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BY AUSTIN KEATING STAFF WRITER It was a Friday; the sun was blaring over the Bardeen Quad as a group of students threw a football around, but then it landed in the middle of Bone- yard Creek. After the group spent a few minutes grappling at the air, one girl started to roll up her jeans. But before she got the chance to jump in the shallow waters, the wind brought the ball back to the bank. As it turns out, the wind saved her from more than just wet jeans. On April 15, just three days earlier, a cloud of white pollut- ants moved downstream from Champaign, said Alex Nagy, civil engineer for Champaign Public Works. He called the event a “discharge.” “By the time we got there, it had gone down the channel. We tracked it upstream, but lost the trail of it,” he said. “We did find a shock vac in an ally with some residual white stuff in it, but we were unable to catch anyone in the act of doing it on Tuesday. So the trail went cold.” Although they don’t know what it was that snaked through the creek on April 15, Nagy said the most common discharges tend to be paint, construction materials and chemicals that get sent down storm water inlets. “A lot of times, people think their waste goes to a treatment plant, instead of directly to a creek. That’s why a lot of the inlets you see around the city have ‘dump no waste’ medal- lions on them,” Nagy said. But, whoever discharges may not know what they are doing is illegal, said Eliana Brown, Environmental Compliance coordinator for the University. From his office window in the Mechanical Engineering Building, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Clark Bullard saw the trail of white in the creek and reported it to Brown and Nagy. And it’s not the first time he’s noticed something like it. “In the 1960s, when I was a student here, the creek would be a different color every day. Anything from slimy green to red and rust colored. There was no EPA,” he said. “There were dozens and dozens of pipes com- ing out of University buildings and labs putting all kinds of pol- lutants in.” When the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972, the EPA was created. And with the help from the University’s Facilities and Services and Champaign’s Public Works, the Boneyard Creek was made habitable, and over time, most of these pipes were closed off. Brown said the University’s Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination program has been in place for 10 years and tracks down these pipes. The team has gone to over 300 Univer- sity buildings and has looked at a little over 17,000 drains and sump pumps to make sure they’re being plumbed correctly. “We do find ones that are plumbed incorrectly, and what we do is plug those or reroute them,” she said. “We had a pri- ority setup so that we looked at sources that had the potential to cause the most harm to the Boneyard, say buildings with chemicals in them.” Bullard has kept a coffee- stained note of the 19 differ- ent species of animals he has seen come back to the Bone- yard since the ‘60s, but even though the creek has gotten bet- ter since those days, he says more needs to be done to pro- tect the Boneyard’s habitat from discharges. As of now, in the event of a discharge, Illinois EPA dele- gates Brown or Nagy to address the issue. If they find whoever is discharging, they will talk to them and have them correct it. “I would say (that works) almost 100 percent of the time. People will comply and correct whatever it is that they’re doing and prevent it in the future,” Nagy said, adding that his and Brown’s offices can employ sev- eral different kinds of punish- ments, like fines, if there is no compliance. “Alex goes out and he talks to them and he listens to their story and they say they won’t do it again and it happens again, because it’s a different contractor this time,” Bullard said. “The mantra with EPA is ‘we don’t want to punish people, we just want to improve water quality, and if talking to them nicely will do that, then that’s what we’ll do.’” He said that there needs to be fines big enough that it’s not seen as a business expense. “Right now, nobody has an economic incentive to do the right thing,” he added. Austin can be reached at [email protected] or @austinkeating3. SEC decides to halt progress on resolution New ISS president hopes to increase campus involvement Unknown pollutant spotted in Boneyard Creek Although habitable, discharges still impair water quality INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B | Sudoku 4A THE DAILY ILLINI TUESDAY April 29, 2014 75˚ | 46˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 113 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI Breaking down hateful words LAUREN ROHR THE DAILY ILLINI Edward Escatel disassembles the “Wall of Prejudice” where students wrote down common prejudices they experience. The wall will travel from the Engineering Quad to the south Quad and to the Main Quad before it is smashed with a sledgehammer later this week. The wall was created by members of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROB KANTER An unknown opaque, white substance winds downstream of Boneyard Creek behind Engineering Hall. The discharge occurred April 15. PORTRAIT COURTESY OF JONATHAN DAVIS SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER Members of the Urbana- Champaign Senate Executive Committee deliberated over res- olutions on academic freedom and a review over a statewide library program at their meet- ing on Monday. Following an executive session about a resolution to reaffirm principles of academic freedom, fair employment and appropriate unit governance over curricu- lum, the committee announced that it would not move the reso- lution on to the senate due to con- cerns for privacy and precedent, committee chair Roy Campbell said. “We don’t want to set a prec- edent that we will discuss indi- viduals,” Campbell said. “We don’t want to prejudice any of the committees by talking about this thing. The individual can appeal to those committees for those principles and we shouldn’t get in the way of those commit- tees doing their work.” This resolution, which would have voiced senate support for the University’s commitment to the principle of academic freedom, fair employment, and appropriate unit autonomy over curriculum, comes a week after students and faculty began peti- tioning to restore the employ- ment of James Kilgore, a non- tenured faculty member in FAA. Kilgore was notified on April 9 that he will not be hired by the University for the 2014-15 school year. Petitions accused the Uni- versity for choosing not to hire Kilgore based on media attention that publicized Kilgore’s history of convictions. Only graduate student Cal- vin Lear mentioned Kilgore by name. The resolution and the oth- er senators referred to “a well- regarded lecturer” and “an indi- vidual” throughout the meeting. Provost Ilesanmi Adesida also voiced the administration’s con- cern about these matters. “As I said, more work needs to be done,” Adesida said. “There needs to be more clarity about the roles, responsibilities and privileges assigned to special- ized faculty. We are going to be working with departments and colleges on these processes, BY EDWARD GATHERCOAL STAFF WRITER To most, Mitch Dickey may just seem to be simply another student on campus, blending in with those around him. Howev- er, as a sophomore, Dickey was elected to serve as the next stu- dent body president for the Illi- nois Student Senate. Over the course of the last year serving as a member of the Illinois Student Senate, Dickey said he noticed the discrepan- cies between what the campus leaders wanted from the student senate and what the student sen- ate was actually doing. Through his careful observation of these differences, Dickey believed he would be the best candidate for the presidency. He joined the student senate at the beginning of his fresh- man year and served as a chair for the Committee on Campus Affairs and the Committee on Community and Governmental Affairs. One of his goals as president is to increase overall campus awareness and involvement with ISS. “I really want to get people that are really interested in the things that we’re doing ... I want to make sure their voices are being heard,” Dickey said. He believes the most effective way to increase campus involve- ment is through a trickle-down effect by first reaching out to campus leaders, committees and officers of RSOs. “I think once you get all of the campus leaders, the people that students trust, involved, everyone else hears about that and then knows what’s going on and even maybe feels empow- ered themselves and know that their voice really matters,” Dick- ey said. He has already met with Being Black at Illinois, Illini Demo- crats and others. “I think one of the reasons Dickey won the presidency was because he listens to students,” said Vice President-External, Matt Hill. “He has a strong track record of listening to students, working with students and get- ting things done for students.” However, his outreach doesn’t just stop at the local academic community. Dickey has met with student governments from Illi- nois State University, the Univer- sity of Chicago, Northwestern University and members of the Illinois State Board of Education. “We are working towards reaching out to our schools and seeing what we can do collec- tively,” he said. Senator Rachel Heller, junior in LAS, supports Dickey and believes he “has a lot of passion.” “I’ve known Mitch the past two years and I’ve worked very closely with him on several proj- ects and I’ve seen his commit- ment and excitement from day one, when I met him,” she said. “And I believe he truly, truly SEE SEC | 3A SEE ISS PRESIDENT | 3A “In the 1960s, when I was a student here, the creek would be a different color every day.” CLARK BULLARD PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGINEERING ILLINOIS BASEBALL TO PLAY SIU WHO EARNED THE NBA’S MVP TITLE? Illini looking to even series with Salukis Columnist Eliot Sill looked at all 1,230 box scores to find out SPORTS, 1B SPORTS, 2B WHAT’S BREWING Get your coffee fix with Chamapign- Urbana shops LIFE & CULTURE, 6A

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Page 1: The Daily Illini: Volume 143 Issue 112

BY AUSTIN KEATINGSTAFF WRITER

It was a Friday; the sun was blaring over the Bardeen Quad as a group of students threw a football around, but then it landed in the middle of Bone-yard Creek.

After the group spent a few minutes grappling at the air, one girl started to roll up her jeans. But before she got the chance to jump in the shallow waters, the wind brought the ball back to the bank.

As it turns out, the wind saved her from more than just wet jeans.

On April 15, just three days earlier, a cloud of white pollut-ants moved downstream from Champaign, said Alex Nagy, civil engineer for Champaign Public Works. He called the event a “discharge.”

“By the time we got there, it had gone down the channel. We tracked it upstream, but lost the trail of it,” he said. “We did find a shock vac in an ally with some residual white stuff in it, but we were unable to catch anyone in the act of doing it on Tuesday. So the trail went cold.”

Although they don’t know what it was that snaked through the creek on April 15, Nagy said the most common discharges tend to be paint, construction materials and chemicals that get sent down storm water inlets.

“A lot of times, people think their waste goes to a treatment plant, instead of directly to a creek. That’s why a lot of the inlets you see around the city have ‘dump no waste’ medal-lions on them,” Nagy said.

But, whoever discharges may not know what they are doing is illegal, said Eliana Brown,

Environmental Compliance coordinator for the University.

From his office window in the Mechanical Engineering Building, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Clark Bullard saw the trail of white in the creek and reported it to Brown and Nagy. And it’s not the first time he’s noticed something like it.

“In the 1960s, when I was a student here, the creek would be a different color every day. Anything from slimy green to red and rust colored. There was no EPA,” he said. “There were dozens and dozens of pipes com-

ing out of University buildings and labs putting all kinds of pol-lutants in.”

When the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972, the EPA was created. And with the help from the University’s Facilities and Services and Champaign’s Public Works, the Boneyard Creek was made habitable, and over time, most of these pipes were closed off.

Brown said the University’s Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination program has been in place for 10 years and tracks down these pipes. The team has gone to over 300 Univer-sity buildings and has looked at a little over 17,000 drains and sump pumps to make sure they’re being plumbed correctly.

“We do find ones that are plumbed incorrectly, and what we do is plug those or reroute them,” she said. “We had a pri-ority setup so that we looked at sources that had the potential to cause the most harm to the Boneyard, say buildings with chemicals in them.”

Bullard has kept a coffee-stained note of the 19 differ-ent species of animals he has seen come back to the Bone-yard since the ‘60s, but even though the creek has gotten bet-ter since those days, he says more needs to be done to pro-

tect the Boneyard’s habitat from discharges.

As of now, in the event of a discharge, Illinois EPA dele-gates Brown or Nagy to address the issue. If they find whoever is discharging, they will talk to them and have them correct it.

“I would say (that works) almost 100 percent of the time. People will comply and correct whatever it is that they’re doing and prevent it in the future,” Nagy said, adding that his and Brown’s offices can employ sev-eral different kinds of punish-ments, like fines, if there is no compliance.

“Alex goes out and he talks to them and he listens to their story and they say they won’t do it again and it happens again, because it’s a different contractor this time,” Bullard said. “The mantra with EPA is ‘we don’t want to punish people, we just want to improve water quality, and if talking to them nicely will do that, then that’s what we’ll do.’”

He said that there needs to be fines big enough that it’s not seen as a business expense.

“Right now, nobody has an economic incentive to do the right thing,” he added.

Austin can be reached at [email protected] or @austinkeating3.

SEC decides to halt progress on resolution

New ISS president hopes to increase campus involvement

Unknown pollutant spotted in Boneyard CreekAlthough habitable, discharges still impair water quality

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LAUREN ROHR THE DAILY ILLINIEdward Escatel disassembles the “Wall of Prejudice” where students wrote down common prejudices they experience. The wall will travel from the Engineering Quad to the south Quad and to the Main Quad before it is smashed with a sledgehammer later this week. The wall was created by members of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ROB KANTERAn unknown opaque, white substance winds downstream of Boneyard Creek behind Engineering Hall. The discharge occurred April 15.

PORTRAIT COURTESY OF JONATHAN DAVIS

SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

BY MARYCATE MOSTSTAFF WRITER

Members of the Urbana-Champaign Senate Executive Committee deliberated over res-olutions on academic freedom and a review over a statewide library program at their meet-ing on Monday.

Following an executive session about a resolution to reaffirm principles of academic freedom, fair employment and appropriate unit governance over curricu-lum, the committee announced that it would not move the reso-lution on to the senate due to con-cerns for privacy and precedent, committee chair Roy Campbell said.

“We don’t want to set a prec-edent that we will discuss indi-viduals,” Campbell said. “We don’t want to prejudice any of the committees by talking about this thing. The individual can appeal to those committees for those principles and we shouldn’t get in the way of those commit-tees doing their work.”

This resolution, which would have voiced senate support for the University’s commitment to the principle of academic

freedom, fair employment, and appropriate unit autonomy over curriculum, comes a week after students and faculty began peti-tioning to restore the employ-ment of James Kilgore, a non-tenured faculty member in FAA. Kilgore was notified on April 9 that he will not be hired by the University for the 2014-15 school year. Petitions accused the Uni-versity for choosing not to hire Kilgore based on media attention that publicized Kilgore’s history of convictions.

Only graduate student Cal-vin Lear mentioned Kilgore by name. The resolution and the oth-er senators referred to “a well-regarded lecturer” and “an indi-vidual” throughout the meeting.

Provost Ilesanmi Adesida also voiced the administration’s con-cern about these matters.

“As I said, more work needs to be done,” Adesida said. “There needs to be more clarity about the roles, responsibilities and privileges assigned to special-ized faculty. We are going to be working with departments and colleges on these processes,

BY EDWARD GATHERCOALSTAFF WRITER

To most, Mitch Dickey may just seem to be simply another student on campus, blending in with those around him. Howev-er, as a sophomore, Dickey was elected to serve as the next stu-dent body president for the Illi-nois Student Senate.

Over the course of the last year serving as a member of the Illinois Student Senate, Dickey said he noticed the discrepan-cies between what the campus leaders wanted from the student senate and what the student sen-ate was actually doing. Through his careful observation of these differences, Dickey believed he would be the best candidate for the presidency.

He joined the student senate at the beginning of his fresh-man year and served as a chair for the Committee on Campus Affairs and the Committee on Community and Governmental Affairs.

One of his goals as president is to increase overall campus awareness and involvement with ISS.

“I really want to get people that are really interested in the things that we’re doing ... I want to make sure their voices are being heard,” Dickey said.

He believes the most effective way to increase campus involve-ment is through a trickle-down effect by first reaching out to campus leaders, committees and officers of RSOs.

“I think once you get all of the campus leaders, the people that students trust, involved, everyone else hears about that and then knows what’s going on and even maybe feels empow-ered themselves and know that their voice really matters,” Dick-ey said.

He has already met with Being Black at Illinois, Illini Demo-crats and others.

“I think one of the reasons Dickey won the presidency was because he listens to students,” said Vice President-External, Matt Hill. “He has a strong track record of listening to students, working with students and get-ting things done for students.”

However, his outreach doesn’t just stop at the local academic community. Dickey has met with student governments from Illi-nois State University, the Univer-sity of Chicago, Northwestern University and members of the Illinois State Board of Education.

“We are working towards reaching out to our schools and seeing what we can do collec-tively,” he said.

Senator Rachel Heller, junior in LAS, supports Dickey and believes he “has a lot of passion.”

“I’ve known Mitch the past two years and I’ve worked very closely with him on several proj-ects and I’ve seen his commit-ment and excitement from day one, when I met him,” she said. “And I believe he truly, truly

SEE SEC | 3A

SEE ISS PRESIDENT | 3A

“In the 1960s, when I was a

student here, the creek would be a different color

every day.”CLARK BULLARD

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Criminal damage to proper-ty was reported in the 1700 block of Henry Street around 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, an unknown suspect broke the vic-tim’s rear windshield.

University Criminal damage to prop-

erty was reported at the Career Center, 715 S. Wright St., at 10:30 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, a University employee reported that someone painted graffiti

on a storm door at the Center. It is estimated to cost $250 to replace the door.

A University student reported 3 p.m. Friday that a man had exposed himself to her while she was studying at the ACES Library, 1101 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, and then fled the scene.

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because each department has its own bylaws. This is something we are going to be working on vigorously.”

Adesida also stated that more efforts should be given to closely defining hir-ing procedures and to giving all fac-ulty members an opportunity to voice grievances.

The resolution also called for commit-tees of the senate, such as the Commit-tee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and committees at the University, such as the Faculty Advisory Committee, to investigate this matter further.

This does not mean that the issue will not be discussed. Instead, faculty will find a different way to address the issue — either through a committee or a report, Campbell said.

“I would see it as almost inevitable that a more refined and more abstract version of this that covers all the topics and all the issues will be discussed in the future,” Campbell said. “I can’t see this matter just sort of evaporating. I do think that occasionally we need to care-fully check that all the procedures and policies at the University are being insti-tuted. That is sort of the job of the SEC.”

Another resolution in support of con-tinued University of Illinois steward-ship of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, CARLI, was debated and approved to go before the Senate on May 5.

After University Administration Review, a process set into place by Pres-ident Robert Easter, a review committee requested a decrease in the funds going to CARLI. Executive Vice Provost for

Faculty and Academic Affairs Barbara Wilson, who served on the review com-mittee that oversaw the CARLI spend-ing, said during the review there was confusion about CARLI and its role on campus.

“We had incomplete information about what the organization was doing and couldn’t make sense of the huge balance of funds,” Wilson said. “This (passing of the resolution to support CARLI) could have an opposite effect to scare the administration off in the future from having a UA (University Administration) review.”

Library representative and recently elected Senate Executive Committee member Mary Mallory argued that not supporting CARLI would reflect nega-tively on the library system as a whole.

“Both University of Illinois at Spring-field and University of Illinois at Chi-cago senates have passed a very simi-lar resolution,” Mallory said. “I think it behooves us to pass such a resolution.”

The CARLI organization infra-structure supports book borrowing and licensing of electronic reserves, amongst other things, the resolution stated. Mallory said that to show strong support for CARLI and other CARLI libraries, the University needed to pass a resolution.

“Even though all of us understand what happened, the public doesn’t, nor do all the CARLI libraries in Illinois, neither do University of Illinois at Chi-cago or University of Illinois at Spring-field,” Mallory said. “I think it puts us in a bad light if we don’t support it.”

MaryCate can be reached at [email protected] and @marycate_most.

wants the best for the student body and that he will do whatev-er he can to create the best envi-ronment for the student body.”

At the election meeting, sever-al senators brought up concerns that attendance had been lacking at recent ISS meetings — an issue that Dickey wants to address dur-ing his presidency.

“Part of the way you keep peo-ple interested and wanting to be involved is you pressure them,” Dickey said. “It goes hand-in-hand with the approach I want to take with committees, of getting people really excited ... If there’s people on committees that are doing a lot of work and engaging in the work of the senate and we have senators from those same colleges who aren’t coming to meetings are engaging with stu-dent affairs, that puts pressure on them to do better.”

Dickey also acknowledged his concern for student debt describ-ing it as “the core block” to be addressed. He hopes to have more lobbying and increased conver-sations with legislators, like the upcoming town hall meeting with Sen. Dick Durbin that will take place in early fall.

However, Dickey described the budget as being “up in the air depending on what the students want to do with it.”

He commented on the new assembly of the student senate, stating that there was a big turn-

out at the orientation meeting with 15 new members present, who he said seemed engaged in learning about their new roles as senators.

“I am really looking forward to working with them this year,” Dickey said. “I am really, really positive of our senators this year and I believe they will be a very powerful force.”

After college, he hopes to join the Peace Corps and then either get a law degree or a master’s degree in public policy. In the future, he hopes to work in poli-tics as a civil servant.

“I don’t see being student body president as a stepping stone, but as a reaffirmation of my goals, that I really do want to be a public servant,” Dickey said. “This has always been my dream, always something we talk about.”

Dickey has enjoyed serving as a representative of student interests.

“It’s really different in high school where you’re planning dances to college where you’re working on actual policies,” said Dickey.“I have a younger brother, he’s a junior in high school, and if there’s one thing I absolutely want to see done, it’s that he will have a better experience here than I ever did. And that we can say that, for all of our younger siblings and friends, we made Illinois better for them.”

Edward can be reached at [email protected].

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Heartbleed prompts CITES to take security measuresBY ANGELICA LAVITOSTAFF WRITER

University students and employees will be asked to change their NetID and Active Directory passwords Wednesday to protect them from the Heart-bleed Bug, an error in technol-ogy that protects data on the Internet.

CITES will email users to change their passwords with-in 21 days of the notification. Users will be locked out of their accounts if they do not comply

within the allotted time.“We don’t have infrastruc-

ture to reset 100,000 passwords in one day, so we’re slowly releas-ing notifications to people and staggering them out so that it’s moving in small groups,” said Brian Mertz, chief communica-tions officer at CITES.

The Heartbleed Bug allows hackers to steal “chunks of data” without leaving a trace. Vulner-able data includes any informa-tion being passed back and forth.

“You don’t control what chunks

you see, so sometimes you might get useless information, you may get information that has noth-ing in it whatsoever,” Mertz said. “But the threat with Heartbleed is that someone could also use that to get a chunk that has pass-words, credit card numbers.”

Because Heartbleed does not leave a trace, it is difficult to detect security breaches. Warn-ings of Heartbleed were made earlier this month and CITES has since fixed the vulnerabilities.

“When notification came

out, CITES prioritized systems CITES managed and deemed what was critical within a few hours and after that proceeded to look at campus to see which systems were vulnerable,” said Joe Barnes, CITES interim chief privacy and security officer.

Barnes said critical systems’ vulnerabilities were fixed with-in a few days, and other systems were fixed within a few weeks.

CITES will work with the Uni-versity as a whole, and some col-leges and departments may have

their own account login process.“The College of Fine and

Applied Arts is working in con-junction with CITES to ensure our systems are secure and our faculty, staff and students are informed about what actions they need to take to ensure their pass-words and accounts are protect-ed,” said Sol Roberts-Lieb, FAA’s director of information technol-ogy, in an email.

Indiana University identified 350 vulnerable accounts and is only asking those users to change

their passwords, according to Mertz. Illinois’ security team, however, chose to ask everyone to change their passwords as a precautionary measure.

“Instead of looking for a few needles in a haystack,” Mertz said, “our security team is going on the assumption that we just have a stack of needles and that everyone needs to just go ahead and change that to be secure.”

Angelica can be reached at [email protected].

Future of prosthetics goes global thanks to California group BY ANDREA CHANGLOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — Mick Ebel-ing arrived in Sudan with little more than a toolbox, rolls of plas-tic and two microwave-size 3-D printers.

He had endured a weeklong journey from Los Angeles, with stops in London, Johannesburg and Nairobi before reaching Juba, the capital of South Sudan. From there, he flew on a small twin-engine plane to Yida, where at a refugee camp he found Daniel Omar.

Ebeling had read a magazine article a few months earlier about the 16-year-old, whose hands and forearms had been blown off two years ago during an airstrike launched by the Sudanese gov-ernment. The boy’s plight reso-nated with Ebeling, who tracked down the remote hospital where Daniel had received treatment. Over Skype, Ebeling told Daniel’s doctor: I think I can help.

After meeting in Yida, Ebeling and Daniel caught an 11-hour ride in the back of a Land Cruiser to Gidel, Sudan, a volatile region in the Nuba Mountains where Dan-iel’s doctor tends to amputees and other victims of the civil war plaguing the country.

In a small tin shed, Ebeling connected a 3-D printer to a lap-top. The printer began melting plastic to form three-dimension-al pieces, which he then joined together like Legos. He worked off a design created by a carpen-ter friend who, after accidentally

severing four fingers with a table saw, had built his own prosthesis.

It took two days for Ebeling to print and construct a skeletal plastic hand bolted to an arm-like cylinder. Nylon cords attached to each plastic finger snaked up the length of the apparatus so that when the wearer flexed his or her elbow, the cords tightened and pulled the fingers into a fist.

Once the prosthetic device was fitted to Daniel’s upper arm, the boy was able to wave, toss an object and feed himself with a spoon, major feats for someone who had been forced to rely on others for the most basic every-day tasks.

It was, Ebeling recalled later, “on par with watching my kids being born.”

***Ebeling didn’t set out to be an

inventor.A Hollywood producer, he

works on television shows, com-mercials and films, most notably executive producing the opening title sequence for the James Bond movie “Quantum of Solace.” The 43-year-old graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in political science. He has no med-ical or engineering background and no formal training in design-ing or building prosthetic devices.

But today, Ebeling finds himself the unlikely leader of a team dedi-cated to tackling the physical limi-tations that arise from conditions such as blindness and paralysis.

The group calls itself Not Impossible. Volunteers work out

of a bungalow tucked behind the Venice Beach home that Ebeling shares with his wife and their three boys.

“This is our equivalent of the Hewlett-Packard garage,” he says of the light-filled two-room space with mustard-colored walls and wood-beam ceiling. A towering bookshelf brims with books and thick binders. A 3-D printer sits on a shelf in the corner. A large wooden table is covered with pro-totypes of prostheses and bags of screws. And on a white piece of paper tacked to a wall, someone has scrawled the word “impossi-ble,” with a red X slicing through the first two letters.

Ebeling’s unexpected foray into making medical devices began in 2007, when he attended a ben-efit for a graffiti artist who had been diagnosed with Lou Geh-rig’s disease. Over time the artist, known as Tempt One, had become trapped in his paralyzed body, unable to speak, gesture or draw.

At first, Ebeling considered donating money for Tempt’s healthcare costs. But after meet-ing with the artist’s father and brother over lunch in Los Ange-les, he pledged to do more.

He reached out to engineers he met at a design conference, pitch-ing them on the idea of building a low-cost eye-tracking system. The end result: the EyeWriter, a pair of glasses affixed to a Web camera that enables people to draw on a computer with their eye movements.

Using the device, Tempt was

able to create graffiti again.The EyeWriter was named

one of the 50 best inventions of 2010 by Time magazine, and a TED talk that Ebeling gave on the glasses received more than 850,000 views after it was posted on the nonprofit’s website. A team from Samsung contacted Ebel-

ing to say it was building its own version based on the EyeWriter’s design.

“Thank you for your idea,” a Samsung Creativity Lab team member in South Korea wrote in an email to Ebeling. “It inspires us and let us to help people in need.”

The success of the EyeWriter

led to the official formation of Not Impossible, a community of about two dozen innovators — PhDs, engineers, physical therapists, designers and computer program-mers — from around the world who drop by the Venice bungalow or videoconference in for brain-storming and hacking sessions.

That’s a wrap

SAISHA SINGH THE DAILY ILLINIMonday Night Comedy held its last show of the year featuring the Spicy Clamato Improv and DeBono Improv at the Illini Union.

GENARO MOLINA LOS ANGELES TIMESMick Ebeling, CEO and founder of Not Impossible Labs, has carried small 3D printers into the field to create prosthetics for children injured in the war in Sudan. He is shown at his office in Venice, Calif., on Jan. 16.

In Ukraine, no sign of rest from violenceBY SERGEI L. LOIKOLOS ANGELES TIMES

KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine — Another city in eastern Ukraine fell into the hands of separatists Monday as armed men in balaclava masks and camouflage uniforms seized the admin-istration building and police station in Kostiantynivka.

Scores of cheering residents watched the gunmen climb onto the roof of the administration building, haul down a Ukrainian flag and hoist up a black, blue and red banner of the separatists’ self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic. Kostian-tynivka is about 40 miles north of the city of Donetsk.

The neighboring town of Slovyansk, captured by gunmen April 12, has become the epicenter of the insurrec-tion among pro-Russia gunmen in the east. A Russian-speaking man who said his name was Igor Strelkov claimed this week that he was leading the military wing of the separatist movement, which aims to break the Donetsk region away from Ukraine. The Ukrainian Security Service on Monday said he was a Rus-sian military intelligence officer named Igor Girkin operating on orders from Moscow.

The gunmen in Slovyansk were hold-ing about 40 hostages. Among them were six military observers from the Organi-zation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, their interpreter and four Ukrai-nian army officers who were accompa-nying them when they were taken cap-tive near Slovyansk last week, Marina Ostapenko, a spokeswoman for the Secu-

rity Service, said at a news briefing in Kiev on Monday. Three Ukrainian secu-rity officers abducted Saturday are also being held, she said.

In Kostiantynivka, loudspeakers on the porch of the administration building played Russian patriotic and nationalis-tic songs as about two dozen volunteers began erecting a barricade of sandbags and old auto tires out front.

“Russians are coming!” the song played at a deafening volume. “Russians are coming to ban lechery and violence! Russians are spitting at the authorities in America and Europe!”

Young women joined in the singing as a middle-aged woman in a snow-white wig came out of the administration build-ing carrying orange and black St. George ribbons, a symbol of Russian military glory, and began to distribute them to residents.

When a couple asked to have a picture of their 12-year son, Ivan, taken with the masked separatists, one of the gunmen put a grenade launcher over the boy’s shoulder.

“We so welcome these soldiers who came and saved us from the genocide at the hands of these fascists in Kiev,” said Ivan’s mother, Yelena Khodyreva, a 42-year-old businesswoman. “Can you imagine that my son had to learn Rus-sian at our local school by the schoolbook titled ‘For Ethnic Minorities!’”

Another gunman put a boy on his shoulders and let him hold his Kalash-nikov rifle. The crowd clapped and cheered.

Not everyone was cheering.

“There is absolutely no reason for these unidentified armed men to come to our town and save us at gunpoint from some mythical fascists no one ever saw,” said Vladimir Sizov, a 36-year-old busi-ness manager. “No one was doing us any harm, no one was preventing us from speaking Russian.

“What we see here in fact is Rus-sia grabbing our region without a shot fired,” he added, shaking his head.

Indeed, no shots were fired to pre-vent the gunmen from seizing anoth-er town. Police were nowhere in sight during the morning as their station was held by the gunmen, who signaled with a wave of their rifles that motorists should move on.

The security operation declared by Ukrainian authorities two weeks ago remained in effect but was apparently ineffective, as several government units set up checkpoints a few miles outside Slovyansk and stayed put through the weekend without challenging the gun-men. Some critics maintain that they were cooperating with separatists.

“The Donetsk regional police turned out to be traitors sabotaging the opera-tion,” Taras Berezovets, head of Berta Communications, a Kiev-based think tank, said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “The senior and middle-rank army officers are also sabotaging the operation.”

Russia-backed separatists may yet face volunteer police and national guard units being formed across Ukraine, Ber-ezovets said. “But that may turn into a real bloodbath.”

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EDITORIALEbert’s

memory lived on at this year’s

Ebertfest

In 1999, Roger Eb-ert started “Over-looked Film Festi-val” to celebrate and screen films

he felt did not get enough rec-ognition during their origi-nal run. Ebert was born and raised in the Champaign-Ur-bana community, and the an-nual festival takes place at the local Virginia Theatre.

Now called Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, or Ebertfest, this year marked 16 years of the festival — sadly, it also marked the second year with-out Ebert himself at the helm.

On April 4, 2013, just about two weeks before last year’s festival, Ebert lost his bat-tle with cancer. Ebert had al-ready made preparations for the festival, and the show went on.

Though we lost Roger Eb-ert last year, this year’s festi-val kept his memory alive and well even without his direct contribution.

On opening night, the fes-tival honored the film critic with a screening of “Life It-self.” Steve James’ documen-tary, adapted from Ebert’s 2011 memoir, allowed the au-dience to take a step into his eventful life.

Guests also had the chance to see Ebert in person once again — sort of. On Thurs-day, a crowd of about 200 peo-ple gathered to watch the un-veiling of a bronze sculpture of Ebert, seated in a row of movie theater seats, with his trademark thumbs up.

Throughout the rest of the week, guests sat in the emp-ty seats next to Ebert to take a picture with the legend him-self. The sculpture will be permanently placed in front of the Virginia Theatre to serve as a reminder of the leg-acy that he left behind.

The festival also honored another recently lost veteran of the film world, Philip Sey-mour Hoffman, by screening “Capote.” The inclusion of the film led to a very bittersweet moment during the festival, in which Chaz Ebert, Rog-er’s wife, revealed that before her husband died, there were ideas being kicked around re-garding reenactments in the film. Numerous names were brought up, and when they asked Roger who he would like to play him, he said Philip Seymour Hoffman.

“And so I was heartbroken when Philip Seymour Hoff-man passed away as well,” she said. “Because I thought, that will never happen.”

Though he was not there himself, Ebert’s lasting mem-ory and presence could be felt throughout this year’s Ebert-fest. The movies chosen were ones he loved and appreci-ated when no one else had — even if they were controver-sial among other people, such as “Do the Right Thing” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” Ebert was celebrated, too, through his own film and his sculpture that will now sit in front of the theater for years to come.

Ebertfest is an extraordi-nary event that Roger Eb-ert brought to this communi-ty. His accomplishments have brought these people here, and if the past 16 years have been any indication, visitors from all over the world will continue to come to our com-munity to celebrate Ebert and the movies that he loved.

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Ranking Greek houses perpetuates superficial stereotype

This past weekend during my average Saturday night shenanigans with my friends at the bars, I began talking to a group of

fraternity men. The conversation was flowing smoothly until I was asked one question.

One question that holds a lot of unnecessary weight on campus: “What house are you in?”

I confidently answered the question and was met with the response, “Oh...that’s nice! Hey, I have to run to the bathroom. I’ll be right back.”

As you might have guessed, he did not return.While there could have been countless other

reasons why he chose not to return, I inferred that his decision was based on my answer to that question, as everything else had gone great.

It is not an uncommon occurrence. I see it all the time.

In the University Greek system, social ranking and the “tier system,” as we call it, are taken way too seriously. Greeks need to stop making swift judgments about people based on which house they are a part of. In order to improve the Greek reputation on campus, the tier system needs to be destroyed.

Tiering houses, or ranking them in order of best to worst, is something most sorority women are fully aware of. Rankings are far too often determined by superficial values such as which house has the thinnest girls or who has the hottest pledge class. These stats can

even be seen online. It is something we know happens, and we hate to think about. Going to a bar and feeling unworthy of someone’s time based solely on my answer to what house I belong to is extremely insulting. This is not an attitude I believe anyone should have.

I would be willing to bet that most sorority women and fraternity men on this campus know about the website “Greek Rank.”The website is dedicated to judging different houses based on categories such as looks, social life, sisterhood and popularity.

The comments on this site are straight up mean. Most sorority women are encouraged not to even look at it due to the nature of most of the comments.

Websites like this just perpetuate the stereotype that Greeks are narrow-minded, conceited and judgmental people, and being a part of the Greek system, I know this is not always the case.

So why are we judging each other based solely on the letters plastered across our chests?

Deciding to go Greek means something different to everyone. Some people go Greek because they are “legacies,” meaning one of their family member belonged to a certain house. Some people are looking for crazy party experiences they think the system will offer, and others are looking to form deeper bonds and friendships with people who will become their brothers or sisters.

Every house is different and each is great in its own way.

We do not know everyone’s story, so who are we to judge?

It confuses me as to why some of the Greeks

on this campus choose whether they are going to get to know someone based on their affiliation. Personally, I did not go through recruitment to join a “top house.” That was not even on my horizon. I chose my house based on the connections I had with the other members, and that is what the Greek system should emulate.

I am not saying that every single Greek on this campus believes in the tiers.

Personally, I have many friends in other sororities and fraternities that are ranked higher than my house.

We see each other simply as people who are also going through the roller coaster that is college. If the rest of the Greek system was like this, I believe its reputation would take a step in the right direction, and we would gain more respect from the student body.

If we girls keep bashing each other and name-calling other houses, we are only making it OK for other people to call us these names as well. The house bashing needs to stop, and the Greek system needs to come together as one and remain united in our common mission.

When I sit here and think about a day any fraternity could mix with any sorority on this campus without judgment, I realize that I might be aiming for the stars. Diminishing the tier system is no easy task, and there really is no quick fix. But changing our attitude is the first step in resolving this problem.

In the end we need to remember the age old saying: “No matter the letter, we are Greek together.”

Rebecca is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

May the Fourth be with you on this year’s Star Wars Day

‘A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...”I get really happy when I see this pop up

on a television screen. I get this feeling of nostalgia, joy, excitement, hope and familiarity when I see this phrase because I know exactly what’s about to begin: Star Wars.

Thankfully, fans of the galaxy far, far away have a day to celebrate all things Star Wars — and it’s coming up.

The fourth of May has been considered the unofficial holiday for Star Wars — it is also called Star Wars Day. It is a play on words of a famous line from the franchise, “May the force be with you.”

Though Star Wars started out as a movie fran-chise, it has become a pop cultural phenomenon.

The unofficial holiday actually has a politi-cal origin that demonstrates the cultural impact Star Wars has had on the world.

When Margaret Thatcher won the primary election on May 4, 1979 in England, she became Britain’s first female prime minster. Her politi-cal party took a page of advertising space in the London Evening News and wrote the mes-sage, “May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie.

Congratulations.” Star Wars references have been used in Amer-

ican politics as well. Ronald Reagan’s Strate-gic Defense Initiative, a proposal to protect the United States from nuclear missiles, was often dubbed as Star Wars for being unrealistic for its time based on the existing technologies.

Last year, President Obama inadvertently ref-erenced both Star Wars and Star Trek by saying that people often expect him to do a “Jedi mind-meld” on Republicans to accept his terms.

And Star Wars can still be seen today in everyday life. A recent famous example was the Volkswagen commercial with the adorable pint-sized Darth Vader trying to use “the force.”

I’m not alone in my adoration of — or some might say obsession with — all things Star Wars. Ever since “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” was released in 1977, people across the world became immersed in a galaxy that was not their own.

I could watch the entire original trilogy in one setting and not be tired. I could think about Star Wars all day and just get lost in its creativity and ingenuity.

Star Wars is one of the central hubs of my imagination, and that’s one of the best things about the franchise. It has the ability to tempo-rarily transport us to a different time and place.

When I see Han Solo flying his Millennium Falcon through space, I feel like I’m with him. Sometimes in my imagination, I am the captain

of the Millennium Falcon. Movies like Star Wars, or books like the Har-

ry Potter series, have the ability to take us to another world.

What made Star Wars become one of the most culturally impactful franchises in the history of pop culture was not only the ground-break-ing special effects of its time, but it was also the characters and story that truly cemented Star Wars’ place in each generation.

Characters such as Darth Vader and R2-D2 are so rich in detail that they have become icon-ic. Even for those who have never seen the mov-ies, they probably know who Darth Vader is and what he looks like.

Along with the characters, the story present-ed in Star Wars is a tale that has been told and retold in different formats through modern folk-lore, demonstrating its ability to withstand the test of time.

So this upcoming Star Wars Day, let’s cel-ebrate not only Star Wars’ past, but also it’s future. It gives people the opportunity across the world to celebrate all things Star Wars, and it serves as a reminder that new adventures are on the way in the galaxy far, far away.

And this Sunday I want you to remember, “The Fourth Will Be With You, Always.”

Thaddeus is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @Thaddingham.

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26.2 MILES AHEAD OF THE REST OF US

PARKING PROBLEM PERSISTS

THEY’RE HERE, WALKING AMONG US... HOPELESS OPTIMISTS!

In Santa Clara, Calif., there exists a house that is arguably the cutest on the face of the planet. To please their daughters, Hosam Haggog and

Fatima Rahman painted their Victorian house to look the infamous flying house from the Pixar movie “Up” with multicolored siding and a purple roof — everything but the balloons. But some neighbors rained on their parade, expressing annoyance that the house no longer fit in with the “aesthetics” of the neighborhood. Really though, we can assume that these neighbors are probably the same people that hate puppies and

drink the tears of small children.

Just when you thought the parking situation on campus couldn’t get any worse, plot twist — it did. In case you haven’t noticed, the parking lot next to Legend’s is no more. In its place, construction

workers are going to build some sort of complex. The current vague building plans include a public parking lot and some

sort of housing structure. Let’s just hope the parking prices will accommodate college students’ thin wallets. As for now, here’s to hoping we don’t start hearing of bloody battles between drivers

looking for spots.

Here’s a shout out to everyone who participated in the annual Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon this past weekend. At The Daily Illini, we know that running, racing and athleticism in general, are no easy feat — get it, feet? And for most of us, waking up that early without an intravenous

drip of coffee would be nearly impossible. Anyway, congratulations to everyone who participated, and a big thank you to all those who volunteered. We’re happy to announce that the marathon and its

participants raised more than $60,000 for 16 charities.

A new study released by the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian Magazine shows how delusional Americans have

become about our ability to progress technologically. According to the research, a number of U.S. adults are hopeful that in the next

50 years, we will be able to control the weather, solve teleportation and colonize other planets — but thankfully, these adults aren’t in the majority. The rest of society that is still wildly entertained by the duck-face selfie remains pretty doubtful about America’s capability to play God. Most of us are would be willing to settle for Christmas

lights that worked for more than one year.

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BY ALEXANDER VASSILIADISSTAFF WRITER

Originally a rhythm and blues cover artist on YouTube, SoMo is now spreading beyond the Internet.

SoMo is a R&B and pop singer-songwriter on Republic Records. His videos quickly gained trac-tion, with upward of 4 million views on his most-viewed video — a cover of Drake’s “Take Care.” SoMo’s popularity has continued to grow, and now the artist is on his self-titled, debut album tour, which will bring him to campus Tuesday night.

SoMo will perform at The Can-opy Club at 9 p.m. as part of his debut album tour on Tuesday.

The album, which was released at the beginning of April, hit the number two spot on the U.S. R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Billboard Charts.

Born as Joseph Somers-Morales, SoMo didn’t start writing original music until 2012. SoMo began his campaign “SoMo Sun-days,” which offered a new cov-er or original song each Sunday for YouTube viewers. The series has collected upward of 50 mil-lion views on his videos. SoMo also had a sold-out tour in the fall of 2013, which led to his signing with Republic Records in October 2013.

Melissa Wagner, sophomore in LAS, said she is excited for SoMo’s show.

“I will be going to the show with my roommate who is prob-ably already sick of me playing SoMo’s album on repeat,” Wag-ner said.

“Ride,” his top single off his new album, currently is ranked 98 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Wag-ner said SoMo’s lyrics and voice is one of the things she loves most about his music.

“I love the passion behind his lyrics and especially in his voice,” Wagner said.

Wagner said she first got hooked on “Ride” after she said she con-tinued to listen to SoMo’s music and fell in love with most of his covers. She said she believes that his music has a certain diversity and can appeal to a wide audience, but she said the show will be most-ly female based.

“I’m willing to bet the majority of the audience is going to be girls, though, because he’s so attrac-

tive,” she said. SoMo is being brought to cam-

pus by Blu Music along with Wast-ed Potential. Blu Music, which was founded by Ethan Blumen-thal, junior in LAS, specializes in concert production and artist management. Other shows that have been organized and booked by Blu Music include Chance the Rapper and Danny Brown, Blu-menthal said.

“A lot of girls will definitely be at the SoMo show, especially from sororities,” Blumenthal said. “His debut album has been a success, so I think Illinois should really enjoy his music.”

Alexander can be reached at [email protected].

Day events take place in Cham-paign came about with the help of University sponsorship.

The Center for Global Stud-ies is also a supporter of UNES-CO. All people involved with the planning of Jazz Day are volun-teer students, faculty, staff and community members.

Participants will have the opportunity to hear jazz styles primarily from the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s, such as swing and stride, said Scott Schwartz,

director and archivist for Music and Fine Arts of the Sousa Archives and Center for Amer-ican Music. The films features blues and big band jazz.

“Your feet will not be able to sit still,” Schwartz said.

He also said that a focus of UNESCO’s Center for Global Citizenship in Champaign during Jazz Day is to present C-U’s local music scene. He said he knows of “a bunch of people who like jazz, and quite frankly, want to hear more jazz played.” Prior to coming to the University, he was an archi-vist in the Duke Ellington collec-tion at the Smithsonian Institution

for over 10 years. “We will highlight the good,

the bad and the ugly in Ameri-can music,” he said, referring to the genius of jazz as well the racism it faced during previous decades. “Ellington and others had to work within those non-(politically correct) times to create kick-ass music.”

While C-U’s first Jazz Day event will feature mostly Ameri-can jazz styles, Ford said they are hoping to feature more inter-national jazz in future events.

Victoria can be reached at [email protected].

YouTube star SoMo to perform at Canopy Club

PHOTO COURTESY OF REPUBLIC RECORDSSoMo, or Joseph Somers-Morales, will perform at 9 p.m. at The Canopy Club on Tuesday.

BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEWASHINGTON — Newly

licensed marijuana growers in Washington state may find them-selves without a key source of water just as spring planting gets underway.

Federal officials say they’ll decide quickly whether the U.S. government can provide water for the growers or whether doing so would violate the federal Con-trolled Substances Act, which makes possession of the drug illegal.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclama-tion, which controls the water sup-ply for two-thirds of Washington state’s irrigated land, is expected to make a decision by early May, and perhaps as soon as this week, said Dan DuBray, the agency’s chief spokesman.

The ruling will mark another key test for the Obama adminis-tration, which again will decide how far it will go in allowing the state to bypass federal law with its experimental plan to license growers and sell pot for recre-ational use.

The government’s decision also will affect growers in Colorado — the only other state to fully legal-ize marijuana — but would likely have limited impact there because Colorado allows only indoor pot farms.

While the administration so far has done nothing to block either state, some local officials pre-dict the Bureau of Reclamation is sure to rule that the water can-not be used on marijuana plants, since the drug has been banned by Congress.

“I’m almost certain that’s what they’re going to tell us,” said Scott Revell, district manager for the Roza Irrigation District in Wash-ington state, which contracts with the federal agency to provide water to roughly 72,000 acres in the Yakima Valley.

Such a decision would mark a clear victory for legalization oppo-nents, but they say it should not be unexpected.

“I don’t think we should be

too surprised that people who are breaking federal law can-not access federally controlled water,” said Kevin Sabet, a for-mer drug policy adviser for Pres-ident Barack Obama who’s now the director of the anti-legaliza-tion group Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana).

While most of the growing oper-ations are expected to be fairly small — the largest will be only two-thirds the size of a football field — growers may be able to drill their own wells or tap into a city water supply, said Joye Red-field-Wilder, spokeswoman for the Washington state Department of Ecology. Under state law, green-house growers can use well water if their operations use no more than 5,000 gallons of water per day, she said.

“It may or may not be a prob-lem at all,” Redfield-Wilder said. “I think we’re just kind of in a gray area. I think the federal gov-ernment is a little bit in that gray area, too.”

With marijuana being so valu-able, licensed growers won’t be deterred by the federal govern-ment, said Alan Schreiber, a Franklin County farmer who has applied for a license to grow mari-

juana for pest-control research.“This is an annoyance and a nui-

sance, but I can assure you ... they will find water for this,” Schreiber said. “Water, relatively speaking, is not that expensive. You can get it from a well. You can find some-body. There’s wells everywhere around here.”

Revell said his water district has not yet figured out how to deal with farmers growing mul-tiple crops.

The Bureau of Reclamation is a key federal agency in the West, best known for the dams, canals and power plants it has built in 17 states. Created in 1902 to pro-mote economic development, it’s now part of the Department of Interior and delivers water to more than 31 million people and one out of every five West-ern farmers. It contracts with local irrigation districts to pro-vide the water.

DuBray said the bureau is working with the Justice Depart-ment on its legal analysis, which he said was prompted by requests from local officials in both Washington state and Colo-rado. Voters in both states decid-ed to legalize marijuana for rec-reational use in November 2012.

With no federal water, pot growers left high and dry

“I like coffee and nothing else, so why complicate things?” he said.

With rewards, season-al drinks and early hours, Espresso Royale, Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts seem to be

the top choices for University students. Students looking for more options when searching for the perfect coffee bean can also try:

- Café Paradiso: 801 S. Lincoln Ave, Urbana

- Café Kopi: 109 N. Walnut St., Downtown Champaign

- Aroma Cafe: 118 N. Neil St., Downtown Champaign

- Caribou Coffee: 331 E.

Stoughton St, Champaign- Art Mart: 127 Lincoln Square,

Urbana’s Lincoln Square Mall- Bevande Coffee: 201 N. Good-

win Ave, Urbana- Cocomero: 709 S. Wright St.,

Champaign- Flying Machine Coffee: 208

W. Main, Urbana

Christen can be reached at [email protected].

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BOB BRAWDY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEAlan Schreiber walks through rows of organic cantaloupe on his farm in Franklin County, Washington. Schreiber has applied to grow marijuana in Washington but is concerned about federal water resources. The government says whether the U.S. can provide water for the growers.

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From YouTube to CanopyR&B and pop artist SoMo is bringing his tour for his self-titled debut album to The Canopy Club Tuesday night. Learn more about SoMo’s journey from a cover artist on YouTube to his current tour on Page 5A.

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BY CHRISTEN MCGLYNNSTAFF WRITER

Whether students at the Uni-versity are cramming for an exam, struggling through a long day of classes after a

night out or simply trying to wake up, they usually turn to the one thing that has the perfect amount of caffeine — coffee. With a variety of options avail-able on campus, how is one to choose?

After surveying multiple students, the main factors when choosing a go-to coffee shop are location, taste and avail-ability. Here at the University, coffee is readily available on almost every cor-ner. Therefore, the search for the favor-ite student cup of java was narrowed down to restaurants and cafes within a three block radius of the main Quad.

With eight locations in Champaign-Urbana, students agree that Espresso Royale defi nitely deserves a top rank-ing when it comes to best coffee shops. KD Madden, sophomore in AHS, said her favorite spot is the Espresso Royale in the Undergraduate Library because of its convenience. Studying at the UGL becomes a lot easier when the best-tast-ing iced hazelnut coffee is only a couple feet away, she said. Dominick Sperando, junior in ACES, agrees that the location of the Espresso Royale is what makes it a favorite for him.

“It’s really what keeps me going,” Spe-rando said.

Location seems to play a very large role for students when they are looking for a quick caffeine fi x, even over fl avor. Nolan Kmiec, sophomore in Media, said she actually prefers the taste of Star-bucks coffee. However, she is currently a resident in Urbana which makes the Espresso Royale on Goodwin Avenue much more convenient when she is in a rush. Espresso Royale is not only locally ideal for students, but it comes with both weekly and seasonal perks.

Flock cards can be acquired by patrons at any time, which allow for a free drink after ten have been purchased. Also, they offer daily deals such as $2.25 lattes every Wednesday. Their menu changes with the seasons as well, such as Irish

teas for St. Patrick’s Day, pumpkin lattes for Hal-loween and a special peppermint mocha for Christmas .

However, Espresso Royale is not the only cof-fee shop on campus that offers a seasonal menu and rewards. With new adjust-ments to campus, the Univer-sity has welcomed another Starbucks onto campus in the Illini Union Bookstore. Anna Healy, junior in Education, said this new arrival has defi -nitely become her new go-to spot to get her iced green tea.

With her current residence at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house (which is direct-ly across the street from the Illini Union Bookstore), it is the most convenient spot on campus that offers her favorite drinks. Starbucks also offers a rewards card that allows patrons a free drink after earning 30 points and a free drink of choice on the card owner’s birthday .

To seal the fi nal spot for the top three ranking at the Uni-versity, students who were sur-veyed agreed the spot belongs to Dunkin Donuts, located on 607 Green St. Stephanie Flow-ers, junior in LAS, said it is the best and cheapest place to get her extra-large coffee with only cream. Dunkin Donuts is always available for her study-time needs because it opens at 5 a.m., a time unusual for most coffee shops. Also, Dunkin Donuts is one of the few prominent coffee shops from her home town. Therefore, her fam-ily sends her gift cards which are an added bonus, she said.

Kamil Bajan, sophomore in LAS, believes the simplicity of Dunkin Donuts is what makes it a top contender.

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Jazz enthusiasts can look for-ward to an evening of historical fi lms, musical performances and food and drinks — all centered around jazz. Champaign-Urba-na will have its fi rst Jazz Day on Tuesday, a day before the Inter-national Jazz Day.

“The U.S. State Department has a program where they send U.S. culture to the rest of the world. Jazz is often what they send because it is one of the U.S.’s greatest contributions

to culture,” said Barbara Ford, director of the Mortenson Cen-ter for International Library Pro-grams and a founding member of the local United Nations Edu-cational, Scientifi c and Cultural Organization.

The night will start out at 5 p.m. with the UNESCO “Jazz Film Fantasy,” a three-fi lm screening, taking place at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign.

Sam Reese, University music professor, will introduce each short film. Participants will view “St. Louis Blues,” “Black

and Tan Fantasy” and “Date with Duke.” Following the short fi lm showings, the Traditional Jazz Orchestra will play at the Esquire Lounge in Champaign from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Tra-ditional Jazz Orchestra is C-U’s local jazz orchestra, with musi-cians from the University and the surrounding community. The Esquire Lounge will also feature a special on “Black and Tan” drinks, in light of the “Black and Tan Fantasy” short fi lm on Duke Ellington. The name “Black and Tan” comes from interracial

bars during segregated times.“We have so many great jazz

musicians in the area, partly because the University has a great jazz program,” Ford said.

In 2011, UNESCO designat-ed April 30 as the offi cial Inter-national Jazz Day. UNESCO’s mission, “Building peace in the minds of men and women,” pro-motes global cultural awareness. Ford said the UNESCO Center for Global Citizenship in Cham-paign was launched and inau-gurated in April 2013 by people who wanted to appreciate culture

from around the world. Ford is also a member of the committee of about six people from both the University and community.

This is the fi rst year Jazz Day events will be held in the Cham-paign area, but Ford expects about a hundred people or more, because “jazz has a large fol-lowing.” The events are spon-sored by the UNESCO Cen-ter for Global Citizenship, the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music and the Con-servatory of Central Illinois, with the support of the Univer-

sity’s Center for Global Studies, and other donors.

According to Ford, because jazz is rather informal com-pared to some other musical styles, the number of musicians varies depending on how many people are in attendance. John Bennett, a Jazz Day committee member and a humanities facul-ty member at Lake Land College, said that there will probably be around seven performers for the night. He said that having Jazz

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BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

When the Illinois base-ball team takes Illinois Field on Tuesday, the Illini will be looking for more than just a win.

Sophomore shortstop Adam Walton said since Illinois was beaten in two out of three games earlier in the season by Southern Illinois, the Illi-ni will be looking to extract a little revenge.

“They’re an in-state school, and we always want to beat the in-state schools,” Walton said. “So it’ll definitely be a good game.”

To come away with a win, the Illini will need to contin-ue to work on an aspect of the game that has eluded the team for parts of the season.

“Consistency is something we need to find,” Walton said.

Freshman third baseman Ryne Roper took Walton’s comment on consistency a step further, applying the concept to the offensive side of the ball, where he said the team needed to continue to work on putting quality at bats together.

“We seem like we’ve been hitting the ball pretty well, but we need to string a couple hits together,” Roper said. “Get a hit with runners in scoring position.”

Although they are currently below .500, the Illini are not taking the Salukis lightly. Illi-nois dropped two of three to SIU in mid-March when the two teams met in Carbondale, Ill.

The Illini were able to take the first game over the Salukis 5-1 before dropping the next two 6-5 and 3-2.

Since the last time the Salu-kis and Illini met, Illinois has been on a bit of a hot streak, starting the Big Ten confer-ence schedule off with a 9-3 record through the team’s first 12 conference games, the best mark to start conference play of head coach Dan Hartleb’s career.

Illinois hit a rough patch over the weekend as the team

OnJuly 24, 1983, George Brett was called out for hitting a home run with too much pine tar on his bat. Thirty years later,

in light of the Yankees’ Michael Pineda getting caught with pine tar on his body for the second start in a row, people around baseball are making excuses for pitchers who do basically the same thing.

In 1920, Major League Baseball instituted a rule banning foreign substances from being placed on the baseball. A pitcher who uses pine tar to improve his grip on the baseball is breaking this rule. The hitter isn’t allowed to alter his bat so he can hit the ball better, so why should it be made legal for the pitcher to enhance his grip?

Players and managers say they let it go when

they see an opponent pitching with pine tar in the early and late months of the season because it helps the pitcher get a better grip in the colder temperatures. I’ve been tired of this argument since 2006 when Kenny Rogers was caught using pine tar to beat my beloved Cardinals in Game 2 of the World Series. What ever happened to play-ing with the hand you’re dealt? If cold weather makes the baseball that hard to grip, it’ll proba-bly be just as hard for the other pitcher too. Both pitchers have the rosin bag available to them. They shouldn’t need much more than that.

It’s also harder for a batted ball to carry on a cold night anyway, so giving the pitcher an improved grip on the ball is really just piling it onto the batter.

I also don’t buy cold temperatures making it too much harder to grip the ball. I pitched for about seven years in middle school and high school. I’ve pitched in 99-degree heat, and I’ve pitched in 40-degree weather, and I honestly don’t remem-ber the ball being any harder to grip in the cold — I had just as much trouble hitting the strike zone either way.

Maybe if it were a simple matter of gripping the ball, this would be a tougher argument to make, but the fact is that pitchers are going to doctor balls. Hall of Famer Bob Gibson put it best when he said, “Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It’s a matter of survival.”

The only way to make sure a pitcher does not put any foreign substance on the ball is to not allow him to have any on his person. Pine tar is not used to throw spitballs, but if a pitcher has any sort of substance on his person, he should be ejected. There is no real way to determine that all he has is pine tar and not something else to doc-tor the ball, especially if that substance is clear or blends in with his skin tone, as was the case with Pineda.

Spitballs are illegal in part because they allow the pitcher to do something with a baseball he naturally cannot, in the same way that aluminum bats are illegal in professional baseball. I’m all for a pitcher getting a better grip. But it’s too hard to determine exactly what a pitcher has on his hat or pants or neck, or which substances fall inside the realm of acceptability and which do not. The only way to enforce the rule effectively is to ensure all foreign substances remain outlawed in order to make sure that no ball is doctored.

Thomas is a freshman in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @donley_thomas.

The best pitchers in baseball throw some seri-ous heat.

Balls flying in excess of 90 miles an hour leave the hands of almost every pitcher in Major League Baseball. Some can throw at speeds more than 100 miles per hour.

That’s dangerous.In light of the recent suspension of Michael

Pineda, it’s entirely necessary for Commissioner Bud Selig and Major League Baseball to change baseball’s rules to allow pitchers to use pine tar to help their grip on the ball.

Sure, baseball traditionalists kick and scream when this comes up, but it’s a simple case of safe-ty. A poor grip on the ball can spell danger for an unsuspecting hitter. On a cold night a base-ball can fly out of a pitcher’s hand and no one can know where it might land — or who it might hit.

Tony Conigliaro, a promising young player with the 1967 Boston Red Sox, got beaned in the face on an unseasonably cool August night. His cheekbone was crushed and he sustained perma-nent damage to his vision. He was never the same player again.

For all you non-Bostonians out there, the sad tale of Tony C is one every Red Sox fan knows. Conigliaro is the fastest player in American League history to reach 100 home runs, and became the youngest ever AL home run cham-pion in 1965 at the age of 20. He was also from Revere, Mass., a gritty city just north of Boston and was beloved by his hometown fans. Tony C was Mike Trout before Mike Trout.

Tony C hit 104 home runs in three-and-a-half seasons prior to his injury. In the four seasons he played after getting hurt, he totaled just 62. A dab of pine tar on pitcher Jack Hamilton’s hand and Tony C might be in the Hall of Fame.

Now, I am a big Red Sox fan and I definitely won’t complain about Pineda’s suspension. He’s dumb for the blatant way he used the substance. He’s dumb for repeating his obvious use of it (against the same team) and not expecting to get caught. He is however, not dumb for using it to help get a grip on the ball.

In his postgame news conference, Red Sox manager John Farrell admitted that if Pineda had been subtler in his use of pine tar, there wouldn’t

have been a problem. Farrell is a former pitching coach and understands the use of a little some-thing to keep control of the ball.

Part of the reason pine tar should be legally accepted in the game of baseball is because of the widespread illicit use of it among players. Make it legal and the use of it can be closer controlled than it is now, when a glob of green appears on Jon Lester’s glove and suspicion abounds about Lester’s cheating nature.

Reach a high enough level of baseball and I guarantee there will be pitchers using some sub-stance to help them grip the baseball. The MLB should give control of the pine tar to the umpires, and if the umps feel a pitcher uses it excessively, they can exercise their authority.

Let’s not put tradition before safety. Doing so is ignorant of the facts; pitchers throw hard, and batters need to be protected.

Peter is a freshman in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @pbaileywells22.

SPORTS1BTUESDAY

BY J.J. WILSONSTAFF WRITER

For the first time in seven weeks, the chance of No. 1 start-er Kevin Duchene returning to the lineup is bright.

Duchene was ruled out with forearm tightness following the game against Southern Illi-nois on March 14 and has since missed six weeks of play.

“The throwing (rehab) pro-gram is going well. We’re right on schedule,” Duchene said. “Everything feels great, and I’m looking forward to getting back on the mound here, hope-fully sometime soon.”

In his last start, Duchene threw his second complete game of the season against the Salu-kis, allowing just four hits in the Illini’s 5-1 victory.

Before being ruled out, he led the Illinois pitching staff with a 1.70 ERA, surrendering seven runs, all earned, in 37 innings.

Duchene’s injury, however, presented an opportunity for Illinois to show the strength of its pitching staff.

Since the Southern Illinois series, the Illini have amassed a 16-8 record in the 24 games since Duchene’s injury, includ-ing four shutouts and two Big Ten series sweeps.

Sophomore Ryan Castellanos joined junior starters Drasen Johnson and John Kravetz to complete the main pitching rota-tion in Duchene’s absence.

At one point, Castellanos was ranked as high as No. 1 in the nation for walks allowed per nine innings with just one in 40 2/3 innings before allowing three on Sunday.

And even though Duchene’s return might mean a shift in Castellanos’ pitching role, per-haps moving to midweek starter or reliever, he couldn’t be hap-pier to have his teammate rejoin the rotation.

“This team needs Kevin back,” Castellanos said. “If he’s ready, that spot’s his, and he deserves it.”

Early season struggles return for Walton

Shortstop Adam Walton began this season 0-for-20 at the plate before going on a career-high 18-game hitting streak, the lon-

gest by an Illini this season.His streak also matched

Thomas Lindauer’s 18-game streak last year, which was best-ed only by Justin Parr’s school record of 33 games.

Since Walton’s streak was snapped in Wednesday’s game against Missouri, he has been hitless in 16 at-bats.

“I’m still hitting the ball hard,” Walton said. “I still feel relaxed. Unfortunately, (my hits) just aren’t falling right now.”

After batting primarily ninth in the order, Walton moved to No. 2 behind Will Krug against Illinois State on April 15, when he has batted for the past eight games.

But while his production has dropped in his past four games, his first four provide little room for doubting his ability — he bat-ted 7-for-20 with three runs, five RBIs and three stolen bases.

“The hitting streak snapped, but nothing has really changed for me,” he said.

Hartleb climbs all-time win list

While Dan Hartleb is more focused on each game as it comes for Illinois, his win total as head coach continues to climb the school ranks.

In his ninth year, Hartleb has garnered a 267-216 all-time record, which ranks fifth in school history.

With one more win, he will tie for fourth with Tom Dedin, who coached the Illini to 268-234-6 between 1979-87.

Hartleb doesn’t put much in his personal statistics, but he can’t avoid the fact that his team’s 9-3 start to the Big Ten was his best as head coach.

“It’s nice to be up toward the top,” Hartleb said. “That’s why we practice, play and recruit, and guys work up and get up ear-ly in the offense.”

After losing two of three to Indiana last weekend, Illinois currently sits at 10-5 in Big Ten play, with three more confer-ence series left — home against Michigan State and away at Iowa and at Nebraska.

J.J. can be reached at [email protected] and @Wilsonable07.

Kevin Duchene nearing return to Illini mound

Illini look to even season series with SIU

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Adam Walton watches the ball go by while batting during the game against Michigan at Illinois Field on April 11. Walton has returned to his early season struggles as of late, going hitless in his last 16 at-bats.

Let the pitchers use pine tar to better their control, it’s safer for everyone involved

Pine tar should not be allowed on the mound; foreign substances provide unfair advantage

PETER BAILEY-WELLS

Assistant sports editor

THOMAS DONLEY

Staff writer

POINT-COUNTERPOINTTHE PINE TAR DEBATE: SAFETY OR TRADITION?

GEORGE BRIDGES MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEA Philadelphia Phillies player applies pine tar to his bat while he waits on deck during a game in 2006. The Yankees’ Michael Pineda was recently suspended for using pine tar on the mound.

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When your first thought upon starting something is “I prob-ably can’t carry this through

to the end, but whatever,” you should probably start doing that thing.

My best friend from high school and I walked across our hometown of Springfield for 2 1/2 hours once, just because we could see the capitol building from the Buffalo Wild Wings we were at and thought, “I wonder if we can walk there. Probably not.”

In my excitement for the NBA sea-son’s beginning, I decided to start doing a tally that would turn my feel-ings on the MVP race into a simple statistical exercise. I did this most-ly because I like to discredit LeBron James. And I knew I’d probably find a way to make a case for someone else down the line, and wanted to check myself before I wrecked myself.

My philosophy on the NBA MVP ballot is simple: The player who is the best player on the winning team in the most games should be the MVP. I just had to come up with a method to support my philosophy. I decid-ed to jot down who I thought was the best player on the winning team from every game. I could have picked 10 guys, but I decided to expand my idea to every game in the entire league, and to jot down the losing team’s best player as well, to see what this would show me.

This prompted a few questions. How many hundreds of games are there in the NBA per season? How much time do I have on my hands? How much do I know how to use an Excel spreadsheet? The answers were 1,230, enough, and not at all, respec-tively. Until Christmas, I wrote down every game’s winning and losing teams’ best players in a text docu-ment. An engineering friend, Jon, kindly set up a spreadsheet that was much easier to use and saved me the trouble of calculating percentages, which got a heck of a lot harder after 10 games.

To analyze the game’s best player, I used the very subjective but reason-ably effective method of looking at a game’s box score and deducing who on each team was worthy of the most credit in a win or put forth the best effort in a loss.

The results were fascinating.

What the results can show

It’s hard to justify calling my sub-jective thoughts a “statistic,” but that’s the most appropriate term I could think of (though you may think of it as an “arbitrary number” if you wish, jerk). I’ve come to calling the statistics “leads,” for when a play-er leads his team, “wins,” for when a player leads his team to a win, and “losses,” for what a losing team’s best player is credited with. “Losses” is the most inappropriate term here, and I’ll get to why in a bit.

But leads and wins can show us a lot, not only about how dominant one player is compared with another play-er, but how different team dynamics work. Do good teams have one or two leaders? Or is it better with several? Do those deadly duos like LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard share the workload evenly or does one take on more responsibility? And finally, who the hell leads a 15-win team like the Milwaukee Bucks on a nightly basis?

I really found out about all of them. Or rather, I suppose, found out how I feel about all of them. I certainly gained insights I wasn’t expecting to gain.

Oh, and I have numbers that direct-ly indicates Kevin Durant should be MVP over LeBron James. So that’s pretty cool.

What the results can’t show

Obviously, leads are a limited resource. There are 2,460 leads hand-ed out in a given year. Sometimes the talent level of the league as a whole fluctuates. The amount of leads given out would not. The Heat get as many leads as the Bucks, but I don’t think anyone on the Bucks is more valuable to a team than any Miami Heat start-er (except maybe Mario Chalmers).

So what this doesn’t tell us is who the top 100 players in the league are. At a certain point, you have to under-stand that Chris Paul’s numbers do take away from Blake Griffin’s MVP case, but not as much as they do in this format. I think ultimately, the top leaders are worthy of being there, but once you go past the top 5 or 10 play-ers, you run into trouble.

More ambiguous is just what we can take from a player “losing” a game. Obviously one has to play well in order to earn a lead. Is a player who earns more than 30 losses but also more than 30 wins more valuable than a player who loses less than 15 games but barely wins 20? It’s a tough

comparison — would you take Carme-lo Anthony over LaMarcus Aldridge?

But certainly from this we can’t judge who is a “worse” player, the ideas of losses and leads directly counteract each other. We also can’t judge who is the least valuable. You’d be better off combining offensive effi-ciency and usage rate, and evaluat-ing that.

Missing components I wish I added

I wasn’t completely comprehensive. I could have determined not only who was each team’s best player, but who was second and third best, all the way down to seventh or eighth. That way when a player really takes a night off, and goes from being first best to fifth or sixth, it’s documented and can hurt their MVP resume. In a lot of ways, it looks better to avoid the loss for the sake of keeping a high win percent-age (percentage of a player’s leads his team wins), but that means a play-er looks better for playing not as well, which is backwards.

We could also see, then, how a team fares when a given player is its sec-ond best player. That would clari-fy the record of someone who loses and wins a lot of games — maybe it’s dependent on who’s complementing their production, not their production in and of itself.

I’d have kept more accessible records regarding home record vs. away record, and dates of wins and losses and leads, to determine things like who’s been the MVP since the All-Star Break? Or since Jan. 1? Examining smaller samplings of games can reveal a lot about the way a team’s season has gone.

I’d also keep track of players’ posi-tions. It seemed a lot of times big men would have good games against each other, or point guards. That correla-tion would be worth exploring.

There’s an inherent inconsistency to this tally, with me being a human and all. If I was using a formula (which, primitive as it sounds, I would often add up total points, rebounds and assists to get a better idea of who contributed what), I could guarantee consistency. But given a choice to go strictly by a formula or strictly by my opinion, I’d prefer to keep the human element involved. Because humans play basketball and humans decide the MVP winner, which is, after all, the goal of this project.

I didn’t factor in games missed by individual players. This was another element that made sense within the confines of my narrow starting goal, but failed me within the broader con-text I began to delve into as the sea-son went on. As of now, the impact of given players who missed time is understated.

Lastly, it’s unfortunate to only have one year’s worth of statistics in any category. It could be tremendous-ly helpful to see whether this logic would have crowned James MVP last year (undoubtedly it would have) or Derrick Rose in 2011 (it may have). Also it would be useful as a tool to compare players’ regression or progress.

And here’s your MVP award. Kevin Durant was simply the best player for the winning team the most times this season. I found it funny that the day LeBron essentially conceded the MVP to Durant, saying he’s been the “most consistent basketball player as far as the MVP,” was the very day after Durant mathematically elimi-nated James from leading in the wins category.

Interestingly, no one has really made a case for Carmelo Anthony to even be on the ballot because of how poorly the Knicks have played, yet Kevin Love gets tossed in as a top-5 MVP finisher despite the Wolves fin-ishing 10th in their conference and underachieving preseason expecta-tions (not to mention underachiev-ing their own output — how do you finish below .500 with a +2.7 average point differential?). I think Anthony is very worthy of a top-5 MVP fin-ish, given how consistently he put in the effort throughout the year. The Knicks only had 37 wins, and Antho-ny pushed them to 31 of them. That’s darn impressive.

The only other surprise on this top 11 list would probably be Zach Ran-dolph. He was under-credited for keeping the Grizzlies afloat while

Marc Gasol was out with injury. When Gasol came back, he remained the team’s predominant motor as they moved up the standings and eventu-ally into the seven seed. It’ll be inter-esting to see if they do damage deep into the playoffs.

This really takes an unbiased look at who the league’s stat stuffers are, without providing a whole lot else. Anthony’s total is more ridiculous when you consider that he missed five games, of which he probably would have claimed four. Durant only missed one game, which deserved-ly strengthens his grip on the MVP trophy. James missed five games, though two were to rest up for the postseason.

DeMarcus Cousins is in good com-pany on this list, and I think it’s time we begin to view him as an elite play-er. Just because he’s such a grump doesn’t mean he isn’t talented. The Kings need to do their best to accom-modate him, or next year he’ll lead the next category.

Here’s where it gets weird. In case you were trying to dream up a cate-gory in which LeBron James ties with Utah Jazz off-and-on-starting center Enes Kanter, well, here you go. Here we have an amalgamation of bad situ-ations and problematic team dynam-ics. Sometimes it’s lack of a support-ing cast. Other times it’s being a stat hunter who doesn’t make team-mates better. And sometimes it’s just because a team has a leader and loses and wins with him (Durant has 17 losses, so he’s not far off this list).

With so many differing reasons for being on here (for instance, James has 42 wins, Kanter has 1, yet they’re tied), it’s hard to tell what being on this list really means. The only thing I’d say it means is that something’s not right and the team’s front office needs to figure it out.

For me, the red flags go off at the sight of Stephen Curry’s name. He’s often considered a candidate to be an MVP also-ran, but his team actually plays better when he’s not its central focus. That’s scary. I’d probably say it has to do with the Warriors being a shooting team, and Curry taking the hit for when his teammates go cold. But here’s where I’d like to see who a team’s second and third best players are. Does Curry need Klay Thompson to succeed for the Warriors to win (Thompson had five leads and five wins, by the way)? Or would some-one like David Lee or Andre Iguo-dala provide a better complement to Curry’s lights out shooting?

This category seems to raise more questions than answers.

Eliot is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @EliotTweet.

“Wins” leaders (number of games a player led his team in a win)1. Kevin Durant, 482. LeBron James, 423. Carmelo Anthony, 314. Kevin Love, 305. Blake Griffin, 27T6. Paul George, 26T6. Al Jefferson, 268. LaMarcus Aldridge, 25T9. James Harden, 24T9. Zach Randolph, 24T9. Stephen Curry, 24

“Leads” leaders (number of games a player led his team, win or loss)T1. Kevin Durant, 65T1. Carmelo Anthony, 653. LeBron James, 614. Kevin Love, 57T5. Al Jefferson, 46T5. DeMarcus Cousins, 467. Stephen Curry, 458. Paul George, 439. John Wall, 4210. Blake Griffin, 40

“Losses” leaders (number of games a player led his team in losses)1. Carmelo Anthony, 342. DeMarcus Cousins, 303. Kevin Love, 274. Brandon Knight, 235. Stephen Curry, 21T6. Paul Millsap, 20T6. Pau Gasol, 20T6. Al Jefferson, 20T9. LeBron James, 19T9. John Wall, 19T9. Anthony Davis, 19T9. Kyrie Irving, 19T9. Enes Kanter, 19

Durant 48, James 42the MVP race, scoredA subjective statistical analysis of the NBA MVP race over all 1,230 games

ELIOT SILL

Sports columnist

DAVID T. FOSTER III MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNELeBron James goes up for a dunk against the Charlotte Bobcats during Game 3 of an Eastern Conference quarterfinal on Saturday. Miami won, 98-95, to gain a 3-0 series lead

NIKKI BOERTMAN MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEThe Oklahoma City Thunder's Kevin Durant shoots against the Memphis Grizzlies' Marc Gasol and Mike Miller during Game 3 of a Western Conference quarterfinal on Thursday. Memphis won in overtime, 98-95, for a 2-1 series lead.

The player who is the best player on the winning team in the most games should be the MVP ... I just had to come up with a method to support my philosophy. DAVID SANTIAGO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Miami Heat forward LeBron James and New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony during the third quarter on April 6.

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There is no sporting event in American faster and more exciting than the

one that takes place on the first Saturday in May. It’s called “The most exciting two minutes in sports” and the “Run for the Roses.” It is part of the original triple crown.

It’s the Kentucky Derby, and if you’ve never seen it, you should.

If anything else, watching the Derby is a way to mar-vel at the lords and ladies of the day in a modern-day scene straight out of Downton Abbey. The colors and images of the day are burned in the viewers’ brains like a high-definition watercolor.

Great Britain is famous for being obsessed with royalty, and despite not having a mon-

archy, the United States has acquired a bit of that obses-sion. The Kentucky Derby fills that need for royalty. The race even has its own classy drink associated with it: the mint julep.

It isn’t just the pageant-ry that makes the Derby appealing. It isn’t called “The most exciting two minutes in sports” because it’s relax-ing. Horseracing is a sport that has you on the edge of your seat from start to finish, and while there are pre-race favorites, any horse and jock-ey in the field are potential champions.

The Kentucky Derby is sneakily one of the most amazing sporting events in the world.

You think you’ve seen dom-inance in a sport? Do you know who Calvin Borel is? He won the Derby in 2007, 2009 and 2010, becoming the first jockey ever to win three Der-bies in four years. That’s akin to Bill Belichick leading his

Patriots to three Super Bowls in four years. Yeah, it’s that big.

Except for one thing. Super Bowl attendance is about half the attendance of the derby. Half. 150,000 people will head to the Churchill Downs race-track to watch 20 horses com-pete for a winner’s purse that is as much as the largest PGA tour events. The difference is that two minutes separates horses and jockeys from fame, while golf takes four rounds and as many days to complete.

The Kentucky Derby also has the distinction of being part of one of sports’ most elu-sive accomplishments. The Triple Crown is the distinc-tion given to the horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Bel-mont Stakes.

Interestingly enough, horseracing’s Triple Crown is best comparable to base-ball’s Triple Crown. A mark once seen as achievable has recently been viewed as one

of the greatest accomplish-ments in sports. Baseball’s Crown had a 45-year drought before Miguel Cabrera won it in 2012. Horseracing’s Triple Crown has not been seen since Affirmed accomplished the feat in 1978.

This year’s edition is the

140th running of the historic race. It didn’t break for World War II and has not been inter-rupted since it was first run in 1875.

It’s been around for quite some time and might just be around for another 140 years, so take two minutes out of

your day on Saturday, sit back with a mint julep in hand, and watch some horse racing.

Peter is a freshman in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @pbaileywells22.

BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s golf team was unable to secure a spot for NCAA regionals as a team, but freshman Stephanie Miller and senior Ember Schuldt were se-lected to participate as individu-als at the NCAA Central Region-al in Stillwater, Okla.

Miller and Schuldt are two of 18 individuals who qualified for Regionals. The Central Regional will take place from May 8-10 at Oklahoma State’s Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla. Both golfers have competed in all tour-

naments for Illinois this season and have been the top two finish-ers for the team.

“It’s very exciting for both of them and they are looking forward to playing, competing, and advanc-ing,” head coach Renee Slone said in a press release. “Especially for Ember as she is the first player in school history to advance to Regionals three times – twice with the team and once individually.”

In her freshman season, Mill-er has placed in the top 15 in six competitions, four in the fall sea-son and two in the spring season. She was also the only Illini to win

a tournament this season.From Oct. 12-13, Miller joined

her team at the Diane Thomason Invitational in Iowa City, Iowa. In only her third collegiate compe-tition, she took first in a field of 73 individual golfers by shooting 3-under-par.

Schuldt has finished in the top 15 in seven competitions this sea-son, four in the fall and three in the spring.

At the Minnesota Invitational on Sept. 16-17, Schuldt shot 7-over-par for third place. She then compet-ed from Oct. 19-20 at the Hoosier Fall Invitational after shooting 2-over-par.

Ashley can be reached at [email protected] and @wijangco12.

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BY DANIEL DEXTERSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois softball team (20-25, 4-16 Big Ten) shocked visit-ing No. 4 Michigan (39-9, 17-3) on Friday with a mercy-rule victory.

The Illini won the game in the sixth inning when Nicole Evans hit the ball to centerfield to bring in the final run, which ended the game with a score of 10-2.

Center fielder Brittany San-chez went 3-for-4 in the game and was a big contributor to the Illini driving in three runs in three different innings of the game. Sanchez was thrilled with the way she and her teammates competed in the game after hav-ing struggled from the plate in recent outings.

“I felt like I have been think-

ing too much about things recent-ly, so I just went up there and swung as hard as I could,” San-chez said.

Needham dominates from the circle

Illinois’ freshman ace Brandi Needham kept the Wolverines at bay in the series opener and finale as she hurled two complete games over the weekend.

In Friday’s 10-2 win, Needham allowed only five hits in the game to a lineup that features eight

players batting over .300.Needham struggled in the

opening innings of the series finale. She allowed six runs through the first two innings, but she rebounded and prevent-ed Michigan from scoring any more runs.

Needham’s strong weekend came after allowing six runs through three innings to North-western in the team’s previous matchup.

“You have to get over it,” Need-ham said after Friday’s game. “I was just focused on the next

pitch of every at-bat, letting everything else go and just stay-ing focused on what I was doing in the present.”

Bauch gets on base a bunch

Leadoff batter Allie Bauch led the way for the Illini in the dou-bleheader on Saturday. She got on base in every single one of her plate appearances, including recording her first career triple.

She scored Illinois’ only two runs of the team’s loss in the first game of the doubleheader as she

went 2-for-2 with a walk.Bauch continued her stellar

play into the second game. She again went 2-for-2 and helped the Illini load the bases during their second inning comeback effort against Michigan.

Despite Bauch’s strong play, she couldn’t will the Illini to a win on Saturday as the team dropped both games to the Wolverines.

Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and @ddexter23.

Needham strong from circle against Michigan

The Kentucky Derby remains a must-watch for Americans

Two Illini women’s golfers qualify for regionals

PETER BAILEY-WELLS

Assistant sports editor

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Brandi Needham pitches the ball during the game against Michigan at Eichelberger Field on Friday. Freshman ace Needham pitched two complete games over the weekend.

LLOYD FOX MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNELast year’s Kentucky Derby winner, Orb, is taken away after his morning bath at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

dropped two of three to Big Ten-leading Indiana.

Southern Illinois has been worse recently, though, as the Salukis have lost six of their last seven coming into Tuesday’s game.

Hartleb echoed his players in saying that while Southern Illi-nois is a good team, the game will come down to consistent play on the part of the Illini.

“Every game we go out we have to do things well,” Hartleb said. “We don’t have the luxury of knocking the ball all over the ballpark and scoring 15 runs a game. We have to do things very well from all three aspects to win, and we’ve done that this year and it’s what we expect to do and our players expect to do on a regu-

lar basis.”Hartleb added that the two

teams share a major similarity in the fact that they both are fair-ly young. Southern Illinois has 14 freshmen on their roster to Illi-nois’ seven.

“They’re much like we are in a lot of areas as far as youth goes,” Hartleb said. “So from day-to-day you don’t know exactly what you’re going to get.”

Illinois will try not to let youth nor any other distractions get in the way of the team achieving its goal in the midweek game.

“We’ve got to come out ready to go and ready to take a game from them,” Walton said. “They beat us twice at their place, so we’ve got to even the series up and try to get a win here.”

Nicholas can be reached at [email protected] and @IlliniSportsGuy.

BASEBALLFROM 1B

Freshman ace keeps No. 4 Wolverines at bay with two complete games on weekend

Team fails to qualify, but Miller and Schuldt will represent Illini in Okla.

“It’s very exciting for both of them and they are looking forward to playing, competing, and advancing. Especially for Ember.”RENEE SLONE ILLINOIS WOMEN’S HEAD COACH

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Successful coaches have to be able to command respect from the athletes they lead.

For athletes, it’s easier to respect a coach if the coach has played or coached the sport at an elite level in the past. It’s no surprise then that the most suc-cessful coaches at Illinois have some of the most extensive lists of accomplishments, honors and awards that I’ve ever seen. They’ve not only racked up the coaching accolades but excelled as athletes in the past.

Below are the very best coaches at Illinois, ordered by awesomeness:

Mike Small

The head man of the Illinois men’s golf team has accom-plished some incredible things in his 14 years at the helm.

There’s no doubt Small is a phe-nomenal coach, seeing as he’s led the Illini to fi ve straight Big Ten Championships and has his team is consistently ranked in the top 10 in the country. But his playing history adds to his illustrious career, and it’s pretty impressive.

Small golfed for four years at Illinois before becoming a pro-fessional in 1990. His career has included an appearance on the PGA Tour, and he became the youngest member of the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame when he was inducted last October. He even got to stand on the award podi-um with Tiger Woods after win-ning the low club professional at the PGA Championship in 2007. Small is considered by many to be the best golfer to come from the state of Illlinois.

Justin Spring

Spring is fi nishing up his fi fth season as the head coach of Illi-ni men’s gymnastics, and he’s got a competitive resume that may edge Mike Small’s. Not only

did his team win the national championship in 2012, but he won national coach of the year as well. In addition, he’s been the Big Ten Coach of the Year three times.

Like Small, Spring is a for-mer Illini who enjoyed success here as a student-athlete. Spring was as dominant as they come, winning four NCAA individual titles. His competitive career didn’t end there, as he was a member of the 2008 United States Olympic gymnastics team that won bronze in Beijing. If his gymnasts ever question his coaching, I’m sure all spring has to do is fl ash some bronze to shut them up.

Kevin Hambly

Hambly has an excellent 114-51 overall record in fi ve years as the Illinois volleyball head coach. He nearly guided the Illi-ni to the program’s fi rst nation-al championship game in 2011, when his team went 32-4 before falling to UCLA in the title game. Hambly was also named

the 2011 Volleyball Magazine Coach of the Year. He has both coached and played profession-ally, and he was an assistant on the men’s United States Olympic Team from 2001-04.

Janet Rayfi eld

Rayfi eld has been the head coach of Illinois women’s soc-cer for 12 seasons, and she has a 151-89-25 record to show for it. Besides holding nearly every Illinois coaching record, Ray-fi eld has served as a techni-cal adviser to the U.S. women’s national team since 2009. She also basically kick-started a college soccer dynasty. Ray-fi eld was a four-time captain at North Carolina and helped win the school’s fi rst national title in 1982. Since then, the Tar Heels have won 17 more and estab-lished themselves as the best soccer program in the country.

Alex is a sophomore in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.

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KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois' head coach Kevin Hambly talks with his team during the Illinois-Kentucky volleyball game at Kenney Gym on April 19. Hambly boasts an impressive resume, with multiple coach of the year honors.

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