feedback has been “overwhelmingly positive.”
Amelia Neptune, academic hourly at Facilities and Servic-es, who compiled the report, said the next step in the plan is to compile comments from the iCAP feedback forms to edit and clarify the content of the plan.
“It’s exciting to have the plan done, but this is certainly just the beginning,” Neptune said.
She said feedback reports that they’ve received so far sug-gested a general sense of urgen-cy to implement the plan faster. However, that is dependent on funding.
“I share people’s feelings that this is really important, and we should do everything we can to get it done as quickly as possi-ble,” Neptune said.
Liz Amanieh contributed to this report. Claire can be reached at [email protected].
Patt said many residents weren’t aware that after the condemna-tion, their leases were broken, and they could legally seek new housing.
The landlord, Paul Zerrouki, of BZ Management, was charged on Feb. 14 with criminal hous-ing management, or “recklessly permit(ing) the physical condition ... to become or remain in any con-dition which endangers the health or safety of a person,” a Class A misdemeanor. If he were to repeat the offense, he would be charged with a Class 4 felony. Zerrouki is next expected to appear in court on March 27.
City planner Libby Tyler said the Fletcher Street units passed code inspections before residents moved in, but she agreed with Patt in saying better education is necessary.
“We are looking at revising some of our procedures for these relocations,” Tyler said.
Although the apartments received a systematic inspection, where inspectors do an overall check, Patt believes the inspec-tion was not sufficient. She said inspectors would have noticed the cockroaches if they had done a called-in inspection for the spe-cific problem.
Patt said she believes the issue is not only about the city more carefully evaluating apartments during inspections but also hold-ing landlords to stricter financial responsibility.
Alderwoman Diane Marlin, of Ward 7, where the apartments are located, said the city may have to step in to address the issue with an ordinance, in addition to the city’s existing property maintenance code, that details which financial responsibilities fall to the landlord and how the city will enforce them.
“The key is for us to consistently enforce the property maintenance code,” she said. “That’s where the city could step in.”
Marlin said an ordinance could require the landlord to pay for moving costs for all residents as well as for their last month’s rent and damage deposit.
Urbana mayor Laurel Pruss-ing said city staff is researching the costs of such an ordinance in terms of the city’s liability. If landlords failed to follow the ordi-nance, the city would have to front the cost and the landlord would be in debt to the city.
Prussing said the council will write an ordinance in the next few months.
Tyler said she is working on a cover letter to send to affected res-idents that contains information about tenant rights in the situation of relocation.
“It’s difficult when you have an unsafe situation,” she said. “You want people moved quickly and safely, but you want to prevent homelessness. We also need to make sure they are aware of their options.”
Paul Zerrouki of BZ Manage-ment could not be reached at press time.
Corinne can be reached at cruff2@ dailyillini.com.
BY JANELLE O’DEASTAFF WRITER
The University’s Undergradu-ate Library opened its profession-al-grade video production studio in a former library classroom for the first time last week.
The studio, which was con-structed as a part of the media commons project between the UGL and CITES Academic Tech-nology Services, is meant to pro-vide a collaborative production studio space to students. The new studio allows students to film an assortment of projects, from sim-ple interviews to more complex shots with special effects using the green screen and profession-al cameras.
“The Media Commons is open to supporting digital products of all kinds,” said Eric Kurt, media commons coordinator. “We have designed the studio to have as much versatility as possible.”
The UGL did not have a video production studio before the new one was constructed. There are other video production studios on campus, but they are not avail-
able for student use, Kurt said. He said the University Library and CITES ATS partnership want-ed to build the studio so students would have room to work togeth-er on video projects in a centrally located space.
Kurt said the hardest part of constructing was eliminating all the classroom elements in the space and rescheduling classes that were in the room. He said the project was completed over the course of the fall semester.
To demonstrate the green screen and entice students to the University, MACS visiting lectur-er Rich Potter showed prospec-tive students the capabilities of the green screen at Saturday’s Mediapalooza. Potter and two prospective students filmed and edited a short video discussing the positive and negative effects of Facebook.
Potter said he wanted to shoot this “YouTube-style vlog” with prospective students so they could use video production skills and look at media with a critical eye.
“A big part of what MACS does
is to get students to look at media critically,” Potter said. “Whether it be discussing representation of identity within media, politics and policy surrounding media, or eco-nomics and business models used with media.”
The studio is fully functional, Kurt said, but is still waiting on a couple of lights, which are sched-uled to arrive this week. Since the studio’s opening, a couple of stu-
dent projects have taken advan-tage of the setup.
Kurt and the rest of the UGL and CITES ATS partnership hope to eventually have YouTube vid-eos explaining how to use the stu-dio, as well as videos to explain how to use loanable technology items.
Until the instructional videos are finished, students can email [email protected] with
a brief explanation of the project they want to shoot. Because of liability issues, a staff member must be present in order for stu-dents to use the studio. Students will schedule a time when either Kurt or another UGL staff mem-ber can be present to supervise the shoot.
Janelle can be reached at [email protected].
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The new video production studio in the UGL has new equipment aimed at students interested in production. The room includes new technology from a sound board, camera equipment and a green screen.
New video production studio opened in UGL
Prosperity Gardens gets new logoStudents collaborate to bene!t the people
Former classroom turned studio provides video equipment for various student projects
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BY AMAYA ADAMSCONTRIBUTING WRITER
University graphic design stu-dents have teamed up with Pros-perity Gardens to rebrand the urban agricultural nonprofit in hopes of attracting donors.
Under the direction of graph-ic design professors Eric Ben-son and Brian Wiley, about 60 students in their introductory and intermediate level graphic design classes are creating and promoting the corporate identity of Prosperity Gardens.
Prosperity Gardens, run by Uni-versity alumna Nicole Bridges, is a small organization aimed at provid-ing access to produce and employ-ment for at-risk youth in the North First Street Neighborhood. Vege-tables are cultivated by the youth, ages 5 to 17, in an urban garden equipped with 14 raised beds.
“Ordinarily we could just be making a poster for a project,” said Sarah Chaney, junior in FAA. “With this (collaboration), we got to see a person who is try-ing to accomplish something and then try to help (Bridges) accom-plish her goals.”
With both classes, Benson and Wiley implemented the Vertical Studio Model, a new teaching approach for the graphic design department.
“It allows the students to interact with each other more — they’re always sort of siloed at sophomore, junior, senior levels and they hardly get together,” Benson said. “This was a really good chance for them to do that.”
The students were divided into two three-week sections. The first session identified issues, such as Prosperity Gardens’ signage as well as fundraising and planned how to address them while the second session execut-ed those plans.
Chaney, who was on the public
relations team, was responsible for creating videos that would address community outreach.
On Feb. 15, the project began with a weekend workshop in which students met Bridges and identified challenges Prosperity Gardens faced.
For Bridges, the proposal was initially confusing.
“Just on the basis of what is a graphic artist going to do for an urban agriculture non-profit organization,” Bridges said. “It was really exciting once we got the ball rolling. I was able to get on board that first day.”
One of the first changes made
was to the logo, which was origi-nally off-limits.
“This logo was near and dear to my heart,” Bridges said. “I said do anything you want, but don’t change my logo.”
On the second day of the proj-ect, Bridges was called and asked to talk about the logo.
A simplified, more cost-effi-cient logo was presented to Bridges and she eventually approved.
“They completely kept the essence of it but made it much more relevant and effective and efficient for our needs,” Bridges said. “These are things I would
have never thought about. That was a powerful piece just in that first day.”
The graphic design students are scheduled to complete their projects for Prosperity Gardens on March 29.
“When it’s all said and done, it’s been lots of weeks and lots of work on both our parts,” Bridges said. “I hope that wherever we’re located on North First Street becomes this epicenter around a movement towards healthier, happier living.”
Amaya can be reached at [email protected]
More online: For more information about the rebranding of Prosperity
gardens watch a video at DailyIllini.com.» »“When all is said and done, it’s been lots of weeks and lots of work on both our parts.”NICOLE BRIDGES,University alumna
Thousands of European workers demonstrate at EU meeting for economic reform
PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIC BENSONUniversity graphic design students work on respective projects to help rebrand Prosperity Gardens.
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dent Senate’s internal affairs committee and its subcommit-tee on campus safety, and the past two summers, I interned for Cook County Commissioner Peter Silvestri and at the Coun-ty Building.
DI: What’s the first initiative you’d like to undertake in office?MC: I want to create a bunch of ad-hoc committees (of RSOs) because technically there’s no governance underneath me. ... I do want to create different focus groups ... from different aspects of all University’s cul-ture ... and just get them togeth-er and start addressing the real issues that their members have concerns about. ... I want to really create a culture where all RSOs can have a part in this.
Obviously there’s no real way to sit down with 1,000 leaders, but if we can selectively pick different people from different aspects and bring them togeth-er, we can really start looking at holistic issues.
DI: Given that the administration has a pretty strong position on nonrefundable fees, how do you plan to go about moving toward refundable fees?MC: That’s something I’m going to need to sit down and talk to them about face-to-face and ask why. I think some are pretty black-and-white. I’m not going to sit here and say, “Okay, the student transportation fee should be refundable,” because then everybody’s going to say, “I don’t use this,” but hop on the bus anyway. Something as simple as McKinley — if you’re not going to use this insurance system, then you literally can’t
go to McKinley, so that’s a lit-tle more black-and-white. If we can’t get them all, I want to get as many as we can.
DI: You mentioned addressing real issues that RSOs are having on campus. What are some examples of those?MC: I think one of the biggest common misconceptions is campus safety — a lot of people feel that sometimes the cam-pus isn’t safe. I honestly would beg to differ. Just talking with the U of I police chief and the Urbana police chief, (I think) we have one of the safest cam-puses. I think they do an out-standing job, it’s an outstanding law enforcement agency with some of the best officers we have. I just think people need to be more aware. There needs to be more Illini Alerts, even if it’s just a backpack stolen at the Union or somebody lost their
phone at the UGL. It may not have to be an alert, but may-be on a monthly basis, there’s an email sent out. ... Academ-ic programming is an issue. If you want to double-major in different colleges here, it’s one of the hardest universities to do so. I understand that we’re a very large institution, but I don’t think that creating a bar-rier and making it as tedious as possible is the proper way to go about that because the more well-rounded and better the stu-dents are, the better prepared for the workforce and the more they’re going to be able to give back and make a better name for U of I. We need to make that easier for our students.
DI: I’m sure you saw that the Chief referendum results were released — where do you stand on the mascot issue?MC: I think we need to
recognize that this was the NCAA. If we disobey them without proper cause, we no longer have the right to participate in post-season athletics. I think that would be detrimental to the University’s culture and spirit. ... As of right now, I’m not in support of finding another mascot ... I think we need to focus on our academics, our research, our educational policy and institutional matters that are internal or external, like involving more alumni, too. Those are more important than finding a mascot right now, and that’s simply because of the fact I’m satisfied with being the U of I Fighting Illini, and I can almost guarantee that a lot of other students would be, too.
Tyler can be reached at [email protected]
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One hundred and forty-six years ago, the University of Illinois was just a scrap of what it is
today.As detailed in Roger Ebert’s 1967
book, “An Illini Century,” the first class of the Illinois Industrial Uni-versity (as the University was named until 1885) consisted of 50 students and two professors. Today, the Univer-sity is home to 37,000 undergraduates and 11,000 graduates, plus 3,000 fac-ulty members.
One building, University Hall, made up the University and was used as a dormitory, a classroom, a lecture hall, a laboratory and a museum. Situ-ated on the Quad, it was demolished in 1938 and replaced with the Illini Union and Gregory Hall. Further con-struction over the decades would pro-duce the 647 buildings the University has now.
As we are one month away from Ebertfest, the College of Media’s prized event, I have recently been preoccupied with the great Ebert himself. And being preoccupied with Ebert means becoming obsessed with anything and everything to do with the University.
The famous movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, Ebert received his undergraduate degree from the University in 1964. After discovering that he was once a fellow opinions col-umnist for The Daily Illini, I delved into his relatively new memoir, “Life
Itself,” and further found out he has a deep, undying love for the University.
His passion and awe for the Univer-sity is refreshing and apparent when he writes: “Urbana-Champaign was gathered at the feet of the University of Illinois like a medieval town outside the walls of a great castle.”
I later stumbled upon “An Illini Cen-tury,” which details the history of the University from 1867 to 1967 through Daily Illini articles, editorials and his own research.
This book, available to download through the University library, is a treasure-trove of facts that even the student who claims history is boring cannot resist.
In honor of Ebert’s love for the Uni-versity and his soon-to-be arrival to campus, the following is just a hint of the history of the University:
In the beginning, graduates did not receive degrees, as that was an East-ern custom.
Harker Hall the building directly east of the Illini Union, is the oldest continually used building on campus, built in 1878. It is preceded only by Mumford House, which was built in 1871 and is not occupied now. Harker Hall was built as a chemical laborato-ry but is now home to the University of Illinois Foundation.
There were no school colors until 1879 when The Student (now The Daily Illini), appointed a committee that chose cardinal and silver. Fifteen years later these colors morphed into orange and blue.
The English Building used to be a women’s dormitory and had a pool, locker rooms and a gym.
The first president of the Universi-ty, John Milton Gregory, called for the
abolishment of fraternities, or “secret societies.” A few years later the Uni-versity became known as the fraterni-ty capital of the world.
Two students shared a $5 prize in 1888 for composing the first official college “yell,” called Rah-Hoo-Rah.
In the sporting world, Memorial Stadium was dedicated on the day of the 1924 Homecoming game against Michigan, the second of Illinois’ big-gest rivals (the first being Chicago. Yes, the University of Chicago). This was the game that legendary Harold “Red” Grange rushed for five touch-downs. You know that statue that stands on the west wall of the stadi-um? Yeah, that’s Red.
Smoking was banned on campus, much like the University ban that will start November 2013.
And finally, the Alumni Association moved the Alma Mater statue, which was unveiled in 1929, from behind Foellinger Auditorium to in front of Altgeld Hall in 1962.
Ebert grew up in Urbana, sur-rounded by the “castle” that he saw the University as. In his memoir, he writes: “On pleasant days, (my fam-ily) would stroll after dinner onto the Quadrangle, lined with trees and the biggest buildings I’d ever seen. ‘This is the greatest university in the world,’ my father told me. ‘Someday you’ll go here.’”
Years later, Ebert’s father’s proph-ecy came true: Roger finally came to campus not as a townie, but as a stu-dent; an Illini. From there, he took on the campus full-force and went on to add to the school’s great history.
Kirsten is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Opinions4AFridayMarch 15, 2013The Daily Illiniwww.DailyIllini.com
I finished the seven-season series, “The West Wing” this past Sunday.
I had been watching it since December and ironically finished it right before my final week as editor-in-chief of The Daily Illini.
Leading a college newspaper isn’t exactly like running a coun-try, or pretending to run a coun-try, but there seemed to be multiple similarities.
Since I took this position I have known of its end date — the DI tran-sitions positions at spring break — and being a senior, my term at the helm has ended today.
It’s a weird feeling watching a new staff begin its transition while you stand static. I give advice, I give my suggestions, I use my experience to help when I can, offering what I think is best, but I have to let go. It is no longer my responsibility.
It is now Darshan Patel’s time to shine.
Darshan, my successor, has the ability to take this paper in a great direction, and I know him and his staff are capable of that. They are
well-prepared to lead the DI through a constantly changing digital world.
But it is strange not to be mak-ing those decisions anymore. Now I will sit in a permanent adviser chair until I graduate in May. I’ll dabble in some reporting, I’ll copy edit a cou-ple times a week, but like the major-ity of my senior colleagues, my prime here is over.
It really is an odd feeling watch-ing a place I called my second home for the past four years move on with-out me. But that’s the reality. And it is time for me to move on as well.
I am headed to the real world, and it is intimidating. I’ll leave behind the comfort of the people and places I know best and enter the unknown. However, I know I am prepared.
Through this newspaper I have had unbelievable experiences. I have covered five different sports, a vol-leyball national championship game and Bruce Weber’s firing. I saw the paper through our University’s pres-idential resignation and the strike of a large organized group on campus.
Student media is unlike anything else in this world. It is exciting, fast-paced, stressful, and for that this end is bittersweet. But I’ll be leaving with pride because of what my staff has accomplished in this past year.
The DI has always strived to be a place to inform readers, give opin-
ions on important topics and train the future members of media. And we did that this past year.
We of course made mistakes, but that was to be expected. And there were positives, too.
I get to look back and remem-ber declaring to the newsroom that President Obama would run the country for another four years. I’ll remember the negatives — the angry emails and phone calls — and learn from them. Despite everything that happened, no one can take away the once in a lifetime opportunities I have had in my last four years.
But now, it’s all over. The ride is at its final turn. I thank you read-ers for picking us up, reading the website and giving us your opin-ions. I thank my staff who worked hard, got better and learned how to be better journalists.
Even though this chance and experience is over, it will be all right. Because you know what? Darshan and his staff will come in and continue the legacy of this paper. Similarly to how a new pres-ident comes in, continues to rule and helps move the nation forward.
All was well.
Samantha is a senior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @sammiekiesel.
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University history revealed by Roger Ebert
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Cutting education funding now spells future !scal trouble
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The story of America is perhaps defined by the immigrant jour-ney; the search for opportunity
and freedom. With dreams rooted in success and prosperity, Ameri-ca is more than the land of the free and the home of the brave; it is the measuring stick of morality, a nation that has given every person a fair chance no matter where they came from.
Countless immigrants, young and full of optimism, have possessed the full-fledged belief that their children could succeed in America. By hard work, sheer will and investment in education many have created new lives for themselves. Example after example of this phenomenon has certainly demonstrated the follow-ing: Education creates opportunity.
That said, too many people are being denied education around the globe. For example, the populous nation of Pakistan is mired in edu-cational turmoil. According to UNI-CEF, the total adult literacy rate is an alarming 56 percent .The youth literacy rate is 79 percent for males and 61 percent for females. Add-ing to the damage, more than 100 schools have been destroyed in just the Mohmand tribal region due to extremist militants in opposition of co-education, specifically of educa-tion for girls. Undoubtedly, the poor education system has contributed to the societal strife ever-present in Pakistan.
However, Pakistan is far from the only place that endures educational hardships. This immoral campaign to stifle public education is happen-ing everywhere. For example, in many places, children, by necessi-ty, must work to help support their families. The International Labour Organization found that one in every four children in sub-Saharan Africa had to work to support their fami-lies. The estimates also showed that one in every five children in Asia had to work as well.
To deal with this global problem, we can and must begin turning to technology.
In a world that’s becoming increasingly globalized, our chan-nels of communication have expand-ed exponentially. Whether it’s the daily usage of social networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook or the ability to interact visually over Skype, rapid technological innova-tions can, should and are beginning to be used to increase and spread educational opportunities.
The benefits of implementing new technologies are evident when con-sidering Rwanda. The country’s Ministry of Education understands the critical importance of further-ing education, especially in regards to technology. Though the country’s adult literacy rate averaged around 71 percent between 2005 and 2010, the primary school participation rate of males and females surpassed 150 percent. Dr. Vincent Biruta, the Minister of Education, called for researchers and the younger genera-tion last fall to incorporate technol-ogy in educational reform.
Utilizing advanced technology, Rwanda has begun to increase the capacity of technological and dis-tance learning in villages. This is vital to shrinking the teacher to pupil ratio, which currently stands at a scary rate of 58 to 1. And if educa-tion continues to be the staple of the government’s agenda, we might see Rwanda’s rate of those living with HIV and AIDS taper off over time from its current 170,000 people who live with the virus. Though 44.9 per-cent of the country lives in poverty, one can see why increased funding to the country is being allocated for the improvement of education — it will lead to good fortune everywhere else.
Education should be the great-est priority for every country. With technology’s assistance, we have entered an age where we can truly connect not on a local scale, or even national scale — but a worldwide scale. Increasingly, educated societ-ies will pave the way for the devel-opment of flourishing economies, aid in the alleviation of poverty and improve the quality of life available to much of humanity.
The story of every country is, and will always be, unique. Innovative education has been and continues to be part of America’s story, and it continues to make its way to every corner of every country. So it seems this new chapter of mankind’s global story is being rewritten, 140 charac-ters at a time.
Imran is a sophomore in DGS. He can be reached at [email protected].
In recent years, many blasts of legislative rhetoric centered around high school and middle-level schools
failing to meet standardized test benchmarks (thanks to No Child Left Behind) or the accessibility and affordability of college. It is seldom that the discussions in the public sphere involve early child-hood education.
Obama pledged to better the American public education sys-tem, starting from the ground up. He also reaffirmed his con-viction to impoverished fami-lies with children, promising support for the Head Start pro-gram, which aims to give a boost to lower-income children. In its short foray into the spotlight, the Head Start program had its fair share of criticism thrown at it, which asserted that the benefits of Head Start disappear by the third grade. A valid argument, but one that weakened conviction for Head Start and early child-hood education in general.
As swiftly as it came, early childhood education was swept under the rug to make room for a seemingly unrelated issue — sequestration.
As of March 1, Congress has to cut $1.2 trillion in federal spend-ing by fiscal year 2021, which includes a roughly 8 percent slash across the board this year alone. This law was never meant to go into effect, but because of opposition on both sides of Con-gress, no deal could be reached in time.
But Head Start and the seques-ter are not unrelated. In fact, they are entwined to the very core.
For fiscal year 2013, Head Start programs nationally will face a 5 percent budget cut, endanger-ing the education of thousands of at-risk children in the first year of sequestration cuts alone. Head Start cuts, being the lowest on the totem pole, are just the beginning of cuts for education. Cuts will continue up through high school.
In the past four years, college students have already seen signif-icant decreases in the amount of federal financial aid available to them, namely drop offs in avail-able Pell Grants and federal work study money.
Here at the University, thou-sands of students and faculty are only afforded the research oppor-tunities available because of fed-eral grants, especially those from the National Science Foundation. The NSF, however, will see bud-get cuts of five percent, which, in turn, will limit the number of grants the foundation is able to give to research projects and uni-versities. In 2012, the University was the largest recipient of NSF funds: $218 million spread across 322 projects. When a researcher is on the brink of a major devel-opment, slashing funding to that project is particularly devas-tating, both to the development itself and the people involved.
In the end, cutting federal funding to any aspect of Ameri-can public education is taking away limitless potential of mil-lions of students of all ages and abilities. We must have a federal government ready to look beyond the dollar signs that add up to a supposed “debt ceiling” or “fis-cal cliff” and see the faces of the people affected. After all, if we want to raise a generation that’s capable of making responsible choices for the American people, why would we cheat them out of an education?
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BY MICHAEL KUNZELMANTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — BP’s cement contractor on the Deepwater Hori-zon rig has discovered cement sam-ples possibly tied to the ill-fated drilling project that weren’t turned over to the Justice Department after the 2010 oil spill, a lawyer for the contractor said Thursday.
Halliburton lawyer Donald God-win told U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier that the company believes the material found Wednesday at its laboratory in Lafayette has no bearing on the ongoing tri-al to assign responsibility for the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.
But a plaintiffs’ attorney, Jeffrey Breit, countered that the samples are cement a Halliburton employ-ee used for testing of BP PLC’s Macondo well before the disaster.
The blowout and explosion on April 20, 2010, killed 11 workers and led to the enormous spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The failure of the cement job to seal the well was part of a complex web of mis-
takes that led to the April 20, 2010, blowout, according to a series of government probes.
In an email to the court late Wednesday, Godwin says Halli-burton is investigating whether the cement samples should have been turned over in response to subpoenas.
Godwin’s email said the newly discovered samples appear to be associated with the Kodiak well, which the London-based energy giant BP and its contractor Trans-ocean were drilling in the Gulf.
The non-jury trial began Feb. 25 and could last months. Barring a settlement, Barbier could decide how much more money that BP and its contractors owe for their roles in the catastrophe. BP could be on the hook for nearly $18 billion in penalties under the Clean Water Act if the judge finds that it acted with “gross negligence.”
Godwin’s email said Hallibur-ton lawyers didn’t have any idea that materials associated with the Kodiak well were still in the company’s possession before hearing testimony Monday from Timothy Probert, a Halliburton president who served as its chief safety officer at the time of the disaster.
While questioning Probert, Breit said Kodiak cement that Hallibur-ton had stored by April 30, 2010, was no longer listed as being in its possession as of July 20, 2010.
“Do you have any explanation why someone from Halliburton would have violated a preservation order of this court and removed the very Kodiak cement that was being used on the Macondo well?” Breit asked.
Godwin objected, saying there was no evidence that a court order had been violated.
BY JOHN HEILPRINTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA — It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago.
In what could go down as one of the great Eureka! moments in physics — and win somebody the Nobel Prize — scientists said Thursday that after a half-century quest, they are confident they have found a Higgs boson, the elusive subatomic speck sometimes called the “God particle.”
The existence of the parti-cle was theorized in 1964 by the British physicist Peter Higgs to explain why matter has mass. Sci-entists believe the particle acts like molasses or snow: When oth-er tiny basic building blocks pass through it, they stick together, slow down and form atoms.
Scientists at CERN, the Gene-va-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced in July that they had found some-thing that looked like the Higgs boson, but they weren’t certain, and they needed to go through the data and rule out the possibility it wasn’t something else.
On Thursday, they said they believe they got it right.
“To me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson
it is,” said Joe Incandela, a physi-cist who heads one of the two main teams at CERN.
Whether or not it was a Higgs boson had to be demonstrated by how it interacts with other parti-cles and its quantum properties, CERN said. The data “strongly indicates that it is a Higgs boson.”
The discovery explains what once seemed unexplainable and still is a bit hard for the aver-age person to comprehend. But it means the key theory that sci-entists use to explain everything works — for now, at least.
Its discovery could be a strong contender for the Nobel, though it is uncertain whether the prize would go to the 83-year-old Peter Higgs and the others who first pro-posed the theory, or to the thou-sands of scientists who found it, or to all of them.
Finding it wasn’t easy. It took more than two decades, thousands of scientists and mountains of data from trillions of colliding protons.
And it needed the world’s big-gest atom smasher — CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which cost $10 billion to build and run in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border — to produce the extreme surge of energies simulating those 1 tril-lionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.
The Higgs boson is so elusive that only about one collision per
trillion will produce one of them in the collider.
CERN said it is open question whether this is the Higgs boson that was expected in the origi-nal formulation, or the lightest of several Higgses predicted in some theories that go beyond that model.
“We found a new particle and we want to know how it behaves, and maybe it behaves the way it was predicted in 1964, maybe it’s a little bit different,” said physi-cist Sean Carroll of the California Institute of Technology, who isn’t involved in the research.
Finding a Higgs more or less as expected is a bit deflating, Carroll said, because physicists had also hoped that an unexpected type of Higgs might open windows into yet more mysteries of the universe.
“Scientists always want to be wrong in their theories. They always want to be surprised,” he said. “It’s a bittersweet vic-tory when your theory turns out to be right, because it means, on the one hand, you’re right, that’s nice, but on the other hand, you haven’t learned anything new that’s surprising.”
Some of the remaining myster-ies including why gravity is so weak and what is the dark mat-ter that is believed to make up a large part of the total mass in the universe, said Patty McBride, who heads a center at the Fermilab in Chicago.
BY SOPHIA TAREENTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD — State law-makers inched along Thursday with ideas aimed at solving Illi-nois’ nearly $100 billion pension crisis as three different propos-als — including a bipartisan plan — saw movement.
The bipartisan plan is sponsored by House Republican Leader Tom Cross and Democratic state Rep. Elaine Nekritz and requires higher employee contributions and gener-ally delays cost-of-living increases until age 67, among other things. It also tests out making universi-ties and some school districts pick up their own pension costs for new employees.
The House Personnel and Pen-sions Committee approved it 9 -1,
sending it to the full House.Nekritz and Cross have said
their plan would cut the state retirement systems’ debt by roughly 30 percent.
The committee vote came short-ly after House members approved two smaller pieces of reform in a laborious process aimed at trying to find consensus on how to solve Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation pen-sion problem. Lawmakers have been zeroing in on the problem in smaller doses after more typi-cal legislative routes have failed. However, some Republicans have criticized the process as direction-less and the process also means duplication of the same ideas in several pending bills.
Still, there was some move-ment Thursday as House mem-
bers approved two amendments, sending the bills to the Senate. The first caps the salary that pension benefits are based on at the limit set for Social Security, currently $113,000 a year. The other amend-ment pushes back the retirement age by different increments based on age group. For example, young-er employees will see a later retire-ment age.
Nekritz, who’s been at the heart of pension talks, defended the tac-tic. Lawmakers have been unable to agree on a plan for more than a year, even with intense urging from Gov. Pat Quinn, who’s made it his top priority.
“Working this bill in a tradition-al way, we really have not been able to come up with a solution,” Nekritz told lawmakers.
Scientists now nearly certain they discovered Higgs boson
Cement samplesdiscovered by contractorduring BP trial
Lawmakers make progress on Illinois’ pension problem
CHARLIE RIEDEL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this June 6, 2010, photo, a small oil-covered fish floats on the water’s surface at Bay Long off the coast of Louisiana after the oil spill on April 20.
Samples possibly tied to web of mistakes which lead to April 2010 oil spill
Unrest in Bahrain
HASAN JAMALI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Bahraini anti-government protester is engulfed in flames when a shot fired by riot police hit the petrol bomb in his hand that he was preparing to throw during clashes in Sanabis, Bahrain on Thursday.
BY KEN MILLERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OKLAHOMA CITY — A witness reported seeing a flash in the sky before a medical helicopter crashed into the parking lot of an Oklahoma City nursing home, killing two people, according to a preliminary report released from the National Transportation Safety Board.
The Feb. 22 crash occurred short-ly after takeoff and killed pilot Mark Montgomery and flight nurse Chris Denning. Paramedic Billy Wynne was critically injured.
The helicopter operated by Wichita, Kan.-based Eagle Med LLC took off from Integris-Baptist Medical Center about four minutes before the 5:42 p.m. crash. It was headed to Watonga, about 70 miles away, to pick up a patient going to an Oklahoma City hospital.
A man driving in the area told NTSB investigators he saw a “flash” in the sky in front of him and then witnessed the helicopter in rapid fall before it disap-
peared behind some buildings, accord-ing to the report released Wednesday.
“He then drove toward an area where smoke was emanating and saw that the helicopter was on fire in the parking lot of (the nursing home). He immediately assisted others ... in pulling the surviv-ing paramedic away from the burning aircraft,” the report said.
The report did not indicate what may have caused the flash.
Satellite data showed that the helicop-ter left the hospital and began a gradual climb on a northwesterly path toward Watonga.
The data stopped approximately 3 minutes and 30 seconds into the flight, the report said.
An Eagle Med spokesman did not immediately return a phone call seek-ing comment.
Integris-Baptist spokeswoman Brooke Cayot referred questions to Eagle Med, saying the hospital wouldn’t comment until the NTSB released its final report. That could take more than a year.
The Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services has said Eagle Med had just received its three-year accreditation. That included an analysis of maintenance records of all its aircraft and crew.
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Once the opportunity arose for me to write this sto-ry back in October, I was
hesitant. After all, it had only been a little over a month since my withdrawal. Was I ready to bare my soul for the entire cam-pus to read? Was I ready to talk to other girls and hear their sto-ries? Was I ready to write every-thing out and see it in print?
Would I ever be ready? I said yes. And I’m so glad I did. These girls, the girls that so
graciously told me their dark-est secrets and most painful sto-ries, taught me just how much hurt there is in the world. But, they also showed me that new life is just within our reach. I am incredibly thankful for their courage — their ability to reveal themselves to a faceless voice on the phone without shame.
I remember the shame I felt after my chew-spit episodes, after my binges, after my melt-downs. It wasn’t the disordered eating itself that I was ashamed of — it was the personal failure that destroyed my sense of self. Shame can grow, fester, rot until it consumes you, dragging you down further and further until you hit rock bottom.
For me, the shame continued to build up until I simply could not hold it in anymore. It wasn’t until September that I came out of hiding. Days after my with-drawal from the University, my secret was out, and I was over-whelmed by support: voicemails, texts, emails, blog comments, Facebook messages, snail mail. And even though it took time for me to begin responding, I felt the shame slowly melt away.
In the weeks that followed, I started opening up to my psy-chologist, to my parents, to my friends and to anyone who stum-bled upon my personal blog. My conversations and my posts allowed me to share the details of my struggle, even when I was hurting and the truth felt uncom-fortably raw. And my shame con-tinued to ebb, until it finally dis-appeared for good.
I believe in honesty. In humil-ity. In vulnerability. I believe that we, as humans, are called to be in fellowship with one anoth-er, opening up our hearts and minds.
How can we support each oth-er if we are clouded with shame?
“The concept of grace is mas-sive,” said Matt Wilcoski, cam-
pus pastor of Illini Life Chris-tian Fellowship. “It doesn’t sweep things under the rug. Everyone has issues, but grace gives us hope, instead of shame.”
In writing this story, I have found more hope than I ever thought possible.
“There’s a verse in Corinthi-ans that talks about being able to comfort others with the comfort we have received. This is one of the most amazing pictures of redemption that I know of,” he said. “If one person has strug-gled with something, then he or she is going to be able to under-stand and encourage someone else.”
I once saw a woman named Tiffany Dawn talk about her own journey through disordered eat-ing and desired perfection. Her beauty surely came from ash-es: Today, Tiffany is a published author of “The Insatiable Quest for Beauty.” She is a speaker, singer and songwriter, sharing her struggles and the hope she has found.
Tiffany was an inspiration to me, offering me advice for con-quering my food issues, and lat-er on, helping me with this very story.
On her blog, she described a perfect picture of finding beauty in the ashes:
“I just started tearing up as I looked at the Autumn leaves, because their beauty came from their letting go, their ‘dying,’ their surrender. And I was just thinking back on every time I’ve had to ‘die to myself,’ or part of me has been broken ... those are the moments that God has redeemed, the moments that have transformed into the most glorious beauty,” she wrote. “I want my life to be that kind of beauty; not the kind of beauty that pulls your eyes to me, but the kind of glory that speaks of heaven. And that kind of beauty only comes from surrendering my all to Him, letting go, like the leaves are letting go of the branches, so I can fall into Him.”
This is what true beauty looks like, lifting our eyes off our-selves and up toward something much greater.
And maybe, possibly, that beauty will rise up from our ashes.
Melanie is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at [email protected] and @mellystone.
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Shame can grow, fester, rot until it consumes you, dragging you down ... until you hit rock bottom.
Two killed in Okla. helicopter crashOne more in critical care after medical helicopter accident
PAUL HELLSTERN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration look over the wreckage of a medical helicopter that crashed Feb. 22 in front of the Saint Ann Retirement Center in Oklahoma City. A National Transportation Safety Board report says a witness reported seeing a flash in the sky before a helicopter crash that killed two people onboard. The third person onboard was seriously injured.
BY REGINA GARCIA CANOTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD — Backers of a measure to regulate high-volume gas and oil drilling in Illi-nois announced Thursday they have agreed on the fees and extraction taxes that drillers would pay to the state if lawmakers approve a plan to regulate the practice.
The rates were presented during a meeting of the House Finance and Revenue Committee, which is expected to vote on the measure Friday.
The proposal calls for industry operators to pay $13,000 per well upfront, with $11,000 going to the Illinois Department of Natural Resourc-es and the remaining $2,000 going to the state’s Environmental Protection Agency.
The DNR would use the money for a new reg-ulatory program spelled out in the legislation. The vice president of the Illinois Manufactur-ers’ Association, Mark Denzler, said the money for the EPA would be put toward any pollution complaints.
Illinois lawmakers are considering a measure to regulate hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which has made it possible in other states to tap
into deep reserves of oil and gas but has also raised concerns about pollution. Large volumes of water, along with sand and hazardous chem-icals, are injected underground to break rock apart and free the oil and gas.
Energy companies have been waiting for leg-islation in Illinois before undertaking the prac-tice in the state. Last month, Rep. John Bradley, a Marion Democrat, introduced the regulato-ry proposal, which has been touted as among the toughest in the nation and drafted with the help of industry and some environmental groups. Energy companies are eyeing the New Albany Shale, a formation deep under southern Illinois that they believe could hold significant gas and oil reserves.
Under the agreed rates, well operators also would pay a 3 percent-per-barrel extraction, or “severance,” tax during the first two years of operation. That tax would scale up after the sec-ond year depending on the well’s average month-ly production. .
Denzler told legislators he was “reticent” to estimate how much revenue fracking could gen-erate for Illinois because production among wells varies. But he provided an overview using an estimated model: Production of 200 barrels a day per well, at a 3 percent tax rate, would generate just under $200,000 per year per well.
State lawmakers review drilling proposal Measure would impose regulations on new hydraulic fracturing wells
SETH PERLMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Environmental group members show support inside the Capitol rotunda in an effort to pressure lawmakers for a two-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, at the State Capitol on Tuesday. The activists oppose a House measure that would allow the practice for the first time in Illinois.
I was nearly fired as Daily Illini sports editor after kicking a hole through a wall on the fourth floor
of the Illini Media building. It wasn’t the smoothest first day
on the job, but the heel of my left foot bursting through the drywall was as good a wake-up call as any.
Hey, dummy. Stop acting like a damn child all the time.
I eventually paid off my debt to Illini Media Company through odd jobs and manual labor, but the mes-sage stuck. If I was going to expe-rience success as a desk editor at The Daily Illini, I had better devel-op some maturity, and fast.
That sense of responsibility was one of the countless lessons I learned during my four years at the University of Illinois, both in the classroom and at the DI (though the latter served as the primary source for my education). I leave my post at the DI a self-assured journalist eager to make a name for myself — a welcomed upgrade from the blustering freshman who foolishly thought working for his high school newspaper was of any significance.
I still remember exiting the tall brick building overlooking Green Street in terror after submit-ting my reporter’s test, convinced my journalism career had ended before it even started for not know-ing how to spell “buccaneer.” While that feeling of doom following an exam was one I’d soon become exceedingly familiar with, then-sports editor Cody Westerlund was gracious/foolish enough to hire me. Under Cody’s tutelage, and even-tually that of Alex Iniguez and Kevin Kaplan, I developed report-ing skills and a writing style that I can call my own and feel comfort-able taking into my post-collegiate endeavors.
I did my best to mirror the abili-ties of my predecessors during my time as sports editor. The job was arduous, unrelenting and the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done.
I never considered putting out a paper five times a week to be my main priority; if there’s one thing I accomplished as editor, I hope it’s that the reporters comprising the sports staff saw considerable improvements in their abilities. AP style was never my forte. I applied for the job so that I could help my reporters craft the best stories pos-sible, and I believe I succeeded in doing so. That is what brings me the most joy.
“What a year this day has been, What a day this year has been,” Best Coast singer/songwriter Beth-any Cosentino croons in “Last Year.” Time is a funny thing, said Everyone Ever, but it’s the truth. Years always seem to go by so fast, while months take days and some weeks last an eternity.
It was an eventful year to be sports editor, starting with three major coaching hires during my first week on the job. There was certainly a learning curve, but I eventually figured it out. I even found time to do some reporting of my own, including a story on fra-ternity rush that caught the eye of many. My time working at the DI allowed for me to cover the likes of Denard Robinson, Montee Ball, the Chicago Bulls, first-round NFL Draft picks and Olympic sprinter Andrew Riley, and that was just this past year. It’s been a thrilling privilege that isn’t lost on me.
I will take those experiences moving forward following my grad-uation in May (fingers crossed!) as I attempt to enter the field of long-form journalism and prove to my mom that pursuing a job in a dying industry is indeed a brilliant deci-sion (shout-out to my mom, the most important person in my life. Your influence on me is — as my love is for you — immeasurable. It’s great having you on my team, and hopefully these kind words make up for this column being the first time you learn about my kick-ing a hole in the wall).
This is as good a time as any to thank the superbly gifted members that made up my staff for all their hard work. Any success the sports section experienced this year lies entirely within the merits of its reporters. I am indebted to all of you, and I won’t forget how fun you made this past year.
The pages of The Daily Illini aren’t the last place you’ll be read-ing articles from the sports depart-ment’s departing members. I’ve never been one for having a hipster mentality, but I can’t wait to say I
It was decided quicker than Petey sprinting down a football field. Actually, every round was quick. No one argued. No one
had to defend it. It was a given.You’ve all been waiting to see it as
the last movie standing all week. You may have even questioned why we were even doing this whole bracket. The win-ner was so indisputable. It’s what we consider the film of our childhood — we viewed it every year in middle school, especially on substitute teacher days. It’s what we quoted during recess and lunch.
It’s the team name you had when you played football in your backyard. It’s where you learned how to tell a mama joke. It’s when you learned that skin color makes no difference at all, any-one can be your brother (“see the family resemblance?”).
It is the “Rocky” of our generation. Though it was completely snubbed for
any Academy Awards — Come on, guys. No Denzel Washington for best actor? — it was the underdog story for the 9-year-olds who didn’t know about segregation, the power of sports or great acting.
That is why “Remember the Titans” is The Daily Illini sports staff’s pick for No. 1 sports movie.
From multiple motivational speeches to a devastating car accident — spoiler alert not even necessary. If you haven’t
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SAMANTHA KIESELEditor-in-chief
Brandon Paul seals the deal
BY ETHAN ASOFSKYSENIOR WRITER
CHICAGO — Cliff and Lynda Paul clawed through the pandemonium at the United Center.
Their son Brandon had just nailed a buzzer-beating fadeaway to seal the Illini men’s basketball team’s 51-49 win over Minnesota in Thursday’s opening round of the Big Ten Tournament, and they almost missed it.
They phoned the senior guard two days earlier to let him know they’d try to stay until the end of the game, as Cliff and Lynda also told Paul’s fresh-man brother, Western Michigan guard Darius Paul, they’d make his opening round matchup of the MAC Tournament in Cleveland on Thursday night.
Paul gave them every reason to stay.No other Illini scored more than six
points in Thursday’s win. Paul finished his afternoon with 25 points on 10-for-16 shooting from the field and drained 4-for-8 attempts from behind the arc. He played stellar defense, pulled down five boards and didn’t turn the ball over once, a persistent problem he’s had all season.
Illini head coach John Groce has said throughout the year that his seniors die hard. On Thursday, Paul refused to let his Big Ten career perish without a fight.
“I didn’t want to lose. We worked too hard,” Paul said. “This team has so much character and the coaching staff, they got us right for this one, as they do for all the games. So my mindset was to be aggressive. Coach talked to me to just stay aggressive.”
Groce also preached ball control in his pregame preparation, realizing posses-sions would be limited against Minneso-ta, which led the conference in offensive
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With the win Thursday afternoon, the Illini men’s basketball team will face No. 1 Indiana again — this time, the No. 1 signifies the top seed in the Big Ten Tournament.
Illinois turned around its season with a resume-building victory against then-No.
1-ranked Indiana in Champaign earlier this season. The Illini were losers of 6-of-7 before that victory, which was the start of a five-game winning streak.
Indiana is coming off of a 72-71 win over Michigan and is entering as a No. 1 seed for
the first time in the tournament’s history. The Hoosiers are led by Sporting News’ National Player of the Year Victor Oladipo, who the Illini held to just nine points and four rebounds the two teams’ only meeting this year.
Illini to face top-seeded Indiana, No. 1 for the first time in the tournament’s history
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JEFF KIRSHMANSports editor
Four years later, I may have finally grown up
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINI
Early on in my sports-mov-ie-watching experience, I had a #baycifail by acci-
dently renting “Rocky Balboa” — the final movie of the series — before watching the first one. So here I was, watching Rocky argue with his son and pine over dead Adrian being completely and utterly confused. The only aspect of the movie that made any sense was how awesome it was that they computer stimu-lated a fight between a young Rocky and current champion Mason Dixon. It immediately sparked the idea of how Illini athletes of different generations would fare against each other in their primes.
So, here goes.
Men’s basketball: Nick Anderson (1988-89) vs. Deron Williams (2002-05)
Anderson was one of the ring-leaders of the famous 1988-89 Flyin’ Illini squad, which was the first Illinois team to make the Final Four in the modern NCAA tournament. Williams was a starter and the force behind the Illini’s 2005 National Championship run.
Winner: Deron Williams. He made it further and for that, he’s better.
Football: Harold “Red “Grange (1923-25) vs. Rashard Mendenhall (2005-07)
If you don’t know Red Grange, the “Galloping Ghost,” then go figure it out. He defined football at Illinois and carried the Illini in a majority of their games. Mendenhall is one of the last stars Illinois football fans can remember getting genuine-ly excited about.
Winner: Red Grange. He has a statue in front of Memorial Stadium. He has poetry written
about him. You can’t mess with Red, yo.
Volleyball: Mary Eggers (1985-88) vs. Laura DeBruler (2007-10)
They are arguably the two best outside hitters in Illinois history. Eggers was known as one of the deadliest and tough-est players of all time, while DeBruler’s quiet personality balanced out her killer spike. I just wish they could be a tag team because that would have been the first Illinois volleyball national championship.
Winner: Laura DeBrul-er. She tops the record books despite ending her career early because of injury. And it’s the quiet ones that always come out on top, right?
Men’s gymnastics: David Zeddies (1986-89) vs. Justin Spring (2004-06) vs. Paul Ruggeri (2008-12)
All three won Nissen-Emery awards, the Heisman Trophy of men’s gymnastics. All three were the stars during their respective Illini careers. Zed-dies and Ruggeri led Illinois to national titles, but Spring won an Olympic bronze medal for Team USA.
Winner: Justin Spring. He has a bronze medal, yo. And he’s redefining gymnastics as every-body knows it. Though watch out for sophomore C.J. Maestas; he’s going to give Spring a run for his money.
Men’s golf: Steve Stricker (1986-90) vs. Luke Guthrie (2008-12)
The two probably have teed off together, considering they’re both still going strong. Stricker was so good at Illinois he has a tournament named after him. Guthrie was the first golfer to rival his success.
Winner: Stricker. Sorry, Luke. As much as I wanted to say Stricker struck out, you’re just
not good enough.
Women’s track and field: Tonja Buford-Bailey (1990-93) vs. Perdita Felicien (2000-03) vs. Ashley Spencer (2012- )
A hurdle race between this trio would probably end up with the starter getting trampled and nobody being able to see who won because it was just a flurry of activity. Translation: It would be a triple-triple threat of aggression, height and speed. Buford-Bailey and Felicien dominated their time at Illinois and Spencer is so far so good.
Winner: Ashley Spencer. In this case, newer is better and Spencer has the guidance of Buford-Bailey as her head coach. Together, they’ll be able to get over any hurdles Buford-Bailey had. See what I did there?
Basketball coaches: Lou Henson vs. Bruce Weber
They’re the two Illini coach-es that reached the Final Four. They’re two of the most memo-rable and loudest leaders of Illini basketball. Their fans will forever worship them and their athletes respect them.
Winner: Henson. Bruce got fired and Lou will forever be known as a legend. In the words of “Sandlot,” “Heroes get remembered but legends never die.”
Mascots: Chief Illiniwek (1926-07) vs. Illinois’ current mascot. Wait...
There’s Chief Illiniwek, the official symbol and mascot of Illinois from 1926-2007, who was retired because of the con-troversy surrounding the image as a hostile and abusive mascot. The outcries of dismay haven’t settled down much the past six years, and there’s yet to be a replacement but instead con-tinual protests for its reinstate-ment. And Illinois remains the school without a mascot.
Winner: The Chief. I mean, if it couldn’t beat a ghost of noth-ing then we’d have bigger prob-lems on our hands.
Basketball Facilities: Assembly Hall vs. Huff Hall
Assembly Hall just celebrat-ed its 50th anniversary. It’s now the home of the men’s and wom-en’s basketball and the Orange Krush cheering section. But from 1925-63, basketball games were played in Huff Hall, named after long-time Illini ath-letic director George Huff.
Winner: Huff Hall. For no other reason than the fact that Assembly Hall looks like a space ship.
Daily Illini Sports Editors: Cody Westerlund (2008-10) vs. Jeff Kirshman (2009-13)
It’s a tale of two individuals who never dreamed of being sports editors. In a true “Kara-te Kid” fashion, master trains the student and student takes over. Cody led the Illini of the Decade campaign, while Jeff successfully turned the entire Greek student body against him, while still being awesome.
Winner: Kirshman. He has a fro and everybody loves the one everybody hates. Writers Note: If any of the above mentioned athletes would be inter-ested in a duel, I personally have no objections and think it could be a great charity event for the Univer-sity. Because, of course, my opinion matters.
Emily is a graduate student. You can reach her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @emilybayci. But she gave up Twitter for Lent, so email her.
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BY SEAN NEUMANNCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Practice makes perfect.Although the Illini softball team
doesn’t expect to have a perfect record following Big Ten play, the team is definitely looking to improve on a mediocre start to the season.
After a 7-12 start in nonconfer-ence play, the Illini have taken note on what needs to be improved in their game, particularly their defense.
“We’re coming in a little earli-er and we’re coming in to work on individuals, so at practice we can work on the team defense,” senior Stephanie Cuevas said.
Practice was not all the Illini softball team needed, though. Fol-lowing a busy traveling schedule in the beginning of the season, the Illini were glad to have a week at home and get a day off this past Sunday. Visiting Iowa, Texas, Cali-fornia and Florida for tournaments in four consecutive weekends, the team was ready to spend a weekend practicing in its own facilities and catching up on the life they miss out on while on the road.
Senior pitcher Pepper Gay said she planned to spend her day off catching up on sleep, homework and laundry.
“It will be nice for us to get a weekend day off, so we can get some schoolwork done,” Cuevas added.
Head coach Terri Sullivan said this past week was an opportunity to reg-ister quality practice hours, which can’t easily be done on the road.
“Once we start playing, we only really get two days to practice, so we needed (to practice) and it’s a really good chance to focus on Illi-nois softball, not an opponent,” Sul-livan said.
Sullivan said Sunday’s day off was a good chance for players to take a mental break from the stress of close games and traveling.
“We’ve been in a lot of tight games,” Sullivan said. “We’ve had a really challenging schedule and sometimes just to give your-self that little break completely from softball is a good thing. It’s a chance to get organized and head into what will be an exciting week-end when we host (the Fighting Illi-ni Invitational).”
Sullivan said she didn’t expect the coaching staff to stop work-ing on their day off, but that they are relieved to be at home for the weekend.
“Coaches don’t get days off, but everybody has got to rest up,” she said. “Even coaches, too.”
The Ilini won’t rest for long, how-ever. With practice every day this week and four games scheduled for this weekend alone, the team’s day off will quickly be forgotten as Illinois looks forward to this weekend’s tournament in Urbana starting Friday and a challenging conference schedule around the corner.
“There’s a lot going on at this time of the year,” Sullivan said. “We’re really just working hard and that’s what it’s about to get better.”
Sean can be reached at [email protected].
Illini softball uses week off to perfect its defense
BY MICHAEL WONSOVERSTAFF WRITER
This coming Monday on ESPN’s Selec-tion Show, the Illinois women’s basketball team will find out if the NCAA tourna-ment committee considers it deserving to dance for the first time since 2003.
Despite a three-game losing streak to end the season, Illinois remains firmly on the NCAA tournament bubble. Accord-ing to ESPN’s Charlie Creme, Illinois is among the next four out, along with Flor-ida, Minnesota and Arkansas. While Illi-nois will certainly compete with Big Ten teams such as Minnesota, Ohio State and Iowa, other teams across the nation will also be compared with the Illini when the tournament committee assesses which teams deserves a spot. Here is how Illi-nois’ resume compares with the tourna-ment hopefuls from outside the Big Ten.
The mid-majorsMany of the bubble teams compet-
ing with Illinois for an NCAA tourna-ment spot are in a mid-major conference. Creighton, of the Missouri Valley Confer-ence, boasts arguably the most impres-sive resume of any mid-major team cur-rently sitting on the bubble. The Blue Jays have the best RPI of the teams on Creme’s bubble, ranking 31st in the nation. RPI is a statistic the selection committee uses that combines winning percentage and strength of schedule.
Although Illinois’ strength of schedule ranking seems low at 81st, that is actu-ally a high number compared with oth-er mid-major teams. Florida Gulf Coast of the Atlantic Sun, for example, ranks 165th in the country, while Charlotte of the Atlantic 10 ranks 143rd. Creighton is currently a No. 11 seed in Creme’s latest bracket and will compete in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament starting Friday. Creme also has Charlotte sneak-ing into the tournament as a No. 11 seed despite its loss in the A-10 tournament Saturday. He also has other mid-majors
such as Duquesne, also of the A-10, and Florida Gulf Coast on the outside look-ing in.
How the Illini compare: Illinois has the worst RPI among bubble teams, ranking 79th in the nation, but its biggest point against mid-majors is its 41st-ranked strength of schedule. The Big Ten ranks second in the nation in RPI, so the Illini have had to face stout competition all sea-son. Although Illinois’ modest record of 16-13 is dwarfed by Florida Gulf Coast’s 27-6 mark, the Illini should get the benefit from the selection committee of having played in a much tougher conference.
The other BCS conferencesCreme projects West Virginia and
South Florida to make the tournament despite early exits in the Big 12 and Big East tournaments, respectively. The Mountaineers 17-13 record won’t blow anyone away, but their No. 18 strength of schedule is easily the best among bubble teams. West Virginia has also knocked off three ranked teams this season. Kan-sas, like West Virginia, lost in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfinals Saturday.
Florida and Arkansas of the SEC are also among the big conference bubble teams. Florida defeated Arkansas in the SEC Tournament on Thursday but lost against Tennessee the next day. Both teams look like long shots to make the tournament because the SEC already has seven teams projected to make the field.
How the Illini compareWith the strength of schedule similar
among major conference bubble teams from this group, wins within each other’s conference could play a role in deciding who deserves a bid.
Illinois went 0-2 on the season against the Big 12, where West Virginia and Kan-sas reside, with blowout defeats at the hands of Iowa State and Texas Tech. Kan-sas and West Virginia didn’t have much
success facing Iowa State and Texas Tech either, combining to go 2-7 against the two teams this season. Kansas, mean-while, cruised past Minnesota on Dec. 2 in its only match-up against the Big Ten. While West Virginia lost to Iowa on Nov. 25. Illinois combined to go 3-0 against Minnesota and Iowa this season.
Illinois’ only game against the SEC was against then-No. 6 Georgia on Dec. 28 in its biggest win of the season. The Bulldogs swept both Florida and Arkan-sas this season. Michigan beat the Gators 59-53 on Dec. 1 in the only game Florida or Arkansas played against the Big Ten this season.
Although Illinois faces an uphill bat-tle to earn a spot in the tournament, head coach Matt Bollant said his team deserves to hear its name called come Selection Monday.
“I think if you look at our quality wins, that’s what they talk about,” Bollant said. “Your quality wins is what gets you into the NCAA tournament. We have six wins in the top 50. They’re not going to take another team in the NCAA tournament at-large bid that has six top-50 wins. Us to finish tied for fifth in the RPI, tied for fifth in the conference, to me, we should be in because of the quality wins.”
Michael can be reached at [email protected].
Illinois on the bubble for NCAAs
BY ALEX ORTIZSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois women’s golf team had only two days at home to prepare for this weekend’s Insperity Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate in Augusta, Ga. After last weekend’s last-place finish, Illinois will use the short turnaround to address the glaring weaknesses in the team’s latest performance.
“Right now we’re struggling a little bit with the transition from practice to tournament,” assistant coach Jackie Szy-moniak said. “We’re just going to con-tinue to try and keep things as real as possible. We’ll just try and make prac-tices even harder, step it up a little bit more so that you are feeling it, feeling that pressure.”
Head coach Renee Slone and Szymoni-ak implement this atmosphere of game-like conditions at the end of practice with exercises like chipping and putting com-
petitions. Slone was especially disappoint-ed in her team’s short game last week-end, so this will be an even bigger point of emphasis moving forward.
“One thing last week that, as a team, we struggled with was putting,” she said. “We’re going to focus on making a lot of putts — a lot of putts. And come later this week, each one of them can reflect on the fact that, ‘Hey, I made this many putts in practice. ... I’ve done this.’”
The coaches stress that transferring that confidence over to in-game situations will prove paramount in succeeding the rest of the season.
“The key thing we’re going to focus on is really confidence,” Slone said, “and trying to figure out why it’s lacking, what we need to do to improve that, how each individual needs to look and do a serious internal look at themselves and deter-mine what they need to do to get that confidence.”
Players like sophomore Pimploy Thirati want to rectify last weekend’s tough outing.
“I’m still trying to stay aggressive dur-ing the competition especially,” she said. “I think for me personally, and I’m sure for a lot of people too, it’s hard to only focus on the good things when you recently just missed a putt or mis-hit something. It’s hard to erase that and move on to the next one.”
As for the course itself, the Forrest Hill Golf Club is a 7,140-yard, par-72 public course with open fairways, which will lead to a much easier time for the Illini keep-ing the ball in play.
“It should be fairly open, which is good because if you’re missing a little bit with the drives you can still keep it in play,” sophomore Samantha Postillion said. “I think the main thing is probably going to be just putting well for this tournament.”
Illinois has yet to see the course, so the practice round will again be important in
strategizing for the tournament rounds. The Illini will need to pay special atten-tion to the greens in order to have the best possible short game.
With this being the third-to-last tourna-ment before the Big Ten Championship, the Illini are in need of a positive result during a time in which they are facing low morale and even less preparation time.
“It’s just a matter of really digging deep inside and pulling out that playing for pride, playing for your teammates, playing for each other and most impor-tantly, playing for yourself,” Szymoniak said. “They’re getting in their practice. They’re going above and beyond at times to get in some extras where they see it necessary and fit and they just need to have faith that they can do the same thing in tournament.”
Alex can be reached at [email protected] and @AlexOrtiz2334.
Women’s golf aims to improve at Ga. tournament
Team Record RPI SOSCreighton 23-6 31 81Duquesne 23-7 36 78Florida Gulf Coast 27-6 51 165South Florida 21-10 52 57Charlotte 24-5 53 43West Virginia 17-13 54 18Kansas 18-13 57 28Florida 18-14 73 39Illinois 16-13 79 41Arkansas 18-12 81 67
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Illinois’ Karisma Penn looks for space to shoot during the Illini’s win over Iowa at Assembly Hall on Jan. 31. Illinois is among the next four out, according to ESPN’s Charlie Creme.
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The Brooklyn Nets' Deron Williams, a former Illini, shoots a 3-pointer past Washington Wizards' Martell Webster on March 8 in New York. Williams set the NBA record with nine 3-pointers in a half, and columnist Emily Bayci thinks he could take down former Illini Nick Anderson.
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Thanks as well to all my friends and family unmentioned, particularly My Best Pals. Thank you, all of you, for being part of my life.
It was never my intention to assume the role as sports editor, partly because I never considered it a possibility and partly because I was so keen on covering the men’s basketball team. I maintained this
notion until a serendipitous conver-sation with DI lifer/swagger coach Emily Bayci flipped my stance mere hours before the application was due. I was eventually awarded the opportunity to run the sports section, but it came at the expense of Eliot Sill, who has been one of my best friends at school since shouldering the load with him as a fellow assistant sports editor. Eliot was relegated to reporting and column writing upon my hiring rather than heading the sports sec-tion. Rather than feeling scorned, he handled the situation with the kind of grace that I’m not sure I
would’ve been able to replicate. Perhaps a year later than he
would’ve liked, Eliot will replace me as sports editor following spring break. The Daily Illini’s sports section is poised to be even better next year under his guid-ance. He’s one of the brightest peo-ple I know and five times the writer I hope to ever be. I can’t wait to see what he does at helm.
Just make sure to avoid the fourth floor.
Jeff is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @jkirsh91.
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Illinois’ Brandon Paul takes the buzzer beating game winning fade-away shot during the Illini’s win over Minnesota at the Big Ten Tournament at the United Center on Thursday.
rebounds during the regular season.While the Illini lost the overall rebounding
matchup 38-26, they finished with 12 offen-sive rebounds to Minnesota’s 11. They also forced Minnesota into 19 turnovers while limiting their takeaways to just six.
Eleven of the Golden Gophers’ turnovers came in the first half, allowing Groce’s squad to build a 25-16 halftime lead despite shoot-ing 37.5 percent in the first half.
That percentage dropped to 28.1 in the second half, causing the Illini’s grasp on the game to quickly vanquish after returning from the locker rooms. Minnesota seniors Austin Hollins and Trevor Mbakwe returned to the court after first-half foul trouble, and the Gophers came out firing. After shoot-ing 27.3 percent in the first half, Minnesota shot 55.6 percent after the break, claiming a 32-26 lead in the first six minutes of the second half.
“Obviously, a tale of two halves here,” Groce said. “I thought defensively we were really good in the first half. “I thought they then flipped that switch on us in the second half and were able to get stops, kind of get us out of rhythm a little bit.”
It took a few chances, but Illinois finally regained its rhythm with less than three minutes left in the game. The Illini missed on three attempts to tie on 3-pointers but kept the possession alive by wrestling offen-sive rebounds away from Minnesota, due in large part to tip-outs by sophomore center Nnanna Egwu. Finally, senior guard D.J. Richardson — 1-for-11 from the field until then — nailed a 3-pointer with 48 seconds remaining to knot the game at 49.
“The offensive rebound effort was tre-
mendous by our guys on the possession that led to D.J.’s three,” Groce said. “It put us in a position where we had a chance to win the game.”
In actuality, it gave Minnesota the ball back with a chance to take the lead with under a minute remaining. As the shot clock wound down, senior forward Sam McLaurin switched onto Austin Hollins and trapped him near the sideline.
“I did one of my moves that I do in the paint where you show your hands and test him a little bit, knock him off balance,” McLaurin said. “He started leaning a bit and I knew he was going to throw it off me.”
McLaurin jumped out of the way, and Hol-lins fell out of bounds, giving Illinois the ball with 15 ticks left.
There was never a question where the ball was going. The only question was how to get the ball in Paul’s hands with two timeouts in Groce’s pocket.
“(Assistant coach) Dustin (Ford) and I were talking about it there on the bench,” Groce said. “I was about 50-50, to be honest, whether I was going to call one or not. But at the end of the day, I knew what I wanted to go with there.”
Groce didn’t give Minnesota a chance to make an adjustment. He let Illinois’ hopes ride in Paul’s hands.
After the ball swished through the net, Paul was mauled by his teammates then whisked into a TV interview. His parents found him shortly after.
“They’re super parents,” Paul said. “They told me they love me and way to play. I told them to tell Darius good luck.”
Luck has nothing to do with it. In the Paul family, It’s all about showing up.
Ethan can be reached at [email protected] and @asofthesky.
seen the movie, stop reading this col-umn and watch it — to an issue that sparked multiple sports movies after it.
“Remember the Titans” is the ulti-mate sports film. There are lines like “Sometimes life is hard for no reason at all” and “You make sure they remem-ber, FOREVER, the night they played the Titans!”
It’s about football, but it isn’t. It’s about segregation, but it isn’t. It’s about winning, but it isn’t. You feel something every time you walk away from this movie. A feeling deeper than your foot falling asleep or popcorn stuck in your
teeth or the relief of peeing after a two-hour movie. You don’t get that feeling from wannabes like “Bull Durham” or “Space Jam.” This is the film for every viewer, not just the sports fans.
Not to mention, Ryan Gosling’s in it before he became Ryan Gosling: Amer-ica’s heartthrob. Plus, you get the honor of watching now-slutty Hayden Panet-tiere be a young woman. She’s an exam-ple that anyone, not just the guys, can like football.
More importantly, it is a film that has iconic scenes, iconic quotes and iconic characters. There is no scene that gives me bigger chills than watching the Rev take the hand-off — the guy has been injured the whole season! — and run for a touchdown as Denzel basically
jumps on the back of Coach Yoast. I cry when I watch Gerry Bertier stretch his arms in victory in his hospital bed, and if you don’t, you have no soul. By the film’s end, you feel changed. You’re not quite sure how, but you feel like a bet-ter person.
You just can’t make that stuff up — well, actually they did, but we don’t have to get into that. If you want to know the differences between the real-life events compared with the film, feel free to check out ESPN’s comparison online.
But that is not what is being argued here.
This was a great film. For once, Dis-ney hit all of the right notes. From dra-ma to comedy to the issue of race to the
pressures of winning: “Remember the Titans” is an accomplishment. There isn’t much more to say about it, other-wise I’d start being repetitive and that’s not allowed in journalism.
Its competitor is a worthy opponent, known to many as the best sports movie of all-time. “Rocky” is no doubt a clas-sic. But the Titans are winners and Rocky, well, he lost.
“Rocky” does bring up many of the same elements as “Remember the Titans.” Yet it was not the movie that taught this generation morals, but “Remember the Titans” did.
“Rocky” is considered the ultimate story for an underdog, but it’s not our underdog story. He fought the good fight, and his effort will be remembered
(ha, get it?) but he’s just not the best.Adrian and Rocky have had their
time at the top, but for this generation the crown is for the film that taught us everything. And since its release in 2000, no film has been able to beat it.
It will be a movie all of us will show to our kids. They will end up see-ing films like “Rocky” and “Field of Dreams,” but “Remember the Titans” will be the one we talk about.
Not to mention, how many times have you seen “Rocky” compared with how many times you’ve seen “Remember the Titans”? That’s what I thought.
Samantha is a senior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @sammiekiesel.
Men’s gymnastics to trek to CaliforniaBY GINA MUELLERSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s gymnastics team will travel to the West Coast this weekend to compete against No. 8 California. After testing Illi-nois head coach Justin Spring’s new format last weekend, the Illini will return to the regulation five-up, five-count.
“It was a good switch-up because now we are back to the gymnastics daily grind, which is just knocking out numbers and routines,” Spring said. “That is where we are at in our training, and it can be mental-ly frustrating because it is monoto-nous. Last week gave us a good spin on our training, and now we are back to our old ways, but it is still some-thing new.”
The five-up, five-count format recently went into effect at the begin-ning of March. Illinois has only com-peted the new format once so far this season because of the head-to-head format used in last weekend’s com-petition. The Illini will have to adjust quickly to the time change in Cali-fornia before competing Saturday. Senior Josh Wilson said the time zone change will just be another factor the Illini adapt to.
“We don’t put too much weight into how much the jet lag and time change will affect us,” he said. “We know we have to get up at 4 a.m. anyway to
travel, so we just dump it all in with the extra added pressure of life. We don’t think, ‘Oh, we are going to have a bad meet because of traveling.’ We just think of it as starting facing a different way on an event.”
The new format cuts one member of the team from each event lineup. The competitive nature during prac-tice intensified the first week this format was introduced.
“I’m always going to have trou-bles with these lineups,” Spring said. “We’ve got some depth on a couple of events and it’s not going to go away. ... Everyone is hitting good routine and coming within a couple of 10ths in practices. You can look at past competitive experience. You can look at how the practice went, but every thing pushes and pulls one way. There is never an easy answer.”
Illinois is making its own spring break vacation after the team’s competition Saturday by taking an extended stay.
The Illini will stay in California a few extra days, but the majority of their time will be spent training in gyms.
“It’s going to be nice to get away from school for a while and only focus on gymnastics,” sophomore Mike Wilner said. “Being in Cali-fornia is pretty nice too.”
Illinois is ranked No. 6, behind Big Ten competitors No. 1 Penn
State, No. 2 Michigan and No. 4 Ohio State. The Big Ten Championships are only a few weeks away with the NCAA Championships following immediately.
“Depending on what side of the bracket we are on for NCAAs, we might have to beat out a very strong team to make it to second day. Not that we are overly worried about that. We are pretty confident we are a good team, but in this format, any-thing can happen.”
California has recently been strug-gling with funding for its men’s gym-nastics program. Without the proper funds, the program was unable to persuade a lot of top recruits over the past few years. Spring said the team is going into this weekend to compete against itself.
“We are competing for a score,” he said. “They have been strug-gling with funding and don’t have full-endowed scholarships, so they have a weaker freshmen and sopho-more class. They were able to pull in a very big class. I don’t know how refined they are, but I’m challenging the team to push the score.
“We went 430.00 last weekend, and we need to be pushing 440 and above. I’d like to see the team rise to the occasion.”
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BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER
With only one meet left before the Big Ten Championships, the No. 17 Illinois women’s gymnastics team will look to improve its con-ference standing against familiar foes this weekend.
The Illini will compete Saturday in the Illinois Classic at Illinois-Chicago, where they will take on the Flames, a team Illinois beat last Saturday.
Along with UIC, the Illini will also face Northern Illinois and Illinois State at the Classic. After scoring a 196.300 in both meets last weekend, Illinois will end its regular season against three teams that haven’t scored a 196 all year.
Senior Alina Weinstein and freshman Giana O’Connor will lead the Illini, as the two have all season. O’Connor is coming off of what head coach Kim Landrus called an 8-for-8 performance in both meets last weekend and was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for the second time.
“It feels good to know that my
hard work paid off, and I’m really proud of myself,” O’Connor said.
After getting Monday off to recover, the Illini were back in the gym Tuesday when they were working on precision.
“We’re working on being extremely solid in our execution and amplitude so that we can get a half 10th more out of every gym-nast,” Landrus said.
Before its dual 196.300s, Illinois was in a bit of a rough patch. The Illini had lost two of three but were able to bounce back.
“It was a little tough for a while, but we have those leaders like Ali-na and the rest of our seniors who come in and do their job,” soph-omore Sunny Kato said. “Even though we were in a little dip, they were able to lead us back, and I feel like our energy is up again. I just want to keep that momen-tum going.”
The Illini will look to surpass No. 15 Penn State in the confer-ence standings to qualify for the night session of the Big Ten Championships.
“Our goal is absolutely the eve-
ning session,” Landrus said. “But I talked to our girls and we can’t control what Penn State does this weekend. We can only control what we do so we have to make sure that we only focus on ourselves and go out there and get a real high score because this will also go into the RQS (regional qualifying score) and it will help us be a seeded team at regionals.”
To succeed this weekend and achieve its goal, Illinois will look to concentrate on what it been focus-ing on all year: the little details.
“We’ve also been trying to mini-mize the deductions, so if there is a wobble, we make it the smallest one we can,” Kato said.
Kato added even with a better spot at Big Tens on the line, the team isn’t feeling the pressure.
“It’s not really pressure, it’s more of excitement and motiva-tion,” Kato said. “I believe in my team and I know we can do this. It’s gonna be hard because Penn State is at home, it’s their senior meet and they’ll probably score pretty high, but we’ll be at the Illinois Classic where we usually
score pretty high.”The Illini will look to keep their
momentum by taking things slow-ly this weekend.
“We need to use our confidence in the gym and make sure we prac-
tice consistently and then when we go and take the competition floor, we have to focus on all the details and focus on one skill at a time,” Landrus said. “I still want to go out and hit 24-for-24 and stick our
landings and have six really great routines on every event so we can ride the wave going into Big Tens.”
Nicholas can be reached at [email protected] and @IlliniSportsGuy..
Illini aim to bolster conference standing with strong performance at Illinois Classic
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Illinois’ Giana O’Connor competes her floor exercise routine during the Gym Jam against Iowa at Huff Hall on Feb. 16. The Illini have one meet left at the Illinois Classic in Chicago before they head to the Big Ten Championships.
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Hot off 3-game sweep of Baylor, baseball to face Southern IllinoisBY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois baseball team has been riding the high of its three-game sweep of Baylor all week.
Practices are joyful and relaxed in practice for an Illini team that has won nine of its last 10. The Illini received votes in the latest top-25 poll from the National College Baseball Writers of America. They were honorable men-tion for team of the week from College Baseball Insider.
Illinois’ next challenge will be in a four-game series against Southern Illi-nois from Friday to Monday. The series could set up Illinois (10-4) for a prover-bial let-down weekend if it takes South-ern Illinois (9-7) lightly. The Salukis went 1-2 against the Illini last season, but this isn’t the same marquee match-up as last week’s against Baylor. The Bears were one game away from the College World Series in 2012.
“I hope this group is mature enough that they don’t look at the opposing team and opposing uniform,” Illinois
head coach Dan Hartleb said. “We just go out there and play hard and play to win each and every game. If you start gauging your opponent, that’s when you get in trouble.”
Illinois is playing as well as it has all season. The Illini are at the top or near the top in many of the major offensive categories in the Big Ten, including batting average (tied for second), home runs (third) and RBI (first).
The key for Illinois has been how quickly its young pitching staff seems to be coming together. It started the season with two rookies in the rotation — Kevin Duchene and Nick Blackburn — each of whom is yet to lose a game on the year at 2-0.
Illinois has been able to shut teams down at the end of games with Tyler Jay, Ronnie Muck and closer Reid Roper as the late-game relievers with respective ERAs of 1.80, 1.17 and 0.
So many of Illinois’ freshmen pitch-ers are pitching at a high level already that it’s easy to forget about Illinois’ top two starters — Kevin Johnson and
John Kravetz — who are a combined 4-1 on the year.
“The scary thing is we have a lot of room for improvement, too,” pitching coach Drew Dickinson said. “Which is kind of scary and can be a great thing.”
The Illini have had trouble with mid-week games in recent years, for reasons the coaching staff is still struggling to figure out. Most midweek games are against in-state teams that usually play as though they have some extra incen-tive when playing the Illini.
“It turns out a lot of those kids might have wanted to come here and we didn’t recruit them,” Dickinson said. “You got to be able to turn up the intensity a little bit. (Our opponent is) going to bring it, that’s for sure.”
Illinois and Southern Illinois will also get a chance to play at an independent league field Rent One Park in Marion, Ill., on Monday. The Illini are undefeat-ed on a neutral field this year at 5-0.
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Luxury Locations1-2 bedrooms, beautifully appointed, oasis,! replaces, balconies, & garages$725-$895
217-352-1129
217-352-1335
www.WamplerApartments.com
808 W. Nevada 3 Bedrooms plus sunroom. Partially furnished. Available August 2013.
Please call 217-352-1335 for showing.
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