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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTThe University was
recently placed on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s “10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech in 2014” list.
FIRE, a nonprofi t educa-tional foundation, released its yearly list on Tuesday, naming schools with fi rst amendment violations.
The University was placed on the list as a result of the Steven Salaita con-
troversy, according to a press release from FIRE. Salaita’s job offer to work in the American Indian Stud-ies program was revoked after he posted controver-sial= tweets regarding the confl ict between Israel and Palestine.
Other schools on the list include Chicago State University, placed on the list for censoring a fac-ulty blog, The Universi-ty of Iowa and Brandeis
University.The University denied
claims that it violated free speech, as members of the campus community have expressed a wide array of opinions on the hiring decision.
“This is the kind of free discussion that is the bed-rock of our institution and all of higher education,” said University spokes-woman Robin Kaler in an email. “Anyone who has
witnessed the vigorous and passionate debates that have taken place and are still taking place on our campus would appreciate that there is plenty of space for freedom of expression and opinion.”
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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIvan Dozier, a graduate student, dressed as “Chief Illiniwek” walks around the stadium during the game against Northwestern on Saturday. Many Unoffi cial shirts use versions of the Chief logo and can sometimes have questionable meanings.
Uno! cial Chief shirts cause division of opinion over shirt’s messageBY MADISON JOHNSTONSTAFF WRITER
As Unofficial draws closer, spirit wear stores around campus remove their orange and blue attire from the mannequins and replace them with tradi-tional green clothing to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
Since the retirement of Chief Illiniwek, many stores have decided to print their own versions of the Chief in hope of keep-ing the honor and memory alive, said Te Shurt owner
Michele Fassett.However, selling shirts
can become tricky, since certain depictions of the Chief are copyrighted by the University.
Campus Licensing Coor-dinator Marty Kaufmann said the University can only control one version of the logo — the circular depiction of Chief Illini-wek. He said the Univer-sity is active in ensuring no one uses its copyright-ed material and will inter-vene with manufacturers if
copyright is violated. However, when a ven-
dor decides to capitalize on its own version of Chief Illiniwek, there is little the University can do unless the picture of the Chief is accompanied with the
YI ZHU THE DAILY ILLINI Supervisors of seven minority groups on campus joined a town hall meeting Tuesday evening at the Materials Science and Engineering Building to discuss their purposes.
Changes to MAP grants in the works
UI denies violating free speech
Campus minority groups hold town hall meeting
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SPORTS
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LIFE & CULTURE
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Cheers to easy Uno" cial recipesLenten season a good time to encourage religious tolerance
University sees increased heroin usage
OPINIONS
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Religious ignorance not an excuse for rude remarks
Increase tied to abuse of prescription narcotics, offi cials respond
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BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER
In an effort to increase the effi ciency of Monetary Award Program grants, State Sen. Chapin Rose, R-51, introduced four bills to the General Assembly to alter the program’s exist-ing eligibility and payment requirements.
“We need to do more with less,” Rose said.
One of Rose’s bills, SB 1591 , would prohibit stu-dents of for-profit uni-versities from receiving MAP grants. By passing the bill, Rose hopes to steer students away from these institutions, which have come under fi re for low-quality education and training programs, as well as infl ating post-graduate job placement numbers to mislead new recruits.
“The reality is in years past, the state of Illi-nois has spent anywhere between $17 to $25 mil-lion on for-profi t univer-sity MAP grants,” Rose said. “That’s a kid at the U of I that didn’t get a MAP grant.”
During the 2013-2014 academic year, near-ly 6,700 University stu-dents received a MAP grant with an average val-ue of $4,147.28. The total amount awarded in map grants reached $27,774,397, according to Michelle Trame, senior associate director of the Offi ce of Student Financial Aid.
The Illinois Student Assistance Commission, which awards MAP grants, announced in February the suspension of the grant to students whose applica-tions were received on or after Feb. 22, the earliest
deadline in the commis-sion’s history according to the University’s student fi nancial aid website .
The suspension was in response to the state’s ongoing budgetary crisis and higher level of early applications.
“Demand far exceeds available funds for certain state grants such as the Illi-nois Monetary Award Pro-gram, as well as for some institutional aid,” said Eric Zarnikow, executive direc-tor of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission in a statement.
Rose said the bill has received bipartisan sup-port, and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin supports the mea-sure. However, Rose also said the for-profi t college
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BY YI ZHUSTAFF WRITER
Leaders of seven minor-ity groups on campus held a town hall meeting Tues-day evening at the Materi-als Science and Engineering Building.
The meeting was held in response to a column pub-lished by The Daily Illini on Oct. 2 that discussed the Society of Women in Engi-neering. Some believed the column looked at the organi-zation — and organizations like it — in a negative light.
Stephanie Lona, president of the Society of Women in Engineering, said the town hall meeting also served as a way to let people know the signifi cance of minority organizations.
“In my fi rst ever engineer-ing class, there was only one girl — which was me — out of 30 people,” Lona said. “So it was actually very evident to me that I was a minority.”
She said the reason these organizations exist is to form
a sense of community. Terrance Phillips, presi-
dent of the National Society of Black Engineers, said minor-ity organizations provide a support system to minori-ty students and give them a space where they belong. He said women in engineering often feel discouraged after receiving unequal treatment. However, by joining minority organizations and seeing oth-er women who are also engi-neering majors, it can help build up their confi dence and keep on going.
Minority organizations are not set up mainly for women in Engineering; peo-ple of all genders and races who feel they are a minority in their fi eld can join these organizations.
“We provide an inclusive environment, and we attract students of all backgrounds,” said Vox Dombek , co-presi-dent of Society of Women In Physics.
Dombek said the minor-ity organizations cooperate
and collaborate with other organizations to give stu-dents more opportunities. When students fi rst join the organization, they are often guided by an older “sister” or “brother” from the same major who offers them pro-fessional advice. The orga-nizations also have programs to instruct students on how to deal with problems they might face in class or in life.
When asked how to treat gender discrimination on campus and improve gen-der equality, Phillips said he believes the education and job opportunities at the University are almost equal; rather, it is more of a visibil-ity issue.
Often, minority students don’t believe they can enjoy the same opportunity as oth-er students, Phillips said, so minority organization help these students and encourage them to pursue their goals.
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WEATHERPOLICEChampaign
Battery was reported near the corner of Fourth and John streets around 2 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the offender pushed the vic-tim in the snow and battered him. The offender was not located at the time.
University A 21-year-old male was
arrested on the charge of driving under the infl uence of alcohol at the intersection of Fourth and Healey streets around 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the vehicle was initially pulled over for excessive use of the horn.
Urbana A theft was reported at
Circle K, 1821 Philo Road, around 4:00 p.m. Monday.
According to the report, a male offender attempted to steal merchandise by hid-ing it on his person while a female offender distracted a store employee. The employ-ee confronted the offenders and the male offender threw down the merchandise before leaving the store.
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“We need to fight fear with facts,” said Rep. Greg Har-ris, D-13, referring to the fear surrounding the mea-sles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
Following the publication of research linking the vac-cine to autism by British gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield in 1998, many parents all over the country have opted out of vaccinat-ing their children. The study has since been debunked and Wakefield’s medical license revoked, but the supersti-tion toward the vaccine has remained.
Harris is one of the four sponsors for Illinois House Resolution 144, which calls on the Illinois Department of Public Health to craft new administrative rules to require health examinations and vaccinations for every child in the state’s school sys-tem by the start of the 2015-2016 school year.
Rep. Michael Zalewski, D-23, authored the resolution in response to the recent out-break of measles in Illinois. On Feb. 25, public health offi-cials confirmed the 15th case of the disease in Illinois, 13 of which are connected to the outbreak at the KinderCare Learning Center in Palatine.
“We want the department
to be able to handle this prob-lem effectively,” Zalews-ki said. “It would cover all vaccinations the department deems necessary.”
Harris said one of the rea-sons he decided to sponsor Zalewski’s resolution was the highly contagious nature of measles. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, if exposed, nine out of 10 peo-ple will contract the virus if they are not vaccinat-ed.
“It’s an i m p o r -tant pub-lic health concern to be sure that not only each individual child is safe ... but the general public is kept safe also from diseas-es that can be easily spread in group settings,” Harris said. “This is a disease which up until now had been erad-icated, but suddenly, we’ve seen that it can break out very easily.”
Harris said he is partic-ularly concerned for chil-dren with compromised immune systems, who cannot receive the vacci-
nation. These children are specifically mentioned in the resolution, which states that higher immunization rates will offer greater protection from the virus.
In a joint statement released earlier this month by the Illinois and Cook County Departments of Public Health, public health officials stressed that dis-
eases like measles can be avoid-ed entire-ly with vaccination.
“ Vac c i -nations are the safest, most effec-tive way to protect individuals from mea-sles and oth-er potential-
ly dangerous communicable diseases,” public health offi-cials wrote in the statement.
The MMR vaccine does not cause autism in its recip-ients, though some mild side effects have been known to appear on occasion. Accord-ing to the National Institutes of Health, one out of four patients who are vaccinated will experience some pain or stiffness in their joints, one in six will develop a fever, one in 20 will devel-
op a mild rash and one in 75 will experience swelling of the glands in their cheeks or neck.
The Centers for Disease Control puts the immuniza-tion rate for measles in Illi-nois at 91.4 percent. This may seem high, but there are more than 100 countries with higher measles vacci-nation rates than America, including Kenya, 93 per-cent, Vietnam, 98 percent, and Russia, 98 percent.
Zalewski said he could see why some parents, fearing a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, would choose not vaccinate their children.
A young parent himself, Zalewski said new parents are often faced with mak-ing nerve-wracking deci-sions for their child that they have not had to make before, which is why he hopes to provide them with the best medical informa-tion available.
“We want to make sure that any decision they do make is in the best inter-est of them and their kids,” Zalewski said. “Ultimately, with vaccinations they need to be given every ounce of opportunity to defer to their doctors.”
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words “Illinois” or “Uni-versity of Illinois.”
The University collects an estimated $10,000 annu-ally in royalties for the trademarked Chief logo — a small amount in compar-ison to the $1.5 million in overall royalties the Uni-versity receives a year, according to Kaufmann.
Fassett explained her store’s apparel display-ing the Chief is not illegal because their depiction features a side-profile of Chief Illiniwek and uses words, such as “Unoffi-cial” or “Oskee Wow Wow” to create an illusion of a headdress. The design was originally printed by Fassett’s father, Bob Sam-mons, in the 1960s.
On Feb. 10, a post on the campus’ Reddit page, titled “Hey UIUC, we need to talk...” captured a shirt sold by the Evergreen Tobacco Company that sparked 114 comments as of press time.
The shirt states, “Wait in line to get drunk?” fol-lowed by an uncopyright-ed picture of a Native American chief and the words, “Bitch, I’ve got a
reservation.” Redditors have dubbed
the shirt in “extremely bad taste” and “offensive.” Evergreen Tobacco failed to comment on the contro-versy regarding the shirt.
Ivan Dozier, graduate student, is often seen at University sporting events dressed in traditional Chief Illiniwek attire and mimicking the demeanor of the former Chief.
Dozier described the shirt as being, “extreme-ly distasteful” and added, “Right now with the Uni-versity not being allowed to touch anything Chief related, these are the prob-lems that it causes.”
He argues against the belief that the Chief is disrespectful.
Dozier is of American Indian descent and a sec-ond-generation University student.
“My place on campus is trying to get everyone to revisit this idea and say, ‘Let’s maintain this integ-rity.’ There is a right way to do it. You have a beacon for culture, do you destroy it, or do you repair it?” Dozier said.
He debunked many arguments made by anti-Chief activists with facts learned through first hand
experiences at local Native American powwows.
“People have a right to culture,” he said. “People have a right to identify with a symbol. People have a right to identify with the positive qualities tied to what we call the Fighting Illini.”
Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu, senior in social work, is an activist for Native Amer-ican rights. In February, he wrote a blog post call-ing upon students and com-munity members to boy-cott various places on and off campus for displaying Chief Illiniwek.
“I’ve created what I hope will become a running list of businesses, administra-tors, and organizations in the UIUC community who actively support white supremacy, settler colo-nialism and anti-Native sentiment in the name of ‘protecting tradition’ and propagating irresponsi-ble and racist depictions of indigenous people,” he wrote.
Kuramitsu said is seen as difficult for some com-munity members to under-stand where members of the Native American com-munity come from when they protest the use of an American Indian as a
mascot. “It is a form of igno-
rance to not realize how others interpret a symbol,” Kuramitsu said. “The facts are out there, and if you do research like I did, I think people would come to a more compassionate stance and shift a little bit.”
The administration “does not sponsor or sanc-tion Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day nor any events or mer-chandise associated with it,” as stated in a massmail sent March 3.
Overall, Fassett said the spirit wear sellers on campus try to show the Chief in an honorable light throughout Unofficial because there are so many alumnae and townspeople who are pro-Chief and believe it to be a tradition.
When its comes to cross-ing the line of offensiveness associated with Chief Illini-wek, Fassett said, “Some-body will wear that shirt and buy that shirt, but there will always be those people who do that. There is noth-ing we can do to stop the sale of it, but you can hope that people’s reaction to a shirt like that is, ‘Ew,’ but I don’t think it’s funny.”
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industry will likely fight the bill in the legislature, even though its reputation has taken a hit in recent years.
“They go out and hire a bunch of lobbyists to lobby against the bill, but I think we are in a different world now,” Rose said.
By ceasing to award MAP grants to the students of for-profit colleges, Rose said the state could save roughly 5 percent of its MAP budget and potential-ly steer students away from the organizations.
Another piece of Rose’s MAP legislative package,
SB 1592, would bar stu-dents who failed out of their current University from receiving any MAP fund-ing for a calendar year.
Rose also introduced SB 1711, which would require MAP recipients to graduate within the “normal time” their degree requires, typ-ically within four years. Rose said he believes Illi-nois taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for stu-dents to stay in college for an unnecessary amount of time.
“If you don’t get your work done on time, well, that’s not our fault,” Rose said. “It’s time to give someone else a chance who would get their work done
on time.”Of the bills introduced
by Rose, SB 1712 may face more hurdles in the General Assembly than Rose’s other MAP proposals. If passed, this bill would require Illi-nois’ MAP recipients to remain in the state for at least five consecutive years following graduation. If they choose to leave Illi-nois, the MAP grant mon-ey they received would be converted into student loan debt to be paid back with 5 percent interest.
The bill, Rose said, was developed in tandem with Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office. While stopping in Cham-paign on his State of the State preview tour, Raun-
er emphasized the need to retain a greater number of Illinois’ workforce, which he said has been leaving Illinois at higher rates than its neighboring states.
Rose said this law would only apply to future MAP recipients — students who currently receive the need-based grant money would not be affected.
Rose’s MAP bills must make it through the Gen-eral Assembly before they go into effect, but they have the potential to affect thou-sands of University stu-dents who benefit from the grant.
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BY ELYSSA KAUFMAN STAFF WRITER
Since Feb. 16, there have been a dozen overdoses of heroin in the Champaign area, resulting in two fatalities.
This is not specific to Champaign though, as her-oin use has spiked through-out the nation. In the last decade, first-time heroin users increased by 60 per-cent from 90,000 to 156,000 users, according to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Troy Daniels, Champaign deputy police chief of oper-ational support, said that after becoming addicted to narcotics, people may then seek out cheaper alterna-tives, such as heroin, when they can no longer obtain the prescription drug.
In response to overdos-es of heroin and prescrip-tion drug abuse, new Illinois legislation was proposed to ensure enforcement officers possess and are trained to dispense antidotes to dimin-ish the effects of overdoses. The proposal also aims to create pilot heroin preven-tion programs in elementary
and secondary schools that would be put in place by the state Board of Education.
Due to the issue of the misuse of prescribed med-ications, the Illinois Con-trolled Substance Act went into effect in January of 2012. The act works to limit the prescriptions of narcot-ics and other drugs to a max-imum 30-day prescription. In addition, Illinois doctors now use the Illinois Pre-scription Monitoring Pro-gram to monitor controlled substance prescriptions and prevent the misuse of medi-cations, such as narcotics.
The proposed Heroin Cri-sis Act will be considered at a Special Committee on Substance Abuse hearing on Thursday.
Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program
The Illinois Prescrip-tion Monitoring Program allows physicians to access the narcotic or the C2 cat-egory drugs, that are pre-scribed to a patient through an Illinois state database, said Chicago-area Doctor Lawrence Layfer. The pro-gram was authorized under
the Illinois Controlled Sub-stance Act from 2012.
When a patient’s 30 day prescription is done, they must go through their same doctor to get a refill.
Layfer said a doctor can look online with the Illi-nois state registry and see whether a patient has been taking C2 drugs from any other doctor as well as determine if the patient is getting the drug from mul-tiple pharmacies.
“This indicates to physi-cians whether their patients are following what is com-monly recommended when we give C2 drugs, like nar-cotics. Patients agree to a one physician, one pharma-cy agreement for prescrib-ing,” said Layfer.
Prescription medication
Even with an act prevent-ing the overuse of prescrip-tion medications, narcotic misuse is still prevalent on campus, Daniels said,
“It is easier to get a hold of narcotics now because of the number of prescription medications,” he said.
UIPD Detective Sgt. Joe McCullough said the Univer-
sity sees an influx in cases with Xanax, Vyvanse and Adderall around midterms and finals. He said the drugs serve as stimulants students use to stay awake.
“There are a number of people who are using ille-gal prescription medica-tion,” Daniels said. “There are also people who are pur-chasing illegal prescription medication and other nar-cotics here in town or bring-ing them in through their home city.”
McCullough said that Attention Deficit Disorder medications are commonly used by students and there needs to be awareness on the appropriate uses of the drugs. Some students who are over prescribed for medications such as adder-all tend to sell their extra pills, he said.
“I do not think we are going to legislate our way out of narcotic misuse,” McCullough said.
Overdoses
On Feb. 24, the Cham-paign Police Department sent out a press release regarding 10 overdoses of
heroin and two fatalities. “This is an unusually high
number of reported inci-dents in the brief window of time,” Champaign Police Chief, Anthony Cobb, said in a press release. “This is a sensitive issue with mul-tiple layers and our obvi-ous objective is to remove the drugs and drug deal-ers off of our streets, but most importantly, this cau-tion is issued, because we value the lives of all of our Champaign and neighboring citizens.”
McCullough talked to oth-er Big Ten universities that have experienced fatalities due to overdoses.
“We have been working extensively with different universities, entities and offices to talk about the implications for this drug both on someone’s physi-cal health and also their status as a student and facing criminal conduct charges for this drug use,” McCullough said.
McCullough said a bad dose of Molly at a club event could result in multiple peo-ple in the hospital with seri-ous injuries or worse.
Ultimately, because a lot
of students and people in the community want drugs for recreational use and are willing to get the drug in whatever way they can, Layfer said people need to be aware of the potential long-term harm.
University of Illinois drug-related incidents 2013: 24 seizures of prescription medications.2014:14 known.The most frequently seized prescription drug is Adderall. Controlled substance seizures by UIPD in 2014: 13 incidents involving
MDMA 16 incidents involving
cocaine 5 incidents involving
LSD 2 incidents involving
heroin SOURCE: LT TOM GEIS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS POLICE DEPARTMENT
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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS | [email protected] 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.
Recently, I came across the image of an Unofficial T-shirt with a design on the
front with “Wait in line to get drunk? Bitch I’ve got a reserva-tion” written across a drawing of a stereotypical Native Amer-ican figure.
Unofficial is a celebration on campus that occurs each year, always with controversial appar-el ranging from depictions of Chief Illiniwek to an overarch-ing stereotype of Irish people as heavy drinkers.
More specifically regard-ing this shirt however, let’s dis-sect the meaning of those two sentences.
The word “bitch” is clearly a derogatory term. Sure, the term is often used today in casual, even friendly conversation, but it also has historical precedence as a strongly sexist term dating back centuries.
In addition to being sexist, the shirt is offensive toward Native American culture and history. It makes a reference to the peri-od in which the University had Chief Illiniwek as a mascot by using the word “reservation.”
Though this remains a high-ly contested opinion, I firmly believe the decision to remove Chief Illiniwek was necessary.
To be brief, a chief is a posi-tion considered by many tribes
to be religious and spiritual, while at our school, he was a source of entertainment. Fur-ther, though the Oglala Sioux Tribe originally donated the regalia for Chief Illiniwek, they eventually asked the University to return it due to inappropri-ate use.
Regardless, many students have claimed that Chief Illini-wek should be brought back to the University, because they believe we honor the mascot in a respectful manner.
Yet, the Chief shows up on a good amount of Unofficial gear. Tying a Native American ste-reotype to a holiday centered on getting drunk is not honorable.
I’m relieved that the shirt, or any Chief apparel, is not official-ly tied to the University, but it is still a real format of Universi-ty represen-tation. The way that students decide to behave and express themselves affects the reputa-tion and culture of the Univer-sity in its entirety.
I am grateful and support-ive of the fact that we have the freedom to say what we like and express ourselves as we see fit. But having the freedom to do something doesn’t necessarily mean one should.
I have also heard the argument that “you’ve just got to know your
audience.” In other words, these “jokes” are perfectly fine so long as they are made in the presence of friends.
I cannot agree because any perpetuation of racism, sex-ism, culture degradation or other forms of oppression are harmful. Even if you think your audience knows you aren’t seri-ous, issues like racism, sexism, homophobia, etc., are all still very present in the world.
Making light of them or even pretending to perpetuate those ideologies is wrong.
Even if hypothetically accept-ing the idea of merely knowing one’s audience, putting stereo-
types and deroga-tory language on a T-shirt makes the joke public. The wearer of the shirt no longer “knows his audi-ence,” or has con-trol over where it will spread.
Further, Unof-ficial is a highly publicized event. Be aware that you
and what you’re wearing can end up on social media and even news sites where you cannot control who can see it.
In my time here, the Univer-sity has had what seems to be an unusually high amount of controversies.
Several of them were rac-ist, sexist and culturally offen-sive incidents. Considering this Unofficial shirt, it seems that those elements are still very present on our campus today.
Two of the most recent inci-dents include the Chief Illiniwek controversy, with its effects still lingering on campus, and a day last spring semester when stu-dents adamantly decided school should be cancelled due to cold weather.
When it was not, several stu-dents responded with misogy-nistic and racist tweets regard-ing our chancellor.
These controversies are downright embarrassing. In the aftermath of the cold day scan-dal, I had friends who expressed relief that they hadn’t cho-sen to come to this university because of the numerous racial controversies.
I love this university, but we need to be more respectful about the manner in which we represent it.
Precisely because I take so much pride in attending this school, I’m advocating for build-ing a more inclusive culture for the University. What students wear is one way in which we are able to do so.
If partaking in the celebra-tion of Unofficial this Friday, which I am not endorsing in any way, have some consideration for what you choose to wear.
Certainly, you have the right to wear whatever you choose. But consider whether it is worth the risk of offending another person on a racial, gendered, or cultural basis just so that you can wear the T-shirt you like on a drink-ing holiday.
Alex is a junior in [email protected]
Lent is a season of peni-tence and preparation for Easter practiced by
Catholics and some Christian denominations. During this special time, participants gen-erally take steps in person-al conversion such as fasting and putting an emphasis on prayer.
One very common prac-tice is avoiding meat on Fri-days during the Lenten sea-son. So when I explained to my friends why I didn’t order a burger at McDonald’s last Friday, I did not expect to have my explanation fol-lowed by “Oh yeah I almost forgot you’re one of those Christians.”
It’s these kinds of com-ments that make me uncom-fortable when talking about what I personally believe, and many others share the same sentiment. It’s almost like bringing up any mention of religion is taboo.
I understand that religious discussions have been at the center of many heated contro-versies, and facing such a dis-
cussion can make many feel uneasy. But in explaining why I chose not to eat a burger, I was not trying to harass any-one with my religious opin-ions. It was a simple statement of fact.
Despite the fact that the University is a public institu-tion without any explicit reli-gious affiliations, attendees should avoid being antagonis-tic toward religious people to avoid perpetuating ignorance.
I’m not about to deny any-one’s first amendment rights, but I would like to highlight how unnecessary these kinds of cynical remarks really are.
I don’t think my friend pur-posefully meant to say some-thing senseless, but that’s how it came off, and I’ve heard many other sarcastic com-ments about Lent that are along the same lines. I’m one of the only actively religious people in my close group of friends, so I assume that their reactions may stem from a lack of familiarity with reli-gious customs.
Rebekah Seyfert, a junior in the College of LAS, expe-rienced a similar situation. During a conversation we had about Lent she said, “I showed up to lecture with ashes on my forehead and explained to my classmates what it meant. None of them seemed to prac-
tice these Christian customs and so the conversation got really awkward really fast.”
People may argue that dis-cussions about religion have the potential to offend people of differing beliefs because they can come off as attempts at converting others.
I agree that if someone is disrespectfully trying to impose their beliefs on you, feel free to react however you deem appropriate. But when I merely stated the reason as to why I personally chose not to order a burger, I wasn’t forc-ing my beliefs on anyone.
In reaction to any mere statement about Christianity or any other person’s religion, people should try to avoid the ignorance of just spouting out whatever.
As members of a society that prides itself on being diverse and open minded, the line between religious toler-ance and avoiding religion becomes blurred. Regardless of whatever personal affilia-tions you identify with, you will see churches at the street corners of a public campus, you will see students pray-ing before exams, and you will hear friends and cowork-ers talk about their reli-gions. Ignorant comments about religion perpetuate the false notion that our society
demands religious beliefs nev-er be expressed openly in pub-lic spaces.
Some may assume that as Christians, members of a pop-ular religious group on cam-pus, we may not feel the blunt or snide comments — but we do. Regardless of intentions, snarky comments in the face of someone exercising their right to freedom of religion comes off as ignorant.
Our constitutional amend-ments protect our right to hold any belief or religion. However, these protections do not equate to freedom from ever encountering religion or religious people. For example, even though the University is a public institution, there are still plenty of campus oppor-tunities for religious students. The University is home to the popular Hindu Holi celebra-tion on campus every year, there are registered student organizations for the Muslim students on campus and there are many events held for Christians during Lent.
For everything from see-ing a student say a prayer in the cafeteria or make certain dietary choices, don’t be igno-rant in the face of innocuous religious expression.
Stephanie is a junior in [email protected]
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Be mindful of your Unofficial wear
Try religious tolerance, not ignorance
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THE DAILY ILLINI
EDITORIALGraduates
shouldn’t be limited to
instate jobs
STEPHANIE YOUSSEF
Opinions columnist
Roughly 140,000 students in Illi-nois are receiv-ing the Mon-etary Award
Program grant. This means 140,000 students are attending college now and not expecting to repay the grant money.
MAP grants are giv-en to Illinois residents who demonstrate financial need and attend approved colleges; funding for the program is around $373 million, according to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission website.
The Daily Illini stated that State senator Chap-in Rose (R-51) introduced four bills into the General Assembly to alter eligibil-ity and payment require-ments for the grants.
A new measure recently introduced in the Senate would require students to pay back their MAP grant with 5 percent interest if they left the state of Illi-nois within five years of graduation.
Students who receive the grant need the money to attend college, and this is something that may not be feasible for them to re-pay once they graduate. As such, MAP grant re-cipients should be able to leave Illinois and get a job wherever they can, and it does not seem fair to force them to ignore any out-of-state opportunities if they arise.
Students attend college for the purpose of finding a good job once they grad-uate. Making graduates stay in Illinois for five years after they graduate limits their job options.
While it would be ben-eficial for Illinois’ econo-my if students could stay in state, these students should not have to lim-it their job options to one state. In addition, the state should not penalize MAP grant students for pursu-ing endeavors elsewhere after graduation, especial-ly if they are getting solid job opportunities.
If the measure goes through, a graduate who received a MAP grant may have to choose between taking their dream job out of state and having to re-pay their grant, or tak-ing a job they don’t want in Illinois, because they cannot afford to leave the state and repay their grant.
Students who needed the MAP grant in the first place are financially lim-ited, and they may be re-lying on a good job after college that is outside of Illinois.
Everyone should have the option to attend col-lege, no matter their finan-cial situation. MAP grants help those people who oth-erwise may not have been able to afford college. Re-quiring students, who re-ceive MAP grants, to stay in-state for five years af-ter graduating seems lim-iting.
It is important to grow Illinois’ economy, but it is also highly important that recent graduates can find jobs, no matter what state that job is in.
Though we have made it clear in quick commentaries past, we should reiterate: Students love free things — preferably food, but we don’t want to be too picky. Tonight, coach John Groce is offering students complimentary tickets (and free pizza!) for the senior night basketball game against Nebras-ka on Wednesday. While this is Groce’s way of thanking students for their fan section spirit, we return the thanks back to you, Coach Groce! I-L-L ...
The country singer that makes country-haters love country had a baby boy Feb. 27. Carrie Underwood and husband Mike Fisher named their son Isaiah Michael Fisher (a normal name by celebrity standards). Here’s hoping she shares a pic of the baby’s face soon — preferably wearing a cowboy hat. And cow-boy boots. Maybe we’re taking the country thing a bit too far, but seriously ... how adorable would that be?
If the concept of having a breakfast menu wasn’t already weird enough, Taco Bell recently came out with a donut hole that is covered in Cap’n Crunch and filled with milk icing. Really, Taco Bell? Thanks, but no thanks. We’re starting to think fast food restaurant officials just sit in a room all day and ask themselves, “What can we invent next that will maintain our standing as one of the most obese country?”
Remember when Ryan Gosling had a baby on the way and everyone talked about that time he said if he ever had kids, he probably would stop his acting career? We do. Luckily for us, universal girl crush Blake Lively (who just had the other famous Ryan’s baby) is not following suit. After having a baby a few months ago, she recently signed onto a new role oppo-site Jason Clarke. Thanks for never letting us down Blake. XOXO, your fans.
Tying a Native American stereotype to a holiday centered on getting drunk is
not honorable.
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recent years, and the appli-cation is now much shorter. While this is simpler for stu-dents filling out the form, there has been an increase in applications for the same number of jobs.
“The club really helps (Illinois students) be the most competitive candi-dates for the spots,” Har-vey said.
The club members hope that their presence will benefit the campus in years to come. Harvey hopes that an increased student pres-ence will lead to the cre-ation of scholarships and fellowships for students looking to pursue gradu-ate degrees after working in the Peace Corps.
Harvey said that one of the main goals of the Peace Corps is in bringing other cultures’ influence and a widened world-view back to the U.S.
“Diversity has been a big issue in the news recently,” Patel said, “Getting kids to want to explore other cul-tures and serve others is really beneficial.”
Patel is planning on apply-ing to the Peace Corps next
year. She said that looking at the application process can be overwhelming but hav-ing the support of a group prepares her and makes sure that she does not get thrown off.
Although she does not
know exactly where she would want to go, Buech-ner said that she hopes to help others overseas in the future.
“I’m going to go to grad school for OT right after graduation, but I’d like to use that or public health and bring those services there,” she said.
Buechner said that an added benefit of having an official group on campus is the opportunity to share experiences and form rela-tionships with returned volunteers.
“It’s a way to network and hear their stories,” Patel said.
Although events happen throughout the year, in the upcoming week, returned Peace Corps volunteers
will be located at events around campus to answer questions and encourage students who are interest-ed in pursuing a future with the Peace Corps.
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While Illinois Theatre’s latest production, “‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” is adver-tised with a mature-content warning, the show contains much more than language and nudity.
“There’s nothing extra added on for shock value,” said Sally Rae Hamer, senior in FAA, who plays Isabella, a college girl turned assas-sin, in the play. “It’s just por-traying the story of real peo-ple, this is really happening to them. In real life, there is language and nudity and blood.”
The show, directed by William Brown, will be per-formed at the Colwell Play-house from Thursday to Sat-urday and March 12 to 14 as the theatre’s fourth show of the season.
“I just think it’s a play that you don’t have an opportu-nity to see very often, or do, and we all feel so lucky to have this opportunity,” said Brown, a resident director for the Writers’ Theatre based in Chicago.
When the play, originally written by John Ford, pre-miered in the 1600s, it was banned in several countries and wasn’t performed until the 20th century.
In the first scene, the protagonist, Giovanni, con-fesses his love for his sister, Annabella, to his friar. The plot doesn’t get less provoca-tive from there, but Brown said the issue is then “on the table,” and the play becomes romantic.
“It lulls you into thinking it’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’” he said. “John Ford makes no decision about the rightness or the wrongness of their love, but he does give them a love story that is powerful and seductive.”
Like William Shake-speare’s infamous play, the show is a revenge tragedy, with so much backstabbing and bloodshed that cast members have compared it to “Game of Thrones,” Brown said.
While the plot is Shake-spearean, in the decades between Shakespeare and Ford, key differences arose in the style of theatre includ-ing a move indoors, and a general loss of loftiness and grandeur, instead favoring domesticity and masculin-ity, according to Brown.
“The language is so mod-ern. People are going to
think we made it up, but it’s exactly what he wrote,” he said. “It’s easy to speak, it’s easy to understand. I find it quite accessible, and I think an audience will too.”
Brown adapted the script to be set in modern day Par-ma, Italy. The changes to the script itself are minimal, with most of them relating to anachronisms, he said. For example, the characters have modern costumes and use cell phones and guns.
“Theatre isn’t a dusty museum framing work as it originally appeared,” wrote Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, pro-ducer for the Illinois The-atre and head of the depart-ment of theatre, in an email. “This play is very theatri-cal, very intense and any shifting of period can only enhance its impact today.”
The shift to modern day makes the play more relat-able, because the audience is not separated from the action by not relating to the setting, according to Hamer.
“It’s like all of these nor-mal people who get thrown into this extreme, extreme circumstance which is, I think, what makes it so exciting,” she said.
Each of the parts play a vital role in the plot, and it is written so each charac-ter is flawed and contradic-tory, to an extent that there are no clear heroes or vil-lains, Brown said. The com-plexity of the show and its characters makes it an act-ing challenge, but Brown said the actors have been astonishing.
Hamer credited Brown’s direction for allowing her and other members of the ensemble to develop their characters.
“We’re very focused on the show and committed to making it the best we can,” Hamer said.
Brown has never directed a show at the University, but he said he feels like an alum-nus because he has worked with so many students over the past 20 years.
“I’ve probably hired a couple dozen people who actually went to this school through the years and I love them,” he said. “So some-thing is happening here that’s right.”
Brown’s work with past students was one of the ben-efits to hiring him, accord-ing to Jenkins.
“Bill Brown is one of the most respected directors of
classic work in this coun-try,” he wrote. “It seemed like a good fit — and it is.”
The set design has also been impressive, according to Brown. The show features an elaborate, multi-floor set which relies more on audi-ence imagination rather than multiple set changes, he said.
When considering the technical aspects and com-plex revenge plots, the con-troversial content is not meant to be a focus, accord-ing to Jenkins.
“It is impossible to guess how the play will be received, which is part of the excitement of doing it,” he wrote. “In our current world of social media sat-uration, ‘Tis Pity’ doesn’t strike me as especially con-troversial — there have been film and television versions of the play — but I imagine it will keep the attention of our young audiences.”
Hamer said one of the goals of the actors was for the audience to see Giovan-ni and Annabella as lovers rather than brother and sister.
“I feel like people are going to come away from it going ‘Oh my god, that play was about incest,’ but it’s about so much more,” she said.
Brown also said that while the effect of the play is pow-erful, love is still the main focus.
“One conclusion we’ve come to in two months of rehearsal is: ‘all revenge begins with love,’ or at least in this play,” he said. “At the bottom of all the revenge in this play, someone loves somebody.”
What: The Illinois Theatre’s production of “‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore”When: Thursday to Saturday, 7:30 p.m. March 12 to 14, 7:30 p.m. March 15, 3 p.m.Where: Krannert Center for the Performing ArtsHow: Tickets $20 for adults, $19 for seniors, $15 for non-University students, and $10 for University students and children.
PHOTO COURTESY OF DARRELL HOEMANNDavid Monahan (Giovanni) and Clara Byczkowski (Annabella) pratice during a rehearsal of “‘Tis a Pity She’s A Whore” in the Colwell Playhouse at the Krannert Center in Urbana on Monday. The play is directed by William Brown.
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E arly on Friday morning, some University students will arise to prepare for the weekend-long Unoffi cial festivities in honor
of the stand-in St. Patrick’s Day. As the campus drowns in green decorations, visiting guests, community members and students will celebrate the weekend in their own way.
Whether it’s a party, pregame or kickback, concocting Unoffi cial-themed drink recipes can add a punch to any event. These recipes are perfect for those who cannot stomach hard liquor neat, at least without destroying an organ before 10 a.m. These easy drink recipes make maintaining and obtaining a buzz simple and fun.
BY ISABELLA JACKSONSTAFF WRITER
Across the nation, Peace Corps members are sharing their stories through online videos, information festi-vals and discussion events as part of National Peace Corps Week. Since 1961, the fi rst week of March has served as the anniversary of President Kennedy’s estab-lishment of the Peace Corps , which the University cele-brates through a variety of events. Alissa Harvey is the current campus representa-tive for the Peace Corps and works with members of the
newly-formed UIUC Peace Corps Club. The RSO gives information about the appli-cation as well as support to students interested in the mission of the Peace Corps.
The University has ranked as an infl uential contributor of volunteers for the majority of the his-tory of the organization. On this year’s Peace Corps Top Colleges list, the Universi-ty ranks 20th in the large school category, with 36 cur-rent alumni volunteers.
Harvey’s experiences overseas gives her fi rst-hand knowledge of the organization. She worked in the Republic of Georgia from 2010 until 2012 teach-ing English to children in grades one through 12. While there, she also worked on secondary projects, or optional extra tasks, such as working in public health or
writing grants in her spare time after teaching.
After her time in the Peace Corps was done, she was awarded a grant to teach in Indonesia, after which she returned to the United States and was hired as a campus representative.
Olivia Buechner, sopho-more in AHS, is the pres-ident of the UIUC Peace Corps Club. She said that she started the club with four other Peace Corps ambas-sadors, students who were already affi liated with the national organization and were eager to spread infor-mation about work with the Peace Corps on campus.
Krupa Patel, sophomore in LAS, is another club member who said that the friendly nature of the group gives students who are curi-ous about the Peace Corps a chance to learn more
information.“People are more inclined
to come repeatedly and be invested in the group,” she said. “It motivates them to learn what the Peace Corps does.”
Because working with the Peace Corps requires a two-year commitment overseas, Harvey said that some peo-ple are scared to be put in a situation that is far outside of their comfort zones and worry they will be lonely. Instead, Harvey said that workers are welcomed into the village or town where they live and have life-changing experiences.
“This sounds cheesy,” Harvey said. “But you are challenged more than ever before, physically, mentally and emotionally, and you get exposure to another culture and language.”
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Peace Corps workers have a specifi c job and are paid, but they are paid a living wage in the area that they work in. This helps workers empathize with the people that they are surrounded with on a deeper level.
The UIUC Peace Corps Club also works to aid stu-dents that are applying to the Peace Corps.
A student needs to have spent time volunteering, preferably in the area of work that they wish to do, before submitting the application. Patel said that for example, someone who wanted to teach English in a foreign country would need experience teaching or communicating some kind of skill.
“By connecting and col-laborating with other RSOs and departments, they are able to track volunteer
opportunities in the area,” Harvey said.
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1 Numi Decaf Ginger Lemon tea bag
3 oz. cucumber juice (put cucumber in blender, blend, and strain.)
1.5 oz. tequilaSplash of lemon juice
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2 oz. Pisang Ambon3 drops Lime Juice4 oz. Sprite
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2 oz. Midori0.5 oz. Irish Whiskey0.5 oz. Baileys
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4 oz. Green Monster1 oz. of Apple UV Blue
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BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER
Ricky Di Legge Kokosz-ka was nervous. It was the most nervous the senior had felt for a game in his life. The defenseman hadn’t put on full pads since September for the Illinois hockey team, yet he was on the ice awaiting the opening faceoff against East-ern Michigan on Saturday at the Illinois Ice Arena.
The referee dropped the puck at center ice for the opening faceoff and after four seconds, Kokoszka was on the bench, done for the night.
Kokoszka was diagnosed with a torn labrum in his shoulder early two games into the season. It was a season-ending injury, but it wasn’t going to stop him from wear-ing his Illinois jersey one last time for Senior Night.
“Knowing it was going to be my last time was sad, but at the same time, it was a lit-tle bit of closure,” Kokoszka said.
At the beginning of the season, Kokoszka was set to be a key contributor for the Illini defense. He had played in 69 games and registered nine points, while only serv-ing four minutes in the pen-alty box in his first three seasons. Head coach Nick Fabbrini described him as a dependable, valuable player who had a knack for analyz-ing the game.
Kokoszka’s senior-season hopes were extinguished on Sept. 20 during an away game against Illinois State. In the second period, Kokoszka was attempting to dodge a hit when his legs were taken out
from under him. He landed directly on his left shoulder, immediately dislocating it.
“It popped out and my shoulder was pretty much in my armpit,” Kokoszka said. “It was just hanging there until I got to the hospital.”
Kokoszka knew something was wrong, but he didn’t know the severity of the inju-ry until an MRI revealed a torn labrum. He participated in physical therapy for eight weeks and had surgery in late November. After surgery, doctors told him he could not play contact hockey for at least six months.
Fellow defenseman and senior Jacob Matysiak could tell Kokoszka was disappointed.
“Finding out that he would have season-ending shoulder surgery his senior year hurt a lot,” Matysiak said. “He loves the game and works hard all the time whenever he is on the ice.”
However, as it turned out, Kokoszka’s senior season was far from over.
Fabbrini acknowledged Kokoszka’s leadership skills and ability to analyze the game by naming him an assistant coach in charge of the defense.
The job requires Kokosz-ka to match lines, assign Illi-nois’ top defensive pair to the opposing team’s best offen-sive line and help the defen-semen analyze what is hap-pening on the ice.
“It’s always nice to have another set of eyes and some-body who can definitely relate to the players a little bit easi-er than I can,” Fabbrini said. “It’s really been a big addition
to the coaching staff.”Kokoszka said the transi-
tion was awkward at first. For the first weeks of the season, he was a player and team-mate. Now, he is suiting up as a coach. Matysiak said it took some time to adjust to seeing Kokoszka in a suit on gamedays. Eventually, Koko-szka became comfortable in his new position.
Although it’s not how he anticipated his senior sea-son to pan out, Kokoszka has enjoyed his new role on the team. Matysiak gets a kick out of calling him “Coach Rick.”
“I respect him just as any other coach because he does know the game well,” Matysiak said. “It’s been great that he’s still been around and still been a huge part of this team even though he’s not dressed.”
Fabbrini allowed Kokosz-ka to start Saturday’s game in his white, No. 6 jersey one last time after Kokosz-ka and teammates asked if the he could be recognized at Senior Night.
Once he completed his four seconds of action, Kokoszka resumed his coaching duties
in his uniform. He assumed his night on the ice was done, but in the third period, a minor penalty for tripping was called on the Illini.
The referee forgot whom he called the penalty on and told the Illini to send the play-er who committed it to the box.
Because Kokoszka dressed for the game, he was taking up a roster spot, which left Illinois with five defensemen for the night instead of the usual six. Kokoszka saw an opportu-nity to help out the team and he skated to the box.
The Illini laughed and jeered with their defensive coach who sat in the penalty box, but Kokoszka was fine with it. For the first time this season and the last time of his career, he had stats in the box score.
“It was pretty funny. All the guys were laughing because I’m sitting in the box and played four seconds of the game,” Kokoszka said. “I took one for the team, but I’m just happy I got in the score sheet.”
It flew by, didn’t it?Sixteen up and soon
to be 16 games down at State Farm Center during the 2014-15 Illinois basket-ball season. Wednesday night’s final home game against Nebraska (13-15, 5-11 Big Ten) will include goodbyes, some more fond than others.
After Wednesday, there will be no more Rayvonte Rice in an Illini uniform at home. No more Nnan-na Egwu. No more Ahmad Starks. No more Ryan Schmidt (we hardly knew ye).
And at long last, no more glaringly grey and emp-ty lower level “A section” seats that have cursed State Farm Center in recent seasons by giving the arena a permanent-ly half-empty look to TV audiences, no matter how full the place actually is.
Soon after Illinois’ four seniors pose for pic-tures at midcourt holding framed jerseys Wednes-day, a basketball game will get underway, and it’s a critical one for head coach John Groce and his Illini.
If they drop this one to the Huskers, you can for-get about an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
In January, Nebras-ka beat Illinois 53-43 in Lincoln, Neb., in the first meeting between the two teams this season.
Nearly two months lat-er, their outlooks for the rest of the year are drasti-cally different. The Illini are on the fringe of the NCAA tournament, while the Huskers are looking to stop an end-of-season tailspin.
In the first meeting, the Illini shot an ugly 27.3 per-cent from the field in their second game without an injured Rice.
It was the Illini’s worst overall performance of the season, and still stands as their worst-ranked
BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER
A lot has changed for Nnanna Egwu since he played his first game for the Illinois men’s basketball team.
Egwu is one of four seniors who will play in their last game at home on senior night against Nebraska on Wednes-day. Each of the seniors will end their home careers the same way, with a framed jer-sey and a photo, but it is the differences in those careers that are important to head coach John Groce.
“(The seniors are) four just unbelievable people,” Groce said. “I love all four guys. Each of them has had a different journey, a dif-ferent path. That’s what makes it kind of cool to be in coaching.”
The senior center has grown as both a player and a person during his time with the Illini. According to Groce, Egwu’s leadership and communication will be missed. Groce added that Egwu is one of the most self-less individuals he has ever coached.
Egwu has accomplished a lot on the court during his time at Illinois. He has notched 729 points, grabbed 600 rebounds and tallied an Illinois-record 193 blocks during his time with the Illini.
Egwu was a major part in the almost seamless tran-sition between coaches. Recruited by Bruce Weber, Egwu didn’t flinch when the Illini hired Groce in 2012 and said he reveled the oppor-tunity to learn from two great c o a c h e s during his collegiate career.
“They’ve empowered me to go further and teach oth-er guys,” E g w u said. “I’ve become a better player and become a better person.”
***A lot has changed for
senior guard Rayvonte Rice since Groce took over at Illinois.
Rice didn’t start his col-legiate career at Illinois. He was overlooked by Weber but recruited back to his home-town to play for Groce.
During his time with Illi-nois, Rice has grown tre-mendously on the court — he is averaging 16.3 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game this season and has scored 881 points in his two years with the Illini.
Rice has also grown off the court. He’s dealt with injury, suspension and oth-er set backs during his time with Illinois, but Groce said Rice has matured through it all.
“It means a lot to him to put on that jersey,” Groce said. “With everything he’s been through: personally, academically, physically, medically, athletically. It’s
made him appreciate more.”Like Egwu, Rice has cher-
ished the opportunity to be an Illini.
“It’s been a dream come true,” Rice said. “Since I was a little kid I wanted to wear that orange and blue, and actually being able to come out here and compete, you can’t explain that feeling.”
***A lot has changed for
senior guard Ahmad Starks since he decided to come back to Illinois.
Starks, like Rice, didn’t begin his collegiate career with the Illini. In fact, Starks played his first three years at Oregon State. But like Rice, Starks has grown as a play-er and as a person while at Illinois.
After failing to receive a hard-ship waiv-er to play last sea-son, Starks has been a breath of fresh air for the Illini backcourt this year. Although he’s strug-gled at t i m e s ,
Starks has played well of late — scoring 19 points against Iowa on Feb. 25 and tallying 17 against Northwestern on Saturday.
“I’ve learned a lot,” Starks said. “I’ve just gotten better in every aspect of the game. Off the court I’ve matured.”
Groce praised Starks’ self-lessness and said that he may even care too much about his teammates at times. Starks is second on the team with 2.4 assists per game.
Like the other seniors, Starks knows his time with the team is limited, which is why he has stressed in recent weeks the importance of the team stringing wins togeth-er in hopes of making the NCAA tournament.
“It’s going pretty fast,” Starks said. “I’m looking forward to going out with a bang.”
***A lot has changed for
senior guard Ryan Schmidt since he was named to the
Illinois vs. NebraskaWhen/Where: 9 p.m. Saturday at State Farm CenterTV/Radio: Big Ten Network/Illinois Sports NetworkQuick notes: The Illinois men’s basketball team will look to knock off Nebraska for the first time this season after losing to the Cornhuskers on the road in January.Hidden stat: Illinois is 11-4 against Nebraska all-time. The Illini are also 8-1 against the Cornhuskers at home.
BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER
After an up-and-down sea-son, the Illinois women’s bas-ketball team was all smiles after its 72-60 win over Michigan on Saturday. Even though the regular season concluded honoring Illinois’ senior class, it was a fresh-man who stole the show, a tell-ing sign for what’s to come for this program.
Freshman center Chatrice White scored a career-high 30 points on Saturday, send-ing a message that a new era is set to begin for the Illini.
At the conclusion of this season, Illinois (15-15, 6-12 Big Ten) will be completely comprised of players recruit-ed by head coach Matt Bol-lant, led by his prized five-star center.
“She’s been great,” Bollant said of White. “We expected her to be an impact player and challenged her to be con-
sistent, and she’s done that. When (White) plays good, we play good as a team, which has been great.”
There was a lot of hype sur-rounding White before the season and she didn’t disap-point, ending the season on the Big Ten All-Freshman Team. Finishing in the top 15 in just about every major sta-tistical category in the con-ference, White also earned an all-Big Ten Honorable Men-tion, the first freshman Illini to do so since 2007.
“It just feels really cool to represent my school and just to know that I played really well this year and it didn’t go unnoticed,” White said of her accolades.
As her coaches and team-mates endearingly call her, “Tree” showed how impor-tant she is to Illinois’ suc-cess this season and for sea-sons to come. The Illini were 8-3 when White led them in
scoring, 7-5 when she was the team’s leading rebound-er and 3-1 when the freshman phenom led Illinois in both categories.
White established her pres-ence early on — she posted a double-double in her first game as an Illini and did not slow down from there. In a season that earned her three separate Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, White fin-ished the season near the top of nearly all of Illinois’ statis-tical lists.
The 6-foot-3 center from Nebraska led the Illini in rebounding (7.1), blocked shots (2) and free throw attempts (117). She was sec-ond on the team in scoring (14.8) and field goal percent-age (44 percent), only trailing senior guard Ivory Crawford.
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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Nnanna Egwu takes a hook shot from the post during the game against Northwestern at State Farm Center on Saturday. The Illini won 86-60.
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Chatrice White attempts a contested layup during the game against Ohio State at State Farm Center on Saturday, Feb. 14.
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Any superhero has an alter-ego, a second identity to relieve the stress of the fi rst.
Illinois baseball senior infi elder Reid Roper has such an identity — in addition to his fi elding duties, he’s also a pitcher.
Roper, the Illini’s starting second baseman, has pitched in 32 games (31 2/3 innings) during his four seasons at Illinois. During that time, he has started 165 games — 154 at second base.
“I feel like I’m two dif-ferent people,” Roper said. “There’s the side of me that’s a pitcher and the side that’s a fi elder and a hitter.”
His hitting side has got-ten lots of attention. Roper is the Illini’s top hitter this season, leading the team in batting average, slugging percentage, RBIs, hits, dou-bles, triples (with one) and total bases.
But his pitching side has also been rock solid. He has appeared in two innings of relief this season, both score-less, and picked up a save in
Sunday’s 2-1 win over West Virginia — his 11 career saves are tied for eight all-time at Illinois. He has not allowed a run since April 2013, his sophomore year.
“I’m comfortable with Reid in any situation,” head coach Dan Hartleb said. “I’ll use him in the fi eld and on the mound.”
Hartleb added that he doesn’t weigh Roper’s effec-tiveness at the plate during a game when turning to the senior to pitch. When Roper is substituted in as a pitcher, he is allowed to bat.
Hartleb has used Roper primarily as a late-inning pitcher — he unoffi cially shares the closer role with junior Tyler Jay. Roper, a righty, is a change of pace from Jay, a hard-throwing southpaw.
Jay has racked up 85 strikeouts in 77 2/3 innings in his Illinois career, while Roper has just 27 strikeouts in his 31 2/3 innings. Prior to this season, they both had recorded 10 career saves as Illini.
Roper’s younger brother Ryne — a sophomore and
the team’s starting third baseman — is also listed as a pitcher on the team’s roster, but has yet to throw an inning for Illinois. Har-tleb said he sees Ryne fi ll-ing the role Reid currently holds when the senior gradu-ates. Both Ropers were All-State pitchers in high school — Reid was 12-0 as a senior and Ryne was 11-0.
In addition to completing their infi eld tasks in practice during the week, Reid said the brothers throw long toss. Once a week, Reid throws a 30-pitch bullpen session to prepare his arm and sort out his pitches for the weekend ahead in case Hartleb calls upon him.
It might be presumptuous to label Reid a superhero, but his .413 average through 12 games is 92 points high-er than senior right fi elder Casey Fletcher’s .325, the team’s second best. Reid’s average is also nearly 200 points higher than his fi nal average last season (.250).
Comparisons to a super-hero aren’t ones Reid makes about himself, but his team-mates have high praise for
his abilities both on the mound and at the plate. Senior outfi elder Will Krug said there isn’t a ball that Reid doesn’t hit hard, and added that Reid’s numbers this season aren’t surprising.
Sophomore reliever Cody Sedlock went a bit further — he said that although he knows Reid is an infi elder, the bullpen pitchers consid-er him just as much a mem-ber of their group as anyone.
“We love to see Reid trot-ting out of the dugout to fi n-ish off a game,” Sedlock said. “We trust him.”
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BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER
A blue and orange poster stood out in the Huff Hall crowd on Jan. 31. The Illi-nois men’s and women’s gymnastics teams were both competing, but this sign was especially made for one gymnast: senior Sunny Kato.
Inside the orange border of the poster were orange-fi lled “U of I” bubble let-ters sandwiched by the blue words “Go Sunny” with a yellow sun encompassing the “S” in Kato’s name. The poster was completed with two orange and blue outlined starburst shapes at the top, with “beam” and “bar” writ-ten inside each one.
Kato met the creator of this sign, a young gymnast named Nevaeh, for a second time once the women’s meet concluded. The two took a photo with Nevaeh holding up the sign. Kato proceed-ed to post the photo on Ins-tagram with the caption, “Another reason I love what I do ... Never thought I would be able to inspire and be a little girl’s idol.”
“It’s just nice to know we’re role models for little girls,” Kato said. “You for-get sometimes that it’s not just about yourself or the team.”
That moment recalled memories of when Kato was a young girl herself, idoliz-ing the UCLA gymnasts she
grew up watching: Onnie Willis, Yvonne Tousek and Jamie Dantzscher just to name a few.
There wasn’t one par-ticular gymnast who Kato admired the most, but she does want to do what they all did for her.
“I want to inspire those girls how the other girls have inspired me, and I want that cycle to keep going,” Kato said. “I want the girls to love gymnastics and love the team, have some Illini pride, or any pride that they have for any school.”
Head coach Kim Landrus has seen the impact Kato has made on her team — particularly the young-er gymnasts. Kato’s drive makes her a good role model and sets higher expectations for her teammates.
“When you have some-body with that drive and that desire to excel, you know it’s going to impact the team in a very positive way,” Landrus said. “I think that it has.”
But Kato is more than just a role model to her team-mates. She’s also a great friend.
“I know that I can go to her for anything in the world, no matter if it’s gymnastics-related, family-related or lit-erally anything,” freshman Jordyn Givens said. “She’s always there. So Sunny is a huge part of my life. I love her to death.”
The thing is, if Kato approached her high school years differently, Givens and the rest of the Illini like-ly wouldn’t have Kato to rely on or look up to.
During her sophomore year at Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, California, Kato quit gymnastics for four or fi ve months, claiming she hated the sport. She partially did it because she “just wanted to have fun.”
Gymnastics took up a lot of Kato’s time, and it didn’t leave much time left to socialize. After being home schooled from fi fth to eighth grade, Kato just wanted to hang out with the friends she made in public high school.
Kato spent her time away from gymnastics just sitting on the couch watching TV, and her parents insisted she return to the sport and get back in shape.
“I was kind of forced back in,” Kato said. “But at the same time, I realized that if I wanted to go to college (for gymnastics), if I wanted to pursue my goals, I needed to come back.”
Kato’s time away from the sport made her cherish it and realize gymnastics was a part of her.
Soon after returning, she received interest from col-leges and it surprised her. But it also led to the realiza-tion that she could compete
in the NCAA.Kato committed to Cali-
fornia-Berkeley as a junior; however, the school was facing budget cuts and the women’s gymnastics team was in danger. That was when she was allowed to speak to other schools.
Nebraska was in consider-ation, but in the end, some-thing was missing.
“I just didn’t feel a con-nection,” Kato said.
Illinois was completely
different, though. When she visited campus, she knew it was the place for her.
Kato tore her anterior cruciate ligament as a fresh-man, causing her to miss the season.
“That was one of the hard-est things for me, to watch my team compete and do what I love,” Kato said. “But I think that also taught me that everything happens for a reason.”
Kato doesn’t wish her
fi rst year at Illinois would have turned out different-ly, though, because now she has another year on cam-pus, another year to do what she loves and to be with her teammates.
“I always joke about not coming back, but I’m abso-lutely going to be back,” Kato said. “I wouldn’t leave these girls.”
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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Sunny Kato performs a routine on the balance beam during the meet against Minnesota at Huff Hall on Feb. 7.
Kato emerges as an inspiration, leader
to a knee injury, Crawford also garnered an all-Big Ten Honorable Mention and after being the team’s leader on and off the court the past few seasons, she leaves the program in White’s capable hands.
“As a freshman, she was just a coachable person,” Crawford said. “Some fresh-men are really not that coach-able and able to grow. Tree was just a great example of being a leader also while she’s learning.”
Following the Big Ten tournament, Crawford will leave Illinois with her name all over the school record books. She is in the top 15 of nine different Illini statisti-cal categories, including 13th in all-time scoring, with 1,390 points, and fi fth all-time in steals, with 236.
Getting closer and closer to leaving Illinois to follow her dream of going pro, Crawford said she hopes she set a posi-tive example for the younger players on the team. White confi rmed the senior leader’s hopes.
“With Ivory, I just learned how she played the game and it made me see the game differently and look for different opportunities,” White said. “I just had a great group of seniors that I really looked up to this year and I’m really going to miss them.”
After a 9-21 2013-2014 sea-son, it was a quick rebuild-ing process for Bollant and the Illini — they tripled their conference win total from a year ago. With another four-star recruit coming to Illinois next season, just reaching the Big Ten tournament may not be the end game for Illinois in the near future.
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loss. Illinois (18-11, 8-8) doesn’t have any truly bad or embarrassing loss-es on their resume, but with Nebraska’s current RPI ranking of 124, the defeat is defi nitely a blem-ish Groce wishes the team could undo.
The main reason for the Huskers’ poor RPI is the simple fact that they’re not a very good basketball team. They were severe-ly overrated in the pre-season and have taken a step back under head
coach Tim Miles follow-ing last season’s NCAA tournament appearance. They’re 0-8 in conference road games this year, and have dropped six straight games heading into Wednesday.
Being at home on Senior Night, Nebraska is a team Illinois should beat. But it’s foolish to overlook any team in Big Ten play, espe-cially one you’ve already lost to. Especially one with a talented player like Ter-ran Petteway.
Petteway is tearing up the league for the second consecutive season, aver-aging 18 points a game,
while gunning for anoth-er All-Big Ten fi rst team nomination.
He’s the type of player who can give a bad team a chance to rise up and win on any given night, because he’s capable of dropping 35 or 40 if he really gets going.
Shavon Shields isn’t far behind at 14.9 points per contest, but outside of Shields and Petteway, the level of production drops off for Nebraska. If the Illini can contain those two, they’ll almost certain-ly win.
Illinois’ defense has improved as the season
has progressed, and Groce has worked to instill a tough defensive mindset in his players.
A solid defensive effort has come to be expect-ed, but the offensive side of the ball is much less certain.
If the team plays at a level approaching the effi -ciency it showed in Sat-urday’s 86-60 blowout win over Northwestern, Nebraska will face a simi-lar fate. But any casual fan could tell you that this season, Illinois is prone to going cold at inopportune times.
Seniors Starks, Rice and
Egwu truly are competi-tors, and I would expect them to play with intensi-ty Wednesday. Normally I wouldn’t expect the crowd to match that intensity with a 9 p.m. start time, but the University has giv-en away several thousand free tickets to students to help do the job.
Check the calendar: it’s March. But an Illini slip-up Wednesday would silence the madness before it really had a chance to begin.
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Schmidt hasn’t played a full minute for the Illini this season but has said he will never forget his experienc-es with the team. A former team manager born to die-hard Illini fans, Schmidt was added to the active ros-ter after injuries to Rice and Aaron Cosby decimated the Illini’s backcourt.
“It’s been quite the expe-rience so far,” Schmidt said.
While his journey is the least conventional of the four seniors, Schmidt will still be honored the same as Egwu, Rice and Starks.
Each of the seniors will be given a framed jersey and a picture with Groce and ath-letic director Mike Thomas. For Schmidt, his memory of playing for 14 seconds at the end of the team’s game against Michigan on will last longer than either of the oth-er mementos.
“I had no idea I would ever see the fl oor,” Schmidt said. “It really was a dream come true.”
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CHRIS KENNEDY
College football columnist
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINITim Beckman is in his fourth year as Illini football head coach. Last season, he led the Illini to their fi rst bowl game since 2011. The Illini fi nished the season with a 6-7 overall record.
I llinois football head coach Tim Beckman just fi nished his third
season in Champaign and head basketball coach John Groce has reached the tail end of his third season as well.
Groce currently has the Illini fi ghting for an NCAA tournament bid. Most fans would say he’s earned his stripes.
Beckman is another story entirely. He will return for a fourth year after his best season, leading the Illini to their fi rst bowl game since 2011 and he just signed his best recruiting class yet.
But where does Beckman stand in his class? How does he rank amongst his peers, the coaching class of 2012?
Twenty-eight coaches were hired prior to the 2012 season. Twenty of them still hold those jobs. Six were fi red and two upgraded to better gigs.
Only three coaches have earned fewer wins over three years than Beck-man’s 12: Akron’s Terry Bowden (11), New Mexico’s Bob Davie (11) and Hawaii’s Norm Chow (8). Fourteen power-five conference coaches were hired before 2012, and only two are still coaching with a three-year losing record: Beckman and Washington State’s Mike Leach.
Beckman is in even worse company with conference wins. Chow, Davie and Beck-
man all sit at the bottom of the rankings with 4-20 conference marks. When he fi red Ron Zook, athletic director Mike Thomas cit-ed Zook’s conference strug-gles: Thomas wasn’t happy with a 32 percent Big Ten winning percentage. Beck-man’s conference winning percentage? 17 percent.
Let’s look at how the col-lege football coaching class of 2012 has panned out thus far.
Home runs
Urban Meyer (Ohio State), Kevin Sumlin (Texas A&M)
Meyer has already won Ohio State a national title. The Buckeyes are a power-house again thanks to Mey-er, who holds an undefeated Big Ten record.
Sumlin has electrifi ed College Station and has managed a seamless tran-sition for A&M into the SEC. Sumlin was reportedly at the top of the Illini’s list in 2011.
Superb
Rich Rodriguez (Arizo-na), Todd Graham (Arizona State), Bill O’Brien (Penn State), Hugh Freeze (Ole Miss), Jim McElwain (Col-orado State), Justin Fuente(Memphis)
All of these coaches have brought or are bring-ing their programs to new heights. Rodriguez began a renaissance in the desert, leading the Wildcats to their fi rst Fiesta Bowl since 1993. Graham has turned Arizona State into a contender, com-peting for multiple division titles.
This season, Freeze has recruited well and put Ole Miss on the national map this season, leading the Rebels to a huge win against Alabama and a ranking as high as No. 3.
McElwain turned Colora-do State into a conference title challenger and Fuente earned Memphis its fi rst conference title since 1971. Bill O’Brien gets a mention here for a phenomenal job handling the toughest era in Penn State football history.
Good, but not greatJim Mora (UCLA), Tim
DeRuyter (Fresno State), Kyle Flood (Rutgers), Paul Chryst (Pitt), Dave Camp-bell (Toledo)
These coaches have led their programs to the post-season multiple times, but there’s not as much of a vis-ible upward trajectory. Mora has had consecutive 10-win seasons at UCLA, but his teams have underachieved.
DeRuyter struggled this year after riding the coat-tails of Derek Carr’s suc-cess. Flood and Chryst have reached bowl games in each of their three seasons, but they’ve been exceptionally average. Campbell has the Rockets trending upwards, with three winning seasons and a division title last year.
ServiceableTony Levine (Hous-
ton), Larry Fedora (North Carolina)
These coaches have put together decent seasons, but they haven’t blown anyone away.
Levine was fi red after
another mediocre year at Houston, even with two con-secutive bowl appearances. Fedora has the Tar Heels trending downward. In 2012, the team would have gone to the ACC title game, but it was ineligible for the postseason.
MediocreTim Beckman (Illinois),
Bob Davie (New Mexcio), Curtis Johnson (Tulane), Mike Leach (Washington State), Norm Chow (Hawaii), Terry Bowden (Akron)
These coaches have the worst records of any who have lasted three years with the program. Over three years, they’re all 12-25 or worse, including Illinois’ Beckman. He made some strides this year, but
it doesn’t seem like he did enough to warrant another season.
There’s only one winning season in all of these coach’s tenures — Tulane’s Johnson in 2013. Tulane went on to a 3-9 record in 2014. Leach also regressed. Bowden put up another 5-7 record with the Zips and the other three of these coaches improved their win totals enough to convince their AD’s to keep them around another year.
Total failureJohn L. Smith (Arkana-
sas), Charlie Weis (Kansas), Garrick McGee (UAB), Ellis Johnson (Southern Miss), Charley Molnar (Massa-chusetts), Carl Pelini (FAU)
None of these hires remain and many are no lon-
ger head coaches anywhere. Johnson went 0-12 his fi rst year and was immediately canned. The Golden Eagles kept losing until they defeat-ed McGee’s Blazers to snap a 23-game losing streak, and McGee was fi red short-ly after. Smith and Peli-ni both left amid scandals, Molnar only managed one win in each of UMass’ fi rst FBS seasons, and Weis was a high-paid colossal failure that the Jayhawks will be paying for years to come.
*Gus Malzahn gets an incomplete grade, because he left Arkansas State after only one year to become Auburn’s head coach.
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Detry steals show at the Louisiana Classics
BY WILL SMALLSTAFF WRITER
Editor’s Note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down each week and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.
Senior DJ Zahn put his stamp on Illinois men’s track and fi eld history
in emphatic fashion at last weekend’s Big Ten Indoor Championships.
Zahn’s motivation for the meet began building exact-ly one year prior. At the 2014 Big Ten Indoor meet, Zahn fi nished in the top-10 in three different races: the 200 meters, 400 meters and the 4X400 meter relay. He didn’t come away with a fi rst-place fi nish — his best fi nish was second place in the 400 meters.
Zahn knew he wanted to improve on his results this time around, and he did exact-ly that, dominating the fi eld at the meet in Geneva, Ohio. He once again competed in the 200 meters, 400 meters and the 4X400 meter relay, but this year, Zahn fi nished the weekend with three gold medals, winning every event he participated in.
“I wanted to see myself progress,” Zahn said. “Get-ting second last year defi nite-ly made me want to get fi rst this year. I wanted to see if I got better and it motivated me.”
In the 200, Zahn fi nished with a time of 20.75 seconds, breaking the Illinois school record he set in a preliminary race the day before.
The 400 was another record-breaking perfor-mance for the Morton, Ill., native — Zahn ran an Illi-nois record time of 45.63. The 400 was the fi rst race of the day, which he said gave him momentum and confi dence heading into his other events.
For Zahn’s fi nal event of the meet, he teamed up with soph-omores David Kendziera and Kenneth Allen and junior Joe McAsey in the 4X400 meter relay. The quartet barely missed setting another school record, but Zahn’s fi nal leg of the event was the fastest in Illini history.
It was a record-break-ing day for Zahn, who was confident he’d eventually
break those school records, but didn’t think he’d do it Saturday.
“I wasn’t expecting to break these records right away,” he said. “But it was on my mind, I thought it would be a really cool accomplishment. I was always more focused on run-ning and winning my races.”
Zahn’s performance this past weekend was not a result that shocked a lot of people. Before the Big Ten meet, Zahn held the No. 1 time in the 400 in the conference and the second-fastest time in the 200, making him one of the fastest and most consistent runners in the Big Ten. Tues-day Zahn was named the Big Ten Indoor Track Athlete of the Year.
Head coach Mike Turk was one of the people Zahn impressed the most. But for Turk, the results were not that surprising; he knew Zahn was due for a big performance.
“He hasn’t been beaten this year in the 200 or 400 meters; we just haven’t had him in a really fast race yet,” Turk said. “I knew he was ready to do something big and he’s just gone to a another level.”
In Zahn’s fi nal season as an Illini, his results on the track aren’t the only thing that is important to him. He wants to be a role model for his team, just as past teammates have been for him.
“I want to make sure to set a good example of working hard and having fun,” Zahn
said. “I just want to show them what it is to be a good student-athlete.”
With current top-10 nation-al times in both the 200 and 400, Zahn is in good posi-tion to qualify for the NCAA
Indoor Championships.For now, Zahn is satisfi ed
with his success this season, but knowing that he has the support of his team, Zahn wants to see how much more he can accomplish.
“This is my senior year and it’s kind of like, ‘Why not?’ There’s nothing holding me back,” Zahn said. “I might as well see how far I can go.”
Honorable Mentions
Gianna O’Connor (women’s gymnastics) —The junior gymnast posted a 39.625 all-around score in Sunday’s Masters Classic, tying Alina
Weinstein’s school record. O’Connor’s score helped the Illini to a second-place fi nish and their third-highest team score of the season.
Nicole Choquette (women’s indoor
track and fi eld) — The freshman won the Big Ten title in the 600 meters, one of two Illini women to pick up individual awards at the conference championship meet. Illinois fi nished 10th at the meet.
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Fresh off his second Big Ten Golfer of the Week award of the season, Thomas Detry put together yet another strong performance for the Illinois men’s golf team in the Louisiana Classics in Lafay-ette, La., on Monday and Tuesday.
After recording three con-secutive victories in each of his matches at the Big Ten Match Play Championship in mid-February, Detry contin-ued his hot streak. He shot a total of 203 over three rounds in two days, leading all play-ers. He led Illinois to its third consecutive Louisiana Clas-
sics victory.“Detry’s been work-
ing really hard the last six months and it’s starting to show and pay off,” head coach Mike Small said in a press release. “He played consis-tently all two days and han-dled his emotions well. He scrambled really well too, he hit the ball out of play a few times and got it back in play to make some good saves for birdie and par.”
Hosted by the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns golf team on the par 72, 7,098-yard Oak-bourne Country Club in Lafayette, La., the Louisiana Classics set itself up to be a diffi cult test for Illinois. The
fi eld was made up of 14 teams, including power conference opponents Kansas, Missis-sippi State and Big Ten rival Northwestern.
Illinois took a fi rm lead from the start Monday, fi n-ishing round one with a com-bined score of 278, and all fi ve golfers in the top-30.
Rounds two and three was no different. The Illini fi n-ished with scores of 279 and 288 to fi nish with a combined score of 845 and take home fi rst place. Texas State, Loui-siana, Kent State and Kansas fi nished with scores of 867, 873, 876, and 877, respective-ly, to round out the top fi ve.
Illinois dominated on the
individual leaderboard as well. Three of the fi ve Illi-ni who competed fi nished in the top fi ve overall. Junior Thomas Detry shot a 203 to fi nish fi rst overall and junior Charlie Danielson and senior Brian Campbell shot 213 and tied for fi fth overall. The remaining two Illini, fresh-men Dylan Myer and Nick Hardy, fi nished just outside of the top 30, each totalling scores of 222 to tie for 32nd.
This victory gives Illinois its third of the season and second against out-of-state competition. Starting off the season strongly has allowed Illinois to retain its No. 1 ranking.
Their ranking will be test-ed in next week’s Southern Highlands Collegiate Mas-ters, which will take place next week at the Southern Highlands Golf Club in Las
Vegas. The Collegiate Mas-ters will have 10 of the top-25 ranked teams in the country competing in the fi eld of 15.
Illini golf wins Louisiana Classics
Summary: Led by Thomas Detry, Illinois won its third consecutive Louisiana Classics. All fi ve Illini golfers fi nish in top 32, three in top fi ve.
Key Performer: Detry led all golfers with a combined score of 203, 13-under par overall.
Up next:Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters, March 9-11, Las Vegas
DJ ZAHNThe senior won three Big Ten titles (200m, 400m and 4x400 m relay)
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