BY MEGAN JONESASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

The Urbana-Champaign Faculty Senate approved a preliminary proposal to cre-ate an engineering-based Col-lege of Medicine at its Mon-day meeting.

University officials will outline additional details for the college in three new docu-ments — a governance plan, curriculum plan and budget — before the faculty senate gives an official approval.

“There is a huge amount of work on this campus if we want this to be a reality,” said Provost Ilesanmi Adesida.

The preliminary college aims to take research-based academics and pair them with Carle Health System to create a medical school that intersects with engi-neering, technology, health care and medical sciences. The college was inspired to help solve problems such as

the influx of people entering the health care system due to the Affordable Care Act, an increase in chronic con-ditions and a decrease in the amount of physicians in the field.

As millions of new people are entering the health care system due to the Affordable Care Act, along with a short-age of physicians and addi-tional chronic conditions,

“A great University has great ideas,” said Nicholas Burbules, Senate Executive Committee member and pro-fessor of Education Policy, Organization and Leader-ship. “I’ve been here for 25 years and this is one of the most exciting initiatives.”

Some of the schools to be included in the proposed Col-lege of Medicine include Vet-erinary Medicine, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Social Work, Animal Sciences, Engi-neering and LAS.

Adesida said the platform of the college looks at preven-tion medical science, predic-tive medicine and technolo-gy-based applications.

When asked whether the Board of Trustees support-ed the idea, Adesida said the Board has looked over the

plan, and while they have not endorsed it, they told Univer-sity administration to devel-op a business plan for the college.

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Dining halls no longer listing allergensBY ESTEFANIA FLOREZCONTRIBUTING WRITER

A new University dining hall regulation has students concerned that there will no longer be signs listing allergens for foods.

Previously, a student was able see if dining hall food contained any allergens, such as peanuts, listed on small placards above the food. The dining halls used to contain physical labels resembling the familiar FDA-mandated Nutrition Facts format along with colorful window clings to denote common allergens and restrictions. This will no longer be the case, as the mobile UI Dining app is replacing the placards.

Kirsten Ruby, associate director of housing for communications and marketing, said in an email that this new rule will be beneficial for students with allergens because they can look up foods

ahead of time or use the app right in the dining hall.

Students can also become part of the Inclusive Solutions program, which provides custom meals for students with food allergies.

“Relying on signage at the time of a meal is problematic for students with allergies, as there is the potential for an item to be mislabeled or for a label to be moved or removed by another patron,” Ruby said. “When students with allergies look up foods ahead of time, or using an app right in the dining hall, they can receive accurate information created, entered and reviewed by a dietitian and plan their meals accordingly.”

However, many students were not aware that allergens were no longer getting listed, and that they would now have to use an app.

Dominique Watkins, freshman in LAS, said that as a student with a peanut allergy, she does not agree with having an app as the only way to check if the food contains peanuts.

“Personally, I don’t use any of the Illini apps. ... I rely a lot on the visual, and I think that they should really emphasize if a certain food contains allergens right in the dining halls,” Watkins said.

Watkins also said she will probably not download the app and just ask a manager if a certain food contains peanuts.

Justin Sebastian, senior in AHS, has worked at the Ikenberry Commons dining hall for more than three years; however, he said he and many of his coworkers were unaware of the new development.

Sebastian, who also has a peanut

BY FATIMA FARHACONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Federal Aviation Administration recent-ly granted $437,532 to the University of Illinois Wil-lard Airport for improve-ments to the airport’s infra-structure over the next five years.

The project will focus on widening the taxiway from 50 feet to 75 feet, squaring off the end of the taxiway from a 45-degree angle to a 90-degree angle and installing runway lights and markings.

Steve Wanzek, Willard airport manager, said these changes will increase safe-ty and allow for larger air-crafts to use the taxiway.

“It will make it, not that the airport is not safe, but it’s safer to do this new con-figuration,” Wanzek said. “We get charters that want to fly in to sponsor our sports teams. We’ve had sympho-nies come in. Private com-panies come in to charter our programs. It was diffi-cult for them, even though the company could accom-modate a larger aircraft, the airway couldn’t.”

According to Wanzek, the airport generally receives $1.2 to $1.3 million in entitlement dollars from the FAA; however, that amount was insufficient for this project. In order to have enough, the airport applied for additional funds

through discretionary dol-lars, which may be granted by the FAA.

Willard Airport applied for the funds with a mas-ter plan looking ahead five years said Elizabeth Cory, FAA spokeswoman. The plan involves ensuring safe-ty and efficiency to the air-port’s infrastructure.

“Congress appropriates the moneys to keep up the infrastructure in the air transportation system. This is something the airport applies for and is granted after we’ve reviewed the plans,” Cory said. “In this situation, we found that they can enhance safety at the airport by realigning and widening a taxiway and installing runway lights and runway markings. They’re designed to improve safety at the airport.”

Wanzek said having a saf-

er and more efficient air-port will prove to be very beneficial to the commu-nity, because it will make room for new airlines and further improvement in the services Willard has to offer.

“Having a vibrant airport is very important for a com-munity — the business com-munity and the University itself. Everybody appreci-ates the economic impact that having an airport in the community has,” Wanzek said. “This is a commitment on the airport’s part to the community as well as to the airlines so they are more serious about maintaining the airport and keeping it in good shape and making improvements that will last for 20 years.”

Fatima can be reached at news@dailyillinil.com.

BY MEGAN JONESASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

“Hey-hey-ho-ho censor-ship has got to go,” shout-ed protestors from the back of the Illini Union ball-room as the first academic senate meeting of the year began. Professors and stu-dents voiced their concerns over the rejection of Steven Salaita’s appointment to the American Indian Studies program.

The Board of Trustees voted 8-1 to reject Salaita’s appointment at its meeting on Sept. 11.

“We must recognize that our statutes say that within the limits fixed by the Illi-nois constitution of laws, the Board of Trustees exercises the final authority of the Uni-versity,” said Roy Campbell, chairman of the Senate Exec-utive Committee.

Campbell urged profes-sors to reconsider a “vote of no confidence.” He said he feels many are not mak-ing distinctions between expressing their anger in a resolution and voting no con-fidence, which in U.S. higher education means someone is no longer able to effectively serve their post.

When a vote of no confi-dence is taken, the Open Meetings Act rules need to be followed and vote totals should be released with the vote, Campbell added.

On Monday, executive officers representing the 14 departments that voted no confidence in University administration issued a state-ment reaffirming their vote.

The following depart-ments issued votes of no con-fidence: African American Studies, Sociology, Gender and Women’s Studies, Latina/Latino Studies, French and Italian, History, Anthropolo-

gy, Religion, Asian American Studies, English, Philosophy, American Indian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Program in Compartive and World Literature.

Campbell said “it is fair to say that on all sides of this dispute, no one wants to find our campus in this situation ever again.”

During the meeting, Chan-cellor Phyllis Wise said that she feels honored to be the chancellor and that she would continue to meet with faculty and students in the upcoming weeks regarding academic freedom and free-dom of speech.

“I’ve heard from one pro-

fessor at the College of Media that the constitution makes it clear that there is no limit on freedom of speech and that we need not discuss this any further. But a few days lat-er when I visited the College of Law, one of their faculty members told me that in con-stitutional law, they have a whole semester course on the first amendment ... and the definition and limits of free speech,” Wise said.

She said the hiring pro-cess is being reviewed, and the Board of Trustees needs to approve appointments much closer to when they are made.

A forum on “Academic Freedom Across the Disci-plines” will be held at the Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., at 4 p.m. Sept. 29.

Megan can be reached at majones5@dailyillini.com.

ESTEFANIA FLOREZ THE DAILY ILLINIThe new dining hall app allows students to check ingredients and plan ahead for meals.

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Anticipated timeline for the proposed College of MedicineThe following timeline outlines the steps needed before the college can officially admit students.

The Senate Executive Committee approved the concept on Sept. 15.

The Urbana-Champaign Faculty Senate, along with the Senate’s Educational Policy Committee, endorsed the concept Monday.

Formal documents outlining the college’s curriculum, budget and governance plans will be submitted to the Educational Policy Committee,

the Senate Executive Committee, the Faculty Senate and other relevant campus offices.

Next, the Board of Trustees will review the plan.

The Illinois Board of Higher Education will review the plan in 2015.

An application for accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education will be submitted in 2015.

The first College of Medicine class would begin in 2017.

SOURCE: URBANA-CHAMPAIGN FACULTY SENATE RESOLUTION 15.02 FOR A PRELIMINARY ENDORSEMENT

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MEGAN JONES THE DAILY ILLINIStudent activists stand at the back of the Illini Union Ballroom protesting the rejection of Salaita as well as censorship

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Aggravated discharge of a fi rearm was report-ed in the 300 block of East Springfi eld Avenue around 4:30 a.m. Sunday.

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er, does not support the pro-posed college.

Currently, the University is a part of a regional medi-cal school, where 50 students are sent to Peoria, 50 are sent to Rockford and 25 are sent to Urbana.

Adesida said the college would not reallocate funds from other departments to fund the college, but utilize endowments and donors.

According to the prelim-inary college’s resolution, the college will need $75 mil-lion over five years to cover startup costs for the school: $25 million for initial facility upgrades; $100 million for a

200,000 square foot facility, which could open in 2025; and $22 million to cover annual expenses when the school could first admit students in 2017. If the school becomes fully operational in 2021, the annual revenue amount would increase to $47 million.

The resolution says a founding dean would be recruited in 2015, who “must” be a nationally recognized leader in science-driven medicine. By 2016, the dean would recruit five assistant professors and five full-time professors, along with 20 clin-ical research faculty and 20 clinical teaching faculty who would conduct research in collaboration with clinical partners at Carle.

Stephanie Beever, Carle’s

senior vice president for stra-tegic development, said the hospital serves over 40 coun-ties and recruiting physicians is becoming more difficult.

“This partnership enables us to bring top tier specialists ... to the community because they don’t just want to take care of patients, but identify what’s going on in a trend of patients seen and how they can partner with someone to improve in the long-haul,” Beever said.

She added that Carle wants to combine its expertise in the clinical arena to the Universi-ty’s knowledge in the research and academic arena.

Megan can be reached at majones5 @dailyillini.com.

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WASHINGTON — The troubled Iraq War veter-an who jumped the White House fence last week was detained twice in recent months for carrying weap-ons and appears to have been fixated on harming the pres-ident, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

At an arraignment hear-ing for Omar Gonzalez, a judge granted prosecutors’ request to hold Gonzalez for 10 days.

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Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, Texas, an Army com-bat veteran, jumped the fence on Pennsylvania Ave-nue on Friday and sprinted toward the White House resi-dence. He made it inside the front door before Secret Ser-

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knife with a 3.5-inch blade, and told an agent that he wanted to warn President Barack Obama that the “atmosphere was collaps-ing,” according to an affi-davit. He faces a charge of illegal entry while carrying a weapon.

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Servabo named finalist in startup competitionBY RUGE LICONTRIBUTING WRITER

A Research Park start-up, Servabo, was selected as one of three final com-petitors in Startup Voodoo’s first annual “Most Promis-ing” competition.

The competition is look-ing for the best Midwestern early-stage startup and will announce the winner at the regional conference Thurs-day at Ballpark Village in St. Louis.

Over the past three months, over 100 compa-nies were nominated. More than 1,000 people went on the competition’s website to cast their vote for their favorite startup, and the finalists were unveiled on Sept. 18. The three finalists include: Chicago-based LearnCore, St.Louis-based Champio and Servabo.

The winner will receive

a $10,000 gift package that includes $5,000 in cash and $5,000 to put toward pro-fessional services for the startup.

Aaron Perlut, cofounder of Startup Voodoo and found-ing partner of digital media agency Elasticity, said this competition is part of an overall national conference.

“The conference is meant to bring together leaders in the startup space, not only in the Midwest but nation-ally,” Perlut said.

Perlut said the location of the conference is impor-tant because the Midwest is a booming region for startup companies.

Edward Domain, cofound-er of Startup Voodoo and CEO of the Techli, reiter-ated that the purpose of this competition is to show recent innovation in the Midwest. As the competi-

tion continues to grow, Per-lut and Domain’s goals also grow. They said they would like to bring exposure to startup companies across the Midwest.

Domain said along with the $10,000 package, Start-up Voodoo gives startups the opportunity to develop partnerships with compa-nies after its presentation to “influential capitalists” and fellow startup compa-nies during the conference.

“An important aspect of this competition is engag-ing with the colleagues and peers, because they all have been through the same thing, such as trying to build the business,” Aaron said.

Domain said startups competing in the compe-tition will gain exposure with national companies and well-known judges of the competition, who include:

Ron Daugherty, founder and CEO of Daugherty Business Solutions; Bud Albers, for-mer technology executive at Walt Disney Corp.; and Gin-ger Imster, executive direc-tor of non-profit organiza-tion Arch Grants.

“Judges of the competi-tion can really launch the startups to lot of business success,” Domain said.

Domain said all three of the final startups will have access to potential clients, which they may not have had access to before, because judges will introduce each startup to potential clients during the conference.

Servabo is a startup that provides discreet, instant notifications in emergency situations. The name Serva-bo is derived Latin phrase “servare,” which means to watch over or protect.

“Our whole purpose is to

try to collaborate new inno-vations and technologies in communications so that peo-ple can get access to safe-ty more easily and access to help more easily,” said Tim Deppen, cofounder of Servabo.

Deppen completed a PhD program in mechanical sci-ence and engineering at the University in 2013. Fellow cofounder Nishana Ismail is currently pursuing her PhD in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the Uni-versity. Both Deppen and Ismail were inspired to cre-ate the startup because they know students who have got-ten mugged on campus. He also said that violent crimes occur about every 22 sec-onds across the U.S. Dep-pen said he hopes Servabo will help keep people safe on campuses and across the nation.

Furthermore, Deppen hopes Servabo and the Uni-versity will gain popularity by participating in the com-petition and said he is work-ing on tightening their pitch to ensure their prototypes and demos are ready for the conference.

“We are ready but we’re doing as much as we can to push us over the edge,” Dep-pen explained.

Deppen says it is because of the support of the com-munity, University and their friends and family that Servabo made it into the final round of the competition.

“We have lots of friends, family members and some communities from UIUC coming out to support us. It’s really great to see so many people are behind us.”

Ruge can be reached at news@dailyillini.com.

allergy, said he believes that the allergen information needs to be present near the food so students can find it more easily. If a student asks about nutrition information in the dining hall, student workers will often have to ask the cooks.

“It is more convenient if the information was present right when we got our food,” he said. “Although, it is a nice complement to know that you can look at the ingredients before entering the dining hall so you know which foods to prevent.”

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WASHINGTON — Six years into a Democratic administration widely seen as pushing a secular agen-da, nearly three-quarters of Americans say religion is los-ing influence in American life and about half say church-es and other religious insti-tutions should express their views on political issues.

The findings, from a new Pew survey, underscore a

persistent pattern in Ameri-can politics: During conser-vative administrations, the public tends to become more liberal and during liberal ones, more conservative.

In this case, only about 3 in 10 Americans see the Obama administration as “friendly to religion.” About 4 in 10 rate the administration as neu-tral and another 3 in 10 call it unfriendly.

WASHINGTON — Three Afghan soldiers who went missing while in Massachu-setts for military training have been found trying to cross the border into Cana-da, a Defense Department official said Monday.

“I can confirm that the

Canadians have them,” the official said.

The Afghan officers were reported missing late Satur-day after a trip to a shopping mall in Hyannis, Mass., about 20 miles from Joint Base Cape Cod, where they were involved in training.

The number of Syrians fleeing from Islamist mil-itants and entering into Turkey in recent days has exceeded 130,000, making the flight one of the largest refugee flows to date during the Syrian conflict, the Unit-ed Nations said Monday.

“In Turkey we have nev-er witnessed such big num-bers in a few days time,” Selin Unal, CQ spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency,

said in a telephone interview from Ankara.

Most of the refugees are Syrian Kurds fleeing an offensive by the Islamic State, the al-Qaida break-away group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. The flight of refugees was continuing on Monday, the U.N. said, but the numbers appeared to be less than during the weekend.

BARRETT TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The manhunt for Eric Frein intensified Monday morning with the announce-ment over Monroe County emergency radio that “lethal force is authorized” to take down the man suspected of killing a Pennsylvania state trooper if he refuses to surrender.

As an emergency response team and troopers sur-rounded an area of Barrett Township about 8:30 a.m.,

an announcement alerted police that per Pennsylvania State Police Command “lethal force is authorized for the protection of self and others if positive ID is made and if subject refuses to surrender.”

During a news conference hours later, state police Lt. Col. George Bivens said he feels police are closing in on Frein.

“The search area is nar-rowing,” Bivens said. “I do believe that we are close.”

HARRY FISHER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEPennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett briefs the media along with Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin, left, on the status of the manhunt for accused killer Eric Frein.

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JERUSALEM — Facing a United Nations investigation for possible war crimes com-mitted during its recent mil-itary campaign in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched probes of its own into sus-pected violations, hoping to ward off prosecution in inter-national tribunals.

The army has said it’s con-

ducting criminal investiga-tions into five incidents and that dozens of others were under review. However, Israeli human rights advo-cates say the inquiries are flawed because the army is investigating itself and the probes don’t cover the legal-ity of orders that led to the alleged violations.

IRBIL, Iraq — The chief spokesman for the Islam-ic State has called on the group’s supporters through-out the world to act on their own initiative to attack West-ern civilian and military tar-gets in retaliation for the U.S.-led coalition’s aerial attacks in Iraq.

In an audiotape released Monday, the group’s spokes-man, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, also vowed that the group would kill Western men and enslave their women even as he accused the West-ern news media of distortion by inaccurately portraying the group as violent.

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DENTON, Texas — Nat-ural-gas wells here can be found just beyond the hedge-rows of new subdivisions, and close to the hangars at the municipal airport. Their tunnels extend deep underneath a city park, a golf course and the Univer-sity of North Texas football stadium.

The wells draw from the Barnett Shale, a geologi-cal formation once thought too dense to be profitably tapped for energy. Then, in 1997, crews deploying water under high pressure with chemicals and sand learned how to fracture the shale rock and release vast new supplies of natural gas — process known as hydrau-lic fracturing, or fracking.

The technology has reshaped America’s ener-gy industry, with shale gas now produced in more than a dozen states. And, Presi-dent Barack Obama is tout-ing the expansion in natural-

gas-generated electricity, which produces roughly half the carbon emissions of coal, as a bridge to the nation’s energy future.

But natural gas is no long-term solution in the effort to shield the world from the most severe effects of cli-mate change, or for meet-ing the difficult goal set by Obama and other world lead-ers to keep global tempera-tures from rising no more than 2 degrees Celsius.

Some experts say unfet-tered burning of natural gas, without adding sys-tems to capture carbon emissions, will significant-ly undermine that effort.

“Gas may be the cleanest of fossil fuels, but it is still a fossil fuel,” Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Ener-gy Agency, said in a July speech. “The widespread use of gas without emissions abatement would leave us with no chance of meeting our 2-degree climate goal.”

The ability of natural-

gas use to combat climate change is further eroded by leakage from the produc-tion, processing and trans-port of the fuel. Methane is the primary component of natural gas, and when vent-ed rather than burned for energy, it acts as a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas.

The abundance of nat-ural gas also could work against efforts to limit cli-mate change. If big supplies keep prices low, natural gas could slow the development of alternative sources of ener-gy that could help meet the 2050 goals.

A study released in 2013 by Stanford University’s Energy Modeling Forum found that natural gas in the decades ahead is likely to replace not only high-carbon coal, but also zero-carbon fuels like nuclear, which now pro-vides nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity.

Last year, for example, a nuclear-power plant in Wis-consin shut down because it

could no longer compete in markets driven down by low-cost natural gas. More nucle-ar-plant are forecast to cose in the years ahead.

The fracking boom began in the farmlands outside Den-ton, where George Mitchell, a gas and oil driller, spent more than 15 years experiment-ing with tapping the Barnett Shale that underlies numer-ous Texas counties.

Mitchell was an industry maverick. He studied chem-ical engineering at Texas A&M. But he also attended seminars at the Aspen Insti-tute, where he was influenced by Buckminster Fuller, the inventor and philosopher who spoke about developing a new ethic of sustainability. Mitch-ell, who died last year, cham-pioned gas as a cleaner fuel than coal and wanted to find ways to significantly increase production. Traditional wells tapped into pockets of gas trapped underground, but Mitchell was convinced that vast amounts could be liber-ated from source rocks.

Fx’s series “American Hor-ror Story” embarks on its fourth season this October.

In preparation for the occa-sion, a lineup of creepy teaser trailers have been laid out for public speculation. AHS con-sistently appealsto my tastes as a horror aficionado, and it also does a great job of forming a larger meaning, once one sifts through the gore.

While the horror genre often thrives on cheap thrills, this particular show places more depth into the development of its characters and themes. This development allows for the series to explore more mean-ingful messages.

Despite being accompanied by a frivolous, melodramat-ic story, season three of the show, “American Horror Sto-ry: Coven,” managed to bring to light some issues that have been at the forefront of Ameri-can thought.

To be brief for those unfa-miliar with the show, I will summarize that Coven’s cast of proud, intelligent female char-acters promoted America’s fight and necessity for free-thinking, powerful feminist characters. In addition, its cen-tral theme of the clash between Voodoo magic (black, creole)

and the coven (ancestral magic done by mostly white witches housed in an ancient plantation mansion) demonstrated the presence and problems of mod-ern-day racism.

If season three played up the rising presence of femi-nism and the unfortunate real-ity of racism in American cul-ture, what will season four, titled “American Horror Story: Freak Show” explore?

According to AHS creator Ryan Murphy, viewers can expect the fourth season to be the most terrifying installment to date. “American Horror Sto-ry: Freak Show,” the upcom-ing season features a twisted rendition of the carnival, side-show scene in the 1950s.

Mur-phy men-tions what he believes to be a particu-larly horrific creation of his and the rest of the AHS writers: Twisty the Clown.

Murphy fears for Twisty’s audience: “It’s heart-stopping what he does,” says Murphy. “Two crew members told me they have had nightmares about this clown since we started shooting and they’re not even scared of clowns.”

But clowns have been done hundreds of times over, and they’ve been done well; shiv-ers are sent down one’s spine at the mention of Stephen King’s monstrous creation “It.”

In general, clowns and oth-er essential horror flick stock characters are commonly pre-sented as more monstrous or robotic than human — ghosts and demons are of anoth-er world and thus incapable of thinking and feeling as humans do. Psychopaths and serial killers have a deficiency in the realm of basic, human compassion.

So it’s very easy to classi-fy the villains of horror films

and stories as inhuman, and, subsequently, to think about them in terms of the ways in which they dif-fer from other people, rather than the ways in which they are the same.

Twisty the Clown may persuade his audience of an innate-

ly human component to the freaks and monsters of horror stories. John Carroll Lynch, who will depict Twisty in sea-son four, speaks to Twisty’s fundamentally human traits: “His actions are horrific,” said

Lynch, “but his motives are really strangely, oddly pure. And that’s what is most human and most disturbing about it.”

Like season three, “Freak Show” moves beyond basic horror conventions and leaves room for more critical inter-pretations of society and the people in it.

In addition to Twisty, “American Horror Story: Freak Show” will feature an array of equally twisted, gro-tesque carnival characters — a bearded lady, a strong man, Siamese twins, etc. Each of these characters are staples of the typical freak show (or, the ones in pop culture, any-way), and they have been used so frequently that they have become stereotypical cliches of the freak show sub-genre.

However, if John Carroll Lynch’s human interpretation of his character is any indica-tion of the portrayals of these other “freaks,” perhaps the audience of AHS season four will be presented with mate-rial that is both frighteningly entertaining, as well as infor-mative and introspective.

In a world so ridden with horrific violence, a show that examines the human inten-tions behind destruction and evil could be something very valuable and resourceful for audiences.

Carly is a junior in FAA. She can be reached at ccharle2 @dailyillini.com.

A lot has changed in my brief twenty-one year sojourn on this wonderful

paradox of a planet. But what remains constant, which has had a dominating influence on our modern history, is one seemingly inescapable inven-tion of our species — war.

The advent of the Internet and social media means we are never more than a click away from learning about the most pressing interna-tional conflicts. In the past year alone, we have seen civ-il war in Syria, the geopoliti-cal mess that is the Ukraine-Russia border, the atrocities committed in the Islamic State, and the dire crisis in the Gaza Strip, just to name a few.

I find it astounding that the average college student today, me for example, can readily access and discuss death tolls, political strat-egies and even solutions related to these issues. Red-dit, Twitter and Facebook provide a large platform for us to expand the conversa-tion, an ability that we have acquired only in the last few decades.

But, does this knowledge and widespread discourse

mean that we are any closer to influencing these conflicts than we would have been, say, twenty years ago? Does our voice on the Internet hold any weight or value? I don’t think so.

Living on campus, in a land of endless promise and opportunities, far away from several of the harsh reali-ties that surround us, it can be difficult to relate to a horrific massacre or forced occupation of territory half-way across the world. And although we might not com-pletely understand, we can sympathize. Usually, we’re inclined to reflect on all that we take for granted.

Personally, having never encountered a full-fledged war environment, I feel like I’m trying to comprehend something that I will never be able to fully identify with. No experience of mine so far has ever come close to the death and destruction of war.

But the beauty of the human mind and the conse-quence of the technological age is that I inevitably find myself thinking about these issues. I am terrified by the senseless loss of human life, and I can empathize with all those souls fighting for survival. I’m sure others exposed to these tragedies on social media feel the same.

I am furious at my inabil-ity to affect any sort of change. I feel torn and

powerless. And so I go online, and I

read and I argue. I tweet, and I comment. I vent out my frustrations about how messed up the world is.

Then, I go take a dip in that pool of apathy in the backyard of my mind. An apathy born out of distance, out of incomprehension and out of a need to, well, go on with my life.

I desensitize and I move on.

Different issues, same vicious cycle. In the end, I never make a real difference.

After a while, every news piece just becomes a distrac-tion from the homework that is due tomorrow, fodder for a stimulating conversation or topic for an interesting paper.

And so, I believe the Inter-net has put us in a unique position. Forced to grasp seemingly unrelatable phe-nomena, we face a choice — to act or to appeal to our innate apathy.

Usually, apathy triumphs. And that makes sense.

Technology has given the average person the tools and the platform to voice con-cerns and let out grievanc-es related to war and other worldly catastrophes. Excru-ciatingly, though, it provides people a means without an end. The harsh truth is that the involvement of most,

however deep, has absolutely no impact on the events that will follow so far away from them.

It is chastising, then, to have means and no influence. But maybe it is our respon-sibility to create the end. As children of the Internet, we are empowered with the information and the tools to give weight to our voice. And we must find a way to exert our power.

But before we can do that, before we can even think of a way to do so, we must fight our apathy.

We wouldn’t sit idle if the atrocities we read about hap-pened in our own backyard. Our distance may isolate us and make us feel inadequate, but the cost of a human life is the same in every cor-ner of the world. In those moments when we are thank-ful for our good fortune, mustn’t we spare a brief one for all those struggling to survive? Today we are closer as a globe than we have ever been in our history.

We are obligated then, humanly and morally, to use this to our advantage. To make a difference. To save a life.

It is our apathy that we must fight first.

Shivam is a senior in Engineering. He can be reached at opinions @dailyillini.com.

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Want to know what’s in your meal at the Uni-versity’s dining halls?

Not sure if that mixed salad is gluten-free? Wary of sampling that fried rice due to your pea-nut allergy? You may be out of luck without Internet access.

In the past, the dining halls used physical labels resembling the familiar FDA-mandated Nu-trition Facts format, along with colorful window clings to de-note common allergens and re-strictions. When no pre-printed sign was available, the infor-mation was written on sneeze guards using dry-erase mark-ers.

Those days are no more.As reported today in The Dai-

ly Illini, the dining halls have made the baffling calculation that the UI Dining app and Eat-Smart site are sufficient substi-tutes for physical labels.

We think the limitations of this new scheme pose safe-ty concerns to customers with dietary restrictions, and only serve to promote a lack of in-formation and confusion among patrons.

There is no question the in-formation available on both the app and site — including com-prehensive nutrition facts, al-lergen and dietary preference details — for select items are useful, but they are no replace-ment for physical labeling.

The dining hall’s current workaround for people without access to a smartphone or com-puter is to have workers, gen-erally students, answer these questions by using printouts from the EatSmart site.

However, the dining halls are often understaffed in terms of student workers, and face high student turnover, meaning that they might not be aware of im-portant allergen information.

What’s more, the limit-ed physical labeling the din-ing halls have retained is woe-ful. The new physical labels are produced on business cards, in small fonts and with limited space.

The size aspects make the cards hard to read. The limited space cuts off the full names of items, and restricts the dining halls to presenting bare bones nutritional information like serving size, calories, grams of fat, protein and carbs.

It’s not understandable why the dining halls have omitted additional (and quite standard) information such as sugar and sodium content, which are vi-tal for people with diabetes or heart conditions.

For safety, sanity and sensi-bility reasons, we request the dining halls reconsider their ap-proach. There should be easy to read, laminated, physical signs for all foods that include de-tailed nutrition facts, allergen information and ingredients, when possible.

Aside from those with dietary concerns, people from a vari-ety of backgrounds common-ly feast in the dining halls and the identity of every food is not always readily apparent on sight. Words are a useful means of conveying that a particu-lar item is kimchi, or whether a green legume is edamame or lima beans.

While the app and website contain some great information, they should be seen as supple-ments, not substitutes.

We think this new system pos-es some serious health con-cerns and makes us question the wisdom of University Hous-ing. If the goal is to confuse your customers and possibly jeopardize their health, bravo. You may take your bow.

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Squeezed between flat wages and rising prices, many middle-class consum-ers are feeling poor.

The recession forced many people to change their ways as nearly 9 mil-lion Americans lost their jobs and home foreclosures hit record highs.

As a result, many stuck their credit cards in a draw-er, cut back on spending and hunkered down.

Now, five years after the recession ended, the econo-my appears to be improving, but middle-class consumers still haven’t bounced back.

In fact, a recent Federal Reserve report found that more than a third of Ameri-can households say they’re worse off now than in 2008, and nearly 40 percent said they’re “just getting by” or struggling to do so.

Rampant spending isn’t dead, but today’s consumer is more prudent, looking for ways to save money, buying cheaper brands and spending a larger share of income on necessities. Midyear retail sales were so disappointing that many national retailers

lowered expectations for the rest of 2014.

“We really are a little bit scared memories of how catastrophic it was and how much worse it could have been in 2007-2008,” said James A. Roberts, a market-ing professor at Baylor Uni-versity in Waco, Texas, who has studied consumer behav-ior for 25 years. “I think we all still see an economy that we don’t trust that the other shoe’s going to drop.”

That’s how 25-year-old Dallas resident Marty Mar-tinez feels.

“In terms of spending, I have really reeled it all the way back because I don’t know what the future will hold for me,” said Martinez, who launched a digital mar-keting business in February. “Starting your own business, there’s always uncertainty. I rarely buy anything that’s full price.”

He estimates his annual income will be about $40,000 this year. Martinez plans to drive his 2002 Honda Civic “into the ground” to delay having a car payment on top of his student loan payment of $475 a month.

Consumer spending drives

the economy, accounting for nearly 70 percent of the nation’s economic output. So if more people live with-in their means, like Marti-nez, that’s not necessarily good for the economy. Some policymakers and econo-mists worry that changing consumer spending patterns could slow economic growth at a crucial time.

The middle class matters because it’s such a large group — estimated to make up nearly two-thirds of U.S. households. There is no sin-gle definition of the mid-dle class, but one measure says it’s household income of about $40,000 to rough-ly $100,000. Other estimates place the top income higher.

“Families are not feeling that they’re getting ahead,” said Elise Gould, a labor market economist for the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. “During and since the Great Reces-sion, we’ve seen wages have been flat or falling. That’s a serious problem.”

Most Americans have seen their incomes shrink since the end of the reces-sion in mid-2009 and even farther back. Income con-sists of wages but can also include stock gains, Social Security payments and income from rental prop-erty or other sources.

“Middle-class household incomes, adjusted for infla-tion, are down significant-ly from five years ago,” said Gordon Green, a for-mer U.S. Census Bureau official who is a partner in Maryland-based Senti-er Research. “If people’s incomes are significantly lower than where they were five years ago, they don’t have the same buying pow-er.” Moreover, the nation’s wealth gap has widened in the last decade.

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GENESEE, Wis. — Rich Kalashian had gone to O’Hare International Air-port in Chicago to greet a friend when he looked out the window to see a flag-draped coffin unloaded from a military plane.

The coffin was loaded onto a luggage cart and driven to a hearse parked next to a grieving family watching their loved one’s final journey.

The Vietnam veteran watched the poignant scene unfold and thought the vet-eran deserved something more than a luggage cart that looked like all the other baggage carriers.

“Military families and their fallen soldiers deserve a proper patriotic entrance with all the respect and dignity they deserve,” said Kalashian, who earned a Bronze Star in Vietnam.

Through Kalashian’s inspiration and efforts, a cart for coffins is being transformed into a fitting tribute to service members. Starting next month it will

be permanently stationed at Mitchell International Air-port in Milwaukee.

Kalashian talked to his VFW post and his boss at S/S Research Inc., an auto repair and body shop, and came up with a design fea-turing a red, white and blue paint scheme, American flags, eagles and insignia of each military branch along with the words “Freedom

Isn’t Free.”Southwest Airlines got

on board with the idea, lending a cart specifical-ly used to transport coffins from plane cargo areas to hearses. Unlike other bag-gage carriers that can be hooked up to each other and towed, carts for coffins are towed by themselves to pre-serve the dignity of their cargo.

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Many companies have tar-get schools, and Illinois is often one of the top tar-get schools for employers. We’ll have the big name companies there, I’m sure you can think of some of those names, and we’ll also have those that are start-ups. So there is an oppor-tunity for students whom may not want to work for a large organization. There are a full range of oppor-tunities for students, even just looking at company size.

DI: What is your advice for students to prepare for the fair?

LS: I would say the first thing students need to do is download our Illinois ECS Career Fair app. We have gone paperless this year, and so all the infor-mation for students will be on the app. From there, students can see what com-panies are attending and have access to an interac-tive floor map. They can do research based on their major and see what compa-nies are hiring within their major. They can use this app in a variety of differ-ent ways.

DI: What type of things should they bring to the event?

LS: I definitely think com-ing to the fair with some kind of a game plan is impor-tant. Making sure students are coming with at least 20 copies of their resume, and making sure that they have their elevator pitch pre-pared, especially for their target companies. Of course, remember that impressions matter, dress up and look professional and remember a firm handshake, smile. You may be really nervous, but sometimes you have to fake it till you make it — it’s a first impression. Smile, be excited, its okay to be a lit-tle nervous and the recruit-ers understand that, but they also want you to be successful.

DI: What are some final things students may need to know about the fair?

LS: Make sure students ask for recruiter informa-tion so they can follow up and connect with them after the event. Make sure you hydrate and pace yourself. This is somewhat of a mara-thon of a day. Make sure you are anticipating waiting in line. This is not the kind of event where you can block out a half hour of your day

and talk to five companies. We’ll probably receive about 4,000 students each day at the event; it’s important to have the perspective that you will have to wait a little bit. We also are encouraging stu-dents to leave bags at home or use the ARC lockers ... we will not be allowing bags in the career fair.

DI: If you could give advice to students on how to take advantage of this opportunity, what would it be?

LS: Well I think the advice I gave earlier as far as doing research and being prepared when walking into the fair. Also, encouraging the fresh-men to go; it’s never too ear-ly to attend a career fair. It can be very overwhelming, so it’s good to go as a fresh-man because you won’t expe-rience that same type of pres-sure to get an internship this year. I think there is a ben-efit because it allows stu-dents to network with com-panies and meet employers in person and become aware of what the company has to offer. It also starts a relation-ship with an employer that is hard to obtain with just a resume alone.

Samantha can be reached at srothma2 @dailyillini.com.

MARK HOFFMAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEJohn Riley paints a luggage cart that will be used for military caskets on Sept. 16, at S&S Research, Inc. in Wisconsin.

RON BASELICE TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEMarty Martinez uses the Foursquare app on his smart phone to receive a free cup of coffee from Adrian Reynoso at The Alcove in Dallas.

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The Engineering Career Fair will take place Tues-day and Wednesday at the ARC from 10 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. The event focuses on introducing current and former University Engi-neering students to com-panies seeking full-time employees and interns for the upcoming semester and summer. Held by Engineer-ing Career Services (ECS), the fair is anticipated to attract more than 4,000 stu-dents to visit each day. The Daily Illini got the chance to sit down with Lauren

Stites, senior assistant director for ECS, to learn more about the event and what students can expect.

The Daily Illini: What type of atmosphere can students anticipate when attending the event?

Lauren Stites: I would definitely say high ener-gy will be the atmosphere. We are encouraging all stu-dents to dress in business casual attire; that is expect-ed for the dress code. We

have about 250 companies coming for the total (of) the two days. We’re expecting over 4,000 students each day this fall. So, it’s going to be busy.

DI: What are some exciting opportunities you have heard about being offered this year?

LS: Companies will be actively seeking students for internships this sum-mer, as well as full-time positions. There will also be some companies who

are participating in a job shadow program over win-ter break. This is geared more for our freshman, sophomore, junior stu-dents. I think the opportu-nity for connecting with an employer and networking is great for students across the board.

DI: What types of companies will be attending this year?

LS: Illinois is often one of the top recruited schools.

Engineering Career Fair opens on Tuesday

PHOTO COURTESY OF RONALD MEYER AND RACHEL GROSSStudents met with employers at the Engineering Employment Expo last year.

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BY ANNABETH CARLSONSTAFF WRITER

Fall is undoubtedly my favorite season. It is a time to enjoy cool, crisp days, vibrant orange and red leaves on the trees, pick apples and pumpkins with the family, crowd around a toasty bonfire for S’mores and eat all the candy corn in sight. How-ever, the part I look most forward to is the fashion.

Each year, I love getting my beloved boots, sweaters and flannels out of storage. While I main-ly stick to the classics, I always try to add a few new pieces to my wardrobe to stay current. After scoping out fashion magazines and talking to Uni-versity students, I made this list of ten trends that I will add to my closet:

1. Leather Accents

Incorporating leather into your outfit is the per-fect way to add some edginess and texture. Amy Stringfellow, sophomore in ACES, said leather is on her wish list — especially a leather backpack.

2. Plaid/Checks

According to Nylon Magazine, plaid was a major player at this year’s fall fashion shows. Plaid was featured at brands such as Rag & Bone, Altu-zarra and DKNY. The pattern is almost always a fall favorite because of its comfort and versatil-ity. This year, I want to make my plaid shirts and skirts more interesting by wearing them with light-colored summer blouses and white denim.

3. Ripped Jeans

Catherine Manci, a graduate student in LIS, says boyfriend jeans with rips are number one on her list this fall. Manci lived in Brooklyn this summer, and liked that everyone there wore them.

“New York fashion is progressive and diverse and a lot of commitment,” she said.

For people who are unsure of the baggier, boy-friend trend, you can wear ripped skinny jeans to achieve a similar look.

4. Cozy Sweaters

Personally, I think you can never have enough sweaters. I have two full bins of sweaters at home and I have to rotate them out at school so they fit in my small college closet. This year, I want to find oversized knits that I can wear with leggings, high socks and boots. To save money, I plan on “shop-ping” in my dad and brother’s closets.

5. Aurora Red

One of Pantone’s top 10 colors for fall 2014, Aurora Red, is a bright, cheery and tomato-like shade. It can be found on dresses, sweaters and pants, but because it is so bold, I am opting to wear it in smaller doses, with red lipstick and a red baseball cap.

6. Hats

Nothing makes an outfit look more put together than a hat. This season, wide-brimmed felt hats, beanies and baseball caps can be found every-where. I am most excited about the baseball cap trend because I buy a new one on every vacation. They add a fun twist to classic button-downs and dresses. Before going to the store, don’t forget to check out your grandmother’s closet for vintage headpieces.

7. Booties

A new take on the classic fall boot, booties are

short, fun and come in a variety of materials, like leather and suede. Stringfellow said she will be wearing booties this season because they are a great transitional piece from summer to fall. I am planning on purchasing a pair of light gray suede booties myself.

8. Animal Prints

Normally I am not a big fan of animal prints on clothing, but as pointed out by InStyle this month, fall 2014’s prints are smaller and more understated. Paired with neutrals and minimal accessories, cheetah and snakeskin prints can look elegant and chic.

9. Army Green

Army green is a must-have hue for fall clothing, according to the website The Fashion Spot. They said that military looks have been spotted on the runways of Balmain, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi and more. I think the sporty and masculine color complements women’s clothing nicely, and I am planning on wearing an army green jacket over nearly all of my fall looks.

10. Sneakers

Last but not least, sneakers are probably my favorite fall trend. They are the perfect final touch to make any outfit look effortless. Not to mention, they are functional for fall activities, like running around in a corn maze or carving pumpkins. I love to wear my white sneakers with dark pants and my grey sneakers with a summer dress and denim jacket.

Annabeth is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at aecarls2@dailyillini.com.

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

Illinois escaped its nonconference schedule with a 3-1 record, but the real season begins this week.

The Illini had to come from behind in all three victories this season and suffered a lopsided loss to Washington on the road. Needless to say, coach

Tim Beckman still believes there’s much to improve with his team.

“We all know that we have to continue to improve for four quarters of football,” Beckman said.

Illinois has trailed entering the fourth quarter in every game this season.

Starting quarterback Wes Lunt said he doesn’t have an answer as to how

the Illini offense can get in sync in the first half. Lunt threw for just three yards late into the first half until a string of big plays raised his total to 63 yards at the half — still an unsatisfactory number for a quarterback who ranks ninth in the country in passing yards with 1,237.

“It’s frustrating,” Lunt said. “You don’t want to go three-and-out as much as we did. That can’t happen as an offense. It just puts the defense in such a bad spot.”

Injury updateWide receiver Geronimo

Allison is still questionable for Saturday’s Big Ten opener against Nebraska.

The junior transfer missed Saturday’s game against Texas State due to injury. Allison went down with a knee injury in the second half against Washington but returned and finished the day with two touchdowns.

“He’s a great receiver,”

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The Illinois football team will make a bowl game this year. After the consistently disappointing perfor-

mances of the Illini in the past cou-ple of seasons, as well as an inconsis-tent start to this year, this prediction might come as a surprise to even the most optimistic Illinois fans. Howev-er, a favorable schedule gives the Illi-ni real hope to win three more games this season and reach their first bowl game since 2011.

Since Illinois has started out with three wins in its first four games, the team only needs to win three of its

final eight games to be eligible for a bowl game. Three of these games are against ranked teams that have looked much better than the Illini to start the season. Based on recent per-formances, Illinois would need a mir-acle of some sort to beat Nebraska, Wisconsin, or Ohio State away from home.

Fortunately for the Illini, they have five winnable games on their sched-ule, and four of them are scheduled in Champaign. Illinois was able to beat Purdue away from home last year, and it is reasonable to expect another vic-tory over the Boilermakers, especial-ly at Memorial Stadium. The Illini’s next two home games come against solid teams in Minnesota and Iowa that both made bowl games last year.

There are many reasons why I believe Illinois football will not reach a bowl game, but I will share

only three. Reason No. 1 is that the players are

unproven.In the only meaningful game they’ve

played all season, the Illini lost by 25 points to a Washington team that isn’t in the top 25.

Even though sophomore quarterback Wes Lunt has shown BCS-level talent, he can be inconsistent at times.

There aren’t many problems offen-sively, but defensively there are plen-

ty. The team has struggled, especially against the rush, where it ranks 12th in the Big Ten. In a conference where a good defense is key to wins, Illinois has an average defense at best.

That’s not a good sign as Illinois travels to Lincoln, Nebraska, this weekend to take on No. 21 Nebraska and Ameer Abdullah. The Cornhusk-ers’ running back leads the confer-ence in rushing with 625 yards and five touchdowns.

Right now the defense is the main concern for Illinois and with confer-ence play starting to heat up, it is real-ly the wrong time for mistakes.

Illinois will play both Wisconsin and Minnesota, both featuring strong run-ning games that should run through the Illini defense, unless some-

An official campus visit for a bas-ketball recruit

can last a maximum of 48 hours, due to NCAA rules.

Elijah Thomas and Jalen Coleman both visited the Illinois campus this past weekend, and Illini head coach John Groce was met with a challenge: With only a weekend to work with, how do you make two top-40 ranked players feel like they’re both pri-ority No. 1?

With 96 total hours to work with, Groce attempt-ed to make each one of them count. He staggered Coleman’s and Thom-as’ visits so both had the opportunity to enjoy being the center of attention, with an overlap period on Saturday for the two

recruits to experience their visits simultane-ously. Thomas’ visit took place from Friday until Sunday, and Coleman’s stretched from Saturday until Monday.

For Groce, an extra challenging layer to the situation was the fact that Thomas and Cole-man are very different from each other, both as players and as people. Thomas is a bruising for-ward, while Coleman is a combo guard, and by all accounts, they possess very different personali-ties as well. Thomas is exuberant and outgoing, while Coleman is quiet and more reserved.

Throughout his time in Champaign, Thom-as embraced his role as Big Man on Campus. The 6-foot-9 forward kept up a near constant dialogue on Twitter with Illini fans as he kept followers updated with tweets and pictures from his first-ever visit to

Illinois. He could be seen decked out in Illini gear while making the rounds. He retweeted posts from Illini fans, many of whom included the hashtag #ILLijah. Even Thomas’ mom got in on the fun, engaging with fans on her account and posting self-ies from her various stops during the visit.

Thomas arrived in town Thursday night and stayed at an off-campus hotel so his official visit could begin the next morning. During his tour of the Quad on Friday, he came across “ILLijah” messag-es written in chalk, cour-tesy of Illinois students. Everywhere Thomas went, people gawked. His physi-cally imposing presence only added to the hype that already surrounded the weekend.

The public relations aspect of Coleman’s vis-it followed an opposite script. He arrived Satur-day and attended the foot-

ball game with Thomas, putting him in Thomas’ literal and figurative shad-ow from the get-go. At 6-foot-3 and 160 pounds, Coleman is much hard-er to pick out of a crowd. He rarely tweets, and he offered no behind-the-scenes insight about his visit through social media.

Coleman’s low-key demeanor has mirrored his recruitment, which has largely been kept under wraps by him and his family. Long consid-ered a Notre Dame lean, Coleman surprised people last week by taking his Illini visit ahead of sched-ule and narrowing his cur-rent list of schools to Illi-nois and UNLV.

Details of the private portions of each vis-it began to come out as the weekend wrapped up. Eric Bossi of Rivals.com reported that Illinois has now emerged as the leader in Thomas’ recruit-ment, which is nothing

but encouraging. For fans eagerly awaiting Thomas’ decision, Derek Piper of Big Stage Hoops revealed more good news: Thom-as isn’t sure he will wait until November to decide,

as previously reported.As far as Coleman goes,

Rivals.com analyst Brad Sturdy has said that the Illini are selling Cole-

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINILeft: Basketball recruit Jalen Coleman watching the game against Texas State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Right: Recruit Elijah Thomas watching the game. Both are ranked in the top 40 nationally and visited this weekend.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIThe Illinois football team won its third game Saturday and only needs three more wins to make a bowl game. Our staff debated whether the Illini will make a bowl game.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois quarterback Wes Lunt ranks ninth in the country in passing yards with 1,237. The Illini have struggled with slow starts and have come from behind in all three of their wins.

Illinois fans should expect team to make postseason

The drought continues: Illini will fall short of a bowl game

ALEX ROUX

Basketball columnist

DEEP CHATTERJEE

Sports columnist

ALEX WALLNER

Sports columnist

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Slow starts, inconsistency plaguing Illini so far

Two top basketball recruits wrap up visits

POINT COUNTER-POINTWILL THE 3-1 ILLINOIS FOOTBALL TEAM REACH A BOWL GAME THIS SEASON?

Nonconference over, Beckman says improvement needed in Big Ten play

One day after being eliminated from the National League wild-card race, the free-falling Braves fired general man-ager Frank Wren on Mon-day, the first time in nearly a quarter of a century that the organization known for its stability fired a GM or manager.

Braves president John Schuerholz fired Wren and assistant general manager Bruce Manno in the morn-ing, and a few hours lat-er sat between longtime former manager Bobby Cox and interim GM John Hart at a news conference at Turner Field, where Schuerholz talked about a desire to get back to the “Braves way” of doing things.

“The time had come for us to change direction with our baseball operation lead-ership,” Schuerholz said.

San Francisco defensive lineman Ray McDonald was the victim of a burglary this weekend while he was out of town preparing for a game some feel he shouldn’t have been a part of in the first place.

Several personal items were stolen after someone broke into McDonald’s home late Saturday night, San Jose police said Monday. No arrests have

been made.McDonald was in

Arizona with the rest of the 49ers preparing for and playing in Sunday’s game against the Cardinals, a controversial decision by the team since McDonald is waiting for Santa Clara County prosecutors to decide whether to charge him after his arrest on suspicion of domestic violence late last month.

But the 49ers have said they will let McDonald play while the legal process plays out. He had two tackles and one assist during the team’s 23-14 loss in Arizona.

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16-year-old youngest to complete world-class swims

Detroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee while celebrating a sack in Sunday’s 19-7 win over the Green Bay Packers and will miss the rest of the season.

Lions coach Jim Caldwell said at his news conference Monday that Tulloch needs surgery and will be placed on season-ending injured

reserve.Tulloch, the NFL’s cur-

rent ironman among line-backers with 131 straight games played, suffered the injury midway through the first quarter, after he stopped Packers quarter-back Aaron Rodgers for a 7-yard loss.

Tulloch jumped to his feet after the sack and appeared to be mimicking Rodgers’ touchdown dance in celebra-tion when he collapsed back to the ground.

He returned for two plays on the Lions’ next defensive series but finished the game in street clothes, with a big bag of ice wrapped around his knee.

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49ers McDonald’s house burgled while away at game against Cardinals

BY CHRISTOPHER MAAGTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICES

Of course the world record is important.

But when Camille Stern greeted her granddaughter Charlotte Samuels, she had something more important to say.

“I missed you, honey,” Stern said to Charlotte, as they smiled into each oth-ers’ eyes.

“I missed you, too, Grand-ma,” said Charlotte, the Ridgewood girl who at age

16 has attained the Triple Crown of open-water swim-ming, the youngest person ever, by circumnavigating Manhattan, and crossing California’s Catalina Chan-nel and the English Channel — all this summer.

Her brother Sebastian, 14, held a blown-up photo of Charlotte smiling broadly and holding an American flag after her successful English Channel swim. An aunt lifted a sign that read “Welcome Home Charlotte,

We Love You.” Before driv-ing to the airport, Tara Fra-schilla-Velez, Charlotte’s cousin, created a crown that she squeezed onto Char-lotte’s head.

Charlotte and her fam-ily displayed a refreshing absence of guile. Charlotte and her parents kept a low profile before the swim, making just a few short Facebook updates. The Sam-uels’ followed their daugh-ter across the English Chan-nel in a safety boat, where

they had limited access to the Internet.

But outside of a couple photos from the crossing posted online by the boat’s captain, the focus of every-one aboard remained on Charlotte and her swim, not on boasting about it.

For her journey across the English Channel, Char-lotte has received inter-view requests from nation-al television shows, from the “Today Show” to Ellen DeGeneres to Sam Champi-

on on the Weather Channel, Steven said. So far, Char-lotte and her parents have put them all aside.

Besides, Charlotte needs some rest, her father said, and a return to normalcy. This summer she endured three grueling, world-class endurance swims. She missed the first week of school.

The summer required so much training and focus, Charlotte’s parents didn’t want to add the stress of

budding celebrity. “We thought we’d let Charlotte work on the training without getting distracted,”Steven said.

“She’s becoming more of a public figure, and she may have a platform where she can help people,” Steven said. “But first we’re helping her back to a normal life.”

For Charlotte, who seems to possess a grit and ground-edness not usually found in a 16-year-old, that may not be so hard.

Tulloch tears ACL while celebrating sack against Packers on Sunday

ELIZABETH FLORES TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEDetroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch makes a tackle against the Minnesota Vikings. Tulloch tore his ACL while celebrating a sack Sunday.

Atlanta Braves !re executives a"er late season collapse

CURTIS COMPTON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEAtlanta Braves interim General Manager John Hart, left, and President John Schuerholz during a press conference on Monday.

RICK WOOD TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICESan Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Ray McDonald sacks Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

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Hester memories will linger in minds of Bears fans forever

You never real-ize what you have until it’s gone, a cli-

ché that I’m sure you’ve heard before.

However, this idea nev-er became relevant for me in the world of sports until this past week.

On Thursday night, Atlanta Falcons wide receiver and return spe-cialist Devin Hester returned a punt 62 yards for a touchdown in Atlan-ta’s 56-14 victory over the Buccaneers. It was Hes-

ter’s 20th career return touchdown, the most in NFL history.

For the past eight years, Hester terror-ized NFL special teams units with his world-class speed and innate ability to make a big play. He has single-handedly rev-olutionized the return aspect of the game and is one of the primary rea-sons teams now select players solely to play on special teams.

Hester is arguably the greatest special teams player of all-time. He holds every signifi cant return record and has shown the league how big an impact a player can have on a game without

even touching the ball.Hester is a living

legend.Drafted by the Bears

in 2006, Hester’s impact on the team was imme-diate. Whether it was returning a punt for a touchdown in his fi rst career game against the rival Packers or return-ing the opening kickoff of Super Bowl XLI for a touchdown as a rookie, Hester brought excite-ment to a facet of the game that was often overlooked. My favorite Devin Hester moment happened in his rookie year.

It was Week 6 of the season, and the Bears were playing the Car-

dinals on Monday Night Football, one of the big-gest stages in sports. They were undefeated coming into the game and were expected to make short work of the struggling Cardinals. This was hardly the case.

The fi rst half of the game was a debacle for the Bears; they turned the ball over several times and trailed Arizo-na 20-0 at halftime.

The second half was a different story. Chicago’s defense took over. After two defensive touch-downs and a fi eld goal, the Bears trailed 23-17 late in the fourth quar-ter. Since the offense

had been inept during the entire game, the Bears desperately need-ed another way to put points on the board.

Enter Hester. He returned a punt 83

yards for a touchdown to put the Bears up 24-23, ultimately proving to be the game-winning score. Moments like those are why I will never for-get Hester and what he meant to the entire Bears organization and its fans.

Moments like these are why I will always remember holding my breath as he got ready to fi eld a punt or kickoff. I will always remember him turning to the crowd and waving his hands in

the air to pump up the fans that adored him so much. These are a few of the many memories that I will always have.

When Hester returned a punt for touchdown to break Deion Sanders’ record it was an incred-ibly bittersweet moment for me and all Bears fans, I’m sure.

I was happy for the man who lifted my spir-its so many times, happy that he had statistically established himself as the best ever. On the oth-er hand, I was sad. Sad because I know how spe-cial it would have been if he had done it in the navy and orange that had become a part of his

identity.Or perhaps it is

because I have seen how incompetent the Bears’ return game has become without him.

Either way, I am thank-ful for the moments he gave me.

I wish there were a way to get him a gift, to thank him for all the great memories.

However, I have an inkling that he would probably just return it, anyway.

Mubarak is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at msalami2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @justmubar.

When All-Pro corner-back Richard Sher-man was voted in as

the cover athlete for Madden 15, he had a request for EA Sports.

Put his teammates on the cover.

The self-titled “Legion of Boom,” the Seattle Seahawks’ defensive backfi eld, is the best secondary in the NFL. They were a major part of the Seahawks’ Super Bowl run last season, and had Vegas odds-makers labeling the Seahawks as favorites to win it all again this season. Com-ics were even drawn compar-ing the Legion of Boom to DC Comics Legion of Doom.

But the last two week-ends have shown that Seat-tle’s defense is beatable. The Legion of Boom can be

dethroned from its spot atop the football world. You just have to have time on your side.

On Sunday, the Seahawks beat the Denver Bron-cos 26-20 in a Super Bowl rematch. Seattle drove 80 yards on its fi rst possession in overtime and scored a touch-down to win the game. But the game should have never made it to overtime.

With just under a minute left in regulation, Peyton Manning drove the Broncos all the way down the fi eld for a tying touchdown (and two-point conversion). Running a two-minute drill kept the Legion of Boom on its heels, and resulted in a 26-yard touchdown pass to Jacob Tamme with 18 seconds left.

The Broncos lost the game, but their ability to drive down the fi eld in the fourth quarter exposed some serious chinks in the Seahawks’ armor.

Two weeks ago, the Seahawks suffered a surpris-ing 30-21 defeat at the hands

of the San Diego Chargers, a team that went 9-7 last sea-son. The Seahawks defense only allowed more than 30 points once last season. The Chargers had possession for more than double the amount of time the Seahawks did. Philip Rivers completed only one pass longer than 20 yards and completed 75 per-cent of his passes, meaning most were short throws that didn’t get into the heart of the Seattle secondary.

No Charger had more than seven catches and no Char-ger made it into triple digits in receiving yards, but Anto-nio Gates, Keenan Allen and Eddie Royal all racked up more than 50 receiving yards.

Gates had all three of the Chargers’ touchdowns, which brings up another point — have a good tight end. A strong tight end keeps safe-ties Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas in the middle of the fi eld rather than allowing them to peel off and help the corners on the sidelines.

The Chargers (and the Broncos in the fourth quar-ter) ran no-huddle against the Seahawks. This doesn’t mean they moved the ball quickly, but running no-huddle didn’t allow the Seattle defense to settle into its alignment. Keeping the defense on its heals, especially when play-ing the Seahawks at home, is important because time between plays not only allows the defense to get set up but also allows Seattle’s record-setting crowd to build into a crescendo.

Armchair quarterbacking is easy. Everyone does it. But there is an obvious pattern here. Get passive-aggressive against the Legion of Boom. Short passes, safe screens and draws all run in a no-huddle set keep the defense off-balance. If teams have a quarterback who is good at adjusting on-the-fl y (Rivers, Manning, Brady, etc.), that’s even better.

In three of the four games Seattle has lost since the

beginning of the 2013 sea-son, the Seahawks opponent has won the time of posses-sion battle. Controlling the pace of play has proven to be the Seahawk’s weakness. It isn’t defi nitive kryptonite for this Legion, but then again,

Sherman and Co. aren’t super heroes.

Peter is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at baileyw2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twit-ter @pbaileywells22.

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JOHN LOK TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICESeattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman is seen taking part in team practice on June 2.

man on the opportunity to take on some of the point guard duties in Groce’s screen-and-roll offense. Everything seems to indi-cate that both visits went very well.

Eye on EvansThis week’s focus now

turns to another recruit, 2015 point guard Jawun Evans. The Illini still need a point guard in this recruiting class and

are still in the running for Evans, who is set to begin his official vis-it to Oklahoma State on Wednesday.

Groce is scheduled to have an in-home vis-it with Evans on Tues-day prior to his Oklaho-ma State visit. Evans has also shortened his list to three schools, according to Lamont Simmons, his mentor and AAU coach. Illinois, Oklahoma State and USC are still in the running, while Texas has been eliminated. Evans will make his decision soon after his Oklahoma

State visit.“He’ll sit down and talk

about things and really get down to the nitty-grit-ty with all three schools,” Simmons said. “He’ll probably end up mak-ing that decision before (next) weekend.”

Following Evans’ offi-cial visit to Illinois, Sim-mons mentioned that Evans was unwilling to commit to a class that featured two specialty point guards. His com-ment was in reference to Jalen Brunson, an elite point guard who ended up committing to Villano-

va. When asked if Evans could fit in an Illini class including Coleman, Sim-mons carried a different tune.

“I think they could fit together, no question,” he said.

Simmons cited the fact that Coleman is more of a combo guard as to why Evans and Coleman could fit in the same backcourt. He also thinks Evans would fit well in a class with Thomas, as they are friends and teammates on the AAU circuit.

“One big thing about freshmen coming into

an unfamiliar environ-ment, being comfortable is major,” Simmons said. “So I think they (would) bring a level of comfort playing with each other.”

With Illinois in the lead for Thomas, an Evans decision on the horizon and Coleman very much in play, there’s good rea-son to be optimistic if you’re an Illini fan.

We’ll see if Groce can close the deal.

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at roux2@dailyillini.com. and @aroux94.

thing dramatic changes between now and then.

Illinois’ tough schedule is another reason for the diffi cult road to the post-season. The Illini have a record of 1-15 over the last two years in Big Ten play, and with how the defense is playing, that

trend may continue.The Illini also have

road games at Wisconsin, Ohio State and Northwest-ern, and history shows the Illini have not played their best at those venues. Northwestern is the only team of the three that the Illini stand a chance against.

The third reason for Illinois’ tough outlook is the coaching staff.

Like the players, this coaching staff has zero bowl experience at Illi-nois. Before head coach Tim Beckman took over, Illinois was a bowl con-tender most seasons. Now times have changed and Illinois has worsened rather than grown under Beckman.

With three wins already in the bag, the Illini are halfway there, but who

else can they beat?Nebraska, Wisconsin,

Ohio State and North-western on the road seem like longshots for wins, so that leaves home games against Purdue, Penn State, Minnesota and Iowa.

On paper, the Illini should be able to top the Boilermakers and the Nittany Lions, but the Gophers are a toss-up and

beating the Hawkeyes seems like a stretch, even at home.

Illinois will get fi ve wins, an improvement to say the least, but not enough to get the job done.

Alex is a junior in Media. He can be reached at sports@dailyillini.com and @AWallner93.

Fortunately for Illinois, its game against both the Golden Gophers and the Hawkeyes comes after the Illini’s two bye weeks. This extra week of rest and preparation combined with home fi eld advan-

tage gives Illinois a good chance to win both of those games.

The Illini’s fi nal home game of the season is against Penn State. Last year, the Illini were almost able to salvage a victory in overtime against a solid Penn State team in State College, Pa. With home fi eld advan-

tage, the Illini will give themselves a great chance to avenge last season’s loss.

To close the season, Illi-nois will travel to North-western in a rematch of last year’s close con-test — the Wildcats won 37-34. As long as the Illini stay focused, they will be competitive again in this

year’s contest against a Wildcat team that has not looked to be any more tal-ented this season than they were in 2013. North-western’s record stands at 1-2.

The rest of this year’s schedule is somewhat favorable for the Illini, and as long as the Illinois offense can continue to

put up points, they’ll be bowl eligible. Wins against Purdue, Minnesota and Penn State should leave fans of the Illini confi dent that their team will be selected for a bowl game.

Deep is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at sports@dailyillini.com and @deepcillini.

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Power rankingsDAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTEditor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff ranks the football teams in the Big Ten 1-14 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.

2. WISCONSIN (2) The Badgers crushed Bowling Green 68-17, rushing for a Big Ten-record 644 yards.

1. MICHIGAN STATE (LAST WEEK: 1)The Spartans dominated Eastern Michigan 73-14 with nearly 350 yards on the ground.

3. OHIO STATE (3)The Buckeyes will take on Cincinnati this week, showing off an offense that averages 40.3 points per game despite losing starting quarterback Braxton Miller before the season began.

5. NEBRASKA (4)Ameer Abdullah’s 229 rushing yards and two touchdowns helped the Cornhuskers to a 41-31 win over Miami.

6. IOWA (6)The Hawkeyes were good when they needed to be in a 24-20 fourth quarter comeback against Pittsburgh on Saturday, converting three fourth downs on three attempts.

4. PENN STATE (5)The Nittany Lions had a big offensive day in Saturday’s win over Massachusetts, putting up 48 points on 464 total yards with no turnovers.

10. MICHIGAN (7)The Wolverines continued their dismal season with another big loss, this time to Utah, 26-10.

8. MINNESOTA (9)The Golden Gophers had just seven passing yards in their 24-7 win over San Jose State this weekend.

7. MARYLAND (8)The Terrapins had 31 points in the fi rst half, enough to hold off a productive Syracuse offense for a 34-20 win – Maryland’s defense allowed 589 yards of total offense but forced two turnovers.

11. ILLINOIS (10) The Illini struggled again Saturday, forcing the offense to make another second half comeback – the third time in four games throughout the non-conference schedule.

9. INDIANA (13)The Hoosiers’ offense carried them to a 31-27 upset over No. 18 Missouri Saturday. Indiana had 493 total yards and no turnovers.

13. NORTHWESTERN (12)The Wildcats defeated Western Illinois 24-7, but the score didn’t show their struggles – Northwestern only had 117 passing yards and converted just three third downs on 14 attempts.

12. RUTGERS (11)A 24-point fi rst half helped The Scarlet Knights hold off Navy for a 31-24 win but lost running back Paul James for the season with a knee injury.

14. PURDUE (14)Quarterback Danny Etling led the Boilermakers to an easy 35-13 win over Southern Illinois Saturday with two touchdowns and 198 yards through the air.

BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

Coming into the Creigh-ton Classic, the Illinois volleyball team’s biggest challenge this season had been closing out matches.

Up until last weekend, the Illini had struggled winning matches that last-ed longer than three sets.

That all changed this past weekend when Illi-nois held off Creighton and Colorado and won in four sets in each of its first two matches before sweeping South Dakota.

Despite the fact that Illi-nois was able to bounce back and come out with wins against Creighton and Colorado, head coach Kevin Hambly said the Illini need to continue to work on closing out oppo-nents in as few sets as possible.

“We were a little disap-pointed in the ways we fin-ished matches,” Hambly said. “We had opportuni-ties to finish and I think we could have done a little better job of that.”

After taking a 2-0 lead in both of their first two matches, the Illini dropped both third sets against the Bluejays and the Buffaloes before coming back to take each match in four sets.

“I think we’re learning how to close out matches,” Hambly said. “It’s some-thing we’re going to work to. We’re getting better and I think we made some steps in that direction.”

Stadick leads Illini with weekend performance

Katie Stadick didn’t want to take credit for her play.

The sophomore mid-dle blocker finished with eight kills and eight

blocks against Colorado, both career highs. Sta-dick shifted the credit to the Illini setters for put-ting senior middle blocker Anna Dorn and herself in a position to succeed.

“Our setters did a good job getting it to me and Anna in transition and get-ting it to us so we could open it up for the pins and our outsides,” Stadick said.

Even after racking up 18 kills over the three match-es on the weekend, Sta-dick seemed more eager to talk about the team’s play than her individual accomplishments.

Stadick’s teammates were quick in praising her play on the weekend. Senior opposite side hit-ter Liz McMahon praised Stadick’s intelligence and energy on the court.

“Katie, specifically, is just a really smart vol-leyball player,” McMa-hon said. “(She’s) very aggressive and I thought the numbers just showed the work she puts in.”

Hambly said he liked both Stadick’s offensive involvement on the week-end — she took 20 swings against the Buffaloes — and her development as a player.

“I think she did a really nice job blocking,” Ham-bly said. “I’m pleased with her progress as a blocker and I’m pleased with her progress as an attack-er. She’s going in a good direction.”

Illini enter Big Ten play on hot streak

After finishing their last nonconference tour-nament of the season unde-feated, the Illini will look to ride a wave of momen-tum into Big Ten play.

Illinois (8-3) ended the Creighton Classic not only with three wins, but also with confidence in the team’s play going forward.

Hambly said the Illini played at an extremely high level at times during the tournament, which he hopes will continue as the team moves into Big Ten play.

“We started out every match really hot and we did a good job of putting a game plan together,” Ham-bly said. “(It was) proba-bly the best job we’ve done in a long time of execut-ing a game plan from the beginning.”

For Stadick, the way the Illini played and the ener-gy the team showed at the Classic will be a positive moving forward.

“(It was) a good way to end our nonconfer-ence play,” Stadick said. “We just played well as a team. We were battling together.”

Nicholas can be reached at fortin2@dai-lyillini.com and @Illini-SportsGuy.

Finishing matches focus for volleyball

Breece uses ‘fl ip-throw’ to create goal chances

“(It was) a good way to end our non-conference play. We were battling together”

KATIE STADICKSOPHOMORE MIDDLE

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BY ELISEO ELIZARRARAZSTAFF WRITER

Throw-ins are a norm in soccer, and an often unexcit-ing facet of the game. How-ever, throw-ins are certain to be more exciting than usual when Illinois junior midfi eld-er Nicole Breece takes them.

Enter the “fl ip-throw.” Breece has been utilizing

the fl ip-throw as an effective weapon to turn half-chances into goals this season, and it’s something that has paid off so far for the Illini with Janelle Flaws and Emily Osoba scor-ing off Breece’s throw-ins.

For the Illini, Breece’s trick creates set piece oppor-tunities from angles and dis-tances that are completely alien to most opponents. It’s a maneuver that requires Breece to lay her weight for-ward on to the ball, perform a front handspring and launch the ball more than 30 yards, a technique that the veteran regularly uses. The St. Lou-

is native frequently launches the ball into the box and has credited her seven years of gymnastics experience for giving her the ability to tech-nically execute her throws.

“I was just at practice one day, and I was like, ‘Hey, I’m just going to try this.’ I did a fl ip and it kind of worked out, then I continued to do it and then got it,” Breece said.

It was a technique that Breece had been using since her arrival at Illinois in 2012, and one that’s beginning to bring in goals. Breece has been in impressive form so far this season, claiming fi ve assists so far, two of them from throw-ins.

Though effective when used, the fl ip-throw is a gim-mick that is rarely seen in soccer’s higher levels, as perfecting the art is tricky because of the consistency asked of the thrower. Breece is unique in that she has it down to a science.

Set piece opportunities aren’t the only time Breece utilizes these throw-ins. In the second half against Pur-due, Illinois won a throw-in, and without a set-up in the box, Breece launched the ball ahead to freshman right back Abby Elinsky with one of these signature throws. The attack died after Purdue keeper Erika Yohn pounced on the ball before Elinsky could reach it, but it only speaks of Breece’s con-fi dence in herself to execute such a throw.

“I was really happy with (my teammates) fi nally fi n-ishing off of my throw-ins,” Breece said. “People are fi nally getting used to where they’re going to go and how to react and how to adjust to them and fi nish them, so I was happy that we fi nished off that.”

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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Nicole Breece crosses the ball during the game against Notre Dame at the Illinois Track and Soccer Stadium on August, 22.

Lunt said of Allison. “He’s a big target and I’d love to see him out there.”

Lunt has connected with Allison often, completing 16 passes to the receiver — who’s averaging 100 receiving yards per game in just three starts.

Illinois will announce Thursday whether Allison will be eligible to play against the Cornhuskers.

The team will also make a decision Thursday on starting offensive lineman Pat Flavin, who is listed as probable against Nebraska, as well as defensive lineman Teko Powell.

Thomas cleared for Saturday

Illinois received good news Monday, when the Big Ten announced that defensive back Earnest Thomas III will be eligible for Saturday. Thomas was ejected against Texas State for a helmet-to-helmet hit that drew a targeting penalty.

The defensive back was previously ejected for a helmet-to-helmet hit against Penn State in 2012.

Despite the return of Thomas, the Illini defense has a lot to worry about moving into the Big Ten conference schedule.

Illinois ranks 12th in both rushing and total defense in the Big Ten and will be up against one of the nation’s top running backs, Ameer Abdullah on Saturday.

Defensive coordinator Tim Banks said the team will continue to work on tackling drills in practice this week — something the Illini have struggled with on defense.

Illinois’ slow starts haven’t just plagued the offense. The defense has allowed 82 fi rst-half points in its fi rst four games. For Illini fans and players alike, the team’s fi rst half performance has been a mystery.

“I wonder about that question as much as you do,” cornerback V’Angelo Bentley said. “I think guys are just going to have to make plays early — coming out, starting fast and making plays early.”

The Illini are underdogs throughout most of the remainder of the season with No. 21 Nebraska, No. 22 Ohio State, Wisconsin, Iowa and Penn State left on the schedule. Illinois can’t afford to show up late in Big Ten play if they want to make the postseason.

Sean can be reached at spneuma2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @neumannthehuman.

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