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Steven Salaita’s appointment to the American Indian Studies program was rejected after a series of controversial tweets. He filed a federal suit in January against the University.
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teven Salaita has another bone to pick with the University: destroying evidence in his case. In a motion filed late Tuesday, Salaita charged officials for intentionally destroying evidence and asked for the University to preserve all evidence in the case. Salaita’s lawsuit was filed in January after the University rejected his appointment. He initially sued University administrators, the Board of Trustees and unnamed donors for violation of his rights to academic freedom and intentional infliction of emotional distress. In the suit he seeks monetary compensation and the position for which he was originally hired. Salaita is currently serving as the chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut. The job is a one year, untenured position and he said he would still like to return to the University as a tenured professor in American Indian Studies. These motions come after the University released 1,100 pages of personal emails that were not included in Freedom of Information Act requests.
Within the released emails, Wise wrote that University spokesperson Robin Kaler warned her not to use email. “We are doing virtually nothing over our Illinois email addresses. I am even being careful with this email address and deleting after sending,” Wise wrote. Omar Shakir, one of Salaita’s representatives with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said Salaita’s legal counsel does not know the full extent to which the University deleted evidence. Rather, Shakir said the released emails give Salaita’s legal counsel reason to believe administrators “consciously destroyed communications about the case.” Shakir said the intent of the motion is to gather more evidence to be used in the discovery portion of the trial, in which each side is given the opportunity to present evidence supporting their stance. Salaita said he doesn’t think they released emails have necessarily affected the lawsuit itself but he believes they have influenced the public perception of the case. He said he can’t speculate on why administrators destroyed evidence, if at all. “I can only observe that it wasn’t a very good idea,” Salaita said. If evidence was destroyed, Shakir said administrators would be “in violation of clear obligation, not only under state law under state law but also to the courts.”
Kaler said the University received copies of Salaita’s motion late Tuesday and attorneys are still in the process of reviewing and responding to them. Wise and Provost Ilesanmi Adesida both resigned after the emails were released. The email release also revealed an email from Senator Dick Durbin, in which he told Wise he supported her decision to dismiss Salaita. “Phyllis, I want you to know that I totally understood the difficult decision you faced in the recent tenure dispute and never doubted that you acted in a good faith effort to serve the University and its values,” Durbin wrote. He also told Wise he spoke to former Board Chairman Chris Kennedy, who was “solidly in (Wise’s) corner.” Salaita said he was concerned a senator has “so little concern for the first amendment.” In a press release issued by the Center for Constitutional Rights, Salaita called the University’s decision to destroy evidence disheartening. “The wonderful students and scholars at the University have a right to expect transparency and accountability from the leadership of their great university,” Salaita said in a press release. “I am hopeful that new leadership will restore the University’s reputation by rectifying the wrongs stemming from my case.”
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Illinois students face revised Advanced Placement rules BY ALI BRABOY ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
In fall 2016 all Illinois freshmen will be able to receive college credit for AP scores of three or higher. Advanced Placement courses, commonly called AP, are classes taken during high school that offer college credit if completed successfully, according to the College Board website. The site states that students who take AP classes are more likely to graduate in four years along with increasing their eligibility for scholarships, which saves students money. In August, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law the changes for AP credits in Illinois. Charles Tucker, vice provost for Undergraduate Education and Innovation, said more students receiving AP credit is a good idea, if the credit they get leaves them prepared to succeed in later classes. Although all Illinois colleges are required to give credit for AP scores of three or higher, Tucker said the law allows each campus to decide what score gets credit for a course in their major, elective or general education course. For example, a University student who receives an AP score of three on the Calculus AB AP exam will not necessarily get credit for Calculus 1 in college. The student could instead receive credit to fulfi ll a general education requirement, Tucker said. He said he would be sur-
prised to see many changes come from the new law. One purpose of the bill was to help students with college completion, but students who earn AP credits already tend to graduate at high rates and on time, Tucker said. Todd Spinner, academic adviser in the School of Chemical Sciences , said the new law will not affect students in the chemistry department, a school in LAS. He said almost all chemistry students forgo AP credits — no matter the score — because of the rigor of the classes. If students use AP credits for chemistry, it often causes them to be a semester behind because they are not ready for the secondary classes. The University requires students to earn a 5 on the AP biology exam to elect out of Integrative Biology 150 and Molecular and Cellular Biology 150. Tucker said the requirement is so high because schools found students failed at high rates when they used AP credit to go directly from high school to secondary biology courses. The law is tremendous news for Illinois students, Greg Walker, vice president of the College Board Midwestern regional office, said in a statement. “At a time when AP participation and performance has increased significantly in the state, this law provides more students with
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“There are very clear rules we have to follow on how the committee is established,” said Kim Graber, SEC vice chair. However, before the senate’s Committee on Committees can begin looking for willing participants to serve on the chancellor search committee, Killeen’s office must initiate the process through a letter. Then, the senate must approve the search process, which might not happen until their next meeting on Sept. 21. This means a slate of candidates for the chancellor search committee could be voted on, at the earliest, at their Oct. 19 meeting. Some senators expressed their concerns with this lengthy timeline. “Let’s get this before the senate and vote on it,” said
Nick Burbules, SEC member and professor in general educational policy. “We don’t need to wait until the middle of October to do this- that’s too late in the cycle.” The SEC did endorse a resolution stating they would support additional SEC or senate meetings, if necessary, to speed up the search process. Both Wise and Adesida resigned in August after 1,100 personal emails that skirted Freedom of Information Act requests were leaked. The emails contained information on the creation of the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, Steven Salaita, whose appointment was rejected, and the employment status of James Kilgore.
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The search for a new provost to replace Ilesanmi Adesida, who resigned Monday, will not begin until a new chancellor is named first, said Jan Dennis, assistant director for the Office for University Relations. “It’s important the new chancellor have input into the decision of provost, because they work so closely together,” Dennis said. He said a similar process was used when President Timothy Killeen was named in November. Killeen had input in the Chicago campus’ chancellor because his position works so closely with the chancellor, Dennis said. Typically, the search process to find a new chancellor takes six to 12 months, with a provost search pro-
cess taking around the same amount of time, Dennis said. This means it is likely the interim provost, when they are named, will serve for more than a year. “You never know how these things are going to go,” Dennis said. Adesida will return to the faculty on Sept. 1 and Dennis said his pay has not been decided yet. Senate Executive Committee members reviewed the search process to replace former Chancellor Phyllis Wise at their meeting Monday. The process requires the Academic Senate to establish a committee chaired by a faculty member and comprised of eight faculty members, three students, one dean, one academic professional and one staff member.
Provost search will not begin until new chancellor is named
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Chabad menorah vandal caught BY JASON CHUN ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
University police arrested a man Tuesday evening on the charge of criminal damage to property on the front lawn of the Chabad Jewish Center. Max W. Kristy, 20, was issued a state of Illinois notice to appear in court for knocking over a menorah displayed outside the Illini Chabad Center. The University of Illinois Police Department received an anonymous
tip that placed Kristy in a video released Aug. 19 in which he pushes the menorah until it eventually snaps at the base. Kristy could be charged with a Class 4 felony due to the amount of damage caused, according to Patrick Wade, University of Illinois Police Department spokesperson. Wade said the State’s Attorney will ultimately decide Kristy’s punishment, however he could possibly face jail time. He said the cost of damage, which
is estimated at $2,269, is so large because the menorah is a solid metal piece, set in a concrete foundation which contains electronic wiring that runs through the entire structure. The menorah broke at its base, causing damage to the electrical equipment on the inside. Wade said the UIPD does not have any information to connect Kristy to similar vandalism of the menorah that occurred in the spring.
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Fatal journalist shooting during Virginia newscast depicts tragedy BY MATT PEARCE, LEE ROMNEY AND NATALIE SCHACHAR TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
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University to lead P.O.E.T.S. Engineering Research Center BY CAELI CLEARY STAFF WRITER
The University is leading a new Engineering Research Center that is being further developed with an $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The center, called Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems, or P.O.E.T.S., is being established to increase the power in smaller electrical systems, said Andrew Alleyne, professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering. The center is focused on “developing new ways to control the flow of energy, which would allow us to build more efficient machines, more powerful machines and save money,” said Paul Braun, professor in Materials Science and Engineering and a leader in the materials engineering division of the research center.
Alleyne, who will lead P.O.E.T.S., said students on campus will have the opportunity to take classes that integrate the research the center focuses on with their coursework. “We will have a multidisciplinary type of curriculum where we will link some of the courses amongst different departments, with the idea of coming up with a more systems level disciplinary course focused more on design of complex electrical and thermal power systems,” Alleyne said. “One of the things that should come out of this is better-trained engineers.” The center will integrate multiple domains of engineering, including mechanical, thermal, material and electrical, to “increase the total power density of current mobile electrified systems by 10-100 times over current state-of-the-art
systems,” according to the P.O.E.T.S. website. Caterpillar, John Deere and Texas Instruments are a few of the companies the center partners with; additionally, the center has international partnerships in Sweden and Brazil, according to the site. Alleyne said the center will bring new business opportunities for students at the University and in the Champaign-Urbana area. “There are three things that will come out of the center: there’s the research component, the education component and the business-entrepreneurship side of it,” he said. This type of center is one of the United States’ longterm research investment mechanisms, Braun said. A product may not come out of the center for another 10 years, he said, but P.O.E.T.S is focused on determining
what the need will be 10 or 20 years from now and what researchers can do today to be prepared. “The goal here is not to solve next year’s problem,” Braun said. “Our goal is to take the work from basic science forward to the point of identifying real, industryrelevant solutions.” Peter Schiffer, vice chancellor for research, said an important goal of P.O.E.T.S. is to prepare engineering graduate students while doing important research with people on and beyond campus. “Our faculty, staff, and students, as well as the companies and institutions that are participating in the center, are making the fundamental discoveries that will enable technological innovations in electrical systems,” Schiffer said.
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The man gripped a gun as he stood behind members of the news crew, watching them do a live broadcast. The journalists didn’t seem to notice that he had pointed the weapon right at them. On Wednesday morning, as southwestern Virginia television viewers watched on live TV, a WDBJ-TV reporter and her cameraman were shot to death in the middle of their broadcast near Smith Mountain Lake. Police later identified the gunman as Vester Lee Flanagan II, one of the journalists’ former TV station co-workers. The person being interviewed, local Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Vicki Gardner, was wounded but was expected to survive. By the time Flanagan, 41, had shot and killed himself after a police chase several hours later, his face and actions had been widely broadcast on televisions across the nation and on social media. Flanagan, who was black, cited racism and bullying as a motive, though Franklin County Sheriff Bill Overton said it was “obvious” that Flanagan “was disturbed in some way.” The shooting was a grotesque moment of television that swiftly appeared on CNN and YouTube. About eight shots were heard as reporter Alison Parker, 24, screamed and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, fell to the ground. Ward’s camera spun to show a grim-faced man
striding forward with a pistol in his hand. When the broadcast feed quickly switched back to a camera at the TV station, it caught a WDBJ-TV anchor gaping in shock, her mouth open, unsure of what she’d just seen. Hours after the 6:45 a.m. shooting, Flanagan — a native of Oakland, Calif., who used to work as a TV reporter at WDBJ-TV under the name Bryce Williams — apparently posted a video on Facebook and Twitter showing the shooting from the gunman’s perspective. The accounts were swiftly taken down, but not before the Twitter account posted messages complaining that Parker and Ward had not treated Flanagan well at the workplace. Station officials said Flanagan had been fired and escorted out of the TV station after a year of clashing with station employees. ABC News reported that someone claiming to be Flanagan had faxed a 23-page document to the network, which turned it over to authorities, and that Flanagan had called the network almost two hours after the shooting to say that authorities were “after me” and “all over the place.” Anchors at the TV station held back tears as they interrupted live reports on the shooter’s whereabouts with memories of their co-workers. Both victims were in relationships with co-workers at the station. On Twitter, Chris Hurst, a morning anchor, said he had been with Parker for almost nine months, and they had planned to get married.
University awarded $1 million Google research grant Funding will give students access to new computer technology BY WALBERT CASTILLO STAFF WRITER
The University computer science department will use a $1 million Google Focused Research grant to upgrade undergraduate curriculum to prepare students for careers in the world of ground-breaking technology. University computer science students will now have better access to mobile and cloud computer technology in classrooms, said Robin Kravets, associate professor in computer science. The grant was awarded to fund two University initiatives. It will create more opportunities for collaborative research with other universities across the country. “This is a very good research product for Google to focus on, and it’s great to be working with Google to be interacting with this particular
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project,” said Roy Campbell, computer science professor. Google funds research that is of key interest to the company and supports academic research in computer science, engineering and other programs, according to Google’s research website. Google’s four major areas of focus include: machine learning, the use of mobile phones as data collection, energy efficiency in computing and privacy, according to Google’s Research Blog. Kravets said Google decided to award the grant after she contacted Google researchers. Kravets said gathering contacts allowed her to create a proposal that would later be submitted to Google for funding. The grant will fund three years worth of coursework – three required courses – including a new freshmanlevel software engineering course. The courses will have a Mobile-First Research component, which will integrate Android, Google’s mobile operating system, as the primary mobile platform for students to utilize.
Students will also have access to Google’s Cloud Platform that will provide students with real-world experiences using remotecloud environments. Kravets said the University started using cloudbased software in the spring and will start incorporating Android programming in the fall semester. The University will also work with Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell Tech and Stanford University, on the Open Web of Things Expedition, also known as the “Internet of Things,” which is a program that enables users to interact with connected devices on the open web, according to Google’s website. According to Campbell, the “Internet of Things” is the “leading edge” for where technology will take precedent into the future. “All in all, we’ve got a great time. We’re going to benefit tremendously from Google,” he said. “As a team, we’re going to provide Google with lots of insights, thoughts and maybe inventions.”
Since Aug. 17, states have implemented unified and consistent state-wide or system-wide AP policies, said Zach Goldberg, director of media relations for The College Board. Z ach a r y Brow n i ng, sophomore in LAS, said he doesn’t completely agree with the new law, but understands some benefits, such as saving money by applying AP credits to
electives. However, he believes schools should not be uniform in their decisions, such as by having the same AP credit standards. He said some schools are more competitive than others, which gives them an edge compared to others — an education in chemistry from the University might be worth more than the same degree from anoth-
“I got a four on the AP psych exam, so I wasn’t able to bypass Psych 100. ... I feel like I’m sitting in a class where I’m relearning everything I already learned. So I think that if you worked hard and you studied a course, and you think that you understand the material, then it should go toward that class because you’ve already taken it.” $/(;$1'5$ +(51$1'(= GSFTINBO JO -"4
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“If you’re going to take credit for it later in college, definitely make sure that you understand and remember the material,” Browning said. Upperclassmen wondering if past AP credits can be applied to electives retroactively may be out of luck, Tucker said. The University is still working on administrative details, but in the past, the rules have
only applied to the incoming class, not retroactively to continuing students. Tucker said he is a proponent of AP credits and how they prepare high school students for college. “There’s no substitute for taking substantive courses in high school and working hard at them to be ready for college,” Tucker said.
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esterday morning, much of the U.S. woke to the horror that two young journalists for Virginia’s WDBJ7 station were shot on live television in Moneta, Virginia. Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, were murdered just after 5:45 a.m. CDT. The shooter, who we won’t dignify by naming, was reportedly a disgruntled former reporter from the station, who last worked there in 2013. The shooter committed suicide approximately seven hours after he took the lives of Parker and Ward. This editorial is not about gun violence or mental health. There is another time for that. This editorial is about remembering two journalists that we don’t know. Alison Parker and Adam Ward were not University alumni — no one at our publication has met either. But the events have left us with a significant amount of pain. As a nation, we are mourning. Just as we have mourned for the nine lives lost in Charleston, just as we have for the students lost each year because of university shooting incidents, just as we have for the victims and families of Sandy Hook Elementary School. There is no simple justification for any of these deaths; every single victim has a story. But as yesterday’s gruesome act continues to gain publicity, we hope that the tone and focus changes from voyeuristic interest in the shooter to remembrance of Alison Parker and Adam Ward. So, to our fellow members of the media: Don’t let the shooter’s name cover the headlines for the upcoming weeks. Change the precedent by honoring Alison Parker and Adam Ward, instead. Alison Parker was an alumna of James Madison University. She was in a serious relationship with Chris Hurst, another WDBJ employee, who tweeted Monday that the two had just moved in together. Alison Parker was the editor of her university’s college newspaper, The Breeze. She graduated just three years ago. Adam Ward was engaged to Melissa Ott, a morning producer at WDBJ. A graduate of Virginia Tech University, he had been working at the station for four years. Over the last year, Alison Parker and Adam Ward worked together on dozens of assignments. These two journalists died in their own backyard. They weren’t in a war zone. This was not a horrible accident, it simply shouldn’t have happened. So we, a part of the vast, sometimes bullish entity that is the media, send our condolences to those in Virginia, to WDBJ family, to Adam Ward’s fiancÊe, Melissa Ott, to Alison Parker’s boyfriend, Chris Hurst, and all of their families and friends. And finally, we send our condolences to anyone who felt any sort of impact from this tragedy. We live in a society where gun violence is commonplace. The U.S. accounts for 31 percent of the world’s mass shootings. Every day, news of gun violence litters newspapers across the nation. Roanoke, Virginia may be 612 miles from Champaign, but the impact reaches well beyond our corn fields.
Safe spaces can’t shield from reality CARLY CHARLES Opinions columnist
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t seems to be common sense that when contributing to online social media forums — Facebook, for example — if you have something controversial to say, it’s best not to say it at all. Posting a “challenging� comment on a link or page will result in an overwhelming assortment of replies, many pointing fingers at “insensitivity� or “political incorrectness.� It’s one thing to be shut down on the Internet; it’s quite another to be silenced and denounced on a University campus, where the supposed overarching goal is to become more intellectually educated and more immersed in different and challenging concepts and points of view. Generations ago, the idea that one could simply avoid reading “Macbeth� on the grounds that the play’s depictions of violence garnered a negative, traumatic response from students might have been unheard of. Now, it’s not so unusual. The increasingly prominent idea that the college experience — both socially and academically — must be a “safe space� for students takes a wellintended philosophy and places it where it doesn’t belong — into the world of intellectual curiosity and development. According to Judith
Shulevitz in her New York Times article, “In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas,� “safe spaces� are, in most cases, “innocuous gatherings of like-minded people who agree to refrain from ridicule, criticism or what they term microaggressions.� As an option, the safe space and the sort of thinking it promotes is a very positive thing. In the stressful world of exams, expanding social circles and the transition into independent living that is higher education, it is comforting as a student to know that there is a safe haven one can go to obtain a kind, listening ear and a shoulder to lean on in times of mental and emotional crisis. The problem is these safe spaces are now bleeding into the overarching academic atmosphere — an area in which they really ought not go. In the news alone, you hear stories of college speakers who present challenging ideas to students being heavily protested, and students being “banned� from discussions for offering controversial viewpoints. Making safe spaces and academic spaces one and the same is damaging to the college learning experience. Automatically labeling any situation or school of thought that does not comply with one’s personal and moral beliefs as “unsafe� inhibits students from gaining knowledge and perspective. By avoiding tense or uncomfortable situa-
tions altogether, students severely compromise their ability to manage life outside — as Shulevitz refers to it — the “controlled climate� that is the college campus. The idea that discomfort or a differing, unfamiliar opinion is synonymous with “inappropriate� and “unsafe� is dangerous and inherently threatening to the collegiate young adult. The rhetoric that any form of mental discomfort ought to be simply avoided in order to perpetuate an emotionally coddled mind is, frankly, juvenile. It breeds a student body incapable of considering ideas that are morally and intellectually different than their own in an objective way. One of the most important lessons I have learned thus far is that learning to interact with and understand people who act and think very differently than oneself is a valuable and essential skill to acquire. It troubles me that students fresh out of the collegiate bubble won’t know how to grapple with the harsh and often illogical world, oftentimes because they are sheltered from it — I know I still struggle with it even after trying to branch out. Judith Shapiro, former president of Barnard College, writes in an essay for Inside Higher Ed, that, “there are a variety of policies and practices that give students what most of them seem to want, but not necessarily what they most need.�
Referring to the contemporary “trigger warning movement,� Shapiro writes of the growing tendency for college faculty to not only warn students in advance of materials that may include “upsetting� content, but to allow the students to avoid the “triggering� materials altogether. Such acts, Shapiro says, are “an insult to the intelligence and good sense of students.� I agree fully with this statement. The University that my classmates and I attend is world renowned for its educational facilities and its highly intelligent and curious academics. This being said, even undergraduate students, surely, should be able to handle the personal discomfort that comes along with exposure to challenging and new materials and concepts. No student should have to attend classes feeling threatened and in harms way — this goes without saying. But creating a rhetoric wherein feelings of tension are equitable with a threat to physical, moral harm is simply unacceptable and in itself threatening to the student’s mental and intellectual well-being. Building a college world in which “safe� environments tread heavily into the academic realm is dangerous and inhibits students from engaging in the growing up and educational processes they so desperately need.
Carly is a senior in FAA. ccharle2@dailyillini.com
The American Dream represents historical oppression ALEX SWANSON Opinions columnist
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he American Dream, as I understand it, is the notion that anyone, including immigrants or citizens who began in destitute conditions, has an equal opportunity in achieving fiscal and social success in the United States. Although the phrase didn’t exist until 1931 when James Truslow Adams referred to the phenomenon as such in his book “The Epic of America,� the culture of the American Dream has been present since the beginning of this country, as we currently recognize it. Immigrants converged to this country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with the promise of religious freedom
and chances for economic prosperity. The American Dream is also ingrained into the politics of this country, but is an ideology that has recently faded away, or that many people believe to be “dead.� Donald Trump remarked, “The fact is, the American Dream is dead,� as he announced his presidential bid earlier this year. Bernie Sanders made a speech questioning oligarchic tendencies in America on the senate floor in 2014 titled “What Happened to the America Dream?� During a speech in February, Jeb Bush asserted that the “American Dream has become a mirage.� Indeed, many of the presidential election candidates are campaigning on the promise to reconstruct “the Dream.� To eventually create an America in which all
citizens — regardless of identity or upbringing — have equal opportunity for success would be a remarkable accomplishment. Yet it is evident from contemporary issues like the Black Lives Matter movement, the vast achievement gap, the intensely unequal distribution of wealth, etc., that Americans still do not all have equal opportunity for success. Prejudice on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, sexual identity, as well as many other identities, continues to exist within the nation. But, still, Trump continued in his presidential bid announcement promising, “If I win, I’ll bring [the American Dream] back better and bigger and stronger than ever before.� My concern with candidates’ promise to revive the American Dream is not only that it does not
appear to be imminently plausible, but also that to assert that the American Dream once existed is to conceal aspects of our history that reveal us to be a systematically oppressive nation, historically. The American Dream has never been genuine or even conceivable for all Americans. Certainly, the Dream could not have existed simultaneously with slavery, the atrocious treatment of many Native Americans in the early years America’s formation, the suppression of women’s right to vote or discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. These instances of wrongdoing just serve as a few of many instances of maltreatment of marginalized groups in the United States. Because this country, grievously, has always facilitated injustice
toward many, the Dream has never been true for all Americans, and therefore, by definition, has never existed at all. Consequently, there is no bringing the American Dream back; it is not dead; it has not lately become a mirage. Believing in the American Dream also potentially promotes a dangerous meritocracy: the notion that those who succeed work hard and have reputable morals, and those who do not succeed are lethargic and passive. The ideology makes no allowance for the effects of individual circumstance and bias. The rhetoric and ideology of the American Dream is an illustration of how easy it is to disconnect portions of our nation’s history from one another. We want to believe that our country began as a utopian-esque place where one could do abso-
lutely anything if he worked hard enough; it would be much easier then to exude patriotism. But we cannot misrepresent the examples of injustice and oppression that glare at us from history. We have to accurately inspect our history in order to improve upon our current society. Unfortunately, this includes altering the way we understand one of the largest pieces of our national identity: The American Dream. With this awareness, we instead need to focus on moving toward an equal society — through dialogue, awareness campaigns, electing the sympathetic officials, bolstering education, and so on — in which the American Dream could conceivably exist for the very first time.
Alex is a senior in LAS. amswans2@dailyillini. com
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With exposed ceilings, a hammered metal bar and vibrant lights refracting off the geometric interior, Venue 51 provides a new, contemporary setting for Wednesday night drink specials. Director of Events Paris Blalock said Venue 51, located at 51 E. Green St. and known for hosting various private parties for RSOs on campus, is now trying to compete with other University bars that are open throughout the week. Blalock said Venue 51 wants to become more accessible. “We know that we have a gorgeous modern venue that looks nothing like any other bar on campus,” Blalock wrote in an email. “We would like everyone on campus to be able to enjoy that scene while experiencing a new specialty drink. We thought, ‘Why limit a facility to private events?’ Our goal is to open more days of the week and eventually full time once we really get our name out there.” Blalock’s specialty drink of choice is the $5 “Ice Bomb.” It’s composed of
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six ounces of UV Blue Vodka, regular vodka and Sierra Mist. According to Blalock, the Ice Bomb used to be a favorite amongst alumni. “We are bringing back a very popular and missed specialty drink that was available in the era of 20042008. Now, a new generation of U of I students can enjoy,” she wrote. Megan Gillespie, sales and events manager and also a Champaign local, said bringing back an old tradition will benefit current students. “When deciding what Venue 51 would be known for, other than our standout venue, I was very excited to incorporate my experience during my college years,” Gillespie wrote in an email. “One of the nights that was big on campus was ‘Bomb Night.’ Many students that attend the University of Illinois at this time either have siblings or friends that attended the University during 2004-2008. To give the students today a piece of what the alumni enjoyed is something that Venue 51 couldn’t pass up.” Billy Jin, senior in LAS, hours at a time, making it difficult and time-consuming to read each matrix — approximately one terabyte — that he was computing. “I talked to a couple people (on the support team) who gave me some suggestions on how I could accelerate the reading because Blue Waters has a really parallelized way of reading large amounts of data. Also, the code we use right now does not use that, and they started to help me (learn) how to benefit from these parallel-reading capabilities,” Schleife said. In addition to the ways Blue Waters impacts the community through
will be bar backing and bartending until he works his way up to becoming a fulltime bartender. “I like that it’s a new place, so there’s potential to influence how the atmosphere of the bar would be, versus Joe’s and Lion already have their established clientele base,” Jin said. Jin said that the draw of Venue 51 over the other bars is that it has a cleaner feel and that the “Ice Bomb” is not a bad deal given the cheap price. “I’m looking forward to seeing its rising popularity,” Jin said. In addition to the $5 Ice Bombs, there will be other drink specials, according to Gillespie. Amongst the specials are $2 drafts and $2 shots of Fireball. In addition to being open from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Wednesdays for Bomb Night, Blalock wrote that Venue 51 will be holding Student Stand-up Competitions as well as showing Blackhawks games for viewing. “The possibilities are endless on what we can and are willing to do at Venue 51 this year,” Blalock said. “We are excited to be more involved with the University Student Life.”
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NEW YORK — Some people retire and go fishing. Earl Harley retired and started making buckles. “I’m Harley the buckle man!” he said in his shop at the back of the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market, an open-air emporium where vendors sell colorful fabrics, woven bags, beaded jewelry, drums and masks. Harley’s shop walls are covered with letters of thanks from people who have received his buckles, which are not your standard hold-the-leather-together metal devices he disdains. These are specially designed for the rich, the famous, the political leaders and the political causes, and each one is handmade by Harley in his Harlem shop. “You need a real buckle,” he said ruefully, eyeing the simple clasp on my belt. In other words, a Harley-made buckle. Some of his recent creations sit beneath glass in the store. One bears the name of South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, a victim of the mass shooting in a Charleston church by a white racist. “Black Lives Matter” is implanted in nickel silver on the black acrylic background of another buckle. Those are not for sale,
said Harley, for whom buckle-making, along with crafting cuff links and the occasional dog tag — there is one for Bo, the Obama family dog — is more a hobby than a business. “These are one of a kind, for the family members if they want them,” Harley said. Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. Harley wears his on his buckles. There is one he plans to send to President Obama, with the words “World’s Greatest President” on it. He also has one for the person he is certain will be the next president. “First female president: Hillary Clinton. 2016,” it reads, in silver letters on a red background. Harley’s store and workshop occupy a trailer-like structure that measures about 20 feet long and 8 feet wide. Inside, belts with Harley-made buckles, many adorned with rhinestones. The store’s pink walls display framed thank-you notes. There are four from the Obamas, signed by Barack and Michelle. A fifth one from the first couple was to wish Harley a happy birthday last June 23. There are letters from rapper Ja Rule, John Oates
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of the pop duo Hall & Oates, former Gov. David Paterson, Bill Clinton and Rep. Charles B. Rangel, among others. Harley does not talk much about himself, but he offered some background. He grew up in Savannah, Ga., and retired as a postal worker in Queens. He is 80 but tries to hide it, even whiting out his age on the Obamas’ happy birthday letter. With his fit frame and energetic demeanor, he looks far younger than he is. He used to be an avid runner and finished eight marathons in the 1980s. Harley became interested in buckles during forays into Manhattan’s midtown diamond district, where he would see the jewelry makers practicing their trade in the store windows. “I thought, darn, let me buy some tools and start doing something,” Harley said. When he retired, he bought a jeweler’s saw, a drill, some scrap metal and acrylic paint, and he started making buckles. There is nobody Harley would refuse to make a buckle for, though he laughed out loud when asked what he would do if Donald Trump became president. “Yeah, I’d make him a buckle, sure,” Harley said. “My thing is making buckles.”
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TIMELINE Aug. 8, 2007 — National Science Foundations approves a $208 million grant to the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University for a petascale supercomputing project dubbed “Blue Waters,� working with IBM October 2008 — Plan for a building, the National Petascale Computing Center, for Blue Waters is announced November 2008 — Construction on the National Petascale Computing Center starts April 2010 — Construction on the National Petascale Computing Center finishes June 2010 — First open house at the National Petascale Computing Center
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lue Waters, the University’s powerful supercomputer, has a home that surges with even more capability. At the National Petascale Computing Facility, water rushes through pipes in the fl oor, preventing the supercomputer from melting into a pile of plastic and metal. Ten megawatts of power course through the building to sustain the supercomputer and 49,000 more processors that perform calculations in tandem. Even the seemingly endless sea of Cray cabinets that house those processors — mammoth black matte boxes — are physically imposing as they whir in harmony. Students and faculty alike will have the opportunity to experience the power within the supercomputer and its home, as well as learn about
research conducted with it, through the #IllinoisWelcome open house, which is offered by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) this Friday from 3-5 p.m. Any time during the open house, visitors can participate in a self-guided tour of the facility, where the machine and viewing deck will be open. In addition, people will be able to look at the infrastructure of the building, which includes the power transformer and the water pump room. In addition to informational boards, people can talk to onsite staff as they walk through the tour with any questions they have. Elizabeth Murray, media communications specialist for the NCSA, explained that the “#IllinoisWelcome� hashtag began at the University level, when it was used to welcome new and returning students to campus. Previously, they offered Petascale Day
Aug. 6, 2011 — IBM terminates its contract with the University to supply hardware for Blue Waters due to the complexity and financial support needed for the project, IBM returns all project funds and NCSA returns all equipment from IBM December 2011 — The University signs a contract with Cray, Inc. March 2012 — 15 percent of the full Blue Waters system, a 48-cabinet Early Science System, is available to research teams
on Oct. 15, independent from the University, but the success of those open houses and the #IllinoisWelcome led them to join in the welcoming effort. “We thought (an open house) might be a good idea to welcome people to campus and invite them to see something that potentially was a draw for them to come for or had heard about in theory, and they just didn’t really know what it was,� Murray said. “We found that (the open house) was popular and that people appreciated it. As a part of NCSA, our mission as a whole, much with the University, is education, innovation and discovery, and always moving forward.� The fact that the NCSA is able to offer tours of the facility to the public is part of what makes Blue Waters so unique. “A lot of data centers and superc omputers across the country have classifi ed research. Blue Waters does not have classified research. We’re for open science,� Mur-
November 2012 — Blue Waters system is fully installed and operational, available to select research teams March 28, 2013 — Blue Waters is available to all research teams for 24/7 science ray said. “So everything that Blue Waters helps enable is public knowledge, so there’s nothing super secret happening there. ... We want to carry that over to the community and say, ‘Hey, we’re also open for you to come see what this looks like.’� While researchers across the company have to compete with each other for access by applying to the National Science Foundation, researchers at the University only have to compete against the other researchers at the University, increasing the likelihood that they are able to obtain use of the supercomputer. The supercomputer even
has a total of 12 professors that are allocated a specific amount of time to work with it. One Blue Waters professor, Larry Di Girolamo, said the campus benefits from the allocation, not just through research developments but also through collaboration with people from different disciplines. The research will impact students, too. “We want those brains and that kind of knowledge here locally, both benefitting our students because they’re teaching and sharing their research here with our students but also benefi tting
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Volleyball to host annual Illini Classic Illini open their season Friday with Stuff Huff game ELI SCHWADRON STAFF WRITER
Illinois volleyball will host the annual Illini Classic this weekend. On-court action begins at 4 p.m. Friday with a matchup between Miami (Ohio) and Creighton. Stuff Huff festivities kick off at 5:30 p.m. with a carnival outside Huff Hall. But the main event doesn’t get rolling until 7 p.m., when No. 8 Illinois takes on Louisville in the Illini’s first regular season match of the 2015 season. The Illini went 26-8 and reached the Sweet Sixteen last year, so anything less than a national championship will feel like a disappointment to head coach Kevin Hambly and his team. The veteran squad — the 17-player roster holds eight juniors and four seniors – will rely on Hambly’s dynamic, up-tempo system to reach the promised land. Junior Naya Crittenden said throughout preseason that Illinois’ passers practiced getting solid foundations and getting their bodies in front of the ball. Hitters focused on getting good contact. Crittendon also noted a focal point in the Illini Classic will be the team’s blocking ability. Michelle Strizak echoed her teammate’s statement and thinks Illinois’ defensive prowess will wear down opponents. “I think that’s how we’re going to be successful this
year — frustrating teams all the time,� Strizak said. After taking on the Cardinals, the Illini don’t have much time to rest, as they have a full slate of volleyball the following day. Illinois plays Miami 10 a.m. Saturday. Hambly’s team gets a brief respite and then face off with Creighton at 7:30 p.m. Fortunately for the Illini, they’ll get a chance to watch Miami and Creighton play Friday, so they can get a preview of what they’ll be dealing with Saturday. Miami went 21-10 in 2014, and though the Redhawks are the underdog, the Illini have talked about not taking any opponents lightly. Illinois’ opponent in its third game of the weekend might pose the biggest threat. Creighton is the favorite to win the Big East as they did last year. The Blue Jays are a scary group — they went 25-9 and swept conference play last season. This year, they return four starters. But for now, the Illini — led by veterans Jocelynn Birks and Brandi Donnelly — are locked in on Louisville. And the Cards are no easy task. Louisville head coach Anne Kordes is a former Illinois assistant, and she has a talented bunch. According to Hambly, the Cardinals look even better than last year, when they finished with a 15-14 record.
View of the crowd during the North Carolina volleyball game at Huff Hall on Aug. 30, 2014. This past Saturday, a crowd of 1,791 Illini fans got their first glimpse of the 2015 volleyball team at the Orange & Blue scrimmage. Surprisingly, the Orange team of newcomers defeated a veteran-laden Blue squad in a four-set exhibition. Illinois is so deep this year that Hambly’s biggest headache might come from figuring out the starting
lineup. The initial rotation will not necessarily consist of the definitive best players — Hambly will have to toy with combinations and see which players complement each other and gel quickly. He has until Friday evening to put the puzzle pieces together.
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Hidden Stat: The Illini are a combined 15-6 against the Illini Classic field Quick Note: The Illini have the No. 1 recruiting class in the country, according to PrepVolleyball.com. This is the fourth time Kevin Hambly has brought in a top-10 class at Illinois.
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Phair invested in next football project: Illini BY MICHAL DWOJAK STAFF WRITER
Mike Phair has held many roles during his football career. Illinois football’s co-defensive coordinator has helped discover college football players who could become stars in the NFL. Phair has coached Pro Bowlers and Hall of Fame defensive players and worked alongside the NFL’s brightest minds. Now, the Illini’s defensive line coach faces another challenge: improving the Big Ten’s worst defense. Illinois ranked at the bottom of nearly every defensive category in the conference last season. The Big Ten’s best running backs ripped their way through Illinois’ defensive line and shredded its secondary. Phair has started the process of repairing the defense, more specifically the defensive line, during the summer and the NFL-style Camp Rantoul. Although he’s encouraged with what he’s seen from his players, he’s aware that the group is far from a finished product. “We still have a ways to go,� Phair said. “We have to get some more stuff going, but we can get a lot better from there.� Head coach Tim Beckman added an experienced coach when he hired Phair during the offseason. Phair has been part of three NFL organiza-
tions — the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Bears — and divided his time as a scout, assistant defensive coach and defensive line coach. He also coached at Arizona State and Tiffin (Ohio) University. Although he’s worked with professional players throughout his career, his coaching style hasn’t changed now that he is coaching college athletes, even though the structure of the college game is a little different. Phair’s defensive line has taken some hits early in his tenure at Illinois. Top defensive end Jihad Ward will miss the first two games of the season with an undisclosed injury and Paul James III left the University without an explanation. Beckman also announced Tuesday that Teko Powell suffered an injury on the foot he’s had surgery on twice — Beckman said Powell and his family will decide what the defensive tackle will do going forward. Beckman also announced Wednesday that defensive tackle Joe Fotu and safety Caleb Day have been suspended indefinitely for violations of team policy. Fotu was expected to help anchor the line with the injuries players had already suffered. Despite the circumstances, the coaching staff remains confident in the group’s depth and talent. “Jamal’s (Milan) been play-
ing at that position,� Beckman said. “We’ve got some depth there, we have Joe Fotu, but we have four defensive lineman.� The lack of players shouldn’t hurt Phair and the group due to his rollingcoaching method. Each player on the line receives the same amount of reps to prepare for every situation. The goal is for the unit to move and play fast while also forcing turnovers. Three-star recruit Milan and junior Rob Bain have impressed Phair and the rest of the coaching staff and Dawuane Smoot, who is listed on the roster as an LEO, has taken reps with the defensive line and could fill the spot during Ward’s absence. The staff is far from determining who will get the most reps on Sept. 4 against Kent State. Although a championship — like the one Phair was part of in 2003 with Super Bowl Champions the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — doesn’t seem attainable this season, the co-defensive coordinator is focused on his next project. “It’s just one of those deals where another guy gets to play,� Phair said. “They just have to adjust on their own, and I think the guys have done a good job of taking advantage of the opportunities.�
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It was nothing short of a turbulent summer for Illinois athletics. While the football and women’s basketball programs handled scandals that grabbed national headlines, the men’s basketball team seemed to fall out of the spotlight following a disappointing season. But a lot can change in a few weeks. Fresh off the news that guard Tracy Abrams would miss his second-straight season due to injury without seeing any action, another Illini prospect faced unfortunate circumstances before ever donning a jersey for the Illini. On Wednesday afternoon, head coach John Groce addressed the media for the first time since deciding to dismiss Darius Paul. Redshirt junior forward Paul was arrested on charges of vandalism, public intoxication and resisting arrest during Illinois’ 10-day trip to Europe. He was sent home early and promptly dismissed from the team when Groce returned to Champaign. “Obviously, it’s just an unfortunate situation,� Groce said. “You don’t want to get that news if you’re a coach, but if you do it
long enough, you’re probably going to get it at least once at some point in time or more. We have standards that we expect, and that was just an unfortunate situation that we did not necessarily plan for or want. But it happened.� Paul was suspended all of last season for violating team rules after transferring to Illinois following his freshman year at Western Michigan. During his freshman season, Paul averaged 10.4 points per game on 47
“I’ve always been a coach that believes in second chances.� JOHN GROCE HEAD COACH
percent shooting for the Broncos and was named the MAC Freshman of the Year. Off-the-court troubles hindered the 6-foot-8 forward’s potential following his transfer, though. The former Illini issued a statement on Tuesday apologizing to fans, his teammates, and especially his family. “I put my family through a lot, and I hope they will see a day where I am back making positive decisions that will help my family and not hurt them,� Paul’s statement said. Groce said he will con-
tinue speaking with Paul and his family in order to help the 21-year-old find the right path and that a second chance is certainly not out of the question. “If that was my own son, I’d do it the exact same way,� Groce said. “If it was player with a different name, we’d do it the exact same way. We gave him an opportunity, and we’ll continue to work with him. I’ve always been a coach that believes in second chances.� Besides the glaring negative that came from the Europe trip, Groce is excited about the progress the team made throughout the four games and 10 practices overseas. Illinois went 3-1 on the Euro trip, only losing to the Dutch National team. Groce cited the offthe-court cultural experiences as one of the most important parts of the trip, though — the players stood underneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, went to Omaha Beach, visited the cemetery at Normandy, and also stayed in Belgium. Despite the recent controversies surrounding Illinois, whether they dealt with recruiting snubs, injuries or disciplinary problems, Groce said this may be the closest group he’s experienced, especially after the visit to Europe. “There’s no question, through this experience, we’re a lot closer as a team,� Groce said. “I think this may be about the closest they’ve been so far.�
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Illinois’ head coach John Groce signals to his team during the game against Indiana at State Farm Center on Jan. 18.
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Senior forward primed to set Illinois scoring record BY JONATHAN JOFFE STAFF WRITER
The Illinois soccer team is coming off of two straight wins to open up the season in which it outscored its opponents 5-1. As the Illini (2-0) head into a weekend with two matches on tap — against TCU (0-2) on Friday and Saint Louis (2-0) on Sunday – their focus is on limiting their competitors offenses once again. “Defi nitely making sure our defense is ready to go, and making sure we can handle anything that is thrown at us,� junior goalkeeper Claire Wheatley said. Associate head coach Jeff Freeman pointed out that his resilient group has been successful due to their “grit� and determined nature. In order to keep up the defensive prowess, Freemen said his team needs to keep up its defensive intensity. “They’re willing to do whatever they can to deny and contest shots,� he said. “I think our athleticism and our willingness to do whatever it takes defensively to keep the opponent off the scoreboard has been the key to our success.� While the focus is on defense, all eyes are sure to be on redshirt senior Jannelle Flaws. Flaws has scored the second-most goals in the
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Illinois' Jannelle Flaws rises to head the ball during the game against Minnesota at Illinois Track and Soccer Stadium, on Oct. 12. The Illini lost 2-1 in overtime.
NCAA over the past two years with 42, and is three goals away from setting herself atop of Illinois’ career goals list, surpassing Tara Hurless’ 47. Flaws said she is very aware of times when she doesn’t capitalize on scoring chances, so her focus is on taking advantage when an opportunity comes her way. “I think if I get my chances, I should do it,� Flaws said, “I’m one of those players that, even if I have four goals after a game, I’ll know the two I missed.� Freeman attributes Flaws’ ability to score goals to countless hours spent practicing her craft while injured and not fit to play for the team during her freshman and redshirt-sophomore seasons. He said the two spent over a hundred hours together taking shots and working on precision with scoring opportunities. “There are players that have a knack for scoring goals, and she’s one of them,� Freeman said. “She’s earned the place that she’s in to be the Illinois all-time leading scorer.� If anyone appreciates Flaws’ scoring output, it’s Wheatley. The goalie admitted that it’s amazing to play with someone
Illinois vs. TCU
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When/Where: Sunday, 7 p.m., Illinois Soccer Stadium Hidden Stat: This is the first time in program history that the Illini will go up against TCU. Record Watch: Jannelle Flaws is three goals away from being first on Illinois’ all-time scoring list. as talented as Flaws is, saying that Flaws makes her better every day. Wheatley loves to bake, and promised to make a chocolate cake for Flaws when she does in fact break the scoring record. But Flaws says she doesn’t need any more motivation to break the record, and while she hopes to do it this weekend, she’d rather have her team pick up two more wins. “If my name is not on the score sheet, and we play good soccer, that’s fine with me.�
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Blackhawks success increases Illini hockey popularity BY ETHAN SWANSON STAFF WRITER
As the final horn of the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals sounded in the United Center June 15, the Chicago Blackhawks stood victorious on their home ice for the first time since 1938. With their recent trifecta of championships — the Blackhawks have won three of the last six Stanley Cups — questions of a potential dynasty have arisen, and while the Blackhawks are transforming Chicago into a hockey town, the in-state team’s winning ways are affecting how the sport is viewed on campus. “When a major sports team from a local wins a major
award, it brings attention to the game,� junior defenseman and Chicago-area native Austin Zima said. “When people can identify with a common interest, it creates a sense of unity. I believe that translates to us and the support we get from students.� According to Illinois student enrollment data, in 2013 the University had more than 10,000 students from Cook County — the county in which Chicago’s city limits are located — enrolled in undergraduate and graduate courses. DuPage, Lake and Will counties, which border Cook County to the west, north and south, respectively,
had over 7,800 enrolled students combined. These students bring their NHL ties to Champaign-Urbana with them. “Hockey’s one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. It’s everywhere, East coast to West coast,� head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “It’s a fast game, an exciting game and a highly skilled game: something people want to watch.� By the time classes resume in mid-August, sports fans have two major choices for a true spectator sport: football or hockey. However, the Illini’s success on the gridiron in recent years has been lack-
ing and the team’s mediocrity has been reflected in game attendance. At the Illini’s 2014 season opener, only 36,234 fans were recorded at 60,670-seat Memorial Stadium, which was the fourth-smallest turnout for a home opener among the nation’s power-five conferences. Only Duke (31,213), Vanderbilt (31,731) and Northwestern (34,228) had smaller crowds. The Illinois hockey team, on the other hand, has given fans something to cheer about in the past decade, winning the Division I American Collegiate Hockey Association national championship
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