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Illinois works to close achievement gap Approval of increased funding shows dedication to education BY JOSH WINTERS STAFF WRITER

State legislators and educators are working to improve the quality of education among low-income students by closing the achievement gap. The Illinois State Board of Education approved its fiscal year 2016 budget recommendation on Jan. 21, which seeks to increase General State Aid funding by $729.9 million. In a statement, Christopher A. Koch, Illinois state superintendent of education, said the

increase could go a long way toward improving the quality of education for Illinois students. “Education is the smartest investment we can make in the economic future of our state and the quality of its workforce,” Koch said. “GSA funds have fallen short of what is owed to school districts for the past four years, contributing to poorer financial health for more school districts and threatening the academic and extracurricular opportunities for the

state’s two million students.” Koch’s remarks are a nod to a concept that has recently been a hot topic in Illinois politics: the achievement gap, or the academic disparity that exists between low-income and non-low-income students, as well as between minority and white students. “We say we educate all kids, and we do, but we don’t give all kids the same public education,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, professor in Education. “In those communities where there’s a higher property tax base, there are more options, and for those that are in communities (with less property tax revenue) ... they have to do

more with less.” Data from the State Board of Education showed that in 2014 low-income students score significantly lower results on the Illinois Standard Achievement Test, ISAT, averaging 33 points lower in reading, 30 points lower in math and 23 points lower in science. According to the Illinois State Board of Education, 51.5 percent of students are considered “lowincome” students. Lorenzo Baber, assistant professor in Education, said students living in or near poverty face a number of challenges that can have detrimental effects on classroom performance, as well as on

standardized tests. These students face higher levels of test anxiety, Baber said, out of fear that if they do not receive high marks, their career and higher education opportunities will be severely limited. “For a lot of these tests, you can increase your scores by taking courses outside of class, and of course for lowincome students, they don’t have as much access to these additional classes outside of the traditional school, and that can have an impact on their test scores,” Baber said. Low-income children also have less access to the health care they need to help them succeed in school, like pre-

scription glasses, ZamaniGallaher said. The obstacles facing children living in poverty can have a “snowballing effect” and lead to chronic problems throughout their education, she added. For black and Hispanic students, who are more likely to live in poverty than whites, these problems are even more pronounced. “We have seen where, particularly depending on race and ethnicity interacting with socio-economic status, that there’s a broader achievement gap,” Zamani-Gallaher said. “When we look at the poverty statistics in terms of what is

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Housing to release room details promptly BY ALI BRABOY STAFF WRITER

For new students enrolling for the Fall 2015 semester, the University is now offering the opportunity to choose more specific living options. According to the University Housing website, if new students enrolling at the University complete a housing contract by May 15, the stu-

dents will receive a time slot in late May. When the time slot arrives, they will be able to choose available rooms and halls, which will be available until June when the process closes. The new process for incoming freshmen and transfer students is similar to that of students returning to University Housing, wherein they are able to choose a specific hall and room to live in. Kirsten Ruby, associate director of Housing for Communications and Marketing,

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Alyssa Machinis, senior in Media, shops for her textbooks at the TIS Bookstore on Tuesday January 27, 2015.

Students save with open-source» BY ELYSSA KAUFMAN STAFF WRITER

With the rising cost of textbooks, which can cost hundreds of dollars every semester, more students are turning to e-books. Milind Basole, principal eLearning professional at CITES, serves as a manager of the University’s textbook platform project. EText is a reading platform developed on campus, based off an Internet browser, for e-books and multimedia. In the fall of 2014, a little over 2,500 students used the eText system, Basole said. When combining the fall and spring semesters, students saved over $100,000 by using eText over print textbooks. Certain courses, such as ACES 101 and Engineering 100 currently allow students to use the eText platform. “Online textbooks have a lot more interactivity that can be utilized for better teaching and learning outcomes,” Basole said. “This is also a really great medium for flipped classrooms, because you have the ability to make the teaching materials available to students beforehand.” According to the American Association of Publishers, e-book sales have increased by 7.5 percent in 2014, producing $937 million. Basole said that with a physical textbooks, students have to “lug” the book everywhere. However, eText, a browser-based program, allows students to use the book on smartphones, tablets, laptops and adaptive devices. Basole believes eText is on the forefront of providing textbooks for those with learning disabilities, such as visual impairment. “We have been commended by the National Federation of the Blind for our work,”

Basole said. “Adaptive devices used by people with visual impairments work with the eText platform.” As an office administrator for the Urban and Regional Planning department, Holly Clingan is required to provide the Illini Union Bookstore with a list of textbooks professors want to order. This year, she found several publishers would only provide electronic copies of the books selected. “There are a lot more PDF files being used as resources in the Urban and Regional Planning department,” Clingan said. “I think the program is trending in an electronic direction.” Clingan also believes e-books are increasing due to the age of users. “The students who are new to the program are used to digital resources,” she said. “However, I prefer paper and the ability to highlight in physical books.” Open-source textbooks are also rising in popularity. Open-source textbooks can be downloaded by anyone, anywhere for free. Students who want a physical copy can download the book and print it. “Instead of paying $100 for a textbook that has royalties attached to it that go to an author and a publisher, printing is around twenty dollars,” said Jonathan Tomkin, professor and associate director of the Earth, Society and Environment department. However, prices to print vary depending on the book. The open source textbook “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation” was written by a group of professors, including Tomkin, who teach at all three Illinois campuses. The textbook is currently used in Earth Systems 200 and was created with the help of a grant from Sen. Dick

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Students often pay more for physical copies of textbooks when e-books are offered directly through campus bookstores. Look at the textbook prices that a typical freshman student in Division of General Studies may pay. Listed are the textbooks required for courses that meet general education requirements.

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Process for newly admitted students to apply for University Housing

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ATMS 100 SOURCE: Illini Union Bookstore Durbin’s office. “I think it may depend on the student whether online textbooks or a physical copy works better,” Tomkin said. “The benefit to the online textbook is something like a search function, which is really useful to students when looking for a particular concept.” Due to the accessibility of open-source textbooks, Tomkin said the books are available to anyone in the world, which can benefit international students who with an

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Police are continuing to investigate a break in at the State Farm Center by an unidentified man on Jan. 1. According to University Police Detective Sgt. Tom Geis, the suspect entered the building by breaking a window around 2 a.m. He then walked around the building and exited through a door. The estimated damage of the window is $2,500. The man was caught on video, and the University of Illinois Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying the man.

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The man is facing charges of criminal damage to state supported property, which is a class four felony, Geis said. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the University of Illinois Police Department at 217-3331216 or Champaign County Crimestoppers at 217-3738477. Tips can also be sent anonymously by visiting www.373tips.com or texting keyword CCTIP, plus the information, to 274637 (CRIMES).

Katherine Boncher contributed to this report.

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An 18-year-old male was arrested on the charges of minor in possession and possession of unlawful ID at Red Lion, 211 E. Green St., around 2 a.m. Tuesday. According to the report, the suspect was stopped following a report of battery and provided the fake ID he used to enter the bar. Q Burglary from a motor vehicle was reported in the

00 block of Chalmers Street around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. According to the report, an unknown offender took sporting equipment from the victim’s car. Q Armed robbery and aggravated discharge of a firearm were reported in the 900 block of West Bradley Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Monday. According to the report, the victim was robbed at gunpoint and shot in the fin-

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Partnership unlocks doors this year. Strengthen community connections. Money flows with greater ease after 3/20. Think, plan and strategize before launching a new creative collaboration after 4/8. Travel and research may be involved. Listen for what’s wanted and needed. Organize, sign and manage paperwork after October revelations. Invest and manage savings. Work together for solutions. Stand for love. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) Today is an 8 — Look sharp! A unique opportunity comes your way. A long shot pays off. Increase your visibility. Help someone achieve a seemingly impossible goal. Ask questions. A friend can get through where you can’t. Bright ideas center on material matters.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Today is an 8 — Navigate obstacles or breakdowns, and there’s money to be made today and tomorrow. Share your inspiration. Clarify theoretical or bizarre questions. Minimize risks. A friend makes a contact for you. Figure out the numbers. Track and follow your budget.

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LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) Today is a 7 — Your friends are your inspiration, especially today and tomorrow. Enjoy time spent together. Keep track of earnings. Watch your budget. It’s not a good time to gamble. Come up with profitable ideas. Clarify issues to avoid a conflict of interests.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) Today is an 8 — There’s plenty of work today and tomorrow. Withstand and profit from criticism. Keep in action, and postpone family time if you must. Encounter new problems. Check out an interesting suggestion. Accept help from those with experience. Proceed with caution.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Today is a 7 — Should you go or should you stay? An escape to new settings could be delightful today and tomorrow. Allow extra time to make connections. Mix business and pleasure on the trip. Adapt to obstacles as they come.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) Today is a 7 — The funds you expected could be delayed. Adapt to surprising communications. Think over alternative solutions. Handle

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CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Today is an 8 — Right now, you’re wise to finish what you’ve started. You’re entering two days of steady work effort. It could get intense. A study date can be very productive. Sidestep unexpected communications gracefully. Focus on the job at hand.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) Today is a 7 — Stick to joyful pursuits today and tomorrow. You’re especially lucky with love and games. It’s not a good time for speculation, though. Listen for the commitment underneath a complaint. Avoid getting irritated. Don’t respond automatically. Keep it fun.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) Today is an 8 — Attend to family matters today and tomorrow. Postpone paperwork until later. Strengthen home infrastructure and workability. Slow down and listen to what the crew wants. Fine-tune recent improvements to reflect those priorities. Unusual ideas are welcome.

CORRECTIONS In the Jan. 27, 2015 edition of The Daily Illini, the article “Salaita court date set for February” incorrectly stated Steven Salaita would appear at a trial. Salaita will appear at a motion hearing, where both the University and Salaita will present motions. The Daily Illini regrets this error. Clarification: In the Jan. 27, 2015 edition of The Daily Illini, the editorial “It’s on us to address sexual assault” stated Matt Hill, Vice President-External of the Illinois Student Senate, spearheaded the “Its on us” campaign. Hill is one of several senators working on the campaign. The Daily Illini regrets this error. When we make a mistake, we will correct it in this place. We strive for accuracy, so if you see an error in the paper, please contact Editor-in-Chief Johnathan Hettinger at (217) 337-8365.

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Russia denounces charges against alleged spies in New York ring Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday denounced U.S. charges against three Russian men accused of involvement in a New York City spy ring, citing a lack of evidence. The FBI announced Monday that it had arrested Evgeny Buryakov in the Bronx, and that he and two co-conspirators, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy, would be charged with their involvement in an intelligence-gathering ring in New York City. The complaint, unsealed in a Manhattan federBRAD HORRIGAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Mike Bristol walks to the grocery store with his mother in the Jackson Heights section of Queens on Tuesday, in New York City. Though temperatures only peaked in the 20s Tuesday, New York did not feel the brunt of this snow storm as some meteorologists had predicted. Well under a foot of snow fell in New York City.

Blizzard: New York, New Jersey get a pass, Boston shuts down BY TINA SUSMAN AND VERA HALLER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK — Travel bans were lifted in New York City and New Jersey and mass transit churned back to service Tuesday after a storm predicted to be a crippling monster proved far less threatening than forecast. But to the north, blizzard conditions in New England on Tuesday were pummeling Boston and airline travel in the northeast was all but paralyzed with thousands of canceled flights. Schools were closed in Boston, where snow accumulation could exceed two feet, and coastal residents, especially in Cape Cod, braced for the possibility of damaging floods. Maine and New

Hampshire had declared states of emergency. However the nation’s largest city, which officials virtually shut down Monday night in anticipation of anywhere from a foot to three feet of snow, woke up to cold temperatures and a several inches of snow. In other words, it was a typical winter morning. In New York and New Jersey, city and state officials defended their decisions to impose travel bans, close schools and take public transit systems off line, saying they did it in response to dire warnings of recordbreaking snow that began Sunday as the storm moved toward the region. “I was being told as late as 9 o’clock last night that we were looking at 20-inch

accumulations in parts of New Jersey,” Gov. Chris Christie told WABC-TV on Tuesday, after his state and New York lifted their travel bans. “We were acting based on what we were being told.” “Fortunately,” Christie added, “they were wrong.” At a news briefing Tuesday morning, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo noted that officials had not mandated massive closures last November during a storm in Buffalo because they had not expected a huge snowfall. However, seven feet of snow came down, paralyzing the city and causing a dozen deaths. “You can have significant loss of life in these situations,” Cuomo said, emphasizing that he preferred to err on the side of caution.

Nevertheless, officials were sure to be criticized by locals, many of whom had no way of getting to work or other appointments due to the disrupted transit system. Officials said it would take several hours to bring the subways back to full speed. At 7:30 a.m., Manhattan’s Upper West Side was eerily quiet for a weekday morning. Streets were empty and the only sounds were the buzzing of snowblowers and the crunch of shovels hitting the pavement as building workers cleared sidewalks. On Broadway, the neighborhood’s main commercial artery, vehicles had been replaced with people who were walking to work. They walked in the wellplowed street, which was clearer than most sidewalks.

Coast Guard crew trains to thwart smugglers off the coast of California BY JOSEPH SERNA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Back stiff, stance wide for balance, John Babbini shifted his eyes to where his flashlight was aimed beyond the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Blackfin. On this Friday evening, the first class petty officer was helping guide the boat around crab traps bobbing in Santa Barbara Harbor’s darkened waters. The 10-man crew began the slow push off the coast to begin their two-day mission: a hunt for smugglers. The 87-foot-long Blackfin patrols from Morro Bay to Dana Point, an expanse of water increasingly coming into play for traffickers — of humans and drugs — who hope to avoid the federal government’s squeeze on traditional land routes. In 2012, Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III was killed when traffickers in a Panga boat rammed the small, inflatable craft Horne was piloting off the Santa Barbara coast. It was the first such killing of a Coast Guard member in 90 years.

“Everyone associates the Coast Guard with search and rescue ... but most of it is law enforcement,” said David Zwirblis,the Blackfin’s captain. On patrol this weekend, the Blackfin crew was preoccupied with the routine, since the Blackfin’s last interdiction was a year ago. As the crew waits for a big moment, seafaring epics such as “Master and Commander” break up the monotony. The film’s arcane language is part of the crew’s vocabulary. At one point, Crowe’s character orders the crew to prepare the starboard “battery,” or a ship’s armament. “See when he said, ‘Prepare the battery?’ We still say that,” Babbini said. It is evening Saturday when Zwirblis got on the ship’s intercom and called the crew to the bridge. The men went through their safety checks and Zwirblis told four of them to head below deck to get bulletproof vests and guns. Their Panga interdiction

Chief Petty Officer Jim McDermott, from left, and Petty Officer Parker Dawson, swim backwards during a training exercise on Dec. 7 along the Central Coast, California. drill was about to begin. Hundreds of yards away, a smaller Coast Guard boat waited in the water; its crew would be the smugglers. The reports started to flow rapidly over the radio as the Blackfin’s engines roared to life. The boat can cut through the water at nearly 30 mph but gulps 160 gallons of fuel an hour at that speed, so fuel conservation is always in the back of Zwir-

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blis’ mind. As the boat chugged toward the Panga, four crew members hopped into the small, inflatable boat in the ship’s stern. Armed with plastic guns, they pulled alongside their target just as a Coast Guard helicopter arrived. It swooped down and whitened the target in its spotlight; the chopper carries a sniper who can train his rifle on a boat’s engine if smug-

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proportionate, you see a disproportionately higher number of black children, of Latino children that live in poverty, and they’re more likely to attend schools that are not funded as well.” The disparities between the ISAT scores of white and minority students mirror the gap between low-income and non-low-income students, with lower average scores in reading, math and science. Newly-appointed State Board of Education Chairman James Meeks said closing the achievement gap is his top priority. In a Jan. 10 Chicago Tribune piece, Meeks was quoted stating charter schools and education vouchers as potential solutions to the problem. However, Baber and Zamani-Gallaher are skeptical to these approaches. Charter schools, which are publicly-funded but typically comprised of students with similar demographic characteristics due to their geographical compactness, are largely unproven to provide a higher quality education, Baber said. “Most of the evidence on charter schools is at best anecdotal,” Baber said. “There’s really not any true experimental designs that isolate charter schools as being ‘better’ than public schools.” Zamani-Gallaher said while education vouchers may seem like an appealing approach to closing the achievement gap, low-income students will still face significant limitations on their schooling options. “Vouchers are not a panacea, particularly if you’re trying to benefit lowincome students and students of color,” Zamani-Gallaher said. “These are pub-

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licly-funded scholarships that students can use for private school tuition, (but) for many families that are living in poverty or students that are not from affluent households, the vouchers still don’t go the distance in being able to provide parents with private school options.” Closing the achievement gap is such a pressing matter, Baber said, because of the widespread benefits that an educated population has on society as a whole. He added that giving students the opportunity to move on to higher education will keep Illinois viable in the global

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economy. “College-educated citizenry are more employable, less likely to engage in high-risk health behaviors, which decreases your health costs, and are less likely to participate in any criminal activity,” said Baber. “If you want to decrease health care costs, if you want to decrease the cost of incarceration, education is the ladder you should focus on.”

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ly Prime Minister Narendra Modi. American society isn’t immune from intolerance and violence, Obama said, recalling the 2012 attack on Sikh worshipers at a temple in Wisconsin as an example of “the darkest impulses of man.”

Obama pays respects to late Saudi king, meets with new ruler Greeted by a crowd of royalty and a band playing the U.S. national anthem, President Obama landed in Riyadh on Tuesday for a hastily planned visit to Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally. Obama cut short a trip

to India in order to pay his respects during the mourning period for King Abdullah, but the visit is also intended to start the reign of the late monarch’s successor and half-brother, King Salman, on a positive note for the U.S.

Video appears to show Japanese hostage, offers new deadline BEIRUT — A video released Tuesday purports to show a Japanese hostage saying he and a captive Jordanian pilot will be killed within 24 hours if Jordanian authorities do

not release a jailed female bomber. Both men are believed to be in the hands of Islamic State militants, who control large swaths of Syria and Iraq.

Fidel Castro backs US-Cuba thaw in letter to state media

Fidel Castro lent his support to a thaw in U.S.Cuban relations, the first public comments by the former president since the agreement was reached last month, according to a letter published in state media. “We will always defend the cooperation and friendship with all peoples of the

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al court Monday, alleges that the three worked as agents of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency to gather information and recruit U.S. residents as sources for Russia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said no proof has been presented to back up the charges, reported TASS, a news agency owned by the Russian government. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs linked to the TASS article on its official Twitter account.

world, including our political opponents,” Castro, 88, wrote in a letter published Monday in state-run Granma. “The Cuban president has taken the appropriate steps according to his prerogatives and the powers granted by the National Assembly and the Communist Party of Cuba.”

Keystone backers predict final Senate passage by weekend The U.S. Senate is on track to pass legislation to approve TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL oil pipeline by the end of the week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

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HOUSING said previously, newly admitted students could list up to six location preferences for housing at the University. “All students who met the May 15 priority deadline were assigned a random number, and hall assignments, based on availability, were made in that order in early June,” Ruby said, regarding the previous housing process. She said the changes happened because of student feedback, which indicated that students said they would have liked to learn sooner where they would be living. University Housing also created a new feature for newly admitted students looking for a roommate. In the past, students answered lifestyle questions to help Housing determine compatible roommates. With the new system, those questions are still answered, but the system also shows other students that might be compatible to live with based on their answers. Students will then be able to email each other to see if they would like to be roommates. As in the past, applicants can also indicate a specific person they would like to room with in either step one or two of the housing contract. Students will be hearing back by late June where and who they will living with, earlier than previous years, where students found out in late July or early August. Ruby said the housing changes are another reason why students should come to the University. Caroline Paik, sophomore in AHS, said she had done

The Keystone legislation stalled in the Senate on Monday as Democrats raised objections about the number of amendments they’ve been allowed to offer. some research on the dormitories at the University when choosing her preferences to live as a freshman. As a freshman, she lived in Allen Hall, which she said was her first preference because of the location, as it was closer to the Quad and CRCE. Although Paik got her first preference choice, she knew others did not receive their preferred choices. “I know some people who really wanted to be in another building or wanted a different number of roommates.” Paik said she found out her dorm and roommates about a month before moving into Allen Hall. By giving incoming newly admitted students more time to know where and who they will be living with, Paik said it might improve the communication between roommates as they will have more time to talk before moving in. “I remember waiting kind of a long time,” Paik said. “I was so eager to find out who my roommate was.” Solinna Chong, sophomore in LAS, said her first preference as a freshman was Allen Hall, which is the hall she received. She found out where she was living in late July or early August. “In a way, that makes (students) feel more comfortable that they know exactly where they will be living,” Chong said. The University Housing website states that even if students fill out their housing contract after May 15, the department will still look at the student’s location and roommate preferences.

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lthough horrible roommate experiences can turn into great stories, and some of us can definitely attest to that, the dormitory a new student lives in and whom they live with can make a huge impact on whether or not they have an enjoyable first year of college. Aside from the fun stories and learning experience of living with someone you donâ€™t get along with, itâ€™s in a studentâ€™s best interest to be matched up with a roommate who has some of the same tendencies as them. Therefore, all initiatives by the University to make it easier for new, incoming students to choose their dorm and roommate are much appreciated. When new students register for housing before they come to the University, there is a questionnaire, which asks some basic questions, such as if you get up early or stay up late, and if you are clean or messy. This leads to some very bare-minimum level of compatibility, but doesnâ€™t necessarily accommodate for other important factors to consider when determining roommates. University Housing has used this questionnaire in the past to help determine which dorms to place students in, but now, after some changes, students can use these surveys to find a compatible roommate on their own. The new system allows students to search for people who answered questions similarly to them, and then chat with that person to determine if it is someone theyâ€™d like to have as their roommate â€” a welcome change to the current system. We also appreciate the changes in choosing a dorm room. According to the University Housing website, if students complete a housing contract before May 15, they will receive a time slot in May. When itâ€™s their turn to register, they can choose from the available rooms and halls where they want to live. This is better than the old process, where students were randomly allocated a room based on the six preferences they listed and the questionnaire. Students who register by May 15 will hear back by late June where theyâ€™re living and who their roommate is. Kirsten Ruby, Associate Director of Housing for Communications and Marketing, said the changes were made because students indicated that they would have liked to learn sooner where they would be living. Weâ€™re glad the University is listening to students and taking into consideration their feedback and preferences, because when it comes to where we are living and whom we are living with during our time here, student in-

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As if lines at Chipotle arenâ€™t long enough already (especially at the coveted Green Street location), on Monday, everybody and their mothers were in line for everyoneâ€™s favorite fast-food (yet semi-not-fast-food, quasi authentic, but also sort of American) Mexican food chain. Chipotle had one sweet deal for customers where they could purchase a sofritas entree and come back with the receipt through February 28 for a free bowl, burrito, salad or order of tacos. This is why we love Chipotle. They know our love for delicious food. They know our desire for free things. They just get us.

OK, friends, get ready for an intense revival of people singing â€œDuh nuh nana, nana, nanananananaâ€? and loudly shouting â€œI ainâ€™t afraid of no ghosts!â€? at times when it likely doesnâ€™t make sense. â€œGhostbustersâ€? is coming back! In many steps up from a new female Thor (still mad about that), â€œBridesmaidsâ€™â€? director Paul Fieg has announced that the â€œGhostbustersâ€? is being given a gender revamp and will be returning with an all female cast sometime in the (hopefully near) future. Melissa McCarthy has officially signed on, with Kristen Wiig and two â€œSaturday Night Liveâ€? stars, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, currently in negotiations. This seems like an all-star cast and we could not be more excited.

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Snapchat released a new update today which is going to give the social media a news-ier twist. Now, different news and enterntainment sources, varying from National Geographic (CANâ€™T WAIT TO SEE CUTE ANIMALS) to Cosmopolitan magazine (open with caution, probably) are going to be uploading Snapchat stories at various times throughout the day. They will disappear after 24 hours, in true Snapchat fashion. But really, Snapchat, nobody can be bothered to check all of those. We can barely watch videos our friends send us! Another new feature seems to be the removal of seeing whoâ€™s on peopleâ€™s best friends list. Really? This was our favorite way to creep. How are we supposed to know if John is still Snapchatting with Jane? Donâ€™t deny us these simple pleasures and force us to learn instead. Come on.

The Miss Universe pageant, while entertaining to watch, is just another reminder to women everywhere of the impossible beauty standards that we really ought to stop striving for â€” did you see the volume, shine and curl in all of the contestantsâ€™ hair!? Unreal. Itâ€™s essentially a competition that gives us the same humbled, self-loathing experience as the Victoriaâ€™s Secret Fashion Show. But, regardless, we congratulate Miss Colombia for the win and Miss USA for the runner-up title. All this beauty talk is making us hungry â€” we could really go for two extra large pepperoni pizzas, please.

Credit hours can be deceiving STEPHANIE YOUSSEF Opinions columnist

celebrate the end of syllabus week, most University students take advantage of the little work they have and enjoy the many amenities of evenings on campus. However, in addition to this free time, I add a celebration of my own called the â€œDoes my course schedule need changing?â€? party. During this momentous celebration, I take all of the information I learned from professors introducing their syllabuses in the first week, and I estimate whether or not my course load is satisfactory for the semester. This biannual tradition of mine has become a necessary practice because I feel the system the University has set up during typical class registration does a poor job of representing how much work each class requires. My experiences in previous semesters have taught me that credit hours arenâ€™t a precise

measure of how time consuming a class will be. To help avoid this beginning-of-the-semester course add/drop ritual, the University should focus on making credit hours a more accurate reflection of a classâ€™s workload. Historically speaking, the original credit hour, known as the Carnegie Unit, measured how many hours professors spent with their students in class, with one Carnegie unit equating to one hour spent teaching. Nowadays, in addition to determining the amount of time students spend in the lectures, discussions and labs, credit hours factor in how much work will be required from students outside of class â€” more credit hours equates to more work needed outside of class. Even with this expanded definition, what past experiences have taught me is that the Universityâ€™s credit hours donâ€™t always correlate well with how time consuming a class is. For example, Chemistry 233, Elementary Organic Chem Lab 1 is worth two credit hours. The class contains a four hour lab portion and a one hour lecture

every week. When I took the class, I spent more time preparing my lab journal and studying for the lab exams than I spent studying for the five credit hour Physics 101 class. In fact, even the University of Illinois Admissions website explicitly states that â€œthere is NO good way to figure out how much time you will spend on a class based on the number of credit hours alone.â€? A system that is seemingly simple should not have to make credit hours so un-simple. There are many negative consequences that come with having such an inconvenient system. Anyone on campus knows there is an advantage to early registration because class sections can fill up quickly. But with the lack of adequate representation of credit hours, a full course load during registration might end up being too much. By the time the semester starts up and students realize they want to change their schedules because of varying time commitments, classes are filled, section choices are narrowed and students are in a more difficult position to fix

their schedules. Having a more accurate measure of the commitment required for a given class will likely reduce the need for students to change their schedules after initially registering. A possible solution to help make credit hours more exact is to include questions in instructor and course evaluation forms that explicitly ask about credit hours. At the end of each semester, professors and course coordinators can then get feedback from students who already took the class on whether or not the work assigned was appropriate for the hours given. As of now, the only accurate gauge I have on whether or not to add or drop classes is after I have seen the syllabus myself. Until the University figures out how to fix the inaccuracies with the credit hour system, you are more than welcome to join me in my â€œfinalizing my classload partyâ€? the day before the drop deadline â€” itâ€™s BYOS (Bring Your Own Schedule).

Stephanie is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at opinions@dailyillini.com.

Gender gap is still a problem ALEX SWANSON Opinions columnist

the United States â€” on paper â€” women appear to be equal to men in most respects. We have the right to vote, weâ€™re supposed to be able to work without discrimination, we can own property, and we have seemingly equal access to education. Undoubtedly, within the last century or so, this country has made great strides toward a gender equal society, which is wonderful. I admit that at times, I push gender equality to the back of my mind when I consider pertinent issues today, precisely because men and women now do appear to be on equal terms â€” again, on paper at least. Iâ€™ve heard the argument that women have it better today than weâ€™ve ever had it before, so women should stop complaining. And while I agree that the state of womenâ€™s rights in America is more advanced today than ever, that is not satisfactory evidence that we have reached a point of equality.

The reality, of course, is that men and women are not equal in todayâ€™s society. This is evidenced most concretely by the fact that women are still only paid 78 cents on the dollar for the same work as men. Gender discrimination is apparent in the professions that men and women stereotypically occupy as well as the ones they do not. Societal expectations of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman can potentially usher people toward certain professions and away from others. A recent study headed by University psychology professor Andrei Cimpian and Princeton University philosophy professor Sarah-Jane Leslie examined the gender gap in academia, in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, as well as in the humanities and social sciences. The study they conducted is titled, â€œExpectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines,â€? and is available online through the University library system. The study indicates that the gender gap fluctuates depending on academic field. For instance, women are currently earning about 70 percent of the doctor-

ate degrees in art history, but only 20 percent of the doctorate degrees in physics. I believe the intense gender discrepancy in different fields indicates that society often dictates to both men and women which professions are appropriate for their gender. This supports the idea that gender equality is not only a womenâ€™s issue but a menâ€™s issue as well. As a result of the study, researchers found that fields that placed high value on brilliance were less likely to have high female participation. For clarification, the study seems to equate brilliance with natural intellectual talent. This could be because women were less likely to apply, having internalized the idea that women are less often associated with brilliance than men. Or, it could be the result of bias on part of the employer or admissions officer. Therefore, the study suggests that women may feel as though they are less qualified for a position in academic fields where brilliance is valued, which may result in fewer women candidates. This finding saddens me on a personal level, as a woman who aims to earn graduate degrees and professionally enter into the

academic world at some point. But most importantly, for me, the study served as a reminder of the gender inequality that is present in the United States. Iâ€™m glad to have a reminder of gender inequality because I worry that too often in this country, gender equality is pushed to the wayside, precisely because men and women hold the same legal rights. So, I applaud studies such as the one described above for uncovering the ways that inequality can still exist in a society that has a variety of legally sanctioned equality measures. We cannot allow ourselves to forget or to deprioritize the issue of gender inequality in the United States, regardless of how much progress weâ€™ve already made. Instead, we need to uncover some of the difficult to find causes of inequality, just as this study focused on the gendered perception of brilliance. Before men and women are equal in the United States, we will have to be considered to possess equal potential for abilities, intelligence and â€œbrilliance.â€?

Alex is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at amswans2@dailyillini.com.

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Daily Bread Soup Kitchen: New location, same goal BY ELISEO ELIZARRARAZ STAFF WRITER

Six months before shifting locations and turning off the burners for good at the New Covenant Fellowship, the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen was on an over 30-year run . Since its inception in 1980, the kitchen has helped fi ll up its guests with hefty portions of mostaccioli as a mealtime haven at its location at White and Randolph streets. In those days, the kitchen served around 30 people on a busy day, said Ellen McDowell, president emeritus of the soup kitchen. Today, three locations and 35 years later, the kitchen is used to serve up to 10 times that amount of people. Soon enough, the exodus of volunteers and guests alike will be following McDowell, as it has in the past, into the soup kitchen’s next home inside the old Emerald City Lounge building, located at 118 N. First Street in Champaign. Today’s 150 kitchen volunteer corp is made up of retired teachers, retired nurses, working professionals, doctors, housewives and students from the University and Parkland College. It’s a sort of loyalty and commitment to helping others that McDowell has seen before from her volunteers, she said. Back in 2009 the Catholic Worker House , the kitchen’s second location, asked for the relocation of the soup kitchen after neighbors and nearby business owners expressed their concerns over the formation of a “Tent City.” The term refers to a self-governed low-income tent community that was formed in the Catholic Workers House’s backyard. McDowell said after the closing the kitchen’s volunteer staff faithfully followed suit. “I had recruited most of the volunteers,” she said. “They were a committed group and, although only superficially aware of the catholic worker philosophy, had an intense loyalty to the work they were doing. They took the concern for the poor with them, and without being especially aware of it, the philosophy of personalism.” This philosophy is one McDowell has learned and practiced for most of her life. As a young girl during the Great Depression, it was her mother’s and other housewives’ affection and generosity toward the “Knights of the Road” that

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STRAWBERRY welcoming,” he said. The makeover will entail working with Illinois ActOnEnergy to make the store more energy-efficient and minimizing the supplement and body section, according to Al-Heeti. “Strawberry Fields, as it was, is a different animal than what I think Mohammad wants to do,” Hannah said. “I think he wants to keep the name and keep the focus on organic and local, which is wonderful. But I think he’s bringing back the deli.” Before the deli closed, it was a heart of the community where people came for

ignited McDowell’s urge to help the less fortunate. The “Knights of the Road” was a group of unemployed men who would travel from town to town seeking work during the Depression; she recalls seeing these men sit on the back steps of her home with a cup of coffee in hand and a plate of food. It’s the reason McDowell has played a big part in refusing to let the soup kitchen become eradicated. Despite set-backs and the opposition of the some local community members who believe that guests of the soup kitchen have the potential to become disruptive and abusive of drugs and alcohol, McDowell continues to channel her experiences into her work. “That (urge to continue) might well fi nd its source in my memories of the painful epidemic of homelessness, hunger and rootlessness during the Depression years,” she said. As the Soup Kitchen was in the process of getting the paperwork done to move to its next location on First Street, Champaign City Council members found a loophole in the city’s zoning policies to be able to grant the soup kitchen its own location for the fi rst time in its history despite stark opposition from the neighboring businesses. “Once the council had decided that we could be a restaurant that does not charge, they allowed us to move wherever we wanted. Businesses on First Street had serious concerns and they even formed a sort of coalition,” said Richard Gomperts , liaison to the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen. “Eventually the council saw that the value of having a soup kitchen in Champaign outweighed the other concerns.” The Daily Bread Soup Kitchen has become a local institution that not only offers guests a warm meal, but a form of agency as well. It offers ID replacement

services, provides bus passes and a referral assistance programs all in attempts to “lift” guests into independence, McDowell said. All of it is done without the use of government-aid. “One of the things we feel that the soup kitchen does being available in Champaign is that it’s someplace where people go that are being taken care of that otherwise would just be doing whatever,” Gomperts said. “Whatever could be more trouble anyway.” In his three years of experience at the soup kitchen, Gomperts said he has seen himself become more enlightened about the struggles of his homeless and underprivileged contemporaries. “I know in my case, I’m a computer operator, and I sit in a room by myself all the time, and I would never have met folks like that, who are struggling in this way,” Gomperts said. “I’ve felt like it’s given me some life experience that is really valuable like that to learn to see how it is that people can live under situations like that, how they approach it and to know that ‘hey, that’s kind of a hopeful aspect to human interaction ... that you can make it through.’” As the kitchen prepares to make its $400,000 relocation in the coming months, McDowell will help usher in a new era for the kitchen with the same kind of “help your neighbor” philosophy that has been a mainstay of the institution since its creation. “If the value of a community can be assessed on how it treats the most vulnerable within it, we want our community to shine,” she said. “Our hand is out only for confi rmation that the community understands the phenomenon of Daily Bread, values it and wants to guarantee its continuation.”

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Ellen McDowell (center) stands with a group of volunteers as the director of the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen of 35 years. good food and conversation, Hannah said. “I think that’s exactly what people want, for one-third of the store to be a café again.” The café will once again be open, with even more selections than before, according to Al-Heeti. “We’re going to inject some healthy items in the menu from the Middle East because the person in charge for that operation, he is originally from that area and he has very good talent about food,” he said. The deli will also include a salad bar, sandwiches, hot food, and a deli case for desserts. Many of the options will be gluten-free, Al-Heeti said. The store will also be

entirely kosher and will not stock pork or alcohol, he said. Due to the extensive remodeling, the store will not be open until late April at the earliest, but when it does Al-Heeti said the feedback from the community is what he will rely on when modifying the store, from student and senior discounts to popular products. “I think the community’s very lucky. I think we all actually should be grateful to him for keeping the institution alive,” Hannah said. In response to all the recent well-wishes, Al-Heeti could only say: “Thank you, everyone.”

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mended at least having a pleasant attitude. “You need to be just a happy, personable person, you know. Have an outgoing personality. You do a lot of talking with all kinds of people all over the country,” she said. Being able to slip nutrelated puns into conversation is also helpful, though it quickly becomes a habit while on the road, they said. Prospective Peanutters can talk to Aslam, Higgins and Kerwick about their experiences on Wednesday. A resumé and cover letter can be submitted through I-Link. “I’ve had a lot of fun with this job. Like, work doesn’t always feel like work. It’s incredibly enjoyable,” Kerwick said. “We like to say that we spread miles of smiles, and sometimes those smiles are on our own faces.”

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Turn to Page 5A Continuing a legacy Over the past 35 years, Ellen McDowell of the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen has instilled her values she learned growing up in the Great Depression into her organization.

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Strawberry Fields Forever After All Health food store’s new owner Mohammad Al-Heeti hopes to finish remodelling and reopen by late April BY LILLIAN BARKLEY

STAFF WRITER

h ampaign-Urbana lost a community staple on Dec. 14, when health food store Strawberry Fields closed after 40 years of business. But, much like strawberry harvesting season itself, a new Strawberry Fields will be growing in its place around late April. Mohammad Al-Heeti, owner of World Harvest International and Gourmet Foods, purchased Strawberry Fields after being a customer since he moved to the United States in 1982. Al-Heeti was a fan of the food because it reminded him of food he had at home in Iraq. He will now be running both businesses. “Our English teacher at that time gave us a field trip, and she took us to Strawberry Fields,” Al-Heeti said. “It used to be in a house in the area where Beckman Institute is. I loved it because they had the grains, they had the spices, they had the dried fruit.” During his 22 years doing business in the area, Al-Heeti had a good relationship with Strawberry Fields. He said the businesses would recommend customers to each other

since they carried similar merchandise. Al-Heeti said he had great respect for the previous owner, Jack Wallace. “He has a nice heart. I’m telling you, that man is very special to me,” he said. “We cooperate with everyone because we are part of this community and we need to work together.” It might seem like the area’s organic markets would be in competition. but Al-Heeti and Jacqueline Hannah, general manager of Common Ground Food Co-op, fully disagreed. “I think it’s a really understandable assumption, an unfortunate one, but an understandable one,” Hannah said. “We see ourselves as local businesses and local food purveyors that are kind of in this together.” Hannah said she was especially saddened when Strawberry Fields closed. Before leaving for Common Ground, she ran the kitchen in the store for five years and even met her husband while they were both employees. But the closing is more than a personal loss. “We were really sad at the loss of the institution, and then beyond that,” she said. “As someone who works very hard for the

local food community and farms I was just sad because we had lost a fellow advocate.” According to Al-Heeti, Common Ground was one of the first businesses to send messages of support when he purchased Strawberry Fields. “We were ecstatic, the whole staff was really excited,” Hannah said. “He just brings so much to the community. He’s an excellent businessman. He cares so much about C-U; he’s a great employer. We know that from his employees.” Al-Heeti said he is trying to keep aspects of the original store by talking to past employees, as well as the previous owner and general manager. “We want to have the natural and organic food,” he said. Local producers will still be used, such as Prairie Food Farms and Amish businesses. The produce and bulk food sections will be kept, along with the classic bread and coffee. However, Al-Heeti does plan on revitalizing the shop with some major changes, including remodeling the interior to create a larger showroom and “make it more

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Mohammad Al-Heeti, owner of World Harvest International and Gourmet Foods, stands in front of Strawberry Fields as its new owner.

Campus gets nutty with visit from NUTmobile BY LILLIAN BARKLEY STAFF WRITER

The campus squirrels will get a treat on Wednesday when the Planter’s NUTmobile makes a stop at Daniel and Wright. Mr. Peanut and the Pea nutters will be recruiting for next years’ Peanutter positions. Taylor Higgins, a 2014 University alumnae, has been traveling through 15 western states in the NUTmobile with Arooj Aslam since June 1. They joined with Mason Kerwick in January and will be visiting cities in the Midwest until June 1, when their job as Peanutters will conclude. Higgins originally applied through I-Link to be an ambassador with Kraft’s other foodshaped vehicle, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, which visited campus last week.

Her resumé was picked up by her current boss, and “the rest is history,” she said. The main responsibility of a Peanutter is to be an ambassador for the Planter’s brand at retail events and sporting events. They also write a blog for the NUTmobile website and do everything on the road from booking hotels to, of course, driving the NUTmobile. “We like to say that it runs as smooth as peanut butter,” Kerwick said of the 23-foot vehicle. They all received extensive legume driving lessons and are confi dent in their driving abilities. There are some very unique experiences while driving crosscountry, according to the Peanutters. “We were actually caravanning with the Wienermobile through Yel-

lowstone, and the sun was setting as we were doing this so it was so picturesque and beautiful, and then on top of it we were in a giant peanut so it was incredible,” Higgins said. Aslam agreed that visiting the national parks in the West was one of her favorite moments, particularly Yosemite. “It’s really been like one of the most amazing years of my life,” she said. Kerwick’s experiences in the East included meeting former President Jimmy Carter, working a pre-event for Beyoncé’s On the Run tour and driving in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. “It was so crazy to see massive streets in New York City just closed down and like thousands of people lined up to watch it,” he said.

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The NUTmobile and the Peanutters travel the U.S. doing interviews, visiting events and making peanut-related puns. They’ll be recruiting for next year this Wednesday. “I’ll probably never see something like that at a parade again.” There are some necessary skills for those interested in being one of the nine new Peanutters.

“If someone is just patient and able to think through things logically they’ll be able to survive a year on the road,” Kerwick said. Though a degree in

journalism or public relations is not required for the position, it is helpful for the multitude of interviews and events that come with the job, said Aslam, who recom-

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or the past two years, Illinois has claimed a national champion in wrestling: Jesse Delgado. This season, the three-time All-American and 125-pound two-time national champion enters his senior campaign. The dusk of Delgadoâ€™s stellar career leaves many wondering how the Illini can ever match such production and prestige in the future. In a dual meet against the No. 12 Nebraska Cornhuskers on Friday, teammate Isaiah Martinez seemed to answer any questions regarding the future of Illini wrestling. The redshirt freshman has been a sure-win for the Illini at 157 pounds all season, racking up a 20-0 overall record and the third overall ranking in his weight class prior to Fridayâ€™s home meet against Nebraska, a meet the Illini lost 22-9. Despite registering wins at No. 2 Iowa and No. 1 Minnesota just a week before, Martinezâ€™s match with Nebraskaâ€™s James Green, the fourth-ranked individual at 157 pounds, could be his toughest test of the season. In the 157-pound bout, Martinez claimed victory over Green in a fashion that didnâ€™t seem to match the fi nal score.

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Currently undefeated at 22-0 with six Big Ten wins, Illini wrestler Martinez is aiming for the national title in March. KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINI

Illinoisâ€™ Isaiah Martinez pins down Nebraskaâ€™s James Green and gestures for the crowd to cheer during the wrestling match vs. Nebraska at Huff Hall on Friday. The Illini lost 22-9. â€œHe (Green) was dog amount of conference wins tired,â€? Martinez said. reigning national champion â€œNext time, if the third Delgado had all last season. period doesnâ€™t get away, I â€œIâ€™m just stubborn,â€? Marcould take him down three tinez said. â€œIâ€™m very comor four times.â€? petitive and Iâ€™m self-critT h e ic a l , t he dismal confidence overall a nd will perforto always mance by improve Illinois myself and as a team believe I seemed can do betto elevate ter has realthe magly helped nitude me this year.â€? of MarJIM HEFFERNAN Although ti nezâ€™s HEAD COACH wrestling is 1- 0 win, often porwhich he trayed as followed up by pinning No. 10 North- an individual sport, Marwesternâ€™s Ben Sullivan on tinez credits his teammates Sunday. Martinez is now as being a key factor in his 22-0 and already has six success so far. â€œTheyâ€™re my brothers,â€? Big Ten wins, the same

â€œHe gets more excited every chance he gets to wrestle someone. Motivation is not an issue.â€?

Martinez said. â€œWeâ€™re in it together, more than just every day in the practice room; itâ€™s awesome having a relationship with the guys like that. We battle each other, we want to make each other better and get ready for competition, just like iron sharpens iron.â€? His teammates and head coach Jim Heffernan were much less modest in their evaluations of Martinezâ€™s start to the season. â€œHeâ€™s got a lot of natural ability and toughness,â€? Heffernan said. â€œItâ€™s the way he practices, too. He works hard in the weight room, does extra workouts on his own. He gets more excited every chance he gets to wrestle someone. Motivation is not an issue

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â€œI like to go against players that are bigger than me. Itâ€™s a challenge.â€?

The two-time national champion will return to competition in Illinoisâ€™ home meet against Maryland on Friday. Delgado suffered a shoulder injury in the Illini Quad meet on Nov. 9 and has not competed since then. Dominic Olivieri has wrestled in Delgadoâ€™s place in the 125-pound weight class and has gone 9-10. Delgado was 2-0 before getting injured and has a career record of 93-13 with 18 pins at Illinois.

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â€” The senior guard had spent three years as a student manager, but was called up to the varsity team Friday prior to Illiniâ€™s road loss to Minnesota. Schmidt still brought out the teamâ€™s stools during time-outs. Stephanie Richartz (womenâ€™s track and field) â€” The senior broke the school indoor record in the pole vault and won the event at the Rod McCravy Memorial Meet. Richartz is the reigning Big Ten champion in the event.

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Illinois football released its spring schedule Tuesday, announcing March 14 as the start of spring practice. The team will have 15 practices over the course of a month, including two practices away from Champaign. The Illini will practice at HomewoodFlossmoor High School in Chicago on April 3 and at Sacred Heart-Griffi n High School in Springfield on April 10. HomewoodFlossmoor was a IHSA 8-A

Leron Black is an asset to energy and production

much there for a while, would have pouted and he didnâ€™t do that. He learâ‰ ned and got better.â€? Although Blackâ€™s improved play was first noticeable against Indiana, Groce and the coaching staff had already seen improvements BY NICHOLAS FORTIN the week prior. STAFF WRITER Groce said as the season Tola Black didnâ€™t raise a has progressed, Black has quitter. picked up his game on both After putting up his first- offense and defense and cut career double-double against down on errors in practice. two 7-footers from Purdue Groce added that while Black last week, freshman for- wouldnâ€™t have been able to ward Leron Black cited his pinpoint what he did wrong motherâ€™s parenting as well on plays at the beginning of as encouragement from the the year, he can now do so coaching staff and his fellow effortlessly. players as the reasons why he â€œThereâ€™s a lot of stuff I had persevered through his early- to remember, but I knew all season struggles for the Illi- of it,â€? Black said. â€œItâ€™s just something as you get into the nois menâ€™s basketball team. â€œMy mom didnâ€™t raise a game, get into the moment quitter,â€? Black said. â€œSo I of the game, you lose focus wasnâ€™t going to quit. The sometimes. But I feel like Iâ€™ve coaching staff and the play- learned it more and went over ers told me to keep pushing it more in practice.â€? and keep working and thatâ€™s Against Indiana on Jan. 18, Blackâ€™s on-court improvewhat I did.â€? Black has always provid- ments were on full display for ed consistent energy and the first time. intensity for the Illini, but In front of a sellout crowd until recently, his statistical at State Farm Center, he put contribuon a show. tions to He tallied the team eight points w e r e and nine minor. rebounds, After while consnagging tinuing to nine, 13 bring his and nine t radema rk rebounds energy for against the entire LERON BLACK game. Indiana, ILLINI FORWARD â€œ L er o nâ€™s Purdue one of the and Minmost hard nesota, working respectively, Blackâ€™s input on the players on our team,â€? center stat sheet and his impact on Nnanna Egwu said. â€œHe realthe game is coming around ly brings the energy and he â€” just as head coach John has a knack for having other Groce thought it would. players feed off his energy, â€œIâ€™m proud of him for stay- and thatâ€™s a great asset to our ing the course,â€? Groce said. team.â€? â€œA lot of guys in his situation, Although he played well, when he didnâ€™t play quite as Blackâ€™s game against the

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Illinoisâ€™ Leron Black attempts a shot during the game against Purdue at State Farm Center on Jan. 21. The Illini won 66-57.

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Hoosiers wasnâ€™t perfect. He missed a layup late in the second half with Illinois leading by a point. The Illini ended up losing by six. But Black hasnâ€™t let little things like that linger for long. He came back and played the best game of his young career in the next game against Purdue. With Aaron Cosby out after tearing his left retina against the Hoosiers, Black was thrust into the starting lineup and he didnâ€™t disappoint. Against Purdueâ€™s A.J. Hammons and Isaac Haas, Black had a career night, ending up with 15 points and 13 rebounds and helping the Illini beat the Boilermakers. â€œI like to go against players that are bigger than me,â€? Black said. â€œItâ€™s a challenge, and I like challenges.â€? The State Farm Center crowd recognized Blackâ€™s improved play; giving him several standing ovations. Even opposing coaches, like Purdueâ€™s Matt Painter, have taken notice of Blackâ€™s

improved play in recent games. â€œThe key to the game was Leron Black and Egwu,â€? Painter said. â€œThose guys were great.â€? While Illinois couldnâ€™t beat Minnesota on Saturday, Black kept up his intensity on the glass and grabbed nine rebounds. Although his offensive production may dip again with injured teammates being worked back into the lineup, Black knows one part of his game wonâ€™t falter, even if the shots arenâ€™t falling: his consistent energy and intensity on the court. â€œHis production is really big for us,â€? Egwu said. â€œNot just the numbers and not just by the stats, but by his energy and by his motor. Heâ€™s one of the biggest workers on our team and heâ€™s going to continue to do that.â€?

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state fi nalist in 2014 and Sacred Heart-Griffi n has won back-to-back IHSA 5-A state championships. The Orange and Blue Spring Game will be held on April 18. The game will begin at 5 p.m. this year after a 2 p.m. start last season and rosters for the spring game will not be announced until the week of the game. Last season, the Blue team blew out the Orange team 38-7 behind two Reilly Oâ€™Toole touchdowns and a pick-six from Vâ€™Angelo Bentley.

Mississippi State football spent four weeks as the No. 1 ranked team in the country in 2014. During the Bulldogsâ€™ meteoric rise to the top of the college football world, the entire country got to see the effect a team could have on its surrounding community. Mississippi State is located in Starkville, Mississippi, an area that hasnâ€™t seen success in football on the level of some of its SEC neighbors for quite some time. But in 2014, Starkville was brimming with pride for the Bulldogs, and the notorious Mississippi State cowbells echoed louder than ever. The sense of community was never more apparent than when ESPNâ€™s College Gameday visited Starkville in October, showcasing a college town that was drowning in school colors, maroon and white. It was that same sense of community and passion

that inspired Starkville natives Michael Pan and Kash Razzaghi to create Fancred, a sports-only social media network that allows fans to conveniently access their favorite sports content online or on their phones. Pan and Razzaghi grew up together as Mississippi State sports fans and theyâ€™re now attempting to channel the unique atmosphere and sense of camaraderie that sport provides into an all-inclusive online app. Fancred lets its users choose which sports communities they want to join, giving them the option to pick their favorite teams. Then, content related to those teams is categorized and centralized in the form of a Twitterlike feed on a userâ€™s profi le. Sports-centric photos, highlights, gifs and articles can be shared on a userâ€™s timeline, giving fans an interactive sports experience on one cohesive platform.

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First half woes for Illini

Losing streak now at 5 after loss to Michigan on Monday

BY JOEY FIGUEROA STAFF WRITER

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Illinois' Ivory Crawford goes for a layup after making a steal during the game against Virginia at the State Farm Center on Dec. 3. The Illini are currently on a five-game losing streak.

It hasn’t been a matter of finishing for the Illinois women’s basketball team, it has been a matter of starting. It’s easy to point at senior guard Ivory Crawford’s absence as the reason for the Illini’s current five-game skid, but Illinois’ tendency to fall behind early in games continues to be a major factor in its losses. “We just haven’t played well in the first half,” head coach Matt Bollant said after Monday’s loss to Michigan. “We’ve got to figure out how to do that and bring that energy and that joy and excitement. We need more.” In their loss to the Wolverines, the Illini fell behind by as much as 19 points early in the first half and went into the locker room trailing by 15. The Illini ended up winning the second half 33-31, but were in too deep of a hole to climb out of in the late going. Except for the

loss against Nebraska that nois has played like a combegan the losing streak, the pletely different team. With first-half woes have been a the exception of Maryland, trend for the Illini. the Illini have outscored Illinois has trailed by at three of their last four least 12 points in the first half opponents in the second of each its last four games. half despite trailing big in In three of those four games, the first half. In its last four the Illini games, trailed by Illinois’ double-digsecondits headhalf shooting into ing percentage the second half. has risen to about In those past four 40 pergames, cent from the field Illinois MATT BOLLANT and 33 peris shootHEAD COACH ing 22 percent from cent from beyond 3-point disthe arc, tance and both near just 33 per10 percent cent overall in the first half. increases from its first half That poor shooting means numbers. Illinois has been outscored In its most recent win, Illi148-104 by its past four oppo- nois trailed Iowa by as much nents in the first half. as 14 points early on and had Once the horn sounds for to battle back in the second the second half, though, Illi- half to seal a 73-61 victory.

“We just haven’t played well in the first half. We’ve got to figure out how to do that.”

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Bollant has said that he likes that his team never quits, but wants cleaner first halves. Following the loss to Purdue earlier in the season, during which Illinois fell behind by 10 in the first half, freshman center Chatrice White spoke on the importance of coming out with better starts, especially for herself. “I’ve just got to come to the game mentally prepared just to start the game like I have been in the second half,” White said. “It’s pregame jitters, maybe.” With three underclassmen currently in the starting lineup, pregame nerves and adjusting to the game early on may be an issue for Illinois. Recovering ahead of schedule, Crawford could be back as soon as Sunday and will try to help stabilize Illinois’ first half offensive woes.

Berdych, who handed Rafael Nadal one of his heaviest career defeats. Nadal, seeded third, was a shadow of his normal self, dropping the first two sets in an hour — and losing a grand slam set to love for the first time since 2006 against Roger Federer. The Spaniard appeared to be suffering with a right hamstring problem.

Bud Selig’s desk did not resemble that of a retired man. “I’ve got to try to make some order out of all this, but I’m not sure how I’m going to do it,” moaned Selig. “All I’m doing is moving stuff from one side to the other.” Just as it appeared during his 22-plus years as Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Selig’s desk was a tornadic mess. Mounds of paper were strewn across it in an organized chaos that only he understood. One major difference Monday was that much of the paperwork was in the form of congratulatory letters on his career as comJOHN SLEEZER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE missioner, which officially Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig cracks a smile before Game 2 of the World came to an end Saturday. Series on Oct. 22. Selig’s run as commissioner ended on Saturday. Selig’s first day in the new KARL MERTON FERRON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE role of Commissioner EmerSelig slept well at home Award for meritorious ser- “That’s one of those quotes Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh shouts at officials itus really wasn’t much dif- Sunday night after a busy vice to the game. As a sur- that lives in infamy.” Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. ferent than the 8,173 days he and emotional weekend in prise, Selig’s successor as While Selig’s title has ran baseball. Before leaving New York City. On Friday, commissioner, Rob Man- changed, some things forhis Bayside home, he did his he bade farewell to employ- fred, presented the award. ever will remain the same. usual hour on a stationary ees at the MLB offices as As he reminisced about He continued his daily rituRavens coach John Har- a “Coach’s Clicker” segment, bike, keeping alive his Cal well as those of Base- his years in office, Selig al of driving to Gilles Fro- baugh will appear on NBC’s where the two coaches anaRipken-like streak of 2,390 ball Advanced Media, the looked back to the day it zen Custard stand on Blue- Super Bowl XLIX pregame, lyze film and schemes of the consecutive days pedaling broadcast and online enter- all began — Sept. 9, 1992, mound Road — a tradition halftime and postgame show, New England Patriots and away the pounds. prise that grew into a fi nan- when he was named interim that dates back to Selig’s a team spokesperson con- the Seattle Seahawks. Seated later at his corner cial monster under Selig’s commissioner at an owners days as principal owner of firmed Tuesday. The pregame show starts desk with a magnificent pan- leadership. meeting in St. Louis. He was the Brewers. Harbaugh, fellow Super at noon and features minoramic backdrop of Lake On Saturday night, Selig greeted coming off the plane As he waited for his usual Bowl winning coach Tony ute-long hometown visits to Michigan, the 80-year-old was feted at the annual New at General Mitchell Interna- order — hot dog slathered Dungy, former All-Pro and players’ homes, segments Selig was asked if it felt any York Baseball Writers Asso- tional Airport by wife Sue. in ketchup, not mustard, Super Bowl-winning safety on their wives, and an interdifferent. ciation of America dinner at “Bud, what does this and Diet Coke — Selig was Rodney Harrison and host view with Katy Perry, per approached by well-wishers Dan Patrick will be part of Deitsch’s rundown. “Not really; a little bit; so the New York Hilton, a gala mean?” she asked. far, no,” he equivocated. “It’s event attended by Hall of “It’ll only be two to four asking him how retirement different but this is the way Famers such as Sandy Kou- months. Don’t worry about was going thus far. my desk looks every morn- fax, Willie Mays and Frank it,” he replied. Granted, it was early, but ing. I have so much to do and Robinson. He was given the Recalling that exchange, it seemed to be going quite look forward to.” Robert J. Slocum/Jack Lang Selig laughed and said, well.

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going well, Illinois is a hard place to (beat),” Pan said. “When times are good, there’s nothing better than Hence the name, users being in Champaign.” Razzaghi stayed home increase their “fancred” by having an influence and attended MSU, but within their online athlet- moved to Boston soon after ic community. Cred can be fi nishing college. While accumulated through com- working in the tech indusments, up or down-votes, try in Boston, the city’s posts and essentially any love of sports struck a type of activity within the familiar chord with Razzaghi. Although the focus app. Since the dawn of social in Beantown is generally media, sports fans have with the city’s wildly sucflocked to sites like Twit- cessful professional teams, ter and Facebook to share rather than college, the levtheir sports-related opin- el of region-wide obsession ions, pictures and experi- was similar. ences. Pan and Razzaghi Pa n a nd Ra zzagh i saw an opportunity through remained friends, and both this emerging medium. expressed a desire to rec“We believe that the next reate the feeling of comwave of sports communica- munity they left behind in tion will be through social Starkville. The concept of media,” Razzaghi said. Fancred was born in 2012, “We were inspired by mil- and the app was eventually lions and millions of people launched in 2013. using social media, as well Fancred is now headas sports being as popular quartered in Boston and is as it is. We believe that it a growing business in its deserves its own forum and second year of existence. its own network, and that’s The company has a staff of what we’re trying to build.” 11 full-time employees, as While building the Fan- well as 160 student interns cred brand is now a full- who act as ambassadors to time job for Pan and Raz- promote the company on zaghi, the seeds that would college campuses across eventually lead to an all- the country. sports social network conIts growth started as a tinued to be planted during grassroots effort at the and after college levc o l el. The app lege. Pan was spread attended by wordthe Uniof- mout h versity of between Illinois students and gradwithin camuated in pus commu2001 with nities. Raza degree zaghi noted in electrithat collecal engiKAH RAZZAGHI giate athletFANCRED CO-FOUNDER ics are a big ne er i ng. part of the During university his time in Champaign-Urbana, Pan experience for many stunoticed a passion for col- dents, and Fancred’s main lege sports similar to his target audience remains hometown of Starkville. college students. Ra zzagh i a nd Pa n “When sports teams are

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Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch scores a touchdown against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.

Marshawn Lynch appearance shocks M a r s h aw n Ly n c h appeared at Super Bowl media day Tuesday in front of a huge crowd. Many people were expecting him to answer questions to avoid another enormous fine from the NFL. But they would be disappointed. Lynch was there for five minutes and answered questions from

an assortment of people, including Deion Sanders and a seven-year-old kid, with the same answer: “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.” Per the Pro Football Writers of Association of America, Lynch talked for 4 minutes, 51 seconds and had the same answer 29 times.

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year (in the tournament),” Heffernan said. “That determines what type of season you have. He knows that.” “I don’t care about being undefeated,” Martinez said. “All I care about is those five matches in March, and bringing home a national title to the Illini this year.” If there is a face of Illinois wrestling, it is becoming clear that the mantle is passing from Delgado to Martinez. It may be unfair to peg Martinez as “the next Jesse Delgado,” but it’s easy to say that Illinois wrestling has a bright future if a character like Martinez is leading the way. “This sport is way too hard to be a robot like a lot of guys are,” Martinez said. “I want to express myself and show my emotions. We need characters, it’s just part of the sport.”

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wouldn’t disclose any specific figures as far when it comes to Fancred’s active user numbers, but Razzaghi said Fancred has over 10 times as many users in its second year as it did in its fi rst. The Fancred experience is offered in a desktop website format, but apps are king in the age of the smartphone. The app is now available on both iPhone and Android, and a smooth user-interface and sleek design has helped facilitate the word-of-mouth growth that Pan and Razzaghi are

hoping to achieve. But Pan and Razzaghi believe that the Fancred app is currently only scratching the surface of its potential in the digital media era of sports. While the communal-sports niche has resulted in growth, the ultimate goal for Fancred is much higher. “The vision for Fancred is to be the personalized sports app for each fan on the planet,” Razzaghi said.

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with him.” “He’s ran into a few good tests and he’s overcome all of them,” 174-pound sophomore Zac Brunson added. “All the hard work he’s put in training with us the last year and a half has paid off.” Martinez will likely climb up the wrestling rankings this week, bringing increased expectations for a deep run at nationals in St. Louis this spring. As the dual season begins to wind down and nationals lurk around the corner, Martinez and his coaches know that championships are not won in the regular season. Despite being undefeated and arguably the best wrestler in his weight class in the country, Martinez emphasized those accomplishments will mean nothing when March arrives. “It doesn’t matter if you’re 0-50, you just need to be 5-0 at the end of the

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Hiring Harbaugh gives Michigan chance to thrive DAN ESCALONA College football columnist

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Ohio State Buckeyes guard D’Angelo Russell dances past Iowa Hawkeyes guard Peter Jok on Dec. 30 at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Russell has helped lead Ohio St. to their fourth place conference stand.

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last week’s column, I highlighted the play of Maryland’s Melo Trimble. Now it’s time to direct your attention to another Big Ten freshman point guard: Ohio State’s D’Angelo Russell. This past week, the 6-foot-5, Louisville, Kentucky, native took his game to another level, dropping 33 points, six assists and seven rebounds over Northwestern and 22 points, 10 dimes and six boards against then-No. 23 Indiana. The Buckeyes won both games, keyed by Russell’s effort. Russell cashed in on eight threes and shot 65.6 percent from the floor over the two victories, elevating Ohio State to 16-5, 5-3 Big Ten. In doing so, he overtook Duke’s Jahlil Okafor as the nation’s top freshman scorer.

It should come as no surprise that the lefty point guard ascended NBA draft boards as a result. He has the ball on a string and possesses a special knack for finishing at the rim. But the most impressive skill in Russell’s repertoire is his vision — he’s arguably the best passer in the country. Russell doesn’t even average the most assists on his own team — that title belongs to senior guard Shannon Scott, with 6.7 per outing — but the frosh is responsible for some of the most insane individual passes of the season. His ability to send long-distance bounce passes through traffic with pinpoint accuracy is astounding. Although he’s not as quick or athletic as Emmanuel Mudiay — a 2014 high school graduate who chose to play in China this season and has long been considered the top guard prospect in his class — Russell is sure to have lottery-bound NBA squads salivating.

Most importantly, though, Russell has led the Buckeyes to their current fourthplace standing in the conference. If Thad Matta’s team can knock off No. 16 Maryland on Thursday night in Columbus, OSU will crack the top 25. Looking even further ahead, I have a feeling Russell will make a major impact come conference tournament time. The Buckeyes were the highlight of the Big Ten in Week 11 of the college hoops season, but there were other stories that also need addressing. Remember Cliff Alexander? I know, Illini fans. The 6-foot-8, 240-pound power forward is still a sore subject. This week, the former Curie High School star played his two best games as a Jayhawk, putting up 13 points and grabbing 13 rebounds against then-No. 19 Oklahoma and 15 points and nine rebounds against then-No. 17 Texas. Alexander appears to be coming into his own at the collegiate level, which spells bad news for opposing frontcourts. Surrounded by one of

the most balanced offensive attacks in the nation — No. 9 Kansas boasts five players averaging eight or more points per game — the kid who once broke Illinois’ heart is looking to seize a starting role under head coach Bill Self. The Jayhawks are favorites to be crowned Big 12 champs for the 11th straight year. As usual, they’ll be a force to be reckoned with come March. Meanwhile in the ACC, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski earned his 1,000th career win with a victory over St. John’s on Sunday. Coach 1K became the first Division I men’s coach to reach the historic milestone. However, the No. 4 Blue Devils didn’t make it easy for their Hall of Fame head coach. They trailed by 10 points in the second half before embarking on an 18-2 run led by the aforementioned Okafor (17 points, 10 rebounds) and Quinn Cook (17 points). The rally resulted in a 77-68 win over the Red Storm.

Eli is a junior in Media. He can be reached at sports@ dailyillini.com and on Twitter @eschwad.

Big Ten hoops takes a step back BY SHANNON RYAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

The Big Ten was expected to have a down season. But the league isn’t fulfilling those expectations. It’s worse than everyone thought. “I thought (teams) would take a step back, but not that far,” said Jerry Palm, bracketologist for CBSSportscom. “The big wins aren’t there.” Except for rock-solid Wisconsin and Maryland and a budding Indiana team, the league has failed to reach even the middling preseason predictions. With a host of returning players and some transfers to add depth, it seemed in the preseason that Illinois was a team that could take advantage of a weaker conference. If there ever was a season to maneuver up the ranks and secure an NCAA tournament spot, this was it. “Eight teams’ beat writers are thinking the same thing,” Palm said. Selection Sunday is still more than six weeks away on March 15. A lot of work can be done before then. But it’s not looking rosy for many Big Ten teams, including Illinois. In Palm’s latest mock bracket, he has Wisconsin, Maryland, Indiana and Iowa as tournament teams. Michi-

gan State and Ohio State are in the play-in games. ESPN places the same six teams in its bracket. Palm said Indiana isn’t totally safe as the Hoosiers are just getting into the meat of their schedule. Besides Michigan State, Iowa and Ohio State, Palm also considers Illinois (13-8, 3-5) a bubble team. Illini fans can continue to hope. But keep in mind: last season, North Carolina State was the only at-large team with 13 losses to earn a tournament invitation. Ten of 14 Big Ten teams are already more than halfway to 13 losses. Purdue, Illinois and Minnesota each have eight. Illinois’ tournament hopes suffered a major blow with the loss of Rayvonte Rice to a broken hand. The Illini also have seen injuries to point guard Tracy Abrams, who is out for the season with a knee injury, and starter Aaron Cosby, who will miss a week or two with an eye injury. But don’t expect sympathy from the selection committee. “If their profile doesn’t warrant selection, (the committee is) not going to give a lesser-profile team with an injury consideration over a team that earned it,” Palm said.

he Big Ten could not have gotten off to a better start in 2015. Ohio State’s dominant national title victory over Oregon was the biggest accomplishment for the conference. Not to mention bowl game wins for Michigan State and Wisconsin, which are also big statements made to the rest of the college football universe. The biggest positive development for the Big Ten, though, might be Michigan’s hiring of Jim Harbaugh. Harbaugh isn’t even a month into his new gig and he has breathed new life into a dormant football program. It might be a hard truth for Michigan fans, but at the end of 2014, Michigan football found itself in a low place. The Wolverines concluded the fourth season of the Brady Hoke era with a losing record, and the program was in disarray. Hoke was ultimately dismissed in what ended up being a disappointing chapter for the program. Fortunately, a new year brought a renewed sense of optimism for a brighter future in Ann Arbor. Michigan got the coach it so desperately coveted — a Michigan man no less. Harbaugh has a lot on his plate in transforming this iconic program into a contender once again, but he’s already made an impact on the recruiting trail. Michigan’s current recruiting class ranked last in the Big Ten and 71st overall, according to 247sports. The hiring of Harbaugh has already paid dividends on the recruiting front. The biggest of these developments comes in the form of Saturday’s verbal commitment from quarterback four-star prospect Zack Gentry. Gentry, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, was committed to Texas until Harbaugh swooped in and convinced him to slip from burnt orange to maize and blue. This would likely not have occurred had it not been for the hiring of Harbaugh. His reputation as a college coach was, it can be inferred, a major factor for the change in Gentry’s college choice. Gentry is also the second addition of a quarterback to Michigan’s recruiting class along with Alex Malzone, a Michigan-native. It should be presumed that both freshmen quarterbacks will be thrown into the competition for the starting quarterback

Harbaugh isn’t even a month into his new gig and he has breathed new life into a dormant football program. job throughout the spring and summer. Both quarterbacks, but especially Gentry, have an opportunity to earn the starting job. Most quarterbacks currently on the Michigan roster have little experience — main competitor to the two freshmen should be Shane Morris. Whichever quarterback is chosen as the starter come late August will have the privilege of working under a coach with a proven track record of developing successful playcallers. A lot can be said about Harbaugh’s success in developing Andrew Luck at Stanford into an elite quarterback. He even found success with Alex Smith and Collin Kaepernick in San Francisco. There should be plenty of confidence for Michigan fans that Jim Harbaugh can turn any quarterback he has at his disposal into an elite player. Harbaugh still has plenty of work to do. As of Tuesday, Michigan only has nine verbal commitments with only one week to go until National Signing Day. At the same time, Harbaugh’s true impact on recruiting will not be fully felt until next season. As the commitment of a four-star quarterback prospect indicates, it is completely justifiable why the optimism surrounding Harbaugh is so palpable in Ann Arbor. A high-profile coach like Harbaugh will bring high-profile recruits to Michigan in the same rough and tumble attitude he brought to the 49ers. The football program at Michigan is taking positive steps forward as it embarks on a new era. Ultimately, though, Harbaugh’s success at Michigan cannot be judged until games are played. Only then will it be known if Harbaugh is building a successful program or if he regrets leaving the NFL.

Dan is a junior in Media. He can be reached at descalo2@dailyillini.com and Twitter @danescalona77.

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Illinois’ Nnanna Egwu attempts a tip-in against Purdue on Wednesday. Both teams are in the middle of the Big Ten. All hope is not lost, though. Rice is expected to return. There are opportunities to make a splash with road games remaining at Michigan State, Wisconsin and Iowa. Plenty of teams will be scheming to figure out how to end the regular season with a flourish.

Nebraska did it last season, winning 10 of its final 13 games to make the tournament after a dismal start. Besides Wisconsin and Maryland — the league’s safe bets — only Indiana has begun to separate from the group. Now is the time for someone to make a move and join them.

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Former San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh (right) was hired by Michigan in December. Michigan fans hope Harbaugh can revive its storied program.

Blues goalie Brodeur announces retirement BY JEREMY P. RUTHERFORD AND TOM TIMMERMANN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

CHUCK MYERS TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur warms up before the game against the Washington Capitals at the Verizon Center in Washington, Dec. 21, 2013.

Martin Brodeur, the Hall of Fame-bound goaltender who played seven games with the Blues after 21 seasons with the New Jersey Devils, will announce his retirement Thursday. The club confirmed the news Tuesday, also acknowledging that Brodeur will assume a position in the organization’s front office. A news conference will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in St. Louis, where the Blues are expected to expound on Brodeur’s management role. Neither Brodeur, nor Blues

general manager Doug Armstrong, were available for comment Tuesday. Blues players leaving the club’s practice facility were caught off guard by the news. “I was kind of surprised, shocked,” Blues goalie Brian Elliott said. “He’s been around for so long, watching him grow up and then having a chance to be on the same team as him, it’s not something you expect ... heck of a career. It’s kind of sad to see a guy like him hang them up. I’m sure it’s a tough decision, but I was grateful to be on the same team with him, if only for a

little bit.” Alternate captain Alexander Steen said Brodeur joining the Blues in any capacity will be beneficial. “All the experience is so valuable to have in an organization. That stuff spreads.” Brodeur, 42, appeared in seven games with the Blues, with a 3-3 record and one shutout. He had a 2.87 goals-against average and a .899 save percentage. That brought his career record to 691-397-154 with 125 shutouts. Those are NHL records for wins, losses and shutouts. When Elliott was hurt on Nov. 22, the Blues brought in

Brodeur for a one-week tryout and he made his Blues debut on Dec. 4 in a loss at Nashville. Brodeur posted a shutout in his next-to-last game, facing only 16 shots in a win over the Avalanche that had fans at Scottrade Center chanting, “Marty, Marty.” In his final game, the Blues lost at Anaheim 4-3, though by then Elliott was back and received the bulk of the work. On Jan. 14, Brodeur was given a one-week leave of absence to figwure out his next move, and with that leave running into the AllStar break, he had almost two weeks to make up his mind.

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