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An unusual sale will be goingon this Saturday from 11 a.m. to4 p.m. at the Independent MediaCenter in Urbana.

The prices of food, clothingand services such as haircutswill not be set at an arranged lev-el, nor will they be determined

by the free market.This will be the Really,

Really, Free Market, where allgoods and services will be com-pletely free, and it is one of thelocal activities supported by theChampaign-Urbana anarchistcommunity as a way to presentan alternative to capitalism.

Anyone who wants to contrib-

ute can contribute, said SusanSong, member of the local anar-chist community and sophomorein LAS, who helped organize theevent.

The absence of a centralauthority to run the event is areflection of the anarchist com-munity as a whole a communitySong said has been off and on i n

the area for a number of years.Despite the problems with

anarchists lack of a central gov-erning body, which can make thecommunity unstable, she said itmakes it easier to keep its struc-ture as democratic as possible.

Song has also helped organize

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Over Spring Break,CITES implemented Illi-noisNet, a new wireless net-work with both authentica-tion and security built intothe wireless protocol.

With the old UIUCNet net-work, students needed to login to QuickConnect or theviral private network eachtime they connected. WithIllinoisNet, once a persondoes the initial configura-tion, they do not have to everlog in again, according to the

CITES Web site. The com-puter can automatically re-connect whenever it detectsa IllinoisNet wireless signal.Some students said they areexcited about only having tosign in once.

Ive never had any issues(with the old network), butlogging in once would bereally convenient, saidAlex Foley sophomore inBusiness.

Sylvia Safin, freshman inLAS, said it is nice to onlyhave to log in once, but theservice has cut out a fewtimes since she began usingit.

Another issue to studentsis that the beginning config-uration process is more com-plex than UIUCnet Wireless,and older systems may not

be able to connect to Illi-noisNet. Students who werestill using the old wirelessnetwork were contacted byCITES via e-mail explainingthe benefits of the new net-work. James Eyrich, CITESWireless Service Manager,said the e-mail was sent toevery person who had con-nected to the UIUCNet net-work in the 30 days prior tospring break.

According to the e-mail,students should config-ure their computer to usethe new IllinoisNet net-work before the old net-work expires on August10. The e-mail also said theone-time set up for the net-work should take no morethan two to three minutesto complete.

Eyrich said IllinoisNetnetwork will replace theUIwpa2 network but theUIUCNet network willremain. He added that thereis no new hardware for thenetworkit is a new offeringon the existing Internet.

The Indian Student Asso-ciation, or ISA, is presentingits 25th annual India Night.Atina DSouza, ISAs internalvice president, said the eventis meant to introduce studentsto Indian culture in a fun andexciting way.

India Night is our flagshipevent. This is where we canshowcase our culture using avariety of dances and songs,DSouza said.

The crowd that we attract is

not just Indian students, saidRuthvik Basavaraj, an ISA cul-tural chairman. Its everyonethat wants to see what our cul-ture is about and what wereall about.

India Night presents 10 actsfrom a wide variety of groupson campus. One of these groupsis the Illini Raas Squad, whichcompetes in an Indian danceform known as Raas, a culturaland religious dance that origi-nated in the Gujarat state ofIndia.

Another competitive groupis I-Bhangra, who perform theBhangra, a dance that origi-nated in the north-central stateof Punjab in India. There willalso be a competitive Bolly-

Today is a taxpayers blessingand curse. Given the present bleakeconomic state, April 15, com-monly known as Tax Day, is areminder that a refund check issoon coming their way. But beforethe dollars start rolling in, taxpay-ers must sift through the unfamil-iar language of tax documents and lots of it.

Professor Firouz Gahvari, ofthe Department of Economics,discussed the process.

I dont think so. There areeasy forms so to speak, 1040 beingthe most common and easiest forstudents. Right now they donthave a lot of income. That meansthat the forms, if any, will be easyforms. Basically, you are enter-ing your income. The income youhave is income earned and inter-est income (for example: moneymade off of investments). For stu-dents to get their adjusted grossincome, which the whole tax formis based on, they only need two orthree entries.

Well, for this year, a studentwho made less than $9,350 willessentially pay no federal incometax because of the students exemp-tion of $3,650 and standard deduc-tion of $5,700. You still have to payfor Social Security and Medicare,but I dont think there are manystudents paying much tax any-ways. Also, with the passing ofthe American Reinvestment andRecovery Act, there are five aca-demic credits that students canand should take advantage of.

Students need to check ifemployers have been withholdingmoney from their paychecks. Youshould fill out a W4 form and giveit to your employer which basi-cally tells how much they with-held from you, if anything. Theyshouldnt have withheld anything.You have been giving the govern-ment a loan tax free. The refundis getting your loan back. I often

Researchers at the RoboticsLaboratory in Beckman Institutehave started working with a high-ly advanced humanoid robot.

The iCub arrived at Steve Levin-sons lab in February. Levinson isa professor of electrical and com-puter engineering and has beenresearching on the relationship

between language and robotics.The iCub was designed by the

RobotCub Consortium supportedby the European Union. Withoutbeing programmed for specifictasks, it acquires skills throughexperience, said Logan Niehaus,graduate student in Levinsonslab.

We program him to learn, butthats it, Niehaus said. We dont

teach him, we dont say moveyour arms like this.

The European Commissionreceived 30 proposals for an iCuband rewarded seven institutionswith the robot free of charge. Outof the seven institutions granted arobot, Levinsons lab was the onlyAmerican proposal to receive the

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A 27-year-old man was ar-rested at the intersection ofNorth Market and North MainStreets on Monday night.

According to the police re-port, the offender was arrest-ed on an in-state warrant and oncharges of possession of open al-cohol on public property.

Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported at the 2100block of East John Street onMonday afternoon.

According to the police re-

port, an unknown offenderbroke a window at the victimsresidence.

A 46-year-old man and a 26-year-old man were arrested atthe 2000 block of Cynthia Driveon Monday afternoon.

According to the police re-port, two suspects were report-ed trespassing on private prop-erty and fled the scene in theirvehicle. Officers located themand charged them with trespass-ing. The 26-year-old was alsocharged with operating an un-insured motor vehicle, violatinga traffic signal, driving with asuspended license, and was alsofound to have a valid in-statewarrant for his arrest.

Lost articles were reportedat the 500 block of West KirbyAvenue on Tuesday night.

According to the police re-

port, the victim lost his cellphone while at the park.

A 19-year-old man was ar-rested at the 100 block of NorthCountry Fair Drive on Tuesdaymorning.

According to the police re-port, the offender was arrestedon charges of theft after steal-

ing food items from Thorntons386, 101 S. Mattis Ave.

Aggravated battery was re-

ported at the 900 block of SouthLierman Avenue on Mondaynight.

According to the police report,unknown offenders attacked thevictim in a parking lot. One ofthe offenders struck the victimwith a baseball bat.

Criminal damage to proper-ty was reported at the intersec-

tion of Coler and Springfield Av-enues on Tuesday morning.

According to the police report,an unknown offender broke thepassenger side view mirror offof the victims vehicle when itwas parked on a street.

Theft was reported at the500 block of West Illinois Ave-nue on Tuesday evening.

According to the police re-port, an unknown offender tookpackages that were deliveredto the victim off of the victimsfront porch.

A 19-year-old man was ar-

rested at Taft Hall, 1213 S.Fourth St., on Wednesday morn-ing.

According to the police re-port, the offender hit a window

and broke it and was arrested oncharges of criminal damage toproperty. The offender told offi-cials he had become upset overa fight with a girlfriend. Esti-mated window damage is about$300.

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The Office of Inclusion andIntercultural Relations, or OIIR,held a dialogue on cultural cen-ter space Wednesday evening inresponse to a discussion held at theUniversity YMCA on April 5 con-cerning the multicultural houseproposal. The dialogue, spear-

headed by Ross Wantland, assis-tant director of OIIR, focused onthe current proposal about cultur-al center spaces.

On behalf of the OIIR, I wantto start with an apology, Want-land said. There have been a lotof times when we heard differentthings, but we are trying to get outthe information to students anddirectors as soon as we find out.

The audience was comprised ofstudents and directors of culturalcenters. Students unaffiliated withany cultural centers also attendedand partook in the dialogue.

Roughly 20 minutes into the dia-logue, Wantland announced thatthe centers will need to submittheir decisions on whether to beincluded in the proposed multicul-tural center by Thursday.

We found out at 1 p.m. yester-

day that centers need to have theirdecisions in, Wantland said. Itcame as a surprise.

However, Leslie Morrow, direc-tor of the LGBT resources center,said she believes the centers wontbe stuck with whatever decisionthey make in regards to Thurs-days deadline.

When we submit the proposal,

its still an ongoing process, shesaid. We can still opt out.After the dialogue time ended,

the audience was scheduled towork in small groups to discusskey problems. There were initiallygoing to be five small groups, how-ever, roughly half of the studentsleft, so the group number was nar-rowed down to two. Christina Cor-nelius, sophomore in DGS, was oneof the students who stayed for thesmall group discussions to voiceher opinion.

I feel like theres nothing wecan do now, it seems to me like thedecision has already been madeand they dont care about the stu-dent opinions, she said. TheUniversity is forgetting aboutthe history and culture of thesespaces and what they mean to thestudents.

see people getting excited about refundswhich is pretty stupid.

A lot of people are under the beliefthat if you tax the very top people, every-thing will be solved. There arent manyof those very rich guys and they cantpay for everything. You have to get itfrom the middle class too. U.S. total taxrates arent high in comparison to otherWestern countries. In the U.S., total tax-

es, both income and consumption, con-stitute about 28% of GDP (Gross Domes-tic Product). England is at least 10%more. Although I do believe that afterthis health reform taxes will increase.They will increase quite a bit.

wood team, called Fizaa. Allof these dance teams havewon first place in nationalcompetitions in their respec-tive events.

There will also be a compet-itive mens a cappella groupcalled Chai Town, which haswon second and third place in

national competitions.Not all of the groups arenationally ranked teams.

Some of the acts include stu-dents who use India Night toshowcase classical and mod-ern Indian dance. Basavarajsaid using smaller studentgroups keeps the show freshand new.

The constant innovationour acts bring each IndiaNight is what keeps our audi-ence coming back year afteryear, he said.

India Night is also present-

ing a fashion show of differ-ent Indian clothing from dif-ferent regions of India.

Since it is the events 25thanniversary, there are somespecial extras being added.

We are having a video com-pilation of the past 25 years ofIndia Night that will be playedthroughout the event, saidShivani Mahida, an ISA cul-tural chairman. Also, we areinviting all of our alums backbecause they had such a bigpart in getting us where weare today.

India Night is next Fr iday,April 24 at 7:00 p.m. in Foel-linger Auditorium.

other anarchist-based activitieson campus.

Last semester, she and LizzieJohnson, graduate student,formed Radical Education forAutonomous Persons. It is areading group that meets everyWednesday at 9 p.m. in the IlliniUnions Courtyard Cafe.

There, people read and critiqueanarchist, radical and main-stream texts, including articlesby David Graeber, an anarchistand anthropologist who was a for-mer assistant professor at Yale.

They also view films dealing withradical topics, such as Battle in

Seattle, a dramatization of the1999 demonstrations in Seattle,Wash., against the World TradeOrganization.

Were trying to bring an anar-chist discourse to the campus,Song said.

Chris Watson, a resident of theCatholic Worker House in Cham-paign who has attended some ofreading groups meetings, said hebelieves in an anti-authoritariansociety where decisions are madethrough a direct democracy andnot a representative democracy.

Watson said many of the res-idents of the Catholic WorkerHouse relate with the ideas ofanarchism, which he said often

get wrongly portrayed as disor-ganized and spontaneous.

Its re-imagining the society,economy and culture, Watsonsaid.

Watson has helped organizeseveral Really, Really, FreeMarkets with Song and distrib-utes meals on behalf of Food NotBombs, a national movement toserve free vegan and vegetari-an food.

We are bridging the gapbetween campus and other non-campus organizations, Watsonsaid of working with other anar-chist-based organizations.

This Saturday, a couple blocksnorth of the market, there will bean anarchist soccer game from12:10 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Crystal

Lake Park in Urbana. Unlikein other soccer games, it may

be more difficult to declare avictory.

Neither side will becomeclearly defined nor will certainindividuals closely identify witha certain side, and so the notionsof winners and losers becomesirrelevant, according to theevents Facebook page.

Ben Rothschild, sophomore inLAS and member of the anar-chist community, said he iden-tifies with anarchys principleof changing things through themass organization of everydaypeople.

Its about changing things forthe better, he said. Its like aphilosophy of people organizing

independently of the powerfulstate and corporate interests.

iCub.We were the only ones, as faras I know, who proposed to workin the relationship between lan-guage and robotics, Levinsonsaid. Language is a very impor-tant topic in the AI (ArtificialIntelligence) community.

Lydia Majure, graduate stu-dent in Levinsons lab, was dis-patched to Italy this summer tovisit a 10-day open lab at the Uni-versity of Genoa. Along with Nie-haus, she worked with the iCubdesigners and learned how touse the robot and the interfacesoftware.

Its awesome, Majure said.This is arguably one of t he most

advanced humanoid robots. Itsnice to know that people think

that our research mission is ofvalue.

Levinson said that his short-term goals for the robot are tech-nical in nature. He said getting therobot to display fine motor control,balance, walking and developingthe visual and attention systemcould be some short-term goalsto be achieved. The team is alsoin the process of trying to attachsoftware with which the iCub canrecognize human language.

Niehaus and Majure demon-strated one of the iCubs functionsby clapping. The robot respondedby moving its face in the directionof the sound and moving its leg upand down.

What we are trying to discoveris some aspect of how human cog-nitive functioning works. We canactually go inside the robots mind,

and we can see how its doing that,Levinson said.

It has the same functionality, hesaid. Part of it is its just a bettername.

Eyrich said people are beginning toswitch over and the network is seeingsuccess.

Hanju Kang, senior in LAS, said shehas never used the new network butthinks it will be better.

Eyrich said he wants everyone tofocus on IllinoisNet.

IllinoisNet is now the primary wire-

less offering, we prefer everybody touse that, Eyrich said. UIUCNet is thefall back.


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s the University continues to dealwith its budget crisis, more and moreprograms are under the threat of be-

ing cut. The University of Illinois Exten-sion is one program that has become anunfortunate casualty of the economic sit-uation, due to diminishing state funding.Extension is a University outreach ef-fort based in the College of ACES that of-fers educational workshops and classes onpractical aspects of life such as healthy so-ciety, food safety, family/community well-being and environmental stewardship.

Extension, with its state-wide programsand hands-on training offered affordably,fits hand-in-hand with the Universitys

mission to educate people in our state. Ithas a rich history of more than 90 years.So it is disappointing that it is the latest ona list of programs that are being sacrificedbecause of financial difficulties. Howev-er, that being said, we recognize that trim-ming measures are necessary.

Given the circumstances, the Univer-sity and Extension have shown relativelygood planning and forethought in the pro-cess. The easy solution wouldve been tosimply cut the program altogether, whichwouldve been a huge blow to 2.5 millionIllinois citizens who take part in Exten-sion every year. Instead, the Universi-ty has settled on a way to restructure the

program by centralizing administrativestructures. While some offices and staffmembers will be cut, that is a much betteroption than axing a program that has prov-en constructive to community health andknowledge across the state. At the veryleast, Extension will be able to maintain itsmission of educating people to make theirlives better, healthier, safer, and moreprofitable by continuing to serve countiesin Illinois, albeit on a smaller scale.

The best-case scenario of this situationis if the restructuring program for Exten-sion could be used as an example of a posi-tive way to deal with the budget shortcom-ings. We are sad to see people cut but hope

that when the financial picture is bright-er, the restructuring will allow for theprogram to grow once more. We can onlyhope that future programs next in line forthe chopping block will also go under thiskind of fine-toothed approach.

umans tend to go througha typical cycle everytime a new technology

is discovered. First, a bril-liant inventor discovers thetechnology by sheer genius orpure luck. Once they devise

a way to i mplement the idea,its put to use for the generalpublic. After everyone beginsto love it and use it in every-day life, humans begin blam-ing it for their problems. Itsbeen the same for guns, cars,televisions, cell phones andnow, Facebook.

Facebook has been cited forbringing people together andeven kindling romantic rela-tionships. Now disgruntledusers are beginning to blamethe social networking site fortheir breakups and divorces.

A British divorce firmfound that Facebook was cit-ed in 20 percent of divorcepetitions they processed lastyear. In addition, Elly Robin-son, manager of AustralianFamily Relationship ClearingHouse, said online behavior

is causing tension in house-holds, but also said there is asurprising lack of research.

Marriages arent theonly relationships evident-ly strained by this anti-cupid Facebook. Ive knowna number of people who haveclaimed Facebook was a prob-lem for their dating relation-ships or friendships. Peopleare becoming paranoid thatonline networking is out toruin their love lives and tearapart best friends.

Newsflash: An online website cannot kill a relationship.People wreck them just fineon their own.

For romantic relationships,distrust, envy and plain stu-pid behavior cause the foun-dation to crumble. In somecases, a significant other sees

their spouse looking at an oldfriends Facebook page andassumes they are somehowinfatuated with this personthey havent seen since highschool. Thats called envy anddistrust.

In other scenarios, a per-son is caught participatingin inappropriate actions orconversations through onlinechats or messaging. Thatsthe plain stupid behavior.Either way, online network-ing was just a means to screwup, not the cause.

Lost friendships have alsobeen blamed on Facebook.For those who havent figuredthis out, almost everythingyou do on one of these Web

sites is viewable by a lot ofpeople on the internet, unlessyou massively increase yoursecurity options. One insen-sitive comment or angrystatus can lead to tension,or even worse, the dreadedun-friending.

This is where things getridiculous and petty. Any sortof relationship status, wheth-er friend or romance, is onlyofficial now if its on Face-book. Recently, a number of

television sitcoms, includ-ing South Park, have madejokes about the subject, butits serious business for manysocial network users. Thepublic views your relation-ship status, and the numberof friends you have as a com-modity that determines yourvalue.

The only thing more dra-matic than a new relationshipis when one ends. Not onlyare people ending relation-ships, but they think the ulti-mate punishment is remov-ing their ex as a friend onFacebook.

Once the stalker statusfeed announces the failedrelationship to all of Face-book, everyone is free tomake nosey inquiries as tothe cause. After months of

obnoxious statuses about howthey miss their ex and howthe world is against them, thecycle will start again.

If all of this dra ma wasntenough, people are blam-ing the actual Web site forthese unfortunate incidents.Im sorry, but I dont thinkthe fine people at Facebookare shredding your marriagecertificates.

Relationships take a lot ofhard work, and a lot of thatneeds to happen away froma computer. The foundationsyou lay for both romance andfriendships shouldnt be shak-en by a Web site.

Relationships Australiavice-president Anne Hollondssaid that while the internethas made it easier to recon-nect with past flames, people

are ultimitely responsiblefor their actions. The Inter-net doesnt make people haveaffairs, she said.

Hollonds hit the problemright on the nose. We have totake responsibility for ouractions.

Its really easy for peopleto blame Facebook or anyother piece of technologyfor their problems, but it allcomes back to us.

If you work to make yourrelationship strong on itsown, you wont have to worryabout anything starting withwww or ending with .comruining things for you.

s a self pro-claimedGleek,

the long-awaitedreturn of the

FOX seriesGlee thispast Tuesdayhas causedme to unrav-el my feel-ings towardmy personalhigh schoolexperience.

What exact-ly it is that haschanged sincehigh school? Moreoften than not,things seemincrediblysimilar.

I find myself watchingGlee, not only really enjoy-ing it, but being able torelate to it. This show isdefinitely not geared justtoward younger teenagers.

An article from USA Todayeven talked about how col-lege students all over thecountry have found inspira-tion in Glee.

Glees uniqueness is whatdraws me in. The late 90sand early 2000s seemed tobe a television era that rep-resented teenagers as strug-gling to fit in, hide theirflaws and live the lives of therich and famous. Shows likeThe OC and Laguna Beachwere the standard. Gleeseems to be partaking ina new genre that openlyembraces the imper-fections in high schoolstudents. It is no lon-ger about showing what people want to be

like,but

rather, themedia is attempting to glori-

fy less appealing, but far morerelatable characteristics. From

Rachel Berrys not-so-nuclear fam-ily consisting of two gay dads toArtie Abrams handicapped, wheel-chair-confined lifestyle, or EmmaPillsburys obsessive compulsivetendencies or even head cheerlead-er Quinn Fabrays unexpected teenpregnancy. These characters are

not consistent with the ways thathigh school students are often por-trayed. They embrace their faultsin a way that prime-time televisionrarely does, reminding people thatits okay to be different.

When I left for college, I wasunder the impression that I wasleaving everything from my for-mative years behind and enteringan adult world of sophistication. Itturned out that a lot of the world Ithought I was running away from

actually ended up following me.Right now, 17-year-olds all

over the country are in themidst of stressing about prom,yet I still find myself dealing

with the same issues. There arestill date parties and formals that bringback the same memories of turnabout and

homecoming dances.High school maybe a place we have

distanced our-selves

from,but a

partof mefeelsas ifits

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that willalways fol-

low us. Therewill always be the

cliques, the groups,the in-crowds and the

out-crowds. The differ-ence is we are allowed to

be part of whichever wewant. There are no longerthe rules that determinewhat is considered social-ly acceptable. There is no

longer any long-awaited bellthat rings at 3 p.m. signifying

the end of the day.There are certain parts of high

school that will haunt us for the restof our lives; the friends that accompa-nied us through our crazy adventures, thecrushes that seemed to flood our thoughts,the awkward moments that we felt wednever live down and the experiences webelieved to be life-altering.

There are still labels, just not the sameones. Now theres the dumb guys on thetrack team, the crazy partying sororitygirls, the socially awkward engineers, theJesus freaks; it exists all over campus.You can either fight the stereotype and

prove others wrong, or you can embraceit. Ive realized that people Ive met incollege have an image of me that is notalways entirely true. Its not always accu-rate, and thats okay. We know who weare.

I came to college in hopes of chang-ing and becoming a different person,but what actually ended up happeningwas that a lot of things I wanted to leavebehind were still right here. Some ofthose things werent exactly tangible. Forme, thats the real difference between col-lege and high school. The things that usedto be so important to me now seem obso-lete (just like that poster of Adam Brody Ihad on my wall). Its not that people havestopped making judgments; weve justrealized that it no longer matters.

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Alpha Phi Omegas mottoserves as a mission statementfor the vast amount of commu-nity service the fraternity enthu-siastically participates in on aregular basis.

There are about two to threevolunteering projects a dayavailable to members and 12projects on a weekly basis. As aservice organization, APO com-pleted 6,000 hours of volunteerservice last semester. However,for many members, the organi-zation is about more than sheernumbers.

If you do more than therequirements and if youre vol-unteering out of the goodness ofyour heart because you enjoy it,

youll really learn to love volun-teering, said Christy Pomatto,the service chair of APO. Pomat-to, a junior in FAA, has so farcompleted 83 hours of service.

The fraternity ensures its

members are dedicated byputting interested membersthrough a semester-long pledg-ing process.

Though non-exclusive, thepledging process consists ofweekly informational meetingsabout the organization.

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the group rules by the FourCs: community, chapter, cam-pus and country. Although theyparticipate in projects sponsoredby national organizations, APOfocuses primarily on communityand campus projects.

I like local projects becauseyou get to see the results, saidBaylee Gambetti, fundraisingchair of APO and a sophomore inMedia. You get to know yourereally helping out where youlive.

As much as APO gives back tothe local and national commu-nity, the service projects alsogive back to the APO members.Chandni Patel, rush chair andformer president of APO, saidthat the friends and contacts shemade through the organizationare ones she will have for therest of her life.

People wanted me to run forpresident, but I thought it wasthe craziest idea, standing infront of 200 people and have tospeak in front of them weekly; itterrified me, said Patel, a senior

in LAS. Its very interesting onlooking back on who I was andhow much Ive grown so far. Iowe so much of learning abouthow to deal with different typesof people and how to communi-cate through APO.

APOs Web site is designed totrack all members hours and list

all service projects available inthe near future. The Web sitealso shows who is signed up forwhich activities, and all volun-teer projects have drivers sched-uled to take students that do nothave their own car. All thats leftfor the members is the dedica-tion to participate in the volun-teer activities.

It makes me appreciate mylife and helping them makes mehappier because I feel like Imdoing good, Patel said. In col-lege, everythings about you,your life, what youre doing. Soyou get to go and be with otherpeople, be involved in their livesand help some of them out.

Although there are numerousservice fraternities on campus,APO members emphasize thestrength of brotherhood in theirorganization, which is encour-

aged during the pledging pro-cess, fellowship events and othersocial activities.

Its hard not to talk aboutAPO, its such an integral part ofour lives now, Pomatto said.

And while the name of the fra-ternity might be the same, eachuniversity chapter is different,Hillard said. She and Mike Gold-berg, sophomore in AHS andtransfer student from the Uni-versity of Arizona, attributed thisto the varying atmospheres of dif-ferent campuses at large.

Goldberg said that he is not

involved in his fraternity on theU of I campus and he could notjoin the fraternity that he wanted

to. Without the community he hadin Arizona, he said that adjust-ing to a new school has been dif-ficult. But, having friends who areinvolved in fraternities has helpedhim meet people, he said.

Having friends in differentfraternities and playing on theclub soccer team has made theprocess of adjusting and mak-ing friends much easier, Gold-

berg said.Hillard, however, said that

even though the Delta Gamma

chapter in Texas and the chap-ter at U of I are vastly different,she has had no problem fitting inwith both communities.

Delta Gamma girls savedme from falling apart at such adifficult time, Hillard said. Ithas allowed me to meet so manypeople easily and transfer rightinto having a group of greatfriends.

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New school, old letters:Greek life for transfers

Greek life on campus often offersfreshmen a smoother transition tocollege life by providing community.That process, however, might look dif-ferent for transfer students who wereinvolved in a fraternity of sorority attheir previous school.

All sorority members who trans-fer to U of I have the opportunity toimmediately participate in the coin-ciding sorority, said Renee Durack,vice president of recruitment for thePanhellenic Council.

Eddie Kahle, sophomore in engi-neering and vice president of recruit-ment for the Interfraternity Council,

said though there are no restrictionsagainst transfer students who arealready active members of a fraterni-ty joining the fraternitys U of I chap-ter, this decision is ultimately left toeach chapter.

Transfer students who are activemembers do not have the chance toexperience traditional recruitmentevents, like socials and movie nights.The purpose of these events is tointroduce new students to a varietyof sororities, so they arent as neces-sary for transfer students.

Corrinne Hillard, sophomore in

LAS, was a member of Delta Gammaat Southern Methodist University inTexas and is now an active member

at Illinois. Hillard said the only thingshe missed by not going through therecruitment process at on campus wasthe stress of rushing.

Considering that rush is such anintense and somewhat difficult pro-cess, I was glad that I did not have tolive through that experience all overagain, she said.

Although the process of joining aGreek chapter might be simplifiedfor transfer students, it is also limit-ing. Both Durack and Kahle said thatonce an active member in one chapter,one cannot join another fraternity or

sorority on any campus.


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Sports

o describe this yearsIllini mens basketballseason as frustrating

would be an understatement. Icant remember another teamI absolutely loved watchingone minute and couldnt standlooking at the next. I cantremember how many times Iyelled at Mike Davis throughthe TV, wishing hed play withconfidence instead of letting

a few mistakes ruin his wholeday. I cant remember howmany times I yelled at Bruceto put in Tyler Griffey, mostlybecause I cant really remem-ber that kid missing a shot.And although I havent quitesucceeded yet, I wish I couldforget how the season ended,with the Illinis second NCAAtourney miss in the past threeyears.

Of course, there are a lotof things I do remember, too.Like watching freshman D.J.Richardson become a lock-down defender by the end ofthe season, seeing the lightslowly come on for BrandonPaul, or seeing Tisdale hitevery jumper in sight goingdown the stretch.

But most of all, I rememberthe transformation of Demetri

McCamey.Illinois point guard is prob-

ably the most scrutinizedplayer the basketball team

has seen in recent memory,alongside Tisdale. But wherecriticism against Tisdale wasand is unfair hes nevergoing to be a hulking, low-postbeast and will always strug-gle against teams with size, nomatter how many calories heeats or weights he lifts someof the shots taken at McCameyby critics were justified.

He took plays off. Wasntfocused. Was uncoachable.Disappeared at times. Couldntplay defense. Wasnt a pointguard. Didnt understand thegame. Jacked too many threes.The list goes on.

In fact, if youd have bet

me a year ago, after DMacssophomore season, that by thetime the spring of 2010 camearound, hed be putting hisname in the draft and have asomewhat legitimate shot atbeing picked up by a team inthe first round, Id have takenthe opposite side of that bet ina second.

Now? Im terrified at thethought of next years teamsans McCamey.

Part of me the selfish fanpart wants him to stay at allcosts. Hell be the only prov-en ballhandler on next yearsteam and an insanely valuablefloor general that will be ableto distribute the ball amongfour or five legitimate scor-ing threats. Simply put, Illi-nois is screwed without himnext year unless Richardson

can prove he can run the point,Paul becomes a star, or Jereme

Illinois junior guard DemetriMcCamey declared himself eligiblefor the 2010 NBA Draft on Wednes-

day. After meeting with head coachBruce Weber on Wednesday morn-ing to discuss his future, McCameyformally announced his decision to

test the NBA waters, and he has untilMay 8 to withdraw his name from thedraft pool.

We just looked at the stats to seeif it was worth it, McCamey said of

his meeting with Weber. Its defi-nitely a learning experience I canuse, and Im going all out and tryingto give it 110 percent. But if thats not

good enough, and they say a (first-round pick) is no guarantee, then Illcome back to Champaign and try tolead us to a national championshipthe next year.

McCamey, the teams vocal leader,averaged 15.1 points per game and

The Illinois mens basketballteam held its 88th Annual Basket-ball Banquet on Tuesday. At thebanquet, The Daily Illini caughtup with seniors Dominique Kellerand Bubba Chisholm.

I had that feel-ing. Me and Bubba, we playaround a lot on Twitter and saysome stuff. But, you know, hon-estly, me, him and Rich (Sem-

rau) saw each other a coupledays ago and we talked, andwe were just like, You know,its not the same. Sometimeswe wish we had the games, thecompetition, the practices. Obvi-ously its over now, but I guessitll take a lot of getting used to.

In a perfect world, Id berich and just sit around and do

nothing. But in a perfect real-istic world, Id like to somedayplay professionally and have achance to play on the biggeststage in the world.

People alwayssaid, Im never gonna leave col-lege. But now I really under-stand why they say that. Im in

nine hours right now. Ive beenfishing a couple times this week.I went to frat park and read abook the other day. Ive kindof got a bucket list of things Iwant to do, but Im just trying toenjoy this time before I work forthe next 40 years of my life orwhatever.

Illinois junior point guardDemetri McCamey is proba-bly happy hes not entering thewheelchair basketball draft afterWednesday nights Ultimate Bas-ketball Challenge at Huff Hall.

McCamey and other membersof the mens and womens varsityand wheelchair basketball teamscompeted in the event, whichraised money for the wheelchairbasketball teams and Coaches vs.Cancer.

Members of the varsity teams

missed multiple layups, air-balledcountless threes and seemed to beitching to jump out of their chairsto grab a rebound.

It was difficult, forward MikeDavis said. It takes so muchstrength. And to shoot you hadto be on balance.

Players from all four teamswere split into two competingsquads.

For the majority of the game,the score went back and forth

with each team going on an occa-sional run.

After making a comeback inthe last few minutes of the game,the orange team lost 44-41 aftermissing a last-second three.

Although a lot of the attentionbefore and after the game wasfocused on players like McCamey,Davis and other members of thevarsity teams, there was no ques-

tion which players had the upperhand during the game.

Theyre high flyers, theyrenot used to playing in a wheel-chair, said Joey Gugliotta, mem-ber of this years mens nationalchampion wheelchair basketballteam.

Throughout the game, themajority of the varsity play-ers looked like they were ready

to jump out of their chairs, butsenior Dominique Keller was theonly player to actually get out ofhis chair while playing, failing toconvert on an alley-oop attempt.

We were trying to get thecrowd fired up, but (the playerthrowing the alley-oop) lost theball and threw it too late, Keller

Life as student not the same

All season long, the No. 1 Illi-nois mens gymnastics team hasbeen on a mission. It has followeda strict regimen from the begin-ning, refusing to back off of dif-ficult, high start value routines ortake shortcuts in training.

Its a strategy that paid off dur-ing the regular season, when theIllini cruised to an 11-1 record. Ithelped them to the Big Ten team

title and four out of six individualconference titles.

Its also the main reason whyIllinois will be among the favor-ites to win the NCAA champi-onship when qualifying roundsbegin Thursday afternoon. But ifthey plan on winning, theyll haveto show better than they have inrecent weeks, according to associ-

ate head coach Justin Spring.If we have the meet we had

at Big Tens, I dont think well beNCAA champions, Spring said.I think were in a good positionto win, but very rarely has a No. 1seed gone into anything and wonbecause the teams behind are soclose and so hungry.

Week after week, Illinois hassuffered from key falls and slowstarts but has managed to fight

back. Heading into nationals, theteam will try to recover from a

sloppy Big Ten meet.Thats what makes us such

a good team, sophomore TylerMizoguchi said. No matter whatwe do, we are always in the mix,always fighting for that numberone spot.

Several Illini gymnasts enterthe meet as favorites on individ-ual events as well. Junior Daniel

Ribeiro, fresh off of his Big Tenpommel horse title, will defend hisreign as NCAA champion on theevent. Junior Paul Ruggeri will dothe same on both parallel bars andhigh bar, an event in which he willenter as a prohibitive favorite.

Senior Luke Stannard (No. 2 onpommel horse), sophomore C.J.Padera (No. 2 on parallel bars) andRuggeri (No. 3 on all-around) alsobegin the week ranked in the topfive in their respective events.

As the top-seeded team in thetournament, Illinois was given thechoice of session and event orderfor Thursdays qualifying round.Spring opted to participate in the1 p.m. session and begin on paral-lel bars, and the team will need tofinish in the top three of a group


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finished second in the nation inassists with 7.1 assists per contestthis season. As a first-team All-Big Ten member, he led Illinoisto the NIT quarterfinals.

Webers biggest concern forMcCamey in the upcoming weeksis that he doesnt screw up any-thing for life.

It is a big deal because hecould make the decision to go, andyou want to make sure he makesthe right decision and an educat-ed decision, Weber said. If he isa first-round pick, and it looks liketheres a lot of teams that wanthim there, hes got to go for it. But

if not, then hopefully hell use itas a learning tool, get after it thissummer, and for next year makesure he is a first-round pick.

Although Weber said he obvi-ously wants McCamey to return

next season, his i ntentions areall for the sake of McCameyswell-being.

I want to protect him, Webersaid.

M c C a me y steammates werealso respectfulof his decision.

They werehappy for me, butat the same timethey want meto stay becausethey know wecould have some-thing next yearthats real spe-cial here, hesaid.

Freshman D.J. Richardson

wasnt surprised by the announce-ment, but he said the remainder ofthe teams guards would have tostep up if McCamey does indeedmake the jump to the NBA.

I think it just motivated

everybody, and coaches havebeen working everybody harderbecause (McCamey) was a big keyfor us this year and its going tobe hard without him, Richard-

son said.McCamey said

as of right now,he is not planningon signing with anagent.

He added that hischoice to opt for thedraft was a person-al one, but that hewill keep his earspeeled for adviceat all times in thenext three and a

half weeks before he has to makehis final decision.

Ill be listening to CoachWeber and staying really closewith him, McCamey said.

Richmond turns out to be evenbetter than advertised.

But another part of me knowsthat, should McCamey be asure-fire first-rounder and leavea year early, all I can do is wishhim the best in his pro career.Hes earned that much.

For any number of rea-sons, things seemed to clickfor McCamey this year. Hedropped a bunch of weight dur-ing the offseason and showed upwith a quicker first step, much-improved handles and a willto get to the rim. He shot overtwice as many free throws this

year compared to last. His fieldgoal and 3-point percentagesboth went up. He scored more,rebounded more and of courseassisted more, finishing sec-ond in the nation in assists per

game.More importantly, though,

he carried a team that battledinexperience all year, especiallyin the backcourt. His breakoutgame at Wisconsin (27 points,seven assists) was the catalystin Illinois biggest win of theseason. Two weeks later, hisschool-record 16 assists almosthelped Illinois pull off an upsetof No. 4 Purdue at Mackey Are-na. And unlike last year, whenhe would look like a star onegame and disappear the next,McCamey was perhaps theteams most consistent play-er, a guy who always managedto put an imprint on the gameand make his team significantlybetter.

Really, the surprise isnt thatMcCamey is on the NBA radar,but that hes so low on a lot ofexperts draft boards.

For what its worth, I thinkMcCamey will learn some valu-

able things from NBA scouts inthese next few weeks, figure outthat his stock will rise even fur-ther if he has a fantastic seniorseason, and will be back in theOrange and Blue come nextyear.

The selfish fan in me hopesfor this, not only because it willmake the team much better, butbecause in a year where everyone of my favorite sports teamsmade me want to pull a JohnPaxson on my TV, watchingDemetri McCamey blossom intoan absolute stud was a joy towatch, and Id like to see how hecan build on his talent for anoth-er season in an Illini uniform.

Of course, if he happens tobe playing in an NBA uniform

come next year, Ill be rootingfor him just as much.

I like to teach; I may be a coach some-day down the road. But I think Id like towork in the business world for a little bit,but Ill never leave the game of basket-ball completely.

Illini Nation, thank you so much foreverything you guys do. I cant believehow much the fans have reached out tome and supported me, and I loved them

all.

said.Although the varsity

players had a rough game,it wasnt the first time theyhad attempted to play in awheelchair.

They put a couple ofwheelchairs in Ubben (Bas-ketball Complex), Davissaid. We would kindapractice for a couple quickminutes.

Davis wasnt the only play-

er to try and use the wheel-chairs before Wednesday.Me, Demetri, Joseph

(Bertrand) and a coupleother guys were trying torace with them, freshmanguard D.J. Richardsonsaid. I wouldnt really callit practicing; we were justhaving fun.

In order to raise the mon-ey for Coaches vs. Cancerand the wheelchair basket-ball teams, admission wascharged, raffle tickets weresold and a silent auction washeld before the game.

Its a big thing to help ussupport Coaches vs. Cancerand our wheelchair team,Gugliotta said. The eventitself gives people a differ-ent view on wheelchair bas-ketball. It was a great thing

out here tonight.

that includes No. 4 Stanford, No. 5 OhioState and No. 8 Penn State to continue toFridays team championships. The indi-vidual championships will be held Satur-day evening.

This week, Illinois embarked on the lastleg of its journey. It began with a bus rideto Bloomington, continued with a flight toAtlanta and a connection to Westchester,N.Y., and was capped off with another busride to West Point, N.Y.

Throughout the season nothing has comeeasy for the Illini, and they believe theyllbe better for it.

Weve been preparing all year for theend of the season, Ruggeri said. Hope-fully well be able to see all the hard work

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Johannah Bangert remembersNebraskas Coliseum well. Il li-nois junior middle blocker saidshe had family in Nebraska andwould watch some of the volley-ball games in the packed gymwhen she was younger.

Ive been to the matchesthere, and its an incredibleenvironment, Bangert said.Its kind of like Huff with thecloseness of the gym. The Illi-ni will continue their four-gamespring scrimmage schedule Sat-urday against the Cornhuskers,as the Orange and Blue hopeto tame the expected crowdof 3,800 closely packed fans.Remembering past Cornhusk-er greats that have played at theColiseum, Bangert is relishingthe opportunity to play in thearena.

It will be really interesting

for us because we are not use d togoing to a place like that whereits so tight, and so many peopleare against us, Bangert said. Alot of the Big Ten schools havereally big crowds, so its always

good practice to go against a

crowd, too.The team is coming off of ascrimmage last weekend againstNo. 6 Iowa State, where headcoach Kevin Hambly said theteam took the scrimmage in fivesets. Hambly said the Illini werenot focusingon the actu-al results ofthe scrim-mage stats arenot offi-cially keptduring thespring butinstead ontwo goals.

We want-ed to work on our decision-mak-ing as attackers, Hambly said.We wanted to work on creatingmore swings than our opponent

and to create swings out of situ-ations that most teams dont cre-ate swings out of. I thought wedid that exceptionally.

The Illinis offense may be thefocus of the spring, but Hambly

said the team has always andstill will remain a defensive-minded team.

I would say thats whereour strength is our block ondefense, Hambly said. We aretrying to add a little bit moreoffense to attack at a fasterpace, which may create more

opportunities to score fasteragainst opponents, especiallyon serve-receive.

Bangert, who was the 2009NCAA blocks leader, said lastweekend the team touched upsome of the problems they had

from theirfirst matchon April3 againstNo . 1 2Kentucky.

The lit-tle thingssuch as cov-erage balls,taking careof the freeballs and

the easy plays were what weimproved on (last weekend),Bangert said. We are reallyworking on putting all those

little pieces together and put-ting all the things that we havebeen working on in the springinto the match.

Hambly said the spring is atime for working on solidifying

some leadership roles and theirsystems, while trying to find theright team balance.

I think the thing that is going

to define our team moving for-ward is becoming more andmore balanced, Hambly said.Everyone has to be a weapon

and make plays. I think youllsee many different players areleading us in kills on differentnights during the fall.

Defensive-minded Illiniuse spring to dene leaders

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