BY DARSHAN PATEL ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Just two years after the Catego- ry I admissions scandal, the board of trustees chose Michael Hogan to step in and repair the Universi- ty’s reputation and fill high admin- istrative positions. But even now, the leadership carousel has not come to a complete halt. President Hogan’s resignation was announced March 22, just two weeks after the trustees reviewed his performance in a closed-door emergency meeting. The meeting was called after a group of distin- guished faculty members deliv- ered a letter to the board ask- ing for the embattled president’s resignation. The Urbana-Cham- paign Senate had also questioned Hogan’s decision-making ability on several occasions. After that meeting, Hogan took several steps toward trying to mend his rocky relationship with faculty members. However, that proved to be too little and too late as pressure mounted. Urbana faculty members who had spoken out against Hogan commended him for making his decision. “I think it’s a sad situation, and it’s unfortunate that we’ve reached this point,” said Nicho- las Burbules, University Senates Conference vice chair, after the announcement. “I do respect the president for doing the right thing for the University. It couldn’t have been easy for him.” Board of trustees Chairman Christopher Kennedy accepted Hogan’s resignation in a quick meeting March 23. In that meet- ing of the executive committee, the trustees appointed Robert Easter, former interim Urbana chancellor and vice president, as president-designate. Hogan — who earned more than $650,000 a year — will retain a faculty position at the campus of his choice but may face an internal investigation similar to the one his former chief of staff, Lisa Troyer, is currently going through at the Urbana campus. During his short-lived presiden- cy, Hogan helped fill several key leadership positions, including the chancellor and vice president of the Urbana campus, Phyllis Wise and vice presidents Christophe Pierre, Lawrence Schook and Joe “Skip” Garcia. Even though debates about plans to unify admissions and financial aid procedures had been ongoing for months, Hogan was first scrutinized after Troyer was found to have allegedly sent anon- ymous emails to members of the University Senates Conference in early January. The faculty advi- sory group had been in the midst of contentious discussions about the enrollment management plan at that time. University spokesman Tom Hardy said in mid-January that he did not think the scandal would have any effect on Hogan’s presi- dency, adding that it “appears to be an incident where (Troyer) act- ed alone.” BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER After a thorough inspection of the renowned Alma Mater sculp- ture earlier this year, the Uni- versity’s Preservation Working Group, or PWG, determined that the bronze statue would be tem- porarily removed for conserva- tion purposes. Jennifer Hain Teper, conser- vation librarian and PWG chair, said the inspection showed clear evidence that the sculpture was in need of better care and that pro- fessionals needed to take a look at it. “Certainly nobody wants to see the sculpture leave, but every- body recognizes that it needs to be cared for,” Teper said. “If we don’t do something to take care of it soon, we might see some seri- ous damage to the sculpture in the next few years.” The $99,962 restoration will be completed by the Conservation of Sculpture and Objects Studio Inc. and will be paid for by the Chan- cellor’s Fund, a pool of money donated to the chancellor’s office from outside sources. Methods & Materials Inc. will take the statue down and move it to the studio. Originally, the sculpture was scheduled to be moved a week after commencement ceremo- nies this month and returned to its place at least a week before graduation in 2013 so graduating students could still have their pic- tures taken in front of it. Because of scheduling conflicts with the two companies, the Alma Mater will not be moved until August 2012, but Teper said this should not change the studio’s ability to complete the project and reinstall the statue on time. Melvyn Skvarla, campus his- toric preservation officer, said the sculptor of the Alma Mater, Lorado Taft, had intended for the sculpture to be touched and climbed on. As a result, however, the extra stress caused cracks to form over the years. In the 1981 repair of the sculp- ture, the University’s staff used caulk to cover some of these cracks. Skvarla said this caulk prevented water from getting inside, but it also prevented water from getting out, which is likely causing serious internal damage through oxidation. Until the studio can investigate the statue’s inte- rior, it is unknown how extensive the conservation work is going to be, Skvarla said. BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER Phyllis Wise has reached the end of her first year with the Uni- versity. Wise came in with support from outgoing president Michael Hogan and the board of trustees, and president-designate Robert Easter has credited Wise’s hire as one of Hogan’s greatest achieve- ments while at Illinois. “The entire board of trustees looks forward to supporting (Wise) and (her) efforts to bring great leadership to every college, every institute and every program at the University,” said board Chairman Christopher Kennedy when Wise first visited the campus in August. “(Wise has) our support, and we will never let (her) down.” Despite conflicts with Hogan since then, she said it has not been hard for her to connect with fac- ulty members and students, but she’s still working toward becom- ing closer to them as she contin- ues her listening and learning tour — part of her “Visioning Future Excellence at Illinois” project. “I was enthusiastic about (Visioning Excellence),” she said. “I have only met the very tip of the iceberg of faculty and students and staff, but if they are any indi- cation of rest of the community, I can’t wait to meet more of them.” Wise said she was familiar with the University before her appoint- ment, but she still is learning new things as a chancellor. “I was only partially educat- ed; every day I learn about more things that are going on,” she said. “What I was really, really struck by when I got here was the warmth, the generosity, the open- ness and the roundedness of the whole community but particular- ly the faculty, staff and students.” Wise said it took her time to become adjusted to the campus community. “When you move to a complete- ly different place, and you don’t really know anybody ... it was a bit overwhelming, and it was a lit- tle intimidating,” she said. “But I think there was some parallel- ism between where I came from and the University — both great public universities that have some commonality.” Before Wise was appointed chancellor, Robert Easter held the interim chancellor position for two years. He’s now University presi- dent-designate, and Wise said she is looking forward to seeing what her predecessor will accomplish. “I’m very eager to work with him,” she said. “I worked with him pretty closely in terms of what he used to do as chancellor, and I found him to be practical, ambi- tious, visionary, thoughtful (and) inclusive.” She added that she has learned a lot over the past year and hopes to make a difference to the cam- pus for the upcoming school year. “I think we have had a good start, hearing from the commu- nity is critically important,” she said. “My view is that I shouldn’t have a vision on my own. It should be based upon what I listen to and hear and learn over the first sev- eral months and continue to learn over the entire period.” INSIDE Police 2A | Corrections 2A | Calendar 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B-5B | Sudoku 5B The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 141 Issue 148 | FREE The Daily Illini YEAR INREVIEW More inside: Turn to Page 3A to read about Robert Easter’s transition to the presidency and how he is adjusting to his role on campus. SHIFT IN LEADERSHIP PHOTO BY WILLIAM SHI THE DAILY ILLINI UI President Michael Hogan, left, and UI Chancellor Phyllis Wise, right, walk together before the groundbreaking for the new Electrical and Computer Engineering building Oct. 7. Daily Illini will not receive student fees for next year ILLINI MEDIA COMPANY Campus icon to be removed for crack, stain repair ALMA MATER Beloved statue could return green or bronze in 2013 MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINI The Alma Mater has experienced damage over the years; much of the statue's face has corroded away. The statue will be removed in August and will return before graduation next year. See HOGAN, Page 3A DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT In its Feb. 17 edition, The Daily Illini did things a little differently. Instead of its traditional front- page coverage, that Friday’s front was instead a piece by the DI’s editorial board, which expounded on the news that had just broke about its parent com- pany’s fiscal woes. “It’s not a surprise; other cam- pus publications and even profes- sional media outlets have been suffering cutbacks and running deficits for years,” the board wrote. “The landscape of news media is changing, and we, like so many others, are falling vic- tim to the challenges of a chang- ing news market.” The editorial solicited stu- dent support for a referendum that would implement a $3-per- semester student fee to support the operations of the Illini Media Company, the DI’s parent organi- zation. In early March, students voted in favor of that fee 1,809 to 1,212. But despite the refer- endum’s passing, the students will not be billed for the fee this year, as student fees for the 2012- 13 school year were finalized at a board of trustees meeting in January. This is earlier than the spring meeting when tuition gen- erally goes up for a vote. Renee Romano, vice chan- cellor for student affairs, said the earlier decision makes the University more competitive in recruiting students. She said by the time the student fee refer- endum came up in March, about 21,000 notices of next year’s stu- dent fees had been sent out. “We’re going to try to make it clear that if folks want any chance of getting a fee for the following year, they have to do it in the fall,” Romano said. This will leave Illini Media without student fees for at least the next academic year, with the fee’s future status depend- ing on recommendations from a student advisory committee, the chancellor, the president and ultimately the board of trustees. “Because we will not be receiving the student fees this fall, further cuts may be nec- essary,” said Lil Levant, Illini Media publisher. “This is in large part because ad revenues have HOGAN’S SHORT RUN MARKED BY SCANDAL, STRIFE Faculty leaders called for president’s exit Chancellor Wise gets acquainted with campus during 1st year See ALMA MATER, Page 3A See FINANCES, Page 3A
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BY DARSHAN PATELASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Just two years after the Catego-ry I admissions scandal, the board of trustees chose Michael Hogan to step in and repair the Universi-ty’s reputation and fi ll high admin-istrative positions. But even now, the leadership carousel has not come to a complete halt.
President Hogan’s resignation was announced March 22 , just two weeks after the trustees reviewed his performance in a closed-door emergency meeting. The meeting was called after a group of distin-guished faculty members deliv-ered a letter to the board ask-ing for the embattled president’s resignation. The Urbana-Cham-paign Senate had also questioned Hogan’s decision-making ability on several occasions.
After that meeting, Hogan took several steps toward trying to mend his rocky relationship with faculty members. However, that proved to be too little and too late as pressure mounted.
Urbana faculty members who had spoken out against Hogan commended him for making his decision.
“I think it’s a sad situation, and it’s unfortunate that we’ve reached this point,” said Nicho-las Burbules , University Senates Conference vice chair, after the announcement. “I do respect the president for doing the right thing for the University. It couldn’t have been easy for him.”
Board of trustees Chairman Christopher Kennedy accepted Hogan’s resignation in a quick meeting March 23. In that meet-ing of the executive committee, the trustees appointed Robert Easter , former interim Urbana chancellor and vice president, as president-designate.
Hogan — who earned more than $650,000 a year — will retain a faculty position at the campus of his choice but may face an internal investigation similar to the one his former chief of staff, Lisa Troyer, is currently going through at the Urbana campus.
During his short-lived presiden-cy, Hogan helped fi ll several key leadership positions, including the chancellor and vice president of the Urbana campus, Phyllis Wise and vice presidents Christophe Pierre, Lawrence Schook and Joe “Skip” Garcia .
Even though debates about plans to unify admissions and fi nancial aid procedures had been ongoing for months, Hogan was fi rst scrutinized after Troyer was found to have allegedly sent anon-ymous emails to members of the University Senates Conference in early January. The faculty advi-sory group had been in the midst of contentious discussions about the enrollment management plan at that time.
University spokesman Tom Hardy said in mid-January that he did not think the scandal would have any effect on Hogan’s presi-dency, adding that it “appears to be an incident where (Troyer) act-ed alone.”
BY LAUREN ROHRSTAFF WRITER
After a thorough inspection of the renowned Alma Mater sculp-ture earlier this year, the Uni-versity’s Preservation Working Group, or PWG, determined that the bronze statue would be tem-porarily removed for conserva-tion purposes.
Jennifer Hain Teper, conser-vation librarian and PWG chair, said the inspection showed clear evidence that the sculpture was in need of better care and that pro-fessionals needed to take a look at it.
“Certainly nobody wants to see the sculpture leave, but every-body recognizes that it needs to be cared for,” Teper said. “If we
don’t do something to take care of it soon, we might see some seri-ous damage to the sculpture in the next few years.”
The $99,962 restoration will be completed by the Conservation of Sculpture and Objects Studio Inc. and will be paid for by the Chan-cellor’s Fund, a pool of money donated to the chancellor’s offi ce from outside sources. Methods & Materials Inc. will take the statue down and move it to the studio.
Originally, the sculpture was scheduled to be moved a week after commencement ceremo-nies this month and returned to
its place at least a week before graduation in 2013 so graduating students could still have their pic-tures taken in front of it. Because of scheduling confl icts with the two companies, the Alma Mater will not be moved until August 2012, but Teper said this should not change the studio’s ability to complete the project and reinstall the statue on time.
Melvyn Skvarla, campus his-toric preservation offi cer, said the sculptor of the Alma Mater, Lorado Taft, had intended for the sculpture to be touched and climbed on. As a result, however,
the extra stress caused cracks to form over the years.
In the 1981 repair of the sculp-ture, the University’s staff used caulk to cover some of these cracks. Skvarla said this caulk prevented water from getting inside, but it also prevented water from getting out, which is likely causing serious internal damage through oxidation. Until the studio can investigate the statue’s inte-rior, it is unknown how extensive the conservation work is going to be, Skvarla said.
BY CARINA LEESTAFF WRITER
Phyllis Wise has reached the end of her fi rst year with the Uni-versity. Wise came in with support from outgoing president Michael Hogan and the board of trustees, and president-designate Robert Easter has credited Wise’s hire as one of Hogan’s greatest achieve-ments while at Illinois.
“The entire board of trustees looks forward to supporting (Wise) and (her) efforts to bring great leadership to every college, every institute and every program at the
University,” said board Chairman Christopher Kennedy when Wise fi rst visited the campus in August. “(Wise has) our support, and we will never let (her) down.”
Despite confl icts with Hogan since then, she said it has not been hard for her to connect with fac-ulty members and students, but she’s still working toward becom-ing closer to them as she contin-ues her listening and learning tour — part of her “Visioning Future Excellence at Illinois” project.
“I was enthusiastic about (Visioning Excellence),” she said.
“I have only met the very tip of the iceberg of faculty and students and staff, but if they are any indi-cation of rest of the community, I can’t wait to meet more of them.”
Wise said she was familiar with the University before her appoint-ment, but she still is learning new things as a chancellor.
“I was only partially educat-ed; every day I learn about more things that are going on,” she said. “What I was really, really struck by when I got here was the warmth, the generosity, the open-ness and the roundedness of the
whole community but particular-ly the faculty, staff and students.”
Wise said it took her time to become adjusted to the campus community.
“When you move to a complete-ly different place, and you don’t really know anybody ... it was a bit overwhelming, and it was a lit-tle intimidating,” she said. “But I think there was some parallel-ism between where I came from and the University — both great public universities that have some commonality.”
Before Wise was appointed
chancellor, Robert Easter held the interim chancellor position for two years. He’s now University presi-dent-designate, and Wise said she is looking forward to seeing what her predecessor will accomplish.
“I’m very eager to work with him,” she said. “I worked with him pretty closely in terms of what he used to do as chancellor, and I found him to be practical, ambi-tious, visionary, thoughtful (and) inclusive.”
She added that she has learned a lot over the past year and hopes to make a difference to the cam-
pus for the upcoming school year.“I think we have had a good
start, hearing from the commu-nity is critically important,” she said. “My view is that I shouldn’t have a vision on my own. It should be based upon what I listen to and hear and learn over the fi rst sev-eral months and continue to learn over the entire period.”
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UI President Michael Hogan, left, and UI Chancellor Phyllis Wise, right, walk together before the groundbreaking for the new Electrical and Computer Engineering building Oct. 7.
Daily Illini will not receive student fees for next year
ILLINI MEDIA COMPANY
Campus icon to be removed for crack, stain repair
ALMA MATER
Beloved statue could return green or bronze in 2013
MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINI
The Alma Mater has experienced damage over the years; much of the statue's face has corroded away. The statue will be removed in August and will return before graduation next year.
See HOGAN, Page 3A
DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
In its Feb. 17 edition, The Daily Illini did things a little differently.
Instead of its traditional front-page coverage, that Friday’s front was instead a piece by the DI’s editorial board, which expounded on the news that had just broke about its parent com-pany’s fi scal woes.
“It’s not a surprise; other cam-pus publications and even profes-sional media outlets have been suffering cutbacks and running defi cits for years,” the board wrote. “The landscape of news media is changing, and we, like so many others, are falling vic-tim to the challenges of a chang-ing news market.”
The editorial solicited stu-dent support for a referendum that would implement a $3-per-semester student fee to support the operations of the Illini Media Company, the DI’s parent organi-zation. In early March, students voted in favor of that fee 1,809 to 1,212. But despite the refer-endum’s passing, the students will not be billed for the fee this year, as student fees for the 2012-13 school year were fi nalized at
a board of trustees meeting in January. This is earlier than the spring meeting when tuition gen-erally goes up for a vote.
Renee Romano, vice chan-cellor for student affairs, said the earlier decision makes the University more competitive in recruiting students. She said by the time the student fee refer-endum came up in March, about 21,000 notices of next year’s stu-dent fees had been sent out.
“We’re going to try to make it clear that if folks want any chance of getting a fee for the following year, they have to do it in the fall,” Romano said.
This will leave Illini Media without student fees for at least the next academic year, with the fee’s future status depend-ing on recommendations from a student advisory committee, the chancellor, the president and ultimately the board of trustees.
“Because we will not be receiving the student fees this fall, further cuts may be nec-essary,” said Lil Levant , Illini Media publisher. “This is in large part because ad revenues have
HOGAN’S SHORT RUN MARKED BY SCANDAL, STRIFEFaculty leaders called for president’s exit
Chancellor Wise gets acquainted with campus during 1st year
See ALMA MATER, Page 3A See FINANCES, Page 3A
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Champaign A 38-year-old male was ar-
rested on the charge of pos-session of an open alcohol con-tainer on public property at the corner of Wright Street and Green Street around 12:30 a.m. Thursday.
According to the report, the subject was issued a notice to appear in court for possession of alcohol on public property.
An aggravated robbery was reported in the 1600 block of South Prospect Avenue at First Financial Bank around 9 a.m. Thursday.
According to the report, the suspect entered the bank and gave the teller a note demand-ing money.
A burglary was reported in the 2400 block of North Pros-pect Avenue at an Outback Steakhouse around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
According to the report, the suspect stole the victim’s purse. The victim then confronted the suspect for the return of her purse.
An armed robbery was re-ported in the 1500 block of Kiler Street around 11 p.m. Thursday.
According to the report, the victims were robbed at gun point by two unknown male of-fenders.
A 19-year-old male was ar-rested on multiple charges of operating an uninsured vehicle, driving with a revoked license and obstructing justice at the in-tersection of Bradley Avenue
and McKinley Avenue around 10 p.m. Wednesday.
According to the report, a ter-ry stop was conducted. The sus-pect gave false information re-garding his identity and he was arrested.
Urbana Retail theft was reported in
the 2000 block of North Lincoln Avenue at a Circle K around 4 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the offender did not pay for gaso-line and drove off. Suspect not located.
A theft was reported in the 800 block of West Stoughton Av-enue around 6 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, an unknown offender stole victim’s computer during a party. Vic-tim believes he has located his computer on Craigslist.
University A 32-year-old male was ar-
rested on the charge of tres-passing on to state-supported property near Grainger Library, 1301 West Springfi eld Avenue, around 12:15 a.m. Monday.
According to the report, the suspect, of Champaign, had re-ceived a University letter of no trespass the day prior. He was found sleeping in a chair in the library’s south wing. He was discovered by a patrol offi -cer conducting a building walk-through.
A 21-year-old male was ar-
rested on the charge of tres-passing on to state-supported property at the Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street, around 5:15 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the suspect, of Champaign, was rec-ognized by an offi cer conducting a building walk-through. The suspect had been given a Uni-versity letter of no trespass re-cently.
A 19-year-old male and a 21-year-old male were arrest-ed on the charge of possession of cannabis in an alley near The Clybourne, 706 South Sixth Streeet, around 11:15 p.m. Sun-day.
According to the report, a pa-trol offi cer stopped the offend-ers, of Chicago and Olympia Fields after seeing them act sus-piciously.
A 36-year-old male was ar-rested on multiple charges of possession of drug parapherna-lia, possession of a controlled substance, operating an unin-sured vehicle and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle in the 800 block of South Sixth Street around 2:45 a.m. Satur-day.
According to the report, the suspect, of Champaign, was pulled over by a patrol offi cer after the offi cer witnessed the suspect’s vehicle pull in front of an ambulance using its lights and sirens. A search of the ve-hicle revealed smoking pipes, syringes and pills.
Compiled by Steven Vazquez
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BY LAUREN ROHRSTAFF WRITER
Robert Easter, former inter-im chancellor and interim vice chancellor for research, has been a familiar face to the University for almost 40 years. Despite his plans to retire after a new chan-cellor was appointed, Easter was called upon this semester to take on yet another role.
After University President Michael Hogan announced his res-ignation in March, Easter agreed to fi ll the position of president-des-ignate. He will offi cially assume the presidency July 1, after Hogan steps down, and has signed on to serve the position for at least two years.
“Now, as Mike (Hogan) has decided to move on, the Board of Trustees has asked me to assume the mantle of leadership of this great institution as president,” Easter said in a statement made upon his appointment in March. “I
do so with pride but also humility — with eagerness but also enor-mous respect.”
The board’s Executive Commit-tee held an emergency meeting the day after Hogan announced his resignation on March 22, where they approved his resigna-tion and signed off on the selection of Easter as his successor.
Easter said Kennedy had expressed the University’s need for stability and wanted to make the assignment a permanent posi-tion for at least two years. Eas-ter said he agreed and was giv-en a two-year appointment by the board’s Executive Committee at the March 23 meeting.
When Hogan expressed his desire to step down as president, he immediately suggested Eas-ter as a candidate for the posi-tion, Kennedy said. He added that before the announcement was made, Kennedy had dis-cussed with trustees and faculty members the possibility of Eas-ter taking over for Hogan, and they warmly accepted the alleged change in leadership.
“In Bob Easter, we have a new leader but an old friend who knows this University inside and out and
is respected by everyone through the University community,” said University Senates Conference chair Don Chambers in March. “He is a leader with a vision and a passion, while also a good listener who will cultivate the best ideas across the campus to move our great University forward.”
Many Urbana faculty members echoed Chambers’ sentiments, saying that Easter is the right per-son at the right time for this job.
“When (board chairman Chris-topher) Kennedy asked if I could take on this assignment, it just seemed like it was the thing that I needed to do,” Easter said.
Easter said he has established relationships with many people at the University while serving his previous positions, and he believes it has opened a level of trust and communication.
“I like to get to know people that I’m going to work with,” Easter said. “I have the advantage of hav-ing been part of this milieu for many years. So knowing some-thing about people and their inter-ests is helpful.”
Easter said he is currently in the offi ce every day working with Hogan to prepare to take over as president this summer, and he is taking the time to become famil-
iar with the “unique cultures” and “unique missions” of all three campuses.
Kennedy said in March that after the two-year contract expires, Easter’s appointment will either be extended or a new presidential search will be initi-ated 10 months before his last day in offi ce. Easter said he told Ken-nedy that “we will see where we are down the road.”
Easter will earn $250,000 on a 12-month basis or about $62,000 by the end of the current three-month position. Once he takes his position as president, Easter will earn $450,000 per year.
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HOGAN
declined, as they have for virtually all other professional and student-run media companies.”
Funds obtained by the fee were expected to make up about 12 percent of the current fi scal year’s operating budget. Levant said some of that money would be “targeted toward efforts to help us implement a digital strategy that will eventually emphasize edito-rial and ad content online.”
The student fee was not aimed at the $92,000 of debt currently owed to The News-Gazette for printing costs. That debt has already been cut by about $100,000 through efforts that included support from former employees, including fi lm critic Roger Ebert , who was DI editor-in-chief in 1964.
Ebert wrote to thousands of for-mer Illini Media employees in a February letter that outlined the company’s fi nancial problems and its strategies for eradicating debt.
“After 140 years, it is possible The Daily Illini could cease pub-lication,” Ebert said in his letter. “This would break the hearts of many of us.”
In the letter, Ebert asked his col-leagues to consider fi nancial con-tributions to the company. Levant said the company received more than 100 donations as a result, with a sum in excess of $34,000.
The company has sought even more avenues to remain solvent. It has signed a fi ve-year lease with a University department for newly renovated space on the fourth fl oor of the company’s building at 512 E. Green Street, Champaign.
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However, in a regularly sched-uled Senate Executive Committee meeting a week later, faculty con-fronted Hogan about his possible role. Kim Graber , University Sen-ates Conference representative, said at the January 23 meeting that the anonymous email incident was harmful to the conference’s progress.
“(The anonymous emails) cre-ated a very negative, destructive culture where it really impeded the ability of the Senates Confer-ence to conduct their business and help the University move for-ward,” she said.
During that meeting, Hogan said he was not involved in the scandal and apologized for “the incident, the personal hardship it has caused to our senators and oth-ers and the embarrassment it has brought to the University.”
Just a week later, members of the full senate approved a state-ment on ethical leadership. This statement specifi cally criticized Hogan for the intrusion of shared governance, stating that there must be “accountability for this broader failure of leadership.”
In February, emails obtained by The Daily Illini through the Illi-nois Freedom of Information Act showed Hogan’s criticism of Wise, pushing her to accept his goals. This did not sit well with Urbana faculty members who wrote letters and circulated petitions defending the chancellor and her role as a campus leader. Soon after, Kenne-dy publicly backed Hogan, promis-ing that “every issue (will be) fully vetted and reviewed.”
And those issues were examined in an emergency meeting March 5 between Hogan and the board. After the meeting, Kennedy told the press that rebuilding the sup-port from the faculty members is something that Hogan needs to play an active role in, adding that the trustees are confi dent in him. However, he said the trustees want the faculty to know that it has an important role in the leadership of the University.
“We let (Hogan) know that we thought we needed our people to change or we needed change in our people,” Kennedy said.
Despite Hogan’s increased efforts to reach out to the campus-es, distinguished professors deliv-ered their second letter in about a month calling for Hogan’s resigna-tion at the board’s regularly sched-uled March 15 meeting in Urbana.
While Hogan previously said he had no intention of stepping down, he met with Kennedy just three days later to express interest in leaving his seat.
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ALMA MATERIn addition to interior dam-
age, the originally bronze-col-ored sculpture has turned green, and parts of it are covered with black streaks and white splotches. Skvarla said this tarnish is a result of exposure to air pollution and the natural environment.
The University has yet to decide whether the Alma Mater will be restored to its natural bronze col-or or made to appear green again after it is returned to its place at the corner of Wright and Green streets.
In February, Christa Deacy-Quinn, PWG member, said staff conservators will be presenting three lectures throughout the course of the project to keep the public updated on their progress. The dates for these lectures have not yet been announced.
“We want people to understand that the Alma Mater has to leave in order to be taken care of prop-erly,” Deacy-Quinn said. “Since we must conserve Alma Mater, we want to do it right.”
Easter out of retirement yet again, to start presidency July 1New leader looks to create stability throughout campus
A NEW PRESIDENT
KELLY HICKEY THE DAILY ILLINI
Robert Easter, left, laughs with President Michael Hogan, middle, as professor of animal sciences Matthew Wheeler presents Easter with a "New Guy Locker" package, welcoming him back to the University.
Chief of staff resigned, was investigated by UniversityTROYER INVESTIGATION
BY NATHANIEL LASHMANAGING EDITOR FOR REPORTING
Lisa Troyer, who worked under soon-to-be-former Presi-dent Michael Hogan for a span
of nine years at three universi-ties , was more than just a per-sonal assistant while work-ing as Hogan’s chief of staff. She was, by her own account, a “facilitator of his vision.”
Others merely described her as “deeply loyal.”
Her resignation came Jan. 3, amid an investigation of anon-ymous emails sent to a faculty
advisory group that passed judg-ment on Hogan’s controversial enrollment management recom-mendations. Just 10 days later, Duff & Phelps and Jones Day , the same fi rms who assisted the Uni-versity in its investigation of the College of Law, released their report that concluded that the emails — aimed at infl uencing the University Senates Confer-ence — were sent from Troyer’s laptop, which was never improp-erly accessed.
Troyer, who was given a tenured position when she came on with Hogan’s admin-istration, has since accepted a position in the University’s psychology department but continues to assert her inno-cence in the anonymous emails.
“I had nothing to do with these emails, and although the source and motivation have not yet been uncovered, I believe that in the fullness of time, the truth behind this matter will be revealed,” Troyer said in a statement soon after the report was released.
Troyer has sent letters to the Champaign News-Gazette and the University board of trust-ees in attempt to clear her name.
Among Troyer’s complaints about the investigative report are omitted interviews, mishan-dling 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 responsibility to (Troyer) for the emails with
certainty.”But the University has stood
by the carefully worded conclu-sions that implicate Troyer in the anonymous emails investigation.
“The University and the board and administration, including the president, have said that we stand by the investigation,” said University spokesman Tom Har-dy , just days before Hogan’s res-ignation. “There’s nothing that she has told anybody that would make us think that the investiga-tion was not of the highest qual-ity and that we couldn’t stand behind it.”
Her salary as Hogan’s chief of staff was over $200,000 by the time she resigned . That sal-ary has now been nearly halved with the $109,000 she earns now
in the psychology department . However, emails obtained under the Illinois Freedom of Infor-mation Act show that she sought additional pay for extra work in the president’s offi ce, includ-ing going through emails that had been requested under pub-lic records laws and creating a “detailed transition plan” for the president’s offi ce.
Troyer’s status as a member of the faculty is still under review. Faculty in the department of psy-chology, LAS dean Ruth Watkins , staff from the provost’s offi ce and senate leaders will all have the opportunity to review Lisa Troyer’s actions in a “rigorous hearing,” said interim provost Richard Wheeler in response to a question about Troyer’s future.
TROYER
Johnson’s dropping out gives hope to Dems15TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
MELANIE CHALLBERG THE DAILY ILLINI
Tim Johnson, Illinois congressman, addresses his decision not to seek reelection to Congress. Johnson explained his retirement after nearly 40 years of service at Urbana City Hall April 5.
BY MATT RICESTAFF WRITER
Six-term U.S. Rep. Tim John-son withdrew from the race for the 13th District on April 5, cit-ing family reasons. Johnson rep-resented the now-defunct 15th District, which included Cham-paign County. The 13th District includes part of Champaign County.
The announcement left the Republican ticket vacant, and eight people have since formal-ly declared their candidacy for the GOP nomination. The Repub-
lican candidate will not be cho-sen by voters but by Republican party leaders.
The 14 county chairmen who decide who the nominee will be narrowed the fi eld from eight to four Saturday. The candidates are Jerry Clarke, former chief of staff to Johnson; Erika Har-old, former Miss America and current lawyer; Rodney Davis, congressional aide; and Kathy Wassink, businesswoman.
Pat Brady, chairman of the Champaign County Republican Party, will preside over the nomi-
nating committee.“I just want to make sure that
we keep this seat and the rest of the seats we won in 2010 because we want to turn this state around,” Brady said in April.
The Republican nominee will have to face David Gill, a Dem-ocrat from Bloomington, in the November election.
Gill is an emergency room doc-tor who ran and lost against John-son in three previous congres-sional races. However, Johnson’s decision not to run in the newly drawn 13th District has the Gill
campaign optimistic about the candidate’s fourth attempt at the offi ce.
“This is a lean Democratic dis-trict, and David is the only candi-date chosen by real people,” said Mike Richards, press spokesman for Gill. “The Republican is going to be chosen by the party bosses, running (in order) to limit contra-ception and tax breaks for mil-lionaires. Whoever runs, we are talking about a Republican Party that will have extremely unpopu-lar policies. That will weigh down whoever the Republican party
candidate is.”Other local Democrats also see
Johnson’s resignation favorable for Democrats.
“I think anybody (the Republi-can county chairmen) pick would be a weaker candidate than Rep. Johnson,” said state Sen. Mike Frerichs, D-52.
Johnson tried to assuage any Republican’s fears of losing the seat because his decision, stat-ing “if I felt we were not going to win the election, it would cause me a lot more angst about my decision.”
Letters to the Editor: The Daily Illini reserves the right to edit for length, libel, grammar and spelling errors, and Daily Illini style or to reject any contributions. Letters must be limited to 300 words: Shorter letters may be edited less. Contributions must include the author’s name, address and phone number. University students must include their year in school and college. Email: [email protected] with the subject “Letter to the Editor.”
T he majority of my most defining moments in college
happened when I was alone. But the realizations that
I’ve had were only achieved through the important
interactions I’ve had with other people. This happened a
lot when I studied abroad in Rio de Janeiro my junior year.
The first few months in an entirely new language and
culture are hard because you have no other choice but to
change yourself in order to survive in the new setting.
Some exchange students choose to take the easy route by
sticking close to their friends from their home universi-
ty and speaking their fluent American English. Not many
people plan to do this when they step off the plane, but its
allure begins to gleam as you continue to stumble over
every conjugation day in and day out.
I ended up moving into a small one-bedroom apartment
with four guys who study in Paris. If you’ve ever met peo-
ple who speak French, you know that they thoroughly
enjoy speaking their own language. Hour after hour,
day after day, I listened to their beautiful words and
expressions yet without understanding a thing.
Language, I soon discovered, is like a map that
you use to navigate the world view of a new cul-
ture. With new words came many new ideas; I
began dressing differently, walking different-
ly, my facial expressions changed and I began
thinking differently.
There was a particular moment when I
felt I had transitioned into a different per-
son. I was walking along Ipanema beach
with my new outfit and new hairstyle,
and I could feel passersby noticing
my new energy.
You stand to gain the most in life
from what is the most difficult
to overcome. On that night, as
I walked alone on the beach, I
smiled to myself and under-
stood how possible it is to
change yourself into that
new person you aspire to
be.
Michael is a LAS
graduate.
NISHAT KHANT he Fall semester of my
junior year, I lived in a ten
person house that I found on
Craigslist. After having no liv-
ing prospects at the end of our
sophomore year, my two room-
mates and I were desperate to
live anywhere.
The house was dirty, and I can
distinctly remember signing our
lease on a coffee table that had
McDonald’s scraps and chicken
bones all over it.
We tried not to worry about the
cleanliness too much, convincing
ourselves that our future room-
mates must be “really cool” and
that we’d only be living there for
a semester before we were off to
our study abroad destinations.
We didn’t meet all seven of our
roommates on the first day, but
by the end of the first week we
had. We were an interesting group,
the ten of us. Some of us didn’t
have the same standards of
cleanliness, some of us watched
loud foreign films while pig hock
stewed on the stove, some of us
never ate anywhere besides the
Jimmy John’s across the street
and some of us stole other peo-
ple’s enormous watermelons and
ate it on the front porch.
Someone’s car was egged. Two
uncracked eggs then proceed-
ed to be left outside the offend-
er’s door. Bruno Mars would
play, and you could hear strange
sounds coming from the upstairs
bedroom. Some of these people we had
a lot of good times with, and
some of these people eventually
became our friends.
Among many other things,
that house taught me a lot about
patience. There were times when
I wanted to run away and never
go back into that kitchen. There
were moments where I felt some
serious regret about ever going
on Craigslist. For every one of
those moments though, there
were 10 more that were exciting,
interesting and unlike any other
moments I’ve had at college.
Nishat is a LAS graduate.
PHIL JOHNSON
We think of moments as finite
occurrences. Inherently ethe-
real, a moment usually pass-
es before you realize its impact. That
is why my most defining moment came
when I redefined “moment.”
Early in my sophomore year, this idea
hit me: When can you ever say you are
living in anything but the now?
Some people do live in the past, but
that is in a mental sense only. We all
dream of the future but that too, like a
moment, may never be touched.
The only moment that we may ever
shape, which we will ever experience, is
the eternal, electric NOW! Think about
it, you are reading this line right now.
Wait five seconds. Now read this line. Do
you feel like you are in the future?
This realization transformed me into
a more active participant in my life.
The four-month moment of studying
abroad in Costa Rica sprouted from my
reformed understanding. I had always
wanted to go on an international adven-
ture, and it was not long after my epiph-
any that I began the application process.
The beauty of seeing moments as
eternal, malleable and nonexistent is
that they grow within themselves. Plen-
ty of times within my effort to be here
now, new appreciations for my presence
have blossomed.
Fourteen months ago I was walking
back to my place thinking that I needed
to recommit myself to the idea I tat-
tooed on my right arm. When I got home
I saw a pretty girl on Facebook. That
night I found out who she was and asked
her on a date. She is now my girlfriend
of 13 months.
My reconstructed appreciation for
a moment brought me many defin-
ing experiences over my four years.
However, I see those moments
as natural outgrowths to
the moment I defined
“moment.”Phil is a Media
graduate.
REBECCA ROSMAN
W ell, as most people will tell you, there is such a
thing as one “defining moment,” perhaps with the
exception of the whole Steve Bartman incident or
finally resolving the Lennon vs. McCartney debate (the
answer is Steve Best).
My first column this year recounted my orientation
week at the University, which could be defined by a col-
lection of panicked calls to my parents begging them to
bring me back to Chicago. They refused. With no other
option, I forced myself to make the most of the Allen Hall
orientation. Taking that first step out of my comfort zone
taught me that it’s those kinds of hurdles that are often
necessary.Had I convinced my parents to take me home, I would
never have met some of my best friends in school.
Friends who I would stay up with until 3 in the morning
on school nights talking about nothing. Friends who intro-
duced me to Gerba dancing or Malaysian Rendang.
A lot of my greatest moments required an equal
amount of naivety, bravery and stupidity. I missed a quiz
worth 5 percent of my grade to see Obama speak in Grant
Park. I moved to one of the dodgiest neighborhoods in
London this past summer without knowing a single soul
in that city so I could have the chance to work at the U.S.
Embassy.Other moments required a lot of hard work — complet-
ing my senior thesis and running a 25K last May, despite
barely being able to accomplish a mile without heavy
panting in high school.
All of these moments required a certain amount of
unease, which is why if there’s any lesson I can pass
down to other students, do what makes you feel slightly
uncomfortable. Slightly stupid. Slightly naive. You’re still
young enough where it’s acceptable — it will take you a
long way.Rebecca is a LAS graduate.
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CONGRATULATIONS
CLASS OF 2012!
PORTRAITS BY KELLY HICKEY THE DAILY ILLINI
BY RAFAEL GUERREROSTAFF WRITER
While Anthony Cobb, Champaign police chief and former assistant chief of police in Urbana, has now spent almost two months at the helm, the culmina-tion of his appointment was lengthy.
The process dates back to Aug. 19, when former police chief R.T. Finney announced his retirement. Finney had joined the Champaign police force in 2003.
“I entered into law enforcement over 30 years ago as a civilian employee, and since that time, I have enjoyed working in every facet and position that law enforcement has to offer,” Finney said in a press release.
However, in October, a controversial arrest enraged many in Champaign. On Oct. 24, 18-year-old African-American Calvin Miller was arrested on the charges of resisting and obstructing an offi-cer, fleeing or eluding authorities and a traffic sig-nal violation. A squad car video recording showed Miller fleeing from his van while the van continued rolling, eventually hitting a house in the 200 block of Arcadia Drive. It also showed him fleeing from the officers; the actual moment of arrest was not captured on camera.
It wasn’t the first time Finney’s leadership was questioned. In October 2009, he was involved in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old African-American Kiwane Carrington. In June 2011, a 19-year-old Afri-can-American male was arrested, and a video of the arrest surfaced that November, showing a Cham-paign police officer pepper spraying and allegedly choking the individual.
Residents called the use of force by the officers against Miller excessive. They brought their displea-sure in full force at the Oct. 25 and Nov. 1 city coun-cil meetings. Many in attendance expressed a sense of fear toward the police department.
“It’s not about my son; it’s about what is going on in my community,” said Martel Miller, father of Cal-vin Miller, at the Nov. 1 meeting.
Only weeks later, the police chief search became more urgent when City Manager Steve Carter appointed deputy chief Holly Nearing as interim chief effective Dec. 5. This occurred the same day Carter released a report detailing internal conflict within the police department.
Carter wrote there were some instances where police command staff were not willing to help and lacked adequate communication down the chain of command. He also mentioned how “employees were not treated consistently with city values and this has
contributed to a perception of unfairness” and not-ed that “distrust has developed among employees.” Many police employees said they were disrespected and treated unfairly, not receiving proper feedback from command and developing “hard feelings” that had been affecting the workplace, the report said.
Meanwhile, the city narrowed the chief search down to four candidates toward the end of the fall semester. Along with Cobb, candidates included: Chief of Police Gregory Anderson, of Oak Forest, Ill.; Lt. Colonel Antoinette Ellis, of St. Louis; and Capt. Kim Johnson, of East Lansing, Mich.
Champaign residents had their first opportunity to meet the four at “A Conversation with the Can-didates,” a first-of-its-kind meeting held at the City Council Chambers on Dec. 8. Each candidate made their case for the police chief position and answered a series of questions related to some of the challenges they would face if they accepted the position.
On Jan. 27, Cobb, a Champaign native, was appoint-ed as the new chief. Cobb had worked for the Urbana Police Department for the entirety of his law enforce-ment career, beginning in 1992. He began his role as assistant chief of police in October 2010.
Cobb said he hoped his Champaign roots would help create a stronger bond between him and the residents and restore trust in the officers.
“It helps me get a great perspective in the com-munity, build relationships — I have built life-long relationships here that are strong and viable and will help me here,” Cobb said. “I know they (the commu-nity) really want to partner with the department, and I want that to happen.”
BY HANNAH MEISELASSISTANT ONLINE EDITOR
A project five years in the mak-ing finally began early this semes-ter with the installation of Blue Waters’ Early Science System. But the path the project took turned out to be not as clear-cut as it appeared in the beginning.
Computing giant IBM had entered into a contract in 2008 with the University’s National Center for Supercomputing Appli-cations but broke the contract in early August after more than a year of dispute. The NCSA sent back equipment already installed in the National Petascale Comput-ing Facility, 1725 S. Oak St., and IBM refunded the NCSA the $30 million that had already been paid.
At that time, the NCSA was charged with restructuring its plan for the supercomputer and presenting the altered plan to the National Science Foundation in order to keep its funding. The foundation had originally award-ed $208 million for the project in 2007. But in November, after searching for a new vendor for three months, the University entered into a contract with Seat-tle-based computing company Cray Inc., which began deliver-ing new supercomputing equip-ment in January.
Presently, six research teams are using the Early Science Sys-tem, navigating the kinks and debugging programs along the way. This system only repre-sents 15 percent of the complete Blue Waters project. Trish Bark-er, NCSA spokeswoman, said the initial teams on the Early Sci-ence System were chosen based on experience, as working with the new system could prove difficult.
The NCSA has not yet set a date to deliver the next round of equip-
ment, but Barker said Blue Waters could be fully functional by late 2012. Around 40 researchers are waiting for the complete system, as the foundation has awarded more than $380 million to these scientists nationwide in prepara-tion for the project’s completion.
Already, preliminary goals have been met by some of the research teams in the first two months of the Early Science System. Phys-ics professor Klaus Schulten and his team make up one of the cor-nerstone projects, researching the development of the HIV virus. Schulten’s program will simulate the cylinder-shaped protein coat-ing around the HIV-1 genome to understand how the virus disas-sembles and releases its genetic material into the body.
Blue Waters’ computing power is one of the fastest in the world; at peak performance it will run at about 11.5 petaflops, doing quadril-lions (a thousand trillions) of cal-
culations in a second. With all the electricity it takes
to power a supercomputer’s mas-sive calculations, most systems reach extreme temperatures with-out proper cooling, which tradi-tionally has been provided by fans. However, Blue Waters is named for its cooling system, which uses naturally chilled water running through the computer’s facility to cool the racks of computing equipment.
Eventually, when the estimat-ed 300 cabinets that will make up Blue Waters are installed, the supercomputer may increase cam-pus energy consumption by up to one quarter of its current use. Though the National Petascale Computing Facility that houses the Blue Waters project received a rat-ing of “Gold” LEED certification in early January, Facilities and Services spokesman Andy Black-er said the rating takes more into account than energy efficiency.
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Supercomputer could be ready late 2012BLUE WATERS
Cobb appointed Champaign police chiefCHAMPAIGN POLICE DEPARTMENT
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Kevin Hutchinson, a mechanical engineer for Cray Inc., attaches pipes to supercomputer racks delivered by Cray for the Blue Waters project Jan. 29 at the National Petascale Computing Center.
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTO
Anthony Cobb addresses the media in the Champaign City Council Chambers after the announcement that he has been appointed the new Champaign Police Chief on January 27.
Forty researchers wait in anticipation as !nal bugs, kinks get worked out
Rankings drop after law school scandalBY HANNAH MEISELASSISTANT ONLINE EDITOR
In the semester following a two-month investiga-tion into misreported class profiles, the University’s College of Law dropped 12 spots in April’s U.S. News and World Report rankings.
The College’s annual class profile, which includes median LSAT scores and GPAs had been inaccu-rately reported under Paul Pless, former assistant dean for admissions and financial aid. Additionally, Pless had manipulated publicized acceptance rates in order to make the college seem more selective than it actually was.
Pless was determined to be the sole actor in the manipulation after two months of investigation by the University’s Ethics Office, Office of Legal Coun-sel and two outside firms: Jones Day and Duff & Phelps. The investigation’s final report, released in November, chronicled Pless’ actions based on inter-views and data analysis.
In late August, the Ethics Office received a tip that the profile for the new class of 2014 was inaccu-rate, launching an internal investigation. A Sept. 11 press release alerted the University community of the beginning of the investigation, and a week later, preliminary findings were released saying that the College of Law had publicized inflated median GPA and LSAT scores for its class of 2014.
The American Bar Association, or ABA, also launched its own investigation into the College of Law’s reporting standards, but that investigation has yet to be concluded. In a similar case at Villanova University, the law school had to put a disclaimer on its disseminated materials found with inaccurate
reporting about its student statistics.After the initial release, the investigative team
decided to look further back into the data. On Sept. 28, it was made known that data had been manip-ulated for four of the past 10 years. Both median GPA and LSAT scores were inflated, but the larg-est jump was for the class of 2014, as the reported median LSAT score was 168, as opposed to the actu-al median of 163.
In his capacity as assistant dean for admissions, Pless was in charge of disseminating information from the Law School Admissions Council and put-ting it into his own spreadsheets. The final report indicated he was the sole actor in the data manipula-tion. Pless resigned from the University a few days before the final report’s release.
The report also revealed Pless’ interest in begin-ning his iLeap program in 2008. The program allows juniors at the University to apply to the College of the Law early, without haven taken the LSAT. Pless had a vested interest in these students’ high GPAs, as told to a colleague in an Oct. 2008 email.
“I am a maverick and a reformer, so I started a new program for U of I undergrads to apply in their junior year and we don’t require the LSAT,” Pless wrote. “We have additional essays and an interview instead. That way, I can trap about 20 of the little bastards with high GPA’s that count and no LSAT score to count against my median.”
The investigative team gave eight strategic sug-gestions to the college in order for it to more closely follow ABA guidelines and remain ethically stable. The college’s dean Bruce Smith said the college has implemented these changes to its reporting system.
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For the past two years, the Police Training Institute has been struggling to keep its doors open and provide train-ing to police officers all over the state.
At the end of 2010, the Uni-versity announced plans to close the Police Training Institute, no later than the end of 2011.
Now the fate of the PTI will be up to the board of trustees. University spokeswoman Rob-in Kaler said the expectation is that the board will vote on the closure at its May 31 meeting. She said, in all likelihood, the board will vote to close the Insti-tute after its 57 years of service.
She said it has been difficult to keep the institute open because of financial rea-sons. The PTI does not receive funding from the state and it can-not charge a high enough rate to pay for itself.
“The reason the Universi-ty said it needed to close was because it was not able to stay afloat financially,” Kaler said. “And the only way to make it stay afloat financially is to charge our own undergraduate students for it. That’s where you get this not aligning with the mission thing because it isn’t appropriate to charge students to train police officers in the state of Illinois.”
The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board, or ILETSB, recently voted not to certify all the courses offered at the PTI in March. When this decision was first announced, Michael Schlosser, the interim director of the PTI, released a letter voicing his disappoint-
ment. He said in the letter that over the past few months, the University and ILETSB had renewed their discussions about trying to keep the PTI open.
While the news to not certify the courses at the PTI came as a somewhat of a surprise to those at the PTI, Kevin McClain, executive director of ILETSB, said the University had not real-ly changed its position since the plan to close PTI down in 2010.
“The fact of the matter is, there’s a lot of other academies out there and there are plenty of other seats available at the oth-er academies because right now, law enforcement hiring is down,
so there wasn’t a real need to cer-tify those cours-es,” McClain said.
McClain also said the main rea-son the board vot-ed not to certify the PTI’s courses was because of a new police acade-my that is sched-uled to be built at Western Illinois University.
State legisla-tors have been
looking for solutions to the bud-geting problem at the institute, but they have had no luck. Ear-lier this year, state representa-tives Naomi Jakobsson, D-103, and Chapin Rose, R-Charleston, were working to get a bill on the floor which had a proposed solu-tion: a $25 fee criminals con-victed in the Illinois the court system would have to pay. The bill never made it out of the House Rules Committee.
McClain added that he felt “more or less sad” about the PTI’s closure.
“I know how dedicated the people are there, and I feel bad for them,” he said. “On the other hand, I know we have to move forward and look to the future.”
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BY THOMAS THORENSTAFF WRITER
About one year after the Green Street fire on March 23, 2011, the storefronts of the three damaged businesses have been restored. The two restaurants, Mia Za’s and Zorba’s, have fired up their kitchens once again; however, Pitaya, the clothing store also damaged by the fire, has yet to reopen.
Zorba’s owner Matt Morten-son said after “a very hectic” final couple of weeks of con-
struction, the renovations have been completed. The restaurant started selling their gyros again April 12.
“It’s been a long and winding road, as the Beatles would say,” Mortenson said.
But Zorba’s stayed true to its 39-year-old roots by keeping its “groovy feel,” he said.
General manager Rhian-non Mortenson said this was to allow past and present students to come back to the restaurant they know and love.
Their new look still includes the Block I-shaped collage of Illini sports clippings and the two campus-themed murals that were salvaged from the 2011 fire, all of which are now hanging on the restaurant’s east wall.
However, Zorba’s did change its layout to have the kitchen on the southwest corner of the res-taurant, leaving a larger seating area. A new wheelchair ramp was also installed from the door to the counter to meet require-
ments under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Matt Mortenson said the pro-cess was difficult because he had to draw plans and then sub-mit them to architects and other building officials, who decided if his ideas would work. He said despite the long process deal-ing with insurance companies and the restaurant’s landlord to make sure the building was up to code, there was never a time when he considered not rebuild-ing Zorba’s.
“It’s been an expensive proj-ect; it’s been several thousand dollars for the overall work of it,” Rhiannon Mortenson said. “You know, when you get archi-tects and insurance companies involved, things just take a while.”
However, the family was able to avoid many of the costs resulting from the fire because the restaurant is covered by insurance.
Mia Za’s Café reopened 11 months after the 2011 fire,
on Feb. 20. After the fire last March, Bruce Hink, the restau-rant’s owner, said he immedi-ately knew his business would remain at its Green Street location.
“If I had my choice, and I was just moving here, this would be the place I’d want to be any-way,” he said. “It’s a great cam-pus, great customers.”
Mia Za’s debuted a new look when it opened, which includ-ed new furniture, television screens and touchscreen menus.
Restaurant doors reopened 1 year after fire
GREEN STREET FIRE
Board to vote on institute’s future; closure expected
Occupy Wall Street comes to Champaign-Urbana
POLICE TRAINING INSTITUTEOCCUPY C-U
“The reason the University said it needed to close
was because it was not able to stay
afloat financially.”ROBIN KALER,
University spokeswoman
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From left to right, Prateek Arora, Sahil Handa and Karan Uppal, all seniors in engineering, eat at Zorba’s during the restaurant’s reopening April 20.
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A citizen who decided to remain anonymous holds a sign on University Avenue during Occupy Champaign-Urbana in downtown Champaign on Oct. 15.
BY KRIZIA VANCEVIDEO EDITOR
The Occupy Wall Street movement made its way to Champaign-Urbana this year. Many Occupy C-U participants pledged their soli-darity with those in Zuccotti Park by protest-ing against the pro-corporation agenda they see in the government.
One of the main platforms of the movement is corporate greed, especially in politics. With the 2012 elections coming up, there isn’t a can-didate that the Occupy movement as a whole fully endorses largely because campaigns are run by major corporate donors, said Linnea Palmer Paton, member of Occupy Wall Street.
These exact sentiments were heard on the more local level back in January when Occu-py C-U protested against corporate funding in political campaigns.
“In my view, a corporation is not a per-son. In my view, a corporation does not have First Amendment rights. In my view, money is not the same thing as speech,” said Matt Murphy, Champaign resident and WEFT 90.1 FM employee.
One candidate that some local occupiers support is David Gill, who is running for Congress as the Democratic candidate for the 13th District.
Many of the solidarity protests in Cham-paign-Urbana began in October during the height of the movement. Ricky Baldwin, senior field organizer for the Service Employ-ees International Union Local 73, said the reason for these demonstrations is because people are frustrated with job cuts and being “scapegoats” for the recession while compa-nies received bailout money from the federal government.
Although the marches and protests were actually planned before Occupy Wall Street, Baldwin said the movement in New York aided in the organization’s original cause demonstrating the dissatisfaction across the nation.
“It’s really good to know folks are having similar ideas around the country about what to do about this jobs crisis,” Baldwin said.
Not too long after, Champaign-Urbana formed their own Occupy movement where
they held another protest that brought about 350 participants.
“There are a lot of people who have issues here — we have Iraq veterans who are against the war, we have union mem-bers who are worried about jobs, benefits and whether their kids can go to college. We have people from the gay and lesbian com-munity,” said Josh Hartke, spokesman for Occupy Champaign-Urbana. “There (are) a lot of people here from diverse areas, and when you distill it down, I think we’re just tired of not being heard by our government.”
The movement originated on Wall Street but was able to become popular around the country largely because of social media.
“Most of our word has gotten out on Face-book and social media because that’s where democracy is happening right now around the world,” Hartke said. “If you look at the Arab Spring and now maybe the American autumn, it’s all people communicating through You-Tube, Facebook and Twitter. That’s how we got 350 people here today, from all over the community.”
Bruce Weber (fi red March 9 after nine seasons)
The Illini fi nished the 2011-12 season at 17-15 with a 6-12 conference record after start-ing 15-3, with multiple weeks with a top-25 ranking early on. But they then went 2-14. Thom-as made Weber’s fi ring offi cial the day after Illinois’ fi rst-round loss in the Big Ten Tournament against Iowa. Thomas would hire Ohio’s John Groce to fi ll the vacancy.
Jolette Law (fi red March 2 after fi ve seasons)The Illini had high expectations
entering the 2011-12 season after returning nearly their entire roster from the previous year. But a tough nonconference schedule and an 0-7 start to the Big Ten season led to a ninth-place fi nish in the conference and a fi rst-round loss in the Big Ten Tournament. Wisconsin-Green Bay head coach Matt Bollant was named the new wom-en’s basketball coach. Bollant posted a 148-19 record in his fi ve years at Green Bay.
Ron Zook (fi red Nov. 27 after nine season)The Illini came into the season with high expec-
tations following their Texas Bowl win and a strong redshirt freshman season from quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase. Illinois surpassed those expectations early on. But just as expectations were reaching their peak with a No. 16 ranking, the Illini faltered. They ended the season by becoming the fi rst team ever to follow a 6-0 start to the season with a six-game los-ing streak.
Zook was fi red shortly after, and athletic director Mike Thom-as named former Toledo head man Tim Beckman as Illinois’ next head coach.
Editor’s Note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down Sunday nights and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Student-athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success. For the Year in Review issue, the sports desk voted for an Illini of the Year.
At fi rst glance, one might con-fuse him for someone too young for college, a frat star with a bright blonde mohawk or just anoth-er quirky and excited freshman exploring everything the Illinois campus has to offer.
Looking closer, one catches small hints: his 5-foot-4 frame is support-ed by 139 pounds of pure muscle, he’s holding a bag of grip guards and there are remnants of chalk dust fl oating over his fi ngers.
Someone might need a more obvi-ous clue, like an Illinois gymnastics T-shirt or a championship ring, but it shouldn’t take long to realize that he’s C.J. Maestas: national champi-on and Olympic hopeful and a driv-ing force in the Illini’s campaign to win their fi rst men’s gymnastics national title in 23 years.
The accolades can tell the tale themselves, all earned during 15 weeks of competition. He’s a three-time All-American, NCAA rings champion, Big Ten all-around champion and Freshman of the Year and Gymnast of the Year. Maestas broke the school record on the rings and he won 20 indi-vidual event titles — one on every event except the parallel bars. He is a nominee at Illinois for Newcom-er of the Year and Dike Eddleman Male Athlete of the Year .
Maybe it’s more than the awards, but the stories behind them — how Maestas was so tired during his fi rst all-around attempt that he had to guzzle snow, cubes of sugar and honey to maintain energy. He turned around to win the meet by
As sportswriters, we all too often give the free-ly associating part of
our frontal lobe free reign. It’s ground zero for cliches and confi rmation bias. Every team-fi rst group is the 2004 Pistons. Everyone heavier than 250 pounds is Shaquille O’Neal.
Come on. We watched the same movie twice this year. How about this: I give you the blow-by-blow, you tell me which Illini team I’m talking about.
The Illini, a young, starless group that came into the sea-son missing a huge chunk of its offense from the previous year, was ticketed for the low echelons of the postseason. It would be a year of develop-ment, with premium positions occupied by non-seniors. That was, until a red-hot start infl at-ed those modest expectations to unfathomable levels.
Fans were teased into this heightened state of expecta-tion by a scrappy group that escaped by a hair at home against the likes of an Atlan-tic 10 or MAC foe. Such warn-ing signs were plenty in num-ber, but fans wanted no part of it. They tuned out their inner pessimist and chose instead to count a win as a win.
Expectations hit a fever pitch when the Illini held on to knock off a ranked foe in prime time on their home turf. The win vaulted the Illini into the top 25 and came as the leader managed the game qui-etly while the breakout hero dominated against a highly touted opposing group.
The eyes that envisioned an unspectacular year of develop-ment now expected a season no less than dazzling. They felt wholeheartedly entitled to the postseason’s top tier. How could the Illini not, after that signature, win?
But just when the Illini got comfortable in that fl eshy part of the poll, they were thrashed by a middle-of-the-pack Big Ten opponent who had suppos-edly fallen on hard times. “No matter,” fans assured each other. “This is a top-20 team.”
The red fl ags that cropped up in the season’s early goings came back like an octogenar-ian’s mustache, and the result was an excruciating, gradu-al fall to the bottom. Like the Titanic. (I get a mulligan.)
Thanks to a crippling inabil-ity to adapt and readjust in the face of turmoil, the team fi nished its season having to play another game — instead of getting to. And fans were outraged, as if they had been robbed of their prize.
Regardless of expecta-tions, both coaches were let go immediately after the “post-season” concluded, though the only thing postseason about it was the sequence.
The victim was a grey-haired family man whose arrival in Champaign was punctuated by a furious climb to the top of the Big Ten fol-lowed by a period of decid-ed mediocrity. The culprit? A lack of Illinois recruiting acu-men. Despite being a unani-mously voted “good guy,” his journey from plucky mid-major walk-on to Big Ten boss had come to a close, at least for the time being.
Each team’s prized player eschewed his fi nal year of eli-gibility, and for good reason. Thanks to a peaking draft projection helped along by elite-level measurables, it only made sense. With a bleak out-look for the upcoming season and a lack of blue-chip rein-forcements set to arrive in the fall, it was a lock.
As his spot opened, fan expectations once again soared. Illini nation convinced itself that it was a dynamite job — proximate to Chicago, a founding member of a gold-plated conference, tradition-laden and a sizeable check-book to boot.
When the hire time extend-ed past “immediate,” specu-lation raged, some say out of control. As the elite candidates passed Illinois over, the fan base once again felt robbed of something it never had. When the arduous process came to a close, in came a fresh-faced coach from the MAC who AD Mike Thomas championed as the right man for the job.
Illini fans watch same storyline unfold twice
GORDON VOITSports columnist
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Gymnasts fi nish season strong with NCAA championship
Illinois says farewell to 3 head coaches after unsatisfactory seasons
MEN’S GYMNASTICS VOLLEYBALL
BY EMILY BAYCISENIOR WRITER
The odds seemed inevitable in January that the Illinois men’s gymnastics team was going to win its fi rst NCAA Champion-ship in 23 years .
“I fi rmly believe and I know that this team thinks that we are the best team in this country right now and that we will be at the end of the year,” head coach Justin Spring said in December. “We’ve got a long road ahead of us, but talent-wise, potential-wise, I think we are the strongest team.”
The Illini had a picture-per-fect team with a stacked lineup that included three of the coun-tries top all-arounders: fi fth-year senior Paul Ruggeri, senior Tyler
Mizoguchi and freshman C.J. Maestas. Beyond the top perform-ers, the Illini had stacked lineups in nearly every event. There was a wave of surprise when Illinois entered the season with a No. 2 ranking behind Oklahoma .
“I think Illinois has probably got the best team in the country on paper and this season is theirs to win,” Oklahoma head coach Mark Williams said in January. “In the end, talent usually wins out.”
But Illinois took second in the Windy City Invitational in its fi rst meet of the season . The Illini picked up key wins against Oklahoma and Michigan on Jan.
Record — NCAA championsBiggest win — The Illini had a come-from-behind victory where they passed top-ranked Oklahoma on their home turf to win the fi rst national championship in 23 years.Team MVP — Freshman C.J. Maestas . He won three All-American titles and was Illinois’ fi rst-ever NCAA still rings champion at the NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships. Two weeks earlier, at the Big Ten Championships, he won the all-around crown and was named Big Ten Gymnast and Freshman of the Year. During the conference championships, he broke the school record on rings with a 15.850. He tied senior Paul Ruggeri with 20 event titles,
winning on every event except the pommel horse.Quote of the season — “I live for that stuff. I was like, ‘Let’s go.’ You could have thrown a 50-pound weight belt on me, thrown me with sharks. It doesn’t matter. I would have done it,” — Maestas, after hitting his rings routine and propelling Illinois to winning the national crown.Stat representative of the season — 57.636 vs. 60.750 : the Illini’s average on pommel horse entering nationals and the score they received on pommel horse during the team fi nals.Player to watch next season — Maestas. With one year under his belt, he is slated to lead the Illini throughout his college career.
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Volleyball ends season 2nd in country; Hambly credits 4 seniors for successBY SAMANTHA KIESELEDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The last player to talk at the fi nal press conference of the fi nal game of the season — the NCAA Championship — was Illinois volleyball junior Annie Luhrsen, who put the 2011 sea-son into perspective.
“I think we know what is here now,” Luhrsen said in Decem-ber. “We’ve never been here before. So now we know it and it’s just going to make us want to come back more.”
Though Illinois did not receive the outcome it wanted — a 3-1 loss to UCLA in the title game on Dec. 17 — what the team did accomplish this past season was laying the groundwork for what could come in the future.
In his third year as head
coach, Kevin Hambly began with a 20-0 record, the sec-ond-best in school history. He also led Illinois to its fi rst No. 1 ranking, which the Illini sus-tained for a month, its fi rst Final Four bid in 23 years and its fi rst national championship game appearance.
Hambly credited most of the success from this season to his four seniors. At the helm were All-American outside hit-ters Colleen Ward and Michelle Bartsch.
“I think this group put us more in the national spotlight. They’re a little bit more physi-cal, a little bit more athletic than what we’ve had,” Hambly said of his senior class in November.
Record — 32-5, 16-4 Big TenBiggest win — A 3-2 win over USC in the Final Four to advance to the national championshipMVP — Colleen WardQuote of the season — “I couldn’t be prouder of this group. I’ve never been around a group of people more committed to each other, more committed to the process and more committed to, not just great volleyball players, but great people. It’s truly been a pleasure to work with this group.” — head coach Kevin HamblyStat representative of the season — Illinois was 7-0 in fi ve-set matches during the season.Player to watch next season — Liz McMahon
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The Illinois’ volleyball team placed 2nd in the country after losing to UCLA in the National Championship game in December. The Illini spent a month ranked No. 1 in the nation and made its fi rst Final Four appearance in 23 years.
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The freshman is a three-time All-American, NCAA rings champion, Big Ten all-around champion, Freshman of the Year and Gymnast of the Year and was a driving force in the Illini’s campaign to win their fi rst men’s gymnastics national title in 23 years. He
broke the school record on the rings and won 20 individual event titles. Maestas is also a nominee at Illinois for Newcomer of the Year and Dike Eddleman Male Athlete of the
Year.
C.J. Maestas(men’s gymnastics)
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Honorable MentionsWhitney Mercilus (football) — The junior won the Ted Hendricks Award Winner as the top defensive end and was named a consensus First-Team All-American in 2011. He broke the Big Ten record and ranks second in FBS history for forced fumbles in a season with nine, tied Simeon Rice ’s single-season Illinois sacks record with 16 and tied for third in Illinois history with 22.5 tackles for loss.Colleen Ward (volleyball) — The senior outside hitter was named a First-Team All-American and All-Big Ten on her way to leading the Illini to the national championship game. She was also named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team after combining for 44 kills and 35 digs in matches against USC and UCLA.
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The Illinois men’s golf team fi nished its school year the same way it has every year that senior Luke Guthrie has been a part of the program.
Illinois head coach Mike Small won his record fourth consecutive (as well as record fi fth overall) Big Ten Coach of the Year award by guiding the Illini to their fourth straight Big Ten Championship. One year after fi nishing fi fth at the NCAA Championships, the Illini faced a season without three-time All-Big Ten golfers Scott Langley and Chris DeForest.
Coming into the se ason ranked No. 13, the Illini strug-gled in the fall. The team start-ed off by tying for sixth out of 16 teams and eighth out of 15 teams in the fi rst two tournaments of the year. The Illini and Luke Guth-rie won their third tournament, the D.A. Weibring Invitational, but faced no teams in the top 100. Illinois ended its fall sea-son with a third-place fi nish
and sophomore Thomas Piet-ers’ win at the Jack Nicklaus Invitational.
“If you look at the way we played this fall, we always had guys in contention at the top,” assistant coach Zach Guth-rie said after the Jack Nick-laus Invitational. “We need to get those bottom guys playing better.”
The Orange and Blue found their No. 4 and 5 golfers when they introduced freshmen Alex Burge and Brian Campbell at their spring opener, the match-play Tinervin Cup. Burge and Campbell went undefeated in
the cup, and Illi-nois defeated in-state rival Illi-nois State for the ninth straight year. Although Burge was not in the top fi ve until the Augus-ta State Invita-tional on March 31, he and Camp-bell fi nished the
year in the lineup.The top-seeded Illini contin-
ued their struggles when they were upset by eighth-seeded Minnesota at the Big Ten Cham-pionships in February. The usu-ally reliable Luke Guthrie led
for most the match but bogeyed the 18th hole to lose the tourna-ment for the team.
“When I got back here in Feb-ruary, I worked hard on my put-ting game,” he said. “It wasn’t a blessing in disguise, but it sort of was. It makes sure you prac-tice hard.”
Guthrie bounced back, fi nish-ing the school year by winning the Boilermaker Invitational and his second consecutive Big Ten Championship. He was also named the Big Ten Golfer of the Year on May 1.
Pieters joined Guthrie with First-team All-Big Ten honors. He was named to the European Palmer Cup team April 24, and he fi nished in the top 10 of sev-en of Illinois’ 10 tournaments this season.
Junior Mason Jacobs gar-nered Second-team All-Big Ten honors by fi nishing with the third-lowest stroke average on the team. He competed in all of Illinois’ events this season and hit an eagle on his fi nal hole at the Big Ten Championships to help propel the Illini to victory.
Sophomore Jonathan Hauter competed in nine events for the Illini this season, while junior Ross Frankenburg competed in six. Hauter and Frankenburg had low scores of 223 and 228,
respectively.The Illini still have at least
one meet remaining in their season. The Orange and Blue are guaranteed a spot in NCAA regionals, which start May 17, by winning the conference title. Illinois has made the NCAA Championships for four straight years.
After winning the Big Ten Championship, Small gave the conference a message:
“We’ll see some of you guys at nationals in Riviera.”
BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER
With a program that boasts a history as prestigious as the Illinois men’s tennis team does, anything short of a Big Ten championship would be seen as a failure.
For their fi rst 23 matches, the Illini (17-7, 8-3 Big Ten) seemed destined not to live up the vast expectations that had been set. Everything changed, however, in the 24th match of the year: the Big Ten Tour-nament fi nals against nationally ranked No. 3 Ohio State.
To start the season, the Illini opened up playing some tough competition, los-ing to No. 18 North Carolina in the ITA Kick-Off as well as No. 10 Duke and No. 5 Florida on the road in the nonconfer-ence season. Despite some struggles out of conference, the Illini were able to pull off signature wins over No. 18 Tennessee and No. 17 Texas A&M.
In conference play, Illinois started off hot, winning its fi rst fi ve matches in con-ference, three of which were on the road.
The streak ended with a 4-3 loss to Mich-igan. The loss marked the only time the Illini would lose at Atkins Tennis Center all season.
The season turned a little rocky after that point, as the Illini lost four of their last seven matches, prompting head coach Brad Dancer to call out his team for not living up to its potential multiple times after losses to Ohio State and Indiana, and even after victories over Penn State and Purdue.
Illinois was a No. 3 seed heading into the Big Ten Tournament, where they knocked off Northwestern and avenged the earlier loss to Michigan to set up the fi nals match against the Buckeyes. With the score tied 3-3, senior Roy Kalmanovich earned the fi rst match-clinching win of his career and beat nationally ranked No. 6 Blaz Rola for the fi rst time in four tries.
Looking ahead to the NCAA tourna-ment, the Illini will host the fi rst two rounds and face Western Michigan in the fi rst round.
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Despite a disappointing ending for the Illinois soccer team, the season was the best in program history. The Illini totaled 17 wins for the fi rst time and broke other program records along the way, including the longest unbeaten streak (12) and most consecutive wins (eight).
“The wins obviously show that we won a lot of games,” senior Julie Ewing said in November. “Most wins by a team in school history is a big deal, but I think the losses are just as important because we got those early in the season and they forced us to be a better team. Look at the things we needed to do better and look at the things we do well but need to do well on a consistent basis.”
The high point of the season came when Illinois defeated Penn State for the Big Ten Champion-ship . In a high-intensity overtime game, Big Ten Midfi elder of the Year Vanessa DiBernardo scored her fi nal goal of the season, which awarded the Illini an automatic NCAA tournament bid.
“I think the run, the three overtime games in fi ve days, it says a lot about the kind of group determination this team has gar-nered over the year,” head coach Janet Rayfi eld said in November. “Every game has taught this team something, and I think they took all those lessons into the tour-nament this weekend and, as a result, they fi nd themselves Big Ten tournament champions.”
In fi rst round of the NCAAs, Illinois defeated the defending national champion Notre Dame
1-0 at home. However, the Illini’s season came to a close in the sec-ond round after losing 1-0 to the No. 2 Cowgirls in Stillwater, Okla.
“They’re an amazing team. The goalkeeper on that team did an outstanding job. We created a ton of chances, especially early in the game, and if we would have put them away, it would have been a different game,” Ewing said in November.
Other Illini were recognized for their performances, includ-ing Rayfi eld, who was named Big Ten Coach of the Year for the fi rst time in 10 seasons with Illi-nois. She was also named NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year for the second season in a row. Senior Jenna Carosio was named fi rst-team All-Big Ten and Big Ten Defender of the Year, and senior Marissa Mykines was named sec-ond-team All-Big Ten.
“I think it means that people around the country recognize that this team played some great soccer,” Rayfi eld said in Nove-meber. “For them I’m happy that has been acknowledged and rec-ognized. ... I think really the cred-it goes to this team, who did what we asked them to do, who was able to take instruction and implement it and really perform on the fi eld. That’s really what those accolades are all about.”
This spring, Rayfield and DiBernardo joined the U-20 national team in preparation for the 2012 FIFA U-20 Wom-en’s World Cup. DiBernardo was one of seven midfi elders on the training camp roster, while Ray-fi eld served as an assistant coach. The U-20 Women’s World Cup will begin Aug. 18 in Japan.
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Illini bounce back to capture Big Ten Championship vs. Buckeyes
Despite NCAA loss, Illini eclipse prior program records
Record — 17-5-2, 8-2-1 Big TenBiggest win — Big Ten title gameMVP — Senior Jenna CarosioQuote of the season — “After last year (and) going into this year, there wasn’t a lot of confi dence in what we could do this year,” Carosio said. “And I think my class took that personally and wanted to prove everyone wrong.”Stat representative of the season — 17 wins, eight-game winning streak and 12-game unbeaten mark all eclipsed program records.Player to watch next season — Sophomore Vanessa DiBernardo
Record — 17-7, 8-3 Big TenBiggest win — Defeating Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament fi nals to capture their fi rst Big Ten title since 2006.Team MVP — Senior Dennis NevoloQuote of the season — “We’ve played 20 match-es, and we’ve yet to play a complete match this year. ... That’s just not an acceptable standard for us, in terms of the way we per-formed as a team throughout today. I know I sound like a broken record, but we’re bet-ter than what we’re showing out there,” head coach Brad Dancer after the team’s last reg-ular season win over Purdue.Stat of the season — 8-1, 8-5: The respective records at home and on the road for the Illini. The road record is what is keeping Illinois from being an elite team.Player to watch next season — Freshman Tim Kopinski (8-3 Big Ten) hopes to translate his success this season into next year and fi ll the void left by seniors Nevlolo and Kalmanovich.
Record — First in Big Ten ChampionshipsBiggest win — Big Ten Championships, one of two wins on the season and fourth straight conference title.Team MVP — Senior Luke GuthrieQuote of the season — “It felt like Disneyland.” — freshman Brian Campbell after visiting Augusta National Golf Club.Stat representative of the season — Illinois has won four consecutive Big Ten Championships.Player to watch next season — Freshman Brian Campbell. He fi nished third out of the Illini at the Big Ten Championships.
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Roy Kalmanovich returns a serve during the 4-3 Illini loss to Michigan at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex on April 6. Kalmanovich would win a Big Ten conference match to clinch the Big Ten Championship for the Illini.
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half of a point. Or how a week later he dislocated his finger in the mid-dle of a parallel bars routine and hopped off the apparatus, popped his finger back in and hopped back on. He won that one, too. Or how pumped he was when he was the last gymnast to compete on the
rings during the team finals of the NCAA Championships: a hit cru-cial for an Illinois victory.
“I live for that stuff,” Maes-tas said after the finals. “I was like, ‘Let’s go.’ ... You could have thrown a 50-pound weight belt on me, thrown me with sharks. It doesn’t matter. I would have done it.”
He went on to hit the routine, leading Illinois to the win and
foreshadowing his individual rings title the next evening to become the first Illini rings cham-pion in program history.
“C.J. is just one of those gym-nasts that is amazing to watch,” Illinois head coach Justin Spring said. “You can see the fire in his eyes and his passion as he is truly playing on the events.”
As the awards kept piling up, he needed to continuously be
reminded what he won and what that meant. He at first looked con-fused when handed a large stack of certificates at practice one day. And then the excitement hit.
“Pretty cool,” he said with a big grin.
But he quickly lost interest and looked at the giant banner in the middle of the gym with the words “1989 National Champions” stretched across the top.
“When is our new one of those going to come in?” he asked.
That’s what he really wanted, pointing at the old banner every day when he walked into Kenney Gym and telling anyone who’d listen.
“It’s going to have 2012 up there next year,” he’d say. “It’s really going to.”
Now that he’s a national cham-pion, Maestas has bigger plans for
the future: He wants to break as many school records as he possi-bly can, make men’s gymnastics a popular sport on campus and start a gymnastics dynasty with a four-peat at the NCAA Championships.
“You know great things are going to come from him,” senior Paul Ruggeri said. “We’ve known that the whole time. Now it will be exciting to see exactly what happens.”
28, but suffered a loss to Penn State on Feb. 18.
Standout gymnast Mizoguchi was officially released from the team on March 12 due to a team agreement.
“There gets to be a point where you can’t jeopardize the program and the team energy for some competitive results,” Spring said in April. “It just got to the point where the team environment was going to be better without Tyler in the gym.”
Various Illini suffered multiple injuries, and Illinois never put out an entirely complete lineup.
Illinois was not ranked No. 1 the entire season and entered nation-als No. 4, a low ranking in a sport where all the talent is concentrat-ed among the top-six schools.
It was a boost of confidence for the Illini when they won their fourth straight Big Ten Champion-ship on April 6.
Spring reflected a lot on his senior season at Illinois, when his team had the ability to win but weren’t able to close it out. He discussed how he knew this team was different and how the captains were making sure the Illini kept focus on the ultimate goal.
“They called a meeting in the middle of practice the other day to make sure everybody was still on track,” Spring said on April 16. “That’s something I wish I would have done when I was a captain.”
Entering nationals, the coaches and athletes kept stressing that they could still win, but everybody needed to hit on the same night, which hadn’t happened all season.
It didn’t happen during the team finals on April 20, either. Maestas and Ruggeri suffered falls on high bar, and Illinois didn’t have its best floor performance. But when the Illini stepped up to the pommel horse — an event they had been struggling on all season — every gymnast hit.
“The turnaround on pommel horse was the best moment of my entire college career,” Ruggeri said after the championship.
The hit pommel horse routines, followed by a strong rings per-formance, propelled Illinois past Oklahoma, 358.85-357.45, to the national title: the first for the pro-gram in 23 years and the first for Illinois athletics in nine years.
“It’s the pinnacle of everything we trained for, especially for my past four years,” senior Anthony Sacramento said after the cham-pionship. “This was what I want-ed, more than anything at college, with my brothers at Illinois. I will never forget this day, ever,”
The Illini received a plethora of awards after the historic season: Ruggeri won the Nissen-Emery Award, Spring was named Nation-al Coach of the Year and assistant coaches Daniel Ribeiro and Ivan Ivankov were named National Assistant Coaches of the Year.
“This was a long season with its up and downs, just like any season is,” Spring said. “But this team was different, this team was those who finally did it.”
The Illini started the season with several questions after the loss of leaders Laura DeBrul-er, Hillary Haen and Johannah Bangert. Setter Luhrsen, who took the place of All-American Haen, was the biggest question mark in regards to her manage-ment on the court.
“(Luhrsen) still has some things to figure out as far as leadership goes and what that means,” Hambly said in August during preseason. “She knows how to play the position ... I think she’s going to be outstanding.”
Luhrsen, who transferred from Connecticut after her freshman year, ended the season ranked third in the Big Ten and 28th in the country in assists per set with 11.2. She was named to the NCAA All-Tournament team and ranks sixth on the Illinois single-season assists list with 1,603.
Illinois also received pro-duction from freshman outside hitter Liz McMahon, who was named to the All-Big Ten Fresh-man Team, finishing the last five out of eight games with double-digit kills.
“Liz is not a freshman any-more,” Hambly said after the first game of the NCAA tourna-ment in December. “She’s play-ing at a high level, she’s a person we can go to.”
The Illini now look to McMa-hon and Luhrsen for leader-ship, and senior Erin Johnson and junior Jennifer Beltran will also gain attention.
But if this season said any-thing about the future of the program, it is the progress that could come.
“Our program’s got a lot — we’ve made a lot of growth this year and we still have a lot of growth we can make, and it’s exciting,” Luhrsen said after the loss to UCLA.
And that growth will contin-ue with Hambly, the Volleyball Magazine’s Coach of the Year, as he signed a five-year exten-sion in February.
The newest member of the Illini exuded energy, had stud-ied under some of the game’s fin-est and had whipped his previ-ous program into shape. He even had the Champaign twang down, splash of South and all.
The first offseason? Chang-es abounded. Each coach was forced to get creative thanks to a depleted roster that lacked depth at key positions.
As for the regular season, that remained to be seen. As did the team’s ability to distinguish itself.
Gordon is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Fol-low him on Twitter @GordonVoit.
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BY JOE SOULIGNESTAFF WRITER
The 2011 season was a histor-ic one for the Illini football pro-gram. But it wasn’t always good history that was being made.
The Illini came into the sea-son with high expectations fol-lowing their Texas Bowl win and a strong redshirt freshman sea-son from quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase. And early on, the Illini surpassed those expecta-tions. After rolling to victories over Arkansas State and South Dakota State to start the season, No. 22 Arizona State came to Champaign for one of the most anticipated matchups in recent history.
After a thrilling 17-14 over the Sun Devils, the Illini jumped into the national rankings at No. 24, but they didn’t stop there. After struggling in a 23-20 victory over Western Michigan, Illinois pulled off an 18-point comeback over Northwestern on Homecoming. After thumping Indiana in the team’s first road game, the Illini sat at 6-0 for the first time since the 1951 national championship season.
The Illini offense was clicking on all cylinders, led by receiv-er A.J. Jenkins’ record-setting receiving pace and a stable of effective runners. On the oth-
er side of the ball, junior defen-sive end Whitney Mercilus and the rest of the front seven were quickly emerging as a terror for opposing quarterbacks.
But just as expectations were reaching their peak with a No. 16 ranking, the wheels started to come off for the Illini. It began with a 17-7 loss to Ohio State: one in which the Buckeyes complet-ed just one pass in four attempts while the Illini failed to score until the fourth quarter. But that was just the beginning of Illinois’ offensive woes. The fol-lowing week at Purdue, the Illini once again failed to score until the fourth quarter and fell once again, 21-14.
The next week saw Illinois trav-
el to No. 21 Penn State in less than ideal conditions, with snow and bitter cold throughout the game. And while the defense held the Nittany Lions to just 10 points, the Illini were able to score just seven of their own, with a game-tying field goal attempt by Derek Dimke careening off the upright in the final seconds.
The Illini concluded the sea-son with losses to Michigan and Wisconsin, with the offense show-ing no signs of its early season success. But the low point of the season came in the final regular season game, as the Illini fell 27-7 to Big Ten cellar dweller Min-nesota. With the loss, the Illini became the first team ever to fol-low a 6-0 start to the season with
a six-game losing streak.Head coach Ron Zook was
fired not long after, and offen-sive coordinator Paul Petrino, who was under fire through-out much of the season for the offense’s repeated struggles, left for Arkansas. But despite all the turmoil, the Illini were able to finish the season on a high note. Led by interim head coach and defensive coordinator Vic Koen-ning, the Illini took down UCLA 20-14 in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl — the first time in program history it had won consecutive bowl games. Just weeks before, athletic director Mike Thomas named former Toledo head man Tim Beckman as the next head coach of the Orange and Blue.
Zook’s era ends with 7-6 season
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Illinois players hoist up the 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl trophy after the game at San Francisco’s AT&T Park on Dec. 31. The Illini won bowl games in consecutive years for the first time in history.
Record — 7-6, 2-6 Big TenBiggest win — 17-14 over No. 22 Arizona StateTeam MVP — Junior defensive end Whitney Mercilus. He exploded onto the national scene, leading the NCAA with 16 sacks and tying the Illinois record held by Simeon Rice. Mercilus also forced nine fumbles, a Big Ten and Illinois record, and recorded 22.5 tackles for a loss.Quote of the season — “We were down five, right?” said former head coach Ron Zook, who was corrected that Illinois was leading by seven. He then indicated he thought the score was 20-19 before pausing. “We talked about it when we were going down the field is we were going to go for two. Maybe I didn’t know what the score was. It’s happened to me before.”Stat representative of the season — Despite a defense that ranked No. 15 in the nation by allowing just 19.6 points per game, the Illini offense averaged just 11 points per game during the six-game losing streak, often failing to score until the game’s final minutes.Player to watch next season — Linebacker Jonathan Brown. Just a sophomore in 2011, Brown led the Illini defense with 108 tackles. He also racked up 19.5 tackles for a loss and six sacks to go along with an interception and two fumble recoveries despite being suspended for the game against Indiana. If Brown can continue to mature, both on and off the field, he could develop into one of the top defenders in the Big Ten, if not the country.
Team remained positive despite rocky season ending with Law’s firingBY THOMAS BRUCHSTAFF WRITER
A tumultuous Illinois women’s basketball season that saw more disappointments than triumphs ended with a firing and a hiring.
Not that the season was not doomed from the start. Losses mounted early in the season, but they were attributed to a rigor-ous nonconference schedule that would eventually prepare the team for Big Ten games.
“If you want to be the best, you have to play the best,” former Illi-nois head coach Jolette Law said in November. “These games are measuring the things we are try-ing to preach every day. It’s com-ing down to little things, the block outs, the free throws and the turn-overs. At the next level, when you make a mistake, they capitalize.”
The early stumbles were a har-binger to come for the rest of the season, as the “little things” Law stressed were noticeably absent, especially in close games.
Illinois began the conference schedule with a nine-game losing
streak and didn’t earn a Big Ten victory until Jan. 26 in an over-time win at Michigan State. Strong efforts on both ends of the floor were marred by mental lapses and buzzer beaters that did not go in favor of the Illini.
The team maintained a positive outlook on the season, though, and eagerly anticipated a victory.
“We’re still positive,” forward Karisma Penn said. “We know (winning) is bound to happen, you just have to keep working hard. We’re in all these games, it just kind of gets away from us at the end.”
Amid the disappointing losses, a bright spot emerged in junior guard Adrienne GodBold, who brought a distinctive energy off the bench.
GodBold averaged 9.6 points and 4.2 rebounds per game on the season, for which she was award-ed the Big Ten’s Sixth Player of the Year.
After the 0-9 conference start, Illinois stabilized for the rest of Big Ten play, finishing with a 5-11
conference record and a No. 10 seed in the Big Ten Tournament.
Despite gaining some momen-tum heading into postseason play, Illinois was quickly ousted in a 68-53 blowout loss to Michigan in the first round.
Illinois athletic director Mike Thomas promptly fired Law the next day. Law finished her five-year tenure at Illinois with a 69-93 record and never coached a team to higher than ninth in the Big Ten standings.
A national search was conduct-ed for Law’s replacement, and Wis-consin-Green Bay’s Matt Bollant was named the new women’s bas-ketball coach at Illinois on March 28. Bollant posted a 148-19 record in five years at Green Bay.
“I didn’t come here for the mon-ey,” Bollant said at his hiring press conference. “I didn’t leave Green Bay because I wanted more mon-ey. I left Green Bay because this is a great challenge and an oppor-tunity to impact players’ lives and somewhere I can see myself being the rest of my life.”
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Record — 11-19, 5-11 Big TenBiggest win — 66-65 comeback victory against then No. 10-ranked Ohio State.MVP — Adrienne GodBold, 9.6 points per game, 4.2 rebounds per game in only 25.3 minutes per gameQuote of the season — “If I was worried about wins and losses, I would have probably played an easier schedule,” Law said. “If I get fired, I’m going to get fired going out my style, playing the best of the best. If I’ve got to play pansy teams just to get wins to save my job, I’m selling my soul. Never crossed my mind.”Stat representative of the season — 3-7 in games decided by six points or less.Player to watch next season — Karisma Penn. Penn earned Preseason All-Big Ten First Team honors but failed to live up to those expectations while averaging only 13.4 points and 7.3 rebounds.
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BY GREG ZECKSTAFF WRITER
Expectations weren’t ini-tially very high for the Illinois men’s basketball team consider-ing it had seven new players, six of whom were freshmen.
But what seemed like a good season after starting the season 10-0 quickly went south, as the Illi-ni failed to make the NCAA tour-nament after losing in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.
In its first six games, Illinois didn’t struggle much, starting out perfect with the closest game coming in a four-point win over Illinois State.
The first test of the season came against Maryland in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, which saw both the Illini and the Big
Ten winning again.That victory was quickly fol-
lowed up with another win, this time over Gonzaga behind cen-ter Meyers Leonard’s 21 points.
The Illini would win their next two games before falling to UNLV in Chicago at the United Center for the first loss of the season.
After defeating Cornell, Illi-nois would go on to lose to Mis-souri for the third straight year in the annual Braggin’ Rights game in St. Louis.
Illinois would respond, how-ever, at the start of Big Ten play by winning three of its first four games leading up to a showdown with Ohio State.
Junior guard Brandon Paul gave the performance of a lifetime in that game when he scored 43
points in 36 minutes, including hitting eight 3-pointers, helping the Illini win 79-74. The win put the Orange and Blue in first place in the conference standings.
Success was short-lived from that point on, as the team would go just 2-11 in conference games for the rest of the season. The season ended after a 64-61 loss to Iowa in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.
Head coach Bruce Weber was fired the next day after spend-ing nine seasons at Illinois. Athletic director Mike Thom-as would hire Ohio’s John Groce to fill the vacancy.
Following the season, Leon-ard declared for the NBA draft, foregoing his final two seasons of eligibility.
Record — 17-15, 6-12 Big TenBest win — Defeating Ohio State 79-74 behind Brandon Paul’s 43 pointsTeam MVP — Meyers Leonard (13.6 PPG, 8.2 RPG and 1.9 BPG)Quote of the season — “I’ll also remember March 9, my last day here. And also, the first day of Custard Cup opening up, and that’s where I’m going right now.” — Bruce Weber after being firedStat representative of the season — Seven, for the number of losses by five points or fewerPlayer to watch — Nnanna Egwu. Production is expected yet again from Paul and Richardson, but there’s a hole in the Illini front court Egwu needs to fill after Leonard’s departure.
Illini success short-lived; Groce named new head coach
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The Daily Illini | www.DailyIllini.com Tuesday, May 8, 2012 5B
BY JAMAL COLLIER STAFF WRITER
From the start of the season, this was not going to be the same Illinois baseball team that won the Big Ten Championship.
The opening day roster includ-ed 18 players who hadn’t played an inning at Illinois, including second baseman Reid Roper, starting pitcher John Kravetz, fi rst baseman Jordan Parr and catcher Kelly Norris-Jones.
Center fi elder Willie Argo, right fi elder Davis Hendrick-son and third baseman Bran-don Hohl are the only position players who started at the end of last year and then came into this season starting at the same spot, but the Illini haven’t had to shuf-fl e their lineup much. All eight members on the fi eld, excluding pitchers and designated hitters, have started 40 or more games for Illinois.
Head coach Dan Hartleb has preached consistency with his young team. They’ve played the game with an even keel
approach, not getting too high after a win or too low after a loss.
The Illini don’t have a winning or losing streak longer than four games all season long.
Last year’s team made come- from-behind victories in the late innings commonplace, while this Illinois team hasn’t won a game all season when trailing after the sixth inning.
One of the reasons for that is the Illini’s lack of explosion on offense. The Illini can score — they average about six runs per game — but they do it by creating opportunities on the base paths. Illinois is the run-away conference leader in steal attempts with 110. The next clos-et is 86.
At times, the Illini’s pitching staff has had to carry them this season, and Kevin Johnson has transitioned masterfully as the team’s ace. He struggled in his fi rst two starts, giving up six runs against Notre Dame and fi ve runs (one earned) against
Gonzaga, but now boasts a 3.79 ERA and seven wins (tied for team lead). He has been the mas-ter of consistency for the Illi-ni, taking the ball every Friday for the Illini against the other team’s best starter. Behind John-son and Kravetz on Friday and Saturday, Illinois has also strug-gled to fi nd a consistent No. 3 starter for Sunday games in Big Ten series.
Illinois has passed up some milestones along the way. On March 27, Willie Argo stole his 84th career base in the fi rst inning of a 16-7 lost to Illinois State.
The Ilini would get some revenge against the Redbirds with a 7-5 victory on April 18 — the 200th of Hartleb’s career.
Kravetz has settled into the role as the No. 2 starter for Illi-nois, tying the Illinois record for most wins by a freshman pitch-er (seven).
The Illini lost two out of three to Michigan State over the week-end and now fi nd themselves fi ght-
ing for a spot in the Big Ten Tour-nament. The Illini are currently tied with Nebraska for seventh place in the Big Ten.
Record — 26-21, 9-9 Big TenBiggest win — Win against No. 18 OregonTeam MVP — Junior Kevin Johnson 7-4, 3.79 ERA, 39 K’s, 23 BB’s Quote of the season — “We need a level of consistency. It can’t be we go out and we do things right for two days and then all of a sudden, we feel good about ourselves and think we can just walk on the fi eld and beat somebody — it doesn’t work that way. You have to do things properly every day,” head coach Dan HartlebStat representative of the season — Leads Big Ten in stolen bases (71), caught stealing (39) and steal attempts (110)Player to watch next season — Redshirt freshman Reid Roper
Illinois fi ghts for spot in Big Tens
BY BLAKE PONSTAFF WRITER
With a balanced cast of expe-rienced veterans, underclassmen and a solid goaltending duo, the Illi-ni hockey team entered the 2011-12 season with high aspirations of making a deep run in the ACHA national tournament and potential-ly sneaking into the national cham-pionship game.
The Illini’s campaign, however, resulted in an underwhelming sea-son that resembled a rollercoaster ride and ended with a fi rst-round national tournament exit. One big number was indicative of the result: 53. This is the number of games missed, due to either injury or suspension, by key Illini hockey players over the course of the 34 game regular season.
“(The injuries) defi nitely made an impact,” said sophomore for-ward Austin Bostock . “When guys are out of the lineup we miss their presence in the locker room as well as on the ice. Down the stretch to nationals, every guy was important to our success and we were miss-ing a few key guys.”
The team began the fi rst half of the season with a winning record, ending 2011 with a 10-7 record . Key wins included huge goal outbursts against competition like Southern Illinois-Edwardsville (10-2) and Wisconsin (11-0), as well as a win over the eventual national cham-pion runner-up Oakland (5-2). The Illini also suffered a few heart-breaking losses against rivals Penn State (5-2) and Iowa State (4-3) .
Once 2012 started, however, the Illini began the latter half of the season on a six game skid. The team eventually broke the skid by going on a three-game winning streak, but that streak was stalled
by yet another three-game losing streak.
By the time of the CSCHL tour-nament, the Illini were without key cogs Austin Bostock and senior defenseman Chris Peter . Bostock and Peter were the second leading scorers on both the team’s offen-sive and defensive ends, leaving the Illini to scramble up the lines, squandering any rhythm to be had.
In the fi rst round of the tourna-ment, the Illini faced a familiar foe in Iowa State. Illinois jumped on the lead quickly, stunning the Cyclones by scoring the fi rst fi ve goals of the game. The Illini went on to upset Iowa State 5-1.
The second round of the tour-nament provided the team with a much tougher challenge in the Lindenwood Lions. The Lions went undefeated against the Illini throughout the entire year, win-ning all four match ups prior to the tournament. This time was no dif-ferent, as Illinois fell 5-1.
Next up was the ACHA national tournament, where the team was scheduled to face a tough Ohio Bob-cats squad. The Bobcats opened up the scoring by netting three goals in the fi rst period. The Illini showed resiliency by scoring two goals of their own the next period, but the Bobcats top line proved to be too much as they went on to win in a heartbreaking 5-4 game .
Illinois went on to fi nish the year with a 16-17-1 record overall. The year proved to be head coach Chad Cassel’s last with the team, effec-tively ending a legendary 15-year run that included a national cham-pionship — the only perfect season in ACHA history — and two coach of the year awards. Former Illini hockey player Nick Fabbrini has been hired to replace Cassel.
Record — 16-17-1, 6-9-1 Big TenBiggest win — 5-2 vs. Oakland on Oct. 14Team MVP — Austin Bostock (11 goals, 14 assists, 25 points in 29 games played)Quote of the season — “At the time you thought you were going to get back (to the national championship) four more times. Looking back, you wish you would’ve fi nished.” — senior defenseman Justin WirtStat representative of the season — 53 games missed due to injury/suspensionPlayer to watch next season — Freshman forward Derek Schultz (20 points in 23 games)
Illinois struggles without injured Bostock, Peter
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Illinois’ Reid Roper (7) hits the ball during the game against Eastern Illinois at Illinois Field on April 10. Roper is one of the 18 new players for this year’s Illini.
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