BY THOMAS THOREN STAFF WRITER Champaign will feature the only Hindu temple within a 100-mile radius before the end of the year. After five years of fund- raising — since purchasing land near Mattis Avenue and Hensley Road in 2007 — the Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of Central Illinois has raised enough money to move forward with the temple’s construction, said Pradeep Khanna, vice president of the temple. “We can start and complete construction this year,” he said. “It is good to finally see it take off.” The project will begin con- struction in April, with an expected completion date for the first phase in the fall. This phase will include the temple and a small library, as well as a parking lot and landscaping for a total area of about 5,000 square feet. The second phase — a 1,500 square foot expan- sion designed to house temple statues — will finish in 2013. Currently, the local Hindu community travels to one of three Hindu temples, ranging from 100 miles to 150 miles away, said Kiran Topudurti, president of the temple. “Most people go to Aurora and Lemont ... generally on a weekly basis,” he said. These two temples — the Sri Venkateswara Temple of Greater Chicago and The Hin- du Temple of Greater Chicago, respectively — are in addition to the Hindu Temple of Cen- tral Illinois, located about 100 miles away in Peoria. The local temple project — including land acquisition and both phases — will cost approximately $1.7 million. One way the temple has come up with the necessary money is through its annual fundrais- ing dinner. This year’s instal- lation is on Saturday, March 17 at 6 p.m. in the I-Hotel. Khan- na said one-third of the ticket revenue will fund the dinner with the remaining two-thirds going directly toward funding the temple. Of the land plot’s 40 acres, the temple and its parking lot will occupy only about five acres, Khanna said. The remaining land will be con- tracted out to a farmer who will maintain it as soybean and corn fields. This land par- cel was selected because of its proximity to the University along with most of the served population, Topudurti said. Many University students are only able to visit a tem- ple when they return home, said Laxmi Shastry , president of the Hindu registered stu- dent organization and junior in LAS, Dharma. There is “a big vacuum that we found in this community” because Hin- du students do not have a local place to worship or celebrate holidays, Dharma said. A local temple would be more than just that; it would BY SAFIA KAZI STAFF WRITER Student body president David Pileski will soon step down as the leader of the student senate to become the campus’ student trustee. On March 8, Pileski, junior in FAA, sat in the Illinois Student Senate president’s office refreshing the election results page every few minutes to see if the results of the student election had been posted. By 4:30 p.m., the results were out: Pileski had been elected as the new student trustee. Pileski, who began thinking about run- ning for trustee his sophomore year, said he has enjoyed being student body pres- ident but wants to give someone else a chance to hold that title. “It does a disservice to the senate as a whole and the campus if someone holds the role hostage,” he said. “And for me, running for trustee and winning is a way to pursue what I’m passionate about.” He said the lessons he learned from his presidency will carry on into his role as student trustee. Aside from understand- ing how bureaucracy functions, Piles- ki said he has built many relationships as president that will be beneficial as trustee. “I have built a relationship with Chan- cellor (Phyllis) Wise,” he said. “I’ve also built relationships with the student com- munity. It really helps having support from students.” While his experience as student body president may help him, he said being student trustee and being student senate president are different. “When I became student body presi- dent, I had already been on senate for a year. But with the Board of Trustees, you really have no idea what to expect while you’re there,” he said. “But I’m always ready for a challenge. It’s exciting to start something new.” Pileski said he does not have much time as trustee, so he wants to begin working as soon as he can. He said he will hold small focus groups after spring break, before his term as trustee even begins on July 1. One of Pileski’s first goals is to work on creating a student vision for the Univer- sity. Because students are only here for four years, Pileski said creating a mis- sion statement by students for the Uni- versity is crucial. “There has never been a united stu- dent vision for the University,” he said. “It’s important to bridge student leaders from different communities ... and really prepare a comprehensive thing for Uni- versity administration to look at. The Uni- versity needs to be engaged in long-term discussions and planning.” Pileski’s roommate Katie Kilbridge, who has known him for more than five INSIDE Police 2A | Corrections 2A | Calendar 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Greeks & Campus 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 3B-5B | Sudoku 5B The Daily Illini Thursday March 15, 2012 High: 80˚ Low: 58˚ The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 141 Issue 118 | FREE Pileski plans to utilize experiences in new role Student president preps for trustee position Reform a focus of both candidates PORTRAIT BY JOSEPH LEE THE DAILY ILLINI See PILESKI, Page 3A See HINDU TEMPLE, Page 3A See DEBATE, Page 3A See PAUL, Page 3A Champaign sets date to break ground on Hindu temple Construction will begin in April, completed in fall BY KLAUDIA DUKALA CONTRIBUTING WRITER Champaign-Urbana residents heard from two Democratic candidates Wednesday who will attempt to unseat U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson (R-15) in the newly remapped 13th district. Candidates David Gill, an emergency room physician from Bloomington, Ill., and Matt Goetten, Greene County State’s Attorney, discussed various issues affecting the district at a debate held in the WILL-TV studio in Urbana. The debate, a week away from Illinois’ primary, was spon- sored by Illinois Pub- lic Media in collabora- tion with the League of Women Voters. Illinois Public Media’s Jim Meadows led the debate while Pat- rick Yeagle, staff writer for the Illinois Times in Springfield, Allison Pet- ty, a reporter for the Decatur Herald & Review and The Daily Illini’s editor-in-chief, Jill Disis, posed questions for the candidates. The debate was proposed by the League of Women Voters of Illinois’ board and Jan Czarnik, its executive director. It was held in order to educate voters, to reach out to the younger gen- eration by including college students in the debate and to spread awareness of the league through partnering televi- sion stations. Gill, taking his fourth shot at unseat- ing Johnson, discussed the changes the 13th district would witness if he was to successfully defeat Johnson this fall. “I’d like to see steps taken to restore the health of this planet; I’d like to see appropriate health care reform — I think that we haven’t seen that yet — and I’d like to see a return to some eth- ics within the government,” Gill said after the debate. Goetten based his qualifications for congressman on his past experiences. Residents listen to Congress hopefuls debate Aurora 150 miles away Sri Venkateswara Temple of Greater Chicago Lemont 125 miles away The Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago Peoria 100 miles away Hindu Temple of Central Illinois Champaign Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of Central Illinois Shown are three of the nearest Hindu temples to Champaign. Some local residents travel to these temples on a weekly basis. Construction of a Champaign Hindu temple will begin in April. The temple will be located at Mattis Avenue and Hensley Road. Illinois Hindu temples nearest to Champaign area Source: Kiran Topudurti, president of the Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of Central Illinois SHANNON LANCOR Assistant Design Editor GILL GOETTEN In it to win it Wrestling team makes trip to St. Louis, for NCAAs SPORTS, 1B Burlesque Baby Canopy Club spices up nightlife with saucy entertainment IN BUZZ BY TAYLOR GOLDENSTEIN ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR More than 5,000 students came out in support for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) Wednesday night at Huff Hall. Though the event was originally scheduled to be held in Foellinger Auditorium, some students were still left without a seat by the time of the event’s start. “Some people get discouraged because they say ... 51 percent of the vote, you have to have it, but it isn’t true,” Paul said. “What you need is an irate and tireless minority.” The representative was brought to the Univer- sity in large part because of U.S. Rep. Tim John- son, R-15, who voted absentee for Paul. Johnson and Paul have shared “a long standing relationship built on business and friendship” for about 12 years, Johnson said. “I think it’s important ... our part of the state knows what he offers and what he brings to Amer- ica, so this is an opportunity to do that in a per- sonal way,” Johnson said. Paul mainly stressed that the government needs to have a smaller role so that the people can “get their liberty back.” “We have a good constitution,” he said. “We just need to use it every once in a while.” One of his main talking points was the coun- try’s foreign policy in terms of military involve- ment. He said he wants to end all foreign wars and bring all troops home. “Since World War II ... think of how many tril- lions of dollars have been wasted. In the past 10 years, 4 trillion dollars added to our debt for for- eign expenditures,” he said. Paul also pointed to the Stop Online Piracy Act, which received major backlash from the public. He used this as an example of Americans stand- ing up for their privacy rights. Thousands fill Huff Hall to see Paul Republican candidate stresses foreign policy MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINI Republican presidential candidate U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks to a large crowd of supporters at Huff Hall on Wednesday. Paul was introduced by U.S. Representative Tim Johnson (R-IL), who serves as a representative for the 15th Congressional District of Illinois, which includes Champaign County.
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Champaign will feature the only Hindu temple within a 100-mile radius before the end of the year.
After fi ve years of fund-raising — since purchasing land near Mattis Avenue and Hensley Road in 2007 — the Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of Central Illinois has raised enough money to move forward with the temple’s construction, said Pradeep Khanna , vice president of the temple.
“We can start and complete construction this year,” he said. “It is good to fi nally see it take off.”
The project will begin con-struction in April, with an expected completion date for the fi rst phase in the fall. This phase will include the temple and a small library, as well as a parking lot and landscaping for a total area of about 5,000 square feet. The second phase — a 1,500 square foot expan-sion designed to house temple statues — will fi nish in 2013.
Currently, the local Hindu community travels to one of three Hindu temples, ranging from 100 miles to 150 miles away, said Kiran Topudurti , president of the temple.
“Most people go to Aurora and Lemont ... generally on a weekly basis,” he said.
These two temples — the Sri Venkateswara Temple of Greater Chicago and The Hin-du Temple of Greater Chicago, respectively — are in addition to the Hindu Temple of Cen-tral Illinois, located about 100 miles away in Peoria.
The local temple project — including land acquisition and both phases — will cost approximately $1.7 million. One way the temple has come up with the necessary money is through its annual fundrais-ing dinner. This year’s instal-lation is on Saturday, March 17 at 6 p.m. in the I-Hotel. Khan-na said one-third of the ticket revenue will fund the dinner with the remaining two-thirds going directly toward funding the temple.
Of the land plot’s 40 acres, the temple and its parking lot will occupy only about fi ve acres, Khanna said. The remaining land will be con-tracted out to a farmer who will maintain it as soybean and corn fi elds. This land par-cel was selected because of its proximity to the University along with most of the served population, Topudurti said.
Many University students are only able to visit a tem-
ple when they return home, said Laxmi Shastry , president of the Hindu registered stu-dent organization and junior in LAS, Dharma. There is “a big vacuum that we found in this community” because Hin-
du students do not have a local place to worship or celebrate holidays, Dharma said.
A local temple would be more than just that; it would
BY SAFIA KAZISTAFF WRITER
Student body president David Pileski will soon step down as the leader of the student senate to become the campus’ student trustee.
On March 8, Pileski, junior in FAA, sat in the Illinois Student Senate president’s offi ce refreshing the election results page every few minutes to see if the results of the student election had been posted. By 4:30 p.m., the results were out: Pileski had been elected as the new student trustee.
Pileski, who began thinking about run-ning for trustee his sophomore year, said he has enjoyed being student body pres-ident but wants to give someone else a chance to hold that title.
“It does a disservice to the senate as a whole and the campus if someone holds the role hostage,” he said. “And for me, running for trustee and winning is a way to pursue what I’m passionate about.”
He said the lessons he learned from his presidency will carry on into his role as
student trustee. Aside from understand-ing how bureaucracy functions, Piles-ki said he has built many relationships as president that will be benefi cial as trustee.
“I have built a relationship with Chan-cellor (Phyllis) Wise,” he said. “I’ve also built relationships with the student com-munity. It really helps having support from students.”
While his experience as student body president may help him, he said being student trustee and being student senate president are different.
“When I became student body presi-dent, I had already been on senate for a year. But with the Board of Trustees, you really have no idea what to expect while you’re there,” he said. “But I’m always ready for a challenge. It’s exciting to start something new.”
Pileski said he does not have much time as trustee, so he wants to begin working as soon as he can. He said he will hold small focus groups after spring break,
before his term as trustee even begins on July 1.
One of Pileski’s fi rst goals is to work on creating a student vision for the Univer-sity. Because students are only here for four years, Pileski said creating a mis-sion statement by students for the Uni-versity is crucial.
“There has never been a united stu-dent vision for the University,” he said.
“It’s important to bridge student leaders from different communities ... and really prepare a comprehensive thing for Uni-versity administration to look at. The Uni-versity needs to be engaged in long-term discussions and planning.”
Pileski’s roommate Katie Kilbridge , who has known him for more than fi ve
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Pileski plans to utilize experiences in new roleStudent president preps for trustee position
Reform a focus of both candidates
PORTRAIT BY JOSEPH LEE THE DAILY ILLINI
See PILESKI, Page 3A
See HINDU TEMPLE, Page 3A See DEBATE, Page 3A
See PAUL, Page 3A
Champaign sets date to break ground on Hindu templeConstruction will begin in April, completed in fall
BY KLAUDIA DUKALACONTRIBUTING WRITER
Champaign-Urbana residents heard from two Democratic candidates Wednesday who will attempt to unseat U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson (R-15) in the newly remapped 13th district.
Candidates David Gill, an emergency room physician from Bloomington, Ill., and Matt Goetten , Greene County State’s Attorney, discussed various issues affecting the district at a debate held in the WILL-TV studio in Urbana. The debate, a week away from Illinois’ primary, was spon-sored by Illinois Pub-lic Media in collabora-tion with the League of Women Voters.
I l l inois Public Media’s Jim Meadows led the debate while Pat-rick Yeagle , staff writer for the Illinois Times in Springfi eld, Allison Pet-ty, a reporter for the Decatur Herald & Review and The Daily Illini’s editor-in-chief, Jill Disis, posed questions for the candidates.
The debate was proposed by the League of Women Voters of Illinois’ board and Jan Czarnik , its executive director. It was held in order to educate voters, to reach out to the younger gen-eration by including college students in the debate and to spread awareness of the league through partnering televi-sion stations.
Gill, taking his fourth shot at unseat-ing Johnson, discussed the changes the 13th district would witness if he was to successfully defeat Johnson this fall.
“I’d like to see steps taken to restore the health of this planet; I’d like to see appropriate health care reform — I think that we haven’t seen that yet — and I’d like to see a return to some eth-ics within the government,” Gill said after the debate.
Goetten based his qualifi cations for congressman on his past experiences.
Residents listen to Congress hopefuls debate
Aurora150 miles awaySri Venkateswara Temple of Greater Chicago
Lemont125 miles awayThe Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago
Peoria100 miles awayHindu Temple of Central Illinois
ChampaignHindu Temple and Cultural Societyof Central Illinois
Shown are three of the nearest Hindu temples to Champaign. Some local residents travel to these temples on a weekly basis. Construction of a Champaign Hindu temple will begin in April. The temple will be located at Mattis Avenue and Hensley Road.
Illinois Hindu temples nearest to Champaign area
Source: Kiran Topudurti, president of the Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of Central IllinoisSHANNON LANCOR Assistant Design Editor
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Burlesque BabyCanopy Club spices up nightlife
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BY TAYLOR GOLDENSTEINASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
More than 5,000 students came out in support for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) Wednesday night at Huff Hall. Though the event was originally scheduled to be held in Foellinger Auditorium, some students were still left without a seat by the time of the event’s start.
“Some people get discouraged because they say ... 51 percent of the vote, you have to have it, but it isn’t true,” Paul said. “What you need is an irate and tireless minority.”
The representative was brought to the Univer-sity in large part because of U .S. Rep. Tim John-son, R-15, who voted absentee for Paul.
Johnson and Paul have shared “a long standing relationship built on business and friendship” for about 12 years, Johnson said.
“I think it’s important ... our part of the state knows what he offers and what he brings to Amer-ica, so this is an opportunity to do that in a per-sonal way,” Johnson said.
Paul mainly stressed that the government needs to have a smaller role so that the people can “get their liberty back.”
“We have a good constitution,” he said. “We just need to use it every once in a while.”
One of his main talking points was the coun-try’s foreign policy in terms of military involve-ment. He said he wants to end all foreign wars and bring all troops home.
“Since World War II ... think of how many tril-lions of dollars have been wasted. In the past 10 years, 4 trillion dollars added to our debt for for-eign expenditures,” he said.
Paul also pointed to the Stop Online Piracy Act, which received major backlash from the public. He used this as an example of Americans stand-ing up for their privacy rights.
Thousands fi ll Huff Hall to see PaulRepublican candidate stresses foreign policy
MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINI
Republican presidential candidate U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks to a large crowd of supporters at Huff Hall on Wednesday. Paul was introduced by U.S. Representative Tim Johnson (R-IL) , who serves as a representative for the 15th Congressional District of Illinois, which includes Champaign County.
2A Thursday, March 15, 2012 The Daily Illini | www.DailyIllini.com
Champaign! Two 18-year-old females
and a 20-year-old female was issued a notice to appear for fighting at the 2000 block of Moreland on Tuesday around 6 p.m.
According to the report, two of the suspect were banned from the property. One had a warrant and was taken to jail.
! A 21-year-old male, of Homewood, Ill., was arrested on the charge of criminal dam-age to property at the 2000 block of Moreland on Tuesday around noon.
According to the report, the suspect kicked in the door to a bedroom in the apartment. He had also been banned from the premises.
! Two 18-year-old males were issued notices to appear for possession of cannabis at the 1400 block of Sunset Drive on Monday around 9:30 p.m.
According to the report, offi-cers were dispatched to a call of two subjects sitting in a car smoking cannabis. Both sus-
pects were issued notices to appear.
! Theft was reported at the 1300 block of Honeysuckle Lane on Tuesday around 6 p.m.
According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s unlocked garage and stole two bicycles.
! Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported at the 1400 block of Fairfax Drive on Tuesday around 7 p.m.
According to the report, an intoxicated subject kicked in the victim’s door.
Urbana! Criminal damage to prop-
erty was reported at the 200 block of South Poplar Street on Tuesday around 1 p.m.
According to the report, an unknown offender damaged the victim’s bedroom door.
! Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported at the 2200 block of Country Squire Drive on Tuesday around 8 a.m.
According to the report, an unknown offender damaged
the tires on the victim’s car.! Burglary from a motor ve-
hicle was reported at the 500 block of West Green Street on Tuesday around 7 p.m.
According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s vehicle while it was parked unlocked an unattend-ed and stole property.
! Burglary was reported at the 700 block of South Greg-ory Street on Tuesday around 11 p.m.
According to the report, an offender entered the victim’s business by using a key and removed cash from a locked box.
University! A University student re-
ported at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday that someone had knocked over his motorcycle, which had been parked in Lot D-2, 609 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana.
According to the report, es-timated damage was $500.
Compiled by Brynn Twait.
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Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the PremisesKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion at 9 a.m.
Fifty Years: Contemporary American Glass from Illinois CollectionsKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion at 9 a.m.
After Abstract ExpressionismKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion at 9 a.m.
Jerusalem Saved! Inness and the Spiritual LandscapeKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion at 9 a.m.
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Fragments: Recent Paintings by Kenneth Hall Parkland Art Gallery at 10 a.m.
“Wise Animals: Aesop and His Followers” Exhibition U of I Main Library at 8:30 a.m.
Bringing Faith & Art to Life: Works of Shari LeMonnierUnitarian Universalist Movement of Urbana-Champaign at 8 a.m.
“Where the Wild Things Glow” Paintings by Hua NianAmara Yoga & Arts at 9 a.m.
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Following last fall’s investi-gation into the College of Law’s manipulated score reporting, the college has dropped from 23 to 35 in U.S. News and World Report graduate school rank-ings.
The University’s MBA pro-gram rose from 42 last year to 37 in the new 2013 evaluations.
To read more about the Uni-versity’s graduate school 2013 rankings, head to DailyIllini.com.
A proposed student commit-tee may be formed to get a more comprehensive understanding of students’ perspectives regarding the University’s smoking policy.
Focus groups would be held with students and other univer-sities’ current smoking policies would be scrutinized to see how applicable they could be to the University. Log onto DailyIllini.com for the Illinois Student Sen-ate’s decision at its Wednesday meeting.
Restaurant tucked away on 1st !oor of YMCA
Possible committee to review smoking policy
What used to be the K Rooms is now a restaurant called Y Eat-ery, tucked away in a small room on the first floor of the Univer-sity YMCA.
The restaurant, run and owned by Saensuk Mokaphan and his wife, focuses on authentic, affordable Thai cuisine for stu-dents. Students say they often run to the Eatery between class-es because of its proximity to the quad. Find out more on Dai-lyIllini.com.
BY MICHAEL TARMTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich embraced the pub-lic spotlight one last time Wednesday, claiming on the day before he reports to prison that he always believed what he did was legal and expressing faith that an appeal of his corruption con-victions will succeed.
The famously talkative Blagojevich seemed to relish the attention as he spoke to a throng of television cameras, reporters and well-wishers outside his Chicago home less than 24 hours before he was due to arrive at a Colorado pris-on to begin serving a 14-year sentence. He was convicted on 18 counts during two trials, including charges that he tried to sell or trade an appointment to President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat.
“While my faith in things has some-times been challenged, I still believe this is America, this is a country that is governed by the rule of law, that the truth ultimately will prevail,” the impeached governor said during an event that seemed part farewell, part campaign rally.
“As bad as it is, (this) is the begin-ning of another part of a long and hard journey that will only get worse before it gets better, but that this is not over.”
Supporters chanted “free our gover-nor” and “he’s not guilty,” and a banner hung over a railing on Blagojevich’s porch read: “Thanks Mr. Governor. We Will Pray.” After his statement, Blago-jevich signed autographs and chatted with supporters.
Standing beside his wife, the 55-year-old father of two daughters appeared emotional at times. He said preparing to leave for prison is “the hardest thing I’ve ever done” and that he had diffi culty even saying he was going to prison.
But at other moments, he appeared
to be back on the campaign stump, insisting that he always did what he thought was right for Illinois. Blago-jevich said he “actually helped real ordinary people” and listed what he believed were his accomplishments as governor, including expanding health care for children and not raising taxes.
During his sentencing in December, he apologized for his actions by say-ing he “caused it all” and was “just so incredibly sorry.”
But Blagojevich seemed less contrite on Wednesday, calling his troubles a “calamity” that had befallen his fam-ily and saying he always believed what he was doing “was on the right side of the law.”
The crowd outside his Northwest Side bungalow grew to more than 300 strong, spilling people onto the street and stumbling into the family’s rose bushes. Blagojevich was nearly knocked down by the surging crowd as he came out of his house and down the steps holding his wife’s hand.
As the disgraced governor made his way back through the crowd after speaking, several women leaned in to kiss him. One, in her late 50s, reached over to stroke his hair.
When he reports Thursday to the Federal Correctional Institution Engle-wood in suburban Denver, he will become the second Illinois governor in a row sent to prison for corruption. Former Gov. George Ryan is serving a 6 !-year sentence in a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind.
Blagojevich’s attorneys had said he wanted to depart in a dignifi ed way, without a media frenzy. But he timed his departing statement to begin at pre-cisely 5:02 p.m. so it could appear live on the evening news. His publicist even gave a two-minute warning via Twitter so newscasts could be ready.
More than 50 reporters crowded to hear the former governor as two televi-sion helicopters hovered overhead and a dozen TV trucks were parked nearby.
Blagojevich spoke about how dif-
fi cult his imprisonment would be on his wife and two daughters, Amy and Annie, who will be young women before their father is released. Amid the fren-zy, his youngest daughter walked out of the house and stared down at the raucous scene — unsmiling and seem-ingly bewildered.
“We are teaching our kids that in hard times, in tears, you’ve got to live in your hopes and not your fears,” he said.
After his wife retreated to the house, Blagojevich lingered on his porch steps, chatting with supporters, hugging chil-dren and bantering with reporters. At one point, the self-proclaimed Elvis Presley fan told supporters, “Jailhouse Rock is no longer my favorite song.”
Federal agents arrested the then-governor at his home on Dec. 9, 2008. “This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” Blagojevich told the crowd in Chicago. “But it is the law, and we follow the law, and I will begin to do that tomorrow.”
“Your privacy is what the govern-ment should protect, but unfortunately, it’s the other way around: we have no privacy and the government becomes
more secret every single day,” he said.Paul then spoke, to the loud applause
of the audience, about his desire to end the Federal Reserve, which he said would lead to a “return of prosperity in this country.”
Other areas of government Paul spoke about eliminating were the
federal income tax and the Internal Revenue Service. At the end of the event, Paul again spoke to the young audience.
“I see what’s happening in Washing-ton, and I see what’s coming from the other candidates – I see them as the past,” he said to the audience. “I see
you as the future.”Paul is the fi rst presidential candi-
date to come to the University in 2012. “I follow Ron Paul; I have been since
2007, and I’m on his email list ... I’ve been waiting for fi ve years to see him in person,” said Isaac Hankes, gradu-ate student.
BY JESSICA AHNCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Students across campus commemorat-ed pi, rounded to 3.14, on Wednesday — going as far as tossing pies to celebrate the mathematical constant.
The Illini Entrepreneurship Center celebrated Pi Day by hosting a potluck and networking event where members encouraged networking between entrepreneurs.
“We took it as an excuse to bring people together so they could get to know each other,” said Laura Frerichs, organizer of the event and Research Park director .
There were about 75 people who attended the event. Most were students from differ-ent startup companies , joined by representatives from compa-nies such as Caterpillar Inc., and Yahoo .
“The goal is to get startup students to interact and meet with more experienced companies in a casual environment so they can learn from each other’s expe-riences and feel less isolated,” Frerichs said.
On the other side of campus, January Boten, area coordinator for the Ikenber-ry Commons North Residence Halls, and John Wiencek, resident adviser of Garner
Hall and senior in LAS, planned a dif-ferent Pi Day event . They gave Nugent and Garner hall residents the opportu-nity to throw pies at their housing advis-ers’ faces.
“It’s a long-standing tradition of things to pie RAs in the face in order to raise money,” Boten said.
However, instead of following the tra-dition of donating the proceeds to local shel-ters, the housing staff decided to donate the proceeds to the St. Bal-drick’s Foundation .
“Although pieing is usually for local shel-ters, we as a staff want to see St. Baldrick’s succeed,” said Reeba Jacob, senior in LAS.
St. Baldrick’s Foun-dation is a volunteer-driven organization
that focuses on raising money to fund research on cancers affecting children. Wiencek has also planned several events in April, including Brave the Shave, where volunteers shave their head to raise mon-ey for the Foundation.
“Our goal is to raise $10,000 and we’ve already made over $8,300,” Wiencek said. “The Garner staff is super excited for Pi Day and St. Baldrick’s. We hope that this inspires people to Brave the Shave,” Wiencek said.
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years, said Pileski will do a “fabulous job” as student trustee.
“He is very ambitious and he is really dedi-cated to ... the student perspective and making sure that students are protected and get what they deserve,” said Kilbridge, junior in Busi-ness. “He has ... done so much work to show that he’s prepared and established appropriate connections to make his goals met.”
Pileski said he knows what the next year will be like, but does not have concrete plans beyond that. He plans to get a law degree and a master’s degree in either public policy or urban planning.
“I follow my passions. That’s the priority for me,” he said. “My main guiding principle is getting involved in making life more enjoy-able for everyone. Wherever that takes me, it takes me. I’ve only looked in short term and it’s gotten me to where I am now.”
also “build a sense of community” among area residents, Topudurti said. Because they lack a dedicated meeting place, mem-bers of the local Hindu community current-ly hold meetings in members’ homes and hold events at places such as the Urbana Civic Center or the purchased land plot for outdoor events.
Khanna said the temple will serve as a community service-minded cultural cen-ter as well. He said he hopes it will be a place for community social gatherings and will begin offering classes in areas such as language and dance to the general cen-tral Illinois community, with a start date sometime in 2013.
“This is a defi ning moment for the Hin-du community in central Illinois,” Topu-durti said.
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“I’m positioned to beat Tim Johnson in the fall, I think, with my background as a high school teacher, as a small business owner and my military background,” Goetten said after the debate.
Goetten is pushing to open up more job opportunities in central Illinois.
“We need to get people back to work,” Goetten said. “Congress is just not being responsive to the people who have elected them into Congress. I just want (them) to be more responsive to the middle guy.”
Tim Budley , audience member, said Gill would be more qualifi ed for the position as congressman because he has what it takes to succeed. Budley said the Illinois’ 13th dis-trict needs a representative who “has some common beliefs with the people and truly believes in what they believe in and doesn’t have a problem in showing it.”
Students celebrate Pi Day, help community
MELANIE CHALLBERG THE DAILY ILLINI
Dan Derrig, a Multicultural Advocate and a junior in Business, prepares to be pied by Sara Hayden, a freshman in LAS, as part of a Pi Day event in the courtyard of Garner Hall on Wednesday. Proceeds from the public pieing benefi tted local shelters.
Students pie RAs to raise money for charity
“It’s a long-standing tradition of things to pie RAs in the face in order to raise money.”
JANUARY BOTEN,area coordinator for the Ikenberry Commons North Residence Halls
CHARLES REX ARBOGAST THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is surrounded by journalists outside of his home Wednesday in Chicago, as he arrives with his daughter Annie. Blagojevich was convicted of 18 criminal counts over two trials.
Blagojevich speaks before beginning 14-year sentence
EDITORIAL
Every election an opportunity to let your voice be heardT he presidential race
is fi nally coming to us. On March 20, Illi-
nois will hold the GOP pri-mary. Illinois’ infl uence is usually diminished in the primaries because it falls after Super Tuesday, the day when a large chunk of delegates have already de-termined the trajectory of the race. But this year, it’s not over just yet.
With Rick Santorum racking up late wins — which may not be enough to catch him up with Mitt Romney but certainly gives Santorum momen-tum — the GOP primaries are shaping up to be an in-teresting battle, one that students should partici-pate in.
Illinois holds what is called a semi-closed pri-mary, a ballot that inde-pendents can cast but reg-istered Democrats cannot. Unfortunately for those who are allowed to partic-
ipate in this primary and are registered in Cham-paign, the primary falls during spring break, and most of us will be going home. Nevertheless, it is important to take the pri-maries seriously, and if you can vote, to plan ac-cordingly.
Like local elections, pri-maries are often discount-ed as unimportant because they are not part of the big federal election cycle in the fall. But primaries have just as much an ef-fect on citizens, and per-haps a more direct one than the national elec-tion. It is true, certainly, that the push to get stu-dents registered and vot-ing is much less noticeable — if present at all — dur-ing the smaller races. It is not necessarily the fault of students that registration and voting happen at lower rates during these times. But it is important, as stu-
dents and citizens, to think about the implications of being informed and on top of things, even if there isn’t a fl yer in your face re-minding you to do so.
Circumstances, such as missing the registration deadline or being a regis-tered Democrat, may pre-vent you from voting in the upcoming Illinois GOP primary, but even so, it is a good opportunity to re-fl ect on the impact of let-ting your voice be heard at every opportunity you have and not just once ev-ery four years.
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The Daily Illini Editorial BoardEditorials refl ect the majority opinion of the board, which comprises:Jill Disis, editor in chief; Joe Ward, managing editor reporting; Rosie Powers, managing editor for online; Sam Kargol, news editor; Nora Ibrahim, opinions editor; XiXi Tian, copy chief; Kevin Dollear, daytime assignment editor; Nathaniel Lash, assistant news editor; Darshan Patel, news staff writer
POLITICAL CARTOON LANGSTON ALLSTON THE DAILY ILLINI
I ’ve seen “Game Change” twice now. At fi rst watch, you almost feel sorry for Sarah
Palin, thrown into the 24 news cycle and possibly the most intense campaign of her life without seeming to understand what she was really getting her-self into.
The second time around, you wonder what the McCain camp was really thinking.
The 2008 election was many things, and like the movie title suggests, it was a game chang-er. Before watching the movie, my impression of Palin cen-tered around her shocking brand of bizarre and untruth-ful declarations (“Polls are for cross-country skiers and strip-pers” or “But obviously we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies”).
Much of the movie centers around Steve Schmidt’s charac-ter, the senior campaign advi-sor to McCain who is portrayed as intuitive, smart and intent on winning.
He describes Obama as a celebrity, a man who is able to pull in more than three times as much funding without having any “real accomplishments.” He says what the McCain cam-paign needs is something dif-ferent, something that chang-es the game. After a polling strategist is consulted, Schmidt decides the only way to win the race is to close the gender gap (in other words, pick a woman for the V.P. nominee).
In a promising effort to fi nd a candidate, campaign manag-er Rick Davis is shown sifting
through YouTube clips of wom-en political fi gures and fi nally lands on a clip of Sarah Pal-in on Charlie Rose. He seems completely enamored; by what, though, remains unclear.
And so, the nation’s most notorious hockey mom was born.
Palin, who is played by Juli-anne Moore, is portrayed as pretty, willing and a tad naive but eager to support McCain. Eventually unable to handle the pressure and responsibil-ity of her position, her charac-ter deteriorates to someone who denies the truth, decides to take matters into her own hands and consistently blames others for her lack of political prowess (she blames her Katie Couric interview on Katie Couric).
The media chewed her up and spit her out about as quickly as McCain decided his election was going to be more about win-ning than it was about running the kind of campaign he really believed in.
After it becomes clear that her foreign policy skills are seriously limited (she thought the queen was the head of gov-ernment in England) and didn’t have a grip on our own govern-mental institutions (didn’t know what the Federal Reserve Sys-tem did), the McCain campaign realizes it may have bitten off more than its campaign could handle.
However, the movie seems to be less a critique of her char-acter than of the McCain cam-paign’s decision to pick her.
In an attempt to put “Country First,” the Arizona senator may have made one of the bigger mistakes of his life while also leaving a lasting stain on Amer-ican politics.
Schmidt recently gave an interview to Joe Scarborough
of Morning Joe, saying that the movie was “very accurate.” He also took ownership of his role in Palin’s nomination:
“When a result happens that puts someone who’s not pre-pared to be president on the ticket, that’s a bad result. I think the notion of Sarah Palin being president of the United States is something that fright-ens me, frankly. And I played a part in that. And I played a part in that because we were fueled by ambition to win.”
In an effort to battle Obama’s “celebrity” status, Schmidt chose a candidate that had star power but scarcely had the cre-dentials to be a governor, let alone vice president.
It changed the dynamic of the race to one that was less about the campaign’s values and more about winning at all costs. In the movie, McCain expresses interest in choosing Sen. Joe Lieberman as the V.P. nominee, but Schmidt responds by say-ing, “Choosing Lieberman is the right thing to do, but the wrong way to win.”
Besides dragging down the campaign, choosing Palin left the McCain camp looking less credible than ever. It also gave rise to, in many respects, a frightening political personali-ty. Palin may largely be regard-ed as a loose canon, but she remains a hero to her fans. Her nomination gave way to a perso-na that shouldn’t represent the Republican party, or any party really.
Her rise to power has by and large come from inciting fear in people, rather than from an established platform. She would regularly tell large crowds that Obama has covert ties to domestic terrorism and that he wants to see the United States defeated in war. Rather than discussing the issues and com-ing up with real solutions, she has made her name by rally-ing people against the current administration.
In doing so, she changed the nature of the McCain campaign and campaigning in general.
At the end of the movie, there seems to be an understanding that Sarah Palin would fade as quickly as she came.
There’s a moment where Schmidt’s character tries to console Palin as she tries to take in all the criticism “News is no longer meant to be remem-bered, its just entertainment”.
That may or may not to be true, but Sarah Palin isn’t going anywhere — and neither are her fans.
Nishat is a senior in LAS.
Despite portrayal of Sarah Palin in ‘Game Change,’ fans stay true
KEEPING IT REAL
NISHAT KHANOpinions columnist BETWEEN THE LINES
Unhealthy success: Striving for perfection shouldn’t completely overwhelm our lives
These days, I usually give a simple “How are you?” — a big fat lie of a response.
Because when I say “great,” I’m really watching as the ask-er’s face inevitably turns into that of a waggling-fi ngered professor or an unfi nished job application or a summer tran-script request I forgot to mail.
I save the honest answers for my mother, who listens to me babble on about my frighten-ing workload, my impending jobless future and how the only time I can catch my breath is between 5 p.m. Friday till bed Sunday night.
And Ma, bless her heart, never fails to help me realign my priorities and make me realize, at least for fi ve min-utes, that my problems are pretty insignifi cant in large scope of things.
“You have all your arms and legs, right?” she always asks, reminding me just how lucky I really am. I don’t ever fear for my life and I’ve never had to worry where my next meal came from; even if, God forbid, I spend a few months of post-graduate unemployment back at home, my family will be more than happy to have me.
Although somewhere deep down I suppose I knew all of this, I end up at a loss for the
breezy, carefree self I was just last year, when I could shrug off the occasional bad grade or spat with a friend — prob-lems that I then felt had con-sequences of apocalyptic pro-portions. Even things I usually fi nd therapeutic — writing my column, for instance — made me feel like I was standing in the shadow of a huge piano about to fall on my head.
I’m going to simplify: In three words, I was stressed.
It was early Monday morn-ing in a week when I decided I was fi nally ready to escape the stress once and for all — or at least stave it off for a few months. So I made the call to see a counselor. And though I didn’t want to, I went.
The fi rst time I sat down with a counselor, I got about as far as a sincere “How are you doing?” before the big, fat obnoxious tears erupted. I was literally sputtering like a broken engine. It was kind of horrifying. There was no real reason for it. Out came every-thing ranging from mild to major signifi cance — in liquid form. And even though it was mortifying, it felt good. It felt honest.
I was a little scared it would happen again during my sec-ond visit, but when I went this week, I felt a little more lighthearted and a lot more dry-eyed. And when we went through some of the things we talked about last week, I heard myself say, “I have trouble remembering that I’ll be total-
ly fi ne even when I screw up.”Though I don’t know how
realistic it is visualizing myself on the beach look-ing at a sailboat thing , I have learned some things: Stress is normal. Stress can be good — it’s what keeps us work-ing hard and staying up late to study and strive for success. Stress keeps us out of the bar seven nights a week and off our parent’s couches . But too much stress — the crying-like-a-newborn kind — will only make us miserable.
The bottom line, I realized, is this: I don’t want my memo-ries of senior year to consist of me sitting by myself every night at my usual Espresso Royale table until close time with a fi zzling caffeine buzz and a to-do list that will nev-er have everything checked off. I want my memories to consist of my best friends’ faces, sitting on the Quad on sunny days and feeling light while my responsibili-ties in life are still relatively inconsequential.
I won’t ever be able to change my ever-present desire to succeed or my fear of screwing up. I know I’m not the only one that has tests and papers and all-night-ers and stress. But I think we all deserve to be a little less hard on ourselves. And when someone asks, “How are you doing?” We should say, “Great.” And really mean it.
Megan is a senior in Media.
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The cornerstone laying was a quiet, simple ceremony without a set program or formal address so they could continue working on the building to be completed on time, Evensen said.
The current time capsule will be installed at the Lincoln Hall Open House on October 27, 2012, by the winner of the idea sub-mission contest, which will be determined by the votes of stu-
dents, alumni and faculty.There is no limit to the num-
ber of submissions people can send in by the submission dead-line of May 21, 2012, but there are some limitations on the potential items to put in the time capsule.
The maximum size of the time capsule is 2 feet by 3 feet, Korab said. It is recommend-ed not to include paper because it could degrade easily. Items also should not be a form of media since they may be unus-able when the time capsule is
reopened, Korab said.While it is a way to get stu-
dents involved in the Lincoln Hall reopening, the time cap-sule is also important because it is a way to preserve campus history, Evensen said.
“Like anything in history, knowing more about where you came from helps you make deci-sions about where you’re going,” Evensen said. “So, it’s not only about getting people involved, but it’s about preserving the his-tory of the building, the history of the campus.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION WEBSITE
In this undated image of the interior of the Armory, beds are seen. The building was once a barracks.
BY REEMA ABI-AKARSTAFF WRITER
When most people think about fashion, they think of modeling, designing and wearing clothes — simple as that. But in reality, there are many more behind-the-scenes careers nestled with-in this sizeable fi eld.
On campus, I-Style is the only Registered Student Organiza-tion devoted to the business, marketing, advertising, and oth-er similar jobs lurking behind the silk curtains of the fashion world.
“We really try to educate students in any major about careers in the fashion world,” said Catherine Taich , junior in LAS and founder of I-Style. “We just try to focus each meeting on a different profession ... we want to try to give a holistic feel to some of the professions in (the fashion industry).”
Every week, Taich strives to pinpoint a different facet of the fashion business. I-Style spot-lights the details of the diverse assortment of jobs in public relations, designing, writing, editing, styling and more.
“In the past year or so, the number of fashion-related resources on this campus has really expanded,” said Emily Cleary , senior in Media and president of Her Campus Illi-nois. “It’s a really exciting time for U of I students interested in pursuing careers in the fashion industry.”
I-Style, formerly known as The Business of Style, has been around since last year. It didn’t
offi cially become an RSO until last semester, though.
“I think that since it is a rel-atively new RSO, that it has so much more room to grow pos-itively,” said Carly Neville , senior in FAA and member of I-Style.
Not only does I-Style provide students interested in fashion with a medium for discussion, it also offers networking oppor-tunities to its members.
Since many students on the executive board have taken part in fashion-related internships or know people who have, they can give other group members a chance as well. This is done through networking and the exchanging of ideas.
“A lot of brands and com-panies reach out to us,” Taich said. “They’ll contact me because they’ll go through the RSO offi ce, and they’ll get the information for how to reach us. Over the years I’ve had so many internships ... that I’ve developed connections with not just my internships, but people I know at other schools.”
In this web of networking, it also helps to be active on social network sites and blogs, so the members get together in “blog-ging parties” to document what they are doing and what they are interested in online.
“We really try to stress social media, just helping students have these different social media outlets,” Taich said.
It’s an important way to put your name out there and have the newest information and
updates, she added.I-Style also takes part in a dif-
ferent philanthropy each semes-ter. In the past, the RSO collab-orated with Rent the Runway and Her Campus Illinois to host a fashion show and the Perfect Prom Project, a venture to dis-tribute gently used prom dress-es to girls who would otherwise not be able to buy them.
“They do a whole boutique show, trunk show (and) give the girls an opportunity to come in and try on the dresses to fi nd the one they want,” said Neville, who is also in charge of I-Style philanthropy.
I-Style has fundraising events throughout the year, whether it’s making and selling DIY projects or raising awareness for a fashion-related organiza-tion, the group members pitch in to donate to the causes they see fi t.
Cleary is also the project manager of College Fashion Week at the University, and she says that these fashion groups and RSOs — I-Style, Her Cam-pus Illinois, College Fashion Week and others — are regu-larly in the practice of collabo-rating with each other.
For College Fashion Week this coming April, Taich, Nev-ille and the other members of I-Style are planning more events, including publishing a newsletter after Spring Break.
Until then, I-Style is always accepting new members, and anyone who is interested can contact the group via [email protected].
I-Style RSO promotes business side of fashion
from the classroom building you know today, but a barracks which housed 1,500 members of the Student Army Training Corps. The Corps was a pro-gram designed to keep young men over 18 in college while preparing them for WWI.
“The University had a big program in the military sci-ence,” Winton Solberg, profes-sor emeritus of history said. “All male students had to take military science for two years.”
Prior to the Armory’s con-struction, the drafted men used the Men’s Gym Annex to drill. According to Solberg, the Armory provided more than a place for the soldiers to drill in the wintertime.
“Where do you store your arms?” Solberg said. “You keep them in the Armory.”
In fact, the Armory was so valuable that during World War II, the building went under a supposed bomb threat, Sol-berg said. Soldiers guarded the building 103 hours a week, but the bombing never occurred.
If the Armory were bombed, however, a Chicago architect’s structural feat would go down with it. According to David M. Chasco, director of the School of Architecture, the man
behind the Armory Building was state architect, William Carbys Zimmerman. At the time, the state architect was responsible for the drawings of every building in the state of Illinois, including the Armory.
The Armory’s arch con-struction was not coincidental. Skvarla noted that the purpose of the Armory’s three pin-hinge arch design was to pro-vide more space for the soldiers to hold their drills without pro-ducing an echo.
“As a drill hall, they want-ed to be able to march a large number of people and do vari-ous formations,” Skvarla said. “That’s why it always had a dirt fl oor too.”
The tree-pin-hinge arch addi-tionally saved the building money and an additional fl oor to support the roof, which earned it its name for the largest con-struction without middle sup-port. According to Skvarla, the Armory was completed at the relatively cheap cost of $227,000.
He placed a landscape por-trait of the Armory on the table. A large arched building fi lled the scenery and except for tall trees in the distant background and patches of grass and dirt in the foreground.
“The area surrounding the Armory was just farmland,” Skvarla said. “This is from
1915, you can see how fl at and open the area was.”
The Armory remained exclu-sively a barracks until 1927, when architects, Charles A. Platt and James White made a two-story brick addition that wrapped around the build-ing you can see today, Chas-co said. The addition featured the Armory’s rusticated and arched entries.
By 1962 the Armory’s inte-rior was remodeled to include the suspended buildings and offi ces it houses today, accord-ing to Skvarla.
Now, the year is 2012 and before you towers a 98-foot-tall arch structure. The upper portion of the building is still blanketed in windows. How-ever, the lower portion now features a brick addition that runs along the perimeter of the building. Both Army and Navy ROTC units frequent the Armory as the building is their headquarters. Inside the build-ing, athletes circle the track, fully visible from the suspend-ed classroom hallways on the third and fourth fl oor. As you gaze down into the track, you notice students preparing for the University’s indoor remote controlled model airplane competition.
Yet, in the back of your head, you still hear a distant chanting of “Pack Up Your Troubles.”
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BY LYANNE ALFAROSTAFF WRITER
Look down at the concrete sidewalk beneath your feet. Now look back up.
The year is 1914 and before you tow-ers a 98-foot-tall arch structure, its entire front blanketed in windows. Newspapers around the world are rav-ing about the structure, calling it “the largest in the world without a middle support.”
However, there are no other nota-ble constructions in the surrounding vicinity but fi elds and fi elds of grass. The watch on your wrist is replaced by a pocket watch and as you check the time, you realize it is far earlier than you usually are up in the morn-ing for class – 5 a.m. to be exact.
A group of men ages 18 to 37 round the corner of the building in their gray joggers, chanting “pack up your trou-bles.” Suddenly, a light bulb goes off in your head, and you realize you are witnessing history. 1914 is the begin-ning of World War I. People are not
only fascinated by the architecture of the Armory Building, but also what took place inside.
Flashback.Inside the building, there were rows
and rows of beds for drafted men to sleep in. The men you observed run-ning around the building were chant-ing patriotic verses - a common ritu-al before going inside the building to execute their drills and formations. According to Campus Historic Pres-ervation Offi cer Melvyn Skvarla, the original Armory was far different
DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI
The Armory is shown in its current state on Tuesday, complete with two-story brick addition.See ARMORY, Page 5A
BY ALISON MARCOTTESTAFF WRITER
An iCard, a stuffed squirrel and a dried ear of corn from the Morrow Plots are some of the ideas submitted by alumni, stu-dents and faculty on what sym-bolic items should be placed in the Lincoln Hall time capsule, which will be installed at the Lincoln Hall Open House dur-ing Homecoming 2012.
Other latest submissions include football ticket stubs, school spirit t-shirts, a Scant-ron test, an aerial shot of the campus and a printout of the list of time capsule ideas submitted.
The time capsule, which will most likely be made out of stain-
less steel, will be inside one of the two piers that align steps on the Quad side of Lincoln Hall. It will be placed in a spot where it is easy to remove limestone, slide in the time capsule, and seal it up, said Holly Korab , senior director of communica-tions and marketing.
It is up to future generations to decide when to open the time capsule. Korab said 50 years seems reasonable, or they could even wait 100 years.
The time capsule project has been an opportunity to get peo-ple involved and interested in the Lincoln Hall reopening, said Dave Evensen, project spokes-man and communications spe-
cialist in LAS.Sruthy Koottala , freshman in
DGS, recommended putting a yearbook with notes and advice, or menus from Green Street into the time capsule.
Sindhu Gudala , freshman in Engineering, suggested putting in magazines, quote books and brochures regarding RSOs and events happening on campus.
“It’s just like everyday stuff that we see and lets us know what’s going on. In the future, it would be interesting to see what was happening back in the day,” Gudala said.
The inspiration to install a time capsule arose from multi-ple projects that were ongoing
during the Lincoln Hall reno-vation process, which began in Spring 2010.
One project is the Storyogra-phy project, where people can share their most memorable Uni-versity experiences through any kind of medium, such as through text, video, audio or photo.
The time capsule idea also came from the actual renovation process of Lincoln Hall. When the contractors were working on the building, they found a lot of old items inside the walls and other areas of Lincoln Hall, Korab said. These included pop bottles, old pieces of equipment, a purse, letters, maps and mag-azines, which have been posted
on the LAS website.“We had so much fun looking
at those and trying to guess, how did these get there? What do these mean? The pop bottles were from manufactures we had never heard of before. So that also made us start think-ing about doing something like the time capsule,” Korab said.
Another source of inspiration came from the cornerstone box, which is similar to a time cap-sule, that was installed in Lin-coln Hall on Aug. 10, 1910, dur-ing its original construction.
While the current time cap-sule will be accessible and hope-fully reopened in the future, the cornerstone box cannot be
removed without compromis-ing the structural integrity of the building. However, a cor-nerstone box is not meant to be accessible before the building comes down, and so that is why it cannot be accessed, Evensen said.
The College of LAS has a list of items they believe are inside the cornerstone box. Some of the items include University cata-logs, a University map, a photo-graph of proposed campus plan, the Commencement Address, an Illinois Magazine, various pam-phlets and views of all the build-ings on campus.
See LINCOLN HALL, Page 5A
Construction stared: September 18, 1912Architect: William Carbys ZimmermanCost: $227,000Modifi ed: 1925-27 and 1962Fun Fact: The Armory was used as a dorm for soldiers during WWI. It also saw a bomb threat during WWII.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ARCHIVES
This undated image of the Armory is seen in the mid-1920s, as William Maher, University Archivist noted, before the additions to the building took place.
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The poster made for the 2011-12 Illinois wrestling season shows seven wrestlers overlooking the St. Louis Arch. The top of the poster reads, “March to the Arch.”
That poster was made months ago. The march is over. The destination is front and center.
Thursday marks the first of the NCAA Champi-onships, in which the Illi-ni coincidentally will have seven wrestlers competing.
“I think obviously we’re really prepared, and I think up until this point we’ve wrestled our best in the best competition, so I don’t expect anything different from this,” Illinois head coach Jim Heffer-nan said. “I think they all got a great chance. We got seven matches in the first round, and our goal is to be 7-0 after the first round.”
Of the seven Illini competing, juniors B.J. Futrell and Jordan Blanton are vying for their second All-America honors.
The top eight finishers are considered All-Americans, and Futrell finished in the eighth spot last season.
“We’re looking to bring home multiple All-Ameri-cans, a few national champi-ons,” Futrell said. “I’m not going there to be an All-American, I’m going there to win it.”
Blanton earned his All-American status in 2010, when he placed fifth. He suffered a season-ending back injury against Purdue in December of the follow-ing season.
It’s been two years since he last stepped on a mat at the NCAA Cham-pionships, and the junior is ready to make another appearance.
“In the future it’s going to be nice to look
back and say I was an All-American, but I won’t be satisfied unless I’m a nation-al champ two times,” Blanton said. “I’ve worked my whole life for this. I don’t train to lose, and I really just want to go out there
Illinois sends 7 to St. LouisSeven Illini wrestlers will compete in the NCAA Championships from Thursday through Saturday in St. Louis. Five Illinois wrestlers are seeded at their respective weights including B.J. Futrell and Jordan Blanton, who will look to grab their second All-American honors.
Illinois' Jordan Blanton wrestles during the meet against Wisconsin at Huff Hall on Friday Feb. 3, 2012. Blanton and six of his teammates are competing in the NCAA Championships in St. Louis, Mo. this week.
BY EMILY BAYCISENIOR WRITER
Editor’s note: This is the fifth part of a series highlighting Illinois gym-nast Paul Ruggeri’s road to poten-tially qualifying for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Two years ago, Paul Rug-geri competed in his first inter-national gymnastics competi-tion for Team USA, the World Stars Competition in Moscow, Russia. The Illi-nois senior was lonely, nervous, in culture shock and barely known in the gymnas-tics world. Today, Ruggeri has trav-eled to six inter-national competi-tions and won six medals.
On Sunday, Rug-geri leaves for his final inter-national event before the 2012 London Olympics: The Cottbus (Germany) World Cup, which takes place March 20-26. Rug-geri is not alone, as USA team-mates John Orozco and Jesse Sil-verstein will join him. He has an
even more familiar face as his coach, Illinois assistant coach Ivan Ivankov.
The stage has changed from two years ago and Ruggeri is ready.
“I really feel like I know what I’m doing now,” Ruggeri said. “I’m prepared, I’m ready to go.”
He’s no longer a stranger to the gymnastics world, but instead is a gymnast to watch.
“A lot of the best athletes in the world will be there, but the fun-ny thing is, those athletes are look-ing at Paul,” Illi-nois head coach Justin Spring said. “He’s gone to meets and medaled regular-ly. He’s looked at within the interna-tional world as one
of the greatest high bar athletes in the world.”
The foreign competitors are not alone in watching Ruggeri — the Olympic Selection Com-mittee and his U.S. teammates,
BY SEAN HAMMONDSTAFF WRITER
On March 11, 2000, the Illi-nois softball team won a game for the first time, defeating Coastal Caroli-na in the second game of a double-header. Illinois’ roster consisted of 25 walk-ons. Twelve years later, the Illini and head coach Terri Sullivan sit on the verge of capturing the program’s 400th victory this weekend.
Sullivan has led the Orange and Blue to all 398 victories since the program’s inception.
With five games at this week-end’s USF Under Armour Invi-tational, the Illini could reach 400 as early as Friday.
“In coaching, any significant accolade that you have, it’s always because of the effort of your players,” Sullivan said. “That’s what it’s really about, all the players that have worked hard over the years.”
Sullivan, who played at Loyola (Chicago), was an assistant coach at UIC from 1993-99. During her time at UIC, Sullivan coached a third
baseman by the name of Don-na DiBiase for her final two collegiate seasons, including a senior season that culminat-ed in a trip to the 1994 College World Series.
DiBiase is now Sullivan’s associate head coach at Illi-nois, and has also been with the program since the beginning. The first Illini softball team fin-ished 13-17 in the 2000 season, when they did not compete in a conference.
“The neat thing about that year was that these young ladies were here when there was no softball and had the opportuni-ty to represent the University of Illinois athletics as a varsi-
Road to London makes final international stop
RUGGERI’S ROAD
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The team sings a song after the game against Northwestern at Eichelberger Field on April 30.
Wrestling headed to NCAAsFormer All-Americans Futrell, Blanton lead Illini squad to national meet
BY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois baseball team received its first donation to Wednesday’s food and fund drive from The Cookie Jar at about 6 a.m. The donations, solicited to aid tornado victims in Harrisburg, Ill., kept com-ing until about 7 p.m. when the event ended. The team raised more than $10,000, with an additional $1,000 in gift cards and more than 6,700 pounds of food supplies.
“The thing about this com-munity is, it’s very giving,” said head coach Dan Hartleb, who was at the field from 5.30 a.m. until the event ended. “So I’m not surprised by the great sup-port in the community.”
The tornado’s devastation hit close to home for the Illini, as second baseman Reid Roper is from Harrisburg. Illinois base-ball got help packing and sort-ing through all the donations from volunteers, sponsors and even some fellow Illini athletes. The soccer, men’s and women’s cross-country, men’s and wom-
en’s track and field and swim-ming and diving teams all had representatives stop by to help the Illini’s efforts.
“We heard about this com-munity service opportunity, and we thought we’d just come out and pitch in,” said Macken-zie Taylor, of the soccer team. “What’s so important and spe-cial about this event is to see how many people who aren’t in the area are able to pitch in and help each other.”
“We’ve been surprised there have been so many people will-ing to give so much food, it’s been great,” fellow soccer play-er Katie Reed said.
After the Illini play Saturday in Carbondale, Ill., they will drive to Harrisburg to present what they raised to the commu-nity’s leaders.
Injury updatePitchers Rob McDonnell
(elbow) and Bryan Roberts (shoulder) are both coming off Tommy John surgery from the summer and have been shut down the past couple weeks with tightness in their arms.
“We’re just being very cau-tious with them,” Hartleb said.
PORTRAIT BY JOSEPH LEE THE DAILY ILLINI
Anthony Milazzo, a freshman in Business, shows off all of the donations collected by Illinois' baseball team.
See GYMNASTICS, Page 6B
Softball, Sullivan 2 wins away from 400, look to accomplish feat in weekend slate
Illinois steps up to plate for relief
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Baseball team raises $10,000 for tornado victims
“I really feel like I know what I’m
doing now.”PAUL RUGGERI,
senior, men’s gymnastics
Illinois gymnast Ruggeri prepares for national team assignment in Germany
“I’m not going there to be an All-
American, I’m going there to win it.”
B.J. FUTRELL,junior, wrestling
“All the players have worked hard
over the years.”TERRI SULLIVAN,
head coach
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In this Dec. 24 fi le photo, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall (19) hauls in a touchdown pass against New England Patriots defensive back Kyle Arrington, behind, during the second quarter of an NFL football game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
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O-line must solidify for Bears to make playoffs
There you have it, Jay Cutler .The band is back together: Cut-
ler on lead vocals, newly acquired Brandon Marshall on the guitars and Jeremy Bates as manager. But a three-man crew is not enough — not in a band and defi nitely not on the Chicago Bears, a team with uncertainty at many positions.
The biggest question mark is at left tackle, the most important position on the offensive line.
The Bears announced the trade for Pro Bowl wide receiver Marshall from the Miami Dolphins on Tuesday during the fi rst hour of free agency. But while Marshall will fi ll a crucial hole on the offense, the Bears are a long way from being that Super Bowl or bust team.
This steal does not guarantee the Bears anything, but it does say that new general manager Phil Emery is com-mitted to building offense — something many successful teams last year were built upon.
The trade reunites Cutler and Mar-shall from their glory days as mem-bers of the Denver Broncos. Marshall was Cutler’s primary target during that
stretch, setting career-highs in receiv-ing yards and receptions in 2007 and 2008, respectively.
Marshall is also a unique specimen — a 6-foot-4 receiver who is one of the tougher players to bring down, accord-ing to many of his opponents. But even with the acquisition, Chicago still has gaping holes that need to be addressed this offseason. Building a top-tier team will require Emery to fi nd more than an all-pro wide receiver to complement his quarterback.
Emery now needs to shift his atten-tion to the offensive line — a position that former general manager Jerry Angelo had ignored.
The success of this position, which is arguably more important than Marshall and his abilities to catch the ball, will impact Cutler in almost every aspect of the game.
Even though the offensive line did allow almost 50 sacks last year — six fewer than the year before — num-bers still show that there needs to be improvement with the group, including the second-string, especially because the Bears have had to juggle the line around in recent years due to injuries and inconsistent play.
During free agency and even the draft, the Bears need some young help to complement the older, more inju-ry-prone players. A key factor in that decision is how Emery evaluates the
left side, starting with offensive tackle J’Marcus Webb . He showed promising signs last year, but struggled with sacks and penalties when it really mattered, most notably against Jared Allen late in the year.
With the lack of clutch play, Webb has proven that the left side needs to be a priority for Emery this offseason. Only with this position secured can Mar-shall’s true value be uncovered.
In Chicago, Marshall will again be Cutler’s go-to guy.
He brings some chemistry to the offense, which has been lacking a true No. 1 receiver. Last year, the Bears’ receivers only caught nine touchdowns — the same number produced by run-ning backs and tight ends on the team. But they don’t get all the blame.
Good offense starts with a solid offensive line that could pave way for other key positions to succeed. Recent linemen have limited the Bears to a defense-fi rst philosophy, which seems like a thing of the old.
While Angelo was hesitant to spend money on the line, something about this move tells us that Emery has a totally different attitude.
The Bears’ postseason chances depend on it.
Darshan is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @drshnpatel.
DARSHAN PATELSports columnist
BY BARRY WILNERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Calvin Johnson got the biggest contract in NFL history Wednesday, and he wasn’t even a free agent.
The All-Pro wide receiver’s eight-year deal through the 2019 season is worth $132 million, with $60 million guaran-teed, surpassing the $120 million with $50 million guaranteed being paid to Ari-zona’s Larry Fitzgerald.
Another All-Pro, guard Carl Nicks, left New Orleans for the Tampa Bay Bucca-neers and a fi ve-year contract. Nicks is a two-time Pro Bowl player and was a key on the Saints’ record-setting offense.
Nicks joined cornerback Eric Wright, who also signed Wednesday. Wright got a fi ve-year deal, too.
On Tuesday, the Buccaneers added star receiver Vincent Jackson for fi ve years and $55.55 million.
“We’ve made our mark for what we wanted to accomplish,” Bucs general manager Mark Dominik said.
Indianapolis made receiver Reggie Wayne’s return offi cial Wednesday and also signed defensive end Cory Redding to a contract.
Wayne will get three years and $17.5 million in what likely is the last deal of his career.
Philadelphia agreed on a fi ve-year contract with wideout and kick return-er DeSean Jackson, who was given a franchise tag and would have cost any team signing him two fi rst-round draft picks. Eagles defensive end Trent Cole, who had 11 sacks last season, agreed to a four-year extension with Philadelphia.
The Chicago Bears brought back Josh
McCown on a one-year deal. McCown joined Chicago late last season and appeared in three games, making two starts after Caleb Hanie struggled fi ll-ing in for Jay Cutler.
New St. Louis coach Jeff Fisher brought in one of his regulars when he was with the Titans, agreeing with cor-nerback Cortland Finnegan on a fi ve-year contract. Finnegan was an All-Pro in 2008 and is known for his physical style.
Pro Bowl cornerback Carlos Rogers will get $31.3 million over four years to remain with the 49ers, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press. Rogers had six inter-ceptions last season and his return would mean all 11 starters from San Francis-co’s strong defense will be back for the upcoming season.
Dallas landed its backup to Tony Romo when it agreed on a three-year deal with Kyle Orton, who has been a starter in Chicago, Denver and Kansas City. Jon Kitna, Romo’s backup the last two years, retired after last season.
Derek Anderson said he has agreed to remain in Carolina as Cam Newton’s
backup. He did not throw a pass last season.
The Cowboys bolstered their second-ary with Brandon Carr, who was a start-ing cornerback for Kansas City and will replace Terence Newman, released this week by Dallas. Carr got a fi ve-year deal.
The Chargers re-signed left tackle Jar-ed Gaither to a four-year contract and signed former Ravens linebacker Jar-ret Johnson to a four-year deal. Gaith-er replaces Marcus McNeill, who was released Tuesday.
San Diego also agreed to a one-year deal with tight end Kory Sperry, whose contract had expired.
The Super Bowl champion Giants signed tight end Martellus Bennett to a deal. They lost starter Jake Ballard and backup Travis Beckum to major knee injuries in the Super Bowl win over the Patriots.
The Jets re-signed kicker Nick Folk, who spent the last two years with the team.
Oakland cut right guard Cooper Car-lisle and defensive tackle John Hender-son. The Raiders are now about $10 mil-lion under the salary cap.
New Bears trade Marshall accused of striking woman
‘Megatron’ inks biggest deal in NFL historyNew 8-year contract worth $132 million
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CHICAGO — Less than a day after the Bears traded for Brandon Marshall, the Pro Bowl receiver has been accused in yet another off-fi eld incident.
New York City police say a woman has fi led a complaint alleging Marshall punched her in the face at a nightclub over the weekend. Marshall has not been charged in the incident, which the woman says occurred at 3:50 a.m. Sunday outside the Marquee in Man-hattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.
Marshall was traded from the Miami Dolphins to the Bears on Tuesday for two third-round draft picks. Both teams said Wednesday that they knew about the alleged incident before the trade.
“Both the Bears and Dolphins were aware of what occurred over the week-end,” Chicago general manager Phil Emery said. “We decided to move for-ward with the trade. We have high expectations for Brandon as a Bear.”
In a statement that Fox Sports report-er Jay Glazer posted on Twitter, Mar-shall’s attorney, Harvey Steinberg , said a fi ght broke out that did not involve his client or his friends. He said Mar-shall’s wife was struck in the face by a thrown bottle and “suffered serious injury” as they were leaving the club. He said Marshall’s wife was taken to a hospital and that Marshall “is hop-ing to assist authorities in regards to this matter.”
Steinberg and agent Kennard McGuire did not return calls for com-ment. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello wrote in an e-mail the incident “will be reviewed like any other matter of this nature.”
The trade for Marshall was the fi rst big move by Emery, who replaced the fi red Jerry Angelo , and it gave Jay Cut-ler the go-to receiver he’s been seek-ing since he arrived from the Broncos three years ago. That it reunited him with one of his top targets in Denver was an added bonus.
Eric Weems to play for BearsLAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Chicago
Bears agreed to a three-year contract with special teams star Eric Weems on Wednesday.
Weems spent his fi rst fi ve seasons with Atlanta and was the NFC’s special-teams selection for the Pro Bowl in 2010.
Signing Weems could help ease the loss of Pro Bowl gunner Corey Graham if he does not re-sign and it adds depth to the return game, with Devin Hester hobbled at times by injuries last season and Johnny Knox recovering from spinal surgery.
Weems has 41 career special-teams tackles, 77 punt returns for 815 yards and 113 kickoff returns for 2,896 yards. He also has 24 receptions for 205 yards. He joined the Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2007, when new Bears general manager Phil Emery was Atlanta’s director of college scouting.
From The Associated Press reports
AP FILE PHOTO
In this Dec. 18 fi le photo, Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson (81) celebrates with running back Kevin Smith (30) after the Lions beat the Oakland Raiders 28-27 in Oakland, Calif. The Lions announced Johnson’s eight-year contract, worth up to $132 million, Wednesday.
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I S T O Y S E R P A B S TT H R U A C M E A R E A SS E A R C H O U T L A T T EI W I S H U S E A S B A I TN O T E R R A N Y C D S
L O S E A G A M E S A L EF R A Z I E R J A M E S
M I D S E A S O ND E P O T U N A S K E DE S O S R E S T S E A S YP T L E E L I S P P E PR O Y A L S E A L H O O T SE N S U E C E L T I C S E AS I C E M T R E K H O S TS A I L S S O S O S S T S
JUPITER, Fla. — Lance Lynn’s three scoreless innings against Houston on Wednesday reassured St. Louis man-ager Mike Matheny that the 24-year-old is the right choice to temporarily replace Chris Carpenter should the veteran prove not ready for the start of the season.
Termed “Plan B” earlier in the week by Matheny, Lynn retired the final eight batters he faced in his first spring start, which the Cardinals lost 4-3 to Houston.
“I wanted to go back out, but I already had 40 pitches,” said Lynn, whose fastball hit 96 mph on the sta-dium radar gun.
Lynn was destined for the bullpen at the start of the spring, but the Car-dinals announced earlier in the week that he would be treated like a starter until Carpenter shows he can return to the rotation.
The only place Lynn really struggled Wednesday was in his warmup tosses,
which he finished too early.“I have to find the routine I’m going
to use,” Lynn said. “In Triple-A, I usually started earlier. I don’t know whether I just got loose faster or what it was. Next time I will go a little later so I won’t have to wait around.”
Lynn made his major league debut in 2011, going 1-1 in 18 appearances (two starts) with a 3.12 ERA. He appeared in 10 postseason games and went 2-0. His only spring appearances before Wednesday came in in relief.
Against Houston, Lynn allowed a pair of one-out singles in the first inning before striking out Jack Cust and inducing a lazy fly ball from Jim-my Paredes. He cruised through the final two innings without allowing a baserunner.
“He looked great today,” Matheny said. “He had great velocity, good movement on the ball, and you could just tell (Houston) had awkward approaches on their swings. Those are all positives.”
A couple hours before Lynn’s start, Carpenter threw for the first time in nearly a week, playing catch in the outfield with Jake Westbrook. Carpen-ter has been experiencing neck pain caused by a bulging disc.
The former Cy Young winner had to be scratched from his March 12 start and has not appeared in a game this spring.
“I’m going to continue to go in the right direction,” Carpenter said. “We’ll move forward and see what happens.”
Matheny said he’s yet to be given a timetable for Carpenter. Lynn is sched-uled to start again Monday against Atlanta.
Matt Holliday, David Freese and Yadier Molina strung together consec-utive RBI singles in the third. The trio managed consecutive singles again in the fifth. Holliday finished 3 for 4, rais-ing his spring average to .462.
The Astros scored their four runs in the sixth, with all of them charged to Adam Ottavino.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Albert Pujols wasn’t concerned that it took seven spring training games to hit his first homer for the Los Ange-les Angels. He knows they will come.
Pujols hit two Wednesday in the Angels’ 9-7 loss to the Chicago White Sox, a game in which Los Angeles starter Ervin Santana was struck on the right shoulder by a line drive.
Santana exited after being hit in the sec-ond inning and is day to day with a bruise. Manager Mike Scioscia said Santana, who is in line to be the No. 3 or 4 starter, could miss a start without being set back for the season.
Santana said he felt a little pain, but he wasn’t worried. While icing the shoulder, he said no X-ray was planned. Santana pitched a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians on July 27 and he finished last season 11-12 with a 3.38 ERA.
The White Sox’s Tyler Flowers and Adam Dunn, and the Angels’ Howie Kendrick also homered.
Pujols hit a three-run home to left field and a solo shot to center. The three-time NL MVP signed a 10-year, $254 million deal with the Angels in December after he played 11 sea-sons with the St. Louis Cardinals.
“I try to just put a good swing on it all the time,” Pujols said. “I’m not sitting out there trying to hit the ball out of the park. I’m just trying to hit the ball back to the middle and let the ball get deep and try to make good swings every day, whatever I have to do to help this ballclub and this organization win.
“I know it’s spring training. The games probably don’t count, but you still need to take the game serious,” he added.
“We hope we’re going to see that often this year,” Scioscia said. “It’s great to see him get-ting comfortable in the box.”
After the line drive struck Santana, he was able to field the ball and throw to first to retire Alexei Ramirez. The Angels’ staff checked on Santana and then he was replaced by Eddie McKiernan.
Santana allowed a run and a hit, struck out two and walked one in 1 1-3 innings in his sec-ond start of spring training.
Chris Sale allowed five runs in 4 1-3 innings for the White Sox. He gave up seven hits and struck out two. Sale, who is transitioning from a reliever to a starter, has allowed eight runs in 7 1-3 innings.
“That’s unacceptable on every level, I don’t care who you are,” Sale said. “By no means am I going to go home and kick myself in the rear, but I’m disappointed with what hap-pened today. At the same time, there are pos-itives with this. I had some good innings.”
Sale hit Pujols with a pitch in the first inning. Pujols hit a three-run home run off Sale the next time he faced him.
“A hitter like him, he’s arguably the best in the game,” Sale said. “He proved a couple innings later if you’re going in, you better get it in.”
Manager Robin Ventura reaffirmed his con-fidence in Sale.
“He’s still got great stuff,” Ventura said. “He’s going to be in there.”
Lynn’s strong debut could lead to starting role; Cardinals lose to Astros
White Sox top Angels, Pujols hits 2 home runs
PATRICK SEMANSKY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Lance Lynn throws between innings during a spring training baseball game against the Houston Astros in Jupiter, Fla., on Wednesday.
“He had great velocity, good movement on the ball, and you could just tell (Houston) had awkward approaches on their swings. Those are all positives.”MIKE MATHENY,St. Louis manager
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ILLINI ATHLETES SOUND OFFFavorite place
to compete on the road
Favorite person to follow on
Twitter
Peanut butter
I don’t use my twitter very
much, only like once a month.
If I was to follow someone on Twitter,
it would be Phil Worrall, because
he’s funny.
Editor’s note: Every Thursday, the Daily Illini sports department will ask four Illinois student-athletes questions pertaining to life off the fi eld.Compiled by Jeff Kirshman
Anywhere international is a great experience.
University of Oregon because
we killed them and I pitched well.
Training. We’re still in season.
Softball and sun
Beautiful, sunny Carbondale
Peanut butter or jelly?
Irwin. That’s what I’m used to.
Both, I eat it like every day.
Peanut butter
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Getting ready for Big TensAlabama, where
regional’s was last year
Chad Ochocinco Michigan
Spring break plans
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at them.
When it’s a nice day, the Quad.
The Quad
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who are also his competition for the Olympic team, will keep close tabs as time trickles on toward the Olympics.
“Everything that happens right now is taken into consider-ation,” Spring said. “Every move is being watched.”
Ruggeri isn’t letting the pres-sure affect him, though. He’s looking forward more to the excitement of competing abroad and the comfort of traveling with people he knows.
Freshman C.J. Maestas repre-sented the United States at the Cottbus Cup last winter and has given Ruggeri advice, but mostly fun things to do.
“Paul is a competitor, so there’s not really advice,” Maestas said.
“I named off some good restau-rants and stuff, generally he’s got this.”
Ivankov is no stranger to inter-national competition, having competed in the Cottbus Cup 10 times with seven event titles and 18 top-three fi nishes, making him the most successful athlete in the tour-nament’s history. A native of Belar-us, Ivankov is looking forward to seeing old friends when overseas.
“I know a lot of people,” Ivankov said. “I think I’ll meet some old friends there. It’s going to be fun, it will be a fun treat for us.”
Ivankov knows the surface for
the fl oor exercise in international competitions is harder than usual and Ruggeri’s routine may need to be tweaked to avoid injury.
“We’ve talked about the fl oor surface,” Ivankov said. “We know we can make small modifi cations to skills on the fl oor.”
Ivankov and Ruggeri have nev-er traveled togeth-er internationally, and both are look-ing forward to the experience. Spring said the duo’s relationship is different than
that between Ruggeri and Spring, and that Ivankov can offer Rug-geri some key advice.
“Ivan definitely brings a great presence, a soothing pres-
ence and a calming presence,” Spring said. “That’s perfect for Paul right now. If he stays con-fi dent and has that presence, I think he’s going to go out and do exactly what he can do, is medal.”
Ruggeri’s confi dence is at a high right now — last weekend, he took four titles at Nebraska, giving him 70 in his career, good for third place on the Illinois all-time titles list.
Ruggeri’s performance in Germany will allow him one last chance before the Olym-pics see where he stacks up internationally.
“This will be a very valuable experience for him,” Ivankov said. “It will be interesting for me to see what level of gym-nastics they’re doing and what expectations should be made for Paul when he has such a big goal of making an Olympic team.”
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DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois' Paul Ruggeri competes his fl oor exercise routine during the Gym Jam at the Huff Hall. Ruggeri heads to an international competition in Germany this weekend, his fi nal meet before the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
ty sport,” DiBiase said. “They came out and played their butts off. They listened and were willing to learn, and they’d run through a wall.”
The following season, the Illini improved their record to 49-23 and a fourth-place fi nish in the Big Ten.
Current Illini assistant coach Katie O’Connell was a part of Illinois’ fi rst recruiting class and was a freshman on that 2001 squad.
“It was awesome to be a part of that team,” O’Connell said. “And to be a win away from going to the College World Series our senior year.”
O’Connell played under Sul-livan and DiBiase from 2001-04, including the 2004 team that fi nished 45-21-1 and reached the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tourna-ment, the furthest the Illini have ever made it. After coaching at the high school level for sev-eral years, O’Connell returned to Champaign in 2008 to serve under her former coaches.
“(Sullivan) would be the fi rst to tell you that we should already be at 500 wins,” O’Connell said. “She’s just that competitive. Even when things don’t go her
way, she never uses excuses. She perseveres, and I think the players play like she coaches.”
Over the years, the Illini have reached four NCAA tourna-ments and have fi nished second in the Big Ten twice. Sullivan, whose father, Gene, coached basketball at Loyola and led the Ramblers to the 1985 Sweet 16, makes a point of listening to what her players and coaches have to say and has created a positive atmosphere throughout the Illinois softball program.
“When you come for our alum-ni game, you see people from every class coming back,” DiBi-ase said. “And I think that says a lot about how much respect they have for our program and for Coach Sullivan.”
As the Illini approach 400 wins, they also move closer to the 2012 Big Ten season. Sulli-van said that while 400 victories is a great milestone for the pro-gram, the goal every year is “to win championships.” This year’s squad is no exception, and as it sits at 9-9, there is no lack of confi dence in the demeanor of the players.
“One of (Sullivan’s) great-est strengths is that she’s a great motivator,” DiBiase said. “I think she gets players to do more than they know they can achieve.”
“We just need to make sure that they don’t have any soreness when they go back out on the mound.”
Roberts has been sidelined since pitching Feb. 19 against St. John’s. He was cleared to pitch last weekend but didn’t get into any of the games because of the Illini’s strong starting pitching.
“It feels pretty good,” Rob-
erts said of his shoulder. “It’s still not up to 100 percent, but it’s pretty close. I’m still going to rehab and getting treatment done. It doesn’t affect me when I’m throwing anymore, but it still gets a little sore after.”
McDonnell visited a doctor Thursday and was diagnosed with a strain, not a tear. He will rest for about a week, with hopes of returning for Big Ten play.
“I’m just resting, doing shoul-der exercises and getting my conditioning in, trying to stay
in shape,” McDonnell said. “So when I am able to comeback I’m not behind and my legs are still strong.”
Makeup gamesThe Illini had two games
rained out two weekends ago in the Coastal Carolina Invita-tional and would like to even-tually make those games up. They won’t add any more trips to South Carolina, but may try to reschedule some home games against some in-state schools
such as Chicago State. However, Hartleb says he
doesn’t want to schedule make-up games these next couple weeks.
“We got four games on the weekends, and it’s tough to turn around and have enough quali-ty pitching midweek,” Hartleb said. “Once we get into (con-ference play) and have a three-game series, we have to look ahead and see who got rained out and who’s got openings on specifi c days that becomes a judgment call.”
and showcase my skills and leave it all on the mat.”
At last year’s NCAA Champi-onships, Futrell and since-grad-uated three-time All-American Jimmy Kennedy were the only Illini to place.
Of this year’s crop of seven NCAA qualifi ers, freshman Jesse Delgado, Futrell, Blanton and 2012 Big Ten Champion Mario Gonzalez all are seeded in the top eight.
Junior Conrad Polz is not far out of contention with a nine seed. He’s wrestled above his ranking all season, recording numer-ous victories over higher-ranked opponents.
“Conrad wrestled in the junior world championships,” Heffer-nan said. “That’s a pretty big event in itself.”
Polz, along with Delgado and Gonzalez, is making his NCAAs debut, but if anything, Illinois’ schedule has prepared the Illini for high-level national competition.
“Part of the reason we wres-tled the schedule we did is so that those things wouldn’t be obsta-cles when we get to the nation-al tournament,” Heffernan said.
“I’m not at all concerned about those guys getting starry eyed.”
Also qualifying for the Illi-ni are senior Eric Terrazas and sophomore Tony Dallago, who are both unseeded.
While the Illini have sev-en qualifi ers, the goal was to have 10. The tournament’s 10 weight classes each contain 33
wrestlers.“I think the cur-
rent qualifi cation allocation system is ridiculous and I don’t understand it,” Heffernan said. “I don’t think it gets the top 33 kids, which is what you’re after.
“In a league like ours, where our schedule is as com-petitive as anybody in the country, it’s not a fair assess-ment of our guys’ RPI,” he added.
“I’ve been a critic of the system and I will continue to be a critic of the system until it shows me it can work.”
Eighty of the 330 wrestlers competing in the NCAAs come from Big Ten schools. Seventy-four of the bids were automatic qualifi ers.
“This is my 25th year of col-lege coaching and this is the deepest I’ve ever seen the Big Ten Tournament and maybe the most competitive I’ve seen the national tournament,” Heffer-nan said.
