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BY MARIAH SCHAEFER STAFF WRITER

A mumps outbreak that started around April at the University has continued to pro-duce cases of the viral illness.

According to Rachella Thompson-Brown, communicable disease investigator at the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District, there have been around 58 cases of mumps reported, and the majority have been on campus.

She said there have been about 51 cases of mumps at the University and seven cases in the surrounding community.

“This is one of our largest outbreaks,” said Dr. Robert Palinkas, director of McKinley Health Center. “We generally have a few cases of mumps almost every year … Hav-ing this number of cases is more than we have seen in a decade.”

Thompson-Brown said health officials do not quite know how the outbreak started, but most people who contracted the viral illness had been vaccinated against it in the past.

“What we’ve been seeing is, of all the cas-es I’ve investigated, they have had very mild

symptoms,” she said. “We think that had a lot to do with them having some protection from the vaccine.”

She said there have been no hospitaliza-tions due to the outbreak so far.

The University requires all incoming stu-dents to submit a copy of their immuniza-tion history, and being vaccinated against mumps is one of the immunizations required.

Although students are required to be vac-cinated against mumps only once, two shots are recommended.

According to Thompson-Brown, one mea-sles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine offers about 75 percent protection against the viral illnesses, and two doses of the MMR vaccine offer around 85 percent protection.

“Vaccination does a huge amount, but it’s not perfect,” Palinkas said. “Mumps used to be a disease everybody got … When they got a vaccine, it pushed it down to a very low level nationally, but it’s not perfect.

“That would mean there could be several thousand people on our campus who, even though they were vaccinated, could come down with mumps,” Palinkas said.

Thompson-Brown said at this time, there has been no recommendation for a boost-er of the MMR vaccine or of the vaccine against mumps.

She said the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District has focused on providing information about mumps to the commu-nity in order to prevent a bigger outbreak.

“That way, if people have clinical symp-toms of mumps, they need to isolate them-selves, and they need to go get tested,” Thompson-Brown said.

According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, mumps is “contagious three days prior to and four days after the onset of symptoms.” It is spread by those infected through their coughs, sneezes, saliva and mucus.

The viral illness causes those infected to experience a swelling of their cheeks and jaws.

Palinkas said that when a student is diag-nosed with mumps at the University, profes-sionals at McKinley “work with the individ-ual and create a plan that keeps them out of circulation during their period when they

are contagious.”He said they focus on the people with

whom the infected student might have come in contact during the early phase of the stu-dent’s illness and make sure that “those people are aware that they may have been exposed to mumps.”

Depending on the circumstances, Pal-inkas said they might send informational emails to a residence hall if someone living there has been diagnosed with mumps. He said that for roommates of those infected, they often speak with them in person.

With less than a month left until the start of the fall semester, it is unclear what will happen with the outbreak once students start arriving on campus.

“That is the big unknown question for fall,” Palinkas said. “We really have no way of knowing whether … we will continue to see a couple of cases a week or whether it will trail off or whether it will be a bigger problem when there are more students on campus.”

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BY ALICIA LEESTAFF WRITER

Two students from Northeastern Okla-homa A&M College (NEO) have received the first-ever Illinois Heritage Scholarship, a full-tuition transfer scholarship awarded to students of Native American heritage for up to six semesters of study.

The scholarship, announced in Feb-ruary, is the product of a collaboration between the Peoria Tribe of Indians and the University.

PJ Attocknie, 34, from Quapaw, Okla-homa, is one of the students who was awarded the scholarship. Although he has already earned two degrees, one in Native American Studies and the other in business administration, from NEO, he hopes the University’s online Earth, Soci-ety and Environmental Sustainability pro-gram will help him obtain a career in trib-al leadership.

“Being Native American means a lot to me,” Attocknie said. “I want to help tribal members accomplish anything they want to accomplish, educational-wise or what-ever they feel they need to go out and get. This (program) will help me understand the

environmental world and help me apply it to what they need.”

Attocknie has lived in Quapaw all his life. He graduated from Quapaw High School in 1999.

“I tried college at NEO right after that, and then I tried going to NSU, but I didn’t want to do this college life with school work anymore, so I just came back home and worked,” Attocknie said.

However, after his oldest son entered into his life, his direction in life changed.

“My oldest son ... started high school and had a little trouble with his work,” Attock-nie said. “I was kind of wanting to go back to school, so when he started to get into trouble, I started school again at NEO to show him that if I can do this, then he can do it. I was working, going to his games, doing online classes and still getting decent grades. It showed him that he can go out and do all this stuff as well.”

Attocknie works full-time as a security officer at Downstream Casino, raises five children, coaches football and will soon be taking classes online.

“I’ve had my hands full,” Attocknie said. Yet when this scholarship presented

itself, he took advantage of it.“I just filled it out not really knowing

what this scholarship was. Now this oppor-tunity’s here, and I just have to finish; go get it!”

Kolton Kitterman, 19, from Oologah, Oklahoma, is the other scholarship recip-ient. He will transfer as a sophomore into the Kinesiology program at the Universi-ty. He plans to use his degree to become a physical therapist.

Although he is transferring to the Uni-versity, he said his time at NEO was

life-changing. “It was amazing at NEO. I was actually

the mascot and became a cheerleader as well. My coaches and teammates are sad to see me leave, but they know that it’s a great opportunity for me and they’re excited for me at the same time,” Kitterman said.

Kitterman, like Attocknie, wants to give back to his community through this opportunity.

“There’s so much to being a Native Amer-ican. My family is really involved with it. One of my great, great grandparents was on the Trail of Tears and was one of the first Indians to lead a tribe across the Trail of Tears without an army escort. So it means quite a bit to me,” Kitterman said.

He hopes to be a role model for younger Native Americans.

“It’s true that Native Americans can do a lot more than what people think. Many peo-ple think that Native Americans are just on reservations, but we’re just as intelligent as any other race or ethnicity,” he said. “I want to be able to show (Native Americans) that if you work hard and put yourself out there, anything’s possible.”

Mumps spreads across University, C-UUniversity sees fifty-eight cases, biggest outbreak in decades

Students awarded Native American scholarships

“I want to show (Native Americans) that if you work hard and put yourself out

there, anything’s possible.”KOLTON KITTERMAN

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USDA-funded program helps obesity in HispanicsBY SENAIT GEBREGIORGISSTAFF WRITER

University researchers are establishing a program that aims to decrease obesity and improve healthy lifestyle habits in the His-panic community.

Abriendo Caminos: Clearing the Path to Hispanic Health is a USDA-funded, six-week, community-based workshop where Hispanic-heritage families engage in physical activities and learn about nutrition and dietary health.

The program was developed by faculty researchers from the College of ACES: assis-tant professor Margarita Teran-Garcia and associate professor and extension specialist Angela R. Wiley, who are both directors in the workshop.

Wiley said the program began after learn-ing about the rising health risks within the Hispanic community.

“There is a tendency among Latinos to devel-op metabolic syndrome and obesity, and it’s beginning earlier and earlier in childhood,” Wiley said. “And so the Robert Wood Foun-dation-Salud America Initiative really aimed in saying, ‘Look, we have this genetic predis-position, and we have very unhealthy eating habits in our Spanish community, and we need to address that.’”

Teran-Garcia said focusing on the smallest changes are extremely vital.

“What we’re doing here is baby steps –

‘mas o menos’ – a little more or a little bit less of this,” Teran-Garcia said. “Little steps of changing and decreasing the amount of sugar sweet beverages; little steps of increasing the amount of water they’re drinking. That would be very important because if you do small changes, but they are permanent changes; they’ll have a longer lasting impact in those families.”

Liliana Samos, a Rantoul resident, partici-pated in Abriendo Caminos along with her fam-ily in 2010. She said when she first moved to the area, it was a struggle to make decisions at the grocery store because of the overwhelm-ing variety of options.

“I didn’t know how to find some of the fresh veggies that I was used to – eggplant, aspara-gus – and we were used to having fresh fish, and we were not used to eating frozen fish. It was very hard to get used to getting fish that was frozen,” she said.

Samos and her family decided to take part in Abriendo Caminos after learning about the program from a friend. Every Friday, she and her family would drive out to Champaign from Rantoul.

“For us, it was interesting to learn how to take control of our portions and the servings at home,” Samos said.

Samos highlighted how she and her family implemented positive changes in their house-hold after participating in the program.

“My husband started to lose weight. Small steps are important,” Samos said. “Our kids became more physically active, and they had opportunities to learn about soccer clubs, and they started to become less shy and more inte-grated to the community, which is good for them.”

The six-week workshop invites attendees to organize the schedule of the program each week. The workshop lasts for about two hours per session — sometimes separating kids to attend the class taught in English and parents the classes taught in Spanish. Each segment consists of 30 minutes of learning about nutri-tion, 30 minutes of learning about shared fam-ily meals and about an hour of participating in physical activity as a family.

Teran-Garcia said a portion of the workshop carefully analyzes nutritional facts, so that the families can be more confident the next time they go grocery shopping.

“When you get in a new country and a new store, you get overwhelmed with the variet-ies you have,” she said. “We’re trying to teach them to look into the package and see that at least they have some fiber and multigrain. ... We don’t try to make it complicated, just as simple as possible.”

Wiley also emphasized the workshop’s teach-ing of healthier alternatives.

“We’re working on trying to help them come up with some solutions for affordable healthy

recipes they can integrate in both some fro-zen foods and fruits and vegetables,” Wiley said. “As well as helping them be creative in thinking about how to integrate fresh fruits and vegetables when they’re on sale.”

Abriendo Caminos has expanded its ini-tiative across the country to states including Illinois, Iowa, California, Texas and Puerto Rico. Wiley noted the program teaches new traditions while promoting to maintain origi-nal ones.

“A huge focus of Abriendo Caminos is to build on traditions — existing traditions from the cultures of origins of these families,” Wiley said. “And so we’re working on recipes they may have some familiarity with, but we’re providing sort of healthier versions.”

Wiley said they hope families in Hispanic communities implement the baby steps they take away from Abriendo Caminos into their everyday lifestyle so that eventually, those steps can become permanent.

“Our end goal is to see Hispanic families in Illinois, in Iowa, California, Texas and Puerto Rico – as well as across the country – really improve their health,” Wiley said. “Empower them to draw on those original cultural pat-terns ... to really make their current life here in the States and their future lives healthier and better.”

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BY BEN LASHSTAFF WRITER

Barry L. Houser, assistant director of bands and director of athletic bands, is per-haps most noted for directing the Marching Illini. This week, The Daily Illini sat down with Houser and talked about his life lead-ing up to working at the University, as well as his experiences here.

Daily Illini: What made music such a focus for your life?

Barry Houser: Originally, my parents introduced me to music pretty early. My dad was more of the jock, and my mom had a little more of the musical qualities at that point; my dad was more on an athletic path. It was a mixture of those two things through-out school.

Really, I was planning differently at first. I was accepted into the pre-law program at Notre Dame and accepted here at Illinois. Since third grade, I had thought: “I want to be a lawyer; I want to be a judge; and I maybe want to even get into politics.” On my mom’s side, there were a number of folks who were legacies at Notre Dame at that point, so it kind of made sense.

Well then this whole music thing kept going. You know, I played in the band; I had been playing violin in the orchestra and sang in the choir, so it kept growing on me. I thought, “Wow, this really is pretty cool and is a lot of fun.” And the idea that you could make a career out of this? In looking at that, after that first winter break, I really looked at things very differently. I knew I’d really ruffle some feathers with my family but really looked at going the musical route. And I’m very happy with that choice.

DI: What was your career and life like after college?

BH: I was very very fortunate that I had some great teachers and made some great connections along the way when I was study-ing at (the University of) Florida. There were two women who worked in the Gainesville school system, which is where the Univer-sity of Florida is housed. I observed them and thought, ‘Wow, these ladies really have it together.’

I was getting ready to student teach; they had been teaching for 22 years at that point and had a variety of experiences in Flori-da. I was just so impressed with how they interacted with the students; the students just adored them, but they also ran a really tight ship as well. I thought, ‘You don’t see this that often.’

You know, you see really good programs, but you don’t always see the inner workings as tightly put together as that program was. Thankfully, magically, mysteriously, I was

able to student teach there, and I learned a tremendous amount.

Evidently, they were impressed enough to the point where that’s where I got my first job, where I student taught. It was a great program; they played at the Midwest Clin-ic, they did Macy’s and a number of other things, so I really learned a lot from them and owe a tremendous amount of where I am today to them.

DI: What happened between then and working on your Masters at U of I?

BH: After I taught down in Florida, I thought, maybe it’s best to start moving back closer to family, and most of my family lived in the Midwest.

I taught at the public schools in Indiana for a good eight years. I really loved the pro-grams there, but got a call from Pete Griffin, who was director of the Marching Illini at that point, and said, “If you want to do any kind of masters work with Jim Keene” – one of the last old-school conductors out there – “you’re going to want to do it now because he’s going to be retiring soon.”

And I said, “OK, I guess I better look at this.” I had experienced the campus before — like when Smith Walbridge camps were here — but never truly experienced the pro-gram before. That opportunity came up, and I felt that the job I had was a hard job to leave, but I thought if I don’t do this now and do my master’s, I don’t know if I’m ever going to do it.

So I did that and had some great experi-ences. Football was great here that year, so I had some great opportunities planning for the Rose Bowl trip, writing for the band, and doing some really great things. Then, that’s when Jim Keene retired, and I still had another year left.

Then Eastern Illinois called and said they’d really love to have me come and be their Associate Director of Bands, so they offered me the job before I even interviewed for it, which was really bizarre. It kind of gave me a taste of what collegiate-level teaching was like, and I was still unsure if I wanted to do that or not, and then the job opened up here at Illinois, and I got a phone call from faculty here saying, “You need to do this.” I was unsure but went ahead and did it, and here we are now. This’ll be my fifth year here.

DI: After attending and performing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade seven times in the past, what kind of excitement do you feel for performing with the Marching Illini this November?

BH: Yeah, there’s really something to be said there. I really should be freaking out

about the Macy’s band when you look at how you get these kids in on Sunday and you per-form in front of millions of people basically four days later. And they’ve never played together, they’ve never marched together and they have to learn everything right there.

So here we (the Marching Illini) are. We’re going to have our music for several months going into it, and I think I’m more nervous about this, not because of our students by any means. This is a true tell of who we are and where we are with things, especially because we’re not in the national spotlight. Nothing against Illini football, but because we’re not constantly on national television on every game, one of the reasons that I wanted to do this is so that we could highlight our students, and that’s what I’m really excited about.

So the nervousness is in a really positive way to make sure that we truly represent who we are, and I know we will. It’s just a matter of making all that happen in a short amount of time.

DI: How has your experience with the Marching Illini and the School of Music here at Illinois been, and what are you looking forward to in the future?

BH: Well I’ll tell you, my first year here, I thought I had made the biggest mistake of my career. It was pretty tough, and I knew I was coming to a place where I was just study-ing about four years previous to that, so what could have changed? Well, there were a lot of things that had changed. It was a pretty significant change for the students at the time; there was a new person coming in who

hadn’t been a part of the Illinois program as long as my predecessors, who had also been my mentors.

I was trying to tighten some things up as to truly capture what our potential could be. In looking at that, we’ve made some tre-mendous strides, and some of those people who had posed some opposition have come up and said, “Oh my god; the band is great!” So it was pretty trying the first year, but the next year: far better. And the next year: far better, and obviously last year was just fan-tastic, so it’s really at the point where it’s still a tremendous amount of work, but it’s really getting to be a lot of fun. It’s kind of a cheesy and hokey thing to say, but it’s a really a great blessing to be able to have this job.

And the main reason is because of the stu-dents! It has nothing to do with anything real-ly beyond that. We have a great history and tradition here that’s very important but again I don’t do it because of that, I do it because of the great students that we have here that work so hard to represent the University and do so much greater good across the Universi-ty. And to represent our state even, with what we’re going this November. By the time we finish in December, we’ll have been in front of almost 72 million people, between football games and exhibitions.

This is just a huge year of Marching Illi-ni. I don’t want to say that that’s such a huge part of why I like my job, but honestly, if the Marching Illini were not a part of my job, I don’t think I’d be here at Illinois. It’s the one thing that if I was ever asked to give any-thing up, this would be the last thing to go.

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A talk with Barry Houser on music at Illinois

BEN LASH THE DAILY ILLINI

Assistant Director of Bands Barry L. Houser conducts the University Summer Band during a performance on July 16 on the Main Quad.

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I ’m usually the person who likes to give the benefit of the doubt. I like to think that most people are general-ly good. I like to see the facts before

deciding on an issue. I’m not quick to say an action is racist or not.

However, when so many events in the world are screaming injustice, it’s hard to remain quiet. Growing up, I went to a lot of different schools; some were diverse, and some were not. I learned about slavery, but I never really thought the world was still racist. I thought things were getting better. It wasn’t until

high school when I started to notice rac-ist acts.

It’s always hard to determine, however, if something is actually about race. We aren’t in the heads of the police officer or person who killed an innocent human being. It’s easy to say that the officer is racist, but it’s hard to know what actual-ly transpired in the altercation.

My point is that even though police brutality incidents are happening at a high rate, people shouldn’t fully distrust all officers without proper facts and evi-dence from cases.

People should also be allowed to voice their opinions and not be ashamed to speak about race. Racial issues are not going away. They should be addressed. The era of social media is powerful. It gives people voices, informs and allows for great debates.

The last few years, race relations have been horrible: senseless killings and unfair trials for those senseless kill-ings. What needs to happen now is action.

The country can’t move forward with-out action being taken. Why are officers not following protocol? Why is there a hashtag every week for a new victim who was wrongfully killed? Why are stereo-types still being used to justify senseless actions? Why can’t people admit when

they were wrong? There need to be solu-tions or these cycles will continue.

Police brutality should not be over-looked or accepted. Police officers should

be held accountable for their actions and not be able to kill people without any proper reason. If government officials take action and speak about police bru-tality, it could be a step toward recovery.

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People should also be allowed to voice their opinions and not be ashamed to speak about race. Racial issues are not going away.

They should be addressed.

This past weekend, I turned 20. And now that I am no longer a teenager, I feel I have a newfound wisdom and poise that can only come with old age. And

while I sit here, pondering my ever-fleeting youth, I am left with nostalgia and reminders of the world I grew up in. Oh, how the times have changed.

First of all, Starbucks was a lot cheaper when I was a kid (going off what my mom says). They don’t make breakfast Lunchables anymore, which is a travesty if I ever saw one. And being a cat lady (or, I guess talking about being a cat lady) is cool now.

But a big change (and a more serious one than the available Lunchables ... I suppose) is the presence of social media and technol-ogy in our lives, and the completely ubiqui-

tous role we have let it take.When I was a kid, I would anxiously await

all of the calls. I mean, I was five. It’s not like I had a lot of people calling my house phone to talk to me. But on my birthday it was like fame had found me.

I’m sure a lot of you can relate. Relatives would send cards in the mail (with money hopefully) and when you came back home from fun birthday excursions, your home phone’s voice mail would be full of messages — mostly friends and family timing the first note of “Happy Birthday,” so it landed after the recording’s “beep.”

But now, instead, your phone’s battery drains from constant Facebook notifications so you know that “‘random person you had English class with sophomore year of high school’ wrote on your wall.”

If you’re lucky, close friends and siblings will post a cute (or more frequently, terribly ugly) picture to Instagram, and your grand-parents will still call you ‘cause they haven’t figured out what Facebook is yet.

I am absolutely guilty of this. Most of the

time, if I have someone’s number saved in my phone, I will opt for sending them a quick text message, but if I don’t, I take the three seconds to type a quick “Happy Birthday! :)” and go about my day. I’ve even started using the feature where I can write a birthday post days in advance and let Facebook post it on time so I don’t have to worry about forgetting.

Facebook is an easy, convenient medium to wish a happy birthday to your acquaintances, coworkers or classmates. But it shouldn’t be taking the place of personal happy birthdays to close friends and family members.

Like I said, I’m 100 percent guilty of doing this on a fairly regular basis, but that was in my teenage years. Now, with budding ... non-teenage-ness (I guess that term works?) ... I think it’s time for all of us to agree that per-sonal interactions are being flown out the win-dow for convenience. It’s an argument all of us have heard before, but nobody really cares about. When you can do so much from the comfort of your own bed as long as you have your charger, nothing else seems to matter.

But it’s incredibly lazy and further, it’s

impersonal and disingenuous.Whether you decide to make a call or send

a text, the more personal route is the way to go. You won’t be offering all of Facebook a public spectacle to prove your friendship, but you’ll show that you’ve taken time out of your day to give someone else deserved time on their day.

And not only should we be doing this for people’s birthdays, but we should also be doing it whenever big things happen. Face-book is great for announcing big things to many people at once, but rather than com-ment a simple “Congrats!” when someone announces a new internship, send them a text instead.

We’ve let Facebook take a lot away from us when it comes to how we want to interact. This is something that we are all to blame for. But it’s not too late to revert back to old trends and practices. If we can bring back 80s and 90s fashion, we can bring back 80s and 90s ways of saying “happy birthday,” too.

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BY MARIAH SCHAEFERSTAFF WRITER

Local law enforcement officers from Cham-paign Police, University Police and Illinois State Police served and greeted customers at Texas Roadhouse’s fifth annual benefit lunch for Special Olympics Illinois on Friday.

“It’s a good cause. It’s fun,” said Sgt. Bruce Ramseyer of Champaign Police. “We really enjoy giving back, and we love the interaction with all the people that come out to support Special Olympics.”

According to Ramseyer, the benefit lunch was part of the Law Enforcement Torch Run, which raises money for Special Olympics Illi-nois year-round.

The restaurant in Champaign, which regu-larly opens at 4 p.m. on weekdays, served lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Before the clock marked the starting time for the benefit lunch, several cars were already pulling into the restaurant’s parking lot. Inside, sounds of talking and bustling filled the building.

Servers left the kitchen carrying the same food arrangement: a pulled pork sandwich, corn and coleslaw.

“It’s just the easiest to maintain, and it’s the easiest to get out very fast,” said Damien Ware, service manager of the Champaign restau-rant. “Everything else, we don’t want to drag people down. We want people to come out and

donate to the Special Olympics, but I also want to give them enough time to get back to work or to get on with their day … It helps the flow go by pretty fast.”

He explained that the lunch was free, and customers were encouraged to donate any amount of money they wanted.

“Whatever they want to leave from the dona-tions, we donate it back to the Special Olym-pics,” Ware said. “It’s a great cause. I know that my other Illinois stores do it as well … We enjoy doing it. It’s a good time and a little bit extra work, but what’s a little bit extra work when you’re giving back?”

Ware said in addition to the officers, Texas Roadhouse employees also volunteered their time to make sure the benefit lunch went smoothly.

One of those employees was Jen Chen, a bartender and server at the restaurant who has also volunteered at the benefit lunch in past years.

“It’s just awesome to see everybody here; everybody is always in a happy mood,” Chen said. “Just seeing how many people come out for just this cause is awesome, too. You see some of the people from Special Olympics come in, and we just see how much they love life.”

Ramseyer, who has been volunteering for Special Olympics Illinois for about 12 to 15 years, said the generosity of the town always

surprises him every year.For Ware, the number of guests who show

up at Texas Roadhouse for the annual benefit lunch is surprising.

“The amount of people that come in as well as the amount of money that is donated keeps

on growing, which is great,” he said. “The community is coming in to give back to some-thing as in the Special Olympics, which is such a great cause.”

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Officers from the Champaign Police Department, University of Illinois Police Department and Illinois State Troopers opened doors, directed traffic, and served food to help during the Special Olympics Illinois benefit lunch at Texas Roadhouse in Champaign on Friday, July 31.

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FlipWord, a University startup, has a new approach to language learning. The company created a Web browser extension that takes various words on websites and changes some of them to a language of the visitor’s choice.

“FlipWord works by intelligently picking certain words out of a webpage and ‘flips’ them to the language that you’re trying to learn,” said Joseph Milla, a co-founder of FlipWord, via email. “It doesn’t change your browsing habits or require you to exert a huge amount of effort. It seamlessly teach-es you a new language as you spend time on the internet.”

The user can then use context clues to determine the meaning of the foreign words. If he or she can’t figure it out, FlipWord can still tell the user what the word means. Flip-Word can also keep users up to date with other languages they already know. By integrating that language into everyday reading, the user can remain up to speed with minimal effort.

FlipWord is one of 13 startup companies participating in the Entrepreneurship at Illi-nois iVenture Accelerator.

“Working with other entrepreneurs in the program has really helped us learn and prog-ress,” Milla said. “Unlike any other acceler-ators, this program is built specifically for students, and the whole program revolves around that. Having people around you with the same background and same problems has made the learning process so much easier.”

Thomas Reese, FlipWord’s co-founder, said the program has helped the company get to the point it’s at now. Reese said FlipWord is almost a finished product, and they hope to release it to the public soon.

“The original version kept getting better and more functional with more features, and has been completely redesigned over the past couple of weeks,” Reese said. “It’s exactly what you want and not anything more.”

FlipWord is designed to be a useful tool for people at any level of language learning. If someone has no background in the language,

it can help them get started, and if they have a solid understanding, it can help them become even better.

“It’s like taking a class over a semester, but instead of sitting there for an hour you’re just

doing it for a couple of seconds every day,” Reese said.

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Yori Q, a new Korean restaurant, has opened at 715 S. Neil St. in Champaign and strives to introduce Korean cuisine to people of all dif-ferent nationalities.

The restaurant had its soft opening on July 7, and general manager Hoon Kim said it is doing better than he expected.

“It’s been more than what we expected, although it’s summer time and everybody’s gone,” Kim said. “We are using this summer time to train our employees and getting ready for the school year.”

Before opening Yori Q, Kim was working as a sales and marketing specialist at a trad-ing and investing company. After a year, how-ever, he quit his job and went into the restau-rant business.

“Food explains the country’s culture the best. It’s really about how you eat things, how they prepare things,” Kim said. “As a Kore-an-American, I wanted to do something for Korea. That’s why I went into the restaurant business.”

Yori Q is owned by Danny Oh and is the sec-ond restaurant of its kind. The first one is in West Lafayette, Indiana.

“That opened up this April, and because it was so successful, we were able to come down here and find an opportunity with this loca-tion,” Kim said.

However, the first restaurant, Yori, does not have a Q in its name because it does not have a barbecue grill section, which Yori Q does offer.

The restaurant will use the built-in hibachi grill from the previous restaurant that was in that location, Kamakura, to grill its Korean barbecue meats.

“Usually at a Korean barbecue, it’s a gas grill or electric grill that you cook on your-self,” Kim said. “But here, because we had such great equipment built in already, we’re taking advantage of it.”

The menu features many traditional Kore-an dishes such as hot pots, Korean barbecue, soups, noodles and more. But it also features some fusion items such as bulgogi sliders or kimchi fries.

“The only reason we added the fusion items on the shareables is to familiarize and intro-duce people to Korean flavors, to slowly take them into the culture of Korean food,” Kim said.

The restaurant’s head chef is Manja Shin, who used to be the head chef at a hotel in Los Angeles for Korean cuisine.

“Our chef is from the Gyeongsangdo region of Korea,” Kim said, adding that the Gyeong-sangdo Province is known for its strong sea-soning. “Her seasonings are very flavorful, which is more authentic than other restau-rants in the Midwest.”

There are already a handful of Korean restaurants in the Champaign-Urbana area, but Yori Q strives to be different through its service.

“The taste is there, flavor is there, but the people would like it if they were serviced the right way. A lot of the times, they don’t know

what they’re eating,” Kim said. “The expla-nation part is not good with most Korean res-taurants. That’s something I’m enforcing on the servers. If there is someone who ordered bibimbap, some people just eat the vegetables first and then eat the rice at the end, when everything is actually supposed to be eaten together.”

Kim said the interior of the restaurant is a mix of traditional yet modern Korean ele-ments. This can especially be seen in the res-taurant’s private room, where a large mural of a traditional Korean female character is painted.

The restaurant will be adding a bubble tea and dessert bar named Bubble Bubble.

Mijung Lee, 22, a University student major-ing in chemistry, works as a server at Yori Q.

“At our first employee meeting, our manager told us that our ultimate goal is to introduce all the Korean food to everyone that comes to our restaurant,” Lee said. “What I do is go talk to them, introduce the side dishes, and I always explain the food that is coming out on the table as well as how to eat it.”

Lee said he believes Korean food differs from other cuisines because of its complex flavors.

“Korean food is very delicate and complex,” he said. “It’s not just a simple flavor where you get the salt or sweet element, but all the dif-ferent flavors are inside.”

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The private room at the recently-opened Yori Q Korean Grill & Bar at 715 S. Neil St. in Champaign.


Joseph Milla, left, and Thomas Reese developed a language learning Web application that takes various words on websites and changes some of them to a language of the visitor’s choice.


As allegations swirl around Illinois football, Beckman highlights focusBY MICHAEL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER

CHICAGO — Illinois head football coach Tim Beckman approached the podium on the first day of Big Ten Media Days in Chicago with questions to answer. The fourth-year coach met with the media for the first time since player allegations of abuse and medi-cal mistreatment were made public in May.

In his 15-minute session, while Beckman received numerous questions about his coaching style and general questions about the allegations, he didn’t dive into specifics because the investigation is ongoing. Beck-man instead took every question he faced and turned the audience’s attention to the Illini’s Sept. 4 season opener against Kent State.

“You handle it and focus on the future,” Beckman said. “You focus on your current football team. You respect what other people might be saying, but you focus on making this team better.”

Allegations surfaced in May when former offensive lineman Simon Cvijanovic tweet-ed several accusations of player abuse and injury mistreatment at the hands of Beck-man. Several other former players at Illinois and Toledo — where he was the head coach before coming to Illinois — have come out against Beckman. The claims forced the Uni-

versity to hire a Chicago law firm to indepen-dently investigate the allegations.

Current players have been supportive of the coach during the summer. Although there hasn’t been an official meeting between the coaches and the players about the allega-tions, players have met with each other to talk about the situation and voice their sup-port for the head coach.

The allegations came as a shock to many

players, including to Cvijanovic’s former roommate, Ted Karras, one of three Illini representatives in Chicago on Thursday. The two offensive linemen talked the Wednesday before the tweets were sent and Cvijanovic didn’t give Karras any indication that he was going to use social media to voice his concern for himself and for his teammates.

Karras responded to the accusations on Twitter with a tweet but then decided that he wouldn’t continue on with the argument.

He felt it was his responsibility as a team captain to protect the program when its leader was attacked, but he also knew that continuing the argument would only cre-ate trouble.

The two haven’t spoken since the incident and Karras hasn’t made an attempt to reach out to Cvijanovic since the former offensive lineman attacked the team.

“I feel bad for coach and the program, as far as we just get painted in a negative light coming off such a positive year,” Kar-

ras said. “It’s been something we’ve tried to accomplish since Beckman got here.”

Beckman reiterated his open-door poli-cy when questions about Cvijanovic arose. He said he wanted his players to know that they could approach him with any trouble they might come across. Athletic Director Mike Thomas said he had no indication of when the investigation would conclude but said that the program was cooperating in

any way it could. Players and coaches start preseason camp

on Aug. 5. Beckman said he will continue to answer questions until a conclusion is reached. Until then, his goal is for his Illini to concern themselves solely with facing the Golden Flashes in their season opener. For now, Beckman knows he has the support of his players, his family and other coaches around the league.

“It’s been unbelievable,” Beckman said of the support he’s received from coaches around college football. “This is a profes-sion but it’s also a brotherhood … I’m proud to be in the profession, I’m proud to be the Illinois Fighting Illini head football coach and I’m proud we’re continuing and making better strides.”

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Illinois’ head coach Tim Beckman watches the game against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. The Illini lost 55-14.

“You respect what other people might be saying, but you focus on making this team better.”

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The terrible tragedy of Tracy Abrams

It just isn’t fair.It’s impossible to predict if Illinois point

guard Tracy Abrams would have been a key contributor for the Illini this upcoming season. Missing the entire 2014-15 season of hoops while rehabbing an ACL tear like Abrams will lead to that kind of uncertainty.

But until Tuesday, we at least thought he’d have a chance to play.

That opportunity was snatched in cruel fashion from Abrams early last week when he went down in practice with a torn Achil-les tendon. Just like when he tore his ACL during workouts last September, the Achilles was a non-contact injury. A freak accident.

Abrams will miss the entire 2015-16 sea-son, and it’s a shame. He was set to be a red-shirt senior, likely playing the role of John Groce’s starting point guard in a crucial sea-son for the program. Abrams will certainly be missed on the court. Even if he never com-

pletely returned to form, his widely-praised leadership abilities will be absent during play for a second year in a row.

But Abrams’ misfortune obviously extends far beyond the hardwood and the ramifi-cations for Illinois basketball. It’s tough to watch a person go through what he’s gone through. Abrams has been universally laud-ed by teammates, coaches, reporters and friends as a person of great character, an extremely hard worker and a warrior. Both injuries were immediately followed by an outpouring of support on social media from fans and those in his inner circle.

Can you imagine what Abrams is enduring right now? I can’t. I’ve never lost something so important, worked extremely hard to get it back, only to lose it again.

I ran into Abrams very soon after his ACL injury last September in the stairwell of our apartment building. The elevator was broken, and he was forced to hobble up the stairs. I expressed my sympathy and he thanked me, but the look in his eyes was truly disheart-ening. He was crushed.

Faced with a different but equally steep mountain of recovery ahead, Abrams’ future

is cloudy. He could probably get a sixth year of eligibility for 2016-17, but as Groce point-ed out Tuesday, it’s much too early to know if that’s the path Abrams will take.

Returning as a capable basketball play-er after two consecutive devastating inju-ries and not a minute of actual game play in between would be an incredibly difficult task. But with Abrams’ competitive nature, you’d have to think that he doesn’t want the final shot of his Illini career to be an air-balled three-pointer in an NIT loss at Clemson.

In the meantime, Abrams’ contributions will come from the sidelines once again.

As a sophomore in 2013 in a Round of 32 NCAA tournament matchup against No. 2 seed Miami, Abrams drove the lane late in a tight game. With everything on the line, the 6-foot-2 guard did something he almost never does. He blew by his defender, rose up and dunked the ball.

I leapt out of my seat, legitimately shocked. After Abrams slammed it, I had no doubt that Illinois was going to win that game.

Of course, the Illini went on to lose to Miami, and haven’t played in the NCAA tournament since. But I’ll never forget that

dunk, and it will always be one of the most impressive Illinois basketball moments I’ve ever seen, considering the circumstances.

Abrams isn’t a perfect player; no one is. He’s more of a two-guard who’s forced to play point, and sometimes draws the ire of fans for inconsistent play. But he has con-sistently brought toughness and leadership to the Illini, and he’ll be missed this year. It would be a sports tragedy if he never plays another game for Illinois.

If you’re looking for a way to quantify what Abrams’ game is all about and the hole he’ll leave in the Illini lineup for the sec-ond straight year, look past the stats. Think of all the hard work he’s put in behind the scenes. Recall the praise that everyone who’s important has heaped on him. Remember that ridiculous dunk in crunch-time against Miami.

That’s who Illinois basketball is missing out on.

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ALEX ROUX

Sports columnist

the daily illini: august 3, 2015

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