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Amid snowy, icy conditions, CUMTD buses more important than ever
Board of Trustees looks at proposed cuts
OPINIONS
LIFE & CULTURE
Musicians, patrons and others weigh in on gender disparities in music industry
RSO trains and performs Chinese yo-yo at University
Female musicians find growth in C-U community
SPORTSNEWS
Vote in March 4, 5 referendum
UI complies with Gov. Rauner’s order to eliminate nonessential spending
Sam Sherman and Stephen Bourbon debate team’s chances
Will Illini basketball make the NCAA tournament?
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There are approximately
University advocates for aid for undocumented students
1.1-1.4 millionundocumented students
in the U.S.
ONLY
7,000 - 13,000undocumented
students enrolled in college throughout
the U.S. in 2012
The median annual income of undocumented immigrants is 30 percent less than that of U.S.-born families
states offer in-state tuition to undocumented students
states prohibit in-state tuition to undocumented students
$20,000The typical difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition
SOURCE: Golden Door Scholars THE DAILY ILLINI
The University currently allows undocumented students under some circumstances to qualify for in-state tuition. An amendment to the 2003 bill that put this into action could give these students access to state financial aid.
UNOFFICIAL 2015
Students fi nd success selling Unoffi cial T-shirts
Campus housing tightens up visiting policy for Unoffi cial
Chinese dating show aspires to integrate international studentsBY MICHELLE REDONDOCONTRIBUTING WRITER
When jumping into a new American environment, international students may have a diffi cult time adapt-ing. Despite the intimida-tion of this new culture, organizations like the Chi-nese Students and Scholars Association and Internation-al Student and Scholar Ser-vices try to integrate inter-national students to help them have a good college experience.
Martin McFarlane, associ-ate director of International Student and Scholar Servic-
es, encouraged University students to look at interna-tional students as individu-als coming from different cultures, rather than as one group.
“To understand interna-tional students on campus, we fi rst have to understand that a student from Korea is going to face unique issues compared to a student from Nigeria or a student from Brazil,” said McFarlane in an email.
On Sunday, Chinese Stu-dents and Scholars hosted a dating event based off the popular Chinese television
show “If You Are the One,” to help Chinese international students meet one another.
Wenjia Ma, graduate stu-dent in LAS and general director of the event, said that as international stu-dents, the association felt they needed to create a sense
of community and encour-age Chinese students to share their culture. Nearly 50 percent of internation-al students on campus hail from China, according to records from the Division
Public safety is primary concern for Champaign police during Unoffi cial
UI looks to give undocumented students aid
BY LIZ JASSINCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Through online appar-el sales, students and alum-ni have found ways to make pocket money off of the annu-al Unoffi cial St. Patrick’s Day.
Kevin Alsterda, 2012 alumnus, manages Unoffi -cial Shirts with the help of campus managers and cur-rent University students Saa-gar Gupta and John Vetter. Alsterda is the owner of a custom apparel company in Chicago, KRA Apparel, with one subsidy being Unoffi -cial Shirts. Alsterda said he counts on his campus man-agers to “run the business” in Champaign.
“They pretty much run the show,” Alsterda said. “The more shirts they sell, the more they get paid.”
Alsterda said he only helps with building the website, logistics and supply chain management.
Unoffi cial Shirts has been up and running for the last four years and was found-ed by Alsterda as a senior at the University. He started out on the Quad with a pen and paper taking down orders.
At fi rst, the business was small and involved little pay, but year after year the sales have gone up, Alsterda said. He said the website made ordering shirts much easier.
Gupta, senior in Business, has worked with Alsterda for the last three years and said the experience has offered him a real world opportunity in the fi eld.
“I have learned so much under him that now I have consulted over 20 local busi-nesses and events and cre-ated two social media start-ups,” Gupta said. “It has been really cool working with Unoffi cial Shirts, and now I
BY MAGGIE SULLIVANSTAFF WRITER
Every year, hundreds of college students will visit the University to celebrate Unof-fi cial St. Patrick’s Day. Every year, many of these students will try to circumvent the dorms’ no visitor policies. And every year, local police will arrest many visitors.
But numbers from the University of Illinois Police Department show that more nonUniversity-affiliated students receive notices to appear in court on Unoffi -cial than University students.
“It’s not their property, it’s
not their home, so they might not treat it with respect,” said Kendra Bristow, business offi ce manager at Bromley Hall.
Unofficial celebrations begin Friday morning, but from Thursday at 5 p.m. until Sunday at 8 a.m., Uni-versity and Private Certifi ed Housing’s visitor policies will change.
Typically for private cer-tifi ed housing, residents can check in a maximum of two guests per night for a maxi-mum of three nights, Bris-
BY YI ZHUSTAFF WRITER
The Champaign Police Department held a press conference Monday morn-ing concerning possible safety issues surrounding Friday’s Unoffi cial St. Pat-rick’s Day.
Lt. Jim Clark, south dis-trict commander for the department, said public safety is the biggest con-cern for the weekend.
Unoffi cial is not sanc-tioned by the Universi-ty, nor the cities of Cham-paign or Urbana, Clark said. The police depart-ment recommended that bars and clubs make par-ties small and know their customers, because people must at least 21 years old to be sold alcohol. Party hosts will face charges for any violations.
“More than 100 police offi cers will be working this weekend, the biggest day during the year, even bigger than the Super Bowl night,” Clark said. “There is going to be more road patrollers and the traffi c enforcement is going to be increased.”
Students may face pun-ishment from the Universi-ty for violations, said Renee Romano, vice chancellor for Student Affairs.
“We want students know that if they need help, they should call the police, they should call 911,” Romano said. “Stay out of trouble and stay safe.”
The Champaign Police Department will be also working on social media to publish information throughout the weekend.
BY CHARLOTTE COLLINSSTAFF WRITER
Alberto Lara Valdivieso was nine years old when he came to Illinois from Tlal-nepantla de Baz, Mexico with his family.
Growing up in Chicago, the junior in LAS said he could spot some of the dif-ferences between himself and his peers, but the grav-ity of his illegal status did not really occur to him until he began considering a col-lege education.
“Being undocumented never really hit me until high school because then it was like ‘Oh, I have to pay for college, I don’t know any of the procedures for col-lege,’” Valdivieso said.
To help students like him, University of Illinois admin-istrators and students have been working to change leg-islation to provide undocu-mented students access to state fi nancial aid. In an October meeting of the fac-
ulty. President Robert Eas-ter said the University will carry forward to direct change on the issue.
Currently, undocumented students can attend univer-sities in Illinois as long as they have graduated from an Illinois high school, lived with his or her parents and lived in the state for three years.
The legislation passed in 2003 allowed for undocu-mented students to receive in-state tuition; howev-er, they cannot receive any fi nancial aid from the state or the University. Illi-nois is one of 18 states that charge in-state tuition as long as students have met the requirements to attend the University.
In order to afford the cost of attendance, Valdivieso has to work and apply for private scholarships.
“It was very stressful
PORTRAIT BY SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINI
STELLA YOU THE DAILY ILLINI T-shirt sales for Unoffi cial St. Patrick’s Day have become a booming business in recent years for students and alumni.
PULLING TRADITION INTO CAMPUS
LIFE & CULTURE, 6A
SEE VISITORS | 3A
SEE UNOFFICIAL | 3A
SEE STATE AID | 3A
SEE DATING | 3A
MICHELLE REDONDO THE DAILY ILLINIAlumna Zhilin Guo participated in "If You Are The One" on Sunday. The student-run Chinese dating show promotes friendships and relationships for international students.
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WEATHERPOLICE
Champaign A 19-year-old male was
arrested on the charges of possession of a controlled substance, unlawful use of a weapon and possession of drug equipment around 1 a.m. Sunday. According to the report, a fi rearm was fi red at an unruly party. The offender
was located and found in possession of a weapon and a controlled substance.
University A 24-year-old female was arrested on the charges of driving with a revoked license and possession of cannabis near the intersection of University
Avenue and Randolph Street around 1:30 a.m. Friday. According to the report, the offender’s vehicle was pulled over for having an unreadable rear registration and no rear registration light.
Compiled by Jason Chun
HOROSCOPESBY NANCY BLACKTRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Today’s BirthdayIndustrious efforts win big this year. Luck, pro! t and status follow when you play full out. The Spring Equinox solar eclipse (3/20) inspires a personal " owering. Review rules and plan for a summer boom (after 6/14). Prepare infrastructure and sign contracts. Grow your business network, especially after autumn eclipses (10/13 & 10/27). Collaborate to thrive.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is a 9 — Things could turn out unexpectedly well, even if you stick your foot in your mouth. Apologize and move on. Be willing to laugh at yourself. Your luck looks excellent. Don’t gossip. Get lost in solitary diversions.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is an 8 — Unexpected blessings rain down at home. Take a moment to savor it. Let your spirit lead you. Create something of beauty. Express your passion. Friends help you with a connection. Opposites attract. Get drawn into someone’s orbit.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is a 9 — A promising opportunity arises out of nowhere. Discuss possibilities, and prioritize. The words may not come out perfectly, but the passion is there. Study and re! ne. Listen to all ideas. The task becomes more complex.
Increase efficiency.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is a 9 — A windfall changes your circumstances. Take advantage of this new chance. Intuition inspires creativity. You’re especially charming and persuasive. Consult an expert. Ask tough questions. Expand toward love. Express your passion wordlessly. Hike or climb. Get outside.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is a 9 — Communication (travel and shipping) breakdowns could slow the action. Take complaints directly to the one in charge. Nonetheless, pleasant surprises arise. Play the ace you’ve been holding. The numbers look good. Cash out and stash it.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is an 8 — Stay " exible with unexpected circumstances. Go along with another’s emotional " ow. Peace and quiet may suit you both. Care for each other. Exercise and healthy foods nurture your energy. Rely on your partners. Find beauty in small things.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is a 9 — Get social and connect with friends, despite travel or communication breakdowns. A surprise twist disrupts a group effort. Take advantage of new opportunities. Work out the tangles patiently. Get creative and solutions intuitively arise. You’re getting compliments.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is an 8 — You’re extra
persuasive now. You can do more than you thought. Don’t " ash your money around. Express your creative talents. Make sure you know what you’re supposed to be doing. A lucky break provides just what you needed.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is an 8 — You may not ! nd the words to express what you feel, especially regarding philosophical questions. Listen to feminine advice. Know the facts to advance. Insight emerges. A critic helps you with de! nitions. Draw what you mean.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is a 9 — Unexpected bene! ts reward your efforts with shared ! nances. You’re beginning to understand the situation. Sugar coat requests (especially for money). Call if you’re going to be late. Provide great work and make a good impression.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 9 — Ask for help. Together you can manage what neither of you could solo. There’s more work (and money) coming in, that wasn’t expected. Study the numbers. It’s a good time to invoice. You can get what you need.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 9 — Today’s better for action than talk. Provide an excellent job, and make it look easy. Bene! ts exceed expectation. Word travels. You’re very much appreciated. Finishing old tasks is rewarding. Get into your work with a passion.
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tow said.“We start on Thursday
night, where residents can only check in one guest, and that one guest has to be the same for the entire weekend, and it has to be a U of I student — no out of town guests are allowed,” Bristow said.
To enforce the policy, Bris-tow said additional securi-ty will be present to ensure students have their I-Cards to prove they attend the University.
“We pretty much fall in line with what the Universi-ty is doing, and what the Uni-versity of Illinois is propos-ing for University Housing,” Bristow said.
Kirsten Ruby, associate director of Housing for com-munications and marketing, said visitor policies at the University haven’t changed for the past four or five years.
“We have a lot of students from other campuses who find that this is a good time to come down here and raise some trouble,” Ruby said.
In University Housing, addi-tional staff and the University of Illinois Police Department will be placed in residence
halls for safety and security purposes, as well as to protect University property. At 6 p.m. on Friday, the exterior doors to the Student Dining and Residential Programs Build-ing will lock and will only be accessible using I-Cards. The doors will unlock at 9 a.m. Sunday.
Ruby said frequently, these visiting students sneak into residence halls and try to sleep on the floor in sleeping bags for the night.
“That’s very disruptive to the students who live there — it’s not fair,” she said.
Alie Vahlkamp, a sopho-more at Roosevelt University in Chicago, visited last Unoffi-cial and stayed with her friend Lindsey Buckmore, sopho-more in LAS.
“It was the first weekend of spring break, and it was on my way home,” Vahlkamp said.
Buckmore agreed that the timing was mostly coin-cidental and said Vahlkamp just wanted to visit during her spring break and the two events happened to be the same weekend.
Buckmore, who lived in Presby Hall last year, said she and Vahlkamp didn’t try to get back into the building that night.
While Buckmore admitted she could understand where
the University Housing poli-cy was coming from, she also said it was an inconvenience.
“People don’t always want to celebrate Unofficial, they just want to come,” Buckmore said.
Ruby stood by the Univer-sity’s policy.
“We hope our students con-
tinue to make good, safe choic-es,” she said. “Most of the stu-dents on this campus are here to study and we appreciate that, and we’re trying to keep this a campus where they can continue to do so.”
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am taking all of this expe-rience and into a real world marketing job.”
Like Gupta, other Uni-versity students sell Unof-ficial shirts to make extra money.
Last year, Matt Pahl, senior in FAA, started Unofficial Apparel. Pahl said he got into the busi-ness while he was appar-el chair for his fraternity, Acacia. After seeing the success of his pledge father Alsterda, Pahl began sell-ing Unofficial clothing.
“University Tees and (Alsterda) have taught me everything I know, and both have enabled me to successfully run Unofficial Apparel,” Pahl said.
Pahl said business has been good this year, as he has sold more shirts this year than before.
Both Unofficial Shirts and Unofficial Apparel hire student ambassadors to help run the business, and Alsterda said hiring students is more important to him than making mon-ey. Student ambassadors come from different cam-pus-affiliated organiza-
tions, Gupta said, and they sell the company’s mer-chandise to their respec-tive organizations.
Much of Unofficial Shirts’ merchandise has already sold out because they buy the quantity of shirts before orders are placed.
Gupta said the compa-ny sells more merchandise every year and has tried new advertising techniques through Facebook, email, fliers and the illiniway Snapchat account.
While Gameday Spirit on Green Street sells Uni-versity of Illinois green clothing in honor of St. Pat-rick’s Day, none reference Unofficial.
Michael Defilippis, Gameday employee and senior in AHS, said the green clothing has been popular with students and expects the store to be crowded on Friday with out-of-town visitors in need of green clothing.
“We have a contract with the University to not put Unofficial on our cloth-ing because the University does not recognize Unoffi-cial as an actual holiday,” Defilippis said.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Trustees discuss state budget cuts, issue months away from finalization
SEC discusses hiring policy report
BY ABIGALE SVOBODASTAFF WRITER
The University is in com-pliance with Gov. Bruce Rauner’s executive order to eliminate nonessential spending after Rauner pro-posed to eliminate one-third of the University’s budget last month, Chief Financial Officer Walter Knorr said Monday.
The state is in the pro-cess of requesting and receiving information about University financ-es before finalizing state appropriation for the University.
At the Board of Trust-ees’ Audit, Budget, Finance and Facilities Committee meeting Monday, Knorr said the University’s finan-cial state for the upcoming year remains uncertain. At least a $1.5 billion shortfall remains in the 2015 state budget, he said, so the state could potentially cut more of the University’s funding.
“There’s a lot going on in this sort of budget vortex,” Knorr said.
On Feb. 18, Rauner announced a proposed 31 percent — $209 mil-
lion — cut in state fund-ing for the University. In the meantime, the Univer-sity is waiting for more information on how much state appropriation it will receive.
He said he expects it to take several months before the entire budget issue is decided.
“I doubt this is going to be resolved until very late in the game,” Knorr said.
The University is also waiting on the March 11 Supreme Court ruling on whether pension reform is constitutional. If the case is ruled unconstitutional, the state would have to
make up for unpaid pen-sions, which could result in decreased funding avail-able for the University.
Additionally, the com-mittee will propose the board approve contract renewals with Coca-Cola and N-Point Technology, the company that provides the Microsoft Enterprise software for the Universi-ty system.
The contract with Coca-Cola is $7.5 million and spans 16 months. The con-tract with N-Point is 36 months long, costing $11 million per year.
BY ABIGALE SVOBODASTAFF WRITER
The Senate Executive Committee met Monday and continued discussion on the Hiring Policies and Proce-dures Review Committee report.
Eric Johnson, law pro-fessor and co-author of the report, said he wanted to be clear that Chair Roy Camp-bell and Provost Ilesanmi Adesida appointed the com-mittee to write the report.
“I don’t think any of us thought about being advo-cates for the report,” John-son said.
A review of the report was tabled after the senate did not meet quorum at its February meeting.
Nick Burbules, education-al policy professor, said it is unclear whether the report recommends the Board of Trustees retain its authority to approve and reject appoint-ments or whether it should be removed from the pro-cess completely. If the board is removed from the appoint-ment process, the Universi-ty statutes would need to be modified.
Johnson clarified that the intention of the report was to recommend the Board of Trustees to be removed from the appointment pro-cess entirely. A resolution will be presented to the sen-ate to clarify the recommen-dation at the Academic Sen-ate meeting on March 9.
Modification of the stat-utes is a University-wide pro-cess that would have to be approved by all three campus
senates before being forward-ed to the University Senates Conference and eventually the University president.
The committee also dis-cussed the threat of budget cuts from the state. Joyce Tolliver, University Senate Conference representative, suggested holding a town hall in preparation. Illinois Stu-dent Senate Vice President-External Matt Hill said the student senate created a task force to address this issue and allow students to share their stories.
Vice Chancellor for Research Peter Schiffer pro-posed a policy on classified research that will be added to the senate agenda as an infor-mation item. The senate will then have the option to evalu-ate the policy further.
of Management Information. Ma and the association
decided to host the event because they felt most Chi-nese students are limited to their studies and depart-ments at the University, which gives them fewer opportunities to connect with other people.
“On this stage, not only can they find their true love,
which is a possibility, but they can also express them-selves and tell others that I am here and I am avail-able and I want love,” Ma said. “This chance is very important for Chinese peo-ple because we are often shy and not daring to express ourselves.”
Alumna Zhilin Guo, a con-testant in the event, felt she was unable to connect with people on campus, and found it difficult to make friends and even fall in love.
“I hope if I join this, more people will know me, and we’ll have common hob-bies and we can at least be friends,” Guo said.
McFarlane said with the number of international stu-dents increasing each year, it is important to continue wel-coming them to improve our campus. This fall the num-ber of international students who enrolled at the Univer-sity increased 4.3 percent from fall 2013 to fall 2014.
To help international stu-
dents adjust, Internation-al Student Services offers social programs to intro-duce them to University cul-ture and other internation-al cultures through sports, food and cultural events. The service also has inter-national students participate in the International Student Barometer survey to gauge the students’ happiness and overall life at the University.
“The first four categories: arrival, support, living and learning all scored above
an 85 percent satisfaction rate,” said McFarlane in an email. “Nearly 85 percent of undergraduate students and 87 percent of graduate stu-dents said they would recom-mend the University of Illi-nois at Urbana-Champaign.”
Although Ma said she still feels separation between Chinese students and the campus, programs like International Student and Scholar Services are try-ing to make campus more diverse, friendly and open to
new people and experiences. “(If You Are the One)
helps people express them-selves onstage, so there is a chance for people to realize ‘Whoa, there are so many cool girls and guys here,’ ” said Ma, who hopes events like these will expose the campus to a new side of the Chinese international popu-lation on campus.
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the idea of not being able to afford school,” Valdivieso said. “Especially not being able to have loans, because either I get the money, or I get kicked out of school.”
Kristy Kambanis, assis-tant to the vice provost for diversity for the Chicago campus, is working with a task force to pass legislation to make undocumented stu-dents eligible for aid from the state.
“They’ve put draft lan-
guage forward for an amendment to that bill, and that’s been submitted for final wording,” Kambanis said.
Amalia Pallares, co-chair of the Undocumented Stu-dent Task Force, said the bill is in the early stages of advocacy, which aims to find supporters of the legislation.
“Undocumented stu-dents have no access to federal funds, and we can’t change that until there’s a new immigration law at the federal level, but state leg-islators have the authority to decide how much state
funding undocumented stu-dents have access to.” Pal-lares said.
Valdivieso said the pro-cesses of applying for school and obtaining finan-cial aid can be “hurdles” for undocumented students like himself.
“It’s really unfair because you don’t know where to go, you don’t know who to contact,” Valdivieso said. “Especially because people who are undocu-mented who are of a low-er socioeconomic status, we don’t know people who went to college, our parents
didn’t attend a university or do schooling in this country, so the whole process is very foreign.”
Valdivieso said he had to call contacts outside of the University and was eventu-ally directed to the Office of Minority Student Affairs, which guided him through the procedure of applying.
The Illinois Student Sen-ate is reviewing a resolution in support of the legislation. The bill is currently tabled in the Committee on Com-munity and Governmental Affairs but could be voted on at the student senate’s
March 4 meeting, said ISS Vice President-External Matt Hill.
Valdivieso said he has never taken his education for granted and sees it as a privilege.
“Education is something I see, like, if you’re lucky you get it,” said Valdivieso. “I take my education very seriously. I wanted to pursue it in the sense that I want to go back to my country, and I want to help other students who are facing a similar situation.”
Beside financial burdens and language barriers,
Valdivieso said skeptical attitudes toward undocu-mented people in the Unit-ed States can be a source of stress to overcome.
“There are undocument-ed students from all over the world. We all have dif-ferent histories and differ-ent pasts, and I think people need to see us as individu-als not just immigrants just coming in and trying to get something out of it,” Valdivieso said. “We’re just trying to find our place in the world.”
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COREY LEWENSTEIN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEDr. Mohammad Abu-Salha, center, leads mourners in prayer over the caskets of his daughters Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and Razan Abu-Salha, 19, and Yusor's husband Deah Barakat, 23, during a funeral service at the Method Road Soccer Complex on Feb. 12 on N.C. State's campus.
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Prosecutors pursue death penalty for killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina
Lawyer for Washington Post journalist previously jailed in Iran begins to look at case
Venezuela president orders U.S. to downsize embassy amid his ‘endless coup’ campaign
Prosecutors in North Carolina plan to seek the death penalty for a man charged with shooting and killing three Muslim stu-dents in an apartment com-plex parking lot last month.
A spokeswoman for Dur-ham County Superior Court confirmed District Attor-
ney Roger Echols’ office will try Craig Hicks on capital murder charges in the fatal shootings of Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife, Yusor Mohammad, and her sister, Razan Moham-mad Abu-Salha, in a Chapel Hill, N.C., neighborhood. All three attended college
in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina.
Hicks is being held on three counts of first-degree murder, and Echols’ office is still weighing possible hate crime charges. The families of the students have called the slayings a hate crime.
BEIRUT — The newly appointed attorney for a Washington Post journalist jailed for more than seven months in Iran said Mon-day that she had begun the lengthy process of review-
ing confidential files in the high-profile case.
Reached by telephone in the Iranian capital, the law-yer, Leila Ahsan, said she hoped that “within a couple of weeks” she would com-
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s President Nico-las Maduro stepped up his campaign against an “end-less coup” he says exists against his government, ordering the U.S. to down-
size its embassy in Caracas and detaining a U.S. pilot.
The U.S. will have 15 days to reduce its embassy staff to 17 people from 100, For-eign Minister Delcy Rodri-guez said Monday at a news
conference in Caracas. U.S. officials who remain in the South American country will be required to obtain approval for any meetings they hold in the country, Maduro said.
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A lthough many students are somewhat adjust-ed to the seem-ingly perpetu-
al freezing Illinois weather by now, let’s face it: These last few weeks of winter have been brutal. Snow, ice and bit-ter cold temperatures are not ideal when walking to class. Luckily, students can, and do, bypass the inclement weath-er with the Champaign-Urba-na Mass Transit District’s bus service. With the high fre-quency of buses running and variety of routes throughout the week, this is a service we much appreciate.
But, like anything else, there’s always room for im-provement, and students have the opportunity to make that happen.
This year’s spring referen-dum will include two ques-tions related to CUMTD ser-vice. The first will renew the bus service until 2018, and students would pay a $2 in-crease in student fees.
The second aims to increase service to the College of Vet-erinary Medicine, Florida Avenue Residence Hall and Pennsylvania Avenue Resi-dence Hall. If it passes, the transportation fee will in-crease by $1 to provide a more direct route.
Students can vote on these questions and more online March 4 and 5 at vote.illinois.edu.
We strongly support voting “yes” to both questions, de-spite the increased fees, and we hope other students will follow suit. In the long run, what’s an additional $3 — es-pecially in exchange for such a necessary service for so many of us on campus.
The fee already gives us un-limited access to the service, so if raising the price means improving it, why not?
We’re college students — many of us don’t have cars, so the CUMTD service is a fast-er (and warmer) way for us to get around. For students who live in the farther corners of campus, the bus service is a reliable way to get to class every day.
Adding another bus route for those corners of campus would also benefit our student body — there’s a reason Flor-ida Avenue Residence Hall is called “FAR.”
Not to mention, the bus-es are useful beyond just the campus area because the CUMTD service helps stu-dents travel off campus as well. This provides more op-portunities to get acquainted with the area and enjoy the food, shopping and cultural offerings found outside Cam-pustown.
Even though those bus-es get crowded during these cold winters, we appreciate the brief moments of warmth and reliable transportation CUMTD provides us. As such, we urge students to check out the spring referendum this coming Wednesday and Thursday and consider vot-ing to improve a service that many of us need and utilize every day.
It seems nearly impossi-ble to escape the hyste-ria surrounding “Game
of Thrones.” Our universi-ty does not offer a class or seminar on the show specifi-cally at this time, unlike the University of Virginia, but I believe the spirit of the Sev-en Kingdoms is prevalent on our campus.
From professors proclaim-ing “Winter is coming!” to sports announcers compar-ing one of our football team’s plays to “Valyrian steel,” it’s pretty clear that the show has a campus presence.
I finally gave in and started watching “Game of Thrones” in all of its premium-cable-channel-glory last summer. I, like many of my fellow “Game of Thrones” fans, immediately fell victim to the magnificence of the character Hodor.
In case you aren’t part of the on-average 14.4 million viewers of the show, Hodor is a giant-like character who serves as an aide to a child with a disability on the show and is only capable of saying one word — “Hodor.”
Many “Game of Thrones” fans, or “Westebros” as I like to sometimes call them, might not be familiar with Hodor actor Kristian Nairn,
who is actually a disc jockey. Nairn has taken his naturally titled “Rave of Thrones” par-ty around the world, including shows in the United Kingdom and MGM Grand in Detroit.
Last week, he brought the Westeros to Champaign-Urba-na by performing at the Can-opy Club.
While I am not huge into the house or electron-ic music scene, I was still fasci-nated and perplexed to see Hodor get the Can-opy Club (to quote song-smith iLove-Makonnen) “going up on a Tuesday.”
As strange as the event was for me, I think that Kristian Nairn’s DJ set was a good example of how exciting a well-rounded life can be.
Nairn showed through his DJ performance that even though he’s an actor on one of the big-gest shows in the world, he’s still quite interested in pursu-ing his original passion, music.
In turn, “Game of Thrones” fans get to see a different and deeper side of an actor who plays one of the simplest char-acters on television.
Nairn could have one of the coolest resumes in the world due to his balance of work and
play. He embraces his identity on the show within his DJ set, and because of that blend, he is able to draw crowd members who may not normally attend raves.
In an interview with Detroit Metro Times, Nairn discussed his rave’s association with the character of Hodor saying,
“I’m a DJ and musician to the core of my being. It just happens to be a great way to let the world see that.”
I think this is a lesson we can all learn as students. Just because we may seem pretty content in one area of
life, like writing or painting, does not mean we should not pursue other areas of life we may be interested in.
No matter what your focus, job or major may be, college is a perfect time for us to find our inner Hodor. Whether you’re a student, king, or the Mother of Dragons, it’s important to bal-ance and explore our work and passions. Living a well-round-ed life can be fulfilling and can give us a chance to meet a wide range of people and explore our talents. It’s fascinating to see different sides of people, famous or not.
Some of our interests may seem outside the bounds of our
college, major or even comfort zone.
In fact, if we are able to com-bine these various interests as Nairn does, the results can be pretty interesting and unfor-gettable. I won’t soon forget the moment I saw Hodor walk out on stage and start laying down beats that were wilder than a wildling.
As the crowd chanted “Hodor!” Nairn took his hands (the same hands that have car-ried Bran Stark through the Seven Kingdoms) and made a heart sign at the crowd. There is no shortage of love between Hodor and his fans.
Who knows what other unique combinations we may see in the future from actors we love. Maybe an “Orange is the New Blacklight Party” or “Break Dancing Bad.” Maybe even “House Party of Cards.”
I’ll leave the wordplay up to the professionals.
We have such a wide range of organizations and opportu-nities available to us at the Uni-versity that it’s very easy to try different passions. There are plenty of registered student organizations and events to attend and join offering numer-ous opportunities. We might not be international stars of a hit TV show like Nairn, but if we continue to dream big and explore our passions, we just might stumble upon our very own Iron Throne.
Camron is a junior in LAS. [email protected]
Rave of Thrones: Exploring new interests
No matter what your focus, job
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Opening up the CNN homepage today, I was shocked at what I saw.
A headline plastered across the page read “Teen Killed after Facebook Fight.”
Being a young adult in this modern society, I have witnessed many a Facebook fight. From time to time, fights centered on gossip and boy drama fill 60-comment-long threads on statuses.
However, one of these fights was taken too far when a 14-year-old was killed after agreeing to meet the girl she was arguing with at a park. Upon arrival she was shot by a man who is accused of being the other girl’s boyfriend.
Just last April, Chicago dealt with the tragic death of two teenagers and evidence concluded that the violence started because of a fight on Facebook. These occurrenc-es are happening more fre-quently than many think.
Conflict is a major part of our lives, but is some-thing that should be han-dled outside the walls of the social media empire. Conflict online is extremely imper-sonal and makes it almost impossible to see expres-sions and emotions.
People need to stop hid-ing behind their screens and
embrace the power of a face-to-face conversation. Speak-ing to someone in person can not only save your feelings but it can prevent future fights by communicating what is truly bothering you.
In the past few years, social media has taken off and new outlets are being launched yearly.
In November 2013, Yik Yak, an anonymous Twitter-esque application, was cre-ated, allow-ing users to anony-mously post short blurbs on a feed. Oftentimes, these posts are about events and people on campus. Yik Yak has proven to be a seri-ous prob-lem on many campuses and many believe it perpetuates cyberbullying.
The University of Illinois, like any institution, strives to portray the best image of ourselves to the country and, most importantly, to pro-spective students. If those students coming in saw our Yik Yak page, I wonder what they would really think of our university.
By logging onto an app like Yik Yak, users are able to hide behind their digital words and say things that they might not say if they
were facing a person that second. This is the overarch-ing problem with all social media.
Social media was not cre-ated to facilitate fights, but it is intended as a way to connect friends and allow people to keep in touch even when they are far away.
Facebook’s mission state-ment says, “People use Face-book to stay connected with friends and family, to dis-
cover what’s going on in the world and to share and express what mat-ters to them.” While, argu-ably, many of these Face-book fights start because people are expressing beliefs that matter to
them, there is no reason for these fights to get hostile.
Nowhere in this mission statement does it mention that Facebook should be used to host fights between friends.
Social media needs to stop being a dumping ground for people to get out their frus-trations. If people were more dedicated to making Face-book and other social media sites peaceful places, we would not be seeing fights on these platforms taken to extreme levels.
People of all ages need to
pay better attention to what they put on social media, how it affects their reputa-tion, the reputation of those organizations they represent and how their words could affect or hurt people who might see the comments.
Conflict is important in all of our lives. It helps us with problem solving and tells us the true context of some relationships, and while some, including myself, do not necessarily like it, it is necessary to have healthy relationships. People fight, but we do not need to make these fights public and skip the step of talking to the per-son one-on-one.
While we have all been guilty of misusing social media in one way or another, now is the time to stop that trend and start practicing healthy conflict-resolution strategies. We should start by talking through the issues we have with one another in person and vowing to stop the public fights on social media.
A Facebook fight ended a young and healthy life. Clearly, now is the time to shut down the computer and start having discussions.
Stick to using Facebook and other social media sites to stay connected with friends and family, to dis-cover what’s going on in the world and to share and express what matters to you.
Rebecca is a senior in [email protected]
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my culture,” said Eddie Lu, captain of Special Ops and junior in Engineering. “It is very popular in Asian coun-tries, especially in Taiwan.”
Lu said Chinese yo-yo also taught him the art of discipline and patience, cit-ing the many hours it takes to perfect a trick.
“Most recently, I learned how to juggle three yo-yos at once, (which) took me six years of practice just to be able to do,” Lu said.
Lu and Jason Pao, mem-ber of Special Ops and junior in Engineering, used to watch Chinese yo-yo performances as children, hoping they would one day perform on stage too. Pao
would ask his mother to vid-eo tape the performances so he could watch them again later and learn the tricks.
When Pao started his freshman year at the Uni-versity, he began looking for a Chinese yo-yo group but had no luck. It wasn’t until he coincidentally ran into Lu halfway across the globe that he learned about Special Ops.
“That summer when I went to Taiwan, I met Eddie,” Pao said. “We real-ized we both went to the same school, and I joined the next year.”
George Cheng, senior in LAS, had not only heard about the group before coming to the University, but he had set out to find it almost immediately after arriving on campus.
“My freshman year on Quad day I came out spe-cifically looking for TASC Special Ops because I heard about them by going on YouTube,” he said. “I started yo-yoing when I was in eighth grade. Then after going on YouTube to look for videos on more yo-yo tricks, I found UIUC and saw they had a team.”
While the performers get a sense of satisfaction from entertaining crowds and representing their cul-ture, they said there is also a sense of self-fulfillment that comes with perform-ing Chinese yo-yo.
“It’s more like a cultural awareness thing,” Pao said. “For me, it’s a big part of my life.”
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the way I want to be,’ ” Beck-ett said. “Dick Thies is that kind of guy and that’s why the award is so meaningful.”
When Thies’ name was mentioned to the other law-yers during a commit-tee meeting, he said their reaction of approval was instantaneous.
When Thies received the phone call that he won the award, he said he was speechless.
“To try to express how you feel when anyone says that you have some of the qualities of Abraham Lincoln is just mind-boggling,” he said. “In fact, it still is.”
But when looking at all of the community service that Thies has done in C-U, it’s not surprising he won the award, said his son John Thies. John and his brother David are both lawyers at their father’s firm.
Thies’ activities include being a member and former president of the Kiwanis Club of Champaign-Urbana and Urbana Association of Com-merce, a chairman of the Cit-izens Advisory Board of the Urbana School Board and Sal-vation Army Advisory Board, among others.
John said he was delight-ed when he heard his father won the award. He felt Thies had earned it after all of the accomplishments in his career.
“As lawyers, you’re in a position within the com-munity that is held in such respect,” John said. “There is
a real opportunity to make a significant difference around you.”
Thies said he believes practicing law and commu-nity service go hand in hand and would advise every young lawyer to get involved in their community.
“It’s a great way to get exposure ... and to see what your values are,” Thies said.
Thies said young lawyers today might overlook com-munity service because the profession is more complex. He said lawyers now have to specialize their practice, but in the last 60 years, he was able to work on a vari-ety of cases such as airplane crashes, libel and slander at newspapers, personal injury, environmental law and inter-national negotiations.
Born in Scottsbluff, Neb., in 1931, Thies said he never thought about becoming a lawyer until he came to the University as a history major.
“My family didn’t have a lawyer, didn’t know anything about lawyers, didn’t get in trouble where they needed a lawyer,” he said. “It’s a profes-sion that allows you to serve other people. That’s your pri-mary function — helping peo-ple solve problems.”
After receiving his under-graduate degree, Thies con-tinued at the University and studied law. Then he served on active duty in the Judge Advocate General’s Depart-ment of the U.S. Air Force for two years and taught a law class at the University.
He said he decided to stay in Urbana when he met his wife Marilyn, local resident and University alumna. Thies
said that the C-U community is a wonderful place to raise a family and practice law.
Along with his wife and two sons, Thies has three daugh-ters, 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
But despite his large fam-ily, Thies still loves the oppor-tunity to meet new people, and at the end of a case, being able to say he had a satisfied client that he really helped.
“When you are starting out, it’s sure nice when that first client comes through the door. That was a great experi-ence to think that somebody (was) going to come see me,” he said.
Along with all of Thies’ community service accom-plishments, Thies has been a leader in many law associations.
He was president of the Illi-nois State Bar Association in 1986 and 1987, a member of the American Bar Associa-tion Board of Governors and a cofounder and former presi-dent of the Bar Association for the Central and Southern Federal Districts of Illinois. Thies even ran for state sena-tor in 1964.
With so many honors, Thies said he recently found a box full of about 30 plaques while cleaning out his house to move to a retirement village with his wife.
For now, Thies will contin-ue working beside his new-est and favorite award in his office, which is located inside Urbana’s Lincoln Square building.
He smiles: “Lawyers sel-dom retire.”
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This divide is also prev-alent in instruments that are weighted by gender stereotypes, discouraging some women from picking up masculine pieces like a guitar and some men from playing feminized equiva-lents like the flute.
Vivian McConnell, 2013 University alumna, comes from a background as a frontwoman with her two successful bands that both originated in Champaign: Santah, which has one other female member, and Grand-kids. With a cellist in one of her bands, McConnell said that sound system operators often assume it is she who plays the cello, opposed to the guitar.
“I find it exciting and relieving to perform with a band that has a female mem-ber, often times because we end up discussing what it’s like to be the only girl in the band,” she said. “In the C-U community, I think there is a really supportive scene for female musicians. I always felt comfortable performing and had a lot of support from other female musicians and friends.”
Within prevalent sym-phony orchestras in the U.S., the divide between men and women continues. According to composer and programmer Suby Raman, only 38 percent of the Chi-cago Symphony Orchestra is women.
However, the Champaign-Urbana music community is diverse, with musicians from both ends of the age spectrum, genres that appeal to the most eclec-tic listener — and a strong female presence.
Ryan Groff, frontman of Elsinore, noted the strong female musicianship that has been on a recent upswing in the community.
“It definitely feels like there has been a huge rise in female musicians who per-form well and get attention from the general public. I feel like right now we have the biggest group of talent-ed and popular female musi-cians and frontwomen than any other time in the past 20 years,” Groff said. “We’re hitting a more gender-equal phase right now.”
However, there are still stereotypes that prevail in all genres of the music sphere.
“I’ve definitely noticed some passive and aggres-sive sexism since I’ve been a touring musician,” Groff said. “A lot of the time it’s the ‘Oh look, that girl’s play-ing a guitar and singing!’ thing sneaking around a crowd.”
But in Champaign-Urba-na, that discouragement seems to be close to non-existent, according to one of the most prominent fig-ureheads in the music community.
Kayla Brown, frontwom-an of We The Animals, has never felt that her gender has prohibited her from functioning as a musician in the C-U community. Brown said that females have unique challenges in a male-dominated scene, but everyone has their own unique challenges.
“The challenges aren’t discouraging; they just make me better at what I do. With the sheer amount of female musicians out here playing regularly, it is a testament to the envi-ronment we live and play in,” Brown said.
The environment that Champaign-Urbana brings to musicians can make them forget the harsh realities that the larger picture has on gender inequality.
“There have been a lot of instances where I feel isolated for being the only female in any of the bands playing, but it’s usu-ally because somebody steps out of bounds and says something just plain inappropriate to me, often times without even know-ing it,” McConnell said. “I am lucky to say that I have learned how to deal with a lot of this, but C-U was a wonderful place to boost my confidence as a female musician.”
Though women aren’t missing out on opportuni-
ties due to their gender, individuals stepping out of the norm and stating inap-propriate comments are nothing new to women in the music industry. Alleya Weibel, sophomore in Music and violinist in Tara Ter-ra, feels that sexual harass-ment is an issue that needs to be addressed.
“I’ve just been to so many shows where people ‘fall in love’ with a singer but don’t make an effort to get to know them outside of what they do on stage. They just cat-call them and that’s it,” Weibel said.
As a promoter at The Highdive for several years, Ward Gollings has seen the music world change with varying trends. He has booked several female musicians, local and visit-ing, and doesn’t think it is any more difficult for wom-en in the rock industry to survive.
“I don’t think there are only a few (female musi-cians) these days. In the minority, sure, but there are tons of local female art-ists in 2015. Twenty years ago there were far less by comparison, but there were far less bands, period, then too,” Gollings said. “A quick glance at the recent Great Cover Up line-ups and over one-third of the acts had female musicians.”
Maddie Rehayem, music editor at Smile Politely and senior in Media, has viewed music inequality as a spectator rather than a performer.
“I never really cared about feminism until I started experiencing it in my own life,” Rehayem said. “Male privilege and white privilege is a thing, and you can’t truly under-stand it unless you’ve been affected by it.”
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PHOTO COURTESY OF TROY STANGERKayla Anne, frontwoman and guitarist for We the Animals, has been playing in bands since she was 15 years old in Champaign-Urbana.
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The performers pause onstage, holding two wood-en sticks in each hand, the connecting rope balancing an hourglass-shaped plas-tic piece made of two con-nected discs. With a regular upward-downward motion and fl icks of the wrist, the discs fl y in the air, around the backs of the performers and back and forth between them. This is Chinese yo-yo.
Chinese yo-yo isn’t just a toy for members of the Tai-wanese-American Students Club Special Ops , a Uni-versity performing group underneath TASC, a regis-tered student organization. For members, it carries cul-tural importance and identity as they seek to connect with
their traditions and roots on campus.
TASC Special Ops has been performing Chinese yo-yo for more than 10 years. While there are 12 total members who practice together at least once a week, only six perform. Special Ops is often invited to perform at cultural shows and events on campus as well as across the country — recently performing at a Lunar New Year festival in Indiana .
Many of the members grew up in areas of the U.S., where there are a large Chinese or Taiwanese population. There they learned Chinese yo-yo, along with other cultural activities.
Some members learned to yo-yo from Chinese school — a weekly program for chil-
dren that features Chinese lessons followed by an hour of extracurricular activi-ties, which also included ping pong, calligraphy, badminton and cultural dances.
These activities were not only a source of entertain-ment, but they also instilled a sense of pride within the students.
“Chinese yo-yo serves as a way to identify myself with
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Living a life like LincolnBY ANNABETH CARLSONASSISTANT COPY CHIEF
When Richard Thies, 83, was admitted to the Illinois State Bar Association to prac-tice law in 1955 , he took the oath at the Centennial across from the Supreme Court building in Springfi eld. Look-ing out at the city where Abra-ham Lincoln once practiced law, Thies remembered feel-ing excited that he could now practice in the same court-rooms that Lincoln did.
Nearly 60 years later, he would win an award that would equate his career with Lincoln’s.
On Feb. 12, Thies, an Urba-na lawyer at the fi rm Webber & Thies, P.C., was awarded the prestigious “Lincoln the Lawyer” Award by The Abra-
ham Lincoln Association . The award was presented in Springfi eld during the orga-nization’s annual Lincoln’s Birthday Banquet, an event that has seen notable guests like President Barack Obama in 2009.
Thies is only the 11th per-son to receive the honor from the association, which looks for people who have carried similar values of Lincoln in their careers. Other recipi-ents of the award have been judges, legal scholars and governors.
Steven Beckett was on the committee that chose Thies as the award’s recipient . Beckett, who is also an Urba-na lawyer and lecturer at the University’s College of Law, said he has known of Thies
since growing up in Urbana. He said they offi cially met when he was in law school at the University in 1972 and have known each for more than 40 years.
“Don’t you think that the people we respect the most lead by example? It isn’t so
much what it is that they have to say, but we see how they live their lives and we see what they do for other people and the community and by seeing and observing them, we sort of go, ‘Wow, that’s
PHOTOS COURTESY OF RICHARD THIESRichard Thies, a lawyer from Urbana, accepts the “Lincoln the Lawyer” Award by The Abraham Lincoln Association on Feb. 12.
C-U fosters diverse musicBY FRAN WELCHSTAFF WRITER
When it comes to iconic rock stars, the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards and Jimmy Page dominate the pop culture imagery. But over the last decade, more and more top grossing music icons have started to shift the gender ratio.
Taking a closer look at the music industry, it’s evident there is an underrepresenta-tion of women, making some feel two steps behind, cre-ating a gender divide seen within most genres of music.
Many female musicians fi nd that on a larger, national scale, the music industry is too daunting. But in Cham-paign-Urbana, the gender
divide in music feels close to nonexistent for many artists.
Several prominent music festivals in the U.S, includ-ing Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival, Coachella and Bonnaroo, refl ect the gender disparity between male and female performers in the music industry as a whole, according to data col-lected by Nashville Scene . Of those music festivals, the highest difference between male and female performers is at Pitchfork, where only 28 percent of the perform-ers are female. At Coachel-la, out of 164 performers, only 28 are female .
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POINT-COUNTERPOINTBY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER
The Illini men’s basketball team has just two games left to make a fi nal push to the NCAA
tournament. Trying to avoid back-to-
back trips to the NIT, Illi-nois looks to close out the season with back-to-back wins against Nebraska and Purdue this week.
The Illini lost to Nebras-ka in mid-January in one of its ugliest games of the year, scoring a season-low 43 points in the 53-43 loss. Illinois shot 27.3 percent from the fi eld and 20.7 from behind the arc.
Against Purdue, it was a different story. Illinois was boosted by a 12-3 run late in the game to beat the Boil-ermakers 66-57 later that month.
Two more victories will get the Illini to the 20-win mark for the fi rst time since 2012-13, when the team fi n-ished the regular season with 21 wins and advanced to the round of 32 in the NCAA tournament.
After the team’s 86-60 win over Northwestern on Saturday, head coach John Groce said the team is exe-cuting on both sides of the fl oor.
“We were good in both areas (offensively and defensively),” Groce said. “(It was) maybe as high of a mark in both areas simul-taneously we’ve had, maybe even all season. Certainly
for the fi rst time in a while.”
Living and dying by the three
Illinois struggled shoot-ing the ball against Mich-igan State and Iowa last week. The team shot a com-bined 31 percent from the fl oor in the two losses and scored just 53 and 60 points, respectively.
But in their win Saturday, the Illini shot 47.4 percent, draining 14 threes through-out the game.
Five Illini players scored in double-digits Saturday, spreading the offensive attack around the roster.
“We don’t care who is scoring,” senior guard Ray-vonte Rice said. “We’re just looking for each other and playing unselfi sh.”
Rice had 19 points and seven rebounds in his fi rst start since injuring his hand and being suspended in January.
The Illini players know their loss against Iowa was uncharacteristic.
Senior guard Ahmad Starks had six turnovers against the Hawkeyes. The guard has averaged just 1.1 turnover per game through-out the season.
“That’s a fl uke for me,” Starks said, looking back on the game.
Starks reverted back to his average Saturday with just one turnover and 17 points.
Foul trouble plagues IlliniThe Illini have found
themselves in foul trou-ble, sending teams into the bonus in every half in their last three games.
Illinois has committed 64 fouls over its past three contests. Ten alone have belonged to freshman Ler-on Black.
While Groce has called on his players to play with a higher intensity, the team is looking to balance its aggression with responsi-ble play.
Illinois has allowed oppo-nents 50 points at the free throw line in its last three games alone.
With two games remain-ing in the regular season and an NCAA tournament bid on the line, the Illini are looking to limit giveaways and cash in on opportunities themselves.
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Power rankingsDAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTEditor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini basketball staff ranks the basketball teams in the Big Ten 1-14 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.
2. WISCONSIN (1)The No. 5 Badgers dropped their fi rst game to a Big Ten opponent since Jan. 11 against then-No. 14 Maryland before beating Michigan State.
3. MICHIGAN STATE (2)After knocking off the Illini on Feb. 22, the Spartans have hit a cold streak and dropped their last two games to Minnesota and Wisconsin.
1. MARYLAND (LAST WEEK: 3)The No. 14 Terrapins are led by freshman phenom Melo Trimble, who has averaged 16.2 points per game on the season, while leading Maryland to fi ve straight wins.
6. PURDUE (4)The Boilermakers’ frontcourt size has translated to a conference-leading 5.4 blocks per game but hasn’t helped the team in the win column. The Boilermakers have still lost two straight games.
4. IOWA (5)Iowa is in the midst of a four-game winning streak that has put the team in a tie for fourth place in the Big Ten.
8. INDIANA (7)Indiana lost its only game last week to a red-hot Northwestern squad. The Hoosiers remain inconsistent, having split their last four games.
7. ILLINOIS (8)After dropping a midweek matchup with Iowa, the Illini returned home and demolished Northwestern in a must-win game Saturday.
11. MICHIGAN (9)Michigan is last in the conference in rebounding differential and it has showed as of late as the Wolverines dropped their only game of the week to then-No. 14 Maryland.
5. OHIO STATE (6)After dropping two straight the previous week, the Buckeyes righted the ship with back-to-back wins over Nebraska and Purdue.
9. MINNESOTA (10)Sitting at 6-10 in conference play, the Golden Gophers have been inconsistent all season, but the team showcased its talent in a 96-90 overtime win against Michigan State.
10. NORTHWESTERN (11)The Wildcats beat Indiana before having a four-game winning streak snapped in Champaign on Saturday.
12. NEBRASKA (12)The Cornhuskers’ play has been erratic throughout the year and the team is currently 13th in the Big Ten in scoring margin on the season.
13. PENN STATE (13)D.J. Newbill still leads the Big Ten in scoring, at 20.4 points per game, but the Nittany Lions have struggled lately and lost their last fi ve as a result.
14. RUTGERS (14)The Scarlet Knights continued their losing ways on the week and their current conference losing streak stands at 12 games.
Illinois, Nebraska familiar foes in women’s Big Ten tournamentBY BRETT LERNERSTAFF WRITER
Now that the regular season is over, it’s tourna-ment time for the Illinois women’s basketball team. While a 15-15 (6-12 Big Ten) record doesn’t put the Illini in NCAA tournament strik-ing distance, they’ll have a chance to make some noise in the Big Ten tournament.
Coming off Saturday’s home win on Senior Day over Michigan, head coach Matt Bollant and his squad have some momentum head-ing into the conference tour-nament. The win over Michi-gan landed Illinois the No. 10 seed in the Big Ten tourna-ment, allowing it to bypass
Wednesday’s fi rst round of the tournament.
Being the No. 10 seed pits the Illini against No. 7 seed Nebraska, a team that was ranked in the top 25 nation-ally for the majority of the season but is currently unranked.
Third time’s the charm?The Cornhuskers will be
a familiar opponent for the Illini when they take to the fl oor at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, on Thursday night. Illinois lost both of its meet-ings with Nebraska this sea-son, but that doesn’t tell the full story.
The combined defi cit of the two games was sev-en points, and Illinois was forced to play both of those games without senior Ivory Crawford, who was sidelined with a knee injury. While the Illini have been competitive against the Cornhuskers this year, it will be a tall task for Illinois to fi nally get in the win column against Nebras-ka — the reigning Big Ten tournament champions.
“(Nebraska) has four seniors that are really tal-ented and won the tourna-ment last year,” Bollant said. “So I’m sure they have a lot of positive feelings and
Editor’s note: This is a debate about the Illinois basketball team. Two members of The Daily Illini staff discuss whether the Illini will make the NCAA tournament.
Sam Sherman: So Illini basketball sits at 18-11, 8-8 in the Big Ten and they are on the NCAA tournament bubble with two games left. Do you think they will make it?
Steve Bourbon: No.Sherman: Well, I
believe that they will. That is based a lot on the desperation that I see in this team on the court and, more importantly, in coach John Groce.
Bourbon: This team is trending in the wrong direction. Yes, they destroyed Northwest-ern. But they made 14
threes. Northwestern’s defense just hemorrhag-es threes — they’re the worst in the conference in defending the three. So both times Illinois played Northwestern, they roast-ed them from 3-point land. But against a real defense, Illinois strug-gles to score. Nebraska is a bad team but has two really high-level play-ers in Shavon Shields and Terran Petteway, which at least gives the Huskers a puncher’s chance.
Sherman: Obvious-ly, Illinois lost already to Nebraska earlier this year (Jan. 11) in one of the ugliest games you’ll ever see.
Bourbon: I actually fell asleep during that game. That’s how bad it was.
Sherman: This argu-ment ends if Illinois loses to Nebraska, but you saw what the Illini did to a bad Wildcats team on a hot streak. Nebraska is a bad team on a cold streak right now and I don’t see that reversing. I see Illi-nois beating Nebraska.
Bourbon: And me too, I’m just saying nothing is easy in the Big Ten. A win would put Illi-nois at 19-11, 9-8 in the
conference.Sherman: So 19 wins,
going into Mackey Are-na, always a tough place to play going up against a Purdue team that has exceeded many people’s expectations this year. I think Purdue is a really good team, and a moti-vated AJ Hammons is the best player in the Big Ten.
Bourbon: I can’t wait for that to blow up in your face when he has two points, two rebounds and five fouls.
Sherman: I still think Illinois is going to win this game because I think this is a season that John Groce needs to make the tournament.
Bourbon: He’s not get-ting fired.
Sherman: Yeah, he’s not getting fired. But, the conversation may offi-cially start about what does he bring to the table if three years in, you have ...
Bourbon: One tourna-ment appearance.
Sherman: Exactly. There have been some injury issues and suspen-sions. But if you miss the
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' head coach John Groce reacts to the offi cials after calling a timeout during the game against Indiana at State Farm Center on Jan. 18. The Illini lost 80-74.
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois' Ivory Crawford dribbles the ball during the game against Nebraska on Jan. 12, 2014. The senior could play in the fi nal game of her Illini career in the Big Ten tournament.
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THE FINAL STRETCHILLINI PUSH FOR NCAA TOURNAMENT BERTH
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Will Illinois make the NCAA tournament?
The NFL Draft Com-bine can, in many ways, be seen as anal-
ogous to the NFL’s version of an auto show. Instead of the latest Corvette or Porsche, NFL scouts are looking for the next break-out star to fix whatever ails their team.
Three weeks ago in Indi-anapolis, the eyes of the NFL were transfixed on what the combine would reveal about the presump-tive top-two quarterbacks in the upcoming draft. Since the conclusion of the college football season and the Super Bowl, the foot-ball world has debated who should be the first quarter-back chosen: Marcus Mari-ota or Jameis Winston.
The combine is normal-ly figured into deciding the debate of who should be taken first in the draft. This year, though, in the case of Mariota and Win-ston, the combine has only served to enhance the debate. That goes to fig-
ure as both quarterback prospects were universally judged to have impressed scouts in Indianapolis. If anything, the results of the scouting combine left most questions unanswered.
The metric that most ends up in favor of Mariota is the 40-yard dash, where the former Oregon quar-terback ran a 4.52, where-as Winston finished with a 4.99. In this instance, it would be unwise to read too much into this wide disparity.
For Mariota, speed is a crucial aspect of the skills he would bring to an NFL franchise. He is primar-ily known as a scrambling quarterback. Winston, on the other hand, is exclu-sively known as a pocket passer who only rarely will use his feet as a weapon.
Comparing either of them by simple physi-cal metrics is irrelevant since both quarterbacks bring fundamentally dif-ferent tools to the table. Winston is closer to a tra-ditional NFL quarterback, hence, he seems to still be the favorite for the No. 1 pick. Mariota represents the new, emerging breed of NFL quarterback in the
mold of Colin Kaepernick, Russell Wilson and Robert Griffin III, all of whom can excel while improvis-ing outside the pocket.
From a purely football standpoint, Winston ranks higher than Mariota giv-en his aptitude as a pure pocket passer. Though that does not mean Winston will be a better NFL play-er, it does likely mean he is the safer choice.
Like many things in football, though, the quar-terback chosen first might ultimately be decided on nothing football related at all. This is the 1,000 pound gorilla hanging on Win-ston’s back. What might decide the fate of the draft, and the NFL careers of both quarterbacks, are the swirling questions and concerns regarding Winston’s maturity and character.
As much as Winston was in the headlines for win-ning the 2013 national championship at Florida State and his late game heroics, he is equally known for all of the dam-aging headlines his name has been in. Winston was likely one of the most con-troversial and divisive
players in college football in the recent years.
Most of this controver-sy centers on his high-pro-file accusation and sub-sequent investigation for sexual assault. Though he was cleared of any wrong-doing, the incident none-theless reflects a lack of maturity that might hold negative ramifications for Winston in the NFL. With the increasing atten-tion throughout the NFL on issues relating to sex-ual assault and domestic violence, Winston will be more scrutinized. While the off the field issues may not affect his draft status, they certainly could affect his success going forward.
Other character issues such as a suspension last season for vulgar state-ments and sideline argu-ments further knock Win-ston’s case.
Mariota is essentially the anti-Winston. He has never been the center of an off the field controversy and he is lauded for his humil-ity and other positive char-acter traits. If Mariota is chosen above Winston, it may be likely that teams were scared off by Win-ston’s character flaws.
In the modern, image-conscious NFL, executives might think twice about taking a chance on Win-ston — not for what could happen on the field, but for what dangers might lay ahead off the field.
When Roger Goodell walks to the podium in
Chicago to announce the first pick of the 2015 NFL Draft, the name he reads out might be the result of factors not even related to football.
Dan is a junior in Media. [email protected] @danescalona77
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Sean asks: Who has the best beard in sports?
As someone who has tried many times to grow out a full beard, only to have people see me and say, “Stop it, Sam,” nobody appreciates a great beard more than me. But before I tell you about my favorite beard in sports, I want to tell you who has the worst beard in all of sports: James Harden.
I know a lot of you probably look at Hard-en and think his beard is awesome, but let me let you in on a little secret ... it’s not.
Yeah, it’s big, but it kind of just sits on his face with no context. All I see is a guy who turned his facial hair into a brand, and that’s not what beards should be about. In 2009, when Harden was a senior at Arizo-na State, The New York Times published a profile about the talented shooting guard.
After reading that profile, I found out that Harden originally grew his beard because he was too lazy to shave. That’s actually pretty funny — I could see myself growing a beard for the same reason. That being said, it’s still not close to the best beard in all of sports.
Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end, Brett Keisel owns the best beard in all of sports. Keisel’s beard is absolutely majestic.
If you’re not familiar with his beard, Google it right now. Stop reading my mail-bag for a second and look it up. If you don’t, then what I say next won’t mean very much to you.
When I look at Brett Keisel’s beard I feel
the need to buy a boat, nay, build a boat with my bare hands and travel around the world in it.
I would sail the world’s most dangerous seas and eventually return to the States after decades of travel. I would write doz-ens of award-winning novels chronicling my days at sea. A film would be adapted about my life, starring Ryan Gosling or Idris Elba, probably.
Does any of this sound crazy? Well it shouldn’t if you look at pictures of Brett Keisel’s beard for long enough.
Ryan asks: What are your thoughts on the MLB rule changes, and how do you think it will affect hitters?
Whenever I hear about MLB rule chang-es, I get nervous. Baseball is my favorite sport, and I have no problems with the pace of play. I know a lot of people who think baseball is boring because the games take too long. To that I say, stop watching base-ball. Baseball is an amazing game, and in my opinion, the pace of play is a part of what makes it so unique.
I love the fact that you can go get a hot dog or run to the bathroom and you prob-ably won’t miss much. You can sit back and enjoy yourself, whether you’re at a game or watching on TV. As fun as it is to go to bas-ketball or hockey games, sometimes I feel like I need to be on the edge of my seat the entire time, and there is no time to breathe.
I understand why baseball is looking to speed things up. The MLB doesn’t want fans to lose interest with three and a half hour games. The rules that new MLB com-missioner Rob Manfred introduced for this upcoming season include managers hav-ing to challenge plays from the dugout, strict batter’s box rules and the immediate return to play after commercial breaks.
I especially like that last rule. Lots of
time is wasted around commercial breaks.Red Sox star David Ortiz has been one of
the more vocal critics of the new rules. He has objected to the rule that requires bat-ters to keep one foot in the batter’s box at all times.
Some Red Sox coaches actually met with the MLB to clarify some of the rule changes, including the one Ortiz took the most issue with. The MLB said that umpires are going to be pretty lenient about enforcing the new rules, at least at the start.
After hearing this, I’m not nearly as worried about the rule changes. MLB is just trying to speed things up a little bit. Nothing drastic has happened.
I don’t think hitters will be too bothered by the new rules, assuming the umpires will be as lenient as reported. Otherwise, hitters will more than likely adjust, some-thing athletes do throughout their careers.
Sam is a senior in Media. [email protected] @Sam_Sherman5
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A columnist’s mailbag: Best beard in sports?
GEORGE BRIDGES TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEJames Harden (13) of the Houston Rockets started growing facial hair in college because he said he was too lazy to shave.
Mariota-Winston debate may be decided off field
BOB DEMAY TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEOregon quarterback Marcus Mariota drops back to pass during the first quarter of the CFP National Championship on Jan. 12, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
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THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM Tuesday, March 3, 2015 3B
beliefs coming into the tour-nament and I’m expecting Nebraska to play really well against us.”
Three-point shooting: Friend or foe?
Coming into the season, Bollant and his players expected to shoot well from behind the arc this season. While players like Kyley Simmons and Brittany Cart-er have been good from long range at times, the team’s shots have been inconsistent overall. In their most recent meeting with Michigan, the Illini shot 50 percent from the field, but only 23.5 per-cent from behind the arc.
“(Against Michigan State) we shot 27 threes and I’m not sure, with our person-nel, we should be shooting 27 threes,” Bollant said follow-ing the Michigan game. “As good as our post play is with Jacqui (Grant) and Chatrice (White) and as good as Ivory (Crawford) is penetrating, I think we need to be careful not to rely on (3-point shoot-ing) that much.”
In its two games against Nebraska, Illinois shot a combined 35.6 percent from 3-point range, about 4 per-cent higher than its sea-son total. Efficient 3-point shooting has kept the Illini in games against Nebraska
this season and that trend will likely need to continue for Illinois to pull off the upset.
The value of IvoryAs mentioned previous-
ly, the Illini played both of their games against Nebras-ka without Crawford. Her showing on Senior Day dem-onstrated why she’s so valu-able to this team — she’s going to finish her career in the top 20 in the program’s history in more than one sta-tistical category.
She finished the regular season finale with 19 points, nine rebounds, six assists and five steals and said after the game that the whole time she was overwhelmed with excitement.
For Crawford to avoid her career coming to a close Thursday, she’ll have to play up to her season aver-ages. She’s first on the team in points per game, third in rebounds per game, and third in total assists. She’s also one of the team’s on-floor leaders, one of two seniors who plays signifi-cant minutes.
“Both times we played (Nebraska) late in the game, we missed some opportuni-ties that the ball could have been in (Crawford’s) hands if she’d not been hurt,” Bol-lant said.
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BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER
Junior Giana O’Connor checked her phone after leading the Illinois wom-en’s gymnastics team to a second-place finish at the Masters Classic in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Sunday after-noon. She had a congratu-latory text message from former Illini gymnast Ali-na Weinstein. O’Connor had just tied Weinstein’s record all-around score of 39.625.
That’s when it sunk in for her.
“It felt amazing,” said O’Connor, the No. 8 all-arounder in the NCAA. “Honestly, I never thought that I would be able to do that, and to just share that record with her right now is just unbelievable, because she was just an amazing gymnast that I looked up to so much.”
When Weinstein set the record in her senior season in 2013, O’Connor was just a freshman. The two were the consistent all-around-ers on the team at the time, so Weinstein knows what O’Connor is capable of.
“Right off the bat, you knew that Giana was going to be such a powerful impact
to the Illini team, and if anything, she’s just always been the same competitor,” Weinstein said. “But now I think she’s really fine-tuned really minute details, and it’s allowed her to grow so immensely, to a point where she is one of the strongest competitors in the NCAA.”
Former All-American returns to Illinois
Illinois’ meet against Oklahoma from Friday was aired on the Big Ten Net-work on Monday night, and former All-American Wein-stein did commentary for the competition.
“It didn’t feel too weird just because I know these girls very well, and I think it’s super easy for me to talk about them,” Weinstein said. “I think just knowing them, it was easier for me to talk about their strengths, ‘cause I know them the best.”
Weinstein competed for Illinois from 2010-2013 and ended her career with 43 titles. She was the second gymnast in program histo-ry to score a perfect 10 (first on vault) and now shares the top all-around score.
After experiencing all of that, Weinstein couldn’t help but reminisce upon entering Huff Hall for the first time since graduating.
“When I walked in here earlier, I felt a little ner-vous, because I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. I’m here for a meet,’” Weinstein said on Friday. “But I’m not here to compete, so it was kind of a relief. And I’ve never been in Huff Hall in high heels, so it was definitely a change in pace.”
After leaving Illinois, Weinstein went on to Nebras-ka, where she was a volun-teer coach for the 2013-14 season. Following that, Weinstein joined Cirque du Soleil for the six-month Cor-teo tour in South America, which she called the best experience of her life.
Now, Weinstein is an account executive for Yelp and lives in San Francisco, but she does gymnastics commentary on the side for the Big Ten Network. It has allowed her to stay involved in the gymnastics communi-ty and see her former team grow.
“If anything, they’re a much better team than when I was on the team,” Weinstein said. “They just keep growing. And they’re so competitive, and it’s just so beautiful to watch all of the girls that I was on the team with grow into them-selves and be super competi-
tive and super confident per-formers. So that’s been the most enjoyable thing for me.”
Illinois honors seniors following meet
Senior Jordan Naleway was cautious when speaking about Friday’s senior night. She had already cried earli-er that day and didn’t want it to happen again.
“I’m just so thankful for the opportunities I’ve had here,” Naleway said. “It’s amazing being a Fighting Illini, and I know I’m going to look back on these four years, and they’re going to be the best four years of my life.”
Naleway joined her fel-low seniors Kelsi Eberly and Gaby Nguyen in being hon-ored after Illinois’ 197.875-195.950 loss to Oklahoma at Huff Hall, and bittersweet was the theme for the event.
“You have been with them for four years and watched them just grow and mature as not only athletes, but also just as people,” head coach Kim Landrus said. “The three (seniors) — they’re just three warmhearted, great people. I know they’re going to make it far in life. They’ve brought so much to Illinois gymnastics, and so, I always remember these nights.”
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O’Connor ties team record
BY COLE HENKESTAFF WRITER
Head coach Terri Sul-livan always talks about how important it is that her pitchers hit their spots. That has been the philos-ophy all season for the Illini. The team has four pitchers, and none of them are dominating, strikeout pitchers.
This was evidenced by the Illini’s 14-10 win against Georgia Southern on Friday, a game where three of the four Illini pitchers entered the game and where the Illini only recorded one strikeout.
Sullivan knows that for her team to be successful, it needs to work together. She said each pitcher has bought into pitching for contact and letting her defense do its job.
According to Sullivan, the trust between a pitcher and her defense is the most important part of working
together on the field, and sophomore pitcher Brean-na Wonderly agreed.
“It makes the game a lot easier when you know your defense has your back,” Wonderly said. “It allows me to just focus on hitting my spots.”
Big game for sophomore pitcher doesn’t count
On Sunday, the Illini had an afternoon game against Eastern Michigan. Sopho-more pitcher Jade Vecva-nags got the nod to start the game and took advantage of the opportunity.
Wonderly or senior Shelese Arnold have start-ed most of the games so far this season, but in Vecva-nags’ first start of the season, she shut out the Eagles and recorded five strikeouts.
“Jade pitched great today,” Sullivan said after Sunday’s game. “She hit
all of her spots, and they couldn’t hit her.”
Vecvanags breakout game was cut short, how-ever, due to a travel cur-few. The Illini, up 6-0 at the time, were two outs away from the game counting, so Vecvanags’ strong perfor-mance will not count to her season totals.
The strong start for the sophomore is a good sign for the Illini, who could use more depth to their pitching staff. Wonderly and Arnold have pitched a combined 83 percent of the Illini’s innings this season.
Getting closer to Big Ten play
The Illini have spent the past three weekends in the South, but their home schedule and Big Ten play is approaching quickly.
According to junior infielder Allie Bauch, the season gets a different feel
when the team gets to Big Ten play.
“It gives us a bigger sense of motivation,” Bauch said. “Big Ten play is when it is definitely time to get down to business.”
Conference play will be a change of pace for the Illi-ni, who will open with a three-game series against Minnesota at home.
While the team is excit-ed to get to Big Ten play, the players know how ben-eficial these early-season tournaments were to the growth of their team.
“This season more than any other, we saw the ben-efits of the tournaments we have been playing in,” Sul-livan said.
“We have been put into every situation I can think of this winter, and we are a much better team because of it.”
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Softball pitchers let defense do the talking
BY MICHAL DWOJAKASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
After suffering its first two losses of the season Sat-urday and Sunday, the Illi-nois baseball team made sure it would leave Springs Brooks Stadium in Conway, South Carolina, with a win against Coastal Carolina on Monday.
Showing little offensive intensity in the weekend’s four games prior to Mon-day’s, the Illini responded with a barrage of hits and a strong pitching performance to defeat Coastal Carolina 7-1. Illinois (9-2-1) won three of five games in South Caro-lina this weekend.
“It was good to see us break out of things today,” head coach Dan Hartleb said Monday. “After really strug-gling for four games offen-sively, we came out today and had a very good offen-sive day.”
Illinois’ players were not
happy with the team’s offen-sive performance in Satur-day and Sunday’s losses. Many felt that they weren’t taking quality at-bats to back up strong pitching perfor-mances. On Monday, the Illi-ni responded with 12 hits and every member of the start-ing lineup contributed at least one hit.
Second baseman Reid Roper led the way with three hits, an RBI and two runs scored. Roper started the Illini off in the first inning with an RBI single to center field that scored shortstop Adam Walton from second and gave Illinois a 1-0 lead.
The Illini added three runs in the top of the fourth on a David Kieran RBI single and a Pat McInerney double that scored two more, knock-ing Coastal Carolina pitch-er Cole Schaefer out of the game after 3 1/3 innings. They cushioned their lead with a Matthew James solo
homer in the eighth and Ryan Nagle two-RBI single in the ninth.
Although the team had 12 hits, what stood out to many of the players was that the hits were timely. Over the first three days of the week-end, Illinois hit balls right at fielders. Monday, the Illini got on base with line drives, putting the team in a rhythm, no matter who was at the plate.
“The type of lineup that we have is where one guy can step up and have a great weekend,” Roper said. “It’s great to have that kind of lineup where we can pick each other up and rely on each other.”
The seven runs were more than enough for the Illini pitching staff. Sopho-more Cody Sedlock pitched four hitless innings and only gave up two base runners on a walk and hit-by-pitch in his first start of the season.
The Illinois bullpen limited Coastal Carolina to two hits and one run and junior Tyler Jay pitched three innings to earn the save and give Sed-lock his second win of the season.
Sedlock’s performance was just one of Illinois’ many strong outings this weekend. The preseason outlook for the pitching staff was strong, and the Illini have held true to those expectations so far this season. Many on the team have said the pitching staff is the unit of the team that can make the difference when the postseason arrives.
“It energizes everyone on the team,” senior center fielder Will Krug said of the strong performances from the pitching staff. “It’s an intimidation factor on the team, it’s something that makes a huge difference.”
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tournament, the conversa-tion officially starts.
Bourbon: Instead of the perception of Groce being the savior, I think he would have to win fans back.
Sherman: Illinois, on paper, should make the tournament. The Tra-cy Abrams injury set them back further than I thought it would. I say that the Purdue game is a win. An angry Ray-vonte Rice is as danger-ous as any scorer in the Big Ten. I think they’ll come out with a win, your thoughts?
Bourbon: Watching the first game between these two teams, and watch-ing Purdue, it’s simple to guard them, you would think. Pack the paint, front the post and chase the lob if they throw it over the top to their bigs. As long as your rotations are on point, you’re going to get steals and get in Hammons’ face. Make them shoot over you. If Raphael Davis makes a couple threes on you, so be it. As tough of an envi-ronment as that is, I also think Illinois has a good chance to come away with a win.
Sherman: So we’ve got a 20-win team with a cou-ple of quality wins going into the Big Ten tourna-ment. I say they’re in a great position already, what’s going to blow up in their face?
Bourbon: They’re going to lose in the first round of the Big Ten tourna-ment. Right now, it’s Michigan, Minnesota or Indiana depending on how
things shakes out.Sherman: Why are
they going to lose in first round? Coming off of three straight wins.
Bourbon: They’re not great at anything. Their defense, last year, I would say was never bad. This year, there’s been times when the defense has been bad.
Sherman: When Nnan-na Egwu comes out of the game.
Bourbon: They have nothing really to hang their hat on. It’s just a gut feeling. If they lose one of these next two games, it’s over.
Sherman: I agree.Bourbon: Even if they
lose at Purdue, I think they’re definitely out because 13-loss teams don’t make the NCAA tournament at-large. There’s been one at-large team to make the tourna-ment with 13 losses the past two years — those are some steep odds.
Sherman: Here’s where I differ from you a little bit, I think momentum does matter, especially in college basketball.
Bourbon: Then why did Northwestern lose by 30 after four straight wins?
Sherman: True.Bourbon: If you’re
reading this, you realize I have no real argument, which is true.
But it’s a gut feeling and I’m just betting on the craziness of the Big Ten, even though I like Illinois’ chances down the stretch.
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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Giana O'Connor performs a routine on the balance beam during the match against Penn State at Huff Hall on Feb. 1. The junior tied the program record in all-around with a score of 39.625.
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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' Jade Vecvanags pitches during the game against Northwestern on April 22, 2014. Vecvanags’ best outing of the season was cut short due to a travel curfew.
“Illinois, on paper, should make the tournament. The Tracy Abrams injury set them back further than I thought
it would ... An angry Rayvonte Rice is as dangerous as any scorer in the Big
Ten.”SAM SHERMAN
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In its fi nal two regular sea-son games, the Illinois hock-ey team saw offensive pro-duction from various players in its series against Eastern Michigan.
The Illini took a season-high 95 shots in the series and had eight different play-ers score goals. The high-powered offensive perfor-mances led to 10-1 and 3-2 victories Friday and Satur-day, respectively.
Head coach Nick Fabbri-ni was glad to see so many players contribute in the series ahead of Thursday’s opening-round national tour-nament game against John Carroll University.
Defenseman Aaron Dusek, who scored two goals in Friday’s game, said the Eastern Michigan series will serve as an offensive boost of confi dence at nationals for players who typically don’t score.
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tributing on the offensive side,” Dusek said. “It was nice to kind of fi nally break that streak and hopefully continue it onwards towards nationals.”
Danna contributes to series sweep
Sophomore goaltender Zach Danna started his sec-ond and third games of the season in the Illini’s week-end sweep of the Eagles.
In the 10-1 victory on Fri-day, Danna held onto a shut-out heading into the third period, but Eastern Michi-gan’s Michael Salata scored the team’s only goal with about a minute left in the game. After the win, Fab-brini’s praised Danna’s 21 saves.
“He made back-to-back breakaway saves in the sec-ond period, and did a good job of helping us maintain the lead,” Fabbrini said. “We are disappointed that we weren’t able to hold on to the shutout at the end there.”
Danna allowed two goals in the fi rst period of Satur-day’s series fi nale, but pre-vented any more goals the rest of the way en route to the 3-2 victory.
Although he is unlikely to start in the postseason, Fab-brini said he is optimistic for the future of the team with three quality goaltenders
in Danna, Joe Olen and Zev Grumet-Morris committed to the team for another year.
Illinois rebounds after bad fi rst period
Illinois managed to avoid another disappointing loss on Saturday with a second-peri-od comeback.
This season, the Illini have lost fi ve games on Saturdays after beating the same team the previous day — four of those losses coming at home.
The team’s Saturday struggles continued in the fi rst period of the series fi nale. Illinois allowed a go-ahead goal with less than a minute to go in the fi rst peri-od and found itself down after 20 minutes to a team it beat 10-1 the previous night.
In the locker room, Fab-brini reminded his players that one mistake during the national tournament could cost the team the game. The Illini took the message to heart and scored two unan-swered goals in the second
period to claim victory in their fi nal home game of the season.
“Taking 20 minutes off at nationals could poten-tially cost us our season. You don’t get a redo at the national tournament,” Fab-brini said. “We talked about
coming out and controlling the next period of play and getting back to the things that we do well as a team, and I think we did a nice job of that.”
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KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Zachary Danna returns to the locker room after the game vs. Eastern Michigan at the Ice Arena on Friday. Danna made 21 saves in Friday’s 10-1 win.
“We talked about coming out and controlling the next period of play ... and I
think we did a nice job of that.”
NICK FABBRINIILLINI HOCKEY HEAD COACH