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BY ELEANOR BLACK STAFF WRITER Despite the cold, Champaign- Urbana community members stood outside the McDonald’s, located at 1605 S. Neil St., car- rying signs and chanting phras- es such as, “Keep your burgers, keep your fries, make our wages supersized!” The rally was one of hundreds taking place Thursday in support of the “Fight for $15” movement. The movement seeks to raise min- imum wage to $15 and give fast- food workers the right to form a union without retaliation. Ricky Baldwin, co-chair of Central Illinois Jobs With Justice, said the movement has been gain- ing political strength through- out the country. On Tuesday, the Washington, D.C. City Council unanimously voted to endorse the state’s minimum wage from $8.25 to $11.50 per hour — one of the highest in the nation. The leg- islation will be put through a final vote and sent to the Washington, D.C. mayor, Vincent Gray. “It would be so much better if McDonald’s and other corpora- tions — who can afford it — would pay more,” Baldwin said. “Then those workers would have more money to spend, and it would help everybody, it would help get the economy going again.” University physics professor George Gollin, who is running for Congress in Illinois’ 13th district, also discussed the larger econom- ic impact low wages have. “When you do a real full accounting of things, what you find is that to get cheaper ham- burgers, cheaper goods, we’re having to put tax revenues into important programs like food stamps and other forms of aid,” he said. “You pay either right there at the counter when you buy some- INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 3B | Sudoku 3B THE DAILY ILLINI MONDAY December 9, 2013 25˚ | 14˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 56 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI BY CLAIRE HETTINGER STAFF WRITER The morning weather in Wash- ington, Ill., was fine, except Zach Schildt thought it looked like it was going to rain. The 21-year-old left his home on Sunday, Nov. 17 and drove to work at 7:45 a.m., and in his absence, a 170 mph wind ravaged his hometown and tore his home into pieces a little more than a week before the holiday season began. For any of Washington’s res- idents who lived in one of the 1,000 homes destroyed or dam- aged in their town, it is hard to imagine what the holiday season may bring now that they no lon- ger have a place to hang their stockings. However, the season is famous for its miracles, and the sto- ries from Washington are no exception. Nancy McMullen, another Washington resident, learned about the tornado warning when she was shopping at the local Dol- lar General. At first, she stayed put, planning to wait out the storm. In another part of town, Schil- dt was working at Todd’s Ser- vice Center, the local auto ser- vice business, which has a police scanner. He heard the radio buzz about a tornado touching down in a field somewhere in Washington. He grabbed his phone and texted his friends to tell them about the approaching funnel. As McMullen idly waited, she changed her mind. Desensitized by previous false alarms, she didn’t expect that outside, con- ditions were perfect for a torna- do to form at any moment. She wanted to make it home before the hail started. Considering the looming heavy rain, she avoided the crowded main roads and instead chose to drive through the subdivision behind the store. As she traveled homeward, she saw the clouds forming into a tor- nado. She watched it touch down, growing larger and larger until it was a massive funnel. “All I could see in my mir- ror was that tornado,” McMul- len said. About a minute after the police report, Schildt looked outside to see a “giant, huge, swirling, crazy looking — I can’t even describe it” storm cloud approaching. He said it sounded like a lawn- mower-chainsaw-huge-train approaching in the distance. That’s when Schildt decided he had to leave. There was no place for him to take cover at the garage. He figured since he was dead anyway if the tornado was com- ing at him, he would try and find someplace safer to hide. Anxiety raced through McMul- len’s veins as she raced the tor- nado home. She noticed the fun- nel was heading in her direction, so she double-checked the inter- section ahead of her and ran the red light. Schildt ran out into the street in panic and tried to get one of the passing cars to give him a lift. Nobody stopped. In the distance, he saw the flashing lights of a police vehi- cle, so he ran to it and the officer unlocked the doors and let him in. McMullen made it into her driveway and, still thinking the tornado was heading toward her, rushed to the front door, and her husband let her inside. The subdivision which Nancy had driven through mere minutes before was destroyed. “My husband and I decided I missed (the tornado) by a min- ute and a half,” she said. “Every- thing around where I was driving in the neighborhood is just total mass destruction. There are no homes — it was in the direct path of the tornado.” Schildt’s home, the only one he’s ever lived in, is in a simi- larly destroyed neighborhood — with his father inside at the time of the storm. The policeman dropped Schil- dt off at Hardee’s, where he then immediately tried to contact his family. His calls would not go through, and he spent the next 10 minutes deciding what to do. As soon as he remembered his mother was right across the street at the church, he ran to make sure she was okay. Schildt’s panicking mother explained that she had been talk- ing to his father just before the phone went dead. His last words were, “It’s coming toward the house.” In an attempt to see if his dad was OK, Schildt and his moth- er drove toward their neighbor- hood in a friend’s car, but had to turn back because downed pow- er lines made it too dangerous to drive through the residential area. Back at the church, they wait- ed for some word from him. His dad showed up 40 minutes later in their neighbor’s car. He informed them that every- thing was gone, but Schildt didn’t Washington, Ill., residents push forward to holidays University takes advantage of growth in Big Data field UI professor Rogers awarded for ‘revolutionary’ research C-U workers protest for higher wages PHOTO COURTESY OF ZACH SCHILDT The Schildt family home was destroyed during the Nov. 17 tornado that devastated the area. Only the front wall now stands. BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER A message pops up on a smartphone screen: “Twitter would like to use your current location.” At that moment, with the simple tap of the screen, the owner of the phone has become a contributor to big data — huge sources of information that sci- entists and companies com- pile to use in their research, marketing plans and business strategies. On Friday, the University’s Research Park hosted the Big Data Summit at Champaign’s I Hotel, which gathered leaders in big data to discuss future appli- cations and analyses in this field. “The purpose of this event is to really start a discussion with companies who are on the Research Park and with other companies ... about how they can utilize big data and data analyt- ics,” said Laura Bleill, assistant director of external relations at the University’s Research Park. Big data has become an increasingly popular topic in science and research in recent years, said Michael Welge, Research Park big data exec- utive-in-residence. In the past two years, 90 percent of world data was created, which calls for more data storage and analytics, Welge said. “There’s been data analysis going on for 25 years,” Welge said. “The data set sizes because of the numbers of sensors placed in the field and the number of applications on your phone are producing vast amounts of data that describe behavior and char- acteristics — that can be very valuable to companies.” In the Research Park, com- panies have started to use these massive data supplies to make their businesses more lucrative. For example, Anheuser-Busch uses its lab in Research Park to analyze consumer habits and trends in order to create more effective marketing plans or to predict the number of products consumed by each region of the country, said Bud Analytics Lab Director Rafael Pinterich. “With big data we can go into a deeper relationship with our HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINI Fast-food workers around the country are on strike again in 100 cities with supporters rallying in 100 more last Thursday, marking over a year of sustained unrest among low-wage workers in the US. This time members of the Central Illinois community will rally in support of their effort to improve their lives, known as the ‘Fight for $15.’ The group gathered at McDonald’s on Neil and Kirby in Champaign at 5 p.m. on Thursday. When social media and Big Data combine 1. Hockey fans watch the game in Canada. 2. Hockey fans tweet about the hockey game and Budweiser. 3. Budweiser analyzes vast amounts of data gathered from tweets and pinpoints the moments when most people are drinking Budweiser: after a goal is scored. 4. Budweiser creates marketing campaign focusing on the red light that flashes when a goal is scored. BY ZILA RENFRO STAFF WRITER John A. Rogers, a University professor of materials science and engineering, is the recipient of this year’s Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award for the category of physical sciences. The Smithsonian Magazine and Rogers’ colleagues have called his research in the past year “revolutionary.” Rogers is responsible for a host of different inventions, many of which contribute to the medical industry. His most-noted brainchild this year is his research on flexible electronics. Turning his cell phone around in his hands, Rogers explained that the inner workings of a phone depend on a series of silicon chips. The silicon is a hard, rigid material, which is why the phone is also rigid. “For a phone, this kind of geometry is fine,” Rogers said. “But if you want to take this kind of (electronic) functionality and use it to study the body or deliver electrical stimulation to the body ... it’s not a very good shape because the body is soft and textured.” While one of the solutions could have been to use stretchy plastics or rubbers for medical devices, silicon is still a much better conductor of electricity. Therefore, Rogers and his fellow researchers perfected ultra-thin silicon, changing the silicon material from rigid to stretchy, which better suits the body. Rogers’ ideas for how ultra-thin silicon can be used in medical devices are extensive. “With a pacemaker, you just have one wire connecting into the tissue,” Rogers said. “But if you could wrap the whole heart with an integrated circuit, then you could pulse it and stimulate it in a much more complex and sophisticated way.” Rogers is already implementing flexible electronics commercially. A company called MC10, founded by Rogers, worked with Reebok to release an electronic skullcap this past July. Athletes who play contact sports can wear the form-fitting skullcap under their helmets, and a stretchy electronic inside the cap can measure and record the physical severity of any hits to the head. Besides flexible electronics, the American Ingenuity Award also recognizes Rogers for his development of medical devices that not only stretch and flex, but also dissolve. Rogers foresees this being useful, for example, for when medical devices are no longer BRIAN YU THE DAILY ILLINI Dave Boutcher, a senior software engineering at Akuna Capital, answers a question as part of a panel at the Big Data Summit. The conference was held at the I Hotel Conference Center in Champaign on Friday. SEE TORNADO | 3A SEE ROGERS | 3A SEE FAST FOOD | 3A SEE DATA | 3A INTO THE SWEET 16 Person to know Illini Crushes Dr. Weedon’s work has brought necessary grants for the veterinary school Creators of the popular Facebook page talk about the page and future plans No. 13-seeded Illinois volleyball advances after four-set victory over Marquette Life & Culture, 5A Life & Culture, 6A SPORTS, 1B
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BY ELEANOR BLACKSTAFF WRITER
Despite the cold, Champaign-Urbana community members stood outside the McDonald’s, located at 1605 S. Neil St., car-rying signs and chanting phras-es such as, “Keep your burgers, keep your fries, make our wages supersized!”
The rally was one of hundreds taking place Thursday in support of the “Fight for $15” movement. The movement seeks to raise min-imum wage to $15 and give fast-food workers the right to form a union without retaliation.
Ricky Baldwin, co-chair of Central Illinois Jobs With Justice, said the movement has been gain-ing political strength through-out the country. On Tuesday, the Washington, D.C. City Council unanimously voted to endorse the state’s minimum wage from $8.25 to $11.50 per hour — one of the highest in the nation. The leg-islation will be put through a final vote and sent to the Washington, D.C. mayor, Vincent Gray.
“It would be so much better if McDonald’s and other corpora-tions — who can afford it — would pay more,” Baldwin said. “Then those workers would have more money to spend, and it would help
everybody, it would help get the economy going again.”
University physics professor George Gollin, who is running for Congress in Illinois’ 13th district, also discussed the larger econom-
ic impact low wages have.“When you do a real full
accounting of things, what you find is that to get cheaper ham-burgers, cheaper goods, we’re having to put tax revenues into
important programs like food stamps and other forms of aid,” he said. “You pay either right there at the counter when you buy some-
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BY CLAIRE HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER
The morning weather in Wash-ington, Ill., was fine, except Zach Schildt thought it looked like it was going to rain.
The 21-year-old left his home on Sunday, Nov. 17 and drove to work at 7:45 a.m., and in his absence, a 170 mph wind ravaged his hometown and tore his home into pieces a little more than a week before the holiday season began.
For any of Washington’s res-idents who lived in one of the 1,000 homes destroyed or dam-aged in their town, it is hard to imagine what the holiday season may bring now that they no lon-ger have a place to hang their stockings.
However, the season is famous for its miracles, and the sto-ries from Washington are no exception.
Nancy McMullen, another Washington resident, learned about the tornado warning when she was shopping at the local Dol-lar General. At first, she stayed put, planning to wait out the storm.
In another part of town, Schil-dt was working at Todd’s Ser-vice Center, the local auto ser-vice business, which has a police scanner. He heard the radio buzz about a tornado touching down in a field somewhere in Washington. He grabbed his phone and texted his friends to tell them about the approaching funnel.
As McMullen idly waited, she changed her mind. Desensitized by previous false alarms, she didn’t expect that outside, con-ditions were perfect for a torna-do to form at any moment.
She wanted to make it home before the hail started.
Considering the looming heavy rain, she avoided the crowded main roads and instead chose to drive through the subdivision behind the store.
As she traveled homeward, she saw the clouds forming into a tor-nado. She watched it touch down, growing larger and larger until it was a massive funnel.
“All I could see in my mir-ror was that tornado,” McMul-len said.
About a minute after the police report, Schildt looked outside to see a “giant, huge, swirling, crazy looking — I can’t even describe it” storm cloud approaching. He said it sounded like a lawn-mower-chainsaw-huge-train approaching in the distance.
That’s when Schildt decided
he had to leave. There was no place for him to take cover at the garage.
He figured since he was dead anyway if the tornado was com-ing at him, he would try and find someplace safer to hide.
Anxiety raced through McMul-len’s veins as she raced the tor-nado home. She noticed the fun-nel was heading in her direction, so she double-checked the inter-section ahead of her and ran the red light.
Schildt ran out into the street in panic and tried to get one of the passing cars to give him a lift.
Nobody stopped.In the distance, he saw the
flashing lights of a police vehi-cle, so he ran to it and the officer unlocked the doors and let him in.
McMullen made it into her driveway and, still thinking the tornado was heading toward her,
rushed to the front door, and her husband let her inside.
The subdivision which Nancy had driven through mere minutes before was destroyed.
“My husband and I decided I missed (the tornado) by a min-ute and a half,” she said. “Every-thing around where I was driving in the neighborhood is just total mass destruction. There are no homes — it was in the direct path of the tornado.”
Schildt’s home, the only one he’s ever lived in, is in a simi-larly destroyed neighborhood — with his father inside at the time of the storm.
The policeman dropped Schil-dt off at Hardee’s, where he then immediately tried to contact his family. His calls would not go through, and he spent the next 10 minutes deciding what to do.
As soon as he remembered
his mother was right across the street at the church, he ran to make sure she was okay.
Schildt’s panicking mother explained that she had been talk-ing to his father just before the phone went dead. His last words were, “It’s coming toward the house.”
In an attempt to see if his dad was OK, Schildt and his moth-er drove toward their neighbor-hood in a friend’s car, but had to turn back because downed pow-er lines made it too dangerous to drive through the residential area.
Back at the church, they wait-ed for some word from him. His dad showed up 40 minutes later in their neighbor’s car.
He informed them that every-thing was gone, but Schildt didn’t
Washington, Ill., residents push forward to holidays
University takes advantage of growth in Big Data field
UI professor Rogers awarded for ‘revolutionary’ research
C-U workers protest for higher wages
PHOTO COURTESY OF ZACH SCHILDTThe Schildt family home was destroyed during the Nov. 17 tornado that devastated the area. Only the front wall now stands.
BY MARYCATE MOSTSTAFF WRITER
A message pops up on a smartphone screen: “Twitter would like to use your current location.” At that moment, with the simple tap of the screen, the owner of the phone has become a contributor to big data — huge sources of information that sci-entists and companies com-pile to use in their research, marketing plans and business strategies.
On Friday, the University’s Research Park hosted the Big Data Summit at Champaign’s I Hotel, which gathered leaders in big data to discuss future appli-cations and analyses in this field.
“The purpose of this event is to really start a discussion with companies who are on the Research Park and with other companies ... about how they can utilize big data and data analyt-ics,” said Laura Bleill, assistant director of external relations at the University’s Research Park.
Big data has become an increasingly popular topic in science and research in recent years, said Michael Welge, Research Park big data exec-utive-in-residence. In the past two years, 90 percent of world data was created, which calls for more data storage and analytics, Welge said.
“There’s been data analysis going on for 25 years,” Welge said. “The data set sizes because of the numbers of sensors placed in the field and the number of applications on your phone are producing vast amounts of data
that describe behavior and char-acteristics — that can be very valuable to companies.”
In the Research Park, com-panies have started to use these massive data supplies to make their businesses more lucrative. For example, Anheuser-Busch uses its lab in Research Park to analyze consumer habits and trends in order to create more effective marketing plans or to predict the number of products consumed by each region of the country, said Bud Analytics Lab Director Rafael Pinterich.
“With big data we can go into a deeper relationship with our
HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINIFast-food workers around the country are on strike again in 100 cities with supporters rallying in 100 more last Thursday, marking over a year of sustained unrest among low-wage workers in the US. This time members of the Central Illinois community will rally in support of their effort to improve their lives, known as the ‘Fight for $15.’ The group gathered at McDonald’s on Neil and Kirby in Champaign at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
When social media and Big Data combine1. Hockey fans watch the game in Canada.2. Hockey fans tweet about the hockey game and Budweiser.3. Budweiser analyzes vast amounts of data gathered from tweets and pinpoints the moments when most people are drinking Budweiser: after a goal is scored.4. Budweiser creates marketing campaign focusing on the red light that flashes when a goal is scored.
BY ZILA RENFROSTAFF WRITER
John A. Rogers, a University professor of materials science and engineering, is the recipient of this year’s Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award for the category of physical sciences. The Smithsonian Magazine and Rogers’ colleagues have called his research in the past year “revolutionary.”
Rogers is responsible for a host of different inventions, many of which contribute to the medical industry. His most-noted brainchild this year is his research on flexible electronics.
Turning his cell phone around in his hands, Rogers explained that the inner workings of a phone depend on a series of silicon chips. The silicon is a hard, rigid material, which is why the phone is also rigid.
“For a phone, this kind of geometry is fine,” Rogers said. “But if you want to take this kind of (electronic) functionality and use it to study the body or deliver electrical stimulation to the body ... it’s not a very good shape because the body is soft and textured.”
While one of the solutions could have been to use stretchy plastics or rubbers for medical devices, silicon is still a much better conductor of electricity.
Therefore, Rogers and his fellow researchers perfected ultra-thin silicon, changing the silicon material from rigid to stretchy, which better suits the body. Rogers’ ideas for how ultra-thin silicon can be used in medical devices are extensive.
“With a pacemaker, you just have one wire connecting into the tissue,” Rogers said. “But if you could wrap the whole heart with an integrated circuit, then you could pulse it and stimulate it in a much more complex and sophisticated way.”
Rogers is a lready implementing f lex ible electronics commercially. A company called MC10, founded by Rogers, worked with Reebok to release an electronic skullcap this past July. Athletes who play contact sports can wear the form-fitting skullcap under their helmets, and a stretchy electronic inside the cap can measure and record the physical severity of any hits to the head.
Besides flexible electronics, the American Ingenuity Award also recognizes Rogers for his development of medical devices that not only stretch and flex, but also dissolve. Rogers foresees this being useful, for example, for when medical devices are no longer
BRIAN YU THE DAILY ILLINIDave Boutcher, a senior software engineering at Akuna Capital, answers a question as part of a panel at the Big Data Summit. The conference was held at the I Hotel Conference Center in Champaign on Friday.
SEE TORNADO | 3A
SEE ROGERS | 3ASEE FAST FOOD | 3A
SEE DATA | 3A
INTO THE SWEET 16Person to knowIllini Crushes
Dr. Weedon’s work has brought necessary grants for the veterinary school
Creators of the popular Facebook page talk about the page and future plans
No. 13-seeded Illinois volleyball advances after four-set victory over Marquette
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WEATHERPOLICE
Champaign Burglary was reported in
the 300 block of East Armory Avenue at around 4 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown suspect pried open coin boxes on washers and dryers.
Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported in the 2000 block of West Bradley Avenue around noon Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown offender punctured four tires on the victim’s vehicle.
Motor vehicle theft was reported at Blue Star 2, 918 W. Bradley Ave., at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unattended running vehicle was taken without the owner’s permission.
University Theft was reported at the
Illinois Department of Family and Children Services office, 2125 S. First St., at around 9 a.m.
According to the report, a projector was missing dur-ing an equipment inventory in November. The projector has an estimated value of $550.
Urbana Theft was reported at Wes-
ley Methodist Church, 1203 W.
Green St., at around noon Sat-urday. According to the report, an unknown offender stole the victim’s wallet and then later returned it with cash missing.
Battery was reported in the 1600 block of East Florida Ave-nue at around 10 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, the suspect made unwanted phys-ical contact with the victim after an argument.
Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported in the 2000 block of Vawter Street at around 4 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown offender damaged the victim’s tires.
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HOROSCOPES
BY NANCY BLACKTRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Today’s Birthday Shout your love from the rooftops this year. Friends keep you dancing into February, when work heats up. Pay debt and grow !nances with relative ease. Adapt your career to changing circumstances; reinvention bring gains, especially after July. Learn new tricks, and fall in love (again). Share your philosophies and deepest thoughts. Your happiness lights up the world.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is a 7 — Financial planning today and tomorrow provides power. Discover new ways to make money. Pursue ambitions with determination and advance your career. Persistence pays off. Don’t spend what you haven’t got, though. Consider the big picture with small choices.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is a 7 — Today and tomorrow hold fun action with the moon in your sign. You have extra power, an energy boost and renewed con!dence. Personal matters need attention, and business calls. Balance everything with steady communication.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is a 7 — Fine-tune your domestic environment. Today
and tomorrow favor dreams, introspection and re"ection. Get cozy and contemplative, quiet enough to hear your intuition. You’re under pressure regarding deadlines. Breathe deep and stay in action. Relax in hot water.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is a 7 — Participate with your community. Friends want you to come out and play. Hold off on making a household decision. Schedule meetings for today. Group projects go well for the next few days. Communication "ows.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is an 8 — Career matters and responsibilities claim your attention today and tomorrow. Potential clients and partners are watching. Handle details and keep your eye on the ball. When the spotlight passes, relax with friends.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 7 — Set long-range goals today and tomorrow. An older dream could be possible now; attend to household chores and think it over. Make something happen for less by re-purposing used stuff. Stick to your philosophy.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is an 8 — For the next two days, make big changes without spending money. Budget and pay bills. Publicize your efforts. There’s a choice to make. Figure the costs. Prayer and meditation are powerful tools. A clear head sees the road.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is a 7 — Reject a far-fetched
scheme in favor of a practical solution. Let somebody else direct the show for a couple of days. Let a partner come to the rescue, then !nd some way to reciprocate. Share the action.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is a 7 — The pace ramps up at work for the next two days. Put your ideas into action. A co-worker demands your time. Serve others with compassion for satisfaction. Share solutions for health. Breathe and relax.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is a 7 — You’re attractive, and attracted, today and tomorrow. Love blossoms. Get the word out about your passion. Help someone stay relaxed and calm by sharing some fun. Time outdoors rejuvenates. Go play together.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 7 — Home and family take priority today and tomorrow. Relief comes with expressed emotions. Handle home repairs. Fix something that was bugging someone. Work from home. Discover the truth, and new freedom and affinity arises.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 7 -—All of a sudden, everything starts making sense. You’ve got the talent, so study and do the homework today and tomorrow. A solution to an old problem is becoming obvious. Re!ne your understanding for power.
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realize what that meant.“I thought, ‘Oh well, our house
is gone, we can rebuild it,’ but our entire subdivision — everything was just gone,” he said.
Later when he went to his home to see if anything could be sal-vaged, the true state of things was inconceivable.
“It looked like a war zone,” he said, “I’ve lived there all my life, and I just couldn’t believe my eyes seeing all of the destruction.”
Not much could be saved from his family home other than a few items of clothing, some of his homework, two calculators and textbooks from his last semes-ter classes at Illinois Central Col-lege. He did save a pair of shoes, filled with insulation and debris, but he still has to clean them out.
Schildt was overjoyed when he realized two rather furry pos-sessions weathered the storm as well.
One under the couch in the basement and one in a closet upstairs, Rusty and Sugar sur-vived the storm.
“Which was awesome,” he said. “I was so worried about my cats.”
The tornado hit close to home for many who live on the Univer-sity’s campus.
Jessica Weston wanted to go home and help as soon as she heard the news but traffic into the town was regulated, and not many people were being allowed in. Unphased, she then decided to do something for Washington from Champaign.
She, with the help of three oth-er coordinators and the entire Illini community would fill a truck.
Seniors Weston, LAS, Mandy McGuire, ACES, Dani Frye, AHS and Allison Canty, LAS, are all from Washington and created the “Fill the Truck” campaign to provide relief to their friends and neighbors whose lives were changed by the tornado.
They would gather the most necessary and immediate sup-plies for the victims of the tor-nado, and they would take them home on Friday when they left for Thanksgiving break.
Monday morning, there was an empty trailer. Monday after-noon, there were four boxes on Weston’s doorstep. Friday after-noon, there was a trailer so full not even another box could fit.
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Krush, fraternities, sororities, other registered student orga-nizations and citizens donated water, food, cleaning supplies, clothing, pillows, blankets and baby items, among other items, to accomplish their goal and help their fellow townspeople in need.
Weston called Washing-ton Mayor Gary Manier as the trailer that took two hours to load rolled into town. He direct-ed them to the Sunnyland Plaza donation drop off, and in a mat-ter of 20 minutes, the ready and willing volunteers emptied the trailer.
In addition to the truck, more than $2,000 were donated to the Washington Secret Santa, a group focused on providing chil-dren with presents and restoring some normalcy to their holiday season.
The Interfraternity Council also donated $4,000 to Washing-ton Helps Its People, the local food pantry.
Victims and volunteers have used Facebook as a main form of communication. In the early aftermath of the tornado, a page called “Washington, IL Tornado Recovery” served as a source of available resources as well as a place for people to ask questions about encountered problems. This page has received more than 178,000 “likes” as of press time and thousands of posts from people across the nation.
Schildt and his family have received much support from friends and strangers in the aftermath of the disaster. They have been staying at the Hamp-ton Inn in East Peoria, Ill., which has given discounted rates to tornado victims. They have also received meals and help with insurance questions, to name a few things.
Schildt went to a Red Cross shelter after the tornado. He excitedly spoke about the comfort dogs that he played with that first night. He thought it was hilarious that they brought in the dogs and found it especially funny that they have their own Facebook page.
He claims that the shoes he received from the volunteers of the San Antonio Shoe Company are “the most comfortable shoes ever.”
Volunteers made sure people made homeless by the tornado had somewhere to gather for Thanks-giving. Schools and churches were turned into make-shift cafeterias for those who had nowhere else to go, like Schildt and his family.
Schildt spent his Thanksgiv-ing eating at a local school while his parents ate at a local church. He just kept thinking if they had a home they would be together. It was awful for him to be sepa-rated from his family and to have been reduced to eating at a church and a school, rather than sitting at his dining room table eating a nice Thanksgiving meal of tur-key. They should be talking to each other, having a nice family conversation.
Above all, he just kept think-ing that they should be together.
The citizens of Washington con-tinue to plan their next move. As time passes, people are slowly but surely fitting the pieces of their lives back together.
Schildt and his family will move into a rental home, trying to return their lives to normal.
Some people did not have hom-eowners’ insurance, and Schildt said he feels much worse for them than for himself because they lit-erally lost everything.
Though it’s approaching fast, Schildt said Christmas is the last thing on people’s minds. Affect-ed Washington residents are just trying to figure out what they are going to do and where they are going to live.
Nancy said most people she knows are trying to pick up where they left off with what little they have and go from there. She knows people who are trying to get Christmas trees to add some normalcy for their children.
Some victims, however, did not even have shoes let alone Christ-
mas ornaments and decorations.The Schildt family Christmas
decorations were in the basement of their house, so some were able to be saved. Schildt’s father was able to salvage some of the deco-rations Schildt had made while in preschool — decorations that were important to his parents.
Despite the hardships, Schil-dt said morale in Washington remains high. He said the help he has received has been incredible, and he is definitely going to write the volunteers a thank you note.
To McMullen, everything has been overwhelming. She said the outpouring of help and volunteer-ism from the community as well as the nation makes her think about how fortunate everybody is to be in Washington.
She doesn’t think anybody could say anything negative about the help that has been received.
“The whole community is very strong, and we are doing the best we can,” Schildt said. “Almost anyone you talk to is going to have a positive outlook on this, and they are just going to get through it, and they are glad to be alive.”
Soon, the air will get colder and the snow will fall. Schildt said if the winter is mild, his family may be able to have their home rebuilt by this time next year, but that seems to be the earliest estimate.
For now, the weather is fine — but there is nothing left to block the wind.
Claire can be reached at [email protected].
JESSICA WESTON THE DAILY ILLINIVolunteers dropped off supplies for the “Fill the Truck” campaign at Jessica Weston’s house to support Washington, Ill., residents affected by the recent storm.
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needed in the body so that surgery won’t be necessary to retrieve it.
“We thought about whether there would be a set of materials that could go into the body, survive for a time period that’s relevant for its mode of use, but then once its job is done, then it would just dissolve away,” Rogers said.
Rogers’ colleagues affirm his innovation. Ralph Nuzzo, a University chemistry professor, has followed Rogers’ work since they worked at Bell Laboratories together in the 1990s. They are currently both interested in the area of flexible electronics.
“He’s got this very rare attribute,” Nuzzo said. “He’ll come up with an innovative idea and reduce it to a form of practice at the level of technology in a way that just
blows your mind.”Sanat Bhole is a first year
master’s student who is part of the Rogers research group. He and other researchers are currently working daily in a lab to try and develop cancer-preventing, skin-mountable UV sensors based on Rogers’ flexible electronics technology.
“Rogers is infinitely responsible for formulating the ideas and the theories that we implement, whether it’s the actual process of how to fabricate something or the theories behind how a certain device will work,” Bhole said.
When asked for words of advice for aspiring inventors, Rogers suggests thinking big.
“Choose grand challenge levels to work on that you’re passionate about. Go for the big problems,” Rogers said. “The small problems will work themselves out.”
Zila can be reached at zrenfro2dailyillini.com.
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thing from a place that’s not pay-ing its workers well, or you pay because we have to subsidize peo-ple so they don’t starve to death.”
Other than fighting for a raise in the minimum wage, fast-food workers are fighting for their right to unionize.
“A lot of times in this country when workers try to form a union, even though legally it’s a protect-ed right, they will find themselves fired or disciplined or have their hours cut back — and the employ-er says it’s for another reason,” Baldwin said. “Somehow, coinci-dentally, it’s always the folks who are most active in trying to start the union.”
He added that even if employ-ers are convicted of illegal anti-union activity, the fine is minimal, so large corporations like McDon-ald’s — who he said reported earn-ings of $1.5 billion last quarter — do not have to worry about such consequences.
The plight of fast-food workers does not just affect the community on an economic level, but also on a personal one.
“If people think about it, most people probably know someone or have a family member, if not they themselves, that have worked in fast-food,” Baldwin said.”All of
those people are making low wag-es. About half of them, on average, have to rely on some kind of public assistance to get by.”
Gloria Von Behren, area chap-ter president of SEIU, has been part of the food service commu-nity for 30 years and is a second-generation food service worker at the University. She said she started working in military din-ing halls for $1.10 per hour when she was a teenager.
“We’ve got to start somewhere with bringing back what we deserve, with a job with dignity and the opportunity to get our-selves above what it costs us to live,” she said. “There is too wide of a disparity between what min-imum wage is, what cost-of-liv-ing is and what a living wage is. If they continue to bring those defini-tions closer together, we may not have an issue.”
With this movement, Von Beh-ren is looking to make changes to the way that fast food work-ers are viewed and treated by corporations.
“They can’t tell me that it’s an uneducated person, they can’t tell me that it’s an entry-level position, don’t demean my profession,” she said. “If [employers] think their floor is our ceiling, we will raise the roof.”
Eleanor can be reached at [email protected]
consumers and build connections with consumers,” Pinterich said. “Not only do we connect with con-sumers, but we experience a part of the consumer life.”
Pinterich spoke to academ-ics and industry leaders during a panel on social media at the summit, specifically referring to one instance in which data from social media allowed the Bud-weiser company to make an even
larger profit.“We just found through data
analytics and social media that there is a huge correlation between hockey and Budweiser,” Pinterich said. “Normally there is a peak during the goals — people celebrate and they are willing to drink — so that was a big oppor-tunity for us, and we needed to take advantage of that.”
Based on information gathered from social media sites like Twit-ter, Budweiser crafted a new mar-keting plan that targeted hockey fans and predicted where extra
amounts of Budweiser would be purchased so the company could ship extra product to those areas at a faster rate, Pinterich said.
Laura Frerichs, director of the University’s Research Park, hopes that the University will be able to capitalize on big data expansion by encouraging com-panies to move to the Research Park and take advantage of the big data processing services that the University offers, she said.
“From our side, we see this as part of our economic devel-opment mission,” Frerichs said.
“In showing Champaign-Urbana and the University as one of the premier locations where data ana-lytics expertise has existed for a long time because of comput-er science, (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), informatics and statistics ... We hope companies will consider our community as one of the best in the country.”
The University offers a number of resources for companies and researchers: scholastic prestige, the NCSA, which is the Universi-ty’s supercomputing center, and
relationships with leading com-panies, Frerichs said.
“This is a very rapidly growing field and a fast-moving train,” said Shaowen Wang, professor of geog-raphy and geographic informa-tion science. “One of the biggest challenges is that we are missing workforce and that is where the University of Illinois is in posi-tion to be a major contributor. We train that workforce that our industrial partners might need very quickly.”
Frerichs said the NCSA’s abil-ity to do massive calculations with
big data makes it a tool worth utilizing.
“It happens that we have some of the biggest and strongest super-computers in the world,” Frerichs said. “Every major corporation knows the University of Illinois has the big supercomputers, and that certainly, when making a decision to go anywhere in the world, will make them come to the University of Illinois.”
MaryCate can be reached at [email protected].
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BY JULIANNE MICOLETASTAFF WRITER
With the advent of the holiday shopping season, new research co-authored by Aric Rindfleisch, a University marketing profes-sor, tells a cautionary tale about materialism and its secondary effect on making traumatic events even worse.
The research, conducted by Rindfleisch and co-authors Ayal-la Ruvio, of Michigan State Uni-versity, and Eli Somer, of the University of Haifa in Israel, explored the amplifying effect of materialism on the experi-ence of trauma through an Israe-li field study and a U.S. national survey. It was published in July.
“The basic idea is that people who are materialistic seem to suffer more than people who are not materialistic,” Rindfleisch said.
Materialism is the value that people have toward object and how they see material posses-sions as a source of happiness, he said.
The Israeli component of the study was conducted in two parts: they looked at the con-sumption practices among par-ticipants from an Israeli town under extreme rocket attacks from Palestine for about six months in 2007 and compared it with another Israeli town not exposed to the hostilities.
“We compared two villages with similar demographics, and what we found is that the partic-ipants in the village under ter-rorist attacks suffered higher levels of post-traumatic stress disorder, more impulsive buying and more compulsive consump-tion than their less materialistic counterparts in the other Israeli village,” Rindfleisch said.
The U.S. part of the study com-missioned a survey of U.S. resi-dents and asked them about their materialistic nature and fear of death. It found that these indi-rect effects are due to the fact that materialistic people exhib-it lower levels of self-esteem, which reduces the ability for someone to cope with traumat-
ic experiences, according to the paper.
“The U.S. study was interest-ing because obviously, not many of our towns are being bombed so what we did in the survey is try to simulate these sorts of conditions by asking people to tell us about their level of death anxiety, and those who had more anxiety toward death were simi-lar to the participants in the vil-lage under terrorist attacks,” Rindfleisch said.
However, traumatic events are not limited to just terrorist attacks.
“It can mean anything from being in a car accident, nat-ural disasters, severe termi-nal illnesses or near-death experiences,” R i n d f l e i s c h said.
With the upcoming hol-iday shopping season, Rind-fleisch said shoppers should take extra cau-tion with buying into hype.
“I think that’s what these sales are designed to do,” he said. “They’re designed to take advan-tage of these tendencies because in times of stress, people seek solace through shopping. The research suggests that there is some fix with retail therapy and Black Friday shopping and the rest of the shopping season plays into that.”
Though Lan Chaplin, associ-ate professor of marketing at University of Illinois at Chica-go, said consumers can com-bat materialism during the hol-iday shopping season through generosity.
“Try to think of everyone and everything you are grateful for,” Chaplin said. “I bet you’ll real-ize how much you have and you won’t feel the need to acquire more stuff.”
Another way to beat materi-alism this holiday season is to
redirect gifts to the less fortu-nate, Chaplin said.
“If you are a true shopahol-ic and just enjoy shopping, then redirect your gifts to those who really need it,” Chaplin said. “This is especially important to teach children who are grow-ing up in a highly materialistic world. When all they see is buy-ing more and more stuff without much generosity towards others, they will grow up just taking and taking without giving back.”
For LAS freshman Nehal Patel, Black Friday shopping has been
a tradition in her fam-ily for years, but she feels that it takes advantage of the sales of the shopping season out of necessity.
“It’s a day to get the stuff that I absolute-ly need,” Patel said. “My par-ticipation in Black Friday
and holiday sales is determined by what I need. If I am in dire need for boots, a new phone and some clothes, then I will go to shop. I don’t do it to make myself happy or feel good about myself.”
Similar to the study done by Rindfleisch, Chaplin’s research finds that low self-esteem causes materialism. When her research team experimentally raised children’s self-esteem, they observed a decrease in level of materialism.
“We also found that material-ism heightens around early ado-lescence when teens are hyper-critical of themselves. Their self-esteem drops and their materialism increases,” Chap-lin said. “There’s good news though because by late adoles-cence around ages 16 or 17, teen-agers’ self-esteem rebounds and materialism decreases.”
Julianne can be reached at [email protected].
BY MARYCATE MOSTSTAFF WRITER
Limited wireless access has caused faculty and administra-tors to jump into action, develop-ing the 2013 IT Strategic Plan that proposes a 0.1 percent increase in the University’s investment in IT. The proposed plan will go before the Urbana-Champaign Senate at its meeting at the Illini Union on Monday.
“This resolution was surpris-ingly fast,” said John Hart, Infor-mation Technology Committee chair and Engineering professor. “I did not expect it to get to the (full) Senate so quickly.”
If passed, the plan will call for an increase in the total per-centage of the University budget spent on IT, from 3.8 percent to 3.9 percent. Even with the pro-posed increase, Hart said the Uni-
versity falls behind the average percentage of IT spending in edu-cation, which is currently at 4 per-cent nationwide.
“The strategic plan is longer-term, and it focuses on data driv-en scholarship,” Hart said. “We are trying to set up a campus IT infrastructure to support moving large sets of data across campus.”
The Senate is also set to discuss pension reform, Senate Executive Committee Chair Roy Campbell said.
“The opinion will be pretty much aghast (about the pension plan),” Campbell said. “One of the things that we are going to look at is compensation. What will the University do in terms of benefits?”
Campbell said there is some concern that when faculty are deciding what universities to
teach at, pension plans at the Uni-versity might be a deterrent.
“What it could do is really dis-enchant people that are living in Illinois,” Campbell said. “A lot of faculty are international, and it is not like they have family in Cham-paign-Urbana. It puts us at a seri-ous disadvantage with competing universities.”
The Senate meeting will pro-vide an opportunity to open dis-cussion on how to address the plan. There has already been talk of the University providing some kind of pension supplement, and at the University’s Chicago campus, faculty have started to unionize and are planning to strike, Camp-bell said.
MaryCate can be reached at [email protected].
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BY CLAIRE EVERETTSTAFF WRITER
Instead of putting your old cell phone in a box never to be used again, sustainable options are being created to reuse its materials.
What started as an industrial design class at the University in 2009 turned into the Internation-al Sustainable Electronics Com-petition. The competition focuses on the reuse of electronic waste and the prevention of unsustain-able use.
A panel of experts judge prod-ucts and non-products, such as policies and educational cam-paigns. This year’s winners were announced at a ceremony at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center on Thursday, which was also broadcast as a webinar.
The winner of the product con-test from Swinburne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Austra-lia, was awarded a $3,000 prize for his idea for smart phones to be remanufactured as cow collars to monitor the health and location of the animal. The farmer would be able to tell when the animal is fed and if it is sick.
In the non-product category, stu-dents from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Mon-terrey Campus Puebla in Mexi-co won the $3,000 prize for their children’s game concept. Children would build toys out of a game kit of recyclable materials to create a moving toy.
“Some students have had been interested in bringing their ideas to market,” said Joy Scrogum, emerging technologies resource
specialist at the Illinois Sustain-able Technology Center. “Often in the past, we’ve had people who have seen the winners and say, ‘I really love that idea, I wish I could buy one of those.’”
Now, the Technology Entrepre-neur Center in the College of Engi-neering is offering feedback for projects to make prototypes and production in the marketplace a feasible option.
“It was nice this year because all of the winners were interna-tional this year, and we could un-mute them on the webinar to make comments,” Scrogum said. “It’s always really interesting to see the great ideas that students come up with.”
Claire can be reached at [email protected].
“The basic idea is that people who are materialistic seem to suffer more than
people who are not. ”ARIC RINDFLEISCH
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It was only in July that Gov. Pat Quinn halted Illinois lawmak-ers’ pay (later deemed un-
constitutional) for failing to agree on a pension reform solution that has evolved into a nearly $100 bil-lion deficit. Last week, nearly five months later, Illinois finally intro-duced and passed a plan to fully fund the pension system by the end of Fiscal Year 2044.
Although a set goal is reassuring, and not to mention the bipartisan-ship of a consistently split Gener-al Assembly, the effects on Illinois’ nine public universities are unclear. In 2011, the State owed these nine universities more than $550 million.
But the University receives the largest appropriation from the State, thus resulting in the State also owing the University the most money, about $456 million.
University President Robert Eas-ter, in coordination with the chan-cellors at the other three Illinois campuses, expressed his disappoint-ment and opposition to the reform bill. Although they acknowledge the need for retirement security and supplemental retirement programs, the process of recruiting and retain-ing faculty may be the hardest hit facet of Illinois’ pension reform.
As a University that has a high fo-cus on research, it is pertinent that we bring in faculty that will contin-ue to move our status as a top-re-search institution forward.
A salary cap of $109,971 will be applied to all employees. Faculty exceeding the cap will likely not re-ceive fair pension in return; there are currently 2,984 University em-ployees who make more than the salary cap.
The irony is that the faculty with the largest salaries, and arguably those who make the largest con-tributions — whether research- or teaching-related — are receiving the least number of pension bene-fits in return. Prospective faculty members at the University may be inhibited by the idea that once they achieve a particular status of pres-tige at the University, they are no longer eligible for fair pensions in return.
Professor Harriet Murav, presi-dent of the Campus Faculty Asso-ciation, said in a Dec. 3 Daily Illini article that someone in the middle of his career who is planning his re-tirement would not be attracted to the school.
The University, to maintain com-petitiveness within the State and among other Big Ten universities, plans on recruiting 500 new employ-ees over the next five years, accord-ing to the University’s new Strate-gic Plan.
But the first problem will be re-cruiting “old,” top talent, that will likely flock to other Big Ten univer-sities because they already make salaries close to or above the new salary cap. The second problem will be retaining new talent, who may have less incentive to stay at the University once their contribu-tions and consequent salaries near the cap.
Older faculty at the Universi-ty who have contributed a large amount to the University may feel as if the cap is leaving them in the dust.
But the effects of the salary cap go beyond fair pensions for high-earning faculty. If we can’t recruit top faculty, then we are missing the chance to move the University’s sta-tus as a top research and land grant institution forward.
Our University loses out just as much as our faculty does.
Sure, implementing pension re-form in a state that has been strug-gling with $100 billion in unfunded pensions for years is essential. But as Rep. Naomi Jakobsson, D-103, and Sen. Mike Frerichs, D-52, voted against pension reform, we wonder: Is this also in the best interest of the State’s public universities?
By the time this column is pub-lished, I’ll have 25 days left in the United States.
I’m not leaving the U.S. to go on a vacation, nor will I be joining the ranks of the military abroad or journeying with the Peace Corps. Instead, I’m studying abroad, a seemingly ubiquitous process that hundreds of students at the Univer-sity — and around the country — participate in every year.
Hell, I’m going to London, Eng-land, a cosmopolitan environ-ment where they speak English. It’s familiar, comfortable and far removed from a dangerous country in political turmoil. I can’t imag-ine myself feeling unsafe or fright-ened while I’m over there, but as much as I tell myself that it’ll be fine, I can’t seem to shake the feel-ing of fear.
Coming from someone who’s lived within half-an-hour of cam-pus for my entire life, the fact that I’ll soon be living in a city of eight million is still daunting for me to
fathom. But I’m going to be forced to come to terms with it soon enough.
Maybe it’s my lack of explora-tion away from my hometown, or the fact that I won’t be able to see my friends or people I work with for the entire time while I’m gone. That frightens me a lot.
I’m certainly not trying to dra-matize my situation more than is necessary because I’m only going to be abroad for four months, and, thanks to technology, I’ll be able to keep in touch with my family and my loved ones better than I could ever imagine.
And while I’m incredibly thank-ful and honored to have this oppor-tunity and chance for a positive experience, it also could be a scary one.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned these past few months, however, it’s that we can’t take things, espe-cially those in the present, for granted. The fact that I’m going to leave my entire life behind for a while has taught me to amplify the importance of each moment, even those which seem ordinarily mun-dane, such as daily interactions with friends and family.
Even the simplest things such as playing some Madden football
in my living room, eating dinner with my parents or walking across the street to visit my girlfriend have become moments both deeply enjoyable and important to reflect upon. There’s just something sweet about that.
This, in turn, has given me a great perspective on time as a whole, and how it’s always chang-ing. I know that sounds vague and obvious, but I don’t think I had a full grasp on this concept until I realized that soon, I’ll be leaving all forms of familiarity.
Our lives are rapidly changing. University, at a base level, is mere-ly a holding area to groom us to be thrust into the real world.
We only have a short amount of time to take advantage of the great relationships, academic ventures and social opportunities that the University setting has to offer. If there’s one facet of preparing to leave the country for a prolonged amount of time has taught me, it is that this period, like every other one in our lives, is finite.
My friends and acquaintances, much like everyone’s, will like-ly get scattered across the coun-try after graduation due to vari-ous career obligations, and thus, this feeling that I’m experiencing
for studying abroad will probably become more prevalent for every-one later.
Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that college is the best time in all of our lives because it prepares us for the real world; I don’t believe that remotely. I think we, as college students, have some of the best opportunities of anyone, but unfortunately, this means not necessarily remaining in a static place.
The actual process of coming to terms with the notion of constantly moving is the intimidating part.
No period in our lives is infinite. People come and go, opportunities call and separation is a given fact of life. Study abroad has simply been a way for me to realize this pattern in human existence.
I’m sure, somewhere along the line in my time abroad, I will do some more growing up, but I already realize that I’m learning loads about myself and I haven’t even left yet.
Or maybe I just have anxiety problems. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Boswell is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected].
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BOSWELL HUTSON
Opinions columnist
Something as simple and neces-sary as young girls learning how to swim has been branded
as Sharia law.A Fox News correspondent
declared, “Sharia law is now chang-ing everything” after a local YMCA in Minnesota collaborated with the Somali-American community to start a once-a-week, hour-long pri-vate swim session for young Muslim girls.
Sharia law is a broad idea inter-preted differently by Muslims across the world, but the gener-al concept is that it advises Mus-lims on how to conduct their lives on a day-to-day basis. Part of this involves beliefs about modesty, which are critical to Muslims prac-ticing their religion. The impor-tance of modesty in Islam is why young girls learning how to swim would need privacy to learn this skill comfortably.
Since wearing clothing that is not revealing is an important fac-et of Islam, the private swim les-sons would provide a fair opportu-nity to learn this skill while still keeping in line with their religious practices.
Saying Sharia law is chang-
ing “everything” is a negatively charged, lofty statement. Allow-ing young Muslim females to learn how to swim in an environ-ment that is comfortable for them and in accordance with their reli-gious beliefs is hardly changing “everything.”
And the change that this pro-gram does introduce is a positive one. Closing off the pool once a week for only an hour would hard-ly inconvenience anybody. In fact, this program could benefit more people than it would harm.
What this program is not, though, is an example of extrem-ism seeping into the U.S. govern-ment. Equating an opportunity for young girls to learn a necessary life skill to Sharia law “changing everything” is a slippery slope.
I would venture to assume that nobody in the Minneapolis-St. Paul YMCA was collaborating with any extremist group to put this plan into action. I highly doubt there were extremist intentions behind the program, either.
The people who are going to be most impacted by this are the girls learning how to swim.
Setting aside a block of time once a week for these swim lessons isn’t going to cause a Sharia law infiltration of the local and nation-al government.
This small blip on the radar of inclusivity has caused an uproar because Fox tends to snatch up
any reason to perpetuate fear of a minority group. Fox News and Western culture have a habit of focusing on the extremist interpre-tation of Sharia law, so any reli-gious accommodation for Mus-lims can be easily stuck under the extremism category.
Instead of taking the time to understand the importance of Mus-lim women learning how to swim in modesty, Fox took the situation as an opportunity to imply extrem-ist mechanisms of Sharia at work.
Rather than applauding the YMCA, the Somali-American com-munity and the police department for creating such an inclusive environment for young Muslim females, Fox completely distort-ed their intentions and made these swim lessons something ominous: “We’ll keep watching this story for you.”
Right, because there’s so much to fear and watch out for in a developing story about young girls learning how to swim. “When will these girls learn how to breast-stroke? When will they finally start to use the diving board?” And the obvious next question, “When will they infiltrate the government with their extremist Sharia views on swimming in modesty?”
Oh, the terror.Even more ridiculous than these
swimming lessons being an exam-ple of Sharia law is Fox attempting to legitimize Sharia law “chang-
ing everything.” Despite this being a ridiculous claim, if Islam-ic extremists were to attempt to “change everything,” they’d need a larger body of people than only about one percent of the U.S. population.
Although Sharia Law does include the word “law,” the nature of it observed popularly among Muslims is far from political and focuses more on an appropriate lifestyle. There is a difference between Islam influencing local and national governments and Islam motivating a local YMCA to give young Muslim women the opportunity to swim in an accom-modating environment. That tiny one percent still deserves the right to utilize local pool facilities.
The fact of the matter is, this supposed change of “everything” is only changing Muslim women’s ability to swim. The only differ-ence between now and then for this YMCA is that the pool is now more accessible to a larger percent-age of the community than it was before.
The saddest part is that Fox took a story that could have boosted Amer-ica’s perceptions of diversity into a positive light and instead made it into a negative story about extremism that perpetuates fear mongering.
Sehar is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].
SEHAR SIDDIQUI
Opinions columnist
Religious accommodation an opportunity, not a threat
Study abroad gives students a taste of unfamiliarity
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Editor’s note: This letter is a response to a previous article, “College of ACES to join in on agricultural education program,” published in the Dec. 2, 2013, edition of The Daily Illini.
The writer, Miranda Holloway, describes the potential advancement of African farming based on educational improvements and unison among farmers.
The article states the importance of helping farmers improve their methods to shift from subsistent to commercial farming. The article fails to recognize the idea that competing at a commercial level would not help the situation in Africa. Before any idea of international competition can be approached, the long term effects of pesticide use needs to be taken
into account.Research has proven that
continual use of pesticides has various negative effects including harm to the environment, people, wildlife, consumers and a culminated link between these chemicals and cancer. Commercial competition would lead to increased use of pesticides, which would continue to contribute
negative effects.Holloway believes farmers can
maximize their production to compete at a commercial level. However, this article fails to address the long-term effect of intense commercial farming and the effects of pesticides.
Abby Ohrnstein, freshman in LAS
More to farming advancement in Africa than unity
On the morning of the event, he went for a run on campus and came across the Tuskegee Univer-sity Campus Cemetery.
When Weedon stepped inside the cemetery, he realized he was stand-ing in between two great people in history — George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington.
“Carver’s grave didn’t have so much a headstone, more of a con-crete sarcophagus, but the inscrip-tion on it, it changed me forever,” Weedon said.
Part of the inscription read, “He could have added fortune to fame. But caring for neither he found
happiness and honor in being help-ful to the world.”
“And I read that and I realized that my life wasn’t about making money ... My life was really about making the world a better place and ultimately, the students that I trained hopefully will continue to do that,” Weedon said. “That was an epiphany.”
In 2011, Weedon moved to Illinois from North Carolina to become Champaign County Humane Soci-ety’s shelter veterinarian, through which he mentors fourth-year vet-erinary students in their shelter medicine rotation.
Two years later, he became a part-time visiting clinical instruc-tor at the College of Veterinary Medicine to expand the shelter
medicine program, and in August 2013, he became a clinical assis-tant professor of shelter medicine.
Regarding his job as an educa-tor, Weedon said he cannot think of anything else he would rather be doing.
He follows the philosophy of Erwin “Erv” Small, a late associ-ate dean from the UI College of Veterinary Medicine, who once visited Weedon’s class at Purdue in fall 1977.
“He said you don’t want to spend the next 30 years getting up every morning saying, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to go to work,’” Weedon said. “And I’ve always remembered that.”
Alison can be reached at [email protected].
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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
BY ANNABETH CARLSONSTAFF WRITER
“Illini Crushes & Confessions” and “UIllinois Crushes” are pop-ular Facebook and Twitter pag-es that allow students to anony-mously post about their crushes or get something off their chests. Started in March, the Facebook page has more than 4,200 likes, and the Twitter account has more than 3,600 followers. Until now, the identities of the pages’ cre-ators were unknown, much like the students who send posts to them. The creators are students Uttam Rajan, senior in Business; Shail Shah, junior in Engineer-ing; and Sukeer Khoch, sopho-more in Engineering. They sat down with The Daily Illini last week to explain their motivation and future plans for the Face-book page and Twitter account.
Daily Illini: How did you get the idea to start the “Illini Crushes & Confessions” and “UIllinois Crushes”?
Uttam Rajan: Last semester, I was bored in my class and went on Facebook and saw my friend being tagged in this thing called “Rutgers Crushes.” I was like, “Oh this is pretty cool,” and I tried to (look up) “Twitter U of I crushes” and nothing came up. I thought, why not start this? It didn’t really get big until this semester actually. Now we have over 3,700 followers. And then we decided to make a page out of it (on Facebook). We decided to (add) confessions, too, because it attracts a lot of people.
DI: How many messages do you receive a day?
Rajan: I check it like 3 to 4 times a day and every time we get 20 or 30, so more than 100 (messages) per day. Right now, we have 900 that we haven’t cov-ered yet, so we are really behind.
DI: Why do you think Illini Crushes is popular with students?
Sukeer Khoch: I think stu-dents like it because in college you want to get in a relation-ship with somebody, or you just want to meet people, right? If you see someone that you want to talk to but you don’t have the confidence, you can at least post through this, and that way they
will know about it. I think that’s why we wanted to do this. We wanted to make it easier for col-lege students to connect with each other on a relationship basis.
Shail Shah: It is like the per-fect medium for it and, you know, why not?
DI: Do you have a favorite post so far, or what is the funniest post you have seen?
Khoch: There was one that we posted about Harry Potter, and it got like 600 likes in a matter of a day.
Shah: And I talked to some of my friends and told them it was me and a lot of them say that it makes their day.
Rajan: We usually post late at night so people see it when they wake up in the morning, and that’s the first thing they see. Some of them are pretty funny.
DI: I noticed that some of the submitted Facebook posts are sad, and that you posted an encouraging message saying that suicide is not the answer. How do you deal with depressing posts?
Rajan: It’s hard to read them, realizing that there are people feeling that way around cam-pus, and (you) feel sad for that person.
Khoch: Whoever submits it, they (will) read it later and see what the comments are. So when someone posts something like “I’m suicidal” and stuff like that, they get some feedback and it’s good feedback, like, “You should talk to other people,” “Talk to your friends,” “Don’t worry, we have a lot more things to look forward to in life.” I think we are helping people in a way, but they are the ones starting that conversation.
Rajan: And it’s anonymous, and what I like about it is peo-ple are messaging me to help out this person and they post, “Message me if you want to talk more.” So I think it’s nice to have someone to talk to and it could save their life. If it’s helping out people, that’s what we want to do.
DI: So, the whole goal of the page is about helping others?
Rajan: Basically. And once in
a while we like to spice things up and post a couple that you feel like belongs together, and we get a bunch of replies for those. Sometimes we just think about ways to get involved and start up a conversation.
DI: Have you ever heard of someone ending up together because of the posts?
Shah: No, but it’s interesting — we are actually working on a website. People want to know who it was that posted about them and we want to figure out a way to do that. During Thanks-giving break, I was thinking about making a website where you log in through Facebook so the admins know who you are, and we could organize something that way and they could meet up.
Khoch: We are also working on an Android app, because we found that a lot of times people will say, “I saw this cute girl on the bus,” so we want to make an app so you can post either on Facebook or Twitter on the spot with your app so that way it is easier.
DI: Do you know when you will have that up and running?
Shah: I’m aiming for after win-ter break, beginning of second semester.
Khoch: Eventually, we want to get restaurants and bars involved. And if people want to meet up, they can go to that bar and confirm that they went there (and) get a discount at that bar or restaurant. This is in the future, like long-run stuff, but if we do that, it would be really cool because then you have incentive to go somewhere.
Shah: We are trying to make it specific to the U of I campus, but in the future, if this works out perfectly or as we want it, we might move to other campuses around the Midwest.
DI: Has anyone ever sent in a crush message about any of you?
Rajan: There was one about me and my brother; it was pret-ty funny. I kind of blushed a lit-tle bit. I wanted to find out who it was.
Annabeth can be reached at [email protected].
Q-and-A with Illini creators of confessions, crushes pages
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lege town.”Viruses spread more quick-
ly in college dorms because of the close contact residents have with one other, Duprey said. She advised if anyone is planning on getting an influenza vaccine, now is the best time to do so because the virus tends to spread more quickly during colder months.
Although the Flaurix Quadriva-lent vaccine carries four strains of the virus, there will always be more out there because of the constantly changing nature of influenza.
“I had to get the flu shot because I work at a hospital,” said Karen Smith, a patient care technician at Adventist La Grange Memori-al Hospital. “But it doesn’t really guarantee that you wont get the flu ... This is because there is no way to accurately predict what the strain of the virus is active this season.”
However, Smith said she still advises her patients to get the vaccine because there is always
the chance that it will help their immune system if they contract any of those particular strains.
According to McKinley Medi-cal Director Dr. Maureen Malee, one of the most common side effects of the vaccine is soreness in the site of injection. Howev-er, there are some other possi-ble side effects that may appear within seven days of receiving the vaccine, including a cough, runny nose, sore throat, chills and tiredness. These are more com-mon in adults ages 19 through 49.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, other more serious side effects may include ocular and respira-tory symptoms having to do with oculorespiratory syndrome. This side effect will typically develop within 24 hours of receiving the flu vaccine and should clear up around 48 hours after symptoms begin. Such symptoms include “red eyes, cough, wheeze, chest tightness, facial swelling, diffi-culty breathing and sore throat.”
Though serious side effects exist, the chances of experienc-ing them are very low. Around 10 to 20 patients out of 1 million have
experienced any of the symptoms that are listed.
Although McKinley encourag-es everyone to get a flu shot this season, there are certain people, or “high priority groups,” that should get the vaccine more so than everyone else. This “high priority” system is only put into effect when supplies of the flu vaccine are limited, and it includes pregnant women, those with chronic diseases, young chil-dren and the elderly.
Those looking to get the flu shot can receive a free influenza vac-cine at McKinley Health Center, located at 1109 S. Lincoln Ave. in Urbana. The center offers the free service from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
According to Dr. Malee, McKinley has distributed over 10,000 flu vaccines this flu season. Malee confirmed that there are side effects to receiving the flu vaccine, as stated above; however, in her opinion, the side effects are more manageable then actually contracting the flu virus.
Raymond can be reached at [email protected].
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Meet the creators of ‘Illini Crushes & Confessions’
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After posting and tweeting the thoughts of anonymous Illini, the creators of “Illini Crushes & Confessions” got the chance to voice their own. Turn to Page 5A to read the q-and-a with the three University students who started the popular social media pages.
BY RAYMOND SOBCZAKSTAFF WRITER
Alicia Walsh, an exchange student from Swansea University in Wales, refuses to get the fl u vaccine.
“I got the fl u shot once when I was younger, and it made me sick,” Walsh said. “I remember not feeling right a few hours after I had gotten the shot ... My mom had to call me out of school.”
When it comes to the fl u shot, or infl uenza vaccine, there seems to be more myths spreading than the virus itself. Some, like Walsh, believe the vaccine can adversely cause sickness rather than prevent it. Still, health care centers across the nation encourage the preventive measure during every fall and win-ter season. But what exactly does the vaccine do?
National Infl uenza Vaccination Week, running Sunday to Satur-day , aims to emphasize that it is still important to get the fl u vac-cine throughout the winter season, especially for people who are at a higher risk of contracting the virus. This week can be used as an edu-cational opportunity to learn about the truths of the infl uenza virus and vaccine.
According to the Offi ce of Wom-en’s Health, the infl uenza virus “attacks the nose, throat and lungs and can cause mild to severe ill-ness,” including pneumonia, ear and sinus problems, and in some cases, death. The virus is much worse then the common cold but often begins with the same symptoms.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that “infl u-enza viruses typically circulate widely in the United States annu-ally from the late fall through early spring.” That makes this month the opportune time to take preventive measures.
There are actually three different types of the infl uenza virus, with only two causing seasonal epidem-ics : infl uenza A and B. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the main differ-ence between the two is the severity, with type A generally causing more extreme reactions and accounting for the majority of large epidemics.
This year’s infl uenza vaccine has now been available in the U.S. for several months, with the McKin-ley Health Center offering free vac-cines for all students, faculty and staff. McKinley is using the Fluarix Quadrivalent vaccine, which carries four different types of dead infl uen-za viruses . According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, this vaccine was approved by the FDA in December 2012. The vaccine includes two infl uenza A and two infl uenza B strains to best ensure the maximum amount of protection.
Michelle Duprey, senior in Nurs-ing, has given out more than 200 infl uenza vaccinations through her clinicals and is a fi rm believer in the fl u shot.
“I believe everyone should get a fl u shot,” she said. “It is benefi cial to not only them but to the people around them, especially in a col-
Vaccine myths give negative view of fl u shots
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Vet helps expand shelter medicine BY ALISON MARCOTTEFEATURES EDITOR
Robert Weedon does not need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning — his pas-sion for his job is what gets him out of bed.
“Yesterday morning I woke up at 4 o’clock. I was wide awake and was excit-ed to start the day,” he said. “This morning I slept in; I didn’t get up until 5:30.”
Weedon is a clinical assistant profes-sor of shelter medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine and a shelter veteri-narian at the Champaign County Humane Society. He has a half-time appointment at CCHS and half-time appointment with the University to expand the shelter medicine program. Weedon has practiced veteri-nary medicine for 28 years, been involved in public health organizations and taught pre-veterinary students throughout the country.
Weedon’s former colleague Jean McNeil described him as a “jack of all trades.”
“He’s one of those who never has a dull moment,” McNeil said.
On Oct. 23, the College of Veterinary Medicine received a $323,000 grant from PetSmart Charities, the largest grant the shelter medicine program has ever received. The grant will pay for supplies and fund an intern veterinarian, a veteri-nary technician and a mobile sterilization trailer. Weedon and Brenda Betts, associ-ate dean for advancement in the College of Veterinary Medicine, were the prima-ry people who worked on applying for the grant, a process that took almost a year.
Betts said Weedon is passionate about the shelter medicine program, and it was great working with him on the grant. It was wonderful when they received word that the grant had been approved, she said.
“We’re so pleased that PetSmart Chari-ties has partnered with us. It’s such a great
opportunity, and we’re so grateful for it,” Betts said.
The University has to fi rst put the mobile sterilization unit out for bid. Once it is pur-chased in late spring or early summer, the unit will allow the shelter medicine program to more easily provide steriliza-tion services at other shelters, such as the Human Society of Danville, Douglas Coun-ty Animal Shelter and Coles County Ani-mal Shelter. During the 2011-12 academic year, the shelter medicine program steril-ized 1,003 animals at the CCHS. Last year, the program went to other shelters in addi-tion to CCHS and sterilized 2,300 animals. Weedon said from the help of the grant, the shelter medicine program will be able to sterilize 3,500 animals this year.
Weedon said the grant is benefi cial for both the students and C-U community.
“Students are getting more training, which benefi ts the animals in the commu-nity. It’s a win-win situation,” he said.
As well as overseeing the shelter medi-cine program, Weedon is a faculty adviser for the University’s shelter medicine club, the Illinois Student Chapter of the Associa-tion of Shelter Veterinarians.
Weedon and Amy Fischer, teaching asso-ciate in the animal sciences department and faculty adviser for the club, helped form ISCASV in fall 2011.
“It’s like the stars aligned,” Fischer said. “We had these great vet students who real-ly had leadership abilities to bring people together, and then Bob came in. The club has done so much.”
The student organization, which has about 150 members, supports the shel-ter medicine program and gives mem-bers experiential training in the area of shelter medicine. Weedon said the group organizes weekend sterilization clinics for shelters and low-income members of the
community.Weedon’s demonstrated passion for vet-
erinary medicine can be traced back to his years growing up in Carmel, Ind., a small town just outside of Indianapolis. He recalled how his family lived near a stable, where they kept their horses.
“I’ve always believed that kids that grow up with responsibilities for animals ultimately have a better appreciation for human life,” he said. “Now I’ve got four cats and two dogs, and my life kind of revolves around them.”
In 1977, Weedon earned his bachelor’s degree in animal science at Purdue Uni-versity. He moved to North Carolina after receiving his doctor of veterinary medi-cine in 1981 at Purdue University. In Wilm-ington, N.C., he worked in a seven-doc-tor practice at College Road and Carolina Beach animal hospitals.
Weedon also taught at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for 12 years. He said teaching gave him a different kind of satisfaction than saving a sick puppy or fi xing a broken leg.
“Certainly those make you feel good. But seeing students get it, and seeing them grow and fl ourish, is what really gives me a lot of personal satisfaction,” he said.
After 20 years of private practice, Weedon began looking for new challeng-es. McNeil was the animal control direc-tor for New Hanover County Animal Con-trol Services.
In 2001, she invited Weedon to partici-pate as a community partner in the Man-agement Academy for Public Health, a yearlong pilot program with the goal of training middle-level public health managers.
“He immediately said yes. Of course, I had no idea how much it would turn into something as big as it was,” McNeil said.
Consisting of Weedon and four people from the health department, the program developed a business plan on how to devel-op, design and build an on-site spay/neu-ter facility.
They accomplished their goal. The team created the facility and an adoption play area, and Weedon completed the fi rst ster-ilization at the facility in September 2004.
The program changed Weedon’s way of thinking and course in life.
“During the year, I gained an apprecia-tion for the importance of public health and had so much fun and learned so much that I decided to do a masters,” he said.
In 2002, Weedon fi nished his master’s degree in public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After-ward, he continued his private practice and started teaching epidemiology in UNCW’s biology department for pre-professional students.
Katherine Hughes, a doctor of veter-inary medicine and UNCW graduate, met Weedon during the summer of 2006 through her internship at the local hospi-tal. In the fall, she joined UNCW’s pre-vet club, of which Weedon was the adviser.
“He really opened my eyes as to what the multitude of opportunities that I would have with a DVM degree,” Hughes said.
Weedon retired from private practice in 2009 to work for Global Alliance for Rabies Control as the veterinary outreach coordinator.
His fi rst speaking engagement for the organization was in October 2008, before he worked there, at Tuskegee University for their inaugural Merial Rabies Sym-posium. The occasion changed Weedon’s perspective on his role as a veterinarian and educator.
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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIDr. Robert Weeden (right) watches over Jason Lyn and Annie Strong as they spay a dog at the Champaign County Humane Society.
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FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jocelyn Birks spikes the ball during an NCAA tournament second-round match against Marquette at Huff Hall on Saturday. The Illni won 3-1.
BY BLAKE PONSTAFF WRITER
The 2013 season is looking a lot like 2011.
Similar to the 2011 team’s run to the NCAA championship game, the 2013 Illinois volleyball team was matched up with Marquette in the tournament’s second round. And just like in 2011, the Illini prevailed, this time 3-1, by scores of 19-25, 25-17, 25-13, 25-13. Illinois swept Marquette in the teams’ 2011 tournament meeting.
“(Marquette) came out hot and on fi re and they came out to attack us,” head coach Kevin Hambly said. “I thought the kids could have went one or two directions after that fi rst set. They could have got nervous or anxious and made a lot of errors, but instead they stayed calm and found the right arousal level and we kind of steadied out and fi gured them out a little bit. Overall, I think we performed really well in the last three sets. As good as we have, maybe, in a while.”
The Illini started off the match much like their fi rst-round matchup against Morehead State, somewhat disconcert-ed. A four-point run early on in the fi rst set had Illinois trailing by fi ve, a defi cit the team couldn’t recover from. Despite the setback in the set, the Illi-
ni, like the Huff Hall crowd around them, never lost confi dence. Illinois improved dramatically defensively over the course of the match, holding Marquette to .171, .097 and .000 hit-ting percentages in the fi nal three sets.
“I thought defensively we made some great adjustments, and we defended them really well,” Hambly said. “You don’t hold that team to zero. They’re a really effi cient team. … It’s not an easy task what we did to a very, very good offensive team.”
Sophomore outside hitter Jocelynn Birks, who starred in the fi rst round, was held to a .133 hitting percent-age the fi rst two sets; however, Ham-bly utilized junior Liz McMahon and his middle blockers Katie Stadick and Anna Dorn on the offensive. McMahon became the focal point of the offense, taking pressure off Birks, as the junior hitter racked up 17 kills on a .406 hit-ting percentage. Stadick and Dorn com-bined for 12 kills, a .523 hitting per-centage and 10 block assists.
“(Stadick) was huge for us offensively and defensively,” McMahon said. “She came in and stuffed the ball right away. … It’s an easy transition for us to make between the middles and that’s great.”
The win pits the Illini in the Sweet 16, where they will have to move a few
blocks down to State Farm Center to face a familiar rival in Purdue. State Farm Center is scheduled to host the next two rounds of the tournament.
“It’s going to be a different atmo-sphere (in State Farm Center),” McMa-hon said. “Huff was even different
when we were hosting. We’re going to have to keep living in the moment and not get ahead of ourselves and not get worked up or anything like that.”
Blake can be reached at [email protected].
BY BLAKE PONSTAFF WRITER
With or without head coach Matt Bol-lant, the Illinois women’s basketball team can’t seem to shake its recent tailspin.
For the third consecutive game, the Illini (5-5) couldn’t seem to mend their problems on both sides of the ball. Poor shooting and poor defending caused Illi-nois to lose its third consecutive game by more than 20 points, as No. 11 Colo-rado (8-0) dominated the second half of the game to win 79-56 at home. Assistant head coach Mike Divilbiss coached the team in place of Bollant because he was experiencing fl u-like symptoms prior to the game.
“We did not shoot the ball very well,” Divilbiss said. “We’re beating ourself. ... We feel like we’ve played against a very good team tonight, and we’re very proud of our effort, but we keep making mistakes.”
“We’re just trying to grow and get better still. We have grown a lot. ... I’m really pleased with them, but we still have to keep growing.”
Down just eight points at half, Illinois struggled coming out of the break, as Colorado held Illinois to just 20 percent shooting in the half. The Buffaloes shot 48.4 percent for the game to the Illini’s 30.8. The Buffaloes also shot 42 percent from beyond the arc to the Illini’s 27.8.
Illinois played relatively well defen-sively, forcing Colorado to commit a season-high 21 turnovers. But the Illini could not take advantage of the Buffa-loes’ mistakes, as they were only able to get 15 points off the turnovers. Colo-rado dominated the paint, grabbing 51 rebounds to Illinois’ 30. Colorado also outscored Illinois 15-5 on second-chance points.
“We couldn’t convert turnovers into baskets,” Divilbiss said. “We had oppor-tunities and we didn’t convert them. I didn’t think we took too many bad shots tonight. We didn’t get sped up. ... We did a great job tonight of not doing that. I thought our choices were a lot better, but we just didn’t convert.”
Jacqui Grant was the lone Illini to shoot over 50 percent from the fi eld, hit-ting seven of her 12 shots overall and two of three from the 3-point line. She fi nished with 20 points, seven rebounds, two assists and one block. The next best Illini was Amber Moore, who had 16 points, but shot 5-for-16 from the fi eld. The Buffaloes got a concerted effort from forward Arielle Roberson, cen-ter Rachel Hargis, guard Jasmine Sbo-rov and reserve forward Jen Reese. All four players scored over 10 points in the game, with Roberson leading the way with 17.
The Illini get only a day’s rest before returning to State Farm Center to face Seton Hall (7-1) on Monday night.
Blake can be reached at [email protected].
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I llinois was fl awless Sun-day. Auburn basketball may not hold the same clout as
Auburn football, but Illinois dominated every facet of the game in an 81-62 win.
Tracy Abrams probably wish-es he could play Auburn every game. The junior point guard has struggled mightily this sea-son, entering the game with a 31.0 fi eld goal percentage, but he led a potent offensive attack against Auburn.
In last year’s matchup against Auburn, Abrams had arguably his best game of the season with 27 points, eight rebounds, fi ve assists, and four steals in an
81-79 win on Dec. 29. Abrams had 11 points, four rebounds, two assists, two steals and three 3-pointers in the fi rst half alone Sunday.
Illinois played its best 20-min-ute stretch of the season in the fi rst half against Auburn. Illi-nois shot 60 percent in the half while holding Auburn to only 26.1 percent shooting from the fi eld. Illinois entered halftime with a ridiculous 41-17 lead
after ending the half on a 24-6 run.
There must be something up with Phillips Arena in Atlanta. Only two days after Kyle Korver broke the NBA record for con-secutive games with a 3-point-er at 90 in the same arena, the Illini kept the 3-point line warm in the sharpshooter’s absence. Illinois drained 12 threes in the game at a 52.2 percent clip.
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BY MICHAEL CUNNINGHAMMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
ATLANTA — The Illinois men’s basketball team was back in Atlanta a few days after its collapse at Georgia Tech and the Illini left town with little doubt they are back on track.
Illinois dominated Auburn for an 81-62 victory Sunday at Phil-ips Arena to bounce back from its fi rst loss of the season Tues-day at Tech. The Illini led Tech by 12 points with less than seven minutes to play before fading to a 67-64 defeat.
Illinois (8-1) showed no ill effects from that disappointing defeat while dispatching Auburn (4-3). Illini coach John Groce said he was “intrigued” to see how his team responded to the Tech loss.
“Mentally they seemed really good, but now let’s see if we are going to be ready to go physical-ly,” Groce said. “Are we going to come out and put our money where our mouth is? And we did. I thought guys played with pride. They played hard.” The Tigers opened the season with victories in four of fi ve games, but tougher
opponents have shown why SEC media picked Auburn to fi nish last in the league.
The Tigers lost 99-70 at No. 16 Iowa State on Tuesday and also were no match for the Illini, who beat Auburn 81-79 in Chicago last December. Auburn made just 6 of 23 field-goal attempts while falling behind 41-17 at halftime and the Tigers were down by as many as 32 points before Illinois went deep into its bench.
“We couldn’t make layups, we couldn’t make jump shots, we couldn’t make a n y t h i n g , ” Auburn coach Tony Barbee said. “Give them credit; they made shots. But when you don’t put any pressure on the opposing team by being anemic as we were on offense in the fi rst half, then there is no pressure on them. We put them in their
comfort zone.” Illinois was paced by junior guards Rayvonte Rice (22 points) and Tracy Abrams (17 points, seven rebounds, fi ve assists) while forward Jon Ekey made 4 of 6 3-point attempts. K.T. Harrell led Auburn with 23 points.
Illinois made fi ve of 10 three-pointers while building a 26-13
le ad , w i t h Abrams and Ekey each mak-ing two of three attempts during that span. The Illini closed the half with an 18-4 run that Abrams capped with a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
“ We ju s t came out and threw the first punch,” Rice
said. “We were definitely mad about the loss at Georgia Tech, but we came out and got the win.” Auburn had averaged 78.2 points in its first six games but struggled to score against the
Illini. Guard Chris Denson, who entered the game leading the SEC with 21.8 points per game, scored just four points.
Denson couldn’t fi nd much room to drive to the basket because of Illinois’ sharp help defense.
“He’s really talented and has a great knack for drawing fouls,” Groce said. “So we wanted to try to do the best we could defending him without fouling and I thought our guys did that.”
Not many Auburn fans showed up to cheer the basketball team a day after the Tigers won the SEC football championship at the Georgia Dome. The basket-ball Tigers barely topped the 59 points scored by the football team.
The majority of the sparse crowd was pulling for the Illi-ni, who also had a sizeable group of fans at the Tech game. Among the Auburn supporters was Charles Barkley, the SEC play-er of the year for the Tigers in 1984 and a member of the Nai-smith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Men’s basketball defeats Auburn 81-62
“We were defi nitely mad about the loss at Georgia Tech, but we came out and got
the win.”RAYVONTE RICE
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Robert Morris bests Illinois hockey twice
Wrestling loses 19-18 to Wisconsin
Illini focus on needed wins to make ACHA national tournament as 2 games le! before month-long break
Swimming takes 2nd, breaks recordsFOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ Alison Meng swims the backstroke leg of the 200 yard medley event during the annual Orange and Blue exhibition meet at the ARC on Oct. 13. The Blue team won 120.5 to 100.5, and the Illini took second place overall.
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Caleb Ervin wrestles Iowa’s Brody Grothus during the Illini’s loss to Iowa at Huff Hall on Feb. 8. The Illini fell short to Cornell this weekend 19-18.
BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER
It was a tightly contested but disappointing weekend for the Illinois hockey team.
No. 15 Illinois made the short trip to Chicago to face a familiar foe in the No. 2 Rob-ert Morris Eagles and returned to Champaign with two tough losses.
Saturday night’s 3-2 defeat was the more heartbreaking of the two, as the Illini allowed the game winning goal with just three minutes left in the game. Senior forward Matt Welch scored the opening goal of the game for Illinois, and after losing the lead, senior forward John Scully netted the game-tying goal late in the third period while the Illini were short-handed on offense.
“I thought the energy and the effort was there, and we showed a lot of heart coming back and tying the game late the way we did short-hand-ed,” head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “Overall, unfortunately, it wasn’t enough this weekend.”
The Eagles were able to break the tie within a minute of Scully’s goal, and finished the game with a 3-2 victory. Rob-ert Morris responded quickly to both of the goals scored by Illinois on Saturday, scoring in less than a minute after each of them.
“Momentum goals are some-thing we’ve talked about and they hurt us again, twice,” Fabbrini said. “Their first and third (goals) were both within a minute of us scoring. It makes it tough to win games when that kind of stuff happens.”
The Illini received a gritty effort on Saturday from back-up goaltender Joe Olen, who got the start over senior goal-ie Nick Clarke after the tough 5-2 loss on Friday. Robert Mor-ris outshot Illinois overwhelm-ingly, as they racked up a 48-19 advantage, but Olen found a way to keep his team in it.
“He was lights-out last night,” Scully said of Olen. “Of the only goals he gave up, one was a bad bounce and the other one was just us not picking up guys, so he made every save that he should have made. I think both goalies were OK this weekend, and it’s more on the forwards to pick it up for them.”
Clarke was called for a five-minute major penalty for slash-ing in the final minutes of Fri-day’s game, which Fabbrini said was a factor in his decision to give him the night off Saturday. Ultimately, though, he just want-ed to get Clarke some rest and give Olen an opportunity.
The Illini have just two more games before the month-long semester break and will focus on winning enough games to qualify for the ACHA national tournament.
“Really all that matters now is wins,” Fabbrini said. “We’re really not in a position to look for moral victories, we need to win games and get in the national tournament. We need to win as many games as we can between now and then and it starts next weekend against Northern Illinois.”
Joey can be reached at [email protected] and @joeyfigueroa3
BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois swimming and diving team finished second in a field of eight at the three-day Miami (Ohio) Invitational over the weekend as many Illini swimmers put their name in the record book.
“I was impressed with the ladies’ overall level of tough-ness, mentally and physically, each session,” head coach Sue Novitsky said. “The athletes continued to make adjustments from race to race and that is a big improvement for us and shows that we are maturing as athletes and as a team.”
The Illini had 17 top-10 fin-ishes in program history and 31 lifetime bests during the three
days of competition at the Cor-win M. Nixon Aquatic Center.
The 800-yard freestyle relay team of Gabbie Stecker, Megan Marchuk, Amelia Schilling and Courtney Pope started the weekend with a first-place fin-ish of 7 minutes, 19.05 seconds, making it the fastest time in Illi-nois history.
Junior Alison Meng won the 100 backstroke with a time of 54.55, which placed her first in Illini history. She also placed first in the 100 butterfly (55.20), which placed her second on Illi-nois’ all-time fastest individuals list and earning her ninth event victory of the season.
The Illini continued with two more relay event victories. The 400 medley relay of Meng, Erica
Lynn, Sarah Sykstus and Pope won with a time of 3:44.77 while the 200 medley team of Meng, Lynn, Lori Lynn and Pope fin-ished with a time of 1:42.71. Both had record finishes that placed third in Illini history.
Senior Courtney Pope won the 200 free with a time of 1:49.25. It placed her sixth all-time among Illini.
The past month has been filled with hard practice and atten-tion to detail. The last time the Orange and Blue competed against Kansas in November, the team broke school records. Novitsky was proud of those achievements, and hoped that broken records would motivate other swimmers to do the same.
“With the way the team has
been training we thought there could be some changes to the record books,” Novitsky said.
Illinois finished second at the eight-team field invitational with 1704.5 points. Host Miami (Ohio) finished first with 2,332 points.
The team will have another month off from competition before it hosts Rutgers on Jan. 10.
“We are in a good place head-ing into the second part of the season,” Novitsky said. “Now we will get back to work in the pool and continue to work on making improvements.”
Michal can be reached at [email protected] and @bennythebull94.
BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER
In their first chance to prove them-selves against Big Ten competition, the Illini fell short by one point against Wis-consin this weekend.
Following the loss to Cornell, the coaches of the Illinois wrestling team said their match against Wisconsin should serve as a confidence booster for the team; however, Illinois lost the duel 19-18, despite winning as many matches, five, as Wisconsin.
Head coach Jim Heffernan was frus-trated with the loss but said health is still an issue for the team as starters Jackson Morse and Caleb Ervin missed the dual with injuries.
Aside from health, Heffernan believes maturity is an issue with some young-er wrestlers on the team who struggled against their higher ranked opponents,
which led to bonus points for Wisconsin. Redshirt freshman Zac Brunson was dis-qualified in his match for stalling, and heavyweight redshirt freshman Chris Lopez lost by major decision.
“I think that we need to do more with some individuals to make sure we are getting the most out of them,” Heffer-nan said. “We need put them in situa-tions where they need to get a little bit tougher.”
Redshirt freshman Zane Richards agreed with Heffernan, adding that he thinks confidence was an issue for him in his loss to No. 4 Tyler Graff. Richards said he allowed his opponent to control too much of the pace in the match and was never able to get into his rhythm.
“I wanted to win the match, but I didn’t believe and know that I was going to win the match prior,” Richards said. “If I really know that I can beat a guy, then I
should whoop him. Instead I was a little hesitant, and I had a little bit of doubt in the back of my head. That needs to be fixed by the end of the year.”
Heffernan did praise the persever-ance of some of the veterans on the team, such as 141-pound Steven Rodrigues. He was able to come away with a victory in his match after scoring a reversal with six seconds remaining to take the lead.
Rodrigues returned to action the pre-vious weekend after having to sit out the start of the season recovering from his ACL surgery. He used the time off to study the sport more, which he felt helped him in his comeback victory Friday.
“I needed to win a gutsy match,” Rodrigues said. “Last year, I lost a lot of those matches, and I needed to have that win to boost some confidence. I feel like I didn’t wrestle my best, but I won
a gutsy match.”The Illini now have three weeks off
before traveling to Evanston, Ill., for the Midlands Championships. With the time off, some wrestlers will have the opportunity to rest and get healthy. Oth-ers will continue their training in prep-aration for tougher competition in the second half of the season.
“I really believe that each individual guy has to want to make a change and make themselves tougher,” Richards said. “There’s not really a method to it. There’s not really a system or a pattern or anything you can really do technically for it. We just have to decide that we are going to be tougher guys and grow up a little bit and be what we said we were going to be.”
Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and @ddexter23.
This was as unselfish as Illinois has been all season long. Abrams and Rayvon-te Rice cut out the “drib-ble for five seconds and jack up a 3-pointer” routine and instead helped facili-tate a balanced Illini attack. Six different players made 3-pointers for the Illini. Most of the 3-pointers were set up off penetration. Jon Ekey especially benefitted from the kickouts, as he connect-ed on four 3-pointers, most of which were from his favorite corner spot.
Rice has solidified him-self as the best player on this team. He led Illinois with 22 points on Sunday, becom-ing the first Illini newcomer to score double digits in the team’s first nine games of the season since 1993-94. Rice can’t be contained on the drive, but what has made him unstoppable is his newfound stroke. Rice has now made at least two 3-pointers in five straight games after drill-ing two against Auburn. If Rice continues to knock down perimeter shots with regular-ity, he’s almost unguardable.
Auburn was flustered at the offense end from the onset of the game. Illinois started the game in a 2-3 zone and later switched to a tight man-to-man defense that threw off the Auburn offense. Auburn’s leading scorer, Chris Denson, who entered the game averag-ing the 19th best points per game in the country at 21.8, could never get it going Sun-day. Denson finished with a season-low eight points, with all of his scores coming in garbage time. You know it was going bad for Auburn offensively when the Fox Sports Midwest announcers asked Charles Barkley if he still had eligibility remain-ing. The question was a joke, but really, Auburn could’ve used him.
Illinois needed this game. The heartbreaking loss to Georgia Tech is now in the past. After the cupcake game against Dartmouth on Tuesday, Illinois faces its stiffest competition yet in consecutive games against Oregon and Missouri. If Illinois plays like it did Sun-day, they’ll have more than enough to pull off the upsets.
Michael is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @The_MDubb.
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Dunleavy keeps his faith in Bulls’ chances
Cutler, McCown to make or break Bears’ gametime
BY K.C. JOHNSONCHICAGO TRIBUNE
Two of the main reasons Mike Dunleavy spurned more money elsewhere to sign with the Bulls last summer were to play with Derrick Rose and for a winner.
Playing with Rose, at least for the first half of Dunleavy’s two-year, $6.5 million deal, is gone. The veteran who has seen a little bit of everything in his 11-plus years in the NBA firmly believes the latter is still possible, even as the injury-riddled Bulls lurch from impressive victory to desul-tory defeat.
“You just know no matter what happens this group isn’t going to fold at any point,” Dunleavy said. “It doesn’t matter who is out there, who is injured or who is not, it’s a high character group. There are a lot of teams where there’s just as much talent and things don’t go their way and they fold. That’s what gives me confi-dence about this team going for-ward. We won’t. We’ll get it right.”
Dunleavy knows dysfunction. He has never played on a winning team in the NBA and has only sniffed playoff basketball twice, losing to the Bulls with the Pac-
ers in the first round of the 2011 playoffs and getting swept out of the first round by the Heat with the Bucks last season.
That’s nine career playoff games for someone who teamed with Carlos Boozer and former Bulls Jay Williams and Chris Duhon to win a national champi-onship at Duke and being drafted third by the Warriors in 2002, one slot behind Jerry Krause drafting Williams to the Bulls.
“This is going to sound crazy, but this season has been pleasant for me,” Dunleavy said. “To be able to compete and have a chance
every night and go into the game thinking you’re going to win, it’s a big change for me. I’ve been on some pretty dysfunctional teams.
“We do a lot of things well, par-ticularly at the defensive end. We also usually rebound well. We have to shore up our 3-point defense. We’ve been in a lot of close games that could go either way. You can make those games up over the course of an 82-game season.”
Indeed, the Pistons dropping a season-high 63.2 percent from 3-point land on the Bulls contin-ued a season-long problem area. The Bulls rank 29th in opponents’
3-point percentage at 40.3 percent.Jimmy Butler (turf toe), who
should play at some point this week, will add a versatile wing defender. And Luol Deng said after Satur-day’s loss he hoped to return from his sore left Achilles at some point in the Bulls’ stretch of four games in five nights that starts Tuesday at home.
Dunleavy is keeping the faith.“It’s just been a little bit of
everything, with things you can control on the court and things you can’t with injuries,” Dunleavy said. “In one sense, it’s like, ‘Man, it’s so tough.’ On the other, it’s like, ‘We’re
right there.’“If we get healthy, we can make
a run here. We just have to stick with it. It’s a long year. We’ll be all right.”
Layups: Marquis Teague scored a season-high 10 points and tied a season high with three assists and no turnovers against the Pistons. “I thought he was comfortable out there,” coach Tom Thibodeau said. “Offensively, he was very good. Defensively, he could be really good so that’s an area I want him to continue to work and concen-trate on.” ... The Bulls took Sun-day off.
BY BRAD BIGGSCHICAGO TRIBUNE
You don’t need to be a football lifer or have the eye of a scout to determine Jay Cutler is a superi-or athlete to Josh McCown with a much stronger arm.
Similarly, you don’t need to have an analytics background to determine the offense scores more points with McCown than it does with Cutler, something that dispels a popular notion these days about No. 6 and the strug-gles of the offense in the red zone in recent weeks with McCown.
That’s right. The Bears are more productive with McCown at quarterback.
This isn’t to suggest the Bears should choose McCown over Cut-ler after this season, when gener-al manager Phil Emery has a deci-sion to make about the future of the franchise at the most impor-tant position. But it’s worth think-ing hard when you consider the value — in terms of millions of dollars — for Cutler moving ahead. And it’s something Emery has to weigh when determining if he should commit to Cutler in 2014 and beyond or find another quarterback or maybe two, a vet-
eran and a draft pick, for coach Marc Trestman to work with in his system.
Because the quarterbacks have shared time against the Redskins and in the second game against the Lions, you can’t compare them by starts. To determine how many points they have pro-duced, you remove the six return touchdowns scored by the defense and special teams. Similarly, you subtract points from them for the touchdowns Cutler and McCown have created for the opponent by fumble and interception returns — points scored against the Bears directly attributable to the quar-terbacks’ turnovers.
Do the math and the Bears are scoring 2.06 points per possession with McCown, or one point every one minute, 27.1 seconds of pos-session. With Cutler, the offense is scoring 1.75 points per posses-sion, or one point every one min-ute, 27.8 seconds of possession. In calculating the figures, kneel-down possessions were removed because no effort was made to advance the ball.
We’re not talking about a wide margin here, but quarterback dis-cussions in recent weeks have
suggested the offense is better off with Cutler, who hasn’t fin-ished a start since the Oct. 10 game against the Giants, than McCown, who has put up big yard-age totals in losses the last two weeks at Minnesota and St. Lou-is but fallen short on the score-board. Crunch the numbers, and McCown comes out ahead when it comes to points.
Cutler, 30, and McCown, 34, are coming out of their contracts. Emery could attempt to re-sign both, one or neither. McCown will make his fifth start Monday night against the Cowboys at Soldier Field, with Cutler still sidelined with a high ankle sprain. Cutler practiced twice last week but was held out as a precaution Satur-day. The Bears might not practice again until Thursday because it is a short week, and that would leave Cutler two practices to get medi-cally cleared and prepare for the Browns on Sunday in Cleveland.
The Bears’ roster will undergo far more turnover after this sea-son than it did in the transition from Lovie Smith to Trestman. No decision is greater for Emery than what to do at quarterback with only four games remaining.
JOSE OSORIO CHICAGO TRIBUNEBears quarterback Josh McCown avoids a pass rush by Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen (97) and defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd (95) during the game Dec. 1. The Vikings won, 23-20, in overtime.
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