BY ZIKE CHENG CONTRIBUTING WRITER Lincoln Square Mall was a blur of rainbow colors Saturday as Champaign- Urbana residents celebrated the LGBT community at the third annual C-U Pride Festival. The festival was sponsored by the Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County. Kevin Bowersox-Johnson, cen- ter founder and president, said the fes- tival, which was held in Lincoln Square Mall, said the event was meant to rec- ognize the contri- butions of lesbi- ans and gays to the community. “We live here, we work here, we play here — we contrib- ute a lot to this com- munity,” Bowersox-Johnson said. He said the festival grew into a larg- er-scale event this year. “Last year, we only had things inside, but this year, we have an outside part, including all kids stuff, a family fun area, outdoor stages and a foam party. These are all new,” he said. The event featured live music on out- door stages and family entertainment, including carnival games, inflatables and face painting. For Kelly Turner, who attended the festival with her daughter, the fami- ly-oriented part of the festival was the most fun. “We do enjoy the outside entertain- ment facilities for kids,” Turner said. “I brought my 22-month-old girl. She real- ly enjoys the bouncing beds outside.” In addition to outdoor activities, there were workshops, performances and information booths inside the mall. BY STEVEN VAZQUEZ STAFF WRITER Police continue to investigate a bur- glary that occurred Wednesday night at the Roland Realty apartment com- plex at 309 E. Green St. During the bur- glary, a man entered a woman’s apart- ment while she was showering. The victim had observed the offend- er kneeling by the tub, trying to look at her. She then yelled at the offender, who then fled. The victim then closed and locked the bathroom door, but the offender again attempted to enter. After the victim continued to scream, the offender left the apartment. According to the police report, the offender also took $45 in cash. Following this incident, University police officers are reminding students to always keep their doors locked and be careful about who drifts in behind them when entering their place of residence. Capt. Skip Frost of University Police said that because the crime did not occur on university property, it did not warrant a Crime-Alert. An advi- sory was sent out instead via email from the Division of Public Safety. Frost also said the crime was reported to the Champaign Police Department, so it is their case to handle. “Clearly, we realize that this (crime) was close enough to campus that we want to let our students know that ‘Hey, this incident occurred,’” Frost said. “As soon as we became aware of it, we wanted to put that information out.” The advisory also featured pictures of the offender, who was described as “a skinny black male, approximately 20 years of age, 6 foot tall, wearing a red ‘Angry Birds’ ball cap and a red shirt.” The police are hoping to get informa- tion from students who might know about the offender. Lt. Tony Brown of University Police said there is a potential for an updated advisory to be sent out, which would include video footage. “There’s also indications from the video that (the Champaign Police Department) has been able to view that he attempted to get into several other apartments and may have actu- ally accessed those other apartments,” Brown said. Trisha Christakes, resident of the INSIDE Police 2A | Corrections 2A | Calendar 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B | Sudoku 4B The Daily Illini Monday September 10, 2012 High: 77˚ Low: 50˚ The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 16 | FREE C-U SHOWS OFF RAINBOW COLORS Police say to keep doors locked after 309 break-in Project to improve Boneyard Creek comes in over budget Champaign police shoot, injure suspect in domestic disturbance See PRIDE FEST, Page 3A See 309, Page 3A More online: Visit www. DailyIllini.com for an online photo gallery of the Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County’s event. Leaving London Illini pick up 20 medals at Paralympics SPORTS, 1B Olympic sanctuary For some athletes, home is wherever the Olympic Games are held. OPINIONS, 4A KELLY HICKEY THE DAILY ILLINI A Public Safety advisory was issued Thursday to inform students about a burglary that occurred at the 309 East Green Street apartment complex. Following this incident, University police officers are reminding students to always keep their doors locked. SARI LESK THE DAILY ILLINI Sorraya Dash, female impersonator, performs at the Champaign-Urbana Pride Festival, held at Lincoln Square Mall on Saturday. The event was hosted by the Uniting Pride Center. Dash has performed drag for about six years. “Last year, we only had things inside, but this year, we have an outside part, including all kids stuff, a family fun area, outdoor stages and a foam party. These are all new.” KEVIN BOWERSOX-JOHNSON, founder and president of the Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County Event aims to recognize LGBT in community BY GORDON UTENDAHL STAFF WRITER After estimates for a beautification project at Boneyard Creek came in $2.5 million over budget, Urbana officials are beginning to look toward cost-cut- ting alternatives. The Boneyard Creek Improvements Project aims to improve the design and aesthetics of the Urbana-Champaign waterway to include a walkway for local residents and adjacent properties. “Unless we can come up with anoth- er money source or continue to work with the contractors in reducing costs, the only thing remaining would be to start eliminating features,” said Den- nis Roberts, Ward 5. Roberts thinks the extraneous aspects of the project, such as the spe- cialty light fixtures, art motifs in the concrete walls and stone facade, will be the first parts of the project removed from construction plans. “We’re going to regret losing project details at the expense of budget costs,” Roberts said. “The beauty of the walk as we envisioned it through the artist that helped us design it was that it could be unique and include art.” He plans to discuss other methods to reduce project costs during the regular city council meeting Monday. Gordon can be reached at utendah1@ dailyillini.com. DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT The Champaign Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shoot- ing early Sunday morning. Police officers were dispatched around 4:30 a.m. to the 1200 block of Crispus Drive for a domestic disturbance. Accord- ing to a news release, an armed male sub- ject forced his way into the home. The officers encountered the suspect, shots were fired, and the male subject was injured, according to the release. He was transported to Carle Founda- tion Hospital. His condition is unknown at this time. “Any incident, in which a use of force of this magnitude is required, is life chang- ing for both the officer and the injured party,” said Champaign police Chief Anthony Cobb in a release. “Our prayers go out to him and his family as well as both officers involved.” The Illinois State Police, along with several other police agencies and the Champaign County state’s attorney, will assist in the investigation.
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BY ZIKE CHENGCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Lincoln Square Mall was a blur of rainbow colors Saturday as Champaign-Urbana residents celebrated the LGBT community at the third annual C-U Pride Festival.
The festival was sponsored by the Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County. Kevin Bowersox-Johnson , cen-ter founder and president, said the fes-
tival, which was held in Lincoln Square Mall , said the event was meant to rec-ognize the contri-butions of lesbi-ans and gays to the community.
“We live here, we work here, we play here — we contrib-ute a lot to this com-
munity,” Bowersox-Johnson said.He said the festival grew into a larg-
er-scale event this year.“Last year, we only had things inside,
but this year, we have an outside part, including all kids stuff, a family fun area, outdoor stages and a foam party. These are all new,” he said.
The event featured live music on out-door stages and family entertainment, including carnival games, infl atables and face painting.
For Kelly Turner , who attended the festival with her daughter, the fami-ly-oriented part of the festival was the most fun.
“We do enjoy the outside entertain-ment facilities for kids,” Turner said. “I brought my 22-month-old girl. She real-ly enjoys the bouncing beds outside.”
In addition to outdoor activities, there were workshops, performances and information booths inside the mall.
BY STEVEN VAZQUEZSTAFF WRITER
Police continue to investigate a bur-glary that occurred Wednesday night at the Roland Realty apartment com-plex at 309 E. Green St. During the bur-glary, a man entered a woman’s apart-ment while she was showering.
The victim had observed the offend-er kneeling by the tub, trying to look at her. She then yelled at the offender, who then fl ed. The victim then closed and locked the bathroom door, but the offender again attempted to enter. After the victim continued to scream, the offender left the apartment.
According to the police report, the offender also took $45 in cash.
Following this incident, University police offi cers are reminding students to always keep their doors locked and be careful about who drifts in behind them when entering their place of residence.
Capt. Skip Frost of University Police said that because the crime did not occur on university property, it did not warrant a Crime-Alert. An advi-sory was sent out instead via email from the Division of Public Safety. Frost also said the crime was reported
to the Champaign Police Department, so it is their case to handle.
“Clearly, we realize that this (crime) was close enough to campus that we want to let our students know that ‘Hey, this incident occurred,’” Frost said. “As soon as we became aware of it, we wanted to put that information out.”
The advisory also featured pictures of the offender, who was described as “a skinny black male, approximately 20 years of age, 6 foot tall, wearing a red ‘Angry Birds’ ball cap and a red shirt.” The police are hoping to get informa-tion from students who might know
about the offender.Lt. Tony Brown of University Police
said there is a potential for an updated advisory to be sent out, which would include video footage.
“There’s also indications from the video that (the Champaign Police Department) has been able to view that he attempted to get into several other apartments and may have actu-ally accessed those other apartments,” Brown said.
Trisha Christakes, resident of the
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A Public Safety advisory was issued Thursday to inform students about a burglary that occurred at the 309 East Green Street apartment complex. Following this incident, University police offi cers are reminding students to always keep their doors locked.
SARI LESK THE DAILY ILLINI
Sorraya Dash, female impersonator, performs at the Champaign-Urbana Pride Festival, held at Lincoln Square Mall on Saturday. The event was hosted by the Uniting Pride Center. Dash has performed drag for about six years.
“Last year, we only had things inside, but this year, we have an outside part, including all kids stuff, a family fun area, outdoor stages and a foam party. These are all new.”KEVIN BOWERSOX-JOHNSON ,founder and president of the Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County
Event aims to recognize LGBT in community
BY GORDON UTENDAHLSTAFF WRITER
After estimates for a beautifi cation project at Boneyard Creek came in $2.5 million over budget, Urbana offi cials are beginning to look toward cost-cut-ting alternatives.
The Boneyard Creek Improvements Project aims to improve the design and aesthetics of the Urbana-Champaign waterway to include a walkway for local residents and adjacent properties.
“Unless we can come up with anoth-er money source or continue to work with the contractors in reducing costs, the only thing remaining would be to start eliminating features,” said Den-nis Roberts, Ward 5.
Roberts thinks the extraneous aspects of the project, such as the spe-cialty light fi xtures, art motifs in the concrete walls and stone facade, will be the fi rst parts of the project removed from construction plans.
“We’re going to regret losing project details at the expense of budget costs,” Roberts said. “The beauty of the walk as we envisioned it through the artist that helped us design it was that it could be unique and include art.”
He plans to discuss other methods to reduce project costs during the regular city council meeting Monday.
The Champaign Police Department is investigating an offi cer-involved shoot-ing early Sunday morning.
Police offi cers were dispatched around 4:30 a.m. to the 1200 block of Crispus Drive for a domestic disturbance. Accord-ing to a news release, an armed male sub-ject forced his way into the home.
The offi cers encountered the suspect, shots were fi red, and the male subject was injured, according to the release.
He was transported to Carle Founda-
tion Hospital. His condition is unknown at this time.
“Any incident, in which a use of force of this magnitude is required, is life chang-ing for both the offi cer and the injured party,” said Champaign police Chief Anthony Cobb in a release. “Our prayers go out to him and his family as well as both offi cers involved.”
The Illinois State Police, along with several other police agencies and the Champaign County state’s attorney, will assist in the investigation.
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Champaign! A 57-year-old male was ar-
rested on charge of trespass-ing in the 1100 block of South Fourth Street around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, the offender was issued a notice to appear for trespassing.
Urbana! A 20-year-old and 19-year-
old male were arrested on the charge of retail theft at Circle K, 2011 N. Lincoln Ave., around 3 a.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the offenders entered the business and stole four items.
! Theft was reported in the 200 block of South Lynn Street just before noon Saturday.
According to the report, when the victim returned to a common area to take her items,
she found that all of her food and several house items had been taken by an unknown of-fender.
! Residential burglary and criminal damage to proper-ty were reported in the 1300 block of North Lincoln Avenue around 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown offender cut the win-dow screen of the victim’s apartment and apparently en-tered. Nothing was taken.
! Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported in the 1500 block of East Washington Street just before 1 p.m. Sept. 1.
According to the report, an unknown offender damaged a window of an abandoned build-ing.
! Theft was reported in the 300 block of West Park Street around 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the victim reported the theft of two
listed bikes from the bike rack at her apartment complex.
! Theft was reported in the 300 block of West Griggs Street around 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown offender took the vic-tim’s bike from where it had been locked to a post down-stairs from her apartment sometime after 5:30 p.m. Thurs-day.
University! A 22-year-old male was ar-
rested on the charge of tres-passing at Ikenberry Commons, 301 E. Gregory Drive, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
According to the report, the offender had been issued a pri-or no-trespassing letter and was recognized by a foot-patrol of-fi cer.
Compiled by Klaudia Dukala
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The booths advertised for vari-ous organizations and political campaigns, including the Urba-na Free Library, Community United Church of Christ and Planned Parenthood of Illinois.
George Danos , Democratic candidate for Champaign Coun-ty auditor, spoke at a candidate forum.
“Most of the questions were centered on those of LGBT
concerns,” Danos said. “We discussed the training for the acceptance of gay people among teachers, fi remen and policemen.”
The festival also featured drag performances, which were held at the Piato Cafe on Broad-way Avenue .
“We enjoyed the drag show most, especially the Pound the Alarm show,” attendee Bran-di Carlson said. “It’s fun and exciting.”
Justin Johnson, whose stage persona is Leiloni Stars, is a
board member at-large for the center. Johnson performed and held a workshop for youth on how to do drag. Johnson said the art of drag can help people be more accepting.
“I believe this is all about connecting with people,” John-son said. “It helps people to open their mind, to see differ-ent kinds of people. People are people. It doesn’t matter how you live, who you love. We are all the same. We are all here for this event.”
Kelly Jo Lamb, owner and
chef at Piato , was one of the sponsors of the festival. Lamb said she wanted to share her values by participating in the event.
“My little sister is lesbian ... (and) I think (the festival) is bringing people together. The UP Center is all about helping people come out,” said Lamb, as she teared up. “I know it’s tough out there; I saw my little sister go through it.”
complex and sophomore in LAS, said she’s always pretty mind-ful of who is coming into the building because she wants it to remain a safe place.
“Me and my roommates have made a more conscious effort to keep our doors locked when we go in and out because of the emails we’ve been getting,” Christakes said.
Frost and Brown agreed that something as simple as locking the door will greatly reduce the possibility of somebody being the victim of a crime. They said this is “common sense,” but sometimes students will get too comfortable with their surround-ings and will just leave it open.
“These are crimes of oppor-tunity,” Frost said. “The com-munity can help us out and help themselves out by removing the opportunity. That’s what we
always say.”Champaign Police spokes-
woman Rene Dunn could not be reached before press time.
Some San Fran health care fees not going to health care
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BY FENIT NIRAPPILTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — Restau-rants and other businesses in this food-loving tourist mecca collected almost $14 million dol-lars in extra fees last year from their patrons, as they sought to comply with the progressive city’s landmark universal health care ordinance.
But an Associated Press analy-sis of records showed that rough-ly 40 percent of that money hasn’t been spent on their work-ers’ health care.
The surcharges, which range from 3 to 5 percent and often appear in fi ne print on receipts, are one result of San Francisco’s 5-year-old health care program, which includes some of the most far-reaching such requirements mandated by any U.S. city.
The law applies to more than 4,000 businesses with as few as 20 part-time workers, from nail salons to international banks with local branches, requiring them to set aside for workers an extra $1 to $3 an hour for health care.
The city’s mandate is unrelat-ed to the federal health care law that takes effect in 2014 and will apply only to companies with 50 or more employees. They could face fi nes if they don’t provide coverage. And the IRS will col-lect the money, minimizing the chances of gaming the system.
In San Francisco, the fees have become a vexing issue for local offi cials, labor leaders and restaurants, whose owners say they are doing their best to com-ply with what many consider to be a confusing law with an admi-rable goal.
City offi cials say the vast majority of businesses in San Francisco go beyond what’s required to make sure their workers have health care. But Donna Levitt, who is head of the city’s Offi ce of Labor Stan-dards and Enforcement, said self-reporting by the 5 percent of businesses with surcharg-es last year confi rms the city’s suspicion that the money doesn’t always go to health care.
There was nothing on the books in 2011 that required busi-nesses to spend all the health surcharge money they took in. But a new law took effect this year requiring them to use the money for its intended pur-pos, or face a consumer fraud investigation.
In July, the San Francisco Civ-il Grand Jury raised concerns about abuse of the surcharg-es after looking at about three dozen restaurants jury mem-bers had patronized. It conclud-ed many businesses were mis-leading customers into believing that every dollar was going to the health and well-being of workers.
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BY JIM KUHNHENNAND THOMAS BEAUMONTTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — Mitt Romney said he would retain some popular parts of the new health care law he has pledged to repeal, while President Barack Obama focused attention in all-impor-tant Florida on the Republican ticket’s stand on Medicare, an issue that’s been more favorable to Democrats.
Romney also said it was a “mistake” for congressional Republicans to go along with the White House on a budget deal that has set up big automatic spending cuts in defense and elsewhere in the new year. His running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, helped steer that agreement through Congress.
Health care grabbed the spot-light Sunday, less than months from Election Day in the dead-locked race.
Romney, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” for the fi rst time in the campaign and the fi rst time since June 28, 2009, said he would replace Obama’s health overhaul with a plan entirely his own yet would keep some popular provisions.
“I’m not getting rid of all of health care reform. Of course, there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I’m going to put in place,” Romney said in the interview
taped Friday and Saturday. He cited coverage for people with medical conditions and new insurance marketplaces.
Romney’s aides said that was consistent with his previous position that those who haven’t had a gap in coverage shouldn’t be denied coverage.
But the comments brought renewed attention to the simi-larities between Obama’s plan and the one Romney champi-oned when he was Massachu-setts governor, which included both protections for health con-ditions and an individual man-date that the Republican has since railed against.
The GOP nominee, who attended church in Boston before debate practice sessions, didn’t offer specifi cs for how he’d deal with the affordabil-ity of insurance but suggested competition would help bring down costs.
For seniors, Romney has called for restructuring Medi-care by giving retirees a gov-ernment payment that they would use to choose between traditional Medicare and pri-vate insurance.
Obama, campaign for a sec-ond day in Florida, tried to move past a weak jobs report Friday and highlight the impact of Romney’s proposals on old-er workers and those nearing retirement.
The president promoted a study showing that future retirees under Romney’s plan would pay tens of thousands more for health care over their retirement period. The report was rejected quickly by Rom-ney’s campaign, which faulted Obama for relying on “discredit-ed attacks” and noted the study was conducted by Obama’s for-mer adviser.
Obama told about 3,000 sup-porters in Melbourne, Fla., that if Romney had his way, Ameri-cans will pay more so insurers could make more. “No Ameri-can should have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies,” he said.
In Ohio, another critical bat-tleground, Vice President Joe Biden piled on, mocking Repub-licans for saying they want to pro-tect Medicare and claiming that under Romney’s leadership, ben-efi ts would be slashed.
Hoping to put a human face on the issue, Obama ate breakfast at a Florida cafe with two older couples concerned about Medi-care costs. But a brief interaction with another patron and Romney supporter underscored what polls show is a persistent problem for Obama with voters who like him personally but question his eco-nomic competence.
Said 73-year-old Bill Terrell of Cocoa, Fla.: “I always thought he was a very personable person,
nice person. I just don’t think he’s doing a good job on the economy.”
In broadcast interviews, Rom-ney and Ryan kept the heat on Obama on the economic front, warning that across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect at the start of 2013 could devas-tate the defense budget. Half of the cuts are expected to come from the Pentagon if Congress doesn’t reach a budget solution in the next few months.
But Romney’s attacks on the president for signing the defi cit-reduction measure had some col-lateral damage for his running mate, who as House Budget Com-mittee chairman both voted for and loudly praised the bill that created the trigger for the auto-matic spending cuts.
“I thought it was a mistake on the part of the White House to propose it,” Romney said. “I think it was a mistake for Republicans to go along with it.”
With an eye toward undecided voters dismayed by the lacklus-ter recovery, Romney and Ryan faulted Obama for failing to pro-vide the tax relief they say holds the key to the creation of millions of jobs. Romney has pledged to lower tax rates for by 20 percent for all Americans — including the wealthy.
Romney has said he’ll pay for those cuts by eliminating loop-holes and deductions for higher-income earners.
BY DAN JOLINGASSOCIATED PRESS
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — More than four years after Roy-al Dutch Shell paid $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea, a company vessel on Sun-day morning sent a drill bit into the ocean fl oor, beginning pre-liminary work on an exploratory well 70 miles off the northwest coast of Alaska.
Drilling began at 4:30 a.m., said Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith. Shell Alaska Vice President Pete Slaiby called it historic.
“It’s the fi rst time a drill bit has touched the sea fl oor in the U.S. Chukchi Sea in more than two decades,” Slaiby said in a prepared statement. “This is an exciting time for Alaska and for Shell. We look forward to contin-ued drilling progress through-out the next several weeks and to adding another chapter to Alaska’s esteemed oil and gas history.”
Federal offi cials estimate Arctic waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas hold 26 bil-lion barrels of recoverable oil and 130 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Interior secretary Ken Salazar announced Aug. 30 that Shell would be permitted to begin preparation work at the Chukchi site even though the company’s spill response barge has not been certifi ed and is not positioned nearby.
The company is authorized to drill narrow pilot holes 1,400 feet below the ocean fl oor and roughly 4,000 feet above a petroleum reservoir.
Shell has spent upward of $4.5 billion for Arctic Ocean drill-ing but had been thwarted from drilling by environmental law-suit, regulatory requirements and short open-water drilling seasons. Despite the require-ment to stay out of oil-bearing rock, they were elated to fi nally begin work.
“In the days to come, drill-ing will continue in the Chuk-chi Sea, and we will prepare for drilling to commence in the Beaufort Sea,” Slaiby said.
Drilling is bitterly opposed by environmental groups that say oil companies have not dem-onstrated they can clean up a spill in ice-choked water. They say a spill of the magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico would be catastrophic in a region ham-mered by climate warming and home to endangered or threat-ened marine mammals such as bowhead whales, polar bear and walrus.
Shell offi cials say there’s little chance of that happening. They are drilling in about 130 feet deep, versus 5,000 at the site of the gulf spill, and wellhead pressure is expected to be far less. Shell also claims its sup-port vessels could quickly choke off and respond to a spill.
Smith said workers Friday completed mooring of the drill ship, the Noble Discoverer, in heavy seas with eight anchors that each weigh 15 tons and are staged on the seafl oor in a cir-cular pattern. The diameter of the anchor pattern, he said by email, was more than 6,500-feet.
A 20-by-40-by-40-foot mud-line cellar will allow a blowout preventer to be positioned below the seafl oor, protecting it from ice scraping the bottom.
The oil spill response barge remains in Bellingham, Wash., and is expected to undergo sea trials over the weekend, he said.
Safety measures quiet concerns of potential spill
CHARLES DHARAPAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives at his campaign headquarters in Boston to prepare for the presidential debates on Sunday. He said on “Meet the Press” that he would continue parts of Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, including provisions that would cover pre-existing conditions.
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Jayla Carrington, female impersonator, performs at the Champaign-Urbana Pride Festival, held at Lincoln Square Mall on Saturday. The event was hosted by the Uniting Pride Center. Carrington has performed drag for about a year and a half.
I’m sure you’ve seen us around the Internet. Our com-plaints have spanned
entire news feeds, and we’ve posted articles and links and gifs and pic-tures on the subject. Sometimes, you hear us talking in hushed tones in our homes. “Can you believe it?” “Is this really happening?”
We are the ones crying onto our computer keys as we watch “Blades of Glory” over and over again (or is once just enough?). Because we are the Amy-Will Wailers, mourners of the high-profile relationship of two wonderful comedians.
If you managed to escape of all the sadness in the last couple of days, the lowdown is this: After nine years of marriage and two kids, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett split up. In the world of high-pro-file celebrities, this isn’t uncommon (I feel like there’s another divorce every three days); however, it seems like this breakup has rocked most of the masses.
I’ll admit it. I’ve been going around telling people that love is dead.
Of course, there are bigger and maybe better things to worry about in the world. I’ve been told I need to calm down because — let’s face
it — I don’t know these people per-sonally. I’ve been sad too hard and for too long. Why should I care so much?
Two words: proper representation.Now, hero worship is kind of
dumb; I will be the first to admit that. It’s a choice of looking toward someone else’s lifestyle instead of getting yours together. And while fun, we are sometimes too caught up in it, especially for our age.
But sometimes, you can’t help it. And not because you’re a love-struck teenager with some crazy Beiber fever, or you got to know what dress Taylor Swift wore at the Grammys (although sometimes, you get swept). But because the person you’re fascinated with has some qualities you want to emulate.
See for me — and I’m sure for a majority of the Amy-Will Wailers — Poehler and Arnett are some of the greatest people on the face of the earth. Separate, they are each fun-ny in their own respective humors. They make up some of the greatest television shows the 21st century has ever seen, including “Arrest-ed Development” and “Parks and Recreation.”
Together, well, they weren’t just any comedian couple. They were cute without being overbear-ing, funny without being over the top, and stable enough to make us believe that not all celebrity rela-tionships are crazy.
Even the way they split up was super classy. There was no cra-
zy cheating, or stabbing or huge, messy fight in Times Square. It came out of nowhere, and they both are handling it like champs from what I can tell. In fact, as The Huffington Post put it, the split was “amicable.” There is no “Team Amy” or “Team Will.” There is just sadness.
I’m not bummed because Amy and Will are pretty and I want them to make more beautiful children (at least ... that’s not my main con-cern). And I’m not exactly weep-ing and wailing and reading all of the articles because I have nothing to do.
It’s just that it was refreshing to see two stars carry out a normal, adorable relationship. They repre-sented everything I strive to have in a relationship.
Honestly, it’s not even strange that some of us are upset. A little part of everyone is sad when they see a couple that had it together splits apart. Maybe it’s an aunt and uncle, or our best friend and their significant other.
But right now, it’s Poehler and Arnett.
So for all the ones who have their heads out of the clouds of melancholy, give us Wailers a couple of days to get steady. We’ll come down to reality soon and talk about something else. For now, though, if you’ll excuse me, I have a date with “Blades of Glory.”
T he impact of inclusive measurements for stu-dents with disabili-ties on this campus resounds. The Univer-
sity is among only four univer-sities in the United States — the other three are the University of California at Berkeley, Edin-boro University of Pennsylva-nia and Wright State Universi-ty — that provide “full-service” living assistance to their stu-dents with physical disabili-ties. This University’s Disabil-ity Resources and Educational Services has a laudable past in its achievements for stu-dents with disabilities, includ-ing the first wheelchair-acces-sible bus route system, the first accessible residence halls and the first adapted athletics pro-gram, which garnered the first Olympic Gold for a wheelchair athlete. Students at the now-closed Galesburg, Ill., Univer-sity campus fought to maintain a facility in the state’s univer-sity system during a time when enthusiasm for providing equi-table education to students with disabilities was low.
Today, the University will cancel a lecture if even one student is unable to reasonably access the classroom on any given day because of a broken elevator or a damaged ramp.
Even with all of the Univer-sity’s triumphs, challenges still exist on this campus, and this year’s sorority rush season is no exception.
This year’s rush pool includ-ed a student in a wheelchair, and reflecting the University’s commitment to being disabil-ity friendly, sororities readied their houses.
The Panhellenic Council of the University expects that sororities provide equal oppor-tunity for any potential new member to participate in for-mal recruitment. This means each chapter would have ramps at the ready for any woman who uses a wheelchair or has any other physical disability. These temporary ramps were to stay in place until the conclu-sion of this fall’s recruitment.
Although DRES’ commit-ment to providing equal oppor-tunities for students “to par-ticipate and benefit from the programs, services and activi-ties of the University of Illi-nois at Urbana-Champaign” is clear throughout much of the University’s culture, progress can still be made in the social atmosphere. And we support the efforts acknowledged in the Greek system.
One of the purposes of the Greek system is to provide a place for students to make life-long relationships, and students with disabilities should not be excluded from this opportunity.
But there are some sorori-ties on campus that are not equipped to have a member in a wheelchair, for example, live in a house.
Meeting many of the require-ments of the Americans With Disabilities Act can be costly, with construction of new per-manent ramps or installation of elevators.
But that’s not to say that it cannot be accomplished. Rath-er, it should be encouraged.
Of course, a member who accepts a bid from a sorority does not necessarily have to live in an inaccessible house, but all efforts for inclusion should continue to be made.
Many students support inclu-siveness on campus, especial-ly in academia, but there is always room for improvement, especially in the general cul-ture at the University.
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W ould this column read any better if it were written in the shape of a cow?
Probably not. Most prose, thank goodness,
constrains itself to simple rect-angles with little variation: May-be this article is hollowed out for a picture, maybe that article is notched to make way for an advertisement.
Despite the persistent use of rectangles to contain prose, not all quadrilaterals are created equal.
Imagine, dear reader, an arti-cle for this very newspaper writ-ten with only one word per line, stretching down the page in a tedious thread of a column; or imagine a computer file without word wrap, where each paragraph fills only one line, extending as far to the right as needed (Go on, read “Ulysses” that way, I dare ya).
The words might be the same in each case, but the shape of the text can change how easily it is comprehended.
And, perhaps, the actual com-prehension itself.
Earlier this year, a spate of arti-cles came out worrying about the impact of e-readers on our ability to recall what we read, especial-ly with textbooks being released in digital formats. Recent science has suggested that our spatial awareness of information within a book — such as whether the page is near the front or the end, how the paragraphs are arranged on the page or where on the page an important word or phrase is used — helps us to remember what we read later; this spatial information acts like a collection of landmarks for our memory. E-books, espe-cially those that display text in a long unbroken column, lack those landmarks and may make recol-lection more difficult.
This problem is not just restrict-ed to Kindles and Nooks, but is inherent in digital media in the wake of the Internet. When the ability to display information digitally started knocking on our minds, we, as a society, became fascinated by the idea of painting on a virtual — and virtually infi-nite — canvas. We can continue scrolling in any direction, seeing more and more.
But in order to make sense of all this information within our minds, we need limits on this canvas. We need shape.
Compare the front page of The New York Times in print with the front page of The Huffington Post (or even The New York Times web-site to a lesser degree). In print, there is a headline here, a pic-ture there, a few articles in their own areas. Each item has its place within the rectangle of the page, which is small enough that we can take it all in at a glance. Once past the headline and featured blog post of The Huffington Post, however, the layout devolves into a monotonous list of headlines, snippits and pictures stretch-ing far down the page. Trying to make sense of it all at once would be akin to trying to enjoy reading just the chapter titles from a Mark Twain novel: By the fifth one, you start mentally transforming each line into “In which something interesting occurred.”
That digital information presen-tation lags behind analog methods is in no way surprising. We have been improving the art of the book for nearly two millennia: We have only been improving the art of the webpage for around two decades. There is a lot left unexplored. How, for one example, can we bet-ter incorporate depth into digital media?
It is possible that e-readers and the Internet will eventually incor-porate spatial landmarks to an even greater extent than mod-ern books can; it is also possible that future generations, raised in an environment full of digi-tal media, will develop their own spatial landmarks in a way we, who grew up without such things, cannot. (For my money, I would wager that the difference between digital and analog presentations will become small, but that there will still remain pros and cons to each.)
We, the first generation to step out onto that grand virtual canvas, are making mistakes. We are still learning that screen size matters when we want to better remember what we read.
For all we know, the future of prose might look cow-shaped after all.
Joseph is a graduate student in Mathe-matics. He can be reached at [email protected].
M ost athletes from Western countries view the Olympics as a chance to showcase their
talents, maybe coming home with a medal. But those athletes from third-world countries may come to the Olympics with a different goal in mind: to escape.
There is a history of Olym-pic athletes going missing either before, during or after the games — they either return to their home countries before their visas expire or eventually apply for asy-lum from the host country. The Telegraph reported that almost a month after the closing ceremo-nies of the 2012 London Olympics, over 20 athletes were reported as missing or that have already applied for asylum.
This juxtaposition of winning vs. surviving is disparaging. While Michael Phelps was focused on attaining the title of the most-dec-orated Olympian (a feat that in no way I wish to degrade), an uniden-tified athlete from east Africa claimed asylum in Britain even before the Opening Ceremony.
The Games are a piece of a larg-er goal called the Olympic Move-ment, with one of its purposes being to “help build a better world through sport practiced in a spirit
of peace, excellence, friendship and respect.”
For the most part, these quali-ties are thoroughly demonstrat-ed throughout the duration of the games. But this is only a two-week snapshot in a period of two years — it’s hard to see the effects of the Olympic Movement outside the games themselves. After all, the Olympic Truce that was renewed in 1992 calls for global peace dur-ing the Olympics, but once the games are over, the quasi-vaca-tion is over: Many athletes return home to swarms of fans, others return home to warfare and perse-cution, and a select group choose to extend their stay in the host country.
All over the world, human rights are being breached and there are wide gaps in equality. In 78 coun-tries, sexual acts between two same-sex adults are illegal. In five of these countries, it is punishable by death. The first two Saudi Arabi-an females to compete in the games are chastised and shunned by much of their country. North Korean athletes probably got their first glimpse of the outside world.
However, there is a silver lining. According to Olympic historian and NBC commentator David Wal-lechinsky, most athletes who apply for asylum are granted it. So those homosexual athletes who face per-secution in their home countries can exist freely in another. And those athletes who fear returning to strict dictatorships or constant
warfare can live in peace.The Olympics gives athletes
the chance to compete on a world stage, to bear the fruits of their labor and to represent their coun-try. And some athletes take some-thing even more important away from the experience — a chance at life. It’s not a glorious representa-tion of the Olympics. Ideally, every athlete who wins a medal or com-petes for his or her country can do so knowing that when they return home, they will experience the “peace, excellence, friendship and respect” that was apparent at the games.
But conflict is human, and we cannot live in a crystal-clear world. I hope those athletes who had the courage to uproot themselves and create a new life will do so with success and that in the future they can return to their country when the dust settles. I hope that host countries will continue the history of being open to asylum seekers, for it is inhumane to turn athletes away who face serious danger in their home countries.
Living in the western world, it is hard to imagine a conflict that would force us to seek another home. Yet it’s a reality faced by millions of people across the globe, and for some, a free plane ticket out of the country and two weeks to disappear into another is the way to do it.
Kirsten is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].
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NEW YORK — Most people wouldn’t say New York and tor-nado in the same breath. But two twisters that touched down in the nation’s biggest city Sat-urday are the latest of about 60 small tornadoes that have hit the area in the past half-century, the years for which complete data are available. Saturday’s pair brings to 10 the total number of tornadoes since 2007 in New York City, according to the National Weather Service.
To some, the tornadoes of the past few years might appear to be an uptick in the trend. Not so fast, said meteorologist David Stark of the weather service.
“In the past fi ve years, there’s been a slight increase in the num-
ber of tornadoes in the area, but it’s too short a period of time to say it’s a growing trend,” Stark said.
He pointed to the previous fi ve years, 2001-2006, when a total of eight twisters were recorded.
“That’s not to say the touch-downs are going to continue at the same pace,” noted Stark. “It’s up and down, up and down, and it’s not uncommon in the late summer months to see this.”
On Saturday, a dark funnel descended on the Breezy Point Surf Club in Queens, fl ooding nearby roads, mangling power lines and later forcing more than 20,000 spectators to be evacu-ated from the U.S. Open tennis tournament a few miles away. It took only a few minutes for the 70-mph wind and roaring
water to rip through walls and lift roofs off homes, while send-ing beach chairs fl ying and lift-ing kayaks out of the water. And it didn’t take much longer for images of the storm to appear online.
Saturday’s second tornado hit Brooklyn’s Canarsie neigh-borhood, whipping up winds of 110 miles per hour over a half mile, snapping trees and house awnings and breaking windows.
On Sunday, power had been restored for the more than 1,100 customers in New York who had lost it.
No deaths or injuries were reported as a result of the twist-ers, coming from a storm system that brought damaging winds from Pennsylvania to upstate New York.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — Survivors of a series of earthquakes that killed 81 people and injured more than 800 in a mountainous area of southwestern China were des-perately waiting for more aid to arrive Sunday as jolting after-shocks kept fears high and hin-dered rescue efforts.
The latest victim was a 2-year-old child who was hit by a falling wall as an aftershock struck Sat-urday night, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
The fi rst earthquakes struck Friday in a region of small farms and mines near the bor-der between Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, where some of China’s poorest people live.
They toppled thousands of homes and sent boulders cas-cading across roads, and authori-ties evacuated more than 200,000 villagers.
The area was still being jolt-ed by aftershocks Sunday, rais-ing fears of more injuries and fatalities.
Footage from China Central Television showed rescuers and sniffer dogs running past steep slopes because of the risk of fi st-sized stones tumbling down. It also showed an ambulance stuck in stones and debris.
Almost all of the 110,000 peo-ple who live in Yiliang county’s Jiaokui town, about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the epicenter of one of the earthquakes, had evac-uated, but many had no shelter and were waiting for supplies, a town offi cial said by telephone.
“They are living in the open air now,” said the offi cial, who gave only his surname, Xiao. “We are
in dire need of tents and quilts. We only received 2,200 tents. Many people have no quilts and are not living in tents.”
A resident of Luozehe town, close to where the quakes struck, said he and others were evacuat-ed to a more central area of the county. “It’s quite hot here, there isn’t enough drinking water or tents,” said Wu Xuehong, who described seeing dead livestock after farm buildings collapsed.
More than 11,000 tents, 8,500 quilts, 6,000 coats and other sup-plies including bottled water and rice have been delivered to Yil-iang and more are on the way, Xinhua said, citing the rescue
headquarters.The fi rst magnitude-5.6 quake
struck just before 11:30 a.m. Friday and was followed by an equally strong quake shortly after noon.
Though of moderate strength, the quakes were shallow. Such quakes often cause more dam-age than deeper ones.
As of noon Sunday, there had been 279 aftershocks, said Zhang Junwei, spokesman of Yunnan’s seismological bureau.
Xinhua quoted Zhou Guang-fu, deputy chief of the county’s education bureau, as saying that three students were among those who died.
BY SOPHIA TAREENTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Days after U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. was released from a hospital where he was being treated for bipolar disorder, it’s still unclear when he’ll return to work.
The Chicago Democrat left the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., last week and is back in Wash-ington with his family following months out of the public eye on a secretive medical leave. But neither his offi ce, his civil rights leader father, nor his wife, Chi-cago Alderman Sandi Jackson, could say when Jackson would return to the offi ce.
Jackson spokesman Frank Wat-kins said Sunday that he had no information. A day earlier, Jack-son’s father, the Rev. Jesse Jack-son, told reporters that he didn’t expect his son to rush back.
“I hope he does not move quickly, because he’s so anxious to function; so anxious to work. He’s programmed in that direc-tion. He wants to serve. I think his people have been quite gen-erous to him in terms of giving him time,” Jackson told report-ers. “But my concern is that of a father. I have no interest in the political timetable. It’s his health timetable, and there is no date certain for that.”
Very little information has been available about the congress-man’s condition and recovery.
Jackson’s offi ce waited two weeks before disclosing that the 47-year-old congressman went on medical leave June 10 and initially described him as suffering from exhaustion. Later, it referred to his condition as a “mood disor-der.” Last month, his offi ce dis-closed that he was at Mayo and
being treated for depression after a transfer from the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center in Arizona. The Mayo Clinic has said that Jackson was being treated for Bipolar II, which means he was suffering from periodic episodes of depres-sion and hypomania.
Jackson is currently under investigation by the House Eth-ics Committee for ties to impris-oned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The committee is looking into allegations Jackson was involved in discussions about raising money for Blagojevich’s campaign in exchange for the then-governor appointing him to President Barack Obama’s vacat-ed U.S. Senate seat. Jackson has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
Jackson, who fi rst took offi ce in 1995, is seeking re-election in his Chicago-area district in November.
Two tornadoes touch down in New York City
Survivors await aid after earthquakes strike China
No word on Rep. Jackson’s return
KATHY WILLENS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denny Fallon pauses for a drink while cleaning up debris following a possible tornado that tore the roof off his cabana at the Breezy Point Surf Club in the Queens section of in New York on Saturday. A tornado swept out of the sea and hit the beachfront neighborhood in New York City, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.
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A woman helps children evacuate from an earthquake that hit Luozehe town southwest China on Saturday . Authorities poured aid into a remote mountainous area of southwestern China, and rescue workers with sniffer dogs searched for survivors after twin earthquakes killed 81 people and injured more than 800.
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Volleyball splits matches against Big East opponents, fi nds positives despite lossBY ELIOT SILLSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois volleyball team took another hobbling step for-ward as it continued to walk off the growing pains of a young nucleus, splitting a weekend dou-bleheader against a pair of Big East opponents.
In Friday’s game, a homecom-ing of sorts for Cincinnati-area native Liz McMahon , the Illini (3-4) offense got in a rhythm and prevailed in four sets over the Bearcats (1-7). And Saturday, Illi-nois took No. 24 Louisville (8-1) — a team that swept No. 11 Purdue the night before and beat then-No. 10 Kentucky on Aug. 29 — to fi ve sets before falling in the fi nal set, 15-9.
Though at fi rst glance, Illinois’ past two weekends have seemed to be one step forward, one step back, head coach Kevin Hambly said that improvement goes deep-er than the team’s record.
“I’m disappointed that we didn’t get the win (Saturday), but I also feel like we got better at some things,” Hambly said. “We just need to get more con-sistent and take advantage of
some opportunities that are giv-en to us.”
Redshirt freshman Jocelynn Birks was outstanding in Friday’s win over Cincinnati, recording 25 kills on .449 hitting with just three attack errors.
“We all just got comfortable playing, me and Annie (Luhrsen) had a really good connection, and the passers were able to get her the ball and we just had a really good connection and got going, so it felt good,” Birks said.
Hambly, while pleased with the win, wasn’t happy with the amount of offense that went through the Willow Springs, Ill., native.
“(Birks) carried us, but we relied on her way too much,” Hambly said in a press release after Friday’s win. “We need to get more diversity in the offense.”
On Friday, Birks and sopho-more hitter Morganne Criswell were the only Illini players with more than 20 kill attempts. In Saturday’s match, that number increased to four. Despite receiv-
BY MICHAEL WONSOVERSTAFF WRITER
The 2012 Paralympic Games came to an end Sunday with 10 Illini wheelchair basketball play-ers earning medals over the week-end as well as four athletes med-aling in track and fi eld.
Illinois freshman Ray Martin of the U.S. won his third gold medal of the games, fi nishing fi rst in Fri-day’s fi nal of the men’s 800-meter run of the T52 classifi cation, a dis-tinction for athletes with spinal cord injuries. He celebrated with a victory lap while proudly waiv-ing the U.S. fl ag. Martin fi nished in 2 minutes, 0.34 seconds, ahead of Japan’s Tomoya Ito, who fi n-ished the race in 2:00.62.
Martin made it a perfect 4-for-4 by winning another gold medal in the men’s T52 200 meters Sat-urday. Martin’s time of 30.25 beat out Ito, who fi nished with a time of 31.60. Martin ended the 2012 Games with four gold medals, the highest among all Illini athletes.
In other action Friday, Illini junior Tatyana McFadden won her third gold medal of the games in the fi nal of the women’s T54 1,500. McFadden’s time of 3:36.42 was good enough to beat Switzer-land’s Edith Wolf , who fi nished in 3:36.78. Illinois graduate Amanda McGrory fi nished seventh in the
race with a time of 3:38.19.McFadden tweeted after the
race: “WOW i am speechless and honored to say that I won my third gold metal...thank you thank you everyone for all of your support. truly blessed!”
On the court, women’s wheel-chair basketball came to a close Friday with Netherlands kicking off action with a 71-47 victory over the U.S. in the bronze-med-al game. Jenni-fer Chew of Illi-nois finished with one point and one rebound while U.S. team-mate and fellow Illini Sarah Cas-tle didn’t score. Rebecca Mur-ray led the U.S. with 19 points, six rebounds and four assists.
In the gold-medal game, Ger-many defeated Australia 58-44 in a game that featured three Illini. Mareike Adermann led Germany with 19 points, nine rebounds and fi ve assists. Former Illini Edina Mueller contributed eight points and two rebounds to the victory. For Australia, Illini Bridie Kean fi nished with one point and four
rebounds while teammate and fel-low Illini Shelley Chaplin record-ed eight points, two rebounds and fi ve assists.
Saturday was a busy day, with 10 current and former Illini com-peting. After winning her third gold medal Friday, McFadden earned a bronze medal in the fi nal of the women’s T54 100 on Satur-day. McFadden fi nished in 16.15 behind Wenjun Liu of China , who ran a world-record time of 15.82.
The fi nal of the men’s T53/T54 4x400 meter relay was raced Sat-urday, when the U.S. failed to qual-
ify after fi nishing the prelim with a time of 3:18.61 — third in its heat.
In Saturday’s fi nal of the wom-en’s T53 400, Jessica Galli- and Anjali Forb-er-Pratt, both of Illinois, fi nished fi fth and seventh, respectively. Hon-gzhuan Zhou add-ed to China’s med-al count with a
time of 55.47, good for gold.The medal rounds of men’s
wheelchair basketball were con-tested Saturday, with the U.S. win-ning a bronze medal against host Great Britain, 61-46. Team cap-tain and former Illini W ill Waller didn’t score in the game, but Illini graduate Steven Serio led the U.S. with 20 points on 8-of-9 shooting
from the fi eld. He also recorded four rebounds and eight assists. Terry Bywater scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead Great Britain in a losing effort.
Former Illini P atrick Anderson and Canada capped off a magical run following a 64-58 gold-medal victory over Australia. Fitting-ly, Anderson held the ball as the clock ran out, pointing to fans in the crowd, who were holding a Canadian fl ag. An emotional Cana-dian squad surrounded Anderson in celebration as the time expired. He once again led his side, record-ing 34 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists while playing all 40 minutes. Anderson fi nished the tournament averaging 25 points per game, best among all play-ers. He also fi nished second in rebounds per game (11.0), third in assists per game (8.0) and third in steals per game (1.6). Adam Lan-cia and Brandon Wagner , both of Illinois, failed to score for Team Canada. Former Illini Grant Miz-ens and Dylan Alcott didn’t score for Australia, but Shaun Norri s led the silver medalists with 19 points, six rebounds and four assists.
Eight Illinois track and fi eld ath-letes competed on the fi nal day of the Paralympics. In the men’s T54 marathon, Aaron Pike of the U.S. was the highest fi nisher among the fi ve Illini participants, fi nish-ing 16th with a time of 1 hour, 36
MATT YORK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Illinois quarterback Reilly O'Toole (4) is tackled by Arizona State cornerback Osahon Irabor (24) on Saturday in Tempe, Ariz. O’Toole and Miles Osei played quarterback for injured starter Nathan Scheelhaase.
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Illini junior Tatyana McFadden , right, competes in a women’s 1500-meter T54 category heat at the 2012 Paralympics Games on Thursday in London. McFadden won gold medals in the 400m, 800m and 1500m races.
LASTING MEMORIES FROM LONDONFourteen current, former Illini depart from Paralympic Games with 20 medals
Final medal count1. China — 231 medals, 95 gold, 71 silver, 65 bronze
Current and former Illini medalists during 2012 Paralympic Games
Josh George (U.S.) — Bronze in 800-meter dashJessica Galli (U.S.) — Bronze in 800 metersTatyana McFadden (U.S.) — Gold in 800, 400, 1,500; bronze in 100Ray Martin (U.S.) — Gold in 100, 200, 400, 800Bridie Kean (Australia) — Silver in wheelchair basketballShelley Chaplin (Australia) — Silver in wheelchair basketballEdina Mueller (Germany) — Gold in wheelchair basketballPatrick Anderson (Canada) — Gold in wheelchair basketballAdam Lancia (Canada) — Gold in wheelchair basketballBrandon Wagner (Canada) — Gold in wheelchair basketballGrant Mizens (Australia) — Silver in wheelchair basketballDylan Alcott (Australia) — Silver in wheelchair basketballWill Waller (U.S.) — Bronze in wheelchair basketballSteve Serio (U.S.) — Bronze wheelchair basketball
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“WOW i am speechless and honored to say that I won my
third gold metal.”TATYANA MCFADDEN,
Illinois paralympian in a tweet
Illini defense allows 510 yards to Sun Devils in 1st loss of Beckman’s tenureBY BOB BAUMTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Illinois missed starting quar-terback Nathan Scheelhaase, to be sure. But he doesn’t play defense, and that was the area where the Illini struggled might-ily against Arizona State.
The Sun Devils scored touch-downs on four of their six fi rst-half possessions and fumbled the ball away at the Illinois 1-yard line on another, en route to a 45-14 romp over the Illini in the desert on Saturday night.
“Any time you lose a quar-terback that has won seven games in back-to-back seasons and has been a proven leader for two years, you’re going to miss someone like that,” Illi-nois coach Tim Beckman said.
But, he said, “That’s not the reason we didn’t cover receiv-
ers, missing tackles and throw-ing interceptions and all that stuff.”
Taylor Kelly completed 18 of 24 passes for 249 yards and a touchdown as Arizona State improved to 2-0 under new coach Todd Graham.
“I want to put a product on the fi eld that’s exciting to watch,” Graham said. “We are exciting to watch, but we’re just beginning.”
Kelly’s backup, Michael Eubank, was 5 of 5 passing for 69 yards and two touchdowns and ran 7 yards for a score.
Chris Coyle matched a school record for tight ends with 10 catches, totaling 131 yards and two scores. He caught six passes for 73 yards all of last season.
Scheelhaase was out because
of an ankle injury, but the big-gest problem for the Illini (1-1) was on defense , especially against the pass.
“We had a lot of ‘eye’ vio-lations,” Beckman said. “We aren’t keying what we are sup-posed to key. As you saw, there were some wide-open receivers at times.”
Illinois joined Nebraska (to UCLA) and Wisconsin (to Ore-gon State) as Big Ten teams to lose at Pac-12 schools on Satur-day. It was a rough day for the conference overall, with the 12 teams going a combined 6-6.
Beckman got his fi rst loss as an Illini coach after a 24-7 win in last week’s season opener against Western Michigan.
Arizona State (2-0) could have won even bigger but fumbled the ball away twice inside the
Illinois 10. The Sun Devils, who gained a reputation as undisci-plined and penalty-prone under former coach Dennis Erick-son, were penalized once for 5 yards, and that was an inten-tional delay of game to set up a punt.
Freshman Carlos Mendoza had two interceptions for Ari-zona State, which was with-out linebacker Brandon Magee because of a concussion.
Josh Ferguson rushed for 101 yards in 14 carries for the Illi-ni, 51 of them on one carry. The Sun Devils rolled up 510 yards to 332 for Illinois.
Scheelhaase, a junior who has started 27 games, was a game-time decision after injuring an ankle in last week’s season opener.
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KEY STATSArizona State entered the Illinois red zone nine times, scoring on seven of those posses-sions, six of which were touchdowns.
Yards the Illinois defense allowed the Ari-zona State offense to gain, which is almost twice as many yards they allowed in Week One.
Saturday marked the fi rst time redshirt fresh-man Josh Ferguson surpassed the mark in rushing yards in a single game at Illinois.
The number of sacks the Illinois offensive line allowed, resulting in a loss of 35 yards.
Arizona State’s only two fumbles occurred at the Illinois 1- and 9-yard lines, reminders of how much worse the score could have been.
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Freshman running backJosh FergusonAfter struggling to establish the run against Western Michigan in Week One, the freshman lead the way on the ground for the Illini rushing for 101 yards, including a 51-yard scam-per in the third quarter. Saturday was the fi rst time he eclipsed the cen-tury mark at Illinois.
Defensive coordinatorTim BanksDefensive coordinator Tim Banks’ squad allowed 510 yards and 45 points to Arizona State and were overmatched throughout the game, specifi cally in the passing game where they allowed 318 yards and three touchdowns. Going up against an offensive line that lost three starters from the previous season, the experienced Illinois pass rush only gathered two sacks.
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Illinois running back Donovonn Young, front, is tackled by Arizona State defensive tackle Will Sutton (90) during Saturday’s 45-14 Illini loss in Tempe, Ariz. Young rushed for 65 yards on 12 carries.
Illinois quarterback Reilly O’Toole (4) is sacked by Arizona State safety Chris Young during the second half. O’Toole was 10-for-14 with 54 yards, one touchdown and one interception.
Arizona State wide receiver Jamal Miles (32) slips past Illinois defensive back Jack Ramsey (21). Miles had three catches for 54 yards.
Illinois running back Josh Ferguson (6) tries to escape the reach of Arizona State defensive back Robert Nelson. Ferguson rushed for 101 yards on 16 carries. It was the fi rst time the redshirt freshman had eclipsed the century mark in rushing yards at Illinois.
Illinois defensive back Patrick Nixon-Youman (4) dives on Arizona State running back Cameron Marshall (6) as Marshall fumbles near the goal line. Nixon-Youman recovered the fumble to prevent an Arizona State touchdown.
Illinois tight end Eddie Viliunas (83) pulls in a touchdown pass as Arizona State’s Robert Wilson (9) and Keelan Johnson (10) defend. The catch was the fi rst touchdown catch of Viliunas’ career.
Saturday’s blowout loss at the hands of Arizona State in Tem-pe, Ariz., pushed Illinois’ all-time record in the Pacifi c time zone to 14-22.
The time change and climate dif-ference more than likely factors into a majority of those losses as the ele-ments favor the home team, but what happened Saturday, in particular to the defense, was a testament to Sun Devils’ head coach Todd Graham’s offense.
In Week One’s lockdown of a West-ern Michigan team that gained 631 yards against Eastern Illinois in Week Two, the Illini defense held the Bron-cos to 259 yards .
Illinois allowed nearly twice the number of yards to Arizona State, which paved the way for the Sun Devils to score 45 points.
Western Michigan came out of the second half on Sept. 1 and drove 48 yards in 1:42 before the Illinois defense held the Broncos to a 45-yard fi eld goal attempt, which they missed. The fast pace quarterback Alex Carder was
running limited the substitutions and adjustments the defense could make.
Against a Mid-American Conference team, the Illini eventually adjusted like they did on that opening drive in the second half, but against another BCS conference opponent, the athleticism playing fi eld is more level, and the Illi-nois defense didn’t rise to the occasion.
The confusion Graham’s offense gen-erates with players in motion and mis-direction plays as its staple features was evident from the fi rst drive, as Arizona State marched 69 yards down the fi eld in 2:40 before defensive tackle Akeem Spence forced a fumble at the Illinois 1-yard line.
The Illini would force another fum-ble but eventually lose the turnover battle. Whether they created pressure, Arizona State quarterbacks Taylor Kelly and Michael Eubank were in the zone, completing 23-of-29 passes.
When given time to fi nd an open man, any Division I quarterback can make a defense pay.
Finding the open man isn’t possible at this point for Illinois quarterbacks who don’t have much at wide receiver.
That aside, quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase’s status was unknown dur-ing the week, but it was many peo-ple’s guess from the outset that Reilly O’Toole or Miles Osei would start.
In what could have been O’Toole’s big chance to impress his head coach at the game’s most important position, he was only 10-of-14 for 54 yards and an interception in his fi rst career start.
The passing game wasn’t much worse than it was last week with Scheelhaase, but it was clear, especial-ly early on, O’Toole was rattled and the bad fi eld position in the fi rst few series didn’t help the play calling.
When Osei was under center, he pro-vided the escapability Scheelhaase possesses, running for 32 yards on fi ve carries, and also showcased a stron-ger arm. But his inexperience showed, tossing two interceptions.
With two quarterbacks who haven’t been expected to be “the guy” yet in their careers, the offense wasn’t sup-posed to lead the team to victory.
This game always seemed a tossup for head coach Tim Beckman’s squad, but with how good the defense was pro-jected to be, a 30-plus point blowout wasn’t supposed to be on the menu.
But that’s the way it happened and this game might turn out to be the best tape for Illinois to learn from, especial-ly when teams want to up the tempo.
Dan is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @welinanddealin.
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minutes and 26 seconds. Adam Bleakney fi nished 24th with a time of 1:44:16 while Brian Siemann and Ryan Chalmers fi n-ished 25th and 28th, respectively. David Weir of Great Britain won gold Sunday, fi nishing in 1:30:20.
In the women’s T54 marathon, three Illi-ni participated but none earned medals. McGrory fi nished fourth with a time of 1:46:35. McFadden, who medaled in her previous four events, fi nished ninth with
a time of 1:58:47. Former Illini Christi-na Schwab of the U.S. did not fi nish the race. American Shirley Reilly won gold in 1:46:33.
Illini participants ended up winning 20 medals in total at the Paralympic Games, with Martin and McFadden taking home four medals each.
The closing ceremony Sunday night featured performers such as Rihan-na, Coldplay and Jay-Z, capping off the most watched Paralympics ever.
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IN THE DI FRIDAYS OF ILLINI FOOTBALL WEEKENDS
BY CHARLIE MANIATESSTAFF WRITER
The Wake Forest Invitational was unforgiving for the Illinois soccer team this weekend.
The Illini went to Winston-Salem, N.C., looking for a couple of statement wins against No. 11 Virginia Tech and No. 17 Wake Forest, but offensive results were hard to come by, leaving Illinois with a pair of 1-0 losses.
Against Virginia Tech on Friday, Illinois garnered three shots on goal compared to just two by the Hokies, but an eighth minute goal, which was allowed by senior goalkeeper Steph
Panozzo, ended up being the only tally for either squad.
“A lackluster start on a hot day doomed us early,” interim head coach Jeff Freeman said in a press release Friday. “While we responded well, we have to be better from the fi rst whistle to the last.”
Sunday’s matchup against Wake Forest proved to be a defensive battle for the Illini that ultimately resulted in a loss after Demon Deacons midfi elder Ally Berry headed one in off a corner kick in the 72nd minute.
Wake Forest registered 14 shots, four on goal, while Illinois could only
muster four shots with none being on target. In addition, the Demon Deacons were awarded seven corner kicks while the Illini only recorded one.
Freeman and members of the team could not be reached for comment following the loss.
The Illini look to improve on their offensive woes from this weekend when they begin their Big Ten slate next Sunday against Iowa. Junior midfi elder Vanessa DiBernardo and head coach Janet Rayfi eld will return to the team next week from Japan after contributing to the United States’ win in the Under-20 Women’s World Cup on Saturday.
Soccer skids at Wake Forest Invitational with 1-0 losses to Wake Forest, Virginia Tech
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PARALYMPICS
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Steven Serio of the United States, Illinois graduate, falls backwards as he attempts to get the ball as Bestami Boz of Turkey looks back during their men’s wheelchair basketball group A preliminary round match at the 2012 Paralympics games, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, in London.
ing a lesser lion’s share of the sets, Birks approved the change.
“I think that we did need more diversi-ty in the offense because we can’t expect just the outsides and just the middles to get that every time and be able to score every time because teams will be able to fi gure that out,” Birks said. “But I think diversi-ty will help and getting people in one-on-one situations instead of double blocks on every ball.”
Birks’ production decreased Saturday, however, as she had 13 kills on the same number of attempts — 49 — as Friday, with six errors and a .143 hitting percentage.
Against Louisville, Illinois lost the fi rst set, 25-18, and was trailing 20-15 in the second. A service error by Louisville sparked an Illini run, fueled by the block-ing of Anna Dorn and McMahon. Though
the Illini wound up losing the game, they took away positives from that run.
“All season we’ve seen spurts of how great we can be,” McMahon said. “At the end of that second set, I think we were kinda pressured into performing at that moment, and we did and we played at a really high level and kinda played every single point like it mattered, and that’s what we need to do in every game.”
McMahon was one of the players who delivered more than 20 kills Saturday. Despite receiving an increased workload, McMahon said she felt like she never got going offensively.
“I didn’t do anything spectacular, I didn’t do anything bad, I was just kinda medi-ocre,” McMahon said. “I think just this weekend as a whole, the team didn’t really have that extra push, I guess.”
“He wasn’t ready, so we aren’t going to put anything that is detri-mental to him or the football team on the line,” Beckman said. “He just was not ready yet, so that is why we decided not to play Nathan.”
Both of his replacements, Reilly O’Toole and Miles Osei, had their struggles, but neither plays defense, where the lion’s share of the blame rests.
Arizona State completed its fi rst 14 passes, 10 by Kelly and four by Eubank.
The two quarterbacks combined to complete 16 of 18 passes to an array of wide-open receivers in the fi rst half, building a 28-7 lead.
Coyle had seven catches for 101 yards and two touchdowns in the fi rst half.
The Sun Devils took the opening kickoff and quickly drove from their
31-yard line to the Illini 3. But on fi rst-and-goal, Marshall fumbled, and Patrick Nixon-Youman recovered at the Illini 1-yard-line.
Illinois moved the ball to its 24 before being forced to punt, and Ari-zona State bolted downfi eld on offense again.
Kelly had passes of 20 yards to Coyle and 23 to D.J. Foster in an eight-play, 65-yard scoring drive. Kelly threw 5 yards to junior tight-end Kevin Ozier for the touchdown to make it 7-0.
A second delay-of-game penalty on O’Toole and an Illinois three-and-out followed, then Arizona State zipped to another score.
Kelly had passes of 19 and 30 yards to Coyle, and Cameron Mar-shall scored on a 2-yard run to make it 14-0 with 1:32 left in the first quarter.
Osei replaced O’Toole and directed an 11-play, 75-yard touchdown drive. Donovonn Young’s 14-yard scoring run cut the lead to 14-7. But the Illini
could not slow down, let alone stop, the Sun Devils.
Eubank, Arizona State’s touted redshirt freshman, came in and led a seven-play, 84-yard scoring drive that took just 2:29. He threw a 1-yard pass to Coyle for the touchdown to make it 21-7.
Then things fell apart for Osei. His ill-advised pass was picked off by Mendoza at the Illinois 46. Four plays later, after Kelly threw 41 yards to Jamal Miles, Eubank tossed 3 yards to Coyle for another score, and the Sun Devils were up 28-7. Mendoza picked off Osei again on Illinois’ next possession, and the Illini went back to O’Toole.
On the second play following the second-half kickoff, O’Toole’s pass was intercepted by Alonzo Agwuenu, who returned it 34 yards to the Illi-nois 13.
Kelly threw 12 yards to Foster, then Foster scored on a 1-yard run, and it was 35-7 just 1 minute, 15 seconds into the third quarter.
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FOOTBALL
Illini o! ense stalls in Winston-Salem, unable to produce a goal in 2 matches against ranked foes
