DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT The College of Law dropped 12 spots from No. 23 to No. 35 in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of the best law schools. This drop comes after an admissions dean systemati- cally manipulated LSAT scores and GPAs for years, according to an external investigation. The University, along with two outside fi rms, issued a report in November that con- cluded that Paul Pless, then assistant dean of the college, was the sole actor in altering data to make the school seem more academically accom- plished than it was. While the college took a hit in its rankings — something that was a top priority for the school in attracting students — campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler said the campus is confident that the college will continue to be rec- ognized among the nation’s top schools. “Fall 2011 was a challenging period for the College of Law, but its defining attribute — its track record of producing great lawyers — has never been stron- ger,” she said in a statement. This may not be the only repercussion from the fallout. The American Bar Association, or ABA, the accrediting orga- nization for law schools, has conducted its own investiga- tion into the scores and could impose sanctions on the college. In this case, over six years of manipulated data was sent to the ABA. As the College of Law deals with these issues, the College of Business’ MBA program tied for No. 37 this year, the same rank- ing it received last year. Tracy McCabe, assistant dean of external and alumni affairs, is the chief communications offi- cer for the College of Business. McCabe said she recognized the combined importance of the col- lege’s ranking and its outreach to prospective students. “Slight changes in position in the ranking do not have a strong correlation to enrollment,” McCabe said. “The quality of our students is reflective of the quality of our programs and our recruit- ing efforts, which go far beyond what U.S. News & World Report would publish as a ranking.” Further rankings for the Uni- versity of Illinois and its grad- uate programs can be found on the U.S. News & World Report’s website. INSIDE Police 2A | Calendar 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 3B-4B | Sudoku 4B The Daily Illini Friday March 16, 2012 High: 78˚ Low: 58˚ The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 141 Issue 119 | FREE Troyer seeks more pay for transition to faculty from administration BY NATHANIEL LASH ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR As she continued to work on clearing her name, Lisa Troyer, former chief of staff to Univer- sity President Michael Hogan, worked on preparing Hogan’s office for her transition into a campus faculty position, work for which she is seeking addi- tional pay. The University has paid Troy- er a little more than $30,000 since her resig- nation, $17,880 of which was paid out of her 185 unused vacation hours. The rest of the salary is for her time as chief of staff up until Jan. 3, when she resigned from her position in the midst of an investigation into the anony- mous emails she allegedly sent to the University Senates Con- ference. Another $2,200 was paid out for her appointment in psychology since the time she accepted a faculty position in the department on Feb. 6. But emails obtained under the Illi- nois Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, detail her desire to receive compensation for her work for Hogan after her res- ignation. This included going through emails that had been requested under FOIA and creating a “detailed transition plan” for the president’s office. Maureen Parks, the Universi- ty’s director of human relations, wrote to Hogan about Troyer’s pay. “Obviously, this could be controversial and could create administrative complexities that would take some time to work through. I will need you to verify this once she replies and then for you to authorize payment to her,” she said. Hogan confirmed several days later that Troyer had been helping with a transition plan. Hogan added in that Feb. 19 email, however, that he did not keep records of the work she had done on his behalf. “If she worked perhaps she CLAIRE EVERETT THE DAILY ILLINI President Hogan listens to Dean Emmert’s, not pictured, speech about the College of ACES at the Board of Trustees meeting in the Union. Faculty members delivered a letter to the board condemning Hogan on Thursday. Trustees re-evaluate Hogan after fresh outcry BY DARSHAN PATEL STAFF WRITER Distinguished faculty mem- bers delivered another letter to the Board of Trustees call- ing for University President Michael Hogan to be fired. The letter came just as the trustees were about to leave for execu- tive session at its meeting. The same faculty members that originally expressed no confidence in Hogan’s presi- dency said they supported the board’s actions in calling for an emergency meeting last week. In the letter, professors said a Board of Trustees that does not act when the presi- dent is ethically compromised is unable to “effectively gov- ern the institution it stewards.” The professors said Hogan’s per- ception has dete- riorated after that meeting — exactly the opposite of what the board had hoped. The letter said Hogan met with the media at length before reaching out to his administra- tion and faculty. Hogan said after the meet- ing that he had not read the letter and declined to comment on it. Board chair- man Christopher Kennedy said Faculty members send 2nd letter regarding president See HOGAN, Page 3A More inside: Turn to Page 1B for comments from the trustees on future coaches. For more on tuition in the College of Medicine, visit Page 3A. TROYER BOARD OF TRUSTEES YOUR VOICE After admissions scandal, College of Law drops 12 spots “I think I am. I need to get on registering, but I definitely want to vote. It’s really important to me what the outcome is. I’ll probably register in Champaign. It’ll probably be more useful in the fall.” LISE GRAHAM, freshman in Media “So if I can get all the way out there (The Champaign County Clerk’s Office) maybe, but more than likely not.” HORACIO CHAVEZ, sophomore in LAS “I definitely plan to vote next Tuesday. Being a freshman here it’s obviously my first time voting and I unfortunately was unable to vote last time even though I was 18 at the time.” MIKE CZMIEL, freshman in FAA “I’m registered to vote back home and I’m probably going to vote in the primary.” MICHELLE BOCIAN, senior in LAS Do you plan to vote in Tuesday’s election? Local political candidates vie for student support in early voting opportunities BY KRIZIA VANCE STAFF WRITER With spring break coming up at the University, local candidates are making the push for early vot- ing among students and explain- ing their case to become their respective party’s nominee for the November election. In the race for U.S. Represen- tative for the newly formed 13th district, both the Democratic and Republican parties have multiple candidates running for their par- ties. For the Democrats, David Gill, an emergency room doc- tor from Bloomington, Ill., and Matt Goetten, the Greene Coun- ty State’s Attorney, are vying for their party’s nomination. Mike Richards, media/field consultant for Gill, said students going on spring break will not be an issue because of early voting. Richards said Gill will probably see a lot of student support from the University as well as other institutions in the district, such as Illinois Wesleyan University, Illinois State University and Mil- likin University. “We certainly think that we are going to do well with students and Champaign,” Richards said. “We are doing our best to get students to register to vote and out to the polls.” The Gill campaign is also stressing that Gill refuses to take campaign funds from Wall Street lobbyists as well as how he is standing up to Republicans’ views on women’s issues, Rich- ards said. See ELECTIONS, Page 3A See TROYER, Page 3A DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI Henna Ismail, sophomore in AHS, places a candle on a Syrian flag on the Quad to honor a Syrian martyr killed in the beginning of the Syrian revolution on March 15, 2011. There were 100 candles placed for 100 martyrs honored Thursday, but the event honored others killed as well. 100 candles, 100 martyrs Ron Paul revolution: Columnists react to congressman’s rally OPINIONS, 4A Payment requests reviewed as ethics investigation continues
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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
The College of Law dropped 12 spots from No. 23 to No. 35 in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of the best law schools. This drop comes after an admissions dean systemati-cally manipulated LSAT scores and GPAs for years, according to an external investigation.
The University, along with two outside fi rms, issued a report in November that con-cluded that Paul Pless, then assistant dean of the college, was the sole actor in altering data to make the school seem more academically accom-
plished than it was.While the college took a hit in
its rankings — something that was a top priority for the school in attracting students — campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler said the campus is confi dent that the college will continue to be rec-ognized among the nation’s top schools.
“Fall 2011 was a challenging period for the College of Law, but its defi ning attribute — its track record of producing great lawyers — has never been stron-ger,” she said in a statement.
This may not be the only repercussion from the fallout.
The American Bar Association, or ABA, the accrediting orga-nization for law schools, has conducted its own investiga-tion into the scores and could impose sanctions on the college. In this case, over six years of manipulated data was sent to the ABA.
As the College of Law deals with these issues, the College of Business’ MBA program tied for No. 37 this year, the same rank-ing it received last year.
Tracy McCabe , assistant dean of external and alumni affairs, is the chief communications offi -cer for the College of Business.
McCabe said she recognized the combined importance of the col-lege’s ranking and its outreach to prospective students.
“Slight changes in position in the ranking do not have a strong correlation to enrollment,” McCabe said. “The quality of our students is refl ective of the quality of our programs and our recruit-ing efforts, which go far beyond what U.S. News & World Report would publish as a ranking.”
Further rankings for the Uni-versity of Illinois and its grad-uate programs can be found on the U.S. News & World Report’s website .
I N S I D E P o l i c e 2 A | C a l e n d a r 2 A | O p i n i o n s 4 A | C r o s s w o r d 5 A | C o m i c s 5 A | S p o r t s 1 B | C l a s s i f i e d s 3 B - 4 B | S u d o k u 4 B
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The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 141 Issue 119 | FREE
Troyer seeks more pay for transition to faculty from administration
BY NATHANIEL LASHASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
As she continued to work on clearing her name, Lisa Troyer, former chief of staff to Univer-sity President Michael Hogan, worked on preparing Hogan’s offi ce for her transition into a campus faculty position, work for which she is seeking addi-tional pay.
The University has paid Troy-er a little more than $30,000 since her resig-nation, $17,880 of which was paid out of her 185 unused vacation hours. The rest of the salary is
for her time as chief of staff up until Jan. 3, when she resigned from her position in the midst of an investigation into the anony-mous emails she allegedly sent to the University Senates Con-ference. Another $2,200 was paid out for her appointment in psychology since the time she accepted a faculty position in the department on Feb. 6. But
emails obtained under the Illi-nois Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, detail her desire to receive compensation for her work for Hogan after her res-ignation. This included going through emails that had been requested under FOIA and creating a “detailed transition plan” for the president’s offi ce.
Maureen Parks , the Universi-ty’s director of human relations, wrote to Hogan about Troyer’s pay.
“Obviously, this could be controversial and could create administrative complexities that would take some time to work through. I will need you to verify this once she replies and then for you to authorize payment to her,” she said.
Hogan confirmed several days later that Troyer had been helping with a transition plan. Hogan added in that Feb. 19 email, however, that he did not keep records of the work she had done on his behalf.
“If she worked perhaps she
CLAIRE EVERETT THE DAILY ILLINI
President Hogan listens to Dean Emmert’s, not pictured, speech about the College of ACES at the Board of Trustees meeting in the Union. Faculty members delivered a letter to the board condemning Hogan on Thursday.
Trustees re-evaluate Hogan after fresh outcry
BY DARSHAN PATELSTAFF WRITER
Distinguished faculty mem-bers delivered another letter to the Board of Trustees call-ing for University President Michael Hogan to be fi red. The letter came just as the trustees were about to leave for execu-tive session at its meeting.
The same faculty members that originally expressed no confi dence in Hogan’s presi-dency said they supported the board’s actions in calling for an emergency meeting last week. In the letter, professors said a Board of Trustees that does not act when the presi-
dent is ethically compromised is unable to “effectively gov-ern the institution it stewards.”
The professors said Hogan’s per-ception has dete-riorated after that meeting — exactly the opposite of what the board had hoped. The letter said Hogan met with the media at length before reaching out to his administra-tion and faculty.
Hogan said after the meet-ing that he had not read the letter and declined to comment on it. Board chair-man Christopher Kennedy said
Faculty members send 2nd letter regarding president
See HOGAN, Page 3A
More inside: Turn to Page 1B for comments from the trustees on future coaches. For more on tuition in the College of Medicine, visit Page 3A.
TROYER
BOARD OF TRUSTEESYOUR VOICE
After admissions scandal, College of Law drops 12 spots
“I think I am. I need to get on registering, but I defi nitely want to vote. It’s really important to me what the outcome is. I’ll probably register in Champaign. It’ll probably be more useful in the fall.”
LISE GRAHAM , freshman in Media
“So if I can get all the way out there (The Champaign County Clerk’s Offi ce) maybe, but more than likely not.”
HORACIO CHAVEZ , sophomore in LAS
“I defi nitely plan to vote next Tuesday. Being a freshman here it’s obviously my fi rst time voting and I unfortunately was unable to vote last time even though I was 18 at the time.”
MIKE CZMIEL , freshman in FAA
“I’m registered to vote back home and I’m probably going to vote in the primary.”
MICHELLE BOCIAN, senior in LAS
Do you plan to vote in Tuesday’s election?Local political candidates vie for student support in early voting opportunitiesBY KRIZIA VANCE STAFF WRITER
With spring break coming up at the University, local candidates are making the push for early vot-ing among students and explain-ing their case to become their respective party’s nominee for the November election.
In the race for U.S. Represen-tative for the newly formed 13th district, both the Democratic and Republican parties have multiple candidates running for their par-ties. For the Democrats, David Gill , an emergency room doc-tor from Bloomington, Ill., and Matt Goetten , the Greene Coun-ty State’s Attorney, are vying for their party’s nomination.
Mike Richards, media/field consultant for Gill, said students going on spring break will not be
an issue because of early voting. Richards said Gill will probably see a lot of student support from the University as well as other institutions in the district, such as Illinois Wesleyan University, Illinois State University and Mil-likin University.
“We certainly think that we are going to do well with students and Champaign,” Richards said. “We are doing our best to get students to register to vote and out to the polls.”
The Gill campaign is also stressing that Gill refuses to take campaign funds from Wall Street lobbyists as well as how he is standing up to Republicans’ views on women’s issues, Rich-ards said.
See ELECTIONS, Page 3A
See TROYER, Page 3A
DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI
Henna Ismail, sophomore in AHS, places a candle on a Syrian fl ag on the Quad to honor a Syrian martyr killed in the beginning of the Syrian revolution on March 15, 2011. There were 100 candles placed for 100 martyrs honored Thursday, but the event honored others killed as well.
100 candles, 100 martyrs
Ron Paul revolution: Columnists react to congressman’s rally OPINIONS, 4A
2A Friday, March 16, 2012The Daily Illini | www.DailyIllini.com
Champaign! A burglary was reported
Thursday just after 3 a.m. at Ev-ergreen Tobacco, 309 E. Green St.
According to the report, an unknown suspect shattered the front window of the business with a rubber mallet and stole a water pipe before fleeing on foot.
University! An arrest was made for
criminal damage to state-sup-ported property Thursday just after 3 a.m. near the Illini Union.
According to the report, the
offender admitted to an officer that he had punched a window at the Illini Union, causing an esti-mated $500 in damage and injur-ing his hand.
! A University student was arrested for possession of can-nabis with intent to deliver, pos-session of a controlled sub-stance and for possession of drug paraphernalia Wednesday just after 9 p.m. in his apart-ment in the 900 block of South Second Street.
According to the report, of-ficers with a search warrant found 493 grams of cannabis, prescription pills and $5,000 cash.
! Police assisted a University student who fell from a second-
floor railing of parking garage C-7 on Wednesday just after 4 p.m. in the 800 block of Sixth Street.
According to the report, the student, who had tried to jump a corner railing of the garage, was taken to Carle Foundation Hospital to treat an injury to his leg.
! A University student report-ed that someone stole a backpack that was left unattended March 8 just before noon at the Activities and Recreation Center.
According to the report, the bag contained two cellphones and other items estimated to be worth $450.
Compiled by Harrini Krishnan
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A group charged with imple-menting a smoke free campus tossed around two proposals for the ban Tuesday, and also read a letter of support from a Chi-cago-based public health advo-cacy group.
The Ad Hoc Committee Inves-tigating a Smoke-free Campus, the group’s formal name, debat-ed the merits of creating des-ignating smoking pods located strategically around campus, according to sources at the meeting. The other proposal would implement the smoking ban gradually, starting with the quads and then moving to a cam-pus-wide ban. In both instances an announcement to the public would be made a year in advance of any affected change, the com-mittee said.
No decisions were made at the meeting, however, and there are some who have voiced concerns about creating designated smok-ing areas.
Allowing such an exception does not constitute a smoke-free campus, and could compromise the ban because the pods would “carve out” areas of campus as smoker friendly instead of being a campus-wide ban, said Joel Africk , president and CEO of the Respiratory Health Associ-ation of Metropolitan Chicago, the group who also penned the letter or support for the ban.
The respiratory health group, which has helped other colleges
to make the smoke-free transi-tion, wrote to the committee to voice their support.
In addition to its support, the association offered to provide consulting services ranging from drafting policy language, implementing a time-table, and providing training to students and staff for a smoking cessa-tion program, all free of charge.
If the University was smoke free, it would create a healthier place for all that is also more conducive to learning, accord-ing to the letter.
The registered student orga-nization, Students for a Better
Illinois, initiated contact with the health group and requested their support. Keenan Kassar , student senator-elect and presi-dent of Students for a Better Illi-nois, authored the smoke-free resolution and petitioned for it to be on the referendum last fall.
Kassar said he is confi dent in the ability of the committee to put forth a recommendation for a smoke-free campus.
The committee, comprised of a handful of administrators and students, is charged with determining the feasibility of a smoke-free campus, develop-ing options and making a recom-
mendation to Chancellor Phyllis Wise by late April to early May.
If the University were to go smoke-free, it would join four fellow Big Ten Universities: Indiana University, University of Iowa, the University of Mich-igan and Purdue University. There are 600 colleges across the country that are current-ly smoke free, according to the letter.
Each smoke-free university’s policy is a little different. The committee is looking closely at the steps other universities have taken, said Mike Deloren-zo , the associate vice chancellor
for student affairs.In mid-April, the committee
will send three administrators and two students to a tobacco-free campus workshop put on by the American Lung Associa-tion of Illinois, where they will hear from speakers who have been a part of the transforma-tion process at their schools. In addition, the participants will receive a tobacco-free campus “tool-kit.”
A recent report on youth smoking and health showed that while smoking rates are down on the whole, the rate of decline is slowing.
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should be paid for it, but in the end it must be your call not mine,” he said to Parks.
University spokesman Tom Hardy said her request for additional pay is still under review.
The current head of the psychology department, Bri-an Ross, said in conversations with Troyer, he learned she has plans to spend time getting the message out “about what really happened.”
“According to her, that will hurt some people in the Univer-sity, continue some press cover-age, but ultimately lead to her exoneration,” Ross wrote in an email to associate dean of LAS Steven Leigh.
Leigh responded, “I’d like to be clear and indicate that Dr. Troyer must not use either time at work ... or universi-ty resources to get ‘the mes-sage out about what really happened.’”
Since the anonymous emails were sent Dec. 12, Troyer has maintained her innocence.
“The Investigative report and investigation itself are fraught with verifi able omis-sions, inaccuracies and mis-handling of important data,” she wrote on Jan. 27 to Inter-im Provost Richard Wheeler. “I continue to hope that unbi-ased minds will prevail and allow the benefi t of full infor-mation before deciding to pass judgment.”
Wheeler is heading up an “exploratory” campus investi-gation of Troyer, one that he said Thursday should be done by the end of this semester.
Among Troyer’s complaints about the investigative report are omitted interviews, mis-handling of her computer and its security preferences from when she fi rst reported the emails, as well as the report not making clear that investigators “could not attribute responsi-bility to (Troyer) for the emails with certainty.”
She expressed these com-plaints in a letter to the Board of Trustees on Feb. 10. Hardy said to his knowledge, board members read her letter and “that was that.”
“The University and the board and administration, including the president, have said that we stand by the inves-tigation,” Hardy said. “There’s nothing that she has told any-body that would make us think that the investigation was not of the highest quality and that we couldn’t stand behind it.”
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TROYER
trustees met in closed session for about two hours in total Thursday. Some of that time was spent discussing faculty comments about Hogan.
However, University spokes-man Tom Hardy said the most recent letter was not a point of discussion.
Hardy said the letter is a continuation of themes that the University has heard about over the past few weeks. But Hogan has stated that even one concern from the faculty is a concern for Hogan, Har-dy said.
“He is in the process of doing exactly what the board wants him to do and that is to work with the various aspects of shared governance at the University and do a better job of listening to their con-cerns,” Hardy said. “The board has said that it supports the president.”
Kennedy said the trustees have had a chance this week to interact with campus and faculty leadership, including authors of previous letters sent to the board. He added that there will be conversa-tions between him and Hogan in the coming days about fac-ulty concerns heard since the trustees arrived in Urbana.
Urbana-Champaign Senate vice chair Joyce Tolliver com-mended the trustees for “taking the relationship of the president and the faculty very seriously.”
“This is encouraging,” she said. “This is a very good sign for the University.”
Concerns about Hogan’s presidency were magnifi ed by faculty members after emails revealed “bullying” of Urbana Chancellor and Vice President Phyllis Wise during discussion of enrollment management recommendations, according to faculty who wrote the orig-inal letter. In addition, Hogan has been under pressure for his alleged involvement in the anonymous emails scan-dal, which forced his chief of staff Lisa Troyer to resign.
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HOGAN
“We think that is a message that resonates well with stu-dents, especially U of I stu-dents,” Richards said.
For Goetten’s campaign, they are mainly concentrating on reaching out to many people to
explain the issues, such as job creation for college graduates, that Goetten cares about, said Vladimir Gutman , campaign manager for Goetten. The cam-paign is also trying to encour-age as many people as possible to vote early so they can vote for the person they support, Gut-man said.
Volunteers for Goetten are
also calling people across the district to garner more cam-paign support.
“We have volunteers calling every single day talking about Matt’s commitment to rebuild-ing our economy, boosting edu-cation, investing in things that are going to make Illinois and America strong over the next several years,” Gutman said.
In the Republican Party for U.S Representative, incumbent Tim Johnson, R-15, is facing two other candidates — Michael Firsching of Moro and Frank Metzger of Glen Carbon , who both have not raised much funds to back their campaigns.
Phil Bloomer , communications director for Johnson, said the Johnson campaign doesn’t see
Firsching or Metzger unseating Johnson from the Republican nomination. He added that they are more “protest” candidates.
“It’s not anything that we’re worried about,” Bloomer said.
In the race for state repre-sentative for the 103rd district and state senator for the 52nd district, both the Republican and Democratic parties have
candidates from each party uncontested. Incumbent Naomi Jakobsson, D-103, and Robert Meister , owner of Minneci’s Res-taurant in Champaign, will run against each other for state rep-resentative in November. Incum-bent Mike Frerichs , D-52, will run against John Bambenek , a small business owner from Champaign, in November.
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Protests inspire 2nd look at tuitionCollege of Medicine looks into decreasing tuition to maintain student diversityBY DARSHAN PATELSTAFF WRITER
The University’s College of Medicine could reduce its previ-ously approved tuition increase of 21 percent.
After much protest from stu-dents, the trustees are consider-ing endorsing a $500 per semes-
ter tuition hike instead of $3,500, as the previously passed proposal stated. However, they could not take a vote at Thursday’s meeting because 48 hours of notice must be given for any action items, in accordance with the Illinois Open Meeting Act.
Students have argued that the
unusual increase could drive away highly recruited applicants and jeopardize student diversity across the four medical campuses.
“Students in the College of Med-icine were concerned that it would impact the quality and the number of people coming into the Universi-ty. It was going to be too expensive for them, basically for low-income and minority students,” said Peter Lazzari , member of Students for Affordable Medical Education, a group that is based on the Chica-go campus.
This new tuition increase will have an impact on both incoming students and current students as there is no guarantee that the pre-
viously approved rate will be fro-zen for four years.
College of Medicine Dean Dimitri Azar told The Daily Illini Thursday that he agreed that the school needed to control its rates, saying that he is thankful for the students “alerting us of the poten-tial issues that would have resulted in the tuition rates.”
Azar said the college is trying to fi nd funding as state support declines. However, Lazzari and his peers agreed that the school should have tried other fundrais-ing measures before asking the students for support.
“We don’t feel adequate atten-tion was paid to other funding
sources or cost controls that could have been implemented instead of going to the students fi rst. We rec-ognize that a lot of changes can be done in a cost-neutral way,” Laz-zari said.
The school is trying to work with students and faculty to priori-tize initiatives and projects, such as a $15 million renovation to the college’s Learning Center Space, which the trustees unanimously approved Thursday afternoon.
Board chairman Christopher Kennedy said he had “no clue” that this relatively large tuition hike passed by the trustees with-out much discussion at its Janu-ary meeting.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Committee discusses how to best implement smoking ban
NATHALIE ROCK THE DAILY ILLINI
Matt Cronin , junior in FAA, left, Victoria Hines , sophomore in DGS, and Alanna Glomb , sophomore in AHS, advertise free suckers on the Quad Nov. 17. The suckers were attached to slips of paper with facts about the dangers of smoking.
Campus student group, Champaign Park District partner in going green
BY MELISSA ESPAÑA STAFF REPORTER
Students in Free Enterprise, or SIFE, has partnered up with the Champaign Park District to work on the Kaufman Lake Boathouse, which the park district rents out for events.
The goal of the project is to lower the building’s energy usage by roughly 80 percent as part of an initiative to go green.
SIFE’s mission is to better the com-munity using basic business techniques gained through the University’s College of Business. Every year, group members work on various projects that promote their mission, such as Go Green on Green Street and the Uganda Project.
Kevin Jones , one of the two project leaders and junior in Business, said the boathouse project is a pilot and part of an effort to slowly make the entire park district green.
“The (park district) has a long histo-ry of environmental stewardship,” said Andrew Weiss , park planner. “(Going green) continues to be important to us, and with the Kaufman Lake Boathouse, it’s an opportunity to put new technology in place to achieve that mission.”
The boathouse currently uses about 350 kilowatts of energy every month dur-ing the winter season and peaked at 700
kilowatts during the summer. This led group members to question why this was happening.
“We fi gured there could be (an insula-tion problem) or people forgetting to turn the lights off,” said Kyle Castner, mem-ber of SIFE and freshman in Business.
This year, Sam’s Club sponsored SIFE with a grant of $1,500. SIFE used the money to order solar panels, low-energy light bulbs and other materials such as insulation tape. The group plans to install everything the week immediately after spring break.
The group then started looking for organizations to partner with for this year’s project. The students fi nalized their decision to work with the park dis-trict in December.
“SIFE approached the (park district) inquiring about if we had any green ini-tiatives in the works,” Weiss said. “We pitched a few ideas, and after some dis-cussion, decided the Kaufman Lake Boat-house project was a good fi t. Generally speaking, (we work) with many outstand-ing groups on campus in a wide vari-ety of ways — including environmental groups.”
Jones said he hopes that the project will raise awareness, educate people around campus about going green and maybe even inspire people to adopt a more “green lifestyle.”
Weiss said that the boathouse project is not the last step toward sustainability for the park district, which is also rethinking how it approaches water usage, conser-vation and storm water runoff.
Project aims to reduce park building’s energy use by about 80 percent
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N ot to toot my own horn, but I usually consider myself a model citizen of
every world I belong to.And lately I’ve been getting
even more in touch with the community by volunteering at the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club. Plus, I’m always advocating for us as students to get out and do good in the world, so I feel like some-where, somehow, I’ve accu-mulated enough karma points to buy myself a unicorn in heaven.
However, I’ve been keep-ing a deep, dark secret from all of you. In fact, I’ve kind of buried this deep in my subconscious for a while, and only recently, with all the Obama and Romney and Santorum talk, have I pulled it out to face the ugly truth about myself.
I’m not politically perfect. In fact, I’m far from it. In the three years since my 18th birthday, I have yet to reg-ister to vote. My high school political science teacher yelled at me, people on the Quad yelled at me and my mother scolded me — but today I’ve finally manned up and registered to vote.
Yes, the loathing you feel toward me is normal. I still kind of want to punch myself in the mouth.
I was originally going to write a column breaking down the reasons why college kids, such as myself, don’t vote. I’m not going to get into the details too much, because they are embarrassing, and they may make you hate me even more than you proba-bly already do. Let’s just say it had to do with the fact that I’ve been busy. And I couldn’t submit it online, and I hate mailing things in.
But when I thought about it, there wasn’t really an excuse. I called myself a smart member of the political realm (I’m a political science minor, for good-ness’ sakes!), and I like to
flaunt my opinions around. But I wasn’t taking the time to register for one of the most important yet simple ways to get my opinion around. As I wrote out my opinions in col-umn format, I saw that all of them were nonsense. I had to just do it.
What also clinched it for me today was the fact that there are students out there that have legitimate voting prob-lems. And I’m not even talk-ing about third-world coun-tries. I’m talking about the kids who can’t seem to vote because the man is keeping them down.
In some states, officials are making it harder for stu-dents with laws that prevent students with an out-of-state license from voting. Accord-ing to the New York Times article “Keeping College Stu-dents From the Polls,” some government officials feel our age demographic is “‘foolish’ and tends to ‘vote their feel-ings’ because they lack life experience.”
Excuse me. But I didn’t remember the last time that “being a college student” meant we were given more of an unreasonable level of feel-ing than adults.
I thought about all of those factors. All of the kids our age that are discouraged to vote in other states. All of the age and wisdom we’ve accu-mulated over the 19, 20 or 21 years of our lives. It’s not a cliche, it’s not a joke. We’re smart. We’re ready. We can make the right decision. We can start that wave of change, whether we are Republicans, Democrats, Independents or Whigs.
I chose to register to vote and mail in my ballot today because I didn’t want to con-tinue being that girl who talks about change and ser-vice — but doesn’t act on it.
Now, I’m not trying to twist anyone’s arm who legitimately doesn’t want to vote. But if you’ve been “meaning to do it” or “will get to it later,” when you have time, stop.
If you really want to do it, and believe it’ll help out society, then
don’t pull a Tolu. Just do it.
Tolu is a junior in Media.
R on Paul paints an incom-plete picture of “freedom” and “liberty.”
I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Congressman Ron Paul. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s his grandfatherly anti-charisma. Or his willing-ness to buck his party on mat-ters of foreign policy and lim-ited government.
Whatever the reason, I was not about to miss the Ron Paul rally Wednesday.
Amid the sweltering heat of a Huff Hall crammed with nearly 5,000 roaring students, Paul took the stage and spent an hour talking about his vision for America.
Liberty and freedom were the overriding themes of Paul’s speech. He mentioned varia-tions of those two words more than 55 times, by my count.
Now, I understand the importance of simplicity and repetition in political messag-ing. And I agree with many of Paul’s positions on foreign poli-cy and personal freedoms.
But it seemed as though Paul painted an incomplete picture of freedom and liberty.
No candidate has a monopoly over those principles. And tak-ing a hacksaw to the federal government, tempting though that may be, is not the only way to promote them.
A few examples: Anti-pol-lution standards ensure that every person has the free-dom to breathe smog-free air and drink mercury-free water. Modernized transportation infrastructure enables bud-ding entrepreneurs to take their products to market. And a world-class education can open the doors of opportu-nity for even the poorest of children.
These are just a few of the many examples of govern-ment-enabled freedoms.
We do ourselves a disser-vice when we ignore them and frame the debate in terms of the government-cutting friends of freedom and the government-growing foes of freedom.
Everyone wants freedom. We just disagree on the best ways to promote it.
Jason is a senior in Engineering and Business.
INpreparing to write this col-umn, I sat down and read the piece I wrote when walking
into this job last year.I addressed you as an excited and
anxious new leader, eager to start one
of the most important and challeng-ing journeys I’ve been on thus far. I can truthfully say that, for better or worse, I had not the slightest idea that my year as editor-in-chief would turn out the way it did.
This year in news kept my entire staff busy at all hours of the day and night. We lost the Institute of Avia-tion. The relationship between U of I’s administration and its faculty has intensified. Three high-profile coaches were fired.
I suppose no one can predict exactly how their tenure in any profession will play out, but it’s been a very intense year for the University — just as it has been for my own company.
This year, the realities of a chang-ing news industry model hit extreme-ly close to home. And for our regu-lar readers, you have seen our best attempts to overcome that.
I first off thank you for supporting us. We are only as relevant as our readers believe we are. And I believe
the confidence you’ve showed in us will help compel the members of this organization to do bigger and better things.
Despite the challenges, I truly believe that my staff and I are leav-ing this publication stronger than it was to begin with. I leave feeling proud and optimistic for the future. And in the end, that is what matters to me.
In just a week’s time, my succes-sor, Samantha Kiesel, will be the
new face of this fantastic organiza-tion. Reach out to her. Interact with your college paper. You might not agree with every decision we’ve made or might make over the years, but we do listen.
I will always be thankful for this experience, and for the opportunity to meet so many creative, interesting and inspirational people. It’s been a great ride.
Jill is a senior in Media.
JILL DISISEditor in Chief
Huff Hall was filled to capacity Wednesday eve-ning in what appeared to
be one of the largest crowds Dr. Ron Paul has seen this campaign. The virtue of a col-lege town is that a candidate can test the waters for talking points that would not fly in a less tolerant situation, and the senior congressman eagerly jumped from issue to issue.
He received one of the most fervent roars of approval when he breached the mili-tary topic: “Bring our troops home!” he professed to thun-derous applause. Along with abolishing the Federal Reserve, breaking down the illusions of America’s disas-trous foreign policy adven-tures of the past decade has become Paul’s signature issue.
And to him it is also the “easiest” issue. His “foreign policy of the golden rule” is as basic as it sounds (“How would we like it if drones were dropping bombs on our
heads?”) Yet he’s been sound-ing the same alarm for more than 20 years.
The key obstacle is that his popular anti-war stance is essentially anti-Republican. The unlikely chance that Paul will receive the GOP nomi-nation should not detract from his message, and in the coming months he must double-down on his critiques of our continuing foreign occupations.
If Paul continues to apply enough pressure on Obama and the other GOP clowns on the wasted “trillions” from these wars, the politicians and the American people will be forced to respond to this profound moral dilemma that has shaped the preva-lent negative image of United States’ intervention around the world.
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. But Paul, who can’t beat ’em, will never join ’em. He is one of the few in the United States government today that speaks truth in power on the anti-war issue.
This is the kind of revo-lution America needs to be hearing.
Michael is a senior in LAS.
JASON FEBERYOpinions columnist
MICHAEL HOFFMANOpinions columnist
TOLU TAIWOOpinions columnist
THOUGHTS ON THE SIDE
THE PROGRESSIVE BEAT LIKE YOU MEAN IT
Congressman Paul doesn’t address big picture when speaking about freedom
Even if he can’t beat ’em, candidate stays true to message he believes in
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BY MICHAEL TARMAND P. SOLOMON BANDATHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITTLETON, Colo. — Convict-ed former Illinois Gov. Rod Blago-jevich walked into a federal pris-on in Colorado to begin a 14-year sentence for corruption on Thurs-day, the latest chapter in the down-fall of a charismatic politician that seemed more like a bizarre reality TV show than a legal battle.
With helicopters and TV news crews broadcasting his every move, Blagojevich stepped out of a black SUV and walked into the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in suburban Denver just before noon. Blagojevich — Illinois’ second ex-governor now in prison for corruption — was convicted on 18 counts, including charges of trying to sell or trade President Barack Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat.
“I’m leaving with a heavy heart, a clear conscience and I have high, high hopes for the future,” Blago-jevich told reporters and well-wishers as he left his Chicago
home early Thursday for his fl ight to Denver.
Along with his attorneys, the 55-year-old Democrat spent about an hour driving around the minimum-security facility once arriving in Littleton, near Denver, stopping for lunch and waving to onlookers before relinquishing his freedom.
“I think it’s kind of surreal to him, but he seems in good spir-its,” said Brian Pyle, who owns the Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers in Littleton where Blagojevich had lunch. Pyle said he shook the former governor’s hand as he left, telling him: “Stay strong.” He said Blagojevich thanked him.
Blagojevich’s lawyers didn’t immediately return messag-es left Thursday afternoon. The attorneys have said it would take months to complete the paper-work to appeal his convictions and sentence.
In what had become a familiar scene in the three years since his arrest, an optimistic if not defi -
ant Blagojevich bounded down the stairs of his Chicago home through a throng of photogra-phers and cameramen Thursday morning. Supporters were shout-ing encouragement.
“Saying goodbye is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” said Blagojevich, who wasn’t accom-panied by his wife, Patti, though she could be seen through the win-dows. One of their two daughters peeked out a window before her father departed.
The night before, the famous-ly talkative Democrat — who was caught on FBI wiretaps saying the opportunity to trade an appoint-ment to Obama’s old Senate seat for campaign cash or a top job was “f------ golden” — embraced the public spotlight one last time.
“While my faith in things has sometimes been challenged, I still believe this is America, this is a country that is governed by the rule of law, that the truth ultimate-ly will prevail,” Blagojevich told crowds of media and supporters, his wife standing by his side.
BY STEVE SZKOTAKTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. — The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university offi cials were negligent in waiting to warn stu-dents of a gunman on campus, and a jury agreed with them on Wednesday.
It took jurors 3 1/2 hours to fi nd that university offi cials botched their response to the April 16, 2007, massacre that left 33 peo-ple — including the gunman — dead. The jury determined in the wrongful death lawsuit against the state that the parents of Julia Pryde and Erin Peterson each deserved $4 million. The award
likely will be sharply reduced because Virginia law requires such awards to be capped at $100,000.
The lawsuit was the last pend-ing litigation over the mass shoot-ings and it’s not clear if any addi-tional lawsuits will be fi led. The state is expected to appeal the verdict, as it did a separate fi ne handed down by federal educa-tion offi cials.
“When you know that some-thing is right you’re not deterred
from your course,” said Celeste Peterson, whose daughter Erin died in the mass shooting that was the deadliest in modern U.S. history.
“We wanted the truth from the very beginning and we got it. All I know is today we got what we wanted.”
The state, which was the lone defendant in the case, argued the university did all that it could with the information available at the time.
Blagojevich enters federal prison for 14-year sentence in Colorado
Jurors fi nd Virginia Tech negligent in ’07 shooting on campus
Professor shows what life is like in subsistence economy
JOE AMON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich poses with Chatfi eld High School students, from left, Dylan Sorenson, Sage Dugas and Bryce Kuschel during a stop at Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers before reporting to prison.
SAM DEAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Celeste Peterson, mother of shooting victim Erin Peterson, right, cries after a verdict in Christiansburg, Va. A jury ruled that Virginia Tech was liable in the 2007 shooting Wednesday.
BY DANNY WICENTOWSKISTAFF WRITER
Christine Hurt, professor of law, wants to show her students what poor means. Not welfare poor, or housing-project poor, or can’t-afford-cable poor. She means dollar-a-day poor, walk-half-a-mile to-get-water poor; the kind of poor that exists in Mala-wi, Africa .
According to The World Bank , Malawi has a GDP-per-capita of only $343 and a life expectancy of 53 , making Malawi one of the poorest countries in the world.
“What I really want them to see is what it’s really like to live in a subsistence economy,” said Hurt, who is taking 15 students from her microfi nance class to the landlocked, southern African nation for 10 days.
Hurt said microfi nance is the process of granting very small loans — usually around $130 — to small groups of people in develop-ing countries with the hope that the money will be used to cre-ate businesses or improve exist-ing ones.
“There’s a lot of opportunity here for a little bit of money to really change people’s lives,” Hurt said.
For Hurt’s students, microfi -nance represents an area of law that allows them to truly contrib-
ute to the public good. She said that some students become disil-lusioned when they fi nd little con-nection between studying corpo-rate law and making the world a better place.
“The ideal of microfi nance is to help some of the poorest peo-ple in the world,” said Nathaniel Koppel , second-year law student.
A self-described idealist, Kop-pel said he wanted to do more than experience Malawi as a stu-dent. He wanted to help, and like any idealist, he wanted that help to be tangible.
“We got a hold of the idea of being able to make a real differ-ence,” said Koppel, who along with his classmates collected around 1,500 pencils, hundreds of school supplies, soccer balls and shoes. “For a student to come to school in (America) without pen-cil and paper, that doesn’t fl y. It shouldn’t fl y anywhere else.”
For all the promises offered by microfi nance, Hurt cautioned that there is still no way to mea-sure if microfi nance is a viable solution to the crushing poverty facing countries like Malawi.
No studies have shown con-clusively whether microfi nance actually alleviates poverty, Hurt said, but that doesn’t mean it’s a busted theory. Like the G.I. Bill of the 1950s , the effects of micro-
fi nance may take decades to take hold, she said.
Even worse, Hurt said, is the possibility that microfi nance adds to a developing nation’s problems. She said some schol-ars say microloans create oppor-tunities for predatory lending and that many who accept these loans become trapped in debt they can-not repay.
“The problem with credit is that no access to credit to bad, but over-indebtedness is bad (too),” Hurt said. “It’s hard to create that good balance in a develop-ing country.”
The uncertainty surrounding microfi nance is one of the reasons Hurt feels the trip is so important for her students, who will visit groups of successful recipients of microloans as well as a group whose project failed.
The students will also be accompanied by Tim Larson , a geologist from the Illinois Geo-logical Survey , who will introduce the students to the challenges fac-ing Malawi’s water infrastucture.
No matter how effective the economic plan, he said, it is for naught if citizens lack access to water.
“At some point you have to address the issue of water and its availability on a reliable and sustainable level,” Larson said.
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BY GENE JOHNSON AND MIKE BAKERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The U.S. serviceman suspected in the massacre of more than a dozen Afghan civilians is a 38-year-old father of two who served three tours in Iraq and is based in Washington state. Still, days after the slayings, the military has kept under wraps one of the most salient details — his name.
Military officials said it was military policy not to release the name until charges are filed. But military experts said this case seems unusual.
“This is unprecedented in my experience,” said Eugene Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale University. “It’s very strange.”
Fidell speculated that the mil-itary was focused on ensuring the safety of the soldier’s family.
Information has also been lim-ited inside the military. Jill Bar-ber, a wife of a staff sergeant in the same battalion as the sus-
pect, said she learned of the Sun-day shooting only from news coverage. She said her husband wasn’t allowed to call her for more than a day after the shoot-ing and that soldiers can get in trouble for talking about it.
“They shut everything down over there,” Barber, of Yelm, about 60 miles south of Seat-tle, said Mon-day. “I didn’t even find out about it from him. They’re not allowed to say anything.”
It’s typical for the military to put stringent controls on com-munication in the aftermath of deaths or injuries, including the shutdown of Internet and tele-phone access on a combat zone base, often for 24 hours. If a sol-dier is wounded but his injuries
are not life-threatening, mili-tary officials will allow him or her to call next of kin on a satel-lite phone, but they are instruct-ed not to mention others having been hurt or killed — and an offi-cer or an NCO stands at the bed-side to make sure that rule is
followed.Jeffrey Addi-
cott, who previ-ously served as the senior legal adviser to the U.S. Army’s Spe-cial Forces, said the military has increasingly used the shutdown of communications to control infor-
mation. He said soldiers who are aware of the identity of the suspect likely have orders from superiors not to speak about it and have probably had their electronic devices confiscated so nothing leaks out.
Addicott said he can’t think of any other case where a name has been held back for this long, but he thinks it may be necessary in this case to help contain any backlash. He fears that extrem-ists may try to seek revenge for the killings, perhaps by target-ing the soldier’s family.
“I think it’s probably a good thing that we don’t have to release his name,” Addicott said.
In this instance, military offi-cials haven’t even officially con-firmed that the soldier was based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle. That information came from sources who spoke to The Associated Press and other media organizations and spoke only on condition of anonymi-ty. Base spokesman Joe Piek referred any questions to mili-tary leaders in Afghanistan.
The suspect was flown out of Afghanistan on Wednesday eve-ning to what officials describe as a pretrial confinement facility.
United States keeps identity of soldier suspected in Afghanistan massacre hidden
European Union sanctions Iranian banks to discourage Tehran from building nuclear weaponsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUSSELS — Iran was effec-tively cut off from global com-merce on Thursday, when the company that handles financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks — part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from devel-oping nuclear weapons.
The action enforces European Union sanctions because global financial transactions are impos-sible without using SWIFT, and it will go a long way toward iso-lating Iran financially.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommu-nication, or SWIFT, is a banking hub crucial to oil, financial trans-actions and other trades.
“Disconnecting banks is an extraordinary and unprece-dented step for SWIFT,” said Lazaro Campos, chief executive of SWIFT. “It is a direct result of international and multilater-al action to intensify financial sanctions against Iran.”
In a statement, the company said the EU decision to impose sanctions “prohibits companies
such as SWIFT to continue to pro-vide specialized financial mes-saging services to EU-sanctioned banks” and “forces SWIFT to take action.”
Though Thursday’s move adds no new sanctions, it is intended to make sure that EU sanctions that have already been approved are watertight.
In a statement, the European Council — comprised of the gov-ernment leaders of the 27 Euro-pean Union countries — said it had “developed the applica-tion” of its restrictive measures against Iran.
“In this context, the Council agreed that no specialized finan-cial messaging shall be provided to those persons and entities sub-ject to an asset freeze,” the state-ment said.
In addition to sanctioning var-ious officials and freezing the assets of certain companies, the European Union plans to insti-tute an embargo on the import of Iranian oil in July — an attempt to choke off funding for Iran’s nuclear program.
The EU sanctions are aimed
at forcing Iran to demonstrate to the international community that it is not trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says that
its nuclear program is for peace-ful purposes only, but officials in many other countries — includ-ing Israel — believe otherwise.
BY AMIR SHAHTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan — The American campaign in Afghan-istan suffered a double blow Thursday: The Taliban broke off talks with the U.S., and President Hamid Karzai said NATO should pull out of rural areas and speed up the trans-fer of security responsibilities to Afghan forces nationwide in the wake of the killing of 16 civilians.
The moves represent new set-backs to America’s strategy for ending the 10-year-old war at a time when support for the con-flict is plummeting. Part of the U.S. exit strategy is to transfer authority gradually to Afghan forces. Another tack is to pull the Taliban into political discus-sions with the Afghan govern-ment, though it’s unclear that there has been any progress since January.
Although Karzai has previous-
ly said that he wanted interna-tional troops to transition out of rural areas, the apparent call for an immediate exit is new. Karzai also said he now wants Afghan forces take the lead for countrywide security in 2013, in what appeared to be a move to push the U.S. toward an earlier drawdown.
A statement released by Kar-zai’s office said that during his meeting with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panet-ta, the president “requested that the international forces come out of Afghan villages and stay in their bases.”
Karzai also said that the “Afghan security forces have the ability to provide security in the villages of our country,” the statement said.
But a senior U.S. official said Karzai did not make any demands to have U.S. troops leave villages immediately. The official, who spoke on condition
of anonymity to disclose details of a private meeting, said it’s unclear that the U.S. would be able to pull all of its troops out of the villages even by 2013. He noted that the U.S. plans to con-tinue counterterrorism opera-tions and advising the Afghan forces around the country.
A rapid pullout from rural areas would have a devastating effect on U.S. ability to challenge the Taliban on the battlefield.
Unlike the Iraq war, where most combat was in towns and cities, the Afghan conflict is a struggle to secure rural ham-lets and remote mountain val-leys used by the militants to move in and out of sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan.
It would essentially mean the end of the strategy of trying to win hearts and minds by work-ing with and protecting the local populations.
Karzai is known for making dramatic demands and then
backing off under U.S. pressure. The call for a pullback — even if aimed at his domestic audience — will likely become another issue of contention between the Afghans and their international allies at a time of growing war weariness in the United States and other countries of the inter-national coalition.
Karzai spoke as Afghan law-makers were expressing outrage that the U.S. flew the soldier sus-pected of gunning down 16 civil-ians early Sunday in two Afghan villages to Kuwait on Wednes-day night. They were demand-ing that the suspect, a U.S. Army staff sergeant, be tried in the country.
Asked if Karzai’s request was a response to the shooting spree, Foreign Ministry spokesman Janan Mosazai said that Kar-zai had long asked that military operations cease in rural areas because that’s not where terror-ism is rooted.
Taliban breaks off talks with US
“This is unprecedented in
my experience. It’s very strange.”
EUGENE FIDELL,professor of military law
AP FILE PHOTO
A currency exchange bureau worker counts U.S. dollars while Iranian bank notes, showing a portrait of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, rest on the exchange desk in downtown Tehran, Iran.
SCOTT OLSON, POOL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks during a news conference at the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport Thursday, before departing for the United Arab Emirates. Panetta visited with troops and met with President Hamid Karzai and other Afghan officials during his two-day visit to the country.
Occupation of rural areas, civilian deaths causes con!ict
The Illinois baseball team has a chance this weekend to really get on a roll.
The Illini won three out of four games last week and six of their last eight overall.
The schedule seems to get a bit easier for Illinois; it’s the fi rst time the Illini don’t play a ranked team
all weekend. Illinois will match up against in-state rivals Southern Illi-nois and Northern Illinois in Carbon-dale, Ill., and Marion, Ill., but Illinois head coach Dan Hartleb won’t allow his team to take these games lightly.
“Any time you play in-state schools, it is very good competition,” Hartleb said. “The coaches there do a great job with both programs.
“I think we’re a very solid team, but
we’re not the team that can just walk out and expect people to roll over. We need to go out and do our jobs and fi nd ways to beat people.”
The Illini will play the Salukis on Friday and the Huskies on Saturday, both in Carbondale, before fi nishing the series against the same two teams in Marion on Sunday.
This weekend’s four-game series features a doubleheader Sunday
instead of the typical Saturday. The team doesn’t have to worry about getting students back for class Mon-day morning because it’s the start of Spring Break.
Having the extra game Sunday will affect Hartleb’s strategy for the fi rst two games. He left the option open to pitchers who get into Friday’s game
Illini baseball practices for weekend doubleheader
UI trustees deliberate on possibilities for future coaching hires
Illinois softball ready to go after week offBY DAN LONGO STAFF WRITER
The Illinois softball team will hope to use familiarity to its advantage this weekend when it travels to Clearwater, Fla., for the second time this season.
Not only will the Illini be playing in a familiar venue, but against familiar opponents as well.
“We said today, it’s almost like our second home I guess,” head coach Terri Sullivan said. “We’re actually playing on one of the fi elds we played on already.”
The Illini will match up against Massachusetts for the third time this season and Boston University for the second time, while also facing Providence, Maryland and Tennessee-Chattanooga this weekend.
“We’re familiar with them, I think they’re a great team,” Sullivan said of Massachusetts. “They have a great pitch-er, and that’s only made us better. In the Big Ten, you’re going to play the oppo-nents you’re scheduled against three
times, so that’s good experience there.”The Illini will have a chip on their
shoulder this weekend, having split the previous two games with Massachusetts and losing 8-1 in their previous game against Boston. Illinois may have an advantage against both teams, as both Boston and Massachusetts rely heavily on one pitcher.
“Both of them had really good horses, which means somebody who pitched pretty much every game for them,” starting pitcher Jackie Guy said. “So that’ll be good for us because we get to see her, for some people, the seventh and eighth time around. We’re defi nitely looking to make some adjust-
ments and see the ball.”Although revenge might be on their
minds, the Illini aren’t too focused on any of their opponents this weekend; the focus is on their own game as they look to continue their success from their last tournament. The Orange and Blue closed out their weekend in Las Vegas two week-
ends ago by winning their last two games while playing some of their best softball of the season, tallying three wins to go with two close defeats.
Illinois took that success into an extra week of practice with last weekend off from competition, focusing on fundamen-tals in hopes of piecing together its best ball this weekend, the last tournament before the conference season begins.
“I think we are all just ready to get back on the fi eld,” catcher Jenna Mych-ko said. “I think we’re more prepared then ever, so I think we’re going to go out there and kill it.”
The Illini have rested legs and time to work out the kinks heading into the weekend.
“We plan on going 5-0 this weekend,” Guy said. “We had a really good two weeks of practice and we’re looking to improve to a 7-0 streak.”
Good teams often win in streaks, Sul-livan said, and the Illini are certainly determined to prove their ability this weekend.
“We’re trying to streak going into con-ference, get some momentum going,” Guy said. “These two weeks of practice have been the best of our season so far. It’s been really good to see each other improve so much in such a short time, so we’re excited to play other people again.”
Team heads to familiar territory, hopes to use prior experience as advantage in coming 5-game weekend
WILLIAM SHI THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ Danielle Vaji (14) hits the ball during the game against Western at Eichelberger Field. The Illini will travel to Florida for the second time this season.
Scoring 25 points this season, Bostock chosen to represent Illinoisat ACHA All-Star game
In-state competition provides more playing time opportunity for new members
BY DARSHAN PATELSTAFF WRITER
In an attempt to lay down contract provisions of the next Illinois men’s head bas-ketball coach, the Board of Trustees met behind closed doors with athletics director Mike Thomas on Thursday morning.
Board chairman Chris-topher Kennedy said after the meeting that the trust-ees heard about the terms of football head coach Tim Beckman’s contract after the announcement by Thom-as. He wanted this time to be different.
“(The coaching search) is going to move very, very quickly, and there’s not going to be enough time to bring the board in at the 11th hour to get approval,” Kennedy said. “So we really acted to preap-prove notionally the range of contract provisions that might be in that contract.”
Kennedy added that the trustees discussed diversi-ty aspects of the candidate pool, as well as compensation and key terms of a proposed contract.
This comes after two Afri-can American trustees voted against Beckman’s contract at the January meeting, cit-ing race as the sole reason.
Trustee Lawrence Oliver, who voted against Beckman, said it has never been a “lit-mus test” with him when vot-ing on the hire of coaches for
Women’s gymnastics to host State of Illinois Classic hoping to continue winning streakBY GINA MUELLERSTAFF WRITER
As the University closes for spring break, Huff Hall will remain open as the No. 22 Illi-nois women’s gymnastics team hosts the school’s only home meet of the weekend: the State of Illinois Classic.
Finishing the regular season with a victory against West-ern Michigan boosted Illinois’ confi dence moving toward the postseason. The energy during practice this past week has ris-en signifi cantly.
“We are coming off of a good weekend at Western Michigan,” junior Jaclyn Kantecki said. “We hit, we were consistent and it has been a good couple days of practice in the gym. Now that things are winding down, we know we have the home stretch to get a couple good scores.”
The focus in practice has not changed much since the begin-ning of the season for the Illi-ni, but as the postseason starts
with the weekend’s tournament, the focus is not just on routines, but the small details.
“We’ve just been trying to keep the energy up and making every turn count,” junior Alina Weinstein said. “We’re nearing the end of the season, so every turn is really important. Just trying to perfect what we are doing in the gym.”
The Orange and Blue have won the State of Illinois Clas-sic four consecutive years, tal-lying a school record score of 196.975 in the 2010-11 season. With high expectations for this year’s competition, Illinois will focus on itself and not the other teams, Illinois-Chicago, North-ern Illinois and Illinois State.
“I think the girls need to really think about the process and not the goal,” Illinois head coach Kim Landrus said. “If we think about the process, one routine at a time, one event at
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“It’s been really good to see each other improve so much in such a short time, so we’re excited to play other people again.”
JACKIE GUY,pitcher
CHONG JIANG THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ Justin Parr (15) dives back to fi rst base during the fi rst game of a doubleheader against Michigan State, played at Illinois Field. The Illini lost the fi rst game 5-8, but won the second 5-2 on April 23.
BY BLAKE PONSTAFF WRITER
Illini hockey will be repre-sented in the 5th Annual Amer-ican Collegiate Hockey Associ-ation Men’s Division I All-Star Game, with one player lacing up his skates this weekend to compete with and against some of the ACHA’s top talent. Soph-omore forward Austin Bostock was the only player on the team selected and the fi rst Illini play-er since J.J. Heredia made it in 2010.
This year’s All-Star game will be hosted at the Gilmour Acad-emy Athletic Center in Gates Mills, Ohio. Puck drop is sched-uled for Saturday at 6 p.m.
Bostock was one of the Illi-ni’s more consistent scorers all season, notching 11 goals and 14
assists for a team second-best 25 points overall despite missing fi ve games due to injury.
“It’s a great opportunity and a testament to how good our team was this year,” Bostock said. “The success I had is because of my teammates.”
The Illini wrapped up their season March 3 with a fi rst-round tournament loss to rival Ohio. The Illini fi nished the season with a 16-17-1 overall record.
Bostock is one of 40 other All-Stars selected from vari-ous teams in the ACHA. He said, however, that he is not the most deserving Illini hockey player to receive the honor.
“We had a lot of great seniors leading the way,” he said. “Defensively, offensively and
goaltending-wise, we defi nite-ly should have had more guys chosen.”
Junior forward Scott Barrera and senior forward Andrew Car-
dona each missed the cut despite strong statistical seasons. Bar-rera fi nished the year leading
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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BRENT HOFACKER THE DAILY ILLINI
Austin Bostock (22) prepares for a faceoff in the Illini 2-5 loss to Penn State. Bostock was selected to compete in the ACHA All-Star game.
BY EDDIE PELLSTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Once the ball went up, all that work in the classroom didn’t mean a thing.
Except for a late, desper-ate rally, the Ivy League’s best wasn’t much of a match for the only private school in the South-eastern Conference. John Jen-kins made all six of his late free throws and scored 27 points Thursday to help Vanderbilt hold off Harvard 79-70 in an East Regional game being called “The Brain Bowl.”
Vanderbilt’s senior-heavy group won its NCAA open-er after going winless the last three appearances despite com-ing in seeded 4th, 4th and 5th. The Commodores (25-10) were a ‘5’ for this one, as well, but came in with a victory over top-ranked Kentucky last weekend and armed with plenty of lessons learned from past failures.
They built an 18-point lead early in the second half and saw 12th-seeded Harvard (26-5) trim it down to five with 1:51 to go. But the Commodores went 8 for 9 from the line from there and won despite not making a field goal over the final 5:22.
On Saturday, Vanderbilt faces Wisconsin, a 73-49 winner over Montana, earlier at The Pit.
The Crimson (26-5) made the tournament for the first time since 1946, though this is clear-ly not your father’s Harvard — or even your grandfather’s.
Coached by Tommy Amaker, a Duke grad who knows how to blend academics and athletics, the Crimson notched an impres-sive win over Florida State early in the season, then held off the Ivy League’s more traditional powers, Penn and Princeton, to
make the Big Show.Laurent Rivard treated The
Pit like his own backyard, fin-ishing with 20 points on 6-for-7 shooting from 3-point range — many jacked up from well behind the line. But nobody else on Har-vard shot well, and the Commo-dores built a lead that was too big to overcome. Kyle Casey scored 13 for Harvard, which shot 20 for 49 if you take out Rivard’s shots.
The most telling sequence came with just under 11 minutes
left, when Vanderbilt missed four shots and got offensive rebounds on all of them. The possession ended when Jenkins hit a 17-footer and got fouled to set up a three-point play for a 56-42 lead.
Jeffery Taylor, who won a state title with Hobbs High School here at The Pit, finished with 15 points while, another senior, Fes-tus Ezeli, grabbed 11 rebounds, blocked four shots and altered many more.
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America may be stuck in a recession, but if the recent free-agent spending spree
is any indication, the NFL seems to be doing just fine.
So much cash is being thrown around the league right now, it would make Pacman Jones blush.
Peyton Manning aside, the Buffalo Bills were able to land the biggest prize in free agen-cy Thursday, coming to terms
with former No. 1 overall pick Mario Williams. Coming off a 6-10 2011 season and last-place finish in the AFC East, the Bills made Williams a six-year $100 million offer that he couldn’t refuse. The deal includes $50 million in guaranteed money, the most any defensive play-er has received in NFL histo-ry. Calvin “Megatron” John-son is widely regarded as the best receiver in the NFL, and on Wednesday the Detroit Lions paid him as such. Johnson inked a seven-year $132 mil-lion contract extension — $60 million of which is guaranteed — making him the highest paid receiver in the NFL and keep-
ing him in Detroit until 2019. Not to be outdone, the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers spent $140.5 million on the trio of Vin-cent Jackson, Carl Nicks and Eric Wright. It’s understand-able the Bucs would break out the checkbook to get a big tar-get for Josh Freeman and an All-Pro offensive lineman to keep him upright. What I don’t get, however, is why Jackson’s eight-figure contract was for $55,555,555; maybe Jackson was trying to become the new OchoCinco, now that the art-ist formerly known as Ochocin-co has reverted back to Chad Johnson.
While the rest of the league
is holding its breath to see where Manning will end up, there has been plenty of action to talk about. The biggest bene-ficiary so far? Wide receivers.
On top of Johnson’s and Jack-son’s megadeals, DeSean Jack-son signed a five-year $51 mil-lion contract to stay with the Philadelphia Eagles. Marques Colston and Pierre Garcon each signed five year, $40-plus mil-lion contracts with the Saints and Colts, respectively. Despite Manning’s departure, Reg-gie Wayne decided $17.5 mil-lion over three years was a good enough reason to stay in Indianapolis.
With free agency far from
over, receivers like Mike Wal-lace, Brandon Lloyd, Mario Manningham and Eddie Royal are waiting their turn to cash in on their pass-catching abilities.
Over time, the NFL has become an increasingly pass-happy league, and 2011 was no exception. The recent offensive explosion could be due to big-ger, more athletic receivers and tight ends, or maybe the new rules regarding hits on quarter-backs and receivers is making it harder for defenses. What-ever the reason, the statistics don’t lie: 2011 was the second consecutive year that the NFL league record for average pass-ing yards in a game was bro-
ken, with 229.7 (up eight yards from 2010).
Not only did Drew Brees set the all-time record for com-pletion percentage (71.2) and passing yards in a season with 5,476, but four of the six high-est passing yardage totals were established in 2011 — with Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford and Eli Manning all securing their place in the record books and the fullness of their receiv-ers’ checkbooks for a very long time to come.
Kevin is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] Follow him on Twitter @Kev-inThorn10.
KEVIN THORNTONSports columnist
CLIFF MCBRIDE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Free agents Eric Wright (left), Vincent Jackson and Carl Nicks hold Tampa Bay Buccaneers jerseys with head coach Greg Schiano during an NFL football news conference. The Buccaneers spent $140.5 million combined on the three free agents’ contracts this past week.
MATT YORK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Harvard guard Laurent Rivard’s shot is blocked by Vanderbilt forward Jeffery Taylor (44) during the second half of an NCAA men’s college basketball tournament second-round game in Albuquerque, N.M. Vanderbilt won 79-70 on Thursday.
KEITH SRAKOCIC THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNC-Asheville’s Jaron Lane (5) and Syracuse’s Baye Keita (12) battle for a loose ball in the first half of an East Regional NCAA tournament second-round college basketball game Thursday in Pittsburgh.
Harvard’s 1st NCAA run since 1946 ends with loss to Vandy
BY JIM O’CONNELLTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PITTSBURGH — Syracuse had a lot bigger problems than miss-ing its starting center.
The Orange were staring at NCAA tournament history. A No. 1 seed has never lost to a No. 16 seed, and they were trailing North Carolina-Asheville with just over 6 minutes to play.
Led by reserve forward James Southerland, Syracuse rallied for a 72-65 victory over the Bulldogs on Thursday in the second round of the East Regional.
The sellout crowd of 18,927— except for those wearing Orange — were solidly behind the under-dogs throughout the second half and they were irate over the final 2 minutes with calls that went against the Bulldogs.
Syracuse, which won the national championship in 2003,
had already made negative his-tory in the tournament, becom-ing the first No. 2 seed to lose to a 15 when it fell 73-69 to Rich-mond in 1991.
The Bulldogs (24-10), who had talked Wednesday of becoming the first 16 seed to beat a No. 1, were led by J.P. Primm’s 18 points.
They led 34-30 at halftime — the third 16 to do that — but the Orange took the lead for good with 6:17 left on a turnaround jumper by Southerland.
The Bulldogs got within three points three times in the final 1:04 but could get no closer as Syra-cuse made its free throws and the officials made a couple of contro-versial calls.
Southerland had 15 points and a season-high eight rebounds for the Orange, who finished 5 of 23 from 3-point range, including missing 17 of their first 20 from
behind the arc.The first call that caused the
crowd to react was a lane violation with 1:20 left. Scoop Jardine of Syracuse missed the front end of a 1-and-1 but Asheville was called for entering the lane too soon. Jar-dine got to shoot the front end again, made it, and made the sec-ond for a 64-58 lead.
With 35 seconds left and the Orange leading 66-63, the ball appeared to go out of bounds off Syracuse’s Brandon Triche but the officials pointed the other way and gave it to the Orange. Jardine made two free throws a second later for a 68-63 lead.It was the third time a 16th seed led a No. 1 at halftime.
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim earned his 46th win in the NCA tournament, breaking a tie with Bob Knight for seventh on the career list.
No. 16 Bulldogs almost make history, come close to unseating No. 1 seed
Money flies, but Manning still unclaimed during free-agency period
Commodores dominate ‘Brain Bowl’
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BY EMILY BAYCISENIOR WRITER
When the No. 3 Illinois men’s gymnastics team travels to Iowa City, Iowa,for its final dual meet of the season Saturday night, the competition won’t be as much against the Hawkeyes as it will be against themselves.
Illinois defeated Iowa twice this season, once at the Windy City Invitational on Jan. 14 and the second in a dual meet at Iowa on Jan. 21.
“They’re used to Iowa, they’ve been there,” Illinois assistant coach Ivan Ivankov said. “Now’s the time to get everything together.”
This last regular season meet is where the coaching staff will decide who can make postseason lineups and if any skills should be removed from routines.
Illinois senior standout Paul Ruggeri will not be present Saturday because he will be traveling to Germany to compete in the Cottbus (Germany) World Cup.
Senior all-arounder Tyler Mizoguchi, last year’s national runner-up on the event, will not compete at Iowa.
These absences free up spots for gym-nasts who have been struggling to make the lineup, head coach Justin Spring said.
One of those is sophomore Cole Smith, who is pushing for a spot in the pommel horse lineup after scoring his career high and taking second in the event last week-end at Nebraska. Another is senior Devin Regan, who has been back and forth on the high bar all season. Then there’s freshman Josh Wilson, an all-arounder who hopes to make the lineup on multiple events.
“It’s been tough all year,” Spring said. “And as we get into the meets that count. It’s not getting any easier, the routines are com-ing together. We’re using Iowa as that last opportunity to see what comes together.”
Spring does not want to risk putting inex-perienced or inconsistent athletes into the lineup come Big Tens and NCAAs. He
thinks the risk is too high, as all gymnasts must hit for Illinois to succeed.
“These guys have been fighting for that first spot in lineup,” Spring said. “They are going to have to step up and show that this position belongs to me, I can hit under pres-sure and you can count on me.”
The meet gives Spring and his gymnasts a final taste of what must be modified before postseason competition if the Illini are to fulfill their goals of winning Big Ten and national titles.
“We want to kill it, and we’re ready,” freshman C.J. Maestas said. “We’re just ready to put it all out there and are excited for what’s to come.”
Saturday also helps add experience in the Carver-Hawkeye Arena, where Big Tens take place three weeks later.
“We’ve got the opportunity to really set the tone for a Big Ten championship there,” Spring said. “We got to iron up some lineup spots, see what happens.”
a time, we should be able to put everything together.”
This is the first time since the 2007-08 season that the unoffi-cial state championship has been held at Huff Hall.
“My freshman year we were at ISU and then last year at North-ern,” Kantecki said. “We’ve been to UIC this year, so now it’s our turn.”
Excitement will be added as the Illini perform in front of the home crowd, but the fans in the crowd won’t be the only faces the Illinois natives will recognize.
“I am from the Chicago area, so I know a few people from club that have gone to Illinois State and UIC,” Kantecki said. “It’s nice to see familiar faces.”
With postseason beginning this weekend, the competitions become more important. Though the Illini haven’t necessarily achieved everything they had hoped this season, they aren’t letting that hold them back.
“We feel like we are in a good spot,” Weinstein said. “We set a lot of goals, and unfortunately we didn’t end up being ranked where we wanted to be. But I don’t think that that’s going to stop us from doing well this weekend or next weekend at Big Tens. A lot can happen in two meets, so we’re just trying to put our best performances together and put it all on the table and anything can happen.”
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can pitch again Sunday.“I think it’ll be a little bit eas-
ier to figure out what (pitchers) we have available with two games on Sunday as opposed to earlier in the weekend,” Hart-leb said.
Illinois will use the time after Saturday morning’s game to take the food and money donat-ed to the tornado victims of Harrisburg, Ill., before travel-ing to Marion.
Hartleb said he thinks play-ing an in-state school will moti-vate the team to do better.
“It’ll be a tough weekend, but a weekend I think our guys are excited about,” Hartleb said. “There will be a bunch of play-ers on the other teams that they know, and you always want bragging rights in the state.”
Kevin Johnson and John Kra-vetz are going to start on the mound for the Illini’s first two games. Freshman Josh Ferry is going to make his first career start in the first game Sunday, and game two’s starter is as yet unannounced. Hartleb doesn’t plan on making many changes to the lineup after the way the Illini played last weekend.
“I like the frame of mind we’re in,” Hartleb said. “I’ve always said this team is going to continue to get better through-out the year, as they continue to mature and gain some expe-rience. So I’m really pleased with the makeup of these guys as they come out and work to be a better team.”
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prominent sports.“I think that was maybe mis-
construed before,” Oliver said. “It’s about the process, it’s about emphasis in priorities for me. It’s not a litmus test saying, ‘If (the coach) is not this color, I will not vote for them.’”
Illinois has enlisted the search firm Parker Executive Search to aid in the hunt for a men’s basketball coach. Kenne-dy said while diversity is impor-tant to the trustees, the board wants the best candidate, add-ing that the search process is in Thomas’ hands.
“I think we reiterated our commitment to diversity but we also reiterated our expectation that we get the best candidate available in the field,” Kennedy said. “The AD has retained a great search firm. The search firm indicates that this is prob-ably the best job in the field for 2012. We want the best.”
On Thursday morning, Thom-as declined to comment on what was said in his meeting with the trustees.
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DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ Devin Regan competes on the high bar during the Gym Jam at the Huff Hall. Regan and his teammates will go against Iowa for the third time this season.
Illinois goes up against twice-defeated Iowa for regular season’s last competition
“These guys have been fighting for that first spot in lineup,” Spring said. “They are going to have to step up and show that this position belongs to me, I can hit under pressure and you can count on me.” JUSTIN SPRING,head coach
the team in points, with 32 on seven goals and 25 assists. Car-dona ranked third on the team in points, with 23, but was far-and-away the team’s best goal-scor-er and power-play component, scoring 20 goals on the year (nine on the power play), nine more than the next best player.
Senior goalie Dan Rooney said Bostock’s selection is well-deserved due to his combination of hard work ethic and talent.
“Bostock is undoubtedly the hardest worker out of anyone I’ve played with,” Rooney said. “He’s very talented, but his best asset is the energy and heart he brings every single night. He never takes a shift off, and there is absolutely nobody more deserving of an All-Star bid. I’m very excited to have Bobo repre-sent Illini hockey at the game.”
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BY BOB MERLOSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois women’s track and field squad will compete in its first outdoor event of the sea-son this weekend.
The Illini travel to Orlando, Fla. to compete in the Univer-sity of Central Florida’s Black and Gold Challenge. The meet marks the beginning of Illinois’ outdoor season after a success-ful indoor season that produced three Big Ten championships and saw seven ath-letes compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships, six more than last year.
The Orange and Blue are looking to carry the momen-tum they built indoors into the lon-ger outdoor season.
“A few of them are coming off of nationals, so I think just coming off of that with that momentum should bring some good performances,” head coach Tonja Buford-Bailey said. “The others had a good showing at Big Tens, so the ones that ran at Big Tens are probably real-ly anxious about running this weekend.”
Outdoor events involve more distance than indoor events; for example, 60-meter events indoors are 100-meter events outdoors. Illinois is a sprint-ori-ented team, and will place focus on those events in this inaugural outdoor meet.
“It’s mainly going to be to the sprinters and hurdlers,” Buford-Bailey said. “They’re used it to it, they’re track runners, they’re excited to get outdoors.”
Illinois’ indoor season was
highlighted by freshman Ash-ley Spencer’s performances. She won the 200 meters in four of the five meets she compet-ed in before nationals, notch-ing Big Ten titles in the 200, 400 and 4x400 relay. This weekend, Spencer will begin her first out-door season as an Illini when she runs the 200. Senior Ryi-sha Boyd has been one of Illi-nois’ top sprinters in her career, but she missed a portion of the indoor season with a hamstring
injury.“I really do want
to see what Ryisha can run in the 400 because she got injured, but she had a really good prac-tice (Wednesday), so I’d be excited what she can open up with,” Buford-Bailey said.
While the main focus of the week-end for the Illini will be the sprint-ers, they will also get an opportunity
to see how the distance team performs outdoors.
“Amanda Duvendack is anoth-er one that I think is real-ly ready to run a good 800,” Buford-Bailey said.
With the addition of freshmen sprinters like Spencer and Asia Thomas, the Illini focused on adjusting to their team’s suc-cess indoors. With seven indoor meets under their belt, the Orange and Blue are looking to prove themselves as contenders in the outdoor season.
“The outdoor season is a little more exciting than the indoor season,” Buford-Bailey said. “That’s what track and field is really about, is outdoor track. I think they’re excited about it.”
Women’s track hopes outdoor season will match indoor success
BRENT HOFACKER THE DAILY ILLINI
Ryisha Boyd (473) competes in the 600 meter run during the Orange and Blue Open at the Armory. The Illini will travel to Orlando, Fla., this weekend for their first outdoor meet of the season.
