Buzz is back! Social-issue sea change Electorate turns the corner on LGBT acceptance OPINIONS, 4A INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Greeks & Campus 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B-6B | Sudoku 5B The Daily Illini Thursday November 15, 2012 High: 48˚ Low: 34˚ The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 59 | FREE BY ATOOSA SAYEH STAFF WRITER A group of University stu- dents is gearing up for a Jan- uary launch of a new col- lege radio station that aims to expose listeners to lesser- known music. Slated to stream music out of Room 66 of Allen Hall, the creators of Pizza FM said they focused on the commercial- free aspect because it allows them to broadcast their pro- gram online without guidelines from sponsors or advertisers. Evan Rogers, sophomore in LAS, said the lack of advertise- ments will bring new music to students they wouldn’t hear otherwise. “College radio essentially means that we don’t play com- mercial hits,” he said. “Part of the big focus of Pizza FM is exposing people to music they’re not familiar with.” Pizza FM members want to make searching for music easi- er by having DJs rotate genres during their shifts, giving lis- teners exposure to a variety of music. “College radio provides a fil- ter for people who are search- ing for music they like,” said Adam Barnett, executive direc- tor of Pizza FM and senior in Media. “It makes the search less stressful, and that’s what Pizza FM wants to be. We want to promote this underexposed music to people who want to hear it.” By not having sponsors, the station can operate without certain constraints. But Rog- ers and Barnett have a rule that Pizza FM cannot play popular music such as the Top 40 hits, including Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” or Maroon 5’s “One More Night.” By being free-form and com- mercial-free, Pizza FM has time for student talk shows and promoting local artists. Rog- Ad-free college radio station plans to launch this January BY KLAUDIA DUKALA STAFF WRITER A nonprofit start-up founded by University graduates is now selling its first product — low- cost, one-make-fits-all prosthetic arms — to people in developing countries. The design studio, called bump, develops products for other nonprofits, which distrib- ute them to those in need. Adam Booher, president of bump, said he is looking to rebrand the orga- nization as an international proj- ect, which is why he changed its name from Illini Prosthetic Technologies to bump. He said, “As much as we liked having the allegiance to our uni- versity, we felt that this new name, bump, was a much more natural growth and a much more appropriate name for a young organization that is seeking to be innovative and is seeking to give other nonprofits a bump or a boost in what they are able to do.” Booher said the project began in 2008 when he and five other sophomore Engineering stu- dents sought to develop a pros- thetic arm that would be afford- able and not require a custom fit. In 2010, the group traveled to Guatemala to test out several of their designs. While in Guate- mala, the team noted faults in those designs, and, after sever- al modifications, the team set- tled on its current Open Socket design in 2011. That same year, the team trav- eled back to Guatemala to test out the existing plan and revise any final imperfections. The team finalized the design and began distribution at the begin- ning of November. Richard Kesler, graduate stu- dent in bioengineering, has been bump’s director of biomechanics since its founding. “I’ve always had an interest in helping those less fortunate and saw that there was a need for developing low-cost pros- thetic devices,” Kesler said. “I came into Engineering at Illinois interested in designing medical devices and saw this as an amaz- ing opportunity to combine my engineering education with real- world application in ways that make an impact on others’ lives.” Bump’s Open Socket design doesn’t require a custom fit, but it operates the same way a cus- tom-fit arm does. “We have a plastic tunnel, and then we have a rigid-and-flexi- ble, plastic-and-cloth structure that allows you, through the use University graduates make prosthetics for developing countries BY ILYA GUREVIC STAFF WRITER The city of Urbana held a groundbreaking ceremony at Boneyard Creek, a stormwa- ter-catching waterway that runs through Champaign-Urbana, on Wednesday. “This creek has been indus- trialized. It looks like a drain- age ditch or something, but it’s really a natural creek,” Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing said to city officials, contractors and business owners present at the ceremony on Griggs and Race streets. “And when we get done with this, you’re going to be very happy.” The groundbreaking marked the beginning of the city’s $7.9 million three-part improve- ments project. The plan includes beautification of a segment of Boneyard Creek between Griggs Street and Broadway Avenue and improvements to the street and sidewalk areas on Race Street and Broadway Avenue. “Don’t you think that Urba- na can do better than barbed wire?” Prussing said, referring to the current fence that sur- rounds portions of the creek. Some of the beautifications include creating a gathering place and plaza on the east and west sides of Race Street, increasing greenery, apply- ing decorative tiling to walls, imprinting nature-related images into stones along the creek and adding site lighting improvements. These improve- ments make up the bulk of the budget at $5.4 million, including the replacement of the bridge on Race Street. This project comes after Urbana officials identified four other segments of the creek that were in need of work, though they had been planning improve- ments since late 2006, according to a December 2011 memo. “It’s probably the grandest of all five of the segments,” said Brad Bennett, senior civil engineer. “It has the most green space; it probably has the most impressive features.” Many members of the busi- ness community with locations in the vicinity of the project have been complimentary of the city’s initiative. “We’re excited for it — it’s been trying to happen for many years,” said Rick Orr , artistic director of the Station Theater, 223 N. Broadway Ave. “It’ll be a plus for many vendors around here.” Allen Strong, owner of Silver- creek Restaurant, 402 N. Race St., and Courier Café, 111 N. Race St., has taken part in city planning initiatives in the past and said he feels positive about the project, which he said has a “winning concept.” Community members also touched on the citywide impact of the project. “I think it’s going to be a nice project (with) ... nice green space (and) walking connections between areas of downtown,” said Don Owen, assistant super- intendent of Urbana School Dis- trict 116. Ilya can be reached at gurevic2@ dailyillini.com. Boneyard Creek gets beautified MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINI Urbana officials and contractors involved in the Boneyard Creek beautification project — including Alderman Dennis Roberts, Ward 5, center — break ground Wednesday afternoon near the corner of Griggs and Race streets in Urbana. EMILY OGDEN THE DAILY ILLINI On Wednesday, Charles Blath, left, graduate student in Engineering, Amber Neal, freshman in DGS, Benjamin Lewis, senior in LAS, and Jennifer Speaker , junior in FAA, sit under a makeshift shelter set up on the Quad to raise awareness and collect donations for Habitat for Humanity. Because their slogan is “Give a crap for habitat,” donations are collected in the blue and yellow toilet set up next to the shelter. Flushing donations down the toilet SUBMITTED PHOTO COURTESY OF ILLINI PROSTHETIC TECHNOLOGIES Miguel Perez, of Jutiapa, Guatemala, wears a prosthetic arm designed by bump, formerly known as Illini Prosthetic Technologies, a nonprofit started by University alumni. Urbana holds ceremony as part of $7.9 million improvement project See PROSTHETIC, Page 3A See PIZZA FM, Page 3A
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The Daily IlliniThursdayNovember 15, 2012
High: 48˚ Low: 34˚
The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 59 | FREE
BY ATOOSA SAYEHSTAFF WRITER
A group of University stu-dents is gearing up for a Jan-uary launch of a new col-lege radio station that aims to expose listeners to lesser-known music.
Slated to stream music out of Room 66 of Allen Hall, the creators of Pizza FM said they focused on the commercial-free aspect because it allows them to broadcast their pro-gram online without guidelines from sponsors or advertisers.
Evan Rogers , sophomore in LAS, said the lack of advertise-ments will bring new music to students they wouldn’t hear otherwise.
“College radio essentially means that we don’t play com-mercial hits,” he said. “Part of the big focus of Pizza FM is exposing people to music they’re not familiar with.”
Pizza FM members want to make searching for music easi-er by having DJs rotate genres
during their shifts, giving lis-teners exposure to a variety of music.
“College radio provides a fi l-ter for people who are search-ing for music they like,” said Adam Barnett , executive direc-tor of Pizza FM and senior in Media. “It makes the search less stressful, and that’s what Pizza FM wants to be. We want to promote this underexposed music to people who want to hear it.”
By not having sponsors, the station can operate without certain constraints. But Rog-ers and Barnett have a rule that Pizza FM cannot play popular music such as the Top 40 hits, including Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” or Maroon 5’s “One More Night.”
By being free-form and com-mercial-free, Pizza FM has time for student talk shows and promoting local artists. Rog-
Ad-free college radio station plans to launch this January
BY KLAUDIA DUKALASTAFF WRITER
A nonprofi t start-up founded by University graduates is now selling its fi rst product — low-cost, one-make-fi ts-all prosthetic arms — to people in developing countries.
The design studio, called bump, develops products for other nonprofi ts, which distrib-ute them to those in need. Adam Booher, president of bump, said he is looking to rebrand the orga-nization as an international proj-ect, which is why he changed its name from Illini Prosthetic Technologies to bump.
He said, “As much as we liked having the allegiance to our uni-versity, we felt that this new name, bump, was a much more natural growth and a much more appropriate name for a young organization that is seeking to be innovative and is seeking to give other nonprofi ts a bump or a boost in what they are able to do.”
Booher said the project began in 2008 when he and fi ve other sophomore Engineering stu-dents sought to develop a pros-thetic arm that would be afford-able and not require a custom fi t.
In 2010, the group traveled to Guatemala to test out several of their designs. While in Guate-
mala, the team noted faults in those designs, and, after sever-al modifi cations, the team set-tled on its current Open Socket design in 2011.
That same year, the team trav-eled back to Guatemala to test out the existing plan and revise any fi nal imperfections. The team fi nalized the design and began distribution at the begin-ning of November.
Richard Kesler, graduate stu-dent in bioengineering, has been bump’s director of biomechanics since its founding.
“I’ve always had an interest in helping those less fortunate and saw that there was a need for developing low-cost pros-thetic devices,” Kesler said. “I came into Engineering at Illinois interested in designing medical devices and saw this as an amaz-ing opportunity to combine my engineering education with real-world application in ways that make an impact on others’ lives.”
Bump’s Open Socket design doesn’t require a custom fi t, but it operates the same way a cus-tom-fi t arm does.
“We have a plastic tunnel, and then we have a rigid-and-fl exi-ble, plastic-and-cloth structure that allows you, through the use
University graduates make prosthetics for developing countries
BY ILYA GUREVICSTAFF WRITER
The city of Urbana held a groundbreaking ceremony at Boneyard Creek, a stormwa-ter-catching waterway that runs through Champaign-Urbana, on Wednesday.
“This creek has been indus-trialized. It looks like a drain-age ditch or something, but it’s really a natural creek,” Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing said to city offi cials, contractors and business owners present at the ceremony on Griggs and Race streets . “And when we get done with this, you’re going to be very happy.”
The groundbreaking marked the beginning of the city’s $7.9
million three-part improve-ments project. The plan includes beautifi cation of a segment of Boneyard Creek between Griggs Street and Broadway Avenue and improvements to the street and sidewalk areas on Race Street and Broadway Avenue.
“Don’t you think that Urba-na can do better than barbed wire?” Prussing said, referring to the current fence that sur-rounds portions of the creek.
Some of the beautifi cations include creating a gathering place and plaza on the east and west sides of Race Street, increasing greenery, apply-ing decorative tiling to walls, imprinting nature-related images into stones along the
creek and adding site lighting improvements. These improve-ments make up the bulk of the budget at $5.4 million, including the replacement of the bridge on Race Street.
This project comes after Urbana offi cials identifi ed four other segments of the creek that were in need of work, though they had been planning improve-ments since late 2006, according to a December 2011 memo.
“It’s probably the grandest of all fi ve of the segments,” said Brad Bennett , senior civil engineer. “It has the most green space; it probably has the most impressive features.”
Many members of the busi-ness community with locations in the vicinity of the project have been complimentary of the city’s initiative.
“We’re excited for it — it’s been trying to happen for many
years,” said Rick Orr , artistic director of the Station Theater, 223 N. Broadway Ave. “It’ll be a plus for many vendors around here.”
Allen Strong , owner of Silver-creek Restaurant, 402 N. Race St., and Courier Café, 111 N. Race St., has taken part in city planning initiatives in the past and said he feels positive about the project, which he said has a “winning concept.”
Community members also touched on the citywide impact of the project.
“I think it’s going to be a nice project (with) ... nice green space (and) walking connections between areas of downtown,” said Don Owen , assistant super-intendent of Urbana School Dis-trict 116.
Boneyard Creek gets beautifi edMICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINI
Urbana offi cials and contractors involved in the Boneyard Creek beautifi cation project — including Alderman Dennis Roberts, Ward 5, center — break ground Wednesday afternoon near the corner of Griggs and Race streets in Urbana.
EMILY OGDEN THE DAILY ILLINI
On Wednesday, Charles Blath , left, graduate student in Engineering, Amber Neal , freshman in DGS, Benjamin Lewis , senior in LAS, and Jennifer Speaker , junior in FAA, sit under a makeshift shelter set up on the Quad to raise awareness and collect donations for Habitat for Humanity. Because their slogan is “Give a crap for habitat,” donations are collected in the blue and yellow toilet set up next to the shelter.
Flushing donations down the toilet
SUBMITTED PHOTO COURTESY OF ILLINI PROSTHETIC TECHNOLOGIES
Miguel Perez, of Jutiapa, Guatemala, wears a prosthetic arm designed by bump, formerly known as Illini Prosthetic Technologies, a nonprofi t started by University alumni.
Urbana holds ceremony as part of $7.9 million improvement project
See PROSTHETIC, Page 3A
See PIZZA FM, Page 3A
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Champaign! A 33-year-old male was ar-
rested on the charge of bur-glary at Meijer, 2401 N. Pros-pect Ave., around 8 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, the suspect attempted to steal one item of merchandise.
! A 26-year-old male was ar-rested on charges of aggravat-ed battery in the 1100 block of West Springfield Avenue at 3 a.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, the suspect also had a warrant from California.
! A 21-year-old female was arrested on charges of posses-sion of cannabis and drug par-aphernalia in the 1100 block of West Springfield Avenue at 3 a.m. Tuesday.
! Armed robbery was report-ed at Cheese & Crackers, 1715 W. Kirby Ave., around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, the business was robbed by two un-known male offenders. Cash was reported stolen.
! A 20-year-old male was ar-rested on charges of theft of la-bor or services, battery and il-legal consumption of alcohol by a minor in the 200 block of East Green Street around 1 a.m. Wednesday.
According to the report, the suspect was drunk and refused to pay his cab fare. The sus-pect punched the cab driver in the face.
Urbana! Criminal damage to prop-
erty was reported in the 1100 block of East Colorado Avenue around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, an unknown offender broke the victim’s kitchen window pane with an unknown object.
! Trespass and criminal dam-age to property reported in the 1600 block of Ivanhoe Drive around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, an unknown offender damaged a rear-door lock of a vacant house to get inside. The door and lock were already dam-aged and reported before this incident.
University! A 20-year-old male and
19-year-old male were attested on the charge of theft at park-ing garage C-7, 801 S. Sixth St., at 2 a.m. Wednesday.
According to the report, two women reported their purs-es stolen. A building service worker found the women’s
purses dumped at the park-ing garage, but their phones and credit cards were miss-ing. The victims realized that the suspects had already made purchases on one of the sto-len cards. The police used the phones’ GPS tracking informa-tion to find the suspects. The 20-year-old was also charged with obstructing justice after he gave the police a fake name.
! An 18-year-old male was arrested on charges of theft and possession of a controlled substance at Snyder Hall, 206 E. Peabody Dr., at 9 p.m. Tues-day.
According to the report, the suspect was accused by others in the residence hall of steal-ing a cellphone and selling it. Police found prescription pills not belonging to the suspect following a search.
! Theft was reported at the I Hotel and Conference Cen-ter, 1900 S. First St., at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, the victim was attending an event at the location and report-ed that an unknown offend-er had stolen an undetermined amount of cash from a purse left in a meeting room.
Compiled by Klaudia Dukala
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Today’s BirthdayGet your priorities straight, and the world is your oyster. Step into a bigger level game. Double-check travel arrangements, and send launch news after 11/26. New possibilities and perspectives unveil themselves after the Winter Solstice. Career rises steadily through next June, when an educational opportunity beckons.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 — Establish a new regimen. There are excellent party conditions, but you may have to wait. Compromise and careful word choice are required. Not everyone is ready to boogie yet.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is a 6 — Share, but don’t give it all away. You’ll need some later. Private time is more productive; gracefully minimize interruptions. Resist spending for the time being. Relax and recharge.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is an 8 — Get a feel for the balance of new tools. Make
adjustments to your schedule, and accept a nice benefit. Controversy could arise. You’re gaining respect.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is a 7 — Schedule carefully. It looks good for a romantic excursion; go ahead and profess your love. Enjoy your surroundings. There is no shortage of benefits. Expand your field of vision.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is a 9 — Save more than you spend. See what you can do without. Get help from a strong partner. Adjust priorities. A female makes interesting dessert. Your popularity is growing.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 9 — There is less than expected. The more you learn, the better you look. Avoid making an avoidable error. The end result provides substantial gain. Love grows, along with other benefits.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is an 8 — Don’t deplete reserves by staying up too late. Things don’t always go according to plan, but having a plan sure helps. Work with another on the next social gathering.
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Check work orders for changes. Friends give you a boost. Recycle and repurpose to revamp your home. When you’re happy, everybody’s happy.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) Today is a 9 — Do the work yourself and save. Learn about safe investment plans, and pick one. Enjoy sweet victory. Turn down a public engagement for a private one. Encourage your partner.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is a 6 — Avoid a fuss that doesn’t concern you. Do more research before launching. Plan carefully. Accept an upcoming increase in status, and more. Take the philosophical high ground.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is an 8 — Don’t believe everything you hear. Maintain objectivity, and wait for more data. You and a partner connect. If you must spend, pay bills or add to your IRA.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is an 8 — Put your feelings into the design. Love is everywhere you look! Add a touch of luxury, with elegant color. A smile dissolves confrontation. Invite for an intriguing possibility.
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BY CORINNE RUFFSTAFF WRITER
To many people, Thanksgiving means sharing steaming plates of turkey, mashed potatoes and green bean casserole around a dinner table with the warmth of friends and family nearby. But, to many people in the community who struggle to make ends meet as a single parent, a student or a recently laid off employee, a pic-ture-perfect Thanksgiving doesn’t seem possible.
This year over 200 fami-lies in the Champaign, Urbana and Savory areas will receive the Thanksgiving dinner they wouldn’t have otherwise been
able to provide through donations to a food drive sponsored by the University.
From Oct. 29 to Nov. 14 the Offi ce of Volunteer Programs held its sixth annual Thanksgiv-ing Basket Drive. Tashamber Smith , student employee at OVP and junior in LAS, said around 7 p.m. Wednesday there were 130 baskets, twice the amount they received the fi rst year.
Vaneitta Goines , OVP pro-gram advisor, said she helped the project leader, Diwante Shuford , senior in LAS, with the logistics of the drive.
“The Thanksgiving Basket Drive is about providing families
with the ingredients they need to create a Thanksgiving meal for themselves,” she said. “But also, it’s about letting them know some-one out there in the community cares about them and also hope-fully trying to give them a little bit of hope.”
Goines said volunteers added personal touches to the baskets this year by including items such as scarves, children’s snacks and family recipes.
The drive also coordinated with The Quad Shop for the fi rst time to offer pre-made baskets at a lower cost than buying each meal item individually at a grocery store. Baskets cost $40, and donors were able to pre-order their bas-kets through email. Justin Hayes , Quad Shop manager, said he was approached by many campus orga-nizations, University departments
and individuals who donated bas-kets on behalf of their families.
Kathy Kaler , life skills coordi-nator for the athletics department, said the football team provided a total of 14 baskets for the drive. The athletic department said they are happy to be donating 46 bas-kets this year among all sports teams.
“The students collected money from everyone on the team, and Coach Beckman matched what the students raised,” Kaler said. “We want everyone to have a great Thanksgiving, and we know there are at least 46 families that will do just that.”
The baskets will be distributed among 19 agencies that will decide which of their members is most in need of the meal.
Savoy Head Start, a preschool for 3- to 5-year-olds, has request-
ed baskets for the past two years. Trinita Winston , family advocate for the organization, said as long as they have the resources, they will continue to help the families of their students with help from the community.
Winston said she requested 20 baskets this year and will give them to the families of her stu-dents. She said she conducts home visits and distributes the baskets to the families most in need — which sometimes includes parents currently attending the University and Parkland College.
“They are so appreciative, you wouldn’t believe it,” she said. “They always say, ‘Thank you so much, I wouldn’t have been able to have Thanksgiving dinner.’”
Thanksgiving basket drive serves area familiesVolunteer Programs o! ce, Illini Athletics spearhead local initiative
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BY HANNAH PROKOP DAYTIME ASSISTANT EDITOR
A petition to make Elec-tion Day a federal holiday has reached 10,018 signatures on the White House’s “We the People” website as of Wednesday night.
If the petition reaches 25,000 signatures by Dec. 12, White House staff will review it and issue an offi cial response.
Cameron Blaydes , senior in
Business, put up the petition Monday afternoon.
It’s an idea that people raise all the time and wonder why it’s not already a holiday, Blaydes said. He said being in an envi-ronment where people are chal-lenging the status quo and using social media to try to change things makes people more inclined to do something for themselves.
“It’s been a bit of a battle get-ting to the point that it’s at now,” Blaydes said, but he’s hope-ful the petition will reach the threshold in time to be reviewed.
UI student launches Election Day initiative
BY JOHN O’CONNORTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois’ public-employee pensions system is so far in debt that it is “unfi x-able,” an infl uential business group said Wednesday.
The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago told its members in a memo that even current retirees’ benefi ts must be cut and other drastic action tak-en to prevent pension-program bankruptcy, the memo said.
“The pension crisis has grown so severe that it is now unfi x-able,” former state attorney gen-eral Tyrone Fahner, the commit-tee’s president, wrote. “We do not make that statement lightly. It is an honest statement that no one — not our legislators, nor our gov-ernor, nor labor leaders — is will-ing to say publicly.”
The memo said workers put-ting money into the retirement accounts will never see the pay-back they were promised.
“It’s not melodrama, it’s fraud,” Fahner said in an interview with The Associated Press. “They’re paying under false pretenses.”
Fahner acknowledged that even with a pension debt esti-mated at $96 billion, the prob-lem is mathematically solvable. But to continue trying to catch up, Illinois must pay $6.7 billion next year — about a fi fth of the state’s general revenue — and that amount will top 40 percent by the beginning of the next decade.
Reaction to the memo was swift. A spokesman said Gov. Pat Quinn is grateful for help to “sound the alarm.” A House lead-er on the issue said current legis-lative proposals balance savings and viable, acceptable policy. The state’s largest employee union criticized “millionaire CEOs” harping about state retirees who make an average $32,000 pen-sion while politicians created the staggering debt by skipping state-obligated payments.
A spokesman for the Teachers Retirement System, the largest of the state’s fi ve accounts, said the committee’s conclusion is simply incorrect.
The General Assembly meets in its fall veto session later this month — a key to the timing of the committee’s memo — but leg-islators don’t expect to take up the pension issue again until ear-ly next year.
“We hope the committee will help make the case to every mem-ber of the state Legislature and to state pension-holders that solv-ing the pension problem is key to assuring that benefi ts will be there when the stakeholders retire,” Pallasch said.
The Civic Committee says the state must eliminate all pension-ers’ cost-of-living increases. Cur-rently, they’re 3 percent com-pounded annually. It wants to cap the fi nal salary on which pensions may be based (for those receiving Social Security, it is $106,800). It says the retirement age should be increased to 67 and that local school districts must assume the employers’ share of teacher pen-sion contributions, phased in over 12 years.
The committee, a group of senior executives from top Chi-cago-area businesses that has studied the pension crisis for six years, wants to set a “baseline” for action legislators must take to extend the system’s solvency into the middle of the century, Fah-ner said. Along with the memo to committee members, Fahner wrote Gov. Pat Quinn and leg-islative leaders that “from now forward, we will support pro-posals that cut to the core of the problem.”
Fahner said the plan Quinn and legislative Democrats sup-port doesn’t reach the core. It would give employees a choice: either accept reduced cost-of-living increases or forego state-subsidized health insurance after retirement. It would also shift employer pension contribu-tions for teachers from the state to local school boards, a provi-sion that has held up approval of a package because Republicans oppose it.
Rep. Elaine Nekritz, a North-brook Democrat who has led House pension talks, said there’s no crystal ball to show whether it would solve the problem.
“Do we think it would save sig-nifi cant money? Yes,” Nekritz said. “Is that adequate? Ask me in 2025. It’s all a balancing act.”
Others noted that two years ago Quinn signed a law creating a two-tiered system. New employ-ees are subject to the salary cap, retirement at 67 and cost-of-liv-ing adjustments tied to infl ation, not compounded.
Those changes have reduced state pension costs going forward and in the long term, policymak-ers can erase the shortfall, said Dave Urbanek, spokesman for the Teachers Retirement System.
“To say that the problem can-not be solved is just fundamen-tally incorrect,” Urbanek said.
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of straps, to adjust the arm in the same way that laces adjust your shoes,” Booher said.
The prostheses come in small, medium and large sizes.
The process of making such a prosthetic can cost between $5,000 and $10,000, he said. Bump’s design costs about $300 for the prosthetic arm and $500 with manufacturing and shipping costs included.
“Right now, 98 percent of peo-ple who have lost limbs in develop-ing countries cannot obtain pros-theses because they don’t have access or can’t afford that care,” Booher said. “Our device is made to be low-cost and to enable more amputees to have access to that care.”
Bump’s design uses cheap mate-rials that are easy to obtain yet durable enough to use for pros-thesis, Kesler said.
Emily Vukovich, sophomore in LAS, said she was amazed with bump’s dedication to helping peo-ple in underdeveloped countries.
“It’s nice to see graduates from this University trying to make a difference in the world,” she said. “What they’re doing is real-ly selfl ess.”
ers said students will be able to talk about topics that members of Pizza FM would approve and create playlists with music from local artists and Pizza FM mem-bers’ friends.
Samantha Erickson , freshman in FAA, said she likes the idea of helping local artists and DJs.
“I love the idea of helping musicians get their music out there while I have so much fun doing it for them,” Erickson said. “It benefi ts everyone. I hope giv-ing this campus a radio station open to any student participa-tion will. I also believe that the bands on campus and around the area will have a place to go to get feedback and expose their music.”
Currently, Pizza FM is fund-raising to gain money need-ed to launch the station. They have sponsors such as the Kran-nert Center for the Performing Arts and have built connections with already established music organizations.
The Offi ce of Volunteer Programs collects laundry baskets fi lled with a variety of nonperishable items at the Union on Tuesday to ensure families in need have the ingredients for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Over 200 families in the Champaign, Urbana and Savory areas will receive the Thanksgiving dinner.
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M any scholars consider the current Supreme Court, the Roberts Court, as one of
the most conservative in decades. Even with their recent decision to uphold the Obamacare this past summer, that mindset has not changed much. This is because the ideology of the most conservative-leaning justice leans farther right than the most liberal-leaning jus-tice that leans left.
There are fewer jobs more secure than an appointment to the Supreme Court. Once appointed to by a sitting president, it can be a life-long commitment if a justice chooses to serve that long: They can stay on until they die and some do. According to a study by Ross Stol-zenberg of the University of Chica-go and James Lindgren of North-western University, the chance of a justice dying while serving, increases just over 5 percent each year, which is increasingly greater once the justice is over the age of 70 . About 45 percent of all justices have died in office, with the most recent being former Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 2005.
Within President Obama’s first term, he appointed two female judges — Judge Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 and Solicitor General Elena Kagan in 2010. Both are considered liberal judges who replaced liberal judges — so no change there. How-ever there has been speculation that within the next four years, he might be able to make some more appointments. And I mean beyond replacing liberal-leaning justices with more liberal-leaning justices.
Currently, there are four justices over the age of 74, with the oldest being the liberal-leaning Ruth Bad-er Ginsburg at 79. Recently, con-
servative Justice Antonin Scalia, 76, has discussed retirement as a possibility.
Also at the grand old age of 76? Conservative Justice Anthony Ken-nedy. While they will most likely try to hold off their retirement for another four years, both cannot out rule out the possibility of a health concern developing (disclaimer — no, I am not rooting for Team Health Problems).
So, what does this mean for the Court and for us as a country?
If President Obama has the opportunity to replace either one of the conservative justices, that effectively ends the conservative majority of the Supreme Court. A liberal Court could change the out-comes for many social issues this country faces — changes like a woman’s right to choose, affirma-tive action and same-sex marriage.
Let me repeat: If the liberals gain an advantage over the con-servatives in the Court, and a case on marriage comes through, that may redefine the definition of mar-riage in the United States. Same-sex marriage might become a real possibility.
And you know what? That might save the institution of marriage. States that have allowed same-sex marriage generally see divorce rates that are lower then the nation-al average.
Yes, I did say lower.Back in 2010, Nate Silver found
that the states that had placed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage saw about a 1 percent rise in divorce over five years. States without? About an 8 percent divorce rate decline on average.
And no, the states allowing same-sex marriage did not report ris-ings in cataclysmic apocalypses or human-to-dog marriages. I know, shocking.
There is no denying a majority of college-aged adults tend to lie socially left. According to Bloom-berg, 71 percent of today’s fresh-
men college students believe in same-sex marriage.
Here on campus, one of my best friends is openly gay. He wants to get married one day, but he has stat-ed time and time again, he does not want to get married until gay mar-riage is accepted in every state in the union — until it becomes a con-stitutional law.
Within the next ten years or so, it is my hope that our generation will want to be in the thick of political discussion. Politicians will start to take us seriously, listening to us on issues other than the rising costs of a college education. Our politicians will start leaning more socially left if we as voters continue to lean socially left.
But with the more tradition-al mindset of the Supreme Court, those ideologies are not reflected in a majority of our justices.
And even if both conservative justices hold on to their positions on the Court, there is still a chance for a strong liberal minority. If Justice Ginsburg decides to retire and the president replaces her with someone just as liberal, just a few decades younger, the liberal major-ity can be still be a real possibility down the road.
Eventually, it will be hard to deny just how socially left the American public is becoming. And our laws should theoretically reflect how we feel as a country. Because, isn’t that the point of a democracy? And last time I checked, the Constitu-tion never explicitly states “life, lib-erty, and the pursuit of happiness” should apply only to heterosexual couples.
Besides, my friend should have every right to have a legitimate wedding (which he will be inviting me to) if people like Kim Kardashi-an and Britney Spears can have big, fancy weddings for short-lived marriages.
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“Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ.” These were words spoken by Cho-Seung Hui,
the perpetrator behind the dead-ly Virginia Tech massacre of 2007, which left 32 people dead. He said them in a video he sent to NBC News just hours before the attack. They are the words of a mad man, but they convey the reality that when such horrendous attacks occur, the media’s coverage lends to the perpetrators attaining celeb-rity-like status in stark contrast to their victims.
Need proof? Try naming another infamous mass murderer — a name like Charles Whitman or Timothy McVeigh may come to mind. Now try to name one of their victims — you probably can’t.
Whenever a mass tragedy occurs, the first thing the media does is to try to put a face on it — analogous to casting a villain in a horror flick. This makes the killer a star and reserves the victims as merely background actors. This kind of reporting is unconsciona-ble because it detracts from the vic-tims and their families and instead gives attention to the perpetrator, sending a dangerous message about our societal values.
This past summer we felt the terror of two horrifying events
in Aurora, Colo. and Oak Creek, Wis. Empathy invokes this terror. We picture ourselves as one of the victims and think of what it would be like to have our own life ended so suddenly. We would want ret-ribution. We would pray that the wicked person responsible would ultimately fail at their ungodly objective and be brought to justice either in this world or the next. At the very least we would want someone to sympathize with us, grieve for us and remember us.
The handling of such crimes should correspond with these sen-timents. The identity of mass mur-derers should never be released publicly. Their names should only be used by law enforcement and those involved with court pro-ceedings. The focus of media cov-erage should only be on telling the victims’ stories, celebrating what they accomplished and sadly acknowledging what the victims were unable to achieve.
This measure is not just the moral thing to do; it also deters other ticking time-bombs from seeking attention through such evil means. It makes perfect sense when you consider the motivation of most perpetrators.
As was explained in Time’s “Inside a Mass Murderer’s Mind,” the profile of a mass killer almost always coincides with a clini-cal narcissist — one who has dis-abling low self-esteem and thus constantly seeks recognition and reward. Because notoriety is the primary objective of most psy-
chotic killers, putting into law that the identities of mass murderers cannot be publicly revealed would be an effective deterrent of future massacres.
There is nothing more gut-wrenching than turning on the news to see something similar to what happened in Colorado and Wisconsin. Such events are hor-rifying and make us question the very nature of life and humanity. However, when we step back and take in the chaos, we realize that such tragedies are not a true rep-resentation of humanity but rather a rare incident resulting from a psychotic outlier.
The real value in these stories is how society is able to unite and persevere over the trauma. The media should spend its energy highlighting this element instead of turning maniacs into celebri-ties. While it is human nature to be curious, perhaps we can come to the realization that something greater can be achieved by not concerning ourselves with insane individuals and instead give our respects to the innocent victims.
By doing so, we send the mes-sage as a society that there is a clear distinction between being remembered for good and being remembered in infamy. By elimi-nating the latter, we would better solidify our intrinsic moral code and consequently lead to a more peaceful future.
Andrew is a sophomore in Engineering. He can be reached at [email protected].
M aryland, Maine and Washing-ton officially legalized same-sex marriage in a historic election
for members of the LGBT community. Minnesota struck down a referendum to make same-sex marriage unconstitu-tional. The common theme among these landmark votes is not just that it was the state’s residents who supported same-sex marriage, but that Obama had seemingly nothing to do with it.
In May 2012, President Obama for-mally announced his support for same-sex couples to have the right to be mar-ried. And I think it’s here where many of us get caught up in our interpretations. President Obama made a verbal stance, not explicitly saying that he would make same-sex marriage legal, but that he feels as though it should be — and decid-ed that states should be responsible. So, when an MTV interview revealed that Obama would not push same-sex marriage into his second term, debate brewed.
I support marriage, which for me signi-fies two people who commit to their love — and there are no restrictions. Howev-er, it is not in my hands to convince oth-ers that this is the accepted definition and that there is no other alternative way to perceive marriage. And in this sense, I can’t help but praise Obama’s addressing of the issue.
As far as I’m concerned, our president is a political figure, not a religious one. Accordingly, our president should not take political actions on religious issues.
But there are certainly religious impli-cations when it comes to marriage, espe-cially same-sex marriage. In a May 2012 Gallup poll, 88 percent of those without a religious identity supported legaliz-ing same-sex marriage while 67 percent of those who attended religious services weekly opposed it.
It isn’t up to our president to tell Amer-icans that they must accept same-sex marriage. It isn’t our president’s job to impose a national stance that would vio-late many people’s religious beliefs. On the other hand, we can call on our democ-racy, the voice of the people. The real accomplishment behind the recent same-sex marriage legalizations is that it was a majority of the people in each state who supported it, not because one political fig-ure had the ability to do so.
Same-sex marriage is not just a reli-gious issue; it’s a civil rights issue too. It is the president’s duty as well as the Con-stitution’s to ensure that every American share the same civil rights, not just select groups. And so it was done, for the equal-ity of women with the Nineteenth Amend-ment and for the equality of African-Americans by former President Lyndon Johnson with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But these issues are just not the same as same-sex marriage. LGBT people are not enslaved as African-Americans were, and LGBT people are not inhibited from voting or working as women were. LGBT people are faced with problems to a less-er degree than civil rights movements of the past and therefore have the ability to accomplish goals without relying entirely on the federal government.
Republicans and Democrats once stood divided on these issue, but today, through modernization, experience and legisla-tion, issues such as these are no longer up for debate. But they just can’t seem to get it together with same-sex marriage yet. So why should we let political par-ties determine the worthiness, let alone the outcome of our civil rights? I call on Americans to push the gay agenda, with our president’s support echoing behind every push forward we make.
It wasn’t just the Electoral College that favored Obama, it was the majority of Americans as well — by nearly 3 million votes. And it was the majority of Ameri-cans in the states of Maryland, Maine and Washington that favored legalizing same-sex marriage, it was not Obama’s doings. I don’t want to live in a state where a pro-same-sex marriage ideal is forced upon its population by its govern-ment alone. I want to live in a state where the majority of people favor and embrace equality, not just because our president says so.
The LGBT community should not only feel accomplished once same-sex mar-riage is legalized in all 50 states. After America turned down same-sex mar-riage 32 times on the ballot since 1998, Americans legalized it in three states in a single election night.
It was Americans who elected Wiscon-sin’s Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay U.S. senator. It was Americans who elected Stacie Laughton, the first trans-gender lawmaker, to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Obama’s support certainly rings loud in the background, but its Americans that are at the front of this battle. Let’s show America that the people’s voices can speak louder than our president’s. That we can gain the momentum toward national equality state-by-state and not just by pounding a gavel.
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T oday is the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout, during which smokers
are encouraged to stop smok-ing for 24 hours. The day is held on the Thursday pri-or to Thanksgiving so that smokers “may use the date to make a plan to quit, or plan in advance and then quit smok-ing that day.” But that’s not how it’s necessarily perceived today.
Avoid the mistakes other smokers who are trying to quit will make today.
To quit smoking, first you need to want to quit smok-ing. It doesn’t matter if your friends, family and room-mates want you to quit if you don’t want to. That has to come from the inside. If you don’t really want to quit, you won’t.
Keep in mind that this is not just the one day where smok-ers are supposed to quit smok-ing. That’s how today began. In 1971 in Randolph, Mass. a man named Arthur P. Mul-laney asked smokers to stop smoking for a day and to donate the money they saved to a scholarship fund. What began as a noble event has slowly morphed into the mis-understood day it has become.
Today is a day to begin the rest of your life. Today is not the one day a year you quit smoking only to return to it tomorrow; today is the day you decide to quit smoking forever.
After all, smokers try to quit smoking cold turkey because they want to quit forever, but any can tell you it’s not that easy. Fewer than 10 percent of people can quit outright, and many other estimates put that rate even lower. (And a few of us at The Daily Illini and on the editorial board have a few failed attempts under our belt, so we know what it feels like.)
You don’t want to quit for a day, for a week, for a month or for a year. You don’t want to quit until you stop quitting. Quit forever.
The best way to quit is to make a plan. With the stress of school temporarily gone, Thanksgiving break might be a good time to quit. Or you might wait until your finals are done. You can even wait until you graduate. But pick a time and stick to it.
Use today to make an appointment with McKinley Health Center. Someone there can help you stop smoking, help make a plan to quit and advise you on whether to use nicotine-replacement therapy.
Talk to your friends and family about quitting. They probably want you to. If they’re smokers, they proba-bly want to as well. Use them as your own personal support group.
Write down a list of pros and cons. Maybe you smoke because your friends do or because it’s social. The smell, the social stigma and the hard time breathing while climbing stairs or biking to class aren’t worth it. Is it worth paying $7 a day to slowly kill yourself?
Think about why you smoke and whether you really want to.
But make today last for lon-ger than today. Make today the beginning chapter of your smoke-free life.
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Q&A: MATT KELLY
Dropkick Murphys’ Kelly talks music, tour
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With heavy Irish influences and a commitment to its East Coast roots, The Dropkick Mur-phys gained commercial suc-cess through their dedication to touring and performing. The Massachusetts-based punk rock band formed in 1996 and first performed at the Canopy Club in Urbana in 2008. The Drop-kick Murphys will return to Canopy on Friday as a part of its Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day Tour. The Daily Illini got the chance to interview drummer Matt Kelly before the show.
Daily Illini: The release of your eighth studio album, “Signed and Sealed in Blood,” is set to be released early next year. Can you tell us a little about that?Matt Kelly: After our last album, “Going Out in Style,” we had more ideas and more we wanted to write — we just decided to get our ideas together and roll with it. We got our producer involved, filtered the writing, and got some great songs out of it. Our last album was a con-cept album with real heavy, deep stuff, and this one is not as tied together. We wrote 12 big anthems with big chorus-es. We’re really excited about releasing it.
DI: This will be your third stu-dio album released on your label “Born and Bred Records.” What prompted the band to create its own label and how does it differ from the previous label you were signed with?MK: Originally, no one want-ed to put out our stuff, so we had to put it out ourselves. So, going into this label we had rudimentary experience. Our contract with Hellcat Records was up, and we figured, as we are a band very hands-on with decision-making, to start our own label. It was a risk, because if it were to fall flat, the band would have to take full responsibility. But with it, we have complete artistic con-trol. We can be masters of our own destiny. Hellcat was great to us, but we felt it was time to take the next step and spread our wings.
DI: Each album you release gets higher and higher on the charts, with your last album debuting at number six on Billboard Hot 100. How did the band gradually gain so much commercial success?MK: We base our success on the people who supported us, our fans around the world. Before any sort of commer-cial success, we had a solid fan-base of loyal supporters who would come out to see our shows. The most important thing is to please those peo-ple. Then came the awards, the movies (“I’m Shipping Up To Boston” was featured in the Academy-Award win-ning movie “The Departed”), which brought awareness of our existence to the main-stream audience. The success is many-fold, but it is our loy-al fans back from ’96 and ’97, and exposure from the movies that help us most, along with lucky marketing and the Bos-ton Red Sox.
DI: Bostonians often associate your music with the Boston Red Sox. Can you explain how this relationship with the baseball team came about?MK: Dr. Charles Steinberg (of the Boston Red Sox) found the old Red Sox theme song in glo-ry days of 1910’s, called Tes-sie. He wanted to bring it back to the team, and our friend and Boston sportswriter Jeff Horrigan helped them bring it to the Dropkicks. Tessie was originally about an old lady and her pet parrot, but we deconstructed it and pieced it back together in a rock and roll kind of way, in our style. People ended up liking it, and the Sox ended up winning the World Series that year.
DI: Your music has obviously been influenced by your Irish roots and your East Coast upbringings. How do you as a band meaningfully incorporate your heritage into your music?MK: It just comes naturally in the way we write songs and lyrics. Irish folk is very uplift-ing and fun and jovial-sound-ing, but the lyrics are usually about famine, war, poverty. We’ve often done Irish folk tunes with our own spin, pay-
ing homage to that music. All of us either heard it or played it when we were younger. It’s in our make-up.
DI: In the past, the band has spo-ken out about making music in support of “the working class.” Why do you think it is important for your music to represent this cause?MK: There’s always this men-tality that the working man is always getting screwed out of things, and it’s important to know that we’re a pro-union band, especially in Boston. It’s something we’ve support-ed since day one, and we think it’d be the ultimate sell-out to turn our backs on that cause. We don’t ever want to for-get where we came from and where our roots are.
DI: You are currently on your “Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day” tour. How does this tour stack up to previous tours?MK: Most of our tours are intense shows, and right now, we’re just trying to get plac-es we’ve never been or have rarely played. We were just in Flagstaff, AZ, last night. We have a lot of people write to us asking to come here or there, and people are very appre-ciative we make it a point to go play those places. People get psyched, and we think it’s awesome.
DI: What is your favorite part of touring?MK: My favorite part of tour-ing is getting to meet new peo-ple, visit new places, try new beers. It’s the best job in the world. Obviously you’re going to miss your wife and family, but doing what you love for a living, not having to go back to warehouse or factory to work is a very lucky thing. We are very grateful and very lucky.
DI: What advice would you give aspiring musicians?MK: On the grim side of things, have a backup plan. On the optimistic side, prac-tice your ass off. If you think you’re good, remember that there a thousand people that could be better. You can never get too good at your instru-ment or voice or whatever it is. Also, try to listen to some music released before 1977.
more a part of the house,” said Emilie Johnson, sophomore in Media. “You can then wear all your letters and represent your sorority, which is really fun for a lot of girls.”
Depending on the rules each sorority decides on, some girls aren’t allowed to wear either their sorority’s letters or crest prior to initiation — making it more special when they’re final-ly able to do so.
All of the clothing and gifts are usually given in a large bas-ket that is bought and arranged by each new member’s pledge mom. In addition to clothing, it’s also a tradition for pledge moms to craft presents for their pledge
daughters. Rita Semro, sopho-more in AHS, decided to follow her pledge mom’s example when creating an initiation basket for her own pledge daughter, and spent about $200 on the basket.
“I kind of played off of her and then got those same types of thing for my kid too,” Sem-ro said.
To some, it might seem a bit ridiculous that older girls in the sorority have to spend money and buy gifts for the girls who are younger than them, especial-ly because initiation baskets can get quite expensive. However, each girl in the sorority receives the same treatment when they go through initiation and there-fore, the amount of money spent and gifts received ends up can-celing out.
“I know that it can be a lot
of money, but at the same time, I remember when I was going through initiation and it was really nice to have gifts, and it made me feel really special and important,” Semro said. “It just made the initiation process that much more special.”
Sorority initiation is meant to make the new members feel special and that they belong. So whether their basket contains a new sweatshirt embroidered with sorority letters or a lava-lier necklace that will be worn every day, these items are giv-en to represent the accomplish-ment of finishing the new mem-ber process and finally being a complete member of the sorori-ty each girl will call their home.
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BY JOLIE HUANGCONTRIBUTING WRITER
D avid Schwartz sits inside Espresso Royale wearing a shirt with brightly colored streaks. The front of the shirt is patterned with imag-
es of abstract faces in a mix of vibrant swirls. Schwartz, a junior in LAS, is the owner of We Are Lions, a company that sells t-shirts designed by children and adults with disabilities.
Schwartz’s idea fi rst began in high school when he created an unsuccess-ful t-shirt-selling venture called Team Awesome. After this attempt, he contin-ued to nurture his dream of owning a t-shirt company.
It was not until he spotted a unique piece of art at a local Starbucks during the summer of 2009 that the We Are Lions journey offi cially began.
After further investigation of the art-work, he learned that a child with a dis-ability had painted it through a founda-tion called Arts of Life. He called the organization and pitched an idea to sell shirts covered with their art.
Schwartz donates his profi ts to organi-zations such as Arts of Life, Friendship Circle and Best Buddies to support those with disabilities.
“My goal is to show how capable and talented people with disabilities can be. That’s why we chose to make these fully covered t-shirts,” Schwartz said. “They’re so much more impactful. If we
just took their artwork and framed it as a painting, you wouldn’t be able to see it as much. But with a t-shirt, everyone gets to admire it wherever you go.”
Reese Hamilton, junior in LAS and proud owner of a We Are Lions shirt, said, “I bought it not only for the unique design, but also because I really appre-ciate someone trying to make a tangi-ble difference, which David is defi nite-ly doing,”
With such a distinct product and cause, We Are Lions has been slowly expanding. The company has been con-sistently adding organizations to work with and donate to. Recently they have begun to work with Libenu, a Jewish-based disability organization, as well as Friends of AKIM USA, an Israel-based organization. This has contrib-uted to the company’s growth and rec-ognition; even rapper Asher Roth has been seen sporting its t-shirts.
We Are Lions not only sells t-shirts, but encourages members of the com-munity to increase awareness of indi-viduals with disabilities. Schwartz and other supporters formed a We Are Lions softball team to further promote their cause. They also recently held a philanthropy event at the ARC.
Schwartz tries to continually set up these events to build the base of the organization. Ultimately his hope is to expand the company so that it is comparable to an organization such as TOMS.
In the coming month, We Are Lions will host an event in conjunction with Los Muertos Custom Bicycles, where participants will assist in designing a custom bicycle.
“This is just as rewarding for me as it is for We Are Lions,” said Ryan O’Neill, junior in ACES and owner of Los Muertos Custom Bicycles . “The bike will resemble an early 1900s European Career Bike fully equipped with moustache handlebars and an upright-seated posture.”
After Los Muertos put the bike together, adults and children with dis-abilities will then paint it. The bike will be rotated through various shops around campus and then raffl ed off.
Outside of events, We Are Lions is always looking for people to spread the word and get involved, according to Schwartz.
“I want to provide others with an alternative way of looking at things. There’s a story behind all of these paintings. It’s not just about the shirts; it’s about every person with a disabili-ty, their family, their friends and what they believe in. I want everyone to be able to see that,” he added.
For more information about We Are Lions, visit www.wearelions.org or vis-it David Schwartz at 801 West Green St. in Urbana.
Jolie can be reached at jhuang51@ dailyillini.com.
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“I want to provide others with an alternative way of looking at things. There’s a story behind all of these paintings. ... It’s about every person with a disability, their family, their friends and what they believe in.”DAVID SCHWARTZ,owner of We Are Lions and junior in LAS
Schwartz sells T-shirts designed by people with disabilities
Special shirts for special needs
BY TAYLOR ELLISSTAFF WRITER
Contrary to what some may believe, sorority mem-bers are not yet complete members of their organi-zation after receiving their bids in September. In fact, girls in sororities fi rst have to go through a specifi c pro-cess before they become initiated members, just like male students who are pledging fraternities. How-ever, unlike the initiation process for fraternity mem-bers, sorority sisters com-plete a new member educa-tion program and are then showered with gifts.
For most of the sororities on campus, the new mem-bers are initiated between the months of October and December. Initiation week, or “I-week,” usually begins on a Monday and leads up to the fi nal initiation ceremo-ny that typically takes place on either Friday or Satur-day. During this week, some houses restrict new mem-bers from going out to the bars or hanging out with boys. These rules are put in place to ensure the new members are bonding before the initiation process they’ll experience together.
“My favorite part was getting to know my whole pledge class through the week of initiation, and then once we were initiat-ed, I felt like a true mem-ber of Chi Omega,” said Eri-ca Williams , sophomore in Business.
Once the initiation cer-emony has finished, it’s as if Christmas came a few weeks early. Between sweatshirts, raincoats, towel wraps, T-shirts, yoga pants, running shorts, paddles, lavalier necklaces, water-bottles, picture frames and various other decorative items, there’s no doubt that the freshly initiated pledge class will always be wear-ing something that displays their sorority affi liation.
“Part of being in a greek house is wanting to wear your letters everywhere, and after initiation, you get all these clothes so you feel
Initiation baskets are more than just presentsMembers invest so much to welcome home new sisters
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BY MICHAEL WONSOVERSTAFF WRITER
Illinois women’s basketball head coach Matt Bollant didn’t take long to bring in a strong recruiting class. On Wednesday, Illinois announced the addition of six recruits to the class of 2013, which is rated well by several ranking systems.
Collegiate Girls Basketball Report ranks Illlinois’ class fourth in the Big Ten and 25th in the nation. Blue Star places Illinois fourth in the Big Ten and 32nd nationally . Bolingbrook High School product Kennedy Catten-head leads the class. According to CGBR, the combo guard, who has already won two state titles, is the No. 84-ranked player in the nation,
But the trend of Chicago area
recruiting doesn’t end with Cattenhead.
Leah Bolton, Jacqui Grant and Sarah Livingston also hail from Illinois in this recruiting class. Bolton, a forward who averaged 14.3 points and 5.9 rebounds per game last season, was named sec-ond-team all-state by the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association. The Marist High School product will be able to play at both for-ward spots.
Grant, ranked 156th in her class, brings major size to Illinois. The 6-foot-3 forward led Maine South High School to a third-place fi nish at the 2011 Class 4A state tournament. Grant averaged 13.3 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game last season.
Livingston, the Morton High
School product, is the 93rd-ranked player this year. The 6-foot-3 for-ward is the sister of NBA veteran Shaun Livingston. Sarah adds ver-satility to the class, averaging 11.5 points and 7.8 rebounds per game last year. She dished out 61 assists and totaled 83 blocks and 87 steals during the 2011-12 season. Bollant said he expects Livingston to play center for the Illini.
Bollant also proved his abil-ity to recruit out-of-state. The Illini signed point guard Tay-lor Gleason, from Michigan, and guard Mikaala Shackleford, from Minnesota. Gleason is the No. 6-ranked player out of Michigan, already boasting a high school state championship and fi ve AAU championships.
Shackleford, the 38th-ranked
player at her position according to ESPN HoopGurlz, averaged 9.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game while at Plymouth High School in Minnesota. Shackleford is currently recovering from a torn ACL she suffered in January.
Bolllant gave high praise to his fi rst class at Illinois.
“We have a diverse group with kids that can do different things.
What we have in all of them is high character and high integri-ty and kids that are going to come here and get better,” Bollant said in a press release. “We wanted to recruit the state and feel we have four of the top-six or -seven kids in Illinois.”
When the ball is tipped Thurs-day night at Assembly Hall, two fi rst-year head coaches will be patrolling the sidelines for Illinois and Bradley.
While the coaches are new, the Illini and the Braves have been duel-ing for quite a while. Illinois has faced Brad-ley 12 times — seven times in the last 10 years — and the Illini lead the all-time series 10-2. Illi-nois has won the last two meetings between the pro-grams, most recently defeating Bradley 73-51 in 2010.
In that victory, then-freshman Amber Moore scored 16 points and was 4-for-5 from the 3-point
arc in her fourth collegiate game. The junior was also the leading scorer for the Illini in Sunday’s season-opening win over Evans-ville . Moore was 5-for-11 from three and fi nished with 19 points
en route to the 84-52 victory.
“She is our kid who can stretch the defense,” Illinois head coach Matt Bol-lant said. “We want her shoot-ing 10 threes a game, at least.”
Three-point shooting is an important part of Bollant’s up-tempo offense,
Illinois was one 3-pointer shy of a school record with 11 on Sunday. The Illini have scored 89, 120 and 84 in their three competitions so
Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down Sunday nights and de-cides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Student-athletes and coaches are evaluated by individ-ual performance and contribution to team success.
I llinois men’s cross-coun-try runners Jannis Toepfer and Hunter Mickow don’t get
caught up in the moment.For the season’s biggest meets,
the upperclassmen simply go about their routines and clear their minds to succeed in the most crucial races.
It is as if the 10K races at the Big Ten Championships and the NCAA Midwest Regional are just another Wednesday afternoon workout at the Armory.
“There is no question that we understand the importance of doing well at the biggest meets of the sea-son,” Toepfer said. “With that said, the pressure of the season’s most important meets doesn’t really cross my mind. Once I get running, I’m only thinking about what I have to do to fi nish strong.”
Mickow added to his teammate’s sentiment: “I don’t worry about any-thing when I’m out on the course, I try not to get stressed out. All I
do is just run and do what I know. Pressure doesn’t get to me, I guess.”
Maintaining focus on the task at hand and keeping a worry-free mindset has allowed the two to become the team’s top-two runners. Last Friday in Springfi eld, Mo. , the duo’s tenacious focus allowed them to run a successful 10K race in the regionals, sending them to their fi rst national meet. This marked the second consecutive year in which Illinois sent two runners to the NCAA Championships .
Mickow recorded the highest fi n-ish for an Illinois runner in a region-
Honorable mentionsSteph Panozzo (soccer) — The senior goalkeeper made crucial saves during penalty kicks last weekend at Missouri, leading the Illini to a 1-1 (3-0) victory and a trip to North Carolina. Alison Meng (swimming) — Despite the team falling at Illinois State, the senior broke pool records in the 50-meter back (26.90 seconds) and the 100 back (56.80).
Hunter Mickowand
Jannis ToepferThe cross-country runners earned a spot to compete
at the NCAA Championships on Saturday
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Groce signs top-25 class in 1st yearBY ETHAN ASOFSKYSENIOR WRITER
Seven months ago, Wednesday was Illinois basketball’s burning question mark.
The Illini failed to secure Shaka Smart and Brad Ste-vens , elite coaching names perceived to have the draw to lure big-name talent down I-57.
Then the new guy was hired.It seemed like John Groce could hardly strap on his navy
Nike hat at his introductory press conference before he was battered with recruiting questions on how to restore Illinois’ prestige among nationally recognized elite talent, especially in the Windy City.
That footwork is fi nally over, and for now, Groce has quieted the skeptics.
On Wednesday’s National Signing Day, the fi rst-year coach ushered in his fi rst recruiting class, signing Austin Colbert, Malcolm Hill, Maverick Morgan, Kendrick Nunn and Jaylon Tate to the Class of 2013 and drawing praise from the major scouting services. Scout.com has Groce’s class ranked No. 22 in the nation. Rivals.com has the class of 2013 Illini at No. 10 and ESPN ranked them at No. 23 .
Whichever way you slice it, Groce had a late start and still signed a top-25 recruiting class, brought in transfers Rayvonte Rice and Sam McLaurin — increasing the tally of Groce-recruited Illini to seven in seven months — and tapped that important Chicago pipeline.
“I think it was critical,” Groce said. “They’ll always have a special place in my heart, as did the ’09 class when I was at Ohio. That’s the point in time where they basically have to decide I believe in the vision, I see where this thing is going, I want to be a part of that without as much evidence as the competition.”
Nothing was handed to Groce. Right off the bat, he had to earn the trust of Bruce Weber holdover Malcolm Hill to prevent him from jumping ship. Hill in particular wanted to come play for his home-state school , and all he needed was approval of Weber’s replacement.
One of the fi rst calls Groce placed after he accepted the job was to Hill, who accepted the new Illini coach’s gesture and got the class rolling in the right direction.
“You gain a little bit of momentum each time a guy says ‘yes’ and wants to be a Fighting Illini,” Groce said. “That kind of happened with this class. You’re starting to see some carry over with that as we’re starting to recruit some of the underclassmen.”
The pathway to future talent might have been paved by Kendrick Nunn’s commitment, perhaps the gem of Groce’s fi rst class. Aside from troubled star Jereme Richmond , Nunn is the highest profi le Chicago-area Illini recruit since Dee Brown committed in 2002 . Nunn, along with fellow Illini signee Jaylon Tate, attends Simeon Career Academy , which has a reputation as the poster child for top Chicago basketball recruits (it’s also where Bulls superstar Derrick Rose went to high school ). But while Groce secured Nunn and Tate, his recruiting prowess couldn’t purge their team-mate, Class of 2013 No. 2 recruit Jabari Parker .
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Women’s basketball hosts Bradley, signs 6 recruitsIn-state rivals both boast new coaches, fast-paced o! enses
Bollant’s 1st recruiting class ranks among top in Big Ten
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Illinois’ Amber Moore shoots a three against Evansville at Assembly Hall on Sunday. Illinois coach Matt Bollant wants Moore to shoot at least 10 threes per game.
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On its trip to face No. 3 Ohio, the Illinois hockey team will be without four key players for at least one game this weekend. The meeting will be the teams’ third of the season.
The ACHA handed out three one-game suspensions to freshmen forwards John Olen , Kevin Chowaniec and senior Nick Stuercke . Senior defenseman Kent Kovalsky received a two-game suspension for his par-ticipation in a fi ght last Saturday against Lindenwood .
Midway through the third period, Kovalsky and Lindenwood’s Cody Barra decided to drop the gloves , warranting an ejection for both players. Not long after, chaos erupted as the entire Illini line of for-wards got into it with various Lions players. By the end of the game, eight ejections were issued between both sides, most resulting in suspensions.
According to ACHA rules, fi ghting during a game results in an automatic ejection as well as a mini-mum one-game suspension . Kovalsky, who had been suspended already this season for spearing, gar-nered another game because of his track record as a repeat offender.
Olen and Chowaniec were suspended for making illegal contact to the head of two Lindenwood play-ers. Olen is one of the Illini’s leading scorers, lead-ing in goals with 12 and tied for the team lead in points with 22 . Chowaniec is fourth on the team in points with 16 .
“It’s going to be pretty frustrating watching from the stands,” Olen said. “It’s Ohio, it’ll be a big game. These are league points, so they’re big points.”
Head coach Nick Fabbrini said his four players will be sorely missed during Friday’s matchup with the Bobcats. Both Olen and Chowaniek showed up on the score sheet when Illinois blew out Ohio in a 5-0 win two weekends ago. The Bobcats’ loss was only their second in 15 games this season.
“Everybody needs to step their game up Friday night,” Fabbrini said. “There’s going to be a lot less margin for error, so we’re really going to have to tighten things up going forward.”
Illinois will go on the road for a rematch against Lindenwood in mid-January in a series that is expect-ed to match the intensity of last weekend’s. Fabbrini said his team will not change its style of play when the two teams meet again, despite the fi ghting.
“We’re not going to back down from a challenge,” he said. “But we’ve got to stay out of fi ghting and keep our composure. We’re not that type of team. We’re going to stay away from that but we’re not going to back down from them trying to intimidate us physically.”
Big races always begin the same in swimming. The buzzer sounds, the swimmers burst from the blocks and spectators, coaches and athletes alike all hold their breath. Then, all at once, the room is fl ooded with exhilarating energy, as the sounds of splashes seem to synchronize into a single beat.
On Nov. 12, 2010, at the WIAA (Wis.) Girls Division II state meet, senior Ali-son Meng fi red off the blocks for one of the last times as an individual in high school. In the 2009 meet, she claimed two individual titles in the 100-meter fl y and 100 back , and she was looking to defend her fl y title as she entered the water and went to work.
Meng’s hand was the fi rst to touch the wall and clock in. She emerged vic-torious for yet another year, but, with a fi nal time of 55.94 seconds , she was also the new record holder for the 100 fl y in her respective division.
On July 1, 2011, the fi rst day that col-lege coaches were allowed to contact athletes, a call from Illinois assistant head coach Steve Farnau gave Meng an opportunity she never considered: a swimming career at Illinois.
Meng said she was fi rst contacted by Minnesota and Kentucky.
“Then, I just looked more into it, went on a visit (to Illlnois), and love the team and this campus,” she said.
Illinois head coach Sue Novitsky said Meng was really talented coming in and was particularly appealing because of her two state performances. Novitsky said she took this as a signal that Meng could handle pressure situations.
After signing on for her fi rst colle-giate season at Illinois, Meng’s perfor-mance did not disappoint. She seized notable victories against teams such as Nebraska and Northwestern and contributed to the Illini’s second-place fi nish in last year’s Northwest-ern Invitational . She was a freshman who traveled from her home in Lodi, Wis., to Champaign and consistently made an impression, doing something that she loves.
Then, she made a mistake.Before the start of this season in
the summer, Meng and a friend were spending their night among the crowds of Red Lion. Champaign County allows people under 21 into its bars, and Illi-nois students often choose to immerse themselves with the campus’s nightlife. And while this is not a crime, it enhanc-es the temptation to consume alcohol.
The 19-year-old sophomore said she was sharing a drink with a friend when an undercover offi cer approached her. She and her friend were both issued a $320 ticket.
“We have our team policies, and she violated our team policies,” Novitsky said. “So it’s pretty cut-and-dry what happened.”
Novitsky said policy required the team to suspend Meng for the fi rst week of practice and for the fi rst meet of the collegiate season. Although, missing in-season training would be tough, she said she had other challenges following her suspension.
“It was really hard from me to tell the team,” Meng said. “That was a challenge, so it was the concern right away. I was like, ‘I don’t want the incoming freshmen to think badly of me. I’m trying to be a leader.”
The suspension had dealt Meng the fi rst blow of her collegiate career. As is true with any punishable act, there will always be the opinions and judgments of others whether they are good or bad. Some athletes have a tendency to dwell on mis-takes, worrying about the perspectives of peers or feel the weight of guilt from their actions.
However, Meng was not one of these athletes.
“She served her punishment, whatever you want to call it,” Novitsky said. “She took accountability for her action and, if they make a mistake, that’s the most I can ask them to do. I know that everyone makes mistakes.”
In the aftermath, Meng said she had learned her lesson and would never do anything to hurt the team or hurt her chances of competing again. She said her action wasn’t worth the risk and punishment.
Meng waited out the duration of her suspension and prepared herself for her fi rst meet this year against Michigan State on Oct. 26.
While some may have been fueled by the suspension, Meng said she put it out of mind.
“I didn’t really have a specifi c goal, just to prove myself again to the team,” she said.
Her fi rst meet began with the tradition-al 200-medley relay, and Meng was lead-ing off. Firing off the blocks in backstroke form, it was clear that Meng wasn’t going to let the past weigh her down.
With Meng’s help, the Illini claimed a win in their fi rst event, which was signifi cant in a meet that was expect-ed to be close.
Three events later, Meng broke ahead of the competition in the 100 back and secured the Illini yet anoth-er individual win. This time though, she had done more than just win. She had broken the ARC pool record with a time of 56.26.
As the pool roared with excitement and the announcer loudly proclaimed that a record had been broken, Meng said she remained unaware of her feat. Upon touching the wall, she only cared about beating her own personal times and moving forward.
At the Illinois State meet, which was the Illini’s fi rst road competition, Meng tore past the opposing Redbirds and broke two more pool records in the Horton pool. Clocking times of 26.90 and 56.80 in the 50 and 100 back,
respectively, Meng said she was work-ing to be better than ever.
“The big step for her this year has been how she races in season, and she had taken a huge step forward from last season in terms of that,” Novitsky said. “We’ve been working with her on certain aspects of her strokes and her turns and a lot of the details, which are still pretty rough. So, it’s kind of scary how much faster, as she continues to improve, that she can get.”
With the Northwestern Invitational on the horizon, there is no lingering doubt that Meng will strive to out do herself despite the setback of last sum-mer. Even Novitsky has said Meng’s focus is on the present and the future, not the past.
“It’s just about having a better year than last year and doing what I can for the team,” Meng said.
Swimmer breaks records after her 1-meet suspension
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Alison Meng prepares to jump into the pool during a meet against Northwestern on Oct. 21, 2011. Meng would be suspended for drinking and miss the Northwestern meet the next year.
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Illinois’ Kent Kovalsky (5) and Lindenwood's Cody Barra (24) square off during the third period of Saturday's game at the Ice Arena. The game was chippy from the start, with 38 penalties accounting for 158 penalty minutes.
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These damn Thursday night games.
I feel no compulsion to watch Thursday Night Football. Why should I? The players take the field four days following their previous game, with three days of rest and three days of preparation. Understandably, the product on the field is less-er than the normal NFL game. Now compound that on top of the awful matchups the NFL slates — Chargers-Chiefs, Bucs-Vikings, not one but TWO NFC West contests, the list goes on — and you get hot, football gar-bage. The best Thursday match-up, by far, was Packers-Bears in Week Two, and thanks to a lack of rest early in the season, the game was pure slop. Thursday Night Football ruined the best rivalry in NFL history.
This week’s game is Dol-phins-Bills. Are you going to go out of your way to watch Dol-phins-Bills? Is anyone?
These games have fantasy implications as well because they mess everything up. They take NFL teams out of the com-fortable pattern that is the “one game a week” schedule. NFL plays on Sundays. Monday Night Football works because it is only one day removed from the Sunday schedule. Thurs-day is the exact opposite — four days from the previous Sunday, three days until the next. The makeup of the game is a logical mess, too. It covers as a prime-time marquee matchup, but it’s in the middle of the week, with bad teams and tired players.
The whole idea is disorient-ing, and the players perform accordingly. Jay Cutler played the worst game of his career. Ramses Barden, named after a Pharaoh, accounted for one-third of his career reception total in one game. It’s chaos.
So if you’re considering start-ing a Thursday night player, be warned. Anything could hap-pen. Reggie Bush could run for 235 yards this week, or he could run for 6. Neither would sur-prise me.
Here are some non-Thursday fantasy tips I feel a little more comfortable with.
STARTMatt Forte (running back, Chi-
cago Bears) — Quarterback Jay Cutler is doubtful to play for the Bears on Monday. If he can’t go, Forte and the running game will have to carry the load against the great 49ers defense. If Cutler does play, the team
will still be cautious about their most important player, limiting him by switching the focus to the running game. Either way, Forte becomes Chicago’s top weapon this week.
Randall Cobb (wide receiver, Green Bay Packers) — Packers receivers are streaky. First, it was James Jones finding the endzone in three consecutive games. Now, it’s Cobb. He’s scored six times in the past five games and in the only game he didn’t catch a touchdown, he caught seven balls for 100 yards. Jordy Nelson returns from injury this week, but I don’t expect him to cut into Cobb’s production until Week 12 or 13. In Week 11, rely on Cobb against a middle-of-the-road Lions pass defense.
Andrew Luck (quarterback, Indi-anapolis Colts) — The Chuck-strong movement is a very real thing. The Colts have rallied around cancer-fighting head coach Chuck Pagano in a way that tugs at the heart strings. It’s beautiful. Indianapolis is riding high on a four-game win streak, Luck has replaced Pey-ton Manning and the Colts-Patriots offense heavy rivalry renews on Sunday. Chuckstrong, rivalry, Luck. That’s a 400-yard, three touchdown formula.
SITRay Rice (running back, Balti-
more Ravens) — Rice is a fantasy stud. No one is denying that. But this week is the dreaded carnage-filled matchup with the Steelers that could end 3-0 without anyone batting an eye. Even with the two teams aging into the twilight years, it’s still a rivalry and it’s still based on the defenses. Ravens-Steel-ers is not a formula for fantasy success.
Carson Palmer (quarterback, Oakland Raiders) — Normally, sit-ting Palmer is a pretty obvious decision because he has no tal-ent. But this week, two things will lead you into temptation: He’s coming off his two biggest passing totals of the season, and he’s facing the Saints defense. He’s averaged about 400 yards and three touchdowns the last two games. The Saints are thrilled when they only allow 400 passing yards and three touchdowns. So, on the sur-face, CP3 is a smart play. But the reality with Palmer is that he cannot stop himself from throwing interceptions, which hurt fantasy point totals. In a game of two not-so-good teams — a game that is actually win-nable for Oakland — Palmer could throw five picks.
Jack is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @JCassidy10.
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JACK CASSIDYFantasy doctor
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BY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER
At 6:45 Wednesday morning, Jonathan Brown was in the film room with Illinois’ two freshmen linebackers, Mason Monheim and Mike Svetina. It was surprising for Illinois head coach Tim Beckman because team meet-ings don’t start until 7:40 a.m., but the three were dissecting film before most coaches had arrived at Memorial Stadium.
This was unusual, especially considering that Beckman ruled Brown out of Saturday’s game against Purdue, the team’s last home game in the disappointing season. Brown suffered a shoulder injury against Ohio State on Nov. 3.
“I think that speaks about Jonathan Brown and what he means not just to the team, but what he does outside of just playing football,” Beckman said. “He wants to help, he wants to provide as much knowledge as he possibly can.”
Last week against Minnesota, Brown was forced to stand on the sideline in his letter-man’s jacket, dark jeans and often stood on a chair to watch the game on the scoreboard.
“He tries to act like it doesn’t hurt him that much,” Monheim said. “But I can tell. It’s hurt-ing him.”
Illinois is going to miss one of its best defen-sive players and before his injury, its leading tackler. This is the first time since coming to Illinois that Brown has had to miss extended time because of injuries. He had been ham-pered by an ankle injury all season long. Defen-
sive coordinator Tim Banks said it sometimes looked like Brown was playing on one leg.
Beckman also wasn’t sure if Brown will be able to play next week, saying he’s “crossing his fingers.”
The junior linebacker has a chance to play in the NFL and would have to make a decision if he wants to enter the NFL Draft. That deci-sion could be made a little easier if an injury doesn’t allow him to play again this season, which would damage his draft stock.
With Brown’s injury, Monheim and Svetina will have to continue to step up for the Illini. Monheim, this week’s Big Ten Freshman of the Week, said Brown is one of the biggest reasons he doesn’t feel like a first-year player anymore.
“He’s in there, obviously he’s not on the field with me, so he’s in there watching the film and just talking to me on the sideline,” Mon-heim said. “Just talking to me and getting me
comfortable.”The challenge facing the Illini this week
is Purdue quarterback Robert Marve. Last week, the sixth-year quarterback, who has torn the ACL in his left knee, threw for 266 yards and two touchdowns. He led the Boil-ermakers down the field for a game-winning field goal against Iowa.
Marve’s ACL injury occurred in a game against a Beckman-coached Toledo team. Beckman remembers it as a “nasty hit,” although not illegal, and was impressed by his ability to come back.
“He’s got that football knowledge. He under-stands the game, and you can see what he did in that last series against Iowa,” Beckman said. “That sixth year, that’s a neat thing.”
Editor’s note: Big 10 of the Big Ten is a collection of tidbits from around the conference. This weekly feature pro-vides a recap from the previous slate of games and also serves as a preview to the upcoming football weekend.
Indianapolis-boundWisconsin clinched a second
consecutive Big Ten champion-ship game berth after thumping Indiana 62-14 Saturday.
Still runningWisconsin’s running game was
in historic form Saturday, as the Badgers rushed for a whopping 564 yards. That’s the sixth most in a game in Big Ten history and the most since 1994. Running back Montee Ball had three touchdowns and 198 rushing yards. James White also pitched in, adding 161 yards and two touchdowns of his own.
Co-division champsOhio State was on its bye week
last week but clinched a share of the Leaders Division. After Penn
State lost to Nebraska, the bowl-ineligible Buckeyes will be at least co-division champions, but they won’t be able to compete in the Big Ten championship game. Wiscon-sin or Penn State can earn a share of the division crown if undefeat-ed Ohio State loses both of its two games.
Two-team race for Indy Either Michigan or Nebras-
ka will win the Legends Divi-sion and meet Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship on Dec. 1. Each team stands at 5-1 in the Big Ten. But Nebraska defeated Michi-gan earlier this season, giving the Cornhuskers the tiebreaker.
Best offensive performanceWho needs Denard Robinson?
Michigan junior Devin Gardner won Big Ten Co-Offensive Play-er of the Week. Filling in for the injured Robinson, Gardner threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more in Michigan’s 38-31 vic-tory over Northwestern. It’s his first time winning the award. He shares it with Wisconsin running back Montee Ball, whose three touchdowns tied him with Ron Dayne for the most career rush-
ing touchdowns in Big Ten history with 71. Ball has 77 total career touchdowns, moving him into sec-ond place on the NCAA all-time list.
Bowl eligibleWith its 17-3 victory over Illi-
nois, Minnesota became bowl eligible for the first time under head coach Jerry Kill. The Gold-en Gophers are the fifth Big Ten team this season to earn eligibility.
Best defensive performancePurdue defensive tackle Kawa-
nn Short was a huge reason the Boilermakers were able to hold off Iowa for a 27-24 victory in Iowa City for the first time since 1992. Short had a career-best four tack-les for a loss and a sack, as the Pur-due defense held Iowa to just 74 rushing yards. The award is his third career Defensive Player of the Week and his first this season.
Cannon gameWhen Illinois hosts Purdue
on Saturday, the two teams will compete for the 61st time for the Purdue Cannon, one of the 16 tra-ditional rivalry trophies in the con-
ference. It’s the oldest rivalry in the Illini’s 122-year history, but the Boilermakers have dominated in recent history, winning six of the last seven meetings and nine of the last 12.
Game to watchOhio State versus Wisconsin has
a lot of implications. The Badgers are still fighting for a chance to be co-champions of the Leaders Division and would love to end the Buckeyes’ perfect season. But Ohio State will have two weeks to prepare and try to figure out a way to stop the Wisconsin rush-ing attack.
Game to keep an eye onAlso tune in to Northwestern
versus Michigan State. Northwest-ern has been inconsistent since it started 5-0, alternating losses and victories during the past five weeks. The Wildcats will try to bounce back and get their eighth win against the Spartans, who are trying to become bowl-eligible and bounce back from a 28-24 loss to Nebraska.
Illinois’ Jonathan Brown congratulates Mason Monheim on a tackle against Charleston Southern at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 15. Brown, who is out this week, was in the film room helping freshmen linebackers Monheim and Mike Svetina break down film at 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday.
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far. The Illini have been running and practicing with a 10-second shot clock to condition for the up-tempo pace.
“It’s been rough, and that’s a good thing,” sophomore guard Ivory Crawford said. “It should be rough and tough for us.”
Like the Illini, the Braves run a fast-paced offense.
“They like to shoot the three, and they like to get up and down the court, so if they play like that, it should be a really fast game and a really exciting game,” Bollant said.
Bollant’s preparation for Brad-ley and other opponents is simple.
“Do what we do,” he said. “We focus a lot on us. We watched film and talked about their personnel and do those things, but we focus a lot on us and getting better.”
Defensive communication has been stressed in practice. Bollant said it was a weakness in the exhi-bition win over Concordia but said he saw improvement Sunday. The team has still been working on it at practice this week.
“It’s gotten better,” he said. “On the inbounds, we were sig-nificantly better (in Wednesday’s
practice). We still have a ways to go, but we’re heading in the right direction.”
Crawford said she has noticed improvement in communication.
“It’s way better actually,” Craw-ford said. “I actually like the defense because instead of just sticking to your man, we’re switch-ing more often, and as long as we have that communication, then we’re good.”
Bradley sits at 1-1 after its first two games. The Braves lost their season opener to Central Michi-gan on Friday, but they rebounded with a 66-65 victory over Eastern Illinois on Monday.
While Evansville and Bradley are both from the Missouri Valley, the teams are in drastically differ-ent situations. Evansville finished last in the conference last season at 5-25 while Bradley finished at 18-16. The Braves’ appearance in the Women’s Basketball Invita-tional marked their second post-season appearance in program history
“Bradley’s talented,” Bollant said. “They have a lot of good play-ers. Their guards really shoot the ball. They get to the rim pretty well. They have a good team.”
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“Me and Coach Groce have a great relationship,” Nunn said. “I feel very comfortable around him. He’s honest. He’s pretty straight-forward. He’s going to motivate me to get to the next level.”
Establishing a Simeon pipeline was viewed as such a high prior-ity that it earned the high school’s head coach, Robert Smith, outside chatter for hire as the new head coach at Illinois prior to Groce’s hiring. Even after athletic director Mike Thomas had filled the posi-tion, Groce met with Smith over the summer to establish a work-ing relationship.
“I’ve enjoyed getting to know him,” Groce said. “He’s bright. He does a great job with his kids. I think he really cares about his kids, and we feel fortunate we’re going to have the chance to coach
a couple kids from his program.”The final piece to the puzzle was
added on Monday, when New Jer-sey native and four-star Rivals recruit Austin Colbert committed to Illinois. He gave Groce a second forward to round out a recruiting class of five players that are all naturally fit for different positions, a goal the Illini coaching staff had set for themselves seven months ago.
That was when Groce didn’t have three recruits from the Chi-cago area or a top-25 class under his belt. Then recruiting concerns seemed viable. Now it seems he has all the answers. Unprovoked, Tate and Nunn both used the same word to describe Groce.
“He’s real honest,” Tate said. “I got a good vibe from him when I talked to him. I just like him as a mentor.”
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Toepfer finished 13th overall at regionals. Unlike Mickow, who was expected to be one of Illinois’ top runners, Toepfer emerged as one of the team’s lead runners. “I have gained a lot of confidence since the season began,” the graduate student from Germa-ny said. “I know I can be near the top in every race I run. I no lon-ger feel awkward running with the leaders, since now I know I belong there.”
The duo’s performances earned them all-region honors and a trip to Saturday’s NCAA Championships in Louisville, Ky.
“The success that Hunter and Jannis had at the regionals is a huge step forward for us as a pro-gram,” head coach Jake Stewart said. “They have both trained extremely hard all season and have grown tremendously. The
fact that they were able to build a solid lead and sustain it through-out the race at regionals is a tes-tament on how they have grown since August.”
The modest and soft spoken Mickow said he sees sending two runners to nationals as “not a big deal” and something most Big Ten programs should consistent-ly do. He added that he wants to redeem the team after it barely missed out on nationals.
“It was really disappointing to find out that we wouldn’t make it as a team. We definitely thought we deserved it,” he said. “Obvi-ously, I want to do well for the sake of the team, but I am just as motivated as I would be for any other meet.”
For the duo, running in the big races is no new challenge or experience. It’s something both have been through many times over the last few months. After beginning their collegiate long-distance running careers in a unconventional way — Mickow as a walk-on and Toepfer as a foreign-exchange student — they know what it has taken to earn a trip to the season’s biggest meet.
Come Saturday, the pressure won’t faze them.
Dan can be reached at descalo2@ dailyillini.com.
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Illinois’ Allie Osoba (17) dribbles the ball against Iowa on Sept. 16. Osoba said there is extra motivation to play head coach Janet Rayfield’s alma mater.
Illinois heads to North Carolina for 2nd roundBY CHARLIE MANIATESSTAFF WRITER
North Carolina is considered to have the most prestigious women’s college soccer program in the country.
And with 20 national champi-onships in only 33 seasons, it is hard to argue that.
North Carolina’s program began in 1979 when women’s soccer was established as colle-giate sport. The next four years, Illinois soccer head coach Janet Rayfield was a member of the Tar Heels, where she ranks sec-ond all-time in goals scored, only behind U.S. Olympic star Mia Hamm.
For the first time since 2008, Rayfield will travel back to her alma mater in Chapel Hill, N.C., this Friday when the Illini square off with second-seeded North Carolina in the second round of the NCAA tournament. She will be toeing up against Nation-al Soccer Hall of Fame coach Anson Dorrance, who Rayfield played under when she was in college.
“It’s an honor, almost. I can’t
use the word fun because it’s a competition, and both of us want to win, and we’re going to com-pete,” Rayfield said of coaching against her former coach. “But he’s instilled that competition in me. I’m competitive partly because I played there.”
This situation feels like déjà vu for Rayfield. In the 2008 season, Illinois knocked off Missouri on the road in penalty kicks to advance to the NCAA Sweet 16. The Illini then traveled to North Carolina but were eliminated from the tournament when they lost 3-0.
After taking down Missouri in penalty kicks in the first round this year, Rayfield is looking for a different result to even the score.
“It’s fun to go back where my passion for college soccer and where a lot of college soc-cer started,” Rayfield said. “I’m excited to go back there, but real-ly I’m excited for this team to still be playing, and for them to be one of the 32 teams still com-peting because of the resiliency they’ve showed.”
She added that the Illini are
treating the match no differently than any other one, despite trav-eling to her former college. They feel that the level of competitive-ness, though, could be higher than it has been all season.
While playing for a poten-tial national championship is motivating enough, the Illinois players feel an added incentive playing against the Tar Heels. While their main goal is just to advance, they look forward to trying to give Rayfield the win against North Carolina.
“There definitely is (extra motivation),” junior midfielder Allie Osoba said. “We definitely want to just, not only show the other teams, but play for Janet, let her know that she’s a great coach and she deserves just as much as us to win on the field.”
“We definitely want to get the win for Janet and want to play our best,” senior forward Nicole Denenberg said. “Everyone wants to go to UNC when they’re a little girl watching soccer, so it’s awesome playing there and getting the opportunity, but we need to take it as any other game
and just come out hard.”While Rayfield is glad that her
players are using her return as motivation, she said she wants them to play for their own sake, simply because they want to come out on top against a tough team.
“This game really should be about them. I hope that the extra bit that they put out on the field comes from their desire to win, not because it’s my alma mater,” Rayfield said. “They should be competing because they’ve set a goal that they want to get to the Final Four, that they want to get to the next round ... That will be greater motivation than anything they should find in terms of try-ing to make me proud.”
For the Illini players, though, both will be motivating going into their matchup with the Tar Heels, even if Rayfield said she did not want herself to be the motivation. Depending on what happens, it could be a blessing in disguise for her.
Hambly adds 3 recruits for next season’s volleyball teamBY ELIOT SILLSTAFF WRITER
Wednesday was national sign-ing day for college volleyball, and head coach Kevin Hambly added three recruits to comple-ment his team for next season.
Michelle Strizak and Katie Roustio will be added to the plethora of outside hitting options the Illini have, and Katie Stadick will be in the mix for a middle blocker spot that will be left vacant by senior Erin John-son after this season.
The three recruits come from three different states, with Rous-tio coming from O’Fallon, Ill., Strizak hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, and Stadick being a native of Watertown, Wis.
All three made PrepVolleyball.
com’s Senior Aces list, which ranks the top 100 prospects and includes 150 more that make the list but are not ranked. Of the three, Stri-zak is ranked No. 22 and Stadick is No. 51, while Roustio made the list without rank.
Strizak and Roustio will join Liz McMahon, Jocelynn Birks, Ali Stark, Morganne Criswell and Jessica Jendryk, bringing the outside hitter total for Illi-nois to seven.
Hambly sees potential for the recruits, particularly Stri-zak and Stadick, to see playing time next season.
“There’ll be competition and they’ll be fighting for the spots,” Hambly said. “We’ve got a top-25 recruit on the outside that’s going to come give us depth,
and if she’s good enough, she’ll play. It’s not saying she’s going to come in and automatically start, but there’s a possibility that she could start.”
Hambly added that Stadick will be in competition with cur-rent freshman Maddie Mayers for Johnson’s role in the start-ing lineup, though Mayers has a head start being on the team already.
In a news release, Hambly noted Strizak’s versatility as an asset. She played every position except libero in club and high school.
“That versatility will allow her to play several different roles early in her career, but she will be looked at to be a six rotation outside hitter,” he said.
Current libero Jennifer Bel-tran has seen the recruits come on visits and has gotten to know them a little bit in that time.
“We’re excited. That’s some-thing that’s happening next year, but of course when the girls come on visits, you know, we’re welcoming,” Beltran said. “We love seeing them and just hear-ing how they’re doing, so it’s a good thing.
“Of course the younger ones on the team know them a lit-tle better just because they’ve played with each other when they were in high school or have played against each other and stuff,” she added.
Eliot can be reached at sill2@ dailyillini.com and @EliotTweet.
