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BY LILLY MASHAYEKCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Two University research-ers have made significant strides in the research and analysis of viruses and their evolution.
The department of crop sciences aims to encourage an environment of research and collaboration within the department, leading to important developments in research and innovation, said Emerson Nafziger, Research Education Cen-ter coordinator and profes-sor in crop sciences.
“People are encouraged to do (research),” Nafziger said. “It’s just part of what
we do, it’s in our DNA.”Gustavo Caetano-Anol-
les, professor of bioinfor-matics in the department of crop sciences, and former graduate student Arshan Nasir started the research on viruses in 2012. Under-standing how viruses evolve can be useful for learning how to use them in ways that are beneficial to humans, especially in medicine.
“If you don’t have a true understanding of how mol-ecules change, you can’t engineer them to make vac-cines, treatments,” Caeta-no-Anolles said. “We had to find commonalities in all viruses, and we did.”
Understanding how virus-es came to be is also essen-tial for understanding how they may evolve in the future and how the viruses change over time.
“We found that virus-es originated from cells, ancient cells, that were relatively simple, and then eventually became virus-es,” Nasir said.
They aimed to under-stand viruses by taking a new approach — studying protein folds of the virus-es. A major focus of the research was on how virus-es evolved and changed over time, making protein folds the best way to study the
viruses.“The traditional way is
to basically work with gene sequences; we didn’t want to do that because sequenc-es sometimes can be prob-lematic to understand, especially if we want to go really back in time,” Nasir said. “We wanted to look at how many and how differ-ent kinds of protein folds were imported by those genomes.”
By looking at the genomes and protein folds, it became much easier for Caetano-Anolles and Nasir to be able to look at the origins of viruses and where they came from. Caetano-Anol-
les said learning about the origins of viruses is the most important part of their research.
“Then we can see well back into the past, billions of years past, and that makes a big difference,” he said. “The aspect that is real-ly important here is about their origin … because we need to first understand how all of this diversity came to be.”
The pair previously pub-lished a paper in 2012 about including mega viruses on the tree of life, which helped them gain visibil-
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Kilgore speaks about mass incarceration
Attempt to reform mental health policies
Developments on the evolution of viruses pave way for research
Device may prevent sexual assault
BY STEPHEN NYECONTRIBUTING WRITER
Members of the Champaign community are trying to change how the community treats mentally ill people whose illnesses may drive them to commit crimes.
This change wil l hopeefully come in the form of a new program.
The program, proposed by Champaign County Sheriff Dan Walsh and Champaign County Mental Health Executive Director Peter Tracy, is intended to keep both potential offenders and confirmed offenders out of jail and help them get sufficient treatment.
Tracy said the program would allow people to resume normal lives with the help of law enforcement and a detox center, a resource which has never been present in Champaign.
In an attempt to publicize and advocate for the program, Walsh and Tracy held a meeting.
It was designed to convince stakeholders in the community of the benefits of the program and to receive feedback from the average members of the community and a number of members of The National Alliance On Mental Illness.
The discussion, which was held on Sept. 30 at the Brookens Building, focused on how the program would keep those with mental illnesses and drug addictions out of prison and help rehabilitate them successfully.
Walsh said “years of Champaign having no place to deal with severe mental illnesses and significant addiction problems,” led to the decision to hold a discussion.
Feedback from the community — about 100 people were in attendance, Tracy said — also prompted organizers to consider adding provisions for family and friends of people with mental illness
or addiction.“Families themselves
need help,” Walsh said.The meeting was not
the only avenue for the community to give feedback.
Feedback can also be sent to an email specifically for the program.
Tracy said he has also received a number of phone calls and has received considerable, positive feedback; some of the feedback has even come from students.
M a t t h e w R i c e , freshman in LAS, said he
is “absolutely” in support of the program and hopes it is funded.
“People who commit crimes because of, or related to, drug addiction should not be sent to prison,” he said. “They
should be sent directly to rehab centers.”
Rice said he would like to see the program have a strong campus presence too.
But, despite the goals and community support, there are issues facing the program.
Tracy said the program is facing “serious funding austerity,” because city funded programs are starting to cut staff due to budget challenges.
He said proving to the city that the program is a valid use of public funds will be a challenge going forward.
Additionally, he said collaborating resources and cooperating with other organizations will be both necessary and difficult.
BY CHRISTIN WATKINSCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Chuma Kabaghe credits a longboarding accident for the invention of a device that could help others and reduce sexual assault.
Kabaghe and Nikita Parikh, both University alumnae, developed a device called Anansi to reduce the risk of sexual assault on cam-puses. But their inspiration came from an unlikely place.
“I was longboard-ing, and I actually fell off of my board. One of the most frightening things was that I could tell that I was fall-ing off of my board, but I couldn’t react quick enough,” Kabaghe said.
This encouraged the pair to create a device that would allow students to get help when their thought process might be stunted because they’re in a distressed situation.
“There are a lot of situa-tions where your mind kind-of knows something bad is happening, but you can’t react fast enough to stop it,” she said.
When situations like this occur, the body responds with the “fight or flight” response, which this device can detect once it passes a certain threshold and alert the local authorities, Kaba-
ghe and Parikh said. College students are much
more likely to find them-selves in undesirable safety situations because of late-night studying and socializ-ing, Parikh said.
Meredith Ellis, fresh-man in LAS, said students need a way to prevent sexu-al assault, but she is unsure how effective Anansi will be.
“I’d be worried about false alarms with it,” she said. “You could s u d d e n ly have a reac-tion, even if you’re not being assaulted.”
A s h l e y Stahulak, freshman in Engi-n e e r i n g , voiced the
same concerns about the device’s ability to detect the seriousness of individual circumstances.
“I feel like you could undergo the same reaction with it in different situa-tions,” she said. “It could work if you only put it on when you knew you were going out.”
Parikh said one of their goals is to reduce sexual assault on campuses. She said she can’t be sure of the effect this device will have yet but she believes it will help students.
“It’s about time that tech-nology caught up with us,” she said.
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIJames Kilgore talks about his own life experiences that inspired him to write his book, Understanding Mass Incarceration, at the University YMCA.
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“People who commit crimes because of ...
drug addiction should not be
sent to prison.”MATTHEW RICEFRESHMAN IN LAS
BY CHRISTIN WATKINS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Charlotte Green is very interested in the criminal jus-tice system, “to put it mildly.”
“To me, it’s a human rights issue,” said Green, a friend of University professor James Kilgore.
Green spoke at the Univer-sity YMCA Wednesday at an event about Kilgore’s new book, “Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time.”
Kilgore said that he wrote his book, which was pub-lished Sept. 1, in an effort to bring awareness to the issue of mass incarceration.
Kilgore served six years in prison for his felony involve-ment in a 1975 bank robbery and was also a member of the Symbionese Liberation
Army, known for kidnapping Hearst Media Company heir-ess Patty Hearst.
He spoke of the main causes of mass incarcera-tion Thursday and said his hope is that people will try and put a stop to it.
Kilgore was introduced by Tracy Gates, who said reading about Kilgore’s experiences made him knowledgeable about mass incarceration.
“James is both an educator and a social justice activist who teaches at the University of Illinois,” Gates said. “He has lived in this community since 2009, and he has made an impact on this community in many ways.”
Kilgore has published sev-eral books, as well as a vari-
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“It’s about time that technology caught up with
us.”NIKITA PARIKH
ANANSI DEVELOPER
“They are evolving, and that’s quality of life. The virus is not so inanimate after all.”GUSTAVO CAETANO-ANOLLESPROFESSOR OF BIOINFORMATICS
In a 2006 Special Report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that ...
Among sentenced prisoners under State jurisdiction in 2008,
78,800 in federal prisons
and
705,600 mentally ill adults were
incarcerated in state prisons
479,900 in local jails.
18 percent were sentenced
for drug
6 percent were incarcerated for drug possession
alone.
Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse
ety of scholarly articles on this societal issue.
Kilgore said he appreci-ates the general populace’s growing awareness of the issue as the debate over mass incarceration has turned political.
“This change is inspiring because those of us who have been fi ghting this issue for years — we’ve been bark-ing into the wilderness,” he said. “Now, this has become a mainstream issue.”
While this has allowed for a greater general knowledge about mass incarceration, he said that he fi nds the popu-larity of the issue may hin-der effective results from being achieved.
“This is good because we can’t have change with-out mass awareness, but it’s also unsettling,” he said. “My view is, when the main-stream media and the main-
stream politicians get ahold of (this issue) and really sink their teeth into it, their instincts are all wrong.”
This controversy revolves around more than the obvi-ous issue of jail populations, he said.
“Mass incarceration isn’t fundamen-tally about cr imina l justice,” he said. “It’s fundamen-tally a crit-ical part about how the United States has decided to deal with issues of p o v e r -ty and inequality.”
He credits an increase in this problem to racism, both nationwide and specifi cally in Champaign County.
A census Kilgore helped conduct reported that 72
percent of the population in Champaign County prisons are black but the general county population is only 13 percent black.
“I think Champaign Coun-ty may have the biggest racial disparity in the coun-try,” he said.
T h i s r a c i a l imbalance came as a shock to Gates who said she bel ieved racial dis-crepancies had been r e duc e d over the past sev-eral years.
“I didn’t realize that the problem has gotten worse over the past few years,” she said.
She also said that she believes that mass incar-ceration is largely related to race and economic status.
“People that are in jail — fi rst of all, it’s not fair, usu-ally it’s people that are poor or people of color,” she said.
Along with these prob-lems, she considers the per-sonhood of those who are incarcerated to be a con-tributing issue of mass incarceration.
“Since I’ve gotten involved in the issue, (an important topic) is talking about peo-ple who are in prison or jail as people, instead of inmates or convicts,” she said.
Kilgore said he hopes to enforce “the notion of pris-oners as full human beings, prisoners as citizens with full rights.”
Overall, he hopes those who read his book will actively partake in reduc-ing mass incarceration.
“To read and write books about mass incarceration is fi ne but to become active in the calls of social justice is divine,” he said.
BY YI ZHANGCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Champaign and Urba-na Fire Departments are celebrating National Fire Prevention Week, which commemorates the Great Chicago Fire, a disaster that killed people and destroyed structures in October 1871 .
The Champaign Fire Department and Fire Factor 20, a campus safety organi-zation, will host a fi re safety demonstration for students to top off the week — which is recognized from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10 . The demonstration will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Illi-nois Fire Service Institute .
Randy Smith, deputy fi re marshal at the Champaign Fire Department, said the department will simulate a fi re by fi lling a room with smoke and teach students how to escape.
Students will also have the chance to participate in “Surviving Your Next Night Out,” a demonstration that will teach students how to survive fi res on campus and in nightclubs.
Ryan Wild, coordinator of Special Programs Fire Safety , said the Universi-ty’s Facilities and Services department does not orga-nize any specifi c fi re preven-
tion events but does provide information about the week on its website.
Fire Prevention Week, which is sponsored by the National Fire Protection Association, takes on a new theme each year. This year’s theme is “Hear the Beep Where You Sleep: Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm!” The associa-tion’s goal is to raise aware-ness and remind people to check if smoke detectors at home are working, accord-ing to the National Fire Pro-tection Association’s website .
“The topic of the Fire Pre-vention Week changes every year, but this year they (rec-ognized) the huge relation-ship between house fi res and the importance of smoke alarms in the bedrooms,” Smith said. “Half of house fi res occur between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., which is also the sleeping period for most of the people.”
The Urbana Fire Depart-ment will perform an auto extrication demonstration at Family Night at Lincoln Square on Thursday.
This illustrates how the fi refi ghters will save you when you are stuck in a car during accidents,” said Jer-emy Leevey , the fi re preven-tion offi cer from the Urbana
Fire Department.The event will highlight
fi re safety education for children and feature a visit from Sparky the Fire Dog and Safety Pup.
“We have fi re safety quiz-zes to test (children’s) knowl-edge about fi re prevention. Also, we teach them how to get out of smoke when they experience a fi re accident,” Leevey said. “Moreover, we will assist them to discrimi-
nate what are hot items that are easy to burn in fi re, so that they have ideas about what is safe to play with.”
In addition to games and an informational session, the Urbana Fire Depart-ment will exhibit the dress-ing of fi re fi ghters and how to utilize personal pro-tective equipment for fi re prevention.
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New data from NBC ad-tracking partner SMG Del-ta showed that this week, Right to Rise, the super PAC supporting Jeb Bush, is spending $1.9 million in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Each will host a February nominat-ing contest.
The data, reported by NBC’s political unit’s “First Read” found no one close this week. Next was the Conservative Solutions Project, which backs Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., at $700,000 in the three states.
Bush, the former Flori-da governor, is currently in fi fth place, at 8.4 percent, in the RealClearPolitics.com average of national Republi-can presidential preference polls from Sept. 17 to Oct. 4. He runs sixth in Iowa and fourth in New Hampshire.
KANO, Nigeria — At least 16 people died after two teenage suicide bomb-ers blew themselves up in a mosque and a store in a housing estate in north-eastern Nigeria on Wednes-day, the head of the region’s emergency services said.
The attack came around the same time as a battle
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ity for their subsequent research on the origins of viruses. In order to do so, Nasir had looked at over 5,000 organisms and virus-es and placed them in the tree of life.
Caetano-Anolles said the tree of life defi nes diver-sity which challenged the idea that virsuses were the non-animate objects that they were previously thought to be.
“We found that virus-es are able to transport genes, enhancing biodiver-sity, and that changed our perceptions about virus-es,” Nasir said.
Part of what makes viruses alive, the research-ers said, is that they’re evolving.
“They are evolving, and that’s quality of life,” Caetano-Anolles said.“The virus is not so inanimate after all.”
KILGOREFROM 1A
“Mass incarceration isn’t
fundamentally about criminal
justice.”JAMES KILGORE
PROFESSOR OF URBAN AND REGIONAL
VIRUSFROM 1A
BY EMILY SCOTTSTAFF WRITER
The University’s pipeline of innovation fl ows stronger each year. To highlight this research, the fourth-annual “Share the Vision” technol-ogy showcase will connect researchers and start-ups with potential investors, companies and venture capitalists.
Hosted by the Offi ce of Technology Management and EnterpriseWorks, this year’s event will take place on Oct. 8 at the I-Hotel and Conference Center and EnterpriseWorks.
This year, 18 faculty and startups from two separate tracks — healthcare and robotics/computer vision/net-work security — will exhibit their research and progress through presentations. New this year is a lunch-time post-er session, where emerging start-ups will present infor-mation and demonstrations.
“Every showcase that we’ve had, we’ve had increas-ing attendance, and it’s real-ly grown to be a vibrant event and great opportuni-ty to build relationships,”
said Lisa Dhar, senior asso-ciate director at the Offi ce of Technology Manage-ment. “We’re looking for just opportunities where startups can be launched or partner-ships with companies can be strengthened or established.”
Participating companies include Google and IBM Research, as well as mem-bers of the University, local venture capitalists from the Chicago area and local com-munity members.
Dhar said Share the Vision’s goal is to establish as many connections as pos-sible by heightening visibil-ity around the University’s pipeline of innovation.
“It can lead to more research collaborations between outside companies and our researchers here,” Dhar said. “It can lead to con-versations about transition-ing technology that’s been developed here to a compa-ny, or it can lead to discus-sions about possibly starting a company.”
Paul Braun, Ivan Racheff professor of materials sci-ence and engineering and affi liate of the Beckman
Institute for Advanced Sci-ence and Technology, said he hopes to build these connec-tions at the event.
Braun will present his group’s progress on creating sensor materials for extend-ed, continuous glucose moni-toring. He said his group has created a material whose vol-ume changes linearly with blood-glucose levels.
“This provides a way to have continuous monitor-ing of blood glucose,” Braun said. “Our vision is that this could be done for a diabetic to provide much more real-time information on their blood glucose levels, which could be then directly used for things like insulin dos-ing, basically to improve their quality of life.”
Currently, diabetics have a few options for glucose moni-toring, such as the traditional fi nger prick, which instanta-neously gives a blood-glucose level. There are also meters that provide continuous lev-els, but this method is not completely accurate.
“Our material has the kind of accuracy that is required to take the human out of the
loop,” Braun said. “So you could now be doing insulin dosing directly based on the readout of some biomedical device without having the patient observe the data and verify its accuracy.”
This research could offer a solution to the growing dia-betic population in the U.S. and worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention’s 2014 National Diabetes Statistic Report, 29.1 million people in the U.S. have diabetes.
Braun said events like Share the Vision give him an opportunity to connect with partners who may be able to help him turn his vision into a commercial success.
“These could be people from companies that have certain needs and they rec-ognize that your technology can meet one of their needs,” he said. “Then, they’ll part-ner with you and the Uni-versity to help move these fundamental efforts into something that is technolog-ically relevant.”
Braun also explained that Share the Vision is a valuable resource for faculty like him
who do not have regular con-tact with the outside entre-preneurial community, since C-U is somewhat geographi-cally isolated.
“Unlike our colleagues, say, in Boston, or in San Jose, there aren’t a hundred of these groups that are just outside our door, that we can reach out to at any time,” he said. “This helps bring the world to us.”
Bringing the world to the University is just what Share the Vision aims to achieve. The University of Illinois system was recently ranked as the world’s 21st most inno-vative university system by
a Reuters study. Nicole Nair, assistant director for mar-keting and communications at the Offi ce of Technology Management, said this rank-ing adds to the signifi cance of this year’s event.
“Share the Vision is just one event in a really robust and extensive series of resources the University has to support innovators and entrepreneurs,” Nair said. “I think the ranking refl ects everything the Uni-versity has put in place and everything’s that grown out of what they’ve put in place.”
Share the Vision showcases tech
PHOTO COURTESY OF ILLINI STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY Aerospace Engineering professor Soon-Jo Chung holds a quadcopter while speaking at Share the Vision 2013, an annual research and start-up showcase sponsored by the Offi ce of Technology Management and EnterpriseWorks.
16 killed in suicide bombings
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ChampaignAn 18-year-old male was
arrested for retail theft at Macy’s, 2000 N. Neil St., around 4:30 p.m. Monday.
According to the report, the offender stole one item of jewelry and two articles of clothing.
Theft was reported in the 00 block of East Green Street around 11 a.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, the victim’s bike was stolen from a bike rack.
UniversityNothing to report.
UrbanaTheft was reported on the
300 block of North Mathews Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report the victim’s bicycle was sto-len from a bicycle rack near his workplace.
Burglary from a motor
vehicle was reported on the 300 block of Locust Street around 6 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, an unknown offender took a backpack containing a com-puter and identification items from an unlocked vehicle.
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semester. It should have stated the survey will focus on sexual violence and will be conducted by the end of the academic year. Additionally, the article should not have stated
website, rather it’s featured on the site.
The original headline of the article incorrectly stated the University was to make sexual assault resources more gender inclusive. Sexual assault resources were made
article incorrectly stated Nelson
recommended students register for
education program, because of the high levels of sexual assault that occur on college campuses. Rather, it should have stated that Nelson recommended students register for the class because students may not actually witness sexual assault happening, but may see other forms of sexually disrespectful behavior
students how to intervene in ways that make students feel comfortable.
The Daily Illini regrets the errors.
BY LESLEY CLARKTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
A political action com-mittee formed to encour-age Joe Biden to get into the presidential race is releas-ing its first national TV ad, calling on the vice presi-dent to seek the Democrat-ic presidential nomination.
The 90-second ad by Draft Biden is titled “My Redemption,” and focuses on what the super PAC says is “the strength of charac-ter that the vice president developed enduring person-al tragedy and sacrifice.”
It features photos of Biden and his voice deliver-ing Yale University’s com-mencement address and talking about the death of his wife and daughter: “The incredible bond I have with my children is the gift I’m not sure I would have had, had I not been through what I went through,” he says. “But by focusing on my sons, I found my redemp-tion. Many people have
gone through things like that.”
It ends with the words, “Joe, run” on the screen.
Draft Biden says the ad, which will run on national cable with a six-figure buy, was produced by Mark Putnam, who worked on Biden’s first presidential campaign in 1987.
The ad comes as Biden mulls a bid for the presiden-cy with a public and private schedule that has fed the speculation. Some reports have suggested he could announce a run as soon as this weekend — before the first Democratic debate.
Talk of a third Biden run for the presidency has grown since August when New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reported that the former Delaware senator’s son, Beau, who died of brain cancer in May, had, in his final days, urged his father to run for the White House. Biden’s
office on Tuesday criticized a Politico report that said it was Biden who leaked the conversations to Dowd as a way of advancing his presi-
dential ambitions.The News Journal in Del-
aware said a Biden spokes-person called the story “offensive.”
OLIVIER DOULIERY TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEVice President Joe Biden attends a meeting with President Joachim Gauck of Germany in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday.
ety of scholarly articles on this societal issue.
Kilgore said he appreci-ates the general populace’s growing awareness of the issue as the debate over mass incarceration has turned political.
“This change is inspiring because those of us who have been fi ghting this issue for years — we’ve been bark-ing into the wilderness,” he said. “Now, this has become a mainstream issue.”
While this has allowed for a greater general knowledge about mass incarceration, he said that he fi nds the popu-larity of the issue may hin-der effective results from being achieved.
“This is good because we can’t have change with-out mass awareness, but it’s also unsettling,” he said. “My view is, when the main-stream media and the main-
stream politicians get ahold of (this issue) and really sink their teeth into it, their instincts are all wrong.”
This controversy revolves around more than the obvi-ous issue of jail populations, he said.
“Mass incarceration isn’t fundamen-tally about cr imina l justice,” he said. “It’s fundamen-tally a crit-ical part about how the United States has decided to deal with issues of p o v e r -ty and inequality.”
He credits an increase in this problem to racism, both nationwide and specifi cally in Champaign County.
A census Kilgore helped conduct reported that 72
percent of the population in Champaign County prisons are black but the general county population is only 13 percent black.
“I think Champaign Coun-ty may have the biggest racial disparity in the coun-try,” he said.
T h i s r a c i a l imbalance came as a shock to Gates who said she bel ieved racial dis-crepancies had been r e duc e d over the past sev-eral years.
“I didn’t realize that the problem has gotten worse over the past few years,” she said.
She also said that she believes that mass incar-ceration is largely related to race and economic status.
“People that are in jail — fi rst of all, it’s not fair, usu-ally it’s people that are poor or people of color,” she said.
Along with these prob-lems, she considers the per-sonhood of those who are incarcerated to be a con-tributing issue of mass incarceration.
“Since I’ve gotten involved in the issue, (an important topic) is talking about peo-ple who are in prison or jail as people, instead of inmates or convicts,” she said.
Kilgore said he hopes to enforce “the notion of pris-oners as full human beings, prisoners as citizens with full rights.”
Overall, he hopes those who read his book will actively partake in reduc-ing mass incarceration.
“To read and write books about mass incarceration is fi ne but to become active in the calls of social justice is divine,” he said.
BY YI ZHANGCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Champaign and Urba-na Fire Departments are celebrating National Fire Prevention Week, which commemorates the Great Chicago Fire, a disaster that killed people and destroyed structures in October 1871 .
The Champaign Fire Department and Fire Factor 20, a campus safety organi-zation, will host a fi re safety demonstration for students to top off the week — which is recognized from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10 . The demonstration will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Illi-nois Fire Service Institute .
Randy Smith, deputy fi re marshal at the Champaign Fire Department, said the department will simulate a fi re by fi lling a room with smoke and teach students how to escape.
Students will also have the chance to participate in “Surviving Your Next Night Out,” a demonstration that will teach students how to survive fi res on campus and in nightclubs.
Ryan Wild, coordinator of Special Programs Fire Safety , said the Universi-ty’s Facilities and Services department does not orga-nize any specifi c fi re preven-
tion events but does provide information about the week on its website.
Fire Prevention Week, which is sponsored by the National Fire Protection Association, takes on a new theme each year. This year’s theme is “Hear the Beep Where You Sleep: Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm!” The associa-tion’s goal is to raise aware-ness and remind people to check if smoke detectors at home are working, accord-ing to the National Fire Pro-tection Association’s website .
“The topic of the Fire Pre-vention Week changes every year, but this year they (rec-ognized) the huge relation-ship between house fi res and the importance of smoke alarms in the bedrooms,” Smith said. “Half of house fi res occur between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., which is also the sleeping period for most of the people.”
The Urbana Fire Depart-ment will perform an auto extrication demonstration at Family Night at Lincoln Square on Thursday.
This illustrates how the fi refi ghters will save you when you are stuck in a car during accidents,” said Jer-emy Leevey , the fi re preven-tion offi cer from the Urbana
Fire Department.The event will highlight
fi re safety education for children and feature a visit from Sparky the Fire Dog and Safety Pup.
“We have fi re safety quiz-zes to test (children’s) knowl-edge about fi re prevention. Also, we teach them how to get out of smoke when they experience a fi re accident,” Leevey said. “Moreover, we will assist them to discrimi-
nate what are hot items that are easy to burn in fi re, so that they have ideas about what is safe to play with.”
In addition to games and an informational session, the Urbana Fire Depart-ment will exhibit the dress-ing of fi re fi ghters and how to utilize personal pro-tective equipment for fi re prevention.
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WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign ad wars are in full swing, particularly for Jeb Bush supporters, while Bush remains mired in single digits in most polls.
New data from NBC ad-tracking partner SMG Del-ta showed that this week, Right to Rise, the super PAC supporting Jeb Bush, is spending $1.9 million in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Each will host a February nominat-ing contest.
The data, reported by NBC’s political unit’s “First Read” found no one close this week. Next was the Conservative Solutions Project, which backs Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., at $700,000 in the three states.
Bush, the former Flori-da governor, is currently in fi fth place, at 8.4 percent, in the RealClearPolitics.com average of national Republi-can presidential preference polls from Sept. 17 to Oct. 4. He runs sixth in Iowa and fourth in New Hampshire.
KANO, Nigeria — At least 16 people died after two teenage suicide bomb-ers blew themselves up in a mosque and a store in a housing estate in north-eastern Nigeria on Wednes-day, the head of the region’s emergency services said.
The attack came around the same time as a battle
at an army barracks in the Goniri area of Yobe state, also in the country’s north-east, that left more than 100 Boko Haram militants dead.
The suicide bombings took place at the Buhari Housing Estate in the town of Damaturu, in Yobe state, Alhaji Musa Idi from the emergency services told
Bush still trailing fellow GOP candidates in 2016 polls
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Fired up for campus safety5 things you need to know about the importance of smoke alarms
An ionization smoke alarm is generally more responsive to flaming fires and a photoelectric smoke alarm is generally more responsive to smoldering fires. For the best protection, or where extra time is needed, to awaken or assist others, both types of alarms, or combination ionization and photoelectric alarms are recommended.
Three out of five home fire deaths in 2007-2011 were caused by fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in reported home fires in half.
In fires considered large enough to activate the smoke alarm, hardwired alarms operated 94% of the time, while battery powered alarms operated only 80% of the time.
When smoke alarms fail to operate, it is usually because batteries are missing, disconnected, or dead.
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ROBERTO KOLTUN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICERepublican presidential candidate Jeb Bush at a campaign event in Coral Gables, Florida., on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015.
ity for their subsequent research on the origins of viruses. In order to do so, Nasir had looked at over 5,000 organisms and virus-es and placed them in the tree of life.
Caetano-Anolles said the tree of life defi nes diver-sity which challenged the idea that virsuses were the non-animate objects that they were previously thought to be.
“We found that virus-es are able to transport genes, enhancing biodiver-sity, and that changed our perceptions about virus-es,” Nasir said.
Part of what makes viruses alive, the research-ers said, is that they’re evolving.
“They are evolving, and that’s quality of life,” Caetano-Anolles said.“The virus is not so inanimate after all.”
KILGOREFROM 1A
“Mass incarceration isn’t
fundamentally about criminal
justice.”JAMES KILGORE
PROFESSOR OF URBAN AND REGIONAL
VIRUSFROM 1A
BY EMILY SCOTTSTAFF WRITER
The University’s pipeline of innovation fl ows stronger each year. To highlight this research, the fourth-annual “Share the Vision” technol-ogy showcase will connect researchers and start-ups with potential investors, companies and venture capitalists.
Hosted by the Offi ce of Technology Management and EnterpriseWorks, this year’s event will take place on Oct. 8 at the I-Hotel and Conference Center and EnterpriseWorks.
This year, 18 faculty and startups from two separate tracks — healthcare and robotics/computer vision/net-work security — will exhibit their research and progress through presentations. New this year is a lunch-time post-er session, where emerging start-ups will present infor-mation and demonstrations.
“Every showcase that we’ve had, we’ve had increas-ing attendance, and it’s real-ly grown to be a vibrant event and great opportuni-ty to build relationships,”
said Lisa Dhar, senior asso-ciate director at the Offi ce of Technology Manage-ment. “We’re looking for just opportunities where startups can be launched or partner-ships with companies can be strengthened or established.”
Participating companies include Google and IBM Research, as well as mem-bers of the University, local venture capitalists from the Chicago area and local com-munity members.
Dhar said Share the Vision’s goal is to establish as many connections as pos-sible by heightening visibil-ity around the University’s pipeline of innovation.
“It can lead to more research collaborations between outside companies and our researchers here,” Dhar said. “It can lead to con-versations about transition-ing technology that’s been developed here to a compa-ny, or it can lead to discus-sions about possibly starting a company.”
Paul Braun, Ivan Racheff professor of materials sci-ence and engineering and affi liate of the Beckman
Institute for Advanced Sci-ence and Technology, said he hopes to build these connec-tions at the event.
Braun will present his group’s progress on creating sensor materials for extend-ed, continuous glucose moni-toring. He said his group has created a material whose vol-ume changes linearly with blood-glucose levels.
“This provides a way to have continuous monitor-ing of blood glucose,” Braun said. “Our vision is that this could be done for a diabetic to provide much more real-time information on their blood glucose levels, which could be then directly used for things like insulin dos-ing, basically to improve their quality of life.”
Currently, diabetics have a few options for glucose moni-toring, such as the traditional fi nger prick, which instanta-neously gives a blood-glucose level. There are also meters that provide continuous lev-els, but this method is not completely accurate.
“Our material has the kind of accuracy that is required to take the human out of the
loop,” Braun said. “So you could now be doing insulin dosing directly based on the readout of some biomedical device without having the patient observe the data and verify its accuracy.”
This research could offer a solution to the growing dia-betic population in the U.S. and worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention’s 2014 National Diabetes Statistic Report, 29.1 million people in the U.S. have diabetes.
Braun said events like Share the Vision give him an opportunity to connect with partners who may be able to help him turn his vision into a commercial success.
“These could be people from companies that have certain needs and they rec-ognize that your technology can meet one of their needs,” he said. “Then, they’ll part-ner with you and the Uni-versity to help move these fundamental efforts into something that is technolog-ically relevant.”
Braun also explained that Share the Vision is a valuable resource for faculty like him
who do not have regular con-tact with the outside entre-preneurial community, since C-U is somewhat geographi-cally isolated.
“Unlike our colleagues, say, in Boston, or in San Jose, there aren’t a hundred of these groups that are just outside our door, that we can reach out to at any time,” he said. “This helps bring the world to us.”
Bringing the world to the University is just what Share the Vision aims to achieve. The University of Illinois system was recently ranked as the world’s 21st most inno-vative university system by
a Reuters study. Nicole Nair, assistant director for mar-keting and communications at the Offi ce of Technology Management, said this rank-ing adds to the signifi cance of this year’s event.
“Share the Vision is just one event in a really robust and extensive series of resources the University has to support innovators and entrepreneurs,” Nair said. “I think the ranking refl ects everything the Uni-versity has put in place and everything’s that grown out of what they’ve put in place.”
Share the Vision showcases tech
PHOTO COURTESY OF ILLINI STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY Aerospace Engineering professor Soon-Jo Chung holds a quadcopter while speaking at Share the Vision 2013, an annual research and start-up showcase sponsored by the Offi ce of Technology Management and EnterpriseWorks.
16 killed in suicide bombings
OPINIONS4ATHURSDAYOctober 8, 2015The Daily IlliniDailyIllini.com
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EDITORIALFire Prevention Week
reminds us to be prepared
T his week is Fire Prevention Week nation-wide, but stu-dents should be
aware of things they can do year-round to prevent emergencies, including fi res.
Most likely, at any given moment we are not pre-pared for an emergency to occur. But the most in-timidating part about dan-gerous situations is their spontaneity, and because of that, it is crucial to be prepared.
The National Fire Pro-tection Association recom-mends that each bedroom in a house or apartment have a smoke alarm out-side each sleeping area and on each level of a house.
NFPA also recommends that smoke alarms be test-ed once a month. This is especially important giv-en that three out of fi ve fi re deaths occur in places that lack working smoke alarms.
In addition to making sure that smoke alarms are functional, there are a lot of other things stu-dents can do to prevent emergencies.
Students in residence halls should check the rules of the dorms before using electrical applianc-es in their dorm room.
Appliances with heating elements, like hotplates or coffee makers, can cause fi res if something is left near the source of heat.
Additionally, students on and off campus should be careful with space heaters as the weather becomes colder — the NFPA rec-ommends keeping items that can burn at least three feet away from fi re-places and space heaters. Students should also turn off space heaters before going to bed.
Some of this seems like common sense — don’t leave the kitchen while you’re cooking, don’t pour water on a grease fi re, don’t leave candles unattended — but these reminders bear repeat-ing.
Emergencies on cam-pus aren’t just limited to
fi res. Sometimes, situa-tions arise where CPR is necessary.
However, according to the American Heart As-sociation, 70 percent of Americans feel helpless during a cardiac emergen-cy where CPR is needed, either because they don’t know how to administer CPR or are out-of-prac-tice.
However, even those who are untrained in CPR can help in an emergency.
If students see some-one who is unresponsive and not breathing or not breathing normally, the American Heart Associ-ation recommends call-ing 911, then pushing hard and fast on the center of their chest.
Administering CPR to a cardiac arrest victim can double or triple their chances of survival. Stu-dents can watch an in-structional video on how to administer Hands-On-ly CPR on the American Heart Association’s web-site.
Unfortunately, emer-gencies can arise even when people are intoxicat-ed, and students should be prepared to handle them when they do. In terms of fi re prevention, students should avoid cooking when intoxicated.
Students should also watch friends for signs of alcohol poisoning — vom-iting, skin that is cold and pale, unconsciousness — and should call 911 if they exhibit any of those symp-toms.
Underage students who have been drinking can call for medical help for friends without fearing le-gal trouble due to policies set forth by the Universi-ty’s confl ict resolution of-fi ce.
Emergencies happen, and when they do, it would be terrible if the reason tragedy came from it was because a student was un-prepared.
We should collectively take necessary steps now to ensure that we’re ready in case something threat-ening were to occur, so at the very least, we can al-ways say we tried.
“I think that campus biking really sucks. It’s really hard to do
because the bike trails are all broken. People who bike are really cool, but our infrastructure is really bad at this university for biking.”
“It seems like there are a lot of bikes on campus, and I think biking to class is okay as long as the riders are being safe about it, and considerate to
walkers.”
“I’m not friends with anyone who drinks a PSL. I try and distance myself from the common folk.”
“I like them, but I don’t think that they’re as good as everyone makes
them out to be. I think it’s kinda basic, but they’re good so that doesn’t matter. Just do you.”
“No, the Pumpkin Spice Latte is 100 percent not worth the hype, and it honestly does not even
taste that great.”
“I think this is a really big step in vampire romances in general. I look forward to reading so
many more.”
“I think it’s interesting, but I also think that it’s just been a really long
time, so people probably aren’t going to want to read it.”
“‘Twilight’ had its time in the limelight, and they are going to ruin what it was with this new
version.”
Pumpkin Spice Lattes seem to be back and in full swing. Starbucks
is even debuting an “Orange Sleeve Society” to honor the
drink and its fans. Do you think the latte is worth the hype?
This year is the tenth anniversary of the “Twilight” books, and
author Stephanie Meyer released a book with reversed gender
roles. What do you think about the series’ major change?
“I encourage any and all students to bike when possible. Not only
is it the most effi cient way of transportation on campus, but the more people that bike reduces the number of pedestrians I can hit.”
“I may be the only person on campus to have never had one, but I like pumpkins and certain
spices, so I guess?”
“Anything that turns traditional gender roles on its head is good for society in general. Specifi cally for ‘Twilight,’ two
girls fi ghting for one guy reminds me of ‘Mean Girls.’”
SPEAKING UP STUDENTS AND OPINIONS STAFF WEIGH IN ON PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES, POPULARITY, ‘TWILIGHT’ AND CAMPUS BIKES
COMPILED BY MATT SILICH, LEAH PEARLMAN AND EMMA GOODWIN
“I brought my bike, but I don’t really ride it a lot because I would run into
everyone. I think that the bikers aren’t that big of an issue; it’s just when
there’s a lot of foot traffi c you have to be careful.”
“With any social campaign on this campus, one way would
be to get the Greek community involved because they’re so
massive. They are. There’s too many of them.”
“I really haven’t seen [It’s On Us] anywhere. I think just maybe
putting something out there that’s in a public area would help. The
only reason I saw it, one time, was because somebody I knew was in
their video.”
“They should try to have the actor John Hamm come
because he is on the It’s On Us campaign! It would catch the female population’s attention,
thats for sure.”
Matt Hill, a vice president of the Illinois Student Senate is going
to serve on a national It’s On Us advisory committee. At the University, what is one thing
you think could be improved to make It’s On Us more effective?
“The marketing campaign It’s On Us has done a great job of
spreading awareness; however, I think more education on
sexual assault could go a long way in squashing the issue as
much as possible.”
Yesterday was the University’s bike census. What do you think about the number of bikes on
campus and biking on campus overall?
ANDY PALKASenior in LAS
AMELIA KOPPLINFreshman in LAS
COURTNEY BOYEROpinions columnist
JASON SCHWARTZOpinions columnist
We unthinkingly rely on educational texts to teach us our history;
textbooks offer us our perception of reality. Students believe George Washington was the fi rst president, the Holocaust occurred and John F. Kennedy was assassinated because they read it in a book.
Inaccurate educational texts can therefore cause students to develop distorted, inaccurate understand-ings both of history and of reality.
We know this, and we still, far too frequently, supply our schools with biased educational material. Most recently, critics have resisted the ignorant rhetoric deployed in a McGraw-Hill World Geography textbook photo caption. It read, “the Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and the 1800s brought mil-lions of workers from Africa to the southern U.S. to work on agricultur-al plantations.”
To substitute “worker” for “slave” is not only inadequate in conveying the appropriate conno-tation, but also totally inaccurate considering that slaves received no pay.
Upon personally examining the text, Roni Dean-Burren, a school parent, rightly accused McGraw-Hill of erasure. The company responded, issuing a statement say-ing they would rewrite the section.
While, of course, I applaud their ownership of the error, many have criticized its solution as not enough. Even if a newer version of the text-
book becomes available, many schools will be unable to afford a whole new set. Too many students, likely those in fi scally disadvan-taged districts, will still construct their understanding of history based off an inaccurate text, even after the McGraw-Hill reprint.
So, similar to so many other issues in education policy, the sys-tem will be skewed in favor of affl u-ent, typically demographically white, districts.
There is therefore not only an issue regarding the Euro-centricity in many American historical text-books, but also an issue regarding the fact that this inaccurate infor-mation will likely be fed, at a dis-proportional rate, to those who it most grossly misrepresents.
Our perception of history chang-es when only certain voices are fea-tured and certain stories recount-ed. One of our most blatantly and frequently mythologized Ameri-can histories is that of Christopher Columbus. This coming Monday, schools across the country will shut down as a sign of respect for the man who “discovered” America.
With little to no mention of the fact that Columbus captured Native Americans for the slave trade, we teach students about the man as if he were a moral hero. We continue teaching elementary schoolers to sing upbeat songs about the Niña, Pinta and Santa María.
It’s historically inaccurate, and it’s culturally insensitive. We do it anyway to cultivate seeming patriotism.
To put forth the story of Colum-bus as emblematic of American patriotism is to associate “patrio-tism” — in an admittedly reductive fashion — with the European side
of the confl ict and to disassociate it from Native Americans. “Patrio-tism” is too often used as a euphe-mism in representing the actions of European Americans as faultless.
Much of the historically incor-rect information is justifi ed by cit-ing the need to perpetuate this sort of patriotism. We must therefore eradicate the notion that patriotism is connected to either shiny positiv-ity or to the applauding of white, European Americans.
Perhaps we should instead regard patriotism as the ability to recognize the current and histori-cal reality of the U.S. and to have the desire to improve upon it. We can’t erase the distasteful aspects of our national history.
We also have a responsibility to question the information that is taught to us. Students need to be instructed, from the youngest age, to intelligently push back against what they learn in school.
Beyond our duties as students, as members of a society that has the ability to affect the educational sys-tem, we must demand appropriate educational resources and practic-es for our public schools. We cannot teach students about the reality of America with whitewashed educa-tional texts and holidays. It’s simply not possible.
We must understand the infl u-ence that a good and a bad educa-tion can have on any given student and the effect that the good or bad education of a generation can have on our national character.
For an obvious starter, let’s stop taking off school for Columbus’ “holiday.”
Alex is a senior in [email protected]
Not six months ago, I was sitting with my high school journal-ism adviser discussing cur-
rent politics and possibilities for the presidential position in 2016. We had noticed a certain “unre-markability” of the candidates at the time, and based off our aver-age knowledge of the political can-didates, we simply assumed that a Republican would take the presi-dency. After all, we hadn’t heard of any noteworthy Democratic candidates.
A new face in the presidential race, however, has turned every-thing I’ve learned about campaigns around entirely.
Now, if you told me six months ago that I’d be voting for yet anoth-er old white guy in 2016, I’d have told you that you’ve entirely lost your mind. Bernie Sanders is mak-ing me eat my words. He’s here, he’s loud and even if you don’t plan on voting for him, you can’t ignore him. Although somehow, a stagger-ing amount of people I know don’t even know his name. Though the polls are saying he’s just over half as favored as Clinton, he’s gotten to that position on his own mer-it alone without the extreme fame that candidates like Clinton and Trump have, and he’s gotten there with minimal political involvement of the masses. As a new voting gen-
eration, it’s our duty to be as politi-cally involved as we can; if we want changes to be made in the country, we need to look for and pay atten-tion to the candidate that earns said attention not from their fame, but their views. For many progressive parties, Sanders is that candidate.
Many people plan on voting for Clinton for the sake of femi-nism, believing it will bring mas-sive changes for women’s rights throughout the country. Sand-ers writes on his own website how opposed he is to, “denying wom-en control over their own bodies, preventing access to vital medical and social services and blocking equal pay for equal work.” He then proceeds to go massively in-depth about these beliefs, providing sta-tistics and plans of action. Remem-ber that being a feminist isn’t about voting for a woman, it’s voting for the candidate that will best serve women’s rights.
Sanders also holds just as pow-erful and progressive opinions on plenty of other current social issues, like wealth inequality, cli-mate change and LGBT rights. Every social issue the progressive Americans like in Clinton is found tenfold with Sanders, but a lot of people aren’t aware of him because they’ve yet to politically educate themselves on all the candidates.
Now, Sanders operates entirely without Super PACs, meaning his money comes from individual peo-ple, not faceless corporations. He’s nearly matched the funds of Hill-ary Clinton, his prominent demo-cratic opponent, raising $26 million
in this quarter alone from simple donations of everyday people.
Sanders says he’s collected from 650,000 donors. The average dona-tion size is only around $30, and 99 percent of all the donations given to Sanders’ campaign are under $100. These are the numbers we need to make sure we’re aware of if we want our vote to be one that’s rooted in knowledge and real information.
Clinton does a good job of con-necting to her supporters and, she uses these big-name super PACs and, according to the Washing-ton Post, has spent $9 of every $10 raised, nearly depleting her funds.
Sanders has yet to use over half of his campaign money, meaning he still has a lot of economic pow-er. These are important campaign numbers that, would I have not cared about politics and educated myself, I wouldn’t have known the fi rst thing about, and would have found myself blindly voting for a candidate I knew so little about.
We as a student body can’t sim-ply ignore politics. For a lot of stu-dents, this will be the fi rst election we can truly participate in and it’s important not to simply follow the masses. For example, if you plan on voting democrat, it’s political-ly irresponsible to vote for Clinton just because she’s in the lead and generating the most buzz.
It’s your responsibility to look into other potential candidates who have plans that align with what you believe in.
Logan can be reached at [email protected]
Inaccurate history leads to bad biasALEX SWANSON
Opinions columnist
Vote based on views, not popularityLOGAN WEETER
Opinions columnist
Carolyn Baxley, advocate ACECarolyn Baxley, owner of the Cinema Gal-
lery in Urbana, said she thinks it is impor-tant to support local galleries and artists. Her gallery alone represents over 50 artists.
“I am really happy to have won in that particular category because I think that anyone who is involved in the arts needs to be an advocate,” Baxley said. “We need to support each other.”
Baxley said that three galleries closed in the area in the past year.
“It’s been a very difficult time,” she said. “I have been very fortunate to survive it, and it’s important that people remember in times like this that ... they need to come out and support the artists and the art, other-wise they go away.”
She said she views one of her roles as a business owner as working with other busi-ness owners to ensure visibility for the area.
“I think people really underestimate the need for staying visible, for marketing their businesses,” Baxley said. “Our community is very transitional. We have students who are here four years, some who are here for fewer years and we can’t expect people to always remember that we are here.”
Baxley has lived in Urbana since 1973. She went to graduate school at the Univer-sity, met her husband, got married and end-ed up staying after finishing her degree.
“My husband and I have been interested in historic preservation for a number of years,” Baxley said. “We’ve renovated sev-eral buildings in downtown Urbana, includ-ing the one that houses the gallery, the his-toric cinema.”
She also helped found the Orpheum Chil-dren’s Science Museum in the 1990s.
“You have to really be supportive of other
arts venues and other art efforts in town, and I’ve tried to do that over the years,” Baxley said. “I try to attend openings at other galleries.”
Baxley said she has been to the ACE Awards celebrations every year, has been nominated before and would go to the event even if she were not nominated.
“Socializing with other arts-minded indi-viduals I would say is one of the benefits of the ceremony,” she said.
Rusty Clevenger, teacher ACERusty Clevenger grew up in a small farm
community in Illinois near St. Louis, so the first time he went to an art museum was when he was a high school sophomore.
Clevenger, elementary art teacher at Dr. Preston L. Williams Jr. Elementary School and Wiley Elementary School, moved to Urbana in 2009 to teach and immediately noticed Champaign-Urbana’s connection to the arts.
“I started to realize how much arts were in the community, but then I was also real-izing that none of the kids were going to any of those places,” he said.
He said that close to 92 percent of the student body at Dr. Williams, and about half of the student body at Wiley, comes from low-income families and qualify for free and reduced lunches.
“I started realizing how many of my stu-dents had never seen real art or stood in front of it or attended a performance,” Clev-enger said. “So I started to look for ways to get my students to those spaces.”
He and a group of about five or six teach-ers started collaborating with Krannert Art Museum, where students were able to go to the art museum for an entire week.
“With that week there, we were going to teach all the curriculum lessons using arts integration,” Clevenger said. “Basi-cally, the students learned reading, writ-ing, math, art, music, dance and drama all by looking at artifacts at the Krannert Art Museum.”
Now in its fifth year, the program has two categories: KAM-WAM, where students go to the museum for a week, and KAM-BAM, where students go to the museum for a day.
Clevenger said that winning the teacher
ACE means a lot to him because the com-munity picked it.
“I became very passionate with teaching very early in my career, and I also became very passionate with the fine arts,” Clev-enger said. “For me, it almost feels like this adventure where I am still exploring and still going, and it wasn’t until the award kind of came up where I kind of had to take a moment and be like, ‘Wow, people are really liking this.’”
PORTRAIT OF RUSTY CLEVENGER
Xuxa Rodriguez, student ACEWhen she was just five years old, Susana
(Xuxa) Rodriguez’s grandmother decided to sit her down and teach her how to oil paint.
“Evidently, she had a lot of faith in me, because five-year-olds and oil painting don’t really mix in my mind,” said Rodriguez, a third year Ph.D. candidate in Art History. “The amount of patience that you have to have for oil painting is one that I do not nor-mally associate with five-year-olds, but she was like, ‘this one is precocious and she has laser focus, so this one will probably be able to do it’ and she was right.”
Rodriguez, who is a Graduate College dis-tinguished fellow, focuses her studies on con-temporary Afro-Cuban performance artists and looks at how they negotiate the plural identity of being Cuban-American.
“I am kind of biased because I am Cuban-American,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez worked at Figure One, the School of Art and Design’s exhibition lab-oratory space, from around October 2013 until this past summer, and she thinks her duties there influenced her nomination for an ACE Award.
“I helped curate shows; I helped curate pro-grams,” Rodriguez said. “I was very vocal and visible in the community ... I would go out and basically go to everyone’s shows – I still go to everyone’s shows as much as I can – but always go and sort of engage in cultur-al exchange.”
She said that when she found out she had
won the Student ACE, it was the “weird-est, coolest thing ever” because she was not expecting it, and she was surprised that she received multiple nominations.
“It was really awesome,” Rodriguez said.
THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM Thursday, October 8, 2015 5A
EDUMACATION JOHNIVAN DARBY
BEARDO DAN DOUGHERTY
DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU
67 Greek god of mercy?
69 Greek god of tangy drinks?
70 Goof-offs71 Weapon-free72 Fabric meas.
DOWN 1 Cable channel that
broadcasts trials 2 Silver streaks 3 Weapons in action
films 4 Trysted 5 Do before, as a gift
chore 6 Bumpers of Arkan-
sas 7 Common lunch
hour 8 Grammys category 9 Lt. commander of
’60s TV10 Frequently11 Hawaiian goose12 Poet on whose
work “Cats” is based: Abbr.
13 Tony Blair, for one14 Nothing more than15 Be a ham16 Kennedy and oth-
ers19 Base clearers22 Cuts in expenses23 Macy’s Parade
locale24 Dash units26 Disparaging re-
mark27 Best Picture of
195828 Rock’s Police or
Cream, e.g.29 Get through work30 “Does” or
“doesn’t” follower32 Where to see
“Outside the Lines”
33 America’s only bachelor president
37 Province opp. Detroit
38 Life’s partner39 Baba au ___40 Tombstone law-
man41 Club aliases, for
short42 Work hard43 Mauna ___47 “Facts ___ facts”49 Moriarty, to Hol-
mes50 Wrinkle removers51 You can count on it52 “Boxcars”54 Performer of a
banishing act55 “To Spring” and
others58 Air force heroes59 Had feelings (for)60 Sign up61 ___ mater62 Hillside thrill-ride
need63 Emmy-winning
Tyne64 Winter woe65 “___ shocked …
shocked!”66 String between
B and F68 “By yesterday”
The crossword solution is in the Classified section.
ACROSS 1 Small group, as of
trees 6 Hibernating13 Lush14 Greek god of
bondage?15 Greek goddess of
learning?16 Greek goddess of
communication?17 Slogging areas18 “You want to go
___?”20 Had wings21 23-Across and
others22 Wear away23 Slugger’s first
name25 Young ’un26 Does a number
on27 Greek god of
fertility?31 Greek goddess of
messages?33 Used bookstore
containers34 Pep rally cry35 Catch some rays36 Bumpy38 Sicilian’s millions39 Key to under-
standing the theme of this puzzle
43 Title villain of a “Star Trek” film
44 May, for one45 Peeping ___46 1940s war zone:
Abbr.47 Prepares to fire48 Greek god of
equal opportu-nity?
53 Greek god of elec-tricity?
55 Actor Ryan56 Hit bonus, for
short57 Poison indicators,
on bottles58 Butler’s last words59 Goad gently60 ___ alai62 Acting exercise63 Cut a rug64 Greek god of
healthy hair?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14
15 16
17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34
35 36 37 38
39 40 41 42
43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50 51 52
53 54 55 56
57 58 59
60 61 62 63
64 65 66 67 68
69 70
71 72
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you. The Board of Directors of Illini Media is looking for undergraduate students
to serve a two-year term on its board.
Illini Media, a non-profit, student-run media company, publishes The Daily Illini, Buzz weekly, Illio yearbook and Technograph magazine, and operates WPGU-FM. Among other essential duties, the Board establishes general guidelines for the operation of the company, selects student managers, sets rates and
schedules, approves and oversees the budget and provides oversight.
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ACE Awards to honor local arts community
PORTRAIT OF CAROLYN BAXLEY
PORTRAIT OF XUXA RODRIGUEZ
PHOTOS COURTESY OF 40 NORTH
BY MARIAH SCHAEFERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Since 2005, 40 North | 88 West, Champaign Coun-ty’s arts council, opens up nominations for the ACE Awards, selecting the win-ners and celebrating with the arts community.
This year, the 11th annual awards ceremony is Friday at The City Center inside Fat City Bar and Grill in Champaign.
Community members who impact the local arts scene are recognized, but the ceremony exists more to bring together arts-minded community members. The acronym stands for “art, culture and education.”
Kelly White, executive director at 40 North | 88 West, said the ACE Awards
are not a competition.“It’s not a typical awards
ceremony ... it’s basically a party, a full celebration of everyone who is involved with the arts community,” said Kelly White, execu-tive director at 40 North | 88 West. “It’s just a way for us to kind of sit back, celebrate and shine a light on that.”
The ACE Awards have seven categories: advocate, artist, volunteer, business, teacher, student and life-time. White said that the number of nominations increases from year to year. This year, the coun-cil received over 110 nomi-nations for the communi-ty-based panel of judges to decide on the winners.
“It is tough ... Every year the judges struggle with
each category, and every year they always ask, ‘Can we give more than one to each category?’ because there is such a competitive base of amazing people,” White said.
She also said that because of the high competition, the council honors all nominees at the event as well.
“The seven winners are fantastic, and it’s great to honor them, but truly the whole group of all of them combined is what is really making the arts community happen,” White said. “It’s all those people that are nominated for different rea-sons that really as a group, as a whole are what is kind of creating the vibrancy that we have.”
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BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
Stories of Strength: Sarah Adams
BY SUSAN SZUCHCOPY CHIEF
Some might call Sarah Adams a woman of unbrek-able spirit.
When her fingernails became brittle and started to peel after using the anti-cancer drug Taxol, she simply wrapped her fingers in gauze and continued to work as the office manager for the ACES academic program.
Now, after almost a year in remission, Sarah’s nails are all but recovered, with only a couple starting to crack near the nail bed.
“The half-life of Taxol must be something else on finger-nails — they must love it, because I’ve never had fin-gernails like these in my life,” Sarah remarked, examining them momentarily.
Now office manager for administrations in Engineer-ing, Sarah is one of those on campus who has battled — and beat — breast cancer. She continues to be an advocate for those who are still fight-ing. For Sarah, this job isn’t restricted to October, Nation-al Breast Cancer Awareness month, but rather spans the entire year.
Her battle began when what initially thought to be a cyst turned out to be breast cancer. At 38, she was given the news by phone on May 10, 2013, while she was standing
on the stage of Assembly Hall during graduation rehears-al. Sarah went through the entire rehearsal, only sharing the news with her coworkers after the practice concluded.
Anne Stites, administrative assistant in ACES and Sar-ah’s former supervisor, was amazed by the way Adams handled the news.
“I think I would have bro-ken down and probably cried a lot,” Stites said. “But she was a hero and just continued on.”
After receiving her diag-nosis, Sarah’s doctor rec-ommended she have a mas-tectomy. The tumor was the size of a small lime, and the placement meant she could not do a lumpectomy, or a procedure where only the tumor is removed. Follow-ing the surgery, Sarah took six weeks to recover before going back to work full time — when she only took Thurs-days off for her chemotherapy treatments.
This was surprising to Stites, who encouraged her to take more time off, especial-ly after Sarah’s nails began to peel.
“When the diagnosis of cancer came back, it was just like, ‘Oh my gosh, what are we going to do? How are we going to deal with this?’” Stites said. “But out of any-body, I was shocked to know how much she’d come to work, how much she’d push forward.
There were days she didn’t have fingernails — they were falling off.”
Sarah was two weeks into chemotherapy when her hair began to fall out. She was in a car, running her fingers through her hair, when she felt strands clump into the palm of her hand. She let the hair fly out the window as her dad drove through Illinois’ countryside. The next day, she went into a salon to get all her hair buzzed off. While she enjoyed some aspects of it, like taking three-minute morning showers and saving money on hair products, it was also difficult at first.
“This society is one that if you don’t have hair, you get stares,” Sarah said. “As a woman, you’re kind of looked at like, ‘Oh my gosh,’ and it’s an immediate clue that you’re sick.”
For her, having hair during chemotherapy kept her can-cer a secret — no one could tell she was sick. But once she lost her hair, her “secret” was out.
“I never wanted to be pit-ied; it is what it is. I never ever asked why me? Why not me?” Sarah said. “So many people have said, ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe how gracefully you handled that,’ but what option are you given?”
Sarah occasionally jokes that she was not a “good patient” during her treat-
ment. When she was hospi-talized for five days due to a blood clot, caused by cells that collected in the tube that administered her medication, one of her nurses turned a bed alarm on that detected when she got out of the bed. The nurse knew Sarah would get up to use the bathroom even though it was potential-ly dangerous.
Despite being insistently independent, she noted that it was extremely important to let people provide support by letting them know what they can do to help.
“A lot of times, people are like, ‘What can I do to help you?’ Take them up on that, otherwise they just feel so lost,” she said. “When you see somebody going through can-cer, you can’t take away their pain, you can’t make it bet-ter, so people feel very help-less, and they just want to do anything for you. So even just telling somebody to go to the store for you, they will jump at that.”
Sarah herself has been a crucial source of support for others as well. A year after her diagnosis, Stites’ mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.
“It’s just nice to know I have a resource here. I can call, and she can help me out,” Stites said. “She told me which doctors and what to expect, and I was like, ‘OK, this is
what we’re gonna do,’ and my mom was very grateful.
“It’s one day at a time, and I know that’s how Sarah lives, and that’s all we can expect.”
The past summer, Sarah went to a retreat hosted by Breast Cancer Recovery in Wisconsin for any women with breast cancer. This four-day retreat offered another form of support for her, since she was able to be around oth-ers who experienced a simi-lar thing. She was able to talk about helpful topics, like get-ting beyond breast cancer emotionally.
Even though Sarah’s treat-ment ended, her side effects still lingered. Every now and then, she still finds herself with brittle nails and doubt-ful thoughts.
“Just survivor guilt, that’s something I struggle with a lot. Knowing people that haven’t made it, so why am I here?” Sarah said. “You sort of learn how to start coping. When you see people younger than you, younger and health-ier than you who are not win-ning this battle, it’s hard.”
Today, Sarah lives with a new perspective.
“A lot of cancer patients talk about the new normal,” she said. “You’re not going to go back to the way you were, but in a lot of ways, it’s a bet-ter you.”
PORTRAIT OF SARAH ADAMS BY KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINI
Carolyn Baxley, advocate ACECarolyn Baxley, owner of the Cinema Gal-
lery in Urbana, said she thinks it is impor-tant to support local galleries and artists. Her gallery alone represents over 50 artists.
“I am really happy to have won in that particular category because I think that anyone who is involved in the arts needs to be an advocate,” Baxley said. “We need to support each other.”
Baxley said that three galleries closed in the area in the past year.
“It’s been a very difficult time,” she said. “I have been very fortunate to survive it, and it’s important that people remember in times like this that ... they need to come out and support the artists and the art, other-wise they go away.”
She said she views one of her roles as a business owner as working with other busi-ness owners to ensure visibility for the area.
“I think people really underestimate the need for staying visible, for marketing their businesses,” Baxley said. “Our community is very transitional. We have students who are here four years, some who are here for fewer years and we can’t expect people to always remember that we are here.”
Baxley has lived in Urbana since 1973. She went to graduate school at the Univer-sity, met her husband, got married and end-ed up staying after finishing her degree.
“My husband and I have been interested in historic preservation for a number of years,” Baxley said. “We’ve renovated sev-eral buildings in downtown Urbana, includ-ing the one that houses the gallery, the his-toric cinema.”
She also helped found the Orpheum Chil-dren’s Science Museum in the 1990s.
“You have to really be supportive of other
arts venues and other art efforts in town, and I’ve tried to do that over the years,” Baxley said. “I try to attend openings at other galleries.”
Baxley said she has been to the ACE Awards celebrations every year, has been nominated before and would go to the event even if she were not nominated.
“Socializing with other arts-minded indi-viduals I would say is one of the benefits of the ceremony,” she said.
Rusty Clevenger, teacher ACERusty Clevenger grew up in a small farm
community in Illinois near St. Louis, so the first time he went to an art museum was when he was a high school sophomore.
Clevenger, elementary art teacher at Dr. Preston L. Williams Jr. Elementary School and Wiley Elementary School, moved to Urbana in 2009 to teach and immediately noticed Champaign-Urbana’s connection to the arts.
“I started to realize how much arts were in the community, but then I was also real-izing that none of the kids were going to any of those places,” he said.
He said that close to 92 percent of the student body at Dr. Williams, and about half of the student body at Wiley, comes from low-income families and qualify for free and reduced lunches.
“I started realizing how many of my stu-dents had never seen real art or stood in front of it or attended a performance,” Clev-enger said. “So I started to look for ways to get my students to those spaces.”
He and a group of about five or six teach-ers started collaborating with Krannert Art Museum, where students were able to go to the art museum for an entire week.
“With that week there, we were going to teach all the curriculum lessons using arts integration,” Clevenger said. “Basi-cally, the students learned reading, writ-ing, math, art, music, dance and drama all by looking at artifacts at the Krannert Art Museum.”
Now in its fifth year, the program has two categories: KAM-WAM, where students go to the museum for a week, and KAM-BAM, where students go to the museum for a day.
Clevenger said that winning the teacher
ACE means a lot to him because the com-munity picked it.
“I became very passionate with teaching very early in my career, and I also became very passionate with the fine arts,” Clev-enger said. “For me, it almost feels like this adventure where I am still exploring and still going, and it wasn’t until the award kind of came up where I kind of had to take a moment and be like, ‘Wow, people are really liking this.’”
PORTRAIT OF RUSTY CLEVENGER
Xuxa Rodriguez, student ACEWhen she was just five years old, Susana
(Xuxa) Rodriguez’s grandmother decided to sit her down and teach her how to oil paint.
“Evidently, she had a lot of faith in me, because five-year-olds and oil painting don’t really mix in my mind,” said Rodriguez, a third year Ph.D. candidate in Art History. “The amount of patience that you have to have for oil painting is one that I do not nor-mally associate with five-year-olds, but she was like, ‘this one is precocious and she has laser focus, so this one will probably be able to do it’ and she was right.”
Rodriguez, who is a Graduate College dis-tinguished fellow, focuses her studies on con-temporary Afro-Cuban performance artists and looks at how they negotiate the plural identity of being Cuban-American.
“I am kind of biased because I am Cuban-American,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez worked at Figure One, the School of Art and Design’s exhibition lab-oratory space, from around October 2013 until this past summer, and she thinks her duties there influenced her nomination for an ACE Award.
“I helped curate shows; I helped curate pro-grams,” Rodriguez said. “I was very vocal and visible in the community ... I would go out and basically go to everyone’s shows – I still go to everyone’s shows as much as I can – but always go and sort of engage in cultur-al exchange.”
She said that when she found out she had
won the Student ACE, it was the “weird-est, coolest thing ever” because she was not expecting it, and she was surprised that she received multiple nominations.
“It was really awesome,” Rodriguez said.
THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM Thursday, October 8, 2015 5A
EDUMACATION JOHNIVAN DARBY
BEARDO DAN DOUGHERTY
DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU
67 Greek god of mercy?
69 Greek god of tangy drinks?
70 Goof-offs71 Weapon-free72 Fabric meas.
DOWN 1 Cable channel that
broadcasts trials 2 Silver streaks 3 Weapons in action
films 4 Trysted 5 Do before, as a gift
chore 6 Bumpers of Arkan-
sas 7 Common lunch
hour 8 Grammys category 9 Lt. commander of
’60s TV10 Frequently11 Hawaiian goose12 Poet on whose
work “Cats” is based: Abbr.
13 Tony Blair, for one14 Nothing more than15 Be a ham16 Kennedy and oth-
ers19 Base clearers22 Cuts in expenses23 Macy’s Parade
locale24 Dash units26 Disparaging re-
mark27 Best Picture of
195828 Rock’s Police or
Cream, e.g.29 Get through work30 “Does” or
“doesn’t” follower32 Where to see
“Outside the Lines”
33 America’s only bachelor president
37 Province opp. Detroit
38 Life’s partner39 Baba au ___40 Tombstone law-
man41 Club aliases, for
short42 Work hard43 Mauna ___47 “Facts ___ facts”49 Moriarty, to Hol-
mes50 Wrinkle removers51 You can count on it52 “Boxcars”54 Performer of a
banishing act55 “To Spring” and
others58 Air force heroes59 Had feelings (for)60 Sign up61 ___ mater62 Hillside thrill-ride
need63 Emmy-winning
Tyne64 Winter woe65 “___ shocked …
shocked!”66 String between
B and F68 “By yesterday”
The crossword solution is in the Classified section.
ACROSS 1 Small group, as of
trees 6 Hibernating13 Lush14 Greek god of
bondage?15 Greek goddess of
learning?16 Greek goddess of
communication?17 Slogging areas18 “You want to go
___?”20 Had wings21 23-Across and
others22 Wear away23 Slugger’s first
name25 Young ’un26 Does a number
on27 Greek god of
fertility?31 Greek goddess of
messages?33 Used bookstore
containers34 Pep rally cry35 Catch some rays36 Bumpy38 Sicilian’s millions39 Key to under-
standing the theme of this puzzle
43 Title villain of a “Star Trek” film
44 May, for one45 Peeping ___46 1940s war zone:
Abbr.47 Prepares to fire48 Greek god of
equal opportu-nity?
53 Greek god of elec-tricity?
55 Actor Ryan56 Hit bonus, for
short57 Poison indicators,
on bottles58 Butler’s last words59 Goad gently60 ___ alai62 Acting exercise63 Cut a rug64 Greek god of
healthy hair?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14
15 16
17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34
35 36 37 38
39 40 41 42
43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50 51 52
53 54 55 56
57 58 59
60 61 62 63
64 65 66 67 68
69 70
71 72
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If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you. The Board of Directors of Illini Media is looking for undergraduate students
to serve a two-year term on its board.
Illini Media, a non-profit, student-run media company, publishes The Daily Illini, Buzz weekly, Illio yearbook and Technograph magazine, and operates WPGU-FM. Among other essential duties, the Board establishes general guidelines for the operation of the company, selects student managers, sets rates and
schedules, approves and oversees the budget and provides oversight.
For information or an application, please contact April Lambert at [email protected]
All applications are due by Friday October 16, 2015 at 5:00pm.
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ACE Awards to honor local arts community
PORTRAIT OF CAROLYN BAXLEY
PORTRAIT OF XUXA RODRIGUEZ
PHOTOS COURTESY OF 40 NORTH
BY MARIAH SCHAEFERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Since 2005, 40 North | 88 West, Champaign Coun-ty’s arts council, opens up nominations for the ACE Awards, selecting the win-ners and celebrating with the arts community.
This year, the 11th annual awards ceremony is Friday at The City Center inside Fat City Bar and Grill in Champaign.
Community members who impact the local arts scene are recognized, but the ceremony exists more to bring together arts-minded community members. The acronym stands for “art, culture and education.”
Kelly White, executive director at 40 North | 88 West, said the ACE Awards
are not a competition.“It’s not a typical awards
ceremony ... it’s basically a party, a full celebration of everyone who is involved with the arts community,” said Kelly White, execu-tive director at 40 North | 88 West. “It’s just a way for us to kind of sit back, celebrate and shine a light on that.”
The ACE Awards have seven categories: advocate, artist, volunteer, business, teacher, student and life-time. White said that the number of nominations increases from year to year. This year, the coun-cil received over 110 nomi-nations for the communi-ty-based panel of judges to decide on the winners.
“It is tough ... Every year the judges struggle with
each category, and every year they always ask, ‘Can we give more than one to each category?’ because there is such a competitive base of amazing people,” White said.
She also said that because of the high competition, the council honors all nominees at the event as well.
“The seven winners are fantastic, and it’s great to honor them, but truly the whole group of all of them combined is what is really making the arts community happen,” White said. “It’s all those people that are nominated for different rea-sons that really as a group, as a whole are what is kind of creating the vibrancy that we have.”
SPORTS1BTHURSDAYOctober 8, 2015
The Daily Illini
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BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER
Running down the visiting team tunnel onto an opponent’s fi eld can be a daunting task for college football players.
Players run from a narrow tunnel into a sea of the home team’s colors. Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of fans scream in unison at the visitors, often fi lled with boos, sometimes fi lled with words not suitable for print. Each school has its own traditions — Illinois football’s student section turns around when the visiting team runs onto the fi eld.
While the run of terror might discourage some play-ers, it encourages Bill Cubit. The Illinois head coach said he enjoys running onto the fi eld as a visitor — it’s something fun. Players and coaches adopt an “us against the world” mental-ity, which can be more benefi -cial than the cheers of the home fans.
“ Y o u ’ r e going into a hostile envi-r o n m e n t , ” Cubit said. “You see all those fans, and you really want to quiet people down and when you do, it’s really a neat experience.”
The head coach looks at the positives of playing on the road rather then the negatives. He views the fans’ boos as cheers for his team — they are mad because his team did some-thing well. Road games haven’t changed for him either despite his long coaching career. Each hotel room, bus, plane is new, but his mindset will never change.
Despite Cubit’s good relations with the road, the Illini haven’t fared well away from Memo-rial Stadium in the past 20 years. Illinois was 2-12 on the road under former head coach Tim Beckman, 13-26 under Ron Zook and 11-29 under Ron Turner. The team won at North-western and Purdue over the course of the past two seasons but also lost 55-14 at Ohio State, 45-14 at Nebraska and 44-19 at Washington.
Those past road diffi cul-ties aren’t a mystery to Cubit.
He knows his players become too wound up early during the week and on gameday. When the opposing team makes a big play during the game, the Illini usually don’t bounce back.
But the Nebraska game showed that the Illini have learned from past mistakes. They hung around with the Cornhuskers and won the game in the last minute.
But playing on the road will be a different circumstance. The fans in the stands are cheering against the Illini rath-er than for the Illini.
The Big Ten is home to many different hostile environ-ments, including Ohio State’s “Horseshoe” or Michigan’s “Big House.” Despite play-ing in these different venues, V’Angelo Bentley knows the crowds won’t have an effect on Illinois’ gameplan.
“I don’t think being on the road is a dra-matic change from our home fi eld,” the senior c o r n e r b a c k said. “We just have to go out there and exe-cute, that’s the biggest thing.”
The team will fl y to Iowa ear-ly Friday after-noon and go straight to the hotel. After din-
ner and a meeting, it’s lights out. A breakfast awaits in the morning then they ride a bus to the stadium. The habits don’t change even though Kinnick Stadium’s visiting locker room is painted pink.
The run down onto the fi eld might seem intimidating and the words yelled at the players and coaches might not be nice, but it’s worth it, especially for offensive lineman Ted Karras. If the players and coaches exe-cute everything correctly, the run back up the tunnel after the game will seem less daunting.
“You have to go take road vic-tories,” Karras said. “It’s going to be harder to come back with 51 seconds left on the road than it is in Memorial Stadium. We have to go take it. We have to have the mindset that we’re here to play and we want to get on the play in a good mood.”
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Big Ten troubles on road to Kinnick
“It’s going to be harder to come back with 51 seconds left on
the road than it is in Memorial Stadium.”
TED KARRASOFFENSIVE LINEMAN
Recent travel poses problems for Illini
football
BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois football team will face its fi rst ranked oppo-nent of the season when it trav-els to Iowa City this weekend to face the No. 22 Hawkeyes.
It is the fi rst time the Illini (4-1, 1-0) are headed to Kin-nick Stadium since they lost there in 2007. Illinois has not won a game there since 1999. Iowa (5-0, 1-0) is the last Big Ten team to beat Illinois — the Illini are on a three-game winning streak against con-ference opponents, but Iowa is one of four unbeaten teams remaining in the conference.
Illinois has lost 10 straight and 19 of its last 20 games against teams ranked in the AP poll since beating No. 1 Ohio State in 2007. Head coach Bill Cubit is 0-4 against AP ranked teams in his years as a head coach.
The Illini will likely be with-
out star running back Josh Fer-guson, who suffered a shoulder injury during Saturday’s game against the Cornhuskers. Cubit said his return this week-end was doubtful. The Illi-ni release their inju-ry report Thursday night.
“It hurts if he’s not able to play just b e c a u s e he’s such an electri-fying play-er,” quarterback Wes Lunt said. “He gets you those big plays but we want him in the long run, so if that means not playing this week, that’ll be okay.”
Freshman back Ke’Shawn Vaughn will take over the run game — he recorded 80
yards against Middle Tennes-see State and 98 yards against Nebraska.
Though Vaughn is a valuable asset to the rush game, Illinois may need to rely more on its
passing offense. The Iowa scoring defense is fourth and its rushing defense is sec-ond in the Big Ten. However, the Hawkeyes’ passing defense is eighth in the conference.
Lunt is hap-py to be back
and healthy after struggling through injuries last season — Nebraska marked his fi rst healthy Big Ten game since arriving at Illinois. Coaches said he provides a constant experienced pocket presence.
The red zone may also prove to be a problem. Iowa’s red
zone coverage is third in the conference. Illinois’ red zone offense is 13th.
Saturday may provide another chance foe the Illi-nois defense to make big stops. Iowa is ranked 7th in total offense. Illinois coaches said Iowa’s offensive line is one to remain aware of.
“It’s a physical team,” Cubit said. “It’s a really good team with one of the few offensive lines I enjoy watching.”
Illinois receivers dropped six passes against Nebras-ka and at times failed to look cohesive. But mistakes aside, the Illini are optimistic for Iowa.
“It’s way easier to correct mistakes with a one-point win than it would be a 13-7 loss,” offensive lineman Ted Kar-ras said.
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King collected his fourth and fi fth interceptions of the season in Iowa’s last game against Big Ten foe
Wisconsin — King also had a multi-interception game against Pittsburgh in Week Three. The cornerback
recorded nine total tackles in the 10-6 victory. Those efforts led him to be named Big Ten Conference Co-Defensive Player of the Week. His fi ve interceptions
lead the conference. King has shown he can be dangerous in the return game as well — he had 180
return yards in Week 4 against North Texas.
Allison is the Big Ten leader in receiving yards (453) and receptions (32). Those numbers rank in the top-20 nationally. His 91 yards in the Illini’s last game against Nebraska helped him surpass 1,000 career receiving yards (1,051). The receiver caught the game-winning
touchdown against the Cornhuskers — it was his second of the season and seventh of his career. Allison continues to be Wes Lunt’s top target with Mike Dudek and Justin Hardee still out with injuries — neither have
played a game this season.
EYE ON THE ILLINI: WIDE RECEIVER GERONIMO ALLISON
EYE ON THE ENEMY: CORNERBACK DESMOND KING
ILLINOIS’ KE’SHAWN VAUGHNVaughn rushed for 98 yards on 24 carries versus Nebraska. Starting running back Josh
Ferguson exited that game in the second quarter due to suffering a shoulder injury, resulting in Vaughn to take on the majority of the workload. Head coach Bill Cubit said it is very unlikely that Ferguson returns to action against Iowa. If Ferguson is unavailable to play, Vaughn will once again be the Illini’s go-to back. Vaughn has 325 rushing yards
this year.
IOWA’S C.J. BEATHARDBeathard only threw for 77 yards with one touchdown pass against Big Ten foe
Wisconsin. The junior quarterback has thrown for 1,039 on the year to go along with seven touchdowns and two interceptions. Beathard has led his team to undefeated
record thus far.
Illinois has not beaten Iowa since 2008. The Illini have not won at Kinnick Stadium since 1999. Illinois leads Iowa in the
all-time series 38-30-2.
610The Hawkeyes defeated the Badgers 10-6 at Camp
Randall. Iowa took the lead in the second quarter and held it for the rest of the game. The Hawkeyes had 221 yards of total offense. All of Iowa’s points came off of a
Wisconsin turnover.
LAST WEEK FOR IOWA
Iowa is the last Big Ten team to beat Illinois. The Illini are on a three-game conference win streak.
OFFENSE QB C.J. Beathard 16RB Jordan Canzeri 33FB Macon Plewa 42WR Matt VandeBerg 89WR Jacob Hillyer 17TE Henry Krieger-Coble 80LT Cole Croston 64LG Sean Welsh 79C Austin Blythe 63RG Jordan Walsh 65RT Ike Boettger 75K Marshall Koehn 1
OFFENSE QB Wes Lunt 12RB Ke’Shawn Vaughn 5-OR- Josh Ferguson 6WR-X Geronimo Allison 8 WR-T Marchie Murdock 16WR-Z Malik Turner 11TE Tyler White 87LT Austin Schmidt 57LG Chris Boles 55C Joe Spencer 71RG Ted Karras 69RT Christian DiLauro 67K Taylor Zalewski 17
DEFENSELE Nate Meier 34
LT Jaleel Johnson 67RT Nathan Bazata 99
RE Drew Ott 95OLB Ben Niemann 44MLB Josey Jewell 43WLB Cole Fisher 36
LC Greg Mabin 13SS Miles Taylor 19
FS Jordan Lomax 27RC Desmond King 14
P Dillon Kidd 16
DEFENSEDE Jihad Ward 17
NT Chunky Clements 11DT Rob Bain 16
LEO Dawuane Smoot 91WLB Mason Monheim 43
MLB T.J. Neal Jr. 52STAR Eric Finney 14
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SS Taylor Barton 3FS Clayton Fejedelem 20
CB Eaton Spence 27P Ryan Frain 13
PASSINGC.J. Beathard
84-for-131, 1,039 yards, 7 TD
RUSHINGJordan Canzeri
89 carries, 441 yards, 8 TDLeShun Daniels
52 carries, 226 yards, 0 TD
RECEIVINGMatt VandeBerg
31 catches, 303 yards, 2 TD
PASSINGWes Lunt
111-for-191, 1,107 yards, 8 TD
RUSHINGJosh Ferguson
71 carries, 381 yards, 3 TDKe’Shawn Vaughn
76 carries, 325 yards, 2 TD
RECEIVINGGeronimo Allison
32 catches, 453 yards, 2 TDMarchie Murdock
20 catches, 194 yards, 3 TD Desmond Cain
19 catches, 141 yardsJosh Ferguson
12 catches, 78 yards, 1 TD
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SEPT. 26 VS. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE — (W 27-25)OCT. 3 VS. NEBRASKA — (W 14-13)
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NOV. 14 VS. OHIO STATE — TBDNOV. 21 AT MINNESOTA — TBD
NOV. 28 VS. NORTHWESTERN (CHICAGO) — TBD
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NORTHWESTERN @ MICHIGAN 2:30 PMWISCONSIN @ NEBRASKA 2:30 PMMINNESOTA @ PURDUE 2:30 PM
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Hawkeyes present ranked challengeWith likely absence of Ferguson, Vaughn key to Illinois’ o! ensive success in " rst Big Ten roadgame
It’s way easier to correct mistakes with
a one-point win than it would be a 13-7 loss.
TED KARRAS OFFENSIVE LINEMAN
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Ke’Shawn Vaughn attempts to run through Nebraska’s defense during the game against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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Editor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff chats with a sports editor or football beat reporter from an opposing school’s paper. Up this week is sports editor of The Daily Iowan, Jordan Hansen .
Daily Illini: Is Iowa the real deal this year?
Jordan Hansen: I’ve asked myself this question a bunch of times over the last couple weeks and I’m going to cau-tiously say “yes.”
They’re a tough, resilient team that can win in a vari-ety of ways and has a number of weapons at their disposal.
That being said, there’s plenty of time for this team to tailspin into oblivion, but I don’t think this happens this year.
DI: How elite of a quarter-back is C.J. Beathard ?
JH: He’s in the upper-tier of Big Ten quarterbacks, but a poor showing against the Badgers dropped him a bit. With that said, Iowa’s tackles were not great in that game and he was under quite a bit of pressure, so I’ll cut him a bit of slack.
He’s a mobile quarterback with a good arm and a lot of zip on his passes. His abil-ity to read defenses and go through his progressions is improving, but there’s still some work to be done in that area.
Beathard also has a pretty solid deep ball, though with wide receiver Tevaun Smith out until after Iowa’s bye week, it remains to be seen who he’ll be chucking it down the fi eld to.
DI: Is there a weakness on this team that can’t be seen through stats?
JH: Breaking in two offen-sive tackles is a diffi cult thing to do and while Iowa’s sack numbers aren’t terrible, there have been a couple games
where Beathard has been running for his life.
Iowa’s linebackers are also a bit slow and aren’t partic-ularly great in pass cover-age. I’m curious how Illi-nois’ coaching staff decides to attack them.
DI: What do you think will be Iowa’s biggest game for the rest of the season?
JH: I mean, Iowa hasn’t been eliminated from the College Football Playoff yet, right? In all seriousness though, if Iowa and North-western are both still unde-feated next week, that’s a huge game.
DI: Do you think the Hawk-eyes might overlook Illinois?
JH: I really don’t think so. Kirk Ferentz seems to have plenty of respect for Illinois and so do the players. It’s also homecoming week and the Hawkeyes are going to be pretty close to a sellout. This just doesn’t strike me as a trap game.
DI: How big was the win over Wisconsin?
JH: Absolutely huge. It was Iowa’s fi rst win over a ranked opponent on the road since 2010 at Michigan and a tro-phy game at that.
Wisconsin has been some-thing of a mental hurdle for Iowa over the last few years and for the fi rst time in a while, there’s quite a bit of buzz about Iowa.
DI: Is there any excitement for this game since it’s the fi rst time since 2007 that the Illini are visiting?
JH: I think a little bit more than normal, though that might just be because it’s homecoming week. To me, the basketball rivalry between Iowa and Illinois will always be bigger, but I’m sure there’s someone out there who would disagree with me.
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WR GERONIMO ALLISON VS. CB DESMOND KING
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Geronimo Allison has proven that he is a stud wide receiver and a legiti-mate threat after his per-formance against Nebras-ka. Allison leads the Big Ten with 32 catches and 452 receiving yards and is on the Biletnikoff award watch list. But Iowa cor-nerback Desmond King is no slouch. King was the Jim Thorpe player of the week and Big Ten co-defensive player of the week after recording two picks and two pass breakups against
Wisconsin. Thanks in part to King, the Hawkeyes only gave up two fi eld goals to the Badgers. Illinois does not shy away from the fact that Allison is the go-to receiver on the team, all but one of the goal-line plays in Saturday’s win over Nebraska were sent his way. Allison has a size advantage at 6-foot-4, but this matchup will be key to seeing who will compete with Northwestern to win the Big Ten West.
RB Ke’Shawn Vaug
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIIllinois’ Geronimo Allison (8) attempts to catch the ball during the game against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Oct 3, 2015. The Illini won 14-13.
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I llinois football’s win over Nebraska was a long time coming.Illini nation endured a
lot under Tim Beckman, the least of which was Big Ten mediocrity. But the Illini are undefeated in Big Ten play since Bill Cubit took over as head coach.
He’s coached one Big Ten game and won one Big Ten game. If he wins his second game this weekend in Iowa City against the Hawkeyes, and is untaint-ed by the upcoming results of the player abuse investigation, he should be Illinois’ coach come 2016.
If Illinois beats Iowa, the Illini would be one win away from a bowl game. That win could be against Wisconsin, Penn State, Minnesota or Purdue — especially Purdue.
If Illinois beats Iowa,
the Illini would be 2-0 to begin Big Ten play and make Cubit the fi rst Illinois coach to begin his conference career that well in nearly three decades.
If Illinois beats Iowa, the Illini will remain at the top of the Big Ten West.
And if Illinois loses to Iowa?
Bill Cubit’s team drops a road game in a tough atmosphere and returns to Champaign for a bye week and a big Homecoming matchup with Wisconsin. The Illini would still be at 4-2 overall, two games away from a bowl birth and still at .500 in the Big Ten.
Saturday is a win-win game for Cubit. The Nebraska win got the Big Ten opener monkey off his back. It was a signa-ture win against a signa-ture program — albeit in a down year — and set his team up for a big Home-coming game on Oct. 24.
The Illini are a 10-point underdog against the 5-0
Hawkeyes. They face an upward battle without Josh Ferguson and with a struggling receiving corps. They haven’t won a game at Kinnick Stadium since 1999. They haven’t beaten Iowa since 2008.
Ted Karras — when asked Monday about his team’s prospects against Iowa — started to say “we could pull it off” and then stopped and said “We’re going to be competitive in this game.” That dem-onstrates the wide-held expectations of the Illi-ni going into this game. They stand a chance, but they’re defi nitely the underdog.
But if Bill Cubit “pulls off” a win against the Hawkeyes, he’s in the drivers seat as far as the future head coaching posi-tion is concerned.
If he pulls off a win against the Hawkeyes, it’s his job to lose.
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Cubit and Illinois enter win-win game
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois coaches Mike Ward (left), Tim Banks (center) and Bill Cubit converse on the fi eld during Saturday’s game against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium. Illinois won 14-13.
PETER BAILY-WELLS
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Q&A with the Daily Iowan sports editor
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIIIllinois’ Ke’Shawn Vaughn (5) runs with the ball during the game against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Oct 3, 2015. The Illini won 14-13.
Josh Ferguson is high-ly doubtful for Saturday’s game due to a shoulder injury sustained last week. Vaughn fi lled in nicely and rushed for 98 yards, averaging 4.1 yards a car-ry, but the freshman will have his biggest test by far against Iowa. The Hawk-eyes rank second in rush defense in the conference, giving up only 2.6 yards per carry, and are the only
team in the conference yet to give up a rushing touch-down. If Vaughn steps up, a huge load will be taken off the Illini, and it will probably quell the cheers coming from Iowa’s Home-coming crowd. If Vaughn can’t fi ll in well, the Illi-ni will have their backs against a wall and could have road troubles again, much like they did against North Carolina.
RB KE’SHAWN VAUGHN VS. IOWA DEFENSE
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIIRyan Frain punts from the Illinois end zone in Saturday’s game against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium.
Illinois is at the bottom of the conference when it comes to punting.
The Illini are averaging 38.9 yards a punt. Ryan Frain and David Reisner took on punting duties against Nebraska. and nei-ther had impressive punts. Iowa is second in the con-ference on punt returns with Desmond King as its returner.
The Hawkeyes average 18.7 yards per punt return. If the low-scoring games from last week were any
indication, both teams have stubborn defenses that could call for a lot of punts.
If Illinois’ punting does not do well enough, Iowa could end up winning a game that could depend on better fi eld position.
The forecast currently shows that there will not be strong winds in Iowa City on Saturday, so who-ever the punter is for Illi-nois won’t have to fi ght the elements like they did last week.
ILLINI PUNTING VS. IOWA RETURN TEAM
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BY ELI SCHWADRONSTAFF WRITER
The No. 13 Illinois vol-leyball team will be “fi red up” to play at Huff Hall for the fi rst time since August, according to head coach Kevin Hambly.
Illinois (11-4) takes on No. 3 Penn State (14-1) — a team the Illini defeated on the road in 2014 — on Fri-day at 7 p.m. After facing the defending champion Nit-tany Lions, the Illini will host No. 9 Ohio State (14-2) on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Illinois is coming off their fi rst Big Ten losses of the season, falling to then-No. 19 Wisconsin and then-No. 16 Minnesota over the week-end. They’ll look to bounce back against the Nittany Lions, a team whose sole loss came against No. 4 Nebras-ka on Oct. 2.
Hambly had high praise for Penn State.
“They have all the pieces to be a championship team,” he said. “That’s what they’ve had for the past eight years.”
Hambly said the Nittany Lions’ secret weapons are their liberos. He explained that their defensive spe-cialists go under the radar
because they make things look easy on the court.
But that’s not taking anything away from Penn State’s attack, either. The Nittany Lions possess a three-headed monster on offense with middle block-er Haleigh Washington (2.76 kills per set, .479 hitting per-centage) and outside hitters Megan Courtney (3.2 kills per set, 157 total kills) and Aiya-na Whitney (150 kills, .327 hitting p e r c e n t -age).
“ W a s h -ington’s a d i f fe r e nt animal, and she’s may-be front-runner for player of the year,” H a m b l y said. “And Megan Court-ney is on a mission … she’s freakishly athletic.”
To knock off the No. 3 team in the nation, Illinois outside hitter Jocelynn Birks must continue her stellar play since return-
ing from the back injury that sidelined her against Maryland and Rutgers two weekends ago. After sitting out against the Terps and Scarlet Knights, Birks post-ed a combined 42 kills and 21 digs versus the Badgers and Golden Gophers.
Friday’s match against Penn State is IlliNOISE night — the Illini crowd will try to break the 105-decibel Huff sound record it set in last year’s match. Birks said she enjoys the raucous atmo-sphere, but she also said
she thinks the team is going to be a little bit too anxious at the open-ing serve.
“ I t ’ s going to take a lot of calm-ing down. We’re going to be fran-tic and ner-vous at the start of the m a t c h , ”
Birks said. “It’s human nature (when there are) a lot of people, so I think we’re going to have to focus on using all the people to our advantage and find our arousal level.”
Hambly echoed her star
outside hitter’s statement.“I think they’ll be super
fi red up to get back and play at home, and there’s a dif-ferent level of emotions you have to manage,” Hambly
said. “I expect us at fi rst to come out and be over-charged a little bit, and then we’ll settle in.”
“(To win), it’s going to take noticing the moment
and fi ghting to execute in the moment,” Birks said.
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BY COLE HENKESTAFF WRITER
Talking to Illinois hockey play-ers can be confusing for some-body who hasn’t been around the team much.
Most of the players refer to each other by nicknames. Some are just shortened versions of the players’ last names, and some-times they are hard to decipher. Some have good stories behind them.
Some of these stories can be shared, and some of these sto-ries can’t. For instance, before the seniors graduate, the team has one last big outing, and they make shirts for the younger play-ers with certain nicknames on the back. The players said that those are known strictly with-in the confi nes of the team and aren’t public information.
Junior captain Austin Zima, a.k.a “Zeems,” doesn’t really know why the players make each other nicknames, but he also said
it wasn’t unusual for the sport.“I honestly think it is just a
hockey thing,” Zima said. “I had the nickname Zeems before I got here. I got it back in my youth league days, and it has just fol-lowed me.”
Even head coach Nick Fabbri-ni has a nickname. His players call him “Fabbo.”
“I actually got that nickname during sophomore year of high school on my baseball team,” Fabbrini said. “The names are all terms of endearment, and nicknames have been a part of every hockey team that I have been associated with.”
One of the funnier stories about a nickname, according to Zima, is that of Joey Caprio’s, who the team calls “Magic Man.” This started during a game last year when Caprio scored a sim-ple goal and didn’t do anything special. Amidst the normal cheers from the coaching staff and teammates, Fabbrini told the team to “call him the Magic Man.” The name stuck with Fab-brini, and he still calls Caprio the “Magic Man.”
Caprio has another nickname,
though, and he isn’t the only one. His normal name on the ice is Cap. Outside of the rink, Zima has another nickname. One night they all went out as team, and sophomore Eric Cruick-shank, a.k.a. “Cruicksy,” decid-ed that Zima needed an alter ego. Cruickshank had “Naustin,” or something similar to Austin in mind.
Zima had another.“He told me he wanted to be
called Simeon,” Cruickshank said. “When I asked why, he said something along the lines of ‘I picture myself in Alaska, and I am hunting a beaver and then after I get it I just throw the bea-ver over my shoulder and walk home.’ That’s Austin Zima in a nut shell honesty.”
Freshman defenseman Ben-jamin Jeon has been labeled “Kinger.” His name is different from the others because Jeon actually has no idea why he is called Kinger. His teammates refuse to tell him why they gave him that name.
Sophomore defenseman Shaunak Pal has brought in a lot of nicknames in his time at Illi-
nois. Most of them are building off of his unique name. His most common nickname is “Brum,” which is his middle name.
“We just thought Brum was a really funny middle name,” Cruickshank said. “Another one we call him is Shaunawak. We will make up new nicknames for him every day. We just do it to give him a hard time some times, but he likes it. ”
The names all come naturally. There is no team meeting ear-ly in the season to decide each player’s nickname. According to Cruickshank, most of them are out of convenience. Using Caprio as an example — there could be four Joey’s out there on the ice, but there is only one guy out there that will respond to the name “Cap” or “Capper.”
According to Cruickshank, the nicknames serve as ice-break-er. A new player comes in, and instead of being called his real name, he is given a nickname. It can make a player feel like they are fi tting in more.
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Volleyball returns to Huff Hall to face Penn State
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KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINI Illinois’ Jocelynn Birks (7) spikes the ball during the game versus Louisville at Huff Hall on Aug. 28.
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