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INSIDE P o l i c e 2 A | O p i n i o n s 4 A | L e t t e r s 4 A | C r o s s w o r d 5 A | C o m i c s 5 A | L i f e & C u l t u r e 6 A | S p o r t s 1 B | C l a s s i f i e d s 4 B | S u d o k u 4 B
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BY ABIGALE SVOBODASTAFF WRITER
Most University students were between four and eight years old on 9/11, making them too young to vivid-ly remember what is often regarded as the most dev-astating tragedy in recent U.S. history.
However, Sept. 11 still leaves many on campus with heavy hearts each year. In hopes of honoring those lost on 9/11, members of the Illini Republicans will plant 2,977 American flags — one for each life lost — on the Main Quad Friday.
In addition to the flags, Chris Piper, president of Illini Republicans, said the group will still be out on the
Main Quad with an infor-mational table, buttons and posters where people can write their memories of 9/11.
To memorialize and honor those lost on 9/11 in a more positive way, the Universi-ty’s Naval ROTC program organized a 9/11 Commemo-ration Run.
The 2.8 mile run will begin at Fourth and Armory Streets and end at the Illini Union, on the steps facing the Main Quad. The group especially encouraged vet-erans of the police, fire department and military to participate in the run but anyone is welcome. Run-ners will be escorted by two police squad cars and two
fire trucks.Gunnery Sergeant Chris-
topher Nicholson said the run will be a slower, forma-tion-style run during which runners will sing traditional military cadence to honor those who served. Nicholson said the Navy and Marine Corp. ROTC organize the run each year to raise awareness not only for the police, fire and military per-sonnel who gave their lives on 9/11, but also for affected family and friends.
“(9/11) is definitely some-thing we’re still trying to remember,” Nicholson said.
Lieutenant Colonel Chris-topher Leung said although the run is the only event planned to commemorate
9/11 specifically, the various ROTC branches on campus find ways to honor veterans throughout the year.
Leung said he believes people choose their own way to remember the events of 9/11, but the run is a way to recognize victims and those who served in a positive way.
“I think it’s good — any way you can draw attention for people to remember an event like that, which has so much significance to our country and basically led us along the road to sever-al years of fighting,” Leung said. “I think it was a pivot-al moment for our nation.”
DECLAN HARTY THE DAILY ILLINIVisitors gather around the National Sept. 11 Memorial in New York City. The memorial features two twin reflective pools that stand where the World Trade Center’s Towers were.
Running to respect victims of 9/11
More students, fewer programsBY ALI BRABOYASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
The Academic an Stu-dent Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees met Wednesday to discuss increased enrollment, pro-gram elimination and fac-ulty appointments.Increased Enrollment
Christophe Pierre, vice president for academic affairs, said the increased University enrollment and record-size freshman class is “good news.” The increases were announced by the University Tues-day. In Urbana, Chicago and Springfield combined, 76,166 are enrolled in the University. The count does not include all graduate, professional and online stu-dents, and University offi-cials anticipate the number will reach 79,000 once all
students are accounted for, according to a University press release sent Tuesday.
President Timothy Killeen said numbers are good, but faculty should remember this could mean more work.
“We have to do our part, I think, in administration, and I look forward to rec-ognize that those classes need to be managed well,” he said. “And that the over-all student experience does not diminish because of the numbers,” Killeen said.Program Elimination
Seven degree pro-grams may be eliminat-ed on the University cam-pus, Provost Designate Edward Feser announced Wednesday.
Feser also said one pro-
BY ALI BRABOYASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
U.S. Secretary of Educa-tion Arne Duncan is sched-uled to discuss disability resources Wednesday morn-ing during his visit to the University.
Duncan’s visit is part of the sixth annual Back-to-School Bus Tour.
He will discuss the chang-es and challenges in educa-tion while “highlighting the champions of reform — teachers, parents, commu-nity members and others.”
The 2015 tour theme is “Ready for Success” and will consist of 11 stops in seven states. Those on the tour will be honoring people who are increasing access and oppor-tunity for students, accord-ing to the U.S. Department of Education web site.
Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of educational pol-
Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Roosevelt Middle SchoolCedar Rapids,
Iowa
Williamsfield Community Unit School
DistrictWilliamsfield,
Illinois
University of Illinois
Champaign, Illinois
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
Crispus Attucks High School
Indianapolis, Indiana
Jeffersontown High Magnet Career Academy
Louisville, Kentucky
University of LouisvilleLouisville, Kentucky
Cincinnati State Technical and
Community CollegeCincinnati, Ohio
North High School
Des Moines, Iowa
Woodland Early Learning Center
Kansas City, Missouri
SOURCE: U.S Department of Education NATALIE GACEK THE DAILY ILLINI
Back-to-School Bus Tour stopsOn his Back-to-School Bus Tour, U.S. Secretary of Education
Arne Duncan will make 11 stops in seven different states.
Student Senate discusses unmet financial needs
ABIGALE SVOBODANEWS EDITOR
Illinois Student Senate met for the third time of the school year Wednesday but had to delay any resolutions for action.
M a t t Hill, vice president-external, said the s t u d e n t senate did not dis-cuss the scheduled resolutions for action b e c a u s e the sub-c o m m i t -tees have not been able to meet yet. The Internal Affairs com-mittee will meet Sunday to discuss the resolutions for action which include, creat-ing an ad-hoc committee for mental health, creation of the Committee on Housing,
Transportation and Urban Development and support for honoring former basket-ball coach Lou Henson.
Tuition costsIn twelve years, the aver-
age unmet financial need for University students has increased over $5,000, said Mitch Dickey, student body president.
During his announce-ments at the meeting, Dick-
ey said he spoke with Dan Mann, d i r e c -tor of stu-dent finan-cial aid, to talk about t u i t i o n costs and s t u d e n t need.
In 2003, he said the aver-age unmet
need was $3,574. In 2014 the average unmet need was $8,881; that is approximate-ly $108 million of unmet need across the University campus, Dickey said.
LIFE & CULTURE
Strumming in September at EllnoraCelebrate the history of guitars Thursday at Krannert Center for Performing Arts
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OPINIONS
Respect our farming rootsUniversity’s important agricultural history, dedication merits student recognition
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SPORTS
Volleyball at Shocker ClassicIllini ready for opponents during three-day tilt
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SEE ISS | 3A
SEE EDUCATION | 3A
Remem
bering 9/11
Secretary of Education plans visit
“We’re trying to figure out how
we can make the University more cost
effective.”MITCH DICKEY
STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
ISS appoints liason to C-U community
2A Thursday, September 10, 2015 THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM
Champaign■ Armed robbery was
reported Monday in the 400 block of East White Street around 4:45 a.m.
According to the report, the victim was robbed by an unknown male with a knife.
■ Aggravated assault was reported Tuesday around 12 a.m. in the 00 block of East Green Street.
According to the report, the suspect threatened the
victims with a gun. The suspect was located and arrested.
University■ Nothing to report.
Urbana■ Theft from a motor ve-
hicle was reported Tues-day around 7:30 a.m. in the 700 block of West Main Street.
According to the report
the victim left a vehicle toolbox unlocked and an unknown offender stole multiple tools.
■ Theft was reported Tuesday around 10:30 a.m. in the 200 block of East Il-linois Street.
According to the report, the offender was employed by a business and stole money while employed there.
■ Burglary and aggra-vated battery were report-ed Tuesday around 5 p.m.
in the 800 block of East University Avenue.
According to the report, the offender was observed entering the victim’s ga-rage and when he attempt-ed to leave, the victim and his son intervened.
The offender fl ed and then bit the hand and dis-located the thumb of the victim’s son, who was in pursuit of the offender.
Compiled by Jason Chun and Charlotte Collins
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Colleges rethink math students’ needBY KATHERINE LONGTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
SEATTLE — Dena DeY-oung traces her trouble with math back to sixth grade, when a well-intend-ed placement test showed she was smart enough to do advanced work.
And for several years, DeYoung did well. But when she reached high school, math became her worst subject. Lost by the logic, unable to imagine how what she was learn-ing would ever come into play in the real world, her math grades plummeted.
“I just never got it,” DeY-oung said. “I was barely scraping by. It was just a nightmare.”
DeYoung eventually dropped out of her Shore-line school, and while math was not the only reason, it didn’t help. Instead of a high school diploma, the promising student earned a General Educational Development degree, or GED.
More than any other subject, math trips up stu-dents who might otherwise thrive in college, especial-ly those who don’t plan to go into technical careers that require profi ciency with numbers.
Failing the state’s math test keeps hundreds of students from graduating from high school each year, even when they’ve met
every other requirement. Math is the reason why half of Washington’s high school students who enter community college must take remedial classes — which few ever pass, even after years of struggle.
A lot of effort has gone into thinking — and argu-ing — about how best to teach math, hoping to keep it from being such a barri-er to higher education. But the math problem also has caused leaders of Wash-ington’s community col-leges to ask a fundamental question: How much math, and what kind, should be required for a student to earn a college degree?
Their answer, increas-ingly, is that there is no one answer.
Students who are study-ing to become nurses, social workers, early-child-hood educators or carpen-ters may never use inter-mediate algebra, much less calculus. Yet for years, community colleges have used a one-size-fits-all math approach that’s heavy on algebra and preps stu-dents for calculus.
That’s starting to change in a few pioneering schools that are overhauling what math they teach and how they teach it. Some col-leges, for example, have started to offer a math sequence that focuses on statistics, and persuaded
the state’s four-year colleg-es to accept it as a college math credit. Others are offering a learn-at-your-own-pace approach.
These experiments, to date, are small but encour-aging. The word is spread-ing about algebra alter-natives, many of which include the kind of math students are more likely to need, such as probabil-ity and margins of error in opinion polls. Students are fl ocking to such class-es — and they’re passing at much higher rates.
One study found that a statistics-focused class, identical to one offered at Seattle Central College, had triple the success rate when compared with the traditional math sequence, and students fi nished math in half the time.
The vexing issue of students getting stuck in remedial math is not new. It’s long been recognized as a problem, but one with-out a clear solution. Now colleges have models to try.
So far, 14 schools in Washington have made learn-at-your-own-pace math widely available. Statway is offered at anoth-er three.
Seattle Central is one of 19 colleges nationally using Statway, which was developed by the Carnegie Foundation. (The founda-
tion has also developed a program called Quantway that uses math skills to solve real-world problems.)
DeYoung, now 26, enrolled in Seattle Cen-tral’s version of that sequence last year, called Statway, but with the nag-ging concern that she’d soon hit a wall — just like in high school.
But that didn’t happen.“In the fi rst quarter, I
realized there isn’t some-thing wrong with me,” DeYoung said. “I just need-ed a different approach.”
Even some Statway instructors say the class — while important — isn’t really a math class. Seattle Central instructor Bryan Johns, for example, thinks of the course as a logic and communications class because the math involved is so basic.
But it’s clearly helping students get beyond reme-dial math, and on to credit-bearing courses.
The fi rst year Statway was offered at Seattle Cen-tral, 58 percent of students passed the three-class series. By the third year, 84 percent of students passed. By comparison, only between 11 and 15 per-cent of students who need to take remedial classes ever fi nish those courses, and complete one quarter of college math by the end of one year.
BY JESSICA LEETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
SEATTLE — Teachers across Seattle took to the picket lines Wednesday as thousands of parents seek child care options and leaders of Seattle Pub-lic Schools consider legal action to end a strike that’s the first of its kind in 30 years.
Meanwhile, Seattle school officials have can-celed school Thursday, but also said the two sides will return to the bargaining table that day.
Teachers announced their walkout Tuesday eve-ning, just before the Seat-tle School Board voted to authorize the superinten-dent to go to court to try to force them back to work.
Engineering instructor Doug Hartley was among dozens of Cleveland High School employees who cheered for honking cars and waved picket signs say-ing “On Strike!” at South Lucile Street and 15th Ave-nue South on Wednesday morning.
They started marching down the street at 8:25 a.m., with Hartley giving directions and passing out Seattle Education Associa-tion union garb and signs.
“It doesn’t seem like we’re getting much respect from the district. It isn’t about the money or any-thing else; it’s respect,” he said.
Hartley has been a Seat-tle School District employ-ee for more than two decades. And after years of settling for what he called “subpar contracts,” he said teachers aren’t going to “roll over” anymore.
“We’ve been putting up for so much for so long. At some point, it’s the tipping point,” he said. “This isn’t vacation for us. … I don’t know how many weeks or months it’s going to take. I hope it doesn’t last forever.”
Biology teacher Mike Shaw said that by raising compensation for teach-ers the district might low-er its turnover rate. Teach-ers are coming to the area to gain experience, he said,
and then often move to oth-er places where the pay is higher.
“It’s time for teachers to get paid what they are worth,” Shaw said. “It’s time for Seattle schools to say it with money.”
Members of the union that represents about 5,000 Seattle teachers and oth-er school employees voted Thursday to strike if they failed to reach a consen-sus with district officials on contract agreements before school was supposed to start.
District officials and union leaders have said bargaining will continue, even amid the strike.
The two sides have been in contract talks for months. They reached agreement on a number
of issues over the Labor Day weekend, including a guaranteed 30 minutes of recess for elementary stu-dents and increased pay for certified and classified sub-stitute teachers.
Unresolved issues include pay increases and increased instructional time.
The district wants to add 30 minutes to the school day, saying that will increase student achievement and allow more time for physical education, arts and music.
And the district says it has provided raises to teachers over the past several years, even when the state wasn’t providing cost-of-living increases, and said its salary proposal would keep Seattle teach-ers among the highest paid in the state.
A little before noon, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray spoke at Van Asselt Com-munity Center, thanking its staff for scrambling to help cover families’ child care needs.
Murray dipped his hands in wet starch with the kids to shape bouncy balls, jok-ing that the kids, who were at the center for the school day, were better at the task than he was.
The mayor said he was encouraged that both the school district and the teachers’ union were con-tinuing to talk. He said he didn’t intend to get involved in the negotiations, but said that education funding is a “multi-decade crisis” in Washington and said he wasn’t surprised that the teachers voted to strike.
icy, organization and leader-ship, said she plans to attend Duncan’s visit to campus. She said she believes members of the College of Education are excited and interested in what Duncan will share.
Zamani-Gallaher said she’s happy the University is one of the stops on Dun-can’s tour and is curious to hear about the innovative ideas he has about student achievement.
Duncan was nominated to his position by President Barack Obama and approved by the U.S. Senate in Janu-ary 2009. Before serving as secretary of education he was the chief executive officer of the Chicago Pub-lic Schools. During his time with CPS, Duncan focused on raising education standards and improving the quality of teachers in the public school system, according to the White House web site.
Ashley Kahn, president of the Epsilon Delta Profes-sional Teaching Organiza-tion, said she hopes to attend Duncan’s visit. Kahn, senior in education, said she’s pas-sionate about teaching and Illinois’ education system.
Kahn said she hopes Dun-can discusses how teachers in Illinois can help students
be more prepared for col-lege. She is also interested in problems that arise from standardized testing in Illi-nois, specifically for students with disabilities. Kahn said she felt prepared for college after high school, but her experience student teach-ing made her feel that stu-dents from urban areas, simi-lar to the Champaign-Urbana
area, are more likely not to earn high school diplomas and experience violence in school.
She said she hopes to find out how to help more students in cities be successful and want to graduate from high school and eventually gradu-ate from college as well.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talks at a discussion. Duncan will visit the University campus the week of Sept. 14 for the Back-to-School Bus Tour.
gram will be merged with another, and 33 will be fur-ther reviewed. He said the programs will not be elim-inated immediately, and there is no timeline for their elimination. Instead, it will be gradual so students cur-rently enrolled in the pro-grams are able to graduate.
He said the decision to
eliminate the programs was made by different Univer-sity colleges because of a limited number of students in each program. The Board will vote on the proposal at its meeting Thursday in Urbana.
AppointmentsThough they have been
in their roles for at least a week, Interim Chancel-lor Barbara Wilson offi-
cially recommended two new faculty appointments which the board will vote on Thursday.
Wilson recommended Feser to serve as the inter-im vice chancellor for aca-demic affairs and provost. She said the recommen-dation is based on consul-tations with deans, facul-ty and students across the campus.
Wilson also recommend-ed Kathleen Harleman,
director of Krannert Art Museum, as the acting dean of Fine and Applied Arts. Finally, she recommended Bill Cubit to serve as the interim head varsity foot-ball coach.
Athletic Director Mike Thomas said the mood of the team is tremendous, “partly because they have a lot of confidence and appre-ciation for Coach Cubit.”
ACADEMICFROM 1A
Unmet need is any liv-ing or tuition costs that are not met by financial aid or expected family contribu-tion. Dickey said students then have to take out pri-vate loans or find external scholarships to cover their education costs.
Dickey said he will con-tinue to work with Mann and hopes to have him give a presentation to the stu-dent senate about tuition and what financial aid is currently doing.
“We’re trying to figure
out how we can make the University more cost-effec-tive for students and cost less for students,” he said.
Dickey has been active in lowering the cost of educa-tion during his time as stu-dent senate president. He spoke about college afford-ability to an Illinois senate committee on June 16. He also testified before the Illi-nois Senate Committee on Higher Education on May 19 to oppose Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed $16 mil-lion cuts to state funding for Amtrak.
To further combat increased unmet need and the pending University bud-
get issues, Dickey works on the Campus Budget Adviso-ry Task Force, which was initiated by former chan-cellor Phyllis Wise over the summer.
“We’re trying to cut out some things in the budget that are maybe not as ben-eficial as they are costly.”
ISS and C-U collaborationThe student senators
voted on two liaisons to the Champaign and Urbana city councils. Raneem Sham-seldin, sophomore in LAS and Spencer Haydary, soph-omore in LAS were elect-ed. The senators will attend
city council meetings and relay ideas to the council and report city concerns to the student senate.
Sam LeRoy, student sen-ator, said working with the city councils is an oppor-tunity for the Universi-ty to better integrate with members of the community and help make their voices heard too.
“We shouldn’t think of the U of I as ending at Neil Street,” said Mark Glass-gow, senior in LAS and Urbana native. “It’s a whole community.”
ISSFROM 1A
EDUCATIONFROM 1AUI ranks 41 in nation
BY JASON CHUNASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
U.S. News and World Report released its annu-al college rankings Tues-day, ranking the Universi-ty at 41st among all national universities.
“It’s always nice when external organizations rec-ognize our achievements,” said Robin Kaler, campus spokesperson.
She added that the Univer-sity likes to measure its suc-cess based on the success of students and alumni.
The 2015 ranking is a spot higher than the 42nd rank the University received in 2014.
This year, it tied with five other universities: Bos-ton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tulane University, University of Cal-ifornia-Davis and the Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Madison.
According to the report, the rankings are formulat-ed based on first-year stu-dent retention, graduation rates and the strength of the faculty.
Additional methodolo-gy includes “quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of aca-demic quality.”
U.S. News and World Report also notes that the rankings are based on research about what is important in education.
The report includes a sum-mary of the application pro-cess, academic life, student life, campus services, cost and financial aid at each ranked university.
According to the report, the goal of the ranking is to
help prospective students learn more about colleges on their application short-list.
Princeton University topped the list for the third year in a row and Harvard was ranked second. Yale was ranked third and Columbia University, Stanford Uni-versity and the University of Chicago all tied for fourth.
Big Ten RankingsNorthwestern University - 12th
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - 29th
University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and University of Wisconsin-Madison - 41st
Pennsylvania State University-University Park - 47th
The Ohio State University - 52nd
University of Maryland-College Park - 57th
Purdue University - 61st
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities - 69th
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick - 72nd
Indiana University-Bloomington - 75th
Michigan State University - 75th
University of Iowa - 82nd
University of Nebraska-Lincoln - 103rd
U.S NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
NEWS BRIEFSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
ELLEN M. BANNER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEBean Yogi, a post-secondary counselor at Nova High School in Seattle, leads others as they picket in front of their school on Wednesday.
California Assembly approves right-to-die legislation
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Assembly on Wednesday approved a mea-sure that would allow phy-sicians in the state to pre-scribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, send-ing the proposal to the Sen-ate, which had previously approved a similar bill.
Modeled on a law in Ore-gon, the measure by Dem-ocratic Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman sparked an emotional debate, with many Republicans say-ing it is immoral to assist in
a suicide, but with support-ers arguing that terminally ill Californians should have a choice to die peacefully without pain.
“I am committed to this issue of people being able to die on their own terms,” said Eggman, a university professor with expertise in end-of-life care.
The legislation passed by a vote of 42-33 after Assem-bly members offered pas-sionate, often deeply person-al, arguments both in favor and against the bill.
NYC requires chain restaurants to post warnings
NEW YORK — New York became the first U.S. city or state to require chain restau-rants to post a warning on menus when dishes contain high levels of salt.
The Board of Health on Wednesday unanimously approved the rule for food establishments with at least 15 locations nationwide, a group that generates about a third of the city’s restaurant traffic. The rule is intended to reduce high blood pres-sure, which increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes, the Health Depart-ment said.
“High sodium intake is
dangerous,” the Health Department said in a state-ment. “With a simple menu icon and statement to alert restaurant customers which items have exceedingly high sodium, New Yorkers will have easily accessible information.”
The Board of Health deci-sion, which carries the force of law, requires restaurants to identify any offerings with more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium, the recommended daily limit. Beginning Dec. 1, dishes exceeding the limit will bear a warning label: an icon of a salt shaker inside a triangle.
Illinois Lottery sued for not paying winnings due to state budget impasse
CHICAGO — A pair of lottery winners have filed a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Lottery, which still is selling tickets despite its inability to pay prizes great-er than $25,000 until state lawmakers pass a budget.
“How the heck can they do this, and they’re still sell-ing tickets?” said Homer Glen, Ill., resident Rhonda Rasche, 48, who is still wait-ing for the $50,000 she won in July from a $3 scratch-off ticket. “If I was the one
selling raffle tickets and I didn’t pay, I would be sued or in jail or both. I feel like it’s fraud.”
Last month, the lottery made national headlines after it confirmed that state law barred it from paying prizes larger than $25,000 because the legis-lature must authorize the state comptroller to cut the checks. Lottery officials said they were still able to pay amounts of $25,000 or less.
Australia to take in 12,000 more refugees from Syria and Iraq
Australia will near-ly double its humanitar-ian refuge quota to take in another 12,000 Syrians and Iraqis this year, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced Wednesday in a major policy shift.
Abbott’s government has been sharply criticized by human rights advocates for its rigid ceiling on granting asylum and for outsourcing the care and shelter of ref-ugees to squalid camps in Papua New Guinea.
The government also came under fire in May over reports that the Aus-tralian navy had paid smugglers to turn back a boat full of Asian migrants.
As recently as Sunday,
Abbott said the annu-al quota of granting asy-lum to 13,750 would not be expanded in spite of the worldwide outcry for prosperous nations to take in more of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people fleeing the chaos of Syria’s civil war and Islam-ic State terror.
Australia also will con-tribute an additional $32 million to refugee relief work carried out by the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Refu-gees, the prime minister announced. That brings Australia’s contribution to about $170 million this year, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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O ur university’s connection to corn gets a lot of laughs. We joke about living “in
the middle of a corn field” and the significance of the Morrow Plots is often lost on the suburban and city kids that populate the Uni-versity.
It’s time we give that corn a little more respect.
In the shadow of U.S. Sec-retary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s visit, it’s time to appreciate what farming means to our state and per-haps give the institution more praise in relation to its farming roots — pun in-tended.
The University, not to mention our state, would be nothing without that corn.
Our history as a univer-sity lies in agriculture. We were founded thanks to the Morrill Act as a land-grant school with a focus on teaching farmers.
According to the Illinois Department of Agriculture, about 75 percent of land in Illinois is dedicated to agri-culture. This includes about 74,300 farms growing main-ly corn and soybeans.
If these numbers don’t impress you, then consid-er the state’s economy. Ag-riculture is a $19 billion a year industry in the state. Of that, 54 percent comes from corn.
Billions of additional dol-lars flow in from industries that support these farms like machinery and real-es-tate.
As a state we export around $8.2 billion worth of agricul-tural goods to other coun-tries.
So, yeah, corn is pretty im-portant.
Chicago is our state’s big-gest distraction from corn. It is a hub of international busi-ness, entertainment, politics and social change. Chicago keeps the state afloat, but not more so than agricultural ar-eas.
Students coming from the suburbs and city are used to the city life and have the no-tion that Chicago is the core of Illinois.
They come down to our ru-ral university and have a mini culture shock. There isn’t noise pollution coming from the Midway or O’Hare airports. There isn’t a strip mall every 15 minutes. The high schools are small and the library is underground to avoid bothering the corn that’s in the middle of cam-pus.
When you’re coming from one of the country’s larg-est cities just a few hours away, where you are used to a fast paced life and constant movement, all of the agricul-tural focus can seem a little strange.
Suburban and city kids grow up thinking of Illinois as being Chicago and then just a bunch of corn.
Well, that’s what it is, but those rows and rows of corn that line Route 57 on the way to Champaign are the reason why the University at the end of that car trip even exists.
So the next time the urge to make a corn joke strikes, re-member that our university and state would be nothing without it.
Learn to respect farming roots of
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NOT-SO-SUPER BOWL HALFTIME
Quieting most hope of Taylor Swift or One Direction slaying at the 50th Super Bowl, rumor has it Bruno Mars might make a reappearance. While nothing has been confirmed, Billboard and Entertainment Weekly have both said he might be back — either as a guest, curator of acts or headliner. Can’t we get some young blood — or maybe sing some “Bad Blood” — instead?
FROM ‘REAL’ DOCTOR TO LOVE DOCTOR
For those of you still reeling over Patrick Dempsey’s surprise Grey’s Anatomy exit, find solace in this: He has landed his first role since leaving the show. He is in final negotiations to appear in the third installment of the Bridget Jones’s Diary franchise, which will be titled Bridget Jones’s Baby. While this news is excit-ing, the bigger question is: There’s going to be a third Bridget Jones movie?!
A NEW IPHONE EVERY DAY MAKES THE CUSTOMERS STAY
Apple released the iPhone 6S yesterday and it seems pretty...similar to the regular iPhone 6, honestly. In all seriousness, it isn’t even surprising when Apple reveals a new product anymore. Obviously all the new features cause a frenzy, but until they release an iPhone that’s water proof with a more crack-resistant screen, we’ll remain unenthused.
HAIL TO THE ORANGE, HAIL TO THE BLUE
As if we needed more fodder to reason why we are an amazing school, The U.S. School and News Report released their ranking of the best colleges and uni-versities in the country and the University was rat-ed number 41, bumping up one spot from last year. Number one party school in the country, number four engineering school in the world and 41st nationally overall. You really can have it all, folks.
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Having been an opinions columnist for sever-al semesters, I have
come to learn that the most effective way to convey an opinion is through discus-sion and debate, not through shock value like some may believe. This lesson in per-suasion is something that YouTube comedian Nicole Arbour could learn from.
This week, Arbour gar-nered a slew of negative attention on social media when she posted a video called “Dear Fat People,” where she admonishes what she sees as a culture of fat acceptance.
“Are you gonna tell the doctor that they’re being mean and fat shaming you when they say you have f-ing heart disease?”
“Shame people who have bad habits until they stop.”
“If we offend you so much that you lose weight I’m OK with that. I’ll sleep at night.”
“It just means you’re too fat and you should stop eating.”
These are only a few of the inflammatory com-ments featured in Arbour’s highly controversial video. She claimed that her video
and its message were aimed at helping obese individu-als, but many remained unconvinced. The video was met with harsh criticism and claims that her words are harmful to individuals with body issues. YouTube administrators even tempo-rarily suspended Arbour’s channel due to the nature of the video’s message.
Arbour told Buzzfeed that the responses were just “ridiculous outrage to a comedy video that has a bit too much truth in the jokes for (view-er’s) person-al taste.”
In my opinion, there is not a fine line between honest and offensive. This isn’t to say that comedy cannot mention relevant social topics like obesity. Often the most effective comedy references current issues and brings to light controversial matters fac-ing society.
But that’s not what this video was. It feels wrong to call it “comedy.”
An article titled “‘Fat
Shaming’ actually increas-es the risk of becoming or staying obese, new study says” on nbcnews.com referred to a study conduct-ed by Florida State Univer-sity College of Medicine. According to the study, “stigmatizing overweight people leads to psychologi-cal factors that are likely to contribute to weight gain,”
for example, depression or binge eating.
The out-rage over Arbour’s video is not because she speaks the truth with-out mincing her words. It’s because she is wrong; You can’t shame others into being skinny, and being
offensive will likely get you nowhere.
Her failure to success-fully convince viewers that she’s advocating for a greater good speaks to the misconception she has on how to construct an argu-ment and, frankly, how to be funny.
I initially couldn’t stand to sit through the six min-ute rant because the sound
of her high, shrill voice and pompous demeanor came off as incredibly annoy-ing and arrogant. Thus, it comes as no surprise that her greatest glimpse at pop-ularity hinges on shock val-ue and controversy.
An important detail to point out here is that You-Tube should not have cen-sored Arbour by shutting down her channel, even if temporarily. Her video did not violate the terms and conditions of the site and she had every freedom to use her First Amendment rights to speak her mind.
Instead of trying to shut down Arbour’s channel and silence her, Arbour and her viewers should take this video as a great exam-ple of how not to present an argument and should see the video as an exam-ple of insensitivity and offensiveness.
When you dig deep enough into Arbour’s vid-eo, an underlying message advocating for a healthy lifestyle and maintaining a healthy weight is an innate-ly good message. Unfortu-nately, any chance Arbour had at furthering this mes-sage is clouded by her cruel metaphors and unsubstanti-ated claims of how to deal with obesity.
Stephanie is a senior in LAS. [email protected]
‘Fat Shaming’ mean, ineffective STEPHANIE YOUSSEF
Opinions columnist
You can’t shame others into
being skinny, and being
offensive will likely get you
nowhere.
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Reading for everyone
BARBARA BROTMANTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
CHICAGO — It could have been a game show or a varia-tion of Hangman.
A word on a whiteboard, a highly vocal studio audience and at the front, with mark-ers in hands, LakeSha Sims and Tracy Cisero running the game.
The game was adults learn-ing how to read.
Word by word, on the board in a room at Literacy Chicago.
FREQUENTLY. PROPHE-SIED. And PULCHRITUDE, because the class members, who pick the words, sometimes like to give tutor Rob Shindler a hard time.
The class was filled with the kind of adults who regularly seek help from Literacy Chi-cago — adults who for a vari-ety of reasons never learned to read and have swallowed embarrassment and fear to learn now.
But Sims and Cisero were a new kind of tutor.
They have just finished serving sentences for felonies at Cook County Jail.
Shindler, a longtime volun-teer at Literacy Chicago and an attorney, wasn’t looking for tutors when he began teaching at Division 17, the jail’s thera-peutic treatment program for women, 18 months ago at the
invitation of a jail psychologist.He assumed he would be
teaching the women how to read.
“So I wrote the letters AEIOU on the board,” he said. “And they started laughing at me.”
It turned out that many of them already knew how to read — some of them well. Sims attended DeVry University, where she is proud to say she earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
So why had they come to a class on literacy?
Sims, 36, who was serving a 120-day sentence for identity theft, had hoped to learn some tips for teaching her dyslexic daughter.
Cisero, 46, whose 120-day sentence was for viola-tion of probation on an earli-er retail theft conviction, had been bored on a Wednesday afternoon.
“I was embarrassed,” Shindler said. “I thought I didn’t have a purpose or place with these ladies. Then some-one said, ‘You know, I have an uncle, and everyone in the family knows he can’t read. He holds the menu, then says, I’ll have what you have.’
“Then, someone else chimed in, ‘I have a son at home who can’t read.’ Then everyone chimed in. Every-one had a story about know-ing someone who can’t read.”
“Someone said, ‘Teach us to be able to teach someone else,’” he said.
Every Wednesday after-noon, the tutors sat with a fel-
low inmate to work on reading.Sims and Cisero loved it.Cisero, who hadn’t picked
up a book since she gradu-ated high school, found her-self learning along with her student. “Now I know how to break big words down,” she said.
They were released from jail at the end of June. Both immediately began volun-teering as tutors in Shindler’s weekly class at Literacy Chi-cago, which he has dubbed, along with the jail class, Chiread.
“They’ve been a joy,” said Richard Dominguez, execu-tive director of Literacy Chi-cago. “They’re really excel-lent, both of them.”
Shindler is delighted, and somewhat humbled, to see the women he met in jail become the tutors he works with.
“I saw the DOC on their backs and I presumed ... that they had some reading issues,” he said. He will not make such assumptions again, he vowed.
Several more women in the jail class are being released and plan to volunteer at Litera-cy Chicago, he said, including a woman who reads at a third-grade level.
“We’re trying to create this army of tutors, but everyone always says the same thing: ‘I don’t have time. I don’t know how to do it,’” he said. “We could teach anyone how to teach someone to read in less than an hour. If some-one sitting in jail can learn to become a tutor, then why can’t you?”
Deer, gator seasons keep taxidermy business busy
BY SUSAN JACOBSONTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
OCOEE, Fla. — The work-shop at Master Taxidermy Stu-dio looks like a cross between an antique tool shop and a medi-eval torture chamber.
The windowless room, with antlers and driftwood hanging from the high ceiling, teems with clamps, drills, saws, scal-pels, screwdrivers, scissors and tools handmade by co-owner Derrick Powell and his granddad.
One is a spoon with a bent handle that Powell uses to remove eyeballs. He replaces them with glass versions.
Watching Powell use the spoon and some of his sharper equipment is not for the faint of heart. But for him and partner Sherri Brady, it beats working for someone else.
“I have a passion for it,” said Powell, 28, whose nickname is “Ducky.” “It’s what I like to do.”
Business at the studio is pick-ing up with the Florida alliga-tor-hunting and South Caroli-na deer-hunting seasons in full swing, said Brady, 51, Powell’s mother-in-law.
Florida’s first bear hunt in 21 years, coming up in Octo-ber, also is expected to bring in customers, she said.
The studio, nestled between a hair-and-nail salon and an antiques store in downtown Ocoee, was opened in 1972 by Powell’s grandparents, John and Judy Bartoletti. They retired five years ago.
Hunting is big business in Florida. The annual econom-ic impact in the state is $1.6 billion, according to state offi-cials. Recreational freshwa-ter fishing brings in another $1.7 billion, and recreational saltwater fishing is worth $7.6 billion.
“The majority of taxider-mists are some of the biggest animal lovers in the world,” said Trina Pritchard, president of the Florida State Taxider-mists Association. “I can har-vest a turkey for food, and I can put it back together. I can look at it forever and it’s beautiful. It’s art.”
Last week, Powell worked on the pelt of a nuisance black bear that had been euthanized.
He posed the bear on its hind legs, then wrapped his arms around the animal’s waist and gave it a squeeze that looked like the Heimlich maneuver. Next he shaped its empty right eye socket with a small knife, fluffed its fur with an air hose and smoothed its coat with his palms.
Powell has a backlog of deer heads, safari specimens and other animals in the freezer, but he can work only so fast. It can take six months, including tanning, to complete one dis-play, although actual work time ranges from six to 30 hours, depending on the animal.
Master Taxidermy’s clients include weekend sportsmen, big-game hunters and educa-tion centers.
Greg Walker, a customer for two decades, said hunters typically make trophies of ani-mals that have special mean-ing, whether it’s a first deer or the biggest fish.
“They make it look like it was when you brought it to them,” said Walker.
The fine work of sewing, molding and grooming begins after the flesh is removed with a wire wheel and the hides are cleaned with a pressure wash-er, dried and glued to a poly-urethane-foam form that can be posed in a wide range of positions.
Powell learned his skills from his grandfather starting when he was 13 — no formal training is required — but he grew up hunting, fishing and cleaning game before he was old enough to go to school. The head of a kudu, an African ante-lope he shot on a safari, won a blue ribbon in a taxidermy con-test and is mounted in the stu-dio, the peach color and black spots in its ears painstakingly restored.
“I like the art of creating something, taking it and mak-ing it look alive again,” Pow-ell said, who lives in Clermont.
Prices vary. Brady did not want to be specific for competi-tive reasons, but a black bear can cost more than $3,000 and a lion more than $5,000. Tur-keys, which have freeze-dried, hand-painted heads, ducks and shoulder-mounted deer run in the hundreds of dollars.
ANTONIO PEREZ TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICELakesha Sims, who took part in literacy classes while serving time in the Cook County Jail, volunteers as a tutor in a literacy class for adults at Literacy Chicago on August 12.
JACOB LANGSTON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEDerrick Powell, taxidermist and co-owner of Master Taxidermy Studio, does detail work on a Florida black bear that he was preparing at his shop on Aug. 18 in Ocoee, Fla.
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BY FRANCES WELCHSTAFF WRITER
S tretching back to the 16th centu-ry, the guitar has evolved as much as the timeline of human history.
Originating from what was once called a long-neck lute, today’s modern counterpart has developed into the back-bone of all musical genres.
Music lovers can continue to celebrate this diversity and evolution of the instrument at the three-day Ellnora Guitar Festival starting Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Krannert Cen-ter for the Performing Arts. This is the sixth year of the biennial event.
Founded in 2005 by Kran-nert Center Director Mike Ross and musician and music curator David Spelman, the two have put emphasis on mak-ing this festival a time for indi-viduals of all walks of life to gather and celebrate music; a philosophy that Ross said was heavily influenced by Ellno-ra Krannert, a co-donator of the Krannert Center and the inspiration behind the festi-val’s name.
“(Ellnora Krannert) loved the idea of a communal gath-ering touchstone, mix-it-all-up kind of space, and that’s very much in the spirit of our guitar festival,” Ross said. “And that is a core value that we hold near and dear throughout our entire season (of performances).”
The festival has continuous-ly maintained lineups that fea-ture artists of varying genres and backgrounds — guitar leg-ends such as Buddy Guy and Taj Mahal, to emerging artists like Colin Davin and Jessica Lea Mayfield. This variety of artists allows the festival to market to an audience of all eras and genres, targeting a multi-generational, multi-genre, multi-aesthetic crowd, Ross explained.
“My favorite thing about Ell-nora is the way it brings people together. Even though (Ellnora features) big name people like Los Lobos, the whole concert and vibe is really intimate and close knit,” said Callie Miller, a senior at Champaign Central High School. “The intimate concerts from people you’ve never heard of are sometimes the best ones.”
The sophisticated curiosity of the community has heav-ily contributed to Ellnora’s target audience, according to Spelman, who currently resides in New York City and is also the founder and artistic director of the New York Gui-tar Festival.
To develop such a diverse lineup, Spelman said the way he selects artists is similar to that of another art curator, Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
“Obrist describes his pro-cess as ‘see art, meet the art-ists, produce their shows to meet other artists and produce their shows in turn,’ and I think that can describe our process (for Ellnora),” he said.
Spelman said he believes that because the communi-ty finds the Krannert Center to be a place for discovery, this becomes a privilege that allows himself and Ross to take risks with the festival, build-ing a relationship between the audience and their curatorial approach.
And with that risk, Ellnora Festival is able to produce a lineup that features this year’s myriad of artists, such as Drive-By Truckers, Los Lobos, Punch Brothers, Bucky Pizza-relli and many more, explor-ing into the musical realms of jazz, bluegrass, rock, country and more.
“Depending on your perspec-tive, it may seem very odd for a University performing arts center to be producing this kind of event,” Ross said. “But I believe that the spirit of this festival and the core values that (Ellnora) stands for are of real potential value to the students of this University, to the people of this community and across the region.”
This especially rings true to the effort that the festival has made in performance afford-ability for the students of the University, who can attend fes-tival performances either for free or for $10, depending on the artist.
“The first year that they had (Ellnora), it was more just about the shows,” Miller said, who has attended every Ellno-ra since its inception in 2005. “Now, it’s about the liveliness and the free concerts and the art.”
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PHOTO COURTESY OF ANTOINE DRYETop: David Spelman backstage with Daniel Lanois at Ellnora 2013.
Illinois prepared for in-state FCS rival
Bentley’s skills big asset BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER
V’Angelo Bentley is a team player. He’s quick to praise his teammates, his brothers. But he’s also quick to defend what he does best.
While highlighting Clay-ton Fejedelem’s touchdown-stopping run Saturday against Kent State, Bentley was asked who was faster: Fejedelem or him?
“Nah, I’m faster,” the 5-foot-10-inch, soft-spoken Bentley said with a laugh.
It’s this quickness that can excite a stadium at any moment and has garnered respect from his coaches.
“He’s so natural,” said special teams’ coordinator Alex Golesh. “He sees and feels things as a returner. As a kick returner, it’s rel-atively easy. But, as a punt returner, you got to have something about you to know ‘Hey, when I look down ... when you look away from the coverage unit, I might get sacked.’ And to me, that takes a different kind of kid. I couldn’t do it.”
The star defensive back and returner needs just 116 kick return yards to break Pierre Thomas’ Illi-nois career record of 1,495 yards. Bentley currently ranks third on Illinois’ all-time list.
But that isn’t Bentley’s only contribution to the Illi-
ni history books.He is the first Illinois
player in school history to record kick, punt, intercep-tion and fumble returns for TDs in his career. Perhaps his most important return ever was a returned fumble recovery for a touchdown against Minnesota on Home-coming last season. Bentley squirted out of a scrum of bodies and scampered into the end zone to give the Illini an enormous win.
On Saturday, Bentley recorded 85 punt return yards and 25 kickoff return yards. He didn’t play much at cornerback.
When looking at his punt return game, Bentley said the team talks in terms of net punts: how far their opponent is punting and how far they are returning the ball. Against Kent State, Illinois returned 83 yards compared to Kent State’s 361 yards punted.
Not getting much defen-sive playing time, Bentley was blunt about what he needs to do this season for his return game.
“In my return game, I’ve got to get in the end zone,” Bentley said. “I don’t know what else to do but that.”
To do just that, head coach Bill Cubit has emphasized how key Bentley’s role is to the Illini. Cubit has talked more with Golesh about find-
ing ways to set Bentley up behind his blockers.
“A lot of teams don’t prac-tice that as much because it’s a safe play,” Cubit said. “You just want to field the ball and such. For us, it’s a big offensive play because of him.”
Cubit added that Bentley brings to special teams what running back Josh Ferguson does to the offense in terms of excitement. For both play-ers he said, “you’re out of your seat and ready for a big play when they get the ball.”
It’s a talent Golesh has noticed and has stressed with his special teamers.
“We rally around V a lot,” Golesh said. “We talk about on punt returns, on kick return-block for a purpose. Block for V to spring one. The energy that a big return creates, maybe you don’t even realize it, is immense ... He just being out there creates an energy. You know every time he just touches the ball as a returner he can take it to the house.”
For Bentley, part of being a good teammate is always bringing that momentum.
“That’s what you do when you’re back there at return-er. You’re supposed to be an electrifying guy and that’s what I want to be.”
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BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER
After a two-week span that included the firing of the Illinois football team’s head coach and the postpone-ment of its season opener, the focus is about the product on the field.
Quarterback Wes Lunt hopes things calm down after the chaos of the last couple of weeks. Although head coach Bill Cubit acknowledged that the whole season won’t be like the adreline rush the Illini have experienced so far, he also warned against becoming too comfortable.
“I don’t think there’s ever normalcy, because you’re always on edge,” Cubit said. “I don’t think there are any issues we’ve had last week so it’s a little bit better, but as soon as you relax, some-thing’s going to come up.”
Illinois’ 52-3 rout over Kent State showed the poten-tial this season’s team has. Most of the starters were taken out after the first half because the Illini lead 38-0. But the game wasn’t perfect. The team committed eight penalties for 80 yards during the game, five of which were pre-snap penalties.
The large lead also pre-sented playing time for young players. Of the 29 pass attempts thrown by three dif-ferent passers — Wes Lunt, Chayce Crouch and yes, cor-
nerback V’Angelo Bentley — 14 were caught. Young wide receivers like Sam Mays and Desmond Cain were guilty of dropping some passes but Cubit reiterated his confi-dence in their ability to learn quickly.
Young players will also need to adapt to the speed of the regular season. The Illini have had a week to pre-pare for Western Illinois, rather than an entire off-season, which they used to prepare for Kent State. Each player will need to balance watching film, workouts and school, which might be diffi-cult for underclassmen.
“I think some of the young guys will be shocked by the speed of the implementation of the offenses and defenses, they’re going to have to catch up,” Cubit said. “It’s going to be an education process for us.”
The Illini will face an in-state rival that had lit-tle trouble beating Eastern Illinois to start the season. The Leathernecks defeat-ed the FCS-No. 25 Panthers 33-5 in impressive fashion. Quarterback Trenton Nor-vell, a transfer from Cin-cinnati, completed 18-of-35 passes for 189 yards, one touchdown and one inter-ception, and running backs Steve McShane and Dev-on Moore combined for 118 yards and two touchdowns.
Western Illinois’ defense allowed Eastern’s passing game 153 yards and forced three interceptions.
Despite the rout of Kent State and Western Illinois’ FCS status, Illinois players know they can’t overlook the Leathernecks. There’s an increased motivation because Western Illinois is an in-state rival and the players are motivated by the athletic department’s motto:
Our State. Our Team.“We do a good job of treat-
ing everybody the same,” Taylor Barton said. “We didn’t overlook Kent State at all, so we won’t overlook Western Illinois, we won’t overlook UNC, won’t over-look anybody. Each week is a new week and we have to get ready.”
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Illinois vs. Western Illinois
When: Saturday at 11 a.m. Memorial Stadium
TV/Radio: Big Ten Network/Fighting Illini Sports Network
Quick facts: Illinois will face Western Illinois for the second time in school history — Illinois won the only matchup.
Hidden stat: The Illini will try to start the season 2-0 for the third straight season.
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TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Josh Ferguson runs the ball down the field during the game against Kent State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The Illini won 52-3.
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ V’Angelo Bentley (2) on the sideline during the game against Kent State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
GAME 2:Western IllinoisSat, Sept. 12 @ 11 AM
GAME 2:Western IllinoisSat, Sept. 12 @ 11 AM
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Beating Kent State was good for the Illinois foot-ball team. Duh.
It was a morale booster for head coach Bill Cubit, for his players and for the Illini fan base. Wes Lunt performed, the defense performed and despite the scorching heat, most peo-ple in orange went home happy.
Oh, and no one got hurt — no one, zero, zilch, nada. James Crawford went to the lock-er room in the second half because of some problems with the heat but returned after 20 minutes and according to Cubit, is fine.
Illinois should thrash West-ern Illinois because, well, the Illini are better.
I don’t know anyone who thinks Western is favored in
this game, which is the point of a non-conference FCS matchup if you’re Illinois.
The hidden landmines for the Illini are the bumps and bruises star players might get. Remember Texas State in 2014? That’s when Wes Lunt got hurt for the first time.
Cubit has already demon-strated he is not overly worried about padding Lunt’s, Josh Fer-guson’s or Mason Monheim’s stats. He should take that men-tality into Saturday with him and have it in the back of his mind all day.
If the Illini are beating the Leathernecks by three posses-sions or more at halftime, the first stringers should be riding the pine for the rest of the day.
Many have remarked that this is the deepest team of the Beckman/Cubit era, but an injury to a key player like Lunt, Ferguson, Monheim or
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HAWAII @ OHIO STATE 2:30 p.m.MINNESOTA @ COLORADO STATE 2:30 p.mWASHINGTON STATE @ RUTGERS 2:30 p.mEASTERN ILLINOIS @ NORTHWESTERN 3 p.m.IOWA @ IOWA STATE 3:30 p.mFIU @ INDIANA 7 p.mOREGON @ MICHIGAN STATE 7 p.mSOUTH ALABAMA @ NEBRASKA 7 p.m
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RECEIVERSRedshirt junior Wes Lunt and redshirt freshman Chayce Crouch combined for
fi ve thrown touchdowns in the season opener against Kent State Saturday. Each touchdown was thrown to a different receiver. Senior Geronimo Allison led the Illini in receiving yards, collecting 57 yards on the day. No receiver had more than two
catches, as ten different Illini were targeted. Lunt connected with Allison, sophomore Marchie Murdock, junior Tyler White and senior Josh Ferguson for touchdowns, while
Crouch and freshman Sam Mays connected for the pair’s fi rst career touchdowns. Last year, Allison ranked 15th in the Big Ten in receiving yards per game (49.8) and
19th in receptions per game (3.4).
Wes Lunt had a standout performance a year ago in his Illini debut, and the start of his 2015 season was no different. Against Kent State, Lunt went 11-19 for 162 yards and four touchdowns — each was thrown to a different receiver. With the four touchdowns, he
totals 18 touchdowns in his Illini career with only three interceptions. Lunt’s career effi ciency rating of 145.8 is
on pace to break the Illinois school record.
ROSTERS
PASSINGWes Lunt
11-19, 162 yards, 4 TD
RUSHINGJosh Ferguson
12 carries, 76 yards, 1 TDKe’Shawn Vaughn
11 carries, 43 yards, 1 TD
RECEIVINGGeronimo Allison
2 catches, 57 yards, 1 TDMarchie Murdock
2 catches, 42 yards, 1 TDSam Mays
2 catches, 37 yards, 1 TDTyler White
2 catches, 15 yards, 1 TD
DEFENSEDE John LaChapelle 96
DT Kris Harley 92DT Gavin Ricketts 98
DE Eddy Holtschlag 99WLB Adam Brott 35MLB Brett Taylor 44
SLB Brad Blumenshine 27CB Xavier Rowe 6
SS David Griffi th 38FS Aaron Diggs 5
CB Timothy Smith 3
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OFFENSEQB Wes Lunt 12RB Josh Ferguson 6WR-X Geronimo Allison 8WR-T Marchie Murdock 16WR-Z Malik Turner 11TE Tyler White 87LT Austin Schmidt 57LG Chris Boles 55C Joe Spencer 71RG Ted Karras 69RT Christian DiLauro 67
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DEFENSEDL Jihad Ward 17
NT Chunky Clements 11DT Rob Bain 16
LEO Dawuane Smoot 91WLB Mason Monheim 43
MLB T.J. Neal Jr. 52STAR Eric Finney 14
CB V’Angelo Bentley 2SS Taylor Barton 3
FS Clayton Fejedelem 20CB Eaton Spence 27
OFFENSEQB Trenton Norvell 14RB Devon Moore 28WR Lance Lenoir 7WR Joey Borsellino 1WR J’Vaugn Williams 15TE Taylor Hill 89LT Josh Baldus 55LG Ryan Ricketts 63C Jacob Judd 66RG James Torgerson 77RT Matt Zobrist 73
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EYE ON THE ENEMY: WESTERN ILLINOIS LANCE LENOIR, JR.
Special teams Lance Lenoir, Jr. set a career high in all-purpose yards in Western Illinois’ opening game against Eastern Illinois on Saturday. Of the junior’s
280 yards, 156 came on kickoff and punt returns. His 280 all-purpose yards were the second-highest total in NCAA Division I FCS on the weekend. 105 of his
returning yards came off of two kickoffs, while the other 51 yards came from three punt returns. Lenoir, Jr. was
named MVFC Player of the Week for the second time in his collegiate career.
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HISTORYTHE LAST TIME THE TEAMS MET...
Saturday marks the second-ever meeting between the Illini and the Leathernecks. Illinois came out on top 21-0 in 2007.
DID YOU KNOW?Illinois is 14-0 all-time against public universities in Illinois.
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SEPT. 5 VS. KENT STATE — (W 52-3)SEPT. 12 VS. WESTERN ILLINOIS — 11 A.M. SEPT. 19 AT NORTH CAROLINA — 11 A.M.SEPT. 26 VS. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE — TBA
OCT. 3 VS. NEBRASKA — TBAOCT. 10 AT IOWA — 11 A.M. OCT. 24 VS. WISCONSIN — 2:30 P.M.OCT. 31 AT PENN STATE — TBA
NOV. 7 AT PURDUE — 11 A.M.NOV. 14 VS. OHIO STATE — TBANOV. 21 AT MINNESOTA — TBANOV. 28 VS. NORTHWESTERN — TBA
SEPT. 3 VS. EASTERN ILLINOIS —
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SEPT. 19 AT COASTAL CAROLINA
OCT. 3 VS. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
OCT. 10 VS SOUTH DAKOTA
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OCT. 24 AT ILLINOIS STATE
OCT. 31 VS. YOUNGSTOWN STATE
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NOV. 14 AT INDIANA STATE
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The Fighting Leathernecks opened up the season at home last week against Eastern Illinois. Junior
Lance Lenoir, Jr. shined for Western Illinois, catching a touchdown pass and racking up a career high of all-purpose yards on the day. Western Illinois took
advantage of the Panthers’ three interceptions and two fumbles Thursday night in its 33-5 victory.
Xavier Rowe and Timothy Smith combined for nine total tackles in the team’s 33-5 victory over Eastern Illinois last week. Both suffered injuries last year as freshmen,
causing them to redshirt. High School Highlights: Smith registered nine interceptions and returned two
for a touchdown during his junior season at Morgan Park high school in Chicago. Rowe lettered in football, track and basket during his days at Oak Park River-
Forest high school. The two freshmen will have the task of shutting down Illinois’ top receivers on Saturday.
Of note: Middle linebacker Brett Taylor had one interception return for a touchdown in the Leatherback’s season opener.
PASSINGTrenton Norvell
18-35, 189 yards, 1 TD
RUSHINGSteve McShane
14 carries, 52 yards Devon Moore
23 carries, 33 yards, 2 TD
RECEIVINGLance Lenoir, Jr.
10 catches, 124 yards, 1 TDJoey Borsellino
4 catches, 36 yards
Playing it safe to avoid injury
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TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' head coach Bill Cubit during the game against Kent State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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V’ANGELO BENTLEY VS. LANCE LENOIR JR.ILLINOIS D-LINE VS. WESTERN O-LINE
BY MASAKI SUGIMOTOASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
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The Illini senior corner will be test-ed by the Leatherneck’s star receiver/returner. Lenoir had an impressive show-ing against Eastern Illinois, totaling 156 yards on returns and being named FCS special teams player of the week. On top of that, Lenoir had 10 catches for a total of 124 yards and a touchdown. Despite small hic-
cups, the Illini held Kent State down when it came to receivers and special teams, giv-ing up 186 passing yards and 122 yards on nine total returns. This could be V’angelo Bentley’s dress rehearsal for the plethora of strong wide receivers that he will face in the Big Ten this season. Bentley may also fl ash his own stellar returning skills.
The only shortcoming of an otherwise fantastic defensive performance for the Illini was the pass rush. The Illini only got one sack: from Dawaune Smoot. Jihad Ward is back, but the ongoing suspension of Joe Fotu means the group’s depth isn’t as strong as it could be. As a team that ranked No. 11 in sacks in the Big Ten last year, Illinois brought in Mike Phair from the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers to help with the pass rush. It remains to be seen if Phair can up the Illi-ni’s pass rush from last season’s total, but the Leathernecks will be the Illini’s easiest opponent this season and gave up two sacks themselves in the fi rst game. If the Illini can’t get to the quarterback, it may be the sign of yet another season with weakness in the pass rushing department.
After everything went right against Kent State, nothing would slow down the momentum of the season more than losing to Western. It would mark the fi rst time Illinois ever lost to an FCS or 1-AA team. It would bring back the dreaded talks of how the program looks to be in shambles, the ongo-ing investigation and fi ring of Beckman. Western is set up
with one of the tougher schedules in the FCS and already completed an upset in their fi rst game when they cruised past Eastern Illinois, who was ranked 25th in the FCS, and were favored to beat the Leathernecks. The Illini can’t be complacent. If they do, their domination against Kent State will quickly fade away.
V’Angelo Bentley and this season’s prospects change dramatically.
It’s football 101 to keep your stud horses in the barn when they don’t need to be on the track, and Cubit probably knows that. But in the heat of
the moment, when it would be fun to see one more Lunt-to-Geronimo Allison touchdown, sometimes you don’t go with your gut.
Cubit needs to go with his gut Saturday.
The other thing the Illini need this weekend is a strong performance from their spe-cial teams.
Taylor Zalewski is perfect
on kicks this season — sev-en extra points and one field goal — but booted a kickoff out of bounds. He’s off to a better start than last year but needs to demonstrate he can consis-tently be relied upon, because when Big Ten season rolls around, a field goal can be the difference — just ask David Reisner.
Ryan Frain was also a nice
surprise against Kent State. Filling in for former punt-er extraordinaire Justin Duvernois.
Keeping up their momen-tum from Kent State is key, but it really doesn’t matter that the Illini beat the Leath-ernecks by as many points as possible. Thirty points should be more than enough to win the game, and they should be able
to reach that total by halftime. Get in Chayce Crouch and let him run around a bit — Bill Cubit told him “not to try and win the Heisman” when he put him in Saturday — and that will be enough entertainment for everyone.
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INJURYFROM 2B
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOSTop: Illinois’ Mason Monheim and T.J. Neal tackle Minnesota’s KJ Maye during the homecoming game at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. The Illini won 28-24.Left: Illinois’ Jihad Ward (17) attempts to block Louisiana Tech’s Cody Sokol’s pass during the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Texas on Dec. 26, 2014. The Illini lost 35-18. Right: Illinois’ V’Angelo Bentley carries the ball from a point return during the homecoming game against Minnesota at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 25, 2014. The Illini won 28-24.
BY MATT GERTSMEIER STAFF WRITER
While the Illinois soccer team (5-1-0) scrimmaged and practiced free kicks dur-ing Wednesday’s practice to prepare for Friday’s match against Northern Kentucky (4-0-0) , midfi elder Reagan Robishaw limped around the sidelines and into the team huddles with a bulky brace on her leg.
The senior will undergo an MRI on what appears to be a torn ACL in her left knee, according to head coach Janet Rayfi eld. The injury occurred in Friday’s match against Washington.
In fi ve games, Robishaw tallied two assists, two goals and played 250 minutes . With Robishaw defi nitely out for Friday’s game, and possi-bly for the season, Illinois will need to fi nd someone to replace her attacking role.
Rayfi eld knows that will not be an easy task.
“Similar to any injury, one person doesn’t replace
that,” Rayfi eld said. “You don’t just pull out a piece and put someone else in that piece because they’re just not the same, they don’t have the same attributes and qualities.”
Regardless, Illinois still needs to put out a starting 11. Rayfi eld hinted that possible replacements for Robishaw might be freshmen Katie Murray and Lauren Ciesla, sophomore Emily Osoba and redshirt junior Tailor Smith.
The Illini will certainly miss Robishaw’s offensive production as well as the leadership role she fi lled on the fi eld. Rayfi eld expects
midfi elder Allison Stucky to step up to the challenge.
Stucky said she realizes the absence of Robishaw will have an impact on the team, but is confi dent she can help the team bounce back.
“Being a junior, you just take on a whole new lead-ership (role),” Stucky said. “This year me playing so much and being in the midfi eld you have to have a voice in order to organize everyone around you and I can run for days so I kind of always lift everyone up.”
Illinois will have to rely on Stucky’s speed
and attacking prowess this weekend. But due to North-ern Kentucky’s lack of vid-eo streaming, the Illini do not have an advanced scout-ing report on the Norse’s strengths and weaknesses. One thing for sure is that the Norse have showed they can be a high-powered offense — they have outscored their opponents 14-1.
The injury to Robishaw
couldn’t of come for a worse time for a team that continu-ously credited its success to cohesiveness and chemistry during this early part of the season. Illinois experienced its fi rst hiccup on offense this year in last week’s respective matches against Washington and Portland. The Illini combined for two goals and lost its fi rst game of the season to the Huskies.
Stucky, though, is hope-ful that the team can mesh quickly if Robishaw ends up to be out for an extensive amount of time.
“This is such an awesome team,” Stucky said. “We have so many returning players, but we also have a 100 times more chemistry than last year. It’s fun to be at practic-es, it’s fun to play in games, it’s just fun to play with each other. We’re not completely on the same page yet, but we will be.”
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The No. 7 Illinois volleyball team (4-1) travels to Wichita, Kansas this weekend to play in the Shocker Volleyball Classic. The Illini will face No. 21 Kentucky (4-3) Friday at 1 p.m. before Saturday’s double-header against South Dakota State (1-8) and Wich-ita State (4-3) at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., respectively.
Head coach Kevin Ham-bly’s squad is coming off a 1-1 split at the Big Ten/Pac 12 challenge this past weekend in University Park, Pennsyl-vania. Illinois won the fi rst set against No. 3 Stanford on Friday night before falling 3-1. The Illini bounced back Saturday with a 3-0 victory over No. 23 Colorado.
Illinois’ lone loss of the season was due to late-game errors. In the fi nal three tight-knit sets against Stanford, the Illini tensed up and placed errant balls.
“We need to slow it down when it matters,” Hambly said. “There was anxious-ness instead of trying to make plays.”
Hambly said it’s normal for younger players to rush sometimes.
“The older players ... they don’t do that,” he said.
Junior outside hitter Michelle Strizak echoed her coach’s statement.
“We kind of got stiff at the end of games against Stanford, but against Colo-rado we stayed loose and we stayed confi dent,” she said. “We learned from Stanford that we need to be relentless the whole time.”
Strizak said the team is focusing on defense in prac-tice this week. Hambly noted the Illini are also keying in on fi xing their ball control, dig-ging balls in seams and serv-ing more aggressively.
“We have a pretty good foundation, we’re pretty expe-rienced, but we just have to keep building and keep striv-ing,” Strizak said.
The Wildcats will pose the biggest threat to the Illi-ni over the weekend. Senior
setter Morgan Bergren (126 assists on the season) and sophomore middle blocker Kaz Brown (43 kills, .411 hit-ting percentage on the season) are a scary duo, and the high-ly ranked Illini cannot take them lightly.
As Hambly has said again and again throughout the young season, the team is
preoccupied solely on what it can do better. The Illini will not watch fi lm of their opponents until they arrive in Wichita. Instead, they’re worried about perfecting their own high-tempo sys-tem, which has been a suc-cess through fi ve matches. Strizak, freshman setter Jordyn Poulter and senior outside hitter Jocelynn Birks are slowly but sure-ly building a chemistry that
they hope will take this team far into the postseason.
The backups are more than capable as well, and there’s a competitive atmosphere in practice, which bodes well for the Illini when they have to face Big Ten opponents. According to Birks, no start-ing position is completely safe — players are still fi ghting for spots. Strizak and junior out-side hitter Katie Roustio push each other to become better daily.
“I think it’s defi nitely to our advantage to have competi-tion,” Strizak said. “We both strive in competitive environ-ments; otherwise, we wouldn’t be here right now.”
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8 4
3 7
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5 8
7 9 3 4
5 3 6
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11. Jun 2008 Part A Skill:
15 6 2 7 8 1 9 4 33 7 1 9 4 6 2 8 54 9 8 2 3 5 7 6 12 8 3 6 1 9 4 5 77 5 6 4 2 8 1 3 91 4 9 3 5 7 6 2 88 1 4 5 7 2 3 9 66 3 5 1 9 4 8 7 29 2 7 8 6 3 5 1 4
27 9 3 8 2 6 4 1 56 5 4 9 1 7 3 8 21 8 2 3 4 5 6 7 92 1 9 6 7 3 5 4 88 6 5 1 9 4 2 3 74 3 7 2 5 8 9 6 19 7 1 4 3 2 8 5 65 4 8 7 6 9 1 2 33 2 6 5 8 1 7 9 4
36 9 5 2 1 8 3 4 74 1 3 7 6 5 9 2 88 2 7 4 9 3 1 5 62 5 1 9 8 6 7 3 47 6 8 1 3 4 5 9 29 3 4 5 2 7 8 6 13 4 6 8 5 1 2 7 91 7 9 3 4 2 6 8 55 8 2 6 7 9 4 1 3
43 5 4 6 9 1 2 7 88 9 6 2 7 3 1 4 52 7 1 4 8 5 9 3 64 3 2 9 5 6 8 1 75 1 7 8 3 4 6 9 26 8 9 1 2 7 3 5 41 2 3 5 4 8 7 6 97 4 8 3 6 9 5 2 19 6 5 7 1 2 4 8 3
52 7 4 8 5 6 1 9 31 9 5 3 4 7 2 8 66 3 8 2 9 1 4 5 77 1 6 9 8 4 5 3 25 2 9 6 1 3 8 7 44 8 3 7 2 5 6 1 99 4 2 1 7 8 3 6 58 6 7 5 3 2 9 4 13 5 1 4 6 9 7 2 8
65 1 8 9 4 7 2 6 39 6 3 2 8 1 4 5 72 7 4 6 5 3 9 8 11 8 2 4 3 6 5 7 93 5 9 1 7 2 8 4 66 4 7 5 9 8 1 3 28 3 1 7 2 4 6 9 54 9 6 3 1 5 7 2 87 2 5 8 6 9 3 1 4
78 9 7 4 6 5 1 3 26 5 1 2 7 3 8 9 42 3 4 1 8 9 7 5 61 7 9 3 2 8 4 6 55 2 6 9 4 7 3 1 84 8 3 5 1 6 2 7 97 6 5 8 3 4 9 2 19 1 8 7 5 2 6 4 33 4 2 6 9 1 5 8 7
82 5 8 1 7 4 9 3 66 1 4 9 2 3 7 8 57 9 3 8 6 5 1 4 28 2 1 3 4 9 5 6 74 3 7 6 5 1 2 9 89 6 5 2 8 7 4 1 31 4 2 7 3 6 8 5 93 7 9 5 1 8 6 2 45 8 6 4 9 2 3 7 1
96 7 8 4 9 1 5 3 21 2 9 8 3 5 7 6 45 3 4 7 2 6 8 1 98 1 5 9 4 7 3 2 64 9 2 5 6 3 1 7 83 6 7 1 8 2 4 9 59 4 1 2 7 8 6 5 32 5 3 6 1 4 9 8 77 8 6 3 5 9 2 4 1
102 1 4 9 7 8 3 5 68 7 9 5 3 6 4 1 26 5 3 4 1 2 8 7 94 9 2 3 6 7 1 8 55 3 6 8 9 1 7 2 47 8 1 2 4 5 9 6 33 6 5 7 8 4 2 9 11 4 8 6 2 9 5 3 79 2 7 1 5 3 6 4 8
113 6 1 9 2 5 7 8 47 9 2 8 1 4 5 3 65 4 8 3 6 7 2 1 99 1 6 4 5 3 8 2 74 3 7 2 8 1 6 9 58 2 5 6 7 9 1 4 36 7 4 1 3 8 9 5 21 5 9 7 4 2 3 6 82 8 3 5 9 6 4 7 1
129 8 5 3 7 6 4 2 12 6 4 1 8 5 9 3 71 3 7 4 2 9 8 5 68 1 9 6 3 4 5 7 25 2 3 9 1 7 6 8 44 7 6 2 5 8 3 1 97 4 1 5 6 3 2 9 86 5 8 7 9 2 1 4 33 9 2 8 4 1 7 6 5
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Shocker Volleyball ClassicWhen: Friday Illinois vs. Kentucky 1 p.m. Saturday Illinois vs. South Dakota State 11 a.m.Illinois vs. Wichita State 8 p.m. TV/Radio: WDWS 1400Quick notes: Illinois went 1-1 in last weekend’s Big Ten/Pac 12 Challenge. Jordyn Poulter and Jocelynn Birks were named to the all-tournament team. Hidden stat: Friday’s opponent, Kentucky, is ranked 21st in the country but has dropped three of its last four matches.
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Michelle Strizak reaches for the ball during the game versus Louisville at Huff Hall. The Illini are heading to Wichita for three games this weekend.
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIReagan Robishaw making a pass during Friday’s win over TCU on Aug. 28.
Illinois vs. Northern KentuckyWhen: 7 p.m. Friday at the Illinois Soccer StadiumQuick notes: Illinois is without midfi elder Reagan
Robishaw against an unfamiliar opponent.Hidden Stat: The Norse of Northern Kentucky are undefeated and have outscored opponents 14-1.
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MICHELLE STRIZAKOUTSIDE HITTER