BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI WEBSITE EDITOR Editor’s Note: The following article includes profane language and the consumption of alcohol. The names of individuals involved have been changed. Alex is the kind of friend you want around on Unofficial. Sit- ting on an office chair on Friday afternoon in his dorm room, he takes another long pull of whis- key from a stainless steel flask before handing it to Claire, the petite girl in army boots and black tights sitting on Alex’s bottom bunk bed. Alex and Claire are 19 years old. Also 19 is Dan, who sits near the window with a PBR in his hand. Toby, a 20-year-old with a mop of blond hair, lounges on the futon waiting for the flask to make its way to him. Soon they will be joined by Hazel and Ken- ny, both 20. A $140 receipt from a local liquor store barely tells the sto- ry of how much booze is in this room: bottles of vodka, tequila, gin and liqueur make up most of the bill, and it’s rounded out by a 12-pack of Blue Moon, a case of PBR and a box of Franzia wine. However, the receipt doesn’t include the alcohol the group already stockpiled: 20 more bottles of Blue Moon, 30 more cans of PBR, mint schnapps and Everclear. All in all, Alex esti- mates there’s around $200 worth of alcohol at their disposal today. The booze wasn’t that diffi- cult to acquire. Everyone knows somebody over 21. Alex’s girl- friend is over 21, as are her friends. For an underage par- ty animal like Alex, acquir- ing alcohol isn’t about loiter- ing in front of a liquor store and hoping a kindly stranger or homeless person will buy you a six-pack; it’s about using your personal social network of friends and relationships to get your hands on the good stuff. Alex is the kind of friend you want in a jam. The kind of friend who immediately knows that the soft knocking on the door is somehow wrong, very wrong, and although that knocking doesn’t sound like the sharp rap of police knuckles, he doesn’t hesitate to flip off the booming stereo and stare the room into silence. Everyone goes quiet. The soft, almost listless knocking continues. There are no more jokes, no more loud, braying laughs from Alex; no, now there is just the work of secrecy and disposal. This is something Alex is good at, and he ginger- ly tiptoes a bottle of vodka to a backpack in the corner of room, trying to minimize noise. Cans of beer are shoved back into the fridge or behind furni- ture, and Alex secures two bot- tles of Blue Moon, his flask and a bottle of gin inside his leath- er jacket. After a white-knuckled 90 seconds, Alex cracks open his door about eight inches. “Hey, are you guys doing any- thing?” says the RA. He has a soft voice that matches his knock. He says he heard bot- tles clinking and conversation coming from inside the room about drinking and drug use. “It sure did take you guys a long time to open the door,” he says. Alex replies that no, there’s nothing going on in here. As for talk of drinking and drugs? Those were just jokes. The RA doesn’t seem convinced. He tells Alex that he will have to inform his boss about this any- way and that Alex should be careful. The RA leaves, and Alex clos- INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 3B-4B | Sudoku 4B The Daily Illini Monday March 4, 2013 High: 35˚ Low: 31˚ The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 113 | FREE Students promote nondrinking events BY JACQUI OGRODNIK STAFF WRITER Instead of participating in Unofficial on Friday, many stu- dents spent their time either helping others or organizing alternative events. Members of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship spent most of the day handing out cups of water on the corner of Green and Sixth streets and in front of TIS College Bookstore, 707 S. Sixth St. “It’s meant to help peo- ple stay hydrated since alco- hol dehydrates you very fast,” said Aaron Zhao, sophomore in Engineering. Lucas Hsu, sophomore in Engineering, said the group members were also concerned about alcohol poisoning. “By handing out water, we make sure that people don’t just have alcohol in their body,” Hsu said. “They can stay safe while having fun on Unofficial.” Members said people were appreciative of the group’s offer. “Some people have been like, ‘Yes, I want some. Thank you very much. This is a great thing!’” said Christina Crusius, freshman in LAS. Other students found ways to pass the day without involving themselves in the usual Unoffi- cial activities. Residents of Busey-Evans Residence Halls who did not participate in Unofficial enjoyed an evening of craft making and nail painting. The event was organized by Busey residents Corinne Pennock, senior in LAS, and Annette Merkel, sophomore in LAS. “We wanted to give an alter- native, nondrinking activity to those who don’t drink so that they don’t feel left out during Unofficial,” Merkel said. Presby Hall also hosted an alternative Unofficial event for students. The event was held in the dining hall and featured a “Super Smash Bros.” tourna- ment, “Kinect Sports,” music and free food. The six-hour event was attend- ed by about 15 people through- out the night. “It was all about delivering a high-quality event to people who were looking for something … different to do the night of Unof- ficial,” said Jason Yue, one of the event organizers and a freshman in Engineering, in an email. “Not everyone partakes in the (Unof- ficial) spirit but want to celebrate the holiday. We achieve that goal by hosting an event that people can come to enjoy.” Jacqui can be reached at [email protected]. Student’s print shop capitalizes on Unofficial shirts BY EMMA WEISSMANN STAFF WRITER While many students turned to print shops like Custom Ink or University Tees to print their T-shirt designs for Unof- ficial St. Patrick’s Day on Fri- day, Brandon Johnson, senior in LAS, took a different approach. Johnson is the co-owner of Silky Screens Print Co., a print shop he started with his broth- er five years ago in Loves Park, Ill. Since coming to the Uni- versity, Johnson and his broth- er have not only been design- ing shirts but printing them as well. “My brother started screen printing for fun in the back of our family’s bike shop, ‘Bob’s Bike Shop,’ Johnson said in an email. “From that, we started taking in small orders and saw a market.” The company printed approx- imately 650 T-shirts for Unof- ficial this year, up from about 150 to 200 in 2012. The compa- ny’s total growth Friday was about $6,200 with a net profit of $2,800, marking it as the sec- ond busiest time of year for the business. Although the compa- ny runs all year round, Unoffi- cial is usually behind both foot- ball block and fraternity rush when it comes to sales, John- son said. “Football block throws every- thing out of the water because you have frats and sororities,” Johnson said. “Unofficial would be my second biggest (in sales) this year. But, in the past, it hasn’t been.” He credits the rise in busi- ness to the three student am- bassadors he hired this year from his fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, and their efforts to publi- cize the T-shirt designs over so- cial media. Devlin McKay, ambassador for Johnson and sophomore in LAS, said the team advertised the shirts through Facebook but also used fliers and word of mouth. “We started this program called Silky Screen Ambassa- dors,” McKay said. “The idea of it is when (Johnson) leaves, we will maintain a relationship BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER Dan Phalin: It’s rewarding to help Unofficial participants Every year on Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day, thousands of stu- dents participate in the drink- ing and partying festivities that are associated with the holi- day. Instead of celebrating in the more traditional way, Dan Phalin, member of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, spent his Unofficial making sure students that do participate that way are being safe. The group set up a table on Green Street and handed out water to passersby. Phalin said Unofficial participants often for- get to pace themselves and drink water. “So we’re there, reminding them to stay safe and make smart decisions about drinking,” he said. “If people don’t remem- ber to stay hydrated on their own, we are out there trying to keep them hydrated the best we can.” Members of the fellowship started this tradition before Pha- lin came to campus, he said. He has helped out every year. “I love doing it,” he said. “I spend my Unofficial with some truly great people, and we’re helping people, which is always rewarding.” Although he said he enjoys interacting with so many differ- ent people throughout the day, Phalin said he wishes Unofficial could be celebrated under differ- ent circumstances. And he wish- es it wasn’t so strongly affiliated with drinking. Even so, Phalin said he will miss the commotion caused by the holiday, as Friday was his last Unofficial on campus. “Thinking about how this is my last year — I really love doing this,” he said. “I’ll really miss doing this, and I’ll miss all the great people at Intervarsity that I get to spend my day with.” Min Spends quiet Unofficial with friends For Eunji Min, celebrating Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day has not been a priority in past years. Even so, as her time on campus is winding down, she said she wanted to spend her last Unoffi- cial with people she cares about. Min said she spent her day tutoring students, as she does every Friday. Afterwards, she and a friend went to Murphy’s Pub for dinner. Although her plans were low key, she said she thought it was important to do something fun for her last Unofficial. “I’m going to miss the campus and the students and this kind Seniors’ last holiday Fear and Loathing on See T-SHIRTS, Page 3A See SENIORS, Page 3A Students spend last Unocial not drinking, partying The reporter of this story followed a group of University sophomores, all underage, during the afternoon and evening of Unofficial. All names in this story were changed to protect the identities of the students. Following policy of The Daily Illini, at no time did the reporter conceal his status or the purpose of his presence. Only those students who gave full consent to participate in this story were quoted. Although of legal age, at no point did the reporter drink or facilitate consumption of alcohol in any way. How this story was reported CLAIRE EVERETT THE DAILY ILLINI The Interns and EpilepC DJ together at the Heartland concert on Unofficial at Canopy Club. Senior Sunghoon “Rami” Moon founded Heartland in 2011. He said he spent most of Unofficial preparing for the show. PHOTOS BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI THE DAILY ILLINI Top: Hazel, 19-year-old University sophomore, laughs between drinks from a friend’s flask on the evening of Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day on Friday. Bottom Left: Alex, a 19-year-old University sophomore, grasps a bag of wine to his chest while celebrating Unofficial. Hidden inside Alex’s jacket are also two bottles of Blue Moon beer, a bottle of vodka and a flask. Alex on Friday toasted: ”We have a handle, two fifths and Franzia. God bless this country!” Bottom Right: Underage students hide bottles of alcohol in a drawer under a bed in their dorm room during. See UNOFFICIAL, Page 3A Green scene Photos from Friday’s festivities NEWS, 4-5A Check out footage from Dry Unofficial and Green Street DAILYILLINI.COM
Transcript
BY DANNY WICENTOWSKIWEBSITE EDITOR
Editor’s Note: The following article includes profane language and the consumption of alcohol. The names of individuals involved have been changed.
Alex is the kind of friend you want around on Unofficial. Sit-ting on an office chair on Friday afternoon in his dorm room, he takes another long pull of whis-key from a stainless steel flask before handing it to Claire, the petite girl in army boots and black tights sitting on Alex’s bottom bunk bed.
Alex and Claire are 19 years old. Also 19 is Dan, who sits near the window with a PBR in his hand. Toby, a 20-year-old with a mop of blond hair, lounges on the futon waiting for the flask to make its way to him. Soon they will be joined by Hazel and Ken-ny, both 20.
A $140 receipt from a local liquor store barely tells the sto-ry of how much booze is in this room: bottles of vodka, tequila, gin and liqueur make up most of the bill, and it’s rounded out by a 12-pack of Blue Moon, a case of PBR and a box of Franzia wine. However, the receipt doesn’t include the alcohol the group already stockpiled: 20 more bottles of Blue Moon, 30 more cans of PBR, mint schnapps and Everclear. All in all, Alex esti-mates there’s around $200 worth of alcohol at their disposal today.
The booze wasn’t that diffi-cult to acquire. Everyone knows
somebody over 21. Alex’s girl-friend is over 21, as are her friends. For an underage par-ty animal like Alex, acquir-ing alcohol isn’t about loiter-ing in front of a liquor store and hoping a kindly stranger or homeless person will buy you a six-pack; it’s about using your personal social network of friends and relationships to get your hands on the good stuff.
Alex is the kind of friend you want in a jam. The kind of friend who immediately knows that the soft knocking on the door is somehow wrong, very wrong, and although that knocking doesn’t sound like the sharp rap of police knuckles, he doesn’t hesitate to flip off the booming stereo and stare the room into silence.
Everyone goes quiet. The soft, almost listless knocking continues. There are no more jokes, no more loud, braying laughs from Alex; no, now there is just the work of secrecy and disposal. This is something Alex is good at, and he ginger-ly tiptoes a bottle of vodka to a backpack in the corner of room, trying to minimize noise.
Cans of beer are shoved back into the fridge or behind furni-ture, and Alex secures two bot-tles of Blue Moon, his flask and a bottle of gin inside his leath-er jacket.
After a white-knuckled 90 seconds, Alex cracks open his door about eight inches.
“Hey, are you guys doing any-thing?” says the RA. He has a
soft voice that matches his knock. He says he heard bot-tles clinking and conversation coming from inside the room about drinking and drug use.
“It sure did take you guys a long time to open the door,” he says.
Alex replies that no, there’s nothing going on in here. As for talk of drinking and drugs? Those were just jokes. The RA doesn’t seem convinced. He tells Alex that he will have to inform his boss about this any-way and that Alex should be careful.
The RA leaves, and Alex clos-
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Students promote nondrinking eventsBY JACQUI OGRODNIKSTAFF WRITER
Instead of participating in Unofficial on Friday, many stu-dents spent their time either helping others or organizing alternative events.
Members of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship spent most of the day handing out cups of water on the corner of Green and Sixth streets and in front of TIS College Bookstore, 707 S. Sixth St.
“It’s meant to help peo-ple stay hydrated since alco-hol dehydrates you very fast,” said Aaron Zhao, sophomore in Engineering.
Lucas Hsu, sophomore in Engineering, said the group members were also concerned about alcohol poisoning.
“By handing out water, we make sure that people don’t just have alcohol in their body,” Hsu said. “They can stay safe while having fun on Unofficial.”
Members said people were appreciative of the group’s offer.
“Some people have been like, ‘Yes, I want some. Thank you very much. This is a great thing!’” said Christina Crusius, freshman in LAS.
Other students found ways to pass the day without involving themselves in the usual Unoffi-cial activities.
Residents of Busey-Evans Residence Halls who did not participate in Unofficial enjoyed an evening of craft making and nail painting. The event was organized by Busey residents Corinne Pennock, senior in LAS, and Annette Merkel, sophomore in LAS.
“We wanted to give an alter-native, nondrinking activity to those who don’t drink so that they don’t feel left out during Unofficial,” Merkel said.
Presby Hall also hosted an alternative Unofficial event for students. The event was held in the dining hall and featured a “Super Smash Bros.” tourna-ment, “Kinect Sports,” music and free food.
The six-hour event was attend-ed by about 15 people through-out the night.
“It was all about delivering a high-quality event to people who were looking for something … different to do the night of Unof-ficial,” said Jason Yue, one of the event organizers and a freshman in Engineering, in an email. “Not everyone partakes in the (Unof-ficial) spirit but want to celebrate the holiday. We achieve that goal by hosting an event that people can come to enjoy.”
Student’s print shop capitalizes on Unofficial shirtsBY EMMA WEISSMANNSTAFF WRITER
While many students turned to print shops like Custom Ink or University Tees to print their T-shirt designs for Unof-ficial St. Patrick’s Day on Fri-day, Brandon Johnson, senior in LAS, took a different approach.
Johnson is the co-owner of Silky Screens Print Co., a print
shop he started with his broth-er five years ago in Loves Park, Ill. Since coming to the Uni-versity, Johnson and his broth-er have not only been design-ing shirts but printing them as well.
“My brother started screen printing for fun in the back of our family’s bike shop, ‘Bob’s Bike Shop,’ Johnson said in an
email. “From that, we started taking in small orders and saw a market.”
The company printed approx-imately 650 T-shirts for Unof-ficial this year, up from about 150 to 200 in 2012. The compa-ny’s total growth Friday was about $6,200 with a net profit of $2,800, marking it as the sec-ond busiest time of year for the
business. Although the compa-ny runs all year round, Unoffi-cial is usually behind both foot-ball block and fraternity rush when it comes to sales, John-son said.
“Football block throws every-thing out of the water because you have frats and sororities,” Johnson said. “Unofficial would be my second biggest (in sales)
this year. But, in the past, it hasn’t been.”
He credits the rise in busi-ness to the three student am-bassadors he hired this year from his fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, and their efforts to publi-cize the T-shirt designs over so-cial media.
Devlin McKay, ambassador for Johnson and sophomore in
LAS, said the team advertised the shirts through Facebook but also used fliers and word of mouth.
“We started this program called Silky Screen Ambassa-dors,” McKay said. “The idea of it is when (Johnson) leaves, we will maintain a relationship
BY LAUREN ROHRSTAFF WRITER
Dan Phalin: It’s rewarding to help Unofficial participants
Every year on Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day, thousands of stu-dents participate in the drink-ing and partying festivities that are associated with the holi-day. Instead of celebrating in the more traditional way, Dan Phalin, member of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, spent his Unofficial making sure students that do participate that way are being safe.
The group set up a table on Green Street and handed out water to passersby. Phalin said Unofficial participants often for-get to pace themselves and drink water.
“So we’re there, reminding them to stay safe and make smart decisions about drinking,” he said. “If people don’t remem-
ber to stay hydrated on their own, we are out there trying to keep them hydrated the best we can.”
Members of the fellowship started this tradition before Pha-lin came to campus, he said. He has helped out every year.
“I love doing it,” he said. “I spend my Unofficial with some truly great people, and we’re helping people, which is always rewarding.”
Although he said he enjoys interacting with so many differ-ent people throughout the day, Phalin said he wishes Unofficial could be celebrated under differ-ent circumstances. And he wish-
es it wasn’t so strongly affiliated with drinking.
Even so, Phalin said he will miss the commotion caused by the holiday, as Friday was his last Unofficial on campus.
“Thinking about how this is my last year — I really love doing this,” he said. “I’ll really miss doing this, and I’ll miss all the great people at Intervarsity that I get to spend my day with.”
Min Spends quiet Unofficial with friends
For Eunji Min, celebrating Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day has
not been a priority in past years. Even so, as her time on campus is winding down, she said she wanted to spend her last Unoffi-cial with people she cares about.
Min said she spent her day tutoring students, as she does every Friday. Afterwards, she and a friend went to Murphy’s Pub for dinner. Although her plans were low key, she said she thought it was important to do something fun for her last Unofficial.
“I’m going to miss the campus and the students and this kind
Seniors’ last holiday
Fear and Loathing on
See T-SHIRTS, Page 3A
See SENIORS, Page 3A
Students spend last Uno!cial not drinking, partying
The reporter of this story followed a group of University sophomores, all underage, during the afternoon and evening of Unofficial. All names in this story were changed to protect the identities of the students. Following policy of The Daily Illini, at no time did the reporter conceal his status or the purpose of his presence. Only those students who gave full consent to participate in this story were quoted. Although of legal age, at no point did the reporter drink or facilitate consumption of alcohol in any way.
How this story was reported
CLAIRE EVERETT THE DAILY ILLINI
The Interns and EpilepC DJ together at the Heartland concert on Unofficial at Canopy Club. Senior Sunghoon “Rami” Moon founded Heartland in 2011. He said he spent most of Unofficial preparing for the show.
PHOTOS BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI THE DAILY ILLINI
Top: Hazel, 19-year-old University sophomore, laughs between drinks from a friend’s flask on the evening of Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day on Friday.Bottom Left: Alex, a 19-year-old University sophomore, grasps a bag of wine to his chest while celebrating Unofficial. Hidden inside Alex’s jacket are also two bottles of Blue Moon beer, a bottle of vodka and a flask. Alex on Friday toasted: ”We have a handle, two fifths and Franzia. God bless this country!”Bottom Right: Underage students hide bottles of alcohol in a drawer under a bed in their dorm room during.
See UNOFFICIAL, Page 3A
Green scenePhotos from Friday’s festivitiesNEWS, 4-5A
Check out footage from Dry Unofficial and Green Street DAILYILLINI.COM
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Champaign Kidnapping, robbery and ag-
gravated battery were report-ed in the 00 block of East Green Street around 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, five suspects battered and robbed the victim.
Criminal damage to proper-ty was reported in the 300 block of East John Street around 3 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the of-fender threw a beer bottle from the balcony, damaging the vic-tim’s vehicle.
Theft was reported in the 500 block of North Hickory Street around 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the victim reported items missing from his apartment, including
two identification items, one ring, one computer and one check/bond.
Criminal damage to proper-ty was reported in the 100 block of East Gregory Drive around 3 a.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an un-known suspect or suspects dam-aged two door frames at a Gabe’s Place property.
Aggravated battery was re-ported in the 300 block of Ken-wood Drive around 2 a.m. Sat-urday.
According to the report, the victim was battered by two un-known offenders.
Urbana A 23-year-old male was ar-
rested on multiple charges in
the 1100 block of East Oregon Street around 6 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the suspect was arrested on the charges of a hit-and-run, im-proper lane usage, accident in-volving non-injury and leaving the scene of an accident.
Theft was reported in the 1300 block of North Lincoln Avenue at midnight Saturday.
According to the report, the victim reported she was at a party at an apartment com-plex at an unknown apartment starting around 10 p.m. Fri-day until Saturday morning. She laid her phone down at the party, and when she went back to get it, she could not lo-cate it.
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Today’s BirthdayFun and romance blossom like early spring flowers. July and December are ripe for career advancement this year. Explore promotional opportunities around April; June’s great for launching. Keep to your financial plan, and your status rises through community participation.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is a 9 — Appearances deceive, and changes require budget revisions. Craft inspiring goals that push the boundaries of what you consider reasonable. No boredom allowed.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is an 8 — Vivid feelings and expression of love occupy you for awhile. Good judgment is still
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Others buy in to your plans. Don’t fuss about something that doesn’t fit expectations. Often it’s better (although disguised).
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SELMA, Ala. — The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civ-il rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans’ votes haven’t stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act added millions to Southern voter rolls.
More than 5,000 people fol-lowed Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., across the Edmund Pet-tus Bridge in Selma’s annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee.
The event commemorates the “Bloody Sunday” beating of vot-ing rights marchers — includ-ing a young Lewis — by state troopers as they began a march to Montgomery in March 1965. The 50-mile march prompted Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act that struck down impediments to voting by Afri-can-Americans and ended all-white rule in the South.
Biden, the first sitting vice president to participate in the annual re-enactment, said noth-
ing shaped his consciousness more than watching TV foot-age of the beatings. “We saw in stark relief the rank hatred, dis-crimination and violence that still existed in large parts of the nation,” he said.
Biden said marchers “broke the back of the forces of evil,” but that challenges to vot-ing rights continue today with restrictions on early voting and voter registration drives and enactment of voter ID laws where no voter fraud has been shown.
“We will never give up or give in,” Lewis told marchers.
Jesse Jackson said Sunday’s event had a sense of urgency because the U.S. Supreme Court heard a request Wednesday by a mostly white Alabama county to strike down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act.
“We’ve had the right to vote 48 years, but they’ve never stopping trying to diminish the impact of the votes,” Jack-son said.
Referring to the Voting Rights Act, the Rev. Al Sharp-ton said: “We are not here for a
commemoration. We are here for a continuation.”
The Supreme Court is weigh-ing Shelby County’s challenge to a portion of the law that requires states with a history of racial discrimination, mostly in the Deep South, to get approv-al from the Justice Depart-ment before implementing any changes in election laws. That includes everything from new voting districts to voter ID laws.
Attorneys for Shelby Coun-ty argued that the pre-clear-
ance requirement is outdated in a state where one-fourth of the Legislature is black. But Jackson predicted the South will return to gerrymandering and more at-large elections if the Supreme Court voids part of the law.
Attorney General Eric Hold-er, the defendant in Shelby County’s suit, told marchers that the South is far different than it was in 1965 but is not yet at the point where the most important part of the voting
rights act can be dismissed as unnecessary.
Martin Luther King III, whose father led the march when it resumed after Bloody Sunday, said, “We come here not to just celebrate and observe but to recommit.”
One of the NAACP attorneys who argued the case, Debo Adegbile, said when Congress renewed the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it understood that the act makes sure minority inclu-sion is considered up front.
with all of his business part-ners.”
Along with his fellow am-bassadors, McKay will contin-ue to serve as a Silky Screen’s campus representative until he graduates and plans to continu-ally recruit members from his fraternity each year to keep up relations in the campus com-munity.
Silky Screen’s most popu-lar design this year showed the rapper “Chief Keef” wearing a Native American headdress, with “Hate Bein’ Sober” on the back of the shirt. The design accounted for 90 percent of the company’s T-shirt sales, John-
son said.Once the shirt designs and
orders were finalized, Johnson sent the orders to his broth-er Ben Johnson, who serves as both the graphic designer and the printer for the company in Loves Park, Ill. The business is still located in “Bob’s Bike Shop,” but is now in the garage and consists of a dark room, a rinse room, a print room and an emulsions room, he said.
“In order to print the ink onto the shirts, (Ben) must make screens for every color of ink used in the graphic,” John-son said. “Then he applies each screen through different pro-cesses and the ink is pressed into the shirt. After the ink is on the shirt, it is put through a 15-foot two-stage dryer.”
Max Mendelson, a recent University graduate, visit-ed campus Friday and was one customer sporting a Silky Screens T-shirt. He ordered 33 Unofficial custom-designed T-shirts for friends and co-work-ers from the company this year. He said he decided to purchase from Johnson’s company in-stead of a larger print shop be-cause Silky Screens does busi-ness on a more personal level.
“He updates people on the way with what the process is at and where the production is at, and you’re actually talking to the owner of the company,” Mendelson said. “It’s a lot more involved.”
of student activity that you don’t get outside of a campus environ-ment,” Min said. “That’s why I made plans to go out with my friend, so we could go out and enjoy ourselves.”
Min said although she didn’t celebrate in past years, she often walked around outside to witness all the commotion. But she said she thinks the excessive amount of drinking that is associated with the holiday is unnecessary.
“Unofficial is a lot of fun for the students, especially because students from other schools come and participate, too,” Min said. “But because of all the drinking, the administration gets nervous, and they really crack down on the laws and everything.”
Min said when she thinks of Unofficial, she remembers watch-ing all the students on Green Street. Another memory that stands out is watching students on their balconies, yelling at peo-ple passing by underneath them, she said.
“You get a lot of situations like that on Unofficial because of all the drinking,” Min said. “People obviously wouldn’t act the way they act on Unofficial if they were sober.”
But even with all the chaos, Min said she will miss the way the stu-dents on campus come together for the holiday.
“I think Unofficial is really fun for the students, and it’s a good way to celebrate as long as they’re safe,” she said.
Sung Hoon “Rami” Moon spent his Unofficial at a bar, the way many seniors do, but instead of dancing to the beats, he was the one dropping them.
Moon, founder of local DJ com-pany Heartland, is a profession-al DJ and performed at Canopy Club for a special Unofficial show Friday along with five other local DJs.
He said he spent most of the day preparing for the event. Though he was unable to participate in more traditional Unofficial festiv-ities, as he did his first three years on campus, he said he enjoyed the change of pace and was excited to be the host of what he said turned out to be a successful event.
Moon said he started to think about becoming a DJ in 2008 when he went to a party in St. Lou-is, but he said music had always interested him as well as its power to unite people.
“I always wanted to gather all different communities with elec-tro music,” he said.
Moon said it was a strange feel-ing, knowing that Friday was his last time he would be a stu-dent during Unofficial. Flashing back to previous years, he said he wished he had started partic-ipating in these types of music events sooner.
He added that he will miss the way the campus comes together in celebration.
“I actually have a positive view on Unofficial,” Moon said. “It’s one of the traditional events that’s been at our school for years. It’s all good as long as you stay out of trouble.”
es the door.Hazel and Claire escape the
room immediately, leaving Alex, Toby, Dan and Kenny to start shoveling cans of beer into a number of backpacks and duf-fel bags.
“This is a fuck-ton of booze,” grunts Alex as he lifts a bulg-ing, lumpy duffel bag filled with cans of PBR. Everything must be transferred to other rooms just in case the RA decides to come back and search his dorm in their absence.
Taking turns, Alex, Dan, Toby and Kenny slide into the hallway to smuggle the booze into other rooms on the floor. As they scam-per, they see two other RAs down an adjacent hallway standing expectantly at the door of anoth-er unlucky dorm room.
Right now, the immediate prob-lem posed to Alex and compa-ny involves not just hiding what alcohol they have left, a signifi-cant amount, but also disposing of the many empty cans and bot-tles that accumulated over the past hour.
Toby stashes an empty bottle of vodka in a used cardboard shipping envelope and throws the package in the trash in the hallway. Cans and bottles are hidden in coats or just carried by hand with utmost haste to the bathroom trash. Everyone’s face is grim. They double- and triple-check Alex’s room.
With everything newly secret-ed away, the group reconvenes outside the entrance of the dorm. Alex and Dan are wearing back-packs containing a number of
bottles of vodka and gin as well as the box of Franzia wine.
“That was handled magnifi-cently,” Alex says. “I don’t care. I give zero fucks. This is my last semester in the dorm.”
Dan is similarly unfazed.“This is probably the third time
this has happened to me,” he says. “It’s scary the first time, but you learn.”
The group walks away from the dormitory. The guys stay mostly clumped together, while Hazel and Claire skip and giggle, hap-pily buzzed, a half a dozen or so yards ahead.
The worst that could happen, Alex says, is that the RA goes and searches the room, and that doesn’t matter because they’ve already made sure there’s noth-ing to find there.
For Alex, the best the RAs could throw at him would basi-cally be a slap on the wrist; by now, after almost two full in years living in a dormitory, his wrists are positively calloused. He laughs the whole event off as they begin walking toward a resi-dential area, a cloud of pot smoke mingling with the cold March air and the group’s collective whis-key breath.
Alex is the kind of friend who is loud, especially when intoxicat-ed. He shouts a toast to Mitt Rom-ney before taking swig of whiskey from the flask inside his jacket. Alex is a Republican, though only because libertarians are so insuf-ferable, he explains. He toasts Marco Rubio and drinks again.
He yells up to two green-shirt-ed students drinking on a third-floor balcony: “We have a handle, two fifths and Franzia. God bless this country!”
Dan leaves the group at this
point to go to class. In terms of how drunk he feels, Dan esti-mates he’s at a six out of 10. He says it won’t be a problem, and when he returns later, he reports that class was unevent-ful as always.
By 3 p.m., Alex and his friends are nicely sloshed, and after about 20 minutes of walking, they enter a small apartment with a half-dozen other students drinking. With a flourish, Alex reveals the Franzia from a back-pack and removes the red blad-der of wine from the box.
The game they began to play is called “Slap Bag,” and the rules are simple: You clamp your mouth around the spig-ot on the bag of Franzia wine, and those around you chant each second that you drink. When you can imbibe no more, you must spin in a circle one time for each second of your drinking time, and when you finish, you slap the bag of wine in celebration.
Claire holds the bag up, and the Franzia glows orange in the early afternoon light pouring through the bare upstairs win-dow. She manages to hold on for 13 seconds. (Later, after Alex takes his turn and finishes spin-ning around 24 times, he’ll have to sit down for a bit to gather himself.)
The party settles downstairs, situated on two brown couch-es opposite an entertainment center. Claire quickly becomes something of a Franzia wait-ress, offering everyone, one by one, a chance to drink deep from the seemingly inexhaust-ible bag of sweet red wine.
Claire giggles. “I got the Franz,” she says
Alex’s group and a number of
the students in the apartment leave to get food at 4 p.m. Ken-ny and Claire pry gritty snow into passable snowballs and hurl them at each other, laughing. But by the time the group gets to a nearby University dining hall, it is apparent that Alex is approaching a very messy stage of drunkenness.
Before waiting for the dining room to open, Alex sings “The Star-Spangled Banner” loudly from the bathroom. He reaches into his jacket and cracks open a new Blue Moon while he’s wait-ing in line to scan his i-Card, and, once inside the dining hall, the bottle tips inside his jack-et as he tries to sit down. Beer streams out the bottom of his shirt and onto his pants.
On Alex’s plate is a volcanic eruption, a three-burrito mutant food monster made of lettuce, beans, guacamole, three tor-tillas, cheese, steak, chicken, sour cream and peppers. He fin-ishes most of it, and it is not an easy thing to watch.
The day of Unofficial gives way into evening, and the group makes its way back to the dorm. They’re drunk, they’re fed, and they’re happy. They joke and talk about girls, sex, classes and who pooped in the tub last time they were drunk. They tell their favorite stories.
Alex says there’s nothing really special about Unofficial for he and his friends. They may not spend $150 on alcohol for a party, but they will spend $85. And instead of starting the drinking at 2 p.m., as they did today, they would probably start around 9 p.m. on a normal day or weekend.
At 6 p.m., Alex returns to
his dorm room and passes out almost immediately. He curls his lanky body around a long, black body pillow. His pants are still wet. He snores loudly.
In the dorm, Kenny, Claire and Hazel all enter into the boys bathroom for “shower beers.” Only Toby takes a real, naked shower. Fully clothed one stall over, Hazel and Claire drink PBRs together, while on the oth-er side of Toby’s stall is Kenny, also fully clothed, who drinks and belches over and over again. After they finish beers, every-one leaves, smirking.
At 7 p.m., the remainder of Alex’s group rides the 22 Illi-ni with other students wear-ing green tank-tops and neon orange trucker hats with the word “RAGE” printed on the front.
Hazel talks to two girls who drove in from Illinois State University. At a later party in a different but still small apart-ment, Toby lets his friends draw penises on his arm in perma-nent marker.
There are more tense moments, vomit, makeouts, a fire alarm and cops, but it’s all the same to Alex and his friends; it’s really kind of normal. And on Unofficial, amid a campus bleary and heaving from a day’s worth of drinking, Alex and his friends are completely right: All this behavior is normal — accepted, even traditional.
That’s the magic of Unofficial: It’s a day when every student, just like Alex and his friends, can rest easy knowing they tru-ly have no more fucks to give.
Students and visitors walk-ing down Green Street noticed an overall lack of activity during the late morning on Friday.
Both Kevin Yee, 25, and Jeff Bishop, 25, are University alumni who said that the street was a lot emptier than they remembered it having been in years past.
“When I was here, the streets were a lot more crowded,” Yee said. “If I went here now, I’d be like, ‘Oh it’s a regular school day.’”
Bishop agreed and said that when he was a student, the streets were normally so packed with people that it was hard to get through the crowds.
“You couldn’t walk,” Bishop said.
For Jamie Friedman, junior in LAS, the lack of activity was not a problem. She chose to spend Fri-day morning in the Starbucks on Green Street, studying for a noon exam.
“I enjoyed studying here,” Friedman said. ”We wanted to go somewhere early, before things got crazy. It’s a nice study break to people watch, but then I have no problem getting back to studying.”
Taking advantage of the flur-ry of students Unofficial brings to campus, many student groups
were out on campus with commu-nity service in mind.
Jessica Milaneses and Viral Patel, both freshmen in DGS, were soliciting donations on the corner of Fifth and Green streets for St. Baldrick’s, a foundation dedicated to curing childhood cancer.
“Today there’s especially a lot of people out on Green Street, so we figured it’s a great time to try to get people to donate,” Patel said.
Other students took it upon themselves to help out peers involved in Unofficial.
Matthew Jackson, freshman in Engineering and member of Intervarsity Christian Fellow-ship, was offering students water.
“We’re out here to hopeful-ly help people drink less alco-hol today on Unofficial, so we’re passing out free water,” Jackson said. “Hopefully they’ll stay safe as well.”
Sarah Timberlake, fellowship member and freshman in FAA, who was positioned on Green Street, said that when she offered people free water, she occasion-ally received sarcastic or joking responses, such as “I’m trying to quit,” and “I don’t drink.”
Instead of water, The Sexual Health Peers handed out free Kool-Aid and free condoms to students passing by.
”We’re encouraging people to be safe and take care of them-selves and protect themselves on this day,” said Sara Salmon, senior in LAS and president of the registered student organization.
Organization members of Illini Student Musicals did some self-fundraising on Unofficial, sell-ing chocolate-covered pretzels to
raise money for their upcoming musical “Little Shop of Horrors.”
The students’ main focus, they said, was selling the treat, but they were also urging those passing by to attend their perfor-mance on March 28.
During the late afternoon Fri-day, most students waiting to enter the bars around campus, like KAMS and Firehaus, had an attitude of “go with the flow” in regards to their Unofficial plans. The visit to the bars was not the first celebration of the day for many students. Junior Faith McCullough started drink-ing at 9 a.m.
“Tonight I’m planning on going to the Clark Bar with a lot of people,” she said. “Other than that, it’s wherever the wind takes me.”
Non-University students came to campus for the weekend to partake in the event. Julie Fouts, senior at DePaul University, chose this weekend to visit her friends on campus.
“I wanted to visit U of I, and now seemed like a good time,” she said. “There are lots of peo-ple out having fun. I was hoping for better weather though.”
Some University seniors said they might even return after graduation to celebrate Unoffi-cial next year.
“I woke up at 7 this morning, and I’m just going to keep going,” said Lauren McCoy, senior in LAS. “If our friend lives here next year, we’ll probably visit.”
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1. Three women run off with ACACIA house’s composite on the block west of the fraternity on East Armory Avenue on Friday.
2. State police turn into the Legends parking lot.
3. John Durkin, senior at Eastern Illinois, left; Valerie Sefton, senior in LAS, center; and Dana Delance, senior in ACES, walk down Green Street during
Unofficial.
4. A car donning an Irish flag drives down Green Street.
5. An Unofficial reveler tries to keep warm while walking down Green Street on Unofficial.
6. The empty Quad at 8:08 a.m. on Unofficial morning.
7. An overhead view of Unofficial revelers walk across Green Street.
8. A man is carried down Green Street.
9. Students wait for a security guard, right, to check the bags of two students before an 11 a.m. lecture at Foellinger Auditorium during the Unofficial
celebrations.
10. Seniors celebrating their last Unofficial laugh with one another after falling on ice on Friday.
11. The remnants of a party from earlier in the day lie in the courtyard of an apartment on the 00 block of John Street around 2 p.m. Friday.
12. Two people kiss while on a balcony. When asked how they know each other, they replied, “We just met.”
13. Luke Pullara, former University student, does a keg stand on a porch in Champaign around 2 p.m. He said he had been drinking since 7 a.m.
14. A man is ticketed for having an open container of alcohol at the intersection of Third and John streets on Friday. 89
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being a responsible adult. This is my fifth Unofficial. I’m in American flag shorts and I’m freezing cold.”
MATT PAARLBERG,senior in Aviation
“I cracked open my first beer in the shower this morning. I couldn’t resist.
I’m 26. I’ll be here until I die.”DJ CLIFFORD,
graduate of DePaul University
“I came across this mint-green tuxedo a couple years back. I wore it freshman
year on Unofficial, and since then, it’s just what I wear on Unofficial.”
MASOOD HAQUE,junior in LAS and Illini Media employee
“Growing up, I was super Irish. St. Patrick’s Day is my favorite thing so being here is really fun to
see everyone taking pride in my culture.”COLLEEN MANSER
senior at Eastern Illinois University
“I’m going to class not hammered because there’s just a lot of ways to get caught. It’s just not a good idea, and I don’t think I
could be drunk all day. ... You got to save your alcohol for later.”MORGAN SCOTT,
junior in LAS
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“Growing up, I was super Irish. St. Patrick’s Day is my favorite thing so being here is really fun to
see everyone taking pride in my culture.”COLLEEN MANSER
senior at Eastern Illinois University
“I’m going to class not hammered because there’s just a lot of ways to get caught. It’s just not a good idea, and I don’t think I
could be drunk all day. ... You got to save your alcohol for later.”MORGAN SCOTT,
junior in LAS
“We had some breakfast at Green Balcs (Sixth and Healey streets)
with some Jell-O shots, since we are of age and allowed to drink.
We’re all seniors. We’re kind of sad, but it’s our last year to celebrate.”
Our generation’s voting turnout rate is abominable.
That’s what we hear time and time again in politics and media, any-way. Politicians worry about getting the “youth vote” like it’s a trendy disease they need to catch. But I’m not talking about national or even local elections (those ones are nothing to ignore). I’m talking about the yearly election that determines which students may lead our school to victory: our campus elections.
What? Don’t roll your eyes — in the past, we’ve averaged a voting turnout of 12 percent. However, it’s high time we start putting our favorite college sena-tors’ election Facebook page in our book-marks section and making comparison charts to determine which student trust-ee, so we’re ready coming March 5 and 6. Because there are a few key players and rules that will impact our collegiate lives here.
Student trusteeThis student is the representative
on the University’s board of trustees. Because the board’s activities consist of more than just eating caviar in fancy restaurants, this student probably has the most important job on the ballot: He will have the direct ear of some of the most powerful people in our University system.
Now, the student trustee is just one of 13 members of the board, so it’s not like he can stroll in and declare a 50 percent tuition cut. But the trustee does serve on the Academic and Student Affairs com-
mittee to maintain our academic quality and student life, and he or she must serve on one other committee, with topics that range from health care to budgeting ethics.
This year’s trustee candidates repre-sent several different positions. Out of the six candidates who started out (the ballot could have fewer come election day), we have everyone from alumni net-workers to student-affairs supporters to pro-Chief activists. The choices make me feel like a kid in a candy store, except instead of picking Twizzlers vs. Twix, we need to pick the right person to repre-sent us.
SORF BoardWe have the option to vote for the new
members on the SORF Board, which is the University’s funding board for RSOs. Whether you realize it or not, the SORF Board affects everyone who is at least slightly tied to an RSO. Plus, the board gets $6 from students every semester, so we have a right to know who’s allocating our fees.
The board does more than act as the money fairy for student organizations; it also sets the rules that dictate how an RSO can spend its SORF money. For example, it regulates how much mon-ey can be allocated to club members for traveling to conferences and other trips.
Illinois student senatorsSomewhat of an unknown factor
(admittedly, I didn’t even know my col-lege senator until a little more than a year ago), the senators represent their constituents on the senate floor at ISS meetings, which could cover anything from presenting a proposal to renovate your shoddy lab rooms to, well, nothing, depending on what’s going on with the
colleges. But ideally, the senator is the one you can go to if you have an issue.
The interesting thing about the senato-rial race is the distribution of candidates between each college. A larger college, such as LAS, may have 27 people running for senator, while a smaller college, like Education, may not have any. Opportuni-ties for write-ins are always a possibil-ity, so if you feel like you can rep your college better than your current college candidate can, start your write-in cam-paign now.
ReferendumsEvery year, the ballot also contains a
couple of questions that impact student life. Some questions this time around aren’t too crazy — affirming the colle-giate readership fee and the Krannert fee. But some of the questions are a bit more divisive, such as charging a $25 fee a semester for 30 years to renovate Assembly Hall.
The most influential referendum, though, is by far the question regarding the Chief. It’s been a hot button topic for years, and it’s an even bigger issue now that there’s talk of a new mascot. The question “Do you support Chief Illini-wek as the official symbol of the Univer-sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign?” is one that almost everyone has an opinion about, so it’ll be interesting to see where the ballot will take us.
Before you vote, be sure to brush up on the candidates on the Campus Student Election Commission’s website. We can’t fool ourselves and pretend that these issues don’t affect us. Even if we are seniors, the votes that we cast can leave a certain legacy upon our school, our alma mater.
should not be a deciding factor in whether a student
can serve on board of trustees
JOHN BUYSSEOpinions columnist
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Jump on the JLaw
bandwagon
In case we weren’t absolutely sure, last week’s Academy Awards confirmed that Jenni-
fer Lawrence is simply the coolest it-girl in Hollywood.
If you’ve spent time on BuzzFeed or any other website that showcases pop culture, you’ve probably seen some digital media highlighting an instance where Jennifer Lawrence, or JLaw, has been able to capture the hearts and minds of America. It might have been a clip of her mak-ing fun of herself on late-night tele-vision. It might have been a GIF of her eating food while making a face that most starlets would consider to be wildly unflattering.
If that hadn’t convinced you of her greatness, her tumble on the stairs of the Dolby Theatre en route to accepting her Academy Award for Best Actress had to have done the trick.
Now, I am not typically one to jump on a celebrity-loving bandwag-on, but Lawrence’s meteoric rise to being America’s sweetheart is not typical either. The usual require-ments for a starlet to go from back-ground character to film headliner are looks and varying degrees of talent, brains and humor. The rea-son these vary is that the only con-stant across past it-girls has been beauty.
Oddly enough, I have jumped on the JLaw bandwagon without hav-ing seen a single movie of hers. I plan to catch up on as many as pos-sible when I have some time over spring break, but the fact that I am so entranced with her without see-ing her in signature roles was some-thing that started to make me think.
Why is America so obsessed with her?
She seems to display one other trait that most starlets — and public figures at large — are never able to master: being real.
It is this genuine quality that has catapulted her from appearing in commercials to starring in “Silver Linings Playbook” (which won her an Oscar) and blockbusters such as “X-Men: First Class” and “The Hun-ger Games.” At another moment in time, America may not have been as receptive to her style of celebrity, as Hollywood’s role in society has been to package and showcase stars for the public to observe, discuss, worship and often dislike. That sys-tem encouraged fans to view them almost as characters like those that they play in films.
Something about the present moment is different, though. Ameri-cans seem to reject those manufac-tured personas in favor of people like Lawrence.
This can currently be seen with another starlet front and center in pop culture right now — Anne Hathaway.
While she joined Lawrence in earning a golden statue last week-end for Best Supporting Actress, the response to her victory was entirely different. People took to Twitter to share their distaste for Hathaway’s well-rehearsed acceptance speech.
Oddly enough, though, people aren’t able to point to one single quality of Hathaway’s that irks them. Instead they dismiss her as annoying.
It’s starting to be clear that she annoys America because she might simply be too perfect. She has risen to prominence after jumping over the hurdle that starring in a Disney film can prove to be for many star-lets. Now she regularly gets some of Hollywood’s most-coveted roles and does so in style.
She took this perfect image to the next level by accomplishing some-thing that many actresses only dream of doing by winning an Oscar last Sunday.
Unfortunately for her, this has only hurt her image with the gener-al public. Her perfectly performed acceptance speech seemed like just that — a performance — next to Lawrence’s jaw-dropping stumble on her way to claiming the night’s top female acting prize.
It’s hard to tell if the public would have been as into a Hathaway stage stumble, but it is clear that Law-rence is favored by just about everyone.
It is my hope that JLaw will be able to keep this winning streak going past the present moment to live out a long career similar to a Meryl Streep’s. Her genuine per-sonality gives me confidence that she will stay rooted in being a reg-ular person and avoid buying into the manufactured persona that has been decided for the biggest of Hol-lywood stars.
T he Daily Illini editorial board endorsed Car-ey Ash to be the next Universi-
ty student trustee, but if you’ve logged onto vote.illinois.edu to check out the ballot, you’ll notice that his name isn’t list-ed. Ash was not grant-ed Illinois residency by Dean Kenneth T. Ballom in the Office of the Dean of Students, and according to state law, the student trustee must be a resident of the state of Illinois and maintain throughout the term.
Regardless of the unnec-essary residency require-ment, we stand by our endorsement of Ash, even if that means having to write him in.
The thought behind such a requirement is appar-ent: U of I is a land-grant institution that receives funding from the state. As such, the University of Illinois Trustees Act requires that those who oversee the allocation of the University’s $5 bil-lion budget, including the student trustee, should be Illinois residents.
The University also has a duty to its in-state stu-dents because the fore-most goal of a land-grant institution is to provide a quality education to its residents. The school does so for the 78.5 percent of its undergraduates who are from Illinois. How-ever, in recent years, the University has been push-ing for greater diversity, including attracting more out-of-state and interna-tional students, as seen by plans to open an additional office in China.
The residency require-ment for student trustee defies the purpose of the position’s role, which is to be the most direct repre-sentation of the student body on the board of trust-ees, the most powerful governing body of the Uni-versity. The requirement precludes equal and fair representation of the stu-dent body.
Even with a significant out-of-state population, the University’s first duty is to providing a quality and accessible education to Illinois residents, but that doesn’t mean that out-of-state students should be ignored. They are just as much a part of the Uni-versity as any other, and they deserve the chance to have a representative that is not an Illinois resident.
Although Ash may not be an Illinois resident, he has been on this campus for five years as a law student and Ph.D. candidate — more time than almost any undergraduate in-state student.
It should not matter that the student trustee estab-lishes residency. Either the candidate is qualified or the candidate is not, but he or she is always a stu-dent of the University of Illinois, the only require-ment that truly matters.
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Since posting our open letter to the campus community onto two blogs — Critical Spontaneity and I’ll Get There. It’ll Be Worth the Trip. — on Monday night, a community of supporters has joined us in taking a stand on the student referendum to reinstate the Chief, and we are incredibly thankful for them. On Tuesday, University administrators con-firmed the referendum has no authority or capacity to bring back the Chief as an official University symbol. The admin-istration’s statement on the Illinois Pub-lic News is clear: It encourages all of us to accept our history and begin to move forward.
Moving forward begins with seeing one another as human, realizing that each of us has a different history that informs what we know and who we are. We must recognize many Native Americans have real lived experiences that the Chief does not portray. We cannot honor people by rewriting their stories or claiming them as our own. The image of the Chief does not honor the culture of Native Ameri-cans — it further steals and erases the multiple rich cultures of the autonomous nations that form Native America. By continuing to use the Chief as a symbol, we are taking something that is not ours. It is time to give back what we have taken to truly honor the members of our com-munity, past and present.
We tend to judge ourselves based on
our intentions, while we tend to judge oth-ers by our perceptions. Sometimes the best of intentions can hurt others, and “instead of using defensiveness and igno-rance to protect ourselves from seeing the pain that other people feel, we need to open ourselves up to discomfort,” as sug-gested by Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier, a Uni-versity alumna.
We need to see one another as part of a shared community, and in doing so, seek not only the safety of ourselves, but of all of those in our classrooms or residence halls. In the words of Masood Haque, junior in LAS and Illini Media employ-ee, we need “solidarity between all indi-viduals, whether directly affected by an issue or someone just watching and let-ting it happen ... fighting for what is in fact right, versus what has just been a tradition bred out of a place of unknow-ing.” We must sometimes stand against the majority opinion because if we never do, “can we be certain that the popular vote would uphold even the most basic rights?” asks my friend Joshua Ford. This is a question we must take seriously.
We will all continue to hear opinions that make us question our own — and if we do not, maybe we need to listen with more care. And in that moment of dissonance, we must decide where we stand. This is where we will start to hear our own voice as we embrace our igno-rance and recognize our knowledge as incomplete.
We come from different places and are thrust onto one campus together as we
make sense of ourselves and our roles in a rapidly changing world. Higher educa-tion is not simply about sitting in a class-room and spitting out information. It’s about engaging with other learners and rethinking what we have already come to know.
Our time at the University is much more: It has helped us to become critical thinkers, holding multiple perspectives at the same time and deciphering the dif-ferences between matters that warrant truth with a capital “T” and matters that warrant multiple truths. We enter the University, and by the time we gradu-ate, we are ready to put our learning into action.
We have an opportunity now to enter a transformative moment in this Universi-ty’s legacy. We can acknowledge our past, hold it tenuously and reject those parts of that history we recognize as damag-ing. We can move forward into a future that is informed by our past, transforms our world for the better and acknowledg-es the humanity of all people. We have the opportunity to be the leaders we have always been.
The world is looking at us, University of Illinois, and we hope that we can make decisions that we can be proud of in the eyes of other universities and the greater community of higher education.
SUEY PARK,class of ‘12 and graduate student
at Miami UniversityTHADDEUS ANDRACKI,
graduate student in library and information science
The Chief steals, erases cultures of Native Americans
L)##)% #$ #-) E!"#$%From Chancellor Wise: Consider Chief Illiniwek issue carefully before casting your vote
As the March 5 and 6 elections draw near, I want to encourage you to partic-ipate in the process and know that, as always, the campus administration wel-comes your opinions.
Among the issues on the ballot is an advisory referendum designed to gauge support for Chief Illiniwek. As you are likely aware, the board of trust-ees made the decision to retire Chief Illiniwek in 2007, and the NCAA ruled
that continued use of the Chief would expressly prohibit the University’s participation in post-season athletics. Those decisions remain unchanged.
While many have memories of the Chief and numerous other past cam-pus traditions, it is important to under-stand the distinction between recog-nizing our history and embracing our future. I feel we must continue to move forward together as a family. The chal-lenges we face as a university are enor-mous: Other universities envy what we have accomplished and are competing with us with increasing vigor. When we are distracted, divided, or lose focus
on our ambitious future, we create additional challenges in our constant endeavor to continue to be one of the finest public research universities on the globe.
For 150 years the University has been a changing, growing and dynam-ic institution that looks forward and embraces the potential to become even better. I am hopeful that we can continue to move forward together with determination, optimism and a resolved focus on the opportunities and challenges ahead of us.
PHYLLIS WISE, University chancellor and vice-president
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private Earth-to-orbit deliv-ery service made good on its lat-est shipment to the International Space Station on Sunday, over-coming mechanical difficulty and delivering a ton of supplies with high-flying finesse.
To NASA’s relief, the SpaceX company’s Dragon capsule pulled up to the orbiting lab with all of its systems in perfect order. Station astronauts used a hefty robot arm to snare the unmanned Dragon, and three hours later, it was bolt-ed into place.
The Dragon’s arrival couldn’t have been sweeter — and not because of the fresh fruit on board for the six-man station crew. Com-ing a full day late, the 250-mile-high linkup above Ukraine cul-minated a two-day chase that got off to a shaky, almost dead-end-ing start.
Moments after the Dragon reached orbit Friday, a clogged pressure line or stuck valve pre-vented the timely release of the solar panels and the crucial fir-ing of small maneuvering rockets. SpaceX flight controllers strug-gled for several hours before gain-
ing control of the capsule and sal-vaging the mission.
“As they say, it’s not where you start, but where you finish that counts,” space station command-er Kevin Ford said after capturing the Dragon, “and you guys really finished this one on the mark.”
He added: “We’ve got lots of sci-ence on there to bring aboard and get done. So congratulations to all of you.”
Among the items on board: 640 seeds of a flowering weed used for research, mouse stem cells, food and clothes, trash bags, comput-er equipment, air purifiers, space-walking tools and batteries. The company also tucked away apples and other fresh treats from an employee’s family orchard.
The Dragon will remain at the space station for most of March before returning to Earth with sci-ence samples, empty food contain-ers and old equipment.
The California-based SpaceX run by billionaire Elon Musk has a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to keep the station well stocked. The contract calls for 12 supply runs; this was the second in that series.
This is the third time, howev-er, that a Dragon has visited the space station. The previous cap-sules had no trouble reaching their destination. Company offi-cials promise a thorough investi-gation into what went wrong this time; if the maneuvering thrusters had not been activated, the capsule would have been lost.
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Virtual military training to increase due to budget cutsBY JUAN CARLOS LLORCATHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT BLISS, Texas — More than a dozen troops carefully maneuver through overgrown shrubs, firing laser-tag rifles at the enemy as they advance on a compound in the New Mexico desert. Fifty miles away in West Texas, other soldiers in helicop-ter and tank simulators provide air and ground support for the virtual training exercise.
An Army supervisor watch-es it all unfold on a computer screen at a Fort Bliss command center. The real mission, how-ever, comes next: a thorough, high-tech review of the soldiers’ tactics.
The exercise is part of a new Army virtual program that records every aspect of train-
ing missions so soldiers can use video game-like replay to study how effectively the ground and air forces interacted. The sys-tem — a major upgrade over previous platforms that didn’t fully integrate tank and heli-copter communications — will be installed at posts across the U.S. and abroad.
The Integrated Training Environment is designed to cut costs, sharpen soldiers’ ability to interact with various units and allow the military to more quickly train the growing ranks of troops returning from deployment.
However, it’s not intended to do away with live training alto-gether, but rather to better pre-pare soldiers for real-life train-ing exercises.
“(Training gives soldiers) muscle memory through repe-tition ... so when we are in Iran, Syria, Africa, it’s going to kick in,” said Sgt. 1st Class Donald Jones, who operated a tank sim-ulator during the exercise.
Officials say the push for more practical training opera-tions comes at a critical time. The Pentagon’s budget faced cuts as high as 13 percent in some of its accounts after Con-gress couldn’t reach a deal to avert automatic, across-the-board spending cuts.
Mike Casey, spokesman for the Army’s Combined Arms Center-Training program, said it wasn’t immediately clear what impact the across-the-board cuts that took effect Fri-day would have on the program.
Judge reduces damages in Apple vs. Samsung lawsuitBY PAUL ELIASTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — The two biggest — and bitterest — rivals in the smartphone market will have to endure another bruising trial after a federal judge ruled that jurors miscalculated near-ly half the $1 billion in damag-es it found Samsung Electron-ics owed Apple Inc. for patent infringement.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh wiped out $450 million from the verdict and ordered a new trial to reconsider damages related to 14 Samsung products including some products in its hot-selling Galaxy lineup jurors in August found were using Apple’s tech-nology without permission. Koh said jurors in three-week trial had not properly followed her instruction in calculating some of the damages.
She also concluded that mis-takes had been made in determin-ing when Apple had first notified Samsung about the alleged viola-tions of patents for its trend-set-ting iPhone and iPad.
“We are pleased that the court decided to strike $450,514,650 from the jury’s award,” Samsung spokeswoman Lauren Restuccia said.
Koh didn’t toss out the jurors underlying finding that two doz-en Samsung products infringed patents Apple used to develop its iPad and iPhone products. The new jury will be tasked with only determining what Samsung owes Apple.
Apple declined to comment on the Koh’s ruling, which still did leave Samsung with a bill to just under $599 million. The judge said the tab will probably increase after the appeals of both companies are resolved.
Apple is seeking more dam-ages and Samsung a complete dismissal of the case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Feder-al Circuit, the Washington, D.C.-based court that handles all pat-ent appeals. The new trial to recalculate the damages could also increase the award.
Still, the ruling was the sec-ond significant setback in Koh’s
courtroom since the headline grabbing verdict was announced.
In December, Koh refused to order a sales ban on the products the jury found infringed Apple’s patents. She said Apple failed to prove the purloined technology is what drove consumers to buy a Samsung product instead of an Apple iPhone or iPad. Samsung says that it continues to sell only three of the two dozen products found to have infringed Apple’s patents.
After a three-week trial closely followed in Silicon Valley, the jury decided that Samsung ripped off the trailblazing technology and sleek designs used by Apple to create its revolutionary iPhone and iPad. Jurors ordered Sam-sung to pay Apple $1.05 billion.
Apple filed another lawsuit last year accusing Samsung’s newer line of products of continuing to use technology controlled by Apple. Koh has scheduled trial in that case for early next year. She has implored both companies on several occasions to settle their difference with little success.
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An attorney holds an Apple iPad, left, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. A federal judge on Friday slashed nearly half of the $1 billion damage award a jury ordered Samsung Electronics to pay Apple Inc.
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I.D.E.A. Store hosts creative-reuse art festivalBY LYANNE ALFAROSTAFF WRITER
Ainslie Heilich’s planner is booked with appointments dur-ing a busy tattooing season, while co-proprietor and art-ist Laura Davis runs a shop downstairs at their tattoo and homemade goods store. Vin-tage Karma was one of more than 20 vendors selling creative-reuse pieces at Hatch’s art fair Saturday.
Heilich, co-proprietor and tattoo artist at Vintage Karma, ran her business in Strouds-burg, Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2011. After moving to Tuscola, Ill., Heilich and Davis reopened with an added handmade goods section, featuring 40 local and regional artists’ work, to the
two-story business in April 2012.Vintage Karma was among
many businesses to make a trip to Champaign on Friday to Sunday for Hatch, an inaugu-ral creative-reuse art festival hosted by The I.D.E.A. Store, an earned-income enterprise of The Champaign-Urbana Schools Foundation. The shop offers craft workshops and materials that are usually discarded for repurposing.
The festival began Friday at the Indi Go Artist Co-op with an art exhibition that features juried art by reuse artists in the Midwest. On Saturday, the McKinley Fitness Center gym-nasium housed an all-day art fair.
The concept of the three-
day event was created by The I.D.E.A. Store’s general direc-tor, Gail Rost. She envisioned the art fair as having a vari-ety of price points and content. On Saturday, she made several creative-reuse purchases of her own, ranging from dresses to earrings.
“I’ve shopped like a madwom-an,” Rost said. “I wanted peo-ple to see high quality execu-tion of things that are made with reused materials. I also have a committee that’s to-die-for.”
The organizing commit-tee, which consists primarily of four people, included vol-unteer and assemblage artist Melissa Mitchell, who coordi-nated Hatch. Mitchell said her hopes for the event were to show people the “kinds of wild, crazy, imaginative things people have done with these materials.” She also hoped to inspire other peo-ple to try this kind of art.
Mikako Takai, senior in FAA, displayed her art dolls at the art fair. When crafting the dolls, Takai attempts to represent characteristics of nature and animals, a style that she adapt-ed two years ago.
“They wear masks instead of having an actu-al dolled face to them,” Takai sa id . “ They are a physical object made up of thrown away objects. By forc-ing them into an actual character, it brings impor-tance back to the items.”
Takai’s dolls are made from leftover supplies and fabric from the quilts that her moth-er used to make for her family.
Heilich also featured a vari-
ety of pieces at the Vintage Kar-ma booth. Along with colorful headbands and rugs woven by an almost-90-year-old woman, her display included handmade rosaries.
“I did all these rosary type things,” she said. “I get broken
rosaries and I find little parts and deconstruct them and recon-struct them.”
One of Hei-lich’s favorite Vintage Karma pieces is one by Davis. The piece is crafted from a clear bottle, which has felt heart shapes hanging inside.
There is a small print drawing of a gentleman glued to the back of the bottle with fine print that read, “Very Suitable.”
Both Takai and Heilich, along with other repurposing artists, hope to promote the idea of cre-ating less trash through art. To aspiring creative-reuse art-ists looking for materials else-where, Heilich suggested start-ing by searching for materials at home.
“That’s half the fun, going out hunting for supplies,” she said. “Probably the best place to start looking is the junk draw-er. Friends are always a good resource. We definitely go on little expeditions to go to differ-ent towns that might have a junk shop or thrift store or auctions. It’s a constant treasure hunt.”
The Indi Go exhibition will remain open until Sunday, March 17 at 9 E. University Ave. The I.D.E.A. Store is located at 28 E. Springfield Ave.
According to scientists, baby born with HIV likely curedBY LAURAN NEERGAARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Missis-sippi who’s now 2 ! and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
There’s no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus’ genetic material still lingering. If so, it would mark only the world’s sec-ond reported cure.
Specialists say Sunday’s announcement, at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta, offers prom-ising clues for efforts to elimi-nate HIV infection in children, especially in AIDS-plagued Afri-can countries where too many babies are born with the virus.
“You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we’ve seen,” Dr. Anthony
Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, who is familiar with the findings, told The Associat-ed Press.
A doctor gave this baby fast-er and stronger treatment than is usual, starting a three-drug infusion within 30 hours of birth. That was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from a mother whose HIV wasn’t diagnosed until she was in labor.
“I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk, and deserved our best shot,” Dr. Hannah Gay, a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi, said in an interview.
That fast action apparently knocked out HIV in the baby’s blood before it could form hide-outs in the body. Those so-called reservoirs of dormant cells usu-ally rapidly reinfect anyone who stops medication, said Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hop-kins Children’s Center. She led
the investigation that deemed the child “functionally cured,” meaning in long-term remis-sion even if all traces of the virus haven’t been completely eradicated.
Next, Persaud’s team is plan-ning a study to try to prove that, with more aggressive treatment of other high-risk babies. “May-be we’ll be able to block this res-ervoir seeding,” Persaud said.
No one should stop anti-AIDS drugs as a result of this case, Fauci cautioned.
But “it opens up a lot of doors” to research if other children can be helped, he said. “It makes per-fect sense what happened.”
Better than treatment is to prevent babies from being born with HIV in the first place.
About 300,000 children were born with HIV in 2011, mostly in poor countries where only about 60 percent of infected pregnant women get treatment that can keep them from passing
the virus to their babies. In the U.S., such births are very rare because HIV testing and treat-ment long have been part of pre-natal care.
“We can’t promise to cure babies who are infected. We can promise to prevent the vast majority of transmissions if the moms are tested during every pregnancy,” Gay stressed.
The only other person consid-ered cured of the AIDS virus underwent a very different and risky kind of treatment — a bone marrow transplant from a spe-cial donor, one of the rare peo-ple who is naturally resistant to HIV. Timothy Ray Brown of San Francisco has not needed HIV medications in the five years since that transplant.
The Mississippi case shows “there may be different cures for different populations of HIV-infected people,” said Dr. Rowe-na Johnston of amFAR, the Foun-dation for AIDS Research. That
group funded Persaud’s team to explore possible cases of pediat-ric cures.
It also suggests that scientists should look back at other chil-dren who’ve been treated since shortly after birth, including some reports of possible cures in the late 1990s that were dis-missed at the time, said Dr. Ste-ven Deeks of the University of California, San Francisco, who also has seen the findings.
“This will likely inspire the field, make people more optimis-tic that this is possible,” he said.
In the Mississippi case, the mother had had no prenatal care when she came to a rural emer-gency room in advanced labor. A rapid test detected HIV. In such cases, doctors typically give the newborn low-dose medication in hopes of preventing HIV from taking root. But the small hos-pital didn’t have the proper liq-uid kind, and sent the infant to Gay’s medical center. She gave
the baby higher treatment-lev-el doses.
The child responded well through age 18 months, when the family temporarily quit returning and stopped treat-ment, researchers said. When they returned several months later, remarkably, Gay’s stan-dard tests detected no virus in the child’s blood.
Ten months after treatment stopped, a battery of super-sen-sitive tests at half a dozen lab-oratories found no sign of the virus’ return. There were only some remnants of genetic mate-rial that don’t appear able to rep-licate, Persaud said.
In Mississippi, Gay gives the child a check-up every few months: “I just check for the virus and keep praying that it stays gone.”
The mother’s HIV is being controlled with medication and she is “quite excited for her child,” Gay added.
Queen Elizabeth hospitalized with stomach infectionBY RAPHAEL SATTERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was hospitalized Sunday over an apparent stom-ach infection that has ailed her for days, a rare instance of ill health sidelining the long-reign-ing monarch. Elizabeth will have to cancel a visit to Rome and other engagements as she recovers. Outside experts said she may have to be rehydrated intravenously.
Buckingham Palace said the 86-year-old queen had experi-enced symptoms of gastroen-teritis and was being examined at London’s King Edward VII Hospital — the first time in a decade that Elizabeth has been hospitalized.
“As a precaution, all official engagements for this week will regrettably be either postponed or canceled,” the palace said in a statement.
Elizabeth’s two-day trip to Rome had been planned to start Wednesday. A spokeswoman said the trip may be “reinstat-ed” at a later date.
The symptoms of gastroen-teritis — vomiting and diarrhea — usually pass after one or two days, although they can be more severe in older or otherwise vul-nerable people. Dehydration is a common complication.
The illness was first announced Friday, and Eliz-abeth had to cancel a visit to Swansea, Wales, on Saturday to present leeks — a national symbol — to soldiers of the Roy-al Welsh Regiment in honor of Wales’ national day, St. David’s Day. She instead spent the day trying to recover at Windsor Castle but appears to have had trouble kicking the bug.
A doctor not involved in the queen’s treatment said that if medical officials determined that she is losing too much flu-id, she would be rehydrated intravenously.
“Not everyone can keep up with oral hydration, so it is pret-ty routine to go to hospital and have a drip and wait for the thing to pass and keep your-self hydrated,” said Dr. Chris-topher Hawkey of the Univer-
sity of Nottingham’s faculty of medicine and health sciences.
Britain’s National Health Ser-vice said the two most common causes of gastroenteritis in adults are food poisoning and the noro-virus, a winter vomiting bug that typically afflicts between 600,000 and 1 million Britons each year.
British health guidelines advise that people with the norovirus avoid work for at least two days.
“It’s very infectious and strikes in winter because people are indoors and it spreads more eas-ily,” Hawkey said.
Elizabeth has ruled since 1952 and is Britain’s second-longest
serving monarch, beaten only by Queen Victoria in terms of the number of years spent on the throne.
Elizabeth’s husband, Prince Philip, 91, has had several hospi-tal stays, but Elizabeth has rare-ly let sickness get in the way of her still-busy schedule.
About five months ago, she canceled an engagement due to a bad back. The spokeswom-an, who demanded anonymity because palace rules do not let her go on the record, said the last time Elizabeth was hospi-talized was in 2003 for a knee operation.
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British police officers stand guard outside the King Edward VII hospital in London where Queen Elizabeth II was admitted to be assessed for symptoms of gastroenteritis Sunday. The symptoms of gastroenteritis — vomiting and diarrhea — usually pass after a few days, though they can be severe in older people.
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BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois hockey team’s sea-son is over.
The Illini beat Delaware 3-1 on Saturday in the first round of the ACHA National Tournament but fell to No. 2 Arizona State by the same margin in Sunday’s quarterfinal.
Saturday presented the chal-lenge of facing the reigning national champion Delaware and 2012 tournament Most Valuable Player S.J. Broadt.
Illinois controlled the tem-po of the game right out of the gate, earning multiple chanc-es at point-blank range against Broadt, but was unable to find the back of the net. The Blue Hens capitalized on the saves and notched a goal late in the first period to go up 1-0.
“Scoring first in these one-and-done situations is huge,” head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “We knew we were playing against a great goalie and we might not score right away.”
In the second frame, it was Delaware that came away with the majority of the chances, outshooting Illinois 15-7 in the period. Illini goaltender Nick Clarke was up to the task and stonewalled the Blue Hens in the period.
With seven minutes to go in the second, Illinois earned a faceoff
in the Delaware defensive zone. Normally a wing player, forward John Scully took the faceoff, chipped the puck between the defender’s legs and then beat Broadt in a fluid motion. Scully said he likes to take faceoffs with his back hand and had worked on the flashy maneuver in practice during the week.
“I was winning draws con-sistently in practice (Friday),” Scully said. “I was feeling pretty good about it so I figured why not try it today.”
The game was a tense back-and-forth battle following Scul-ly’s goal. Both goaltenders recorded clutch saves in the third, but it was a wobbly float-er from defenseman J.T. Turn-er from the blue line with seven minutes to go that found paydirt. A slew of players in the crease blocked Broadt’s view and the wrist shot broke the tie.
“It’s funny how that works,” Fabbrini said. “(Broadt) made a couple of diving saves. But it goes to show what happens when there’s traffic in front of the net.”
Senior forward Nick Stuercke flipped a saucer into an empty net with under a minute to go to reach the 3-1 final.
Sunday’s game brought a matchup with No. 2 Arizona State, a squad that was the top-
The cameras hovered less than a foot from the floor, trying to catch the tears falling down Bran-don Paul’s face as he crouched near center court and thought about how fast it all went.
It was his personal moment with the building that’s witnessed the pain and joy of his Illinois men’s basketball career. On Sat-urday, Assembly Hall hosted its 50th birthday, Paul and his fel-low seniors’ final home game of their college tenure, and a 72-65 Illinois win over Nebraska that
all but surely places the Illini in the NCAA tournament, almost 12 months removed from missing the postseason entirely last season.
“It means the world to me, the rest of the seniors as well as the rest of the team,” Paul said after the game. “It’s obviously good to go out on a win, and it was an emotional night for us. Nebraska played extremely well. No game in the Big Ten is a gimme.”
Because of the strength of the Big Ten this year, general wis-dom said the Illini would be a vir-tual lock for the field of 68 should they reach eight conference wins.
With bottom-feeder Nebraska (13-16, 4-12 in the Big Ten) travelling to Champaign for senior night and Illinois hitting the road for its final two games of the season after that, Saturday appeared to Illinois’ best chance at hitting eight Big Ten wins.
Nebraska pushed Illinois until the final buzzer and hit shots from all over the gym, but in the end, Paul’s postgame tears were filled with happiness. After everything the seniors have been through their careers — miss-ing the NCAA tournament their freshman year, not receiving any
postseason invitations last sea-son and losing former Illini head coach Bruce Weber — this last go around looks like it could be spe-cial under first-year head coach John Groce.
At the very least, the Illi-ni appear like they’re squarely in control of when their season comes to an end and won’t be at the will of a selection committee.
Paul scored 14 points, dished out five assists and triggered his signature flair for the spectacular on his lone 3-pointer of the game,
BY GINA MUELLERSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s gymnas-tics team attacked its routines this weekend in the new five-up, five-count format. Illinois faced No. 1 Penn State in the last co-ed meet of the season.
Despite clinching five of the six event titles, the Illi-ni fell to the Nittany Lions 438.900-436.250.
The Illini started the meet with momentum after hit-ting the first five routines of the night on floor. Freshman Fred Hartville broke his sea-son- and career-highs, scor-ing a 15.000. Hartville finished fourth overall on the event.
“We fought through a bunch of routines here and there, but this is a different team from the one that was competing for me four weeks ago,” Illi-nois head coach Justin Spring said. “The energy was high. They’re hitting sets, and we’re taking ownership of what they were doing, not just crossing their fingers and hoping for the best. They really went out and attacked. When you do that, you build momentum.”
Freshman Joey Peters start-ed off the pommel horse rota-tion with a fall, but the Illini didn’t let it affect them like mistakes have in the past. The following four men hit their routines, ending the rotation
with a 14.900 from senior Yoshi Mori.
Mori ended the competi-tion with two event titles on the pommel horse and the floor exercise.
“I messed up horse a little bit, but right after that, every guy after me went up there and slayed their sets,” Peters said. “They had my back. These guys were all gamers out there today. You had confidence that no one was going to mess up. It was a good feeling.”
Sophomore Mike Wilner had a standout performance on the rings. Anchoring the team, Wilner scored a school record 15.900, breaking his previ-ous career-high of a 15.800, set last weekend against Ohio State.
“It was an honor,” Wilner said. “I always know how a set is going to go after the first skill. When it was straight on, I thought, ‘OK, I got this.’ It was nice to see the score come up and beat the record.”
Halfway through the meet, Illinois was leading Penn State 219.200-217.300.
Heading into the last rota-tion, Illinois was ahead 366.200-364-950, but fell short on the high bar. Peters finished the rotation scoring a 14.800 on the high bar, earning the
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Illini end regular season with loss
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Illinois' Brandon Paul breaks through the defense for a layup during Illinois’s win against Nebraska at Assembly Hall on Sunday. The Illini won 72-65.
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Illinois' Mike Wilner competes on the rings during a dual meet against Penn State at Huff Hall on Saturday. Illinois lost 438.900-436.250.
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Illini capture emotional win against Cornhuskers
BY MICHAEL WONSOVERSTAFF WRITER
Only 15 minutes separated Illinois from two vastly differ-ent paths with the game tied at 40 in the second half of Sunday’s matchup against No. 25 Purdue.
If Illinois outscored Purdue in that stretch, it would earn the fourth seed in the Big Ten Tour-nament, giving the Illini their first bye in the conference tour-nament since 2007. If Illinois couldn’t keep up with Purdue, it would face the uphill battle of having to win four games in four days as the sixth seed in the Big Ten Tournament.
As the matchup against Purdue ended on Jan. 2 in an overtime loss, Illinois (16-12, 9-7 Big Ten) just couldn’t finish off the Boil-ermakers (21-8, 10-6), being out-scored 36-25 after the game was
tied and finishing the regular sea-son with a 76-65 loss on Sunday.
“I’m proud of the team for the start of the second half and the energy and the effort we played with for much of the game,” Illi-nois head coach Matt Bollant said. “We were up three, had opportu-nities and just didn’t make very good decisions in transition, turned the ball over and took some rushed 3’s that weren’t the best decisions. We talk about play-ing hard; I think we did that real-ly well today. We played together, but we didn’t play real smart.”
Illinois’ seniors Karisma Penn and Adrienne GodBold scored 23 and 18 points, respectively, but Purdue’s 51.8 percent shooting from the field, along with four double-digit scorers, proved to be too much for the Illini. After outscoring Purdue 28-8 in points
off turnovers in its last meeting, Illinois was outscored 24-18 in that department on Sunday.
After losing three of its last four games to end the season, Illinois finished in a fifth-place tie with Michigan. The Wolver-ines earned the fifth seed in the Big Ten Tournament because they own the tiebreaker after defeating the Illini on Feb. 7. As the No. 6 seed, Illinois will face No. 11-seeded Wisconsin on Thursday. Illinois swept Wiscon-sin this season for the first time since 1999-2000. With a win, Illi-nois will face No. 3-seeded Pur-due, which beat the Illini by four on Jan. 13.
“I’ve played on the first day every time I’ve been to the Big Ten Tournament,” Penn said. “I
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Illinois' Karisma Penn and Purdue's Sam Ostarello fight for control of the ball during the game on Sunday in West Lafayette, Ind.
ranked team in the nation for much of the season before it was unseat-ed by Adrian in the past month.
The Illini weren’t intimidated by the Sun Devils’ resume and nearly snatched a quick lead on the first shift of the game. Ari-zona State’s goaltender lost sight of the puck because of traffic in front of the net, which sat behind him just inches away from the net. No Illinois player was there to knock it home, and the Sun Devils cleared the zone with no harm done.
Five minutes later, Arizona State seized an Illinois turnover in its own zone and took a 1-0 lead off of a one-timer.
Illinois goaltender Nick Clarke was masterful in his response. Arizona State’s aggressive pass-ing from all five positions set up chance after chance to only be denied by the Illini goaltender.
“He’s the best goalie in the country,” Fabbrini said after Sunday’s loss. “He kept us in the game. He’s probably been our best player all year.”
Still down 1-0 going into the third period, Illinois’ comeback effort was hampered by the absence of the team’s forwards. Sophomore Derek Schultz was carried off after appearing to re-injure his knee, and freshman Kevin Chowaniec was out for the first portion of the third period because of a skate issue.
With 12 minutes left in the game, Scully was again in the
right position for Illinois. The junior found the net to tie the game for his second goal of the weekend, bringing the blue- and orange-clad crowd to its feet.
Illinois found itself in some penalty trouble later in the third. Stuercke was assessed a two-minute penalty for running into Arizona State’s goaltender; shortly thereafter, defenseman Chad Himley earned a penalty for roughing. Despite killing off the 5-on-3, Arizona State broke through on a rebound and put home the go-ahead power-play goal.
“It was literally sitting right there in the crease,” Clarke said. “There was a guy on the backdoor that was open to bang it in.”
Illinois earned a power play with 2:15 to go and pulled
Clarke for a 6-on-4 advantage in the final minute. After a long missed shot, the puck slid toward the blue line. Defense-man Mike Evans dove to keep the puck in the zone but to no avail, and Arizona State popped in the free empty-net goal for the 3-1 final.
Even after the loss to end the season, Fabbrini was satisfied of how the team played.
“I’m proud of our guys,” he said. “I thought we battled the whole way, even with a few ques-tionable calls at the end of the game.
“I don’t think a lot of people expected us to give them the game that we did.”
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Junior Amber See stares at the uneven bars. She is a few seconds away from raising her hand for the judge and begin-ning her first bars routine since injuring her neck two weeks ago while competing on bars. She’s nervous.
See jumps onto the bars and flips back and forth effortlessly, spinning around and flying from one bar to the other. She lands after several spins and flips and takes a step before thrusting her hands in the air to the roaring approval of the crowd.
“I was really excited to just jump back on the horse,” said See, who scored a 9.750 on the event. “It was definitely a scary fall, and it shook me, but I was excited to get back out and let all the doubts and fears out of my
mind. They asked me if I was ready to go and I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m ready to go, I want to get this done.’ I was really nervous but I was happy to hit my routines and do my job for the team so I think it was a great way to come back today.”
The Illini women’s gymnastics team recorded two team scores of 49 or higher, and senior Ali-na Weinstein won two individual titles, but Penn State edged Illi-nois 196.300-195.775 for its first loss at home.
“I think that our performance (Saturday) showed who we could be,” head coach Kim Landrus said. “We had two events over a 49 and two near a 49, and think-ing about the obstacles that we’ve had over the next two weeks, I really think that this team could be something spe-cial and we’re going to have to go
back in the gym and really work on being stronger and being sure we can get the job done every weekend.”
Even with See back in the line-up, the Illini were missing six routines from their meet against the Buckeyes as both junior Sar-ah Fiedler and sophomore Kelsi Eberly didn’t compete because of injury.
“We definitely had different lineups this meet, so we were testing some things out,” See said. “I think that we stepped up and did our job. It was a bit of a challenge but we should be proud of who we put in (Satur-day) and what they did.”
Illinois started its second co-ed home meet of the year on vault, which has been a weak point for the team all year. The Illini surprised the packed Huff Hall crowd by scoring a 49.075
as a team on the event — their highest event score on the day.
“I thought vault was great,” Weinstein said. “We’ve been struggling with vault since the start of season and I thought that (Saturday) was the first time we put it all together and did the best that we could with what we were working with.”
The Illini moved to bars next, where they scored a 48.875 as a team. Senior Jaclyn Kantecki led Illinois, finishing second overall with a 9.825.
Injuries took their toll on the Illini during the third rotation, where the team missed scores from Eberly and Fiedler, who both hold 9.850s on beam.
Landrus said she expects Fiedler to be back in the near future and that the team is try-ing to manage its lineup.
“I think that right now we’re
trying to manage some issues of pain, some of the girls are hurt-ing a little bit and we just need to figure out a way to manage them so that they can preform at their best.”
The Illini finished the meet strong with a 49.050 on floor, led by Weinstein and See with 9.900 and 9.850, respectively.
Illinois recorded nine scores over 9.825 or higher but still feels it can improve.
“Honestly, I think we did a good job, we weren’t great and we’re capable of being great so that was a little disappointing,” Weinstein said. “We just need to put it all together and put our heads in the game and elevate our standards.”
Illini compete strongly but still edged by Penn St.
BY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER
Sometimes failure is important before success.
The Illinois baseball team had high expectations coming into the season — a strong recruiting class, coupled with nearly all of its top players returning, gave them good reason. On opening day, Illi-nois dominated in a 13-2 victory in which every starter reached base.
But something came undone after that game. The Illini dropped the next three games.
It’s possible that those loss-es actually benefited the Illini. It stopped them from becoming complacent, and they’ve been roll-ing ever since.
“I think that’s going to be some-thing we remember the rest of the season,” left fielder Jordan Parr said. “It kind of kick-starts us every weekend. If we get a big Friday night win like we did this weekend then we don’t come out flat on a Saturday.”
The Illini (7-4) had won six in a row before dropping the series finale on Sunday 6-5 to UT-Arlington. They battled back from being down 5-0 to tie it before falling to an eighth inning go-ahead sac fly. The six-game win streak was Illinois’ longest since it collected eight in a row on the way to the Big Ten regular season and tournament champi-onship in 2011. Illinois trailed a total of three innings during the win streak.
Illinois has scored 51 total runs during the past seven games, despite the fact that the Illini used a different batter order in each of the first six wins.
The constants have been Jor-dan and Justin Parr, who had col-lected a hit in each the first 10 games for Illinois and are first and second in on-base percent-age, runs batted in, doubles, slug-ging percentage and even stolen bases. Justin Parr is leading the team in hitting at .479 with a .510
on-base percentage and has driv-en in 13 runs. Jordan Parr is hit-ting .364, with two home runs — including his second on Saturday — and has knocked in 14.
“They’re a threat,” Illinois head coach Dan Hartleb said. “People have to really pay atten-tion to what they’re doing and they’ve been very impressive.”
The sophomore class for Illi-nois has taken leaps of improve-ment. First baseman David Keri-an and designated hitter Michael Hurwitz couldn’t even get a hit during stretches of months last year and have played their way into the everyday lineup. Will Krug has emerged as the team’s leadoff hitter and right fielder.
Those new lineup changes, along with the fact that oppos-ing teams haven’t really figured out a way to contain Illinois on the base paths, is why the offense has taken off. The Illini have suc-cessfully swiped 26 out of 28 bas-es this season.
Illinois freshmen starters seem to be adjusting to the college game fine and have each collected victo-ries in consecutive starts. Kevin Duchene didn’t give up an earned run in 8 2/3 innings on Friday, and Nick Blackburn collected his sec-ond straight quality start going 6 2/3 innings and allowing two runs during the first game of a double-header Saturday. Kevin Johnson moved into ninth on the Illini’s career strikeout list and picked up a victory on Saturday.
During the weekend, the pitch-ing staff allowed just 10 runs with a 2.57 ERA.
So right now everything seems to be clicking for Illinois, although the competition gets more difficult as it prepares to travel to Baylor. But even during Illinois’ most recent loss, Har-tleb has been noticing a differ-ent mind-set in his players, some-thing that wasn’t so prevalent last season. The Illini trailed by five runs as late as the seventh inning,
but the players were still up on the fence cheering one anoth-er on when Illinois was hitting instead of sitting on the bench. That’s something Harlteb didn’t think Illinois did a good job of last season.
Now it appears as though Illi-nois isn’t taking winning or losing for granted. They know they’ve got a long way to go even if the game is in the seventh inning.
“I never want to fail, but some-times when you do and you learn some things, you listen a little bit better to the things that cause you trouble and cause you prob-lems,” Hartleb said. “I think it caught the guys attention. We’ve improved a lot since that first weekend.”
“Its not like we’re anywhere close to perfect. Just because we’ve won some games, we’ve still got a lot to do.”
Baseball learns from losses, wins 6 of last 7 games
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Illinois' Amber See competes her uneven bars routine during a dual meet against Penn State at Huff Hall on Saturday. Illinois lost 196.300 - 195.775.
chucking a long attempt with the shot clock winding down to give Illinois the 55-53 lead with 7:06 remaining in the second half. At that point, Nebraska and Illinois traded buckets for the lead and did so up until Paul nailed a jumper to tie the game at 57-57 with 5:39 left to play for the game’s 10th tie.
Fellow senior D.J. Richardson added a 3-pointer and Illinois nev-er looked back. Richardson record-ed 13 points and two steals, but
Illinois’ guards struggled to con-tain Nebraska sharp-shooters Ray Gallegos and Dylan Talley, who together combined for 43 points on 8-for-16 shooting from distance.
Nebraksa shot 50 percent from the field in the first half, keeping pace with Illinois, which wiped the floor with the Cornhuskers in their Jan 22., matchup in Lincoln, Neb. Illinois won that game 71-51 but didn’t have an answer for the two Cornhusker guards Saturday, even though both played the entire game without rest.
“We changed coverages in our man-to-man about three or four
times to try to stymie them or get them out of flow,” Groce said. “We went zone there for a couple of possessions. It’s tricky. They were on such a roll from such deep range, you get a little ner-vous about how much zone you’re gonna play. Those two were a load.”
Illini forward Myke Henry played major minutes because of an ankle injury Sam McLau-rin suffered in the first half and finished with 12 points and nine rebounds in 26 minutes. He brought down a crucial offensive board with Illinois clinging to a
four-point lead with 59 seconds remaining. From there, Nebraska was forced to foul the rest of the way, minimizing any threat of a comeback.
“I know he got it in him all the time,” said sophomore guard Tra-cy Abrams, who lives with Henry. “I’m pretty confident in most of our teammates. Myke definitely came up big. I think he was out there and he wanted to win.”
Abrams was one of five Illinois players to score in double-digits, leading the way with 16 points. It was just the second time Illinois accomplished that feat all year,
the last time coming on Feb. 3 against Wisconsin.
With all of the hooplah sur-rounding the game and the team’s postseason hopes, Groce had to work to keep his team even keel. While much of the campus was celebrating Unoffi-cial St. Patrick’s Day on Friday, Groce catered a team meal at his house to honor the seniors and stay focused.
Once his team had put the game out of reach Saturday, Groce hon-ored his seniors in another way. He tried to put all five on the floor with under 10 seconds left for one
last ovation in front of the crowd at Assembly Hall.
But confusion ensued, as Groce botched his subs and left Tyler Griffey sitting on the sidelines.
“I was like: ‘Tyler, get back in.’ He’s like, ‘I’m not in,’” Paul said as he shook his head laughing. “The most important thing is that we went out on a win.”
Paul went out with his jersey lift-ed over his head sobbing, his fare-well tour only beginning with his tearful goodbye to Assembly Hall.
first-place title on the event. However, hitting all five routines wasn’t enough to hold the lead over the Nittany Lions.
“My parents said they heard Penn State fans say, ‘I was a little worried there. That was close,’” Spring said. “Either Penn State or Michigan is the best in the country. To come that close is a huge step in the right direc-tion for us. In this format, with the pressure on, it could be any-one’s game.”
Spring said staying com-petitive with the No. 1 team in the nation is a huge confidence booster as the season continues on.
“We needed to see that we could be in the mix with the best in the country,” Spring said. “This showed them that. We had mistakes; so did Penn State, but we were neck and neck. They needed to see that. There is a fine line you walk between knowing you are going to win and believ-ing you can win. Last year we knew we could win, and this year I didn’t believe we could win. We’ve got that belief back.”
think my sophomore year we got pretty far, so I don’t think it’s as big of a deal as everybody makes it.”
“Third and fourth place get byes, which is huge going into the Big Ten Tournament,” Bol-lant said after Illinois beat Indi-ana on Feb. 23. “Not that you can’t win four games in four days, but it certainly is taxing and very difficult.”
With Purdue leading 20-19 with 7:02 remaining in the first half, neither team had a lead larger than four at that point.
The Boilermakers then went on an 11-4 run to take a 31-23 lead at the 3:58 mark, giving Purdue its largest lead of the half.
Illinois entered halftime with a 36-32 deficit behind 53.3 percent shooting by Purdue. Illinois kept it close by going 7-of-7 from the stripe compared with Purdue’s 0-for-1 free-throw shooting in the first half.
After turning the ball over 34 times against Illinois on Jan. 2, Purdue committed only nine turn-overs in the first half on Sunday, leading to only 12 Illinois points. Purdue, meanwhile, scored 20 points off 12 Illini turnovers in the first half.
Illinois completed its come-back after Penn drained two free throws to tie the game at 40 with 15:19 remaining in the game.
Although Purdue got its lead back after a 5-0 run, Illinois responded with an 8-0 run of its own to take a 48-45 lead, its first lead since early in the first half.
Purdue charged back with a 15-2 run to take a commanding 60-50 lead with 7:52 remaining in the game and ultimately won by a score of 76-65.
With the loss, Illinois may need a solid showing in the Big Ten Tournament to earn its first berth in the NCAA tournament since the 2002-03 season. ESPN’s Charlie Creme had Illinois as a nine seed and 37th overall on his S-curve in his latest Bracketology, although this was before the Illini’s last two losses. Despite the rough stretch to end the season, Bollant is con-fident his team can make a run.
“I feel good about our team, as far as our growth,” Bollant said. “We finished tied for fifth in the Big Ten. Obviously we’re not thrilled with the last week. We let two opportunities go, but if we play good basketball, we could make some good things happen.”
Michael can be reached at wonsovr2 @dailyillini.com and @m_dubb.
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BY J.J. WILSONSTAFF WRITER
The No. 17 Illinois men’s tennis team left its first mark in the Big Ten with vic-tories over Iowa and No. 20 Northwest-ern over the weekend, moving to 6-3 on the season and capturing doubles points for the first time since defeating Toledo.
Heading into Friday night’s match against the Hawkeyes, the Illini had not played a match since their victory over then-No. 7 Kentucky three weeks ago. But time off gave the Illini chances to improve in practice.
“We had three really good weeks of practice,” sophomore Ross Guignon said. “Guys were really focused on what they had to do. We played an Iowa team that isn’t the best in the Big Ten, and I think it was good to get some of those jitters out.”
The Illini made quick work of the Hawkeyes in both doubles and singles, dropping them on all courts in a 7-0 shut-out. The win marks 18 consecutive Illini victories over the Hawkeyes.
Freshman Alex Jesse and sopho-more Farris Gosea had early struggles to break away, tying up at 4-4, but soon found their way and pulled out a doubles-ending victory at 8-5.
Singles delivered quick finishes to the Iowa team as Illinois won in the first two sets across all six courts. No. 37 sophomore Jared Hiltzik put up a 6-2, 6-1 victory, while freshman Brian Page, new to the singles lineup, sunk his oppo-nent 6-1, 6-3.
“We looked great,” senior Bruno Abdelnour said. “We didn’t really fight that hard, but we took care of business and went 7-0.”
Abdelnour, who is 4-1 in complet-ed singles matches on the season, was absent from the lineup this weekend because of injury.
“He could have played today, but I think, precautionary measures, it was best not to have him go,” head coach Brad Dancer said.
Abdelnour said his injury was a left-over aggravation from the then-No. 5 Duke match, but he plans to play through the pain and return soon.
On Saturday, the Wildcats led a strong assault on the Illini home courts, but ended up neutralized in a 5-2 final.
The Illini played a little closer to the chest in doubles this time, losing with Stephen Hoh and Hiltzik and tying it up with a Kopinski-Guignon pair. Jes-se and Gosea were the lone duo left to claim the doubles points for their team.
“You could hear Northwestern in doubles,” Guignon said. “At one point, it almost seemed like they had a home-court advantage just from their team-mates who weren’t playing.”
Starting down at 3-5, Jesse and Gos-ea made a strong comeback run to 8-8, taking the match into a tiebreaker. Finally, the duo seized the tiebreak-er 7-3 and put up a definitive doubles point to start to the match off strong.
“I really think Alex Jesse was a cat-alyst at No. 2 doubles for us,” Danc-er said. “His tremendous composure under the pressure situation, and I felt like Farris was not doing some of the thing we wanted him to do.”
In singles, the only two to surren-der points to Northwestern were Hoh and Page.
“(Hoh) was just not paying atten-tion to what was happening in (his) last match, and I think he’s just got to do a better job of that,” Dancer said. “And I think the same with Page, just not recognizing situations that are hap-pening and how to exploit opponent’s weaknesses.”
Associate head coach Marcos Asse said the Illini had moments of look-ing like a team that thought it could win, as well as moments of optimism and having the right energy. But their
weakness is in execution and on them to fix, as no team can really exploit it.
“The thing with teams in the Big Ten is ... all the teams play with a lot of pas-sion,” Guignon said. “We played real-ly good, talented Duke and Kentucky
teams that really lacked a bit of that passion. It really shows, in the long run, how tough it’s going to be, but it’s really exciting to get the ‘W’ because a lot of guys played really tough.”
The Illini will not get much time to
recover as they hit the road today for a doubleheader against Illinois State and Notre Dame tomorrow morning.
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