INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Business & Technology 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B | Sudoku 4B The Daily Illini Tuesday March 5, 2013 High: 35˚ Low: 25˚ The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 114 | FREE Spring 2013 ballot goes live Tuesday BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER The spring 2013 online election ballot will go live Tuesday morning until Wednesday night and will include four referenda questions in addition to student senate, Student Organization Resource Fee board and student trustee elections. Three of the four referenda questions concern student fees and one concerns support of the sta- tus of the retired Chief Illiniwek as the symbol of the University, according to the Campus Student Election Commission website. The first asks students if they would support a 30-year, $25 general fee increase beginning in fall 2014 to support Assembly Hall renovations, though the finalized question does not include language stating this will be a 30-year fee. The fee would cover 17 percent of the build- ing’s upcoming $160 million renovation, which will include the additions of air-conditioning, new seat- ing, concessions, improved restrooms, expanded concourse space and enhanced accessibility fea- tures. The remainder will be covered by private sponsorships, donations, general public ticket fees and premium seating commitments will fund 83 percent of the renovation. A second question asks students if they would like to see the continuation of a semesterly $2 Alma Mater gone till next year BY NATHANIEL LASH MANAGING EDITOR FOR REPORTING Graduating seniors this May will notice one familiar face not among them in the post-Commencement celebrations: the Alma Mater. The statue is now expected to return some time during the 2013-2014 academ- ic year. After being hauled off campus Aug. 7, it was expected to return by May 4, after conservators at the Conservation of Sculp- ture and Objects Studio repaired corrosion and water damage to the statue that had occurred since its last touch-up in 1981. But when the restoration work got under- way, the studio found the statue’s internal damage exceeded the initial expectations, said University spokeswoman Robin Kaler. In a video interview provided to media outlets by the University, Andrzej Dajnows- ki, lead conservator with the studio, said the statue has posed some unique problems for his group. “The most unique part is that the sculp- ture is big enough to have serious structural problems but small enough so that we can- not get in very easily,” he said. The additional work is estimated to cost another $260,000, more than tripling the original cost to a total of roughly $360,000. The project will be paid for by the Chan- cellor’s Fund, which is provided by private gifts from alumni and others. According to a University press release, the statue will have each of its 30 con- YOUR VOICE “My parents are coming all the way from India when I graduate, and they would have wanted to take a picture. It’s kind of sad that I won’t be able to take the picture. ... It is what it is.” ABHIJIT MARAR, senior in Engineering “I’m pretty upset. I think all the seniors are looking forward to taking pictures with it in their cap and gown. They always say you can’t take a picture with it until you’re graduating, so they promised it would be back. It stinks to not get those pictures. My brother has them (and) I won’t; that’s kind of a bummer.” CLARE MCINTYRE, senior in Business “I’m going to be staying a fifth year for my master’s, so I fortunately will be able to take that last graduation picture with it next year. So I guess my heart goes out more to my friends ... that aren’t going to really have that chance to do so their last year on campus. ” MICHAEL SMIGIELSKI, senior in Business “That makes me really sad. I never had a connection to it before, but it’s obviously just cool to take a picture with. ... That’s horrible that it’s not going to be back here, though. That sucks.” AMINAT SARUMI, senior in LAS COMPILED BY SARI LESK ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Q: How do you feel about the Alma Mater not being here for Commencement? Restoration process will extend past Commencement Repeat candidates run in new election BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER Urbana citizens will have the same bipartisan choices for mayor at polling booths on April 9 as they did four years ago: Republican candidate Rex Bradfield and incumbent Democrat Mayor Laurel Prussing. Prussing, who won the Democratic primary last week, won against Bradfield in 2009 with 53 percent of the vote when Bradfield came out with 32 percent. But although the ballot will look the same, Brad- field said his cam- paign strategy this year will be more person- al and modest in spending. He said he will be focused on face-to-face inter- actions with vot- ers, regardless of their political party. “I don’t care about the politics of everything,” Bradfield said. “I want you to elect me because I’m the right guy.” While Bradfield said he spent $41,000 out of his pocket four years ago for the campaign, he said he won’t spend any money this year and is looking for four to five significant sponsorships to donate funding. John Farney, Champaign county auditor, is a friend and supporter of Bradfield and said this cam- paign will be much different than the 2009 effort. “It’s not going to be a mass media campaign,” Farney said. “People need to get to know the can- didate on a local level. It’s a low turnout elec- tion, so your face-to-face contact really makes a difference.” After winning the Democratic candidacy on Feb. 26, Prussing said that though she didn’t know which issues Bradfield would address in his campaign, she would continue to stick to her priority issues of city improvements. “He is a known quantity. So we’ll see,” she said. Many topics of controversy, such as the Boneyard UC Senate supports sustainability goals BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER Faculty members are recommend- ing that University administration make sustainability issues top prior- ity, especially when dealing with the campus’s carbon footprint. The Urbana-Champaign Senate approved a proposal for a resolution in support of the Illinois Climate Action Plan at its meeting Monday. The Sen- ate Committee on Campus Opera- tions unanimously approved the res- olution at a meeting last month, said Ben McCall, chair of the committee and associate professor of chemistry. In 2008, University administrators signed the American College and Uni- versity President Climate Commit- ment, which promised carbon neu- trality, or a net-zero carbon footprint, on campus by 2050. Two years lat- er, Robert Easter, interim chancel- lor at the time, developed the plan in response to this commitment. It lists broad goals and plans to potentially reduce the campus’ environmental impact. “Climate change is a very impor- tant issue, and it is better for the Uni- versity to be in front of this issue in a leadership role than behind it,” McCall said. McCall said the University has made a lot of progress on these goals in recent years. All new buildings on campus are required to have Lead- ership in Energy and Environmen- See BALLOT, Page 3A See CANDIDATE, Page 3A See SEC, Page 3A PRUSSING BRADFIELD Cha cha for charity: Business students prepare for dance competition FEATURES, 6A PGA success Golf alum Luke Guthrie up to par on tour SPORTS, 1B Twitter reacts to Alma Mater news @rudykomaki — another excuse to delay my graduation... Alma Mater won’t be back in time for commencement; repair cost triples @AlisonMelko — Seriously, the more I think about the Alma Mater not being back for graduation, the more depressed I get. #OccupyTheQuad @PrattCat16 — @IllinoisLoyalty: Alma Mater won’t be back in time for commencement; repair cost triples” unbelievable. @4thinlineof6 @kawawees — Honestly so disappointed in the fact that the alma mater won’t be there for graduation. #traditionsruined #universityofillinois @pixeldust30 — It’s not nice to tell ur mom’s age and weight MT @NewsAtIllinois Restoring Alma Mater will take longer, cost more @GingerSnap273 — For graduation there will be a ton of mini Alma Mater statues around campus with “different personalities”. #photomontagewaitingtohappen @caitlyn___ann — Graduation without the alma mater? Is that even allowed? See ALMA MATER, Page 3A DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTO The Alma Mater sculpture from graduation season in May 2012. This May, Alma will not be back in time for graduates to take photos at Commencement. Waiting for Chief referendum results The results of the Chief Illiniwek referendum question will not be released until the Moot Court Board Judiciary rules on a case regarding the constitutionality of the Illinois Student Senate’s resolution to create the mascot selection a survey from mid-January. Senators announced in February that they were withholding the results of the survey as well until a ruling is made. The court will be hearing oral arguments on March 13 at the law school. “If the resolution is found to be constitutional, we can release the results of that (mascot selection) contest,” said Brock Gebhardt, student body president. “If it is found to be unconstitutional, the results would be sequestered.”
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The Daily IlliniTuesdayMarch 5, 2013
High: 35˚ Low: 25˚
The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 114 | FREE
Spring 2013 ballot goes live TuesdayBY TYLER DAVISSTAFF WRITER
The spring 2013 online election ballot will go live Tuesday morning until Wednesday night and will include four referenda questions in addition to student senate, Student Organization Resource Fee board and student trustee elections.
Three of the four referenda questions concern student fees and one concerns support of the sta-tus of the retired Chief Illiniwek as the symbol of the University, according to the Campus Student Election Commission website.
The fi rst asks students if they would support a 30-year , $25 general fee increase beginning in fall 2014 to support Assembly Hall renovations , though the fi nalized question does not include language stating this will be a 30-year fee .
The fee would cover 17 percent of the build-ing’s upcoming $160 million renovation, which will include the additions of air-conditioning, new seat-ing, concessions, improved restrooms, expanded concourse space and enhanced accessibility fea-tures. The remainder will be covered by private sponsorships, donations, general public ticket fees and premium seating commitments will fund 83 percent of the renovation.
A second question asks students if they would like to see the continuation of a semesterly $2
Alma Mater gone till next year
BY NATHANIEL LASHMANAGING EDITOR FOR REPORTING
Graduating seniors this May will notice one familiar face not among them in the post-Commencement celebrations: the Alma Mater.
The statue is now expected to return some time during the 2013-2014 academ-ic year.
After being hauled off campus Aug. 7 , it was expected to return by May 4 , after conservators at the Conservation of Sculp-ture and Objects Studio repaired corrosion and water damage to the statue that had occurred since its last touch-up in 1981. But when the restoration work got under-way, the studio found the statue’s internal damage exceeded the initial expectations, said University spokeswoman Robin Kaler .
In a video interview provided to media outlets by the University, Andrzej Dajnows-ki , lead conservator with the studio, said
the statue has posed some unique problems for his group.
“The most unique part is that the sculp-ture is big enough to have serious structural problems but small enough so that we can-not get in very easily,” he said.
The additional work is estimated to cost another $260,000, more than tripling the
original cost to a total of roughly $360,000 . The project will be paid for by the Chan-cellor’s Fund, which is provided by private gifts from alumni and others.
According to a University press release, the statue will have each of its 30 con-
YOUR VOICE
“My parents are coming all the way from India when I graduate, and they would have wanted to take a picture. It’s kind of sad that I won’t be able to take the picture. ... It is what it is.”
ABHIJIT MARAR , senior in Engineering
“I’m pretty upset. I think all the seniors are looking forward to taking pictures with it in their cap and gown. They always say you can’t take a picture with it until you’re graduating, so they promised it would be back. It stinks to not get those pictures. My brother has them (and) I won’t; that’s kind of a bummer.”
CLARE MCINTYR E, senior in Business
“I’m going to be staying a fi fth year for my master’s, so I fortunately will be able to take that last graduation picture with it next year. So I guess my heart goes out more to my friends ... that aren’t going to really have that chance to do so their last year on campus. ”
MICHAEL SMIGIELSK I, senior in Business
“That makes me really sad. I never had a connection to it before, but it’s obviously just cool to take a picture with. ... That’s horrible that it’s not going to be back here, though. That sucks.”
AMINAT SARUMI , senior in LAS
COMPILED BY SARI LESKASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Q: How do you feel about the Alma Mater not being here for Commencement?
Restoration process will extend past Commencement
Repeat candidates run in new electionBY CORINNE RUFFSTAFF WRITER
Urbana citizens will have the same bipartisan choices for mayor at polling booths on April 9 as they did four years ago: Republican candidate Rex Bradfi eld and incumbent Democrat Mayor Laurel Prussing .
Prussing, who won the Democratic primary last week, won against Bradfi eld in 2009 with 53 percent of the vote when Bradfi eld came out with 32 percent .
But although the ballot will look the same, Brad-fi eld said his cam-paign strategy this year will be more person-al and modest in spending.
He said he will be focused on face-to-face inter-actions with vot-
ers, regardless of their political party. “I don’t care about the politics of everything,”
Bradfi eld said. “I want you to elect me because I’m the right guy.”
While Bradfi eld said he spent $41,000 out of his pocket four years ago for the campaign, he said he won’t spend any money this year and is looking for four to fi ve signifi cant sponsorships to donate funding.
John Farney , Champaign county auditor, is a friend and supporter of Bradfi eld and said this cam-paign will be much different than the 2009 effort.
“It’s not going to be a mass media campaign,” Farney said. “People need to get to know the can-didate on a local level. It’s a low turnout elec-tion, so your face-to-face contact really makes a difference.”
After winning the Democratic candidacy on Feb. 26, Prussing said that though she didn’t know which issues Bradfi eld would address in his campaign, she would continue to stick to her priority issues of city improvements.
“He is a known quantity. So we’ll see,” she said.Many topics of controversy, such as the Boneyard
Faculty members are recommend-ing that University administration make sustainability issues top prior-ity, especially when dealing with the campus’s carbon footprint.
The Urbana-Champaign Senate approved a proposal for a resolution in support of the Illinois Climate Action
Plan at its meeting Monday. The Sen-ate Committee on Campus Opera-tions unanimously approved the res-olution at a meeting last month, said Ben McCall , chair of the committee and associate professor of chemistry .
In 2008, University administrators signed the American College and Uni-versity President Climate Commit-ment , which promised carbon neu-
trality, or a net-zero carbon footprint, on campus by 2050. Two years lat-er, Robert Easter , interim chancel-lor at the time, developed the plan in response to this commitment. It lists broad goals and plans to potentially reduce the campus’ environmental impact.
“Climate change is a very impor-tant issue, and it is better for the Uni-
versity to be in front of this issue in a leadership role than behind it,” McCall said.
McCall said the University has made a lot of progress on these goals in recent years. All new buildings on campus are required to have Lead-ership in Energy and Environmen-
See BALLOT, Page 3A
See CANDIDATE, Page 3A See SEC, Page 3A
PRUSSINGBRADFIELD
Cha cha for charity: Business students prepare for dance competition FEATURES, 6A
PGA successGolf alum Luke Guthrie up to par on tourSPORTS, 1B
Twitter reacts to Alma Mater news
@rudykomaki — another excuse to delay my graduation... Alma Mater won’t be back in time for commencement; repair cost triples
@AlisonMelko — Seriously, the more I think about the Alma Mater not being back for graduation, the more depressed I get. #OccupyTheQuad
@PrattCat16 — @IllinoisLoyalty: Alma Mater won’t be back in time for commencement; repair cost triples” unbelievable. @4thinlineof6
@kawawees — Honestly so disappointed in the fact that the alma mater won’t be there for graduation. #traditionsruined #universityofi llinois
@pixeldust30 — It’s not nice to tell ur mom’s age and weight MT @NewsAtIllinois Restoring Alma Mater will take longer, cost more
@GingerSnap273 — For graduation there will be a ton of mini Alma Mater statues around campus with “different personalities”. #photomontagewaitingtohappen
@caitlyn___ann — Graduation without the alma mater? Is that even allowed?
See ALMA MATER, Page 3A
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTO
The Alma Mater sculpture from graduation season in May 2012. This May, Alma will not be back in time for graduates to take photos at Commencement.
Waiting for Chief referendum resultsThe results of the Chief Illiniwek referendum
question will not be released until the Moot Court Board Judiciary rules on a case regarding the constitutionality of the Illinois Student Senate’s resolution to create the mascot selection a survey from mid-January. Senators announced in February that they were withholding the results of the survey as well until a ruling is made.
The court will be hearing oral arguments on March 13 at the law school.
“If the resolution is found to be constitutional, we can release the results of that (mascot selection) contest,” said Brock Gebhardt , student body president. “If it is found to be unconstitutional, the results would be sequestered.”
2A Tuesday, March 5, 2013 The Daily Illini | www.DailyIllini.com
Champaign Criminal damage to prop-
erty was reported in the 2400 block of North Neil Street around 8 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the victim’s vehicle was damaged.
Theft was reported at Mar-ket Place Mall, 2000 N. Neil St., around 5:30 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, three cellular phones were sto-len from the Sprint store within the mall.
A 22-year-old male and a 21-year-old-male were arrested on charges of throwing danger-ous materials in the 1000 block of South First Street around 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the suspects were issued notices to appear for throwing objects
from a window.
Urbana Retail theft was reported at
Circle K, 1501 N. Lincoln Ave., around 3 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, an unknown offender pumped gas-oline and left without paying.
University A 20-year-old male was ar-
rested on charges of possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia at 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the suspect’s vehicle was initially pulled over for having expired registration.
A 19-year-old male was ar-rested on charges of resisting
or obstructing a police offi cer and illegal possession or con-sumption of alcohol by a minor near Springfi eld Avenue and Fifth Street around 11 p.m. Fri-day.
According to the report, a patrol offi cer saw the suspect damaging a bicycle. The sus-pect ran when the offi cer at-tempted to stop him.
A 22-year-old male was ar-rested on the charge of aggra-vated battery in parking lot C-16, 411 E. Daniel St., around 10 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, wit-nesses told police that the sus-pect punched a woman who he claimed stole a glow stick from him.
Compiled by Hannah Prokop
HOROSCOPES
POLICE
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Today’s Birthday
An especially fun year lies ahead, with abounding love, confi dence and playfulness. Creative education builds career skills. If you want to learn something, teach it. Out of the box thinking about fi nances allows for new opportunities. Your powerful team is with you.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is an 8 — Don’t go, yet. Postpone the celebration. Take care of household matters fi rst. Share expenses, but don’t fund a friend’s experiment. Keep your temper, and everything goes according to plan.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Today is a 7 — Invest personal energy in a career project. Passions demand attention, so give in to them and savor it. Don’t try to buy someone’s affection. Postpone travel for a few days.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) Today is an 8 — Impulsiveness causes accidents, especially in love and romance. It’s better to take it
slow. Remember to do a chore you promised. Play by the book, despite annoying regulations. Focus on what you’re doing.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Today is a 9 — Don’t fall for a sob story, make expensive promises or impulsively purchase anything. Pour yourself into the tasks at hand, and save your money. Go out later, and relax with someone you adore.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is a 7 — Avoid an argument over a household issue. Don’t run away from the problem or overspend, even for good reasons. Share private information in private. Change the agreement to suit. Gamble only for love.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 6 — Take control of your fi nances. Study is required, and the possibility of error is high. Costs are up there, too. It’s not a good time to be fl ippant. Apply your energies to your career.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Today is a 7 — Hold on to what you have, and defend your position. Avoid an argument by being respectful. Avoid reckless driving. A friend has helpful connections. Emotional responses tell the story. Maintain objectivity, if possible.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is a 9 — A domestic
disagreement could disturb the peace. Don’t buy gifts or toys yet. Don’t sell or give away anything belonging to a loved one. Hold your temper, and proceed with caution.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) Today is a 9 — Work could interfere with travel. A partner provides elbow grease. Negotiations hit rough waters, but don’t spend out of guilt. Avoid speaking out in anger ... take a walk to cool down. Allow yourself a luxury.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is a 6 — Don’t tell everyone the news. Let another person represent you. Get with your partner now. You don’t need new stuff ... repurpose old stuff instead, and put savings aside. An old trick doesn’t work.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 7 — Run a reality check instead of forging ahead blindly. Don’t forget to do what you promised. Watch out for hazards; easy does it. Avoid launches and communication blitzes; get into organization and planning.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) Today is a 7 — You love to win. Restraint is advised, rather than rushing ahead. Success comes slowly today. Face it, and heal. Create new fi nancial options. Wait for a better time to play.
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stituent parts laser-cleaned to remove oxidation and undergo additional work to repair and possibly replace corroded met-al, Kaler said. Further restora-tion beyond the original $99,962 contract could not begin until additional funds went through the procurement process, which went through on Monday.
The Alma Mater will also return in its original bronze visage, due to a protective wax coating that will prevent the blue-green patina that gave
the sculpture its familiar color when it last left campus.
Kaler said the University’s School of Art and Design will be constructing several “human-sized” replicas of the campus icon alongside which recent graduates can pose with for pic-tures this May. Also on the table are green screens for “photo-shopping” in the statue for com-mencement photos.
“I know it is disheartening, but we’re preserving her for the ages, and not rushing to get her back just for this year,” Kaler said.
House Republicans unveil funding measures to increase military readinessBY ANDREW TAYLORTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Republicans controlling the House moved Monday to give the Pentagon more money for military readi-ness while easing the pain felt by such agencies as the FBI and the Border Patrol from the across-the-board spending cuts that are just starting to take effect.
The effort is part of a huge spending measure that would fund day-to-day federal opera-tions through September — and head off a potential government shutdown later this month.
The measure would leave in place automatic cuts of 5 percent to domestic agencies and 7.8 per-cent to the Pentagon ordered by President Barack Obama on Fri-day night after months of bat-tling with Republicans over the budget. But the House Repub-licans’ legislation would award the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments their detailed 2013 budgets while other agencies would be frozen at 2012 levels — and then bear the across-the-board cuts.
The impact of the new cuts was proving slow to reach the broader public as Obama con-vened the fi rst Cabinet meeting of his second term to discuss next steps.
The Pentagon did say it would furlough thousands of military school teachers around the world and close commissaries an extra day each week. And Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napoli-tano said the spending cuts were causing delays in customs lines at airports including Los Angeles International and O’Hare Inter-national in Chicago.
Obama said he was continuing to seek out Republican partners to reach a deal to ease or head off the cuts, but there was no sign that a breakthrough was in the works to reverse them.
The new GOP funding mea-sure is set to advance through the House on Wednesday. It’s aimed at preventing a government shut-down when a six-month spending bill passed last September runs out March 27.
The latest measure would pro-vide an increase for military
operations and maintenance efforts as well as veterans’ health programs but would put most the rest of the government on budget autopilot.
After accounting for the across-the-board cuts, domestic agencies would face reductions exceeding 5 percent when com-pared with last year. But Repub-licans would carve out a host of exemptions seeking to protect certain functions, including federal prisons and fi re-fi ghting efforts in the West, and to pro-vide new funding for embassy security and modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The FBI and the Border Patrol would be able to maintain current staffi ng levels and would not have to fur-lough employees.
The legislation would provide about $2 billion more than the current level to increase secu-rity at U.S. embassies and diplo-matic missions worldwide. Last September, a terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, killed Ambas-sador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
A project to repair the Capitol Dome in Washington could stay on track, and NASA would be pro-tected from the harshest effects of the automatic cuts, known in Washington as a sequester.
The across-the-board cuts would carve $85 billion in spend-ing from the government’s $3.6 trillion budget for this year, con-centrating the cuts in the approx-imately $1 trillion allocated to the day-to-day agency operating bud-gets set by Congress each year. Those so-called discretionary accounts received big boosts in the fi rst two years of Obama’s presidency when Democrats con-trolled Congress but have borne the brunt of the cuts approved as Obama and Republicans have grappled over the budget.
Both Democrats and Repub-licans for months have warned the cuts are draconian and would slow the growth of the economy and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. The nonpartisan Con-gressional Budget Offi ce, for instance, says they would slow the economy by 0.6 percent and cost about 750,000 jobs.
student fee for the collegiate readership program. The pro-gram provides copies of The New York Times, Chicago Tri-bune and USA Today to students across campus .
Another referenda question asks students if they support the continuation of a $17.28 per semester student fee toward pro-gramming at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts . This fee provides free events and a mini-mum $5 discount to University students on performance tickets.
A fi nal question asks students if they support Chief Illiniwek as the “offi cial symbol of the University.” The University retired the mascot in 2007 after an August 2005 NCAA sanction on University athletic programs that barred teams from hosting post-season competition.
In addition to the referenda questions, fi ve candidates have been approved by the election commission to run for student trustee: Shao Guo , vice presi-dent-internal of the Illinois Stu-dent Senate ; Brian Siegel , stu-dent senator, junior in Media and former Illini Media employ-ee; Mike Cunningham , junior in LAS; LaDarius DuPree , junior in LAS; and Ryan Gleason , junior in LAS.
Gleason has been publicly censured by the commission for using chalk on vertical surfac-es in campaign advertisements in at least three different loca-tions, violating the 2013 election packet and student code , said Adam Joines , CSEC chairman.
Besides issuing the repri-mand, however, Joines said the
commission will take no fur-ther action against Gleason, and his running status will not be affected.
Carey Ash , graduate student senator, had been planning to run as well but was denied Illi-nois residency status by Ken-neth Ballom , dean of students, making him ineligible as a candidate.
By state law, student trust-ee candidates are required to be state residents . Though Ash said he has lived in Illinois for fi ve years and has residency from the State of Illinois, he does not meet the University’s defi nition of in-state residency because he does not qualify for the University’s standards of in-state tuition, according to sec-tion 3-903 of the student code, because he is not employed in Illinois; Ash is a graduate assis-tant at the University, but this employment does not qualify under the code.
The section states that in order to be considered an in-state resident, a student must be employed for one year or prove reliance on Illinois resources for more than 50 percent of his or her income.
Ballom cited this section as the reason for not accepting his candidacy. However, Ash is still heading a write-in campaign.
“It is foolish, it is folly, it is false, to think that those who reside in the state with the pres-ent intention to remain here, who contribute to the health and wellbeing of our Universi-ty to be ineligible to service,” Ash said. “The University must change its ways.”
Tyler can be reached at tadavis2@ dailyillini.com.
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tal Design gold certifi cation; last year, the University stopped using coal power during the sum-mer months.
But he said some faculty mem-bers have argued that the Univer-sity has not made these sustain-ability goals a priority.
“(The resolution) encourages the University to make the full implementation of the iCAP (Illi-nois Climate Action Plan) goals a top priority for allocating both fi nancial resources and human resources,” McCall said.
Donald Wuebbles , professor of atmospheric sciences, wrote a letter to the senate supporting the resolution.
“It would be really outstanding to have my alma mater, the Uni-versity of Illinois, demonstrate its leadership to other academ-ic institutions and to other large organizations that this is an issue that needs to be tackled and that it can be solved through ingenu-ity and hard work,” Wuebbles wrote in the letter.
The resolution passed in the senate without discussion.
Creek Beautifi cation Project and funding for the Urbana Landmark Hotel, were issues of concern dur-ing the 2009 election and will be again in the Democratic primary, but Bradfi eld said he won’t focus his campaign on issues he wouldn’t be able to change in offi ce.
“The money has already been spent,” he said. “There isn’t any-thing I can do about it. I’m push-ing forward and I’m not going to waste my time on it.”
Bradfi eld said his top priority, if elected mayor, will be job creation, in keeping with his slogan from 2009 “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.”
“The most important issue now is high-paying jobs,” he said. “It was important then and now; she’s four years behind the eight ball.”
Bradfi eld said his fi rst actions would be to put together an ad-hoc committee to bring major companies, such as Apple and
Intel, to Lincoln Square. He also said bringing in major
restaurant chains to southeast Urbana would increase business along Philo Road and benefi t the local economy by providing jobs and bringing in more tax revenue.
Some of his other ideas include building a new fi re and police sta-tion in southeast Urbana to com-bat the high-crime area and imple-menting language facilities for immigrants. He also wants to con-struct a city fairground or sports complex where road construction is currently being done on Lincoln Avenue.
“That’s a road to nowhere,” he said. “(With more development,) you’ll give people a reason to get out there.”
Polls open April 9 at various locations, some on campus, includ-ing the McKinley Foundation, Uni-versity YMCA, SDRP and ARC. The last day for registration is March 12.
Violence erupts in Kenya on election day leaving 19 dead, including 4 policemenBY JASON STRAZIUSO AND TOM ODULATHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOMBASA, Kenya — Kenya’s presidential election drew mil-lions of eager voters who endured long lines to cast ballots Monday, but the vote was marred by vio-lence that left 19 people dead, including four policemen hacked to death by machete-wielding separatists.
Offi cials urged voters not to be intimidated by the violence amid fears the impending elec-tion results could spark another round of the ethnic-related blood-shed in which more than 1,000 people died after the 2007 vote.
The election is the fi rst pres-idential poll under a new con-stitution designed to prevent the ethnic violence of 2007-08. Enthusiastic voters formed long lines around the country, and
election offi cials estimated turn-out at 70 percent of 14 million registered voters.
The voting got off to a bloody start when a group of 200 sep-aratists set a trap for police in the coastal city of Mombasa in the pre-dawn hours, Inspector General David Kimaiyo said. Four police were hacked to death with machetes, coast police boss Aggrey Adoli said.
The separatist group — the Mombasa Republican Council — had threatened election day attacks, and Kimaiyo said police were planning a raid “that will see the end of the MRC.”
The MRC believes Kenya’s coast should be an independent country. Their cause, which is not defi ned by religion, is fueled by the belief that political leaders in Nairobi have taken the coast’s land for themselves, impoverish-
ing indigenous residents.In addition to the attack in
Mombasa, police blamed the MRC for three deadly attacks in nearby Kilifi . An Associated Press reporter visited a morgue and saw four dead young men wearing red bandanas — a sign of the MRC — who had been shot to death.
An AP tally of the violence found that four police and three MRC members died in Momba-sa, while six government offi -cials, four MRC members and two civilians died in the three attacks near the coastal city of Kilifi , all according to police and mortuary offi cials.
After the polls closed, gunshots and an explosion rang out in the city of Garissa, near the Somali border, as gunmen stormed two polling stations, said Farah Maa-lim, the deputy speaker of parlia-
ment. Security forces responded to the attack and the gunmen fl ed.
The violence in the Mombasa and Garissa areas is separate from the ethnic violence that could break out related to elec-tion results, and which was so deadly after the 2007 vote.
The country’s top two presi-dential candidates condemned the Mombasa attacks. Prime Minister Raila Odinga called it a “heinous act of aggression” dur-ing a historic exercise. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta said he was discouraged by the news but he was sure the secu-rity situation would be brought under control.
Authorities fl ew in an addition-al 400 police offi cers to Mombasa to increase security. The United Nations restricted the movement of its staff on the coast because of the violence.
Cardinals meet to talk corruption in VaticanBY NICOLE WINFIELDTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VATICAN CITY — Cardinals said Monday they want to talk to Vatican managers about allega-tions of corruption and cronyism within the top levels of the Cath-olic Church before they elect the next pope, evidence that a scan-dal over leaked papal documents is casting a shadow over the con-clave and setting up one of the most unpredictable papal elec-tions in recent times.
The Vatican said 107 of the 115 voting-age cardinals attended the fi rst day of pre-conclave meet-ings, at which cardinals organize the election, discuss the problems of the church and get to know one another before voting.
The red-capped “princes” of the church took an oath of secre-cy and decided to pen a letter of “greeting and gratitude” to Bene-
dict XVI, whose resignation has thrown the church into turmoil amid a torrent of scandals inside and out of the Vatican.
“I would imagine that as we move along there will be question-ing of cardinals involved in the governing of the Curia to see what they think has to be changed, and in that context anything can come up,” U.S. Cardinal Francis George said.
The Holy See’s administrative shortcomings were thrust into stark relief last year with the pub-lication of documents stolen from Benedict’s desk that exposed the petty infi ghting, turf battles and allegations of corruption, nepo-tism and cronyism in the highest echelons of the Catholic Church.
The pope’s butler was convicted of stealing the papers and leaking them to a journalist; he eventually received a papal pardon.
KHALIL SENOSI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kenyan women get ready to cast their ballots in Kibera's Slums, Nairobi, Kenya Monday. Kenya is holding its fi rst presidential election since the 2007 vote which ushered in months of tribal violence that killed more than 1,000 people and displaced 600,000 from their homes.
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Following a closed-door party caucus, House Speaker John Boehner, of Ohio, center, and GOP leaders meet with reporters, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 26. They want to challenge President Barack Obama and the Senate to avoid the automatic spending cuts that take effect in four days.
As Unofficial, one of the more inclusive and collective events at the University, ends
and everyone slinks back from late-night mistakes and hangovers, I’m left to wonder why such a holiday enthralls the campus, why some are already counting down the days until their leprechaun hats and Guinness shirts become relevant once more.
Unofficial intrigues — I think — for two reasons: the alcohol and the community. How we create that community in which we thrive has evolved, and the acts we partake in as a group have changed, but the desire for human connection remains as important as ever. Man is a social animal, and it remains as true today as when Aristotle spewed the phrase centuries ago.
Unofficial brings in students from all over the Midwest, from Minne-sota and Iowa to Michigan and Wis-consin. They come down from Chi-cago and up from Carbondale. But students don’t drink alone. They don’t confine themselves to their apartments and pour Budweiser or Baileys down their throats. They go out in droves. They envelop Green Street, the bars, the restaurants, the sidewalks. It is partially an ode to alcohol, an early celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, but primarily it’s a communal activity. Why?
Is it because it involves a “socially unacceptable” behavior? Halloween is about community as well, dress-
ing up and occupying the town for a night of fear and fun. It’s also about mass consumption. Both of these holidays are social in a way that, say, Christmas or Thanksgiving aren’t.
Philosopher Adam Smith argued in his book “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” that our innately social nature produces virtue. We assign virtue to that which we see others doing, and doing en masse. It’s why we celebrate holidays like Unofficial and Halloween and Earth Day, and it’s why Festivus never really took off.
Important, too, is how our associa-tion with these various holidays and activities impacts our identities, not only individually but socially. The individual who stays at home and drinks to excess becomes an alcohol-ic. (Though that is a common joke, “It’s only alcoholism after you gradu-ate.”) But even in college, the odd man out is the one who drinks alone. He may be more out of place than the individual who elects not to drink at all, but still goes out. Why?
It harkens back to Aristotle, who wrote in “Politics” that society existed before the individual and that those who cannot or will not act within society’s constraints are “either a beast or a god.” And since we can’t assign the lone drinker the position of god, we have to make him into a beast.
Unofficial seems to be an excep-tionally happy time for campus as well. Students revel in their abili-ties to get up at 5:45 to start drink-ing, to miss class (or function while sporting a buzz) — but they revel in those abilities together. These things only bring us happiness when they get shared. The secret
impresses no one. Why? James Fowler, professor of medi-
cal genetics at the University of California at San Diego, conducted a study in which he found that happi-ness spreads through three degrees of connection. “We found a statistical relationship not just between your happiness and your friends’ happi-ness,” he said, “but between your happiness and your friends’ friends’ friends’ happiness.” Put simply, hap-piness is contagious.
Human beings have a need to be with others. Belonging to a specific community gives us a sense of iden-tity, and our participation in a vari-ety of groups comprises our individ-ual identities. We’ve got more ways to be social now, new and multifacet-ed ways to interact not only with the person standing next to us, but also with the high school friend abroad in China. But those types of con-nections don’t diminish the need for physical interaction that a holiday like Unofficial provides. If anything, they strengthen our desire for those face-to-face interactions.
A 2011 article from Psychology Today explains, “Human beings are highly social creatures. Because of this we are intensely interested in what others are doing, and why.” And ultimately I think that’s why Unofficial brings the campus out. It allows us to see what others are doing, and it allows us to see if we are doing what others are doing. It allows us to measure ourselves in the eye of a collective society and to see if we can, at the very least, still stand up.
My brother’s dog and my dog fight with each other con-stantly — playfully, of course.
Perhaps it’s because they’re young and they have seemingly endless amounts of energy, or maybe they’re bored and that is what they enjoy doing, besides the popular activi-ties of sleeping, eating and barking at the random passersby. But when they need something, like a treat off the counter or a trip outside, they come together and figure out a way to solve the problem at paw.
One would figure that if dogs could negotiate in crisis diplomacy or typical day-to-day doggie prob-lems, humans could manage it too, with human problems, of course. Unfortunately, our current Congress has been unable to tackle the nation’s problems because of constant fight-ing, name-calling, blaming and any other immaturities that display dur-ing disagreements.
Instead, Congress is playing a drunken game of darts, blindfolded, disregarding the repercussions of their actions with not a concern of what gets hit or by how much.
The latest result of a drawn out battle for solving the nation’s debt issue is the sequestration and across-the-board budget cuts that hit last Friday. The long-overdue and con-tentious cuts, “the sequester,” was passed under the Budget Control Act of 2011, then further delayed to March 1 in a deal to avert “the fis-cal cliff.” Unlike previous Congress’, which worked together to solve prob-lems, like those of the 90s, this Con-gress is infamous for kicking the can down the road and accomplish-ing little.
The sequester is an aimless attempt at deficit reduction to the
tune of $1.2 trillion over 10 years. Half of the $85 billion cuts this year affects defense discretionary spend-ing (weapons purchases, base opera-tions, construction work, etc.), and the other half affects mandatory (Social Security and Medicaid) and domestic discretionary spending.
The current cuts sacrifice essen-tial domestic programs and strain the nation’s defenses for the sake of an it’s-better-to-get-something-done-than-nothing mentality. And this mentality stems from a lacklus-ter approval rating, which is holding steady near historical lows at 15 per-cent, according to Gallup.
As part of the sequester, the appropriations of the National Sci-ence Foundation will be reduced by 5 percent in fiscal year 2013. This reduction will significantly impact the amount of new research grants funded by approximately 1,000 for 2013 alone.
As a top research institution in the world, this funding is essen-tial to the University’s mission. The University received more than 400 grants in 2010 ranging from as little as $3,000 to $90 million. We ranked second among all national institu-tions receiving NSF funding and first among universities. Absent Blue Waters, the project at the National Center for Supercomputing Appli-cations, which received more than $90 million, the University ranked fourth among national research universities.
Over the semester, I have been assisting my professor with his pro-posal to digitize the historical trad-ing data of the New York Stock Exchange dating back to the 19th century. His proposal, like many research proposals across the coun-try and at nearly every college in the University, may not receive funding by the National Science Foundation because of the sequester.
However, not all NSF funding the University received went to research. Some distributions include
support for undergraduate and grad-uate students.
Taking a look at the big picture, according to Macroeconomic Advi-sors, “the sequestration would cost roughly 700,000 jobs (including reductions in armed forces), push-ing the civilian unemployment rate up ! percentage point, to 7.4 per-cent,” levels which would linger for several years. And that is just one report. Stephen Fuller, an economist at George Mason University, using information before the delay in the sequester, claims that 2.14 million jobs would be lost, increasing unem-ployment by as much as 1.5 percent-age points to over 9 percent.
Cutting spending is a good thing. It’s a sign of improving efficiency and extracting the most out of our taxpayers’ dollars. Except these changes to the federal government’s spending are not planned or calculat-ed. As the president said, they were merely made to meet an arbitrary number set by a dysfunctional Con-gress. Not a good thing.
Yes, spending cuts are desperate-ly needed. So are further increases in taxes. But the current policy that Congress is using to tackle our debt and deficit problems will leave many essential defense and domestic pro-grams gutted.
Thoughtless cuts to discretionary spending will impede potential pro-posals that could provide a serious, social benefit to this country.
I want my professor to receive NSF funding. I want Blue Waters to be the fastest supercomputer in the world. Not only will this funding pro-vide immense research benefits, but it could advance scientific discover-ies. This is something we should be proud of and spend more on, not less. What we need are smart, purpose-ful cuts to spending and thought-out reforms.
Tommy is a senior in Business. He can be reached at [email protected] and @tommyheiser.
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My grandfather has a favor-ite song, written in 1934 for a Radio City Music Hall
singer by the name of Jan Peerce. The song is called “Bluebird of Happiness.”
I have a hunch that Peerce wasn’t singing about the Twit-ter bird. And I have it on good authority that my grandfather never has and probably never will tweet. But maybe this little bluebird of the 21st century can do more than just enlighten fol-lowers with the latest celebrity gossip.
Every subscriber gets the same character limit. So whether you’re Joe Public, Lady Gaga or Barack Obama, every tweet can only be 140 characters at most. And yet in this limitation, we find great difference of opinion and ideological outlook.
“The beggar man and the mighty king are only different in name,” proclaims the song. So if we are all essentially equal, what makes some of us so joyful and others so, well, not?
“Sometimes I feel like I love everyone more than they love me,” tweets Miley Cyrus back in September 2012, after what the Huffington Post speculated about teenage mood swings made public.
After your latest appearance as Cosmopolitan cover girl, I assure you, Miley, there is now a sizeable increase in a particu-lar demographic who love you perhaps more than you’d like to know.
“I want to get so famous that people will favorite the most pointless tweets I post,” tweets user @Alison_Collins.
You probably don’t know Alli-son Collins; I certainly don’t, and that’s the point.
Today a smile, tomorrow tears — in life and in Twitter.
Chances are, overwhelming feelings of joy will not land on our doorstep or appear in our inboxes. Fame and fortune may get your name recognized (or your vents retweeted), but star-dom is no guarantee for smiles. But if we actively seek out what makes us or might make us hap-py, maybe we’ll hold our heads up high and hear the birds tweeting once again.
Fourteen different happiness studies were conducted and then compiled in the late ’90s, later to be published in Psychology Today as a way of understanding the subjective nature of personal happiness.
Tom G. Stevens, psychologist and professor emeritus at California State University, writes that by understanding our emotions, we can learn to predict and control our potential reactions to situations, thus learning how to concentrate and isolate what makes us enjoy life and how to make the best of things otherwise.
Basically, you can choose to be happy. The choice may be more difficult for some, but differences do not equal defeat.
Twitter speaks to some today like “Bluebird of Happiness” comforted listeners who otherwise felt alone. For all the troubles and stress and inequality and just plain stupid stuff that some people do, there is still the understanding that a good attitude can transcend the utter melancholy that we often hold.
Maybe I’m pushing the limits of a cliche. Or maybe it’s because I just finished reading Chuck Klosterman’s pop culture manifesto, “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs” and I’m feeling inspired.
Perhaps the objects and events in our lives are actually more connected than we think. Maybe expressing ourselves, whether in song or through Twitter, can help vent both everyday frustrations and stressors like midterms and break-ups. While social media may not usually be seen as similar to a 1930s pop song, such connections are what make our world all the more fascinating.
Online or over the airwaves, we are still looking for the same feeling of reassurance, of amusement, of joy. We are all still looking for our own bluebird of happiness.
Renée is a senior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].
S ince the $2 student fee was approved in spring 2009, the University has participat-ed in the Collegiate Reader-ship Program, which allows
for free weekday access to print copies of The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and USA Today. The University student code man-dates that the fee is reviewed by the student body by way of a ref-erendum at least once every four years.
Now the time has come for us to not only renew our subscription to the program but also renew our support for keeping the stu-dent body aware of local, nation-al and international news. As col-lege students, we face criticism at all angles for being uninformed (sometimes misinformed), igno-rant, oblivious, perhaps naive. In just that light alone, the impor-tance of this program is apparent.
This program is symbolic of our support for students being aware of the world they live in. Ques-tioning and participating in glob-al discussions. Having informed opinions. Seeking information from multiple sources. Deciding for himself or herself the bias of sources. Doing everything in their power to dispel the stereotype of the partyboy/partygirl college student, instead informing college students, ready to join in address-ing key issues after graduation.
As journalists at The Daily Illi-ni, which continues to produce a print product, we are fully aware that there is no long-term effica-cy of funding a print-based news-paper program. As we put in our votes today and Wednesday, we urge student senators and admin-istrators to take a second look at the possibility providing online subscriptions to students in the future.
Students swim with the cur-rent on the trend of receiving and absorbing news content in an online format. Average daily con-sumption through the program is a measly 1,409 newspapers, which, out of about 40,000 students, is disheartening but possibly a poor representation of actual inter-est. Those remaining students, we’d like to think, are not mind-less drones; they are connected by their smartphones, tablets and computers. They are reading and sharing hundreds and thousands of articles at YouNameIt.com as they pass by the bins filled with stacks of paper that would only add extra weight to their back-pack. And why shouldn’t we be promoting the estimable work by the news media, seeking to break barriers, engage readers and fur-ther increase interactivity?
The Collegiate Readership Pro-gram, started by USA Today in 1997, offers a discounted rate on these newspapers already.
As the readership program works, the University only pays for what students read. But if the point of the program is to increase news accessibility for all students, it would seem that a price increase would be warrant-ed — and students would probably front the cost.
If anything, the program allows access for students who wouldn’t normally be able to afford a sub-scription to a newspaper like The New York Times or the Chi-cago Tribune. The availability of these papers provides a nice break from the onslaught of ama-teur blogs we are hit with every day.
Upon reaffirmation of the fee, we look to a new push for the dig-ital distribution of this profes-sional and useful journalism.
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Cravings, which is owned by the Zhu family, has been serv-ing the University community for over 20 years. Located at 603 S. Wright St. in Champaign, Cravings is known for its Chi-nese food, specifically for one of its most popular dishes, Jakarta Fried Rice.
“Jakarta fried rice’s most important element is the Indo-nesian soy sauce but also the oth-er elements, like the egg, shrimp and chicken, are what make it so good,” said Cravings employee Chi Sze Tho, who has worked at the restaurant for seven years.
This dish is stir-fried rice that includes shrimp and chicken, with its signature ingredient of a fried egg on top of the rice. The Indonesian soy sauce adds extra flavor that sets it apart from all other types of rice.
Cravings offers a variety of dishes from all over Asia, includ-ing China, Malaysia, Thailand
and India. Sze Tho said Cravings can be distinguished from other Asian restaurants in Champaign-Urbana for a variety of reasons.
“We are popular because the food is good, but also because we have a huge portion for a small price,” Sze Tho said. “But most importantly, I think our front desk is really good, we are good to everyone.”
Taylor Petersen, sophomore in DGS, agrees. One of the reasons she gets Cravings at least once a week is because she loves the friendly staff, she said.
“I like Cravings because it’s authentic Chinese food, and because the guy who is always working is the nicest person ever,” Petersen said in reference to Sze Tho.
Petersen’s favorite dish is the Jakarta Fried Rice because she thinks it is unlike any other fried rice she has ever had.
Uzma Ahmad, junior in AHS, is a frequent customer of Crav-ings as well.
“I’m craving Cravings so bad right now I can’t think of why I love it so much,” Ahmad said when asked why she enjoys Cravings.
Ahmad said Cravings has great food and service, and she is always satisfied with what she orders on the menu. She orders Jakarta Fried Rice because it is a filling portion that never leaves her hungry.
Both Ahmad and Petersen said that everyone needs to try some-thing on the Craving’s menu at least once while here at the University.
“I go to Cravings every Thurs-day, and I would definitely recom-mend it to other people,” Peters-en said.
According to Petersen, the res-taurant has a welcoming atmo-sphere, delicious food and great management.
Cravings serves delicious dishes from all over Asia
BY ALICE SMELYANSKYSTAFF WRITER
Of the many awards and rec-ognitions at the University, few recognize the achievements seniors accomplished over their four years on campus. Senior 100 Honorary, a University of Illinois Alumni Association program, does just that. It’s not too late to join the ranks of alumnus who distinguished themselves inside and outside of the classroom.
Senior 100 Honorary is an event that congratulates 100 seniors for their commitment to academics, involvement on cam-pus and the impact they made throughout their undergraduate careers. The applications are due by March 14 at 11:59 p.m. and are available on the University of Illinois Alumni Association website. The only prerequisite is a base GPA requirement of 3.0 out of 4.0.
“There are endless opportu-nities here waiting to be tak-en advantage of,” said Julia Weiss, vice president of Student Engagement in Student Alum-ni Ambassadors. “You could go so many ways with this school, and we want to congratulate the seniors who have really capital-ized on everything the school has to offer.”
Along with co-directors Joe Ortigara and Hanjoo Moon, Weiss is in charge of organiz-ing the event and contacting fac-
ulty and administrators for the judging panel. Once all of the applications and nominations are received, the judges — a wide range of faculty and adminis-trators who change every year — have about three weeks to select the 100 seniors who con-cisely and proficiently exemplify their diligence over the past four years in their application.
Faculty and staff can submit nominations that the judges will take into account, but an appli-cation without a nomination will not negatively affect the stu-dent. After the judges reach their decisions, the student is notified and a reception is held on May 2.
Though he’s two counties south of Cham-paign now, Land-on Frye, a 2012 Senior 100 honor-ee, believes receiving the award aided him post-graduation.
“It was an opportunity to solid-ify some relationships and con-nections before we graduated that might otherwise have been lost,” he said.
Since his graduation, Frye has worked to solve the financial needs of rural America by pro-viding financing for agricultural
businesses and farmers. During his time at the University, he was heavily involved in the College of ACES as well as Student Alum-ni Ambassadors. Among other achievements, Frye served as the Explore ACES Director and the 2011 President of Student Alum-ni Ambassadors. Current SAA President Steven Farag can still feel the impact Frye made in the organization.
“He really pushed SAA to a new limit, challenged all of our programs and gave SAA that fire that it needed,” Farag said. “As president now, I can see the result of his work two years ago.”
The influx of applications increased by 200 percent last
year, and Weiss plans on improv-ing the compet-itiveness and increasing the prestige of the award among fac-ulty and staff.
For those unsure of wheth-er to apply, the former recipi-ent of the award encourages stu-dents to take the
chance. “If you’re genuine about it, and
kind of reflect on what you’ve been able to do in four years, I think there’s a pretty good chance you’ll get it,” Frye said. “You don’t want to leave regret-ting you didn’t do anything at the last part of your time in Illinois.”
University program recognizes achievements of senior alumni
ing items for $49.95 per month, which includes free shipping.
Hayley Johnson, sophomore in AHS, said her experience with the service was a positive one. Both items she received were from brands she had never heard of before, which included leg-gings from Nux and a running top from Alo.
She said both were very good quality and came right on time, so she was very happy with her monthly purchase.
Although she was a subscriber when the website was originally PVbody.com, ellie.com has main-tained many of the same attri-butes of the previous site. Each subscriber is able to customize their profile which allows their “personal shopper” to recom-mend available items.
Sites like Birchbox and Ellie allow customers to get name-brand items for a low month-ly cost. With an array of prod-ucts to choose from, and great reviews, these services are a way for students to get products at discounted prices.
PHOTOS BY EMILY OGDEN AND ROCHELLE WILSON THE DAILY ILLINI
Left: Cravings on Wright Street features the dish of the week, Jakarta Fried Rice. Right: Chi Sze Tho, a front desk worker, has been with Cravings for seven years. Cravings has been in business for more than 20 years.
together, and we’re taking it as it goes to see what we need to do. But everyone in the groups say they’re enjoying it.”
When asked how challeng-ing Best Dance Crew has been for them, Golin and Alden both laugh. They sum it up: lots and lots of emails. Golin said they need to stay in constant contact with the six participating orga-nizations so the event will run smoothly.
“Literally, we are glued to our computers, communicating back and forth with everyone and figuring out logistics,” Golin said. “All six organizations are extremely busy and have their own schedules, and finding those dates that would all work has been very difficult. You don’t know how many details go into an event until you start planning it yourself.”
Golin and Alden joke that they would start planning the sum-mer before if given the chance to start all over, but they are happy with the organizations’ enthusi-asm for Best Dance Crew.
Kieran Brennan, the external chair of Alpha Kappa Psi and senior in Business, said the com-
petition is personal for him. He views Best Dance Crew as his swan song for the University since he is a second-semester senior, and hopes for his fra-ternity brothers to participate together in something new.
“Best Dance Crew will be good for brotherhood in terms of the pledge class mingling with board members, and I’m excit-ed to spend time with some of our younger members,” Bren-nan said. “We’re all excited to participate because this is something for a good cause and AKPsi focuses on philanthropic outreach.”
Alden said the organizations are keen to be contenders in the competition, but also happy to support Best Dance Crew’s charity efforts.
Tickets to the competition are $5, and all proceeds for the Ron-ald McDonald House will sup-port families struggling finan-cially with health care.
Best Dance Crew will take place in the 112 auditorium in Gregory Hall Sunday at 7 p.m. Golin and Alden said they hope anyone at the University will come, either for a good cause or to see funny dance moves.
Senior 100 Honorary program will continue accepting applications
“There are endless opportunities here, waiting to be taken
advantage of.”JULIA WEISS,
vice president of Student Engagement in Student Alumni
Ambassadors
DISH OF THE WEEK
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E ach month, for $10, a box fi lled with both beauty and grooming supplies arrives at the door fi lled with an array of well-known
name-brand samples. No, this is not a dream — it’s Birchbox.
Birchbox’s website was launched in 2010 and has now expanded to business units all over the world including France, the United Kingdom, Spain and now the U.S. The service is now not only for women, in 2012 it extended into men’s products with Birchbox Man.
To take part in the subscription service, users must visit birchbox.com to put his or her name on “the list.” The site will send the per-son an email within four weeks to claim their subscription.
After claiming the offer, sub-scribers will be asked to gener-ate a “profi le,” which is a short questionnaire about their beauty and lifestyle supply preferences.
This profi le will allow the com-
pany to gain a better understand-ing of what the subscriber likes so they can put together a well-appreciated, customized box of grooming supplies.
Students on campus have begun to utilize the growing subscrip-tion service. Jane Sobczak, soph-omore in Business, believes it is a great addition to her grooming necessities.
“They usually send it on time of the estimated delivery date, and there’s always new things to try that I’ve never even heard of that are worth way more than the monthly subscription charge,” Sobczak said.
Those who are unhappy with their products can cancel their subscription at any time, but 2011 graduate Jessica Sturdy, can’t imagine why anyone would want to.
The self-proclaimed “beauty product junkie” graduated from the University with an econom-ics and fi nancial planning degree, and now currently works at TPR
Holdings and blogs on her website, bowsandsequins.com.
She said she has purchased quite a few products she has received through Birchbox, and loves their point system.
“The Birchbox website gives you points each month for review-ing the samples you received, and you can apply those points to future orders,” she said. “You also get points for referring friends to the site, so I’ve gotten a few full-size products for free.”
Some of her favorite products she has received include Boscia BB Cream, Benefi t POREfession-al, and Oscar Blandi Texture & Volume Spray.
For those looking to fi nd other websites that resemble Birchbox, there are those that offer the same general deal, but with a twist — clothes are included.
PVbody.com has recently become ellie.com, which sends subscribers two fi tness cloth-
CHRISTEN MCGLYNNSTAFF WRITER
BY ADLAI STEVENSONSTAFF WRITER
Students within the College of Business consider themselves dedicated and driven. Along with the school work that makes them some of the top business students in the country, they also participate in affi liated organizations and philanthrop-ic activities.
This weekend, students will add dance cues and song mash-ups to their agenda. Six busi-ness organizations will com-pete in the College of Business Best Dance Crew competition in Gregory Hall this Sunday, March 10.
This year is the fi rst for Best Dance Crew and its founders, Kyle Alden and Emily Golin , both sophomores in Business. They said the event will bring the business organizations together to cheerfully show-case their fi nest dance moves in an effort to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House .
Alden and Golin are also mem-bers of Business Council , which
facilitates events and commu-nicates with the business world on campus. While the Busi-ness Council already planned a spring charity event, Alden said the Council wanted an additional fundraiser earlier in the semes-ter. Golin said Best Dance Crew is their solution.
“Over winter break, we came up with ideas for the event that it would be annual and involve as many organizations as pos-sible,” Golin said. “We wanted something that would be fun for people to both participate in and watch since we can have more people involved that way. And who doesn’t want to watch their friends on stage doing fun-ny dance moves?”
Of the six organizations, Alden and Golin reached out to four business fraternities — Phi Gamma Nu , Delta Sig-ma Pi , Alpha Kappa Psi and Phi Chi Theta — and members in Business Council and the entre-preneurial organization Enac-tus to compete in Best Dance Crew. One dance group will rep-
resent each organization during the competition.
Illini ’N’ Motion , a student dance troupe, will play an inte-gral role in Best Dance Crew as well. Members from the troupe provide assistance to the groups as they prepare for their perfor-mances in Gregory Hall .
“One of our concerns was if each group would have dancers with some experience,” Alden said. “Illini ’N’ Motion are help-ing them (to) choreograph their dances plus other help and advice.”
But Illini ’N’ Motion said they do not want to dictate the per-formances. Carissa Dieckman , a member of Illini ’N’ Motion and a freshman in Business, is assigned to Alpha Kappa Psi’s dance group and said her expe-rience with the fraternity has been collaborative.
“We just want to make sure that everyone’s having fun,” Dieckman said. “A lot of us have ideas so we’re mixing them all
Business students prepare for upcoming dance competition
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BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER
Illinois head coach Matt Bol-lant remembers the first time he played against Adrienne GodBold at Green Bay as a part of a Thanksgiving tour-nament. The Illinois guard was strong-willed defensively, and she prevented his Green Bay team from running one of its best plays.
“It was the only time all year that the one play wasn’t effec-tive because she wasn’t going to let the ball be dribbled where we wanted to go,” Bollant said. “We saw right away that she can change a game and change a play with her defense.”
It seems Big Ten women’s basketball coaches realize what Bollant saw in his team’s win over Illinois by naming God-Bold the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year.
GodBold averaged a second-best 2.9 steals per game in the Big Ten, in addition to 7.1 rebounds per game. The senior also averaged 17.1 points, and her all-around talents led to her being named second-team all-Big Ten by the coaches and third-team all-Big Ten by media.
Senior Karisma Penn was named first-team all-Big Ten by media and second-team by coaches. Penn is the first Illi-ni to be named first-team all-Big Ten since Jenna Smith in 2010. This marks Penn’s third straight year being named all-conference, as the coaches and the media awarded her third-team last year. She was named second-team by media and third-team by coaches in 2011.
Bollant thought Penn, who averages 19.4 points, 9.9 rebounds, 2.9 steals and 2.2 blocks, deserved more.
“I’m excited that she made the all-conference team, and I appreciate the media for voting her first-team,” Bollant said. “I don’t know how with the stats that she had that she’s not on the
first-team for both the media and coaches, and you could cer-tainly make a very strong argu-ment for Player of the Year.
“I’m disappointed for her not to make the all-defensive team and not to be first-team on the coaches. I think that was a slight, and I’m disappointed for
BY ETHAN ASOFKSYSENIOR WRITER
Iowa wants to be sitting in Illi-nois’ position.
With its win over Nebraska on Saturday, the Illini men’s bas-ketball team almost certainly punched its ticket to the NCAA tournament. The Hawkeyes (18-11, 7-9 Big Ten) still have some work to do. With just two games left for both teams, Tuesday’s matchup in Iowa City, Iowa, could drastically help both teams’ resumes.
Iowa likely has to topple Illinois on Tuesday to have a chance at meaningful postseason play deep in March.
Meanwhile, Illini head coach John Groce still doesn’t want his team get-ting too com-fortable. Illi-nois is tied with Minne-sota at 8-8 for sixth place in the Big Ten, and it can only help its case for a higher seed in the Big Ten or NCAA tournament with a strong finish to the regular season.
“It’s unique preparing for them this late in the year, a Big Ten opponent we haven’t played this late in the year,” Groce said. “They’re playing for a lot right now, as we are. I think that’s a pretty neat thing here in March that you have a game where you have two teams that are really competing and have aspirations about doing more with their season.”
Iowa has only lost two games at home since the start of Big Ten play, and those losses were against
then-No. 5 Indiana and then-No. 22 Michigan State in two of its first three games of the conference season. Since then, the Hawkeyes have won five straight games at home.
“They have great fans. They’re always live when we go play at their house,” senior guard Bran-don Paul said. “They come to play at home. It’s not easy to beat them at their place. I’m looking forward to the challenge.
Paul and fellow senior D.J. Richardson will have the chal-lenge of containing 6-foot-6 guard Roy Devyn Marble, who’s averag-ing 14.2 points and 3.9 rebounds per game this season. Last season, Marble played a lot of point guard, leaving 6-foot-1 sophomore Tracy Abrams with a tough height disad-vantage. This year, Iowa moves Marble between guard and for-
ward, making him a tough guard for most players. But the 6-foot-4 Paul said he pre-fers defending guards that are bigger than him and believes he presents a tough defen-sive matchup for Marble.
“He’s so ver-satile. Watch-ing him on
film, he’s a mismatch guy,” Groce said. “He has all the tricks. He has a big game. He pivots well. He jabs well. He uses shot fakes. He’s deceptive in a good way. He really knows how to play.”
The Illini had a quick turn-around this week, as Tuesday’s road game is just three days after their emotional senior-day win over the Cornhuskers. Groce decided his players need-ed a break Sunday to preserve their bodies, so he ran a noncon-tact practice and showed film while also mixing in some con-ditioning work before return-
ing to normal practice Monday.Sam McLaurin was expected
to be a full participant in Mon-day’s practice after he suffered a mild sprain in his ankle during Saturday’s game. He took it easy Monday just to be careful with the injury, even though Groce said the senior forward probably could have played. Even without McLau-rin for the majority of Saturday’s game, Illinois still outrebounded Nebraska 35-26. His presence will be more important Tuesday, as Iowa ranks third in the Big Ten in both offensive and defensive rebounds this season.
“He looked great (Monday),” Groce said. “Obviously, Sam cares at a high level so he’s going to do
everything he’s supposed to do. We’ve been very lucky when we’ve been dinged up here and there. Hopefully that trend continues.”
The last time the Illini trav-eled to Iowa City, they played the Hawkeyes to the buzzer, los-ing by three points on March 8, 2012, to continue the last-season free fall that ended former head coach Bruce Weber’s tenure in Champaign. This time, Illinois is fortunate. It can only improve its postseason position with a win. It’s Iowa that’s going to need to continue its run at home to sit as comfortably as the Illini.
Ethan can be reached at asofsky1@ dailyillini.com and @asofthesky.
At a news conference Monday, Illinois football head coach Tim Beckman announced that wide receiver Darius Millines has been suspended for breaking team rules. Beckman did not elaborate on the circumstances of Millines’ suspension, just saying that his status will be re-evaluated in May, following the spring season.
Millines, who is preparing for his senior season next fall, caught 32 passes for 319 yards last season for the Illini. He missed two games because of injury, recovering from a torn labrum in his shoulder. The injury would have kept him off the field during the spring had the suspension not occurred.
“We hate to do it,” Beckman said. “But we’re going to make sure we’re doing things the proper way. We have team policies here and we expect them to be followed.”
Millines will continue to rehab and attend tutoring sessions. When asked if he expects to see Millines in an Illini uniform next fall, recently hired offensive coordinator Bill Cubit said: “That’s up to him. He’s got to figure it out.”
Millines’ 2012 statistics were not particularly memorable. But considering Illinois’ leading wide receiver, Ryan Lankford, only amassed 469 yards and five touchdowns, Mil l ines’ impact was significant.
Talking about practice Millines’ suspension comes
one day before Illinois’ spring practice season begins. Illinois has its first of 15 practices Tuesday, culminating with the spring game April 12.
In addition to the M i l l i ne s suspen sion , Beckman announced former quarterback Miles Osei has
been permanently moved to wide receiver. Osei played in all 12 games last year, splitting time between quarterback and wide receiver. He caught six passes for 50 yards and threw for 79 yards on eight completions.
Cubit named Osei, Justin Hardee, Spencer Harris, Steve Hull (who is also new to the receiver position, having spent the last three years at safety) and Ryan Lankford as the wide receivers he expects to step up and be heavy contributors.
Cubit has not seen q u a r te r b a ck Nat h a n Scheelhaase throw yet except on tape. He said it’s going to be awhile before the offense gets accustomed to his system. As the head coach at Western Michigan the previous eight seasons, Cubit’s offense was known for its up-tempo style and its high-volume passing attack. In a four-win season in 2012, the Broncos passed for 3,477 yards, more than the Illini gained rushing and passing combined.
For the Illini to improve, much of the burden will rest on Scheelhaase’s shoulders.
“The biggest adjustment will be for the quarterbacks,” Cubit said. “Instead of just calling plays from the sidelines, he’s got to be a coach out there on the field.”
Filling holesBeckman said the No. 1 goal
for spring practice is to create a physical atmosphere. Tight end Jon Davis, linebacker Jonathan Brown and defensive back Earnest Thomas will have limited contact because of injury. All three saw significant time on the field in 2012.
The biggest question mark for Illinois heading into the spring season is its secondary;
Coach suspends Millines before spring practices
BY CLAIRE LAVEZZORIOSTAFF WRITER
With the world of profession-al golf ridden with uncertainties regarding performance, many amateurs are hesitant to make the leap of faith to the tour. But former Illini golfer Luke Guth-rie has found early success on the PGA Tour.
The 23-year-old, who turned professional last year, placed third in the Honda Classic, a PGA Tour tournament holding a
$6 million purse in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
The Quincy, Ill., native’s play over the weekend helped him place ahead of some of the top names in golf. His second-round 7-under-par 63 was the lowest sin-gle-day mark of the tournament. By the end of the third day, Guth-rie held the top spot with Michael Thompson at 8-under.
Guthrie’s final round Sunday, however, was plagued by strong winds, making it difficult to fin-
ish under-par. He posted a final round of 73 after a double bogey on the par-4 14th and an another bogey on the 18th.
After his Saturday round, Guthrie told reporters that he was extremely ready for the course conditions.
“I live in Champaign right now, spent four years at Illinois and that’s a pretty flat area of the country if you haven’t been,” he said. “The wind whips about every day. That’s pretty normal
for me right there.”Despite Guthrie’s confidence,
his final round score of 73 dropped him to third at 5-under on the tournament.
He finished two shots behind Geoff Ogilvy and four behind Michael Thompson, who had pre-viously never won an event on the PGA Tour.
Despite the close competition, Guthrie said after Saturday that
Former Illini Guthrie finding success on PGA Tour
Illinois faces Iowa, looking to boost postseason position
GodBold, Penn earn Big Ten honors despite late-season slip
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.Iowa City, Iowa
The Illini guards will have the challenge of defending 6-foot-6 Roy
Devyn Marble.
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Illinois (21-9, 8-8 Big Ten)
Iowa (18-11, 7-9)
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Illinois’ Luke Guthrie practices his swing at Stone Creek Golf Club in Urbana on April 18. Guthrie finished 3rd at the Honda Classic on Sunday.
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Illinois’ Adrienne GodBold drives into the paint during Illinois’ loss to Ohio State on Thursday.
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Illinois’ D.J Richardson looks for a pass during the Illini’s win against Nebraska at Assembly Hall on Sunday. The Illini won 72-65.
Osei moved to wide receiver; secondary, center spots open
End of year awardsPlayer of the Year Maggie Lucas, Penn StateFreshman of the Year Maggie Lyon, NorthwesternCoach of the Year Connie Yori, Nebraska (coaches); Coquese Washington, Penn State (media)Defensive Player of the Year Adrienne GodBold, IllinoisSixth Player of the Year — Melissa Dixon, IowaFirst-team All-Big Ten (media) Maggie Lucas, Penn StateTayler Hill, Ohio StateJordan Hooper, NebraskaAlex Bentley, Penn StateKarisma Penn, Illinois
Unfortunately for me, I wasn’t one of those kids whose parents just, you
know, had season tickets to things. I grew up loving teams in three different sports, and going to a game was a rare treat .
In fact, it was a good day if my favorite team was playing on TV. Not being able to watch your favorite team is becom-ing a more distant memo-ry with each improvement to mobile technology and Internet streaming, as well as the new era of thousands of TV chan-nels we live in . As absurd as it sounds, people used to buy season tickets just to watch their favorite teams . That has become an antiquated notion, as tickets have become an excess, a luxury.
There’s been talk since the advent of high-defi nition tele-vision about whether owning season tickets is worthwhile, given that you can get a clear and thorough picture into the team if you stay at home and watch on TV — and it’s a wor-thy debate.
Most of my personal expe-rience with having tickets to games is enviously congratulat-ing my friends who have them. I’ve been to a fair amount of games, though, and when I go, I spend a lot of time looking at the Jumbotron.
Obviously, anyone who was in the building for the Indi-ana game will contend that the “atmosphere” is priceless and that golden moments like that are not to be missed if possible. They will have a good point. But those same people also paid to see the Northwestern and Wisconsin losses, and wins like that thriller over Penn State — games during which I’d rather have been able to do something else.
And basketball’s an indoor sport that takes just over two hours. Anyone with Illinois football season tickets remem-bers how worth it those were. Because you can’t quite com-prehend how incompetent Illi-nois’ offense was unless you get the full scale of the fi eld they can’t use.
Football games can be cold, and if you’re watching a team as bad as the Illini were , you’re
standing in the cold for three-plus hours, paying $17 for sub-par chicken strips and Dasani water (they add salt to the water, as in the same stuff that makes ocean water undrink-able), and leaving early, fi lled with disappointment.
Television presentation sub-jects viewers to the varied quality of the commentating and the production quirks that can enhance the viewing expe-rience and provide information-al context that doesn’t just pop into your fi eld of vision while you watch the game live.
Of course, you could stream the game live on your computer, either legal-ly through watchespn.com or a similar site, or illegally through firstrowsports.eu. However, streaming illegally subjects you to deceptive and obnoxious advertisements and poor streaming quality, which can be more infuriat-ing than worthwhile .
Or you could follow the game on GameCast (or GameTracker, for Illinois games). This gives you pretty detailed box score updates, so you can see how the game develops without need-ing to devote total attention to it. This is actually a good way to follow a game you’re mildly interested in while doing some-thing like writing a paper or reading for class. Then, if the game gets interesting, you can just stream the fantastic fi nish.
These are the tricks you learn when you live in a studio apartment without television.
You can also follow the game on your mobile phone, receiv-ing updates at the end of each quarter or when it’s a particu-larly close game.
It’s becoming increasing-ly diffi cult to get away from sports. We went from need-ing to see it in person, to read-ing about it in a newspaper, to listening to radio updates (or broadcasts), to seeing television updates (or broadcasts), to hav-ing mobile updates, to having mobile streaming.
Additionally, you don’t need to watch games with people anymore because of Twitter. You can just sit with your lap-top, skim through tweets and fl ip back to your live stream, all for the price of free Wi-Fi.
Suddenly, the opportunity cost of the atmosphere is more trouble than it’s worth.
Eliot is a junior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Fol-low him on Twitter @EliotTweet.
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Henry key to a fond farewell on senior day
The emotions were fl owing thick and fast over the course of the weekend.
The last few days brought the con-clusion of two hallmarks of my undergrad career. Friday saw the last Unoffi cial cel-ebration I will participate in as a student. On Saturday, I rallied for my fi nal home basket-ball game in which the Illinois seniors I went through four up-and-down years with were honored.
I won’t lie, it got a little dusty. I shed more tears than I have since my fourth-grade girl-friend dumped me. (Your loss, Ashley. I’m defi nitely still not bitter. But seriously, call me. 615-364-5997. We can still make this work).
But when Sunday night rolled around, my most enduring memory from each event didn’t involve seniors at all (although that terrifying girl who managed to shatter an entire glass table with a beer bottle — swear to God — could have been a senior. I was just too shocked to ask amid the aftermath).
Instead, my memory centered on Myke Henry, slip-screen artist and unsung hero from Illinois’ 72-65 victory over Nebraska . On a day spent commemorating the con-tributions of the senior class, it was the sophomore who provided the unexpect-ed spark that helped the Illini slip by the Cornhuskers.
With starter Sam McLaurin hobbled by an ankle injury and Tyler Griffey largely inef-fective for most of the game, Henry stepped in and contributed a season-high 12 points and a career-high nine rebounds, including
the game’s clinching play, when he secured an offensive rebound off Brandon Paul’s missed jumper with one minute left and Illi-nois ahead 66-62. With a fresh 35 seconds on the shot clock, Nebraska was forced to foul the rest of the way and Illinois knocked down its free throws to close out the game.
Henry followed that stellar performance by carrying the postgame press conference, attempting to steal Paul’s customary seat at the podium before rattling off some sub-dued, mumbled answers to questions direct-ed his way, all with a silly grin on his face that reminded everyone why we love col-lege sports. Groce praised Henry for play-ing maybe his best game of the season, while Paul offered words of appreciation for put-ting the Illini in a situation to win.
Henry is somewhat of an enigma. As Groce mentioned following the game, the forward was Illinois’ leading rebounder dur-ing preseason practices, which earned him a starting position in the team’s fi rst exhibi-tion game of the season. He has contributed irregularly throughout the year, though.
Henry moves with a kind of lackadaisi-cal air about him, often seeming to be in slow motion. Not that he’s a lazy player, but his laid-back demeanor and frequent grin that plays on his face sometimes give off the effect of being disconnected from the game.
At 6-foot-6, 230 pounds, Henry most com-monly comes off the bench at the power for-ward position for the undersized Illini, but his game is more fi tting of a guard. Fifty of his 93 fi eld-goal attempts this season are from 3-point range, and it’s a running joke among Daily Illini reporters whenever he comes close to setting a hard ball screen before releasing early for a pick-and-pop 3-pointer.
Regardless of the severity of McLaurin’s ankle injury (which doesn’t appear to be serious enough to keep him out of Tuesday’s game against Iowa, as Groce said in his teleconference Monday), a more consistent effort from the mercurial Henry will help stabilize Illinois’ often-inconsistent offense. Griffey’s contributions continue to fl ux, and the Illini’s offense is signifi cantly more potent when it has a fourth player who can stretch the fl oor (please refer to the Maui Invitational game tape for evidence).
If Illinois can put together that type of effort again, a deep postseason run is in the cards.
I’m getting a bit emotional just thinking about it.
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ELIOT SILLSports columnist
Cost of attending games becoming too inconvenient
Iditarod dog racers use strategy, patience to winBY RACHEL D’OROTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Here’s one proven way to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race: Let others take the early lead in the 1,000-mile trek to Alaska’s wind-scoured western coast.
That approach might seem counterintuitive to the novice fan of the famous sled dog race. Run-ning the Iditarod is as simple and straightforward as hitching 16 dogs in front of a sled and bolting off into the snowy horizon, right?
Uh, no. Just ask some top mush-ers. Lagging behind to let dogs conserve their energy is among strategies employed by top mush-ers. But holding back can also backfi re for various reasons, if the timing is miscalculated, for exam-ple, or a fi erce blizzard strikes at the wrong time.
Four-time champion Martin Buser had the early lead Monday, pulling into the Rohn checkpoint at 9:53 a.m. He arrived about four hours ahead of the second-place musher, Matt Failor, who also is in the checkpoint.
He was followed by another musher with impressive Iditarod credentials — four-time champion Lance Mackey. He pulled into the Finger Lake checkpoint on Sunday
night, also spending just a couple of minutes resting before heading out again. For defending champi-on Dallas Seavey, patience and an unwavering trust in the capability of his team paid off last year, when he became the Iditarod’s youngest winner at age 25. He didn’t charge to the front until later in the race, but still reached the fi nish line in Nome an hour before his closest competitor. To rest some of his older veteran dogs more, Seavey sometimes carried them in his sled for long stretches.
“It takes an uncommon amount of confi dence in your dog team to watch those front-runners get away from you,” said Seavey, who turned 26 Monday.
Rushing on, however, can exhaust a team to the point of los-ing. Two Rivers musher Allen Moore, who is running the Iditar-od, just won the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in February by choosing to rest his dogs. His main rival, last year’s Quest winner Hugh Neff, chose to run.
“He gambled that he could go,” Moore said. “I was gambling that this rest would help me to be fast-er. It’s like this in the Iditarod, too. We’re just gambling on things we think will work.”
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Illinois’ Myke Henry, left, goes up for the layup during Illinois’ win against Nebraska at Assembly Hall on Sunday. Henry was key to the Illini’s win with a season-high 12 points and a career-high nine rebounds.
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Robert Bundtzen drives his team past cabins at the Finger Lake checkpoint in Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Monday .
BY J.J. WILSONSTAFF WRITER
Coming off two hot wins to start Big Ten play, the No. 17 Illinois men’s tennis team is riding up to South Bend, Ind., for its second doubleheader in fi ve days, starting Tuesday against Illinois State , followed by a match against Notre Dame later in the day.
Illinois State will get the fi rst go at the young Illinois team, but both distant and recent history speak poorly of its chances. The Illini have put down the Redbirds in 53 of their 54 meetings , most recently 6-1 in the 2010-11 season .
“Illinois State, they’re fi ghters,” freshman Jared Hiltzik said.
Sophomore Ross Guignon said the well-coached Red-birds lack the same depth as the Illini and the match could be used as practice, but he would not to take them lightly, as it is still a recorded match.
The Illini anticipate a much closer match against Notre Dame. For the last seven seasons, the winner of the match has changed each year . While the Illini won last year 4-3 , the Irish took the win the year before 5-2 . If Illinois wants to win, it is going to have to defy the pattern.
“It’ll be a hard-fought battle, no matter what the score ends up being,” Guignon said. “Hopefully, we can get through it pretty easily.”
Stamina is going to have an effect in the Illini’s performance, but Guignon said he isn’t too concerned with how the team will
handle itself.“It’s going to be tough, but this is the stuff
we train for,” Guignon said. “We’ve got a tough group of guys, and I think we’ll be OK.”
Showing the same confi dence, Hiltzik also said the fi rst week against Toledo and Ball State taught the players lessons on taking care of their bodies and stretching to avoid poor results. Now, they are just looking to implement what they know to claim anoth-er two wins.
The fi rst of potential struggles comes in the form of an away crowd. Having played sev-en back-to-back matches at home , the atmosphere will undoubtedly change for the visiting Illinois squad. “For the guys that were on the team last year, we played well over half of our matches on the road, so I think we’ll be ready for it for the most part,” Guignon said. “And for all of our freshmen, it’ll be a good experience.”
Doubles is still a linger-ing problem for the Illini despite their turn-around last weekend against Iowa and No. 20 Northwestern . Three out of nine possible points is all they have been able to secure on the season, failing to earn doubles points in all three of their tight 4-3 fi nishes. And with the doubles starting off the match, winning or losing that point may have an effect on the momentum.
“I think the biggest thing is just starting to establish how they’re going to collectively
go out and play,” associate head coach Mar-cos Asse said. “Each guy knows when they have another player out there on the court playing that he can look at and say, ‘I’m glad he’s representing my team,’ and I think the guys are starting to take ownership of that.”
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her and our program.”Bollant was not named Coach
of the Year despite turning Illi-nois around from 11-19 to a tie for fi fth in the conference at 16-12 and possibly coaching the team to its fi rst NCAA tournament bid in 10 years.
Big Ten coaches voted Nebras-ka head coach Connie Yori as this year’s Coach of the Year, while the media chose Penn State head coach Coquese Washington.
Junior Amber Moore was hon-ored with a Big Ten Sportsman-ship award for Illinois.
Tourney timeThe Illinois women’s basket-
ball team will be a No. 6 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, which starts Thursday in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Illinois will play Wis-consin at 2 p.m. Thursday. The winner will play No. 3 seed Pur-due on Friday.
The No. 6 seed is the highest earned by the Illini since 2007, when they secured a No. 4 seed. Illinois fell to Penn State in the fi rst round that year and failed to make the NCAA tournament.
Illinois has had its fair share of success in the conference tour-nament the last few years. For-mer head coach Jolette Law went 7-5 in fi ve years, winning 58.3 percent of her games, eighth-best in Big Ten Tournament history.
One of Law’s best tournament runs occurred during Penn’s sophomore season, when the Illi-ni became the fi rst No. 11 seed to make the Big Ten semifi nals after upsetting Wisconsin and Michigan. Illinois’ current lead-ers — Penn, Moore and GodBold — were the only Illini to score in double fi gures in the upset of No. 3 seed Michigan, so they have experienced success in a tour-nament before.
“I’ve played on the fi rst day every time I’ve been to the Big Ten Tournament,” Penn said after Sunday’s game. “I don’t think it’s as big of a deal as everybody makes it.”
It may be a bigger deal for Illi-nois this season because of its lack of depth. Only six Illini play signifi cant minutes, making it more diffi cult for Illinois to win four games in four days.
The Big Ten Tournament may be more important for the Illi-ni considering their late-season slide.
Illinois lost its fi nal two games of the regular season and closed with three losses in four games, with the only win coming against last-place Indiana.
During the stretch, Illinois struggled converting turnovers to points, being outscored 84-81 in a category that the Illini have dominated all season. Illinois uncharacteristically committed at least 20 turnovers three times in the stretch.
Illinois was contending for second place in the conference before the team fell to a tie for fi fth. The late slide also may have hurt Illinois’ NCAA tournament chances.
EspnW bracketologist Charlie Creme moved Illinois to the “fi rst four out” in his latest bracket, which was released Monday.
Creme wrote that he believes Illinois still has a good shot at making the tournament, but it must beat Wisconsin and Purdue to feel comfortable on Selection Monday.
Bollant thinks his team is wor-thy of a spot in the NCAA tour-nament because of a 6-4 record in its last 10 games and a top-fi ve fi nish in the Big Ten, the No. 2 conference in the country, according to the RPI.
Creme has six Big Ten teams in his current bracket: Penn State, Nebraska, Purdue, Michi-gan State, Michigan and Iowa.
Iowa fi nished 8-8 in the Big Ten and is a No. 10 seed. Illinois is joined in the fi rst four out by Ohio State, a team that fi nished 7-9 in the conference and defeat-ed Illinois on Thursday.
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BY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER
Will Krug comes sprinting into Irwin Indoor Facility.
Krug is late because he just got done with his chemistry discussion. He has barely had time to eat, stopping to grab a provolone and cheese sandwich from Potbelly. He said he just walked fast to get to practice, although he’s out of breath when he arrives.
He hasn’t missed much of practice; the team just started and the hitters have begun to hit in the cage.
But Krug changes quickly into his cleats and jumps into the cage to hit.
Illinois’ newest leadoff man and right fi elder just has so much energy. At 5-foot-8, 155 pounds he’s not the biggest or strongest member of the Illini.
“You’re not going to outwork Will,” said head coach Dan Harlteb.
He takes his stance in the cage, a slight bend at the waist with his hands moving the entire time, wiggling the bat. He takes his quick swings and is ready for the next pitch almost as soon as he completes his swing. After his fi nal pitch, he starts as if he’s running down the fi rst base line, stopping just before the black wire mesh screen and grabbing two handfuls of balls, about fi ve in each hand, before dumping them into the bucket to toss to the next hitter. He even gets in some practice throws, rapidly fi ring about four balls into the screen.
A perfectionist. He’ll do something over a million times if it’s not right. Sometimes that hurts him, and he can be an over thinker. That was his case last year, and a year of experience has been huge for his psyche. He
said he feels 100 times more comfortable in the batters box.
“Just confi dence and believing that he’s here,” said assistant coach Eric Snider. “He came here as a walk-on and sometimes kids think they’re just a walk on. It’s not the case. Krug brings it every single day. He actually works so hard I think he beats himself up.”
He’s the man his coaches say would run through a wall for the good of the team.
Hartleb found that out multiple times last year.
Krug wasn’t recruited by many Division I schools. He can barely remember one school in New York. He decided to choose academics over attending a Division II or III school because he wanted to major in civil engineering. But Hartleb remembers Krug begging the Illini coaches to give him a chance. The coaches told him the tryout date for walk-ons, but he was still resilient in asking for just a chance.
The coaches liked his intensity, his arm and his speed, and he was given a spot on the team with the Illini.
He had to work to be successful, though, and it didn’t come as easily. He hit a respectable .275, but didn’t always fi nd himself in the starting lineup.
Following home games last season, after Hartleb fi nished giving interviews and showering, he’d come out to fi nd Krug taking extra swings in the batting cage off the tee. If he could’ve done the same thing after away games, he would have.
“I just make it a routine of mine, when I’m tired after the game is when I put in a lot of work to try to really get my swing down and mechanics down because my body’s tired. So
I feel like if I can do that when I’m tired then all of the time should be good mechanics.”
He’s an extremely modest person. He wouldn’t give himself credit, not for his .314 batting average — he says he doesn’t pay attention to stats and is just trying to get on base.
He qualifi es his new role as the leadoff man for now and couldn’t point out exactly what was different from last year. He won’t admit to being the most organized despite juggling an intense engineering curriculum schedule along with baseball.
“I do what I feel like I need to do to get everything done, or try to get everything done,” Krug said.
After being interviewed, he wanted to make sure he thanked his parents for all the support they have given to him, although he wasn’t sure if that was corny. He then said thank you and ran away to get back in the batting cage.
SPOKANE, Wash. — The to-do list for the Gonzaga basket-ball team got shorter Monday: For the fi rst time, the Zags were ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 poll.
Sweet, but it may get bumpier from there.
Next: Avoiding the potholes that have stopped every other No. 1 this season, then fi nding a way to the Final Four.
“We don’t believe there is any jinx,” assistant coach Tommy Lloyd said, subbing for coach Mark Few, who was said to be fl y fi shing and unavailable for com-ment. “Obviously, it’s a dream for us, the ultimate accomplishment.”
The fact that Few would skip perhaps the biggest day in pro-gram history to go fi shing says much about the priorities of the coach who helped build and has sustained Gonzaga’s success.
Few has repeatedly said he enjoys the balance between work and family time that Gonzaga provides, a major reason he has not left for a bigger program.
Students celebrated the No. 1 ranking on the downtown cam-pus Monday, and the food ser-vices department wheeled out a 20-foot cake that said “Congratu-lations Zags.”
Staying No. 1 has been tough this season, with Gonzaga the fi fth school to hold the spot after replacing Indiana this week. The others were Duke, Louisville and Michigan.
Gonzaga, a small Jesuit school in Spokane, is where crooner Bing Crosby went and where John Stockton threaded pinpoint pass-es. It has the best record in Divi-sion I at 29-2 following weekend wins against BYU and Portland. The Hoosiers, beaten by Minne-sota last week, dropped to No. 2.
“We’re not necessarily in pur-suit of a ranking,” Lloyd said. “We’re trying to get to the NCAA tournament. When that’s over, as coaches we can look back and realize what an accomplishment it is and how diffi cult it is.”
The Zags are the 57th school to be ranked No. 1 since the AP poll began in January 1949. The school is considered a mid-major and reached No. 2 for the fi rst time last week. Now it will play for the fi rst time at No. 1 on Satur-day night in the West Coast Con-ference semifi nals.
The school received 51 fi rst-place votes from the 65-member national media panel, 44 more than Indiana. Duke, winner over Miami after a loss to Virginia, remained third with fi ve fi rst-place votes.
Kansas and Georgetown both jumped two spots to fourth and fi fth. The Hoyas received the oth-er two fi rst-place votes. Miami, Michigan, Louisville, Kansas State and Michigan State rounded out the top 10. Virginia Common-wealth and UCLA, both ranked earlier in the season, returned to the poll at 21st and 23rd, respectively.
Gonzaga’s rise to the top comes 14 years after the school burst onto the national scene with a sur-prise run to the fi nal eight of the NCAA tournament. Since then, Few has guided the Zags to 12 conference titles, 13 trips to the tournament and four trips to the round of 16.
Along the way, Gonzaga has produced a slew of NBA play-ers, including Dan Dickau, Adam Morrison, Ronny Turiaf, Austin Daye, Robert Sacre and Jeremy Pargo. The team features players from Canada, France, Germany and Poland along with Stockton’s son, David.
Kelly Olynyk, the 7-foot Cana-dian center, leads the team in scoring at nearly 18 points a game and averages seven rebounds. He calls the No. 1 ranking a “great milestone.”
“We have a special team this year,” he said. “It shows that col-lege basketball in the rest of the
country has a lot of respect for us.”
Olynyk never dreamed that he would be playing for the No. 1 team in the nation when he chose Gonzaga over other offers.
“It never even crossed my mind,” he said.
Spokane is a city of 200,000 near the Idaho and Canadian bor-ders. The Lilac City is a blue-col-lar town, far from the high-tech wealth of the Seattle area. But basketball is one place where the
state’s second-largest city out-shines Seattle. Gonzaga, in fact, is the fi rst team from the state of Washington to be ranked No. 1.
At the time of Gonzaga’s run to the fi nal eight, the school had few-er than 5,000 students and was struggling with enrollment and budget issues.
Today, enrollment is at 7,800 and new buildings are popping up on campus all the time. The 6,000-seat McCarthey Athletic Center, which opened in 2004, has been sold out for all but one game. The Zags have rewarded their fans with a 120-8 home record there.
“Our success with basketball is a signifi cant component of the convergence of forces that allowed us to grow,” said school president Thayne McCulloh.
That success hasn’t come easy. Every year, the Zags seem to take on a tougher nonconfer-ence schedule to make up for their WCC schedule. This year they own wins over No. 9 Kan-sas State, No. 13 Oklahoma State, plus Clemson, Oklahoma, Baylor, Washington State and West Vir-ginia. Their only losses are to Illi-nois and Butler.
“We’ve had our struggles and battles, but we’ve made the right adjustments and calls,” Lloyd said. “We must be doing some-thing right.”
For now, the Zags, newly anointed No. 1, head to the league tournament in Las Vegas. Lloyd knows such honors go only so far.
“I don’t think those teams are going to care where we are ranked,” he said.
Gonzaga named No. 1 for 1st time
Tuesday, 9 a.m.South Bend, Indiana
Illinois will face Notre Dame in the second match of the doubleheader.
vs.
No. 17 Illinois(6-3 , 2-0 Big Ten )
Illinois State(5-5 , 0-0 MVC )
all four starters from last season have graduated. Beckman expects Thomas, Eaton Spence and V’Angelo Bentley to have major contributions next season.
Additionally, the center position is still up for grabs. Tony Durkin is the projected starter, but Joe Spencer and Jake Feldmeyer are expected to compete for the position.
The Illini will practice three times a week for the next six weeks, with one week off for spring break. Five practices will be open to the public, including Saturday at noon. Beckman said he expects as many as 70 high school prospects to visit on Saturday.
“This is what we come for: to coach football,” Beckman said. “If we would have ended up winning (last year), you’re still excited about stepping onto that football fi eld. I’m excited about stepping out there tomorrow.”
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he stayed composed. “On a day like that, you couldn’t
really leaderboard watch or any-thing like that,” Guthrie said. “You’ve just got to put your head down when it’s tough like that and know that par is going to be a great score around here.”
Guthrie said the experience of closing out tournaments at the Big Ten Championships and dur-ing the Web.com Tour helped his confi dence.
“The fi rst time you make a 5-footer where everything, all eyes are on you — everything starts in practice, when all your teammates are on you, kind of giv-ing you some crap and trying to get in your head and you make that putt. Those are the things you draw back to,” he said.
Even though he dropped from the top spot, the Honda Classic was Guthrie’s fi rst PGA Tour event where he fi nished in the top three. Pocketing just over $400,000 for his fi nish puts him in 25th on the money list, bringing in $621,753 in 2013 alone.
Guthrie has played three events on the PGA Tour in 2012, fi nish-ing in the top 20 in all three. His previous best fi nish was a tie for fi fth in the John Deere Classic.
During Guthrie’s senior season last spring, he became the fi rst back-to-back Big Ten champion since Northwestern’s Luke Don-ald captured two wins in 2000 and 2001; Guthrie became the fi rst Illini to pull off such a feat since PGA Tour veteran Steve Strick-er repeated his Big Ten Cham-pionship win in 1989. Guthrie also broke his own single-season school record with a fi nal stroke average of 71.19 his senior year.
Beginning his freshman year in 2008 as one of the top-10 ranked juniors in the nation, Guthrie posted the lowest round of his career, 6-under-par 64, at the D.A. Weibring tournament. After sink-ing a 60-foot birdie putt early, he went on to record the second-best score in Illinois school history.
That same year, Guthrie won the Illinois State Amateur after fi ring a fi nal-round 65 and posted more top-10 fi nishes than either Scott Langley or Chris DeForest, two other former Illini currently playing on the tour, did as a fresh-man the year before.
His sophomore and junior years were also full of many success-es. After fi nishing in the top 10 in four tournaments and fi nish-ing top 25 in 11, Guthrie paved his way to setting the school record for stroke average his junior year with a 71.36. That same year, he also became the fi rst Illinois play-er to win the Big Ten title since 1999.
Guthrie’s success in college appears to have begun as a profes-sional, though time will tell if he can experience similar results as the likes of Stricker and Donald.
Gonzaga celebrates their West Coast Conference Championship after defeating Portland 81-52 on Saturday , in Spokane, Wash. The Zags were named the nation’s top team for the fi rst time in the school’s history.
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Ross Guignon prepares for Iowa ’s serve Friday . He won the match 6-1, 6-4.
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Will Krug hits the ball during the Illini 7-3 victory over Indiana at Illinois Field on Apr. 7, 2012.
Five Big Ten teams among nation’s top 25
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