INSIDE Police 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B | Sudoku 4B WEDNESDAY May 6, 2015 84˚ | 63˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM 5he independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 144 Issue 119 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI BY MADISON JOHNSTON STAFF WRITER After the installation of new energy efficient light- ing in three gyms at the ARC, the University will potentially save more than $70,000 this coming fiscal year. The previous 400 light fixtures, 400 watts individ- ually, were replaced with 100 watt Metalux High- Bay Light-Emitting Diodes, HBLED, luminaires fol- lowing a consultation with Engineering Concepts and Solutions, which is located in Champaign. Since 2012, the Facili- ties and Services office has been working in com- pliance with Gary Miller, former associate director of the ARC, to implement LED lighting in the three gyms with the intention of meet- ing the Illuminating Engi- neering Society’s recom- mendations, said Kristina Pettigrew, facilities coordi- nator of campus recreation. The society’s mission is “to improve the lighted envi- ronment by bringing togeth- er those with lighting knowl- edge and by translating that knowledge into actions that benefit the public,” accord- ing to its website. “(The University is) entertaining (the idea of) campus going to LEDs, that is the future for most lights on campus,” Pettigrew said. “Especially because of energy savings, so they are really looking into this for the majority of areas. It is just a budgetary mat- ter as to which departments choose to spend their mon- ey on it.” Tim Madden, vice pres- ident of Engineering Con- cepts and Solutions, said the Change won’t bring changes 0HWDOX[ +LJK%D\ (IILFLHQF\ %XOEV SOURCE: Cooper Industries YUJIN OH THE DAILY ILLINI 7 +%( /XPLQDLUH NPVOUFE BU QFSGPSNT BU B QFSDFOU JODSFBTF JO FOFSHZ TBWJOHT BOE B QFSDFOU MJHIU HBJO 3RZHU 6XSSO\ BMMPXT GPS RVJDL BOE FGGJDJFOU NBJOUFOBODF BOE TBGF DPOOFDUJPO (QDPHO )LQLVK IBT BO VOEFSDPBU PG JSPO QIPTQIBUF UP QSFWFOU UIF TVSGBDF GSPN SVTUJOH 8BSSBOUFE UP MBTU VQ UP GJWF ZFBST JO PQFO TQBDFT VQ UP ¡' /FX UFDIOPMPHJFT JO -&% MJHIUJOH IBWF NBOZ OFX BTQFDUT UIBU DPVME QPUFOUJBMMZ TBWF UIF 6OJWFSTJUZ NPSF UIBO ARC goes green with LED installation Black businesses declining Local police test cameras BY CAELI CLEARY STAFF WRITER The Champaign Police Department is currently considering implementing the use of body cameras for police officers. The Department of Jus- tice is funding $20 million for police departments to purchase body cameras as part of a three-year, $75 mil- lion program to allow local law enforcement agencies the necessary resources to com- bat any issues they may face in their communities, accord- ing to a press release. Joe Gallo, deputy chief of operations at the Champaign Police Department, said the videos from the camera would be used if there were any questions about events involving the police. Howev- er, the amount of video is a concern for the department. “The concern from the administration standpoint is, do we have the ability to handle the back-end solu- tion?” Gallo said. “125 offi- cers wearing body cameras — that is going to be a lot of video that is coming in on a daily basis. How do we clas- sify that, how do we enter it in as evidence?” Gallo said states on the West Coast have tried using body cameras, but the amount of video that comes in and the work required to sift through them is too overwhelming, so they have stopped use of the cameras for now. According to the OJP Diag- nostic Center report, “Police Officer Body-Worn Cam- eras,” there are benefits and concerns to using body cameras. Advocates of body camer- as cite benefits such as trans- parency, improved police and citizen behavior and rap- id resolution of complaints and lawsuits against camer- as police officers, the report states. Opponents of the body cameras have concerns about the privacy of officers and cit- izens, the officer’s health and safety because of the extra piece of equipment and finan- cial costs — each body cam- era can cost between $800 and $1000. At a Champaign town hall meeting, Chief of Police Anthony Cobb also ques- tioned the way the vid- eos would be handled. Two and a half job positions are required to go through 40 squad car videos, and if body cameras are used, the num- ber of people needed would rise exponentially, Cobb said. “Even if we have the mon- ey to buy the cameras, do we have the resources to take care of the baggage?” he asked. Tom Bruno, at-large Cham- paign City Council alderman, said he’s not opposed to the use of body cameras, but said the society will have to con- front initial issues. “There have been cases where we wish there might have been a video camera to know the truth better about certain circumstances, like Ferguson, Missouri, so it (is) a compelling argument for body cameras,” Bruno said. “But the devil is in the details.” [email protected]Editor’s Note: This is the final piece of a three-part series on panhandling within Campustown. BY ANDREW NOWAK STAFF WRITER Teresa Webb has lived in Champaign all her life. She was married for 27 years, but it all changed when she was sent to pris- on after being charged for a DUI for having her keys in her ignition while intoxi- cated and subsequently got a divorce. Webb said being homeless is no way to live and it hurts her body. She hopes to get off the streets this month, and said it is hard, as a wom- an, to be outside at night. “You gotta sleep on a bench or something by your- self or in the alley,” Webb said. “It ain’t no joke, man. When rains coming down, you’re cold, and you’re scared, and then you feel somebody just come up on you. I have been raped, I have been everything you can imagine out here.” Webb said men have plen- ty of options when it comes to shelters, but besides addi- tional space in the winter months, she said the wom- en’s shelters are full. She uses Daily Bread Soup BY DARRAH PERRYMAN STAFF WRITER Contagious, hypnotic music kissed the streets of Champaign in the 1950s in what some remember as an electrifying, soul-consum- ing environment that lured many African-American Champaign residents out of their homes and into the busy streets for the night. “The Black Downtown,” known today as North First Street, was a space where African-Americans unwound at a time when dis- criminatory practices were in place and they weren’t welcome anywhere else. “It would light up,” said Joe Taylor, Champaign res- ident and former owner of Rose and Taylor Barber Shop in Champaign. “The bars would play Sam Cooke, Etta James and Billy Holiday. It was always a good time.” “The Black Downtown” featured bars, restaurants, cleaners, hair and beauty shops, such as the Rose and Taylor Barber Shop, which opened in 1962. Taylor said he retired from the shop in 2013, but he still cuts hair for close family, friends and past clients at his home. 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FARAZ MIRZA THE DAILY ILLINI Homeless individuals Teresa Webb and King Garrett sit in downtown Champaign on April 29. 0RUH LQVLGH For the Editorial Board’s take on turning off lights to cut costs, turn to Page 4A SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINI Rose and Taylor has been a local African-American-owned barbershop in Champaign since 1962 and was a part of what was once known as “The Black Downtown.” Today, it remains one of the few African-American owned businesses left. Champaign to consider impact of body cameras Illinois baseball earns Illini of the Week for its 21-game winning streak PAGE 1B Despite resources, panhandlers continue struggling to move on
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After the installation of new energy effi cient light-ing in three gyms at the ARC, the University will potentially save more than $70,000 this coming fi scal year.
The previous 400 light fi xtures, 400 watts individ-ually, were replaced with 100 watt Metalux High-Bay Light-Emitting Diodes, HBLED, luminaires fol-lowing a consultation with Engineering Concepts and Solutions, which is located in Champaign.
Since 2012, the Facili-ties and Services offi ce has been working in com-pliance with Gary Miller, former associate director of the ARC, to implement LED lighting in the three gyms with the intention of meet-ing the Illuminating Engi-neering Society’s recom-mendations, said Kristina Pettigrew, facilities coordi-nator of campus recreation.
The society’s mission is “to improve the lighted envi-ronment by bringing togeth-er those with lighting knowl-edge and by translating that knowledge into actions that benefi t the public,” accord-ing to its website.
“(The University is) entertaining (the idea of) campus going to LEDs, that is the future for most lights on campus,” Pettigrew said. “Especially because of energy savings, so they are really looking into this for the majority of areas. It is just a budgetary mat-ter as to which departments choose to spend their mon-ey on it.”
Tim Madden, vice pres-ident of Engineering Con-cepts and Solutions, said the
Change won’t bring changes
SOURCE: Cooper Industries YUJIN OH THE DAILY ILLINI
ARC goes green with LED installation
Black businesses declining
Local police test cameras
BY CAELI CLEARYSTAFF WRITER
The Champaign Police Department is currently considering implementing the use of body cameras for police offi cers.
The Department of Jus-tice is funding $20 million for police departments to purchase body cameras as part of a three-year, $75 mil-lion program to allow local law enforcement agencies the necessary resources to com-bat any issues they may face in their communities, accord-ing to a press release .
Joe Gallo, deputy chief of operations at the Champaign Police Department, said the videos from the camera would be used if there were any questions about events involving the police. Howev-er, the amount of video is a concern for the department.
“The concern from the administration standpoint is, do we have the ability to handle the back-end solu-tion?” Gallo said. “125 offi -cers wearing body cameras — that is going to be a lot of video that is coming in on a daily basis. How do we clas-sify that, how do we enter it in as evidence?”
Gallo said states on the West Coast have tried using body cameras, but the amount of video that comes in and the work required to sift through them is too overwhelming, so they have stopped use of the cameras for now.
According to the OJP Diag-nostic Center report, “Police
Officer Body-Worn Cam-eras,” there are benefits and concerns to using body cameras.
Advocates of body camer-as cite benefi ts such as trans-parency, improved police and citizen behavior and rap-id resolution of complaints and lawsuits against camer-as police offi cers, the report states. Opponents of the body cameras have concerns about the privacy of offi cers and cit-izens, the offi cer’s health and safety because of the extra piece of equipment and fi nan-cial costs — each body cam-era can cost between $800 and $1000.
At a Champaign town hall meeting, Chief of Police Anthony Cobb also ques-tioned the way the vid-eos would be handled. Two and a half job positions are required to go through 40 squad car videos, and if body cameras are used, the num-ber of people needed would rise exponentially, Cobb said.
“Even if we have the mon-ey to buy the cameras, do we have the resources to take care of the baggage?” he asked.
Tom Bruno, at-large Cham-paign City Council alderman, said he’s not opposed to the use of body cameras, but said the society will have to con-front initial issues.
“There have been cases where we wish there might have been a video camera to know the truth better about certain circumstances, like Ferguson, Missouri, so it (is) a compelling argument for body cameras,” Bruno said. “But the devil is in the details.”
Editor’s Note: This is the fi nal piece of a three-part series on panhandling within Campustown.
BY ANDREW NOWAKSTAFF WRITER
Teresa Webb has lived in Champaign all her life.
She was married for 27 years, but it all changed when she was sent to pris-on after being charged for a DUI for having her keys in her ignition while intoxi-cated and subsequently got a divorce.
Webb said being homeless is no way to live and it hurts her body. She hopes to get off the streets this month, and said it is hard, as a wom-an, to be outside at night.
“You gotta sleep on a bench or something by your-
self or in the alley,” Webb said. “It ain’t no joke, man. When rains coming down, you’re cold, and you’re scared, and then you feel somebody just come up on you. I have been raped, I have been everything you can imagine out here.”
Webb said men have plen-ty of options when it comes to shelters, but besides addi-tional space in the winter months, she said the wom-en’s shelters are full. She uses Daily Bread Soup
BY DARRAH PERRYMANSTAFF WRITER
Contagious, hypnotic music kissed the streets of Champaign in the 1950s in what some remember as an electrifying, soul-consum-ing environment that lured many African-American Champaign residents out
of their homes and into the busy streets for the night.
“The Black Downtown,” known today as North First Street, was a space where African-Americans unwound at a time when dis-criminatory practices were in place and they weren’t welcome anywhere else.
“It would light up,” said Joe Taylor, Champaign res-ident and former owner of Rose and Taylor Barber Shop in Champaign. “The bars would play Sam Cooke, Etta James and Billy Holiday. It was always a good time.”
“The Black Downtown” featured bars, restaurants,
cleaners, hair and beauty shops, such as the Rose and Taylor Barber Shop, which opened in 1962. Taylor said he retired from the shop in 2013, but he still cuts hair for close family, friends and past clients at his home.
SEE BUSINESS | 3A
SEE LIGHTS | 3A
SEE PANHANDLE | 3A
SOURCE: Police Foundation, Champaign Police NATALIE GACEK THE DAILY ILLINI
LIFE & CULTURE OPINIONS SPORTS
Contest winners both feature the animal in design
Looking at the great addresses of past commencements
Former player tries to fi nd new direction back on campus
Squirrels make way to error page
Formula for a commencement
Finding a new path after baseball
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For video of how panhandling affects the Champaign-
Urbana community visit our website at:www.DailyIllini.com
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“I normally would give them money, because I’m a nice person and feel bad, but don’t, because I don’t want to take my wallet out in front of them. It’s a safety issue.”
“I would give every once in a while, it honestly depends on my mood. If I wake up on the right side of the bed, I would probably give the change in my pocket.”
“I don’t, because they tell you at orientation that they aren’t really homeless.”
“I don’t give them money because I’ve seen these people here the past two years, and there are minimum-wage jobs they have access to.”
YOUR VOICE
COMPILED BY FARAZ MIRZA AND ANDREW NOWAK
Q: Do you give money to panhandlers?
FARAZ MIRZA THE DAILY ILLINIHomeless individuals Teresa Webb and King Garrett sit in downtown Champaign on April 29.
For the Editorial Board’s take on turning off lights to
cut costs, turn to Page 4A
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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIRose and Taylor has been a local African-American-owned barbershop in Champaign since 1962 and was a part of what was once known as “The Black Downtown.” Today, it remains one of the few African-American owned businesses left.
Champaign to consider impact of body cameras
Illinois baseball earns Illini of the Week for its 21-game winning streak PAGE 1B
Despite resources, panhandlers continue struggling to move on
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Champaign Burglary was reported
in the 1200 block of Carv-er Drive around 10:30 a.m. Monday.
According to the report, an unknown offender stole the victim’s television and damaged the door of the victim’s apartment.
Theft was reported in the 1200 block of North Walnut Street around 3:30 p.m. Monday.
According to the report,
an unknown offender stole the victim’s bike from the front porch.
University A 38-year-old Univer-
sity student was arrested in the 2300 block of South First Street on charges of domestic battery around 9 a.m. Monday.
Urbana A 30-year-old male was
arrested on charges of as-sault, domestic dispute and criminal damage to prop-erty in the 1800 block of South Cottage Grove Ave-nue around 1:30 a.m. Mon-day.
According to the report, the offender and victim live together and are dat-ing. The offender was in-toxicated and accused the victim of cheating on him. The offender stood over the victim and threatened to kill her. The offender
also damaged the victim’s television, worth about $800.
Criminal damage to property was reported in the 2000 block of Philo Road around 12 p.m. Mon-day.
According to the re-port, an unknown of-fender threw a piece of brick through the victim’s apartment window.
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Attorney General meets with Gray’s familyBY ALISON KNEZEVICH AND MARK PUENTE TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with members of Freddie Gray’s family Tuesday, part of a tour that included discus-sions with offi cials and community leaders about the 25-year-old whose death sparked rioting and looting around the city.
At her fi rst stop, the University of Baltimore, she met with members of Gray’s family; they left without commenting to the media waiting in the lobby.
Lynch’s visit comes four days after Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced criminal charges against six offi -cers involved in Gray’s ar-rest and transport. He died April 19 — one week after suffering a spinal injury during the arrest.
The Gray case could be viewed as a key test for Lynch, the fi rst African-American woman to hold the attorney general’s posi-tion.
In a news conference last Wednesday, Lynch de-nounced the “senseless acts of violence” on Baltimore streets, and the unrest con-sumed her fi rst week as the nation’s top law enforce-ment offi cial.
Although Mosby charged the offi cers, the Justice De-partment is still conducting its own investigation into Gray’s death, as well as a
collaborative review of the Baltimore Police Depart-ment.
City offi cials requested federal help in October to curb police abuses after a multipart Baltimore Sun investigation found that the city had paid nearly $6 million since 2011 in court judgments and settlements for lawsuits alleging brutal-ity and other misconduct.
The Sun found that doz-ens of black residents re-ceived battered faces and broken bones during ques-tionable arrests. In nearly all of the cases, prosecu-tors or judges dismissed the charges against the sus-
pects.Issues surrounding
Gray’s arrest mirror those in cases highlighted in the Sun’s investigation. As soon as Gray died, Mayor Steph-anie-Rawlings Blake ques-tioned why police stopped Gray in the Gilmor Homes housing complex. He fl ed af-ter he and an offi cer locked eyes, but Mosby said Friday that police had no probable cause to stop him.
The deaths of Gray and several other men have sparked a national debate over the way police depart-ments treat minorities.
In North Charleston, South Carolina, last month,
a white offi cer was charged with murder after a video surfaced showing that he fi red eight bullets into a black man’s back as he fl ed.
The deaths of Eric Gar-ner in New York and Tamir Rice in Cleveland at the hands of offi cers have also stoked outrage in recent months.
In Missouri, the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by Offi cer Darren Wilson sparked months of protests.After the uprising in Fer-guson, President Barack Obama dispatched then-At-torney General Eric Holder to address the tension.
LLOYD FOX TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEU.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, right, visits Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and other offi cers at the Central District on Tuesday.
company worked with ARC representatives to fulfi ll their needs by suggesting the replacement of the Uni-versity industrial lighting standard. The fl uorescent T8 lamps were replaced by LEDs, which would also allow for the lights to be switched on and off individ-ually rather than all at once.
“We approached (ARC representatives) with the idea of going LED,” Madden said. “LEDs were a little
bit more expensive initial-ly, but the energy savings will end up saving the Uni-versity money.”
Madden also said the new design allowed for conve-nient and safe installation.
According to the Metalux specifi cation sheet , Eaton, a power management compa-ny, had its Cooper Lighting department work to create the cost-effi cient HBLED lights that have “precision designed optics, multiple distributions, lumen out-puts and color temperatures (that) make the HBLED ideal for industrial, com-
mercial, manufacturing, gymnasium and other appli-cations that utilize tradition-al HID and linear fl uores-cent high bays.”
According to the Engi-neering and Science Hall of Fame , in 1962, Univer-sity alumnus and professor Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the LED light that gives off a visible red light rather than an infrared light. Hol-onyak was awarded the 2015 Draper Prize — which hon-ors engineers for their con-tribution to the fi eld and pro-motes public awareness of the importance of science
— for his work with LEDs.The Illinois Climate
Action Plan , iCAP, ensures that Holonyak’s legacy will continue with the Universi-ty’s commitment to spread the use of LED lights across campus and make them the primary lights used. The iCAP was sent out in 2010 with goals for the campus to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Installing LED lights is not an entirely new ven-ture. In 2010, the Univer-sity switched 550 lighting fi xtures in the lobby of the Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts with LED lights, which cut rough-ly four-fi fths of lighting expenses.
In 2014, the Offi ce of the Provost allocated $100,000 to fund the installment of 531 LED fi xtures in eight campus buildings. Oth-er campus projects which entail replacing lights with LED technology include 171 lamps at the Krannert Art Museum, Talbot Lab, Roger Adams Lab, the Vivarium, the Department of Electri-cal and Computer Engineer-ing and many more.
iCAP’s future major proj-
ect is the construction of a 20.8 acre Solar Farm along the south side of Windsor Road between First Street and the railroad tracks.
On her blog , Chancellor Phyllis Wise wrote, “The LED has changed the world in which we live. From the mundane of better traffi c lights to revolutionizing communications technolo-gy, the little red light that Nick turned on 50 years ago is still guiding us forward and opening new avenues of exploration and learning.”
According to e-Black Champaign-Urbana , a plat-form that compiles docu-ments of African-American history in Urbana-Cham-paign, the African-Amer-ican population increased from 1,700 in 1940 to 3,000 in 1950. As a result, there was a need for African-American businesses.
“It was a place for Afri-can-Americans to come together ... no matter what walk of life, or lev-el of income,” said Wil-liam Jones, current owner of Rose and Taylor Barber Shop. “We still have a hand-ful of those businesses left in Champaign, and they still remain true to their roots.”
Taylor said the peak of “The Black Downtown” came in the early to mid 1960s, as businesses became lucrative and successful. However, he said some businesses failed to adapt with the times and suffered economically.
For many barbers, their clientele was predominantly black, Jones said, but after the Civil Rights Movement and the continuous efforts of the University to inte-grate the African-American community, some shops had to diversify their clientele if they wanted to survive fi nancially, especially with several similar businesses in the area competing with one another.
“The black businesses died out because of how diffi cult it was to get loans
to keep the businesses run-ning,” said Martel Miller, who grew up near “The Black Downtown” and is now a Champaign commu-nity member and activist. “I think the city didn’t work with the owners as much as they could have or do for other businesses.”
Yet, as black businesses began failing, a clear divi-sion segregated what was once “The Black Downtown” from the rest of Champaign, specifically the campus community, said Miller.
Miller and Terry Townsend, Champaign activist, recently wrote a letter asking the Board of Trustees not to renew Chan-cellor Phyllis Wise’s con-tract for next year, partially because of how they feel the University treats the Afri-
can-American community in Champaign. As a com-munity activist, Miller said he is greatly affected by the stigma that is associat-ed with crossing University Avenue and the stereotypes that follow local Champaign residents. Today, there are only four black business left in “The Black Downtown” on North First Street, accord-ing to Miller and Jones.
Taylor said seeing black businesses coming and going was diffi cult, but he accounts luck, resilience and creativity to the suc-cess of a business.
“You have to be innova-tive and fresh to own a black business in Champaign,” Taylor said.
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University researchers create world’s fastest MRIBY LIYUAN YANGSTAFF WRITER
University researchers developed a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging designed to have a faster speed than current MRIs, allowing it to visualize motions of mus-cles clearly without inter-fering with normal speak-ing processes.
The new MRI has good spatial and temporal reso-lution with a speed of 100 frames per second, said Mao-jing Fu, graduate student at the University.
Brad Sutton, associate pro-fessor in bioengineering and University alumnus, said he and his colleagues are look-ing into how the new MRI can function in helping aging people by examining the movements of muscles in their mouth critical for speech and swallowing.
He said the machine will also help people, especially infants, who have a collapsed palate and require surgery to correct the split muscles.
“By going faster, we are able to catch a couple of imag-es on its way and you can see how the muscle is contract-ing and how (it) is interact-ing with the other muscle and how’s that affecting its tra-
jectory,” Sutton said.Aaron Johnson, assistant
professor in the depart-ment of speech and hearing science, received funding from the Campus Research Board Programs and a K23 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health to study the voic-es of older adults and how they can use vocal training to improve voices.
Fu said people have been studying speech for a long time, but only by listening to audio recordings, instead of through visual evidence.
Using the new technique, researchers can not only hear the sound but also watch it at arbitrary angles and resolutions.
“I think that’s the biggest change,” Fu said, “That pro-vides an entire new side of tool for people to understand and analyze the speech, not just hearing. So that’s just one side that will fundamen-tally change the fi eld.”
Typical MRIs only cap-ture 10 frames per second, which are unable to capture the movement of muscles critical in producing sound during speech or singing, but the new MRI makes it feasi-ble, Johnson said.
He said his goal is to be able to see how the muscles and structures in the mouth change to create a better voice.
Sutton added they are still advancing the new MRI to capture 166 frames per sec-ond and three-dimensional visualization.
“And what that will allow us to do is we can look at any plane we want to,” Sut-ton said.
He said the MRI will also allow surgeons to look at how well they are perform-ing corrective surgeries for children with collapsed pal-ates because the operation requires them to reattach split muscles.
The surgeries for children are largely based on anatomy because there is not a lot of dynamic imaging available, Sutton said.
“I think that’s (what) our biggest impact will be, tak-ing people from structure to function in these types of acquisitions,” Sutton said.
The development of the new MRI technique is a col-laborative work, Fu said. The framework was developed with Zhi-pei Liang, profes-sor in electrical and comput-er engineering.
Sutton extended and fi nal-ized the technique into the speech MRI context. With Johnson, who has a 10-year working experience as a pro-fessional singer in Chicago choirs and clinical applica-tions, they can use the new MRI to answer questions across multiple fi elds.
Fu said the new MRI is not a market-oriented prod-uct because the fundamen-tal driving force in doing research is to fi gure out the unknown and the boundar-ies and limits of what people cannot do.
In the future, Sutton said the MRI can be used to diag-nose functional defi ciencies researchers currently can-not identify in patients. It will also allow researchers to pro-duce a wide range of dynam-ic imaging in the scientifi c fi eld to look at other types of functions in the body.
Sutton said the major chal-lenge going forward will be extracting the information needed for speech and sci-
ence applications from thou-sands of images coming out just for a short scan due to the absolutely fast speed.
Johnson said the Beck-man Institute provided the essential infrastructure, the physical space and resourc-es to support their disciplin-ary work.
“We’ve been very lucky to be able to get funding and money to do the research,” Johnson said. “Running an MRI machine is a very expen-sive endeavor so the fact that we have two machines right here is really incredible.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF BECKMAN INSTITUTEUniversity researchers test a new MRI machine that captures ten times more frames per second.
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France passes surveillance law with overwhelming approval
Migrant survivors of boat wreck saved, 40 believed dead
PEN awards Charlie Hebdo despite controversy amid attacks
PARIS — A divisive sur-veillance law giving broad powers to French intelli-gence services in the name of countering domestic ter-rorist threats passed with overwhelming approval in the country’s lower house of parliament Tuesday.
The bill, which has come under harsh scrutiny by crit-ics saying it gave the govern-ment undue power and repre-sented an invasion of privacy, received 438 votes in favor. Only 86 lawmakers cast a vote against the bill, and 42 abstained.
Supporters of the bill,
which will now go to the Senate, say it represents an important step toward accounting for new forms of digital communica-tion. Government offi-cials have defended it as a natural update on exist-ing surveillance laws that were conceived before the huge increase of online networking.
But French and interna-tional human rights orga-nizations have argued that the legislation poses broad threats to civil liberties and sharply curtails personal freedoms.
ROME — Survivors of a boat wreck who were taken to safety in Italy told aid work-ers that about 40 migrants on board died while attempt-ing to cross the Mediterra-nean, Save the Children said Tuesday. The charity group listened to their accounts in Catania, a port in eastern Sicily, where 194 migrants rescued at sea disembarked from a container ship. Five
bodies were also brought to shore. Spokeswoman Giovanna Di Benedetto said by phone from the port that the migrants’ boat reportedly ran into diffi culties and that the death toll was feared to be much higher.
“Survivors told us that dozens of migrants fell into the sea, maybe around 40. There is no confi rmation of this number,” she said.
NEW YORK — If the PEN American Center’s mission is to promote free expres-sion and lively discourse, the literary group accom-plished that with its deci-sion to honor the French magazine Charlie Hebdo at its annual Literary Gala on Tuesday night.
Even before the attack on a Texas art event lampoon-ing the Prophet Muhammad, PEN’s decision to award
Charlie Hebdo a freedom of expression citation had stirred controversy.
Days before the ceremo-ny, under tighter-than-usu-al security due to Sunday’s Texas attack, more than 200 members of PEN had signed a letter disassociating them-selves from the decision to give the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Free-dom of Expression Cour-age Award to Charlie Hebdo.
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Kitchen and occasional-ly showers at the TIMES Center.
Courage Connection, a women’s shelter and emergency housing orga-nization in Champaign, is currently full, said Mary Wallace, the shelter’s director of development.
According to the Nation-al Alliance to End Home-lessness, in 2013, 63.4 percent of all sheltered homeless were male .
Wallace said one of the diffi culties with housing women is they often have children with them, which requires additional space.
Webb said she has been working with an offi-cer of the Champaign Police Department to help straighten out her life, she has issues with her ex-hus-band, and her daughter has stolen her disability money.
“He’s (the offi cer) helped me with my daughter, and thank God for him, because that’s the only way,” Webb said. “He came and checked up on me today to make sure I was OK.”
Webb said she knows a homeless couple that could change their lives, but choose not to because they have lost so much hope and don’t care anymore.
Talking to other home-less people, helping them out and sharing what little she has helps Webb get by.
“People think that just because you’re homeless, you don’t have a purpose,” Webb said. “Yeah you do; you’ve got a purpose. I mean God is making us be able to survive. There is a reason.”
Webb is one of the many homeless individu-als Tony Comtois, mentor at C-U at Home, might fi nd on his daily drive around Champaign for the orga-nization’s street outreach
program.On April 29, Comtois
offered to put Webb up in a hotel for the night for safe-ty, after he witnessing her visibly upset. Earlier that day, as Webb sat on a bench in downtown Champaign, she heard from a homeless man sitting next to her, King Garrett, that anoth-er homeless man was back in town, who she believed was going to kill her.
Comtois talked to Webb and Garrett, offering her the hotel room, but she turned him down, say-ing she had some things to do that day but maybe tomorrow.
It is the sickness of having been on the street, C omtois said. He c a l l e d it being “chewed up by the machine” as he dis-c u s s e d seeing a v a c a n t look in the eyes of the homeless.
“The street has just ate them up, and there ain’t nothing left inside,” Com-tois said. “They’ve shut down completely because something happened to them or they’ve seen some-thing and they just can’t deal with it anymore, so they’re going to check out mentally.”
Just when he thinks he has seen it all, Comtois said he sees another thing he just can’t understand.
Comtois said one pan-handler refused to take new clothes given to him by a volunteer because he couldn’t look presentable if he wanted people to give him money.
Another man had an opportunity to get health care but instead ignored his condition until his foot needed to be amputated.
“To try and understand it is damn near impossi-ble,” Comtois said.
Comtois said he wishes people would go and talk to the homeless and panhan-dlers instead of throwing money at them.
Skip Frost, deputy chief of police for the Universi-ty Police Department, said more times than not, the money given to panhan-dlers isn’t providing them with sustenance. Rather, it is enabling them to contin-ue the life they are already living.
Frost’s advice to stu-dents is to give to social ser-vices, such as United Way
or C-U at Home, if they want to actual-ly help the homeless.
“ T h e y come to the cam-pus area b e c a u s e people are so gen-e r o u s , ” Frost said. “If they found that
people were unwilling to give them cash upfront on the street, if that started to occur, they would go somewhere else or they would fi nd another way to survive.”
One panhandler on Com-tois’ route, Jason Easterly, admitted he was using his money for things besides sustenance. He said alcohol and drugs led him to being homeless, but it’s still what his money goes toward.
By fl ying a sign in the evening in downtown Champaign for a couple hours or so, Easterly, 28, said he makes around $75 to $80 on a bad day.
He is originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, but ended up in Illinois after being transferred in and out of mental institutions after trying to kill him-self. Easterly said he goes
to Daily Bread Soup Kitch-en in order to get sack lunches.
Another panhandler on Comtois’ route is some-one he knows from his hometown of Rantoul, where they went to school together.
Panhandler Michael Fot-tler, 47, currently rents an apartment, but rent and utilities take up all of his disability payments. He has had bone cancer for almost 17 years, and is struggling to stay alive.
The type of bone cancer Fottler has, chondrosarco-ma, is rare and has already taken his leg.
“I’m kind of scared to go back (to Carle),” Fot-tler said. “Right now, I think I got it in my right hand because what hap-pened with my right leg, the muscles pulled off the bone because of the can-cer. I don’t know, I’m just afraid to go back because they (might) cut my arm off, I’d rather die with my boot on, you know what I mean?”
He said watching tele-vision and not thinking about tomorrow help get him through the day.
“I just don’t know what to do anymore,” Fottler said.
Comtois ends up getting to know the homeless just by how much he interacts with them. The longer the conversation, the more you learn about why they’re still out on the street, he said.
Comtois said they are still out on the street main-ly for three reasons: They don’t know how to connect with resources available to them, they have burned bridges with certain resources or they choose not to use them.
“They don’t want to be on the street, but they don’t want to submit to anybody else’s rules either,” Com-tois said.
“They don’t want to be on the street, but they don’t want to submit to anybody else’s rules either.”
TONY COMTOIS MEMBER AT C-U HOME
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIRose & Taylor Barbershop is one of the few remaining African-American-owned shops in Champaign.
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O ur University is a large force in the landscape of colleges across the nation. Be-
cause of our large reaching and innovative technology, we have established our-selves as a campus trailblaz-er in the field of energy-sav-ing and eco-friendly policies.
Through various points this year, be it the Greeks Go Green initiative or the revolutionary Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, the University has been finding inventive ways to conserve energy and help the planet.
It cannot be denied that our campus still has prog-ress to make, and one of those areas of progress comes with an added ben-efit, as well. Next year, the University will be saving around $70,000 by switch-ing to more energy-efficient lighting fixtures in the Activ-
ities and Recreation Center. While similar fixtures were installed in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in 2010, as well as other campus buildings, we need to be making a push to in-stall similar fixtures, or light systems with the same ener-gy-saving effect, in all cam-pus buildings.
This is a great step for the University, not only because it will continue to save en-ergy, but because it will al-leviate the financial stress caused by impending budget cuts.
A frequent misconception about eco-friendly initiatives is they will cost more money to implement and continue running than other potential-ly more outdated technol-ogies. However, it is new equipment, such as the ener-gy-saving light fixtures, that has the potential to reinvig-orate the images and ideals associated with environmen-
tally-focused programs on all campuses across the na-tion.
If something as simple as changing light bulbs has the ability to open up or restruc-ture the University’s bud-get while simultaneously decreasing the amount of en-ergy used by the University, that should be a change we push for in all campus build-ings.
To stay in the tune of sav-ing money by saving energy, we can be making more ef-forts to ensure lights in cam-pus buildings are turned off throughout the night. While some lights should be kept on for security purposes, far too often it is apparent that lights are left on throughout the night, not only wasting energy but driving up ener-gy spending.
If turning off lights in campus buildings was paired with the new light technol-ogies our campus is start-
ing to adopt, the Universi-ty would surely save money that could be absorbed into areas of our budget that are suffering.
There are so many poten-tial benefits the Universi-ty and environment would reap following these chang-es, and these are benefits we shouldn’t be waiting years to start getting. Changing the light systems in the ARC is a great step, but hopefully the University will make haste getting this technology into other campus buildings.
When we see the conver-gence of the budget and en-vironment — two of the greatest issues our campus and world face today — be-ing combated in one compre-hensive plan, it should not only be praised, but should be something other cam-puses try to implement. We should always be working to-ward the title of a cutting-edge, eco-friendly campus.
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EDITORIALEnlightening approach to budget cuts
Find yourself in graduation speeches
In less than two weeks, the University will hold a campus-wide commence-
ment ceremony complete with a commencement speaker and speech. I have no doubt that this year’s speaker, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foun-dation, will have insightful and motivational comments for the graduates.
Graduation’s approach this year has encouraged me to think on past famous commencement speeches: David Foster Wal-lace at Kenyon College in 2005, Steve Jobs at Stanford Universi-ty in 2005 or John F. Kennedy at American University in 1963.
While they are not all as famous, there are hundreds if not thousands of these speech-es delivered each year at vari-
ous schools around the country, and the advice offered in each is applicable to every graduate regardless of year and college.
I started wondering if there are similarities between the most memorable and effective speeches and identified some common themes.
According to Wallace’s speech at Kenyon, an essential com-ponent of any speech is “the deployment of didactic little parable-ish stories. The story ‘thing’ turns out to be one of the better, less bullshitty conven-tions of the genre.”
He further hypothesizes that perhaps the most impor-tant component present in these commencement speech-es is emphasis on the value of education.
But there’s something else, as Wallace and so many others prove through their addresses.
These speeches are a unique opportunity. They address a minority population. While attending a large university, it might not feel as if we, as stu-
dents, are the minority, but less than a third of the popula-tion over 25 holds a bachelor’s degree in the United States.
A commencement speech is a chance to address a group of young people at the brink of an enormous transition, one that they have been consciously mov-ing toward for two decades, which explains why failure is typically a large theme, as well. Graduates inherently have suc-ceeded by one of the largest measures of societal success: obtaining a college degree.
In the midst of this accom-plishment, however, they are warned that life isn’t just a jour-ney upward from that point on. They are advised to somehow enjoy the inevitable failures and to view them as liberation from some sort of system and struc-ture that wasn’t working for them anyway.
The call to take risks for per-sonal gain and success is also prevalent. They say that gradu-ates have to make their own luck; they have to take every
opportunity. The value of hard work can never be overstated.
Simultaneously, and almost conflictingly, these speech-es instruct graduates to think beyond themselves, to promote peace and global collaboration.
One cannot, in good con-science, leave out Wallace’s dis-cussion on the meaning of life and progressing past what he calls the “default settings” in our way of thinking.
He insists that people are aware of the way we think and that we can control how to view any situation.
All this advice flies at grad-uates from every which way. Embrace failure, take any sort of action, promote peace, attempt to understand what it means to live and to die, be an individual, be part of a collec-tive ... The tropes go on and on.
Graduates are advised to do everything and anything, so long as they are conscious of their decision.
All the most revered speeches are about taking responsibility
for the way in which one decides to move forward and enter into a working society, whatever way he or she takes.
The graduates have to be aware; they must be empathet-ic; they have to be curious about their surroundings. Somehow it all comes back to that.
This is an idea that Wal-lace heavily emphasized in his speech. Though it wasn’t fre-quently at the forefront of other memorable speeches, the idea is constantly present in one way or another.
For all the May 2015 gradu-ates, first off so many congrat-ulations to you. Secondly, take a minute to think about what advice some of the most remark-able people have previously given to those in your current position.
React to the advice that res-onates most with you, and be aware of your own agency when doing so.
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SEATTLE — David Yama dropped out of school when he was 14, and by the time he was in his mid-20s had worked enough odd jobs to last a lifetime.
He’d volunteered as a sail-or on a replica of a historic tall sailing ship, worked as a set crew member on a major motion picture, bagged gro-ceries, sold cars at a local dealership, pulled shots as a barista and bartended at a swanky hotel.
But nothing clicked until Yama went back to school to finish his education — where his work ethic has started to pay off.
Yama was honored recent-ly as one of the top commu-nity-college scholars in the nation by Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor soci-ety for community-college students.
For his academic, leader-ship and civic work, he was first picked by a panel of local judges to be the state’s New Century Scholar, then named to the All-USA Academic Team. He was one of just 20 community-college students nationwide to receive the lat-ter distinction.
Yama, who has a 3.96 grade-point average and also does volunteer work at a University of Washington research lab, will graduate with an associate degree this June from South Seattle Col-lege, one of the city’s three community colleges. He hopes to transfer to a four-year school — either the University of Washington or the University of California, Berkeley — and eventually earn his Ph.D. in biomedi-cal engineering. As part of the Phi Theta Kappa honor, he received a scholarship to further his education.
“Once I started here — the environment was right, it was a 180 from what I thought I was capable of,” Yama said.
His journey from dropout to academic star started in Ocean Shores, Washington, in the North Beach School Dis-trict, where more than 70 per-cent of students qualify for federally sponsored free or reduced-price lunches. Only about a third go to college after high-school graduation.
Yama has four siblings, and family life was turbu-lent. His father was an alco-holic and eventually aban-
doned the family. Yama says some of his teachers decided at an early age that he was a troublemaker. He had run-ins with counselors and admin-istrators, and was held back a grade. When he was 14, he dropped out.
A year later, he persuaded the captain of the Lady Wash-ington, a tall ship that docked in Aberdeen, to let him volun-teer on a sailing trip to Cali-fornia. Eventually he worked on other tall ships — experi-ence that led to a job on the set of the 2003 movie “Mas-ter and Commander,” filmed in Baja, Mexico, when he was 18.
The job was boring, but it paid well. After nine months, Yama returned to Washing-ton with money in the bank, but no job or specific skills. He hopped from job to job. He knew it wasn’t adding up to anything.
“I was starting to get really tired — I was jumping from boat to boat, basically,” he said.
Although his lack of a high-school diploma hadn’t kept him from getting mini-mum-wage jobs, Yama knew he could do better if he went back to school. He wanted, at the very least, to complete his GED, or high-school equiva-lency degree. When he was 27, he started taking classes at South Seattle College.
GED instructor Jane Har-ness said many of her stu-dents had bad experiences in school and lack confidence in their academic skills. They’re often guarded and insecure. Yama was no exception.
“It’s hard, making that decision to go back to school when you have failed pre-viously,” she said. But with Yama, “this little switch turned on for him, and he became really determined.”
Harness said Yama was remarkable not only for the way he reached out to get help when he needed it, but also the way he helped oth-er classmates when he grew confident with his mastery of the material.
South Seattle College chemistry instructor Jake Ashcraft said Yama excels at self-assessment and he organized study groups where his fellow students could get together to talk science, a proven strategy to improve comprehension.
Yama recognizes that, at 30, he’s better able to con-centrate on academics than he was when he was young-er. But he also gives a lot of credit to the college: “Here, they’re very interested in your success, and willing to help.”
Two years ago, Yama was accepted into a University of Washington program called Building Bridges to Bioengineering, which gives community-college students experience in biomedical and bioengineering labs. The work paid a summer sti-pend, and he’s been a volun-teer at a UW lab ever since.
He also tutors at the non-profit Neighborhood House, which offers aid to refugee and immigrant families, and he has helped clean up the Duwamish River, plant-ed trees for the nonprof-it Nature Consortium and donated blood platelets.
Yama doesn’t know if he’s lucky or just reaping the rewards of hard work. But his instructors say they’re not surprised by his suc-cess — to Harness and Ash-craft, it’s that combination of a strong work ethic and a generous spirit that has brought Yama to where he is today.
Ex-dropout honored at school
explorers with newfound knowledge about the Uni-versity’s unseen energy system.
3. Don’t be afraid to shift gears
The exciting thing about being a features reporter is that in order to write a decent article, I have to become an expert about a topic in two weeks — often, one I initial-ly knew little to nothing about.
My very first article was about IntelliWheels, a University-grown compa-ny that makes automatic gear-shifting wheelchairs. The company was only 1 year old when I talked to its founder Scott Daigle in 2011, but it has since gained high acclaim as it found its niche.
Along with co-found-er Marissa Siebel and product manager and renowned Paralympic ath-lete Josh George, Daigle and his company have come a long way since they helped me kick off my Daily Illini career as a freshman.
4. Learn something new — and ancient
What do you get when you cross four engineer-ing students, one semes-ter-long project and 400 pounds of granite? A rep-lica of an Ancient Egyp-tian pulley used to build the pyramids.
In April 2013, I learned about Stephen Blakely, dubbed the “re-inventor of the Egyptian pulley.” He and the four students came up with a mecha-nism that could have potentially built the pyra-mids in Giza, using only rope, stone and olive oil.
These students deviated from typical senior design projects, and I deviated from typical features arti-cles to focus on this mod-ern version of an ancient device.
5. Don’t lose your Marbles
Being a reporter can be stressful: Waiting to hear back from sources, meet-ing strict deadlines and finding out you can’t get
an interview with Jenna Marbles.
The YouTube mega-star came to visit cam-pus in mid-April of this year, and unfortunately, she wasn’t taking inter-views before her appear-ance. However, I was still able to talk with some passionate fans, dig deep into YouTube for some research and attend her packed lecture.
No actual marbles were lost in the making of this article.
6. Learn to juggle your responsibilities
Armed with my trusty voice recorder, I took a field trip to the Armory to catch a meeting with the Illini Juggling and Uni-cycle Club in October of 2014.
While I was there, I met Antonio Daniel II, presi-dent of the club, and Chris LaReau, a 1988 alumnus and veteran 30-year club juggler. LaReau said he comes to the meetings to de-stress from his day job and see the club change throughout the years.
Since I have known how to juggle since high school, I joined in the fes-tivities while I was there and continued to juggle my reporting, schoolwork and other campus activi-ties after I left.
7. Put your heart into it
This article takes the cake for the most in-depth research, digging and sheer luck. As a reporter, I do my best to speak with the most relevant sourc-es to the articles I write about, but it can be diffi-cult for more specialized topics. For this one, some-how I hit the nail on the head.
I wrote an article about the history of Valentine’s Day in February 2014. I dug deep in the Univer-sity Archives; I braved the eerie Stacks the Main Library alone; and most importantly, I was able to speak to Ralph Mathisen, professor in LAS, who just happened to have a stash of early 1900s Valentines at his disposal.
8. Have some fun (with puns)
One day I decided to write an article all in
puns, just to see if I could manage it. Similar to the mustache article, it was a bit wacky to say the least.
Ultimately I challenged myself to fit as many quips in the article as possible, and the result was either surprising-ly impressive or deeply groan-worthy (depend-ing on how you feel about puns).
9. Be that Guy
One of the few music performance reviews I wrote over the past four years has been Bud-dy Guy at ELLNORA in 2013. I was fortunate to watch his show live when he came to the Krannert Center for the Perform-ing Arts.
The legendary pol-ka dot-wearing guitarist even strolled through the aisles, cracking jokes at the audience and all in all enjoying his time.
The ELLNORA gui-tar festival only comes around once every two years, so once I had the chance to cover such a high-profile show, I made sure to take it.
10. Connecting the dots
In September 2013, I wondered how connected I am with Kevin Bacon — or anyone else in the world, for that matter.
The theory of six degrees of separation —often associated with the game “six degrees to Kev-in Bacon” — states that everyone in the world is connected to each oth-er with about six steps between them. This is one article where I brought a broad topic and narrowed it down to the campus scope, interviewing pro-fessors, researchers, and other professionals who knew more about it.
***Above all, the big-
gest motivation for me to stick with The Daily Illini through 100 articles was the connections I would make and the curiosi-ty of whom I would meet through my assignments.
Speaking to about 300 people from all walks of life, I have established many personal connec-tions over the course of my four-year arc.
KEN LAMBERT TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEA school dropout at 14, David Yama works at a University of Washington Medicine lab where he serves as a volunteer.
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Amenities
Three years ago, on a sunny October day, I found myself in a full
beekeeper’s uniform eas-ily fi ve sizes too big for me, standing in the mid-dle of a fi eld, wondering how I ever landed in such a bizarre situation.
No, this was not a strange dream. This was just another assignment that I’ve had over the past four years as a features reporter for The Daily Illini.
I started out in fall 2011, eager to take my high school newspaper expertise into the college scope. Now, four years, about 300 interviews and
100 articles later, it’s safe to say I’ve done my job — and more.
I admit I have had a love-hate relation-ship with this position throughout the years. Some articles I simply did not like writing. Oth-ers were so special that I could never forget the people I talked to and the new things I learned.
I think the best way to illustrate my experience (and inception into the triple-digit club) is to take you along for the ride. Here’s what I learned after 100 articles.
1. Don’t trust every mustache
Perhaps one of the goof-iest assignments I ever took was an article — no, more like an in-depth, pun-fi lled extravaganza
— about mustaches. Have you ever spoken to the chairman of the Ameri-can Mustache Institute? I have. And he lied to me.
Yes, that’s right, to my face — well, to my ear on the phone. The Ameri-can Mustache Institute, a heavily satirical orga-nization, identifi es itself as “the world’s leading facial hair advocacy orga-nization.” When I spoke with Aaron Perlut, then-chairman of the Institute. Perhaps I should have foreseen the lack of rep-utable information that would come out of that interview.
I must say this was still one of my most memorable articles, but my advice is to have a “stache” of skepticism when you talk to certain sources because they may have their own agenda.
2. Explore your underground interests
My sophomore year, in spring 2013, I had the rare opportunity to explore the mysterious underground steam tun-nels with David Ruzic as part of his NPRE 101: “Introduction to Ener-gy Sources” class. The dank, sweltering heat was unwelcome, even in chilly February, but the experi-ence was unforgettable.
Nine miles of maze-like twists and turns exist under the University’s campus, and my class may not have found our way out if it wasn’t for the helpful steam tunnel workers leading the way.
At the end of the tour, we emerged into the day-light as subterranean
Reporter pens wisdom after 100 articles
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BY EMILY SCOTTSTAFF WRITER
The squirrel has become more of a campus icon than some students and faculty may realize.
The furry creature will soon make a digi-tal appearance on the University website’s 404 and 500 error pages, with the help of the
University Public Affairs’ fi rst Illinois 404 Contest. A 404 error is a requested page that cannot be
found and a 500 error is meant to inform visitors that an unexpected error has occurred. Universi-ty Public Affairs announced in March they were hosting the competition to see who could design the most creative error pages for the University website.
Entries had to have some kind of connection to the University and had to be submitted by any undergraduate or graduate student. The contest ran until the fi rst week of April.
For those looking for inspiration, the contest website presented design examples and offered “one million extra points to anyone who can cre-ate a webpage featuring a campus squirrel hold-ing hands with the Alma Mater sculpture as they run away from an explosion.”
After reviewing the entries, one design was selected to appear on the 404-error page and anoth-er for the 500-error page.
It just so happened that both winning entries featured a squirrel.
Although similar contests have occurred at other universities across the nation, the winning prizes made this one a little offbeat. Winners had their choice of receiving either 404 packages of ramen, 404 inches of bubble wrap or a framed print of their design.
Mayank Mehta, freshman in LAS and one win-ner of the contest, said he had never tasted ramen in his life, so naturally, that’s what he chose for his prize.
“I was like, ‘I’ve never had ramen, so what bet-ter way to start having ramen than with 404 pack-ets of it?’” he said.
His design, which will appear on the 404 page, features a squirrel in a tree with the message: “The page you are looking for was buried! Don’t
worry, here’s a squirrel to help you look.” He said he is happy that so many people
will see his design. Mehta said he has been interested in
graphic design since his freshman year of high school and he hopes to start his own marketing or advertising business.
“Having people appreciate what you make is just such a great feel-ing. And I love that,” he said. “But again, I just make it because it’s fun, and that’s just an extra award at the end, that people actually like what you’re doing.”
As for Morgan Behrens, the other contest winner and junior in Media, she said she decided to go for a more tangible prize and receive a framed print of her design, which also incorporates a squirrel and will appear on the website’s 500-error page.
“I can hang it up and point to it, whereas ramen, you’re going to eat it and be done,” she said.
Behrens said she didn’t expect her design to win.“Right now, I just have some pieces online, and
only teachers, friends and family see it,” Behrens said. “Now, when people screw up on the page somewhere, a lot of people will be seeing (this), so that’s exciting.”
She said it will defi nitely be an asset to her resume and portfolio, as well as good experience in graphic design.
According to Meaghan Downs, editorial asso-ciate for social media for public affairs, the idea for the 404 contest originally stemmed from their desire to increase student engagement through social media.
As the Illinois homepage was recently rede-signed, Downs said now seemed like the perfect time to hold a contest that would showcase student work and complement the new homepage design at the same time.
“It’s cool because both of them did squirrels, which I think is kind of funny and cute,” Downs said.
The contest was also an experiment for Public Affairs to see how they could increase social media interaction. Through outlets such as Twitter — @Illinois_Alma — their aim is to get people to know more about the University while also showcasing unique events such as the contest.
“Twitter is an extension of the University,” Downs said. “We want people to look at that and know that research and events are going on but also know that we also do some cool, innovative things on social media.”
For the upcoming fi nals week, Public Affairs is planning another social media event that may resemble the highly popular hot chocolate give-away that went on during last semester’s fi nals week. Downs said the giveaway resulted in a 76 percent increase of page views on their Twitter page.
“It’s community building,” Downs said. “Some things work better than others ... and we’re still really open to hearing what students have to say and what we can do to better engage with stu-dents, too.”
Students fi le into the Lincoln Hall Theater on a Wednesday morning in April just before the start of a World Religions lec-ture. Most walk in with tired expressions on their faces, showing almost as much emotion as the por-traits that blankly stare out into the great hall.
There are a few weeks left in the spring semester at the University, and some students are counting down the days until classes are done.
But for one of the 397 stu-dents, the end of the semes-ter holds a different mean-ing. Toward the right side of the theater sits 26-year-old Josh Parr, who intent-ly listens as the professor gives fi nal reminders. The student fi ddles with his pen in his right hand. He wears a blue jacket with a block I over his heart that reads “Baseball” across it, under-neath is written, “2011 Big Ten Champions.”
“The dream may quit on you, but don’t you quit on the dream.”
Cam Parr taught his three sons to respect and work hard at the game of base-ball at an early age. A for-mer college baseball play-er at Huntington College, he knew the importance of instilling those values when they were just starting to learn the game.
Cam would take Josh and his twin younger brothers, Jordan and Justin, out to the fi elds of Chillicothe, Illinois, to work on baseball funda-mentals. Cam dragged his daughter, Jessica, along to shag balls and run the bases. Sometimes when the exer-cises got too repetitive, Cam took his four kids to get ice cream.
The father coached his sons through their baseball careers all the way to high school. Josh paved the way for the twins — all three played at Illinois Valley Central High School before becoming Illini.
He played at his dream
school for three years before the Arizona Dia-mondbacks drafted him in the 12th round of the Major League Baseball Draft in June 2011.
Josh’s fi rst stop was with the Missoula Osprey in Mon-tana, where he hit a home run in his second game, bat-ted .288 and led the league in steals halfway through the year.
All was well until he took a fastball to the face in a game, broke his cheekbone in four places and missed most of the remainder of the season.
He didn’t fare well at 2012 spring training and was sent to the South Bend Silver Hawks, the Diamond-backs Single-A team in Indi-ana. There he struggled and was consequently sent to the Yakima Bears in Hillsboro, Oregon, a short-season Sin-gle-A team.
Josh dealt with apprehen-sion: He was fl inching at the plate and doubted he could play baseball anymore. Sit-ting in a hotel room during a road trip with the Silver
Hawks, he made a dismayed phone call to his father. The shortstop was demoted to the Bears two days later and called his father again, this
time questioning his base-ball future.
Cam listened to his son’s doubt and when he was fi n-ished, provided Josh with
the wisdom that only a father can provide.
“When things aren’t going
SPORTS1BWEDNESDAY
ILLINIWEEK
OF THE ILLINI BASEBALLAs 21-game win streak continues, team fi nds different paths to victory.
Back to where it began: life beyond baseball
BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER
Editor’s Note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down on Sunday nights and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.
It’s been a while since the Illinois baseball team lost a game. In fact, the last time the Illini lost, it was 37 degrees outside, spring break had just ended and fi nal exams were simply a distant threat. Heck, the newest roy-al princess wasn’t even alive yet.
Much has changed since Illinois lost 5-2 to Michigan State on March 29. But what hasn’t changed is the num-ber in the Illini’s loss column.
After that loss to the Spar-tans over a month ago, the Illini responded with two wins in two days and have not stopped from there. A school-record 21 consecu-tive wins later, Illinois has the best winning percentage (40-6-1) in the nation, is no lower than eighth among all major national rankings and is in position to lock down one of just eight national seeds for the NCAA tournament, which begins May 29, two months to the day since the Illini last lost.
All season, the Illini play-ers have said they go into every game expecting to win, but with the streak growing as large as it has, some wins deserve double takes.
“It’s gotten to a point after some games where we look back and wonder how we just
pulled that one off,” senior fi rst baseman David Keri-an said. “But it’s fun. After every game, we have a good time and celebrate the win, but after an hour or so, we forget about it and try to move on to the next game.”
Throughout the streak, the Illini have outscored their opponents 161-65 and have won in many different ways.
They’ve blown out oppo-nents, but have also won nine games decided by three runs or fewer. They’ve come out on top in the slugfests when they gave up as many as 10 runs, and they’ve prevailed in the pitching duels during which they were held to as little two runs. They’ve won four extra-inning thrillers, have 13 comeback victories and have done it all with the poise of a professional ball club.
Illinois seems to have found the perfect balance of hustle and composure when it comes to how the team approaches each game. It’s a team that doesn’t panic and has been praised for its maturity by head coach Dan Hartleb.
“You can play at a very high level and not win games, and I think this group is smart and mature enough to understand that,” Hartleb said. “We’ve been fortunate to be able to go on this long streak and do a lot of things well and fi nd ways to win games.”
Illinois has won a school-record 15 straight conference games, and all six of its Big Ten series this season, fi ve of which were sweeps — anoth-er school record.
The Illini cemented the legitimacy of their steady
success with their recent sweep of Ohio State — argu-ably the most talented team they’ve faced since taking two of three games against Oklahoma State early in the season. Not being in a con-ference particularly known for its baseball prowess, Illi-nois hasn’t received the type of national praise expect-ed of a team on this type of run. National media fl ooded Columbus, Ohio, last week-end, though, and saw just how good the Illini are.
Hartleb was happy with how his team performed under the spotlight.
“To continue to play well and then to do it in front of all the national media was a plus,” Hartleb said. “I think we gained respect across the country because some of the major baseball writers were there for the games. They saw our talent level and they saw the execution and energy our team plays with.”
The doubters remain, though. Many are skeptical
of Illinois’ level of compe-tition, but the Illini are 6-1 against teams in the top 25 of the RPI, which is the best mark in the nation. Going even further, Illinois is 10-3 against teams in the top 50 of the RPI — a mark better than powerhouses like Flor-ida, Miami and TCU.
Illinois has six more reg-ular season games to con-tinue to prove the critics wrong and build on its 1 1/2 game lead over Iowa in the Big Ten standings. As far as the streak goes, the Illini are 13 wins away from the all-time record of 34 wins, shared by Texas and Flori-da Atlantic.
That 34th-straight win could come in the midst of a national championship run.
“We’re a legit team right now,” Kerian said. “There’s still doubters out there, we know, but we’re going to keep playing the same way we’ve been playing all year. We just (have to) go out there and prove to the
country that we’re a quality team and can play against anybody.”
Whether or not Illinois ever loses again, it is a team on a special run and has the opportunity to go where
no Illinois team has gone before — Omaha, Nebras-ka, for the College World Series.
DJ Zahn (men’s track and fi eld): The senior broke the school’s record in 200 meter with a time of 20.53 seconds. The record had remained intact for over two decades.
Kandie Bloch-Jones (women’s track and fi eld): The sophomore won the high jump at the Rankin/Poehlein Invitational, clearing a personal best of 1.84 meters and tying for second on Illinois’ top-10 list in that event.
Since the last time Illinois lost: March 29Illinois wide receiver Mike Dudek had yet to tear his ACL.
Michigan State, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Duke clinched a spot in the Final Four.
The Germanwings airliner crash was being investigated.
Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart’s comedy “Get Hard” was one of the top-grossing fi lms in theaters.
The Knicks lost their franchise-record 60th game to the Bulls.
MLB Spring Training was nearing its end.
The fi fth season fi nale of “The Walking Dead” aired on AMC.
Team continues to rise in polls, owns nation’s highest winning percentage
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EARN SAENMUK THE DAILY ILLINIFormer Illinois baseball player Josh Parr, senior in LAS, says goodbye to his baseball days at Illinois Field on Tuesday as he fi nishes up his studies at the University.
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in that moment, it’s easy to think that maybe you should think about doing something else,” Cam said. “You have to live where you’re at ... You have to wake up every-day and fi ght like this is all you’re ever going to do.”
Josh retuned to Hillsboro in 2013 with a new batting stance. With a newly imple-mented stance and big lead step, he hit the ball well and seemed like he would fi nally get promoted above Single-A.
Then, just as quickly, his opportunity vanished — he pulled his hamstring run-ning the bases and missed a month-and-a-half.
Another spring training passed, and Josh returned to South Bend in 2014 and barely played. He anticipat-ed promotion — he thought he was being rested for his jump to Double-A — when the farm director came to town. But when Josh walked into the offi ce and saw a group of men surrounding a chair in the middle of the room, he knew it was the end. He rejected the orga-nization’s offer to fi nish the season with the Osprey and retired on the spot.
Josh was done with his dream.
“It was just what we did.”Jordan Parr enjoyed play-
ing with his brothers but never felt like they were competing against each other.
Josh had always set the example for the twins: He played legion ball, then Peo-ria-area baseball before playing one year of summer travel ball. He was named to the Class A All-State teams during his junior and senior years in high school and was the No. 34 prospect in Illinois.
Josh received offers from Arkansas and LSU but didn’t want to go far from home. Illinois was a family favor-ite, and at the end, the deci-sion was easy.
Jordan and Justin fol-lowed the same path, but their road was different.
Jordan went to Illinois State as a recruited walk-on, but during the summer before college, he tore his left labrum playing bas-ketball and had surgery. He played summer ball and transferred to Park-land Community College in Champaign before join-ing Illinois in 2012. The Los Angeles Dodgers drafted him in 2012 and the Dia-mondbacks did the same in 2013. He took Arizona’s offer.
Justin went to Parkland for a year after graduating from high school and joined Josh at Illinois in 2011. He played there until 2013 when the Philadelphia Phillies
drafted him. Although Josh and Jordan
never played together at Illi-nois, the two crossed paths far from home — in Oregon. Josh was recovering from his injury and Jordan was trying to make a good fi rst impression. The two spent the summer together in an apartment.
Jordan gained respect for his brother because of the way Josh dealt with the dif-fi cult situation. Josh had a strong relationship with his Christian faith and despite the bumpy road, made it seem like he would be all right.
“He was trying to do the best he could,” Jordan said. “I’ve never seen someone demonstrate such faith dur-ing such a diffi cult time.”
Jordan was released this past spring training, and Justin was released after playing in the minors in 2013 and 2014. He fi nished his agri-business degree at Illinois in the fall and now works in Chicago for a sales company. Jordan will return to campus in the fall to fi nish his communications degree — the degree Josh is pursu-ing right now.
All three brothers played the sport they loved, but all accepted they weren’t good enough to play in the major leagues.
“It strengthened us as individuals.”
Julie Parr knew what her husband needed to do when his minor league career ended. She knew Josh had lived his dream and needed to come back to reality.
The former Illinois soc-cer player had been with him since the two started dating their sophomore year of college.
Josh had a good freshman season but made mistakes along the way. He suffered through a sophomore slump during which head coach Dan Hartleb said he couldn’t have a shortstop making so
many errors. Josh played summer-league baseball without any pressure. He did well there and respond-ed with a strong junior sea-son, which earned the atten-tion of scouts.
Julie was there with her then-boyfriend when he was drafted. Josh’s reaction was an anticlimactic “oh” when the pick fi nally appeared on the computer screen. The Diamondbacks scout called him and Josh accepted the offer on a Tuesday, and fl ew to Arizona two days later.
Although Josh didn’t want to address it at the time, both Josh’s mother and Julie agreed that he would come back to fi nish his degree.
The lifestyle of a minor-league baseball player isn’t luxurious. Josh made just enough to pay for rent. He saved the money he received on road trips for meals and instead bought three loaves of bread and a jar of pea-nut butter to stretch out his money.
Josh and Julie married in December 2012. When he struggled to keep his con-fi dence high, she listened and provided advice, know-ing what it was like to have professional sports dreams.
She played for the Chi-cago Red Stars during the summer of 2011, before her senior year, and traveled to Tanzania in 2012 instead of returning to the Red Stars. After living with Josh dur-ing his time in Oregon, she joined the Charlotte Lady Eagles in 2014 and Josh joined her in Charlotte when
he was released by the Dia-mondbacks. There they came to the conclusion that Josh would take summer school classes and return to Illinois to fi nish his degree.
“He’s ready to go with what he knows is next,” Julie said. “We’re glad he’s been able to put in this year and fi nish up and show the val-ue of the education he got.”
The two are now back in Champaign having fi nished their professional careers. Julie served the past soc-cer season as a part-time strength and conditioning coach for the Illini and her role with next season’s team is not yet clear.
“I had a blast, I have no regrets.”
The students disperse from the theater once the guest lecturer fi nishes. Josh packs up his things and heads toward the bustling, sun-soaked main quad.
He enters the Illini Union where a future co-work-er meets him at the Court-yard Café. After graduation, Parr will work for The Nav-igators, a campus ministry group.
He’s wearing his 2011 Big Ten championship jacket, now just a mere symbol of who he used to be. He is no longer that coveted baseball player.
He is just a student, wait-ing to see where his journey will take him next.
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SPORTS BRIEFSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Derrick Rose said he has no pain in the right shoulder that he suffered a stinger in late in the Bulls’ Game 1 victory over the Cavaliers.
The Bulls didn’t practice Tuesday, opting for a fi lm session and walkthrough at the team hotel.
“I feel good,” Rose said in a hotel ballroom. “I’m not sore or anything so that’s a good sign. The stinger was the most pain I had. This morning, I don’t feel anything.”
Rose posted 25 points, five rebounds and five
assists for the Bulls, who try to take a commanding 2-0 lead with two road vic-tories on Wednesday.
“Even if I’m not scoring or having a bad game, you gotta fi gure things out,” Rose said. “But I can’t have that thought in my mind. I’m just having a lot of con-fi dence in my game.
“Overall, we compet-ed. Even when they made their runs and changed the momentum, we withstood that and played together as a team. We didn’t get rattled.”
Derrick Rose feeling ! ne a" er stinger in Bulls’ Game 1
LeBron James discusses need to be more aggressive in next game
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — LeBron James acknowl-edged Tuesday he might have to be more aggressive in Game 2 against the Chi-cago Bulls. With the Cavs’ Big Three down to only two following the injury to Kev-in Love, James thought he was too passive at times during Monday’s 99-92 loss to the Bulls despite fi nishing with 19 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists.
“I think I may have to change my mindset a lit-tle bit, obviously, with Kev being out,” James said. “It’s something we all haven’t been accustomed to this year with him being out for an extensive period or another of the Big Three being out for a long peri-od of time since I had my injuries. It might be a dif-ferent mindset for myself and Kyrie (Irving).”
James has always main-
tained the fi rst game of any series is a “feel out” game, but that may have been tak-en to an extreme Monday.
“I’ve never went into a game saying, ‘OK I’m going to be ultra aggressive,’” James said. “I’ve always had to feel out things, but last night it was a little bit too much feel out. I only had two shots at one point. I was just not as aggressive offensively as I was defen-sively. We’ll see.”
James was most upset with his lack of effi ciency Monday. He shot just 9-for-22 and missed all three of his 3-point attempts.
“For me that’s an off game just from the stand-point I’m a very effi cient player as far as my shoot-ing,” James said. “And to be 9 of 22, that’s unaccept-able. Offensively, as far as shooting, I was not effi cient enough.”
High attendance at college football games setting records
May 5 — Ohio State had a spring game showing that ranked among the best in college football.
The Sooners drew 42,807 fans to the April 11 game, ranking 10th in attendance among Football Bowl Sub-division schools. Defend-ing national champion Ohio State drew a nation’s best 99,391 to its spring football game.
Oklahoma had the high-est spring football game attendance among Big 12 schools. The Big Ten (fi ve) and Southeastern Confer-ence (four) had nine of the Top 10 attendance fi gures this spring.
Oklahoma State’s 16,000 ranked 20th nationally in spring game attendance.
Top 10 College Football
Spring Game Crowds (via SBNation.com):
1. Ohio State, 99,3912. Nebraska, 76,8813. Penn State, 68,0004. Alabama, 65,1755. Tennessee, 63,0166. Auburn, 62,1437. Michigan, 60,0008. Michigan State, 48,0009. Georgia, 46,81510. Oklahoma, 42,807How the Big 12 fared
(number denotes national ranking):
10. Oklahoma, 42,80720. Oklahoma State, 16,00032. TCU, 10,00036. West Virginia, 8,11538. Iowa State, 7,50040. Kansas, 6,22741. Baylor, 5,610Attendance not available:
Kansas State, Texas, Texas Tech.
Parr brothers in the minor leagues
Josh2011: Missoula Osprey 2012: South Bend Silver Hawks/Yakima Bears2013: Hillsboro Hops2014: South Bend Silver Hawks
NED MULKA THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Josh Parr runs toward third base during a game against Michigan on April 17, 2010. Parr has returned to the University to fi nish his degree.
PARRFROM 1B
“CEE 330. Because it’s going to be my future.”
“Social Work 403 with Jim Maurer because he’s just the best.”
“Sports psych (KIN 247) because it made me
realize there is a lot more to sports than physical skill,
and then you can train your mind just as much as you
can train your body.”
“Germany.”
“Vegas!”
“Minocqua, Wisconsin.”
“Thanksgiving meal.”
“Pasta.”
“My favorite meal is parmesan-
garlic boneless chicken wings.”
“Ride my bike across the
country with my dad.”
“Travel the world!”
“Road tripping to Colorado with no plans but being
able to stop whenever and
wherever I want along the way.”
Editor’s note: Every Wednesday, The Daily Illini’s sports department asks four Illinois student-athletes questions pertaining to life off the ! eld.
Out of the classes you’ve taken here so far, which one
is your favorite and why?
Where was the last place you
went on vacation?
What does your favorite meal consist of?
What’s at the top of your bucket list?
Jennifer DeBellisWOMEN’S TRACK
Jordan NalewayWOMEN’S GYMNASTICS
Annie Fleming SOFTBALL
ILLINI ATHLETES SOUND OFFCOMPILED BY ASHLEY WIJANGCO
“ATMOS 120. Snodgrass was the man
and also let me know in class what days the
wind was going to blow out to right fi eld.”
“Myrtle Beach, two years ago.”
“Steak, mashed potatoes and
spinach.”
“For my bucket list, I want to swim
with sharks.”
Casey Fletcher BASEBALL
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BY MARINO ECCHERTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
If the Gophers can pro-duce a championship foot-ball team by 2020, Gov. Mark Dayton wants them to feel right at home.
Monday, Dayton official-ly announced a bid to host the College Football Playoff championship game in the Vikings’ new $1 billion sta-dium, scheduled to open by fall 2016 and already chosen to house the 2018 Super Bowl and the 2019 NCAA tourna-ment Final Four.
“It’s worked twice,” Day-ton said. “Why not go for the trifecta?”
Minnesota has tried and failed once, in 2017, to con-vince college football to hold what is in effect its biggest bowl game in the least like-ly of locales. Bowl games are generally warm-weath-er affairs aimed at attract-ing winter-weary alumni and fans, so selling the charms of Minneapolis in January will be an uphill climb.
The 2016 title game will be in Arizona, the 2017 game in Tampa, Florida.
A successful bid also will require the kinds of tax breaks that stirred con-troversy when the Super Bowl bid was approved last fall. Monday, in fact, the State Senate voted down an attempt to repeal tax con-
cessions already promised to the NFL.
Michele Kelm-Helgen, chair of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, which runs the Vikings sta-dium, said what the game’s organizers want isn’t yet clear.
The College Football Play-off is not an NCAA-sanc-tioned championship and is instead run by the 10 big-gest conferences, including the Big Ten, which splits the majority of the playoff’s revenue.
Scot Housh, co-chair of the state’s campaign for the game, said he expects a suc-cessful bid will require $8 million to $12 million in pri-vate contributions, compa-rable to the winning Final Four bid.
Chris Polincinki, the oth-er co-chair, said hosting the event would have “a signifi-cant, positive impact to our region.” He said the eco-nomic impact of the inaugu-ral playoff championship in Dallas this year was estimat-ed at more than $300 million.
Such figures, however, vary widely among econo-mists, and there is no esti-mate for the Twin Cities yet.
In addition to the game, the bid will focus on the area’s ability to accommo-date concerts, parties and other side events. Taken together, it will “tout the vir-tues of living in Minneapolis, even in January.”
The bid is due May 27, with a decision due this fall. The process is for 2018, 2019 and 2020; Minnesota is seeking consideration for only the final year because of the oth-
er events already committed to the building.
There is no set list of oth-er contenders at this point. Kelm-Helgen said she expects competition from southern cities with a histo-ry of college football bowl games such as Houston and
Dallas.Organizers “have given
a very strong signal that they’re willing to go other places,” Kelm-Helgen said, and was told they would give serious consideration to “a state like Minnesota.”
Among those on hand for
Monday’s announcement were Vikings Chief Oper-ating Officer Kevin Warren and Gophers football coach Jerry Kill.
Kill wasn’t as bullish as Dayton in predicting a Gophers title team, but said the event — already the
most-watched cable-TV pro-gram ever, in its first year — will only continue to grow.
“If you watch the NFL and college football and you watch TV, it just keeps going,” he said, tracing an upward trajectory with his finger.
Minnesota makes hosting bid for 2020 championship
KYLE ROBERTSON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEOhio State Buckeyes running back Ezekiel Elliott gets past Minnesota Golden Gophers linebacker Damien Wilson at TCF Bank Stadium on Nov. 15 in Minneapolis. Minnesota Gov. Dayton hopes to host the 2020 College Football championships.
Gov. Dayton aims for sports event ‘trifecta’ at new stadium
BY DWAIN PRICETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Sometime in mid-June, the NBA will crown a champion for the 2014-15 season.
There will be a parade, fol-lowed by a visit to the White House.
None of the eight teams in the hunt for the NBA’s big-gest prize has raised the tro-phy in the past 16 years. And most of the players weren’t even born the last time their franchises were crowned champions.
The Bulls were the last in 1998 when the incompara-ble Michael Jordan complet-ed his remarkable run of six championships in an eight-year span in Chicago.
While Jordan was inexpli-cably away trying to do one of the hardest things in pro sports — hit a baseball — the Houston Rockets captured consecutive titles in 1994 and ‘95. But in my estimation, the Bulls will finally step out of Jordan’s giant shadow and win a title.
But it won’t be easy.Before they changed their
names to the Wizards, the Washington Bullets won their only NBA championship in 1978. And the Golden State Warriors were last crowned NBA champions in 1975. The
Hawks were still in St. Lou-is when they won their only NBA title in 1958 before mak-ing the move to Atlanta.
Chicago, Houston, Wash-ington, Golden State and Atlanta are five of the eight finalists in the race for this year’s title. The other three teams — Cleveland, Memphis and the Los Angeles Clippers — have never won.
Of course, you can make a case for all eight teams. However, now that Derrick Rose is close to being back to the form that landed him the 2011 MVP award, the Bulls are now positioned to win in so many ways.
With Jimmy Butler, Joakim Noah, Pau Gasol, Taj Gibson, Tony Snell, Mike Dunleavy, Aaron Brooks, Kirk Hin-rich, rookie sensation Niko-la Mirotic and the attack-minded Rose, the Bulls have the inside muscle and outside presence to beat any of the other seven teams. They also have a shrewd coach in Tom Thibodeau. They defeated the Cavs in the first game of the series on Monday.
The Warriors have the strongest chance of blocking the Bulls. Armed with newly-minted MVP Stephen Curry and fellow Splash Brother Klay Thompson, the War-riors are loaded with talent.
From Draymond Green to Andrew Bogut to Harri-son Barnes to Andre Iguo-dala to Shaun Livingston to Marreese Speights to Lean-dro Barbosa to David Lee, the Warriors have few gaps. But the lack of a potent inside
game could be their undo-ing — and that’s the Bulls’ strength.
The Cavs are hampered by the loss of Kevin Love, who suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in the first round against Boston. Also, the NBA has suspended Cavs guard J.R. Smith from the first two games of the Bulls-Cavs series for hitting Celt-ics forward Jae Crowder in the face.
Injuries to Patrick Bever-ley and Donatas Motiejunas could eventually catch up with the Rockets.
The amazing Wizards have talked — and played — a good game so far. But, try as he might, Paul Pierce can’t talk Washington into a title.
Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley Jr. (eye) will likely return to the lineup when their series with Gold-en State shifts to Memphis. But no one from the West-ern Conference will beat the Warriors, who are 42-2 at home this season, with 28 of those victories coming by 10 or more points.
Even though they are the second-most popular team in LA, the Clippers knocked off the reigning NBA champion San Antonio Spurs in seven games, capitalizing on the Spurs’ mental mistakes in Games 6 and 7.
And look for the Bulls to have their long-awaited parade. And a visit to the White House to see perhaps their biggest fan — President Barack Obama.
BY AL IANNAZZONETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Isiah Thomas was named team president and part owner of the WNBA’s New York Liberty, the team announced Tuesday.
Thomas will be responsi-ble for basketball and busi-ness operations. He will also have an ownership interest in the team, pending WNBA approval.
“I love the game,” Thom-as said in a phone inter-view. “I’m very passionate about the game. In terms of going out and acquiring talent and drafting talent, I think I’ll be able to do that well. Building up the talent, building up the basketball, I’ll be able to do that. Now we want to make sure we put a good product on the Gar-den floor.”
In the Liberty’s release announcing the move, Mad-ison Square Garden execu-tive chairman James Dolan said Thomas “has been advising the team” since the fall and “we are very pleased with the results.”
The Liberty brought back Thomas’ former Pistons teammate Bill Laimbeer as coach and hired former Knicks assistant coach Herb Williams as an assistant. Dolan said Thomas “has overseen” those decisions as well as the free-agent sign-ings and draft strategy.
“Now, we’ve agreed that it
is time for him to take a lead role with the team as presi-dent, and through his owner-ship interest,” Dolan said in a statement. “He’s an excel-lent judge of talent, and I’m confident that he will put all of his energy and expe-rience into making the Lib-erty a perennially competi-tive and successful team.”
Thomas’ partial own-ership stake must still be approved by the WNBA.
“New owners are approved by our WNBA Board of Governors,” WNBA President Laurel Richie said in a statement, “and this process has not yet begun.”
Thomas, an NBA Hall of Famer who won two titles with the Detroit Pistons, spent six seasons with the Knicks, including five as team president and two as coach.
In 2006, Thomas and the Garden were accused in a sexual harassment case filed by former Knicks exec-utive Anucha Browne Sand-ers. In 2007, she was award-ed $11.6 million. Thomas maintained his innocence and was never found per-sonally liable.
“We did not believe the allegations then, and we don’t believe them now,” Madison Square Garden said in a separate state-ment on Tuesday. “We feel strongly that Isiah Thom-
as was held responsible for sordid allegations that were completely unrelated to him, and for which MSG bore responsibility. In fact, when given the opportunity, the jury did not find Isiah liable for punitive damag-es, confirming he did not act maliciously or in bad faith. We believe Isiah belongs in basketball, and are grateful that he has committed his considerable talent to help the Liberty succeed.”
While Thomas was a coach at Florida Inter-national University, the Knicks tried to hire him as a consultant in 2010, but that plan was scrapped because it violated NBA rules.
In his new position, Thomas said he will not be involved with the Knicks. “I’m with the Liberty,” Thomas said. “That’s my job. I’m the president of the New York Liberty. That’s my focus and that’s my job.
“To me, basketball is basketball,” Thomas said. “These women are out-standing athletes who want to compete for a champion-ship in New York. I look for-ward to this challenge — not just to win a title, but also to help broaden the team’s fan base.”
The Dolan family owns controlling interests in the Liberty, Madison Square Garden and Cablevision. Cablevision owns Newsday.Trying to reclaim NBA crown
Isiah Thomas named president, part owner of New York Liberty
Eight remaining teams haven’t won NBA title in 16 years
CHARLES MOSTOLLER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEFlorida International University Head Coach Isiah Thomas takes in a game. Thomas has had a long and controversial career in basketball, as a player, coach and president of multiple teams. His recent appointment with the New York Liberty has also raised concerns.
NHAT V. MEYER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry dribbles against the Memphis Grizzlies during the first quarter of Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals on Sunday at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. The Warriors last won the NBA championships in 1975.
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The 2015 NFL Draft is in the books, and as gradu-ation rolls around, it’s
time to say goodbye to the 2015 class of college football players. Here’s some superla-tives for the draft class.
Most Likely to SucceedLeonard Williams, DE —
Southern California, New York Jets
Some experts thought Wil-liams was bar-none the most talented player in the draft, even above Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston. But Wil-liams slipped all the way to the Jets at No. 6.
Waiting a little longer could pay dividends for Williams. If he plays to his potential, he could create one of the NFL’s most dominant defensive fronts.
He’ll line-up alongside three other first-round picks
Muhammad Wilkerson, Quinton Coples and Sheldon Richardson.
Williams gives the Jets’ new defensive-minded coach, Todd Bowles, a lot to work with.
Most Dependable UDFATrey DePriest, LB — Ala-
bama, Baltimore RavensNick Saban pumps out a lot
of pros from Alabama. He’s had 38 players drafted over the last five years, including 13 first-rounders.
While not all become NFL stars, several have become impact players. DePriest’s pedigree makes him one of the most promising undrafted free agent pick-ups.
The first-team All-SEC linebacker will try to make the Baltimore roster with for-mer teammate C.J. Mosley, who was a first-year stud for the Ravens.
His sophomore year, DePriest finished second in tackles on the Crimson Tide — behind Mosley.
While he’s not as athletic
as some scouts would have liked, he was a steady, solid leader for one of the nation’s top defenses. He could make some noise in training camp.
Most Comfortable Quarterback
Brett Hundley, QB — UCLA, Green Bay Packers
While Winston and Mariota will be thrust into starting positions right away, they’re doing so for teams with a lita-ny of issues.
There’s a reason the Buc-caneers and the Titans had the top two picks in the draft. Instead, as the fifth quarter-back taken, Hundley finds himself in the best position.
While he’s not making the money that Winston and Mar-iota will, Hundley has time to learn from NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers and a coaching staff that has proven it can develop quarterbacks.
Hundley has always been an intriguing prospect, and he fell down draft boards this year because he’s raw.
The time he’ll get with the
Packers to develop his natu-ral talent and athleticism will be crucial and could end up making him a very good player.
Greatest Thing to Come to Those Who Wait
Malcom Brown, DT — Tex-as, New England Patriots
On Thursday night, Brown probably expected to hear his name called earlier than the final pick of the first round.
But his draft destination could end up being a perfect fit for him and the Patriots. New England lost the anchor of their defense, Vince Wil-fork, in free agency.
Now the Patriots have two first round DT’s who could take Wilfork’s place, with Brown and Dominique Eas-ley, who missed last year’s postseason run while on injured reserve. Brown has played a lot of different posi-tions and could be as versatile and athletic as Wilfork was for New England. They’re also similar physically.
Each year the Patriots have
won the Super Bowl, they’ve drafted a defensive lineman in the draft’s first round.
Most to ProveJaelen Strong, WR — Ari-
zona State, Houston TexansStrong has already chosen
to wear No. 11, to represent the 10 wide receivers drafted before him last weekend. The wideout was the top receiver for the Sun Devils and named to the All-Pac-12 First Team.
He was projected by some to be a first round pick, but
inexplicably slipped to the third round.
There were rumblings of injuries and conduct con-cerns, but Strong looks like a steal for Houston.
The Texans need a receiver to step up after saying good-bye to franchise-great Andre Johnson over the off-season. The big and mighty Strong could help fill that void.
