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Champaign Retail theft was reported at Marketplace

Mall, 2000 N. Neil St., on Friday at about 3 p.m. According to the report, the female sus-pect entered the fitting room at Macy’s and concealed several items of merchandise. The suspect was arrested and taken to the Cham-paign County Sheriff’s Office.

Mob action was reported in the 2400 block of North Neil Street on Saturday at about 2 a.m. According to the report, shots were fired but no victim or offender was located.

Theft of a motor vehicle was reported in the 300 block of East Clark Street on Friday at about 10 p.m. According to the report, the victim reported theft of his vehicle, which is a silver Chrysler Town & Country with an Illi-nois license plate number of H211553.

University Theft was reported at the University of Illi-

nois Arboretum, 2001 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana, on Thursday at about 10 a.m. According to the report, a University employee reported that someone had stolen several plants as well as trays of plants from a nearby greenhouse. The plants have an estimated value of $395.

Urbana Theft, aggravated battery, domestic bat-

tery and vehicle trespass was reported in the 1700 block of East Florida Avenue on Sunday at around 8 a.m. According to the report, the offender and victim #1 were in a dating rela-tionship. The offender battered victim #1 and stole property from him. The offender also entered victim #1’s vehicle without permission and then struck victim #2 with her vehicle. The offender was located and placed under arrest.

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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTA missing University student who disap-

peared from O’Hare Airport on May 17 was found May 22 and reunited with his family in North Carolina.

Hye Min Choi, or Joseph Choi, 19, was scheduled to leave from O’Hare to North Carolina on May 17, but after checking in his luggage, he didn’t board his flight.

Choi was reported missing on May 19, according to a Chicago Police media advisory.

His mother, who waited to receive him in North Carolina, received only his luggage, according to the report. He did not re-book another flight.

Chicago Police did not release any further information.

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BY ABRAR AL-HEETISTAFF WRITER

At a campus where a large number of Asian-Americans make up the student body, many people at the University and throughout the country were surprised when Chancellor Phyl-lis Wise became the target of racial ridicule on social media in late January of this year.

The virtual attack was spawned by students who were upset about an email sent to the cam-pus community informing them that classes would not be canceled on a projected cold day.

Students involved in the incident took to Twit-ter to vent their thoughts about the decision. This included posting derogatory comments in reference to Wise’s Chinese-American back-ground, as well as sexist comments.

According to a Division of Management Information report, 5,367 Asian-American undergraduate, graduate and professional stu-dents attend the University, making up 12.9 percent of the student body.

The episode sparked much conversation on and off campus regarding the status of inclu-sion and racial understanding in the Univer-sity community.

“What came out of the incident is an aware-ness of the campus in terms of ‘Eek, we’re still here,’” said Kaamilyah Abdullah-Span, senior associate director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Access. “I think there were some members of the community who thought that kind of stuff would never happen at the Univer-sity of Illinois because we’re so diverse. But the reality is that it does.”

Abdullah-Span oversees Inclusive Illinois, which was founded eight years ago after mem-bers of the campus felt something needed to be done in response to repeated incidents of discrimination.

“The purpose of Inclusive Illinois, kind of the mission, was to educate the campus around issues related to diversity, but more so, issues that would promote inclusion and celebrate the tremendous diversity that we do have,” she said.

Inclusive Illinois became active in the wake of the Twitter incident, hosting an event in early February titled “#OneCampus: Mov-ing Beyond Digital Hate.” The forum invited members of the community to take part in a conversation about why they believed the comments were posted and how the episode reflected the level of racial and cultural accep-tance on campus.

Associate Professor of journalism Chris Ben-son was one of the moderators at the event.

“What we discussed was the fact that when an individual is the target of hate speech, it’s not just that individual who’s affected by it,” Ben-son said. “So when a chancellor who is Asian-American is targeted, then other people who identify with her also feel that they are being targeted because the whole point of it is that she is being affected by this because of her status as an Asian-American.”

Ross Wantland is the director of the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relation’s Diver-sity and Social Justice Education department.

The department works to promote cultur-al understanding through teaching credited courses in intergroup dialogue, training faculty and staff to become more culturally competent and establishing social justice educators who hold workshops across campus on issues that the office feels are relevant to students.

“I think it’s reflective of a larger xenophobic

and anti-Asian trend that I’ve noticed in the past four or five years on campus,” Wantland said. “Most of the places we see it are Twitter and Facebook and semi-anonymous places.”

Asian-Americans were not the only group to step forward and address their experiences and thoughts on discrimination at the #One-Campus event.

“The surprising note for some people was that people in other groups — students who are Latino/Latina-American, African-Ameri-can and international students — all came for-ward and said, ‘Yeah, we were hurt by it too. And, in fact, we encounter these things all the time, where students, either because they don’t understand they’re getting into sensitive areas or because they deliberately want to hurt us,

are engaging in this kind of thing, and it’s just not publicized,’” Benson said.

Abdullah-Span said she believes that the racial comments made about Chancellor Wise were a reflection of deep-rooted misunderstand-ing and a lack of conversation. The #OneCam-pus event opened up the conversation about how such incidents of discrimination occur.

“The conclusion was: as a campus, we kind of operate in our own separate communities,” Abdullah-Span said. “And so if you’ve had very little exposure to the groups of other individu-

als and the experiences of other individuals, then what you know about those groups, that information is likely based on stereotypes of those individuals.”

Many advocates of diversity understanding on campus emphasize broadening the scope of what the “Illinois experience” can mean.

“We talk about what the Illinois experience is,” Benson said. “We need to make social awareness, what we refer to as cultural com-petence, part of the experience as well. Cultur-al competence is all about understanding your place in this society by taking time to under-stand other cultures and how we all fit together.”

There have been ongoing discussions regard-ing ways to build that cultural competence. Abdulllah-Span said the office has discussed

implementing a diversity general education requirement so that it would be embedded in the curriculum.

For the last two years, Diversity and Social Justice Education has implemented I-Connect, a mandatory workshop for first-year students. I-Connect is an hour-long diversity and inclu-sion workshop meant to increase students’ understanding of different backgrounds to develop their intercultural communication skills.

“This workshop is not a life changer, but the

notion is that it sets a stepping stone for future experiences,” Wantland said.

With this stepping stone, Wantland said, students can further understand the issues of marginalization present at the University and become conscious of avoiding its implementa-tion on their part.

“One of the striking things I heard at the #OneCampus event was several students who stepped forward and said they saw this as a segregated campus,” Benson said. “Now, that’s not literally true, but the fact that they perceive it to be suggests that there’s a problem some-where. They perceive that there are spaces on this campus where they’re not welcome, and for them, that’s as real as what were once legal barriers to their access. While the physi-cal barriers are down, that doesn’t mean that the attitudes necessarily changed.”

But not everyone shares the viewpoint that the Twitter incident was a reflection of preju-dice at the University.

“I felt that more than being a racial issue, it was more of an immaturity issue,” said Steph-anie Kim, senior in Media and Illini Media employee. “The issue was that people didn’t want to go to school.”

Kim said as an Asian-American she did not take any personal offense for the racial remarks about the chancellor being Asian.

“More than being offended, I felt that it reflected the lower state of maturity of the University, and it made me feel a little embar-rassed,” she said.

Kim said she believes the incident demon-strated just how powerful social media can be.

“If you put anything on the Internet, it can catch fire,” she said. “It showed the power of Twitter. It showed the evolution of the way we communicate and both the negative and posi-tive aspects of that.”

While this was a demonstration of the neg-ative ways in which social media was used, Kim said she believes students should take the energy they put in trying to get a snow day and instead use it to do something more beneficial.

“We’re petitioning for no school, whereas some people would die to have school — I was more concerned with this than sexism or dis-crimination,” Kim said.

Abdullah-Span said until the University resolves these lingering issues, it can’t call itself inclusive.

Organizations like Inclusive Illinois encour-age students to not only attend a one-time event, but rather to engage in something over the course of their time at the University, and to continue to work for change.

“We had an opportunity to start a conversa-tion based on the Twitter episode,” Benson said. “I think that needs to continue.”

Abdullah-Span said she does notice less toler-ance for prejudice and bigotry since she came to the University as a student 20 years ago. She said there are many more opportunities to engage with people of different backgrounds.

“Ultimately, it comes down to respecting oth-er people,” Abdullah-Span said. “Respecting other people’s practices, beliefs, values, even if they differ significantly from your own, goes a long, long way. And that’s one of the things we didn’t see with the Twitter incident: just that core value of respect.”

Abrar can be reached at [email protected].

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BY CHRISTINE OLIVOSTAFF WRITER

Students can now reach out to the entire University campus without having to gain friends, or followers, by using the iPhone and Android app, Yik Yak.

Released in November, the anonymous user app Yik Yak was designed by cofound-ers Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington. According to the Yik Yak website , the app serves as a local bulletin board for a user’s area by showing the most recent posts from other users around them, without having to know who posted the message.

“It’s a powerful tool,” Droll said. “Yik Yak can instantly send out a message on a college campus that gets to everyone with-out needing to be friends or have follow-ers, like Facebook and Twitter. Everyone should have the power to have a voice.”

Droll and Brooks both attended Furman College where they met after becoming fra-ternity brothers. Droll majored in pre-med, while Brooks originally decided to major in art, and then switched to accounting. Droll took information tech and iPhone program-ming courses during his schooling, which then lead to the two friends creating their first app, Dicho.

“Dicho, which was short for Dichotomy, was a polling app where you could just ask your friends questions like, ‘Where is everyone going out tonight?’ ‘Who is going to the sports game?’ or, ‘Do you like beer or wine better?’” Droll said.

Droll said the Dicho app fell through, but inspired the two entrepreneurs to have long discussions that led to the develop-ment of Yik Yak.

“We both put our careers on hold in the fall and came up with Yik Yak,” Droll said. “Our big vision is to make a hyper local and engaged community. Yik Yak creates an open social network, and on top of that we allow you to look into other communities.”

With the “Peek” feature on Yik Yak, Uni-versity students are able to look into con-

Controversial app Yik Yak allows anonymous info sharingversations and messages posted by stu-dents from other campuses.

Just as the Dicho app intended to do, Yik Yak offers students a way to ask where everyone is hanging out and what events are going on around campus.

After an anony-mous source look-ing to go out posted, “Lion or KAMs?” on Wednesday night, University students responded.

“Lion bro,” one anonymous student said.

“Lion for sure,” another said.

“KAMS,” the last anonymous responder said.

Although Droll and Buffington intended for Yik Yak to produce an open community for sharing information and making funny social commen-tary, some users are using the app for inappropriate and bullying purposes.

“This just in: Adam* is indeed a dirty Mexican,” one user posted.

“Would pay good money or sexual favors for some-one to take this ANTH 101 test for me... Any takers? #SeriousYak,” an anonymous source posted during finals week.

In situations where a post is highly offen-sive or targets an individual or group of individuals, the Yik Yak community has


The University of Illinois Board of Trust-ees search committee, assigned to select a University president to replace current president Robert Easter, held a meeting May 19 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Easter is set to retire at the end of the 2015 academic year.

The committee met via videoconfer-ence from locations at the University of Illinois’ campuses in Chicago, Springfield and Urbana.

Members met to discuss the search pro-cess and the criteria for the next University president. The committee aims to announce the next president by December.

Trustee Pamela Strobel and Douglas Beck, physics professor on the Urbana cam-pus, serve as the committee’s co-chairs.

The committee placed an emphasis on diversity, both in regards to the people on the committee as well as to the candidates for the next president.

“It seems that every six months or so there’s another piece of research that comes

UI search committee aims for diversity, decision on new president by Dec.

the chance to help delete it by either down voting the comment or reporting the post.

“Messages on the app can get deleted automatically if it reaches a ‘like number’ of -5,” Droll said. “If posts are reported

we suspend people. After suspensions, we see user behav-iors drastically change and real-ize that behavior is not accepted on this app.”

Droll explained that there are dif-ferent tiers of sus-pensions on Yik Yak. After a first report, the user who posted the comment gets suspended for 30 minutes. After a second report, it increases to an hour, and can go up to a three day sus-pension. If the user is reported after that, they are sus-pended indefinitely from the app.

“Posts that are usually reported target individuals or have blatant rac-ism in them,” Droll said. “We peek into all campuses and see how it’s being used. The commu-nities who use Yik

Yak do a great job of reporting that mali-cious content.”

Both co-founders confirm that the app sees more bad than good posts, however, Zack Nola, a member of Yik Yak’s media relations team, added that the app has more

than once served as a life-saving tool at other universities.

With Yik Yak’s ability to “voice concerns and issues that people aren’t normally com-fortable discussing in a forum where they are identifiable,” Nola said, Yik Yak helped prevent a suicide from happening at the University of South Carolina.

“With Yik Yak you’re allowed to be more open and share things that you don’t want your name attached to,” Droll said. “In South Carolina we had a student posting about suicidal thoughts and kids using Yik Yak were able to find him, reach out to him and basically save his life that night.”

Vanderbilt University Yik Yak users also experienced an incident in which Yik Yak reached across the campus for a positive outcome. A student’s brother had a rare form of lymphoma, and the student was hosting mouth swabs at the school to see if there were any donor matches.

“The student had posted about the mouth swab on Twitter and Facebook but the stu-dent got stuck in certain social circles,” Droll said. “But with Yik Yak he was able to share the information with everyone and one day he had 1,100 students show up to get their mouths swabbed.”

Although the app has created concerns for misuse of its intended purposes across universities, including the University of Illinois, Yik Yak has also proven to be an asset to college campuses.

“Any technology can be misused,” Droll said. “Yik Yak’s purpose is to share news, make funny jokes about campus life and have it judged based on content. The app allows for content to be judged only on con-tent. Not the person posting it.”

Christine can be reached at [email protected].

Editor’s Note: The name of a student mentioned in a Yik Yak post has been changed to protect their identity.

out that shows that the more diverse a group is, the better the decision making and the better the outcome,” Strobel said. “We’re all bringing a lot of diversity in a way, wheth-er its experience on search committees or it’s what we do for a living or who we are.”

Beck said the committee is looking for candidates not only with outstanding aca-demic records and the ability to lead, but also who are from underrepresented groups.

“In my view, the best way to make sure that we are able to have candidates from underrepresented groups is to be as care-ful and systematic and to cast the net as broadly as we can,” Beck said.

He added that there should be attention to what he called the “rising stars,” or peo-ple who show abilities as leaders at a young-er age than what the committee might be thinking.

“It’s a really interesting topic, the ris-ing stars,” Strobel said. “You take a little more risk there because you don’t have the proven record, but you can all think of great examples where someone who’s a lit-

tle younger than the typical candidate has turned out to be this incredible superstar.”

Jami Painter, assistant vice president for human resources, also talked about the importance of equal employment opportu-nity and ensuring that the search commit-tee and search firm are aware of affirma-tive action goals and the recruitment of diverse candidates.

“We need to provide opportunity to wom-en and minorities,” Painter said. “You, as a search committee, we’re gonna look to you to help us to do that — to eliminate prefer-ences, level the playing field so that every-one has an equal opportunity at this posi-tion, and, again, to cast that net as wide as we can to attract and seek minorities and women to these types of positions.”

Semi-finalist interviews are scheduled for October and eight to 10 finalists should be named in November before the final selection for president is announced in December, as currently projected.

The search committee will use the white paper to provide some factual informa-tion about the position and to describe the

goals and responsibilities for the position of president. Members of the committee hope it will provide an enticing view of the job and serve as a lead for people who are interested in the presidential search. Comments on the white paper are request-ed from committee members by Thursday morning.

The committee has also scheduled town hall meetings on the University system’s Springfield, Chicago and Urbana campuses for June 23, 24 and 25.

These meetings allow the committee to reach out to the University community and provide a connection to the search process. Additionally, the meetings will serve as a method for the search committee to learn about key issues on the campuses, as well as a way for the community to learn about the search process.

The committee’s second meeting, which Easter is expected to join, will be held on July 11 in Chicago.


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Each year, the University YMCA keeps six semi-trailers worth of items from end-ing up in landfills, thanks to a program called Dump and Run.

Dump and Run is an annual donation col-lection that allows students and community members to drop off unwanted items at the end of the school year. These items are then resold at the University’s Stock Pavilion from Aug. 23 to 24.

Kasey Umland is the project director at the University YMCA and has been volunteering with Dump and Run for 10 years.

“We keep a ton of stuff out of the trash, which is awesome,” she said.

Students could take their items to the YMCA, or to one of the 55 collection boxes set up in about 30 different locations, most of which were dorms. The boxes were pulled May 17.

For students and community members who missed the May drop off, they can still drop off their items directly at the Stock Pavilion during collection days in August.

Asako Kinase-Leggett, who works at the University’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Access, has been volunteering with Dump and Run for the past three years. She said she volunteers because of the great people and the good cause.

“It’s also very entertaining to see what peo-ple throw away,” Kinase-Leggett said.

Some of the unique things people have donated in the past years include an alliga-tor head, a full-length canoe and what Umland described as a teddy bear so big that it could wear a XXXL shirt.

Umland said what is surprising isn’t just the strange objects that are donated, but also the staggering quantities of certain items.

“A lot of it is just scale and these things that you don’t really think about buying, but then when you see how many we get, you think, ‘Wow,’” Umland said. “Like string backpacks — the world is full of string backpacks.”

When Dump and Run started, the August sale used to be held at the YMCA in Latzer Hall. Because the amount of donations has substantially grown over the years, the sale had to be moved to the Stock Pavilion.

“We keep a fraction of what is donated just because our sale is two days, and there’s only so much that we can get rid of in those two days,” Umland said. “But everything that we can’t keep, we donate to another not-for-prof-

it that either gives clothes away or has a full-year thrift shop.”

The increase in donations has created a greater need for more collec-tion locations and volunteers.

“This year we had Illini Tower and the dorms and we barely scraped by getting it all out on time,” Umland said. “The dorms wanted us to come back and pick up things that people left after we had pulled our box-es. We wanted to, but we just didn’t have the capacity. It’s definitely an all-hands-on-deck program that we can’t do without mas-sive amounts of volunteers.”

An incentive for volunteers is after help-ing out for six hours, they get to shop early and have first pick at the sale.

Umland said the sale in August brings in about $20,000 for the YMCA. While she said that’s great for the YMCA’s programs, rais-ing money is not the main purpose of Dump and Run.

“It’s great that it makes us money, but obvi-ously we wouldn’t do it if it was just about the money,” Umland said. “There are easier ways to make $20,000.”

She said the greater purpose of Dump and Run is to keep usable things out of landfills and provide affordable items to students and community members.

“It definitely has a lot of facets that fit the YMCA’s mission,” said Umland. “We do it because we want to keep the stuff out of the trash. That’s the reason it’s worthwhile to do.”

Ruta Rauber is a community volunteer who has been helping with the sale for many years. She said she gains a sense of service and satisfaction from helping with the program.

“I feel like I’m contributing to being a stew-ard of the earth,” Rauber said. “Right before the sale, I stand in the doorway, and I look around at all the stuff in all the departments and I think, ‘Wow, all this easily could have been thrown in the trash.’”


University YMCA hosts annual Dump and Run collection program

ABRAR AL-HEETI THE DAILY ILLINI“We probably had about

70 volunteers just last week for collections who

primarily went out, checked the boxes, bagged stuff up

and brought them back,” Umland said.

ABRAR AL-HEETI THE DAILY ILLINIHangers donated for the program. “Never buy hangers,” Umland said. “Just come to the sale.”This is just one example of the quantity of “random” things that are donated. “We’ll have a box that’s two foot by two foot by two foot cube, and we’ll fill it with chip clips,” Umland said.

ABRAR AL-HEETI THE DAILY ILLINIClothes are a big donation item at Dump and Run.

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STEPHANIE YOUSSEF

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A t the end of every semester since my freshman year at the University, I have gotten an email that says something

along the lines of, “Congratulations! Based on your academic achievements and nomi-nation, you have been accepted to (insert name of honor society here). We are a super duper society, and all you have to do is pay this ridiculous fee to join.”

With the most recent email being the sixth honor society to email me, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. This isn’t to say that I am not in any way flattered by the fact that I receive these emails. I am well aware of how hard I work to get good grades and am glad that my academic achievements reflect that effort.

At the same time, I remain skeptical of the idea that we need to become members of multiple honor societies for our academic achievements to matter.

Let me first differentiate between inde-pendent honor societies and the honors

Honors societies unnecessary for academic distinctionoffered by the University. Programs like James Scholar, Chancellor's Scholars and Latin honors upon graduation are all awards given directly from the University to recog-nize and reward top students.

However, the honor societies to which I am referring to are independently owned organizations that have to send out emails asking students to accept membership invi-tations and, usually, pay membership fees to join. Despite the fact that some of these independent societies are recognized by the University, paying for these organizations is unnecessary, as they are not needed to jus-tify good grades.

Sure, being recognized by an indepen-dent honor society is great and all, but the name of an honor society on a resume is no replacement for substantial academic and professional achievements that exist behind the society — nor does it make any of those achievements seem any greater. Bill Clin-ton, for example, was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. But that’s not what he is known for, as he was also the President of the United States. Being a member of an honor society did not single-handedly put him into the oval office, nor does it make any of former President Clinton’s achievements seem any more significant.

It was his already notable academic accom-plishments that allowed him to join the soci-ety in the first place — a work ethic that stands out more than the society itself. Thus, the membership was merely a paid-for pat on the back. At the same rate, joining the same honor society does not mean I have any better chance at being president someday because its membership is merely a label. It does a poor job of reflecting on what my academic accomplishments mean and what I am truly capable of.

Some may argue that there are scholar-ship opportunities available with these honor societies that we can’t find anywhere else. Where this may be true, we have to be crit-ical of just how much membership money is going toward the organization’s scholar-ships. For example, Alpha Lambda Delta, the independent freshman honor society that targets many University students, only used 35 percent of the funding it got from mem-bership fees and other sources for scholar-ships and awards in the 2012-2013 academ-ic year. The rest of the money went into administration, governance, publications and conventions.

Some may also argue that joining these societies is a part of resume building, and that being a member will tell future admis-

sions counselors and employers that one is at a good academic standing. However, it is unnecessary to go through the extra-neous and expensive effort of joining an honor society when this is something that grades can say for themselves. Employers and admissions counselors do, in fact, have eyes. They can see our grade point averages and extracurricular activities without the name of some organization and will ideally be able to tell what kind of students we are.

I am also never one to do things just for the sake of resume building. I would rather my resume be a reflection of my true likes and interests so that if employers ask me about a certain activity I listed, I can answer honestly and have my passion for that activ-ity show through.

I, for one, know that honor societies are not a motivation for me to get good grades, as doing well academically and having a good work ethic are strong merits in and of themselves.

So thank you (insert name of society here) for your offer of membership with a ridic-ulous fee, but I will respectfully decline.

Stephanie is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @syoussef22.

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Because apparently nothing matters more in the minds of young Americans than celebrity gossip, we must acknowledge that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were married on Saturday in Florence, Italy. However, it is challenging to write any more about

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stop taking over as the top trending headline.

On Friday, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger went on a killing spree near the University of California Santa Barbara campus. Seven were dead by the end of the ordeal,

including Elliot. After further investigation into the event, it was clear to Elliot’s family that he had needed additional help after they read a 137-page manifesto

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BY AUSTIN KEATINGINTERIM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The forest smelled like garlic. It’s wasn’t the scent that comes from fresh, out-of-the-oven garlic bread, or a bag of garlic cloves — it was subtle. It came from thousands of little, flowering plants; edible greens often used for salads, originating from Europe, called gar-lic mustard.

On May 14, many of these plants had their slender stems ripped out of the ground by a group of conservationists — the Master Natu-ralists. They call them an “invasive species,” a plant not native to central Illinois that kills off local plant life.

“Ecology co-evolves,” said Marilyn Leger, co-chair of the Invasive Plant Task Force. “So thousands of years ago we had these birds, these insects, these mammals, these rep-tiles — and these plants. They all developed interdependencies.”

“When you take something out of that equa-tion, when you throw something new into that equation, then you have disturbed the whole balance. That’s what we’re doing with invasive plants,” she added.

Without the controls from their places of origin, invasives like garlic mustard spread like wildfire and shroud out central Illinois natives, Leger said.

The hill the Master Naturalists were main-taining on May 14 is a prime example of this — when they first arrived to the site a few years ago, Gerry Russell, a Master Naturalist, said the area was full of garlic mustard and bush honeysuckle, another invasive plant. Nothing else really lived there, Russell added.

Now the hill, which is part of a larger site that’s being restored to a natural area park, is moving along, and with any luck, it’ll begin to look more like the Anita Purves Center, said Derek Liebert, superintendent of planning and operations for the Urbana Park District.

“We’re managing our areas as museums, as environmental education grounds, where people can learn about the importance of the grasslands, woodlands, savanna systems that were once dominant in this area and are now much less so,” he said.

Leger said she has been to the Anita Purves Center frequently, and now, after about eight

years of restoration work, she rarely sees gar-lic mustard or bush honeysuckle.

“Last year, I saw spice bush in bloom for the first time ever. It’s one of two hosts in Illinois for the Spice Bush Swallowtail. If you don’t have spice bush or sassafras, you will not have the Spice Bush Swallowtail butterfly,” she said.

Matt Balk from the Urbana Park District leads volunteers and his staff in working to get rid of invasives in natural area parks, and helped the Master Naturalists in their work on the hill.

“The volunteers are a great resource,” he said. “It seems Urbana has a lot of people inter-ested in helping, so that’s really good for us.”

Every Wednesday he takes a group of Mas-ter Naturalists to one of the four natural area parks in Urbana — Meadowbrook, Busey Woods, the Perkins Road site and Weaver Park. And then every other Saturday, he takes com-munity volunteers to the same areas.

“We’ll never run out of things to do,” said Pat Nolan, one of the volunteers that helped out at the hill.

Leger said Nolan has a point — unless more steps are taken to keep invasives from spread-ing, she said it will continue to be a growing problem.

There are a variety of ecological problems associated with invasive species, Leger said, but only about three percent of non-natives turn out to be invasive. Still, this three per-cent has disastrous effects on local plant life.

Since the leaves of bush honeysuckle decom-pose at a different rate than local plants, Leger said, they change the soil chemistry — and that affects which microorganisms will grow in the soil, causing a domino effect that hits local plant life harshly.

In addition to this, nestled between the leaves of the bush honeysuckle are berries, which have harmful effects on Illinois’ state bird.

“The male cardinal, subsisting on a diet of bush honeysuckle berries, turns out to not be that vibrant red that the ladies like. And so he doesn’t get as many opportunities to spread his genes,” Leger said. “Then you couple that with the fact that the bush honeysuckle stems are a lot stronger than the natives – they’ll build their nests lower, and that opens them up to predation.”

With those two factors added together, natu-ral areas receive 20 percent fewer fledglings, Leger said.

“If you think of the entire problem you get a little discouraged, that’s why we got to work on the bigger picture rather than working sole-ly, as much as it’s necessary, at the hands-on level,” she said.

Leger said the major problem with invasives is that a lot of them are on the market, being sold at gardening centers across the country.

Her organization focuses on remedying that.“We’re trying to work with members of the

green industry so that they will voluntarily discontinue sales, we’re trying to work with the public so that there’s less demand for inva-sives and more demand for native plants,” she said. “We’re also trying to get legislation that would add these plants to the exotic weed act.”

Austin can be reached at [email protected] and @austinkeating3.

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AUSTIN KEATING THE DAILY ILLINIMatt Balk of the Urbana Park District uproots an invasive plant, garlic mustard, on May 14. He, and his team of volunteer, took to the hill and collected several trash bags full of the plant.

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The bill, sponsored by State Rep. Nao-mi Jakobsson, D-Urbana, in the house and Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In addition to mak-ing it a crime to present false credentials for employment, it will be unlawful to use those credentials to obtain admission to an institution of higher education or for the purpose of obtaining a promotion or higher compensation in employment.

Rose sponsored the resolution in response to the employment of James Kilgore, research associate for the Cen-ter for African Studies and instructor in FAA and LAS, at the University.

“Dr. Kilgore fraudulently stole the identity of a deceased child to obtain his degree under false pretenses,” Rose said. “The University has said that it is work-ing on comprehensive background checks for employees. I look forward to working with them on this point. Should their ini-tiative have some ‘teeth’ to it, this may not be necessary.”

Rose said with the session winding down, the bill needed to be advanced back to the House of Representatives for concurrence.

Senate passes degree fraud billBill to criminalize use of false academic credentials for higher ed. admission

BY BRENDAN SONNONEMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Crab legs, shoplifting and a Heisman Trophy winner. The ingredients helped deliver one of the most bizarre college sports stories of the year.

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston made national headlines after receiving a civil citation for stealing seafood from a Tallahassee grocery store in April.

The crux of the crustacean heist, howev-er, extends past punchlines and memes of Winston stealing crabs from an area Pub-lix. FSU, albeit momentarily, became part of the ongoing dialogue about the amount of food allocated to athletes at universi-ties when Marquez White took to Twitter to defend Winston.

White, a sophomore on FSU’s football and basketball teams, wrote on his person-al Twitter account that: “FSU should feed us more than one meal a day this week and people wouldn’t have to steal food.”

He also wrote that FSU athletes received one meal per day because the dining area has limited hours during exam week. White deleted some of his Twitter updates on the topic, but national outlets had already picked up on his plight.

Florida State athletic director Stan Wil-cox addressed the tweets Tuesday during the ACC spring meetings.

“I think that there might have been a mix-up in the understanding of the hours that the training table was open,” Wilcox said.

Training table is the NCAA term for any meals the school caters for athletes rather than providing them credits for a campus dining hall or stipends for those who live off campus to purchase their own food.

A spokesperson from FSU said an evening meal was not served at the cafeteria inside the Coyle E. Moore Athletic Center during fi nals week, but “the value of the meal was provided in the student athletes’ scholar-ship check, just as it is done each week for meals not provided at Moore.”

The concerns voiced by White and oth-ers may have been squelched by new NCAA rules that go into effect Aug. 1.

Two weeks prior to Winston’s alleged theft and White’s subsequent rant, the NCAA’s legislative council approved a plan allow-ing athletes to “receive unlimited meals and snacks in conjunction with their athletics participation.”

Previously, schools could provide three meals a day or a stipend for athletes. Those who live off campus often received stipends to pay for the food at their discretion, but some athletes have opted to use the funds for other expenses and had diffi culty pay-ing for meals.

At FSU, the meal plan at the cafeteria of the Moore Center consists of two breakfasts, fi ve lunches and four dinners each week for football players, according to a FSU spokes-person. The meal schedule used is based on history of use during the past few years as well as athlete preferences and dietitian recommendations.

The change to an unlimited amount of food takes place Aug. 1. The dilemma schools face now is how to defi ne “unlimit-ed.” It has been an ongoing topic of conver-sation among coaches and athletic directors at the ACC meetings.

Coaches like FSU’s Jimbo Fisher and Miami’s Al Golden are in favor of the new rule. But with the rule comes questions.

“We’re getting so many different inter-

pretations, we need uniformity there as a body and then we can get with the NCAA and our presidents and come to a conclu-sion. It’s diffi cult for all of us right now,” Golden said. “Annually, we have to advise our players. Should they live off campus and get a check? Should they stay on campus? If they do move off campus, what meal plan should they be on?”

Fisher said part of the dialogue has involved creating a guideline to where par-ticular schools or conferences would not have an inherent advantage in being able to afford more or better quality food over others that are not as prestigious and do not bring in a similar revenue.

“That’s the fi ne line of where that’s going to go,” Fisher said. “Does it become a huge advantage? That’s where everybody has to get on the same page. Is it a huge advantage for one school or conference?

“Nothing is cut and dry, I think everybody is sorting through that. I think it’s a good thing to supplement meals between meals or at night for these kids. I mean you’re talk-ing about a lot of body, a lot of growing, a lot of work.”

Enforcing food will no longer be an issue. Schools will be able to provide a smorgas-bord for its athletes, who theoretically could get as much grub as they’d like.

The onus now falls on universities to determine how much food is too much.

FSU’s athletic department, according to Wilcox, has not yet started discussions on how it will make changes to its food dis-persal to athletes, but “that’s something we will discuss.”

Questions still linger, but the days of ath-letes complaining of hunger are likely over.

“It will never go back,” Fisher said.

Unlimited food policy solves, causes issues

BY NANCY BLACKMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Today’s BirthdayShine like a star this year. Take the micro-

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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is an 8 — Authority could get chal-

lenged. Avoid expensive power struggles. Compromise, especially regarding financial issues. Ask clients and colleagues to take a number, and handle priorities one at a time. Relax later with delicious dining.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is an 8 — Teach and learn simultane-

ously. Share what you’ve discovered the hard way. Experience can help avoid a mistake. Things may not run like clockwork... it could seem more like fits and starts. You’ll get far-ther with good manners.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is a 7 — Strengthen body, mind and

spirit with peaceful meditation and exercise. It

doesn’t matter if the routine’s rocky or undis-ciplined. Don’t touch your seed money. Sched-ule carefully, to include luxuries like quiet solitude, music, or introspection. Remember what you’ve been taught.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is a 7 — Handle chores before you

go play. Friends and groups offer fun oppor-tunities. You can have it all. Watch out for pro-crastinations like video games or TV. Repair any chinks in the infrastructure. Pay bills, then get supplies for a barbecue or picnic. Bask in the sun.

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and follow regulations and instructions care-fully. Read the small print. Favor private over public endeavors. Remind someone of your love.

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partner. Handle a disagreement in private. Don’t worry about status. Stay true to your-self. Bring your best game, identify the poten-tial goal, and go for it. Grow family wealth.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is a 7 — Have what you want deliv-

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is an 8 — Chaos or confusion at work

could distract. Don’t dig too deeply into sav-ings. Get bids before you commit. Question tradition, and try something new. Hire a pro-fessional. Invest in the tools you need to get the job done. Prioritize your health.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is a 7 — Don’t over-extend with all

this fun and play. Push too hard and something could break. Relax, get quiet, and the sense of overwhelm diminishes. Slowly plug along, and get farther. Family is there for you.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 7 — It’s a good time to make

changes for the better at home. Cutting cor-ners costs you. Even if disordered and dis-organized, improvements provide relief and welcome comforts.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 7 — Learn from objections.

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The Chicago Cubs hired former MLB superstar Manny Ramirez to be a player-coach for the Triple A Iowa Cubs this past weekend and despite the gut reaction, it wasn’t a mistake.

It was a shocking move for the Cubs to risk distraction for perfor-mance, but the latter doesn’t lie.

He was at times controversial, with his career span of “Manny Moments” which came to a climax in 2011 with Tampa Bay.

Ramirez retired quickly in early April after joining the team that season, which was then found to be the result of testing positive for performance enhancing drugs and was slapped with a 100-game sus-pension (if he was ever to return to the MLB) on his way out.

But despite all the drama that has come with Ramirez, his talent on the field is enough to overshad-ow his issues off it. Ramirez is a wildly talented baseball player and one of the best to play during his generation.

He’s a 12-time All-Star, has 555 home runs, has been in MVP talks in 11 of his 19 seasons in the league, has a .312 career batting average and had 2,574 hits — tied for 86th all-time and 118 more than former Iowa Cubs manager and Cub-great Ryne Sandberg. And at 36-years-old, Ramirez was still able to slap the Cubs around in the 2008 NLDS,

blasting two home runs and batting an even .500.

More importantly, Ramirez is a veteran. He’s being brought on to help young prospects develop into successful major-league hitters — perhaps this can help players like Brett Jackson, who dropped nearly .100 in his batting average going from the minors to the majors — finally develop a big-league swing.

Iowa manager Marty Pevey told The Des Moines Register Monday morning that he was excited for Ramirez to join the team, and he should be.

Another helping hand in the Cubs’ minor-league system won’t hurt their chances at turning over some of the best prospects in the league, such as the club’s 2011 and 2013 first-round draft picks, Javier Baez and Kris Bryant.

No one is ignoring the past — especially not the Cubs’ presi-dent of baseball operations Theo Epstein, who won two World Series with Ramirez in 2004 and 2007 and recognized Sunday that “Manny has made real mistakes in the past” in an official statement on the team.

But with a franchise built around forgetting the past, the Cubs can’t afford to dwell on another’s and pass up an opportunity to develop a World Series-caliber team. Manny may not be the answer, but he’s a step in the right direction.

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

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The stakes are high for Tim Beckman this upcoming season.

It will be a make-or-break year for the Illinois head football coach, who has amassed a 6-18 overall record in his two years in Champaign. While on-field success will certainly play a large role in Beckman’s job security in his third season at the helm, Athletic Director Mike Thomas will want to see other signs that the program is showing overall improvement.

In a Sports Illustrated article published in March, Beckman was quoted as saying “five or six wins” would be an improvement for his team in 2014. It’s hard to argue with that, because on paper it’s true. Technically, five or six wins would be an improvement from his first two seasons. But the statement left some Illini fans feeling miffed. Even though Beckman claimed he was misquoted, some felt the perception was that a program that has long been mired in mediocrity is content with aiming for, well, mediocrity.

It’s hard to imagine that Beckman would be fired if he’s able to pull off a six-win sea-son in 2014. A bowl appearance would at least lower the volume of the vocal Illini fans calling for his removal. Four wins or less, and Beckman is likely looking for a new job come December.

But what if the Illini win five games in 2014? In this scenario, Beckman would need some insurance to keep his job, something

that proves he’s building a winning program at Illinois.

Enter former USC running back Ty Isaac. The sophomore-to-be from Joliet, Ill., was granted a release from his scholarship at University of Southern California on May 14, and he’s looking to transfer to a school that is closer to his hometown. Illinois, Northwest-ern and Michigan are possible destinations for the former four-star recruit, who has said he’s leaning towards a move to the Big Ten.

If (and it’s a big if) the Illini are able to land Isaac, Beckman’s hot seat would get considerably cooler. According to rankings on 247sports.com, Illinois reeled in the Big Ten’s worst-ranked recruiting class in 2014. Dead last. No. 14 out of 14 teams. If the Illini manage only five wins next season, recruit-ing is where Beckman needs to make up ground.

As always, rankings don’t tell the whole story. With the help of offensive coordinator Bill Cubit, Beckman was able to lure highly-touted quarterback Wes Lunt after he trans-ferred from Oklahoma State following the 2012 season.

As a transfer, he doesn’t factor into the recruiting rankings. Beckman also landed four-star junior college transfer Jihad Ward to bolster the defensive line — a desperate area of need for the Illini. And looking fur-ther down the road to the Class of 2015, four-star offensive lineman Gabe Megginson com-mitted to the Illini on April 25.

So there’s some momentum. Cubit’s arrival prior to last season seems to be a godsend, as he elevated an Illini offense ranked No. 117 in the country in 2012 to No. 39 in 2013. Lunt, Ward and Megginson could all be big-time players. Beckman’s assembling some

nice pieces, and he has to hope it all comes together before his time runs out.

Isaac would be a huge on-field addition for the Illini, especially if he’s able to play right away. There’s a chance the NCAA will grant him a hardship waiver that allows him to take the field in 2014, since he transferred to be close to his ailing mother. At 6-foot-3 and 225 pounds, he would be a nice back-field complement to the speed and agility of Josh Ferguson.

But regardless of his on-field performance, an Isaac commitment would indicate more positive momentum for Beckman. Isaac would be another reason to have confidence in Beckman’s plan. And if there’s one thing Beckman could use, it’s confidence, from Mike Thomas and fans alike.

Alex is a sophomore in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected] and @aroux94.

Pressure increases on Tim Beckman

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois’ Tim Beckman watches a game at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Nov. 16. Beckman has amassed a 6-18 record in his two seasons for coaching for the Illini.

ALEX ROUX

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