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BY CHARLOTTE COLLINSSTAFF WRITER
The family of Vicente Mundo is calling his memo-rial service a “celebration” of his life.
Saturday’s 10 a.m. memo-rial will be held at Curie Metropolitan High School in Chicago, which Mundo attended. His sister, Julie-ta LaMalfa, said the fami-ly is still working through logistics but is aiming to have it this weekend to give friends from Champaign and family from Mexi-co a chance to attend the memorial.
“We’ve been very lucky that the high school has
offered to host it,” LaMalfa said. “All the teachers have been passing around pic-tures of him. He was real-ly involved with the school, so a lot of the teachers still remember him fondly.”
An account was creat-ed on GoFundMe on Tues-day, asking for $5,000 to host a funeral procession. By press time, more than $7,000 was raised. LaMal-fa said the family will be donating the rest of the funds to LostNMissing Inc, an organization that helps families find miss-ing persons.
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Governor Bruce Rauner delivered his State of the State address Wednesday, outlining his policy agen-da, which he described as “bold, aggressive and comprehensive.”
“Today marks a new beginning for Illinois ,” Rauner said. “Last Novem-ber, voters made it clear they want a bipartisan gov-ernment. They want a gov-ernment where people come together to solve problems and get things done.”
Rauner’s address focused largely on job creation and business retention, tax reform, workers’ compen-sation, improving educa-tion quality and shrinking government bureaucracy. Absent from the address, however, was any mention
of Illinois’ ongoing pension crisis.
To foster job growth and competition in Illinois, Rauner said workers’ com-pensation, unemployment insurance and liability costs must be restructured to reduce costs on business-es while still providing fair treatment for employees.
“Working together, we can create a common sense system that protects and fairly compensates those who are injured on the job, while also assuring that both public and private employ-ers are not overburdened by an irrational system,” Raun-er said.
Rauner also advocated for diversity quotas for public-ly-contracted unions and the creation of a Minority Enter-prise Small Business Invest-ment Program to encourage
minority entrepreneurs to create new businesses.
On the issue of state min-imum wage, Rauner voiced his support for increasing the hourly rate to $10 an hour by 25 cents annually over the next seven years
Gov. Rauner’s “Turn-around Agenda”Here are some of the policy proposals Rauner hopes to accomplish in his fi rst term. To view the full plan, visit the story online.
Economic Growth and Jobs Package- Pass a phased-in minimum wage increase of 25 cents every year for seven years- Restructure the motor fuel tax to appropriately invest in infrastructure- Create a Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Program
to assist minority entrepreneurs in startups throughout Illinois
Student and Career Success Package- Increase state support for pre-K-12 education, especially for low-income families- Initiate statewide task force to analyze the challenges of teenage pregnancy and the loss of two-parent families- Eliminate unnecessary testing and institute a rigorous K-12 student growth measure, using ACT and other national metrics
Taxpayer Empowerment and Government Reform Package- Preserve a fair and fl at income tax by protecting low-income families with an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit, and provide additional exemption relief to working families- Pursue permanent pension relief through a constitutional amendment- Reform the criminal code to ensure sentences (in proportion to) the severity of the crime, and reduce penalties for non-violent offenses
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BY SARAH FOSTERSTAFF WRITER
Cardboard boxes will line the sidewalks of downtown Champaign on Friday, as pub-lic fi gures and Champaign-Urbana citizens spend “One Winter Night” outside to sim-ulate utter homelessness.
“What can be more of a statement than that?” said Melany Jackson, executive director of C-U at Home. “Cardboard boxes are the stereotype of homelessness, and being downtown where there are businesses and nor-mal foot-traffi c, it’s defi nitely a talking point.”
Jackson said a forecast-ed low of 32 degrees is not enough to stop the event’s fourth year, as well as the lessons that it teaches.
“The fi rst year I stayed in
a box, it was miserable: 38 degrees, rained the entire night and sustained winds. (I) went home; took a hot shower. Then, climbing in that bed, tears just hit that pillow, knowing that people don’t have that,” Jackson said. “If it’s colder, we’ll shut things down at midnight, but that says something. What would
you do if you didn’t have a place to go?”
Though the freezing condi-tions are expected to return this year, Jackson is bringing new additions to the event.
This year, the event will sponsor new presentations about homelessness from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Cham-paign City Council Cham-
bers , which are viewable by participants and the general public. There, displays from various community organi-zations will also be available.
Along the streets, box-dwellers will have homeless-ness fact sheets to handout, regarding C-U at Home’s var-
One Winter Night 2015 schedule5:30 p.m. - “Law Enforcement and Homelessness,”Urbana Police Department6 p.m. - “Mental Health and Homelessness,” Community Elements
6:30 p.m. - “Children/Youth and Homelessness,” Crisis Nursery and Roundhouse7 p.m. - “Sheltering vs. Transitional Housing,” TIMES Center7:30 p.m. - “One Man’s Story from Sheltered to Sheltering Others,” C-U
at Home8 p.m. - “Panhandling and Homelessness,” City of Champaign and Partnering Against Homelessness8:30 p.m. - “Women and Homelessness,” Courage Connection
Learning the harsh reality of homelessness BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINI
The men’s gymnastics team performs their skit for the annual Jock Jams event, held at Foellinger Auditorium on Wednesday. Jock Jams is a student-athlete talent show that raises money for charities.
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No American author has built a reputation as impeccable as Harper Lee’s, and she did it with just one book: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a powerful story of racial injustice in the pre-civil-rights South. Still one of America’s most beloved books, it has sold more than 40 million copies since its 1960 publication, with 400,000 copies purchased just last year.
Lee, now 88, never published anoth-er book; she lived quietly in New York and her hometown of Monroeville, Ala-bama, and rarely spoke to the press.
On Tuesday came the news that shocked the publishing world: Lee has a second book, “Go Set a Watch-man,” which will be published in July by Harper, a division of HarperCol-lins. In the new book, Lee’s original heroine, Scout, returns home 20 years after the events that took place in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and reminisces with her father, Atticus Finch.
“Go Set a Watchman” is not a new
work. In fact, it was written about a year before the earliest draft of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” according to Lee biographer Charles J. Shields.
Completing her first novel took an enormous effort. “She worked for years on what became ‘To Kill a Mock-ingbird,’” says Marja Mills, a report-er who was granted a rare interview with Lee that led to a friendship in the mid-2000s.
“Both her agent, Maurice Crain, and Tay Hohoff, her editor, helped her in deciding on just what the focus would be.” Lee redrafted the book three times.
HarperCollins has said that there will not be a similar effort with “Go Set a Watchman.”
A representative confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that “there will not be any editing to the book, as it is not necessary.”
Harper Lee had a stroke in 2007, which forced her to give up her New York apartment and eventually move into an assisted-living facility apart from her sister. According to numer-
ous reports, her health has not been good. By the time “Go Set a Watch-man” is published, she will be 89.
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and restructuring the pay-ment of public employees to emphasize “quality of work” rather than “longev-ity of work”.
Illinois’ treatment of unions must also change, Rauner said, stating his support for barring politi-cal contributions and lobby-ing efforts from unions with a state contract.
The governor also said local governments should be allowed to create “employee empowerment zones” where workers could decide for themselves whether or not to join a union.
“Employee empowerment zones will increase jobs for residents, increase econom-ic activity for local busi-nesses and generate more tax dollars for local govern-ments,” Rauner said.
State Sen. Scott Bennett, D-52, said he was skeptical that the governor’s stance on
unions would bring the Gen-eral Assembly any closer to bipartisan compromise.
“Some of the language he was using still seems like he’s campaigning rath-er than being the governor for the whole state,” Ben-nett said. Rauner addressed the need to reduce the state property tax, which for the average family has increased nearly 33 per-cent over the past decade, he said.
Implementing these reforms, Rauner said, would be the first step in reforming Illinois’ tax system, which he described as “antiquated ... whose base is too narrow.”
Rauner called on the Gen-eral Assembly to approve a constitutional amendment to establish term limits for Illinois politicians to be on the ballot for the 2016 gen-eral election.
The governor also addressed the criminal justice system, as he called for continued investment of community-based reform
programs for convict-ed offenders and the need to hire more correctional officers.
Education was a major focus of Rauner’s address, as he emphasized the need to increase the level of support the state puts into technical and vocational training pro-grams in high schools and community colleges. He continued to implore the legislature to support his Student and Career Suc-cess Package, which could lift limits on publicly-funded charter schools.
In a statement, State Rep. Carol Ammons, D-103, dis-agreed with the governor’s favor of charter schools.
“Our public school system is an invaluable resource that we must adequately fund and support,” Ammons said. “Our teachers need the salaries and classroom support necessary to be successful and diverting funding to private charter schools and attacking the teacher’s unions are not the
way to ensure that success.”To further increase the
quality of education Illi-nois students will receive, Rauner said, the education bureaucracy and number of standardized tests must be reduced.
“It’s now or never for Illi-nois. It’s time to act,” said Rauner.
Professor emeritus of Political Science at Uni-versity of Illinois, Spring-field, Kent Redfield said that as far as State of the State addresses go, Governor Rauner’s was far from the worst, but failed to meet its full potential, particularly on the issue of Illinois’ bud-get crisis.
“If we don’t fix the budget, nothing else matters,” he said. “It was fine, it wasn’t a terrible speech, but I don’t know if it moved things along very much, and that’s a wasted opportunity.”
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BY ALI BRABOYSTAFF WRITER
All the clicking and tap-ping of keys to keep up with notes during lecture may not be worth the effort.
While some professors and students might have different preferences on the best method to take notes, research shows that notes by hand may be more effective.
A study about the differ-ence between note-taking on a laptop versus by hand, published in April 2014, found that summarizing lec-ture information long-hand leads to better retainment of information than typing out a lecture word for word.
The research was con-ducted by Pam Mueller, of Princeton University, and Daniel Oppenheimer, of University of Califor-nia, Los Angeles, and titled “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking.”
The pair conducted three studies using a total of 327 student participants from Princeton University and the University of Califor-nia, Los Angeles.
In the first study, students were asked to watch a lec-ture on a screen and were told to take notes how they
normally would by giving them notebooks and lap-tops to choose from. The students were then tested on both factual and concep-tual information 30 minutes after the lecture. In the sec-ond study, the researchers told laptop users to “take notes in your own words and don’t just write down word-for-word what the speaker is saying,” and the students were tested 30 min-utes after the lecture once more. The third study had students view a lecture with their preferred method of note-taking and returned a week later to be tested on the information. One group (with laptop and non-laptop users) was allowed to study the material before the test while the other was not.
The researchers found that using laptops for note-taking can have negative effects on educational assessments even when the laptop is being used to take notes faster. The students using laptops for notes did worse when answering con-ceptual questions.
Omoyele Ajayi, junior in Media, said she gener-ally uses a laptop for note-taking, but added that she remembers more informa-tion when she takes notes by hand.
“When I take notes by my laptop, I usually cannot retain the information as much. I have to keep look-ing over my notes,” she said.
She said sometimes when the class is longer than 50 minutes, she gets distracted and visits websites, such as Facebook.
Ajayi said there can be positives and negatives to both forms of note taking: She can take notes faster on a laptop, but taking notes by hand during lecture pushes students to pick out the most important information.
Cynthia Steward, lectur-er of accountancy, said it depends on the course, but normally she does not allow technology in her class-rooms for notes unless there is an activity that requires the Internet.
“I like to have a very interactive classroom and so my experience is that students are distracted by screens,” Steward said.
Although she normally does not allow technology in the classroom, she is not against it; in her experi-ence, writing notes by hand has helped her the most with learning.
“I will do things when I am taking notes by hand, like underlining or maybe drawing something to show
the relationship between something, and for some reason, I think it connects with my brain better,” she said.
Dennis Baron, professor of English, said he does not have restrictions on tech-nology students use to take notes in his classrooms. Although he notices stu-dents not paying attention in class, he said the issue is not necessarily technology related.
Baron said he frequently uses technology in his dai-
ly life and rarely writes by hand anymore.
“I depend totally on my computer — on my cell phone, on my tablet, in class when I’m giving presenta-tions — pretty much the whole time,” he said. “I don’t see why students shouldn’t be allowed to do it too.”
Katherine Flowers, digi-tal literacies coordinator for the Undergraduate Rhetoric Program, said the only rule she has about taking notes with technology in her class is to not disrupt others.
She said taking notes with paper could be more bene-ficial for some areas, such as drawing or math, but she believes typing works best for a lot of people who are just writing.
Overall, she said taking notes is more crucial than how people take notes.
“I think college is a good time for students to figure out what works best for them for taking notes.”
Ali can be reached at [email protected].
Research finds notes by hand is more effective
ious services, as well as the homelessness issues occur-ring citywide.
“We’re placing a much big-ger emphasis on education this year,” Jackson said. “It’s to raise awareness — that firsthand, loose simulation of homelessness, of being out-side overnight in the winter and the discomfort.”
The event, however, doesn’t just hope to edu-cate others. It’s the prima-ry income for C-U at Home. Jackson explained that, this year, the organization hopes to raise $100,000. To raise this goal, the organization calls upon each box-dwell-er to raise $1,000 as well as various businesses and members of the community.
“We are asking for much more money — we’ve got The Phoenix and the full-time employees,” Jackson said. “The $100,000 is bud-get, is sustaining, is helping this thing exist another year. Extra (money) could provide a lot of things that we can’t do: (hiring) another part-time employee to keep The Phoenix open more hours, more times, more days.”
Over the years, One Win-ter Night has touched and inspired members of the
community — one is 12-year-old Peter Gould, a student at St. John’s Lutheran School. Gould wanted to ease the misconceptions about home-lessness when he decided to volunteer at the very first event in 2011.
“I want to help the home-less. I want to help their conditions,” said Gould, an Urbana resident. “They’re still nice people even though they’re homeless. If we could get more people to do this event, we could get more people off the streets.”
After learning that her son wanted to spend an entire winter night outside in a cardboard box, Tanya Gould eventually agreed. She didn’t just want to teach lessons to the public, as Peter did; she wanted to teach a lesson to her son about compassion.
“I want him to have a love for other people,” Tan-ya said.
For Terry Strom, a pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Urbana and a two-year participant, the event pro-vided invaluable lessons.
“It was eye-awakening, being out in a box the whole night,” Strom said. “One of the first realizations I had was that homeless people are a lot stronger in many ways than many of us, being able to stay outside and adapt to
the climates. I thought that most of us could survive one night, but I knew that I had a warm shower and a soft bed waiting for me at home. To do that night, after night, after night? My life changed.”
There are still ways for Champaign-Urbana resi-dents and students at the University to get involved. Jackson said the event still needs volunteers, who can serve in two-hour shifts. For those who want to take the challenge and spend the night in a cardboard box this winter, Jackon said, C-U at Home “will have a box for them, (if they) think they can raise $1,000.”
Donations will be accepted until Feb. 20.
There are a matter of les-sons that Jackson wants One Winter Night participants to learn — awareness, humil-ity and compassion, among others. But along the way, Jackson has also learned an important lesson about her organization.
“It makes me feel like peo-ple from the community are supporting us, and they want us to keep doing what we’re doing,” Jackson said. “People believe in the event, and they believe in C-U at Home.”
Sarah can be reached at [email protected].
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old who was holding a toy gun.
Wednesday’s announce-ment makes Cleveland the latest city to deploy body cameras as a transparency measure following a contro-versial police killing in the last year.
WASHINGTON — Pri-vate-sector hiring cooled last month, with employers adding a still-solid 213,000 net new jobs, payroll firm Automatic Data Processing said Wednesday.
The figure, which is a closely watched labor mar-ket indicator, was down
from an upwardly revised 253,000 the previous month. December’s job gains orig-inally were estimated at 241,000.
Economists had forecast that the ADP report would show the private sector add-ed 220,000 net new jobs last month.
Bernice Gordon, who delighted, bedeviled and sometimes outraged afi-cionados of the crossword puzzle during a six-decade career unusual not only for its longevity but the artful-ness of her brain-teasing constructions, died Thurs-day at her Philadelphia home. She was 101.
The cause was heart disease, said her son, Jim Lanard.
Gordon’s first crossword was published in The New York Times in 1952. Over the next decades she creat-ed hundreds of puzzles for major newspapers across the country.
CAIRO — In the second harsh verdict this week to arise from a mass tribunal, a Cairo court Wednesday sen-tenced a prominent rights activist and 229 others to life in prison.
The sentences, which can be appealed, are by far the longest jail terms handed down to non-Islamist oppo-nents of the government. The case also points to what
amounts to a systematic crushing of mainly secular figures who played key roles in Egypt’s 2011 revolution that toppled longtime dicta-tor Hosni Mubarak.
A parallel crackdown on Islamist supporters of oust-ed President Mohammed Morsi has left hundreds of people dead and tens of thou-sands imprisoned.
Monsignor Romero to be beati"ed, overcoming conservative opposition
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis recognized Rome-ro’s martyrdom Tues-day, clearing the way for his beatification after the process was blocked for years. People recognized as “blessed” by the Vati-can are one step away from sainthood.
“Certainly, (the beatifi-cation) will be before the end of the year, not beyond that, possibly within a few
months — so as soon as pos-sible,” said Monsignor Vin-cenzo Paglia, the cleric who led the campaign to have Romero beatified.
Romero’s cause was obstructed because of his supposed Marxist lean-ings and connections with liberation theology, a mili-tant leftist Latin American movement from the 1960s and 1970s that rankled Vati-can hierarchies.
Jordanians rally in revulsion to Islamic State’s slaying of pilot
AMMAN, Jordan — The gruesome slaying of a Jorda-nian military pilot appeared Wednesday to have stiffened national resolve against Islamic State, the militant group that posted a video showing the captive being burned alive inside a met-al cage.
The grisly killing of Lt. Moaz Kasasbeh, 26, has sparked outrage and demands for revenge here in Jordan, a key U.S. ally in
counter-terrorism efforts tar-geting Islamic State and oth-er militant groups.
The pilot was captured in December when his F-16 fighter jet crashed over north-ern Syria while he was on a mission as part of the U.S.-led bombing campaign against Islamic State.
A wave of nationalism seems to have overtaken the country, along with revulsion for Islamic State, which took responsibility for the slaying.
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LaMalfa said her family has received an outpour-ing of support from her brother’s tae kwon do stu-dio, where she said he was like a teacher, as well as La Liga Latinoamericana, where he played soccer.
“Anything above and beyond what’s needed we are going to donate to Lost-NMissing just because all of the support we got,” said LaMalfa. “What we went through was so painful that if we can help anyone else out in any way, I think it’s very important to do so.”
LaMalfa also said she received a phone call from Chancellor Phyllis Wise, who said Mundo’s teach-ers have been sharing good memories of their student.
“The fact that they’re sharing stories about him, I mean, I’m hoping no one ever has to go through this, but the first thing I would advise them to do is to share stories, because it’s so beautiful reliving some of those experienc-es through peoples’ memo-ries,” LaMalfa said.
Charlotte can be reached at cjcolli2 @dailyillini.com.
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A few weeks ago, our fam-ily friend from California called us, letting us in on
her town gossip: Several kids in her son’s school were sent home because their parents refused to get them the mea-sles-mumps-rubella vaccine, simply because they didn’t believe in it.
Because measles is an extremely contagious respira-tory disease that can lead to pneumonia, ear infections and even death, my mom and I were baffled and wrote this story off as crazy parenting. Howev-er, it seems that this is becom-ing a more popular stance in America, which is increasingly alarming.
Measles had been termed as an eliminated disease in the United States just in the year 2000 due to the prevalence of the measles vaccine. That is why it is frightening that just this past month, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 102 people from 14 states contracted measles, a number that has still been growing.
What is even more alarming is that despite the resurfacing cases of measles, many parents are still choosing not to vac-cinate their children. Such is
the case in my family friend’s story under the same pretext: They simply chose not to sub-scribe to success of the vac-cine, but instead, in dramatic and unfounded “side effects” they believe in. They even went as far as claiming that all their child needs is a healthy life-style and natural immunity.
Multitudes of Americans are joining the anti-vaccine move-ment, which may be turning this nation’s health victory into health defeat.
Much of the anti-vaccinators’ cries are based upon misinfor-mation. After the scare of Dr. Andrew Wakefield claiming that the MMR vaccine would lead to autism, many Ameri-cans were fearful for their own children and strayed away from the vaccine. However, later research found that Dr. Wakefield’s work was dishonest and fraudulent.
Even now, doctors are encouraging their patients that the adverse effects that many fear are extremely rare. The most drastic side effects doctors have seen so far have ranged from a fever to a mild rash. The mild rash only occurs in about 1 percent of those who take the vaccine.
Even more so, the vaccine itself is extremely effective: the MMR vaccine has shown that more than 95 percent of the people who receive a single dose will develop immunity, and if not, full immunity will likely be developed after the
second dose. At the University of Illinois,
each student must show proof of receiving the MMR vaccina-tion before entering the school starting freshman year.
While our campus’s health staff seems to be aware of the consequences this disease car-ries, many misinformed family members, friends and perhaps even neighbors do not.
Parents are weighing the side effects against what they think is a virtually nonexis-tent disease, which is there-fore leaving children and even young adults across the nation defenseless and at risk of con-tracting it.
They could not be more wrong.
Measles infects 90 percent of people who are exposed to the disease. This contagious disease and its ability to both sicken and kill children who have not been vaccinated is what I think makes vaccination so vital.
This past December, after the outbreak in Disneyland, 20 children were infected. It then spread to the general pub-lic. It seems clear to me that it should not take children suffer-ing to convince people to follow basic vaccination recommenda-tions from physicians who have already found the vaccine safe and incredibly effective.
While there should be a bal-ance between personal free-dom and public safety, I’m not sure the current balance is
the correct one. Before we see parents making the decision whether or not to vaccinate their children, and children we might come in contact with — even just in passing — we need to look at all aspects of medi-cine and research to reach an informed decision.
Every adult should think twice before putting off a mea-sles vaccine. After all, there is no justifiable reason for putting innocent children and others at risk for the choices that we make.
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation stated it best when questioned in an inter-view about the effectiveness of the vaccine. “We’ve forgotten what measles deaths look like. We’ve forgotten ... the scourges they used to be. But in Africa, the women know death in their children and they want their children to survive ... We’re incredibly lucky to have that technology, and we ought to take advantage of it.”
It is now time that, as a nation, we are not overwhelmed by so many choices yet choose to not even make one; we shouldn’t be surrounded by so much valid, scientific informa-tion yet choose to become and remain misinformed. Instead, let’s end this measles epidemic, one informed choice at a time.
Kaanan is a freshman in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].
College serves as a sort of bridge, spanning rough-ly four years. It is rife
with easily accessible social-ization, opportunities and final chances to savor the last half-decade of freedom you have before the overwhelm-ing presence of bills, mort-gages and finding-wrinkles-in-strange-places takes over.
And I have, for the most part, enjoyed my college experience thus far; I look at the memories and grade point average improvements I have made these past few years with much satisfaction.
Sometimes, though, the aforementioned rapid party-socialization culture of col-lege doesn’t always quite appeal to me. If job applica-tions and standardized test registration materials were to feature a “Check ‘I’ for Introvert, and ‘E’ for Extro-vert” section, I would with-out hesitation fill in the “I” bubble.
First, let’s get one thing straight: Introverts don’t hate socialization, just as extro-verts don’t hate their time spent alone. To be introvert-ed simply means that one feels most energized, fulfilled and stimulated by attention directed inward, rather than outward through socializa-tion, larger-sized crowds, etcetera.
So what’s an introvert to do
when they reach the colle-giate age, and they suddenly find themselves surrounded by a lot of these hyper-social circumstances?
I don’t want you to get me wrong: I do enjoy engaging in weekend shenanigans, and it’s not as though I am reclu-sive to an Emily Dickinson level. It’s just that more often than not, the idea of a week-end “rager” consists of kick-ing back in the comforts of my own enclosed space, mind and creativity. And through a combination of trial-and-error and personal reflection, I’ve learned that this is com-pletely alright.
Although college may at times be a completely differ-ent experience for introverts, it’s by no means a lesser one.
Upon recommendation, I recently watched a TED talk by Susan Cain entitled “The Power of Introverts.” Cain, a former Wall Street lawyer, also published a book under a similar title. Although the crux of her speech rested upon the place of introverts in the professional sphere, I believe many of the same principles and ideas may be applied to the academic sphere, as well as to other students wishing to better understand their introverted friends and classmates.
Engaging in casual, small-talk-oriented situations has never really appealed to me, in part because I tend to lean toward the more awkward side of the social spectrum, and in part because often when I’m at a party there’s always this lingering part
of me that really just wants to get back to the William Faulkner novel and “Twin Peaks” episode that waits for me back home in my room.
As a freshman in college I didn’t understand this con-stant socialization and chat-ter, and I didn’t understand the appeal of running from door to door of sororities so that they might make me part of their group. I didn’t under-stand the constant pressure to be surrounded by so many others.
For a long time I felt that something was wrong with me, that I’d never be able to create the “memories to last a lifetime” type slogans that formally and informal-ly accompany visions of col-lege life.
In the professional sphere as well as in college environ-ments, introverts often feel external coercion to abandon their inner-focused ways; as Cain puts it, she felt pres-sured to believe her “quiet and introverted style of being was not necessarily the right way to go.”
I’ve encountered these feel-ings myself: a Friday night spent in to read true crime novels and finish up a short story sometimes leaves me with feelings of guilt — for not participating, for not being part of the world, for not “putting myself out there.”
But myself and other intro-verts ought not to feel this way. While the unavoidable presence of social butterfly-esque demeanors may seem to permeate campus life, it’s
completely acceptable to for-go these facets of college life to feel comfortable and happy in our own way.
“The key, then, to maxi-mizing our talents,” explains Cain, “is for us all to put our-selves in the zone of stimula-tion that is best for us.”
Cain believes that contem-porary learning environ-ments are organized to cater to the needs of extroverted individuals, placing heavy emphasis on group work, and a gregarious, highly contrib-uting demeanor.
A University student might see this in the “pod-like” organization of desks in classrooms, on the heav-ily weighted participation grades printed intimidatingly on class syllabuses.
Such extroverted imple-mentations in our primary environments may suggest that being more quiet and reserved must be seen as a problem and a weakness.
It’s not, though. My fairly regular depar-
tures toward solitude and internal creativity might not bring more socialization to my lunch table, and it might not make for universally “liked” Facebook posts, but at the end of the day it brings me feelings of happiness, ful-fillment and worth.
Although our extroverted college environment might not seem like a place where introverts can run wild and free, it can be if you make it.
Carly is a junior in FAA. She can be reached at [email protected].
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On a campus with more than 40,000 students, it can be chal-
lenging to accommodate the needs of every single individ-ual. We come from different backgrounds, different coun-tries, different cultures, have different learning styles, dif-ferent physical needs, so on and so forth. With such a large campus community, it would be borderline ridiculous to ex-pect every single concern of every single student to be ad-dressed, but where and when we can make changes we should, so that we can ensure a more comfortable living and learning environment.
Recently, an email was sent to students living in Allen Res-idence Hall with a survey ask-ing if they would be interest-ed in a trial period for gender neutral bathrooms. The idea was received from students living at Allen Hall, along with students from the LGBT Re-source Center on campus.
If survey results show pos-itive feedback, Universi-ty Housing will flip one bath-room on one floor of Allen Hall to a gender neutral bathroom for one week in February. Stu-dents who feel uncomfortable will have the option to use dif-ferent bathrooms on adjacent floors. After the pilot, Univer-sity Housing will consult with focus groups to discuss the program and include long-term gender inclusive options.
Current University policy states that whenever signifi-cant construction is done on a building, there has to be at least one gender neutral bath-room placed in the building, according to Stephanie Skora, the president of the Campus Union for Trans* Equality and Support.
When the University is able to acknowledge the needs of students and is able to work in unison with campus groups and organizations, it is just an-other step forward in improv-ing our quality of life here, which we appreciate.
Gender neutral bathrooms can provide more equality and comfort for a variety of stu-dents on campus, something that is important in promoting a welcoming environment. As a University community, we must continually make efforts toward inclusion and we must take into consideration the views and concerns of those on this campus.
While we are still waiting to see the results of the sur-vey, we hope the trial program runs. Gender and gender iden-tity do not always fit into the structured binary that we of-ten see in our society, and a chance to accommodate the needs of some students by ap-proving gender neutral bath-rooms would be worthwhile. For a campus so focused on diversity and inclusion, we should continue to spread the Inclusive Illinois movement and allow for the concerns of all students to be addressed and allow for their voices to be heard.
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that wasn’t what he was expecting.
“My expectation as an American consumer was that I would be sent some-thing that’s retail ready,” he said. “There’s a lot of work I do between India and some-one buying an instrument from me to make it a good, solid instrument.”
Each instrument takes between two to four hours to prepare, and Dillon runs through an extensive check-list in his mind with each one. A common problem is when the instrument makes a buzzing sound, meaning the reeds need to be touched up. With the help of pliers and filing off edges of the reeds, the buzzing disap-pears. With two reeds per key and 39 total keys, the process can be tedious.
“I just thought what I would be doing is ordering
some of these things, selling them on the side on eBay, and it would be a nice little side thing,” Dillon said. “I didn’t think it would actu-ally be my full-time job five years later, but it’s fun.”
Michael Cohen, founder of the Dattatreya Kirtan Insti-tute, has been one of Dillon’s clients since the beginning. He refers all of his students to him, he said.
“I have a lot of students, and when they have a bad harmonium, it’s like trying to ride a bike with a flat tire or two flat tires,” Cohen said. “It’s frustrating because there are a lot of bad har-moniums in the world.”
Cohen has purchased har-moniums from around the country, but never in the Midwest before meeting Dillon.
“What I think is exciting about Nic is he’s blazing a trail in his own Bhava brand of harmoniums, which sound great and play great and are at a really good price,” Cohen
said. “It’s admirable what he’s done over the years, and it’s really exciting to see the contribution he’s making.”
Dillon began his own line of harmoniums called Bha-va, which he is working directly with the manufac-turer in order to implement his numerous ideas on how to improve the instrument. He would also like to make sound files for pianos, such as when a keyboard can sudden-ly emit the sounds of a trum-pet or drums with the push of a button.
“There’s just some kind of magic in an instrument that you take these pieces of wood and metal and push air through them, and it makes a sound that’s beautiful to our ears,” Dillon said. “There’s no two that are perfectly alike, but I think my job is to bring them up to a standard where they’re the best they can be.”
Brittney can be reached at banadle2 @dailyillini.com.
planetarium itself, is to pro-vide educational and enter-taining programming for the community.
“Obviously with the Uni-versity here, there’s a lot of expertise in this communi-ty, but does the public have access to that?” he said. “We sort of consider that part of our mission: to act as a con-duit between the scientific community and the general public. Even though the plan-
etarium is really known for astronomy and putting the stars up there, we like to be known as a science educa-tion facility.”
Admission to any of the World of Science lectures is $1 per person.
Following the lecture is a planetarium show called “Super Volcanoes” about vol-canic activity on and off the planet, which begins at 8 p.m. and lasts for about 45 min-utes. It is a full-dome show, meaning it is presented on a hemispheric dome that sur-rounds the audience. Tick-
ets for the shows are $5 for adults and $4 for students, seniors and kids.
“I would highly recom-mend the Super Volcanoes show,” Angel said. “It is very well-produced. I think it would be exciting for peo-ple of all ages. It gives us a good idea of the fact that our Earth is not a static ball rotating around the sun. It is very active and very violent at times.”
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — As Lothair, a white Sheltie therapy dog, makes his way in to United States Air Force Hospital Langley in Hamp-ton, Va., for his weekly vis-it to meet with patients, he walks tall and proud into the building and is immediate-ly greeted with a hug from a receptionist at the front desk.
Lothair continues walk-ing down the hall, carrying himself like royalty, appro-priate for a dog named after a French monarch. From the time the dog was a pup-py, he had a proud, dignified air about him, his owner, Hampton resident Melanie Paul said.
“He was beautiful,” she said. “He was like a king.”
Watching the way Lothair moves and interacts with patients at the hospital, it is not obvious that Lothair has been deaf since birth.
“Deafness is an invisible disability,” she said via email.
Lothair began serving as a therapy dog — providing emotional support to patients in hospitals, nursing homes and other settings — several years ago.
He is registered with New Jersey-based Therapy Dogs
International, which has dogs registered in all 50 states and Canada. Along with tests required by the organiza-tion to become a certified therapy dog, deaf dogs must also undergo a startle test. During the test, someone will come up behind the dog and pet and touch its rear quar-ters, and the dog must not be startled or react negatively, TDI’s website states.
Paul has had therapy dogs for more than 15 years. She started a pet therapy pro-gram at Sentara CarePlex Hospital in Hampton more than a decade ago and started the same program at Lang-ley Air Force Base about five years ago.
She usually brings Lothair and another therapy dog to Langley once or twice a week and also makes regular visits to local hospitals and nurs-ing homes.
Paul decided to acquire a deaf dog as she prepared to retire from Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in 2009 after a 30-year career in education, intending to use the dog to help deaf children improve their literacy skills, she said.
She ended up taking in Lothair as a 3-month-old pup-py. Both of his parents are Blue Merle Sheltie champi-on show dogs, and breeding them together increases the likelihood at least one of their puppies will be deaf or deaf and blind, she said.
Paul, who became deaf at
12 after incorrectly being diagnosed with an illness and being prescribed the antibi-otic streptomycin, said there tends to be some hesitation among some deaf people to have a deaf dog, as they end up relying on the dogs to hear for them. However, because her husband as well as her other dogs can hear, that wasn’t an issue for her.
“In fact, maybe because of the affinity that the pup-py would also be deaf, ‘just like me,’ I enthusiastically looked forward to the expe-rience of adopting and rais-ing a deaf dog,” Paul wrote in a 2011 article about Lothair published in Sheltie Paceset-ter magazine.
When she didn’t see results from traditional obedience school, Paul taught Lothair American Sign Language, and also created her own signs, applying techniques used to teach deaf children, Paul explained in the article.
In the course of train-ing Lothair, her other dogs learned the signs. too.
During a trip to Langley on a recent Wednesday, Lothair paid a visit to Rebecca Ben-nett-Jordan, who underwent a hysterectomy that morning and was waiting to see when she’d be able to go home.
Bennett-Jordan, who has three cats, said Lothair’s visit was unexpected but welcome.
“I love it,” she said as she petted Lothair in her bed. “I’m an animal person.”
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JUDITH LOWERY TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICELothair, a deaf therapy dog that owner Melanie Paul takes to Langley AFB weekly, waits to be petted by Rebecca Bennett-Jordan as Steven Jordan watches on July 7 in Hampton, Va.
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BY ABRAR AL-HEETISTAFF WRITER
Parkland College’s William M. Staerkel Planetarium is per-haps best known for its shows on the skies and solar system .
But on Friday, it will display Park-land instructor Julie Angel’s recent ascent up Mount St. Helens, one of the mightiest and most explosive volca-noes in the United States.
Angel will be presenting on her own expertise as the college’s earth science coordinator through the monthly World of Science lecture series. Running from October to April, the series features a different lecturer at 7 p.m. every fi rst Friday of the month. Angel’s successful climb from last July will be the focal point of the lecture, titled “Conquering Mt. St. Helens,” to explore geology.
“The talk will be a combination of looking at the science of volcanoes and then sharing my personal expe-riences with this adventure and the things that I learned along the way,” Angel said. “I’ll share with the audi-ence some of the joys and some of the trials and tribulations of that climb.”
For Angel, scaling Mount St. Hel-ens was a 10-mile round-trip adven-ture, which began at 6 a.m. at an ele-vation of about 3,000 feet. Angel and her group were on the volcano for about 10 and a half hours.
“It was an environment that I had never experienced before; it was very rugged,” she said. “For someone who lives here on the plains of Illinois at 700 foot elevation, it’s quite a chal-lenge to get acclimated to that change in those conditions.”
Angel said she couldn’t pass up the
opportunity to walk on an active vol-cano because she’s always been an adventurer at heart and has always been up for a challenge. Also, the experience was quite useful for someone who teaches on the topic of volcanoes.
“It helps as a professor of earth sci-ence to be able to go to learn about the things that you teach your students in class, to be able to bring back real-world stories and pictures,” Angel said. “It really enriches their learn-ing immensely.”
Georgia Miller, sophomore at Park-land and student in Angel’s introduc-tory geology class, said Angel’s class and her enthusiasm about geology inspired her to make the decision to change majors from applied sciences to geology in the near future.
“(Angel) is very involved in her
class,” Miller said. “She gets really excited about things, and she wants everyone else to be excited about it, too. So she fi nds fun ways to get us interested in the subject.”
David Leake is director of the Parkland Planetarium and is in charge of booking speakers for the World of Science lecture series. He said the goal of the series, and the
What: Julie Angel’s “Conquering Mt. St. Helens” When: Friday at 7 p.m.Where: Parkland College’s William M. Staerkel PlanetariumHow: $1 per person
BY BRITTNEY NADLERSTAFF WRITER
Harmoniums can be dif-fi cult to fi nd in the Mid-west. That is, until nearly fi ve years ago, when Nic Dillon began purchasing instruments from India and Africa to restore and resell. Now, Dillon sells his instru-ments through his business, Old Delhi Music, all from his residence in Urbana.
The former College of Engineering technician had a “pretty normal” music background; he played per-cussion in fi fth grade, took piano lessons and learned guitar in high school. But it was when he took a class called “Music of Asia” at Illinois State University that he was fi rst exposed to world instruments .
“Every week we learned about another country, but the Indian section was par-ticularly interesting to me,” Dillon said. “I liked the music, which wasn’t always the case with the different stuff we were studying.”
The harmonium, his spe-cialty instrument, was fi rst introduced to him during
the class. It looks like a com-bination of a piano and an accordion and is played with one hand pumping the accor-dion and the other pressing the keys. Yet, the music may sound out of tune to some, Dillon said.
On a western scale of music, there are 12 notes in an octave, but on an Indian scale, that same octave has 22 notes.
“It’s just a different way of measuring things, but what you’re measuring is sound,” Dillon said. “You’re hearing things that might sound out of tune, but it’s because they’re playing on an interval that we’re not used to hearing.”
This all intrigued Dillon, and he eventually began buying instruments from India and playing them with his wife, Heather. During each performance, Dillon began to notice that at least one person would ask the couple about their unique instruments. Thus, the idea for Old Dehli Music was created.
“The business kind of came from an observation
that people were interest-ed in these instruments but didn’t know where to get them,” Nic said.
In 2010, Dillon took a tax return and utilized personal savings to purchase his fi rst shipment to sell on eBay . Last year, Dillon sold just under 300 instruments rang-ing between $400 to $700, he said.
Harmoniums are his forte, but he also sells mrdangas , mridangams , djembes , dholaks and more . While these instruments aren’t extremely popular in America, Dillon said he can divide his customer base into three categories: ethnomusicologists, peo-ple of Indian descent, and those who follow Indian yoga practices .
The business didn’t imme-diately come to mind, he said. Throughout his 20s, Dillon said all he wanted to do was play music. In college, He and Heather were part of a band called the Casados, where Dillon played acoustic guitar and Heather played the harmo-nium, before breaking off
into a duo. They then formed You and Yourn and toured across the country to play hundreds of shows, starting in 2006 , Heather said.
“The first harmonium that I had, we just ordered it online and got this instru-ment and messed around with it,” Heather said.
When their fi rst child, Ellery, was born right after 2010, their touring decreased.
“We haven’t done much of that in the past few years, but it was a fun experience to play at different places and tour around the coun-try and meet a lot of people,”
she said.Dillon said he spends
most of his time repairing the instruments he buys. Harmoniums are fragile instruments that require a lot of care, but when he received his fi rst shipments,
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BRITTNEY NADLER THE DAILY ILLINIEvery instrument Nic Dillon purchases for resale goes through an extensive checklist of repairs. Two harmoniums sit on his work bench before he begins fi ne tuning and fi xing.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JULIE ANGELJulie Angel, Parkland College instructor, stands on Mt. St. Helens in Washington on July 5. Angel scaled the volcano as part of a 20-person team, and the experience provides a focal point to her World of Science lecture on Friday.
SPORTS1BTHURSDAY
MEN’S BASKETBALLILL AT MICHI-GAN STATESAT: 11 A.M.EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN
WRESTLINGILL VS. WISCSUN: 2 P.M.HUFF HALL
MEN’S TRACK AND FIELDFRANK SEVIGNE HUSKER INVITE FRI: NOONSAT: 10 A.M.LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
MEN’S TRACK AND FIELDNOTRE DAME MEYO INVITEFRI: 3 P.M.SAT: 9 A.M.SOUTH BEND, INDIANA
MEN’S GYMNASTICSILL VS. IOWASAT: 4 P.M.HUFF HALLWOMEN’S GYMNASTICSILL VS. MINNSAT: 4 P.M.HUFF HALL
WEEKEND ROUNDUP:HOCKEY ILL VS. LINDENWOODFRI: 7:30 P.M.SAT: 7:30 P.M.ILLINOIS ICE ARENA
WOMEN’S BASKETBALLILL VS. MINNTHURS: 8 P.M.STATE FARM CENTERILL AT NORTHWEST-ERNSUN: 1 P.M.EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER
Jaylon Tate can dish it out.
The Illini point guard has proven his ability to pass the ball all season, leading the Illini with 82 assists.
The point guard add-ed six assists in Tuesday night’s 66-54 win over Rut-gers, helping spread the team’s offensive production on a night where four Illini scored in double-digits.
The point guard’s assist total is 23 higher than the second-best Illini passer, Ahmad Starks.
“Jaylon sees the floor very well and is a great passer,” Starks said of Tate, who just recently began starting games for the Illini.
Starks, who had 13 points
Tate’s passing opens up offensive opportunities
Illini try to snap 7-game losing skidBY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER
Practice makes perfect. At least that’s the hope for the Illinois women’s basket-ball team.
As Illinois (11-11, 2-8 Big Ten) is trying to break out of a seven-game skid, head coach Matt Bollant wants his team to take advantage of good practices to gain some momentum heading into Thursday night’s bout with Minnesota (17-5, 6-4).
“We try to be consistent in practice,” Bollant said. “We were better (Tuesday) and are just trying to keep ele-vating and set the bar high-er. That’s got to translate to the games.”
Bollant said he expects a week full of positive prac-tices to give the Illini con-fidence when the Golden Gophers come to town.
Despite losing three of its last four games, Minnesota received votes in the most recent AP poll and nation-ally, it ranks 10th and 11th in rebounds and blocks, respectively. Those num-bers are due largely to the play of 6-foot-5 Swedish
center Amanda Zahui, who recently earned co-Big Ten Player of the Week honors after putting up 29 points, 28 rebounds and 16 blocks in two games. She is ninth in the nation in rebounds per game (11.6) and 19th nation-ally in field goal percentage (.557).
Freshman center Chatrice White will have her hands full with Zahui, but sopho-more forward Jacqui Grant thinks White is up for the challenge.
“I told Chatrice, ‘(Zahui) was Big Ten Freshman of the Year, now it’s your turn, show her who the new Big Ten freshman should be,’” Grant said. “It’ll be a great battle, that’s for sure.”
Minnesota lost its lead-ing scorer and preseason National Player of the Year candidate, Rachel Banham, for the season to a torn ACL. The Gophers have remained afloat in the Big Ten due to a more balanced attack led by Zahui and her frontcourt-mate, Shae Kelley, who aver-ages close to 16 points and nine rebounds per game.
While Zahui was Bollant’s
main focus, he also spoke on the depth Minnesota plays with in the absence of Banham.
“They’re playing really good basketball,” Bollant said. “The other kids are tak-ing more shots and taking more ownership of it. So it’s probably helped those kids step up and play better.”
After having four dif-ferent players commit at least three fouls in their loss to Wisconsin, the Illini focused on playing defense with more discipline in prac-tice. White fouled out in just 21 minutes at Wisconsin, so Bollant wants her to stay on the court by limiting Min-nesota’s opportunities off of offensive rebounds.
Illinois is the worst rebounding team in the Big Ten, so Zahui and Kelley could give the Illini fits on the boards. Being one of the better rebounding guards in the conference, senior Ivo-ry Crawford will provide a needed lift as she gets her legs back under her in her second game back from a knee injury.
The Illini went through a
tough stretch without their senior leader. With Crawford back, Bollant wants Illinois to focus on what’s ahead.
“We’ve got to control what we can control,” Bol-lant said. “We’ll take it one day at a time and keep get-ting better. If we do that, the right things will happen eventually.”
Joey can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3.
Illinois vs. MinnesotaWhen: 8 p.m. Thursday at State Farm CenterTV/Radio: Big Ten NetworkQuick notes: Illinois looks to break its seven-game losing streak against Minnesota, one of the best rebounding teams in the nation.Hidden stat: Illinois is 6-2 when Chatrice White leads the team in scoring.
BY LAUREN MROZSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois softball team begins the 2015 season Fri-day with a trip to Jack Turn-er Stadium in Athens, Geor-gia, for the eighth annual Red and Black Showcase, hosted by Georgia. The Illi-ni will open Friday with a morning matchup with Win-throp, followed by the first of their two games against the Bulldogs.
Last season, Winthrop finished with a 27-26 record, while recording 48 home runs — the fourth-most in school history. The Eagles return seven starters and were voted fifth amongst the Big South’s nine teams in a preseason poll.
On the other hand, an already top-tier Georgia team is coming off a 49-15 season, where the Bull-dogs post a 15-9 mark in the SEC. They won the pro-gram’s first-ever SEC tour-nament, garnered the No. 4 national seed and earned the program’s seventh trip to the NCAA Super Regional. This season, three of Geor-gia’s infielders were named to USA Softball’s Collegiate Player of the Year Preseason Top 50 Watch List.
The Illini face Murray
State on Saturday before their final battle with Georgia. In 2014, the Rac-ers finished 32-23 overall and fourth in the Ohio Val-ley Conference with a 16-9 record, including the pro-gram’s first trip to a confer-ence tournament final.
The showcase will con-clude with a Sunday game against Coppin State. Ty Robinson is taking over as head coach this season after Coppin State struggled in 2014, finishing 13-17 overall and 7-10 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
For Illinois, coach Terri Sullivan and her team are ready to get back on the field after a rollercoaster 2014 season. Last year, the Illini began the season with an 8-0 record, which marked the best start in program history. During the streak, Alex Booker became the first Illinois and second Big Ten softball player to hit for the cycle.
Despite Illinois’ ninth-place Big Ten finish and 24-26 overall record, the 2014 season also consisted of three wins over ranked oppo-nents — including its highest ranked win ever with a victo-ry over No. 4 Michigan — and Illinois’ first Big Ten tourna-
ment victory in 10 years.This season, Illinois will
play 23 games against teams that participated in the 2014 NCAA tournament. In 2014, the Illini struggled against NCAA participants, finish-ing 4-19.
Sullivan said it’s important for her team to face top com-petitors like Georgia early in the season in order to get them physically and mental-ly ready for the rest of the year. However, she noted that
Softball begins season on the road
Red and Black Showcase When: Friday — 11:30 a.m. vs. Winthrop, 2 p.m. vs. Georgia Saturday — 10:30 a.m. vs. Murray State, 1 p.m. vs. GeorigiaSunday — 8 a.m. vs. Coppin State Quick notes: Illini outfielder Kylie Johnson was named 2015 Preseason All-Big Ten second team by CollegeSportsMadness.com after earning all-conference second team and NFCA All-Region Third Team last spring. Hidden stat: The Illini beat weaker teams in 2014, going 18-5 against squads ranked below them in the final RPI, including 16-3 against those outside the top 100.
BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER
Building off the momen-tum of his best season at Illinois in 2014, Illini foot-ball coach Tim Beckman brought together his best recruiting class on Wednes-day’s national signing day.
A trio of commitments on signing day pushed the Illini from near the bottom of the Big Ten rankings to seventh in the conference, according to 247sports.
“A lot like our football season this year, we came on strong at the end,” head coach Tim Beckman said. “Our coaching staff took the exact same frame of mind in this last month. We knew we had some important posi-tions to fill and we did.”
Key commits from Nash-ville, Tennessee, Ke’Shawn Vaughn and Cameron Wat-kins announced their com-mitments in a press confer-ence Wednesday morning. Vaughn is a four-star run-ning back, rated as the No. 26 player at his position, according to 247sports.
Vaughn combines a coach’s dream of filling a team need with one of the best players available. Illi-
Signing Day success for Beckman
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Chatrice White (32) attacks the basket against Northwestern at the State Farm Center on Jan. 22. White will face one of the best frontcourts in the Big Ten on Thursday.
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois football head coach Tim Beckman watches on as Dre Brown, a recruit from DeKalb, IL addresses the audience during the 2015 Signing Day event held at the Colonnades Club on Wednesday.
JOSEPH LEE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jaylon Tate goes up for a shot during the game against Rutgers at State Farm Center on Tuesday. Tate led the team with six assists.SEE SOFTBALL | 4B
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Commitments raise ranking to Beckman’s best
Illinois will face Georgia, among others in 5-game tournament
Sophomore guard leads the team in assists
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BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER
Jimmy Fitzgerald was the fi rst Illini to commit in the 2015 class.
As a quarterback grow-ing up in Champaign and attending Centennial High School, Fitzgerald always knew he wanted to go to Illinois. So once he commit-ted last February, he went from being the recruited to the recruiter.
“The coaches encour-aged me to recruit as much as possible,” Fitzgerald said. “So I talked with Dre (Brown) and then when he got on board, Dre and I talked to Gabe (Meggin-son) and so on and so forth. As the class builds, we get more and more recruiters.”
A three-star quarter-back, Fitzgerald is one of nine early enrollees already in the Universi-ty. While he is on campus, Fitzgerald won’t be a full participant for spring prac-tice after tearing his ACL in September 2014. While he’s limited to non-con-tact work until summer, Fitzgerald said that being at Illinois is a catalyst for his rehab and allows him to get a jumpstart on learning the offense.
“Coach Cubit has a real-ly complex playbook, so I wanted to get in and try to learn as much as I can,” Fitzgerald said. “The No. 1 thing I’m trying to work on is the mental aspect. It’s so much more complex than in high school, and you don’t really realize that until you’re thrown into the fi re.”
He was the only member
of the class with a perfect 4.0 GPA in high school and his academics almost took him elsewhere for college. Fitzgerald was looking at Indiana, Northwestern and Ivy League schools such as Harvard and Yale, but since they don’t offer ath-letic scholarships, Fitzger-ald looked to his hometown school to balance football and academics.
“I was always a huge Illi-nois fan, and they were my fi rst offer which was huge
for me,” he said. “I decided that Illinois offers the best of both worlds.”
Fitzgerald hopes that his intelligence off the fi eld will translate onto the fi eld. For a comparison to a professional signal caller, Fitzgerald compared him-self to Andrew Luck. He referenced Luck’s dedica-tion to preparation and his knowledge of the offense as someone he strives to be.
Now that the Illini’s class is complete — good for sev-
enth in the Big Ten and 45th overall, according to 247sports — Fitzgerald and the other incoming fresh-men haven’t stopped bond-ing together.
“We have a group chat and we talk every day, multiple times. We’re real-ly tight,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s big to have so many guys rooting for everybody else to commit.”
While he was in a work-out on the morning of Sign-ing Day, Fitzgerald said
he had a feeling that some undecided players were leaning toward Illinois.
It appeared as though Fitzgerald and his class-mates’ recruiting pitch paid off. Illinois picked up three commitments on the morning on signing day, including four-star running back Ke’Shawn Vaughn and three-star defensive tackle Jamal Milan.
It’s been easier for Illi-nois to recruit as the pro-gram has earned more
wins in each of head coach Tim Beckman’s fi rst three seasons. Now that recruit-ing is done, it’s time for the new Illini to make a differ-ence on the fi eld.
“They went two to four to six and they want these guys to be a big part of getting to eight,” Fitzger-ald said.
Stephen can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @steve_bourbon.
C-U native Fitzgerald helps recruit 2015 talent
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIJimmy Fitzgerald, out of Centennial High School in Champaign, commits to Illinois on National Signing Day on Wednesday.
Missed opportunitiesIllinois was only able to secure two of the state’s top 10 recruits, according to 247sports.com. Here is a breakdown of where the state’s top recruits signed:
1 | TERRY BECKNER JR.(DT, East St. Louis)
4 | RAEQUAN WILLIAMS(DT, Chicago)
3 | MILES BOYKIN (WR, New Lenox)
8 | TREVOR RUHLAND(OG, Cary)
10 | FLYNN NAGEL(WR, Lemont)
9 | MICAHDEW-TREAD-WAY(DE, Bollingbrook)
6 | DAVID EDWARDS(TE, Downers Grove)
5 | NATEREACE STRONG(RB, East St. Louis)
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7 | DRE BROWN (RB, Dekalb)
2 | GABE MEGGINSON(OT, Jacksonville)
New recruit Fitzgerald made it his mission to build Illini football
National rank, class size in Big Ten
Illinois football’s class comparison
National rank Class Size
1 6 27
6 38 14
4 31 20
3 22 21
8 48 18
2 14 25
7 45 24
11 54 25
10 52 20
5 34 20
12 60 21
9 51 22
Year National rank
Conference rank
Commits
2015 45 7 24 2014 72 14 182013 49 9 252012 64 13 19 2011 38 8 28
14 64 25
13 61 24
BY SEAN NEUMANN STAFF WRITER
Tim Beckman has said repeatedly that his coach-ing staff will continue recruiting junior college players to Illinois.
The Illini head football coach will add six more to the team’s roster in 2015.
Junior college transfers Sean Adesanya (defensive end), Andrew Davis (tight end), Jordan Fagan (offen-sive tackle), Connor Bren-nan (offensive guard), Ain-slie Johnson (tight end) and Zach Heath (center) have officially signed let-ters of intent to play for Illinois.
Adesanya, Davis and Brennan are 3 -star recruits, while Fagan, Heath and Johnson are 2-star recruits, according to 247sports. All the play-ers will have two years of eligibility with the Illini, except Johnson, who trans-ferred in as a senior.
Davis is another budding Illini player who trans-ferred from Iowa West-ern Community College — a path wide receiver Geronimo Alison and for-mer wide receiver Martize Barr also followed.
The junior tight end was ranked fourth among the nation’s tight ends. Davis and Johnson will help fill a hole in Illinois’ offense with tight ends Jon
Davis and Matt LaCosse graduating.
Brennan, Fagan and Heath will also help fill offensive holes for coordi-nator Bill Cubit. Illinois is returning just four offen-sive lineman who played last season, while bring-ing up redshirt freshman Nick Allegretti who was the No. 11 ranked center in
the country in last year’s recruiting class.
Beckman said Wednes-day afternoon that the offensive line was one of the main focuses for this draft class.
“We’re getting better in every phase of life in this program,” Beckman said. “That’s something that’s becoming contagious.”
Illinois’ offensive line allowed 37 sacks last sea-son and averaged just 117.1
rushing yards per game. Illini quarterbacks took injuring hits throughout the year. Regular season starter Wes Lunt went down with a fractured fibula in the team’s sixth game of the season, an injury that forced Cubit to use three quarterbacks throughout the year, hav-ing to pull Aaron Bailey from a redshirt position.
Adesanya (Eastern Ari-zona College), a 6-foot-4, 230-pound defensive lineman, was among the top-five Arizona recruits in this year’s recruiting class.
The junior transfer will be the third defensive line-man from junior college on Illinois’ current roster, following Jihad Ward and Joe Fotu.
The Illini defensive line averaged just 1.77 sacks per game last sea-son. Illinois ranked last in the Big Ten in total and rushing defense, allowing 239.2 yards per game. The defense allowed 10 differ-ent running backs to earn more than 100 yards last season.
All six players were ear-ly enrollees at the Univer-sity in the spring semester.
Sean can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @Neumannthehuman.
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Illinois football 2014 signing class
6
1611
4,15
9
1
10
2
20
1913
14
12
5, 1718
8
9
Quarterback
1 Jimmy Fitzgerald - Champaign, Ill
Wide Receiver
2
Sam Mays - Houston, Texas
Center
Zack Heath - Sacramento, Calif
Guard
Connor Brennan - San Francisco, Calif
18
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Safety
Patrick Nelson - Chicago, Ill.
16
Outside Linebacker
Justice Williams - Frisco, Texas
19
Running Back
3
Dre Brown - De Kalb, Ill5
Henry Enyenihi - Sacramento, Calif.
4
Reggie Corbin - Washington, D.C.
Offensive Tackle
6
Gabe Megginson - Jacksonville, Ill8
Adam Solomon - Indianapolis, Ind.
9
Zeke Martin - Medina, Ohio
7
Jordan Fagan - El Cajon, Calif.
Tight End
10
Andrew Davis - Council Bluffs, Iowa12
Athlete
Julian Jones - Atlanta, Ga.
20
Ainslie Johnson - Norwalk, Calif.
11
Caleb Reams - Gurnee, Ill
Corner Back
14
Desmond Cain - Delray Beach, Fla.
15
Frank Sumpter - Washington, D.C.
Trenard Davis - Boynton Beach, Fla.
Defensive Line
Sean Adesanya - Thatcher, Ariz.
13
Jamal Milan - Chicago, Ill.
Ke’Shawn Vaughn - Antioch, Tenn.
Cameron Watkins - Madison, Tenn.
17
Jeff George, Jr. - Indianapolis, Ind.
21
23
22
24
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Illinois football adds six junior college players
nois running back Dono-vonn Young graduated and reserve tailback Devin Church transferred to East-ern Illinois in the offseason.
“We have one guy that has carried the ball here. Ever,” recruiting coordinator and running backs coach Alex Golesh said. “He knew there was an opportunity to play and we knew we had to get
some difference makers at that tailback spot.”
The lllini’s third and fi nal signing day commit-ment, defensive tackle Jamal Milan, fi lls a void on the defensive line. Milan, a 6-foot-3, 267-pound product out of Chicago, picked the Illini over Minnesota, Iowa State and Indiana.
One of the downsides to Illinois’ pitch to Milan was not having a defensive line coach after Greg Colby was not retained after the
season.“I think that’s why that
deal got done so late,” Golesh said. “I think Coach felt a lot of pressure to hire a D-line coach because it was such a position of need for us. But I feel like, it wasn’t going to be ‘Let’s hire some guy just to get some recruits.’”
Of the players who were already committed, offen-sive lineman Gabe Meggin-son is the jewel of the class. Another four-star recruit, Megginson is the No. 193
player overall in the nation, and the second-best player in Illinois.
The class rounds out with 25 players, including nine already enrolled at the University.
Beckman once again dipped into the junior col-lege ranks with six JUCO players, all of whom are cur-rently enrolled at Illinois. Three JUCO offensive line-men will try to plug holes left behind by graduating seniors Simon Cvijanovic,
Alex Hill and Michael Heitz. Connor Brennan is ranked as the No. 2 junior college guard in the country, while Zach Heath is rated as the No. 1 junior college center in the country.
The Illini also addressed a need with the Nos. 1 and 7 JUCO tight ends, respec-tively, to replace seniors Jon Davis and Matt LaCosse.
“There were some holes,” Golesh said. “Our goal is not to sign seven junior college players every year. Our goal
is to attack our critical need areas with junior college players.”
As it stands now, this is the highest-rated class of the Beckman era, current-ly ranked 45th in the nation and seventh in the Big Ten. Beckman’s previous classes ranked 72nd in 2014, 49th in 2013 and 64th in 2012.
Stephen can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter at @steve_bourbon.
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIHenry Enyenihi, JUCO recruit, from Sacramento City College commits to Illinois on National Signing Day on Wednesday.
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FINAL CHANCE
BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER
The Illini hockey team expects to have an extra boost this weekend.
Conference rival Linden-wood (13-11-2) is coming to the Big Pond this weekend to take on Illinois (19-13-1), while former Illini hockey players return for Alumni weekend. Head coach Nick Fabbrini, an Illinois hock-ey alumnus himself (2004-2008), hopes it creates motivation for the team.
“(Having the alumni) gives a little boost,” Fabbri-ni said. “It’s nice for these guys to see everybody who has come before and build the program into what it is (today).”
This series will not only serve as an opportunity for Illinois to showcase its talent in front of alumni, but also provide a shot at redemption.
Earlier this season, Lin-denwood swept Illinois, outscoring the Illini 7-1 in the series. Fabbrini said
Illinois came out flat in the first game and gave up too early in the 5-0 loss, but played a more competitive second game, losing 2-1. The Lions have struggled with consistency, going 6-8 since its series with the Illini.
Regardless, Illinois took a few things away from its first encounter with Lin-denwood and looks to use them to its advantage this time around.
Backup goaltender Zev Grumet-Morris will be in net this weekend while Joe Olen competes at the World University games. Gru-met-Morris had a chance to experience what Linden-wood is capable of in the team’s first meeting. He said the Lions are a fast and talented team that will present a tough challenge for the Illini.
Nonetheless, Grumet-Morris thinks Illinois will be prepared for the week-end matchup — he said having multiple individu-
als with scoring capability combined with the team’s speed and defensive will-power will propel it to victory.
“If we just continue with the things we’ve been doing the last two week-ends,” Grumet-Morris said. “We’re going to be put our-selves in a really good posi-tion to win.”
Illinois has gone 3-1 in its last four games, all at home.
During this stretch, the Illini have enjoyed suc-cessful special teams play. In the Illini’s last four games, their penalty kill has been 83.3 percent suc-cessful. On the other end, the team’s powerplay per-centage has been 20 per-cent. In last week’s series against Oklahoma, Illinois was successful on three-of-nine powerplays.
Along with staying con-sistent on special teams, Fabbrini wants the Illini to minimize their mistakes. Fabbrini has harped on
this the entire season, but this weekend will be impor-tant. He said Lindenwood is good at capitalizing on those mistakes.
“We know they’re a good team,” Fabbrini said. “We’re going to have to be at our best if we want to beat them.”
Beating Lindenwood will have an important impact on the Illini’s CSCHL record. With the league tournament two weeks away, Illinois wants to carry as much momentum possible into tournament play. But taking down Lin-denwood in front of some of Fabbrini’s former team-mates may be even sweeter.
“I’m excited to show them that what we’ve got going on down here, con-tinuing the great tradition that we built here togeth-er,” Fabbrini said.
Matt can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier.
Hockey brings back alumni for weekend against rival
against Rutgers, was a recipient of Tate’s helping hand throughout the game, while playing at shooting guard.
Illinois head coach John Groce said he thought his Illini players played unself-ishly Tuesday night. Groce was most impressed with Tate’s team-leading, six-assist performance.
“He has a great vocal presence about him,” Groce said. “He’s really growing with the leadership.”
Egwu remains unheralded even without stats
While assists can often go unnoticed in the shad-ow of high point scorers and rebounders, uncred-ited defensive plays also slide under the radar when it comes to giving credit where credit is deserved.
Illinois senior center Nnanna Egwu is catching flack with just 11 points in the last three games while turning the ball over six times, adding fuel to the hashtag #NnannaHands on Twitter which is used to bash the center when he loses control of the ball.
But Groce said the senior has impacted games in areas that don’t show up on stat sheets, such as setting screens and being vocal on the floor.
Groce added that Egwu was active on the floor dur-ing his 30 minutes against Rutgers.
“Nnanna was great defensively,” Groce said. Egwu broke the program’s career blocks record against Purdue with his 178th career block in the first half.
And Groce isn’t the only Big Ten coach to notice Egwu’s subtle impact under the basket. Penn State head coach Pat Chambers said
Egwu is bigger and stron-ger than he was the year before.
“I don’t think (Egwu) gets enough credit,” Cham-bers said after Saturday’s 60-58 loss to the Illini. “He’s the mother hen. He doesn’t get the credit he deserves.”
Eight games to decide Illinois’ fate
Illinois will need Egwu’s impact down the stretch, to try to win the majori-ty of the remaining eight games on the regular sea-son schedule.
The Illini will play four of those games on the road, including visits to No. 5 Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Iowa.
Illinois’ also looking to even out a 1-5 road record this season, while building on its 11-1 home record in remaining State Farm Cen-ter matchups with Michi-gan State, Northwestern,
Michigan and Nebraska — having lost to both the Wol-verines and the Cornhusk-ers already this season.
But the Illini remain con-fident, despite a season of injuries and the indefinite suspensions of guards Rayvonte Rice and Aaron Cosby.
“We have a lot in the tank,” sophomore guard Kendrick Nunn prom-ised the media following a 21-point performance Tuesday night.
What seemed unlike-ly in the absence of lead-ing scorer Rayvonte Rice is now proving to be true: Illinois’ offense can jump the hurdles placed in front of it this season if the team continues to play like it has in the last two games.
Sean can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @Neumannthehuman.
other less competitive games are just as important.
“There are five games that we play (this weekend), and every game is key,” Sul-livan said. “Some mistakes we have made in past sea-sons are getting really hyped up for those big games. Our players tend to like the big stage and playing in front of a big crowd, but we have to take care of business in
every game.”In terms of preparedness,
Sullivan said the Illini are more than ready for their tough schedule.
“It’s exactly where we want it to be,” she said. “Our players are very used to the tough opponents. Every weekend, we’re going to find that. We play the best, so we can be the best.”
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BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER
Despite completing a thrilling comeback win over then-No. 6 North Caro-lina Saturday night, Illinois men’s tennis head coach Brad Dancer said that the team still has a lot of work to do.
In its three dual meets against top-15 teams, No. 5 Illinois has dropped the doubles point every time and compiled a 1-7 record in completed doubles play. Not only that, but the Illini as a team have dug themselves into a 3-1 hole in those three matches. Dancer said that isn’t a framework for suc-cess in the future.
“Our doubles has been nothing short of pathetic. We have to get so much bet-ter in doubles, it’s laugh-able,” Dancer said. “That’s not a winning recipe to keep getting down ... and have to rescue our way out of it. We need to be able to step out and win matches with conviction.”
Dancer said that the team is emphasizing doubles play in practice this week. He also said that the team needs to start faster in singles. Illi-nois is 7-11 in the first set of singles against top-15 oppo-nents. The Illini will look to improve this weekend as they take on the No. 27 Ken-tucky Wildcats at home Fri-day night and then hit the road for their first Big Ten match of the season at No. 51 Purdue on Saturday. Fresh-man No. 44 Aleks Vukic said that there’s only one way the Illini can continue to improve.
“Practice. Even against North Carolina (on Satur-day), we won, we scraped through yet again,” Vukic said. “We’re working on dou-bles throughout the week. Everyone individually needs something. We keep trying to get better ... if we get the doubles point, I don’t see us losing to too many teams. ”
Last year, the Wildcats fin-ished the season at No. 12, one spot behind Illinois in the final ITA team rankings. Right now, they’re in the mid-dle of a rough patch, heading into Champaign on a four-match losing streak. Those losses have come to quality teams: No. 22 Penn State, No. 16 Notre Dame, No. 6 Duke and most recently, No. 8 Ohio State, the Illini’s Big Ten nemesis. These losses kept Kentucky from qualifying for the ITA Indoor Cham-pionships, but the Wildcats are still a strong team. Top doubles pair Kevin Lai and Beck Pennington will chal-lenge the Illini as they try to improve in doubles. Lai and Pennington are 4-2 on the season and beat a top-10 pair from Notre Dame. They’ll most likely face
another top-ranked pair on Friday night in No. 3 Ross Guignon and Tim Kopinski, who have struggled early with an 0-3 record.
Like Kentucky, Purdue is in a slide, losing its last three matches to teams ranked in the top-45. The dual meet is one of the earliest confer-ence openers in the Big Ten this season. Last year, Pur-due ended a 12-year NCAA tournament drought and finished fourth in the con-ference. However, the Illi-ni have had their way with the Boilermakers, holding a 96-10-1 all-time record in the series. Illinois has never lost to Purdue under Dancer.
Though it’s a tough sched-ule for the Illini leading into ITA National Indoors next week, Vukic said that these early matches are extremely important for the team.
“Especially with four new freshmen on the squad, to figure out our doubles line-ups, to figure out where everyone’s at,” Vukic said. “To get some confidence and match play is essential.”
Christopher can be reached at cmkenne2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @ChrisKennedy_4.
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ZOE GRANT THE DAILY ILLINIZev Grumet-Morris blocks a goal during the game against Oklahoma on Jan. 31. Grumet-Morris will start in net once again with starter Joe Olen still competing the at World University Games.
No. 5 Illinois vs No. 27 KentuckyWhen: 6 p.m. Friday at Atkins Tennis CenterTV/Radio: Live scoring at FightingIllini.comQuick notes: The Illini face another strong team in No. 27 Kentucky, and look to improve in doubles and start faster in singles.Hidden stat: The Wildcats come to Champaign on a four-match losing streak, but their top doubles team is 4-2 on the year with a top-10 victory.
No. 5 Illinois at No. 51 PurdueWhen: 6 p.m. Saturday, Schwartz Tennis Center, West Lafayette, INTV/Radio: Live scoring at PurdueSports.comQuick notes: Illinois opens up Big Ten play in West Lafayette. It has dominated Purdue, owning a 96-10-1 record in the series.Hidden stat: Purdue broke a 12-year NCAA tournament drought last year, but is in the midst of a three-match losing streak
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BY WILL SMALL STAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s track and field team gears up for the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite in Lincoln, Nebraska this weekend. With teams like Nebraska and USC head-lining the field, the Husker Invite is one of the toughest meets of the season for the Illini.
“It’ll be a real good test for us in all events,” head coach Mike Turk said. “It’s a pret-ty good field and we’re just really excited and I’m sure it is going to be great.”
Turk believes his team will be competitive in the team-scoring portion of the week-end, but said that is not the team’s focus.
“This is a team-scoring
meet and I think we’ll do well in that scoring,” Turk said. “More importantly, we’re using this meet to set up some individual perfor-mances for some national level competitions.”
Turk wants to see his Illi-ni take another step forward this weekend. With a rest-ed team, Turk expects most of his runners to have big performances.
One of the most consistent performers for the Illini so far has been freshman Jona-than Wells in the high jump.
Already with two first place finishes and the seventh-best jump in the nation at 7-foot-2, Wells looks to continue his strong start this weekend in Nebraska.
The 200 meter runners, Brandon Stryganek, DJ Zahn, Molefi Maat and Cole Hender-son, are another group Turk would like to see do well this weekend.
“The 200 will be a big race for us,” Turk said. “We haven’t really run a good 200 yet, so getting those guys on the bank track against some
good competition is an area that we’ll be looking forward to.”
Ever since Nebraska was introduced to the Big Ten, its been competitive in men’s track and field. This week-end is a chance for the Illi-ni to get a good look at some of the Cornhuskers’ athletes before the Big Ten Champi-onship meet, especially in the hurdles.
“We’ll have a big match-up with our hurdlers against the Nebraska hurdlers,” Turk said. “They have a really
deep and talented group of hurdlers, so this will be a good matchup for us to see where we are at.”
Last weekend most of the team did not attend a meet. The Illini used that extra time to compete and train, and are now more motivated than ever.
“Practices were spirited. I could tell that they were hun-gry and ready to compete,” Turk said.
Will can be reached at [email protected].
Illini track and field gear up for Husker Invite
BY ALEX WALLNERSTAFF WRITER
Coming off a week-long layoff, the Illinois women’s track and field team is pre-paring for the annual Meyo Invitational, hosted by Notre Dame this weekend.
The level of competition is not as high as it was in the Illini’s previous meet, but the Meyo Invitational tends to draw top-25 teams.
Last year included now-No. 21 Michigan and No. 25 Michigan State and another
Big Ten foe, Purdue.It also was a good one for
senior Alyssa Schneider, who won the 5,000 meter run, beating 30 other indi-viduals in the process.
Schneider won the event with a time of 16 minutes, 35 seconds, edging out Notre Dame’s Molly Seidel, who finished just one sec-ond later.
Schneider said this meet is one that will not only help the team, but help everyone individually as well.
“This is a good meet, so it’s a really good opportu-nity for everyone to get in a good race,” Schneider said. “I want to run up to my potential right now in the mile, which hopefully means a new PR (personal record).”
This will not be easy though; Schneider add-ed that everyone running with her will be aiming for the same thing she is aim-ing for.
“I know that the girls in my heat are going to run fast,” Schneider said. “If I follow their lead, it’s going to be a very good race for me.”
A full week off from com-petition has the Illini rest-ed and ready to go accord-ing to distance coach Scott Jones.
“When we got back from Kentucky, we wanted to really get back into our training,” Jones said. “We got back to doing some fun-damental-type training, so we did two good workouts on Monday and Friday (of last week) and this week, we’re lightening up a little bit because we want to be in a position to race well this Friday and Saturday.”
This weekend is the first of a four-week stretch of meets heading into late
February, which concludes with the Indoor Big Ten Championships.
This is a stretch where senior Stephanie Richartz wants to perform her best as she aims for the Indoor Big Ten Championship, something she has been preparing for all season.
“This weekend, the object is to get a little bet-ter than I was last week,” Richartz said. “As long as there’s a progression and improvement every week then great things will con-tinue to come my way and prepare me for the upcom-ing large meets, like the Big Ten Indoor Championships
and the national meet.”The Meyo Invitational
is what Jones says is the “build-up” to the Big Ten Championships. He added that last year’s meet was a “mixed bag” for the team in performance, but was incredibly important for the team from a develop-mental point of view.
“It’s not just where you are, it’s where you’re going and learning from these experiences against the top competition,” Jones said.
Alex can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @AWallner93.
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Illini women’s gymnastics team strives for new highs at home against MinnesotaBY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois women’s gymnastics team is com-ing off its best meet of the season thus far, but the gymnasts are still focused on improving for Satur-day’s home meet against Minnesota.
Despite scoring a sea-son-high in last weekend’s win at Huff Hall, the Illini still made mistakes, so they aren’t satisfied.
“I think that this team can go so far,” junior Heath-er Foley said. “We just need to get the little things.”
Illinois failed to make its way back in the top 10 of the GymInfo rankings after the 196.400-195.600 victory over Penn State. In fact, the win left the Illini at No. 14, their lowest ranking of the season so far — after being as high as No. 9.
But the little things could have made the difference for Illinois last season against Minnesota.
In their last dual meet, the Illini fell short against the Golden Gophers after a less-than-ideal finish on bal-ance beam, so fixing small details is exactly what they’ve worked on heading into the weekend.
Sticking more dismounts is just one goal for the gym-nasts. Foley said the team has a stick chart in its lock-
er room, and adding more stickers to that is something she would like her team to do after this weekend. Head coach Kim Landrus and senior Jordan Naleway also agreed that racking up more sticks is something Illinois needs to do.
“We’ve had a little bit higher numbers with that in previous meets,” Nale-way said of the sticks from last weekend. “So we want to build that back up.”
Beyond that, though, the Illini have worked on their showmanship for balance beam and floor.
Landrus mentioned the gymnasts’ scores are “very performance-based,” so that extra work with show-manship can give them the tenths necessary for a win.
Heading into the meet, Minnesota sits at No. 25, making its way back in the rankings after dropping out after the first week of the season. Both Illi-nois and Minnesota have scored above a 196 twice this season, but the Golden Gophers’ highest score of a 196.875 is higher than any score the Illini have post-ed this year. Naleway has higher aspirations for her team, though.
“I really want to get after that 197,” she said. “We were capable of it last year, and we have all the talent on
this team to do it.”It has been Illinois’ con-
sistency that has given it a No. 14 ranking. Minneso-ta, however, has achieved recent success to get its No. 25 ranking by scoring two 196’s after three straight meets of 194’s. The Illini know their concern must stay with themselves, though, because that’s all they can control.
“We can’t play defense in gymnastics, so we just need to go in there and worry about ourselves,” Landrus said. “We need to make sure we stay very focused and take it one routine at a time.”
Ashley can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @wijangco12.
Men’s track looks to finish strong vs. Iowa
BY DANIEL COLLINSSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s gym-nastics team has gotten off to an 8-0 start, but head coach Justin Spring is not completely satisfied with his team’s performance.
Since the start of the sea-son, Illinois has struggled in the final events of dual meets. But the cause isn’t clear to Spring.
“It’s not like there’s been pressure. We’ve been up by almost 10 points every match,” Spring said of his team competing its final events. “Maybe it’s lack of pressure and less attention to details because they feel we have this in the bag, and then they let a few things slide.”
Regardless, Spring has been setting up team simula-tion events and has switched up the way his team goes about its routines in order to mentally prepare the team for Saturday’s home meet
against Iowa. “We’ve been setting a
team score that we need to hit, changing the direction that we face on the bars and anything that takes us out of our element so we’re more prepared for the pressure of competition,” said senior Jordan Valdez.
This weekend against Iowa will be the Gym Jam, where the men’s team will compete simultaneous-ly with the women’s team. Typically, this event draws more fans than the average meet.
Junior C.J. Maestas said the team can’t get too worked up in front of the home crowd if they are look-ing to finish on a strong note.
Iowa, who last defeated the Illini at the Nebraska Invitational last season, currently rank sixth in the College Gymnastics Asso-ciation standings.
“They’ve been a surprise team,” Spring said of Iowa. “They’ve went from trying
to blow out huge routines and making costly mis-takes, to really streamlin-ing their process and focus-ing on consistency.”
After being a late lineup scratch last meet, Spring said junior Fred Hartville is ready to make his season
debut. Hartville has been sidelined due to a minor knee sprain.
The events that he will most likely compete in are the floor exercise and vault. Hartville, who was the 2013 vault national champion, will add even more power
to a vault lineup that record-ed the fourth-best score in team history on Saturday against Minnesota.
Daniel can be reached at dcollns2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @collins_d2.
KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ C.J. Maestas sticks his landing during the rings event at the gymnastics match vs. Minnesota at Huff Hall on Saturday. Illinois won 435.200-419.800.
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jordan Naleway performs a routine on the floor during the match against Penn State at Huff Hall on Saturday.
Iowa at Illinois When: 4 p.m. Saturday,
Huff Hall.Quick notes: Fred Hart-
ville, who looks to make a return to the lineup this weekend, was the 2013 vault national champion.
Hidden stat: The last time the Illini compet-ed against Iowa in the Gym Jam event was in 2013, losing by a score of 428.450-428.400
Illinois vs. MinnesotaWhen: 4 p.m. Saturday
at Huff HallQuick notes: Of Illinois’
three all-arounders, soph-omore Mary Jane Horth is the only one ranked in the top 25 at No. 23 with an average score of 39.181.
Hidden stat: Illinois is ranked higher than Minnesota on all events except for vault, where Illinois is unranked while Minnesota is No. 20.
A!er time o", Illini anticipate tough Big Ten competition
Illini women’s track begins four-week stretch of meets
Illini currently have 8-0 record, look to keep perfect start
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Wrestling’s Morse and Delgado ready for senior night matchBY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER
Sunday will not be the last time Illinois faces Wisconsin in a Big Ten conference dual meet, but it will be the last time seniors Jackson Morse and Jesse Delgado take the mat against a conference opponent at Huff Hall.
Sunday is senior night, and although Morse and Delgado both hope to wrestle well into March, the arrival of their last conference dual is signifi cant: rarely does Illinois graduate two wrestlers of this caliber.
Morse, a redshirt senior, has been on campus longer than any other current Illini wres-tler. After coming to Illinois as the No. 1-ranked recruit at his weight, he became a four-year starter for the Illini at 165 pounds and in that time com-piled a 84-38 career record. Currently ranked No. 8 nation-
ally in his weight class, Morse is a two-time NCAA qualifi er and is looking to do more than just qualify in his fi nal season at Illinois.
“A national title would be the perfect way to end my sea-son,” Morse said. “I’ve picked up things every year I’ve been here, I’ve gotten a lot better since (assistant coach Mark Perry) came here after my freshman year and I think that’s pretty evident in my style of wrestling now.”
While Morse has been suc-cessful, few Illini past or pres-ent can claim the same level of success as Delgado.
Delgado has been the face of Illinois wrestling since fol-lowing his then-head coach Mark Perry to Champaign in 2011 following his freshman season at Cal Poly. One of only two Illini wrestlers to win back-to-back national titles in
the last 57 years, Delgado has earned All-American honors all three years at Illinois. Del-gado is 4-0 this season in spite of suffering a shoulder inju-ry in the Illini’s home open-er, and brings a 95-13 over-all career record to Sunday’s meet. Despite past achieve-ments, Delgado emphasized the need to keep improving.
“I didn’t even realize it was the last conference meet,” Delgado said. “I’m still just trying to get momentum. You still pick up little things here and there that you struggle with, and that just gives you another opportunity to get better.”
Neither Morse nor Delga-do are Illinois natives. Morse is from Alto, Michigan, and Delgado is from Gilroy, Cali-fornia, but both seniors cred-it Illinois with giving them a sense of community they will
enjoy their whole lives. “Community is a big thing
here,” Morse said. “I’ve enjoyed getting to know all these guys; they’re like my family. Being from Michigan, I don’t get to go home much. But I always have these guys to lean on.”
“I still keep in touch with teammates that have gradu-ated,” Delgado added. “I’ve built a lot of friendships here.”
Morse and Delgado will always be remembered for their success, but head coach Jim Heffernan believes their character is what should defi ne their time here at Illinois.
“The end result, to me, is how a guy progresses emo-tionally and in maturity,” Hef-fernan said. “It’s always a bit-tersweet feeling seeing those guys come out on senior night. The goal of our program,
when they come in, is to be a national champion, be produc-tive, get a degree and become great people. Those two defi -nitely fi t that bill.”
Ethan Swanson can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @EthanSwanson88.
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jesse Degaldo makes a move against his opponent during the opening match of the season against SIUE at Huff Hall on Sunday, Nov. 9. The Illini won 44-0.