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Wheelchair basketball returns home
BY SAMANTHA JONES TOALSTAFF WRITER
Disguised as a warm seating area for guests, the Hindsley Great Room of the Alice Campbell Alumni Cen-ter essentially houses over-stuffed furniture.
However, come fall 2017, the velvety-blue sofas will
fi nd work somewhere else as the room transforms into a museum-like space to depict the experience of attending the University.
The University of Illinois Alumni Association recent-ly confi rmed that the fi rst fl oor of the building will be repurposed into a Welcome Center.
“If someone were to ask you where they should go to learn about the Univer-sity or just to spend time when they go on campus, what would you tell them?” said Ryan Ross, coordina-tor of history and traditions
programs.RhodesWorks, a local
exhibit design fi rm work-ing on the project, found that there was no consis-tent answer to that question.
“The idea behind this, is that it can serve as a desti-nation people can go to learn about the University and to learn what’s going on at the University today,” Ross said. “It can also serve as a gate-way for people to come when they’re visiting campus.”
The Alice Campbell Alumni Center was built in 2006; Joseph Rank, history and traditions project sup-
port, was struck by the idea to turn it into something more seven years after its construction.
“The idea is to have one convenient place where visi-tors of all kinds can get a feeling of what makes the University special,” Rank said.
After the Board of Direc-tors approved the idea, the association hired Rhodes-Works to conduct research and plan the displays.
The Welcome Center is a $4 million project and is
New Welcome Center to open Fall 2017Alumni Association repurposes space for UI visitors
BY LILLY MASHAYEKSTAFF WRITER
New research suggests that the first semester at college could be more important than a lot of freshmen may prefer to think.
Students who earn low fi rst semester GPAs may be at risk of having a decreased likelihood that they will graduate than their peers who received higher grades.
The researchers looked at 1,947 underrepresent-ed, full-time students who were enrolled as fresh-men in the academic year of 2005-2006.
“The sample was select-ed to focus on students who were low-income, attended under resourced high schools and/or were historically underrepre-sented based on race or geography,” said Susan Gershenfeld, who con-ducted the research dur-ing her time as a graduate student at the University, in an email.
Colleges typically use factors such as GPA, ACT, SAT and extra-curricular activities to judge wheth-
er they should accept stu-dents and whether those students would graduate.
“We wanted to know which (factor) would bet-ter help us predict if they would persist into their senior year and graduate,” said Denice Ward Hood, educational policy studies professor.
Ultimately, students’
GPA wielded a positive correlation with their like-lihood to graduate.
“Students with a fi rst semester 2.33 or less were about half as likely to grad-uate as those in the highest range (3.68-4.0),” Gershen-feld said.
According to Univer-sity policy, a cumulative GPA lower than 2.0 is the
cutline between a stu-dent being in good stand-ing versus being on placed on probation.“Very often it’s that 2.0 that triggers a number of things; an advi-sor might contact you, you might be placed on proba-tion, you may be placed on probation within your major,” Hood said. “So as long as a student stays
above that 2.0, nothing really triggers.”
While Hood understands it is diffi cult to for advisors with large amounts of stu-dents of whom they are in charge, she does think that those students in the 2.0 to 2.5 range might also garner a second look.“Generally it’s like, well, they’re not on probation and who has
time to delve into that big group,” she said. “But those students, I wonder, are we neglecting them a little bit.”
Students who changed majors anytime after their fi rst-semester were also included in the data set, but no separate tests were run to see how that affected their likelihood of graduating.
“The most signifi cant predictor of graduation among all the coeffi cients included in the regression was fi rst-semester GPA,” Gershenfeld said.
Hood said that although students may have the same GPA, a wide variety of reasons besides intelli-gence could have played a role. Sometimes a stu-dent may have had a fami-
ly emergency or an illness, or they may have skipped going to class and partied a little too hard.“Those all may result in the same GPA, but those are very different reasons,” she said.
Gershenfeld said that it’s important for students who
GPA predicts graduation likelihood
PHOTO COURTESY OF RHODESWORKS, LTD.Artist rendition of what the Welcome Center will look like.
BY JOE LONGOSTAFF WRITER
In the early days of Face-book, detectives at the Uni-versity Police Department bought marijuana from campus drug dealers off of the social media site.
When Facebook first began, only persons with university email address-es could access the social media platform. So, drug dealing students felt safe reaching their clientele on the site, said Detective Robert Murphy of UIPD’s crime prevention unit.
“The police had Univer-sity of Illinois addresses too, so we were on there. We were browsing through it and (thought), ‘there’s no way they’re selling weed on here,’” Detective Mur-phy said. “We busted sev-eral people.”
While the ease of busting drug dealers on Facebook has decreased, UIPD still stays active on social media to inform the public and help with investigations.
According to a 2015 Gal-
lup Poll, only 52 percent of Americans expressed con-fi dence in the police — the lowest percentage since 1993. With police brutali-ty commonplace amongst today’s cultural discus-sion, UIPD spokesperson Patrick Wade says social media helps humanize the department.
“When someone inter-acts with a police offi cer, very often it is not a posi-tive situation,” Wade said. “If we can use social media as a way to kind of reach out and show more of the good stuff (we) do on a day-to-day basis, that’s a valuable thing.”
The Clery Act requires UIPD to publish daily campus safety notices, but Wade additionally uploads them to Facebook and Twit-ter to better inform the pub-lic. He especially makes a habit of informing the pub-lic when no crime occurred on campus.
“When we close a case or when nothing is going on, back in the past a crime alert would go out and all people would hear is some-thing bad is happening,” Wade said. “Now we also tell them good stuff. And by good stuff I mean noth-
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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTThe state of Illinois
announced Thursday that it will now require high school students to take the College Board’s SAT test instead of the ACT.
Despite protests from the ACT, the decision was made to use the SAT after a state procurement process.
The board’s contract with the ACT expired on June 30. After reviewing proposals from organizations that wanted to administer col-lege entrance exams to high school juniors, the board gave a Notice of Award to the College Board, which provides the SAT.
“We are delighted that,
with this decision, more Illinois students will benefi t not only from an assessment that provides more informa-tion than ever before about a student’s readiness, but directly links to resources that offer distinct opportu-nities to students, such as free, personalized online test practice through Khan
Academy and college appli-cation fee waivers,” the Illi-nois State Board of Educa-tion said in a statement.
The College Board announced that the SAT would undergo changes that the Board would insti-tute this spring. According to the College Board’s web-site, the proposed changes
include an optional essay, free Khan Academy test practice, the removal of penalties for incorrect answers and a changed focused on more relevant vocabulary.
“ISBE will now begin the process of negotiating a contract with the College Board,” the Illinois State
Board of Education said in a statement. “ISBE reaf-fi rms its appreciation for the legislators who contin-ue to support this commit-ment and who are working to fi nd solutions for school districts during this critical time in our state.”
Illinois changes high school testing procedures
SPORTS
Hat tricks galore for IlliniJohn Olen and James Mcging fi nished with a hat trick apiece in Illinois’ sweep of Illinois State.
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OPINIONS LIFE & CULTURE
Voice your thoughts on UI Happily ever afterThe March 14 town hall meeting has the potential to decide the University’s future.
Despite the “M.R.S. degree” jokes, fi nding the one in college doesn’t seem to be quite as intense.
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“Students with a first semester 2.33 or less were about half as likely to graduate as those in the highest
range (3.68-4.0).”SUSAN GERSHENFELD
ALUMNA WHO CONDUCTED STUDY
UIPD humanizes department through social mediaPolice use social media to aid in investigations, inform public
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“I think we have a pret-ty good plan, and we have a year and a half to put it together,” Rank said.
The Welcome Center will consist of many tradition-al and interactive exhib-its, called discovery boxes. These will highlight student experiences from the past and present through the col-lection of artifacts.
The Illinois Alumni Asso-ciation is currently collect-ing artifacts, photographs and story donations to even-tually display.
Ross said the University lacks artifacts from the past 100 years because many people in possession of Illi-nois memorabilia from the 20th century are still alive and hoarding things in their attic.
Ross said there haven’t been too many artifact dona-tions so far, but plenty of people have donated their diplomas which will be used to make a diploma mobile, a large, flowing sculpture that will hang from the second floor to the first floor.
A new cafe will also replace the bar that is cur-rently in the Alice Camp-bell Alumni Center, while the ballroom on the first floor will stay the same for events.
There will also be a “mem-ory space,” that collects oral history. Ross said the space will have oral stories based on different themes, such as how someone met their spouse at the University.
He said there will also be an option for visitors to record their own stories that will be reviewed and then possibly added to the display.
The exhibits will be refreshed a few times a year.
“Most of these discovery boxes in the main welcome gallery will be focused on the student experience,” Ross said. “Through the
stories that we tell, we’re telling the story of the University.”
Ross said the first students of the University debat-ed about who was going to bring the coal stove to heat their room; now, roommates decide who’s bringing the Xbox.
“The University is large-ly underappreciated,” Rank said. “So many great things have happened at the Uni-versity of Illinois; so many important discoveries, so many influential graduates, so many influential faculty members.”
Rank said the Universi-ty has a better reputation in China than it does in the East Coast and the West Coast.
“We haven’t done a very good job over time of tooting our own horn, to our detri-ment,” Rank said. “If more people were aware of our history, our traditions and our culture, then our rep-utation in things like U.S. News and World Report and other rankings, would be a lot higher if people knew what we contributed to the world.”
ing. Nothing is good in the police world.”
Social media does more than just provide a plat-form for public relations; detectives use Facebook and Twitter during investi-gations as well. According to a 2014 LexisNexis Study on law enforcement’s use of technology, 81 percent of officers use social media during ongoing investiga-tions, and 73 percent believe the technology makes inves-tigations go faster.
For example, in the recent damage of the Illini Chabad Center Menorah, posting a press release to Facebook helped investigators find offenders quickly. UIPD uploaded surveillance foot-age and almost immediate-ly their department and the Illini Chabad Center started receiving calls with infor-mation, Wade said.
“We get a lot of good secu-rity video of crimes happen-ing,” he said. “We can take that video and put it out for the public to see. They can recognize someone in that video [and] help us identify a suspect. That makes our
detectives’ jobs a lot easier.”Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel
thanked the UIPD for their work in a statement, saying, “Our deep thanks as well to the professionals at the University of Illinois Police Department, who, together with campus officials, have been extremely helpful throughout this ordeal.”
UIPD recently held a pan-el with technology services to discuss social media pri-vacy and analytics.
Detective Murphy, who spoke on the panel, noted that he uses social media to gain information about pro-tests requiring street clo-
sures and prevent stalkers in particular.
Murphy noted that, much like selling drugs on Face-book, students openly share locations of ongoing par-ties. While officers do not use this as a reason to raid a party, they will patrol the surrounding area in an effort to monitor public safety.
“We’re not out there to write tickets all day long. We don’t enjoy doing that, and we don’t get a toaster for writing the most tick-ets,” Detective Murphy said.
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BY LILLY MASHAYEKSTAFF WRITER
Finding the perfect out-fit, shoes and accessories is about to be made simpler by new technology, created by University graduate stu-dents and alumni.
“They say pictures are a thousand words, and that’s exactly true for fashion,” said Bernard Ghanem, a graduate student at the University and the Beck-man Institute, who co-developed the technol-ogy that allows users to search for an item of cloth-ing through a catalog of pictures.
The technology, called Fashion Latte, was origi-nally co-founded in 2008 by Ghanem and two of his colleagues who were in the same research lab with him, Sanketh Shetty and Esther Resendiz.
The team participated in the Illinois Ventures (iV10) program during their doc-toral program, a competi-tion where they were given ten weeks to put together a prototype for the idea they had proposed, which they then won.
“ T h e good peo-ple at iV10, they gave us a place to develop our pro-gram and our idea, and they had a meet-ing with p e o p l e who could help us put together a busi ness plan,” Gha-nem said. “Because we’re aca-d e m i c s more or less, we didn’t really know anything about business development.”
Their idea was a way for users to use pictures to search for items of clothing.
“Given an item of cloth-ing, finding things that look similar to it and find-ing attributes to that thing without those attributes being available in text,” Ghanem said.
The team made a website where they took pictures and descriptions from major store catalogs, such as Macy’s, and created a database focused on wom-en’s clothing.
“We focused on wom-en’s wear because the mar-ket analysis told us that, at that time, women buy ten time more than men online,” Ghanem said. “We enabled the user to explore all these catalogs together in a visual way.”
The technology has other features such as showing options of an item of cloth-ing in a different neckline, similar items that are less expensive or of a different clothing brand.
“There’s filtering that you can change, not only on prices and sizes avail-able but also on the visu-al content,” Ghanem said. “Things that don’t exist in the text that is provided by the online catalog.”
Fashion Latte also had an option that would help users pair certain items together.
“We also had a mix and match option where we would try to recommend to the user shoes and hand-bags that would go with the dress, or the other way around.”
After graduating from the University, Ghanem submitted a project propos-al to the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) in Singapore – a collaboration between the University and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). In 2010, Fash-ion Latte licensed out the technology to ADSC, which was the building block for the new version of Fashion Latte called FashionMatch. It was also where Ghanem met Vassilios Vonikakis, who headed up the ADSC side of FashionMatch.
Ghanem said Fashion-Match was able to take it one step further and allow the user to use any picture to search.
“They did some really cool stuff, they showed me a phone application demo, and they improved the accuracy and the speed of the methods,” he said.
“When Bernard came here to Singapore to work in ADSC, he transferred the rights to ADSC in order to continue this project that he and the other two
guys at the Un ive r s i t y had started,” V o n i k a k i s said. “I start-ed with Fash-ion Latte and started build-ing on top of it.”
They then received a commercial-ization grant from the gov-ernment of S i n g a p o r e that allowed them to com-mercialize the product.
“The role of my team was
to take what was existing there in Fashion Latte and devote into something that would be visible in real-life conditions,” Vonika-kis said. “Fashion Latte evolved into Fashion-Match, and the specifica-tions changed to images that were not catalog imag-es anymore so that means they were not perfect.”
He said FashionMatch evolved so that it works on images where the cloth-ing items aren’t perfectly posed, as they typically are in store catalogs.
“Whenever you see someone out there take a picture, the system should work in these kinds of cas-es, the algorithm should work for clouded back-grounds,” he said.
Aishat Tepede, junior in AHS, said she has nev-er used a technology like this before but that she could see herself using it in the future.
“I don’t think that it would be a bad idea,” she said. “I haven’t used it but I would, it makes it easier for me.”
The images currently take three to four seconds to process and are com-pared to 160,000 images in the database. The technol-ogy is also able to diminish the effects of shadows on images that are uploaded by a user, allowing newly uploaded images to be a part of the database.
FashionMatch has since licensed the technology out to five companies in Asia, including China, Korea and Singapore and is hoping to expand to America as well.
“They say pictures are a thousand words, and
that’s exactly true for
fashion.”BERNARD GHANEM
CO-FOUNDER OF FASHION LATTE
“The idea behind this, is that it can serve as a destination people can go to learn about the University and to learn what’s going on at the University today.”RYAN ROSS COORINATOR OF HISTORY AND TRADITIONS PROGRAMS
Shopping woes eased by new tech
WELCOMEFROM 1A
SOCIAL MEDIAFROM 1A
earned a low first-semes-ter GPA to be honest with themselves and try to see why they didn’t earn a higher GPA.
“With this understanding, they can seek the appropri-ate assistance,” she said. “The campus has a variety of resources to help students succeed, and if a student is uncertain as to where to go, start with their advisor.”
Jared Webster, a junior in FAA, said that the Universi-ty provides a lot of servic-es for struggling students, such as tutoring services.
“The goal is ultimately we want them to not just fin-ish their first year, we want them to come back every year and graduate,” Hood said.
Students who are looking for help with raising their GPAs can talk to the Coun-seling Center, and their col-lege or program advisors.
GPAFROM 1A
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOGraduates pose for photos as University officials enter Memorial Stadium for commencement on Saturday, May 16, 2015.
BY DAVID WILLMANTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON— The blimp that broke loose from an Army facility in Mary-land last fall, wreaking hav-oc with its mile-long tether, flew uncontrolled for hours because someone neglected to put batteries in its auto-matic-deflation device, Pen-tagon investigators have found.
The pilotless, radar-car-rying blimp was part of the troubled JLENS missile-defense system, which has failed to perform as prom-ised while costing the gov-ernment more than $2.7 bil-lion since 1998.
The runaway blimp epi-sode was caused by a cas-cade of events spanning 13 hours, according to people familiar with the investiga-
tion, an overview provided to congressional staff mem-bers and a summary released by a military spokeswoman.
The six-sentence summa-ry of the investigation said that “design, human, and pro-cedural issues all contribut-ed” to the mishap. Pentagon officials declined to release a copy of the investigative report.
The blimp was one of two moored at the Army’s Aber-deen Proving Ground. On Oct. 28, it was floating at an altitude of about 5,200 feet when its tether tore apart.
Fighter jets were scram-bled to track the blimp as it wafted over Maryland and Pennsylvania, and com-mercial air traffic had to be diverted. The blimp’s teth-er damaged power lines, knocking out electricity
to 35,000 rural Pennsylva-nia residents. The tattered blimp finally came to rest in high trees in rural Moreland Township, Pa.
The incident made JLENS a target of widespread rid-icule and provoked fresh questions about the program.
JLENS — short for Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sen-sor System — is designed to provide early warning of ene-my cruise missiles, drones or other low-flying threats.
The blimps, also called aerostats, can float as high as 10,000 feet. At that altitude, their powerful radar can see 340 miles in any direction, farther than land- or sea-based radar, according to the system’s prime contrac-tor, Raytheon Co.
The 7,000-pound aerostats
are anchored to the ground by 1[-inch-thick Kevlar teth-ers, which also hold wiring for electricity.
The two blimps at Aber-deen were participating in an “operational exercise” intended to test the system’s ability to defend the Wash-ington, D.C., area. The exer-cise was suspended after the accident.
The sequence of events that caused the blimp to break away began when a pitot tube, a narrow 18-inch-long device intended to mea-sure air pressure within the blimp, malfunctioned. Ground personnel failed to detect or address the prob-lem, investigators found.
Ordinarily, fans within the blimp would activate in response to a change in atmospheric conditions,
such as increased winds. But because the pilot tube failed, the fans did not operate — and air pressure within the blimp started to drop.
The blimp turned so that it was perpendicular to the prevailing wind, instead of the desired parallel position. Gusts that reached 69 mph bent its vertical tail fins out of their normal shape.
This made the blimp unsta-ble in the air, putting great-er pressure on the mooring tether than it was designed to withstand, according to the investigative documents. Still, the blimp was equipped with an automated device that should have caused it to deflate promptly and return to ground within two miles.
The device failed to acti-vate, because batteries had not been installed as a back-
up power source, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Michael Kucharek, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Northern Command, confirmed the lapse: “The lack of batteries prevented the automatic rapid deflation device from deploying.”
Military officials declined to say who was responsi-ble for failing to load the batteries.A spokesman for Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, the ranking Dem-ocrat on the Senate Appro-priations Committee and a supporter of JLENS, said the senator “is reviewing the findings of the investiga-tion as Congress examines next steps in funding for the program.”
Runaway army blimp was missing batteries
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOThe University is currently transforming the first floor of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center into a Welcome Center featuring oral histories and exhibits on student life of the past.
As the school year nears its end, students become increasingly
concerned with the success of their peers. “What are you doing this summer?” is often heard in conversations across campus and everybody is updating their resume; this is the time of internships and job offers.
What college students do during their summers is vital to their professional futures. Even as freshmen, many parents are overwhelming their college students with stress about where, when and how they are planning to obtain internships.
Meanwhile, friends and classmates who have scored awesome internships are loud and proud about their accomplishments.
“I’m soooo excited to accept an aerospace engineering internship with NASA this summer in Washington, D.C!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” says your
humble-bragging friend on Facebook. It is hard to hold back jealousy when you feel like your peers are exceeding you.
A lack of concrete summer plans makes the constant hounding to find an internship by professors, departmental advisors and parents even more stressful. Thus, many students become anxious and overwhelmed because of the weight of expectations this time of year.
Jealousy is a stress response that is only heightened when feeling anxious. A combination of fear and anger come together to create that jealous feeling in the pit of your stomach, and it’s even worse when the people you feel jealous of are your friends.
When you are feeling this way, you are not only holding yourself back from succeeding in the future by wallowing in self pity, but you are also hurting a relationship with a friend
that deserves a happy “congratulations” at this time.
Students who aren’t getting internships often feel they’re falling behind those who have because they aren’t receiving the multitude of benefits that a summer internship gives a college student.
The National Association of Colleges and Employers found in an annual survey that 95 percent of employers said candidate experience is a factor in hiring decisions. And almost half of those surveyed employers additionally wanted new-grad experience to come from an internship or other program.
Besides outshining competitors applying to
the same job as you are, internships help you develop real life skills in your field, give you confidence that this career path is the right one for you, network and build your resume.
All of these things are true; however, for some majors, internships are not nearly as
critical.“I am sometimes
jealous because (my friends) are getting actual internships but I’m an Actuarial Science major and I’m just focusing on passing my next two exams,” Emilio Cabrera, sophomore in Actuarial Science said. “I have to
get over (my jealousy) and just think about my potential future.”
Whether or not internships are important on your path to a career, don’t let negative feelings about other people’s successes get you down. Everyone has their own path.
It’s hard to watch your friends earn awesome opportunities if you’re sitting at home and continuously
applying for summer jobs you don’t want. But your success will come if you work hard enough, and you’ll want your friends to be happy for you.
“Try not to be jealous of people because all it does is drag you down,” Prem Bheda, senior in MCB said.
Jealousy is a miserable feeling, but you shouldn’t let it eat at you. Use your friends’ successes as motivation to work harder at improving yourself.
Schedule meetings with your advisor to discuss ways you can raise your chances of finding internships down the line. Pad your resume with volunteering — not only is it good for you, it’s also good for the community. Attend career fairs and workshops to create a network of people connected with your major whom you can contact in the future.
Nothing positive comes from feeling jealous. The best way to get over jealousy of this kind is to let it fuel you to try and work harder in order to reach your goals.
Leah is a freshman in Media. [email protected]
College students are often stereotyped as having little mon-
ey, and while that doesn’t apply to all of us, the characterization does fit for many. Students can often be seen hoard-ing 30-packs of ramen at County Market, and that’s no coincidence.
But every once in awhile, college students do go out to eat at res-taurants, or even just stop into Merry Ann’s to get a milkshake and indulge a late-night craving.
Sometimes this extra splurge results in students being extra cheap with the tip they give to those who wait-ed on them. This cheap-ness directly affects the paycheck of the individuals who work at the establishment. Those who do not tip are making it difficult for the workers to earn minimum wage.
Oftentimes, especial-ly on our campus, these workers are college stu-dents working to be able to pay for their school-ing or living situations. College students who get into a habit of not tipping might also never be able to break that habit, and will not tip even as they are earning more than enough money to tip. If you do not have enough money to cover both the bill and the tip, then you should not be going out to eat at all.
I’ve engaged in sev-eral conversations with friends who claim to “not believe in tipping.” This ideology is pret-ty mind-boggling giv-
en the fact that it is not something that some-one can “believe in” or not because, in America at least, it is how wait-ers earn most of their paycheck.
These individuals who don’t tip come off as rude and cheap. They could be out to lunch on a job interview someday, and when it came time to tip, if they did not it would be a reflection of their character and they may not receive the job for which they were apply-ing. There are many
people who choose not to tip, claiming that waiters are already paid and do not need their tips — and that they are only being friendly to customers to gain a better tip.
In reality, tipping is really not an option in America. Most waiters and waitresses only earn $2.13 an hour. This is clearly well-below mini-mum wage because they are supposed to make up for the difference with tips. However, if more people get in the mindset that not tipping is accept-able, that means the wait-ers and waitresses are going home with less than minimum wage in their pockets. Not to mention all the money that gets taken out in taxes.
Service profession-als are also supposed to
split their tips with other waiters, bussers, hosts and bartenders. Wait-ing tables is no easy job; waiters often work long shifts, without bathroom breaks. They are also expected to be gracious and friendly to custom-ers, even if the custom-ers are rude or harass-ing them. Sometimes they don’t even go home with enough money to pay the bills.
Even though a ser-vice tip is not necessar-ily required of patrons, it should be, as service pro-fessionals are not going to be earning minimum wage without it. No one should be “that guy” who does not tip when they go out to eat. Being gen-erous is something that we can control, and if we choose not to be, then it says something about this generation. An aver-age tip should be 15-25 percent of the bill. This assures that the staff will be compensated for their hard work and lacking paycheck.
A lot of college stu-dents work at restau-rants on campus. They are working and keep-ing up with the pressure of college classes at the same time, and therefore deserve respect. Every-one is short on cash in these tumultuous years of life; however, to not leave a tip, especially for a fel-low college student, could have a very negative effect on his or her life.
So college students, while broke themselves, should take a pledge to practice being gener-ous now, in the age where forming responsible hab-its is crucial.
Courtney is a sophomore in LAS. [email protected]
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Navigating the season of internship jealousyLEAH
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Opinions columnist
Pay it forward: Tipping waitstaff matters
COURTNEY BOYER
Opinions columnist
Whether or not internships are important on your path
to a career, don’t let negative feelings about other people’s
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THE DAILY ILLINIEDITORIAL
Take heed of next town hall meeting
On March 14, Uni-versity Presi-dent Timothy Killeen will
host a second town hall meet-ing, in which the University invites students, faculty and staff to take part in creating the University’s strategic plan for the next five years.
This sounds at first like a publicity stunt that will make the University look more dem-ocratic, but we are here to tell you that the University legit-imately wants and needs you there. If you know what is good for you — you should go.
When each of us were mak-ing the decision to attend col-lege at the University, we were shown roughly 200 reasons that our experience on campus was going to better our lives. We’d each graduate with a de-gree from the 10th best pub-lic college in the nation; we’d be exposed to and involved in ground-shaking research; and we’d have a blast doing it. But the University of Illinois has an ulterior motive for wanting us to attend college here.
The University wants us to succeed as a whole so that we, the next generation of Illi-nois residents, can turn things around for our state. If you haven’t been keeping up with the news as of late, things are not looking great for Illinois economically, especially con-sidering the state budget im-passe. We are the state’s oppor-tunity to change that.
An increase in Illinois in-novators and entrepreneurs means more businesses will bring in revenue for the state. That’s essentially the mission of the entire University and that’s why the University des-perately needs our input now.
We are the voice of the fu-ture and we need to take re-sponsibility and use that voice. What can the University change about its curricula, its teaching strategies and its en-rollment that will foster more growth in our state?
If we put our collective 45,000 bright, young minds to-gether on this one, we can cer-tainly find ways to improve the quality of education here and improve the state as a whole.
The strategic plan is already well on its way to developing a cohesive mission for the Uni-versity moving forward. It mentions the development of an “Innovation City” in Chica-go that will further entrepre-neurial and experiential learn-ing. It talks about increasing digital literacy among stu-dents, and it lists affordability and sustainability as priorities going forward. But this plan is not complete yet.You could, and should, give your input this March.
The March 14 town hall meet-ing will not just determine the University’s strategic plan. It will, if you and your colleagues and classmates contribute your ideas, determine the future of the state of Illinois.
DECLAN HARTY THE DAILY ILLINIUniversity President Tim Killeen is set for another town hall meeting on the Urbana campus on March 14. Killeen, pictured here speaking with The Daily Illini Editorial Board, announced the town halls on Thursday via a campus MassMail.
In reality, tipping is not really an option ... Most waiters and
waitresses only earn $2.13 an hour.
BY ANDREA K. MCDANIELSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
BALTIMORE — Each Thursday, Dr. Walter Ehrlich can be found along busy 41st Street in Roland Park, surrounded by signs protesting excessive war and expressing concerns about climate change. The 100-year-old regularly talks with family on Skype, sends emails and recent-ly learned to use the Uber transportation app.
Ehrlich is among a record number of centenarians in the United States. The num-ber of Americans who cel-ebrated 100 years or more of life increased more than 43 percent from 2000 to nearly 72,200 in 2014, the latest year for which data is available, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Studies have shown com-mon factors — such as Ehrlich’s active lifestyle and ability to connect with the modern world — may increase a person’s chanc-es of such a long life.
Many centenarians come from families who live a long time, indicating that there is a genetic compo-nent, research shows. Liv-ing a healthy lifestyle that includes regular exercise, balanced meals and no smoking also can increase the odds of a long life, stud-ies have found.
Health experts say oth-er factors in the rise of the number of 100-year-olds include safer workplaces — people aren’t working in as many dangerous jobs — and medical advancements against once-deadly infec-tions and other illnesses. One of the most signifi cant factors is that fewer people are dying from heart dis-ease — the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S.
Jeremy Barron, medical director of the geriatric medicine outpatient offi ce
at Johns Hopkins, said treatment has improved so much that cancer is expect-ed to eventually surpass heart disease as the lead-ing killer of older people.
The trend also has con-sequences. An aging popu-lation puts added pressure on families, the health care system and other parts of society. Researchers and geriatrics specialists are working to better under-stand this impact.
“Having so many people grow too old at one time is entirely new to us, and we have a lot of learning left to do,” said Renee S. Fredericksen, a specialist on aging who sits on the executive council of AARP Maryland.
About 1,800 Maryland residents are 100 or older, according to the Maryland Centenarians Committee Inc., which tracks that pop-ulation using Social Secu-rity data.
The group has held a cel-ebration for centenarians every May since 1993.
The group also has asked these senior citizens about the keys to a long life.
The responses varied: Some attributed their lon-gevity to spirituality, while others said they remained single and avoided the stresses of marriage and raising children. Some ate healthfully, and others said they drank a glass of wine every day.
The graying of Ameri-
ca has spurred the growth of industries to meet their needs. Senior travel groups and housing communities cater to the elderly, and health care providers are tailoring services for them.
This summer, St. Agnes Hospital became the sec-ond in the state to open a separate emergency room catering to seniors. Holy Cross in Silver Spring opened what was con-sidered the nation’s fi rst senior emergency care cen-ter in 2008.
The health conditions of centenarians also vary; some need extensive care and suffer from chronic conditions, while others live independently in their own homes or in retirement
communities.“I think the longevity
explosion we are having is a double-edge sword,” said Carmel Roques, president and CEO of Keswick Multi-Care Center community for seniors. “We do everything we can to prolong peo-ple’s lives. But it also has a downside, which is lots and lots of older adults with chronic illnesses.”
Some of these people end up in nursing homes, but others wind up under the care of relatives, includ-ing sons and daughters who also are themselves elderly and dealing with declining health.
“We now have people in their 70s and 80s taking care of parents,” Freder-
icksen said. “It can be hard on families.”
“For the most part, the older we become, the more intense the need for care in our daily lives becomes _ from help getting dressed, cleaning, eating and man-aging our fi nances,” Fred-ericksen said. “We slow down, we become frail, and medical incidents happen more frequently at an older age than a younger age.”
Some older people must learn to live on their own as the years stretch on, which can lead to isolation and mental health problems, specialists on aging said.
“The hardest thing for most of them is that so many of the people who were in their lives are dead,” said Odessa D. Dor-kins, the founder of the Maryland Centenarians Committee Inc. “It can be very lonesome for them to outlive their friends, out-live their family and out-live their spouse.”
At Roland Park Place retirement community, where Ehrlich and fi ve oth-er centenarians live, the staff tries to provide resi-dents “social interactions and the ability to make new friends and don’t feel lone-ly or isolated,” said Becki Bees, director of market-ing for the facility.
Barron, of Johns Hopkins, said getting seniors more involved could benefi t society as well.
“There are a lot of older people who would like to be engaged in the community and giving back in terms of working, volunteering or mentoring,” Barron said. “I think there is a lot of opportunity for older people to help society that we are not taking advantage of. When older people are involved in meaningful activity, it improves their quality of life.”
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Photo Ops ‘Vacation’ deep, enjoyable record
Terry Price goes under the moniker Photo Ops, an acoustic
project that just released sophomore album “Vacation.”
“Vacation” is a deep and personal record.
The lead single “I’d Be Dead” details his father’s struggle with schizophrenia and mental disorders, who then died from a heart attack in 2011.
The song is essentially a heartfelt letter to all of those who supported
him through this tough time, as Price said in an interview with Consequence Of Sound in December.
Throughout the track, Price repeats the lyrics “I’d be dead if I didn’t have you,” which is accompanied by the light sound of an acoustic guitar and tambourine, sprinkled in with the occasional playing of a beautiful piano.
The focus of this song is primarily on the voice of Price and his words, but the instrumentals provide a simple, yet full sound that makes “I’d Be Dead” one of the highlight songs for this album.
After a few listens
through “Vacation,” I began to feel as if I was reading Price’s diary. All of the songs are extremely emotional as the listener gets an in-depth look into the life of Price and his struggles. In one of the best tracks on the record, “To Move On,” we listen to Price document his inability to let go of his past.
“Hey doctor, is it okay if I just simply move on?” is a line we hear Price cry out at the top of his lungs. Following this verse, Price continues to detail his fi ght with accepting the present and forgetting the past.
All 10 tracks fl ow together in a calm
manner that never feels dull or overwhelming, just relaxed and refi ned. Price implements multiple instruments throughout a majority of the albums’ choruses to create a rich and atmospheric sound in full. This is an impressive feat, considering that Photo Ops is a one-man band.
Price’s voice is nothing extraordinary, but it works exceptionally well with the style of music that Photo Ops creates. His mellow and suave tone shines on tracks like “Kathleen” and “Once Around the Town Square” — two songs that tell us about Price and his complicated love life.
“Once Around the Town Square” is a delicate and beautiful song, where we hear Price recall pleasant memories of love, “I kissed you at the park, our friends cheered us on.”
“Maybe We’ll Change” is a song that comes right in the middle of the record, and possibly the best song of all. With a soft drum beat that rolls on and on throughout the song, combined with the fast-paced strokes of Price’s ukulele, “Maybe We’ll Change” is one of the more upbeat tracks on the album.
Price’s voice stands out on “Maybe We’ll Change” more than all of the other songs off this record, it’s
simple, yet beautiful. This voice is accompanied by soft back-up vocals in a chorus that’ll be stuck in your head after a few listens.
All in all, “Vacation” is an enjoyable and easy listening record. Obviously some songs are stronger than others, but it’s tough to pinpoint a bad song on this record.
Every song fi ts together in a fl uid manner, and I never felt the urge to press skip while listening.
“Vacation” is a perfect record for a Sunday spent doing homework or just relaxing on the couch.
Rating: 8/10
JAKE VALENTINE
Contributing writer
Growing number of centenarians in good company
ALEJANDRO TAMAYO TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICERetired Dr. Blake Tablott, a 100-year-old man in his San Diego home on Dec. 15. There are more centenarians alive today than ever before.
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BY MARA SHAPIROSTAFF WRITER
Two years ago, former Chancellor Phyllis Wise told the Class of 2017 during Convocation that it was highly likely the then-freshmen students would end up meeting their future life partners at the University.
Wise’s speech refl ects a pressure some students might feel, a pressure to fi nd Mr.
or Mrs. Right by the time they graduate. But Brian Ogolsky, assistant professor in Human Development and Family Studies, does not believe this pressure is felt as much today as it was decades ago.
“The average age of marriage is sneaking up close to 30, so the norms of society are shifting away from young people marrying in their early 20s,” Ogolsky said in an email.
Ogolsky said the Internet, offering numerous dating sites and social-networking opportunities, has also caused the pool of available partners to increase size.
“It used to be that college was the one place where people found like-minded others. Now, there is a seemingly endless array of options,” Ogolsky said.
Ogolsky has also found that people are more mobile today.
“Now, the possibility of taking a job in another location enables people the fl exibility to fi nd partners who are not in the immediate area,” Ogolsky said.
Joseph Serio, graduate student in Engineering, did not feel this pressure when he was an undergraduate student at the University.
“Even though I have been in a few relationships in college, I did not feel pressured to commit to fi nding a spouse because it was not the culture of those around me. I was in a fraternity as an undergraduate, and although some of my brothers have ended up being married to their college girlfriends, there was generally a laissez-faire attitude about committed relationships within my friend group,” Serio said.
Serio believes that a person’s family and the culture of a college infl uences students seeking out spouses.
“My younger sister attends a small Christian college, and many of her friends have attempted to get engaged by the time they are juniors. At a larger school such as Illinois, I think there are still cultural niches where the pressure to fi nd a wife is very present, but it’s defi nitely not the general campus feel,” Serio said.
However, Kaitlin Kamp, University alumna in media, comes from a family where getting married young is the norm.
“I’ve dated my current boyfriend since freshman year. I come from a family where the girls get married and knocked up before 25, so there was a bit of pressure there. But it’s mostly the pressure that if you date in college, that has to be the person you marry. So not so much ‘fi nding a spouse’ for me, more so ensuring your current partner will be your spouse,” Kamp said.
Kamp believes that people feel this need to fi nd a spouse before graduation because they are too scared they won’t have the opportunity post-graduation.
“My friends ask me about it all the time. They ask, ‘Do you think Drew will propose after graduation?’ And it’s like, I sure hope not; I don’t want that yet. There’s this expectation that if you date in college, you marry that person immediately,” she said. “I think it mostly stems from the idea that in college, you’re surrounded
by people who are your same age, with similar interests and similar life situations. So it’s really a very ideal place to fi nd a partner, and it’s really easy. I think people are scared if they can’t fi nd someone in this good of a situation, they never will.”
A common joke among college students is the “M.R.S. Degree,” or the purpose of going to college is to fi nd a fi nancially stable husband. Serio does not believe this myth occurs with the women on campus.
“I don’t think at Illinois that there could be many young women that would dedicate so much money and time to getting a degree just to not use it. Granted, there are many who make it their mission to fi nd a husband, but I think it’s uncommon to do so just to disregard the degree they earn,” Serio said.
Kamp, however, has a different point of view compared to Serio.
“I would love to say that because we go to such a great University, all women here are focused on making a career for themselves. I think that’s mostly true, but unfortunately I think the ‘M.R.S. Degree’ joke exists for a reason. I was in a sorority for two years and getting a “ring by spring” was defi nitely a goal,” Kamp said. ” As
forward thinking as young women are, there’s still this competitive edge that marriage is the end goal for women. It’s better than it used to be, but I’ve seen countless girls skip studying or drop classes because their boyfriend is in law school or something.”
Serio also said, based off his international friends, that there is a higher pressure to fi nd a spouse if one is a student from another country, especially due to religious concerns. Kamp said that if a culture does not allow a woman to work and that her husband is her only source of income, it becomes a “dire situation” to fi nd a husband.
Overall, Ogolsky said it is becoming more and more common for college students to wait years after graduating to get married.
“In general, emerging adulthood is stretching later and later into the 20s, so it is certainly becoming much more normative for people to wait. The likely reason for this is that young people desire a more diverse set of experiences before they want to ‘settle down.’ Those experiences may include some job stability, traveling, or different romantic partners,” Ogolsky said.
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SPORTS1BMONDAYFebruary 15, 2016The Daily IlliniDailyIllini.com
BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER
Illinois hockey’s disman-tling of Illinois State this weekend was due in large part to a suddenly stingy Illini defense — a state-ment that could not be said in prior weeks, espe-cially regarding an Illi-nois defense that gave up 13 goals over two games to Ohio University Feb. 5-6.
In Saturday’s 6-1 win, the Illini shut down the Red-birds in every man-down situation.
Illinois’ defense barely
allowed Illinois State any shots on goal, requiring backup goalie Zev Gru-met-Morris to only make 17 saves in the team’s 5-2 victory Friday and allowing third-string goalie David Hefl in to only face 24 shots total Saturday.
The Illini’s defense act-ed as a catalyst for Illinois’ forwards and centers, forc-ing multiple turnovers near center ice that resulted in four breakaway opportuni-ties — two of which were converted by sophomore forward James Mcging.
“We worked a lot on shot-blocking goals drills in practice last week,” Mcging said. “We blocked a lot of shots near our blue line and that created a lot of turnovers that result-ed in fast breaks. Both my breakaways were off shot blocks.”Pair of hat tricks
Witnessing a hat trick is a rarity for any fan base, but Illini fans were lucky enough to see two in one weekend.
Senior captain John Olen
has been a leader all season for the Illini.
Olen scored three of the Illini’s fi ve goals and added an assist Friday for the fi rst hat trick of the Illini’s sea-son. Despite missing nearly two months due to a broken ankle, Olen has been able to rack up 20 points this sea-son – ranking No. 4 on the team.
For an encore, Mcging had his own hat trick the following night, a feat that featured two breakaway
Illini hockey sweep Redbirds at home
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AUSTIN YATTONI THE DAILY ILLINIJames McGing carries the puck down the ice during the game against Illinois State at the Ice Arena on Feb. 12. The Illini won 5-2.
Power rankingsDAILY ILLINI BASKETBALL STAFFEditor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini basketball staff ranks the basketball teams in the Big Ten 1-14 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.
1. MARYLAND — The Terps boast fi ve starters averaging double fi gures. Melo Trimble, Diamond Stone and Robert Carter Jr. lead the way for the best Maryland squad since 2002.
2. IOWA — Many would argue for Iowa atop this list. The Hawkeyes are the most experienced team in the conference with four seniors and a junior in the starting lineup, which includes Jarrod Uthoff (18.6 PPG) and Peter Jok (15.3 PPG).
3. MICHIGAN STATE — Wooden Award candidate Denzel Valentine (19 PPG, 8 RPG, 7 APG) is the man for the No. 8 Spartans, who have non-conference wins over No. 6 Kansas and No. 13 Louisville.
4. INDIANA — The Hoosiers are having a terrifi c season even without star sophomore James Blackmon Jr. (knee surgery). Yogi Ferrell, Troy Williams and Thomas Bryant carried Indiana to a win over No. 4 Iowa on Feb. 11.
5. WISCONSIN — The Badgers had a rough start, but they’ve now won seven straight games including résumé-building victories over Michigan State and Maryland.
6. PURDUE — Purdue is No. 18 in the country thanks to its 20-6 record. However, the Boilermakers only have one signature win – a Feb. 9 victory against Michigan State.
7. MICHIGAN — Caris Levert returned from injury Saturday in a win over Purdue after missing 11 games. The Wolverines are trending up, but they still have to face Maryland, Iowa and Wisconsin – the hottest team in the conference – before Big Ten tourney time.
8.OHIO STATE — The Buckeyes are talented, but they’re young, inexperienced and inconsistent. Early on, they fell to UT-Arlington and Louisiana Tech but beat Virginia and Kentucky. Thad Matta’s bunch is still trying to fi nd its identity.
9. NEBRASKA — Andrew White (17.6 PPG) and Shavon Shields (15.7 PPG) make up one of the deadliest backcourts in the nation, but the Cornhuskers lack a post presence.
10. NORTHWESTERN — Chris Collins has injected life into the Northwestern basketball program, but it’ll take time before the ‘Cats can compete in arguably the best conference in the country.
11. ILLINOIS — Injuries have depleted what could’ve been a solid Illini team. Malcolm Hill (18.4 PPG) and Kendrick Nunn (16.5 PPG) are bright spots in another down year for Illinois.
12. PENN STATE — Senior forward Brandon Taylor (16.5 PPG) is a terrifi c scorer, but the Nittany Lions don’t have enough talent surrounding its best player.
13. MINNESOTA — The Golden Gophers are winless in the Big Ten despite four players averaging double fi gures.
14. RUTGERS — Eddie Jordan’s Scarlet Knights have been abysmal. Freshman point guard Corey Sanders (16.2) is a player to watch over the next few years.
SEE HOCKEY | 2B
Softball off to 2-3 start to season after fi rst invitational
Women’s tennis bounces back against Bulls
BY TIM GRIFFINSTAFF WRITER
After losing three straight matches, the Illini women’s tennis team host-ed South Florida on Sat-urday. It was the 11th all-time meeting between the two programs, but the fi rst time Illinois has hosted the matchup.
The Illini knocked off the Bulls 5-2 to rise back above .500 — they’re 4-3 with the win, while South Florida dropped to 1-4 overall.
The Illini started off strong, sweeping the Bulls
across the board in each match in doubles play. Each Illini pairing came away with relatively strong wins by large defi cits. It was the Illini’s sixth doubles point win of the season. The only doubles tally the Illini have lost this season was to vis-iting No. 22 Kentucky last weekend.
“It was another tough match for our kids and I was really pleased with the way they responded tonight,” head coach Evan Clark said in a press release.
The strong play contin-ued for the Illini as No. 1 singles player Louise Kwong defeated Olga Mar-tinez 6-3, 6-0. Alexis Casati and Ines Vias, at second and fourth singles respective-ly, followed Kwong’s lead,
both picking up victories to clinch the Illini win.
South Florida was able to cut into the Illini lead a little, with victories from Vanja Klaric and Anna Roman Dominguez over the Illini’ Daniela Pedraza Novak and Jerricka Boone, respectively.
“We certainly still have a lot of work to do, but we put ourselves in position to win at every spot tonight and we have seen a lot of positive progress in the last week,” Clark said in a press release. “We will look to continue to get better this week in practice in order to be ready for DePaul on Friday.”
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JUSTIN WOLFE THE DAILY ILLINILouise Kwong rallies the ball at the Atkins Tennis Center on Feb. 13. Illini beat South Florida 5-2
BY DRAKE PENASTAFF WRITER
The Illinois softball team started its season with the JuiceBlendz FIU Invitational last weekend.
Hosted by Florida Inter-national University, Illi-nois had their chance to compete for the fi rst time this season. Spanning three days, the invitation-al had the team square off against teams from the East Coast and Midwest.
Day one of the tourna-ment had Illinois facing LIU Brookyln and Valpara-iso. Illinois split the pair, losing their fi rst contest to LIU, then coming back to defeat Valpo.
With a 1-1 record in hand, the team prepared for arguably their biggest game of the tournament –
a matchup against No. 10 Florida State.
The Illini were able to hand the Seminoles their only loss of the tourna-m e n t , shut t i ng down their o f f e n s e and carv-ing out a 5 -1 victory.
F i r s t -year head c o a c h Tyra Per-ry was t h r i l l e d with the way her team responded to their fi rst game versus a ranked opponent. Perry also cred-ited the victory to the teams pitching, which was
one of the team’s problems last season.
“We were really excited about the way we came out in our fi rst game against
F l o r i d a S t a t e , ” P e r r y said in a press r e le a s e . “I thought J a d e Vecvana-gs did a great job in the cir-cle. She was con-fi dent and c a r r i e d
herself like an ace.”The momentum from the
win just didn’t carry over later in the day, for the sec-ond day in a row, the Illini
split their games losing to tournament host FIU 10-8.
Perry believes that a lit-tle more aggressiveness may have been the differ-ence at the end of the day.
“The second game we did not fair quite as well, obviously,” Perry said in a press release. “We were not as aggressive as we needed to be and made a few costly errors. Despite that, we did hit the ball well, but we just could not fi nd the hole.”
Illinois’ fi nal game of the weekend came against St. John’s on Sunday, and the team ultimately came up short, getting shut out 4-0 and ending the slate of games with a 2-3 record.
Perry wanted her team
Win ends three-match losing streak
“It was an-other tough match for our kids and I was really pleased with the way they responded tonight.”
EVAN CLARKHEAD COACH
“I thought Jade Vecvanags did a great job in the circle. She
was confi dent and carried herself like an
ace.”TYRA PERRYHEAD COACH
SEE SOFTBALL | 2B
to end on a high note, but knows that the aggressive-ness she wants from her team may take a while to come out.
“Today was a day we could have ended on a high note, however we came out with low energy and played
very tentative,” Perry said in a press release. “This is a constant evolution as far as transitioning into a more aggressive style of play. We will continue to keep working at it and next week at practice we are going to work really hard to put everything together and stay composed through-out an entire weekend of games.”
The team heads to Cha-pel Hill, North Carolina, for the Big Ten/ACC chal-lenge next weekend where it will look to test out its new aggressive style of play under Perry. The Illi-ni’s opponents will be Bos-ton College and host UNC.
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BY ALEX WALLNERSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois wrestling team was tied at 16 with Minnesota going into the final match of the evening — senior Jeff Koepke’s last bout at Huff Hall.
Koepke started off the scoring with two take-downs in the first period to make it 4-2 after the first frame.
Heading into the final period, with the winner grabbing the dual win, Koepke held a 5-2 lead. Koepke added one more takedown in the final frame to give Illinois its second straight win heading into the postseason.
Excited after the match, Koepke said that he’s used to starting the dual early as opposed to late, but said that it was fun to go out there and secure the win for the team.
“The past few years, Minnesota’s beaten us, but this year we took it to them a little more, we were the guys being the aggressors it seemed like,” Koepke said. “My guy just wrestled like Minnesota wrestlers, typically, he kept com-ing the whole time and he fought a good match.”
No. 16 Minnesota (9-8, 5-4) took an early 7-0 lead over No. 12 Illinois (12-5, 4-5) before the Illini start-ed their string of wins.
Freshman Francis Edel-
en won his second match of the season at 125 pounds over Skyler Petry by deci-sion, 3-2, to erase the Gold-en Gopher lead to four with No. 2 Zane Richards approaching the mat at 133 pounds.
Richards came out in full attack mode, earning four takedowns and two four-point near falls to earn the technical fall and give Illi-nois an 8-7 lead.
At 157 pounds, No. 2 Isa-iah Martinez took his 22-1 record to the mat against Brandon Kingsley (18-10).
Martinez defeated King-sley by major decision, 15-6, with six takedowns, to earn his 23rd win on the season.
Martinez said that he wasn’t particularly impressed with how King-sley wrestled, as he wasn’t really trying to win the match – instead he was try-ing to just keep the match close.
“A lot of times now, guys aren’t trying to win the match, they’re trying to stall and keep it close,” Martinez said. “It is what it is and if a guy wants to grab on two of my wrists and not do anything with them, than that’s his fault and there’s not a way to win the match.”
Martinez added that he grows frustrated when his opponents go with that strategy.
Illinois head coach Jim Heffernan said that he was happy from the per-formances of Edelen and Koepke in particular.
“It was great for Fran-cis,” Heffernan said. “Kid’s hung in there all year, done a great job and I was proud of the way he fought and found a way to win. Koepke was great at the end and after an upset match some-times it’s difficult to go out and perform, but he did a very good job and it was a great way for him to end his senior career at home.”
The upset of the day came at 174 pounds, as No. 4 Zac Brunson lost to unranked Nicholas Wan-zek of Minnesota by a 13-10 decision.
The loss was Brunson’s second of the season and Heffernan said the only thing that was different with him was that he gave up a six-point reversal.
“He gave up a six-point reversal and then gave up another takedown as he was trying to finish,” Hef-fernan said. “So essential-ly, he kind of the gave the guy points and that’s what made the difference, but Zac is sound enough and is experienced enough to where he can’t let that stuff happen.”
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goals that froze the Red-bird goalie. Mcging also scored a goal in Friday’s game, contributing to yet another monster weekend — and season — for the sophomore.
Mcging’s 48 points ranks No. 1 on the Illinois roster, No.1 in the CSCHL and No. 15 in the ACHA.
“When we’re getting good looks at the net, it’s just a matter of time before our talent takes over,” head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “If we can just keep playing simple and getting pucks and bod-ies to the net, we’ll be in good shape.”
Survive and advanceThe road to a CSCHL
tournament championship starts this Friday for the
Illini with a No. 4–No. 5 matchup with Robert Mor-ris University in Ames, Iowa.
The Illini are 2-2 against the Eagles this season, split-
ting each two-game series.The two teams have not
faced each other in near-ly three months. Since then the Illini have gotten healthier and now have a first line that features a duo that produced seven goals and two assists over the weekend.
The winner of Friday’s game will face CSCHL-leading Lindenwood Uni-versity the following day.
“(Robert Morris) has a very good power play and a lot of skilled guys who can move the puck around,” Mcging said. “We haven’t seen them in a long time,
but I think we match up well with them.”
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BY BENJY SABITTSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois women’s golf team won for the eighth-straight year at the Illinois Challenge, a match-play exhibition against Illinois State, over the weekend.
But things were a bit different this season: The Illini didn’t drop a match to the Redbirds for the first time in the competition’s history.
This is the Illini’s first competitive golf since the conclusion of the fall season in late October. They saw this as an opportunity to build confidence and work on some things that they have been doing during the break.
“We putted well,” said head coach Renee Slone. “We’re showing positive signs, but there’s still a lot of work to do.”
Slone has been preaching mental toughness to her team and said that she felt the team stayed positive throughout the day.
T h e m atc h - p l ay tournament has two parts: four-ball and individual matches. The four-ball matches gave the team a chance to play with a partner, and Slone felt that took the edge off for some players.
“For some it took the pressure off,” Slone said. “Just knowing that somebody else had their back.”
Sophomore Grace Park played with Pailin Ruttanasupagid, and won their four-ball match
by the highest margin of 5-and-4. Park echoed her coach’s words about playing with a partner.
“It was comforting,” Park said. “If I messed up a hole Pailin had my back and if she messed up a hole I would have hers.”
The four-ball also gave each pairing a chance to strategize with each other.
“We just played to our strengths,” Park said. “Pailin is a long hitter and I’m a straight hitter so I felt that played out well for us, when Pailin would miss-hit a shot I felt I could back her up.”
The team swept all three of the four-ball matches. Stephanie Miller and Bing Singhsumalee won their match 3-and-1 while Dana Gattone and Chayanid Prapassarangkul won 2-and-1.
After four-ball the team went on to individual play, where they matched up with one person from Illinois State. The Illini did not lose a single match in
this competition either.Stepha nie M i l ler
defe ated C our t ney Cosset 4-and-3, Bing Singhsumalee defeated Caitlin Sims 4-and-2 and Grace Park defeated Renee Holberg 5-and-3. Dana Gattone defeated Abby Lucktenburg 3-and-2, Chayanid Prapassarangkul defeated Maggie Ambrose 3 -and-2 and Pailin Ruttanasupagid tied in her match against Kiley Walsh.
Illinois will look to build on this exhibition, and hope that the momentum carries over to tournament play.
“We feel a lot better after what we were able to do here,” Park said. “We’re ready for tournament play.”
The Illini have a short week of practice before they start the spring season next weekend at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Peoria, Arizona.
Illinois women’s golf dominates against Illinois State
Senior’s final home meet ends in Illinois success
HOCKEYFROM 1B
BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER
It was a tale of two halves for the Illinois wom-en’s basketball team, but the result stayed the same: an Illinois loss.
The Illini (8-17, 1-13 Big Ten) hosted Rutgers (16-10, 7-7) on Saturday night at State Farm Center for senior night. Legendary coach C. Vivian Stringer’s Scarlet Knights held a sig-nificant height and depth advantage that led a domi-nant first half.
The Illini fought back and outscored Rutgers in the second half, but that w a s n ’ t enough to overcome a 16-point first-half deficit as the home team fell 63-56.
I l l i -nois head c o a c h Matt Bol-lant cred-ited his t e a m ’ s passion for its play in the second half of the game. He said his players missed a couple of shots early and it affected their play throughout the second half.
Illinois managed to score 20 points heading into the break.
“I was disappointed in our passion in the first half,” Bollant said. “We talked a little bit about our immaturity and that showed up early. We didn’t make shots, and we let that affect our aggressiveness and our swagger and our confidence. Part of that is that Rutgers is really
good defensively, but we just didn’t play with a lot of passion or a lot of fight.”
Guard Kyley Simmons said the team struggled to make shots in the second quarter and it threw the players off their rhythm. She said that they played with less aggression on the defensive end as a result, which led to Rutgers out-scoring the Illini by 10 points in the quarter.
Center Chatrice White took on a big challenge in the post, going against Rutger’s 6-foot-4 center Rachel Hollivay. Illinois’ leading scorer held her own and dropped 26 points and collected 11 rebounds, both of which were team highs.
White also led the team in 3-point field goals attempted by a wide
m a r g i n . D e s p i t e s i n k i n g two of her eight attempts, W h i t e said she has been expanding her game in the last few sea-sons by a d d i n g p e r i m -
eter shots to her scoring arsenal.
Bollant said he encour-aged White to take more outside shots because it would make it harder for Hollivay to guard her. White netted her only two 3-pointers in the second half, in which she scored 18 of her 26 points.
Illinois outscored Rut-gers by nine points in the half.
“I think that I realized that I wanted to send our seniors off on a better note than how we were playing in the first half,” White said. “That gave me more energy, and that helped me
get after it. I love going against big post players inside. Rutgers has a cou-ple of them, so that was a challenge for me.”
With just four games left in the regular season, Bollant said his focus is on getting as many wins as possible for the departing senior class. The team’s best chance to get another one will be in its next game against Wisconsin — the only Big Ten team Illinois has beaten this season.
Simmons, a senior, said the team remains positive despite its record, and that the coaching staff has done all it can to make it a mean-ingful last season for her and her fellow teammates.
“My teammates and coaches have made it a lot of fun this year, even if the win and loss column doesn’t show it,” Simmons said. “I’m just trying to go out with fight and doing the best I can for my team-mates and coaches.”
Inconsistency extends losing streak for Bollant
Rutgers 63 Illinois 56Summary: Center Chatrice White helped Illinois fight back from a 16 point first half deficit, but it wasn’t enough as Illinois dropped its eighth straight game.Player of the Game: Chatrice White: 26 points 11 rebounds Quote of the game: “My teammates and coaches have made it a lot of fun this year, even if the win and loss column doesn’t show it. I’m just trying to go out with fight and doing the best I can for my teammates and coaches.”
“We didn’t make shots and we let that affect
our aggressiveness and our swagger and our
confidence.”
MATT BOLLANTHEAD COACH
Illinois ChallengeSummary: Illinois beats Illinois State 8.5-.5 in the match-play exhibition. The Illini won out in four-ball competition, and didn’t lose a single event in individual play.Key Performer: Grace Park had the highest margin of victory in both competitions on Saturday.Quote of the game:
“We’re showing positive signs, but there is still a lot of work left to do”Hidden Stat: This is the eighth straight win for the Illini at this event and the first time they haven’t surrendered a single loss.Up Next: The Illini will begin tournament play in the Westbrook Spring Invitational next Saturday and Sunday.
“We feel a lot better after what we were able to do here. We’re ready for tournament play.”
RENEE SLONEHEAD COACH
SOFTBALLFROM 1B
RYAN FANG THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jeff Koepke pins Minnesota’s Chris Pfarr during the match at Huff Hall on Friday, February 12, 2016.The Illini won 19-16.
RYAN FANG THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Francis Edelen pins Minnesota’s Skyler Perry during the match at Huff Hall on Friday, Feb. 12. The Illini won 19-16.
“When we’re getting good looks at the
net, it’s just a matter of time before our talent takes over.”
NICK FABBRINIHEAD COACH Despite strong
second half, Illini lose 63-56
BY TYLER FEDAKSTAFF WRITER
Illinois and Iowa bat-tled in the annual Pink Meet for breast cancer awareness Saturday in Huff Hall.
The Illini (2-4, 2-3 Big Ten) were with-out junior Mary Jane Horth in competition for the second consecutive week. Last week, with Horth sidelined for an injury, a few of the gym-nasts had to step up to fill the large gap that the all-around gymnast left.
This week, the team had to adjust for her loss, and fell to the Big Ten-leading Hawkeyes with 196.275-195.125.
The Illini started on vault, an event that they have averaged 48.655 points on this season.
All-around junior Erin Buchanan led the team in the event with her 9.775 routine, adding to the team’s event total of 48.625. The Hawkeyes had a more successful first rotation, scoring a 49.125 on the uneven bars and giving them a .500 lead over the Illini.
On the uneven bars, freshman Lizzy LeDuc and senior Giana O’Connor each scored a 9.825 to tie for third in the event. This routine was a career best for LeDuc, who averages a 9.455 on bars. The Illini ended up with an event score of 48.800, the sec-ond-best total that they have seen this year.
Going into the second half of the evening, the Illini trailed the Hawk-
eyes by .700.In the third rotation,
senior Sunny Kato got fourth place with her 9.825 beam routine. Illinois came out of the event scoring a season low 48.625, trailing Iowa by over a point.
The Illini had an impressive showing on floor, garnering a shared event title from O’Connor and Buchan-an’s 9.875 performanc-es. The gymnasts totaled a 49.075 in the event, finishing off the meet with a 195.125 total.
This win continues the Hawkeyes’ undefeat-ed conference season, bringing their record to 5-0. The Illini have lost consecutive Big Ten matches and are back
on the road next week for their last Big Ten dual matchup at Michi-gan State.
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Illini fall to Hawkeyes during Pink Meet at homeIllinois vs. IowaSummary: Illinois garnered a shared event title on floor and recorded six top-three finishes in their loss to conference rival Iowa.Key player: Lizzy LeDuc produced a career best all around total of 39.200.Up next: Illinois at Michigan State on Friday, Feb. 19
Men’s gymnastics finishes third in meet of six teamsBY JAMES BOYDSTAFF WRITER
Missing one of its top gymnasts, the Illinois men’s gymnastics team finished third with a score of 429.750 on Sat-urday in Minneapolis.
Outscoring Illinois in the six-way meet were National Championship runner-up Stanford and Big Ten foe Minnesota who earned scores of 432.800 and 432.650 respectively.
“Overall (I’m) super happy. (We were just) edged out by Stanford and Minnesota ... with-out one of our obvi-ously standout guys,” said head coach Jus-tin Spring. “We’re in a good place and we’re going to make some improvements.”
Stanford had been averaging just over 440 points per competition this season, but even in one of its worst perfor-
mances, it was still able to edge out the two Big Ten foes, as well as three other teams — including the Canadian National Team — inside Minne-sota’s Sports Pavilion.
The Illini began its day on the pommel horse and would be the only team to surpass 70 points on the appara-tus. Sophomore Bran-don Ngai led the way with a score of 15.050, earning him a share of the event title with Min-nesota freshman Justin Karstadt. Ngai has now won five pommel horse crowns this season.
I’m seeing him swing more confidently and aggressively, and this is a kid who is relent-less in his pursuit.” Spring said. “He’s kind of a beacon for what the rest of the team should be shooting for.”
Sitting in fourth place after the first rotation,
Illinois used a balanced attack on still rings and vault to reposition themselves in the com-petition. No Illini gym-nast scored lower than a 14.000 in either event.
Sophomore Dennis Mitton earned third place honors on still rings, sticking his land-ing on his way to a team-high 14.750. Sophomore Chandler Eggleston scored a team-high 14.900 on vault, but his three week streak of titles in the event would come to an end.
At the midway point of the competition the Illini moved up to sec-ond place in the meet standings and only trailed the Golden Gophers by 1.45 points, but all the momentum they had gained quick-ly shifted with a collec-tively poor performance on parallel bars. Their score of 67.150 was the
only event of the day when the team scored less than 70 and no indi-vidual managed to pro-duce a score of at least 14.000.
“We really, honestly gave the meet away on (parallel) bars,” said Spring.
The head coach believes that his team’s collapse during that event was one of the worst he’s seen in his seven years as the Illi-ni head coach, but also praised his team for the resiliency the showed later in the meet.
Sophomore Tyson Bull won on high bar to earn his second career title in as many weeks, scoring a 15.150 and Eggleston finished run-ner-up with a 14.900. Three stuck landings from the Illini helped them bounce back from their poor fourth rota-tion, and kept them
within striking dis-tance heading into the final event.
Freshman Johnny Jacobson, senior Fred Hartville, and freshman Blake Martin all scored 14.900 on floor excer-cise, a team high, but it would not be enough to come out as victors. Stanford and Minne-sota would ultimately hold on to win despite Illinois’ second best score of 73.250 and the third place finish moves Illinois to 11-4 on the season.
“With how close the meet ended, and with how much better we could’ve done on (par-allel bars),” said Jacob-son. “I think going into the next couple com-petitions, we’re pretty excited.”
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JUSTIN WOLFE THE DAILY ILLINILizzy LeDuc on the floor during the match against Michigan at Huff Hall on Jan. 22.
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Johnny Jacobson performs a vault routine during the meet against Temple and UIC at Huff Hall on Feb. 6.
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