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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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Freshman Katrina Gerhard is Illinois’ latest, fastest wheelchair racer PAGE 1B
LIFE & CULTUREOPINION
Students must be proactive, as iCards don’t ensure total safety.
Kill the Cup campaign discourages reusable cup waste this October
Changing student-safety culture One cup at a time
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A conversation with an IlliniSPORTS
Wheelchair basketball player Martinez Johnson talks inspiration
Academic Senate looks ahead
UIPD to look into possible arsonDAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
University of Illinois police are investigating two different cases as arson for fires set within one week in Wardall Hall.
A Campus Safety Notice was issued Monday morn-ing to alert the campus community of the fire set in the University Housing dorm, located at 1010 West
Illinois Street.Police suspect the inci-
dents are related and the fires were set intentional-ly, according to the notice.
According to the notice, papers attached to a cork board on the eighth floor of Wardall Hall were set on fire around 9:30 p.m. Sun-day. The fire was extin-guished by the time the
Urbana Fire Department arrived.
A similar incident occurred on the same floor of around 9:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14. A building resident extinguished a fire set to papers in a recycling bin.
No one was injured in either incident.
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Champaign Police look to add Tasers to beltBY AARON NAVARRO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In 2004, unsteady rela-tions between the Cham-paign Police Department and the community showed as a proposal from the police for Tasers was met with a hostile reaction and nega-tivity. Eleven years later, the Champaign Police are requesting Tasers once again. This time, things are a little different.
Champaign Police Chief Anthony Cobb appeared along with three other rep-resentatives from the force in front of the Champaign
City Council on Tuesday to seek approval for the depart-ment to draft an official bill for Tasers. The Champaign Police attained a 6-3 vote, giving them approval to draft a bill.
Council member Clar-issa Nickerson Fourman said that community atten-dance for the meeting was low compared to 2004, citing improved relations between the Champaign Police and the community and their work with the Champaign Community Coalition as a big reason for a calmer com-munity response.
CPD offered several dif-ferent reasons for the neces-sity of Tasers, but reducing officer and citizen injuries was one of their major ratio-nales. In the presentation, the Champaign Police pro-vided a 2009 study by the National Institute of Justice and the Police Executive Research Forum that shows how Taser implementation has affected injury numbers with departments similar to Champaign. The study found that Tasers reduce 40 percent of citizen inju-
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NIKITHA GAJULA THE DAILY ILLINILeft: Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson speaks to the Academic Senate during its first meeting of the year on Monday. Right: President Timothy Killeen addresses the Academic Senate on Monday regarding current issues such as the state budget and the chancellor search process.
1) Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson has been in her role for five weeks now. And she doesn’t want the job.At Monday’s Academic Senate meeting, she said she loves the University but does not want to be in her role. She said she only took the position in hopes of helping the Urbana campus get out of its current situation after the resignations of former chancellor Phyllis Wise and Provost Adesida Illesanmi.
2) One of Wilson’s main goals going forward is to restore trust among the campus community.“Even some of our students, I think, have lost trust in what we’re all about here,” Wilson said during her opening remarks Monday.
3) The creation of the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine is “moving forward forcefully and actively,” Wilson said. A dean search is ready to be launched and the University is working on a number of research agreements with Carle Foundation. The agreements need to be signed by the end of October.
4) If a “passionate donor” comes forward, the name of the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine could return to the senate to vote on a name change.The University hopes to enroll its first class by 2017 and Carle Foundation donated $1 million.
5) University administrators are still waiting on the state to decide FY16 appropriations for the University. “We do need to get the word out about the value of higher education in this state,” Wilson said. “We’ve been a little quiet on that and I think we can do better.”
6) President Timothy Killeen and Wilson plan to meet with local chapter members of the American Association of University Professors. They hope to discuss how the University can work toward being removed from the censure list for violating academic freedom after the rejected appointment of Steven Salaita.
7) The Academic Senate agreed upon a process for selecting the next chancellor for Urbana. The Senate Executive Committee proposed the process, which involves a committee of faculty and staff members who will consult with an external search firm.
8) Biographies for all chancellor candidates nominations will be presented to the entire Academic Senate for review.Killeen said he is very dedicated to being transparent with the search.
9) The Academic Senate supported a resolution to urge the Board of Trustees to postpone the implementation of a new background check policy.The policy was approved at the board’s Sept. 10 meeting.
10) Wilson said “it’s really not up to me” on the employment of Salaita. Wilson was asked on her opinion by Bruce Levine, history professor. Salaita is still suing the University.
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Ten takeaways from year’s !rst Academic Senate meeting:
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Illini football drops the ballSPORTS
Lunt and receivers trying to get back on same page
For more updates of what happened at Monday’s meeting, see SENATE | 3A
BY ABIGALE SVOBODANEWS EDITOR
The newly approved background check policy is expected to be implemented in less than two weeks, but the Academic Senate might put it on hold.
Teresa Barnes, professor of history, presented a reso-lution at the Academic Sen-ate meeting Monday asking the senate to urge the Board to postpone the implementa-tion of the new background check policy. Following Barnes’ presentation and discussion, the senate vot-ed in support of the resolu-tion and will ask the Board to postpone implementing the policy.
The policy is set to go into effect Oct. 5 and would require all new Universi-ty hires to undergo a back-
ground check before begin-ning work at the University. Only those offered a job would be required to com-plete a background check and can choose to opt out.
Barnes argued there is no appeal process in the imple-mentation of the policy, but Abbas Benmamoun, vice provost for faculty affairs and academic policies, said hires whose background checks return a “hit” have the opportunity to submit reference letters and other explanations from family, friends, ministers, proba-tion officers and others.
“(The letters) are from people who know you and can vouch for you,” he said.
He added the policy was created to best balance safe-ty for the campus commu-nity and fairness to new
Academic Senate urges board to delay background checks
2A Tuesday, September 22, 2015 THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM
Champaign Aggravated battery was
reported Saturday at Mei-jer, 2401 N. Prospect Ave., around 11:30 a.m.
According to the report, two subjects were engaged in a physical altercation in Meijer.
Retail theft was report-
ed Sunday around 3:45 p.m. at Bergners, 2000 N. Neil St.
According to the report, suspects were arrested for theft and one of the suspects had an existing warrant.
University Nothing to report
Urbana Battery was reported
Sunday around 11 a.m. in the 700 block of West Elm Street.
According to the report, the offender and the victim were engaged in a physi-cal dispute regarding an ex-girlfriend.
Burglary from a motor
vehicle was reported Sunday around 3:45 p.m. in the 800 block of Stoughton Street
According to the report, the victim’s vehicle was unlocked and an unknown offender entered the vehicle and removed an item.
Compiled by Jason Chun and Charlotte Collins
BY KATE LINTHICUMTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Illegal immigration is always a sizzling topic on Tony Beam’s conserva-tive call-in radio show in this small Bible Belt city.
“Usually all I have to do is say the word and the phones start ring-ing,” Beam said. Sure enough, the lines lighted up on a recent morning when he mentioned a proposal by Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson to offer work permits to immigrants in the country illegally.
“You have to deport them,” seethed a caller named Alex, who dubbed Carson’s proposal weak. “They’re changing our country.”
As Wednesday night’s debate showed, such hard-line views among conservative voters have
created a stark divide among GOP presidential candidates.
Many Republican leaders had moved to the right on immigra-tion even before Donald Trump made the issue the centerpiece of his campaign. Those who opt for more moderate approaches have faced backlash from the party base.
But while Republicans must answer to far-right voters now, they also face a future electoral force — one just coming into focus in parts of Greenville, a city of about 60,000 nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
In some neighborhoods here, strip malls have been transformed by cafes, carnecerias (meat mar-kets) and hair salons catering to the region’s rapidly growing Lati-no population, which increased 866
percent between 1990 and 2013.South Carolina’s upstate region,
where Greenville is located, is a microcosm of the dramatic demo-graphic shift happening across the country, where an estimated 28 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in next year’s presidential election.
Although Latinos here and else-where share many conservative social values with Republicans, their support for a fix to an immi-gration system widely viewed as broken is in conflict with a con-servative constituency that large-ly opposes citizenship for immi-grants in the country illegally. How Republicans negotiate the compet-ing pressures could determine the outcome of the party’s primary and the 2016 general election.
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Latinos becoming conservative force
KATE LINTHICUM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICETony Beam hosts a conservative radio show in Greenville, S.C. Immigration topics always light up his phone lines.
employees.Barnes said the back-
ground check policy should be postponed for a variety of reasons. The policy is unfair because it is completely sub-jective, she said. She added the process becomes much more difficult after a person
is found to be a felon. How-ever, Barnes said a person convicted of a felony who has completed their prison sentence has been “by def-inition” judged by the U.S. Judicial system as fully reha-bilitated and ready to rejoin society.
The University chose to retain the company who previously conducted back-ground checks, General
Information Service, or GIS. According to Barnes, how-ever, in 2014, the company settled a multi-million class-action lawsuit with 53,000 people for 3.2 million dollars on allegations that it misrep-resented information and violated the Fair Credit Act.
“UIUC cannot have any certainty that GIS and oth-er companies will not make the same mistakes,” she said.
Harry Hilton, professor emeritus in aerospace engi-neering, said the policy itself is not what’s most “disturb-ing,” but rather the fact that there was no faculty or cam-pus consultation on behalf of the Board of Trustees before the policy was approved.
“This is no way to behave.”
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BY ABIGALE SVOBODANEWS EDITOR
Nick Burbules isn’t afraid of an investigation into his behavior. So long as it’s fair.
In August, Burbules, sen-ate member and general educational policy profes-sor, was implicated as an advisor to former chancellor Phyllis Wise when the Uni-versity released over 1,100 emails between University administrators, professors and external consultants.
Burbules and Joyce Toll-iver, fellow senate member and associate professor in Spanish, were frequently involved in communications with Wise and other admin-istrators. Their involvement raised concerns among the senate and Senate Executive Committee.
As a result, a group of senators led by Mark Stein-berg, history professor, pro-posed a resolution “concern-ing the formation of an ad hoc committee concern-ing senators’ in use of non-official communications to advise campus administra-tors” at the Monday Aca-
demic Senate meeting. The resolution called for a sen-ate committee to be formed to determine what, if any, senate “procedures, ethical norms or best practices of shared governance,” were violated and to determine what steps should be taken
to reinforce and maintain those procedures.
Before the senate could begin a discussion about the resolution, Tolliver pro-posed a motion to move the recommendation to the com-mittee on University Statues and Senate Procedures who would investigate and report findings to the senate. Toll-
iver argued the use of per-sonal email is not against University procedures; additionally, she questioned whether the senate has the authority to create such a committee to investigate the use of personal email.
If so, Tolliver said USSP
still determine what the scope of the investigation should be and ensure that it is consistent with state law and University rules.
Senators raised concerns about taking the issue out of the public eye and delay-ing the process. William Maher, University library, informed the senate that
USSP is not an ethics com-mittee and is not versed in evaluating ethical issues,
Mark Steinberg, profes-sor in history, reiterated Interim Chancellor Bar-bara Wilson’s earlier state-ment that the University administration needs to reestablish itself as trust-worthy. He said the estab-lishment of an ad hoc com-mittee was a good start to increased transparency and trustworthiness and urged senators not to approve Toll-iver’s motion.
“I am not afraid in any-way of a fair investigation of my behavior in any ven-ue, whatsoever,” Burbules said.
However, he questioned whether the investigation would be fair and noted that he was not named in the res-olution but is “certainly” one of the people the ad hoc committee would look at.
The senate voted not to send the recommendation to USSP and voted against the resolution itself.
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Senate concerned over use of private emails DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT The liquor license of The
Clybourne bar, 706 S. Sixth St., was suspended over the weekend for multiple violations.
The bar, commonly called Cly’s, was cited for four vio-lations, one of which was dis-missed. The other three vio-lations include one count of sale to an underage individ-ual and two counts of pres-ence of minors.
A presence of minors charge indicates that some-one under the age of 19 was admitted into the establish-ment. All three violations occurred between August and November of 2014.
The Clybourne’s liquor license was suspended 6 a.m.
Friday until 2 a.m. Monday. Elliott Nelson, Champaign assistant to the city manager, said the bar will not face any other repercussions in rela-tion to the suspension, as the business served the penalty in its entirety.
Nelson said that every bar in the Champaign area gets checked for violations about twice a year; he said the city doesn’t try to single out any particular establishment. If a bar is found in violation of any city ordinance, it will be checked again in addition to the semi-annual rounds.
A representative from The Clybourne could not be immediately reached.
Liquor license suspended at The Clybourne
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JOHANNESBURG — The message to Burki-na Faso’s coup leaders on Monday could not have been clearer: Protesters burned tires and set up roadblocks as they rejected a deal that would give amnesty to those who had ousted a transition-al government just weeks before an election.
Opposition to last week’s coup was conveyed in one extraordinary scene, post-ed on Facebook, in which hundreds of young men on motorcycles with their horns blaring ushered one
of several army convoys heading to the capital, Oua-gadougou. The military threatened to confront the more powerful presidential security regiment that car-ried out the uprising.
Soon after, the coup lead-er, Gen. Gilbert Diendere, appeared to give ground. He apologized to the nation and the international com-munity in a statement late Monday and said he was willing to relinquish pow-er once there was an agree-ment reached to end the crisis.
Burkina Faso coup leader faces military pressure to step down
Boy, 15, pleads not guilty in kidnap and death of 8-year-old
A 15-year-old boy plead-ed not guilty Monday in the death of 8-year-old Mady-son “Maddy” Middleton in Santa Cruz, Calif.
Adrian Jerry Gonza-lez, of Santa Cruz, faces one count of murder with the special circumstance that he kidnapped, sexu-ally assaulted and tied up Maddy before killing her July 26. He is also accused of lying in wait.
He also has been charged with one count of kidnap-ping and four other sexual assault-related offenses. If convicted of all charges, he faces life in prison, accord-ing to Santa Cruz County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosell.
Gonzalez is being housed in a juvenile detention facility.
Maddy was last seen about 5:05 p.m. July 26 on surveillance video, show-ing her riding her scooter in the sprawling Tannery Arts Center.
Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel said Gonza-lez then lured Maddy to his family’s apartment, where they were alone, and killed her. The boy then carried her body downstairs to a garage and hid it in a recy-cling bin, he said.
She and the boy both lived at the center, a mixed-use creative space provid-ing affordable housing to artists.
WASHINGTON — The Senate will start its week debating abortion, but it’s far from certain Tuesday’s symbolic vote will diffuse the tension over Planned Parenthood funding enough to avert a government shutdown.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is fol-lowing through on a prom-ise made to social conser-vatives to line up a vote on a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks, a measure that’s spearheaded in the Senate by presidential can-didate Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
It’s a measure that has passed the House with 242
votes, but the Senate vote is expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to lim-it debate on taking up the measure. Once that happens on Tuesday, McConnell will quickly need to start the procedural gears turning on a continuing resolution to keep government opera-tions going past Sept. 30, if he faces procedural objec-tions from Republicans not satisfied with the anti-abor-tion vote.
Graham is among the members vehemently opposed to the strategy of tying the Planned Parent-hood debate up with the must-pass appropriations bill.
Abortion vote a prelude to U.S. Senate’s shutdown watch
WASHINGTON — Fed-eral Reserve policymakers began laying the ground-work for a possible inter-est rate increase in Octo-ber after the central bank declined to act last week because of concerns finan-cial market volatility could slow the U.S. economy.
“It’s too early to know whether this episode amounts to a bona fide shock to the economy or just a nervous spasm in the markets,” Dennis Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said Monday of the turmoil caused by Chi-na devaluing its currency last month.
At this point, “it’s too early to detect any signif-icant impact on the real economy,” in the U.S., he said in prepared remarks to the Buckhead Rotary Club in Atlanta. “For that reason, I thought it prudent to wait to evaluate wheth-er recent developments change the outlook.”
Lockhart, a centrist, is one of the 10 voting mem-bers of the policy-set-ting Federal Open Mar-ket Committee. It voted 9-1 on Thursday to hold the central bank’s bench-mark short-term rate at near zero percent after a much-anticipated two-day meeting last week.
Federal o!cials start laying ground work for possible October rate hike
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ries and 70 percent of offi-cer injuries.
In 2014, almost 13 per-cent of Champaign Police officers were unserviceable due to injury.
“We believe that in many of the injuries reported, many could have been pre-vented with a Taser,” Dep-uty Chief Joe Gallo said in the council meeting.
Council member Michael La Due was one of the six approvers of the motion. He believes Tasers are a valuable tool to help reduce physical altercations and possible injury.
“There was one incident in Urbana where there was a suicidal subject who had a knife, who wouldn’t drop it, and he was going to harm himself with it,” LaDue said. “They used a Taser, and that ended the crisis.”.
Fourman was one of the dissenters for the case. Though Fourman under-stands the benefits of imple-menting Taser use, she wor-ries that it won’t improve community relations with the police.
“The police are here to protect, we want people to feel that the police are there for them,” Fourman said. “I just don’t want the public to think the police are asking for Tasers in order to have more control.”
The proposed Taser tech-nology will make sure of the transparency of every inci-dent. When the safety switch is turned off, the Taser will immediately start recording audio and video. The Taser
is also limited to only five-second bursts.
“Our department is becoming more trans-parent,” Cobb said in the meeting.
La Due believes that the technology and accountabil-ity with the new Tasers sets it completely apart from the 2004 proposition.
“It was a different discus-sion, a different technology,” La Due said.
The request from the Champaign Police is for 25 Tasers, only assigned to select officers by Cobb, as opposed to the six Tasers the Urbana Police Department received.
Every time the Cham-paign police has needed to use a Taser in the past, they have had to call in a differ-ent force. In these cases, the officer represents a differ-ent force and is not under command of the Champaign chief.
According to the presen-tation given by the Cham-paign Police, there were 71,308 calls of service in 2014. Out of those, there were 4,628 arrests and 211 uses of force. According to the 2014 Champaign Police Use of Force report, only one Taser was deployed by another agency at their direction.
This compares to 33 cas-es involving chemical spray and 184 cases in which offi-cers drew their weapons and pointed.
La Due cites the Taser as a necessary “rung in the lad-der” between physical alter-cation and weapon use.
“You have an increment that you can reach for that doesn’t include striking
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“What do you think about Champaign Police getting Tasers?”
“I am not afraid in anyway of a fair investigation of my behavior in any
venue, whatsoever. The question is: Is it a fair investigation?”
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someone with a baton,” La Due said. “Any use of force has a risk. It’s best having to avoid to use force, and I think that generally the police, particularly now with our new policies, have to pass a fairly high bar to justify the use of force.”
Fourman and La Due both believe the request for Tas-ers will not make any dras-tic changes to campus safe-ty and force for University
students.“I feel that when the kids
come down, they’re down in Champaign, they’re enjoy-ing themselves, I don’t want them to be deterred from coming because they think they’re going to get tased. I don’t think the students would have that fear,” Four-man said.
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“I wish I had a taser. I’d feel a lot safer walking home at night. Can they make that order for 26?”
“I think it’s a good idea and also I would like one too.”
“It seems like a good idea because it’s a relatively nonviolent way of dealing with crime. So, it seems smart.”
“I mean with the amount of crimes we’ve seen over the years ... I mean I feel that’s a good way to stay safe. Even if you don’t got to use it, it’s just good to have handy. You never know what a person is going to be carrying... It’s not as bad as a gun so you gotta protect yourself as well.”
“I feel like on the outside campus, I talked to a Champaign police officer last year, and he said the closer you get to campus area, it isn’t bad. But he said on the outskirts of campus it is pretty dangerous... So, I think it’s a good way to subdue violence in a better way where no one really gets hurt.”
In my experience as a creative writing major, many peers and adult
figures have questioned and muddled over my decision of choosing a major that may seem difficult to apply in the workforce. But more liber-al majors such as linguistics and religion are just as suit-able, or even more so applica-ble, in aiding students to suc-ceed in the career field.
In high school, it was more simple to go through our day without contemplating what interests us as a career potential. Rather, it was a robotic sequence of eight periods, filled with vigor-ous classes with the sole goal of becoming accepted into a prestigious university. In col-lege, many of these students revert back to this philoso-phy that we utilized in high school — when lacking indi-vidual direction, following a structured blueprint leads to success. In high school, this was the overloaded course-work of AP’s and IB’s while in college, it may be com-pared to the pre-professional programs such as business, medicine or law. It isn’t nec-essarily that these direc-tions demote creativity or free thinking in the slight-est. On the contrary, many
students pursuing these pro-grams have a true interest in the topics that they’re study-ing. The problem arises when students believe that simply holding a major in a pre-pro-fessional track will guaran-tee their future success.
In the professional field, employers search for a broad variety of skills, not just technical capability. The Association of American Col-leges & Universities cites that the criteria employers are sought after in col-lege gradu-ates includes “the ability to write and speak well,” “the ability to be creative and innova-tive in solv-ing problems” and “the abil-ity to think clearly about complex prob-lems”. This can incorpo-rate a vari-ety of majors, not just pre-professional ones. The Creative Writing depart-ment here at our Universi-ty states the major “devel-ops students’ analytical and creative skills and prepares them for work or gradu-ate study in any number of fields.” This is a strong com-
ponent of a job applicant that employers claim to search for. Students need to realize the vast amount of choices in majors that are available, many of which are just as capable as pre-professional majors in spring-boarding them into a career that they are interested in.
Students may want to con-sider a double-major or a minor in certain subjects to supplement their interest and to learn new skills. For
example, the commu-nications department states its major pre-pares stu-dents to “become critical thinkers, avid con-sumers of information and effec-tive prob-lem solv-ers in both their per-sonal and profession-al lives.”
These are extremely use-ful skills to have in a vast variety of fields and can be applied to nearly any career. For example, when working with a marketing or a graph-ics team, an individual with a communications background will be able to provide the
necessary skills to active-ly and successfully convey ideas to the general public. In addition, majors such as philosophy can be utilized to create a strong foundation of logic and reasoning for a future career path in law or public service. Even a major in Latin can aid a student in biology, as many medical terms often utilize Latin root phrases making the process of memorizing and under-standing the terms an easier experience. In fact, it was precisely this mindset that led me into pur-suing a major in creative writing, as a stable founda-tion of writing skills will help me into prospering in a variety of fields — whether it be writing as a journalist, applying for medical school or conducting research in a lab.
Liberal arts majors aren’t just topics of interest that are pursued out of the flip-pant excuse that they’re “fun”. Instead, they allow for the exploration of creative thought and innovative prob-lem solving, while also laying down valuable skill sets that may be applied to a multi-tude of professional careers. These students are often what employers are search-ing for, holding criteria that surpass the lines of a typical résumé. Minju is a freshman in LAS. [email protected]
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EDITORIALFulfilling the new American Dream
Liberal arts majors aren’t just topics of
interest that are pursued out
of the flippant excuse that
they’re “fun.”
Back when I lived in Bra-zil, the American dream was just a shady concept
from history classes that I never had much time to think about. The old tale about ideas of freedom and meri-tocracy sounded great, but so unlikely to work in my per-sonal reality that wondering about it seemed to be a waste of time.
Nonetheless, we had our own “Brazilian Dream”: Finding a well-paying, pub-lic job that could guaran-tee good money and status without much effort. Stabil-ity is what most Brazilian families desire for their chil-dren’s future. So it’s no sur-prise that back then, when I started to talk to some of my teachers, friends and rela-tives about entrepreneur-ship and creating my own business, the only feedback I received was a silent and worried look.
I can’t blame them; with a surreal taxation policy that just grows and a econ-omy that just sinks, in Bra-zil more than 48 percent of
new companies close with-in three years and making your own business is indeed a fate to worry about. Things just work differently for us in Brazil, and as in many other countries, the Ameri-can ideals of opportunity and prosperity seem great, but unlikely to happen due to our economic and political circumstances.
From country to country, our hopes are shaped by our cultural reality and our place in our surrounding society, sometimes even before we’re born: Our skin color, religion or ethnic group can signify a lifetime bonanza or suffer-ing that we, as youth, should be capable of dealing with. I was born into a privileged family for Brazilian stan-dards, but that’s contrasted by the fact that I am from the Northeastern region — an area that holds an eth-nic stigma of inferiority that I had to carry with myself, especially when I studied in the country’s “rich and devel-oped” Southeastern region.
It’s not surprising why, for many international stu-dents, the first year living in the United States can be so strange in the best way possible. It provides unique experiences that should
be enjoyed every day with opportunities to be more and more independent; you can be anybody you want to be. Further, in America, some-one’s standing or place in their home country does not matter. Here, I’m just a Bra-zilian, equal to any other Brazilian who might also be at the University; former oppressions don’t translate.
It can be hard to real-ize, but us students at Illi-nois surely are some of the most free and fortunate in the world, and especially for our international commu-nity, that’s a big deal: Here there’s always ears for new ideas and distance from the determinism that many had back home. We can fight for what we consider right and live with independence, keep or question aspects from our culture at our will. This new freedom is so good that many international students who had different privileges back home don’t mind living with-out them. I, for example, got used to living without maids doing all my laundry and cleaning (a common practice in Brazil), and I’m actually enjoying it. The trade-off of doing your own things and taking responsibility for your actions is absolutely worth it.
Here there’s no space for old prejudices. In our own Illini version of the Ameri-can Dream, the differences fall to the wayside when you see friendship between peo-ple from rival countries and the coexistence that creates an diverse and cooperative community, united under the same principles: The princi-ples of the American Dream.
This is a lesson that us international students and even Americans should learn with their experience in this university. Surpass fears made by our preju-dices, see an opportunity to learn in every nation and culture, and see freedom as something that should be spread to everyone. In this point, I believe that we from the international communi-ty have the special duty to make the American Dream, and International Dream, something tangible; some-thing possible in a way that people will not have to travel to this country anymore to get it.
Welcome to the Ameri-can Dream: What you will do with it?
Julio is a freshman in Engineering. [email protected]
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Liberal arts teach skills for the workplaceMINJU PARK
Opinions columnist
An iCard is a student’s key to campus. With it, you
can get into fitness facilities and campus buildings; with a meal plan you need your card to swipe into any pub-lic dining hall.
Depending on your hous-ing situation, it will also give you access to some campus dorms.
As a safety measure, iCards only grant access to buildings for residents of each dorm.
Only residents of each dorm can swipe their card to get in, but that does not always stop unattended guests or people without clearance from slipping in.
Most of the time, these unauthorized people are there for harmless reasons — reasons that typically, hopefully, shouldn’t pose se-curity risks or threats to other residents of the build-ing. They might be looking for a friend’s room, want to use the dorm’s library or be in search of the dining hall. In an effort to be polite, stu-dents hold doors open for one another and exchange casual greetings.
To avoid such an incident, students are encouraged by the University not to hold the door open for others who don’t have an iCard and be cautious about who they let into University build-ings.
It’s tough to know how of-ten this happens, but by watching how students in-teract with one another, it’s a safe guess to say not very often. Our campus has been fortunate not to have a major incident regard-ing someone sneaking into a dorm to commit a danger-ous crime. But that might not always be the case.
Although it is smart to be vigilant and question people who seem out of place, it is not necessarily realistic to have students prove their identities to one another when entering the dorms.
Still, for the safety of all students living in Universi-ty Housing, it is important to find a balance between practicality and general safety.
Students want to believe that everyone on this cam-pus is here for the same reasons: to study and have a better future.
With the exception of theft, we have been lucky to not have a violent crime at a University residence hall.
Vigilant students can help prevent this, but when a criminal is set on com-mitting a crime, a nervous freshman asking for an iCard is not going to be a deterrent.
There may not be a cost effective, reasonable solu-tion to the problem. Campus police and student patrol already have their hands full, and the state’s bud-get issues don’t leave a lot of room for added hiring or new security systems.
So, while students should make a conscious effort to make their dorms safer, a broader effort would be more effective in stopping serious crime, since there may not be other avenues to prevent these potential threats.
JULIO CESAR
Opinions columnist
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — For years, students were told to “sit still and stop fidgeting,” but that has changed with the addi-tion of elliptical machines to classrooms at an elemen-tary school here.
On a recent morning in Christina Philo’s 5th grade classroom at Windsor Ele-mentary School, Adam Boesen, age 10, hopped aboard, not during his P.E. class, but while participat-ing in silent reading time.
“It helps me concen-trate,” said Adam, who kept up a brisk pace on the ellip-tical, while engrossed in a book by Louis Sacher.
“I got my homework done early the other day,” added classmate Joshua Grzesiak, 10, who said the array of so-called fit work stations also helps him to stay focused.
“When I’m on the ellip-tical, I feel the opposite of distracted ... I’m more con-nected with what I’m learn-ing than when I’m just sit-ting,” Joshua said.
Welcome to Windsor’s new fit classrooms, where after researching vari-ous educational methods intended to engage stu-dents in active learning, Principal Shelley Fabrizio has encouraged her staff of kindergarten through 5th grade teachers to allow stu-dents to bike, bounce and even pedal while learning.
“We all know that kids love to move, so we didn’t want to have our students sitting all day long,” said Fabrizio, who partnered with Assistant Principal Virginia Hiltz to create a program with standing desks, stationary bike and elliptical desks and a seem-ingly Willy Wonka-esque, rainbow-hued stool called an Ergo chair.
Hiltz said the collec-tion of roughly $3,635 fit work stations were rotat-ed throughout the school’s classrooms last spring to allow every student the opportunity to experiment with at least one piece of equipment. Students were then surveyed so teachers could learn which particu-lar work stations were most popular.
“Some of the pieces were a huge hit, and others
weren’t as popular,” Hiltz said. “But the bottom line is that students loved the chance to test them out. Many even said they were able to concentrate and focus more on academics while using the equipment, and that’s what we were after.”
With the survey results showing that the Ergo chairs were a favorite of a majority of students, offi-cials used funding from the school’s PTA to purchase six additional chairs, all of which appeared to be happi-ly occupied during a recent visit to several classrooms.
“So many kids have atten-tion needs, and they all have different approaches to learning,” Hiltz said, add-ing that students can choose whether to use a fit worksta-tion or stay seated at a tra-ditional table or desk.
“I started out with stand-ing desks, one per class-
room,” Hiltz said, “and the kids and teachers just loved them ... the teachers wanted some for themselves. And the program just morphed from there.”
Philo said that when the new fit workstations first arrived in her classroom, she was not surprised that her students reacted enthusiastically.
“I knew the kids would be excited and wild, and they all ran over to the ellipti-cal,” Philo said. “So I creat-ed a schedule for each piece of equipment that lists all of my students’ names, and when everyone has had a turn, it starts over again.
“For my more active stu-dents, being able to stand while they learn is especial-ly important,” Philo said. “Before, they would be wan-dering the room and not as focused, but now, these new desks let them work where they want to work.”
Class experiment leads to fit, focused students
KAREN ANN CULLOTTA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEStudents at Windsor Elementary School in Arlington Heights, Ill., including Adam Boesen, age 10, are learning this year with the help of so-called classroom fit stations.
BY ANDREA K. MCDANIELSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
BALTIMORE — Kimber-ly Spletter’s knee would pop backward involuntarily, or her leg would shake uncon-trollably. Sometimes she’d cross her legs tightly, try-ing to make it all stop — to no avail.
“I had to live with it,” said the 50-year-old Frederick woman, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease. “I tried to keep it to a dull roar, but that was the best that I could do.”
That all changed in a mat-ter of hours after Splet-ter recently underwent a groundbreaking procedure at the University of Mary-land Medical Center that guided ultrasound waves through her skull to kill the brain cells interfering with her motor skills. She’s par-ticipating in a clinical study looking at a cutting-edge way — known as focused ultra-sound — to possibly treat cer-tain Parkinson’s symptoms noninvasively.
As many as 1 million peo-ple in the United States live with Parkinson’s, a nervous system disorder that affects movement and becomes progressively worse over time. The disease most often afflicts older people, but about 4 percent of those suffering from it are under age 50. Symptoms include tremors, stiff limbs, trou-ble balancing and a general slowdown in movement. Med-ications can ease the symp-toms but may trigger other side effects in patients.
Spletter was the first at the University of Maryland Medical Center to partici-pate in the study, which also is being conducted in Korea, Canada and at the University of Virginia.
Spletter said many of her painful symptoms have sub-sided, and she is looking forward to evening walks in downtown Frederick as her condition continues to improve.
“I feel like a got a new lease on life,” she said. “My qual-ity of life has improved so
much.”The question is for how
long.Scientists already know
that targeting specific cells in the brain can minimize Parkinson’s symptoms. But current treatments involve more aggressive tactics than the procedure doctors per-formed on Spletter.
The more common method is to cut a hole into a patient’s head and put electrodes on a specific part of the brain. A stimulator implanted under the skin of a patient’s collar bone transmits small electri-cal pulses to block symptoms.
Doctors also can use radia-tion to destroy cells or insert a needle through the head and use radio frequency waves to heat the cells to destroy them.
There were no cuts made to Spletter’s skull as part of her procedure. The most she felt was intense pressure from a metal frame and helmet tight-ened around her head to pre-vent it from moving.
Ultrasonic waves were directed through Spletter’s skull, much like a magnifying glass aims sunlight at a cer-tain spot. The waves provide energy that is low enough that they don’t damage the brain as they pass through, but, where they meet at sin-gle point, the energy adds up, creating enough heat to kill the cells.
The procedure was done as Spletter lay in a MRI machine so doctors could watch what was happening. They would stop from time to time to see if she was having vision problems or other side affects that might signal they weren’t targeting the correct part of the brain.
Once they had a target, doctors asked Spletter to perform certain exercises, such as touching her thumb to her finger or pretending to press a gas pedal with her foot, to see if the surgery was working.
“The effects are immedi-ate,” said Dr. Paul Fishman, a professor of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, who has treated Spletter for sever-
al years and recommended she participate in the trial. “We saw improvement in her Parkinson’s while doing her procedure.”
Spletter could not believe what was happening.
“It was a miracle,” she said.The procedure performed
on Spletter is one of many in the rapidly growing medi-cal field of focused ultra-sound. When the Focused Ultrasound Foundation was founded nine years ago, the therapy was being looked at to treat three conditions. Today, there are more than 58 ways the treatment is being used in various stages of research, development and commercialization.
It has been used to treat fibroid tumors, brain tumors and obsessive-compulsive disorder. There are plans for a clinical trial to see it could be used to treat Alzheim-er’s disease. The Parkin-son’s study builds off a pre-vious pilot trial that looked at focused ultrasound to treat essential tremor, another pro-gressive movement disorder.
“This is just one arrow in the quiver that neurosur-geons will have, if it works, to treat Parkinson’s dis-ease,” said Dr. Neal F. Kas-sell, founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, which is fund-ing part of the study.
Kassell and the Universi-ty of Maryland researchers caution that more research is needed to determine how effective the treatment is in treating Parkinson’s. The study Spletter participated in will ultimately include 40 patients, who will be followed for a year.
“One of the things we don’t know is whether this is durable,” said Dr. How-ard M. Eisenberg, princi-pal investigator and the Raymond K. Thompson Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Splet-ter “was good today. She was seen a few days ago, and she was good. We don’t know if she’ll be good in six months.”
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BY ROBIN DEANSTAFF WRITER
From the hot choco-late that melts the bitterness of winter, to the double shots of espresso that stu-dents crave during fi nals week, these delectable drinks
have become a vital neces-sity to students on campus. The disposable cups con-taining these drinks, how-ever, can actually do more harm than good.
Kill the Cup, an orga-nization that advocates for environmental change through the reduction of single-use cups, has chal-lenged the University to join what they consider to be the nation’s largest reus-able cup contest.
“Our goal is to reduce waste through disposable coffee cups and use it as a way to educate consumers about sustainability,” said Drew Beal, co-founder of Kill the Cup.
From October 5 to 30, Kill the Cup will host a challenge involving 16 uni-versities nationwide. The challenge invites students, faculty members and staff to unite in using reusable cups instead of the dispos-able ones given at most cafes. The university that outperforms the others will receive a reward of up
to $1,000 in social-impact grants to fund a sustainabil-ity project of their choice.
”It’s just a fun way to bring people together to reduce waste,” Beal said.
Kill the Cup began as a graduate school project at the University of Cali-fornia, San Diego in 2013. Their goal was to change the problem of convenience and create a more environ-mentally sustainable habit. By offering prizes to those who used reusable cups, they hoped to make a mean-ingful difference on their campus.
”Everyone knows that it is better for the environ-ment, but no one was actu-ally changing their behav-ior,” Beal said. “It’s the little things that you can do everyday that can build up and have a signifi cant impact.”
After the reduction in dis-posable cups the campaign saw at its starting universi-ty, Kill the Cup decided to offer the same opportunity to other campuses. There-fore, in 2014, they began to spread the competition to other universities through-out the nation.
“I didn’t just want it to be an environmental thing. I wanted it to be a fun thing that anybody can get into,” Beal said. “I thought of it as a lot like the March Mad-
ness basketball tournament. Teams of students and uni-versities that care about making an environmental impact can come together.”
This year, the Universi-ty has been invited to join the madness and attempt to win this environmental challenge. The competition is measured through social impact and waste diver-sion. In addition to using their cup at their universi-ty’s participating cafe, stu-dents should upload a pho-to of themselves with their reusable cup to the cam-paign’s app.
“We identifi ed this com-petition as an excellent opportunity to get students mobilized around reduc-ing waste on campus in the form of the ubiquitous dis-posable coffee cup,” said Katie Pollman, Kill the Cup student ambassador and senior in LAS.
Sohinee Oswal, Kill the Cup student ambassador and sophomore in ACES, also believes this chal-lenge is a good opportunity to create a social movement toward a benefi cial lifestyle.
“Students at U of I care about the environment, and this challenge gives students an easy and tan-gible opportunity to create a positive impact, which we believe can last far beyond the duration of this cam-
paign,” Oswal said. The public can get
involved with the competi-tion by visiting the Espres-so Royale on Goodwin and Oregon with their reus-able mugs throughout the month of October. All stu-dents willing to post a “self-ie” on the Kill the Cup app will also be entered to win weekly prizes and a grand prize.
“This opportunity is unique because we have the support of the non-profi t Kill the Cup and all of the resources that come with that partnership,” Pollman said. “It is a special oppor-tunity to be able to imple-ment these resources at the
local level and be able to create change for our own campus community.”
By getting students more involved to win the compe-tition, both Pollman and Oswal hope to use the grant money as a way to develop other waste reduction ini-tiatives on campus. Specifi -cally, they hope to purchase reusable bags for students, and in turn, reduce the amount of single-use plas-tic bags.
“The goal is that this awareness will lead to sustainable change, and students will continue to bring their reusable mugs long after the competi-tion is over,” Pollman said.
“Ideally, they will then think about how they can apply this concept to other aspects of their lives: reus-able grocery bags, water bottles, etc.”
All are invited to join the “Kill the Cup 2015 at UIUC” Facebook page to receive any updates and opportuni-ties to win prizes.
“The Kill The Cup cam-paign gives students a glimpse into many actions that can be taken to reduce waste on our campus,” Osw-al said. “We hope this will catalyze a consciousness towards a less wasteful lifestyle.”
KILL THE CUP COMES TO ILLINOIS THIS OCTOBER
California State University San Marcos, CA
Humbolt State University, CA
Loyola Marymount University, CA
Miami University, OH
Boston University, MA
The George Washington University, MA
University of Florida, FLUniversity of Georgia, GA
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL
University of Michigan, MI
University of North Carolina, NCUniversity of Richmond, VA
University of Washington, WA
Villanova University, PA
Columbia University, NYPenn State University, PA
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Scoping out the competitionHere are the other 16 campuses participating in the
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RESULTS FROM THE 2014 CHALLENGE
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BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER
Katrina Gerhard likes to go fast.
She likes the rush of speeding down an open road with scenery blur-ring past her. She
likes zeroing in on the com-petition, with nothing else in the world to worry about. Just her, the path and her wheelchair.
She likes to take the posi-tives out of every situation. That’s why the two wheels underneath her are a con-stant reminder of how fast she can go, rather than what was taken away from her.
“I love training,” Ger-hard said. “It’s so much fun. I love being in my chair, I love being able to just do it all the time.”
If not for being diagnosed with an uncommon medical condition in 2011, Gerhard wouldn’t have made the long trip from Acton, Mass., a suburb of Boston, to join one of the best wheelchair rac-ing programs in the coun-try. She wouldn’t have dis-covered her natural ability and passion for wheelchair sports. And she certainly wouldn’t have set two nation-al records before entering the University of Illinois.
But one backflip gone awry set Gerhard on a com-pletely unexpected path.
While competing with her sword dancing team, the Pocket Flyers, during her freshman year of high school, Gerhard broke her collarbone. There were no initial signs of damage to her spine — which tradition-ally precedes loss of limb use — but while her collar-bone healed, Gerhard began to lose feeling in her legs.
With more and more trips to the hospital, doctors finally diagnosed Gerhard with Chronic Inflammato-ry Demyelinating Polyneu-ropathy, a rare condition in the peripheral nerves that causes the gradual loss of sensory and reflex functions.
Doctors are still unsure if the fall catalyzed the rare condition or if the two are coincidental.
So, as a teenager already going through the rocky transitions of high school, Gerhard had to use to a 45-pound machine that she didn’t yet realize would help her go faster than she’d ever imagined.
“Now I’m much more com-fortable with my body and my disability, but at first, there was definitely a lot of grief,” Gerhard said.
Gerhard credits her par-ents for being an unfailing support system while she learned how to navigate day-to-day life in a wheel-chair. And even though she didn’t know it at the time, the simple decision to join her high school track team as a sophomore would add to her support system, and pave a path that looked tough to navigate.
Track and field is a no-cut sport at Acton-Box-borough Regional High, so Gerhard joined simply because she could. She was the only disabled athlete on the team but had plenty of support from her coaches and teammates. She enjoyed going out and being active every day and feeling more in shape than ever.
“It was interesting to go from feeling whole, like feel-ing like a dancer, and then suddenly not being able to dance or walk well any-more,” Gerhard said. “But then (I was) feeling much more fit and feeling much more healthy in my body because I was working out so much. That feeling was awesome.”
The only problem was that the Acton-Boxborough coaches didn’t necessarily know how to train a wheel-chair racer, so they recom-mended Gerhard attend a one-day wheelchair sports clinic in Boston.
That’s where Gerhard met Jimmy Cuevas, the coach of an adaptive sports program.
Upon meeting and instructing Gerhard at the one-day event, Cuevas want-
ed her on his team, the North Jersey Navigators. Despite the distance between the two — 4 to 6 hours by car, depending on traffic — Cue-vas regularly emailed Ger-hard training plans and she competed with the Naviga-tors in the spring.
“(Cuevas) definitely made me feel like I could do this,” Gerhard said. “The school track team was encourag-ing, but I was the only wheel-chair racer, so I was sort of like this inspirational, cute thing, which is nice, but that wasn’t going to encourage me to be an actual competi-tive athlete.”
Gerhard suddenly saw where her life was headed. And with a newfound love for a sport she never expect-ed to be a part of, neverthe-
less actually good at, Ger-hard found no reason to wallow.
“A lot of people look at someone with a disability and there’s a lot of pity and there’s a lot of feeling as if they’re stunted and they can’t reach this full poten-tial, and it’s kind of sad,” Gerhard said. “Being part of a community where there’s no excuses — no one’s going to sit around because that’s not what life’s about, espe-cially for athletes.”
Under Cuevas’ guidance, Gerhard started training six days a week during her junior year and began par-ticipating in adaptive races across the country.
In the summer of 2014, she traveled to the Nation-al Junior Disability Cham-pionships in Ames, Iowa, walked away with 10 gold medals and set U-20 nation-al records in javelin and pen-tathlon. She already held the
U-20 record in shot put.She also took part in the
Falmouth Road Race on Cape Cod, which she does annually due in part to the beautiful view of the beach from the course. In 2014, she placed second only to famous Illini and Paralym-pic great, Tatyana McFad-den, whom Gerhard looks up to a great deal.
McFadden has taken notice.
“What struck me most was her personality,” McFadden said of her new teammate. “She’s definitely very outgo-ing and really wants to learn a lot about the sport. Watch-ing her race and watching her compete, she has great potential.”
Like McFadden, Gerhard hopes to uphold the tradition of great Illinois wheelchair racers. After just three and a half weeks of training with her, head coach Adam Bleakney believes Gerhard has what it takes to be very successful.
“She certainly is very dil-igent and committed, aca-demically and athletical-ly,” Bleakney said. “She’s very positive, very motivat-ed, and those are the qual-ities that I look for when I’m recruiting. There’s no
question that she’s going to be very successful.”
Similar to her previous coaches, Bleakney will look to further hone Gerhard’s natural talent for distance racing. As a program that saw 31 athletes — between alumni and current rac-ers — represent the U.S. in the 2012 London Paralym-pic Games, Gerhard came to the right place to become an elite Paralympian.
The 20-plus student-ath-letes in Bleakney’s program train together every morn-ing. They may not all com-pete in the same events or even rely on each other to be successful in competition, but the sense of community they create is a vital aspect to the tradition of excellence Bleakney and his staff have built over the past 11 years.
“The success of this pro-gram is built between the athletes and the camarade-rie and the positive energy
that exists everyday with this team,” Bleakney said. “That’s the real ingredient you put in when you’re mix-ing everything together that makes success happen.”
Bleakney holds his team to a high academic standard, which Gerhard has bought into. Gerhard has a lot of life goals, and perhaps her lofti-est is to eventually become a doctor: She’s majoring in biology and plans to attend medical school.
Gerhard attacks her aca-demics in the same man-ner she pushes herself in training.
“For me, the sport actual-ly helps academics because working out just makes me feel more focused and awake and alive,” Gerhard said.
Previous to her condition, Gerhard didn’t think she would end up as a part of a competitive team at the col-
legiate level any more than she considered herself an athlete.
Now she is training for the Chicago Marathon, a 26.2-mile adventure through the city on Oct. 11. Last year’s winner? McFadden, who has won the race in five of the last six years, while plenty of Illinois racers placed not far behind her.
Because she still has some minor sensation in her legs, it is difficult for Gerhard to stay in her racing chair for much longer than an hour at a time. She’s worried she may have to stop to take a break from her chair during the marathon, but recently completed a 21-mile run dur-ing training, her longest dis-tance yet.
She has no doubt that she will finish her first full mar-athon — she won the 2015 Boston Half-Marathon.
Right now, completing the Chicago Marathon is the first on Gerhard’s long list of goals. No matter what place she ends up taking, Gerhard will find solace in the long, secluded endurance run through the Windy City.
“I really like the longer races because you’re out on the road in the middle of nowhere and there’s no one around you, and it just feels great,” Gerhard said. “It’s weird because when you’re out there alone, you’re working really hard and you’re tiring your body out so much, but you also feel really peaceful and almost as if you’re meditating. You go into this zone and every-thing is more colorful and beautiful.
“You’re just flying.”
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KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINITop: Katrina Gerhard during practice at the Track and Soccer stadium on Sept. 7
PHOTOS COURTESY OF KATRINA GERHARDMiddle left: Gerhard with the Pocket Flyers, her sword-dancing team, in 2012Middle right: Gerhard after winning the 2014 BAA Half MarathonBottom: Gerhard, at age 14, doing contra dancing, a type of American folk dance
“Watching her race and watching her compete, she has great potential,”TATYANA MCFADDEN
WHEELCHAIR RACER
BY JON JOFFESTAFF WRITER
The Illinois soccer team scored an impressive 13 goals in its first four games of the season.
Five matches later, the team has only tallied four more goals.
A lack of scoring comes as a frustration to head coach Janet Rayfield, not because the chances are not coming, but because her team is fail-ing to convert.
“I liked the chances that we got, I just did not like the mentality that we had throughout the game on Sunday,” Rayfield said. “You do not win Big Ten games without 90 minutes of con-sistent effort, work rate, and relentlessness.”
Rayfield is approaching it with a “we’ll get the next one” attitude, but feels that her team shouldn’t take any scoring chances for granted.
The Illini are outshooting their opponents — firing off 15 shot attempts per game while allowing 11 attempts on average — but their goals per game average is down
to 1.89.Shots were plentiful for
Illinois on the road over the weekend, which featured a 0-0 tie versus Indiana and a 3-1 loss to Purdue.
The team rifled off 22 shots (seven on target) Fri-day while getting off 12 Sun-day (seven on target).
“I think you can probably look at each one individu-ally, and have an area or a place where we can do bet-ter to convert some of those,” Rayfield said.
Flaws off her game lately
Illini superstar — a label most definitely earned by past performances — Jan-nelle Flaws was subbed out around the 27th minute on Sunday.
Her coach simply felt that the redshirt-senior forward wasn’t getting the job done.
“That high standard has to be for everyone,” Rayfield said. “If you look at the first 20 minutes versus the last 20 minutes, that’s the kind of effort, work rate, and con-sistency that we need from
everybody on the field.”Flaws is experiencing a
scoring drought of her own. She netted seven goals in the Illini’s first four games of the season, but has only scored one time in her last five contests.
“If giving her a break was going to get that (level of consistency), then that is what we needed to do,” Ray-field said. “We’ve got to find a way to get that effort and mentality consistent.”
Freshman Katie Murray scores first goal of her career
Freshman midfielder Katie Murray scored her first goal in an Illini uniform in the 88th minute of the team’s game against Purdue.
“Katie Murray is getting better every day,” Rayfield said. “For a freshman to understand what Big Ten soccer is like, I think the first weekend is going to be a real step forward for Katie.”
Rayfield thought that Mur-ray’s play in the second half against Purdue was out-
standing, noting that she had more an energy and a pep in her step that was not present in the first half.
Murray’s coach spoke highly about the freshman that has made a big impact
so far with the Illini.“This is what I know about
Katie Murray: every time we challenge her with some-thing like that, she steps up and answers,” Rayfield said. “This will be a real step for-
ward for her, and I expect her to keep moving forward as we go on through the Big Ten season.”
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BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER
Head Illinois hock-ey coach Nick Fabbrini describes his team using many different adjectives — fast, resilient, talented — but the word “experi-enced” is not necessarily in that mix.
Of the 27 players on the Illini’s active roster, 15 are either a sophomore or fresh-man, and only five of the remaining 12 are seniors.
“We had a lot come back this season, but most of that talent is young,” Fabbrini said. “We graduated four guys last year, all of which played a big role for us. We feel that the guys that we have here along with the ones we have coming in are ready to fill those roles for us.”
Last weekend, Illinois’ youth accounted for nearly all of the team’s offensive output.
Illini sophomores man-aged to score six of the team’s 10 goals over the weekend, including three by left wing Eric Cruickshank — arguably Illinois’ most potent offensive threat, who lead the team with 32 total points last season.
“Eric works hard every shift,” fellow sophomore Mike Fischer said. “He never stops moving his feet. Great player and leader on the ice and in the locker room.”
Doing it With Defense
Prior to Illinois’ two-game series with Michi-gan State, the Illini were trounced by the Spring-field Jr. Blues, giving up 13 goals over two games on the road.
Over the weekend, how-
ever, Illini defensemen were the highlight of the series.
Illinois’ suddenly stingy defensive line gave up only two goals in the two games against MSU, none of which came in the second period or later.
“We played a little bit of a different system on our ice this weekend,” Fabbrini
said. “Our guys are more comfortable with man-to-man rather than the zone-style defense we tried to play on a smaller rink last weekend. I thought we did a great job of limiting (Michi-gan State’s) time and space.”
This is something we can build off of,” Cruick-shank added. “It showed our character.”
Three Goalies, One NetAnother wrinkle in Illi-
nois’ defense came in Sat-urday’s game when the Illini’s starting goaltender from the night before, Joe Olen, stayed on the bench during pre-game warm-ups after producing 20 saves in a 6-0 shut-out win.
Instead, Zev Grumet-Morris stood between the
posts for the Illini — a move Fabbrini said will be a common occurrence all season.
“We have three good goaltenders, and they’ve all earned the right to play,” Fabbrini said. “It’s my challenge to figure out how to get all three in on a reg-ular basis, but up until the end of the year, I wouldn’t
expect any goalie to play back-to-back games.”
If Fabbrini stays true to his word, Illini fans should expect goaltender David Heflin to get the start in net next weekend in a series against Oklahoma.
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Hockey’s youth help sweep Spartans
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois’ Joe Olen deflects a shot during round one of the CSCHL hockey tournament vs. Iowa State at the Ice Arena on Feb. 20, 2015.
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois’ head coach Janet Rayfield instructs her team during the game against No. 20 Wisconsin at the Illini Soccer and Track Stadium on Oct. 12, 2013.
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Ali Stark (13) spikes the ball during the game vs Louisville at Huff Hall on Aug. 28.
Illinois defeats Texas Southern in invitational
Soccer’s sparse scoring continues after hot start
BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER
The No. 6 Illinois volleyball team opened the Sun Devil invitational on Friday with a masterful sweep of Texas Southern (25-13, 25-7, 25-11).
The Illini (9-2) defense sti-fled the Tigers’ (2-9) offense, limiting them to a negative hitting percentage through-out the match. On the other end, Illinois’ offense regis-tered a .402 hit percentage, which included hitting .714 in the second set.
Illinois’ offense was led by hitters Katie Roustio, Michelle Strizak and Ali Stark, all of whom led the team with nine kills in the contest. Setter Alexis Vili-unas facilitated the scor-ing output with 27 assists throughout the match in place of starter Jordyn Poulter.
Middle blocker Katie Stadick was given a break throughout the majority of the match, which seemed to pay off; she returned to lead the team in kills in its next two matches. Stadick credit-ed her teammates for show-casing the team’s depth in the matchup.
“What’s really cool about our team is that you can put in anybody and it doesn’t really make a whole lot of difference,” Stadick said. “Our practices are pretty competitive.”
Illini face unexpected challenge from UNLV
The Illini appeared to be on their way to a sixth-consec-utive sweep in their second-round match against the Uni-versity of Nevada-Las Vegas. The Rebels, however, man-aged to take advantage of their opponent’s confidence to take a third set and end Illinois’s sweep streak (25-18, 25-12, 21-25, 15-16).
Head coach Kevin Ham-bly was disappointed in his team’s complacency in the third set, and said the play did not meet expectations.
“We dominated three of the sets and let up in one of the sets,” Hambly said. “We played the way we should but in the one set, we took it easy and expected them to just roll over, and they didn’t.”
The team committed sev-en errors in the third set, one more than the previous two combined. The Illini recov-ered in the fourth set with a defensive effort that limited the Rebels to a .000 hit per-centage — they had an equal number of kills and errors — to secure their second victory of the tournament.
Poulter records two double-doubles on the weekend
Poulter returned to the
starter role against UNLV and played one of her best matches of the season.
The freshman setter recorded 46 assists, the second most of her career, and added 10 digs to help lead Illinois to its sixth con-secutive victory. It was her third double-double of the season, and first since the opening weekend at Huff Hall.
She followed the per-formance up with a sec-ond double-double against Arizona State, tallying 38 assists and a career high 11 digs. She also recorded six points, matching her career high. Her standout play was in a losing effort: the team lost its second match of the season to the Sun Devils.
After the tournament, Poulter said that she is still working on her synchro-nization with the team’s hitters, but she is feeling comfortable in her role heading into Big Ten play this weekend.
“It’s been team effort,” Poulter said. “I think that I have been doing a good job of getting passes that are easy to move around, and our hitters have been doing a great job of scoring and making great shots with whatever ball I put up.”
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Power rankingsDAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTEditor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff ranks the football teams in the Big Ten 1-14 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.
1. OHIO STATE (LAST WEEK: 1) Maybe the Buckeyes do have a quarterback problem. Cardale Jones started and threw two interceptions, and J.T. Barrett came in and threw a touchdown and interception and the team barely survived Northern Illinois 20-13.
3. WISCONSIN (3)Two Badgers were ejected and there was an errant fi re alarm that caused a delay at Camp Randall Stadium but neither affected Wisconsin in its 28-3 win over Troy.
2. MICHIGAN STATE (2) The Spartans scored 28 points in the fi rst half against Air Force, and Connor Cook threw for 247 yards and four touchdowns in Michigan State’s 35-21 win. The Spartans were elevated to No. 2 in the AP Top 25 for the fi rst time since 1966.
6. IOWA (9)C.J. Beathard threw for 258 yards but no touchdowns and an interception. Iowa’s rushing game gained 105 yards and three touchdowns in the Hawkeyes’ 27-24 win over Pittsburgh.
4. NORTH WESTERN (6)Northwestern’s Warren Long ran 55 yards for a touchdown and Solomon Vault returned a kickoff for a touchdown in the Wildcats’ 19-10 win over Duke, which puts them at 3-0.
7. NEBRASKA (4)
The Cornhuskers scored 23 points in the fourth quarter against Miami to force overtime but Miami cornerback Corn Elder caught an interception on the fi rst play in overtime and Miami hit the fi eld goal to defeat Nebraska 36-33.
8. MICHIGAN (7)Ty Issac ran for 114 yards, including a 76-yard touchdown run, and Jake Rudock threw for 123 yards, a touchdown and an interception, in Michigan’s 28-7 win over UNLV.
11. ILLINOIS (8)Josh Ferguson was the lone bright spot for the Illini against North Carolina as Illinois’ defense allowed Tar Heels’ quarterback Marquise Williams 203 passing yards and 105 rushing yards in its 48-14 loss.
5. MINNESOTA (5)The Golden Gophers managed to score 10 points against Kent State in a game when quarterback Mitch Leidner threw for 184 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. Despite his poor play, his team beat the Golden Flashes 10-7.
10. MARYLAND (13)Caleb Rowe’s fi rst start at quarterback for Maryland included 297 passing yards, four touchdowns and three interceptions in the Terrapins’ 35-17 win over South Florida.
9. PENN STATE (10)Saquon Barkley ran for 195 yards and two touchdowns against Rutgers, a team that also recruited the running back, and Christian Hackenberg threw for 141 yards in the Nittany Lions’ 28-3 win over Rutgers.
12. INDIANA (11)Nate Sudfeld’s 355 passing yards and Jordan Howard’s 203 rushing yards helped negate the 484 passing yards the Hoosier defense allowed in their 38-35 win over Western Kentucky.
13. PURDUE (12)The Boilermakers’ defense allowed Virginia Tech to fi nish with 223 passing yards and 238 rushing yards in Purdue’s 51-24 loss. The Boilermakers are 1-2 and face Bowling Green next week.
14. RUTGERS (14)Chris Laviano threw two interceptions and the Scarlet Knights’ defense allowed 330 rushing yards in Rutgers’ 28-3 loss to Penn State. The Scarlet Knights have won two of their last seven Big Ten games.
BY DRAKE PENASTAFF WRITER
Head Illinois swim-ming and diving coach Sue Novitsky will finally get an opportunity to gauge how her team’s hours of practice and summer swim schedules helped her players in the teams’ first intra-squad meet on Oct. 2.
The Illini will compete against each other at the ARC pool, their home arena and practice facil-ity. The team will get in some competitive reps, all in preparation for its first competitive meet against the trio of Eastern Illinois, Western Illinois and Olivet Nazarene two weeks later.
Novitsky said she is pleased with what she’s seen from her athletes so far,
”I feel pretty good, the team’s been working hard,” she said. “We have been doing some test sets to see where we are in terms of our fitness lev-els and everything, and I like the practice we have been putting in, progress-ing towards the meet.”
Freshmen prepare for their fi rst taste of collegiate competition.
With the first meets approaching, nerves are beginning to set in for some of the freshman who will be swimming at the collegiate level for the fi rst time.
Freshman Madeline Kuhn has some fi rst meet jitters, but has already got-ten accustomed to the life of a Division-I athlete.
“It’s really nerve-racking but also really exciting,” Kuhn said. “It is so much work, but it’s so worth it already. Being able to say you’re a D-1 athlete is just so cool.”
Novitsky said she is curi-ous to see how her freshman will react to the spotlight of collegiate competition.
“Hopefully they take it that they have swam hun-dreds of meets in their life-time and this is just another one, they are just wearing a different cap,” Novitsky said. “Some get nervous and make it into something huge but some swim really fast which is great to see ... It’s really about talking
it through with them and just reminding them to get themselves ready like they normally do.”
From homeschool to Big Ten student athlete
Senior swimmer Lori Lynn takes on a lot of responsibility for her team. As a co-captain and men-tor to some of her younger teammates, Lynn takes on a big role for the Illini.
Lynn eased into her roles on the team, and part of the reason may be due to her schooling prior to her ten-ure at Illinois. Lynn was homeschooled, and she said she feels that it has helped her moving for-ward academically and
competitively.“It really helped me with
being more dedicated to my work. It was internally motivating and that helped a lot,” Lynn said.
People she knew ques-tioned Lynn’s decision of coming to a bigger school at fi rst, but she said that feels so long ago as she prepares to play out her fi nal year for the Illini.
“A lot of people wondered how I was going to do it, being homeschooled then coming to U of I,” Lynn said regarding her transition. “But I did really well, and I wasn’t too overwhelmed with all the people. I really like it.”
Illini prepare for intra-squad meet
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DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois’ head coach Sue Novitsky cheers on her swimmers during the meet against Illinois State at the ARC in 2013.
BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER
Illinois football’s first drive against North Caroli-na on Saturday couldn’t have been drawn up any better. The offense traveled 73 yards over 11 plays in 4:07. Quar-terback Wes Lunt looked effi cient with his throws and running back Josh Fer-guson ran productive routes in what would be a 133-yard rushing day.
But the end of the drive would foreshadow how the offense’s day would go. Head coach Bill Cubit decided to go for it on fourth down from North Carolina’s three-yard line. Lunt took the snap and looked around before he found wide receiver Geron-imo Allison in the middle of the end zone. Allison had the ball in his hands but couldn’t fi nish the catch when he fell to the ground.
“The biggest things from the game were the missed opportunities offensively,” Cubit said. “It seems that we let things like that snow-ball ... We just didn’t make plays when we needed to. The dropped balls stopped drives all the time.”
Illinois wide receiv-ers dropped nine passes
against North Carolina and have dropped 21 on the sea-son, more than all of last year. Both Lunt and Chayce Crouch completed 19 of 38 passes for 172 yards but the offense’s struggles con-cerned Cubit. Dropped pass-es have been a trend for the Illini even though the offense scored 96 points in the fi rst two games of the season.
Cubit called the dropped passes a “community effort.” Lunt was also not perfect even though the starting offensive line hasn’t allowed a sack this season. Play-ers said they have a strong relationship with the start-ing quarterback and like the type of leader that he is — both one who will address the issue and also give hard love.
“A little bit of both, it just depends,” Marchie Murdock said. “Wes, being a good lead-er, you have to know what is good for the person, so may-be one guys takes harsh crit-icism than another. I think Wes does that really well.
Kicking game struggles
Illinois’ kicking game showed the same struggles from last season on Saturday.
Starting kicker Taylor Zalewski missed two key fi eld goals. The fi rst came just before halftime after the Illini moved the ball to North Carolina’s 38-yard line. Cubit elected to attempt the 57-yard fi eld goal instead of throwing
a Hail Mary in the fi nal sec-onds. Zalewski’s kick had the distance but was wide right.
“That was a crucial time of the game, we needed some points coming out of the half,” Lunt said. “That really defl ated us because we really needed points at that time of the game.”
The kicker also missed a fi eld goal on the fi rst drive of the second half after the Illini offense went 65 yards in 12 plays down 20-7. Zalews-ki’s 45-yard attempt bounced off the right upright and the Illini wasted an opportunity.
Zalewski was 4-for-4 in the fi rst games of the sea-son, and hit a 43-yard fi eld goal against Kent State. The senior hoped to turn the cor-ner after a season when he made 3-of-6 fi eld goals and was replaced by junior David Reisner. Illinois kickers fi n-ished 9-for-17 in 2014, last in the Big Ten, and also made 38-of-42 PATs, also worst in the conference.
“We’re confi dent (in the kickers),” Lunt said. “Tay-lor and David both have the capabilities to be great kick-ers and we’re all confi dent in them.”
Exhaustion
Saturday was the fi rst game many players compet-ed for the entire game. Illi-nois held large leads in its fi rst two games of the sea-son and the coaching staff
didn’t want to risk injury to the Illini starters.
Cubit admitted that fatigue was a factor along with the high temperatures — Cha-pel Hill, N.C., had a high of 87 degrees Saturday. While
temperature and exhaus-tion were factors, players didn’t want to blame their poor performance on the circumstances.
“I don’t think it was too much,” Lunt said. “We prac-
tice hard like that every day ... I think that the heat was a factor but it wasn’t anything that was game changing.”
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TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois quarterback Wes Lunt throws a pass in the game against Western Illinois at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 12.
Interim coach Clark brings energetic perspective to women’s tennis team BY EMMA MCGOWEN STAFF WRITER
After serving an eight-month stint as an assis-tant coach for the Illinois women’s tennis team, Evan Clark was named the inter-im head coach for the 2015-16 season.
Prior to coming to Illinois, Clark was the head coach for the University of North Car-olina-Wilmington women’s tennis team for two years, where he had a 31-11 record. During his fi rst year with the Illini, Clark helped the team to a 14-10 record.
In his new position, Clark said he hopes to bring a lot of energy, experience and knowledge about the strate-gic side of the game to the program.
“We really need to understand how to play your strengths to some-one’s weaknesses,” Clark said. “It’s not really a team sport; you’ve got six individ-uals at a time so you really have to build up each indi-vidual’s strengths. So we’re going to do a lot of individu-al work, which will probably be something different than they’ve had in the past.”
The team will kick off its
season at the Puerto Rico Invitational on Sept. 25. In preparation, Clark plans on having the team work on sets, singles and doubles.
“My philosophy is when you make the individual bet-ter, you make the team bet-ter,” Clark said.
Tennis in different places
Some athletes are lucky enough to always have access to some sort of facil-ity and people to practice with; others aren’t so lucky. During the school year, the men’s and women’s tennis teams have the Atkins Ten-nis Center they can utilize. But when school’s not in ses-sion, fi nding a place to con-tinue to hone their skills can be hard for athletes.
Freshman Jaclyn Switkes, from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, didn’t have any problems fi nding a court to play on when she was at home, but fi nding someone to play with was another story.
“You’d think Florida has a lot of tennis players,” Switkes said, “But that’s South Florida. Where I live there aren’t a lot of people
to play with.”Because tennis wasn’t as
popular in her area grow-ing up, in order for Switkes to continue to advance her playing ability, she had to travel to academies.
On the other hand, senior Emily Barretta, who’s from the suburbs of Chicago, never had any issues fi nd-ing someone to play with. In fact, she grew up play-ing with and against some of her current teammates, like junior Alexis Casati.
International players
This year, the Illinois women’s tennis team has three international students on its roster, freshman Dan-iela Pedraza Novak from Bogota, Colombia; sopho-more Jade Hilton from Mis-sissauga, Ontario; and junior Louise Kwong from Toronto, Ontario.
Kwong notes that play-ing tennis in Canada is pretty similar to playing it in Illinois, but the intensi-ty increases due to college tournaments.
In Canada, if a play-er wants to continue past junior tennis, because schol-
arships aren’t given, most players will come down to the U.S. to play in college.
One similarity both play-ers noticed was that in the U.S., tennis is more of a team effort.
“It’s so much more intense,” Kwong said. “It’s a bigger community and more popular, but the competition is just as tough.”
Novak noted that you rep-resent yourself in Columbia, but in the U.S., you repre-sent your school.
“You need to be able to recognize what you’re able to do as a part of a team and what you’re not able to do,” she said. “Here you have to remember that everything you do has a repercussion on the team ... You have to cheer up your teammates and be positive at all times.”
With the team leaving for the season opener in Puerto Rico tomorrow, Novak said she doesn’t fi nd herself ner-vous for her fi rst meet at all.
“Being a freshman, you just have to play and show yourself and just go out there and enjoy everything you do.”
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I M P A S S E A N T EA D E L E A S T A I R EL O L L C T A U N T I EU R I S M I D D L E E A S TM A Z E A M O R E I K E AS L A T N E S T S D E E S
Martinez Johnson is a member of the wheel-chair basketball team
here at the University of Illinois. He sat down to talk with me, and by the end, completely inspired me. I hope reading his words can do the same for you.
Kevin McCarthy: When did you start playing basketball?
Martinez Johnson: My freshman year of high school. I tried it, fell in love, and played all through-out high school. My goal became to come and play at
the University of Illinois. KM: What have you
learned during your time playing basketball?
MJ: When I was on my wheelchair basketball team in high school, some of my teammates were unable to play at the level that I could. They couldn’t even pass or catch a ball. I gained so much appreciation for the skills and body that I have. There are people that are way worse off than me. Peo-ple ask me if I wish I could walk, and I say “no.” But there are people who wish they were as well off as I am physically.
KM: What does it mean to you to be an athlete here at the University of Illinois?
MJ: It really upsets me when people don’t under-stand it. Yes, I’m a wheel-chair athlete — but I’m an
athlete. Just as a player on the football team or the basketball team is an ath-lete — I am too.
KM: You’re an inspiration to so many students here — how does that hit you?
MJ: Just the fact that I’m on this historic team, it hits me a lot. I look back and I’m like, “Wow.” I’m at the University of Illinois — one of the best schools in the nation, and I get to be an athlete at the same time. I’m just so blessed to be here. When people tell me that they look up to me, I laugh it off because I’m not doing anything that’s special. But, I also tell them that I look up to them too. If you go to this school, you motivate me. I want to win a championship for this University — and you’re a part of that — so I want to
win this for you too. KM: How did it feel to
lose the national champion-ship game last year?
MJ: It hurt a lot. We lost a few guys from last year’s team, so we’re kind of in a rebuilding stage — or should I say reloading stage — but guys are ready to step up. We’re ready to get back there again.
KM: Describe the feel-ing you get when you’re out there playing basketball.
MJ: Every time I go out there, I always feel so energized. It’s a feeling of amazement. To be a part of a family and a program like this, it just excites me.
KM: The University of Illinois puts an enormous focus on the inclusion and equality of disabled stu-dents — what’s it like to be a part of this school?
MJ: It’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen in my life. Once I got here I learned that a lot of the dis-ability programs that are offered at schools across the country started here. Even though a lot of dis-abled students don’t get to come here, they’re still reaping the benefits of the programs this universi-ty designed. That’s just so overwhelming — it brings a tear to my eye — to think that this school took that leap of faith to make so many changes and lay down the cornerstones for dis-ability services across the country.
KM: Tell me about Marti-nez Johnson in 5 words.
MJ: Smiling — does that count?
KM: Yes, that’s one. MJ: And at times, I’m
funny. I’m energetic, calm and serious.
KM: Your initials are MJ — any coincidence there?
MJ: No, no, no. I am nowhere near the wheel-chair Michael Jordan. But I’m a big MJ fan.
KM: How do you want your teammates to remem-ber you?
MJ: As a hard-worker and a guy who would lay his life down for his team.
KM: Would you trade anything you’ve experi-enced in life?
MJ: No. I wouldn’t change anything, but I would like to go back in time to live things twice.
Kevin is a sophomore in Media. [email protected] @KevOMcCarthy
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINI The wheelchair basketball team meets with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan during his visit to the ARC on Wednesday. Martinez Johnson, Illini basketball player, sits in front of Duncan.
Martinez Johnson: The inspiring storyKEVIN
MCCARTHY
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