BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER

Governor Bruce Rauner presented his budget plan to the General Assembly on Wednesday, outlining major changes to education and pension funding, along with changes in Illinois’ tax code. Rauner announced major cuts to the state’s budget, which will mean cuts for the University.

“The budget outlined today is the budget Illinois can afford, and that in itself is an example of ‘thinking anew,’” Rauner said. “For far too long we have been living beyond our means — spending mon-ey that Illinois taxpayers could not afford.”

Under the budget propos-al, state funding for high-er education would decline by 31.5 percent, just over $387 million. The Univer-sity faces massive cuts in state appropriations under the governor’s budget, which will amount to nearly $209 million.

“A budget cut of that mag-nitude would substantially harm our students and the people of Illinois by most severely impacting the Uni-versity’s core education and research missions,” said President Robert Easter in a statement. “Between now and the end of the legislative ses-

sion, the U of I will be in the Capitol to participate vigor-ously in this debate, stressing the twin aspects of prudent (and) responsible steward-ship of public resources.”

University Spokesman Tom Hardy said the Uni-versity had originally been directed by the Illinois Board of Higher Education to pre-pare a budget scenario in

which the University would reduce its budget by 20 per-cent. The cuts put forward by the governor, Hardy said, greatly exceed what the Uni-versity expected, and could affect everything from stu-dent services to faculty sala-ries to class sizes.

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Editor’s Note: The name of the account creator has been changed in the following story.

Snapchat might as well be the wild west of social media.

Twitter, Instagram and Facebook users can be veri-fied, each account’s activity is linked together and posts and

other activity are monitored. Hashtags quickly group con-tent, and even search tools bring up closest results.

Snapchat entices a level of secrecy with its time-limit-ed photo and video sharing between known contacts. But from the app’s depths, an account named “illiniway” has attracted over 10,000 fol-lowers by sharing daily visu-

al collections for all to view. illiniway, previously titled

“cham_bana” and “cham_bana2,” has quickly garnered the attention of students, alumni and more across cam-pus and beyond. Using the “Snapchat Stories” feature, the account owner uploads hundreds of submitted pho-

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“We can’t guarantee that messages will be deleted within a time frame. And even after we’ve deleted message data from out servers, that same data may remain in backup for a limited period of time.”

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BY FRANCES WELCHSTAFF WRITER

Only a week after his res-cue, Mark Doose is back on the slopes in Switzerland.

While spending his spring semester at the Swiss Fed-eral Institute of Technology (EPFL), Doose — a Univer-sity bioengineering student studying abroad in Laus-anne, Switzerland —

became lost during a ski trip bombarded by a snowstorm.

“I was stuck and hiked with my skis down the ravine for a kilometer or so and then I had to cross the ravine,” he said. “The first crossing was about knee deep and then I just kept moving as fast as I could after that to stay warm.”

Mark proceeded to hike all of Sunday and Monday, sleeping just a few hours in the snow and traveling more than three kilometers and crossing the ravine vari-ous times. Each time, Mark faced a higher water level, and on the third, a dead end

waterfall. He was forced to climb up the bank approx-imately 100 feet and con-tinue to travel another half kilometer.

“That night I made a little snow hut next to an embank-ment and slept there for about six hours with my hands in my pants and my gloves in my armpits,” he said. “I hiked a little further until I could see a road and started yelling.

It wasn’t until Tuesday that Mark was finally found. Passing hikers and their dogs heard his shouts and were able to help him.

“It was incredible. When I first heard the hik-ers respond, I was over-whelmed,” he said. “... When the gendarmes (police) and the helicopter came it was a huge relief.”

Mark was lifted out of the snow by a helicopter and was brought to a Swiss German hospital, where he sustained only minor frostbite in his fingers and a bruised toe.

For those tense two days,

Mark’s mother, Barbara, was praying and chanting throughout the nights for her son’s safety.

“Words really can’t express the emotions…,” she said. “A parent’s heart breaks at thinking of their child going through any kind of physical or emo-tional pain. I still cry think-ing about what Mark went through, then rejoice con-stantly that he survived with no lasting physical harm!”

Barbara was the one who dropped Mark off at the air-port on his way to his study abroad program. It was the last time she saw him before the incident.

During the first night of Mark’s disappearance, his parents, who reside in sub-urban communities of Chi-cago, began to panic when they had not heard from him to talk about his day on the slopes.

Mark kept moving to keep out of the wind. He knew that

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Since Friday, the Univer-sity has sent out a warm welcome to 22,267 students accepted to attend this com-ing Fall.

The University has received four percent fewer applications this year than in 2014.

This year, 34,119 students applied, and 22,267 students were admitted. In 2014, 35,695 students applied, and

20,040 were admitted. Rob-in Kaler, campus spokes-woman, said the 11 per-cent increase was done in an effort to improve yield and attract more Illinois residents.

This year the Universi-ty changed its application and admissions procedures by cutting the early deci-sion date, or waiting list. All applications were due by Dec. 1, and only prior-ity applications for honors

programs were due Nov. 1. The change was made

because more early appli-cants were applying, and therefore more were placed on the waiting list, accord-ing to a previous interview with Nancy Walsh, director of admissions operations. “In December, it was get-ting harder and harder to make a true final decision on those students,” Walsh said

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According to the report, the victim was sexually as-saulted and the offender has not been located.

Theft was reported at Circle K, 59 E. Green St., around 6 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole the victim’s cellphone.

University A 26-year-old male was

arrested on the charges of driving under the infl uence of alcohol, driving with an obstructed windshield, driving with an obstructed license plate and improp-er lane usage near the in-tersection of Arbours and Woodfi eld drives in Savoy around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

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tos and videos that followers can then click through at will within 24 hours of being post-ed. Its content ranges from late night-out captures to sleepy selfies in lecture, but its host of raunchy depictions of student life often domi-nates its daily uploads.

“It’s just interesting; if I were a passive viewer, it would be an interesting snap-shot of someone’s life,” said Jacob, the creator and opera-tor of illiniway who has cho-sen to remain anonymous. “The way that I see it is that I know that it’s just a high-light of people’s lives.”

The inappropriate content ranges across user submis-sions but often includes nudi-ty, sexual activity and illegal drug use. It’s what caused the original account, cham_bana, to be shut down in December, just weeks after its start.

Jacob, who didn’t start the original cham_bana but took it up with cham_bana2, receives most submissions via Snapchat and downloads the content through a jailbro-ken smartphone — a phone formatted to remove unau-thorized restrictions. He then filters out the explicitly offen-sive material considered to be racist, misogynistic, homo-phobic or worse. But the rest makes it to the daily “Story.”

“I receive about 300 to 400 snaps a day and well over 2,000 snaps a week,” said Jacob, who then spends two or three hours a day select-ing snaps to add. “So I need Wi-Fi. If I’m not in a (campus) building, I just don’t do it — too much data.”

However, this type of thread — receiving large amounts of snaps and pub-lishing such a lengthy collec-tive runtime for its “Story” — can flag it as a spam account to app officials.

But Jill Hazelbaker, spokesperson for Snapchat, said in an email that accounts like these also violate their Terms of Use.

“They may post content that breaks our Commu-nity Guidelines (e.g. inva-sion of privacy or harass-ment),” Hazelbaker wrote in an email. “Our Terms of

Use also prohibit the use of third-party applications to access Snapchat, like those used to upload pictures. When a Snapchatter violates the Community Guidelines, it’s not uncommon for others in the community to report it to us.”

On Jan. 27, Snapchat released a new feature called “Snapchat Discover,” which allows media outlets such as ESPN, CNN, Yahoo, Vice, Comedy Central and others to publish videos and news-worthy article highlights as part of their branding.

In a sense, illiniway is serving as an informal rep-resentation of the University on Snapchat, reflecting the highlights of the daily snap-shots of what goes on in cam-pus life.

On Tuesday, Robin Kal-er, University spokeswom-an, said she was unaware of the account’s activity and had never heard of illiniway before.

Recently, Jacob set up a Twitter page and email account to receive addition-al submissions and to keep adamant followers updated on replacement accounts if the current one is shut down.

Jacob first heard about similar Snapchat threads, such as CPS (“College Peep Show”) and another account associated with the Universi-ty of Iowa, last fall. He then contacted the original cre-ator of cham_bana via Snap-chat after learning of the one on the Illinois campus. And when the original account was shut down because of its content, Jacob was ready to take over.

“The way that (the cham_bana creator) would send out messages seemed like he didn’t really want to do it,” Jacob said. “I did mes-sage him once asking why he didn’t want to do it, and he answered, ‘Honestly, I don’t even want to do it anymore; it’s just so time consuming.’”

Once the first account was shut down, Jacob then revamped the thread with the successive username. But then in January, the cham_bana2 thread was shut down following the Snapchat app update, which wiped all flagged accounts, he said.

Past the sex- and drug-

related snaps, Jacob also feels it’s used to spread posi-tive news throughout campus, as the account has a higher reach to spread news faster than some other outlets.

While some followers may come for the nudity and bong hits, others follow for the real-time updates of campus happenings, such as a recent marriage proposal in Foel-linger. Jacob said that event gained him about 200 follow-ers on that day alone.

“When it comes to things like the marriage proposal, that garnered a huge amount of interest. ... I got sever-al videos and pictures, and people were texting their friends, but the way people really found out about it was through my story,” he said. After receiving the submis-sions of the marriage propos-al, Jacob said the process was like all others that make it to the feed. He views the sub-missions and chooses what content he feels is deserving of a spot.

But Jacob also uses other means. If a user has followed the illiniway account, their personal story can be viewed by illiniway, and pictures and videos can be downloaded through the jailbroken smart-phone. Submissions can also consist of photos and videos taken of individuals unaware of the photo’s being taken, allowing over 10,000 people to view unauthorized content.

Though running illiniway is tedious and time consum-ing, Jacob finds joy out of the entirety of running the account.

“I like doing it because sometimes I get in contact with (the users), and there are a lot of things that I don’t post that are sent to me, and it’s still like another snapshot of someone’s life,” Jacob said.

With a “cham_bana4” already set up in case of a shutdown, Jacob doesn’t see an end in sight.

“The concept of it is real-ly interesting, and the pos-sibility of monetizing it is definitely appealing to me,” Jacob said. “It can be very lucrative with that kind of audience, specifically col-lege kids.”

Frances can be reached at fwelch2@dailyillini.com.

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versial proposals in Rauner’s speech was a restructuring of public employees’ pension system, advocating for mov-ing thousands of employees, excluding firefighters and policemen, to a Tier 2 pension plan. Raune r said by making the switch, the state would save $2.2 billion in the first year and employees would still retain their benefits.

However, a Tier 2 pen-sion plan will likely be chal-lenged in Illinois’ courts, said Christopher Mooney, direc-tor of the Institute of Gov-ernment and Public Affairs, as it would reduce the ben-efits of its employees, which would go against the state’s constitution.

State employees hired after 2011 would have the additional option of taking a “buyout,” meaning a lump sum payment and a defined

contribution in lieu of a standard pension. In return, employees would take a vol-untary reduction in the cost-of-living adjustments they would receive from the state.

“It’s time to empower our workforce and address one of the biggest fiscal challenges we face,” Rauner said.

Under his proposed bud-get, Rauner said, funding for K-12 education would increase by an estimated $300 million.

“It’s time to make educa-tion our top priority again — and that’s what this budget does,” Rauner said. “We start by increasing high-quality early childhood education options for our most vulner-able children.”

However, teachers’ union Illinois Federation of Teach-ers, said the plan is disingen-uous and will not meet the recommended minimum lev-el of funding they believe is necessary.

“Governor Rauner is paint-

ing a false picture of educa-tion funding,” said Aviva Bowen, Illinois Federation of Teachers spokeswoman, in a statement. “His pro-posal to ‘increase funding’ is achieved only by folding in line-item appropriations already in the State Board of Education’s budget.”

Rauner also proposed bud-get cuts to local city govern-ments in his budget, which he said would amount to a 3 percent reduction in their overall budget. By halv-ing the share of income tax revenue local governments receive from 8 to 4 percent, local governments would receive $600 million less in state appropriations in fiscal year 2016.

Under Rauner’s bud-get proposal, the Regional Transportation Authority would see a 4.4 percent cut to the level of appropriations it receives from the state.

Rauner’s budget would cut an estimated 1.5 billion from

Medicaid, which provides healthcare to low-income households.

“For Medicaid, our budget reduces costs significantly while maintaining eligibility levels for most lower-income Illinoisans,” Rauner said.

Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger, who was appointed by Rauner this year, hailed his budget as an important first step in solving Illinois’ budgetary crisis.

“Today Governor Raun-er offered a much-needed comprehensive approach to our state’s budget and fiscal challenges,” Munger said in a statement. “For the last decade state government has consistently spent more than it took in, borrowed money that it didn’t have and ‘balanced’ the budget with accounting tricks. Today the consequences of those actions are coming due.”

Josh can be reached at jjwinte2@dailyillini.com.

the snow worked as an insu-lator to keep warm — surviv-al tactics Doose learned in his Boy Scout Troop 51 that would end up saving his life.

“Monday morning and throughout the day, we both tried contacting Mark by email, text, Facebook Mes-senger and telephone, with-out success,” Barbara said.

After getting in contact with Mark’s friends in Swit-zerland and realizing no one had heard from him since the day before, Barbara began to panic. Coinciden-tally, an avalanche had killed 11 skiers that same Sunday, leading Mark’s parents into an even bigger panic.

Determined to find the

whereabouts of her son, Bar-bara continued to reach out to Mark’s friends, with still no trace of Mark.

Barbara contacted the U.S embassy in Bern, Swit-zerland, and was assured that had there been an acci-dent, she would have been informed, leaving Mark’s parents unable to help their son who was over 7,000 miles away.

After making contact with the director of the language program at EPFL, Barbara and Chuck, Mark’s father, verified that he had not made it back to French class on Monday or had returned to his dorm.

After Chuck attempted to initiate searches through local police and ski patrols, the U.S. embassy advised Chuck and Barbara to issue

a missing persons report, triggering Interpol’s involve-ment and an active report in Europe.

“We were convinced for a long time that he was strand-ed on a mountain, but with the time and language dif-ference, it took a long time to convince others,” she said. “Ultimately, everyone in Switzerland was a huge help, from the U.S. embas-sy to the EPFL contacts to the local search and rescue team (REGA) who helicop-tered Mark to safety.”

Barbara said she believes the search began for Mark Tuesday morning, Illinois time, and Mark would be found just hours later at 9 a.m.

“(Mark and I) are quite close; we have been friends since the start of our fresh-

man year, His story defi-nitely had an impact on me. I immediately contacted his mother and made sure he was okay and asked her to send updates whenever pos-sible,” said Adithya Sairam, sophomore in Engineering.

Shortly after, Barbara, Chuck and Mike, Mark’s brother, visited Mark dur-ing his recovery in the hospi-tal. And in less than a week, Mark was out, skis back on and ready to get back to the slopes.

“A mother will always worry,” Barbara said. “But Mark is an intelligent, strong, resourceful and cou-rageous guy, so I know he will be careful.”

Frances can be reached at fwelch2@dailyillini.com.

in October.The University decided

to hold only one notifica-tion day this year. Lisa R. Micele, director of college counseling at the Univer-sity of Illinois Laboratory High School, said this may be because wait-listed stu-dents from previous years said they felt unwanted and therefore opted to attend other universities.

Kaler said the University will not know if removing the waitlist was beneficial until this summer, after stu-dents have decided where they will attend school.

The University is one of three Big Ten schools that no longer have wait lists.

There are 6,937 students in the current freshmen class, a low yield for the University. In the fresh-man class alone, 71 percent of the students are Illinois residents, 15 percent are international students and 12 percent of students are out-of-state residents, much less than the freshman class in 2004 which amounted to nearly 90 percent Illinois residents.

The University decid-ed to admit more students this year to ensure a higher yield, Kaler said.

“We want to make sure the best and the brightest students in Illinois stay here for college,” Kaler said.

Although the yield was low last year, 7,331 students enrolled in 2013, an increase from 6,932 students in 2012.

In January, the Board of Trustees voted to freeze base tuition for Illinois res-idents, another effort to reel in more in-state students. Tuition rates for the class of 2019 resident students will be set at $12,036 and is locked in for four years.

For some high school seniors, the new decision process made it difficult to make college plans.

For Maggie Harrington, senior at Nazareth Acade-my in La Grange Park, Illi-

nois, the late response date steered her in the direction of other schools.

“A definite acceptance makes my decision process more real, where with U of I it’s more difficult to inquire further when I don’t even know if I got in or not.”

Harrington, who applied to the College of Engineer-ing, was also accepted into other programs, includ-ing Purdue University and Rose Hulman Institute of Technology.

However, for other eager high schoolers, the change didn’t make a difference. Mary Grace Chizewski, senior at Nazareth Acade-my, said the University was always her top choice.

“As an impatient and eager person, I would have preferred a waitlist instead of one notification day.”

University members are in good spirits about the new process and the increased admittance.

“We always get real-ly good applications from, in media, from students that are very passionate about their academic and their career interests,” Julian Parrott, College of Media associate dean said. “They’re always a wonder-ful group of students to wel-come to campus.”

Kristi Martin, associate director for recruitment for the College of FAA, said the college actually received more applications this year. She said thus far, the college has admitted about 800 students, and they’re still admitting more.

Since FAA requires audi-tions in addition to the reg-ular application, the col-lege requires more time to continue notifying stu-dents. Martin said the last group of students auditioned for various music and the-ater majors over the past weekend.

The deadline for accept-ed students to confirm their attendance in the fall is May 1.

Abigale can be reached at asvobod2@dailyillini.com.

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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTChampaign Mayor Don

Gerard issued an emergen-cy order yesterday regard-ing Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day. Gerard is temporarily implementing several new laws for all Class A, Class R and Class P liquor license holders during the weekend of Unofficial.

According to the order, no alcohol can legally be sold between 6-10 a.m. on Fri-day, March 6, or Saturday, March 7. All private func-tions with special drink pric-es will be prohibited from 10 a.m. March 6 to 2:30 a.m. on March 8. Beer sold in pitch-ers will also be prohibited from 10 a.m. March 6 to 2:30 a.m. on March 8.

All Class A licensees will be required to have an employee at the door check-ing IDs to make sure every-one who enters is of age. All drinks must be served in alu-minum containers or paper or plastic cups between the hours of 10 a.m. March 6 and 2:30 a.m. March 8. During this time, entry age to bars within the prescribed geo-graphic area is 21 years old.

Furthermore, all business-es with a Class P license are prohibited from selling pack-aged liquor from 6-10 a.m. on March 6 and 7. An Adult Responsibility Form must be made and maintained by all Class P businesses. These forms must be filled out by customers buying more than 168, 12-ounce containers of beer or malt beverage, more than 1,000 ounces or 300 mL of distilled spirits, or one or more kegs.

Lastly, no keg permits will be given between the hours of 12:01 a.m. March 6 and 2:30 a.m. March 8, accord-ing to the press release from Mayor Gerard.

Katherine Boncher contributed to this report.

Mayor issues order regarding Unofficial

BY JESSIE WEBSTER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Nearly 100 faculty and community members gath-ered around the Swanlund Administration Buildling Wednesday, chanting “U of I is unfair, we want our fair share!”

Members of Universi-ty unions met at 12 p.m. to protest the administration’s move to freeze union wages and their ability to negotiate at the bargaining table.

The “rally for a fair shake” served as a precursor to the unions’ bargaining session with the administration to be held on Thursday, where they plan to present their eco-nomic proposals.

Conducting the rally were members from the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees local union #3700 and #698, along with non-tenure-track faculty from the Campus Faculty Association local union #6546, who met out-side Swanlund Administra-tion Building.

The group identified their main demands to include: bargaining in good faith, following through promised wages and recognizing CFA local #6546 as a legitimate bargaining unit of non-ten-ure track faculty.

Shawn Gilmore, president of local CFA #6546 and Eng-lish lecturer, saw the pur-pose of the rally as a chance

to remove any uncertainty for the administration as to the seriousness of the unions’ demands.

“We want to make sure it’s clear to the upper lev-els of administration that the unions are bargaining in good faith, and that they are moving forward their propos-als,” Gilmore said.

Part of CFA’s concern is that they believe the admin-istration illegally froze pro-motions and raises for non-tenure track faculty in retaliation for decisions to unionize.

Kay Emmert, lead negotia-tor for CFA local #6546 and English lecturer, said the Uni-versity’s actions have lead to issues with “compression” of staff. She believes some peo-ple who have been with the University for 20 years are making less money than peo-ple who were hired this year.

Christina De Angelo, grievance committee chair for CFA Local #6546 and a faculty member in the Span-ish and Portuguese language department, believes the wage freeze has been diffi-cult on members.

“The administration promised an increase, and faculty planned on that,” De Angelo said. “To have that suddenly taken away is a big blow.”

Jessie can be reached at news@dailyillini.com.

University unions rally for negotiation

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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIStudents voluntarily receive ash crosses on their foreheads given by members of the Newman Center at the Main Quad on Wednesday.

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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS | opinions@dailyillini.com with the subject “Letter to the Editor.” The Daily Illini reserves the right to edit for length, libel, grammar and spelling errors, and Daily Illini style or to reject any contributions. Letters must be limited to 300 words. Contributions must be typed and include the author’s name, address and phone number. University students must include their year in school and college.

L iving in an age where tech-nology is constantly evolv-ing to make the satisfac-

tion of desires more quickly and easily accessible, it’s becom-ing increasingly hard to resist overindulging in all the tempta-tions available at college.

There are countless ways to spend money on the Illinois campus, from the 10 kinds of fast food nearby on Green St. to the dozens of fraternity and sorority fundraising events hosted each week. Linking together many of these tempta-tions is the ability to swipe one’s credit card and immediately receive drinks, food or more expensive items like clothing.

The easiest solution to avoid waking up and wondering where an entire bank account of money went lies with an old school method of payment: cash.

In recent weeks, I’ve com-mitted to exclusively using cash for going out at night, to both dinner and the bars, and it’s saved me a significant amount of money. When possible, carry-ing cash makes one less likely to spend impulsively, allows for easier budgeting over set peri-ods of time and shows spend-ers exactly how much money they’re giving away.

At its most basic level, the reason carrying cash helps reduce spending is because the amount of money being spent is directly evident to the buyer. With credit cards, one can sim-ply swipe and not consider the consequences until their bill comes at the end of the month.

College is an especially vul-nerable time for excessive spending because many stu-dents are becoming financial-ly independent and acquiring their first credit cards.

The idea that cash can help curb one’s spending habits isn’t new. In 2000, two Massachu-setts Institute of Technology researchers conducted a study about the willingness of stu-dents to spend based on their available currency.

The researchers offered two randomly selected groups of students the opportunity to make bids on tickets to an important upcoming Boston Celtics game. One group was told they would be allowed to pay exclusively in cash, while the other was told they could only pay with a credit card.

Each student privately wrote down their bid for the tickets on a piece of paper, handed it in and left.

After calculating the results, the researchers discovered that students who were told they could pay with credit were will-ing to bid well over 50 percent more than students who were told they could only pay with cash.

Spending 50 percent less impulsively every night would make a huge difference for stu-dents living on a budget, espe-cially when students often impulsively choose to buy another round of drinks for friends or purchase food they don’t need.

The easiest way to implement cash-only spending is to budget a certain amount of money for a period of time. In my case, I withdraw a modest amount of money and see how long I can make it last. For others, it could be most effective to with-draw $20 in cash before a week-end and disallow any spending above that limit.

Each person should plan their withdrawals in a manner that fits their lifestyle best, and it’s much easier to constantly mon-itor one’s money by checking the account balance after each withdrawal. It’s always wise to be aware of how much dispos-able income one has, especial-ly with all the other necessary expenses at college (rent, text-books, Ramen).

Some students struggle the most with buying drinks for others at bars, and those peo-ple would probably benefit most from bringing only a small amount of cash with them when they go out. Others may spend most of their money on luxu-ry items at the grocery store and would benefit by allotting a specific amount of money for each trip.

The idea to withdraw cash

more often was originally planted in my head by older fra-ternity brothers complaining about opening tabs at bars with their credit cards. They would absentmindedly leave the tabs open all night long, resulting in highly excessive amounts of spending.

Popular campus bars like Red Lion and Joe’s serve hundreds of students on a daily basis; con-verting to cash-only purchases at these venues would help stu-dents avoid getting caught up in the atmosphere and spend-ing heavily.

But still, new services become available each day for students to spend (or poten-tially waste) money on. Just this week, Uber announced that it will begin service in Champaign-Urbana, and there are popular new apps such as Hooked, which encourage stu-dents to go out and spend their money at local restaurants.

Even with these new spend-ing opportunities, using cash can help remind students whether they’re purchasing a luxury or a necessity.

Smart budgeting doesn’t mean it’s impossible to go out and have fun, and it doesn’t require students to starve themselves. Taking small steps like relying more on cash can help limit spending without lim-iting fun.

Matt is a sophomore in DGS. He can be reached at silich2@dailyillini.com

An article published in Monday’s issue of the Daily Illini stat-

ed that the infamous trans-portation service, Uber, recently began services in Champaign-Urbana.

I, however, think the yuppie taxi cab alternative is a little, shall we say, uber-rated, dan-gerous, and moreover, com-pletely unnecessary on a col-lege campus.

People seem to think that the newly implemented Uber ser-vices will be most helpful for Champaign-Urbana’s student population.

However, due to the con-venient, free transportation services already available to students, as well as the nega-tive press Uber consistently receives, I believe its services are unnecessary on a college campus.

First things first, let’s get the facts straight: If you’re a Uni-versity student reading this column, you’re likely already quite familiar with the sur-plus of transportation options available on campus, should you happen to find yourself in a little pickle that necessitates emergency transport.

The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District bus sys-tem is one of these options. With routes that range from Lincoln Square Mall, to Park-land College and right to the heart of campus, these buses cover just about everywhere

a student would wish to travel during the school day and on weekends.

The buses run during breaks and late into the night — the 5E/W Green, for example, runs from around 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. on weeknights, and has extended hours on weekends. Students bearing a Universi-ty i-card may board the buses free of charge.

One might protest that, despite having an extensive number of boarding locations and pick-up times, CUMTD buses can’t drop you right at your door-step. This might be prob-lematic if, say, it’s late Satur-day night and a hypotheti-cal University student finds himself far too impaired to walk three and a half blocks from the bus stop to his apartment.

SafeRides and SafeWalks are solutions to this predicament. The phone number for this ser-vice is listed on the backside of student i-cards, it’s available all night and enables student users to be dropped directly at their place of residence.

Now, I say these services are “free,” but, there’s a slight catch: Listed under under-graduate tuition fees is a cat-egory accounting for $2,500 of tuition. It’s called “Other expenses ***,” and if one reads the fine print, one will find that these mysterious “other expenses” account for, among other miscellaneous costs and

services, transportation fees. So, if per academic year we

pre-pay $2,500 in services that guarantee us the safe return of ourselves and our peers to our respective lodgings at all hours of the day and night, there isn’t any good reason why students should pay more for a ritzy, overrated cab service.

Although I’m sure there are catches with regard to wait time and efficiency of the bus and SafeRides system, their coverage is guaranteed by your annual tuition fees. If

money were no object, Uber would be a fine substitute. But my belief is that, to most University stu-dents, money is likely a cov-eted object.

To be thor-ough in my research, I

used the fare quote service available through Uber’s web-site. I plugged in coordinates typical of a University stu-dent’s Friday night: Red Lion to my slightly off-campus apart-ment. The estimated price was $6 to $8.

The site also reads that in the event of “high demand,” prices will increase. At which time would demand be greater than on a freezing cold Friday night in February when the bars are closed and the Green St. McDonald’s can only hold so many students?

Beyond the monetary down-side to Uber, there are also some negative aspects with regard to safety. As a con-cise example, a quick Google

search of Uber revealed the unpleasant headline “Chicago police investigating rape alle-gation against Uber driver.”

Yes, drivers must undergo a background check, but back-ground checks aren’t always enough to predict future behaviors. Furthermore, a December 2014 New York Times article claims that Uber “has fought against legislation requiring background checks as strong as those demanded of traditional taxis.”

In Illinois specifically, for-mer Governor Pat Quinn “vetoed a bill that would have forced Uber to strengthen those checks.” Currently, Uber does not incorporate finger-print testing in their back-ground checks, and relies pri-marily on publicly available information.

To put it in University appli-cable terms, if I’m a small-ish, unarmed female student, alone in a strange car with an even stranger person is prob-ably one of the last places I’d like to be in the dead of night. Why students would pay to put themselves in a potentially harmful — albeit posh — situa-tion astounds me.

I question the convenience, benefits and safety associat-ed with an on-campus Uber service and, frankly, I would rather spend my precious $8 on a greasy burrito from Burrito King. Students ought to consid-er their economic and safety opportunity costs before seek-ing transport service through Uber.

Carly is a junior in FAA. She can be reached at ccharle2@dailyillini.com.

Cash in on smarter spending

New campus service Uber-rated

MATT SILICH

Opinions columnist

THE DAILY ILLINI

EDITORIALUMass-Amherst admission ban demonstrates

societal regression

CARLY CHARLES

Opinions columnist

As a university that thrives on a founda-tion of pro-moting equal-

ity, opportunity and inclusivity for all, we like to think that ac-ademic institutions exist as a place to provide education for all those who want it. Students come here from different coun-tries, backgrounds and walks of life, but what they have in common is access and opportu-nity to receive a quality educa-tion. Thankfully, after a deci-sion made Wednesday, the same can be said at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Very recently, it was an-nounced that UMass will no lon-ger be admitting Iranian stu-dents into some of its graduate programs — namely in the Col-lege of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences. This decision was based on ap-parent governmental sanctions that UMass cites from 2012, and it restricts Iranian students from access to chemical engi-neering, electrical and comput-er engineering, mechanical and industrial engineering, physics, chemistry, microbiology, and polymer science and engineer-ing.

To say this decision was wrong and unfair is an under-statement. In fact, this decision seemed downright ludicrous. It based itself on a matter of in-terpretation by the universi-ty and had a negative impact on an overwhelming number of students who were being de-nied an education. In essence, this decision was a form of dis-crimination. As noted by the source Gizmodo, many legal ex-perts debated whether this ban was necessary in compliance with United States law, which means that the ban was based on choice and not strict govern-ment requirement.

The implications of UMass’s initial decision extend far and wide, beyond the concerns of their campus. In a publication released by the Washington In-stitute on Near East Policy, it is pointed out that over 800,000 international students study at American Universities, one-fifth of around 3.6 million who pursue education in countries outside of their own. Not only does this demonstrate the im-portance of international educa-tion, but the publication states that skilled international gradu-ates also fill employment gaps in science, technology, engi-neering and mathematics fields.

The Washington Institute on Near East Policy is also quot-ed stating: “The broad denial of multiple-entry visas to Ira-nian students in the STEM dis-ciplines — who constitute not only the majority of Iranian students in the United States but the highest percentage of STEM students from any coun-try — reflects a disproportion-ate response to a geopolitical situation in which most Irani-an students have little involve-ment.”

As students who are fortu-nate to be able to attend the University of Illinois, we can see no benefit in discriminat-ing against an entire national-ity of people by banning their admittance to certain programs at an academic institution. Edu-cation is something that should be available to all, regardless of where they come from, and UMass’s decision was one of re-gression. We are thankful it was reversed.

EDITORIAL CARTOON DAVID FITZSIMMONS THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR

I believe (Uber’s) services are

unnecessary on a college campus.

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Are You Up To The Challenge?

BY BARBARA BROTMANTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO — Eric Stas-wick headed out to his goat shed and entered to the sound of soft bleating.

“Hey, girl,” he said, lead-ing a calm-eyed Nigerian dwarf goat named Claire onto a milking stand outside.

Claire contentedly munched grain as Staswick hooked her up to a milker, petting her back as the milk fl owed.

So began a recent morn-ing on the Staswick family farm.

It isn’t really a farm; it’s a house on a double lot on a side street in the Albany Park neighborhood.

A shed Staswick built in the side yard houses the family’s small herd of goats.

Raising chickens in the Chicago area is no longer uncommon. Staswick and his wife, Bethany, however, are among a small group of city dwellers who have stepped deeper into the world of urban livestock.

The Staswicks’ goats are true Chicagoans. Fol-lowing the tradition of naming goats according to a theme, theirs are named after Chicago streets.

The three kids - 3-week-old goats - that Staswick let into the shed to join their mothers are named Foster, Ainslie and Argyle.

Keeping goats in Chicago is perfectly legal. There is no prohibition in the munic-ipal code against keep-ing livestock animals, said John Holden, spokesman for the city’s Law Depart-ment. Theoretically, a mod-ern-day Mrs. O’Leary could even keep a cow.

Livestock is covered under laws prohibiting cru-elty to animals or excessive animal noise. Also, individu-als are not allowed to keep or slaughter animals for food.

Still, goats are uncom-mon in the city, said Mar-tha Boyd, program director of Angelic Organics Learn-ing Center’s urban initiative in Chicago.

“There’s a lot of rea-sons people left dairy farms,” she said. “It’s very time-consuming.”

But it is also a source of fun, delicious milk and cheese and delight to neigh-borhood children, say goat farmers.

“It’s an adventure every year,” said Carolyn Ioder, who has been raising goats at her Austin neighborhood residence for four years. In warm weather, she walks them down the alley to graze in an empty lot.

She knows of only four goat herds in the city.

The pros and cons of rais-ing farm animals in the city were on display at the third annual Urban Livestock Expo on a recent Saturday at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences.

The expo is an opportu-nity for people considering raising chickens, rabbits, quail, ducks, bees or goats to learn from people already doing so.

Goats raised for milk and cheese require far more time to care for than chick-ens, said Staswick, who rais-es both.

“You’ve got to be there (for milking) twice a day, every day - no exceptions,” he said.

In addition to time, there

are many expenses, she said. The goats have to be kept supplied with food and water. They have to be fenced in correctly. Their hooves have to be trimmed.

And “at kidding time, it can be very frightening,” she said.

One of her goats, Ava, was born with what is called wimpy kid syndrome - a con-dition that left the animal unable to stand or to eat or drink for her fi rst fi ve days.

Ioder stayed up all night with Ava, and made splints for the goat’s legs out of pop-sicle sticks.

Now full-grown and healthy, Ava spotted Ioder standing outside the goat pen and jumped up to nuz-zle her.

“I’m like her second mom-my,” said Ioder, 57, petting her affectionately.

Before the Staswicks got their goats in 2013, they were already enjoying eggs from their chickens and Muscovy ducks.

Then Eric Staswick, 29, who is director of produc-tion at a small ad agency, started looking into goats.

“I found out that they were small enough to keep in an urban setting and that they have personalities,” he said.

His wife at fi rst did not share his enthusiasm, he said, but during a conver-sation over dinner, fi ttingly at Girl and the Goat restau-rant, she agreed to give the plan a try.

Bethany Staswick, 27, is now a fan, though the goats are not always fans of Beth-any, at least when she takes

over the milking when her husband is away on business.

They are used to Eric doing the chore. When she milks them, “they like to kick,” she said. “But they love me otherwise.”

The goats are popular fi xtures in the neighbor-hood. In warm weath-er, children walking to nearby Haugan Elemen-tary School stop to watch them in the yard. The

Staswicks also take care to keep their neighbors well supplied with eggs.

“A common recommen-dation for anyone raising urban livestock is to bribe your neighbors,” Eric Stas-wick said.

Ioder, too, gives away eggs and cheese and values good neighbor relations. She has sold goats that bleat too loudly and keeps her herd small - she currently has seven goats.

Her next-door neighbor, 29th Ward Ald. Deborah Graham, is appreciative of her efforts.

The goats are “very, very quiet,” she said. “You may smell them before you hear them.”

And if there is an occa-sional barnyard smell, she said, Ioder quickly takes care of it.

Overall, his thoughts on becoming a goat farmer are cautionary.

“The biggest thing I would say is, make sure you are committed,” he said. “It’s not something to be entered into lightly.”

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friends and family.Ka Ng, senior in LAS, also

spoke about the holiday say-ing, “When I lived in Hong Kong, we had almost a month off. ... It’s not really celebrat-ed how it should be here.”

Both students mentioned that RSOs do a fantastic job at trying to make the cam-pus feel more like home. At the end of the day, however, it’s just impossible to repli-cate an event as big and with

as much signifi cance as the Lunar New Year.

Isaac Kilis, a freshman in DGS, has lived in Hong Kong for almost his entire life.

“Chinese New Year is typ-ically celebrated over three days, (and) the fi rst day is where the red packets are given,” he said. “In addi-tion, we talk and eat with the family we visit. The next two days are typically just the festival. We look at the full moon and go to the fest, which is almost like a carni-val, and just celebrate with

family.”Kilis said he plans to

check out some of the events on campus, such as the Allen Hall and LAR Chi-nese Lunar New Year Par-ty on Friday, from 7 p.m. to midnight in the Allen Hall South Rec Room. He also plans to attend the Taiwan-ese American Students Club event, “Lunar New Year Cel-ebration,” on Sunday, which starts at 7 p.m. in the YMCA Latzer Hall.

Drake can be reached at dapena2@dailyillini.com.

“He exaggerated a lot of the stuff he would say and was really enthusiastic. He’d say things like, ‘All aboard!’ and make a lot of referenc-es to Harry Potter.”

MTD bus drivers have a great reputation for their customer service and Hutchison is a prime example, according to Kij-owski. She said bus drivers are many things, but MTD prides itself on being atten-tive to its customers.

“They drive a bus, in traf-fi c, in weather, safely, care-fully, on time, all while giv-ing good customer service. There’s a list of things to do and they do it great,” she said. “Our operators

are second to none in the country.”

While the outside condi-tions may vary from season to season, students always took notice when Hutchison drove.

“He’s always very upbeat,” said Bidisha Roy, junior in LAS. “If I’m in a good mood then I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, this is great, this is a great guy.’ Especially if he’s bringing energy to the end of my day.”

Hutchison said the com-pliments help motivate him to keep an optimistic view on his everyday life, because life is fi lled with ups and downs.

“It’s a bowl of cherries, and sometimes you get the pits,” he said. “If you can keep looking at the posi-tive side of things, you get

through life, so that the bad things aren’t quite as bad, because you’ve found some-thing good in it.”

Hutchison said he plans on sticking around for quite some time, because of the pure enjoyment he gets from his job.

“They’re going to have to kick me out of the seat, because I am not going any-where,” he said. “One thing I can tell you through all my years of experience is you gotta fi nd a job where you’re able to enjoy yourself, able to have fun, because if you’re not going to have fun at all then you’re actu-ally doing work and nobody wants to work.”

Jasmine can be reached at jdinh2@dailyillini.com.

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LIFE CULTURE

BY JASMINE DINHSTAFF WRITER

“For those of you getting off at the Ikenberry, make sure to say hel-lo to all his relatives! Say hello to his two wacky uncles, Frikenberry and Oooooooberry! His two brothers, Huckleberry and Boisenberry and his cute, little niece Strawberry!”

Mark Hutchison’s voice booms down the long, gray corridor of the 22 Illini, catching the attention of quiet passengers glued to their phones, just as the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District bus comes to a stop. Hutchison, who has been driving and announcing arrival stops on the 22 and 220 Illini since 2012, said he found his passion after a long list of previous jobs — including being a chef, construction clean-up crew member and working at a graveyard.

“It just fits my personality, because I have a fun personality and I can be that on a bus,” Hutchi-son said. “Working here I get to talk to people, be silly everyday and just have fun.”

Hutchison, 45, has been driving for C-U MTD since April 2012, and

until January, operated the Illini route from 6:30 p.m. to 3 a.m.. After changing routes to the 6 Orange, which loosely follows University Avenue between Champaign and Urbana, Hutchison now typically drives from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., pro-viding a change of pace in compari-son to the campus routes.

“Daytime has a lot more peo-ple going to work and being a lot more serious, so during my daytime routes I’m not as silly or goofy,” he said. “I’m a little more serious — trying to recognize people are try-ing to get where they want to go and helping them.”

After years of announcing every-thing from “Next stop” in strange mannerisms to “Next stop — the library where Professor Plum did it with the lead pipe,” looking back, Hutchison said it was one night in the fall of 2012 that he began announcing.

“I had to do something to fi gure out how to keep myself focused and awake,” he said. “Remembering what stop was next by announcing it helped me stay awake so it made my job easier.”

The variation between day and night shifts makes a difference to drivers, according to Hutchison.

He said he had a lot of fun on late night routes, which normally run between the hours of 6:30 p.m. to 3 a.m., because of the variety of stu-dents and everybody’s loose moods.

“I was dealing with a lot of dif-ferent personalities and at a lot of different times of the day,” he said. “You get the kids that are going out drinking and the kids coming home from drinking, you get the ones that are studying and the ones coming home from dinner.”

However, Hutchison has found a happy medium and another rea-son to make the most of his days. Through the Orange line, he has the ability to get to know his custom-ers more, because he tends to see them on a daily basis, which gives him more of an opportunity to get to know them.

A bus driver encounters numer-ous people throughout a year, some memorable and some not as much, but Hutchison said he defi nitely has regulars.

“They look forward to seeing me,

and when I miss a couple days they ask me, ‘Where were you? How’ve you been?,’” he said.

From a marketing perspective, Jan Kijowski, marketing manager for MTD, sees the infl uence Hutchi-son’s enthusiasm has throughout the community and riders .

“We really love it when our opera-tors are outgoing and gregarious,” she said. “We think it humanizes the operator because then they’re not just a machine sitting behind the wheel.”

Kijowski said approximately a minimum of 7,000 new people ride the bus each year — the majority are freshman from the University. Some students still remember the fi rst time they rode Hutchison’s bus.

Alan David, senior in LAS, said he met Hutchison his sophomore year during a night ride on the 220 Illini.

“He’s a lot different from the oth-er bus drivers. I was with a bunch of people and we were all laughing. He made riding the bus pretty fun — it wasn’t boring as usual,” David said.

BY DRAKE PENASTAFF WRITER

Thursday marks the start of Chinese Lunar New Year, one of the most important holidays in the Chinese cal-endar. Spanning 15 days until March 5, Lunar New Year is also the longest national holiday in China. China isn’t the only country ringing in the Year of the Goat (or sheep) — the Kore-an, Mongolian, Tibetan and Vietnamese are just some of the other cultures whose cel-ebrations are based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar.

At a campus with such a large Asian population, many organizations and indi-viduals celebrate it in the Champaign-Urbana area. Registered student organi-zations all over campus and even the local YMCA will be sponsoring events.

One of the events taking place on campus is the Lunar New Year Celebration. From

1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, the University YMCA will host a celebration to ring in the New Year . Sponsored by the Asian American Cultural Center. the Center for East Asian and Pacifi c Studies and the University YMCA, the event features perfor-mances from Chinese Heri-tage School, Japan Intercul-tural Network (J-Net), Gah Rahk Mah Dahng (GRMD), Chinese Students and Schol-ars Association (CSSA) and many more. The event is free, and all are encouraged to stop by.

There are many upcom-ing celebrations, but cam-pus has already begun the celebration this past week. On Monday, the Asian Amer-ican Association celebrated the Lunar New Year in the Nugent Hall Main Lounge. “Such a small celebration is reminiscent to those back at home,” said Timothy Chen, junior in Engineering.

“New Year’s celebration is about bringing in the New Year and having relatives over,” he said.

Chen said it’s hard to cel-ebrate on campus because of the distance from his

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Students celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year

Students, RSOs welcome the Year of the Goat

JEREMY MARDER THE DAILY ILLINIThe Asian American Association celebrates the Lunar New Year in the Mina Lounge of Nugent Hall on Monday.

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SPORTS

BY COLE HENKESTAFF WRITER

The Illinois softball team looks to improve on its 3-7 record as it heads to Hous-ton for the Houston Hilton Plaza Classic.

The Illini showed small improvement last week-end, and look to build on that foundation. After a slow opening weekend in which Illinois won one game, the team went 2-5 at the February Freezer in Starkville, Mississippi, but one of those wins was against an undefeated Mis-sissippi State team in the last game of the weekend.

The win against the Bulldogs gave the Illini a sense of satisfaction, and the team hopes to contin-ue momentum into this weekend.

Head coach Terri Sulli-van believes their rough start to the season is only making Illinois more pre-pared for Big Ten play. Sul-livan said the team is show-ing a lot of resilience and that their close games only make it better, despite the outcome.

This weekend’s tourna-ment has the Illini trav-eling south for the third straight week, to play fi ve

more games in the Houston Hilton Plaza Classic — one against Texas A&M Cor-pus-Christi (0-10-1), two against New Mexico (4-6) and two against the host Houston (6-8).

The Houston Hilton Pla-za Classic is a good time for the Illini to improve their record. A major struggle

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BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER

After spending three weeks in Granada, Spain, representing Team USA in the World University Games, center John Olen and goaltender Joe Olen will be back for the Illi-nois hockey team. And the timing couldn’t be more convenient.

For the fi rst time since 2008, the Illinois Ice Arena serves as the host site for the CSCHL tournament. On Friday night, the No. 4 seed-ed Illini (21-15-1) start off the conference tournament with a quarterfi nal game against No. 5 Iowa State (21-13-5) at the “Big Pond.”

Joe Olen expects the home crowd to be a factor this weekend, giving the Illini energy and an extra boost. Illinois is 15-4-0 at home this season, 9-0-0 at home on Fridays.

But the Illini’s greatest advantage might be the rink they play on. The Illi-nois Ice Arena’s rink is larg-er than regulation size and head coach Nick Fabbrini believes his team’s familiar-ity with the bigger ice will also give the Illini an edge

against Iowa State.“We’re going to try to take

advantage of our speed,” Fabbrini said. “We think we skate better than they do as a team, so we’re going to look to take advantage of that out on a big ice here.”

Friday’s game will be the fi fth time this season Illi-nois has faced Iowa State. In the Nov. 14-15 series at Illinois, the Illini swept the Cyclones, outscoring them 5-2 in the weekend. When Illinois traveled to Iowa State Jan. 9-10, the Cyclones returned the favor, sweep-

ing Illinois and outscoring the Illini 10-3 in both games.

Fabbrini has strategized practice in accordance to what he observed in the fi rst four encounters with Iowa State. One thing he noted is Iowa State limits its mistakes and instead pres-sures its opponents to make mistakes.

Since the teams’ first meeting, Iowa State’s goal-tender Matt Cooper and forward J.P. Kascsak rep-resented Team USA. The Cyclones have also added a couple of forwards this

semester, who add scoring depth to the roster. Fab-brini admits Iowa State is

CSCHL Quarterfi nal: Illinois vs. Iowa StateWhen: 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Illinois Ice ArenaQuick notes: The Olen brothers return for Illinois in quarterfi nal contest in the CSCHL tournament.Hidden Stat: Illinois swept Iowa State at home in November, but was swept at Iowa State in January.

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

In a year when the Illinois basketball team’s depth has been needed, Malcolm Hill has stepped up big.

The sophomore guard has dramatically improved his performance from a year ago, and has done so with senior guard Rayvonte Rice absent from the lineup nine of the last 11 games. Illi-nois went 6-3 in the senior’s absence.

Hill averaged 4.4 points per game in 35 games last season. Through just 26 games this year, he is aver-aging 14.7 points and has already more than doubled last season’s output.

Hill has 381 points this sea-son. Last year, he had 154 all season.

“He’s gotten bigger, stron-ger and more experienced,” Illini head coach John Groce said on Jan. 31. This was min-utes after Hill buried a game-winning layup with seconds to go against Penn State. It was his 27th point of the game — one shy of his career-high 28 points he scored in

an upset win over No. 11 Maryland.

“I probably wouldn’t have fi nished that last year,” Hill said after the game-winner.

The guard has fi nished plenty of shots this season. Hill has nearly tripled the number of baskets he made a year ago and has raised his fi eld goal percentage by 9 per-cent. He will likely double his playing time by the end of his sophomore season as well.

Hill’s production has helped the Illini keep their NCAA tournament hopes alive, keeping the Illini com-fortable at a time when the panic button could have been used.

“We’ve been playing with-out guys for months now,” point guard Jaylon Tate said after the dramatic Penn State win, as if missing Rice had no effect on Illinois.

With Hill taking charge in the senior’s absence, it’s diffi -cult to notice any effect at all.

Sean can be reached at spneuma2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter at @Neumannthehuman.

Hockey hosts tournament

Houston Hilton Plaza ClassicWhen: vs. New Mexico, 1:30 p.m. Fridayvs. Houston, 6:30 p.m. Fridayvs. New Mexico, 10:00 a.m. Saturdayvs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 12:30 p.m.

Saturdayvs. Houston, 11:30 a.m. SundayQuick Notes: All four teams have losing records entering the tournament.Hidden Stat: The Illini have left 63 runners on base through 10 games this season.

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Joe Olen attempts to block a shot during the hockey game vs. Robert Morris at the Ice Arena on Jan. 24. Illinois hopes to capitalize on the Olen brothers returning for the CSCHL tournament.

BY MICHAL DWOJAKASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

There was a common theme among Illinois baseball play-ers and coaches when they met with the media on Mon-day. They demonstrated a sense of pride in the week-end’s accomplishments — winning all four games in the season’s opening week-end — but also highlighted their caution.

Boasting its best start in 15 years, the Illinois base-ball team (4-0) is far from

overconfi dent.“We need to continue to be

more consistent,” head coach Dan Hartleb said. “I truly believe that you see the most improvement with teams from week one to two.”

Illinois will have an oppor-tunity to see how the improve-ments are progressing when the team travels to Fort Myers, Florida, this weekend to play two games against Florida Golf Coast (1-3) on Friday and Sunday and one versus Ford-ham (1-2) on Saturday.

The starting rotation ended the weekend with a 0.34 ERA, 25 strikeouts and only eight hits allowed in 26.3 innings, but the Illini still needed a pair of late-inning surges to come back against New Mex-ico State on Friday and Sat-urday. Illinois scored a run in the top of the ninth inning to force extra innings in game one and scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth to give the team a 4-2 lead.

Hartleb acknowledged that the early-game offensive

struggles were not something he can blame on his team. For much of the two games against the Aggies, the Illi-ni hit the ball hard, but often right at New Mexico State players. Later in both games against Lamar, the hits began to add up and allowed Illinois to escape the weekend with a perfect record.

“It’s not always about the hits, it’s about the quality at-bats,” Hartleb said. “There’s

Illinois Baseball’s WeekendWhen: at Florida Golf Coast, Friday, 5:30 p.m.vs. Fordham, Saturday, Noonat Florida Golf Coast, Sunday, 1:30 p.m.All games in Fort Meyers, FloridaQuick Notes: Illinois hopes to build off of its best start in 15 years with three games this weekend. Hidden Stat: Head coach Dan Hartleb will coach his 501st game on Friday after reaching the 500 mark on Sunday.

Illinois baseball looks to make lasting improvements

Malcom Hill steps up in Rice’s absence

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Malcolm Hill rises for a fl oater during the game against Michigan at State Farm Center on Feb. 12.

MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Shelese Arnold (12) pitches during the game against Nebraska on April 6. The Illini lost 12-3 in fi ve innings.

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a process to be a good hit-ter, there’s a process to be a good offensive team, and as long as we’re doing the right things with that pro-cess, we can live with what-ever happens.”

That process involves having all nine batters taking quality at-bats. Illi-nois is looking to be more aggressive early in games. Although the pitching staff had a strong performance

last weekend, nothing is assured.

Junior pitcher Kevin Duchene will not pitch for the Illini — he remains sus-pended — and his status will be re-evaluated next week.

Illinois will need to improve offensively if it wants to move up in the national rankings.

Currently ranked No. 26, Hartleb and his team know that a number shouldn’t define who the Illini are. In order to be a team that competes in the College

World Series in June, there are plenty of improvements left to make.

“It’s definitely cool, but there’s a long way to go,” senior pitcher Drasen Johnson said. “Last year we started 1-2, it was kind of, ‘Let’s not be down on ourselves.’ Same thing with 4-0, let’s not get too excit-ed. We’ve got a long way to go.”

Michal can be reached at dwojak2@dailyillini.com and @bennythebull94.

for the Illini has been hit-ting with runners in scor-ing position. They average 6.3 runners left on base per game and average 4.3 runs per game. Failing to score baserunners has made the Illini the victims of multi-ple late-game losses.

Another key for the Illini will be the pitching staff, specifically senior Shelese Arnold and sophomore Bre-anna Wonderley.

“We need our staff,” Sul-livan said. “I expect Brean-na and Shelese to come out

and throw really well, and be able to close out these games.”

Arnold and Wonderly will look to end games much better than they did last weekend. Arnold picked up her first two wins of the season this past week-end and looks to keep that momentum going.

Even though this will be the third trip south for the Illini, Sullivan said that the travel is by no means an excuse for their play so far.

The Illini have been prac-ticing inside for most of the spring. Having to play out-side on the road could be a reason for some unchar-

acteristic errors made by the team, involving defense and pitching.

“We have a rule in our program,” Sullivan said. “We can’t blame anything that is out of our control. We never blame weath-er or the field of play for anything.”

Wins this weekend would give the Illini momentum for the upcoming Big Ten season and it gives them practice playing games they should win.

Cole can be reached at cehenke2@dailyillini.com or on Twitter @cole_Henke.

a different team since the first series in November, but he thinks Illinois has also improved in that time.

Improvement has espe-cially been noted during the absence of the Olen broth-ers. During that time, Illi-nois has gone 4-2-0. Fresh-men James McGing and Eric Cruickshank have been key contributors to Illinois’ suc-cess. With the Olens back in the lineup Friday, Fabbrini said they will add to the Illi-

ni’s achievements.“Anytime you get your

captain and starting goal-ie back, it’s definitely going to be a boost,” Fabbrini said. “Especially with the way these other guys have stepped up in their absence.”

The winner of the Illi-nois vs. Iowa State game will face the No. 1 seed and regular season confer-ence-champion Ohio (25-6-5) on Saturday in a semifinal game. The other Saturday semifinal game is between No. 3 Lindenwood (14-13-3) and last year’s tournament champs, No. 2 Robert Mor-

ris (29-4-2). The champion-ship game is Sunday.

Before Illinois starts gearing up for possible games Saturday and Sun-day, the focus remains on Iowa State.

“If we don’t focus on them, we’re going to be done Fri-day night anyways,” Fabbri-ni said. “If and when we’re able to beat Iowa State, that’s when we’ll start talk-ing about Ohio.”

Matt can be reached at gertsme2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier

BY ALEX WALLNERSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s track and field team returns to the Armory on Saturday for the Orange and Blue Open; the first time the team has seen its home turf during competition in more than a month.

It will be the final meet before the team heads to the Big Ten Indoor Champion-ships in Geneva, Ohio, on Feb. 27.

Illinois will host five teams: Bradley, Illinois State, Northern Illinois,

Valparaiso and Missouri Baptist, and freshman Janile Rogers is excited for one event in particular.

“I’m mostly excited for long jump,” Rogers said. “I just really want to focus on everything that I’ve been practicing, which is just being able to stay consis-tent, and to be able to get a good jump because I know I’m capable of jumping very far.”

The field isn’t as strong as other meets the Illini have been in, so head coach Ron Garner and his staff plan to

address different develop-mental points in each event.

Garner calls this phase the final tune-up because he doesn’t need to see anything out of the ordinary from his team.

Coming off a season-best time of 9 minutes, 55 sec-onds in the 3,000 meters, freshman Denise Branch is using Saturday’s meet to reenergize herself for next weekend.

“I don’t plan to do any-thing different in my train-ing,” Branch said. “Definite-ly rest will be a part of it

and regenerating and I’m just trying to show that I’m prepared going into cham-pionship season.”

Last weekend, Rogers ran the 200 meters in 24.68, her personal record and the fastest time of any Illini runner this season.

Heading into Saturday’s meet, the Joliet, Illinois, native is focusing her prac-tice time this week on the things that made her suc-cessful last weekend.

“I am doing a lot more speed endurance,” Rogers said. “Because I (set a PR)

in the 200 — which was my best time that I ran, even outdoors — I am doing more speed endurance and also focusing on form to stay relaxed and keep my body moving forward.”

Garner said the improve-ments each week come not only from the athletes themselves, but from the assistant coaches and how they go about preparing each individual.

He added that he has seen improvements week after week, be it season bests, personal records or indi-

viduals climbing up the all-time lists in their respec-tive events.

Garner said he doesn’t expect his team’s attitude to change despite the size and importance of the meet.

He wants his team to rep-resent Illinois well, go out and compete.

In last year’s Orange and Blue Open, the Illini record-ed nine event titles.

Alex can be reached at awallne2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @AWallner93.

BY WILL SMALLSTAFF WRITER

In a season full of travel, sometimes it’s nice to come home.

After competing in four-straight road meets, the Illinois men’s track and field team returns to Champaign to host the Orange and Blue Open on Saturday. Field events begin at 10 a.m., and running events kick off at noon. But the Illini won’t have their usual lineup this weekend. The Big Ten Indoor Championships is next weekend, and head coach Mike Turk feels it is necessary for most of his team to have an off weekend.

“Because of all the travel that we have done, we won’t have everyone competing this weekend,” Turk said. “The guys that are competing are certainly excited to be home, and even the guys that are not competing are excited that we’re hosting a meet,”

Adding to the excitement of Illinois’ first home meet in more than a month is the team’s debut in the USTFCCCA national rankings. The Illini come in at No. 23, joined in the polls by fellow Big Ten teams No. 8 Penn State, No. 15 Wisconsin and No. 18 Nebraska.

Freshman Jonathan

Wells will be competing at the Orange and Blue Open this weekend in the high jump. Despite Wells’ poor performance in the Iowa State Classic last weekend, Turk said he believes Wells still has great jumps left in him.

Many younger Illini will compete in the meet, highlighted by freshman Luke Schroer and junior Ian Barnett, who will run the mile.

The Illini will also be sending a small group of runners to the Notre Dame Alex Wilson Invitational on Saturday, a big competition for runners who want to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in mid-March.

Junior Joe McAsey was named the Big Ten’s Track Athlete of the Week on Monday following his performance at the Iowa State Classic this past weekend. McAsey finished fifth in the 800 meters with a time of 1 minute, 47.38 seconds, giving him the top time in the Big Ten and the seventh-best in the nation.

McAsey is also a part of Illinois’ 4x400 relay team that placed second this past weekend. The other members of the relay team are senior DJ Zahn and sophomores David Kendziera and Kenneth Allen.

McAsey has been excelling so far this season — at Notre Dame he will compete in the distance medley relay along with junior Liam Markham, Zahn and senior Bryce Basting, where the group will try to qualify for the NCAA meet.

“We’re taking the distance medley relay to Notre Dame to try to get a qualifying time for the NCAA’s,” Turk said. “Ninety percent of the qualifying times in that event will come at Notre Dame this weekend.”

It may seem like a hectic weekend for Illinois, but Turk believes it’s a good tune-up week for his team heading into Big Tens.

Will can be reached at wsmall2@dailyillini and on Twitter @will_small_.

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOJoe McAsey crosses the finish line in the 1 Mile Event during the Orange and Blue Open at the Armory on Feb. 4, 2012.

“The guys that are competing are certainly excited

to be home...even the guys that are

not competing are excited that we’re hosting a meet.”

MIKE TURKMEN’S TRACK HEAD COACH

Illinois men’s track will compete in Orange and Blue Open

Track to host first home meet in weeks

Women’s track ready for Orange and Blue Open

Orange and Blue Open Illini men’s and women’s trackWhen/where: 10 a.m., Saturday at UI ArmoryQuick notes: The Illini men’s and women’s teams have not had a home event since the Illini Classic on Jan. 17.Hidden stat: The Illinois men’s team is ranked No. 23 nationally, its first ranking all season.

BY LUCAS WRIGHTSTAFF WRITER

Last year around this time, the Illinois women’s golf team was riding high.

It had just beaten Illinois State in the Illinois Chal-lenge, and headed to Peo-ria, Arizona, for the West-brook Spring Invitational.

There, the Illini finished eighth in a field of 14, the start to what was a diffi-cult spring season.

This year, Illinois is in a similar spot, but with more experience and more confidence.

The Illini defeated Illi-nois State in the Illinois Challenge on Feb. 1, and this weekend, heads back to Arizona for another shot at the Westbrook Spring Invitational.

According to head coach Renee Slone, the team has been hard at work in prac-tice, building on its early season successes.

“Everyone is bringing a lot of energy to prac-tice,” Slone said. “Motiva-tion levels are high, confi-dence levels are high and I think a lot of positives came from the Illinois Challenge.”

For sophomore Emi-ly Joers, this will be her first event since winning the Big Ten Player of the Week award for her per-formance in the Challenge.

She claimed her success comes from the work she put in over the winter break with a professional.

“She changed my swing around a little bit and helped a lot with my put-ting and short game,” Joers said. “I was able to gain a lot of confidence in what I was doing and putting it into play really helped with my confidence as well.”

Joers, who has played in every match this sea-son, hadn’t placed higher than 17th before the Illi-nois Challenge. She shot even par in an 8&7 match play win against Illinois State and was involved in a 3&2 win along with team-mate Jan Prapassarangkul in the Illinois Challenge.

Sophomore Stephanie Miller said she’s happy to see Joers playing well, and believes this could be a turning point in Joers’ season.

“Emily is a very dedicat-ed person and I’m really happy to see that she is getting some notoriety and recognition for her effort,” Miller said. “I feel like she is going to have a very good season. She is more confident in her swing and in herself.”

Aside from Joers, Miller and freshman Grace Park are coming off sweeps in

the Illinois Challenge.The course the Illini

will play this weekend will be familiar to the upper-classmen on the squad. The team played the same course during last year’s Westbrook Spring Invita-tional, and according to Joers, it fits the Illini well.

“It’s a really open course. There’s a few holes with some water, but I think this course plays to our strengths,” Joers said. “Our team is a really great putting team, and the greens are kind of slow, so that allows us to be really aggressive with putts.”

This weekend, Slone said the Illini lineup will con-sist of Miller, Joers, Pra-passarangkul, Park and freshman Dana Gattone. Senior Pimploy Thirati will travel with the team and play as an individual in the tournament.

Illinois will face five Big Ten teams in Arizona: Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio State and tourna-ment host Wisconsin. Six of the 15 teams in the field are ranked in the top 50 in the nation according to Golfweek.

Lucas can be reached at lswrigh2@dailyillini.com or on Twitter @LucasWright95.

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KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ John Olen maintains control of the puck as Robert Morris’ Chris Pontello sneaks up from behind during the hockey game vs. Robert Morris at the Ice Arena on Jan. 24. The Illini are playing Iowa State in the CSCHL tournament at the Ice Arena on Friday.

BY BRENDAN SONNONETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Teams are not letting off-fi eld issues scare them away from possibly draft-ing Jameis Winston.

Or at the least, the fran-chises in a position to select Winston are not ruling him out because of questions regarding his character and maturity.

The Tampa Bay Bucca-neers and the Tennessee Titans hold the fi rst and sec-ond overall picks, respec-tively, in the 2015 NFL Draft. Both franchises are in desperate need of a tal-ented quarterback, leading them both to target Winston, who is considered by most pundits to be the best sig-nal caller in the draft class.

Winston is a proven win-ner with refi ned technique, and has an uncanny ability to anticipate and make dif-fi cult passes.

But the questions sur-rounding Winston are not about what he can do on the fi eld.

Winston has had several incidents during his three years at FSU, including being accused of sexual assault, although the State Attorney’s offi ce opted not to fi le charges against Win-

ston after an investigation. He was also cleared by the university following a code of conduct case.

“I understand allegations are against him. I under-stand he went through the justice system, court sys-tem to be exonerated of some allegations against him,” Tampa Bay coach Lovie Smith said Wednes-day during the NFL Scout-ing Combine in Indianapo-lis. “I understand some of the college things that a lot of guys do that you wish you didn’t later on. And I under-stand some of the things that are on his record right now. We just take all the infor-mation we can possibly get at this point, it’s early, keep in mind it’s just at the com-bine and we have a lot more research and we’ll do that.”

Teams are allocated 15 minutes to talk to play-ers during the NFL Scout-ing Combine, but that brief meeting will be just the ear-ly stages of an extensive probe into Winston’s history.

Winston’s off-fi eld issues have been well document-ed on a national level. Along with the rape allegation, Winston has drawn criti-cism for his involvement in less serious matters such

as being cited for shoplift-ing - for which he was sus-pended for a week from the baseball program - and for shouting a lewd comment on campus, which resulted in a one-game suspension from the football team.

“As it comes to any player, Jameis included, you have to do your due diligence and research on them,” Titans general manager Ruston Webster said. “You have to know what the reality of the situation is and just don’t go along with the perception. Give the player - I don’t want to say the benefi t of the doubt - but do your research so you know what the real questions are, what the real answers are and give him a fair shake.

“So for us, we’ve done a lot of work on Jameis, we’ll continue to do a lot of work on Jameis ... it’s some-thing I don’t want to go off perception.”

Bucs general manager Jason Licht was reluctant to hint at what he would do with the No. 1 overall pick, but said he was lean-ing towards keeping it. NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock believes Winston will end up in Tampa Bay, although he too questioned

whether he was mature enough to be the face of a franchise.

Winston is expected to throw for scouts and exec-utives Saturday, as is Ore-gon quarterback Marcus Mariota, who is also a top target for the Bucs and oth-er teams atop the draft.

That too is a small part of the evaluation process, but Smith said he likes the fact that both players are will-ing to compete in far from optimal conditions.

“We need a quarterback that can throw the ball and make a variety of throws, we need a leader, a guy who

makes great decisions,” Smith said. “We’d like to have a guy who is mobile in the pocket. A guy who has won football games.

“I’m looking forward to getting to know and spend time not only with Jameis but Marcus and also the rest of the athletes this week.”

BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s gymnastics team had a lot to celebrate after last Saturday’s victory over Iowa.

The Illini were away at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, when they achieved a season-high 196.975 team total — tying the second highest score in program history. They also hit a 49 on all four events for just the second time this season. Junior Gia-na O’Connor even tied the second-best all-around total in program history with a 39.600.

Despite that, Illinois wasn’t complete-ly satisfi ed with its performance.

“We defi nitely had some highs,” soph-omore Erin Buchanan said. “But we also had things that, right as we fi n-ished, we wanted to fi x.”

Details like sticking more landings, pointed toes and straight legs are just some of the things the Illini want to improve upon, especially considering technicalities like those cost them a 197.

As Buchanan said, “Even one (less) small step would’ve put us over a 197.”

It’s for that reason the Illini used their practice time this week to focus on perfecting the details in their rou-tines. Illinois has the chance to exe-cute its training for the competition against Michigan State on Friday at Huff Hall.

At a Friday meet, though, Illinois has a “quick turnaround,” as sopho-more Sarah Lyons put it.

The Illini only had three training days to prepare for their competition, so they’ve also stressed the idea of quality over quantity. However, Illi-nois is not only coming into the com-petition off its best meet of this sea-son, but it also has the upper hand over Michigan State.

Illinois has defeated Michigan State to earn the Victory Plank — a trophy awarded to the winner of the annual matchup — since its creation in 2010, aside from 2012 when the meet ended in a 195.175-195.175 tie.

In addition, the Illini moved up two spots to No. 13 in the GymInfo rank-ings this week.

They remain ranked on all events, while sophomore Mary Jane Horth (all-around and uneven bars), O’Connor (vault) and senior Sunny Kato (balance beam) are also ranked as individual competitors.

Meanwhile, Michigan State is unranked with a 194.832 season aver-age and a season high of 195.750. The only event Michigan State is ranked in is fl oor, where the Spartans are No. 19 with a 48.943 average, while the Illini are just behind at No. 20 with a 48.933 average.

Head coach Kim Landrus also likes the momentum Illinois has and the consistency the gymnasts have

shown, which has built up the Illini’s confi dence even more.

“We’ve had this mentality all sea-son,” Buchanan said. “That’s some-thing that I love, that I can feed off of the passion and confi dence the girls come in here with every day.”

Ashley can be reached at wijangc2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @wijangco12.

John Fox had to know the Jay Cutler questions were coming.

Can Cutler be the quar-terback the Chicago Bears continue to try to build around? Will Cutler be the anointed starter for Fox in his fi rst season as head coach? Just how much com-mitment do the Bears cur-rently have to Cutler with Fox as the new coach and Ryan Pace as the new gen-eral manager?

Less than seven minutes into his news conference Wednesday morning at the NFL scouting combine, Fox laughed.

“So we’re going to ask this about eight different ways?” the Bears coach said. “Or what are we going to do?”

Make no mistake, the questions will persist until defi nitive answers are known. And at this point, Fox isn’t willing to provide many. So go ahead and keep Cutler’s status with the Bears as “to be determined” until further notice.

Carmelo Anthony’s season is over.

As expected, Anthony has elected to undergo sur-gery on his troublesome left knee, the team announced Wednesday.

The season-ending sur-gery includes a left knee patella tendon debridement and repair and is to be per-formed by Dr. Answorth Allen. It will take place lat-er this week.

Anthony has been play-ing with soreness in his left knee since the second game of the season. He aggravat-ed it in last Monday’s loss to the Miami but still played in Sunday’s All-Star Game at the Garden. He logged 30:16 in the game, but he wasn’t moving at full speed. He shot 6-for-20 and scored 14 points.

Last week, Anthony said it was “very likely” he would shut it down after the All-Star Game. But then he back-tracked and fl ip-fl opped and said he hadn’t made any deci-sions yet.

Browns coach Mike Pet-tine visited quarterback Johnny Manziel last week in a rehabilitation facility and conceded Wednesday the organization is on a mission to fi nd a starting quarterback this offseason partly because of the uncertainty surround-ing the former Heisman Trophy winner from Texas A&M.

Manziel, the 22nd overall pick in last year’s NFL Draft, checked into treatment on Jan. 28 in an attempt to ditch his hard-partying lifestyle.

“I just wanted to go visit

him and see how he’s doing and let him know that we’re proud of him for the decision he made to go in,” Pettine said Wednesday at the NFL Scouting Combine. “Obvious-ly, he has our full support.

“He’s in a much better place now than he was before he went in. And he’s very determined to come out of it in a much better way.”

Pettine conceded it’s “probably accurate” to say the Browns will enter free agency and the draft this offseason feeling like they must fi nd a starting quar-terback. The Browns scored just three points in Manziel’s six quarters as a starter last season.

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Men’s tennis aims for streak

HECTOR AMEZCUA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe New York Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony looks at the scoreboard

during action against the Sacramento Kings at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, Calif., on Dec. 27.

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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Giana O’Connor performs a routine on the balance beam during the meet against Minnesota at Huff Hall on Feb.7. The Illini won 195.775-195.375.

Illinois vs. Michigan StateWhen: 7 p.m. Friday at Huff HallQuick notes: Illinois hopes to win the Victory Plank, which was created in 2010 and given to the victor in dual meets between Illinois and Michigan State. The

Illini have won it every year besides 2012, when the meet ended in a tie.Hidden stat: Michigan State has yet to score a 196, while Illinois has done so three times already this season.

BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY STAFF WRITER

A week after hosting the ITA Indoor National Cham-pionships in Chicago, the Illinois men’s tennis team is ready to get back to the grind of the schedule.

After defeating Big Ten rival No. 8 Ohio State on Sun-day, the Illini will play three matches at home this week-end. The Illini will take on in-state foe No. 26 Northwest-ern on Friday night and then face Toledo and conference opponent No. 44 Indiana in a Sunday doubleheader. Head coach Brad Dancer said it’s a tough transition going from a national championship tour-nament back to the regular season slate.

“When you play matches to clinch, there’s a different feel to it. When you lose, you’re done with that tournament,” Dancer said. “That’s certain-ly a different sensation than your regular dual match. Whether we win or lose on Friday we play (those teams) on Sunday.”

The Illini’s victory over Ohio State was their third win against the Buckeyes since 2007, and their fi rst since 2012. They’ve had more suc-cess against their two Big Ten opponents this weekend. Illi-nois hasn’t lost to Northwest-ern since 1997. The Wildcats come to Urbana riding a four-match win streak, including a victory over No. 25 Harvard, but they haven’t played since Feb. 10. Northwestern fresh-man Logan Staggs is the only freshman to take home Big Ten Tennis Athlete of the Week honors this year, and he has been integral to its win streak. Staggs has played in the No. 3 spot for Northwest-ern, just behind two more tal-ented young players — No. 64 Sam Shropshire and No. 96 Strong Kirchheimer.

Toledo provides a respite from Big Ten play Sun-day afternoon. Dancer said

that different players could rotate in and see some time against the Rockets. Last Fri-day, Toledo was shut out 7-0 by Wisconsin-Green Bay, a team that the Illini dominat-ed earlier this season. The Rockets have played two oth-er Big Ten teams this season — No. 60 Michigan State and Ohio State — and were shut out in both matches.

Recently, Illinois hasn’t dominated Indiana like it has Northwestern. The Illini are 3-2 against the Hoosiers in the last four seasons, and the all-time record is knot-ted at 44-44. Last year, the Illini shellacked the Hoosiers in Bloomington, Indiana, 7-0, dropping only two sets. But Indiana is better this year and should be more of a chal-lenge for Illinois. The Hoo-siers are 6-1 and on a four-match winning streak. Even with conference foes, Dancer said that the team’s prepara-tion is still the same.

“Not only do we see them during the year, but we see them a little bit more in fall tournaments ... there’s some more familiarity,” Dancer said. “It affects the confer-ence standings and so forth, but outside of that (there’s nothing different).”

This weekend also marks the last home matches for the Illini for more than a month. They’ll travel to Notre Dame and around Texas and won’t return home until March 27. The Illini had a 17-match home win streak snapped earlier this year. Now, they’ve started a new one, currently at two matches.

“We just have to use our home crowd the best we can,” Dancer said. “For us, we love playing in front of our home crowd. Just have to be ready to go.”

Chris can be reached at cmkenne2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @ChrisKennedy_4.

2015 NFL Draft top pick’s character under interrogation

STEPHEN M. DOWELL TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEFSU quarterback Jameis Winston tries to inspire teammates late in the game against Oregon on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015 (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

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Illini confi dent in facing MissouriBY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER

The NWCA National Duals tournament is only a 4-year-old event, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an important one for the Illinois wrestling team.

As a team, the Illini (13-4, 6-3 Big Ten) have never made it to the fi nal of the event and have their work cut out for them this year if they want to appear in the championship match.

This weekend Illinois, the tournament’s No. 7 seed but ranked No. 5 nationally, trav-els to Iowa City, Iowa, to take on the No. 2 seed and No. 2 in the nation Missouri Tigers in a NWCA quarterfi nal.

Without a doubt, this will be the Illini’s toughest non-conference matchup of the season. The Tigers (21-0, 8-0 MAC) are 2-0 against Big Ten adversaries.

Illinois leads the all-time series with Missouri 20-9, with its most recent meeting result-ing in an 18-16 Illini loss in 2009. Despite the Tigers’ suc-cess this season and in recent years, the Illini believe fac-

ing a relatively unfamiliar foe only adds to the excitement of the matchup and could poten-tially act as an advantage come Saturday.

“During the Big Ten season and nationals, you may wres-tle the same guy three or four times a year,” 174-pound soph-omore Zac Brunson said. “I don’t think a lot of our guys have wrestled the guy they’ll have this weekend. It’s just another thing to get excited about: get a fresh look at some-one new.”

Illinois and Missouri each have seven wrestlers ranked in the top 25 in their respec-tive weight classes. Combined, the two schools have four indi-viduals ranked either fi rst or second in the nation. Satur-day’s meet will feature fi ve matchups with both wrestlers ranked in the top-20 nation-ally. In a meet of this caliber, both the coaches and wres-tlers emphasized that every point is crucial.

“We have some solid match-ups that should be exciting,” 184-pound sophomore Nikko Reyes said. “It comes down

to execution, the little things. In the third period, one guy is going to back off. You have to stay solid.”

The most anticipated match of Saturday’s meet pits Illi-nois’ defending national cham-pion senior Jesse Delgado against Missouri senior Alan Waters in a national No. 1 vs. No. 2, 125-pound bout. Both wrestlers are undefeated on the season, with Waters hold-ing a 24-0 record and Delgado a 6-0 record, who has gone 4-0 since returning from a shoul-der injury that kept him off the mat for nearly two months. Although this is the toughest test Delgado has faced in his shortened season, he is eager to wrestle talent equal to what he will see at the Big Ten championships and nationals.

“It’s a good test,” Delgado said. “It’s good for me because I’ve had a short season and because I’ll have a good match with a high-level guy before Big Tens.”

Defeating Missouri is a tall order, but it isn’t far-fetched to say the Illini could pull off the upset. Both Illinois and

Missouri faced Purdue and Kent State this season, and in both of Illinois’ meets with the common opponents, the Illini either matched or exceeded the performance of Missouri against the same teams. Mis-souri topped Purdue 23-9 and Kent State 26-14, while the Illi-ni beat the Boilermakers 21-9 and shutout Kent State 38-0.

Missouri also wrestles in the MAC conference, which is not nearly as deep as the Big Ten and is a conference the Illini already have two wins against this season. With Illinois coming off its fi fth-straight dual win, the Illini’s confi dence is high heading into this weekend.

“We’re completely fi red up,” Brunson said. “Missouri is a tough, competitive team, but looking at our matchups, we all know that we’re better this team. If we all get our indi-vidual jobs done, we can beat them.”

Ethan can be reached at erswans2@dailyillini.com or on Twitter @EthanSwanson88.

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Nikko Reyes presses Kent State’s Jerald Spohn onto the mat on Sunday . Missouri is the third MAC team Illinois faced.

NWCA Nationals Duals Quarterfi nal No. 5 Illinois vs. No. 2 Missouri When: Saturday, Feb. 21, 12 p.m. Iowa City, Iowa Quick Notes: After cruising through their NWCA regional, the Illini will face their toughest test of the early

postseason against the No. 2 Missouri Tigers, who boast seven wrestlers ranked in the top 25 in their respective weight classes.Hidden Stat: Illinois is 2-0 against MAC opponents this season, defeating Northern Illinois 37-10 and Kent State 38-0.