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BY ANDREW NOWAKSTAFF WRITER
The University has spent over $60,000 in litigation against two recently formed faculty unions.
According to a CFA Local #6546 press release, a FOIA request made in February showed the University spent over $48,000 against CFA Local #6546, the non-ten-ure track faculty union, and $13,000 against Uni Faculty Organization, the University Laboratory High School fac-ulty union.
“The University is respon-sible for being a good stew-ard of our resources, so we work with outside coun-sel when that is the best approach for ensuring the University is able to operate in the most effi -cient, effective manner,” said Robin Kaler, campus spokeswoman.
Shawn Gilmore, CFA Local #6546 president and
lecturer of English, said the amount of money spent on the litigation thus far was not surprising and seems to be consistent with how much the University spends on paying law fi rms during union contract cycles.
“It is in comparison to say, a salary, more than I make in a year,” Gilmore said. “Seems odd to me. You could’ve hired a whole oth-er person for that amount of money.”
According to the union’s press release, the Universi-ty employed law fi rm Clark Baird Smith LLP in 2010, and paid the fi rm $315 per hour since May 1, 2014, to work on litigating the CFA Local #6546 case.
CFA Local #6546 is rep-resented by lawyers provid-ed by the Illinois Federation of Teachers, IFT, which is a partner union of CFA Local #6546. The Illinois Feder-ation of Teachers can pay
for representation because of dues that local unions pay into IFT as partner unions. In return, IFT provides resources, such as this legal counsel, that smaller unions couldn’t necessarily attain on their own.
Gilmore said Local #6546 doesn’t collect dues yet, but once they do, they will also pay dues to IFT.
Kaler said the Universi-ty’s stance is the non-tenure track faculty and University High teachers should be rep-resented by one union. The University appealed the indi-vidual certifi cations of both unions last year. In August 2014, the Fourth District Appellate Court of Illinois decided to hear both cases and consolidated them.
In January, the court ruled that the two unions had the right to exist as sep-arate entities. The Universi-ty fi led a petition to appeal the decision in the Illinois
Supreme Court on Feb. 24, Kaler said.
Gilmore said the Univer-sity’s decision to appeal the case again hasn’t affected collective bargaining.
“It is clear that they are willing to take quite a lot of time on each step, though it is not contentious directly,” Gilmore said. “Everyone involved actually seems to be in fairly good spirits about it, but there seems to be very little expediency.”
The University has made counterproposals to all of the union’s “non-economic” proposals, which means the University hasn’t yet pro-posed anything of its own in terms of salaries and bene-fi ts, Gilmore said.
“The administrative team has started putting these caveats at the bottom of their proposals saying that they can add to, delete and
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An acceptance letter to the University does not always equal attendance in the fall. For many, it comes down to dollars and cents, and if they don’t add up, the options can be slim.
As college tuition increas-es, many are prompted to fi nd other means to pay for education. Crowdfunding websites allow individuals to request donations from friends and families for a
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Greeks Go Green in Enactus competitionBY JANE LEE STAFF WRITER
Sororities and fraterni-ties are participating in the Greeks Go Green project, a competition held by Illinois Enactus to encourage houses to be more eco-friendly.
Rebecca Zocher , co-proj-ect manager of the competi-tion and sophomore in Busi-ness, said Greeks Go Green was created a few semesters ago by Enactus, an entrepre-neurial organization work-
ing to make the world more sustainable.
Zocher said Greeks Go Green promotes recycling while teaching Greek houses about different topics related to recycling, water conser-vation, energy, food waste, community improvement and everyday sustainability.
Although the 15 partici-pating Greek houses have recycling systems in place,
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According to the report, officers respond-ed to a fight and separat-ed two individuals. The offender struck the oth-er individual while being detained.
Theft was reported in the 1200 block of N. Sixth Street around 11 a.m. Monday.
According to the report, the victim’s unsecured vehicle was stolen from her garage.
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arrested on the charges of reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, disobeying a traffi c control device and driving with a suspended license around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, police said security camera footage showed the suspect drove away from an accident with another vehicle. The damage to the vehicle is esti-mated to be $1,500. The sus-pect turned himself in after being contacted by police.
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The world’s two high-est ranked tennis players squared off in Huff Hall on this day in 1938. Fred Perry and Ellsworth Vines were tied for the num-ber one ranking world-wide in 1937 and were not dethroned until the sum-mer of 1938.
Vines had won two U.S. Championships and one Wimbledon competition as well as four Pro Slam tour-naments prior to facing off in Huff. Perry, from Great
Britain, claimed three Wimbledon wins prior to facing Vines.
Approximately 2,000 fans were in attendance, according to the Daily Illi-ni article, which reviewed the event. Perry won the fi rst set, and Vines won the second. Perry led the third set 4-2, until Vines went on a tear and dominated the remainder of the match.
After the singles duel between Perry and Vines, the two teamed up with
Berkely Bell and Walter Senior respectively. The pairs played a two set match in which Vines and Bell took the win, 7-5, 6-2 respectively.
The two would meet again in the fi nals of the Pro Slam tournament of 1939, where Vines would again claim victory against Perry for his fi fth and fi nal title.
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History department combats decline
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As registration for the fall semester approaches, John Randolph, director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of His-tory, is working to combat a decline in the enrollment of history courses. Randolph said there is a decline in the number of people enrolling in history classes, particu-larly the 100 and 400 level classes.
The main reason for the decline in 100 level classes is many students are start-ing freshman year with advanced placement cred-it; enrollment in 400 level classes is down because few-er students are choosing to major in history, Randolph said.
According to the Divi-sion of Management Infor-mation, the department has experienced a steady decline in enrollment since 2005. In the spring of 2015, 167 students were enrolled in the history department whereas in 2014, 207 stu-dents were enrolled. Ten years earlier, in 2005, 521
students were enrolled as history majors.
In an attempt to increase enrollment, the history department recently sur-veyed approximately 1,000 students who are enrolled in history classes. The sur-vey showed most students discovered history classes through the course cata-logue. Randolph said mem-bers of the department think they may reach more students with more effec-tive advertising. Howev-er, he said many students are taking history classes because of general educa-tion requirements.
Jacob Frerichs, sopho-more in AHS, is current-ly enrolled in HIST 247, Medieval Europe, because of a general education requirement.
“I think what would make me want to take more his-tory classes would be more advertisement of them, I don’t really hear anything about them,” Frerichs said.
Randolph said the depart-ment is also interested in creating classes that will appeal to more students.
Kathryn Oberdeck, asso-ciate professor of history, is interested in creating a class about culture wars to renew students’ interest in history. Oberdeck said the class would explore Ameri-can culture and who defines it, as well as “hot button questions” about culture.
Students who major in his-tory will not be confined to a career in history, Randolph
said. He gave the example of University alumna Christi-na Brodbeck, who was part of the founding team of YouTube.
“We have a lot of alum-ni who are in law, we have some alumni in public poli-cy, alumni who are in educa-tion, teaching, a lot of differ-ent fields,” Randolph said.
specific cause, and many stu-dents are using it to help fund their education.
“I had done just about everything that I could and when I realized that the Financial Aid Office wasn’t going to budge at all (I turned to crowdfunding),” said Clay Shorten, freshman in LAS.
Shorten was first exposed to crowdfunding via social media for campaigns rang-ing from paying for medical emergencies to groceries. Once Shorten saw the suc-cess of some users, he decid-ed to try it himself.
“Our most difficult con-versations can occur when
families have exhausted all resources and there aren’t any other options available to them,” said Charles May-field, associate director of the Office of Student Finan-cial Aid. “Once all avail-able options are exhausted, they’re exhausted. There’s no easy way to say that.”
Mayfield said some fami-lies may not qualify for loans due to adverse credit, and some families want to avoid borrowing.
While sites like GoFundMe and FundRazr offer individu-als the opportunity to build their campaign, individuals must share it with friends and family to receive dona-tions. Shorten said he credits his heavy social media pres-ence to his success.
“There’s always going to be one person who logs on to Facebook that day and may not have seen your campaign before and share it — that could be the thing that starts it,” Shorten said.
Shorten said he started a GoFundMe site in December when he was in the process of transferring to the Uni-versity. He received $1,700 in donations to keep him in school.
However, before his tran-scripts could be released from the previous institution he attended, Shorten had to pay his tuition bill and used GoFundMe to help gener-ate the funds. Now, he is in a similar situation and has restarted his campaign on FundRazr to pay his $4,700
University tuition bill. In the social media age,
users can receive donations through crowdfunding for just about anything, wheth-er it’s to study or volunteer abroad, to buy a new car or even to raise money for a startup company.
Katrice Perkins, sopho-more in Media, said she used GoFundMe for an internship with a startup company. The company used the site to raise funds for equipment.
“I think some people over-use it and try and do other things for it, though. But overall it’s a really good thing to do,” said Perkins.
Perkins said she has seen her friends promote their campaigns on social media for study abroad trips in
the past. She said that if she really needed the money for school, she would do the same.
Shorten said he is hopeful he will raise the rest of the money for his tuition bill this semester as he continues to promote his campaign and also works a part-time job.
He advises all students interested in crowdfunding to stay persistent and keep sharing their campaign via social media.
“I think that if you don’t have the money to do some-thing and other people are willing to give you money, then why not?” Shorten said. “I think there’s no reason not to do it.”
TUITIONFROM 1A
change any proposals at any time,” said Kay Emmert, CFA Local #6546 bargaining research chair and lectur-er of English. “That’s real-ly concerning because you can’t propose something and then suddenly change your mind about it.”
Kaler said the Universi-ty’s proposals are subject to change because of the uncertainty of the pending litigation.
The University and CFA Local #6546 meet again for
collective bargaining on April 8. Gilmore said they will likely go over the four proposals of the contract that both parties most close-ly agree on, which includes the recognition and non-dis-crimination proposals.
The University is pre-pared to bargain in good faith with either the two existing unions or a single union, depending on the out-come of the potential case, Kaler said.
The Illinois Supreme Court has yet to decide whether it will hear the case.
UNIONSFROM 1A
Zocher said, the competition is increasing the amount of recycling collected by the houses.
Zocher said Enactus liked the idea of having their proj-ects reach out to the Greek community because it’s an opportunity to impact a lot of people. Each Greek house signed a contract with Enactus to take part in the competition.
“At first, we got the atten-tion of a few fraternities and sororities, but eventu-ally we had fraternities and sororities reaching out to us, instead of us reaching out to them,” said Miguel Gutier-rez, junior in business and co-project manager.
In addition to a variety of weekly competitions, Enac-tus created a curriculum to educate participants about going green.
Previously, Enactus mem-bers taught the curriculum to participants themselves, but decided to designate ‘green chairs’ in each house to increase involve-ment. Enactus created les-son plans for green chairs to teach their fellow soror-ity and fraternity members how to be environmental-ly friendly. Additionally, each green chair manages their house’s participation in the competition and pro-motes recycling to ensure the house becomes more sustainable and has the opportunity to win the competition.
Gutierrez, also a frater-nity member, said he knows there is excess waste being produced, but not being recycled.
“I saw it as an oppor-tunity to take something that I would be passionate about and actually make a big change because I have inside knowledge to how the Greek system works,” Guti-errez said.
Zocher said within the first week of Greeks Go Green, 608 pounds of recy-cled materials were collect-ed and the following week participating houses col-lected 600 more pounds. The house that collects the most recycled materials earns a maximum of 12 points and is able to earn additional points through mini compe-titions, such as poster-mak-ing for green awareness. At the end of the competition, a $700 cash prize will be awarded to the house with the most points.
Matthew Schierer, junior in LAS and green chair of Alpha Sigma Phi, said representatives of Enac-tus give the green chairs of each house the week-ly curriculum a few days before the houses’ chapter meeting.
“I think the competition has really been a catalyst for us getting the system in place. I think that’s real-ly what the six weeks are about,” Schierer said. “In terms of long term, once we have the system in place after the competition is done, we are going to try and keep the system going and promote the culture of having a house that is envi-ronmentally sustainable.”
The last recycling col-lection is on April 17 and the winning house will be announced on April 22, Earth Day.
GREEKSFROM 1A
Cravings fails inspectionDAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
The Champaign Chinese restaurant Cravings, 603 S. Wright St., has been shut down after a failed health inspection on March 24.
The establishment was cited for 22 total viola-tions, seven of them listed as “critical.”
The inspection was con-ducted by two Champaign-Urbana public health dis-trict inspectors who found the restaurant in violation of code regarding food stor-age temperatures and unla-beled toxic chemical spray bottles. The report also stated multiple containers of food were left uncovered, raw beef was being stored over raw fish in a cooler and the cook line’s equip-ment was “heavily soiled” among other minor and crit-ical violations.
Jim Roberts, director of
environmental health for the Champaign-Urbana public health district, said his department has worked with Cravings in the past, and it has not changed after previous citations for health violations. Roberts said he believes the viola-tions could result in con-sumers becoming serious-ly ill if not controlled.
“Regarding these fac-tors, we have asked them to make sure they have the knowledge of what they are,” Roberts said. “We have worked with them in the past, done some train-ing and coaching. The prob-lem is enacting. They are not acting to control those risk factors.”
Roberts said it is possible for the restaurant to reopen in the future if they make the necessary changes to meet health standards.
Boy rebuilding hope nearly a year after being shot, paralyzed BY GLENN E. RICETRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Ka’Vyea Tyson-Curry’s grip tightens as he pulls his body from his wheelchair toward the walker posi-tioned in front of him. With a quick upward thrust — and a little assist from his physi-cal therapist — the 11-year-old boy stands. Silently, he counts. He reaches 17, 18, then 19.
“I just beat my goal — 20 seconds,” he proclaims before plopping back into the wheelchair. “Next is 45 seconds.”
Simple goals for a not-so-simple life.
April marks a year since a gunman’s bullets ripped apart the lives of Ka’Vyea and his mother, Tanesha Tyson. Ka’Vyea and his dad had gone on a quick run April 18 to get candy and juice from a gas sta-tion. As Ka’Vyea’s dad slid back into his car, a gunman approached. Eight shots from a .40-caliber hand-gun poured into their vehi-cle. Of the three occupants, only a 5-year-old passenger escaped injury.
Bullets mortally wound-ed 34-year-old Ka’Vyea Cur-ry II.
Another bullet sliced into the middle of young Ka’Vyea’s back, hitting his spine and paralyzing him from the mid-chest down. Hospitalized for the next three months, he missed his father’s funeral and the final weeks of fourth grade. He struggled against the venti-lator and hated the tracheot-omy and feeding tube.
Authorities called the gunman’s actions swift and senselessly violent but have not revealed a motive. Pros-ecutors charged a suspect, 28-year-old Dontae D. Jef-ferson, with first-degree murder and five other felo-nies. A trial tentatively is set for April 13.
The shooting enraged a community already fed up with senseless and repeated violence.
“Ka’Vyea’s experience is just one more tragic example of why we need to get guns out of the hands of criminals,” Mayor Sly James said recently. “Ten- and 11-year-olds should be going to school, playing in parks, reading books and having fun with friends, not undergoing paralysis rehabilitation and mourn-ing the loss of a father who he watched get shot and died in front of him.”
Ka’Vyea dresses him-self but needs his mother to put on the torso brace that provides upper body support and prevents him from slouching. Whenever he needs to use the restroom or get in the car, she carries him there.
“I just adjust to the situa-tion,” said the fifth-grader.
During a recent physical therapy session, Ka’Vyea got fitted for a pair of trial leg braces. Someday they could allow Ka’Vyea to maintain a standing balance, to become accustomed again to being upright, said Michele Ahern, his therapist at the Rehabil-itation Institute of Kansas City.As the therapy session ends, Ka’Vyea stretches out his arms and beckons his mother. She grins, walks over and leans close.
Ka’Vyea wraps his arms around her and rests his head against her chest. They hug.
When asked about what happened the night of the shooting, Ka’Vyea falls silent.
No words come.He misses his father.He thinks about him
often.Vivid memories of the
shooting still haunt him.Before that night,
Ka’Vyea lived as a typical boy, frequently playing out-side, running and riding his scooter with relatives and friends. He now deals with realities that rarely befall young boys.
Every day, Ka’Vyea takes a regimen of medication to control his bladder, bowels and anxiety.
“He doesn’t believe in God anymore because he said why would He have done that to him?” Tyson said. “I tell him that it wasn’t God that did that. It was the devil.”
She reminds him too: “You are still here and you are still here for a reason _ to inspire somebody else who is going through the same thing.”
JILL TOYOSHIBA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEKa’Vyea Tyson-Curry of Raytown, 11, takes a break with physical therapist Michele Ahern of The Rehabilitation Institute of Kansas City on March 3 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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US will not charge former IRS official with contempt of Congress
WASHINGTON — Lois Lerner, the former IRS official whose office gave improper scrutiny to tea par-ty groups seeking tax-exempt status, won’t be charged with contempt of Congress.
Outgoing U.S. Attorney Ron Machen disclosed the Justice Department’s deci-
sion in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner dat-ed March 31. Machen is resigning Wednesday as the top federal prosecutor in Washington.
The decision comes 11 months after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to hold Lerner in contempt.
Mom of children found in freezer charged with murder
DETROIT — The mother of two children found in a deep freezer in a Detroit apartment is now facing murder charges.
The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednes-day that Mitchelle
Blair — already facing child abuse charges — is also being charged with two counts each of felony murder, pre-meditated murder and torture in the deaths of her children Stoni Ann Blair and Stephen Gage Berry.
Pexmex oil fire in Gulf of Mexico kills at least 4 workers, injures 16
MEXICO CITY — A fire at an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday killed at least four workers and sent dozens leaping into the water for safety.
Sixteen workers were report-ed injured and there may be a number of missing, Mexico’s state oil monopoly said. It was not immediately clear whether
a significant amount of oil had spilled.
It was the latest disaster that Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has had to contend with and comes as the struggling compa-ny is trying to reposition itself after the government’s deci-sion to open the energy sector to foreign investment for the first time in seven decades.
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Hello again, world! I have officially come out from behind the curtain, and
am now the former opinions editor wizard of The Daily Illini Oz (please excuse my cheesy cinematic reference). For the past year, I have been knee-deep in everything Uni-versity-related, and let me tell you, I’ve come out the other side having learned a thing or two.
With everything from the Steven Salaita debacle that consumed first semester to on-going discussions about race and gender on campus, there is a lot that goes on here in our little middle-of-nowhere, corn-filled, flat-land paradise.
Through daily opinions col-umns, editorials, guest col-umns, letters to the editor and reader feedback, our campus’ voices have been, and con-tinue to be, heard (some more loudly than others) on a vari-ety of these issues. This past year, I read and listened and contributed to a multitude of campus conversations rang-ing from various feminist issues to ineffective Univer-sity programs to the continual controversy concerning Chief Illiniwek, and everything in between.
What I realized from all of this is the importance of start-ing conversations on cam-pus — and by conversations, I mean, yes, conversations. I don’t mean spiteful, vindictive words in the face of oppos-ing viewpoints, as we all too commonly see on social media forums. No, I mean actual dialogues with substance and support that portray different sides of an issue.
We’re a population of over 40,000 students, and while we sport the same shade of obnoxious orange and, pre-sumably, root for the same college teams (I-L-L...). we sure don’t agree about every-thing. And that’s OK as long as we are willing to maturely and rationally talk about our differing perspectives.
Some people seem quick to turn to malicious, biting words and tunnel-vision atti-tudes in an effort to defeat an opposing outlook, when what needs to happen is intelli-gent, thought-provoking dia-logue. Disagreement shouldn’t become blatant condemna-tion. When it does turn into condemnation, it can inhibit our ability to appropriately address the issue at hand and, instead, can turn us off from needed discussion.
To gather some better insight on the role conversa-tion plays in the face of con-flict, I reached out to Erin Wehrman, a University Ph.D. student, as well as a teach-
ing and research assistant in the department of Communi-cation. Wehrman comment-ed, “Civil discourse is very important; we should be using the tools that we have (like social media) to help make changes in the world, but we must always be aware of our actions and aim to be civil in our discourse since effective communication cannot exist without it. This means giving others the room to speak and voice their opinions, too.”
Wehrman continued by emphasizing that destructive communication tactics, such as name-calling, stonewall-ing and criticism, “can pre-vent effective communication on controversial topics, which can inhibit our ability to move forward.”
As previously noted, there’s a difference between criti-cism and disagreement, and there’s a definite difference in our reception when one is used instead of the other: Disagree with my viewpoint? Great. Let’s talk about it and see what we can learn from each other. Criticize and degrade my opin-ions? Hi, meet sassy, defensive Nicki, and let’s accomplish nothing.
The only way we can improve what we all have opinions on is if we get other people talking about it. It’s one thing, for example, to have an opinion that Chief Illiniwek is an offensive figure, and it’s another to talk about the his-
tory of Chief Illiniwek and what apparent pride or deg-radation the former mascot brought to the University. It’s one thing to say that Steven Salaita’s rescinded job offer at the University was wrong, and it’s another to begin talking about the importance of First Amendment rights and aca-demic freedom.
The point is: Yes! Believe it or not, people will never completely agree about any-thing! Huzzah! Mind-blowing! But that only means there is necessary room to talk about these issues in our seemingly small-but-actually-huge-and-influential community.
If we can’t open up and share our multitude of varying opinions for fear of criticism and closed-mindedness, then we’re ultimately failing as a learning institution.
Last time I checked, an opinion is called an opinion because that’s exactly what it is — an opinion. It’s a sub-jective viewpoint shaped by differing life experiences — viewpoints that we should be open to hearing. If you want to spew hate via online com-mentary, that’s fine — nobody will stop you. But when we can turn disagreement and pas-sion into discussion, debate and conversation about a real life issue, then we’ve started something worthwhile.
Nicki is a senior in [email protected]
The number of mornings I’ve rolled out of bed at noon on a Sunday craving
an Egg White Delight McMuf-fin ranges in the teens, at least. And yet, such a desire has yet to have been fulfilled due to the very limited avail-ability of McDonald’s break-fast menu items. In McDon-ald’s terms, “morning” ends at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday and 11:00 a.m. on weekends. So, if you’re craving an Egg McMuf-fin on your lunch break, tough luck.
But, a Chicago Tribune article published on March 30 reports that McDonald’s restaurants in San Diego will begin a “trial run” of all-day breakfast. This trial run will allow access to select break-fast foods later in the day. If the trial yields a positive out-come, McDonald’s could con-sider making this a permanent change to their menu.
I think that this is wonder-ful news, and McDonald’s should most definitely con-sider allowing workers and patrons alike 24-hour Egg McMuffin access. I speak to you now as a student, a former
employee of McDonald’s and a semi-regular presence of the 2:00-a.m.-on-a-Saturday Green St. Scene: This menu change will garner great results for the fast food chain.
According to the Chicago Tribune, breakfast “accounts for about 25 percent of sales at McDonald’s and is the stron-gest part of the day for the chain.”
As a McDonald’s employee, I can say with the utmost pas-sion that breakfast was my least favorite time to work: Between the hours of 4:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., the line of cars in the drive-thru sim-ply refuses to yield. Cars of workers on their way to the morning shift generally die down around 6:30 a.m., but then you have a steady flow of cars and in-house diners trickle in throughout mid- to late-morning.
The main problem I’ve expe-rienced with the McDonald’s breakfast hours is the uncer-tainty over when, exactly, breakfast stops and lunch begins. If you’re Ron Swanson, you’ll scoff and act as if any-body who eats anything but breakfast, ever, is a complete luddite.
The general philosophy of McDonald’s is to provide accu-rate, efficient service (with a smile!) to as many people as possible, in as short a time as
possible. Having breakfast end just as lunch starts dis-rupts this process and leads to a decrease in efficiency.
I’ll describe in short to you how this happens: Shortly before breakfast ends, McDon-ald’s has to prepare for lunch. So they begin to drop more baskets of fries into the fryer and less hash browns. But it’s still “breakfast,” so people still want hash browns, even if there aren’t as many being made. This makes the order-ing process take longer.
Having breakfast all day will eliminate this extra inef-ficiency and allow for students short on time to grab their hash browns quickly and dash to class.
McDonald’s also needs all-day breakfast in order to stay competitive as a fast food chain. The Chicago Tribune reported the breakfast expan-sion is McDonald’s “latest move” to increase revenue and customer satisfaction after “several months of disappoint-ing sales.”
Although the article does not specifically allude to what in particular has led to a decrease in sales, I would imagine that the unhealthy rap McDonald’s so often gets might have something to do with it. If this is the case, hav-ing breakfast available all day can certainly be a solution.
It’s possible to order “healthy” options for lunch and dinner, of course (salads and ... salads). But the break-fast menu inarguably has far better and far more options for the health-conscious McDonald’s goer. In addition to the menu items one might assume offer health benefits — yogurt parfaits and oat-meal — many of the egg sand-wiches are actually made with fresh eggs. I’ll utilize my status of authority on this position and say, I know. I’ve been on the other side of the counter.
The (comparative) health benefits of McDonald’s break-fast menu items will extend to University students as well; more breakfast items near the quad will help students with a heavy schedule grab a quick bite on their way to class.
My last talking point is perhaps a bit frivolous. But I think most University stu-dents will agree: The ability to order pancakes and bacon late at night in the heart of the Green Street social scene will definitely be a welcomed opportunity. Sometimes, walk-ing all the way across campus to the Oregon Street Merry Ann’s is too much of a hassle in the dead of night.
Carly is a junior in [email protected]
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Students key to
campus going green
CARLY CHARLES
Opinions columnist
NICKI HALENZA
Opinions columnist
In people’s day-to-day lives, the environment can often be looked over, and
people don’t always remember to take care of it. Being environmentally friendly isn’t always our top priority, despite its need to be.
While the University may be known for other initiatives, such as our engineering program and having an increased amount of international students, our campus is also largely focused on sustainability and being environmentally friendly.
While many groups on campus have an eco-friendly focus or purpose, more are joining in — including the campus Greek system. Illinois’ Enactus is working with 15 sororities and fraternities to participate in the Greeks Go Green competition. The month-long event focuses on recycling and spreading awareness through social media on how to be more environmentally friendly.
This is a fantastic initiative and adds to the many other ways that being eco-friendly is a main priority of this campus. Each semester, through the Sustainable Campus Environment Fee and a Cleaner Energy Technology Fee, students contribute to campus-wide sustainability projects. The Electrical and Computer Engineering building’s net-zero energy use is pushing us to make as much energy as we consume and is the largest building in the world of this type. The University also has a climate action plan to make the University a carbon neutral campus by 2050.
Campus administrators, building and zoning workers and members of the Student Sustainability Committee work on these initiatives every day, but having various RSOs, and now the Greek community, dedicated to this effort is further establishing this campus’ presence as a sustainable university.
Through Greeks Go Green, various chapters are competing to see which can recycle the most and save the most energy by Earth Day. There is also curriculum throughout the program to teach students eco-friendly habits.
Similarly, several dorms recently wrapped up Eco-Olympics March 22. Dorms competed by looking at the total energy-use of the building and encouraging students to make commitments to environmentally conscious changes they could make, such as taking the stairs over the elevator to eliminate electricity.
Seeing as Greek houses and dorms are major hubs of student involvement and student living, these initiatives, paired with everything else the campus is doing, are hopefully inspiring lifestyle choices for all students on campus.
While all the initiatives the University has created advance our status as a green-University, seeing students actively participate shows even more campus commitment and helps improve the health of our planet.
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CHICAGO — Barron Shan-non left prison for the fourth time in less than a decade on a Greyhound bus. He had some photos and letters from home in a manila envelope, a cigarette tucked behind his ear and a few dollars from the state of Illinois in his pocket. He was clad in pris-on-issued black sweatpants and a sweatshirt that did little to keep him warm on a gray, frigid day.
Still, he was free after more than two years in the penitentiary and headed home.
As the bus rolled past snow-covered farm fields and bare trees recently, the 28-year-old gave thought to his future. An admitted gang member from the Far South Side whose prison stints have been for selling drugs, Shan-non wanted to find a way to stay out this time. But he knew the streets presented a certain danger and that navigating them would not be easy.
“A lot of my homies got killed since I’ve been locked up,” he explained. “I ain’t going to let anybody kill me.”
The Greyhound carrying Shannon was a bus to free-dom of sorts, taking newly released inmates from pris-ons downstate back to Chica-go, all dressed alike, all car-rying their belongings in an envelope or box, all hoping they never see the inside of
a prison again. They had no identification, having given up their state IDs and driv-er’s licenses to police upon their arrests.
In many ways, the men rep-resent the churn of a criminal justice system. About 30,000 inmates enter the state’s pris-ons every year and about the same number leave, mak-ing bus trips like Shannon’s a nearly daily occurrence. Many of the inmates are con-victed of drug crimes and serve relatively short stints. About half of those who are released will return within three years, according to fig-ures from the Illinois Depart-ment of Corrections.
Of the dozen or so inmates on the bus, nearly all had been in prison more than once. Several, like Shan-non, had been in a half-doz-en times.
For all the hope on the bus — for a fresh start, for jobs, for school — there was an equal measure of reality tamping it down. With parole still to serve, the inmates’ plans were vague, unformed. Some hoped to live with family. Some said they had nowhere to go and planned to walk in search of a shelter.
When they look for a job, their criminal record will be heavy baggage. If they do not mention it to a pro-spective employer, the gaps in work history will be a sol-id clue that they had been incarcerated.
James Knight has been
in prison seven times, each time for selling or possess-ing drugs.
“What are most of us going to do? I’ll tell you what,” Knight said. “We’re going to go back to doing what we were doing.”
Shannon had been driven from Menard to St. Louis in a prison van. Another group of inmates, including Velez and Knight, came from the minimum-security prison in Vienna at the far south end of the state. Prison officials typi-cally give inmates about $10 in “gate money,” what they call dress-out clothes and a one-way bus ticket.
The vast majority of the inmates in the Illinois Department of Corrections come from Cook County, according to department officials.
In St. Louis, some of the inmates bought fast food at the bus station, their first break from the soy-heavy diet in prison. Then they boarded, all of them sitting near the back of the bus except for Knight. He went to prison for the first time in the mid-1990s, according to court and prison records, and he has returned at fairly regular intervals. Each time he got out, he vowed not to return. This time is no dif-ferent, but he admits the odds are good he will go back.
“I’m starting from scratch,” he said. “I’m going to try to make it, try to make a living.”
Released inmates take bus to freedom
rockers who destroyed the stage and went against the corporate “man” that is behind every music festi-val. O’Keefe said moving around and adapting at per-formances are crucial to the band’s persona.
“The ability to do some-
thing like that, even the ability to get shutdown twice during (the Bonnaroo performance) and have your show be flexible and be open to kids jumping on the stage or being shut down or what-ever it may be, that’s what we want,” O’Keefe said.
According to Gallegos, The Orwells are maintain-ing the ‘70s image of what it means to be a rock star,
straying away from the manufactured sound that one could find in today’s electronic and pop sound.
“I’m not saying electron-ic music isn’t cool. I’m just saying that nothing really beats the type of raw energy that bands like The Orwells are able to bring to a stage,” Gallegos said.
JOHN J. KIM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICELuis Velez, 46, hugs his sister Alma after arriving at the Greyhound station Feb. 20 in Chicago. Velez was released from Vienna Correctional Center earlier in the morning and took a bus from St. Louis to Chicago.
she felt welcomed by the ASA members when she joined.
“I saw lots of similarities between the people,” Al-Chaar said.
Elizabeth Ochoa-Raya, senior in LAS, said she has been going to ASA events since last spring because the RSO shows off its culture.
“I’ve always been inter-ested in different cultural events,” she said. “I had a lot of fun at [my first ASA
event].”Ochoa-Raya said she went
to ASA’s “Arabian Nights” event last semester, which showcased Arab culture through crafts, music and food. She said she enjoyed how the different Arab customs were explained through informational booths on Palestine and Egypt.
Ochoa-Raya said she is planning to attend Layalina as well.
“They do a good job,” Ochoa-Raya said. “I hope they sponsor more events like these.”
Al-Chaar said the RSO is hoping to have live updates on the RSO’s Twitter feed during Layalina. Overall, she wants the night to “live up to the hype.”
In the meantime, Al-Chaar, Qaddour and other members will be preparing the night by shopping for decorations and continuing to spread the word.
“It’s our biggest event. We try to attract as many people as we can,” Qaddour said. “We hope to satisfy every-one’s excitement.”
Especially with a song like “Who Needs You,” and may-be even with a song like “North Ave.” I think it really just comes out of boredom of doing the same thing. I mean, you don’t want to do the same thing again, and you keep looking and keep digging further for bigger things that you can say.
DI: Being so young, it’s
very clear that you guys know what you want and how you want your perfor-mances to go. How did that happen so quickly?
MO: I think it’s from going to see a lot of bands and even seeing bands at festivals that you maybe don’t like. I was reading the other day, where somebody was talking about when-ever somebody gets asked what their influence is. They always say the things that they like, but a lot of the times, the things that influ-ence you the most are the things that you don’t like. I watch these bands, and I
really don’t like their per-formance, and it influenc-es the way that I want to go about performing. We’ve really figured out what we stand for on that front of performing or on making music.
DI: So is there an artist
that has been influential where you know you don’t want to be like them? Or you do want to be like them?
MO: It’s actually funny, when we were growing up, our favorite band was The Strokes. It was the way that they would perform. They would just look bored as hell on stage, and they wouldn’t really move. I remember growing up thinking that it was just the coolest thing. And then I went to the Black Lips in high school, and they were the exact oppo-site. I think that’s a perfect example of influence on both ways. I liked how the Black Lips went about it much more than The Strokes.
DI: Since you guys have
gotten more popular in this past year, have you expe-rienced the good and bad
sides to fame?MO: The good is just get-
ting your message out to more people ... I guess the worst part is ... this pres-sure that I feel like I place upon myself when I write another song. This pres-sure is something I never felt when we were in high school making songs. This pressure, oh, “OK, it’s got to be great.” I’m definitely pushing myself now more, but it can get you frustrated with writer’s block.
DI: What has been your favorite part of being on the road so far?
MO: When we first toured Europe. It was a weird feel-ing just being there and see-ing people that knew our songs. That doesn’t real-ly ever get old to me. Just going to new places and knowing that there are people there that you have connected to somehow, even though you’ve never met them or been to their city. The last time we played Lon-don, it was the biggest ven-ue we’ve ever played. It was like, “How the hell did all of this happen?”
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Matt O’Keefe, 20-year-old guitarist of The Orwells, spoke with The Daily Illini about his life and the band.
The Daily Illini: What has the band been up to, and how is the new year going?
Matt O’Keefe: So far, 2015 has been good. We’ve had a lot of downtime compared to what 2014 was, which is actually nice because now we’re working on our next record, which gives us time to write ... All the focus is going into this next album. Then after that will be tours.
DI: 2014 was a crazy year for you guys. You released an album and toured all over the world. What was that like?
MO: 2014 was easily the most touring we’ve ever done. We got to see a lot of the world, which was a big plus ... But it was non-stop touring, and we’re not the best at writing on the road ... That was a very strange, new kind of feeling, where all your focus is going into performance and tours and not as much into writing, which is sad.
DI: Did touring this album for such a long peri-od make you lose your love for “Disgraceland” at any point?
MO: I think I would be lying if I said no, but not in an extreme way. I think if you stuck any fi ve people in a van, or whatever, around the world for a year, it’s not that you lose interest or lose the love for each other in the band; it’s just that your mind is going to want to get on to the next thing. If you play those songs every night for almost a whole year you start to say, “OK, I’m over these tunes. We’ve got to start to make new ones and play new ones.” I think your focus just moves on to some-thing else.
DI: From that point to now, how do you think your sound has evolved?
MO: When we were writ-ing songs early on in high school, most of it was just rippin’ bands off and trying to pump out (songs) as fast as we could. Now, it’s more of trying to say something and trying to bring out some truth about this generation that maybe isn’t so on the surface.
DI: And when you
released the “Who Needs You” video, that got people pretty stirred up. Do you think that your message has evolved as well?
MO: Yeah, definitely.
THE ORWELLS: A NEW GENERATION OF ROCKBY FRANCES WELCHSTAFF WRITER
Coming straight from Chicago suburbia, The Orwells — fronted by Mario Cuomo, guitarists Matt O’Keefe and Dominic Corso, twin brothers Grant Brin-ner on bass and Henry Brin-ner on drums — are making their fi rst-ever Champaign-Urbana appearance.
Supported by three oth-er Chicago-area bands, the rock ’n’ roll groups will per-form Saturday at a secret location in Urbana. It will be one of the fi rst house shows for The Orwells since the band’s summer 2014 inter-national tour.
In addition to this being its debut C-U performance, O’Keefe said the band enjoys house shows because they give them an idea of what they could transfer
from the band’s live per-formances to its upcoming album recording.
“(House shows) are fun and different, and it helps us work out little kinks in new songs,” O’Keefe said.
Cristian Gallegos, pro-moter of the show and sophomore in Media, said he met Corso at a previ-ous house show. The two stayed in touch and even-tually worked together to organize Saturday’s show.
Gallegos said Cuomo’s stage presence and the band’s crunchy distortion are qualities that make The Orwells live performances so great.
Beginning in 2009, while high school students in Elm-hurst, Illinois, The Orwells formed as an outlet for bet-ter songwriting and having a good time. They never
thought it would ultimately turn into a career, according to O’Keefe. After the band’s debut album, “Remember When,” was released by Autumn Tone Records in 2012 , he said the response was beyond anything they could have imagined, mak-ing the band realize it was time to buckle down.
Moving beyond garages and basements, The Orwells have now toured interna-tionally, performing in cit-ies such as Tokyo, London, Dublin and Liverpool. This includes their tour as an opening band for the Arc-tic Monkeys, which sparked controversy after The Orwells remarked that the Arctic Monkeys performed predictable shows.
O’Keefe said the band began to notice that the Arc-tic Monkeys performances
on the tour lacked passion and spontaneity.
“Light shows and all that changing guitars, I don’t buy into that shit. I don’t really think anyone cares about that. As long as the performance is good enough, you don’t need fan-cy lasers, colored lights and a different guitar for each song,” O’Keefe said. “I think that (the spontaneity) gets taken away when you add a team of people who are rely-ing on a set to run exactly how it has to be ran. And that’s really what we meant by it feeling predictable.”
At a performance dur-ing the 2014 Bonnaroo Music Festival in Man-chester, Tennessee, con-certgoers spread the word of the young 20-something
BY MARA SHAPIROSTAFF WRITER
In order to expose stu-dents to Arab culture, the Arab Student Association will host a cultural night entitled “Layalina” on Thursday.
Layalina, which means “Our Night,” is the RSO’s annual event that encom-passes food, dancing, music and other performances. It will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Illini Union Courtyard Cafe.
“We are hoping for a big turn out and to have a fun
experience for Arabs and non-Arabs alike,” said Noor Qaddour, vice president of ASA and junior in AHS. “We want the whole campus to experience our culture.”
According to Qaddour, a DJ will be present at Laya-lina, as well as Arabic cal-ligraphy, Henna stations and various Arab desserts like baklava, which includes phyllo dough, nuts and a sweet syrup.
Lina Al-Chaar, ASA pres-ident and senior in LAS, thinks the dancing is the best part of the night.
“I love seeing non-Arabs dancing,” she said. “It’s fun when everyone gets together.”
Both Al-Chaar and Qad-dour got involved with ASA early on in their college lives.
“I was a freshman and [Al-Chaar] was a sopho-more,” Qaddour said. “Her and a few other people told me to come to meetings, and I liked the atmosphere. It felt like home.”
Al-Chaar agreed, saying
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BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s tennis team handed Ohio State its fi rst Big Ten regular season loss since 2005 last week-end. The Illini (17-3, 5-0 Big Ten) snapped the Buckeyes’ 97-dual match win streak in the Big Ten, and now hold the conference’s longest streak: 17 matches.
Illinois will have a chance to build on that this weekend as it contin-ues through the heart of the conference slate on the road against Michigan State (11-10, 2-2 Big Ten) on Saturday and Michi-gan (3-12, 0-4 Big Ten) on Sunday.
The win over Ohio State was the Illini’s fi rst sweep of the Buckeyes since 2002. It knocked OSU out of a three-way tie at the top of
the Big Ten standings with Illinois and Minnesota and also helped bring home some hardware for No. 50 Aleks Vukic. The fresh-man was awarded Big Ten Player of the Week for his efforts against Ohio State and Penn State. He’s the third Illini and the third Big Ten freshman to win the award this spring.
Vukic went 2-0 in sin-gles over OSU’s No. 83 Ralf Steinbach and Penn State’s Aws Laaribi and notched two doubles victories with senior Farris Gosea. Vukic improved his spring singles record to 13-1 and hasn’t lost a match since January.
“I think Vukic works his
Tennis Michigan road tripWhen/Where: Illinois vs. Michigan State: 11 a.m., Saturday April 4, East Lansing, Mich. Illinois vs. Michigan: 11 a.m., Sunday April 5, Ann Arbor, Mich.Quick notes: The Illini
face two struggling Big Ten opponents in Michigan: MSU has been inconsistent all season and Michigan is having its worst season in recent memory.Hidden stat: 1995: The last time Illinois lost to MSU and Michigan in the same season.
Men’s tennis looks to continue conference streak
BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER
The rivalry games con-tinue for the Illinois base-ball team.
Following a 4-3 victory for Braggin’ Rights over Missouri on Tuesday night, No. 25 Illinois (21-6-1, 2-1) will host Northwestern (8-19, 2-1) for a three-game series in a battle for state supremacy.
The Illini have won 10 of their last 12 meetings with the Wildcats, including a series sweep over them last year, during which Illinois outscored Northwestern 20-2 across three games.
Illinois will aim for a similar offensive output this time around.
“Earlier in the season, our pitching kind of car-ried us in a lot of games, and every once in a while, our bats kind of woke up,” catcher Jason Goldstein said. “It seems like right now our bats are heating up, and we’re getting a lot of critical, clutch hits.”
The Illini have plated at least eight runs in three of their last fi ve games. They lead the Big Ten in total bases, due in large part to fi rst baseman David Keri-an’s seven longballs — Illi-nois is second in the confer-ence in home runs.
Illinois will have a good chance to gain even more offensive momentum against a struggling North-western pitching staff.
The Wildcats’ start-
ing rotation consists of just three arms, none of which have been consis-tent enough to post an ERA below 4.40. The team allows the third-highest walks and throws the third-most wild pitches in the conference.
Northwestern stumbled into the 2015 season, losing nine of its fi rst 10 games. Only one of those losses was by a margin larger than fi ve, though, and the Wildcats have turned it around with a three-game winning streak heading into this weekend.
Northwestern’s offense is driven by senior util-ity player Kyle Ruchim, who leads the team in hit-
BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois softball team trav-els to Iowa City, Iowa this week-end for a three-game conference series on the road against Iowa, where the Illini hope to extend their four-game win streak with their record-breaking offense.
Despite struggling at the begin-ning of the season, the Illini (12-20, 3-3 Big Ten) are having one of the best offensive seasons in program history. With 19 regu-lar-season games remaining, the Illini’s 38 home runs rank sev-enth all-time in school history for a single season. The team’s .310 batting average, .512 slug-ging percentage and .383 on-base percentage all rank second in Illi-nois history.
“We faced a lot of tough pitch-ing early in the season,” freshman outfi elder Carly Thomas said. “So we’ve been making adjustments. We just keep attacking, coming
at it hard and never backing off.”However, Illinois will need
more than a high-octane offense to beat the Hawkeyes. Iowa’s (11-27, 2-7 Big Ten) record is deceiv-ing; the Hawkeyes have faced six teams nationally ranked in the top-20, three of which are in the nation’s top four. Nine of Iowa’s losses have come by one run, including a 4-3 loss to No. 6 Louisiana-Lafayette and a 2-1 loss to No. 2 Oregon. The Hawk-eyes are fresh off a 6-4 upset of No. 4 Michigan.
Illinois is 14-20 against Iowa all-time, winning two of the teams’ four meetings last season.
“Iowa is a solid team that’s played an aggressive schedule,” head coach Terri Sullivan said. “You just have to trust your game plan: Make routine plays, have pitchers execute, work together, come out every day planning to be at your best and always expect your opponent to be at their best.”
The defensive aspect of the game plan is where the Illini have been lacking — they have 39 errors as a team, led by sec-ond baseman Allie Bauch, who has collected 15 errors already
BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER
The No. 14 Illinois women’s gymnastics team has worked toward the goal of making a third-straight trip to nation-als all season long, and the gymnasts can fi nally make that goal a reality at Satur-day’s NCAA Regionals.
On March 23, the Illini were selected to compete in
the Morgantown Regional at the WVU Coliseum in Mor-gantown, West Virginia, as a No. 3 seed.
“It’s really exciting, espe-cially to qualify to Region-als,” junior Giana O’Connor said. “But to be put in this regional, I feel that’s really exciting, too, because there’s a lot of competition and a lot of great teams. It should be an exciting competition.”
Illinois will face reigning co-national champion No. 2 Florida, No. 11 Stanford, No. 19 Arkansas, No. 25 New Hampshire and West Vir-ginia. To advance to Nation-
als, the Illini must fi nish in the top two. Despite being the No. 3 seed, head coach Kim Landrus is confi dent her
team has what it takes to earn a berth to Nationals.
NCAA RegionalsMorgantown Regional participants: Florida, Stanford, Illinois, Arkansas, New Hampshire, West VirginiaWhen/Where: 3 p.m. Saturday at WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, West Virginia
Quick notes: The Illini competed at the Morgantown Regional in 2013.Hidden stat: Illinois is the only team with two ranked all-around competitors: No. 10 Giana O’Connor and No. 14 Mary Jane Horth.
Baseball set for series with Northwestern
Illinois vs. NorthwesternWhere: at Illinois FieldFriday, 6 p.m. vs. NorthwesternSaturday, 3 p.m. vs. NorthwesternSunday, 1 p.m. vs. NorthwesternQuick Notes: Illinois has won 10 of their last 12 games against Northwestern.Hidden Stat: Despite a big difference in overall record, Illinois and Northwestern are each 2-1 in Big Ten play.
KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ David Kerian attempts to catch a ball at fi rst base during their 6-2 victory against SIU at Illinois Field on March 14.
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Aleks Vukic attempts to return the ball during the match against Ohio State at Atkins Tennis Center on Sunday. The Illini won 4-0.
Softball picks up offensive momentum
KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Carly Thomas at the plate during the softball game vs. Illinois State at Eichelberger Field on March 31. Illinois will face Iowa this weekend.
Illinois at IowaWhere/When: 6 p.m. Friday at Iowa City, IowaQuick Notes: Illinois will bring a four-game winning streak to Iowa and is looking to continue its record-breaking offense in its fi rst conference series on the road. Hidden Stat: The last time the Illini faced the Hawkeyes was May 8 in Evanston, Illinois, at the Big Ten tournament, resulting in a 6-0 Illinois win.
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Team uses mock meets to prepare for Morgantown
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Giana O’Connor performs a routine on the balance beam during the meet against Minnesota at Huff Hall on Feb. 7. The Illini won 195.775-195.375.
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tail off. He’s very commit-ted, incredibly driven,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “His passion, dedi-cation and hard work pays off when he goes out and competes.”
Doubles play has improved since Dancer split up Ross Guignon and Tim Kopisnki in Texas.
Dancer has been trying new doubles combinations all season and the current pairs have seen some suc-cess. No. 75 Jared Hiltzik and Kopinski have held down the No. 1 doubles spot and Illinois claimed wins against two of Ohio State’s ranked doubles teams on Sunday.
The team also will con-tinue to benefit from the return of No. 64 Gosea. He was suspended for a vio-
lation of team rules dur-ing the team’s Texas trip, and his two doubles wins proved critical in last weekend’s victories over Penn State and Ohio State.
Illinois hasn’t lost to Michigan State since 1997, and the Spartans have been inconsistent all spring. MSU hasn’t won back-to-back matches since early February. While they’ve faced some elite competi-tion, the Spartans haven’t
defeated a top-25 team the entire spring. They were shutout by Illinois oppo-nents Duke, Texas and Ohio State. The Spartans boast the No. 17 doubles pair in the country, Harry Jadun and John Patrick Mullane. Jadun has also garnered Big Ten Men’s Tennis Ath-lete of the Week earlier this year.
Michigan is having a down year, coming into the weekend with a 3-12
record and riding a seven-match losing streak. The team hasn’t won a confer-ence match and hasn’t won on the road all season. The Wolverines already have as many losses this year as they’ve had four of the past five full seasons.
While the Spartans and Wolverines don’t loom as large on the Illini’s sched-ule as the Buckeyes, Danc-er says that the team prides itself on maintaining its
focus.“We just talked in prac-
tice about our ability to focus and not worry about tennis shots, but worry about focus,” Dancer said. “That’s the key word for our program. That’s the key for what we do: our ability to dial it in and pay atten-tion to things.”
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Two years ago, the 2013 Illinois women’s gymnastics team was in a very similar position. The Illini came into the Morgantown Regional as a No. 3 seed but were able to defeat No. 2-seeded Nebras-ka to earn a trip to Nationals.
O’Connor, who competed at the regional in 2013, still remembers the meet and “the amazing feeling” that came with it. She called it “one of the most exciting and memorable meets” she has experienced in her col-
legiate career.Landrus added that the
familiarity with Morgan-town is great. Illinois’ juniors and seniors were the only ones who competed at the regional in 2013, but sophomores Erin Buchanan and Mary Jane Horth were in attendance as high school seniors. The duo cheered on their future teammates from the crowd, so they still got an idea of what the atmosphere was like there.
To prepare for Regionals, Illinois used last week’s off-week to get a feel of how the competition will be run. On Thursday, they had a prac-
tice day similar to the one at Regionals. On Friday, the Illini staged a mock region-al meet, starting out on the balance beam and taking the necessary byes in between rotations.
This week, the gymnasts did team events, going through each lineup.
O’Connor mentioned that these special practices have prepared her team mental-ly and physically on what to expect at Regionals. What has boosted Illinois’ confi-dence even more, though, is its second-place finish at Big Ten Championships on March 21.
The Illini not only fin-ished in second place at the conference meet, but their 197.350 score set a new pro-gram record for the top team total.
“We knew that we could do that all season long.” Horth said of the record score. “It was just a matter of putting it all together at one meet, and now, having that confi-dence and that experience at Big Tens under our belt, we know that we can go to Regionals and do that same thing.”
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BY JONATHAN JOFFE STAFF WRITER
The Illinois women’s ten-nis team is desperate for a win. So much so that head coach Michelle Dasso is making changes in prac-tice in hopes of resolving the issues surrounding the team.
The Illini return to the Atkins Tennis Center for a three-game homestand beginning on Thursday against No. 33 Long Beach State.
Dasso said the team is doing individual workouts as opposed to team practices. This change is being made in hopes of honing in on what each individual play-er needs to improve, which Dasso hopes will bring a win.
Illinois is currently in the midst of a five-game los-ing streak. Senior Melissa Kopinski emphasized that to win, the team’s focus needs to be on securing the momentum when going from doubles to singles.
The Illini won the doubles point in three of their five losses, but ultimately failed to capitalize on the momen-tum gained from starting off strong.
“Our focus is getting that first set in singles,” Kopinski said. “Getting that first set and gaining momentum on
all six courts is key.”A win against Long Beach
State won’t come easy. The 49ers won the Big West Conference Tournament last season — beating UC Irvine 4-2 — and boasted a 21-3 overall record. The 49ers are off to a hot start this season — their record stands at 11-3.
Kopinski said the Illini are at a large advantage because Long Beach State is transitioning from out-side play to inside play — as long as the match is played indoors, as the Illini are anticipating.
To prepare for the match against Long Beach State, in addition to the individual practice changes, Dasso is also having her team prac-tice indoors.
“We’re hungry for a win,” Dasso said. “We have better results playing at home and the travel has been tough on us mentally, so we are thrilled to be back at Atkins (Tennis Center).”
While Dasso has been focusing her efforts on changing up the practice routines, Kopinski and fel-low senior Julia Jamieson have been sharing advice with the underclassmen to keep their spirits high.
“Melissa and I have told the girls not to dwell on a tough week like this,” Jamie-
son said. “We have chances to turn this season around and that should be their main focus.”
Competition should cool down a bit for the Illini after their match against Long Beach State. The team
will take on Maryland on Saturday.
The Terrapins are cur-rently 9-9 and are coming off of a 9-13 season. Mary-land — like Illinois — is also sporting a losing streak, which sits at four games.
This is the third match-
up between the two schools, with the series split 1-1: Illi-nois won the last matchup in 2000.
On Sunday the Illini will face Rutgers, an opponent who is also winless in con-ference play at 0-7. Despite turning in a 16-5 season last
year, the Scarlet Knights are 6-10 this time around.
“We have the ability to win our next seven (match-es) in a row,” Dasso said. “I truly believe that.”
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Tennis weekend Illinois vs. Long Beach StateWhen/Where: 5 p.m. Thursday at Atkins Tennis CenterHidden stat: This is the first matchup between the two teams.Illinois vs. MarylandWhen/Where: 12 p.m. Saturday at Atkins Tennis CenterHidden stat: This is the first time the two will meet as conference opponents and their third meeting overall. Series is even at 1-1.Illinois vs. RutgersWhen/Where: 10 a.m. Sunday at Atkins Tennis CenterHidden stat: Second-ever meeting between the teams and first as conference opponents
Tennis hoping for redemption at home
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Julia Jamieson attempts to return the ball during the match against Indiana at Atkins Tennis Center on March 1. The Illini won 6-1.
BY LAUREN MROZASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
The Illinois men’s track and field team heads to Charleston, Illinois, this weekend for the Eastern Illinois Big Blue Classic. Head coach Mark Turk’s team will participate Fri-day and Saturday in its sec-ond outdoor competition this season.
The Illini throwers made the greatest impression of any group on the team at the team’s outdoor season opener at the UNLV Spring Invitational. Davis Fraker tossed 63.15m (207’ 2”) in the hammer throw, earning him the event title. Bran-don Noe won the discus after recording a throw of 52.94 meters (173’ 8”). Ben Dodds moved up to third on Illinois’ all-time list after registering a heave of 65.03 meters (213’ 4”) in
the javelin.This weekend’s field will
include competitors from 13 schools including Illi-nois State, Indiana State, Chicago State, Detroit, Bradley, Western Mich-igan, Notre Dame, Wis-consin Milwaukee, Lin-coln University; Division II schools Marian Univer-sity and Rockford College; and junior college Lincoln College.
Illinois’ last appearance at the Big Blue Classic was in 2012 when the Illini recorded three first-place finishes and six runner-up performances through-out the two-day contest, Zahn and senior Brandon Stryganek finished sec-ond in the 200 and 400m, respectively.
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this season.Although Illinois can keep
the bats hot, the team has a bad habit of falling behind in early innings. In the Illini’s game against the Hoosiers Sunday, they found them-selves in a 6-0 hole after the first inning. Despite the fact that Illinois rattled off a pro-gram-record 22 runs to pull off the win, Indiana still put up 12 runs on the Illini pitch-ing staff.
It seemed to be déjà vu Tuesday against Illinois
State as the Illini gave up a four-run third inning to the Redbirds, forcing yet anoth-er big comeback. Just in its last 20 games, Illinois has allowed an average of more than 8 runs per game.
“We’ve given up much big-ger innings, so we do feel like we’re making progress,” Sullivan added. “What we’ve decided to do is understand that you have to keep pres-suring the opponent and stay committed the entire game, even when things aren’t going your way.”
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BY DRAKE PENASTAFF WRITER
For the first time this season, the Illinois men’s golf team is no longer at the top of the collegiate rankings.
The Illini now rank sec-ond behind Valspar Colle-giate Invitational winner, Florida State — the Illi-ni finished seventh in the field of 13. But head coach Mike Small is not bothered by the changing rankings.
“It doesn’t matter to me, rankings are flattering but it has no bearing on who wins the championship,” Small said. “At the end of the day, we play for cham-pionships, not rankings, and we know that we need to play better.”
The team has an oppor-tunity to bounce back at this weekend’s 3M Augus-ta Invitational. The Augus-ta Invitational takes place April 4-5 at the Forest Hills Golf Club in Augus-ta, Georgia.
The tournament covers 54 holes in a shotgun for-mat, which allows for it to be completed in less time, since a large number of golfers begin play simul-taneously. The tournament is in its 37th year and 34th at Forest Hills Golf Club.
The Invitational once again pits Illinois against a strong field of competitors, including the No. 3-ranked Texas, No. 20 Oklahoma State and reigning Augus-ta Invitational champion, Central Florida. The field also features Big Ten rival
Purdue, who Illinois gets a chance to look at before its next tournament, the Boil-ermaker Invitational, host-ed by Purdue.
In the last two tourna-ments Illinois’ results have been a mixed bag. Great individual performances by junior Charlie Daniel-son — who finished sixth in individual play at the Loui-siana Classics — and junior Thomas Detry — who fin-ished third in individual play in the Valspar Colle-giate Invitational — didn’t correlate to strong team finishes.
Small has been encour-aging the team to focus on the competitions that lie ahead.
“We understand we need to play better, and if we play to our ability,
we can win,” Small said. “We don’t preach worry, we don’t preach nervous-ness, we treat every day as a new day and I’m not concerned.”
Small said one of the positives from the past few weeks has been the play of Detry, who is com-ing off his fourth Big Ten Golfer of the Week award, and arguably his best per-formance of the season — he shot a 205 (-8) in the Val-spar Collegiate Invitational and never shot above 69 in any of his three rounds.
“Thomas is a good play-er,” Small said. “Thomas did work hard, he worked hard this winter, he’s now starting to mature and handle adversity on the golf course. I would call it a normal maturation pro-cess for a player who wants to be great.”
Illinois at Eastern Illinois University Big Blue ClassicFriday 2 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.
Quick facts: This meet will be the first of two in-state competitions for the Illini
in the outdoor season and its first appearance in the meet since the 2011-12 season.
Hidden stat: Multiple members of the 2011-12 team set personal best records at the team’s last appearance.
Men’s golf strives to regain top ranking
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Illinois’ Brandon Stryganek runs the 100 meter dash during the Illinois Twilight Track and Field meet at Illinois Soccer and Track Stadium on April 12, 2014.
ting, home runs and RBI. His .351 batting average is good for sixth in the Big Ten.
With the Illini bats swinging well and the
starting pitching continu-ing a strong season, one of the few areas need-ing improvement is the bullpen.
After struggling against Michigan State, the bull-pen played what may have been the most crucial role in Tuesday’s win over
Missouri. Relievers Nick Blackburn, J.D. Nielsen, Cody Sedlock and Tyler Jay combined for 3 and 1/3 shutout innings to dispatch the Tigers.
“They came in and buck-led down and did what we expected them to do,” Kerian said of the bull-
pen. “Throw hard and throw strikes and give the defense a chance to help them out and get outs.”
Illinois is ranked in every major national poll and continues to rise up the rankings.
The highest-ranked team in Illinois history was the
1962 club that ended the season ranked No. 11 in the country. Heading into the thick of Big Ten play, head coach Dan Hartleb doesn’t want his team to become complacent and be content with where it is.
“We deserve to be where we’re at, I believe that,”
Hartleb said. “But you don’t deserve to stay where you’re at. You have to play and keep yourself in that position and continue to try and climb. I think we’re very capable of that.”
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3M Augusta InvitationalWhen/Where: Friday-Saturday, all day,Forest Hills Golf Club, Augusta, GeorgiaQuick fact: For the first time this season, the Illinois men’s golf team is no longer at the top of the collegiate rankings.Hidden stat: Thomas Detry shot a 205 (-8) in the Valspar Collegiate Invitational and never shot above 69 in any of his three rounds, helping earn the junior his fourth Big Ten Golfer of the Week award.
“At the end of the day, we play for
championships, not rankings, and we
know that we need to play better.”
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Four storied programs — Michigan State, Duke, Wisconsin and
Kentucky — will take the fl oor this weekend in Indi-anapolis for the biggest event in college basketball. But before I preview what’s sure to be an edge-of-one’s-seat Final Four, let’s take a second to refl ect on what’s already happened.
As is seemingly the case every year, it’s been a roller coaster of an NCAA tourna-ment, and we’ve had some truly memorable moments. Two weeks after the open-ing tip, it’s still the round of 64 that sticks out the most. Georgia State’s R.J. Hunter sinking Baylor at the buzzer, UCLA’s edg-ing SMU on a controversial goaltending call and UAB’s upsetting Iowa State were prime examples of why there’s nothing quite like the excitement on day one of March Madness.
While the opening round was easily the most enter-taining, the Elite Eight provided two of the tour-nament’s best games. Michigan State and Louis-ville went to overtime in the East region after 40 minutes of intense action between two teams whose coaches, Tom Izzo and Rick
Pitino, respectively, know the month of March like the back of their hands. The Spartans jumped out to an early lead in the extra peri-od, and Branden Dawson’s ridiculous putback on Bryn Forbes’ missed three-point-er put MSU up 74-70 with 28 seconds remaining to seal the deal.
Meanwhile, over in the Midwest region, Notre Dame gave Kentucky its fi rst real challenge of the tournament. The Irish led UK for much of the game, but Goliath, a.k.a. the Ken-tucky Wildcats, were pic-ture perfect in the latter portion of the second half.
The tournament favorite shot 9-for-9 throughout the fi nal 12 minutes (and 75 per-cent for the entire half) and completely blanketed Jer-
ian Grant on his potential game-winning three-ball at the end of regulation. Notre Dame “emptied the tank” as head coach Mike Brey put
it in the post-game press conference, and it still wasn’t enough to beat John Calipari’s squad. I would be shocked if the Wildcats don’t fi nish off their historic season with a 40-0 record.
I’ve written about Mary-land as a team to look out for in the tournament all year long, and my home-town Terrapins let me down in a loss to West Virginia in the Sweet Sixteen. UMD lost by 10, but the fi nal score doesn’t accurately depict the Mountaineers’ sheer dominance two Sun-days ago in Columbus, Ohio. It certainly didn’t help Maryland’s cause when freshman point guard Melo Trimble was forced to sit out the fi nal 8:25 of regula-tion with a concussion.
At least Terp fans can fi nd solace in the fact that
Diamond Stone — the 6-foot-10, 250-pound, fi ve-star center out of Milwau-kee — committed to UMD this past weekend. With Trimble set to return for his sophomore campaign, head coach Mark Turgeon’s bunch should vie for the Big Ten championship. It’s surprising that Stone — the nation’s seventh-ranked player in the class of 2015 — chose to play collegiate ball in College Park instead of Madison with his in-state Wisconsin Badgers. But that’s a testament to Tur-geon and the type of season he had with Trimble at the helm.
Now on to Indianapo-lis. Duke takes on Sparty in the fi rst game of Satur-day’s double-header, and I’m inclined to pick Michi-gan State in this one. Head-
ing into the tournament, we all knew that MSU wasn’t the typical seven seed; as I said, Izzo is synonymous with the month of March. Point guard Travis Trice has been the go-to guy for State in the tourney and I don’t see that stopping in Indy.
Trice is doing his best Shabazz Napier impression — the current Heat guard led the seventh-seeded Connecticut Huskies to the promised land last year. The chemistry that Trice, Dawson and Denzel Valentine have developed over the course of the sea-son has been amazing to watch.
I wrote prior to the NCAA tournament that out of any team in the fi eld Wisconsin had the best shot to knock off Ken-
tucky. But I don’t see the Badgers actually pulling it off. The Notre Dame game was a reality check for the Wildcats, and some-thing tells me UK will be locked in from here on out, just as they were for the fi nal minutes in Saturday’s win over the Irish. What’s so interesting about this team is its depth — 2014-15 Kentucky will go down as arguably the best and most complete team ever when it cuts down the nets Mon-day night.
Kentucky’s team of future NBAers will remain perfect and get to 40-0. Calipari’s Cats will cap-ture their second national title in four years.
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MARK CORNELISON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEKentucky’s Andrew Harrison drives in for the basket and a foul as the Wildcats defeated Cincinnati, 64-51, in the third round of
the NCAA Tournament on March 21 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
Trimble to make his return to MarylandBY DON MARKUSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
The last image Maryland fans had of Melo Trimble was of the freshman point guard sitting visibly dis-traught near the end of the team’s bench at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. He had just suffered what was diagnosed as a con-cussion in the second half of a season-ending loss to West Virginia in the NCAA Tournament.
Fortunately for the Maryland coach Mark Tur-geon, his Terps and their fans, it won’t be a lasting image.
Turgeon announced Wednesday that Trimble, who helped lead the Terps back to national relevance this season, will return for his sophomore year. The decision by Trim-ble comes fi ve days after 6-foot-10, 250-pound center Diamond Stone, a fi ve-star recruit, committed to play for Maryland.
Turgeon said he wasn’t surprised by Trimble’s decision based on a con-versation they had shortly after the team returned to
College Park.“Melo’s kind of a man
of his word, he always has been,” Turgeon said. “Right after the season ended, he said he wanted to come back. I said, ‘Let’s don’t rush it, let’s explore it.’ So we did. I kind of knew down deep that this is what Melo wanted.”
“I am excited about spending another year with my teammates and building on what we accomplished this year,” Trimble said in a statement released by the athletic department. “This was the best decision for me. Being a member of the Maryland basketball pro-gram has been an unbeliev-able experience and I can’t wait to be back in front of the best fans in college bas-ketball next season.”
Trimble was named fi rst-team all-Big Ten Confer-ence by the media and fi rst-team all-freshman by CBS Sports and the U.S. Bas-ketball Writers Associa-tion after leading the Terps in scoring (16.2 points per game) and assists (3.0). Picked in the preseason to fi nish 10th in the league,
the 28-7 Terps came in sec-ond behind Wisconsin and set a school record for reg-ular season wins (26).
“No doubt Melo changed our program this year,” Turgeon said. “He’ll con-tinue to grow as a player. It’s great that he’s staying. It’s great for Maryland and it’s great for him.”
Kim Trimble, Melo’s mother, said in an inter-view that her son’s deci-sion wasn’t diffi cult.
“He told me it was easy,” Kim Trimble said. “I called him one day (last week) and he told me the same thing he told coach Turgeon.”
Kim Trimble said the way the season ended didn’t impact her son’s decision, though the dazed look in his eyes after taking repeat-ed blows during the West Virginia game “was a lit-tle scary.”
Trimble hit the court after driving to the basket a couple of times in the fi rst half, then took an elbow to the head on what appeared to be a hard screen that knocked him out the game fi ve minutes into the sec-ond half.
KARL MERTON FERRON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEMaryland’s Melo Trimble scores in front of Indiana’s James Blackmon Jr. in the second half of Maryland’s 68-66 victory at the XFINITY Center in College Park, Maryland, on Feb. 11.
I would be shocked if the Wildcats don’t fi nish off their
historic season with a 40-0
record.
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Michigan’s quarterback race added a major piece on Wednesday.
Iowa quarterback Jake Rudock, who was granted his release earlier this win-ter from the Hawkeyes, is expected to be a graduate transfer and play this fall, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
Considering Rudock had to obtain a Big Ten waiver to avoid losing the year, the transfer was uncertain until the conference approved it.
But with two full years as a Big Ten starting quarterback and performing well in both years at Iowa, throwing the fewest interceptions (five) among a conference QB in 2014 and finishing second in completion percentage (61.7 percent), he fits the inexperi-enced Wolverines, who have no one who has started more than two games.
“Jake’s a perfect candidate for the position there, he’s a gritty guy, a Big Ten guy,” said Ken Mastrole, his pri-vate coach near his Weston, Florida, home. “He knows the team’s ins and outs. It’s a great situation because he’s going to fit that system. He’s definitely a guy that’s going to provide so much knowl-edge and the nuances of the game.”
Rudock, 6-foot-3, 208 pounds, brings the two pri-
mary traits that U-M pass-ing game coordinator Jedd Fisch pointed out March 10 as essential for his quarter-backs: the ability to com-plete passes and to avoid turnovers.
Add in coach Jim Har-baugh’s most appealing trait — intelligence — and Rudock should be able to han-dle whatever the Wolverines need in his lone season in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“I hope he fits well, from what I know of their offense, he fits,” said George Smith, Rudock’s high school coach at Fort Lauderdale St. Thom-as Aquinas. “That’s obvious-ly why that whole union hap-pened ... We’ll see what their offense does and we’ll go from there. But I don’t think they would have pursued him unless they thought he could help them.
“If you watched him play at Iowa, a lot of times they didn’t give him much help but I don’t think you saw any facial expressions change. He’s kind of an unflappable guy.”
Part of Harbaugh’s approach is finding play-ers who know how to win and Rudock did that in high school, with Aquinas ranked No. 1 nationally for much of the 2009 season before a loss in the state semifinals and then led them to a national championship in 2010.
After sitting for two years
at Iowa, he finally got on the field and made an immedi-ate impact, as one of three FBS players since 2008 who threw and rushed for at least four touchdowns in his first four career games. He was
Iowa’s primary quarterback until last year’s TaxSlayer Bowl, when he was benched in favor of C.J. Beathard, whom Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz named the perma-nent starter in January.
“He has to fit into the right offense,” said BTN analyst Gerry DiNardo, who felt Rudock benefited from Iowa bringing in coordinator Greg Davis before the 2013 sea-son. “He is a pro formation
style player and so he needs a strong offensive line, a strong running game to real-ly flourish ... He’s that type of quarterback and in that offense, I think he can be very good.”
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