INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 3B | Sudoku 3B THE DAILY ILLINI TUESDAY September 2, 2014 83˚ | 61˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM 5he independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 006 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI UI faces Salaita backlash FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINI Stephanie Skora, senior in LAS, speaks to supporters of Steven Salaita at the Wesley Foundation in Urbana on Friday. Skora also listened and compiled concerns from supporters who believe the professor’s previously rescinded job offer should be reconsidered. Skora and six other students were chosen to address the expressed concerns at a small meeting with Chancellor Phyllis Wise on Monday. Salaita decision to continues to draw controversy Survey finds evidence of assault in fieldwork Illinois wary of Ebola outbreak BY ALEX SWANSON STAFF WRITER A recent survey found evidence of prevalent sex- ual harassment and assault of researchers performing fieldwork in studies like anthropology, archeology and geology. The survey results show that 64 percent of survey respondents had been sex- ually harassed, and 21.7 percent had been sexually assaulted. The survey was con- ducted after Kate Clancy, anthropology professor at the University, developed an interest in the topic from personal experience listen- ing to stories about sexual assault and harassment in the field. “I was talking to an old friend and trying to figure out why she was having dif- ficulty finishing her disser- tation ... when she revealed to me that she had been sex- ually assaulted in the field,” Clancy said. “She actually tried to report the incident and was essentially not real- ly believed.” Another colleague then confided in Clancy that she had been sexually assaulted in the field. She published both stories anonymously on her blog two years ago, after which she said, “the stories just started pouring in.” Out of survey respon- dents, 71 percent of women said they had been sexual- ly harassed, compared with 41 percent of men. And 26 percent of women said they had been sexually assaulted, compared with 6 percent of men. However, not all par- ticipants chose to answer the question. This survey included 666 participants and about 77 percent of them were women. The study was authored by Clancy, Skidmore Col- lege Professor Robin Nel- son, University of Illinois at Chicago professor Juli- enne Rutherford and Har- vard University professor Katie Hinde. Hinde expressed extreme emotion in reaction to the survey’s findings. “Mostly I was very, very sad. That’s really the emo- tion you have when you start going through these data and seeing the experienc- es that people go through,” Hinde said. A 2014 graduate from the college of LAS, who pre- ferred to remain anony- mous, confirmed that sexu- al harassment is present for women in scientific fields. “While most women, including myself, might not recognize sexual harass- ment (even when we’re the ones being harassed), it’s definitely there,” she said in an email. “I’ve had guys joke to me that the only reason I’m doing so well is because I must be sleeping with the professor or make comments about how I’m dressed and how it’s not feminine enough.” The same graduate believes women face numer- ous difficulties while engag- ing in scientific fieldwork. “Because men have tra- ditionally done fieldwork, it has evolved as an environ- ment that isn’t really con- ducive to women,” she said. “Something as simple as taking a bathroom break or, god forbid, changing a tam- pon is suddenly exponential- ly harder when you’re sur- rounded by a dozen guys in the middle of a treeless, flat desert.” The survey found that most of those harassed or assaulted were trainees. However, men were usually found to be abused by their peers, while women were often abused by someone higher up in their field. Clancy said hierar- chal abuse is incredibly detrimental. “Evidence suggests that harassment and assault are psychologically damaging no matter what,” Clancy said. “But when the person doing it to you is superi- or to you in some way, or has some power over you, then the data suggests the psychological harm is far greater.” The survey results also show that women respon- dents were 3.5 times more likely to report sexual harassment than men. Tara McGovern, recent LAS graduate of the Uni- versity, has experienced fieldwork in cultural anthro- pology and said it can be out- right dangerous for female students. “I hate to break it to all those aspiring young white suburban female anthro- pologists — you can only do this type of fieldwork safely if you are a male,” McGov- ern said in an email. “And even for males, I have my doubts.” McGovern clarified that this problem is specific to the field, not the University campus, in her experience. “No assault or harass- ment or anything of the like ever happened in my experience on campus,” she said. “Professors on campus are extremely careful and responsible; my criticism is that they are unaware of what can and does happen to an untrained vulnerable undergraduate in the field.” McGovern personally knows many undergraduate women who were sexually assaulted while performing fieldwork and have conse- quently discontinued their fieldwork. “The perpetrators were informants — members of the culture we were supposed to be studying, although there have also been cases of graduate stu- dents (not associated with the University) targeting undergraduate trainees,” McGovern said. The study reports that local community mem- bers are also involved, but remain a minority in the studied cases of sexual assault of fieldworkers. Although she does not yet have numerical data to support her claim, Clancy feels there is a possibility that these cases of assault and harassment are caus- ing women to leave scien- tific disciplines. “My suspicion is that ... when women are experienc- ing this at a greater propor- tion and when the kinds of abuse they are experienc- ing are worse, or more psy- Percentage of field researchers sexually harassed This study surveyed scientific researchers working at field sites to discover more information about sexual harassment that occurs during fieldwork SOURCE: SURVEY OF ACADEMIC FIELD EXPERIENCES (SAFE): TRAINEES REPORT SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT HANNAH HWANG THE DAILY ILLINI RI UHVSRQGHQWV :RPHQ 75$,1(( )$&8/7< (03/2<(( *This information is supplied by survey participants who chose to answer these questions. Not all survey particpants answered these specific questions. Percentages shown on the graph have been rounded. RI UHVSRQGHQWV 0HQ 75$,1(( )$&8/7< (03/2<(( BY MEGHAN WEBBER STAFF WRITER The recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has led the University to take a few extra precautionary steps, including additional screen- ing for students who may be traveling from the affected areas. According to Andrea Bor- deau, a specialist for Interna- tional Projects in the Study Abroad Office, no Universi- ty students traveled to West Africa over the summer to study abroad, and none had plans to do so during the fall semester. But as a precau- tion, the Study Abroad Office suspended the Sierra Leone program for the fall. “Newly admitted interna- tional students are screened for compliance with immu- nization rules and TB soon after their arrival on cam- pus,” said Dr. Robert Pal- inkas, director at McKinley Health Center. “This screen- ing process has been a stan- dard practice for many years due to state laws and Univer- sity policies.” During the private screen- ings, students are asked whether they have traveled to or from infected areas, or if they have come in con- tact with anyone who may be infected. “They also receive edu- Hiring decision leaves many questioning University leadership Sexual assaults revealed aer Kate Clancy investigates topic Department of Philosophy Thursday, Aug. 28: Votes no confi- dence in Wise, Board of Trustees and University President Robert Easter “The revocation of an offer of employ- ment to Dr. Steven Salaita betray a cul- pable disregard not only for academic freedom and free speech generally, but also for the principles of shared gover- nance and established protocols for hir- ing, tenure, and promotion.” — Kirk Sanders, associate professor and chair of the department AAUP Letter On Friday, Aug. 29, the American Association of University Professors, AAUP, sent a letter to Wise urging her to suspend Salaita with pay until the University’s committee on academic freedom and tenure, CAFT, examines his case. “Professor Salaita has incurred major financial expenses since he accepted the University of Illinois offer.” — Anita Levy, associate secretary for the AAUP Dept. of Asian American Studies Wednesday, Aug. 27: Votes no confi- dence in Wise, Board of Trustees “The administration’s claims to honor diver- sity are at odds with the marginaliza- tion of academic units ...The Universi- ty continues a superficial endorsement of diversity through its contradictory actions regarding issues of racial injus- tice and violence.” — AAS faculty Dept. of American Indian Studies Sunday, Aug. 24: Votes no confidence in Wise. The program expressed concerns that they were not a part of the deci- sion-making process to rescind Salai- ta’s job offer. “The faculty ... also joins the thou- sands of scholars and organizations in the United States and across the world in seeing the Chancellor’s action as a violation of academic freedom and freedom of speech.” — AIS faculty BY JOSH WINTERS STAFF WRITER The University is facing backlash for Chancellor Phyllis Wise and the Board of Trustees’ decision to rescind a job offer to Steven Salaita to join the American Indian Studies program this year. Salaita’s offer was rescinded due to several personal tweets he posted about the Israeli bombing of Palestine. However, in a mass email sent by Wise, she said the decision “was not influenced in any way by his positions on the conflict in the Middle East nor his criticism of Israel.” The decision has sparked statements of no confidence from several campus departments and boycotts from visiting lecturers from across the country. Lecturers drop appearances Several scholars have followed through on promises to boycott the University. Q Aug. 20 — David Blacker, professor of philosophy and legal studies at the University of Delaware, declined an invitation to speak at the Center for Advanced Study/ MillerComm lecture series scheduled for Sept. 29. Q Aug 21 — Allen Isaacman, history professor at the University of Minnesota, also cancelled his lecture for the Center for Advanced Study/ MillerComm, scheduled for Oct. 30. Q Aug 26 — Eric Schwitzgebel, philosophy professor at the University of California, cancelled his keynote address at a mini-conference on experimental philosophy in December. Q August 27 — Education Justice Project, within the department of education policy, organization and leadership, cancelled a national conference on higher education in prison, scheduled for Oct. 9 through 12. Q August 29 — Jonathan Judaken, humanities professor at Rhodes College, turned down the opportunity to discuss his work with the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at a keynote address in October. Compiled by Megan Jones SEE ASSAULT | 3A SEE EBOLA | 3A WANT TO WORK FOR US? Attend our info nights on Sept. 2 & 3 at Gregory Hall at 8 p.m. to learn more ANOTHER GOOD START FOR FOOTBALL Youngstown State put up a good fight, but Illini emerged on top last Saturday 28-17 SPORTS, 1B REBUILDING THE PHILIPPINES LIFE & CULTURE, 6A Students helping out in post- typhoon cleanup nd the experience life-changing
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FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIStephanie Skora, senior in LAS, speaks to supporters of Steven Salaita at the Wesley Foundation in Urbana on Friday. Skora also listened and compiled concerns from supporters who believe the professor’s previously rescinded job offer should be reconsidered. Skora and six other students were chosen to address the expressed concerns at a small meeting with Chancellor Phyllis Wise on Monday.
Salaita decision to continues to draw controversy
Survey finds evidence of assault in fieldwork
Illinois wary of Ebola outbreak
BY ALEX SWANSONSTAFF WRITER
A recent survey found evidence of prevalent sex-ual harassment and assault of researchers performing fieldwork in studies like anthropology, archeology and geology.
The survey results show that 64 percent of survey respondents had been sex-ually harassed, and 21.7 percent had been sexually assaulted.
The survey was con-ducted after Kate Clancy, anthropology professor at the University, developed an interest in the topic from personal experience listen-ing to stories about sexual assault and harassment in the field.
“I was talking to an old friend and trying to figure out why she was having dif-ficulty finishing her disser-tation ... when she revealed to me that she had been sex-ually assaulted in the field,” Clancy said. “She actually tried to report the incident and was essentially not real-ly believed.”
Another colleague then confided in Clancy that she had been sexually assaulted in the field.
She published both stories anonymously on her blog two years ago, after which she said, “the stories just started pouring in.”
Out of survey respon-dents, 71 percent of women
said they had been sexual-ly harassed, compared with 41 percent of men. And 26 percent of women said they had been sexually assaulted, compared with 6 percent of men. However, not all par-ticipants chose to answer the question.
This survey included 666 participants and about 77 percent of them were women.
The study was authored by Clancy, Skidmore Col-lege Professor Robin Nel-son, University of Illinois at Chicago professor Juli-enne Rutherford and Har-vard University professor Katie Hinde.
Hinde expressed extreme emotion in reaction to the survey’s findings.
“Mostly I was very, very sad. That’s really the emo-tion you have when you start going through these data and seeing the experienc-es that people go through,” Hinde said.
A 2014 graduate from the college of LAS, who pre-ferred to remain anony-mous, confirmed that sexu-al harassment is present for women in scientific fields.
“While most women, including myself, might not recognize sexual harass-ment (even when we’re the ones being harassed), it’s definitely there,” she said in an email. “I’ve had guys joke to me that the only reason I’m doing so well is
because I must be sleeping with the professor or make comments about how I’m dressed and how it’s not feminine enough.”
The same graduate believes women face numer-ous difficulties while engag-ing in scientific fieldwork.
“Because men have tra-ditionally done fieldwork, it has evolved as an environ-ment that isn’t really con-ducive to women,” she said. “Something as simple as taking a bathroom break or, god forbid, changing a tam-pon is suddenly exponential-ly harder when you’re sur-rounded by a dozen guys in the middle of a treeless, flat desert.”
The survey found that most of those harassed or assaulted were trainees. However, men were usually found to be abused by their peers, while women were often abused by someone higher up in their field.
Clancy said hierar-chal abuse is incredibly detrimental.
“Evidence suggests that harassment and assault are psychologically damaging no matter what,” Clancy said. “But when the person doing it to you is superi-or to you in some way, or has some power over you, then the data suggests the psychological harm is far greater.”
The survey results also show that women respon-dents were 3.5 times more likely to report sexual harassment than men.
Tara McGovern, recent LAS graduate of the Uni-
versity, has experienced fieldwork in cultural anthro-pology and said it can be out-right dangerous for female students.
“I hate to break it to all those aspiring young white suburban female anthro-pologists — you can only do this type of fieldwork safely if you are a male,” McGov-ern said in an email. “And even for males, I have my doubts.”
McGovern clarified that this problem is specific to the field, not the University campus, in her experience.
“No assault or harass-ment or anything of the like ever happened in my experience on campus,” she said. “Professors on campus are extremely careful and responsible; my criticism is that they are unaware of what can and does happen to an untrained vulnerable undergraduate in the field.”
McGovern personally knows many undergraduate women who were sexually assaulted while performing fieldwork and have conse-
quently discontinued their fieldwork.
“The perpetrators were informants — members of the culture we were supposed to be studying, although there have also been cases of graduate stu-dents (not associated with the University) targeting undergraduate trainees,” McGovern said.
The study reports that local community mem-bers are also involved, but remain a minority in the studied cases of sexual assault of fieldworkers.
Although she does not yet have numerical data to support her claim, Clancy feels there is a possibility that these cases of assault and harassment are caus-ing women to leave scien-tific disciplines.
“My suspicion is that ... when women are experienc-ing this at a greater propor-tion and when the kinds of abuse they are experienc-ing are worse, or more psy-
Percentage of field researchers sexually harassedThis study surveyed scientific researchers working at field sites to discover more information about sexual harassment that occurs during fieldwork
SOURCE: SURVEY OF ACADEMIC FIELD EXPERIENCES (SAFE): TRAINEES REPORT SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT
HANNAH HWANG THE DAILY ILLINI
*This information is supplied by survey participants who chose to answer these questions. Not all survey particpants answered these specific questions. Percentages shown on the graph have been rounded.
BY MEGHAN WEBBERSTAFF WRITER
The recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has led the University to take a few extra precautionary steps, including additional screen-ing for students who may be traveling from the affected areas.
According to Andrea Bor-deau, a specialist for Interna-tional Projects in the Study Abroad Office, no Universi-ty students traveled to West Africa over the summer to study abroad, and none had plans to do so during the fall semester. But as a precau-tion, the Study Abroad Office suspended the Sierra Leone program for the fall.
“Newly admitted interna-tional students are screened for compliance with immu-nization rules and TB soon after their arrival on cam-pus,” said Dr. Robert Pal-inkas, director at McKinley Health Center. “This screen-ing process has been a stan-dard practice for many years due to state laws and Univer-sity policies.”
During the private screen-ings, students are asked whether they have traveled to or from infected areas, or if they have come in con-tact with anyone who may be infected.
“They also receive edu-
Hiring decision leaves many questioning University leadership
Sexual assaults revealed a!er Kate Clancy investigates topic
Department of Philosophy Thursday, Aug. 28: Votes no confi-
dence in Wise, Board of Trustees and University President Robert Easter
“The revocation of an offer of employ-ment to Dr. Steven Salaita betray a cul-pable disregard not only for academic freedom and free speech generally, but also for the principles of shared gover-nance and established protocols for hir-ing, tenure, and promotion.”
— Kirk Sanders, associate professor and chair of the department
AAUP LetterOn Friday, Aug. 29, the American
Association of University Professors, AAUP, sent a letter to Wise urging her to suspend Salaita with pay until the University’s committee on academic freedom and tenure, CAFT, examines his case.
“Professor Salaita has incurred major financial expenses since he accepted the University of Illinois offer.”
— Anita Levy, associate secretary for the AAUP
Dept. of Asian American Studies Wednesday, Aug. 27: Votes no confi-
dence in Wise, Board of Trustees “The administration’s claims to honor diver-sity are at odds with the marginaliza-tion of academic units ...The Universi-ty continues a superficial endorsement of diversity through its contradictory actions regarding issues of racial injus-tice and violence.”
— AAS faculty
Dept. of American Indian StudiesSunday, Aug. 24: Votes no confidence
in Wise. The program expressed concerns
that they were not a part of the deci-sion-making process to rescind Salai-ta’s job offer.
“The faculty ... also joins the thou-sands of scholars and organizations in the United States and across the world in seeing the Chancellor’s action as a violation of academic freedom and freedom of speech.”
— AIS faculty
BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER
The University is facing backlash for Chancellor Phyllis Wise and the Board of Trustees’ decision to rescind a job offer to Steven Salaita to join the American Indian Studies program this year. Salaita’s offer was rescinded due to several personal tweets he posted about the Israeli bombing of Palestine. However, in a mass email sent by Wise, she said the decision “was not influenced in any way by his positions on the conflict in the Middle East nor his criticism of Israel.” The decision has sparked statements of no confidence from several campus departments and boycotts from visiting lecturers from across the country.
Lecturers drop appearances
Several scholars have followed through on promises to boycott the University. Aug. 20 — David Blacker,
professor of philosophy and legal studies at the University of Delaware, declined an invitation to speak at the Center for Advanced Study/ MillerComm lecture series scheduled for Sept. 29. Aug 21 — Allen Isaacman,
history professor at the
University of Minnesota, also cancelled his lecture for the Center for Advanced Study/ MillerComm, scheduled for Oct. 30. Aug 26 — Eric Schwitzgebel,
philosophy professor at the University of California, cancelled his keynote address at a mini-conference on experimental philosophy in December. August 27 — Education
Justice Project, within the department of education
policy, organization and leadership, cancelled a national conference on higher education in prison, scheduled for Oct. 9 through 12. August 29 — Jonathan
Judaken, humanities professor at Rhodes College, turned down the opportunity to discuss his work with the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at a keynote address in October.
Compiled by Megan Jones
SEE ASSAULT | 3A SEE EBOLA | 3A
WANT TO WORK FOR US? Attend our info nights on Sept. 2 & 3 at Gregory Hall at 8 p.m. to learn more
ANOTHER GOOD START FOR FOOTBALL
Youngstown State put up a good fight, but Illini emerged
on top last Saturday 28-17SPORTS, 1B
REBUILDING THE PHILIPPINES
LIFE & CULTURE, 6A
Students helping out in post-typhoon cleanup !nd the experience life-changing
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WEATHERPOLICEChampaign
Domestic battery was reported in the 1500 block of West Healey Street around 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the victim reported that the offender pushed her. There were no injuries and no witnesses.
University Theft was reported at
the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
According to the report, a student reported that someone had stolen her $650 cellphone while she was preparing for a dance class.
Urbana Theft was reported at
Super Pantry, 507 W. Uni-versity Ave., around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, an unknown offender en-tered the business and stole the victim’s property.
Compiled by Miranda Holloway
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BY MIRANDA HOLLOWAYDAYTIME EDITOR
Republican gubernatori-al candidate Bruce Rauner and running mate Evelyn Sanguinetti visited campus Thursday for the Students for Rauner Coalition event.
The event, held at 5 p.m. at the Illini Union, was a roll-out event for the coali-tion, which will be travel-ing to universities across
the state until the election. Rauner said he wants to meet voters, especially stu-dents, to encourage them to get involved in the process.
“Join with us and spread the word about how impor-tant this election is, spread the word that we have got to make sure everyone reg-isters to vote and gets out to vote,” Rauner said in a phone interview.
Rauner, a member of the chancellor’s strategic advi-sory board and University donor, said that he chose to roll out the coalition at the University because of its impact on the state.
“It’s of fantastic quality and I want to see the Uni-versity of Illinois support-ed fi nancially and strategi-cally with support from the state government,” Rauner
said. “I’d like to see the Uni-versity expand and have an even bigger, positive eco-nomic impact on the eco-nomic growth in the state of Illinois.”
Rauner said that it is important for students to vote to protect their futures and he said he hopes to spread his message to young voters.
“We are bringing our mes-
sage to the voters of every age and every circumstance, and we are especially reach-ing out to young people and young voters and students particularly,” he said.
The main goal of the Stu-dents for Rauner Coalition is to make sure that stu-dents and young people are registered to vote, accord-ing to Rauner. He also said he wants them to know that
their votes matter.“This is a critical elec-
tion. We want students to register; we want them to get engaged in the pro-cess,” Rauner said. “It’s a duty to engage in the pro-cess of democracy here in America.”
cational material which encourages early diagnosis and treatment,” Palinkas said. “We want everyone to know that McKinley is ready and eager to provide servic-es to students if they think they might have risk for Ebo-la infection.”
However, the risk period for the virus in international students is almost over.
“Once they individually pass 21 days since being in one of the four (West Afri-can) countries, they can no longer harbor incubating Ebola infection,” Palinkas said.
Though Ebola is not cur-rently seen as a threat in the United States, the Uni-versity is still watching the outbreak.
“We continue to monitor the situation and have sought to have accurate informa-tion,” said Bo White , assis-
tant director of Interna-tional Health and Safety, in an email. “We recognize that this is a sensitive issue and one that’s received a lot of attention worldwide, so we have sought to consult sources both in country and through such resources as the U.S. State Department, the CDC, and even humani-tarian groups.”
chologically harming, then the chances of them staying in that discipline are very much reduced,” Clancy said.
The study further revealed that in addition to sexual assault and harass-ment, oftentimes there is not a highly visible or satisfacto-ry system for reporting the incident.
Clancy said that many scientists were told, “what happens in the fi eld stays in the fi eld,” as soon as they arrived.
In the survey, less than a fourth of the respondents recalled working at a fi eld site where there was a sex-ual harassment policy.
Over half of respondents who reported sexual harass-ment and almost three-
fourths of respondents who reported sexual assault in the fi eld said they were dis-satisfi ed or very dissatis-fi ed with the outcome of the report.
In the field, McGov-ern experienced several attempted assaults by infor-mants and was dissatisfi ed with the way her situation was handled on campus.
“At fi rst, I was told to ‘for-get about it.’ Which I tried to do,” McGovern said. “It just seemed easier to pretend like it didn’t happen, that I was stupid and had pro-voked it myself. I believed that revealing that kind of information would make me appear vulnerable and irresponsible, as someone who was ill-equipped for the fi eld.”
Clancy said that any fi eld site that is associated with a university should be using
the university’s code of con-duct. She feels the larger issue has to do with the cli-mate of the site.
McGovern said that many of these cases of harass-ment and assault could be combatted.
“I think a lot of these problems can be avoided with a couple of classes or workshops for departing researchers,” she said.
McGovern believes this study has the potential to give credibility to female scientists working in the fi eld.
“Dr. Clancy’s publication has given me hope,” McGov-ern said. “When she says that she hopes the fi ndings validate female scientists, she’s absolutely right.”
WASHINGTON — Pres-ident Barack Obama rebuffed pressure for quick U.S. action in two foreign crises Thursday, declining to label Russia’s military moves into Ukraine an inva-sion and saying that he was not ready to expand an air campaign against Islamist militants to Syria.
While pledging that the administration would penal-ize Moscow for opening a new front against Ukraini-an forces, Obama ruled out U.S. military action and described the Kremlin’s moves as a continuation of a pattern rather than a new phase in the strug-gle between pro-Russia separatists and Ukraine’s government.
“We are not taking mil-itary action to solve the Ukrainian problem,” he said. “It is very impor-tant to understand that a military solution to this problem is not going to be forthcoming.”
Obama, who authorized military strikes in Iraq against the militant group Islamic State, said expecta-tions that U.S. forces were about to broaden the 3-week-old campaign were prema-ture because U.S. offi cials needed to continue plan-ning, as well as build a coali-tion with regional govern-
ments and Sunni Muslim leaders.
“We don’t have a strategy yet,” he said in an appear-ance in the White House press room, emphasizing that the campaign was lim-ited. “Folks are getting a lit-tle further ahead of where we’re at than where we cur-rently are.”
That remark quickly drew criticism, and White House aides tried to clarify the comment, saying the presi-dent was referring only to one aspect of the strategy to take on the militants.
“Other parts of the pres-ident’s statement explic-itly discussed the strate-gy against ISIL,” a White House offi cial said, using one of the acronyms for the militant group.
“He’s just saying he hasn’t decided to take military action yet, which is what we’ve been saying for days,” added the aide, who request-ed anonymity in discussing the president’s remarks.
On Ukraine, where Rus-sia moved more than 1,000 troops this week, Obama signaled that he would continue along his path of cooperating with Europe to gradually impose tougher sanctions.
He didn’t specify what new economic penalties he was considering, but said the possibilities would be discussed next week with
European leaders during his trip to a North Atlantic Treaty Organization sum-mit in Wales and to Estonia. U.S. sanctions thus far have mostly resulted in addition-al Russian provocation in Ukraine.
“My expectation is that we will take additional steps ... primarily because we have not seen any mean-ingful action on the part of Russia to actually try to resolve this in diplomatic fashion,” he said.
The troop movements drew harsh condemna-tions from NATO and Euro-pean government offi cials. Both British Prime Min-ister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande described them as unacceptable.
Obama rejected the description of the Russian move as an “invasion,” say-ing that it was instead “a continuation of what’s been taking place for months now.”
The president appar-ently preferred to avoid the term, analysts said, because it suggests a violation of internation-al rules that requires a response.
The U.S. envoy to the United Nations, Samantha Power, described the offen-sive to the U.N. Security Council as a “threat to the international order.”
OLIVIER DOULIERY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEPresident Obama speaks about the situation in Ukraine in the Press Briefi ng Room of the White House on Thursday.
BY DENISE HOLLINSHEDMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
FERGUSON, Mo. — Police offi cers here began wearing body cameras over the week-end as marchers took to the streets in the most recent protest of a shooting three weeks earlier by a city offi -cer that left an unarmed teen-ager dead.
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said his department was given about 50 body cameras by two companies, Safety Visions and Digital Ally, about a week earlier. The companies donated the body cameras after the fatal shooting on Aug. 9 of Michael Brown Jr. by Ferguson offi cer Darren Wilson .
Company representatives were at the police department on Saturday training offi cers to use the devices, which
attach to uniforms and record video and audio. Some mem-bers of the police department have been specially trained on the devices’ use.
The cameras are being assigned to squads, and each offi cer will get one to use, he said.
Jackson said the offi cers had the devices on during the protest march on Saturday and were able to capture vid-eo images of crowd members taunting offi cers.
“The quality is good,” he said.
The batteries in the cam-eras that were used on Satur-day were drained because of their constant use throughout the day. “Under normal use the battery would last a full shift,” Jackson said.
Offi cers are receptive to the cameras, the chief said.
“They are really enjoying them,” he said. “They are try-ing to get used to using them.”
The police department bought three dash-mount cameras but lacks the mon-ey to install them, he said.
Video recordings are seen as a way to allow judges and juries to follow police-involved events as they unfold, helping to shed light through the often-confl ict-ing or hazy recollections of witnesses.
After Brown’s shooting, other police departments in the St. Louis area are also moving toward the use of wearable cameras.
Last month, a New York City offi cial championed a $5 million pilot program to outfi t 15 percent of the city’s police offi cers with wear-able cameras.
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Who hasn’t wished that he could drink coffee in Central Perk? Or that she could watch Danny Tanner parent one last time, or revel in the behind-the-scenes secrets from “Saved by the Bell”? Well, dreams do come true. A real-life version of the fictional coffee shop from “Friends” is coming to New York City for the 20th anniversary of the show’s debut. What could be better? Maybe watch-ing “The Unauthorized Saved By The Bell Story” or the rumored “Full House” reunion from within its friendly confines.
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Don’t rush into graduate exams
Icy response to ALS challenge undeserved
Over the weekend, many people seemed to unite over an unexpected shocker — even Ellen DeGeneres tweeted her concern. It was recently announced that the widely-known character Hello Kitty is, in fact, not a cat. It was said by Sanrio, Hello Kitty’s manufacturer, “She’s a car-toon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat.” It’s safe to say that all of us are still befuddled by how something literally named after a cat is actually not a cat. In other news, our favorite children’s TV show character, Barney, came out as not a dinosaur — he’s purple, he’s creepy, he’s a man in a mascot suit, but he is not a dinosaur. And we are still not entirely sure what Pikachu is.
Somewhere in America you can buy a fried, Twix-filled, bacon-covered Twinkie for $7, expediting your way to multiple organ failures. Oh, and the treat, called the “Twinx” and sold by Fried Specialties at the Great New York State Fair, is also drizzled with a caramel and chocolate and sprinkled with powdered sugar. As its creator, James Hasbrouck articulately framed it for the Wall Street Journal, “Calories don’t matter at fairs.” That, my friends, is what negative American stereotypes, and obesity, are made of...
BRANGELINA IS OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL‘90S SITCOM NOSTALGIA
Believe it or not, the most beautiful couple in Holly-wood has finally tied the knot. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were married on Aug. 23 in front of a quaint cer-emony of 22 people. However, this news is relatively unexciting considering they have something like 50 kids and have been Hollywood’s power couple for years, so, in our minds, they were practically mar-ried already. But congratulations to them on mak-ing it official — although, we have to say, we are still not quite over Brad and Jennifer Aniston’s breakup.
Roughly a month from today, ambitious students all over the world will file
into classrooms at universi-ties to take standardized tests, ones that will perhaps define the rest of their professional futures. Many of the students attending the University will have the immediately unfortu-nate and hopefully satisfying experience of taking the Med-ical College Admissions Test, the Law School Admission Test or the Graduate Record Exam.
The outcomes will dictate the professional future of most, if not all, of the participants.
Until last week, I was slat-ed to take the LSAT, one of the most ridiculously weight-ed standardized tests in the country. Not only is it offered in limited quantities (only four different months a year), but unlike its GRE counterpart, but it also uses an averaging method with scores. If some-one takes the test twice, the higher score is not taken alone, but instead, it is averaged with the lower score. Thus, if an applicant is unprepared and does not perform well, he or she is stuck with the score for-
ever. Even if someone scores amazingly the second time around, the first score drags down the average, likely pro-hibiting entrance to some institutions.
While the LSAT is one exam-ple of a test weighted too heav-ily, the increased importance placed on it and other post-graduate examinations is indicative of an increase in pressure on many recent col-lege graduates. I’m not saying students are forced to take these exams; they’re clearly optional, but when it becomes necessary for a student to take these exams and do well, often while also maintaining a high academic standard and a good extracurricular record, the outcome is not always optimal.
While I’m sure there are those who can juggle the stresses of classes, a job (or two), extracurricular activi-ties and studying for extreme-ly laborious standardized tests, I hesitate to say it’s always necessary. For seniors like me, the year is hard enough. Finishing a degree with upper-level coursework is no small feat, and I certain-ly don’t want to stay up late every night or get up early in the morning every weekend to take mock exams and fill out applications. I, like many other University students, am already burning the candle
at both ends, and the added pressure of test and applica-tion deadlines is something I could better handle later on when I have more time, espe-cially given the unforgiving scoring structure.
As you can probably guess, I decided to forego my LSAT this year because I’m too busy. It was the right choice for me, just like it can be for others. By taking a year off school, specifically a year off from law school, I will get to experiment with other career options, perhaps finding some-thing that suits me outside the legal realm. Maybe law is for me, and I’ll end up going next year, but I’ll forever be grate-ful that I took my time decid-ing before being thrust into the trials and tribulations of adult life. Students only get one senior year, and I don’t want to spend the entirety of mine filling out applications and studying for a test.
In addition to this extra time, I’ll also be able to take the LSAT, if I choose, at a time in my life when I won’t be overrun with assignments, club meetings and (arguably the most important) football games. I’ll have more time to dedicate to getting a good score, which could actually help my academics. The same could be true for others.
Believe me, this isn’t a dia-
tribe against graduate school. My parents both have expe-rience teaching in academia, and I believe wholehearted-ly in the powers of education. For those who it is suited, it’s a wonderful option. What I am saying, however, is that jumping into studying law or medicine right after gradua-tion isn’t for everyone. And no one should feel bad about that, nor should they take entrance exams hastily.
If given the option, one should at least consider an alternative approach to taking graduate school exams while in college, perhaps one that allows for time to expand, both personally and professionally, before taking such an impor-tant test or committing to a career. You never know what you’ll find out about yourself.
If you feel confident enough to jump right into law school or med school, great. I admire your ambition and drive. Oth-ers, like me, should do what they feel ready for. As a friend of mine told me the other day, adulthood is always going to be waiting for us. If there’s ever a time to teach snowboarding in Colorado or be one of those mail delivery people on a boat in Lake Geneva, it is now.
During an extremely hot summer that has extended into our first few weeks on
campus, I was entirely relieved when — just as my air condition-ing broke — I was nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. While the rampant fundraiser hit its peak a little more than a week ago, it has inevitably slowed down, as all fundrais-ers do at some point.
I’ll be pretty proud of you if you managed to go the entire summer without watching your favorite celebrities do the challenge on some sort of top 10 list. I, for one, cannot boast that achievement. Either way, there is almost no escaping the ubiquity of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, where people across social media sites post videos where they nominate friends to either dump a bucket of ice water on themselves (and sup-posedly donate $10) within 24 hours or donate $100. All donat-ed money is supposed to go to the ALS Association, which aims to treat and cure amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — more com-monly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
If you didn’t get nominated,
you were probably afraid that you would because of social pressure and a distaste for freezing cold water all over your body. If you did get nominated, you had to plan out your strat-egy of execution, as well as who you were going to nominate in a vengeful turn. Either way, these videos were plastered on social media by commoners and celeb-rities alike.
In the midst of a historical, groundbreaking fundraiser with the potential to save millions of lives from a disease that effects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, a slew of negativity kept springing up. There were many people complaining about the challenge clogging up their Facebook newsfeeds, people complaining about supporting an institution that apparently uses stem cell research and peo-ple complaining about those who didn’t donate.
Whatever way you choose to spin the negativity, there are a pervasive number of people who see the glass half empty, when, in reality, the glass is full of over 100 million dollars.
To compare, let’s all just take a moment to note that last year the ALS Association raised 2.8 million dollars — still a substan-tial amount of money, but pocket change compared to the 3,500 percent increase in funds raised during the same one-month time period this year.
Yup, that is how much this simple, waste-of-water, every-time-I-log-in-I-can’t-escape-it, if-I-pretend-I-didn’t-see-it-I-won’t-have-to-do-it challenge managed to raise to fight a dis-ease. Obviously, ALS benefited from having this much coverage in such a short amount of time.
However, even with this amount of success, the amount of negativity says something about all of the complainers and haters that are apparently sur-rounding me every day.
It’s just so undeniably selfish. It worries me how egotistical some people are by complain-ing about a charity taking up too much of their visual space on social media. People are com-plaining about this supposed minor social media inconve-nience when they should be com-plaining about the devastating effects of ALS; they could actu-ally spend their time and words doing something about the dis-ease instead.
While the donation amount could have been much higher if all the people who did the chal-lenge also donated (though many of them did), it is still an exem-plary amount of money that any charity would do well with. Either way, donation or not, any-body who publicly participated in the challenge succeeded in raising awareness about ALS.
Ultimately, I feel absolutely no sympathy for you if you were a
little peeved that a charity was taking up your social media feeds. I feel no sympathy for you that you were really, really cold because your sister put a lot of ice in the bucket (and your screaming in the video won’t make me feel worse for you, either). I feel no sympathy for the people who were annoyed, thought it was stupid and just didn’t want to do it.
I do feel sympathy, however, for the people with ALS who have been battling with a neu-rodegenerative disease. And I, for one, am pretty dang hap-py to see those people getting 100 million dollars for research for a disease that has no cure and only one FDA-approved drug that “modestly extends survival.”
But people are still complain-ing about a bucket of ice water.
As the popularity of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge slows, I challenge all of you to stop whin-ing about something that should only be described as positive. Step out of your own shoes and consider the triviality and the egoism behind wishing a trend would stop that is helping raise money for a charity. Complain about the disease and join the rest of the world in trying to stop it.
Emma is a sophomore in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].
F or the past several years, Dr. Robert Breuder, president of the College of DuPage has been
leading the charge in Illinois for community colleges to offer four-year bachelor’s degrees in certain fields. Currently, around 10 community colleges in the state, including Parkland College, are considering such an expansion.
Proponents of this higher edu-cation reform say community colleges should be able to offer bachelor’s degrees in certain fields, also noting the afford-ability of community colleges. Opponents point to concerns of weakening existing four-year institutions and a lack of defini-tive evidence that there is a sig-nificant, unmet need for more institutions to offer bachelor’s degrees.
We quibble with the specula-tive nature of the community college proposal. A major ratio-nale behind the push for giving community colleges this niche is an increased demand for four-year programs.
But, if that isn’t the case, giv-ing community colleges this ability will likely serve to need-lessly further saturate the mar-ket. If there is a major unmet need specifically for bachelor’s degrees that community colleg-es would theoretically be able to offer, we’d like to see some numbers.
In our opinion, these pro-posals are more of a Band-Aid approach rather than a curative approach to the larger issue of college affordability. As stu-dents, we certainly understand, and find persuasive arguments promising to lower the cost of education. However, we also believe that more needs to be done to actually resolve the high cost of higher education, rath-er than giving community col-leges the OK to start churning out bachelor’s degrees for select majors.
Ten years ago, the base rate tuition for resident undergrad-uate students on this campus was $6,460, or $19,380 for non-residents. Today, residents pay $12,036, an 86 percent increase, and non-residents $26,662, a 38 percent increase. Many students meet these, and the other costs associated with attendance, by taking out loans.
According to the Project on Student Debt, 52 percent of Uni-versity of Illinois students grad-uated with debt in 2012, and the average debt was $24,657. The picture isn’t much rosier for the rest of the state’s public or pri-vate four-year schools.
These numbers indicate a clear concern about college affordability, which we think seems to be the underlying issue in the case of creating four-year community colleges that offer bachelor’s degrees. And, as mentioned before, this only puts a Band-Aid on a problem of affordabililty that needs some-thing more akin to open-heart surgery.
We do think community col-leges can and will play an important role in ensuring Illi-nois higher education remains affordable. However, allowing Parkland, or any other commu-nity college in the state to start granting bachelor’s degrees isn’t going to do much to make sky-rocketing college costs go down, which, we believe, is where the focus should be.
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BY Jeffrey WeissMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
DALLAS — A generation or so ago, even the best day care centers were mostly about keeping little kids clean and fed and away from chomp-ing on each other. These days, the best-respected programs have curriculums and lesson plans and assessment goals. Even for infants.
What happened? Science happened. Experts on ear-ly childhood education have reached a broad but hardly unanimous consensus about what best helps the youngest children learn. And most of those experts assume that what’s done in those earliest years has profound effects for the rest of our lives.
Political and public sup-port for early ed is easy to find nationally. President Barack Obama talked about it in a State of the Union message and has called for a boost in birth-to-5 education programs.
There is general agree-ment among researchers that early education is much more important than people used to think. Some of the results of that can be found in day care centers and pre-kindergarten programs across the country.
Summer break ended last week at the ChildCareGroup center in Oak Cliff. The small class of kids surrounding instructor Crystal Wallace ranged from a 6-month-old who just arrived to a 3-year-old about to move that very day into a class of older students.
Wallace read from the book “Violet’s House” while keeping up a steady conver-sation (“Soft touches! Careful of the baby!”).
In the literacy corner of Wallace’s classroom, signs lined the walls, none much higher than a 3-year-old’s eye level. “How do you feel today? Como te sientes hoy?” Even though none of Wallace’s cli-ents were likely to be able to read a word of it.
“We want a very print-rich environment,” said Tori
Mannes, president and CEO of ChildCareGroup.
That’s in keeping with a belief that hearing words and having them pointed out helps even the smallest chil-dren start to make an asso-ciation between the sounds and those funny markings. But that belief is relatively recent.
A century ago, the consen-sus position was that chil-dren were basically min-iature adults, to be trained and put to work as soon as they were large enough to contribute. About 50 years ago, the work of a Swiss psy-chologist named Jean Piaget started to shatter that model. Piaget watched very young children (particularly his own) and realized that their abilities to perform men-tal tasks seemed to follow a predictable progression and timeline.
That led in the 1960s to pro-grams that tried to tie educa-tion with the developmental schedule created by Piaget and other researchers.
Later researchers found evidence that stuff was going on in tiny noggins, stuff that observers like Piaget sim-ply couldn’t see. Studies on physical brain development — most of them on animals — suggest that a lot of the brain’s internal wiring hap-pens in the first year or two of life.
The theory is that even children who can’t talk are absorbing a lot more informa-tion than Piaget and his peers might have thought. And over the past couple of decades, that theory is finding its way into classrooms and public policy debates.
But here’s a dirty secret about education policy: despite the seeming certain-ty of the public and political rhetoric, the research behind most education theory gen-erally includes huge uncer-tainties and comes with cau-tionary notes about making too much out of small stud-ies. Those “howevers” tend to get stripped out when the
debate leaves academia.Partly, that’s because most
of us think we’re education experts, said Matthew Makel, a researcher at Duke Univer-sity who just co-authored a peer-reviewed paper about gaps in education research.
“Education is unique in that everyone has experience with the topic because every-one can refer to their own education,” he said. “Very few people have any experi-ence similar to conducting brain surgery, so it’s hard-er for us to ‘backseat drive’ research on that topic.”
In that dismal environ-ment, some experts say that early childhood education provides the best evidence for what should work. For some, that’s because the physical facts about developing brains are better grounded than social science research. Oth-ers say that education exper-iments on smaller children are less prone to some of the issues that can make the lives of older kids so chaotic.
So what do scientists think they know about young brains? There’s a wide belief that more brain connections form in the first three years than will ever be connected again. The assumption is that stimulation at that young age sets a pattern.
An often-quoted example is the idea of the “word gap.” In the 1980s, two researchers named Betty Hart and Todd Risley found 42 families in Kansas willing to be observed for months at a time. The researchers concluded that children in the poor families heard about 30 million fewer words in the first four years of life than those in wealthier families. And follow-up work indicated there was an edu-cation achievement gap that seemed to be associated with the word gap.
If the brain researchers are right that what’s done to the early brain is so impor-tant, then the difficulty of a child catching up from that early gap only grows over time.
‘Top’ apps for college students put to the testBY ALEXANDER VASSILIADISSTAFF WRITER
Walking across a college campus, all you might see are students gazing down at their phones, paying no attention to where they are
going. Some are texting, some are browsing and some are even scrolling through emails. This year, consum-erreports.org gave students 19 reasons to be even more addicted to their phones with
a list of the top free apps for college students. These apps claim that “your mobile device can boost your school survival skills,” and The Dai-ly Illini decided to put some of them to the test.
This app is a very straightforward homework and class-tracking program. You can set homework assignments along with multiple reminders before the due date. Students can also keep track of upcoming exams for multiple classes and the interface is very user-friendly. Even if you don’t have that much luck with intricate applications, this app will not make your head spin. Yet, there are two
things that make this app brilliant.
Number 1: It can sync across multiple devices including mobile device, laptop, Internet, tablet, etc. This means that if your phone doesn’t have a sig-nal and you’re spending the weekend at some exotic cabin and by some miracle you brought your books to study, you can log in with a computer and check your class status.
Number 2: Professors that use teachers.io, which is an online application which allows teachers to share test and homework details for their classes with their stu-dents, can sync their mate-rial with myHomework for all students to easily access. Unfortunately, not many teachers use this program; therefore, all information pertaining to classes has to be entered manually by students.
IFTT is an app that allows the user to make recipes. Recipes consist of a “trig-ger” and an “action.” The user can program differ-ent social media applica-tions like Twitter, Face-book, Tumblr, etc. to react to different actions made on
other social media apps. For example, your “trigger” can be a Facebook status you made and your “action” can be a Twitter message that goes out with a link to that Facebook status.
Other than mass media accounts and people that are
“Twitter” famous, I cannot see how this could be useful to a booze-guzzlin’ and hard-working college student. So other than the fact that it is kind of cool and the lingo is entertaining and makes the user feel smart, it is not very productive.
Who would think some-one could come up with a better version of Quizlet? Well, this is it. Super-easy, super-fun and super-capti-vating interface. Download the app, make an account, add your university and add
a class because there’s a good chance you will find notes and flashcards for that class made by previous students or students currently enrolled.
You can view all the flash-cards with all the informa-tion in a “total-view” mode
or you can start a card-flip-ping session where you test yourself with different infor-mation. Overall, it’s a very entertaining app and proba-bly the closest app-designers have gotten to making study-ing look cool.
We all know the Fresh-man 15. But we soon come to realize it’s the Fresh-man, Sophomore, Junior and Senior 15. Lose It! is a very generic weight loss app. Just like all other weight-loss apps, it requires some sort of paid subscription in order to access more cool features of the app. The
only thing you can do is track your changes, add the types of food you’ve eaten, assess how much you have exercised and understand the percentage of the type of nutrients that make up your diet.
Overall, it is not a bad application. And for a col-lege student that desires
glazed ranch wings at 2:30 a.m., anything that can help keep track of weight is good. But in the long run, the user might lose interest before losing pounds.
Alexander is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected].
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New research on education puts toddlers into schools
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T he blow of Typhoon Haiyan affected millions of people in the Philippines after it first hit on
November 8, 2013. Thousands lost their lives,
and hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed, leaving families to search through the rubble of the storm’s aftermath, trying to piece their lives back together.
The world did not stay silent though, and organiza-tions from across the globe rushed to establish relief efforts for the typhoon’s victims.
The University’s Philip-pine Student Association (PSA) was no exception.
In June, three volunteers from the organization, as well as two additional volun-teers in the Philippines, trav-eled to the affected areas of Leyte and San Remigio, in the Cebu province. They then took part in a service trip to aid typhoon victims and to help rebuild after massive destruction.
The organization raised $3,000 for the Philippine Red Cross, with the help of an organization called Advance-ment for Rural Kids, which does philanthropic work in the Philippines.
Walbert Castillo, junior in Media, was philanthropy chair for PSA and the orga-nizer of the trip. He reached out to a Filipino organiza-
tion called Gawad Kalinga to help plan the trip. The orga-nization’s name translated to English means to “give care”, according to its website.
The volunteers took off to spend two weeks help-ing with relief efforts at the beginning of the summer.
They built houses and planted mangrove trees, which “are structured into the ground so if future nat-ural disasters hit, they can stop the wreckage from soil erosion so it doesn’t do as much damage,” Castillo said.
They also took part in a program called Paraisong Pambata, or Paradise for the Children, which involves spending time with children, reading to them and sing-ing to them, according to Castillo.
This trip was the first time volunteer Jason Lama-no, junior in LAS, went to the Philippines. By immersing himself in a society where people had less, he was able to observe and come to appre-ciate a different way of life.
“It’s a very simplistic lifestyle; I think it’s some-thing we all should embrace at some point in our lives,” Lamano said. “It’s a change of pace from campus life, a change of pace from profes-sional life and academic life.”
Lamano’s uncle, a den-tist, also provided the vol-unteers with toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss to donate to the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Manila.
Volunteer Eric Ordonez, junior in Engineering, said he remembers villagers of all ages crying as the vol-unteers said their goodbyes when leaving the first site in Leyte.
“You hear a lot about relief efforts,” he said. “People say, ‘So-and-so donated so-and-so million dollars.’ But you can see that really what touches the people who receive this aid most is the human con-tact. It’s not about the money, it’s not about the goods they get, but the fact that people give themselves.”
When the storm end-ed, approximately 4.1 mil-lion people were displaced, 1.1 million homes were destroyed and 6,300 people were dead, according to the U.S. Aid website. But the inci-dent was a testament to the unity and services that often ensue after a disaster.
“Before the typhoon even started, I wanted to do some-thing for the Philippines; I wanted to give back,” Cas-tillo said. “But unfortunate-ly, the typhoon hit. But it was, I would say, a blessing in God’s disguise, because it just tremendously shows how much work we can put toward one country for help and service.”
The PSA volunteers said they gained new perspec-tives and a renewed sense of appreciation for their back-grounds after embarking on the trip.
“The experience was beau-tiful,” Castillo said. “You
don’t really grasp the enti-ty of the Philippines if you haven’t been there, and I hadn’t been to the Philippines in 15 years. I am appreciat-ing my own culture because I delved into it.”
Ordonez said being born in the U.S. did not subdue his sense of duty to his fel-low Filipinos.
“I was born here, but that’s still who I am,” he said. “That’s the culture I come from. That’s in my blood. I have to go back to (help); it’s on me.”
Sleeping on plywood and living without electricity left an impact on Castillo as he recognized the privileges he had living in the U.S. He said another memorable part of the trip was seeing the resil-ience and optimism of the people who were affected by the disaster.
“People in the Philippines, even though they were struck horribly by this typhoon, they still have the resil-ience,” Castillo said. “They still have hope in all of dark-ness. They’re still willing to come together as one to help out with the wreckage.”
University of Illinois students travel to Philippines to aid recovery a!er tragic typhoon hit last year
Philippines Student Association meetingWhen: Tonight, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.Where: University YMCA Latzer Hall
“People in the Philip-pines, even though they were struck horribly by this typhoon, they still have the resilience ... They still have hope in all of darkness.”WALBERT CASTILLOPSA PHILANTHROPY CHAIR
These college apps might help ease the transition. Turn to Page 5A to read about which tools could make your life simpler.
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BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER
IT’S an aspect of the game that the Illi-nois football team has worked on all
summer: starting fast.And while Illinois snagged
a 28-17 win on Saturday over Youngstown State, it wasn’t until the fourth quarter that the offense fi nally exploded with three touchdowns.
“I don’t care who we play against,” head coach Tim Beck-man said. “We’ve got to start faster ... That’s got to be adjust-ed regardless of who you’re playing.”
The team struggled to keep the offense on the fi eld. The Penguins
maintained possession for 40:01 of game time compared to Illi-nois’ 19:59.
The Illini managed to even out possession by the fourth quar-ter, but it was the Illinois defense that kept the game close. Mason Monheim completed 14 tackles and with the defense, helped hold Youngstown State to 3.4 yards per rush.
“We made them one dimension-al,” defensive coordinator Tim Banks said. “I thought we did a really good job of stopping the run. Any time you can make them one dimensional, it makes every-thing else a little better. If you’re allowing them to run the ball, it sets up their play action and puts a lot of people in trouble.”
“What I thought Wes did extremely well was that he took his game — we weren’t playing very good early in that football game — and he took his game to another level in that fourth quarter,” Beckman said. “Which showed exactly what our capabili-ties are and in making plays with him. That as a football coach, that’s what I like to see.”
The Illini are looking to use that experience in their next contest this weekend in the fi rst meeting against Western Ken-tucky. The Hilltoppers are com-ing off a 59-31 romp against Bowling Green in which quar-terback Brandon Doughty broke records in passing yards (569), passing touchdowns (six) and total offense for the team (702).
This week, the Illinois defense will transition from a run-heavy team in Youngstown State to look-ing to a quicker paced, throwing
offense in Western Kentucky. The Hilltoppers made 96 total offen-sive plays in their game against Bowling Green compared to Illi-nois’ 60.
“It’s a different style,” Banks said. “They’re going to be a lot faster. The tempo will be a lot faster. Just getting that commu-nication, understanding what the call is. But again, we like to think,
SPORTS1BTUESDAY
Beckman stressing fast start a! er early struggles
Brunson’s visit leaves Illini fans optimistic
Behind McMahon, Illini sweep tourney without losing a setBY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER
Coming off of an impres-sive weekend to start the sea-son, Illini opposite side hit-ter Liz McMahon continues to earn accolades.
After being named MVP of the Illini Classic on Saturday, McMahon was named the Big Ten Player of the Week. The senior was tied for second on the team with 24 kills, but her .426 hitting percentage led all Illinois players with more than one attack.
McMahon also produced defensively. She was tied for second on the team with 10
total blocks. Middle blocker Anna Dorn had 11.
Not only were her num-bers good overall, McMahon made contributions in clutch moments throughout the Illi-ni’s 3-0 weekend at the Illini Classic. With the score tied at 19 in the third set against No. 20 North Carolina, McMa-hon went on a 3-1 run by her-self with three kills in succes-sion to give Illinois the lead for good.
Illini showing offensive balance
In the team’s fi nal match
of the weekend against North Carolina, no one on the team had double-digit kills — a good sign, according to head coach Kevin Hambly.
“I love it,” Hambly said. “I like the balance. I like how we’re distributing the ball. We’re not relying on one play-er. I think we’re going to be able to do that throughout the year, which is a big deal.”
Running a 6-2 offense, Illi-nois has two options on both sides of the court to give set-ters Alexis Viliunas and Alli-son Palmer choices when on the court. Jocelynn Birks and Morganne Criswell are the
leading outside hitters with 32 and 24 kills, respective-ly, while McMahon and Ali Stark have 24 and 22 kills as right-side hitters.
One thing Hambly wasn’t satisfi ed with was the number of attacks for middle block-ers on the weekend. Start-ers Katie Stadick and Anna Dorn combined for 34 swings over the three matches, just over 12 percent of the total attempts on the team. Tak-ing into account that some of those attacks were overpass-es, Hambly stressed the need
Recruit enjoys Illinois, but keeps future uncertain
Jalen Brunson has left the Illinois campus, but questions regarding his
recruitment still linger fol-lowing his offi cial visit.
The visit, which lasted from Aug. 29-31, seemed to go well for the highly touted point guard in the 2015 class. Brunson was spotted at many of the weekend festivities on the U of I campus, and he looked like he was enjoying himself. However, the week-end came and went without any major developments on the surface.
Brunson made an appear-ance at the annual “Stuff Huff” volleyball game Friday night, where a rowdy crowd witnessed an Illini sweep of Long Beach State. The next morning he attended the home football game against Youngstown State.
At the football game, Brunson made a trip to the student section with current Illini player Mike LaTu-lip and Illini commit Aaron Jordan, where they partici-pated in Block I card stunts and sang the Alma Mater song at halftime. Brunson, Jordan and Illini commit DJ Williams — a dream back-court for John Groce — then worked out together at the Ubben Basketball Complex Saturday afternoon.
Sprinkled in between these publicized appearances were campus tours and meetings with coaches, players and administrators from the Uni-versity, who presumably out-lined a vision for Brunson that he and his family could appreciate. After all, Illinois has a lot to sell. Playing time, academic rankings and a fully renovated facility were likely at the top of the list, but Brunson is a kid who sim-ply loves basketball. I think that the school that offers him the best pure basketball situation is the one he’ll ulti-mately choose.
Brunson is no Cliff Alex-ander. He doesn’t bask in adoration from fans and he doesn’t seek out unnecessary attention; in fact he shies away from it, according to one source. That’s not to say that he didn’t enjoy the love the Illini fan base showed him over the weekend, but it’s unlikely that something like a Twitter hashtag (like the “#BETHE1” trend that Illini fans started last week-end) will have any impact on the school he picks.
Fans hoping for any big news or even a commitment this weekend were left dis-appointed. The visit itself was high-profi le and low-key at the same time, and the Brunson camp isn’t let-ting much information out. Brunson’s father Rick played for nine seasons in the NBA, and he knows how the sys-tem works. Rick has been the middle man between the media and his son, and no one really knows if Jalen is lean-ing toward a certain school at the moment.
We do know that Brunson said the visit was a “great” one, in a statement to Big Ten Network’s Taylor Rooks. But Brunson preceded his answer to Rooks with a dis-
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois head coach Tim Beckman watches a replay against Youngstown State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The Illini won 28-17 after trailing 9-7 in the fourth quarter. Beckman was unhappy with the early struggles after stressing fast starts in practices this summer.
SLOW START, STRONG END
FOOTBALLILL VS. YOUNGSTOWN ST.SAT: ILL 28, Youngstown St. 17
VOLLEYBALLILLINI CLASSICFRI: ILL 3, SIU 0 SAT: ILL 3, Long Beach St. 0.SAT: ILL 3, UNC 0
SOCCERILL VS. ASUFRI: ILL 3, Arizona St. 1SUN: ILL 1, Oakland 0
MEN’S CROSS-COUNTRYILLINI CHALLENGEFRI:1st of 2
WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRYILLINI CHALLENGEFRI: 2nd of 2
WEEKEND ROUNDUP:
ALEX ROUX
Basketball columnist
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The Illini are undefeated in games against FCS opponents. Saturday’s 28-17 win over Youngstown State raises their record to 14-0
Illinois has won 17 consecutive home openers
Ten Illini made their debut in Saturday’s game (two true freshman, one sophomore, seven transfers)
Senior lineman Austin Teitsma had a career-high nine tackles
NUMBERS TO KNOW
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THE SCORE
GAME TO REMEMBER
GAME CHANGER
ON A !LIGHTER" SIDE NOTE:
GAME TO FORGETTaylor Zalewski and Ryan Frain
Each kicker received a penalty for kicking the ball out of bounds on a
kickoff. “You can’t kick the ball out of bounds twice,” Tim Beckman said.
“That’s just dumb.”
Lunt’s third-down conversions — While sophomore quarterback Wes Lunt’s
game didn’t start off as Illinois wanted, he kept Illini drives alive throughout the second half. Lunt threw for seven third-
down conversions, including two for more than 20 yards in the team’s fi nal
scoring drive.
Austin TeitsmaThe senior defensive lineman had half a sack and nine total tackles in Illinois’ 28-17 win over Youngstown State. The
Penguins ran the ball 59 times and double-teamed Teitsma on blocking throughout the game, but the senior
was able to grab 2.5 tackles for a total loss of 7 yards, including a QB hurry.
SAT., Aug. 30vs. Youngstown State
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SAT., Sept. 6vs. Western Kentucky
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SAT., Oct. 4vs. Purdue
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SAT., Oct. 11@ Wisconsin
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SAT., Nov. 15vs. Iowa
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QUOTE OF THE GAME
“When I saw the punter and he brought it down, acting like he was going to run it to the side and go for the ! rst down, I saw the three (blockers) run out. I had to contain, keep containing. I ran to the (blockers). As soon as I saw him drop
the ball and try and kick it, I pushed one of the (blockers) into the punt and that’s
how we got the blocked kick.”
Joe FotuDefensive lineman
SCHEDULE*Games in bold are at home*
-Youngstown State arrived to Memorial Stadium with not one but two Penguin
mascots. They were both wearing scarves in the 80-degree heat.
-Penguins’ punter Joey Cejudo avoided problems on his fi rst seven punts, but his eighth went off the rear of a
Youngstown State blocker for negative yardage. The block was credited to the
kicking team, stuffi ng its own punt.
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FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINILiz McMahon celebrates a point against Long Beach State on Friday. McMahon was named the Illini Classic MVP.
“Any time you can make them one dimensional, it makes everything else
a little better.”TIM BECKMAN
HEAD COACH
BY ELISEO ELIZARRARAZSTAFF WRITER
The Illini women’s soc-cer team went 2-for-2 on the weekend against two gritty opponents.
The team took on Ari-zona State on Friday, and took an early lead on Alli-son Stucky’s seventh minute strike. The goal was Stucky’s first collegiate goal.
The Illini would hold the Sun Devil’s scoreless in the first half with Claire Wheat-ley starting in goal ahead of Michelle Denley.
Arizona State hit the ground running in the sec-ond half. Wheatley was forced to make some impor-tant saves before ASU mid-fielder Aly Moon tucked away a shot to level things in the 51st minute.
The Illini responded three minutes later — senior strik-er Jannelle Flaws headed in a Stucky cross. Flaws add-ed a second goal in the 57th
minute after a failed clear-ance from ASU goalkeep-er Lexi Bounds. Illinois fin-ished 3-1 winners against the Sun Devils.
“That’s a good win for us,” head coach Janet Rayfield said. “It didn’t feel like we started the second half the way we wanted to, they real-ly came at us ... Kind of took a high-risk approach there and benefited from it. But I really like the way our team responded.”
ASU outshot the Illini 14-12, many of those shots occurred during the short attacking spurt early in the second half as Wheat-ley was forced into mak-ing four saves. The back four of Amy Feher, Aliina Weykamp, Hope D’Addario and Abby Elinsky all played the entire game.
“Our defense handled it really well,” Wheatley said. “Obviously I had to make a couple saves, but the defense
really kept them out more than I even had to.”
Rayfield says the competi-tion for the goalkeeper spot is not yet over as the Wheat-ley and Denley continue to push each other for the spot.
“You are going to see Claire’s improvement from last year to this year and part of that is the battle that Michelle is providing,” Rayfield said. “Every day in training Michelle is getting better and if those two keep battling, they both are really going to be great goalkeep-ers by the end of it.”
Flaws liked the team’s per-formance on the day and the resiliency after ASU’s equal-izer early in the second half.
“We felt good. I think we played well in the first half, the second half we came off not as strong as we would’ve liked to,” Flaws said. “But once they scored, we kind of responded. I feel good, I think I’m just getting myself
in dangerous situations for my team to get involved and they’re getting me the ball in places I can finish.”
Against Oakland on Sun-day, the Illini thoroughly outshot the Golden Grizzlies 29-4 and had a corner kick ratio of 8:1, but were unable to break the 0-0 stalemate in 90 minutes. This led to extra time, where defender Amy Feher was able to sink the Grizzlies, who are now 3-3 on the season. Wheatley was in goal for the first 45 min-utes while Denley took her place in the second half and overtime.
“It was one of those days where you felt like some-thing was going to give at some point,” Rayfield said.
The defensive quartet of Feher, Weykamp, D’Addario and Elinsky helped the two goalkeepers post the team’s second shutout this year.
“That was a great win on the road, Sunday games
are always hard,” Weykamp said. “We play on Fridays, give it our all and then we’re expected to do the same thing on Sunday. I think it was a great win for us, we definitely have a lot to work on on the attacking side and the defensive side, but I think as a unit, today was a great opportunity to
learn that sometimes its gon-na take 97 minutes to put it in the back of the net. But (we’ll) learn from that and we’ll move on to the next game.”
Eliseo is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected].
2B Tuesday, September 2, 2014 THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM
Illini soccer makes it three wins in a row
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ Janelle Flaws looks for an opening in the defense during the game against Arizona State at the Illinois Soccer and Track Stadium on Friday.
The basketball world has been given some time to recover from the gruesome leg injury of Pacers forward Paul George.
Considerably less time has passed since Kevin Durant made his decision to with-draw from the USA men’s national team due to fatigue.
It’s possible that Durant withdrew due to fatigue, but the timing of the announce-ment is questionable. I don’t buy it.
It has raised an interesting discussion surrounding NBA players’ involvement in the FIBA games past 2014.
Some people (Mark Cuban) believe NBA players should be banned from international competition. Cuban cites the
fact that players are million dollar investments and inter-national competition puts these investments at risk.
Before we go further, I’m not comfortable referring to human beings as invest-ments. It emphasizes the obvious issue and the basic premise of Cuban’s argu-ment, that the NBA is a business.
Granted, Cuban is a busi-nessman, so I’ll try to see things from his perspective. If an individual pours mil-lions of dollars into anything, they’re going to be protective of their investment. If that investment doubles or triples the owner’s return, then life is great.
The second that invest-ment has lost its ability to return any compensation, it becomes a problem. I’ll give Cuban that much.
What I will not give Cuban a pass on is the 2011 NBA season, the fourth and
most recent lockout in NBA history.
For those who craved bas-ketball, you could see your favorite NBA players hoop-ing in the Drew League, at Rucker Park and everywhere in between.
What you would not see was a video clip, quote, report or story from an NBA own-er discouraging competitive play that wasn’t associated with the league during that lockout.
The reason being, the own-ers were knee deep in nego-tiations. The negotiation pro-cess did not make the owners oblivious to the cross-country superstar tour taking place in every major city. The own-ers were trying to figure out a way to fatten their pockets by adjusting rookie wage scales and the lowering the terms of max contracts.
To be fair, the owners could not comment on the lockout or contact players,
but giving a general opinion like the one Mark Cuban gave this year was not prohibited.
The funny thing about a lockout is that it has no expi-ration date. It lasted a few months but it could have very lasted longer. As long as a lockout is in place, the own-ers don’t have to pay salaries.
No one can definitively say the owners did not care. I’m willing to assume they cared about the players’ offsea-son activity. But the owners know, just like the rest of the basketball world knows, that basketball players are always going to play basketball.
The end of the season does not shut off NBA players’ desire to play. It merely shuts off the TV cameras.
Owners are conscious of the fact that players can get hurt in the offseason. Play-ers can get hurt in training camp. FIBA competition isn’t any more dangerous than the NBA Summer
League or preseason.The Paul George injury
sent a shockwave through basketball circles and caused people to overreact.
Any time a player steps foot on the court, he could get injured. It comes with the territory.
There’s that aspect of the argument, in regards to NBA players in internation-al competition. Then there is the overwhelming factor that will probably sweep Cuban’s opinion under the rug.
American pride.Let’s take a walk down
memory lane.2002: The U.S. Men’s nation-
al team finished sixth at the FIBA World Championships.
2004: The U.S. Men’s Olym-pic basketball team left Greece with a bronze medal.
2006: The U.S. Men’s nation-al team finished third at the FIBA World Championships.
That four-year period was
considered the most embar-rassing in the country’s his-tory since professional ath-letes entered basketball competition.
In 2008, the U.S. took home the gold on a team headlined by Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul.
Again, you’d be hard-pressed to find a news clip of anyone protesting the participation of these superstars.
In the wake of George’s injury, attempting to keep NBA players away from international competition will get some attention unless the U.S. doesn’t win the FIBA World champion-ships convincingly.
Then the need to restore American dominance will resurface.
NBA players run usual risk of injury internationally, banning not the answerSPENCER BROWN
Sports columnist
It was a slow start to an ugly game. Illinois’ 28-17 win over Youngstown State was slug-
gish , to say the least. But there’s no reason to panic.
But anyone who was expecting quarterback Wes Lunt to come out and throw for 400-plus yards in his Illinois debut was probably overly optimistic about the situation. This was Lunt’s fi rst real game in nearly two years. Most of his top targets were, and still are, inexperienced.
Offensive coordinator Bill Cubit called his receivers “young and out of sync” after the game. It’s easy to agree with him.
There was a little bit of a hesi-tation in the offense early in the game. There was no fl ow, no rhythm. You could see it in the early possessions, when the Illini failed to score on six of seven fi rst half drives . Lunt didn’t give Illinois the debut it was hoping for.
But as the game went on, there
was a little more familiarity on the offensive side of the ball.
“I thought the guys that hadn’t played Division I football respond-ed,” Beckman said after the game.
Mike Dudek made a great catch on a 49-yard pass from Lunt to set up an eventual touchdown pass from Lunt to Josh Ferguson . Lunt stood in the face of a blitz-ing defense and threw a strike to Ferguson. (Speaking of Ferguson, he needs to be given more than 11 carries. He’s the most explosive player for the Illini on that side of the ball.)
It was not a tentative throw. It gave Illinois the lead for good in the fourth quarter.
Dudek had dropped a pass ear-lier in the game, something Cubit said he hadn’t seen from the fresh-man receiver in three weeks. There was no tentativeness late in the game from him.
Youngstown State isn’t a bad FCS team. Two years ago, the Penguins managed to knock off Pittsburgh . Last year, they won eight games .
But that’s no excuse. This Illinois team should clearly be the better team. Oftentimes, it did not look that way.
The Illini defense had a good game, for the most part. But I wouldn’t say they were challenged all that much by a Youngstown State team who ran the ball twice as much
as it passed it. Other than a couple of big plays, the Penguins were not terribly effective when they had the ball. They scored their only touch-down of the game late in the fourth quarter.
If you substituted the Penguins for a Big Ten team, I’m not sure Illinois would be as successful lim-iting the run. And with only 24 Youngstown State passing attempts, the secondary wasn’t tested much.
The secondary had holes last year and, after watching Saturday’s game, I’m not at all confi dent that those holes have been fi lled.
Give Illinois credit for doing enough to win the game. But this one provided more questions than answers.
Considering that next week’s opponent, Western Kentucky, threw for 569 yards against Bowl-ing Green on Friday , Illinois fans should be a little more nervous about the Hilltoppers than they currently seem to be.
Judging by what we saw Sat-urday, Cubit, Lunt and company are going to have to show drastic improvement if they think they can hang with an opponent in an offen-sive shootout.
Sean is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @sean_hammond.
being a veteran unit, this won’t be our fi rst time seeing a speed team. We’ll be able to get lined up, com-municate and be able to execute.”
For Illinois, starting fast and stopping that passing game will be critical. Western Kentucky put
up two touchdowns in the first quarter. Illinois scored just one touchdown in its first half against Youngstown State.
“It’s going to be a quick game and that’s something we’ve been preparing for since Day One with Beckman,” nose tackle Aus-tin Teitsma said. “I think we’ll be alright. Definitely this week, we’ll be pushing the big guys to
run a little bit, so that will be good for us. It’s all heart, defi-nitely all heart for us. They’re going to be spreading us out and throwing the ball a lot. So they’ll have us running a lot, but we can do it.”
claimer: His parents were not allow-ing him to make any further com-ments to the media. Late Sunday, Rick told Joe Henricksen of Subur-ban Hoops Report that they plan on taking all of Jalen’s scheduled visits, which includes two trips to Philly when they visit Villanova and Tem-ple in the next two weeks.
It will be interesting to see how
the next few weeks play out, espe-cially with another excellent point guard prospect set to visit the Illini campus. Jawun Evans, a 2015 guard out of Texas, will be on campus this weekend while Brunson is at Nova. Since it’s unlikely that the Illini land both Brunson and Evans, Evans’ vis-it could certainly impact Brunson’s recruitment.
So the recruiting roller coaster rolls on, with more questions than answers at this point regarding the Illini’s standing with their point
guard targets. We know Brunson said he enjoyed his visit, and we know Evans will be here soon. But we don’t know if Brunson has a favorite, and Illini fans will now have to agonize while he is wooed by other schools. But if Jalen and his father are to be believed, then it would appear the Illini are still in the mix.
Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.
to get the middles more sets.“We have work to do with those
guys scoring,” Hambly said of the middles. “They did a good job block-ing but we have work to do. They need to learn how to score and not just hit. There’s a difference.”Illini dominating at the net
The Illini’s switch to a 6-2 seemed to pay dividends at the net. With three blockers up front at all times, Illinois
held opponents to .135 hitting on the weekend. The Illini also had nearly double the amount of blocks as their opponents, with the fi nal tally for the weekend coming out 40-26.
“We’re pretty physical with the change to the 6-2,” Hambly said. “I like what it does for our block. Peo-ple talk a lot about what that means offensively, to me, it’s a lot more about what that means defensively.”
Last season, hitting percentage was a barometer for the Illini’s suc-cess. The team was 16-1 when posting a higher percentage than opponents, as opposed to 2-14 in matches with a
lower percentage. Hambly said his defense is what will make the team successful.
“When we’ve had good teams, that’s what we’ve had. We’ve been really hard to score on,” Hambly said. “The Big Ten is about defense, it’s a lot like basketball. It’s a grind it out, physical league so we have to fi gure out how to play that way against everyone that’s in front of us.”
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Power rankingsDAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTEditor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff ranks the football teams in the Big Ten 1-14 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.
1.MICHIGAN STATE (LAST WEEK: 1) Despite an early injury scare with quarterback Connor Cook, the Spartans made easy work of Jacksonville State and continued to show their dominance around the league.
2.OHIO STATE (2)The Buckeyes’ offense was in question after Braxton Miller was sidelined for the season, but freshman J.T. Barrett threw for 226 yards and two touchdowns to the relief of a worried Ohio State fanbase.
3.WISCONSIN (3)Despite losing to No. 13 LSU, Wisconsin is still third in our power rankings . The Badgers took a 24-13 lead, but two late interceptions and a 28-yard TD run from Tigers’ Kenny Hillard let the game slip from Wisconsin .
6.IOWA (4)The Hawkeyes held off Northern Iowa for a 31-23 win but allowed 380 yards through the air. If it wasn’t for Northern Iowa’s 16 penalties and 128 penalty yards , the fi nal score may have been much different.
4.NEBRASKA (5)The Cornhuskers dominated Florida Atlantic 55-7 and let Ameer Abdullah fl ex his muscles on the ground, rushing for 232 yards and a score. Nebraska ended the day with 784 yards of total offense .
5.MICHIGAN (6)The Wolverines avenged one of the biggest upsets in college football history, beating Appalachian State 52-14 . Michigan scored in every quarter. Devin Gardner threw for 173 yards and three touchdowns .
7.PENN STATE (7)The Nittany Lions’ fi eld goal on the fi nal play capped a dramatic fi nish in Ireland after giving up the lead late to Central Florida. Penn State’s 454 passing yards may see its momentum carry over to next week.
8.MARYLAND (9)Maryland dominated James Madison, 52-7. The team’s dual rushing game with backs Brandon Ross and Wes Brown are working in full effect and could threaten plenty of Big Ten defenses as the season continues.
9.MINNESOTA (10)The Golden Gophers started off strong against Eastern Illinois, taking a 21-0 lead into the fourth quarter, but let up 20 points in the fi nal 15 minutes. Without a concrete test, it’s still diffi cult to see how Minnesota will stack .
10.NORTHWESTERN (8) A slow start hurt the Wildcats in a 31-24 loss to Cal . Northwestern trailed 24-7 after the fi rst half and wasn’t able to pull off the comeback after an interception on the California 15-yard line late in the game .
11.INDIANA (12)The Hoosiers relied heavily on their running game in Saturday’s 28-10 win over Indiana State, racking up 455 yards on the ground . But Indiana’s rushing game may not be as powerful in Big Ten play.
12.ILLINOIS (11)The Illini’s season didn’t start as planned, trailing Youngstown State 9-7 heading into the fourth quarter. But a 21-point explosion lifted Illinois over the Penguins for a 28-17 win .
13.RUTGERS (13)The Scarlet Knights squeaked by Washington State with a 17-point fourth quarter, but allowed 532 yards through the air. Rutgers’ secondary is a major concern for head coach Kyle Flood going forward.
14.PURDUE (14)The Boilermakers’ offense is dependent on the running back combination of Akeem Hunt and Raheem Mostert , but the defense is the problem, allowing 456 yards of offense and barely holding off Western Michigan.
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Jimmy Graham is not the best tight end in the NFL.
What did I just say? Pause. Take a deep breath. Now turn on The Departed, grab your Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and sit back for a full-on New England rant.
Jimmy Graham isn’t the best tight end in the NFL because Robert James Gronkowski is.
On Monday, Gronk was given the green light to play for the New Eng-land Patriots in their sea-son opener against the Miami Dolphins on Sun-day. You better get him on your fantasy team right away.
Gronk is entering his fi fth season in the NFL. He has missed 15 regu-lar season games over the last two seasons, including nine games last season, due to vari-ous injuries.
So how can he be the best tight end in the NFL if he was out for almost a full season’s worth of games from 2012-2014?
Because when Gronk has been in the game, he has been a force. Der-rick Rose cannot real-ly be declared the best point guard in the NBA because even during #TheReturn, he was not at his best (I know, sor-ry Chicagoans). When Gronk has been able to be on the fi eld, his level of play is just as high as it was when he got hurt.
When Gronkowski was in last season, the Pats were an offensive force, averaging 32 points per game, in comparison to the 28 points they scored on average over the whole season. Gronk was an obvious boost to their offense.
In seven games last season, Gronkowski was able to eclipse most of his totals from his rook-ie season, in which he played all 16 games. At the rate he was going, if Gronkowski had played the whole season, he
would have had more catches and yards than Jimmy Graham. Even as it was, with 39 catch-es and almost 600 yards, Gronk was gaining more than a yard more per catch than Graham. Those are the kind of stats that make fantasy owners salivate.
Not only did Gronk play well when he was in, he clearly affected the play of Tom Brady, one the NFL’s elite quarter-backs. Brady threw for 13 TDs during Gronk’s seven-game stint, more than half of his regular season total. Brady also had his three best games in terms of yardage out-put when Gronk was on the fi eld. That’s not just Gronk’s fantasy stock going up, it’s Brady’s going up too.
I wonder if Gronk had something to do with that?
So what if he gets hurt again? Does that indicate that you can’t be the best player at your position in the NFL if you keep get-ting hurt? Gronk plays at 110 miles per hour
and it isn’t unlikely that he will get re-injured at some point this season. For now, however, he’s too fast for linebackers and too strong for defen-sive backs and will cer-tainly cause havoc in the defensive backfi elds of the Patriot’s opponents.
And what about his well-documented partying?
Don’t worry about it. The Patriots would have dealt with Gronk if it were inappropriate. The team already had an unfortunate experience with character issues in one of their tight ends, so I’m sure if Gronk was problem they would have dealt with it already.
Take advantage of Gronk while he’s healthy. He’s a top 15 fantasy starter (at any position) when he’s at his best, so snatch him up while you still have the chance.
Peter is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him @pbaileywells22.
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GEORGE BRIDGES MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNERob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots is tackled by Kareem Jackson of the Houston Texans in the second half of the Patriots’ 34-31 victory in Houston.
