BY WALBERT CASTILLOSTAFF WRITER

Editor’s Note: A source’s name has been changed to Charlie Johnson to protect his identity.

When Illinois became the 20th state to legalize cannabis for medical purposes earlier this year, it was only a matter of time until medical marijua-na dispensary facilities would arrive in Urbana, said Alder-man Diane Marlin, Ward 7.

Illinois enacted the Com-passionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act in January 2014, allowing for the legal sale and use of medi-cal marijuana.

Four companies in Urbana are waiting to hear back after submitting their applications on Sept. 22 for medical mar-ijuana dispensary licenses, which would allow them to sell cannabis to patients diag-nosed with any of the 38 debil-itating medical conditions.

Libby Tyler, community development director and city planner of Urbana, said the city received applications from Green Thumb Wellness, Pfx Farms of Illinois, The

MedMen of Illinois LLC and Nu Med RX LLC.

Despite marijuana legaliza-tion, Marlin said there is an underlying confl ict between what the states are doing and what the federal govern-ment considers to be illegal activity.

The federal government

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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIAadeel Akhtar, a graduate in Neuroscience, and Michael Fatina, a sophomore in Engineering, demonstrates the prosthetic hand in action at the Coordinated Science Laboratory on Monday, Nov. 3.

BY JANE LEESTAFF WRITER

For amputees in devel-oping countries the cost of prostheses can be too expen-sive, ranging in the tens of thousands of dollars. But a research team at the Univer-sity may have found a solu-tion to that problem with the development of a 3D-printed prosthetic hand with pattern recognition capabilities that can be made for $270.

Team members visited Ecuador in August to test their prototype, and hope to return as they continue their research.

Discovering the use of 3-D printing

The team, advised by Tim

Bretl, associate professor in Aerospace Engineering, came together about three years ago to study ways to examine and control the use of prosthetics. The team is collaborating with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

Aadeel Akhtar, team lead-er and PhD student in Neu-roscience, said the team is researching how to control prosthetic limbs by using muscle signals.

“The whole idea of using 3-D printer prosthetics came around about last year when I was talking to another group member, Mary Nguy-en,” Akhtar said. “Around this time there was an explo-sion in using 3-D printer prosthetics; you would see

a news article every day about the latest 3-D pros-thetic hand.”

Patrick Slade, sophomore in Engineering, has been interested in the idea of pros-thetics since high school, when he built the prosthetic hand using 3-D printing in his garage. When he arrived on campus as a freshman, he emailed Akhtar asking if the team had any use for the object. Since then, the team has been researching how to make prosthetic hands with a 3-D printer.

The current modelThe team’s 3-D prosthetic

hand can perform fi ve posi-tions that correspond to the user’s hand.

Akhtar said with a right muscle sensor, or electro-myographic sensor, on the user’s forearm, the team employs machine learning algorithms.

“Using this machine learning algorithm, we have the user just train with per-forming the fi ve different gestures that we can cur-rently do: the hand at rest, the hand at opening, the hand closing, a three fi nger grasp and also a fi ne pinch,”

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for a suspect in connection to the shooting of a 25-year-old man.

The man was shot Tues-day on the 600 block of North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The victim walked into Provena Hospital and was then transported to Carle Hospital, where he under-went surgery for gunshot wounds.

The full extent of his inju-ries are not known, but they were described as serious and he is still hospitalized, said Bryant Seraphin, crim-inal investigation division commander for the Urbana Police Department.

The shooter has not yet been identifi ed. Police are searching for a mid-sized white General Motors SUV.

Broken glass was found on the scene and could be indic-ative of windows shot out from the SUV, Seraphin said.

A man with a possible con-nection to the shooting was seen running northbound from the area of the shoot-ing immediately after the incident. He was described by witnesses as an Afri-can-American male in his 20s, wearing a navy Adidas sports jacket.

Anyone with additional information is encouraged to call the Urbana Police Department at 217-384-2320.

Callers may remain anon-ymous by calling Crime Stoppers at 217-373-TIPS or texting “CCTip” plus the information to CRIMES (274637).

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Urbana shooter remains unidentifi ed

BY ERIC FRIESSTAFF WRITER

Construction of a new Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory should be underway by the mid-dle of the month, said Hans Blaschek, director of the new facility and assistant dean for the College of ACES.

The project, funded by the state of Illinois’ Capital Development Program, will cost somewhere between $22 and $25 million, Blaschek said. The state approved the project in 2008, but as a result of the recession and approval issues concerning other legis-lative bodies, it had been put on hold until now.

The laboratory will be con-

structed on Pennsylvania Avenue, connecting to the existing Agricultural Bio-process Laboratory, which is around 100 years old. It is expected to be fi nished and operational by the summer of 2016, Blaschek said.

Bioprocessing involves extracting products with a higher value from plants, said Neal Merchen, associ-ate dean of research for the College of ACES. These prod-ucts could include important chemicals, nutrients or bioac-tive compounds, which can then be used for pharmaceu-ticals or nutritional supple-ments. Biofuel production will also be a focus of the facility.

“Most of the research that will take place in that building will revolve around developing processes for the production of biofuels from agricultural products,” Mer-chen said.

The facility will include a large “high bay” area where research and development will take place, as well as classrooms, offi ce space and an analytical laboratory.

“I think the really unique thing about the facility is the scale of the facility,” Merch-en said.

Its scale will be larger than “the scale of a laboratory bench,” but smaller than an industrial-scale effort.

“There are very few, if any, facilities that are designed to meet somewhere in between those two extremes,” Merch-en said.

The facility will be able to test whether scaling a labo-ratory-scale project up to a larger scale is feasible and provide proof of concept.

The facility will also allow

Construction of ACES lab to begin after delay

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE COLLEGE OF ACESA computer rendering of the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory, which will be in operation by the summer of 2016 and focus on biofuel research.

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Champaign Burglary from a mo-

tor vehicle was reported in the 100 block of East Green Street around 10 a.m. Tues-day.

According to the report, an unknown offender en-tered a vehicle parked in an underground garage and stole items.

University A 66-year-old man was

arrested on the charges of criminal trespass to state-supported land, possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the man was previously banned from Krannert’s property.

Theft was reported at Leonard Hall, 1005 S. Lin-

coln Ave., around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

According to the re-port, a pair of rain boots were stolen when the vic-tim briefly left them in the hallway outside of her room. The boots are valued at $149.

Urbana Nothing to report

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As a teenager growing up in South Florida, Sean Petro-zzino made headlines with his upbeat attitude after bacteri-al meningitis and more than a dozen surgeries ravaged his body.

Bacteria destroyed his hands, feet and parts of his limbs.

But the sophomore clari-netist — a quadruple amputee at 16 — touched many with his positive outlook, prompt-ing donations of a voice-command laptop, wheel-chair ramps and a specially equipped van.

“Lots of important things in life just happen by chance,” he said in an interview 14 years ago. “You know someone and get a job that makes you millions of

dollars. Or you get a dis-ease. There doesn’t seem to be any reason some things happen.”

On Wednesday, Petrozzino, now 30, made headlines again — this time as an alleged gun-toting, dangerous “person of interest” in the fatal shoot-ings of his parents in their Orange County home.

The bodies of Nancy Petro-zzino, 64, and Michael Petro-zzino, 63, were found Tues-day, prompting a search for their son and his father’s missing vehicle, a red Toyo-ta Camry with Florida license plate 112VZY.

He is only a person of inter-est and not a suspect, sher-iff’s offi ce spokeswoman Jane Watrel said at a news confer-ence Wednesday.

“We want him to get in here and talk to us so we can

fi nd out what happened since he was apparently living with his parents,” Watrel said.

Deputies think Sean Petro-zzino may be heading to Jupi-ter or Coral Springs in South Florida.

As the search for him unfolds, a family member revealed new details about his background.

He recently separated from his wife in Georgia and moved in with his par-

ents: longtime Orange Coun-ty school teacher Nancy Petrozzino and Walt Disney World cast member Michael Petrozzino.

Grief counselors have been dispatched to Nancy Petrozzi-no’s school, Andover Elemen-tary, less than a mile south of the Petrozzinos’ home.

His mother-in-law, Cath-leen Horne, said Sean Petro-zzino has always been a calm and peaceful person.

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Akhtar said.Every week, each gesture

is trained for two to three seconds, which will allow the machine learning algo-rithm to collect data and analyze the motions being made.

Development of the modelAkhtar said the team

hopes to incorporate sen-sory feedback into the next version of the hand.

“No commercial device currently has any form of sensory feedback at all,” Akhtar said. “We want to be one of the fi rst prosthet-ic hands out there that can incorporate this feedback into the device, also at a low price point.”

There are two types of sensory feedback that is giv-en to prosthetic hand users. One type is proprioception sensory feedback, which is the ability to feel the posi-tion of a joint, Akhtar said.

“For instance, if an ampu-tee were to close his eyes and move his prosthet-ic hand around, he has no

idea what the joint positions are going to be like in that hand or what the shape of his hand is going to take,” Akhtar said. “If I close my eyes and move my hand around, I know exactly what shape my hand is making.”

One way the team is try-ing to give that sensation back to amputees is through a technique known as skin stretch. When the fi nger moves, Akhtar said, it pro-portionately stretches the skin so that the position of the joint angle being moved corresponds to the amount of skin stretch users feel.

Although the use of sen-sory feedback does not provide the same senses amputees had before their amputation, it tries to give them ways to feel through their prosthesis.

“After only six minutes of training, users were able to distinguish between six different grips, just based off the skin stretch,” Akhtar said. “They couldn’t see the device, they couldn’t hear the device at all and they were able to get above 88 percent accuracy in distin-guishing the different grips that were being presented through skin stretch.”

The team is also working on a prototype that uses four-bar linkage, which Slade designed within about two weeks.

Slade said the four-bar linkage allows the joints to move in a natural, consistent manner because the joints are coupled together.

“The use of four-bar link-age - which is four mechani-cally bridged and rigid links that are all attached by joints - it will move through a small motion rather than the tendon winch method, where you are like pulling in the string,” Slade said.

Research in EcuadorIn collaboration with

David Krupa, cofounder of Range of Motion Project and University alumnus, team members traveled to Ecua-dor to test their prototype.

“It was a very great expe-rience working with an actu-al person who happens to have an amputation and who could help us with learn-ing what we needed to do for our prosthetic device,” said Nguyen, graduate stu-dent in Aerospace Engineer-ing. “It’s one thing to be up here testing the device;

we do have some access, but when we are trying to develop devices for people in developing countries, it’s important to go down and see what the needs are and what they want.”

Nguyen said the experi-ence with Juan Suquillo, an Ecuadorian patient who tested the device, was suc-cessful and fulfi lling for everyone involved.

“The next time we go back, we plan on having a fully-functional proto-type that we can actually leave for long-term test-ing,” Akhtar said. “Our goal in this fi rst trip was just to make sure that we can actually get our devices to work.”

Akhtar said he and his team are trying to design a new prototype that would be able to completely fi t into a socket and include all the electronic devises and the electromyograph-ic sensor board. The team will continue working to make prostheses accessi-ble to everyone who needs them.

Jane can be reached at janelee5@dailyillini.com.

faculty and company repre-sentatives to test their tech-nologies and access different types of utilities, such as dif-ferent types of power, volt-ages and gas. This is possi-ble because everything is at a scale where it can be moved around, making it more mod-ular and easy to use, Blas-chek said.

There will be a fee sched-

ule set up for company use, allowing the facility to be fea-sible from a business stand-point and produce revenue for the University, Merchen said. There will also be a pro-gram where faculty will be able to submit proposals to use the facility and carry out their own project.

Students will be able to benefi t from the laboratory as well through workshops where they can be involved with the state-of-the-art equipment.

“Educationally, I think the facility would defi nitely boost the knowledge,” said Nate Wells, senior in ACES. “I think some things that are discovered there should be open source, and that knowl-edge should be distributed.”

Blaschek said in the long run, the facility will help to create jobs.

“We’re creating new tech-nologies around which com-panies can be based,” he said.

Merchen said the facility will be benefi cial to the Uni-

versity in several ways.“I think it will facilitate

a good deal of partnerships between the world of pri-vate enterprises and a pub-lic institution like the Uni-versity of Illinois,” he said. “I think (the facility) also helps put the University of Illinois in the position to be one of the national and may-be global leaders in the use of bioprocessing.”

Eric can be reached at fries2@dailyillini.com.

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Oregon and Alaska become next states to fully legalize marijuana

Teenager becomes youngest personto receive venture capital funding

Pat Quinn concedes to challenger Bruce Rauner in governor race

Fresh outbreak of violence hits and kills 1 in Jerusalem, injures more

ISIS kidnapped and tortured dozens of boys in Syria for several months

Oregon and Alaska became the third and fourth states to fully legalize marijuana on Tuesday, while Floridi-ans rejected a proposal that would have allowed pot to be used for medical reasons.

In Washington, D.C., vot-ers approved a more limited plan, removing all penalties for possession and home cul-

tivation of small amounts of pot by adults 21 and older.

Oregon and Alaska will now join Washington and Colorado in taxing and regu-lating pot much like alcohol.

While a majority of vot-ers backed the Florida plan, it fell short of the 60 per-cent threshold required for passage.

Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn conced-ed Wednesday afternoon to Republican challenger Bruce Rauner, a day after the most expensive and bit-ter contest for chief execu-tive in the state of Illinois’ history.

“It’s clear that we do not

have enough votes to win the election,” Quinn said.

The governor pledged to work with Rauner on a transition and said he would spend his remaining two months in offi ce push-ing to raise the minimum wage, which he made a cen-tral theme of his campaign.

In a fresh outbreak of vio-lence in Jerusalem Wednes-day, one person was killed and at least a dozen others injured when a Palestinian man rammed his vehicle into pedestrians in what has become a familiar if unpre-dictable pattern of action in the troubled city.

According to eyewitness-es, a white van deliberately struck several police troops at a light-rail stop and con-tinued to ram the vehicle

into other pedestrians and cars before stalling at a traf-fi c light 500 meters later. He got out of the car and began attacking passersby with a crowbar before a police offi -cer who arrived at the scene shot him.

One victim died of fatal injuries shortly after the incident, described by authorities as a terror attack. Thirteen people were tak-en to hospitals throughout Jerusalem.

The Islamic State mili-tant group kidnapped and tortured dozens of boys in Syria this year, beating them with hoses or electri-cal cables and forcing them to watch videos of behead-ings and combat, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

The youths, ages 14 to

16, were held for months and beaten if they tried to escape, performed poorly during compulsory religious lessons or had a relative in the YPG, a Syrian-Kurdish militia known as the Popu-lar Protection Units, which has fought the Islamic State, according the rights group.

still considers the selling of medical cannabis to be a drug transaction, which banks do not want to be involved with, so payments must be done with cash only, Marlin said. Once the businesses receive a response, those that are approved will have to fi gure out how they will work under a cash basis, Marlin said.

Marlin said dispensaries will charge $300 to $400 per ounce and qualifying patients can obtain up to 2.5 ounces every two weeks. She added medical marijuana will be expensive since insurance will not cover it.

Location guidelines based on zoning ordinance amendment

The Urbana City Council unanimously voted in early August to pass a zoning ordi-nance amendment that specif-ically stated where dispensa-ries would be allowed.

The Illinois Department of Professional Regulations will award up to 60 medical mari-juana dispensary licenses in Illinois . The four prospective

businesses in Urbana have applied for licenses and are undergoing a competitive application process. Licens-es are divided between the 21 police districts in Illinois based on the district’s popu-lation size.

Champaign County police district can have up to two dispensary facilities and one cultivation center, where business owners can actively grow cannabis to be shipped to the dispensary locations, Marlin said.

Alderman Bill Brown, Ward 4, said the Champaign County police district extends from Decatur to Danville. Marlin said she expects one of the two dispensary facili-ties will be in Urbana.

A zoning analysis of the city in the amendment requires the dispensaries to be 1,000 feet away from areas containing schools and day care centers.

Since the product will be serving a large population, Libby said the city compared similar types of services in the area, such as pharmacies and clinics, when setting the parameters.

Tyler believes these dis-pensary locations are an opportunity for economic development in Urbana.

Although there is no set deadline for license awards, Stephen Morrill, attorney at Morrill & Associates PC and representative of Pfx Farms, said they are expecting to hear back some time between December and January.

Pfx Farms was created to own and operate a medical marijuana business since the pilot program was enacted in early January 2014.

“If we are fortunate to obtain a license, medical cannabis would be available to patients some time in mid 2015, after the initial grow-ing cycle of new cultivation centers,” Morrill said. “When the product is ready for the market, the available inven-tory will be sold to retail establishments.”

Morrill said the team at Pfx Farms is looking forward to creating a positive and long-term relationship with the city of Urbana if awarded the medical cannabis dispensary license.

“We are excited to partici-pate in a highly professional manner in this new medical market,” he said.

Brown said the state has tight guidelines as to how medical cannabis could be dispensed within these facil-ities, but he said he is not wor-

ried the drug will be used for the wrong purposes.User to benefi t from medical marijuana

Graduate student Charlie Johnson, a patient suffering from syringomyelia, a condi-tion in which a fl uid-fi lled cyst develops on the spinal cord, actively uses dronabinol, a cannabis, man-made pill. Johnson said he is uncertain whether he would sign up for different varieties of medi-cal cannabis at a dispensary in Urbana.

“My dronabinol is already paid for by my insurance with a small co-pay like any other prescription would be,” John-son said. “However, there is no insurance coverage for medical cannabis in Illinois, so to enter that dispensary facility system would be at my own expense.”

However, Johnson said he may consider purchasing cannabis at these dispensa-ry locations if the quality is high and the price is afford-able. Johnson believes these dispensary locations could be highly benefi cial to peo-ple who are unable to receive cannabis for their illnesses.

Walbert can be reached at wcasti2@dailyillini.com.

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PATRICK TEHAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEShubham Banerjee assembles the Braille printer he built out of Legos in his San Jose, Calif., home on Saturday. The 13-year-old is creating a sensation in the venture capital world after he built the Braille printer.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — One school science fair victory, a few national accolades, $35,000 of his parents’ savings and a visit to the White House later, 12-year-old Shub-ham Banerjee today is the founder of Palo Alto start-up Braigo Labs, which aims to become the fi rst pur-veyor of low-cost Braille printers.

And on Tuesday, Intel Capital, the company’s global investment arm, will announce it has invest-

ed in the teenager’s com-pany, making Shubham the world’s youngest tech entrepreneur to receive venture capital funding.

“It was curiosity,” explained Shubham, now 13 and an eighth-grader at Champion School in San Jose. “I’m always thinking up something. If you think it can be done, then it can probably be done.”

What started as a home-built Lego project for a sci-ence fair has morphed into a family-run startup.

BRIAN CASSELLA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICERepublican candidate for governor Bruce Rauner declares victory at Rauner’s election night celebration at the Hilton Chicago on Tuesday in Chicago.

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November has never really been my favor-ite month. It’s a limbo

period between beautiful fall weather in October and the holiday festivities in Decem-ber. November usually brings cold, dreary weather, along with No Shave November and Movember.

Until this year, I had always hated the idea of No Shave November, and I thought it was purposeless. The thought of all guys walking around for a month with hairy faces kind of made me cringe, mostly because I have never really been a fan of excessive facial hair.

Most of my friends who have participated in No Shave November only mentioned their happiness in throwing away the razor for a month, so I didn’t know that there are others who participated for deeper reasons.

This year, however, I learned exactly what No Shave November and Movem-ber are intended to stand for. I learned why and how the craze came to be, and after much research, my opinions are forever changed.

No Shave November and Movember occur in Novem-

ber when males can choose not to shave their faces. Wom-en can participate, too, but it seems less common, and I haven’t heard of many such cases. Despite what many might think, the month can have purposes other than just relieving people of their grooming duties.

According to the No Shave November website, the hair growth is a way to raise awareness for cancer and research by embracing our ability to grow hair, some-thing that, unfortu-nately, many lose when on chemothera-py for cancer treatment.

Movem-ber is anoth-er movement that address-es men’s health — social, physi-cal, mental, etc. Movember is not main-ly focused on cancer, like No Shave November, rather it encompasses all forms of men’s health.

In addition, men who partic-ipate in these movements can choose to donate the money they might use on grooming and shaving products to phi-lanthropies of their choice.

Men can join No Shave November teams online or decide to take the chal-

lenge on their own. Regard-less of their choice, many men choose to document their progress online and ask for donations, all of which go to the American Cancer Soci-ety. Things are similar with Movember.

Upon learning more about the different reasons behind these movements, it became clear to me that many men abandon shaving for rea-sons other than pure laziness. While I am sure many men still don’t shave in Novem-

ber just as an excuse to be lazy and not deal with shaving, it shocked me that some men do this to raise awareness.

If you read my column a few weeks back, you would know that I have

a love for philanthropy and raising awareness for causes. In particular, I am a big advocate for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, something that often targets women. The way I see it, No Shave November is similar in the sense that it raises aware-ness for men’s health issues.

No Shave November is a way for men to stand together and fight against cancer and promote men’s health issues.

I fully respect anybody who wants to fight against cancer, and I will support men, and even women, who decide to take on this challenge. But if you’re choosing to grow your hair during November for no reason, you should consider learning more about the ori-gins of the movements.

No Shave November and Movember remind us, as stu-dents, that little things can make a huge difference, but only if you know and support the reasons behind them.

We do not need to commit several weeks and thousands of dollars to make a signifi-cant contribution to a cause we feel passionate about. Something as easy as abstain-ing from shaving and donat-ing any amount of money to the American Cancer Society is something every college student is capable of.

Moving forward, I will no longer think about the men on this campus who are growing their beards out this month as merely lazy, although some might be. While I am still not a facial hair person, I respect what some men on this cam-pus are dedicating themselves to this November.

Thank you to those gentle-man who are reminding us that even the little things can make a huge difference.

Rebecca is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at kapolne2@dailyillini.com.

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W ith time tickets for spring registration starting to open, students are now becoming subject-

ed to the frenzy, fears and trepi-dations of planning for the coming semester. For those who are new to the ways of University self-reg-istration, brace yourselves, be-cause it can be a bumpy ride if you don’t prepare. As such, let us offer you a little guidance:

Priorities, priorities. Going into registration, figure

out which course or requirements you absolutely have to take or sat-isfy to graduate. Make sure to sign up for these classes first and foremost, whether they are gen-eral education classes or required courses for your major.

The chosen few. Your place in line for registra-

tion is determined by both the number of hours you’ve already accumulated as well as certain special statuses, such as being a James Scholar. You should ac-count for where you may land in the pack and take that into consid-eration when weighing the likeli-hood of getting into coveted cours-es — like anything with Professor Snodgrass. Which is why you should also:

Make backup plans. Yes, the four-day weekend

schedule is the creme-de-la-creme of the college experience — for those who know how to work it, that is. But, so many confounding factors can get between you and not having to wake up on Fridays, which is why you should put some thought into what alternative schedules may be available and which ones would be acceptable.

Seek out the sages. Ask your friends what classes

they enjoyed. Email professors to get a peek at their course sylla-bus. Note: Rate My Professors and sites like it are generally not a re-liable heuristic method unless you are beholden to the wisdom and opinions of noted University stu-dent “Anonymous.”

Time, precious time. Not a morning person? Don’t

take 8 a.m. classes — ever. Next topic.

Balance, young grasshopper. Required and advanced lev-

el courses are a necessary evil to many. But don’t let them own your schedule — balance out these more challenging classes with more interesting, less difficult ones. Class-curious? Spice up your course life by trying out exotic new classes outside your major that can satisfy your educational urges. You’ll thank us later.

Strategize. Know when your time tick-

et opens, and, if you know what courses you want, know their course codes so you can register in no time. Even if you aren’t set on a schedule, pick up the class-es you most want right away. You can always go back and edit your schedule later, but it makes life a lot easier if you’ve secured spots in your most wanted and need-ed courses. Additionally, sites like Scheedule that generate theoret-ical weekly class schedules can make planning out your potential class schedule much simpler.

Choosing classes for next se-mester can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. Follow our ad-vice and hopefully in the spring you will be saying goodbye to classes any earlier than 10 a.m. and hello to long weekends.

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After 57 years, we can finally shed some light on the most “B****, please” photo the world has ever seen. In 1957, actress Sophia Loren was caught on camera giving the sassiest, judge-iest, side glare to fellow actress Jayne Mansfield. Was Loren throwing the green eyes of envy over at Mansfield? No. Did Mansfield steal Loren’s man? No. Rather, Mansfield was looking very va-va-voom — in other words, revealing — in her dress, and Loren said in reference to Mansfield’s breasts during an interview with Entertainment Weekly magazine, “I am afraid they are about to come onto my plate. In my face you can see the fear. I’m so frightened that everything in her dress is going to blow.” Mystery solved, ladies and gentleman.

The votes are in, America, and among the results of the 2014 midterm elections is the youngest state lawmaker in America. Saira Blair, an 18-year-old freshman at West Virginia University, defeated her Democratic opponent to represent a small district in West Virginia. For her own campaign, Blair dished out around $4,000 — mean-while, the rest of us college students barely even have enough pocket money to grab a Jimmy John’s sandwich. Regardless of whether you are a Republican, Democrat or neither, you have to admit that Blair’s feat is pretty darn impressive.

We hope we are not too late in delivering the news to campus that yesterday was National Doughnut Day. If you missed out on the delicious celebrations though, fear not because National Doughnut Day is celebrated twice a year! While this was the second of the two, the celebra-tion happens again in June. But we are still close enough to November 5 that we can all just consider this a week-ly celebration and can make our way to the Green Street Dunkin Donuts for a quick munchkin or two, or ten or twenty. In fact, we might as well just make this a month long celebration, and we should also probably get a day off of classes for it. Or, at least, our professors should probably bring donuts to class for us.

If you ever find yourself at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, China, know that you are in the presence of three of the cutest animals out there. On Wednesday, three of the world’s only surviving giant pandas, one female and two males — triplets, as a matter of fact — turned 100 days old. Their birthday is July 29 and they are each a little over 11 pounds. If you aren’t complete-ly enamored with the cuteness yet, they each have two little teeth. While at this point we are tempted to make the quick trip to China to take home the pandas for our-selves, there is that whole thing where they grow up and can weigh up to 350 pounds.

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The Community Learn-ing Lab has connected nearly 100 local agencies to hundreds of University students.

“The students at the U of I have put in over 5,000 hours through this (program) into the community,” said Sher-rie Faulkner, director of the Community Learning Lab and director of Bach-elors of Social Work Field Education. “That’s power-ful. We’re really making a difference.”

The Community Learning Lab, or CLL, is an endeav-or of the School of Social Work, though its scope of influence also reaches into other departments such as the College of Business and the department of statistics.

Since the beginning, the purpose of the CLL has been to link students with community organizations and agencies outside of the classroom. It serves as a liaison among the students, professors and local com-munity groups such as the Crisis Nursery, Don Moy-er’s Boys and Girls Club, the American Red Cross and the Savoy Fire Department, among several others.

“It (is) an opportunity to match classroom assign-ments to real life, hands-on experiences,” Faulkner said.

Students outside of the participating classes and community members can also join the CLL’s efforts on their own time.

The CLL began in 2012 as a pilot program and then became full-fledged in the fall of 2013 with funding from the University’s Office of Public Engagement grant. This semester, the CLL still receives the grant money, with additional financial support through the Dean of the College of Social Work, Faulkner said. The funding goes toward “a student and an academic hourly liaison to help build and run the pro-

gram” along with training and marketing, Faulkner said.

The projects, in collabo-ration with the CLL, range from one-time service opportunities or interviews to projects lasting a full semester or more.

Joy Sugihara, senior in Social Work, is currently participating in a service learning opportunity in her SOCW 461 course, Profes-sional Practice Seminar 1. The CLL collaborated with Sugihara and her class part-ner, Haley Fox, senior in Social Work, to place them with the Multicultural Com-munity Center in Rantoul, one of Sugihara’s top three agency choices.

“Our project is research-ing different grants or resource opportunities for the agency to build their existing computer lab and library,” she said. “They mainly serve migrant fam-ilies ... or part-time workers from Mexico, and they serve the parents and also the children through academic after school programs.”

The semester-long project and community collabora-tion will prepare Sugihara for next semester’s social work internship course, SOCW 470.

Because the Multicultural Center is in Rantoul, Sug-ihara and Fox drive there every two weeks and con-duct research on campus in between visits. Other students in her class work with agencies based on cam-pus and typically meet with them on a weekly basis.

“For me I think it’s a way to have hands-on experi-ence,” Sugihara said. “You learn about not only the reality of the work, but also how there’s just a lot of vari-ety and diversity of super-visors — so the leadership styles, what they’re passion-ate about and a lot of com-munication skills.”

She said that it’s an entire-ly different experience from

simply reading and writing in a classroom setting.

“Overall it’s just a learn-ing experience that’s benefi-cial to the future work that we’re going to do,” Sugihara said.

Morgan Tarter, gradu-ate student in Social Work, has participated extensive-ly with the CLL. In fact, she serves as the CLL student liaison in their office.

“I’ve been with Sherrie (Faulkner) in the Commu-nity Learning Lab almost every single semester since it started,” Tarter said. “So I got to see how it’s grown — and it has; it kind of just took off. It has expanded.”

She said that the CLL can be an essential resource to University students who are not as familiar with the variety of agencies and organizations in the area. It serves as a positive connec-tion for social work classes, business classes and other courses that focus on com-munity service learning projects.

This “liaison relation-ship” connection, Faulkner emphasized, is “vital” to forming new networks that would have otherwise gone unchecked between the campus and the community.

Tarter is currently work-ing on a needs assessment for a pastoral care depart-ment in Carle Founda-tion Hospital, from which she can see actual results and share them with her supervisors.

“To be able to help (local organizations) as a student, that only makes you mar-ketable in your future,” she said. “It’s a really great thing for students to be able to say that they’ve actually completed these very tangible things, but also to give that back to an agency.”

Reema can be reached at abiakar2@ dailyillini.com.

The folk trio, Laura Cor-tese and the Dance Cards, is returning this year to play at the festival. Despite being a touring act, the audience was willing to sing along and par-ticipate in Cortese’s perfor-mance, in the spirit of the festival.

“That was a nice sur-prise, because sometimes you come into a place where you’ve never been, where you don’t really know the audi-ence — they’re not really our cultivated audience and we set out to get really engaged and involved in the show and

sometimes people don’t actu-ally just jump on board and go there with us,” said Cor-tese, who plays the fiddle in the trio. “It was really nice to walk into this town where we’d never been and the audi-ence just went for it.”

Because the event is run by volunteers, the event is more responsive to what peo-ple want, according to Win-ters, allowing it to evolve each year.

“It’s more than if we were having a lot of corporate sponsorship, this really is the community putting the festival together,” Winters said. “There’s nobody who gets paid to do the festi-val; there’s staff members.

Everybody is just volunteer-ing their time and that helps us make sure the festival is what we want it to be.”

As a community-centered event, the festival is some-thing that allows for people of all ages to explore how folk music has been inter-twined with America’s culture.

“I hope people challenge themselves to open their minds and to come out and to discover this kind of music,” Koenig said. “It’s great. It changed my life when I was living in Chicago and play-ing in rock bands.”

Susan can be reached at features@dailyillini.com.

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OVIEDO, Fla. — Pilot James Gendreau flies over the landmark SunTrust tow-er, the downtown lights glim-mering in the darkness as he approaches Orlando Execu-tive Airport.

As he gets close to the runway, Gendreau pulls the nose of his Cessna up and arcs away from his target. Then he repeats the maneu-ver again and again until he finally touches down. Gen-dreau, 48, didn’t burn any fuel while he practiced. He was “flying” using a simu-lator at Elite SimCenters in Oviedo, which opened this month.

“It’s a great way to just brush up,” said Gendreau, a Seminole County commercial real estate developer with 25 years of flying experience.

Gendreau and the more than 73,000 other pilots in Florida know that keeping up their skills is more than a requirement for maintain-ing their certification. It can be a matter of life and death.

Pilot error is the prima-ry cause of crashes, which are far more likely in small airplanes, National Trans-portation Safety Board sta-

tistics show. Of 1,297 U.S. crashes last year, 1,222 were in the general-aviation cat-egory, which encompass-es all civilian flying except for scheduled passenger-airline service. Three hun-dred eighty-seven people were killed. By contrast, 20 scheduled commercial-air-line flights crashed in 2013, killing two people. Experts say the more training a pilot has in a variety of conditions, the better chance he or she will know how to handle an emergency

John Desmarais, direc-tor of operations for the Civ-il Air Patrol, maintains that

it’s actually safer to fly than to cross the street. Pilots are held to high standards, trained to check their planes before and after a flight and are practiced in preparing for emergencies, he said.

“A lot of planning goes into a flight,” said Desma-rais, whose agency’s mis-sion includes searching for lost planes. Entry-level pri-vate pilots are required to receive at least 40 hours of flight training, including 10 hours solo, and take a writ-ten test, said Mike Camelin, director of Sun State Avia-tion flight school at Kissim-mee Gateway Airport.

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JOE BURBANK TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEPilot James Gendreau works on his night flying Oct. 8 at Elite SimCenter in Oviedo, Fla., with various aircrafts.

began. Kirby Gamsby, senior in

LAS and former Illini Media employee, has completed NaNoWriMo a few times but never finished any of the nov-els she began. For this month, she is writing a half noir, half ghost story, she said.

“My favorite part of

NaNoWriMo is that it forc-es me to write under stress, which I strangely like,” Gamsby said. “I also have so many stories in my head at all times that it’s nice to get at least one of them out.”

For Marino, she believes getting the story out on paper is the hardest part.

“Everybody says at one point or another that they want to write a book,” Mari-no said. “It’s the idea that

you get past the things that hold you back to write that book. You write a sentence and it’s not the most perfect thing in the world, so you go, ‘Oh, this is not perfect, I can-not write this book,’ ... then coming back later and say-ing, ‘Oh, this wasn’t as bad as I thought it was.’ ”

Brittney can be reached at banadle2@ dailyillini.com.

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BY SUSAN SZUCH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

he Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival may not follow the norm

of music festivals, where attendees purchase tickets and passively observe the artists play their set .

In past years, the f e s t i v a l has been host to the blues musi-cian Blind Boy Pax-ton, who has performed at the now defunct 88 Broadway at Lincoln Square Mall in Urba-na. Paxton invited the audi-ence to gather around him and sing along, “breaking all

the rules” while emphasizing that music is for everyone, according to Brenda Koe-nig, this year’s co-chair for the event .

The sixth annual Cham-paign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival is a community-sponsored music festival run completely by volunteers.

It kicks off Thurs-day at 5 p.m. during K ra n ner t Uncorked with a per-formance by Ameri-cana sing-er Dom Fle-mons and the jug band Bones, Jugs ‘N Harmo-ny . The fes-

tival continues Friday and Saturday in various places throughout downtown Urba-

na, including the Urbana Free Library , The Iron Post and the Landmark Hotel . A full schedule of bands and list of venues can be found on the festival’s website .

A wristband for all festi-val venues and activities for both days is $30, while indi-vidual evening wristbands are $20, which allows festi-val-goers to visit various ven-ues. All tickets for single ven-ues can be bought at the door for $15; however, all evening workshops, jams and sing-alongs are free and every-thing before 5 p.m. on Sat-urday is free.

In addition to featuring touring acts, like Woody

Pines , the festival also gives local bands exposure. Woody Pines, which is from Nash-ville, Tenn., is reminiscent of bands like Old Crow Med-icine Show with elements of American tradition and indie rock, according to Matt Win-ters, co-chair on the board of directors for booking and assistant professor of Politi-cal Science.

“We have groups in the community participating in the festival, and we try to mix these groups in with some of the headline per-formers, so that’s more expo-sure for them,” Winters said. “Hopefully it’s a good oppor-tunity to play with some

of these people and start relationships.”

A main tenet of the festi-val is based on community participation, Koenig said.

“When we started the festi-val, that was one of our main pushes — we wanted it to be participatory. That means that people could actively participate in it. And to us, we feel strongly that folk music is a participatory type of music. Anybody could do it and anybody should do it. Everybody is welcome,” she said. “I think a lot of times music is all about identity, like what band you listen to or what type of music, but with folk music, it’s almost

trying to break a little bit of that, say that the identity is that we are a community and that we do things together.”

For Winters, the Folk and Roots Festival is also a way to come together as a commu-nity to benefi t Urbana.

“I think the festival is meant to be a community fes-tival as well in the sense that we use these venues through-out downtown Urbana and support the local businesses in that way, getting people to move between them and to create street life on a some-times cold, November eve-ning,” he said.

Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival unites

community for music, workshops and sing-alongs

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOMembers of the Homebrew Ukulele Union, a group from the University of Illinois that make their own Ukuleles, write songs, and perform, combine with students from Robeson Elementary School for a sing-along at the CU Folk and Roots Festival. The event was held at the Independent Media Center in Urbana on Saturday, Nov. 3.

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We feel strongly that folk music is a participatory type of music...Every-body is welcome.

BRENDA KOENIGFESTIVAL ORGANIZER

Linking students to local issuesThe Community Learning Lab has been offi cially running for over a year, con-necting students to local agencies. Turn to Page 5A to learn more about the CLL.

Schedule of Performances

FridayAlmost “A” Quartet Old Salt UnionPaul HinsonChurch Street RamblersMaja & DavidLaura Cortese and the Dance Cards

Reverend Robert JonesKathleen Everingham and José AgustiJustin RondonBlue Mafi aFrank Fairfi eldOld Salt Union Dom FlemonsVolo BogtrottersThe Dysfunctionells

SaturdayAmasong Performance and Community SingVolo BogtrottersBig BluestemBones, Jugs ‘n Harmony Family ShowDana SiposMama Edie ArmstrongMo’ Betta Jazz Band

Pop Wagner Family ShowLocal Storyteller ShowcaseMichael Meadows The FiretonesMr. Stephens

Saturday EveningAnne FeeneyBilly Strings and Don Julin Frank Fairfi eld

Bucky HalkerCajun StrangersJiggy and the SourceDon’t AskMother BanjoPop WagnerSpudhuntersThe TillersTraditional Jazz OrchestraWoody Pines

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Write 1,667 words. It’s a task that many college stu-dents complete at least once during their college careers, but for some writers, it is done every day for 30 days.

That is the goal of Nation-al Novel Writing Month , oth-erwise known as “NaNoW-riMo,” which poses the challenge of completing a 50,000-word novel in one month’s time .

“It’s diffi cult to make sure you have time to do this,” said Nora Marino, sopho-more in LAS. “To be able to balance schoolwork and writing and decide what’s more important.”

Before beginning NaNoW-riMo, Marino established

three facts: she wasn’t going to have a life in November, she would have good time management and keep up with homework, and she would get up early to write as much as she could.

Marino, who has been published in The Mochila Review, an international lit-erary magazine for under-graduates, is writing a sci-ence fi ction, fantasy novel about a society that heav-ily uses science to create “crazy things,” such as the three dragons that the story revolves around.

Immediately after the dragons were created by the three main characters, all of the power in the world failed, making the planet uninhabit-able. The group fl ies all over

Europe in search of materi-als that can be used to send people to another inhabitable land.

“I don’t think this draft will ever be published because when you’re writing this fast, it’s more of quantity over quality,” Marino said. “My character can talk about the sky fi ve times in a row and I’m not going to argue with her.”

NaNoWriMo has a website where participants can reg-ister to track their progress, interact with fellow writers and search for write-ins in their area. A write-in is a group that meets at a cer-tain time each week to write and can be found all over the world.

Rachel Davis is a mem-

ber of CU WriMo, the Champaign-Urbana write-in group, which currently has 121 members. This is her fi rst time participating in NaNoWriMo, although she has participated in JuNoW-riMo, a NaNoWriMo spin-off that takes place in June.

“The biggest struggle is going to be getting to 50,000 words,” she said. “I tend to normally write short-er things like novellas just because plotting out that much and actually writing that much — I’m not very good at long stuff.”

Davis completed an out-line for her novel before Nov. 1 so that she only had to focus on writing when the month

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T he Illini will play their fi rst and only exhibition game Friday when they face Quincy Uni-versity at State Farm Center.

Including Friday’s game, the Illini will play fi ve straight home games before hitting the road for a Thanks-giving tournament in Las Vegas.

Illinois will win on Friday, and they’ll win their fi rst four regular sea-son games as well. Division II Quincy

will be no match for the Illini, and the four November home games against weak opponents are nothing but tune-ups for tougher competition that awaits.

But don’t let anyone tell you these fi rst few games aren’t important.

These tune-ups will give fans a look at the team in action and an idea of what might be in store for the rest of the season. But more importantly, they give head coach John Groce a blueprint for how to attack the more rigorous portions of the nonconfer-ence schedule and beyond.

Illinois will (hopefully) have large leads in the fi rst fi ve games at State Farm Center, allowing Groce to be

more fl exible with his lineups. He’ll be able to gauge which players are grasp-ing the offense and who needs more work in practice. It’s one thing to

BY BRETT LERNERSTAFF WRITER

Ivory Crawford is com-petitive in every sense of the word.

During Big Ten Media Day in October, Crawford looked around and joked that she wanted to go recruit more reporters to her table because reporters crowding around other tables meant competi-tion for her.

Going into her senior sea-son, all Crawford wants to do is compete and win.

Last season, Crawford was pressured to not only be the Illinois women’s basket-ball team’s leading scorer, but also one of its leaders in rebounding and assists.

With a bolstered Illini ros-ter, Crawford will have more of a chance to play within her-self this season and expand on her own game.

“(Our depth) is going to make a huge difference for (Crawford), she is going to feel like she can just do what

she has to do,” head coach Matt Bollant said. “I think Ivory sometimes wants to win so bad that she’ll some-times try to do too much.”

Bollant is known for hav-ing some of the toughest, most intense practices of any team in the country. The practice style is something Bollant and his staff brought with them from UW-Green Bay, and to no surprise, Craw-ford is a fan.

“We’ve seen some of the Big Ten’s practices and it’s not like ours. It’s never game-like. We’re always compet-ing like we’re losing,” said Crawford.

Crawford isn’t the only returning Illini who felt pres-sure to play outside of her game last season. Sophomore forward Jacqui Grant was the only true post player the pro-gram had last year. Although it’s well within her skill set to be one of the top rebound-ers on a team, being the only option is never easy. The

addition of true center Cha-trice White will allow Grant to move back to the four spot, something she’s more com-fortable with.

“Certainly being able to play the four position is going to help her a great deal,” Bol-lant said. “She can really step out and shoot it. She’s great feeding the post.”

With so many new faces on the team between recruits and transfers, returners like Crawford and Grant will be expected to lead both on and off the court.

The duty of leadership is expected to fall mostly on the competition-driven Crawford, who is one of four returning seniors.

“First you have to look at yourself and prove what you can do best, so you can get that respect and so you can get the responses you need,” Crawford said.

When talking to Craw-ford, the conversation always makes its way back to win-

ning. Even when personal accolades are brought up, Crawford just wants those accomplishments to go toward team success.

Crawford reached 1,000 career points in the Big Ten tournament matchup with Iowa, which made her the 27th player in the pro-gram’s history to reach the feat. She was only the 15th of those players to reach the milestone with eligibility still remaining.

“I didn’t even know I passed 1,000 points. When they said it, it threw me

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Millikin at IllinoisWhen: 2 p.m. Saturday at State Farm CenterQuick Note: Six players will be suiting up in Orange and Blue for the fi rst time on Saturday.

Clock strikes midnight for Illini soccer BY ELISEO ELIZARRARAZSTAFF WRITER

On Wednesday evening in West Lafayette, Indiana, Illinois soccer’s Cinderella story ended before it could even begin.

While two lower-seeded teams won against their opponents earlier in the day Wednesday in the fi rst round of the Big Ten tour-nament, the No. 7-seeded Illini couldn’t continue the trend, losing 2-0 to Wiscon-sin, the tournament’s No. 2 seed and the No. 11 team in the country.

While Illinois started off hot and controlled the tempo of play early in the game, the defense unrav-eled 25 minutes in. Wiscon-sin’s Kodee Williams drib-bled past several Illinois defenders and tucked the ball inside of the left post, giving the Badgers a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

“That’s been kind of an Achilles’ heal for us all season long, our individu-al defending,” head coach Janet Rayfi eld said. “It cost us big tonight.”

Cara Walls fi nished off the scoring 30 minutes into the game as she dribbled in from the right fl ank to fl ick a shot past Illinois goalkeeper Claire Wheatley.

The Illini would rally to start the second half, fi ring off six shots in the span of 15 minutes. But despite keep-ing the Badgers on their toes for most of the second half, Illinois was unable to put any of its 12 shots in the net. The Illini came close to scoring on two occasions, as efforts from strikers Jan-

nelle Flaws and Amy Feher would be saved by Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year Gen-evieve Richard. Flaws failed to score for the fourth con-secutive game, ending the season on her longest goal drought in more than a year.

“We made some mis-takes defensively, gave the ball away and Wisconsin is a good team,” Rayfi eld said. “They’re going to capital-ize on those and they cer-tainly capitalized on those in the fi rst half and then we’re behind the eight ball at that point. They defended well, as they have done all season long and that’s why they’re advancing and we’ll go home.”

With this loss, Illinois has little hope of receiving an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Missing the tournament would mark only the third time in Ray-fi eld’s 13-year tenure at Illi-nois that the Illini failed to reach the tournament. Ray-fi eld and her team will have the consolation of having gained experience after an adversity-fi lled season rid-dled with concussions, ankle injuries and leg fractures.

“Next time, we’ll be better for the lessons we have learned this season,” she said. “What we have to hope for now is that they take everything that they’ve learned this sea-son, the heartaches that came along with it, and learn from that and are better when we step on the fi eld next season.”

Eliseo can be reached at elizarr2@dailyillini.com.

Crawford continues to lead women’s basketball

Hardee and Dudek share bond beyond footballBY TORRENCE SORRELLON-AIR SPORTS EDITOR

“Respect is not given it’s earned.” That was the mind-set of Illinois junior wide receiver Justin Hardee dur-ing the start of the offseason after undergoing a 4-8 season a year ago.

At a practice in late Jan-uary, wide receivers were running routes with the quarterbacks. Although the workout was voluntary, Hardee noticed one fresh-man whose speed resembled his Twitter handle: “Flash.” It was Naperville, Illinois, native Mike Dudek, or as head coach Tim Beckman calls him “Mikey.”

“After seeing how he moved and how athletic he was, I knew he was going to be a special guy for us,” Hardee said.

Hardee walked toward the

freshman receiver during that fi rst practice and said, “What’s up man, I like your style of game.”

Dudek was surprised. “Oh, for real,” he said. He was aware of Hardee’s game, but never had a prior relationship with him.

“Watching him previous years, he’s a good athlete,” Dudek said. “I heard about his mother that passed away in December, so I know it’s been a tough time for him. For him to come out there and talk to me like that, I thought that was pretty sweet,”

Hardee’s mother, Estella Perryman, passed away a month prior to that practice at the age of 55 from a lung disease that had plagued her for more than a decade.

The two receivers exchanged numbers after practice. Hardee text-

ed Dudek a week later and asked, “Hey, do you want to grab something to eat?”

They bonded over a bite of Chipotle on Green Street, Dudek’s favorite restaurant on campus.

After voluntary workouts and spring training fi nished

up, Dudek and Hardee hit the fi eld together for the fi rst time with fans watching for the annual Orange and Blue scrimmage game. Hardee fi nished off the game with fi ve catches for 81 yards and a touchdown, as the Blue team prevailed with a 38-7 victory

over the Orange. Dudek’s parents made

the two and a half hour trip from Naperville to see their son play. Lynn Dudek, Mike’s

mother, appreciates Hardee for always being there for her son when he’s away at college.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Rayvonte Rice fi nishes a fast break with a dunk. Illinois opens Saturday with an exhibition game against Quincy.

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois’ Ivory Crawford attempts a shot during the game at State Farm Center on Feb. 16. Crawford was one of the Illini’s leading scorers and rebounders last season.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Mike Dudek attempts to stay in bounds after completing a reception during the homecoming game against Minnesota on Oct. 25.

Illinois vs. QuincyWhen/Where:Friday, 7 p.m. State Farm CenterQuick Notes: Illinois last played Quincy in 2011 and won 73-45.Hidden Stat: Illinois is 20-0 in exhibition games in the last 10 years.

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Football notes Illini offensive lineman Ted Karras out for rest of seasonIllinois football head coach Tim Beckman announced after practice Wednesday that the junior lineman would miss the rest of the season and upcoming spring season. Karras tore his MCL and ACL in Illinois’ 55-14 loss

to Ohio State on Saturday.Although the road to recovery will be tough for Karras, Beckman is sure that he will be able to overcome the challenge. “You know Teddy,” Beckman told reporters. “He had the MCL and ACL (torn) and still ran off the fi eld. So if there’s anybody that’s going to get back quickly, it’s him.”

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Even though he doesn’t have to, Hardee embraces the role.

“I told his parents that Mikey is my little brother, so I got him no matter what,” Hardee said.

After the spring game, Lynn also noticed one feature on Hard-ee that immediately stood out.

“I think he had his mom’s name written on his cheek; it just broke my heart,” she said. “He’s a child doing it and making it, and his mom must have been an amaz-ing woman because he is an amaz-ing kid.”

She can also relate to Hard-ee, given that she lost her moth-er when she was 21 years old. Lynn takes initiative to give him a warm welcome for every game and she has yet to miss one this season.

“Every time I see him, I give

him a hug and a kiss on a cheek and tell him that he’s kicking butt, and continue to work hard,” she said.

The Illinois coaching staff alter-nates roommates at the team’s hotel for every game to encour-age players to learn something new about each other. Dudek and Hardee were roommates for the first game of the season against Youngstown State. Dudek would often text Hardee for advice after a tough loss or ask to join him to watch film after a game.

Some of the advice Hardee preaches to the freshman receiv-er is to have the determination to work until the next play. If a play-er sits on that play, he’s going to have a bad rest of the day. Start-ing as a true freshman teaches Dudek how to grow up fast in the game of football.

Hardee’s advice stems from his own role models from his fresh-men year: former Illini wide

receiver’s Steve Hull and Darius Millines, and defensive-backs Jus-tin Green and Terry Hawthorne.

“I tell (Dudek) to keep his head up, and as a receiving core, we always have his back,” Hardee said.

Hardee and Dudek’s relation-ship extends beyond the game of football, despite growing up in two different areas. Growing up in Cleveland, Hardee has always been a Browns and Cavaliers fan, while Dudek is a Chicago Bulls and a “die-hard” Bears fan.

Lynn Dudek takes care of Hardee as if he was her third son.

“He’s been there for Mikey since day one,” Lynn said. “I would ask, ‘What can I do? Is everything going OK? How can I help you?’”

The same thing goes for Mike Dudek, who has grandparents who live roughly 30 minutes away from Hardee’s residence in Cleveland.

“I told (Dudek) that whenever he comes to Ohio, that I was going to take him out and we can work out and do stuff like that,” Hard-ee said.

The freshman receiver has big dreams of making it to the All Big-Ten First Team. Dudek has already been one of the Illini’s gems so far this season, having big games against Western Ken-tucky and Purdue. This past Sat-urday against Ohio State, Dudek broke the single-season record for an Illini freshman receiver, with 707 yards on the year.

Standing side-by-side, the two numbers read “18 and 19,” Hardee’s being one number above Dudek’s. This may not at all be a coincidence, given that Dudek looks up to Hardee as a big brother.

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off,”Crawford said laughing. “I feel like that really doesn’t mean anything to me, points-wise, I just want to get the win.”

The team takes the new-look State Farm Center floor for the first time Saturday for an exhibition game against Millikin.

The match-up with the Big Blue from Decatur, Illinois, will serve as a precur-sor to the Illini’s regular season opener at home against IPFW on November 14.

Although only an exhibition, the match-up will serve as the beginning of Craw-ford’s final chapter in Champaign.

“By the end of the season, hopefully my dreams will come true of going pro by doing what I have to do,” Crawford said. “But first things first, just taking care of the team and looking at the little things before the big things.”

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BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY STAFF WRITER

The Illinois men’s tennis team will wrap up the fall season at the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Cham-pionships this week. There will be strong competition from around the country at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Flushing, New York — the home of the U.S. Open. Jared Hiltzik will compete in the singles bracket, while Tim Kopinski and Ross Gui-gnon will compete in doubles.

Hiltzik qualified for the tournament after taking second at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships three weeks ago. At that tour-nament, Hiltzik lost to Ohio State’s Mikael Torpegaard. Hiltzik is back in New York for the Championships for the second consecutive year.

Last year, Hiltzik reached the finals of the tournament, where he lost to UCLA’s Clay Thompson. Before that, Hiltzik went on a tear, knock-ing off two of the country’s

top-10 players to advance. Now, Hiltizk comes in as the one of the nation’s top-ranked players.

“It’s always good to be in surroundings you’ve been successful in before,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “Jar-ed hasn’t played that well this fall, and this is a chance to end the fall on a high note.”

Hiltizk played at the Bil-lie Jean King Tennis Center’s outdoor courts at the start of the season for the inaugural American Collegiate Invita-tional. He was brought in as a last-minute alternate, but he suffered a first-round loss, once again to Thompson.

Hiltzik has had an up-and-down fall. While he had a nice semi-final run at the Midwest Regional Champi-onships, he’s currently on a five-match losing streak after the Texas A&M Conference Challenge.

The tournament field is stacked. Eight players from the preseason top 10 will be competing. Dancer said

Hiltzik faces a tough oppo-nent in the first round, No. 28 Ryan Shane of Virginia. Shane was a member of the Cavalier team that finished ranked fourth in the nation last year. He received a bid to the tournament after win-ning the ITA Atlantic Region-al. Shane also won the dou-bles title at the Atlantic Regional with partner Luca Corinteli.

In their first match, Kopin-ski and Guignon will also face Virginia’s Shane, along

with Corinteli. It’s their third time playing together this fall season after the Confer-ence Challenge and making the consolation finals at the All-American Champion-ships. If they get past their first match, they’ll face No. 5 Nick Chappell and Will Stein of TCU, a pair that defeated them at All-Americans.

Kopinski and Guignon also had a lot of success at this tournament last year with a semifinals appearance. They lost to Mikelis Libietis and

Hunter Reese of Tennessee, currently the top ranked doubles pair in the country. Kopinski and Guignon are the preseason No. 2.

While Hiltzik and the team of Kopinski and Guignon are the Illini’s highest ranked players, Dancer said none of them has played well this fall. This tournament offers

a chance to end the fall on a positive note.“Go there to play, play as hard as you can ... competing the way we need to compete,” Dancer said. “If we can do that then we can win matches.”

Chris can be reached at cmkenne2@ dailyillini.com.

ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate ChampionshipsWhen: Thursday to Sunday, Billie Jean King Tennis Center, Flushing, N.Y.Quick notes: No. 6 Jared Hiltzik is coming off a five-match losing streak, and No. 2 doubles pair

Tim Kopinski and Ross Guignon have only played together a few times this fall. Hidden stat: Last year, Hiltzik reached the finals at this tournament, becoming the fifth Illini ever to do so. Kopinski and Guingon reached the semifinals.

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work on offensive sets and defensive principles against your own teammates in practice, and another to execute them against actual live opponents. The cupcake games should show who is ready to compete.

One of the more disturb-ing trends we can take away from Groce’s first two seasons in Champaign has been the inability to put away inferior teams. In

his first season, it seemed that Groce’s three-pointer-oriented offensive scheme lacked the consistency to blow out weaker teams on a regular basis. This was apparent in games against teams like Gardner-Webb, Western Carolina and Nor-folk State, against whom the Illini pulled out uncomfort-able home wins.

Last season, Groce’s team simply lacked the firepower to overwhelm many infe-rior teams — games against IPFW, Dartmouth and UIC come to mind — and was

forced to grind its way to several ugly victories. Once again, the Illini’s flaws were exposed early in the year.

Those too-close-for-com-fort contests should have been huge warning signs that Illinois would strug-gle in Big Ten play. This year, the Illini look to have enough outside shooting, talent and consistency to get by inferior opponents with more lopsided results than the last two seasons have shown. If they toil for a third straight year with the small-conference direc-

tional schools, be prepared for another inconsistent year in conference play. The good news is, with the personnel they currently have, this Illini team should have an easier time coast-ing against weaker oppo-nents this season.

The good news doesn’t end there. Last Sunday, Illinois participated in a “secret scrimmage” with Dayton at a neutral site in Indianapolis. Though the event was closed to fans and media, multiple sources informed me that the Illini

outplayed the Flyers and won the scrimmage por-tion of the event by several points.

Though details about secret scrimmages are usu-ally scarce, it’s encourag-ing that Illinois was able to get the best of a Dayton team that reached the Elite Eight last year. Getting the chance to face tough com-petition before the season begins can only be a valu-able experience for an Illini squad that will face more than its share of challenges as the season goes on.

So enjoy the exhibition game on Friday and the four home games after that. Many fans wait until the marquee games to truly pay attention, but you can learn a lot about the team from these early-season games. The Illini will win these games.It will be how they win that will serve as a good indicator for how the season could go.

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at roux2@dailyillini.com and @aroux94.

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Hockey looks for rapid improvementsBY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER

After two weeks of gruel-ing battles against division opponents, the Illinois hock-ey team will return home to take on an unfamiliar foe this weekend.

NCAA Division III Aurora University will visit the Illi-nois Ice Arena for a two-game series against the Illini. Auro-ra is playing its fi rst season in the NCAA after previously competing in the ACHA Divi-sion II.

Illinois head coach Nick Fabbrini said he doesn’t quite know what to expect from Aurora because it will have a very different team this year. Instead, Fabbrini will keep his focus on improving his team, which is on a three-game losing streak to CSCHL.

“We defi nitely have a lot of room for improvement, but for having such a young team, I think we have done okay for our fi rst four division games,” Fabbrini said. “Everybody in here knows we can do better, so we are working our way towards that.”

One aspect of their game the Illini are looking to improve is their shot count. Illinois has been outshot in its

last four games. Of those four games, Illinois won only one, in which it was outshout 44-12.

Fabbrini is addressing the problem from the offensive side of the ice. He has had his team work a lot more on fi nishing when taking both initial shots and on rebound opportunities.

“We are emphasizing get-ting pucks in the net every chance we get,” Fabbrini said. “Whether it’s on the rush or from bad angles, we want to make goalies try to make as many saves as possible.”

Center Josh Belmont said the team is facing similar issues as last season’s team, except last year, it took the team longer to overcome its issue. He believes that the team demonstrated that it can improve quickly in the sec-ond game of the Lindenwood series. Despite losing 2-1, the team did not make as many mistakes as it did in the series opener.

Another area of their game that the Illini will be looking to rapidly improve is their power play. The team has not had success in convert-ing power play opportunities into goals, which has also been a contributing factor in their recent losses. Belmont said that it has been tough for the team to adjust to different styles of play from opposing teams on special teams, but the team has been making progress.

On Wednesday, Fabbrini dedicated the entire practice toward working on power play and penalty kill. He has been experimenting with different lines on the ice during special teams in an attempt to fi nd one that clicks.

“It’s kind of a fl uid thing. We have defi nitely had good looks on the power play,” Fab-brini said. “It hasn’t been for a lack of opportunities that we aren’t scoring goals. So we just have to fi nd the right

combination and work on fi n-ishing when we get chances.”

The team will be looking to prove itself this weekend against an NCAA opponent. Belmont, however, doesn’t expect the Spartans to be the team’s toughest competition this season because of how lit-

tle time they had to put togeth-er a team of NCAA caliber. He is expecting the Illini to get back to their winning ways this weekend.

“I think we should run through Aurora, personally,” Belmont said. “I would be seriously impressed if they

are putting out a team like Ohio. I have high hopes for this weekend. Plus, we need a turnaround. We can’t have another loss.”

Daniel can be reached at dadexte2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @ddexter23.

Illinois vs. AuroraWhen: 7:30 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday at Illinois Ice ArenaQuick notes: Illinois looks

to end its three-game losing streak this weekend. Hidden stat: Illinois has been outshot in its last four games 79-132.

KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Josh Belmont says the team is facing similar issues as last year’s team.

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Volleyball loses to Northwestern in 5 sets

BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

The streak is over.The No. 9 Illinois volley-

ball team lost to Northwest-ern in five sets by scores of 20-25, 22-25, 25-16, 25-15 and 11-15 in Evanston, Illinois, on Wednesday night, snapping a seven-match winning streak in the process.

Although the Illini (18-6, 10-3 Big Ten) came into the match having won nine of their last 11 matches against the Wildcats (15-9, 5-8), Illi-nois continued the trend of underperforming at North-western. The loss is the Illi-ni’s second in a row at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

The first set of the match

was extremely close early on as there were five ties with-in the first six points. Illi-nois expanded its lead to 9-6 before Northwestern closed the gap and tied the set at 13.

From there the Wildcats made a run of their own, opening an 18-15 lead. Illi-nois cut the lead to 21-20, but couldn’t make it any closer. Northwestern scored four unanswered points and went on to take the first set.

In the second set, North-western jumped out to an early 3-0 lead before Illi-nois bounced back to tie the set at six.

The lead changed back and forth throughout the set as the Illini and the Wildcats each mounted small runs to retake the lead.

Illinois tied the match at both 20 and 21 points a piece and even took a 22-21 lead, but again couldn’t stop a late swing of four unanswered

points from Northwestern that allowed the Wildcats to take the second set in the same way they took the first.

Northwestern pounced on Illinois in the first two sets on the way to a 2-0 set lead going into the break. Coming out of the second and third set break, the Illini played like a completely different team.

The third set was as close-ly contested as the first two early on. Illinois mounted a 5-1 run to take a 12-9 lead before going on a 10-4 run to widen the lead to 22-13.

Northwestern scored two unanswered points to cut the lead to 22-15, but the Illini eventually took the third set.

In the fourth set, just as had been the case in the first three, the Illini and the Wild-cats traded the lead back and forth early on. As had been the case in the third set, Illinois pulled away from Northwestern as the set

progressed.After a tie at 11 points,

the Illini went on a 10-1 run to build a 21-12 lead. From there, Illinois held off North-western and sealed the set.

As was the case for the entire match, the fifth set was closely contested. Illi-nois and Northwestern went back and forth with ties at seven and nine points apiece. After a 3-0 run the Wildcats took a 12-9 that they would not relinquish for the rest of the match. Illinois’ offense was extremely balanced on the night as the Illini had five players record seven or more kills.

Junior outside hitter Joce-lynn Birks and senior outside hitter Morganne Criswell led the way for the Illini offen-sively as they finished with 14 and 13 kills, respectively.

Neither team played extremely well on the offen-sive end as the Illinois and

Northwestern finished with respective hitting percent-ages of .188 and .125.

On the defensive side of the ball, sophomore middle blocker Katie Stadick helped slow down the Wildcats with 12 block assists on the night.

But even Stadick’s effort and the team’s 18 blocks couldn’t stop the Wildcats, who emerged with the win.

Illinois will get a chance to exact revenge fairly soon though, as Northwestern will travel to Champaign this Sat-urday for a match at Huff Hall.

Illinois was a game back of Big Ten leader Wisconsin, prior to the loss. Even with the slip up on Wednesday, there are still seven games remaining on the schedule.

Nicholas can be reached at fortin2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @IlliniSportsGuy.

Illinois’ winning streak snapped at 7 matches

Illinois will get a chance to exact

revenge fairly soon though, as

Northwestern will travel to Cham-paign this Satur-day for a match at

Huff Hall.