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BY ALI BRABOYSTAFF WRITER
When Barack Obama was reelected in 2012, then-freshman Nia Green and her friends ran down Green Street in excitement, only to be spit on and negative-ly commented about by oth-ers walking down Campus Town’s main street.
Green, now president of the Central Black Student Union at Illinois and senior in AHS, is preparing for the “Our Place at a Predomi-nantly White Institution” conference Friday and Sat-urday in the hopes of talk-ing about issues black stu-
dents face and ideas on how to solve these problems
Green said before coming to the University, she went to a high school that was very diverse in race and culture; if someone didn’t like some-one, it wasn’t because of skin color. It was a very different experience when she came to the University.
“You’re judging me upon something I can’t control,” she said. “It was a whole new thing, coming to college.”
Around 200 people are registered to attend the con-ference hosted by the Cen-tral Black Student Union at Illinois. People from other Illinois colleges will be in attendance, including Jona-than Butler, one of the cen-tral student fi gures who par-ticipated in the protests at the University of Missouri.
The conference will
BY LILLY MASHAYEKSTAFF WRITER
Women and minorities looking to start their own companies will now be able to get a little extra help from a new program at the University.
A $100,000 grant from the National Science Foun-dation, NSF, will be used to fund programs for women and minorities in entrepre-neurial startup companies.
The Accelerating Wom-en and underRepresented Entrepreneurs, AWARE, program is funded as a part of the Small Business Inno-v a t i o n Research b r a n c h , SBIR, at the NSF. Jed Tay-lor, direc-tor of o p e r a -tions at the Tech-n o l o g y Entrepreneur Center and principal investigator of the grant, said the NSF reached out to the University after seeing the success of their Illinois Conservation of Resources and Energy (iCORE) program.
According to the Illinois IDEALS website, iCORE “strives to achieve mea-surable energy and water
conservation improvements among Illinois’ small, rural communities and business-es, focusing primarily on the manufacturing sector.”
“The NSF was impressed with iCORE, and they want-ed us to pilot this program,” Taylor said. “This is the fi rst time the AWARE pro-gram has existed.”
One of the key factors infl uencing the AWARE program is the fact that women and minorities are largely underrepresented in startup companies, said Laura Frerichs, director of Research Park.
“ P e r -centages are very small of how many ( t e c h c o m p a -nies) are f e m a l e -fo u nd e d or minor-ity-found-
ed,” she said. “Investors of startup companies, which a lot of tech startups will pur-sue, are predominantly men — I think 90% are men.”
Some of the programs that will be offered with-in AWARE include funding for proof-of-concept grants, training for SBIR proposals and grants and workshops to help participants with
their startup companies.Outside of AWARE,
there are other programs currently in place to help startup companies, such as the Women in Tech group that runs through Research Park, Frerichs said.
The University also offers a program called the I-Start Entrepreneur Assis-tance Program. I-Start pro-vides services for start-up companies — such as accounting advice — that companies can apply for.
“I-Start is a package of professional services that are tailored around what companies need when they’re starting out,” said Karin O’Connor, entre-preneurial resident with AWARE.
While AWARE will act separately from previous programs at the Univer-sity and iCORE, a lot of the same goals and ideas remain the same.
“Our hope is to create a program that can be rep-licated in other places,” O’Connor said. “That is how iCORE started out, and now there are iCORE programs going in a number of differ-ent places.”
O’Connor said the AWARE program dif-fers from other programs aimed at helping minori-ties and women looking to start their own compa-nies, because it doesn’t try to create a “separate but equal” program.
“I have seen a number of attempts; however, often times they follow a mis-guided pattern of creating a different track for women, sort of a parallel universe,” she said. “There are prob-lems with that.”
In order to avoid this problem, O’Connor said the AWARE program will encourage women to cre-ate start ups through main-
stream programs.“We’re not setting up a
separate iCORE that’s just for women,” she said. “We are encouraging women to come into iCORE with everybody else. Same with the minorities. Why should they be in a differ-ent group? They need to be in the same group.”
The AWARE program is just starting out, but O’Connor said they are already putting together programming. A panel will be held Thursday to discuss some of the struggles wom-en face when starting their own companies. Additional workshops are planned for May that will offer more resources for startups.
“With that philosophy in mind, we have a really good chance of being success-ful,” O’Connor said.
DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTPlanned Parenthood of Illi-
nois is working with the FBI in the investigation of a threat-ening letter left on the door of the Champaign center, 302 E. Stoughton St., Monday.
Planned Parenthood explained the situation in a press release Tuesday.
“Our doors remained open on Monday in Champaign and across the state for the over 60,000 patients who need us in Illinois,” the release stated. “We will never back away from pro-viding care in a safe, supportive environment that our patients rely on and trust.”
However, the release stated Planned Parenthood’s top prior-ity is the safety of its patients. Planned Parenthood’s locations will stay open nationwide with strong security measures in place. The organization also stated it will work closely with law enforcement “to ensure that our doors are open to all people who need high-quality, compas-sionate health care.”
A representative of the Cham-paign Planned Parenthood of Illinois could not be immedi-ately reached.
UI group works to repair campus race relationsConference to be held by the Central Black Student Union
Students, faculty gather at rally for love and solidarity
Threat left on door of Planned Parenthood center
United States’ business by gender and ethnicty UI to use grant to aid women, minorities
PHOTO COURTESY OF CENTRAL BLACK STUDENT UNION AT ILLINOIS MEMBER NIA GREEN
The executive board of the Central Black Student Union at Illinois poses for a picture. The union is hosting the conference “Our Place at a Predominantly White Institution” Nov. 27 and Nov. 28.
BY LILLY MASHAYEKSTAFF WRITER
Adorned with red and black arm bands, allies of the black solidarity move-ment gathered on the quad Wednesday for a “Love and Solidarity” rally. Students and faculty organizations read statements of support for the Black Lives Matter movement and black stu-dents, faculty and commu-nity members.
The event began with a statement from the host of the event, Kristina Khan, and a rallying chant of “Black Lives Matter.”
One speaker outlined the history of white suprem-acy and white student
union organizations at the University.
“From 1906 until at least the 1920s, possibly later, there existed an offi cially recognized Ku Klux Klan group here at UIUC,” he said. “Their pictures were in the yearbook, that’s how accepted it was.”
“The original White Stu-dent Union that an anony-mous coward created two weeks ago… should be treat-ed as (a) terrorist organiza-tion,” he said. “They should not be given any platform whatsoever to organize and spread their ideology.”
People attending the rally were encouraged to write their own “Love Letters”
that will be used in an anti-racism art display that will debut in the Spring.
Members from several organizations across cam-pus then stood and present-ed their messages of sup-port with black solidarity and the advocation for the University’s black commu-nity. A reading of the love letters written by students and members of the commu-nity followed the statements.
Among the organizations present were the Cham-paign-Urbana Chapter for Showing Up For Racial Justice, the Ethnic Stud-ies Union, Amnesty Inter-national and Standing With Her.
“One of the things that white students need to do the most … is come get our cousins,” said Stephanie Skora, senior in LAS and member of the Women of Pride and the Campus Union for Trans Equality and Sup-port. “What this means is that even though you may be here as a white ally in sup-port of racial justice, where are your friends, where is
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“We are encouraging women to come into
iCORE with everybody.”KARIN O’CONNER
ENTREPRENEURIAL RESIDENT WITH AWARE
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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTThe Illinois Student Senate pub-
lished its fall budget report on Wednesday. According to the report, the student senate’s current balance is $35,633.58 and the available bal-ance is $23,588.12.
Each assembly the student senate receives $39,000 in funding to be spent how it sees fit. Money that is not spent during the current Assem-bly rolls over to the next Assembly. The current 12th Assembly received $12,230.76 from the 11th Assembly. The remaining funds from the 11th Assembly made the 12th Assembly’s net starting budget $51,230.76.
The largest expense was the It’s On Us fall week of action which
cost $5,195. Other major expens-es included budget advocacy at $1,632.35, wristbands, tattoos and a PSA video for mental health aware-ness, totaling $1,286.84 and $3,765 to send members to the 2015 Asso-ciation of Big Ten Students Summer Conference.
In the conclusion of the report, Rahul Kalluri, treasurer, said he believed the Committee on Finan-cial Affairs “rigourously” discussed all financial allocations.
Traditionally, Kalluri said each assembly ends with a surplus of about $10,000. He said he is unsure if it is because of a lack of “real student initiatives” or because the ISS simply does not need to spend
$39,000 each assembly.In an email to members of the stu-
dent senate Kalluri encouraged sen-ators to read through the budget, explaining it would help them better understand how to use the student senate’s resources to better serve the campus.
“My goals for the rest of this assem-bly are to encourage senators and com-mittee members to pursue programs and initiatives that will responsibly and effectively use our budget,” Kal-luri said.
The entire Illinois Student Senate Fall 2015 Budget Report can be viewed online at the Daily Illini website.
Student Senate releases fall budget
BY RICHARD A. SERRANOTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
The White House has rejected the Pentagon’s initial $500 million plan to shutter Guantanamo Bay prison as too costly, ordering military officials to find a cheaper way to move dozens of detainees to the U.S., according to three government officials familiar with the plan.
The Pentagon’s “internal review plan” estimated it would cost more than half a billion dollars to set up and begin operating separate hold-ing facilities for about 90 or fewer detainees in areas next to or adja-cent with existing federal prisons in the U.S., said the officials, who were not authorized to speak pub-licly about the plan.
Two officials, one inside the admin-istration and another at the Defense Department, said the White House is worried the Pentagon’s original plan will face steep opposition in the Republican-led Congress. Many on Capitol Hill on both sides of the aisle want the detention facility and its pris-oners to remain in Cuba.
Lawmakers have repeatedly passed legislation that prohibits funding for the transfer of any Guantanamo Bay detainees to the U.S.
“The administration continues to work diligently on completing the plan to safely and responsibly close the detention facility at Guantana-mo Bay,” Department of Defense spokesman Cmdr. Gary Ross said Wednesday.
“We are currently working to refine additional cost estimates for different aspects of detainee operations. While we don’t have a specific time line, the plan will be delivered to Congress as soon as it is complete.”
A White House official said only that “the president has consistently spoken of his goal to work with Con-gress to shutter the facility, and the plan will be submitted as part of that effort.”
The White House’s long-awaited proposal to close Guantanamo had been expected to be presented to Con-gress by the end of this year, but it has been delayed over cost concerns.
One possible way to bring down the price tag might be to scale back plans to construct a new military prison in the U.S. specially to house the Guan-tanamo detainees, the officials said, and instead house them in existing military prisons, such as the one at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Obama, in one of his first official
acts as president, signed an executive order to close the prison within a year, hoping to make good on a campaign pledge. He continues to argue that keeping it open on the Cuban shore-line only serves to recruit terrorists and encourage future attacks against the U.S.
The prison was set up in early 2002 by the George W. Bush administration to house terrorism suspects swept up by U.S. forces during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, many human rights organizations have demanded it be shut down.
Obama has reduced the Guanta-namo prisoner population from 241 to 107 during his first seven years in office. About 50 of those left have been cleared for release to other countries; the remainder are deemed too danger-ous to release or transfer.
Recently Obama said he expect-ed the number of detainees would go below 100 in 2016. The prison to date has cost a total of $5.2 billion to oper-ate and maintain. At one point it held a high of 780 prisoners.
“It’s time to close it,” Obama said in October. “It is outdated, it’s expen-sive; it’s been there for years. And we can do better in terms of keeping our people safe.”
White House demands cheaper Guantanamo solution
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University students will have a few extra options when trying to fulfi ll gener-al education requirements in the spring semester.
In a University Mass-mail sent Tuesday, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Charles Tucker announced that 25 new gen-eral education courses will be available for the spring 2016 semester.
The Massmail listed the courses as belonging to three main categories: inequality and cultural understanding; sustain-ability, energy and the environment; and health and wellness.
The courses were devel-oped as a part of the Uni-versity’s Grand Challenge Learning pilot. The idea for this pilot came out of a campus conversation in the fall of 2013 that gath-ered input from about 700 faculty members, staff, undergraduate students and graduate students.
Lauren Goodlad, a pro-vost fellow and professor of English, said the cours-es aren’t meant to be more challenging – as the pro-gram’s title may imply – but instead to address prob-lems that are important to students in a more hands-on approach.
“The idea behind them is that (the courses offered)
are small, like a discovery course, but also interdis-ciplinary,” Goodlad said. “They use experiential learning, which is to say projects, designs and com-munity engaged projects.”
A video included in the massmail states the cours-es are for fi rst-year stu-dents, but Goodlad said that is no longer the case.
“Ideally, we would love for the classes to be able to create an environment for fi rst-year students — not just freshmen but also transfer students — to get to know each other while they get to know the cam-pus,” Goodlad said. “On refl ection, we decided that it would be a lost opportu-
nity if we didn’t give all undergraduates the chance to sign up for the courses.”
The 25 courses being offered in the spring are an upgrade from the six offered during the fall 2015 semester. Each course will enroll 25 students and will fulfi ll at least one general education requirement.
The goal for the pro-gram will be less about the number of programs offered as opposed to the type of courses. Goodlad said that they want to build more offerings in the quan-titative reasoning, behav-ior and physical sciences fi elds.
New hands-on “Grand Challenge” GenEds to begin for Spring 2016include speakers and work-
shops, such as how to be a leader, in the Student Dining and Residential Programs (SDRP) leadership suites.
Amaka Onwuta, vice pres-ident of the union and junior in Business, said the goal of the conference is to connect students with one another, bringing together the minds and ideas of those who know the experience of being black in a predominantly white institution.
She said the union allows students to have a safe space to communi-cate issues they are fac-ing and sup-port one a n o t h e r . The group also helps s t u d e n t s with inter-view skills, studying for exams and networking.
Marissa Roberson, gradu-ate student in the School of Labor and Employment Rela-tions, is the student advisor for the union.
She said there are some University students who aren’t aware of other rac-es or other cultures, which can lead to some comments being made out of ignorance. But, she said she believes some comments are made to be intentionally rude or hateful.
In reference to the White Student Union Facebook group that surfaced, she said students who identify with one another can get together and talk about experiences, but these groups should not target others.
“They would like a white student union to talk about their experiences on cam-pus? Feel free. But don’t take that union to then turn
around and call us terror-ists and try to tear us down, because that’s not what we’re doing at our black student union meetings.”
Roberson said the union in the past has had telephone conferences with other unions in Illinois and at oth-er Big Ten universities about issues they were having and solutions to the problems, but the group wanted to meet in person, which led to the cre-ation of the conference.
She said many of the neg-ative problems black stu-dents at the University face are passive, such as moving away or saying things under one’s breath. She said she has
come pre-pared with a n s w e r s for a study group with other stu-dents, but sometimes-they don’t want her answers.
“ You’re sitting here like well,
why, why when everybody else speaks, their point is validated but yours isn’t?” she said. “You think in this time and day and age peo-ple would be past that point.”
Roberson said the confer-ence will allow the students to talk about how they will move forward with challeng-es they’re having, while also saying, “We’re not accepting this and something needs to be done.”
Onwuta is hopeful for what the conference will do for students.
“It gives them hope that things can change because if you never try then you nev-er really know what you can get out of it,” she said. “And some of us have tried it and experienced that hope, so I want to share that with other students too.”
your roommate, do the peo-ple in your classes know that this is happening?”
Charlotte Prieu, a grad-uate student in LAS, drew portraits of black students and faculty to show her sup-port. Prieu said that there are many different ways stu-dents can show their support for black lives.
“There are other things you can do ... to show sup-port, show solidarity,” she said. “It’s not that hard even if you don’t know all the con-cepts about white suprema-cy, white privilege.”
“As a white student, I have a lot of privilege and I’m afforded a lot of life chanc-es by my whiteness,” Skora said. “I feel like one of the best things that I can do … is to come out to speak to other white people and to say we as white people have to sup-port black students and have to support black revolution and we have to use our privi-lege to amplify their voices.”
Allies and supporters of the movement were disap-pointed with the way Uni-
versity administrators handled the “Illini White Student Union” Facebook page.
“A lot of departments didn’t put a statement out and I think the racism that was shown by the people who started the page and then those who wrote on it … departments should have addressed that,” Prieu said. “It should have been talked about in classrooms, they should have sent emails, they should show that they condemned what happened.”
Skora said that she felt the actions of Interim Chan-cellor Barbara Wilson and Interim Provost Edward Feser were not aggressive enough in the face of threats against black students at the University.
“I think Barb Wilson and Ed Feser need to step up,” she said. “They may be interim chancellors and pro-vosts, but they have the real power of those jobs and they need to take the demands of Black Students for Revo-lution seriously when they release them.”
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“It gives them hope that things can change because if you never try
then you never really know”
AMAKA ONWUTACENTRAL BLACK STUDENT
UNION VICE PRESIDENT
Experiential GenEdsThe University announced Wednesday that they will offer 25 new general education classes that explore themes such as inequality and cultural understanding; sustainability, energy and the environment; and health and wellness. Here are the new courses offered in spring 2016:GCL 125b: It’s Toxic!GCL 125c: The Molecular meGCL 125d: Experiential AnatomyGCL 188a: Doctors and PatientsGCL 188b: Global Narratives of HIV/
AIDSGCL 186a: Stress & Health in Urban CommunitiesGCL 186b: From Deaf to CenterGCL 186c: Sex Ed Panic!GCL 137a,b: Documenting InequalityGCL 145: Black Music & Social Justice GCL 147b: Race and the CityGCL 147c: Policing, Culture & InequalityGCL 147d: Social Justice & the MediaGCL 148: The Global Divide
GCL 195a: Fictions of Equality: Marriage EqualityGCL 195b: Fictions of Equality: Where Is the Good Life?GCL 126a: Humans and AnimalsGCL 126b: Urban SustainabilityGCL 126c: Thinking Globally, Acting LocallyGCL 126d: From Farm to TableGCL 127: Sustainable Design Across the Disciplines GCL 129: Sustainable Design Practices in the Public RealmGCL 128a,b: Fictions of Sustainability: Food, Water, Energy
BY FRANCO ORDONEZTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro might have a lot at stake in this week-end’s parliamentary elec-tions. Or he might not.
If national polls are cor-rect, Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezu-ela stands to lose control of Venezuela’s National Assembly for the fi rst time in 16 years.
With the opposition gain-ing a bigger voice, the leg-islature might then become a place for democratic dia-logue that has been missing in the country, said Jenni-fer McCoy, former director of the Americas Program at the Carter Center, the Atlanta-based human rights organization founded by for-mer President Jimmy Cart-er. That dialogue could lead to a change in the country’s power dynamics and in Ven-ezuela’s attitude toward the ruling party.
But the stakes may be lower than they appear. The legislature is only one of fi ve branches of power in the government. And Mad-uro has the ability to shift more power from the leg-islature to other branches under his party’s control, McCoy said.
“Just because the opposi-tion wins a majority in the legislature, it doesn’t mean it suddenly is going to have this major power,” said McCoy, who now is direc-tor of the Global Studies Institute at Georgia State University.
Venezuela will hold leg-islative elections on Sun-day. The date commemo-rates the fi rst election of the late President Hugo Chavez, who launched the country’s socialist revolu-tion when voters supported him on Dec. 6, 1998.
The United Socialist Par-
ty currently holds a major-ity in the assembly, but polls indicate the leadership gav-el could change hands amid growing discontent over shortages, rapid infl ation and rising crime.
The oil-rich country also has been besieged by more recent fears after last week’s murder of an oppo-sition member and alleged death threats against the wife of Leopoldo Lopez, the opposition leader who recently was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
The Obama administra-tion condemned the killing of Luis Manuel Diaz, who was a local leader for the Democratic Action party, as the “deadliest of sever-al recent attacks and acts of intimidation” aimed at opposition candidates.
U.S. presidential candi-date Hillary Clinton went even further on Monday during a talk at a Washing-ton think tank, accusing the Maduro administration of
“doing all it can to rig these elections.”
Venezuela’s top diplomat in the United States, Maxi-milien Arvelaiz, criticized U.S. offi cials for linking Diaz’s death to the elec-tion. While Diaz’s murder was sad for the Diaz fami-ly, Arvelaiz said, Diaz him-self had a criminal history and was connected to gang violence.
Arvelaiz called on the United States and the international community for patience and to allow the Venezuelan people to express their will on Sun-day. He said the government will accept the outcome, not-ing that the results’ impact will be limited.
“Maduro will still be president on Monday,” Arvelaiz said.
As for the national polls showing defeat for the socialists, he said nation-al polls don’t necessarily refl ect sentiment in rural districts where the ruling
party is strongest.“We’ll see what happens
on Sunday,” he said.Javier Corrales, a polit-
ical science professor at Amherst College, also cau-tions against assuming the opposition will win. While the opposition has a better chance than it has ever had of overturn-ing the system known as “chavismo,”victory is not certain, he said.
To gain control of the National Assembly, the opposition needs to win 84 of 165 district votes. And several of those are in rural areas considered chavismo strongholds.
“It’s not automatic,” Cor-rales said.
If the opposition does win, Maduro still will have ave-nues he can take to under-mine a new National Assem-bly. The legislature is one of fi ve branches of the Venezu-elan government: executive, legislative, judicial, citizen and electoral.
BY JOHN MCCORMICKTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
With Donald Trump con-tinuing to boost his stand-ing in national polls, for-mer Florida Gov. Jeb Bush criticized the Republican frontrunner on Wednesday, saying his election as presi-dent would be a “dangerous thing” for the country.
During an interview for an infl uential public affairs program in Iowa, Bush also denied suggestions that he might abandon his cam-paign efforts in the state that starts the nomination voting on Feb. 1.The taping for the “Iowa Press” pro-gram came hours after the release of a national Quin-nipiac University poll show-ing Trump holding strong in the lead at 27 percent as Bush remained in fi fth place at 5 percent. In the interview, which airs this weekend, Bush said he’d be deeply worried about a
nation run by Trump.“This lack of seriousness
is a serious problem for our country,” he said. “If a guy, as capable as he is as a pol-itician, became president, has no clue what he’s doing, that’s a dangerous thing.”
Asked if the billionaire real estate mogul should apologize for heated rhet-oric involving Muslims in America, Bush said he wasn’t holding his breath.
“He’s not going to apolo-gize for anything,” he said. “He’s not a serious person, and therefore, it’s hard to imagine him being the pres-ident of the United States.”
Bush said he’d support Trump, should Republicans pick him as their party’s candidate. “I’ve pledged to support the nominee, but I have total confi dence that the Republican primary voters are not going to sup-port Donald Trump as the nominee,” he said.
Opposition win in Venezuela on Sunday may not change much overall
Bush says Trump presidency ‘dangerous’
ROBERT GAUTHIER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICERepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the debate stage at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015.
JIM WYSS TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEDomingo Fernandez, pictured March 1, 2014, is a resident of Los Guayabitos in Venezuela. The village is, perhaps, the most loyal government stronghold in the country. Despite broken government promises and lingering poverty, every one of its 121 voters cast their ballot for President Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez.
RYAN FANG THE DAILY ILLINIStudents hug each other for warmth while listening to a "Love Note" in the snow at the Anniversary Plaza Wednesday.
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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS | [email protected] with the subject “Letter to the Editor.” The Daily Illini reserves the right to edit for length, libel, grammar and spelling errors, and Daily Illini style or to reject any contributions. Letters must be limited to 300 words. Contributions must be typed and include the author’s name, address and phone number. University students must include their year in school and college.
It’s good, but it’s not enough.University enrollment of African-Amer-
ican students increased 5.4 percent in the past year, but the University enrolled more African-American students in 1968
than in 2015.Over the past three years, the College of En-
gineering increased enrollment of women by 25 percent, but women still make up less than 20 percent of engineering students.
For every piece of positive news about the progress made in diversity and equality, an in-evitable qualifier lurks around the corner to rightfully undermine it. We managed to plant a few trees, but the forest continues to be cut down.
So when the University’s Research Park re-ceived a $100,000 grant from the National Sci-ence Foundation to increase the amount of en-trepreneurial startups and small businesses created by women and minorities, looking for the following qualifier seemed only natural.
According to a survey by Pew Research Cen-ter, in 2012 women owned about 36.2 percent of the nation’s businesses and earned 11.3 percent of the total revenue. Black, Asian and Hispanic-owned businesses comprised 28.6 percent of the nation’s total businesses and earned 10.4 per-cent of the total revenue.
The grand created the Accelerating Women and underRepresented Entrepreneurs program, which stands as an excellent effort to expand the amount of resources available to underrep-resented groups.
The wealth of connections and resources at the University’s disposal places it in a unique position to directly gear such opportunities to-ward people who may have a harder time com-ing by these resources.
Nevertheless, the $100,000 grant can feel like a drop in the ocean when used as an effort to balance the $1.6 trillion earned by minority-owned businesses in comparison to the $12.7 trillion earned by white male businesses.
The continuing, seemingly unending efforts to fight against inequality can be exhausting, espe-cially when such an imbalance not only should have been corrected long ago, but also should not have even come about in the first place.
Progress takes time, and efforts like the AWARE program are essential to help women and underrepresented groups achieve the ad-vances that should have been available to them long ago.
Even so, the struggle for equality at times can feel like the plight of Sisyphus, constantly roll-ing an immense boulder up a hill with no end in sight.
It’s good, but it’s not enough.
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EDITORIALBecoming AWARE of
those underrepresented in entrepreneurship
Every single day, we all fill in bubbles and check boxes that are marked with an “M” for
male or “F” for female — bubbles and boxes that typically don’t dis-tinguish between sex and gender. Each time we register for a Face-book, submit an ICES form, or apply for most jobs, we are man-dated to identify as either male or female.
I’ll admit that I, at times, don’t notice this binary. I have always had the privilege of fitting eas-ily within the traditional gender binary, meaning I have had the privilege not to notice. Further, this gender division is so steeped in American culture and practice that it now seems ridiculous, to some, to attempt to alter it.
But the perpetuation of this binary, inarguably works against policies of social equality and inclusion for people who fall out-side of it.
The insistence that a respondent can identify only as one of two pos-sible sexes or genders trivializes respondents who may identify as genderqueer, agender or any gen-der expression outside the male-female binary.
There are, to be sure, several companies and institutions that are working to resist this gen-der binary within informational
forms. Gmail lists “other” as a gen-der option when signing up for an account; some informational forms allow respondents three choices: male, female, or unreported
But we can do better than just a handful of companies and insti-tutions that resist gender identi-ty discrimination on information forms. We have to start noticing how often the male-female binary shows up in our culture and begin pushing back.
For example, Northwestern Uni-versity Graduate School asks for its prospective applicants’ pre-ferred gender pronoun.
Allowing a textbox in which responders can list their own pre-ferred pronoun — including gen-der-neutral options such as the singular they, ve, ‘e and so on — signals to a prospective student that the university, company or website is a place that values inclu-sion, a place that actively works to make all spaces within its domain inclusive.
The space for gender equality needs to be available everywhere, on every informational form. We must ensure that there is always space for gender expression — not just the option to abstain from gen-der reporting.
I understand that there is a degree of restriction for institu-tions that are required to report statistics on sex and gender, as cat-egorized by the binary, to govern-mental bodies.
Even so, these institutions must still be responsible for providing a gender-inclusive space. If they
are required to report statistics according to the male-female divi-sion, there must then be anoth-er area where applicants can list their preferred pronouns, where they have the opportunity to list their own gender identity.
A gender-inclusive space is essential in avoiding hypocrisy in many college and university appli-cations — especially when many of these same institutions teach about gendered topics.
Gayle Rubin’s sex/gender sys-tem, queer theory and other theo-retical concepts related to gender fluidity are commonly discussed in many academic institutions. These institutions must, therefore, pro-mote gender equality, even at the procedural application level.
Discrimination on the basis of gender identity is continually belit-tled, partially because many peo-ple simply don’t believe that gen-der identity outside of the typical gender division is legitimate.
This assumption stems from the fact that Americans are constant-ly bombarded with images of the male and female in opposition to one another and as the only gender possibilities: in our bathrooms, in gender-segregated dorms, in soror-ities and fraternities and on infor-mational forms.
Eradicating instances of this binary can begin to eradicate the disbelief that currently surrounds those who identify as genderqueer.
Alex is a senior in LAS. [email protected]
ALEX
SWANSON
Opinions columnist
Thanksgiving break has just ended and that just means Christmas is
around the corner. Although we’re fresh off one break, most of us can’t stop thinking about the next one.
For many people, regard-less of religious practices, celebrating the holidays with a Christmas tree is a staple. However, with Christmas comes the annual dilemma of buying a real tree or an artifi-cial tree.
Although many college students don’t seem to buy Christmas trees for their apartments or dorms, the occasional mini-tree can still be seen in many student’s abodes. This debate impacts us more than one might think.
And while the argument may seem to have many pros and cons, buying a real tree is the superior choice chiefly due to one critical factor: Real trees are recyclable.
In fact, about 93 percent of the 33 million real Christmas trees sold in North Ameri-ca each year are recycled through more than 4,000 available recycling programs.
Despite this, more than 80 percent of American house-holds with Christmas trees are celebrating with an artifi-cial Christmas tree. Howev-er, when the trees have worn down and get thrown away, their impact will continue, as
artificial trees are non-recy-clable and non-biodegradable. They’ll endure in landfills for centuries.
It’s understandable why many people’s first instinct would be to buy an artifi-cial tree. Most people believe it benefits the environment because these trees are reus-able. Their logic is under-standable, but fallible. Arti-ficial trees simply aren’t without their strengths.
Purchasing an artificial tree is the more economical choice because real Christmas trees have to be bought every year, while an artificial tree is a one-time purchase. Artifi-cial trees are easier to main-tain as well as they don’t need watering or shed pine needles. Transportation is also extra convenient.
However, despite all these pros, artificial trees hurt more than they help.
Artificial trees are usual-ly manufactured with metal and polyvinyl chloride, a non-biodegradable, petroleum-derived plastic. In addition, many older varieties may con-tain lead, used as a stabilizer in the manufacturing process.
Annually, real Christmas trees are more frequent-ly bought, but that is simply because a new tree gets pur-chased every year. The arti-ficial trees tend to be more ubiquitous even though they are purchased less. This apparent widespread use of artificial trees greatly aug-ments the problem of their harmful environmental impact.
Real Christmas trees are
recycled into mulch and used in landscaping, gardening or for playground material, hik-ing trails, paths and walk-ways. They are also used for beachfront erosion prevention and lake and river shoreline stabilization.
Real trees are also easy to find locally as virtually all of them are grown on planta-tions. Buying real trees sup-ports small, local farmers.
The fresh smell of an authentic Christmas tree also gives real trees a major edge over artificial ones. It’s hard not to love the smell of pine in
your home, which just makes the holidays seem even more authentic and natural.
The only problem with real trees stems from the fact that they have pest problems, and therefore are grown with pes-ticides. While pesticides are toxic within wilderness envi-ronments and to humans, according to surveys conduct-ed by the North Carolina State University Cooperative Exten-sion, the amount of pesticides used on tree farms has fallen substantially, further estab-lishing the benefits of real trees.
In the end, real trees are more desirable than artificial ones. The benefits far outweigh the negatives. So whether you have to convince your parents to buy a real tree before you get home or you’re debating how to dec-out your campus home, a real tree is the way to go.
Not only are they more envi-ronment-friendly due to their recyclability, there’s nothing that beats the rustic feel and smell of a real, grown Christ-mas tree.
Harsha is a freshman in Engineering.
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Over 80% of American households with Christmas trees celebrate with an artificial tree.
85% of real Christmas trees purchased were pre-cut.
93% of the 33 million real Christmas trees sold in North America each year are recylced.
33 million real Christmas trees are sold
in America each year, totaling $1.2 billion.
9.5 million fake Christmas trees are sold in America each year, totaling $685 million.
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A call for the need for gender-inclusivity on informational forms
facelift, creating a new and interesting visual experience.
“The snow scene is the major part where ‘The Nutcracker’ comes to life. So in the first act, the battle scene, the Nutcracker is a nutcracker. He has the mask on, and he’s like a soldier,” he said. “During the snow scene, he transforms into a prince. So that entire act, the costumes, the staging are all new. It will be a completely different snow scene.”
For Reifsteck, it’s all about building off of previous performances in a production aspect.
“The old show was wonderful; (we) enjoyed it, and if we put it on today, we would have a great time, and we’d give the community something that they love,” he said. “Our job this time is to give them something new they can enjoy just as much.”
From the performing perspective, Burnside said improvement is the main goal.
“I think for me as a dancer, I look at it every night as a different challenge to go on stage and to perform and to act and to get the message across a little bit clearer than maybe I did the previous time,” Burnside said.
Burnside, who performs with CU Ballet in his free time in addition to a full-time job, said the show allows him to live out his passion and share it with the audience.
“It makes me feel like a kid again. It makes me feel like all things are possible,” he said. ”You have the Nutcracker, who Clara gets for Christmas, and for her, he becomes this object that she falls in love with, and then it becomes a person that protects her and takes
care of her. It just makes me feel like dreams come true.”
Jonathan Ebel , a University professor, said dancing in the performance also has a special meaning to him.
“This is my sixth time performing in Champaign Urbana Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker.” I got into ballet because my three daughters, now
ages 15, 12 and 9, have been dancing since they could walk,” he wrote in an email. “I have always loved performing. I sang and acted in high school and college, and ballet provides both a great outlet for those energies and an opportunity to be part of something beautiful with my daughters.”
Greene said the new improvements to the show
are not the only things that make community members come back every year.
“To me, it just speaks to the holiday tradition and the bringing together of family, and I think for a lot of residents and our surrounding areas, it’s what they do,” Greene said. “It’s their tradition that they come to The Nutcracker every year, and they leave with a smile on
their face. What a great gift to give somebody.”
Shows will be running at the Krannert Performing Arts Center from Dec. 3 to Dec. 6, with an Illini night on opening night with special rates for students.
Tickets can be bought online through the Krannert center website.
Greene added that the beauty of “The Nutcracker” makes the performance
worth seeing over and over again.
“Just the athleticism and the grace of these dancers, who put so much of their heart (into it), and then they share their talents with our community,” Greene said. “It’s breathtaking what they do out there. It’s so beautiful.”
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BY MARK SNIDERSTAFF WRITER
Classes, tests, extracurricu-lar activities and empty wallets are the trademarks of a college student.
These traits create what would be a seemingly dismal market opportunity for companies; how-ever, online food ordering plat-forms are capitalizing on what college students generally lack most: time and money.
Online food-ordering plat-forms, such as EatStreet and Ord-erUp, have their advertisements scattered around campuses and lecture halls nationwide trying to urge students to order food from their favorite restaurants through the online service, and in the pro-cess, save their precious time and money.
According to EatStreet employ-ee Jefferson Badger, the online food-ordering service is a plat-form that connects restaurants to consumers.
“We partner with restaurants across the country, and once we get the restaurants on our plat-form, we advertise our platform to get consumers to order from their favorite restaurant through EatStreet,” Badger said.
OrderUp follows a similar busi-ness model. OrderUp Champaign Manager Eric Partlow said that OrderUp is the most complete on-demand food-delivery mar-ketplace for local markets out-side of major cities. He also said the company strives to create an easy way for locals to have access to popular eating establishments in their area.
Creating easy access to the desirable area restaurants is pre-cisely why these ordering plat-forms are becoming popular on college campuses.
Partlow explained that college campuses provide a prime mar-ketplace for these services.
“As much as students want wings and pizza, they are also
looking for more options,” he said.The goal to provide afford-
able options is the focal point of many of these companies’ busi-ness plans, which Badger said has been successful in college settings.
“Our college markets are our bread and butter. Why we go after college campuses is because (Eat-Street) was started by college stu-dents. I feel like we can relate to college students,” Badger said.
Badger said having a presence at the University specifically was an obvious choice.
“Champaign for us is a no-brainer. There are so many stu-dents, a compact campus and many popular restaurants, like DP Dough and Papa Johns, that are willing to offer specials,” he said.
According to Badger, partner-ships with local eateries allow the restaurants to offer deals, and these deals are very popu-lar among college students due
to the low cost.He said that a large reason
why online ordering platforms are so popular among students lies within the social aspect of college. Students complete vari-ous projects, study for exams and complete homework as groups, and this provides a key market for these food-ordering services.
“Students get together with friends more than professionals,” Badger said.
Partlow also shared similar insight.
“We also offer group order-ing, which is a great option for students who want to order food together,” he said.
Corrin Adams, sophomore in Business, said she occasionally uses OrderUp, and likes the con-venience of food-delivery servic-es on campus.
“During the semester, it gets really busy with various things to do, and eating isn’t always my first priority. I have seen several
of these ordering platforms being advertised on campus, so I decid-ed to give them a try,” Adams said. “It was nice to be able to order what I wanted, with a dis-count, without having to spend a lot of time to go get it.”
While these companies are rel-atively new and have their fair share of challenges, Partlow said they find great pleasure in making local restaurants read-ily available.
“It’s always a challenge intro-ducing a concept like food deliv-ery to those who haven’t tried it, but to hear busy parents, stressed college students, overworked pro-fessionals and more share how much they love and appreciate OrderUp is so rewarding,” Part-low said. “It’s very rewarding to see the excitement on their faces when they learn about all we have to offer.”
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PHOTO COURTESY OF CU BALLETDancers perform in the classic ballet, “The Nutcracker,” at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
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BY NATALIE STEWARTSTAFF WRITER
Kay Greene had never seen “The Nutcracker” when she first joined Champaign Urbana Ballet’s staff three years ago.
“I sat out in the audience during a dress rehearsal, and when snow fell from the sky, it was so magical I cried,” Greene said.
For 17 years, Champaign Urbana Ballet has been touching the hearts of people just like Greene with their annual performance of the classic ballet.
Although CU Ballet is not new to Tchaikovsky’s famous production, this year’s rendition is expected to be far from predictable, Greene, the company’s executive director said.
“‘The Nutcracker’ this year is definitely full of lots of surprises for the audience,” Greene said. “We’re very excited about that. The new set had been designed by Cory Rodeheaver, and every year, he designed them to add something new and interesting, not only for the audience members but also for the dancers.”
The continuous changes to the performances each year keep the dancers on their toes, said Kevin Burnside, who has performed as the nutcracker for the past two years.
“For all of us dancers, it’s kind of an exciting time because we don’t know what all of the new (set) entails, so as we get into rehearsals and tech week, we’re kind of learning what the new (set) will be,” Burnside said. “(One) entire scene is new, so I don’t know exactly what to expect when we get to the theater.”
Although revamping such a classic story is hard, all of the additions are sure to give audiences something new to get excited about, said Brent Reifsteck, one of the show’s producers.
“Our technical director who created all of these sets (took) bits and pieces of other productions all over the world to try and give it our own unique spin on the story,” he said. “It’s always a growing thing whenever you are an artist. It’s always trying to do something new that you haven’t done before, and you’ll see something that we haven’t done before.”
Reifsteck said audiences can expect to see many enhancements to every aspect of the show.
“We try to do something new every year,” he said. “This is a huge year. There’s almost no set piece or piece of the production physically, aside from costumes and some props, that was here last year. So all of the sets that you see and the projections and everything when you come to see the show are going to be new. And it’s not a new story, it’s just more of a re-imagined look.”
Burnside said one popular scene in particular is getting a major
“Nutcracker” audience to expect exciting changes CU ballet putting a visual twist on the classic Christmas musical tale
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF CU BALLETDancers perform in the classic ballet, “The Nutcracker,” at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. “The Nutcracker” was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER
Illinois volleyball head coach Kevin Hambly admits his team got lucky.
When the NCAA tour-nament seeding was announced Sunday night, Illinois was placed in No. 15 Louisville’s regional. The team will open the tour-nament against Southern Illinois, and will play the winner of the Louisville-Belmont matchup.
Hambly said that despite the team not being given its own regional for the fi rst time in his tenure as head coach, it is convenient that the Illini will not have to travel an excessive dis-tance to play its fi rst round.
“I think that as far as the potential as to where we could have gone, I would rather be (in Kentucky) than somewhere like Tex-as,” Hambly said. “I think in that case it’s an easy trip for us, and it’s against an opponent that we know. It’s at a place that we know well because we played there last spring.”
S e n ior Jocelynn B i r k s hopes the team can turn it around in the tour-n a m e n t after an u n d e r -whelming r e g u l a r s e a s o n . The out-side hitter will be leading the team in her last post-season appearance, in which she hopes the team can make a surprising run.
“You always want to strive for something bet-ter than what you have,” Birks said. “We have a great chance to make a run. I think that where we are placed, we have a nice opportunity ahead of us.”
That opportunity will start against Southern Illi-nois, who the Illini swept in the 2014 Illini Classic. Hambly said that although Illinois will have a clear advantage from a physical-ity standpoint, Southern Illinois’ speed could pose a problem.
Hambly pointed out that the team will need to be very aware of its one-on-one matchups because of how quick the Salukis run their offense. Setter Jor-dyn Poulter and opposite
hitter Naya Crittenden will be counted on to lock down the net and prevent South-ern Illinois from fi nding its rhythm against the Illini.
If Illinois makes it past Southern Illinois, its sec-ond-round opponent will likely be Louisville, another familiar opponent. The Illi-ni faced the Cardinals in the fi rst match of the season and had little trouble en route to a sweep of the Cardinals.
Louisville started the sea-son 2-3 with all three of its losses coming at the hands of Big Ten teams. But fol-
lowing the mediocre start, the Cardinals rebound-ed and went on to claim the ACC Champi-onship.
I l l i -nois faced a much d i f f e r -ent road
to the tournament. After starting the season 9-2, the team fl oundered in Big Ten play, fi nishing with a 10-10 record.
Hambly attributed the team’s struggles to its lack of emotional investment in tight matchups, and he echoed the same sentiment again this week with the team looking to make a run in the tournament.
“Early on, we lost some tight sets,” Hambly said. “Then we got into those tight sets later, I felt like we were backing down instead of sorting it out and fi guring out how to win some of those tighter sets ... If we are emo-tionally in this thing, we can probably pull some of these sets off. But we have to have these beliefs and not hold on to the history of what has happened in the season.”
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BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois hockey team had last weekend off due to the Thanksgiving holiday festivities and feasts — a break the Illini desperately needed after their 8-0 loss to Lindenwood University Nov. 21.
This weekend, Illinois (10-5-3) will be back in action as they look to snap a three-game-conference los-ing streak against CSCHL rival Robert Morris Univer-sity (12-7-0).
After losing a heart-breaking eight-round shoot-out to Iowa State, then drop-ping both games of a road series with conference-lead-ing Lindenwood, the Illini fi nd themselves second-to-last in the CSCHL. As Illi-nois starts its second and last cycle through its con-ference schedule, there is little room for the type of inconsistent play the Illini have shown all season.
“The biggest thing for us up to this point was just getting healthy and staying healthy,” head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “This isn’t a group to use injuries as an excuse, but we’re a com-pletely different team when we’re healthy.”
With senior captain John Olen back in the lineup and at 100 percent, the Illini believe they now have the roster to make a run at the conference title — and this weekend is a prime opportu-nity to make a major move up the league standings.
Robert Morris sits at the bottom of the conference, and match up fairly even Illinois.
The Eagles have scored a total of 64 goals and have allowed 51, and the Illini have netted 60 goals and given up 52. Each team has given up 30 goals on the road
and have three conference wins.
The teams’ prior meeting this season was Oct. 16-17 at Illinois Ice Arena and the two games resulted in a series split, the Illini losing the fi rst game 4-1 and win-ning the latter 5-3.
With only one point sep-arating Illinois from third place Ohio and four points from league-leader Linden-wood, a series sweep could catapult the Illini as high as second in the CSCHL.
“One of our goals every year is to win the regular-season conference title to put us in the best posi-tion possible for tourna-ment play,” Fabbrini said. “We’ve dropped some games we really needed, now every league game is crucial.”
Illinois has the offense to make a run.
With the line of Grant Stueve, James Mcging and Eric Cruickshank, who have combined for 56 points, and Olen now acclimated to the veteran line mates Josh Bel-mont and Shaunak Pal, the Illini have proven they have
the fi repower to match near-ly any team in the country.
However, the Illini give up almost twice as many shots as they take.
In their last four games, the Illini have allowed 192 shots on goal while only pro-ducing 113. Even with goal-ie-stand out Joe Olen in net, the sheer volume of shots Illinois faces creates a hole it often can’t score its way out of.
“Our defensive zone needs work,” John Olen said. “We’ve given up too many power plays and have just been struggling to fi nd our guys and clear the puck.”
The Illini have had impressive wins this sea-son: shutting out ACHA top-fi ve Ohio and beating then No. 2 Iowa State in a shootout. Although, disap-pointing losses to teams like Illinois State and Oklahoma have diminished such feats. This weekend has the mak-ings of a statement series for Illinois, not to the play-ers themselves but for the league.
“We know how talented we are,” Austin Zima said. “we just have to show it.”
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TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIHall-of-Fame Illini coach Lou Henson, surrounded by family and former players during halftime of Illinois 84-79 loss to Notre Dame at State Farm Center Wednesday.
Illinois vs Southern IllinoisWhen/where: Friday, 4 p.m., Louisville, Ky.Quick Note: The winner goes on to face the winner of the Louisville-Belmont match.Hidden stat: Illinois swept Southern Illinois in the regular season
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TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIJohn Olen sends a pass across the ice during the game against Iowa State at the Ice Arena on Saturday, Nov. 14. Illinois lost 3-2 in a shootout.
Linebackers coach Mike Ward leaves Illinois football
BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER
Another Illinois foot-ball coach has depart-ed the program. Illinois announced today that inside linebackers coach Mike Ward will not be returning to the team.
This follows the depar-ture of special teams coordinator Alex Golesh, who left for Iowa State
Tuesday.Golesh and Ward both
spent four years on Illi-nois’ staff, coming from Toledo with former head coach Tim Beckman.
The turnover comes in the wake of a year of scan-dal for the football pro-gram that saw Beckman fired a week before the season’s start and Athlet-ic Director Mike Thomas
stepping down Nov. 9. Bill Cubit was hired as interim head coach and the Uni-versity announced a two-year deal with Cubit this past week.
It has not been announced where Ward will next be headed.
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llinois vs. Robert Morris University When/Where: Dec. 4-5, 7:30 p.m., The Edge Ice Arena, Bensenville, IL. Quick Notes: Illinois will look to end a three-game skid this weekend against a Robert Morris team that Illinois split a series with at home Oct. 16-17. Illinois could potentially get to second in the CSCHL with a series sweep. Hidden Stat: Illinois has scored only 12 goals on the road this season.
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIFormer assistant coach Mike Ward and the Illinois sideline celebrate after Taylor Zalewski completes the PAT that put Illinois up 14-13 over Nebraska to win Saturday’s game at Memorial Stadium.
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North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunning-ham didn’t dismiss the thought earlier this week that there is some lobby-ing going on, some old-fash-ioned backdoor politicking among conference offi cials hoping to sway the College Football Playoff Selection Committee.
“I think there is,” Cun-ningham said during an interview earlier this week.
Time, after all, is run-ning out. We’re down to the nitty-gritty now. The leading contenders for the College Football Playoff are clear enough: Clem-son and Alabama. Oklaho-ma and Iowa. Those are the top four teams in the lat-est College Football Play-off Rankings, which were released on Tuesday.
As for the other teams with any kind of shot: they’re left to hope that they can win a game, if there’s one left to play, and hope that other teams lose. Or hope, in UNC’s case, for chaos and maybe a small miracle.
The Tar Heels are 10th in the College Football Play-off Rankings. They have won 11 consecutive games — a school record for a single season — and have often looked good, really good, in doing so. Yet 11-1 UNC fi nds itself behind three two-loss teams in the latest playoff rankings.
UNC is making progress, at least. Not too long ago the Tar Heels were behind fi ve two-loss teams. The question is whether UNC has made enough prog-ress in the rankings, and whether a victory against No. 1 Clemson on Satur-day provides UNC with any real chance of making the playoff.
The Tar Heels’ place in the rankings suggests they have little chance of mak-ing the playoff with a victo-ry against the Tigers in the ACC Championship game. Not that Cunningham, the athletic director, is giving up. Quite the opposite, in fact.
“I think the number one criteria that came out, when we got into the Col-lege Football Playoff, was conference champion,”
Cunningham said. “And if we become the ACC con-ference champion, with one loss, and 10 wins against Power 5 conference (oppo-nents) we should be in the playoff. “There’s no ques-tion in my mind.”
Yet in the minds of people who will decide the playoff’s four teams — those belong-ing to the selection commit-tee — exist lots of questions. Though perhaps they’re not as much questions so much as they are doubts about UNC’s legitimacy.
The Tar Heels’ 17-13 sea-son-opening loss against South Carolina is the prima-ry reason for those doubts but not the only one. There’s also UNC’s schedule, which included two FCS opponents (North Carolina A&T and Delaware), and the percep-tion, fair or not, that UNC has beaten up on a weak ACC. How much can UNC allay those doubts with a victory against unbeaten and No. 1 Clemson? And can UNC change the committee’s per-ception so much that it moves up six spots, from No. 10 in the rankings to somewhere inside the playoff cut line?
“If we can beat Clemson, we’ll have 10 Power 5 wins,” Cunningham said. “And that’s going to be more than Ohio State and it’ll be the same as Stanford, should they win. If we win the game, I think it’s down to Stanford, Ohio State and North Carolina for the last spot. Assuming Alabama wins.”
Stanford plays USC on Saturday in the Pac-12 Championship game. Ohio State, meanwhile, is out of the Big Ten championship game, left to watch Mich-igan State and Iowa play there. The winner of that game will be in the playoff. Alabama will be in the play-off, assuming it beats Flor-ida in the SEC Champion-ship game.
Oklahoma, which won the Big 12, is in. Which leaves one spot. Right now it belongs to Clemson. But if the Tar Heels win on Sat-urday? Cunningham thinks it’s pretty clear: UNC belongs in the playoff. Yes, he’s biased. But the College Football Playoff is a system built on bias — the notion, with little concrete evi-dence, that one conference is superior to another, that
one loss (say, UNC’s defeat against South Carolina) is worse than another (like, for instance, Oklahoma’s defeat against Texas).
And if UNC wins on Sat-urday, it will have won 12 consecutive games, and will have a better win — the one against Clemson — than any other team in the coun-try, by virtue of just hav-ing beaten the No. 1 team. Yet, still, it appears likely the committee would place
more emphasis on what hap-pened back in early Septem-ber rather than what hap-pened in early December.
“Yeah, South Carolina was a bad loss,” Cunning-ham said.
“But on a neutral site, three-turnover game and (you) lose by four points. Certainly Ohio State got a pass last year on losing at home to Virginia Tech.”
If UNC beats Clem-son on Saturday, you can
expect coach Larry Fedo-ra and his players to state their case, loudly, for being included in the Col-lege Football Playoff. Cun-ningham is preemptively doing the same, though he acknowledged his lobbying “puts more pressure on the game” on Saturday. Yet he knows, too, that this is how the system works. There are some politics involved, some clandestine conver-sations with administra-
tors and conference offi -cials making cases for one school over the other, jock-eying for position for four coveted spots. There’s the public case-making, too.
“I do think the media will have some sway to it,” Cun-ningham said.
If UNC loses on Saturday it’s all a moot point. It’s out.
But if the Tar Heels win? Well, in that case at least UNC has already started to make its argument.
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Dabo Swinney’s off-the-cuff Nov. 3 comment about how Clemson would cele-brate earning a berth in the College Football Playoff is offi cially a thing. Whether or not the No. 1 Tigers (12-0) beat No. 14 North Caro-lina (11-1) in Saturday’s 8 p.m. ACC Championship Game in Charlotte, fans can expect a shindig at Memori-al Stadium. “We’re going to have a pizza party on Sun-day,” Swinney announced Tuesday.
“That’s going to happen. This thing kind of took on a life of its own somehow, but it’s kind of hard to plan for a pizza party if you don’t know the outcome. You can’t have a pizza party just if you win the game. Won’t really know that until midnight or 1 in the morning. That’s a lot of (pizza) dough.”
Papa John’s is providing enough pizza to feed 20,000 people; concessions will also be open for other options. Stores in Clemson, Ander-son, Easley and Greenville are coordinating the pro-
duction and delivery of the pizzas, according to Papa John’s franchisee Perfect Delivery, Inc. owner Bo Knapp. Swinney said if the Tigers win Saturday, the event at Death Valley will start Sunday at noon, when the College Football Play-off committee announces its fi nal four teams on ESPN; gates will open at 11 a.m.
If Clemson loses, gates open at 2 p.m., and the show begins at 3 p.m. when the rest of the bowl fi eld is announced; Swinney expects his team to still receive a bid to play in New Year’s Six game.
“As the season has played out, the important thing, regardless of if we win the game or not, this team deserves to be celebrated,” Swinney said. “It really does, so we’re going to have a pizza party.” This is only the sec-ond Clemson squad to ever reach 12 wins, tying the 1981 championship team.
The Tigers are playing in the ACC title game for the third time under Swin-ney, who lost to Georgia Tech in 2009 as a fi rst-year
head coach before winning it in 2011 over Virginia Tech. Doing it again Saturday gives Clemson a chance to win its second national title, some-thing Swinney did as a player at Alabama. That gives him a perspective he’s shared with
his 2015 squad.“I’ve tried to be purposeful
in making sure these guys are having some fun and making sure that these guys are enjoying the moment because I think it would be very, very sad to have a sea-
son like we’ve had and not enjoy the journey,” Swin-ney said. “There’s a whole lot more to life than a foot-ball game. It’s the relation-ships, the brotherhood, the struggle, the grind, the journey that you went on. That’s what I try to make sure these guys are enjoy-ing and they’re mindful of it because a moment fades pretty quick, but what you’re going to remember the most is that journey along the way.”
Clemson junior tight end Jordan Leggett said Swin-ney’s insight takes some of the pressure off a team try-ing to hold onto the No. 1 spot. Between social media and people on campus, it’s been a lot to process for this young team.
“It was a lot of pressure in the beginning of the sea-son, but really, after going on this run with these team-mates and these guys ... I’m having a lot of fun now,” Leggett said. “We’re making history as we go and (Swin-ney) really wants us to have fun while we’re doing it. He doesn’t want it to all be busi-
ness. That’s why he’s having a pizza party when we get back Sunday.”
Will the Tigers return home with a trophy to show off though?
The Tar Heels, like Clem-son, are one of the hottest teams in the country. After losing the opener to South Carolina at Bank of Ameri-ca Stadium in Charlotte, the same site as Saturday’s game, UNC has won 11 straight games by an average margin of 22.6 points per game. The Tigers own the nation’s lon-gest active win streak at 15 consecutive games, and how they play will determine the time and mood of the party.
“Whether we win the game or lose the game, it’s not going to make me feel any worse about or better about this football team. This team right here is special and it’s been great to be a part of it,” Swinney said.
“I know we’re going to go play our best four quar-ters of the season. I hope that’s good enough to win, but regardless of the out-come, there’s going to be celebration on Sunday.
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ROBERT WILLETT TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEUNC Caleb Peterson gets a hug from UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham following the Tar Heels 28-27 victory over Virginia on Oct. 25, 2014 at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia.
ROBERT WILLETT TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEClemson head coach Dabo Swinney yells at his defensive unit during a timeout in the fourth quarter against North Carolina on Sept. 27, 2014. at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.
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The Chicago Cubs trimmed their number of unsigned arbitration-eligible players to eight Wednesday after reach-ing an agreement with left-handed reliever Rex Brothers.
Brothers, who was acquired from the Colo-rado Rockies last week for minor league pitcher Wander Cabrera, signed a one-year, $1.42 million contract, according to a source.
The Cubs have until 11 p.m. CST Wednesday to tender contract to their remaining unsigned arbi-tration-eligible players — pitchers Jake Arrieta, Travis Wood, Pedro Strop, Hector Rondon, Justin Grimm, Clayton Richard and Aaron Cook and out-fielder Chris Coghlan.
Brothers’ agreement was first reported by Jon Heyman of CBS Sports.
The Cubs also hired Andy Haines as their minor league hitting coordina-tor, according to a major league source. Haines, 38, has served as a manager in the Miami Marlins’ orga-
nization since 2009 and operates a baseball/soft-ball academy in Tennessee.
Haines has served as a hitting coach and manager with Independent leagues in Gary and Windy City. Haines will take over the supervision of minor league hitting duties pre-viously held by Anthony Iapoce, who left his posi-tion as the special assis-tant to the General Manag-er/Player Development to become the hitting coach for the Texas Rangers.
The New Orleans Advo-cate first reported the Cubs’ hiring of Haines.
The Seattle Mariners add-ed another high on-base per-centage player to their ros-ter Wednesday, agreeing to terms with free-agent out-fielder Nori Aoki, according to baseball sources.
The contract is for one year with an option for a second year, the sources said.
The deal is pending because Aoki must pass a physical. And that isn’t a giv-en because of a concussion that sidetracked his season in August.
Aoki was placed on the 7-day concussion disabled list Aug. 13 by the San Fran-cisco Giants. He was hit on the head by a pitch Aug. 9 by Chicago Cubs ace Jake Arrieta.
Aoki played in two games,
then went on the disabled list. He returned Aug. 20 and appeared in 13 games (11 starts) but was still bothered by the effects from the con-cussion. He visited a concus-sion specialist in early Sep-tember and didn’t play again.
Aoki’s agent, Nez Balelo, told CBS sports in Novem-ber: “He feels great. He has been cleared medically. He’s 100 percent.” Aoki, 33, hit .287 with a .353 on-base percentage in 93 games for the Giants this past season, including 12 doubles, three triples, five homers and 26 RBI.
Before being hit by the pitch, Aoki was batting .305 with a .365 on-base percentage.
Though Aoki can be quite productive at the plate, he
is serviceable at best in the outfield. He’s played pri-marily right field the past few seasons but also has experience in left field.
The Giants declined to pick up a $5.5 million club option on Aoki for 2016. He made $4 million last season with San Francisco.
Al Alburquerque’s time with the Detroit Tigers has ended.
The team has decided to non-tender the arbitration-eligible right-handed reliev-er, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, making him a free agent.
Alburquerque, 29, posted a 4.21 ERA and 1.55 WHIP in 67 games this past season. For his career, he has a 3.20 ERA and 1.33 WHIP in five
seasons.Alburquerque was predict-
ed to earn $2.1 million in the arbitration process by MLB Trade Rumors, the industry’s authoritative source on the topic.
The team has until 11:59 p.m. EST Wednesday to ten-der contracts to its remain-ing four arbitration-eligible players.
Of those four, the biggest decision lies with righty
reliever Neftali Feliz, the once-dominant closer who signed with the Tigers dur-ing the 2015 season after get-ting released by the Texas Rangers.
Feliz, 27, posted a 6.38 ERA between the two teams in 2015. He allowed 24 runs on 33 hits in 30 appearances with the Tigers.
Feliz is predicted to earn $5.2 million in his fourth year of arbitration, a sum likely
too strong for the Tigers to pay for his inconsistency with so many holes in the bullpen to patch. In seven seasons, Feliz has a 3.17 ERA and 97 saves. He underwent elbow ligament reconstruction sur-gery in 2012.
Alburquerque should gar-ner significant interest on the free-agent market and it wouldn’t be a surprise if the Tigers tried to work out a deal with Feliz for far less than
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Dec. 02--Florida’s Danny Wuerffel and Tim Tebow, Ten-nessee’s Peyton Manning, Auburn’s Cam Newton and Ala-bama’s AJ McCarron are among the quarterbacks who have led their schools to victories in the Southeastern Conference cham-pionship game.
Treon Harris would be a most unlikely candidate to join them. The sophomore starter for No. 18 Florida (10-2) spent the first half of the season backing up Will Grier, who guided the Gators to a 6-0 record. Harris has spent the past few weeks struggling in a spiraling offense that managed just 252 yards in a 20-14 overtime win over Florida Atlantic and 262 yards in last Saturday’s 27-2 loss to Florida State.
“He’s going to have a great week of practice, and I’m proud that he’s a Gator,” Florida first-year coach Jim McElwain said. “He’s going to lead us through that tunnel in the Dome there in Atlanta, and we’re going to put our best foot forward and give them everything we’ve got.”
Harris and his offensive mates will be challenging the No. 2 Ala-bama Crimson Tide, who yielded 260 yards in last Saturday’s 29-13 win at Auburn and allow an aver-age of 264.6 yards per game.
The Gators are 17.5-point underdogs, making Harris the biggest long shot of any quar-terback in an SEC title game since Barry Lunney and Arkan-sas fell 34-3 to Wuerffel’s Gators in 1995. The Gators enter this week’s championship contest
after scoring only seven touch-downs in four November games.
“We’ve prepared well each week, but sometimes in the game we get muffled communication,” senior offensive lineman Trip Thurman said. “We just need to keep focused and stay on track.”
Staying on track was the goal in mid-October, when Grier was dealt a yearlong NCAA suspen-sion after testing positive for a banned substance. Grier had completed 106 of 161 attempts (65.8 percent) with 10 touch-downs and three interceptions, and he was getting better by the week.
After rallying the Gators to a 28-27 win over Tennessee on a 63-yard touchdown pass to Anto-nio Callaway on fourth-and-14, Grier opened October by com-pleting 24 of 29 passes for 271 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-10 lambasting of Ole Miss.
Florida improved to 6-0 the fol-lowing week with a 21-3 win at Missouri, but Grier was out of the picture less than 48 hours later.
“When you lose your starting quarterback, it’s always a tough transition,” Thurman said. “Will is a great player, and it’s unfor-tunate we had to lose him, but we trust Treon back there.”
A 5-foot-11, 195-pounder from Miami, Harris has completed 102 of 190 attempts (53.7 per-cent) this season for 1,365 yards with eight touchdowns and four interceptions. Florida used Har-ris and Grier in the season-open-ing rout of New Mexico State, but Grier took the reins after a 31-24 escape of East Carolina in the second game.
The first foe the Gators had to face without Grier was LSU in Baton Rouge, but Harris was up to the challenge, completing 17 of 32 passes for 271 yards and two touchdowns in a 35-28 loss. So what’s happened to Harris in the games since?
“There was a little bit of the unknown in the LSU game,” McElwain said, “and people have taken some things away from him that kind of made him successful there. It also has to do with the other 10 guys around him as well. When we took this job, we had
some rebuilding to do on that side of the ball, but the great thing is how this team has hung together and, for the most part through-out the year, figured out a way to win ballgames. Treon is going to prepare this week and go in there and play a heck of a game.”
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LOS ANGELES - Christian McCaffrey took to social media Saturday in the euphoric after-math of Stanford’s last-second win over Notre Dame.
“What a time to be alive,” he posted on Twitter after Conrad Ukropina’s 45-yard field capped one of the season’s most thrilling games.
Stanford has gotten off the deck after losing its opener at North-western and will play USC in the Pac-12 Conference championship game Saturday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. McCaffrey probably will soon be heading east for Heisman Trophy ceremonies as a finalist for college football’s top individual award.
“Football is happening so fast,” McCaffrey said during a phone interview Tuesday as he walked briskly to his next destination on the Stanford campus. “There’s really no time.”
Things have changed dramati-cally since Stanford faced USC the first time, in the middle of Septem-ber. The Cardinal was an ordinary 1-1 after losing at Northwestern and then struggling early against a Central Florida team that would finish 0-12.
Stanford was unranked and McCaffrey, a sophomore, was largely unknown after rushing for 66 and 58 yards. He then ripped off 115 rushing yards in a 10-point win over sixth-ranked USC and Stanford was off on what became a national playoff chase.
“I remember how back-and-forth it was,” McCaffrey recalled of first USC game, at the Coliseum. He expects more of the same Sat-urday. “They are a fast, athletic, physical team,” he said, “and so
are we.”McCaffrey has fast become
known as college football’s most dangerous all-purpose player. McCaffrey established a Stanford single-game record for all-pur-pose yards with 389 against Cali-fornia, and a single-game rush-ing record with 243 yards against UCLA.
He enters the Saturday’s game on a different astral plane. McCaf-frey has 3,035 all-purpose yards, a Pac-12 season record. The names he passed on that list include Mar-cus Allen, Glyn Milburn and Reg-gie Bush. McCaffrey is so feared that opponents have devised game plans just to stop him. Last week, Notre Dame used starting defen-sive players on special teams units hoping to contain McCaffrey.
“He’s the No.1 game wrecker,” Notre Dame linebacker Jaylon Smith said. “Best player on the team. And the idea was to contain him. Based on the numbers, we did that, but one player doesn’t define a victory or a loss.”
McCaffrey broke the Stanford record for all-purpose yards set by Milburn in 1990, the same sea-son Christian’s father, Ed, had 61 catches for the Cardinal. But if you think Christian’s sprinter’s speed came from his dad, who went on to become an accomplished NFL receiver, you’d be wrong. It ema-nates from the maternal side of his Stanford tree.
Christian’s mother, Lisa, who played soccer at Stanford, is the daughter of Dave Sime, a former world-class sprinter from Duke who was dubbed “Superman in Spikes.” Sime might have been as famous as Carl Lewis had he not injured his groin after falling off a horse before the 1956 Mel-bourne Olympics. The accident
might have cost Sime at least two gold medals.
McCaffrey needs 216 all-pur-pose yards Saturday to break the NCAA record of 3,250, set in 1988 by Oklahoma State star Bar-ry Sanders. Sanders did it in 11 games, and the vast majority of his total came from 2,628 rush-ing yards. McCaffrey has rushed for 1,640 yards. Closely follow-
ing McCaffrey’s record chase is a teammate, Barry Sanders Jr., a senior who has contributed 312 yards rushing this season.
“We have not really talked about it,” McCaffrey said of record. The question now is whether Stanford and McCaffrey got in their races too late.
The Cardinal overcame that early loss to get back in the
national playoff chase, only to suffer another setback to Oregon. However, Stanford enters Satur-day a puncher’s chance of mak-ing the four-team field. It might be this simple: Stanford defeats USC for the Pac-12 title and either Clemson or Alabama lose in their respective title games. “Nothing matters unless we win,” McCaf-frey said.
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Colorado Rockies pitcher Rex Brothers works against the San Francisco Giants in the eighth inning at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California April 12, 2014.
JOHN GREEN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe San Francisco Giants Nori Aoki swings wildly at a pitch as he strikes out in the eighth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California Saturday, Aug. 29.
Florida Gators prepare to take on Crimson Tide
STEPHEN M. DOWELL TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEFlorida quarterback Treon Harris warms up before the start of action against Florida State at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida Nov. 28.
JIM GENSHEIMER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEStanford’s Christian McCaffrey celebrates his 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown against Cal in the second quarter of the Big Game at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California Nov. 21.
Stanford to face USC in Conference championship
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It’s that time of year, boys and girls. I’m not talking about the magic
of the first winter snow or the unrelenting strain of finals — I’m talking about the brink of fantasy foot-ball playoffs.
Depending on league format, we are a week or so away from the match-ups that really matter. If you’ve been following my advice, I don’t see any rea-son why you shouldn’t be poised for a playoff run. Disregarding my recent 0-3 week — pounds of tur-key and sweet potatoes helped me cope — I have a playoff berth clinched in all three leagues.
Due to a mind-numbing profusion of injuries, my rosters are like Jenga tow-ers just waiting for that final block to bring them toppling over. Until that happens, I’ll keep trudging along with my topsy-turvy piles of players, filling in any holes with waiver-wire pickups as I go.
Speaking of the waiv-er-wire, the well has yet to run dry, and there are some interesting stream-ing choices for Week 13. So if your roster is deplet-ed like mine, you need that slight edge to sneak into the playoffs or you’re crushing it and just want to give someone else a shot, here are the top waiver options for that playoff push.
David Johnson, RBThe third-round pick out
of Northern Iowa has been a fringe flex play all sea-son, especially when either Chris Johnson or Andre Ellington were banged up. Now with both Arizo-na lead backs potential-ly missing a game or two, Johnson’s chance to solidi-fy himself as the top dog in the backfield has arrived. He’ll push for 20 touches against a St. Louis defense that hasn’t been imposing lately.
Scott Chandler, TEAnother week, another
crucial injury for the no-longer-undefeated Patriots. Gronk writhed in pain like a wounded animal after taking a shot in the middle of the field against Denver. He is likely to miss a few
weeks, so Chandler’s work-load just grew exponential-ly. He had 11 targets (more than he had in the past four weeks combined) and a score in the same game that Gronk left, so it’s clear his role will be large until the big guy returns.
Shaun Draughn, RBIn the depleted San Fran-
cisco offense, Draughn has quietly dominated the backfield touches over the past three weeks. In that span, he racked up 60 touches, including an eight-catch game at Seattle. He has yet to score but will
see the easiest defense he’s faced thus far in a matchup with the Bears.
Alfred Morris, RBSticking with sneaky
backfield pick-ups, the for-mer unquestioned work-horse in Washington is back to the top of the depth chart. Morris has been tremendously absent this season, but Matt Jones has shown his profi-ciency in fumbling, which has sent him to the bench in favor of Morris.
The fourth-year back out-touched Jones 24 to 9 on Sunday and will face
a leaky Dallas defense this week. He’s a low-ceil-ing RB3 play, but always has the chance for a Doug Martin-esque breakout game.
Doug Baldwin, WRAny time a mediocre
pass-catcher blows up for 145 yards and three touch-downs, he’s going to be mentioned in virtually every fantasy column. The same goes for Baldwin’s performance against the Steelers.
While these numbers definitely aren’t sustain-able, there’s room for the
five-year veteran to see an uptick in targets, espe-cially with Jimmy Graham down with an injury. Bald-win enjoyed a 134-yard day just two weeks ago and has seen at least six targets in each of his last four games, making him a sturdy WR3 play.
Brock Osweiler, QBThe legend of Brock
Osweiler has begun to unfold. What better way to establish yourself as play-caller than to replace Peyton Manning in prime time to take on an unde-feated Tom Brady and win
in overtime? That’s Hol-lywood stuff. Big Brock has at least 250-yards in his past two contests and will face a San Diego defense that is third-worst in the league at stopping the pass. Let the legend continue.
Defense of the week: As strange as it sounds, the Bears defense has been good lately and is set to face the 49ers’ sewn-together offense on Sunday.
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RON T. ENNIS TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Denver Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler hands off to running back C.J. Anderson against the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Aug. 28, 2014.