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BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois Supreme Court will hear oral argu-ments regarding the law-suit over Senate Bill 1, or the Illinois pension reform bill, on Wednesday.
Sangamon County Cir-cuit Court Judge John Belz
struck down the law on Nov. 21, 2014 . It was then taken up by the state’s highest court immediately after the ruling, as required by Illinois law.
The issue at hand is whether the law has the legal authority to reduce the pension benefi ts of the state’s workers. The law’s supporters believe that giv-en the state’s ongoing fi scal crisis, SB 1 will be allowed to stand. Data from the Commission on Government Forecasting and Account-ability shows that in Illinois had an unfunded pension
liability of $111.2 billion . However, opponents of
the pension reform bill believe the law is uncon-stitutional. Article XIII of the Illinois constitution states that membership in any state pension or retire-ment system is “an enforce-able contractual relation-ship, the benefi ts of which shall not be diminished or impaired.”
In his opinion, Belz said that SB 1 violated the pen-sion clause, making the law unconstitutional.
University Spokesman Tom Hardy said not much
will change for University employees regardless of the ruling.
“If the law is struck down, that means that there is no pension funding law,” Har-dy said. “We’ll either con-tinue the way we are, or the governor and the leg-islature will go back and see if they can fi gure out a pension funding law that can stand constitutional scrutiny.”
If the law is upheld, Har-dy said, the University will continue to fund its employ-
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BY DECLAN HARTYASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
It’s been nearly a decade since Robert Monti, owner of Papa Del’s Pizza, began looking for a new location.
And now, Monti has fi nal-ly found his pizzeria’s new home.
A trademark of campus since 1970, Papa Del’s Piz-za will soon close its Green Street location and its sec-ond location at the Crossing and reopen at 1201 S. Neil St., the former location of Orange & Brew Saloon & Grille.
“I can’t last forever,” Monti said. “I’m going to be 69, and having two places in Champaign, we are doing more business, but we are a bit strained because we are a family business. I didn’t want to leave my daughter having to run two places, so we just decided to make one gigantic, big one.”
The Green Street loca-tion, which is located at 206 E. Green St. in Cham-paign, has been open since 1975, when Monti opened it in addition to the fi rst Papa Del’s on Wright Street. The other Papa Del’s location at the Crossing, 2510 Village Green Place in Champaign, has been open since 2009.
While a specifi c date has not been fi nalized for the
move, according to Andrea Seten, general manager of Papa Del’s and 1999 Univer-sity alumna, management hopes to be able to make the move in the summer or fall. The restaurant must leave the Green Street location
by October, according to its employees.
Seten said that the move will require time between the closing and opening of the new location because the pizza ovens will need to be dismantled and put together
by special technicians from Chicago. She estimated that the time will be at least a week but possibly longer.
“We’ve been in that loca-tion since 1975, and cam-
Papa Del’s to move location off Green Street to South Neil Street
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Professor proposes tuition planPlan would take advantage of Big Ten, ESPN contractBY MAGGIE SULLIVANSTAFF WRITER
“National crisis” are the words Jay Rosen-stein, professor in Media, used to describe the cur-rent levels of college stu-dent debt. Rosenstein is not alone in his sentiments. In 2012, the average debt for a University graduate was $25,000. However, Rosen-stein thinks he may have a solution.
On March 1, Rosenstein launched the website “How to Lower University of Illi-nois Tuition.” His propos-al is simple: take the dif-ference from the increase in contract money paid to the University’s athlet-ics depart-ment, and give it to the gener-al Univer-sity reve-nue to lower tuition by 3 to 5 percent for either all in-state juniors or seniors.
In 2017, the new Big Ten TV con-tract will kick in, and this tuition cut could shoot up to 20 to 25 percent for either all in-state juniors or seniors.
“We need some new and innovative ways to deal with tuition costs,” Rosen-stein said. “The old ways of dealing with it just won’t work anymore.”
The athletics depart-ment will receive this pay-out starting in 2017 as the result of a new contract between the Big Ten and ESPN, which would allow ESPN to broadcast seven college football games a year. This contract is valid for 12 years, and gives the Big Ten a lump sum of $7 billion. The conference dis-tribution will split up the money between schools in the conference.
This means that the Big Ten revenue for the Univer-sity’s athletics department will increase from around $27 million in 2014 to near-ly $50 million in 2017.
While the athletics department receives Uni-versity funding in the form of mandatory fees, it does not contribute money to the
University.“All the revenue the ath-
letic association takes in, stays there,” Rosenstein said. “Ticket sales, park-ing, shirts — all of the things that generate reve-nue for athletics only go to athletics. None of it goes to the University itself.”
Rosenstein said he researched the fi nancing of college sports for sev-eral years, with the intent to make a documentary on the subject.
“As I started to look at the numbers, something just started to click,” Rosen-stein said. “We can fl ip the script here and help bring tuition down, and it won’t
cost us a n y -thing.”
W h i l e R o s e n -s t e i n ’ s p l a n a d v o -cates a t u i t i o n cut for i n - s t ate juniors or seniors , he says w h a t is most
important about his plan is that athletics shares some of its revenue with the rest of the University.
Robin Kaler, University spokeswoman, said the Uni-versity is “very concerned about maintaining afford-ability and access, having frozen tuition for incoming, in-state freshman in 2015 after two years of holding tuition increases to infl a-tion rate.”
In light of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed $209 million budget cut to the University, Kaler believes there is a more important conversation on the table.
“A more constructive conversation right now would be how to work together to demonstrate the value our University adds to the economy and the peo-ple of Illinois,” she said.
Rosenstein’s website includes a petition to Chancellor Phyllis Wise, the Board of Trustees and President Robert Easter asking them to implement his proposal.
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KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Rob McDonnell releases a pitch during the baseball game vs. Chicago State at Illinois Field on Tuesday. Illinois won 7-3, and the match was their fi rst home game of the season. For more details about the game, turn to Page 1B.
DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTFewer citations were
issued Friday during this year’s celebration of Unof-fi cial St. Patrick’s Day.
There were 138 city ordi-nance violations issued this year, compared to the 271 issued in 2014, accord-ing to a press release from the Champaign Police Department.
Of these violations, 65 were issued in direct rela-tion to underage drink-ing. Other citations include
public possession, carrying open liquor outside premis-es, public urination and the sale or delivery of alcohol to minors.
Additionally, fi ve individ-uals were arrested on state criminal charges and taken to Champaign County Jail, according to the release.
Along with the police response, medical person-nel responded to 13 calls and transported eight peo-ple for alcohol incapacita-tion issues.
Unoffi cial citations down compared to 2014
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DECLAN HARTY THE DAILY ILLINIPapa Del’s Pizza will soon close its Campustown location at 206 E. Green St. and its second location at 2510 Village Green Place in Champaign, in favor of a relocation on Neil Street at the former home of Orange & Brew Saloon & Grille at 1201 S. Neil St.
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“We can fl ip the script here and help bring tuition down, and it won’t cost us
anything.”
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Today’s Birthday Rely on your team this year. Work together for mutual bene! t. Wear your power suit after the Vernal Equinox in your sign (3/20). Choose your direction carefully over spring, as summer gets busy. Follow the route set earlier. Harvest the fruits of your shared labors after autumn eclipses (10/13 & 10/27). Savor sweet moments together.
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ees’ pension plans the same way it has since SB 1 was passed in December 2013 . However, he said Belz’s rul-ing seems to indicate that the Illinois Supreme Court will likely strike the law down.
In a previous interview with The Daily Illini, John Colombo, interim dean of the College of Law, said the Illinois Supreme Court could issue a brief summa-ry opinion on SB 1, which would state the court’s opin-ion, or it could issue an advi-sory opinion.
In that case, it could outline a constitutionally-sound pension reform plan, he said .
There is currently no established time table for the court to issue an SB 1 ruling, though Illinois Attorney General Lisa
Madigan said she intend-ed to press the court for a speedy ruling following Belz’s decision.
“We will ask the court to expedite the appeal given the signifi cant impact that a fi nal decision in this case will have on the state’s fi s-cal condition,” Madigan said in a 2014 statement.
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As of press time, the peti-tion has been signed by 44 faculty members, 142 stu-dents, 11 staff members and 24 alumni .
Rosenstein believes his plan would aid the Univer-sity if the legislature cut the budget.
“By taking this money and bringing it into the gen-eral revenue fund, it will help ease whatever cuts the state legislature makes,” he said.
Bruce Rosenstock, pro-fessor of religion, was one of the fi rst to sign the petition and agreed with Rosenstein.
“If we want the state legislature to preserve our funding, there is only one way for us to persuade them,” Rosenstock said. “And that is by showing them that the University
of Illinois is the greatest institution for their own children.”
Rosenstock said that he was not aware of the new ESPN contract before see-ing the website.
“What I certainly did know,” Rosenstock said, “Were all the facts regard-ing the tuition hikes in the past 10 years. I was very much concerned about those.”
Rosenstein will formal-ly present his proposal to University administration at the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday.
“I see this as an every-body wins situation,” Rosenstein said. “The athletic department gets more money, students get a tuition break — doesn’t cost anyone anything. So that’s a win-win. Every-body gains.”
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pus has obviously changed immensely in that time,” Seten said. “The building was basically falling down around us so our options were kind of slim as to what we could do. We felt that moving and rehabbing a building that was much newer would be a better bet than trying to do something with Green Street where we could go nowhere but up.”
Both Seten and Mon-ti expressed that the new location on Neil Street will provide a great deal of ame-nities that neither current location can fi t underneath one roof, including more parking, more seating, a diverse menu, larger bar and more opportunity to
entertain customers as they wait for food.
The new building, which Monti said he began looking at in 2006, will not only allow the restaurant to consoli-date every-thing in one location, but it will also permit both customers and employ-ees to avoid chaotic traf-fi c on cam-pus during times like move in and gamedays.
“ G r e e n Street used to be four lanes, and now they cut it down to two with a turn lane,” he said. “Traffic just gets backed up during
events and during move-in. You’re almost stuck here.”
Seten said that while many are viewing the move to Neil Street as Papa Del’s departure from campus, the
new loca-tion is clos-er to the Ikenberry Commons, M e m o -rial Sta-dium and State Farm Center.
A d d i -t i o n a l ly, both Seten and Monti said that b e c a u s e transpor-
tation is more widely avail-able to students, manage-ment doesn’t fear losing their business.
“I really don’t think it’s like how it used to be back when every student hoofed it or rode a bike. I think peo-ple will still travel,” Seten said.
But as Green Street con-tinues to develop mostly in an upward manner, Monti and Seten said the develop-ment is from residential pro-prietors and felt that with a building struggling to stand, it was time to move on.
“There was never any room for us to expand on Green Street,” Seten said. “We need to expand our busi-ness and there’s no room to go. So it just seemed like a win-win situation, where we couldn’t really do anything besides tear down our build-ing and go up because we are landlocked.”
BY YI ZHUSTAFF WRITER
Wei Li is an international graduate student in Labor and Employment Relations, and works as a paid grad-uate hourly grader for the College of Business. When the tax-fi ling season came in previous years, Li always had trouble calculating her tax payments and preparing the documents for the fed-eral tax return by herself.
“I used to have a very tough time fi guring out what forms I should submit for tax-fi ling and where to get those forms,” Li said. “The fi ling process always drives me crazy and frustrated.”
In an effort to help all international students better prepare their taxes this year, the International Student and Scholar Ser-vice purchased a licensed agreement with GLACIER Tax Prep and is offering free use of the service.
The tax prep service is a web-based tax return prep-aration system designed exclusively for foreign stu-dents, scholars, teachers, researchers, trainees and dependents to aid in pre-paring U.S. federal income
tax forms.“GTP is not new,” said
Guaxara Gonzalez, advis-ing assistant for ISSS. “Until last year, U of I only gives ‘active’ internation-al students or scholars the access to GTP. From this year on, every one of them will have this access.”
By saying ‘active,’ Gon-zalez indicates a small group of i n t e r n a -tional stu-dents and s c h o l -ars who r e c e i v e r e l a t i v e -ly large incomes on or off cam-pus, acted a c t i v e l y in campus activit ies and has a strong will-i n g n e s s to handle their tax issues. All inter-national students and scholars as well as their dependents are required to file at least one tax form for every year they are present in the U.S., regardless of whether they earned an income, accord-ing to ISSS’ website,
“Many international stu-dents and scholars don’t know they have to file the tax annually even if they don’t receive income,” Gonzalez said. “This does
not necessarily mean you have to pay taxes, this is according to the federal law. If they don’t file their taxes, it will be document-ed to their personal record, and might influence their application for H1B VISA, green card or other immi-gration documents in the future.”
ISSS is not able to give tax advice a b o u t i n d i v i d -ual cas-es, since they are not “tax p r o f e s -sionals,” said Hel-en Agans, o f f i c e s u p p o r t a s s i s -tant in ISSS. The O f f i c e of Busi-ness and
Financial Service provides some services of tax issues for University staffs, but international students are applied to a different pro-cess in tax-filing.
“Since the number of international students on campus is growing contin-uously on campus, these requests are booming,” Agans said. “With the help of GTP, tax issues become easier to understand, diminishing international students’ confusions. We
encourage them to use this system.”
After filling all the nec-essary forms and provid-ing required information, a personal tax document will be generated. Interna-tional students and schol-ars must note that although the tax document has been created, it is not submit-ted to the Internal Revenue Service, the agency that is responsible for collecting taxes and the administra-tion of the internal reve-nue code.
“The GLACIER system really helps me a lot with my tax problems,” Li said. “Although I still have to mail the documents, it assists me to make it clear what doc-uments I should submit. It also helps me keep a copy of my tax fi le, remind me of the fi ling deadline and reduce any possible legal violations.”
However, Li hopes in the future that GTP will pro-vide forms in different lan-guages for people with dif-ferent language barriers.
International students can access the GLACIER Tax Prep online with Sunapsis , a program run through I-Start.
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BY CHARLOTTE COLLINSSTAFF WRITER
Despite America being known as a “melting pot” of various cultures, ethnic-ities and religions, a 2014 Pew study ranked the Unit-ed States as “moderate” for religious diversity.
In relation to the rest of the world, the U.S. is within the lower half of the index, which labels countries’ reli-gious diversity as very high, high, moderate or low. The study was based off how eight major religions bal-ance within each coun-try. Religions in the study included Buddhism, Chris-tianity, folk/traditional, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, other organized religion and those unaffi liated . Chi-na and areas of Sub-Saharan Africa were among the most religiously diverse.
The University’s Admis-sions website states it is one of the more diverse institu-tions in the Big Ten and won a national award for High-er Education Excellence in Diversity in 2014 . However,
religious diversity is often overlooked when address-ing diversity and tolerance, said Farah Chalisa, chair of Illinois Student Senate’s Cultural International and Minority Student Affairs committee and junior in LAS. The student sen-ate passed a resolution on March 4 sponsored by Chal-isa to create a PSA for Bet-ter Together Day on April 14. The pur-pose of the nation-al event is to promote r e l i g i o u s tolerance.
“With a lot of the c u r r e n t events going on, it’s fos-tered a lot of intolerance toward religion. Events to do with ISIS...” said Chalisa. “I know a lot of Muslim stu-dents have faced a backlash from that, not just specifi -cally on our campus, but on other campuses too.”
Better Together Day, which strives to promote religious tolerance nation-ally, is sponsored by the Interfaith Youth Core orga-nization and its University chapter, Interfaith in Action. The organization is partner-
ing with the student senate to put out a PSA featuring students and members of religious Registered Stu-dent Organizations to speak on positive and negative experiences with religious diversity for Better Togeth-er Day.
Jonathan Davis, Inter-faith’s vice president and junior in LAS, said the
PSA will be circulated throughout campus via the student s e n a t e ’ s Y o u T u b e c h a n n e l , Facebook, Twitter and a mass mail.
Davis said the purpose of Interfaith is to raise awareness
of religious pluralism and to “serve as a central liai-son that is able to reach out to different faith organiza-tions and then bring them together for programming, for service work, for dis-cussions and dialogue that focus around other inter-faith issues.”
The student senate allo-cated $1,500 toward the PSA at its March 4 meeting.
Chalisa says she hopes to reach minorities and people
who have felt discriminat-ed against on campus with the PSA.
“I’m hoping that they feel like this is an inclusive cam-pus, that they feel like there are other students out there who will support them,” said Chalisa.
As a Christian within the religious majority, Katie Holm, senior in LAS, said she believes there is like-ly some extent of religious discrimination on campus, and that she’d be interested in hearing what members of minority religions have to say. Holm also said she believes “larger campus events to raise awareness about different religions” practiced at the University could help promote religious tolerance.
Chalisa said the goal of the PSA is to achieve a lev-el of tolerance that goes beyond just coexisting in a community where many religions are practiced.
“This isn’t even just about tolerance,” said Chalisa. “We don’t just want people to tolerate each other, we want people to accept each other, we want people to respect each other, we want people to feel comfortable on cam-pus regardless of religious background.”
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L istening to music while walking to class, using earphones to watch a
movie on your laptop and going to concerts are all hall-marks of being a college stu-dent. But we may need to start changing our habits.
A new study just released by the World Health Orga-nization estimates that 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk for perma-nent hearing loss.
I would never want to know-ingly jeopardize my ability to listen to my favorite musical pieces, hear my favorite mov-ie characters banter or to talk effortlessly with my friends. But that is exactly what a lot of us young adults are doing ... 1.1 billion of us to be exact.
I don’t mean to imply that those born without hear-ing or who lose the ability to hear naturally are drasti-cally disadvantaged. But, the reality is that teenagers and young adults who currently have the ability to hear have grown accustomed to moving through daily life very much relying on it.
Certainly we could readjust our lifestyle if we were to lose that sense, but it would be an inarguably difficult readjust-
ment. Further, it’s a hypothet-ical change that we can take simple measures toward pre-venting now.
Most of us assume we’ll be fine if we attend concerts and listen to blaring music — I know I personally don’t do enough to guard myself against hearing loss, and nei-ther do the majority of my friends.
So let’s get serious about this. I’m fully aware that most college concert goers are not overly con-cerned about their hear-ing. I think this is likely because the effects of listening to sound at an unsafe vol-ume often don’t occur for many years.
It can be hard to be scared about something happen-ing so slowly; it may seem non-threatening, almost like it isn’t happening at all. But hearing loss is a real possibil-ity for far too many of us.
The WHO study piqued my interest, and I started looking into exactly how loud some-thing has to be to cause hear-ing loss.
As it turns out, not that loud.
It is estimated that any-
thing at or above 85 decibels, a measurement for sound, can result in noise-induced hearing loss. To put that in perspective, 85 decibels is as loud as heavy traffic from inside the car or a hair dryer.
That’s only just the lowest end of the threshold of when a sound can begin to signifi-cantly damage your hearing.
For instance, a loud rock concert is around 115 deci-bels, easily in the range for
lasting hear-ing damage. Yet, some Illi-nois students flock to them almost every weekend.
Or, if you are someone who likes to listen to his or her iPod at full blast, you should know that level of
sound becomes unsafe after just five minutes. Still, it’s a given that many college stu-dents listen at full volume for much longer than that.
I think another reason that we, as the majority of college students, don’t take this more seriously is because we know that what we may have to do for ear safety could some-times be inconvenient.
But let’s suck it up; we need to start taking this more seri-ously. Yes, this may mean wearing earplugs to con-
certs (but let’s face it: Con-cert music is usually too loud anyway).
This can also mean utiliz-ing less obvious alternatives like wearing noise-canceling headphones. This will allow you to only hear what you want to, and your ears will be subjected to less noise.
Turn the level down on your iPod, or at least try to listen to it less throughout the day. Many researchers sug-gest the 60/60 rule; listen to your iPod on less than 60 per-cent volume for less than 60 minutes.
Consider lowering the max-imum volume on your iPod so that you are never tempt-ed to push it above 85 deci-bels — or that you never do it accidentally.
Whatever you do, be sure not to fall asleep listening to your earphones. If you need white noise to help you fall asleep, play it out of a speak-er instead.
Just ensure that you are doing something to protect your ear health and make a habit of it.
Start taking your ability to hear well more seriously; I know I’m going to.
Don’t assume that you’re not one of the 1.1 billion teens and young adults at risk for losing your hearing; take active measures to prevent it.
Alex is a junior in [email protected]
In the middle of a molecu-lar and cellular biolo-gy class, my professor
paused the lecture, as he often does, and directed a simple question about the material to the class. One would think that in an advanced level genetics course, the students attend-ing would be actively willing to participate and learn, but this was not the case.
His question was followed, as per usual, by silence, silence and more silence until one of four people who always answer the professor’s questions finally raised her hand and spoke up.
Our MCB 317 professor structures his lecture like a seminar with questions to guide us through how a real scientist answers questions in research. The professor poses questions in this way for a rea-son — to effectively help us learn the material. We are here to learn, after all, and being engaged in discussions with the professor is an important aspect of this learning. Thus, as attendees of a higher institu-tion for learning, we should be more actively engaged in our education.
I began to wonder whether or not something was actual-ly physically wrong with the
other students in the room. The professor’s question was very straightforward and the answer to it was even on the slideshow being projected on the board.
I am part of the 1 percent of the class that actually answers the professor’s questions because I believe that avoiding the awkward pauses makes the lecture go by more quickly and smoothly. Additionally, I, and many others, feel that speaking up in class pre-vents boredom and keeps us interested in the class mate-rial. In fact, studies show that students who actively participate in class and dis-cussions are more moti-vated, learn better, and achieve higher scores than those who don’t.
But it seems most students don’t like to participate, even in the face of the simplest ques-tions. This lack of engagement makes most of the class look meek, wimpy and incompe-tent and robs students of a key aspect of their learning.
Some may argue that stu-dents don’t actively raise their hands in class due to feelings of inadequacy or fear of giving a wrong answer in front of their peers. If you say something that is wrong, news flash, it’s
not the end of the world and, by the end of the class, everyone will most likely have forgotten about it.
Professors should under-stand that as undergraduates, we are here to learn, and part of that means we don’t have all the right answers yet. Often times, wrong answers even serve as learning opportuni-ties, so take advantage of the fact that your undergraduate
career is one of the last chances you have at gain-ing skills from just trying.
I would argue that, in the face of a silent class, the profes-sor would be happy with any student will-ing to be more active in their
education. Others also argue that some
students are just shy or intro-verted. Nevertheless, this shouldn’t be seen as a justifi-cation because public speak-ing and being an engaged par-ticipant are skills all students need for the future, regard-less of their majors. When your some-day employer asks you a question and you don’t answer, it is unlikely she will take mere shyness as an acceptable excuse.
The lack of participation
from students also brings to light an important concept: There is more you should get out of a class than just a letter grade. One of the most absurd and narrow-minded senti-ments that many students hold at the University is the idea that the grade you get in a given class and how you look on paper are what should be valued above all else. While grades are definitely important in some respects, when the class isn’t graded on participation, most students don’t see the point in speak-ing up.
Ideally as students, we are here not only to learn, but to develop as leaders. Building the skills necessary to do so goes beyond what you read in a textbook or what shows up on an exam. Engaging in class discussions will help us devel-op confidence in communica-tion so we can become more proactive and productive ver-sions of ourselves.
Putting yourself and your ideas out there may seem daunting, but there is a real world waiting for you after college and you need to be ready. An easy way to prepare yourself is to simply partici-pate, and you’ll avoid bore-dom and learn more easily at the same time.
So let go of the reservations you have and raise your hand.
Stephanie is a junior in [email protected]
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On March 8, actor Ashton Kutcher posted on his Facebook page venting about the lack of diaper changing stations in men’s public restrooms. Thank you, Ashton, for shedding light on something women have been complaining about for years. There should really be some law that says the one who birthed the baby shouldn’t have to take care of its bowel movements. Kutcher said the first public men’s room that he goes into with a changing station gets a “free shout out on my FB page!” ... Wow. What an inspiring incentive.
Earlier this week, a video went viral of members of the Uni-versity of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chant-ing an incredibly racist, offensive song. Fortunately, various measures were taken to address this disgusting act including a very direct message sent out by the university’s president, shutting down the SAE chapter and expelling two students involved. In 2015, it’s shameful that racism is an issue still at the forefront of our culture and we hope more systematic actions against it will take place with vigor.
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If there’s anything that the opinions editors know, it’s that there is more to life than being really, really ridiculously good looking — which, of course, we learned from Derek Zoolander. During Paris Fashion Week, fictional models Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) made an appearance on Valentino’s runway to announce the sequel to 2001’s “Zoolander.” We’re hoping this film will show further development on the charitable project The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.
The Disney Pixar movie that everyone has been antici-pating for months finally has a trailer with, A) more plot points, B) “More Than A Feeling,” and C) seriously fun-ny quotes from the main actors, like Amy Poehler, Phyl-lis Smith (who played Phyllis on “The Office”) and Mindy Kaling. We also got a taste of some of the emotional sides of the movie, which touch on growing up, moodiness and being the worst person on the entire planet throughout middle school (#throwback if there ever was one, right?).
Programs to assist
international students
important
T he variety of pres-tigious academ-ic programs at the University at-tracts students
from all over the world. This year alone, we have over 9,800 international stu-dents, which account for 22 percent of our student pop-ulation. Coming to the Unit-ed States is a great way for students to explore new ar-eas and contribute to the di-versity on campus, and with the influx in international students over the years, it is clear that these students are taking advantage of learning abroad.
However, part of being an international student study-ing in the U.S. means filing tax forms every year. Filing tax forms is a process that can be confusing and stren-uous for all students, not just those from outside of the U.S., and it can be gruel-ing if you don’t understand the process.
Because of this some-times painful affair, the In-ternational Student and Scholar Services at the Uni-versity is working to make process of understanding and filling out tax forms as easy and simple as possi-ble for international stu-dents. Through the organi-zation’s purchased licence agreement with GLACIER Tax Prep, a web-based tax return preparation system, they are able to provide the information and resources needed to help international students fill out all of their tax forms.
This program is a conve-nient way to organize tax return forms and make sure they are all filled out on time. Previously, this ser-vice was only available for “active” international stu-dents or scholars (or those who received relatively large income on or off cam-pus), according to The Dai-ly Illini. However, now all international students will have access to GLACIER Tax Prep.
ISSS also makes it clear that international students should check the Interna-tional Department of Rev-enue website in order to be sure students are filling out all relevant forms.
Having access to pro-grams like GLACIER Tax Prep work to connect inter-national students to helpful information services, which is imperative to make the experiences of these stu-dents easy, understandable and efficient.
The ability for interna-tional students to have ac-cess to various services such as GLACIER Tax Prep is also a great example of a way in which ISSS is help-ing integrate students from abroad. Essentially, these types of integration efforts should continue to happen in the future to help inter-national students, especial-ly when other issues ex-ist for these students such as finding jobs and intern-ships, obtaining visa exten-sions and other road bumps that come with studying overseas.
Continuing to improve the experiences of internation-al students is something we fully support, especially on a campus that prides itself on diversity and inclusion.
Start taking your ability to hear well more
seriously. I know I’m going to.
When the class isn’t graded on
participation, most students don’t
see the point in speaking up.
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his direct dealings with glass blowing, which, on top of teaching, include website design, welding and handy work.
“...If you want to blow glass you have to be able to main-tain a shop. If you can’t afford a $20,000 furnace, you bet-ter learn how to weld, how to run electricity, (and) how to run gas systems so I’ve just learned tons and tons of skills,” Mack said.
Community involvement has also played in important role in the creation of some of Mack’s installation pieces.
Over the past 10 years, he
has promoted community involvement in making his large installations with peo-ple donating recycled glass to be melted down by Mack.
“I really like being in front of an audience and creating and kind of involving the community in the whole pro-cess,” he said. “You have an open call out to the commu-nity to contribute their glass to the sculpture so every-body kind of contributes to the art and when they see it being made, they know that they contributed some of that glass that’s being used to make the sculpture, so it kind of makes them feel a part of it and that’s kind of a cool thing to be a part of.”
Now with his classes grow-
ing in popularity, Mack will be teaching his courses beginning April 1 at the Insti-tute 4 Creativity in Cham-paign, where anyone inter-ested will be able to sign up through Parkland Communi-ty College’s Community Edu-cation Program.
Also in April, Mack will be taking part in the 2015 Boneyard Arts Festival as the sole Champaign-Urbana glass blowing representative.
“Everybody should go take this class; it’s a really afford-able class,” Essex said. “You don’t really ever see this par-ticular thing with this kind of price at this kind of level, and it makes for a good date too.”
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Kim said it was good practice for the presenta-tion he gave to investors a few weeks later. They decid-ed to invest $70,000 in the dental equipment, disquali-fying Kim from SocialFuse
as the rules state receiv-ing $50,000 and above of equity financing disquali-fies teams. He also talked to lawyers, professors and students, one of which had manufacturing connections in China with his family.
“You read things about kids starting things in col-lege and you go to an event
like this and you realize that it’s totally doable, and you can really chase your dream and start your own company and build your own product and stuff that I never would have imag-ined last year that’s happen-ing now.”
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HERE-Champaign
$899 per person for 4 bedrooms/4 bathroomsUtilities: all included, electricity has a $40 per month allowanceAmenities: fitness center and yoga studio, tanning, hot tub, sauna, study lounge, robotic valet parking, golf simulator, coffee bar, private study rooms, game room, movie theatre, securityDistance from the Quad: 0.5 miles
West Quad
$699per person for 4 bedrooms/4 bathroomsUtilities: all included except electricityAmendities: fitness center, tanning beds, swimming pool, hot tub, sauna, study rooms, jumbotron, sand volleyball, community events, game room, courtyard, securityDistance from the Quad: 0.9 miles
ONE Illinois
$399per person for 4 bedrooms/2 bathroomsUtilities: all included, water/sewage has a $10 allowanceAmendities: fitness center, tanning, indoor and outdoor pools, hot tub, computer center, community events, security (gated) and tennis, basketball and volleyball courtsDistance from the Quad: 1.6 miles
309 Green
$784per person for 4 bedrooms/2 bathroomsUtility: all included, electricity up to a monthly capAmenities: fitness center, study lounge, garage parking ($75 per month). swimming pool, hot tub, securityDistance from the Quad: 0.5 miles
Tower at Third
$719per person for 2 bedrooms/1 bathroomUtilities: all includedAmenities: fitness centers, tanning, computer center, recreation center, community events, securityDistance from the Quad: 0.5 miles
BY LIZ JASSINSTAFF WRITER
Apartments like 309 Green and Tower at Third have provided University students with luxury ame-nities and included utili-ties for years. This fall, stu-dents will be able to move into West Quad and HERE Champaign, which take lux-ury amenities even further with robotic valet parking, yoga studios, a golf simula-tor and more.
While West Quad and HERE have already begun leasing for the fall, both buildings are still under-going construction.
Jessica Langer, junior in AHS, signed her lease at West Quad and said she is excited about the study rooms, fitness cen-ter and outdoor amenities provided.
Jason Okrasinski, CEO of Cribspot, a website used by University students to compare housing options, said more students are preferring all utilities to be included in their rent. Okrasinski said parking, laundry, and study rooms are certain amenities that students claim to be “really important.”
Meanwhile, luxury ame-nities like terraces, tanning or fitness centers are often not used as much as stu-dents initially think they will, Okrasinski said.
Many students aren’t willing to cough up the money for the extra features.
Shemari Spencer, sopho-more in LAS, looked at West Quad but turned away when she realized there was only
a virtual tour of the place. She did not want to risk put-ting so much money into something she couldn’t see in person, and said she would rather have her mon-ey go toward something else than free tanning.
“The amenities are very exciting, but so are all of the study amenities; the social amenities outside are there for you to enjoy after you have accomplished a good day at school,” said Cassie Leigh, area general man-ager for CA Student Living, which manages West Quad and HERE Champaign.
Michelle Carr, campus manager for Campustown Rentals, spoke on behalf of the apartment complexes owned by American Cam-pus Communities on cam-pus. Specifically, Carr mentioned 309 Green and Tower at Third, which she said offer similar living experiences.
“Parents and families are going to pay more for more,” Carr said.
They pay more for com-munities that focus both on academics and creating a “family feel,” Carr added. She said at 309 they know most residents by name, which creates a communi-ty within the building.
“When it comes to the community feel, we are not the dorms, but being in a 24-floor building, they have the access to meeting new people every single day,” Carr said.
Location and price play a large role in where students decide to live, Okrasinski said, because “people want to be close to campus and
at most, a 10-minute walk from their classes.”
Carr said parents are willing to pay more for 309 Green’s location and close walking distance to the Quad. Though it is a farther walk from campus facilities like the Activities and Rec-reation Center, Carr said the building has its own fit-ness center, which provides a safer option than walking to the ARC.
Nicole Schimmel, sopho-more in ACES, said the loca-tion of 309 Green was the biggest reason she chose to live there. She said the building is close to her classes, restaurants, the Illini Union and bus stops.
She also said she liked the location because it is on a more public street, which she described as a “safety feature.”
The amenities includ-ed at 309 were not things Schimmel said she needed in an apartment. Though she called them beauti-ful, she often goes to the library or campus recre-ation centers rather than using 309’s fitness center or study lounge.
However, Schimmel said others often take advantage of 309’s amenities, especial-ly the pool and hot tub.
“The newer student housing communities are becoming popular with people who can afford the rates because at the end of the day, they are paying one bill,” Carr said. “They have the community and the aca-demic feel.”
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As Groove Armada’s “Tun-ing In” plays on a record play-er behind him, Jason Mack plays with a blue flame in his workshop in Champaign. Six months after moving to Cham-paign from Bloomington, Ill., glass blower Mack is finding himself as hot of a commod-ity as the glass that he blows.
After moving shop from the 19th-century warehouse he worked out of in Blooming-ton, Mack began to notice the absence of glass blowing insti-tutions in the C-U area and a widespread interest from members of the community to learn the trade.
That’s what inspired Mack to begin teaching glass blow-ing classes out of his garage.
Today, he has as many as 25 students ranging from ages 17 to 60. His designs range from large scale installation projects and small pendants to traditional vases and other mixed-media designs.
“In Champaign, there was just not really anybody else doing it, and there was a lot of interest,” he said. “People would find out that I was doing it through mutual friends and stuff.
I had all of the equipment, extra torches and yeah, it’s just fun getting people together and forming a little
community.”Robert Essex, a current stu-
dent of Mack’s who has been taking his courses for four months, had been in search of a glass blowing instructor for the past four years before discovering Mack’s courses.
“He’s great,” Essex said. “He’s probably one of the best teachers of what he teaches that I’ve ever come across. He makes things really easy, and like I said, he’s a cool guy and his teaching style is very direct and easy.”
For Mack, what started off as a whim turned into a livelihood.
As someone who was inter-ested in the arts, a 17-year-old Mack began taking Saturday afternoon glass blowing class-es in his hometown of Down-ers Grove, Ill., in 2000.
Fifteen years and thou-sands of pounds of glass lat-er, glass blowing has become his niche.
Self-taught for the first cou-ple years, Mack took a course with renowned Italian glass blowing master Emilio San-tini before going on to gradu-ate from Illinois State Univer-sity’s glass blowing program in 2007.
Moving away early on from the traditional standards set by his trade, mixed media art has been at the fulcrum of Mack’s artistic pursuits
with large scale installation projects becoming his favorite pieces to make, erecting sev-eral sculptures over the years from Grand Rapids, Mich., to Chillicothe, Ill.
“I was always interested in nontraditional glass blow-ing. Glass blowing is kind of steep in tradition with vases and platters and bowls and goblets and pipes so there’s this very established glass blowing culture and I wasn’t really interested in that,” he said. “It was more about the process, and the performance as opposed to just a lone artist sitting in their studio trying to craft some masterpiece then bring it out into the world.”
Over the years, Mack has acquired many skills through
Jason Mack’s “Introduction to Glass Blowing” class
When: April 1 to 22; April 29 to May 20Where: Institute 4 Creativity in ChampaignHow: Sign-ups through Parkland Community College’s Community Education Program
BY BRITTNEY NADLERSTAFF WRITER
At a top-rated campus of more than 40,000 students, potential partnerships between those with ideas and those with skills can be difficult to create. But this challenge spurred the idea for SocialFuse.
The event takes place two to three times per semester where student teams can pitch ideas and network with community members, faculty and students of all backgrounds. The next event is Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Ikenberry Commons.
“It’s for people who are entrepreneurially-minded,” said Stephanie Larson, assis-tant director of Student Pro-grams and Marketing at the Technology Entrepreneur Center.
Larson said students fre-quently walk into the TEC and ask for help in connecting with others. Some students may say they have a great idea but they need someone with coding or business skills while other stu-dents may say they have the skills but no ideas, she said.
“I would try to connect them over email,” Larson said. “It would happen pretty regularly throughout the semester, so we thought, ‘Why don’t we start an event where we can bring these two types of students togeth-er?’”
The first hour of the event consists of teams getting on stage and pitching their ideas, while the following hour is networking one-on-one. After audience members have been introduced to 20 different ideas, they scout out the speak-ers and discuss how to join their team.
“It’s different for each (team), but usually they have a conversation there, and then they exchange contact informa-tion if they’re interested and then they would meet again usually and either interview or ask more questions,” Lar-son said.
Supriya Hobbs, 2014 Univer-sity alumna, pitched her idea in 2013. She is the CEO and co-founder of Miss Possible, a start-up toy company that cre-ates dolls modeled after inspi-rational women throughout history, such as Marie Curie. There is also a digital compo-nent where an animated Curie guides children through chem-istry and physics activities they can do with household materials.
Hobbs and co-founder Janna Eaves, senior in Engineering, were annoyed that there were less women than men in their engineering classes. After doing some r e s e a r c h , they discov-ered that ear-ly exposure and relatable role mod-els are criti-cal to girls’ future career choices.
C o m b i n -ing those two elements and bringing the idea to Social-Fuse was the next step.
“I went to a number of different SocialFuse events,” Hobbs said. “The whole idea is to help people from different parts of campus get connect-ed, especially get connected around ideas that they’re pas-sionate about.”
Miss Possible gained a lot of interest at the event, she said. Many attendees approached her just to say they liked the idea while others wanted to join the team. Hobbs credits SocialFuse as the primary way she was able to find people to work with.
“We met somebody at Social-Fuse and he introduced us to a friend of his who is now our lead designer,” she said.
Through an Indiegogo cam-paign, Miss Possible has raised more than $85,000 in the last year. Hobbs said she hopes to see her dolls sold in stores next to Barbies and Bratz dolls someday.
“It’d be great for these wom-en to get the exposure and respect they deserve from a variety of people, including lit-tle kids,” she said.
SocialFuse has grown quick-ly since its start in the fall of 2012 when only 60 students participated. The 10th event was recently held on Jan. 28 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts where 205 students attended. More than 200 teams have pitched ideas in front of more than 1,200 attendees.
The location changes each time in order to attract stu-dents of all backgrounds, Lar-son said. SocialFuse has been brought to the Thomas M. Sieb-el Center for Computer Sci-ence, Business Instructional Facility, Illini Union, Loomis Laboratory and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.
“We thought we would just hold it once a year, maybe once a semester, and then now that we’re up to two to three times a semester, we’re still getting 200 people like last month,” Larson said. “I love it when I hear a student say that they met some-body that they were able to con-nect with at the event and they joined their team.”
Richard Kim, graduate student in LAS, discovered SocialFuse through the Cozad New Venture Competition and attended to scope out the competition. He said his team was not yet confident enough to present its own product or sure it was legally allowed to as it awaited patent processing.
“I didn’t really understand the point of the event,” Kim said. “When I went there, I didn’t even have time to eat. We were just shaking hands, trading ideas, talking to people and it was a lot of fun.”
Kim and his team devel-oped headphones that nev-
er tangle by putting them in a casing made of a dif-ferent type of plastic. After networking with people at SocialFuse, their product transformed from head-phone casings to an entirely new proto-type in two months.
But a law-yer advised them against
presenting their idea before the patent was ready in case some-one tried to steal it. At the same time, Kim had been developing dental equipment with a friend that was ready to be pitched.
“It was nerve-wracking. I thought I was ready but I really wasn’t,” he said “When you get up on stage with people watch-ing you and cameras, it’s just a different experience, but I was really happy I did it. It was invaluable.”
SocialFuse
When: Wednesday, 6 to 8 p.m.Where: Ikenberry Commons, Room 2025 A & BHow: Free
The Art of
Glass Blowing
ELISEO ELIZARRARAZ THE DAILY ILLINIJason Mack uses a blow torch to mold a pendant out of glass rods in his workshop in Champaign on Monday. He will be holding classes teaching glass blowing in April and May.
SocialFuse helps students turn ideas into reality
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“The whole idea is to help people from
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CEO OF MISS POSSIBLE
With the modernization of living on campus, amenities offered at apartment complexes expand to
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Editors Note: Before the start of the Big Ten basketball tournament Wednesday, The Daily Illini basketball staff evaluated each team and its chances in the tournament.
1. WISCONSIN (28-3, 16-2 Big Ten)
The No. 6 Badgers will look to continue their domi-nance heading into the Big Ten tournament. Wisconsin is the front-runner to end up with the Big Ten’s automat-ic bid to the NCAA tourna-ment — the team has won 13 of its past 14 games and has only dropped two conference games on the season.
2. MARYLAND (26-5, 14-4)
Led by freshman star Melo Trimble’s 16.1 points per game, No. 8 Maryland may be the team with the best odds of taking down Wisconsin. The Terrapins are on a seven-game winning streak of their own and are one of two teams to knock off the Badgers in confer-ence play.
3. MICHIGAN STATE (21-10, 12-6)
Michigan State’s physical-ity has catapulted the team to third place in the confer-ence and into a double-bye in the conference tournament. The Spartans lead the Big Ten in offensive rebounding and rebounding margin and need to use their edge on the glass if they hope to make it into the tournament semi-fi nals. Tom Izzo’s team has made the NCAA tournament for 17 straight seasons.
4. PURDUE (20-11, 12-6)Purdue ended the season
winning nine of its last 12 games, but an inconsistent start to the season has the Boilers still on the NCAAA tournament bubble. Purdue is one of the biggest teams in the country — the Boiler-makers are one of four teams in the NCAA with two play-ers over 7-feet — and will need to use that size to its advantage.
5. IOWA (21-10, 12-6)Senior Aaron White is
the key to Iowa making a run. White is seventh in the Big Ten in scoring, at 15.9 points per game, and third in rebounding, at 7.4 rebounds per game, and has led Iowa to six straight wins to end the regular season. If Iowa wants to make an impact in White’s fi nal conference tournament, it has to fi rst get past the winner of Nebraska and Penn State.
6. OHIO STATE (22-9, 11-7)
Ohio State comes into the Big Ten tournament after a major letdown in its reg-ular season fi nale against Wisconsin. The Badgers blew out the Buckeyes by 24 points, even though Ohio State entered on a three-game winning streak. Ohio State is second in the con-ference in both scoring and scoring defense and needs to get back to that level to advance past its tournament opener against either Minne-
sota or Rutgers.7. INDIANA (19-12, 9-9)The Hoosiers also come
into the tournament follow-ing a loss — theirs coming against Michigan State. Indiana leads the con-ference in scoring at 78 points per game, but is last in the conference in scor-ing defense, allowing 71.8 points per game. The Hoo-siers need to improve defen-sively in order to beat North-western and face Maryland in the next round.
8. ILLINOIS (19-12, 9-9)Illinois dropped its fi nal
game of the season to Pur-due and, in the process, fell off the NCAA tournament bubble. The Illini will need to make a deep run in the Big Ten tournament to put them back in contention for a spot in the Big Dance. Seniors Rayvonte Rice, Nnanna Egwu and Ahmad Starks have been playing their best basketball lately and are key to the team’s NCAA tourna-ment hopes.
9. MICHIGAN (15-15, 8-10)
Michigan will start the
tournament against Illi-nois, a team the Wolverines have played twice. Michi-gan was inconsistent down the stretch, winning its last game of the regular sea-son, but dropping three of its previous four. If the Wol-verines want to move past Illinois, their offensive play will have to be defi ned by freshman Aubrey Dawkins, who scored 31 points against Rutgers to end the season, and whose 43.9 3-point per-centage is third in the Big Ten.
10. NORTHWESTERN (15-16, 6-12)
Northwestern will need to shutdown a high-powered Indiana offense and rely on junior Tre Demps and fresh-man Bryant McIntosh offen-sively to advance to the next round of play against Mary-land. The Wildcats beat the Hoosiers 72-65 on Feb. 25 during a four-game winning streak late in the season.
11. MINNESOTA (17-14, 6-12)
A season that started
In what was deemed a “disappointing” bas-ketball season for
the Big Ten by many pun-dits (myself included) in the middle of the season, it’s ironic that the confer-ence now has a chance to lead the nation in NCAA tournament berths.
The Big Ten tournament tips off Wednesday after-noon at the United Center in Chicago, and there are three bubble teams still fi ghting to punch tickets to the Big Dance. Purdue, Indiana and Illinois have the most to gain this week. The Boilermakers (20-11, 12-6 Big Ten) ended the season winning nine of their fi nal 12 games, and as a result, Matt Painter’s bunch breathes the easiest among the fringe schools.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Boilermakers — who earned the No. 4 seed in the Big Ten — make a run for the tournament title. A.J. Hammons has been invaluable to them at the center position as of late, and they boast the confer-ence’s Defensive Player of
the Year in Rapheal Davis. Five Big Ten teams
— No. 6 Wisconsin, No. 8 Maryland, Iowa, Ohio State and Michigan State — are shoo-ins to make the national tourney. The Bad-gers (28-3, 16-2 Big Ten) are looking to nab a No. 1 seed. Barring any mishaps in their conference tour-naments, Duke, Virginia and Kentucky have the top three overall seeds prac-tically locked up, but that fourth No. 1 seed is still up for grabs. Led by Big Ten Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky, I think Wiscon-sin will reach the Big Ten championship game Sun-day afternoon, where they will likely face the Terra-pins (26-5, 14-4 Big Ten).
Maryland enters its fi rst-ever Big Ten tournament after earning win No. 26 — a regular season record for the program. If I’m an opponent, I’m not looking forward to matching up with Dez Wells, the Terps’ 6-foot-5 star swingman. The 215-pound senior pos-sesses the size and speed of an NFL running back, allowing him to muscle his way into the paint and fi n-ish with authority. Wells is averaging 18.7 points over his last seven outings, and
BY MICHAL DWOJAKASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Last season, the Illinois baseball team went 4-2 in midweek games, some-thing the players were not proud of and warned against heading into Tues-day’s home opener against Chicago State.
That lull was non-exis-tent for Illinois, who put on an offensive clinic at Illi-nois Field against Chicago State. The Illini recorded 14 hits and scored runs in fi ve innings, including four straight, to beat the Cou-gars 7-3.
“Coming off a couple big wins against Oklaho-
BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER
Editor’s Note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down each week and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.
W hen Isaiah Mar-tinez signed with the Illinois wres-tling program in
November of 2012 as the No. 3 overall recruit in the nation, he told reporters one thing:
“I want to win an NCAA championship all four years.”
Enthusiasm and self-con-fidence is nothing unex-pected from an 18-year-old signing with a Big Ten perennial wrestling power-house, but it’s safe to say that Martinez’s claim was a bit far-fetched for some-one who was yet to step foot onto the mat with a collegiate opponent.
“As an incoming fresh-man, I was just talking,”
Martinez said. “I didn’t really understand what it took to be at this kind of level, but I’m glad I’m here. It’s been a long time com-ing, and it feels awesome.”
Now just over two years after committing, the red-shirt freshman is proving to the nation that betting on himself was the safest bet he could have made.
“Out of high school, he was one of the top recruits,” assistant head coach Mark Perry said. “I don’t think people could have predicted such suc-cess this early, if ever.”
“Successful” is an under-statement for describing the type of season Marti-nez is having. He has won 34 consecutive matches dating back to his red-shirt season. He boasts a record of 30-0 (9-0 Big Ten), his 1-0 victory over Nebraska’s then-No. 4 and 2014 NCAA third-place wrestler James Green is the only match this season with a margin of victory less than two points. Marti-nez is already in the top 30 in Illinois wrestling histo-
ry for wins in a season and ranks fourth on WIN Mag-azine’s list of most domi-nant Division I wrestlers.
The freshman took the next crucial step in his journey to his first NCAA title by breezing through the 157-pound bracket of the Big Ten tournament as the No. 1 seed last weekend in Columbus, Ohio.
After a first-round bye, Martinez registered his NCAA-leading 10th win by technical fall in a 24-9 win against Penn State’s Luke Fey in his quarterfinal matchup. In the semifinal round, Martinez cruised to an 11-6 win over Purdue’s
Doug Welch to claim his spot in the final against Minnesota’s No. 2-seed Dylan Ness, who did not wrestle Martinez during Minnesota’s home dual against the Illini due to flu-like symptoms.
The unfami l iar ity seemed to have no effect on Martinez, however, as he ultimately defeated Ness 12-5 to be crowned a Big Ten Champion.
“We’re always prepared for anything,” Perry said. “He’s very coachable, that’s the big thing. He fol-lowed the gameplan we put
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#5 Iowa
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#4 Purdue
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Illinois 7, Chicago State 3Summary: The Illini scored seven runs and scored in four straight innings to take care of the Cougars 7-3.Key Performer: Designated hitter Pat McInerney went 2-for-3 with three RBIs to help Illinois’ solid offensive performance.Quote of the game: Head coach Dan Hartleb on bullpen — “They need to do a better job in these types of situations in order to earn playing time.”Up next: vs. Southern Illinois, Fri-Sun at Illinois Field
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Honorable MentionsRayvonte Rice (men’s basketball) — The senior guard led Illinois in scoring in both of its games against Nebraska and Purdue, scoring 23 and 25 points, respectively.
David Kerian (baseball) — The senior fi rst baseman hit the go-ahead two-run home run in the top of the 10th inning to help Illinois win two of three against No. 10 Oklahoma State from the weekend.
together and executed it. ... I think we could have wid-ened the gap even more.”
“I don’t get shell-shocked by the crowd,” Martinez added. “The crowd actu-ally pumps me up. Just being in big tournaments and high-pressure situa-tions all my life has pre-pared me to wrestle at this level.”
With the victory, Mar-
tinez earned himself an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, where he will undoubtedly be the No. 1 overall seed at 157 pounds, and grabbed the Big Ten Freshman of the Year hon-ors as well.
All Illinois coaches cred-it Martinez’s success with the amount of work he puts in on and off the mat and rave about high motor and refusal to let up. Head coach Jim Heffernan went as far to say the freshman is ready to wrestle as soon
as he gets off the bus.“He can’t wait to get in
the gym and wrestle peo-ple,” Heffernan said. “The things he does on the mat, he’s just a superstar.”
Martinez believes he gets his relentless work ethic from his upbringing. Growing up in a middle-class family, Martinez had to work for everything he’s ever had and his wrestling has always been a product of his lifestyle.
“My parents worked every single day, 8-10
hours,” Martinez said. “Just the way they raised me, I was never really giv-en anything. Everything I did I’d have to work for. I translated that into wres-tling, because it was my only outlet. As far as ath-letics, I wasn’t really any good at anything else.”
If Martinez does go on to win the national cham-pionship, like he predict-ed in 2012, he will be the third Illini wrestler behind Matt Lackey in 2003 and Eric Siebert in 1998 to fin-
ish an undefeated season. The last Illinois wrestler to win the NCAA tournament at 157 pounds was Ernest Benion in 1995, but both Martinez and his coaches believe the history books will be rewritten in St. Louis March 19-21.
“Right now, for him and our staff, its tunnel vision for the next 10 days,” Per-ry said.
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Spring may be the time to crown the national champion in college
basketball, but it is also the time when the poten-tial national champion in college football makes its first steps toward a cham-pionship run. As spring practices start up around the country, college foot-ball’s perennial contenders begin to get the first look at what they should expect come the end of August.
What better time to fig-ure out some of the top sto-rylines to follow for four teams in four of the major conferences as spring practices kickoff?
Penn StateThough there are plenty
other teams in the Big Ten with qualitatively more interesting spring story-lines (Ohio State and Mich-igan), arguably the most intriguing Big Ten team is the Nittany Lions.
Though Penn State end-ed 2014 with a victory in the Pinstripe Bowl, the team was by all accounts a train wreck on the offense inside the ball. Last sea-son, the Nittany Lions ranked No. 120 in rush-ing offense and allowed 44 sacks, which ranked near-ly dead last in the FBS.
To make matters worse, sophomore quarterback Christian Hackenberg regressed following a strong freshman season. Hackenberg threw more interceptions than touch-downs a year ago, tossing only 12 touchdown pass-es compared to the 20 he threw in 2013. These offen-sive struggles manifested in an offense that averaged a mere 20 points per game.
To improve the anemic offense and allow Hacken-berg to reach the poten-
tial he brought with him to State College, Pa., as one of the top recruits three years ago, Penn State’s focus was primarily on patching up the offensive line. The two new additions to the offensive line that James Franklin is hop-ing to see pay dividends are junior-college transfer Paris Palmer and highly-touted O-line recruit Ster-ling Jenkins.
If the Nittany Lions can get any semblance of decent production on the offensive line, Hackenburg might have the breakout season everyone has wait-ed on and Penn State may have a chance to contend in the tough Big Ten East.
AuburnThe Tigers enter the
spring having signed the nation’s top recruit. Auburn made headlines on signing day by landing defensive end Byron Cow-art. It is their first step in shifting the balance of power in the SEC West away from Alabama.
The big emphasis for Auburn during the spring will be on adjusting to a new defensive system in the first year under defen-sive coordinator Will Mus-champ. Given that the Tigers ranked near the bottom among SEC defens-es and gave up 55 points to Alabama, rekindling the defense is the main thing to watch with Auburn dur-ing the spring.
It will be interesting to see what role Cow-art has as a true fresh-man in Muschamp’s sys-tem. Either way, Auburn has built a solid founda-tion for the future with one of the game’s top defen-sive minds and one of the game’s breakout defensive ends.
USCIf any team has the
ability to overtake Ore-gon as the premier team
in the Pac-12, it could be the Trojans. USC had the top recruiting class in 2015, which was heavy on defense as it signed four five-star prospects. Lead-ing the 2015 class is the No. 7 overall prospect and top rated cornerback Iman Marshall.
The key to watch with the Trojans, outside of the impact made by their top recruiting class, is how well senior quarterback Cody Kessler can replicate the success through the air he had last season. Kes-sler threw for almost 4,000 yards last season, includ-ing 39 touchdown passes and a nearly 70 percent completion rating.
It’s important to keep in mind that Kessler and the USC offense will have to deal with a relative-ly young and inexperi-enced wide receiver corps. The Trojans lost their top receiver of a year ago, Nel-son Agholor, to the NFL draft. To replace his pro-duction, the Trojans will look to sophomore receiv-
er Juju Smith, who totalled more than 700 yards as a true freshman. Smith is likely to be the favorite target for Kessler in the USC passing attack.
Another solid season from Kessler, as well as the nation’s top recruit-ing class, might be just what the Trojans need to overtake the Ducks as the kings of the West Coast.
Florida StatePerhaps more than any
other team in the nation, the Seminoles will like-ly have one of the big-ger adjustment periods throughout the spring and into next season. This is a result of the simple real-ity that Florida State lost 11 starters from last year to graduation for the NFL draft. This includes five underclassmen, most nota-bly Jameis Winston.
The loss of Winston will be the most difficult to replace. The most likely candidate to replace one of the best quarterbacks
in Florida State history is sophomore Sean Magu-ire. Maguire only threw 49 passes all of last season, in mostly mop up duty. His only start last season was against Clemson, when Winston was suspended. Maguire has enormous shoes to fill, so it should not come as a surprise if Flor-ida State largely regresses at the quarterback position.
The best way for Flor-ida State to take pres-sure off the new starter under center is to rely on the ground production of sophomore running back Dalvin Cook. Cook ran for more than 1,000 yards as a true freshman, and should be expected to shoulder an even greater load in 2015. He will likely enter the season as one of the top running backs in the country and maybe even a potential Heisman Trophy candidate.
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Illini look to solidify backup QB positionBY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER
Illinois football’s Chayce Crouch, a likely candidate for backup quarterback behind Wes Lunt, has anoth-er trick up his sleeve.
There’s no question Lunt will be the Illini’s starting quarterback in the fall, but with the departures of Reil-ly O’Toole (to graduation) and Aaron Bailey (who will transfer to Northern Iowa), the bench is already look-ing thin.
Head coach Tim Beck-man said in a news confer-ence Tuesday that Crouch is competing this spring to also become Illinois’ start-ing punter. Crouch will bat-tle for the position with kick-ers David Reisner and Ryan Frain.
“You’d be amazed, he’s got a very, very strong leg,” Beckman said. “Of course, having a quarterback back there puts some things in mind for the defense that has to defend him.”
Beckman said fresh-men quarterbacks Jimmy Fitzgerald and Jeff George Jr. will compete for the third-string quarterback position.
But with Lunt’s laundry list of injuries in his past, and Crouch vying to play another position, the Illinois’ quarter-back situation isn’t concrete.
According to Beckman, “It’s not a concern.”
Coaching changesOn the defensive end,
Beckman said the staff is looking to incorporate co-defensive coordinator Mike Phair’s previous experience into the defensive mix.
The former NFL coach spent the last 13 years between the Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“It’s no different from oth-er places I’ve been,” Phair said. “The things you empha-size on defense is stopping the run and taking the ball
away.”Illinois’ defense strug-
gled last season, posting the worst numbers in the Big Ten. The team allowed 456.4 yards — including 239.2 on the ground — and 34 points per game.
What does Phair’s involve-ment mean for co-defensive coordinator Tim Banks, who spent last year as the team’s sole coordinator? “We’ll see,” Beckman said.
Banks said his role with Phair around isn’t much dif-ferent from last season.
The move allows Beckman to put more personal focus on other areas such as the spe-cial teams. Along with the defense, the Illini special teams struggled last season.
Alex Golesh will be assist-ing with special teams. Golesh also coaches run-ning backs and tight ends, and serves as the team’s recruiting coordinator.
The Illini struggled to make field goals and extra points last season, switching
between Reisner and Taylor Zalewski as the place kicker.
The pair missed three point after attempts and were 7-for-13 (55.8 percent) on field goals throughout the season.
Despite the hills yet to climb for Illinois, there’s a sense of confidence rippling through the coaching staff.
“The fact that we got to a bowl game was a big deal,” Banks said. “People under-stand we’re on an upswing.”
Illinois begins spring practice Saturday at Memo-rial Stadium. The spring game is April 18.
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Potential contenders emerge in major conferences
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Wes Lunt passes the ball during the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl against Louisiana Tech on Dec. 26. Lunt returns as the Illini’s starting quarterback for 2015.
LUIS SINCO LOS ANGELES TIMESUSC quarterback Cody Kessler escapes the grasp of UCLA defensive lineman Owamagbe Odighizuwa on Nov. 22, at the Rose Bowl. UCLA won, 38-20.
DAN ESCALONA
Sports columnist
he’ll be a force to be reck-oned this week in Chicago and throughout the rest of the month.
The best individual matchup might come in the bottom portion of the bracket Saturday after-noon if Maryland matches up with Ohio State. Fresh-men Melo Trimble and D’Angelo Russell have been two of the most elec-trifying Big Ten guards this season. The Buck-eyes took care of business against the Terrapins on Jan. 29 by a score of 80-56, but something tells me a potential rematch would be more competitive.
B1G MistakeIn one of the more ridic-
ulous stories to come out of college sports recently, the Big Ten has suggested
the NCAA make freshmen athletes ineligible. While such a scenario is unlike-ly to come to fruition, it’s hilarious that such a ban is even being discussed.
Purdue athletic director Morgan Burke told ESPN he’s “tired of being used as a minor league for pro-fessional sports,” and that he wants to go back to the NCAA policy that prohibit-ed freshmen participation before a reversal in 1972. But Burke fails to real-ize the glaring reason why freshmen are so important to college basketball. Why should we have to wait an extra year to watch a play-er of Jahlil Okafor’s cali-ber dominate?
I don’t personally know Burke or anyone else involved — but to me, it sounds like a bunch of old guys sitting in a room try-ing to figure out the best way to take the fun out of the game. The policy wouldn’t eliminate one-
and-dones — players would simply leave to go to the NBA a year later. Top prospects would spend two years in college, but still only spend one year on the court before leaving for the pros.
The fact that the Big Ten was the conference to start the discussion about a blanket ban for the NCAA is confusing. Three of the conference’s most excit-ing players — Ohio State’s D’Angelo Russell, Mary-land’s Melo Trimble and Indiana’s James Blackmon, Jr. — are, yep, you guessed it, freshmen. Oh, and isn’t the Big Ten responsible for one of the most talk-ed-about, polarizing col-lege basketball teams ever assembled, the 1991 Fab Five Michigan Wolverines? And didn’t the starting five consist of all freshmen?
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with significant promise for head coach Richard Pitino’s team ended with the Golden Gophers fall-ing into the 11-seed in the Big Ten tournament. The Gophers have shot the ball well from three and fin-ished third in the Big Ten in 3-point percentage and scoring. They need to find consistency in the tourna-ment in order to get past Rutgers and give Ohio State a run for its money.
12. NEBRASKA (13-17, 5-13)
Much like Minnesota, Nebraska also failed to live up to expectations. The Cornhuskers were a preseason top-25 team but lost eight straight to end the year. Despite holding the 12-seed, Nebraska is a dangerous team offensively — juniors Terran Petteway and Shavon Shields rank in
the top 10 in scoring in the conference and have the ability to take over games.
13. PENN STATE (16-15, 4-14)
Penn State is danger-ous at times offensive-
ly — senior D.J. Newbill leads the Big Ten at 20.7 points per game. The Nit-tany Lions seem to play every team tough but will have a difficult time get-ting past Nebraska in the first round. The Nittany Lions don’t have a second-ary scorer to give Newbill a break and Nebraska’s man-to-man defense could shut down Penn State.
14. RUTGERS (10-21, 2-16)
The Scarlet Knights limp into the tournament on a 14-game losing streak. Rut-gers went 2-16 in its first season in the Big Ten and
will more than likely drop one more game against a Big Ten foe this season — it will start the Big Ten tournament against 11-seed Minnesota. The Gophers beat the Scarlet Knights 89-80 on Jan. 17 in the teams’ only previous meet-ing this season.
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The Illini will need to make a deep run in the Big Ten tournament to put them back in contention for a
spot in the Big Dance.
ma State, it’s definitely one of those games where your energy level isn’t going to be as high,” second base-man Reid Roper said. “I think scoring first was an important thing and got us back into the mojo of hav-ing to win this game.”
Illinois (12-3-1) wasted no time getting on the score-board. Shortstop Adam Wal-ton led the game off with a single, but was thrown out at second when he tried to extend the hit into a double. Casey Fletcher walked and advanced to third after a failed pick-off attempt by Chicago State pitcher Zach Thomas. He was driven in on single from second base-man Reid Roper.
The Illini got back to scoring in the bottom of the third. After being hit by a pitch, it seemed as if the Cougar defense caught Fletcher between bas-es. However, the umpire called a balk on Thomas, advancing Fletcher to sec-ond. After a Roper walk and a Nagle fly out, desig-nated hitter Pat McIner-ney ripped a two-out dou-ble deep into left-center to score both base runners and give Illinois the 3-0 lead.
Walton added another run in the bottom of the fourth when he hit a dou-ble deep into left-center that bounced off the wall and scored Will Krug from second base.
In the fifth, McInerney continued his hot, offen-sive day with a double into deep left-center that barely stayed in the park, scoring Roper from second. First baseman David Kieran add-ed onto Illinois’ lead with a single down the first base line that drove in McIrnery from second and gave the Illini a 6-0 lead.
Starter Rob McDonnell pitched a strong six innings for the Illini, striking out four and only giving up five hits. With a strong offen-sive effort, the senior pitch-er made quick work of the Cougars, only facing trou-ble in the fourth and fifth innings.
Despite the strong start from McDonnell, the bull-pen had some trouble securing the win. Fresh-man relief pitcher Doug Hayes entered the game in the seventh and gave up a two-run double to Chicago State’s Julian Russell. But the right fielder Fletch-er threw out two Cougars at the plate in the inning, preventing any more runs from scoring.
Nick Blackburn came in the eighth inning and allowed three hits and a run on a Jordan Stroschein single. Blackburn avoided more trouble by picking off the Cougar’s right fielder at first base to end the inning.
After McDonnell’s per-formance, head coach Dan Harleb wasn’t happy with his bullpen.
“When you give up three hits in three innings, that’s not very good,” Hart-leb said. “We need to be sharper out of the bullpen. ... They need to do a better job in these types of situa-tions in order to earn play-ing time.”
Illinois will have the day off Wednesday and will practice Thursday in prep-aration for hosting South-ern Illinois this weekend. After a nice midweek win, Illinois is focused on taking care of business against its in-state rival.
“I was thinking about treating that as a state championship,” Roper said. “You don’t want your in-state school to beat you, so we need to get fired up about it and take it as a challenge.”
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BY JOE REXNODETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State wide receiver Macgarrett Kings Jr. had a blood-alcohol con-tent of 0.18 after his Feb. 28 arrest in East Lansing for kicking a parking vehi-cle, and he initially resisted the arrest, according to the East Lansing Police report.
Kings, who will be a senior in the fall, has been charged with drunk-en and disorderly conduct and obstructing, resist-ing, hindering or assault-ing a police officer. Both are misdemeanors punishable by up to 93 days in jail and $500 in fines. He has a pre-trial hearing scheduled for March 19 in East Lansing District Court 54-B.
When news of Kings’ arrest came last week, MSU coach Mark Danto-nio responded in a state-ment: “We’re aware of the incident. All of our stu-dent-athletes are held to a high standard, and individ-uals will be held account-able for their actions. We will manage this situation internally.”
The police report, obtained via the state’s open-records laws, includ-ed the account of arrest-ing officer Travis Bove,
who wrote that a group of males stopped a parking-enforcement truck as it was trying to turn down an alley in downtown East Lansing. Kings then “ran after the truck,” Bove wrote, “(and) when he caught up to it, I watched him jump into the air and kick the back of the truck.”
Bove wrote that he approached Kings, iden-tified himself as “police” and tried to arrest him while telling the uniden-tified males with Kings to back away.
Kings was suspended for most of spring football a year ago, after an April 6 arrest for operating while intoxicated and driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol content of 0.17 or above, which is sub-ject to Michigan’s “super drunk” laws. Kings’ blood-alcohol content registered a 0.234 on his preliminary breath test, nearly three times the legal limit of 0.08.
Kings has 76 catches for 942 yards in 35 career games, including four starts.
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BY LAUREN MROZSTAFF WRITER
In the back dining room of the Esquire Lounge in down-town Champaign, Shorty Eichelberger makes her way to her usual front table with three or four close friends. As she enters the restau-rant, the 87-year-old woman greets other friends and fel-low Illini fans with a moth-erly air. With a big smile on her face, Shorty slowly moves through the restau-rant, recognizing just about every face in the room.
It’s a quarter to five, and the usual Monday night crowd is gathering for a weekly radio show.
Shorty comes off as just a sweet old woman, catching up on the week’s events with her typical company as they wait for the show to begin.
Wearing her orange sweat-er and Illini scarf, Shorty doesn’t stand out from the Illini fans standing next to her. But she’s more involved than almost anyone. Her unique connection with the University of Illinois dates back as far as the 1940s.
Growing up in Mason City, Ill., sports became a focal point of Shorty’s life in high school. She joined the Girls Athletic Association and participated in its activi-ties. Although her moth-er played softball before World War II, she insisted that Shorty study home eco-nomics at Illinois; however, sports were still her major emphasis.
After graduating from the University, she taught for six years in Fisher, Ill., where she met her husband, Paul Eichelberger, another sports enthusiast.
When the couple married, Shorty and Paul each had $2,000 in the bank. A year later, Paul was drafted for military service in the Kore-
an War. When he returned two years later, Shorty told Paul that she expected they’d eventually have children. She said she didn’t want to work for the rest of her life, meaning they would need to start living off his income.
But then the couple moved to Champaign, where Shorty taught for another 34 years. She taught home economics at Champaign High School, and in 1963 she was instru-mental in founding Centen-nial High School. She taught there until retiring in 1989. The couple never had any children.
The Eichelbergers’ used Shorty’s income to go on vacations. But, because she was teaching during the week and working toward her master’s degree on the weekends, the pair didn’t have time for many trips and had saved up a lot of money toward the end of Shorty’s teaching career.
After Shorty retired, Paul was diagnosed with emphy-sema and the couple feared that he would not live for long. From the suggestion of a lawyer and the president of a local bank, the Eichel-bergers decided they should pick a beneficiary for their money.
When an adviser asked what she wanted to do with the money, Shorty respond-ed, “It’s the University that helped us make it. We should think about that.”
Paul said, “That’s a good idea, but I don’t want my name on anything.”
There was a long silence. Everybody looked at every-one else.
Finally, Paul said, “Well, I guess whoever is left can make that decision.”
Softball had always had a place in the Eichelbergers’ hearts. Though Shorty nev-er played, of the seven boys
in Paul’s family, five played amateur fast-pitch softball. After the couple married, they spent their summer weekends at softball games.
Some 25 years before the Eichelbergers discussed where they would put their savings, Shorty wondered what it would take to create an Illinois softball team. Dr. Karol Kahrs, who was hired by the University in 1974 to create and develop the wom-en’s athletics program, told her a softball team was in the master plan, but could take a while. At the time, Shorty asked how much it would cost to build a softball field and Kahrs said about $300,000.
In the late 1990s, when the Eichelbergers met with their financial advisers, Kahrs told Shorty that an Illinois softball team looked like a possibility.
Paul passed away in 1997. Ground broke in 1999 and
Eichelberger Field was dedi-cated in 2000.
However, the process between the Eichelberg-ers’ donation and the ded-ication of the field didn’t go as smoothly as Shorty expected.
The original plan showed that the field would stand along Florida Avenue. But Ron Guenther, the athletic director at the time, said that the plan wouldn’t work due to its close vicinity to the base-ball field. His main concern was that on game days the teams’ could hear each oth-er’s public address systems.
But Shorty said she had dreamed the field would be on Florida Avenue.
“(Guenther) began to tell me that they had decided it would be on St. Mary’s Road. I said, ‘No, I’m not interested in that at all.’”
When the athletic depart-ment presented additional
reasons why the field could not be built on Florida Ave-nue, Shorty simply respond-ed, “Well, then it won’t be built with our money.”
Another issue was that the College of Agriculture was raising farm animals on the land. After negotiations con-cluded, it was decided that the poultry research in the area would stay, but the rest of the animals would move to make room for Eichelberg-er Field.
Eichelberger Field was eventually built at 1201 W.
Florida Avenue in Urbana, where it stands today.
Shorty built a close rela-tionship with players and she and head coach Terri Sulli-van developed a mother-daughter-like relationship. Insisting on covering her own expenses, Shorty trav-eled with the team for sever-al years — the times remind-ed her of the summers she had cherished with her hus-band years before.
“From start to finish, she is the No. 1 Illini softball fan,” Sullivan said. “We’re
all a big fan of hers as well. Some donors keep their dis-tance after contributing to a program, but since our pro-gram began, she’s always stayed involved. There’s no better fan. She’s part of the Illini family for sure.”
Shorty has season tickets for multiple Illini sports, but the softball team is her pride and joy. It is a connection to her husband, and it is her family.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ATHLETICSShorty Eichelberger joined members of the Illinois softball team and DIA staff and at the Eichelberger Field Groundbreaking Ceremony April 2000.
Meet Shorty: Illini softball’s biggest fan
WR Kings’ pretrial hearing set
Frank Gore is on his way to what promises to be his new home — Indianapolis.
According to ESPN, the long-time 49ers run-ning back, who initially was going to sign with the Eagles, instead will sign a three-year, $12 million deal with the Colts. Gore has been curious for months about how he’d fit with a Colts offense that’s run by one of the top quarterbacks in the league, Andrew Luck.
Gore and another Uni-versity of Miami product,
receiver Andre Johnson, are traveling to Indianap-olis together. If both sign with the Colts, they will be reunited with offensive
coordinator Rob Chudzin-ski, who had the same job with the Hurricanes when Gore and Johnson were players.
Just minutes before the NFL free-agency peri-od began Tuesday, the Seahawks pulled off a block-buster trade, acquiring New Orleans tight end Jimmy Gra-ham and a fourth-round pick in exchange for in exchange for center Max Unger and a first-round pick.
The trade was first report-ed by the NFL Network and Fox Sports and has since been confirmed by a league source, though it is also pend-ing physicals for players.
The 28-year-old Graham is regarded as one of the most dangerous pass catch-
ing tight ends in the NFL, last year catching 85 passes for 889 yards and 10 touchdowns.
Graham last July signed a four-year contract worth $40 million.
A high-ranking Rams offi-cial has confirmed an ESPN report that quarterback Sam Bradford is in the process of being traded to Philadel-phia for Eagles quarterback Nick Foles.
There are conflict-ing reports on draft pick compensation.
If the trade is finalized, the Rams will save just under $13 million in base salary, which Bradford was sched-uled to receive this year.
Foles is due to make $1.522 million in 2015, this last year of his contract.
Bradford, 27, was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 NFL draft. He missed the Rams’ last 25 regular-sea-son games because of two knee operations.
Because of injuries, he’s
been able to start only 49 of a possible 80 games during his five seasons with the Rams.
His final year of college at Oklahoma also was wrecked by a shoulder injury.
Gore picks Colts over Eagles
PATRICK TEHAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICESan Francisco 49ers’ Frank Gore runs during the first quarter on Nov. 27, 2014, at Levi’s Stadium. After 10 years with the 49ers, Gore signed with the Indianapolis Colts on Tuesday.
Seahawks trade for Graham
DAVID T. FOSTER, III TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe New Orleans Saints’ Jimmy Graham makes a 1-yard touchdown reception over the Carolina Panthers’ Melvin White on Oct. 30, 2014. Graham was traded to the Seattle Seahawks on Tuesday.
DAVID MAIALETTI TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEPhiladelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles looks for a receiver during a game against the Indianapolis Colts on Sept. 15. Foles will suit up for the St. Louis Rams next season, who parted ways with the oft-injured Sam Bradford.
Foles to St. Louis in QB swap
JULIAN H. GONZALEZ TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEMichigan State’s Macgarrett Kings Jr. is tackled by Eastern Michigan’s Jason Beck in their football game on Sept. 20, 2014. Kings was charged with drunken and disorderly conduct and obstructing, resisting, hindering or assaulting a police officer on Feb. 28.
SPORTS BRIEFSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Rugby hosts championship
BY PETER ROMANCHUKCONTRIBUTING WRITER
It was 8:40 p.m. at the Irwin Indoor Football Facil-ity on Monday, and although practice did not officially start until nine, numerous players on the men’s rugby team were already out on the turf doing drills. All of them realize just how impor-tant this season is for their program.
The spring season always brings changes for Illinois rugby. Starting with the first practices in January, the team splits into two squads: the rugby 15s and the rugby sevens (the numbers desig-nate the number of players on the field for each team). Rugby is increasing in popu-larity throughout the United States and the world. In 2009, the IOC voted to have rugby sevens included in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil, the sport’s first appearance at the Games since 1924.
The second half of the sea-son will be especially impor-tant for the sevens team this year. The Illini will be host-ing the Big Ten champion-ships starting April 18 at the FAR fields in Urbana.
Team president Rich Dan-iels understands the opportu-nity his team has been given and has made sure to remind his teammates of its impor-tance as well.
“We’re going to want to write that date down in the calendar in bold font,” Daniels said of the Big Ten championships.
Though the team has not played a competitive match in weeks, each player on the team has his own way of keeping sharp in practice. The team opens its compet-itive season with a tourna-ment at Notre Dame begin-ning March 28th.
Mario Lozano missed all of the fall season with a broken foot and his path to becoming match-fit again has been longer than most of his teammates.
“It’s important for me just to work on the basics as much as I can,” Lozano said. “I have to have the fundamen-tals right before I get into the more flashy stuff.”
Lozano’s teammate and sevens team captain, John Huguelet, is also honing indi-vidual aspects of his game. However, Huguelet is more concerned with an area of his game that impacts his team as much as it does himself.
“Rugby is such a team sport that when I try to improve myself, I’m real-ly improving the team as a whole,” Huguelet said. “I need to be able to communi-cate effectively so that every-body can work and improve together.”
Illinois will play in two Big
Ten tournaments at Michi-gan and Iowa in April before it hosts the Big Ten champi-onships. Familiar rivals like Michigan, Indiana, Ohio State and Wisconsin are all among the list of the Illini’s opponents for those tourna-ments. Michigan and Ohio State were two of 20 teams to make it all the way to last year’s USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship.
Despite the growing Amer-ican interest in rugby and the opportunities available to Big Ten competitors, the rugby team struggles to find new players on campus who can make the time commitment.
“Sometimes it’s hard to get people who are really busy. They may have a lot of tal-ent but they can’t dedicate themselves as much to the game,” Daniels said. “It’s hard to obtain that legitima-cy (for a club sport), but that legitimacy comes with more people playing.”
The team is still looking for members. Anyone interested in playing rugby this season at Illinois should contact Rich Daniels at [email protected].
The Illini’s first spring exhibition games are this weekend at the South Side Irish Whiskey Tens tourna-ment at the Dan Ryan Woods in Chicago, Ill.
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