BY CLAIRE EVERETT STAFF WRITER Despite the rain this weekend, Mid- western farmers will have to rely on insurance, rather than rain, to make up the losses from their drought-strick- en crops. Ed Dunn, insurance agent and broker at Strategic Farm Marketing in Cham- paign, said about 80 percent of farmers in the Champaign area are covered by insurance. The most common type of farm insurance guarantees to pay back 85 percent of the farmer’s yield at mar- ket value. He said if the farmer’s yield was supposed to be 170 bushels and they only produced 100, through an insur- ance claim, that farmer would be able to get the 70 bushels back. “It’s been 1988 since a drought like this happened, so the farming com- munity felt bulletproof,” Dunn said. “Farmers that don’t have insurance have called and are very scared. They won’t make that mistake again.” INSIDE Police 2A | Corrections 2A | Calendar 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Business & Tech 6 A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 7B | Sudoku 7B The Daily Illini Tuesday September 4, 2012 High: 89˚ Low: 68˚ The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 7 | FREE First impression Defense gives Beckman a win in debut SPORTS, 4B-5B MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINI Students participating in the university’s Panhellenic Council’s Formal Recruitment, or Rush, walk past Foellinger Auditorium on Monday. In addition to the weather precautions for the football game, Saturday’s sorority recruitment was cancelled and moved to Monday. BY EMMA WEISSMANN STAFF WRITER All eyes turned to the sky this past weekend as the National Weather Service warned that the remnants of Hurricane Isaac were forecasted to drop around 10 inches of rain on the Champaign-Urbana area. But despite causing localized flood- ing, the storm that blew in over the Labor Day weekend fell short of the most drastic expectations. Eric Snodgrass, professor of atmospher- ic sciences, said the region was hit with 3.6 inches of precipitation over the weekend. That was 6.4 inches less than the National Weather Service’s forecast that prompted a mass email from Chancellor Phyllis Wise warning of the possibility of dangerously high water . Snodgrass set up a rain gauge in his back- yard to track precipitation over the week- end, and said that as Isaac moved closer to central Illinois from the Gulf Coast, the rain that fell was a result of the system slow- ing down and stalling over one area of land. “It’s been (Isaac’s) rain that’s been the big story,” Snodgrass said. “And that’s the story for us here this weekend.” Kris Koester , administrative services supervisor of Champaign Public Works, said crews were sent out Friday to prepare for the storm and continued to work through 11 a.m. Sunday morning. Before the storm was scheduled to hit, service trucks carried “portable barri- cades, lights, rain gear and other tools that can be used to help clear clogged inlets and address flooding and crews left barricades in areas prone to flooding to provide them the ability to quickly block off an area as needed,” according to a Public Works press release. Koester said the storm did not leave much damage, as it “drastically diminished over initial reports.” However, there were still a few places around the city that did expe- rience flooding. “There was a section of South Second Street near Armory that flooded during the Aug. 9 storm that flooded again this week- end,” Koester said. “We aren’t sure what caused it, but will look into it with our envi- ronmental engineers this week.” Other areas that ended up flooding around the city included intersections at State and Springfield, Bradley and McKin- ley and the Washington St. viaduct, Koes- ter said. The city of Urbana was forced to can- cel the annual Labor Day parade and post- pone the Labor Day picnic due to unfavor- able ground conditions caused by heavy rainfall. The picnic has been rescheduled for Saturday . “I was hoping to march with a group of my own volunteers and to show solidarity with many of our members in the area,” said Charlie Smyth, alderman for Ward 1. Back on campus, the University made preparations for the inclement weather pri- or to the storm, said Andy Blacker , man- ager of external relations for facilities and services. “We’re basically trying to secure the Rainfall from Isaac remnants less than expected See RAIN, Page 3A See ELECTION, Page 3A See INSURANCE, Page 3A DAVID MERCER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Farmer Chris Wise climbs out of a combine as he scrambles to harvest corn just south of Champaign on Friday ahead of the heavy rain expected from the remnants of Hurricane Isaac. Parts of Illinois were expected to get 6 or 8 inches of rain after weeks of drought. BY MATT RICE STAFF WRITER The race to fi ll outgoing Rep. Tim Johnson’s seat in the new 13th District will be over in nine weeks, and local candidates are gear- ing up for the fi nal stretch of election season. On Election Day, the dis- trict’s voters will see three candidates on their bal- lots: Democrat David Gill from Bloomington, Repub- lican Rodney Davis from Taylorville, and indepen- dent candidate John Hart- man from Edwardsville. The three candidates are competing to represent the district that stretches from Champaign County to as far west as the state border along the Mississippi River. On April 5, Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, citing personal reasons involving his family. Davis was cho- sen by Illinois Republican Party leaders on May 19 to fi ll Johnson’s vacant spot on the ballot. Davis said he was “pleasantly surprised” by the decision, which he was notified of via text mes- sage while coaching his twin sons’ baseball team. Gill, a physician, ran and lost to Johnson three times in the 15th District before the redistricting but is now facing a potentially less- Republican-leaning district. “This is a lean Democrat- ic district, and David is the only candidate chosen by District 13 candidates contend for votes with election 9 weeks away Crop insurance in high demand after drought Provena gives award to ambulance, SWAT teams BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER Saving lives is a daily routine for the members of Provena Covenant Center’s PRO Ambulance team working with the Metropolitan Emergency Tactical Response Operations SWAT team. To recognize the group’s efforts in responding to high-risk situations, the Provena Covenant Medical Center pre- sented the emergency responders with the Guardian Angel award on Friday . The METRO SWAT team unit consists of police officers from the University, Urbana, Mahomet, Parkland College and Rantoul police departments, as well as the Cham- paign County sher- iff’s office. This special unit handles situations such as hostage crises, barricaded armed subjects and high-risk search warrants. But when they’re called to an emergency, paramedics from PRO Ambulance have to be on site to make sure the victims of the crime are transported safely to the hospital. Patrick Connolly, Urbana police chief, said the PRO ambulance center work close- ly with the SWAT team on two seperate tasks. “First, they stage an ambulance for us in the event when the police officer gets shot or injured,” Connolly said. “In addition to that, they also, on a voluntary basis, pro- vide expertise with paramedics who are actually part of our team.” The paramedics of the unit were invited to Friday’s ceremony to recognize their accomplishments. Tim Compton, director of the PRO Ambulance Service Team, said his team successfully handled dangerous situations with the SWAT team. “It was actually very seamless. (The SWAT team) gives us a call, they let us know where they want us staged, we send the unit right away,” Compton said. “(We) dispatch them by radio and we have them staged and they communicate directly with the ambulance.” At the event, Con- nolly spoke of the paramedics’ value to the SWAT team. Jim Lievano, a paramedic with the PRO Ambulance Team, said he felt proud being part of the team recognized by the award ceremony. “I think through the years, we have proven ourselves as being one of the most professional ambulance services not just in the state of Illinois but maybe in the country,” Lievano said. “For those of us that are standby with the SWAT teams, it is an amazing opportunity to just be able to mingle with two different disci- plines of emergency services and law enforcement.” Carina can be reached at lee713@daily- illini.com ELECTIONS 2012 “I think through the years, we have proven ourselves as being one of the most professional ambulance services not just in the state of Illinois but maybe in the country.” JIM LIEVANO, paramedic
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BY CLAIRE EVERETTSTAFF WRITER
Despite the rain this weekend, Mid-western farmers will have to rely on insurance, rather than rain, to make up the losses from their drought-strick-en crops.
Ed Dunn, insurance agent and broker at Strategic Farm Marketing in Cham-
paign, said about 80 percent of farmers in the Champaign area are covered by insurance. The most common type of farm insurance guarantees to pay back 85 percent of the farmer’s yield at mar-ket value. He said if the farmer’s yield was supposed to be 170 bushels and they only produced 100, through an insur-ance claim, that farmer would be able
to get the 70 bushels back. “It’s been 1988 since a drought like
this happened, so the farming com-munity felt bulletproof,” Dunn said. “Farmers that don’t have insurance have called and are very scared. They won’t make that mistake again.”
The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 7 | FREE
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MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINI
Students participating in the university’s Panhellenic Council’s Formal Recruitment, or Rush, walk past Foellinger Auditorium on Monday. In addition to the weather precautions for the football game, Saturday’s sorority recruitment was cancelled and moved to Monday.
BY EMMA WEISSMANNSTAFF WRITER
All eyes turned to the sky this past weekend as the National Weather Service warned that the remnants of Hurricane Isaac were forecasted to drop around 10 inches of rain on the Champaign-Urbana area . But despite causing localized fl ood-ing, the storm that blew in over the Labor Day weekend fell short of the most drastic expectations.
Eric Snodgrass , professor of atmospher-ic sciences, said the region was hit with 3.6 inches of precipitation over the weekend. That was 6.4 inches less than the National Weather Service’s forecast that prompted a mass email from Chancellor Phyllis Wise warning of the possibility of dangerously high water .
Snodgrass set up a rain gauge in his back-yard to track precipitation over the week-end, and said that as Isaac moved closer to central Illinois from the Gulf Coast, the rain that fell was a result of the system slow-ing down and stalling over one area of land.
“It’s been (Isaac’s) rain that’s been the big story,” Snodgrass said. “And that’s the story for us here this weekend.”
Kris Koester , administrative services supervisor of Champaign Public Works, said crews were sent out Friday to prepare for the storm and continued to work through 11 a.m. Sunday morning.
Before the storm was scheduled to hit, service trucks carried “portable barri-cades, lights, rain gear and other tools that can be used to help clear clogged inlets and address fl ooding and crews left barricades
in areas prone to fl ooding to provide them the ability to quickly block off an area as needed,” according to a Public Works press release.
Koester said the storm did not leave much damage, as it “drastically diminished over initial reports.” However, there were still a few places around the city that did expe-rience fl ooding.
“There was a section of South Second Street near Armory that fl ooded during the Aug. 9 storm that fl ooded again this week-end,” Koester said. “We aren’t sure what caused it, but will look into it with our envi-ronmental engineers this week.”
Other areas that ended up fl ooding around the city included intersections at State and Springfi eld, Bradley and McKin-ley and the Washington St. viaduct, Koes-
ter said. The city of Urbana was forced to can-
cel the annual Labor Day parade and post-pone the Labor Day picnic due to unfavor-able ground conditions caused by heavy rainfall. The picnic has been rescheduled for Saturday .
“I was hoping to march with a group of my own volunteers and to show solidarity with many of our members in the area,” said Charlie Smyth , alderman for Ward 1.
Back on campus, the University made preparations for the inclement weather pri-or to the storm, said Andy Blacker , man-ager of external relations for facilities and services.
“We’re basically trying to secure the
Rainfall from Isaac remnants less than expected
See RAIN, Page 3A See ELECTION, Page 3A
See INSURANCE, Page 3A
DAVID MERCER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Farmer Chris Wise climbs out of a combine as he scrambles to harvest corn just south of Champaign on Friday ahead of the heavy rain expected from the remnants of Hurricane Isaac. Parts of Illinois were expected to get 6 or 8 inches of rain after weeks of drought.
BY MATT RICESTAFF WRITER
The race to fi ll outgoing Rep. Tim Johnson’s seat in the new 13th District will be over in nine weeks, and local candidates are gear-ing up for the fi nal stretch of election season.
On Election Day, the dis-trict’s voters will see three candidates on their bal-lots: Democrat David Gill from Bloomington, Repub-lican Rodney Davis from Taylorville, and indepen-dent candidate John Hart-man from Edwardsville. The three candidates are competing to represent the district that stretches from Champaign County to as far west as the state border along the Mississippi River.
On April 5, Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, citing personal reasons involving his family. Davis was cho-sen by Illinois Republican Party leaders on May 19 to fi ll Johnson’s vacant spot on the ballot. Davis said he was “pleasantly surprised” by the decision, which he was notifi ed of via text mes-sage while coaching his twin sons’ baseball team.
Gill, a physician, ran and lost to Johnson three times in the 15th District before the redistricting but is now facing a potentially less-Republican-leaning district.
“This is a lean Democrat-ic district, and David is the only candidate chosen by
District 13 candidates contend for votes with election 9weeks away
Crop insurance in high demand after drought
Provena gives award to ambulance, SWAT teamsBY CARINA LEESTAFF WRITER
Saving lives is a daily routine for the members of Provena Covenant Center’s PRO Ambulance team working with the Metropolitan Emergency Tactical Response Operations SWAT team.
To recognize the group’s efforts in responding to high-risk situations, the Provena Covenant Medical Center pre-sented the emergency responders with the Guardian Angel award on Friday .
The METRO SWAT team unit consists of police officers from the University, Urbana, Mahomet, Parkland College and Rantoul police departments, as well as the Cham-paign County sher-iff’s offi ce .
This special unit handles situations such as hostage crises, barricaded armed subjects and high-risk search warrants. But when they’re called to an emergency, paramedics from PRO Ambulance have to be on site to make sure the victims of the crime are transported safely to the hospital.
Patrick Connolly, Urbana police chief , said the PRO ambulance center work close-ly with the SWAT team on two seperate tasks.
“First, they stage an ambulance for us in the event when the police offi cer gets shot or injured,” Connolly said. “In addition to that, they also, on a voluntary basis, pro-vide expertise with paramedics who are
actually part of our team.” The paramedics of the unit were invited
to Friday’s ceremony to recognize their accomplishments.
Tim Compton, director of the PRO Ambulance Service Team, said his team successfully handled dangerous situations with the SWAT team.
“It was actually very seamless. (The SWAT team) gives us a call, they let us know where they want us staged, we send
the unit right away,” Compton said.
“(We) dispatch them by radio and we have them staged and they c o m m u n i c a t e directly with the ambulance.”
At the event, Con-nolly spoke of the paramedics’ value to the SWAT team.
Jim Lievano, a paramedic with the PRO Ambulance Team , said he felt proud being part of the team recognized by the award ceremony.
“I think through the years, we have proven ourselves as being one of the most professional ambulance services not just in the state of Illinois but maybe in the country,” Lievano said. “For those of us that are standby with the SWAT teams, it is an amazing opportunity to just be able to mingle with two different disci-plines of emergency services and law enforcement.”
“I think through the years, we have proven ourselves as being one of the most professional ambulance
services not just in the state of Illinois but maybe in the country.”
JIM LIEVANO,paramedic
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Champaign! Burglary from motor ve-
hicle was reported in the 400 block of South Fourth Street around 2 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, the victim reported an unknown offender stole one of her li-cense plates.
! Residential burglary was reported in the 500 block of South Sixth Street at 11 p.m. Thursday.
According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s locked, first-level apartment and stole a laptop computer and a flat screen television.
! A 24-year-old female was arrested on the charge of ag-gravated battery at Chester Street Bar, 63 East Chester Street, around 2 a.m. Monday.
According to the report, officers were dispatched to
a fight in progress and ob-served the suspects fighting in the street.
! Aggravated battery was reported near South Fifth Street and John Street around 1 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the victim was battered by an un-known male offender.
! Burglary from motor ve-hicle was reported in the 400 block of South Prarie Street at 5 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the victim’s unlocked vehicle was entered by an unknown offender and several items were taken.
! Telephone threat was re-ported in the 400 block of West Vine Street just after midnight on Monday, Aug. 27.
According to the report, a female victim has been re-ceiving threats via text mes-sages from an unknown of-
fender regarding her baby’s father.
Urbana! Robbery and criminal
damage to property were re-ported in the 1000 block of West Clark Street around 9 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, several offenders approached the victim and demanded money. One of the offenders also punched the victim. All four offenders fled from the scene prior to the police’s ar-rival.
!"Theft was reported in the 2000 block of Vawter South Street around 6 a.m. Monday.
According to the report, an unknown offender took a bi-cycle from in front of the vic-tim’s apartment.
Compiled by Sari Lesk
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Speakers from the Illinois Farm Bureau visited the Cham-paign County Farm Bureau ear-lier this month to answer ques-tions about crop insurance and how to prove yield amounts to insurance companies. Farmers won’t start to fi le claims until after this season’s harvest.
“(Farmers) would much rath-er have yields than depend on insurance, for heaven’s sakes,” said Susie Harbaugh, assistant manager at the Champaign County Farm Bureau. “You just work hard and invest a lot of yourself in those crops. And you know, it’s been pretty darn stressful for these guys.”
Receiving insurance money is dependent on what kind of coverage farmers have or if they have coverage at all.
“The most important thing is that (farmers) have to work very closely with their insur-ance agent and their accoun-tant,” Harbaugh said. “It will be important that they have the right production evidence so they can indeed make an appro-priate claim if they have a loss.”
Adam Tallcott , senior in ACES, lives on a corn, soybean, wheat and cattle farm in west-ern Illinois.
His family has crop insur-ance, but he said it’s still stress-ful because the compensation insurance companies grant is based on average yields.
“This year, we’re going to
be OK,” Tallcott said. “But the more yields you have that are low like this, essentially you’d get paid a lot less as time goes on.”
Harbaugh said the upcoming rainfalls will not help the corn that had been damaged by the drought this year.
“I think everybody at this point is trying to use a very common-sense approach as to what they do have out there,” she said. “(Everyone is) look-ing forward to next year and hoping that we certainly have the replenishment of the mois-ture in the soil so we can start out a little better.”
real people,” said Gill spokes-man Mike Richards in a previ-ous interview. On his campaign website, Gill said he’s running because “Congress just isn’t working for working people anymore. I’m ready to fi x that. I’m tired of seeing the wealthi-est few — the millionaires and the multinational corporations — rig the system and force mid-dle-class families, students and retirees on fi xed income to pay the price.”
However, America’s defi cit takes precedence for Hartman.
“I know students are very concerned about getting a job once they get out of college, and I share that concern,” said Hart-man, CFO of DNA Polymerase Technology Inc. “We have the ability in Washington to do more harm than good, and I’m afraid that we are doing harm to their
economic prospects by running these massive defi cits.”
Davis, a former congressio-nal aide to Rep. John Shimkus, R-19, is also campaigning on economic issues, with one of his top priorities being to re-estab-lish bipartisanship in American economic policy. According to Davis, “I wanna go to Washing-ton and score some touchdowns, address some major issues that need to be addressed. I think the only way to do that is to work with both parties, Demo-crats and Republicans, because frankly both of them are to blame.”
As Election Day approaches, all three candidates expect to do a lot of campaigning across the entire district, with sev-eral events in the Champaign-Urbana area. Details and dates for these events have yet to be announced.
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campus as best as possible,” Black-er said.
The University’s Facilities and Services department sent employ-ees to check windows and window wells on campus buildings to make sure they were closed, as well as sandbagged certain areas. Facili-ties and Services also cleaned out street drains to “reduce any poten-tial fl ooding,” Blacker said.
In the Massmail, Wise advised students to use caution when trav-eling around campus, and assured that the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics department was “prepared with evacuation plans” for any ath-letic events held on campus.
Although Saturday’s outdoor soc-
cer match against University of Wis-consin-Milwaukee was rescheduled for Monday, the athletic department had not planned to reschedule Satur-day’s football game against Western Michigan, said Kent Brown , Illinois Sports Information Director.
“We (were) looking at a large rain event, and it’s not unusual to be rained on during outside events,” Brown said. “We (had) a normal plan in place in case there is lightning, and then the game would (have been) suspended.”
Brown said outdoor grass park-ing lots were also being monitored on Saturday, as some were suscep-tible to rain damage.
Remnants of Isaac brought 1.5 inches of rain Saturday morning , but stopped during the football game because the area was underneath a rainband, or a break in the storm,
Snodgrass said.“It was great to see that the rain
stopped briefl y for the football game,” he said.
In addition to the weather precau-tions for the football game, soror-ity recruitment, which was origi-nally scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, was also affected. As a result of the National Weather Ser-vice’s warnings, Saturday’s recruit-ment was cancelled and moved to Monday, said Melanie Kuta , junior in Media.
Kuta, who serves as a “Gamma Chi,” or Greek counselor, during recruitment, said the “storm was not as bad as we expected” and was glad that “recruitment was able to be resumed the following day.”
Gordon Utendahl contributed to this report.
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Twitter more popular than TV during GOP conventionBY BETH FOUHYTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When it comes to following political conventions, Twitter may soon trump television.
TV viewership for last week’s Republican National Convention dropped sharply from 2008, sug-gesting interest in this presiden-tial race falls short of some past contests. But the convention was a hit online and on social net-works, the latest evidence of the political conversation’s gradual migration from traditional media to the Web.
The Nielsen Co. estimates that about 30.3 million viewers across 11 television networks watched convention coverage Thursday night when Mitt Rom-ney delivered his prime-time speech accepting the GOP pres-idential nomination. That’s a 23 percent plunge from the same night four years ago when near-ly 39 million people tuned in to watch then-GOP nominee John McCain address the convention and the nation.
The Republican convention drew an older audience on TV.
Of the 22 million who watched Ann Romney speak on Tuesday night, Nielsen found that nearly 15 million were 55 or older. Only 1.5 million were age 18-34.
There are many reasons the 2012 conventions may be less must-see TV than in 2008 — a historic election in which Demo-crat Barack Obama became the fi rst African-American presiden-tial nominee and Palin emerged as a Republican star.
Hurricane Isaac drew at least some attention from last week’s GOP gathering in Tam-pa, Fla., a highly scripted affair that offered little in the way of news or surprises. Little news is expected at this week’s Demo-cratic convention in Charlotte, N.C., where Obama will be nomi-nated for a second term.
But even as conventions lose viewers on television, they are thriving online and in social media, where many younger vot-ers get their news.
“It’s not always easy to sit in front of a TV and watch a conven-tion unfold when you can watch it online, on demand or whenev-er you care to do so,” said Cos-
tas Panagopoulos, a Fordham University political science pro-fessor who has studied politi-cal conventions. “The changing media landscape has given peo-ple a chance to gather conven-tion information relevant to them through social networks and oth-er nontraditional sources.”
Now, thanks to technology, those images are fi nding their way onto screens other than just the TV set.
Both parties have offered live streaming feeds of the con-ventions online, and the RNC’s convention YouTube channel received 2.8 million video views. Several TV and print news orga-nizations are also providing streaming video and opportu-nities for online engagement around the convention through their websites and Facebook pages.
The GOP convention was one of the most talked about news events of the year on Facebook, according to data analysis pro-vided by the company. But even there, the average audience was older — the speeches by Mitt Romney, Ann Romney and actor
Clinton Eastwood drew the most buzz among people over 55. Only Ryan’s speech drew a younger discussion on Facebook.
Twitter has become an infl u-ential media force in the con-vention after being little more than a blip in 2008. That year, the two conventions together drew just 365,000 tweets. This year’s Republican convention alone drew 5 million tweets.
Romney’s acceptance speech peaked at 14,300 tweets per min-ute to make it the most tweet-ed political event of 2012. The speech eclipsed Obama’s State of the Union address in January, which drew about 14,100 tweets per minute.
Obama oddly got the last laugh on Twitter as the Republican con-vention wound down. On Thurs-day, after Eastwood conducted his rambling monologue with an empty chair intended to be Obama, the president’s cam-paign tweeted a photo showing the president seated in the Cab-inet room with a caption that read, “this seat’s taken.” It was the most retweeted item of the GOP gathering.
Inequalities after apartheid spark miner strike, clash with police in South AfricaBY MICHELLE FAULTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHANNESBURG — South African police and security guards fi red rubber bullets and tear gas Monday at sacked gold miners who were attacking colleagues to block them from working, the mine owner said. Police said four people were wounded at the mine, which used to be partially owned by the president’s nephew.
The clash at the Gold Fields mine east of Johannesburg, report-ed by police and Neal Froneman, the CEO of Gold One Internation-al, was the latest violence to hit South Africa’s mines in months of unrest.
Company spokesman Sven Lunsche said some 12,000 of the company’s workers “continue to engage in an unlawful and unpro-tected strike” that began Wednes-day. He said it involved an internal dispute between local union lead-ers and members of the National Union of Mineworkers, the coun-try’s largest union.
After apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa pressed to share the country’s vast mineral wealth with its impoverished black majority. But the hoped-for result has not occurred. A small black elite has become billionaires off mining while most South Africans con-tinue to struggle against mounting unemployment, deeper poverty and a widening gap between rich and poor that makes the country one of the most unequal on Earth.
The mine where the violence took place Monday has previ-ous business ties to relatives of Nelson Mandela and President Jacob Zuma — and was the site where fi rebrand politician Julius Malema, an avowed enemy of Zuma, pledged last week to make the nation’s mines ungovernable.
South Africa’s mining unrest reached a bloody climax on Aug. 16 when police shot 112 striking workers, killing 34 of them, at a platinum mine at Marikana, north-west of Johannesburg. The state violence was reminiscent of apart-heid days and has seriously dam-aged the government’s image.
Outrage at the police killings was exacerbated by prosecutors, who last week charged some 270 miners arrested at the scene with the murders and attempted mur-ders of their striking co-work-ers — people who were killed by police. The National Prosecuting Authority was forced to retract Sunday, withdrawing the charges made under an apartheid-era law.
On Monday, 91 arrested min-
ers were released, much to the joy of their ululating and singing family members and supporters. But there were tears for the many more who remained in custody.
The Independent Complaints Police Directorate has reported receiving complaints from more than 140 miners that they were beaten up in custody by offi cers trying to get them to name the strikers who hacked to death two policemen who were among 10 people killed in violence that led up to the shootings.
The directorate also is investi-gating police offi cers on 34 murder charges and 78 attempted murder charges in the shootings, although no offi cers have been suspended. A judicial inquiry is to report to the president by January.
Policy say they acted in self-defense. No offi cer was hurt dur-ing the Marikana shootings.
Also Monday, the Khulumani Support Group of some 80,000 survivors of human rights viola-tions under apartheid said it fi led an urgent appeal for a U.N. spe-cial rapporteur to assess what hap-pened to the miners killed at Mari-kana, after reports that autopsies showed that many had been shot in the back.
In Monday’s violence at Gold Fields, miners dismissed after a wildcat strike in June joined min-ers who lost their jobs two years ago to try to stop other workers and managers from reaching the mine.
Froneman said as police were called to disperse them, the pro-testing miners stoned a vehicle carrying people to work.
“Our security had to intervene — they used rubber bullets and police used rubber bullets and tear gas,” Froneman told The Associ-ated Press. “Four people were slightly wounded and all have been released from the hospital.”
But police spokeswoman Pinky Tsinyane said one of those wound-ed was in critical condition. The different versions could not imme-diately be reconciled. Tsinyane also said four people were arrest-ed for public violence.
The Gold Fields mine was bought two years ago by a group including Zuma’s nephew and a grandson of anti-apartheid icon Mandela. The two allegedly never paid for the mine but stripped it of most assets and now are being sued by liquidators. They have also failed to honor court orders to pay tens of thousands of dollars to the miners who were thrown out of work.
Remains of Isaac still apparent
BY CAIN BURDEAU AND KEVIN MCGILLTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — Much of a fi nger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with fl oodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Lou-isiana still didn’t have any pow-er fi ve days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives.
“My family is split up,” said Angela Serpas, from severe-ly flooded Braithwaite in Plaquemines Parish. Serpas and her daughter were staying with her in-laws while her husband and son were staying in Belle Chasse, a suburban area of the parish.
“This is the second time we’ve lost our home. We lost it in Katrina,” she said.
At least seven people were killed in the storm in the U.S. — fi ve in Louisiana and two in Mis-sissippi. More than 2,800 people were registered at various state, local and Red Cross shelters in the state, down from around 4,000 earlier. State offi cials were uncer-tain how many people would even-tually need longer-term tempo-rary housing. Kevin Davis, head of the state’s emergency offi ce, said that housing would likely include hotels at fi rst, then rent-al homes as close as possible to their damaged property.
President Barack Obama was to visit Louisiana on Monday, a day ahead of the Democratic Nation-al Convention. He will meet with local offi cials, tour storm damage and view response and recovery
efforts before addressing report-ers at Saint John the Baptist Par-ish, the White House said. Repub-lican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited the state Friday. Obama’s Homeland Security Sec-retary, Janet Napolitano, visited Bay St. Louis, Miss., and Slidell, La., on Sunday.
“We are part of a team to make sure Hurricane Isaac is put to rest as soon as we can for all those affected,” Napolitano said. “In the meantime, please know all of us are thinking about those in Louisiana who are with-out their homes or without their businesses.”
Progress was evident in many places. Workers continued their return to offshore oil and gas production platforms and drill-ing rigs, electricity came on for hundreds of thousands of people and the annual Southern Deca-dence Festival, a gay pride cele-bration, carried on in the French Quarter.
In Baton Rouge, thousands of gamblers even gathered for the opening of Louisiana’s newest riv-erboat casino— an opening that was delayed three days by Isaac.
Crews in the town of Lafi tte intentionally breached a levee Sunday night in an effort to help fl ooding there subside, Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts told The Times-Picayune.
In the New Orleans region, there were signs of a slow recov-ery. Workers continued to deal with toppled trees and downed power lines, driving remained hazardous in areas without
working traffi c lights, and New Orleans opened two cooling shel-ters so those with no electricity could escape the heat.
Much of Plaquemines Parish, a vulnerable fi nger of land that juts into the Gulf of Mexico, remained under as much as 5 feet of water, Parish President Billy Nung-esser said. The Category 1 hur-ricane walloped the parish, and for many, the damage was worse than that from Katrina in 2005.
“I’ve never seen water come up this quick this fast,” he said.
Nungesser said there were reports that cattle in the large-ly rural parish took refuge on porches. In one instance, cattle broke through a window and lum-bered onto furniture to stay above water.
Controlled breaches of one overtopped levee and additional pumps are being used to get rid of the water.
Business owners and resi-dents who evacuated from the west river bank of fl ooded south Plaquemines Parish will be allowed to return temporarily with police escorts on Monday.
Suburban communities farther north also had problems. Near Lake Pontchartrain, St. Tamma-ny Parish offi cials kept watch over potential trouble spots along Isaac-swollen waterways.
An evacuation near the com-munity of Bush was dialed back Sunday after authorities stabi-lized a lock in danger of failing on the Pearl River Diversion Canal. But St. Tammany authorities also were keeping an eye on the West Pearl River. Parish spokeswom-an said about 5,000 homes near that waterway could be affected if it fl oods.
But St. James Parish offi cials ordered a curfew until 6 a.m.
Monday as the Blind River stayed at a 5.6-foot crest for 24 hours, and about 20 houses fl ooded. A state news release said 10 buses had been sent to the parish in case evacuation was necessary, and that about 150 National Guard soldiers had also been directed there.
In Mississippi, Gov. Phil Bry-ant reported 125,000 people were evacuated, though most returned home Sunday. Less than 100 peo-ple remained in shelters. Bryant said 924 people had to be rescued during Isaac.
Entergy, which provides power to most of the people who lost it, was under fi re over the weekend from local government offi cials for what they said was a slow pace of restoration. Jefferson Parish President John Young said wide-spread outages were hampering businesses’ recovery from the storm and he would ask the state Public Service Commission to investigate.
Entergy spokesman Chanel Lagarde noted that Isaac had lin-gered over the state after Tues-day’s landfall and said Friday was the fi rst day the corporation could get restoration efforts into high gear.
“We do have a good plan and we’re going about it in an approach that we think is going to be effective,” Lagarde said.
In Mississippi, about 1,600 Entergy customers awaited pow-er. Roughly 5,000 served by not-for-profi t electric associations also had no service.
Napolitano met with Mississip-pi emergency offi cials and Bryant at a fi re station in Bay St. Louis, Miss., which was protected by a new seawall built after Katrina devastated the city seven years ago.
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Mine workers celebrate their release at Ga-Rankuwa Magistrate’s Court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Monday.
Miss., La. work to control ! oodwater and restore order
DAVID J. PHILLIP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kenny Melkin, right, and his wife, Becky, return home to see the fl ood damage caused by Isaac in the West End Park neighborhood along Lake Pontchartrain on Friday in New Orleans. Isaac crawled into the central U.S. on Friday, leaving behind a soggy mess in Louisiana.
The Students for Environmental Concerns has plans to launch a campaign this fall against buy-
ing bottled water. I’d like to com-mend SECS for their effort to change the destructive consumer habits of the student body. Well done.
Now I’m going to tell you why it’s not going to work.
Americans have known about the number of plastic bottles that clut-ter landfi lls and wash up on beach-es since bottled water fi rst became popular. SECS’ campaign reminds me of the Polaris Institute’s “Inside the Bottle,” which proclaims itself to be “the people’s campaign on the bottled water industry.” Inside the Bottle was started in 2007, and the reaction was quite similar to the fi rst Earth Day on April 22, 1970 — or so I’m told. The campaign and the day experienced initial hype but fi zzled out in following years
I wasn’t alive to witness the origi-nal tree huggers in all their hippie glory. I’m sure it was heartwarm-ing and majestic as the delicate fra-grance of fresh compost fi lled the
air. But even with Earth Day, climate change awareness and registered student organizations such as SECS, deforestation is still happening. Endangered species are still endan-gered, and a few have gone extinct. People still buy bottled water.
This is not to say that the “Save the Earth” movement was for noth-ing. It got the country thinking about recycling, put a meaning behind the term “carbon footprint” and forev-er revolutionized industry. Today, it is not enough to produce a reputable product — it has to “give back,” with-out taking much if anything away from the environment.
Dasani water bottles now boast a tiny green leaf below and left of the company’s logo that reads: “plant bottle, redesigned plastic, recycla-ble as ever.” Now the consumer of said plastic water bottle can be con-fi dent that, while that water bottle will eventually be drained, discard-ed and, with any hope, fi nd itself in the nearest blue Feed The Thing recycling bin that were instituted throughout campus in 2010.
Without delving into the health risks posed by BPA and other carcin-ogens, we know that bottled water is bad for the environment. So why do we still buy it? Reasons range from forgetting a reusable water bottle at home to liking the taste of a particu-
lar brand of fi ltered H2O. Regard-less, consumer culture demands that bottled water be sold at gas stations, megamarts and, yes, even campus bookstores. Water is biologically essential, and bottled water is conve-nient — the human body can only be sustained for about one week without water.
But SECS brings up another inter-esting fact in support of their cam-paign: Illinois tap water is (rela-tively) safe to drink. In countries such as India or Morocco, residents think twice before ingesting untreat-ed water, and experienced travel-ers know that they will spend more money in these countries on drink-ing water than souvenirs, transpor-tation and food combined. My guilt generated by buying a 2-liter bottle of water for my trek through Mar-rakesh only held until I realized that the Sahara is freaking hot and fall-ing off a camel dehydrated was not exactly an option for me. So I bought the bottles and (gasp) didn’t recycle them. My catharsis takes the form of a Nalgene bottle that I will faithful-ly tote with me to the gym, as I have for years. So good luck, SECS – just know that those who listen may not be the ones you’re trying to reach.
The Daily Illini published “Study abroad can take away from edu-cation” on the negative educa-
tional impact going abroad has. As someone who’s gone overseas, I’m majorly biased. I’m also majorly in disagreement.
Just to be clear: I’m not here to fi ght the writer, Ryan Weber, to the death with my words or blast him in some kind of weird columnist duel. Besides the fact that he’s enti-tled to his own thoughts, I do agree with him on something interesting that he said: There are tons of ways to gain diversity in other areas of the United States. We’re lucky to be around a city, like Chicago, that gives us a rich learning base.
Still. I can’t imagine that study-ing abroad takes away from edu-cation in the least bit because I’ve seen so many examples of success stories.
Take, for instance, one of my best friends. A true travel junkie, she studied abroad for a year. Besides learning how to appreciate Swed-ish cuisines and snuggling up in fi ve blankets a night (apparently Swe-den is cold?), she took some inter-esting classes for her major. From learning about food sustainability, to hearing about the KONY 2012 debate from someone close in the movement, she was able to fi ll her
head with awe-inspiring things and take some challenging classes that gave her University credit.
Education, check. I don’t know if her university was any better or worse than this University, but it doesn’t matter. She went. She learned. She conquered.
In addition to the academic side, there’s also the personal change that can happen when people leave here. Not the “dear God, he just came back from Cambodia, and now he thinks he’s the most interesting man in the world” change. But the fascinating change that allows you to learn something about yourself.
One of my other best friends left, just for a semester. An already awe-some guy, he came back kind of dif-ferent. I couldn’t put my fi nger on it, until one day, I sa w him inter-act with others at a party. It wasn’t that his clothes were too different or that his humor had changed. He came back with confi dence. He was packing swag.
One of the most amazing things to me is how people can come back changed for the better. Now, one could argue that you could have a total “ah-ha!” moment in one of your classes here or experience a confi dence boost in C-U. But the thing is, the point of study abroad is that it gets you out of your comfort zone. Once you get past that point, you can truly examine yourself and other ways of learning.
There’s got to be a reason why we’re ranked 14th in sending stu-dents across the ponds — it’s good for the mind and soul. Plus, 27 per-
cent of our students study abroad — roughly 10,000 kids. There can’t be 10,000 kids who have escaped to Spain or France or China without gaining some sort of learning: aca-demic, intrapersonal or both.
And then there’s me. I’m some-what wary to compare experience to other students’. My time in Tur-key was more of a bite-sized jour-ney because I only stayed there for 17 days in the summer. I didn’t even enroll in a different university.
However, I went with a Univer-sity journalism class, and I worked my butt off to produce stories for The New York Times’ international blog, the International Herald Tri-bune. I may not have taken a micro course to get rid of that pesky econ credit, but I talked to all sorts of people, interviewed jailed journal-ists, went to the Turkey-Syria bor-der — and along the way got pub-lished. Not only was it an amazing trip, but it was the biggest learning experience I’ve ever had and one I would have missed out on if I didn’t leave C-U.
Wherever you go, you learn. If you make the most of your activi-ties, you learn. It doesn’t matter what university you go to, where you are or how hard your class is — you’re going to soak up knowledge how you want to soak it up, regard-less if you’re doing nonprofi t work in Chicago, taking a class on child development in Ecuador or com-forting refugees in Hatay, Turkey .
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F orget, for a moment, your own notions about the boy wizard, about whether his story is com-
pelling or moving or drivel. Put aside your ideas about J.K. Rowl-ing, her writing, her ability to tell a coherent story. They don’t matter.
Regardless if you enjoyed the seven books and eight movies, the “Harry Potter” franchise has had an impact on the world like no other. This past weekend marked the 14th anniversary of the United States’ publication of the fi rst book, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Since that release date, 2012 is the fi rst year that something Harry Pot-ter-related has not been delivered to the world. The popularity of the series cannot be debated. The sales of the book are estimated to be over four million in just the United King-dom . More than 100 million cop-ies are in print in the United States alone . Five of the eight fi lms rank in the top 20 highest ranking movies of all-time . It has spawned fan sites, fan fi ction, clothing, an entire sub-culture of wishful Hogwarts alums.
But even looking beyond popular-ity, as popularity doesn’t necessar-ily signify merit, it is still diffi cult to dispute the importance and the power the franchise has had on the world.
Literacy rates mark the most obvious area affected. Over half of “Harry Potter” readers between 5 and 17 years old said they did not read books for fun before they start-ed the series. More than 75 percent noted “Harry Potter” has made them more interested in reading other books. Harry Potter impact-ed scholastic performance as well as self-esteem in school: Post-Har-ry Potter, students reported doing better in school, seeing themselves — many for the fi rst time — as “smart. ” Almost half began to see themselves as leaders.
Harry Potter has also changed the fi lm industry dramatically.
The fi lms helped to advance the resurgence of 3-D, bringing a medi-um generally reserved for ani-mated comedies to the forefront of fi lm. Not only that, it also allowed for the U.K., known for small, low-cost fi lms, to become recognized as a leader in acting as well as special effects.
Potter’s most intriguing contri-bution to the fi lm industry comes through its release style. Because the initial fi lm deal included all seven books, Warner Brothers had built-in sequels sure to have an audi-ence. Not only that, but “Harry Pot-ter and the Deathly Hallows” was split into two parts, a model perfect-ly fi tted to increasing revenue, and a model now followed by the Twilight series, as well as “The Hobbit.”
Harry’s impact and infl uence over cultural and societal trends has been perhaps most powerful, or at least most shocking. University courses are taught on the books, and academic conferences held, looking at class, race, law, sexuality, as they are represented in Potter . Quidditch teams spring up on college cam-puses, and social scientists treat the Harry Potter series as “a cultural phenomenon worthy of serious aca-demic inquiry,” going so far as to diagnose characters in the books, using the series for research and education .
For me, this year without Harry Potter is scary. It marks — fi nally, resolutely — the end of my child-hood. I can no longer cling to those long nights on my parents’ bed, lis-tening to my sister ask who Hagrid is for the millionth time, my dad mimicking the gravely voice of Snape and the squeaks of Dobby. It’s a giant part of my childhood, of my life, that has come to a conclusion. I have grown up with Harry Potter, as Harry Potter. I have struggled as he struggled, fought as he fought, lived as he lived. Now all I can do is fi nd solace in the fact that millions of others too are still trying to hold on to Harry for as long as they can.
Lisa Lowe, a professor of Amer-ican Studies at Yale, puts it best : “What (Rowling’s) really done is come up with a mode of capti-vating a whole generation: it’s a form of captive concentration that took place over a course of near-ly 10 years. As an adult, you’ll be thinking, ‘What would Harry have done?’”
Here’s to the Boy Who Lived, who continues to live in all of us who have stuck with Harry until the very end.
“A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is put-ting on its shoes,”
once quipped Mark Twain.This is an astute observa-
tion and a point illustrated over and over in an age where technology moves messages halfway around the world in the blink of an eye. But many of these claims will never have the privilege of going through a fair journalistic review.
Enter the characters in the 2012 presidential cam-paign: Gov. Mitt Romney’s camp putting out an ad say-ing President Barack Obama had put forth legislation in July to take a work require-ment out of welfare. However, when examined by the Wash-ington Post’s Fact Checker, it received a rating of “four Pinnochios” for the claim’s untruthfulness.
Then, as widely noted by various news sources, Neil Newhouse, a pollster for Rom-ney, said last week, “Fact checkers come to this with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs, and we’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.”
True, it’s impossible for a journalist to be complete-ly objective, as he or she is human with unique experienc-es and world views. But jour-nalists — at least the good ones — aim to seek truth and report it in a manner that’s fair and balanced.
The basic standard of jour-nalism is checking facts, which has now been pitted against the lies and half-truths of politicians like nev-er before. But while propagan-da spews all over the nation from both sides, the voices of fact checkers are often much too weak to clean up the mess already made.
While fact-checking a Wash-ington Post piece about vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republi-can National Convention last week, columnist Ezra Klein could only find two truth-ful claims amid six absolute-ly false and three misleading statements.
Propaganda has steered the world in many directions in history. Human emotion can be more effective at persua-sion than straight reporting of the facts.
But in a world where we want our coffee in two min-utes and our news even fast-er, not many are going to be checking every claim Ryan made, which may be what he desires anyhow.
Some swing voters may be doing their homework right up until the moment they enter the voting booth, but a great-er majority will go with the candidate that makes the most emotional appeals, devoid of fact-checking roadblocks.
Journalists and news con-sumers have to fact-check their way through an increas-ingly convoluted world of post-truth politics. While one fact is verified, exponential-ly more lies have migrated around the world.
The political arena may be a dismal environment for both journalists and people who care about the facts: The lies of political campaigns have become too much to handle.
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When searching for a meal close to the Quad, students can fi nd what some believe to be a combination of good atmosphere and quality entrees at The Bread Company. Located on 706 South Goodwin, The Bread Company is a family-run business where “the food pretty much sells itself,” according to Aleks Dragas, head chef and manager of the restaurant .
The restaurant has two main operation times, he added: daytime, when soups, salads and sandwiches are served ; and the nighttime operation when the menu expands to include dishes ranging from pastas and seafood to elaborate pizzas.
The atmosphere also makes a change from a casual, relaxing scene during the day, to formal dining with linen tablecloths during the evenings.
Dragas took over as head chef for the restaurant three months ago. He said he always strives for perfection in each of his dishes and feels that “it could always be better.”
While many of The Bread Company’s meals are very popular among students and faculty, one in particular stuck out to Dragas: the fried goat cheese.
This dish is usually served as an appetizer and is doused in a tempura batter with two eggs, salt, water and fl our to thicken, then lightly coated in Panko fl akes, which are Japanese-style breadcrumbs. After the goat cheese is fried, it is then served with honey and strawberries to create a salty-sweet treat that can act as an appetizer or dessert.
For those having a bad week, the goat cheese pairs well with
the restaurant’s sangria bought from Glunz Family Winery located in Lincolnwood, Ill .
“The preparation requires the most skill and practice. It is an aspect of cooking that is just as important as knowing the science behind it,” Dragas said.
Many of the restaurant’s cheeses are specially imported from European Imports, Ltd . to ensure top quality for their customers. All their breads are made fresh daily from scratch with no MSG or preservatives, Dragas said.
According to Dragas, the key
to the restaurant’s satisfying dishes is simplicity.
“What consistently surprises me is the simplicity of the ingredients when they are prepared properly,” he said. “It is a matter of having the right ingredients and preparing it correctly.”
Dragas went on to say that The Bread Company is perfect for almost any occasion, from a relaxing lunch during the day to a lovely fi rst date at night.
As the beginning of the semes-ter progresses, students scram-ble to fi nd out more about the professors teaching their class-es: What are their tests like? How important is class partici-pation? Do you really need to read the assigned material?
Student review websites such as Koofers (Koofers.com) or Rate My Professors (ratemypro-fessors.com) are popular ways to fi nd this information. These sites allow students to provide feedback on past courses and professors.
Katherine Meehan, freshman in Engineering, used Rate My Professors to look up all of her professors for her fi rst semester of college. When she read that one of the instructors was so diffi cult that it was hard to get a high grade in the class, Mee-han decided to drop it.
“As with any review, I realize when I am reading that this per-son (writing the review) is dif-ferent from me ... but I can fi g-ure out the general advantages and disadvantages of a profes-sor,” Meehan said.
Though Catherine Mesyef, senior in LAS, said she also checked reviews on Rate My Professors while registering for classes, she took them with a grain of salt.
“I never listen to the statistic ratings,” Mesyef said. “I read the individual comments ... to hear what types of experiences former students have had, while keeping in mind how circum-stantial those could be.”
Dr. Susan Curtis, an account-ing lecturer, questions the legit-imacy of reviews on Rate My Professors as well.
“Although (I have) over 150 reviews on (Rate My Pro-fessors), I have taught over 150,000 students over the past 15 years,” Curtis said. “The size of the sample, along with the self-selection of students who choose to make postings renders the data on (Rate My Profes-sors) or any other similar web-site questionable.”
Mesyef and many other stu-dents, however, still trust the website to give them an idea of a professor’s teaching style and whether they can do well in the class.
“The key is to fi nd the tone of the comments most similar to your own,” Mesyef said.
Though the website Rate My Professors is uti-lized mostly by students, some professors take a peek at their pro-fi les from time to time.
Dr. Ellen Fireman, a statis-tics lecturer, often checks the reviews students write for one of her largest classes, Statis-tics 100.
Though Fireman agrees that reviews are usually written by students who “either love you or hate you,” she noticed a cor-relation between her reviews on Rate My Professors and the
ICES reports that students fi ll out at the end of the semes-ter. Fireman pays attention to reviews from both sources, and takes them to heart.
Mesyef also recognizes the potential for professors that these websites offer, even if reviews come from students who “love you or hate you.”
“If the same negative reviews have been posted for multiple semesters, then yeah, hopeful-ly a professor would have the sense to switch up some stuff,” she said.
Whether the reviews on web-sites like Rate My Professors are a fair representation of a sample or not, they offer stu-
dents more infor-mation when choosing classes.
“The more information the students have access to about their classes, the better,” Fireman said.
To combat the limited reviews these websites have, Fireman offered another alternative.
“A more extreme direction would be for the University to release ICES scores and grade distributions of the instructors and courses,” she added. “If we did that, students wouldn’t have to resort to tabloid websites for information.”
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conversation will be,” DiVietro said.
After writing a specifi c sub-ject line and beginning an email with a professional opening, the content of the email can come through. It is important that requests and inquiries are made with absolute professional etiquette.
Robinett recommended that students have an etiquette guide bookmarked on their web brows-er for easy reference. Find an etiquette guide that is easy to understand and refer to it when-ever necessary.
“There are certain guidelines that should be followed, and if
you don’t know something, ask someone,” Robinett said.
The content of your email should always be fi nished off with an appropriate closing. This is important because an email might be printed out and refer-enced by a professor or employ-er. In this case, a student’s name should be at the bottom so can be easily found and recognized.
Many emailing systems allow users to set a closing block to repeat at the end of each email.
“A tastefully done signature block can be really nice because it lets people know what you’re involved in and what year you are,” Robinett said.
It is important that a signature block for a professional email is kept very formal. Though some people fi nd it fun to add a quote
or emoticon after their name, this should be reserved for only personal emails.
While students might under-stand the importance of being grammatically and profession-ally conscious, it is also neces-sary to remember that emails should never be sent in the midst of emotion.
“No matter how much you feel you should tell your professor your thoughts at three o’clock in the morning, you shouldn’t,” Robinett said.
Students should sleep off the emotion and liquid courage in order to avoid embarrassment. Once an email is sent, it cannot be taken back.
“The key is to fi nd the tone of the comments most similar to
your own.”CATHERINE MESYEF,
senior in LAS
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Email etiquette a must when contacting professionals
The professional world has evolved so that email con-versations are not only con-
venient means of communication but often preferred over more time consuming ways of corre-spondence. Though email began as a more casual way of contact, students now need to remem-ber the importance of uphold-ing a professional attitude via email, even though their voice is
heard only through Times New Roman and viewed on a comput-er screen.
Whether a student is cor-responding with a professor, administrator or employer, the subject line is vital and should be as specifi c as possible.
“I love it when someone uses a good subject line because when it is too general, it doesn’t tell me anything about the email,” said Susan Curtis, lecturer in Business.
Subject lines should be updat-ed as a chain of emails jumps from topic to topic and should include a student’s name and a few searchable words.
Then comes the actual mes-sage. Beginning an email to a professor or potential employer can be confusing, as the level of professionalism may not always be known.
The key to avoiding looking unprofessional is to always start a conversation as formally as possible, said Jeremy Robinett, an assistant professor in Recre-ation, Sports and Tourism.
“If you’re overly formal with someone in the fi rst contact, you’re always safe,” he said.
Students should always begin formally and let their authorita-tive fi gures dictate how profes-sional the conversation will be.
Marianna DiVietro, assistant director of Student Outreach at the Career Center, explained that the greeting in a profession-al email should always end with a colon. If an employer is being addressed, students should start with “Dear” or “Hello,” and in no case is “Hey” appropriate.
The greeting of an email can be confusing as students might not always be sure who will be responding to the message. When contacting a corporation, students should do their best to research the title of whom they might be contacting.
DiVietro encourages students to build relationships with pro-
fessionals whenever possible. When emailing potential employ-ers, remind them of your fi rst interaction before you inquire about an internship or job.
If following up on a conversa-tion at a career fair via email, DiVietro suggested starting with something specifi c that might have been brought up, like a sports game or hobby that a stu-dent and employer brought up in conversation.
“Add a little rapport before you ask or demand something,” she said.
Curtis suggested including a small line at the beginning of an email that shows some person-
ality. Instead of delving into the informative content of an email, students should start a corre-spondence with something that shows courteousness.
If an email is stripped down to the bare minimum, all personal-ity can be lost.
“I think email is horrible for conveying emotion, ” Curtis said.
Students should spend an ample amount of time research-ing a company in order to make the email fl ow with both profes-sionalism and emotion.
“The more information you have to go off of, the better your
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A lthough the Alma Mater is but an empty space on campus this year, she stays present by communicating to the campus
through her Twitter @Illinois_Alma. Alma took some time out of her hectic schedule to have a conversation with the Daily Illini to answer some of the ques-tions we’ve always wondered.
Daily Illini: So Alma, I see that you have left campus for a little vacation. Where did you go?Alma Mater: It’s a sort of spa for sculptures - Conservation of Sculp-ture and Objects Studio, based in For-est Park, Ill., near Chicago.
DI: Who is your closest group of friends on campus?AM: That’s a tough one. I love all of my students, alumni, faculty, staff, parents, friends and fans, but Red Grange, Grainger Bob, Labor, Learn-ing and I have a lot in common.
DI: What is your favorite time of the year and why?AM: Oh, there are so many! I defi nite-ly love the start of a new school year when my students and faculty return to campus. Homecoming is fantastic, because so many of my alumni come home to visit. But graduation might be my absolute favorite. All of my hap-py children take pictures with me as they prepare to go out into the world and make a big impact. And I often recognize their parents, grandparents and siblings too from their days as students! I’m already looking forward to being back on campus this spring for the class of 2013.
DI: A lot of people tend to climb all over you. How does that make you feel?AM: Nervous! A mother is always worried that her children will fall! But I just consider people climbing on me to be their version of hugs. And hugs are awesome.
DI: What is your favorite thing about University students?AM: Their youth! But seriously, I love their ambition. They are all ready to take on the world. Nothing makes me more proud.
DI: What do you like to do in your free time?AM: A mother never has any free time, dear, but I do love to people watch!
DI: What is your arm work out? Because you can really hold those suckers out and extended for a long time.AM: I have my secrets!
DI: Why do you love the University’s campus?AM: There is a great balance of time-honored tradition mixed in with the state-of-the-art here. And the change of seasons (trust me, I’ve seen quite a few!) is beautiful in this Midwestern setting.
DI: What is your relationship with the many squirrels on campus like?AM: Sometimes I have to remind them to share and be nice, but mostly, they are wonderful. And they — Quad Oskee in particular — love to enter-tain me with stories about the things they see (and eat) on campus.
DI: Where did you get your name “Alma Mater”?AM: From my stylist, Lorado Taft, when he made me, Learning, and Labor in 1929.
DI: What is your best advice to students?AM: Oh, I give advice all year long: study hard, use your hand sanitizer, look both ways before crossing the street, iron that gown before gradua-tion, call your parents...
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Tim Beckman walked into the room for his postgame press conference proudly holding the game ball athletic director Mike Thomas and the Illinois football team presented him after Saturday’s 24-7 victory against Western Mich-igan. However, he didn’t have plans to accept it, saying that this was the “team’s game ball,” with plans to frame it as the fi rst victory of the new era.
“All the guys in the locker room love him and we really feel like he’s bringing in a new era,” defensive end Michael Buchanan said. “We wanted to get (the win) for him.”
It only took four plays for the Illini’s new spread offense to strike. Wide receiver Ryan Lankford turned a pass from quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase into a 64-yard touchdown
to give Illinois the early lead.It was the perfect start to Saturday’s game
in front of a crowd of 43,441 at Memorial Stadi-um, and co-offensive coordinator Chris Beatty said it worked exactly how Illinois planned it.
The Illini saw the Broncos tendency to bring their safeties up, and Beatty said he knew “last Tuesday or Wednesday” the play would work.
The largest cause for concern for the Illini came in the third quarter.
Leading 17-0 and poised to extend its lead, Scheelhaase had his pass, which was intend-ed for receiver Spencer Harris , intercepted in the end zone. It proved to be costly not only because it thwarted the Illini’s scoring chance, but Scheelhaase would leave the game with an injury to his left ankle. Scheelhaase fi nished the
BY CHAD THORNBURGSTAFF WRITER
Co-offensive coordinator Chris Beatty said last week that the Illini had no plans to play more than one quarterback in the season open-er against Western Michigan.
Those plans changed when starter Nathan Scheelhaase went down with an ankle injury in the third quarter.
Sophomore Reilly O’Toole replaced Scheel-haase, who, after being looked at by trainers on the sideline, was carted off the fi eld.
“We’ll continue to evaluate it,” head coach Tim Beckman said after the 24-7 victory . “But you all know Nathan Scheelhaase. Nathan Scheelhaase will do whatever he can to make sure he’s prepared and ready for next week.”
The junior quarterback appeared to injure his left ankle on a read-option play with about 10 minutes remaining in the third quarter. Western Michigan linebacker Kyle Lark land-ed on Scheelhaase’s left ankle, twisting it out-
ward. Scheelhaase remained on the fi eld for the remaining three plays of the drive, which ended on an interception in the end zone.
Beckman confi rmed Monday that Scheel-haase did injure his ankle, but did not elaborate except to say that it wasn’t a high ankle sprain.
He said Scheelhaase was at practice Sunday but was “defi nitely not full go,” adding that he believes a player needs at least some practice — particularly Wednesday’s full practice — before playing in a game.
Prior to exiting the game, Scheelhaase was 11-for-18 passing for 126 yards with one touch-down and an interception, also adding a 4-yard rushing touchdown.
The offense was stagnant in Scheelhaase’s absence, while O’Toole was just 2-for-3 for 7 yards in his place.
“Reilly was kind of up and down,” Beckman said. “We’ve got to make sure that we’ve got
NEW ERA BEGINS WITH AN ILLINI WINCoach Beckman relies on Illinois defense in 24-7 win over Western Michigan on Saturday
Illinois volleyball splits weekend with Iowa StateBY DANIEL MILLER-MCLEMORESTAFF WRITER
The Illinois volleyball team continued riding the emotional roller coaster last weekend.
The No. 20 Illini rolled through No. 18 Iowa State during Stuff Huff on Friday night, winning 25-16, 25-22, 25-16 . Illinois earned its fi rst straight-set victory of the season in front of the larg-est opening night crowd in school history; 3,770 fans were in atten-dance to watch the unveiling of the 2011 NCAA runner-up banner and the beginning of a new era.
The youth and inexperience of that new era showed as the two teams squared off again Satur-
day. The Illini came up short in their fi rst fi ve-set match of the season, losing 28-26, 19-25, 22-25, 25-23, 15-10 .
Friday night was the high point of the weekend, as the crowd gave a huge ovation to last year’s seniors, Rachel Feldman, Hannah Deterding and Michelle Bartsch , when they pulled the cover off the 2011 banner. The resultant atmo-sphere and energy in Huff Hall buoyed Illinois to victory.
“It’s amazing playing at Huff,” sophomore Morganne Criswell said. “The amount of energy that comes from the crowd is inde-scribable when you’re on the court. It’s awesome.”
Criswell was part of a bal-anced Illini attack Friday, fi n-ishing with 10 kills and a .500 hitting percentage . Early in the fi rst set, it appeared as if Illinois’ struggles from a week ago would continue as Iowa State jumped out to a 15-12 lead. But the Illini closed the set on a 13-1 run, win-ning nine straight points off the serve of redshirt freshman Joc-elynn Birks .
“Halfway through that fi rst set (the Cyclones) were scor-ing at a pretty high rate, and then our defense started to play Illinois style of defense where we’re blocking balls and creat-ing defl ections and getting a lot
of swings,” Illinois head coach Kevin Hambly said. “This looked much more like a team that I like to coach and a team that I like to be around because we’re defen-sive minded.”
From that point on it was all Illinois. A Criswell kill secured a tight second set and the Illini led wire-to-wire in the third set for the sweep.
“I think that we fi nally just fi g-ured out how to play effectively as a team,” sophomore middle block-er Anna Dorn said. “It takes some time with all the new players that we have on the court to kind of develop a little groove to go with.”
Helping Illinois fi nd that groove
was the return of Ali Stark to the starting lineup. Stark sprained her ankle during the Illini’s sea-son opener and was a question mark all week. The answer was provided instantly Friday night as Stark stepped to the line for the fi rst serve of the game, something Hambly had no qualms about.
“Ali’s a good volleyball play-er. She’s one of the better all-around volleyball players I’ve coached,” Hambly said. “I’m not saying she’s the best attacker or the best blocker, but she just can play the game.”
Hambly cited Stark’s passing
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“This looked much more like a team that I like to coach and a team that I like to be around because we’re defensive minded.”KEVIN HAMBLY,head coach
BY CHAD THORNBURGSTAFF WRITER
Meyers Leonard now drives a Porsche.When asked if he splurged with his NBA
signing bonus, the former Illini center turned Portland Trail Blazer prefaced his response by saying that he plans to invest and save the rest of his money.
Leonard met with the media during half-time of the Illinois football team’s 24-7 victory over Western Michigan on Satur-day . The Robinson, Ill., native said return-ing to campus as an NBA player has a slightly different feel than when he was a student-athlete.
“People defi nitely notice me everywhere I’m at,” he said.
The Trail Blazers selected Leonard with the No. 11 pick in this spring’s NBA Draft . The 7-foot-1 center led the Illini in rebounding (8.2 per game ) and was second in scoring (13.6 per game ) as a sophomore last season.
Leonard said he also plans to buy a new home for his mother in Robinson rather
than moving her to Portland with him.“I’m going to leave her in Robinson, get
her a new house, get her comfortable. I thought with me being away so much on the road and things like that, it was the best idea to leave her at home.”
Leonard said he has worked out with his former teammates a few times throughout the offseason, adding that he’s much stron-ger than he was during his two seasons in orange and blue. He said his current weight fl uctuates from 250 to 254 pounds.
“When I talked to the trainers out there, they were saying you don’t want to put on the weight too quick because if you start favoring one thing you can hurt another thing,” he said. “Obviously they have had some bad luck with big men, so I’m just trying to keep my body healthy and just be me.”
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Illinois' Ryan Lankford runs with the ball during the game against Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Lankford turned his only catch into a 64-yard touchdown.
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The Portland Trailblazers' Meyers Leonard watches the game from the sideline during the game against Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
Scheelhaase practices Sunday after hurting ankle, but status unknown for Arizona State
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After the first weekend of 2012 Paralympic competition, two Illini athletes have already earned gold medals, with Ray Martin taking home two.
Martin, an incoming fresh-man at Illinois, dominat-ed his competition in both of his events so far. He won his first career final — the men’s 100-meter dash of the T52 clas-sification — Sunday. Martin looked like a veteran, finishing with a time of 17.02 seconds. Hernandez Mondragon Salva-dor of Mexico finished second in 17.64.
Sunday was just the begin-ning for Martin.
The 18-year-old won another gold Monday in the final of the men’s T52 400 meters, a classi-fication for athletes with spinal cord injuries.
Martin finished the race in 58.54 seconds, beating out Japan’s Tomoya Ito, who fin-ished in 1:00.40. Martin will try to earn his third gold med-al when he competes in the T52 800 Friday.
Tatyana McFadden, a junior at Illinois, won her first gold medal Monday in the final of the women’s T54 400. McFad-den beat Hongjiao Dong of Chi-na, finishing with a personal-best time of 52.97. In 2008, McFadden earned a silver med-al in the 400. Her next event will be the prelims of the T54 800 on Tuesday. McFadden’s personal best of 1:46.97 is bet-ter than any of the 20 competi-tors in that event.
Four other Illini competed in three track and field events Sunday. Josh George finished fifth in the men’s T53 400 in 51.14. He won a bronze medal in 2004 in the same event.
Jessica Galli and Anjali Forb-er-Pratt finished fourth and sixth, respectively, in the final of the women’s T53 100 on Sun-day. Galli finished with a time of 17.42, compared to Forber-Pratt’s 17.67.
Amanda McGrory finished seventh in the final of the wom-en’s T54 5,000 on Sunday. She finished with a time of 12:29.07 in the final after finishing first in her qualifying heat. She won a gold medal in the same event in 2008.
McGrory said Tuesday that participating in so many races could be tiring.
“It’s a lot of events, a lot of time spent on the track,” McGrory said. “(The races) don’t end up being that long. The longest I’m on the track is the 5,000, which only takes 11 or 12 minutes. To do that event, you end up being at the track for somewhere between six or seven hours.”
McGrory has a strategy to avoid the fatigue that will come
from competing in three more events.
“The most important thing is being relaxed,” the Illinois graduate said. “There’s a lot of excitement, there’s a lot of different personalities and all sorts of things going on. I think the most important thing for me is just to remember why I’m here, and that is to compete.
Along with Martin and McFadden competing Monday, three other Illini participated in events.
Brian Siemann placed sixth in the final of the men’s T53 100, finishing in 15.39. Round One of the men’s T54 1,500 also began Monday. Aaron Pike finished seventh in his heat, failing to qualify for the finals. George also did not qualify, finishing fifth in his heat.
With the men’s wheelchair basketball quarterfinals begin-ning Wednesday, the last pre-liminary games were played Monday. The men’s Canadi-an and Australian teams, fea-turing a combined five Illini, will enter the quarterfinals as the favored teams after going undefeated in the preliminary round.
Australia, which won its group, went a perfect 3-0 on the weekend. After defeating Turkey 71-64 Friday, Austra-lia defeated Spain, U.S. and Ita-ly the next three days. Austra-lia has outscored its opponents by an average margin of 22.6 points per game. The two Illi-ni on Team Australia, Dylan Alcott and Grant Mizens, did not score Monday.
While the two Illini were modest contributors to the Aus-tralian effort, Patrick Anderson of Canada wasn’t only the best player on his team, he’s been the best player of the tourna-ment thus far. Anderson, a for-mer Illini, had a triple-double Friday in a win against Great Britain. He nearly had another triple-double Saturday in a vic-tory over Poland, finishing with 34 points, nine rebounds and 12 assists. And on Sunday, in a victory over Germany, Ander-son recorded his second triple-double of the tournament with 25 points, 15 rebounds and 12 assists.
Canada finished off the week-end with a 68-42 victory over Colombia on Monday. Ander-son played only 10 minutes in the game, scoring 13 points while grabbing four rebounds and dishing out two assists. After a 21-8 first-quarter lead, Anderson sat out for the rest of the game. Former Illini Adam Lancia contributed two points, five rebounds and four assists to the game while another Illi-ni, Brandon Wagner, had two points and two rebounds in the win.
Two Illini contributed in a
huge 63-55 win for the U.S. against Spain on Monday. Will Waller, former Illini and team captain, finished with six points and two rebounds, while Steven Serio, also of Illinois, recorded six points, three rebounds and five assists. The U.S. was led by Jason Nelms, who finished with 21 points. The win moved the Americans ahead of Spain in their group, avoiding hav-ing to play Canada. The U.S. will now play Germany in the quarterfinals.
On the women’s side, Ger-many and the U.S. are the two top teams. Germany finished preliminary competition with a perfect 4-0 record, outscor-ing opponents by 24 points per game on average. Former Illini Edina Mueller contributed two points and six assists to Ger-many in a 68-28 victory over Mexico on Monday. Germany is the only undefeated team on the women’s side. The second-best team — the U.S. — had a bit of an unlucky draw.
If the U.S. was part of Aus-tralia’s group, it would be in first place with a record of 3-1. Unfortunately for the Ameri-cans, who have a 70-point com-bined differential, they are in second place to Germany. Instead, Australia will enter the quarterfinals with a higher seed than the U.S. despite both squads having the same record. Australia only has a 31-point combined differential.
The Americans only loss came Friday, 54-48, to first-place Germany. The U.S. led for
much of the game before being outscored 21-12 in the fourth quarter.
The U.S. rebounded by dom-inating Mexico 67-33 on Satur-day, with team captain and Illini Sarah Castle finishing with four points, six rebounds and five assists. Jennifer Chew, another Illini, scored a point and assist-ed on two baskets. After having a day off Sunday, the U.S. ended preliminary play with a 68-65 overtime victory against Chi-na. The Americans were down by 11 heading into the fourth quarter and stormed back, out-scoring the Chinese 26-15 in the final frame to force overtime. Rebecca Murray of the U.S., who finished with 30 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists, made the game-winning field goal with 39 seconds remaining. Chew and Castle did not score.
The women’s wheelchair bas-ketball quarterfinals begin on Tuesday.
Over the weekend I asked my friends, family mem-bers and random strang-
ers about their thoughts on the Paralympics. Let’s take a look at some of the responses:
“Yep, those are cool, but not exactly my thing.”
“The Para-what?”“Yeah, I don’t even watch
the Olympics. You really think I’m going to watch the Paralympics?”
“Oh you mean the Special Olympics, right?”
“Bayci, the Olympics were over two weeks ago, chill out for another four years.”
These answers got me pret-ty upset, though I can’t really blame anyone.
The Paralympics are barely covered by the media, especial-ly in the U.S. These star ath-letes are not taken seriously and not given nearly enough of the respect they deserve.
Have you ever heard the names Tatyana McFadden, Joshua George or Amanda McGrory? These are current and former Illinois athletes representing Team USA in the
Paralympics — some of the best Paralympians out there.
You’ve probably seen them rolling around campus and have had no idea that they are some of the best athletes at Illinois. McFadden has won six Paralym-pic medals, while George and McGrory have won four each.
These track stars are at the forefront of Illinois’ domina-tion on Team USA’s Paralym-pic team; 29 Illinois athletes are competing in the Paralympics. The sad thing is no one knows who they are or what they represent.
A change needs to happen now with the amount of respect and recognition these Paralym-pians receive. This can kickoff with the 2012 London Games, which began Aug. 29 and will conclude Sept. 16 at the same venues where the Olympics were held.
Don’t worry, it’s OK if you don’t know much about the Paralympics. I’m here to give you a crash course on every-thing you need to know so you can be Paralympic sav-vy for the final two weeks of competition.
The Paralympic Games is an exclusive and competitive ath-letic competition for athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities, including amputa-tions, cerebral palsy, intellec-
tual disabilities, visual impair-ment and spinal injuries.
The athletes are sorted into six classification groups based on the nature and severity of their disabilities. Athletes must fulfill criteria and meet quali-fying standards determined by the International Paralympic Committee to compete in the games.
There are 20 Paralympic sports during the summer games and five in the winter. The events are held weeks after each Olympics in the same loca-tion and medals are awarded in the same manner.
The Paralympics are more competitive than the Special Olympics, which are designed with the purpose of inclusion and acceptance for people with intellectual disabilities. People with physical disabilities can also participate.
The Paralympics are impor-tant because these are some of the best athletes in the world that just happen to be compet-ing with a disability. Not only do these individuals dedicate their lives to training as elite athletes but they also overcome disabilities.
Usain Bolt won the 200-meter dash this year with a time of 19.32 seconds. Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira of Brazil won the T44 200 meters in 21.45 on
Sunday. That’s not much of a gap.
T44 represents single below-knee amputees, or athletes who can walk with moderately reduced function in one or both legs.
These athletes are nearly as talented as the Olympians and the events are just as thrilling to watch.
It would be better if the Para-lympics were before the Olym-pic Games instead of after. Then the Paralympics could serve as a precursor to the Olympics and help people get excited for the Olympics.
What would be even better is if the Paralympics were held in conjunction with the Olym-pics. Imagine watching Ellie Simmonds win the Paralym-pic gold in the 400-meter free S6 (a swimmer with full use of arms and hands, but no useful leg muscles) and then watching Rebecca Adlington and Allison Schmitt in the 400 free. That would be phenomenal.
That’s just wishful thinking, though; for now, we have to take what we can get.
This year marks the first time the Paralympics are broadcast on American television. NBC Sports Network will air one-hour highlight shows on Sept. 4, 5, 6 and 11 at 6 p.m. CST. NBC will also air a 90-minute Para-
lympic special at 1 p.m. on Sept. 16. Additionally, Paralympic.org has extensive live coverage with more than 1,000 hours of live and delayed coverage available on its website.
Considering the 5,535 total hours of NBC Olympic cover-age, this seems like a needle in a haystack. But every little bit counts, and this is better than ever before.
Now is your chance to take advantage of this coverage. You can make a difference by tuning in for just a little bit and proving to the NBC execu-tives that, yes, it is a good idea to devote more coverage to the Paralympics in the future.
I know you’re busy, I know syllabus week killed your pro-ductivity level and I know you might be America-ed out after watching a million hours of the Olympics, but give it a chance. Turn on NBC Sports Network on Tuesday and watch the high-lights show. Take an hour to appreciate these athletes and how they are representing our country. Make a difference in the future of Paralympics coverage because these ath-letes deserve our respect and admiration.
Emily is a graduate student. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @EmilyBayci.
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as a key to the team’s improve-ments from a week ago. As a whole, the Illini passed signifi-cantly better, resulting in a .343 hitting percentage. Birks led the team with 13 kills and sophomore right side hitter Liz McMahon chipped in 11 of her own. The all-around performance left Illinois on a high note heading into Satur-day’s match.
By Saturday night, however, the good feelings had evaporat-ed after Iowa State used a 7-1 run in the fifth set to earn a weekend split.
Early in the match, it appeared Illinois would continue to dom-inate the Cyclones. The Illini jumped out to a 24-19 lead, but Iowa State managed to claw back to a 24-24 tie before Illinois setter Annie Luhrsen put away a kill to give Illinois the 28-26 win.
“The funny thing about vol-leyball is that momentum shift,” Hambly said. “The funny thing about momentum is that it doesn’t really exist, it’s just in your mind. And we’ve got some young mind-ed kids right now that need to be tougher. They were affected by that push that they made and we need to be tough and understand that doesn’t really exist.“
Existing momentum or not, Iowa State continued playing at a high level and went on to take the next two sets with relative ease, although the Illini made a late push in the third. Illinois forced a fifth set with a 25-23 win in the fourth set but were unable to seal the deal.
“I think they just had more fight and they played a little bit more consistent all over,” Luhrsen said. “I think we’re still figuring a lot of stuff out and we’re figuring stuff out in the fifth game and we didn’t fight as hard as they did.”
Freshman Mackenzie Bigbee slammed the winning kill into the opposite corner to claim the vic-tory for the Cyclones. It was a fit-ting end after Illinois was unable to control the southpaw outside hitter all game long. Bigbee fin-ished with 25 kills and a .409 hit-ting percentage.
“She did everything,” Hambly said. “When kids are moving it around that much with that much range, she’s gonna be special.”
In addition to Bigbee’s domi-nance, the Illini made errors all night long that hurt their cause. The most glaring mistakes came on their serves, where Illinois made 13 errors, and in serve receive. Hambly shuffled the backline multiple times in an effort to find the answer, but ulti-mately nothing worked. For a young team early in the season, the experiences learned from games like this are plentiful.
“The list is ridiculous,” Hambly said after citing a few, including the team’s bench play. “I could go on and on.”
McMahon added that losing was another part of the learning process.
“We’re working on figuring out a new identity and what we’re gonna have to play like,” McMa-hon said. “Sometimes you really don’t realize what the seniors, or the team last year, what they had to carry on their backs.”
The young Illini are experienc-ing a baptism by fire in that field, and as such, ups and downs of the early season roller coaster are to be expected.
him doing a little bit more of what we want to do instead of letting him make some of those checks.”
O’Toole said he noticed Scheel-haase limping a few plays prior to exiting the game and was pre-pared to take the field.
“Nate’s a reckless player,” O’Toole said. “He’ll lower his shoulder. Just the way he plays, he plays all out, plays every down like it’s his last. With that being said, you’ve got to be ready (as his backup) at any point in the game.”
While Scheelhaase is a more accomplished rusher — he led the team in rushing yards last sea-son with 624 — Beckman said the offensive game plan won’t change much if O’Toole is the starter.
“We believe in what we’re doing offensively,” Beckman said. “We’ll still run the same stuff that we were running with Nathan. Coach Beatty does a great job with the quarterbacks and has them prepared.”
O’Toole runs with the second-team offense in practice, but said he receives the same number of reps and runs the same plays as Scheelhaase with the first team.
Versatile third-string quarter-back Miles Osei also saw action in Saturday’s win but didn’t attempt a pass. Beckman said Osei will see more time this week, if not at quarterback then at wide receiv-er or running back.
Beatty said he’s comfortable going into Tempe, Ariz., with O’Toole and Osei in the event Scheelhaase can’t go against Ari-zona State on Saturday.
“I feel like those guys can win games in this league,” Beatty said. “We’ll get those guys ready if we have to.”
game 11-for-18 with 126 yards and a touchdown and added a rush-ing touchdown. Backup quarter-back Reilly O’Toole came into the game and was unable to effective-ly move the Illini offense down the field, completing two of his three passing attempts for seven yards.
Beckman said the Illini will continue to evaluate Scheelhaase and harped on his quarterback’s competitiveness in wanting to get back into the game. Howev-er, Beckman wasn’t sure if he
would’ve been able to return had the score dictated he needed too.
So the Illini defense, the sta-ple of last year’s team, took it upon themselves to ensure that the Illini came away with a victo-ry. Buchanan said the Illini were fired up on the sideline, saying, “We got to make a play, we got to make a play.”
“We knew our leader was down and we knew the defensive had to step up and make a play,” Buchan-an said.
That man was star Ashante Wil-liams. With Western Michigan driving down the field, the lead narrowed to 17-7, Williams saw a play he’d seen all week long in
practice. Once he recognized the routes, he baited Western Michi-gan quarterback Alex Carder’s throw for an easy interception that he returned 60 yards for a touchdown, all but sealing the Illi-nois victory.
“The momentum kind of swung to our side after that pick,” said Beckman, who has praised Wil-liams’ work ethic. “It did not sur-prise me when he made that play.”
Beckman wanted to empha-size takeaways since the Illini didn’t think they garnered enough last year, and cornerback Terry Hawthorne said the team set the goal of eight — the same num-ber they’d been getting in prac-
tice. They didn’t get eight, but the four turnovers, including three interceptions of Carder, proved to be enough. Carder struggled all game long with the Illini pass rush, especially from defen-sive linemen Akeem Spence and Buchanan, who had a sack and an interception.
But the Illini players and coach-es didn’t seem satisfied with its defense; they all mentioned the areas the team could’ve improve on or mistakes the team made.
“I guess I’m a perfectionist. I’ll give them a B,” Beckman said.
That B-graded defense held Carder to 24-of-39 for 214 yards, sacking him twice after hearing
all week about his seven touch-down outburst against Beckman’s Toledo team last year.
For now, Beckman can cel-ebrate his first victory with the team during its Sunday victory meal of steaks, cake and shrimp. The new era couldn’t be off to a better start record-wise.
“When we win, we’re going to celebrate,” Beckman said. “They’ll be pampered because I want them to understand that win-ning is, not necessarily a fragile thing, but it’s something you’ve got to cherish.”
Jamal can be reached at collie10@ dailyillini.com and @JamalCollier.
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Illini win in Paralympics’ 1st weekend
Paralympians deserve more attention from media, youOUT OF BOUNDS
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KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Illini Tatyana McFadden celebrates as she wins gold in the women’s 400m T54 final at the 2012 Paralympics on Monday in London. The junior will also compete in the 800m T54.
Illini track and field athletes compete overseas
SundayWomen’s T54 5,000 meters finalAmanda McGrory of the U.S. finished seventh with a time of 12 minutes, 29 seconds.Edith Wolf of Switzerland finished first with a time of 12:27.87. Men’s T53 400 finalJoshua George of the U.S. finished fifth with a time of 51.14.Li Huzhao of China finished first with a time of 49.70.Men’s T52 100 finalRay Martin of the U.S. finished first with a time of 17.02. Hernandez Mondragon Salvador of Mexico finished second with a time of 17.64. Women’s T53 100 finalJessica Galli of the U.S. finished fourth with a time of 17.42. Anjali Forber-Pratt of the U.S. finished sixth with a time of 17.67. Lisha Huang of China finished first with a time of 16.42.
MondayMen’s T53 100 finalBrian Siemann of the U.S. finished sixth with a time of 15.39. Mickey Bushell of Great Britain finished first with a time of 14.75. Men’s T52 400 finalMartin finished first with a time of 58.54. Tomoya Ito of Japan finished second with a time of 1:00.40. Women’s T54 400 finalTatyana McFadden of the U.S. finished first with a time of 52.97. Hongjiao Dong of China finished second with a time of 55.43.
2012 Paralympics medal count as of Monday1. China — 112 total, 46 gold, 31 silver, 35 bronze2. Great Britain — 63 total, 19 gold, 25 silver, 19 bronze3. Russia — 49 total, 16 gold, 20 silver, 13 bronze6. US — 40 total, 12 gold, 11 silver, 17 bronze
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GAME TO REMEMBER
GAME TO FORGET
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ILLINI STAT LEADERS
Scheelhaase’s 64-yard touchdown pass to Lankford in the fi rst quarter was his seventh career touch-down pass of more than 50 yards, which is more than any other Big Ten quarterback since 2009.
The number of rushing yards the Illinois defense allowed Saturday, making them the nation’s top run defense.
Michael Buchanan, Earnest Thomas and Ashante Wil-liams each recorded their fi rst career interceptions.
The number of passing yards Scheelhaase had with-out his 64-yard touchdown pass to Lankford in the fi rst quarter.
How many yards the offense gained after Scheel-haase left the game with an injury in the third quarter.
Defense takes the reigns after Scheelhaase’s injury
BY SEAN HAMMONDSTAFF WRITER
Michael Buchanan add-ed another sack to his career mark against Western Michigan on Saturday, but what brought the biggest
smile to the defensive end’s face after the game was a feat he had nev-er accomplished before.
“I got my fi rst pick today,” Buchan-an beamed. “I read the quarterback’s eyes and was able to tip it. Luckily, I was close enough to be able to catch it.”
Buchanan recorded a sack along with his interception in keeping West-ern Michigan quarterback Alex Carder in check to usher in the fi rst victory of the Tim Beckman era at Illinois.
The defensive line didn’t give Card-er any chance to get comfortable in the pocket. Carder was sacked twice and threw three interceptions, but what was more impressive was hold-ing Western Michigan to negative six rushing yards. Buchanan, Akeem Spence, Tim Kynard and Glenn Fos-ter rendered the Bronco ground game ineffective. The four combined for 3.5 tackles for loss while Spence teamed with linebacker Jonathan Brown for the other sack of Carder.
Buchanan’s interception came with 3:54 remaining in the fi rst quarter with the Illini leading 10-0.
“He was proud after the game,” Beckman said. “He said, ‘Well, hey, I might be the only defensive lineman in the country leading in interceptions.’ Michael really is a heck of a football player. He’s just tapped how good he can be, in my opinion.”
Buchanan’s sack brings his career total to 10.5, with 7.5 of those coming last season. He said new defensive coordinator Tim Banks put an empha-sis on creating turnovers this season. The Illini had only 10 interceptions all of last year.
With Illinois leading 17-0 midway through the third quarter, the momen-tum appeared to shift toward the Bron-cos when Illini quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase left the game with an ankle injury. Buchanan said the defense knew it needed to make a play.
With less than 10 minutes remain-ing in the fourth quarter and the gap shortened to 17-7, Western Michigan was driving once again when Ashante Williams picked-off Carder and ran it back for six.
Buchanan and Spence each got to Carder on that play, forcing a bad throw.
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Senior star Ashante WilliamsTim Beckman acknowledged the last 8 months of work has put Williams in a position to be successful this sea-son. Williams was a game captain and his hard work culminated with a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown that sealed that fate of the Broncos.
Sophomore quarterback Reilly O’TooleForced into the game on short notice, O’Toole struggled to move the offense with the injury to Nathan Scheelhaase. While many thought he could’ve won the starting job in the summer, he acknowledged he did not play well, fi nishing 2 for 3 for 7 yards.
PassingNathan Scheelhaase126 yards
RushingJon Davis54 yards
ReceivingRyan Lankford64 yards
DateSept. 1Sept. 8
Sept. 15Sept. 22Sept. 29
Oct. 6Oct. 13Oct. 27Nov. 3
Nov. 10Nov. 17Nov. 24Dec. 1
OpponentWestern Michigan
Arizona StateCharleston Southern
Louisiana TechPenn StateWisconsinMichiganIndiana
Ohio StateMinnesota
PurdueNorthwestern
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Buchanan’s interception came with 3:54 remaining in the fi rst quarter with the Illini leading 10-0.
“He was proud after the game,” Beckman said. “He said, ‘Well, hey, I might be the only defensive lineman in the country leading in interceptions.’ Michael really is a heck of a football player. He’s just tapped how good he can be, in my opinion.”
Buchanan’s sack brings his career total to 10.5, with 7.5 of those coming last season. He said new defensive coordinator Tim Banks put an empha-sis on creating turnovers this season. The Illini had only 10 interceptions all of last year.
With Illinois leading 17-0 midway through the third quarter, the momen-tum appeared to shift toward the Bron-cos when Illini quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase left the game with an ankle injury. Buchanan said the defense knew it needed to make a play.
With less than 10 minutes remain-ing in the fourth quarter and the gap shortened to 17-7, Western Michigan was driving once again when Ashante Williams picked-off Carder and ran it back for six.
Buchanan and Spence each got to Carder on that play, forcing a bad throw.
“Me and Spence got a pretty good hit on him. All I know is I looked back and the crowd was cheering and Ashante had the ball,” Buchanan said. “Our leader was down and our defense stepped up and made a play.”
The only time Carder was able to get in any type of rhythm was at the start of the third quarter, when West-ern Michigan drove 48 yards in seven plays but missed a 45-yard fi eld goal.
“Western Michigan is probably one of the more talented teams in terms of throwing the football,” Banks said. “We just wanted to make sure that we gave them a lot of different looks and make sure that we weren’t predictable. Because if you’re predictable, those type of guys will eat you alive.”
Beckman, a self-proclaimed perfec-tionist, gave his defense a B. The Illi-ni’s performance on fi rst down was key in forcing Western Michigan into long second- and third-down situations.
“Coach Banks made the game plan real simple,” Spence said. “Some of the stuff we did today was some of the stuff we did last year. We’ve been run-ning these blitzes since camp, so it was just another dress rehearsal for us.”
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Illinois’ head coach Tim Beckman fi res up his team before the game against Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
Illinois’ Jon Davis runs the ball. Davis, a tight end last season, ran the ball for 54 yards against the Broncos.
Nathan Scheelhaase stretches across the goal line for a touchdown during the second quarter. Scheelhaase scored both a rushing and passing touchdown during the game.
Illinois’ Donovonn Young breaks a tackle while running with the football.
Michael Buchanan is tackled after picking off a pass during the fi rst quarter. The interception was the fi rst of Buchanan’s career.
Illinois fans hold a “W For the Illini” fl ag as students exit behind them after the 24-7 Illini victory.
With tryouts and cuts nearly fin-ished, the surviving players of the Illinois hockey team got to experi-ence their first practice under new head coach Nick Fabbrini.
The players were greeted to an ominous fog hanging over the ice because of a broken dehumidifier, making it difficult to see from one end to the other. As for the prac-tice itself, junior forward Aus-tin Bostock was pleased with the effort.
“It’s just a dif-ferent kind of practice,” Bos-tock said. “Today, it was a little out of left field. We didn’t real-ly know what to expect. But it was a good up-tempo practice, and I think everyone enjoyed it.”
Being just the first practice, there wasn’t much implementa-tion of Fabbrini’s new system, but that doesn’t mean the play-ers aren’t showing that they’re ready to go. In addition to prac-tices, players will have off-ice workouts, something that wasn’t done in the past, to help prepare for the season.
“We’ve been working hard the past week with tryouts and every-thing,” Bostock said. “We want to make sure we have a tight-knit group. ... I think guys are starting to come together already, and we haven’t even had our first game yet.”
The roster currently sits at 30 players, down from the initial 55 who showed at tryouts last week. All 30 will make the trip down to Springfield for a pair of exhibi-tions from Sept. 7-8, and Fabbrini said the roster will shrink again down to 27 after the games.
“We’re really just looking to see what we have,” Fabbrini said of
the exhibitions. “Tryout games are one thing, but it’s tough to really evaluate players until we’re at full speed and in a real game.”
In the exhibitions, Fabbrini said the Springfield Junior Blues will be “one of the best teams we face all year.” Rather than have a few tune-up games against cupcake opponents, Fabbrini likes the fact that the Illini will be tested from the first drop of the puck.
However, being only exhibi-tions, the result at the end isn’t n e c e s s a r i l y as important as the experi-ence and learn-ing that goes on during the games. Fabbrini made it clear he hates losing but acknowledged that there are
more important things than exhi-bition wins in September.
“I hate losing at anything,” Fab-brini said. “I’m really more wor-ried about the process. Even the first semester. Obviously we want to win every game, but it’s about getting better every day and mak-ing sure we’re playing our best in March.”
Playing their best at the end of the year was something that the 2011-12 Illinois team did not do, finishing under .500 for the year with a first-round exit in the ACHA national tournament.
The road back to the glory years of the mid-2000s starts this week-end for the new coach and his players.
“We just want to be playing our best hockey in March,” Fabbrini said. “I think the best way to pre-pare for that and the best way to prepare for the good team that we’ll play in the playoffs is to play those good teams all year long.”
While students celebrated Labor Day barbecuing with friends and enjoying the warm weather, the Illinois soccer team spent its holiday earning a 3-1 victory against UW-Milwau-kee at Illinois Soccer and Track Stadium.
The game was originally scheduled to be played on Satur-day afternoon, but was resched-uled due to the weather condi-tions. The few extra days allowed the Illini to be more than pre-pared for their match against UW-Milwaukee.
“It definitely changed our rhythm a little bit,” interim head coach Jeff Freeman said. “At the same time, it was a benefit because the players got an extra day off and a chance to get their legs underneath them. Really, the only change is what we do mov-ing forward from here.”
Illinois began the game with a burst of energy from the extra day off, putting the first goal on the board in the 20th minute. Senior Nicole Denenberg record-ed her first goal of the 2012 sea-son, performing some impressive one-on-one dribbling and split-ting multiple defenders for an open shot.
Being the first team to score is something that Freeman has been stressing in practice since the beginning of the season.
“To get that first goal is a huge confidence builder,” Freeman said. “We’ve talked a lot about trying to score goals after we’ve scored goals. We really had that energy today and that will-power in terms of really wanting to stay on the attack and keep Milwau-kee on their heels.”
Though Illinois was ahead at halftime, senior Marissa Holden said a small lead can prove to be dangerous.
“We were really just talking about a 1-0 lead being dangerous because the opposing team still has confidence and they can still come back and tie it up,” Holden said. “We really just wanted to put another one in quickly and leave it all out there on the field.”
Freshman Taylore Peterson didn’t waste much time earn-ing the Illini’s second and her first collegiate goal in the first two minutes of the second half.
Holden notched the final goal for Illinois with 27 minutes left in the game, but UW-Milwaukee didn’t end the game without putting up a fight.
The Panthers recorded their only goal of the game with 15 minutes left. Freeman said the laxity of Illinois allowed the opportunity to be presented for Milwaukee.
“Players started to relax when we were up 3-0 and good teams are going to punish you for that,” Freeman said. “It was a good les-son learned today and we need to keep our foot on the gas and keep going at teams when we have a lead like that.”
Before the goal was scored by UW-Milwaukee toward the end of the game, it looked as if Illinois
might earn its third shutout of the season. With that accomplish-ment in its sights, it was a disap-pointment when the Panthers put one in the back of the net.
“I think as a whole and as a team we are definitely disap-pointed we didn’t get that shut-out,” senior Kristen Gierman said. “It just gives us a wakeup call that even if we are scoring goals, we can’t have that defen-sive lapse as a team throughout the game. Defending starts from the front all the way to the back to Steph (Panozzo) in the net — this is a really good lesson to learn now that when we are able to cre-ate chances and score goals that we can’t forget we need to defend. Sometimes, the best offense is a good defense.”
In spite of not earning the shut-out, the Illini earned their first multi-goal victory of the sea-son. The three goals earned in the game against the Panthers are the most goals scored so far in a game this season.
“Certainly today was the best performance we’ve had this year,” Freeman said. “We’ve really been working hard on our possession and our offen-sive chemistry and trying to go at teams lots of different ways and we did that today. We creat-ed more than enough chances to win the game and show our abil-ity to finish and score three nice goals today.”
The last time the Illinois men’s cross-country team failed to place first in the Illini Challenge, gas prices were hovering around $2 per gallon.
That streak was extended Friday, as the Illini won the event for the eighth straight season behind a strong per-formance by redshirt freshman Tom-my King. He placed second overall in the race, which was best for the Illini. They fielded five of the top-10 finishers.
“I thought we ran very composed early on in the race, the guys were pretty nervous for their first race in an Illinois jersey,” head coach Jake Stewart said.
The team raced with a roster con-sisting of only one runner, sophomore Mark Donohue, who had competed for
the Illini in the past.“They ran with good composure and
didn’t let anything distract them from the task at hand,” Stewart added.
While this competition has been referred to in the past as a “glori-fied workout” for the Illini, they felt it served as a quality team effort as well as a great way to kick off their season.
“I don’t think pointing out one guy for what he did would do justice for the fact that everybody showed up on Friday and ran well in the middle of a very hard training cycle,” Stewart said.
King felt the same way and sug-gested that running near his team-mates for the whole race allowed him to push himself to achieve his second-place finish.
Still, King was very pleased with how he performed individually.
“It feels great, it’s something I’ve been motivating myself all summer to sort of be one of the guys that helps lead the team,” King said. “It was real-ly fulfilling to be the guy who took the lead and took charge of the race.”
High levels of humidity tested the team and its ability to adjust to its sur-roundings. To compensate, Stewart’s runners ran more controlled during the first one-third of the race to avoid exhaustion due to the humidity.
Exhaustion is always a big factor in the sport of cross-country, but it is only going to grow as the Illini look to get into their top racing shape. The Illini Challenge was only a 6K race — their shortest of the season.
“It gives the guys a little bit of expe-
rience going above the 5K distance, which is the distance they run in high school,” Stewart said, “But we have to get ourselves ready to run a really good 8K at the end of October and a really good 10K at the beginning of November.”
Regular-season races are usually 8K, while postseason races are 10K.
The Illini said this was a nice intro-duction and they will look to build on it when they compete on Sept. 14 in the Illinois Intercollegiate in Normal, Ill.
“It’ll give us a chance to run the 8K distance in a meet that — I hate to say low-pressure situation — but one we’re certainly not circling our calendar and really getting ready for,” Stewart said.
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ST. LOUIS — Rookie Joe Kelly pitched 6 2-3 effective innings and also doubled, and the St. Louis Cardinals took advantage of a baserunning mistake to beat the New York Mets 5-4 Monday.
Andres Torres led off the Mets ninth with an apparent double, but was called out by fi rst base umpire Dave Rackley on an appeal for missing fi rst base.
Kelly (5-6) allowed fi ve hits and two runs. He made his sec-ond start after a brief stint in the bullpen, and turned in his longest outing of the season.
Edward Mujica got the last out of the seventh, giving him 16 straight scoreless appear-ances since coming over from
Miami at the trade deadline. Jason Motte recorded fi ve outs for his 33rd save in 38 chances.
Skip Schumaker hit a solo homer, and Matt Carpenter drove in two runs for the NL wild card-leading Cardinals. Yadier Molina and Allen Craig added RBI singles and Kelly scored a run.
Daniel Murphy and Kelly Shoppach hit two-run homers for New York, which had won three straight and seven of eight.
Collin McHugh (0-1), recalled from Triple-A Buffalo to make the start, lasted just four innings and gave up four runs.
McHugh blanked the Colorado Rockies for seven innings Aug. 23 in his major league debut.
It took the Cardinals just two batters to give McHugh an ERA. Jon Jay led off with a triple into the left-fi eld corner, and Car-penter followed with an RBI groundout.
The Cardinals got two more in the third, and Schumaker’s fi rst home run leading off the fourth made it 4-0.
Kelly had retired 10 batters in a row before walking Mike Baxter and then allowing Shop-pach’s homer in the seventh.
New York closed within a run on Murphy’s homer off reliev-er Mitchell Boggs in the eighth. The Mets had the tying run at second with one out later in the inning when Motte got Scott Hairston on a soft liner and struck out Shoppach.
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WASHINGTON — While the Washington Nationals hardly noticed their fi rst winning sea-son in franchise history, the Chi-cago Cubs are in the midst of a third straight losing year.
On Monday, the Cubs lost their 83rd game of the season, one day after guaranteeing their fi rst los-ing three-peat since 1990-92. The Nationals hung on for a 2-1 victory.
In many ways, it was a typical Cubs loss. Their one-run defeat gives them a 12-23 record in one-run games.
“It’s amazing how you can be in so many games and never win them,” manager Dale Sveum said.
“That’s a sign of a team that needs to get a long way before you start winning those games.”
Ross Detwiler allowed four hits in seven shutout innings and Adam LaRoche homered for Washington.
The NL East-leading Nation-als improved to 82-52. The club moved from Montreal to Wash-ington for the 2005 season and went 81-81 that year. In 2008 and 2009, the team lost a combined 205 games, then fi nished 80-81 in 2011.
The Nationals’ win allowed them to hold their 6 !-game divi-
sion lead over Atlanta.Detwiler (9-6) struck out three
and walked three and allowed a runner to third only once.
Jeff Samardzija (8-13) gave up a long home run to LaRoche to lead off the second. LaRoche’s 25th home run landed in the front row of the second deck. It’s the fourth time in his career LaRoche has hit 25 or more home runs.
Samardzija gave up seven hits in seven innings. He walked one and struck out eight. With July’s trade of Paul Maholm to Atlanta, the Cubs have an inexperienced rotation. He’s the only starter with more than four wins.
He was envious of the Nation-als playing in big games.
“That’s your ultimate goal, you know, is to be pitching in those situations, to be pitching for Octo-ber,” Samardzija said.
“We can approach these situa-tions where we’re playing these fi rst-place teams where we can look at it and say, hey, we’re right there in it and these are big games, and it is going to show a lot with our team. Because we’re playing good teams and we’re going to be facing their good pitchers and we’re going to see the best.”
The Cubs have dropped three
straight.“You love playing against these
kind of teams. When you’re a team in our situation, any time you can play these fi rst- or sec-ond-place teams where they’re still playing for something, it means a lot, and they’re fun games,” Samardzija said.
Sveum was pleased with Samardzija’s performance. The former Notre Dame receiver has shown a lot to the fi rst-year manager.
“I think that’s what we expect of him as far as big games, big competition. He’s a horse, and like I said, the football mental-ity, when you’re playing in front of 100,000 people on national TV, you’ve got it in you to be that kind of big-game pitcher and competi-tor against the best of baseball.”
Ryan Zimmerman’s RBI dou-ble scored Bryce Harper in the eighth for the second run.
Drew Storen pitched a perfect eighth.
Tyler Clippard allowed two hits and a two-out RBI single to Wel-ington Castillo in the ninth.
Clippard threw the ball away for an error and allowed pinch-runner Tony Campana advance to second before striking out Josh Vitters for his 30th save in 33 opportunities.
Rookie pitcher shines as Cardinals beat Mets 5-4
Cubs fall against Nationals 2-1 for 83rd loss this season
JEFF ROBERSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Joe Kelly throws in a game against the New York Mets on Monday in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 5-4.
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Chicago Cubs’ Starlin Castro keeps his foot on the bag as Washington Nationals shortstop Ian Demond applies a late tag after Castro doubled to right fi eld at Nationals Park on Monday in Washington. The Nationals won 2-1.
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Bears lineback-er Brian Urlacher returned to practice Monday for the first time since July 31, hoping to play in Sunday’s season opener.
Urlacher did not stop to talk to report-ers, but coach Lovie Smith said the eight-time Pro Bowl player looked good considering he had arthroscopic sur-gery to his left knee Aug. 14.
“He had a good first day back,” coach Lovie Smith said. “He’s got to get in shape. I’m sure he’ll tell you that and a few other things like that. But we didn’t have any trouble with him today. He’s right on schedule.”
Urlacher did talk to Fox TV before Monday about his condition and said: “I’m playing Sunday. That’s a done deal.”
However, Urlacher also said the knee will not be 100 percent. “I will be as close to it as I can be,” he said. “I have been doing some things. I’ve been in the pool. I have been running with our trainers and stuff on the side. But it’s hard to get in shape in a week of prac-tice. It’s not possible. But I will get as close as I can to it.”
Bears players liked what they saw of Urlacher in practice.
“He’s back in the flow,” linebacker Nick Roach said. “We’re still a long way away from Sunday, but just having him back is definitely positive.”
With Urlacher back, defensive players returned to their normal routine. Roach moved from the middle back to his reg-ular starting spot on the strong side.
Beyond Urlacher, the Bears also had starting defensive tackle Stephen Paea back from an ankle injury and start-ing safety Chris Conte returning from a shoulder injury. Defensive tackle Amobi Okoye, who signed early Mon-day, worked, and defensive tackle Brian Price was cut when Okoye signed.
Okoye had four sacks for the Bears last year but left in free agency for Tam-pa on a one-year, $2 million contract. He had arthroscopic knee surgery in June and reached an injury settlement when he was cut by the Bucs on Friday. The Bears gave him a physical and are convinced he can help as a backup to Henry Melton.
“Amobi is one of our guys,” Smith said. “There was disappointment when he signed with the Bucs. He’s a young football player.
“Everybody was excited about get-ting him back. I know he’s been injured
before down there, but he had a good day of practice today.”
Okoye said his knee has healed com-pletely after he tried to come back too soon. He immediately felt a part of the Bears’ defense.
“It fits like a glove,” he said. “Being here last year and knowing what I like to do, and what this defense asks of me to do, it’s perfect.”
The Bears had acquired Price from Tampa Bay in July for a 2013 draft pick. But he struggled coming off a leg injury and sustained a head injury in the final preseason game — the latest blow for a player who’s had a rough time.
Two brothers were killed in shootings in Los Angeles while he was growing up. His sister died in a car accident in May, and he and his wife decided to adopt her children. There were also reports of a fight with rookie safety Mark Barron — a first-round pick this year — in a team meeting room, an altercation that occurred a few weeks after Price was hospitalized for several days for men-tal and physical exhaustion following his sister’s death.
A second-round pick in 2010, Price, 23, played in 20 games with the Bucs, producing 27 tackles and three sacks.
BY DOUG FERGUSONTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NORTON, Mass. — Rory McIl-roy got the start he wanted Monday at the Deutsche Bank Champion-ship, erasing a three-shot deficit in just five holes. The finish was hardly a masterpiece, except for the part when golf’s No. 1 player posed with the trophy.
Boy Wonder didn’t make it easy on himself on Labor Day at the TPC Boston. He tore up the turf on a tee shot that traveled 170 yards, and that was the only fairway he hit over the last five holes.
He had to make a 6-foot putt to save par from a bunker, and a 5-foot putt to save bogey after a pitch sailed from one side of the green to the other. And he had to wait as Lou-is Oosthuizen’s birdie putt to force a playoff slid below the hole.
“I had a couple of wobbles coming in, but I obviously did enough and I’m very excited to get a victory,” McIlroy said.
That’s all anyone will remember.On a leaderboard packed with
some of the biggest names in golf — McIlroy, Oosthuizen, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson
— the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland took a giant leap toward establishing himself as the best in the game.
With four birdies in six holes at the start and limiting the damage from his mistakes at the end, McIl-roy closed with a 4-under 67 for a one-shot victory over Oosthuizen, joining Woods as the only three-time winners this year on the PGA Tour.
McIlroy goes to No. 1 in the FedEx Cup. And with one of his wins being the PGA Championship, that might be enough for his peers to vote him PGA Tour player of the year. He also has a comfortable gap in the world ranking, and could be tough to catch the rest of the year unless Woods were to win the next two FedEx Cup events.
“He’s not No. 1 in the world for nothing,” Oosthuizen said. “He’s a great young talent, a lot of majors left for him to win. He’s such a cool kid on the course. It’s great play-ing with him. He makes tough shots look really sometimes, especially long irons.
“I don’t think the back nine he hit the ball that great after what he did
on the front nine, but he did what he had to do.”
Woods made an early charge to get back in the hunt, though he nev-er got closer than three shots until a two-putt birdie on the par-5 18th gave him a 66. He finished in third place, two shots behind, and earned enough money to become the first player to surpass $100 million in PGA Tour earnings.
Woods attributed that to higher purses, though he’s responsible for those. “I think we got some interest in the game of golf,” Woods said. “A lot more youth, that’s for sure.”
One of those kids — McIlroy — keeps winning. The Honda Classic in March. The record eight-shot win in the PGA Championship. And now a FedEx Cup playoff event in Boston.
“Three is a great number,” McIl-roy said. “I’d like to make it four — or five — after the FedEx Cup.”
Phil Mickelson also had a 66 and tied for fourth, along with Dustin Johnson, who had a 70 and like-ly played his way onto the Ryder Cup team. Brandt Snedeker made a strong case for a captain’s pick with a 65-67 weekend to finish sixth.
Bears hopeful despite injuries
No. 1 McIlroy adds his 3rd win this year at TPC Boston
AP FILE PHOTO
Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher wipes his face as he watches teammates practice during training camp in Bourbonnais, Ill., on July 27. The Bears believe they have the talent and depth to make a big run after being derailed by injuries last year.
MICHAEL DWYER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, lines up a putt on the fourth hole during the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship PGA golf tournament at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass., on Monday.
