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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 3 B | S u d o k u 3 B
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BYE BYE BECKMAN
Thomas dismisses head coach due to preliminary report, Cubit named interim
with one week before season opener
Amid chaos, confidence in Cubit remains
ILLINI FOOTBALL COACHES SINCE 1980COACH YEAR RECORDMike White 1980-87 47-41-3John Mackovic 1988-91 30-16-1Lou Tepper 1991-96 25-30-2Ron Turner 1997-2004 35-57-0Ron Zook 2005-2011 34-51-0Vic Koenning 2011(interim) 1-0-0Tim Beckman 2012-present 12-25-0
2013:NAME ROUND PICK(OVERALL) POSITION TEAM DRAFTEDHugh Thornton 24(86) OG Indianapolis ColtsAkeem Spence 3(100) DT Tampa Bay Buccaneers Terry Hawthorne 17(150) CB Pittsburgh Steelers Michael Buchanan 20(226) DE New England Patriots
2014: None 2015: None
AVERAGE MARGIN OF DEFEAT 2012: 24.6 2013: 18.1 2014: 21.6
RECRUITING RANKINGS ACCORDING TO RIVALS.COM
2012: 65th overall, 12th Big Ten2013: 47th overall, 9th Big Ten2014: 75th overall, 14th Big Ten2015: 45th overall, 6th Big Ten
TOP-5 RECRUITS RANKINGS ACCORDING TO 247SPORTS.COM
1. Aaron Bailey, quarterback, 4-star, .9277 composite 2. Gabe Megginson, offensive lineman, 4-star, .91823. Ke’Shawn Vaughn, running back, 4-star, .89534. Jihad Ward (transfer), defensive end, 3-star, .88255. Paul James, defensive end, 3-star, .8753
ILLINOIS YEAR-BY-YEAR RECORD UNDER BECKMAN 2012: 2-10 (0-8 Big Ten)2013: 4-8 (1-7)2014: 6-7 (3-5)2015:
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BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER
Bill Cubit issued a rallying cry in his fi rst press confer-ence as interim head coach for the Illinois football team. As he spoke to the media, his words were more directed toward Illini nation and the fi ve players standing in the room watching their new coach try to quell a whirlwind of emotions.
His message was clear from the moment he took the lectern to when he was asked about staying past this season.
“I love this place,” Cubit said. “I really do, from when I fi rst got here — I love the people here, I love the stu-dent athletes, I love the fans and believe it or not, I love
(the media). I just like this place. And when you like something, you can be pas-sionate about it. I have two rules, know what you want and love what you do. I love what I do.”
As Cubit assumes a new role, he’ll be stepping out of his supporting role and into the spotlight of the hot seat. A self-described “mushroom,” when he’s working just on offense, Cubit will have to use these skills and call upon old ones as he takes over the entire team.
At Illinois as offensive coordinator since 2013, Cubit has transformed the Illini offense. In his fi rst year at Illinois, Cubit helped take the offense from 122nd to 71st.
But he has also played head
coach twice before. His fi rst stint was at Widener Univer-sity from 1992-96 and then again from 2005-2012 at Western Michigan.
He was out for morning breakfast with his wife when the call came Friday.
“For me, it was a no brain-er to go in there and take it over,” Cubit said. “And that’s what I’m going to do. I love these kids.”
An abrupt halt to the morn-ing was also felt among the players who were informed of the situation only hours before word was offi cially released. Players at the press conference expressed shock, but also confi dence.
“Coach Cubit is a well respected guy on our staff,” defensive lineman Mason
Monheim said. “Guys look up to him because he’s a straight shooter and he demands a lot. As players, that’s what you want, not all the time you might like it but at the end of the day, that’s what you want. You want someone that’s going to bring out the best in you and he does that.”
Cubit said he hadn’t seen the preliminary report that prompted former head coach Tim Beckman’s fi ring, but the focus — as stated by Athletic Director Mike Thomas and President Timothy Killeen — is on the student athletes.
“Whether it takes 16-80 hours it doesn’t really make a difference,” Cubit said. “When you understand about these student athletes, that they have one shot at
this thing, they’re there at the University of Illinois ... They play in a great confer-ence and it’s my job and all the other coaches jobs to go out there and give 120 per-cent because that’s the only way you go about this busi-
ness and that’s the way we do it in our profession.”
Cubit currently earns $515,000 and will receive $100,000 extra a month for four months as interim coach.
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIFormerly the football offensive coordinator, Bill Cubit addresses the media after being named interim head coach after Tim Beckman’s dismissal on Friday.
Dec. 9, 2011 – New coach: Hired as head football coach at Illinois.
Sept. 1, 2012 – First game, first win: Coaches Illinois to 24-7 win over Western Mich-
igan in his fi rst game as an Illini.
Sept. 22, 2012 – Louisiana Tech disaster: Illinois loses to Louisiana Tech 52-24 in what would be the fi rst of eight straight losses.
Oct. 6, 2012 – Tobacco incident: Beckman was caught by TV cameras chewing tobacco on the Illinois sideline during the team’s game against Wisconsin.
Nov. 24, 2012 – Tough first year: Illinois los-es to Northwestern 50-14 to end 2013 2-10.
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Thomas dismisses head coach due to preliminary report, Cubit named interim
with one week before season opener
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Nov. 23, 2013 – A B1G win: Beckman picks up his fi rst Big Ten win, Illinois’ fi rst in
more than two years, with a 20-16 victory over Purdue.
May 10, 2015 — Allega-tions arise: Former Illi-nois lineman Simon Cvijan-
ovic sends out a series of tweets alleging Tim Beckman of player abuse and medical mistreatment.
Oct. 4, 2014 – Call for fir-ing: Illinois loses to Purdue 38-27, causing many fans
to call for Beckman’s fi ring.
Oct. 25, 2014 – Minnesota Homecoming win: Illinois rallies to beat Minnesota 28-24, the only top-25 victory in Beckman’s time at Illinois.
Nov. 22, 2014 – Penn State comeback: Kick-er David Reisner hits three fi eld goals against Penn State, including a game-winner, to keep Illinois’ bowl hopes alive.
Nov. 29, 2014 — Land of Lincoln winners: Illinois defeats Northwestern 47-33 in Evan-ston, Illinois, to qualify for a bowl game.
Beckman fired: Pre-liminary fi ndings in the
investigation claimed Beckman had made efforts to deter injury reporting and infl uence medical decisions that pressured players to avoid and delay treatment. Thomas judged that Beckman had treated student-athletes inappropriately with respect to remaining on scholarship. Offensive coordinator Bill Cubit was named interim head coach for the season.
May 13, 2015 — Investigation time: Former Chancellor Phyllis Wise announced the Univer-sity hired Franczek Radelet of Chicago to inves-tigate the allegations made against Beckman.
May 11, 2015 — Thomas speaks: Illinois Ath-letic Director Mike Thomas voices his support of Beckman following Cvijanovic’s accusations.
Dec. 26, 2014 — Beckman’s final game: Illinois loses 35-18 to Louisiana Tech in the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl, ending the sea-son with a 6-7 record.
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was reported in the 1500 Block of W. Church Street around 8 p.m. Thursday.
According to the re-port, the victim’s garage was burglarized and a bi-cycle was stolen.
Theft under deceptive practices was reported in the 300 Block of E. Green Street around 5 p.m. Fri-day.
According to the re-port, the victim’s cred-it card was used fraud-
ulently and the victim’s purse/wallet was stolen, along with driver’s li-cense, credit, debit and gas cards and cash.
An 18-year-old fe-male was arrested for re-tail theft, trespassing, assault and battery in Ma-cy’s, 2000 block of N. Neil Street, around 6 p.m. Fri-day.
According to the re-port, the suspect was banned from the store, but tried to steal mer-chandise and also bat-tered and threatened un-
named victims.
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Urbana Battery was report-
ed in the 1200 Block of S. Lierman Avenue around 6 p.m. Saturday.
According to the re-port, two intoxicated males were engaged in a dispute and one battered the other.
Theft was reported in
the 2200 Block of Cun-ningham Avenue around 11 p.m. Saturday.
According to the re-port, the victim offered the offender a ride after the offender was found to be hitchhiking on 1-57. The offender stole items from the victim’s purse and ran after being con-fronted. The stolen items include credit, debit and gas cards, a driver’s li-cence, checks and cash.
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BY CHARLOTTE COLLINSASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
A new notification sys-tem, Campus Safety Notic-es, will replace the Uni-versity of Illinois Police Department’s Crime Alerts and will be issued to every-one with an Illinois email address.
The goal of the new sys-tem is to give the whole campus community the information, tools and resources needed to stay safe. The safety notices differ from Illini-Alerts in that the safety notices noti-fy the communities about imminent threats to life, health or safety of the gen-
eral campus population. Safety notices serve to pro-vide information during crime-related emergencies, according to UIPD Captain Tony Brown.
“An Illini-Alert is consid-ered an emergency notifica-tion where a Campus Safety Notice is considered a time-ly warning,” Brown said. “Illini-Alerts are issued for more than just crimes.”
Brown also said the department has revised some of the language for the Campus Safety Notic-es to prevent causing confu-sion or panic about a crime within the community.
“We want people to take
these seriously but we also don’t want to create the impression that crime is somehow out of control,” he said. “We send these out because we want people to have information that’s going to help them protect themselves and make them-selves safer.”
Campus Safety Notices may be issued for crimes such as murder, manslaugh-ter, sexual assault, rob-bery, aggravated assault, burglary and arson. The decision to issue a Campus Safety Notice is made on a case-by-case basis, depend-ing on when and where the incident occurred, when it
was reported, whether it presents a continuing risk to the campus community and the amount of informa-tion known by University police. The notices will be issued as quickly as possi-ble based on when the crime was reported and how much information police receive from witnesses.
University police are also working with area law enforcement agencies to issue Community Safe-ty Notices for off-cam-pus crimes that still pose a threat to the student population.
UIPD replaces Crime Alerts with Campus Safety Notices
TOREY BUTNER THE DAILY ILLINIVolunteers wash and prepare corn for the Urbana Sweetcorn Festival on Saturday.
Bushels of fun
BY MAGGIE SULLIVANSTAFF WRITER
Wilson recommended as interim chancellor
Barbara Wilson, the dean of LAS who has been serv-ing as the acting chancellor for the Urbana campus, was formally recommended to serve as the interim chan-cellor at the Governance, Personnel, and Ethics com-mittee meeting Thursday.
“She is currently serving as acting chancellor of the Urbana campus, and, from personal experience I know she has been doing a won-derful job of that,” Presi-dent Timothy Killeen said.
Killeen also said Wilson has done a great job lead-ing the Urbana campus through what he called “the complication that occurred most recently,” referring to Provost Ilesanmi Adesida’s resignation, which is effec-tive Monday.
“She has a wonderful record of scholarship, par-ticipation, and she is deep-ly rooted in the land grant
mission of this University,” Killeen said.
Wilson, who joined the University faculty in 2000, was just appointed dean of LAS last year. She plans to appoint Brian Ross, profes-sor in psychology, as her executive associate dean of the college to help with the day-to-day matters of running the college while she is in the chancellor’s office this year.
Chairman Patr ick Fitzgerald said he and the rest of the board are famil-iar with Wilson and her work on campus.
“This is a formality — not new business,” Fitzger-ald said. “I’m delighted to have this moved to the full board for approval.”
The board will vote on Wilson’s appointment on Sept. 3 at a meeting in Urbana.
UI hopeful to implement background check policy in October
Many University admin-
istrators have questioned whether implementing employee background checks is the right move for the University, but Fitzger-ald said he is confident a policy is necessary.
“I think it’s important in a University where there are lots of different stu-dents, employees and facul-ty members that we do the best to make sure everyone is safe,” he said.
Fitzgerald, a former prosecutor, went on to dis-pel the notion that a can-didate’s potential criminal record would be an auto-matic bar to employment at the University.
“One of the major soci-etal problems we have is how we integrate peo-ple who have had a brush with the criminal justice system, particularly those who were incarcerated, back into society,” he said. “By adopting a policy with background checks, we are trying to make sure we are aware of all relevant information.”
The University has debat-ed adopting a background check policy for more than two years, said Maureen Parks, executive director and associate vice presi-
dent for human resources.The background check
policy, which the Universi-ty hopes to launch on Oct. 5, would require all faculty members, specialized fac-ulty, staff members, medi-cal residents and civil ser-vice employees to receive a background check. Under-graduate and graduate stu-dent employees, fellows, volunteers, individuals appointed to non-paid posi-tions and contractors are excluded from the policy.
Parks said she is hopeful the background check poli-cy won’t slow down campus hiring.
“We can make someone a conditional offer of hire, subject to the completion of a background check,” Parks said. “If someone refuses to have a background check or whose criminal record creates unacceptable risk, after review, we can rescind that offer.”
Parks said “unacceptable risk” is subjective to each case.
“If a background check results in a hit, an individ-ual assessment will be con-ducted,” Parks said. “Just because someone has a con-viction doesn’t mean they are automatically exclud-
ed from employment at the University.”
The standard back-ground check, she said, will check the nationwide crimi-nal database, a candidate’s social security number and the sex offender registry. Parks said the Universi-ty will check as far back into a person’s history as possible.
She said only final can-didates for a job position will receive a background check. Checks will be made after a job offer has been accepted by the candidate.
Parks said the average cost is $45 for each back-ground check. The Univer-
sity hired 4,073 employees last year, which would have totaled $183,285 in back-ground checks.
“The number could go up or it could go down,” Parks said. “If specialized checks are required, it could go up.”
Fitzgerald praised Parks for her hard work on the project and recommended a swift adoption of the policy.
“We want to move this forward, but to entertain any suggestions,” he said. “It’s important we get a pol-icy in place and have it up and running by Oct. 5.”
Wilson to be approved as interim chancellor
BY WALBERT CASTILLO AND ALI BRABOYSTAFF WRITER AND ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Since becoming the director of bands and pro-fessor of music at the Uni-versity, Stephen Peterson said he has realized the University truly values the band program.
“I feel a certain pressure and responsibility to make sure that continues in a pos-itive way and continues to grow and keep it as vital as it has been,” Peterson said.
Peterson’s appointment was effective Aug. 16. He was previously the direc-tor of bands for 17 years at Ithaca College.
Peterson oversees all the concert and athletic bands, and he said he’s still get-
ting used to the idea. Even though he has had the same title before, he said the pro-gram was much smaller.
He will conduct the Wind Symphony, the premiere ensemble of the Universi-ty’s band program. Some of his responsibilities will include directing the grad-uate program in wind band conducting and teaching courses in advanced wind band rehearsal, literature and techniques.
According to Peterson, what got him interested in coming to the University was its tradition in excel-lence. He said it is exciting, as well as challenging, to be the next person in line to work to make the program thrive.
Jeremy Loui, former
band member and senior in Music, said he is thrilled to have Peterson as band director this year because “he brings a degree of cred-ibility to the program.”
“I believe the Illinois bands have been growing, and I believe Dr. Peterson will continue that growth this year,” Loui said.
According to the Illinois Bands’ website, the Univer-sity’s bands have more than 12,000 living alumni with degrees from every col-lege on campus. The band program is one of the most historic and significant col-lege band programs in the world.
Lizah Doctor, alumna of the University band, said she hopes to see some additional changes to the
instruments the band mem-bers use and the A.A. Har-ding Band Building under the direction of Peterson.
While the band may have made the decision to start utilizing silver instruments in different sections, Doc-tor said she would like to see the band, as a whole, transition to silver instru-ments, because the band still uses outdated instru-ments. Additionally, she said silver instruments are aesthetically pleasing.
Since the A.A. Harding Band Building is the “cen-tral hub” for storage, learn-ing and practicing, Doc-tor said she believes it is important for students to utilize a setting they feel comfortable in.
Jeffrey Magee, professor
and director of the School of Music, said Peterson offers a mixture of exact-ing standards while also being down to earth.
Magee said there were around several dozen appli-cants who applied for Peter-son’s position. Although the final decision was up to Magee, he chose Peter-son as per the committee’s recommendation.
Magee said with the cur-rent faculty, there’s no limit to where the program could go.
Peterson said this posi-tion is a nice capstone to what he called an incred-ible career, adding he has been incredibly lucky to have worked at these institutions.
“I could have stayed
where I was and taught another few more years and retired, but I was up for one more big challenge. And I got one,” Peterson said.
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Board to approve background checks
BY FATIMA FARHAASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
One of the largest engineering col-leges in the nation, the College of Engi-neering here at the University is also one of the best. In the past few years, it has made it to the list of top 10 engi-neering schools in the nation, accord-ing to the college’s website.
Recently, it was recognized as num-ber four on the list of top 25 engineer-ing schools in the world, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
“I think it’s wonderful to be able to see an institution be recognized the way it has, the way it should be,” said Stephen Boppart, professor of bioengi-neering. “I think that this is a very spe-cial place. I think the people here, the faculty and the staff, the students, real-ly have the goals to change the world and make our lives for the better.”
Boppart, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Engineering at the University, said he believes this program is unique because of how col-laborative and collegial it is.
He said the ability of the various schools within the college to collabo-rate, not just with the other engineering programs but also other departments in other colleges, gives the engineers here an advantage over others.
“While we have different depart-ments and different colleges, we have very low boundaries,” Boppart said.
Boppart said collaborations that take place between faculty and stu-dents from different departments is not only the reason why engineering is such a high quality program, but also the reason why many initiatives have been made possible throughout the years.
Rohit Bhargava, professor of bio-engineering, said such collaborative efforts, where different disciplines can come together to make an idea even better, made the newly established Col-lege of Medicine a reality. This new addition to the University’s graduate programs will combine engineering and medicine for a new direction in the study of medicine.
“We have reached a point where doing health care without engineer-ing approaches is unsustainable going forward,” Bhargava said. “It’s both a challenge for engineering to handle something that complex. It’s also some-thing that is absolutely needed in medi-cine for us to have good medical care in the future.”
Andrew Bower, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, said opportunities to work with stu-
dents from other departments pro-vides different perspectives on the various research and initiatives tak-ing place.
“I see a lot of individual, one on one interaction that I never thought I would see at such a large institu-tion,” Bower said. “This is a big rea-son why I knew this was such a great program when I got here, it’s because of all the amount of devotion and time and effort for the students.”
Joanne Li, graduate student in bio-engineering, said professors are open to many different kinds of ideas, and are always willing to listen to what students want to study.
“You can have crazy ideas and likely you will find a professor here agreeing with you and saying, ‘Let’s try these crazy ideas,’” Li said.
Spencer Norwick, freshman in mechanical engineering, said this ranking “speaks volumes in itself” and showed him that he made the right decision when he chose to attend the University.
The professors, students, resourc-es and facilities here, Norwick said, will give him an “unbelievable” experience.
“Its status as such a prominent research university is going to draw more skilled and more experienced faculty,” he said. “So I will be taking classes under professors that people around the world did their research with and look up to.”
Bill Bell, executive director for communications and marketing in the College of Engineering, said while the ranking is important and some-thing the program is happy with, it really reflects just how much the students and faculty have worked to make it here today.
Bell said the college’s large com-munity gives it another advantage over other schools because it is able to produce more engineers and have more professors to educate and work with students. However, he said it also allows the students to work together and foster the collaborative commu-nity it is so well known for.
“And with any of these rankings, I think the important thing to keep in mind is that we’re always very excit-ed and happy to be featured on these lists,” Bell said. “But what it really reflects in the more important part is the success, the education and the experiences that are given to the stu-dents and the leadership that our fac-ulty has in teaching and in research.”
Acting vs. interim chancellor Acting Chancellor Barbara Wilson’s title cannot be changed until officially approved by the Board of Trustees at the Sept. 3 meeting. Wilson was not able to be named interim chancellor at the Board of Trustees meeting on Aug. 12 because the board
did not accept Former Chancellor Phyllis Wise’s initial letter of resignation. As chancellor, Wilson serves as the chief executive officer for the campus and is responsible for leading the faculty, staff and students.
SOURCE: ROBIN KALER, UNIVERSITY SPOKESPERSON
UI engineering program ranked No. 4 in the world
Peterson appointed as new director of bands
Many Latinos who came for Katrina work stayed KAREN NELSONTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Many hard-working His-panics with skills in construc-tion and roofing poured into the Gulf Coast for jobs after Katrina.
They would sleep in their trucks in parking lots, in tents and on the bare ground because there were no rooms to rent. They helped tremendously in rebuilding the Coast.
Their nail guns pounded from sun up to sun down, sev-en days a week in the early months.
Without the Hispanic labor force, crawling out from under the debris would have taken considerably longer. These workers, many of the immi-grants, were willing to endure conditions that many Ameri-can workers might not have accepted.
They came from large cities around the U.S. and from Tex-as, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona and their home countries. They hailed from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mex-ico and South and Central America. There are 21-plus Latin American countries or regions and today, each one of those is represented on the Gulf Coast.
Many workers moved on. Early estimates from the His-
panic community were that South Mississippi’s Hispanic population tripled to 60,000 (a third of them living in the Unit-ed States without documenta-tion) and then settled closer to 30,000 in the years after the storm. Census figures list the numbers considerably lower, but there is much doubt that the Census can accurately esti-mate the somewhat elusive population.
Those who stayed have taken root and the population is grow-ing, no matter how you count it.
When the construction jobs dried up, some opened business-es — landscaping, real estate, auto sales, churches and espe-cially restaurants and grocer-ies, so they could have authen-tic, native food.
Those who sent for their fami-lies have changed the face of the Coast forever.
Census data showed that between 2010 and 2013 in Harri-son County, Miss., the Hispanic population increased by nearly 8 percent. In Hancock Coun-ty, it was up 13.5 percent and the boost was largest in Jack-son County with a 15.5 percent jump.
In the Pascagoula-Gautier School District, the population of English learners more than doubled from 196 in 2005 to 463 in 2007.
In the following years, the district has seen a steady climb in enrollment that reached 708 this past school year, said Frank Catchings, director of federal programs for the district. While not all of these students are His-panic, more than 90 percent of them are.
The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, the Gulf Coast Latin American Association and El Pueblo stepped up to address the needs of the community, connecting new immigrants with local resources.
The Diocese of Biloxi has Catholic churches that now offer Mass in Spanish at nine servic-es from Pascagoula to Wig-gins. This year, the diocese has ordained two new priests from Mexico, bringing the number of Hispanic priests to five.
Rev. Paddy Mockler served after the storm at Our Lady of Fatima in Biloxi, where he saw the church attendance swell with Hispanics and then sub-side. Thirty percent of the 380 families at Sacred Heart in Pas-cagoula are now Hispanic. The church has a Spanish service on Saturdays and offers classes in English as a second language. It and other parishes have for years taken turns hosting the annual feast day and pageant for Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego.
“I was up for one more big challenge. And I got one,”STEPHEN PETERSONDIRECTOR OF BANDS
MICHAEL KOVACEVIC TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina near Michael Kovacevic’s Point Cadet home in Biloxi, Miss. The peak of Lou Blomberg’s home can be seen wedged by a tree in Kovacevic’s yard.
Some people have the trifecta — Instagram, Twitter and Face-
book — others are working through a show on Netflix or maybe you’re one of the few who catches up with The AV Club or gossip magazines.
No matter what rou-tine you subscribe to, we all have our own bedtime schedules — and frequent-ly, they involve our phone or laptop screens.
In this caffeine-driv-en paradise called college where Keurigs are almost as ubiquitous as micro-waves, it seems like a con-stant, safe topic of conver-sation is how little sleep you got the night before. Get-ting eight hours is a novelty and makes you either a bea-con of time management or a sloth.
In fact, research at Brown University revealed that 73 percent of col-lege students report sleep problems.
College students are sta-tistically one of the most sleep-deprived populations, even though our rigor-ous lifestyles make getting adequate amounts of sleep essential.
Rather than getting used to five hours a night, we should be trying to help our body recover from not-great food and drink choices and too much mental exertion.
The sad fact is, too much of our resting time is taken
in the form of social media checks before we go to bed. You lie down at 11:30 and don’t find yourself actu-ally falling asleep until 1 a.m., after a few episodes of Scandal are accounted for.
And while this is some-thing we’ve probably all heard before, those eight hours are crucial, and those screens illuminating our rooms before bed are only hindering our chances at getting them.
Even sitting here as a junior, I can honestly attest to the fact that following a sleep schedule is one of the most difficult things to do in college.
There are so many vari-ables that factor into it: how much homework you’ll have on a given night, what time your classes start each morning and when you have to wake up, if you go out the night before...the list goes on.
And with all of our cov-eted technology in addi-tion to these variables, getting any consistent amount of sleep seems to be implausible.
But it’s time we put as much of an effort into our sleep schedules as we do the rest of our schedules. Add-ing a level of constancy and commitment to when we decide to catch some “Z’s” will leave us infinitely more recharged and prepared for the days and activities to come.
To start to really com-mit ourselves to the amount of sleep we all desperately need, want and deserve, we have to start making small lifestyle changes.
For example, sources of light from phones and lap-tops charging, as well as from alarm clocks, can interfere with your brain’s ability to fully go into “sleep mode.”
This is the same type of idea that makes technol-ogy in general so harmful before bed; the light your brain registers can block the hormone melatonin — the sole function of which is to make it easier to fall asleep.
By turning these things off 30 minutes before we’re looking to go to bed, we can help our brain relax and catch more sleep, as well as better sleep.
Lack of sleep has been shown to negatively affect students’ GPAs, as well. So even though it might seem like staying up all night studying is good for your future tests, it might be hurting your grades instead.
Getting less sleep or get-ting restless sleep greatly affects the way we function throughout the day and can make it harder to focus in class — or as we’ve all expe-rienced, make it harder to even act human, especially if we haven’t had coffee.
It’s not feasible to con-tinue the hectic lifestyles we try to maintain without giving back to our bodies, as well. But when we start winding down and letting our minds relax, we can get some of the R and R that is essential for surviving college.
Emma is a junior in [email protected]
I llinois needs to find its next Dick Butkus or Red Grange with its next head coach.
The program is yet again in a state of flux, and we aren’t surprised in the slight-est.
On Friday, Athletic Director Mike Thomas — whose days at the University may also be numbered — announced the dismissal of head football coach Tim Beckman. Thom-as cited initial results from an ongoing, independent review by Chicago-based law firm Franczek Radelet, which con-cluded that Beckman discour-aged reporting injuries and threatened to take away play-ers’ scholarships.
Beckman was a week away from starting his fourth sea-son at the helm of the Illini and now he’s looking for a new job. An hour before his dismissal, he promoted the first game on Twitter. An hour after, he de-leted his Twitter account.
Illinois football hasn’t found much success in the last quar-ter century. The program has had six different coaches in that time, with a record of 121-
173-2. The most notable event in recent memory? A 2007 trip to the Rose Bowl where Illi-nois lost to USC — 49-17.
As the University prepares to find its next head football coach, there’s one fundamen-tal thing The Daily Illini Edi-torial Board wants to remind them: Illinois football doesn’t just need a new coach, it needs a new face.
Since Dick Butkus left the University in 1964, the pro-gram hasn’t had a notable fig-urehead to represent its ideals. And it has shown.
Tim Beckman was nev-er going to be the face of Illi-nois football. In the landscape of college football, Beckman could never live up to contem-poraries like Nick Saban, Bri-an Kelly or Steve Spurrier. Beckman may have survived the process of elimination that was the 2012 coaching search, but his best season involved winning eight games with a MAC school.
Even though it’s only been three days since Beckman’s dismissal, possible lists of his replacement are running ram-pant. Names like Western
Michigan’s P.J. Fleck, former Rutgers coach Greg Schiano and University of Montana’s Bob Stitt have already been linked to the open position.
Maybe interim head coach Bill Cubit will lead Illinois to the Rose Bowl. Maybe another young MAC coach is the next face of Illinois football.
In his first few days as Il-linois head coach, Cubit has shown he knows how to not be embarrassing, but if he wants the job long-term, he needs
to be more than that. He has more respect than Beckman, which is a start, but he needs to prove he can create an on-field legacy and his name must be fully absent from the re-sults of the ongoing investiga-tion.
Put simply, we don’t know who the next coach will be. What we do know is that Illi-nois needs to establish a pro-gram of stability with a coach that this school can be proud of.
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Devote as much time to your sleep schedule as your daily one
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By this point in the year, everyone has dealt with those insane textbook prices, but for students at University of Maryland University College, textbooks are a thing of the past — the college is getting rid of textbooks next fall. Hey UI, want to take some notes and follow suit?
CLOSE THE BOOK ON TEXTBOOKS
Tropical Storm Fred formed in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean on Sunday morning, making it the sixth tropical storm of 2015. The storm is sending some into panic as it is expected to get stronger and possibly be a hurricane. The storm may hit parts of Florida and will center around the Cape Verde Islands.
TROPICAL STORM FRED SENDING WAVES OF WARNING
After pictures surfaced from the Curiosity rover that depicted a spaceship (or possibly just a rock, in all like-liness), many believe Mars may be home to life after all. While the picture sparked controversy amongst many, NASA settled the debate that there probably won’t be tiny purple Martians walking around any time soon.
SIGNS OF LIFE OR SIGNS OF FRAUD
In the same month as the new One Direction album, apparently Adele’s new album is meant to be com-ing out this November. So basically, what we’re hear-ing is three months from now, pop music is going to have an amazing month filled with long-awaited music.
FROM “CHASING PAVEMENTS” TO CHASING PLATINUM
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3 Try to beat the buzzer?
4 “My deepest condolences”
5 Bankruptcy declarer of 2013
6 Off the hook
7 Some M&M’s
8 Excellent, slangily
9 Silent signals
10 Cause of black eyes?
11 Crack squad
12 Wood choppers of old
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23 Rita Hayworth film briefly featured in “The Shawshank Redemption”
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25 Put down, in a way, as a group of rioters
26 What plangonologists collect
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32 Nobody’s home
34 Hearty greeting?
37 Bisque bit
38 Biscotto bit
41 One of baseball’s Alous
43 One of Chaucer’s pilgrims
44 “Capeesh?”
45 Unreliable narrator
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48 Like some lockets
49 Husband of ancient Rome’s Poppaea Sabina
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16 To any degree
17 Newly humble
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20 Tokyo-based electronics giant
21 Minor concessions
22 “The Cryptogram” playwright David
23 “Get cracking!”
26 Immoderately priced
28 Shorts go-with
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33 Disinheritor of Cordelia
34 Deity with 99 names
35 Junker
36 Member of a pop duo whose debut album was titled “Whole Oats”
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39 Film director Lee
40 Omission statement?
41 Extends a line, say
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45 Gives the slip
46 Dancers in danse macabre imagery
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BY EMILY SCOTTSTAFF WRITER
It’s like a scene in “Cinder-ella,” but not the one you’d expect.
In the classic fairytale “Cinderella,” the princess has mice and birds to help make her morning routine run smoother. But what if there was a way to translate this concept into the real world with something that could help senior citizens complete daily tasks?
Naira Hovakimyan, a professor in the mechani-cal science and engineering department, believes she has the answer with her research project called ASPIRE — Automation Supporting Pro-longed Independent Resi-dence for the Elderly.
ASPIRE envisions creat-ing robots and drones that can help senior citizens per-form daily tasks, such as retrieving medications or maybe even watering the plants. The robots will be controlled by a program on a smartphone or a tablet.
University researchers from a variety of depart-ments are involved with ASPIRE, including Alex Kirlik from computer sci-ence, Dusan Stipanovic from industrial and enterprise sys-tems engineering, Ranxiao Wang from psychology and Amy LaViers from mechani-cal science and engineering.
They recently received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Founda-tion as a part of its National Robotics Initiative.
Recently, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development found that senior citizens would prefer to stay in their homes longer. ASPIRE is respond-ing to this population’s need.
By providing flexibility, safety and usability — all at a reasonable price — assistive robots in the homes of senior citizens may just become the new norm.
“The grandmas today would be scared, but if you develop it today for 20 years with my students, we do these experiments and get it to virtual reality,” Hovaki-myan said. “By the time I’m retiring, I’d be happy to have a few of those in my home.”
The key is in perfect-ing the human-robot inter-action. Humans using the
robots need to be able to trust them, and the robots need to be able to work function-ally in a home. Hovakimy-an said her research team must develop an algorithm that prevents the robots from colliding with each other or their human owners.
“We want to figure out if a few things are moving around (and) how to make sure they never collide,” Hovakimyan said. “If you look at birds, they’re flying all the time, but they are nev-er colliding.”
Virtual reality may also be able to help with this problem. Thiago Marinho, a Ph.D. student in mechanical science and engineering, is working primarily with vir-tual reality experimentation within ASPIRE.
He said he became inter-ested with the project because he is interested in human-robot interactions.
“Most people deal with robots that look like humans, but nobody has really thought of humans and robots when they are small, mobile, fly-ing, dangerous things,” Marinho said.
Moving forward, his idea is to build a virtual-reality environment and collect data from experiments. This data will then assist in the design of the robots.
“My vision is to reprogram
today’s technology to allow it inside our homes,” he said.
Hovakimyan explained that senior citizens today would take time to warm up to this technology, similarly to the process through which smartphones became com-mon in today’s society.
“It will be entertaining … I mean, who had cell phones 20 years ago? Nobody,” Hov-akimyan said. “Today, every-body has a few of those in their pockets. Drones are the next cell phone technol-ogy. Within the next 20 years, everyone will have a drone.”
This means that ASPIRE is not necessarily one-of-a-kind.
“There will be a lot of other assistive technologies down the road doing certain tasks in a different way,” she said. “We are not going to be unique, we are not going to be different; We are going to have fun while develop-ing it.”
Overall, Hovakimyan said the main goal is to enjoy the process of developing this project.
“My ultimate goal is to create a lot of fun in the lab, to engage a lot of students, to see them excited doing things … travel to confer-ences, make people talk and see if we can develop it.”
Growing OlderASPIRE aims to help today’s aging population perform daily tasks in their homes. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that there will be over 50 million persons aged 65 and over by 2020, and over 60 million by 2025. According to this same study, the old-age dependency ratio in the United States will be 28 percent by 2020 and 35 percent by 2030. Dependency ratios indicate “the potential burden of the dependent population, approximated
by those under 18 years and those 65 years and over, on those in the working-age population.” According to the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, about 20 percent of people 55 and older “experience some type of mental health concern.” The CDC reports that those 65 and older were more likely to say that they do not receive adequate social and emotional support than those aged 50 to 64.
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Professor develops drone to help elderly
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIASPIRE meeting at the Mechanical Engineering Building on Wednesday.
Researchers turn off cancer cellsFROM MAYO CLINIC NEWS NETWORKTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Cancer researchers dream of the day they can force tumor cells to morph back to the normal cells they once were. Now, researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida cam-pus have discovered a way to potentially reprogram cancer cells back to normalcy.
The finding, published in Nature Cell Biology, repre-sents “an unexpected new biology that provides the code, the software for turn-ing off cancer,” said the study’s senior investigator, Panos Anastasiadis, chair of the Department of Can-cer Biology on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus.
That code was unraveled by the discovery that adhe-sion proteins — the glue that keeps cells together — inter-act with the microproces-sor, a key player in the pro-duction of molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs). The miRNAs orchestrate whole cellular programs by simul-taneously regulating expres-sion of a group of genes.
The investigators found that when normal cells come in contact with each other, a specific subset of miRNAs suppresses genes that pro-mote cell growth. However, when adhesion is disrupted
in cancer cells, these miR-NAs are misregulated and cells grow out of control. The investigators showed, in laboratory experiments, that restoring the normal miRNA levels in cancer cells can reverse that aberrant cell growth.
“The study brings together two so-far unrelated research fields — cell-to-cell adhesion and miRNA biology — to resolve a long-standing prob-lem about the role of adhe-sion proteins in cell behavior that was baffling scientists,” said the study’s lead author Antonis Kourtidis, a research associate in Dr. Anastasia-dis’ lab. “Most significantly, it uncovers a new strategy for cancer therapy,” he adds.
That problem arose from conflicting reports about E-cadherin and p120 catenin — adhesion proteins that are essential for normal epi-thelial tissues to form, and which have long been con-sidered to be tumor suppres-sors. “However, we and oth-er researchers had found that this hypothesis didn’t seem to be true, since both E-cadherin and p120 are still present in tumor cells and required for their pro-gression,” Anastasiadis said. “That led us to believe that these molecules have two fac-es — a good one, maintain-ing the normal behavior of
the cells, and a bad one that drives tumorigenesis.”
Their theory turned out to be true, but what caused the behavior was still unknown. To answer this, the research-ers studied a new protein called PLEKHA7, which associates with E-cadherin and p120 only at the top, or the “apical” part of normal polarized epithelial cells. The investigators discovered that PLEKHA7 maintains the nor-mal state of the cells, by teth-ering the microprocessor to E-cadherin and p120. In this state, E-cadherin and p120 exert their good tumor sup-pressor sides.
“We believe that loss of the apical PLEKHA7-micro-processor complex is an ear-ly and somewhat universal event in cancer,” he adds. “In the vast majority of human tumor samples we exam-ined, this apical structure is absent, although E-cadherin and p120 are still present. This produces the equivalent of a speeding car that has a lot of gas and no brakes.
“By administering the affected miRNAs in cancer cells to restore their normal levels, we should be able to re-establish the brakes and restore normal cell func-tion,” Anastasiadis said. “Initial experiments in some aggressive types of cancer are indeed very promising.”
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Eight close friends. Four all-terrain vehicles. One unforgettable sunset in Santorini, Greece.
For most people, this is just an iconic scene from a coming-of-age fi lm. But for Josh Seiter, a senior in Business , it was real life last semester.
“It was an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experi-ence,” Seiter said.
Seiter, who has studied abroad three times throughout his entire college career, travelled to Bath, England, last semester. There, he took classes on Mondays and Tuesdays but spent most of his time connecting with the world around him. In addition to studying in Bath, he also had the opportunity to visit 15 various countries and 40 different cities, all of which he believes contrib-uted to a career-furthering experience.
“I think every student should study abroad at least in some capacity,” Seiter said. “Having a global acumen is really important for any career.”
Bo White, Illinois Abroad and Global Exchange director , also believes studying abroad makes a signifi cant impact on a student’s professional objective.
“It elevates your own profi le,” White said. “It
says that you can adapt and work with people from different backgrounds, which truly helps you go where you want to go.”
Therefore, in hopes of building a brighter career path for University students, the Illinois Abroad and Global Exchange offi ce has collabo-rated with various colleges on campus to host the fi rst Illinois Abroad Day . This Tuesday, students are invited to join this campus-wide event that aims to inform others of what it truly means to study abroad. With various study abroad advo-cates to speak with and workshops to attend, Illinois Abroad Day is fi lled with activities that expand the knowledge of those who participate.
“What we hope students experience is to get accurate information that would take down the barriers that they think exist and make them believe that studying abroad is truly possible,” White said.
Students are then invited to assemble for a keynote lecture by award-winning author Sta-cie Nevadomski Berdan , who will explain how to integrate studying abroad within a career path.
”In a global economy, which you can instantly communicate with somebody anywhere in the world, we fi rmly believe that Illinois students need to learn how to navigate cultures, navigate new ideas and navigate new ways of thinking,” White said.
Michelle Saunders, junior in ACES , said that studying abroad not only furthers someone’s career aspirations, but enhances their own self-being.
“It allows you to go out of your comfort zone and fi gure out who you are outside of your nor-mal environment,” Saunders said.
This past summer, she travelled to southern France, where she was able to take various agri-cultural classes and participate in an internship. She said that living with a host family and not being familiar with the French language allowed her to embrace the unique situation and acquaint herself with the culture.
“I have always been kind of a shy person, but you can’t be shy going to a foreign country,” Saun-ders said, “Studying abroad has allowed me to gain a lot of self-confi dence.”
With over 400 options in over 60 different coun-tries , the campus study abroad program allows students to customize their education and enrich their global awareness.
“If you’re doing nothing then that is exact-ly what you will get when you are handed your diploma,” White said. “What we are offering stu-dents is a legitimate option for them to do some-thing remarkable.”
Crossing borders
“What we are offering students is a legitimate option for them to do something remarkable.”
BO WHITEILLINOIS ABROAD AND GLOBAL EXCHANGES DIRECTOR
STUDYING ABROAD CAN HELP STUDENTS PREPARE FOR PROFESSIONAL WORLD
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Illinois Abroad Day aims to help students cross borders and discover the world.
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Thomas heading to lonely fi nish at UI
Following Friday’s press conference about Tim Beckman’s dismissal,
Mike Thomas seemed fro-zen in time. For a split sec-ond he looked like a painter admiring his model, Bill Cubit, at the lectern.
Then he was gone.Just seconds after Cubit
fi nished speaking, Thom-as fl ed the upper level of Memorial Stadium, leav-ing his interim head coach and fi ve football players to discuss his decision to fi re Beckman.
Cubit seemed almost jovial, excited to start his second stint as a head coach at a Division I program. He brushed off talk of inves-tigations and spoke of his love for Illinois: the players, the fans, the alumni and the media.
The players seemed more dazed and confused than their new head coach, but served up a valiant por-tion of “We’ve got this.” The usual faces — Monheim, Karras, Ferguson and Lunt
— stood in fi erce defense of Cubit and mostly declined to talk about anything beyond next week’s season opener against Kent State.
But Thomas was gone. And more and more that seems to be the inevitable in Champaign. Far from a man of the people, Thomas is well-known as a savvy business-fi rst athletic direc-tor who fundraises like a mad man. He has overseen expensive and expansive projects to better the Illini, both on the fi eld and off.
But maybe that hallway through which he raced away is a refl ection of the likelihood that he knows his days here are numbered — which they defi nitely are, by the way — and that he knows his popularity is waning.
Tim Beckman is a dope, and the highest paid pub-lic employee in the state. There’s no way around how stupid this story is. The investigation of mistreat-ment isn’t even over and Thomas already feels like Beckman needs to go.
By most accounts, he deserved to be fi red. Bill Cubit seems cut from a dif-ferent cloth than Beckman.
Is he Urban Meyer? Maybe not. But this foot-ball team’s on-fi eld prod-uct is unlikely to negative-ly change. If anything, the players might be even more motivated than they were under Beckman.
This is an underdog team now more than ever. And Thomas made them that way.
Thomas answered the media’s questions during his portion of the press con-
ference. He wasn’t neces-sarily running away from reporters, but he certainly wasn’t sticking around to schmooze.
More and more, Thom-as seems to be isolating himself. He’s becoming a human island, and wheth-er it’s because of bad luck or incompetence or both, he just isn’t winning any-one over these days. Ironi-cally, this football team is now tighter than ever — but Thomas has never seemed more disconnected from the student-athletes than he did on Friday.
When asked why he didn’t know about Beck-man’s misbehavior — he said he was “disgusted” by the preliminary Franczek Radelet report — he detailed the size and scope of the athletic department. He indirectly blamed his lack of knowledge on how big Illinois is.
That’s the kind of thing a freshman says about feel-ing homesick. That’s not an answer I want from my school’s athletic director about allegations of player mistreatment.
And for better or worse, Beckman was a great scapegoat for Thomas. He was always making mis-takes, but in some ways, he provided cover for his athletic director. Cubit’s not likely to be that kind of coach.
In those seconds follow-ing the press conference, perhaps Thomas revealed his true character: He’s running for his life.
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Players’ thoughts on season, not Beckman
BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER
Wes Lunt was sitting in class when he received a text message. There was a mandatory team meeting in the Illinois football locker room at 1 p.m.
The quarterback stayed in his class for its remain-
ing 30 minutes, but differ-ent thoughts raced through his head. He couldn’t fi gure out what the subject of the meeting would be. He won-dered if someone on the team had done something wrong, or maybe the team was going to be punished for something.
When he fi nally arrived to the locker room, he found teammates talking, wonder-ing what was about to hap-pen. Then Athletic Direc-tor Mike Thomas entered the room and informed the players that head coach Tim Beckman had been fi red.
The room was quiet and
players were confused. Dif-ferent ranges of emotions fi lled the players, who play Kent State at Memorial Sta-dium in a week
“It’s diffi cult,” Lunt said. “I think getting out there and practicing, that’s really going to set in that it hap-pened and we’ll move on from there.”
The players learned that offensive coordinator Bill Cubit would be the head coach for the season. Play-ers split up into their posi-tion groups and listened to their coaches. Finally
Flaws’ hat trick gives her top spot
BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER
Typically after a goal is scored in soccer, the scor-ing team huddles around the scoring player in cel-ebration. That was not the case for Jannelle Flaws
during the fi rst goal of the Illinois’s 3-1 victo-ry against St. Louis on Sunday.
After a perfectly exe-cuted two-on-one pass in the box during the 16th minute from Reagan Rob-ishaw, Flaws netted her 48th career goal off the crossbar — the goal etched her name on top of Illinois’ career goal-scoring list.
With a noticeably wide grin, Flaws immediately
jogged over to the Illinois bench and embraced Coach Rayfi eld after making his-tory. After giving the two a brief moment, the hug was followed by the rest of her team swarming her in congratulations as the PA Announcer honored her achievement and the home crowd let out a roar.
For Flaws it was a moment she said will always remember .
“I kind of thought about
it, I didn’t really tell any-one because I didn’t want to make a big deal about it,” Flaws said about her hug with Rayfi eld. “It’s a huge moment and obvious-ly I wanted to share it with the team, but I owe a lot of my success as a player to the coaches, and especial-ly to Janet. Her belief in me, when I didn’t believe in myself, was a big moti-vator for me to get back on the fi eld and start scoring
goals again.”However, after her spe-
cial moment, it didn’t take long for Flaws to add some cushion to her newly acquired spot atop the all-time scoring list.
She fi nished the fi rst half by completing a hat trick. Her second goal came in the 19th minute off an assist from Aliina Weykamp and her third was defl ection off her head with her back to the goal
in the 25th minute from a pass from Hope D’Addario.
While Flaws’ perfor-mance was the most rec-ognizable, she wasn’t the only Illini to play well in the fi rst half. Goalkeeper Claire Wheatley shutout the Billikens with the help of a key clearance from Nicole Breece.
The second half proved to be less dramatic than the
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINILeft: Jannelle Flaws breaking the Illinois women’s soccer all-time scoring record with her 48th career goal at Sunday’s game against St. Louis. Right: Jannelle Flaws jumping into the arms of head soccer coach Janet Rayfi eld after breaking the all-time scoring record for Illinois women’s soccer at their game against St. Louis on Sunday.
Simpson decision may come soon after visit with Sneed
When Illini basket-ball targets Xavier Simpson and Xavi-
er Sneed attended Friday night’s Illinois volleyball game, it was hard to tell that synchronous offi cial visits were happening under the direction of bas-ketball coach John Groce.
Simpson took in the fi rst couple of sets with his
father and Illinois assis-tant coaches Dustin Ford and Paris Parham . Sneed was spotted hanging out at Huff Hall with Illini junior forward Malcolm Hill.
The separate but simul-taneous approach wasn’t an accident. It was by design. According to Simpson’s father Quincey, the rest of the weekend’s activities played out in similar fashion.
“It was a double vis-it, but it didn’t feel like a double visit because (Sneed) and his fam-
ily were doing things separate from me and (my son),” Quincey said. “Which was great. We wouldn’t have had a prob-lem if we did it together, but it was great the way they set it up, you know? We got all the attention we felt we needed.”
Simpson and Sneed are both in the 2016 class, and both would be valuable pickups for Groce. But Simpson would fi ll a more immediate need at Illinois at the point guard posi-tion, while Sneed would join a roster already
stacked with wings who share his position.
Quincey said he and his son left Champaign impressed.
“It was exceptional,” Quincey said. “The coach-ing staff was very cool, very down to earth. The visit was nice, the campus was nice and the players were nice.”
Groce and his staff seem to always receive high praise from recruits and their families, and their charm was turned up again over the weekend.
“They all just seemed
genuine,” Quincey said of the staff. “They all seemed real. They were down to earth, just guys that I felt like we could talk to (about things) out-side of basketball, you know? Just guys you can build a relationship with.”
Simpson took his fi rst offi cial visit to Iowa State last month and has a visit to Miami scheduled for Sept. 11, but his dad said future visits aren’t guar-anteed. Instead, Simpson might make his college decision before any more schools have a chance to
get him on campus .“We’re going to make
a decision pretty quick,” Quincey said. “When we get home (Sunday night) we’re going to talk and see what he’s thinking. We’ve got some other visits set up, but who knows, we may not (take them). Some of them may be cancelled. We’re not sure. But we are going to make a decision pretty soon. We did like Illinois a lot.”
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The Illinois volleyball team (3-0) finished its first weekend of competi-tion unblemished, but the young team is still a work in progress.
Illinois started its season this weekend with the Illini Classic, a quad tournament that also featured Lou-isville, Miami (Ohio) and Creighton. The No. 8 Illini were challenged through-out, but managed to come away as champions of their own tour-n a m e n t with three s w e e p s b e t w e e n Friday and Saturday by scores of (27-25, 25-23, 26-24), (25-11, 25-18, 2 5 - 2 2 ) and (25-22, 25-20, 2 5 - 1 7 ) , r e s p e c -tively.
In Friday’s Stuff the Huff match, Louisville pushed the Illinois squad that features two freshmen in its starting lineup, in all three sets. Illinois battled back in the first set after being down 9-4 to eventu-ally win 27-25.
And after claiming vic-tory in the second set, the team took a 21-14 lead in the third set, but quickly lost ground as Louisville rattled off six straight points to close the gap at 21-20. Head coach Kevin Hambly called a timeout, and the team refocused and got the job done.
“It was one of those things that once they to one point, we were like, ‘Oh, we’re still up by eight,’”
freshman setter Jordyn Poulter said after the match against Louisville. “The margin got smaller and smaller until it finally caught up with us and then we realized, ‘Crap, we just let go of that huge lead.’ We need to be better at stay-ing in the moment and to keep our eye on the current moment.”
The Illini also commit-ted 22 errors throughout the match, nine of them coming from preseason All-Big Ten selection Joc-elynn Birks.
Hambly was disappoint-ed with that total, but said he saw improvement from the team the next day.
Between the two match-es on Saturday, Illinois
r e c o r d -ed only 20 errors, w h i c h , according to Hambly, were more e x c u s -able than the ones on Friday. He said the errors, particular-ly the five by Birks, were ones where the team was trying to make a
play on the ball instead of just making a wild hit that would go out of bounds.
Hambly also praised his team for staying calm in times of pressure, espe-cially in the third set against Creighton when the team fell behind 5-0. After a quick timeout, the Illini regrouped and their defense had little trouble the rest of the way, limit-ing the Bluejays to just 12 points.
The defense played bet-ter against Creighton after getting complacent in third set of the Miami match. Hambly described the team as “soulless” in that set and was glad the play-ers returned to form in the final match of the weekend.
On the offensive side, Poulter made an impact throughout the Illini Clas-sic. The setter recorded 35 assists on Friday and 34 assists in both games on Saturday, and her team-mates are starting to get used to her leadership on the offensive end.
“Jordyn did a great job the entire weekend of run-ning an offense that was spread out like we needed it to be,” Birks said. “She got everyone involved.”
Overall, the consensus amongst the team is that it is not quite where every-body expects it to be head-
ing into Big Ten play, but it is getting there. This early in the season, Hambly was much happier to see Illi-nois’ improvement over the course of the weekend above anything else.
“I don’t really worry about sweeps,” he said. “I really just worry about how
well we are playing and are we taking steps in the right direction … I like the men-tality that we finished that with.”
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Illinois volleyball dominates Illini Classic, starts season off undefeated
Swimming, diving ready for tough 2015-2016 scheduleBY DRAKE PENASTAFF WRITER
The Illinois swimming and diving team announced its upcoming schedule for the 2015-16 season last week. The Illini face four Big Ten teams, with three of those contests taking place away from home — a tougher schedule than in years past. In 2014, Illinois’ lone away Big Ten meet was a 160-140 loss at Northwestern.
Illinois will also travel to Florida, for the compet-itive Florida International meet. Illini head coach Sue Novitsky said the more chal-lenging meets can contrib-ute to her team’s growth.
“Our coaching staff is really excited about the upcoming season and feel that this schedule will real-ly test our team,” Novitsky said. “We’re looking for-ward to getting back in the water as a group, and can’t wait to pick up where we left off last year in terms of making so many revisions to the record book.”
New Illini aiming for immediate impact
There will be many unfa-miliar faces in the ARC pool this year, as the Illi-ni bring in nine new mem-bers this season. Novitsky recruited a trio of incom-ing freshmen, in addition to landing a pair of transfers over the spring. One of the transfers, sophomore Char-li Wike, will get the chance to swim in her home state following a season with the UW-Milwaukee program. Wike is a native of Ster-ling, Ill.
“Charli is a great addi-tion to our breaststroke group.” Novitsky said in regards to her new recruit. “She had a strong freshman season at Wisconsin-Mil-waukee and we are look-ing to build upon that suc-cess. Charli has the drive to work hard and continue to push herself to get stron-ger. She has a delightful personality and is a hard working student.”
Continuing academic excellence
In a field of 171 swim-ming and diving teams, the Illini tied for 35th place to earn 2015 spring scholar All-America team recogni-tion from the College Swim-ming Coaches Association of America. Novitsky was impressed by her squad’s ability to manage time in and out of the pool.
“I am extremely proud of the team for earning schol-ar All-America recognition again for the Spring 2015 semester,” Novitsky said. “Once again, the team con-tinued to put in effort in the classroom and show such great dedication with their academics.”
Novitsky said her current roster will continue the aca-demic success of Illinois.
“As a group they are hard workers in the pool and in the classroom,” she said. “Their work ethic and indi-vidual personalities will be assets.”
the entire team came back together and talked. Seniors Mason Monheim, Ted Kar-ras, Josh Ferguson and Chris Boles led the way, but everyone on the team had a voice in the conversation.
The Illini agreed it was time to change the team’s focus. They all agreed that they would face adver-sity, but they would fight for each other during the transition. Underclassmen spoke of playing for the seniors who spent four or five years working hard for a school that they loved.
The players who spoke with the media after Thom-as’ press conference reiter-ated their support of Cubit. The interim head coach spent time at nine differ-ent schools before he was hired as the offensive coor-dinator at Illinois in 2013. He was the head coach at Western Michigan from 2005 to 2012 and finished with a 51-47 record.
Cubit has been a father figure to many of the play-ers on the team. The inter-im head coach spoke of the love he feels for the Univer-sity and his team when he spoke to the media, a state-ment that leaves the play-ers knowing that they are
in safe hands. “Absolutely,” Karras said
when he was asked if he believed in Cubit as a head coach. “He’s been my unit leader for the past three years. He was a great head coach at Western (Michi-gan) and I think it will work out.”
Illinois held their sched-uled practice Friday eve-ning. Players know that there is no time to sulk; they have less than seven days until they start the season.
Thomas remarked how the players have shown their resiliency in the past. The Illini won their last two games of the 2014 regu-lar season to qualify for a bowl game. Many fans and experts left them for dead after a bad performance in the team’s loss to Purdue in the middle of the season.
When Monheim was asked what type of emo-tions he was feeling, he had a simple answer: He wants to play football.
“It’s unfortunate about the time and what things happened, but we have a game in seven days.” Mon-heim said. “We started writ-ing this story for this year a long time ago and we’re not going to let anything stop us.”
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first. St. Louis attempted to mount a comeback after Danielle Tolmais scored a goal in the 77th minute, but it was too little too late — Flaws and the Illini would not be denied.
After the game Flaws was honored at midfield with the presentation of the ball that broke the record. Presenting Flaws with the ball was Tara Hurless, the previous record holder
“I told her, ‘Finally, you beat the record. Congrat-ulations,’” Hurless said of the interaction she had after giving her the ball. “I wouldn’t want to share (the moment) with anyone else but her.”
When asked about Flaws’ record, Rayfield said she was proud of her sixth-year senior, particularly for her perseverance and particu-larly because of the rough stretch Illini athletics has been through in the last few months.
“We certainly hope that gets as big of a spotlight as some of the things that maybe haven’t been as pos-itive,” Rayfield said.
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“I really just worry about how well we are playing and are we taking steps in the right direction ... I really like the mentality that we
finished that with.”
KEVIN HAMBLYHEAD COACH
Freshman setter makes crucial plays for o!ense
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINILeft: Illinois’ Jocelynn Birks attempts to spike the ball during the game vs. Louisville at Huff Hall on Friday. The Illini won 3-0. Right: Illinois’ Jordyn Poulter sets the ball during the game vs Louisville at Huff Hall on Friday. Illinois won 3-0.
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BECKMAN’S LAST STAND
Illinois’ head coach Tim Beckman fi res up his team before the game against Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 1, 2012. It was Beckman’s fi rst game as the Illini’s head coach.
Illinois head coach Tim Beckman and Cincinnati head coach Tommy Tuberville after the game on Sept. 7, 2013. The win was Beckman’s fi rst over a major BCS team at Illinois.
Illinois’ Tim Beckman reacts during the game against Purdue at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 4. The Illini lost 38-27. The game was widely considered Beckman’s worst loss.
Illinois’ head coach Tim Beckman against Minnesota at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 25. The Illini won 28-24, Beckman’s only win over a top-25 team.
Illinois’ head coach Tim Beckman during the game against Northwestern at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois on Nov. 29. The win sent Beckman to his only bowl as Illini coach.
Illinois’ head coach Tim Beckman during the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl against Louisiana Tech at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Texas on Dec. 26. Beckman’s fi nal game with Illinois.
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