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Buddy Guy counters life blues with musical blues Read about the last day of Ellnora Guitar Festival on 5A

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Buddy Guy performs in the Ellnora Guitar Festival at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday. The living blues legend brought energy and humor to the set, telling stories between songs about getting old, reminiscing on the late B.B. King and growing up on a sharecropper’s farm. When it comes to the future, “I’m gonna keep on playing as long as I can,” Guy said.

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University continues to avoid College Board resources BY JOSE ZEPEDA ASSISTANT DAYTIME NEWS EDITOR

The College Board, creator of the SAT, has introduced a new resource for college admissions officers to use in the process of selecting students to attend their respective colleges, and the University is getting some use out of it. The resource, called Landscape, is used by college admissions officers to better identify the students applying to their college. It is a dataset of information that shows how one student compares to other students at the same high school. Landscape itself is an improvement upon a previous resource released in May called the Environmental Context Dashboard. Landscape is a product of feedback and criticism of the ECD. “We listened to thoughtful criticism and made Landscape better and more transparent,” said David Coleman, CEO of College Board, in a press release. “ La ndsc ape prov ides admissions officers more consistent background information so they can fairly consider every student, no matter where they live and learn.” Previously, the ECD provided a single score, from a range of 1 to 100, that represented high school and neighborhood information. A score of 100 indicated higher student adversity. For Landscape, This has changed to a list of data with descriptions. Some of the data La ndscape w ill provide includes high school locale, Advanced Placement participation and performance, household structure, median family income, education level and senior class size. When the ECD was first released in May, the University did not immediately take full use of the resource. Andrew Borst, director of undergraduate admissions, said the University was in an analysis phase, meaning the data was not being used in

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Books intended for SAT preparation sit on a shelf at Barnes and Noble on May 22. The College Board recently announced the Environmental Context Dashboard, a tool intended to measure social and economic adversity on college applicants’ backgrounds.

determining potential students but instead to gather data associated with schools underrepresented at the University. Although the ECD has transitioned into Landscape, the University’s stance is still the same. Landscape will not be used in the admissions process, though the University will continue to use the data in other ways to find out more information about where students are applying from. Dan Mann, associate provost for enrollment management at the University, said students will continue to be evaluated solely on information included on their admission applications, high school courses and grades,

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The University’s first Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Sean Garrick is still adjusting to life in the state of Illinois. Garrick said his days consist mostly of meetings, where he learns about the challenges and issues the University faces. “It’s a lot of listening, which is good because I don’t know the institution of the campus intimately, so I need to rely on those who have been here for a long time to give me a sense of their perspective and what they see the needs to be,” Garrick said. Garrick’s role as vice chancellor and chief diversity officer is to pursue opportunities for educational and cultural transformation relating to bias and discrimination against any group of people, according to the University’s job description. On Sept. 1, a noose was found in an elevator at Allen Residence Hall. A student was later arrested and charged with committing a hate crime, according to the University Police Department. “On campus, off-campus, these things have been going on for decades,” Garrick said. “It’s part of the history of our country. It’s a national trend, unfortunately. It is our goal to try to address it and remove instances like that from our campus and our community. As a University, we have to embrace that trust that students place in us and then deliver.” A Massmail sent out by Chancellor Robert Jones stated the University will continue to use all of its resources to investigate and address incidents as quickly as possible. Furthermore, the vice chancellor for student affairs and the vice chancellor for diversity, equity & inclusion started a series of opportunities for students to have safe places to discuss the incident.

test scores and personal essays, at least through the Fall 2020 admissions cycle. This remains unlikely to change going forward. The College Board also plans to make the data Landscape collects available to high school students and counselors. This is something that interests Borst and Emily Erazo, senior at Morton West High School in Berwyn, Illinois. “Stuff like this could be helpful to know, especially when considering which schools to go to or which schools I’ll consider applying to,” Erazo said. Erazo is interested in applying to the University and studying business. She hopes to be a part of several different organizations,

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including the earth science club and the Latinos in business organization. “I spent two nights there and fell in love with the campus and the diversity of the school,” Erazo said. For Erazo, seeing the University is not using Landscape data would be a sigh of relief. “It would create a bias (toward) students who go to lower-end public schools and (create) a stereotype and affect the chances of students who (want to) get in,” she said. Borst had been critical of the EDC in the past, saying its original rollout was poorly conveyed to the public. He added Landscape is a step in the right direction, but further analysis is still needed to see if

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the data could really help the admissions process at the University. Erazo said she believes colleges should focus on the students and not the schools they come from. “I believe it’s important to know the student at a personal level when applying and not have much bias (toward) the type of school they went to, along with the scores of the school because that’s the average and not the individual student.” When asked for a comment, the College Board referred to its press release, the Landscape website and a link to its data description. jzeped4@dailyillini.com

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Burglary was reported in the 700 block of West Greet Street around 4 p.m. Wednesday. According to the report, items in a vehicle were stolen by an unknown offender. Burglary was reported in the 800 block of West Sunset Drive around 10 a.m. Thursday. According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s residence without permission and stole items. Theft of services was reported at Sister Sister’s Hair Braiding, 1809 Philo Road, around 4 p.m. Thursday. According to the report, an offender left the business without paying for the services she was provided. news@dailyillini.com

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Criminal damage to property was reported in the 200 block of East Green Street around 10 a.m. Tuesday. According to the report, the victim returned to her vehicle after it had been relocated. She found intentional damage to the car had been done. Fighting was reported in the 2100 block of West White Street around 8 p.m. Wednesday. According to the report, two females, who each have a child with the same male, began to fight each other in a parking lot. Domestic battery was reported in the 800 block of North Neil Street around 5 p.m. Thursday. According to the report, a male and female were fighting about a phone.

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A few months ago, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill that will greatly expand legalized gambling in the state of Illinois. Sports gambling will be legal as well as slot machines in airports, horse racing tracks and a variety of other venues. Several casinos, including a megacasino in Chicago, would also be added around the state. Some locations on campus, including Murphy’s Pub, already have slot machine gambling games installed. Some of the dangers and risks that stem from legalized gambling were discussed in a University resolution regarding sports gambling, which went before the faculty senate in February and failed. “My support for the resolution was based on the fact that there is some, but not much, research available on the economic effects of legalized gambling,” said Bryan Buckley, teaching assistant professor in LAS, in an email. “I thought it might

be a good opportunity for someone to do some research in that area. I figured the resolution might help spur things in that direction.” The resolution especially expresses concern regarding the impact of legalized gambling on young people. One part of the resolution reads, “psychological, sociological and psychiatric communities refer to online gambling particularly when associated with the lure of sports gambling as the ‘crack cocaine’ of creating new addicted gamblers, with high school students already showing double the addiction rates of the general public.” An article by ProPublica Illinois said lawmakers are also going to increase the amount of money going toward fighting gambling addiction, which experts are calling a disease similar to drug and alcohol addiction. Illinois does seem to be expanding the gambling status relatively quickly. “Gambling was legalized to increase the state’s tax revenue in the imme-

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Murphy’s Pub’s gaming area is located toward the back of the bar. Gambling has been greatly expanded in Illinois following a bill signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker earlier this year.

diate future,” said Amitai Aviram, professor in Law, in an email. Legalized gambling will be taxed by the state, he said, so its direct effect should increase tax revenue. However, increased gambling can reduce the tax base in the long-term if it reduces the amount of money people can spend on other purchases since, on the whole, gamblers pay more than they win so the gambling industry makes a profit. “(Gambling) can even

increase state expenditures if excessive gambling causes some individuals economic hardship or if gambling attracts increased criminal activity,” Aviram said. The effects of gambling, such as increased taxation on the industry, will take place in the short term, Aviram said. The negative effects, on the other hand, may gradually accumulate over the long term. gnm2@dailyillini.com

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Amir Maghsoodi, a second-year doctoral candidate in the counseling psychology program whose office is located in the College of Education, stands in front of the College of Education Building. The program for doctoral students was recently ranked among the top of the nation.

UI Counseling Psychology Program ranks top in nation BY YOOJIN SON ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

With a small faculty line accepting only a maximum of three students a year, the University’s Counseling Psychology Program for doctoral students was recently placed at the top of national rankings. Accredited by the American Psychology Association, the program trains psychologists to apply knowledge developed in the field to issues of practical importance. Amir Maghsoodi, second-year doctoral student in counseling psychology, said he would not have considered the University’s program without its accreditation in APA. With APA, the program allows students like Maghsoodi to connect with various programs across the nation sparking discussions of today’s pressing issues with respect to culture, ethnicity and race, Maghsoodi said. Its affiliation with APA allowed the program to

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During his drive to the University campus, Garrick said he often reflects on how he spent 21 years of his life at the University of Minnesota, initially thinking he would only be working there for no more than two years. In addition to being a professor in Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Garrick served as associate vice provost at the university’s Office for Equity and Diversity and director of the University of Minnesota Institute for Diversity, Equity and Advocacy. “In a way, I’d like to be able to not erase my previous experience, but put on complete blinders to it and just take in UIUC for what it is,” Garrick said. Garrick’s experience leading diversity efforts at the University of Minnesota has also taught him many lessons he said he will keep in mind as chief diversity officer. “The biggest thing I learned there was, in a way, not believe that you have the answer,” he said. “And instead, invite people into the conversation and put

expand to its status today with the support of counseling psychology’s former director of training, Helen Farmer. “When I got there, we were including students who had no background in psychology, and so we changed that,” Farmer said. “When you decide to only choose students who qualified at the national level, then you are able to advertise your program nationally. That made a difference.” Farmer established the program’s visibility to APA in the 1970s and 1980s, attending the association’s annual conference with her doctoral candidates. Pressing for a stronger emphasis on research, Farmer said research opened the opportunity to open the program to a larger international system outside of the local community. As a division in the College of Education, counseling psychology at the University focuses on psychological adjustment issues many face throughout various transi-

tions of life. When applying to programs, Maghsoodi said he was advised to avoid basing his judgment on rankings as they often lack the ability to capture all the aspects of a university. Despite his prior advice, Maghsoodi said he is glad the program reflects his experience with counseling psychology at the University. “It feels wonderful to have our program to be ranked highly, and I’m happy that it’s also reflective of my experience here — that I really feel like I’m in really good hands,” Maghsoodi said. “I feel that I can trust my advisers, whether it’s research or clinical supervision or professional development.” James Rounds, professor in Education, said at the end of each student’s program, candidates spend one year at a nationally competitive internship designated by the APA. In many cases, students of the program are able to work at their first-

their answers forward. For anything to be effective or to really take root, it has to be at the grassroots level.” Garrick met Jones at the University of Minnesota, where Jones worked as a professor and administrator for nearly 30 years. Garrick said because they worked in different colleges, he would only cross paths with Jones during large cross-campus events. Garrick grew up in New York, where he studied engineering and received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctorate at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He said his upbringing in New York helped broaden his definition of what diversity means. “People think of diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, religion — which I think is all of those things — but one thing that’s really changed in terms of my thinking, is socioeconomic background,” he said. “We all believe and know college education is a fantastic thing, but what happens if you can’t afford it? That’s a huge divider.” His experience of being an underrepresented minority in STEM also influenced his decision to take on leadership roles that promote more

diversity and inclusion. “It’s definitely affected not just my outlook on this job but really my motivation to do this job,” Garrick said. “I love science. I love engineering. I love programming, but at the end of the day, I’d like more people to love those things, too. It shouldn’t just be folks who grew up in and around engineering, going into engineering.”

choice internship. Across the span of 30 years, the division has downsized to fewer faculty and students to “as small as we can get to continue a program,” Rounds said. Partly due to budgetary restraints in Education, Rounds said there are both advantages and disadvantages to its compact program size. With restrictions on the number of courses available to students and students accepted to the program, faculty members are found balancing increased administrative responsibilities with their core focus in teaching and research. “When you are in an academic department, research is fairly important in terms of advancement,” Rounds said. “And so you’re both doing a lot more administrative work, which takes some time away from your primary roles hopefully teaching and research.” Without an undergraduate and master’s program, counseling psychology is

unable to bring in enough funds to expand the division’s overall size relying on the College of Education’s support. “One of the difficulties that faces a lot of professional programs here at the University is that they need to either develop or find some way to develop a more stronger undergraduate presence or master level,” Rounds said. “Master-level programs at the University are bringing tuition money.” While the division hopes to establish a master’s program, Rounds said a new degree program at the University takes two to three years to get off the ground. Despite having the downside of not having a large cohort of fellow counseling psychology students, Maghsoodi said he appreciates the intimate relationships he established with professors and students. Maghsoodi said counseling psychology put a large emphasis on social justice issues opening discussion and research on how the

field of social science can respond to a social environment dealing with such conflicts. “When you think about our field as a social science, responding to the social environment, that social justice is a really great essential part of your identity to have,” Maghsoodi said. “Illinois’ program here especially is, from what I’ve seen, from what I’ve heard talking to other students, I think it’s a leader, like this program leads in that respect, and I love it.” Inspired by the students and faculty within counseling psychology, Maghsoodi said his identity as a psychologist and career path has changed and broadened. “I’m inspired by the students (and) their energy. I’m inspired by the faculty,” he said. “It’s just been inspirational, motivational for me to be with these people. So it’s really the people here (who) have had made a huge difference for me.” yjson2@dailyillini.com

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The OVCDEI was established last summer in response to an external review, initiated by Jones in the spring of 2017, of diversity programs at the University. It was previously known as the Office for Access and Equity, and before that, it was called the Office of Diversity, Equity and Access. The external review team, composed of leaders from other universities, examined diversity projects and initiatives throughout campus. It recommended the appointment of a cabinet-level vice chancellor for diversity, equity & inclusion to enhance coordination and accountability after it noted the decentralized nature of diversity efforts at

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The University’s first Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Sean Garrick sits in his office. On Sept. 1, a noose was found in an elevator at Allen Residence Hall, and Garrick said he aims to prevent incidents like this from occurring.

the University. “This lack of central structure, organization and clarity are the greatest impediments to efforts to build a more diverse university,” the 2017 report said. The search for a vice chancellor started last fall and was extended into the spring, during which more candidates were brought to campus, including Garrick.

Garrick started his appointment as vice chancellor on Aug. 1. He said he is excited to get to know the University better, such as by establishing a more authentic view of what the student experience is like. “I wish I could have a crash course on UIUC, particularly from the student perspective,” Garrick said. “That would really help

inform when we prioritize things that we need to do, how we communicate to folks that we’re actually doing these things, (and) that we take their experiences, their opinions and their values very seriously, and we’re actually making progress (toward) it.” alpasan2@dailyillini.com

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Brandon T. Washington and friends performs at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday. The annual Ellnora Guitar Festival features a multitude of diverse artists in Urbana.

Ellnora Guitar Festival ends on high note BY PARI APOSTOLAKOS MANAGING EDITOR FOR REPORTING

Drums, a guitar, a pair of maracas and a voice. These elements came together under blue and purple lights to make up the band Sávila, named after the Spanish word for the aloe vera plant, who played at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on the last day of the Ellnora Guitar Festival Saturday afternoon. The festival ended Saturday, and its acts managed to draw crowds until the very end. Brisa Maria Gonzalez, Papi Fimbres and Fabiola Reyna put on a show characterized by rhythmic beats and haunting vocals in Spanish and English. Gonzalez, the band’s lead singer, punctuated the music by stomping her feet on the ground and seemingly let the music carry her movement as she swayed her long dark hair back and forth. The audience, however, did not care to dance from the beginning of this early afternoon concert, to which Gonzalez said she knew they were all “dancing on the inside.” Toward the end of Sávila’s show, one enthusiastic audience member gave in, got up and moved at the very front of the stage, prompting three other festival patrons to join in. “It’s such a privilege and

honor to be able to connect with people, just about music,” Gonzalez said after the band’s final bow before leaving to play a show in Chicago later that day. “Just the way that guitar brings together so many different people and so many different cultures is really a beautiful way to connect.” Across KCPA’s lobby, another performance brought Latin culture to the festival but in a very different way. The Danilo Brito Quartet hails from Brazil, and audience members sat around small tables in the dimly lit Studio Theatre eating Chex Mix while waiting for the musicians to take the stage. When they did, four men clad in suits and ties sauntered in with their unique instruments. Brito himself carried a bandolim, a Brazilian version of a mandolin, while his fellow performers wielded a six-string guitar – like most used in the United States – a seven-string guitar and a pandeiro, a percussion instrument. Brito interacted with the audience through a translator – after bashfully admitting he does not speak English – in between most songs to explain to the audience where exactly the music they were hearing came from. Choro, meaning “to cry,” is the name of the style of music the quartet played. Brito described it as the

most rigid style of music in Brazil, born around 1870, and many other styles of Brazilian music came from choro. Despite choro’s melancholic name, much of the music played by the quartet was buoyant and fast, with Brito’s solos triggering applause from the audience. “You can be sure that each note is played with the heart,” Brito said. “It is an honor to us to play to an audience which has an open heart also.” Ellnora’s very last performance, conveniently named “Last Call!” featured Brandon T. Washington and friends. People came out with their own friends to line up at the bar, get front row seats or listen from farther away. Washington, a local music educator and ACE Teacher Award winner, began his show by encouraging people to get up and dance, reminding audience members “it’s OK to move your body.” The group played some covers of popular songs like Prince’s “When Doves Cry” and original works as well, all being well received by the audience and inspiring applause, singing along and full-on improvised couples dance routines. Washing ton himself was so energized on stage singing, dancing and playing with such fervor that he perspired through his

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Brandon T. Washington, a local elementary music teacher and ACE Teacher Award Winner, performs at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday. Diverse acts draw audiences from all over C-U.

clothing, wiping himself off with a towel along the way. Br a ndon Na rci sse, senior in ACES, and Victoria Susberry, graduate student in psychology, are KCPA employees who both worked the festival yesterday. “(The festival) is actual-

ly pretty good for the community, honestly,” Narcisse said. “You just see everybody the first day … It just seemed like everybody had, like, a great time and was happy just to be here and to socialize with other people in the community.” Susberry said she loves

Ellnora because of the music. “I like to dance,” she said. “I like to see people happy and enjoying and interacting with each other. This is just a really good space for that to happen.” parina2@dailyillini.com

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Candid caddies receive full-tuition scholarships BY JARED EBANKS STAFF WRITER

“I knew a girl I caddied with who couldn’t afford to go to college,” Reid said. “Instead, she volunteered abroad for a year and then applied again; she’s pretty remarkable.” The Evans Scholars make up for not having a kitchen in their house by working at sororities. The scholarship program mirrors Greek life in some ways, with its shared house, executive board and pledge families. The scholars also all have meal jobs at sororities — washing dishes twice a week for an hour. Through this, they are able to eat at the houses in which they work Sunday through Friday. There are internal traditions, too, like Monday Fundays, similar to Greek Life. Every Monday, a group of scholars is responsible for getting snacks for the whole house. The scholars like to switch

it up — some Mondays could be make-your-own taco or simply a bowl of cereal. This time also allows the scholars an opportunity to interact with each other and catch up during the hectic school year. Apart from the fully covered tuition, Matt Finan, senior in ACES, has enjoyed the service part of the program throughout his time

at the University. Finan caddied for eight years prior to college. In his senior year of high school, Finan knew he wanted to give the scholarship every ounce of effort. For most Evans Scholars, this scholarship is their only method of paying for college. “At its foundation, we’re all caddies from lowincome families, and when

you have all of these people going to bat for you, it’s hard not to want to pay that back,” Finan said about the scholarship. A major piece of the foundation of the program is its commitment to service. The program hosts blood drives as a way to give back, and scholars have started going to the food shelter as well. “We’re really trying to follow through with the idea that we’ve been given this golden opportunity,” Finan said. “We should be paying that forward to others.” As a freshman in high school, Fines Owens, junior in Business, was told he qualified for an academic scholarship. While he had no interest, his mother knew the scholarship would pay off in the long run. Owens is currently the treasurer for the program. His responsibilities include collecting appli-

cation fees and monitoring the daily transactions for the program. The diversity among his fellow scholars is what stands out about the chapter living on campus. “We have kids who are involved in a ton of organizations, kids who go out a lot, kids who are managers of sports teams,” Owens said. “The thing that brings us all together is that we all caddied.” As an upperclassman, Owens is looking back on his experience as an Evans Scholar and knows he made the right decision. “The thing that I’ve gotten the most out of it is knowing that the people I associate myself with on a daily basis are just as like-minded and hardworking as I am,” he said. “That’s what means a lot to me.”

College can be expensive, and the ways students pay for school is different for all of them. Some students work part-time jobs and other take out loans. However, for some students at the University, working on a golf course as a caddie is the ticket to free tuition. The Evans Scholars program provides full tuition and housing scholarships to prospective or current students who have caddied for two or more years. The scholarship was operated by the Western Golf Association, which partnered in 1930 with the famed amateur golfer Charles Evans to start the program. The scholarship, which is one of the largest privately funded scholarships, covMATT FINAN ers four years of tuition at SENIOR IN ACES a state university for those who meet the requirements. jaredde2@dailyillini.com Many other Big Ten schools are part of the program, including Northwestern University, University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin. The program offers chapter living, similar to a fraternity or sorority. The Evans Scholarship is awarded to golf caddies who demonstrate character, academic success, a strong caddie record and financial need. Nationally, Evans Scholars attend 19 different universities, 14 of which have houses. At the University, there are 135 students in the Evans Scholars house on Third Street, where they live for all four years of college. However, this year, the house reached capacity and the freshmen scholars took up residence at Illini Tower. Michaela Reid, sophomore in LAS, was not aware of the scholarship while she caddied in the summers prior to coming to the University. “A lot of people’s experiences were just working over the summer as a caddie, and it was mentioned to you or said ‘you would be good for this,’” Reid said. The scholarship is extremely competitive and prestigious. Students must continue to reapply to the program every year to continue receiving funds. One summer, Reid cadJONATHAN BONAGURO THE DAILY ILLINI died with a peer whose tenacity and perseverance Sophomore Michaela Reid, an Evans Scholar, sits in the Evans Scholar House. The Evans Scholars program provides full tuition and housing scholarships to led her to reapplying to the prospective or current students who have caddied for two or more years. program.

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OPINIONS

Stay creative, fine arts majors ELLEN BARCZAK COLUMNIST

am not artistic. In fact, most people aren’t artistic. Why, then, do we as a society tend to roll our eyes and scoff at those who, having been blessed with the gift of creativity, pursue careers in the arts? This past summer, I dove deep into the world of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, not only with the band’s music but with Koenig’s podcast, “Time Crisis.” I also watched a few too many episodes of Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Needless to say, my interest in artistic people has been piqued. I want to publicly declare my love and support for all you starving artists out there, all you dance, art history and creative writing majors who have a hard time explaining your fields of study to your Aunt Cheryls and Uncle Mikes around the holidays. Imagine, for a moment,

a life devoid of art. Netflix would never have existed, as many of its shows have been written, animated, filmed, etc. There wouldn’t be any music to listen to, either. John Mulaney? He’d be a manager at a Barnes and Noble. But, wait! Barnes and Noble would only contain technical textbooks. Bummer. The clothes you’re wearing? They’d be gone, too, replaced by some drab, practical, colorless sack. The dinner you’re thinking of? It would be replaced with a substance meant only for sustenance. Gross. We need to give a little more love to those we know whose dream is to enrich the world we live in with beautiful, different, unique things; things that, although seemingly “impractical,” provide such joy and flavor to life. I applaud you who care more about your oil painting than your statistical analysis project, you who have a passion for producing music, choreographing ballets or even crafting the perfect joke. Majors in the STEM

fields are creative and innovative, too, don’t get me wrong. I’d like to live in a world, though, where we value our songwriters and comedians as much as we value those who create fuel-efficient engines. Someone has to be the next New York Times bestselling author. Someone has to win the Grammy for Best New Artist. Someone has to change the world of fashion. It could be you, my beautiful, brave, bold fine arts major. I can’t draw a tree, I can’t play the piano and I most definitely can’t make a ceramic receptacle without holes in it (and I’ve tried). I’m glad to live in a world where others hold skills I can only dream of having. Next time someone makes a snarky comment about your “impractical” major, know we’re all just jealous of you. How marvelously delightful it must be for the world to be your art project. Ellen is a junior in LAS. ellenmb2@dailyillini.com

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Keep our data under wraps SKYLAR BOUCHARD COLUMNIST

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An actress rehearses for “Because I am your Queen (A Feminist Fantasia)” at the Illinois Theatre on March 13. Columnist Ellen praises artistic individuals for their creative minds.

he White House has recently released plans to create a new government agency, Health Advanced Research Projects Agency, modeled after the already existing Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. One of the proposed purposes of the agency is to collect data from personal devices such as Amazon Echo, Fitbits and Google Home to determine whether or not a person is at risk of committing violent crimes such as mass shootings. Although the prevention of mass shootings is noble, the rights of American citizens should never be sacrificed out of fear. The proposed bill would undermine many foundational segments of the American legal system such as the Fourth and Fifth amendments. It would violate the search and seizure aspect of the Fourth Amendment as well as the due process clause in

the Fifth. However, it is legally unclear whether or not online activity is protected under the Fourth Amendment. As far as modern technology is concerned, the legal conditions for searching online property have yet to be determined. Despite the lack of legal precedent, the spirit of the Fourth Amendment is eroded when massive amounts of personal data are used for the purpose of surveillance by the American government. The use of this data to suspend the rights of certain citizens would violate the Fifth Amendment, as all information gathered would show nothing more than a person’s character. Although the proposal is being presented as voluntary, for this proposal to be useful in preventing mass shootings, the project would have to gather data from unwilling citizens. It is unclear whether you are considered as volunteering your data simply by using such devices. The proposal is reminiscent of the Patriot Act in that it is a surveillance bill that comes out of a string

of recent crises and the fear that surrounds these issues. Considering the amount of mass shootings that continue to plague this country, it is understandable to want some sort of government action. But any law used to combat this issue shouldn’t be in violation of the core principles that govern America. When determining how to respond to a threat, there should be a strong consideration of the negative effects legislation could have on the general public. Even if you support this idea in theory, you must consider the potential abuse that can come from legislation such as this. The ability of the government to suspend rights based on the potential to commit crimes could easily be used to mischaracterize and silence members of the public. As technology becomes a larger part of everyday life, people must fight harder to ensure the security of our online information. Skylar is a sophomore in LAS. skylar3@dailyillini.com

Write on a daily basis to improve class grades, general writing NOAH NELSON COLUMNIST

hen a professor adds a long essay assignment due next week to your plate, you probably find yourself saying, “Seriously? I’ve already got three exams, a project and a presentation next week. I don’t have time to write an essay.” You r subcon sciou s makes the situation worse, too. It tells you you’re not a writer, and there’s no way you’ll write a perfect paper by the due date. Don’t lie to yourself. You are a writer; you just don’t know it yet. Like any life skill, writing must be practiced on a daily basis. There’s no other way to grow better at it. Therefore, you need to write more than you do now, not only for your school responsibilities, but for life, too. You probably don’t picture yourself as a writer, one who publishes books, articles, poems, etc. Honestly, you don’t have to get

anything published in life if you don’t want to. You just have to write. Writing improves various aspects of life. It will enhance your organizational skills by keeping your thoughts together before you forget them. By writing down your ideas or a life memory in an organized manner, you can refer back to what yourwrote for future reference. Writing also keeps your mind sharp. It will improve your memory, creativity and analytical skills, thus helping you not only in college but in life. From a young age, I’ve enjoyed writing papers in school but struggled every time through the writing process because I didn’t write on a consistent basis. While attending the University, I have disciplined myself to write every day, even on the days I don’t want to. The results show. Because of my constant writing, I have scored high on every paper so far in my college career. Instead of loathing a writing assignment like many of my classmates, I love every minute

of it. You’re probably thinking to yourself, “What do I write about? How do I even get started? I think I have writer’s block.” You just have to write. Discipline yourself to sit down for about 10-15 minutes and write about whatever comes to mind. It could be next week’s grocery list, a letter to a family member or even a list of names for your future children. No matter the topic, you just have to get those juices flowing. Continue on this path until the act becomes a habit. If you cannot think of anything to write about at first, writing your own story can assist you in so many ways. Write down all of the happy memories you have had in life in a diary or journal. When you find yourself lost in telling your story, you will be amazed by how much you have to write. Writing may seem like a daunting task at first. If you think about it, all new skills seem scary, but once you start to grasp the hang of the act, it becomes much

easier to do. If you never want to have your work published, that’s OK. Writing private pieces you know will never be read by anyone else can be as much fun as writing works countless sets of eyes

will see. If you begin writing now, you will discover once you’re assigned a long essay in class, it should no longer be a challenge. With the writing skills you have built up, you are sure to

rock your next paper. Wherever your writing adventures may take you, good luck and happy writing! Noah is a sophomore in LAS. noahen2@dailyillini.com

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Students study for finals on the second floor of Grainger Engineering Library on May 6. Columnist Noah encourages students to write more to enhance writing abilities.

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SPORTS

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge hands Illini first losses BY BRENDYN JONES STAFF WRITER

After a 14-0 start last season, the Illinois volleyball team suffered its first two losses of the season — in the same weekend — when the team competed in the Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge this weekend. The first team the Illini faced in the Big Ten/Pac-12 challenge was No.16 Washington. The Illini split the first four sets, forcing a fifth set in which the Illini lost 15-10 after being tied 7-7 midway through the set. This was the third time in the first three games the Illini had to play the fifth set, and unlike the first two, it didn’t end in their favor. Senior Jaqueline Quade led the team in the first outing with 23 kills and junior setter Diana Brown had 51 assists and 12 digs to earn a double-double. Right behind Quade was senior Beth Prince totaling 14 kills in her first match for the Illini this year. Prince is one of the Illini who’s seen injury trouble at the beginning of the season. “It’s always really nice to contribute in whatever way,” Prince said. “It was nice just to be able to get back in the gym and practice with the girls last week.” The team had only one day to try to bounce back from its first loss and pre-

pare to play Colorado in the second game of the Big Ten/ Pac-12 challenge. Colorado applied pressure to the Illini, quickly winning the first set 30-28. The team didn’t stop the pressure as they continued to win the next two sets, completing the sweep against the Illini. This was the first time the Illini have failed to win at least one set in a match since they were swept by Wisconsin last October. Quade put up 15 kills in the game with a 34.6 hit percentage while Brown assisted 30 times throughout the three sets the Illini played. As for areas of improvement for the Illini, Quade thinks the team, as a whole, can step up their game. “At times we let the other team take control of the match instead of asserting ourselves on them,” Quade said. “You hate to lose like that. It’s easier to take when you lose and you kind of know you’ve done everything you could. I think right now we need to get back to that.” The team has some bright spots to look at coming out of this weekend. Three Illini who’ve been injured to start the season all made appearances on the court this weekend. Prince was the first of the three to make her appearance, playing against

SOCCER

Carrier reflects on career BY GABBY VAZQUEZ STAFF WRITER

For Illinois soccer senior defender Lexi Carrier setting goals, long-term and short-term, is important. The Cincinnati native has set goals for herself and her team this year, and she’s hoping to achieve most, if not all, of them. Her main goal: to be better than yesterday. Illinois is currently at a 3-1 record for the season with no conference games yet. In the 2018 season, the Illini made it to the Big Ten semifinals, their first time back in six years. In the quarterfinals, Illinois went up against fourthseeded Wisconsin and came out with a 2-2 score but advanced to the semifinals with 3-0 in penalties. “That was the first year we had made it to the semifinals in my three years that I’ve been here,” Carrier said. “Being able to travel with my team for such an important tournament was incredible and beating a

ranked team like Wisconsin made it even better.” While the Illini were mainly focused on the competing, Carrier said they were also focused on the little things, like their individual selves and the material things. “We got to choose a Big Ten gift which was really cool,” Carter said. “The little things from making it that far definitely mean the most,” Carrier credits a lot of her success to her family and the fans as well. Her mom is an Illinois alum, so when she was looking at schools, Illinois was on the list of the ones she wanted to attend. “You know, when your parent goes to college, they definitely want you to at least consider touring where they went to hopefully get you to go there as well,” Carrier said. “I came to visit and fell in love with campus immediately. From SEE CARRIER | 3B

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Illinois celebrates after winning the game against Indiana at the Illinois Soccer Stadium on Oct. 14. The Illini won 1-0.

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Megan Cooney (15) and Kyla Swanson (6) attempt to block a shot at Huff Hall on Sept. 1. Illinois defeated Tennessee 3-2.

Washington on Friday. Mica Allison, sophomore setter, transferred from Auburn and made her first appearance of the season on Saturday against Colorado, scoring two kills on six attempts. The Illini are looking forward to Allison building on the season she had at Auburn, when she made

the All-SEC freshman team. Allison had a on the court this successful summer, where she was a member of the 2018 USA Volleyball Women’s Junior National Team. The redshirt freshman Bruna Vrankovic also made her first appearance for the Illini on Saturday, scoring one kill on a single attempt.

This weekend Illinois will participate in the Redbird Classic, hosted by Illinois State. There the team will play Illinois State, Central Florida and Marquette. Quade looks to get back into the gym to prepare for this coming weekend. “I would say just getting back in the gym and working on the things that we

know went wrong (is crucial),” Quade said. “Losing early on stinks; it’s not fun. But also, it kind of brings out what you need to work on and the team weaknesses. I think for us, going into this week, it’s just time to get to work on those things.” @brendyn_jones brendyn2@dailyillini.com

SOCCER

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The Soccer and Track Stadium at the University is currently under construction. The Demirjian Park project is scheduled to be completed in 2020, but the fields are scheduled to be completed by Sept. 15 in time for Illinois soccer next home match.

New field to debut in next home match BY CLAIRE O’BRIEN STAFF WRITER

The Illinois soccer team has played at the Soccer and Track Stadium since 1999 but is expected to move to a new home prior to the 2020 season. In 2017, Illinois Athletics announced the construction of Demirjian Park on the south side of campus, immediately to the east of the Soccer and Track Stadium. Both the men and women’s track and field teams will not host any home meets this season, and the soccer team is playing in their final season at its current venue. Illini soccer currently practices at the Soccer and Track Stadium, but once the team moves to Demirjian Park, they will practice on a different field than the one they compete on. Although construction is slated to be completed in time for the 2020 season, the project’s price recently increased to almost $21 million. The Illinois track and field programs are also planning to host the 2021 Big Ten Championships for their first season in their new home. The soccer team should

be moving into their new field soon despite the complete Demirjian Park project scheduled to be completed in 2020. However, this season the soccer team is planning to play Colorado College on the new fields. Demirjian Park’s construction was announced in 2017 when junior midfielder Hope Breslin was a freshman. Breslin is looking forward to finishing her college career on the new grounds. “It’ll be really exciting, just because we’ll know that we have our own stadium to call home,” Breslin said. “We’ll have our own locker room in there. It’ll just be like our own home that we have. Instead of having a separate field and our locker room, it’ll all be together,

and I think it’ll just really help us as a team and as a program to just have it all there.” Although the team sees the construction every day at practice, Breslin said the construction site is blocked off so the team hasn’t been over to the site of the new field yet. Breslin said it hasn’t quite sunk in that the team is moving facilities. Head coach Janet Rayfield said the team is anticipating playing Colorado College Sept. 15 on the new field despite much of the facility, including locker rooms and the practice field, still under construction and scheduled to open in 2020. “We practice and we see the construction, and you

“Ultimately, to be close to the action, to be able to see replays on the scoreboard, I think our fan experience is gonna completely change.” JANET RAYFIELD HEAD COACH

see the green grass, and you see the water sprinklers, there’s certainly anticipation of moving to the new field this season,” Rayfield said. Rayfield said the team plans to practice on both the new field and the current field this season while construction finishes on the new practice field. She also said the new facilities will benefit not only the soccer program but fans as well. “The biggest thing is what the experience is gonna be for our fans, and for our athletes,” Rayfield said. “Ultimately, to be close to the action, to be able to see replays on the scoreboard, I think our fan experience is gonna completely change, and I think we’re really excited about what that will mean for us.” Illini Athletics scheduled a “Construction Zone Day” promotion for the Sept. 15 match to celebrate Demirjian Park’s construction. And although the facility will be under construction for the new field’s debut, Breslin said she is excited to play on the new grounds. @claire_obrien43 claireo3@dailyillini.com

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ILLINOIS VS. CONNECTICUT

The Illini finally ended their road woes, defeating the Connecticut Huskies 31-23 in a game where momentum swung like a pendulum. “It’s tough winning on the road,” said head coach Lovie Smith. “We did enough things that could cause you to lose, but at the same time it takes a lot to play through adversity the way we did.” The Illini got off to an incredibly slow start, but after a second-quarter turnaround sat on a comfortable lead for much of the remainder of the game. The Huskies made a surprise start at quarterback with true freshman Jack Zergiotis. It took time to adjust to the new QB in the first, but soon enough the Illini defense took over, demoralizing the Huskies’ offense with momentum swinging fumbles, forced punts and a late-game interception to seal the game.

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A FORGETTABLE FIRST QUARTER The offense would like to forget this first quarter as soon as possible. While the defense forced Connecticut to punt on the first possession, the offense got off on the wrong foot immediately. Transfer quarterback Brandon Peters threw a pick-six just before the 11-minute mark in the first. The Huskies scored again on a field goal at the 3:54 mark, just short of getting into the Illini end zone but leaving the possession up 10-0. Desperate to get on the board before things went further south, Illinois attempted to convert on a fourth and one at midfield but failed to do so. In the subsequent possession, quarterback Jack Zergiotis slowly advanced into field goal range, closing the first quarter out with an

opportunity to open up the second with a field goal. Illinois came into this game as the favorite, but for a moment it appeared the same road struggles which have historically plagued the team in past seasons would dictate the outcome of the game. UConn already tied its previous season’s win total by edging Wagner College 24-21 its season opener and came out of the gates swinging. The Huskies’ defense set a tone early in the first while the offense took advantage of early miscommunication by the Illini defense to briefly control the momentum. For UConn, the first quarter was a wild success. For Illinois, it was a cathartic beatdown.

Akin to the offense, the second quarter was a Renaissance for the Illini defense. Where in the first, Connecticut was able to steadily push the defense back and get into field goal range, the defense allowed nothing outside of the opening field. After the Illini scored their fourth touchdown, sophomore Jamal Woods recovered a fumble right on the Huskies’ nine-yard line with a little over five minutes left in the third, putting the offense in prime position to score back-to-back (although the Huskies would regain the ball after D.J. Morgan recovered another fumble).

The defense didn’t display the full-scale ferocity they showed in the second quarter for the rest of the game, but they didn’t need to. A string of stalwart sequences in the second period combined with a key forced punt around six minutes and an interception from Dele Harding effectively sealed the game. “I really liked how we played the run,” Smith said. “We knew UConn made a commitment to running the football, which can make a team one-dimensional. Once you get a team in that position, that’s where you need to seize the moment and I feel like we did that well.”

O FFEN SE “A tale of two games” is the best way to describe the offense’s performance for the first quarter when juxtaposed to the rest of the game. After converting the field goal from the end of the first quarter to go up 13-0, the second initially looked like it might’ve been more of the same. Although things were going south, Illinois was able to quickly turn the tides and increase production. A 26-yard pass to sophomore Daniel Barker from transfer QB Brandon Peters ended up being exactly what the Illini offense needed to get going. Juniors Ra’Von Bonner and Josh Imatorbhebhe, and Barker each scored a touchdown off of a find from Peters for 21 points. Then kicker James McCourt closed out the quarter with

a 52-yard field goal in what was a 24-3 second quarter. Freshman Jakari Norwood had the biggest run of his career starting off the third with a 50-yard rush return. Peters found Imatorbhebhe for his fourth touchdown. The rest of the second half remained largely inconsistent for the offense. Despite scoring the touchdown early in the third, the Illini spent the rest of the second half playing a lot as they did in the first. As a team, the Illini lost 95 yards in penalties, but because of their turnaround second quarter, Illinois had room to make the errors. “It’s disappointing to be in a situation like that, but we were down,” Smith said. “From there, it’s about how we respond to the adversity. Turnovers

FOOTBALL

Illinois win against Connecticut reflects team’s perserverence BY MILES POWERS-HUANG STAFF WRITER

It wasn’t pretty at times, but in the end, it was enough to secure a victory. Recapping his team’s 31-23 win at Connecticut, Lovie Smith didn’t want to lose sight of a win despite not everything going his team’s way. “When you win, you’re disappointed a little in your play, that was the case,” Smith said. “We didn’t start off the way we wanted to, but good football teams are gonna have to fight through adversity and get themselves (out of) a hole, and it’s really tough when you’re on the road and you get in the hole the way we did, but we fought back through it.” It was certainly not the start Illinois wanted, as Brandon Peters stared down a slanting Reggie Corbin on wide to his right, allowing Connecticut’s Tyler Coyle to step in front and return the interception 52 yards for a touchdown. The Huskies would add on, and by the time the Illini possessed the ball for the first time in the second quarter, they were trailing 13-0. “(Peters), of course, (with) that first pass, can’t do that,” Smith said. Luckily for Illinois, Peters rallied the troops and led the Illini on an 8-play 75-yard drive, capped off by a touchdown pass to junior running back Ra'von Bonner, as the running back followed Alabama graduate-transfer Richie Petitbon’s lead block before accelerating into the endzone. After forcing a quick three and out, Peters led Illinois on another long touchdown drive, this time culminating in a 9-yard jump ball that

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Fighting Illini quarterback Brandon Peters (18) delivering a pass at Connecticut on Saturday. The Illini won 31-23.

Southern California grad transfer Josh Imatorbhebhe came down with. “(Imatorbhebhe) as a receiver did some good things,” Smith said. “When teams are committed to stopping the run the way they were, I thought he showed up really well.” The following Husky possession yielded yet another three and out, and it was followed by another Illini touchdown drive. This time,

it was fall camp standout Daniel Barker, who simply slipped away from the Connecticut linebacker covering him to put Illinois up 21-13. The next Connecticut possession resulted in quite an unexpected outcome. The Illini were down to walk-on defensive back Michael Marchese at safety, as Kirby Joseph was serving a first-half suspension for targeting and his backup,

Stanley Green, had already been ejected for the same reason earlier in the first half. Marchese proceeded to intercept a pass from Connecticut’s Jack Zergiotis, returning it 29 yards to put Illinois in position to kick a late field goal and go up 24-13 at the half. In the second half, Peters tossed his fourth touchdown of the game, to Imatorbhebhe again, and despite a

touchdown and field goal late from the Huskies, the Illini came out with a 31-23 victory, capped by a late interception from senior linebacker Dele Harding as Connecticut was driving to possibly tie the game. While there weren’t many eye-catching numbers in terms of yardage, Peters’ four touchdown passes and Imatorbhebhe’s two touchdown catches were the standout performances.

For an Illini program that hadn’t won outside its conference on the road since 2007, the win was a major step in the right direction regardless of how it happened. Illinois (2-0), hosts 1-1 Eastern Michigan next Saturday. “You always celebrate a win,” Smith said. “It’s too hard to get a win.” @MilesP_H milesp2@dailyillini.com

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Monday, September 9, 2019

Renee Slone prepares for fall season following Coach of the Year award BY CLAIRE O’BRIEN STAFF WRITER

Last year was a successful season for many Illini sports teams, including women’s golf, which went to the NCAA Championship for the first time in program history. This season, the Illini have many returning players, only graduating senior Bing Singhsumalee. Those who returned include senior Tristyn Nowlin, junior Ali Morallos and sophomores Katie Hallinan, Sarah Hauenstein, Kornkamol Sukaree and Crystal Wang. Newcomers include sophomore Reena Sulkar and freshman Siyan Chen. Though Nowlin and Morallos are the team’s only upperclassmen, the team looks to build off a strong season, which includes a second-place finish at the Big Ten tournament. Nowlin competed at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur in April and was set to compete at the LPGA and Symetra Tour Qualifying Tournament. Nowlin’s name didn’t appear on the tournament’s leaderboard, and the senior has the lowest career stroke average of any player with three seasons or more experience per fightingillini.com. The Illini’s successful

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CARRIER the athletics to the academics, everything I wanted to get out of college, Illinois had. I could really see myself thriving here and that Illinois would help me be better than yesterday.” Illini Pride’s soccer fan section, Hot Shots, and the other fans in the stands fill the team with such gratitude and pride, the team looks forward to playing at home so they can feed off the energy.

season culminated in head coach Renee Slone becoming the first Illinois coach to win Big Ten Coach of the Year. Illinois also boasts a new schedule this fall. Last season, the Illini finished tiedfor-third at Tennessee, won at Coeur D’Alene Collegiate, finished in third at the team’s home tournament at Medinah Country Club, won Louisville’s Cardinal Cup, and finished the fall season winning at Southern Methodist. This fall, the No. 16-ranked in the WGCA Preseason Coaches Poll begin their season Sept. 16 at the Glass City Invitational at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Illinois will compete against Florida and Big Ten foe, No. 15-ranked Northwestern, as well as fellow Big Ten teams Michigan State, Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin. Illinois will travel to Oklahoma for the Schooner Fall Classic Sept. 27-29. This is a new tournament for the Illini, who last played in the state of Oklahoma in 2014 for the NCAA Regional Meet at Oklahoma State. The Illini then return to Champaign for the Illini Women’s Invitational Oct. 7-8. Last season, the Illini finished third at their home

tournament. The team wraps up the fall season at Landfall Tradition in Wilmington, North Carolina. Illinois hasn’t played in North Carolina since 2016, when it finished sixth at the Greenville Regional Preview.

The Illini also received several individual accolades to begin the season. Wang, Sukaree and Nowlin were all named preseason Big Ten Golfers to Watch.

“The energy that Hot Shots and our fanbase brings to our games add so much more momentum,” Carrier said. “It’s just a great reminder of what we represent and that we’re playing for so much more than ourselves.” Senior Lindsey Kelso, an adviser in Illini pride, shared why Illini Pride is so important to the University. “We get so involved because we know the athletes love the energy we bring to all the games we’re at,” Kelso said. “We do this for them.”

Carrier is in the Gies College of Business with a dual degree in Marketing and Supply Chain Management. When she graduates, she hopes to work in procurement with either Stern Pinball, Nike or Athleta. She said playing professional soccer isn’t in the cards right now, but if the opportunity presented itself to play professionally, she’d consider it. “I’m very passionate about what I’m studying,” Carrier said. “But if someone from the USA Women’s team came to me asking if

I’d want to play for them, I don’t think I’d say no. In all honesty, though, my dream is to work for Disney and create new characters.” This may be her senior year, but Carrier isn’t planning on calling it quits until she knows she put her all into this last year and she knows she and her team were better than yesterday. “This is probably my last year playing,” Carrier said. “I just want to leave it all out on the field.”

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Illini wide receiver Josh Imatorbhebhe scores a touchdown against Connecticut at Rentshler Field. The Illini won 31-23.

Football is a negotiation BY TATIANA PERRY STAFF WRITER

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Sophomore Kate Hallinan golfs at the Big Ten Championships at TPC’s River Bend in April. Head coach Renee Slone became the first Illinois coach to win Big Ten Coach of the Year

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Have you ever bought a car or negotiated anything? At first, you see the original price and you aren’t happy at all. You then send back a lower price, and the company pretends to be upset but ends up lower the price. There is a pull and tug until eventually, both you and the car dealership are a little unhappy, but the price is technically doable. That’s what it’s like to watch Illinois football. At first, you turn it on and are excited about the game. You know what you want to see. You’ve already test-driven the Illini. You know how it feels. Then they start playing. The results are not what you want; this is the negotiation. You are deciding whether these guys are worthy of your business. And then they begin to lose, which is the part of the deal that begins to go sour. Nobody is happy. The fans are mad, and the team is disappointed they let you down. They want to secure the deal but don’t know if that is quite possible. But they turn it around and secure the deal. This is good, but the back and forth takes its toll. Opening up Saturday’s game losing to Connecticut of all places was tiring.

This summer, I did an internship in Connecticut, where I met and trash-talked UConn students. Then, the Illini began to lose to the Huskies. I promptly turned off the game. I was ready to let my deal with the Illini go sour. It wasn’t worth it. I talked a big game and I could not, in fact, back up. I have no idea what happened between the time they were losing and when they are winning it. I had actually completely left the house. When I walked back in the door, Illinois was up and Trevon Sidney was on-screen. Being a superstitious person, I continued to not watch the game because when I watched it initially, we were losing, and as soon as I turned away, Illinois began to win; therefore, if I wanted anything positive to come from the game, I had to not watch it. Not to say I had anything to do with the negotiations that brought the Illini to victory, but I didn’t watch and now they are 2-0. Negotiations can be as simple as fan-team relationships, which are vital and taxing, but in the end they pull out the victory, and everybody’s happy. @tati_perry14 tp3@dailyillini.com

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Live-action Dora film is gold BY LIAM DWYER STAFF WRITER

buzz factor: “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” is the perfect example of what happens when you put a screenwriter in a chair, force them to watch every single episode of “Dora the Explorer” and write a movie about it. In other words, it is lovable madness. This movie is a character study of what happens when a young cartoon character for kids is slapped in the face with the real world, and, somehow, it kind of works. The film starts as young Dora and Diego race through the jungle on vehicles on an adventure straight out of the cartoon with all the colorful talking characters from the show including Backpack, Map and even Boots. Suddenly, the world warps to see all of this was in their imagination, immediately grounding the film in reality and letting the audience know this is not going to be the typical Dora adventure. We learn Dora and Diego’s parents are “explorers,” looking for the lost city of gold. Here, the movie is the weakest as kid-actors are never exactly top-tier, and the dialogue is extremely poorly written. Diego and his family leave for the city of Los Angeles, Dora is left in the jungle alone with no one her age, and we’re immediately flashed 10 years into the future, where she’s now 16, and she’s forced to go to high school in LA. This leads to tackling the first question of the film: Is it for kids? While the movie is rated PG and is good at avoiding any swearing or violence, the main characters are all in high school. The film even deals with stereotypical high school themes, like identity and staying true to who you are despite societal pressure to conform. This movie rides the line between young adult and teen movie and is extremely similar to movies like

“Jumanji,” only toned down and sanitized. This means while it wasn’t quite as fun and tongue-in-cheek as “Jumanji,” it still had moments I could relate to and laugh with while still providing for a young audience. The filmmakers were aware of the older fans who grew up watching Dora back in 2000 and decided to let them in on the joke. As a whole, “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” is constantly self-aware it is a live-action version of a children’s cartoon, poking fun at Dora’s tendency to talk right to the audience, sing at will or constantly introduce herself with “Hola! Soy Dora!” to everyone she meets, and those were entertaining moments. Dora going to high school felt like it could have been an entire movie on its own, with Dora learning to acclimate to modern life and growing up. The actress playing Dora, Isabela Moner, does an excellent job portraying the character as someone who never stopped having the care-free nature and honesty you have when you’re 6 years old, and it was entertaining to watch. Half-way through the film Dora has her long “fish out of water” arc when she tries to make friends and be herself in high school. Then, she and her group of misfits consisting of “Too cool for Dora” Diego, Dork the Misfit (whose real name is Randy) and Sammy the “Mean Queen” are abruptly kidnapped and thrown into the jungle to find her lost parents and the City of Gold. This is where the movie gets weird and where we meet the cartoon animated fox, Swiper, who is voiced by none other than Benicio Del Toro using a very weird voice. For a movie therwise set in real life and even explained its cartoon origins as childhood imagination, this addition felt really out of place, and his minimal screentime seemed like a last-min-

buzz calendar BY LIAM DWYER BUZZ CALENDAR EDITOR

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“Dora and the Lost City of Gold” was released on Aug. 9. The plot focuses on high school-age Dora rescuing her friends from the jungle while trying to find her lost parents and the city of Gold.

ute choice or odd producer note of, “But we have to have Swiper! Kids love that guy!” This, along with an animated spore-induced psychedelic trip into the Dora TV show, is contrasted to the funniest scene in the movie where for a single scene, the beloved Boots talks to Dora with the voice of Danny “Machete” Trejo, and the juxtaposition of his deep gruff voice providing words of wisdom from the mouth of a tiny blue monkey to Dora was beautiful and by far the best part of the film. The rest of the film follows a pretty normal kids movie plot line. In all, the cinematography was better than I expected; the film never seemed to talk down to its audience, and the story, while a bit predictable and silly, was serviceable and educational in a way a Dora story should be. The acting wasn’t the best, but the movie never felt bogged down by it. All I can say was this movie was clearly made by people who knew the project they were undertaking and made the best Dora the Explorer live-action young-adult adventure film they could. liamd2@readbuzz.com

 7-9 p.m.  The Iron Post, 120 S. Race St., Urbana  Free Poets Jim O’Brien and Rachel Lauren Storm will type poems on stage based on your suggestions for title, subject, form, etc. Poets at the Post is a monthly open mic for all poets, storytellers and spoken word artists. Bring up to four minutes of words either yours or something you like. Sign-up is at 6:30 p.m. and reading starts at 7 p.m. Co-sponsored by The Iron Post and the Champaign Urbana Poetry Group.

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 7:30-9 p.m.  The Art Theater, 126 W. Church St., Champaign  $10 standards, $8.50 students “For Sama” is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kataeb’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice – whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much. Hosted by the Art Theater. Not rated.

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 7 p.m.  Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana  Free Based upon an original script by Patrick Daly and Joel Fendelman, Remittance is a realistic portrayal of low-wage migrant workers in Singapore shot at real locations with a cast including actual domestic workers. Following Marie, a foreign domestic worker from the Philippines, the film immerses us in the joys and hopes of the characters, while facing insurmountable setbacks, anxieties and frustrations. Introduction and postscreening discussion with Heather M. Gifford from Department of Sociology at Illinois.

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America Factory Free Screening

 7:30 p.m  The Art Theater, 126 W. Church St., Champaign  Free In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. Hosted by the Art Theater. Not rated.

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The new bubble tea shop, Tsaocca, is located at 608 S. Sixth St. in Champaign. The cafe offers unique dining options — such as their signature dish, shabu-shabu, a Japanese meat and vegetable hot pot dish — in addition to bubble tea drinks.

Tsaocaa shifts bubble tea tide New addition to Campustown offers unique dining, fresh drink options BY KATIE POWERS BUZZ EDITOR

The Campustown bubble tea scene is known for being oversaturated. On Green Street and the surrounding area, students can now choose from six shops to get their fix. Although bubble tea is certainly popular on campus, any additional offerings tend to elicit grumbles from students who want more variety out of their on-campus dining options. But shops that manage to distinguish themselves by providing patrons with a unique experience tend to find success. Tsaocaa, the latest bubble tea shop, opened up on Sixth Street last May in the location formerly occupied by Seoul Taco. It sits directly across from LaTea, a classic bubble tea location. Its presence fell largely under the radar, as its opening coincided with finals wrapping up and students heading away from campus for the summer months. Its menu is inter-

esting, its food and drink options are high quality and its atmosphere is fun and inviting. At first glance, Tsaocaa seems rather unimpressive when approaching it from the outside. It lacks bright signage, which is something other bubble tea locations on Green Street boast. From the street, it’s dark, and it’s difficult to tell if it’s open. But upon entering Tsaocaa on Friday evening, it was busy and lively. While it was by no means packed in the way that Kung Fu Tea or Teamoji likely was at that same hour, nearly all of the tables in the downstairs seating area were full. Groups of students were sitting in the downstairs area, chatting and enjoying tea drinks. Many of them were also enjoying the restaurant’s signature shabu-shabu, a Japanese meat and vegetable hotpot dish. The exterior was nicely decorated and well lit with popular music playing over the speakers.

Per the menu, the milk tea is made with non-dairy cream, so it’s a good option for those with dietary restrictions or allergies. I asked the server to confirm

highly customizable, and diners are able to select a soup base, a meat option and a selection of rice and noodles to be included in the dish. The restaurant

It offers the satisfaction of a decadent treat without leaving a heaviness in your stomach. It’s a great option for patrons looking for something light and refreshing. the milk tea was dairyfree, and he confidently affirmed. Each table on the first floor is equipped with a hot plate, so diners are able to assemble their shabu-shabu dishes themselves at their leisure. The dish is

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also offers a wide selection of vegetables and additional meat options diners can add to their dishes. Since I don’t eat meat, I didn’t partake in the shabu-shabu. But the fact that nearly everyone in the restaurant was ordering and

eating it suggests it’s a solid dining option. It was also notable that nearly everyone who was eating a meal had a drink to go along with it. Tsaocaa’s milk tea is some of the highest quality available on campus. Despite being made with a non-dairy alternative, the milk tea was perfectly creamy. I choose the minimal sugar option, and it offered the perfect hint of sweetness that tasted natural rather than artificial. It offers the satisfaction of a decadent treat without leaving a heaviness in your stomach. The fruit tea, which is only available in one sugar option, was nearly a quarter of the way filled up with fresh fruit. Its taste resembled real fruit and had natural sweetness as opposed to that of artificial juice. It’s a great option for patrons looking for something light and refreshing. Since I wasn’t eating, I enjoyed my drinks in the upstairs portion of the res-

taurant, a Campustown hidden gem. It’s relatively quiet, as most patrons choose to sit downstairs. But it also offers large tables and plenty of couch and chair seating, making it a great option for a date, an outing with friends or even a casual meet-up for an RSO. But what really makes it stand out is its decor, which is a clean blend of rustic furniture and modern lighting and wallpaper. Although Tsaocaa hasn’t fully caught on with the student body yet, it certainly has the potential to become a popular destination for students looking for good food and drink options and a nice hangout place to study or spend time with friends. If Tsaocaa finds its crowd, it could sit on par with Kung Fu Tea, which currently sits as king of the bubble tea game thanks to its ambiance and food offerings. kmp2@readbuzz.com

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