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Skating in sync

BY ALI BRABOYSTAFF WRITER

While some students may be complaining about the winter weather, students like Tim Nagel may face even more challenges while trav-eling around campus.

Nagel, junior in AHS, who uses a wheelchair to get around, said there were times during the winter he would skip class because the snow would pile up.

“A lot of times when they clear the roads, they push the snow up against the sidewalk, and so it blocks each end of the sidewalk. So, if I try to cross the street, snow gets piled up on both sides,” he said.

Nagel came to the Univer-sity three years ago from Texas because of the seven universities that offer wheel-

chair basketball, he thought the University was the best academically.

He currently plays on the men’s wheelchair basketball team as a shooting guard.

Meridith Bradford, junior in AHS, serves as one of the team managers for the men’s and women’s Wheelchair Basketball teams and has not let the necessity of using a powered wheelchair stop her from working toward her degree.

Bradford has cerebral pal-sy and said the University is one of the few colleges in America that provides full service for students with dis-abilities, in terms of provid-ing daily living assistance for

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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIMembers of IllinoiSkating perform a routine on the ice rink at the University Ice Arena on Sunday .

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINITim Nagel, junior in AHS, is one of many students in wheelchairs who benefi t from DRES resources.

BY ABIGALE SVOBODASTAFF WRITER

While facing the possibility of censure from the Ameri-can Association of Universi-ty Professors, the Universi-ty could avoid it by changing its policies or coming to an agreement with Steven Salai-ta, said Cary Nelson, former AAUP president and English professor.

The AAUP will vote on whether to censure Univer-sity administrations at its national annual conference on June 13.

There are currently 47 school administrations on the AAUP censure list . Many are small, religious schools and some have been censured for over 50 years. If the Univer-sity is censured it will be the only Big Ten school currently on the list.

In August, the University rescinded Steven Salaita’s appointment, claiming some of his tweets regarding con-fl ict in Gaza were uncivil.

The AAUP wrote Chancel-lor Phyllis Wise to warn her of the consequences that could follow. Since Salaita’s employ-ment was revoked, the Uni-versity has lost several guest speakers, received votes of no confi dence from 15 depart-ments, is facing two legal battles against Salaita and is now facing the possibility of censure.

“Censure results from the association’s fi ndings that conditions for academic free-dom and tenure are unsatis-factory at a college or univer-sity,” according to the AAUP website.

The AAUP’s department of academic freedom, ten-ure and governance will vis-it the campus Thursday and Friday, observing and con-ducting interviews with var-ious faculty members, said Anita Levy, associate secre-tary for the AAUP’s depart-ment of academic freedom, tenure and governance. The visit will help the department

fi nalize its report on its inves-tigation into the handling of Salaita’s case, and the report will be released soon after.

John Wilson, co-editor of AAUP’s Academe Blog, said he believes a report recom-mending the administration to be censured would be valid.

“A censure vote against the University of Illinois is appropriate and necessary, because of the violation of fundamental standards of academic freedom that the AAUP calls for, and that the University of Illinois prom-ises in its statutes to follow,” Wilson said.

At the Feb. 2 academic senate meeting, Nelson said AAUP censure was “pretty defi nite,” however, Levy said there’s a possibility the com-mittee won’t recommend the University be placed on the censured administration list.

Harry Hilton, AAUP Uni-versity chapter president, said the University’s progress toward addressing the poli-cies that were used in Salai-ta’s case could help keep them off the censure list.

“If the preponderance of those recommendations is adhered to and changes are made, or changes are in the process of being made, then censure becomes moot and won’t be imposed,” Hilton said. “But that’s timetable and willingness to do something.”

Even if the committee rec-ommends the University be placed on the censure list, there are still actions the Uni-versity could take before the June vote.

“The administration and the BOT could declare clear-ly ‘We believe civility on campus should be encour-aged and promoted because it provides the best climate for educational dialogue, but there is no intent to require, impose, or enforce civility,” Nelson said. “Incivility is not grounds to challenge an exist-ing faculty member’s employ-ment, though it can be a factor

in hiring decisions.”The board could also set

an earlier deadline for the approval of faculty appoint-ments and the University can instate guidelines for dealing with issues that arise when the Chancellor and Pro-vost are reviewing new fac-ulty appointments, Nelson said. He added these actions would narrow the grounds for censure, although will not completely eliminate the possibility.

Salaita said he would still be happy to work at the Uni-versity if it is censured; how-

ever, he admitted that it is “a bit of a catch-22” considering his reinstatement would make the censure unnecessary.

“The students and instruc-tors at the university are won-derful and it would be a great honor to join them,” Salaita said.

In September, the Board released a statement declar-ing they would not reconsider Salaita for a faculty position at the University. That state-ment was reiterated in Febru-ary after the academic sen-

BY MADISON JOHNSTONCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Living in a small com-munity like Champaign-Urbana creates its chal-lenges for LGBTQ faculty and staff of the University. While there is a signifi cant LGBTQ population in and around the towns, meeting fellow LGBTQ residents is not as easy compared to liv-ing in a larger city like Chi-cago or San Francisco.

There is one comfort in town called the Chester Street Bar, which was voted for 2012 Best Gay Friendly Nightlife by the readers of Buzz magazine. However, multiple nights out of the week, the bar is rented out to Greek life for exchang-es, which causes some frus-tration for members of the local LGBTQ community who feel C-Street is the one

pleasant place for nightlife fun.

“This concern speaks to a larger issue and that is the only bar that folks feel like they can access and feel kind of comfortable in,” said Devon Guidoux, the assistant director of the LGBTQ Resource Center. “It would be helpful to have more spaces, more restau-rants, more bars or clubs, or just meeting places that feel affi rming. If one place is closed for a night and there is a perception that this is the only place, that can be really challenging.”

Because the University is located in the Midwest, Guidoux said there tends to be a stereotype about the region, including notions that many inhabitants are

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Censure facts and impact on University

The goal of censure is to move an administration to reform its policies and practices and provide due compensation to the fired professor.”

What is Censure?

Universities’ administrations who fail to uphold principles of academic freedom and tenure, as stated in the American Association of University Profes-sors’ statement of principles, are placed on a censure list. The list informs the academic community that the university’s administration is not endorsed by the AAUP.

-John Wilson, co-editor of the AAUP Academe Blog

47 schools on the censure list currently

IF ADDED,the University would be the only Big Ten school on the list

The AAUP will vote on the University’s status

JUNE 13

WHO IS AFFECTED?Administration: Among peers, the institution looks bad and could lose its reputation and quality of education.

Students: Could receive a lesser education because the University may face a harder time recruiting quality professors.

Faculty: Potential hires will be less inclined to join, thus keeping current faculty from working with some of the best in their fields. Additionally, many guest speakers and seminar leaders will not visit censured Universities. SOURCE: Anita Levy, AAUP secretary ANNA HECHT THE DAILY ILLINI

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Champaign Disorderly conduct and

damaging property were re-ported in the 300 block of East Daniel Street around 3:30 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the offender stabbed his neighbor’s door multiple times while swearing.

University A 19-year-old female

was arrested on the charge of possession of a controlled substance in the 1100 block of West Oregon Street around 4:30 a.m. Thursday.

According to the report, the woman caused a dis-turbance and was found to

possess ecstasy.

Urbana Theft was reported in

the 2500 block of Prairie Green Drive around 12 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the victim’s cellphone was stolen .

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BY MASON SMITHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Students walking on the Quad may have noticed con-struction fences wrapped around various buildings. This construction is a part of a fi ve-year, $80 million proj-ect to upgrade technology and infrastructure within Univer-sity labs and classrooms.

The Instructional Space Improvement initiative, which began in January 2012, will update 125 classrooms in 18 different buildings on cam-pus. So far, 113 classrooms have been modernized.

Funding for the initiative comes from the Offi ce of the Provost, the Academic Facilities Maintenance Fund Assessment, various Uni-versity departments and the Library IT fees.

According to the Facilities and Services website , “over 9,000 students and 125 faculty members per classroom hour will benefi t from more com-fortable and energy effi cient-learning environments.”

The most recent building located on the Quad under-going total renovation is the Chemistry Annex. The annex renovations consist of overall upgrades, as well as a 9,600-square-foot addi-tion to the southeast corner, according to Steven Breitwi-eser, Facilities and Services spokesman.

“When you look around everything is taking on a new shape and moving forward because of all these great projects that are out there on a constant basis,” Breit-wieser said.

According to a report on the annex, the laboratory contained aged and ineffi cient light fi xtures and deteriorated ceiling and wall fi nishes.

Katie Peck, sophomore in Engineering, hopes the upgrades will alleviate stu-dent concerns about using the outdated facilities.

She said compared to other buildings on campus, the Chemistry Annex “was severely lacking.”

However, Peck said she is accustomed to the “much

more shiny” lab spaces of Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, where she worked this past summer.

Other renovation projects have occurred in Loomis Lab-oratory, Davenport Hall, the English Building, the Armory and Foellinger Auditorium.

As part of the improvement initiative, last summer, Facil-ities and Services replaced balcony seats in Foellinger Auditorium, which were 78 years old.

Other renovation efforts on the quad include the nearly fi nished construction of the Lincoln Hall Gateway Arch, which was a gift from the class of 1913.

The restoration efforts consisted of dismantling the brick and stonework, cleaning the bricks and then rebuilding the walls.

Last month, while undergo-ing renovations, workers dis-covered a 100-year-old time capsule containing business cards, some with handwritten names on them, a 1913 Lin-coln head wheat penny, an 1894 Native American head wheat penny and a handwrit-ten tag with the name of the locksmith who crafted the box, Vern Benson.

Breitwieser said substan-tial progress will be made on the arch by the end of February.

“The way the campus is now is going to be a differ-ent experience than the way it was 10 years ago, (or) maybe 20 years ago,” Bre-itwieser said. “It’s always constantly evolving.”

Mason can be reached at mesmit10@dailyillini.com.

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Campus buildings continue renovations students.

Students with disabili-ties at the University have the opportunity to receive assistance from the Divi-sion of Disability Resourc-es and Educational Services. Among the services DRES offers is bus transportation to qualifying students. The buses will come to pick the students up at their residen-cy and take them to classes, medical appointments, Uni-versity sponsored events and pre-approved off-cam-pus events.

Bradford said many of her classes this year are close to where she lives, so she rarely uses the DRES buses. Typi-cally it is easier to travel with her wheelchair because stu-dents have to schedule times to use the buses, she said.

The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District has wheelchair-accessible bus-es, but Bradford said those tend to be more crowded in the winter. Even when they are not crowded, she said the space is designed for smaller wheelchairs, and it is hard to turn the wheelchair into the designated spot.

Bradford said traveling is diffi cult with the wind and cold because her muscles tend to get tight. She also has diffi cultly putting gloves on

her hands, which makes it harder to maneuver a power chair in cold temperatures.

The number of crosswalks on campus with audio capa-bilities is helpful because she can hear better than she can see. Bradford added there are many accommodations the University provides to stu-dents with disabilities, such as allowing her to open cer-tain doors and elevators with her I-card.

She believes the Universi-ty goes above and beyond the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and she added there are many places in the “real world” that do not have the same oppor-tunities for access and trans-portation for people with disabilities.

“There’s so many little things that I can do here that I can’t do outside of this campus,” Bradford said. “The rest of the world needs to catch up to the University.”

According to the College of Applied Health Sciences’ website, DRES was founded by Timothy Nugent in 1948, and the system was “the fi rst post secondary-disabil-ity support service program in the world.” In 2014, DRES served more than 1,500 stu-dents with disabilities and the graduation rate for reg-istered DRES students is 91 percent.

Mylinda Granger, access and transportation coor-

dinator for DRES, said the organization will soon be acquiring four new buses to replace old ones. These buses will have ramps rather than lifts, which will allow faster travel times because several students will be able to get on and off the buses quickly, Granger said.

The University became the fi rst post-secondary institu-tion to have curb cuts and wheelchair-accessible bus-es with fi xed routes. It was also the fi rst college to have wheelchair sports, accord-ing to the College of Applied Health Sciences’ website.

Nagel said he does not often use the DRES buses, but knows many people who do use the services because of the convenience.

He said the DRES system gives students many opportu-nities, such as transportation, testing accommodations and help setting up study abroad programs, which Nagel is looking into for this summer.

Although students with dis-abilities may face different challenges, Nagel said some people may not understand how much ability people who use wheelchairs have.

“We’re just students just like everyone else,” Nagel said. “We’re just still trying to do exactly what everyone else is trying to do.”

Ali can be reached at abrabo2@dailyillini.com.

farming conservatives, which may be true in some instances but false in oth-ers. Yet according to the LGBT-Friendly Campus Cli-mate Index, UIUC has an overall Campus Pride score of 4.5 out of 5 stars.

The LGBTQ Resource Center has been mak-ing progress with a wide variety of efforts across campus. For instance, the recent survey in Allen Hall for the weeklong trial peri-od of a gender-neutral rest-room on one fl oor. Though there did not appear to be enough of an interest, the center is optimistic about the progress of the housing offi ces to reach out to them.

Guidoux said there is evi-dence suggesting the educa-tion of the public will help spark more interest among students for a possible trial to succeed. If a large num-ber of students are con-fused about what gender-neutral bathrooms would provide for some, then education could potential-ly result in a step forward for the campus’s LGBTQ community.

Struggles also include lack of funding for aca-demic research of LGBTQ studies, no way of tracking numerically the LGBTQ students on campus and lack of demographic ques-tions on admission forms.

A resolution discussed at the Chancellor and Provost Committee on LGBTQ Con-cerns’ “Beyond Visibility”

luncheon Friday asked for more options to be available under the question of gen-der identity. These options would include: man, woman, trans or other. It also asked for an optional demograph-ic question regarding sexu-al orientation, which would allow for the administration to measure the population of LGBTQ students.

The topics at Friday’s luncheon focused main-ly around professional development and mentor-ing. Daniel Maroun, Ph.D. candidate in the French department, explained that his experience in graduate school was the ideal situa-tion and discussed how one professor alone introduced him to LGBTQ research that he still does today.

“He founded my pas-sion for wanting to spread equality, solidarity and the desire to know what real mentorship can mean and how I can start to light the fi re within students that we come into contact with daily ... and how they really want that connection and visibil-ity,” Maroun said.

When plans for mentor-ing students were analyzed, the conclusive idea among the panel was not only to show interest and concern for students’ well-being and life but also encourage stu-dents to be hardworkers.

Maroun also described how important it is for stu-dents to “believe that there is community out there that will constantly be there for us.”

During roundtable dis-cussions, the idea of “being

present” resurfaced from the panel and Guidoux elab-orated on the topic.

Guidoux said getting involved in different com-munities on campus and showing up to events is a great way to be present. Other ways include how individuals choose to dec-orate their offi ce, dorm room, backpack and more.

For example, Guidoux said having a rainbow stick-er on a notebook is a way to show your support and could potentially increase the comfort of a person who sees it.

“Its a small step you can take, but you don’t know the kind of impact it’s going to have,” Guidoux said.

The committee is launch-ing the LGBTQ Employee Affi nity Group and is wel-coming all LGBTQ Univer-sity employees to attend its fi rst meeting on March 2 at 2 p.m. in room 404 at the Illini Union.

Not only will the group allow for social interaction among LGBTQ employees but also establish a com-fortable environment to dis-cuss current notions rele-vant to their concerns and triumphs.

“So often it’s thought that students are the only ones that exist on this campus when there’s a lot of staff and faculty who are looking for support as well,” Guidoux said. “There are a lot of posi-tive things on the horizon.”

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ate passed a resolution urging the administration to imple-ment the recommendations of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

Although the Board said its decision is fi nal, it is trying to revise University policies to avoid similar issues in the future. On Feb. 16, the senate voted in favor of a resolution on new hiring procedures.

Hilton said if the AAUP does vote to censure the Uni-versity at its national meet-ing, faculty will probably suf-fer more than students.

“There are some people

that may not pay any attention to it, while others, particular-ly off campus, may want to not be hired here or may not come here for seminars,” Hil-ton said. “It depends on their view, how they take it.”

Wilson said the AAUP does not actually censure Universi-ties, just university adminis-trations. Students and faculty are not punished, but conse-quentially suffer the reper-cussions of having a censured administration.

“What it says to the aca-demic community is that the climate for academic free-dom and tenure and shared governance is not as it should be,” Levy stated.

As a result, she said the

University could continue to lose speakers and seminar attendees, as well as future employees. Levy said disci-plinary organizations, such as the American Historical Society, note when a Univer-sity has been censured by the AAUP on job postings.

“The University of Illi-nois already has a major recruiting problem for fac-ulty because the Board’s insistence on being able to overturn academic hir-ing decisions will lead high-ly desirable candidates to choose other universities,” Wilson said.

Abigale can be reached at asvobod2@dailyillini.com.

Earlier this week, I did something I haven’t done in over a year and a half: I

went a full day without watch-ing Netflix. One full day. And I couldn’t decide whether that was a good or bad thing.

Every day, I sit down for at least an hour, take a break from life, and choose a series to escape to. “Parks and Rec-reation,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Orange is the New Black” and “Friends” are just a few of my go-to’s.

However, with a new list of activities and responsibilities this semester, I’ve found my Netflix time limited, and I sur-prisingly love it.

So many students spend their time procrastinating, going out or binging on Netflix while their homework and other responsi-bilities slide to the wayside.

I have been that student, and I’m sure many of you have been as well. If you don’t fall in that category, at least sometimes,

are you even a college kid? I find that I am that procras-

tinating student until some-thing forces me to not be. Even though I love my procrastinat-ing time, more recently, I’ve found that I’m busier, and thus have less time to put off my work.

Currently, a job, multiple reg-istered student organizations and a very strange class sched-ule keep me from hiding in my room, getting away from the real world and indulging in this previously mentioned free time.

So far this semester, the busyness has proved effective, and that’s been pretty great for my productivity. Thus, I’ve found that when it comes to my schedule and my level of pro-ductivity, the busier, the better.

I know that less free time probably sounds like the worst idea ever to the typical col-lege student, but studies show that once people start complet-ing tasks, they’re less likely to procrastinate the rest of their work.

Busy people may be forced to make to-do lists, prioritize tasks and set schedules, which are all skills that might encourage stu-dents to become

more productive.With more activities, what-

ever they may be, these busy students need to limit delay-ing their work and are forced to get it done while they have time. The less time they have to complete tasks provides for less time to procrastinate.

As college students, I think that the busily structured schedule would be universally helpful and should be adopted by more students to help us stay productive and on top of our work.

For me, that means that on Tuesdays and Thursdays, any free time I have gets devoted to doing my homework for that week. Likewise, other students should find times in their own schedules to complete what they need for that day or week.

The secret to managing a busy schedule is being able to organize our time, but once we learn to do that, we can achieve maximum productivity in our hectic lives.

Avoiding procrastination is just one benefit of staying busy. Another finding says that the more extracurricular activi-ties students were in, the better their self-esteem and

grades were. Busier people are also known

to be happier. In a certain study, people who had chosen to com-plete a series of tasks were sig-nificantly happier at the end of the study than those who had completed just a single task. Researchers estimate that being busier gives us a sense of pride and accomplishment, leaving us happier the busier we are.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think we need every minute of our lives filled up with activi-ties. We still need breaks to hang out with friends, catch up on sleep and check in with “Grey’s Anatomy.” Sometimes, you want to sit on your butt and do nothing, and that’s OK. But despite any breaks we might be tempted to take, keeping busy can prove to be a productive, happier way to go through our college careers.

Now, next time, instead of starting a new series on Netf-lix, opt to apply for a job to the dining hall or join a new RSO. Keep busy and stay happy.

Sam is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at spullin2@dailyillini.com.

In the same breath of announcing “It’s time to make education our

top priority again,” Governor Bruce Rauner announced on Wednesday that he would cut 209 million dollars from the University.

Many students, voters and nonvoters, were caught off guard by this huge budget cut, which accounts for 31.5 percent of the University’s state-funded budget.

Some supporters of Rauner were shocked to discover that he planned on cutting Univer-sity funding despite Governor Rauner’s many statements dur-ing his campaign indicating that he planned on reducing the state’s spending on education.

Other students who did not vote at all are now learning a painful lesson about voter apa-thy. Instead of being upset at Governor Rauner, consider your own culpability.

If you did not vote, or voted without knowing the full plat-form of your candidate, you are just as much at fault for the pro-posed budget cuts as Governor Rauner.

Students had the opportuni-ty to change the results of the

election before the elections even happened.

The Student Senate attempt-ed to secure same-day regis-tration for student voters at the Illini Union, which was opposed by Republican County Clerk Hulten because of security issues. However, since college students generally favor Demo-cratic candidates, this decision seemed to intentionally make it more difficult for students to vote which potentially shifted the results in favor of Rauner.

Despite the Student Senate’s efforts, little outside student support meant that the issue did not generate enough atten-tion from the student body. This resulted in same-day registra-tion being located at Brookens Administrative Center, a 30-minute bus ride.

Students could have spoken out and tried to force Hulten to allow same-day voting at the Illini Union. However, lack of same-day registration isn’t a valid excuse; even without it, students still could’ve voted and changed the election.

And so, to all of those who received President Easter’s email last Wednesday and were shocked, I say, you had a role in the budget cut.

The overall national turnout for our age demographic on elec-tion day was 21 percent accord-ing to the US Census Bureau. On Jan. 13, two days before the election, only 3,846 absentee

ballots had been requested by Urbana students. However, with over 40,000 other students, we became a huge demographic and population that was excluded — by choice, with little excuse. It’s not hard to put aside 20 minutes to pop in to the Union, march down to the basement, and exer-cise our right to vote.

I get that being in college is time consuming. I understand that some students had mid-terms, papers to write and many other things to take care of. But I sincerely doubt that 40,000 students were all over-come with devastating amounts of responsibility and academic drive on the same day.

To all of the nonvoting stu-dents who are concerned that a 31.5 percent slash in our state funding will negatively affect our education: You could have voted for a candidate that did not want to cut the budget.

I am not writing this as a political rant. I understand that our state is facing tremendous financial challenges, and I do agree that putting Illinois’ bud-get in order is going to require making some tough choices.

The likelihood of Rauner’s budget being passed untouched is slim to none. Democrats have a veto-proof supermajority in both the state House and the state Senate. As a result, Demo-crats will be deciding Illinois’ budget, not Governor Rauner, and Democratic leadership in

the state has made it clear that they have no intention of slash-ing higher education spending to that degree.

The University budget will be reduced. The University will need to take steps to reduce its expenditures (in fact, the Uni-versity already has a budget proposal for up to a 20 percent reduction in state spending).

But I feel reasonably confi-dent that the University will not be destroyed by an eventual budget cut.

This is all merely to say that students need to be active par-ticipants in the democratic pro-cess. Our participation serves as a ticket to rightfully com-plain about proposed policies.

I hope those who didn’t vote or cast an uninformed vote understand my frustration. I find it difficult to understand why many of my peers — my brilliant, motivated and pas-sionate classmates — don’t seem to care about issues they have control over.

Politicians will start caring about college students when we start caring about them. Your vote has tremendous power. Use it, and make politicians cater to your interests.

Fail to do so, and start expecting headlines like the budget cut more often.

Thomas is a freshman in LAS. He can be reached at opinions@dailyillini.com.

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THOMAS DOWLING

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B eing rated num-ber one as one of the most disabili-ty friendly college campuses in the

United States, there is a cer-tain level of expectation and pride that comes with this la-bel. This includes making sure campus facilities are accessi-ble, and classrooms and living arrangements are accommo-dating for all. There is always work to be done and updates needed to ensure the Univer-sity remains disability friend-ly, and that becomes particu-larly relevant in these winter months.

Snow and ice removal is a topic we have commented on before, where we emphasized the need to keep streets and sidewalks salted and clear due to the plethora of students and pedestrians who use them dai-ly. What also must be consid-ered and accounted for when it comes to snow and ice re-moval is the needs of those with physical disabilities who require such devices as wheelchairs.

Fortunately, it looks as though despite inconvenienc-es of winter weather and oc-casionally less-than-great sidewalk conditions, the Uni-versity is attempting to do their part to accommodate students with disabilities.

As noted in an article in the Daily Illini today, students with disabilities are offered services by the Division of Disability Resources and Edu-cational Services on campus. DRES provides many resourc-es for students with varying needs, and they have done a great job at improving the quality of living and learning for those who use the service.

In terms of dealing with winter weather commute, one of the amenities DRES pro-vides are buses that pick up qualified students from their living location and take them to where they need to be. In addition, Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District provides wheelchair accessible buses as well.

We highly appreciate these amenities on campus because it shows the needs of all stu-dents are something that is considered by the University, which is essential on a cam-pus that prides itself in its ac-cessibility.

However, even a fine-oiled machine isn’t perfect all the time. In The Daily Illini arti-cle it was noted by Meredith Bradford, junior in AHS, that CUMTD buses aren’t always the most spacious for students in wheelchairs, and Tim Na-gel, junior in AHS, noted that snow can be problematic for those in wheelchairs because of where it piles up at the ends of sidewalks once it has been plowed.

But it still seems that as a whole, campus has been far-ing pretty well with the pe-riodic onslaught of snow and ice over the past few months. Streets seem to be getting cleared relatively quick-ly. Many sidewalks are be-ing salted, and CUMTD bus-es are frequent to allow more students to have warmer and quicker commutes to class.

As with any good endeavor, however, there is always room for improvement. So far, the University seems to be doing what it can to be accommodat-ing to students with disabili-ties during the rough winter travel season, and we hope to see more positive changes and innovations to address student concerns in the future.

Resident I-can’t-decide-if-he’s-hot-or-not guy Michael Phelps announced yesterday that he’s engaged to be married to Nicole Johnson, the former Miss California and his girlfriend since 2007. Even though we’re excited for the happy couple, this union takes everyone’s former celebrity crush and dream girl (just look at her!) off the market. Although, we aren’t quite as devastated about these two hotties being off the market as we were about Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. So, congrats to the happy cou-ple and everything ... We’re just going to go eat some ice cream and rewatch old Olympics tapes now ...

Emma Watson, also known as the classiest, most perfect person to ever walk the planet, recently silenced the ram-pant rumor that she was dating Prince Harry. On Sunday, she sent out a tweet to all of her followers, announcing that people shouldn’t believe everything they read in the media. So she didn’t explicitly state that she wasn’t dat-ing Prince Harry, but we’re choosing to believe that she was low-key saying Harry and Hermione jokes need to be paused for now. Plus, even though he’s a literal prince, he is somehow still not good enough for Queen E.

There’s no other night of the year quite as glamorous as the Acad-emy Awards. We love award show season because what could be more entertaining than watching celebrities show their awk-wardness while reading from a teleprompter and fumbling as they attempt to open a simple envelope? We also love the dispar-ity between staring at the stars while they’re dressed to the nines in thousands of dollars worth of garment as we stare in awe from our couches while wearing our groutfits. And, once in awhile, we get a nice giggle out of someone tripping on their way up to the stage (cough — JLaw, 2013 — cough).

Nothing tugs at our heartstrings quite like happy endings to sad stories and, of course, dogs — any and all dogs. When the two are combined, expect the waterworks. In one recent story, a 10-year-old black Chow was found in a yard in Mich-igan frozen to the ground. She suffered swelling, frostbite, arthritis and other injuries due to the horrible situation. For-tunately, the dog was rescued, and since then, she’s been doing much better and has received several calls about adoption. The medical center she was sent to appropriately named her Elsa because, obviously, the cold never bothered her anyway.

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When the Kindai was served, hums of satisfac-tion fi lled the small space.

“The tuna is amazing,” said Jeanette Nugent, one of the night’s guests. “I don’t think you can get this, even in Japan.”

The rest of the meal par-ticipants agreed with the appreciative sentiment. Thad Morrow, owner of Bacaro in Champaign , said he was fascinated by Japa-nese food, and it was clear that the meal was very per-sonal to Enomoto. Doug Fields had never attended a kaiseki dinner before, but said it was interesting and different and there was nothing he didn’t like.

“It’s another example of the extraordinary experi-ence you can have at (the University),” Greg Lykins said.

This was the goal of the meal, according to Gunji-Ballsrud.

“Food, to me, is a very traditional and important aspect of Japanese cul-ture,” she said.

She wanted people to be

able to “share this cultural experience in the middle of a cornfi eld,” she said.

A croissant-like pastry called rusk, which is sold in the most popular depart-ment stores in Japan, was served as the fi nal dessert course. But Chef Enomo-to was in the kitchen, still smiling and serving the volunteers leftover straw-berries dipped in sake custard.

Eventually, she was led into the dining room and met with a standing ova-tion. Through a transla-tor, she said she was ner-vous for the meal and was

relieved that everyone enjoyed it.

All of the guests received light pink gift bags fi lled with her rusks, which she brought with her from Japan. The rusks are just one of her twists on the tra-ditional cuisine.

“She tries to incorpo-rate new concepts such as ‘kawaii’ into her dishes,” Komatsu translated. “She hopes she can show her new, innovative dishes to people all over the world.”

Lillian can be reached at lbarkle2@dailyillini.com

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BY AMY HUBBARDTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Marina del Ray — People in Marina del Rey, Calif., were surprised when a sea lion pup wandered into their apartment complex.

They named him Walter.But getting help for Wal-

ter when he was spotted last week wasn’t easy. He’s just one sick pup among many ailing sea lions overwhelm-ing marine mammal cen-ters in California. Nearly 1,000 have washed ashore so far this year.

Emaciated and dehydrat-ed sea lions, mostly pups about 8 months old, have been admitted in record numbers to facilities up and down the California coast. It’s the third straight year of record strandings in the state.

Five hundred fi fty sea lions were being treat-ed statewide as of Feb. 18, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries.

Rescuers are swamped.Peter Wallerstein of

Marine Animal Rescue works in much of Los Angeles County. He said he received calls about Wal-ter before the young sea lion wandered into the complex. But as long as the pup was out of the way of people, he was on the back burner for rescue .

“There are so many strandings right now we cannot possibly pick up all the pups,” he said. “People just don’t seem to understand.”

Wallerstein’s two-person rescue team receives two dozen or more calls a day. He said he’d been rescu-ing marine mammals for 29 years and “for January and February, it’s the high-est number of rescues I’ve ever seen.”

The same day Marina del Rey residents called about Walter, Roxanne McCann was walking along Las Flores Beach in Malibu when she spotted a thin sea lion pup on the shore.

“The poor little thing looked like it was strug-gling,” she said. “Every-body thinks it’s a cute sto-ry. People don’t understand that they’re not well.”

A neighbor’s call to a res-cue hotline didn’t produce quick results. The neigh-bor later received a mes-sage saying there would be no action that day, McCann said.

California Wildlife per-forms marine mammal res-cues in the Malibu area. A recording at the emergen-cy line cautions that the “extreme high call volume” means animals may not be rescued on the day they’re spotted.

Earlier this month, researchers from NOAA’s National Marine Mam-mal Laboratory visited sea lion rookeries on the Chan-nel Islands, where most of America’s sea lions breed, in a search for clues to the high number of strandings.

They measured and weighed pups and found them to be considerably underweight, with an aver-age growth rate that was the lowest they had seen since they began monitoring in the early 1990s.

The pups’ weight was similar to that in 2013, the year of an “unusual mor-tality event” for sea lions, a phenomenon character-ized by an unexpected num-ber of strandings and sig-nifi cant die-off of a marine mammal population.

In 2013, the Marine Mam-mal Care Center in San Pedro was treating two to three times as many Cali-fornia sea lions as usual. David Bard, operations director, said that in the

fi rst two months of this year, the numbers are dou-ble what they were at the beginning of 2013 .

Scientists thought 2013 was an anomaly, said Shawn Johnson, director of vet-erinary services at the Marine Mammal= Center in Sausalito.

“But then it happened again last year, and now it’s happening again,” he said.

Scientists are await-ing more data from the research on the Channel Islands, but NOAA Fisher-ies said higher-than-aver-age sea surface tempera-tures along the California coast in fall 2014 may be a factor in the strandings.

The warmer water could have affected the availabil-ity of prey to the sea lions. Females sea lions might be spending more time and energy to obtain food, so pups are abandoned.

Another possibility is “the sea lion population is reaching carrying capac-ity,” Bard said .

The environment simply may not be able to support a larger sea lion population. According to the Marine Mammal Center, experts don’t believe the record strandings will affect Cali-fornia sea lion populations overall.

Still, “the current strand-ing crisis is concerning because it indicates a more complex occurrence in the ocean,” the center said in a statement. “Our ocean is clearly under stress.”

BY ÁNGEL GONZÁLEZTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

SEATTLE — The ven-erable CD rack at the Starbucks counter is going the way of the Vir-gin Megastore and Tower Records, amid plummet-ing sales for music in shiny disc form.

Starbucks says it will stop selling CDs next month at its stores, where they’ve been a staple since 1995.

Spokeswoman Maggie Jantzen said the company is “evolving the format” it uses to sell music, although it can’t share any specifi cs yet.

“Music has always been a key component” of the Star-bucks experience, she said.

The company will con-tinue its Pick of the Week program, which allows members of the Starbucks loyalty program to down-load an iTunes song for free.

Starbucks has had mixed results during its long dab-bling with the music busi-ness. At one point the cof-fee giant acquired the Hear Music retail chain and lat-er launched its own label, which signed big names like Paul McCartney. It also had a Hear Music store in Seattle.

But it wasn’t long before Starbucks gave up control of the label to its partner, Concord Records, as the company struggled with the 2008 recession.

Throwing CDs overboard follows a decade of changes in the industry, which has seen physical music sales wane even as online music streaming soars and even vinyl sales grow.

In 2014, about 141 million CDs were sold in the U.S., a 15 percent drop from 2013, according to research fi rm Nielsen. In contrast, audio streams rose 60 percent to 78.6 million, and vinyl sales grew 52 percent to 9.2 million.

Starbucks has been increasingly embracing digital commerce in all forms — from nudging cof-fee addicts into using its mobile app, to selling rare beans online through a cof-fee subscription.

Starbucks removes CD racks from stores

Record number of sea lions stranded in Calif.

MARIAH MATTHEWS THE DAILY ILLINIChef Enomoto prepares a meal at the Japan House.

IRFAN KHAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEA rescued sea lion pup eats a fi sh at Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur on Feb. 17 in San Pedro, Calif. Record numbers of sea lions are currently washing up in SoCal coastal communities .

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BY LILLIAN BARKLEY STAFF WRITER

In the midst of Fri-day’s eight-course din-ner, the Japan House’s

guest kitchen staff franti-cally rushed the trays of food back toward the oven. A patchwork of Japanese-to-English and back trans-lations reveal the issue: the oven was not set to celsius but fahrenheit. But among the clatter, Chef Suzuko Enomoto gracefully whisks the entrees onto a baking sheet and into the oven with a calm smile at the mix-up.

On Friday, the Japan House, located at 2000 S. Lincoln Ave. in Urbana, hosted a kaiseki dinner, a traditional prix fi xe Japa-nese meal served in multi-ple courses. Of the meal’s eight courses, Kindai Tuna was the featured item — an environmentally sustain-able Bluefi n tuna from Japan largely considered the rar-est tuna in the world. And Chef Enomoto, also from Japan, was leading the preparations in serving the Japan House’s 21 guests.

Enomoto fl ew in specifi -cally for the dinner after being invited by the Japan Illini Club. Despite the frantic energy around her, she moved with purpose across the white open kitch-en space, smiling calmly between each delicate place-ment. Just as the tuna being set for the Japan House’s exclusive guests, Enomoto’s position as a trained female kaiseki chef is a rarity.

“Even though the female chefs and male chefs have

the same ability to cook, the male chefs are more valued than female chefs,” Enomo-to said through translator Shota Komatsu, freshman in ACES and one of four Japa-nese exchange students at the University on scholar-ship from the Japan Illini Club.

As 21 member and non-member guests took their seats, Jennifer Gunji-Ball-srud, Japan House director, introduced Enomoto.

Enomoto’s parents owned a Ryokan, a Japanese-style inn, where she read classic literature and loved the way food was described, Gun-ji-Ballsrud said.

“I like to eat,” Chef E n o m o t o said, with-out a trans-lator, when asked why she wanted to become a chef.

She said she had been pro-fessional-ly cooking for rough-ly 20 years and owns two restau-rants: one specializes in kai-seki and the other is a café.

Chef Enomoto returned to the kitchen to prepare the next course with the help of two assistants — one from Japan, like herself, and the other, area chef Nick Fore-man, who volunteered to help.

He said that while there were certain language bar-riers with casual conversa-tion, the food preparation was easy to communicate and understand.

“You kind of know what people are reaching for before they even reach it,” he said.

The different cooking techniques and tools used by Enomoto, such as chopsticks and a specialized sashimi knife, were the most edu-cating parts of the kaiseki experience, he said.

Each kaiseki dinner fol-lows specifi c rules, which makes it diffi cult to innovate

the dishes, Komatsu translated.

“ I t is very important to think highly of tradit ion in kai-seki, but it is also important to create something n e w , ” Komatsu tra nslat-ed. “The Japanese p e o p l e

think that the nature is very important for them, and so the nature is associated with the kaiseki dinner in a sense, so they really think highly of the order of rules in kaiseki dinner.”

For example, the sashimi course, which is thin slic-es of Kindai tuna, must be

served during an odd-num-bered course, according to Enomoto and Komatsu.

Kindai tuna is the focus of the meal, Enomoto said. It was a farmed fi sh bred with Bluefi n tuna by Kinki Uni-versity Fishing Laboratory in Osaka, Japan . It is very famous, rare and expensive, according to Enomoto.

Kaiseki dinners don’t normally used farmed fi sh, Komatsu translated, but in this case it was necessary. One side of the fi sh weighed 60 pounds, according to Gunji-Ballsrud.

Kindai is also oilier than Bluefi n, but contains plenty of toro, the fatty meat from the tuna’s belly, according to Enomoto.

“They will cook Kindai tuna so that people living here can enjoy them,” Kom-atsu said of Chef Enomoto. “Most Americans associate tuna with sushi, but that’s not true, and tuna is used for a variety of dishes, so she’s trying to break the concept.”

Guests clinked porce-lain glasses fi lled with sake across a serene, candlelit table in the dining room, their chatter and laugh-ter drowning out the noise in the kitchen. Each guest paid at least $200 to attend the meal, with nonmembers having paid $225.

“They get into it; they’re learning something,” said Nick Sakagami, a fi sh expert who introduced the night’s sake pairings and tended to guests’ questions about the meals.

A chef as rare as her sashimi

BY STEPHANIE H. KIMSTAFF WRITER

When Gina Lorenzi was fi ve years old, she was told she had a “beer belly.”

The now 38-year-old social worker based in Chi-cago recalled her gym-nastics coach’s statement, which started her 20-year fi ght with eating disorders. Lorenzi began over exercis-ing and restricting her diet at 18 years old, and while each pound’s loss scared her, she felt her weight was never low enough.

“I knew I was hurting, but I didn’t know how to get help,” the Dominican University graduate said . “Nobody really recognized that I was crying out for help.”

Thirty million people in the United States will be affected by an eating dis-order at some point in their lives, according to the

National Eating Disorders Association.

Of those 30 million, more than 4,000 could be a stu-dent at the University, the Counseling Center report-ed in a video for the 2015 National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, “I Had No Idea .”

As this year’s theme sug-gests, eating disorders are often overlooked, said Beth-ni Gill, health education nutritionist at the McKin-ley Health Center.

“There’s not just one sin-gle person that an eating disorder targets,” she said. “We want to raise aware-ness on campus that it can happen to anyone, and we want students to know the resources on campus.”

Both the McKinley Health Center and the Counseling Center provide free services for students. Appointments can be scheduled with dieti-

cians, psychologists, psychi-atrists and clinicians Mon-day through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Such treatment incorpo-rates both mental and physi-cal professional care and is essential for helping those with eating disorders, said Jenny Conviser , CEO, found-er and licensed clinical psy-chologist at ASCEND Con-sultation in Health Care — a health center located in Champaign-Urbana, Chica-go and Northbrook.

“The number one mis-conception is the thought or belief that they can get over it without intensive medi-cal, psychological care,” she said. “They cannot stop it once it’s a disorder; any disorder is not just going to go away without intense treatment.”

It wasn’t until Lorenzi was 25 years old when she felt like she was “part of life

again.”It was a conversation

with a 20-year-old girl at the gym, who had dealt with an eating disorder before, that helped Lorenzi to reach a breakthrough.

Lorenzi then joined sup-port groups and eventually spent two weeks at The Ren-frew Center Eating Disorder Treatment Facility in Flori-da — which also has a center located in Chicago — where she found hope for recovery and enjoyed being part of life again, she said .

“You need to want help fi rst,” she said. “I was hon-estly isolated in my own world. But the eating dis-order doesn’t have to take control of you. As much as it doesn’t feel like it, you have control of it.”

Stephanie can be reached skim108@dailyillini.com.

Campus educates on eating disorders

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20% of women

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For college students, eating disorders can be found in ...The deadliest mental illnesses

The Counseling Center predicts over 4,000 University students may have an eating disorder.

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BY MATT GERTSMEIER STAFF WRITER

Typically following an Illinois hockey home win, the upbeat, electronic song “Sad Sad City” by Ghostland Observatory can be heard blaring from inside the Illini locker room.

The Illini sang along to the victory song after Friday night’s 2-1 overtime win over Iowa State. Saturday night, no tunes were heard from the locker room, but “Sad Sad City” is an appropriate way to describe the setting after Ohio beat Illinois 5-3 to knock out the Illini in the CSCHL tournament at the Illinois Ice Arena.

In the quarterfinals, the fourth-seeded Illini (22-16-1) faced No. 5 Iowa State (21-14-5) and scoring was sparse. Illinois managed to tie the game 1-1 early in the third period to force overtime. In overtime, Illini forward Mat-thew Flosi’s intended pass for forward Eric Saulters deflect-

ed off Iowa State’s goaltender Matt Cooper’s stick and snuck in to win the game.

The win improved Illinois’ Friday home record to 10-0-0, and the Illini advanced to a CSCHL semifinal game against regular season con-ference-champion Ohio.

Against No. 1-seeded Ohio (26-6-5), Illinois had a 2-0 lead after what coach Nick Fabbrini considered one of the Illini’s best first periods all season. Illinois failed to carry momentum into the second and third periods when Ohio scored five unan-swered goals before Illinois could get back on the board.

Fabbrini thought disci-pline and immaturity were the deciding factors for Illi-nois this weekend.

“We need to be able to play regardless of what’s going on in the game or what some-body said about us,” Fab-brini said. “Having the last word doesn’t really mean a whole lot in the grand scheme

of things. Responding with your play is generally the best way to do it.”

On Friday, Cooper had been trash talking with Illini players throughout the game. Illinois responded with con-sistent play and forced the game into overtime. Satur-day, Illinois fell apart and seemed to get caught up in the officiating and Ohio play-ers more than the game itself.

On Saturday, Illinois had five power play opportuni-ties but had no success. Ohio had six chances and scored on two.

Winger James McGing said he thought Illinois came out of the first period too over-confident, and the Illini’s spe-cial teams was a key contrib-utor to the loss to rival Ohio.

“I’m pretty pissed off because it’s Ohio, but at the same time we can only be mad at ourselves, because we had the game, we just kind of beat ourselves,” McGing said.

For Illinois, the goal for the

tournament was to be play-ing for the CSCHL champi-onship on Sunday. Instead, Lindenwood (16-14-2) and Ohio squared off Sunday. Lindenwood beat Ohio 3-2 to win its second straight CSCHL tournament.

“Everyone knows we can beat all of these teams,” McGing said. “We do this far too often. We get a lead or get too confident. We’re two different teams depending on what day of the week it is. I don’t know what’s wrong with Saturdays.”

Illinois is 5-5-0 on Satur-days at home. As for now, the Illini have a week to figure out why it has been “Sad Sad City” for them on Saturdays before Eastern Michigan comes to town for senior night.

Matt can be reached at gertsme2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier.

BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER

In an arena where they haven’t won in 10 years, the Illinois women’s basketball team used a second-half surge to come from behind and beat Purdue 47-46 on Saturday at Mackey Arena.

The comeback victo-ry over the Boilermakers marked just the fifth time in school history that the Illi-ni left West Lafayette, Ind., with a win.

In order to do so, Illinois nearly doubled its first-half scoring output in the second half. A three-pointer from junior guard Kyley Sim-mons with just over a min-ute left gave the Illini their first and only lead of the game. That lead would hold as the Illini shut down the

paint and forced the Boiler-makers to try to beat them from the perimeter.

“We just wanted to make sure we stopped penetration and make them have to take a jump shot,” head coach Matt Bollant said. “They were struggling shooting the ball from the perimeter.”

Bollant said the game plan down the stretch was to keep the ball out of Pur-due guard April Wilson’s hands to keep the Boiler-makers from moving the ball up the court quickly and instead, eat up clock. That plan worked, and the Illini forced a shot clock violation with 40 seconds remaining in the game and escaped with a one-point win.

As the final score sug-gests, both teams struggled

shooting the ball and find-ing rhythms offensively. Illi-nois and Purdue combined to shoot a mere 18 percent from beyond the three-point arc, and neither team eclipsed 40 percent shooting from the field. Neither team faltered as much as the Illini did in the first half, though.

Illinois was held to just 16 first-half points and trailed by as much as 13 early on. The Illini knocked down just six shots in the entire opening half and even went through a near nine-minute

stretch of scoreless basket-ball, during which they shot 0-for-20 from the field.

Despite the poor shoot-ing half, the Illini trailed by just eight heading into the locker room, and Bol-lant thought his team held the momentum.

“This was the best I’ve felt being down eight in a game in a long time, because we just didn’t play well offensively,” Bol-lant said. “I knew if we got

Illinois 47, Purdue 46Summary: Illinois picked up its fifth conference win of the season with a comeback victory at Purdue.Key Performer: Chatrice White notched her sixth double-double of the season with 14 points and 10 boards.

Quote of the game: Matt Bollant — “We kept fighting and kept believing and found a way.”Hidden stat: After shooting 18 percent in the opening half, Illinois shot 40 percent in the second half to come back from a 13-point deficit.

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JOSEPH LEE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Rayvonte Rice goes up for a shot during the game against Michigan State at State Farm Center on Sunday. Michigan State won, avenging a Feb. 7 loss against Illinois.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Malcolm Hill attempts a layup during the game against Michigan State at State Farm Center on Sunday. The Illini lost 60-53 after battling it out during the second half.

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Weakness at the basket hurts Illinois

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Sports columnist

Immaturity, lack of discipline cost Illini CSCHL semifinal

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ James Mcging looks for an open pass during the CSCHL semifinals vs. Ohio University on Saturday. With this last loss, the Illini are now 5-5-0 on Saturdays.

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BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

In a grind-it-out battle Sunday night, it was Mich-igan State’s defense, physi-cality and offensive execu-tion that dealt the knockout blow to the Illinois men’s basketball team.

The Illini, behind Mal-colm Hill’s team-high 17 points, played extremely physical against the Spar-tans but couldn’t come away with a win at State Farm Center, losing 60-53.

“It was a very physical game,” head coach John Groce said. “Both teams played really hard, really aggressive, very physical. That was two good teams really going at it. Their quality of shot, their exe-cution, their ball movement was better than ours for the majority of the game.”

Denzel Valentine finished with a game-high 20 points and led the Spartans (19-8, 10-4 Big Ten) to 85 per-cent from the free throw line — he was 6-for-6. Those Michigan State free throws accumulated down the stretch and doomed Illi-nois (17-10, 7-7).

As a result of the physi-cality throughout the game, the teams were called for 46 combined fouls.

“Every time we play them it’s going to be phys-ical,” senior guard Rayvon-te Rice said. “That’s just the type of game. They’re tough. We’re tough.”

Michigan State came out strong, dominating Illinois in the early going and scor-ing the first five points of the game.

Rice answered the Spar-tans’ initial run with five straight points of his own

and Ahmad Starks added five more as the Illini went on a 12-0 run.

The Spartans answered with a 9-2 run of their own to tie the game at 14 before both teams settled down to keep the game close for the remainder of the first half.

The game was physical from the beginning — half of the total points scored in the first half were in the paint.

Illinois played aggres-sively on the defensive end throughout the night, holding the Spartans to 20 percent from three, but the Illini couldn’t get it done offensively. The team fin-ished the game at 28.8 per-cent from the field.

“We couldn’t just drive where we wanted or get an open shot,” Hill said. “We actually had to work for our shots. They don’t buckle on defense.”

The two teams battled back and forth in the sec-ond half. The Spartans’ lead hovered at four points as the Illini answered

almost every Michigan State bucket.

Finally the Spartans tried to pull away from the Illini, going on an 8-2 run to give them a 52-41 lead with 4:43 left.

“We’d cut it to four and then they’d score,” Groce said. “During that stretch they scored seven straight times. That was the differ-ence in the game.”

Three straight turnovers by the Spartans late in the game allowed the Illini to momentarily claw their way back to the top. Illinois

cut the lead to 54-51 with 1:20 left but couldn’t close out the game, missing sev-eral open shots down the stretch.

“We beat a good team. That was the hardest, most physical game that we’ve been involved in,” Michi-gan State head coach Tom Izzo said. “That was two teams battling for their lives.”

Nicholas can be reached at fortin2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @IlliniSportsGuy.

Michigan State 60, Illinois 53Summary: The Illini battled throughout the game but eventually came away with the loss in a hard-fought contest against the Spartans.Key performer: Malcolm Hill scored 17 points and grabbed four rebounds in the game.

Quote of the game: Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo — “That was a war.” Hidden stat: Illinois, the best free throw shooting team in the nation, shot only 57.1 percent from the line in the first half.Up next: vs. Iowa, 8 p.m. Wednesday in Iowa City, Iowa.

In a game dominat-ed by trips to the free throw line, the

Illini sure made this one interesting.

Down by as much as 11 points in the final five minutes and seemingly unable to get a stop, Illi-nois (17-10, 7-7 Big Ten) could have easily mailed it in against Michigan State (19-8, 10-4). Instead, the Illini caused havoc with defensive trapping and forced their way back into a three-point game with less than a minute remaining.

The opportunities were there to tie or take the lead, but sophomore guard Ken-drick Nunn missed an open three, a layup from senior guard Rayvonte Rice went in and out and time sim-ply ran out on Illinois. The Spartans walked away from State Farm Center with a 60-53 win, avenging a Feb. 7 loss.

Facing one of the Big Ten’s top defenses, Illinois shot just 29 percent from the field, including 12.5 per-cent from 3-point range. The Illini had to work a good chunk of the shot clock on every possession and few shots were falling.

Following the game, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo called the matchup the most physical game he’s been a part of in 15 years. That certainly showed from the amount of free throws Illinois and Michigan shot. The two teams combined for 48 free throw attempts, and the game essentially came down to which team was better from the charity stripe.

Leading the Big Ten in

free throw percentage, Illinois would normally welcome a foul shooting contest, but at 85 percent from the foul line on Sun-day, Michigan State had the upper-hand in that department.

There was a seven-min-ute stretch in the second half when the Illini’s scor-ing came solely from free throw shooting. In fact, 21 of Illinois’ 53 points came from the free throw line, which didn’t give the State Farm Center crowd many exciting plays to cheer about. The referees made it an emphasis to limit the game’s physicality, and it seemed as if every second-half possession ended in a foul.

After the game, Illinois coach John Groce said the Illini still have a long way to go to find their rhythm on offense, and going to the free throw line certainly didn’t help Illinois settle into any type of rhythm.

Illinois spent most of its time on the defensive end watching Michigan State score. In the final 10 minutes of the game, the Spartans scored on seven straight possessions to build the double-digit lead. Dur-ing that stretch, Michigan State’s offense ran through leading scorer Denzel Val-entine, who scored 16 of his game-leading 20 points in the second half.

On Illinois’ side, sopho-more guard Malcolm Hill led the way with 17 points and four rebounds on 5-of-11 shooting. No other Illini had more than three field goals.

From the opening tip, it was obvious how amped Michigan State was for this rematch. Branden Dawson led the Spartans charge from the outset and was all over the place.

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of terrorist acts. It provides direct funding andleadership to Islamic terror groups Hizbollah, Hamas,Houthi rebels in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq, aswell as the ruthless Assad regime in Syria. The Islamicrepublic also has been tied to bloody attacks oncivilians in nations as far flung as India, Thailand,Saudi Arabia and Bulgaria, as well as an attemptedassassination of the Saudi Ambassador in Washington,DC. Iran was recentlyimplicated in the 1994bombing of a Jewish centerin Argentina and amurderous cover-upattempt. But Iran’s mostbelligerent threats have beendirected at Israel, which Supreme Leader AyatollahKhamenei vows to “annihilate.”

Iran’s terrorist tactics are motivated by its drive tobecome the dominant power in the Middle East. TheShiite ideology of Iran’s leaders commands Muslims towage global jihad, and their constitution commitsthem to “the establishment of a universal holygovernment and the downfall of all others.” So farIran’s strategy has been successful, as its controllinginfluence now spreads over Lebanon, Syria, Iraq andmost recently Yemen. More critically, Iran has aneffective chokehold over the Gulf of Hormuz, throughwhich much of the world’s oil travels.

No wonder most of the world’s nations, especiallySaudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, are horrified at theprospect of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. In fact, anuclear Iran threatens the worldwide balance of power,particularly in the inflammable Middle East. For Israel,a nuclear-armed Iran poses an imminent threat to itsvery existence.

Unfortunately, the West, and particularly the UnitedStates, must share the blame for allowing Iran toincrease its hegemony and acquire nuclear weaponscapability. The U.S. pulled out of Lebanon in 1983 afteran Iranian-engineered bomb killed 241 Marines,facilitating the rise of Shiite Hizbollah terrorists. Whenthe U.S. pulled out of Iraq in 2011, Iran stepped in,seizing control of Shiite militias and exerting decisiveinfluence on the Iraqi government. Syria’s President

Bashar Assad, roiled in a bloody civil war, hasessentially become a proxy for Iran, and the Houthis,who just violently took control of former U.S. allyYemen, are also on Iran’s payroll. While the U.S. hasdesignated Iran a state sponsor of terrorism andinstituted a trade embargo in 1995, the Islamicrepublic’s warlike acts against the U.S., Israel andmany other nations have only increased. To halt Iran’snuclear weapons development, the West imposedsanctions in 2006, but Iran’s centrifuges continue to

spin defiantly.Despite intense recent

negotiations between theU.S and Iran to reach apeaceful resolution, severaldeadlines for settlementhave passed, and Iran still

refuses to cease nuclear weapons development. Indeed,recent investigations indicate that Iran has alreadyviolated existing agreements by establishing secretnuclear supply networks. Iran’s President HassanRouhani boasts, “Of course we bypass the sanctions,and we take pride in it.” No wonder a majority of theU.S. Congress urgently supports harsh new sanctionson Iran unless it immediately agrees to give upweapons-grade nuclear enrichment and ballisticmissile programs. President Obama, however,promises to veto any such measure, arguing thatincreased sanction threats will frighten the Iraniansfrom further negotiations.

What is the solution? Most Americans share thePresident’s hopes that Iran can be persuaded to setaside its nuclear ambitions—and its vendetta againstIsrael—through diplomacy. But one thing is certain:Iran is our enemy. Appeasement will not work. It isonly crippling Western economic sanctions, backed bythe threat of force, that have driven Iran to thenegotiating table.

Above all, Iran must decommission its nuclearweapons infrastructure now. To this end, SenatorsRobert Menendez (D-NJ) and Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL)have introduced the Nuclear Weapons Free Iran Act of2015, which toughens sanctions if Iran refuses tocomply, thus strengthening the U.S. hand in forging anagreement that peacefully eliminates the Iraniannuclear threat.

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Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist leaders are sworn by their nation’s constitution to pursue world conquest throughjihad. Through global terror campaigns, Iran has already achieved dominance in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq andYemen. It openly threatens to destroy Israel. Despite decades of Western-imposed trade embargos and sanctions,as well as recent U.S.-led negotiations, Iran’s drive to amass nuclear arms continues unabated, and its leaders vownot to give up their quest. What more must the U.S. and the world do to stop Iran’s apocalyptic nuclear threat?

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STAFF WRITER The Illinois softball team

had another losing campaign this weekend, dropping three of five games in Houston.

Head coach Terri Sullivan was disappointed that her team couldn’t maintain the intensity all weekend.

“We started off playing so well,” Sullivan said. “We just need to get out of the mental-ity that we can always change the game with just one swing. We need to learn to just chip away.”

The Illini picked up wins against New Mexico (12-4) and host Houston (10-7) on Friday behind two huge offen-sive performances. Leading the offensive charge for the Illini were second baseman Allie Bauch and shortstop Ruby Rivera.

Rivera has a .426 batting average and nine RBIs this season and has been a major contributor to the Illini’s offense all season. Rivera’s offensive game thrives on

consistency.“I played pretty consis-

tent,” Rivera said. “We fell off, though, at the end, and we all played pretty badly.”

Illinois came into Saturday morning with a lot of momen-tum, but suffered a 12-4 loss to New Mexico. Lack of inten-sity was the cause for this loss, according to Rivera.

“We really took our foot off the gas pedal,” Rivera said. “We stopped focusing on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball.”

After averaging double-digit run totals on Friday, the Illini only recorded four runs against New Mexico.

In the Illini’s second game Saturday, against Texas A&M Corpus-Christi, Illi-nois started slow — falling behind 6-1. The game was delayed by rain and even-tually postponed to Sunday morning. Illinois looked at the delay as a way to reset the players’ minds and get back in the right mentality. When the game resumed Sunday, sophomore pitcher Breanna Wonderly took the circle for the Illini.

Wonderly took control of the game early, shutting down Texas A&M Corpus-Christi. The Illini couldn’t bridge the run deficit, and lost the game 6-4.

Illinois ended the weekend with its second game against Houston. Sullivan was con-fident in Wonderly’s perfor-mance in the morning and gave the sophomore the start.

However, it was a com-pletely different Wonderly in the circle against Houston, as she walked her first four bat-ters faced and Sullivan had to go to the bullpen in the bot-tom of the first. After bare-ly escaping the first inning, pitching and defensive errors doomed the Illini for the rest of the game as they lost 12-2.

The Illini have been unable to play consistent softball this season, according to Sullivan.

“Now all we can do is get back to work, and get ready to go to Florida next week,” Sullivan said.

Cole can be reached at cehenke2@dailyillini.com or on Twitter @cole_Henke.

BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER

Illinois wrestling’s five-meet winning streak came to an end Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa, as the No. 2 Mis-souri Tigers proved to have too much talent for the No. 5 Illini grapplers. Despite only winning 23-13, the Tiger’s slimmest victory of the sea-son, Missouri’s loaded line-up withstood an early Illini push and added a late surge of their own to claim a tight victory.

The NWCA National Duals quarterfinal meet against Missouri (23-0, 8-0 MAC) was the third time Illinois (13-5, 6-3 Big Ten) had faced a national top-two team this season. In the two previous meets, the Illini suffered close losses, falling to then-No.2 Iowa 25-12 on Jan. 16 and to then-No. 1 Minnesota 20-19 just two days later. Illi-nois was also the third Big Ten team the Tigers wrestled this season — they beat Pur-due 23-9 on Nov. 29 and Ohio State 20-19 on Dec. 13.

“Overall, I thought we wrestled OK,” head coach Jim Heffernan said. “We had some good performanc-es, but we let a couple get

away that — had they been turned around — could have changed the meet.”

The first action of the afternoon was arguably the most anticipated matchup of any quarterfinal meet. In the 125-pound bout, Illi-nois’ undefeated and defend-ing national champion, No. 1-ranked Jesse Delgado, was pitted against Missouri’s undefeated, 2014 fourth-place NCAA finisher, No. 2-ranked Alan Waters.

By far Delgado’s toughest opponent during his injury-shortened season, Waters took advantage of the fact that Delgado had not faced a top-25 wrestler prior to Sat-urday. After jumping out to a commanding 5-0 lead after the first two periods, Waters ultimately won the match 6-2, giving Delgado his first loss in 23 matches.

“There’s nothing to read into Jesse’s loss,” Heffernan said. “It was just the No. 1 and No. 2 guys in the nation going at it. They both had good moments in the match, Waters just got the best of him this time.”

After freshman Kyle Lan-genderfer suffered a 6-3 loss to Missouri’s No. 1 Drake

Houdashelt in the 149-pound match, the Illini found them-selves in a 10-3 hole near-ing the halfway point of the meet. It was up to Illinois’s talented middleweights to pick up the slack.

In the next two matches, undefeated 157-pound fresh-man Isaiah Martinez regis-tered a 17-6 major decision win over Joseph LaVallee and 165-pound senior Jack-son Morse pulled out a close 4-3 victory over Missouri’s Mike England to tie the match 10-10.

However, the following match would turn the tide in Missouri’s favor again, this time for good.

The 174-pound bout was the only match besides Waters vs. Delgado that included two top-six individ-uals, with Illinois’ No. 6 soph-omore Zac Brunson facing Missouri’s No. 5 John Eblen.

The wrestlers’ rankings turned out to be the only thing close in the match, as Eblen pinned Brunson 55 sec-onds into the first period, giv-ing the Tigers a 16-10 lead.

“(Brunson) was doing the right things,” Heffer-nan said. “He was going for his leg, trying to finish, but

the guy just had really good defense. (Brunson) just got caught on his back. It was not a result of a lack of effort or skill.”

No. 19 sophomore Nikko Reyes’ 3-1 overtime victory over Missouri’s No. 12 Wil-lie Miklus provided the only points the Illini would score the rest of the meet, as junior Jeff Koepke and freshman Brooks Black both fell in their respective matches.

The dual meet season is now over for the Illini. They will now shift their focus to the Big Ten Championships. The Illini will have two weeks of preparation prior to the event in Columbus, Ohio, where Illinois will pur-sue its first conference title since 2005.

“We still have some skills we need to work on along with our health,” Heffernan said. “They’re both very important at this point. These guys could use some time off; they’ll actually get to be col-lege kids a couple days for once.”

Ethan can be reached at erswans2@dailyillini.com or on Twitter @EthanSwanson88.

Missouri 23, Illinois 13

Summary: Despite tying the meet 10-10 after the first six matches, No. 2 Missouri’s late-meet surge proved to be too much for No. 5 Illinois. Key Performer: 184-pound No. 19 Nikko Reyes upset Missouri’s No. 12 Willie Miklus 3-1 in overtime.Quote of the Meet: Head Coach Jim Heffernan — “We

had some good performances, but we let a couple get away that — had they been turned around — could have changed the meet.”Hidden Stat: In three meets against top-two ranked teams this season (Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri), the Illini have lost only by an average margin of eight points.Next: March 7-8, Big Ten Championships, Columbus, Ohio

MARGARET KISPERT THE DAILY IOWANMissouri’s Alan Waters tries to pin Illinois’ Jesse Delgado during the quarterfinals of the NCWA National Duals in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Saturday. Waters won, 6-2.

Wrestling loses after winning streak

Illinois softball struggles in Houstongoing offensively, we’d have a shot.”

Illinois went from shoot-ing 16 percent in the first half to shooting 40 percent in the second, holding Pur-due to just 22 second-half points to pull out the win.

Freshman center Cha-

trice White led the Illi-ni with 14 points and 10 rebounds, her sixth double-double of the season.

With seven points, senior guard Ivory Crawford was held to single-digit scor-ing for the first time since Nov. 20. She still had a large hand in Illinois’ win, though, grabbing five steals, includ-ing the steal that led to Sim-mons’ go-ahead three.

“Great lesson for bas-ketball players,” Bollant said. “Ivory really strug-gled offensively, but a cou-ple steals on the defensive end led to a couple big bas-kets for us. Keep playing defense, keep fighting.”

Joey can be reached at jfiguer2@dailyilli-ni.com and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3.

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WOMEN’S GYMNASTICSFRI: ILL 196.500, MICHIGAN STATE 196.325 HUFF HALL

Team focuses on consistent play

He looked to swat every shot that came his way into the third row, and even got into it with Leron Black as the first half wound down.

Illinois matched Michi-gan State’s strong physical-ity. Having your physicali-ty praised by Izzo is saying something, so there’s no question the Illini can be bruisers.

The Illini did a lot of things right on Sunday. They just didn’t knock down shots. Groce said he wasn’t concerned about the shots that were missed and has confidence his players can make those shots

moving forward.Being right in the thick

of it in the final min-ute while shooting less than 30 percent and making just two 3-point-ers should keep the optimists in good spirits.

Having the same number of conference wins and losses will keep the pessimists around, too.

It seems like no one is ready to punch Illinois’ ticket to the big dance just yet, so with four games

remaining, the Illini have a lot to prove. Win or lose,

a hard-fought game against one of the most physical teams in the Big Ten is a small step in the right direction.

Joey is a junior in Media. He can be reached at jfiguer2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3.

Having the same number of

conference wins and loses will keep the pessimists around,

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BY WILL SMALLSTAFF WRITER

For many of the Illini freshmen, the Orange and Blue Open at the Armory was their first taste of collegiate com-petition. Ahead of the Big Ten Indoor Championships, many of the Illinois men’s track and field team’s top ath-letes took this past weekend off to rest.

No. 23 Illinois narrowly outscored the Illinois State Redbirds 178-163. Valparaiso and Bradley finished with 70 and 40 points, respectively.

“I’m really pleased with our over-all performances,” head coach Mike Turk said. “In a meet where we’re sitting a lot of our top performers so they can get ready for Big Tens, it creates a lot of opportunities for our younger guys.”

Illinois had a number of underclass-men produce strong results, and Turk knows that this meet is going to be an important part in the development for the blossoming Illini.

Jonathan Wells won the high jump competition in what is shaping up to be a great season for the freshman. Wells has jumped the second-best height of the season in the Big Ten. This weekend he will have an opportu-nity to go head-to-head against White at the Big Ten Indoor Championships.

The weight throw was another event that showcased Illini youth. Fresh-

men Matsen Dziedzic and Michael Hyc garnered two of the top three in the event. Dziedzic finished second, throwing a distance of 17.50 meters, while Hyc placed third throwing 17.18 meters, in what were new personal bests for both athletes.

Another promising freshman for Illinois is Garrett Lee, who won the 800 meters with a time of 1 minute, 55.91 seconds. With the Illini stand-out Joe McAsey taking the weekend off from competition, Lee took advan-tage of the opportunity.

In the 3,000 meters, redshirt sopho-more Will Brewster captured the win with a time of 8:23.71 and senior Bren-dan McDonnell finished just behind at 8:29.01.

But it wasn’t just underclassmen who played a role in Illinois’ win. Senior Corey Hammon placed first in the 60-meter hurdles, posting a time of 8.43 seconds. Also in the event, freshman Parker Deloye finished fourth at 8.85, a new personal record.

In one of the most exciting events of the day, senior Maurice Watkins finished third in the 60-meter dash in a photo finish. Watkins and Illinois State’s Clay Raimon and Nathan Sch-reiber all crossed the finish line at the same time, prompting officials to take the times down to thousandths of a second. All three posted times of

7.01 seconds, but after further exami-nation, Watkins was awarded third.

Matthew Bane and Mitch Mammos-er finished second and third, respec-tively, with a clearance of 5.03 meter each in the pole vault. The jump is a new personal best for Mammoser, who is feeling comfortable with his perfor-mances going into the Big Ten meet.

“As far as being consistent, I’m right there,” Mammoser said after the meet. “I have a lot of height, and I’m happy with how I’m jumping.”

Illinois also sent a distance medley relay team to the Alex Wilson Invite at Notre Dame over the weekend. The team consisted of senior Bryce Bast-ing, junior Liam Markham, senior DJ Zahn and junior Joe McAsey. The group finished sixth overall with a time of 9:33.28, which is also the second-fastest time in school history.

The Illini will have a quick turn-around as they prepare for the Big Ten Indoor Championships this weekend. But Mammoser and his team think they are up for the challenge.

“We’re sitting really well going into Big Tens,” Mammoser said. “Overall, everyone is feeling really well going into the meet.”

Will can be reached at wsmall2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @will_small_.

Illini race to victoryWith strong underclassmen showing, men’s track takes !rst

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Matsen Dziedzic winds up for the throw during the weight throw event at the Orange and Blue meet on Saturday.

BY PETER BAILEY-WELLSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The Illinois baseball team accomplished something it hasn’t done in 10 years Sun-day. The team finished a game in a tie.

Due to travel restric-tions, Illinois finished Sun-day’s game in Fort Myers, Fla., against Florida Gulf Coast in a 4-4 nine-inning tie. The Illini rallied in the top of the ninth to tie the game after trailing 4-3 for three innings.

The 1:30 p.m. game began just before 2:30 because Florida Gulf Coast and Ford-ham were playing on the Swanson Stadium field in a game that began at 11 a.m.

“We felt kind of rushed,” senior right fielder Casey Fletcher said. “It was actu-ally a huge scheduling prob-lem. They need to plan at least three hours for the

game.” Second baseman Reid

Roper was the star for most of the afternoon, but desig-nated hitter Pat McInerney slapped a single through the left side to score Fletcher and tie the game.

Illinois had gone ahead 3-1 by the end of the third inning, built on a pair of Roper RBI hits and a David Kerian solo home run.

Junior Tyler Jay tossed 4 1/3 innings of scoreless relief after starter Rob McDonnell, reigning Big Ten Pitcher of the Week, surrendered four runs in just 4 2/3 innings.

The opener Friday against Florida Gulf Coast was much easier. Senior Drasen Johnson threw seven strong innings for Illinois, giving up only two runs on four hits and striking out eight in the team’s 13-2 victory. Johnson

was credited for his first win of the season, after the Illi-nois offense built a 10-run lead by the time he exited the game.

Fletcher led the Illini with four hits in five at-bats — he finished with three RBIs and scored three runs himself.

“He was playing team baseball and the hits just came,” Hartleb said after Friday’s game. “He has competitive at-bats every time up.”

After his performance Friday, Fletcher was again the hero on Saturday against Fordham, albeit uninten-tionally. Fletcher reached base four times Saturday, twice on walks and once on a hit-by-pitch that came at the most opportune time.

With the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth and the game tied, a pitch nicked Fletcher’s foot and

junior catcher Jason Gold-stein scored the winning run to seal Illinois’ 7-6 vic-tory. The ball originally appeared to be a wild pitch and Goldstein sprinted home, but the umpire ruled it a hit-by-pitch to seal the victory.

“It was weird, but a good kind of weird,” Fletcher said about the walk-off. “It actually ricocheted off my foot and that’s why the catcher couldn’t stop it.”

Saturday’s game had been a back-and-forth affair, with the Illini up 4-0 after two innings and up 6-3 entering the ninth.

Senior starter John Kra-vetz gave up three runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. Junior Cody Sedlock was tagged for three runs in the top of the ninth. Fordham tied the game on a two-run double and an error after

Sedlock allowed three bas-erunners. Jay, who replaced Sedlock on the mound, com-mitted the error on a flip from first baseman Keri-an. Jay followed his mistake with two straight strikeouts and finished with the win when the Illini scored in the bottom of the frame.

The Illini, who received votes in top-25 polls prior to the weekend, are the only undefeated team in the Big Ten. Now at 6-0-1, the Illini have equaled their best start to a season since 1989. That season, they were Big Ten regular season and Big Ten tournament champions. In 2005, the last season the Illi-ni tied a game, they won the Big Ten regular season title.

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BY ALEX WALLNERSTAFF WRITER

It wasn’t the most com-petitive field, but the Illinois women’s track and field team didn’t stoop to the level of the competition Saturday.

The Illini captured 12 event titles and secured first place in the Orange and Blue Open at the Armory, winning by 94 points, almost twice as many as second-place North-ern Illinois.

Senior Stephanie Richartz broke her own Illinois indoor pole vault record, clearing 4.38 meters, breaking her original 2013 record by five tenths of a meter.

Richartz was sidelined last season due to injury but has taken first place in four of the Illini’s last five meets.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to have broken the school record,” Richartz said. “I haven’t jumped nearly that high in several years, so it feels good to be back healthy and jumping high.”

Richartz’s height stands as the third-best height in the country this indoor sea-son, only behind No. 1 Arkan-sas’ Sandi Morris, who has cleared 4.40 meters, and Ste-phen F. Austin’s Demi Payne, who has jumped 4.63 meters.

Her accomplishment has Richartz motivated for the Illini’s biggest meet of the sea-son, next weekend’s Indoor Big Ten Championships.

“Big Tens is a very unique and exhilarating atmo-sphere,” Richartz said. “Hav-ing jumped the third-highest in the country simply makes me feel more prepared for the approaching Big Ten meet. I’m excited for the potential that the vault group has as a whole and how that will pan out in the Big Ten meet.”

Currently No. 10 Wiscon-sin is the only ranked Big Ten team, but senior Bree-ana Coleman said the Illini’s focus is at an all-time high this week in practice.

Coleman was victorious in the 60 meters and 60-meter hurdles, finishing with times of 7.58 seconds and 8.30 sec-onds, respectively.

Coleman says she is geared up for next weekend, and added that she knows she can run even faster than she did Saturday.

“I know that I can run a faster time at this point in the season,” Coleman said. “An 8.30 is the fastest time that I have ever ran at this facility, so I am pretty excited for this (upcoming) weekend.”

Sophomore Kandie Bloch-Jones, who is defending her Big Ten championship in the high jump, is the team’s sole returning Big Ten individual champion.

Bloch-Jones was another one of the team’s 12 winners Saturday, clearing 5 feet, 8.75 inches, to beat two jump-ers from Northern Illinois, Chennel Palmer and Clau-dette Day.

Overall, Bloch-Jones said Saturday was more of a learning experience than anything else.

“I cleared five feet, nine inches and after that skipped to six feet, where I was eager to jump at,” Bloch-Jones said. “Therefore, I didn’t have very good attempts. I want to learn how to manage myself bet-ter, so I can relax and do my thing.”

Alex can be reached at awallne2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @AWallner93.

Women’s track wins 12 titles

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIStephanie Richartz releases the pole as she lifts past the bar to break her previous record with a height of 4.38 meters.

Orange and Blue OpenSummary: Illinois’ men and women won the event at the Armory, combining for 18 individual titlesIllinois’ key performers: Senior Stephanie Richartz won the pole vault, while capturing the third best height in the country and breaking her own school record.Freshman Jonathan Wells won the high jump for the men, and was the only jumper to clear two meters.Quote of the Meet: Stephanie Richartz – “I haven’t jumped nearly that high in several years, so it feels good to be back healthy and jumping high.”

Illinois baseball in Fort Myers, Fla.Friday: Illinois 13, FGCU 2 Saturday: Illinois 7, Fordham 6 Sunday: Illinois 4, FGCU 4 Summary: After a high-scoring blowout Friday and tight finish Saturday, Illinois tied for the first time in 10 years Sunday. Key performer: Second baseman Reid Roper’s batting average stands at .464 for the season and he had three hits and scored three runs in Saturday’s Illini win. Quote of the weekend: Head coach Dan Hartleb — “We’re going to be an exciting team — we’re going to get better.”

Illinois baseball ties in Fla., remains undefeated