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Since December of last year, 23 new women fac-ulty members have joined or accepted job offers at the College of Engineering. This marks an increase in the number of women facul-ty by one third from 13.2 per-cent of the tenured system since last spring, in a field nationally know for being male-dominant.

Each department within the college has added women faculty. Many students like Grace Pakeltis, sophomore in Engineering, view this as a positive step toward reduc-ing gender inequality within the college.

“The addition of these faculty members shows the growth of the University of Illinois. Having women who have dedicated their careers to STEM fields is a great inspiration to those enrolled in the College of Engineer-ing, as well as girls in grade school,” Pakeltis said in an email.

Both at the University and worldwide, there is a large gap between the number of men and women engineering students and professionals.

Elizabeth Bierman, presi-dent of the national Society of Women Engineers, shared that on a national basis, wom-en make up about 18 percent of engineering students and an even lower percentage of those in the workforce.

Pakeltis offered her opin-

ion as to why, in part, the dis-crepancy between men and women in engineering exists.

“Oftentimes, engineering seems to be a male dominat-ed profession, but when you are able to look at all of the fields of engineering, you find that engineers save peo-ple’s lives,” she said. “Many girls, when growing up, want to be in a career that helps other people, and by show-ing them that they can save lives through engineering, they will begin to realize that they have a spot in this profession.”

But at the University, there has been a significant increase in the number of female undergraduate engi-neering students in recent years, about 27 percent over the past 2 years.

The College of Engineer-ing as a whole has also grown in recent years and plans to add another 40 or 50 faculty over the next five years as an accommodation.

Bill Bell, spokesperson for the College of Engineering, expressed excitement about the new female undergrad-uates and faculty working together.

“In the recent couple of years we’ve seen a significant growth in the total number of women undergraduates that have accepted admission to the college of engineer-ing. So, I think this is just a

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COURTNEY CIMO THE DAILY ILLINI Kampanat Induang, a graduate student in LAS, talks with a tech expert at the Mac-To-School event held in the Illini Union.

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Lt. Gubernatorial can-didate Paul Vallas held a press conference in Cham-paign on Wednesday after-noon detailing a new fis-cal data analysis compiled by the Quinn campaign. This analysis highlights the potential effects of each candidate’s tax pro-grams on public education funding.

The data compares Gov. Pat Quinn’s tax plan to that of Republican gubernatori-al candidate Bruce Rauner.

According to Rauner’s tax plan, he will lower the state

income tax rate from 5 per-cent to 3 percent.

Estimations made by the Quinn campaign state that Vallas believes this tax rate reduction will cut the gen-eral funds by $8 billion, half of which would come from public school funding.

Spokesman for the Raun-er campaign Mike Schrimpf said in an email that Raun-er’s plans to lower taxes will not take away from educa-tion as a top priority.

“The truth is Pat Quinn raised taxes by 67 percent and still gutted education spending by $500 million,” Schrimpf said. “Unlike Pat Quinn whose education cuts led to teacher layoffs and

larger class sizes, Bruce will make education a top priority and fully fund our schools.”

However, Vallas said the Quinn campaign is con-cerned that lowering the income tax rate could poten-tially leave one in six teach-ers out of a job.

“The bottom line is you can’t cut funding for edu-cation, not just elementary and secondary (education), but community colleges and universities, by 50 percent and not expect the education-al system — the public school system in this state to be dev-astated,” Vallas said. “That’s not how you invest in Illinois’ future. That’s not how you create an environment con-

ducive to job creation and job expansion.”

Recently, Gov. Quinn pro-posed a five-year budget plan to invest $6 billion in elemen-tary and secondary educa-tion, a preschool program and a universal job training pro-gram to get workers in the state of Illinois trained and retrained.

Schrimpf said Rauner also put forward a jobs and growth plan, one that he says “will help Illinois recover from years of failed leader-ship and higher taxes under Pat Quinn.”

Bryan and Miranda can be reached at [email protected].

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BRYAN BOCCELLI THE DAILY ILLINILt. Gubernatorial candidate Paul Vallas held a press conference on Wednesday detailing the effects of Rauner’s budget cuts. Vallas highlighted cuts that would be made to Champaign-area schools.

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTCoors Light is now the

official beer of the Fighting Illini, thanks to a four-year deal struck between Miller-Coors and the University.

The deal gives Coors Light exclusive access to the University’s athletic

logos, according to a press release.

Orange and Blue Distrib-uting Company, founded in 1898 in Champaign, serves as the regional distributor for MillerCoors. As the dis-tributor, Orange and Blue will be able to use the Uni-versity logo on its point of sale activity.

“This is a big deal for us to be able to exclusive-ly utilize the U of I marks on our point of sale, legal-ly,” said BJ Stipes, Gener-al Manager for Orange and Blue Distributing Compa-

ny. “It’s great for us, I think it’s great for our business so we’re excited about it.”

In September 2013, Koerner Distributer, Inc., based in Effingham, Illi-nois, purchased Orange and Blue Distributing. Koerner already acts as a support-er for other colleges and minor league baseball pro-grams, including Southern Illinois University athlet-ics, Eastern Illinois Univer-sity athletics and Southern Illinois Miners Frontier League baseball.

“We were purchased

about a year ago by Koern-er but we are still using (the name) Orange and Blue because of the tie to the University,” Stipes said.

Stipes added that he is most excited about the size of the market the Universi-ty community offers.

“The city of Champaign and U of I really has every-thing,” Stipes said. “The sporting events are big business; football and bas-ketball are big time. To be able to use those marks on our point of sale, gives us, I feel, an advantage.”

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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTIllinois motorists who

receive certain traffic violations will no longer have to give police officers their driver’s license due to the newly signed “Sign and Drive” law.

Previously, driver’s licenses were taken as a security measure to ensure people would cooperate with appearing in court or paying the required fine. State Representative John D’Amico, D-15, one of the bill’s cosponsors, said the law will be beneficial to citizens since photo identification is often needed.

“Senate Bill 2583 is a piece of commonsense legislation aimed at cutting down on the instances of identification misuse or misplacement,” D’Amico said in a press release. “This bill will get our safe drivers back on the road and keep our state moving forward.”

Gov. Pat Quinn recently signed the legislation, allowing those who receive the traffic violation to sign the citation that indicates they will comply with the terms of the citation.

“A driver’s license is an important form of identification, and without it many residents may

run into problems during everyday situations when a valid ID is required,” Quinn said in a press release. “This common sense legislation will allow law enforcement officials to continue doing their jobs while letting motorists hang onto a vital piece of identification. ‘Sign and Drive’ will help ensure motorists comply with the law and keep traffic moving on our streets.”

The law, which goes into effect immediately, preserves the Secretary of State’s right to revoke some one ’s d r iv i ng privileges if he or she does not comply with the citation.

Gov. signs license lawterrific opportunity in that we’re seeing that increased response from women under-graduates,” Bell said. “And, these are great faculty mem-bers, both as researchers and as teachers, who will be joining them and that’s just a great combination.”

Bierman also said that the addition of new female fac-ulty to the college will have a beneficial effect on the University.

“It’s going to make your College of Engineering that much more diverse. And, when you have a diverse pop-ulation, you’re going to have diversity of thought,” Bier-man said. “That thought is going to bring different per-spectives and different ideas, which is just going to make that college of engineering that much stronger.”

As another benefit, Aman-da Caldwell-Jacques, junior in Engineering, spoke to the importance of women role models.

“You’re always looking for a role model,” Caldwell-Jacques said. “We’re always very aware of the different women professors. So, in that regard, I think it’s really neat that they’re making an effort to hire more female faculty throughout the college.”

Susan Larson, assistant dean for the College of Engi-neering and director of Wom-en in Engineering, agreed that it is important for female students to have role models

in the college.“Seeing someone who

‘looks like you’ doing a job can have a tremendous influence on someone,” Lar-son said in an email. “All of a sudden, that job seems more accessible to you and can inspire you to that career path. Increasing the numbers of women faculty gives this very positive message to our women students.”

Stephanie Lona, senior in Engineering, is one of many students who has directly experienced consequenc-es of the disproportionate amount of men to women in engineering.

“I’ve been in several class-es where I am one of a few girls, or even the only girl,” Lona said in an email. “A big factor is that women see engineering and science for boys from a young age. This can discourage them from trying engineering or tak-ing classes on the subjects.”

The Society of Women Engineers, Women in Engi-neering and various Universi-ty-sponsored summer camps are resources to help encour-age girls to pursue an engi-neering degree.

Though the hiring has gained widespread sup-port, students like Grace Deetjen, junior in Engi-neering, have stated that women faculty should not be hired simply because of their gender.

“I think gender should not be considered when hiring professors. Both men and women are equally capable of teaching all of our students,”

Deetjen said. Larson also addressed the

recruiting efforts of the Uni-versity both in regards to fac-ulty and students.

“When recruiting, no one wants to miss talent,” Larson said. “The University is plac-ing a high value on recruit-ing more women students and faculty to engineering because of the recognition that there is talent in this population that should not be overlooked.”

Clare Curtin, senior in Engineering, feels that the University currently places high importance on recruit-ing female students and fac-ulty in engineering.

“The University and Col-lege places a high value on recruitment and retention of women engineers for both the student and faculty popula-tion but do it without compro-mising quality of the students and faculty,” Curtin said in an email.

Curtin believes that clos-ing the gap between the number of men and women engineers is possible with outreach.

“Reversing the trend of a male dominated engineer-ing field will take time, but we are getting there,” Curtin said. “More outreach needs to be done at the high school and even junior high level. If we can get girls interested in math and science at an ear-ly age, they will succeed in their classes and enjoy the material.”

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WASHINGTON — U.S. automobile sales are siz-zling in part because Ameri-cans increasingly are taking out longer and longer loans to purchase used and new vehicles.

That U.S. consumers are unleashing pent-up demand after holding off on buying new cars is good news. But it may be a problem that many of these purchases are made with loans that stretch over long periods of time, many extending well beyond the four-year peri-od when many Americans trade in their vehicles.

“We’re seeing a lot of subprime loans, loans that are over 10 percent inter-est and very long-term loans, as long as 72 months, which lowers the monthly payment,” said Michelle Krebs, the director of auto-motive research for Auto-Trader.com.

Four-year car loans used to be the norm, which then became five-year loans. From April through June of this year, 41 percent of new-car loans were for financing largely about six years, according to data from the credit analysis firm Experian.

About 14 percent of used car loans were for peri-ods between six and seven years, the Experian data shows.

“A lot of times the car dies long before they can pay off the loan, or there is an expensive repair that they can’t afford, so they trade it in,” said Rosemary Shahan, the president of the California-based consum-er advocacy group Consum-ers for Auto Reliability and Safety.

“The loans are dispropor-tionate to the value of the car. The car is a depreciat-

ing asset, and it is going to be worth even less as time goes on, and that negative equity gets rolled into the next loan.”

The long-term loans could result in snowballing debt.

“It’s something we keep an eye on,” said Melinda Zabritski, the senior direc-tor of automotive finance for Experian, which shared the quarterly data with McClatchy. “Consumers are certainly trying to keep the payments as low as possi-ble in a market where vehi-cles are becoming more expensive.”

OLIVIER DOULIERY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE Activists rally outside the Justice Department to call on the Attorney General to help secure justice for Michael Brown and the people of Ferguson, Mo., as well as an overhaul of US law enforcement tactics in order to stop police brutality and the militarization of the police forces August 27 in Washington, D.C.

Auto sales rise as Americans take out longer-term loans

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BY MARIANNE LEVINEMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

WASHINGTON — More than 50 activists gathered outside the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday to deliver a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., seeking the arrest and pros-ecution of Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

“We’d like to see real lead-ership from the Department of Justice,” said Marsha Cole-man-Adebayo, lead organizer of the protest and founder of the No Fear Coalition, a non-profit group that fights dis-crimination. “We don’t think that just a visit to Ferguson is adequate. It doesn’t meet the standard of what the people in that city deserve.”

Several legal experts and community organizers spoke at the rally, calling for great-er accountability.

“At this point, police offi-cers are getting sentences that amount to little pats on the hand for killing unarmed black men and boys, and we think that’s one of the problems,” Coleman-Ade-bayo said. “There’s no accountabil-ity at this point.”

Organiz-ers said the rally was designed to keep pub-lic pressure strong as news cover-age of Fergu-son declines and protesters return home.

“Things will only change if people remain in the streets,” Coleman-Adebayo said. “We have to be in the streets. We have to be active. ... Unless we do that, quite frankly, the

political machine will move on and find other issues to concern itself with.”

C o l e m a n - A d e b a y o describes Brown’s death as the “tipping point” for broad-er frustration with police brutality and militarization. As an African-American, she said, the issue is also personal.

“I’m the mother of a 28-year-old young man who has been stopped by the police over 30 times,” she said. “This is not class-b a s e d . This is race-based.

“None of my white friends have a clue of what our lives are like waiting up when our son isn’t home by 12. ... What happened to Michael Brown could easily happen to any of us.”

In days after shooting, protestors demand justiceActivists ask for arrest of Ferguson cop Darren Wilson

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Can you feel it? It’s that time of year again, when Champaign-Urbana’s

streets start buzzing between senior land and downtown Urbana. In the (roughly adjusted) words of a certain Austrian bodybuilding governator, “we’re back.” From that freshman in his dorm playing “Wonderwall” on an acoustic guitar to the frat guy throwing the keg off his roof, the masses have assembled in Champaign-Urbana for yet another school year.

Though it may be hard to avoid getting caught up in the initial excitement and winding nostalgia of college life, it is of the utmost importance to point out, to freshmen and upperclassmen alike, how lucky we are to be in such a multifaceted and supportive environment.

Yes, at times I wish the football team were better (but hey, Wes Lunt should be good, right?) and the polar vortex were a little warmer, but as far as sheer opportunity goes, it’s hard to find a better place to be in the world for a young person than at the University of Illinois.

At the risk of sounding like a cheesy public service announcement, if you want

to do something here, you certainly can do it. New freshmen in creative writing or architecture may go on to be the next J.K. Rowling or Frank Gehry. A new tech start-up could spawn out of any given registered student organization. Hell, the owner of both the Jacksonville Jaguars and London’s Fulham United went here.

I, like The Daily Illini’s current editor-in-chief, Johnathan Hettinger, grew up in the small town of Monticello, Illinois. It’s about 20 miles southwest of Champaign and has a population of approximately 5,000. Although it is far from the bumpkin-populated village, my suburban peers often associate with such lowly populated towns, the opportunities available to us were still limited. The quality of education wasn’t poor, but our school just did not have the wide array of resources present in many larger districts in the area.

It’s quite remarkable that, because of this university, all of my peers from my hometown who go here are able to expand their horizons much past central Illinois. Many people from Monticello choose to remain there for their entire lives, never wanting to stray from home — and that’s fine. However, the opportunities afforded to those who stray away from home and head to the University are remarkable.

The University has provided me with opportunities to write for publications, study in London and root against Michigan with every fiber of my being — all things I never could have done in Monticello. (OK, maybe I could have done the last one.)

And I can only imagine that feeling is shared across the majority of the student body in some capacity. This is truly a microcosm of the “real world,” no matter which avenue someone intends to pursue.

At times, when we’re struggling through finals or juggling a couple of jobs and school, the University can seem stressful and overwhelming. Those late nights start to add up and our alarm clocks seem to ring earlier and earlier. But what better time is there in our lives to try as many things as we can?

It makes no sense to remain complacently stagnant in such a vibrant and stimulating environment. Here, we have opportunities to sit down and talk with some of the world’s greatest minds in many subjects. You can even go talk to Tom Hanks’ brother about bugs if you really want to.

Of course, there are plenty of negative examples of people who never get involved with or feel dedicated to something during their time here, and thus, some would say, wasted

thousands of hours and dollars here at the University. Please, if there’s one thing you take away from this column, it’s to be inspired to go out and get involved in your community, your career or your academics.

Don’t get me wrong: College isn’t for everyone. But if you’re here anyway, you may as well find something to get involved in. You never know, maybe you’ll meet a new friend or land a really cool job.

All of that being said, this column comes at an unsure and tense time in the world, and I would feel remiss if I did not mention the massive injustices taking place toward civilians in Kurdistan, the Gaza Strip, Israel and Ukraine alike, and even domestically in Ferguson, Missouri.

Sometimes we take for granted what a safe and beautiful place the University is, and we only need to take a peek into the headlines to be reminded that the world is a vicious place. There are many people who never will be afforded the opportunities that we are, and for that we must be impeccably thankful.

Please keep those who are affected by any and all of these global issues in your thoughts, and never forget how lucky we are to have the opportunities we have.

Boswell is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected].

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EDITORIAL College of

Engineering makes strides

for women

BOSWELL HUTSON

Opinions columnist

Vast campus opportunities shouldn’t be overlooked

It’s not unusual for stu-dents to be greeted by a male professor as they enter their engi-neering class. It’s also

not unusual to look around that classroom and see that a majority of the students are male. Fortunately, how-ever, both of these things are changing at the University.

Over the course of one year, the University has hired 23 women to join the engineering faculty, accord-ing to a press release from the College of Engineering. This increased the number of female professors in the college by more than a third.

Along with women joining the faculty, the number of female students in engineer-ing is also growing. More than 355 women entered en-gineering as undergraduates this fall, and this is a num-ber that continues to rise. In two years, the number of un-dergraduate women in en-gineering has increased 27 percent, which is an incred-ible step forward, especially due to recent trends regard-ing women in this field.

Research presented at the American Psychological As-sociation convention demon-strates that nearly 40 per-cent of women who get a degree in engineering do not go on to pursue a career in their field. Women have made up more than 20 per-cent of engineering school graduates over the past two decades, but only 11 percent of practicing engineers are women.

We think the increasing number of women facul-ty members, as well as stu-dents in engineering, is a great step for the University, for female high school stu-dents interested in engineer-ing and for women around the world.

By adding female facul-ty members, the University has provided mentors to pro-spective women in engineer-ing who may find it difficult to connect with male profes-sors. This allows them to be-come more engaged in their studies and unafraid to reach out to a faculty member when they need assistance.

It also instills in female college students the idea that they can be what they can see. Since there are more men than women teaching engineering classes, some female students that have an interest in teaching en-gineering classes may be-come discouraged from pur-suing their passion. If they mostly see men in teach-ing positions, they might be-lieve that it’s mostly a career for males, which is untrue. Women and men can have the same skill set, it’s a mat-ter of using those skills to push forward in one’s career.

Taking a note from Sher-yl Sandberg, we think it’s time for everyone to lean in. Women can excel in their classes and go on to have lucrative engineering ca-reers. We think the increase in female faculty members proves that.

As the college continues to add faculty members over the next five years, we hope it will stay committed to its effort to add more women to engineering workplaces. This will show every student that nothing can hold them back from accomplishing their goals, especially their gender.

EDITORIAL CARTOON DAVID FITZSIMMONS THE ARIZONA STAR

They can be spotted a mile away. They travel in packs of 50 when they go out and

don brand new Illini Union Bookstore lanyards around their necks. If you don’t know which group of students I am referring to by now, then you probably haven’t spent much time outside of your apart-ment in the last few days. That’s right, I am talking about the new babies on cam-pus — the freshmen class of 2018.

As an upperclassman, I know it’s easy to poke fun at these seemingly clueless indi-viduals. They don’t get it, and we get a little confidence boost by having the upper hand. However, upperclassmen should encourage and support freshmen as they make their transition onto campus.

This year, my sister joined the freshmen class in engi-neering. Between her and the other girls on her floor, I have received my fair share of phone calls, ranging from questions about where room 420 in Noyes Lab is to how to order a bus ticket to go home.

To seasoned veterans like myself and others, these ques-tions might seem silly, and we

could be tempted to tell fresh-men to figure it out on their own. I have even witnessed upperclassmen knowingly tell-ing freshmen the completely wrong directions when asked by them on the street.

I know that treating the poor freshmen like this may be funny to some, but it is much more productive to help out the freshmen when they ask for help. We were there once, too. Interacting with freshmen during our daily lives on campus is inevita-ble. They could be our future sorority sisters, fraternity brothers, co-workers or our partners on group projects. And we need to remember that when we interact with them.

Speaking as someone in the Greek system, for example, developing and maintaining positive relationships with freshmen is especially impor-tant. With recruitment sea-son right around the corner, every sorority woman will be having countless conver-sations and interactions with freshmen. We want them to join our house, and for them to consider doing that, we have to mesh well together. Rushing freshmen will proba-bly join the house where they feel most comfortable and get along best with the wom-en. The upperclassman who make fun of freshmen will stick out and could jeopardize

these potential bonds. And then there are other

social events on campus, too. Going to parties during wel-come week has definitely been a challenge for me and other upperclassmen. When walking up to these parties, swarms of freshmen girls are often as far as the eye can see. You can usually tell they are fresh-men because they tend to wear mini-skirts and they all seem to think four-inch heels are appropriate for a hot, sweaty house party. Yes, I agree it is hard to resist the urge to laugh at them, but we should rise above it. Dressing and acting like this is what they think is acceptable for college. It is what they have seen in the media, and they truly do not know better at this point. We should kindly teach them otherwise.

We were all freshmen once, too. We have all jumped on the wrong 22 Illini bus, we have all walked the opposite direc-tion looking for our lecture hall and we have all gone to McKinley church while look-ing for the health center.

As we have all done these things, what is the point in adding to other’s suffering? These students are nervous enough without upperclass-men giving them a hard time. We need to show these young-er students how we do things here at the University and

encourage them along the way. As a current LAS 101 Fresh-

man Seminar teaching assis-tant, I will be teaching a group of 26 freshmen once a week to help make their transition to campus life smoother. We will be covering everything from campus resources to study skills. Having a role like this has helped me realize how important feeling comfort-able is to freshmen’s success. Coming to a university with more than 44,000 students, 17 colleges and 23 different resi-dence halls, it is no wonder these freshmen are feeling overwhelmed.

Many freshmen are leaving home for the first time. Some of them are traveling from out of state, or even out of coun-try. By putting ourselves in their shoes and remember-ing how it felt, we should feel inclined to cut them slack and help them along the way. We should treat them how we wanted to be treated when we were freshmen.

If they ask for directions, don’t lead them astray; if they come up to you at a par-ty requesting help, give it to them. We are all Illini, and we are all united. We should love our freshmen, lanyards and all.

Rebecca is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

REBECCA KAPOLNEK

Opinions columnist

Freshmen need help and mentoring, not hate

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Food pantry stereotype ‘shattered’ in Central Florida

BY KATE SANTICHMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

ORLANDO — As one snapshot of a larger national study, Central Florid-ians who turn to food pantries for help are often college-educat-ed, part-time or even full-time workers, military veterans or children, a new in-depth study reveals.

Nearly half are white. Only 12 per-cent are homeless.

“The stereotype of who needs help should be shat-tered,” said Dave Krepcho, president and CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Flori-da, whose nonprofit organization partic-ipated in the study. “For one thing, the problem, especially in Central Florida, is huge. I’ve been doing this work for 21 years across the country, and it still boggles my mind how many people are struggling right now.”

The Central Flor-ida portrait is part of a national study by the hunger-relief agency Feed-ing America, which found that more than one in sev-en U.S. households experienced “food insecurity” at some time in 2012, mean-ing people couldn’t always afford to buy the groceries they needed.

In Central Flor-ida, the rate was higher — one in five households — a problem Krepcho blames on a particu-larly slow economic recovery here.

For Second Har-vest’s seven-coun-ty service area — Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Lake, Bre-vard, Volusia and Marion — residents sought groceries or meals from the food bank’s partner agen-cies 3.7 million times during the course of a year. In a typical week, that’s 71,600 people.

Across Central Florida, the study found:

Three-quarters of those needing food are at least high-school graduates. 27 percent have at least some postsecondary education — toward professional licen-sure or certification or in college.

In 60 percent of the households served, at least one person has been employed at some point in the past year, if not for the entire year.

“It’s not the wel-fare moms that everybody imag-ines,” said Sandi Vidal, executive director of Chris-tian HELP in Cassel-berry, where clients can seek employ-ment, job training, food and other assis-tance. “Many of the

people we see have at least a high-school diploma or GED, and many of them are working but under-employed. They need better-pay-ing jobs and more hours.”

On a recent day at the faith-based charity, roughly 80 percent of 106 cli-ents were already working but looking for higher-paying positions.

One of them was 26-year-old Cher-ise James, a profes-sionally dressed, well-spoken col-lege graduate with a bachelor’s degree in fashion merchan-dising. After moving from Miami to Orlan-do 18 months ago in a job transfer, she was laid off in June. She turned to Chris-tian HELP for aid in both her search for a full-time job and food. “Without them, I’d be pret-ty much starving,” she said. “They are a blessing.”

Though the few friends James has told have been sup-portive, Bea Can-non, a 66-year-old area resident, said she has encoun-tered widespread misunderstanding.

“People can be so judgmental,” said Cannon, who has turned to the non-profit Lake Cares since suffering a major heart attack

and needing nine prescription medica-tions each day. Can-non has helped sup-port her adult son since the 40-year-old was crushed between forklifts at an orange-juice plant. He is still able to work, but his minimum-wage fast-food job doesn’t bring in anywhere near the income he once earned — and Cannon relies on $692 a month in Social Security.

Recently, Cannon gave up her car to repossession rath-er than forgo her prescription medi-cations, and most Central Floridians surveyed said they often chose between buying food and pay-ing for other neces-sities: 70 percent chose between food and medicine or food and rent. And nearly three quar-ters chose between buying food and making car pay-ments or food and paying the power bill.

“They’re water-ing down the milk, they’re pawning possessions and they’re having to make these awful decisions,” Krepcho said. “Do they eat, or do they get the med-ication they’re sup-posed to take? Either way, they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.”

GEORGE SKENE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNECherise James was recently laid off. She has a college degree and a 3-year-old child. The number of professional people asking for food help at food pantries has increased over the summer, especially at Christian HELP food pantry in Casselberry, Florida.

Nicaragua moves away from oil, embraces renewable energyBY TIM JOHNSONMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Rivas, Nicaragua — How quickly can a nation wean itself from fossil fuels and move toward reliance on renewable energy? In the case of Nicaragua, very, very fast.

So fast, in fact, that Nica-ragua is drawing a parade of distinguished admirers coming to examine how the nation is radically changing its energy footprint with an aggressive goal of becoming a green-energy powerhouse.

“This is a very impressive wind park,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said July 29, visit-ing windmills near this city on Lake Nicaragua. “Your country has vast potential of renewable energy resources — solar, wind, you have very strong, constant wind, and geothermal and hydro. You are quite lucky.”

Nearly as breathtaking as the speed at which Nicaragua has embraced private renew-able energy plants is its emer-gence in less than a decade from an energy crisis of con-stant rotating blackouts.

“We were facing power rationing of up to 12 hours a day,” said Lizeth Zuniga, executive director of the Renewable Energy Asso-ciation of Nicaragua, a group representing private companies.

High global prices for oil had socked Nicaragua. So, legislators passed a law in 2005 giving renewable ener-gy companies a tax holi-day and permitting them to import equipment and machinery duty-free.

“We were going to move from around 80 percent dependency on oil for our energy to around 80 percent dependency on renewables

over the course of a 10-year period,” said Javier Chamor-ro, head of ProNicaragua, an export promotion agency.

What happened next sur-prised even the government. Private capital poured in. Wind parks mushroomed. Sugar producers built plants to turn sugar-cane stalks into fuel. U.S. and Canadian com-panies explored heat reser-voirs around volcanoes.

“Other countries evolved gradually. Nicaragua just leaped ahead,” Zuniga said.

“You have to wait till the moment is right, and that’s exactly what Nicaragua did,” said Arnaldo Vieira de Carv-alho, lead energy specialist at the Inter-American Devel-opment Bank in Washington.

Nicaragua tapped its abun-dant geographical advantag-es. Set in the Central Amer-ican isthmus, it’s on the Pacific Rim’s ring of fire. It is a land of steady winds, huge lakes, tropical sun and rum-bling volcanoes.

“Nicaragua has 19 volca-noes. There’s a lot of heat down there,” said Lal Maran-din, a French consultant on renewable energy based in Nicaragua.

Marandin said private companies, seeing the bene-fits of the new tax and equip-ment-import enticements, pushed hard, and the leftist government of Sandinista President Daniel Ortega did not get in the way. Perhaps concerned over the nation’s reliance on Venezuelan oil, the Ortega government opened doors further.

“It’s energy independence, energy security, that drives this,” Marandin said.

When Luis Alberto More-no, the president of the Inter-American Devel-opment Bank, visited in June, he hailed Nicaragua’s

“unprecedented energy transformation.”

Among the foreign compa-nies that pledged or execut-ed projects worth $1.5 billion was Ram Power, a geother-mal company that trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

“They have made extraor-dinary headway,” said Steven Scott, Ram Power’s investor relations chief. “Nicaragua has been known for many years as the land of lake and fire, and that translates into hydro and geothermal.”

Ram Power took over an existing geothermal compa-ny and invested $425 million in the plant, which is between the Telica and Rota volcanoes outside the town of San Jacin-to. It brought two huge Japa-nese-made turbines to handle the superheated steam cir-culating through pipes that penetrate subterranean heat reservoirs.

“It represents the single largest private investment in the history of the country. ... We produce more than 10 percent of the energy needs of Nicaragua,” Scott said.

If the plant arrives at full capacity of 72 megawatts of electricity, Nicaragua will save itself the purchase of 889,551 barrels of fuel oil each year for its convention-al power plants, said Antonio Duarte, general manager of the Ram Power subsidiary, Polaris Energy.

The savings, though, go far beyond the country’s balance sheet.

“The estimates are that at 72 megawatts we are saving 400,000 tons of (carbon diox-ide) emissions each year,” said Alejandro Arguello, the corporate development vice president.

“The whole point of geo-thermal is that it’s, like, zero footprint,” Scott said.

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New and long-stand-ing local music fans can unite Friday for a nostal-gic reunion show at Cow-boy Monkey in downtown Champaign. Current local bands, Elsinore and Hath-aways, will join Cham-paign-Urbana native band Grandkids, which will be making a trip from Chica-go on Friday.

“The idea was to have an end-of-summer slash beginning-of-the-school-year weekend in Cham-paign,” said Ryan Groff, lead singer of Elsinore, the band hosting the event.

The show, open for indi-viduals ages 19 and over, will begin at 9:30 p.m. at Cowboy Monkey, located at 6 Taylor St. in Champaign. Hathaways will open the event, with Grandkids fol-lowing at 10:35 p.m. and Elsinore closing the show at 11:45 p.m. Tickets are $8 and will be sold at the door.

The three bands have arguably been the corner-stone of the Champaign-Urbana music scene for

years, according to Vivian McConnell, lead singer and guitarist for Grandkids. Each band has a slightly different twist of musical styles.

“There are different (musical) aspects that connect us,” wrote James Hathaway of the Hatha-ways in an email. “With Grandkids, they’re always doing something dynam-ically that interests us ... Elsinore has always had a wonderful pop element, and that’s something we’re trying to bring out as well.”

Grandkids has grown and evolved in Champaign-Urbana, though last Octo-ber its members decided to make a move to Chica-go. Still, this area remains special to them, McConnell said.

“I think Urbana has a really big spot in all of our hearts,” she said. “We’re excited to see all of our friends down there, but hopefully we see a lot of new faces.”

Alone, each band’s per-formance embodies its unique approaches to indie

rock, folk, pop and a myr-iad of other genres. But together, they will meld into an eclectic mix of orig-inal tunes.

“It’s definitely high-energy, meant-to-be-per-formed-live type of music,” Groff said, speaking spe-cifically about his band Elsinore’s newest album “Push/Pull.” “It’s rock and roll music; it’s got some things that sound old and some things that sound new.”

Elsinore will also be per-forming its new album on Saturday at 7 p.m. at down-town Champaign’s Indi Go Artist Co-Op, as well as at

Pygmalion Music Festival in late September.

Music from Hathaways dips into some folk roots while maintaining its indie rock components.

“One of the underlying elements that has always been there for us and con-tinues to be (is) the sib-ling harmonies,” Hathaway wrote, referring to his and his sister Kate Hathaway’s vocals.

On the other hand, Grandkids have a harder time defining their music style, which is in the realm of indie rock, but is also peppered with art rock features.

“We kind of made up a genre. We’re calling it ‘humblecore,’” McConnell said. “I think that we’re really listenable, but at the same time we keep things interesting as far as song-writing goes. I’ve been get-ting a little more experi-mental in comparison to our first record.”

Each band has played with one another on at least a few occasions over the years, and the trio knows

one another well.“We support each other’s

bands a lot, and we like to play shows together,” Groff said.

McConnell said she learned about Elsinore before she attended the University, from which she graduated last year with a degree in Spanish. She met James Hathaway dur-ing her time in college, and since then they all have been close.

“We all kind of crossed paths in really interesting ways,” McConnell said. “It feels really special, too, to be welcomed back by Elsinore and Hathaways.”

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SPORTS

N othing ever goes according to plan, but everything eventually falls into

place. At least that’s the way it’s always seemed for Wes Lunt.

The sophomore quar-terback will get his fi rst start for Illinois in Satur-day’s home opener against Youngstown State, but nei-ther the school nor the posi-tion were part of his origi-nal dreams.

“I thought I was going to play basketball in col-lege,” Lunt said. “I never really even thought about football.”

Now, it’s all he thinks

about: “I’m just preparing whenever I can.”

It wasn’t until eighth grade that Lunt began playing football and it took another year for him to switch from wide receiver to quarterback at his broth-er’s urging.

“I’ve never seen anyone throw the football like him before,” Lunt’s high school coach Derek Leonard said. “He’s accurate. He can put it wherever he wants it. He’s as good as it gets.”

Despite growing up less than an hour and a half away from Champaign in Rochester, Illinois, the Illi-ni weren’t Lunt’s fi rst choice

either. After capturing two state championships under Leonard at Rochester High School, breaking IHSA passing records and being named the seventh best quarterback in the nation for high school recruits, Lunt choose to play at Okla-homa State.

Lunt was the fi rst true freshman to start the Cow-boys’ season opener in over 60 years. He was impres-sive — throwing 588 yards on just 75 attempts — before injuring his knee in his third game. Lunt briefl y returned later in the season, throwing for 508 yards in less than two games before

he found himself on the sidelines again with a head injury.

The quarterback chose to transfer home to Illi-nois before his sophomore season.

“At Oklahoma State, he wasn’t asked to do too much,” said offensive coor-dinator Bill Cubit, who has had to adjust and spend time learning how to read defen-sive coverages better than he had in the Big 12. “He’s handled himself ever since he got here. He’s a really even-keel guy. He just kind of goes about his business.”

Lunt’s calm personality coincides with his relaxed

approach as an offensive play caller.

“You have to have an even head,” Lunt said. “After a touchdown or a turnover, you’ve got to always be the same because something bad or good could happen that next play.”

The quarterback said not much has changed since being named the starter last week over senior Reil-ly O’Toole and sophomore Aaron Bailey. There’s been no abundance of recognition or change in his day-to-day life, and the new, humbled face of Illinois football is

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Wes Lunt opens for Illinois after transferring from Oklahoma State

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois quarterback Wes Lunt will start Saturday’s game against Youngstown State. Lunt was the fi rst true freshman to start Oklahoma State’s season opener in more than 60 years.

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER

As is the norm with the program, Illinois has one of the toughest schedules in the country.

It’s no surprise, then, that the Illini host storied programs Long Beach State and No. 20 North Carolina, as two of their fi rst three matches of the season at the Illini Classic this weekend at Huff Hall.

The Illini kick off the season with the ninth annual “Stuff Huff” event against

Long Beach State tomorrow. The festivities include a foam party outside Huff Hall, starting at 5:30 p.m., with a live DJ and free Jimmy John’s and freeze pops for the fi rst 750 patrons.

“The Stuff Huff event, to me, is one of the best collegiate volleyball events. I haven’t been to many things like it,” head coach Kevin Hambly said.

Illinois will then face Southern Illinois at 10 a.m. Saturday, followed by the nightcap against No. 20 North

Carolina at 7. These will be the only nonconference home matches of the season for the Illini.

The Illini faced off against Long Beach State and North Carolina last season. They dropped their second match of the season in 2013 to the 49ers, 3-1, in the Long Beach State Classic. The Illini then traveled out to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to face the Tar Heels three weeks later and were swept in three sets.

“Playing against another team and having a big crowd here will be really exciting,” outside hitter Jocelynn Birks said. “All the teams coming in this weekend are good teams.”

With those games a full

calendar year ago, Hambly said the team wouldn’t be looking too closely at the fi lm from last year due to how much both sides have evolved since then.

“We’re looking mainly at system and then we can learn on the fl y,” Hambly said. “But our kids are equipped for that.”

North Carolina will also have opposite side hitter Chaniel Nelson back in the lineup. The redshirt senior missed the entire 2013 season due to injury, but has been extremely effective when healthy. Nelson is a two-time All-ACC performer and was named AVCA All-American Honorable Mention in 2011.

“North Carolina took it to us pretty good last year, so we’re looking forward to playing against them,” Hambly said. “I have them ranked higher than No. 20, they’re a really good team.”

For the Illini, the new season will debut a handful of changes to the rotation. The program’s all-time digs leader Jennifer Beltran graduated, so there has been open competition at libero since the spring between Brandi Donnelly, Julia Conard and Danielle Davis. Donnelly, a freshman, played four sets at libero during the team’s intrasquad scrimmage, while

One of the most sought-after basketball recruits in the coun-

try will visit the Illinois campus this weekend.

Jalen Brunson, a 6-foot-1 senior point guard from Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill., will take his fi rst offi cial visit of the fall on Aug. 29-31. Illinois head coach John Groce has visits lined up throughout the fall for fi ve of his top targets in the high school class of 2015, with Brunson being the fi rst. He is set to arrive on campus Friday to see what the Illini have to offer.

Groce will have the Illi-ni fan base on the edge of its collective seat this fall while he gives his pitch to some of the nation’s top tal-ent. Brunson’s visit this weekend will kick off a recruiting frenzy that is sure to last until at least November, when high

school students can sign letters of intent to play for their future colleges.

Illinois will host four home football games between this Aug. 30 and Oct. 3, and Groce plans to host a recruit during each football weekend. While all of Groce’s 2015 targets are can’t-miss prospects, Brunson headlines the wish list of recruits for Illini fans due to a number of factors.

Why Illinois wants BrunsonPut simply, Illinois wants

Jalen Brunson because he is a stud on the court. He has the size (6-1, 190 lbs) and athleticism to make an immediate impact as a freshman. If you could mold a prototypical point guard for Groce’s system, Brunson would be it. The ideal offense Groce wants to run relies heavily on a playmaking point guard, and Brunson could step in and fi ll that role right away. He can spread the fl oor, distribute the basketball

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Brunson would be perfect point guard for Illinois

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“I’ve never seen anyone throw the football like him before. ... He can put it wherever he wants it. He’s as good as it gets.”DEREK LEONARDLUNT’S HIGH SCHOOL COACH

Long Beach State at Illinois

When: 7 p.m. Friday, Huff HallTV/Radio: WDWS 1400 AMQuick notes: Ninth annual “Stuff Huff” event. Long Beach State beat the Illini 3-1 on Aug. 30 last season. Hidden stat: Illinois is 1-4 all-time against Long Beach State, with its lone victory coming on Oct. 29, 1988.

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DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois head coach John Groce will host top point guard recruit Jalen Brunson this weekend. The visit is the fi rst of fi ve recruits to visit this fall. Brunson is choosing between Illinois, Michigan State, Purdue, Temple and Villanova.

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Junior linebacker Mason Monheim will be in front of the home crowd and have the band roaring in his ears on critical plays when he hits the fi eld once again this Saturday. The memory of Illinois’ loss to Northwestern is still fresh in his mind and the feeling of walking out of Memorial Stadium has become a cata-lyst to improve his play and his team’s.

So when Illinois opens its 125th year of football with its fi rst ever meeting against No. 21 FCS ranked Youngstown State, it’s look-ing for a chance to demon-strate that this is a changed team.

The Illini are seeking to redeem themselves this season after a disappointing 2013 campaign (4-8, 1-7 Big Ten), and hoping to contin-ue its 13-0 all-time streak against FCS opponents.

“I think we have to prove ourselves, too,” head coach Tim Beckman said. “There’s no question

about that. I’ve been on that sideline with Toledo and with some FCS teams that I coached for. You go play a school like this and you want to showcase that you’re good enough to play with them. The only thing we’ve got to worry about is ourselves.”

Looking to continue on last year’s improvement, the Illini offense will be under the leadership of second-year offensive coor-dinator Bill Cubit and the recently named starting quarterback, Wes Lunt, who will make his fi rst start as an Illini this weekend.

Starting with its perfor-mance Saturday, the large focus will be on the defense, which struggled and fi n-ished 110th in total yards in the country last year.

Youngstown State will have a strong running back in tailback Martin Ruiz, who had 192 carries for 1,094 yards and 15 touch-downs. Like the Illini, the Penguins (8-4, 5-3 Mis-souri Valley) will bring in a new starting quarterback

in junior Dante Nania, who backed up a four year start-er and was 11-for-20 passing for 180 yards last season.

“You assume their play-book might not be as vast as they would be if they had a veteran guy in there,” defen-sive coordinator Tim Banks said. “But at the same time, we understand that because of his skillset that we saw last year, he’s extreme-ly athletic. He’s played in some big games for them. I don’t know if it’s just like playing a guy who’s never taken a snap. We’re looking at this as if he’s a return-ing starter and understand-ing that he’s a good enough athlete to make some guys miss. We anticipate those guys using him in the run game as well.”

To cover the Penguins spread offense, both Banks and Monheim agreed the key will be fi lling the gaps to avoid getting beat by the run.

Saturday’s game will also bring familiar faces to Champaign with three Youngstown State coaches

having experience at Illi-nois. More prominent will be the presence of Jim Tres-sel, the Youngstown State president.

Tressel served as Ohio State’s head coach dur-ing Beckman’s time at the university in 2005-06 as a cornerback coach. Before moving to Ohio State, Tres-sel served as Youngstown State’s head coach from 1986-2000.

Beckman, to this day, still keeps in touch with Tressel and said he is look-ing forward to seeing his friend this weekend.

For the players, this weekend is the fi rst chance to prove that this year will be different. It’s an oppor-tunity to preserve a home-opening streak and con-vince fans that this is a transformed team.

“The way we fi nished the last two seasons is not where we want to be,” Mon-heim said. “We have a stan-dard set and it’s high. And it’s a championship level. We know to get there we need to a championship

effort. So we need to work at that every day and each day at a time, getting bet-ter. We’re hoping great things will happen this year.”

Charlotte can be reached at [email protected] and @charlottecrrll.

ILLINOIS VS.

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When: 11 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium

TV/Radio: Big Ten Network/Illinois Sports Network

Quick notes: Wes Lunt will make his Illinois debut in the season opener. Tim Beckman begins his third season as the head coach of the Illini. Illinois and Youngstown State have never played before. Hidden stat: Illinois is 13-0 all-time against FCS teams with an average margin of victory of more than 28 points per game.

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New season brings fresh start for Beckman, Illinois

“I’ve been on that sideline with Toledo and with some FCS teams that I coached for. You go play a school like this and you want to show-case that you’re good enough to play with them.”

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OFFENSEQB Dante Nania 3RB Martin Ruiz 29

WR Andre Stubbs 4WR Jelani Berassa 8

WR Andrew Williams 80TE Nate Adams 44

LT Travor Strickland 55LG Dylan Colucci 77C Stephen Page 65

RG Brock Eisenhuth 67RT Justin Spencer 61

DEFENSEDE Desmond Williams 7

DT Emmanuel Kromah 93NT Octavius Brown 92DE Terrell Williams 59

LB Dubem Nwadiogbu 22LB Mike Palumbo 91

LB Jaylin Kelly 40CB Nate Dortch 27CB Julius Childs 1

SS Jameel Smith 26FS Donald D’Alesio 8

OFFENSEQB Wes Lunt 12

RB Josh Ferguson 6WR Geronimo Allison 8

WR Martize Barr 9WR Justin Hardee 19TE Matt LaCosse 11

TE Jon Davis 3LT Simon Cvijanovic 68

LG Michael Heitz 74C Alex Hill 52

RG Ted Karras 69RT Patrick Flavin 75

DEFENSEDE Kenny Nelson 58NT Austin Teitsma 44

DT Teko Powell 93LEO DeJazz Woods 90

WLB Mason Monheim 43MLB T.J. Neal Jr. 52

STAR Earnest Thomas III 9CB V’Angelo Bentley 2CB Eaton Spence 27

SS Zane Petty 21FS Taylor Barton 3

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content with that.“I’m pretty low key, so

I don’t think anybody’s going to call me out or any-thing,” Lunt said about being approached by fans around town. “It’s just the same old, same old.”

And if there’s anything Illinois wants to stay “same old, same old,” it’s the quar-

terback position. Losing one of the program’s best quar-terbacks in four-year starter Nathan Scheelhaase was a potentially huge blow to the offense before Lunt’s name was thrown back into the mix in 2012. Off the fi eld, Scheelhaase was respect-able; and on the fi eld, even more so.

Scheelhaase left Illi-nois as the program’s all-time leader in total offense (10,634 yards), ranked sec-

ond all-time in career com-pletions (775) and third in touchdown passes (55) while rushing for more than 2,000 yards.

While Lunt — who has already rewritten record books in only fi ve years play-ing quarterback — has big shoes to fi ll. He plans to fi ll them differently.

“He’s a pocket passer for sure,” Leonard said. “He’s not a bad athlete. He feels the pocket and he can really

get out of trouble.” Cubit agreed with the

assessment, calling Lunt a “true drop-back guy.”

While Lunt is looking to escape defensive pressure on the fi eld, he’ll likely be dealing with off-the-fi eld pressure as he tries to help turn around an Illinois team that has gone 6-18 (1-17 Big Ten) in the past two years.

Lunt said the fi rst step of that goal is complete, with the team having come

together well throughout fall training camp — especially himself and the receiving core, who are both new to Illinois and Cubit’s offense.

“We just accept every-body like a family,” said senior wide receiver Mar-tize Barr, who was new to the team last season. “Any-body that comes knows you’re a brother to me and a brother to everybody here.”

But on Saturday, his fami-ly will not only be supporting

him from the sidelines but also from the stands, where the sophomore is expecting a large turnout of friends and relatives from nearby Rochester as he tries to lead the Illini to their fi rst win-ning season in three years.

“We’re getting better every day,” Lunt said. “I’m just nervous and excited.”

Sean can be reached at [email protected].

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Thursday, Aug. 28Eastern Illinois @ Minnesota - 6 p.m. Rutgers @ Washington State - 9 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 29Jacksonville State @ No. 8 Michigan State6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 30Penn State vs. UCF (Dublin) - 7 a.m. Indiana State @ Indiana - 11 a.m. Northern Iowa @ Iowa - 11 a.m. Youngstown State @ Illinois -11 a.m. Western Michigan @ Purdue - 11 a.m. Appalachian State @ Michigan - 11 a.m.

No. 5 Ohio State @ Navy - 11 a.m. James Madison @ Maryland - 2:30 p.m. California @ Northwestern - 2:30 p.m. Florida Atlantic @ No. 22 Nebraska - 2:30 p.m. No. 14 Wisconsin @ No. 13 LSU - 8 p.m.

Everyone’s excited. Football season is starting, and cam-pus is buzzing heading into

the first weekend after classes. Illinois football is bound to have a decent crowd for its first game against a team that goes by the Penguins, and I’d expect a fair amount of students will fill Block I.

If the past two years have proven anything, that buzz will be gone by November.

But it doesn’t have to be.The general consensus by so-

called college football “experts” is that Illinois will win four or five games this season. But I ask, “Why not six or seven?”

I’m not saying that’s going to happen. I’m simply saying the “experts” are wrong about as often as they are right.

Here’s something I can say with total confidence: The 2014 Illini will be the best team in Tim Beckman’s tenure at Illinois thus far. That’s not saying a lot, I know.

In 2012, the Illini had a sol-id defense, but no offense. In 2013 there was offense, but no defense. If you match up the 2012 defense with the 2013

offense, you have a pretty good team on paper.

If anything, this year’s defense is experienced. Almost the entire starting lineup is back. The question is how much better have they gotten in the past eight months. Junior cor-nerback V’Angelo Bentley said there’s still work to do, and I believe him.

“We have the talent,” Bent-ley said. “It’s just about us read-ing what the offense is doing and making strides to not make men-tal errors.”

Bentley noted Earnest Thomas III, Mason Monheim and Aus-tin Teitsma as the vocal leaders of the Illinois defense. They are three of the Illini’s most expe-rienced defenders, and it’s time for them to step up on the field as well.

How much better have they gotten in the last year? You can’t single out the blame on any one person when you look back at the 2013 Illinois defense. It was a collectively poor effort.

And with so much experience returning, it’s all going to come down to how much each individu-al has improved.

Last year, defensive coordi-nator Tim Banks was a broken record. The Illini lacked in fun-damentals — namely tackling — and Banks said so just about every week. He contradicted

himself earlier this week.“I don’t know that tackling was

always the issue,” Banks said. “We had our issues, don’t get me wrong, tackling wasn’t necessar-ily that week-in, week-out. The problem was, you fix this, some-thing else came about. You fix that, something else came about.”

Memories can be selective, but I sure remember Banks harp-ing on tackling, tackling, tackling last year.

So let’s not run away from this one Coach: The defense couldn’t bring down many ball carriers

in the open field in 2013. No one’s saying tackling was the only issue, but it sure was a promi-nent one.

Illinois’ matchup with Youngstown State won’t tell us much. At 8-4 last year, the Pen-guins were a respectable FCS team. But they will be the first of three gimmies (along with West-ern Kentucky and Texas State) that should get the Illini halfway to a bowl game.

Beckman sure likes the excite-ment that comes with a new season.

“We do this profession for the kids, for the student ath-letes,” Beckman said. “I want them to see that there is some belief that they can get this thing done. There’s no question in my mind that I think we can get this done, but we have to prove it.”

You heard the man. It’s time to prove it.

Sean is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @sean_hammond.

BY ERIK PRADOSTAFF WRITER

As Tim Beckman enters his third year as head coach, the Illinois football program enters a new phase as redshirt sophomore Wes Lunt takes over as the starting quarterback. He will face a Youngstown State team that finished 8-4 in 2013. Though the Illini are favorites, there are still plenty of questions, mainly defensive, that surround a team looking to improve on last season’s total of just four wins.

D-line vs. RB Martin Ruiz

Ruiz, a sophomore, was the Missouri Valley

Conference Freshman of the Year after he led the Penguins with 1,585 all-purpose yards. Meanwhile, the Illini run defense was anything but OK in 2013, as it surrendered an average of 238.6 yards per game. Defensive end Jihad Ward, a 6-6, 290-pound JUCO transfer, will look to make an immediate impact and set the tone for a defense looking to move past 2013.

Wes Lunt vs. Hype

Lunt, by all accounts, will be the most talented quarterback to take snaps in Champaign in quite some time. He is the prototypical pocket passer — the guy

with the powerful arm and ability to make throws in tight windows. But he has not seen real game action since Nov. 3, 2012. All eyes will be on him Saturday. Youngstown State is a respectable FCS opponent that should provide Lunt the opportunity to adjust to game speed. For a little Throwback Thursday, the last time Lunt faced an FCS opponent his team won 84-0.

Memorial Stadium vs. the fans

The Illini fanbase made national news last November — for hilariously low attendance in Block I. Understandably, fans will

not show for a losing team. But if this team performs well and starts to win, will the stadium start to fill up? Beckman can change a lot of minds by leading

his team to its first bowl game since the 2011 season. Starting the season 1-0 will obviously put them one win closer to what could be considered Beckman’s most

successful season to date.

Erik can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @e_prada.

Football buzz doesn’t have to die by November

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Sports editor

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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois quarterback Wes Lunt will have to compete against the hype surrounding his arrival in Champaign. The former Oklahoma State quarterback is considered one of the most talented quarterbacks the Illini have had in years.

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DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois' V'Angelo Bentley pursues Ohio State's Braxton Miller on Nov. 16. Bentley says the defensive talent is here this year — the team just can’t make mental errors.

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BY ELISEO ELIZARRARZSTAFF WRITER

Illinois soccer’s season is underway, and with a win and loss under its belt, the team is turning to its defense for a source of offense. This has taken the form of right-back freshman Abby Elin-sky, who has wasted no time in making her mark in the college game.

Recruited as an All-Amer-ican forward, the Gatorade Ohio Girls Soccer Player of the Year has scored in each of the team’s first two games and has two of the team’s three goals so far this season.

Elinsky netted the opener in the 3-1 loss to Notre Dame on Friday and carried that momentum into the Louis-ville game, where she head-

ed an Abby Wambach-type goal off a set piece to secure a 2-0 victory for the Illini. She played every minute of both games.

“The weekend went well, we could’ve gotten two wins but I think on the field we worked really well together and I’m excited for this week and the rest of the season,” said Elinksy. “It’s awesome to be at the next level and still able to get some goals in the back of the net.”

Elinsky, who had never played defense before com-ing to Illinois, added that she is embracing the role of right-back and enjoying fill-ing in where needed.

“I never played it before college, so it’s a little differ-ent compared to playing up top, but I like it,” she said.

“It’s a different role that I have to take on.“

Coach Janet Rayfield has praised her versatility and adaptability and insisted Elinksy will continue to be a threat on offense.

“We certainly are look-ing for opportunities for her to get forward and (for) her to get involved in the attack,” said Rayfield. “I think she benefits a lit-tle bit from the attention that Janelle (Flaws) gets in the box when there’s a lot of people in the box, but I do think we have the flex-ibility to move her forward when we need some scoring punch ... I think you’ll see her getting forward and get-ting into the attack, wheth-er we play her forward or continuing to play her as a

right-back.” Now she and the rest of

the team look forward to Fri-day’s clash against the Ari-zona State Sun Devils who

are coming off a tie and a loss to Texas and Hawaii, respectively.

“We just have to train hard this week, focus and

get another win this week-end,” said Elinsky.

Eliseo can be reached at [email protected].

I t’s the most wonderful time of the year.

College football is back and here to relieve everyone of the miserable heat. A handful of teams kick off today, but as always, the majority will play on Saturday. If past seasons are any indication, 2014 will be a roller coaster of a season.

Obviously the Bowl Championship Series is no more, instead replaced by the College Football playoff. So instead of computers choosing two teams to play for the national title, 13 humans will choose four teams for two semifinal games.

So which teams will be chosen? It’s almost a guarantee that, should they win their conference. Florida State will be joined by at least the SEC, Big Ten and PAC-12 champions.

The committee is

undoubtedly going to have a difficult time choosing these teams. What if a 7-6 Ohio State team wins the Big Ten? Are they better than a 10-1 Auburn team whose only loss was to Alabama in the SEC Championship?

*Insert plea to the NCAA to expand the playoffs to eight or 16 teams. Imagine the revenue Mark Emmert!*

So with the season kicking off, here are preseason predictions from every conference. The odds of successfully predicting an entire season of college football are approximately 3,720-to-one, but it’s worth a shot.

Big Ten

Mark Dantonio and his Rose Bowl champion Michigan State Spartans squad should feel truly disrespected. Preseason polls all ranked Ohio State ahead of the Spartans. Lucky for Michigan State and Wisconsin, Buckeye starting QB Braxton Miller is out for the year and will be replaced

by redshirt freshman J.T. Barnett. Expect the Spartans and Badgers to play for the conference title, with Dantonio masterfully executing a perfect game plan to shut down Heisman hopeful Melvin Gordon.

The Spartans will earn a trip to the semi-finals. Meanwhile, Purdue will earn its first conference win under Darrell Hazel against Northwestern.

SEC

Talking about the SEC should be added to the dictionary of cliches. Honestly, would it be any surprise if four SEC teams, let alone four from the same division, ended up in the playoff? Imagine the uproar. Alabama will obviously be on the hunt for a spot up until their game against LSU. Whoever wins that game will probably face South Carolina for the conference title.

It’s also unknown if Auburn can replicate its success. With that in mind, South Carolina

will win the SEC. It will earn a spot as Florida will fire Will Muschamp at season’s end. He will be subsequently mentioned with Ron Zook as one of the worst Gator coaches ever.

PAC-12

Stanford has had Oregon’s number for years by playing the smash-mouth football that has become Oregon’s Achilles’ heel. The Ducks and Marcus Mariota faded badly down the stretch following their loss at Stanford in 2013, who managed to recover following their terrible loss to Utah State. This will be the year Oregon finally breaks through. Mariota will play even better than he did a season ago and will cement himself as a top-5 draft pick and the Ducks will also bust out a whole new level of uniform combinations.

Oregon will defeat a surging UCLA program that Jim Mora Jr. has turned around, earning the third playoff spot.

ACC

The Seminoles will earn the first seed after they bulldoze their way through their schedule. If one game screams upset, it’s their October match up against Notre Dame. But unless Jameis Winston decides to steal more crab legs, he could very well become their second player ever to win the Heisman Trophy.

Florida State will defeat Duke in the conference title game for the second year in a row as the rest of the ACC will provide zero competition.

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While these four picks are not wholly unique, the weekly journey to the playoff will be truly exhilarating. Besides the inevitable upsets that will occur, every week we can always ask ourselves, “Why is Condoleezza Rice on the playoff board?”

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


Freshman sends strong message

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIAbby Elinsky battles for the ball during a game against No. 16 Notre Dame on Friday. The Illini lost 3-1. Elinsky was the Gatorade Ohio Girls Soccer Player of the Year last year.

Predicting the teams in the 1st ever College Football PlayoffERIK PRADO

Sports columnist

and score when needed. D.J. Cooper was a point

guard who excelled in Groce’s system while play-ing at Ohio, earning first-team All-MAC honors three times. Brunson has the potential to be an Illini version of Cooper, if not better.

A Brunson commitment to the Illini would have pos-itive ramifications beyond his impact as a player. Landing such a highly rat-ed prospect would cement Groce’s reputation as an elite recruiter, making Illi-nois a much more attrac-tive option for other play-ers with NBA aspirations. Once Groce lands his first truly elite prospect, (think McDonald’s All-American) many more could follow suit.

Also, as an in-state pros-pect, keeping Brunson in orange and blue would go a long way toward bucking the trend of in-state super-stars snubbing the Illini for the likes of Duke, Kan-sas and Kentucky. Illinois’ reputation on the nation-al stage would skyrocket immediately.

Why Brunson should want Illinois

Playing time will be available at the point guard position in 2015-16 for the Illini, with Tracy Abrams set to graduate and Jay-lon Tate still unproven. Brunson knows he could start right away for the Illi-ni, and he could do it along-side a very strong support-ing cast. The Illini will have a talented group of veteran guards in 2014-15 with Kendrick Nunn, Aar-on Cosby and Malcolm Hill leading the way. Illinois has the advantage of offer-ing Brunson playing time on a good team.

Other factors, such as the renovation of State Farm Center and the devo-tion of the Illini fan base, are things that likely will appeal favorably to Brunson while making his decision. Kids like to be liked, and Brunson would almost certainly be an Illi-ni superstar before he even sets foot on campus.

The competitionAs far as the nation’s

top basketball players go, Brunson is unique in that college basketball’s blue bloods aren’t on his list of schools. No Kentucky, Kansas or Duke. Instead, Brunson is considering Michigan State, Temple, Villanova and Purdue along with the Illini. Michigan

State is seen as the front-runner in the Brunson sweepstakes by the “Crys-tal Ball” recruiting experts at 247sports.com. But Temple and Villanova are strong candidates as well.

Brunson’s father Rick played at Temple in Phil-adelphia before a nine-year NBA career, so the Brunsons have Philly roots. Villanova is also located near Philadelphia and has been one of the nation’s most successful programs in recent history. Purdue has been in on Brunson’s recruitment the longest, so the Boilers are on the list as well.

The visitI don’t know exactly

what Groce says to kids on these visits, but the man leaves an impression. He obviously has a person-ality and charisma that recruits and their families can relate to. During his visit, Brunson will like-ly tour the Illini facilities and campus with coaches and players and drop in on the team’s workouts. Aside from basketball, Brunson will make an appearance at Saturday’s football game vs. Youngstown State and probably hang out with the Illini players on Saturday night. Groce’s official vis-its last year ended with a

Sunday morning breakfast at the Original Pancake House in Champaign with the recruit and his family.

The Brunsons are keep-ing this recruitment pretty low-key, but we’ll probably know a lot more about the Illini’s chances of landing Brunson after this week-end’s visit. It will be the first of several big week-ends for Groce and his staff this fall, and you can be sure they’ll make it count.

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.

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Davis and Conard played two sets apiece.

This year’s Illini will also feature a 6-2 offense, which means playing two setters in the match and having three attacking players in

the front row at all times. The setter position also has seen competition between returning players Alexis Viliunas and McKenna Kelsay, along with Arizona State transfer Allison Palmer.

Stephen can be reached at [email protected] and @steve_bourbon.

A Brunson commitment to the Illini would have positive ramifications beyond his impact as a player.

BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER

The Illini men’s cross-country team has won the season opening Illini Chal-lenge nine years in a row. After a long summer of train-ing, they’ll try to make it ten.

“Even though it’s a first early season meet, we still want to win,” said junior Paul Zeman. “Big summer of training ... We’re ready to see how it pays off.”

The Illini will have better competition Friday than in years past. The only other varsity team that compet-ed in 2013 was NAIA school Hannibal-LaGrange. This year, the Missouri Tigers

come to town and should provide an early measuring stick for the Illini.

Illinois has finished one place ahead of Missouri in the past two NCAA Midwest Regionals. Last year, the Illi-ni barely edged the Tigers by two points. The addition of Missouri gives the meet a little more meaning.

“Missouri is a good pro-gram that has a lot of guys running well, not only with-in the region, but within the SEC. I like the idea of hav-ing a competitive environ-ment like this right away,” head coach Jake Stewart said. “It makes us a little more engaged with opening

up the year.”Zeman said that he spent

the summer consistently running 90-100 miles a week with several teammates. A strong summer of running, combined with a few weeks of training together, should have Illinois in position for that 10th straight victo-ry. Though it’s a relatively small meet, it still holds some weight as the first race back for Zeman and the team. It’s a “rust-buster” and it gives the runners a chance to prac-tice pack-running in a race situation.

Most of the team’s top ath-letes will not compete this weekend, but the meet pro-

vides experience. The small-er meet provides an opportu-nity for athletes who might spend the season as red-shirts to race unattached. Three of Illinois’ entries this year: Garrett Lee, Alex Gold and Alex Notton, made their debut as unattached runners at last year’s Challenge.

Joining the unattached runners will be runners from the Illinois club cross-country team. Last year, one of those runners was senior Brendan McDonnell, who ran the meet as a member of the club team and finished third behind Jannis Toepfer and Liam Markham. He joined the varsity team soon after

the Challenge and was a top-5 mainstay for Illinois all-season.

Friday marks the first of the Illini’s two home meets this season. With all of the advantages that come from running at home, Stewart hopes the meet continues to grow.

“It’s nice not having to travel. It’s a meet we’ve had for a real long time. It’s a very familiar setting for them,” Stewart said. “We have a great course. We really want this to continue to grow and be a great meet that we can start the year with.”

The competition between

Illinois and Missouri should be close again this season, as the preseason Midwest Regional rankings put Illi-nois at fifth and Missouri at seventh, respectively. This season, the Illini are aiming higher, both at the Regional and in the Big Ten.

Zeman said the team’s goal is to finish in the top-3 in the Big Ten and finish the year at NCAA Nationals, which requires a top-two team finish at Regionals. Friday marks the Illini’s first strides toward those goals.

Chris can be reached at [email protected].

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