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JASMINE DINH THE DAILY ILLINILa Casa Cultural Latina set up a shrine dedicated to Christian Zamora, including cards to sign for the family.
Rep. Franks proposes phase out of tuition waivers
BY ABIGALE SVOBODASTAFF WRITER
The University employs 2,548 faculty members, 3,665 administrative and academic professional staff and 4,136 support
staff at the Urbana cam-pus alone . Sam LeRoy, freshman in Business, is just one of these employ-ees’ dependents who is cur-rently eligible to receive a 50 percent tuition waiver to
attend the University. However, Jack Franks,
D-Woodstock, proposed to phase out tuition waivers over the next four years.
An Illinois Board of Higher Education report on tuition waivers for fi s-cal year 2014 showed 637 children of employees were enrolled at the Urba-na campus.
Franks proposed HB 403 in an effort to save the state an estimated $10 million per year, reversing a 1998 statute that grants tuition waivers. In his proposal, students beginning college in the fall of 2015 would not receive waivers. Students who are already in school would maintain eligibility until graduation. At this
rate, the waivers would be completely phased out by 2018.
At the academic sen-ate meeting Monday, John Kindt, professor of business administration, announced that the pro-posed bill has been “put on the back burner” due to employees at the Universi-ty and across the state voic-
ing their negative opinions on the bill.
Sam is a Champaign native and the young-
Talking with new trusteeBY CHARLOTTE COLLINSSTAFF WRITER
Newly-elected student trustee Jaylin McClinton came to Champaign-Urbana from the south side of Chica-go with hopes of occupying a leadership position. McClin-ton, junior in LAS, studies political science and African-American studies and hopes to work closely with the stu-dents who elected him in his upcoming term. McClinton will replace current student trustee Lucas Frye in the fall.
The Daily Illini: Given the short term, what is your plan of action for pushing the things you want to get done?
Jaylin McClinton: In my campaign process, I talked a lot about political engage-ment about doing lobby days once a month wheth-er that means pick an issue and then going with that so maybe one month it’s immigration and actively going to lobby about that issue, one month maybe it’s about college affordability. ... I know we often talked about the tuition freeze dur-ing the campaign process, but I think just examining different opportunities to make sure that students are being able to access this university, and that they’re not afraid to apply. ... One thing that I’ve said during the campaign trail, which I still think is really true, is that I didn’t need to be stu-dent trustee to do all these things. I just think that now that I have the opportuni-ty to be in this position that it will be easier to talk to
the right people about doing some of these things.
DI: To you, what’s the big-gest responsibility of a stu-dent trustee on any campus?
JM: I think it’s just hav-ing the voice of the students, and in those tough conver-sations, whether it’s doing a tuition hike or lowering tuition, making sure I’m encompassing everyone’s voice and coming up with a strategic plan to do that. So, for example with tuition, I am a fi rst generation col-lege student in a single-par-ent household, so I think of things one way, but then I also factor in other opin-ions. One of my really good friends here is a mom, and so when I’m thinking about things it’s not just about me.
DI: What are you most excited about for this job?
JM: I think it’s really just
being able to interact with a larger body of students and moving an agenda for-ward that encompasses a lot of the campus. ... The chan-cellor has different commit-tees with faculty, so there’s the committee on race and ethnicity, there’s the com-mittee on LGBT concerns and things like that. My goal is to mirror those commit-tees from the student per-spective and to really come up with initiatives and ideas that we can move forward with at the campus-wide lev-el and at the system level. ... I think another piece is working with the new pres-ident, Timothy Killeen. ... One, because there are so many major issues going on but two, because we have a new president, and I’ll be able to work with him because we both are (new) at the same time, so to have that experience I think it’ll
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UI on annual speech list
Censorship of art professor Serhat Tanyolacar's statue, which was intended as an anti-racistdisplay
Administration's rejection of Steven Salaita's appointment to the American Indian Studies Program due to posts on his personal Twitter account
Board's adoption of social media policy that allows Kansas state universities to fire employees for “improper use” of social media
Administration's attempt to censor the blog of professors Phillip Beverly and Robert Bionaz, and arrest of students Willie Preston and Brittany Bailey, for their criticisms of the University
Suspension of political science professor John McAdams for criticism of a graduate instructor on his private blog
"Disinvitation" of feminist activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali from commence-ment due to her views on Islam; imposition of “no-contact” orderon student Daniel Mael for hiscriticism of anti-police comments posted by a fellow student on Twitter
Probation of Sorority Alpha Delta Pi for "Taco-Tuesday"-themed recruitment event, which involved members wearing Sombreros and other Mexican garb
Refusal to recognize student organization "H*yas for Choice" due to its mission statement, as well as relocation of the organization's tabling to a location off-campus in 2014
Restriction of student Robert Van Tuinen from distributing copies of the Constitution on "Constitu-tion Day," as well as punishment of those who supported him (i.e. professors William Holly and Leslie Beggs)
Mandating a new speech policy for all U.S. colleges and universities, which requires them to redefine sexual harassment as any "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature," including "verbal conduct"
UI
Chicago State University
Brandeis University
University of Iowa
Modesto Junior College
Kansas Board of Regents
Marquette University
California State University at Fullerton
Georgetown University
U.S. Department of Education
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FIRE places 10 institutions on 'Worst Offenders of Free Speech' list
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education listed the top 10 “Worst Offenders of Free Speech on Campus” in 2014 for concerns over first amendment violations.
BY FARAZ MIRZASTAFF WRITER
The University was recently placed on the Foun-dation for Individual Rights in Education’s 2014 list of “10 Worst Offenders of Free Speech on Campus,” due to concerns of academic free-dom on campus sparked by the rejected appointment of Steven Salaita.
A job offered to Salaita in the American Indian Stud-ies program was revoked after he posted controver-sial tweets regarding the confl ict in Israel and Pales-tine on his personal Twitter account.
FIRE is a nonprofi t educa-tional foundation that aims to defend and sustain indi-vidual rights at U.S. colleges and universities. Since 1999, the foundation has released an annual list, naming the top 10 educational institu-tions across the nation with
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University listed as free speech o! ender due to Salaita case
BY CHARLOTTE COLLINSSTAFF WRITER
In a university of tens of thousands, not everyone knows one another person-ally; however, the recent death of Cristian Zamo-ra brought some students and faculty together to pay respect as a community. La Casa Cultural Latina held a vigil Monday night open to anyone who wanted to attend and sign cards to be sent to Zamora’s family lat-er this week.
Berenice Sánchez, assis-tant director of La Casa Cultural Latina , said the center wanted to provide a space for students to grieve.
The recent graduate’s body was found Friday in Crystal Lake Park after having been missing since Dec. 31 .
Although she is not a student at the University, Megan Lystad attended the vigil because she believes it is important for the commu-nity to come together both to grieve and celebrate life.
“It’s tragic that he was so young, but I think it’s a good thing to try and remember what he contributed, just to acknowledge that he was an important person to this community, even if I didn’t know him personally,” Lys-tad said.
Sanchez said the cen-ter kept updated with the Mundo family during his disappearance earlier this year and was consequently able to keep in contact with Zamora’s family through Mundo’s family members.
“We always want to be there for the entire stu-dent community not just because he was Latino and it was the responsibility of
La Casa, but because he was a U of I student. He was a part of our community,” Sanchez said.
Gioconda Guerra Pérez, director of La Casa Cultur-al Latina , said she believes banding together in times of tragedy demonstrates peoples’ ability to come together and support one another.
“We hope there isn’t another tragedy, but at least the students and their fami-lies know that if something happens, they have a place here where they could get the support that they need,” Guerra Pérez said. “That, for me, is community: that people back home in Chica-go or New York or Argenti-na or wherever their home is, they know that somebody here cares about them.”
A memorial for Zamora will take place on Thursday at Alvarez Funeral Home in Chicago, according to a Facebook page run by fam-ily and friends .
La Casa Cultural Latina holds Zamora vigil for communityIn wake of loss, students, faculty gather to pay their respects
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Champaign An 18-year-old female
a 20-year-old female were arrested on the charge of retail theft at Kohl’s, 109 Convenience Center Road, around 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the suspects put merchan-dise in a bag and attempt-ed to leave the store with-out paying.
University Theft was reported
near Engineering Hall, 1308 W. Green St., on Thursday.
According to the report, the bicycle was left unat-tended and locked over-night Thursday. When the student returned the next day, the bike was gone and the lock was broken.
Retail theft was re-ported at the Illini Union Bookstore, 809 S. Wright St., around 5 p.m. Thurs-day.
According to the re-port, the suspect attempt-ed to leave the store without paying for mer-chandise.
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Working toward local produceBY FATIMA FARHASTAFF WRITER
For more sustainability and a better local economy, farms in Champaign-Urbana are producing food for local restaurants and dining halls.
Urbana’s Market at the Square hosted a chef-farm-er mixer Monday afternoon at the Urbana Civic Center to help local farmers and chefs learn the importance of using and growing local produce.
Natalie Marquez, director of the Urbana’s Market at the Square, said it is important for local farmers and chefs to network, and the mixer gives them the opportunity to work together to provide consum-ers with locally grown food.
“It gives farmers a chance to meet with the chefs and learn what they’re looking for,” Marquez said. “Farmers get a better understanding
of how to build their whole-sale accounts and growing for restaurants rather than just farmers’ markets.”
University Housing’s Din-ing Services is among those using local produce for its consumers.
Matt Turino, interim man-ager of the Student Sustain-able Farm, said his organiza-tion grows food for both the dining halls and for educa-tional purposes.
Turino said it is an advan-tage for the dining halls, or for any restaurant, to use locally grown food because they know where their food comes from, and they know it’s fresh.
“Creating more robust agricultural systems is a very important thing for any area to be more self-suffi -cient,” Turino said. “We need to try as much as possible to create as much market for
local produce so local econ-omy can strengthen.”
Farms and restaurants in Champaign-Urbana have also been collaborating to ensure more sustainable practices and fresher food for the community, along with a better local economy.
The chef-farmer mix-er included separate work-shops for farmers and chefs, where each group will learn about how to work with the other, along with a network-ing session.
During their workshops, Marquez said, farmers learn how to interact with chefs in terms of wholesale, while chefs learn about serving sustainable food in their res-taurants from local farms in cost-effective ways.
Allowing chefs and farm-ers the chance to work together by providing local-ly produced food to consum-
ers benefi ts everyone, Mar-quez said.
The Illinois Stewardship Alliance organized the chef-farmer mixer, and also holds the event in Peoria, Bloom-ington and Springfi eld.
“Farmers can grow some new products because the restaurants want something that’s maybe different from what they sell in markets,” Marquez said.
Dawn Aubrey, associate director of University din-ing services, said providing students with fresh, healthy and sustainable local farm food is a way for dining ser-vices to give students what they deserve.
“We view our commitment to sustainability with local food being a part of it as an obligation, it’s a necessity, it’s the right thing to do,” Aubrey said. “But most importantly we’re refl ecting our students’
values.”Other local restaurants
that serve food with locally grown farm produce include: Big Grove Tavern, Bacaro, Pizza M, The Dancing Dog
Eatery & Juicery, Common Ground Food Co-op and Pia-to Cafe.
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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIDoug Gucker, UI extension educator, speaks with event organizer Lindsay Record at a chef-farmer mixer Monday.
est of three children. His father, Michael LeRoy, is a professor in Labor and Employment Relations and Law. Michael attended the University and has been working there ever since. According to Sam, it’s safe to say the LeRoy’s are life-long Illini.
Still, Sam said if he was not eligible for a tuition waiver, he would have considered other schools. Since Sam is already enrolled at the University, he will receive the waiver until he graduates in 2018.
“That’s quite a bit of money and probably would have played a factor in my decision to come to the Uni-versity,” Sam said.
Tom Hardy, University spokesman, said the Uni-versity is still in support of tuition waivers and is working with other state universities and employee groups to fi ght the bill and help students.
Sam, who attended Uni-versity Laboratory High School in Urbana, said that about half of his graduat-ing class enrolled at the University this year, a com-mon pattern for the school. Many of the students’ par-ents are professors or staff members.
Sam’s father disagrees with his son’s negative opinion of the bill.
“On the one hand, it strikes me as a good place to start cutting back the budget because it does favor a small group, and the state is deeply in debt so I can’t say that I’m opposed to it,” Michael said.
He added that he would like to see staff — Univer-sity employees who work in departments such as build-ing and housing — remain eligible for part or all of the waiver since faculty
members typically receive a higher salary from the start.
Additionally, LeRoy added that many private schools and other states have similar or better pro-grams, which could cause the University to lose its ability to obtain the “out-standing faculty” it has currently.
“It’s sort of another con-tributor to brain drain in Illinois,” Michael said.
Hardy echoed that the University is always try-ing to retain residents for college.
“We’re constantly con-cerned about the outward migration of our highly talented high school grad-uates going to colleges and universities in other states,” Hardy said.
The University has led a push to retain Illinois resi-dents for college by admit-ting more in-state students this year. Michael said if Illinois faculty and staff don’t have the benefi t of tuition waivers, they may leave the University.
Sam agreed, stating that students may choose to go to smaller, private schools where they will receive scholarships, or attend oth-er state schools with lower tuition.
According to the Uni-versity’s human resourc-es website, the children of academic employees who have worked for any pub-lic university or college in Illinois for at least sev-en years are eligible to receive a waiver to attend that school.
Additionally, all aca-demic staff members who maintain an appointment of at least 25 percent for a minimum of 75 percent of a semester are eligible for a tuition and fee waiver for University courses.
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be great, because he’s def-initely a good guy, and I’ve interacted with him already.
DI: Who was one of the most inspirational fi gures for you in planning out your career?
JM: For a long time for me, I kind of looked up to Martin Luther King in a sense, but, in modern times, someone who I real-ly look up to is an attorney
named Bryan Stevenson. He is a very good guy, he has a non-profi t organiza-tion called the Equal Jus-tice Initiative, and the focus is on assisting people who have been incarcerat-ed wrongfully and differ-ent things. ... Also more local, I had the opportu-nity to work with Michael Frerichs, who is now the treasurer of Illinois, and I think working on his cam-paign has really helped me gain a better understand-ing of politics and just also service to people.
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fi rst amendment violations.Greg Lukianoff, president
of FIRE, published the list on the Huffi ngton Post on March 2, along with detailed reasons of why each institu-tion was put on the list.
Nico Perrino, FIRE’s associate director of com-munications, said the orga-nization receives about 700 submissions from students across the country, and also tracks student newspapers throughout the year to see what is happening on college campuses.
“It’s usually a list of the 10 worst colleges, although this year, we included two insti-tutions that aren’t colleges, but that nonetheless had a huge impact on students’ free speech rights across the country,” Perrino said. “The only thing it usually results in is bad publicity.”
Perrino said the univer-sities are always contacted prior to being put on the list, so an amicable solution for students and faculty alike can be considered.
However, if that neglects
to happen, the issues are taken to the press and the “court of public opinion."
“In each one of these cas-es, we have been in touch with the administrations to try and right what we perceive to be the wrong before we put them on the list,” Perrino said. “But, all the universities on the list either didn’t respond to us, or didn’t take our concerns seriously.”
The University denied claims that it had violated free speech in the case of Salaita.
“This is the kind of free discussion that is the bed-rock of our institution and all of higher education,” said University spokeswom-an Robin Kaler in an email. “Anyone who has witnessed the vigorous and passion-ate debates that have taken place and are still taking place on our campus would appreciate that there is plenty of space for freedom of expression and opinion.”
Salaita’s rejected appoint-ment stimulated a chain of frequent discussions and workshops concerning academic freedom on cam-pus, by organizations such
as the American Associa-tion of University Profes-sors, while the Commit-tee on Academic Freedom and Tenure was assigned to investigate Salaita’s case.
Meanwhile, Salaita became an activist for aca-demic freedom on univer-sity campuses. He gave a series of talks on his reject-ed appointment throughout October at Chicago uni-versities including North-western University, DePaul University and Columbia College.
In January, Salaita fi led a federal lawsuit against the University adminis-tration, claiming his con-stitutional rights were vio-lated after his employment offer was denied, to which administration responded by motioning for the case’s dismissal.
Bruce Levine, history professor and supporter of Salaita, said in an email that he is deeply sorry and ashamed that the Univer-sity appears on a list of the country’s worst offenders, but believes it deserves to be there.
“The University’s with-drawal of a faculty posi-
tion previously offered to and accepted by Dr. Steven Salaita does constitute one of the worst and most seri-ous attacks on campus free speech that has taken place not only this year, but in many years,” Levine said.
He also said he expects the American Association of University Professors will publicly censure the University at its national meeting this June.
“That censure will seri-ously damage our ability to recruit the best schol-ars to serve on our faculty in the future,” Levine said. “But, once again, it will be a damage that the chancellor and the trustees will have brought down upon us.”
Other institutions that appeared on the list include Brandeis University, Uni-versity of Iowa, Modesto Junior College, Chicago State University, California State University at Fuller-ton, Georgetown University, Kansas Board of Regents, Marquette University and the U.S. Department of Education.
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After Salaita, academic senate votes to support changes in hiring process BY ABIGALE SVOBODASTAFF WRITER
On Monday, the academic senate voted to recommend changes in hiring policies at the University in response to the handling of Steven Salai-ta’s appointment earlier this year.
The resolution — pre-sented by history professor Mark Steinberg — endorsed the fi nal report of the Hir-ing Policies and Proce-dures Review Commit-tee. The report made three recommendations, two of which address the Board of Trustees.
The fi rst recommenda-tion suggests the board con-tinue oversight of faculty hiring through the review
and approval of all facul-ty administrative appoint-ments at the level of deans and above. The second rec-ommendation, however, sug-gested that the board formal-ly delegate the appointment of non-administrative, ten-ure and tenure-track faculty to the president, who should continue the current policy of delegating approval to the chancellor and provost.
The fi nal recommenda-tion states that the campus should review its procedures for off-cycle tenure review to ensure the processes con-tinue to operate both rigor-ously and effi ciently.
Cary Nelson, professor in English, said he is con-cerned the resolution is “a
mixture of apples and orang-es.” Nelson said only about 10 percent of Salaita’s work concerned American Indi-an Studies, the department to which he was appoint-ed. Because of this, Nelson said his appointment was not as thoroughly reviewed as some argue.
Kirk Sanders, co-author of the report and classics professor, said that Salai-ta’s application was not only reviewed by the American Indian Studies department but also consisted of exter-nal letters of recommenda-tion and other committees.
Steinberg’s proposal of the resolution to endorse the report sparked more debate about the report and the han-
dling of the case itself.Bruce Levine, professor
in history, stated no matter what the resolution leads to, the senate should still take the opportunity to express its opinion.
Also during the meeting, Chancellor Phyllis Wise said President Robert Easter will report whether he supports forming a College of Med-icine on the Urbana cam-pus at the Board of Trust-ees meeting Thursday. Wise said she isn’t sure of his deci-sion, but she is hopeful the votes of the academic sen-ate and the University Sen-ates Conference will infl u-ence his decision.
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According to the Ameri-can Psychiatric Association, 5 percent of children have attention-defi cit/hyperactiv-ity disorder . Focusing can be a really challenge for some people. To help deal with this phenomenon, a group of University students recently created ThinkSuite to train people to focus better.
ThinkSuite is a collection of applications designed to improve focus, mood and knowledge retention and to replace current media that people already use, said Austin Walters, ThinkSuite cofounder and senior in Engineering. At ThinkSuite, he develops software and does most of the research in the fi eld of computer vision.
Walters has been working on the project for one year and now collaborates with Jennifer Kokkines, a senior in LAS studying neurosci-ence, and Robert Seaton, who takes care of data analysis.
The basic features of ThinkSuite can be divided into three sections: an ebook reader, music player and focus trainer.
Walters said the ebook reader can automatically take notes on pages when users lose focus and gener-ate fl ash cards for unfamil-iar words.
Kokkines described the music player as a “mood-based media player” because it integrates the user’s music
libraries and creates a play-list based on how the user wants to feel.
Walters compared Think-Suite to a fi tness training program, but for training people to focus better.
“You don’t need the fi tness trainer all the time; you only need them for a few months,” Walters said. “And after that, you are like, ‘OK, I know how to do this,’ and then you can do it.”
The software is designed in different tiers: from the free primary tier, to the more expensive top tier, which requires an electro-encepha-logram, a test that d e t e c t s e l e c t r i -cal activ-ity in the brain, to help people who have ADHD.
T h i n k-Suite provides an alterna-tive to those with extreme cases, Walters said, and can help them address their problems by training them to focus without risking any side effects.
The end goal is to have ThinkSuite in classrooms, where teachers can identi-fy students who have issues and then provide extra help.
Walters said the idea for ThinkSuite came from studying and working as a computer science major.
Depression is common in software development, Wal-ters said, and he assumed this is because people in the fi eld are more likely to work independently.
“So no one really noticed if we were depressed, no one noticed if we start to lose focus, no one noticed any-thing,” Walters said.
Qiaosi Liu, sophomore in Engineering, said she some-times has trouble studying alone because it is easier for her to get distracted. How-ever, she said working with others can be even more dis-tracting because she ends up
talking to them.
Liu also said most program-mer’s have their own way of solv-ing prob-lems, and w o r k i n g with others
can sometimes complicate and slow down the process.
Anyone can have prob-lems with focusing, Walters said, so ThinkSuite allows users to address the prob-lem easily.
“Basically there’s a large number of people that have trouble studying, and we just want to make it better and easier to study so people can improve their grades,” Wal-ters said.
However, Walters men-tioned two major problems
the group ran into during the development period: people doubting their soft-ware and fi nancial support. To address these problems, the ThinkSuite founders are looking at multiple ways to get funding.
They started a fundrais-ing project on Kickstarter on Feb. 24, and as of press time have raised $2,021 out of their $12,000 goal . The group has advanced in this year’s Cozad New Venture Competition , which encour-ages students to create their own businesses. The winners will be announced on April 24.
During the development period, the team received help from both on and off-campus sources. Walters currently works with the Bretl Research Group and at the Association for Com-puting Machinery, both of which have access to the electroencephalogram.
Kokkines said with the help of ThinkSuite, people with ADHD can feel com-fortable improving their studies in their own time and space without any stig-mas attached.
“We want to create a way where people didn’t have to go to the doctor, but can still get help in some way to help them focus and improve their grades and without this stigma that comes with it in society,” Walters said.
University students design focus trainer to help students study better
A! ordable Care Act costs still falling under original projection
WASHINGTON — Five years after Obamacare became law, the projected costs continue to tumble, according to a nonpartisan report released Monday.
Costs of providing health care under the Affordable
Care Act are projected to be almost one-third less than what had been antici-pated by the Congressional Budget Offi ce in 2010. By 2019, the costs are expected to be 33 percent less than forecast.
“We just want to make it better and easier to study.”
AUSTIN WALTERSTHINKSUITE CO-FOUNDER
Suge Knight’s lawyer: video clears former rap mogul in fatal clash
LOS ANGELES — The attorney for former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight said Monday that a video posted online that appears to show Knight’s truck striking two men in Compton clears his client of any wrongdoing.
The video, posted on TMZ on Monday, appears to show Knight’s red truck pulling up to a Compton hamburg-er stand. He appears to talk to several people standing nearby before the truck
backs up and hits one of the men, who falls to the ground. Seconds later in the video, the truck comes back and runs over the man on the ground and hits a second man before speeding away.
Knight appeared in court for a brief appearance Mon-day. His attorney, Matthew Fletcher, spoke with report-ers afterward and said the video shows Knight being attacked while he sits inside his truck before speeding off.
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Removing tuition
waivers not the best way
to save money
For University of Il-linois employees, as well as employ-ees at public uni-versities across
the state, tuition waivers are a major perk to their job because it provides helpful benefits in regards to paying for their chil-dren’s education.
Recently, state Rep. Jack Franks, D-63, proposed a bill ending half-price tu-ition waivers for employees of public universities in the state of Illinois. This would take away tuition waivers for all applicable students starting in the fall of 2015. Fortunately, however, cur-rent students would not be affected.
According to Franks, this would save the state $10 million. But this would not necessarily be $10 million well saved.
Half-price tuition waivers are one of the best benefits offered to University em-ployees.
Many University employ-ees often take less pay than they would make in the pri-vate sector, and tuition waivers help make up that lost compensation.
University employees rely on this benefit. They plan for college expenses with the half-price waiv-er in mind and their chil-dren may often make col-lege choices based on these waivers as well.
As noted in The Daily Il-lini, Sam LeRoy, son of a professor in Labor and Em-ployment Relations, said the proposal “makes the difference of anywhere be-tween 10 to 15 thousand dollars per year at the Uni-versity of Illinois. That’s quite a bit of money and probably would have played a factor in my decision to come to the University.”
If these waivers were to be taken away now, Uni-versity employees with high school-aged children would be given little to no time to save the money to help make up for the gap in cost created by cutting this waiver.
Because the waiver is given to people who have been employed with public universities for more than seven years, it isn’t given to every single employee — it is only given to clearly dedicated employees who have given their time to the institution.
It’s not like parents just come here the summer be-fore their children come to college and take advantage of the system.
That being said, the waiv-er does help with recruit-ing. If someone wants to work at a public univer-sity and decides to settle down and raise a family, the waiver is an attractive option for getting them to choose Champaign.
In the end, when employ-ees are promised some-thing, that promise should be upheld. If this were to be taken away — which it shouldn’t be — it should be taken away for new hires. Parents who have been re-lying on this to put their children through college shouldn’t have this taken away from them.
I hadn’t really considered the educational value that comedy can have until
beginning college. A few weeks ago, one of my instruc-tors showed my class an epi-sode of “Bill Nye the Science Guy” to explain how radio waves are transmitted. Bill Nye certainly had a presence in my junior high science classes, but I never thought I would be watching one of his videos in a college-level sci-ence class.
His combination of come-dy and science made learn-ing the complex subject fun. I cannot help but remember random information that Bill Nye’s show taught me using its unique combination of music, science and humor.
I am thankful to attend a university that has so many professors genuinely passion-ate about the subjects they teach. However, my favorite and most memorable lectures and educators have been ones that are able to relate their subject matter to the real world and incorporate ele-ments like humor and pop culture into the lesson.
In a similar way, late night talk shows have taken Bill Nye’s roll when it comes to
subjects like politics, culture and history.
I believe late-night talk shows seek to inform as well as entertain their audienc-es. By using music, comedy and satire, these shows can actually teach us different lessons.
The most obvious exam-ple of the educational/com-edy blend is “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” which has shown to have educational value, as evidenced by sur-veys that indicate viewers of the program have the high-est knowledge of national and international affairs. In these surveys, “The Daily Show” surpassed several news out-lets such as CNN and Nation-al Public Radio.
In the same way, HBO’s political satire show, “Last Week Tonight with John Oli-ver,” has been shown to have significant effects on real world issues, which Time magazine calls the “John Oliver Effect.” After Oliver delivered a segment taking down the Miss America Orga-nization’s claims about schol-arships for women, the show instead promoted the Soci-ety of Women Engineers. The group made $25,000 in dona-tions in the two days after the segment aired.
While these newer “news satire shows” are great and can make us well informed on political issues, more tra-ditional late night shows can
expose us to a variety of cul-tures and can make us more well-rounded.
For instance, last week, comedian Conan O’Brien made history when he aired an episode of his talk show that was filmed entirely in Cuba. This episode, com-ing two months after Presi-dent Obama announced plans to normalize relations with Cuba, turned out to be more than a dumb comedy show.
In O’Brien’s show, he show-cased the culture and tra-ditions of Cuba, while also providing brief commentary on the country. After watch-ing “Conan in Cuba,” I felt informed and had a better appreciation for Cuban cul-ture. O’Brien’s use of humor to showcase Cuba made for a much more entertain-ing viewing experience for me than a documentary or a Travel Channel special.
Comedy shows like these can have benefits to us that we may not find in the classroom.
Take Jimmy Fallon for example. From watching him host both “Late Night” and “The Tonight Show,” I have grown to appreciate music that I might not have known about otherwise.
Fallon’s youthful energy and swagger can help young-er viewers appreciate musi-cal guests that are more of our parents’ generation than ours. Over the past few years,
Fallon has had guests such as Neil Young, Bruce Springs-teen and Paul McCartney on his show. While these might not be names that one would think could appeal to the younger audience that com-prises Fallon’s demographic, I think it has helped expose viewers to significant music and artists they might not have looked into otherwise.
Even though education is not always the aim, it can be a side effect of these late night comedy shows. We should not discount some of the positive ways comedy can help make us more informed and cultured.
Watching a 20-minute seg-ment on our nation’s infra-structure issues sounds bor-ing, but in the hands of John Oliver, it is funny and inter-esting. The streets of Cuba may be foreign to many of us, but Conan O’Brien takes us there and gives us a glimpse of a culture rarely seen in the U.S. The music of Neil Young might not be making an appearance on American Top 40 in 2015, but Jimmy Fallon shows us that his music and impact is still relevant.
Comedy is not always high-ly regarded in academia, but I think the rejuvenated world of late night television shows can definitely help change that.
Camron is a junior in LAS. [email protected]
Let me preface this column by saying I do not have a problem with romantic
relationships in college. If you find “the one” and are able to make it work, then that is some-thing special and you should be extremely happy.
However, one phrase has really been bothering me over the past few weeks. I have heard countless friends, ran-dom girls on the street and women in my classes utter these words and it is time to put an end to it.
“I am just here to get my Mrs. Degree, after all.”
Sigh.It is not just Illinois that is
having this problem. Terms like getting a “Mrs. Degree” and “Ring by Spring” have been gaining in popularity in univer-sities around the country.
Originating in small Chris-tian schools, “Ring by Spring” is now a term I am hearing here, at one of the best pub-lic colleges in the state. These terms are rooted in the idea that people are coming into col-lege to find a person whom they will later marry.
I find this attitude ridiculous and contradictory to the entire purpose of getting a higher edu-
cation. We pursue education past high school to hopefully secure a full-time job, but hav-ing this mentality makes a joke out of the idea of college.
While some might argue that college is the time to meet that special someone, I would argue that one must be established and able to support themselves before adding another person into the mix.
We pay thousands of dol-lars annually to attend the Uni-versity and get our degree — a degree many are claiming they would be willing to throw away if they found their spouse before graduation.
Hearing many of my friends and acquaintances say that they would be OK with never work-ing a day in their life really frustrates me.
Women should feel empow-ered and confident enough in their abilities to want to prove themselves in the profession-al world after graduation. I am lucky to know many pro-fessional businesswomen and have seen their careers take off because of the education they received at their universities.
March 8 was Internation-al Women’s Day, which high-lighted equal gender rights. This has been a hot topic in the media lately, and encouraging women’s further education only helps this movement.
I don’t know how women can feel empowered in an argu-ably male-dominated workforce
when some of us emphasize atti-tudes that diminish the value of education and equal rights, instead placing value in per-petuating potentially harmful stereotypes.
The wage gap has always been a passionately discussed topic around the country. Cur-rently, the observed wage gap is 82 cents for women to every dollar a man makes. This is a very unfortunate circumstance for women who work extreme-ly hard at receiving a higher education.
In 2012, around 10 million female students registered for college and only 7.7 million men. With more women pursu-ing these degrees, it would be a shame not to take advantage of the progress we’re making.
Spreading these attitudes that a degree is a means to a marriage doesn’t work toward progress. Women need to ban together and combat these opin-ions and prove that we will use everything we get from our degrees.
I am not saying that we need to shy away from forming meaningful relationships with one another; I just believe that it should not be some people’s main focus.
Coming to college simply to find a spouse, or saying that you would be fine not using the degree you paid so much mon-ey for and spent so much time on, completely contradicts the point of education. There are
so many people who are unable to get degrees for one reason or another. It is a shame that so many people are OK with just diminishing all the hard work put in.
Settling down and starting a family is a great thing that I myself want to do someday, but not at the expense of the edu-cation I have received thus far. My desire to be able to support myself, on my own, far out-weighs any desire to rush into a romantic relationship.
I believe all college women need to think about these issues before they say things about getting a “Mrs. Degree.” We need to empower each other to be the best versions of our-selves, with or without a signifi-cant other.
We go to one of the best schools in the country, are get-ting a top-notch education and have so many employment opportunities. Women need to stay confident and use their degrees, proving that men do not define their success.
Hearing our peers say they need that ring before spring should serve as motivation for women to make a long-term career plan, attend job fairs and start focusing on our futures. It is time to realize that you can have a career and a relationship without sacrificing one or the other.
Rebecca is a senior in [email protected]
Get a degree, but not ‘Mrs. Degree’
Laughing our way to real knowledgeCAMRON OWENS
Opinions columnist
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BY FRANK SHYONGTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
LOS ANGELES — In a win-dowless classroom at an Arca-dia tutoring center, parents crammed into child-sized desks and searched through their pockets and purses for pens as Ann Lee launches a PowerPoint presentation.
Her primer on college admissions begins with the basics: application dead-lines, the relative virtues of the SAT versus the ACT and how many Advanced Place-ment tests to take.
Then she eases into a poten-tially incendiary topic — one that many counselors like her have learned they can-not avoid.
“Let’s talk about Asians,” she says.
Lee’s next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton Universi-ty study that tried to mea-sure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant’s race is worth. She points to the first column.
A f r ic a n - A me r ic a n s received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says. She points to the second column.
“Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”
The last column draws gasps.
Asian-Americans, Lee
says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.
College admission season ignites deep anxieties for Asian-American families, who spend more than any other demographic on edu-cation. At elite universities across the U.S., students of Asian descent form a larg-er share of the student body than they do of the population as a whole. And increasing-ly they have turned against affirmative action policies that could alter those ratios, and accuse admissions com-mittees of discriminating against Asian applicants.
That perspective has pit-ted them against advo-cates for diversity: More college berths for Asian-
American students means fewer for black and Latino students, who are statisti-cally underrepresented at top universities.
Lee is the co-founder of HS2 Academy, a college prep business that assumes that racial bias is a fact of col-lege admissions and counsels students accordingly. At 10 centers across the state, the academy’s counselors teach Asian-American applicants countermeasures. The goal, Lee says, is to help prospec-tive college students avoid coming off like another “cookie-cutter Asian.”
“Everyone is in orches-tra and plays piano,” Lee says. “Everyone plays ten-nis. Everyone wants to be a doctor ... You can’t get in with these cliche applications.”
and time to do it, you don’t have to get a whole group, you don’t need a lot of gear, you don’t need a lot of expense,” Harris said.
Harris commonly climbs with his children, who are 5, 7 and 9 years old. The key, he said, is learning how to fall while also adapting to climb and being comfortable with it. Classes on falling safely will be offered, accord-ing to Schmarr.
Bouldering is an acces-sible activity for any skill level, Hible said. Climb-ing club members with no experience can learn quickly and enjoy it as beginners, he said.
Each wall offers dif-ferent tracks, so climb-ers can choose their route based on ability.
“I call it full-body prob-lem-solving, where you have to use your mind and your entire body to figure out the riddle to get from the bottom of the wall to the top,” Schmarr said.
Though students may be more inclined to go to the ARC, the climbing wall there is the width of one wall of the gym and doesn’t feature the same three-dimension terrain, Hible said.
One-day passes will be $10, and discounted mem-berships are available through the Indiegogo campaign, Schmarr said.
He added that they may offer a student night or other community events, but they currently are focused on opening Urba-na Boulders and creating a space where everyone feels welcome to come in and socialize as well as climb.
They have no other events planned until their grand opening, which cur-rently is set for April or May.
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employee of the University who is taking advantage of the church’s hospitality.
“Smokers need rights too, and we’re losing our rights — slowly but sure-ly,” he said in between puffs of his cigarette. “We really appreciate the church for letting us use this area. It’s really nice of them, because the Univer-sity really put a lot of pressure on them to not let us do it and they chose to look the o t h e r way.”
Ferrell explained t h a t although he is not a smoker, he believes that when smoking outside, oth-ers do not have to deal with
the smoke, and therefore allows smokers to find com-fort at the church’s front steps. Many are extreme-ly appreciative toward the church for their resilience against the University.
“We got a thank you card the other day that had 35 to 40 signatures and money in it,” Ferrell said.
Soud Alrashed, junior in LAS, is an international student from Kuwait, and explained that smoking in his home country is less “legislated against” than
it is here. “ W h a t
do I think about the nonsmok-ing rule? Look at this!” he said as he i n h a l e d t h r o u g h his ciga-rette’s fil-ter. “Every M o n d a y , Wednesday
and Friday at this time you can find me right here. I’m a regular.”
Alrashed also described the location as a “haven” for smokers. Any church on campus could allow peo-ple to smoke on its prop-erty because it is private property.
“Personally, the rule has just made me go around it. People still smoke on cam-pus. It also seems like the rule isn’t enforced very strongly,” said Samuel Lee, sophomore in LAS, who has been smoking since he was 17. “The University’s rule has impacted me slightly — I am unable to smoke on my way to class, which is a slight inconvenience, but there are sanctuaries for smokers right by the Main Library.”
Daniel Martin, a build-ing service worker at the Undergraduate Library, agreed the rule is not strictly enforced.
“Police can’t enforce it, because it isn’t a law,” he said. “The hard-core smok-ers are going to smoke their whole lives.”
lot of young girls when they grow up are exposed to a lot of stereotypical girl values, and I think it is not fair to not educate them in other interests,” Li said.
During the pilot session, the participants were giv-en the opportunity to cre-ate bracelets from a series of templates using the 3D printer. This was used as a time to expose the girls to new technology, but more importantly, demonstrate how enjoyable the STEM fields can be, Haried said.
Afterwards, the girls were informed about var-ious influential women within the STEM fields. By recruiting various wom-en engineers on campus to speak during the ses-sions, MakerGirl hopes to empower its participants and allow them to develop a new passion.
“On campus it is a unique opportunity for women in STEM that are our age to really use their knowledge to inspire younger girls and develop sort of a mentor-ship with them,” Enegle said.
With the University’s strong STEM-oriented education system, Haried believes that this cam-pus is the perfect place to invest in a program like MakerGirl.
“Since our campus has one of the best engineer-ing schools in the nation, it definitely directly ben-efits us because we have a lot of resources to raise awareness about the issue, and engineers see the lack of diversity every single day,” Haried said, “In order to help the women already within the STEM fields, I think that it is beneficial for them to know that there are other people backing them up on campus by trying to change it.”
The project not only aims to make an impact on cam-pus but also hopes to influ-ence the Champaign-Urba-
na community in a positive way.
“(MakerGirl) serves the parents in the communi-ty since they are looking for ways to educate their daughters about opportu-nities like these,” Enegle explained.
By allowing parents to sit in on the sessions, Mak-erGirl hopes to motivate them to discover what their child’s passions are and sup-port that ambition.
“Education is all about exposure. By introducing them to this knowledge and career path, they can get a rough sense of what STEM people do and bring out their (child’s) interest in STEM,” Li said.
The project hopes to con-tinue a path toward success by holding four more ses-sions during the next two months. Even though Mak-erGirl is a for-profit project, they do offer scholarships to accommodate those with socioeconomic discrepan-cies, Haried explained.
MakerGirl is a pro-gram that sets itself apart through social entrepre-neurship, women empow-erment and STEM.
“Currently, there is this huge wave of women empowerment, and Mak-erGirl carries this mission through introducing girls to real STEM technology. But it’s not only the idea of wom-en empowerment, it is also about actually doing some-thing and showing girls what the STEM field is like in the real world,” Li said.
The goal of Maker-Girl is to trigger a social change;therefore, they are potentially seeking oppor-tunities of spreading the program to other universi-ties, Enegle said.
Students who want to get involved with the project are encouraged to volun-teer or observe a session.
“Our main vision of the program is by 2025 having gender equality and diver-sity in leadership positions, particularly within STEM fields,” Haried said.
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Asian-Americans confront college admissions change
ANNE CUSACK TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICETeacher Svetlana Djananova monitors students as they take an ACT test at HS2 Academy in Arcadia, California.
BY ROBIN DEANSTAFF WRITER
Last November, during a pilot session, a group of Champaign-Urbana girls ages 7 to ten gathered in BIF and were asked what they wanted to do when they grew up. Instead of the typical response of being an actress, singer or some-thing involved with fash-ion, they were excited to learn about careers in the science, technology, engi-neering and math (STEM) fi elds.
MakerGirl is a project created by University stu-dents , whose mission is to inspire young girls to have a career within the STEM fi elds by educating them about the careers through activities and group based dis-cussions and lec-t u r e s . The proj-ect has only had one ses-sion, but p l a n s to have t h r e e m o r e sessions within the next few months.
“There is defi nitely a huge lack of women in sci-
ence, technology, engineer-ing, and math,” said Julia Haried, one of the co-found-
ers of Mak-erGirl and senior in Busi ness . “ P e r s o n -ally, being a woman, I think that it is some-thing to pay more atten-tion to, and I’m interest-ed in com-bating that and creat-
ing diversity there.” Inspiration for the proj-
ect stemmed from SOCW
321, a social entrepreneur-ship and social change class. The class was sepa-rated into two modules: In the fi rst module, students were asked to think about their identity, and in the second module, students refl ected on things they would like to change in soci-ety, said Elizabeth Engele, the second co-founder of MakerGirl and senior in Business. Realizing that some leadership positions within the STEM fields lack female representation inspired Engele to create MakerGirl.
“I just thought about how girls our age are focused on the wrong things that are
taking away their ener-gy from their careers and causes that they are pas-sionate about,” Engele explained. “I wanted to develop a program that inspired girls our age to focus on their careers, but then I shifted the focus towards younger girls since that’s where the problem starts.”
Both Haried and Sophie Li, the third co-founder of MakerGirl and senior in Business, liked Enegle’s idea and joined her in the efforts to make it happen.
“From my perspective, a
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LIFE CULTURE
C-U smokers snuff ban at church’s ‘butt can’
PORTRAIT BY LILLIAN BARKLEY THE DAILY ILLINI
Urbana climbing facility to open with help from Indiegogo
BY LILLIAN BARKLEYSTAFF WRITER
Exercise facilities in Urba-na will reach new heights this spring with the opening of Urbana Boulders, a climbing gym in a refurbished mechan-ic’s garage on 1502 N. Cun-ningham Ave.
“We just wanted a place to climb,” said Alex Bragg , one of the gym’s creators.
He said he was planning on building a gym when Sean Hible, president of the Climb-ing Club at the University and senior in AHS , told him Krist-offer Schmarr had the same ambition .
Rather than competing with each other, the two decided to work together. They found fel-low climber Marcus Harris, owner of Rent Champaign , who became their landlord.
“We thought it would be a really cool idea to take a space and repurpose it,” Bragg said.
The 5,000 square-foot garage’s bay windows let in natural light, and the 14-foot ceilings make it ideal for
climbing, Bragg and Schmarr said.
For the past six weeks, the two have built the space them-selves, cutting and welding together the walls’ supports.
They also created an Indi-egogo campaign for $10,000 to fund a 12-inch foam fl oor and climbing holds .
According to Bragg, they raised over $1,000 after an open house on Feb. 28. The campaign is 90 percent fund-ed, as of press time .
Bragg posted an update on the site stating they have paid a down payment on the fl oor. If it is not fully funded by March 28, they lose all dona-tions, as per Indiegogo’s fi xed funding policy.
“There’s been a lot of com-munity members from our event that we had last Satur-day that were really excited to see bouldering come back here,” Bragg said.
There are no high-quality climbing facilities near the area, the closest being Upper Limits in Bloomington, Hible
said. “The nearest spot other
than this is the ARC, and there’s nothing wrong with the ARC, but it’s not as pro-fessional as a real rock-climb-ing gym could be,” he said. “It’s got students running it, not climbers who devote their entire day to making the facil-ity as good as it can be.”
A goal for the facility is for it to be accessible to every-one. Bragg specifi cally avoids calling it a gym, because he doesn’t want to restrict how people perceive it.
“We’re more than just a place to work out; we’re more of a community experience,” he said.
The facility is set up for bouldering, which has no har-nesses and focuses more on free-climbing across the wall rather than climbing up and repelling down, according to both Bragg and Schmarr.
“You don’t need a team to do it, you don’t to set a date
BY MADELINE GALASSISTAFF WRITER
A year after the intro-duction of the Universi-ty’s smoke-free policy, smokers fi nd new plac-es to smoke off campus property.
The smoke-free policy went into effect on Jan. 1, 2014. According to the Campus Recreation web-site, the policy is “pro-viding a healthy learning environment for students and a healthy work envi-ronment for faculty and staff .”
But the University is not the only campus enforcing a smoke-free policy; as of Jan. 1, there are at least 1,514 smoke-free campus-es in the country .
In addition, the McKin-ley Health Center offers various guides to help smokers quit, along with smoking cessation pro-grams and free “quit kits .”
“Typically, policies like this that make it inconve-nient for people to use tobacco are a big encour-ager for people to quit,” said Nikki Hillier, the pro-gram coordinator at the Champaign-Urbana public health district.
Hillier organizes smok-ing ces-s a t i o n programs at the c e n t e r , e nc o u r -a g i n g w e l l -ness and h e a l t h p r o m o -tion. The c l a s s involves a seven-w e e k , eight-session class help-ing community members and University faculty go through the quitting pro-cess with the support of others.
“We have defi nitely seen more calls to the tobacco quit line in the past year,” Hillier explained. “But a lot of people quit smoking on their own.”
A University student, who prefers to remain anonymous, has been smoking cigarettes since he was 14. By the time he was 20, he was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
“When you’re 18 years old, addiction seems like something that you have time to beat, but it’s def-initely smarter to nip such addictions in the bud, and I can guarantee that the longer you have been smoking cigarettes, the more diffi cult it is to stop,” he said. “My fresh-man year, I became used to being allowed to smoke before classes, and espe-cially before tests and midterms, which was when they really helped me relax the most.”
After the enforcement of the new policy, the stu-dent said it was hard to fi nd places near his class-es to smoke. Over time, it became more and more
diffi cult for him to contin-ue the habit, so he recent-ly quit smoking.
“Every smoker knows that what they’re putting into their body isn’t good for them, and it would be in their best interest to quit,” he said. “I think that the no-smoking rule on campus defi nitely did play at least a small role in my quitting, in that I was not able to stand directly outside my class buildings anymore and smoke ciga-rettes before going inside. This led to me smoking farther and farther away from my classes, and when I was running late to class, smoking was no lon-ger something that I could
afford to do.”
But oth-er smok-ers on c a m p u s find new places to s m o k e , d e s p i t e the pol-i c y ’ s a t t e m p t to stop it.
F o r example,
the Chapel of St. John the Divine, located at 1011 S. Wright St. in Champaign, provides such a loca-tion for smokers on its property.
“I thought it was bet-ter to be hospitable than to be hostile,” said Father Sean Ferrell, the rector at St. John’s . “I was the one who made the policy, so basically the church has been a place where people have smoked previously and when the University made the smoking ban on the Urbana campus, they communicated to the reli-gious groups that they should follow their lead and ban smoking also, and (we) declined their offer.”
Some University employees and students take advantage of the smoking space that the church provides.
“It was a student vote, and none of us are stu-dents,” said Gerry Stig-berg, an employee of the library. “The students who voted are probably long gone, but we’re still here. People have found their places to smoke. We’re fortunate that we can just walk across the street.”
Bob Deremiah is also an
MADELINE GALASSI THE DAILY ILLINIThe Butt Can sits on the corner of Armory Avenue and Wright Street, outside the Chapel of St. John the Divine, where smokers can retreat to enjoy a cigarette close to the center of campus.
ROBIN DEAN THE DAILY ILLINIWinnie Yang, Julia Haried, Sophie Li, Elizabeth Engele, Sona Kaul and Caitlyn Deegan, members of the MakerGirl team, pose for a photograph in the Illinois MakerLab.
“The no-smoking rule on campus
defi nitely did play at least a small role in
my quitting.”UNIVERSITY STUDENT
ANONYMOUS SMOKER
Inspiring female drive in STEMStudent group MakerGirl calls for young girls to think STEM
“There is defi nitely a huge lack of women in science, technology,
engineering, and math.”
JULIA HARIEDCO-FOUNDER OF MAKERGIRL
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BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s bas-ketball team is hoping for a postseason miracle when it travels to Chicago this week to play in the Big Ten tournament.
Illinois (19-12, 9-9 Big Ten) is set to tip off against Mich-igan in the second round Thursday. The winner will face No. 6 Wisconsin, the top seed in the conference tournament.
The Illini are on the bubble for multiple college basket-
ball bracket analysts, includ-ing ESPN and CBS.
With a win or two in the Big Ten tournament this week, Illinois would increase its chances at making it into the NCAA tournament after missing out last season.
But with a blown 13-point lead against Purdue on Satur-day, and a three-game losing streak late in the season has undermined the Illini’s tour-nament hopes.
Depending on threesA key factor in Illinois’ suc-
cess this week against Michi-gan, and potentially Wiscon-sin, is its 3-point shooting.
Living and dying with the
three ball has been a com-mon theme for Illinois teams under head coach John Groceover the past three years, and it has affected the Illini again in this season.
In its last four wins, Groce’s team has shot an average of 38.3 percent from behind the arc; in its last four losses, 25.8 percent.
Illinois shot as high as 48.2 percent down the stretch, draining 14 threes in an unruly beatdown of North-western at home on Feb. 28. That’s the same team that shot a miserable 12.5 percent from long range on Feb. 22 in a seven-point loss to a Michi-
Illini face Wolverines
BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois football team announced its season open-er will be moved to Friday, Sept. 4, against Kent State. The game was originally scheduled for Sept. 5.
The announcement was made via press release Mon-day morning.
The game will be the fi rst
non-Saturday matchup for the Illini since 2001, when the Illini played Northwest-ern on Thanksgiving.
“We are always explor-ing new ideas on improving our in-game atmosphere and trying to make the games as enjoyable as possible,” ath-letic director Mike Thomas said in a press release. “We are introducing an exciting
new tailgating area on the west side of Memorial Stadi-um this season, and an early season night game is a ter-rifi c way to allow our fans to experience that area.”
The 2014 season saw the Illini struggle with atten-dance throughout the season. Attendance even infl uenced the program’s decision to play its Thanksgiving break
game in Chicago against Northwestern because of low attendance at Memorial Sta-dium last year against Penn State and in 2013 against the Wildcats.
The kickoff time for the Friday night season-opener is still yet to be announced.
Football opener moved to Sept. 4 under the lights
Power rankingsDAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTEditor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini basketball staff ranks the basketball teams in the Big Ten 1-14 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.
1. WISCONSIN (LAST WEEK: 2)The No. 6 Badgers steamrolled No. 23 Ohio State 72-48 behind a 20-point performance by forward Frank Kaminsky, a fi nalist for this year’s Wooden Award.
3. MICHIGAN STATE (3)Michigan State has shot 44 percent in its fi nal two games of the season, back-to-back wins over Purdue and Indiana.
2. MARYLAND (1)Riding a seven-game winning streak into the Big Ten tournament, the No. 10 Terrapins’ resume looks strong with a win over No. 6 Wisconsin.
6. PURDUE (4)The Boilermakers grabbed a much-needed victory over Illinois to cap off a 20-win season, erasing a 13-point fi rst-half Illini lead.
4. IOWA (5)The Hawkeyes closed out the season on a six-game winning streak and have double-digit wins in four of those games.
7. INDIANA (8)Despite shooting better than 46 percent from the fi eld, the Hoosiers lost a close game to Michigan State (74-72) .
8. ILLINOIS (7)Illinois fell apart after a hot start Saturday against Purdue, the loss means an at-large NCAA tournament berth will likely take two wins in the Big Ten tournament.
11. MICHIGAN (9)The Wolverines couldn’t put Northwestern away in an 82-78 double-overtime loss but fi nished the regular season with a 10-point win over Rutgers.
5. OHIO STATE (6)With defensive struggles against No. 6 Wisconsin on Sunday, Ohio State was outrebounded 41-27 and allowed the Badgers to shoot 50 percent from the fi eld.
10. MINNESOTA (9)An upsetting regular season for Minnesota ended with a loss to Penn State, sticking the Golden Gophers with the No. 11 seed in this year’s conference tournament.
9. NORTHWESTERN (10)Northwestern pulled out an intense double-overtime win over Michigan last week, but then dropped a must-win game at Iowa a few days later.
12. NEBRASKA (12)Dropping eight straight to close out their schedule, the Cornhuskers struggled to fi nd relevancy in the Big Ten this season and fell to the No. 12 seed in the conference tournament.
13. PENN STATE (13)D.J. Newbill’s 20.7 points per game weren’t enough to carry the Nittany Lions throughout the season, dropping to 4-14 in the Big Ten with two six-game losing streaks weighing them down.
14. RUTGERS (14)The bleeding won’t stop for the Scarlet Knights, who have lost 14 straight games with nine by double-digits.
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOThe Illinois football team will play its season opener against Kent State on September 4, a Friday night. The Illini are trying new methods to increase attendance.
Where were you when Illinois came back from down 15
points with four minutes left to beat Arizona in the 2005 NCAA Regional Final and advance to the Final Four?
I remember where I was: the upper deck at Allstate Arena in Rose-mont, Illinois, I was 12 years old and in the sixth grade. I was sitting with my parents, my older sis-ter and two uncles. We had six tickets, three in one row and three in the row directly behind it. Allstate Arena was as orange that day as State Farm Center is for an Illi-nois home game.
I don’t remember much about the game except for the end. Arizona extend-ed the lead to 15 points with some four minutes to
play. We watched the sliv-er of red fans drown out the arena full of orange. At about the same time, two orange-clad fans next to us — a man and a wom-an — stood up to leave.
“I don’t think we can do it,” I distinctly remem-ber the woman saying as she shuffl ed past us to the aisle. The man, like many Illini fans at that moment, had nothing to say.
We never saw them again.
They were wrong.The tide turned — a
steal here, a turnover there. The fans in orange became louder. It all came to a head with Der-on Williams’ shot to tie things up and the bedlam that ensued. Overtime is a blur. And then the game was over and Illinois was going to the Final Four. It seemed to have happened that fast when I think of it now, 10 years later.
That is my story. But we at The Daily Illini want to hear your stories. Where were you, Illini
fans, when Illinois came back against Arizona? Where did you watch the Final Four? The national championship game? The Wake Forest win? The Ohio State loss?
Tell us your 2005 Illini basketball stories — both the joyous ones and the heartbreaking ones. Sto-ries don’t have to be lim-ited to the Arizona game or the Final Four. Tell us what you remember about that year, any moment of that magical run.
Our favorites will run in next week’s 10-year anniversary edition, which will be on news-stands March 17. Email stories to [email protected]. Every Illini fan remembers that year, and we want to hear your side of the story.
We hope to hear from you.
Sean is a senior in [email protected]@sean_hammond
Send us your favorite stories from the 2005 men’s basketball team
2014-2015 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Honors
Player of the year:Frank Kaminksy (Wisconsin)
Freshman of the year:D’Angelo Russell (Ohio State)
Defensive player of the year:Rapheal Davis (Purdue)
Coach of the year (As selected by the coaches):Bo Ryan (Wisconsin)
Coach of the year (As selected by the media):Mark Turgeon (Maryland)
All-Big Ten First Team (Coaches):Yogi Ferrell (Indiana), Aaron White (Iowa), Dez Wells (Maryland), D’Angelo Russell (Ohio State), Frank Kaminsky (Wisconsin)
All-Big Ten First Team (Media):Yogi Ferrell (Indiana), Aaron White (Iowa), Melo Trimble (Maryland) , D’Angelo Russell (Ohio State), Frank Kaminsky (Wisconsin)
All-Big Ten Second Team (Coaches):Melo Trimble (Maryland), Branden Dawson (Michigan State), D.J. Newbill (Penn State), A.J. Hammons (Purdue), Sam Dekker (Wisconsin)
All-Big Ten Second Team (Media):Dez Wells (Maryland), Branden Dawson (Michigan State), D.J. Newbill (Penn State), A.J. Hammons (Purdue), Sam Dekker (Wisconsin)
All-Defensive Team:Nnanna Egwu (Illinois), Branden Dawson (Michigan State), Rapheal Davis (Purdue), A.J. Hammons (Purdue), Josh Gasser (Wisconsin)
All-Freshman Team:James Blackmon (Indiana), Melo Trimble (Maryland), Bryant McIntosh (Northwestern), D’Angelo Russell (Ohio State), Jae’Sean Tate (Ohio State)
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTODeron Williams, the starting point guard for the 2004-05 Illinois men’s basketball team, hit the game-tying 3-pointer against Arizona to send the Illini to the Final Four. The Daily Illini’s 10-year anniversary edition will be released March 17.
SEANHAMMOND
Sports editor
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Rayvonte Rice (24) rises for a jump shot during the game against Purdue at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana, on Saturday. The Illini lost 63-58.
Illini need wins to bolster record
We at The Daily Illini want to hear your stories. Where were you, Illini fans, when Illinois came back against Arizona? Where did you watch the Final Four? The national championship game? The Wake Forest win?
SEE MBBALL | 2B
By off-the-court stan-dards, the 2014-15 Illinois basket-
ball team had one of the strangest regular seasons in recent memory.
Unforeseen circum-stances were a constant happening. First, there were injuries to key play-ers. Before official prac-tices even got underway, starting point guard Tracy Abrams tore his ACL in a fall workout. Leading scor-er and rebounder Rayvon-te Rice broke his hand two games into Big Ten play. Shooting guard Aaron Cosby suffered a retinal tear when he got poked in the eye against Indiana on Jan. 18.
There were off-court incidents as well. While they were sidelined with injuries, Rice and Cosby were both suspended for a violation of team rules. Cosby never made it back on the floor for the Illini, electing to transfer as he and head coach John
Groce mutually agreed to part ways.
To their credit, the Illi-ni continued to forge on despite each new scenar-io entering their strato-sphere and did not suffer any drastic losing streaks like the ones that plagued the prior three seasons of Illinois hoops. But they are currently on the wrong side of the NCAA tour-nament bubble as they prepare for the Big Ten tournament, a fact that disappoints those who considered them tourney-bound before the season began.
Ironically, they are in this situation because dur-ing a season of off-court turmoil and uncertainty, the Illini’s on-court results became all too predictable.
I will be the first to admit that I had glowing preseason predictions and high hopes for Groce’s third Illini squad, and con-sidered them to be a sure-fire tourney team. Early in the nonconference season, when Illinois was crush-ing opponents with a high-powered offensive attack and climbing into the Top 25 rank, it looked like those predictions would
come true, but by the time Illinois suffered a demor-alizing 77-70 defeat to Oregon at the United Cen-ter, the third loss in four games, it was apparent that expectations would need to be recalibrated. After all, the road to the NCAA tournament would not be easy.
With the difficult nature of conference play, the Illini would have to pull off a few unexpected wins and avoid “bad” losses to realistically compete for a tourney bid. They actu-ally did an excellent job of avoiding bad losses, with their worst loss com-ing at Nebraska (RPI: 136) in just their second game adjusting to Rice’s absence. Illinois took care of all the cupcakes in the nonconference schedule, as well. When looking at the “bad loss” metric, Illi-nois’ season went almost entirely according to plan.
Yet the NCAA tourna-ment selection committee values big wins as much, if not more, than bad loss-es. Even though the Illini avoided crucial losses, they rarely stole a game they were not supposed to win. In Groce’s first year
at Illinois, he got his team to the tournament with wins over Gonzaga, Ohio State and of course, the victory over No. 1 Indi-ana. The Illini’s confer-ence record that year was 8-10, but they simply had too many quality wins to be excluded from March Madness.
This year, the Illini picked up a great early-season win over Baylor and two of their biggest conference wins were crucial resume-builders against Maryland and at Michigan State. Howev-er, Maryland was ranked No. 11 at the time and still was only favored by two points over an Illini team playing their first game without Rice, so that upset was not as big of a shock as you might have thought. The Illini’s thrilling Feb. 7 road victory at Michigan State was somewhat can-celed out by the loss they suffered to the Spartans at State Farm Center just two weeks later.
Outside of those games, it almost feels like the Big Ten results were penciled in before the conference season began. Illinois took care of Northwestern, Rut-
gers and Penn State like it was supposed to. The Illini lost where they tend to have lost most recently at places like Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin. They went 7-2 at home in conference play but only managed a 2-7 record on the road, including Satur-day’s crushing loss at Pur-due. After it looked like the Illini finally had with its victory in East Lansing, Mich., the team failed to capitalize, reverting back to the mean and going 3-3 in their final six games.
The Illini finished with a 9-9 conference record, good for an average finish in the Big Ten. Now they are where most average major-conference teams find themselves come March: the bubble.
The Big Ten tournament is the Illini’s last chance to make an impression on the tournament commit-tee, but they will likely have to beat Wisconsin to earn a bid. Even playing above average will not get it done; they’ll have to be extraordinary.
Alex is a junior in AHS. [email protected] @aroux94
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ALEX ROUX
Sports columnist
gan State team Illinois had already proved it could beat.
The Illini have shot 35.9 percent from downtown against the Wolverines this year, a favorable number looking at its recent trends. In its only matchup with Wis-consin, Illinois shot 36.4 per-cent due to an 0-for-5 second half. In the first half, the team shot 66.7 from behind the arc.
Rice lifting the team lateSenior guard Rayvonte
Rice has been on fire in the last five games. Rice has averaged 20.4 points per game, dropping 25 and 23, respectively, in his last two outings. Since returning to the Illini lineup in mid-Feb-ruary, he has averaged 16.5 points per game.
“He’s a huge part of our team,” senior center Nnanna Egwu said after Illinois’ win over Nebraska on Wednes-day. “He shares the ball and picks the spots when he needs to take over.”
After the win over Nebras-ka, in which Rice scored 23 points, the Cornhuskers’ head coach Tim Miles told him he wasn’t going to miss him and Egwu.
“Ray’s just such a powerful player,” Miles said.
With the season on the line in a “win or go home” atmo-sphere, Illinois will need all the power Rice can provide to re-energize the team for a last-ditch postseason push.
[email protected] @neumannthehuman
BY COLE HENKE STAFF WRITER
The Illinois softball team’s defense was supposed to be one of its strong points enter-ing the season. Through their first 23 games of the season, however, the Illini (8-15) have committed 26 errors defensively.
This has led to the Illi-ni’s opponents scoring 32 unearned runs this season — the Illini have been out-scored by opponents 152-113 this season.
Junior captain and infield-er Allie Bauch was part of last year’s infield unit that set the Illinois record for most double plays turned in a season. Bauch leads the Illi-ni with nine errors this sea-son and committed three this past weekend alone.
“The defensive errors are really hurting us,” Bauch said. “It’s what’s losing us these games. I made too many this weekend.”
Illini no-hit by BruinsThe Illini had the opportu-
nity to play the No. 13 UCLA Bruins twice this weekend but did not take advantage, losing 14-0 and 9-2.
The story for the Bru-ins was senior pitcher Ally Carda, who no-hit the Illini in the first game on Friday, only walking three batters. It was Carda’s second no-hit-ter of the season and third of her career.
The loss Friday was the first time that the Illini had been no-hit since April 5, 2013 against Northwestern.
Head coach Terri Sulli-van was disappointed with the Illini’s offensive effort against the Bruins.
“We came out and had a strong game against UC Davis (Friday morning),” Sul-livan said. “We couldn’t car-ry that over to the next game (against UCLA). We just real-ly need to work on our consis-tency with our offense.”
The lack of offense for the Illini in their second game came immediately after a 5-4 win against UC Davis. In the win, sophomore Nicole Evans hit two home runs, and Bauch hit a walk-off double.
Favorable scheduleThe Illini start conference
play on March 20th against Minnesota. After the noncon-ference portion of the sched-ule, the Illini are 12th in the Big Ten standings — Sullivan has been telling her team to treat Big Ten play like a sec-ond season.
The Illini only play eight Big Ten teams in the regu-lar season and do not face No. 3-ranked Michigan. Of the eight teams they play, only Purdue, Minnesota and Maryland are entering con-ference play with winning records.
The Illini also play series against Iowa and Indiana, the only two teams that enter Big Ten play with worse records than the Illini.
[email protected] @cole_Henke
Defensive errors plague Illini softball
BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER
Coming into this season, freshman Eric Cruickshank didn’t have high expecta-tions for himself in his first year on the Illinois hockey team.
The winger emerged as a catalyst and regular starter for the Illini. Cruickshank finished the year with 15 goals and 20 assists and was second in points for Illinois.
“I came in and used my strengths to the best of my ability, and I guess it came out to be a pretty good sea-son for my freshman year,” Cruickshank said. “I’m hop-ing to build off that.”
In Illinois’ second-round loss to Robert Morris on Fri-day in the ACHA tourna-ment, Cruickshank scored both of the Illini’s goals. Head coach Nick Fabbrini said he was a factor in all three zones of the ice.
With Illinois hockey done for the season, Cruickshank already has his eyes set to next season and expects the rest of the freshmen class to make strides in the direction of a national championship.
Including Cruickshank, nine freshmen return for
Illinois. This season the freshmen accounted for 120 points.
“There’s a lot to be tak-en away from how well our freshmen produced this year,” Fabbrini said. “We’re going to have all those guys back next year with more experience.”
Crucial penalty ends Illini season
Illinois was called for a total of five penalties in its two ACHA tournament games. One penalty in par-ticular proved to be decisive in Robert Morris’ win.
Early in the third peri-od of Friday’s game, Illi-nois received a two-minute minor for too many men on the ice. On the power-play, Robert Morris’ Con-nor McGovern scored to increase the Eagles’ lead to 3-1.
Fabbrini didn’t agree with the call and thought Robert Morris had gotten away with having too many men on the ice earlier in the game but was not penalized.
Despite giving up a pow-er-play goal on the penalty, Cruickshank said the call didn’t prevent Illinois from
mounting a comeback.“It’s out of our control.
That’s on the refs. But it’s just a bad bounce, and there’s really nothing we can do about it now,” Cruick-shank said. “We still battled back and scored that one goal with a minute left in the game to give us a chance to tie it up.”
Unfortunately for the Illi-ni, that was the only goal they could muster up — they failed to score in the final minute of regulation.
CSCHL well represented in ACHA tournament
Throughout the sea-son Fabbrini had said the
CSCHL is a tightly con-tested league and one of the most competitive in the ACHA. This year’s nation-al tournament proved his point.
The CSCHL was the only conference in the ACHA to have all its teams repre-sented in the tournament — No. 4 Robert Morris, No. 6 Ohio, No. 9 Lindenwood, No. 10 Iowa State and No. 13 Illinois.
Every CSCHL team except for Illinois had a first-round bye.
After winning its first-round game 4-1 against John Carroll on Thursday, Illi-nois faced Robert Morris. The Illini had a 2-1-1 record
against their CSCHL oppo-nent prior to Friday’s loss.
Cruickshank said getting knocked out of the tourna-ment by Robert Morris wasn’t easy to handle.
“There was some anger and a little bit of emotion,” Cruickshank said. “But overall, I think we’re happy. We came to play and played as hard as we could and just didn’t get the results we wanted.”
Four of the eight teams in the ACHA quarterfinals were from the CSCHL, but none of them advanced to the semifinals.
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Hockey looks to next season after playoffs
A predictable basketball season
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KEVIN VOGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Eric Cruickshank makes a pass during the CSCHL Playoffs semifinals against Ohio at the Ice Arena on Feb. 21. All CSCHL teams were represented in the ACHA tournament.
BY BRODERICK TURNERTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
LOS ANGELES — They’re known as “Grit and Grind,” and that’s just the way the Memphis Grizzlies like it.
They aren’t flashy like Golden State’s “Splash Brothers” or the Clippers’ “Lob City” or Cleveland’s “King James.”
The Grizzlies’ style of play isn’t aesthetically pleasing for most NBA fans, but the public may have to brace for long-term viewing
in the playoffs.Memphis has the second-
best record (44-18) in the West and third-best in the NBA.
Playing defense is the Grizzlies’ calling card. They held teams to an NBA-low 95.7 points a game before Friday night’s games. They average 8.6 steals a game, seventh-best in the NBA, and reserve Tony Allen is fourth in steals (1.94).
The success starts with their big men, center Marc
Gasol and power forward Zach Randolph, considered the best frontcourt combi-nation in the NBA.
Gasol was the starting center on the West All-Star team and is considered the best all-around player at his spot because of his scor-ing (team-best 18.2 points a game), rebounding (8.0), passing (3.8) and ability to score down low and space the floor with his outside shot.
Randolph stays in his
comfort zone, banging down low, using his girth to aver-age 16.5 points and 11.6 rebounds, sixth-best in the NBA.
They are the primary rea-sons the Grizzlies average a league-best 47.2 points in the paint.
“Memphis is a bump-and-grind team, first of all,” said Michael Cage, who played 15 years in the NBA and now is the analyst for Oklaho-ma City.
The Grizzlies have been
in the playoffs four straight years, reaching the Western Conference finals in 2013, losing to San Antonio.
This season, under sec-ond-year coach Dave Joerg-er, they may win their first Southwest Division title in the best and most competi-tive division in the NBA.
They are trying to outlast the defending NBA champi-on Spurs, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks, all of whom are expected to make the playoffs.
Memphis not flashy, but finding success in NBA
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIThe Illini men's basketball team is introduced before the game against Oregon at United Center in Chicago on Dec.13. The Illini lost 70-77.
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Matt asks: Was E’Twaun Moore’s big night spontaneous or
does he have more of that? If so, how do you tell Kirk Hinrich to step back?
Last Thursday night, Rus-sell Westbrook led the Okla-homa City Thunder into the United Center in a matchup against the Chicago Bulls that was lopsided on paper. Recently, Westbrook has produced triple-doubles at the same rate that I produce empty fruit snack packets around my apartment.
Who on the Bulls could stop Westbrook’s wrath? Derrick Rose? Hurt. Jim-my Butler? Hurt. E’Twaun Moore? Bingo.
My Purdue-fan roommate and I were watching the game Thursday and joked the entire time about Moore. He actually got some min-utes for the first time in a while and took full advan-tage of the newly allotted playing time.
In 22 minutes, the 26-year-old Purdue product poured in 19 points on 9-of-10 shooting and collected a team-high two steals.
Not to mention, Moore hit the game-winning three
with 2.1 seconds remaining.In my mind, the most
impressive stat of the night was that when Westbrook was guarded by Bulls not named Moore, he scored 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting and only turned the ball over once.
When Moore guarded him, Westbrook only scored two points on 2-of-12 shoot-ing and committed four turnovers.
His 19-point, heroic effort against the Thunder was a bit spontaneous and not something to be expected in every game.
That being said, he should, without a doubt, be playing over Kirk Hinrich.
I understand that there was a time when Hinrich’s hard-nosed, defensive atti-tude carried weight for the Bulls, but that time is over.
Hinrich is shooting less than 30 percent from the field in his last five games and hasn’t scored more than eight points since early January.
If you have watched him pass the ball lately and plan on continuing to do so, I rec-ommend you purchase an eye-washing station for your home.
Moore is not the answer for all of the Bulls’ prob-lems, but there is no ques-tion as to who should be playing backup point guard minutes in Rose’s absence.
Michal asks: Will the State Farm Center renovations make a difference in student attendance and the overall game atmosphere?
I got the opportunity to travel to West Lafayette, Ind., this past weekend to cover the Illinois-Purdue basketball game. I had never been to Purdue or Mackey Arena.
It was one of the most incredible college basket-ball environments I had ever witnessed.
Mackey is not the largest arena by any means, with a capacity of about 14,000, but the place was jam-packed.
Not only that, but the fans were loud.
Annoyingly loud.Not just loud when Pur-
due was playing well. Pur-due was down 15-2 at one point, but the crowd never wavered. It stayed in it the entire time.
Even though they might not admit it, I would guess that the fans absolutely got into the heads of the visiting Illini.
Annoyingly loud is not fun when you are trying to write a game story, but it sure is when you are a fan base try-ing to deter the opponent.
I have covered Illinois basketball all season long and attended numerous games since being at Illi-nois, and not once have I wit-nessed a crowd as intense
as the one that showed up to Mackey on Saturday.
Arena renovations are attractive, but they do not make fans that were not showing up before actually show up.
I notice that Illinois bas-ketball fans can get loud, but have a hard time main-taining that volume for the entirety of a game.
A major part of home court advantage is crowd noise, and the Purdue fans know that quite well.
Shiny new seats and scoreboards don’t create an intimidating environment for visiting teams.
Fans do.Alex asks: What will be
Illinois’ fate in the Big Ten tournament?
Illinois basketball needs wins. Illinois basketball really needs wins.
Before the Big Ten tour-nament, the Illini sit at 19-12 and open up Big Ten tourney play on Thursday against Michigan.
Michigan is a beatable opponent. The Illini should have probably beaten the Wolverines in Ann Arbor, Mich., earlier in the season, and eventually beat them in Champaign.
By no means will that opening game be easy, but it is a game that the Illini must win if they want any chance at an exciting Selection Sun-day. A loss certainly means
a return trip to the NIT.If the Illini defeat Michi-
gan in the opening round, they go on to play Wisconsin.
I really don’t see any way that Illinois will beat Wisconsin, but I will try to evoke some hope in you.
College basketball, specifi-cally Big Ten basketball, is wacky and always will be. Especially when March rolls around.
Crazier things have hap-
pened, and there is a chance that the Illini take down the Badgers, but first they have to get passed the Wolverines.
I see Illinois taking down Michigan and losing to Wisconsin.
If this happens, Illini nation will be sweating it out on Selection Sunday.
Sam is a senior in Media. [email protected] @sam_sherman5
Mailbag: Moore’s shot, Illinois’ fate
CHRIS SWEDA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe Chicago Bulls’ E’Twaun Moore hits a game-winner against Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook at the United Center in Chicago on Thursday. The Bulls won, 108-105.
BY PETER BAILEY-WELLSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
For the Illinois baseball team, it’s finally time to come home. After four consecutive weekend road trips, the Illi-ni play in their home opener Tuesday afternoon against Chicago State at Illinois Field.
Illinois (11-3-1) is riding the momentum of a series victo-ry over then-No. 10 Oklahoma State, after the Illini topped them twice in three games this weekend in Stillwater, Okla.
Chicago State (2-11) was swept by California in a three-game series this weekend.
The Illini’s momentum may
not matter against a Cougar squad that opened the season on a five-game losing streak and has lost six of its last sev-en. But despite Chicago State’s poor record and Illinois’ rank-ing in multiple top-25 polls, head coach Dan Hartleb isn’t taking anything for granted.
“When you get recognition, you have to be able to handle it,” Hartleb said. “I feel like we’ve earned that recogni-tion, but we have to continue to move forward.”
Tuesday’s game will be the first in a nine-game homes-tand for the Illini. After spending a month on the road, Illinois does not play an away
game again until March 27, when it heads to East Lansing, Mich., to face Michigan State in the team’s Big Ten opener.
The last time Chicago State visited Champaign was for Illinois’ 2010 home opener — the Illini throttled the Cou-gars 18-2.
Scoring 18 runs would be a welcome result for an Illini offense that has struggled as of late. Senior infielder Reid Roper, the team’s leading hit-ter, was batting .413 before the Oklahoma State series and is now at .368 — he only picked up two hits on the weekend.
The team only has two play-ers batting above .300 (Rop-
er and senior outfielder Casey Fletcher) and senior lead-off man Will Krug, a career .302 hitter, has a measly .179 average.
“After a weekend like this, I have to get some homework done,” Krug said. “It helps to take a little bit of a break and regroup.”
While the Illinois offense hasn’t been at its best, the Illi-ni pitching staff has carried the team. The team’s ERA is 2.00, led by junior Tyler Jay, who hasn’t given up a run in 20 1/3 innings and junior Kev-in Duchene, who has surren-dered just one run through two seven-inning starts.
Duchene (2-0), benched at the beginning of the season by Hartleb for off-the-field issues, has been lights-out in his two starts this season. He collected wins in both and opponents are batting .163 against him. Duchene cred-ited his success to his team-mates’ support but doesn’t think he’s back to top form.
“My game still needs a lot of refinement,” Duchene said. “I’ve had trouble locating my changeup a little bit to right-handers, but I’m back out there and I’m confident.”
Jay (3-0, four saves) has been the team’s top pitcher from the start of the season,
living up to his selection as a preseason All-American. After collecting a win and a save in two appearances against Oklahoma State, Jay was awarded Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors for the first time in his career.
Jay’s pitching is a big rea-son why Illinois has five more wins so far this season than it did through 15 games last sea-son. That success carries over to the clubhouse atmosphere — Duchene said the team chemistry is the best of any team he’s ever played with.
[email protected] @pbaileywells
SAM SHERMAN
Sports Columnist
Illinois baseball ready for home opener against Chicago State
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