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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

Champaign police are investigating two armed robberies that occurred the morning of Nov. 17.

The fi rst armed robbery occurred in the 400 block of East Healey Street, where two victims were walking westward at about 2 a.m. The offender, armed with a handgun, approached the victims from behind and demanded their money and cellphones.

The offender ran northeast from the area after taking the victims’ money.

The offender is described as a 5-foot-4 black male weighing 150 pounds. He wore a gray hood-ed sweatshirt pulled over his head and a red ban-

dana partially covering his face .The second armed robbery occurred at 2:20

a.m. in the 600 block of East Clark Street. Two victims were walking eastbound when the offend-er, armed with a handgun, approached them from behind and demanded the victims get on the ground and empty their pockets. The offender ran north toward University Avenue after grab-bing the victims’ property.

The offender is described as 5-foot-7 black male with short hair. He was wearing a scarf partially covering his face and was wearing dark clothing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Champaign Police Department at 217-351-4545.

Champaign police looking for suspects in 2 armed robberies

’Tis the season to be jolly

NATHANIEL LASH THE DAILY ILLINI

Champaign City Council member Will Kyles, District 1, greets parade-goers during the Downtown Parade of Lights on Saturday . Put on by the Champaign Center Partnership, the parade featured fl oats lit up by Christmas lights from local businesses around Champaign County.

BY TYLER DAVISSTAFF WRITER

The Graduate Employees’ Organization should have a clearer idea about whether they will strike by Tuesday evening, said spokes-woman Stephanie Seawell.

The graduate students and University offi -cials are set to meet Monday from 1-5 p.m. and Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m for bargain-ing sessions with a federal mediator. Those are the last two sessions scheduled, though there may be more in December, Seawell said.

After three days of voting, about 87 per-cent of GEO members voted Friday to autho-rize a strike committee to organize work action plans while still bargaining with the University.

Seawell said that at the bargaining table, the GEO is going to indicate that they are “willing to be there as long as it takes.”

In the absence of bargaining over Thanks-giving break due to the “administration’s unavailability,” the strike committee met for more than 12 hours over break, Seawell said.

Bargaining continues for UI, GEO

BERNAT ARMANGUE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Palestinian boy looks from the rooftop of a destroyed house in Gaza City on Sunday . A leading Islamic cleric in the Gaza Strip has ruled it a sin to violate the recent cease-fi re between Israel and the Hamas militant group .

Less damage reported in Gaza Strip now than in 2008-09 attacksBY SARAH EL DEEBTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Mohammed Falah Azzam has been through this before.

His mother’s home was bombed in the 2008-09 Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip, which left hundreds dead and thousands of homes destroyed. In renewed fi ghting last week, an entire block of buildings housing his extended family was badly damaged in an airstrike that Israel said was aimed at a militant.

While none of his relatives was hurt, the 61-year-old retired school-teacher once again has to worry about providing shelter for his fam-ily. Some relatives are sleeping in an empty shop, squeezed in with other family members. Others are spending their nights in rooms cov-ered in plastic wrap to shield them from the winter rain because all the windows were blown out.

“This is going to cost thousands,” Azzam said. “The longer I wait, the more damage will happen,” he added, pointing to a heavily dam-aged building sitting atop tilting concrete columns.

Azzam fi nds himself caught again in a pile of paperwork to seek assistance, trying to secure hard-to-get construction materials. This time, he hopes the process will be smoother, thanks to both Israel’s pledges to ease its longstanding border blockade and the newfound political clout of Gaza’s Hamas rul-ers in the region.

Israel promised to ease the blockade as part of a cease-fi re last week that ended eight days of intense fi ghting. But diffi cult negotiations lie ahead, and there is no fi rm timeline for lifting the restrictions.

The damage to buildings in Gaza appears less extensive than it was four years ago. The United

Nations estimates 10,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, while Hamas has put the number at about 8,000, including 500 that were destroyed or heavily dam-aged. In comparison, U.N. relief agencies said as many as 40,000 homes were affected in the earlier round of fi ghting.

Israel said its airstrikes are aimed at militants, and it blames Hamas for the damage, accusing the group of using residential areas for cover.

Reconstruction since the 2008-09 fi ghting has been slow, in large part because of Israel’s blockade.

“The blockade in terms of hous-ing impacts us primarily — the U.N. — and the people who are most vulnerable who don’t have access to jobs or economic oppor-tunity,” said Scott Anderson, dep-uty director of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. “People who have money, it is easily available.”

UI professor to host jazz festBY AUSTIN KEATINGSTAFF WRITER

The University last held a jazz festival 20 years ago, but Matt Sulikowski, senior in FAA, aims to change that.

Sulikowski is in the process of obtain-ing funds for a festival on campus March 2. The festival will include performances from up to fi ve college jazz bands from Illinois as well as clinics for those bands, led by University professors.

Sulikowski is a coffee house manager at the Red Herring, 1209 W. Oregon St., who brought a jazz performance series, called “Jazz at the Red Herring,” to the restau-rant about a year ago. The series sparked the idea to bring a jazz festival to campus.

“I thought I could just transform this into a festival,” he said. “I’ve got the con-nections to set it up, so I thought it would be best to utilize that and make some-thing that the whole community will ben-efi t from.”

Unlike in the past, this time around, stu-dents such as Sulikowski will be taking more of a lead role in the planning process.

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Champaign! Criminal damage to prop-

erty was reported in the 700 block of South Mattis Avenue around 11 a.m. Thursday.

According to the report, the offender damaged the victim’s taillight after an argument.

! A 43-year-old male was ar-rested on the charge of theft of motor vehicle in the 400 block of Louisiana Avenue around 10 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the victim and suspect got into an argument and the suspect took the victim’s car without per-mission.

! A 39-year-old male was ar-rested on the charge of bur-glary from motor vehicle in the 300 block of East Daniel Street around 3 p.m. Saturday.

! Theft was reported in the 2400 block of Carisbrooke Drive around 6:30 p.m. Satur-day.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole a Fed Ex package from the victim’s doorway.

! Residential burglary was reported in the 900 block of South Third Street around 8 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s apartment and stole a video game system and fi ve accessories.

! Residential burglary was reported in the 1100 block of West Bradley Avenue around 9 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, an unknown offender burglarized the victim’s home and stole a bag and fi ve electronic items.

Urbana! Theft of motor vehicle was

reported in the 700 block of East Fairlawn Drive around 1 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole the victim’s car from his residen-tial driveway.

! Residential burglary was reported in the 1400 block of South Lierman Avenue around 3 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, an unknown offender forced en-try into the victim’s residence, damaged a window, and stole cash and a TV.

University

! Theft was reported at Or-chard Downs, 1841 Orchard Place, at 2 p.m. Thursday.

According to the report, a University doctoral student living at the housing complex reported that her shoulder bag, containing a wallet and a lap-top computer, was taken some-time between 11:50 a.m. and about 2 p.m. Thursday. The vic-tim went to a laundry facility at the complex and didn’t real-ize she forgot her bag there un-til about 2 p.m. The computer is valued at $1,380, the wallet $50 and the computer case $30.

! A 63-year-old female was issued an order prohibiting her from being on University property at the Flightstar fa-cility at Willard Airport, 1 Air-port Road, around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the suspect brought her dog into the facility, and the dog growled at several people while inside. The woman lied about her reason for being in the building and said she was with the Secret Service, await-ing a fl ight with the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Compiled by Klaudia Dukala

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Today’s Birthday (11/26/12). Pluto enters Capricorn (until 2023) today, bringing foundational transformation. Focus on personal goals this year, especially around family fun, work and self-renewal. Romance spices up the holidays. Balance work with exercise, as career kicks into overdrive.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) Today is a 7 -- Work and moneymaking have your focus. Meet a new friend through an old one. Love’s easier to express for the next few weeks. Listen to your feelings.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Today is a 9 -- Take advantage of the creative bursts of energy all throughout the day. Circumstances put you in the right place. Focus on team projects. Just do it.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) Today is an 5 -- Avoid gossip at all costs. Now it’s time to stick together and pull through. There’s a lesson here somewhere, and you’re getting

better at learning. Follow the rules.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Today is a 8 -- Compromise builds a strong foundation. Make positive changes after considering the consequences. You’ll make mistakes, but you’ll also make money. It’s easier to take charge for a few weeks.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) Today is a 7 -- Get your papers in order, and benefi t fi nancially. Something doesn’t pencil out at fi rst. Taking action is the best solution. You can fi nd the money.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 8 -- Someone needs to put some order into the chaos. Help them play by the rules. Make up a plan for an imaginative but rather spacey friend. For the next three weeks, it’s easier to concentrate.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Today is an 6 -- Don’t go public yet. Now is time to replenish depleted reserves. Creative accounting may not work out well. For the next ten days or so, it’s easier to make romantic plans.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is a 8 -- Pay close attention to

a master, and accept their challenge. Concentrate in the message you want to deliver. Take a friend along to assist you during challenging times.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) Today is a 7 -- You’re an inspiration to the world, if you really think about it. Concentrate on the projects you’re most proud of. Find people with similar goals. Together, you’re all stronger.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Today is a 7 -- Encourage criticism so that you can clean up an old mess the best way possible. A relationship undergoes abrupt change, but the perfect solution appears. Think about the future.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 9 -- Creative work pays well. Pay close attention to your target market. Don’t forget about the older folks. Accept a challenge and get a boost. The two of you enjoy the moment.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 7 -- It’s easy to get distracted with your own goals and projects now, but don’t overlook a loved one’s needs. You’ll spend more for the next few weeks. Stick to your priorities.

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BY SUSAN HAIGHTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A natural gas explosion in one of New England’s biggest cities on Friday leveled a strip club with a boom heard for miles and heavily damaged a dozen other build-ings but didn’t kill anyone, authori-ties said.

Firefi ghters, police offi cers and gas company workers in the area because of an earlier gas leak and odor report were among the 18 people injured in the blast, authorities said.

“This is a miracle on Worthing-ton Street that no one was killed,” Lt. Gov. Tim Murray said at a press conference.

The explosion in Springfi eld, 90 miles west of Boston, blew out all win-dows in a three-block radius, leaving three buildings irreparably damaged and prompting emergency workers to evacuate a six-story apartment build-ing that was buckling, police said.

Police Sgt. John Delaney marveled at the destruction at the blast’s epi-center, where a multistory building housing a Scores Gentleman’s Club, evacuated earlier because of the gas leak, was leveled.

“It looks like there was a missile strike here,” he said.

The victims were taken to two hos-pitals in the city. None of their inju-ries was considered life-threaten-ing, offi cials said. Those hurt were nine fi refi ghters, two police offi cers, four Columbia Gas of Massachusetts workers, two civilians and another city employee.

Firefi ghters responded to the scene at 4:20 p.m. and were investigating the gas leak when the blast happened about one hour later. The cause of the explosion hadn’t been identifi ed but was under investigation, they said.

Springfi eld, which has about 150,000 residents, is the largest city in west-ern Massachusetts. It’s known as the

home of the Basketball Hall of Fame, which is not in the vicinity of the blast.

The city has been rebuilding from damage it sustained in a June 2011 tornado.

The explosion happened in an area

of downtown Springfi eld with com-mercial properties and residences. Area resident Wayne Davis, who lives about a block away from the destroyed strip club building, said he felt his apartment shake.

BY JULHAS ALAMTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Fire raced through a garment factory that supplies major retailers in the West, killing at least 112 peo-ple, many of whom were trapped by the fl ames because the eight-story building lacked emergency exits, an offi cial said Sunday.

The blaze broke out late Sat-urday at a factory operated just outside Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka by Tazreen Fashions Ltd., a subsidiary of the Tuba Group, which makes products for Wal-Mart and other companies in the U.S. and Europe.

Firefi ghters recovered at least 100 bodies from the factory, Maj. Mohammad Mahbub, fi re depart-ment operations director, told The Associated Press. He said 12 oth-er people who were injured after they jumped from the building to

escape died at hospitals.Local media reported that up to

124 people were killed. The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear, and authorities ordered an investigation.

Army soldiers and border guards were sent to help police keep order as thousands of onlookers and anxious relatives of the factory workers gathered, Mahbub said.

Tazreen was given a “high risk” safety rating after a May 16, 2011, audit conducted by an “ethical sourcing” assessor for Wal-Mart, according to a docu-ment posted on the Tuba Group’s website. It did not specify what led to the rating.

Wal-Mart spokesman Kevin Gardner said online documents indicating an orange or “high risk” assessment after the May 2011 inspection and a yellow

or “medium risk” report after an inspection in August 2011 appeared to pertain to the facto-ry where the fi re broke out. The August 2011 letter said Wal-Mart would conduct another inspection within one year.

Gardner said it was not clear

if that inspection had been con-ducted or whether the factory was still making products for Wal-Mart.

If a factory is rated “orange” three times in a two-year period, Wal-Mart won’t place any orders for one year. The May 2011 report was the fi rst orange rating for the factory.

Neither Tazreen’s owner nor Tuba Group offi cials could be

reached for comment.The Tuba Group is a major

Bangladeshi garment exporter whose clients also include Car-refour and IKEA, according to its website. Its factories export garments to the U.S., Germany, France, Italy and the Nether-

lands, among other countries. The Tazreen factory, which opened in 2009 and employed about 1,700 people, made polo shirts, fl eece jackets and T-shirts.

Bangladesh has some 4,000 garment factories, many with-out proper safety measures. The country annually earns about $20 billion from exports of garment products, mainly to the U.S. and Europe.

JESSICA HILL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Inspectors stand in debris Saturday at the site of a gas explosion that leveled a strip club in Springfi eld, Mass., on Friday evening. Investigators were trying to fi gure out what caused the blast where the Scores Gentleman’s Club once stood.

KHURSHED RINKU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Bangladeshi police offi cer walks between rows of burnt sewing machines in a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday . At least 112 people were killed in a Saturday night fi re that raced through the garment factory.

Natural gas explosion levels strip club in Mass., injures 18

Crisis nursery gets positive feedback on security changesBY EMMA WEISSMANNSTAFF WRITER

The staff and volunteers of the Crisis Nursery in Urbana are noticing the positive effects of the building’s new security updates as its date of comple-tion approaches the two-month mark.

After receiving a grant of $52,500 from the State of Illi-nois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Crisis Nursery spent about $38,400 on installing a new fence and security cameras, said Stephanie Record, execu-tive director for the nursery. The nursery spent $9,000 from an Illinois Business Council fundraiser on better lighting for the outside of the building and the parking lot.

The nursery provides 24-hour emergency care to children and families in crisis, and the staff of the nursery has received pos-itive feedback regarding the security updates from visitors, Record said.

She said a series of car break-ins prompted the secu-rity updates, but no addition-al crimes have been reported since the changes.

“I think (people) defi nitely notice right away that the fence is more secure and more private for the children,” Record said. “People feel more comfortable because that’s up now, and they feel the privacy of the kids is

more with what our mission is, so that’s been better.”

Jake Beach, sophomore in Business, coordinated the Illi-nois Business Council’s fund-raiser, called “A Mother’s Touch,” last year.

He said he was aware that the proceeds were going to pay for lighting for the nursery’s parking lot and is pleased that the funds went toward helping security.

“We went (to the nursery) and we saw what they were dealing with, and they said they need-ed to up security, so it was nice to see and know throughout the whole process what we were giv-ing to them,” Beach said. “It was fulfi lling a need that they had (so they could) continue their great organization.”

In addition to the children and families that the nursery serves, the center hosts 150 vol-unteers each week, and 65 per-cent of these volunteers are Uni-versity students.

Laura Reed, graduate student, said she has been volunteering at the nursery for over a year and is happy with the new secu-rity changes as “you can never be too safe.”

“I think they take the welfare of their kids very seriously, and I think it’s a great thing,” Reed said.

Emma can be reached at wessmnn2@dailyillini.com.

“These are people that have been getting together and talking about options,” she said.

The strike committee has been discussing plans for the possibility of the strike and other events that will help “put pressure on the administration in the last few days,” said Juan Bernal, graduate employee and strike committee member.

Bernal said the committee has planned a work-in for Monday before the session and helped organize an Undergraduate-Graduate Organization meeting Tuesday. He said the strike committee also began planning for the possibility of a strike.

Seawell said this is the general sentiment of the group as well.

“We don’t want to strike at all; we want to settle this at the bargaining table,” Seawell said. “But for that to happen, we need to have a real conversation about tuition waivers and about wages.”

University administrators remain optimistic that a contract can be agreed upon without a strike, said campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler.

“The University recognizes employees’ right to strike, but we continue to work toward a contract agreement that refl ects diffi cult economic times we are in, and that appropriately refl ects the rights and interests of each side,” Kaler said in an email.

Tyler can be reached at tadavis2@dailyillini.com

“As opposed to the way it was run 20 years ago, where the administration and the faculty took care of everything, it’d be nice to have the students try to take care of all the minutia of it and let it be a student-run event. ... I’m sure myself and all the other jazz faculty will give all the sup-port to it we can,” said Charles “Chip” McNeill, chair of the Uni-versity’s jazz studies program.

On Oct. 15, Sulikowski created a page on Kickstarter , a fundrais-ing website, to raise $700 by Dec. 14. As of Sunday, he had received $255 in donations.

The money will primarily go toward paying for the headlining musician, Jamey Aebersold, a jazz educator of about 40 years.

“Jamey is a really well-known jazz educator,” McNeill said. “He was one of those people who was on the forefront of jazz education literally 30, 40 years ago and has been the whole time. ... He brings a name value along with the jazz faculty here.”

The University will invite jazz bands from Illinois Wesleyan Uni-versity, Elmhurst College, Mil-likin University, Northern Illinois University and Illinois State Uni-versity, Sulikowski said.

“The jazz fest will be a combi-nation of performances by fi ve visiting colleges and the UIUC

big band. Each of the visiting col-leges, after an hourlong perfor-mance, will get a 45-minute clinic from some U of I faculty mem-bers,” Sulikowski said.

Students from area high schools have also been invited to the festi-val as a way to allow them to see the University’s jazz program, McNeill said.

“It’s basically a recruiting tool for us,” McNeill said. “It’s a way to get high school students, perhaps junior high students, and some other college students to come to campus to see our students in action and work with our faculty.”

But the festival isn’t just for jazz performers, Sulikowski said.

“Anybody who isn’t a music major would be able to come

see him perform, see him give speeches and be introduced to a whole world of music without needing a special education,” Sulikowski said.

If the Kickstarter project doesn’t raise enough money, Sulikowski said he will pay out-of-pocket and charge admittance to the festival to cover his expenses.

“I just want to expose as many people as I can to some great music that’s going around our school,” he said. “It goes unno-ticed, and I’ve seen people hear it for the fi rst time, and they just wonder what they’ve been doing for the last three years.”

Austin can be reached at akkeati2@dailyillini.com.

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R ecently, I’ve noticed a qui-et but important revolution going around. More and more

African and African-American girls are wearing their hair “nat-urally,” or in their natural state, free of weaves and extensions, and free of chemically straight-ening or relaxing their hair.

When I first heard about it, I thought it was great. Bring on the revolution, I said. I’m all for women changing up their styles and becoming their inner god-desses. I just didn’t want any part of it. I’ve been a weave girl for the past six years, and it was working for me. Give me straight, silky hair that takes five minutes to manage.

However. I’ve come back from fall break with kinky, natural hair, a boatload of hair products to keep my frizz on lockdown ... and a sense of healthy confu-sion on why I switched sides so emphatically.

Now, as you know, I’m not a beauty columnist. Don’t roll your eyes and assume the worst: I’m not going to take you through the step-by-step process of how I had to remove my weave, or the play-by-play of all the styles I had to try before I found one that fit me well.

Because for me, and maybe for others, it isn’t just a styling issue,

or even just an issue about look-ing good. It’s an issue of identity.

Hair, in the African and Afri-can-American community, and in my house, is important. The upkeep alone on my weave used to cost me a nice dinner at Des-thil. And that’s not including the after-products. I — and other women — put a lot of time and money into our tresses, argu-ably more than women of oth-er cultures. It’s all to keep up appearances.

Let’s be honest: We all want to be attractive. It’s a basic human interest. And when we see that the most dominate images are either straight locks or super-in-control curls — from all of the Beyonce-esque stars who toss their perfectly made hair back and forth, to the backlash Gabby Douglas got during the Olympics from sporting her ungroomed ponytail — it sends a message that silky hair is the most beauti-ful way to go.

To go natural is to defy this notion. I’m not saying my hair isn’t important anymore, or that I won’t spend time looking cute. But going natural is taking what you were born with and making it work. For me, it’s like telling the world to take my hyper-curly, kinky mess of a do and accept me as it is. It shows that you don’t have to get attached to fake hair or damaging products. It’s liberating.

This issue of defying what the world wants? It it works the same with other cultures, heritages and races. There are parts of our

bodies that we want to alter or fix to appeal to the standard media idea of beauty. But the real beau-ty comes in embracing your “nat-ural” self.

Sometimes, I get sick of peo-ple claiming that beauty or style changes are done because of a cultural, political or social state-ment. Sometimes, style is simply style. Just like wearing an Obama shirt doesn’t mean you want to start a conversation about social-ism. (Maybe you’re out of shirts. Calm down.) Changing up a style doesn’t mean you’re exploring your heritage.

But, sometimes it does. In the past, I was in recognizable deni-al, thinking that my hair wasn’t tied to my culture or my family. I claimed it had nothing to do with how I wasn’t quite comfortable in my identity, how I wanted my look to fit in with society, to look “put together” and “Westernized.”

Except it does. And the soon-er I realized that, the easier it was to chop off my fake bag-gage and show my African roots — literally.

Sometimes, there is often a common theme that goes along with the changing up a look to embrace your identity: pride. Pride in who you are and pride in where you’ve come from.

It’s fine to follow society’s idea of beauty. But sometimes, it’s good to harness your own beauty revolution and cater to your natu-ral selves.

Tolu is a senior in Media. She can be reached at taiwo2@dailyillini.com.

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My parents are going on 25 years of marriage. My grandparents are rounding in on 51 years.

My grandma met my grandpa during her senior year of high school when she travelled to Shelbyville, Ill., from Den-mark to study in the U.S. for a year. My parents met a few years out of college while playing volleyball.

Both are in the type of relationship that people dream and hope for: happy, healthy and loving.

But unfortunately, most of us have to experience heartbreak and pain before we get to that point. Breakups are an inevitable part of dating — it’s very rare to find the right person on the first try. They come with a truckload of emotions that take time to sort through both with yourself and other people, so that you can eventually heal. It’s not easy, but you have to believe that things will get better, and you will eventu-ally find the right person that you can one day celebrate 50 years of marriage with.

My friends and I always say that now we’re out of high school, we should be dating guys that we could see ourselves marrying. This may seem reason-able (why would you date someone you couldn’t see yourself with for the long run?), but it puts a lot of pressure on us. We have four years of college, which is not much time to find the right person. It puts a timer on feelings, which may lead to settling for 10th best.

I’ve come to reject this way of think-ing. Though my grandparents met before college, my parents did not know each other existed until years out of school.

“It’s like a bolt of lightning,” my grandma says about relationships. “They come when you’re least expect-ing it.”

So until we meet that right person, we’re going to try other relationships and deal with all the emotions that come with, the good and the bad.

And when relationships do turn sour, you must remember that you are not alone.

If you broke up with your girlfriend or boyfriend over infidelity, you are not alone. If you were broken up with because your girlfriend or boyfriend did not feel the same way about you anymore, you are not alone. If the rela-tionship ended because of false hopes that things between the two of you would improve, you are not alone. And of course there are countless other rea-sons that relationships end, with each one leaving you feeling hurt.

And among the 42,000 University stu-dents, all enjoying the “best years of their lives,” with Facebook pictures of friends getting drunk at Cly’s and sta-tuses about how fun last night was, it can seem like you are the only one in pain.

It may seem like you’re the only one trying to put on a happy face while masking that hollow feeling in your chest. But most people experience dif-ficult breakups, and it may take a long time to feel right again.

From personal and from friends’ experiences, I know that you’re going to yearn for what once was and hope that things can work out again. You’re going to feel empty and wonder how you’ll ever be happy again. You’re going to question yourself, and potentially lose the motivation that you once had.

But relationships end for a reason, and it’s best to keep looking forward. Try to fend off the feelings of going back to a broken relationship because you miss being in a relationship. Do not feel the need to settle, for we deserve the best relationship possible. Realize that while a relationship may not have been all bad, there were parts to it that the right relationship would not have. Do not blame yourself for not being able to get over a breakup quickly, for feelings are not trivial. There is no switch to turn feelings off, and there-fore we must come to terms with what we are feeling. The best way to do this is to talk to other people.

Seek out whomever you can — your family, friends and professionals — to talk out your emotions. It’s so easy to jumble everything up in our minds and make illogical things from the logical. People want to help you, so seek solace in someone else’s words.

And remember, things will get better. Time is essential to heal the wounds. I know that’s not easy to hear, for we all want an instant cure. But we’ve got to be realistic.

I find the following quote by Michelle Obama helpful:

“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts. You know, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to mar-ry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you sur-round yourselves with.”

Go seek out those who love and sup-port you and take as long as you need to heal. Eventually, that bolt of lightning will strike. And you will know when it’s right.

Kirsten is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at kekellr2@dailyillini.com.

KIRSTEN KELLEROpinions columnist

This past summer, top movie critics debated and voted on the best movies of all time.

To much surprise, Alfred Hitch-cock’s “Vertigo” knocked the long-running favorite “Citizen Kane” from the top spot.

I suspect, dear reader, that if I dared to refer to “Vertigo” as a thriller or to “2001: A Space Odyssey” — which also made the top 10 — as science fiction, some critic would inform me none-too-politely that these works of art do not fit into such mere genres.

Many critics, art aficiona-dos and artists try to convince their audiences of the differ-ence between the great works of literary import and the dismis-sible works of genre — to which they would be loathe to even call art. But for all their attempts to sever one from the other, I have never seen an adequate defini-tion of literariness.

I can discern only a few quali-ties from the muck of their attempted definitions. First, that literary works of art should nev-er fall into any genre, regard-less of shape or form (it may be romantic, but never a romance). Second, that literary works should have the proper preten-sions toward winning the Pulit-zer (or Oscar, Tony, etc.).

As far as divisions of art go, this artificial definition seems horribly useless. It speaks less to the content of the art than to the ego of its creators and distribu-

tors. If one wants to stick art into a category to attract poten-tial readers or viewers, why not call “literary” works “bourgeois realism” — which they frequent-ly are, anyway — and be more descriptive in the meanwhile?

A more useful division is that between high art and low art — art to make us think and art to entertain. It is an overly simplis-tic division, even a crass one, but at least it tells us what to expect. One does not go see “The Expendables 2” for insights into the existentialism of war, after all.

And here again, the propo-nents of literariness want to put all of literature in the for-mer category of high art and all the works of genre into the lat-ter category of low art. So long, spaceships and faster-than-light travel. So long, elves and dwarves. So long, hard-nosed detectives and gorgeous dames. You are deemed unworthy of serious thought.

Sometimes, the critics are right. Genre can be very, very low art indeed with a tenden-cy to become too much of an in-joke. The unscrupulous art-ist drops cliche after cliche, so that only the most ardent lover of that genre would enjoy it. It fails to appeal to any beyond the fanboys.

Literary works can suffer the same ills, though. They too have their fanboys for pseudo-intel-lectual rambling.

When I, as a writer, have spo-ken with good writers who work in genres — good here mean-ing that they write to tell a sto-ry, not just to collect a paycheck — they tell me they write that

way because that is how they envision the story: the sci-fi ele-ments, the western elements, the horror elements. Those were all present from the story’s incep-tion in their mind, inextricably linked to the characters, setting and plot.

If they tried to remove those elements, the story would feel less real to them as writers and so would feel less real to us as readers. Genre, for them, is not about appealing to a particular audience, but about accurate-ly painting the picture in their minds.

We are left with a snobbish belief that genre simply cannot do something that literary works can, that only literary works can provide us a viewpoint of the (high art-y) human condition.

Really? Can we not illuminate who we

are as human beings by contrast-ing us with aliens from the plan-et K’th’raxx?

Can we not express the grip-ping terrors of the human psyche through encounters with grap-pling terrors from the Lovecraf-tian depths?

The notion becomes even sil-lier when asked in reverse: Are literary works truly so weak that they can no longer ask interest-ing questions the moment a star-ship shows up?

Good genre fiction distinguish-es itself from good literary fic-tion not by whether it can ask interesting questions of our-selves, but what kind of ques-tions it asks.

Joe is a graduate student in Mathe-matics. He can be reached at vande-he2@dailyillini.com.

JOSEPH VANDEHEYOpinions columnist

A Graduate Employees’ Organization strike could now be a dis-tinct possibility. As of Nov. 16, the union

overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a strike, which means that it could happen any time in the next three weeks.

If the teaching and graduate assistants in this organization strike, it is likely many class-es will be canceled, whether because the TA doesn’t show up to teach a course or because some professors will refuse to cross the picket line to teach.

After the initial excitement of a canceled class subsides, reality will sink in. Finals are less than three weeks away, so classtime is as vital as ever for crucial review sessions, nor-mally conducted by TAs. We are paying money to attend this university, too, and a class can-celed is money wasted.

At the worst, the strike, if it lasted long enough, could cause grades to be withheld beyond the due date of Dec. 26. This could mean that students grad-uating in December might not receive their final transcripts in time to begin their jobs.

To continue class, some pro-fessors will try to find alterna-tive spaces to teach, but even that wastes more time than necessary.

From the beginning, we, like the GEO, have said that the only way the University responds to the requests of the organization is to go to these extremes. Ideally, the Univer-sity should be more willing to compromise, and the GEO should not strike.

But neither of those seem all too likely.

Despite the TAs having to counter their mission, we still feel that the GEO should strike in the event that no reasonable compromise is reached this week. Without a compromise, the GEO needs to make their point. Members of the union need their tuition waivers and students need to be taught. And if the University will be unwill-ing to serve the GEO what it’s asking for, then students won’t be taught.

By canceling classes and withholding grades when strik-ing, the GEO knows that the undergraduate students at this University will be the ones directly affected, not the Uni-versity. Essentially, the strike runs counter to every respon-sibility a TA has: to educate students.

The success of the strike depends on the GEO — TAs and GAs — pitting the undergradu-ate students against the Uni-versity, even if that wasn’t the outright intent of the strike.

But because students are not being taught, then the Universi-ty is failing at its most salient mission, too.

By canceling classes and withholding grades when strik-ing, the GEO knows that the undergraduate students at this University will be the ones directly affected, not the Uni-versity. Essentially, the strike runs counter to every respon-sibility a TA has: to educate students.

The success of the strike depends on the GEO — TAs and GAs — pitting the undergradu-ate students against the Uni-versity, even if that wasn’t the outright intent of the strike.

But because students are not being taught, then the Universi-ty is failing at its most salient mission, too.

Ultimately, the responsibil-ity of educating students rests not with the TAs but with the University.

Undergraduate students could be negatively impact-ed by whatever happens in the bargaining sessions this week, but as it stands now, the TAs’ tuition waivers seem a little graver: Without the money to pay for rent, insurance or even groceries, they can’t reason-ably teach their students well.

All we can ask from the next bargaining session and of the eminent strike, if you must involve the undergraduates, keep the damage low and the mission focused — the GEO has been without a contract for far too long.

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BY MAE ANDERSONTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Bye-bye, Black Friday. So long, Small Business Saturday. Now it is Cyber Mon-day’s turn.

Cyber Monday, coined in 2005 by a shopping trade group that noticed online sales spiked on the Monday following Thanksgiving, is the next in a series of days that stores are counting on to jump-start the holiday shopping season.

It is estimated that this year’s Cyber Monday will be the big-gest online shopping day of the year for the third year in a row. According to research fi rm com-Score, Americans are expected to spend $1.5 billion, up 20 percent from last year on Cyber Monday, as retailers have ramped up their deals to get shoppers to click on their websites.

Amazon.com, which is start-ing its Cyber Monday deals at midnight Monday, is offering as much as 60 percent off a Pana-sonic VIERA 55-inch television that is usually priced higher than $1,000. Sears is offering $430 off a Maytag washer and dryer, each on sale for $399. And Kmart is

offering 75 percent off all of its diamond earrings and $60 off a 12-in-1 multigame table on sale for $89.99.

Retailers are hoping the deals will appeal to shoppers like Matt Sexton, 39, who for the fi rst time plans to complete all of his holiday shopping online this year on his iPad tablet computer. Sexton, who plans to spend up to $4,000 this season, already shopped online on the day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, and found a laptop from Best Buy for $399, a $200 savings, among other deals.

“The descriptions and reviews are so much better online, so you can compare and price shop and for the most part get free ship-ping,” said Sexton, who lives in Queens, N.Y., and is a manager at a utility company.

Sexton also said that it is easier to return an online purchase to a physical store than it had been in previous years. “That helps with gifts,” he said.

How well retailers fare on Cyber Monday will offer insight into Americans’ evolving shopping habits during the holiday shop-ping season, a time when stores

can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue. With the growth in high-speed Internet access and the wide use of smartphones and tablets, people are relying less on their work computers to shop than they did when Shop.org, the dig-ital division of trade group The National Retail Federation, intro-duced the term “Cyber Monday.”

“People years ago didn’t have ... connectivity to shop online at their homes. So when they went back to work after Thanksgiv-ing they’d shop on the Monday after,” said Vicki Cantrell, exec-utive director of Shop.org. “Now they don’t need the work computer to be able to do that.”

As a result, the period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday has become busy for online shop-ping as well. Indeed, online sales on Thanksgiving Day, tradition-ally not a popular day for online shopping, rose 32 percent over last year to $633 million, according to comScore. And online sales on Black Friday were up 26 percent from the same day last year, to $1.042 billion. It was the fi rst time online sales on Black Friday sur-passed $1 billion.

BY NICOLE WINFIELDTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — Pope Bene-dict XVI responded to criticism that the club of churchmen who will choose his successor is too Eurocentric, elevating six new cardinals from Colombia, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and the U.S. during a formal cer-emony Saturday.

Benedict welcomed the prel-ates into the College of Cardinals during a short, hour-long ceremo-ny in St. Peter’s Basilica, telling them that their presence among the other red-robed prelates was a sign of the “unique, universal and all-inclusive identity” of the Catholic Church.

“In this consistory, I want to highlight in particular the fact that the church is the church of all peoples, and so she speaks in the various cultures of the dif-ferent continents,” he told the crowd.

The ceremony was both joy-ful and emotional: Manila Arch-bishop Luis Antonio Tagle, seen by many to be a rising star in the church, visibly choked up as he knelt before Benedict to receive his three-pointed red hat, or biretta, and gold ring. He wiped tears from his eyes as he returned to his place.

The archbishop of Abuja, Nige-ria, Cardinal John Olorunfemi

Onaiyekan, meanwhile, seemed to want to sit down and chat with each one of the dozens of cardi-nals that he greeted in the tra-ditional exchange of peace that follows the formal elevation rite.

Benedict has said that with this “little consistory,” he was essentially completing his last cardinal-making ceremony held in February, when he elevated 22 cardinals, the vast majority of them European archbishops and Vatican bureaucrats.

The College of Cardinals remains heavily European even with the new additions: Of the 120 cardinals under age 80 and thus eligible to vote in a con-clave to elect a new pope, more than half — 62 — are European.

Critics have complained that the “princes of the church” no longer represents the Catho-lic Church today, since Cathol-icism is growing in Asia and Africa but is in crisis in much of Europe.

BY DINESH RAMDETHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADISON, Wis. — Every week-day as the clock strikes noon, doz-ens of demonstrators pass out songbooks inside the Wisconsin Capitol. Offi ce workers who know what’s coming scramble to close their doors, and several police offi cers take up watch from a distance.

Then the group begins to sing, the voices echoing throughout the cavernous rotunda. The fi rst song might include the lyrics, “Hit the road, Scott, and don’t you come back no more.” The next tune could say, “We’ll keep singing ‘til justice is done. We’re not going away, oh Scotty.”

Most of the protesters who hounded Gov. Scott Walker for his collective-bargaining law got on with their lives long ago. But one group still gathers every day to needle the state’s leading Repub-lican — a tactic they promise to continue even as supporters sug-gest there are more effective ways

to infl uence politics.“We’re not just protesting,” said

Brandon Barwick, a 28-year-old student and musician who is the unoffi cial leader of the sing-along. “We’re advocating for a way of governing, a way of living that pre-serves our freedoms, our rights.”

Madison has a long, proud tra-dition of public protests, from a famous civil rights march in 1969 to violent clashes with police dur-ing the Vietnam era. More recent-ly, Walker’s law to strip most pub-lic employees of their union rights drew massive protests in 2011 and sparked an effort to oust the gover-nor earlier this year. He survived a recall election in June.

But the Solidarity Singers won’t accept defeat. Walker’s attack on Wisconsin workers was so severe, Barwick said, that he deserves constant reminders of the dam-age he caused.

Their efforts might seem puz-zling. Protests generally persist only as long as there’s a chance to bring change. It can be hard to

sustain that energy when there’s no clear goal or realistic chance of success.

Anywhere from 25 to 50 people — usually a handful of students joined by mostly middle-aged or retired people — still gather every day to sing protest songs for an hour.

Police initially reacted with a hands-off approach, arresting only a handful of belligerent protesters loosely associated with the group. However, the new Capitol police chief has begun cracking down by issuing scores of citations to group leaders, largely for failure to obtain a permit.

Department of Administration spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis said virtually every other group that uses the Capitol has complied with the permit policy. She said the agency couldn’t make an exception for the singers.

But Barwick and others refuse, saying they shouldn’t need the government’s permission to pro-test the government.

Cyber Monday to top Black Friday

Dozens of demonstrators sing at Wisconsin’s capital

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Brandon Barwick, of Madison, joins Solidarity Sing Along participants for the 455th consecutive gathering of the protest singers inside the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison.

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ANDREW MEDICHINI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Newly elected Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, archbishop of Manila, left, is greeted by cardinals after receiving the red three-cornered biretta hat during a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Saturday .

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T en does not equal 14.I haven’t taken a serious

math class in fi ve years, and I can tell you that with a fair degree of certainty.

But that obvious fact, now more glaring after the additions of Rutgers and Maryland raises the number of teams in the Big Ten to 14, is only one of the fac-tors in the latest phase of major conference realignment that does not add up.

The extra miles of weari-some travel do not add up. For the athletes at Rutgers, near-by trips to face St. John’s (26 miles away), Villanova (98) and Temple (89) will turn into week-ly excursions halfway across the country to face conference opponents like Iowa (987) or Nebraska (1,286). Maryland’s regular jaunts up and down the East Coast will become daunt-ing forays into the Midwest. It’s a manageable prospect for each schools respective foot-ball programs, where charter planes often come with the ter-ritory. But what about the Scar-

let Knights’ volleyball team or the Terrapins’ women’s soccer team during midweek games and the athletes who attend-ed each school so their fami-lies would live within driving distance of many of their road games?

The level of competition does not add up. Maryland was for-merly a basketball powerhouse, winning a championship in 2002, but has made the NCAA tournament only three times in the last eight years and missed postseason play entirely the last two seasons. The Terps football program, meanwhile, is perpet-ually middling, with only three winning seasons since 2004.

Rutgers has achieved a modi-cum of success on the gridiron in recent years, reaching bowl games six times since 2005, but former head coach Greg Schi-ano, who led the program out of the cellar after taking over in 2001, departed to the NFL last year. The Scarlet Knights basketball team is a different story, and a sad one. Instead of hanging a Rutgers banner from the rafters of Assembly Hall, it would be quite reasonable to simply install a red doormat, as the Scarlet Knights haven’t had a winning season since 2006 and haven’t reached the NCAA

tournament since 1991.In fact, the only numbers

that do add up in this realign-ment are prefaced with a dollar sign. This is purely a fi nancially driven move by a major confer-ence that is looking to expand its already massive footprint to new territory, and a lifeline for two athletic programs in des-perate need of a winning lottery ticket.

The Big Ten, already one of the most expansive conferences in the country geographically, taps into a previously untappa-ble East Coast market. With its lucrative TV contract expiring in 2017, negotiations for its next deal promise ever-abundant riches for the conference and its schools.

For cash-strapped Mary-land and Rutgers, the invita-tion to join the Big Ten could not have come at a better time. Both athletic programs face dire fi nancial situations. Last year, a panel formed by Mary-land president Wallace Loh recommended the elimination of eight varsity teams in order for the program to remain via-ble. Rutgers’ athletic depart-ment, in the meantime, lost $26.8 million last year, a fi gure

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B ig Ten commissioner Jim Delany is a much smarter man than I, and most of

the people are criticizing the additions of Maryland and Rut-gers to the conference.

He’s got quite the track record.

He fi rst added Penn State in the ‘90s. That was a no-brainer.

The two biggest decisions after that weren’t as popular at the start.

Sure, branching out on your own, in what was considered to be a very risky move at the time to create a televi-sion network when there are already established networks to compete with, sounded crazy.

His idea to start the Big Ten Network in 2007 was based around demographics and tele-vision markets. To put it sim-ply, he did his homework.

His idea was so genius that it was profi table in just its second year of existence and further solidifi ed the Big Ten brand and

its power in collegiate athletics.I wonder what former ESPN

honcho Mark Shapiro, whose low-balling of Delany in nego-tiations played a large role in the Big Ten Network’s cre-ation, thinks of the Big Ten’s worth now?

Adding Nebraska was con-troversial at the time because it was a founding member of what was the Big Eight and then the Big 12, but Delany wanted a conference champi-onship, so he gave one of the nation’s elite programs the opportunity to shed its alle-giance to a conference that favored Texas and Oklahoma to join the Big Ten, be treated equally and add to the univer-sity’s already proud tradition.

Before I discuss the recent additions, there’s two things that Big Ten presidents view as vital when pondering adding a university: It lies in a contigu-ous state and is a member of the American Association of Uni-versities, something that 60 of the nation’s elite research uni-versities are a part of.

Nebraska was a member of the AAU when it was added but lost its status in April 2011, and it borders Iowa. Besides the money that came with add-ing a 12th team ($25 million

value on a championship game) and that 12th team having the fourth-most victories of all time, the Big Ten presidents and chancellors voted unani-mously to welcome Nebraska.

Now with Maryland and Rut-gers onboard, traditionalists have a point, and I complete-ly understand. No one wants to see an Illinois-Rutgers football game anymore than they do an Illinois-Indiana game. Plus, I’d rather watch Illinois lose to Ohio State four years in a row as I did during my time in Champaign than throw away some of those conference games to replace with games against the Terra-pins and the Scarlet Knights.

Change happens all the time, and tradition is going out the window as each day passes in many cases, including college football.

Of the six BCS conferences, only three can now say they haven’t had a school announce departure since Miami and Virginia Tech left the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Confer-ence in 2003 — basically the fi rst of these conference shifts.

So why were Maryland and Rutgers unanimously approved last week?

BY DARSHAN PATELASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Securing fi nancial stability for years to come, Maryland and Rutgers last week signed on to become the Big Ten’s newest members , additions that could jeopardize Illinois’ spot in the Leaders Division when intra-conference realignment is dis-cussed in the spring.

The news was met with posi-tive reaction from Illinois coach-es. At his weekly news confer-ence last week, head football coach Tim Beckman said he was shocked by the move but called the two programs great addi-tions. And athletic director Mike Thomas supported the additions in statements last week.

Big Ten fans either expressed concerns or were apathetic toward the news, questioning the quality of the East Coast programs and what it means for Big Ten traditions. But commis-sioner Jim Delany defended the additions.

“I’m not suggesting that stay-ing status quo is not sometimes the most comfortable approach in life. But I will tell you that Nebraska made sense in its way. Penn State made sense in its way and I think Mary-

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Illinois' Tyler Griffey shoots and makes a game-winning 3-pointer during the game against Gardner-Webb at Assembly Hall on Sunday.

Seniors lead Illinois past Gardner-WebbBY THOMAS BRUCHSTAFF WRITER

Down two points with 11 seconds remaining, Illinois head coach John Groce sat in the huddle, an offensive possession looming, with a chance to tie or win the game.

On the previous possession, Gardner-Webb head coach Chris Holtmann — a teammate of Groce at Taylor University and assistant under him at Ohio University for two seasons — drew up a play that freed a Gardner-Webb screener for a 3-pointer that banked in off the backboard.

Groce called the same play Holt-mann did in the huddle, asking his senior guard Brandon Paul to read the defense and either pass to an open man on the perimeter or drive to the hoop.

Paul, seeing that two defend-ers cheated toward him after the screen, fi red a pass to Tyler Griffey near the top of the key. Griffey took aim and released, nailing the 3-pointer and giving Illinois (7-0) a 63-62 lead that would stand as the fi nal score after a desperation heave from Gardner-Webb (4-4) .

“I knew it was good as soon as I

let it go,” Griffey said.The necessity for late-game

heroics was absent from Illinois’ games last week in the EA Sports Maui Invitational , where it never trailed over the course of three games. But Illinois started slug-gish in its return to the Assembly Hall, committing 11 turnovers in the fi rst half while only scoring 24 points .

“I take full responsibility for this afternoon,” Groce said. “That’s on me. We have to be better.”

Part of Illinois’ fi rst-half con-fusion stemmed from the zone Gardner-Webb used on defense for large stretches, limiting the open looks Illinois generated with-in its offense. Gardner-Webb also turned the ball over less than Illi-nois, which stymied any transition offense for the Illini.

The constant in both halves for Illinois was Joseph Bertrand , whom Groce said was the most impressive in practice Saturday and in the shootaround before Sun-day’s game. Bertrand had seven of his team’s 24 fi rst-half points

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Big Ten welcomes Rutgers, Maryland Unanimous decision opens marketing doors

POINTCOUNTERPOINTAdding Rutgers, Maryland helps conference Big Ten expansion fueled by greed, not athletics

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DANIEL MILLER-MCLEMOREBasketball columnist

Where they rank academicallyMaryland and Rutgers will also join Big Ten schools in an academic setting. While membership into the Committee on Institutional Cooperation is not tied to joining the Big Ten, the consortium of research institutions will offer membership to these two schools in the near future. The CIC is a group of Big Ten schools, along with founding member University of Chicago, that strives to enhance the academic quality of member institutions. It is governed by provosts of each school, including Illinois’ Ilesanmi Adesida .

MarylandThe Terrapins are a powerhouse program in lacrosse, both men’s and women’s, though the Big Ten does not sponsor the sport. Football — Randy Edsall’s era began with back-to-back losing seasons at Maryland, with a 2-10 record in 2011 and a 4-7 mark so far this year .Men’s basketball — Maryland has consistently been competitive in men’s basketball. With the exception of last two years, the Terrapins have reached the NCAA tournment every year since 1994 .Women’s basketball — The program is coming off an ACC Championship, advancing to the Elite Eight in the NCAA women’s tournament last year. The Terrapins won the NCAA tournament in 2006.

RutgersThe Scarlet Knights’ last NCAA championship in any sport came in 1949 in men’s fencing .Football — After years of losing seasons, Rutgers has won its last fi ve bowl games in which it has appeared . It can win the Big East and earn a BCS bowl berth with a victory this week.Men’s basketball — The Scarlet Knights have not had a winning season since the 2005-06 year, when it qualifi ed for the National Invitation Tournament .Women’s basketball — It has been one of the more successful teams at the university, advancing to the Elite Eight in 2006 and the national championship game in 2007 .

Big Ten standings based on more than just sports2012 U.S. News rankings for U.S. universities

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F or four consecutive plays on Saturday night’s contest between Notre Dame and USC, fans watched as the Trojans failed to

score from the 1-yard line in the game’s most crucial moments. This turnover on downs sealed USC’s loss to top-ranked rival Notre Dame and culminated the end of USC’s downward spiral of a regular season. After seasons that fail to meet lofty preseason expectations often comes a scapegoat, and disgruntled sports fans often look straight to head coach. In a day and age where head coaches are seen as disposable, the sentiment of “Fire Lane Kiffin” was common. But how much of a loss is a head coach personal-ly responsible for?

There are many cases where coaches have directly altered the outcome of a game. On Thanks-giving Day, the NFL’s Detroit Lions lost a close contest to the Houston Texans. The turning point of the game came on a scoring play when head coach Jim Schwartz mistakenly threw his chal-lenge flag. After the play, Schwartz could be seen apologizing to his fellow coaches and players for his mistake, and Schwartz took the blame for the loss after the game.

But for all the control over their team and on the outcome of a game that coaches appear to have, or do have, or are expected to have, at the same time they lack control over the biggest aspect of all: the game itself. Coaches can draw up plays and teach fundamentals or discipline. But the perfect-ly drawn up play is of little merit if players can’t make plays on the field.

Many basketball games come down to the final possession, and as a result coaches often have a play up their sleeve for the final shot. But fans rarely distinguish between a perfectly drawn up play on a coach’s part and a missed last shot on a player’s part. The two go hand in hand, as if the coach was responsible for the last shot. But what can a coach do to win short of putting the ball in the basket himself?

It’s true that coaches have authoritarian control outside of the week’s slate of games. They metic-ulously schedule team meals, meetings and plan

a week’s worth of practices down to the minute. In a sport such as football, where each play is the result of a large number of miniscule factors — the height of a handoff, the timing of a throw or run-ning of a route, or strength of a throw — no coach can control many or any of these for every play. You might be saying, of course, that coaches have never been a substitute for a player’s instincts. Rather, coaches merely work with players to win games. Then why are coaches often handed blame by definition?

The call for a new coach might be justified over the course of a season. Historically, new coaches redefine a team or program’s culture, for better or for worse. This paradigm shift often may be called for, but not on the basis of any individual game or play, like they often are today.

Coaches have a special role in history. They can be revered such as Nick Saban or Mike Krzyzewski, they can go down in history such as John Wooden or Vince Lombardi, or they can be dismissed uncer-emoniously like Rick Neuheisel. But at the end of the day, fans rarely get an insight into the esoter-ic mix of strategizing, teaching and learning that goes on behind the curtains. Instead, they should focus on what goes on in front of them — the field.

Jay is a freshman in Engineering. He can be reached at bensal2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @jbensal.

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Illini finish 2nd at Junkanoo JamBY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

One year after a San Juan Shoot-out appearance that included get-ting blown out by Green Bay and having Karisma Penn’s last-sec-ond shot rim out against Arizo-na State, the Illinois women’s basketball team headed back to the Caribbean for this year’s fall break. Only this time, Illinois was under new leadership. The coach whose team defeated the Illini 82-62 a year prior, Matt Bollant, paced the sidelines for the Illini.

The trip went better for Illinois than last season’s Thanksgiving tournament. The Illini finished 1-1 and claimed second place in the Freeport Division of the Junkanoo Jam in the Bahamas.

Illinois played an 0-3 Tulsa team in Friday’s first-round matchup. The Illini started off strong, lead-ing 38-29 at the half, and withstood a second half rally by Tulsa, which cut the lead to 62-58 with a little over six minutes left. Nine straight points by junior Amber Moore ral-lied the Illini to an 82-75 victory over the Golden Hurricanes.

Moore finished the game with 21 points and six assists, and senior Karisma Penn recorded a double-double with 25 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks before fouling out.

After passing its first test, first-year head coach Bollant faced his first BCS opponent in Iowa State in the title game. Bollant’s Green Bay squad defeated Iowa State in the first round of the NCAA tour-nament last season.

The Illini were able to keep up with the Cyclones for a while, and led 32-31 14:41 remaining in the game, but Iowa State outscored Illinois 37-18 from that point on and held on to win 68-50. Iowa State, which has been receiving top 25 votes, improved to 4-0 on the season.

The Cyclone defense held the Illini to less than 33 percent shoot-ing and limited Illinois, which had been averaging 83 points per game, to its lowest point total of the season. The Cyclones only allowed two Illini players in dou-ble figures for the game, with Ivo-ry Crawford scoring 11 points, while Penn added 10 points and 9 rebounds.

Earlier in the break, Illinois defeated Cleveland State for the second straight year. Bollant had been familiar with the Vikings, having faced them in conference play while at Green Bay. Illinois was outrebounded and shot 17 less free throws than Cleveland State, but Crawford helped the Illini overcome those deficits

with a career-high 32 points, as the Illini defeated the Vikings 83-64. Crawford was also helped by Penn, who finished with 17 points; Moore, who finished with a double-double, recording 12 points and 10 rebounds; and Alexis Smith, who finished with 13 assists.

One area that Bollant had been stressing after the team’s loss to Bradley heading into the break was aggression, which he said was visible in the number of free throw shots attempted and num-ber of rebounds.

By Bollant’s standard, the Illini were more aggressive than Tul-sa, outrebounding it 49-44 and getting to the free throw line 15 more times. Illinois and Iowa State were even in rebounds, and the Cyclones were able to get to the charity stripe three more times than the Illini.

The only team to beat Illinois in aggression was Cleveland State, which grabbed 13 more rebounds and shot 17 more free throws than the Illini.

Junior Kersten Magrum, who dislocated her shoulder against Bradley on Nov. 15, did not play in any of the games over break.

Johnathan can be reached at hetting2@dailyillini.com and @jhett93.

JAY BENSALSports columnist

Blame for losses should be shared

DANNY MOLOSHOK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

USC coach Lane Kiffin, left, talks with quarterback Max Wittek during the second half against Notre Dame, Saturday, in Los Angeles. Notre Dame won 22-13.

Northwestern’s Quentin Williams (88) tackles Illinois’ Donovonn Young (5) during the game at Ryan Field in Evanston, Ill., on Saturday .

Northwestern’s Brian Mulroe (72) holds up the Land of Lincoln trophy after the game.

Northwestern’s Max Chapman (89) tackles Illinois’ Dami Ayoola (22), resulting in a safety.

Akeem Spence (94) dives in an attempt to bring down Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter (2).

Reilly O’Toole (4) sneaks around Jon Davis (3) to avoid a sack on Saturday against Northwestern.

PHOTOS BY DARYL QUITALIG AND MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINI

EVANSTON, Ill. — Tim Beckman rode into Cham-paign on a horse of hope,

preaching of a plan that could cure a program that has lacked stability since John Mackovic left to coach Texas after 1991.

After dealing with Ron Zook for seven years, Illinois foot-ball fans needed a head coach that could end the futility, bring some energy and win at least six games a season.

When Illinois athletic direc-tor Mike Thomas made his fi rst move in December, Beckman got right to business and ref-erenced his experience with other coaches and a plan that he said will turn things around despite his confusing enthusi-asm for taking over a program that doesn’t have much to offer recruits that are even remotely good coming out of high school.

A lot has happened in the year that Beckman has been at the helm of the program. He started out giving the players bracelets with “12-1-12” on them in ref-erence to the Big Ten champi-onship game because all lanes lead to Lucas Oil Stadium. He let fans call plays at the spring game, refused to name “the team upstate,” had injured play-ers wear purple and even made an anti-Northwestern sign as a way to get a heated rivalry going with “Chicago’s (self-pro-claimed) Big Ten team.”

Then, after Penn State was sanctioned and its players were free to leave Happy Valley without having to sit out, of all the schools mentioned, some-how Illinois made more head-lines than programs that actu-ally landed premier players like Southern Cal (Silas Redd) just because Illinois coaches were spotted on campus. To put it kindly, he pissed a lot of people off.

In all reality, there’s no prob-lem in recruiting — it just could’ve been handled bet-ter. But he was clearly there because he wasn’t confi dent in the talent on his roster. And why pass up a chance to improve?

Then, of course, we had the season. And what a sad season it was. A 2-10 record, a nine-game losing streak, a conference los-ing streak that was extended to 14, tobacco-gate, blown out every single week, and Beck-man literally getting knocked

down in the Northwestern game. And the list goes on.

Everything that could go wrong this season didn’t matter if you look at the football prob-lems like the absurd amount of injuries or the aforementioned secondary NCAA violation of using tobacco on the sidelines, a stupid public relations move.

Beckman inherited a team that was coming off consecutive bowl victories, featuring many holdovers from a defense that was seventh in the nation last season.

A 25-point average margin of defeat, not to mention allowing at least 50 points in three games for the fi rst time in program his-tory, wasn’t supposed to be pos-sible with this supposed strong defensive unit.

Is every plan perfect? Nope.There are always fl aws that

need to be worked out and changes that need to be made to ensure the plan’s success.

As a few tweets circulated about Beckman’s time in Cham-paign already over after one season, you couldn’t help but fi gure that was impossible after the athletic department bought out three head coaches for more than $7 million last season.

Then you take a look back at the season and realize that they weren’t competitive at all. Sure, the games against Indiana, Min-nesota and Purdue were close on the scoreboard, but the Illini were outgained in yards in all three and lost the turnover bat-tle. If you win games with those kind of statistics, then it must always be your lucky day.

I fi nd it hard to believe that a head coach would get fi red after one season, with the fi nancial commitment Beckman was giv-en and the fact that he hasn’t had a chance to coach his recruits.

Taking a look at the empty stands and judging the reactions around the team after it loses week after week, Beckman’s leash on turning this program around will undoubtedly be shorter than when he arrived.

If this plan that he always talks about works, then no one will have anything to worry about.

Twitter and “sources say” go hand in hand these days, but based on this season’s perfor-mance, which fi nished in 2012 Illinois fashion with a 50-14 loss to the team upstate, the plan has to start working sooner than what was shown in 2012.

Dan is a senior in Media. You can reach him at welin1@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @WELINandDEALIN.

BY JAMAL COLLIERSTAFF WRITER

EVANSTON, Ill. — The end couldn’t come any sooner for the Illinois football team.

All of the Illini’s seasonlong struggles were on display dur-ing Saturday’s 50-14 thumping by the Wildcats, including an offense that was unable to score points and plagued by turnovers (four), a formerly top-ranked defense that allowed costly pen-alties (eight for 88 yards) and at least 30 points in eight games this season.

All of that added up to Illinois dropping its fi nal nine games to fi nish 2-10, winless in confer-ence play.

The Illini scored on their opening possession on an 11-play, 78-yard drive capped off by Donovonn Young’s 15-yard touchdown. Then Illi-nois was fl agged for “illegal numbering” because it didn’t have enough offensive linemen lined up on the line of scrim-mage on a trick play that negat-ed a successful two-point con-version in the fi rst quarter.

At the end of the fi rst quar-ter, Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase threw an intercep-tion on the fi rst play after the Illini received the ball via an interception. During that play, Illinois head coach Tim Beck-man was run into by a referee and ended up on the ground, which resulted in a 15-yard side-line interference penalty, his second such penalty.

“That was on me,” Beckman said. “I just got in the way, got excited in the game. I’m sorry.”

The image and video of Beck-man on the ground became an Internet favorite, summing up a woeful fi rst season as head

coach of Illinois. It was diffi cult for him to put in words what was going on in his mind as he stood behind the lectern moments after the season ended.

“You want your kids, just like you want your sons, to experi-ence winning, and we didn’t experience winning this year,” he said. “It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever been through.”

The turnovers proved the most costly for the Illini. Jus-tin Green fum-bled on a kick-off that led to a Northwestern touchdown and a 10-7 lead it would never relinquish. Illinois has now turned the ball over in 23 con-secutive games.

Scheelhaase threw two inter-ceptions, and Reilly O’Toole played for fi rst t i me s i nc e Oct. 13 against Michigan.

Beckman said he planned to use O’Toole, who only attempted four passes; his only incompletion was an inter-ception. But he did lead the Illi-ni on their only other scoring drive and ran for a touchdown in the second quarter.

After the game, Beckman was no longer referring to North-western as “the team upstate,” at least not for now.

He made it a priority to inten-sify the rivalry between North-western and Illinois, hanging the purple block-N logo in the football facility and putting a

line through it for emphasis.But Illinois had no answer for

Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter, who fi nished 9-of-11 for 102 yards, throwing a career-high three touchdown passes and running for another. The Wildcats ran for 338 yards, including Venric Mark’s 127.

It was revenge for a North-western team that had lost to Illinois for the past two seasons. In the fourth quarter, as the

P.A. announcer called out North-western’s pro-motional slogan of “Chicago’s Big Ten team,” the announc-ment seemed to get the loudest cheer of the day from the crowd of 32,415.

T he I l l i -ni didn’t stick around to see the Wildcats cel-ebrate with the Land of Lincoln Trophy.

Beckman said his message to the players was that things can only get better.

But he has a long way to go to turn Illinois into a contender than what he fi rst imagined shortly after his hire.

“We’ve been disappointed and frustrated for a while,” Scheel-haase said. “Just because we haven’t been producing the way we wanted to. Obviously, we want to fi nish on a good note, but then (that) happened today.”

Jamal can be reached at collie10@dailyillini.com and @JamalCollier.

IllinoisPassingNathan ScheelhaaseReilly O’Toole

RushingDonovonn Young Josh Ferguson

ReceivingMiles OseiDarius MillinesJosh Ferguson

DefenseMike SvetinaAkeem SpenceMichael BuchananEarnest ThomasTerry Hawthorne

NorthwesternPassingKain Colter

RushingVenric MarkKain ColterTyris JonesMike Trumpy

ReceivingChristian JonesPaul Jorgensen

DefenseC.C. AriguzoDavid NwabuisiIbraheim CampbellDrew SmithQuentin Williams

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Penalties, TOs plague Illini against Wildcats

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GAME TO FORGET

TWEET OF THE GAME

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Only three of Northwestern’s drives failed to result in points, and the Wildcats never punted.

The number of plays Northwestern ran compared with Illinois’ 45.

The Illini defense allowed 50 points three times in a season for the fi rst time in program history.

Despite the lopsided score, both teams averaged the same number of yards per play.

The number of yards Illinois was penalized on its eight penalties.

45

321

Sophomore running backDonovonn YoungThe Texas native gained 74 yards on the ground on Saturday, including a 26-yard scamper, and collected a touchdown for the otherwise stagnant offense.

Head coachTim BeckmanAfter inheriting a program coming off two consecutive bowl victories, Beckman and the Illini lost nine straight games to end the 2012 campaign. Illinois’ average margin in defeat was 25 points in a season in which the two perennial powers in the Leaders Division were ineligible for postseason play.

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Western MichiganSept. 1 - W, 24-7

Arizona StateSept. 8 - L, 45-14

Charleston SouthernSept. 15 - W, 44-0

Louisiana TechSept. 22 - L, 52-24

Penn StateSept. 29 - L, 35-7

WisconsinOct. 6 - L, 31-14

MichiganOct. 13 - L, 45-0

IndianaOct. 27 - L, 31-17

Ohio StateNov. 3 - L, 52-22

MinnesotaNov. 10 - L, 17-3

PurdueNov. 17 - L, 20-17

NorthwesternNov. 24 - L, 50-14

Big Ten Championship Game — Nebraska vs. WisconsinDec. 1 - 7:17 p.m.

*Games in bold are at home*

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“If #Northwestern loses to this team, I think a self-imposed bowl ban is in order.”

Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune reporter @TeddyGreenstein

TIM BECKMAN,head coach

“Huge evaluation time right now. You utilize December, and to be honest with

you, I haven’t utilized December much. I’m usually practicing for a bowl game. So we

have to now utilize this month of December under NCAA rules and the number of hours

you’re allowed to use. Every one of our coaches will be evaluated. Every one of our

coordinators will evaluate our offensive coaches and vice versa.”

DAN WELINFootball columnist

LOOKING AHEADOffseasonLast week: 50-14 loss at Northwestern

Record: 2-10

Interesting fact: After starting the season 2-1, the Illinois football team proceeded to lose its nine remaining games, carrying its conference losing streak of 14 games into 2013.

“Just because we haven’t been

producing the way we wanted to. Obviously, we

want to fi nish on a good note, but then (that)

happened today.”NATHAN SCHEELHAASE,

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Advantage Properties, C-U www.advproperties.com 217-344-03941007 W. Clark, U. 1,2,3 F !"!"!" """ 1BR ,2BR & 3BR with Hi Speed Int, near Engr, DW, W/D

1003 W. Clark, U. 1 F !" !"!" """ 1BR with Hi Speed Int, near Engr, W/D

906 W. Clark, U. 1 F !" !"!" """ Newly Remodeled - 1BR w/ Hi Speed Int, near Engr, W/D

1005 W. Stoughton, U. 1,2 F !" !"!" """ 1BR & 2BR 2BA w/ Hi Speed Int,near Engr, DW, W/D,sec bldg

1002 W. Clark, U. 1,2 F !" !"!" """ Remodeled Units! Hi Speed Int, near Engr, DW, W/D, sec bldg

203 N. Gregory, U. 1,2 F !" !"!" """ 1BR & 2BR Hi Speed Int, near Engr, DW, W/D in-unit,sec bldg

204 N. Harvey, U. 1,2 F !" !"!" """ 1BR & 2BR Hi Speed Int, near Engr, DW, W/D in-unit,sec bldg

1007 W. Main, U. 1,2 F !" !"!" """ 1 BR & 2BR with Hi Spd Int, near Engr, DW,WD, sec bldg

1008 W. Main, U. 1,2 F !" !"!" """ 1BR & 2BR with HiSpeed Int, Near Engr, DW, W/D, sec bldg

908 W. Stoughton, U. 2 F !" !"!" """ 2BR with Hi Speed Int, near Engr, W/D, secure building

1004 W. Main, U. 2 F !" !"!" """ 2BR with High Speed Int, near Engr, DW, W/D

1010 W. Main, U. 1,2 F !" !"!" """ 1BR & 2BR 2BA with Hi Speed Int, near Eng,DW,W/D,sec bldg

808 W. Clark, U. 1 F !" !"!" """ 1BR with Hi Speed Int, near Engr, W/D

306 N. Harvey, U 2,3 F !" !"!" """ Luxury Building-Hi Speed Int, near Engr, DW, W/D, sec bldg

1003 W. Main, U. 1,2 F "" !"!" """ Brand New. Aug 2012. Hi Spd Int,near Engr,DW, W/D,sec bldg

Group Houses 2,3,4 F "" !"!" """ 2, 2 & 4 bedroom houses fully furnished near Engr

Armory House Apartments www.armoryhouse.com 217-384-44992nd and Armory 2,4 B !" !"!" !""Newly remodeled,summer cancellation option,leather furniture

Bailey Apartments www.baileyapartments.com 217-344-3008911 W. Springfield, U. 1 F "" !"!" """ $525/mo

1010 W. Springfield, U. 3 F "" !"!" """ $395 per person

111 S. Lincoln, U. 2 F "" !"!" """ $765/mo

901 W. Springfield, U. 1 F "" !"!" """ $520/mo

1004 W. Springfield, U. 1 F "" !"!" """ $495/mo

1010 W. Springfield, U. 4 F "" !"!" """ $395 per person

Bankier Apartments www.bankierapts.com 217-328-3770202 E. Green, C. 1,4 F !" !"!" """ Balcony, elevator, jacuzzi tubs

1107 S. Second, C. 1,4 F !" !"!" """ Balconies off every bedroom

508 E. Clark, C 1,2,3,4 B "" !"!" """ Laundry on site

408 E. Green, C. 1,2,3 F !" !"!" """ Intercom entry, remodeled bathrooms

106 S. Coler, U. 3 F !" !"!" """ Patio/Balcony

55 E. Healey, C. 2 F !" !"!" """ Parking & internet included

303 W. Green, C. 1,2,3 F !" !"!" """ Guest parking lots, balconies off bedrooms

505 S. Fourth, C. 1,2 F "" !"!" """ Laundry on site, Balconies

1106 W. Stoughton, U. 1,2 F !" !"!" """ Hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances

805 S. Fourth, C. 1,2 F "" !"!" """ Laundry on site

911 S. Locust, C. 1 F "" !"!" """ Laundry on site

56 1/2 E. Green, C. 1 F "" !"!" """ Dishwashers

410 E. Green, C. 1,2,3 F !" !"!" """ Lots of updates, must-see units!

621 E. Green, C. 4 F !" !" "" """ Skylights, jacuzzi tubs, balcony off every bedroom

1109 W. Stoughton, U 4 F "" !"!" """ Patio/Balcony, Skylights

619 S. Wright 2,3 F !" !" "" """ You can’t get closer to the quad!

Burnham 310 www.burnham310.com (217)239-2310310 E Springfield C. 1,2,3 F !" !"!" !""Pet friendly, individual leases, fitness, movie theater

Capstone Quarters/Green Street Realty www.capstonequarters.com 217-367-73681901 N. Lincoln Ave. 2,3,4 B !" !"!" !""$99 deposit, prices start @ $420/mo.

Castle on Locust www.cu-apartments.com 217-840-10701007 S. Locust, C. 1,2,3,4 F !" !"!" """ Cable & internet included

Country Fair Apartments myapartmenthome.com 217-359-37132106 W. White St., C. 1,2 B "" !"!" !""FREE Heat, Digital Cable & High Speed Internet

Hunsinger Enterprises www.hunsingerapts.com 217-337-1565Urbana Houses 5+ F !" "" !" """ Urbana Approved for groups. 7, 8, and 9 bedrooms.

Urbana Campus 3 F "" !"!" """ Several Locations to Choose From.

Urbana Campus 2 F "" !"!" """ Several Locations to Choose From.

Joe Allan Properties joeallanproperties.com 217-359-3527911 S. Oak, C. 2 F !" !"!" """ Near Memorial Stadium

311 E. John, C. 1 B "" !"!" """ 4th & John, laundry on site

609 S. Randolph, C. 2,3,4 F !" !"!" !""Secured building, West Side of Campus

308 N. Orchard, U. 1 B !" !"!" """ Near Engineering Dept

315 N. Orchard, U. 1 B !" !"!" """ Free Parking

301 W. Park, U. 1 B !" !"!" """ Crystal Lake Park Across the Street

305 W. Park, U. 2 B "" !"!" """ Near Bus Stop. Water Included

401 W. Park, U. 1 B !" !"!" """ Northwest Side of Campus

403 & 405 W. Park, U. 1 B !" !"!" """ Near Computer Science Building

407 W. Park, U. 1 B !" !"!" """ Walking Distance of Carle Hospital

404 W. High, U. 2 F !" !"!" """ East Side of Campus

201 S. Wright 1 B !" !"!" """ Across the street from Beckman

Johnson Rentals www.johnsonrentals.com 217-351-1767103 E. Healey St., C. 1 F "" !"!" !""Parking Included

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that is among the 10 worst in the country.The move to the Big Ten is not without monetary

consequences. Maryland must pay a $50 million exit fee to leave the ACC, while the Big East’s fee is either $10 or $20 million depending on how much notice Rutgers gives its former conference. But even those giant sums are negated by the massive payouts the two schools will receive annually from the Big Ten. Last year, the Big Ten doled out around $24 million to each of its member schools, the most of any conference in the nation, and that only fig-ures to increase under a new TV deal.

This is not, as Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney would have you believe, a move to improve the qual-ity of the product or restore the Big Ten to national prominence in football. It is strictly a money grab, a case of a greedy major conference capitalizing on a perceived opportunity at the expense of the quality of its athletic product and its student-athletes.

Daniel can be reached at millerm1@dailyillini.com and @danielmillermc.

The bottom line is this move was based around the thing that makes the world go around — money. And technically, Maryland and New Jer-sey border Pennsylvania, so the extension of the footprint keeps that trend going.

Both universities acknowledged the financial stability the Big Ten pro-vides, and the offers were simply too good to pass up.

In a constantly changing college landscape, this move shouldn’t come as a surprise given the markets that will come into play with the immense success of the Big Ten’s own televi-sion network.

But when you replace the cur-rent distribution of television money per school ($24.6 million) with the reportedly projected amount of $45 million by 2019, the Big Ten is going

to be at an even further advantage financially than it already is. And where do you think that money is going to go?

College football and television mon-ey is driving this thing, so you can bet that each school’s football budgets are going to get even fatter as this con-ference grows financially. If you’re a recruit and don’t like cold weather or you think the Midwest is boring, it’ll be harder to turn down a scholar-ship to Michigan or Ohio State or any other Big Ten school, especially when they’ll have more money to build even better facilities and pay coaches to have the best resources to get their players to the NFL.

I understand that money-first moves can ruin tradition and turns off fans, but Delany has a good track record and I trust people that are smarter than I am.

Dan can be reached at welin1@dailyillini.com and @WELINandDEALIN.

BY ELIOT SILLSTAFF WRITER

Within the capsule of the sea-son, perhaps it was a moot point, but after a loss to Michigan State eliminated Illinois volleyball from tournament contention, the team pieced together a three-game win streak to finish its season.

Illinois (14-16, 8-12 Big Ten) entered fall break in need of four victories throughout that span to remain eligible for postseason play, but lost the first of its four games in fitting fashion: five sets.

“When it came time to close out the game, we lost a little bit of composure,” sophomore hitter Liz McMahon said. “Because we’ve lost so many five-set matches, our confidence isn’t always the best going into that fifth set. I think when it comes time to end the game we just try almost too hard and get outside ourselves.”

The Illini won the first two sets in that match before losing the last three. Illinois came back from an 0-2 deficit against Michigan State in the two teams’ previous match on Oct. 13.

“Bitter disappointment,” head coach Kevin Hambly said of the loss. “But also determined to con-tinue to fight, continue to play and try to get better. I’m proud of the way they fought. Even though they

were playing basically for pride, the girls played for themselves and did a great job.”

Illinois responded by stringing together three wins for the first time since the weekend before conference play started.

Illinois first bounced back against Michigan to procure a win on senior night on Nov. 17. Then on Nov. 21, against Northwestern, the Illini got the last laugh at the five-set matches that tormented them to the tune of a 4-8 record up to that point, beating the Wildcats 3-2. In that game, McMahon and redshirt freshman Jocelynn Birks set career highs in kills with 30 and 28, respectively.

The Illini ended their season with a 3-0 sweep of Iowa on Satur-day. It was the Illini’s third sweep of the season, with their last one coming Sept. 15 against Central Florida.

“A lot of pressure was off (after Michigan State), so we were a lot more loose and had a lot more fun,” McMahon said. “We had senior night, which is always fun to play for our seniors, and then even like (Saturday), knowing it was our last game, we just put ourselves out there and had fun with it.”

Senior night was tough for Illi-nois, coming just a day after Mich-igan State dashed its tournament hopes.

“It’s hard to see that goal com-pletely go out of reach, and it was hard, too, because we knew we still

had three matches left, so we had to get back in the gym and keep working,” senior setter Annie Luhrsen said.

Luhrsen added that the team “had to change direction” after that loss, and the players played the final three games for them-selves and for each other.

“We were just focusing ... doing the best we could for every indi-vidual on this team because we all really do care about each oth-er and we all have been working together, the five of us seniors have been together for four years,” she said. “We just want-

ed to succeed for each other.”After entering the season

ranked No. 7, missing the tour-nament could be considered a disappointing year for the Illini. Hambly liked the way the Illi-ni finished, though, after they became ineligible for the NCAA tournament.

“They played for themselves, and they won for themselves,” he said, “which is all we’ve been trying to get them to do all season.”

Eliot can be reached at sill2@ dailyillini.com and @EliotTweet.

land makes sense in its way,” he said on a Monday teleconference after the Terrapins’ decision was made public. “I actually see one and one equal three, but I’ve been in the minority before and sometimes have been right and sometimes have been wrong.”

Both programs were unani-mously approved by the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chan-cellors — the Terrapins on Mon-day, and the Scarlet Knights on Tuesday after the program’s wait-and-see approach.

Maryland will begin competi-tion in the 2014-15 season after the school pays a $50 million exit fee to the Atlantic Coast Con-ference. Rutgers’ situation, on the other hand, is a little more complicated.

According to Big East bylaws, a 27-month notice is required from its departing members. So if the Scarlet Knights want to join in 2014, school officials will need to negotiate an earlier exit, like Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia have done before. Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said the university is working productively with the Big East to strike a deal.

Maryland’s and Rutgers’ move to the largely Midwestern con-ference is the most recent shift in the college landscape that has seen realignments breaking tra-ditional geographic boundaries. The discussions between Rut-gers and the Big Ten have been ongoing for years, Delany said, but talks with Maryland were more recent.

These two schools, along with Penn State, will give the Big Ten a bigger East Coast presence,

opening the door for more lucra-tive TV deals with cable opera-tors in the New York City and Washington, D.C. areas. Each conference member reported-ly earns $24 million in revenue from the Big Ten Network.

“I just thought the amount of words devoted and the emphasis were a little overplayed. I never suggested that Big Ten Network or ESPN aren’t factors. What I tried to say was it didn’t drive the decision,” Delany said after Tuesday’s announcement. “The decision was driven on a much more macro level.”

The moves comes months after talks between the Big Ten and the Pac-12 for enhanced scheduling — mainly for foot-ball — fell apart. Delany, as recently as Tuesday, has said this would have been an opportu-nity to expand the conference’s footprint without the addition of

another team.But now Big Ten student-ath-

letes will have to travel farther; College Park, Md., and Piscat-away, N.J., become the longest distances from Champaign at 712 and 808 miles, respectively. Penn State was the previous long at 613 miles.

Fans on social media have said they’d prefer new division align-ments to be based on geographi-cal locations. But Delany said there have been no discussions among the athletic directors, after dismissing an ESPN report that said Illinois would likely move to the Legends Division.

The Terrapins, who are found-ing members of the ACC since its inception in 1953, are 4-44-1 against Big Ten schools in foot-ball and have never played Illi-nois. Maryland and Penn State used to play regularly; the Nit-tany Lions lead that series 35-1-

1. The Terrapins have been up and down in the last decade, as their last bowl appearance was in 2010.

The Scarlet Knights have less of a history with their current conference, competing in the Big East in football since 1991 (1995 for all sports). They are 9-26 all-time against the Big Ten in football, including splitting two home-and-home meetings with Illinois in 2005 and 2006. After years of football futility, including a 1-11 2001 season, the Scarlet Knights have appeared in six bowl games since 2005, winning five of those.

For these two schools, this decision goes beyond football. Both institutions have been forced to cut varsity programs because of financial woes in their athletic department.

Maryland in July eliminated seven of its previously 27 teams,

including men’s cross-county, men’s tennis, women’s polo and men’s and women’s swimming. But now the university will begin the process of reinstat-ing some of those teams.

“No future Maryland athletic director will ever have to look in young men’s and young wom-en’s eyes and say you can’t play here anymore,” Maryland ath-letic director Kevin Anderson said Monday.

Rutgers in 2006 was forced to cut some varsity sports, includ-ing men’s tennis and men’s crew, but Pernetti said the ath-letic department “will focus first and foremost on making the 24 sports we have here as healthy as we possibly can.”

Darshan can be reached at patel174@dailyillini.com and @drshnpatel.

Jamal Collier contributed to this report.

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Bertrand’s valuable contribu-tions spilled over to the second half, which forced Groce to inter-rupt his substitution patterns in order to keep Bertrand on the floor. Starting point guard Tra-cy Abrams bore the brunt of the bench time during Bertrand’s emergence. Abrams, Illinois’ second leading scorer, had zero points, zero assists and three turn-overs at halftime and played just four minutes during the second half. Groce said that he was rid-ing the hot hand with Bertrand and fully expects Sunday’s per-formance from Abrams to be an anomaly.

“We wouldn’t be sitting in the situation we’re in without Tracy Abrams,” Groce said. “I know he’s disappointed. I’d be shocked if he’s not better on Wednesday night (against Geor-gia Tech).”

When both teams exchanged baskets in the deciding minutes of the game — the lead changed 12 times throughout the game and four times in the final minute — Groce leaned on his seniors, and those seniors responded.

Griffey scored all of his 13 points in the second half, while Paul added 12 of his 13 points after halftime. The seniors persevered with Griffey scoring in the paint and from outside, and Paul hitting crucial shots to grab or maintain a second-half lead.

“Seniors die hard,” Groce said. “I thought our seniors and Ber-trand made big plays.”

Thomas can be reached at bruch2@dailyillini.com and @ThomasBruch.

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Illinois' Brandon Paul attempts a layup against Gardner-Webb at Assembly Hall on Sunday. Paul, D.J. Richardson, Tyler Griffey and Joseph Bertrand scored 13 points.

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Volleyball misses postseason by a setTeam ends season on a 3-match winning streak

Big Ten will have 7 squads in NCAA Championships

Seven Big Ten teams will be represented in the NCAA volleyball championships this year — tied for the most number of representatives of any conference. Sunday’s selection also marks the third time in the last four seasons that Big Ten has had at least seven teams in the tournament.

Conference champion Penn State earned the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament, which starts this weekend on campuses and culminates with the semifinals and final in Louisville, Ky. In their 32nd NCAA tournament, the Nittany Lions will host first- and second-round matches of the West

Lafayette Regional. Penn State finished with a 19-1 conference record, which included a five-set victory and a sweep of Illinois.

Nebraska and Minnesota also earned top-16 seeds, at No. 4 and No. 8, respectively. Both squads finished with 15-5 records in the Big Ten. The Cornhuskers swept the Illini in the two teams’ only meeting this year on Oct. 21. And the Golden Gophers, led by U.S. women’s team coach Hugh McCutcheon, also completed 3-0 sweeps of Illinois in two meetings.

Illinois did not qualify for the NCAA tournament this year after advancing to the national championship match against UCLA last year in San Antonio.