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INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B | Sudoku 4B THE DAILY ILLINI TUESDAY January 21, 2014 12˚ | 0˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 63 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI BY DANIELLE BANKS STAFF WRITER After two years of projects and couch surfing, University alumna Dave Paola, a 2010 graduate from the College of Engineering, found- ed a start-up named Bloc with fel- low alumna Roshan Choxi. Bloc is a 12-week online apprenticeship that takes a one-on-one virtual approach to teaching students to write code. “I took a road trip in the summer after I graduated, and I landed in San Francisco,” Paola said. “While I was couch surfing, I was working on various websites. I got a job as a software engineer in March of 2011, I spent almost a year there, and then roughly around January of 2012 is when we started Bloc.” The inspiration, Paola said, arose from an education gap he noticed between those who are technically literate and those who aren’t. “If you look at it through the lens of literacy, it’s a little bit like actual literacy,” he said. “Before everyone could read and write, there were these specialized peo- ple called scribes. If you wanted something written down or read to you, you went to the scribe because the scribe was literate. When everyone could read and write, information exploded. When you think about what a programmer is, it’s kind of like a scribe.” Paola said expanding technical literacy will close the gap. “When everyone is able to build things themselves and interact with software in a really mean- ingful way, clearly that will ben- efit society,” he said. Jarod Reid, a Bloc mentor who instructs students via webcam, said the flexibility the company provides sets it apart from the tra- ditional classroom setting. “Being able to have that one- on-one time to study, as opposed to being in the classroom, say a student says, ‘There is something happening at my job, I just can’t show up tonight, can we do some- thing tomorrow?’ That allows me to be very flexible and say, ‘Yeah, we can do it tomorrow. Let’s set up a time,’” Reid said. In addition to flexibility, Reid finds that stronger mentor-student relationships promote better stu- dent growth. “It also allows you to build a bond with the people you’re instructing because every instruc- tor, every session, is a one-on-one thing,” Reid said. “You can actual- ly address their needs specifically. Opposed to a generalized curric- ulum, you can actually tailor the curriculum that Bloc is giving the students, to focus on the needs of the students because every sin- gle student has different concerns, different needs.” Brittany Martin, a Bloc student, can testify to the effectiveness of the one-on-one approach. “As someone who just complet- ed their MBA last summer, I can tell you that Bloc brings out the best things about the classroom,” she said. “Having a mentor that shares your screen and genuinely cares about how you are progress- ing is amazing. (This approach is) absolutely beneficial. In a typical classroom, you need to make a big effort to get that kind of indi- vidual attention. With Bloc, it is a given.” A self-taught coder, Reid said Bloc’s dedication to student prog- ress is what impressed him. “For two years I studied on my own, trying to break into what I wanted to be my career, and I made very little money, so I didn’t have many resources to go to school,” Reid said. “I kind of went through this long period of strug- gling, and I’ve seen a lot of people do the same, so when I found Bloc, the real drive for me was that they are taking people in similar sit- uations to mine and giving them more of a fighting chance than I felt like I had early on.” This focus on student success over monetary gain is what sets Bloc apart from other companies, Paola said. “We measure our success by the successful outcomes of our stu- dents,” he said. “There are a lot of companies that sell access to content, but that’s not what we’re all about, what we’re about is mak- ing sure our alumni are success- ful. That’s our number one value. If we were to hang a banner, that’s what it would say.” For Martin, this literacy has proved to be life-altering. “It has opened up a whole new world to me,” she said. “I now love to scan through Hacker News, star projects on Github and attend code meetups to discuss best practices. I’ve had an inner coder inside me the whole time. I just needed a way to bring her out.” Danielle can be reached at [email protected]. Alumni closing technical literacy gap with start-up online program the217.com has a new name and look today. It’s now The Daily Il- lini calendar — but it’s still your one-stop shop for the most relevant, up-to-date information on everything that’s go- ing on in and around the Champaign-Urba- na area. With the calendar under The Daily Illi- ni family, we’re able to reach a broader audi- ence with a wide vari- ety of interests. Now, you’ll see listings for speakers and other news events on campus and in the community and, of course, we’re still keeping our long- standing arts and en- tertainment listings. It’s a work in prog- ress. But one thing’s certain: It’s a social calendar. We invite you to contribute to the dis- cussion by submitting events you think could draw a crowd. This is your site. This is your C-U. Darshan Patel, editor-in-chief TO OUR READERS: To find the latest events on campus and in the community, head to DailyIllini.com/ calendar. BY STEFFIE DRUCKER STAFF WRITER Members of the American Studies Association, an organi- zation devoted to the studies of American culture and history, voted to endorse participation in a boycott of Israeli academ- ic institutions in late December. But Chancellor Phyllis Wise, Uni- versity President Robert Easter and other University officials have expressed their opposition of the academic boycott. The University is an institu- tional member of a different aca- demic organization, the Associ- ation of American Universities, which opposes the ASA boycott. In a statement released Dec. 27, leaders of the University of Illinois said they endorse the statement released by the AAU, which states, “Any such boycott of academic institutions directly violates academic freedom ... It is a principle that should not be abridged by political consider- ations. American colleges and universities, as well as like insti- tutions elsewhere, must stand as the first line of defense against attacks on academic freedom.” Illini Hillel was quick to release a statement in support of the University’s stance. “We see ourselves as a partner of the University, and academic freedom is crucial for the Uni- versity to function,” said Erez Cohen, executive director of Illi- ni Hillel. “No one is allowed to tell academic institutions which universities they can and can’t work with.” Cohen said Hillel will defi- nitely be dealing with the sub- ject during the spring semester but that no programs had been planned yet, as the programs coordinator was still in Israel. Ahmad Hamdan, president of the University chapter of Stu- dents for Justice in Palestine and junior in LAS, said the campus organization has not yet taken a stance condemning or condoning the ASA boycott. “We’re more interested in what our government is doing and what our government is sup- porting over there,” he said. “I think it’s healthy to have oppos- ing viewpoints on such boycotts so it can stimulate conversation ... and so people can draw their own conclusions. Our primary focus is to inform the campus of our government’s interven- tion in the issue, or lack there- of, and their role in spreading oppression in the middle east and Palestine.” The ASA Executive Commit- tee was asked to consider a res- olution from the Academic and Community Activism Caucus of the association about a year ago. The resolution was then forward- ed to the National Council and was endorsed by 66 percent of the 1,200 Association members in early December. According to a statement on its website, “The resolution is in solidarity with scholars and stu- dents deprived of their academic freedom and it aspires to enlarge that freedom for all, including Palestinians.” The American Association of University Professors, another organization of higher education, also released a statement oppos- ing the ASA’s boycott. “The AAUP, as an organiza- tion, neither supports nor oppos- es Israeli government or Pales- tinian policies, although many UI opposes Israeli academic boycott Campus celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINI Otis Noble III, from the office of Diversity, Equity and Access, talks to a group of volunteers for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service event that started out at the ARC on Monday. AAU says academic boycott violates academic freedom SEE ASA | 3A “It’s appalling that a group would focus on a country that is fiercely democratic, promotes religious and racial diversity within its own universities.” LONNIE NASATIR DIRECTOR OF ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVE PAOLA the217.com calendar is now The Daily Illini. To find out what’s happening in the C-U area, check out the calendar at DailyIllini.com/calendar. SPORTS, 1B After reaching No. 23 in the rankings, Groce’s squad now nds its postseason hopes in jeopardy. J udging by the number of activities held this week on campus in hon- or of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a day doesn’t seem long enough to celebrate the extensive achievements and legacy of MLK Jr.’s life. From Jan. 17 to Jan. 25, the Commemorative MLK Jr. Committee hopes to encour- age students and community members to view the messag- es of Dr. King as a continuing movement. While time has passed and conditions have changed, co-chairs Otis Noble III and Anthony Fontana believe there is much work to be done in the Champaign-Urbana community. Through breakfast cel- ebrations, volunteer oppor- tunities, panel discussions, films and a first-time poverty simulation, everyone is wel- come to take part in the ongo- ing movement for “equality and justice for all.” Illini lose 4th straight game 0RUH LQVLGH To learn more about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s accomplishments, visit Page 6A.

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Page 1: The Daily Illini: Volume 143 Issue 61

INSIDE P o l i c e 2 A | H o r o s c o p e s 2 A | O p i n i o n s 4 A | L e t t e r s 4 A | C r o s s w o r d 5 A | C o m i c s 5 A | L i f e & C u l t u r e 6 A | S p o r t s 1 B | C l a s s i f i e d s 4 B | S u d o k u 4 B

THE DAILY ILLINITUESDAYJanuary 21, 2014

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WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 63 | FREE

@THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINIDAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI

BY DANIELLE BANKSSTAFF WRITER

After two years of projects and couch surfi ng, University alumna Dave Paola, a 2010 graduate from the College of Engineering, found-ed a start-up named Bloc with fel-low alumna Roshan Choxi. Bloc is a 12-week online apprenticeship that takes a one-on-one virtual approach to teaching students to write code.

“I took a road trip in the summer after I graduated, and I landed in San Francisco,” Paola said. “While I was couch surfi ng, I was working on various websites. I got a job as a software engineer in March of 2011, I spent almost a year there, and then roughly around January of 2012 is when we started Bloc.”

The inspiration, Paola said, arose from an education gap he noticed between those who are technically literate and those who aren’t.

“If you look at it through the lens of literacy, it’s a little bit like actual literacy,” he said. “Before everyone could read and write, there were these specialized peo-ple called scribes. If you wanted something written down or read to you, you went to the scribe because the scribe was literate. When everyone could read and write, information exploded. When you think about what a programmer is, it’s kind of like a scribe.”

Paola said expanding technical literacy will close the gap.

“When everyone is able to build things themselves and interact with software in a really mean-ingful way, clearly that will ben-efi t society,” he said.

Jarod Reid, a Bloc mentor who instructs students via webcam, said the fl exibility the company provides sets it apart from the tra-ditional classroom setting.

“Being able to have that one-

on-one time to study, as opposed to being in the classroom, say a student says, ‘There is something happening at my job, I just can’t show up tonight, can we do some-thing tomorrow?’ That allows me to be very fl exible and say, ‘Yeah, we can do it tomorrow. Let’s set up a time,’” Reid said.

In addition to fl exibility, Reid fi nds that stronger mentor-student relationships promote better stu-dent growth.

“It also allows you to build a bond with the people you’re instructing because every instruc-tor, every session, is a one-on-one thing,” Reid said. “You can actual-ly address their needs specifi cally. Opposed to a generalized curric-ulum, you can actually tailor the curriculum that Bloc is giving the students, to focus on the needs of the students because every sin-gle student has different concerns, different needs.”

Brittany Martin, a Bloc student, can testify to the effectiveness of the one-on-one approach.

“As someone who just complet-ed their MBA last summer, I can tell you that Bloc brings out the best things about the classroom,” she said. “Having a mentor that shares your screen and genuinely cares about how you are progress-ing is amazing. (This approach is) absolutely benefi cial. In a typical classroom, you need to make a big effort to get that kind of indi-vidual attention. With Bloc, it is a given.”

A self-taught coder, Reid said Bloc’s dedication to student prog-ress is what impressed him.

“For two years I studied on my own, trying to break into what I wanted to be my career, and I made very little money, so I didn’t have many resources to go to school,” Reid said. “I kind of went through this long period of strug-

gling, and I’ve seen a lot of people do the same, so when I found Bloc, the real drive for me was that they are taking people in similar sit-uations to mine and giving them more of a fi ghting chance than I felt like I had early on.”

This focus on student success over monetary gain is what sets Bloc apart from other companies, Paola said.

“We measure our success by the successful outcomes of our stu-dents,” he said. “There are a lot of companies that sell access to content, but that’s not what we’re all about, what we’re about is mak-

ing sure our alumni are success-ful. That’s our number one value. If we were to hang a banner, that’s what it would say.”

For Martin, this literacy has proved to be life-altering.

“It has opened up a whole new world to me,” she said. “I now love to scan through Hacker News, star projects on Github and attend code meetups to discuss best practices. I’ve had an inner coder inside me the whole time. I just needed a way to bring her out.”

Danielle can be reached at [email protected].

Alumni closing technical literacy gap with start-up online program

the217.com has a new name and look today.

It’s now The Daily Il-lini calendar — but it’s still your one-stop shop for the most relevant, up-to-date information on everything that’s go-ing on in and around the Champaign-Urba-na area.

With the calendar under The Daily Illi-ni family, we’re able to reach a broader audi-ence with a wide vari-ety of interests. Now, you’ll see listings for speakers and other news events on campus and in the community and, of course, we’re still keeping our long-standing arts and en-tertainment listings.

It’s a work in prog-ress. But one thing’s certain: It’s a social calendar. We invite you to contribute to the dis-cussion by submitting events you think could draw a crowd. This is your site. This is your C-U.

Darshan Patel,editor-in-chief

TO OUR READERS:

To fi nd the latest events on campus and in the community,

head to DailyIllini.com/calendar.»

» » » » » » »

» » » » » »

BY STEFFIE DRUCKERSTAFF WRITER

Members of the American Studies Association, an organi-zation devoted to the studies of American culture and history, voted to endorse participation in a boycott of Israeli academ-ic institutions in late December . But Chancellor Phyllis Wise, Uni-versity President Robert Easter and other University offi cials have expressed their opposition of the academic boycott.

The University is an institu-tional member of a different aca-

demic organization, the Associ-ation of American Universities, which opposes the ASA boycott.

In a statement released Dec. 27, leaders of the University of Illinois said they endorse the statement released by the AAU , which states, “Any such boycott of academic institutions directly violates academic freedom ... It is a principle that should not be abridged by political consider-ations. American colleges and universities, as well as like insti-tutions elsewhere, must stand as the fi rst line of defense against

attacks on academic freedom.” Illini Hillel was quick to

release a statement in support of the University’s stance.

“We see ourselves as a partner of the University, and academic freedom is crucial for the Uni-versity to function,” said Erez Cohen , executive director of Illi-ni Hillel. “No one is allowed to tell academic institutions which universities they can and can’t work with.”

Cohen said Hillel will defi -nitely be dealing with the sub-ject during the spring semester but that no programs had been planned yet, as the programs coordinator was still in Israel.

Ahmad Hamdan, president of the University chapter of Stu-dents for Justice in Palestine and junior in LAS, said the campus

organization has not yet taken a stance condemning or condoning the ASA boycott.

“We’re more interested in what our government is doing and what our government is sup-porting over there,” he said. “I think it’s healthy to have oppos-ing viewpoints on such boycotts so it can stimulate conversation ... and so people can draw their own conclusions. Our primary focus is to inform the campus of our government’s interven-tion in the issue, or lack there-of, and their role in spreading oppression in the middle east and Palestine.”

The ASA Executive Commit-tee was asked to consider a res-olution from the Academic and Community Activism Caucus of the association about a year ago.

The resolution was then forward-ed to the National Council and was endorsed by 66 percent of the 1,200 Association members in early December.

According to a statement on its website, “The resolution is in solidarity with scholars and stu-dents deprived of their academic freedom and it aspires to enlarge that freedom for all, including Palestinians.”

The American Association of University Professors, another organization of higher education, also released a statement oppos-ing the ASA’s boycott.

“The AAUP, as an organiza-tion, neither supports nor oppos-es Israeli government or Pales-tinian policies, although many

UI opposes Israeli academic boycott

Campus celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIOtis Noble III, from the offi ce of Diversity, Equity and Access, talks to a group of volunteers for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service event that started out at the ARC on Monday.

AAU says academic boycott violates academic freedom

SEE ASA | 3A

“It’s appalling that a group would focus on a country that is fi ercely democratic, promotes religious and racial diversity within its own universities.”LONNIE NASATIRDIRECTOR OF ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVE PAOLA

the217.com calendar is now The Daily Illini. To fi nd out what’s happening in the C-U area, check out the calendar at DailyIllini.com/calendar.

SPORTS, 1B

After reaching No. 23 in the rankings, Groce’s squad now ! nds its postseason hopes in jeopardy.

Judging by the number of activities held this week on campus in hon-

or of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a day doesn’t seem long enough to celebrate the extensive achievements and legacy of MLK Jr.’s life.

From Jan. 17 to Jan. 25, the Commemorative MLK Jr. Committee hopes to encour-age students and community members to view the messag-es of Dr. King as a continuing movement.

While time has passed and conditions have changed, co-chairs Otis Noble III and Anthony Fontana believe there is much work to be done in the Champaign-Urbana community.

Through breakfast cel-ebrations, volunteer oppor-tunities, panel discussions, fi lms and a fi rst-time poverty simulation, everyone is wel-come to take part in the ongo-ing movement for “equality and justice for all.”

Illini lose 4th straight game

»

» » » » » » »

» » » » » »To learn more about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,

Jr.’s accomplishments, visit Page 6A.

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2A Tuesday, January 21, 2014 THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM

THE BECKMAN INSTITUTE for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is seeking to fi ll four Academic Hourly positions as Laboratory Manager. The Laboratory Managers will perform for the INSIGHT project, a large Federally-funded contract titled “An integrative system for enhancing fl uid intelligence (Gf) through human cognitive, fi tness, HD-tDCS, and nutritional intervention”. This is a very ambitious project that plans to run nearly 2,000 human subjects in a variety of 16-week interventions. Specifi c duties and responsibilities include:

• Recruit, schedule, and run human subjects across three different laboratories: The Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, the Lifelong Brain and Cognition Laboratory, and the Memory Systems Laboratory.

• Confi gure, operate and maintain hardware and software used in running human subject experiments, including tablet computers, physiological equipment, and associated software.

• Coordinate experimental schedules with other lab managers, the Biomedical Imaging Center, and the Project Coordinator.

• Provide daily, weekly, and monthly activity reports.• Assist in data analysis of cognitive, behavioral, and neuroimaging data.

If you have a BA/BS degree and at least one year of laboratory experience in human subjects research, you may be a good fi t! Even better if your degree is in psychology, neuroscience, or a related fi eld, and if you have good skills in behavioral and neuroimaging data analysis, offi ce software tools (calendaring, spreadsheets, scheduling), verbal and written communication, and familiarity with the policies, processes, and procedures of Federal granting agencies and the University.

Each Laboratory Manager position is a non-benefi ts-eligible Academic Hourly position. Hourly rate is commensurate with skills and experience, and candidates must have valid legal authorization to work in the United States by the starting date of the position. For full consideration, please apply by January 28, 2014 by emailing your cover letter, resume, and the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers for three professional references to [email protected]. All requested information must be submitted for your application to be considered. For further information, please contact Beckman

Institute Human Resources at [email protected].

WANTED: LAB MANAGERS AT THE BECKMAN INSTITUTE!

Illinois is an Affi rmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and

value diversity and inclusivity. (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu)

WEATHERPOLICE

Champaign Criminal damage to proper-

ty was reported in the 800 block of South Third Street around 9 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, an unknown suspect threw a bottle and broke the victim’s second sto-ry patio window.

A 25-year-old male was arrested on the charges of assault and battery at Fat Sandwich, 502 E. John St., around 1 a.m. Monday.

According to the report, the offender refused to leave the

business when asked and bat-tered two customers.

Urbana Theft of motor vehicle was

reported at Mas Amigos, 1106 W. University Ave., around 10 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole the vic-tim’s unlocked vehicle while the keys were in the ignition. The vehicle is described as a 2007 blue Toyota with the license num-ber of IL L846890.

Theft and a domestic dispute were reported in the 1300 block of North Lincoln Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, the offender’s cell phone went miss-ing and he blamed his two room-mates for taking it. The offend-er and the two roommates then got into a verbal argument. The phone was not located.

Domestic dispute was report-ed in the 1500 block of East Flor-ida Avenue around 3 p.m. Sunday.

Compiled by Danielle Brown

HOROSCOPESBY NANCY BLACKTRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES

Today’s Birthday

Areas that receive your golden energy ! ower this year. Focus it to priorities like the burst of creativity that engulfs you through August, propelling career to new heights, and your busy home life. Weed out distractions. Increase organizational structures to support balancing work and family. Build team partnership. Summer and autumn get especially romantic. Choose love and happiness.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is a 6 — Develop a routine to make boring, repetitive work more fun. Don’t travel just yet. If you must, allow plenty of extra time; there’s no need to rush. Express appreciation for your partner, and grow your shared resources.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is a 7 — Take a bow after a solid performance. Meet with important partners. Accept a nice bene" t. Share love, not money (a tricky subject today). Pay back a debt. Get the best deal you can when shopping. Listen carefully.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is an 8 —A bonding moment transforms your relationship. Believe in a partner who believes

in success. It’s all about great service. Repay a favor. Provide comfort food. Get outside, and play. Exercise and fresh air revive your spirit.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is a 6 — Increase efficiency at work. Use your experience and skills to go the extra mile. Postpone travel and long distance calls. Get lost in a creative project, adding beauty, art and communication. Expand the fun level.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is a 5 — Invest in real estate or your home. Discipline is required. Keep your opinions to yourself, unless asked. A fascinating conversation opens new doors, but there’s plenty still hidden. Let documents simmer overnight. Maintain self-control.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 6 — Don’t try a new trick yet. You need time to think. Stand up for your idea. Dig out some exotic facts. You impress an elder. Listen carefully to their view. Rest and reconnect with an old friend.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is an 8 — Exceed expectations with a stroke of genius. Artistic coolness and useful functionality could clash. Work from home and increase productivity. Friends help with discipline. Talk and shop, but don’t buy yet. Keep asking interesting questions. Follow through.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)

Today is an 8 — Ask for a vacation day or get work done early, so you can go play. Talk about money another day. Postpone a shopping trip. Romance is sweet. Take the time to get it right. Relax and enjoy.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) Today is a 7 — Apply your personal magic to dispel old fears. The truth has been revealed. Add an artistic touch. Watch what you say. Set long-range goals, and invest in them. Make sure you’re getting the best quality.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19Today is a 7 — Something doesn’t compute. Investigate, for an amazing discovery. Improve working conditions. Stick to rules and regulations. Finish up old business, to make room for new. Friends, teammates and partners are your secret ingredient for success.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 7— Provide facts and great service. Bargain for a sweet deal. Don’t dip too far into savings. Re-assess your assets. Consider new options. Negotiate with an authority for a rise in status. Offer increased value.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 7 — Completion leads to opportunity. Put in a correction. Sign or send a document or application. Get an elder’s advice. Call in reinforcements. Route some of your winnings to domestic improvements. Improve your living conditions.

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BY LORNET TURNBULLMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

SEATTLE — In a Philadelphia suburb last month, a gay French and Spanish teacher lost his job at a Catholic prep school after tell-ing school officials he planned to marry his partner.

In October, the principal of a Catholic school in Little Rock, Ark., called a lesbian teacher on her wedding day, giving her the choice to quit or be fired. The teacher and her partner of 14 years, who had dined on the prin-cipal’s houseboat and considered her a friend, had married in New Mexico.

There have been other cases, too, in California and Minne-sota, New York and Washing-ton state, where the dismissal last month of Mark Zmuda as vice principal at Eastside Catho-lic has become a flash point for those challenging the Roman Catholic Church’s stance on issues of sexuality.

Catholic doctrine rejects same-sex marriage and requires that gays in parish pews remain celibate.

And increasingly, as states legalize same-sex marriage, as 17 have, gay employees of Catho-lic institutions, particularly those who teach and preach, are finding themselves at odds with the doc-trinal teachings of the church and morality clauses contained in the contracts they sign.

“With marriage equality mov-ing across the country, it was not difficult to predict that this was going to spread,” said Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, a national advocacy group for Catholic gays.

“I think we’ll see more and more of these, unfortunately,” DeBer-nardo said.

Catholic doctrine holds that marriage is a sacred institution, designed by God with the pur-pose of perpetuating life, and that homosexual acts are immoral and

contrary to natural law.As a result, according to infor-

mation from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the bonds and benefits of marriage should be lim-ited to the union of one man and one woman.

The church’s position then is that once gay employees marry — at least those charged with taking the teachings of the church to others — they can no longer fulfill their “ministerial” obligations.

How such violations are handled by schools and parishes, where most of the terminations across the country tracked by New Ways have occurred, differs from one employer to another and from dio-cese to diocese.

The teacher from the Philadel-phia suburb, for example, said his sexual orientation was never a secret and that he and his part-ner used to attend faculty parties together.

In Columbus, Ohio, a teacher was fired after listing her female partner’s name in her mother’s obituary, and in Minnesota, a teacher said she was fired after she indicated on a school evalua-tion her personal conviction favor-ing same-sex marriage.

Still, employees and experts say policies are seldom equally enforced — the teacher who uses birth control, the organist cohabit-ing or the divorced principal who remarried without having the first marriage annulled.

“Imagine if we couldn’t hire sin-ners,” quipped one local church official, noting that sin can be forgiven.

While employers can’t know whether gays are celibate, just as they can’t know about the use of birth control, a gay marriage removes doubt.

“My experience with church officials at all levels, from bish-ops to school officials, is that they tend not to seek out controversy but respond to it when it comes

up,” DeBernardo said.Word of Zmuda’s marriage

reached the highest levels at East-side Catholic after he suggested a colleague might consider the flo-rist he and his husband had used for their July wedding.

The school dismissed him last month at the start of the Christ-mas break, saying his marriage violated church teachings, which he had promised to uphold when he signed the employee hand-book when hired a year and a half earlier.

For the school of 935 mid-dle and high school students in Sammamish, the circumstanc-es around Zmuda’s dismissal have proved a public relations challenge.

Student protests took Zmuda’s story global, and his young sup-porters, who describe the fight over gay rights as the civil rights issue of their generation, have launched a movement for change not only within the school but with-in the church.

They acknowledge the church is slow to change, but invoking Pope Francis’ now-famous statement that ends with the question, “Who am I to judge?” they have vowed to keep up the pressure through lobbying and letter-writing, with the ultimate goal of changing the church’s position on issues around sexuality.

Corey Sinser, an Eastside Cath-olic alum who has helped to orga-nize many of the protests, said as young Catholics with more liberal attitudes begin to assume leader-ship roles in the American Catho-lic church, the church will begin to reflect that.

“For a lot of us, it’s hard to rec-oncile the church’s continued hard line on such social issues against other, more welcoming aspects of Catholicism,” Sinser said.

About 60 percent of American Catholics support same-sex mar-riage, a rate higher than in the general population, according to

recent polls. And young people who grew up with parents, rela-tives, teachers and friends who are gay support it at an ever high-er rate.

Pointing out that the church has changed its position on important social issues as society changed and evolved over the centuries, Sinser said, “I think that’s what you’ll see happen here — eventu-ally the church will have to reflect the sentiments of the church body.”

Gays and lesbians are employed, sometimes quite openly, in many different positions in Catholic-run and Catholic-affiliated insti-tutions — from hospitals and schools to colleges and charitable organizations.

Some, including teachers, often are required to sign contracts or agreements that include language on how they are to comport them-selves in regards to the teachings of the church.

So-called morality clauses are generally consistent among insti-tutions, requiring employees to live a lifestyle “compatible with Catholic teaching and moral val-ues” and “exercise professional conduct consistent with Catholic teaching.”

Employees at Catholic hospitals and charities usually aren’t asked to sign them; in most cases neither are professors, case workers, sec-retaries and janitors.

Zmuda signed one.And so did Tippi McCullough,

the English teacher in Little Rock fired by Mount St. Mary Academy on her wedding day last October.

She and her partner of 14 years had planned a vacation to Arizona and decided to take a side trip to New Mexico to marry after same-sex marriage became legal there in several counties.

“I said to Barbara, maybe it’s possible I’ll lose my job. But hon-estly, I didn’t think I would,” she said. “I was there 14 years; never in my wildest dreams did I think they would fire me.”

Same-sex marriage laws, Catholic doctrine at odds

BY ANITA KUMARMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

WASHINGTON — Iran has started suspending some of its ura-nium enrichment as part of a deal between Tehran and world powers to rein in the nation’s nuclear pro-gram in return for the lifting of some economic sanctions, accord-ing to an international watchdog.

Negotiators for the nations said they will now begin working on a longer-term, more comprehensive agreement. The United States will send Undersecretary Wendy Sher-man to meet her counterparts in Geneva on Tuesday to begin talks.

“These actions represent the first time in nearly a decade that Iran has verifiably enacted mea-sures to halt progress on its nucle-ar program, and roll it back in key respects,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. “Taken together, these concrete actions represent an important step forward.”

The International Atomic Ener-gy Agency — the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog — reported that Iran had taken the initial steps it had committed to by Monday’s deadline as part of a joint plan of action between the nations.

Iran has halted production of 20 percent enriched uranium; has dis-abled the centrifuge process used to produce it; has begun diluting its existing stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium; and has started providing the energy agency with more information about its nucle-ar capabilities through frequent inspections.

In return, the world powers — the United States, the United King-dom, France, Germany, Russia and China, as well as the Europe-an Union — will begin to provide economic relief. That includes sus-pending implementation of sanc-tions on petrochemical exports, goods imported for use in the auto industry, gold and other precious metals; freeing up Iranian money to help pay educational costs of Ira-nians, some of whom are attend-ing U.S. colleges; and beginning to allow Iran access to $4.2 billion in restricted Iranian funds.

“This is an important first step, but more work will be needed to fully address the international community’s concerns regarding the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program,” said Catherine Ashton, the Euro-pean Union’s foreign policy chief,

who has represented the interna-tional community in negotiations with Iran. “We aim to start negotia-tions about a comprehensive solu-tion with Iran in February.”

Lawrence Korb, a senior fellow at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, said that during the next six months “it is essential that all parties refrain from provocative actions that could diminish trust and compli-cate already difficult negotiations.”

The administration Monday sent Congress a series of statuto-ry waivers to ease economic sanc-tions approved by Secretary of State John Kerry; some lawmak-ers remain skeptical of the deal.

President Barack Obama has been lobbying lawmakers not to implement additional sanctions against Iran, which he says could derail the diplomatic efforts.

Senior administration officials familiar with the congressional outreach but not authorized to speak publicly said lawmakers were being briefed regularly. Sher-man briefed both the Senate and the House leadership and commit-tee chairs last week on the agree-ment, and more talks are planned both with members and staffers.

The House of Representatives already voted for new sanctions against Tehran in July, a measure that has not been taken up in the Senate. The sanctions would not take effect unless the negotiations fail. Obama has threatened to veto a Senate bill calling for additional sanctions, which may already have enough support to override a veto.

“Since the Iranian Islamist Rev-olution in 1979, the U.S. has been hammering the country with eco-nomic sanctions,” said A. Cooper Drury, chairman of the political science department at the Univer-sity of Missouri. “By threatening further sanctions, as Congress is suggesting, or returning sanctions that were in place, we could derail the whole agreement and cause the Iranians to resist further dialogue.”

Supporters of the Senate bill — the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013 — argue that the bill will pressure the Iranians to negoti-ate in good faith or face economic distress.

But Senate Majority Leader Har-ry Reid, D-Nev., said last week that he’s in no hurry to bring an Iran sanctions bill up for a vote as long as the negotiations are under way and progress is being made.

Iran, world leaders agree to nuclear deal

BY LOUIS SAHAGUNMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

LOS ANGELES — The boom-ing illegal international wildlife trade forced conservationists to do the unthinkable Tuesday: Brand the golden domes of two of the rarest tortoises on Earth to reduce their black market value by making it easier for authori-ties to trace them if stolen.

“It’s heartbreaking that it’s come to this, but it’s the right thing to do,” Paul Gibbons, man-aging director of the nonprof-it Turtle Conservancy’s Behler Chelonian Center in Ventura County, said as he gently placed a 30-pound adult female plough-share tortoise on a small table.

With a steady hand and an elec-tric engraving tool, he carved an identification code on the high, rounded shell as the creature with weary eyes and gleaming carapace peered calmly into the distance. The tortoise was branded for life, which in her case would be roughly 160 years.

“We’ve blemished her natural beauty, so she’s just a number in a system now,” Gibbons said. “No. 7001 MG.” The 2-inch- by-1 {-inch block figures were placed at the top of the turtle’s back, a location chosen to avoid interfering with the expansion of the shell, which grows at the edges.

The conservancy’s goal is to mark every one of the estimat-

ed 360 ploughshares in captive breeding programs around the world and the 300 believed to be remaining in the wild.

So far, no rare tortoise or tur-tle with identification markings has turned up in illegal mar-kets monitored by law enforce-ment authorities, conservation-ists said.

Decades of intense collecting, hunting and habitat destruction have brought that species and dozens of others to the brink of extinction. Now, sanctuaries and zoos are using visible iden-tification marks — shell notch-es, clipped toenails, paint, laser inscribing, tattoos and engrav-ing — as a tool to fight poaching and dissuade wealthy collectors willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for critically endan-gered turtles and tortoises.

The shells of two confiscat-ed ploughshare tortoises were engraved at the Singapore Zoo in December. In October, the Tur-tle Conservancy helped mark the shells of 150 Burmese star tor-toises in Myanmar.

Keeping rare turtles and tor-toises safe, however, will require a level of security that at this point is elusive at best.

A week ago, Indonesian offi-cials at Soekarno-Hatta Interna-tional Airport in Jakarta rescued more than 8,000 baby pig-nosed turtles hidden in suitcases and

believed headed for China and Singapore.

In December, Royal Thai Cus-toms officials confiscated a suit-case containing 62 rare radiated tortoises at Bangkok’s Suvarnab-humi International Airport.

In November, authorities in a Thai airport discovered 432 pro-tected tortoises and 52 black pond turtles worth about $110,000 in unclaimed luggage arriving from Bangladesh.

In March, authorities seized 54 ploughshare tortoises found in the suitcases of two individu-als attempting to enter Thailand.

Golden coin turtles have been selling for thousands of dollars each since poachers recently started claiming that consuming extracts from the species could cure cancer.

The two ploughshare tortoises marked Tuesday were flown in from Taiwan, where they were seized in 2008. The female now known as No. 7001 MG was suc-cessfully mated last year with the only male ploughshare tor-toise of breeding age outside Madagascar.

Five eggs she laid in Novem-ber are being incubated. They are the first ploughshare tortoise eggs produced in an international conservation program. “We still aren’t sure they are fertile,” Gib-bons said.

As the rarest tortoise on Earth,

the ploughshare is highly valued by global animal traffickers and fetches tens of thousands of dol-lars on the Asian black market, conservationists say.

The same could be said for most of the cold-blooded animals at the conservancy, a secret com-pound of paddocks and aquari-ums protected by surveillance cameras and electric wire in the foothills of Los Padres National Forest.

Although certified by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, the conservancy is

not open to the public or listed in the phone book. The only visitors are turtle biologists from around the world.

Its primary mission is to maintain colonies of threatened and endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles, such as two Sulawesi turtles from Indonesia confiscated at Los Angeles Inter-national Airport in February. Other new arrivals include sev-en Roti Island snake-necked tur-tles, members of an Indonesian species hunted to near extinction.

Then there is Daphne, a 40-year-old female giant Gala-

pagos tortoise looking for a mate.As collection manager for

the conservancy, it is Christine Light’s job to pamper egg clutch-es until they hatch and babies until they are old enough to fend for themselves.

“This little fella hatched on Monday,” Light said, holding up an Indian spotted turtle about the size of a 50-cent piece. “Too cute for words, right?

“Last year, we had 294 hatch-lings from 13 species,” she added with a smile. “Each one of those hatchlings was a little win for our side.”

Rare tortoise breeds branded to prevent increasing poacher attacks

of our members certainly have strong beliefs on one side or the other,” according to the state-ment. “However, the AAUP does stand in opposition to academic boycotts as a matter of principle.”

Despite the reaction that the ASA boycott is receiving, Lon-nie Nasatir, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, doesn’t foresee the boycott hav-ing great ripple effects; the ASA only has approximately 5,000 members, and only around two-thirds of 1,200 of them voted in favor of the resolution calling for a boycott.

“We’ve been very encouraged by the university presidents that have spoken out,” he said. “It has not gotten the momentum that

the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement is hop-ing for, which is good from our (the ADL’s) perspective.”

Nasatir said the ADL is more concerned about why the organi-zation is focusing on Israeli insti-tutions in particular and leaving other countries out of the discus-sion. “It strikes us as a severe double standard and dangerously one-sided in an attempt to dele-gitimize Israel,” he said. “It’s appalling that a group would focus on a country that is fierce-ly democratic, promotes reli-gious and racial diversity within its own universities while there are several other countries that crack down on anyone with a dif-ferent opinion and there’s no aca-demic freedom.”

Steffie can be reached [email protected].

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BETTINA HANSEN MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNESeattle Archdiocese spokesman Greg Magnoni spoke publicly on Jan. 15, about Eastside Catholic's dismissal of vice principal Mark Zmuda, who married his male partner. Magnoni said the decision was the school’s but that the diocese supported it.

AL SEIB MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEPaul Gibbons, left, with assistance from Armando Jimenez on Jan. 14 uses a drill tool to deface the golden domes of two Plaughshare tortoises in Los Angeles. The shells are defaced to reduce their value on the black market, and the permanent marking also makes it easier for law enforcement authorities to trace them.

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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS | [email protected] with the subject “Letter to the Editor.” The Daily Illini reserves the right to edit for length, libel, grammar and spelling errors, and Daily Illini style or to reject any contri-butions. Letters must be limited to 300 words. Contributions must be typed and include the author’s name, address and phone number. University students must include their year in school and college.

My high school English teacher was always fond of using the phrase, “coming down the home stretch.”

She would use this phrase when we were almost finished with a book. And if I remember correctly, my teacher told me its origins came from horse racing. The horses were “coming down the home stretch” when they were on the last straightaway after the final turn.

As a college senior in his final semester, this is the home stretch for myself, as well as many others.

I’ve already seen several people on Facebook or Twitter saying this is their “last” something ever. And truth be told, there are going to be many “last” things this semester for us that are graduating.

For example, this is our last syllabus week ever. It’s also our last first day of class in the new semester. The list goes on and on of “last” this and “last” that.

But it is easy to get lost in the “last” pattern when the end is in sight.

I find it similar to the feeling whenever you are getting close to the end of a good book or video game. You can’t wait to see how it ends, so you start rushing through it to see what happens.

But when you begin to rush things, you tend to miss the smaller details. So, you go back through and make sure you take it a little slower this time to enjoy the full experience.

You make sure every word in the book

is read and every non-player character in the game (NPC for you video game fans) is talked to.

Needless to say, you can’t do this in real life. We don’t have the ability to turn back a page to make sure we understood everything. There is no pause or save feature, and if people had the ability to respawn after they died, as they do in video games, I would just assume they were zombies.

We’re all living by the same clock, ticking at the same pace. There are no second chances when it comes to moments like these in our lives.

When you think of it like that, then it feels like an immsense amount of pressure is put on us to make sure we are making the most of it.

I get why this is important for people. It’s surreal to think that as freshmen we thought we had all the time in the world on this campus, but now we’re in our final semester.

All of a sudden we don’t have the luxury to say, “Oh, don’t worry, I’ll do that next semester.” To get t he full experience, a sense of urgency and panic kicks in to make sure every moment of our last semester at the University is completely and 100 percent meaningful.

You might start hearing friends or peers tell you to make sure you make the most out of your time during these last few months. Live every night as if it is your last because you won’t get another syllabus week in college!

We are led to believe that we need to always be doing something special and make sure we’re getting the full college experience because we are young.

There is no excuse to be lazy and relax because we have to hit up Joe’s tonight.

Honestly, it’s exhausting to think like that.

We are not machines that operate with a limitless supply of energy. We’re humans with many emotions, and we have limits to how much we can do.

The idea of these “last” events makes everything seem much more important than they actually are. It takes away the ability of living in the moment freely and has us constantly worrying that each moment is special.

It’s easy to get wrapped up in making sure every moment is memorable.

So, even though your last semester just started, it’s OK. Each moment in our lives is important, but don’t get caught up in making sure each moment is going out with a bang.

You might miss out on the other things that are happening around you.

But each person is different. Still do what makes you happy. If going out every day of the week is the ideal last semester for you, then by golly, go for it.

Personally, staying in and watching a movie with my friends is a perfect way to spend a Friday evening — surely there is a horror movie on Netflix that we have not seen yet.

Coming down the home stretch of this final semester will contain many “lasts.” But don’t get bogged down by them because as one chapter ends, a new one begins.

Thaddeus is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @Thaddingham.

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Tuition increases may make the University

unattendable for some

Seniors should focus on their college journey, not its end

Another year, another tuition hike. But this one may have less bite than usual.

Earlier this month, the University’s Board of Trustees proposed a 1.7 percent tuition in-crease for the incoming Class of 2018, match-

ing the increase from last year. Alongside the possi-ble tuition hike are proposals for a 2.3 percent increase in student fees and 2 percent increase in housing fees, which would apply to all students on the Urbana campus.

This would match the tuition increase for the 2013-14 academic year, which was also 1.7 percent. While this di-minutive increase may seem to be a positive story, the long-term picture is much less rosy.

The cost of tuition continually increases each year, and for many students, a college education has become un-affordable. Understandably, the University does have to account for gut-wrenching cost factors, such as inflation and a lack of money coming in from the state.

However, as rising costs put a University of Illinois de-gree increasingly out of reach for some students — such as those in low-income and underrepresented popula-tions — the question of whether a University of Illinois education is worth the money still looms.

There is no question that the University’s prowess in fields such as computer science and engineering, along with high placement rates and starting salaries in these fields, make it hard to argue with paying for these pro-grams. The reputation of the institution, in this case, is just as important as the degree itself.

However, a whole bunch of other degrees offered by the University are considerably less economical. But there are still other options available to cost-conscious prospective students.

Arguably, many prospective students may seek al-temative, cheaper educational resources, like commu-nity colleges, to gain the skills and expertise necessary to succeed in their desired field. Furthermore, students bent on graduating with a University of Illinois degree can often knock out most of their general education re-quirements and lower-level courses at a considerably lower cost via community colleges.

Outside of the classroom, students can attain immea-surable experience through internship positions, which often require the pursuit of a college degree but often not a specific college.

Although the rate at which the tuition is increasing will remain around the same as last year, tuition is increasing nonetheless. This will allow those from wealthy socio-economic backgrounds to continue attending the Univer-sity, but will make it even harder for those from dis-advantaged backgrounds to obtain a college education from this school.

Even if they do find the resources to attend this Uni-versity, it is likely they will leave college carrying a large amount of debt.

While the tuition increases remain small, at least for now, we wonder how many more of them it will take be-fore a University of Illinois degree just isn’t worth it anymore. In other words, is $50,000 in in-state tuition over four year worth the skills and knowledge we ac-quire throughout our undergraduate careers, or can similar skills and knowledge be acquired elsewhere for cheaper?

Sure, tuition is rising, and, according to the University — considering that state funding has decreased about 23 percent since 2002 — it needs to if the University wants to continue operating as a renowned public land-grant in-stitution. And it will continue to rise in the future as cost-of-living indices also continue to increase.

At first glance, this historically low increase in tuition may be something to shrug off — especially for current students who have their tuitions already locked in. But looking at the broader picture, these increases will accu-mulate, and it will be left up to students to decide if the cost of today’s degree is really worth the acquired skill set.

A little over a year ago, I came across a quote from Saint Augustine that said, “The world is a book and those

who do not travel read only one page.” At the time, I was mulling whether

to spend the fall semester abroad. At first glance, the quote reinforced what many people had already told me: Trav-eling is amazing and doing so for an entire semester is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

After thinking about it a while longer, though, I realized that it made leaving Champaign more urgent than traveling. I needed a break and the ability to study abroad was my chance to do so.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Champaign and this University more than can be conveyed in a newspaper column. That said, after three years of heavy involve-ment in a variety of activities on cam-pus, I began to feel much like I do when reading for a class.

If the world is a book, I was reading the same page over and over without actually processing what I was reading.

So, instead of attempting to read the page I was stuck on (Champaign) over and over, I did what I would do with a class reading: I decided to skip the page and come back to it later.

Since that time, I spent the summer working at my dream internship in Aus-tin, Texas, studied in Belgium for the fall semester (while traveling Europe on weekends) and just spent the last two weeks at an intensive ad agency work-

shop in Richmond, Va. By Saint Augustine’s count, I have

read more than 10 pages of the world’s book since that time. These pages were filled with many new characters, stress-ful travel situations, good food and some life-changing experiences.

Texas taught me that strangers are, most likely, extremely friendly. Belgium taught me to never fear the unknown. Paris taught me that cliches are cliches for a reason.

Berlin taught me that Europe is, in many ways, still feeling the effects of the last century. London taught me that a weekend alone in a new place can be magical. Amsterdam taught me that there’s much more to Amsterdam (and most places) than Americans often acknowledge.

Stockholm taught me that a lack of sunlight during the day can be disorient-ing. Barcelona taught me that I genuinely regret ending my Spanish language edu-cation after high school. Rome and Flor-ence taught me that Italy is, well, just as great as people say it is.

Richmond, Va., taught me that I am pursuing the career I am meant to pursue.

The last eight months of my life were, without a doubt, the best of my life. More importantly, they were spent almost exclusively out of my comfort zone — and out of the country.

Whether it was my solo drive to Austin, Texas, constantly navigating unknown cities with the help of old school paper maps or seeing a comedic play on my solo trip to London, I was in a constant state of discomfort — and I’ve never felt more alive.

Today, all of that changes. Today is the day I return to the page I was stuck on

one year ago: Champaign, Ill. However, just like when reading for

class and skipping one page to read the pages that follow, I will now have a better understanding of this one as I return.

While at Tate Modern in London, I came across a quote by the Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi that said, “I am interested in the way that time records itself into things and people.”

Upon reading this quote, I real-ized that it hit the root of my need to explore. As I looked down the barrel of my senior year on campus, it looked as though this year would be filled with the same things and people that had filled my junior year — essentially marking a stoppage in time by Ishiuchi’s standards.

This scared me because I wanted to meet more people, do new things and not feel stagnant.

As I drove back to campus earlier this week, I thought about the unfamiliar peo-ple, places and experiences that pushed me so far outside of my comfort zone. I then realized that those things were all very familiar to me now.

More importantly, I realized that Champaign — the epitome of a comfort zone only eight months ago — was now unfamiliar in many ways.

Many of my friends have graduated, my roles in activities have lessened and Green Street is looking quite different.

These changes mean new challenges. Fortunately, eight months of the

unknown and three years of a truly great educational experience at the University have prepared me for anything.

John is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @JohnBuysse.

Journey through college isn’t a straight readJOHN BUYSSE

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D uring the winter storm nearly two weeks ago, interstate highways and other road-ways went from nearly white-out conditions to impassable. All motorists were told that travel conditions were life-threatening and

that if they travel and become stranded, help might not come in because of the below-freezing temperatures.

Yet, the Illinois State Police were actively on the roads, responding to calls for help — thousands of them throughout a three-day stretch. Between Sunday and Tuesday, police responded to more than 6,000 incidents, including 3,932 motorist assists, 792 crashes and 534 traffic stops.

The sheer number of incidents the Illinois State Po-lice reported to makes their statewide efforts heroic.

For most of the year, these men and women are in-visible to us. We don’t know their names or much about them.

But, we commend their efforts under some of the most extreme conditions the area has seen in years.

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Anna is a junior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].

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munity to vote once a day, as this was the maximum amount allowed per day by PwC.

“The last two hours of vot-ing on that night were easily the most intense hours of work I’ve ever had, and maybe in life,” Fontana said.

On Dec. 2, Team Innovate dis-covered that they won with more than 11,000 votes, exceeding University of California, Berke-ley’s vote total by less than 10 votes.

“Once they found out that they won, they really began to focus on making this the best presentation it can be,” Fon-tana said. “The maturity and the professionalism continued to increase every time we hit a new milestone.”

Fontana said that even dur-ing fi nal exams, the team was “still focused on not leaving any stone unturned for the national competition.”

Before presenting at nation-als, PwC connected the team to more associates and members from the fi rm to review their presentation and answer any questions they had.

For Liu, the opportunity to work with professionals from PwC was especially exciting because of an internship she will

begin with the fi rm in their Chi-cago offi ce in the summer.

“This fi rm is so dedicated to all of its people,” Liu said. “Even though not all of us were employ-ees of the fi rm, they were so will-ing to spend so much time and energy. It was really surprising in a good way.”

Tim Reierson and Robin Mill-er, fi rm relationship partners from PwC, acted as coaches, mentors, advocates and sound-ing boards for Team Innovate throughout December and early January to prepare them for the national round.

“I wanted the students to always feel that we believed in them and that no matter the out-come, we were going to be proud of them,” Rierson said.

Once the team arrived in New York City, they received T-shirts, jackets and other give-aways, and the company took them out to dinner and to see “Wicked” on Broadway. The next day, they were given some time to prepare in a boardroom, and then they presented for the judges. Each member was the expert on a certain aspect of the case, and Bosworth opened and closed the presentation.

“Our presentation at nationals was probably the best presen-tation we’d given, and we real-ly left no regrets in New York,” Wolken said.

While the University allows

students to pick their team-mates, many of the teams who attend nationals are assigned based on intellect and ability. Both Fontana and Wolken agreed that having the opportunity to pick teammates enabled a genu-ine chemistry for the team.

“It’s going to sound cheesy, but over the process, you think you have a 12-minute presenta-tion and each person is going to take their part and then be done,” Wolken said. “But you forget how important it is for the four other members of the team to not only know what you’re presenting on, but understand what’s going into it. If someone was struggling during the Q-and-A, any one of us could’ve stepped in and answered because we all knew our parts so well.”

Though the team did not win fi rst place, they were the fi rst group to compete at the national level from the University since 2010.

“The success of this year’s competition is largely measured by how much the team has devel-oped and grown, personally and professionally,” Miller said. “I truly believe coming out of this, they have the confi dence to know that they can do whatever they want.”

Alice can be reached at [email protected].

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changed our world,” she said. And the depth of Dr. King’s

legacy is one that cannot be sim-ply learned through books about the civil rights movement, Fon-tana said. Nor can it be limited or labeled as merely history, he said.

“It’s a movement that contin-ues. We need to be able to take his messages and keep them

moving as a part of your life today and see that the effort is not done,” he said.

Along with this, Noble III said he hopes students and communi-ty members will be able to see that MLK Jr.’s legacy and the civil rights movement does not pertain only to “black folks.”

“I think it’s bigger than that. It’s about equality. It’s about jus-tice,” he said. “For that reason, I hope that people understand that Dr. King was about progress that included everyone’s voice and

feel that we have to continue that type of process for our future.”

All events are free except “Realizing the Dream: Explor-ing Social and Economic Class on Campus” and the “Poverty Sim-ulation,” which both require a RSVP to Fontana or Noble III. The commemorative week will end on Saturday with a commu-nity celebration at the Krannert Center from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Stephanie can be reached at [email protected].

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BY STEPHANIE KIMSTAFF WRITER

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is much more than a day off from school and work for most — it is an

opportunity to serve and give back to the community.

Since 1983, the third Monday of January has marked a federal holiday in honor of Rev. Dr. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. and the lega-cy he left behind as a front-runner of equal rights, peace and unity. In 1994, Congress designated the King holiday as a National Day of Service in response to his press-ing question: “What are you doing for others?”

This is a question that students and community members of Cham-paign-Urbana can answer for themselves. Not only for today, but for the entire week — and through-out the year.

This year’s theme of the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Celebration is “Honoring the Civil Rights Move-ment as the Struggle Continues: Empowering the Dream ... Make It Your Own.”

The commemorative week began last Friday with the 13th Annu-al Countywide Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at the Hilton Garden Inn — with keynote speaker Cheryl Brown Hender-

son, daughter of the late Oliver L. Brown (Brown v. Board of Educa-tion) — and the 29th Anniversa-ry Event at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Sun-day night.

Monday morning, the Advocacy for Justice Committee invited com-munity members to celebrate the birth of MLK Jr. as a way to begin the National Day of Service. The rest of the day unfolded with two service events that encouraged students and Champaign-Urbana residents to engage in their own communities. Both events aimed to provide on-site volunteer activi-ties to continue Dr. King’s dream of unifying a diverse community.

These events jump started the commemorative week, which seeks to “speak to the diversity and voice of civil rights and struggles that Dr. King faced,” said Otis Noble III, co-chair of the Commemora-tive MLK Committee and senior campus and community affairs specialist.

“With planning these events, it really is at the core trying to bring a full community and say, ‘This is what we remember; this was a great struggle that really changed our country. But there is more work to be done, and together we can make that happen,’” Noble III said.

To achieve this goal, the Com-

memorative MLK Committee tried to make their events “open, acces-sible and inviting to a wide variety of people,” said Anthony Fontana, co-chair of the Commemorative MLK Committee and associate director of admissions and enrich-ment academy.

Events include dinner celebra-tions, breakfasts, movies, vol-unteer opportunities, panel dis-cussions and a first-time poverty simulation in collaboration with the University’s School of Social Work on Friday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The objective of this simula-tion is to “better understand the issues, hurdles and roadblocks that individuals living in poverty face,” said Christin Avgar, School of Social Work assistant dean for student affairs and Commemora-tive MLK Committee member. The simulation will be held at 1010 W. Nevada St. in Urbana.

Although the poverty simulation may be more engaging or active than other events, Avgar urges stu-dents to participate in what the MLK, Jr. celebration has to offer as a whole.

“All of the events provide the opportunity for all individuals to come together to celebrate the leg-acy of a truly remarkable man who

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Business students advance to national competitionBY ALICE SMELYANSKYSTAFF WRITER

The theme was “One compa-ny, one world, one future.” But it was one relentless commit-ment to the PricewaterhouseC-oopers LLP case competition that allowed a group of students from the University to reach the national level.

On Jan. 3 and 4, the mem-bers of Team Innovate — Nao-mi Liu, Michael Bosworth, Jas-mine Joda, Saajan Patel and Joshua Wolken — flew to New

York City to compete against four other schools in PwC’s annual xTREME Accounting Competition.

Though nationals took place over a course of two days, the journey to get there began weeks before, when the students entered the contest against 29 other teams from the University in mid-October.

Anthony Fontana, associ-ate director of Admissions and Enrichment Academy in the Col-lege of Business, and Brooke

Elliott, associate professor of accounting, were advisers for the competition. They worked on recruiting students and aid-ing them throughout the process. Once the case was given out, the teams had two weeks to create a 12-minute presentation for a panel of judges.

The case was about a hypo-thetical company called Perpet-ual Energy Group, a company that was considering building a biodiesel facility. Students were given information about Perpet-

ual Energy Group and had to analyze the building of this facil-ity from a financial, environmen-tal and social aspect, Liu said.

As soon as Liu and her team-mates knew about the case, they weighed each other’s strengths and weaknesses, assessed solu-tions and structured the analysis along with its creative aspects.

“We had practiced so much and invested so much time into this, there really wasn’t much time for nerves,” said Wolken, junior in Business. “At the U

of I round especially, we spent countless hours perfecting the 12-minute speech that I could say I was more nervous for the Q-and-A.”

Leading up to the first round, Wolken and his four teammates practiced for at least two hours every day, and about six to seven on the last two days before the presentation. On the evening of Nov. 4, the team won the Univer-sity round. Shortly after, they entered an intense video contest against University of California,

Berkeley and University of Cin-cinnati to secure a spot at the national round.

The students were told to film a one-minute video explaining why they deserved to go to New York City. From there, they worked against the clock to get as many votes on Facebook as possible by Dec. 1. Since most of the voting took place over Thanksgiving break, the team reached out to the campus com-

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Champaign-Urbana celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr.

MLK Jr. celebration events

Tuesday, Jan. 21Freedom Rider6 p.m. to 9 p.m.The Art Theater CO-OP126 W. Church St., Champaign

Wednesday, Jan. 22Intersection of Diversity: Civil Rights Discussion from Multiple Perspectives3 p.m. to 4 p.m.Student Dining and ResidentialPrograms Building, Room 2050301 E. Gregory Dr., Champaign

Realizing the Dream: Exploring Social and Economic Class on Campus5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.MP6 ARC201 E. Peabody Drive, ChampaignCo-Sponsored: CORE, OIIR, I-PromiseDinner RSVP required by January 21 at 5 p.m.Contact: Medra Roberts-Southerland ([email protected])

Thursday, Jan. 23“What is the Civil Rights Movement?”5 p.m. to 7 p.m.Krannert Un-corkedKrannert Center for the Performing Arts500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana

Friday, Jan. 24Poverty Simulation1 p.m. to 3 p.m.School of Social Work1010 W. Nevada St., UrbanaThis is an RSVP only eventRSVP to Anthony Fontana ([email protected]) or Otis Noble III ([email protected])

Saturday, Jan. 25MLK, Jr. Community CelebrationMLK Writing Contest: Presentation of Winners10 a.m. to 1 p.m.Krannert Center for the Performing Arts500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana

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BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

Illinois head coach John Groce lost his temper, his sport coat and his fourth straight game Saturday night as the Illini fell to No. 4 Michigan State 78-62.

Illinois fell behind 35-25 at halftime after being out-rebounded by the Spartans 24-10 in the opening half. The Spartans were able to extend the lead to 13 points with 15:41 remaining, but the Illini cut the defi cit to 59-53 with 6:09 remaining. The crowd rose to its feet, but Spartans guard Keith Appling hit a 3-pointer to extend the Michigan State lead back up to nine.

On the other end of the court, Illinois’ Jon Ekey hit a 3-pointer, but it was waived as Kendrick Nunn set an ille-gal screen leading to the shot, launching Groce into a min-utes-long, curse-ridden tirade about the offi ciating that even-tually saw him throwing his coat and being held back by assistant coach Dustin Ford after being issued a technical foul with 1:38 remaining.

After the game, Groce only

had positive words about the offi cials.

“I thought they were terrif-ic,” Groce said.

Groce, however, wasn’t as happy with the play from his veterans, particularly cen-ter Nnanna Egwu and guard Joseph Bertrand.

Egwu was held scoreless for the second straight game, shooting 0-for-3, grabbing just two rebounds and com-mitting four fouls in 22 min-utes. Bertrand also commit-ted four fouls to go along with four points and two turnovers.

“They’ve got to play better,” Groce said. “I’ve got a lot of confi dence in those guys that they can play better. They have played better. They have to hang in there and fi gure it out.”

Junior Tracy Abrams, who fi nished with a team-high 15 points, wasn’t too worried about Egwu and Bertrand.

“Those guys understand that this is a grind,” Abrams said. “It’s a long season. We got 12 rounds left.”

With Egwu and Bertrand struggling, freshmen Maverick

Illini lose 4th straight to MSU; Groce loses cool

A thletic performances unfold on the fi eld of play. It’s those performances, however, that lead to accolades and

recognition away from the arena. Awards get you noticed, and the recognition athletes receive from their achievements can end up elevating them to the highest level of the sport.

The accolades and good news rolled in last weekend for several current and former Illini athletes. The men’s and women’s gymnastics programs had successful meets, headlined by the awards their freshmen athletes received Monday. Chandler Eggleston of the men’s team received his second-straight Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor for his performance at the Windy City Invitational on Saturday. Eggleston won a title in fl oor exercise and fi nished third on vault. His efforts helped the Illini tie Ohio State for second place at the meet.

On the women’s side, freshman Erin Buchanan helped the Illini win its tri-meet at Huff Hall, capturing a title in fl oor exercise in the process. She was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for the fi rst time in her career.

Senior Vanessa DiBernardo of the Illinois soccer team was drafted fourth overall on Friday in the National Women’s Soccer League College Draft by the Chicago Red Stars. The two-time NCAA All-American is the highest-drafted player in school history, and the Naperville native now has a chance to play professionally roughly 30 miles from where she grew up.

“I’m excited and honored to be drafted by the Chicago Red Stars, especially because it’s my hometown,” DiBernardo said in a press release.

The Chicago Red Stars are a member of the nine-team NWSL, a league in its second year of existence. Its teams

feature some of the most recognizable names in women’s soccer, including National Team members Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan.

DiBernardo wasn’t the only Illini to receive exciting news over the weekend. Former Illinois track athlete Aja Evans was named to the U.S. Olympic Boblsed team on Sunday. She will compete at the 2014 Sochi Olympics in February.

Evans took up bobsledding in March of 2012 following a decorated career at Illinois. She was a fi ve-time All-American and three-time Big Ten Champion at Illinois as a thrower and sprinter. She wasted no time becoming a force in her new sport, as she was named USA Bobsled’s Rookie of the Year. Now she will compete in the Olympics less than two years after taking up the sport and less than four years after graduating from Illinois.

Not a bad start to the semester, huh? DiBernardo and Evans both had dominant careers at Illinois, so it is hardly a surprise that their success has continued after their college careers came to a

close. Headlines and awards accompanied their performances at Illinois, and their good fortune at the next stage of their careers is impressive but expected. The best athletes move to the top.

The honors received by Eggleston and Buchanan may be a sign of things to come. Maybe a Freshman of the Week award will turn into a Player of the Year award. We can

only hope. But we should be proud of the positive recognition our athletes receive, at this level and the next.

Alex is a sophomore in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected] and @aroux94.

Illini athletes bring good news

BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER

On a wrestling team that has been battling injuries all season, redshirt freshman Zac Brunson has been feeling the need to step up.

No. 16 Brunson took the mat against Michigan’s No. 13 Brian Murphy in the 157-pound match and, after a scoreless fi rst period, was able to secure two minutes of riding time in the second and score a point for an escape in the third to win 2-0. Despite holding a lower ranking, Brunson didn’t think of the win as an upset.

“I defi nitely think now that I was the better wrestler,” Brunson said. “In the end, I got the win for the team and a win for myself. Whether it was an upset or not, I felt pretty good about it.”

Brunson’s gritty victory wasn’t enough for the Illini, however, as they dropped

another Big Ten dual against Michigan on Friday by a fi nal score of 13-19, remaining winless against the Big Ten.

Head coach Jim Heffernan is not overly concerned with the team record and has put a greater focus on individual performances, because individuals and not a team as a whole make it to the NCAA tournament in March.

Heffernan wouldn’t say he was disappointed with the team, and he sees its losses as learning opportunities for the future.

“There were situations in a couple of matches where if we were to score the next points, we would have won,” Heffernan said. “It was one of those deals where we just didn’t do enough. We pointed out some things, and I hope those were practical learning situations that our guys will get something from.”

In particular, he pointed to No. 11 Jackson Morse’s loss against No. 8 Dan Yates. Morse had trouble connecting on his attacks and putting pressure on his opponent, eventually losing the match 7-3.

“He did a good job of closing space and getting me to wrestle his match by putting me in a front headlock a lot,” Morse said.

“He made me work hard from there.”The injuries on the team continue to

be a problem, with Mario Gonzalez and Steven Rodrigues sitting out of the meet. Heffernan said the biggest effect the injuries have had is limiting the healthy wrestlers’ chances to spar with teammates.

Illinois’ next challenge will be its biggest of the season as it travels to take on the No. 1 team and three-time reigning NCAA champion Penn State on Jan. 24.

Despite the losses, Brunson said the team has kept its spirits high as it heads into the most diffi cult part of the schedule.

Heffernan is also looking forward to the challenge the Penn State dual presents, in which Illinois will be considered an underdog for the fi rst time this season.

“Our guys should be excited, and the thing is we’re underdogs, so we have to compete that way,” Heffernan said. “If you can’t be ready for the No. 1 team in the country, the three-time defending champion in a packed gym, then you really don’t have a heartbeat.”

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

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Women’s athletics had a weekend of awards and recognition in number of sports

“I’m excited and honored to be drafted by the Chicago Red Stars,

especially becuase it’s my hometown.”

VANESSA DIBERNARDOILLINI SOCCER PLAYER

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BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

The Illini hockey team took advantage of two easy oppo-nents for a pair of routine victo-ries before they head into three weeks of tougher matchups.

No. 20 Illinois (15-13-1) defeated the Chicago Jr. Bull-dogs 6-1 on Friday night and continued that momentum Sat-urday night with a 10-2 win over Eastern Illinois.

Illinois was scheduled to play a weekend series against DePaul, but after the Blue Demons canceled, the Illini found two new opponents in Eastern Illinois and the Chica-go Jr. Bulldogs — a junior-lev-el hockey team of which Illini junior Jacob Matysiak was the captain in the 2010-11 season.

“We could’ve practiced this weekend or something, but it’s always good to have some game situations against opponents,” defenseman Cody von Rueden said. “At the bottom line, it’s always fun to play games. Espe-cially at home.”

The Bulldogs put a scare into Illinois when they scored three minutes into the first period after a slow start from the Illini, but six unanswered Illini goals in the first and second periods lifted them over their junior-level opponent.

Junior Jon Langan scored twice, while senior John Scully and sophomore Matt Johnson each scored one apiece. Matt Welch added a goal of his own,

in addition to a skillful assist to senior Mike Evans when he skated the puck through the slot, patiently passed up an opportu-nity for a shot through traffic and passed back to a trailing Evans for an easy goal.

But it was the play of fresh-man Zach Danna that kept the Illini out front. Danna made 29 saves, including an impressive second period save on a one-timer that he stopped with the knob of his stick when the Illini led 3-1, not just saving the Illi-ni from giving up another goal but also from giving up a huge momentum swing in the Bull-dogs’ favor.

Friday night’s win was Dan-na’s first career start at the collegiate level, having played just one period prior. In total, Danna has a 0.972 save per-centage, having given up just one goal on 36 shots. After the 6-1 win, Danna said he feels more comfort-able between the pipes as head coach Nick Fabbri-ni continues to give him more ice-time.

“Zach had to make a lot more tough saves than I was hoping he had to make,” Fabbrini said. “He played great. They had some really good chances, and if Zach didn’t play as well as he did, they definitely would’ve been in the game.”

Illinois dominated Eastern from the puck-drop Saturday night, holding the puck in the Panthers’ zone for the major-ity of the game. The constant

Illini pressure led to a tired Panthers defense whose game plan quickly became dumping the puck for icing with little offensive threat on the tran-sition, producing just 16 shots throughout the game.

The Illini held a 9-0 advan-tage over the Panthers after just two periods before going on to win 10-2 with three goals from senior John Scully and two from senior Eddie Quagliata.

Jacob Matysiak, Jonathan Gauger, Matt Welch, Zach Mor-rison and Josh Baker all added individual goals, while fresh-man Cody von Rueden added three assists Saturday night for five total on the weekend.

Illinois scored 16 times on 82 shots throughout the week-end. Fabbrini said he was hap-py with the Illini’s ability con-vert scoring chances into goals

this weekend, s o m e t h i n g Illini forwards have struggled with all sea-son but must be able to do against three top-10 oppo-nents in the coming weeks.

“There are no easy wins in hockey,” von Rueden said after Sat-urday’s win.

“This weekend was kind of a tune-up to work on some stuff that we need to work on for the big games coming up. We did our job and that’s all you can ask for, but now we’ve got to get ready for Ohio next week.”

Sean can be reached at [email protected] and @Neumannthehuman.

Club hockey picks up 2 easy victories on weekend

BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois swimming team escaped a long weekend of com-petition with an even record by defeating three of its six opponents.

Illinois opened the weekend competition in Ames, Iowa, on Friday as they defeated Iowa State 168-132, claiming eight event wins.

The Illini fell behind early after the Cyclones jumped to a 21-15 lead despite Illinois win-ning the 200-medley and the 1000-yard freestyle.

They were able to take control in both 200 free and 200 butter-fly where they swept both events and took a 65-47 lead they would never surrender.

Freshmen duo Gabbie Steck-er and Amelia Schilling led the team with 35 combined points. Stecker, who is a Bettendford, Iowa, native, won three individ-ual events, claiming firsts in the 200 free, 500 free and 400 IM with times of 1 minute, 52.54 seconds, 4:56.52 and 4:28.81, respectively.

Other first-place finishes for the Illini included Alison Meng in the 100 backstroke (56.95) and 100 fly (56.93), Lori Lynn in the 200 fly (2:05.00), Jessica Holz in the 200 back (2:03.55) and Erica Lynn in the 200 breaststoke (2:21.07).

The team also claimed the 400 free relay as Meng, Pope, Holz, and Morgan Marchuk swam a time of 3:29.33.

Head coach Sue Novitsky was proud of the way her team was able to respond to falling behind early.

“It was a competitive meet all the way through with a lot of close races,” Novitsky said. “Iowa State kept fighting and we needed to stay focused. We did a better job of putting our-selves in the mix and being aggressive at the start of the races and fight-ing to the wall.”

The Illini continued a long of week-end of competi-tion Saturday as they faced No. 11 Indiana, No. 21 Missouri and Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

Competing for a second con-secutive day took a toll on the Illini as the team captured just one event win when Meng won the 100 back with a time of 55.50.

The team was closest to upset-ting Missouri with a nine-point deficit at 154-145. They also suf-fered losses to Indiana (193-103) and Iowa (198-101).

Pope finished second in the 200 free (1:51.81) and was part of the 400 free relay that placed second with a time of 3:27.36.

Novitsky knew her team was not in best shape heading into Saturday’s meet.

“You could see the fatigue catch up to us a little in the mid-dle of the meet,” Novitsky said. “We are at the point in the sea-son where you are very tired and sore. We asked a lot of our kids to swim the full number of allowed events, and they kept racing strong which was great to see.”

The Illini completed their long weekend of competition Monday as they hosted Southern Illinois

and Olivet Naz-arene, where they won 12 of 16 events to beat both Southern Illinois (199.5-96.5) and Oliv-et Nazarene (245-50).

Meng placed first in both the 50 free (24.05) and 200 back (2:01.93). She was also part of the 200 med-ley relay team (1:45.57) and

the 200 free relay (1:37.71), which both placed first.

Pope also finished first in the 100 free (51.96) as well as the 200 IM (2:09.09) in addition to being on both winning relay teams.

After a long weekend of com-petition, the Illini were happy to end it on a winning note.

“It was tough but doable for us,” Meng said. “We knew we had to give it our all to be able to compete.”

Michal can be reached at [email protected] and @bennythebull94.

Illini swimming split long weekend of competitions 3-3

BY THOMAS DONLEYSTAFF WRITER

On what head coach Mike Turk called “an outstanding day,” the Illinois men’s track and field team took first place over the seven-team field at the Illini Classic, scoring 227.5 points, 125 points better than second-place Memphis.

Seven Illini claimed event titles Saturday, and 13 others finished within the top-three in their respective events.

“The thing that was really encouraging were the perfor-mances we had without three of our big scorers,” Turk said in a press release. “Matt Bane, Vanier Joseph and Stephon Pam-ilton are all Big Ten champions, but we held them out today. To see us come through with the performances we had and to see some young guys really step up

was a great thing.”For the second time in as

many weeks, freshman David Kendziera won the 60-meter hurdles, setting a personal best of 8.04 seconds, .01 seconds away from the top 10 in school history. Teammate Cam Viney finished second with a time of 8.06 in his season debut.

Illinois swept the top three in the 60 meters, as Brandon Stryganek, the defending Big Ten champion, took first for the second straight week. Darius Thomas finished second, and DJ Zahn took third. Stryganek also took first in the 200 meters, while Zahn finished third.

“Brandon was really good today,” Turk said. “The times he recorded in both the (60) and (200) were great for him this early in the season. He’s never run that fast this early. DJ Zahn really showed that he’s getting himself back in shape, and it was great to have Cam Viney back this week.”

Zahn finished the 400 meters with a time of 48.99 to take first in the event, with freshman

Kenneth Allen placing second in his first career collegiate race at that distance. Zebo Zebe finished third in the 600, and Joe McAsey took second in the 800.

Liam Markham took second in the mile in his season debut, while Luke Carroll took third. Illinois also claimed two of the top three spots in the 3,000, with Jordan Hebert knocking 10 seconds off of his person-al best to finish second, while Jannis Toepfer took third. Ken-dziera, Viney, Zebe and Josh Jones combined to take second in the 4x400.

The Illini enjoyed continued success in the field events at the Illini Classic, taking home three event titles for the sec-ond week in a row. Davis Frak-er won the weight throw with a distance of 20.54m. Kendziera won the high jump with a per-sonal-best 6.87 meters, while Branden Tanthavong took first in the triple jump.

Thomas can be reached at [email protected].

Men’s track and Field team places 1st at Illini Classic

BY NICHOLAS FORTINASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The Illinois women’s track team started its indoor season with two impressive perfor-mances at home.

After taking nine individual titles in the season-opening Illi-ni Open, the team finished first in a 10-team field at the Illini Classic on Saturday.

“It was a great day and a great meet,” head coach Ron Garner said in a press release. “Last week, we came back from break and knew we had some work to do. We did a lot of work in the

past two weeks, and we came in today and did some more. We did some quality things and as a whole, we saw a team that was ready to compete.”

I l l i n o i s scored 159 points, 66 more than Mem-phis who fin-ished second with 93 points. Northern Illi-nois, Western Michigan and Eastern Illi-nois rounded out the top five with 73.50, 54 and 53.50 points, respectively.

Five Illini, including senior Kawanna Brooks and junior Asia Thomas, won individual events and another five placed in the top

three in their events.Thomas won her first 400-meter

race of the season with a time of 56.68 seconds and contribut-ed to the 4x400-meter relay team that also placed first.

Brooks also had a great day, winning the 60-meter hur-dles the second straight week.

Illinois will look to contin-ue its early-season success this Jan. 24 and

25 at the Rod McCravy Memo-rial Meet in Lexington, Ky.

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

Illinois women’s track places 1st at Illini Classic

MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINIJohn Langan looks to center the puck during Friday’s game against Ohio at the Illinois Ice Arena.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Gabbie Stecker takes a breath during the 500 yard freestyle even at the meet against Southern Illinois and Olivet Nazarene at the ARC, on Monday.

No. 20-rankedhockey team defeats Chicago Jr. and Eastern Illinois

“At the bottom line, it’s always

fun to play games. Especially

at home.”CODY VON RUEDEN

ILLINI DEFENSEMAN

Senior Kawanna Brooks wins the 60-meter hurdles again this week

“It was a great day and a great meet. We did

some quality things and as a whole, we saw a

team that was ready to compete.”

RON GARNERHEAD COACH

Despite ending on winning note, Illiniendure fatigue a!er 6-meet weekend

“We asked a lot of our kids to swim the number of allowed

events, and they kept racing strong which was great to see.”

SUE NOVITSKYHEAD COACH

Illini achieve 7 individual titles at weekend event

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BY PETER BAILEY-WELLSSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s tennis team found welcoming beaches and high temperatures when they arrived in Maui for the annual Hawaii exhibition tournament.

The opponents they faced were not nearly as welcoming.

This was the first trip for the team as a whole, and the Illini fin-ished 11-20 in individual play this weekend in their final tune-up before hidden dual play begins. The tournament was an exhibi-tion and results do not affect reg-ular season records.

No. 4 Georgia, No. 29 Okla-homa State, and Hawaii-Pacif-ic were the Illini’s opponents this weekend, and they showed that this season is going to be an interesting one for an Illini pro-gram that is fighting for national relevance.

The Illini waited out a rain delay Thursday, and afterward went 0-9 against No. 4 Geor-gia, a perennial women’s tennis powerhouse.

Friday, both the weather and the Illini’s play improved, as they went 8-4 against Hawaii-Pacific, who traveled just one island over for the tournament.

The doubles team of All-Amer-ican Junior Melissa Kopinski and Freshman Alexis Casati won their doubles match 6-3 as well as picking up wins in each of their singles matches against the Sea Warriors.

Then on Sunday, the tide turned back against the Illini, and they finished 3-7 against No. 29 Oklahoma State. Casati, Senior Allison Falkin, and Junior Julia Jamieson collected the Illi-ni’s three wins in their respective singles matches. Illinois dropped a 4-3 nail-biter to the Cowboys in San Diego last season

Casati turned in the best per-formance of the weekend for the Illini, finishing 2-1 in doubles and along with Kopinski, produced the biggest doubles win of the weekend for the team.

All of the matches were played outdoors in temperatures above

70 degrees, which is in stark con-trast to the indoor matches the Illini will be playing, both home and away, well into March.

The Illini’s home opener is a Jan. 24 double-header versus St. Louis and Chicago.

The Billikens and the Maroons are rare nonconference oppo-nents for the Illini, who have not faced either team in spring play in more than a decade.

The Illini will then face tra-ditional early-season opponents UIC and Illinois State in a sec-ond straight home double-head-er on Jan 26. In the last decade, the Orange and Blue have not dropped a match to either in-state rival.

The Illini look to get off to a better start this season than they did last year, where they were swept in their season opener at Miami.

Peter can be reached at [email protected] Follow him on Twitter @pbaileywells22.

Women’s tennis kicks off season in Hawaii

BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER

Nearly 10 points separated the Illinois women’s gymnastics team from the second place opponent in Saturday’s home-opening win. Illinois ran away with the tri-meet, scoring a 196.175 to triumph over Centenary College and Wisconsin-Eau Claire, which posted scores of 186.650 and 185.975, respectively.

“A 196 is a great score, especially for the second meet,” sophomore Giana O’Connor said. “There’s always room for improvement and always things we can work on, but I think (Saturday) went really well.”

The team totals for Illinois featured a score above a 49 in all events besides vault, where the Illini scored a 48.7.

“It was great for our team to come out for the first time at home and really hit four for four events,” head coach Kim Landrus said.

Along with the win, the Illini placed in the top five for all of the events, giving Illinois the clean sweep. Senior Amber See won her

second straight vault title with a 9.8. Junior Sunny Kato brought home her first event title of the season with a 9.9 on the uneven bars. On the balance beam, Kato and senior Elizabeth McNabb tied for first with scores of 9.85. Riding a wave of confidence, O’Connor won her first all-around title with a score of 39.250.

“ T h e first meet I lacked some c o n f i d e n c e , and I’ve been working on it all week to build it up,” O’Connor said. “I came in here pretty confident that I was going to hit.”

Freshman Erin Buchanan also earned her first collegiate event title. Her 9.925 on floor exercise was the highest individual score of the night, which didn’t surprise Landrus.

“We always knew that Erin was a really talented individual, so it’s just great that she actually is now able to come out and perform,” Landrus said. “She’s a performer. She loves to compete, so I’m very proud of her, because she’s worked

really hard this preseason.”

Despite all of this early s u c c e s s , Landrus knows there’s still work to do.

“We have to continue to be agg ressive ,” Landrus said. “We have to continue to attack. We have to continue to

work on all of the little things that make such a big difference in our sport.”

Ashley can be reached at [email protected] and @wijangco12.

Gymnastics takes win at home-opening tournament

BY J.J. WILSONASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The No. 22 Illinois men’s ten-nis team shone as brightly as the Florida sun at the three-day Illini Open in Ft. Myers, Fla., last weekend.

In the prelude to their dual season, the Illini’s top two singles players both dominat-ed their competition with 3-0 records. No. 4 sophomore Jar-ed Hiltzik sank his competitors with three straight-set victo-ries, his best win coming over No. 100 Sasha Gozun from South Florida at 6-4, 6-4.

Meanwhile, No. 46 junior Tim Kopinski earned his own straight-set victory of 6-1, 6-5(4) on the first day but was forced to win two three-set tiebreakers to stay undefeated on the week-

end. No. 106 junior Farris Gos-ea also posted a strong 2-1 per-formance on the weekend, his only blemish coming in third-set tiebreaker loss following two straight-set victories.

Illinois saw less success on the doubles end with its high-est ranked tandem going 1-1 on the weekend. After playing with other teammates on Day 1, No. 4 juniors Ross Guignon and Tim Kopinski fell in a tiebreak-er 6-5(5) on Day 2 against an unranked duo from No. 15 Flor-ida. The Illini tandem respond-ed on Day 3 with a 6-4 victory over the No. 16 pair of Oliver Pramming and Ignacio Gonza-lez-Muniz from South Florida.

Other standout doubles per-formances from Illinois came from its other two ranked tan-

dems — No. 27 Gosea and Blake Bazarnik and No. 31 Hiltzik and Alex Jesse. Hiltzik’s strong per-formances in both doubles and singles earned him the tourna-ment’s Most Outstanding Play-er award.

Each recorded 2-1 records on the weekend, but only Hiltzik and Jesse were able to join their compatriots in defeating the ranked pair from South Flor-ida, 6-1.

The spring season will be in full swing this weekend when the Illini travel to Oxford, Miss., for the ITA Kickoff weekend against No. 11 Ole Miss, No. 23 Clemson and No. 26 Michigan.

J.J. can be reached at [email protected] and @Wilsonable07.

Hiltzik, Kopinski shine in men’s tennis meetTop singles players dominate at Illini Open in Florida

Morgan and Nunn each played a career high in minutes. Mor-gan had 16 minutes and scored four points while grabbing three rebounds. Nunn produced five points, three rebounds and two assists. Freshman Malcolm

Hill added eight points and two rebounds on 3-for-5 shooting in 13 minutes, including nine in the first half.

Groce said he liked the way his team fought, but it lost to a better basketball team — one that shot 56 percent from the field and 40 percent from three, while outrebounding the Illini 38-25.

“It certainly wasn’t because of a lack of effort, or energy,” Groce said. “We made some mis-takes, and they took advantage of them.

“All in all, we were right there.”

Johnathan can be reached at [email protected] and @jhett93.

BY RANDY COVITZMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

DENVER — None of the Denver Broncos waited as long for a trip to the Super Bowl as cornerback Champ Bailey.

Fifteen years.Bailey, a 15-year NFL veteran,

12-time Pro Bowler and future Hall of Famer, hadn’t contributed much to the Broncos’ run to the AFC championship game. A foot injury kept him out of 11 games this sea-son, and he made just three starts.

But a season-ending knee injury to former Kansas star Chris Har-ris Jr. allowed Bailey to reclaim his starting left cornerback job Sunday. And Bailey played a crucial role in the Broncos beating Tom Brady and the New England Patriots 26-16, which put Denver in Super Bowl XLVIII against Seattle.

“That’s what it’s all about — get yourself to have a chance to get in the big one, and that’s where we are now,” Bailey said.

No one could understand what reaching the Super Bowl meant to Bailey more than Broncos quarter-back Peyton Manning.

“I’m certainly happy for Champ, I know a lot of people are,” said Man-ning, a longtime opponent of Bai-ley’s. “Let’s see, Champ’s one year younger than me, so he’s in his 15th season . . . it’s hard to get to the Super Bowl. It’s hard to win it, but I’m telling you it’s hard to get there.

“Champ played well (on Sunday). I’m glad that he’s back out there on the field. He’s battled through some injuries and has stayed at it and been committed to his rehab.”

A year ago, Bailey played all 16 games for the ninth time in his career and was voted a starter for his 12th Pro Bowl — a record for a defensive back. But he suffered a Lisfranc sprain on the turf at Seat-tle in the second preseason game, and at 35 years old, there were some doubts whether Bailey would ever be back.

“I had a million thoughts go through my head with this injury,” he said. “And I’ve never had to deal with something like this. I knew I would come back. You might not have known, but I knew I’d be back at some point.

“My coaches, teammates they never gave up on me. They knew I’d be back to 100 percent at some point, and here I am. I’m playing probably my best football of the year because I haven’t played much, and I’m just looking forward to the next one.”

Bailey watched as other corners, notably Harris, took over the spot he manned since coming to Den-ver in 2004 in a blockbuster trade with Washington for running back Clinton Portis. The most dangerous thing he could do was come back too soon.

“I don’t put damaged goods on the field, so that’s just how I am,” Bailey said . “We’re all banged up — we all got something to deal with. It’s not

about my health. I mean I feel good and it showed (Sunday), and I’m just looking forward to the next one.”

Bailey was one of several Bron-cos players who dealt with adver-sity, be it season-ending injuries to starters such as center Dan Koppen, tackle Ryan Clady and linebacker Von Miller or the heart surgery coach John Fox underwent in the middle of the season that sidelined him for four weeks.

“Well, every team goes through something,” Bailey said. “Even New England, they went through a lot this year and they ended up here as well.

“These guys, starting with our head coach, he’s done a great job of making us understand the moments and taking advantage of them. I think with his absence and coming back, we just found a way to win and keep going and that really (is a) credit to him because he made sure that we’re prepared for things like that.”

Broncos’ Champ Bailey reaches Super Bowl after 15 years

Blackhawks’ Hossa not yet ready to retireBY CHRIS KUCCHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — There are moments during the solitude of the road when Marian Hossa’s thoughts inevitably drift to the possibility of no longer being a hockey player.

“It always crosses your mind when the season is getting really long, and you’re on the road and you have lots of time to think,” the Blackhawks winger said. “As long as I can enjoy the game and keep up with the young guys, I want to definitely play. We’ll see how long.”

Having just turned 35 and with 1,064 games spread over 16 NHL seasons under his belt, the unde-niable fact is Hossa is much closer to the end of his career than the beginning.

The other undeniable fact is Hossa is playing at such a high level that any thoughts of retire-ment should be buried deep in the recesses of his mind.

There is arguably no player in the league displaying skills at both ends of the ice that can match Hos-sa’s. The Slovakia native ranks in the top 25 in scoring with 20 goals and 22 assists, leads the league with 57 takeaways and is second with a sparkling plus-25 rating.

As glorious a feeling as it is to score a goal — and he has done so 454 times during his illustrious

career — it’s apparent Hossa gains just as much satisfaction from a takeaway following a strong back check.

“When you look around this room, there are so many goal scor-ers so I don’t have to worry about scoring as much,” Hossa said. “When I came here, I tried to set an example of playing two ways. I learned it and I’m sure there are lots of young players in this dress-ing room like when I was young and I could look up to somebody. Maybe if somebody is willing to play both ways I can be an exam-ple, so I try to do that. I would be happy if I can help that way.”

It is an example set by actions, not words.

“To tell you the truth, I don’t talk about anything,” Hossa said. “I just try to play my way and if they see something, it’s great. I’m not one of those guys who are going to come up to them and try to teach them something.”

Whatever the method, it is delivered.

“He doesn’t act like he’s 35,” said Bryan Bickell, whose stall is next to Hossa’s in the Hawks’ dressing room. “He’s almost like a 25-year-old the way he moves around the ice, his burst of speed and his agility. He’s a solid back-checker, he strips guys with a nev-er-give-up kind of attitude. He’s been a forward in the league for

a long time and I’m sure he’s still got a couple of years.”

Off the ice, Hossa shows team-mates the way to prolong a career while maintaining an All-Star lev-el of play despite having faced major injuries. He has under-gone shoulder surgery, suffered a severe concussion and currently plays despite a disk problem in his back that hindered him during the 2013 Stanley Cup Final.

“He’s a top athlete — amazing conditioning,” coach Joel Quenn-eville said. “He really takes care of himself ... on a daily basis. He plays a smart game (and) he’s not showing any signs of slowing down. Some years it looks like he keeps getting better in a lot of situations.”

While Hossa is among the best-conditioned NHL players, it’s very unlikely he’ll play through the remainder of his contract. He is in the fifth season of a 12-year, $63.3 million deal signed with the Hawks in the summer of 2009. Still, there is no reason — bar-ring another significant injury — Hossa can’t continue on for the foreseeable future.

“I try to take care of my body,” he said. “I know I’m not getting any younger, so the recovery is so important for older guys. You have to be smart what you do off the ice and I try to manage my body in the right way.”

GROCEFROM 1B

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Giana O’Connor performs the uneven bars routine during the meet against Centenary and Wisconsin Eau Claire at Huff Hall on Saturday. The Illini won with 196.175 points.

JERILEE BENNETT MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEDenver Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey pressures Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Mike Brown at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, on Oct. 13.

BRIAN CASSELLA MCCLATCHY TRIBUNEChicago Blackhawks’ Marian Hossa scores against Anaheim Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller in the first period on Friday at the United Center in Chicago.

“We have to continue to be aggressive. We

have to continue to attack.”

KIM LANDRUSWOMEN’S TEAM COACH

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