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CHARLOTTE COLLINSASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
As the Democratic pri-mary has progressed, Hill-ary Clinton has emerged as a leading Democratic can-didate for the 2016 election. Historically, college stu-dents largely contribute to the Democratic vote, which may make Clinton’s recent-ly announced college plan a key point of interest.
When looking to politi-cians for a college plan, Aileen Griffi n, freshman in DGS, wants an option to pay debt over time. Grif-fi n’s concern is not unique which is why Clinton addresses it in her plan. Dubbed as the “New Col-lege Compact,” Clinton’s plan will cost $350 billion dollars and aims to pave the way for better college access and affordability by refi nancing loan debt. Clin-ton’s offi cial web site reads that her plan will be “fully paid for by limiting certain tax expenditures for high-income taxpayers.”
The plan would ask states to agree not to cut fund-ing for higher education in order to qualify for federal
grants. States would need to set aside $175 billion for more grants and givie stu-dents options to refi nance their loans at lower inter-est rates.
University Student Trust-ee Jaylin McClinton vol-unteers on Clinton’s cam-paign and attended a Labor Day themed event Monday, where she addressed cam-paign topics such as build-ing up unions, paid leave and equal pay. McClin-ton said Clinton’s plan for fi nancing higher educa-tion should appeal to col-lege students, especially those in Illinois, because of recent state cuts to higher education.
“Something like this will really shift the conversa-tion. (Clinton) has proposed that you should be able to refinance your student loans, you can do it with everything else,” he said.
McClinton added anoth-er important factor for students is the points out-lined in the plan aimed at lowering interest rates and helping students transition after college.
Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders is shaping up to be one of Clinton’s most popu-lar Democratic challengers for the presidency. Sanders trails Clinton in most gen-eral polls but his support is climbing as the election continues; in recent weeks he took a nine point lead in New Hampshire according to an NBC News/Marist poll released Sunday.
University student Adam Smith, senior in LAS and
press and communications coordinator for “Illini for Bernie,” is trying to garner support for Sanders on cam-pus with the pro-Sanders group. He said he believes Sanders’ plan should appeal to students more than Clin-ton’s because the goal is to eventually eliminate the cost of tuition for students.
“(Clinton’s) plan would
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Illini of the Week Wes Lunt leads football to victory in season debut PAGE 1B
Ellnora begins on the right note
JOVANIE DE LA CRUZ THE DAILY ILLINIThe Blind Justice Band with Special Guest Singer Take the Stage.
Faculty discussfunding proposals Tu! e’s position assists members in humanities, arts, social sciences
OPINIONS LIFE & CULTURE SPORTS
Photo gallery depicts the face of education
Q&A with of Montreal’s frontman Kevin Barnes
Illini volleyball team play against best in the country
Illini Union Art Gallery showcases photos to spread education awareness
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Of Montreal to perform new album “Aureate Gloom” with Surface to Air Missive
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Illinois volleyball team face off against Big Ten rival Penn State in tournament
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CHARLOTTE COLLINSASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
Renee Romano, vice chancellor of student affairs, announced mod-ifi cations to the Smoke-Free Campus Policy in a University massmail sent Tuesday.
The modifi cations were made to comply with the State of Illinois Smoke-Free Campus Act, which requires all Illinois public colleges and universities to prohibit people from smok-
ing on campus properties.The University of Illi-
nois Police Department, partnered with campus security personnel under their supervision, plan to enforce the policy through increasing punishment for each violation.
A new committee has also been formed by the Uni-versity, comprised of legal council, campus police offi -cers and other stakeholders who “needed to have their voices heard,” said Michele Guerra, director of the Uni-versity Wellness Center.
“There’s a lot less smok-ing on campus than there used to be,” Guerra said. “I think the new enforcement
measures will increase compliance even more.”
First-time offenders will receive a written warning. The second time a person violates the act, the offend-er will be charged a $25 fi ne that can be waived through an online education pro-gram. A third violation is punishable by a $50 fi ne; each additional violation is punishable by a $100 fi ne.
The University’s original policy was implemented in January 2014. In May, the University announced it would make modifi cations to the policy in order to comply with state law.
The massmail encour-ages students to call the
University Police Depart-ment to dispatch an offi cer if they see the policy being violated on campus. A map of what constitutes as cam-pus property can be found here.
The massmail also urges students who want to quit and “smokers who need help managing tobacco cravings on campus” to seek help through the Uni-versity’s Smoke-Free Cam-pus website.
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BY ABIGALE SVOBODANEWS EDITOR
University enrollment of Latino students has increased 11.5 percent since fall 2014; total enroll-ment of African-American
students increased 5.4 per-cent in the past year.
Overall, a total of 76,166 students are cur-rently enrolled across the three University campus-es, including a record-size freshmen class of 11,315 students, according to a University press release.
Students weigh in on Clinton’s college plan
UI weighs in on Clinton’s College Compact
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BY ALI BRABOYASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Members of the faculty involved with the humani-ties, arts and social scienc-es met Tuesday to discuss the development of propos-als for external funding at the University. The meet-ing, held at Lincoln Hall, was focused on resources available on campus that support the development for the arts, social sciences and humanities.
Brian Ross, executive associate dean of LAS, said the college is interested in having faculty access to receive external fund-ing. Ross said there are two parts that seem daunt-ing when someone begins to seek external funding. The fi rst is creating an interesting idea and put-ting it in words that others will appreciate. The second is combining the physical
part of the proposal and the budget.
Ross said Tim Tufte, coordinator of the Pre-Award Shared Services , works for the Law, Media, FAA and LAS colleges and helps with external funding in the humanities, arts and social sciences.
Tufte said external fund-ing is important for facul-ty members because they appreciate having their work validated by external sources. He said it normal-ly takes perseverance and dedication for someone to get external funding.
External funding is not only about securing mon-ey, according to an article written by Sally J. South-wick, director of Sponsored Research at Colorado Col-lege. The work required to receive the funding is more
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The plan will cost $350 billion over 10 years
More than half of it will go toward grants to states and colleges and tuition at community colleges
One-third of total funds will be for relief on student debt interest
“Remaining funds will support innovative new investments, funds to expand new models of lifelong learning, rewarding college completion and enrollment, broadening support for student parents.”
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Fall 2015 holds record " gures
SOURCE: THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN
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ChampaignTheft was reported Sunday
around 12:45 p.m. at Walmart, 2610 N. Prospect Ave.
According to the report, the offend-er stole several DVD’s disks from the store.
Aggravated battery was reported Sunday around 2:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of North Prospect Avenue.
According to the report, the victim attempted to intervene in a fi ght be-tween the offender and another per-son and was struck by the offender. The victim’s cell phone was taken and the offenders have not been located.
University A man was arrested Tuesday
around 5:15 a.m. for trespassing in the Digital Computer Laboratory.
According to the report, the man was previously issued a no-trespass-ing notice on University property.
A University student was issued a state notice to appear in court for re-tail theft Friday around 1:30 p.m.
According to the report, security was called after the student attempt-ed to leave the Illini Union Bookstore without paying for a book valued at $281.75.
UrbanaDisorderly conduct was reported
in the 600 block of West Park Street Sunday around 10:30 p.m.
According to the report, the offend-er, who admitted to consuming alco-hol, made threats to kill the victim while both the victim and offender were visiting a patient at the hospital.
Residential burglary and criminal damage to property was reported in the 900 block of Silver Street Sunday around 9:50 p.m.
According to the report, the victim returned home to fi nd glass from the front window broken.
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THOMAS BLACKTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Amtrak passenger ser-vice that runs on tracks owned by freight rail com-panies may be curtailed unless Congress extends a Dec. 31 deadline to imple-ment a safety system that was mandated seven years ago.
December 2018 would be “more realistic” for imple-menting the technology, which automatically stops trains to prevent a colli-sion or unsafe speeds, the Association of American Railroads said in a state-ment Tuesday. The system, known as positive train con-trol, is to be installed on all lines that carry chemicals and passengers, a goal that the fi ve major freight rail companies say can’t be done by the end of this year.
The current target “is arbitrary, unworkable and unrealistic,” said the group, which raised the possibil-ity that the industry may curtail service on lines in January to prevent being in violation of the law.
Only about a third of Amtrak’s 31.6 million pas-sengers in fi scal 2013 trav-eled on its own tracks, so the majority may be affect-ed if the freight railroads
curtail or stop services. Amtrak’s Northeast Corri-dor from Boston to Wash-ington will be ready by the deadline, said spokesman Marc Magliari. Positive train control is already on its line from Porter, Ind., to Kalamazoo, Mich.
Congress imposed the system on the railroads after a Los Angeles pas-senger train collided with a freight train in 2008, kill-ing 25; a Metrolink engi-neer was sending text mes-sages just before the crash.
The railroads face fi nes and penalties if the system isn’t operating by the end of the year. The Senate vot-ed in July for an extension that requires having pos-itive train control opera-tional by no later than the end of 2018 in a transporta-tion bill that needs approval from the House.
BNSF Railway Co., the railroad owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hatha-way Inc., said in July that it is analyzing suspending operations on rail lines that require the safety system. The obligation for railroads to provide service to cus-tomers “is not absolute” and can be halted for safety rea-sons, Daniel Elliott, chair-man of the Surface Trans-
portation Board said in a Sept. 3 letter.
For BNSF to comply with the law “means about 11,300 miles of track that needs to be equipped,” said Michael Trevino, a spokes-man, in an e-mail Tuesday.
The freight railroads, which have spent more than $5.7 billion on the system,
will be put in an impossi-ble situation if the deadline isn’t extended, the railroad association said. “If they stop or reduce services to avoid being in violation of the PTC law, they may face claims or litigation related to those competing obliga-tions to provide service,” the group said.
Amtrak facing possible railroad shutdown, awaiting Congress’ December decision
An Amtrak train pulls into the station in El Paso, Texas, in June 2014. Passenger-train travel has increased by more than 50 percent from 2001 to 2013, according to Amtrak.
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ABIGALE SVOBODANEWS EDITOR
U.S. Secretary of Agri-culture Tom Vilsack will visit campus Thursday to talk about the Univer-sity’s role in agriculture and international food security.
Prior to his lecture, Vilsack will visit an ener-gy farm with University faculty and will attend a post-lecture reception, said Rachael Dubinsky, U.S. Department of Agri-culture public relations coordinator.
“One of the things he’ll focus on is obviously we have more mouths to feed, so how do we do that?” Dubinsky said. “And how do top-tier research insti-tutions, like Illinois, con-tribute to that?”
Vilsack’s visit is spon-sored by ACES and Inter-national Food Security at Illinois. IFSI is a program within ACES that uses the “expertise and resources of the U of I” to ensure people around the world have con-sistent access to safe and nutritious food, according to an ACES press release.
“With the Secretary’s advice and guidance, the College of ACES will con-tinue to focus on the food system,” said Robert Haus-er, dean of ACES in the press release. “From pro-duction to processing and distribution, to policy and consumer issues—in a way
that leads to abundant and sustainable food for every-one throughout the world.”
Vilsack was appointed by President Barack Obama and began his service in January 2009. He previ-ously served two terms as the Governor of Iowa; he has also served in the Iowa State Senate and as mayor of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
According to the USDA website, Vilsack spent his six years in office working to strengthen the agricul-tural economy in the U.S. He is also focused on build-ing “vibrant”, rural com-munities and creating new markets for innovation in rural America.
Additionally, Vilsack serves as the first chair of the White House Rural Council. In his role as chair, he is working with the USDA to find new ways to connect the demand for investment in rural areas and the country’s financial community.
The University was
established with the land-grant mission in mind after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act in 1862. Colleges founded through the Morrill Act were to emphasize the study of agriculture, mechanic arts and military studies.
The University has since expanded its horizons but still places a large emphasis on agriculture. ACES con-ducts research on animals, crops, energy, the environ-ment and communities.
The lecture will be held in the ballroom of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center at 12:30 p.m. Lecture attend-ees will have the opportuni-ty to ask Vilsack questions and there will be a recep-tion following the lecture. Attendance is free and open to the public, howev-er attendees are asked to register through the Uni-versity’s website.
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US Secretary of Agriculture to visit UI
The enrollment numbers were recorded after Fri-day, the tenth day of class-es for University students. According to the release, “10-day figures are the traditional benchmark for enrollment data among U.S. colleges and universities.”
The reported numbers only include students enrolled in classes on the Urbana, Springfield or Chi-cago campuses. University officials expect total enroll-ment to reach 79,000 stu-dents — a record high for the University — once all
online, graduate and pro-fessional students are accounted for.
According to the release, the University has increased need-based insti-tutional financial aid to $84 million annually.
In January the Board of Trustees voted to freeze tuition for instate mem-bers of the current fresh-men class. The base tuition rate for Illinois residents expected to graduate in 2019 is $12,036 per year. The freeze was the first in 20 years; previously tuition was increased by 1.7 percent for each incom-ing class. However, base tuition does not change
once students are enrolled at the University.
In the release President Killeen noted the Univer-sity’s efforts toward “con-tinued excellence” despite financial difficulties, while trying to promote access and affordability.
“We are committed to holding down student costs, while maintaining an uncompromising com-mitment to academic excel-lence that continues to attract the best and bright-est students from across our state and around the world,” Killeen said.
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STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR AND PAUL WALSHTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Dr. Walter Palmer, the big-game hunter who set off a global firestorm by killing a beloved African lion with a bow and arrow, returned to work Tuesday morning at his Twin Cities dental practice for the first time in six weeks and was greet-ed outside by a few protest-ers and many members of the news media.
Palmer’s revelation Sunday night that he was resuming practice at his Bloomington, Minn., office set protesters scrambling to make their presence known to the veteran hunter who has been under intense scrutiny since he killed Cecil, a much-beloved lion in Zimbabwe, this summer.
With a modest police presence nearby, Palm-er, 55, parked across the street at a gas station and strode toward his office as his adversaries and news media converged.
Dressed in a black polo shirt and dark pants, Palmer smiled, said noth-ing and entered the River Bluff Dental building as a private security man held the front door for him. A bit later, security escorted the day’s first patient back to his vehicle.
Palmer has been away from his practice and in something just short of hiding since late July, when a London newspa-per revealed that the Eden Prairie, Minn., husband and father killed Cecil in what authorities have alleged
was an illegal hunt a few weeks earlier with a guide and another local in his party.
A neighbor argued with protesters Tuesday morn-ing that it’s time to leave Palmer alone.
“They want the guy dead; they want his business dead,” Stephanie Michae-lis said to the dentist’s assembled critics. “They want him extradited and hung. I’ve seen the signs; I’ve seen the rhetoric. I’m tired of it. … What do we have to do with a lion in Africa?”
Protester Brenda Spen-cer countered that it was Palmer “who created the firestorm. Palmer and other trophy hunters have called themselves conservation-ists, which is far from the truth. ... The world’s eyes are watching.”
Cathy Pierce brought her 3-year-old Alaskan mala-mute, Shanook, along, explaining that she was there “to stick up for ani-mals that can’t stick up for themselves. We need more people to realize our ani-mals are going extinct ... If I was a patient of his, I would be gone.”
Police had said Sun-day night that they had no plans for officers to pay any special attention to Palmer’s River Bluff Den-tal office, however a small police presence was there as employees, protesters, news reporters and day-break and then Palmer arrived. The department has been maintaining an outside surveillance cam-
era in the area.“Hopefully, this will
die out and we can move on,” Deputy Police Chief Mike Hartley said Tues-day morning. “We had to shut down Rhode Island to accommodate the media trucks.
Hartley had little trou-ble determining that there
were 10 protesters on hand as of 8 a.m., one with a bull-horn and other with signs. A few paper strips about the size of fortune cookie mes-sages were attached earli-er to the office’s front door with expressions of displea-sure over Palmer and his actions as an accomplished and veteran trophy hunter.
Palmer broke his silence Sunday evening in an inter-view with the Star Tribune and the Associated Press, reiterating that he carried out a legal hunt and that it was time for him to get back to work and resume his life as normally as possible.
Palmer has not been
charged with a crime, although officials in Zim-babwe want him extradited. The two who were with him have been charged with helping Palmer take down the 13-year-old lion, whose majestic black mane made him a favorite of tourists who traveled from around the world to see him.
about faculty development, which involves becoming better educators.
According to the Office of Sponsored Programs’ web site, Tufte’s position was
created to assist faculty in the arts, humanities and social sciences for the col-leges of the LAS, FAA, Law and Media. Tufte assists faculty in creating propos-als, among other tasks, to help faculty members pur-sue external funding.
Nancy Abelmann, asso-
ciate vice chancellor for research and Maria Gil-lombardo, external fund-ing coordinator, were also in attendance. The two discussed how to identi-fy external funders and proposals.
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GLEN STUBBE TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEProtesters heckle one of Walter Palmer’s patients, Thomas Dressel, right, who paused to speak to the media Tuesday in Bloomington, Minn.
Kentucky clerk leaves jail
Smiling dentist Walter Palmer returns to work
BILL ESTEP AND JACK BRAMMERTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis emerged from the Carter County jail Tues-day afternoon surrounded by Republican presiden-tial candidate Mike Huck-abee and her attorney, who vowed that Davis would continue her stand against same-sex marriage.
“She will not violate her conscience,” said Mat Stav-er, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a non-profit litigation firm that represents Davis.
U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning issued an order releasing Davis from cus-tody early Tuesday after-noon, five days after he jailed her for refusing to issue marriage licenses.
Bunning took the action after attorneys for same-sex couples who had been refused licenses by Davis reported to the judge that a deputy clerk had issued licenses to three couples involved in the complaint. However, Bunning also instructed Davis not to interfere, directly or indi-rectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue licenses.
If she does, it will vio-late his order, and he will consider sanctions, Bun-ning said.
Bunning also ordered attorneys for the five dep-uty clerks who agreed to issue licenses to send him a report every 14 days on how they have complied. He did not say when that reporting would end.
Bunning’s order came shortly before a rally Tues-day afternoon at the Cart-er County jail in Grayson, where Davis has been held since last Thursday.
Bunning jailed Davis for contempt Thursday after she refused to comply with his order to begin issuing marriage licenses.
Randy Smith, an evange-list from Morehead, said supporters of Davis were excited by the news of her release.
“They are absolutely elated,” he said.
Smith said he believed Bunning’s decision to release Davis was moti-vated by a desire to ease the pressure on some Democratic politicians — Gov. Steve Beshear; his son Andy, who is running for attorney general; and Attorney General Jack Con-way, who is the Democratic nominee for governor.
Davis and her supporters have called on the governor to convene a special ses-sion of the Kentucky Gen-eral Assembly to rewrite the state’s marriage laws.
Beshear told reporters in Lexington on Tuesday afternoon that he is “glad” Davis is out of jail and said he does not think her reli-gious liberties ever were challenged.
“I took no joy at all in the fact that the clerk was in custody but that was a mat-ter between the judge and the clerk,” Beshear said after addressing an envi-ronmental conference.
Beshear said he did not see Davis’ religious free-doms ever being “trampled upon.”
“You had a public official who voluntarily ran for election to that office, was paid $80,000 a year and statutes set out her duties,” said the Democratic gov-ernor. “She then decided to pick out the duties she would perform and not per-form some of the others.”
Davis stopped issuing marriage licenses to any couple, gay or straight, after the Supreme Court ruled in June that same-sex couples have a legal right to marry.
She has said same-sex marriage conflicts with her religious beliefs and that she could not issue a license under her name to a same-sex couple.
A deputy clerk in Davis’ office began issuing mar-riage licenses the day after Bunning sent Davis to jail.
Beshear said state law-makers will likely recon-sider the state’s marriage laws during the 2016 Gen-eral Assembly that begins in January.
But he said he would nev-er call a special legislative session on the issue “when we had 117 of 120 clerks complying with the law.” Beshear’s term as gover-nor ends in December.
Asked if he would sign an executive order to change the licensing pro-cess, Beshear said “we can make some changes in the forms but I can’t change state law that says coun-ty clerks issue marriage licenses.”
Martin Cothran, spokes-man for The Family Foun-dation, said the release of Davis does not change the ongoing threat to religious freedom.
“There is no indication that the next person who exercises his or her First Amendment right to free religious exercise will not be thrown in jail, too,” Cothran said.
Cothran called for strengthening Kentucky’s religious freedom protec-tions. “We need to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” he said.
PABLO ALCALA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEKim Davis, center, and husband Joe Davis are greeted by relatives, including Kim’s mother Jean Bailey, left, outside the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson, Ky., on Tuesday.
make it easier for people to take out loans and not have to repay them at such
ridiculously high inter-est rates, but I don’t think she’s getting to the whole point,” Smith said. “Pub-lic schools should not be something that we have to pay for out of pocket, but it
should be something that is provided to us just like it is in Europe, just like it is in the Scandinavian coun-tries. Like a public good.”
CLINTONFROM 1A
“With the Secretary’s advice and guidance, the College of ACES
will continue to focus on the food system.”
ROBERT HAUSERCOLLEGE OF ACES DEAN
OPINIONS4AWEDNESDAY
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.
For the month of Septem-ber, the Illini Union Art Gallery is showcasing
a photo exhibition by San-dra Steinbrecher titled “The Education Project.” The exhibit portrays vis-ceral scenes from Mar-shall, Fenger and Harper High Schools in Chicago and shows students and educa-tors striving to achieve a quality education.
Violence is a compelling, prevalent theme in the exhi-bition. Indeed, one of Stein-brecher’s pieces captures a moment as an adminis-trator goes on a home visit for a student killed by gun violence.
The photos that detail out-of-school peace rallies, pro-tests against violence and scenes of poverty remind the audience that the inequal-ity of schooling unfortunate-ly results from more than just the actual quality of a school.
Certainly, there are more factors than the schools alone that produce college-readiness ratings. These circumstances may include home life, community expec-tations, fi nancial fl exibility etc., but it would be foolish to assume that the education system itself assumes none of the responsibility.
We need to start caring, much more potently than we now do, about the American education system.
Because also apparent in Steinbrecher’s collection is the talent and vivacity pres-ent in so many of the stu-dents, as shown in the pho-tos of the gospel choir or graduation.
Steinbrecher has curat-ed an exhibit that makes it tremendously diffi cult
for its audience to deny the importance of education. She seems to believe in edu-cation as a social justice apparatus.
“Public education is one of the main foundations of our democratic society,” Stein-brecher said. “It’s one of the great equalizers. If you don’t have good public schools for everyone, you don’t have equal opportunities. It’s very hard to ignore the impor-tance of public education.”
My perception of a demo-cratic society is a structure in which all citizens have a weighted voice. But without quality education, citizens cannot be expected to know where to direct their voices or with what to take issue.
For our nation to continue on with a consciousness sug-gesting that all citizens are equal, we simply must alter our education system.
Complaints regarding the unequal state of edu-cation are rather old-hat. Indeed, calls for a more equitable system are woven into many 18th-century writings, including Mary Wollstonecraft’s.
It is thus perplexing that we continue to enforce a drastically unequal educa-tion system as much as three centuries later.
Many participants in Steinbrecher’s exhibit echo that concern; her project also involved the interview-ing and photographing of infl uential personalities in education.
Current Secretary of Education Arne Duncan claimed, “I’m convinced the fi ght for quality education is the civil rights issue of our generation,” when inter-viewed for Steinbrecher’s project.
It indisputably is an issue with immense micro-effects on students as well as mac-ro-effects for our country. A good education can be piv-
otal in an individual’s life, and an exceptional national education system will almost defi nitely produce a more balanced and knowledgeable society.
We know that social and economic mobility is inti-mately tied to educational attainment. National median annual earnings for full-time workers is approximately $50,000 for those with bach-elor degrees and $30,000 for those who only complete high school. For those with-out a GED, the median earn-ings is only about $25,000.
And yet, the education sys-tem is quite disparate in that regard. It is estimated that just two percent of Harp-er High School students are ready for the rigor of a col-legiate curriculum. Compare that with Deerfi eld High School, also in Illinois but in a more affl uent suburb, that has 91 percent of students who are estimated to be pre-pared for college.
There’s simply something misguided about a system that produces such skewed performance statistics based on where one attends high school.
Equal education would make for a better informed
general public, a likely less prejudiced society, a more equitable distribution of wealth, etc.
We must therefore ear-nestly meet the challenge to improve our education system.
We have to fi x the educa-tion funding formula. For even if external issues affect school performance, at the least, we can still control and attempt to equalize edu-cation within the walls of a classroom. We must also alter the societal mindset regarding what a teacher really is; a student who aims to become a concert violin-ist cannot secure a degree in music education as a back-up, guaranteed form of employment.
This is why projects like Steinbrecher’s are so criti-cal; they encourage their audiences to prioritize edu-cation as one of the most crucial issues of today.
If our education sys-tem were to be truly made equitable, there is no doubt that we should also see an increase in social and eco-nomic equality in the nation.
Alex is a senior in [email protected]
Education awareness affects everyone
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EDITORIALDon’t blow smoke;
enforce smoking ban
T he University became a smoke-free campus in Jan-uary of 2014 — but that’s not something you’d know if you walked around cam-
pus. Despite the fact that we call our-selves “smoke-free,” cigarette smok-ing on campus is near-ubiquitous, even though it isn’t as prevalent of an issue as before the ban.
This campus still seems far from free of smoke — the repercussions of which are felt by everyone on cam-pus (and their lungs).
If you’re going to do something, do it all the way. The University has dap-pled with different tactics, such as implementing signs and culture cam-paigns to change the usage on cam-pus. But none of this has been en-forced, which students recognize. The result is a smoke-free campus, essentially in name only.
Finally, after more than a year and a half of half-hearted attempts, the University has set specifi c punish-ments for smoking on campus, which were released in a campus-wide email Tuesday.
Under the new regulations, when someone is caught smoking on cam-pus, they will receive a written warn-ing. After that initial warning, the person smoking will be fi ned by in-crements of $25 for each violation. By the fourth warning, the fi ne in-creases to $100 per violation.
The Daily Illini Editorial Board has always stood in support of the smok-ing ban, a needed ban to make our campus healthier. However, enforce-ment has always been lacking.
This is partially understandable; because of our nonconsecutive cam-pus, many people still struggle with recognizing where smoking is banned, and where smokers can “ex-ercise” (and kill) their carcinogen-lined lungs.
We understand the obvious struggle enforcing a smoking ban when the campus lines can be so convoluted, but it’s still crucial for the University to understand that being a nonconsec-utive campus is not an excuse for the smoke-free program to fail. Hope-fully, these new regulations will be strictly enforced and prove the smok-ing ban effective once and for all.
While we appreciate the effort put forth by the University to increase the program’s success, we need to merge practicality and effective-ness. Calling a police offi cer when-ever someone is smoking is unneces-sary; having constant police patrols on campus property is frivolous.
We need the smoking ban to work to ensure the health and safety of stu-dents and faculty, and while these regulations are a step in the right di-rection, we are still left with ques-tions that need to be answered.
Mindy Kaling and Umami Burger teamed up to create The Mindy
Burger to bene! t the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. If you
were going to have a food named after you what would it be and
why?
"I just want to own a pizza place where every pizza is named for a romantic comedy. I would call it
'You've Got Pizza,' and it would be amazing."
"Silich Spinach Casserole, mostly because it rhymes but also because I need to get in shape and I'm too narcissistic to not eat a meal named after
me all the time."
"Quinoa. The way it is spelled and pronounced makes no
sense to me, so it could use a new name."
"While ‘Kaanan Fries’ don't necessarily have a great ring to them, I don't think I could have any other food named after me,
especially since 95% of my diet is primarily McDonald's large fries."
Yesterday, the New York Times released an article titled: “Is
College Tuition Really Too High?” What do you think about this question, and what’s your
answer?
"I think it's ridiculous someone could ever ask that question. College is
almost unattainable, and it needs to be taken care of."
"Philosophically, I feel like education is something that
should be much more readily available and cheaper than it is. It’s diffi cult to provide a plan to make it less expensive though."
"YES. Is that even a question?!"
"Is college tuition really too high? I don't know, let's ask my mountain
of student loans and piles of looming debt."
This campus has been smoke-free since January 2013. Would
you say we are actually a smoke-free campus?
"It's hard because we're not a continuous campus, but I would defi nitely say there is so much smoking on campus that it's hard
for me to see it as 'smoke free.'"
"It's diffi cult to watch University workers walk 20 feet ‘off campus’ to smoke cigarettes and believe
our campus is smoke-free. Public smoking has decreased, but there's really no enforcement of the policy,
and I still see it too often for my liking."
"Underage drinking is illegal on campus too, but let's be
real here..."
"Since someone could walk two blocks north of my apartment and not be fi ned for smoking, I would
say, no, we are not actually a smoke free campus. I'd like it to
be more strictly enforced!"
PHOTO COURTESY OF SANDRA STEINBRECHERFenger High School students visit the US Capitol. Photo from The Education Project Photo Exhibition by Sandra Steinbrecher being featured at the Illini Union Art Gallery in September.
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55 Irish runner Coghlan
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20 Nixon adviser Nofziger
21 “Now I get it!”
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24 Parlous
26 “Are you satisfied now?”
27 Sweetie
31 Possessive on a Chinese menu
32 Relationship with unrequited love, in modern slang
33 Classic record label
34 Some kitchen pads
35 Jazz’s Beiderbecke
36 Stammering
38 Cornel who wrote “Race Matters”
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41 Thrown (over)
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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Monday nights are reserved for practicing foil; Tuesdays are for saber; Wednesdays are for épée; Thursdays are called “Fencing Illini” nights where actual practice matches are conducted; and Fridays are open fencing. On Oct. 3 and 4, the team will compete at Ohio State Uni-versity, and on Oct. 17, the team will travel to Bradley University. From these com-petitions, the team moves on to the United States Fencing Association competitions in hopes of getting ranked.
“There are no tryouts,” Wallace said. “We encour-age members to go to classes (offered through the club). Fencing is a lot of fun, and it’s great exercise. We all
have a good time.” Ted Culbertson, saber
captain and junior in Engi-neering, has been fencing for seven years, starting in middle school and continu-ing into high school.
“It’s a unique opportunity because it’s a fringe sport,” Culbertson said. “We get close.”
When they aren’t in prac-tice or preparing for com-petitions, the team holds bonding events, such as ice cream crawls.
For Jack Nelson , fresh-man in Engineering, the RSO could allow him to con-tinue an activity he’s been a part of since high school.
“It’s good to meet new people. I’m hoping to get a lot of time practicing and competing,” Nelson said. “It’s always exciting.”
Nelson is particularly
looking forward to the close bonds that the team forms.
“The energy when the whole team is cheering you on is different from all the other sports I’ve ever done,” he said. “It’s often your teammates who make you better.”
Katie Bora, senior in LAS, is unlike most of the other members of the Fencing Illini. Bora had no fencing experiences prior to seek-ing out the RSO on Quad Day her freshman year.
“I wanted to try some-thing new. The people are amazing and it’s good for your health. It makes you think and works out your body. You feel really good about yourself after,” she said.
FENCINGFROM 6A
KB: I think you have to do a little bit more pre-pro-duction work. You have to know exactly how you want it to be. You can’t really do as much deep editing as you can when you’re work-ing on a computer, so you kind of have to map it all out beforehand. On top of that, you really have to have your chops together. You have to be able to play really well because you can’t really hide behind anything. You can’t hide behind auto-tune and plug-ins and drum replacement. You actually have to play everything, and in that sense it’s really thrilling to just be in a room with your crew and work it all out together and make it all together. It’s way more communal and immediate. We recorded and mixed the record in three weeks and we were all living together in west Texas at this des-
ert studio. The whole expe-rience was really fantas-tic because just waking up together, going to the stu-dio, working all day, work-ing all night, hanging out all day and night together and then going to bed for a couple hours, waking up and doing it again every day – it was almost like a boot camp or something. At the end of it, everyone felt a little bit drained, but also really hap-py with the experience. It was a bonding experience, a really beautiful experience.
DI: Will the setlist be pri-marily from the new album?
KB: We’re definitely going to be drawing from the last seven or so records, and also probably some newer stuff, like unreleased stuff. So it’ll be a pretty eclectic mix.”
DI: Are you working on a new album?
KB: We are, yeah. We have pretty much all the songs written, and we’re just chip-ping away at the recording.
We have almost everything started, and we’re working in my home studio this time, so we can take our time. We don’t have crazy deadlines or anything. The goal is to fin-ish the record by the end of the year.
DI: Will the ‘70s-funk inspiration for the album be included in your live show?
KB: Oh yeah, definitely. I think the funk will definitely be in attendance. It’s going to be a fun tour. Now that I’ve sort of gotten past the dark-ness of the last year or so, I feel much happier and much lighter. I think the perfor-mance should be a lot of fun. I’m excited because I don’t know if you’ve seen one of our shows before, but we a pretty interesting visual side to the performance. We have performance artists and real-ly transportive, hallucinogen-ic visuals. That and the cos-tume changes and that stuff make a fun, theatrical event.
OF MONTREALFROM 6A
BY MEREDITH BLAKETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK — When Ste-phen Colbert took the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater on Tuesday night as the new host of “Late Show,” it brought to a close an extended period of transition in broadcast late night that began with the announcement of Jay Leno’s retirement more than two years ago. But it also opened up a new front in the decades-long battle for supremacy in a format that has undergone changes more fundamen-tal than the names on the marquee.
Colbert has moved from the comfortable niche of cable television, where he spent nine years hosting Comedy Central’s satirical “The Colbert Report,” to CBS, the most-watched and arguably most traditional of the legacy broadcasters. His devoted fans — members of the so-called Colbert Nation — and his detractors are won-dering whether his surrealist brand of humor and political point of view will translate to a more mainstream platform.
He also entered a late-night landscape that would have been virtually unrec-ognizable a decade ago; You-Tube views are nearly as important as Nielsen ratings, and audiences face an ever-increasing array of options from cable networks and streaming outlets.
It remains to be seen whether Colbert can catch up with Jimmy Fallon, who has established himself as the ratings leader in just 18 months as host of “The Tonight Show,” or Jim-my Kimmel, a master of viral pranks. But Colbert, who racked up six Emmy Awards while at “The Col-bert Report,” has the chops, say late-night veterans.
“His ability to interview guests, his intellect and his likability — it’s a rare com-bination,” said Jon Macks, a longtime writer for “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”
At “The Colbert Report,” a spinoff of “The Daily Show,” the comedian mixed political satire with Andy Kaufman-esque performance art. In character as a buffoonish blowhard, he testified before Congress, formed his own super PAC and even ran for president — twice.
It’s already apparent that Colbert will inject a strong political perspective into late-night television just as the 2016 campaign is swing-ing into high gear, says Penn State professor Sophia A. McClennen, author of “Col-bert’s America: Satire and Democracy.”
“Colbert’s no longer in character, but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be sat-ire. It’s clear that he’s dying to get back into that.”
McClennen points to vid-eos released online this sum-mer, in which Colbert glee-fully mocked reality star turned Republican candidate Donald Trump and cheered the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage. At the Television Critics Associa-tion press tour in August, Col-bert told reporters that his “Late Show,” which shares much of its writing and pro-ducing staff with “The Col-bert Report,” would likely skew more political than its rivals.
“It’s combed into our DNA after the last 10 years,” he said.
Dick Cavett, whose ABC talk show was a destination for political conversation during the Watergate era, said, “The Colbert wit will be extremely welcome dur-ing the election.”
Indeed, Colbert would seem to have the edge over Fallon and Kimmel when it comes to campaign coverage. And he knows it, judging by the politicians and Washing-ton, D.C., figures he’s booked for his first two weeks on air: GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, Vice President (and potential presidential candi-date) Joe Biden and Demo-cratic insurgent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Other announced guests, such as U.N. Secretary-Gen-eral Ban Ki-moon, author Stephen King, and Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, reflect Colbert’s omnivorous curiosity and wide range of interests. With a background in improv — he studied at Chicago’s famed Second City — the 51-year-old host is unusually quick on his feet.
“He’s obviously very intel-ligent, which gives him a leg up on most of these guys,” said Robert Morton, a former executive producer for David Letterman at “Late Night” and “Late Show.” He com-pared Colbert to Jack Paar, the “Tonight Show” host who interviewed the likes of Albert Schweitzer, Robert F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro.
Colbert’s eclectic taste will help distinguish him from Fallon, whose fun house of a show skews toward light-hearted musical sketch-es and parlor games rather than topical humor or prob-ing conversation.
But there’s also a danger in being too highbrow — the equivalent of “Charlie Rose” with more laughs — especial-ly given that his rivals have had a long time to establish themselves creatively and to find an audience.
Fallon started as host of “Late Night” in 2009 and has largely kept his show intact since moving to 11:30 p.m. in February 2014. He’s retained Leno’s long-held ratings lead, reeling in an average of 3.5
million viewers a night this season, according to Nielsen, while infusing “Tonight” with a boyish exuberance that’s attracted more of the under-50 viewers prized by advertisers.
“He has created the per-fect ‘Tonight Show’ for this generation and the times,” said Macks, author of the book “Monologue: What Makes America Laugh Before Bed.”
Fallon also has an invis-ible weapon in the form of executive producer Lorne Michaels, whose powerful fiefdom at NBC — he also pre-sides over “Saturday Night Live” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” — might com-pel talent to opt for “Tonight” over “Late Show.”
Fallon and Colbert may be friendly, having visited each other’s shows many times, but NBC is still doing every-thing it can to draw attention away from CBS’ new late-night star. In a major coup, “Tonight” has booked Trump for Friday night, marking the Republican front-runner’s first visit to a late-night show since announcing his presi-dential bid in June.
Though he’s had 12 years to establish himself at ABC, Kimmel, whose show is based in Los Angeles, may have more reason to be nervous about Colbert’s arrival on broadcast. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” trails Fallon by about a million viewers a night, according to Nielsen.
But the ABC host also understands how to light up the Internet — the place where an increasing share of viewers catch up on late-night TV. Videos of children melting down after their par-ents pretend to have eaten all the Halloween candy are an annual favorite, with the clips reliably racking up 50 million views on YouTube.
“It’s not necessarily about those 3 million people watch-ing, it’s more about the 48 million that are going to see it virally,” said Morton.
In that sense, Colbert isn’t just competing against Fal-lon or Kimmel or other shows that air between 11:30 and midnight, like “Conan” or “The Nightly Show.” The rise of nonlinear consumption means he’s also vying against “Late Night With Seth Mey-ers,” his lead-out “The Late Late Show With James Cor-den” and even online talk-ers such as “Between Two Ferns” and Chelsea Han-dler’s upcoming show for Netflix.
Still, Colbert is no doubt felt some nerves during his debut — and that’s not nec-essarily a bad thing. As he said in his Television Critics Association appearance last month, “If you are not a little nervous, you are probably not trying hard enough.”
Late-night TV wars heat up with Colbert’s debut
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The Fencing Illini divide up into three sections: foil, épée and saber. In a full facial mask and heavy, white clothing, the team strikes at each other’s masks, gloved hands and torsos. When a member makes contact with their teammate’s body, a red light on a score board goes off.
While the team normally keeps score during a game, practice combines both the sport and team bonding.
Maddie Wallace, sophomore in FAA and president of the Regis-tered Student Organization, leads her team in these pre-practice workout drills.
“It’s the second-safest sport in the Olympics, after badminton,” Wallace said.
These warm-up drills include moves like high knees and butt kicks. While the team runs around one of the gyms in The Point Fenc-ing Club, located at 500 N. Wal-nut St. in Champaign , light pop music plays, such as Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space.” After warm-ups, it’s time to get into uniform.
In each of the three events in
fencing — épée, foil and saber — each event has different rules and uniforms. Foil’s sword bends eas-ily. The saber sword is bigger and is made for slashing one’s oppo-nents. And épée’s sword is the biggest out of them all. While the usage of metal swords might seem daunting to some unfamiliar to the sport, not one of the members of the Fencing Illini are intimidated by them.
Wallace, who is from around the Champaign area, got into fencing when she was in junior high.
“I didn’t like other sports my junior high had,” she said. “I knew Champaign had a fencing club and wanted to try it.”
She then took time off from the sport during high school, but she missed it so much that she joined the Fencing Illini her freshman year. This year, she became the president.
While the team is relatively small in size — around 15 mem-bers — they are all dedicated to the sport. Practice starts at 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and goes until around 10 p.m. each night.
BY LILLIAN BARKLEYSTAFF WRITER
hirteen is well-known as a cursed number, and on of Montreal’s “Aure-ate Gloom” — their thirteenth full-length album in 18 years - the darker aspects of life
are expressed and examined. Of Mon-treal will perform with Surface to Air Missive at The Highdive on Wednes-day at 7 p.m. as part of the Pygmalion Show Series.
Seth Hubbard, Polyvinyl’s label manager, has worked with of Mon-treal since they signed to the Cham-paign-based label in 2004.
“Be prepared for anything. It’s not going to be your standard rock show, whatever it is,” Hubbard said about the show. “It won’t just be a bunch of dudes playing their songs in street clothes.”
The Daily Illini had the chance to talk to lead singer and songwrit-er Kevin Barnes about inspirations, emotions and the ‘70s-funk scene.
Daily Illini: How have you contin-
ued to fi nd inspiration for your work?Kevin Barnes: I don’t know exactly.
I mean, really I’m just always looking for new things to explore and new ter-ritories to push the band into. I don’t really have a formula or anything like that. I fi nd music infi nitely chal-lenging and fulfi lling and exciting, so there’s always something new to do or some new twist I can try to put on it.
DI: Does adding new infl uences to your music help you stay creative?
KB: I think if there’s something that is consistent throughout, it’s something that exists at the core of my being. It’s like something that I wouldn’t even be able to remove. I think that I often try to kind of defy my own perception of myself, or of my creative self. I always try to become a different person. I want each record to feel like it was made by a different band. That’s another way that sort of helps me approach it with a fresh outlook each time, so I’m not carry-ing the weight of all the other records with me. I sort of abandon them and move on to a new project, start fresh each time.
DI: What was your inspiration for adding a 70s-funk sound to “Aureate Gloom”?
KB: I think it was just the stuff that I was listening to and wanting to make something that felt as cool to me as the things I was listening to. I mean really a lot of the stuff I was excited about at that time was some fairly conven-tional stuff, like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, King Crimson. Sort of the early stages of (progressive rock) and metal, before it became too virtuosic and too ridiculous, but it still has some mystery to it. I’m more of a mid-peri-od Zeppelin fan. The early stuff, when it’s just straight blues, can be a bit tedious, but the riffs are always great. So I think I wanted to make something that had some pretty heavy riffs. Not too derivative of anything, but just kind of cool, badass rock, but then jux-tapose that with more personal lyrics, more confessional lyrics, in a way that rock ‘n’ roll normally doesn’t have that level of intimacy to it. A lot of times it’s just kind of like “let’s party; let’s go crazy; blah, blah, blah.”
DI: Is there a reason why “Aureate
Gloom” is much more frank and emo-tional than previous records?
KB: All the records have been kind of personal, but this one in particular I think I used as a form of therapy, like I do often if I’m going through a diffi cult time period, to escape into music and put all that madness and confusion and anxiety and sadness and passion or whatever into the music and the songwriting. It’s sort of a protective bubble to exist in and analyze things and maybe get some kind of new perspective on things. If you went to see a therapist, maybe they’d help you do that, but I’ve never been able to fi nd a good therapist, so I’ve had to become my own therapist in that sense.”
DI: How did recording straight to tape affect the album?
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FENCING ILLINIThe Fighting Illini compete at a competition at Purdue University. The RSO has participated in fencing competitions across the country.
Fencing club’s bond cannot be foiled
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PHOTO COURTESY OF CHAD KAMENSHINEKevin Barnes, 41, is the lead singer and songwriter for of Montreal. The bandl will perform at The Highdive on Wednesday as part of the Pygmalion Show Series.
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BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF 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.
W es Lunt sat in his pads at his lock-er. He waited an hour. Then, he walked around
another hour. As the rain fell and strike after strike of lightening lit the night sky, all Lunt could think was “not again.”
But unlike last year’s rain delay against Texas State that lasted just under two hours, scheduling and Moth-er Nature had a different idea in mind for Kent State: The game was called for the night and postponed until the fol-lowing afternoon.
The starting quarterback returned to the hotel with the team. There he struggled to fall asleep, staying awake past midnight, high on the adrenaline from the pros-pect of a season opener and a walk through the newly add-ed Grange Grove.
When Lunt fi nally got on the fi eld the following day, he went 11-for-19 with 162 yards and four touchdowns, each to a different receiver. Lunt tied his single-game best as an Illini with those four touchdowns — he achieved that feat in last year’s season opener against Youngstown State.
These numbers were not even for the entire game: Lunt was taken out with about six minutes left in the third quarter in favor of giving redshirt freshman Chayce Crouch an opportunity in the pocket.
Though he gave an excit-ing opening performance, Lunt still thought he could do better. His biggest self criticisms were wanting to improve upon his accuracy and timing while also want-ing to work with the offen-sive line on getting set fast-
er. However, Lunt was proud of the work he and his team-mates put in the fi rst game.
“Watching the fi lm, I felt I moved away from pressure just slightly when I needed to, but there wasn’t much pressure,” Lunt said. “The line did a great job. Over-all the hard work has paid off so far.”
Coaches were also impressed.
“(He’s) understanding exactly what he’s doing out there and getting rid of the football quicker,” head coach Bill Cubit said. “It really looked like he just has a great command, and the communication between him and Ryan (Cubit) was outstanding.”
That relationship has since developed more as Ryan Cubit took over the quar-
terbacks in April. Lunt has learned to work with both Cubits and has appreciated the different aspects of their
coaching styles.“Ryan’s a lot more calm, I’d
say,” Lunt said. “He’s a pretty even-keeled guy, he doesn’t really get too high or too low, which is really nice. But Coach Cubit always brings intensity and you feed off that. I like to be coached hard, so when I’m not doing something right, I don’t like getting yelled at, I like peo-ple expecting a lot out of me. There’s a lot of similarities, but some differences.”
With his two coaches and a year under his belt, Lunt has come into his own as the starting quarterback posi-
tion and become a leader in his own right.
Giving the younger quar-terbacks advice and improv-
ing on his own pocket pres-ence, Lunt has come a long way since last year’s rain delay against Texas State.
“Wes is at a level right now where the conversations are really advanced,” Ryan Cubit said. “We’re able to talk about little things, little nuances on the other side of the ball that are going on. He can pick things apart, and you can have conversations that are fun as a coach. You can talk about so many other things rather than just the basics of football so he’s in a good posi-tion right now. He’s healthy. If he stays healthy, he’s going to have a tremendous year.”
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BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER
Three weeks before con-ference play, the Illinois vol-leyball team (4-1) has already played two top-25 teams: No. 3 Stanford (3-1) and No. 23 Colorado (2-3).
As a part of the Big Ten/Pac-12 challenge, the Illini traveled to University Park, Pa., to participate in the tournament alongside Big Ten rival No. 1 Penn State (5-0). For middle blocker Katie Stadick, the tourna-ment was an opportunity to test the team and get a taste of a possible NCAA tourna-ment opponents.
“Once Big Ten play starts, you don’t really get to play any other schools,” Stadick said. “It’s a great opportu-nity because the Pac-12 is another tough conference. We could end up playing Stanford at the end of the year, and it’s a great envi-ronment and opportunity.”
While Illinois went 1-1 on the weekend, the Nittany Lions manhandled Stanford and Colorado and are yet to drop a set this season. Illi-nois will get its chance to take down the nation’s top ranked team on Oct. 9 in Huff Hall.Team continues to build rapport with Poulter
Freshman setter Jordyn Poulter continues to stand out — she recorded 52 and 30 assists against Stanford and Colorado, respectively.
Stadick said her connec-tion with Poulter is devel-oping. She felt comfortable with the setter’s passes throughout the weekend, especially against Stanford. Against the Cardinal, Poul-ter assisted on 88 percent of the Illini’s kills.
Outside hitter Jocelynn Birks added that Poulter has a composed demeanor on the court, and the con-nection between them will improve over time.
“We are obviously still fi guring it out,” Birks said. “It has only been a couple of weeks. She also is able to stay calm on the court,
which helps everybody else stay calm.”Birks led team on offense
Birks made her presence felt on the offensive end, leading the team in kills in both weekend matchups. She contributed 16 and 15 kills against Stanford and Colo-rado, respectively.
Head coach Kevin Ham-bly was impressed with her play over the weekend, call-ing her play against Stan-ford some of the best he has seen from her. He also com-mended her leadership off the court for keeping team-mates accountable on their work ethics.
Despite the solid week-end, Birks was still critical of areas of where she and the team need to work on, par-ticularly in closing out close matches.
“I think that especially when we get up on a team, we need to hold on to the lead and not relax,” Birks said. “We have to continue to push rather than letting them back in it, which is what happened in a couple of the sets.”
Illini face nation’s best
Football players fi nd ways to pass time during delayBY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER
Illinois football fans weren’t the only ones strug-gling to fi nd something to do during Friday’s thunder-storm delay.
Wide receiver Geron-imo Allison managed to keep himself busy before the game was fi nally post-poned — after a three-hour delay. Allison put in his headphones and sat at his locker at fi rst, thinking the delay wouldn’t last long. Once his teammates start-ed to take off their pads and cleats and he went outside to check the weather, the wide receiver realized the delay might not end quickly.
Allison ate peanut but-ter and jelly sandwiches, drank fl uids and rode on the bike to make sure his body was ready. He also made sure his teammates were ready. The wide receiver walked around the locker room and threw a football at every player he saw — in his mind, if a player was ready to catch the ball, they would be focused to start a football game.
“I was just messing with people and trying to keep them light and ready,” Alli-son said.
Other players had dif-ferent stories of how they spent the delay but they all spent the night at a hotel after the game was post-poned to Saturday. Cer-tain players were paired with specifi c teammates. Freshman running back Ke’Shawn Vaughn roomed with wide receiver Mike Dudek , a breakout star in his freshman season.
Head coach Bill Cubit and his staff wanted Vaughn — and the team — to stay focused after all the hype that was built around the start of the season.
“The coaches didn’t want us to be distracted,” defen-sive end Jihad Ward said. “We did what we had to do. We stayed in the hotel and did the same thing that we did last night, and we did a hell of a job doing it.”
Illinois’ performance hardly suffered in the school’s first postponed game. The defense forced a three-and-out on the open-ing drive, and the offense scored on its first two drives. Players looked ener-gized right from the begin-ning, like they were playing Friday without any delay.
“There was a lot of adver-sity there, which is good.
Our kids had to go through a lot of changes,” Cubit said. “They kept their focus ... the kids came out and I thought they were ready to play.”Ward returns from injury
Illinois’ coaching staff listed Ward as probable for the season opener against Kent State on Wednesday night — Ward was expect-ed to miss the fi rst two games of the season after having surgery on his knee in the middle of August. Cubit explained Ward’s quick return by calling the defensive end a “physical specimen.”
“It was a surprise to us,” Ward said. “It was my deci-sion whether I wanted to play ... I just had to get a feeling on the fi eld.”
The defensive end played only the fi rst half of Satur-day’s game because Illinois led 38-0 at the half. He had three tackles — two solo and one combined and said he felt 100 percent after the game.
Although Cubit didn’t pay close attention to Ward’s play, he could tell that the
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TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Geronimo Allison catches the ball in the end zone for a touchdown during the game against Kent State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jocelynn Birks spikes the ball during the game versus Louisville at Huff Hall on Aug 28.
Poulter keeps composure, builds rapport
Honorable MentionsMason Monheim (football) - The senior linebacker had one interception and four total tackles against Kent State in the team’s season opener on Saturday.Jordyn Poulter (volleyball) — The freshman setter combined for 82 assists and 12 digs in respective games against Stanford and Colorado over the weekend.
“Wes is at a level right now where
the conversations are really
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senior looked healthy.“He looked as good as
I’ve seen him,” Cubit said. “He looked tough, physical and very fast.”Cubit trying to sell program
Students might be sur-prised at who will be selling football tickets on Green St. on Thursday. Cubit will be at the booth in the middle of the day, after patrolling the Quad last week.
The head coach has made
efforts to reenergize stu-dent’s interest with the team after an offseason of off-the-fi eld chaos. Before Saturday’s game, Cubit had the players line up shoul-der-to-shoulder and raise their helmets to salute the fans who came to the game.
“We just have to keep on being positive, keep on attracting a new fan base and recover the old fan base,” Cubit said. “If we can do that, we’ll be back where everyone wants it to be.”
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Soccer aspires for selective shots, strong defense NOTEBOOK
BY JON JOFFESTAFF WRITER
The Illinois soccer team is returning to campus with a 5-1 record following its West Coast trip this past weekend.
The biggest take away that head coach Janet Ray-fi eld alluded to was her teams’ critical decision making on the attack.
“If you look at the num-ber of shots that we’ve tak-en and the amount of goals we’re scoring, we’re pretty selective,” she said.
Rayfi eld’s intuition has numbers to support it.
Illinois has put 63 shots on goal over its fi rst fi ve games, scoring on fi fteen of those chances.
The mindset is headlined by redshirt senior Jannelle Flaws.
Flaws has repeatedly told reporters that she expects to convert when an oppor-tunity presents itself. That is always her focus, and it seems to have rubbed off on her teammates.
Regardless, Rayfield believes the Illini have room to grow on the offen-sive side.
“We can ask a higher lev-el from ourselves, techni-cally,” Rayfi eld said. “We can connect more pass-es and therefore be more dangerous.”Defense thriving for Illini early on
Illinois has converted on 40 percent of its scoring opportunities this season, but perhaps equally — if not more — impressive is the fl ip side of that statistic.
The Illini have allowed 32 shots on target in their fi rst fi ve games but have only allowed six goals.
That comes out to an 82 percent stoppage rate, with opponents scoring on approximately 18 percent of scoring chances.
Junior defenseman Hope D’Addario, like Flaws on offense, preaches taking advantage of opportunities.
She said she felt that her team let the Washington game – in which they suf-fered their fi rst loss of the season – slip away.
“A 2-1 loss is something where you know you were in that game, and that it could’ve been in your hands, but it wasn’t,” D’Addario said. “We went into Port-land knowing that we want-ed to take the game into our hands right away.”
While the offense has been successful, it all starts on the defensive side of the ball for the Illini.West Coast standouts
Rayfi eld said she was hap-py leaving the team’s West Coast trip with at least one win.
While she acknowledged that the Illini could have played more consistently,
she noted that a few play-ers stood out.
The fi rst is D’Addario.Rayfi eld applauded the
junior for her work in organizing the team’s back line on Friday — covering defenders, getting in the way of shots and blocking ones when necessary.
“I think her mobility on the back line was really critical for us on Friday night, to stay within reach of Washington and put our-selves in position to be in that game late,” Rayfi eld said. “She’s got some young players around her.”
Despite a young sur-rounding, D’Addario uses her experience to guide the underclassman and ensure success.
Rayfield referred to D’Addario as the team’s unsung hero.
The next player that Ray-fi eld singled out was red-shirt junior midfi elder Tay-lore Peterson.
“I think her defensive presence, coming back off of the injury she suffered last year, and having the defensive presence she has in the midfi eld, those are the two that I think had great weekends,” Rayfi eld said.
For good measure, Ray-fi eld also mentioned soph-omore forward Kara Mar-bury for her efforts.
She went as far as to say that there is not a player in Division-I soccer that
defends like Marbury.“From the front to the
back, this team has a defen-
sive grind about them,” Rayfi eld said. “That’s going to help us going forward.”
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BY EMMA MCGOWENSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s cross country team has a long road of meets this season, as always. But besides the events leading up to it, the Illinois runners already have their eyes set on the end of their season confer-ence at the Big Ten Confer-ence Championship meet on Nov. 1. Junior Dylan Lafond said the meet is
special to the Illini because “they do a very good job at running the meet and the atmosphere is always very exciting.”
However, just because it stands out to him doesn’t mean Lafond treats the fi nal conference meet any differently than others. He and his teammates treat every meet with the same goal to succeed.
Senior Ian Barnett and
junior Sean Pengelly both said they believe they will face the most difficult competition at the Big Ten meet.
Last year, the Illini placed sixth in a fi eld of 12, with 159 points at the con-ference meet. Wisconsin, who Lafond believes will be Illinois’ toughest Big Ten competitor, came in fi rst with a total of 47 points.
Though their sights are
set on the end of their sea-son, the Illini had their fi rst race on Sept. 4 at the Uni-versity’s Arboretum. They fi nished fi rst with 15 points in a dual meet with Mizzou, who ended with 50 points.
The next meet the Illi-ni will race in is the Blue-grass Cross Country Invite at Lexington, Ky. on Sept. 12 at 9 a.m. CST.
Illini await Big Ten meeting
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIHope D’Addario sends a pass down fi eld during Friday’s game against TCU.
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2. MICHIGAN STATEQuarterback Connor Cook improved his NFL Draft stock by throwing for 256 yards and two touchdowns against Western Michigan in the Spartans’ 37-24 win.
1. OHIO STATE The defending national champions showed why they deserved to be the unanimous No. 1 team in the nation after defeating Virginia Tech 42-24 on Monday.
3. WISCONSINThe Badgers kept Alabama’s lead to a touchdown at halftime but seemed overmatched against the No. 3 team in the nation. Wisconsin only had 40 rushing yards compared to Alabama’s 238.
5. NEBRASKA The end of the Cornhuskers’ game against BYU was all too familiar. Cougars’ backup quarterback Tanner Mangum’s Hail Mary touchdown pass at the end of the game shocked Nebraska in its 33-28 loss.
6. IOWA The Hawkeyes held a 24-0 lead heading into the fourth quarter of a game where quarterback C. J. Beathard threw for 211 yards and six Iowa rushers combined for 210 yards in Saturday’s 31-14 win over Illinois State.
4. MINNESOTATurnovers proved to be the difference in a close game between Minnesota and No. 2 TCU. Running back Rodrick Williams Jr. had a crucial fumble near the goal line in the Gophers’ 23-17 loss.
9. ILLINOISThe one-day delay to the start of the season didn’t stop the Illini from starting the season strong against Kent State. Quarterback Wes Lunt threw for 162 yards and four touchdowns in the Illini’s 52-3 rout over the Golden Flashes.
14. PURDUEQuarterback Austin Appleby threw four interceptions — two were returned for touchdowns — in Purdue’s loss 41-31 loss to Marshall on Sunday.
8. NORTHWESTERNUnderclassmen stole the show for the Wildcats as freshman quarterback Clayton Thorson threw for 105 yards and ran for 68 while sophomore running back Justin Jackson ran for 138 in Northwestern’s 16-6 win over then-No. 20 Stanford.
10. MARYLANDThe Terrapins scored 37 straight points and William Likely set a Big Ten record with 233 yards in punt returns during Maryland’s 50-21 win over Richmond. Quarterback Perry Hills threw for 138 yards and Brandon Ross ran for 150 yards.
7. MICHIGANJim Harbaugh’s fi rst game as Michigan head coach didn’t live up to the offseason hype. Three interceptions from Jake Rudock — including one at the beginning of the fourth quarter during a one-possession game — hurt the Wolverine’s offense from gaining any momentum in its 24-17 loss to Utah.
12. RUTGERSWide receiver Leonte Carroo caught three touchdowns in the third quarter to set a school record after serving a fi rst-half suspension. The Scarlet Knights defeated Norfolk State 63-13 despite the distractions of an academic investigation involving players on the team.
11. PENN STATELast season’s struggles continued Saturday for the Nittany Lions’ offensive line. Quarterback Christian Hackenberg was sacked 10 times and only threw for 103 yards in Penn State’s 27-10 loss to Temple — the Owls’ fi rst win over the Nittany Lions in 74 years.
13. INDIANAA failed two-point conversion in the fi nal seconds helped the Hoosiers defeat Southern Illinois 48-47. Quarterback Nate Sudfeld threw for 349 yards and Jordan Howard ran for 245 but Indiana’s defense allowed 659 yards.