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BY ANGELICA LAVITOSTAFF WRITER

The Champaign Urbana Public Health District recent-ly published food establish-ment inspection reports on its website for the first time.

Summaries of the inspec-tions, along with complete inspection reports, are now available online, after news organization CU-Cit-izen Access advocated for CUPHD to publish the information.

The department inspects every retail food establish-ment where food is directly sold or offered to consumers within Champaign County, except for food operations run out of people’s homes and retail food establishments offered by the University, according to a press release.

“We’re looking for viola-tions associated with risk factors, and these are items that contribute to foodborne illness,” said CUPHD Direc-

tor of Environmental Health Jim Roberts.

The department uses an altered version of the scoring system the FDA developed in 1976, Roberts said. The FDA’s scoring system is out of 100 points and CUPHD’s adjust-ed score places more empha-sis on critical violations or repeat violations.

“What is meaningful about the numbers is that obviously someone with quite a few vio-lations is lacking managerial

control over public risk fac-tors,” Roberts said.

Five points are deducted per critical violation, and two points are deducted per repeat violation. An adjusted score of 36 or above is satis-factory, and scores below 35 indicate compliance below a satisfactory level. Facilities are given the opportunity to correct as many of the viola-tions as possible during the course of the inspection, Rob-erts said.

Establishments that fall below compliance can sub-mit a request for reinspection when they are ready, and an inspector will come within 48 hours. This system marks a change from the old poli-cy where an establishment would be reinspected within 30 days.

The change in the rein-spection period coincides with the implementation of

Highest scoring

Lowest scoring

C-U Public Health District restaurant inspection results now onlineUnderstanding the numbersTotal violations: Number of violations per inspection

Violations from last inspection: Number of violations from the establishment’s second-most recent inspection

Repeat violations: Number of violations that were repeated from the last inspection

Risk or public health interventions: Number of violations known to significantly impact public health

Score: The score modeled after the FDA’s 1976 Food Service Sanitation Manual of 44 items that carry a weight equal to 100 points

Adjusted score: CUPHD’s alternative scoring system that incorporates different weights. Each repeat violation leads to two demerits and each critical violation leads to five demerits

Adjusted score is equal to: Score minus (# of repeat violations multiplied by 2 percent) minus (# of critical violations multiplied by 5 percent)

SOURCE: CHAMPAIGN URBANA HEALTH DISTRICT

The Daily Illini compiled the reports of Campustown restaurants’ most recent health inspections, available on CUPHD’s website.Listed by adjusted score are the highest and lowest scoring Campustown restaurants based on their adjusted scores that take into consideration evaluations on food safety and sanitation. All restaurants listed below have reached satisfactory levels of compliance, according to the CUPHD.

Chipotle Mexican Grill 528 E. Green St.

Inspection date: 7/14/14Total violations: 6Total from last inspection: 6Repeat violations: 1Risk factors or public health interventions: 0Score: 92Adjusted score: 90

Empanadas House 404 E. Green St.

Inspection date: 9/30/14Total violations: 3Total from last inspection: N/ARepeat violations: 1Risk factors or public health interventions: 0Score: 95Adjusted score: 93

Papa John’s Pizza No. 74 106 E. Green St.


Silver Mine Subs 612 E. Daniel St.


Zorba’s 627 E. Green St.


Chopstix 202 E. Green St.


Empire Chinese 410 E. Green St.

Inspection date: 3/25/14Total violations: 25Total from last inspection: 28Repeat violations: 12Risk factors or public health interventions: 4Score: 70 Adjusted score: 21

Lai Lai Wok 402 E. Green St.


Mandarin Wok 403 1/2 E. Green St.


Papa Del’s Pizza 401 E. Green St.


Want more inspection reports?Food establishments in Champaign and Urbana are required to display placards that give information from the last inspection report. The placards contain a QR code that anyone with a smartphone can use to link to the full inspection report.

SOURCE: CHAMPAIGN URBANA PUBLIC HEALTH DISTRICT

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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

F ormer Illinois assis-tant basketball coach and Cham-paign Central High School head

coach Wayne McClain died Wednesday at the age of 59.

He is survived by his wife Robin, son Sergio and daugh-ter Brindeshie. He was hos-pitalized with pneumonia earlier this week.

McClain served as an assistant coach at Illinois for 11 seasons between 2002-12, under former head coaches Bill Self and Bruce Weber. During his last three sea-sons, he served as the associ-ate head coach under Weber.

At Illinois, McClain was a part of three Big Ten Cham-pionship-winning teams, including the 2004-05 team that finished as national runner-up.

McClain left Illinois to fol-low Weber to Kansas State after Weber was fired in 2012.

Last year, McClain took

over as head coach at Cham-paign Central and led the Maroons to a regional title in his first season.

“This is a tremendous loss for not only our students, staff and families but for the community,” the Champaign Public School District said in a statement. “Coach McClain influenced the lives of many during his time at Central and impacted so many more during his long, successful coaching career.”

Prior to his time at Illi-nois and Champaign Central, McClain was highly success-ful in his seven-year career as head coach at Peoria Man-ual High School. Peoria Man-ual won three consecutive IHSA Class AA state titles in his first three seasons between 1995-97.

McClain coached Peo-ria Manual to a 94-5 record in those three years. The 1997 squad, led by future Illini Frank Wiliams, Mar-

Illini community reflects on life of former assistant men’s basketball coach

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BASKETBALL RECRUITING Will John Groce be able to land highly touted recruit Carlton Bragg? SPORTS, 1B

DEFEATING CANCER, ONE STEP AT A TIME Associate Chancellor Robin Kaler tells how her love of run-ning helped her battle cancer.

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Volleyball tops Hawkeyes

Illinois served Iowa a three-set loss on the

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WEATHERPOLICE

ChampaignTheft was reported

in the 200 block of East Chalmers Street around 4 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, a bicycle was stolen from a bike rack.

Criminal damage to property was reported in the 1300 block of Hanover Drive around 8 a.m. Tues-day.

According to the re-port, an unknown offend-er slashed the tires on the victim’s vehicle.

Theft was reported in the 600 block of West Springfi eld Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, a dog was stolen while out-side.

University Theft was report-

ed at Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St., around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the re-port, a University employ-ee reported that someone had stolen a table from the

building’s waiting area. The table has an estimated value of $450.

Urbana Theft was reported

at Urbana Middle School, 1201 S. Vine St., around 6 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the re-port, an unknown offender stole the victim’s cellphone from his backpack, which was stored in a classroom.

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BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER

CUMTD recently received gold-level recognition for its Sustainability Commitment initiative, but the transit dis-trict is still pushing to fur-ther its green efforts on the roads and in the offi ce.

In 2009, CUMTD became a founding signatory of the American Public Trans-port Association’s Sustain-ability Commitment initia-tive. Signatories committed to a few core goals and were able to apply for higher rec-ognition as they progressed. Five years later, in February 2014, CUMTD applied for gold-level recognition, the second-highest level possi-ble. The Los Angeles Coun-ty Metropolitan Transpor-tation Authority is the only service to hold the highest level, Platinum Level status.

The company was award-ed gold-level recognition in August 2014, becoming one of only 12 transportation companies with the standing.

“MTD works hard to be a

positive member of the com-munity and the University,” said Jane Sullivan, CUM-TD grant manager and sus-tainability planner. “This is another way that we can be socially and environmentally responsible.”

This has huge benefi ts for the University com-munity, as well as the city of Champaign, said Cham-paign Mayor Don Gerard. He added that Champaign has always had a great partner-ship with CUMTD and the city strives to work “hand-in-hand” with the company to maintain that relation-ship. Gerard noted that the city works hard to maintain infrastructure, particular-ly roads and bridges, and in turn CUMTD “urbaniz-es” Champaign, making it a “21st century city.”

To maintain sustainability, CUMTD sets action items, stretch goals and reduc-tion targets. This includes reducing the greenhouse gas impact of buses, as well as increasing the number of

hybrid vehicles in the compa-ny’s fl eet. Currently, 75 per-cent of CUMTD busses are hybrids.

“Public transportation is inherently benefi cial for the environment because it avoids the use of single-occupancy vehicles,” Sulli-van said. “MTD bus service can move more people with less energy, reducing fuel usage, greenhouse gas emis-sions and other pollution.”

As far as in their offi ces, the company will continue the “green training” that all employees receive upon hir-ing, which includes review-ing the company’s idling policy and CUMTD’s use of soybean biodiesel.

Additionally, the compa-ny recycles waste oil, which they use to heat their main-tenance facility. They have also installed a geothermal heating and cooling sys-

tem in their administration facility.

Since 2009, CUMTD has tracked water usage, air pollutant emissions, green-house gas emissions, ener-gy use and its recycling and waste. The company contin-ues to analyze the data each year in an effort to reduce its environmental effects and surpass the goals of its sus-tainability commitment, Sul-livan said.

Additionally, the company encourages people to bike to bus stops, rather than drive, by offering bike racks on the front of every bus.

Although gold isn’t the highest ranking CUMTD could receive, the company strives to reach platinum lev-el in the future, Sullivan said.

Abigale can be reached at [email protected].

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Snow storm in Nepal causes fatalities across the Manang district

Islamist militants seize key military base in Iraq’s Anbar province

Video of citizen assault by police raises tensions in Hong Kong

New Arizona law aims to deny bail for people undocumented in U.S.

KATHMANDU — The death toll from a snow storm in Nepal triggered by a cyclone in neighbor-ing India reached 21 on Wednesday, authorities said.

Five more bodies were

recovered in Manang dis-trict, according to Baburam Bhandari, the chief offi cer of Mustang district, where the incident occurred. They were identified as four Canadian trekkers and an Indian citizen.

IRBIL, Iraq — With the U.S. seemingly focused on helping Kurdish militias fi ght off an Islamic State advance at Kobani on the Turkey-Syr-ia border, Islamist militants this week have seized one key military base in Iraq’s Anbar province and have laid siege to another, with

no major increase in U.S. air support for the beleaguered Iraqi security forces.

Reports from Kobani indicate that intense U.S. airstrikes there have driv-en back Islamic State fi ght-ers, while in Anbar the mil-itants’ advance has been unrelenting.

A video apparently show-ing six plainclothes Hong Kong police offi cers drag-ging a handcuffed pro-democracy protester into a dark corner then kicking and beating him captivated and enraged many in the semi-autonomous Chinese terri-tory on Wednesday.

The incident threatened to ratchet up tensions anew just as the protests that have par-alyzed parts of the city for more than two weeks looked to be running out of steam.

The man was later identi-fi ed as Ken Tsang, a mem-ber of the pro-democracy Civic Party and a volunteer social worker who works with street children. Photos released by the pro-democra-cy Occupy Central movement after Tsang was taken to a nearby hospital showed his face, neck and back covered with dark red bruises. His attorney, Dennis Kwok, said that he was struck repeatedly with an object, and feared he may have internal injuries.

A federal appeals panel has overturned a 2006 Ari-zona law aimed at deny-ing bail to people who are undocumented in the U.S. and charged with serious felonies, according to court records.

Proposition 100, a 2006

ballot measure that gained approval from nearly 80 percent of state voters, vio-lates the due process clause of the Fourth Amendment, according to an opinion released by the 9th Cir-cuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday.

RAJA ABDULRAHIM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEFirst Lt. Sirwan Uthman Hasan teaches Kurdish peshmerga soldiers how to fi re an M2HB machine gun, one of the new weapons sent by the U.S. to fi ght Islamic State militants.

BY ESTEFANIA FLOREZSTAFF WRITER

Professor May Berenbaum, department head of Ento-mology, was awarded the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for achievement and leadership, for her research with insect-plant interaction.

This award, which is administered by the Nation-al Science Foundation, was established in 1959 as a Presi-dential Award given to recog-nize individuals who advance the fi elds of science and tech-nology by contributing out-standing knowledge in the physical, biological, mathe-matical or engineering fi elds of science.

Berenbaum has been a fac-ulty member for the Depart-ment of Entomology since 1980, serving as a depart-ment head since 1992 and as Swanlund Chair of Entomol-ogy since 1996.

Notably, she has taught two graduate classes in ento-mology, Insect Ecology and Chemical Ecology. Current-ly, she teaches a general edu-cation course called Insects and People. She received her undergraduate degree from

Yale and received her grad-uate degree from Cornell University.

In 1980, Berenbaum came to the University and began her research with plants and insects. She believes that coming to work at the Uni-versity was one of the best decisions she’s made.

“Nothing beats this place in terms of collaboration, col-legiality and expertise,” she said.

Berenbaum believes her research, which studies the chemical mechanisms under-lying interactions between insects and their host plants, has made a great impact not only for the campus, but for many others.

“I didn’t set out to study insects of national impor-tance, but as it turns out, insects, especially plant-fed insects, ended up being con-nected to any environmen-tal crisis you can think of because they’re everywhere,” said Berenbaum. “My interest in insect-plant interactions has led me into work of global climate change, effects of ele-vated carbon dioxide, strato-spheric ozone depletion and genetically modifi ed crops,

among others.” She has written over six

books about insects for the public and founded the Insect Fear Film Festival, which is now in its 32nd year.

“I want to help people understand why insects are important; understanding their biology is really the best way to share the planet with them,” said Berenbaum.

Her current work focus-es on honeybees, specifi cally regarding how they process pesticides and how the food that honeybees eat regulates every aspect of their life.

“Thirty four years ago, I couldn’t have told you, ‘yes I will be studying pesticide metabolism by honeybees at the molecular level’ — and here I am today,” Berenbaum said.

Mami Randrianandrasana, graduate student and teach-er’s assistant, has worked for Berenbaum since 2008. She said Berenbaum has helped her tremendously with her research in the conservation of forests in Madagascar, where she received a degree in entomology.

“She is very helpful, and whenever you talk with her

about a problem with your research, she always has solutions,” Randrianan-drasana said. “She has a lot of knowledge and is very inspirational.”

Berenbaum said she is delighted to have won the National Medal of Science, which will be presented to her sometime in November, but she said shares her achieve-ment with the University.

“I won’t say it takes a vil-lage, it takes a university ... it’s a great environment here, resources, wonderful col-leagues,” Berenbaum said. “I can’t imagine having done better anywhere else, and I’m so grateful for that and I hope to stay here and be helpful to other people.”

Estefania can be reached at efl [email protected].

Entomology professor awarded National Medal

PORTRAIT OF MAY BERENBAUM BY IRINA ZHANG

BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER

How did life begin on Earth? University scientists may come closer to fi nding an answer to this mystery with the help of a fi ve-year $8 mil-lion dollar grant from NASA.

The University has teamed together with 14 other univer-sities, research laboratories and NASA centers participat-ing in the NASA Astrobiology Institute, to study the diver-sity and evolution of life on Earth.

The NAI is an institute dedicated to searching for environments hospitable to life in our solar system and on other planets.

The University NAI team is based in the Institute for Genomic Biology. Gene Rob-inson, director of the IGB, is thrilled to see the project unfold on campus.

“This bold research pro-gram fi ts perfectly at the IGB, which was established to help faculty compete for the large grants that are necessary to address grand challenges with a team-based multidisciplinary approach,” Robinson said in a press release. “The NASA award refl ects the creativity and vision of the faculty in the Biocomplexity research theme, the IGB and the cam-pus as a whole.”

The University’s research team has established four research themes for their work on the project: to devel-op a mathematical under-

standing of the physical prin-ciples of the emergence and its evolution, “constrain the nature of life before the Last Common Universal Ances-tor,” study how life evolved on Earth and determine what factors determine the rate of evolution for life.

Nigel Goldenfeld, director of the Institute for Universal Biology and physics profes-sor, is the principal research-er on the University’s team.

“The main goal of our research is to understand the universal principles that govern the emergence of life, wherever it may arise,” said Goldenfeld. “NASA likes to call this ‘universal biology.’”

Goldenfeld explained that the concept of universal biol-ogy is similar to how comput-ers work today. All comput-ers operate on the universal mathematical principles of logic and algorithms, he said, whether the computer is a Mac or a PC. He alluded that even though they may appear to be very different, all computers share certain characteristics.

“Modern computers are designed to apply the funda-mental mathematical princi-ples of Turing and Von Neu-mann. Could you go the other way round: take an iPhone and fi gure out these funda-mental mathematical prin-ciples if you did not know them?” asked Goldenfeld. “In a sense that is what we want to do with biology, take life on Earth and reverse-engi-

neer to fi gure out what are the basic principles behind living organisms.”

One theory of the origin of life, serpentinization, has interested Elbert Brans-comb, faculty member for the department of physics and the IGB and member of the University NAI team.

Serpentinization, Brans-comb said, is not a new theo-ry; in fact, it has been around for roughly 30 years. Howev-er, it has only recently been picking up steam in the sci-entifi c community. Brans-comb’s further research into the serpentinization theory was funded through the NAI grant the University received.

Branscomb said what makes the theory so compel-ling is its explanation for how ATP, a chemical fuel essen-tial to cells, could have been created by thermal vents at the bottom of the early Earth’s oceans.

“One of the things about life is that its not just chem-istry; it is not just if you stuck all the molecules together in the right size bag, nothing happens. You need the engine that drives (it),” said Brans-comb. “It’s a Rube Gold-berg machine of immense complexity.”

When the Earth was still young, it was largely covered with a weak acidic ocean. Far below the primeval ocean’s surface, the Earth’s tecton-ic activity was continuously producing new crust on the

ocean fl oor. As new crust began to cool and crack, the acidic seawater was pushed into these cracks and pro-duced a chemical reaction with minerals beneath the surface to create a highly alkaline solution that was pushed back into the ocean by chimney-like thermal vents, Branscomb said.

Inside these vents, micro-scopic compartment formed a proton gradient that sepa-rated the acidic ocean from the alkaline solution coming from the vents. Branscomb said the gradient that was created in these vents billions of years ago is almost identi-cal to the proton gradient that exists in all living cells today.

By studying theories like serpentinization, Goldenfeld said, scientists could one day develop a universal origin of life theory.

“We do not currently have a theory of living systems that convinces us that life is a general phenomenon,” said Goldenfeld. “So, because we have not detected life else-where, we do not know if it is there or not.”

Josh can be reached at [email protected].

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placards, beginning Jan. 1, that requires restaurants to post on their establishment to give the public some infor-mation from the most recent inspection.

“A period of education and

notifi cation was conducted for the fi rst six months per health district board request, hence, no separate reinspec-tion report,” Roberts said.

The frequency of inspec-tions for a food provider is based on its level of risk for causing foodborne illness-es. The number of food han-dling operations and the type

of population served are fac-tors that determine risk.

Category I facilities under-go two inspections per year along with one education-al opportunity. Category II facilities undergo one inspec-tion per year and category III facilities receive at least one inspection per every two years, according to Roberts.

“The scoring system is a way of evaluating but may not have any public health signifi -cance,” Roberts said.

Matt Mortenson’s campus restaurant, Zorba’s, received an adjusted score of 94 on its last inspection. He said mak-ing gyros can be messy, but he values cleanliness in his restaurant.

“Our kitchen is right here when you walk in the door, and I kind of like that,” Mortenson said. “It makes you accountable and holds you responsible for that.”

Mortenson said employ-ees are trained about san-itation and hygiene, and one of his main priorities is ensuring that employees

wash their hands. “I’ve seen a lot of places

where people wear gloves all the time,” Mortenson said. “But if you touch your face with a glove on, it’s the same as not having a glove on and touching your face.”

Angelica can be reached at [email protected].

cus Griffi n and McClain’s son Sergio, was named the National High School Champions by USA Today. McClain was named Illinois Basketball Coaches Associ-ation Coach of the Year in each of the three champion-ship seasons.

Sergio McClain played at Illinois from 1997-2001. He was a member of four Peo-ria Manual state champi-onships, including the 1994 title, when his father was an assistant.

Many former Illini coaches and players took to social media to express condolences.

“We lost a great individ-ual,” former Illini forward Roger Powell Jr. tweeted Wednesday. “I am grateful for the time I had with coach McClain.”

“Sad day for the Illini Fam-

ily with the passing of Wayne McClain,” added former Illini Brandon Paul. “Great Coach, Father, Husband and much more! Blessed to have been coached by him!”

McClain’s passing came just hours after Weber addressed the media at Big 12 Basketball Media Day in Kansas City, Mo.

“I’m very saddened by the passing of Wayne,” Weber said in a statement Wednes-day. “I don’t know if I have ever been around a better man, whether it was with his family or with his players. He had such a huge heart and cared for so many peo-ple. He touched so many peo-ple’s lives from here (Kansas State) to Illinois to Peoria. To me, he goes down as an icon for basketball in the state of Illinois, whether it is in high school with the four state championships or helping Illinois win Big Ten championships and advance to the Final Four.”

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DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois head coach Bruce Weber, guard Luther Head and assistant coach Wayne McClain watch a game during the 2003-04 season. McClain served as an Illini assistant for 11 years, including nine under Weber.

On a typical morning last week, I pulled up CNN on my

laptop to check out the news. It was then that I saw it, a story plastered across the web page that does not bode well for the average college student.

The article talked about a recent hack to photos posted on Snapchat.

That’s right, ladies and gentleman.

The main purpose of the Snapchat app is to allow users to send friends photos and videos that will disappear within one to 10 seconds. Users trusted that their photos would vanish within a set time.

However, millions of Snapchat users’ photos have been saved to a third party database. To many people’s dismay, the photos they shared could still exist.

When I read the article, I immediately worried that all of the strange selfies I take and send to my best friends, and the video from the previous Wednesday night my friend snapped of me singing Spice Girls at karaoke night, could be surfacing on some web

page. However, this leak should

do more than just instill fear about pictures from the past; it should be a glaring reminder about the importance of our digital presence.

This past year, the words “anonymous” and “disappear” have seemed to become prevalently used by many new social media apps. In addition to Snapchat, a new app, Yik Yak, allows users to publicly share anonymous messages that supposedly cannot be traced back to the writer.

Anonymity has made people more bold when posting on social media.

But there are so many problems with this logic.

First off, thinking that there is absolutely no way to trace something you put online back to you is extremely naive. I, too, am sometimes guilty of having a that-won’t-happen-to-me attitude, thinking that I can entirely control who can see my snaps or snap story.

At least, I hope the world

will never see some of the selfies I take.

But regardless of whether an application claims that it is anonymous, or that an image will disappear after a certain amount of time, there is still a way for it to be traced or found if someone wants it to be.

Everything we do virtually is stored

somewhere and could be retrieved by someone. Even if people haven’t figured out how to hack certain databases yet, technology is always advancing, and we never

know what could happen in the future.

A few weeks ago in my Business Communication class, we did an activity where we Googled our names in front of the class. At first, this activity did not make me nervous because I thought I had all of my privacy settings under control. However, I was surprised with the results.

So many images, ranging from old Instagram pictures to photos of my sorority sisters, showed up. Also,

every article I have ever written, old gymnastics scores and even scholarship competition results from high school were easy to find.

This was the wake-up call I needed. What if the next time someone searches my name, a Snapchat selfie pops up?

I would be mortified, and it would probably hurt my professional image.

Students at the University need to be more aware of what they are doing online and via applications. I am not saying that we need to stop using apps like Snapchat and Yik Yak, but I am saying that we need to take just as much care with these apps as we do with other ones on which we know our posts are more permanent, like Facebook or Twitter.

In this digital age, nothing is temporary. With time, technology is advancing, and there are more ways than ever to find things once they are posted in an app or online.

We need to be more self-aware of our digital presence and think about how it could affect our reputations.

Rebecca is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at kapolne2 @dailyillini.com.

The desire to understand some of the universe’s greatest mysteries has

waned in recent years.In 2011, President Obama’s

budget plan cut the funds for NASA’s Constellation pro-gram that would take men back to the moon. In addition, NASA ended its Space Shuttle program. Another frequent victim of lack of funding is the organization called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI.

Oftentimes, organiza-tions like these that set out to answer fundamental ques-tions about the universe suf-fer because money is typi-cally allocated to larger government institutions, such as health care and defense.

Traveling to the moon and searching for aliens may seem like a big waste of money to some people, but the truth is that these activi-ties can effectively increase the economic growth of the country by creating jobs and producing commercial byproducts.

The end of the Space Shut-tle program caused 7,000 people in Florida to lose their jobs. Many of these employ-ees performed tasks highly specific to the maintenance

and functioning of the shut-tles, such as operating launch pad cranes and other machin-ery built exclusively for the shuttle.

In addition to manual laborers, NASA also employs people with degrees that are otherwise fruitless, like those in astrobiology. The discon-tinuation of the shuttle pro-gram makes these degrees less valuable because of the scarcity of careers and the disproportionate number of people quali-fied for them.

NASA’s econom-ic effect on the nation is largely unknown, but profound. Research done by NASA scien-tists has led to hundreds of “spinoffs” since the 1960s. Spi-noffs are commercial prod-ucts invented by the agency, which include shoe insoles, ear thermometers, memo-ry foam, cordless tools and water filters.

With the intent of safe-ly sending humans into space, NASA frequently cre-ates devices that positively impact society.

The other organization SETI is often viewed in the same light as astrology: a

pseudoscience. A pseudo-science is described as “a system of theories, assump-tions, and methods errone-ously regarded as scientific.” Many question the usefulness of funding programs such as SETI.

While SETI may not pro-duce as many byproducts as NASA does, it aims to answer questions about the presence of life in the uni-verse. While this satisfies the human desire to explore,

some people might say it doesn’t make much sense financially.

Few eco-nomic argu-ments can be made to fund SETI, but the price differenc-es between funding of health care, which was $2.8 trillion

in 2012, and SETI, $2.5 mil-lion, show that the funda-mental research uses up a minuscule amount of the gov-ernment’s budget.

Clearly, the funding for SETI is pocket change when compared with larger gov-ernment institutions.

While it seems that invest-ing more in the program would adversely affect the economy by a microscop-ic amount, the benefits of

investing in SETI very much outweigh the losses because it could lead to the poten-tial of new, revolutionizing discoveries.

The University, along with 14 other universities, has recently received a five-year, $8 million grant from NASA “to study the diversity and evolution of life on Earth,” according to an article in The Daily Illini. The funding of such a project brings to mind the possible futility in pursu-ing research similar to oth-er space programs, such as SETI.

Just as NASA research brings about important com-mercialized products, study-ing the origins of life could lead to significant improve-ments in industry.

It is still unknown how molecules initially combined to form life, but perhaps the process creates a large amount of energy which could potentially fuel our cities.

Perhaps studying the ori-gins of life requires a new type of instrument that could provide for better medical treatment. There is a large degree of uncertainty in attempting to study the uni-verse’s fundamental ques-tions, but the benefits could be extraordinary.

Luke is a freshman in engineering. He can be reached at [email protected].

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industry.

Champaign-Urbana residents can final-ly know exactly how up-to-code their fa-vorite local restau-

rants are, thanks to a recent change from the Champaign Urbana Public Health Dis-trict.

In September, the depart-ment launched an online data-base where you can read the health inspection report of any restaurant of your choos-ing.

With the amount of meals many of us students eat out-side of our apartments — houses or dorms, due to time constraints, lack of grocer-ies or cooking skills — we are glad to be able to check up on the safety standards of some of our favorite CU go-to food venues. This is especially true since restaurant complaints in the area have been on the rise.

This change in health in-spection availability came af-ter five years of discussion from the department, and the work of news organization CU-Citizen Access, who advo-cated for the information to be published. Since 2011, CU-Citizen Access has been post-ing full inspection reports of restaurant failures on its web-site.

However, now the Health District is making this infor-mation available online as well, and in great detail. This allows for more transparency and thus more accountability.

Some of the various viola-tions indicated have to do with potentially hazardous food due to unsafe temperatures, contamination, unhygienic practices and more.

They say ignorance is bliss and what you don’t know won’t hurt you, but in this case, we think otherwise. When it comes to the restau-rants we frequently visit, the food we ingest, the utensils we use and the tables we eat on, we would most certainly like to know.

Another benefit is that not all of this content is online-only — every food establish-ment in Champaign-Urbana must display a sign that gives patrons information about its last inspection report. These signs also have Quick Re-sponse codes that can link smartphone users to the full inspection report.

So if you forget to go online and check whether there are any health risks associated with your dinner plans for the night, you can still get that in-formation when you arrive.

What it comes down to is that dining out is a big part of campus culture. We frequent-ly eat at many different res-taurants in the Champaign-Urbana area, and many of us assume that most of the plac-es we eat at meet health and safety standards.

But it is important for us to know when these standards are not met, so that we don’t have to walk into a food es-tablishment with our fingers crossed hoping that our meal was prepared in appropriate conditions.

We appreciate that the Health District made health inspection information more available to us, and we sure hope our favorite venues passed the test.

There are more ways than ever to find things once

they are posted in an app or online.

REBECCA KAPOLNEK

Opinions columnist

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LAS, is a committee member for the event and worked the table that accompanied the car.

“The reason we wanted to do this is because we’ve never had something tangi-ble,” she said. “We hear about

drunk driving all the time. Having a visual to show how deadly it can be really hits home.”

The car continued to attract many passers-by who stopped to stare, pulled out their phones and captured the damages.

“I think every school, no matter what, is going to have some sort of alcohol prob-lem,” Barth said. “Us being

a Big Ten school, there is more pressure for students to drink.”

The staff said they under-stand there is a culture of alcohol on campus, and there-fore they are not telling stu-dents to quit drinking but instead, “think before you drink.”

Rachel can be reached at [email protected].

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BY SARAH NOLANCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Evolutionary anthropol-ogist Cadell Last believes humans are undergoing an evolutionary change as drastic as mankind’s tran-sition from primates, which occurred some 5 to 8 million years ago. His theory, pub-lished earlier in 2014 in “Cur-rent Aging Science,” suggests that as early as 2050, humans will reproduce much later in life — if at all — and have an average life expectancy of 120.

“I feel like the future of human life history could look a lot like an extended child-hood where individuals will be able to freely engage in cultural activities without the stress of ensuring that their activities have market value,” Last wrote in an email.

Last, a Ph.D. student at the Global Brain Institute in Brussels, emphasized this trend has existed since the beginning of time.

“Throughout the evolution-ary history of primates there have been three major life history transitions towards later sexual maturation and longer lifespan,” Last wrote in “Current Aging Science.”

The first three transitions took place from animals like lemurs to monkeys, then to apes and eventually humans. However, Last believes there will soon be a fourth transition.

While the three initial tran-sitions to species that have delayed reproduction and lon-ger life expectancies can be attributed to changes in brain size in mammalian species, Last believes that the fourth transition will be primarily cultural, not biological.

He argues that before the Industrial Revolution, both fertility and mortality rates were high.

The post-industrial world saw a decrease in both, a result of increased econom-

ic development and industri-alization after the discovery of fossil fuels.

Last refers to this as “par-ents choosing to invest time and energy in the ‘quality’ of offspring as opposed to the ‘quantity’ of offspring” in his theory.

“As far as the developed world is concerned, these two trends associated with the demographic transition are expected to continue accelerating (i.e. reduction of fertility and mortality) as improvements in socioeco-nomic conditions only serve to intensify these processes,” he wrote in his theory.

Last emphasizes that the size of our brain is no longer growing, but the amount of information we take in every day is. That factor, paired with today’s advanced technology, will push individuals to explore cultural vocations such as music, art, science and engi-neering, he said.

“Robotics and artificial intelligence should com-pletely eliminate routine, low-skill, low-education jobs within the next 20 years. They will probably eliminate many not-so-routine jobs as well. This should allow for a dramatic shift from human cultural abilities focused on mundane problem-solving tasks to human cultural abili-ties focused on more exciting and creative endeavors,” he claimed.

Rachel Anderson, senior in LAS, said she does not believe that Last’s theory is realis-tic, especially the idea that technology will eliminate so many jobs.

“I don’t think that peo-ple are going to have more time to spend on things they enjoy,” she said. “Even for college-educated students, jobs in many fields are get-ting more sparse and compe-tition is fierce and becoming even more horrible.”

Charles Roseman, a profes-sor in evolutionary genetics in Anthropology, is not quick to stand by Last either. He said he believes that Last’s ideas of higher complexity, older age and a better life do not hold true for many people in the world.

Roseman said he believes Last’s theory is only applica-ble to the economic elite.

“I think that what you’re looking at is a very old argu-ment that’s being rehashed with the latest window dressing,” he said. “This is evolutionary in the sense that we wouldn’t recognize it today; there’s a lot differ-ent ways we talk about evo-lution historically. This is one of them. Everything is getting better, everything is for the better and progress-ing, ignoring the fact that there’s a lot of variation and extinction.”

Roseman said Last’s the-ory is no different than evo-lutionary theories from the 1940s and 1950s. He said that by looking at cultural publi-cations, the future was por-trayed as “a leisurely life-style,” where “robots clean your house and there are fly-ing cars.”

Sarah can be reached at [email protected].

Next stage for human evolution longer lifespan, less reproduction

Cadell Last’s human evolution theory in “Current Aging Science”First transition: Introduction of monkeysSecond transition: Introduction of apes Third transition: Introduction of humansFourth transition (estimated 2050): Introduction of human species with 120-year life expectancy

Kaler’s surprise, the doc-tor didn’t tell her to put the recorder away and thought it was a great way to allow her husband to hear the appointment later. At that moment, Kaler decided she could trust her life with this doctor.

In December, Kaler had a lumpectomy, a surgery removing only the tumor and some other tissue, at North-western. She then underwent radiation treatment from late February to early April at Carle Foundation Hospital.

Every morning, Kaler woke up, went on a run, got her two daughters, Emily and Zoe, ready for school, ran to her radiation treat-ment around 7 a.m. and then went to work. She wasn’t late once and only took two days off when she had the surgery.

“When she was undergo-ing the cancer treatments, we knew it was happen-ing, but she was still doing everything she had to to get her job done,” said Jeff Unger, former director of the Illinois News Bureau at the University. “She wasn’t about to shirk her responsibilities.”

At her radiation treat-ment, Kaler would see a lot of people who had already given up or let the illness dictate their lives.

“To me, the more you think, ‘Oh, this is the end’ or ‘I’m going to die,’ then yeah, you probably are,” she said.

“The human spirit is real-ly strong in a positive way and really strong in a nega-tive way.”

Kaler chose the former spirit, and she trained and qualified for the Boston Marathon during her treat-ment. Just a few months after treatment, she ran a 3-hour-and-51-minute marathon.

“I feel like when you’re young, things that are a little bit scary can seem a lot scarier, and I never felt scared or anything like that at all,” said Zoe Kaler, Rob-in’s oldest daughter and junior in Media. “I didn’t even realize that she had it until I was older. I guess I didn’t really realize what it meant, and I’m sure part of that was because of how strong she was.”

In 2004, Kaler ran the Bos-ton Marathon. It wasn’t any-where near her fastest time, but it was her way of know-ing she made it. All through the race, Kaler heard peo-ple cheering for someone named, “Smiley,” and she couldn’t figure out who they were yelling at. It wasn’t until she was in a spot com-pletely by herself and she heard someone shout, “Go Smiley,” when she realized they were looking at her.

“The whole time ... it was just nice to say, ‘I’m alive. I’m really alive.’ ”

After the radiation, Kal-er traveled to Chicago on a monthly basis so her doctor could administer a shot to her ovaries. Because Kaler was estrogen receptor posi-tive, reducing the amount of

estrogen in her body helped block the cancer cells from growing again.

Eventually, Kaler grew tired of the shots, so she asked her doctor to remove her ovaries. She also want-ed to rid herself of any-thing that could be a poten-tial cancer-causer in the future, so she had a complete hysterectomy.

For about five years, Kal-er took Tamoxifen, a drug commonly used to prevent breast cancer in both wom-en and men. Since the sur-gery, her cancer hasn’t come back.

Yet, Kaler isn’t the only survivor in her family. Her sister had lymphoma a couple of years ago, her mom has had breast can-cer twice, and her dad had a stroke a couple of months ago. Through it all, the fam-ily just figures out what they have to do to keep moving, Kaler said.

So much so that both Zoe and Unger, her co-worker of 20 years, tend to forget she was ever diagnosed with the disease.

“It’s not a death sentence. It’s a new path. It’s just a new path that you need to take,” Kaler said. “You thought you were going down this path, but you can get where you’re wanting to go down anoth-er path. Or maybe you’ll get somewhere better, some-where different, and that’s okay. Just don’t fight it. Just do it.”

Alice can be reached at smelyan2 @dailyillini.com.

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“They talk about how now (breast cancer) is so treatable ... but when it happens to you, it’s pretty overwhelming.”ROBIN KALERASSOCIATE CHANCELLOR

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Since her undergradu-ate days at the Universi-ty, Robin Kaler has been a runner. What started with a tiny track at the Intramural Physical Education Building has led to 5Ks, 10Ks, half-marathons and even multi-ple marathons.

Kaler said training for a race is a project. Some days are devoted to speed work, some days are focused on distance and some days are for rest.

So this would be no differ-ent. It was a project.

In November 2002, Kal-er’s mom fi nished her radi-ation treatment for breast cancer. That same day, at 41, Kaler, associate chancellor at the University, was diag-nosed with breast cancer.

“You think, ‘I’m gon-na die,’ because somebody says you have cancer, that’s kind of what you think,” Kal-er said. “They talk about how now it’s so treatable and everything and it’s not necessarily the worst thing

in the world to happen, but when it happens to you, it’s pretty overwhelming.”

Kaler came home that evening and discussed the situation further with her husband, who was under-going chemotherapy at the time for his own health challenges.

“He had such a really good attitude himself, that the next day I thought, ‘Oh, for gosh sakes, if this is the worst thing that happens to me, I need to tough it out,’ ” she said.

From then on, breast can-cer became Kaler’s project.

She scheduled an appoint-ment to see a good surgeon at Northwestern Memo-rial Hospital in Chica-go , and since her husband wasn’t feeling well from the chemo, she brought sever-al friends with her. There were a total of seven of them when the doctor walked into the patient room, and one of her friends even carried a recorder with her. But to

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McKinley works to educate students on alcohol abuseBY RACHEL BASSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Illini Union side of the Quad became littered with shards of glass and metal on Monday.

A “junked” four-door black car made an appear-ance to promote the issue of irresponsible drinking on college campuses.

Today, the McKinley Health Center will host its ninth annual event “Alcohol Awareness: Think Before You Drink.” The seminar will take place in the SDRP Multipurpose rooms ABC from 6 to 8 p.m.

Thursday’s event will have a panel discussion to educate students on alcohol and its effects.

When asked what she

wants students to walk away with, said Lyssa Barth, event coordinator and grad-uate student in Social Work: “The education factor. We want students to ask them-selves, ‘How do I drink in a way that will ensure I’m safe and my friends are safe?’ ”

McKinley Health Center has hosted this event since 2006.

Last year, there were almost 400 students in atten-dance, according to Barth.

The Think Before You Drink event will consist of an expert panel inform-ing students of what hap-pens physically, mentally and socially when alcohol is consumed.

The panel will include rep-resentatives from the Alco-

hol and Other Drugs Offi ce , Coroner’s Offi ce, Student Legal Services , University Police Department , Cham-paign Fire Department and the Carle Foundation Hospi-tal ER Department.

Student volunteers will also be there to support the panel and to assist students in experiments such as pour-ing shots of water, myth ver-sus fact trivia and a body versus alcohol activity.

“Students are surprised when they realize they don’t actually know how big a shot is and that they’ve been pouring way more than they had to,” Barth said.

Through the Alcohol Awareness event, Barth said she hopes they can keep stu-dents educated and continue

to have a fun and safe col-lege experience.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol-ism suggests that the trend of college drinking is due to the circumstances of living situations — from residence halls and Greek housing occupied by different aged students to being around the corner from an 19-and-over bar, the temptation is fed through resources.

Based on 2012 statistics, approximately 40 percent of college students engage in binge drinking with-in the average month. The National Institute on Alco-hol Abuse and Alcoholism defi nes binge drinking as having fi ve or more drinks per occasion .

On Monday, the McKin-ley Health Center’s posing of a “junked car” on the Quad served as a means to promote alcohol aware-ness along with fun activi-

ties, which included trying on beer goggles and taking fi eld sobriety tests.

Janki Thakkar, junior in

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Binge drinking: 40.1 percent of college students ages 18 to 22 participated in binge drinking — fi ve or more drinks per sitting — in the past month.

Academic consequences: Roughly 1 in 4 college

students report repercussions from drinking, like not attending or falling behind in their classes, performing poorly on assignments or tests and getting lower grades overall.

SOURCE: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM’S 2012 “ALCOHOL FACTS AND STATISTICS”

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Volleyball tops Iowa in sloppy winBY NICHOLAS EDWARD DAVID FORTINSTAFF WRITER

Neither team played pretty, but the Illinois vol-leyball team got the job done.

No. 15 Illinois beat Iowa in five sets on Wednesday night in Iowa City, Iowa, by scores of 27-29, 25-12, 25-23, 19-25 and 15-11 despite playing sloppy volleyball throughout the match.

The Illini tallied 37 hit-ting errors and nine ser-vice errors, which were both season highs for the team. The errors, in addi-tion to an effective block from both teams, made scoring more difficult than usual throughout the match.

Both teams played slop-py in the first set. Three

of the first four points of the match were on either attack errors or service errors. Illinois (13-5, 5-2 Big Ten) jumped out to an 8-5 lead before allow-ing Iowa (8-10, 0-7) to rally back and tie the set at nine.

Iowa remained in control until a late run by the Illini brought the set even again at 24 points apiece. After ties at 25 and 26 points, the Hawkeyes took control of the set and put it away for their first set win in confer-ence play this year.

Illinois bounced back in the second set as senior outside hitter Morganne Criswell found her offen-sive rhythm.

After playing in only one set and finishing with two attempts in a big win

SEAN NEUMANN AND CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITERS

Illinois is 3-4 (0-2 Big Ten) at the midway point of the season. The Illini offense has been one of the lone bright spots ear-ly in the season, but the offensive line has allowed 22 sacks in the team’s first seven games. The Daily Illini sat down with offen-sive lineman Simon Cvi-janovic to take stock of the team during the bye-week.

The Daily Illini: What do you do during a bye-week?

Simon Cvijanovic: Coach gave us a lot of time off just to get our feet back under us. Right now practices are a little bit shorter which will be easier on guys who have been getting a lot of reps in a lot of games. The guys who haven’t played as much are staying out there and doing extra and more realistic-look stuff that

they normally wouldn’t be doing.

DI: Do you feel like you have more of a drive to get back to a bowl game after having a taste of it your first two years?

SC: I feel like there defi-nitely is. Most of the team has experienced a lot of los-ing in the past three years, so we’re really hungry and the younger guys are too. Most college football play-ers come from high schools that are winning programs. They know to win, they want to win, the guys who have seen a lot of losing want to win – we all want to win.

DI: What are some of those cultural differences between high school and college football?

SC: My high school was considered a “football high school” or a football power-

house in Ohio, although I guess every high school in Ohio thinks they’re power-houses (laughs). But it was more of school first, foot-ball second. Here, it’s defi-nitely football first. You put a lot more time into foot-ball and a lot more time into football than anything else in your life, so that’s definitely different.

DI: Does your role change very much with a Reilly O’Toole and Aaron Bai-ley playing quarterback instead of Wes Lunt or is your job strictly just “protect the quarter-back” regardless of who’s playing?

SC: You saw what he (Aar-on) did against Wisconsin. It definitely changes how we protect and how we block, because the guy can move around a little more. When he can move a little

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PHOTO COURTESY OF VALERIE BURKE THE DAILY IOWANIllinois’ Jocelynn Birks serves the ball during the game against Iowa at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Wednesday. The Illini tallied 37 hitting errors and nine service errors, which were both season highs for the team. SEE VOLLEYBALL | 2B

It’s no secret Illinois head coach John Groce swings for the fences when he recruits.

As the Illini continue to be in the conversation for some of the nation’s best hoops talent, they find themselves on recruits’ lists of schools alongside some of the most storied programs in the country.

Kentucky. Kansas. UCLA.

Those three basket-ball powerhouses are the schools the Illini are up against in the recruit-ment of Carlton Bragg, a skilled 6-foot-8 for-ward out of Villa Ange-la-St. Joseph High School in Cleveland. Though Bragg’s current list of options might be intim-idating to Illini fans, they’ll have to get used to battling these blue-blood programs for recruits as long as Groce is in charge.

Kentucky, Kansas and UCLA can sell them-selves pretty well. They’re on ESPN con-stantly. They have mid-night madness and leg-endary arenas and dozens of lottery picks drafted into the NBA. They have banners.

While Illinois is his-torically a good program, it doesn’t stack up with these types of programs. When Groce swings for the fences against them, he’s swinging with a stick, and the blue bloods have aluminum bats. So to have a chance with a guy like Bragg, Groce and his

staff have to go above and beyond.

According to Bragg’s mentor, Michael Graves, Groce and his staff have kept up constant commu-nication since they began recruiting him as a high school freshman. Groce’s relentless pursuit of Bragg has built up a trust and familiarity between both parties that has kept Illinois in the hunt.

“Groce hangs his hat on the trust factor,” Graves said. “You know, they’ve been there from the beginning, you can trust him and they haven’t missed an AAU game in two years.”

Two years. Consider-ing many AAU teams play at least fifty games a sea-son, you can imagine the amount of time Groce and his staff have dedicated to ensuring that Bragg

knows he’s a top priority.Bragg has stood out at

events such as the NBPA Top 100 camp, which lets the best players in the country square off against each other. Bragg is cur-rently ranked as the No. 18 player in ESPN’s top 100 and has drawn compari-sons to Carmelo Anthony.

So, where does Groce stand in the process of lur-ing the next Melo to Cham-paign? He paid a visit to Bragg’s home in Ohio on

Sept. 30, a setting where Groce seems to excel.

Graves said Groce car-ried a “much stronger tone” than some of the other coaches that had been in to visit Bragg previously.

“On the in-home visit they did a very good job on their presentation,” Graves added. “Like I said, the trust factor, the familiarity with the coach-es. They’ve recruited Carl-ton like Carlton is their top priority.”

It’s in those settings that Groce must differ-entiate Illinois from the likes of Bill Self and John Calipari. Bragg took an unofficial visit to Kan-sas’ midnight madness last weekend and will take an unofficial to Ken-tucky’s this weekend. Illi-nois can’t currently com-pete with the spectacle of those events, so Groce must sell a vision for the future.

In Bragg’s case, that vision can be aided by present results. With Bragg making his deci-sion in the spring, this upcoming Illini bas-ketball season has the potential to boost Illi-nois’ national relevancy, perhaps enough to entice Bragg.

“That can help, yeah,” Graves responded when asked if on-court success for the Illini this season could potentially sway Bragg. “Everybody wants to go to a winner.”

With the recent miss-es on elite guards Jawun Evans and Jalen Brunson, landing Bragg might seem like a long shot. But Graves insisted Bragg is seriously considering the

Groce up against big names for Bragg

BY ELISEO ELIZARRARAZSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois soccer team will make its final Big Ten road trip when it travels to play Rutgers (10-1-1, 6-1-1 Big Ten) on Friday, fol-lowed by a Sunday match against Maryland (5-4-4, 3-2-3). It’ll be the team’s first visit to New Bruns-wick, New Jer-sey, when it faces the No. 14 Scar-lett Knights.

Illinois, who is tied for seventh in the Big Ten for points (12) with a 4-4-0 record, will look to shake off its three-game losing streak and get back on track after losing key players to injuries. Friday’s oppo-nents in particular will provide a challenge for the struggling Illi-ni. Rutgers is one of the hottest teams in the Big Ten right now after knocking off No. 6 Penn State over the weekend, a team that beat Illinois 2-1 earlier in the season.

Illinois will again struggle to put a healthy lineup together with-out sophomore defender Hope D’Addario, the latest injury casu-alty for the Illinois team. Head coach Janet Rayfield will choose from Casey Conine, Jenna Mill-er or Katherine Ratz to place

in D’Addario’s position in the back four if the sophomore is not healthy for Fri-day’s game.

“Some peo-ple are getting healthy,” Ray-field said. “I think we’re com-fortable that we have pieces of the puzzle that we can move around again and

certainty the puzzle doesn’t look as pretty as it would if we had all the pieces, but I think that we can put a puzzle together that can play in the Big Ten.”

The team will be looking to come out of the weekend with two road Big Ten victories, and Ray-

field will look to tweak her tac-tics after coming up short on her team’s last three outings.

Illinois’ striker Jannelle Flaws is one player who will look to adjust her style of play after cool-ing down from her initial stellar run. She feels her team has done a good job of rebounding from the injuries and close games it has lost.

“I think I just need to find differ-ent ways (to score). I’ve been try-ing to go over the top a lot so I think I just need to switch it up and be a little bit more diverse in my attack-ing options,” Flaws said. “I think we have kept working hard. We’ve stuck true to who we are, a posses-sion team. We love to move the ball and I think people are stepping up and we’re just accepting it.”

Rayfield also feels confident in her team’s ability to rebound and hopes her team will strive to suc-ceed despite the injuries.

“We are better than the three losses. We can do more than this. We are going to do the things that we can control,” Rayfield said. “We can control injuries, we can’t con-trol all that stuff, but we can get

better today and we can make sure that when we’re in a game like that, we don’t let it slip through our fingers again relative to any-

thing that we have control over.”

Eliseo can be reached at [email protected].

Q&A with offensive lineman Cvijanovic

Trips to Rutgers, Maryland ahead for soccer

ALEX ROUX

Basketball columnist

“On the in-home visit they did a

very good job on their presentation.”

MICHAEL GRAVESCARLTON BRAGG’S MENTOR

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DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTORyan Lankford (12) and Simon Cvijanovic (68) celebrate after Lankford scores a touchdown at the orange and blue spring scrimmage at Memorial Stadium on April 12.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jannelle Flaws attempts to win the ball during the game against Minnesota on Oct. 12. The team travels to New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Friday to play Rutgers, followed by a Sunday match against Maryland.

“We are better than the three

losses. We can do more than this.”

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over then-No. 5 Penn State on Saturday, Criswell bounced back in a big way. She recorded 16 kills in the match, with six coming in the second set alone.

Junior outside hitter Joc-elynn Birks led the team offensively, finishing with

20 kills and 14 digs.The third set was hotly

contested. The Illini and the Hawkeyes went back and forth, finishing the set with six ties. Iowa closed the gap to a single point, but the Illini were able to put the set away.

The fourth set was more of the same for Illinois. The team recorded 11 errors in the set. After falling behind

20-13 to the Hawkeyes, the Illini were able to fight back to make the score 23-19, but weren’t able to come away with the set victory.

The match came down a decisive fifth set. As was the case throughout the match, it was back and forth throughout. There were seven ties and three lead changes

on the way to a win for the Illini. Illinois ended the set on a 5-1 run and — after starting the season 0-3 in five-set matches — picked up its first five set win of the season.

While Illinois was able to pull out the five-set vic-tory, the team did not play its cleanest volleyball against one of the Big Ten’s bottom-feeders.

Up next for Illinois is No. 13 Nebraska. The Illini will look to knock off their second top-25 opponent in as many weeks when they play the Cornhuskers in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday.

Nicholas can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @IlliniSportsGuy.

The team did not play its

cleanest volleyball against one of the

Big Ten’s bottom-feeders.

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Illini.“They’ve done a great

job, and we wouldn’t put them in the final four or five schools if we didn’t think there’s a good chance that Carlton would go there,” Graves said.

Though Bragg is famil-iar with Groce by this point, he’ll have the chance to

increase his familiarity with the program when he takes his official visit to the Illinois campus, which has yet to be scheduled. Graves said that between the recent unofficial visits and Bragg’s high school season com-ing up, they haven’t had a chance to schedule an Illini official just yet, but that they will make it to campus at some point.

Groce’s dedication has gotten him far with Bragg,

and don’t expect the coach to let up as the college sea-son nears. The official visit to Illinois will be the next big step for Groce in the Bragg sweepstakes.

“Groce has invested in him really well,” Graves said. “We look forward to getting down there and checking the school out.”

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected]

more, we can move a little more, because everyone else is moving a little more on defense. It makes every-thing move a little differ-ent when the defense has to be honest for a quarterback read and has to be honest in the pass rush lanes when he can take off and run if a guy isn’t open downfield.

DI: As the weeks dwindle, what does each game mean for you now as a senior?

SC: You feel the clock tick-ing and the hourglass slow-ly getting full at the bot-tom. You feel a little more pressure to win as seniors because that’s all the chances we have left. We’re not going to have any more. I want to leave a mark, I want to be a winner.

BY COLE HENKE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Home court advantage will strongly favor the Illi-nois women’s team at this year’s USTA/ITA Midwest Regional.

It will be held at the Atkins Tennis Center start-ing Thursday.

Victory at the regional for any Illini means advancing to the USTA/ITA Indoor National Championships in Flushing Meadows, New York, the site of the US Open.

The last regional cham-pion Illinois produced was in 2012, and was the dou-bles pair of current senior Melissa Kopinski and Illi-nois alum Rachel White, a senior at the time.

Kopinski is partnered with sophomore Louise Kwong this year. Kwong feels like they can have a similar result to what Kopin-ski had her sophomore year.

“Our playing styles mesh really well. She moves a lot at the net, while I attack well from the baseline,” Kwong said.

Since she is a sophomore and has played in this tour-nament once before, Kwong says she feels much more

relaxed because she knows what to expect.

Kopinski and Kwong, along with the rest of the team and head coach Michelle Dasso, said they are also excited to have the opportunity to play such a big tournament on their home court.

The team will need the advantages that home court gives as the tournament field features two Big Ten opponents and top-25 teams in No. 17 Michigan and No. 15 Northwestern.

Dasso believes the big-gest advantage of having the tournament at home is not having to travel.

“Not having to drive five and a half hours like we did last year is going to help a lot,” Dasso said.

The team’s other senior, Julia Jamieson, feels that just being able to sleep in her own bed will benefit her greatly.

Jamieson is looking to take an aggressive approach as she tries to make a run in the singles bracket.

“I am an aggressive ten-nis player, so my forehand transition game has been really solid. It helps me take that step into the court,”

Jamieson said. “My serve has also been really big this year, so I am looking to keep that up.”

Another advantage to playing at home is the ability to film the team’s matches.

Each indoor court at Atkins has a camera. From there, videos are put online where the players can download them. This allows for the players and coach-es to study film between matches.

The cameras can also live-stream the matches so family members or fans can watch the tennis game from home. This helps the fami-lies of Kwong and freshman Jade Hilton, who are both from Canada.

Dasso is confident about the regional, and is really looking to just get as many matches for her players as possible.

There is one other advan-tage that home court pres-ents, one that Dasso feels is the most important, “The players won’t be missing class.”

Cole can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @cole_Henke.

Women’s tennis gains home advantage

BY DAN COLLINSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After putting together its winningest season since 1999-2000, the Illinois swim team will begin its season this Friday with a matchup at Northwestern.

For the past two sea-sons, defeating Northwest-ern has been a tough task. The Illini have fallen short to their Big Ten rivals the past two s e a s o n s with losing scores of 169-131 in 2012 and 166-133 in 2013.

No line-up deci-s i o n s have been made yet by head coach Sue Novitsky, who feels this season’s meet against the Wildcats will turn out to be another competitive one.

“I think it’s going to come down to those fourth and fifth place spots,” Novitsky said. “(Northwestern) has some strong kids in certain events, but we think we can put up a good match-up against them.”

Another winning season and moving up in the Big Ten standings were goals

Novitsky set for this year’s team. The Illini finished in 12th place in the Big Ten standings last season with an overall dual meet record of 8-6-1, going undefeated at home.

“We’re looking to con-tinue to have another win-ning dual meet record and to protect our home pool come January,” Novitsky said.

E r i c a Lynn and Courtney Pope, who f i n i s h e d their col-l e g i a t e careers on high notes last sea-son, left roles that need to be filled. Novitsky is looking

to the record-breaking per-formances of senior Alison Meng and the emergence of sophomore Gabbie Stecker last season to carry over and provide leadership for the team.

“You’re always going to graduate some, and you have to fill those spots,” Novitsky said. “Alison Meng is still going to be a force to contend with this season, as well as Megan Marchuk, a couple

of seniors, Gabbie Stecker and Amelia Schilling.”

Meng is coming off a strong season and is regarded as one of the team’s top swimmers. Her accomplishments last year included leading the team in event victories and total points.

“I would consider myself a leader. Being a senior, I’ve been here for four years, I feel me and the other seniors are on the same level as far as leadership,” Meng said. “(Staying) focused and in the moment is the most important thing. If we do that as a team, we can be successful.”

Sophomore Gabbie Steck-er is looking to continue where she left off last sea-son. Continued success could mean more school records for the sophomore.

Currently, Stecker holds the ARC pool record for fastest individual times in the 500 and 1000 freestyle and 200 butterfly.

“Freshman year was really fun, and I learned the ropes,” Stecker said. “Every year is different, so it’ll be interesting to see what we can do this year.”

Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @chisports2.

BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois men’s tennis team is back in action this week at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships in Ann Arbor, Mich. The winners of the tournament receive an automatic berth at November’s ITA Indoor Championships at the Bil-lie Jean King Tennis Center, the home of the U.S. Open. After a weekend off, the Illi-ni are rested and ready to go up against some familiar foes from around the Midwest.

Four of the main draw’s top 16 seeds are Illini, and they’ll face players from Notre Dame, Big Ten heavyweight Ohio State and in-state rival Northwestern. There will be players from several other Big Ten teams too.

Both Jared Hiltzik and Tim Kopinski will be play-ing in their first matches after the ITA All-American Championships two weeks ago. Last year, Hiltzik didn’t play in this tournament, as he automatically qualified for the ITA Indoor Champi-onships with a quarterfinal appearance at All-Ameri-cans. Kopinski made it to the quarterfinals last year before falling to teammate Farris Gosea. Both will look to build on their performanc-es two weeks ago, but their goals are clear.

“For Jared and Tim, their

goals are no different than anybody else’s this week-end,” head coach Brad Danc-er said. “We’re going there to compete, compete our tails off.”

Aleks Vukic’s last action came in All-American qual-ifying. Vukic lost a hard-fought match in the final round of qualifying to No. 62 Ralf Steinbach of Ohio State, who will also be at the Regional Championships.

“You’re playing with guys that are in our region that we’re going to see throughout the rest of the year,” Danc-er said. “It’s one of the early chances we get to see some of the new players on the oth-er teams.”

The familiar opponents will certainly be interested to see Vukic on court. The Australian freshman has put together an impressive ear-ly season, with strong show-ings in the Southern Intercol-legiate Championships and the All-American qualifying draw. Vukic will be joined by two other Illinois freshmen in Ann Arbor. Aron Hiltzik is entered in the main draw while Toshiki Matsuya will have to go through quali-fying. In his last outing at Alabama’s Four-in-the-Fall, Matsuya had a rough first match, but bounced back and played well in his final three matches.

“From Alabama, I think

I’ve improved a lot, just exe-cuting my patterns better and redefining my purpose for every shot,” Matsuya said. “Executing a little bet-ter, a little bit deeper shot, a little bit more to the corner kind of thing, changing the direction of the ball better, things like that.”

Matsuya said that the break from competition allowed the team to train harder because they didn’t have to worry about resting for tournaments. After a cou-ple weeks of tournament-free practice, Brian Page is ready to get back on the court and continue his recovery from a broken wrist and a stress reaction in his foot, injuries he suffered last season. In the interim between tourna-ments, Page said he is get-ting more of his game back and focusing on getting back into a competitive mindset.

“I’m hitting two-handers now and I can use my back-hand, so that’s a big part of my game that’s starting to come back more and more every day,” Page said. “The main thing I’m going to be focusing on is the mental side of the game. Being aware and making good decisions in points and staying in the right mindset to compete.”

Christopher can be reached at [email protected].

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Louise Kwong during the meet against Nebraska, at Atkins Tennis Center, on April 13. The Illini won 4-2.

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DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTO Alison Meng starts off the first leg of the 200 yard medley relay event at the annual Orange and Blue exhibition meet at the ARC on Oct. 13, 2013. Meng, now a senior, led the team in event victories and total points last season.

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“(Staying) focused ... is the most important thing. If we do that as a team, we can be successful.”

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KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIllinois’ Jared Hiltzik prepares to return the ball during the first round of NCAA Tennis Regionals against Ball State University at Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex on May 9, 2014.

“Most of the team has experienced a lot of losing in the past three years, so we’re really hungry.”SIMON CVIJANOVICOFFENSIVE LINEMAN

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It was the morning of gameday and we were trying to fi nd the park-

ing lot in Camp Randall Sta-dium in Madison, Wiscon-sin, we being myself and fellow Daily Illini football reporters.

We had left our hotel nearly an hour before, under the assumption we’d be all right and arrive to the stadium with time to spare. Nope. As the car got closer to the stadium, near-ly every street was blocked by police. It was diffi cult enough trying to drive; throngs of Badgers fans were darting in the street and disobeying signals to walk.

The scene on gameday in Madison puts Champaign and “Block” to shame.

Mind you, this was for a game against Big Ten bot-tom feeder Illinois and in what is considered a down year for the Badgers. If

Madison was this rowdy given those circumstances, how crazy would it get fac-ing Michigan State or Ohio State?

The excitement continued well into the night. I even saw a group on a trolley-like vehicle, only they were ped-dling to make it move. I, of course, added it to my week-end-long Snapchat story.

Now imagine the game-day scenes at Mississippi State, Florida State and Ole Miss, the top-three teams in the AP Top 25. Those would put Wisconsin to shame.

Yet I am not surprised. It never feels like there’s a home football game when I make the walk from my Urbana residence to Memo-rial Stadium on gamedays, especially for 11 a.m. kick-offs. Everyone is still sleep-ing off those hangovers.

I don’t pass rows of fans lining the sidewalks. I don’t pass store lots turned tail-gate lots fi lled to the teeth, with police offi cers standing guard. Bars are not over-fl owing with patrons. There is no loud music or loud school pride chants.

I don’t feel the

excitement.Look, Illinois football is

in a bad place. I am not the fi rst, nor the last, who will talk brash about them. But a continually bad football pro-gram runs the risk of fur-ther alienating students and fans from the football team.

That fan attention has shifted toward basketball, and rightfully so. John Groce is as entertaining to listen to as it is to watch his up-and-coming team. Nationally ranked recruits are starting to commit. Ren-ovations to State Farm Cen-ter will further enhance the experience of watching a winning team.

As for the fan experi-ence at Memorial Stadi-um? Deadspin put it best on Nov. 30, 2013, “The Illi-nois Student Section is the Saddest-est.”

Block I should be given a parade for its efforts, but not everyone is in Block I. They’ll only show if a win-ning team is on the fi eld.

By no means am I sug-gesting there is some easy fi x. I am well aware that this is all a cycle and depends if the football team

is winning, because no one can get excited over a los-ing team.

Mike Thomas and the athletic department need to ensure Illinois will not be known as just a basket-ball school. Excitement over athletics should not have to wait until November to start and then have to wait until March to peak. Even Duke,

long the king of “basket-ball only schools” has built a football program that gen-erates excitement.

It will take years to build a winning program, and I won’t be here when that happens. But when it does, I’ll just open up Snapchat to see the many 10 second snaps of students fi nally having fun during Illinois

football games. Until then, I’ll continue

my mile-and-a-half walk to Memorial Stadium through an empty Campus Town, most likely listening to CHVRCHES.

Erik is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @e_prada.

ERIK PRADO

Sports columnist

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Men’s cross country focus on invitationalBY MATT GERTSMEIERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

With a two-week break from competition, the Illinois men’s cross-country team is set to race in the Wisconsin Adidas Invitation-al on Friday. This will be the Illi-ni’s toughest meet so far, going up against 19 nationally ranked oppo-nents in the 38-team fi eld, including conference opponents No. 9 Wis-consin, No. 11 Michigan and No. 23 Indiana.

Facing an extremely competitive fi eld, the Illini remain confi dent in their abilities to perform at a high level on Friday.

“We know we’re strong, we know we’re good, so now it’s a matter of showing it,” senior Jannis Toep-fer said. “That doesn’t mean going out doing anything crazy; it means being consistent and doing what we’ve done all season.”

The group running for Illinois this Friday at Wisconsin will con-sist of juniors Ian Barnett, Paul Zeman and Liam Markham, and seniors Brendan McDonnell, Bryce Basting and Toepfer.

The Illini have had some recent success on the course, having com-peted there for the past two years. Last season, the team fi nished 19th in the Wisconsin Adidas Invitation-

al. The team looks to build on that and improve its fi nish this year.

“I think we will perform bet-ter than last year,” Basting said. “We’ve been training like mad men. We’re walking into Wiscon-sin with a lot of confi dence and a chip on our shoulder.”

Illinois has utilized its long break from race action and has concen-trated solely on Friday’s meet. At practice, the team has worked on race-specifi c drills and cut down on the volume, while increasing the intensity.

The runners have felt that inten-sity and look to carry that into Fri-day’s meet.

“Intensity is pretty high,” Toep-fer said. “We’ve been preparing ourselves to run hard to compete with these teams; it’s been the focus all along.”

On Friday, Illinois will also be sending a group to the Bradley ‘Pink’ Classic. Sophomores Will Brewster and Ryan Burgoon, and freshmen Garrett Lee, Alex Gold and Alex Notton will race for the Illini at Bradley.

Matt Gertsmeier can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier.

BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER

After a weekend off, The Illi-nois hockey returns to the ice to face off against Michigan-Dear-born at the Big Pond.

With several members missing time with injuries, the Illini used the week off to get back to full strength.

“A lot of guys with bumps and bruises are still kind of wrapped up,” goalie John Olen said. “I think people are trying to get back in for this weekend, and that’s good. It’s going to be nice getting some of those guys back.”

Head coach Nick Fabbrini expects Michigan-Dearborn to be the team’s toughest challenge of the year. The Wolverines typi-cally have talented offensive play-ers from semi-professional teams.

Despite the challenge the Wol-verines pose, defenseman William Nunez believes the Illini have an advantage because the Wolver-ines have never played at the Big

Pond, which is bigger than a typi-cal ice rink.

“This is their fi rst time ever playing in Champaign,” Nunez said. “It’s going to be different for them because of our rink, so it will probably take a period for them to adjust.

Nunez believes the defense has played well this season, but it needs to maintain its consistency throughout the two-game series.

The team focused on play-ing in the defensive zone this past week in preparation for Michigan-Dearborn.

Fabbrini said the key to the game will be if his team can cre-ate turnovers on the defensive side and maintain control of the puck.

“When we are skating and cre-ating turnovers, that’s when we are at our best. We want to have the puck,” Fabbrini said. “So on the big ice, if we can’t maintain possession through the zone, we want to get into good areas to create turnovers and get

the puck that way.”The team is hoping to get more

fans out to the games this week-end by hosting Greek Apprecia-tion for the fans.

Olen, a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, said the Greek system is a good way to get the word out about Illinois hockey and having more fans at games ele-vates the play of the team.

The Illini hope to get as many fans to attend as possible for their last home series before they start taking on conference competition.

“Our focus is just playing solid in and out every weekend,” Olen said. “We are hitting our grind now. We have Michigan-Dear-born, and then a bunch of our league games coming up. This is our last kind of tune-up weekend before we start playing the real big teams in our conference.”

Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @ddexter23.

Women’s golf aims high for weekend invitational

Illini hockey returns to face off against Michigan-Dearborn

BY LUCAS WRIGHTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Illinois women’s golf team will be back in action this week-end as the team heads to Nobles-ville, Indiana, for the Hoosier Fall Invitational.

Illinois is coming off a big win at Iowa City, Iowa, helped by the team’s 2-over-par fi nal round, which was the best round post-ed by any team all tournament.

This weekend’s tournament will feature a different format for the Illini, as the fi rst round will consist of stroke play, and

the fi nal two rounds will be match play.

This format should work well for the Illini, as they have been in the top two in birdies in each of their previous three tourna-ments. Match play breaks the round down hole-by-hole, mean-ing individual birdies are all the more important.

The Illini have spent the week adjusting to the different tour-nament format and according to sophomore Stephanie Miller, they’re feeling very confi dent heading in to the weekend.

“I think, as a whole, all of us have been very competitive this week, and it shows that we’re going to have that competitive edge against whoever we play,” Miller said. “It doesn’t really matter who we play. It just comes down to each hole and how we play that hole.”

The team has been playing well recently, especially fresh-man Chayanid Prapassarangkul, who put up 3-under par in her fi nal round at Iowa City, the best individual round of any player at the tournament. Prapassarang-

kul rebounded from her rough fi rst two rounds to jump 30 spots on the leaderboard. Coach Renee Slone is looking to see more of the same out of Prapassarangkul heading into this weekend.

“(At Iowa City), she did a great job of mentally not letting that fi rst day distract her,” Slone said. “She was able to look at Sunday as a new opportunity. Moving for-ward, it is a great opportunity to build off of.”

The Illini will be led by Dana Gattone and Miller, who fi n-ished fi rst and fi fth, respective-

ly, at Iowa City. Gattone looks to lower her team, leading 74.88 stroke average, and Miller looks to bring her scoring average back down below 75.

Illinois will face off against conference rival Indiana, along with Illinois State, Fresno State and Ball State. The Illini will look to climb up the Golfweek rank-ings, as they currently sit at 41st in the nation.

Lucas can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @LucasWright95.

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ John Olen races toward the puck in the game against Michigan State on Sept. 27.

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOThe Fighting Illini men’s track and cross country team start their race during the Illini Challenge at the UI Arboretum on Aug. 29.

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