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The University’s first Native American graduate may be honored by having the newest residence hall named after him.

Though not all students at the University know who Carlos Montezuma is, Jamie Singson, director of the Native American House, said he believes they should.

“Carlos Montezuma was an amazing leader as an alumni of the University of Illinois,” Singson said. “But we don’t really know a lot about him, and we forget his contributions in later years, up until now.”

The University adminis-tration would like to recog-nize the alumnus by nam-ing the newest residence hall Wassaja Hall, in honor of Montezuma.

The name “Wassaja,” Mon-tezuma’s birth name , means, “signaling, or beckoning,” in Yavapai, said Renee Roma-no, vice chancellor of Stu-dent Affairs.

“I think that this is a defi n-ing moment to recognize an important alumni who has fallen into the cracks of time,” Singson said.

The residence hall is cur-rently under construction and is expected to house students in the fall of 2016, according to the University Housing proposal. The hall will be a part of the Ikenber-ry Commons and will house 504 students .

“Several groups of stu-dents and student leaders were asked their opinion about the name,” said Rob-in Kaler, associate chancel-lor. “The students were very enthusiastic about naming the hall after Wassaja.”

Montezuma, a member of the Yavapai tribe, grad-uated from the University in 1884 as president of his class, according to the Urba-na-Champaign Independent Media Center . As a student, Montezuma worked for Native American and tribal rights, not only for his tribe

but also for Native Ameri-cans across the country, Romano said.

Romano said she let the Yavapai know the Universi-ty wanted to name the hall after Montezuma, and she traveled to a tribal council meeting to make a formal request.

“They wrote a beautiful resolution that gave us per-mission to name the hall after him,” Romano said.

The Board of Trustees will vote on formally approv-ing the resolution to name the hall at its May 6 meet-ing, Romano said.

The naming of Wassa-ja Hall comes at an impor-tant time in the University’s relations with Native Ameri-cans, Singson said. Native American student enroll-ment continues to drop. In the past fi ve years, Native American students have accounted for about 0.1 per-cent of the total student body population, according to the Division of Manage-ment Information , Singson said it is important for the University to improve the campus climate.

“We’re in a state that has no tribal nations with over 550 recognized tribal nations in the country ,” Sing-son said. “Because of that lack of tribal nations in the state, it ups the responsibil-ity of the institution to help students acclimate and feel welcome.”

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTStudents returning to cam-

pus in the fall will be among the fi rst to experience the University’s push for more gender inclusivity on campus.

According to a University Housing press release, the 1 North wing of Allen Hall will be gender inclusive begin-ning in the fall of 2015.

The wing will be coed by door, meaning men’s rooms will be located next to wom-en’s, similar to private Uni-versity housing buildings, such as Bromley Hall.

Additionally, the bathroom will be changed to a gender inclusive bathroom so stu-dents of any gender can use the same bathroom at the

same time. To increase pri-vacy, the housing depart-ment will install taller show-er stalls, toilet stall doors and gaps on stall doors, according to the press release.

The fi rst fl oor of Saun-ders Hall will also become coed by door, but individual use bathrooms will still be available.

BY CAELI CLEARY AND MADISON JOHNSTONSTAFF WRITERS

A press conference for the U.S. Department of Trans-portation’s Transportation Investment Generating Eco-nomic Recovery, TIGER, competitive grant program was held Tuesday at the Alma Mater to discuss the how the project will impact the University.

Construction on the proj-ect is estimated to start on Aug. 26.

Champaign-Urbana was granted $15.7 million of the $500 million available to improve its transportation system. The grant will be used to repair and revamp roads, bike lanes and side-walks on campus and in the surrounding area.

All modes of traffi c will be slowed down and major streets will be undergoing

notable construction includ-ing Armory Avenue and Green and Wright streets.

Karl Gnadt , managing director of the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit Dis-trict, said Champaign-Urba-na was selected as a grant recipient due to the strength of the city’s submitted proposal.

Associate Chancellor Mike DeLorenzo discussed the potentially negative impact of the project at the press conference.

“We usually try to do the projects in the summertime and there’s no impact in the fall, but because of the size and scope of the project and all the money that’s being spent, it’s going to go on lon-ger than just the summer,” DeLorenzo said. “But it will connect the University with both downtowns, Champaign and Urbana as we try to

enhance the complete street project.”

Gnadt said the goal is to balance the modes of tran-sit on and around campus for bikes, cars, pedestrians and buses. The project is still in its early phases, but the tran-

sit department has started designing new routes.

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Campus prepares for Biden’s visit, fi nalizes security details

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SPORTS LIFE & CULTUREOPINIONS

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Old-fashioned doughnuts fi nd new life on campus

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Gianna O’Connor ends season strong

Ye Olde Donut lives on with new owner

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Gender inclusivity coming to dorms

CAELI CLEARY THE DAILY ILLINIChampaign Mayor Don Gerard speaks in front of the Alma Mater about the Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project.

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIAnnalisa Roncone (top left), freshman in LAS, Mitch Dickey (top right), junior in LAS, Farah Chalisa (bottom left), junior in LAS, Samantha Awad (bottom right), sophomore in LAS, pose on the Alma Mater after decorating it for the “It’s On Us” campaign Tuesday.

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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTAcross campus, mem-

bers are moving quickly to prepare for a campus visitor beyond the typical norm: the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden.

Biden will deliver remarks on the “It’s On Us” campaign at Campus Recreation Center East on Thursday. The event will begin at 1 p.m. and is open to the public.

The Illinois Student Senate has been one of the top participants in the “It’s On Us” campaign, which was launched by the White House in 2014.

The campaign aims to empower students by pro-moting them to not serve as bystanders to sexual assault.

Matt Hill , Illinois Stu-dent Senate vice presi-dent, said the student senate’s main focus is to make the student body excited about the event

and guarantee the “It’s On Us” campaign earns the necessary attention.

Additionally, Hill said, students were able to reg-ister on the Quad Monday and others decorated the Alma Mater in “It’s On Us” apparel Tuesday to promote the event.

Tickets

According to the event’s Facebook pages, tickets are already all dis-tributed, but students can register on a waitlist.

Hill said the Illinois Student Senate is hop-ing for as many students across campus to be able to attend and are trying to determine if there are any accommodations for an overfl ow area.

A physical ticket is required for attendance and will detail security information. Students who registered online are not guaranteed a ticket.

Security measuresUniversity of Illinois Police Department

Patrick Wade , Uni-versity of Illinois Police Department spokesman, said the details of the security measures can-not be released, but the department will be work-ing with the Secret Ser-vice to make sure “every-one is very comfortable” with such a high-profi le guest on campus.

Gregory Drive between

Goodwin Avenue and Dorner Drive will be closed Thursday from approximately 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm to accommo-date the vice president’s motorcade.

“Obviously we can’t say anything very spe-cifi c about what we are doing, but people should expect to see a couple more police offi cers and just some different secu-rity measures in place,” Wade said.

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Campus Recreation Center East

The location will be closed on Thursday for any regular users. The gym, upper level and Racquetball Court 1 and 2 at Campus Rec-reation Center East will be closed Wednesday and Thursday in preparation for the event. Hill said security measures simi-

lar to an airport will be in place Thursday. Stu-dents should bring few personal items and not bring large bags, back-packs, sharp objects, liq-uids or signs into CRCE.

Willard AirportWillard Airport man-

ager Steve Wanzek said

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es was reported at Win-gin Out, 301 E. Green St., around 4:30 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, two offenders made two separate transactions and paid with counterfeit mon-ey.

A residential burglary was reported at Sigma Al-pha Mu, 301 E. Armory Ave., around 6 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, one stereo component was stolen, but no arrests were

made. Theft was reported in

the 900 block of South Sec-ond Street around 12:30 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole multiple tools from the vic-tim’s residence.

Criminal damage to property was reported at Frances Nelson Health Center, 819 Bloomington Road, around 6 p.m. Mon-day.

According to the re-port, an unknown offender slashed the victim’s tire.

University Nothing to report.

Urbana Retail theft was re-

ported at Walmart, 100 S. High Cross Road, around 11 a.m. Monday.

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Retail theft was re-ported at Circle K, 809 W. Green St., around 1:30 p.m.

Monday.According to the report,

the offender left the gas station without paying for fuel.

Credit card fraud was reported in the 400 block of North Beringer Circle around 4:30 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, an unknown offender used an Urbana resident’s credit card to make an unauthor-ized purchase.

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President Clinton, VP Gore last to visit UI in 1998DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

Bill Clinton and Al Gore were the last sitting president and vice presi-dent to visit the University; the pair discussed themes from Clinton’s 1998 State of the Union address, which was given the night before.

In contrast to Vice President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit, Clinton and Gore’s trip was announced weeks in advance.

Clinton spoke at Assembly Hall, now State Farm Center, days after

allegations of his affair with Monica Lewinsky surfaced. Clinton began his speech by discussing Abraham Lincoln and his ties to Illinois as well as his closeness to the Ameri-cans he served. He also discussed the Morrill Land Grant Act, which resulted in the creation of land grant institutions. The Universi-ty was one of the original colleges founded under the act, in 1867.

He went on to talk about how suc-

cessful the school has been in terms of advancing technology used by the world.

“Illinois and other land grant col-leges have literally led our way into the information age,” Clinton said in his address to the crowd.

Clinton also focused on his goal to make college education “as uni-versal as a high school education.”

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KENNETH K. LAM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEAbout 600 protestors, including the families of Freddie Gray, protested Gray’s death while in the custody of Baltimore police by marching from the site of the arrest to the Western District police station, about six blocks away, on Tuesday .

Marchers protest Gray’s death in police custody

security measures will be enhanced for the vice presi-dent, who will be fl ying in with Air Force Two to Wil-lard Airport in Champaign on Thursday.

“A lot of things happen when the President or Vice President visits, all are security related,” Wanzek said.

He said the motorcade will start at the airport and close off intersections for a short length of time as it comes to campus.

The last high-profi le visi-tor to Champaign to come through Willard airport was former President Bill Clinton in 1998 who visited with former Vice President Al Gore, Wanzek said.

BY STEVE SCHMADEKETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO — In a sur-prise move Monday, a Cook County judge threw out all the charges against a veter-an Chicago police detective who was on trial for fatally shooting a woman during an off-duty incident in March 2012.

Moments before the defense was to put on its evidence in the bench trial, Judge Dennis Porter ruled that prosecutors failed to prove that Dante Servin acted recklessly, saying the shooting was an inten-tional act.

Under Illinois law, Por-ter held that a person who shoots a gun in the direction of an intended victim cannot be convicted of involuntary manslaughter but only fi rst degree murder.

Anytime a person points a gun at their intended vic-tim and shoots, it is inten-tional act, not a reckless one, he said.

His attorneys said Servin was in fear for his life after Antonio Cross, one of the four, pulled an object from his waistband, pointed it at the offi cer and ran toward his car.

Boyd, 22, was fatally shot in the back of the head. Police found only a cell-phone at the scene.

Before he left the court-house, Servin, 46, spoke to reporters, saying that he has always maintained that Boyd’s death was a tragic accident and offered her family “my deepest sympathies.”

He blamed Cross’ actions for causing Boyd’s death.

Darren O’Brien, Servin’s lead attorney, said he can-

not be retried for murder because of double-jeopar-dy protections.

The Rev. Michael Pfl eger said the judge’s verdict rein-forces the black communi-ty’s distrust of the crim-inal justice system and could hurt efforts to win more cooperation from the community to combat street violence.

“When I heard of the deci-sion, I was angry and I was saddened for the family, and for us all,” Pfl eger, who heads Saint Sabina Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago, said in a brief tele-phone interview. “What it does is send a message that you can kill somebody and get off with it.

“And every time some-thing like this happens, more and more people say the justice system is broken and more people say what is the point in going through the system?”

Defense attorneys have previously told the Chica-go Tribune that involuntary manslaughter cases are typ-ically ones in which a death resulted because a person acted recklessly by playing Russian roulette or fi ring a gun up in the air.

A veteran trial attorney at the courthouse had told the Tribune before the trial that he questioned why prosecu-tors had not charged the offi -cer with murder for fi ring a gun into a crowd.

“Any poor, urban black or Hispanic people who behave that way are charged with fi rst-degree murder,” said attorney Bruce Mosbacher.

Servin, a veteran of 24 years with the department, has been on paid desk duty since he was charged in November 2013. He would have faced up to fi ve years in prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter, the most serious charge. He was also charged with reck-less discharge of a fi rearm and reckless conduct.

Boyd’s brother, Martinez Sutton, wept outside the courthouse following the abrupt end to the trial.

“This whole case was a slap in the face,” Sutton said.

Champaign Mayor Don Gerard praised the project and those who worked to obtain the grant. He said he is optimistic about grant’s abil-ity to connect the area and take it one step closer to being more accessible and urban.

“We’re a world-class uni-versity, a world-class micro-urban community, but some of the key corridors have fall-en into disrepair,” Gerard said. “I’m so excited to see this transform ... it’s been a long time coming. From an aesthetic level, from a prac-tical level, this is a wonder-ful thing and I appreciate the work of everyone that was involved.”

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Two professors in the Department of Food Sci-ence and Human Nutri-tion were awarded a grant totaling $861,714 to study the damage caused by the freeze-thaw cycle of fro-zen food and the excess amount of sodium in pro-cessed food. The grant was given by the United States Department of Agricul-ture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and was split between the two researchers.

Youngsoo Lee, assistant professor of food science, was granted over $360,000 for his study on the amount of sodium in processed foods.

“I am really excited that the people, government agencies, funding agencies recognize this as an impor-tant research,” Lee said. “The goal of my research is to reduce sodium content in the processed food basical-ly. And there are different

types of food, so sodium is included in different ways.”

His three-year-grant study is mainly focused on the solid food contain-ing sodium, such as cheese and sausage.

Lee said 95 percent of sodium is not released during the chewing pro-cess, which causes people to waste sodium in an effort to create a salty taste. Lee’s study aims to increase the sodium release from the food without adding too much sodium to processed foods.

“Overconsumption of sodium has been a big problem for more than for-ty years,” Lee said. “The average amount of sodium that adults consume per day is almost twice the amount that is recommended.”

When most people eat, their main concern is taste, Lee said. He added he hopes the study will help decrease the sodium consumption of the general public without sacrifi cing taste.

Lee said once the project is complete, he and his team will be able to determine the optimal food struc-ture to release the correct amount of sodium. Indus-tries and companies will be able to maximize the sodi-um released and decrease the amount added.

Pawan Takhar, associ-ate professor of food engi-neering, also focused on the quality of food. Takhar said he received nearly $500,000 to study the damage caused by the ice crystal forma-tion during the freeze-thaw cycles, and moisture migra-tion in food materials.

He said he was excited to receive this grant, since federal funding has gone down over the years.

Takhar said he will con-duct the four-year study with Shyam Sablani, asso-ciate professor of biolog-ical systems engineer-ing at Washington State University.

Takhar said the crystal formation in frozen food

can frequently be seen in grocery stores and can damage the food quality and the nutrition.

“In our work, we’ll be developing some fundamen-tal, mathematical equations which can calculate how these crystals grow in the food structures.” Takhar said, “We are aiming to gen-erate general information so that it applies not only to one specifi c product but various frozen products as well.”

Ying Zhao, a Ph.D. stu-dent in the Department of Agricultural and Bio-logical Engineering, said that in the experiments they designed different cycles of freezing, such as minus 17 degrees to 16 degrees and from minus 17 degrees to minus 7 degrees. Zhao said larger ice crys-tals formed as the tempera-ture increased, leading to a decrease in quality.

Tanjila Alam, a graduate student in the Department of Agricultural and Biolog-

ical Engineering said food may last longer if stored at a lower temperature although it will cost more energy.

Takhar said he expects food companies to use the study to improve their oper-ation processes and reduce

energy consumption during freezing-thawing cycles. Companies will also be able to improve the quali-ty and reduce the costs of food materials by reducing waste.

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MIAMI — A man held captive as a suspected Osama bin L aden bodyguard since the day the prison opened at Guantanamo went before a multiagency parole board Tuesday seeking release to his native Saudi Arabia to marry, fi nish college and join his brothers in

business.Abdul Rahman Shalabi,

39, has been described as Guantanamo’s longest-running hunger striker. “He has been on a peaceful but long-term hunger strike since 2005,” according to a statement released by his lawyer, Julia Tarver Mason Wood.

CAIRO — Ousted I s l a m i st pres ident Mohamed Morsi escaped a death sentence Tuesday when an Egyptian criminal court handed him a 20-year prison term in connection with a deadly protest episode that took place during his tenure in office.

It was the first in

an expected series of verdicts and sentencings for the ex-leader, who was removed in a coup led by the then-defense minister and now President Abdel Fattah Sisi. Morsi, jailed since being deposed amid huge protests against his rule in the summer of 2013, still faces several other capital cases.

Islamist president sentenced to 20-years at least in prison

Suspected bodyguard of bin Laden seeks Guantanamo release

Settlement in beating reached Cardiac surgery pioneer dies at 70

NEWS BRIEFSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

JED KIRSCHBAUM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICELevi Watkins, Jr. gives welcoming comments at Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration on Jan. 2005 at Jonhs Hopkins.

ROBERT GAUTHIER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEAnne Clemonson holds a picture of her son, Francis Pusok, who was beaten by San Bernardino Sheriff Deputies.

TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEA small group of protesters marches on 15th Place near Kedzie Avenue in Chicago on Monday after a Cook County judge threw out all the charges against veteran Chicago police detective Dante Servin, who was on trial for fatally shooting Rekia Boyd during an off-duty incident in March 2012, ruling that prosecutors failed to prove that the detective acted recklessly.

Since October, Chancellor Phyllis Wise has been meet-ing with the Peoria tribe, a Native American tribe origi-nally from Illinois who were relocated to Oklahoma by the Indian Relocation Act, to improve Native American relations on campus, Roma-no said.

“What the chancellor is trying to do is develop a relationship with the Peoria tribe to have a mutual benefi t to the tribe and the Universi-ty of Illinois,” Romano said.

Kaler added the relation-ship has built a connection between the University and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College, a communi-ty college in Oklahoma that enrolls a substantial number of Native American students.

“Students and staff from the University have visit-

ed (Northeastern Oklaho-ma A&M College), and have talked with students there who are interested in com-ing to Illinois as transfer students,” Kaler said. “We expect to enroll some Native American students this fall through that connection.”

This is an important step in the University’s effort to move away from the history of its retired mascot, Chief Illiniwek, Kaler said.

“We cannot go back-wards,” she said.

Romano also stressed the importance of showing Native American students all the opportunities the Uni-versity offers.

“We want to let them know what a prestigious Univer-sity we are and what great programs we have,” she said. “We want to see them get a world class education, which is what we offer here.”

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BALTIMORE — Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., a noted Johns Hopkins cardiac surgeon, behind-the-scenes political figure and civil rights activist who broke many racial barriers, died April 11 from a massive heart attack and stroke, relatives said.

The 70-year-old Dr. Watkins, the fi rst black chief resident of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins

Hospital, was known as much for fighting the injustice faced by African-Americans as for his groundbreaking medical work.

“Levi was a son of the South who was birthed in the middle of segregationist America and the middle of a civil rights movement and became somebody who defi ed the limits of the expectations of him,” said former Rep. Kweisi Mfume.

BY VERONICA ROCHATRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

LOS ANGELES — The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors has agreed to pay $650,000 to a man who was punched and kicked by a group of deputies following a pursuit on horseback.

The announcement of the agreement with Fran-cis Pusok, 30, comes after a video, captured April 9 by a KNBC-TV helicopter, showed him being kicked and punched by deputies near

Highway 173 and Arrowhead Lake Road at the end of the pursuit.

The board said the move would work to avoid any lit-igation expenses stemming from a possible lawsuit and settle all potential claims.

“The sole purpose of this agreement for both parties is to avoid the costs involved in litigation,” board Chairman James Ramos said. “This agreement is a fair outcome for everyone involved, includ-ing taxpayers.”

T he newest res-idence hall to hit campus is scheduled to

open in fall 2016, and with it, comes an im-portant act of respect and visibility. The Uni-versity recently an-nounced its proposed plan to name the state-of-the-art residence hall after Carlos Mon-tezuma, born Wassaja, the very first Native American student to graduate from the Uni-versity.

Since Chief Illiniwek became our mascot in 1926, Native American attendees of the Uni-versity have lived and learned in the shadow

of an offensive mas-cot who has ultimately become an emblem of cultural appropriation on campus.

Even today, nearly a decade after Chief Il-liniwek was official-ly retired by the Uni-versity, his presence hasn’t waned. His face is on any number of shirts as you walk down the Quad or at-tend any University sporting event.

As the NCAA de-clared in its 2005 rul-ing regarding Amer-ican colleges use of Native American mas-cots, Chief Illiniwek is “hostile and abusive” and continues to breed

an uncomfortable en-vironment for the University’s current Native American stu-dents, a notable minor-ity that is still wrong-fully represented by the presence of the Chief on campus.

The University’s as-sociation with the Chief at times seems omnipresent and nev-er ending, and wheth-er you’re in support or opposition of Chief representing our school, the controver-sy has been heated and intense.

But the Universi-ty’s proposal to name a residence hall af-ter Wassaja means ac-

knowledging him, and other Native Amer-icans, as important parts of our school’s history and serves as a small — but important — act of reparation for decades of disrespect. Instead of looking at Native American his-tory being defined by the presence of the Chief, we could start a new chapter, cele-brating the presence of Native American students and gradu-ates. We encourage the Board of Trustees to approve this proposal at its May 6 meeting.

Furthermore, on a campus where build-ings are primarily

named after men like David Kinley or Wil-liam W. Grainger, the new building will give the impression that people worth honor-ing at our University are an increasingly di-verse group of indi-viduals from different fields and backgrounds who have made im-pacts in varying ways.

By choosing to name a residence hall after someone like the first Native American to graduate from the Uni-versity, we show cur-rent and future stu-dents that everyone can and should be cel-ebrated for their ac-complishments, re-

gardless of who they are or where they come from. It’s an im-portant step toward historical inclusivity and one of many steps we should take toward making our campus a place where anyone can find their home.

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Raise your hand if you have ever felt person-ally victimized by

Brother Jed.Brother Jed Smock,

leader of Campus Minis-try USA and Confrontation-al Evangelist, had planned a visit to the University on April 16, but decided to go to Eastern Illinois Univer-sity instead. Most of us know of him and his fam-ily from the persistent yell-ing and hateful rhetoric we hear during passing periods and through the brick walls of the Quad buildings when they come to visit.

“You deserve Hell!”“College girls should

focus on finding a man and not studying.”

“You, sir, are a pervert!” “This is the God Hates

You show!” While I fully recognize

and respect Brother Jed’s first amendment rights to freedom of speech, I find his confrontations and con-stant pestering counter-productive to his mission. Despite the fact that he wants to spread the word of God, his tactics are ineffec-tive and tend to conflict with prevalent Christian ideals of gentleness and kindness.

Some may argue that there really is no one right way to promote Christi-anity. To a certain extent, that is true: There is no chapter in the Bible that I have found where biblical authors explicitly spell out the steps of how one should go about promoting Chris-tianity. But I don’t think this exonerates Brother Jed from criticism about his methods.

I myself was born and raised a Christian and I think his desire to spread Christianity is an innately noble cause. However, most people promote Christian-ity without condemning or threatening others.

Father Luke Spannagel, head chaplain of St. John’s Catholic Newman Center, emphasizes mutual respect when engaging in a conver-sation about Christian doc-trine, “I would much rather build a relationship, and then as we grow in that rela-tionship, share truths (about Christianity).”

Father Luke’s method illustrates a successful understanding of the differ-ence between merely get-ting a student’s attention and getting them to listen.

Approaching a student and yelling at them that they are going to hell for their sins is not an effec-tive technique for recruit-ing students to the Chris-tian faith; I would argue that it does the opposite. We have to credit Brother Jed with the fact that his tac-tics of utilizing shock val-ue do quickly garner a lot

of attention, but he should be more critical of exactly what kind of attention he is receiving.

In addition to directly offending students with his accusations and name call-ing, most students feel that his incessant yelling and dependence on inflamma-tory words make him look crazy and turn him into something to post about on Yik Yak rather than some-one to listen to.

He claims that a hand-ful of students have listened to him and converted, but I and many agree that this is at the cost of the majority of his listeners laughing at him or plainly being turned off by the insulting nature of what he chooses to say.

Additionally, I don’t think I am alone in my suspicions that his actions don’t come off as being very Chris-tian. In fact, there is a long list of biblical passages that directly conflict with his actions.

2 Timothy 2:24-25a says, “The Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed.”

1 Peter 3:15b says, “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.”

The Book of Galatians lists gentleness and kind-ness as two of nine main attributes of a true Chris-tian life — qualities that Brother Jed doesn’t seem to practice or preach.

Overall, his actions reflect poorly on other reli-gious students and, in my opinion, makes Christians look bad. His antics on cam-pus perpetuate the false notion that Christian stu-dents are condemnatory, intolerant and judgmental in a very extreme way.

Father Daniel Gifford, assistant chaplain of St. John’s Catholic Newman Center says that, “God is love ... I would certainly never say that hatred is a word of the Bible.”

Brother Jed should real-ize that there is an innate wrong in disregarding major doctrines of the exact philosophy he advocates for just because he thinks they slow the achievement of his immediate goals. In the eyes of many students, the biggest factor that hin-ders his progress of promot-ing Christianity is the fact that his teaching techniques don’t seem very Christian to begin with.

I personally recom-mend that Brother Jed fur-ther educate himself on the Christian principles of gentleness and kindness because, despite his current occupation, he doesn’t seem to know much.

Stephanie is a junior in LAS. [email protected]

There’s been a recent marketing movement focused on the idea

that it’s empowering and needed that all women view themselves as beau-tiful. Dove’s Real Beau-ty Campaign is probably most well known for this marketing tactic. But oth-er campaigns like #aer-ieREAL for American Eagle, which was heavily focused on the idea that “the real you is sexy,” and Pantene’s #shinestrong, which asserts that when you “shine on the outside. That’s a beautiful thing,” are capitalizing on this idea, too, and increasing-ly encouraging women to identify as beautiful and attractive.

While it’s important we recognize that companies using women’s empower-ment as marketing cam-paigns have alternative motivations (like financial profits for promoting these ideas), it’s more impor-tant that we are critical of the ways these campaigns still put the focus of wom-en’s worth on their body and beauty.

Dove’s Real Beau-ty Campaign recent-ly released a new video called “Choose Beautiful.” In the video, there are two doors into a building: One

has the word “beautiful” above it, the other “aver-age.” The video exclusive-ly features women and is described as representing the idea that “beauty is a choice — and the power of this choice is in your hands.”

This video attempts to dissect the significance and process of a wom-an choosing to identify as beautiful or average. It sug-gests that women who don’t identify as beau-tiful, but instead as average, don’t val-ue them-selves as much as those who do see them-selves as beautiful.

But self-worth and confidence don’t need to be linked to beau-ty in this way, especially for women. And this idea pervades beyond just mar-keting campaigns. Even our campus’ Women’s Resources Center holds body image events to address “media represen-tation of the female body in an attempt to broaden the societal definition of beauty and enhance self esteem.” This is another misguided extension of the idea that what women

need is to be included in the definition of beauty, when in reality, beau-ty should be completely detached from measures of self-worth.

These campaigns and programs are seeking to equate feeling beautiful with feeling valuable, and that’s a harmful connec-tion to promote, even if it is meant to be in an inclu-sive way. Using the word

beautiful or beauty bears the burden of his-torically restrict-ing wom-en’s value to their bodies. Even if compa-nies in some ways are trying to rede-fine the

meaning of beauty to reflect ideas that women are worthy of respect and valuable, it’s still a harm-ful connection, especial-ly when just targeted at women.

And the way these cam-paigns target women dem-onstrates that it’s not some all-encompassing, uni-versal beauty idea that applies to men too. It’s specifically telling women that their beauty should be connected to the ways they feel valued and confi-

dent, and that’s simply not true.

Women should be able to consider themselves as looking average or unbeautiful, but still see themselves as valuable, confident, talented people worthy of respect. Pro-moting otherwise is actu-ally restricting women to valuing themselves by beauty, rather than liber-ating them from beauty standards as these cam-paigns like to suggest they are doing.

Attempting to include all women as beautiful is a band-aid solution to the real issue of how women are encouraged to only feel valuable and con-fident if they’re beauti-ful or physically attrac-tive. If companies really want to empower women, then they will encourage women to celebrate their talents, accomplishments, confidence and self-worth without any connection to beauty.

While I appreciate the inclusiveness of cam-paigns like Dove’s, they still reduce women to their bodies, and by restrict-ing women to only being valuable if they are or feel beautiful, we’re misguid-edly encouraging women to find self-worth in their appearance, even if it’s in a more inclusive way.

Audrey is a senior in LAS. amajors2@ dailyillini.com

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“So often, especially in the guitar world, women are underrepresented in these festivals,” she said. “And so we really think of ELLNORA as a platform

to celebrate some of the world’s greatest female guitarists.”

Tickets for the festival will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Aug. 15. The prices vary by individual and perfor-mance, but discounts are offered for University stu-dents. Roughly half of the

scheduled performances will have free entry.

“It’s just a lot of variety,” Lee-Calfas said. “I think no matter what type of music you like, there’s something in this festival for you.”

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MAXIM NIKITIN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEUnited States Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Joseph Jack Lew (L) and Ukraine’s finance minister Natalie Jaresko speak after signing a declaration on loan guarantees of $2 billion on Jan. 28 in Kiev, Ukraine.

BY KATHY BERGENTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO — On a gusty spring day in 1986, Natalie Jaresko asked 500 Chicago-ans gathered at Daley Pla-za to pray for the victims of Chernobyl in Ukraine, site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

Only five days had passed since the power plant explo-sion, but that’s all the time the 21-year-old DePaul accounting major needed to pull together the vigil. In a snapshot taken at the event, she appeared slight, almost fragile, as she served as the emcee, flanked by more than 20 bishops, priests and ministers.

“She was driven and focused from an ear-ly stage in her life, just naturally,” recalls child-hood friend Lesia Smolak-Semitka, who helped Jar-esko organize the event. “I just remember standing there and being in awe as to how many people came together and the amount of clergy on the stage – it was really powerful.”

Jaresko’s swift reaction to tragedy in Ukraine was telling, and in ways no one could have predicted, pre-scient. Nearly three decades later, the child of Chicago’s close-knit Ukrainian-Amer-ican community respond-ed to another cry for help from a besieged Ukraine, accepting an appointment as its finance minister late last year.

In leaving her Kiev-based investment firm to join the pro-Europe administration of President Petro Poroshen-ko, she took on the herculean task of trying to bring the former Soviet republic back from the brink of economic collapse in the midst of an ongoing war with separat-ists trained and equipped by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government.

“This is a near-impossi-ble job for anyone because the problems confronting the country are so grave,” said former U.S. Ambassa-dor to NATO Ivo Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “Political instability has been the name of the game, corruption is deeply endem-ic in society and the capac-ity for the country to meet the needs of its people is lim-ited. That’s what she faces.”

Ukraine’s plight is indeed daunting. War in the eastern regions between separatists and government forces has claimed about 6,000 lives. Hostilities persist despite a February cease-fire.

The crushing costs of conflict, combined with the corruption and mismanage-ment rife within the admin-istration of Poroshenko’s predecessor, Viktor Yanu-kovych, have left Ukraine with a plummeting cur-rency, an economy in deep recession and $40 billion in debt, a sum equal to nearly 73 percent of its annual eco-nomic output.

The International Mone-tary Fund last month pro-vided a $17.5 billion loan package on the condition that Kiev adopts signifi-cant structural reforms and cuts in government spend-ing. Another $7.2 billion in assistance is expected from other international lenders. In short order, however, Jar-esko must persuade bond-holders to provide an addi-tional $15.3 billion in relief.

“Sometimes I think, ‘What would my (late) father think of me now?’” Jaresko, 49, said during an interview last month in New York City, where she was working to

renegotiate Ukraine’s crip-pling debt load. “I think he’d be proud. I’m combin-ing what he loved into my life. He loved his ancestry, where he came from, his culture. And he loved what freedom, democracy and free markets did in the Unit-ed States. I’m combining those things in Ukraine.”

Four months into the job, she says she’s driven by a deep sense of urgen-cy: “We don’t have time — time is an absolute luxury for a country battling for its sovereignty.”

The daughter of Ukrai-nian immigrants, Jaresko grew up in west suburban Wood Dale, and later Chi-cago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood. Throughout her childhood she developed a deeply ingrained bicultur-al identity, at once American and Ukrainian.

Her father, John, arrived in the United States in 1949, served in the U.S. Army dur-ing the Korean War, went to the Illinois Institute of Tech-nology on the GI Bill and went to work selling insur-ance to factories. Her moth-er, Mary, worked bookkeep-ing jobs at Goldblatt’s and other Chicago companies.

Jaresko’s parents spoke mostly English at home but also insisted that their chil-dren attend Ukrainian Sat-urday school and Ukrainian Orthodox church on Sunday.

“Monday through Friday, we were very American. On Saturday and Sunday, we were very Ukrainian, between Ukrainian school, seeing our grandparents and going to church,” Jar-esko said.

On a recent Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day, when many Chicagoans reveled in all things Irish, Ukrainian-American chil-dren dressed in traditional embroidered tunics lined up on a well-worn school stage to salute Ukraine’s famed 19th-century poet Taras Shevchenko with songs and skits in Ukrainian.

The performance took place in the brick school-house next to St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathe-dral on West Cortez Street in Ukrainian Village, the same place where Jaresko spent every Saturday morning during her childhood.

“Having to get up and go to school on a sixth day was not viewed as a posi-tive thing in life,” Jaresko said. It often meant missing events related to “regular” school, from football games to band concerts.

“I can’t say you under-stand it as a child, but I understand it now,” she continued. “The (Ukraini-an) school gave us the base, the love of country, the poet-ry, the culture, the arts, the literature, the history. We were learning all this at a time when Ukraine was not a free country, and the phi-losophy was we had to learn it because if we didn’t, it might disappear.”

While Jaresko attended classes at DePaul in the 1980s, she rented an apart-ment in Ukrainian Village. She and her girlfriends

bought rye bread at Ann’s Bakery and Deli, crashed wedding receptions and threw back shots of vodka at a Ukrainian social club on Chicago Avenue.

Looking back, her girl-friends joke that they couldn’t get too out of line because of what they called the “BBC,” or “baba-to-baba connection.”

“It was all the grand-mothers looking out their windows,” Smolak-Semitka recalled. “Everybody knew everything.”

Jaresko realized she had a direct, Chicago way of talk-ing and debating after grad-uating from DePaul, which she described as a welcom-ing place for immigrants and blue-collar students. After DePaul she moved on to a master’s program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

“Some (Harvard) profes-sors said I shouldn’t be so forceful in my discussions, I should step back from debates a little bit,” she recalled. “I said, that’s how everyone talks in Chicago. ... It’s a culture I grew up in, among immigrants, Greek-Americans, Italian-Ameri-cans. People spoke openly.”

Moving out of her comfort zone in Chicago to study at Harvard proved to be a crit-ical turning point for Jar-esko. It led to a post at the State Department in Wash-ington, where she worked on U.S.-Soviet economic rela-tions for several years. In 1992, a year after the Soviet collapse, she arrived in Kiev to take a job as the econom-ic section chief at the newly opened U.S. Embassy.

a way to foster private enterprise.

“That was pretty gutsy stuff,” said diplomat Rich-ard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Rela-tions. Jaresko was among his students at Harvard’s Ken-nedy School in the 1980s, and one he remembers as being “extremely smart, extremely articulate.”

Within a year, the fund became a cornerstone of Horizon Capital, a private equity firm she founded with three partners. Horizon sub-sequently attracted enough foreign investment to launch two more funds. To date, the three funds have raised about $600 million to invest in the region.

The Poroshenko adminis-tration approached Jaresko about the finance minister post during Thanksgiving week last fall, a period when her mother and her brother, John, happened to be visit-ing from the States.

Over an American-style turkey dinner, and through-out the weekend, the family talked about little else than the decision, which would require her to become a citi-zen of Ukraine.

Taking the job meant giving up the business she helped found, taking a drastic pay cut and having less time with her 10- and 16-year-old daughters, a wrenching choice for Jares-ko, a divorced mother whose ex-husband lives in the U.S.

Over the course of the week, she came to realize her daughters had grown up in Ukraine’s reform movement.

“My girls have really matured,” Jaresko said.

After intense conversa-tions with Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yat-senyuk to hash out needed reforms, Jaresko said their talks boiled down to this: “If not you, who? If not now, when?”

“I ended up saying, ‘Yes.’”

“Some professors said I shouldn’t be so forceful in my

discussions.”NATALIE JARESKO

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e Olde Donut Shoppe may not date back to Medieval England, as the name’s

spelling suggests, but it was founded nearly 60 years ago, mak-ing it an area institution.

The business has gone through many owners and locations, but the current incarnation has kept the old standards with a new busi-ness model.

“The quality of the donuts is exactly the same because it’s basically the same person who’s responsible for production,” said Eric Seeds, owner of Ye Olde Donut Shoppe.

Humberto “Jose” Rodriguez makes the donuts and was the previous owner before Seeds pur-chased the business. Seeds, how-ever, asked Rodriguez to stay with the shop.

“There’s a lot of man-hours in each day’s donuts. It’s amazing,” Seeds said. He estimated that making the donuts takes 26 man-hours per day.

Rodriguez fries 800-dozen doughnuts each week and makes a fresh batch each day.

“When I start working, I cannot stop,” he said.

He separates the 250 total pounds of dough into one-third for cake donut batter and two-thirds for yeast donuts.

While the yeast rises, he makes the daily cake flavor of cherry, blueberry, lemon, espresso or dev-il’s food. Then, he rolls and cuts out the yeast donuts, shaping each twist without a machine.

“‘Ye Olde’ is like donuts you make with your hands,” he said, explaining the name.

Seeds said he also uses other old standards, such as using real fudge and maple concentrate.

“We make our own icing. It doesn’t come in a five-gallon bucket like the grocery stores,” he said. “Little things like that

make a big difference.” In 1974, the original owners

sold the business to in-laws San-dy and Mike Pyle, who ran the business until Mike retired.

“He told me ‘I want to close the business because I’m really tired,’” Rodriguez said.

Mike passed away in May 2014, and the family connection to the business ended.

“He’s my second father,” Rodri-guez said of Pyle, who taught him how to make donuts when he start-ed working there 19 years ago.

During his employment, Rodri-guez said Pyle was instrumental in helping gain U.S. citizenship, signing his immigration papers, going with him to Chicago and even offering to legally adopt him.

Pyle owned three shops in the area at one point, with the final shop on Green Street closing briefly in 2004 before Rodriguez re-opened it. It closed perma-nently and was replaced by Maize Mexican Grill in 2011.

“It actually turned out to be a lot more profitable on the donuts than I’d thought,” Seeds said. He added that he was originally inter-ested in the business for the loca-tion on Green Street, not the food.

The donuts can now be pur-chased at Derald’s Café in the Law Building on 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., and through Derald’s Food Truck, which Seeds also owns. Espresso Royale and Circle K gas stations also have Ye Olde donuts.

“Everyone’s eating the donuts; they just don’t know it’s ours,” Seeds said.

He sells the donuts commer-cially and wholesale to churches, car dealerships, fraternities and sororities and residence halls.

“People always go ‘Oh, we didn’t know you were still around,’” he said. “It takes a long time to build up regulars like we have.”

He said that the most popular item was the old-fashioned sour cream donut, which Rodriguez

said is not usually found in stores because it is difficult to make.

“Old-fashioned with a shot of espresso. It’s like perfect,” said Aaron Bradley, manager at the Oregon Street Espresso Royale.

He said they had been selling Ye Olde donuts for as long as he had worked there. The coffee shop orders a variety of donuts, includ-ing twists, cinnamon rolls, apple fritters and, of course, old-fash-ioned donuts.

The donuts are simply very good without relying on any frills, he said.

“I kind of wish they’d open up a storefront, to be honest,” Brad-ley said, adding that there are no real donut shops on campus, and Dunkin’ Donuts doesn’t count.

Seeds said his long-term goal for the business is expanding to a shop but is currently working on public awareness of the business.

The delivery van is wrapped with huge pictures of donuts, and Seeds has made accounts on Twitter, Instagram and Face-book, where he posts pictures of colorfully-decorated products and sends updates when the van sells at the Urbana Market at the Square.

Ye Olde Donut Shoppe also sup-ported Illini 4000 by donating donuts for a Bike Across Amer-ica fundraiser, rather than offer-ing them at a reduced rate.

Seeds said many students don’t know about the donuts, and it’s difficult to maintain student reg-ulars because of the four-year turnover.

He said he is glad the commu-nity remembers the original shop.

“You get people that remem-ber their parents bringing them into the original Ye Olde Donut shops as kids,” he said, referring to the 1974 business. “Very little has changed in the 30-some-odd years.”

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ELLNORA festival acts announcedBY CAMILLE MURRAYSTAFF WRITER

Three days. Seven locations. Twenty-nine performances.

This is what music-lov-ers have to look forward to at the 2015 ELLNO-RA Music Festival. The annual event will be held Sept. 10 through Sept. 12 at the Krannert Center. This year’s list of sched-uled performers was announced Monday.

The festival began in 2005 with the goal of cre-ating an accessible expe-rience where people could come together and cele-brate musical traditions from all over the world, said Bridget Lee-Calfas, advertising and publici-ty director for the Kran-nert Center. Lee-Calfas said the center is expect-ing about 12,000 people to attend the festival over the three-day period.

“It’s a really wonder-ful mix of University stu-dents, community mem-bers, faculty and staff,” she said. “We also have people traveling. I know we’ve had groups far as Canada that come in tours, and certainly peo-ple from throughout the Midwest. And of course we attract a lot of media attention throughout the nation.”

This year’s lineup includes a wide range of guitar artists and bands, such as Rodrigo y Gabri-ela, Punch Brothers, Los Lobos, Dan Zanes and Drive-By Truckers. The diverse pool of artists hail from countries across the globe, including Mali, China, Spain, Mexico, India and Palestine.

“We’re looking for vari-ety in our artists,” Lee-Calfas said. “We’re look-ing for quality, looking to represent a really glob-al perspective, and so we seek out artists who ful-

fill those strategic goals.” Several of this year’s

performers have also been involved in the fes-tival previously.

The event also typi-cally features an artist-in-residence, which this year is triple-Grammy-award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin. Isbin will also be participating in a Q and A session as a part of a scheduled pre-festi-val event to be held the night before ELLNORA begins.

The concerts are held during both daytime and night hours throughout each of the event’s main performance dates.

Alleya Weibel, soph-omore in FAA, attend-ed the festival last year and plans to go again in September.

“I think the best part is the combination of get-ting extremely incredible performers and then com-bining it with multime-dia,” Weibel said. “They do a lot of outdoor visual concerts with lights and science stuff and videos and have people musi-cally narrate silent films. It’s just an overall encom-passing experience.”

The ELLNORA Fes-tival, originally called the “Wall to Wall Guitar Festival,” was renamed in 2009 to honor Ellnora Krannert, who founded the University’s Krannert Center for Performing Arts with her husband.

“We really wanted to come up with a name that was more distinctive and really felt closer to home for us,” Lee-Calfas said.

Lee-Calfas said the renaming of the festival also ties in with anoth-er one of the event’s purposes: highlighting female talent in the gui-tar industry.

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOLegendary Louisiana-born bluesman Buddy Guy took the stage at ELLNORA in 2013 at the Krannert Center.

SEE ELLNORA | 5A

RYAN FANG THE DAILY ILLINIEric Seeds in the Derald’s food truck on Thursday. Seeds owns and reinvigorated Ye Olde Donut Shoppe.

BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: This is the third in a four-part series about the cost of outfitting a student-athlete. The information included in these stories is from an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Daily Illini on the University’s contract with Nike.

Most of the apparel offered to the University’s student-athletes can be bought in campus stores, stands set up before stadiums during games and online.

There are a few pieces of apparel that Nike makes exclusively for or releases to the teams before it’s released to the general public. But other than those special items, most of the Universi-ty’s teams receive the same generic apparel — sweat-shirts, sweatpants and knit hats, for example.̀

Although most sports receive similar apparel, there is a disparity between genders that play the same sport. Even with the excep-tion of gender-specific clothes, like sports bras, there are instances where a women’s team is given more in value compared to the men’s team and vice versa.

The basketball, golf and gymnastics teams are the three sports with the larg-est value gap between teams of different genders. The most noticeable difference is between the gymnas-tics teams. A gymnast on the women’s team receives $ 2 , 0 0 7 . 7 0 worth of apparel com-pared to the $641.80 value a male gym-nast receives.

The main d i fferenc e between the two is in the competition gear. The women gymnasts receive five long-sleeve leo-tards valued at $200 each and seven leotards valued at $75 each. In comparison, the men’s inventory lists $300 worth of competition gear. The rest of the apparel hand-ed out to both teams is almost valued at the same price for men and women — for exam-ple a women’s training shoe is worth $47.70, compared to the Zoom Vomero 9 team shoe the men receive, valued at $58.30.

The basketball teams have a disparity in value as well, but both receive values that rank in the top five among all

Illinois teams. A men’s bas-ketball player receives $3,780 worth of apparel compared to women’s basketball player, who receives $2,556.85. One major difference between the team is the uniforms — the men’s five game uniforms are worth $1,325 compared to the women’s four, which are worth $1,060.

Another difference involves court shoes. The men receive at least two pairs, valued at an average of $87.50. Each player has a different playing style and some go through shoes quick-er than others, which is why the amount of shoes ordered for each player differs. Wom-en basketball players receive three pairs of court shoes valued at an average $71.55 per pair.

The final major difference between genders was found in the golf teams. A golfer for the men’s team receives $1,737.30 worth of apparel compared to the $980.80 a female golfer receives. The men receive a rain jacket and rain pant valued at $240 and $190, respectively, com-pared to the $140 and $95 val-ue, respectively, of the same items given to the women.

The price for the rest of the items are relatively the same — both receive a train-ing shoe valued at $58.30, and the women receive one golf shoe worth $105 com-pared to the $110 Lunar con-trol shoe the men receive.

According Illinois Head

Athletic Equipment Man-ager Rick Raven, the list of apparel that is allotted to each team isn’t decided before every season — it was decided by the University’s administration back when Illinois and Nike reached their initial agreement.

“That was decided upon back when the contract was signed,” Raven said. “It’s been the same ever since with minor changes.”

But despite the differenc-es between genders, Title IX (1972) does not necessarily come into play.

Raven is not told to make sure that the teams receive the same value of apparel for

both genders. The language of Title IX does not demand equal spending.

Title IX allows for differ-ent spending as long as the athletic department in ques-tion supplies “equal athlet-ic opportunity for teams of both sexes.” If the equip-ment and apparel the Uni-

versity pro-vides does not place a team of either sex at a disadvan-tage to the other, there is no Title IX violation.

With the exception of

the gymnastics, basketball and golf teams, the gender disparity per athletes in the same sports is limited to a couple hundred dollars, the price of a rain jacket or pair of rain pants. Student-ath-letes of all sports can be seen around campus wear-ing the same warmups and same knit hats.

And loyal fans can out-fit themselves in the same orange and blue gear as their favorite athletes, liter-ally supporting the Univer-sity with the clothes off their backs.

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BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down on Sunday nights and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.

O ne event stood in the way of Giana O’Connor and the end of her junior sea-

son on the Illinois women’s gymnastics team: the uneven bars.

As an individual all-around competitor at NCAA Championships, O’Connor

competed at the end of every rotation, following a team’s lineup. She was rotating with Utah, so she needed to wait for Georgia Dabritz to com-plete her bars routine before getting up on the apparatus for one final time this season.

“Usually, I never watch the person that goes before me,” O’Connor said. “I get really nervous.”

This time, however, O’Connor watched the rou-tine because she was com-peting by herself. It didn’t matter as much if she got nervous and messed up because it would only harm herself and not her team.

She watched Dabritz weave her way in between the bars, from the high to low

and vice versa. When Dab-ritz went for the dismount 30 seconds later, O’Connor amusingly thought, “Oh gosh.”

O’Connor would end the NCAA Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, by fol-lowing the first perfect 10 of the weekend. But that didn’t deter her. Rather, it brought a smile to her face and laughter came out. She even threw up the Utah “U” hand sign toward the crowd at the Fort Worth Convention Center before getting up on bars.

“That was probably the calmest I’ve ever done a bar routine,” O’Connor said. “I just knew I wasn’t going to reach that level, so just go

out there and do my routine.”It wasn’t just on bars that

O’Connor felt calm, though. Her performance at Nation-als on Friday was the calm-est she had felt in a colle-giate competition because her scores wouldn’t count toward a team total like she was used to. She didn’t feel the pressure of poten-tially hurting her team that afternoon.

O’Connor scored a 9.850 on bars, which brought her all-around total to 39.425. The score tied for third in Semi-final I of Nationals, giving her a first-team All-Ameri-can honor in the all-around.

Sophomore Mary Jane Horth accompanied O’Connor at Nationals as an

all-around competitor, and said she was proud to see her teammate achieve such a feat.

“She definitely deserves it,” Horth said. “She’s so humble, so I love seeing her succeed and just bask in that for a little bit. It’s real-ly exciting, and I couldn’t be happier for her.”

In achieving the score, O’Connor’s name came up on the scoreboard with Olym-pic silver medalist and cur-rent Florida gymnast, Bridg-et Sloan — the two had the exact same all-around score. That gives her more confi-dence moving forward — something she has strug-gled with.

“I don’t believe in myself,” O’Connor said. “I don’t believe that I’m as good as people like that, and tying sixth with an Olympian just made me realize that I am good enough. I am at that level.”

She celebrated her all-around finish on Sunday when team champions, event winners and all-around fin-ishers were honored for their accomplishments at the end of the Championships.

As O’Connor shared the sixth-place spot on the podi-um with Michigan’s Nicole Artz, Nebraska’s Jessie DeZiel and Sloan, a smile came across her face, and it didn’t leave. She could see her family and fellow Illini Nationals qualifiers Horth and senior Sunny Kato in the crowd. Then streamers of various colors fell upon O’Connor and the other all-around finishers as they waved to the crowd. Her smile became even bigger.

“I’ve always watched it from the stands,” O’Connor said of the awards ceremony. “I’ve never been down there when it’s happened. It was just an amazing feeling.”

O’Connor’s 39.425 and All-

American honor has put her name in the record books: the best all-around score by an Illinois gymnast at NCAA Championships, the eighth NCAA All-American in pro-gram history and the second Illini to be named first-team All-American in the all-around. But she knows all of these accomplishments couldn’t have happened if she wasn’t accompanied by Horth and Kato at Nationals.

“I’m beyond grateful for that,” O’Connor said. “I don’t think I would’ve been nearly as successful as I was this weekend had I not had them there cheering for me, sup-porting me. I did have Utah there obviously, but Sunny and MJ, I could hear them cheering from across the arena, and it just felt great knowing that they were there for me.”

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Honorable Mentions

Kevin Duchene (baseball): The junior pitcher had nine strikeouts in seven innings to earn a win against Indiana on Friday. The Illini went 2-0 on the weekend against the HoosiersThomas Detry (men’s golf): Shot 10-under to finish in a tie for first place with fellow Illinois junior golfer Charlie Danielson at the Boilermaker Invitational. Detry’s highest round score was a 70, while Danielson’s highest round score was a 74.

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in question supplies “equal athletic opportunity for teams of both sexes.”

BY EMMA MCGOWENCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Illinois men’s track and field team will travel to Des Moines, Iowa, for the 106th Drake Relays April 22-25, with different events held each day.

The Illini won the Hy-Vee Cup in 2013 and tied with Arkansas in 2014. The Razorbacks look to be a top competitor for the Cup once again.

With Illinois having won the Cup the past two years, one might think there is pres-sure to compete at a champi-onship-winning level again. But that doesn’t seem to be a concern for senior DJ Zahn, who said that the team knows what level they should be competing at.

“We’re going to crank it up, and we’re going to throw everything we can at Drake,” said head coach Mike Turk. “We’re maybe a little thinner in the middle distances this year than we were last year and the year before, but I feel

really good about our sprint crew right now. Obviously they’re running really well.”

One concern that the Illi-ni have with a meet during spring in the Midwest is the fluctuating weather.

The unpredictable weath-er can inevitably cause prob-lems for an outdoor meet, either in the way the athletes perform or if the meet gets postponed or cancelled.

Zahn believes that living in the Midwest and being able to train in such diverse conditions works as an advantage over teams from the South that might not be as used to such conditions.

Intensity of the workouts prior to the meet is another concern that presents itself to the team.

“Today was the hardest we’ll probably practice,” Zahn said. “Then we’ll work on more skill stuff, like strength and handoffs for the relays because we don’t want much volume before the big weekend. Wednesday and Thursday we’ll practice when we can make it to the track, but we won’t be doing anything crazy, it’ll just be to keep us moving.”

For the athletes that won’t be competing the first two

days, there’s a lot of time in between the light prac-tices, but that doesn’t mean they don’t attempt t remain focused.

“I listen to a lot of chill music to calm me and get me in the right mindset before each meet because it relaxes me,” said junior Cam Viney. “You’ve got to get in the right mindset because there’s a lot of great (athletes) and com-petition there. You don’t want to let it affect you running your race.”

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BY LAUREN MROZASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The Illinois women’s track and field team will participate in the 106th Drake Relays April 22-26 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.

The field consists of seven top-25 teams: No. 5 Arkan-sas, No. 7 Georgia, No. 9 Baylor, No. 11 Oklahoma State, No. 18 Texas Tech, No. 21 Missouri and No. 24 Notre Dame. Last year, the Illini were unsuccessful at Drake — scoring two team points and finishing tied for last in a field of 17. The 4x800 meter relay team earned the two

points for head coach Ron Garner’s team. The team of Chloe Schmidt, Ahlivia Spencer, Lindsey Rakosnik and Stephanie Morgan fin-ished seventh in the event. Schmidt and Rakosnik will team up with Nicole Cho-quette and Amanda Duven-dack this year.

Illinois is coming off a strong performance at the Illinois Twilight meet, which was held at the Illi-nois Soccer and Track Sta-dium. The Illini finished second in a field of 11, the team’s highest finish of the outdoor season. Stephanie Richartz made history in the pole vault: The senior’s 4.36 meter clearance set a school and facility record.

The Illini have one more outdoor meet after Drake before heading to East Lansing, Michigan,

for the Big Ten Outdoor Championships.

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BY JONATHAN JOFFE STAFF WRITER

Louise Kwong has grown up around tennis. The soph-omore for the Illinois wom-en’s tennis team started playing the game when she was five and began stand-ing out around the age of 13 in her hometown of Toron-to, Ontario.

At that age she won the Canadian Nationals and placed fifth in the Junior Orange Bowl — an inter-national tournament for junior tennis players.

Following her success, Kwong was ranked as a top-five junior player for the rest of her junior career in Canada.

She saw her childhood friend Genie Bouchard — who she trained with — climb up the world rank-ings. Bouchard currently sits at No. 7 in the Wom-en’s Tennis Association rankings — professional tennis’ top level.

Kwong saw another of her friends get selected to participate in the World Summer Universiade of the International Uni-versity Sport Federation (FISU) games two years ago in Russia.

At that time Kwong set a personal goal for herself: She wanted to find inter-national success like her peers. She wanted to be selected to attend the next FISU games.

Earlier this month, Kwong’s dreams became a reality.

She was selected to rep-resent Team Canada — along with Jena Cheng (University of Utah) and Evangeline Repic (Univer-sity of Tennessee) — this summer in Gwangju, South Korea, for the 28th FISU games.

While she received a let-ter from Team Canada ask-ing if she was interested — which she was — back in January, Kwong never imagined that her name would be selected from a pool of over a thousand candidates.

When Kwong was noti-fied of her selection, she essentially thought she was being pranked.

“I was actually sitting in class doing an exam review with (Alexis Casati), and I just re-read the email over and over again because I thought it was some sort of spam email,” Kwong said. “I was really excited, but I didn’t respond for like three days because I wasn’t sure if they accidently sent it to me.”

Kwong was selected based on her collegiate achievement and ranking both nationally and in the

NCAA. She holds a 26-13 record in dual matches, and 22-11 combined dou-bles record in her time at Illinois.

The fact that Tennis Canada — a member of the International Tennis Federation — still follows Kwong’s career came as a pleasant surprise to her.

“It’s definitely a big thing for me, just because you would think Tennis Cana-da would lose touch once you go to college because they focus so much on the juniors,” Kwong said. “It’s nice to know that they still follow my results and see how I am progressing.”

The members of Tennis Canada are not the only ones who noticed Kwong’s progression: Illinois head coach Michelle Dasso has seen great improvements in her game.

“(I’m) super excit-ed for her, because she’s improved so much,” Das-so said. “When I went over to Canada to recruit her, I obviously saw a lot in her, but the difference is really night and day.”

Dasso said that when she initially recruited Kwong, what impressed her most — and still does to this day — was Kwong’s personality.

“Silent Killer” is what Dasso labeled Kwong — in reference to her game — and added that she excels on and off of the court.

“I don’t think people realize how competitive she is, because she’s such a nice person and she’s not high maintenance,” Dasso said. “She hates to lose, and I think she was so excited to be selected for that reason.”

Assistant coach Evan Clark has seen the same competit iveness in Kwong, and feels that playing in the FISU games this summer will greatly benefit her game.

“It’s always a special thing when you can repre-sent your country in any-thing that you’re doing,” said Clark. “It’s a really neat opportunity for her

because she’s going to be playing people from all over the world at a really high level, so that experi-ence that she’ll gain will be great and she’ll bring it back to here.”

Clark also acknowledged that Kwong representing Team Canada this summer will be great exposure for the Illini.

From a recruiting per-spective, building upon a legacy and becoming a household name in the tennis world, which is what Kwong is doing, will be a huge selling point to recruits. However, Kwong is not focused on building

her legacy.While being selected to

play in the FISU games — which are second only to the Olympics in terms of international team compe-tition — is a great individ-ual honor, Kwong is more excited to suit up for Can-ada than to be recognized for her individual efforts.

“It’s definitely more important to be repre-

senting my country,” said Kwong. “I haven’t traveled out of North America in a while representing Tennis Canada.”

The future is bright for Kwong, who Clark called one of the most coachable student-athletes that he’s ever worked with.

Just like she set the goal of making the FISU games during her time in college,

Kwong has set another, much more difficult goal in regards to her future.

Kwong hopes to eventu-ally turn pro after her time at the University of Illinois is up.

“We’ll see how that goes,” Kwong said. “Hope-fully I’ll have a shot at it.”

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Women’s track set for Drake Relays

Louise Kwong fufills international tennis dream

Men’s track makes final preparations

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Stephanie Richartz propells herself into the air during the pole vault event at the Illinois Twilight meet on Saturday.

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ DJ Zahn, Brandon Stryganek and David Kendziera sprint past the competition during the Men’s 200 Meter Dash at the Illinois Twilight meet on Saturday.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Louise Kwong serves the ball during the match against Rutgers at Atkins Tennis Center, on April 5. Kwong will represent Team Canada in this summer’s FISU Games.

Illinois at Drake Relays

When/Where: April 22-26 Des Moines, IowaQuick facts: Illinois finished tied for last in a field of 17 at the event last season.Hidden stat: Senior Stephanie Richartz set new school and facility records at the Illinois Twilight with a 4.36 meter clearance in the pole vault.

Illinois at Drake Relays

When/Where: April 22-26 Des Moines, IowaQuick facts: The Drake Relays is one of the most prestigious track and field events in the nation. Hidden stat: The Illini won the Hy-Vee Cup in 2013 and tied with Arkansas in 2014.

Illini set to defend title at Drake Relays

Seven top-25 teams part of competition

Illini looks forward to representing her country

“It’s nice to know that they still

follow my results and see how I am

progressing.”LOUISE KWONG

ILLINI WOMEN’S TENNIS

BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER

It took the Illinois baseball team a few innings to warm up the bats against Eastern Illinois Tuesday evening, but once the Illini started to heat up midway through the game, they never looked back.

Illinois (33-6-1, Big Ten 10-1) scored six of its eight runs in the fifth and sixth innings and used a strong pitching performance to win its 14th-straight game 10-1 over Eastern Illinois (7-28).

“Today was a tough one, we had to fight to earn it,” first baseman David Kerian said. “We had some timely hits that worked in favor for us and we were able to win the game.”

The second meeting between the instate rivals was much different than the first — Illinois won the first game 14-10. Eastern Illinois starting pitcher Andrew Grahn entered Tuesday’s game with an 7.80 ERA and 1-0 record in six appear-ances. For four innings, he silenced the Illini bats and held them hitless. Right field-

er Casey Fletcher broke the hitless streak when he sin-gled into right field to lead off the fifth. Kerian followed with a home run shot over the right-field fence.

Illinois broke the game open in the sixth, scoring four runs. The Illini loaded the bases with no outs after two walks and a single with Garrison Stenger pitching for Eastern Illinois. Des-ignated hitter Pat McIner-ney struck out, but Fletch-er ripped a single into right, scoring two runs and giving Illinois the 4-1 lead. The lead increased to 6-1 after two bases-loaded walks.

The Illini added four more insurance runs in the eighth. The 10 runs the team scored Tuesday are the most it has scored in seven games.

“We didn’t set our balls up early, but we didn’t panic,” head coach Dan Hartleb said. “Our guys were composed and competed until the end.”

Starting pitcher Rob McDonnell limited the Pan-thers after he struggled in the first inning. The senior led the game off by walking center fielder Joseph Dun-

can, who stole second and reached third on a ground-out. Right fielder Caleb Howell grounded out to the second baseman, allowing Duncan to score to give East-ern Illinois the early 1-0 lead.

McDonnell blanked East-ern Illinois the rest of the way even though the Pan-thers did get on base — McDonnell escaped three straight innings with a man on third in the third, fourth and fifth inning, respectively. His night finished after six innings having given up one run on four hits and striking out six batters.

Reliever Nick Blackburn came into the game and held the Panthers scoreless in the seventh, and Tyler Jay pitched in the eighth and ninth and struck out three to secure the win.

“It was a good all-around pitching performance,” senior center-fielder Will Krug said. “Bob (Rob) got himself into tight spots but was able to pitch out of them and that’s part of his game.”

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BY ZOE KALER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Both Illinois men and wom-en’s rowing teams will travel to Ann Arbor, Michigan, this Saturday for the Mid-Ameri-can Collegiate Rowing Asso-ciation Championships.

In preparation, the teams are fine-tuning their stroke technique.

“Rowing is a very techni-cal and repetitive sport and having a good, clean tech-nique allows you to take more powerful strokes.” men’s team president Mike Varga said.

Erik Kroeker, the women’s head coach, said in addition to working on technique, the athletes must be as prepared as possible due to the high level of competition at this regatta. Among the schools included in the regatta’s lineup are Michigan, Michi-gan State, Grand Valley and Purdue — all top-notch pro-grams nationally.

In addition, the Illini will face Drake’s Division I var-sity program.

For the men, Varga said top competitors will be Michigan, Purdue and Notre Dame.

Kroeker said competing with these teams will be an opportunity to show how Illi-nois currently compares to top-flight teams.

The Illini women were about 30 seconds off of Grand Valley’s pace when they raced the Lakers on April 11 at the Don Lubber’s Cup in Grand Rapids, Michi-gan. Kroeker said he hopes to close that gap this weekend by about 10 seconds.

“We’re going to go into this realistically.” he said, “We don’t think we’re going to beat them this weekend, but we want to make sure we’re closing the ground so that in one month’s time when we’re going to nations, we’re a lot closer to that field than we were last week.”

Bill Grier, the men’s head coach, said the Illini will use these teams as a measuring stick.

The gap in race times isn’t the only disadvantage Illinois has when competing with top teams, especially with Divi-sion I varsity teams.

“We’re at a funding deficit relative to these programs,” Kroeker said. “We’re at a resource deficit relative to these programs and even the ones that are top-notch clubs, Purdue, Michigan, Michi-gan State, Notre Dame...all of those programs are very well-established, have much more money, much more

resources.” He said Illinois, com-

pared to Michigan, for exam-ple, has about 1-10th of the funding for the Wolverines’ program.

“When it comes to coach-ing resources and also just financial resources for the team, we really are a class below these other programs, but we don’t really let that bother us or be an excuse for us,” Kroeker said.

Despite budget discrep-ancies, Illinois still has the same kind of speed as some of the top programs.

According to Kroeker, Illi-nois is not as fast as the top teams in the country but is in great shape considering its circumstances.

Grier said he is optimistic about this weekend. The goal for the men is to make the grand finals for each event and also start pushing up into being one of the top six teams. The top-two boats in each of three different heats of six boats determine who competes in the grand finals.

“It’ll be a little difficult,” he said. “There’s going to be quite a lot of competition especially on the men’s side, so pushing into that top six group, it won’t be easy, but I think it’s definitely some-thing we can do.”

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THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM Wednesday, April 22, 2015 3B

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“If I Stay.”

“Get Hard.”

“Revolution by Diplo.”

“Dessert - Darwin.”

“Stole the Show by Kygo.”

“Lai Lai Wok.”

“KoFusion.”

“Bangkok Thai - Chicken Fried

Rice.”

“Volleyball because it requires a lot of skill and it is fun and pool

because it is cool and it isn’t very taxing on your body.”

“Volleyball, if I were a little taller; I loved playing it in high school, but I

just didn’t have the height for it.”

“No doubt, baseball. Last couple years I just fell in love with it.”

Editor’s note: Every Wednesday, The Daily Illini’s sports department asks four Illinois student-athletes questions pertaining to life off the !eld.

What was the last movie you saw in

theaters?

What is your favorite song at the moment?

What is your favorite place to eat on campus?

If you could excel at any other sport, which sport would you

choose, and why?

DJ ZahnMEN’S TRACK

Carly ThomasSOFTBALL

Aleks VukicMEN’S TENNIS

ILLINI ATHLETES SOUND OFFCOMPILED BY ASHLEY WIJANGCO

BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois softball team won its fourth straight Big Ten conference series Sat-urday after sweeping a gru-eling doubleheader against Wisconsin that lasted nearly six hours.

The Illini are now in fourth place in the Big Ten with a 10-5 conference record, 21-22 overall. If the Illini want to see their record rise above .500 for the first time this season, they’ll have to sweep another doubleheader — this time on the road against in-state rival Northwestern.

“We had no other choice but to win games for a while because of the way we start-ed,” head coach Terri Sulli-van said. “But obviously, if you can pick a time to play at your best, you want to play well during conference.”

Northwestern (21-17, 9-5 Big Ten) is the first top-five Big Ten adversary Illinois will have faced since getting swept at home by No. 15 Min-nesota March 20-22, a series in which the Illini averaged under two runs. Head-to-head, the Wildcats lead the all-time series 21-11, defeat-ing the Illini each of the last eight meetings.

In its last outing, North-western snapped a six-game

skid Sunday at Nebraska, put-ting together a 5-3 seventh-inning comeback win sealed by a diving catch at shortstop that earned the No. 2 spot on ESPN’s SportsCenter Top-10 plays. With both teams com-ing off dramatic wins, Sul-livan believes Wednesday’s matchup will come down to the mental game.

“Physically, these girls are well-trained; we played five games a weekend in Febru-ary and March,” Sullivan said. “Two games in a day isn’t much for us, but it’s the mental part: staying alert and ready to go, that’s what you prepare for in these mid-week doubleheaders.”

No matter what mentality Illinois has entering Wednes-day, it can’t change its lack of depth at the pitching position — a crucial element to play-ing multiple games in such a short time frame. In Satur-day’s doubleheader with the Badgers, sophomore pitch-er Jade Vecvanags pitched a complete first game and came on in relief the second game after just 2 1/3 com-bined innings pitched by Shelese Arnold and Breanna Wonderly.

Vecvanags (15-9) is clearly the Illini’s ace, already gath-ering 10 wins in conference. She already has over 121

innings pitched on the sea-son: 46 more innings than any other Illinois pitcher. With the work load Vecva-nags has shouldered thus far, Sullivan says managing her innings Wednesday will be a major factor.

“We just need to see how the games go,” Sullivan said. “All our pitchers will be ready to go, but Jade’s our leader in the circle. When you have the hot hand, you get the ball.”

“As a defense, we need to make mandatory plays behind whoever pitches,” said freshman outfielder Carly Thomas. “It’s our job to have her back.”

A sweep of Northwest-ern would put Illinois tied for third in the conference with Nebraska, which would pay dividends for Illinois in May at the conference tour-nament. Despite climbing up the Big Ten standings and clawing back to a game within .500, the players still feel they have something to prove against the Wildcats.

“When it comes to our RPI, we have to prove ourselves,” Thomas said. “If people think you’re the underdog, you just want to prove them wrong.”

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I t’s the last big weekend of spring games, and there have been plenty

of exciting stories. Let’s take a look at the last few weeks of spring football action and what’s to come this weekend.

High hopes on Rocky Top

Can Tennessee fi nal-ly become a factor in the weak SEC East? Butch Jones has done a good job recruiting in Knoxville, Tennessee, most recently putting together a top-fi ve class this year. It’s time to see some results. The Vols fi nished last season with a bowl win and an improved record. There are a lot of

moving parts, and Satur-day will be the fi rst chance to see if they’re in the right places for a 2015 run.

Soaring Spartans

In recent years, Michi-gan State has been known for its hard-nosed defense, but last year showed the offense can be as high-fl ying as the best of them. Michigan State ended the year defeating offensive powerhouse Baylor, in the highest-scoring Cot-ton Bowl ever. This sea-son, Connor Cook will be one of the best quarter-backs in the Big Ten. Look for him to dazzle Spartan fans during Saturday’s spring game. MSU was the biggest hurdle on defend-ing national champion Ohio State’s regular sea-son schedule last year, and this year should be simi-

lar. The Spartans will have to build on a strong 2014 if there’s any hope of con-quering the Buckeyes in the Big Ten East.

Under center in Alabama

Perhaps the most prolifi c quarterback competition in college football histo-ry will go down this sum-mer in Columbus, Ohio. But another College Foot-ball Playoff fi nalist is also searching for its signal-caller. Alabama got a look at its QB prospects Satur-day. Last year’s presumed starter, Jacob Coker, had the best performance by far in April 18’s spring game, throwing for 183 yards and a touchdown. The next best performance was by redshirt freshman David Cornwell, who threw one TD and 110 yards. Five different QBs saw action.

While Coker looks to be the frontrunner, he was the early favorite last sea-son before Blake Sims took over for the Crimson Tide.

Horned Frogs on a mission

Speaking of way-too-early favorites, TCU is widely considered to be the best team that’s not the reigning national cham-pion. Expectations have never been higher for the Horned Frogs. They host-ed a Friday night extrava-ganza on April 10 for fans, complete with the unveil-ing of new Nike uniforms, but the scrimmage wasn’t all too exciting. The big-gest news to come out of Fort Worth, Texas, was head coach Gary Patterson speaking on TCU being left out of the College Foot-ball Playoff, saying that someone will always feel

like they “got screwed.”

Pac-12 South powers

Three teams in one of college football’s most competitive divisions showed off their spring stuff on April 10-11. Ari-zona, Arizona State and Southern California are all contenders in the Pac-12 South.

Arizona is coming off its fi rst premiere bowl appearance since 1993 after winning the divi-sion last year. Quarterback Anu Solomon was a bright spot for the Wildcats last year as a redshirt fresh-man, and he looked sharp in their spring outing. Sol-omon said he feels more comfortable this year and head coach Rich Rodri-guez said he has already improved from last year.

The Sun Devils didn’t

have a traditional spring game due to renovations at Sun Devil Stadium. The team played on a 70-yard fi eld, but the practice gave fans a fi rst look at the con-version of running back DJ Foster into a wide receiver.

USC is the way-too-early favorite in the division and should be a factor in the College Football Playoff race. Senior quarterback Cody Kessler, a possible Heisman contender, had limited action but threw for 126 yards and a touch-down. The Trojans will be even better in the fall when they bring in the rest of a sanction-free recruit-ing class.

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Spring football presents possibilities for the upcoming season CHRISTOPHER

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