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BY KATHERINE BONCHER STAFF WRITERAmeren Corporation,

a Fortune 500 energy company based out of St. Louis, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday to commemorate the opening of its Innovation Center at Research Park.

Chancellor Phyllis Wise, Mayor Don Gerard and State Rep. Carol Ammons, D-103, were among those in attendance.

Ameren has been build-ing a relationship with the University for sever-al years now, said Laura Weisskopf Bleill, assistant director for external rela-tions at Research Park. In the past, the company has

worked on research proj-ects with the College of Engineering.

The decision to open an Innovation Center in Urba-na-Champaign was made because of the University’s emphasis on engineering and green technology.

“The University is look-ing forward to an ever deepening and widening relationship with (Ame-ren),” Wise said. “The Ameren Innovation Cen-ter will give our students the opportunity to work on smart energy solutions for the Midwest and beyond.”

The center will be open-ing up part-time employ-ment opportunities for up to 12 University stu-dents. According to a press

release, students across multiple disciplines will work on projects rang-ing from data analyt-

ics to mobile applications that focus on the future

BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER

After learning of the Uni-versity’s decision to hire James Kilgore in the fall, State Rep. Charles Meier, R-108, has introduced leg-islation to bar convicted terrorists from teaching at Illinois’ public universities.

“I just fi nd that this idea that we would let convict-ed terrorists, whose whole plan was to destroy Amer-ica, teach our youth ... (is absurd),” Meier said.

Meier’s bill, HB 150 , “prohibits universities and community colleges from knowingly employ-ing a person who has been convicted of attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, soliciting, or com-mitting the offense of ter-rorism or any offense com-mitted or attempted in any other state or against the laws of the United States.”

Kilgore was a mem-ber of the radical Symbi-onese Liberation Army, known for the kidnapping

of Hearst Media Company heiress Patty Hearst. He was arrested for second-degree murder and posses-sion of an explosive device in 2002 for his involvement in a 1975 bank robbery that left one woman dead. He served six years in a Cali-fornia federal prison and was released in 2009.

Kilgore worked in the Center for African Stud-ies on campus from 2010 until August 2014, when he was told that his contract expired.

In November 2014, the Board of Trustees voted to allow University units to rehire Kilgore . He current-ly teaches as an adjunct lecturer in the Global Stud-ies program .

Meier said he was also motivated to write the leg-islation after watching the spread of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS. If convicted terrorists are allowed to work at Illinois universities, Meier said, it would give groups like ISIS the green light to “invade

BY LIYUAN YANGSTAFF WRITER

A group of chemical engi-neering students from the University has advanced to the national fi nals of BP’s Ultimate Field Trip com-petition, where Team Illini will compete against six oth-er universities this spring to win the “trip of a lifetime” to the company’s natural gas operations in Trinidad and Tobago.

The annual competition asks students from across the country who are study-ing in science, technology, engineering and mathemat-

ics (STEM) fi elds to solve a real-world global energy problem.

“BP believes that address-ing America’s energy chal-lenges requires long-term partnerships between the private sector and leading educational and scientifi c institutions,” said Khym-berly Booth, U.S. university relations director for BP, in a statement. “The UFT has proven to be a fun and effec-tive way to do just that.”

The six other teams mov-ing onto the fi nals are: Aqua-solve from the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology; Aquam Inc from Pennsylva-nia State University; Owls from Rice University; The Maroon COG from Texas A&M University; Blastoise from the University of Okla-homa; and Roden Analytics from the University of Texas.

All three members of

Team Illini, Sean Ebihara (chemistry major), Ivan Vil-lamar and Patrick Regan (chemical engineering majors), are sophomores.

This year, BP asked par-ticipants to fi nd a solution for cleaning the contami-nated water created by the oil industry.

“One of the things about the competition is that you will never know what prob-lem you are going to get this year,” Villamar said. He con-siders this to be the biggest challenge of the competition.

Ebihara said another big challenge is fi nding the “nov-el solution” to the problem. He pointed out that there are already thousands of engi-neers in the industry who are trying to solve the same problem, so coming up with an innovative solution is the

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A proposed $23.1 million sports medicine and orthope-dics facility by Carle Foun-dation may offer new bene-fi ts for student-athletes and students studying sports sci-ence and medical care.

Carle has applied to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board for an Orthopedics and Sports Medicine facility and will address the board later this spring.

The 52,000 square-foot facility would be located in Research Park, bordering First and Fourth streets and sitting south of Gerty Drive and north of West Windsor Road.

The central location of the facility is ideal for the sports medicine staff since they travel to support local schools and events, Caleb Miller, vice president of sur-gical services at Carle, said in an email.

“Carle Orthopedics is proud to partner with the University of Illinois (Divi-sion) of Intercollegiate Ath-letics for the medical treat-ment of their athletes,” Miller wrote. “And the facil-ity allows us to provide a con-venient location when they need care.”

Miller also said Carle cur-rently provides educational opportunities to University students and they will look at future opportunities as they move forward with this project.

The facility will feature a 32,800 square-foot clinical area, which will include 66 exam rooms, a therapy gym

and sports enhancement training and offi ces, Mark Schultz, public relations spe-cialist for Carle, said in an email.

Schultz said there is an increasing number of peo-ple with needs for orthopedic services in the Champaign-Urbana area. In 2014, Carle saw a 9.9 percent increase in exams relating to orthopedics and sports medicine. To meet the rising demand, Carle is currently recruiting orthope-dic specialists to address the demand they are seeing for specialized orthopedic care, including treatment such as arthroscopic procedures and joint replacement.

Carle’s current facilities for orthopedics weren’t orig-inally designed to function as orthopedic practices. Ortho-pedic services for upper extremity, hip, knee, foot and ankle care are located in the Mattis facility and the sports medicine care is located at

the Carle North Annex, just north of Interstate 74.

This new facility would allow the orthopedic prac-tice to be united under one roof and Carle believes it will enhance patient care. The facility would also allow for the additional space needed for patients in wheelchairs or who are using crutches or walkers.

University spokeswoman Robin Kaler said the Univer-sity could not comment on pending real-estate trans-actions. Laura Frerichs, Research Park Director, and Paul Schmidt, director of sports medicine for the Fighting Illini, were also unable to comment.

According to Carle’s appli-cation, the estimated proj-ect completion date would be January 31, 2017.

Andrew can be reached at [email protected].

Carle Foundation proposes 52,000 square-foot facility

Project cost: $23.1 million Estimated completion: Jan. 31, 2017Location: University’s Research Park Will feature 32,806 square feet of clinical space, including: Exam and procedure

rooms for orthopedic and sports medicine providers Physical therapy gym

X-ray rooms Cast bays

Will feature 19,194 square feet of non-clinical space, including: Administrative space

for leadership, case management and insurance experts

Sports performance enhancement space

Mechanical components and other building systems

SOURCE: CARLE’S APPLICATION TO ILLINOIS HEALTH FACILITIES AND

SERVICES REVIEW BOARD

Carle applies to open new medical facility in Research Park

Team Illini makes fi nals

Ameren opens Innovation Center

Kilgore hireinspires bill proposed byState Rep.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIUniversity Chancellor Phyllis Wise speaks at the grand opening of the Ameren Innovation Center at Research Park .

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINI=Phyllis Wise, Mary Heger of Ameren and Champaign Mayor Don Gerard were among those who attended the grand opening.

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our society” and “destroy our way of life.”

“If we have a college professor that is allowed to teach after being convict-ed of terrorism, convicted of second-degree murder, what kind of example are we setting?” Meier asked. “I have a problem with that, and I believe most of America has a problem with that.”

Soon after authoring the bill, Meier learned that the Illinois State Board of Education already had a similar policy banning people convicted of terror-ism from primary educa-tion, which he believes will better HB 150’s chance of passing . He has also appeared on nationally-syndicated news programs like Fox News’ Kelly File to promote his legislation.

“It seems ridiculous to me (that) while we’re fi ght-ing terrorists across the world, spending millions of dollars, that our taxpay-ers are here, (we’re) pay-ing for a convicted terror-ist, who was on the run and had to be extradited back to America,” said Meier.

University Spokesman

Tom Hardy said the Uni-versity has reached out to Meier and his bill’s spon-sors to review the legisla-tion and discuss the Uni-versity’s hiring process.

“The proposed law appears to be aimed at James Kilgore,” Hardy said. “We’ll answer any questions they might have about our hiring practices in certain instances, and we’ll try to keep them informed about the devel-opment of the background check policy.”

Hardy said the Univer-sity is currently drafting a new criminal background check for potential faculty members and that an ear-ly version of the policy is expected to be completed this spring.

Meier alleged that some University donors had already ceased their dona-tions over Kilgore’s hire. While several donors had expressed intent to with-draw funding from the University, Hardy said he was currently unaware if any had followed through.

James Kilgore declined to comment on Meier’s bill.

Josh can be reached at [email protected].

key to success. Regan emphasized that

researching a good idea is hard work because the solu-tion is expected to be feasi-ble, implementable within 10 years, completely original, environmentally sustainable and friendly, and also fi nan-cially viable for BP.

Team Illini members are currently working on a four-minute video, a techni-cal poster and preparing for their fi nal presentation that will be demonstrated this April at the national fi nals.

Despite the vast workload of research and interviews with professors and gradu-ate students, all three mem-bers said they are enjoy-ing the preparation process because of what they have learned so far.

“I think what this competi-

tion really teaches us is that you really need to pull from a lot of different sources,” Ebi-hara said.

He added that no one can win this competition as just a chemical engineer; only cooperating with sources across every fi eld can make an idea reality.

After more than a month’s preparation, the group has settled on their fi nal solution.

“We’re actually using stuff from the fi eld of biology, bac-teria and how they actually precipitate out certain heavy metals and other toxic ele-ments,” Ebihara said. “You usually end up pulling some-thing that you never thought would have been associated with what you’re trying to do, or the, I guess, ‘status quo’ ways to process those types of waste.”

Team Illini said this com-petition is a unique opportu-nity to them not only in terms of academic experience, but

also for career opportuni-ties. The UFT Competition gives them a chance to apply what they have learned in the classroom to something real by doing a lot of studying and research outside of class to make their idea a reality.

Villamar said their com-petition comes from both big and small universities. Com-peting against the other six universities made him real-ize everyone has the same mental potential that should not be undermined.

“That’s something I’m proud we had, we got to see how we stack up to these other universities,” Villa-mar said. “We gotta give ourselves some credit for what we do. And it showed, everything up to this point has been a good gauge.”

Although the burden of a heavy workload made them more vulnerable to giving up, Regan said advancing in the competition kept the team

motivated. When talking about their

fi nal goal, they all agreed that its the learning experi-ence that matters most.

Villamar said his goal of this competition is to see how far they can take it and how well they can really do.

“That’s how I kind of looked at it, you know, we can go out from this and not move on to the next stage but at the end of the day, we still got to learn about something that we didn’t get a chance to before,” Ebihara said.

The fi nal competition will be held April 9 in Houston, where BP’s U.S. headquar-ters is located. The winning team will get a two-week fi eld trip to BP’s natural gas oper-ations in Trinidad and Toba-go, along with winning teams from the United Kingdom, Canada and Angola.

Liyuan can be reached at [email protected].

needs of Ameren’s utility customers.

Mary Heger, vice presi-dent of Information Tech-nology at Ameren, said the partnership with the University is “extremely important” to Ameren and the company hopes to fos-ter innovation and leaders while developing many products in the Innovation Center.

“We also hope to develop a talent pipeline to help us continue to build a skilled workforce,” Heger said in

a press release. “This is important as we transition to smart grid technologies and explore future new energy services that may be wanted and needed by our customers.”

Ameren is the fi rst major energy company to open an offi ce at the University’s Research Park.

Research Park recent-ly opened an AbbVie Inno-vation Center, and will be opening a new center for Caterpillar, in addition to its existing offi ce.

Katherine can be reached at [email protected].

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BY CHARLOTTE COLLINSSTAFF WRITER

Student governments across the Big 10 are fi ght-ing the U.S. Department of Education’s Offi ce for Civil Rights proposal to bar stu-dents from participating as adjudicators in Title IX dis-cipline hearings related to sexual assault.

Title IX, a federal civil right, prohibits sexual dis-crimination in education and addresses acts of sex-

ual violence. The University’s current

policy allows for student participation and according to Vice President-Internal Sarah Hochman, that is how it should remain.

“It’s important that we continue our commitment to shared governance at the University,” Hochman said. “Having students in these panels listening to these cases offers a unique perspective, the training is thorough; I’ve been through it.”

After the Department of Education’s proposal was made in 2014, the Associa-tion of Big 10 Students met in January and agreed to use this issue as a focus for the upcoming Big 10 On The

Hill lobbying event in Wash-ington D.C.

At its Wednesday meet-ing, the Illinois Student Sen-ate will look at a resolution for information in opposi-tion of the proposal.

Students that participate in conduct hearings receive mandatory training, similar to faculty members, in con-fi dentiality, procedures and other processes, according to the resolution. Addition-ally, it states students pro-vide peer perspectives in conduct hearings, which administrators and faculty may lack.

Matt Hill, vice president-internal, said he believes the training and applica-tion process students go through should be valid

enough reason for them to sit in on panels regarding their peers if the victim chooses to go through Uni-versity processes.

The Illinois Student Sen-ate has been focused on bringing attention to sex-ual assault on campus this year and has been heav-ily involved with the “It’s On Us” national campaign to raise awareness for a community responsibility regarding sexual assault.

If passed this Wednesday for information, the resolu-tion will be up for debate at its following meeting on Feb. 18.

Charlotte can be reached at [email protected].

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TUCSON, Ariz. — The family of an American woman abducted while volunteering in Syria announced Tuesday that they have received confi r-mation that she is dead.

Islamic State released a video last week claiming that Kayla Mueller, 26, was killed in an air attack by

coalition forces against the militants in Syria.

U.S. intelligence offi cials also believe that Mueller is dead but don’t accept the militants’ account of how she was killed, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in Washington on Tuesday.

FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Advocates of same-sex marriages were wading through Alabama’s com-plicated legal problems on Tuesday, hoping that a pending motion before a federal judge will bring some clarity to what has become a touchy issue of who can marry whom.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block gay marriages in Alabama, but the state’s top judge over the weekend ordered probate judges not to issue marriage licens-

es to same-sex couples. In some counties, probate judges ignored Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s order but many listened, refusing to allow same-sex marriages as ordered by the federal courts.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, a group backing gay marriage, 50 of Alabama’s 67 coun-ties were refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, down from Monday when at least 53 counties were taking that position.

Jesse Matthew Jr., the man linked to the deaths of two Virginia college stu-dents, has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of Hannah Graham.

Graham vanished the morning of Sept. 13 and

her remains were discov-ered a few weeks later. The college student had been at a bar in Charlottesville the night of her disappearance, and police released surveil-lance videos that show her running and stumbling.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Embassy in Yemen is closing because of security concerns amid the unsta-ble Arab country’s deep-ening political turmoil, State Department offi cials announced Tuesday.

After weeks of trimming services at the U.S. mission in Sana’a, the capital, offi -cials said they will take steps to halt operations and expect the ambassa-dor to leave the country by Wednesday.

MUMBAI, India — An upstart anti-corruption party swept to a landslide victory Tuesday in state elections in the Indian cap-ital, dealing the fi rst sig-nifi cant political setback to Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi.

The opposition Aam

Aadmi Party, whose name means “common man,” won a record-high 67 of 70 seats in the New Delhi state government, according to offi cial tallies — a stun-ning result in a race that Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party until recent days had thought was neck-and-neck.

STELLA YOU THE DAILY ILLINIDifferent clubs sell food on the Quad for Valentine’s Day on Tuesday. Alpha Pi Sigma sorority sold crush grams, a message and crush can to send to your Valentine.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After aborting its second attempt to launch a satellite because of high-level wind shear Tuesday, SpaceX has one more shot for liftoff this week on Wednesday evening.

Strong upper level winds plagued the skies above the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch complex and

did not calm enough before the 6:05 p.m. EST launch target, forcing SpaceX to scrub the attempt. The next attempt will be Wednesday at 6:03 p.m. EST.

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W ith the recent increase in sappy, televised jewelry commercials,

heart-shaped chocolates and expensive bouquet arrange-ments at local markets, it is easy to notice that Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. What began as the feast day of the patron saint of love, is now the day when radio stations play love songs, when florists feel the pain of working retail and when couples make plans to celebrate their love.

And with the rise in flow-er sales and Barry White on the radio comes the inevitable surge of complaints from hat-ers who resent Valentine’s Day. You hear these grumbles and gripes from a variety of people of all genders and sexualities everywhere you go:

“I’m throwing a Galentine’s Day party because I’m inde-pendent and strong and don’t need a relationship.”

“I don’t participate in it because it’s just a Hallmark holiday that manipulates

shoppers into spending more money.”

“I’m glad I’m single because I don’t have to spend money buying a girl chocolates.”

“I’m going to die alone with a bunch of cats.”

In the past, I have partici-pated in the attempted verbal assault on Valentine’s Day (I’m the perpetually single cat lady), yet I can’t help but feel that as maturing adults we should make more humble efforts to rise above the unnecessary complaints.

It isn’t easy to ignore the sickly sweet smell of candy hearts at the market when shopping for groceries. But verbally emphasizing the fact that you don’t partake in con-sumerism — as if Valentines’ Day is the only holiday manipu-lated by companies and adver-tisers to emphasize gifting and gluttony — is ineffective.

As an adult, to prove your aversion to the marketing ploys, you should ignore the aisles of pink and red, pick up your groceries and ditch the middle school hissy fit. In try-ing to concede that you pay no mind to the frivolousness of marketing, any complaining disproves your argument.

Some may argue that Val-

entine’s Day adds pressure on people who are single because of the emphasis it puts on rela-tionships. In reaction, people either combat this pressure by professing what little the holi-day means to them or by wal-lowing in self-pity and collect-ing furry felines.

Those who outspokenly pro-fess their mental strength in an attempt to persuade oth-ers (and probably themselves) of their independence come off as artificial, try-hard and unconvincing.

I find it amusing that these individuals fail to recognize the hypocrisy in the equiva-lent of shouting “I don’t care” through a megaphone. If you really aren’t affected by Val-entine’s Day, prove it by not talking about it. The fact that you feel the need to brag about your “I don’t need a relation-ship” mentality reveals a false sense of security. The very act of bringing it up defies your point.

On the other hand, those who complain that being single on Valentine’s Day in college equates to a life of perpetu-al isolation have an absurdly inflated sense of struggle. It is a rather ridiculous and rushed assertion that as barely 20 year

olds, we should already have our personal lives completely figured out.

You are not the only 20-something who is single on Feb.150 14. Unless you wake up every day basking in misery about your relationship status (or lack thereof), treat Valen-tine’s Day like any other day. Complaining does nothing but make you and those around you miserable.

Overall, the solution to the futile time-waster that is com-plaining is quite simple: Don’t do it.

If you are against Valen-tine’s Day, great, keep it to yourself. Trying to tear down the holiday because it doesn’t apply to you is the pinnacle of arrogance. The Saturday cel-ebrations are going to ensue regardless of your attempts.

I could continue and write a whole dissertation on the sub-ject of “why nobody should complain about anything ever because it is unproductive,” but for the sake of brevity we can end this on the subject of Valentine’s Day and call it part one. Baby steps.

Stephanie is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

We spend too much time on Facebook. I know it, and you

know it; this is not new infor-mation. And yet, most of us still log on many, many times each day. I’ve already checked my page since starting this column.

From my perspective, there are two factors that contrib-ute to this addiction.

First, many of us feel that the degree to which Facebook is present in our lives is a giv-en or inevitable if we have an account, although it is not.

Second, although we know we should stop checking Face-book so often, it doesn’t feel imperative.

But, I think we are approaching a level at which it is in fact critical to cut back.

I want to be clear: I am not advocating quitting Face-book altogether. I think it has become an integral part of the way that college students communicate.

But, the amount that we use it has gotten out of hand. It disrupts our ability to focus on academic work, to listen in class and even to be fully present in social situations.

Yes, this is an issue with all social media sites. But,

Internet users, on average, spend more time on Facebook than any other website or social media account. There-fore when looking for ways to increase efficiency, you should begin by focusing on cutting back on this site.

I recently came across a startling statistic, which is that the average Facebook user spends more time every day browsing the website than they do spending time with their pets. People may even spend more time posting pic-tures or creating Facebook pages for their pets than they spend taking care of them.

It’s troubling, and quite sad, that the average person pri-oritizes browsing through a social media site over inter-acting with a pet, a living being for which the owner is responsible.

Perhaps even more alarm-ing are the results of the sites that allow you to calculate the amount of time you have cumu-latively spent on Facebook since joining.

I probably spend about forty minutes a day on Facebook, which is around average. This unfortunately means that I’ve spent 64 days, seven hours and five minutes cumulatively on the site since joining six years ago.

While that is absurd, it is obviously not atypical.

Facebook, when used in excess, can heavily detract from students’ academic per-

formance and perhaps even their social lives.

Constantly checking Face-book each hour while working on homework can lengthen the process or lead to an unfin-ished assignment.

Further, the need to con-stantly update our Facebook profiles can cause us students to feel distracted and not total-ly present during time with friends — the real friends, not Facebook ones.

For the sake of preserving these priorities, we need to start logging on fewer times each day.

But for all this, no one should feel ashamed of his or her Facebook addiction. There are psychological reasons why Facebook appeals so strongly to us.

There are many researchers and psychologists today who are interested in that attrac-tion. Funnily, there is even a Facebook group that is devoted to studying the psychology of Facebook.

One of the biggest reasons, according to Psychology Today, that we are so drawn to the site is because it boosts our self-esteem.

We are able to see, in quanti-tative terms, exactly how many people have liked our profile picture, how many pictures we posted this week, how many friends we have, etc. This usu-ally seems especially impor-tant to college age users. This allows us to construct a repre-

sentation of ourselves however we like, which is an attractive promise.

Although this is a common aspect of most social media sites, because of Facebook’s overwhelming popularity, that specific representation may seem more important to Inter-net users.

I understand and support the building of a reputable online identity. But the problem is that most of the time that we are on Facebook, we are browsing other profiles rather than building our own. In that way, Facebook can quickly become a breeding ground for unproductiveness.

Students would do better to put the hours spent on Face-book toward building a more concrete, in-person reputation rather than a virtual one.

My own opinion is that a lot of our addiction is simply hab-it; we are accustomed to tak-ing out our smartphones and checking Facebook first thing.

Although I don’t believe it is feasible for college students to do away with it completely, we should be a little smarter about the amount of time we spend on it.

Take it a step at a time. Log on a few less times each day. Keep reminding yourself that you’re going to be more effi-cient and happier after you do.

Alex is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

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T he political tar-geting of Univer-sity professor James Kilgore hasn’t stopped

— in fact, it’s headed to the state legislature.

In January, Represen-tative Charles Meier (R-Okawville) introduced a bill to the Illinois General As-sembly proposing that all people convicted of terror-ism in the past are banned from teaching at public uni-versities in the state of Illi-nois.

It’s obvious that this bill is directed at the University’s hiring of James Kilgore, who was convicted of sec-ond-degree murder for his role in an armed robbery while he was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a terrorist organiza-tion.

The bill also targets re-tired UIC professor Bill Ayers, who founded the radical group Weather Un-derground, which many people consider a terrorist organization.

We’ve written about this topic before, but this bill brings up our point again.

According to the Amer-ican justice system, once a person is released from prison, that person is reha-bilitated. While the deci-sions that get people into prison in the first place may certainly be bad and worthy of punishment, these people should be able to live a full life after they are released. They should have this op-portunity because being re-habilitated indicates they have served time and met the standards to be released in the first place.

They should not be denied entire career paths.

Some people may argue that people convicted of ter-rorism are more danger-ous than people convict-ed of other felonies, but it shouldn’t matter if their time was served and they have been rehabilitated.

We previously refer-enced a quote from campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler in a March 22 Chicago Sun-Times article where she said in reference to Kilgore, “He does a great job. He’s very well-respected among students... He is a good ex-ample of someone who has been rehabilitated, if you believe in second chanc-es and redemption, and he’s someone who helps prove that’s the human thing to do.”

Everyone deserves a sec-ond chance.

Meier admitted that the bill is targeted at the Uni-versity’s hiring of Kilgore, and, in an interview with The Daily Illini, he said, “I just find that this idea that we would let convict-ed terrorists whose whole plan was to destroy Amer-ica teach our youth (is ab-surd).”

The thing is, we are not letting terrorists teach our youth. We are allowing op-portunities for people to have second chances at life after past decisions and in-stances that have been pun-ished and learned from. There is a world of differ-ence.

What’s the point of pris-on if you can’t live a full life after you’re out?

As noted by two opinions columnists this week, there is much to be celebrated this upcoming Saturday: Valentine’s Day and the 10th birthday of YouTube. Many may have their reservations about the “love is in the air” holiday, and oth-ers may not care to pay tribute to the video viewing web-site, but we think these two momentous events allow for the perfect storm of ultimate weekend plans. Step 1: Buy heart-shaped chocolate at Walgreens. Step 2: Put on “groutfit.” Step 3: Search funny clips from “The Tonight Show Star-ring Jimmy Fallon” on YouTube. Step 4: Sit on couch and commence a night of candy, laziness and laughter, all in celebration of what we are now calling “ValenTube’s Day.”

You know how everyone tries to eat celery — even if they hate it — because it supposedly burns calories? Well, for those 21 and up, next time you go to the store, pick up a bottle of Merlot and put the stalks down. We already knew a little bit of wine was good for you in some way, but it’s always nice to have that information confirmed for many people’s favorite dinner accom-paniment drink. Recent studies by various scientists have found that there is a chance that wine could burn fat because of extracts found in dark red grapes. The study is mainly proven by mice, but, hey, it’s a start!

This past Sunday, we all gathered around our TVs, sweatpants on, bag of chips in hand, to watch yet another star-studded event: The Grammys. Upon Beck’s recep-tion of Albums of the Year, Kanye West pulled a Kanye West. He came up to the stage, nearly recreating the infamous moment between him and Taylor Swift at the Video Music Awards in 2009, and later went on a whiny rant about how Beck should have given the award up to Beyonce. Luckily, many have come to Beck’s defense including the lead singer of Garbage, Shirley Manson, who had some wise words for West. Moral of the story: Hey Kanye, grow up and be nice.

Urban Outfitter’s tapestries are the epitome of the typi-cal twenty-something-year-old’s apartment decor. When you can’t paint over white walls, they seem to have a print to please everyone. But recently, one of their prints has proven to be a bit more historic than aesthetically pleasing. The tapestry is being criticized for its strik-ing similarity to uniforms worn in Holocaust concentra-tion camps. This also follows in the wake of a Kent State sweater that appeared to have fake blood splatter was sold by the company. Maybe, Urban, you should focus on creating new styles versus offensive pieces inspired by touchy pasts. Just a thought.

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teaches interpersonal and sexual communication at the University, said that what remains a great challenge for interracial relationships is the lack of support they might receive from extend-ed family and parents.

“The people in this rela-tionship, the couple, they’re ready for those challenges, ready to compromise, will-ing to think about how this is going to work, but they don’t get that support from their families, and that’s the big-gest hurdle,” Ramey said.

Priyal Amin, junior in LAS, is a first-generation, American-born daughter of Indian immigrants. Trent Rehusch, senior in LAS, has German roots. But Amin and Rehusch have never thought of themselves as an interra-cial couple. Amin and Rehu-sch see themselves as just a couple, not mixed-race, miscegenation, interracial or whatever other word one can label two people of dif-ferent backgrounds who love one another. They’re just a couple.

“Really the only time it came up for me was when I met her family,” Rehusch said. “Especially because she’s first generation born in America, so it’s like dif-ferent value systems. I was a little nervous about that.”

Amin explained that her parents had an arranged marriage and were not very accustomed to the culture of dating.

“When it comes to the families, that’s when it’s like, ‘Oh, wow, we are different,’” she said

For Cross and Okeke, Cross said her father does not have a problem with her relationship at all. But Cross and her father have conflict-ing views relating to race, sparked by recent events such as those in Ferguson last summer.

“It caused a big conflict between me and my dad,”

Cross said. “I (had to say,) ‘Dad, I just really need you to see that this means something more to me than it would if I were not dat-ing Cameron.’ ... I think it’s important to recognize that you are going to have very different experiences in a lot of ways.”

Identifying the problem

But even among Millen-nialpeers, Okeke and Cross believe the notion that their age group is the most “tol-erant” generation should be taken in context.

“I feel that we may be progressive cognitively but we’re still programmed the same way, we’re still exposed to the same inse-curities of different races and how they’re supposed to be,” Okeke said. “There are still definitely places where people are uncomfortable or give looks; places you wouldn’t think it would hap-pen, but it happens a lot.”

Social influence, a term in sociology, describes how others affect one’s emotions, opinions and behaviors. An aspect of social influence is compliance, which is the act of behaving a certain way to fit into societal norms and expectations while keeping true sentiments private. This part of human behav-ior may provide a scientif-ic explanation for why soci-ety on the surface seems so progressive but its behavior tells a different story.

“It’s one of those things you can’t get down on paper,” Okeke said. “If you ask people, they’ll probably say yes, that conceptually they do (support interra-cial relationships) but when they see it, they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s a little bit weird’ or they look (at those couples) a little bit longer.”

Cross agreed that a prob-lem in society and with inter-racial relationships is the large tendency for people to say that they wished no one cared what race anyone was.

“It sounds really nice

on the surface, but that has a tendency to ignore the realities of people that aren’t white,” she said. “So I feel like that’s not the way to approach it. I think it’s best to say it’s okay that their race matters to them because that’s a part of their identity.”

Skepticism of mixed race couples can come from with-in minority groups as well. Okeke said he believes that in the U.S. people live under this idea of white supremacy in that there is an ideal of what a beautiful woman is — and that is white.

“I mean I’ve had people say, ‘Oh, you don’t like black girls because you’re dating a white girl,’ and I’m like, that’s preposterous. But that is what people think because there are instances of that in history. ... I think you do get people being upset with or being uncomfortable with interracial couples in minor-ity groups or people of color groups because they think they’re picking a side or they hate themselves which is thoroughly untrue,” Okeke said.

For any relationship to be successful,

Ramey said there needs to be open communication. People shouldn’t be afraid to talk to their partners about tense or uncomfort-able topics.

“You can have that pas-sion and chemistry and emo-tional intimacy, but ulti-mately you have to decide that you want to be commit-ted to someone, and I think people don’t like to think that relationships have this cognitive component,” Ramey said. “We kind of have this expectation that it’s all romance and flowers and fun, but there is a little bit of a decision; I want to be with you and I want to stay with you.”

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said. “For me, talking to oth-er Koreans is easy, (but) I like to expose myself to other cul-tures. I think there’s a lot to learn from that.”

He said that events like iCU help him connect with new people and empathize with others, a skill that he hopes to use in a future in mission work.

Rogers said that being at a large school gives her the opportunity to learn about other people in her every-day life. She said she doesn’t have to reach very far out on campus to be exposed to different cultures. She said she commonly hears music in a different language down

the hallway of her residence hall and sees flyers for events like iCU, and her curiosity is sparked.

“It’s nice to learn about (the culture) from people

who really know about it, not a third-party source,” Rog-ers said.

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Whether it’s Apple’s 1984 Super Bowl commercial or Budweiser’s iconic friend-ship between a puppy and Clydesdale, companies use content within a commercial to evoke everything from laughter to tears. But it is not only the content that changes within the advertising world.

Brittany Duff, assistant professor of Advertising at the University, along with Sela Sar, associate profes-sor of advertising at the University, have found in a recent study published in the Journal of Advertis-ing that even when users multitask on the computer, advertisements may still be successful.

“There are personality predictors (by) using which you can see if people mul-titask or not,” Duff said. “There were a couple of differences; in the nation-al sample, factors like age affected the level of media multitasking; however, with our students, you don’t see that, because they’re pretty much the same age and are multitasking more than older people. There is also sensa-tion seeking. People who mul-titask a lot have a need for sensations and are therefore, more attracted to things that provide that. We also found that they tend to be more creative.”

Duff’s research stands out in its approach, because it seeks to measure the effec-tiveness of advertisements on viewers, who are less atten-tive to it. This is a contrast to most studies in advertis-ing, which require partici-pants’ undivided attention. The research was conducted both on campus and nation-ally with a local pool of 56 participants and a national pool of 186 participants. The research process began by

segmenting participants into those who multitask regular-ly and those who don’t.

The advertisement used in the research was British and was pre-tested to be unfa-miliar to the participants, according to Duff. Partici-pants were either supposed to watch only the ads or watch them and respond to other tasks at the same time like watching flashing dots and letters.

Classifying the subjects into analytic and holis-tic processors, the results determined the impact of an online advertisement. Duff described analytic proces-sors to pay most attention to the focal point and blur out the details. In contrast, holis-tic processors tend to grasp the entire picture instead of focusing on one specific detail only.

“I am interested, broadly, in consumer attention, and I look at it in a couple of differ-ent ways,” Duff said. “I look at it in terms of the ads peo-ple tend to ignore, and I also look at ads that don’t receive full attention.”

Most advertisements now-adays are an integral com-ponent of other mainstream media like TV or radio, according to Duff, and she advised it would not be use-ful to blindly tell clients that their target audience is dom-inantly holistic or analytic. Duff said the subject pools were evenly segmented into analytic and holistic proces-sors. Not one side was imbal-anced enough to skew the results. Duff said it is also important to note that peo-ple can switch between these two processing methods and aren’t necessarily stuck on one side.

Her study diminishes the fear of multitasking, and the concept of mind-wandering played an integral role, said Duff.

“When people were doing tasks that they were less interested in with low-lev-el additional distractions, they actually retained the work done better later,” she said.

However, Duff also strict-ly points out that this case may not apply across the board.

“I am not going to make any statements on what a stu-dent should or should not be allowed to do (in the class-room). That is complete-ly up to the professor,” she said. “Sometimes when you are forced to listen to some-thing, you will find out later that it is actually interesting and useful.”

In the media industry, it now makes more sense to insert ads that advertis-ers want the viewer to pro-cess holistically, when one is watching a TV show that makes one generally hap-py. According to Duff, one of the biggest concerns of advertisers too is that their audience might not be pay-ing attention to their work at all. This research explores a lesser known possibility and the findings are in their favor.

“Based on the research I have done, which mostly looks at the upper limit tasks that require a lot of atten-tion, would I say that some-one could text and drive at the same time? Never,” Duff said. “Those aren’t things that you should do, because you are actually thinking about your responses to friends. If you need complete attention in doing something, is multitasking going to hurt? Yes. However, I’m interested in that lower limit, that task that you don’t need as much attention for.”

Manisha can be reached at features @dailyillini.com.

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Despite the falling snow on Feb. 4, the Asian American Cultural Center steadily filled with a mixture of students. A group set a spread of tradi-tional Korean foods, includ-ing Bulgogi, a marinated meat dish; Kimchijeon, a pan-cake-like item; and Japchae, a dish made of sweet potato noodles, ready to share.

The event was part of iCU, an intercultural dialogue series put on by the Office of

Inclusion and Intercultural Relations (OIIR). The event name stands for the slogan “Now I see what you mean.” The series began last semes-ter as a way to connect inter-national and domestic stu-dents on campus.

As people grabbed plates, they began to move and min-gle with other attendees as the organizers set up the two presentations, one focused on music and one on Korean dramas.

Yun Shi, program director

for international education at the Center, said the topics come from co-host organi-zations, students, the Study Abroad office and the interns at the International Educa-tion office. The wide variety of sources is meant to keep topics relevant, unique and interesting, according to Shi. The theme for the iCU event was based around Korean pop culture, but the series will cover topics like Kore-an cooking techniques and the Lunar New Year in the coming weeks.

Shi said the program allows domestic students to widen their world view by learning about new cultures and combating stereotypes. The conversations also help international students feel welcome on campus and enjoy the U.S. culture.

“In a safe space and infor-mal (and) friendly environ-ment, with people interest-ed in listening, learning and sharing, international stu-dents feel appreciated and valued for their contribution to the global understanding,” Shi wrote in an email. “They therefore become more com-

fortable in engaging in inter-cultural dialogues.”

Last semester, iCU focused on Chinese culture through ChinaTalks. Shi said because the events received positive feedback and were well-attended, with approximate-ly 25 to 45 students coming each week, OIIR continued the series this semester with “K-wave,” which is hosted in conjunction with the Korean Student Association.

Teddy Bae, an organizer of the iCU discussion and sophomore in Engineering, opened his discussion with attendees by joking that it would not contain any i-Click-er questions. Bae’s discussion focused on the different fac-ets of Korean pop, or K-pop, and the many reasons why its U.S. popularity has grown in recent years, as the attend-ees casually sat on brown couches.

Bae, who grew up in South Korea and is a member of the Korean Student Association, said he has always had an interest in Korean culture, especially after moving to Washington at the age of 16. Bae said that the growth in

popularity of Korean culture is based upon advances in technology and communica-tion because of the Internet.

The shift was apparent in students such as Aiden Rog-ers, freshman in LAS, who first encountered K-Pop around 2010, when she start-ed listening to bands such as Shinee. Now, Rogers said that she has a particular taste in Korean music.

“I go for the ones (bands) with really good vocal talent and unique dances,” she said.

Rogers put her knowledge to use when her team took first place in a Jeopardy-style game of K-pop music and trivia.

Bae said the diversity at the University opens doors to learn from other people, and events like iCU provide a place to share and learn about other people outside the classroom.

The event drew a large crowd, but each student had his or her own motivation for being there.

Arailym Amangeldiyeva, freshman in LAS, and Mary Ondrejka, freshman in DGS, came to the event to fulfill a

requirement for a class, but said they enjoyed the event while learning new facts about Korean culture.

Following the hour-long event, both Ondrejka and Amangeldiyeva said they were surprised by the event’s lively atmosphere.

“People are very open and sociable,” Amangeldiyeva said. “You get to come away from the busy parts of life and have fun while learning.”

David Lee, senior in LAS, agreed that the night was entertaining. He heard about the event when it was men-tioned by the professor of his Korean class, but did not expect the dialogue of the event to come so naturally.

“I think humans stay in their comfort zones,” he

BY SAHER KHANSTAFF WRITER

From Pew Research Cen-ter’s 2010 report on changing American attitudes toward race and relationships, 93 percent of American 18 to 29 year olds agree with the statement, “I think it is all right for blacks and whites to date each other.” Even across different races, including white, African, Hispanic and Asian Americans, the acceptance is in the majori-ty. And according to a Fusion Massive Millennial Poll pub-lished on Feb. 4, which sur-veyed 1,000 people ages 18 to 34 on various issues includ-ing dating and race, 54 per-cent of Millennials reported to have dated outside their race group and 88 percent

said they’d be open to dat-ing outside their race group.

However, there are still consequences that come from breaking societal norms.

Family obstacles

Victoria Cross, senior in LAS, and Cameron Okeke, senior at the University of Chicago, have been dat-ing for just over 13 months. Cross is of German and Eng-lish descent, while Okeke’s father is from Nigeria.

“I think that love may be blind, but I think relation-ships aren’t,” Okeke said. “Relationships don’t just run off your love, they run off understanding and rea-soning and compassion. For an interracial relationship to work, you have to have the empathy to expand beyond your own experience.”

But despite acknowledging they are interracial, Cross said they don’t introduce

themselves in such a manner — although sometimes that introduction may be need-ed. Even though her friends don’t see her and Okeke dif-ferently from another cou-ple, Cross said they are often questioned about their relationship.

“It happens a lot that peo-ple assume we’re not dating, and I think a big part of that is that we don’t look like your stereotypical white couple,” she said.

The assumptions can drive Cross insane, such as when Okeke was mistaken for a coat checker as opposed to Cross’ partner.

However, the assumptions become more personal when it’s family. Older family members can often hold dat-ed ideologies, and these dif-ferences in worldviews can put strains on a relationship.

Mary Ellen Ramey, who

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85% of Millennials (ages 18-29) say they’d be okay with a family member’s marriage to a person of another race/ethnicity

That number drops for older generations:

Ages 30-49

Ages 50-64

Ages 65+

85%

73%

55%

38%

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SPORTS1BWEDNESDAY

BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER

Having lost eight of its last nine games, the Illi-nois women’s basketball team (12-12, 3-9 Big Ten) is hungry to get back into the win column and will try to do so at Indiana (13-10, 3-9) on Wednesday.

Similar to Illinois, the win column has become a stranger to Indiana of late. The Hoosiers have dropped eight of their last 10 games, and the two Big Ten foes have combined for a record of 3-15 in their last nine games this season.

With two teams fight-ing to rise out of the bot-tom of the Big Ten stand-ings, this game could simply come down to who has more intensity.

“Every team wants a win,” junior guard Kyley Simmons said. “It’s just going to come down to who wants it more, who’s fi ghting more and who has more heart.”

Indiana is led by its guard play, specifi cally freshman guard Tyra Buss, who leads the Hoosiers in scoring and is second in assists.

Head coach Matt Bol-lant said he recruited Buss before she commit-ted to Indiana and has been impressed by her play.

“She’s a pretty good play-er,” Bollant said. “She can shoot and goes to the rim really well and does a lot of good things offensively.”

To limit Indiana’s guard-orientated offense, Illinois will look to maintain its con-ference-leading turnover margin by bringing con-sistent ball pressure. Bol-lant listed four aspects of the game that he wants the

Women’s basketball works to snap losing streak

BY PETER BAILEY-WELLSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

This is the second in a series previewing the Illinois baseball season. Look for a opening weekend preview of the Illini on Thursday.

Every prospective open-ing day starter for the Illi-nois baseball team started more than half of 2014 at his respective position. The Illini have been practicing for three weeks for this weekend’s season-opening trip to Beaumont, Texas, to face Lamar State and New Mexico State. Here is a positional breakdown of the 2015 Illini.

Infi eldersAll fi ve players who start-

ed at least one game in the infi eld last year return for another season with the Illini. Senior David Keri-an led the team in doubles and RBIs last season, while starting 51 games at fi rst base.

Sophomore Adam Wal-ton will play shortstop. He started the last 37 games at the position on his way to the team’s highest batting average (.329), a second-team All-Big Ten award and Louisville Slugger freshman All-American honors.

The Roper brothers, senior second baseman Reid and sophomore third baseman Ryne, started more than 50 games apiece last season. Reid tied Keri-an for the most RBIs on

the team and Ryne joined Walton on the All-Big Ten freshman team.

Ryne said the chemistry between last year’s start-ers is key to the unit’s success.

“Playing with Reid’s a blast,” Ryne said. “We know where each other’s going to be, not just me and Reid, but all four of us.”

Senior Michael Hurwitz spent most of last season as the designated hitter, but was the opening day start-er at second base and can also play third.

Outfi eldersThe outfi eld provided

both power and speed on offense for Illinois last sea-son. The group includes the team’s leading home run hitter, senior Casey Fletch-er, and the team’s leading base stealer, senior Will Krug.

Fletcher (six home runs) starts in right fi eld and Krug (20 stolen bases) in center. Both hit over .300 last season. Krug started every game in the leadoff spot last year and led the team in runs. Both were honored with spots on the All-Big Ten second team.

Ryan Nagle patrols left fi eld for the Illini and the junior tied for second on the team in runs scored last year. He and Krug committed only one error each last season.

Illinois at IndianaWhen: Wednesday 6 p.m., Assembly Hall, Bloomington, IndianaQuick notes: The Illini and Hoosiers are a combined 3-15 in their last 18 games. Hidden stat: Illinois is 10-20 all-time at Indiana.

BY ALEX WALLNERSTAFF WRITER

Editor’s Note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down each week 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.

F ew members of the Illi-nois men’s track and fi eld team thought it

would be a historic weekend when the team traveled to the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite in Lincoln, Nebras-ka, on Friday and Saturday.

Friday turned out to be an important day for Illinois senior Davis Fraker. Fraker broke his own indoor school record in the weight throw with a toss of 21.80 meters.

“I had some far throws in practice earlier in the week that were actually a little bit farther than what I threw in the meet,” Fraker said. “I was really excited to break through the barrier, something that I have been wanting to do since fresh-man year.” The Peachtree City, Georgia, native earned third-place honors on the podium in the event, despite breaking the school record. Conor McCullough of USC and Nick Miller of No. 17 Oklahoma State fi nished fi rst and second, respectively.

According to head coach Mike Turk, Fraker’s record-breaking performance was one he believed was bound to happen.

“Davis had a great series with fi ve throws over his personal best,” Turk said

in a press release. “He has been consistently right under his best for a couple of weeks now. This was a huge breakthrough that has been a long time coming.”

As a senior, Fraker’s record-breaking perfor-mance is what he believes will help him leave his lega-cy at Illinois. It’s also some-thing he can look back on when all is said and done.

Executing in the weight throw is hard enough as it is. According to the Illini senior, the event requires a lot. Training for an event like this requires a lot of technique and strength, along with a lot of time in the weight room working on explosive and strength movements.

The weight throw is sim-ilar to the hammer throw except it uses a 35-pound

ball, rather than the 16-pound ball used in the hammer throw.

“It is thrown with the exact same technique as you would (use) on Donkey Kong for throwing the hammer,” Fraker said. “I feel like that

BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

Although Rayvonte Rice and Aaron Cosby are sus-pended indefi nitely, their absence doesn’t mean they’re off the minds of the Illinois men’s basketball team.

The Illini, who have been without Rice and Cosby because of suspension since Jan. 31, have found consis-tency in their teammates’ absence. But the team is cog-nizant that Rice and Cosby’s reinsertion into the rotation will make Illinois better.

“When everybody gets back, we think we can be really good,” sophomore guard Malcolm Hill said. “We’ve been doing all right without them, so when they get back on the court it’s going to help our team a lot.”

Rice and Cosby were ini-tially taken off the active roster due to injury — Rice broke a bone in his left hand before facing Maryland on Jan. 7 and Cosby tore the retina in his left eye against Indiana on Jan. 18.

As both players neared the end of their rehab, it looked as if the Illini would

be back at full strength, but Rice and Cosby’s return was postponed. The pair were indefi nitely suspended for violating team rules before Illinois’ game against Penn State on Jan. 31.

While Groce has yet to announce which team rule Rice and Cosby broke, he did say Illinois has one sim-ple team rule.

“Don’t do anything to embarrass the University of Illinois, the men’s bas-ketball program, yourself or your family,” Groce said after the Penn State game.

Neither Cosby nor Rice has had his suspensions lift-ed yet. But in the absence of the duo, the Illini have found consistency.

While Illinois dropped fi ve of its fi rst eight Big Ten games, the team has turned its season around with two of its most productive offensive players on the bench. The Illini are on a three-game winning streak since Cos-by and Rice were suspend-ed and have improved their conference record to 6-5.

Rice and Cosby’s rein-statement may be a setback for the Illini’s chemistry but

senior center Nnanna Egwu sees it differently.

“That’s a good problem to deal with,” Egwu said. “We’d rather have that than have it the other way around, where there’s no chemistry at all. When it does happen, we’ll fi gure it out.”

Hill said that while Rice and Cosby have been prac-ticing well, he sees a big-ger on-court problem than a lack of chemistry with their return: conditioning.

Groce added that both players are “full-go” in prac-tice, both conditioning and rust will play major factors in Rice and Cosby’s produc-tion once they return.

“There is a transition period involved with that,” Groce said. “As high a level

as Ray Rice was playing at before he got hurt, it’s not going to be like he’s avail-able today and he’s back to 50 percent from the fi eld, 40 percent from three, 17 (points) and eight (rebounds per game). It just doesn’t work that way in sports.”

While their return will mean the reduction of some bench players’ roles, the team is ready for the rein-sertion of Rice and Cosby when the Big Ten schedule winds down.

“We’re really looking for-ward, as a group, to when they come back,” Egwu said.

Nicholas can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @IlliniSportsGuy.

Honorable MentionsKyley Simmons (women’s basketball) The junior scored a career-high 22 points against Minnesota and 17 against Northwestern. Jeff Koepke (wrestling) The junior rallied from a 3-1 defi cit to upset Wisconsin’s No. 10 Timmy McCall.

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Illini to focus on, and one of them is defending opposing guards individually.

Simmons seems to be up to the challenge of guarding some of Indiana’s best wing players.

“We can get out and pres-sure people, intimidate them and make them turn the ball over,” Simmons said. “The more we can do that, that’s just going to help our offense that much more.”

Indiana has just two play-ers over 6-feet tall who aver-age more than 20 minutes per game, so Illinois will try to start off with looks to sophomore forward Jacqui Grant and freshman center Chatrice White in the paint.

White has fouled out in three of her last four games,

so she will try to get back on track against a smaller Indi-ana team.

“They’ll double team in the post,” Bollant said. “But certainly, we need to get a lot of touches inside and start there.”

The rest of Bollant’s four keys to success are finding good shots on offense, leav-ing the zone to help on the defensive end and limit-ing fouls. He said they exe-cuted on all four in their win over Minnesota on Thursday.

Bollant also said he wants some of the older players on the team to start being lead-ers, and it looks as if Sim-mons has bought into that role, as well as Bollant’s four keys.

Joey can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3.

is what most people know it as. I spin around three times, release it and hope-fully it goes far.”

Fraker’s performance is one that hopefully will secure him a spot at the Indoor National Champi-onships in early March and also prepare him for the Big Ten Indoor Championships in February.

“Big Tens is ridiculous-ly strong in the weight throws,” Fraker said. “Right now, I think I’m seventh in the nation and fourth in the Big Ten, so there are so many good guys in the Big Ten. I’d like to see if I could go in there and mess some-body up and maybe get on the podium stand. And then maybe go to Nationals and see what I can do there.”

Not only is Fraker excel-lent at his craft, but he’s an excellent teammate. Senior Corey Hammon said Fraker will be missed after the sea-son because of the support that Fraker has shown him in various events, along with all that he does for the team.

Most importantly, the team will miss Fraker’s positive attitude.

“He’s just fun to be around,” Hammon said. “He’s a really good guy and he brings some excitement and some fun to the practice and meets.”

Turk called Fraker a “special athlete,” not only because of his talent, but also because of how fun he is to work with. He went on to say that there is always a partnership between coach and athlete, which is shown through how hard the ath-lete works for the coach. For Fraker, the hard work is paying off and history is being made in the process.

“They can do things that other people can’t do,” Turk said of athletes like Fraker. “You can learn a lot from them. I’ve learned a lot about the events, some dif-ferent things that (Fraker) can do that some other ath-letes can’t and that’s been fun.”

Alex can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @AWallner93.

BY LAUREN MROZSTAFF WRITER

Junior outfielder Kylie Johnson does a lot for the Illinois softball team in terms of offensive produc-tion. She was named one of the team’s three captains and earned preseason All-Big Ten honors. Coming off a season that landed her a spot on the All-Big Ten sec-ond team, Johnson and head coach Terri Sullivan know the junior is a key contribu-tor on the diamond. But it is off the field where Johnson holds herself to even higher standards.

“I take the same atti-tude that I have on the field into the classroom,” John-son said. “I’ve always been competitive and kind of hard on myself when it comes to academics.”

In 2012, Johnson gradu-ated from Kankakee High School in Kankakee, Illi-nois, ranking second in her class of 383 students. As a kinesiology major, Johnson was named a Big Ten Dis-tinguished Scholar in 2014 — an award given to those who have earned a grade-point average of 3.7 or high-er for the previous school year. She also earned Aca-demic All-Big Ten honors, along with her second NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete achievement.

Although she is studying

to work in physical educa-tion, Johnson’s main goal is to stay involved in college sports and work as a gradu-ated assistant. If that does not pan out, she plans to coach at whatever competi-tive level is presented.

“Kylie’s a great leader on and off the field,” Sullivan said. “At the field, there are not many that work hard-er than her. Away from the field, she does things right, too. You couldn’t ask for a better athlete and person to be a part of our team.”

“Any time she fails, she comes back stronger than before,” Sullivan said. “That’s part of being as successful of an athlete as she is.”

Johnson’s teammates look to their captain as an exam-ple of how to approach the game on the field and how to balance the important aspects of being a student-athlete off the field.

“She’s a huge role player on our team,” junior second baseman Allie Bauch said. “She gets it done every time, whether the pressure is on or not. She’ll do anything for the team. It’s great to have a player like that on our team.”

Lauren can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @MrozLauren.

Captain on and off the diamond

A ttention Big Ten: At this point, it might be a good idea to close your eyes

and turn away, especially if you are not Ohio State.

It probably should not be a shock to anyone who fol-lows Big Ten football, but Ohio State has added a poten-tial star under center to an already extremely talented trio of quarterbacks. With a national championship just a month in the rearview mirror, head coach Urban Meyer has stepped even harder on the gas pedal.

Last week, the Buckeyes signed highly rated quarter-back recruit Torrance Gibson, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Though technically recruited as an “athlete,” Gibson will most likely ply his craft at quarterback.

Gibson is the ideal dual-

threat quarterback. As a five-star prospect, he boasts all the physical tools needed to excel as an elite player at a top pro-gram. The first thing that stands out about Gibson is his size — he stands at 6-foot-4 and 204 pounds. He has potent arm strength — evidenced by his 44 career touchdown passes in high school.

But perhaps the most excit-ing aspect of his game is his running ability. He possess-es game-breaking speed com-bined with an elusiveness that should be enough to make him a matchup nightmare for any defense in the Big Ten.

The Buckeyes have proba-bly the best dilemma that any team in the country could ask for: Four of their quarter-backs, including the three who have had past success, could start for any other program in the country, but instead have chosen to stay in Columbus.

Braxton Miller, J.T. Bar-rett and Cardale Jones have all proved themselves under center in one way or another, and each can stake a legitimate

claim to the starting job. Miller put up Heisman-

like numbers for Ohio State in 2013, leading it to a berth in the Sugar Bowl. Miller was injured prior to 2014, and Bar-rett would go on to right the ship, leading the Buckeyes to a 12-1 regular season record.

When Barrett broke his leg in the final regular season game, it seemed as if a prom-ising season would be lost. But the third-string quarterback, Jones, took over and beat the top two teams in the nation and all three Heisman Tro-phy finalists in three consec-utive starts to win the national championship.

At this point it looks like there will be quite a quarter-back battle in 2015, though that may change as recent reports have indicated Braxton Miller is considering transferring to either Oregon or Florida State. Even with that development, Ohio State would still be left with three skilled quarter-backs — two of whom have past success.

As exciting as signing Gib-

son is, conventional wisdom says starting a true freshman would be a mistake. It would be wise for the Ohio State coaching staff to declare an open quarterback competi-tion, and decide the starter based on success in train-ing camp, as opposed to past accomplishments.

As much as choosing between four quarterbacks is tough, it reveals just how strong Meyer has reconstruct-ed a program that a few years back was mired in controver-sy and mediocrity. Ohio State is the class of the Big Ten, and the starting quarterback dilemma further proves this point.

Ohio State might have a problem on its hands, but that problem is more of a problem for the rest of the Big Ten and the nation than it is for the Scarlet and Gray.

Dan is a junior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and Twitter @danescalona77.

Ohio State adds another QB into mix

BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER

Illinois hockey head coach Nick Fabbrini turned to freshmen Eric Cruick-shank and James Mcging to secure the victory in a shootout against Linden-wood on Friday night.

The wingmen had earned Fabbrini’s trust this season with their play and they didn’t let him down.

It was Illinois’ third con-secutive win, all against higher-ranked opponents, since team captain John Olen went on leave from the team to play at the World University Games in Granada, Spain. Despite losing the following night, Cruickshank and Mcging have overtaken Olen as the Illini’s first and second lead-ing points scorers with 30 and 29 points, respectively.

While both players are impressed with the team’s recent success, neither was willing to pay too much attention to the stats.

“In the past, whenever I start looking at the stats, I begin thinking, ‘Oh, I have

to get this many to get first on the team,’” Mcging said. “If I focus on the stats, I start thinking about the game as just getting points instead of winning.”

For both Mcging and Cruickshank, Illinois wasn’t their first choice of school. After high school, they decided to play on a junior hockey team for two years with the hope of getting noticed by a Division I team.

“Juniors wore me down a little bit,” said Cruickshank, who is from Vernon Hills, Illinois. “I then realized that Division I wasn’t going to be an option, so I decided that coming to Illinois was the best option from there.”

Their decisions paid off almost immediately — the two were among the leaders in points even before Olen left. However, the majority of their points were coming off assists, which were typ-ically turned into goals by Olen.

It became evident to both players that they would need to take on a larger scoring role in the absence of the

team captain. In the last two series, Cruickshank and Mcging have record-ed seven and four of points, respectively.

“A lot of times, I’ll pass up a lot of opportunities because I know that the puck is in better hands if I give it to John,” said Mcging, origi-nally from Chicago. “For at least these past few games, I felt like I have had to take a lot more chances for the team because we were miss-ing a huge scoring factor.”

Fabbrini pointed out the particular skill set the two players have that makes them capable of putting points on the scoreboard. He described Mcging as play-maker, who is capable of cre-ating a shot for both himself and his teammates. While he credited Cruickshank with a similar talent, Fabbrini said Cruickshank stands out as having one of the hardest shots on the team.

Both of their talents were on display in the shootout Friday against Lindenwood. Cruickshank tied the score for the Illini with a slapshot

into the back of the net. The tying score set up Mcging to seal the victory and he took advantage of the opportuni-ty. With a risky backhanded shot, Mcging hit the top-shelf of the net and gave the Illini the first victory of the series.

As the team celebrat-ed after the game, Fabbri-ni joked that maybe it was better off without Olen. His hope, however, is that the two freshmen’s recent scor-ing surge will compliment Olen’s skill set even more as the team aims to compete for an ACHA championship in March.

“We have a good senior class that has shown guys what it takes to be competi-tive in our league, night-in and night-out,” Fabbrini said. “When we have the upper-classmen and lowerclass-men working together in that regard, we create a powerful team that people have been seeing lately.”

Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @ddexter23.

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ZOE GRANT THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Eric Cruickshank faces off against Tobias Nasgarde of Lindenwood during the game on Saturday. Cruickshank scored seven points in the last two series, leading the team with 30 points this season.

Freshmen lead the way for Illini hockey team

Sophomore Pat McIner-ney saw some time in the out-field last season when Nagle went down with illness and chipped in with a pair of dou-bles and one home run.

CatchersJunior Jason Goldstein

started 89 games behind the dish in his first two years at Illinois and is the prospective starter again this season. He finished second on the team in batting average (.316) and doubles, and third in home runs (four) and RBIs (28). He was selected to the All-Big Ten second-team and has been tabbed by some to earn first-team honors this season.

Goldstein’s backup is senior Kelly Norris-Jones, who started 45 games as a freshman but has suf-fered injuries in the last two seasons that have lim-

ited his playing time. Look for a healthy Norris-Jones to backup Goldstein and to spend some time at designat-ed hitter.

PitchersWhile the Illini return

virtually every member of their starting lineup last season, it may be the pitch-ing staff that is the team’s strongest unit. At the start of spring practice, head coach Dan Hartleb called this the deepest staff he’s ever had. Last season’s pitching staff broke the team ERA record, posting a 3.25 mark last season.

Senior Drasen Johnson was the staff’s workhorse, throwing 96 innings and totaling 79 strikeouts. His five wins were second on the team.

Senior John Kravetz returns after winning a team-high six games last season and picking up All-Big Ten second-team hon-

ors. Kravetz’s 19 career wins are ninth on the school’s all-time list.

Despite missing six weeks with forearm tight-ness, junior Kevin Duch-ene still managed to win four games last season and post the team’s lowest ERA (1.80). Duchene also had the second-lowest opponent bat-ting average on the team (.215), after closer and pre-season All-American Tyler Jay (.190).

Jay recorded 10 saves and four wins as a junior last season, finishing with 47 strikeouts in just 41 2/3 innings of work. Jay spent the summer playing for the USA Baseball collegiate team and was named to the preseason Golden Spikes Award watch list Tuesday. The Golden Spikes award is given to the top amateur player in the country.

Senior Rob McDon-nell picked up some quali-ty innings last season and looks to be the team’s fourth

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starter — he won four of his five starts in 2014.

Overall, the pitching staff was full of confidence for a season they feel is theirs for the taking.

“We’ve got very few holes,” Jay said. “We have dudes that can throw.”

Peter can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @PBaileyWells.

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Honoring UNC’s Smith

The college basketball world lost a legend on Saturday when former

North Carolina head coach Dean Smith passed away at the age of 83.

Smith led the Tar Heels to two national titles and 11 Final Fours during his 36-year tenure at UNC, and perhaps more important-ly, he was a tremendous person off the court. For non-basketball fans, maybe this will help put Smith’s infl uence into perspective: He coached and mentored Michael Jordan before Jor-dan became the global icon he is today.

Twelve years after retir-ing, Jordan is still argu-ably the most recognizable sports name on the planet. The Illinois student body — made up of primarily Bulls fans — is hyperaware of MJ’s impact. Although current college seniors were only 5 years old at

the time of Jordan’s sixth and fi nal championship, his legacy has been embed-ded into Chicago fans’ live-lihoods since birth. As a Washington D.C. native and Wizards fan, I can still say with utter confi dence that I’ve never seen a bet-ter player than mid-90s Michael (you’re not quite there yet, LeBron).

After Smith’s death, Jor-dan released a touching statement in which he said, “(Smith) was more than a coach — he was my men-tor, my teacher, my second father.”

B1G Bubble Watch

We’re a month out from Selection Sunday, and cur-rently, the No. 5 Wiscon-sin Badgers are the only Big Ten team locked in the NCAA tournament. Bar-ring a monumental col-lapse, No. 19 Maryland should make the fi eld. The Terrapins have been shaky of late — they’ve lost three of their last fi ve games in blowout fashion to Indiana, Ohio State and Iowa.

Melo Trimble, Jake Lay-

man and Co. need to get back to what made them such a tough matchup in December and January: their ability to get to the free throw line.

Meanwhile, there is opti-mism surrounding Illi-nois’ tournament chanc-es for the fi rst time since nonconference play. The Illini have rattled off three straight Big Ten wins — most recently a 59-54 victory against Michi-gan State in East Lansing, Michigan, on Saturday. Sophomore Malcolm Hill has stepped up to aver-age 19.4 points per game over his last fi ve outings. He’s averaging 14.8 on the season, and everything indicates he’ll be a bona fi de star for the Illini for the remainder of his col-legiate career. Hill’s play has been especially huge in the absence of leading scorer Rayvonte Rice, who remains suspended along-side guard Aaron Cosby.

Rock Chalk dominance

Kansas has won 10 straight Big 12 regular sea-

son championships and is gunning for another. After a slight hiccup against No. 17 Oklahoma State on Sat-urday, the No. 8 Jayhawks are looking to bounce back and fi nish another year atop the conference.

There’s the perception that the rest of the Big 12

is weak because of KU’s dominance over the past decade, but that is certain-ly not the case in 2015. Six schools — Kansas, Okla-homa, Iowa State, West Vir-ginia, Oklahoma State and Baylor — are in the Top 25 and look to do damage come tournament time.

Although Kansas took a hit over the weekend, my money is on the Jayhawks having a short memory and getting back on course.

Eli is a junior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @eschwad.

MIAMI — His days of longing to play in the NBA All-Star Game are a thing of the past. On Tuesday, Dwayne Wade confi rmed that by saying he will skip the midseason showcase so he can further rehab his injured hamstrings.

“I went through this week and took it day by day,” Wade said. “I feel real good. I feel like I could play (Wednesday)

to push it, but I don’t know if that will be a smart thing to do. I think the smart thing to do is to continue to use this All-Star break, strengthen myself a little more and be ready for the second-half push. I think I owe it to the Heat fans to at least play in a Heat jersey fi rst.”

Even though he traveled with the team to Cleve-land Tuesday, he will not play against the Cavaliers Wednesday . It marks the seventh straight game Wade will miss due to the sore hamstring.

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — LeBron James felt no need to clarify any remarks or tweets he has made in recent days and Kevin Love insisted on Tuesday there was no prob-lem between the two stars.

“I was caught off-guard when I heard about it,” Love said. “We’re teammates, we see each other, there’s no problem with us.”

James tweeted people shouldn’t worry so much about “fitting out” and instead try to “fi t in” and be part of something special. It was similar to a comment Love made in October when his teammates encouraged him to “fi t out” and be himself rather than trying to fi t in.

James told reporters after Sunday’s game “it’s not a coincidence, man.” James took to Twitter on Monday and blamed the media for making a story that didn’t exist.

The fi ancee of Aaron Her-nandez has been granted immunity to testify against the former New England Patriot at his murder trial.

A judge signed the immu-nity order Tuesday, ensuring that when Shayanna Jenkins is called to the witness stand she will not be able to invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Authorities say that the

day after Odin Lloyd’s June 2013 slaying, Jenkins — act-ing at Hernandez’s behest — removed the murder weap-on from the home she and her fi ancee shared in North Attleboro, Mass. Prosecutors fi led a petition for immunity to compel her to testify.

She has attended sever-al days of the trial , and sat directly behind Hernandez — talking and giggling with him during breaks, taking notes during testimony, and chatting with his defense lawyers when court is not in session.

ROBERT WILLETT TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEDuke coach Mike Krzyzewski acknowledged former UNC coach Dean Smith who was honored with the Dr. James A. Naismith Good Sportsmanship Award on June 29, 2011.

PATRICK RAYCRAFT TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEAs his murder trial continues, Aaron Hernandez’s fi ancee was granted immunity to not incriminate herself during the trial.

ED SUBA JR. TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEAfter LeBron James tweeted for teammates to “fi t in,” many thought he was referring to newcomer Kevin Love.

JOSE M. OSORIO TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEMiami Heat guard Dwyane Wade will sit out this weekend’s All-Star game to continue rehab on his ailing hamstrings.

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Wade to miss All-Star game with injured hamstrings

James, Love deny dissension a! er Twitter distraction

Hernandez’s " ancee granted immunity in ongoing murder trial

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