BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER The Urbana-Champaign Senate announced its new leadership for the upcoming academic year at its meeting Monday afternoon. After a week of online voting, Matthew Wheeler was reelected as the senate’s chair. Roy Camp- bell, direc- tor of gradu- ate admissions and advance- ment for the department of computer sci- ence, won the race for senate vice-chair. “I want to make sure that all the faculty are involved and engaged in the way the University is going to go,” Campbell said. “I think we have a really exciting future, and the difficulty is always to get every- one to participate. I hope I can do that.” Outgoing Univer- sity Senates Confer- ence representative Kim Graber, who lost to Campbell for the vice-chair posi- tion, said she is con- fident in Wheeler’s and Campbell’s abil- ity to lead the facul- ty senate. “Both (Wheel- er) and (Campbell) are excellent lead- ers, and the senate will be in very good hands with them as our leaders,” Graber said. Campbell was also elected to take Graber’s place in the University Senates Conference, or USC, along with George Francis, a current USC member. Outgoing senate vice chair Joyce Tolliver was nominated from the floor and elected for member- ship in the USC. As a newly elect- ed USC member, Tolliver was also selected as the USC delegate that would serve on the senate execu- tive committee, or SEC. The senate also voted to appoint three committee chairs to serve on the SEC. Academic freedom and tenure committee chairman Eric Johnson, equal opportunity and inclusion committee chairman Har- INSIDE Police 2A | Corrections 2A | Calendar 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Business & Technology 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 3B-5B | Sudoku 5B The Daily Illini Tuesday April 24, 2012 High: 67˚ Low: 46˚ The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 141 Issue 139 | FREE ROSIE POWERS THE DAILY ILLINI Scarlett Andes, freshman in LAS, left, gives out free falafel to students on the Quad as part of Israel Week on Monday. Alli Gattari, freshman in LAS, attended the event. She said she found the event to be very informative and that it “gave (her) a little briefing about Israel.” Israel Illini hosted Israel On the Quad on Monday, the first event of Israel Week. On Tuesday, Israel Illini will host a ceremony for Yom Hazikaron at the Cohen Center for Jewish Life. The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. and commemorates Israel’s fallen soldiers and citizens. The ceremony will feature poetry, memoirs and music. On Wednesday, Israel Illini will host a party celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut at Fire Station from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. The party will celebrate Israel’s 64th birthday. Students can purchase wristbands for $5 and then drinks for $1 for the duration of the event. On Thursday, at the Cohen Center for Jewish Life, Israel Illini will host a barbecue. The event will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 pm., and the menu includes hamburgers, kabobs, hot dogs, hummus and baba ghanoush. Israel Illini offers free falafel BUG Wheeler reelected as senate chair; Roy Campbell wins vice-chair BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI STAFF WRITER The virus-proof mystique of Mac software took a beating April 12 when a virus dubbed Flash- back began infecting more than 500 Macs on campus, according to CITES senior security outreach specialist Brian Mertz. While the number of infections isn’t “cataclysmic,” said Mertz, the Flash- back virus is unique in its ability to auto- matically install itself after the user vis- its an infected webpage. Once installed, the virus goes to work: log- ging keystrokes, digging through fi le folders and monitoring web activity to steal usernames and passwords. “(This) is the defi ning, big moment for Mac viruses,” said Mertz, a Mac user himself. “Pri- or to Flashback, virus- makers would have had to somehow trick the user into entering their password to prompt the virus’s down- load and installation. Now (Mac users) have the same risks that every Windows computer has dealt with for a decade.” Security analyst Wayland Morgan said CITES quickly moved to shut down the wireless connections of the infect- ed Macs due to the viruses’ abil- ity to quickly and covertly steal login information. “If an attacker would be able to get a user’s pass- word, they could access, modify or even destroy Univer- sity data,” Morgan said. “While being disconnected is certain- Questions arise on impact of Quinn’s pension reform plan on University WHEELER CAMPBELL URBANA-CHAMPAIGN SENATE More on-air: Tune in to WPGU 107.1- FM at 5 p.m. to hear more about the U-C Senate’s new leadership for the upcoming year Flashback virus poses dire threat to security of campus Mac users takes a bite out of Apple See VIRUS, Page 3A See U-C SENATE, Page 3A BY MATT RICE STAFF WRITER Gov. Pat Quinn’s recent plan to reform the Illinois pension system is raising con- cerns about its effect on the University. The plan, which Quinn introduced at an April 20 press con- ference, would seek to achieve 100 percent fund- ing for pension systems in Illinois by 2042, raise the retirement age to 67 and shift the responsibility for paying pension costs to employers. According to a press release, the Illinois pen- sion system has an unfund- ed liability of $83 billion, meaning that employees in Illinois have been prom- ised $83 billion more in benefits than the state has assets to pay. For fiscal year 2013, which begins July 1, Illinois must pay $5.2 billion in pensions, only 22 percent of which will go to state employees. “Unsustainable pension costs are squeezing core programs in education, public safety and human services, in addi- tion to limiting our ability to pay our bills,” Quinn said. “This plan rescues our pen- sion system and allows public employ- ees who have faithfully contributed to the system to continue to receive pen- sion benefits.” But several tenets of the plan have received criticism because of their potential effects on the University. Jeffrey Brown, director of the Universi- ty’s Center for Business and Public Policy and finance professor , called Quinn’s proposal “highly flawed.” Brown stated that one problem is that the plan would shift the cost of Uni- versity employees’ pen- sions to the University. “If the University of Illi- nois is forced to absorb an increase in payroll costs due to picking up pen- sion costs, this money has to come from somewhere,” Brown said. “Part of it will undoubtedly come through higher tuition for students (and) part of it will come through reduced spending on student and academic services.” Amanda Kass is the research and pol- icy specialist in pensions at the Chica- go-based Center for Tax and Budget Accountability . Kass said Quinn’s plan has a fundamental flaw. “Current employees would have to choose between a reduced benefit option or keep their current benefit options with consequences. If they keep their (current) plan, they give up retiree healthcare, and future raises would not count toward their individual pension benefits.” Kass said if passed, Quinn’s proposal may face legal challenges. “It is questionable if it’s constitutional because there’s a clause in the Illinois con- stitution that says pension benefits can- not be reduced or diminished,” she said. Kass will speak at a forum about the State Universities Retirement System, the agency that administers pensions to University employees. The forum will be held at the University YMCA on Tues- day at 4 p.m. Despite criticisms, Quinn is hoping the plan gains enough support to be enacted. “I urge the General Assembly to move forward with this plan, which will bring a new era of fiscal responsibility and sta- bility to Illinois,” Quinn said. “I urge the General Assembly to move forward with this plan, which will bring a new era of fiscal responsibility and stability to Illinois.” GOV. 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BY LAUREN ROHRSTAFF WRITER
The Urbana-Champaign Senate announced its new leadership for the upcoming academic year at its meeting Monday afternoon.
After a week of online voting, Matthew Wheeler was reelected as the senate’s chair. Roy Camp-
bell, direc-tor of gradu-ate admissions and advance-ment for the department of computer sci-ence, won the race for senate vice-chair.
“I want to make sure that all the faculty are involved and engaged in the way the University is going to go,” Campbell said. “I think we have a really exciting future, and the diffi culty is always to get every-one to participate. I hope I can do that.”
Outgoing Univer-sity Senates Confer-ence representative Kim Graber, who lost to Campbell for the vice-chair posi-tion, said she is con-fi dent in Wheeler’s and Campbell’s abil-ity to lead the facul-ty senate.
“Both (Wheel-er) and (Campbell) are excellent lead-ers, and the senate will be in very good hands with them as our leaders,” Graber said.
Campbell was also elected to take Graber’s place in the University Senates Conference, or USC, along with George Francis, a current USC member. Outgoing senate vice chair Joyce Tolliver was nominated from the fl oor and elected for member-ship in the USC. As a newly elect-ed USC member, Tolliver was also selected as the USC delegate that would serve on the senate execu-tive committee, or SEC.
The senate also voted to appoint three committee chairs to serve on the SEC. Academic freedom and tenure committee chairman Eric Johnson, equal opportunity and inclusion committee chairman Har-
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Scarlett Andes , freshman in LAS, left, gives out free falafel to students on the Quad as part of Israel Week on Monday. Alli Gattari , freshman in LAS, attended the event. She said she found the event to be very informative and that it “gave (her) a little briefi ng about Israel.” Israel Illini hosted Israel On the Quad on Monday, the fi rst event of Israel Week. On Tuesday, Israel Illini will host a ceremony for Yom Hazikaron at the Cohen Center for Jewish Life. The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. and commemorates Israel’s fallen soldiers and citizens. The ceremony will feature poetry, memoirs and music. On Wednesday, Israel Illini will host a party celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut at Fire Station from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m . The party will celebrate Israel’s 64 th birthday. Students can purchase wristbands for $5 and then drinks for $1 for the duration of the event. On Thursday, at the Cohen Center for Jewish Life, Israel Illini will host a barbecue. The event will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 pm., and the menu includes hamburgers, kabobs, hot dogs, hummus and baba ghanoush.
Israel Illini offers free falafel
BUG Wheeler reelected as senate chair; Roy Campbellwins vice-chair
BY DANNY WICENTOWSKISTAFF WRITER
The virus-proof mystique of Mac software took a beating April 12 when a virus dubbed Flash-back began infecting more than 500 Macs on campus, according
to CITES senior security outreach specialist Brian Mertz .
While the number of infections isn’t “cataclysmic,” said Mertz, the Flash-
back virus is unique in its ability to auto-matically install itself after the user vis-its an infected webpage. Once installed,
the virus goes to work: log-ging keystrokes, digging
through fi le folders and monitoring web
activity to steal usernames and passwords.
“(This) is the defi ning, big
moment for Mac viruses,” said Mertz, a
Mac user himself. “Pri-or to Flashback, virus-
makers would have had to somehow trick the user into entering their password to prompt the virus’s down-load and installation. Now (Mac users) have the same
risks that every Windows computer has dealt with
for a decade.”Security analyst Wayland Morgan
said CITES q u i c k l y moved to shut down
the wireless connections
of the infect-ed Macs due to
the viruses’ abil-ity to quickly and
covertly steal login information.“If an attacker would
be able to get a user’s pass-word, they could access,
modify or even destroy Univer-sity data,” Morgan said. “While
being disconnected is certain-
Questions arise on impact of Quinn’s pension reform plan on University
WHEELER
CAMPBELL
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN SENATE
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Flashback virus poses dire threat to security of campus Mac userstakes a bite
out of Apple
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BY MATT RICESTAFF WRITER
Gov. Pat Quinn’s recent plan to reform the Illinois pension system is raising con-cerns about its effect on the University.
The plan, which Quinn introduced at an April 20 press con-ference, would seek to achieve 100 percent fund-ing for pension systems in Illinois by 2042, raise the retirement age to 67 and shift the responsibility for paying pension costs to employers .
According to a press release, the Illinois pen-sion system has an unfund-ed liability of $83 billion, meaning that employees in Illinois have been prom-ised $83 billion more in benefi ts than the state has assets to pay. For fi scal year 2013, which begins July 1, Illinois must pay $5.2 billion in pensions, only 22 percent of which will go to state employees .
“Unsustainable pension costs are squeezing core programs in education, public safety and human services, in addi-
tion to limiting our ability to pay our bills,” Quinn said. “This plan rescues our pen-sion system and allows public employ-ees who have faithfully contributed to the system to continue to receive pen-sion benefi ts.”
But several tenets of the plan have received criticism because of their potential effects on the University. Jeffrey Brown, director of the Universi-ty’s Center for Business and Public Policy and fi nance professor , called Quinn’s proposal “highly fl awed.”
Brown stated that one problem is that the plan would shift the cost of Uni-versity employees’ pen-sions to the University.
“If the University of Illi-nois is forced to absorb an increase in payroll costs due to picking up pen-
sion costs, this money has to come from somewhere,” Brown said. “Part of it will undoubtedly come through higher tuition for students (and) part of it will come through reduced spending on student and
academic services.”Amanda Kass is the research and pol-
icy specialist in pensions at the Chica-go-based Center for Tax and Budget Accountability . Kass said Quinn’s plan has a fundamental fl aw.
“Current employees would have to choose between a reduced benefi t option or keep their current benefi t options with consequences. If they keep their (current) plan, they give up retiree healthcare, and future raises would not count toward their individual pension benefi ts.”
Kass said if passed, Quinn’s proposal may face legal challenges.
“It is questionable if it’s constitutional because there’s a clause in the Illinois con-stitution that says pension benefi ts can-not be reduced or diminished,” she said.
Kass will speak at a forum about the State Universities Retirement System, the agency that administers pensions to University employees. The forum will be held at the University YMCA on Tues-day at 4 p.m .
Despite criticisms, Quinn is hoping the plan gains enough support to be enacted.
“I urge the General Assembly to move forward with this plan, which will bring a new era of fi scal responsibility and sta-bility to Illinois,” Quinn said.
“I urge the General Assembly to move forward with this
plan, which will bring a new era of fi scal responsibility and stability to Illinois.”
GOV. PAT QUINN
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Champaign! A 23-year-old male was ar-
rested on multiple charges of theft, aggravated assault and resisting arrest in the 1600 block of Summit Ridge around 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
According to the report, the victim stated that a male sus-pect entered his back yard and stole a cell phone. The suspect also threatened the victim and resisted police arrest.
! A 19-year-old male was ar-rested on the charge of pub-lic urination in the 300 block of East Green Street around 1 a.m. Sunday.
! A trespass notice was served in the 300 block of West Kirby Avenue just before midnight Sunday.
According to the report, the offender was panhandling on the business parking lot.
! Burglary from a residence and from a motor vehicle was reported in the 4500 block of Copper Ridge around 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, an unknown suspect entered the victim’s garage and burglar-ized the victim’s vehicles.
! A trespass notice was served at Super Pantry, 59 E. Green St., around 3 a.m. Sun-day.
According to the report, the offender tried to steal a bottle of liquor.
! Multiple persons were ar-rested on the charge of minors in possession of alcohol and possession of alcohol on pub-lic property in the 100 block of East Daniel Street around 11:30 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, offi-cers conducted a street sweep
detail on campus. Several al-cohol related violations were reported.
! Unlawful discharge of fire-arm projectiles was report-ed in the 1600 block of West Bradley Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the subject fired a gun shot during an argument.
! An aggravated battery was reported in the 600 block of East Green Street around 4 a.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown offender battered the victim and fled the scene.
! A 25-year-old male was ar-rested on multiple charges of battery and resisting arrest at Bradley’s, 1906 W. Bradley Ave., around 2 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the subject punched a bounc-er during a fight. The subject then resisted the officers’ at-tempt to arrest him.
! A 35-year-old female was arrested on multiple charges of criminal damage to prop-erty and disorderly conduct in the 600 block of North Neil Street around 1 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the suspect damaged a vehi-cle with a baseball bat after a male suspect attempted to strike her with a car.
Urbana! A residential burglary was
reported in the 2000 block of East Michigan Avenue around 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the offender entered the victim’s residence and stole a televi-sion.
! A 21-year-old female and
22-year-old male were arrest-ed on the charge of aggravat-ed assault and domestic bat-tery, respectively, in the 1500 block of East Washington Ave-nue around 10 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report the female stated that the male spit in her face during a heat-ed argument. The male stat-ed that after the incident, the female attempted to stab him with a broken bottle. Both sub-jects were arrested.
University! Criminal damage to prop-
erty was reported near Oak Street and Gregory Drive around 9 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the victim, of Tennessee, left her vehicle parked on the street overnight where it was dam-aged. The estimated damage to the vehicle, which had large dents on the hood, was $1,000.
! A 19-year-old male was ar-rested on the charge of ob-structing justice and driving with a suspended license near Springfield and Goodwin Ave-nues around 3 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the suspect, of Urbana, was pulled over after a patrol officer saw him driving erratically. The subject then switched seats with a passenger prior to be-ing pulled over.
! A theft was reported at the Activities and Recreation Cen-ter, 201 E. Peabody Dr., around 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, a cellphone was stolen out of a secured locker. It was valued at $750.
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ry Hilton and faculty and aca-demic staff benefi ts committee chairman John Kindt were elect-ed to fi ll these positions. The oth-er SEC members are automati-cally appointed.
Those elected at Monday’s meeting will begin serving in their positions next academic year.
Also at the meeting, Chancel-
lor Phyllis Wise requested an exception to the policy stating that a faculty athletic represen-tative serve for a maximum of 10 years. Wise asked that the senate approve an extension of Wheeler’s term as that of a representative.
She said the position is appointed by the chancellor and oversees academic integri-ty within the Division of Inter-collegiate Athletics.
“(Wheeler) is on several NCAA and Big Ten committees that are
in the middle of deliberation, and it’s important that we have con-tinuity and an experienced voice at the table,” Wise said.
Wise added that she is new to the Big Ten committee repre-senting the University, and she would like to be able to depend on Wheeler to help her in this responsibility. She requested to add fi ve years to his term with a reappointment every year to allow for fl exibility.
The senate voted in favor of Wise’s request.
“It seems to me that the fac-ulty member in this position has to be someone who really under-stands the balance between ath-letic excellence and academic excellence,” said senate mem-ber Nicholas Burbules said. “I’m sure there are other people on campus who could do this job, but I can’t imagine anybody who understands the issues better than (Wheeler). He is seen as a leader in the Big Ten, and we couldn’t have a better representative.”
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ly inconvenient, the negative impact pales in comparison to taking no action.”
But the idea that Macs are impervious to viruses — a claim featured prominently in Apple marketing in the past — may have lulled Mac users into a false sense of security, Mertz said.
Many users, he said, aren’t taking proper precautions in their browsing habits and are ignoring critical system updates. As a result, virus makers are able to exploit the holes.
University freshman Max Ant-man , whose dorm room internet was cut by CITES after detect-ing the virus on his computer, said he assumed that his Mac was already protected.
“When I (bought) it, I thought it had all of that built-in virus protection software ... since Macs are so well-known as being virus protected,” Antman said.
There is no simple answer for why Macs have largely been exempt from the constant threat of viruses.
Morgan said one possibili-ty for the virus is that Apple’s increased popularity may have attracted hackers.
“The belief was that hackers got a better return on invest-ment building exploits for Win-dows computers due to there being more Windows computers available,” Morgan said. “Not unlike most large corporations, hackers desire market share.”
Morgan personally believes that the most prominent factor in the creation of the virus was the declining number of users operating the vulnerable Micro-soft Windows XP platform. Mor-gan said this may have pushed hackers to increase the scope of their viruses to attain the same number of successful infections.
Protect YourselfThe Flashback virus wants
your info. Brian Mertz of CITES says to follow these guidelines to stay protected.Install updates: Flashback takes advantage of antiquated software. Make sure you install new software updates as soon as you get them.Be careful with what you download: Is that a fl ash update or a virus? Read before you click.If your computer is infected: Download the Apple updates to eliminate the virus.Password reset: There’s no telling what info the virus found while on your computer. Assume that every password is compromised, and get to work protecting yourself from identity theft.Check your software: The Apple update only works for OSX 10.6 and 10.7. Those running 10.5 should visit go.illinois.edu/maccleanup or the CITES help desk in room 1211 of the Digital Computer Lab.
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College of Law raises over $50 million
The College of Law announced the successful com-pletion of the Brilliant Futures Campaign , which aimed to raise $50 million by March 31. In total, the college raised $50,198,466, surpassing the original goal.
The Brilliant Futures Cam-paign focused on raising funds for scholarships, programs, facility improvements and recruiting qualifi ed teachers and professors. There were 13 contributions of $1 mil-lion or higher and more than $10 million in gifts to support scholarships.
“On behalf of the faculty, stu-dents, and staff of the College of Law, I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to the over 5,000 alumni and friends who contributed to this ambitious and historic campaign... this collective investment in our faculty, students, programs, and facilities will immeasur-ably advance the College’s comprehensive mission and the College’s stature as one of the nation’s fi nest, most inno-vative, and most respected law schools,” said Bruce P. Smith, dean of the College of Law , in a press release.
The Brilliant Futures Cam-paign began in 2003 and set an overall goal of $2.25 billion for all three campuses and $ 1.5 billion for the Urbana cam-pus, which has been met and exceeded.
MCB director passes awayCharles G. Miller , former
Professor of Microbiology and Director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biolo-gy passed away April 15 at the age of 72.
Miller, who passed away due to a heart attack, worked with the University for over two decades and retired in early 2012 .
Miller was described as “very pleasant to work for” by Daniel Ozier executive asso-ciate director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
In addition to his work with the Molecular and Cellular Biology department, Miller played the trombone and piano and was very passionate about music. Ozier said Miller will be greatly missed.
A remembrance for him will be held on May 20. Instead of fl owers, the Miller fami-ly requests that donations be made in Charles Miller’s name to the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foun-dation , which provides musi-cal instruments to under-fund-ed music education programs. The remembrance for Miller will take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Levis Faculty Cen-ter, which is located at 919 W. Illinois Street in Urbana .
Daily Illini staff report
Egypt’s denial of 8 nonprofi t groups raises questions about state’s fl edgling democracyBY AYA BATRAWYTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities have denied permission to eight American non-profi t groups to operate locally, including a center headed by former President Jimmy Carter that monitors elections, a ministry offi cial said Monday.
The move to deny permission to The Carter Center and others comes only a month ahead of Egypt’s fi rst presidential elections since the ouster of longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak last year. The rejection of Carter’s organization, which tries to ensure free and fair elections by observing votes around the world, raises doubts about wheth-er Egypt’s crucial ballot will be transparent.
The licenses were denied because the groups’ activities “breach the country’s sov-ereignty,” the Social Affairs Ministry offi -
cial said. He also warned that if any of the groups attempt to operate without permits, they will be penalized in accordance with the law, which makes it unlikely that The Carter Center would be allowed to observe the upcoming vote.
The offi cial spoke on condition of anonym-ity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
The presidential race is already wracked with tension after the election commission disqualifi ed 10 candidates, including the two top Islamist front-runners.
Many Egyptians question whether the mil-itary rulers who took over when Mubarak stepped down are ready to submit to civil-ian oversight that could curb their power.
On Monday, the generals approved legisla-tion passed by the Islamist-led parliament to ban offi cials from the Mubarak regime from
running in the presidential elections, a secu-rity offi cial said.
Now the elections commission must rule if candidates such as Mubarak’s last prime minister, Ahmed Shafi q, are allowed to stay in the race, since he applied to run for presi-dent before the law was approved.
Liberals and Islamists held one of the larg-est protests in months Friday, accusing the country’s military rulers of working behind the scenes to push a candidate to power who will protect their interests. Speaking during an army exercise on Monday, Egypt’s mili-tary ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi denied his council of generals is backing a presidential candidate.
“The next president will be the choice of the people without any imposition or guard-ianship from anyone,” he said in remarks car-ried by the offi cial state news agency MENA.
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Stacy Beckman , graduate student, left, receives a free book from Ashley Rosener and Erin Prentiss , graduate assistant and supervisor for the residence hall libraries, respectively, at the corner of Sixth and Green streets as part of World Book Night on Monday. “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ” by Sherman Alexie is one of 30 different books being distributed across the country and in the U.K. as part of the second annual World Book Night .
Spreading the word for World Book Night
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It may be official this time: The 57-year-old Police Training Insti-tute is closing its doors, pending
approval by the University’s Board of Trustees. While the board won’t weigh in on the decision until their May 31 meet-ing, officials have said that they don’t plan to keep the institute open.
The discussion has been going on since 2010, when the University ruled that the institute did not fall in line with the mis-sion of the school, especially because it costs $900,000 to subsidize its training op-erations each year.
Following this decision, however, state legislators crafted a bill that would have created a source of funding: a $25 fee on persons convicted of misdemeanors and felonies in Illinois. The bill also shifted the responsibility of certification from the board and transferred it to the Uni-versity.
But the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board voted not to certify the institute’s basic law en-forcement classes after April, effectively meaning it could not continue operations without certification for its most basic class.
The PTI is a valuable asset, not just to the University but also the state. From 2005 to 2010, the PTI was training more than 40 percent of all police recruits statewide. Every other police train-ing academy’s share of statewide train-ing was going down, but the University’s academy share was going up.
As a University that welcomes oppor-
tunities to be recognized by others, we should take an honest look at what the PTI says about us. The board should con-sider the institute’s success over recent years, despite the hefty price tag, and also that the University has a responsibil-ity to provide education for many profes-sions, not just purely academic ones. The University ought to feel an obligation, as a land-grant university, to serve the state of Illinois.
If the University truly wants to show its appreciation for the PTI and the edu-cation it provides to police statewide, it will not take this decision lightly. It will spend more time considering options like the proposed legislation or converting the institute into something more research-based. Especially given the slowly sink-ing rating of the University compared to other colleges nationwide, it is not in our best interest to allow a new institute at Western Illinois University to replace the institute, an idea the training and stan-dards board has been strongly consider-ing.
There may be a right time to close the institute, but it isn’t now.
Police Training school should remain open
EDITORIAL
The Daily Illini Editorial BoardEditorials reflect the majority opinion of the board, which comprises:Samantha Kiesel, editor-in-chief; Nathaniel Lash, managing editor reporting; Marty Malone, managing editor for online; Ryan Weber, opinions editor; Taylor Goldenstein, news editor; Nora Ibrahim, opinions columnist; Kevin Dollear, copy chief; Hannah Meisel, assistant online editor; Maggie Huynh, daytime editor; Maggie O’Connor, staff writer
POLITICAL CARTOON LANGSTON ALLSTON THE DAILY ILLINI
W hile the Supreme Court quietly decides the fate of President Barack
Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act, a trend has emerged in the American health care market that will be unaffected by the Supreme Court’s deci-sion: medical tourism.
This year alone, hundreds of thousands of Americans will travel to places like Singapore, India, Costa Rica, Mexico and Malaysia to receive every-thing from face-lifts to double-bypass heart surgeries — at steeply discounted prices.
Imagine: You experience whiplash from a car accident and herniate a disk in your neck. You are young, dumb and, of course, uninsured. The surgery will cost you a hefty $90,000 at an American hospi-tal, but a United States-trained surgeon in Bangkok can do it for under $10,000 at Bumrun-grad Hospital, the booming “marble-floored mecca of the medical trade.”
This is what really happened to Kevin Miller, a 45-year-old chiropractor from Louisiana, whose story was documented by Time. He wisely decided to hop onto the next plane to Thai-land to save a clean $80,000. Nowadays, you can (almost) buy an entire university educa-tion for that.
Medical tourism is bound to strike the competitive chord that so naturally resonates in the American soul. According to Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University health care econo-mist, it has the potential to be an industry-wide rejuvenation that could mimic “what the Japanese auto industry did to American carmakers.”
The huge price-gaps are catching a lot of attention, and American firms are beginning to absorb this new demand. PlanetHospital, an agency that works with private insur-ance companies to incentivize their clients to go abroad, sent around 200 people overseas in seven months, then got 11,000 inquiries last March alone. Those types of numbers are
certainly going to climb higher in the near future given astro-nomical costs of the current American health care system.
For example , in 2009 the French paid $3,978 per per-son for their socialized care, while the Swiss paid $5,144 per person for a privatized system (which requires their citizens to buy insurance, much like the Republican’s “individual mandate”).
That same year, American’s paid $7,960 per person for care that leaves them more obese and more likely to have hyper-tension, yet they are prescribed to more pills than every other industrialized nation.
The data reveals the popu-lar dichotomy — private insur-ance vs. government programs — to be an irrelevant distrac-tion that derides away the core elementary variable that deter-mines every nation’s health: In the end, someone has to pay for it. Every country has its own way of dealing with this prob-lem, but ours is statistically the worst.
Medical tourism can address the out-of-control health costs in the way that the Afford-able Health Care Act hasn’t. It offers the consumer a less-expensive alternative to the prevailing price structure.
But what are the hidden costs for going abroad for cheaper health care?
One is definitely the over-all risk factor of traveling to a foreign country that will deter the less-intrepid and elderly folks. Also, the general qual-ity and safety of the tourist hospitals are in question. In response, many hospitals now seek accreditation from the Joint Commission Internation-al, the global division of the institution that approves U.S. hospitals.
The American health care system is in dire need of restructuring. Right now, the status quo is that we’re paying more money than every devel-oped country to die faster than them. Since this isn’t a very healthy way to stay competi-tive in the 21st century, going abroad for health care may be a consumer-controlled alterna-tive that will reduce the absurd price we are currently paying.
Michael is a senior in LAS.
MICHAEL HOFFMAN Opinions columnist
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Medical tourism may be the remedy for high US health care costs
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American women’s goals have changed since 1950s
There was a time when American soil was run by dewy-eyed, youthful wom-
en, doused with Chanel No. 5 and donning Hermes scarves. They sent off their charm-ing sons of age 6, Jimmy and Tommy, to go play with the other lovely children outside, spending the chief of the after-noon preparing a supper of meatloaf and tomato chicken broth for their wage-earning husbands. Perhaps they were members of a junior league or local women’s society, plan-ning the bruschetta, which make the best hors d’oeuvres, to serve at the next charity gala.
In this time of Ameri-can history, men and women shared the work of parent-ing and managing a house-hold very differently than they do today. As a matter of fact, it was hardly shared at all. Ladies “could afford” to be domesticated authorities in all matters relating to the house-hold, and gentlemen need only be concerned with their role as the breadwinner.
Today, very few mothers and fathers look up to this model of parenting. Today’s average American mother is no rebirth of the 1950s woman.
When Democratic strate-gist Hilary Rosen remarked
that Ann Romney had nev-er “worked a day in her life,” many went to defend Mrs. Romney and other house-wives, accused for decades of not doing “serious work.” But even so, very few moth-ers could empathize with Mrs. Romney. In a study conducted by the Center for American Progress in 2010, 44.8 percent of households with children were headed by two working parents, and only 28.7 percent had a stay-at-home caregiver. Compare that figure with 1975, when more than half of Ameri-can families that had at least one stay-at-home parent.
And to kill the presump-tion that stay-at-home mothers are privileged pets, chew on this: 77 percent of high-income mothers ($90,000 or more) are employed compared with 45 percent of low-income moth-ers (less than $24,000), accord-ing to a Gallup poll conducted in April.
So, no, today’s American mom is not sitting at home to care for the kiddies, and if she is, it’s not by privilege. Today’s average mom may be unable to relate to Ann Romney and her lifestyle as a 1950s housewife.
But that doesn’t mean there’s still a fight to “figure out” a woman’s place in soci-ety, like Americans used to have four decades ago. Wom-en have found their place in society.
The hullabaloo that has come out of Hilary Rosen’s ignorant comment resurfaced the antiquated, generations-old “mommy wars,” a debate on whether mothers belong in the workforce or at home taking care of little ones. But the con-versation should not be about how a mom relegates her roles as caregiver and provider. Today’s mother isn’t either-or.
The conversation should be
about the kind of mothers we’ll expect to see out of the future. According to a Pew Research survey finding published in April, 62 percent of adults believe a marriage is more sat-isfying if both partners have jobs than if just the husband provides. We’ve seen the num-ber of families with a stay-at-home caregiver nearly halve in the span of one generation; it’s likely that fraction will halve once again when looking one generation into the future.
As the gap between men and women declines, women will juggle motherhood with the additional pressure of pursuing successful careers. According to another Pew Research Center study con-ducted in April, two-thirds of women ages 18 to 34 place their careers very high in their life priorities, surpass-ing men, who polled at 59 per-cent. In 1997, both groups placed roughly equal impor-
tance on their careers. This trend will likely be reflected in our generation’s crop of moth-ers: We’re going to be gung ho careerists.
Still, Millennial moms will likely be nibbling their fin-gernails to little stubs; 40 percent of working mothers today report “always feeling rushed,” compared with 26 percent of stay-at-home moms.
Case in point: Ann Romney is a dying breed of mother, for sure. But her entrance into the political realm this elec-tion season as a potential first lady shouldn’t throw us back into a sexist discussion about “a woman’s place.” It should make us more aware about what American mothers’ goals will be in the next five, 10 or 50 years, and whether a First Lady like Mrs. Romney can model that at America’s politi-cal forefront.
Nora is a junior in LAS.
NORA IBRAHIM Opinions columnist
Milliennial moms, Ann Romney represent dying breed of mothers
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
State should keep funding for mental health facilities
While I appreciate the governor’s attempt to address the budget crisis in Illinois, cut-ting out our most vulnerable and underrep-resented population does not make sense. The plans to close Rockford’s local mental health center as well as other state-operat-ed facilities will only end in distress to the community. These services are instrumen-tal in providing much needed programming for this at-risk population.
A person experiencing mental health issues is three times more likely to be arrested than hospitalized. These closings will place more severely mentally ill indi-
viduals in the justice system. Community mental health centers are not equipped to handle this population. Also to take into con-sideration are the first responders. Police are not trained well enough to recognize if someone has a mental health issue and should go to the hospital.
The financial and emotional costs to the community, families and the client are of significant importance, which is not being taken into consideration when making deci-sions. Rather than getting the help the indi-vidual needs, the taxpayers are footing the bill for them to be housed in the county jail. It can cost two to three times the amount to send a mentally ill person through the criminal justice system compared with treating the person at a community men-
tal health center.The clients, many accused of minor
crimes, often do not get the care they need while in prison. They are thrown into over-crowded jails where they fall prey to other inmates. They do not receive their regular medications, and they normally do not get much-needed community-based services. They become unstable and most likely will end up right back in jail once released.
Families are faced with emotional and financial hardships as well. Many of them are unaware of how to navigate the justice system and therefore struggle to provide support for their loved one in jail.
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BY MEGHAN YEARTASTAFF WRITER
Downtown Champaign is known to have an endless selec-tion of unique restaurants, but Pekara Bakery and Bistro may be one of the area’s best-kept secrets.
Located at 116 N. Neil St., the bakery provides customers with a relaxed, down-to-earth atmo-sphere where they can enjoy a fresh croissant, a hot sandwich or a cup of their uniquely roast-ed coffee.
Because of its location, the bakery tends to be mostly fre-quented by community mem-bers or the occasional graduate student. Some people may have had something from Pekara’s menu without even realizing it.
Campus hotspots such as Espresso Royale and Caffe Par-adiso sell Pekara’s baked goods. A small selection of the bakery’s most popular items are sold at the concession stand in the Activities and Recreation Cen-ter and in the Vet Med Basic Sci-ences Building, as well as Latte Da! Cafe in the Champaign Pub-lic Library, said Lauren Klein, owner of Latte Da! Cafe.
When Pekara opened in 2005, the bistro’s owner, Ruzika Cuk
(also known as Seka), want-ed to bring the taste of Euro-pean bread to a market like Champaign’s.
Pekara is the only local sand-wich shop that makes its own bread from scratch. It’s made with five ingredients — water, flour, yeast, salt and grains — and without any artificial pre-servatives or additives. The bakers take the baking process seriously, with the attitude that bread doesn’t have to be plain and overlooked.
Klein said they’re so intense about what they do that it makes you realize that you have some-thing special.
“We think things like bread, sugar and coffee really can be more than just the sum of their parts,” she said.
Other businesses, such as Carmon’s Bistro, also buy Pek-ara’s bread and baguettes and use them on their own menus.
Kaylee Barron, sophomore in AHS and employee at Car-mon’s Bistro, said she goes into the store weekly to pick up the bread for their menu.
They also use Pekara’s bri-oche bread on the weekends for the French toast they serve at brunch.
“Customers always love the baguettes and often ask where we get them from,” Barron said. “They’re authentic, fresh and local. Plus, they taste really good.”
Aside from their bread, Pek-ara has a vast supply of sweets and baked goods.
It’s difficult to have a favor-ite when there are so many dif-ferent kinds of pastries, crois-sants and the like to choose from, Klein said.
Emily Atkins, junior in Media, said she’s a fan of the scones and muffins. She said she has gone several times because she enjoys the atmosphere, and the employees are always nice and talkative.
As for the coffee, Klein said it’s just as good as the sweets.
“The espresso is full-bodied, yummy and chocolatey. (The coffee) isn’t diluted, so it’s nat-urally sweet,” she said.
Even though students can have a taste of what Pekara has to offer by buying a treat from the ARC, the full experience of the relaxed atmosphere, mouth-watering scents and the sight of the glass cabinet full of sweets can only truly be felt by expe-riencing it downtown.
Pekara Bakery brings taste of Europe to Champaign
BY KEVIN DOLLEARCOPY CHIEF
Samantha Luke thought she peed her pants.
She had just put her hand on the bathroom door in an Indiana gas station when it happened. She hurried inside, forgetting to lock the door, and her mom walked in on her and asked what happened.
I think I peed my pants, Luke said.
Get in the car, her mom said.Luke slept through the whole
car ride. It wasn’t until they got to Champaign that she realized her water broke.
Griffin Knox Luke was born 28 hours later, on April 5, in Car-le Medical Center. He was six weeks premature and weighed 4 pounds, 13 ounces.
Because he was premature and so little, hospital staff mem-bers tried to rush Griffin out of the delivery room, but the doc-tor stopped them and laid Grif-fin down on Luke’s chest for a few seconds before they took him to the neonatal intensive care unit.
One year and 16 days later, Luke waited in the lobby of the 217 Tattoo Company as Lacee Cruson, Luke’s best friend and Griffin’s godmother, tried in vain to stop Griffin from crawl-ing around the floor. Luke was going to get a tattoo of Griffin’s name on her left arm.
“He’s pretty much the best thing that ever happened to me,” she said.
Luke named her son Griffin Knox because it sounds like a football player or movie star’s name. It’s unique, and she likes that.
Griffin was kept in the NICU for a month with a heart moni-tor, breathing aids and a tube down his throat, and cords criss-crossed his body. He couldn’t eat on his own at first.
Sometimes he would hold his breath, Luke said, which would cause his heart rate to drop.
Luke basically lived at the hospital during the two months
Griffin was in the NICU. She woke up at 7 every morning and stayed at the hospital until 1 a.m., when she went back to the house she shares with her mom to sleep.
After a month, Griffin was healthy enough for Luke to take him home.
“That was the longest, scar-iest car ride of my life,” she said. “I didn’t want to hit any potholes.” She drove about 20 mph the whole way home. “I got honked at a lot.”
Griffin still has some health problems — he has reactive airway disease and needs to get breathing treatments with a nebulizer every four to six hours — but his weight is up to 25 pounds, and he acts like pret-ty much any one-year-old boy.
“The first time he laughed, I cried,” Luke said. He was three months old, and Luke couldn’t get him to laugh. It took Luke’s mother tickling him for Grif-fin to let out his first “hilarious chuckle.” Now, Luke said, Grif-fin laughs all the time.
Even though Griffin is usually happy, he has a little temper and can get ornery. When he cries
and can’t fall asleep, Luke plays “Tears Don’t Fall” by Bullet For My Valentine, which gets him to sleep every time. When Griffin is crying, “Love the Way You Lie Part II” makes him stop.
Luke and her son live with her mom in a house in Champaign. Luke goes to Concept College of Cosmetology, and wants to be a hair technician like her sister after she graduates from the program in November.
Griffin goes to daycare when his mom and grandma are at work. Even though he has some recurring health problems, Luke said he has no problem playing with other kids.
As he waits for his mom to get her tattoo, Griffin exerts all his effort to squirm out of his god-mother’s lap. He recently cele-brated his first birthday, which had a pirate theme.
Luke has another tattoo, this one on her right foot. It’s of three stars, representing her-self, her mother and her sister.
“It hurts a little bit,” she told the tattoo artist, Eric Carter, as he marked her son’s name into her arm, adding the fourth star to her family’s constellation.
Local mother uses ink to illustrate love for her son
administrative board of the company: Boyde, Badu, Kohler, and Clarence McCray, the founder and CEO of Inswé. In addition, there are around 30 people on the street team.
Inswé is trying to get the word out around campus through their Facebook page and Twit-ter account (@Inswe4all). Fur-
ther, McCray and Badu also took part in a radio interview for Legend Talk Radio to dis-cuss the company.
“I think for me, it was just the fact that these were young college-age kids who could see themselves making a change in the world,” Boyde said. “And Inswé is a great organization I think ... to allow awareness glob-ally for education for kids.”
Of the profits collected through Inswé’s fashion side,
50 percent will be used direct-ly for educational help in dis-advantaged areas: constructing school buildings, creating schol-arships, giving books, funding summer camps and several oth-er relevant undertakings.
In the long run, the main goal is threefold: Inswé aims to raise awareness about unequal educa-tion in certain areas, promote fashion on campus and else-where, and ultimately better children’s lives in the process.
social, trustworthy and easy way to sell books, and that often times, students get useful advice about the class when they meet with sellers.
Although there are many ben-efits from purchasing textbooks from online sources, flocks of students can still be seen at Uni-versity bookstores paying full price for their books.
“I think students don’t under-stand how easy it really is to buy textbooks from other sources,” Millard said. “Students may be unaware of the benefits of not purchasing through the book-store. There is so much adver-tising on this campus that stu-
dents tend to ignore it and just go with what they think is the easiest way, and that would be to go to the bookstore.”
Millard wants students to know that ShelfRelief is not looking to advertise or make money; They just want to help students and donate to a good cause.
“I don’t understand why stu-dents would rather wait in a long line and pay hundreds of dol-lars when they could be buy-ing off ShelfRelief from other students, and at the same time, helping students in Bolivia who don’t have to money to pay for (school).”
ShelfRelief is fairly new to the University but members are doing as much as they can to spread the word about the
website.“ShelfRelief is already very
popular at some schools like Duke,” Bohrt said. “We have had tens of thousands of dollars worth of books sold already and students love it.”
Bohrt hopes that word of mouth will help ShelfRelief grow. Their goal is that more people join, which means it will become more useful to students and more money will be donat-ed to S.O.S Children’s Villag-es, making a bigger impact in everyone’s education.
“ShelfRelief is proud to be donating to help children in Bolivia who are less fortunate, and we really want to emphasize the importance of education and helping those who cannot afford it,” Millard said.
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Inswé , which stands for Intellec-tual Swagger, is a nonprofi t organi-zation seeking to connect two seem-ingly unrelated subjects: education and fashion.
“It is our belief that true swag-ger requires intellect, and more spe-cifi cally requires education,” said Jeff Badu , sophomore in Business and chief fi nancial offi cer of Inswé. “We look to promote this percep-tion through fashion sales and world service, focusing on establishing, amending and transcending educa-tional policies.”
Therefore, Inswé does something that may sound a bit unorthodox: It uses a materialistic luxury of fashion to inform others about the serious topic of unequal education. Each culture then promotes the oth-er to produce a unique yet effective dichotomy.
“(Inswé is meant to) raise aware-ness about the unequal education rights of children throughout the globe,” said Britney Boyde , senior in Business and public representa-tive of the organization.
The organization has been offi -cially registered for about one year. While it is currently based here on the University’s campus, the admin-istrators are working to branch out to national and international com-panies in the future.
Currently, Boyde, Badu and the other administrators are interested in focusing on education in Kenya and informing students about the academic disparities there.
To do this, they raise money through fashion programs and social events at the University. In the past, they have done events like the 4.0 program and the Juke Bowl, both sponsored by the Phi Rho Eta Fra-ternity, Inc . The nonprofi t also had a golf clinic, creating ties with this “business-oriented game,” and the business aspects of the company itself.
“As far as organizations on cam-pus, there really aren’t any social enterprises of this caliber where the goal is not only to bring about the promotion of respecting yourself on campus educationally, but also looking to benefi t global education,” said Bennett Kohler , sophomore in Media and spokesperson for Inswé.
Presently, the nonprofi t is look-ing to raise awareness and spread its reputation as widely as possible. In the long run, the goal is to con-nect with other similar organiza-tions. As company spokesperson, Kohler has begun reaching out to CHOICE Humanitarian , a Utah-based group which has direct con-nections to Kenya. This way, Inswé will be able to form crucial connec-tions and underscore its credibility.
There are four people on the
Inswé: a blend of style, charity
Aside from actually using them to study for fi nals, purchasing text-books can be one of the most stressful
things to do. With all the different options in terms of where, when and how to buy them, it’s nice to have convenient places where one can fi nd every book they need at a price that doesn’t hurt their wallet.
Among the common websites like Amazon and eBay, ShelfRelief is a new online textbook marketplace. Its purpose is to help students make the most out of their money when they are purchasing and selling textbooks.
“We want to take out the frustration of wait-ing in long lines and paying hundreds of dol-lars for textbooks to only get back maybe 10 percent of that price at the end of the year if you’re lucky,” said Rachel Millard , junior in LAS and UIUC campus captain at ShelfRelief.
ShelfRelief works similarly to how Illini Book Exchange works: Students register for free with their University email and then post, buy or search for their textbooks. If a stu-
dent wants to purchase one, they pay through PayPal and then set a time and place to meet with the student that is selling the textbook that they need.
A small fee is included when selling text-books, which is donated to S.O.S. Children’s Village in Bolivia , an organization that helps orphans go to school.
Although there are other options for pur-chasing textbooks, ShelfRelief serves to offer a more convenient and money-saving experi-ence for students.
“ShelfRelief combines the search function-ality and payment processing of Amazon with the localization of Craigslist ,” said Tito Bohrt, cocreator of ShelfReliever. “We also add the trustworthiness of being exclusive to (Uni-versity) students.”
Unlike the bookstore where students need to wait in long lines and shuffl e through hun-dreds of books on shelves, ShelfRelief makes it convenient for students to get just what they need with a few clicks of a button.
“(It’s) better than the bookstore because ShelfRelief sellers decide their price and sell directly to other students,” Millard said. “Stu-dents can pay online, and your phone number or email are not shared until the book has been paid for. In that sense, ShelfRelief is similar to Amazon (but) better because it’s localized.”
Students who want to purchase a textbook pay through PayPal, unlike websites like the Illini Book Exchange, which require students to pay cash up front.
If a book sells during vacation, there’s no need for students to ship it out themselves.
“Amazon and eBay require students to take books home over the summer and ship them across the country when they sell,” Bohrt said. “With ShelfRelief, students can forget completely about their books and leave them in storage just like they leave their clothes, fridge and other college stuff.”
Millard said that ShelfRelief is a more
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Members of the campus community can enjoy Pekara Bakery and Bistro baked goods in cafes all around campus, but its downtown Champaign bakery is one of the area’s hidden gems. Turn to Page 5A to read more.
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The Illinois softball team missed a chance to sweep the third-place squad in the Big Ten over the weekend, settling instead for two out of three victories after blowing a 2-1 lead in the seventh inning of Saturday’s second game .
Nonetheless, the Illini (21-21, 5-10 Big Ten ) reached the .500 mark for the fi rst time in two weeks with the victories over Purdue. The Illini were led by solid pitch-ing from Pepper Gay and Jackie Guy as well as the slugging of fi rst baseman Mer-edith Hackett .
Timely hitting key in two victoriesIn the two victories, the Illini left a com-
bined nine runners on base, compared to eight in the 4-2 loss in Saturday’s second game. Two home runs from Hackett as well as timely hits from Danielle Vaji and Jami Schkade helped the Illini capture the two victories.
“We’re swinging the bat better and see-ing the ball better,” head coach Terri Sul-livan said. “It’s really something we expect out of our team the entire season. We’ve never doubted (the offense) as a team, we
just haven’t played great softball during the season.”
Vaji’s two-RBI double in the fi rst inning of Sunday’s fi nale tied the game at two . Sch-kade kept the inning going with a single to drive in Vaji , putting the Illini back on top after surrendering two runs in the top of the inning.
“We knew that we had to put pressure on them,” Hackett said. “We score runs best when we put pres-sure on the defense, make them work and hit the gaps.”
Gay and Guy team up from the circle
Gay picked up all three decisions over the weekend, but the wins were not with-out help from fellow junior Guy .
Gay threw the complete game in the opener, surrendering just one run on fi ve hits .
“The fi rst game I felt like I had control of the counts,” Gay said. “I got ahead more, and I made them hit my pitches.”
Guy started the second game, throwing four innings and giving up just one run . She was then pulled in favor of Gay, who surren-dered three runs in the top of the seventh and picked up the loss . In the rubber match, Guy held Purdue scoreless in relief of Gay in the last three innings after the Boiler-makers had pulled within a run .
Sullivan liked the way the duo teamed up for Sunday’s victory.
“Pepper gave us the innings that she could,” she said. “Jackie came in with a great approach. She wanted the ball, and she stayed with-in herself and threw all her pitches well.”
Road only gets tougher for Illini
The Illini will play DePaul in Chicago on Tuesday , fol-lowed by a weekend series with four-time defending Big Ten champion Michigan .
DePaul (26-17, 8-6 Big East ), which was ranked for much of the year, comes into Tuesday having lost four
straight games . The team is led by sopho-more pitcher Kirsten Verdun who is 18-10 on the year with a 1.78 ERA . She is also hit-
BY EMILY BAYCISENIOR WRITER
Illinois head coach Justin Spring stood off to the side, smil-ing and shaking his head watch-ing his athletes go ballistic. It was Friday night and his team had just won the NCAA men’s gymnastics Championships , the fi rst for the program in 23 years.
“This moment has been a long time waiting,” Spring added. “I have been a part of the NCAA for 10 years as an athlete, an assis-tant coach and as a head coach, and every time, I was on a team that had a shot at this thing. For the fi rst time, we pulled it off. We are no longer the team that should’ve done it for the last 10 years, we are the team that did it.”
Spring was an immediate star when he entered the program as an athlete in 2002, committed to leading his team to an NCAA title. It was Spring who started the Illinois gymnastics tradition of bowing at the 1989 National Champions banner every time athletes entered the gym.
“It means you leaving every-thing at the door,” Spring said. “Any school problems, girlfriend problems, any drama you’re leav-ing that outside and right now you’re focused on training for a national championship.”
Spring was never able to win a team NCAA Championship dur-ing his college career. He accom-plished nearly every other possi-ble accolade: 2006 Nissen-Emery Award, four-time NCAA event champion, 2006 Big Ten Gym-nast of the Year and two-time recipient of the Dike Eddleman Athlete of the Year (2004 and 2006).
Spring’s team came close to the crown in 2006, his senior season, when Illinois lost to host Oklahoma by .425, but something was missing. Looking back at that meet, Spring realized what he could have done differently as a captain: motivated his team more, or called captains meet-ings during practice to get the athletes on track.
“I wish I knew then what I know now,” Spring said.
He made the Olympic team in 2008 and earned a bronze med-al but returned to Champaign immediately after, focused on leading Illinois to a national title.
“He had a career we are all envious of,” senior Paul Ruggeri said. “But you knew the lack of
NCAA title caps off Spring’s 10-year run
Spring’s decade as an Illini
The Illinois men’s gymnastics team came close multiple times to winning an NCAA title in head coach Justin Spring’s 10 years with the Illini, but it never happened. Every team Spring was involved with, as either an athlete, assistant coach or head coach, fi nished in the top fi ve in the country.
“Every year we have had a chance at making it and we’ve never followed through,” Spring said. “This team had the extra something they needed to push them over the edge.”
It started when Spring had a standout freshman season in 2003 and the Illini fi nished fi fth in the country. Spring was named the program’s Most Outstanding Gymnast.
The next year, 2004, the Illini won their fi rst Big Ten title since 1989 and went on to post a school-record performance (222.25) at NCAAs, but it wasn’t enough to beat champion Penn State and runner-up Oklahoma.
Spring was then named a two-year team captain, and during his senior season he was on the team slated to win the championship. In the team fi nals, Illinois narrowly took second place to Oklahoma by .425 at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.
The next closest chance to a championship came during Spring’s fi rst year as associate head coach in 2010. The Illini were led by all-arounder Paul Ruggeri and pommel horse specialists Daniel Ribeiro and Luke Stannard. After entering the championships ranked No. 1, the Illini faltered during the fi nals and took fourth.
It was not until Spring’s 10th year involved with the program that Illinois was able to accomplish its goals of a national title, earning the fi rst championship for the program in 23 years at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.
BY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER
With only one midweek game for the Illinois baseball team this week, head coach Dan Har-tleb plans on using multiple pitchers in Tues-day’s outing against Indiana State .
This is the fi rst time there has been an announced gameplan coming into a midweek game, but Hartleb has been forced to change his pitchers all year.
The Illini’s (22-17) contest against the Syca-mores (31-10) will be Illinois’ latest attempt to fi nd some consistency in the starting rotation, outside of the top of the rotation with Kevin Johnson and John Kravetz. The Illini are 12-6 when those two take the mound but are only 10-11 in starts by everyone else.
Illinois had planned on production from Rob McDonnell , the Illini’s expected No. 2 starter coming into the year. But McDonnell has been sidelined with arm problems since his second start.
“We’ve given three or four guys the opportu-
nity,” Illinois pitching coach Drew Dickinson said. “Not one person has been able to step up to the forefront to take it, so we’ll keep trying to put together that (Sunday) game.”
Josh Ferry will start the game for the Illini only two days after pitching in relief in Sun-day’s 10-4 loss to Ohio State. He threw only 20 pitches to four hitters, with three coming around to score.
“Just trying to forget about that as fast as I can,” Ferry said. “Just move on to the next day. ... I like that I’m pitching tomorrow.”
Ferry will face a Sycamore team that has received votes in the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 coaches’ poll, but pitchers like Drasen John-
son , Matt Milroy and Ronnie Muck are all expected to see some action. Hartleb said mak-ing sure pitchers get a chance to get work in is important, but not at the expense of win-ning the game.
“I want to do everything we can to win, but at the same time I want to make sure that we do the right thing so everybody continues to stay sharp,” Hartleb said. “Some guys have been really sharp, making sure they’re get-ting their pitches to keep them competitive.
“We need a level of consistency. It can’t be we go out and we do things right for two days
Illinois tops Purdue twice at homeClutch hits help Illini claim 2 victories in weekend series against Boilermakers
“We’re swinging the bat better and seeing
the ball better. It’s really something
we expect out of our team the entire season .”
TERRI SULLIVAN ,head coach
Baseball still searching for consistency in pitching
JOSHUA BECKMAN THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ Jenna Mychko connects with the ball during a game against Purdue at Eichelberger Field on Sunday . The Illini beat the Boilermakers 8-6 in the third game of the weekend’s series to claim two out of three games .
MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ Drasen Johnson throws a pitch during a game against Ohio State at Illinois Field . The Illini lost 10-4 on Sunday.
Q-AND-A: HEAD COACH JUSTIN SPRING
Editor’s note: The following is a partial transcript from an Illini Drive @ 5 interview with Illinois men’s gymnastic coach Justin Spring, who recapped the program’s first national championship in 23 years.
Illini Drive @ 5 — You guys brought home the first national title to Champaign since 2003. Does that give this more meaning given the fact it has taken so long?Justin Spring — I think it does, a little of it. It gives meaning because I’ve been on cam-pus since 2002, and I’ve been a part of this team for that long directly. We’re so hon-ored and proud to have been the team to give back to the community that supported us so much. Champaign, Ill., really supports its Olympic sports, and gymnastics is no different.
ID@5 — What does it mean to you to get this done in Norman, where in your senior year, it slipped away a little bit?JS — It was a little bit more gratifying. I will tell you that. As we were going in, if you watch the competition, it certainly was close, and it got to a point where we were doing and we defi nitely had to come from behind to pull
it out right there — literally on the last event. We were in a good position to do it. Our fi rst two guys only did OK. I remember in my head just going, “I swear if this hap-pens to me again, I’m just going to lose it.” I’ve been there, and that was so dev-astating for me as a senior. I took the situation into account and learn from it.
ID@5 — How much momentum did the (Big Ten championship) give you going into the NCAAs?JS — I think to squeak out that Big Ten title was big. This team knew it was being underrated the entire year. I don’t think we were ranked
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ting .362 on the season with nine home runs and 35 RBIs.
Michigan is once again atop the Big Ten standings with a 12-3 conference record and a 32-13 mark overall.
Sullivan acknowledged that the Illini have a tough week ahead. She said she liked how the team has been playing recently, and she thinks it can sneak up on opponents.
“I don’t think people really know what to expect out of this Illini team,” Sullivan said.
“We’re looking to take a lot of people down in the confer-ence,” Guy added. “We’re a lot better than our record shows, so we think that we’re going to surprise a lot of people.”
a team title was always nagging at him, he made it clear.”
Spring climbed up the ladder from volunteer assistant coach to assistant coach to associate head coach to head coach in a four-year fast track. He was dedicated to learning about leadership and character, something he cites as crucial in building a champion-ship team.
“I think it’s better to be a coach,” Spring said. “I’m dead serious. This team has taught me so much, to watch passion and joy and success that comes from every one of them, it’s like me winning it times 21.”
Most of the collegiate gym-nastics coaches are much old-er than Spring. In fact, they all tried recruiting him themselves. Sometimes Spring blends in as an athlete, as he’s 28 years old.
“Being Justin Spring, I wish I was in his shoes, though I know he’s living through our shoes,” freshman C.J. Maestas said. “We’re so happy, such a young coach making right decisions throughout the year, not only that but living up to the hype. He’s the Justin Spring.”
It was never much of a question for Spring to remain in Cham-paign and coach his alma mater. He loved the town, the people and the Illini program.
Spring enjoyed developing relationships with the athletes and living through them. He plans to take many of the impor-tant lessons he learned through this experience to his homelife when he begins raising his first child, due this summer.
“It’s exciting for me, as a soon-to-be parent,” Spring said. “I think through this, I learned what it’s like to live vicarious-ly through younger people and I’m sure this is only a fraction of what being a dad is.”
higher than second, and for the most part of the year we ranked fourth. And I think that was perfect. That’s where this team had to be, and it was kinda a year of managing expectations because we knew what it takes to win a national championship.
ID@5 — C.J. (Maestas) and Paul (Ruggeri), they didn’t have their best nights, but you guys were still able to come up with the championship. What does that mean for your program?JS — That was one of the first things I looked at after the fact. Looking at the incom-ing freshmen for next year, we’re going to be in pretty good shape. There’s going to be some incredible teams out there like there always are. We’re still going to be in the mix. It’s certainly not going to be easy with the leadership we’re losing and the routines we’re losing. But we’re going to be in contention again for a Big Ten title and possibly a national championship title.
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and then all of a sudden, we feel good about ourselves and think we can just walk on the field and beat somebody — it doesn’t work that way. You have to do things prop-erly every day.”
The Illini may have been able to blame inexperience for their struggles early in the season, but Hartleb has dismissed that excuse now that the Illini are nearly 40 games into the year.
Illinois has used eight differ-ent starting pitchers this season, and Hartleb doesn’t think pitch-ing depth is as much a problem as consistency.
“At one time or another, guys have gone on stretches where they’ve been very good, but we don’t know at the end of the rota-tion right now what we’re going to get from them day to day,” he said. “What I’d really like to see get shored up is who that No. 3 guy is. Somebody to take control of that spot give us four great outings, keep us in games and allow us to have opportunities to win those games so we can be where we want to be in the conference.”
A fter nearly three weeks of play, there are already some surpris-es among major league teams.
The Red Sox, Phillies and Angels have gotten off to a slower start than their fans would like, and some are starting to sweat.
Before fans in Boston, Philadelphia or Los Angeles write off their beloved teams, let’s take a step back. All 30 teams play 162 games over the course of the season, and only about 10 per-cent of these have been completed. While the slow start should be taken with a grain of salt, there are some disturbing trends that should be rec-ognized and taken seriously.
Boston Red SoxPress the panic button, Boston
fans. Something is terribly wrong with the Red Sox. They sit at 4-10 and have scored 25 fewer runs than they have allowed. The already thin start-ing pitching might get even scarc-er with the rumored move of Daniel Bard back to the struggling bullpen. Clay Buchholz, who had a frustrating, injury-plagued 2011, hasn’t yet had the bounce back season he envisioned. John Lackey and Daisuke Matsuzaka are both out with significant arm inju-ries, and the quality of their produc-tion while healthy is questionable at best.
Carl Crawford is still out while recovering from offseason surgery, and Jacoby Ellsbury will be sidelined for at least another five to six weeks after injuring his right shoulder. Andrew Bailey, who was supposed be the closer, is sitting on the 60-day DL while rehabbing his newly repaired ulnar collateral ligament in his thumb. A 15-9 loss Saturday to their hated rival, the Yankees, in a game in which they led 9-0, is fresh in the minds of the Red Sox. If the bullpen doesn’t figure out how to retire oppos-ing hitters, the Sox could be looking at a third or fourth-place finish in the division and an offseason spent watch-ing the playoffs at home.
The finger pointing has already begun at Fenway, with new manag-er Bobby Valentine receiving most of the blame. It’s unfortunate because he can’t be blamed for the awful state of his bullpen or the injury bug that attacked his outfield and starting pitching. The manager isn’t commit-ting errors in the field or being impa-tient at the plate, either. If a major attitude change or shift in production doesn’t occur, it will be a long, sad season in Boston.
Philadelphia PhilliesPhillies fans should join Red Sox
nation in panic mode. The Phils might be barley under .500, but they sit in last place far behind the surg-ing Nationals in the NL East. Chase Utley’s timetable for return to the
lineup is still in question, and it seems like his knees will never fully heal. Ryan Howard is also nowhere in sight as he tries to come back from a torn achilles tendon.
The left side of the infield, com-prised of Placido Polanco and Jimmy Rollins, is not getting any younger, and fellow veterans Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee will be leaned on heavily to anchor the rotation. Unfortunately, the latter duo is old by baseball stan-dards, and Lee was recently placed on the DL. With the incredible depth in their division this season, the Phillies need to get healthy quickly. Another major injury or losing streak could derail the season very fast.
The ongoing contract saga with Cole Hamels will not help matters. Hamels and the Philadelphia front office have been back and forth with negotiations for a contract extension for months, with talks seemingly at a standstill. The recent Matt Cain extension in San Francisco will most likely push Hamels toward testing the free agent waters, and any rumors that emerge could have a terrible effect on the morale of the clubhouse.
The Braves, Mets and Marlins will not roll over and die just yet, so the Phillies face an uphill battle in the East. Sending Halladay out once every
five days can only help so much when the two faces of the franchise are bat-tling serious physical ailments. The slow start in Philly is definitely a sign of bad things to come.
Los Angeles Angels of AnaheimThe Angels are also not seeing the
level of success that was expected after C.J. Wilson and Albert Pujols were signed for a combined $317.5 million in the offseason. After the team’s 6-10 start put them seven games out of first in the AL West, some fans might be worried. Simply put, they shouldn’t be. The rotation, which features Wilson, Jered Weav-er, Dan Haren, Ervin Santana and Jerome Williams, is easily one of the strongest in the game.
Baseball’s top prospect Mike Trout is tearing the cover off the ball in Tri-ple-A and just needs the Angels’ brass to bench one of the under-perform-ing outfielders at the big league level. Once he sits atop the lineup, expect Pujols and Kendrys Morales to drive in plenty of runs.
Speaking of Pujols, the fact that he is homerless after 61 at-bats is mean-ingless. He probably feels the pres-sure of his new contract and wants to please his fans and teammates. As one
of the purest hitters of our genera-tion, his focus and plate discipline will come around soon enough. With the Red Sox quickly falling out of conten-tion and the A’s and Mariners overpro-ducing early, the Angels will get back on track and lock up at least a wild-card berth in the American League.
If the bullpen continues to be a pressing issue for the Angels, they have plenty of tradable assets with which to fix the problem. Mark Trum-bo is a solid option at third or first base, positions with deadlocks in Ana-heim. He, along with one of the aging outfielders, could be sent to a multi-tude of teams for a reliable option out of the ‘pen.
It’s understandable to be a little worried about a slow April start, but things need to be put in perspective. It’s only after a rational analysis that fans should decide whether to panic. Glaring issues in Boston and Philadel-phia should make for a much worse season than one that Angels fans can expect. Then again, it’s only been two and a half weeks. I guess we’ll just have to sit back and watch the last 18 weeks of the season before we’ll know anything for certain.Ed is a senior in Engineering. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @cubsfan2310.
Angels, Phillies and Red Sox show disturbing trends during slow start
MICHAEL DWYER THEASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, left, watches from the dugout next to first baseman Adrian Gonzalez during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees in Boston on Friday. Valentine has received most of the blame for the Red Sox’s woes.
ED EDENSSports columnist
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BASEBALL
BY JOSEPH WHITETHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The complexity of the Roger Clemens perjury retrial showed itself in many ways Monday — before a jury that knows little about baseball.
The prosecutor’s hour-long opening statement was a rambling hodgepodge of dates and anecdotes that attempted to portray the seven-time Cy Young Award winner as a man who told lies and “other lies to cover up lies.” A ruling was issued about Clemens’ former teammate Andy Pettitte: He can testify about taking human growth hormone, but can’t say where he got it from.
In between, there were numerous motions as attorneys for both sides fussed over which words and facts can be used and which ones can’t. Finally, as the clock passed 5 p.m., an impatient U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton admonished both sides for making their cases too compli-cated for a jury to understand.
“Keep it simple. ... Boom! Move on,” said Walton, who then declared the slow-moving trial adjourned for the day as he abruptly left the bench. The opening defense state-ment was put off until Tuesday.
On the fifth day of the trial, the court finally seated 12 jurors and four alternates. The 10 women and six men mostly said they didn’t follow baseball or know much about Clemens. In fact, seven said they’d never heard of him.
Their first task was to try to digest pros-ecutor Steven Durham’s description of Cle-mens’ 10-year relationship with strength trainer Brian McNamee, which Durham said became a “story of deceit and dis-honesty and betrayal” because Clemens wouldn’t acknowledge using steroids and human growth hormone.
“The end will show that he made his choice,” Durham said, “and he was going to lie.”
Clemens is accused of lying — when he said he never used steroids or HGH dur-ing his 24-season career — at a 2008 con-gressional hearing and at a deposition that preceded it. Last year’s mistrial was called after the government showed the jury a portion of videotaped evidence that had been ruled inadmissible. The costly pro-cess of bringing the case back to court has drawn criticism from those who regard it as a waste of government money — a point raised last week by some prospec-tive jurors.
The case largely will hinge on the believ-ability of two contradictory witnesses — Clemens and McNamee. McNamee says he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone; Clemens said he never used either.
The government’s case suffered a
blow when Walton made the ruling about Pettitte.
Pettitte is expected to say that he used HGH and that he had conversations with Clemens about HGH, but the judge ruled that Pettitte can’t identify McNamee as a supplier because the jury might try to con-nect the dots and conclude that McNamee must have also supplied Clemens — a case of “classic guilt by association,” one of Cle-mens’ lawyers said.
Walton did not resolve the lawyers’ spat over how much the defense can challenge the validity of the congressional hearing at which Clemens testified. If the hearings are challenged, the government says it should be able to offer widespread evidence about performance-enhancing drug use in base-ball to show why Congress was interested, something that Clemens wants to avoid.
Clemens perjury retrial a muddled mess
SUSAN WALSH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Retired major league pitcher Roger Clemens arrives at federal court in Washington. The Clemens perjury trial moved into the next phase with the planned seating of a jury and opening arguments on Monday.
Proli!c pitcher’s most recent day in court a ‘slow-moving’ circus
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Rangers win 3-2, force Game 7 with Senators
Bucks out of playoffs despite 92-86 victory over Raptors
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OTTAWA — Brad Richards scored the go-ahead goal and Derek Stepan had a goal and two assists as the top-seeded New York Rangers staved off elimina-tion with a 3-2 victory against Ottawa Senators on Monday night .
The series heads back to New York Thursday night for the fi rst Game 7 in any sport at Madison Square Garden in 17 years.
Not even the return of Daniel Alfreds-son , who missed three games with a con-cussion, in front of the fi red-up home crowd at Scotiabank Place could help the eighth-seeded Senators complete the upset.
Carl Hagelin returned to the Rang-ers lineup after sitting out a three-game suspension for his elbow on Alfredsson.
The Rangers broke through in the second with three goals after going six straight periods without scoring.
Chris Neil gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead in the fi rst with a power-play goal and Jason Spezza cut it to 3-2 with 39 seconds left to play in the third.
Neil was planted at the edge of Henrik Lundqvist’s crease along with teammate Zack Smith when Ottawa’s power play put it ahead 1-0 at 7:05. Sergei Gonchar’s point shot defl ected in off Neil’s skate as he tried to jump out of the way.
That got the frenzied towel-waving crowd into a lather that only increased when Neil answered Brandon Prust’s challenge for a fi ght eight minutes later.
The momentum seemed to be com-pletely in Ottawa’s favor when the fi rst intermission hit, especially with goalie Craig Anderson locked into a lengthy
shutout streak and looking sharp once again.
But the Senators lost their focus in the second period and referees Steve Kozari and Tim Peel gave the Rangers four power plays.
Stepan tied the game 1-1 during the fi rst one at 8:55, taking two whacks at a sweet pass from Richards to beat Ander-son. That ended the Rangers scoring drought at 145 minutes, 27 seconds.
A call that Ottawa fans will question helped put New York ahead for good.
New York received a lengthy 5-on-3 after Nick Foligno was sent off for goal-tender interference — replays showed two Rangers players guiding him into Lundqvist — and Richards took advan-tage of the extra space by skating off the wall and beating Anderson high at 17:08.
That was soon followed by a back-breaking goal from Kreider, the fi rst of his NHL career. He sneaked a shot through Anderson with 40.3 seconds to play in the period to make it 3-1.
Ottawa successfully staged a number of dramatic comebacks during the regu-lar season — they also erased a two-goal defi cit while winning Game 4 — and had plenty of opportunities to mount another one here. But Lundqvist held the Sena-tors at bay on two power plays, deny-ing Kyle Turris point blank and having a Chris Phillips shot ring off the post.
The Sens managed to squeeze one puck over the goal-line in the fi nal min-ute, with Spezza getting credit at 19:21 after a long video review. After six games, there has been very little to choose between teams that were separated by 10 wins and 17 points through the regular season.
BY CHRIS JENKINSTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILWAUKEE — The Milwau-kee Bucks are out of the NBA playoffs, despite getting 25 points from Brandon Jennings in a 92-86 victory over Toronto Raptors on Monday night.
Milwaukee’s postseason fate was determined earlier Mon-day night when the Philadelphia 76ers beat the New Jersey Nets 105-87 to clinch the eighth play-off berth in the Eastern Confer-ence and eliminate the Bucks.
Ersan Ilyasova added 19 points and 15 rebounds for Milwaukee.
James Johnson had 22 points and 13 rebounds for the Rap-tors, who have lost four straight games.
Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan was ejected in the second quar-ter after he was called for trav-eling and threw the ball down the court in protest.
But even without DeRozan — the top scorer in Toronto’s line-up with Andrea Bargnani out injured — the Raptors stayed in control of the game going into the fourth quarter.
With the Bucks trailing by two points, Jennings convert-ed a three-point play and Mon-ta Ellis made two free throws to give Milwaukee an 82-79 lead with 3:27 left.
After a technical foul on Toronto’s Linas Kleiza, Jennings hit a free throw for a four-point lead with 2:42 left.
Toronto cut the lead to three points with 32.6 seconds left, but Ilyasova hit two free throws to put the game away.
Trailing the 76ers by three games in the standings going into Monday night, the Bucks needed to win their fi nal three games and have the 76ers lose their last three to make the
playoffs.The 76ers visit the Bucks on
Wednesday night, and Milwau-kee was hoping to make that game meaningful. Instead, it will just be a playoff tuneup for Philadelphia.
Ellis played Monday night despite a hand injury. Milwau-kee was without Carlos Delfi no because of a right groin injury and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute because of a sore right knee.
Ellis had 17 points on 4-for-14 shooting.
The Bucks trailed by fi ve points at halftime, then allowed the Raptors to begin the third quarter with a 13-4 run.
Toronto took a 61-47 lead on a jumper by Gary Forbes, who was knocked to the court and got up limping after the shot. Forbes was able to stay in the game.
Toronto led by fi ve going into the fourth quarter.
FRED CHARTRAND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Rangers’ Derek Stepan (21) celebrates a New York goal against the Ottawa Senators during the second period of Game 6 of a fi rst-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff hockey series in Ottawa, Ontario, on Monday.
MORRY GASH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Milwaukee Bucks’ Brandon Jennings (3) drives past Toronto Raptors’ Ben Uzoh during the second half of a basketball game in Milwaukee on Monday. The Bucks won 92-86.
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