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Hybrid buses are also expected to have lower maintenance costs for brakes, transmission and oil because engine and brake life lengthen substantially. In addition, there are fewer electrical parts in a hybrid bus than a traditional transmission. This means that less wear and tear means fewer dollars spent on repair.

MTD shifts to hybrid buses as part of ISO sustainability certificate This is the 40-foot diesel-electric hybrid MTD bus, and it uses 25% less fuel than regular diesel buses. It is one of three different types of hybrid buses run by MTD, which altogether make up 54% of the MTD !eet - a total of 56 out of 102 that they have. The use of batteries offsets the emissions of nitrogen oxide and other smog forming emissions, resulting in better air quality and fewer greenhouse gases.

Studies prove there are lower emissions of nitrogen oxide and other smog-forming emissions from hybrid buses than conventional diesel buses.

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University student’s bond set at $10M in homicide case

MTD earns environmental sustainability ISO certifi cate

Civil rights activist speaks out about injustices of prison system

HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINIIndie-rock band Daughter plays at Pygmalion Music Festival on Thursday at Krannert Center.

HUBERT THEODORE THE DAILY ILLINIAngela Davis speaks to the audience at the University YMCA on Wright Street on Friday.

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTUn ivers i t y s t udent

Mengchen Huang, 25, has been identifi ed as the victim in the Urbana Police Depart-ment’s ongoing homicide inves-tigation, according to a press release from Champaign Coun-ty Coroner Duane Northrup.

Huang was a graduate stu-dent from Nanjing, China, enrolled in the School of Art and Design, said campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler.

An autopsy will be per-formed and an inquest may be held at a future date.

Suspect Yongfei Ci has been charged in connection with the death of Huang, and his bond has been set at $10 million according to the Champaign County Sheriff’s Offi ce. Ci, 29, is the victim’s ex-boyfriend. He started at the University in 2008 and is currently pursu-ing a doctorate degree in math, Kaler said.

According to a press release from the Urbana Police Department, at around 11 a.m. Friday, offi cers were dis-patched to 1343 N. Lincoln Ave. and directed to an apartment where they found Huang dead.

Mitchell Smith, vice pres-ident of operations for The Scion Group, which owns and manages One South, confi rmed that the apartment was located at One South apartment com-plex, 1321 N. Lincoln Ave.

According to the female who reported the incident, the sus-pect forced his way into the apartment and detained two females inside. One female, who was secured in the bath-room, left the apartment unin-jured and stopped a person in the area, who then reported the incident to police.

Local police and METCAD 911 were able to determine the possible location of the suspect using cellphone tech-nology. The suspect was taken into custody at Value Place, a motel located at 1212 W. Antho-ny Drive in Champaign.

An Illini-Alert describing the suspect was issued around 12:45 p.m.

Kelsey Adler, junior in LAS, lives at One South and said she also received emails from One South notifying her of the homicide.

BY JULIANNE MICOLETACONTRIBUTING WRITER

Champaign-Urbana MTD became the sixth transit pro-vider in the country and the only transit provider in Illi-nois to earn certifi cation for its environmental sustainabil-ity and management system to International Organization for Standardization standards last week.

The ISO 14001:2004 is a group of standards dealing specifi cal-ly with environmental sustain-ability and management sys-tems. It enables an organization to analyze, control and reduce the environmental impact of its activities, products and ser-vices, and operate with greater effi ciency and control.

Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd, the world’s leading provider of indepen-dent assessment services, con-ducted the certifi cation audit of MTD’s program.

“This certifi cation means that our EMS program has been cer-tifi ed by an external auditor that looked at our system,” said Jane Sullivan, MTD sustainabil-ity and transportation planner. “They took a look to make sure

the proper procedures were in place and that we were training our employees correctly.”

Sullivan said Lloyd’s per-sonnel visited MTD to ensure that they were meeting state and local environmental reg-ulations. The personnel visit-ed and audited MTD’s mainte-nance facility and grounds that include a body shop, a fueling station, a bus wash, a machine shop, a tire shop and storage for parts and bus overfl ow.

“They made sure that we were conducting things in a way that was maintaining a safe and clean environment,” Sullivan said.

The certification process began in 2011 when MTD enrolled in the Federal Tran-sit Administration’s ISO 14001 EMS Institute at Virginia Tech University.

MTD employees traveled to the EMS Institute where, the center, along with local, state and federal government facili-ties, taught and assisted MTD to implement the ISO standards.

“Some of our employees learned what it takes to cre-ate this system,” Sullivan said. “They were involved with writ-

ing procedures and then com-ing back here and training our other employees.”

She said she thinks the cer-tifi cation proves that MTD is committed to environmen-tal sustainability and that the company is very serious about watching its environmental impact.

Many other environmental efforts are being taken beyond the certifi cation. The most vis-ible of these are the hybrid bus-es. As of January 2013, more than half of MTD’s 102 buses are hybrid.

Additionally, there are var-ious policies and practices that MTD has implemented to reduce its environmental impact and increase its com-mitment to a greener existence.

“As an employee, I’m a big fan of (MTD’s) green practic-es,” MTD bus driver Stepha-nie Blunier said. “I think that they’re doing a lot and that their efforts go beyond the buses. They’re doing a lot in mainte-nance, and that’s where a lot of the environmental sustainabil-ity comes from.”

BY STANTON POLANSKICONTRIBUTING WRITER

Angela Davis, who spoke at the University YMCA on Fri-day, became the third woman to appear on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List on Aug. 18, 1970. She was being held account-able for the bloody aftermath of a California courtroom’s hostage situation and an ensuing shoot-out with police — but she wasn’t even there.

She would stay at friends’ homes to avoid the FBI agents, and at night she’d be back on the move. The FBI found and arrest-ed her in New York City in Octo-ber 1970.

But while she was in jail, an international movement rallied to set her free.

She would later be released in

February 1972 thanks to that movement. Because of her past and the people she knew who were in prison wrongfully, she has tried to change the prison system ever since. She spoke in Lazter Hall at the University

YMCA on Friday about her past and problems with the prison sys-tem as part of this fall’s Friday Forum lecture series Rethink-ing Security: Beyond Mass Incarceration.

“I can actually remember being run off the freeway in Southern California because I had put a bumper sticker on my car that said ‘black is beautiful.’ That was in those days — I was a gradu-ate student,” Davis said. “I can refl ect.”

She named off people who had served time under false charges over the years — names that keep her passionate.

According to Global Research’s website, about 2 million people are in jail in the U.S., a num-ber unmatched by any society in human history. The U.S. has more

people behind bars than any other country in the world and holds 25 percent of the world’s prisoners; only 5 percent of the world’s popu-lation lives in the U.S. Davis said the number of jails in the country has been rapidly increasing since the war on drugs.

“We see the increasing profi t-ability in imprisonment,” Davis said. “The tendency is to assume that there are so many people in prison because these people com-mit crime. And then I have to ask, what about all the people who are not in prison who commit crime and who commit the same crimes as the people who are in prison?”

Though Davis’ case in the ear-ly ‘70s was able to gain enough attention to force the court into giving her a chance at proving her innocence, many others are not as lucky. University YMCA Executive Director Mike Doyle said that Davis’ fame can help make forgotten stories better known.

“Someone like Angela Davis

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WEATHERPOLICE

Champaign Two 22-year-old males

were arrested on the charge of possession of drug para-phernalia at the 500 block of South Sixth Street at around 4 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, offi-cers were dispatched for a loud music complaint and a notice to appear was issued for drug paraphernalia.

A domestic dispute was reported in the 2800 block of West John Street at around 10 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, there was a report of domes-tic dispute but no arrests.

Burglary from a motor vehicle was reported in the 800 block of West Church Street at around 2 p.m. Friday.

According to the report, the victim reported an unknown suspect stole a cell phone from his vehicle.

Urbana A 54-year-old male was

arrested on the charge of domestic battery in the 600 block of Glover Avenue at around 10 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the offender and victim are hus-band and wife and the offender battered the victim.

Theft was reported in the 800 block of West Oregon Street at around 8 p.m. Satur-day. According to the report, an unknown offender stole the victim’s bicycle that was locked to a bike rack.

A 55-year-old female was arrested on the charge of retail theft at County Market, 1819 Philo Road, at 6:30 p.m. Friday.

According to the report, the offender entered the store, con-cealed property and attempt-ed to leave without offering payment.

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BY TAYLOR ODISHOSTAFF WRITER

Construction on a center for women in crisis began Sunday when offi cials broke ground on the construction site.

Merci’s Refuge is a residential program that will be offered to women 18 years and older who fi nd themselves in need of a place to stay due to an unplanned preg-nancy, abuse or homelessness.

Greta Henry, director of Cham-paign Ministries, has been work-ing on the project since 2001 after it was passed down from the founder of Living Alternatives Pregnancy Resources Center.

“It’s so exciting to see what God is doing in this area,” said Henry.

Merci’s Refuge is an extension of Living Alternatives, which they describe as a nonprofi t pregnan-cy resource center dedicated to saving the lives of unborn chil-dren while sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ through word and deed. Because Merci’s Ref-uge was funded entirely through public donations, they are allowed to help the women at the center through religion.

Mary Kate Evans, clinical director at Merci’s Refuge, shared with the ceremony’s audience the story of her life’s struggles before she was reborn. She said she has since dedicated herself to

help other women that had been impacted the way she had been.

Evans accepted her fi rst job at a treatment center in Peoria that served women, but she always felt that, as a Christian, something was missing. Centers that accept government funding are prohib-ited from using religion as a tool.

“We could talk about higher power, but to many of the wom-en, higher power was the group, nature and for some, even a light bulb,” Evans said.

Evans quit her job at the cen-ter and went on to accept a posi-tion with Merci’s Refuge. She said she looks forward to helping the women in the community.

“It will offer a safe place for those who really want to change their lives and need a place to do that, and it will make a huge dif-ference in our community,” Evans said.

The center is set to be complet-ed in May 2014. It will open as a one-fl oor facility that houses eight women. Once there is enough funding for the second half of the building to be completed, a base-ment will also be built to house an additional eight women.

Each woman must enroll in a 9 to 12 month program. This pro-gram will provide residents with a series of classes to help them grow physically, emotionally and

spiritually as well as biblically-based individual and group coun-seling from licensed counselors and social workers. In the end, Merci’s Refuge employees will help transition the women out of the program to start their new lives.

“The goal of Merci’s Refuge is to help them realize the situ-ations they get themselves into and save them,” said Terri Lip-scomb, director of fundraising development at Merci’s Refuge. “And to give them good tools on how to get out of those situations in the future and what to look for to know where there’s going to be problems for them.”

Lipscomb, along with the oth-er speakers from Merci’s Ref-uge, feel very fortunate to have support from the community to make their dream of building the facility a reality. Kathy Loutrel of Mahomet has been praying for Merci’s Refuge for three years and said she is very excited to fi nally see it being built.

“I think that it will give the community an opportunity to serve women whose lives have been broken and that want to change for the better,” Loutrel said.

Taylor can be reached at news@dailyillini.com.

BY SOPHIA SOPUCHSTAFF WRITER

For a fi nal project, a group of eight University aerospace engi-neering students drafted a pro-posal that would win them fi rst place and $1,500 at an Ameri-can Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics competition , but not an A on their project.

For their senior design proj-ect, their aerospace engineer-ing professor, David Carroll , asked them to design and pro-pose a plan for a space-based solar power system, using the guidelines given by the AIAA competition. At the end of the year, the group was offered the option of submitting their fi nal project to the competition, and they did.

Brian Levine , then-senior in Engineering, served as the lead engineer on the project. The project’s main goal was to collect solar power using solar panels in outer space and, some-how, deliver this energy back to earth so that its inhabitants could access and use it.

The students were given three main guidelines that they had to base their design around. First, the students must keep the total cost under $21 billion. Second,

the system must be able to send one gigawatt of power back to Earth wirelessly. Finally, the system needs to be fully opera-tional by the year 2040.

Levine said the biggest chal-lenge out of the three was being able to send a gigawatt of power back to earth. He said this was diffi cult because solar power is not necessarily the most effi -cient form of energy. In their initial planning, the group esti-mated that the total area of solar panels necessary to accomplish this task would roughly cover Champaign-Urbana.

Levine said that their orig-inal plan, which consisted of three satellites, reminded him of the Death Star , the fi ctional-ized moon-sized space station and super weapon in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope .

When the team presented their fi rst proposal to their professor as a midterm, there was little hope of winning the competition. Levine said he left the midterm saying, “Man, this design sucks.”

Carroll agreed, saying in an email, “At the end of fall semes-ter last year, Brian’s team actu-ally had an unworkable design.”

Shortly after midterms, the

team met in a small conference room and started brainstorming new ideas, one of which was to downsize from the three mas-sive satellites and use multiple smaller ones instead.

Everyone supported split-ting up the satellites once they began designing their new plan, Levine said. “We realized there were a lot of possibilities with small satellites.”

The team envisioned how helpful this design would be in the face of a natural disaster because the satellites would be able to re-direct power from their system to the specifi ed area in need. Once the team had actual applications for the design and wasn’t just fulfi lling the requirements, Levine said the group members felt “miles ahead of everyone else.”

The fi nal proposal included 24 satellites, each covered with solar panels. The solar power would then be converted into microwaves using a transmit-ter, which would be in orbit next to its solar panel satellite.

This conversion is what would enable energy to be delivered back to Earth. Levine said the team chose to use microwaves instead of lasers after consid-

ering “what a giant space laser would do to the environment.”

The microwaves would then travel to designated SolPatches — a term they coined — which would be located at different places on Earth. Each loca-tion would contain three Sol-Patches, which are a special type of antennae that convert microwaves into electricity, called a rectifying antenna, or rectenna .

“The big advantage of hav-ing your power plants fl ying around the earth is that they can be in many places at one time,” Levine said. “You can’t move around a nuclear power plant, right?”

On Sept. 10, Levine attended the AIAA space exposition in San Diego to present his team’s winning proposal and collect their $1500.

Although Carroll said the team recovered “splendidly well” from their original pro-posal at the end of fall semes-ter, the group still didn’t get an A on the project.

“That’s just how it goes, I guess,” Levine said.

Sophia can be reached at news@dailyillini.com.

BY ALICE SMELYANSKYSTAFF WRITER

Set to a background of psyche-delic inspired synths and indie rock beats, this year’s ninth annu-al Pygmalion Music Festival fea-tured two new additions : Made Fest and Lit Fest. For the fi rst time, Pygmalion, held from Sept. 26-28, included an art and literary festival alongside the music festi-val, for which it is famous .

“(Pygmalion is) more than music,” said Justine Fein-Bursoni, producer of Made Fest and wife to Pygmalion creator Seth Fein. “It’s just a cultural event at this point.”

Fein-Bursoni said she has helped her husband organize Pyg-malion over the years. However, this year she fi nally brought to fruition an idea she thought of years ago at the fi rst Pitchfork Music Festival, then named Into-nation Festival, in 2005.

“It was fun to be able to do

something that really was more up our alley,” Fein-Bursoni said. “As much as I love music, I’m a consumer and I love the arts and vintage wear, so it was really fun to provide a whole different realm of the music fest.”

Last year, Fein-Bursoni decid-ed to bring the art market to this year’s festival with her friend and artist, Alexia Brown. Together, Brown and Fein-Bursoni chose the vendors and organized the Made Fest. Among the mix were artists from Savoy, Ill., Chicago, Ill., Wisconsin, Connecticut and Iowa. In total, Made Fest featured 26 vendors who set up booths along Market Street in downtown Champaign on Sept. 28 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Ryan Martin, a junior in Histo-ry Education at Illinois State Uni-versity, attended the Made Fest on Saturday.

“It seemed like a cool, extra

way to just add something for people to do if there aren’t bands playing that they like,” Martin said. “When I went (to Pygma-lion) before, there weren’t always bands playing that I really want-ed to watch, so it’s a good way for people to go and do something else.”

Coast to Coast Mobile Vintage was one of Made Fest’s vendors. A vintage mobile shop from Con-necticut, Coast to Coast Mobile Vintage showcases thrift store fi nds from all across America. A tag attached to each item identi-fi es where the piece originated. Adam Lodynsky and Jaimee Dor-mer, the owners of Coast to Coast Mobile Vintage, began their busi-ness after purchasing a mobile home, for which they intended to sell their items in, on Ebay . They began traveling across the coun-try, sharing vintage pieces with customers all over the country.

“We wanted to see the open road,” Lodynsky said.

Also in attendance at the Made Fest was the Horny Girl Collec-tion, from owner Laurie L. Mar-tin. The collection features a vari-ety of wearable sculptures with a feminist purpose. Martin has “horny girls” model her collection to show that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.

“Sculpture is my way of saying ‘I love you,’” Martin said.

In future years, Fein-Bursoni plans on adding more vendors to the Made Fest to give more art-ists an opportunity to debut their work.

The Lit Fest also took place over the weekend, on Sept. 27 in Urbana and Sept. 28 in Cham-paign. Lit Fest’s creative direc-tor Caleb Curtiss brought Lit Fest to Pygmalion after being inspired by a similar event while attending Mission Creek Festival in Iowa

City. Curtiss worked with Fein to incorporate book readings near Pygmalion’s shows.

“We were really intentional when we scheduled the writers and (we) booked the writers to try and build a tone with each read-ing,” Curtiss said.

Dan Chaon, author of “Among the Missing,” James Greer, author of “Artifi cal Light” and Matt Bell, author of “In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods,” were a few of the authors whose work was featured. The readings took place at Cafeteria & Co., Buvon’s Wine Bar, Mike ‘N’ Molly’s and Memphis on Main, and were free to the public.

The Lit Fest collaborated with the University’s creative writing program to organize the reading series. Jodee Stanley, director of the University’s creative Writing program, coordinated with Fein and Curtiss, both of who are alum-

ni of the program.“It seemed like a really great

way to connect with the commu-nity and bring some of our favor-ite writers to town,” Stanley said.

Both Fein-Bursoni and Curtiss said the new additions to Pygma-lion created a more interactive atmosphere for festival goers.

“They add, I would say, an enriching component that makes it a much more interest-ing and engaging festival,” Cur-tiss said. “It’s more of a commu-nity feel. You can interact with people without music playing, you can go to a reading, you can talk about the reading on the way to the next show, you can talk about the show on the way to the reading. We really see these as being interconnected parts that work together.”

Alice can be reached at smelyan2@dailyillini.com.

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Ground broken for C-U women’s resource center

TAYLOR ODISHO THE DAILY ILLINIGreta Henry, director of Champaign Ministries, and Mary Kate Evans, clinical director of Merci’s Refuge, break ground in the lot located behind the Pregnancy Resource Center in Champaign. The facility is set to open in May, 2014.

COURTESY OF BRIAN LEVINEThis satellite and its accompanying transmitter is one in a network of 24 satellites in a proposal drafted by University engineering students. The proposal won in an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics competition for its ability to absorb and convert solar power.

“I do feel safe because it was an isolated incident between two people,” Adler said. “It was between a boy and his ex-girlfriend ... He’s not going to go around shoot-ing random people.”

Liang Ma, junior in Engi-neering, also lives at One South.

“I was not here, but I heard it on the news, and I was shocked,” Ma said. “Study-ing in Champaign is kind of safe ... although we sometimes receive crime alerts.”

The investigation is ongo-ing. Anyone with information can call the Urbana Police Department at 384-2320 or Crime Stoppers at 373-8477.

MTD Board Trustee Wil-lard Broom, who was heavily involved with the certifi cation by being a part of the review-ing and assessing process, said this can be seen as another example of MTD’s commit-ment to the highest standard of environmental stewardship and sustainability.

“It is another positive impact on the environment to make sure that we are doing as little possible to negatively impact it,” Broom said. “We are cutting costs with better business prac-tices, and we are also using less resources ... more effi ciently.”

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draws attention to these things that are very real around us that sometimes we don’t hear about or don’t pay attention to,” he said.

Doyle mentioned that he had been particularly moved by Dar-rell Cannon’s story — a story that he feels went unnoticed for years. Cannon shared his story at the YMCA’s Sept. 6 Friday Forum, explaining that, in 1983, he had been tortured by three Chicago Police offi cers into confessing to a murder he did not commit. The offi cers took Cannon to an isolat-ed area.

“They told me, and I quote, ‘Nigger, look around, nobody is going to see or hear anything that happens to you today out here,’” Can-non said at the forum.

Then they dragged him out of the cop car and onto the ground. One of the offi cers turned around with a shell and a shotgun in his hands. Cannon said he thought the shell was being loaded into the barrel, so when the offi cer turned back around and pulled the trigger, he thought he was dead.

“When I heard the trigger click, in my mind, I actually thought he was blowing the back of my head off,” Cannon said.

Even with these threats, Can-non refused to talk. But things got worse.

“The man took out an electric cattle prodder. And he turned it on,” Cannon said. “And he stuck me with that electric cattle prod-

der in my genitals. And he kept shocking me. And he kept shock-ing me. After a while, I was ready to say anything.”

It would take Cannon 24 years to prove his innocence and regain his freedom.

“I spent ... nine years in soli-tary confi nement, where my bed was a concrete block with a thin mattress on it,” he said.

Despite Cannon’s experienc-es, he said most police offi cers are very good at what they do. He said the three white offi cers have not made him feel any hatred toward whites.

“He doesn’t hold any malice in his heart. He’s very much like

Nelson Mande-la,” Doyle said. “They’re pow-erful stories. I think one of the things is there are people who struggle with those kinds of experiences, unfortunate-ly, all the time in the United States.”

Despite many of these stories being overshad-owed by what Davis calls “domi-nant ideologies,” she said she has seen a change in people’s attitude toward how prisoners are viewed.

“I can remember when those of us who call ourselves prison abolitionists were considered to be absolutely out of our minds,” Davis said. “We were crazy radi-cals. Many people were so infl u-enced by dominant ideologies that they could not understand what they had in common with people who were spending so many years of their lives behind bars.”

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New additions to Pygmalion give the weekend a more personal touch and add a relaxed atmosphere

“He doesn’t hold any malice in his heart. He’s very much like Nelson Mandela.”

MIKE DOYLEEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF

UNIVERSITY YMCA

OPINIONS4AMONDAY

It ’s starting to become that time of year again: tem-peratures finally aren’t

awful, football is plentiful and the colors outside are magnifi-cent. School is starting to get more intense and I’m finally starting to settle into a routine.

Another thing I tend to associate with fall weather, however, are the throngs of people hoping to attend the mecca of academia, the career fair, while walking around cam-pus wearing suits and dresses. You know you’ve seen them. I know I have, too. Maybe you’re even someone who attends in hopes of landing an internship, like many of my roommates were this week.

Unlike my roommates, who are all engineers, I major in the liber-al arts (classics, to be exact). The career fairs for us are few and far between. Landing an internship takes a lot of personal investiga-tion and hard work, and almost all of the time, those internships require large amounts of time spent with no pay. This seems to be a shocking trend throughout nearly all industries as of late.

Quite frankly, my message is this: Unpaid internships are a scheme.

At the risk of sounding too anti-establishment, unpaid intern-ships are tools used by companies

to exploit students for free labor. This, in exchange, allows that com-pany to function while providing “work experience” for the student.

Not only that, but there’s also the notion that most undergrad-uates are expected to have an internship at some point in their academic careers. Without one, it’s very difficult to build a resume and get a career or get into grad school. Thus, employers that offer unpaid internships are holding stu-dents hostage.

They know we need the experi-ence, but they also know we need compensation to live. Unfortunate-ly, those that offer unpaid intern-ships seem to leverage the two against each other as a way of gaining free labor.

In fact, entities that have vast amounts of unpaid internships are actively destroying the entry lev-el job market. A company could pay a new hire full time for their work — or they could just hire an intern for free instead. All that company has to do is say that the intern is gaining valuable and rel-evant training, that the internship won’t displace regular employees or that the employer doesn’t gain “immediate advantages” from the intern’s work, and that’s enough reason to withhold pay from them.

If a company doesn’t have to spend that extra money, and can instead dole out tasks to a worker who is operating at no monetary cost to the company, why wouldn’t they? The sad fact is that many employing bodies use this strate-gy with no regards to the students

they are exploiting.The student then provides

labor for the employer, allowing it to gain more profits. By logical means alone, this should mean that the student should gain some sort of compensation.

The claim that many employers make is that they are giving the unpaid intern “work experience” or training. “Work experience” is not adequate compensation. Though this training can prepare an intern for the future and per-haps even give them a sense of what their prospective career may entail, “work experience” isn’t directly going to put food on the table or buy gasoline.

This lack of pay, in turn, cre-ates a climate where there is no upward mobility. If someone can’t afford to live that summer, semes-ter or year without income, they become ineligible for the job in the first place. Thus, the entire unpaid internship process is exclusive-ly available to those applicants who can afford to live without an income.

Those who cannot afford that opportunity miss out on life-changing chances, all while those who can afford to not have an income are gifted all of the oppor-tunities. An entire realm of jobs require payment — our unpaid time and labor — to attain. If that’s not the most bizarre thing I’ve ever heard, I don’t know what is.

Isn’t this the land of “upward mobility” and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps? Unpaid internships are destroying that

very idea. They are rigging the game in favor of those who can afford them and creating a biased field of employment all while exploiting individual interns.

Some entities, however, seem to realize the error in unpaid intern-ships, and thus their recruitment of top level talent here at the Uni-versity has flourished.

A good friend of mine in com-puter engineering had an intern-ship this summer at Boeing in St. Louis, Mo. He was compensat-ed over $10,000, and Boeing also paid for his summer housing. To someone from a liberal arts back-ground, this is almost unheard of. It seems that more times than not, STEM employers are actively try-ing to recruit top talent and com-pensate them healthily, which is something that seems to be forgot-ten by many companies.

I’m not saying that I should get paid as much as my comput-er engineer friend. His indus-try is probably more lucrative than mine. I’m also not saying that those people who use unpaid internships are evil, or even that they necessarily are deliberate-ly bad people, but what they are doing is so clearly wrong and exploitative that it deserves to be stood up to.

Yes, we are students. Yes, we are hunting for jobs. And yes, we deserve to be compensated appro-priately while doing so.

Boswell is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at hutson2@dailyillini.com.

Most mornings are the same: I get up 15 minutes later than I should have, scurry around

getting ready, gulp down some cereal and run out the door.

And everyday as I walk to class I see the same things: other students hustling to class, shiny iPhones (my own included), expensive Ray-Bans and designer clothes. As usual, I flit past the homeless people on Green Street, barely even acknowledging their existence.

In fact, I try to avoid eye contact. Sometimes, I even dread walk-ing past them because I’m guilty of acting like I don’t notice them. I feel a twinge of guilt, or I cringe a little on the inside, but as soon as I cross over to the Alma Mater, the scene suddenly calms.

Since I was young, my parents told me to avoid interacting with “these people.” I remember tak-ing trips to Chicago as a child and passing by homeless people on the streets. I always wondered why we never stopped to toss some change into their cups. They weren’t ask-ing for much.

As I grew older, I realized my parents were just doing what their

parents taught them, and I accept-ed it and started doing it as well. In high school, I’d go to Chicago with my friends and the same course of events would repeat. We’d pass by homeless people holding up signs and cups, and just skirt by them. It became second nature to ignore them.

And then last year, that kind of changed.

For some reason, my Muslim parents love Las Vegas, so we went over Thanksgiving break (a trip I wouldn’t recommend any 20-year-old to take with their parents, ever), and encountered, yet again, more homeless people.

And something within me stirred. I can’t say I “woke up” because it wasn’t as if I had never noticed the problem before and had a sudden epiphany. It was always my fault for choosing to ignore it. But something shifted. I forced myself to stop ignoring the home-less people and tried to move away from thinking of them as “these people” or “them.” Despite my par-ents’ warnings, I went ahead and started giving money to whomever I saw sitting on the street.

Before you think I’m trying to sing myself praises, realize that it took me 20 years to realize that it’s not hard to offer a little bit of change to someone in need — not necessarily a great intellectual feat. And it’s not like giving people

on the street money actually solves all their problems.

But I do see merit in the fact that when you do give money to some-one, it gives him or her hope that someone cares, and usually they feel grateful. It’s not so much the value that money carries with it that matters, but it’s the fact that someone is willing to give up mon-ey they earned while expecting nothing in return.

Despite my sudden realization in Las Vegas, when I came back to Chicago I resorted back to my old ways. My “good deeds” seemed to be confined to the location they occurred. Unless a little boy was badgering my guilty conscience into buying some candy from him on Green Street, I wasn’t giving anyone else a second glance.

That is until earlier this week when I was taking my usual path down Green and passed by multiple people asking for money. I guess the feelings I had in Las Vegas trig-gered, and after I had shamelessly passed two people I relented and dumped a handful of change into one lady’s plastic cup.

Nothing about this made me feel good. This lady who was holding up a sign saying she was homeless smiled at me and called me “sweet-ie” and I could barely even look her in the eye. And when I think about why I feel guilty, it’s not necessar-ily because I have something shiny,

and she doesn’t. It has more to do with the fact that my apathy isn’t just mine. But rather that apathy toward homeless people appears to be a collective feeling — we’re all guilty of it.

We don’t want to be that way, but when a problem gets too big and complex for us to understand, we’d rather ignore it. When a prob-lem’s solution is hard to achieve or is something we have yet to figure out, we’d rather not take the time to solve it.

Despite the fact that scraps of monetary aid here and there won’t put an end to homelessness, I still try to fish in my backpack for loose change when I can. For me, the sim-ple interaction symbolizes moving away from a mind-set where we sep-arate ourselves from what we don’t understand or don’t want to under-stand. And that is an imperative first step in eliminating the issue.

We have to stop living like we are on two different planes of exis-tence: the well-off and the home-less. After all, we have to remem-ber we could have just as easily been on the streets if we didn’t get lucky. Our lives are constantly intersecting, whether it be on the streets of Chicago, Las Vegas or Green Street.

Sehar is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at shsiddi2@dailyillini.com.

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Apathy toward homeless people a collective problem

ISS proposed constitutional change

reduces power of University students

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EDITORIAL

BOSWELL HUTSON

Opinions columnist

SEHAR SIDDIQUI

Opinions columnist

C onstitutions, or any governing document for that matter, take an exceedingly high amount of time and consideration to author or rework. Eight months ago,

the Illinois Student Senate unveiled a new version of its constitution, but it failed to collect enough signatures from the student body to put it on the annual referendum in the spring.

Despite its failure, the senate is continuing its work on a new constitution. The latest working version of it still includes three significant, if not controversial, components: a change to the number of signatures required for referenda to appear on the ballot in the spring, a popularly elected student body president and a graduate leader position.

Fortunately, ISS continues to work on the constitution because it’s not something that should be rushed. And it’s not something we can endorse.

Last year, we strongly cautioned students from supporting the constitution specifically because of changes to the number of signatures required for students to implement policy changes at the University through referenda. The newest version of the constitution would require students to collect signatures from 10 percent of the student body (currently, it’s 7 percent), whereas members of ISS would need only 3 percent of the student body (currently, it’s 5 percent) and a two-thirds vote among themselves.

This version of the constitution requires at least 3 percent for senators — whereas the one last spring had no signature requirement — but it is still not fair to the students. The reduction of signatures required by the senate and the increase in signatures required by the student body serves only to circumvent students’ right to effect policy changes. The proposed signature requirements make it incredibly difficult for a student to propose a referendum on the ballot unless a student’s referendum is also endorsed by the senate.

Basically, the senate wants to make itself a more important institution on campus, but this is not the way to do it. In return for taking away this student right to fairly propose referenda, the ISS constitution would allow the student body to directly elect its president. Right now, the senators elect the president among themselves like a parliament.

But that’s not a fair trade.We know that students pay too little

attention to ISS elections to make an informed choice about the student body president. As is, the current system works, especially if a popular election would mean trading for a more difficult referendum petition process. It would be irresponsible for ISS not to recognize this, too.

Lastly, the new graduate leader position is a necessary addition to the constitution. The University does not have a student government for graduate students, who face vastly different issues than undergraduates, so the position would add some currently lacked representation. For all intents and purposes, the graduate leader position would act as a vice president, serving specifically graduate and professional students.

The constitution needs work, and we’re happy to see that ISS recognizes that. We won’t be satisfied with the constitution, however, if it unfairly usurps power from students as the proposed one does.

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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

The defining moment of the Kurt Vile and the Violators’ per-formance came at the end of their set Friday night during Pygma-lion Music Festival in downtown Urbana.

The crowd for the group had dwindled to about one-fourth of the size it had been when it start-ed. The band announced it would play one more song, a claim that wasn’t greeted with much of a response by the audience. Even with the end in sight, some fes-tivalgoers decided they’d had enough.

It’s not that Vile wasn’t talent-ed — he most certainly was. It’s

not that he doesn’t have a large following — he’s got that, too. It’s just that the performance was, for lack of a better word, boring.

The set was largely instrumen-tal, and singing definitely took a backseat. The group struggled to hold the attention of the crowd after an electrifying perfor-mance by Dawes, its predeces-sor, which had left the audience excited and ready for an energetic performance.

But the audience didn’t stay long after a few unenthusiastic songs started off the set. Even members of the audience who stayed weren’t paying attention.

People were standing around — many not even facing the stage — talking to their friends and drink-ing beer.

The four-man band, three who looked identical with their chest-length, curly dark hair, didn’t really interact with the crowd. They stood above the crowd, play-ing their instruments, occasional-ly singing, but not really engaging the audience by asking them to raise their hands, clap or interact.

Kurt Vile and the Violators were clearly passionate about their music, but their perfor-mance left me and much of the audience unimpressed.

My main thought while watching Major Lazer on Sat-urday night: I could have done this at home.

Well, I guess I couldn’t have. I don’t really have hundreds of friends to gather in a wide-open parking lot who would be will-ing to get too inebriated to func-tion and then hump each other in a giant blob to loud music.

But, as far as the perfor-mance went, I could’ve done that at home.

After 40 minutes of stage set-up, Diplo, Jillionaire and Walshy Fire came out onto the stage behind the High Dive at 10:30 p.m., hit play on their MacBook and then danced around. There were two dancers going wild on stage in bright outfits. Diplo shot confetti guns and threw lit-tle treats into the crowd. Walshy Fire led the crowd in activities, like asking everyone to get cra-zy or for all of the weed smok-ers to raise their hands (every hand that I saw went up).

It was fun, but it seemed so strange to me that a festival dedicated to music — a festi-val that has been largely instru-mental at times — would have its final headliner not really perform any music on stage.

Later in the set, Diplo went up to the computer, put on white headphones and may have switched a few notches, but it never really seemed like he made any changes to the music people were listening to. It looked more like a way to occupy time while the audi-ence grinded and moved to the music.

Pygmalion actually flew in Major Lazer for the show. Jil-lionaire had performed in New York City on Friday night, and the group is scheduled to play in Germany on Wednesday.

My question was: Would the crowd really have known the

difference if they hadn’t been there at all? I don’t really think so.

Don’t get me wrong: Major Lazer was fun. There were con-fetti guns, balloons, some sort of goodies passed out by Dip-

lo and lots of dancing. All the fans were smiling and having a good time.

But the main part of a music festival is seeing bands perform live, and Major Lazer just didn’t do that.

I wouldn’t want to be Youth Lagoon’s keyboard.

Trevor Powers, the 24-year-old indie musician who goes by the stage name “Youth Lagoon,” came out doing his best mad sci-entist impression, dressed in a white sweater that could easily double as a lab jacket. With shoul-der-length and blond-streaked wiry dark hair covering his eyes, he punched, slapped and smacked the keyboard, as if the more he hit it, the better he would sound during his performance at Pyg-malion on Saturday evening at the Highdive’s outdoor annex.

At first, I was skeptical when he came out to screeches and metallic noises, moving his hips and legs like Elvis at the key-board. It seemed as if he was both intimidated and uncomfortable

by being on stage.But, when he took the mic and

walked to the front of the stage, he showed that he was in total control. His confident singing showed the audience that he owned both the stage and his music. His timidity, even his mouse-like features, seemed to fade.

After the initial screeching, he went into a few masterfully per-formed songs, with short bursts of metallic noises in between pieces that weren’t the most pleasant. Overall, though, Youth Lagoon showed that he owned the stage, and the crowd seemed to love his performance, bobbing up and down and dancing to the beat.

At 10:13, three minutes after their performance was scheduled to end, Youth Lagoon announced

he had one song left, but festi-val administrators told him he was done.

He seemed upset, but went to the middle of the stage and said “kisses,” blowing a kiss to the audience. The crowd had a half-hearted attempt at a “one more song” chant but didn’t seem too upset that the performance was over, electrifying as it was. One contingent of fans even began a “Major Lazer” chant, showing they were ready for the night’s headliner.

Following Youth Lagoon, Champaign Mayor Don Gerard capitalized on the energy, mak-ing an appearance on stage, expressing his excitement for the festival.

“This is motherf---ing fun,” Gerard said.

Major Lazer disappoints as headliner

Youth Lagoon’s performance electrifies

HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINI. Major Lazer headlines Pygmalion Music Festival on Saturday at the Highdive. Jillionaire pumps the crowd up throughout the performance.

HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINI Youth Lagoon performs on Saturday at the Highdive for Pygmalion Music Festival. Their unique sound had the crowd engaged throughout their performance.

Little crowd interaction at Vile’s show

Johnathan is a junior in Media. He can be reached at hetting2@dailyillini.com.

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STAFF WRITER

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BY SEAN HAMMONDSENIOR WRITER

With fewer than 14 minutes on the clock in the second quarter, Miami (Ohio) trailed Illinois by just seven points Saturday at Memorial Stadi-um. Eight minutes later, the game was over.

By the 5:19 mark, Illinois led 36-0 .

The Illini would go on to seal the deal on a 50-14 victory with little trouble , improving to 3-1 on the season .

It was a record-setting day for Illinois on multiple accounts. Nathan Scheel-haase ’s fi ve touchdown pass-es were a career high. He threw for 278 yards on 19-for-24 passing, and his day was done before the third quarter came to an end.

Illinois’ 601 total yards of offense marked its fi rst 600-yard game since 2007 and ranked ninth best in school history .

The Illini were rolling from the get-go. After receiving the opening kickoff, Illinois drove 75 yards downfi eld to get on the board fi rst with Scheel-haase throwing a 2-yard touch-down pass to tight end Matt LaCosse .

During that eight-minute stretch in the second quar-ter, Scheelhaase threw touch-downs to Evan Wilson , Josh Ferguson , Jon Davis and another to LaCosse.

Scheelhaase threw an inter-ception in the fi rst quarter, the lone smudge on an otherwise stellar stat sheet.

“I told him (before the game), ‘I want you to be an NFL quarterback today,’” offensive coordinator Bill Cubit said. “‘I want the accu-rate throws, I don’t want you running. I want you to sit back there and feel comfortable.’”

Whether he looked like an NFL quarterback or not, Scheelhaase certainly appeared comfortable in the backfi eld. All fi ve of his touch-down passes came in the fi rst

half, and Illinois’ 36 fi rst-half points were its most since 2001.

Scheelhaase was business-like in his approach, but it was Ferguson who wowed fans all game long, juking Redhawks defenders with ease. He totaled 148 yards, 71 of them on the ground with his receiv-ing touchdown coming from 15 yards out — minutes after Wil-son’s touchdown catch start-ed the 29-point, eight-minute burst.

“I just got around the block,” Ferguson said of his touch-down, “and it was just me and one guy. I had to beat him. I didn’t really think about it, I let my training take over and got by him.”

The Miami offense, which had scored just two touch-downs all season coming into the game, was unable to fi nd the end zone until late in the third quarter.

The Redhawks got on the board with a touchdown pass on fourth and goal with just over two minutes on the clock. Quarterback Austin Bouch-er hit wide receiver Rokeem Williams in the back of the end zone on a play that was reviewed by offi cials after cornerback Jaylen Dunlap knocked the ball from Wil-liams’ hands.

The ruling on the fi eld was confi rmed as a touchdown, but with the game at 43-7, it was of little consequence.

At its largest, the Illinois lead was 43-0. Miami’s 250 yards of total offense was the most it’s had all season.

Boucher and quarterback Austin Gearing combined for 94 rushing yards. Together they completed only seven passes for 95 yards. Miami’s run-based option offense was ineffective against the Illini defense.

Senior linebacker Jona-than Brown led the Illini with 9 tackles. Mason Monheim

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Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk will publish the results of the past weekend for Illinois sports here every Monday.

Offense key to Illinois’ rout of Miami (Ohio)

Illini volleyball impresses State Farm Center crowd with 3-1 win over Iowa

Busy weekend in Champaign for Illini sports gives dads plenty to do

Illinois opens basketball season under the lights

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Austin Colbert jumps over teammate Ahmad Starks while dunking the ball, which took place on the corner of Green and Wright streets, on Saturday. The Illinois men’s and women’s basketball teams kicked off their seasons at the Street Jam.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Matt LaCosse (11) and Evan Wilson (89) celebrate a LaCosse touchdown during the game against Miami (Ohio) at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The Illini won 50-14.

DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois plays against Iowa at State Farm Center on Friday. The Illini won 3-1 in front of 7,061 fans.

BY BLAKE PONSTAFF WRITER

The stage couldn’t have been any bigger for the Illinois volley-ball’s conference opener against Iowa.

In front of a crowd of 7,061 at State Farm Center, the second largest in school history, the Illini broke a four-match losing streak in a decisive 3-0 sweep of the Iowa, 25-19, 25-18, 25-21. Unfortunately for the Illini, they would be on the wrong end of a sweep the very next day in their return to Huff Hall, falling to No. 12 Nebraska 25-20, 25-14, 25-22.

“Overall, it was nice to get a win,” head coach Kevin Hambly said after Friday’s match. “The team was hurting for confi dence after last weekend. It was nice to win and win in three, win decisively, where we didn’t feel like we were going to lose at the end of sets.”

The Illini utilized a strong serve game to take the Hawk-eyes out of their rhythm and set up a balanced scoring attack. All six starters for Illinois had six or more kills, with junior outside hitter Liz McMahon leading the team with 12, followed by soph-omore outside hitter Jocelynn

Birks with nine. Juniors Anna Dorn and Morganne Criswell had eight and sophomore setter Alexis Viliunas had six on sev-en attempts for an .857 hitting percentage. The team also had eight aces, tying its season high.

“We were streaky passing, had a couple streaks where we didn’t pass great,” Hambly said. “But for the most part we passed really well, we got in system, we got our middles involved, and that really helped free stuff up.”

In a return to Huff Hall on Saturday, the Illini could not get anything going after a tightly contested fi rst set that included nine lead changes. A strong ser-vice game by the Cornhuskers, which included six aces, took the Illini out of their element, sti-fl ing them offensively. The Illi-ni were held to just a .144 hit-ting percentage as a team while the Cornhuskers hit .255, led by Kadie Rolfzen and Kelsey Rob-inson, who combined for 24 kills and a .288 hitting percentage. Top recruit Michelle Strizak made her debut in orange and blue and accumulated fi ve kills.

“She knew she had to be ready tonight,” Hambly said. “She had

been tearing us up in practice every day. It was time for her to help us.”

Freshman defensive special-ist Danielle Davis, who had seen action in only one set prior to Sat-urday’s match, saw extended play-ing time in the fi nal two sets of the match, registering six digs.

Hambly also hinted at further reliance on his freshman as the year goes on.

“We’ve got freshman making an impact before,” Hambly said. “Maddie (Mayers) is making an impact for us as a redshirt fresh-man. Strizak and Davis, I think they are going to have to make an impact for us. I saw some really good things out of Davis and Strizak tonight.”

Blake can be reached at pon1@dailyillini.com.

T his past weekend saw spe-cial events galore from the Illinois Athletics depart-

ment. It all started on Friday night when volleyball took on the Iowa Hawkeyes at 7 p.m. at State Farm Center.

Soccer also faced Iowa at home on Friday and both teams came out with a win. Wasn’t such a banner weekend for the Hawkeyes, huh?

In the second largest turn-out for a volleyball match in Illinois history, the 7,061 Illini faithful made State Farm Cen-ter feel like home for a team coming off four consecutive losses.

This was only the third time Illinois volleyball has played at State Farm Center in 39 years of being a var-sity sport at the University. The last time was October of 2009 when No. 6 Minnesota came to town. Illinois upset the Gophers three sets to none in front of a record crowd of 7,632.

Fifth-year head coach Kevin Hambly echoed the sentiment of the crowd and expressed his satisfaction with the support.

“It was a great event,” he

said. “I’m a little surprised and excited by the crowd turnout.”

Volleyball has perhaps one of the most loyal and consis-tent student fan sections at Illinois. The ‘Spike Squad’ showed up in full force, dressed head to toe in orange and ready to kick off confer-ence play in style.

The match began with Spike Squad’s famous newspaper stunt. Prior to announcing Illi-nois’ starting lineup, students hold and shake newspapers in front of their faces, effectively ignoring the opposing team.

Throughout the match, fans standing on bleachers near the court — where men’s basket-ball’s Orange Krush normally resides — held blown up imag-es of recognizable fi gures such as Ron Swanson, Abraham Lincoln and ‘Home Alone’s’ Macaulay Culkin.

Talk about keeping strange company.

Illinois volleyball is a plea-sure to watch. The match was never really in doubt, but even so, the athletes kept up streams of constant encour-agement after every point, whether it was Illinois’ or Iowa’s. After every kill, ace, block or dig the team would huddle and exchange congrat-ulations and advice.

It was immensely obvious that Illinois was enjoying the

feeling of winning — and not only winning, but dominating. It was a welcome relief after a disappointing couple of weeks.

“We were ready for a win,” said veteran Liz McMahon. But in a moment of clarity, the junior acknowledged that “playing well gives us more confi dence than wins and losses.”

The very next day Illinois would lose to No. 12 Nebras-ka 3-0. The Cornhuskers shut down the Illini in their return to Huff Hall Saturday after-noon after Friday’s victory. It was Nebraska’s seventh con-secutive win. Nebraska has beaten Illinois regularly and handily since it joined the Big Ten in 2011.

Frustration seems to be a recurring theme with this 2013 team. Whether it’s getting frantic when it comes time for set point, or overthinking when it gets behind, the Illini some-times seem like they could do with some settling down.

“We didn’t come out fi ght-ing the same way and maybe focused on the negatives too much instead of focusing on getting back in it and taking advantage of those opportuni-ties,” Hambly said. “I’m disap-pointed because I thought we could play better.”

So maybe the loss stings, but if the Illini had played their best and still come up short,

would McMahon’s claim still hold? Would Illinois be more content with the loss? I don’t know. It never feels good to lose, but maybe it wouldn’t sting so much.

Apart from Illinois volley-ball, other sports held special events this past weekend.

It was Dad’s Day on Sat-urday so campus was fl ood-ed with father-daughter and father-son duos heading to the football game — where Illinois effectively demolished an over-matched Miami (Ohio) team — and men and women’s basket-ball’s “Street Jam.”

Street Jam was held at the corner of Green and Wright Saturday night to introduce the teams and coaches and get fans excited for the coming season. The athletes were dressed in army fatigues to represent the Seal Team training they were put through in the offseason. It was also a classy way to thank our troops and acknowledge the connection being forged between Illinois athletics and the military.

The event was made up of trivia contests, fan involve-ment, 3-point shooting and a dunk contest to cap it all off. Predictably, fi fth-year senior Joe Bertrand came out with the dunk contest crown.

Finally, Illinois soccer held

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FLASHBACK

Heading into 2013, three wins seemed almost too much to ask.

Maybe I’m just cynical, but even the most steadfast Illini fan would have been pleasantly surprised at the thought of a 3-1 record in the preconference, had you told them before the season.

But it’s not just the record that’s given Champaign rea-son for optimism, it’s the way in which Illinois carried itself throughout the season thus far.

Nobody believed in Illinois entering the year, and it took a couple games, it seems, for the team to become sure of itself. A frustratingly close win over Southern Illinois had fans think-ing it was 2012 part II, but a statement win over Cincinnati changed things completely.

Illinois followed its 2-0 start

with a hard-fought loss to a tough Washington team. If anything, the loss solidified Illinois as a team that is, at the very least, competitive.

Illinois further validated itself with its performance against Miami (Ohio). A 36-0 first half — more specifically a 29-0 second quarter — put the game away, and cemented that this sea-son would be better than last, record-wise.

This win shouldn’t be a sur-prise, or a point of pride, as much as a relief. The Illini went into the game looking to blow out Miami and did just that. The second quarter blitzkrieg came after a ridiculous leaping grab by Evan Wilson was followed by an onside kick and 93-second drive. Josh Ferguson capped said drive by turning a swing pass into a highlight reel high-step touchdown from 15 yards out.

Ferguson has become Illi-nois’ best playmaker, the one Bill Cubit will try to get in open space as much as possible. He accrued 148 total yards, 71 rush-

ing and 78 receiving, all on just 16 touches. Backfield mate Dono-vonn Young had 11 carries for 80 yards in what was arguably his best performance this year.

Still, though, this is Miami we’re talking about. Ferguson and Young will need to prove themselves on a bigger stage, and that opportunity comes next week.

Illinois is now 3-1 and heads into conference play with its head held high. The Illini will face their first true road test in Lincoln, Neb., against the Corn-huskers, who had a bye week fol-lowing a 3-1 start.

As much as there is working against Illinois, this team feels alive for the first time in two years. Bo Pelini and Nebraska have had two weeks to prepare for this Illinois squad, which I would imagine is still tough to get a solid handle on given how much of a surprise the offensive renaissance has been.

Illinois’ defense, meanwhile, allowed just 250 yards — its first time surrendering fewer than

400 — and 14 points to the Red-hawks. As good as those num-bers seem, they’re the best Miami has mustered this season. Fourteen points ties its season high and 250 yards is 11 bet-ter than its previous best. The defense simply needs to play bet-ter for Illinois to succeed in the Big Ten.

This win is this win. You knew coming in you weren’t going to get a whole lot out of it, but you’re happy to be 3-1 if you’re Illinois.

I would say Illinois fans couldn’t have asked for a much better nonconference season, other than perhaps shoring things up a little more against Southern. But you got the win there, you trounced a decent Cin-cinnati team, you fought hard against Washington, and you asserted your dominance against Miami.

That’s all well and good, but it’s on to the next one. The Illini are going to compete in the Big Ten this year — not for the Big Ten just yet, but Illinois will not

be a pushover win for its confer-ence foes.

Illinois is a team playing above expectations. This is because its offense is dynam-ic and can advance the ball in a multitude of ways. Quarter-back Nathan Scheelhaase has re-emerged as a leader and one of the conference’s best offensive players. The defense is the weak-er half. The linebackers are good — especially Jonathan Brown — the defensive line is so-so and the secondary is young.

Special teams is an area of concern. Taylor Zalewski and Justin DuVernois have been very up-and-down kicking the ball. V’Angelo Bentley and Miles Osei are good return men.

Illinois is 3-1 and worth watch-ing, which is great news to an unsuspecting fan base. But now the real season begins. We’ll see if the Illini are up to the task.

Eliot is a senior in Media. He can be reached at sill2@illinimedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @EliotTweet.

and Taylor Barton added eight apiece. Miami had been exper-imenting with different looks through its first three games, and defensive coordinator Tim Banks was a little unsure of what to expect.

“We practiced wishbone offense for two weeks, and (Miami) didn’t run one snap of it,” he said. “We just played our base defense because we had to figure out what they were try-ing to do and how they were try-ing to do it.

“I think as long as we stay within the system and play to our strengths, we’ll always give ourselves a chance.”

With the win marking the third of the season for Illinois, head coach Tim Beckman’s team has already surpassed its win total from 2012.

Sean can be reached at sphammo2@dailyillini.com and @sean_hammond.

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its eighth-annual SoccerFest on Sunday afternoon. Prior to their matchup against Nebras-ka at 1 p.m., free pizza was provided to the first 1,000 fans along with a petting zoo and a chance to meet the players.

Though the Illini had previ-ously gone 5-1-1 in matches fol-lowing SoccerFest, they fell to the Cornhuskers 3-2.

Iowa may have struggled in Champaign this weekend, but apparently Nebraska felt right at home.

Good thing football plays in Omaha next weekend, it seems there is some kind of curse that affects Illinois ath-letes when Nebraska comes knocking.

But let’s not jinx it.

Aryn is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at braun17@dailyillini.com. Follow her on Twitter @ArynBraun.

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Heading into Big Ten play, Illini looking promising

Ferguson high steps past defenders, totals 148 yards

ELIOT SILL

Sports editor

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER

Right from the opening kick-off against Miami (Ohio), run-ning back Josh Ferguson was the focal point of the Illinois offense in a 50-14 win.

The sophomore scatback recorded the first five touches on offense to start the game for the Illini — three rushes for 25 yards and two catches for 39.

Whether he was lined up in the backfield or split out as a wide receiver in an “empty” five-wide receiver formation, the Illini and offensive coordi-nator Bill Cubit found different ways to get Ferguson the ball.

“Josh is a guy where you sit there and say, ‘I got to get the ball to him,’” Cubit said. “We need him, we need D.Y. (Dono-vonn Young). We need all these

guys. They can’t come out and play 60, 70 plays — we’ll never last in the Big Ten.”

Young and Ferguson have been splitting carries for most of the season; although, the production hasn’t always been there. Against FCS oppo-nent Southern Illinois, the Illi-ni rushed for just 49 yards — averaging 1.6 yards per carry as a team. In the past three contests, however, Illinois has topped 200 yards on the ground twice, with a season-high output of 289 yards Saturday against Miami. One thing working in the Illini’s favor against the Red-hawks was a lot of three-down linemen alignments that Miami used defensively.

“We made people miss, we ran people over,” Young said. “If you want to play us like that, we’re

going to run the ball against you.”

Ferguson displayed the full arsenal of moves to slip by defenders and seemingly made multiple defenders miss on every touch. He utilized his pat-ented spin move on a few occa-sions, but a variety of cuts, jukes and dekes gained extra yardage.

On the 15-yard line, with his team holding a 15-point lead early in the second quarter, Ferguson came out of the back-field and swung into the flat. Quarterback Nathan Scheel-haase dropped back to pass and checked down to the run-ning back, who picked up a block from Evan Wilson on the corner and accelerated into the open field.

“It was a quick little screen,” Ferguson said. “I got around the

block and I knew it was just me and that one guy. I just gave him ... something. Honestly I didn’t even think about what I was doing, I just did it.”

That “something” turned out to be a high step for a moment’s hesitation to freeze a defender followed by a burst back inside and into the end zone. His score — a team-high third receiving touchdown for the season — pushed the lead to 22-0, part of a 15-0 run for the Illini in just a minute and 33 seconds.

“After that touchdown, I just turned to him on the sidelines and said, ‘Wow,’” head coach Tim Beckman said. “The next thing you know, he hits that gear and he goes into the end zone.”

Ferguson finished the game with 71 yards on eight carries and five catches for 77 yards —

all in the first half. The numbers add to what is already a career year for the redshirt sopho-more. In 10 games last season, Ferguson recorded 312 rushing yards and 251 yards receiving.

This year, Ferguson has the most total yards and is near the top on the team in rushing and receiving yards. His 196 rushing yards is second only to Young’s 208 in addition to lead-ing the team in both catches (12) and receiving yards (262).

Ferguson’s increased efficien-cy and production in 2013, along with Cubit’s creativity calling plays, ensures that the running back will be a focal point not just this week, but every week.

Stephen can be reached at sbourbo2@dailyillini.com and @steve_bourbon.

Southern IllinoisAug. 31 - W, 42-34

CincinnatiSept. 7 - W, 45-17

Washington (Soldier Field)Sept. 14 - L, 34-24

Miami (Ohio)Sept. 28 - W, 50-14

NebraskaOct. 5 - 11 a.m.

WisconsinOct. 19 - 7 p.m.

Michigan StateOct. 26 - 2:30 p.m.

Penn StateNov. 2 - TBA

IndianaNov. 9 - TBA

Ohio StateNov. 16 - TBA

PurdueNov. 23 - TBA

NorthwesternNov. 30 - TBA

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It took Illinois 8:21 to score four touchdowns in the second quarter on Saturday.

Illinois’ offense gained 601 total yards. It was the !rst time since 2007 that Illinois had more than 600.

Illinois totaled 161 points over the !rst four games, making it the most since 1914.

Illinois scored 40-plus points in three consecutive home games for the !rst time in Memorial Stadium history.

Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase scored !ve touchdown passes in the !rst half, tying the school record.

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TWEET OF THE GAME

“Shesh: Nate Scheelhaase had 4 TD passes all of last year. Had 5 in the first half

today #HelloBillCubit”Mike Hall, Big Ten Network

GAME TO FORGET

GAME TO REMEMBER

Taylor ZalewskiThe sophomore kicker was brought on for a 27-yard field goal attempt after Illinois had piled a 36-0 lead in the first half. He missed, and freshman Ryan Frain came in and kicked extra points from that moment on.

Josh FergusonThe sophomore running back stole the spotlight Saturday with 148 total yards: 71 rushing and 77 receiving. He scored a touchdown on a swing pass from 15 yards out as part of a 29-0 second quarter.

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What are the facts?! Myth: The “Palestinians” are a nation and

therefore deserving of a homeland.Reality: The concept of Palestinian nationhood

is a new one and had not been heard of until afterthe Six-Day War (1967), when Israel, by its victory,came into the administration of the territories ofJudea and Samaria (the“West Bank”) and theGaza Strip. The so-called “Palestinians”are no more differentfrom the Arabs living inthe neighboringcountries of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, thanWisconsinites are from Iowans.! Myth: Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”)

and the Gaza Strip are/were “occupied Arabterritory.”

Reality: All of “Palestine” — east and west of theJordan River — was part of the League of Nationsmandate. Under the Balfour Declaration, all of itwas to be the “national home for the Jewishpeople.” In violation of this mandate, Great Britainsevered the entire area east of the Jordan River —about 75% of Palestine — and gave it to the Arabs,who created on it the kingdom of Transjordan.When Israel declared its independence in 1948,five Arab armies invaded the new country in orderto destroy it at its very birth. They were defeatedby the Israelis. The Transjordanians, however,remained in occupation of Judea and Samaria (the“West Bank”) and East Jerusalem. They proceededto drive all Jews from those territories and tosystematically destroy all Jewish houses ofworship and other institutions. TheTransjordanians (now renamed “Jordanians”) werethe occupiers for nineteen years. Israel regainedthese territories following its victory in the Six-Day War. Israel has returned the entire Gaza Strip

to the Palestinians. The final status of the “WestBank” will be decided if and when the Palestinianswill finally be able to sit down and seriously talkpeace with Israel.! Myth: Jewish settlements in Judea and

Samaria (the “West Bank”) are the “greatestobstacle to peace.”

Reality: This issimply not correct,although it has beenrepeated so often thatmany have come tobelieve it. The greatestobstacle to peace is the

intransigence and the irreconcilable hostility ofthe Arabs. Not more than 500,000 Jews are settledin these territories, living among about 1.4million Arabs. How can Jews living there be anobstacle to peace? Why shouldn't they live there?Over 1 million Arabs live in Israel proper. They arenot an obstacle to peace. Neither the Israelis northey themselves consider them as such.! Myth: Israel is unwilling to yield “land for

peace.”Reality: The concept that to the loser, rather

than to the victor, belong the spoils is a radicallynew one. Israel, victorious in the wars imposed onit by the Arabs, has returned over 90% of theterritory occupied by it: the vast Sinai Peninsula,which contained some of the most advancedmilitary installations, prosperous cities and oilfields developed entirely by Israel that made itindependent of petroleum imports. For the returnof Gaza Israel was “rewarded” with constant rocketattacks. In the Camp David Accords, Israel agreedto autonomy for Judea and Samaria (the “WestBank”) with the permanent status to be determinedafter three years. But, so far, no responsiblePalestinian representation has been available toseriously negotiate with Israel about this.

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Myths About Israel and the Middle East (1)Do the media feed us fiction instead of fact?

We all know that, by dint of constant repetition, white can be made to appear black, good can gettransformed into evil, and myth may take the place of reality. Israel, with roughly one-thousandth of theworld's population and with a similar fraction of the territory of this planet, seems to engage a totallydisproportionate attention of the print and broadcast media of the world. Unfortunately, much of what themedia tell us — in reporting, editorializing in columns, and in analysis — are endlessly repeated myths.

All these myths (and others we shall talk about in a future issue) have poisoned the atmosphere fordecades. The root cause of the never-ending conflict is the unwillingness of the Arabs (and not just thePalestinians) to accept the reality of Israel. What a pity that those of the Palestinians who are not Israelicitizens have lived and continue to live in poverty, misery and ignorance. They could have chosen toaccept the proposed partition of the country in 1947, would now have had their state alongside Israel forover sixty years and could have lived in peace and prosperity. They could have kept hundreds of thousandsof refugees in their homes and could have saved tens of thousands of lives. Peace will only come whenthe Arabs finally accept the reality of Israel. And that is not a myth — that is a fact!

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