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BY EMILY SCOTTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Holi has always been Pratim Patil’s favorite holiday .

He remembers the colorful Indian holi-day as a highlight of his childhood.

“Kids might look for-ward to Thanksgiving or Christ-mas,” Patil said. “For me that favorite holiday was Holi.”

Patil’s favor for Holi has now transferred to his work as event coordinator for the Universi-ty’s chapter of Asha, a nonprof-it organization that raises funds for the education of underprivi-leged children in India .

Asha held its annual Holi cel-ebration Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. at the Florida and Lincoln Playing Field.

The event had more than 2,500 attendees and raised more than $16,000 out of the organization’s fundraising goal of $20,000, according to the event’s Face-book page.

Though the largest celebration of Holi takes place in India, the holiday is celebrated around the world in many major cities and college campuses.

The holiday comes from the religious story of Prahlada , who was rescued from a fi re by the Hindu god, Vishnu. Also known as the festival of colors, or fes-tival of love, it marks the begin-ning of spring.

Holi begins with a bonfi re the night before, followed by a day full of throwing colors — usu-ally corn starch with color dye — and participants chasing one other with water guns.

Traditionally, Holi is cele-brated after the last full moon of Phalguna, the Hindu month during the end of February and beginning of March. However, Pail said Asha UIUC moved its Holi celebration to April due to the colder weather seen in Illi-nois this year.

“It’s just a fun event that peo-ple of any religion or any denom-ination can attend and have fun at,” Patil said.

The bridging of the social gap

that the holiday allows is what makes it important, Patil said. He described it as a great join-ing force — especially in India. It’s a day when social divisions don’t matter, and everyone gets together to celebrate.

The University’s chapter of Asha, which began in 1999, start-ed hosting its own Holi celebra-tion in 2010. Since then, Patil said the event has grown expo-nentially in size. He said the fi rst event had around 350 par-ticipants, but within 48 hours of launching Asha’s Facebook event page this year, 3,000 peo-ple had RSVP’d to the event.

Amandeep Gargi, former president of Asha UIUC and cur-rent adviser for the organiza-tion, said he made the decision to start Holi during his presidency in 2010 because he felt “a strong need to revive” the organization.

In the beginning, the main challenges were logistics and preparing for large crowds of people in a large enough space, Gargi said.

“We were scared until the day of,” he said of Asha’s fi rst Holi. “In the evening when everything was fi nished, we fi gured out, ‘Oh, it wasn’t that bad.’ After that, our model was established.”

With a ticket purchase — $12 for students and $15 for the gen-eral public at the gate — partici-pants were able to use as many colors as they wanted. Patil said there were 1,200 pounds of color stored up for the day’s use.

In recent years, Asha UIUC

BY ABIGALE SVOBODANEWS EDITOR

University representa-tives will testify against Gov. Bruce Rauner’s pro-posed budget cuts for the 2016 fi scal year — which begins July 1 — in the Illini Union Pine Lounge Monday at 1:30 p.m.

Chancellor Phyllis Wise and Provost Ilesanmi Adesida spoke at a town hall meeting on Thurs-day, where they discussed Rauner’s proposed budget

cuts, which would eliminate 31.5 percent of the Univer-sity’s budget.

Rauner proposed to cut a total $6 billion from the state budget, affecting oth-er government programs outside of the University. representatives from local governments and other agencies will also testify.

“We will handle this bud-get cut through both the University administration

UI offi cials to discuss pending cuts

Asha UIUC raises money for charity at 6th annual Holi celebration

University professor alerts city, UI of pollution in local creek

PHOTOS BY TOREY BUTNER AND BRITT BRUCE THE DAILY ILLINITop: Abdul Shaik prepares to spray others with water at Asha UIUC’s Holi Festival on Saturday. Bottom: Koren Hayes, junior in AHS dumps her bag of Gulal, colored powder, on a friend’s head at the Holi celebration on Saturday.

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“Throwing colors at people and targeting my friends here.”

“I’m not too fond of the colors, but I love the fact that everyone gets together, regardless of their backgrounds.”

“The vibrance and bright colors, and everyone enjoying what the celebration has to offer makes it really exciting.”

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BY KYLE SUMMERVILLECONTRIBUTING WRITER

While walking through the Engineering Quad nearly one year ago, Rob-ert Kanter, professor in the School of Earth, Soci-ety and Environment, noticed pollution in Bone-yard Creek. In April, Kant-er noticed the same type of pollution entering the creek through a storm drain.

The persistent pollu-tion in Boneyard Creek led Kanter to post pic-tures of the creek, and of the animals affected, on Facebook.

Kanter said he was hop-ing to bring awareness of the pollution and solicit advice on how to stop it.

He emailed the Univer-sity’s Facilities and Servic-es department, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the city of Champaign, which he had done without success in the past.

This time, however, Kanter said all three offi c-es responded quickly and made efforts to get to the bottom of the issue.

“We were fi rst notifi ed about it from our environ-mental compliance depart-ment,” said Steve Breitwie-ser, media communications specialist for Facilities and Services. “There’s been a strong line of communica-tion throughout the whole process.”

Breitwieser said the Uni-versity worked closely with the city of Champaign to determine the source of the pollution. The city pro-vided television cameras, which showed dye entering the storm drainage system through a broken pipe joint.

The pollution in the creek came from paint that was washed down a sink in a University building. Bre-itwieser said the sanitary line connected to the sink

Swift rescue for Boneyard Creek

Rauner joins students for Day of ServiceBY CAELI CLEARYSTAFF WRITER

To help the tornado vic-tims in Illinois, Gov. Bruce Rauner joined the Illini Fighting Hunger and other local volunteers to package meals as a part of the Uni-versity’s Community and Campus Day of Service.

Sarah Zehr, director of operations at the Offi ce of Public Engagement, said Rauner was in Champaign to help kick off Nation-al Volunteer Week. Dur-

ing the community event, Rauner worked with over 1,500 volunteers ranging from community members to students and faculty.

While addressing the crowd, Rauner pointed to a van full of packaged food behind him and said the meals were going to north-ern Illinois to help families in Ogle and DeKalb coun-ties who were impacted by Thursday’s tornadoes.

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ChampaignDomestic battery

and damage to property was reported in the 1300 block of Garden Hills Drive around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday.

According to the re-port, a male suspect bat-tered two females, in addition to damaging a TV.

Harassment by elec-tronic communication was reported in the 2500 block of Leeper Drive around 8:30 a.m. on Fri-day.

According to the re-port, the offender sent

unwanted text messages to the victim and subse-quently went to the vic-tim’s house.

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reported a ring stolen be-tween 2:20 and 3:30 p.m. at Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., on Thursday.

According to the re-port, the ring, which has an estimated value of $3,897, was left unattend-ed in a restroom.

Urbana Theft was reported

in the 500 block of West Anthony Drive around 4 p.m. on Friday.

According to the re-port, an unknown offend-er removed two air con-ditioning units from the roof of the victim’s busi-ness.

Theft was report-ed in the 1400 block of East Washington Street around 6 p.m. on Friday.

According to the re-port, the victim’s cell phone was stolen from him while he was at a lo-cal bar.

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BY STEVE LORD, JANELLE WALKER AND MATTHEW WALBERGTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO— Tornadoes scoured parts of seven counties in north central Illinois, killing two wom-en in a small town that was destroyed.

The most powerful tor-nado that swept through the area Thursday night packed winds of 180 to 200 mph, Weather service mete-orologists Mike Bardou and Gino Izzi said radar read-ings and reliable accounts from storm chasers indi-cate the initial tornado spun into a pair of twisters after the storm ripped through Rochelle and nearly wiped out the small community of Fairdale.

The more powerful twist-er moved northeast into

Boone and McHenry coun-ties. The smaller, “satellite” tornado traveled on a paral-lel path farther northwest, starting near Rockford in Winnebago County. The most severe damage was in tiny Fairdale, where two neighbors, Geraldine Schul-tz, 67, and Jacklyn K. Klosa, 69, were killed. The Illinois State Police reported a total of 11 people suffered inju-ries serious enough to be taken to area hospitals.

Help came to Fairdale from Washington, the Peo-ria suburb that experienced similar devastation less than two years ago. In the weeks and months after the Washington tornado, peo-ple from all over the coun-try donated to the town’s recovery.

Washington resident Jew-el Ward started an online

fundraiser Thursday night to help Fairdale residents. Her goal with the Fairdale Tornado Relief fund on you-caring.com was $5,000. By 7:15 p.m Friday, the fund totaled more than $6,000.

While Ward’s effort was garnering contributions, Gov. Bruce Rauner vis-ited the tornado-ravaged region, declaring DeKalb and Ogle counties state disaster areas.

The state disaster dec-laration makes available a wide variety of state resources to help stricken areas.

“Everybody’s safe, and things can be replaced,” said Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle, whose own home was destroyed by the tornado.

“We built once. We can rebuild.”

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was compromised, allow-ing the paint to enter the creek.

“It’s not that the paint was bad, but it’s that some-body else might dump something in there that might be,” Kanter said.

To combat the issue, the University has prohibited use of the sink until the pipe is fixed.

“We’ve provided support to help them find the source of the problem,” said Alex Nagy, civil engineer in the city of Champaign Public Works Department. “But it’s coming from a U. of I. building, so this is not under our jurisdiction.”

Facilities and Services has already begun repairs to the sanitary line, and

Breitwieser said the work is expected to continue into next week.

“This is an example of things working exactly as you would want them to,” Kanter said. “A person notices something wrong, contacts an agency with the power to do something about it, and the agency does something about it.”

The 10th annual Bone-yard Creek Community Day will be held on April 18 at Scott Park in Cham-paign. Breitwieser said the event is held to remove trash, pollution and to gen-erally protect the creek through community action.

“Public awareness is important,” Breitwieser said. “The more people are aware, the better we can protect places like Bone-yard Creek.”

Although he is hap-

py with the results of his actions, Kanter said he realized the issue did not need as much attention as it received on social media.

“I was really delighted to see how many people cared when I mentioned it. On the

other hand, that was unnec-essary because the people I was contacting also care about the creek,” Kanter said. “I was mistaken in thinking they didn’t.”

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JIZAN, Saudi Arabia — From their post on a rocky hilltop, two Saudi border guards man a .50-caliber machine gun and use bin-oculars to scan the dry scrubland that separates this kingdom from its war-torn neighbor to the south, Yemen.

The scene before them appeared peaceful on Fri-day: The craggy peaks that rise beyond a riverbed were spotted with goats, cows and families of baboons. But later that day, mortar rounds fired into Saudi ter-ritory from Yemen killing three soldiers and injuring two others stationed along the frontier, state media reported over the weekend.

It was the latest in a series of border skirmish-es that have killed six of the kingdom’s troops since a Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes March 25 against rebels known as the Houthis who have seized large parts of Yemen. The Saudi Defense Ministry said that its forces returned fire, and that 500 Houthi fight-ers have been killed in the clashes.

“Our border is a red line,” said Lt. Col. Hamed Alahmari, a spokesman for the Interior Minis-try guards who patrol the highly porous frontier that stretches about 1,000 miles through mountains and desert.

VATICAN CITY— Arme-nians were the victims of “the first genocide of the 20th century,” Pope Fran-cis said Sunday, prompting Turkey to recall its Vati-can ambassador home to Ankara.

Similar remarks from the Catholic leadership in the past have triggered protests from Turkey, which denies that the mass deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire dur-ing World War I was geno-cide. Armenians say as many as 1.5 million people were killed.

“In the past century, our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies,”

Francis said at the start of a remembrance mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the 1915-16 mass slaughter of the Armenians.

“The first, which is wide-ly considered the first geno-cide of the 20th century, struck your own Armenian people, the first Christian nation, as well as Catho-lic and Orthodox Syrians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Greeks,” Francis said.

The pope said the other two genocides of the last century “were perpetrat-ed by Nazism and Stalin-ism” and went on to say the world is in the midst of another genocide, the persecution of Christians in the Middle East.

BEIJING — The Chinese Communist Party oper-ates out of a vast walled-off compound, known as Zhongnanhai, near Bei-jing’s Forbidden City. It is here that party leaders oversee the Great Fire-wall — China’s 24-hour con-trol and censorship of the Internet.

Some 5,900 miles away, in a cottage in Berkeley, Calif., the staff of Chi-na Digital Times tries to poke holes in the Great Firewall. Every day, they collect, translate and pub-lish many of the censorship directives the party sends to state media. They aggre-gate breaking news deemed “sensitive” by China’s rul-ers and highlight the code words Chinese people invent to get around the censors.

“There is no way you could take all these criti-cal voices and party direc-tives and put them together on one website in China. It

would be taken down imme-diately,” said Xiao Qiang, chief editor of China Digi-tal Times and an adjunct professor at the Univer-sity of California, Berke-ley. “But outside the Great Firewall you can do that. And that is what we do.”

Since Xiao founded Chi-na Digital Times in 2003, it has become a go-to site for English speakers want-ing to keep up with China’s Internet and its 640 million “netizens.”

But China Digital Times doesn’t cater only to Eng-lish speakers. After China blocked access to the site in 2006, Xiao made plans for a Chinese-language site, which he launched in 2011. China blocked that site as well, but Xiao said his team uses a variety of meth-ods to make China Digital Times accessible in China. These include email lists, social media and “mirror sites” that can’t easily be blocked.

and the campus adminis-tration in order to protect the colleges, and units and our students,” Wise said.

However, Wise said, the more important question, one that “looms heavy,” is how to deal with the 2016 fiscal year budget.

“This is nothing less than a breathtaking cut,” Wise said. “We have remind-ed people, and remind-ed ourselves, that this is really just the first itera-tion of the budget and we will continue to work with legislators and the gover-nor to impress upon them what a huge impact this would have on our ability

to meet the mission of the University.”

Wise said she and coun-terparts from the Chicago and Springfield campuses will testify to legislature in Springfield again in May.

Wise also discussed Sen-ate Bill 1, regarding state pension cuts, and Univer-sity employee benefits such as student tuition waivers.

Wise said the Univer-sity will do what it can to combat any decisions and continue to offer compet-itive packages to employ-ees. However, Wise said it is critical to be mindful and strategic, no matter what decisions are made.

“Quite honestly, the year ahead of us is going to be a most challenging one,” Adesida said. “And it will

require us to work together as equals.”

Adesida said Rauner’s proposed cuts are of a “magnitude we cannot sim-ply absorb.”

Everything must be on the table when considering where to make reductions, Adesida said. However, he said the University must protect its core educational mission and instead explore University operations and new revenue options.

Student Body President Mitch Dickey urged attend-ees to speak to legislators.

“While we are talking about this, and while we are planning for the worst and hoping for the best, I think it’s really important for us to stay focused on our stra-tegic plan, on our long term

vision, on what we must do to maintain our position of respect and impact across the nation and across the world,” Wise said.

Wise said the Universi-ty needs to create a new strategic plan for the next five years. The next com-prehensive plan will be launched in 2017.

When asked about the possibility of being cen-sured by the American Association of University Professors, Wise said she would not conclude the censure was sure to hap-pen and she takes it very seriously. Wise said she believes it is important to promote the strengths of the University.

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“Having these meals there make a big differ-ence as they come togeth-er to rebuild their lives,” Rauner said.

According to the Cham-paign-Urbana Volunteer website, 160,000 meals were packaged, 12,000 of which were sent to Fair-dale, a town hit by Thurs-day’s tornadoes.

Illini Fighting Hunger, a registered student organi-

zation that hosts meal-pack-aging events throughout the state of Illinois, was found-ed three years ago by Greg Damhorst to address hun-ger issues and make meal packaging events more effective through student leadership.

“On Tuesday we’re cele-brating 1 million meals that we packaged since we start-ed,” Damhorst said. “Today, we are at about 1.25 million total since we’ve started the organization.”

Rauner’s visit was orig-inally part of his Illinois

Turnaround Tour, which included visits to 17 Illinois counties to talk about his Turnaround Agenda, or his plan for jobs, employment, taxes and pensions.

However, after tornadoes hit parts of northern Illi-nois, Rauner spent Friday with victims and wanted to use his visit to the Universi-ty as an opportunity to help those in need.

“The University of Illi-nois is wonderful to have this day of service and to particularly focus to help those families who are so in

dire need right now,” Raun-er said.

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has been able to raise around $30,000 to 40,000 annually from all of its fundraising for the edu-cation of underprivileged children in India. Gar-gi said 100 percent of the funds raised by Asha UIUC reach the educational proj-ects in India.

The dollar to rupee, India’s national currency, exchange rate can make a world of difference, Patil said.

“You spend two dollars on a Coke or a tip, and it’s a month of education in India,” Patil said. “So that’s why we thought, ‘Hey, this

will be a good idea.’”Though Holi is its larg-

est fundraiser, Asha UIUC also raises funds through participating in marathons and running its monthly restaurant, Sambar. Once a month, the organization takes over the Red Her-ring restaurant in Urba-na and cooks Indian food that is either exotic or not usually served in Indian restaurants.

Regarding Asha, Patil said there are two parts of the equation: raising money and figuring out a respon-sible way to disperse that money to schools in India in a transparent way.

“We have a responsibil-ity to the donors to ensure that the money’s not going

into the wrong hands,” he said.

Both Patil and Gargi said they expected this year’s Holi would bring in more people and funds than pre-vious years.

Shraddha Patil, trea-surer of Asha UIUC, said Stanford University’s Holi celebration, which was extended to a two-day event due to its popularity, is an inspiration for what they would like their Holi celebration to become.

Nevertheless, she said Asha UIUC’s Holi is attracting a more diverse crowd, including people of the Champaign-Urba-na community, professors and even people from out of state.

“It feels great when peo-ple travel all the way to come here,” she said.

Gargi said he hopes the organization will continue to raise awareness for both the cause and Indian cul-ture in general.

“There’s a huge popula-tion of people of Indian ori-gin here who were brought up in America and haven’t experienced the big Holi,” Patil said. “A lot of peo-ple in the past have told us thanks a lot for organiz-ing this; we’ve only seen this in the movies. That’s a great feeling as well, to give them this opportunity to enjoy a slice of India.”

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Sometimes it feels like I have discovered a new social convention. When adults back at home ask me the inevitable question, “So what do you want to when you graduate?” and I reply, “I plan on attend-ing law school,” I always get the same skeptical stare.

My adviser here even spent fifteen minutes trying to talk me out of law school during our first meeting. People have lost faith in the legal profession.

While it may seem like an unpredictable profes-sion, don’t be so quick to dismiss the option if you’re considering it. For many, law school isn’t just a good choice, but it’s the best choice.

For students who have the grades to make it at top law schools, there is no profession that offers the same level of compensation immediately after graduation. According to Forbes, every single top-tier law school’s graduates make an average salary of $160,000, except The University of Virginia whose average is $117,500. The University of Illinois Col-lege of Law is ranked 41st in the nation, but its aver-age graduate still makes $79,500 a year.

Many of these schools also boast an employment-at-graduation-rate of 90 percent, which outstrips most typical college graduates. More and more stan-dard college graduates can’t find work or are getting jobs they are overqualified for. A solid law school can ensure that you do not need to worry about abys-mal job prospects.

Rebecca Ray, the assistant dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at the University of Illinois College of Law agrees. Although she does think that students need to do their research before making the deci-sion, “a law degree opens doors to many success-ful, fulfilling careers and has been shown to have a strong return on investment over the course of a career, despite recent downturns in the market.”

Although Ray points out the well known dip in legal job prospects, this might actually make law school a more attractive choice.

The legal market declined during the recession, preventing many students from enrolling. This ulti-mately resulted in a 23 percent decrease in law school graduates.

As the economy continues to improve, so will the demand for legal jobs. The decline in law degrees on the market will make it even more likely that a law school grad will find employment.

Bearing that in mind, now might actually be the best time to enter the legal market.

The verdict is in: Consider your options and know what you are getting into. If being an attorney sounds like a fulfilling career choice and you have the ability to go to a law school you are confident in, don’t let the naysayers dissuade you.

Thomas is a freshman in LAS. tdowlin2@dailyillini.com

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Getting over the oversharing trend

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I am an avid social media user. I have no shame (okay, a little shame) in admitting

that the first thing I do every morning is check the trifec-ta: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

More often than not, I sit and see what the people in my life are up to. I post pictures when I take good ones and tweet when I’m feeling par-ticularly funny, but usually, I just scroll.

While I scroll, I always seem to see that one person post-ing constantly about the most recent drama in their life and therefore they earn the title of the oversharer.

Break-ups, fights and all opinions the oversharer has ever had are documented for everyone to see, and I really think it’s time for the over-sharing to end.

A couple of days ago, I took to the Quad to see how my fel-low Illini felt about overshar-ing on social media.

Eric Bultman, senior in LAS, said he thinks overshar-ing is obnoxious.

“(Oversharers) need you to know; they want the feed-back,” Bultman said. “They should keep it to themselves. If it gets excessive and it’s someone I’m not really close friends with, I will unfollow them.”

Oversharing is really just that. It is literally over shar-ing details. It is too much information. It is things that I don’t need to know and really don’t want to know.

Not everyone on your friends list needs to know your boyfriend cheated on you, that you got in a fight with your dad and that you failed your midterm. Feel free to post dozens of funny cat videos, but keep your drama to yourself.

Knowing every detail of an oversharer’s life isn’t just unnecessary, it’s uncomfort-able. Often, these people share more information than I know about some of my friends. So, let’s make a new rule: If you wouldn’t share it with a stranger on the street, please don’t post it on Facebook.

“I don’t like sharing a lot

of my information,” said Jea-nette Bustamante, senior in AHS. “It’s personal.”

Bria Simmons, senior in Business, agrees and said she encounters this situation in her everyday life.

“I put pictures from vaca-tion ... but nothing about my man. I’ve got family members, moreso, (that overshare),” Simmons said. “I feel like they overshare, especially about family relationships.”

As people share more and more events and details about their lives, problems can increase. Several stud-ies have shown that overshar-ing can negatively impact real life relationships. A Uni-versity of Michigan study strongly linked oversharing on social media to higher lev-els of narcissism. Jealousy and annoyance can build up and cause more than a virtual unfriending.

Not only is oversharing on social media annoying, but it can also have serious reper-cussions that extend beyond relationships.

According to a study from Action Fraud, 88 percent of social media users share information that could aid

in identity theft. Overshar-ers are unknowingly handing over valuable information to thieves. The more informa-tion they have about you, the more they have to back up their fake identities, and in the words of Dwight Shrute, “Identity theft is not a joke.”

Posting about every second of your day can also get you into trouble at work. Venting about work in a Facebook mes-sage or posting an Instagram with friends while you’re sup-posed to be out sick can come back to your boss. In Febru-ary, a senior Maryland state corrections official was fired after making an inappropriate joke on Facebook about prison guards; his oversharing cost him his job.

As much as you might think that I care, I don’t need to know what you had for break-fast or that you served it to your girlfriend in bed. In fact, people like me may start to pull away from oversharers online and in-person.

Let’s band together and put an end to oversharing.

Sam is a sophomore in Media. spullin2@dailyillini.com

At the University’s annual town hall meeting, Chancellor Phyllis Wise announced that Edelman, a public relations firm, was hired to represent the University. Wise said the University needs to decide what its distinctive ideas are and how the school wants to be seen in the future. The Daily Illini Editorial board wrote a letter to Edelman as to how they could achieve this.

First off, congrat-ulations on the new gig.

Between the Steven Salaita

controversy, anger over lack of snow days, bud-get cuts and fewer ap-plications coming in, the University has been mak-ing its fair share of head-lines.

Because of these things, there are professors who do not want to be here. Experts are canceling talks and lectures to sup-port academic freedom. Despite a told emphasis on diversity, minority stu-dents still report being faced with microaggres-sions throughout campus.

As the University faces censure from the Amer-ican Association of Uni-versity Professors and must fight for fund-ing, you have your work cut out for you. But, as a large public relations firm, you have probably seen worse problems than the University’s.

In an effort to make this a transparent and wel-coming school, we hope you will hold the Univer-sity accountable for its actions while still mov-ing it forward. Although it’s your job to make the University look good, we hope that you are upfront and honest about the Uni-versity and its decisions.

In whatever controver-sy comes next (it will in-evitably come; it’s part of life at a large public uni-versity), we hope that you stick to the idea that the truth is the best defense.

Do not cover up contro-versies. Face them head on and move our school past them, because the University needs to be known as (and needs to be) an honest, welcoming environment.

We still host award-winning faculty and just hired a new president, Timothy Killeen, and we need diverse students to bolster the talent we al-ready have. Representing our university as a wel-coming environment, and holding this institution to that standard, will con-tinue to attract the best minds in research and teaching and will reinvig-orate students’ desire to attend this school.

Whether the issue is ac-ademic freedom or mi-croaggressions, solving it will make the Univer-sity attractive to more diverse minds and spur more open and productive conversations. These con-versations could create not only technological but social change, that would impact not only our cam-pus but the world around us.

Transparency and di-versity should be our im-age, but it should also be our reality. We hope you can give it a try.

Picture the following in all of the upper-case, exclaimed, fun-font glory you can imagine: “Game of Thrones” is back. We don’t know about all of you other “Westerbros,” but we will be praying to the seven gods that we will see the (hope-fully romantic) reconciliation of Ser Jorah and Daenerys, the taming of that devilish dragon, the reveal of who John Snow’s mother is and the deaths of Melisandre and Cersei by the end of the season.

Finally ending years of speculation and sly remarks, Hillary Clinton announced on Sunday that she will be run-ning for president. She established herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee and the first woman to run for president, with a chance of winning — sorry Sarah Palin!

Lawyering is a revered profession, but many students are discovering that the process of becoming a lawyer is more taxing than expected.

In 2014, just 37,924 students enrolled in their first year of law school. That is the lowest quantity of new law stu-dents since at least 1973, and a 27.7 percent decline from 2010.

The recent reluctance of college graduates to enter law school should give pause to prospective undergraduate students who have decided to head down that track or are considering it.

There are a few reasons to consider a different career than law school, but chief among those is the large finan-cial commitment that enrolling in three years of law school requires.

The median cost of attending one year of law school, for both public and private universities, is roughly $40,000. Law school typically spans three years, so stu-dents have to pay around $120,000 before accounting for living arrangements, textbooks and casual spending.

As a result, debt is a serious problem for law school graduates. For all students who graduated law school with debt in 2014, the median amount owed was about $100,000.

In fact, the problem has gotten so bad that some schools are cutting tuition costs in an attempt to increase applications. Brooklyn Law School, for exam-ple, is cutting tuition by 15 percent in 2015 and institut-ing course planning that would allow some students to graduate in just two years.

Given the great cost of pursuing a career in law, it’s puzzling that some undergraduate students seem to look at law school as the only logical next step once a bachelor’s degree is earned. Plus, undergraduate stu-dents often fail to even acknowledge other career paths. Even worse, many see law school as a back-up plan and believe it is an easy way to get a high-paying job.

Many students don’t realize that job prospects in the field can be scarce. Major law firms tend to hire the majority of their graduates from elite law schools, which leaves many potential lawyers hung out to dry.

Only 57 percent of 2013 law school graduates had long-term, full-time lawyering positions in 2014. That’s quite a low rate for a field where a hefty salary is often believed to be a sure thing.

There are hundreds of different ways to explore alter-natives to law school during one’s undergraduate years. One could even work as a paralegal to help mitigate finances and reinforce the decision of whether to attend law school.

Law school is expensive and may not be as lucrative as some students believe. Considering other post-grad-uation options before assuming law school is the right choice, as thoroughly investigating other options is nec-essary for such a misunderstood field.

Matt is a sophomore in Media. silich2@dailyillini.com

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BY SANDI DOUGHTONTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

SEATTLE – When com-munities debate what’s best for elephants — zoos or sanctuaries – one subject is almost certain to come up: tuberculosis.

From Toronto to Dallas to Topeka, representatives from zoos as well as zoo industry groups have warned against sending animals to sanctu-aries, which they portray as hotbeds of the disease. When officials at Woodland Park Zoo decided to send Seattle’s aging females, Chai and Bamboo, to the Oklaho-ma City Zoo instead of a sanc-tuary, TB was one of the rea-sons cited.

The country’s two elephant sanctuaries have, indeed, taken in several animals with confirmed or suspected cases of the disease. But TB is by no means exclusive to sanctuaries.

Tuberculosis has cropped up in zoos from San Fran-cisco to St. Louis. But while sanctuaries were quick to embrace the most stringent testing, quarantine and treat-ment regimes, many zoos — including Woodland Park — fought guidelines that several experts say could slow the spread of the disease and lower the risk to elephants and the public.

“I’m not sure everybody involved with elephants is truly vested in eliminating the disease and protecting elephants from infection,” said Dr. Chuck Massengill, former director of the animal health laboratory at the Mis-souri Department of Agricul-ture and a contributor to the new guidelines.

Developed under the aus-pices of the independent U.S. Animal Health Association, the guidelines emphasize the use of blood tests to detect signs of infection before full-blown disease develops.

In some cases, the guide-lines would prevent zoos or circuses from transferring

suspect animals around the country — a provision that drew furious opposition.

Woodland Park Zoo joined other zoos and zoo associa-tions in challenging the valid-ity of blood tests and arguing the rules would raise costs and unfairly restrict move-ment of animals. Zoos also downplayed the severity of the problem.

The guidelines have not been adopted, though an agency spokeswoman said they are still under consid-eration. An older version remains in use.

But the Performing Ani-mal Welfare Society (PAWS) sanctuary in California, The Elephant Sanctuary in Ten-nessee and some zoos opted to voluntarily adhere to the tougher rules.

Reports of TB-like symp-toms in captive Asian ele-phants date back 2,000 years, but the disease does not afflict wild herds. All indica-tions point to humans as the original source.

Elephants can infect each other, as can elephants and humans. The common prac-tice of transferring ele-phants between zoos, circus-es and performing troupes is believed to be a major factor in spreading TB. Staff who work closely with elephants are at risk, but the threat to zoo or circus visitors is extremely low, said Dr. Joel Maslow, a TB expert who investigated early outbreaks and worked on the guidelines.

Just as in humans, TB in elephants can be devilishly difficult to diagnose.

The standard method is called trunk wash. Elephants are trained to suck up saline solution with their trunks and spit it back into a plastic bag.

Trunk wash is called the gold-standard test because a positive result is proof of active TB. But a negative test is far from a clean bill of health.

The method can only con-firm TB if an elephant is

giving off bacteria – some-thing that only occurs inter-mittently during the chronic disease. During an outbreak at a Swedish Zoo, just seven samples out of 189 tested pos-itive, though all the elephants involved had TB.

“Trunk washes are just totally unreliable unless the elephant is shedding the day you do the trunk wash,” said Walter Cook of the Tennes-see Wildlife Resources Agen-cy, who oversees tuberculo-sis control at The Elephant Sanctuary.

Blood tests can spot signs of infection earlier and with greater sensitivity, allowing quicker treatment and quar-antine, explained Dr. Mo Salman, a veterinary epide-miologist at Colorado State University who did much of the early research.

The immune system usu-ally keeps the bacterium in check, but rarely eliminates it from the body. It lurks in a state called latent infection.

A person — or elephant — with latent infection isn’t sick or infectious. But if the immune system is weakened by stress or disease, the dis-ease can break out quickly.

No one knows what percent-age of TB-exposed elephants will develop active disease. Dr. Susan Mikota, the leading authority on elephant TB, says zoo and circus animals may be particularly vulnerable due to the stress of captivity.

One study of 16 elephants found warning signs in the animals’ blood months to years before the disease was diagnosed with trunk wash.

But zoos and circuses argued that the evidence of the tests’ effectiveness isn’t good enough to justify addi-tional treatment and testing. Curing TB in an elephant can take 18 months and cost $50,000.

Alternative guidelines recently drafted by an indus-try-dominated task force say blood tests should not be used at all for regulatory purposes.

Controversy over TB testing in elephants

Apple Watch makes debutBY JULIA LOVETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple tried to discourage fans from lining up outside its retail stores as its first entirely new product since the iPad debuted Friday, but a hand-ful of shoppers still arrived early to check out the Apple Watch as supplies dwindled online.

Mac Choudry, a 37-year-old San Jose resident, was the first customer wait-ing outside an Apple Store in San Jose, where Ange-la Ahrendts, Apple’s retail chief, is expected to greet customers. Choudry arrived at 8 a.m. to secure his spot, and he was joined by just a few other customers half an hour before doors opened at 10 a.m. — a far cry from the hundreds of people that greeted the launch of the iPhone 6 in September.

A longtime lover of Apple products, Choudry said he was determined to be the first to try on the Apple Watch.

“This is a very innovative

piece of technology,” said Choudry.

Friday was the first day Apple customers through-out the U.S. and in eight oth-er countries could try out the smartwatch in the company’s retail stores. In a break from Apple’s previous product launches, however, orders for the watch are being taken exclusively online during the “initial launch period.” Pre-orders began online at 12:01 a.m. Pacific time Friday, with the gadget shipping as early as April 24, but online shop-pers were being told it would be four to six weeks for some versions of the device early Friday morning.

Choudry pre-ordered nine Apple Watches — one for himself, one for his wife, and a handful for family and friends — minutes after they went on sale. But the gadgets will not ship until April 24, and Choudry was impatient to try them out, so he report-ed to the Apple Store bright and early.

He was joined outside the store by software engi-

neer Dino Farinacci, anoth-er devout Apple fan who has been buying the tech giant’s products for 20 years. Like Choudry, he pre-ordered the watch in the wee hours of Friday morning, settling on a space gray watch in the “sport” collection, which starts at $349.

“I’m probably going to upgrade next year,” said Farinacci, a 55-year-old San Jose resident.

In a statement Thursday detailing the online-only pur-chases, Ahrendts suggested the process will help Apple balance supply to demand for the device, which comes in two sizes and three collec-tions, with a range of inter-changeable bands.

The watch’s arrival in stores marks a new chapter for Apple as it releases its first new product since the iPad in 2010. Apple has tout-ed the gadget’s health and fit-ness tracking, communica-tion tricks and style appeal.

The watch starts at $349 and fetches as much as $17,000 for solid gold models.

LIPO CHING TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEPaul Perez, of San Jose, looks at the Apple Watch display at the Apple Store in the Oakridge mall as he waits for the store to open on Friday in San Jose, California. Perez pre-ordered the watch the night before and came to see the product in person.

STEVE RINGMAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThree male elephants at Oregon Zoo in Portland were recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, and six staff members tested positive for exposure. The infected elephants had positive blood tests months before their disease was confirmed.

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Hissy, a gray-and-orange-striped cat with a white bib and fl uffy

fur, burrows into thick blankets stacked on a china hutch inside the Smith family’s garage.

Somewhere in the building, hiding under old children’s toys or behind storage boxes, their other cat, Hidey, is being true to his name.

The two cats live inside the garage year-round. While the liv-ing situation may not seem luxuri-ous, the pets wouldn’t have a home otherwise.

They were given this home by the “Country Cats” program, which was founded in the Urbana area last summer to give cats with behavioral issues new homes by placing them in barns. Since July, they have relo-cated 98 cats.

“It provides an opportunity for cats who wouldn’t get adopted in shelters to have a second chance,” said Teri Kidd, Shelter Medicine intern for the University’s veteri-nary medicine program.

Kate McGinley, shelter manager at the Champaign County Humane Society, a group of what she calls “cat people,” including members of CatSnap, Animal Control and the humane society, came up with the idea when they met last sum-mer to brainstorm a solution for the unadoptable, healthy cats.

“We came up with the name ‘Country Cats’ and it just sort of took off from there,” she said.

Cats qualify for this program if they are feral or have aggression

or urination issues. If it were not for this program, the cats would be euthanized because they cannot be adopted, McGinley said.

“Despite what people think, peo-ple at shelters never get hardened to euthanasia,” she said. “It’s really wonderful to have an option.”

McGinley has adopted a cat for her horse stable, and said that even though he was front-declawed, he has no problem catching mice and fending for himself.

Leslie Smith, Hissy and Hidey’s adopter and a professor at Parkland College, said pest control was one of the benefi ts of barn cats.

“They’ve caught a lot of mice, and it’s just been fun to have anoth-er pet that you don’t have to take care of that much,” she said. “You feed them, you give them water, and you don’t have to have a litter box because they go outside.”

Smith learned about Country Cats from a friend who posted on Face-book. Her family adopted three cats, but one ran away. Her father adopted two cats for his land, and a family friend adopted fi ve. Kidd said plac-ing 10 cats from just one contact was one of their success stories.

When someone is interested in adopting a cat, they call Coun-try Cats or the Champaign Coun-ty Humane Society and are put on a waiting list. Currently, there is a waiting list for 10 cats, Kidd said.

She added that while the program always welcomes donations, their primary need is fi nding homes for the cats.

According to the Country Cats

website , the program works with shelters and clinics in Champaign, Coles County, Farmtown, Pax-ton, Macon County and Vermilion County.

“I don’t think we have hit a limit yet,” McGinley said in regards to how far away they will send a cat. She said it “depends on how far someone’s willing to drive.”

The cats are free to a good barn, and Country Cats provides medi-cal attention and basic supplies, Kidd said. This includes spaying or neutering, vaccinating, deworm-ing and cleaning any other wounds.

“We’d never send somebody out there that needs medical atten-tion,” Kidd said.

Once the cat is sterilized, a small green line is tattooed next to the scar so a future veterinarian will not operate again.

For two weeks, the cats must be confi ned in large cages, so they can familiarize themselves with their new surroundings.

“Cats are very adaptable,” Kidd said. “Until they realize, ‘this is where my food is, this is where my shelter is,’ if you just release them, they’re very likely to just run off.”

A student volunteer takes the cat to its new home, along with a cage, a bag of food and litter, bowls and a litter box if the adopter needs it.

The program works with the Illi-nois Student Chapter of the Associ-ation of Shelter Veterinarians and hires students as coordinators, Kidd said.

Tara Poyer, fi rst-year student in Veterinary Medicine, is one of

the students involved with “Coun-try Cats.”

Poyer is a member of ISCASV and said she was drawn to Country Cats due to her passion for helping homeless animals.

“It really bothered me that per-fectly healthy cats were being eutha-nized for things they couldn’t help or the owners just didn’t want to deal with,” she said.

One of her inspirations for work-ing with the program was Julius, an orange tomcat and inappropriate uri-nator who was deemed unfi t to be a housecat. Poyer said she wanted to help cats like him, as well as cats who do not work well in shelters.

“If someone tried to touch me when I was scared, I’d probably run away and hiss too,” she said.

Cats who are scared in the unfa-miliar shelter environment will become aggressive or skittish, which deters people from adopting them, according to McGinley. The cats that are relinquished to the shelter for these reasons “often make the best barn cats,” she said.

“It just seems unfair for a cat who’s just trying to look out for itself to not have a chance at a home,” Poy-er said. “Country Cats gives them a chance.”

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BY DANIEL COLLINSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The Illinois men’s gym-nastics team made history this weekend at the NCAA Championships, failing to advance to the team finals for the first time since 2002.

But despite a series of injuries, the team exited Norman, Oklahoma, with an individual national champion.

Illinois suffered its first blow before the competi-tion began. Junior Fred Hartville tore his Achilles tendon during warmups for Thursday’s preliminar-ies. The 2013 vault nation-al champion missed part of the regular season due to a minor knee injury.

Illinois came in ranked No. 5 in the 12-team field but finished outside the top six. Oklahoma won the team championship, capping off an undefeated season (26-0). Stanford and Penn State finished second and third, respectively.

“Not making team finals was a shock to say the least,” head coach Justin Spring said. “This was a team that had expectations in making team finals.”

While the team did not advance to the finals, eight gymnasts did qualify to compete in Friday’s all-around and individual finals preliminaries. Out of those eight, five advanced to Sat-urday’s individual finals. Senior Jordan Valdez qual-ified to advance on paral-lel bars but was forced to end his Illinois career ear-

ly when he dislocated his shoulder during his high bar qualifying routine.

Redshirt junior C.J. Mae-stas and freshman Bobby Baker garnered multiple All-American honors. Bak-er’s success came on par-allel bars (eighth) and all-around (third). He also

Illini fail to advance in NCAA finals

BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois baseball team demonstrated why it is ranked highly in so many college polls in two games against Purdue over the weekend. With a strong offensive performance Sat-urday and shutdown pitch-ing Sunday, the Illini (28-6-1, 7-1 Big Ten) won the first two games of a three-game series against Purdue (11-23, 1-7), bringing their winning streak to nine games.

“Once we get those first two (games), we put ourselves into a good position, which is always the goal,” said sec-ond baseman Reid Roper. “We just need to capitalize (on Monday) because at the end of the year it could come down to one game.”

The Illini scored seven runs on three home runs during Saturday’s game. The rout began in the first inning when Purdue starting pitcher Shane Bryant walked short-stop and leadoff hitter Adam Walton. Roper scored Walton from third on a flyout after Ryan Nagle singled to put runners on the corners.

Outfielder Casey Fletch-er drove in Nagle from third after a Jason Goldstein single and outfielder Pat McInerney blasted a home run over the left-center wall, giving Illi-

nois a 5-0 lead.Illinois continued to batter

Bryant in the second. Walton hit a double into right center after Ryne Roper led off the inning with a pop out. Nagle wasted little time, hitting a two-run shot into right field just under the scoreboard and just over Purdue’s Ted Snidanko’s glove.

The fireworks continued in the fourth. Nagle hit a sin-gle that was bobbled by the shortstop with two outs in the inning. Reid Roper hit a two-run shot into deep center field, giving Illinois a 9-1 lead.

The Illini had the bases loaded in the fifth with no outs but only scored one run in the inning on a Zack Kola-kowski groundout.

Starting pitcher Kev-in Duchene had little trou-ble keeping Purdue off the scoreboard. Despite allowing eight hits, the junior pitched out of jams and only allowed one run in game. He finished his day with six strikeouts.

Purdue scored three runs in the seventh and one in the eighth off of reliever Charlie Naso. The junior gave up five hits and three earned runs. Cody Sedlock came in and pitched 1 1/3 innings to hold the 10-5 Illini win.

Purdue got on the board in the first during Sunday’s game — stringing togeth-

er a pair of hits and fielders choice to score a run. But the lead was short-lived: Illinois tied the game in the second on a double steal to second and home.

Illinois opened up the game in the fifth when Pur-due starting pitcher Brett Haan allowed a single and a double to start the inning. Tim McElroy, who came on in relief, walked Nagle and gave up a triple to Reid Rop-er, which cleared the bases and gave Illinois the 4-1 lead. Goldstein tacked on another run with a flyout to center.

Johnson settled down after the first inning. The

senior pitched eight innings, struck out four batters and gave up six hits. He retired 12-straight batters to keep Purdue away and secure the 5-1 lead.

“Drasen was outstanding,” said head coach Dan Hartleb. “Drasen worked out of (the first inning jam) and from that point on he was in com-mand all day.”

Illinois will try for its sec-ond series sweep of the sea-son under the lights Monday evening at Illinois Field.

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BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois softball team left for College Park, Mary-land, on Thursday tied for sixth place in the Big Ten with the Terrapins, both sporting a 5-4 record in con-ference play. However, after the weekend series conclud-ed Sunday, the Illini cement-ed their place in the upper half of the Big Ten standing.

“We wanted to welcome them to the Big Ten and show them what it’s like to face heightened competi-tion,” said freshman outfield-er Carly Thomas.

In its first-ever trip to Maryland, and just the fifth time ever facing the East Coast opponent, Illinois (18-21, 8-4) swept the three-game road series against the Terrapins (23-19, 5-7), giving the Illini their third-straight Big Ten series win.

Illinois’ Sunday victory was the team’s ninth win in their last 10 games.

Friday’s matchup had the makings of a pitcher’s duel through the first four innings — Thomas’ solo home run in the top of the second inning was the only offensive pro-duction by either team. The

Illini offense finally got on track in the fifth inning, scoring six runs in the final three innings. Thomas once again led the charge: She went 3-for-4 and finished the game just a triple shy of the cycle to help the Illini secure a 7-3 victory.

Illini pitcher Jade Vecva-nags put together a strong outing in the circle Friday, allowing just two earned runs on eight hits and three walks in a complete game. The performance was good enough for her eighth win in her last nine games pitched.

“Jade has taken most of

the pitching burden all sea-son, but she continues to look strong,” said head coach Ter-ri Sullivan. “She’s the type of player that wants the ball in her hands no matter what the situation.”

Saturday’s back-and-forth battle featured clutch perfor-mances from both familiar and relatively unseen Illini.

Sophomore outfielder Nicole Evans added to the powerful hitting display she’s put on all season, going 3-for-5 with two home runs and five RBIs. But a Corey

BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER

It was Senior Day on Sun-day for the Illinois men’s ten-nis team during their match against Nebraska. Two of the team’s freshman phe-noms were key to a 4-0 Illini victory, but one of the day’s honorees clinched the vic-tory. Blake Bazarnik took down the Huskers’ Bradford Zitsch 6-2, 7-6 (7-5) in a thrill-ing tiebreaker win to keep the Illini perfect in the Big Ten. The team’s seniors — Bazarnik, Farris Gosea, Ross Guignon and Tim Kopinski — were ceremoniously honored between doubles and singles play.

“It’s always a privilege to play on these courts and obvi-ously going into it very ner-vous at the start for Senior Day,” Gosea said. “We played a good match today. Got tricky at times, but every-one stayed focused and we got the job done.”

While Sunday was all about the team’s four seniors and their innumerable con-tributions to the program, it was also a showcase of

the team’s promising fresh-men. Bazarnik sealed the match, but freshmen No. 49 Aleks Vukic and No. 68 Aron Hiltzik put together dominat-ing wins to put the Illini up 2-0 and 3-0, respectively.

Vukic had the most impres-sive match, shellacking Nebraska’s Chris Hobgar-ski 6-0, 6-0. Vukic got off to a quick start and never let Hob-garski in the match, imme-diately squashing any slim

hopes for a comeback. In the final game, Vukic was down 40-0, but stormed back to win the match without dropping a game.

Hiltzik defeated Andrew Dzulynsky 6-0, 6-3. While Dzulynsky attempted to stage a comeback, Hiltzik held strong through deuce points in the final game to take the win. Hiltzik has

Baseball streak grows to nine

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Illinois vs. PurdueSat: Illinois 10, Purdue 5Sun: Illinois 5, Purdue 1Summary: Illinois got strong hitting on Saturday and strong pitching on Sunday to secure two wins over Purdue.Key performer: Senior second baseman Reid Roper was 2-for-8 with six RBIs over the weekend.Quote of the weekend: “Throughout, we just kept chipping away,” said left fielder Ryan Nagle. “We

ended up with 10 runs and that’s what we always want as an offense.”Up next: vs. Purdue, Monday at 6 p.m. at Illinois FieldQuick notes: The Illini are on a nine-game win streak and have not lost at Illinois Field since dropping a 10-inning contest to USF on March 22.Hidden stat: 2013: the last year the Illini swept a series over the Boilermakers

NCAA ChampionshipsSummary: The Illini failed to reach the team finals for the first time in over a decade but had five gymnast earn All-American honors. C.J. Maestas won the national high bar title in his last season at Illinois. Key performer: C.J. Maestas: Won All-American honors in four events and took home the national high bar title. Quote of the weekend: “Some of your worst moments are your greatest learning experiences,” Spring said. “I’m going to make sure that this is the team’s great learning experience, and I’m included.”Hidden Stat: This marks the 16th consecutive year that at least one Illinois gymnast earned All-American honors.

Softball weekend at MarylandSummary: Behind the big bats of Nicole Evans and Carly Thomas, the Illinois softball team swept the Terrapins, winning its third-straight conference series in its first-ever trip to Maryland.Key Performer: Nicole Evans hit three home runs over the three game series, giving her a conference-

best 16 on the season. Quote of the Game: “We have players that love the pressure and perform when call upon.” — Head coach Terri SullivanHidden Stat: Together, Nicole Evans, Carly Thomas and Allie Bauch have hit 32 home runs, while the rest of the team combined has hit 20.Next: Wednesday at 4 p.m. vs. DePaul in Chicago

Illinois men’s tennis weekendIllinois 6, Iowa 1Illinois 4, Nebraska 0Summary: The Illini stayed perfect in the Big Ten and honored their seniors at the last home matches of the regular season.Key performer: Aleks Vukic: 4-0 on the weekend in doubles and singles, including a 6-0, 6-0 annihilation of Nebraska’s

Chris HobgarskiQuote of the game: Head coach Brad Dancer on the senior class: “They wanted to create their own legacy. They’re certainly going to do that as they come down the home stretch.”Hidden stat: 0: number of games lost by Vukic on Sunday in both singles and doublesUp next: at Minnesota, 6:00 p.m., Friday April 17, Minneapolis, Minnesota

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ C.J. Maestas performs a routine on the pommel horse during the meet against Stanford at Huff Hall on March 6.The Illini lost 21-9.

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BY LAUREN MROZASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The Illinois men’s track and field team had seven first-place finishes Saturday, contributing to its third outdoor competition victory of the season at the Jim Click Shootout in Tucson, Ari-zona. In the event hosted by the University of Arizona, the Illini competed in a field that included Arizona, Purdue, No. 5 University of Southern Cali-fornia, and No. 4 LSU. These were the highest-ranked teams Illinois has faced during the outdoor season.

Head coach Mike Turk’s team scored in 17 events, total-ing 181 points en route to the victory and finishing 21 points

ahead of second-place LSU. Junior Joe McAsey finished

first in the 800 meters in 1 min-ute, 50 seconds, while fresh-man Garrett Lee claimed the 1,500 meters title in 3:52.13.

Five Illinois runners scored team points in the 3,000 meters. Junior Ian Barnett won the event, while team-mate junior Dylan Lafond fin-ished in second. Jannis Toep-fer, Garrett Lee and Brendan McDonnell finished fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively. Toepfer added a victory in the 3,000 meter steeplechase.

Junior Cam Viney produced the only short-distance event win for the Illini in the sprints. He won the 400-meter hur-

dles with a career-best time of 49.92 seconds, the fifth-best time in the NCAA this season. Senior Davis Fraker now ranks 14th in the NCAA standings this season after finishing sec-ond in the hammer throw — he topped his own school record with a throw of 65.36 meters.

Freshman Jonathan Wells

won the high jump, while junior Ben Dodds threw 65.64 meters, taking the javelin title.

Illinois looks to continue its three-event winning streak next weekend: It hosts the Illi-nois Twilight meet Saturday.

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BY ALEX WALLNERSTAFF WRITER

With the Big Ten Out-door Championships just one month away, the Illi-nois women’s track and field team won three event titles at the Jim Click Shoot-out on Saturday in Tucson, Arizona.

Junior Britten Petrey won the 3,000 meter stee-plechase in a second-con-secutive meet, sophomore Kandie Bloch-Jones won the high jump and senior Stephanie Richartz cap-tured her first win of the outdoor season in the pole vault.

Overall, Illinois finished with a total of 79 points to finish last in a field of five teams, six points behind fourth-place Purdue.

Of the five teams, two were ranked in the top 25. No. 15 LSU won the event with 169 points, while No. 7 USC finished second with 144.

Even though Illinois fin-ished in last place, head coach Ron Garner was sat-isfied with the results.

“This was a good meet in a lot of different ways,” Garner said in a press release. “There were some quality teams and the for-mat was a bit of a differ-

ent setup, but I thought we competed very well. The sun and the heat definite-ly factored into the perfor-mances, but part of com-peting in a meet like this is learning to stay composed under different circum-stances. I thought we did an excellent job of staying composed and competing.”

One runner that stayed composed was Petrey, as she beat out four runners — two from LSU and two from Arizona — to capture the title.

After collecting her second-consecutive 3000 steeplechase title, Petrey said her confidence has

remained consistent and is looking forward for what is to come in the further weeks ahead.

“I don’t want to become over-confident because there will be some tough competition in the next couple weeks,” Petrey said. “Remaining steady and consistent helps me prepare for the next cou-ple weeks.”

Richartz, the Big Ten’s indoor pole vault champi-on, catapulted her way to her first pole vault title of the outdoor season with a mark of 4.10 meters, defeat-ing Arizona’s Savannah Whitehead and Illinois’s

junior Jennifer DeBellis, who tied for second with vaults of 3.80 meters.

“Track and field is a long season between indoor and outdoor so there is a strat-egy to how you approach the season,” Richartz said. “The first couple meets out-doors I was just taking it easy. Now (I’m) beginning

to pick up intensity which will prepare me for the more important competi-tions later in the season.”

The third event winner, Bloch-Jones, beat out LSU’s Briana Kelly and Shanice Hall and Shakayla McEad-dy by five-tenths of a meter.

“Petrey, Richartz and Bloch-Jones each won with

good efforts,” Garner said in a press release. “Petrey wasn’t too far off her per-sonal-best despite the heat and a different track layout.”

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Illini tennis win on the roadBY JONATHAN JOFFESTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s ten-nis team won both of its road matches this weekend, prov-ing that the team can sustain success away from its home court.

Illinois moved to 12-9 on the season after defeating Wisconsin 5-2 on Friday and Minnesota 5-2 on Sunday.

Despite a win in doubles on court one from the tan-dem of senior Melissa Kopin-ski and sophomore Louise Kwong, Illinois lost the dou-bles point on Friday to the Badgers after falling on the second and third doubles courts.

Sophomores Madie Bail-lon and Jerricka Boone were defeated 8-6 on court two, while sophomore Alexis Casati and freshman Grace Tapak fell on court three by the same score.

It was the captain, Kopins-ki, who took her success from the doubles point and erased the momentum gained by Wisconsin. Kopinski won her singles match at the No. 2 spot against Maria Avgeri-nos in straight sets 6-2, 6-3.

Boone picked up a win at the No. 4 spot over Wiscon-sin’s Lauren Burich to put the Illini up 2-1 in the match before the Badgers tied it up after Casati fell in a 3-6, 1-6 decision.

A win from Baillon in three sets was followed by a match-clinching win on court No. 6 from Tapak. The freshman claimed her first Big Ten victory in the 6-3, 7-6 (7-3 tie-breaker), 6-3 decision.

The Minnesota match Sunday began similarly for Illinois, as the Illini lost the doubles point to the Golden Gophers.

Nevertheless, Illinois bounced back in singles, claiming the first set on each of the top three courts and winning the top five matches.

At the conclusion of the weekend, head coach Michelle Dasso was happy with her team’s performance.

“My feeling is one of respect for my team’s com-petitive will to win they have shown us lately,” Dasso said. “The doubles performance, aside from No. 1 doubles this weekend, was disappoint-ing and rough, but the girls kept their composure and rebounded with high energy and a ‘we will not lose’ atti-tude in singles play.”

Kopinski said that the wins did not come easy and that her teammates focused intensely throughout both matches despite losing the doubles point on Friday and Sunday.

While any type of win is appreciated, road victo-ries are more rewarding in Kopinski’s eyes.

“It is very satisfying to get Big Ten wins, especial-ly on the road,” Kopinski said. “There’s always a lot of

adversity that comes along our way, and I’m proud of the fight the team brought.”

Kwong was satisfied to see the success continue for the Illini. She credited trust and a unified understanding between her teammates to the team’s current run.

The recent wins have brought upon an increase in confidence and expectation for Illinois.

“When we lost the doubles point, the only thing going through my head was that we weren’t going to lose to Min-nesota,” Kwong said. “Each and every one of us focused on our own court and had a goal to stay out there and earn the W.”

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DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTO Joe McAsey runs in the 1 Mile Event during the Orange and Blue Open at the Armory on Feb. 4, 2012.

Women’s track earns event titles, but finishes last

Men’s track on fire at Arizona meetJim Click ShootoutSummary: The Illinois men’s track and field team had seven first-place finishes, contributing to its third outdoor competition victory of the seasonKey Performer: Senior Davis Fraker now ranks 14th in the NCAA standings this season after he finished second in

the hammer throw, while topping his own school record with a throw of 65.36 meters. Quote of the meet: “Joe, Garrett, Jannis and Ian all pulled event wins that were instrumental in our team win today,” head coach Mike Turk said in a press release.

Jim Click ShootoutSummary: Illini women’s track and field finished in last place, but earned three event titles at Saturday’s Jim Click ShootoutKey Performers: Junior Britten Petrey won her second consecutive steeplechase event; Senior Stephanie Richartz won in the pole vault; Sophomore Kandie Bloch-Jones won in the high jump.Quote of the Meet: “I

don’t want to become over confident because there will be some tough competition in the next couple weeks so remaining steady and consistent helps me prepare for the next couple weeks.” — Britten PetryHidden Stat: Britten Petrey is undefeated going back to last outdoor season in the steeplechase. Last year she went 3-0, this season she is 2-0.

Women’s tennis weekendIllinois 5 Wisconsin 2 Illinois 5 Minnesota 2Summary: Illinois women’s tennis moved to 12-9 on the season after picking up two-straight road winsKey performers: Melissa Kopinski and Louise Kwong went 2-0 in doubles over the weekend and moved to 12-4 overall

together.Quote of the weekend: Head coach Michelle Dasso — “My feeling is one of respect for my teams competitive ‘will to win’ they have shown us lately.” Hidden stat: Illinois is on a five-game win streak Up next: Nebraska, noon, Saturday, Atkins Tennis Center.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Kandie Bloch-Jones hits the bar in the high jump event during the Illinois Twilight Track and Field meet at Illinois Soccer and Track Stadium, on Saturday.

Schwartz single took a bad hop off sophomore shortstop Ruby Rivera in the second inning, sending her to the bench for the first time in her career. Freshman Leigh Farina came off the bench to finish the game and turned out to be the X-factor for the Illini, going 2-for-4 with two runs scored and the game-tying RBI in the sixth inning.

After tying the game at seven, Illinois never looked back and clinched the series with a 14-8 victory.

“It was the best team-win we’ve had this season,” Evans said. “We’re a com-plete team. Our chemistry is at an all-time high.”

On Sunday, the Illini’s early offensive burst was enough to hold off the Ter-rapins for the series swept.

The first four batters in

the Illinois lineup registered a hit in the first inning, lead-ing to four runs and a Mary-land pitching change. Thom-as’ first-inning RBI double tied the Illini record (six) for most doubles in confer-ence play. Senior catcher Jess Perkins lit up the score-board once more for Illinois with a solo shot to right-cen-ter, putting the Illini up 5-1 after three innings.

Vecvanags held off a late Terrapin surge to give Illi-nois the 5-4 win and the series sweep.

“Having team players like this is a coach’s dream,” Sul-livan said. “They stayed com-mitted for the whole game, every game, and when you have first and second-year players having performanc-es like this, that tells you the direction of our program.”

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now won 12 matches in a row, while Vukic has won his last 14.

It was the second of two weekend wins for the Illi-ni, after beating Iowa 6-1 on Saturday. Vukic and Hiltzik also picked up wins against the Hawkeyes. No. 90 Gosea took over the No. 1 singles spot for the first time since his return to the lineup and took down Iowa’s only ranked player, No. 112 Matt Hagan, 6-1, 6-3. At No. 3 singles, No. 43 Kopinski was the first Illi-ni to finish with a 6-2, 6-0 vic-tory over Dominic Patrick.

The weekend continued the Illini’s hot streak in dou-bles with two more doubles point wins. The team of Gosea and Vukic went 2-0, including a 8-0 win against Dzulynsky and Hobgarski.

The team of Jared Hiltzik and Kopinski and team of Guignon and Aron Hiltzik each picked up a win on the weekend.

The Illini’s recent doubles success is a stark contrast to their troubles earlier in the season. Head coach Brad Dancer said the Illini’s dou-bles results have been much improved since restructur-ing the pairs.

“The chemistry’s been great with the teams and the execu-tion can still get a lot better,” Dancer said. “Anytime you’re gelling out there, it’s a good thing.”

While it was Senior Day for the Illini, it’s far from their last competition at home. Illi-nois will return to Urbana for the Big Ten Tournament in two weeks. With regular sea-son concluding next week-end, the Illini senior class has the opportunity to leave their mark on the program.

“It’s a special group,” Danc-er said, “They wanted to create their own legacy. They’re cer-tainly going to do that as they come down the home stretch here and finish the season.”

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competed on vault and fin-ished 10th.

While Baker added to his impressive freshman cam-paign, a team final appear-ance was what he had hoped for the most.

“For the seniors, I thought it was terrible. I feel bad for them,” Baker

said of not making the team finals. “But as a freshman I feel like it’s more so of a learning experience.”

Maestas, who is choosing to graduate in May instead of applying for another year of eligibility, took home four All-American honors on still rings (second), floor exercise (fifth), all-around (second) and on high bars, where he won the nation-al title. Before his rou-

tines, assistant coach Ivan Ivankov helped keep Maes-tas motivated.

“Ivan kept giving me hugs before I (competed) and whispered in my ear to lay it all on the table,” Mae-stas said. “My gymnastics reignited with that. I’m so proud to go out the way I went out.”

This marks the second-straight year that an Illinois gymnast won the national

high bar title — Valdez won the honor last season — and the fifth-straight year Illi-nois has had at least one national champion.

Junior Logan Bradley was named All-American on pommel horse for his sixth-place finish with a score of 13.950. Senior Mike Wilner was named All-American on still rings for finishing sev-enth (15.550).

Junior Joey Peters com-

peted in the finals on still rings but finished outside the top eight (10th), which meant he did not earn All-American honors.

The team result is seen as an obvious disappointment for Illinois, who had a 10-0 start to the season. Spring said that a lack of competi-tive spirit was the biggest factor that resulted in Illi-nois finishing out of the top six. Regardless of the

result, he wants to remain optimistic about the team’s future.

“Some of your worst moments are your great-est learning experiences.” Spring said. “I’m going to make sure that this is the team’s great learning expe-rience, and I’m included.”

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401 W. Park, U. 1 B X X X Northwest side of campus

403 & 405 W. Park, U. 1 B X X X Northwest side of campus

911 S. Oak, C. 2 F X X X Near Memorial Stadium

201 S. Wright, C. 1 B X X X By Engineering Department

404 W. High, U. 2 F X X X East side of campus, water included

105 E. Green, C. 1 F X X Laundry on site, water included

Klatt Properties www.klattproperties.com 217-367-6626202 E. Clark Studios, 1,2,3 B Laundry on-site.

505 W. Springfield 2 B Heat included.

409 W. Elm 2 B Tenant pays all utilities.

712 W. California 5+ B 7-10 BR House, Tenants pay all utilities.

705 W. California 5+ B 7 BR House, Tenants pay all utilities.

710 W. California 5+ B 6 BR House, Tenants pay all utilities.

408 W. Illinois 5+ B 5 BR House, Tenants pay all utilities.

603 W. High 5+ B 5 BR House, Tenants pay all utilities.

407 W. Elm 5+ B 5 BR House, Tenants pay all utilities.

Lofts 54 lofts54.com 217-366-350054 E. Chalmers, C. 4 F Limited townhomes available

Nogle Properties www.nogleproperties.com.com 217-337-7990105 E. Chalmers, C. 2 F Laundry on-site, D/W, spacious

ONE Illinois www.one-illinois.com 217-337-75001321 N. Lincoln, U. 1,2,3,4 F Hi-speed internet & TV included, on the 22 bus route

1601 N. Lincoln, U. 2,3,4 F Indoor pool, hi-speed internet & TV included, on the 22 bus

Professional Property Management www.ppmrent.com 217-351-1800808 Illinois, U. 1,2 F Great location

1003 W. Stoughton, U. 1,2 F Engineering campus

205 E. Green, C. 1 F Huge, security door

503 Springfield, C. 1 F Newer

610 W. Oregon, U. 2 B Spacious, free parking

802 Ohio/1009 Busey, U. 2 U Duplex w/ hardwood floors, off-street parking

Rob Chambers www.robsapartments.com 217-840-5134506 E. White, C. 3 F Near ECE and Beckman, reasonable rent.

707 W. Elm, U. 2,3,4 F Live on Elm St. without the nightmares.

503 E. Clark, C. Studios F Pretty good efficiences at a great rate.

101 W. Park, U. 1,2 F Free freaky fast fiber optics internet.

Roland Realty www.roland-realty.com 217-351-8900903 S. First, C. 1,2 F Great location, FREE laundry, inclusive utility package

Royse & Brinkmeyer www.roysebrinkmeyer.com 217-352-1129Royse & Brinkmeyer 1,2,3 B Fireplaces, lofts, garages

Smith Apartment Rentals www.smithapartments-cu.com 217-384-19251004 S. Locust, C. 1 F $685, parking $50

507 W. Church, C. 1 F $530, includes water and one parking spot

511 W. Church, C. 1 B $550, includes water and one parking spot

53 E. Chalmers, C. 2 F $1400, parking $50

58 E. Armory, C. 2 F $930, includes one parking spot

201 E. Armory, C. 2 F $990, parking $70

1004 S. Locust, C. 2 F $700-$910, parking $50

1009 W. Clark, U. 2 F $835, includes one parking spot

1012 W. Clark, U. 2 F $835, includes one parking spot

511 W. Church, C. 2 F $785, includes water and one parking spot

201 E. Armory, C. 3 F $1365, parking $70

The Tower at Third www.tower3rd.com 217-367-0720 302 E. John, C. 2 F Zero Down, New low rates.

The Weiner Companies, Ltd. www.weinercompanies.com 217-384-8001603 W. Green, U. 2-3 U Only pay electric! Free laundry!

502 W. Green, U. 4 F Pet friendly! 2 Bathrooms!

700 Oregon, U. 3 U Pet friendly! 2 Bathrooms! House!

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