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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 27, 2015 33˚ | 21˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM 5he independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 144 Issue 47 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI BY LIYUAN YANG STAFF WRITER The National Sci- ence Foundation granted $225,000 to Heinrich Taube, a music professor at the University, to continue the development of his comput- er application for teaching music theory. The application, Harmo- nia, which is already avail- able for free on iTunes, can automaticly analyze music, grade it, determine harmo- ny and anomalies and pro- vide instant feedback of the user’s performance. The best way to think about it, Taube said, is that it is a multimedia version of a textbook, where the exam- ples can change. “It is like having your own teacher in a way,” Taube said. Taube has been work- ing on the program since 2001, he said, because the opportunities for grants in the arts are rarer than those for grants in science. The funding from the grant will go toward finishing the application by Fall 2015 and paying the salary of the instructor who will teach the class, as well as the stat- isticians who will run an analysis on the program’s effectiveness. Students will be able to use the application for homework and practicing skills in music theory, while getting instant feedback. In that way, Taube emphasized that the application can help students learn better and more efficientlly. Traditionally, Taube said students look at their books and fi ll out their home- work. When they get their grades after a week, wheth- er good or not, the course has moved on. With Harmonia, students can practice every night and then learn from instant feedback. Currently, the grading staff relies on the teachers, which Taube said consumes a lot of their time. Carlos Carrillo, assistant professor of Music, agreed it takes him a long time to grade his students’ work. However, Harmonia will automatically grade stu- dents’ work based on the particular notations and musical syntax, which Car- rillo covers in his Music 101 and 102 classes. “What we are teaching is how this musical syntax works. So, we talk about how a specific course works within this syntax, how they follow each other and how they connect to each other,” Carrillo said. Because of Harmonia’s automatic grading process, facilitators can concentrate more on teaching instead of worrying about grading, which Carrillo said would be useful. Because of this, professors will have more time to focus on teaching material. Harmonia is currently in phase one, and Taube is working with the startup company Illiac Software to optimize the application. “If we do well on phase one, and we show that there’s a large market out there and this can poten- tially make money, then NSF will give what’s called phase two, which lets the company actually commer- cialize it,” Taube said. The Fall 2015 section of Music 101 will be the test bed for working interactive- ly with the software. “It will be some home- work people do with com- puters, some homework Harmonia brings music theory to life BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER Steven Salaita, whose appointment to the Uni- versity’s American Indi- an Studies program was rejected in September, will appear in court in Febru- ary for a lawsuit against the University. The lawsuit, fi led with the Champaign County Circuit Court in Novem- ber, claims the Universi- ty failed to comply with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, which requires public bodies to disclose specific records, unless the records fall under exemption. The trial will take place on Feb. 13 at 2:30 p.m. at the Champaign County Circuit Court, courtroom B, said Katie Blakeman, Champaign County cir- cuit clerk. At the time the suit was fi led, University spokesman Tom Hardy said the University would review the case carefully and defend its interests. According to the Illi- nois Freedom of Informa- tion Act, any party found in violation of the act is required to pay civil pen- alties of no less than $2,500 and no more than $5,000 per violation. In November, Maria LaHood, senior staff attor- ney at the Center for Con- stitutional Rights and a representative of Salaita, said the suit is not regard- ing Salaita’s termination, but the requested docu- ments Salaita requested on Sept. 17, six days after his appointment, was official- ly rejected by the Board of Trustees. The University orally rejected his request, stat- ing that it would require reviewing between 8,000 to 10,000 emails. When the University labeled the request “undu- ly burdensome,” Salaita downsized the parame- ters and submitted a new FOIA request on Nov. 5, 2014. When he received no response, he decided to file suit on Nov. 17, 2014. The lawsuit asks the court to order the Board of Trustees to give Salaita the requested documents, to admit to violating the act, as well as award civil penalties, reasonable attor- ney fees and any other com- pensation the court deems appropriate. Abigale can be reached at [email protected]. Salaita court date set for February BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER Monday might have been President Robert Easter’s last annual meeting with the Senate Executive committee, members joked, as he is set to retire for the third time as University president. Roy Campbell, SEC Chair, opened the meeting with words of gratitude and appre- ciation for Easter’s almost four years as president. In the next few months of transition leading up to his June retirement, Easter said he is enjoying working with his successor, Timothy Killeen, who has been work- ing with the University as an academic hourly. In his remaining time as president, Easter said he has been deal- ing with many items typical for this time of year, such as budgetary items. The meeting allowed SEC members to ask Easter ques- tions on a variety of Univer- sity-related subjects. Easter on funding Easter estimated the state owes the University over $300 million at the moment. However, he expects that number to grow until a res- olution is met. He and oth- er University officials will meet with Gov. Bruce Raun- er’s current higher educa- tion counsel in Chicago on Wednesday. Easter is also expecting a budget recommendation from the state in February. “I really don’t think there will be much in the hopper, in terms of budget, until (Rauner) puts something on President Easter speaks about funding efforts BY JASON CHUN AND CAMILLE MURRAY STAFF WRITERS University police arrest- ed Cirron G.Z. Clark, a 20-year-old, for the unlaw- ful possession of a fi re- arm early Saturday morn- ing during a routine traffic stop. Shortly after midnight, University police officers pulled over a vehicle with a broken taillight near the intersection of Goodwin Avenue and Nevada Street. Upon approaching the vehi- cle, the officers detected a distinct odor of cannabis coming from the vehicle. The officers proceeded to remove the three sub- jects from the vehicle to complete a search. During the search, the officers dis- covered two open bottles of alcohol and a loaded hand- gun underneath the front passenger seat. Police determined that Clark, the back-seat pas- senger, would have been the only one able to access the spot where the handgun was located. Clark was also issued a no-trespassing notice for University property. The extent of Clark’s punish- ment will depend on wheth- er or not he has any prior convictions. “If the weapon was not found to be stolen or any- thing like that ... I would say [it’s a] class A misdemean- or, I believe,” Deputy Chief UIPD arrest man for firearm Police also uncovered open alcohol Trial against University to take place at Champaign County Circuit Court KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINI Assistant professor Carlos Carrillo teaches Music Theory and Practice II at Smith Memorial Hall on Monday. A new app could help grade students’ theory SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINI President Robert Easter answers questions to his staff and faculty during the monthly Senate Executive meeting at the English Building on Monday. What we are teaching is how music syntax works. So, we talk about how specif- ic the chords work within this syntax, how they follow each other, and how they connect to each other.CARLOS CARRILLO ASSISTANT MUSIC PROFESSOR INSIDE As we say goodbye to ‘Parks and Recreation,’ let’s reect on what it has taught us in seven seasons. INTERESTED IN WORKING FOR US? Come to English Building 160 at 8 p.m. tomorrow for our info night. Career Guide Tools to help you nab that perfect job or internship. SECTION, C SEE FIREARM | 3A SEE MUSIC GRANT | 3A SEE SEC | 3A

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Page 1: The Daily Illini: Volume 144 Issue 66

INSIDE Po l ice 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Op in ions 4A | Le t t e rs 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | L i f e & Cul tu re 6A | Spor ts 1B | C lass i f i eds 4B | Sudoku 4B

THE DAILY ILLINITUESDAYJanuary 27, 2015

33˚ | 21˚

WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM he independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 144 Issue 47 | FREE

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

BY LIYUAN YANGSTAFF WRITER

The National Sci-ence Foundation granted $225,000 to Heinrich Taube, a music professor at the University, to continue the development of his comput-er application for teaching music theory.

The application, Harmo-nia, which is already avail-able for free on iTunes, can automaticly analyze music, grade it, determine harmo-ny and anomalies and pro-vide instant feedback of the user’s performance. The best way to think about it, Taube said, is that it is a multimedia version of a textbook, where the exam-ples can change.

“It is like having your own teacher in a way,” Taube said.

Taube has been work-ing on the program since 2001, he said, because the

opportunities for grants in the arts are rarer than those for grants in science. The funding from the grant will go toward fi nishing the application by Fall 2015 and paying the salary of the instructor who will teach the class, as well as the stat-isticians who will run an analysis on the program’s effectiveness.

Students will be able to use the application for homework and practicing skills in music theory, while getting instant feedback. In that way, Taube emphasized that the application can help students learn better and more effi cientlly.

Traditionally, Taube said students look at their books and fi ll out their home-work. When they get their grades after a week, wheth-er good or not, the course has moved on.

With Harmonia, students

can practice every night and then learn from instant feedback. Currently, the grading staff relies on the teachers, which Taube said consumes a lot of their time.

Carlos Carrillo, assistant professor of Music, agreed it takes him a long time to grade his students’ work. However, Harmonia will automatically grade stu-dents’ work based on the particular notations and musical syntax, which Car-rillo covers in his Music 101 and 102 classes.

“What we are teaching is how this musical syntax works. So, we talk about how a specifi c course works within this syntax, how they follow each other and how they connect to each other,” Carrillo said.

Because of Harmonia’s automatic grading process, facilitators can concentrate more on teaching instead

of worrying about grading, which Carrillo said would be useful. Because of this, professors will have more time to focus on teaching material.

Harmonia is currently in phase one, and Taube is working with the startup company Illiac Software to optimize the application.

“If we do well on phase one, and we show that there’s a large market out there and this can poten-tially make money, then NSF will give what’s called phase two, which lets the company actually commer-cialize it,” Taube said.

The Fall 2015 section of Music 101 will be the test bed for working interactive-ly with the software.

“It will be some home-work people do with com-puters, some homework

Harmonia brings music theory to life

BY ABIGALE SVOBODASTAFF WRITER

Steven Salaita, whose appointment to the Uni-versity’s American Indi-an Studies program was rejected in September, will appear in court in Febru-ary for a lawsuit against the University.

The lawsuit, fi led with the Champaign County Circuit Court in Novem-ber, claims the Universi-ty failed to comply with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, which requires public bodies to disclose specifi c records, unless the records fall

under exemption.The trial will take place

on Feb. 13 at 2:30 p.m. at the Champaign County Circuit Court, courtroom B, said Katie Blakeman, Champaign County cir-cuit clerk. At the time the suit was fi led, University spokesman Tom Hardy

said the University would review the case carefully and defend its interests.

According to the Illi-nois Freedom of Informa-tion Act, any party found in violation of the act is required to pay civil pen-alties of no less than $2,500 and no more than $5,000 per violation.

In November, Maria LaHood, senior staff attor-ney at the Center for Con-stitutional Rights and a representative of Salaita, said the suit is not regard-

ing Salaita’s termination, but the requested docu-ments Salaita requested on Sept. 17, six days after his appointment, was offi cial-ly rejected by the Board of Trustees.

The University orally rejected his request, stat-ing that it would require reviewing between 8,000 to 10,000 emails.

When the University labeled the request “undu-ly burdensome,” Salaita downsized the parame-ters and submitted a new

FOIA request on Nov. 5, 2014. When he received no response, he decided to fi le suit on Nov. 17, 2014.

The lawsuit asks the court to order the Board of Trustees to give Salaita the requested documents, to admit to violating the act, as well as award civil penalties, reasonable attor-ney fees and any other com-pensation the court deems appropriate.

Abigale can be reached at [email protected].

Salaita court date set for February

BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER

Monday might have been President Robert Easter’s last annual meeting with the Senate Executive committee, members joked, as he is set to retire for the third time as University president.

Roy Campbell, SEC Chair, opened the meeting with words of gratitude and appre-ciation for Easter’s almost four years as president.

In the next few months of transition leading up to his June retirement, Easter said he is enjoying working

with his successor, Timothy Killeen, who has been work-ing with the University as an academic hourly. In his remaining time as president, Easter said he has been deal-ing with many items typical for this time of year, such as budgetary items.

The meeting allowed SEC members to ask Easter ques-tions on a variety of Univer-sity-related subjects.

Easter on funding

Easter estimated the state owes the University over

$300 million at the moment. However, he expects that number to grow until a res-olution is met. He and oth-er University offi cials will meet with Gov. Bruce Raun-er’s current higher educa-tion counsel in Chicago on Wednesday.

Easter is also expecting a budget recommendation from the state in February.

“I really don’t think there will be much in the hopper, in terms of budget, until (Rauner) puts something on

President Easter speaks about funding efforts

BY JASON CHUN AND CAMILLE MURRAYSTAFF WRITERS

University police arrest-ed Cirron G.Z. Clark, a 20-year-old, for the unlaw-ful possession of a fi re-arm early Saturday morn-ing during a routine traffi c stop.

Shortly after midnight, University police offi cers pulled over a vehicle with a broken taillight near the intersection of Goodwin Avenue and Nevada Street. Upon approaching the vehi-cle, the offi cers detected a distinct odor of cannabis coming from the vehicle.

The offi cers proceeded to remove the three sub-jects from the vehicle to complete a search. During the search, the offi cers dis-covered two open bottles of alcohol and a loaded hand-gun underneath the front passenger seat.

Police determined that Clark, the back-seat pas-senger, would have been the only one able to access the spot where the handgun was located.

Clark was also issued a no-trespassing notice for University property. The extent of Clark’s punish-ment will depend on wheth-er or not he has any prior convictions.

“If the weapon was not found to be stolen or any-thing like that ... I would say [it’s a] class A misdemean-or, I believe,” Deputy Chief

UIPD arrest man for fi rearm Police also uncovered open alcohol

Trial against University to take place at Champaign County Circuit Court

KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIAssistant professor Carlos Carrillo teaches Music Theory and Practice II at Smith Memorial Hall on Monday. A new app could help grade students’ theory

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIPresident Robert Easter answers questions to his staff and faculty during the monthly Senate Executive meeting at the English Building on Monday.

“What we are teaching is how music syntax works. So, we talk about how specif-ic the chords work within this syntax, how they follow each other, and how they connect to each other.”CARLOS CARRILLOASSISTANT MUSIC PROFESSOR

INSIDE As we say goodbye to ‘Parks and Recreation,’ let’s re! ect on what it has taught us in seven seasons.

INTERESTED IN WORKING FOR US?Come to English Building 160 at 8 p.m. tomorrow for our info night.

Career Guide

Tools to help you nab that perfect job or

internship.SECTION, C

SEE FIREARM | 3A SEE MUSIC GRANT | 3A

SEE SEC | 3A

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WEATHERPOLICE

Champaign Armed robbery and

aggravated assault was re-ported at Autozone, 609 N. Mattis Ave., around 9 p.m. Saturday.

The report stated an un-known offender entered the business armed with a

fi rearm. The offender took currency and battered em-ployees.

University A 20-year-old woman

was arrested on charge of aggravated battery in the 600 block of East Green

St. around 2:30 a.m. Fri-day.

The report stated a pa-trol offi cer witnessed two women fi ghting on the sidewalk.

Compiled by Miranda Holloway and Jason Chun

HOROSCOPES

BY NANCY BLACKTRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES

Today’s Birthday Together you can move mountains this year. Consider strategy and repeat what worked before. Pro! table new opportunities arise after 3/20. Take leadership. Launch new partnership ventures after 4/8. Practice with your crew until you’re a well-oiled machine. Your savings grows steadily with care after 10/13. Invest in your family’s future. Collaborate with friends. Grow the love.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 an 8 — Allow yourself more quiet time. Discipline is required. Don’t gossip or get stopped by past failures. Imagine the right circumstances. Maintain balance amid upheaval. Postpone expansion over the next few weeks with Venus in Pisces. Finish old jobs and rest.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Today is an 8 — Imagine a delicious future. Don’t inaugurate a new trick or fall for a tall tale. Complete a project that’s been slow. You’re especially powerful this next month with Venus in Pisces. Group and public activities boost your career. Share your love.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) Today is a 7 — Follow an expert’s plans. Increase your area of in" uence this week. Take on more responsibility

over the next month with Venus in Pisces. Watch for career opportunities. Assume authority. If you pass the test, you can rise.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Today is an 8 — Stand up for what you love. Financially it could get tense. No need to overdo. Create a detailed budget. Travel, explore and study this next month with Venus in Pisces. Set goals, and plan your next adventure. Discover new worlds.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is an 8 — Review shared ! nances this month with Venus in Pisces, and discover ways to save. Increase your assets. Re-affirm a commitment. There may be a con" ict anyway. Take calm authority, and persuade co-workers. Speak from your heart.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is an 8 — Partnerships " ow with greater ease this next month with Venus in Pisces. Collaborate on creative projects. Nobody understands your work better than you. Fix something before it breaks. Persuade loved ones to defer grati! cation, too. Look outside yourself for answers.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Today is a 7 — Everything seems possible. There’s more work coming in over the next month with Venus in Pisces, and it’s the kind you like. Keep costs down anyway. What you learn bene! ts many. Get into a fun work phase. Provide exceptional results.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is an 8 — Do something nice for your partner (or

someone you’d like to know better). You’re luckier in love this month with Venus in Pisces. Explore new ways to create beauty. Play and practice hobbies, passions and talents. Share love.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is an 8 — Be patient and evaluate the situation. Your place can become a love nest. You’re more domestic over the next month with Venus in Pisces. Focus on home and family. Increase the comfort level. Learn from a child.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Today is an 8 — Trust your own heart to lead you. You love learning this month with Venus in Pisces. Study gets fun. You’re even smarter than usual. Words " ow with ease, so take advantage to write and issue communications. Play with it.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) Today is an 8 — Gather new income. The next month with Venus in Pisces can get quite pro! table. Discover your peak professional performance zone. Prove your latest hypothesis. Don’t believe everything you hear. Expand your in" uence. Your objectivity is calming to others.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) Today is an 8 — You feel especially beloved for the next month with Venus in your sign. Add some glamour to your personal presentation, with a new style or look. You’re irresistible. Pretend you are who you want to be. Dress the part.

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NEWS BRIEFSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

FBI has arrested alleged Russian spy in New York City

Obama, India’s prime minister face cold, rain in e!ort to warm relations

Kurds claim victory in Kobani as Islamic State advance is halted

US Embassy in Yemen closes to public, citing ‘security concerns’

Washington state o"cials unaware initially of oil spill in November

Egypt releases Mubarak’s sons 1 day a#er uprising anniversary

The FBI has arrested what it calls a Russian spy in New York City who is sus-pected of taking part in an intelligence-gathering ring and trying to recruit resi-dents, the agency announced Monday.

The arrest of Evgeny Buryakov in the Bronx comes after a yearslong

investigation into his activ-ities as a part of Russia’s foreign intelligence agen-cy, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York. The FBI announced charges against Buryakov, as well as two accused co-conspirators, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy.

NEW DELHI — President Obama joined Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a lengthy celebration of India’s Republic Day on Monday in a symbolic series of events summarized by a long parade in cold rain.

Shielded partly by an umbrella, Obama sat attentively for more than two hours by Modi’s side, watching camels and danc-ers parade down Rajpath, a

grand ceremonial boulevard in central New Delhi.

The display of respect is the purpose of Obama’s trip. After years of rocky relations between their two countries, the White House is hoping that the growing personal warmth between the president and prime minister will turn into a more cooperative relationship between their governments.

ANKARA, Turkey — Kurdish fighters are claim-ing victory over the Islamic State in Kobani, the Syrian border town where months of urban guerrilla warfare backed by U.S. airstrikes has held up the militant group’s expansion.

“Islamic State is not in Kobani anymore,” Meryem Kobane, a rebel command-

er, said by phone from the city on Monday, as celebra-tory gunfire echoed in the background. On the Turk-ish side of the border a few miles away, thousands of refugees from Kobani danced and hugged each other, Faysal Sariyildiz, a Kurdish member of Tur-key’s parliament, said by phone.

The U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital city has closed to the public amid deepening instability in the country, the U.S. Depart-ment of State announced Monday.

The State Department cit-ed “ongoing security con-cerns” as the reason for the Sanaa embassy closure after the resignation of the Yeme-ni president, prime minister and Cabinet.

State and federal offi-cials are investigating an oil spill from a railroad tank car at Washington state’s largest refinery last November, but key agencies were kept in the dark about it for at least a month.

The delayed notifica-tion of the spill highlights gaps in communication and enforcement as more crude

oil shipments travel by rail.According to reports

reviewed by McClatchy, when the tank car arrived Nov. 5 at the BP Cher-ry Point refinery, Feder-al Railroad Administra-tion inspectors discovered oil stains on its sides and wheels. A closer inspection revealed an open valve and a missing plug. The car was also 1,611 gallons short.

The two sons of former Egyptian president Hos-ni Mubarak were released from prison Monday, one day after at least 20 peo-ple were killed in protests marking the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that end-ed his rule.

Gamal and Alaa Mubarak were freed after prose-cutors certified that they

need not be held over out-standing insider trading charges, said a prison offi-cial, who asked not to be named.

Mubarak and his sons last month won a retrial on charges of spending more than 100 million Egyptian pounds ($14 million) of pub-lic money on their private residences.

BY TINA SUSMAN, JOSEPH TANFANI AND MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK — Snow and powerful winds swept into the Northeast on Mon-day as a storm predicted to grow into a major blizzard prompted mass transit shut-downs, highway closures, thousands of airline flight cancellations and a ban on driving in New York City and on major roads across the region.

The storm began slowly, with light snow falling gen-tly in New York and the sur-rounding areas. By after-noon, winds had picked up, and the warnings from may-ors, governors and emergen-cy officials took on a new

urgency. Metal scraped against pavement as plows took to the streets to push fast-accumulating snow off to the side.

“Everything we know so far makes clear you cannot underestimate this storm,” New York Mayor Bill de Bla-sio said at a news briefing, which came on the heels of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement of transit disruptions. In addition to announcing the driving ban in New York City, which was taking effect at 11 p.m., de Blasio said city parks would close at 6 p.m. because of the danger of falling trees and branches. Schools, which were open Monday, were to be closed Tuesday.

Cuomo said the Long

Island Rail Road and Met-ro-North, which carry tens of thousands of people daily between New York City and its northern and eastern sub-urbs, probably would be shut down at 11 p.m. New York City’s subways were expect-ed to operate on reduced schedules after about 8 p.m.

“This is going to be a bliz-zard. It is a serious blizzard,” said Cuomo, who joined the governors of New Jer-sey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts in declaring at least partial emergencies in their states. Some counties in Pennsyl-vania also were under emer-gency declarations.

Thousands of flights into and out of Northeastern air-ports, from Boston to Phil-

adelphia, were canceled through Tuesday.

To the north and east, though, there was no ques-tion what was to come: anywhere from 1 to 3 feet of snow, along with wind gusts of 40 to 70 mph. The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning from southeastern New York and northeastern New Jersey up to northeastern Maine. Cuomo said he would decide after a 4 p.m. weather update, whether major high-ways in New York would be closed to all but emergency vehicles.

De Blasio said the driv-ing ban in the city applied to everyone except people traveling for emergencies and emergency vehicles.

Massive snowstorm hits

of Police Skip Frost said. “But if he has prior convic-tions for that, then it would be a felony.”

The other two men in the vehicle were released on the scene and are not fac-ing charges at this time. However, they could still be charged as the investi-gation continues.

“If the continuing inves-tigations show that they had any knowledge (of the handgun), the state’s attor-ney office would have the ability to file charges down the road,” Frost said.

The driver was issued a warning for the broken tail-light and for not having a rear registration light.

Jason and Camille can be reached at news @dailyillini.com.

they don’t. So, every student will get the opportunity if they want — they don’t have to,” Taube said.

Taube’s short-term goal for this year is to prove that if the students can practice more with the instant feed-back done by the computer they will do better. More than that, his long-term goal is to finish the appli-cation and release it to the worldwide market. Eventu-ally, he hopes the applica-tion will start teaching peo-ple music all over the world.

“In the long term we would see ourselves being a kind of a ‘hub’ or a web-site for all kinds of music

learning where it’s done digitally. That’s the plan.” Taube said.

If Harmonia enters the worldwide market, Taube said he believes it would cost substantially less than a paper textbook.

Carrillo said he sup-ports the use of technolo-gy in music education, but still appreciates the current system.

“I would like to work more with computers, but I believe that no matter how advanced we can get computer-wise, we do that for human beings,” he said. “I believe that the human contact element is very important.”

Liyuan can be reached at [email protected].

the table,” Easter said.Easter on the College of Medicine proposal

In November, the Board of Trustees appointed Easter to conduct a study on both the Urbana and Chicago campus-es College of Medicine pro-posals. Urbana proposed a bioengineering-focused pro-gram, while Chicago pro-posed an Illinois Translation-al Bioengineering Institute.

Easter said there is still no decision on which campus, Urbana or Chicago, will ulti-mately be home to a new Uni-versity College of Medicine; however, he did note that both campuses have good, but dif-ferent, qualifications.

“I think this campus (Urbana) has seen an area of significant opportunity,” Easter said.

He added there is a need for more clinical practice and opportunity, something the College of Medicine could provide at the Urbana campus.

The new chancellor of the Chicago campus, Michael Amiridis, will begin his new position on March 16. The University is current-ly searching for a new Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs for the Chicago campus. The new title will absorb the cur-rent vice president of health affairs job.

Easter on the ‘College Promise’ and changes in higher education

A few SEC members asked about Easter’s opinion of the “College Promise” Presi-dent Barack Obama talked about at the State of the Union address. Obama’s proposal supports Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel’s proposed two years of free communi-ty college.

“It’s certainly a laudable objective,” Easter said.

However, he added the question of how it will be implemented and funded always follows.

Easter said that as the amount of three-year degree programs increase, the Uni-versity needs to realize sur-rounding competition, while continuing to provide what three-year programs can-not. However, he said it con-cerns him that as the Univer-sity becomes more reliant on tuition, the school grows more focused on “what the consumer is buying.” Easter said he thinks this takes the school away from its origi-nal land grant mission: to provide a quality, afford-able education to all who are qualified.

“An engineer who has read Shakespeare is better, maybe even a better engineer, but a better employee,” stated Nick Burbules, chair of General University Policy.

Burbules exemplified that the general education requirements of the Univer-sity form more well-round-ed students; a product three-year degree programs don’t produce.

Abigale can be reached at [email protected].

BY DAVID ZUCCHINOTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — Show your hands. Don’t reach for anything.

One evening not long ago, a panel of police officers met with citizens gathered here at City Hall to offer advice on a subject that has come up in almost every city in America: What happens when a young African-Amer-ican man is stopped by the police? What makes a traf-fic stop turn fatal?

This former tobacco town on North Carolina’s flat coastal plain has a popula-tion that is 61 percent black, but it has not experienced a lethal confrontation between a police officer and a young black male. Residents say they want to keep it that way.

The shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police offi-cer in Ferguson, Mo., in August prompted cities and towns across America to re-evaluate the way police deal with African-Americans — especially young men. The decision not to prosecute the officer — and not to prose-cute a New York City police officer who choked to death an unarmed black man in July — has intensified civic

self-examinations.Though this city of 57,000

people has avoided a deadly, high-profile police encounter, a few young black men have been profiled or harassed by police, said the Rev. Andre Knight, chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Rocky Mount.

“Just because you have a badge and a gun, you don’t have the right to abuse your author-ity,” Knight said. “You need to know your rights, but the offi-cer does too.”

Jones said he became con-cerned about potential conflicts after attending a national con-ference on Ferguson in Octo-ber. He said he approached Rocky Mount Police Chief James Moore, who told him he had been discussing the same concerns.

“We decided it was time to bring the police and the com-munity together to head off any conflicts,” Jones said. Some people may fear the police, he said, “but in some cases, the police are as fearful as the citizens.”

Because of concerns about potential conflicts between police and young black men, Knight said, his chapter has long sponsored similar “Know Your Rights” sessions for

black residents. At the City Hall meeting,

Khristian Roberson, 18, lis-tened intently as several police officers — most of them black — answered questions.

Roberson, who is black, said he thought about the Ferguson incident when he was stopped by a police officer one night last month for allegedly running a red light.

“I stayed calm. I wasn’t rude — I didn’t want to antagonize him,” Roberson said. He said his parents had often given him “the talk” — the careful instructions on dealing with police, delivered by worried African-American parents nationwide.

Roberson said he granted the officer, who is also black, per-mission to search his car. He was then let go without being given a traffic citation, he said.

“I thought I was treated OK,” he said. “But my mom thought I might have been profiled.”

Ormani Muckle, 17, who attended the meeting with Rob-erson, added, “It was good to hear the police position straight from them.”

Some of the written ques-tions submitted by audience members were pointed: How can you tell if you’re being profiled? What’s a “threaten-ing motion”? Can you video-tape an encounter with police? Should you tell the police if you have a weapon?

The officers answered ellip-tically, choosing their words carefully: Yes, you can vid-eotape the police. No, police aren’t permitted to profile citi-zens. A “threatening motion” is any sudden movement, especially in the dark. Yes, you should tell police you have a weapon.

As for the Ferguson and New York question, police Lt. Henry King responded, “To have programs like this and partner with the community.”

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MARK MIRKO TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEKathy Willis helps her daughters, from left, Tamara Carlino, 10, Ava Carlino, 6, and Christina Carlino, 10, head home from the Environmental Sciences Magnet School at Mary Hooker on Monday in Hartford, Connecticut. Hooker principal Peter Dart said early dismissal at the school is "A cross between Grand Central Station, the Port Authority and an airport."

DAVID ZUCCHINO TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEPolice officers in Rocky Mount, N.C., listen to a presentation by police Capt. Martin McCoy at a "Know Your Rights" night on Jan. 15.

BY ROWENA COETSEETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

ANTIOCH, Calif. — Over the past several months, a thick carpet of green has spread across many Delta harbors and even open chan-nels, making them the latest victims of California’s his-toric drought.

From the air, the expans-es of dense vegetation can pass for a lush golf course or lawn, but there’s nothing innocuous about these float-ing weeds that are imperil-ing everything from recre-

ational boating and fishing to international cargo ship-ments to bird migrations.

With the drastic decrease in snowmelt from the Sier-ra Nevada, there is less cold mountain water runoff mov-ing through the Delta into the ocean, and that has caused river temperatures to rise.

In addition, with less water flowing into the Del-ta, currents aren’t strong enough to push the weeds downriver and into the ocean.

Delta weeds worst in years

SUSAN TRIPP POLLARD TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEVolunteers use their hands and pitchforks to snag the invasive water hyacinth at Big Break Regional Shoreline in Oakley, Calif., on Jan. 11.

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S itting in my business and technical writing class this Wednesday,

my professor posed the ques-tion, “Why is communication important?”

To some this might seem like a simple question with a simple answer. However, my class was stumped. Basic answers like, “So you don’t offend people when you are speaking to them,” and, “To help you get a job,” dominat-ed the conversation before our professor let us off the hook and explained the premise of that day’s lecture: Why being skilled in communication is extremely important.

As a current communication major and someone preparing to enter the professional world in the coming months, I have noticed more and more how important communication and writing really are when apply-ing for jobs.

Communication majors do not just sit around and talk about how to speak to oth-ers. The variety of classes is extremely diverse, ranging from interpersonal commu-nication to the rhetorical tri-angle. Almost everything you learn is in service of any job.

After going through the job

hunt process, I believe the University should mandate all students, regardless of major and college, to take a variety of basic writing and communi-cation classes past the general education requirements.

I believe everyone should be required to take one writ-ing class per year. This could be beneficial because it would expose students to the trans-ferrable skills needed in the business world.

Think back to your fresh-man year: Depending on which college you belong to, Rhetoric 105 or Communication 111/112 were the only mandatory writ-ing classes we had to take, ful-filling the Composition I gener-al education requirement.

While these classes are very helpful for those who might not have ever learned how to for-mally write, from my perspec-tive, students need more prac-tice than just these classes in college. I believe students need to be consistently exposed to the material to become pro-ficient in it, and taking these general classes only during freshman year is not ideal.

Coming into the University, I was a biology major before I made the switch to commu-nication and I can attest to the fact that there is a need for writing and communica-tion even in the more techni-cal fields.

If every student was required to take Communica-tion 101 and at least one writ-

ing course every year lead-ing up to graduation, we would probably be better prepared when entering the job market.

According to an NFI research study, 94.2 percent of participating executives claimed that communication skills and the ability to work well with others are collective-ly one of the most important things a prospective employee can bring to the table.

It is becoming less and less about the technical skills we can offer and more about our abilities with teamwork and communicating well with oth-ers. Because of this, students at the University need to be better prepared with these skills in job interviews. Stu-dents in STEM majors are not being exposed to these skills as much because their class-es focus more heavily on math and science, with the small exception of lab reports.

By making more communi-cation courses mandatory for all students at the University, we can ensure that everyone has had a proper education on some of the most important transferrable skills employ-ers are looking for. Having more opportunities to prac-tice public speaking and work in groups are just a few of the opportunities communication classes present.

Whether everybody takes these classes seriously and learns from them is up to the individual student, but those

who are open to learning would likely get a lot out of the courses.

Just last semester, I had the privilege of taking business communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Scienc-es and I can confidently say it was one of the most benefi-cial classes I have taken in my four years at the University. It urged students to challenge their own skills in writing and communication in preparation for the real world.

This is a class that could do well as a campus-wide requirement.

It is likely that very few stu-dents know enough about uni-versally helpful classes like business communication, so they probably wouldn’t elect to take them unless they are mandatory.

Classes like this are the rea-son I believe every Univer-sity student should be forced to better their communication skills by stepping out of their comfort zones and delving into communication coursework.

The point of getting an edu-cation is to prepare us for the professional world, and we can’t be fully prepared without learning about what employers are truly looking for.

As the cliche goes, communi-cation is key and, in the case of job preparedness, it truly is.

Rebecca is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

It’s on us to address sexual

assault

‘It’s on us to stop sex-ual assault.” This message, and varia-tions of it, have rung from the mouths of

public figures, ranging from Steve Carell to President Obama. In the “It’s on us” campaign, started by the lat-ter just last year, the presi-dent called on the public to stop sexual assault, namely on college campuses.

And recently, students at the University have been fol-lowing the example of vari-ous celebrities and public fig-ures who have participated in videos promoting the im-portance of this campaign by making videos of their own.

Matthew Hill, vice presi-dent of the Illinois Student Senate, has spearheaded the on-campus efforts, and there are currently three Univer-sity videos in the name of the “It’s on us” campaign. The videos have been graced by predominant campus figures such as Phyllis Wise, mem-bers of the Greek community and student athletes.

These short videos have been shared on Youtube and featured at football and bas-ketball games. The most re-cent video was released with-in the last week.

The unbridled support from the campus community for ending the epidemic of sexu-al assault is much needed and deserves recognition. Con-sidering the low rates of re-ported assault, compared to the estimated 20 percent of women who will experience sexual assault during college, these video promotions serve to increase awareness and support of this major issue, instilling fear and concern in many students.

To promote the end of sex-ual assault is an important message, and the fact that this campus initiative was launched by students is no-table, as well. At such a large campus with such a wide ar-ray of individuals, seeing the desire to spread this message come from not only Universi-ty faculty, but also students, helps create a community of support for any potential vic-tim.

The repetition through-out the videos that “it’s on us to never blame the victim” can hopefully create a more open and safer space for any victims of sexual assault to come forward with their cas-es and realize that people are taking note of this prob-lem. These videos are a much needed call to action that have the potential to greatly increase awareness of an ev-ident issue on college cam-puses and hopefully promote further efforts to address the problem.

In an overwhelmingly vul-nerable environment for sex-ual assaults to happen, an-nouncements and decrees of support and recognition only create a safer space for stu-dents. These University-affil-iated videos addressed the is-sues of being a bystander, as well as keeping people close to you accountable for their actions.

No matter how awkward and uncomfortable interven-ing may be for some, these messages ultimately do an amazing job of bringing this issue to light on this campus, and we hope this is just one of many efforts by the Universi-ty community to help address sexual assault.

The beloved comedy “Parks and Recreation” is cur-rently in the third week of

its final season on NBC. Since it premiered in 2009,

the show, which follows the life of a local government bureaucrat and her colleagues in the fictitious city of Pawnee, Indiana, has gained a devoted fan base and adoration from critics.

As we say goodbye to Paw-nee, I thought it was only fit-ting to take a look back at the various lessons the show has taught viewers in its seven seasons.

Every (three-legged) underdog has its day.

The show itself is a testa-ment to underdogs every-where. When “Parks and Rec-reation” first premiered, many people, myself included, felt that it was going to be a knock-off of “The Office” because of its mockumentary-style delivery. However, after a few seasons and some tweaks in the show, “Parks and Recre-ation” gained mass praise and 11 Emmy nominations. Along with critical acclaim, it also helped launch the careers of people such as Chris Pratt and University alumnus Nick Offerman. Just like the name of April and Andy’s dog, the show is a Champion.

We are all capable of changing the world — or at least a small Midwestern city.

The main premise of the show is that Leslie Knope is a driven and ambitious gov-ernment worker set on mak-ing her city great. However, the citizens of Pawnee are not always open to change. Despite the hardships that Leslie faces and the exaggerated ignorance displayed by those in her city, Leslie continues to fight for what she believes is right — and, in turn, makes Pawnee a better place. As Leslie perser-veres through various comedic hardships, she serves as a per-fect role model for us all.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Most of the characters on “Parks and Recreation” have failed in some way. There’s Ben, the failed teen mayor, Tom, the failed businessman and Andy, the failed musi-cian/police officer/shoe shiner. However, despite their fail-ures on their own, togeth-er they are able to achieve success.

All of the characters have some flaw, whether it’s inse-curity, lack of common sense or being haunted by an insane ex-wife. Despite these short-comings and their vast differ-ences, they are able to rely on each other to accomplish large tasks. From harvest festivals and political campaigns to touching tributes for beloved miniature horses, “Parks and Recreation” is a constant

reminder that teamwork can lead to positive outcomes.

There is no question in life that Ron Swanson can’t answer.

One of the greatest accom-plishments of “Parks and Rec-reation” might be introduc-ing the world to a character by the name of Ronald Ulysses Swanson, the libertarian parks department director. Through-out the show’s run, Mr. Swanson has taught audiences memora-ble lessons on life, love and food. Even Leslie seeks out his guid-ance in tough situations. With-out this character, how would we know what haircuts are acceptable for men or that cry-ing is only permitted at funer-als and at the Grand Canyon? Even though we may not always agree with Ron’s views, I’m sure we can all learn something from his immutable attitude and woodworking skills.

Breakfast food are the best(fast) foods.

If there’s one underly-ing message the “Parks and Recreation” writers seem to have been conveying to view-ers, it’s that breakfast is the best meal of the day. In fact, it’s one of the only points that pro-government Leslie and anti-government Ron agree on. Even if you have an early class and have to eat a quick breakfast, waffles, bacon and eggs can be enjoyed at all times of the day.

Treat yourself. As Pawnee entrepreneur

Tom Haverford says, “Some-times you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.” Even the hardest workers in Pawnee’s Parks Department know that it is important to relax every now and then. As hard work-ing college students, I’m sure many of us can agree. Whether it’s a game of “Cones of Dun-shire” with friends or enjoying a nice meal at Tom’s Bistro, it is important to have fun in the midst of hectic schedules.

Go out on a high note.

Much like Pawnee music art-ists Mouse Rat and Duke Silver, “Parks and Recreation” always strives to end on a high note. At a time when many comedies overstay their welcome, “Parks and Recreation” will end as what many consider “TV’s smartest comedy.” Because the show has faced fear of cancella-tion almost every season, most of the show’s season finales also work as series finales. Now, however, the team behind the show is able to end it on their terms. After an ambitious shift in the show at the end of last season, the writers will surely give the show a memorable and fitting ending.

I will never forget the lessons learned in Pawnee. It is with a heavy heart that I say bye-bye, “Parks and Recreation.” You’re 5,000 candles in the wind.

Camron is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at cowens8 @dailyillini.com.

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CHICAGO — A picture is worth a thousand words. You know that.

Measured in dollars, John-son Publishing is hoping 5 million of them will fetch closer to $40 million.

Looking to raise cash, the Chicago-based publisher of Ebony magazine has put its entire photo archive up for sale. The historic collection spans 70 years of African-American history, chroni-cling everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Sammy Davis Jr.

Johnson Publishing has had its collection appraised and recently hired a consul-tant to shop its wealth of icon-ic images, including a 1969 Pulitzer Prize winning pho-to of King’s widow and child, taken at his funeral.

“It’s just sitting here,” said Johnson Publishing CEO Desiree Rogers. “We really need to monetize that in order to ensure growth in our core businesses.”

Ebony, a monthly lifestyle magazine targeting African-Americans, was first pub-lished in November 1945. It came of age during the Civil Rights movement, with Ebo-ny staff photographer Moneta Sleet Jr. producing some of the most important images of that turbulent era.

Putting a price on his body of work will fall to the newly retained consultant.

“This is an incredibly important archive.” said

Mark Lubell, executive direc-tor of New York’s Internation-al Center of Photography. “It is the definition of the Afri-can-American experience in the latter half of the 20th century, and it’s an amazing, valuable asset.”

Raising capital is crucial for the company, which is fac-ing declining revenue and a rocky transition from print to digital under Rogers, the former social secretary for President Barack Obama, who has been steering the legacy African-American media company since 2010.

Her moves have included taking on a minority part-ner for the family-owned company, redesigning Ebo-ny, its flagship magazine, and taking the money-losing weekly digest Jet out of print circulation.

Linda Johnson Rice, chair-man of Johnson Publishing and daughter of founder John Johnson, recently leafed through her family’s legacy, now for sale.

In addition to King’s funer-al, she offered a glimpse of other memorable Ebony pho-tos including Jackie Kennedy consoling Coretta Scott King, Muhammad Ali and Floyd Patterson’s first fight in 1965, glamorous shots of jazz sing-er Billie Holiday, and some less famous subjects, such as New York limousine own-er Roosevelt Zanders posing proudly in front of his fleet of 1950s-era Cadillacs.

“This is just a tiny piece of what’s in the Johnson Publish-

ing archives,” Johnson Rice said. “It’s not just celebri-ties. There are many human interest stories here.”

In 2011, JPMorgan Chase’s Special Investments Group took a 40 percent stake in Johnson Publish-ing to infuse much needed capital into the historic but struggling media company. Rogers said selling the pho-to archive is a much bigger deal for the company, which has seen declines in its ad revenue outpace that of the magazine industry at large.

In 2012, Johnson Publish-ing began offering select photos for sale from its col-lection, and also has pursued licensing to other media on a limited basis. An outright sale of the images could be the best way to monetize the assets.

Getty Images, a 20-year-old company that licenses its library of 170 million assets to businesses and media outlets, is the leader in the space. In 2012, private equity firm Carlyle Group bought Getty Images in a $3.3 billion deal. Rogers said Johnson’s archives could be the “black Getty,” but only in the right hands.

“One of the things that we’ve learned is we need to stick with what we’re good at,” Rogers said. “We’re writers, we’re creative folks, we produce a maga-zine ... geared toward that African-American experi-ence. Let’s stick as close to that as we can.”

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on campus, books were spread to different depart-mental libraries. As the project continues, one of the staff’s tasks is to locate all of the books so they can be categorized together under the name “Cavagna Collection.”

Trippe has a background in the Italian language and said she found the Italian dialects in the books to be incredibly interesting. However, dialects of Ital-ian, especially in areas such as Milan, can be difficult to understand. Sometimes the staff members have to phonetically sound out the

words to interpret words that are not spelled tradi-tionally. When working with books as old as these, there is always the potential for new facts or revelations.

“It’s a constant discov-ery,” Ottenhoff said.

Because the Cavagna Col-lection contains books dat-ing from the 1600s to the 1900s, a modernization in the printing styles can be seen as the books are cata-loged. Ottenhoff said that books published after the 1820s are most likely to have been printed on early steam powered mechanical printing presses, but older books would have required the craftsman to individu-ally place each letter into a hand press to form words

on the page. Sarah Lindenbaum,

another project cataloger, said certain books contain handwritten notes because when they were published, paper was not as accessible or cheap as it is today. The staff has found blank pages in the books that were used to record names, shopping lists and even one man’s gambling debt.

The grant will last for three years, and the staff hopes to have the entire col-lection catalogued by that time. They update their findings on the Library’s Non Solus Blog.

Isabella can be reached at ijackso2 @dailyillini.com.

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were made fresh and a local start up business real-ly appealed to me,” he said.

Shaw said social media has really helped spread the word — he saw on Face-book that they were looking for people to help bake the doughnuts and that’s how he got involved.

“The night hours for bak-ing sometimes conflicts with my schedule but other than that it’s been a lot of fun,” Shaw said. “It’s sounds so simple but the best thing about this is that the dough-nuts just taste so good.”

Shaw said he feels the accessibility is what keeps Pandamonium going. Despite the cold weather, since the food truck is locat-ed on campus and students are going to class, students can easily grab a doughnut on their way.

Social media also helps, Shaw said. He said he checks Pandamonium’s Facebook or Twitter for updates on where they are selling and what they have so he can stop by and pur-chase a doughnut while on his way to work.

“James is really passion-ate about the doughnuts,” Shaw said. “It’s more than a business to him, he real-ly is about making the best doughnuts and bringing the best product to people.”

For Kyung, Pandamoni-um is about more than just creating delicious dough-nuts; it provides him with

a creative outlet he has been eager to express since his time doing photogra-phy while a student at the University.

“I have always loved food, and it wasn’t until the last few years that I start-ed understanding that food itself could be seen as art — but even better since it is edible,” Kyung said. “So when I approach my own doughnuts, I like to not only make them tasty, but also try to express them in a beautiful manner to complete the entire eating process.”

When it comes to making doughnuts, Kyung said that it all starts with what they have not seen before. Kyung said that he usually starts looking at popular desserts to try and find inspiration in something that hasn’t been translated in dough-nut form.

“From there, I always ask myself, ‘How can I turn that into a doughnut?’ Then we experiment with the fla-vor and see what works and doesn’t work and keep tweaking it ‘till it’s ready for the public. Needless to say, we eat a lot of doughnuts during that time,” Kyung said. “People always ask if they can be volunteers.”

The Pandamonium doughnuts are primarily broken down into two cat-egories: the yeast style and the cake style.

The yeast style is similar to a generic glazed dough-nut and is fluffier and made with a yeast base while the cake style is made from a

cake mix base and is small-er, denser and more flavor packed, according to Kyung.

Kyung also has vegan doughnut options and the marshmallows he uses for the s’mores doughnuts are gelatin free.

“Everything is hand rolled, hand cut and is in true artisan form, made with real and organic ingre-dients,” Kyung said. “I like to do this because I want to try and have something for everyone. No one should be unable to have a doughnut because of dietary restric-tions that we can work around. Everyone should be able to eat a doughnut.”

Kyung said doughnuts inspired him because bak-ing is like a big science experiment. He enjoys doing new things and dis-covering all the different possibilities that can come from his work. Also, Kyung said everybody loves dough-nuts, and he enjoys making people happy through some-thing he can create that everyone enjoys.

In regards to the future of Pandamonium, Kyung said they are planning new flavors and are working on something for Valen-tine’s Day. The food truck has only been around since November 2014, but they are hoping to one day open a brick-and-mortar store-front. Until then, Kyung said people should keep up with Pandamonium.

Saher can be reached at smkhan3 @dailyillini.com.

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NANCY STONE TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICELinda Johnson Rice handles some of the archived photos at Johnson Publishing. The publisher of Ebony magazines is selling its collection of 5 million historic photos.

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BY ISABELLA JACKSONSTAFF WRITER

On the third fl oor of the University Main Library, staff members from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library are working to cat-alog and digitize a collection of around 20,000 books and manuscripts. Offi cial cata-loging began after receiving funding this past winter.

The collection has been housed at the University of Illinois since 1921. Although the books are centuries old, they have been preserved in a vault in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at a controlled temperature and humidity level.

Chloe Ottenhoff, the lead cataloger of the project, said that before the Univer-sity obtained the books, they belonged to a private collec-tor from Alessandria, Italy, named Count Antonio Cavag-na Sangiuliani di Gualdana .

Ottenhoff said the project is possible thanks to the Cat-aloging Hidden Special Col-

lections and Archives grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, which was created to catalog books that have been inac-cessible in library systems because of lack of funding or resources.

In the Library’s cataloging room, each staff member has a station with a computer and an area to examine the book.

When a book is examined, it is cradled in between two foam pieces to support the spine of the book. Strings fi lled with sand or lead shot, called snakes, are draped over the corner to hold down the page without causing damage. Ottenhoff said the staff member enters infor-mation about each book into a computer program, ana-lyzes the title for subject access, makes notes about any unique features and then moves on to the next item.

Ottenhoff said that after the books’ basic information is entered into the system, the Main Library’s Digital Content Creation offi ce digi-tizes the books’ content. The overhead cameras and state-of-the-art processing system takes pictures of the pages that can be viewed as PDF fi les or Flipbooks online.

As the books are digi-tized, they are uploaded to

an online database acces-sible not only to Universi-ty of Illinois students, but also to scholars all over the world. Making the books available to other research-ers unearths information on Italian history, daily life and printing processes of the time.

“Whoever wants to use this material, we welcome it,” said Rosemary Trippe, one of the project catalogers.

Groups from Chicago and Italy have already expressed interest in studying the texts.

“It’s going to be a really phenomenal resource for Italian studies,” Ottenhoff said.

She hopes that this will lead to a stronger Italian studies program at the Uni-versity and help form con-nections with other research groups who could use the collection.

Nathan Evans is a grad-uate student in library sci-ence who is working as an assistant on the project. He said cataloging the books has expanded his knowledge of the Italian language, culture and history.

“There are books on so many topics and subjects that I am learning things that I never would have oth-erwise,” Evans said.

Trippe said that the col-lection of books contains some objects that were more luxurious, such as offi cial, beautifully bound books that were too costly for some to access. Others were used by everyone in that time period, such as pocket almanacs contain-ing information about post offi ce schedules and holi-

days. The books were worth their price because they act-ed as one of the only sourc-es of information and enter-tainment of the day.

To put it in more modern terms, Trippe said, “Think how much we pay to have a smartphone in our pocket.”

At times, the project has its challenges. Some books lack a clear title or the

author’s name because the title page or cover is miss-ing. The staff then has to determine a way to classify the book based on content or conduct research in bio-graphical dictionaries and bibliographies.

Ottenhoff said that when the collection fi rst arrived

UI library digitizes large collection of Italian works

Old books, new access at University library

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BY SAHER KHANSTAFF WRITER

is 7 a.m. and James Kyung parks his pink, black and gray truck in front of the

Krannert Center for the Perform-ing Arts . A chalkboard with the day’s menu is set out in front, and a giant pink panda with doughnuts for eyes is painted on the side to greet the morning’s customers.

This is Pandamonium Dough-nuts — a gourmet, or “specialty” as Kyung likes to call it, dough-nut business. Kyung concocts an assortment of delicious dough-nuts that he sells on campus via his doughnut truck from Tuesday through Friday. The staff parks the truck on Goodwin Avenue in front of Krannert and next to Espresso Royale on Oregon Street at 7:30 a.m. and stay there until they sell out.

The doughnut truck itself is a fairly new addition to the almost two-year-old project. The truck started appearing on campus in early November, but Pandamoni-um Doughnuts, as a business, has been selling doughnuts at Urba-na’s Market at the Square since early 2013.

Kyung, 2009 alumnus of the

University, got into baking and cooking during a time in his life when he was making health-con-scious changes.

“The doughnuts started as an accident,” Kyung said. “I start-ed baking as a hobby, but it was during this weight loss period where I lost 80 pounds, so during this process I got into cooking at home, cooking better, eating bet-ter and ironically I got into baking doughnuts and became obsessed with it.”

Kyung notes the gourmet or specialty doughnut scenes of Port-land, New York and Chicago, and how unique styles and fl avors of doughnuts have become trendy. After making his fi rst specialty doughnut in October 2012, peo-ple pushed Kyung to start selling them at Urbana Market.

“I fi gured there is nothing like specialty doughnuts in town, so might as well do it for fun and see how it goes,” he said.

Kyung said he feels that dough-nut shops like Pandamonium Doughnuts are getting more popular because they are giving doughnuts a refreshing upgrade.

He mentioned that one of the reasons Pandamonium’s dough-

nuts are different is not just the different fl avors that are offered but also the artisan method the staff uses to prepare the dough-nut base. Having worked on the recipe for the base since he began baking doughnuts, Kyung and his staff make the base fresh every-day using real, high quality ingre-dients that assure a distinct taste. The fi nal touches to the doughnuts are unique fl avor combinations they use to make them stand out, Kyung said.

“These aren’t your typical doughnuts, but something that is more of a delicious higher-quali-ty pastry item that you can treat yourself to after a busy day,” Kyung said.

To help grow the business, Kyung got in touch with Matt Cho who works with [co][lab] in down-town Urbana , which is a cooper-ative space shared by designers and creative minds. Many busi-nesses work out of there and Pan-damonium was appealing because it was the fi rst food business to come along.

Here they came up with the idea of doing a pop-up for Pandamoni-um, which is a common practice in the restaurant industry where

chefs open up a temporary res-taurant, sell food for an allotted period of time and then close shop at that location for that period of time.

Kyung, with the help of the people at [co][lab], put together a pop-up in downtown Urbana. They used a temporary store-front after the Urbana Market to sell the doughnuts. Kyung did all the advertising via social media.

“We had no idea what the response would be because no one had done something like a pop-up restaurant in town before,” he said. “So we showed up that day and there was this small line of people, I had only brought about 100 or 200 doughnuts and we sold out in 30 minutes, so I was like OK, bring more donuts tomorrow.”

The pop-ups helped Pandamoni-um gain the momentum it needed. The fi nal step was purchasing and detailing the food truck, which they accomplished earlier in 2014.

Jordan Donnellan, senior in FAA, said she doesn’t normally eat doughnuts but as a graphic designer the visually appealing quality of the truck is what ini-tially spiked her interest.

“I heard a lot of good things,

and when I went I had a dough-nut that was completely covered in chocolate with cake on top and it was so good, the sweetness of if kept me coming back,” she said.

Donnellan said that Panda-monium makes campus a little more special because it’s differ-ent than the generic and commer-cial doughnuts from places like Dunkin’ Donuts.

“There are doughnuts with fruity pebbles on them and things like that. The variety and the fact that you see all sorts of things you don’t normally see on a doughnuts makes it unique and great,” Don-nellan said

Kyung and his team of four oth-er people bake all the doughnuts for the food truck at a rental kitch-en the night before. They start around midnight and it takes them up to fi ve hours to fi nish. They then load the truck and are parked and ready to sell by 7:30 a.m..

Andrew Shaw has been helping bake for Pandamonium but he was a customer fi rst.

“I saw them at the Farmers Market, and the fact that they

SAHER KHAN THE DAILY ILLINIPandamonium Doughnuts, a gourmet doughnut food truck, has been serving Champaign-Urbana specialty handcrafted treats since its start in May 2013.

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ILLUSTRATION BY ANNA HECHT

ZOE GRANT THE DAILY ILLINISelected items from the Cavagna Book Collection, which is comprised of several unique Italian volumes that date as far back as the 15th century. They are currently in the process of being catalogued and are housed in the University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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BY BRETT LERNERSTAFF WRITER

Since losing senior lead-er Ivory Crawford to a knee injury almost two weeks ago, the Illinois women’s basketball team has been in a scoring slump.

Illinois has only cleared 60 points once during its current five-game losing streak, and continued that trend in a 70-57 loss at Michigan on Monday night at the Crisler C e n t e r in Ann A r b o r , Michigan. The loss d r o p p e d the Illi-ni to 11-9 o v e r a l l and 2-6 in Big Ten play.

Sixty points has been a key number so far this season. Illinois has scored more than 60 points in all 11 of its wins.

Illinois ended up outscor-ing the Wolverines 33-31 in the second half, but a 15-point halftime deficit was too much to cut into.

“Early, they put us in a hole and it took a lot of energy to cut it to 10,” Illi-nois head coach Matt Bol-lant said. “Each time we did, they seemed to have a different person make a play.”

The main issue seems to be the inability of Illinois’ other scoring threats to

put together solid offensive games on the same day. While Jacqui Grant totaled 17 points in the loss, Kyley Simmons finished with only six, while Amarah Coleman and Brittany Carter were both held to eight.

“We need better guard play; we didn’t get great guard play tonight,” Bol-lant said. “Certainly Brit-tany and Kyley are capable, but they didn’t have their best tonight.”

Illinois has also been having issues with its bench production, which was a theme that contin-ued in Ann Arbor. Illi-nois scored a total of eight bench points — six coming

from rare-ly used g u a r d , A s h l e y M c C o n -nell, who B o l l a n t said gave the team a great boost com-ing off the bench.

In addi-tion, stop-ping Mich-

igan’s offensive attack was no small task. The perime-ter and post combo of Kate-lynn Flaherty and Cyesha Goree both outplayed their season averages. Senior forward Goree averages a double-double, and added another to her season total by pouring in 19 points and grabbing 14 rebounds.

“Goree was really tough to guard and we didn’t do a great job of keeping her from getting touches,” Bol-lant said.

Freshman Flaherty scored 21 points in 29 min-utes, about six and a half

BY DANIEL COLLINSSTAFF WRITER

Callan McDermott is accustomed to sprinting toward the finish line. Howev-er, in her senior season on the Illinois swimming and diving team, she will go through the year at the slowest pace pos-sible, trying to enjoy as many moments as possible with her sister and teammate, junior Sloane McDermott.

It all began at an early age for the McDermott sisters of Mokena, Illinois, who start-ed swimming around the age of six.

Their mother, Lauri McDermott, was a swimmer at Illinois State, and intro-duced her girls to the pool at a young age.

“Of course, to me, (swim-ming) seemed like a good route to take with the girls,” Lauri said.

The two were involved in other sports and activities, like softball and gymnastics, but it seemed to be the water that always attracted them.

“Even on summer days when the weather was cool, they would be unaffected and we could never get them out

of the water,” their father, Jack McDermott said. “On those types of days, some-times they would be the only ones swimming and having fun, oblivious to the air and water temperature.”

Eventually the sisters went on to swim at Lincoln-Way East Hich School, but a year before entering high school, Sloane’s swimming days were halted by a car accident.

The accident left Sloane with three broken vertebrae in her back and left her in a brace for four months.

“We weren’t sure if she was going to swim again,” Jack said of her recovery. “It was a slow process for her.”

It took her roughly a year and a half before she could compete again.

Even though she couldn’t swim for her high school team, Sloane remained in the pool and swam as a form of rehab.

During her rehab stint, Jack remembers Sloane’s attitude.

“She never complained,” Jack said. “She was going day-to-day . . . we’re very

thankful that she was able to come back from an inju-ry like that and continues do what she loves to do.”

Sloane said one of the hardest parts about the inju-ry was not being able to com-pete with her sister, who was there to lend a helping hand any way she could.

“Cal would help me get my shoes on, with my home-work that I missed and help me not lose sight of my goal, recovering from the injury,” Sloane said.

Once her rehab was com-plete, Sloane joined her sis-ter again in the pool as a teammate.

When Sloane arrived in Champaign in 2012, Callan already was one year ahead of her on campus.

Callan took no time in helping her sister adjust to life away from home.

“Callan called me when I was sitting in my dorm room, it was raining and I couldn’t hear but she said, ‘Put messy clothes on and meet me at Frat Park to play in the mud,’ ” Sloane said, reminisc-ing back to her first semester on campus.

After briefly getting lost trying to find the park, Sloane eventually arrived.

“It was nice to join in because I didn’t have that many friends and I wasn’t that comfortable yet,” Sloane said. “Then I had to take

three showers to clean the mud out of my hair.”

Swimming together in col-lege has kept the McDermott sisters close. At times, they don’t need words to get each other’s message across.

“Without even saying any-

thing, we can look at each other and know what we’re feeling,” Sloane said.

This will be Sloane’s third year competing with her sis-ter at the collegiate level,

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTIt had been reported

Sunday night that Missouri defensive line coach Craig Kuligowski was consider-ing an offer to join Tim Beckman’s Illinois staff as a co-defensive coordinator.

Kuligowski announced Monday afternoon that he was staying at Missouri, where he has been the defensive line coach since 2001.

Footballscoop.com origi-nally reported Kuligowski had taken the Illinois offer late Sunday.

Kuligowski has spent the past 23 seasons working under Tigers’ head coach Gary Pinkel, both while Pinkel was the head man at Toledo from 1992-2000 and at Missouri since 2001. Kuligowski spent 19 of those 23 seasons as defen-sive line coach.

“As a coach, you’re always looking to advance yourself professionally in hopes of someday having a chance to become a head coach,” Kuligowski said in a press release from Mis-souri’s athletic depart-ment. “It was important for me and my family to consider this opportunity, and I’m grateful to have gone through the experi-ence, but after evaluating everything, what is best for us is to stay here at Mizzou.”

Illinois fired defensive line coach Greg Colby and special teams coor-dinator Tim Salem on Jan. 8. Kuligowski could have filled Colby’s role as well as shared duties with Banks in overseeing the defensive side of the ball. Illinois posted a job opening for co-defensive

coordinator on Jan. 13. Kuligowski would have

been a huge addition to Beckman’s staff. His defensive lines at Missouri have produced NFL draft picks Sheldon Richardson, Ziggy Hood, Aldon Smith,

Kony Ealy and Michael Sam. It’s also likely Shane Ray and Markus Golden will be selected in the 2015 NFL draft.

“We’ve built something special here at Mizzou, and I’m excited to continue to be part of it,” Kuligows-ki said.

The Illini couldn’t stop

Big Ten running backs once they reached confer-ence play.

Illinois was last in the Big Ten in total defense and rushing defense. Look-ing only at conference games, Illinois was last in stopping the rush by a wide margin — 44 yards per game more than Rut-gers, the next closest team.

Illinois allowed 10 dif-ferent running backs to rush for 100 yards or more in 13 total games.

Kuligowski played at Toledo from 1987-90 as an offensive lineman. While coaching at Toledo in the late 1990s, he coached against Beckman while Beckman was an assistant at Bowling Green.

Joining Beckman and Illinois might have been risky considering Beck-man is only on contract through next season and the 2015 season is some-thing of a do-or-die situa-tion for the current coach-ing staff.

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

Staying in games has been an issue for the Illinois bas-ketball team all season.

The Illini have been fall-ing behind late in games since conference play began, especially coming off a string of injuries that saw top scorer and rebound-er Rayvonte Rice go down with a broken hand just before junior guard Aaron Cosby was sidelined for up to two weeks with a retinal tear in his left eye.

Illinois essentially went into Minnesota with a seven-man roster — a major hurdle for a five-player sport that lasts 40 minutes. But senior

center Nnanna Egwu had a one-word answer to the problem: “toughness.”

It’s been the standard since head coach John Groce came to Illinois three years ago, according to the senior.

“We’ve got the players to do what we’ve got to do,” Egwu said. “We understand that when one player goes down, the next man steps up.”

But with a depleted ros-ter, the Illini have had their expected share of troubles as games have worn on. Players have been running out of gas, and the fear around the program is that the season is too. The lack of depth prompted Groce to

add student manager Ryan Schmidt to the Illini roster last week.

Second-half runs have killed the Illini as of late, losing five of their last eight games. The latest loss came at Minnesota, where Illinois let an 18-3 Gopher run push the contest out of reach.

“I thought that was the difference in the game,” Groce said after Saturday’s 79-71 loss. “The same thing happened to us in Colum-bus (against Ohio State on Jan. 3).”

Illinois let a first-half lead slip away against Ohio State during a 30-7 Buckeyes run that quickly took the Illi-ni out of the game in the

second half.And a 13-2 Indiana run

was the difference in a back-and-forth game in Cham-paign on Jan. 18.

Despite having the guys to do what Egwu and the rest of the healthy Illini are fighting to accomplish with 10 games left in the regu-lar season, Illinois has found struggles with the players it does have on the court.

The Illini have had offen-sive troubles in Rice and Cosby’s absence. The team shot just 32 percent in the first half against a strug-gling Minnesota team Sat-urday, trailing 33-30 at halftime.

“We’ve got to man up and

stick the ball in the frea-kin’ basket more than that,” Groce said after the loss to the Golden Gophers. “Thir-ty-two percent’s not going to cut it.”

The third-year coach said there’s no excuses for the team’s 13-8 season so far.

“They play five, and we play five. Our guys have got to man up,” Groce said. “They’ve got to figure it out. We are who we are right now.”

And right now the Illini are thin.

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

SPORTS1BTUESDAY

Women’s basketball drops 5th straight game

Basketball struggles with stamina, slim roster

McDermott sisters enjoy last swim season together

Coach Kuligowski stays at Mizzou

Illinois tries to look to future a!er loss to Michigan

Illinois misses out on potential new co-defensive coordinator

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ head coach Tim Beckman speaks to a team trainer during the game against Iowa at Memorial Stadium on Nov. 15. The Illini lost 30-14.

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Callan McDermott swims during the Annual Orange and Blue Meet at the ARC on Oct. 3. Callan, a senior, is enjoying her last season swimming with her younger sister, Sloane.

“As a coach, you’re always looking to advance yourself professionally.”CRAIG KULIGOWSKI

MIZZOU DEFENSIVE LINE COACH

“We’ve got to man up and stick the ball in the freakin’ basket more than that. Thirty-two percent’s not going to cut it.”JOHN GROCEMEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH

SEE SWIMMING | 2B

SEE WBBALL | 2B

“We have to figure out how to bring that energy and joy and excitement (early).”

MATT BOLLANTWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

HEAD COACH

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BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER

Inconsistency plagued the Illinois hockey team against Robert Morris over the weekend, giving up six goals in two games.

Before the series against Robert Morris, the Illinois hockey team had empha-sized working on the defen-sive zone.

“We worked a lot on it in practice this whole week because we would give up a lot of really bad goals where we were not beating up guys in the slot,” winger James McGing said.

The work in practice paid off on Friday as the team secured a 5-2 win over Rob-ert Morris. Saturday was a different story.

The Illini gave up three goals in the fi rst period and the defense struggled to make stops.

Forward Chris Lozinak thinks the team needs to go back to the drawing board in regards to its defense.

“We need to start focus-ing on the minor details like D-zone, especially earlier in the week so it’s engraved in our heads when it comes time for the game,” Lozi-nak said.

Return to school helps Illini

Illinois had a short semester break before get-ting back into game action. While the rest of the Univer-sity was out of session for a month, the hockey team only had a little over two weeks off. The Illini struggled in their fi rst six games of sec-ond semester, going 1-5.

Head coach Nick Fabbri-ni said he thinks the lack of class affected the players’ performance.

“Being back here for two

weeks with nothing to do but play hockey is tough,” Fab-brini said. “You think it’d go the other way, but I think class adds a lot of structure to these guys’ days.”

With class back in session, Illinois ended its fi ve-game losing streak after splitting with Robert Morris.

“Now that we’re back and

into the swing of things, I think we’re a lot more focused on the task at hand here,” Fabbrini said.

Slow start in net for Illinois

This season, Illinois goal-tender Joe Olen suffered a

groin injury. This past week-end against Robert Morris, the injury persisted.

Olen allowed two goals in the fi rst period of Friday’s win and three goals in the fi rst period of Saturday’s loss. He faced a total of 61 shots over the weekend and made 55 saves.

During the second period on Friday, Olen was subbed out for backup goaltender Zev Grumet-Morris as a precaution. Grumet-Morris made saves on all 12 shots he faced.

“He prepares every game like he’s going to play, whether he’s starting or not,” Fabbrini said. “He’s done a great job for us. Can’t say enough about him mak-ing big saves (Friday), espe-cially right when he started that game.”

Olen played the entire game on Saturday.

Matt can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier.

something the sisters have been familiar with their whole life. Until this sea-son, they have also compet-ed with their older sister, former Illini diver Darragh McDermott, who graduated last year and is now serv-ing a one-year stint teaching English and coaching swim-ming in Taiwan.

While a 14-hour time dif-ference separates them, Darragh still fi nds the time to send her sisters a text message before their meets. Somewhere within the body of the message, the sisters always fi nd the words, “good luck.”

At the end of the season, Callan will compete in her last event. She’ll make her last turn in the pool and sprint toward the fi nish. As

she makes her way to the fi n-ish, she’ll extend her arms, touch the wall and her time swimming with the Illini will expire.

At that moment, she’ll rise from the pool, remove her goggles and once more look at Sloane and send her a message that neither need words to understand. The message will be, “It’s over.”

The following season, Sloane will swim for the Illini for the fi rst time with-out her sister Callan. Odds are that when she arrives to her fi rst meet, there’ll be a text message not only from Darragh but from Callan as well. She’ll read the mes-sage and somewhere with-in the body of the message read the words, “good luck.”

Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @chisports2.

BY PETER BAILEY-WELLSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Dan Hartleb ’s voice was calm, his gaze fi xed and his body still, but his hands spun his wedding ring around and around.

Head coach Hartleb’s behavior established a theme for Illinois baseball’s media day Monday: slightly ner-vous, but confi dent about the upcoming season.

“They’re very, very talent-ed and very, very confi dent, and this year they’re experi-enced,” Hartleb said of his players. “But you have to do more physical things than verbal things.”

Hartleb is entering his 10th year at the helm of the Illini, and feels this year’s pitching staff is the stron-gest he has had.

The Illini return seven of eight pitchers who threw for more than 25 innings last season from a team that fi n-ished 32-21 (17-7 Big Ten) and third in the conference . This year’s staff includes junior closer Tyler Jay, who was named to multiple preseason All-American lists . Jay recorded 10 saves and post-ed a 1.94 ERA last season .

Jay claimed he wasn’t aware of his preseason acco-lades, but said his confi dence is at an all-time high after

playing with USA Baseball Collegiate National Team over the summer.

“He shortens the game by two innings on any given day,” junior starting pitcher Kevin Duchene said. “If you can fi nish seven, you know you have Tyler coming in.”

Hartleb said despite Jay’s success out of the bullpen, they discussed moving him into the rotation, but decided against it.

Duchene’s 1.80 ERA was the best on the staff last season . He fi nished the sea-son 4-1 . With the return of seniors Drasen Johnson (5-7, 2.91 ERA) , John Kravetz (6-1, 3.00) and Rob McDonnell (4-0, 3.67) , the Illini sport at least four starters who won four games last season.

Junior catcher Jason Gold-stein is also back, after start-ing 47 games behind home plate last season on his way to a second-team All-Big Ten selection . In his fi rst two seasons in Champaign, Goldstein started 89 games at catcher .

“He’s good with all of our pitchers,” Jay said. “He knows what he wants to do with certain guys, and I trust him fully.”

In the fi eld, the Illini return eight starters, including senior second baseman Reid

Roper and senior outfi elder Will Krug , who both start-ed every game last season. Krug led the team in stolen bases, with 20, and was fi rst on the team in runs scored, with 41 . He was selected sec-ond-team All-Big Ten.

The team began practice last week and, according to Krug, the team’s veteran presence got the Illini off on the right foot. Hartleb said the team started with bunt defense drills, and although that often causes problems, this year’s team was sharp.

Hartleb added that the team’s small freshman class (fi ve) would probably have more than one redshirt.

“We rarely redshirt guys,” Hartleb said. “But if you look at the number of returning players we have, I just don’t want to waste a year on may-be 20 at-bats or 10 innings on the mound .”

Jay revealed the team’s mix of nerves and confi dence when asked about the team’s prospects.

“We’ve got College World Series potential,” he said. “We think we’re one of the best, if not the best, in the Big Ten and that’s going to be our attitude throughout the whole year.”

Peter can be reached at [email protected].

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points above her season average coming into the game.

Michigan shot just under 54 percent from the fi eld and the Illini couldn’t stand up to the Wolverines on the glass. After Grant’s 10 boards, the next high-est total on Illinois’ side was Chatrice White with six, who leads the team in rebounds on the season. Grant’s 17 points and 10 boards were enough for her second straight dou-ble-double. The Wolverines won the rebounding battle

by 13, which was aided by the Illini only shooting 21 percent from behind the arc.

Although it was the fi fth-straight loss for Illinois, Bollant didn’t see the game as a completely lost effort.

“We didn’t quit, we stayed with it,” Bollant said. “We’ve had a few (games) where we just haven’t played well in the fi rst half. We have to fi gure out how to bring that ener-gy and joy and excitement (early).”

Brett can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @BLerner10.

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5. MICHIGAN STATE The Spartans have been fueled their offense with a Big Ten best 38.9 rebounds per game.

2. OHIO STATEThe Buckeyes are third in the country with a 50.9 percent fi eld goal percentage and have a big test heading into a matchup with No. 16 Maryland on Thursday.

7. NEBRASKAThe Cornhuskers have won four of their last fi ve heading into a matchup with Michigan on Tuesday night.

1. WISCONSINRiding high off an overtime win at Michigan, the No. 5 Badgers continue to top the Big Ten.

8. IOWAIowa’s defense has kept its season alive, leading the conference in blocked shots and third in steals.

10. MINNESOTAA disappointing 13-8 Gophers season got a boost Saturday with a 79-71 win over Illinois.

6. MICHIGANSince losing four straight, the Wolverines have won six of their last nine and recently took No. 5 Wisconsin into overtime.

3. MARYLANDThe Terrapins have struggled lately, losing to No. 23 Indiana and squeezing past Northwestern by one point.

14. NORTHWESTERNStruggling at the bottom of the Big Ten, Northwestern has lost six in a row and posts a 10-10 overall record.

4. INDIANA The No. 23 Hoosiers have a conference-best 81.4 points per game.

12. RUTGERSThe Scarlet Knights have lost four in a row and six of their last eight heading into a matchup with Michigan State on Tuesday night.

13. PENN STATEThe Nittany Lions lost six straight games before ending the run with a 79-51 win over Rutgers.

11. ILLINOISInjuries have plagued Illini basketball season, putting them at 13-8 with a 3-5 conference record so far.

9. PURDUEThe Boilermakers have surprised in conference play, going 4-3 with one win coming in overtime against Penn State.

The National Football League and YouTube launched a new video channel Monday that will bring just about every-thing except live games to tablets, smartphones and computers.

The channel will feature “game previews, in-game highlights, post-game recaps as well as clips fea-turing news, analysis, fan-tasy football advice” and other content, the NFL said.

YouTube has proved a popular spot to fi nd unau-thorized clips of games, though they’re typically taken down quickly.

The deal comes weeks after a similar deal between the NFL and Facebook, which has been seeking to attract more high-quality video content.

A four-minute preview of Sunday’s Super Bowl was the YouTube chan-nel’s featured video Mon-day morning.

Hans Schroeder, the NFL’s senior vice presi-dent for media strategy, said in a press release that the partnership “fur-ther expands fans’ abili-ty to discover and access NFL content throughout the year.”

LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant will undergo sur-gery for a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder, ending his 19th season with the Los Angeles Lakers a little past its halfway point. He will have surgery on Wednes-day morning, the team said.

Bryant’s last three sea-sons were cut short because of injury, starting with a torn Achilles’ tendon in April 2013, then a fractured bone in his knee last season and now a soreness aggravat-ed signifi cantly by a dunk against New Orleans last Wednesday.

He saw a Lakers doctor Friday and a sports-med-

icine specialist, Dr. Neal ElAttrache of the Kerlan Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, Monday morning before opt-ing to undergo surgery. He will need several months of rest and rehabilitation but is expected to make a full recovery.

Bryant, 36, played 35 games and made $23.5 mil-lion this season. He is under contract for one more season and $25 million.

The Lakers (12-33) are 2-8 heading into Tuesday’s game against Washington. They have lost eight consecutive games and own the NBA’s fourth-worst record. Their season will end April 15.

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Maybe this is why Tom Brady was the only Patri-ot on the injury report last week. He had some bruised feelings.

The quarterback opened up about his tumultuous week that included an awk-ward news conference, allegations of cheating and using deflated footballs, and being called a liar by television analysts.

“I personalized a lot of things and thought this was all about me and my feel-ings got hurt,” Brady said in his weekly WEEI radio interview from Boston on Monday morning (the same radio program dur-ing which, a week ago, he scoffed at the allegations as “ridiculous”). “And then I moved past it because it’s not serving me. I think what’s serving me is to try to prepare for the game ahead, and I’ll deal with whatever happens later. I’ll have my opportunity to try to figure out what happened and figure out a theory like

everyone else is trying to do. But this isn’t the time for that, and honestly I’m not interested in trying to find out right now because we have the biggest game of our season ahead.”

Brady said on Sunday night, during a halftime interview on ESPN’s broad-cast of the Pro Bowl, that he does not expect the NFL to interview him as part of its investigation into the deflated footballs used in last week’s AFC title game until after Super Bowl XLIX.

Brady was asked in the radio interview whether he ever asked members of the equipment staff or a ball boy to deflate the footballs once they were inspected by the NFL’s officials.

“Absolutely not,” he said. “No, I didn’t. And I haven’t. And I never will. I think that’s obviously how I feel and the kind of person that I am.

“No one knows the facts,” he continued. “I pick 24 balls, that’s what I pick. Whatever happened after I

did it, and whatever the sit-uation was where they mea-sured them, I have no idea any of those facts. So I try to stay really humble and deal with the facts that I know. When you don’t know something, that’s all you can say is, ‘I don’t know.’ I know that’s not always the answer that people want to hear, but that’s the reality.”

The Patriots leave Bos-ton on Monday afternoon and are scheduled to meet with the media on Monday evening in Arizona. Brady is among the six players, plus coach Bill Belichick, who will be available to reporters.

Brady said he and Belich-ick continue to have a strong relationship despite the appearance that the coach had shifted blame to his quarterback earli-er in the week by telling reporters that they should ask Brady about the pro-cess of selecting and pre-paring footballs for game use.

“I’ve never once felt that we’re not on the same

page,” Brady said of Belich-ick. “He’s a great coach. He’s the only coach I’ve ever played for. He’s the only coach I’d ever want to play for. There’s a lot of people over the years that have criticized him, but I’d say there’s not one player who’s ever played for him who’s not had an unbeliev-able amount of respect for him and how he prepares and his diligence and his preparation.

“We always see things eye to eye. We both want to win. That’s what it’s always about for us, and I think that’s why we get along so well. There’s nothing that surprises me with him. When he puts his mind to something there’s nobody better at figuring it out.”

Despite the mostly neg-ative backlash — per-haps the first time he has been attacked publicly in his Hall of Fame career — Brady said there were some positives that came from the past week.

“Everybody is entitled to their opinion,” he said

on the radio. “Everyone will say, ‘God, it’s been a tough week for you.’ But it’s been a great week for me, to really be able to reca-librate the things that are important in my life and understand the people that support me, and love me, and care about me. I think that’s been the best thing to come out of this week.

“It’s all part of the busi-

ness and you deal with the ups and the downs, the good and the bad, and I’m excited to play in the Super Bowl for the sixth time. It’s a pretty amazing accom-plishment for our team based on where we start-ed. That’s where I’m at; I’m in a great place. We’ve had a great week in practice. We’re going to go down and try to finish strong.”

BY SAM MELLINGERTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

The conversations are like hear-ing a mother talk about her son’s bad decisions. She loves him, always will, but hanging out on the corner late at night is nothing but trouble. She sees the dark road and hopes her dear boy makes the right chang-es before it’s too late.

This is the picture you get talk-ing to people inside college basket-ball about their sport. They love the game, but hope it gets help.

In an age of growing value for sports properties, ratings are going down and it’s easy to see why. Scor-ing is at historic lows. Possessions are longer ... and longer. Attacks on the rim are replaced by hip bumps on drives, providing incentive to shoot more and more guarded 3-pointers.

Four assistant coaches talked for this story — two from the Big 12, one each from the SEC and ACC – and at a minimum each advocated for a shorter shot clock. One called games “boring at times.”

They were granted anonymity for various reasons, including hon-esty, but also because the smartest man of the bunch — no offense to those coaches — is speaking loudly and clearly.

“I will fight for college basketball until the death,” said Jay Bilas, the former Duke player and assistant coach, and current ESPN broad-caster. “But sitting by and watching this ship sink is not good enough. Who could defend what we’re see-ing right now?”

The sport’s problems are coming out of the shadows in what is largely an ugly season. This will almost cer-tainly be the slowest season since college basketball adopted the (then 45 seconds) shot clock. This is a sea-son of hopeless shots and streams of timeouts slaughtering any flow.

One game was 17-14 at halftime and tied at 55-55 after an overtime. Nine teams from power conferenc-es have won games without break-ing 50 points. Temple won a game scoring 40 points, on 11-of-48 shoot-ing. On Thursday, Georgia Tech — an ACC program that gives out scholarships — scored 28 points. In a full, 40-minute game. No won-der fewer people are watching.

The sport must change. It tried a year ago, when “freedom of move-ment” became a buzz phrase, and the changes worked. Scoring and possessions jumped. But officials didn’t have the stomach for it, and by conference play, with games tak-ing on more importance and coach-es continuing to pressure referees, the game basically reverted to its

old ways.It’s frustrating, because espe-

cially in private, so many people inside the sport know the game must evolve. That much is obvious. There are several simple shifts that could make the sport cleaner, fast-er, and better to watch (and play, for that matter).

But the thing is, the best way to make those smaller changes is to address one outdated, self-destruc-tive and fundamental fact about col-lege basketball: The game has no leader.

What kind of multibillion-dollar business operates without a CEO?

“There’s nobody in charge, and that has become abundantly clear,” Bilas said. “We deserve the game we’ve got now. We earned this.”

Jim Haney, executive direc-tor of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, acknowledges that there is a growing conversa-tion from within the game to have a more centralized leader.

“I do think there is interest in try-ing to figure out how to manage it more effectively, and what would that look like,” Haney said.

That’s a start, at least.***This is hardly the first time a

major sport has needed to adapt in a faster culture. In somewhat recent history, the NBA and NFL have each faced similar problems.

The NFL is the most obvious place to start. Football is a tough-guy culture, of course, and for decades the NFL glorified its nas-tiest and most bone-jarring (often bone-breaking) hits.

But at some point in the late 1990s or early 2000s, that culture began to cause problems. First, it was too many injuries to too many quarter-backs — affecting not only scoring and strategy, but interest from fans wanting to see stars. Then, a grow-ing acknowledgment and accep-tance of what the violence of foot-ball does to the brains and bodies of the men who play it.

In very different ways, both fac-tors were affecting the attraction and in turn profits of the sport. The NFL responded with a series of rules changes — from the so-called strike zone on quarterbacks to how defenders can touch receivers — to increase scoring and reduce injuries.

The result: In the last 25 years, the top four seasons in touchdowns per game are the last four seasons. There have been criticisms about the wussification of a tough-guy sport, but even through all of the NFL’s other mistakes, the sport has

never been more watched or more profitable.

The NBA’s moment — “Hi, I’m David Stern, and my league is bor-ing” — came in the late 1990s. The “Jordan Rules” had morphed from How To Defend The Game’s Best Player to How To Defend Everyone. Anthony Mason was a star, and Pat Riley’s Heat was largely blamed for mucking up an entire league.

By the strike-shortened 1997-98 season, points and field-goal per-centage were each at 30-year lows. The league responded by cracking down on hand-checks, low-post con-tact and isolated dribbling, among other changes. Immediately, scor-ing went up 6 percent, and pace increased by 5 percent.

The league has continued to shape rules and officiating in a way to influence scoring, ball movement and drives to the basket. Many observers say the NBA’s product has never been better.

This could be college basketball’s story, too.

By definition, players in college will never be as good as those in the NBA. But the environments are better, the passion bigger, and the platform enough that it is the world’s first look at the game’s big-gest stars.

College basketball could be a bet-ter product, in other words. If not in comparison to the NBA — that’s entirely subjective — then certain-ly when compared with what it is at the moment.

“I love this game, and it’s become unwatchable,” Bilas said. “It’s hard for me to argue with people I know and respect those who don’t want to watch our game. It’s hard to build a case why they’re wrong.”

***The easiest way to quicken col-

lege basketball is to shorten the shot clock, most reasonably from 35 sec-onds to 30. That’s the pace of both the women’s college game and the WNBA. The NBA and international game use 24 seconds.

This would cut down on coaches’ ability to micromanage every drib-ble. The NBA did a data study when the WNBA reduced its shot clock and found no increase in bad shots.

At the very least, this one change should be done as soon as possible.

“You’ll get kickback from some coaches,” one of the Big 12 assis-tants said, “because that means we’re giving up control. If my team isn’t as good as yours, I want to decrease possessions as much as I can. But it would make for a better game.”

Beyond that, the sport should

actually commit to the “freedom of movement” changes it began last season with. Cutting down on hand checks, cleaning up the wrestling that goes on in the post and free-ing offensive players to go to the basket both with and without the ball would make for a more open, higher-scoring and generally more enjoyable product to watch.

But that’s only a start. The lane should be widened, providing more space for the drives to the basket that result in so many highlights. The 3-point line could be moved back, opening the floor. Our ACC assistant even suggested widening the court — an acknowledgment of the increasing size and athleticism of players — to free up play, but admitted this was a logistical night-mare and probably a non-starter.

The college game could learn a lot from the international game. International games are the same 40 minutes of playing time as col-lege ball, but generally take about 10 minutes fewer to complete with a more open and free-flowing style.

Some of this is with reduced timeouts and stricter substitu-tion rules. Some of it is in play-ing 10-minute quarters instead of 20-minute halves. Team fouls reset at the quarter, meaning fewer free throws on common fouls.

All of these changes would make college basketball easier to watch, but arguing over the details with-out a higher-level change in how the sport is governed is like argu-ing what color to paint your new house without a construction com-pany to build it.

BY BRODERICK TURNERTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

LOS ANGELES — The rise of New Orleans’ Antho-ny Davis has been swift and has placed him at the door-step of stardom in the NBA.

Then again, many around the league say the 21-year-old All-Star power forward is already one of the top five players in the game.

They point to Davis’ youth, his short time in the NBA (two seasons) and his domi-nating talent at both ends of the court.

There are several other superb power forwards in the NBA, including the Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin, Portland’s LaMar-cus Aldridge and Cleveland’s Kevin Love.

But observers see in Davis a young star who has limit-less potential.

“I think he’s the best play-er in the game,” said Golden State associate head coach Alvin Gentry. He watched Davis put up a dazzling stat line of 30 points, 15 rebounds, three blocks, three assists and two steals in his only game against the Warriors this season.

“There is nobody in the

league I would trade him for. He’s so talented that it’s scary. To me, if you were starting your team today, he would be your No. 1 choice in the NBA,” Gentry said.

Davis has impressed many with his work ethic and will-ingness to play hard on both sides of the court.

He’s considered an athletic marvel because of his 6-foot-10 frame and 7-3 wingspan. Davis still has the guard skills he developed while in high school in Chicago, when he played that position as a 6-foot freshman. Then a growth spurt — 10 inches by the time he enrolled at Ken-tucky — turned Davis into a post player.

He’s a rare talent who can score, run the floor, block shots, pass, get steals and do all those little things uncom-mon for a star.

“I try to work on a little bit of everything,” Davis said. “You’re not sure when you’re going to need it. I like to have it in my arsenal just in case the situation comes up where I have to use it.”

Going into this weekend’s games, Davis ranked third in the NBA in scoring (24.2), first in blocked shots (2.90),

ninth in rebounding (10.4), sixth in field-goal percent-age (55.7%), fourth in dou-ble-doubles (24) and first in player efficiency (31.66), a per-minute productivity rating.

Davis has also helped the surprising Pelicans stay in the race for a playoff spot in the tough Western Conference.

“Anthony Davis is in a stratosphere of his own,” said former Lakers forward Rick Fox, now an analyst for NBA TV. “I don’t consider him a power forward. I consider him like a basketball freak. I put him in the LeBron James category. He’s position-less. Just put him on the floor and he dominates.”

Davis was the only col-lege player on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, and his game took a giant leap last sum-mer when he played for Team USA at the FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. He got to play and practice with his NBA peers — stars such as Golden State’s Stephen Cur-ry, Houston’s James Hard-en, Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving, Chicago’s Derrick Rose and Sacramento’s DeMarcus Cousins.

Brady unfazed by cheating claims

College basketball needs some serious TLC

BRAD HORRIGAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICENew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has allegedly cheated and used deflated footballs.

MICHAEL AINSWORTH TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe New Orleans Pelicans’ Anthony Davis checks on head coach Monty Williams after Williams was hit by a loose ball as they played the Dallas Mavericks. The newbie is considered by some to be a top-five player in the NBA.

Anthony Davis rises to ‘best player in the game’

ETHAN HYMAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICENorth Carolina State’s Caleb Martin and Notre Dame’s Pat Connaughton vie for a rebound in overtime at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday. Notre Dame won in overtime, 81-78.

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Eric asks: Will the Cubs win the World Series this year?

No. They will absolute-ly not win the World Series this year.

Yeah, I know, I’m a White Sox fan, so of course you’ll be skeptical, but I have my reasons.

Sure, they brought in Jon Lester, Miguel Montero, Dexter Fowler and have a whole bunch of talented, young players, but this year won’t be THE year. Need-less to say, Lester was a huge signing, because you get one of the best pitchers in baseball and an instant No. 1 for your rotation. I just see a lot of their suc-cess hinging on the devel-opment of their young-sters. We saw highly touted infi eld prospect Javier Baez strike out about a thousand times when he came up to the majors last year. Jorge Soler looked great last year in limited time and they do have some solid young pitching to build around.

That being said, there are so many question marks

with guys who haven’t even played a game in the major leagues yet.

Joe Maddon was a great hire, and if every young player on the Cubs played to his level of hype, they would win the World Series. Base-ball doesn’t work like that. The Cubs fi nished in last place a season ago. Let’s see if they can improve from that before we start talk-ing about winning the World Series.

Alif asks: If John Fox couldn’t win with a team that was clearly better than the Bears, what makes you think he can win with the Bears?

My eyes bled when I watched the Bears last sea-son. The team gave up on the coaching staff, the fans gave up on the team, and nothing seemed to go right. Big changes were essential, and they made them.

They got rid of the entire coaching staff along with general manager Phil Emery. They needed a head coach and early on there weren’t any great names out there. All of the sud-den, Broncos’ head coach John Fox and team presi-dent John Elway decided to mutually part ways.

Many felt that Elway wasn’t happy that Fox couldn’t take the team to the next level. I chalk that up to more of an aging, injured Peyton Manning. This was a golden opportunity for new-ly hired general manager Ryan Pace to get an expe-rienced, successful coach. There were a couple other candidates out there, but nobody near as experienced as Fox.

Since being hired in Chi-cago, Fox has brought in former 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, who will maintain a top-fi ve defense this year despite

tons of injuries in San Fran-cisco. On the offensive side, Fox reeled in his former offensive coordinator Adam Gase from the Broncos. Both Fangio and Gase were in the mix for head coach-ing jobs, but decided to come to Chicago with Fox.

The NFL draft isn’t until late April, but Fox in his short time as the Bears’ coach has already made his team better.

The Bears are still years away from being great, but Fox has laid the foundation early-on. To go back direct-ly to the original question, Fox had success with the Broncos. He didn’t win the Super Bowl, but he got them there. Emery and Trestman left this team in shambles after last season, both on and off the fi eld.

The Bears need a guy who can rebuild their repu-tation. Fox is that guy. He has found success with Pey-ton Manning, Jake Delhom-me, and Tim Tebow. Maybe he can do the same with the seemingly uncaring Jay Cutler. Even if Fox doesn’t end up having success in Chicago, I don’t think any-one can look back and say Pace made the wrong deci-sion with the hire.

Kevin asks: What are the Bears’ biggest needs now that they’ve hired a GM and a coach?

I’ll go with another Bears’ question since it goes along nicely with the last one.

They have their GM, they have their coach and, but they need a lot more before we can start talking about playoff contention. This is a team that will have to have multiple successful drafts to rebuild on an aging ros-ter. They still don’t have a quarterback for the future, unless you think Cutler is that guy, in which case I

disagree with you. Let’s just say for the sake of argu-ment that Cutler is the guy they still need to improve on just about every defen-sive position.

Their big signings from last year were Lamarr Houston, Jared Allen and Willie Young. Houston trashed the fan base and followed that up by tear-ing his ACL on a sack cel-ebration in a blowout loss. Allen looked like he’s just about out of gas. Young was the most successful of the three. He showed an ability

to get to the QB, but he suf-fered a torn Achilles near the end of the season. Kyle Fuller looks like he’ll be a solid player down the road, but there just isn’t much else there on defense.

They have what it takes on offense, and most of those struggles were due to ineffective coaching. Assuming Brandon Mar-shall returns, they still have two of the best wide receiv-ers in the NFL with him and Alshon Jeffery.

They have a solid offen-sive line when healthy and

Matt Forte has at least one more year as an elite run-ning back. I believe they actually addressed their biggest need when they hired Fox. They got a guy who has coached before, and had lots of success in the NFL. That was a huge break for the Bears, and lets just hope they can build from there.

Sam is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @Sam_Sherman5.

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