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Construction of the University’s solar farm has been postponed, causing setbacks in the Illinois Climate Action Plan’s goals. The solar farm is a major component of the plan, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in November 2012 and set for construction this fall. It was originally supposed to contribute 2 percent of University energy by 2015. Morgan Johnston, sustainability coordinator for Facilities and Services, said that goal would no longer be met. The delay began when State Purchasing Officer Steve Rotello raised questions about the financial standing of Phoenix Solar, the contractor the University picked to build the farm. “The University explained that the solar market had gone through a decline, and Phoenix is well positioned to survive that decline,” Johnston said. “At this point now we’re already seeing improvements in their financial situation, but we still do need to address the potential risk.” The University is developing a risk management system for the project as a method of insurance in case anything did go wrong with the company, she added. With the risk management plan, Johnston is hopeful the solar farms will be approved by Rotello this year, and construction will begin in Spring. “This project will help us get to about 2 percent renewable electricity for the campus; the initial goal for the Climate Action Plan was 5 percent by 2015,” Johnston said. “We’re hopeful to at least have the 2 percent up and running by 2015 with the solar farm.”
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Jessica DeWitt, graduate student, left, and Katie Kinley, senior in Engineering, center, talk about the Student Sustainability Committee with Ka Ying Alice Ngu, sophomore in ACES, right, at the Sustainability Week kickoff at the Activities and Recreation Center on Monday.
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Organizations involved in sustainability initiatives lined the lobby of the Activities and Recreation Center on Monday with tables at the Sustainability Week kickoff event. “We have a lot of graduates across campus that are not aware of all our efforts,” said Morgan Johnston, sustainability coordinator for Facilities and Services. She said the week is an opportunity for students and faculty
to get involved in the sustainability movement. The Illinois Student Senate’s Environmental Sustainability subcommittee lined its “Tap That” table with small plastic cups marked “1” and “2.” The “1s” were fi lled with tap water and the “2s” were filled with bottled water. The group conducted a blind taste test to see if people could tell the difference and if so, which cup they preferred. Amy Liu, chair of the “Tap That” campaign and sophomore in Fine and Applied Arts, said the
campaign encouraged students to rely more on tap water rather than bottled water. “We’re trying to prove that tap water is just as high quality, at a lower price, and that it also tastes better, if not at least the same,” Liu said. The registered student organization Students for Environmental Concerns is holding its own type of taste-testing event for sustainability week — a bikepowered blender that will produce smoothies during Bike FixIt Day on Wednesday.
After 20-year abandonment, rail turns to trail BY ZILA RENFRO STAFF WRITER
An initiative to reconstruct an abandoned rail line into a recreational trail from eastern Urbana to Kickapoo State Park is fi nally seeing results after the Champaign County Forest Preserve District purchased a portion of the rail line in early October. In the mid-1990s, the Champaign County Design and Conservation Foundation began working on negotiations with Norfolk Southern Corp. to acquire the railroad and turn it into a recreational trail for the community, said Steve Rugg, executive director of the foundation. “(We) worked with the thenowner of the rail line ... right to the point where they were prepared to donate the property to us without cost,” he said. However, just when the Norfolk Southern Corp. was going to give the property to the foundation, the rail company went out of business. The new company, CSX Corp., initially didn’t consider the rail-to-trail project to be “very high on the priority
list,” Rugg said. Now, about 20 years later, CSX has fi nally agreed to sell part of the railroad for $600,000. The price is below the appraised value, an action Rugg called “philanthropic.” Several other organizations managed to keep the hope for a trail alive over the years. Not only has the foundation raised funds, but they have also leased the line under the National Trails Systems Act, which legally allows for the railroad to be used as a trail. Lisa Sprinkle, marketing coordinator for the Champaign County Forest Preserve District, said CCFPD also had an important impact on the project, as it has worked since 1994 to acquire the portion of the railroad that runs through Champaign County. However, the purchase made by the forest preserve district is only part of the future trail. The rest of the rail line runs through Vermilion County and will hopefully be purchased by the Vermilion County Conservation District by the end of the year, Rugg said.
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“There’s fresh fruit, and you’re basically just paying for the fruit and blend it yourself,” said Linda Qiu, secretary and junior in LAS. “The Bike Fix-It Day is promoting people to bike on campus instead of bringing down their cars. This is a benefit for people who do bike.” Stephanie Lage, assistant director for the Office of Sustainability, said she hoped students would join in with the banners, bikes and Zipcars the office will have in the Homecoming parade. The various aspects of sustain-
The abandoned rail turned into a trail is expected to be 24.5 miles and will expand from east Urbana to Kickapoo State Park in Oakwood, Ill.
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A set of new traffic signals in Urbana designed to benefit the visually impaired will be operational within the next couple of weeks at Race and Main streets, according to an Urbana official. The project will cost the City of Urbana approximately $250,000 for eight Accessible Pedestrian systems, said Bill Gray, director of Urbana Public Works. The Highway Safety Improvement Program funds 80 percent of the project, and the Motor Fuel Tax funds the other 20 percent. Gray said this is not the city’s fi rst set of signals designed to aid the visually impaired. The Accessible Pedestrian System is designed by Polara Engineering, Inc. to provide audible and vibrotactile information to pedestrians that have vision impairments, said Matthew Baker, national sales manager of Polara. “The push button vibrates throughout the walk interval so that the visually impaired individual can know they are able to walk,” said Gale Jamison, project manager and assistant city engineer for
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He said federal organizations have also been essential to the rail-to-trail project. The Illinois Department of Transportation has approved the project and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources will own the portion of the rail line that crosses the Vermilion River. State and federal funds have allowed work to begin on preliminary engineering and environmental impact analysis. Currently, the majority of the rail line is overgrown vegetation. But after construction, the trail will be a compressed
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crushed gravel bed suitable for bikers and hikers alike. Catherine Kemp, sophomore in ACES, is part of Illini 4000, a registered student organization that organizes an annual crosscountry bike ride to raise money for cancer. The group trains year-round to be able to bike an average of 70 miles per day. “One of our training rides was to Kickapoo,” she said. “I think it would definitely benefit people who may be a little more cautious about riding on the roads. ...
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Urbana. “There is an audible portion which basically gives information on which street crossing is available at that point in time.” Beyond vibrating during the walk interval, the button will also vibrate when pushed so the visually impaired person will know that his or her push was registered, and the audible tone will come on to let him or her know when it is okay to walk. “The most important message you get when you cross the street is when the walk signs are on,” Baker said. “For those that can’t see visual indications on the other sign across the street, they need a cue or assistance to know that it’s not safe to cross the street or that the walk indication is on at least.” The Accessible Pedestrian System has cues built into them to help these pedestrians. From 6 to 12 feet of the pole, they should hear a tone, such as a beep every 1.5 seconds, that directs them to the unit on the pole, Baker said. There, they will press and hold the button to hear the recordable message which will
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SIGNALS give the name of the street and the direction of travel. “ T he message says something like, ‘Wait to cross Broadway and Grant to travel northeast,’” Baker said. “This helps them know the right location.” He said there will be either a speech message or a rapid percussive tone that “sounds a little bit like a woodpecker or a very fast rat-a-tat-tat” on an easily recognizable frequency in agreement with the Americans with Disabilities Act. When the pedestrians enter the crosswalk, they will hear the signal’s tone emanating from the street’s other side, guiding them to the opposite curb. Jamison said in some cases, such as the system installed on Pennsylvania and Lincoln avenues, there is only the vibrating tone indictor, while the audible voice indicator is turned off. “The voice indicators at nighttime could disturb residents if they are too close, but generally downtown will have them turned on,” he said. Baker said cities in the Midwest are starting to implement the system to provide greater accessibility and information to all pedestrians. Ja mison said future installations will be made at the intersection of Broadway Avenue and Main Street, as well as the intersection of Florida Avenue and Philo Road, which will be installed next spring. “It’s our standard procedure to put them in,” Jamison said. “Every time we reinstall or upgrade our traffic signals, it is our policy to install them now.” Gray said Urbana recently adopted a “complete street policy,” which is a citywide policy to accommodate all modes of transportation, including vehicles, transit, bicycles and pedestrians. The city wants to ensure that all types of pedestrians are accounted for, including those that may have some disability. “We wanted our community, our city, to accommodate pedestr ia ns, bicycl ists, transits and vehicles,” Gray said.
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KICKAPOO You don’t have to worry about cars.” For those who are not as physically inclined, Rugg said, “Over time we expect to develop what we’re calling nodes ... little turnouts where folks might want to stop and rest.” The Champaign County Water and Soil Conservation District, for example, plans to create one of these nodes that will overlook a wetland restoration project in St. Joseph, a village along the trail. “It’s unusual, I think, for something that takes almost two decades to get done to have that kind of staying power,” Rugg said. “It’s really a terrific example of public and private interests coming together.”
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Students wait in line to get free pizza and juice on the Quad on Monday. The Illini Union Board put on the event in honor of Homecoming.
Fast-food industry wages too low for families BY ANDREW MUSUR STAFF WRITER
Fast-food employees are not paid enough to support a family, according to a recent study by an assistant professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations. In the study, author Emily Labarbera-Twarog explains that the median wage for fastfood employees is $8.94 an hour. Though that is higher than minimum wage in Illinois, Twarog said it’s still not enough for someone to live on. An employee who works 40 hours a week would earn a gross income of $18,595.20 annually. Champaign’s cost of living is $30,795, according to Find the Data. Shabria Carter, a Champaign
Burger King employee, said she has been working in the fast-food industry since she was 16 years old. She has worked at McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Burger King. “I’m just one of the employees who takes it the way it is, as long as I am not getting paid under minimum wage. You’re not going to pay me $7.25 when it’s $8.25,” she said. Twarog said it doesn’t seem fair that fast-food employees are so underpaid for the sizable amount of work that they do. Even Twarog started working in the food industry in high school and has held other positions since. Because of her experience in the fast-food industry, she doesn’t agree with the low wages. “Historically, companies have been able to get away with it,”
Twarog said. “The value of work is the value of work, and people should be paid as such.” Spencer Chikahisa, freshman in LAS, said he’s never had a hands-on experience in the industry, but some of his high school friends worked at fast-food restaurants during the summer. “It’s different when you’re a kid and you are working there. What, you get minimum wage and maybe free food? To most teenagers that sounds like a good deal, and it is,” he said. “But when you’re an adult and you are working as hard as you can to support a family, it is a lot different.” And that’s Twarog’s main problem with the fast-food industry. Without unions, she said, fast-food workers will never acquire the amount of money they would need
to support a family. But Twarog has a solution to that. “You could make a burger or happy meal cost 20 more cents and add that on to people’s salaries. Companies should pass the price on to the consumer, but companies think that it will somehow destroy the price balance, and people will never buy these burgers again,” she said. “In reality, most people would not even notice the price change — I know I wouldn’t.” Twarog said most employees think if they go talk to their managers about a pay raise, they will get turned down or fired, but that’s not always the case. She said employees are entitled to the Wagner Act of 1935, which made it illegal for employers to fire employees for banding together to demand workplace improvements.
“Employers don’t want people to know about this,” Twarog said. “Employees need to understand that they’re not the first people to want increased wages.” However, Twarog still has a love for the industry. “I miss the food service industry,” she said. “Whenever I have a doubt about my career, I have my restaurant plan ready to go on my computer — menu and everything.” Carter on the other hand feels a tad bit different about the fastfood industry. “It gets you by; it takes care of the bills for the time being, but keeping it as something forever? No. I won’t miss it at all.”
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Two dead, two injured after middle school shooting BY MATT PEARCE AND ARI BLOOMEKATZ LOS ANGELES TIMES
A middle school student in Sparks, Nev., shot and killed a school staffer and wounded two other students before apparently killing himself on campus, police said Monday. Further details about the shooting at Sparks Middle School shortly after 7 a.m. PST remained scant after a news conference late Monday morning, but witnesses described hearing shots on the playground before a student in khakis gunned down a teacher. A student who saw the shooting told the Reno Gazette-Journal that he and his friends were by
the school basketball court when they heard a loud pop, followed by screaming. “The teacher came to investigate,” eighth-grader Kyle Nucum, 13, told the Gazette. “I thought it was a firecracker at first, but the student was pointing a gun at the teacher after the teacher told him to put it down, and the student fired a shot at the teacher and the teacher fell and everybody ran away. “And we ran across the field to get somewhere safe and while we were running we heard about four or five more shots and we just got somewhere safe.” Andrew Thompson, a seventhgrade student at Sparks Middle School, said Monday on KOLO-
TV that the shooter, a student, “started getting mad and shoots one of my friends.” “He got shot in the shoulder,” Thompson said. Then, the shooter came near a teacher “and said ‘back up.’ The teacher backed up, and he pulled the trigger.” The teacher has not yet been formally identified, and nor has the student suspect. Police said that one of the two wounded students had been through surgery as of late Monday morning. Their current medical conditions could not immediately be confirmed with the Renown Regional Medical Center, where the two students were originally taken in critical condition. Police said about 20 to 30 stu-
dents witnessed the shooting and will be questioned. The school was swept for explosives, police said, and none was found. Parents were told to show identification when picking up their children at a nearby school. Dale Lundin, a site facilities coordinator at the school, told the Los Angeles Times that “it’s been a very scary morning.” “I was in the building, it was just going to be a few minutes before the entry bell rang, and then there was a lot of commotion going on out in the hallway,” Lundin said. “I stepped into the hallway, heard a couple of gun shots ... checked the hallway (to make sure there were no students) ... and stepped into my office and
closed the door. “It’s that same old story,” Lundin said. “You never really think that it’s going to happen at your place of work, or in this case, your school, when it does happen it kind of puts you in shock.” That sentiment was echoed by school, community and state officials as Sparks came to grips with a traumatic act of school violence that brought parents streaming to the school in hopes that their children were safe. “It’s been said that it’s a tragic day in the city of Sparks. Our hearts go out to all those affected,” Sparks Mayor Geno Martini told reporters. “The city itself is very safe, this is just an isolated incident.”
Syrian rebels, allies prepare for massive government offensive BY MITCHELL PROTHERO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
ARSAL, Lebanon — Syrian rebels and their Lebanese allies currently in command of a crucial corridor that links rebel havens in Lebanon with the embattled Syrian capital of Damascus are preparing for a massive government offensive aimed at bringing the strategic area back under government control. Rebels and activists in the Lebanese border town of Arsal say they expect the offensive to attempt to cut off sympathetic areas in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley from rebel-controlled villages just across the border in Syria. The enclave that has sprung up on both sides of the border near the Jebel Qalamoun mountain peak represents the largest rebel haven near Damascus, the ultimate goal of the insurgents. Its population is swollen by Syrian refugees and fighters who fled the government offensive earlier this year that retook the cities of Qusayr and Homs. Now tens of thousands of rebel fighters are preparing to make a final stand to keep Arsal from being cut off from the Syrian battlefield. “We will fight to the last man,” said Abu Omar Hujieri, a Lebanese activist and fighter who has ties to most of the rebel factions in the area. With Qusayr and Homs essentially back under the control of the government of President Bashar Assad, a government success in seizing the Jebel Qalamoun region would finish the rebel presence here.
Almost from the beginning of the anti-Assad uprising 30 months ago, Arsal has been a crucial logistics hub and haven for Syrian rebels, who found the mostly Sunni Muslim population, with its strong family and political ties to Syrian Muslims, ready to openly assist. “This is our war just like theirs,” Abu Omar explained of the Lebanese involvement. “They are our family, our neighbors and our friends. All the people of Arsal are with the rebellion.” With about 30,000 refugees joining the 40,000 people who already lived here, the two communities appear to be acting as one even as the rest of Lebanon struggles to absorb, politically and economically, more than a million refugees from both sides of the conflict. Signs of rebel sympathy abound, and the town has made housing available to tens of thousands in Arsal and the surrounding villages. The situation is alarming to Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim group that’s Lebanon’s most powerful political organization and a staunch ally of Assad’s. Hezbollah officials say the tens of thousands of rebel fighters in Arsal and on the Syrian side of the border nearby leave Lebanon vulnerable to terrorist attacks. A Hezbollah commander, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t allowed to discuss sensitive matters with a reporter, said dangerous traffic moved both ways across the border,
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Syrian refugees are living in concrete homes built adjacent to a mosque in the border town of Aarsal, Lebanon. Tens of thousands of refugees and rebel fighters in the border area anticipate the Syrian government to launch an offensive to sweep them from the region that links a refugee haven in Lebanon to Syria. not just from Arsal into Syria but also from rebel-held Syrian cities such as Yabrud into Lebanon. “The terrorists prepare boo-
by-trapped cars in Yabrud and then they enter Lebanon through the smuggler routes to Arsal,” the commander said. Hezbollah is expected to com-
mit scores of its fighting units to the battle in this area, and it’s been conducting reconnaissance missions on both sides of the border to plan an offen-
sive, an undertaking that’s complicated by the area’s rugged mountains, which sit barren of trees year-round but fill with heavy snow in the winter.
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Panda cam and paychecks: 6 returns from the shutdown
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$362,700 to reopen and manage the Rocky Mountain National Park for 10 days and $369,300 to reopen and manage the Statue of Liberty. Additionally, people were simply unable to enjoy the natural beauty of the parks, not to mention the Panda Cam. 3. Food safety: Now that the shutdown is over, the American public will be better informed about foodborne illness risks. During the shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were unable to investigate all but the highest risk outbreaks because many of the investigators were furloughed. If pandas were human, they could have contracted E. coli or something during the shutdown, but who would know, because the Panda Cam was off-air. 4. Research funding: Federal funding for universities and other organizations around the nation engaged in vital research has been restored. On our own campus, various agriculture-oriented research, such as the Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment, came to a complete halt during the shutdown because of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s inability to provide funding. Some professors were unable to conduct research due to a lack of funds while other projects were left in the hands of graduate students. And for those of you doing your own personal research on panda behavior, you couldn’t do that because the Panda Cam was down. 5. Environment: Vice President Joe Biden was so happy with Environmental Protection Agency workers flooding back into work, he welcomed them back with muffins. Why should you share Biden’s glee? You can rest assured that EPA employees are back on the job making sure the air you breathe and water you drink are clean. Hopefully the pandas were being hydrated with some clean water. 6. NASA: NASA employees are back at work with the shutdown over. Only three percent of NASA’s workers were allowed to work to ensure safety of human life and property. This meant all pending spacecraft and satellite launches were halted. Just like the broadcast of the Panda Cam. Panda Cam aside, the public should not take federal government functions for granted. As seen during the shutdown, there were many vital programs that were either put on hold or nearly halted (such as food stamps and federal courts) that affect many of our day-to-day lives. Government funding at preshutdown levels only runs through Jan. 15, 2014. In other words, this could happen again unless Congress makes it a priority over the next three months to resolve their differences and come up with long-term budgets that will ensure regular operations essential for national stability. We’re hoping Congress is able to have a peaceful bipartisan relationship so the Panda Cam doesn’t tragically get shut down with the government again. GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH HWANG THE DAILY ILLINI
Reacquainting yourself with a changing campus KIRSTEN KELLER Opinions columnist
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omecoming Week. Seeming to always land on a beautiful week in October when the leaves are turning colors and a fresh crispness falls over Champaign-Urbana, it is a perfect time for alumni to return to campus and get reacquainted with the place where they spent way too many hours studying and probably way too many more hours partying. However, when alumni return this year, they may see a campus that they are not familiar with. For better or for worse, here’s the lowdown on the new 217. 1. Alma Mater is still gone. Yes, there is still no one serving as protectorate over the University. While Alma was supposed to return last semester, she is still being repaired and is scheduled to return to campus before graduation in the spring — or so the seniors hope. 2. Ikenberry Commons is being transformed. Oh right, excuse my formal language — the “Six-Pack� is being transformed. Trying to find your beloved Garner or Forbes halls? Sorry, those have been obliterated in the past couple of years. They have been replaced with the stateof-the-art Nugent and Bousfield halls, which
put most off-campus apartments and houses to shame. Next on the list is the construction of “Residence Hall #3,� which will begin in Spring 2014. 3. What the heck is State Farm Center? Bigwig insurance company State Farm bought the naming rights to what was Assembly Hall last spring for $60 million for a 30-year deal. Pros? That’s a good chunk of cash that can go toward the renovations that will start at the arena in the spring. Cons? Hardly anyone is going to call it State Farm Center. #longliveAssemblyHall. 4. What is that massive structure in the horseshoe at Memorial Stadium? That, Illini fans, is the new video board. Measuring 36 feet tall by 96 feet wide, the screen is high-definition and the audio quality has greatly improved. It just goes to show that you don’t need to have a winning football team to have nice things. 5. Apricot Lane? Ragstock? What happened to Follett’s? Follett’s Bookstore, which hadn’t sold textbooks since 2010, closed its Champaign location in May. In its place currently are Apricot Lane, a boutique with cute yet pricey clothing, and Ragstock, a new- and used-clothing store. Be on the lookout for Panda Express later this year, which will occupy the rest of the vacant space in the building. 6. Green Street is becoming an apartmentbuilding haven. In addition to the already-existing Green
Street Towers and various other apartment buildings, a new apartment building is being built on the corner of Green and Sixth streets, where Gameday Spirit used to stand (don’t worry, Gameday still exists — it’s now located across the street at 519 E. Green). Eventually, another apartment building will be constructed at Green and Fourth streets, where the nowclosed IHOP stands. 7. No smoking on campus starting in January. Is that really going to work? I have the same question. As of Jan. 1, 2014, smoking will not be allowed anywhere on campus. This decision was made mainly to avoid the effects of secondhand smoke and to prevent tobacco-related litter. The information regarding how this policy will be enforced has not been released yet. 8. Wendy’s?! Finally, an outlet to get Frostys. Located north of Green Street on Sixth Street, this is a fast-food chain that offers cheap eats — something always appreciated on a college campus. But even if campus doesn’t feel exactly the same as when alumni went here, there are still some things that haven’t (and may never) change: Kam’s is still intact, the Morrow Plots are still a mystery and students are still as party savvy as they are book savvy. Welcome home, Illini.
Kirsten is a junior in Media. She can be reached at kekellr2@dailyillini.com.
Disney teaches us yet another lesson about life BAILEY BRYANT Opinions columnist
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a child, Woody and Buzz taught me about friendship, while Mulan and Hercules gave meaning to the word bravery. I learned about love from Belle and Ariel and a little about loss from Simba and Nala. And though my childhood is over, Disney is still teaching me lessons — most recently, about class and conduct. But this time, instead of an animated character, the hero is the corporation itself. On Oct. 11, “Escape from Tomorrow,� a horror film illegally shot in Walt Disney World, was released in select cities. The film is currently playing at the Art Theater Co-Op in Champaign. The movie, which originally premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, tells the tale of a father in the park slowly losing his mind. Among other terrors, princesses become prostitutes, and a deadly virus contaminates the park. As a multinational corporation that caters largely to children, Disney obviously didn’t give filmmaker Randy Moore permission to turn the happiest place on earth into the most hell-
ish. Nor did it give him the right to use Disney’s copyrighted images, fonts, music and other materials. But none of that stopped Moore and his crew, who spent weeks secretly filming with handheld cameras, from producing a film that The New York Times described as “muddled� and “amateurish.� Despite the numerous blatant violations of copyright, Disney, so far, has yet to sue Moore or comment on the film’s existence. And, in my opinion, that exudes class. Disney is showing the world that sometimes the best retaliation is none at all. If that lesson is unclear, let’s pretend the two players here are animated talking dogs in a children’s movie. Imagine Disney as a lovable St. Bernard. He isn’t perfect: Sometimes he slobbers too much and gnaws on your favorite loafers. But for the most part, he follows the rules. He sits, shakes and easily fulfills his duties as man’s best friend. Moore would be a little Chihuahua that bullies the other animals. He yips for attention and bites at ankles. He’s not a threat, just an annoyance. In this scenario, when the Chihuahua pees on the St. Bernard’s doggy bed, it probably bothers him, but he won’t react. As a result, he’ll be
looked at favorably for his mature behavior. The same goes for Moore and Disney. Though Moore is technically stealing Disney’s intellectual property, Disney’s lack of acknowledgement illustrates an obvious maturity. And it’s as simple as that: People act out for attention, and sometimes the classy thing to do is to simply ignore them. Moore said he has no issue with Disney, and his lawyers said they don’t want those involved with the film to be sued. To me, both claims seem questionable, considering the web site for “Escape from Tomorrow� features a running tally of “Number of Hours Since Release That We Haven’t Been Sued.� It’s obvious that “Escape from Tomorrow� is a bully’s plea for attention. And while, yes, the film has received some buzz, Disney’s silence has downplayed much of the would-be press surrounding the scandal. In this case, Moore is Ursula, Gaston, Scar and Sid. He’s Captain Hook and Jafar, a typical bad guy who poses problems for the protagonist. But hakuna matata, Disney. The next time I’m faced with an attention-seeking tormentor, I’ll follow your lead and conduct myself wordlessly with class — ultimately conquering my villain.
Bailey is a junior in Media. She can be reached at bebryan2@dailyillini.com.
Tea Party leads to problems in US governance MATT PASQUINI Opinions columnist
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he Republican Party was once a popular and successful party known as the defender of smaller government, individual liberties and free markets. Believe it or not, I liked the old Republican Party. Because of their willingness to compromise and work on behalf of the American people in conjunction with the Democrats, the United States of America accomplished great things. But due to the rise of the Tea Party movement, candidates for public office, on both the state and federal levels, have displayed stronger right wing ideologies that have showcased their unwillingness to cooperate with President Barack Obama and the Democrats. They stray away from what used to be core Republican values. For example, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed a bill into law that made it mandatory for a woman to have a transvaginal ultrasound before legally getting an abortion. And Senator Dick Lugar, R-IN, known for his willingness to reach across the aisle, was defeated in the 2010 Republican Primaries by Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock, the man who infamously said that rape is, “something God intended.� While establishment Republicans have been slowly showing progress on marriage equality — evident by support from U.S. Senators Rob Portman, R-OH, and Mark Kirk, R-IL, as well as President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney — members of the Tea Party seem content being on, what I consider, the wrong side of history by continuing their support for the “traditional family.� But that wasn’t always the case. After the 1952 elections, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected to be the 34th President of the United States. Along with the 83rd Congress, which held a slight Republican majority in both houses, the country experienced a relative amount of peace and domestic growth. Eisenhower, a Republican, expanded Social Security, worked on creating one of our country’s largest and most successful infrastructure projects, the interstate highway system, and refused to cut taxes until there was a balanced budget. Another Republican who worked with the other side of the aisle to pass effective legislation was Richard Nixon. Although his legacy is clouded by scandal, it’s important to remember his successes while in office. In 1972, he laid the groundwork in normalizing relations with the People’s Republic of China. He was an advocate for environmental concerns which can be seen by the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He also signed the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the National Environmental Policy Act, which both had goals to enhance the environment — all which was done with Democrats holding the House and the Senate. But since 2010, our country has been experiencing an unparalleled and unprecedented amount of dysfunction, mostly due to the shift in ideals seen in the Republican Party. It’s not like Democrats and Republicans working together is completely unheard of! The Tea Party movement was a strong factor to this change. It started as a political movement to reduce the government debt and deficit while reigning in government spending and lowering taxes but was later taken over by corporate interests. Political actions committees like Americans For Prosperity, FreedomWorks and Crossroads Grassroots Political Strategies started challenging moderate Republicans all across the country because they weren’t conservative enough. In this upcoming election, the Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, is facing strong opposition from Tea Party activists. McConnell helped craft the budget deal that opened the federal government and left Obamacare untouched. Since then, his opponent, Matt Bevin, received a major endorsement from the Senate Conservative Fund, a political action committee who works to get Tea Party-allied Republicans elected to the United States Senate. The recent influx of elected officials aligned with the Tea Party has created a dysfunctional government. A system that once thrived on the principle of two moderate ideologies working for a common cause has been reduced to a gridlocked system plagued by an extreme ideology who’s determined to prevent Obama and the Democrats from carrying out their legislative agenda. Instead of finding compromise, they have resorted to obstructionist ways. We have come to be a nation capable of governing only in moments of crisis, which can be seen by budget standoffs in 2011 and 2012 and most recently with the government shutdown and once looming debt ceiling crisis. The most recent GOP approval ratings from the American public plummeted 10 points from September to 28 percent in October. Unless Tea Party Republicans start working with moderate Republicans in finding common ground with the Democrats, there will be serious consequences. The United States is a country that has been drowned by a small but loud minority. I hope the GOP establishment can pull the party back closer to the center, because their fringe has been a poison to our political system.
Matt is a sophomore in LAS. He can be reached at mpasqui2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewPasquini.
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TURKEY BURGER Ingredients
1 lb of ground turkey 1 teaspoon of pepper 1 teaspoon of seasoned salt 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 green pepper and 1 red pepper, chopped
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2. Form ground turkey into patties. 3. Add seasonings onto patties. 4. Sprinkle chopped peppers onto patties. 5. Fry until the patties have an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit. 6. Serve on buns and enjoy! Recipe courtesy of Micquel Hart.
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One of this week’s featured recipes is a turkey burger on lettuce, cooked with red and green peppers.
When judging TV shows, take a look at who’s directing
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LOS ANGELES — It sounds as if I won’t be getting a dinner invitation from Alec Baldwin anytime soon. The hot-headed actor recently said that many TV critics don’t do their homework. If we did, we’d spend less time dissecting the actors and more time focusing on the role of the director. “The actors really don’t have as much power as you think they have,� he said. “But they’re often handed more of a piece of the bill when the thing gets skewered, if you will, than they deserve.� With Baldwin’s thoughts in mind, I decided to talk to TV directors about how they operate, especially when it comes to communicating with their actors. Here are some snippets from those conversations:
Casting counts A TV director’s most important job is helping to develop a pilot, the sample episode that will determine whether a network picks up a series. Directors weigh in on everything from the look of the show to the casting. Jason Winer, “The Crazy Ones,� “New Girl�: It was my idea to bring Eric Stonestreet back for “Modern Family,� but what happened after that was all Eric. He had a light bulb moment between the initial audition and the callback when he realized the character was his mother. One person that didn’t sail
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BEASLEY things,� Beasley said. Besides being an active member of his fraternity, in his spare time, Beasley volunteers at the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club, located 201 E. Park St. in Champaign. Charles Burton, one of the The Boys and Girls Club directors and also Beasley’s fraternity brother, put him in contact with a mother from the community who was looking for a young man to help mentor her son, Demarco. “That spoke to me because my father was there (for me), but he was not involved in my life,� Beasley said. “So, I saw the opportunity to help Demarco, and I took advantage of that.� Despite the fact that Beasley has been mentoring Demarco only since the beginning of the semester, he is on a continuous journey to establish and maintain a friendship. “I’m working on doing small activities with Demarco so that I can become a positive male presence in his life,� Beasley said. “I want to show him that I was a lot like him when I was growing up
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Actor Alec Baldwin attends an enlightened evening-themed benefit gala celebrating a new exhibition at the Sackler Gallery, “Yoga: The Art of Transformation,� in Washington, D.C., Thursday. through was Ty Burrell, who was turned down by ABC three times. What you don’t want to do is ram an actor down the network’s throat. They might eventually acquiesce, but ultimately they won’t be happy with the performance because they can’t take ownership. It’s a delicate dance coaxing approval. We did a screen test in (creator) Steve Levitan’s backyard. We showed it side-by-side with a screen test of another notable actor who satisfied ABC’s vision of the perfect dad. When you do that, it’s really undeniable when something’s funny and when it’s not. That’s how we won.
Know your actors’ talents Most directors are on the set for only about two weeks before handing the reins off to the next director for the ensuing episode. and (that) making it to college is a possibility.� As well as being involved in the community, Beasley has made an effort to be active on campus. As the Illini Union Board’s director of special events, Beasley said he wants to offer students fun activities and keep them updated on the latest groups that come to campus. Last year on Unofficial, Beasley and the rest of the board wanted to provide students with an activity that did not involve alcohol. They booked “Mission IMPROVable,� an all-male comedy Improv group. While Beasley said the event didn’t attract a huge audience, he was satisfied with the amount of students who did attend. Even if students chose to drink on Unofficial, Beasley said he helped to ensure they would be able to take a break from drinking and enjoy themselves at the Union. “We provided students with things like Gatorade and popcorn so that people could make sure that they were eating something,� Beasley said. “This way they were not just going out and heavily drinking and, the next thing they know, they are in the
That can make working with actors a little tricky. Patty Jenkins, “The Killing,� “Entourage�: It’s important to be dedicated to the actor and give them enough chances to be great. That may take eight takes, although that can be pushing it if you’re running out of time. Nelson McCormick, “ER,� “NYPD Blue�: Everyone wants someone to take charge, call the shots and move the company. No one wants that more than actors. They want a director that’s very clear on what they want. One time I was directing Anthony Edwards on “ER� in its eighth season, and I asked him to do another take. He said, “Why?� It’s the best thing that ever happened to me because it taught me that you better have an answer to that. Don’t say let’s go again just for the hell of it. hospital.� Beasley also assists the LIFT College Access Mentoring Program, an organization dedicated to helping underrepresented high school students in the Champaign-Urbana community. He helps Elissia Franklin, director of the program and junior in LAS, with administrative duties. According to Franklin, the purpose of LIFT is to address the life issues that affect the access of young adults to attend college. It aims to combine friendship, service and mentoring within the University and community. This program is a way to expand attendance and retention of African-Americans at a University level. Franklin said Beasley is a “true philanthropist,� one who is “always giving and does not only give when it comes to his fraternity.� “He tries to get others to be the greatest they can and live up to their potential,� she said. “He gives his time with no thought of wanting anything in return and it’s hard to find people like that.�
Teryn can be reached at tpayne2@dailyillini.com.
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Wearing a sweatshirt with the Greek letters “Alpha Phi Alpha� across his chest, Aaron Beasley proudly represents his fraternity — the first African-American, Intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity — in which he is the assistant executive director for the District of Illinois. But beneath these three letters, Beasley’s
friends and coworkers see a man of academic distinction, philanthropic dedication and humble spirit. Beasley is a member of the Tau chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha at the University and is heavily involved with his chapter at the national level. According to Olabode Oladeinde, member of Alpha Phi Alpha and junior in LAS, his critical thinking skills help “to ensure that our chapter implements laws and policies from the district of Illinois leadership for our fraternity.� Beasley, a junior in LAS, spearheaded the fraternity’s first “Iced-OWT� picnic, a social barbecue presented by Alpha Phi Alpha and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated, on Labor Day. This event was so successful that
it was added to their annual event list, Oladeinde said. “His work starts, but it does not end, on this campus,� Oladeinde said. “Aaron embodies what an Alpha man should be. Alpha prepares its members for life, and Aaron takes complete advantage of that.� According to the fraternity’s official website, the purpose of Alpha Phi Alpha is to promote brotherhood and academic excellence, while providing service and advocacy for its communities. “Being an Alpha is a privilege within itself. It is something that has to be earned. With these letters, I am able to do a great deal of
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Turkey dishes serve as an alternative to cooking with beef BY ARIANA CONNER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
When choosing what to eat, it may be difficult to sort out whether ground beef or ground turkey is the healthier choice. Although ground turkey may have the reputation of being a healthier option, both can have the same level of nutritional value, depending on a variety of factors, according to Kelsi Evans, health educator in Nutri-
tion at McKinley Health Center. Turkey is simply an alternative to beef, Evans said. The body can’t really tell the difference between the two, and there’s no significant difference as far as affecting the body. “Just because it’s ground turkey doesn’t mean it’s significantly that much healthier,� she said. “It’s probably a minimal amount, nothing too significant. But it varies,
depending on what the person has been using before.� As a dietician, Evans said that she uses both ground turkey and ground beef, depending on what she is making. Although she said turkey may have an advantage of over beef because it has less saturated fat, she noted that “there are good and bad things about protein or any food.� Micquel Hart, junior in LAS, said
she believes that ground turkey is a healthier option over ground beef, and has eaten turkey products for the past eight years because her mom cooks them at home. At school, Hart said she looks for lean turkey meat and cooks with it once or twice a week, but only eats ground beef once a month. “I think if it’s lean, it’s more healthier for us, so I have been eating turkey for while,� Hart said.
Whether it’s beef or turkey, Evans said that leaner is always better. “Usually just the amount of fat that’s attached to the meat and the skin, and possibly the part of the animal itself, will be the main contributors of fat and calories,� Evans said. “So if those are removed, generally it’s going to be leaner and lower in calories.� Evans said that when shopping,
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Defensive woes continue to hold back Illinois BY SEAN HAMMOND STAFF WRITER
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Bentley, Osei uncertain for Saturday
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Illinois head coach Tim Beckman and defensive coordinator Tim Banks react after conceding a touchdown during the game against No. 25 Wisconsin at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The Illini lost 56-32.
As if a young Illinois secondary needed to get any younger, sophomore defensive back V’Angelo Bentley left Saturday’s game against Wisconsin in the fi rst quarter with an undisclosed left leg injury. Bentley did not practice Sunday and has been wearing a walking boot. His status for this week’s game against Michigan State is uncertain. That means true freshmen Jaylen Dunlap and Dillan Cazley will have to step up at defensive back if Bentley can’t play. Wide receiver Miles Osei also did not return to the game after halftime, suffering a concussion at some point in the first half.
POINTCOUNTERPOINT Bears can’t keep relying on injuryprone Jay Cutler J.J. WILSON
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The Bears’ loss this Sunday hurt. Literally and figuratively. The team suffered numerous injuries, including Jay Cutler, who is out at least four weeks with a torn groin muscle. This injury could not have come at a worse time for him, as he is playing for a long-term contract. Despite the injury, general manager Phil Emery would be foolish to not retain Cutler beyond this year. Name me another free agent quarterback better than Cutler. The best college quarterbacks will all be drafted before the Bears pick. It actually shocks me to say that the defense, not offense, needs to be rebuilt through the draft. But that’s another story. Cutler arrived in Chicago in a 2009 trade. Fireworks went off. Shots were taken. Finally, the Bears had a franchise quarterback. Cutler came to the team just before 2009, one of their most disastrous seasons. In 2010, Cutler led the team to the NFC Championship against the Packers. Let’s not talk about that result. Things were going well in 2011. The Bears had just defeated the Chargers and were sitting at 7-3 when it was revealed Cutler broke his thumb. Out for the season. No playoffs. All through this, Cutler was playing behind the worst offensive line in football and with subpar talent at the skill positions. But he got the best out of his guys. Heck, Johnny Knox was a few yards short of 1,000 in 2010. Last year, the team fi nished 10-6 but still missed the playoffs. Lovie Smith was fired, Offensive minded Marc Trestmen was hired, more offensive talent was brought in and the offensive line was reworked. Notice a trend? Through six games this years, Cutler was on
In 63 games, Cutler is already second in Bears history in passing yards and passing touchdowns.
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I have always believed in Jay Cutler. I was excited the moment I heard we acquired him from the Denver Broncos in 2009, and each season I have believed him to be the quarterback who can lead the Chicago Bears to the radiant spotlight of postseason success. Yes, the Bears have struggled, but I never believed it was Cutler’s fault. It was the bad receivers, who were dropping passes and running routes wrong. It was the outdated, ineffective Mike Martz offense that led to numerous sacks. And it was the O-line — my god, was it the O-line. But since Cutler limped into the locker room during Sunday’s game against Washington, marking his fourth consecutive season with an injury, I’ve been having trouble keeping the faith. That’s not to say the injury is Cutler’s fault because it isn’t. To truly believe in a footba l l prog ra m , though, there has to be a strong constant. And although Bears fans will tell you Cutler is the best quarterback Chicago has seen in years, the most consistent thing about him is his ability to get injured. In the 12 games Cutler has either missed or left early with an injury, the Bears are 2-10 — and yes, I’m counting the NFC Championship loss to the Packers. It’s not like it’s a recurring injury, either. Over four years, it’s varied from a head injury to a broken thumb to concussion. The latest is a groin injury that is expected to keep him out for the next four weeks. For some reason, Cutler is brittle, and Bears fans are at a point where they can expect to lose their starting quarterback at least one game every season. The program is still building,
He is a pattern, he is a problem, and he is making it too hard for too many to believe in brighter days to come
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The nation’s best defense, in terms of yards surrendered per game, will make its way to Memorial Stadium this weekend. Michigan State has surrendered only 228 yards and only 13.6 points per game this season and is in the driver’s seat in the Legends Division. “They’re defense is good, there’s no question about it,� Beckman said. “They’ve got some good players. Their corners are very good coverage guys. Their linebackers have played a lot of football. You can see why they’ve been so successful for so many years on defense.� The Spartans defense will challenge an Illinois offense that has struggled recently and has particularly struggled early in games. “If you take the second and fourth quarters, we won,� Beckman said in yet another example of coach’s optimism. “But you don’t just take the second and fourth quarters. You’ve got to take four quarters. We’ve got to start fast for us to be successful.�
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He was taken out of the game after some of his teammates went to Beckman at halftime and said something wasn’t right with him. Beckman went to Osei and asked him if he was all right. Beckman said Osei “didn’t look right, and he wasn’t speaking all together.� Beckman said Osei was doing “good� Monday, but his status is uncertain for this Saturday’s Homecoming game. The injuries create uncertainty on special teams for Illinois. Bentley and Osei are the Illini’s primary kick and punt returners. Beckman said wide receiver Martize Barr and defensive backs Darius Mosely and Caleb Day will vie for punt return duties. Those three along with receiver Ryan Lankford could be handling kickoffs as well.
The Buckeyes just keep winning, although not as easily as they might have liked. Ohio State’s past three victories over Wisconsin, Northwestern and Iowa have all been by 10 points or fewer. The good news for the Buckeyes is that their schedule sets up very nicely to give them a very serious chance to make the BCS National Championship game. “The Game,� the yearly showdown against Michigan, poses the only strong threat to an undefeated season, as none of the Buckeyes four remaining opponents have a winning record in conference.
2. Wisconsin (2)
3. Nebraska (3)
Time to rewrite the record books. Devin Gardner and Jeremy Gallon wrote their way into school history in a shootout win over Indiana. Gallon had 369 yards receiving and Gardner had 584 total yards, and they needed all of them to outlast a feisty Hoosiers squad. The school-record 503 passing yards was especially important for Gardner who had been inconsistent through much of the year. The Wolverines will go as far as Gardner takes them, as they can be an elite team when he’s on his game but mediocre when he turns the ball over.
4. Michigan (4)
5. Michigan State (6)
6. Northwestern (5)
If nothing else, Indiana can light up the scoreboard. The Hoosiers dropped 47 points against Michigan in the Big House, although it wasn’t enough to stop the Wolverines’ record-setting offense in a 63-47 loss. Indiana is ninth in the country in passing yards and 11th overall in points per game, although its defense will need to get some stops to stay in games. Indiana has two weeks to prepare for Minnesota, which is considered a must-win if Indiana wants to make a bowl. Indiana needs three wins to be bowl eligible with trips to Madison and Columbus still on the schedule, so a loss against the Gophers could end Indiana’s bowl dreams.
7. Indiana (9)
8. Minnesota (11)
11. Illinois (8)
9. Iowa (10)
10. Penn State (7)
12. Purdue (12)
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McMahon helps win against home state Illini volleyball ends weekend with 3-1 win against Ohio State BY NICHOLAS FORTIN STAFF WRITER
Liz McMahon’s weekend was one to remember. A junior outside hitter, McMahon helped the Illinois volleyball team to a split on the weekend. In the loss on Friday against No. 2 Penn State,a school that recruited her out of high school, McMahon finished with 12 kills and three digs McMahon was even better in the win against No. 33 Ohio State the Big Ten school in her home state of Ohio, finishing with 18 kills and a .390 hitting percentage. McMahon, a Liberty Township, Ohio., native,said she thought her performance against the Buckeyes was because of a number of factors, including added excitement in playing against Ohio State. “It’s my home state. They’re familiar. It’s just fun,” McMahon said. “My brother and sister went there so now I have to go talk trash to them.” McMahon’s performance on the weekend wasn’t a fluke though, as she has had continued success against both Penn State and Ohio State throughout her career. In Illinois’ first game versus Penn State last year, McMahon had 17 kills, and in two games against Ohio State last year, McMahon finished with 23 and 20 kills, respectively. “I wish I could play (Ohio State) every weekend,” McMahon said when asked about how well she has played against the Buckeyes throughout her career. “It’s not hard to get up for this game mentally, and I liked the matchup I had hitting with their blockers. And then Lex (Alexis Viliunas) was
really good (Sunday) about setting who was hot. That just gave me more confidence and the cycle just continued.”
Birks continues to consistently preform for Illini Sophomore outside hitter Jocelynn Birks showed this weekend that she doesn’t need to be scoring to contribute to the Illinois volleyball team. Birks was able to help the Illini split the weekend against tough competition in Penn State and Ohio State by not only finishing with 27 kills, 24 digs and seven blocks in two games but also helping slow down the biggest offensive threats the Nittany Lions and Buckeyes brought. “Jocelynn had a really tough matchup because she had (Ariel) Scott against her, who’s a great blocker, and (Katie) Slay,”Illinois head coach Kevin Hambly said. “When you look at the numbers that people have against those two, they’re low. We gave her a tough matchup because we needed to slow down Scott, and I thought she did a great job.” Birks helped hold both Scott and Slay of Penn State to 12 kills each and proved to be a significant amount of trouble for Scott who only had nine kills going into the fifth set of the match. She also had a successful night of her own on offense, finishing with 13 kills and three blocks in the loss. In the second match of the weekend, Birks had another strong defensive showing, finishing with 14 kills and four blocks while helping the Illini beat the Buckeyes.
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Illinois’ outside hitter Liz McMahon spikes the ball during the match against Ohio State at Huff Hall on Sunday. The Illini won 3-1. McMahon has a history of performing well against Ohio, the Big Ten school in her home state.
“Workout a cure” event proves successful for Illini In honor of breast cancer awareness month, the Illinois volleyball team held its “Workout a Cure” event Sunday against Ohio State and by most accounts the results were successful.
The Illini wore pink jerseys that were auctioned off and raised $4,765.97 (before expenses) for the Mills Breast Cancer Institute in Urbana. “We’re all affected by someone who has cancer, so I think it’s great that we recognize this cause,” redshirt freshman mid-
dle blocker Maddie Mayers said. With 2,658 people in attendance, most of whom wearing pink in support of the cause, the Illini were able to pull out a four-set victory over Ohio State. “It’s really cool,” McMahon said of the event. “The person
who got my jersey, I just met him out there, took a picture with him. It was just cool to be able to be a part of something bigger than this.”
Nicholas can be reached at fortin2@dailyillini.com and @IlliniSportsGuy.
Illinois soccer’s inconsistent play persists BY LANRE ALABI STAFF WRITER
Illinois has struggled to remain consistent throughout the season, and the problem afflicted the team again this past week. In contrast to a dominant win Thursday night against Northwestern, Illinois fell 5-0 to Penn State on Sunday. The team practiced at the Irwin Indoor Facility last week to prepare for Northwestern’s turf field. Illinois went down early but powered back to win 3-1 behind a Janelle Flaws hat-trick. Under the gaze of the Big Ten Network on Sunday, the Illini were anything but comfortable. The Nittany Lions took an early lead with a pair of goals in the seventh and 13th minute and continued to threaten the Illinois goal throughout. “I think it’s natural to get frustrated when we concede early, but we’re
going to have to pick our heads back up for the rest of the Big Ten (season).” midfielder Meegan Johnston said. The difference in the outcomes this weekend was the team’s response. Against Northwestern, Illinois conceded the early goal but responded by tightening up at the back and pushing forward for an equalizer. The win was the first time this season the team earned a victory after conceding the first goal of the game. The team seemed to get down on itself after allowing the first goal at Penn State, as it has many times this season. Head coach Janet Rayfield suggested the team’s inexperience in that situation as an explanation and that in the future the underclassmen, who make up a large contingent of the team, would need to step up in those big games for the team to overcome them.
Defensive experimentation Due to injuries in the game against Iowa earlier this year, Rayfield had to draft players into different roles than those to which they were accustomed. In the six games since then, the defensive line has seen several tweaks in the quest to find the best shape. Midfielder Aliina Weykamp has been pulled from the midfield and back into the defense on occasion with defender Kassidy Brown going the other way. There has also been restructuring within the defense as center back Christina Farrell has spent some time at outside back. Thursday, the formation featured the Weykamp-Brown swap face of the defense, and although the Illini started conceding early, they held the Wildcats to that lone fifth minute goal. “This group has the right mix of things,” Rayfield said after Thursday’s game. “I think we’ve found a group that
is healthy, and we can go with and get some consistency and that is going to help.” With midfielder Nicole Breece out for Sunday’s game, the Illinois lined up in a 5-3-2 formation with Noelle Leary joining the back line and Weykamp back in the midfield. The level of familiarity with the new formation outweighed the extra player added to the back as they lost by a large margin.
Flaws record Coming into this year Flaws had only three goals in an injury-plagued collegiate career. She missed her first year in 2010 after tearing her ACL in her final high school game. She had a reoccurrence of the same injury in the 2012 season and missed the rest of that year as well. Flaws confirmed earlier this season that she would be petitioning for a sixth
year of NCAA eligibility because she was yet to accomplish some of the goals she set for herself coming into Illinois. “I’d love to leave having my name in the record books,” said Flaws after a fast start saw her score five goals in the first four games. She achieved that goal Thursday night as her hat-trick has her with an 18-goal tally this season, tied with Emily Brown’s school-record 1999 season. She attributed her success this year to a natural instinct for the goal and her teammates. “I’m just looking to get to the goal; it’s something I’ve done since I was four or five playing soccer,” she said after the game. “I have confidence making the runs I make because I have confidence that the people I’m playing with can connect those passes.”
Lanre can be reached at alabi2@ dailyillini.com and @WriterLanre.
More shots key to Illinois hockey’s success BY SEAN NEUMANN STAFF WRITER
Goals don’t come easily, but lately for the Illini hockey team they haven’t been coming at all. Illinois (6-5-1) is on a six-game losing streak after starting the season with six consecutive wins. The Illini’s hot start helped the team reach as high as fourth in the ACHA national rankings, but it has dropped in the rankings each week since and now sits at eighth. The team’s ranking is expected to drop even further following its two losses to No. 6 Robert Morris this weekend on home ice. The team’s last six losses came against some of the nation’s best teams, including No. 2 Arizona State, No. 5 Iowa State and No. 6 Robert Morris. Robert Morris is expected to climb into the ACHA’s top five after a hot 8-0-1 start. The Illini’s schedule isn’t getting easier, with 17 more games against ranked opponents left to play and two series against Indiana and Eastern Michigan, who have received votes to be ranked in the ACHA top-25 poll. Monday’s practice was focused on the team’s offense and goal scoring, but head coach Nick Fabbrini said Tuesday’s practice will be centered
around physicality in order to raise the players’ intensity. “At some point we kind of have to look at ourselves and decide that maybe we have a competitiveness issue,” Fabbrini said. “We’re going to see who really wants to be in the lineup and make a difference here.” Offensively, the Illini haven’t been producing anywhere near where Fabbrini had expected before the season began. The team scored just two goals in its last five games, getting shut out three times and outscored 25-2 by opponents. The Illini outshot their opponents during their six-game winning streak to open the season, but haven’t won when being outshot by other teams — only managing to get 14 shots on the net in Saturday’s 5-1 loss to No. 6 Robert Morris. While the team sets a goal to get at least 30 shots per game, it has barely been filling that quota during the sixgame losing streak, with its most shots (28) coming in a 4-3 overtime loss to No. 5 Iowa State. “We have get everything to the net and score some dirty, grimy goals,“ Fabbrini said. “When we’re struggling, we’ve got to really simplify things as much as possible and be hungry.”
Fabbrini said the Illini aim to allow their opponents no more than 20 shots per game, something the team has only done twice this season and hasn’t accomplished since its 4-3 overtime victory over Michigan State last month. Senior goalkeeper Nick Clarke said he prefers facing more shots per game to keep him awake and aware, but it becomes an issue when the shots are coming from opportune places in front of the net. “It’s a matter of quality shots,” Clarke said. “If there’s a lot of shots and they’re out on the perimeter, it’s not a problem. It’s the ones that are up close and point blank that are hard to stop.” Clarke, a second-team All American last season, is posting just an 87.06 percent save percentage over a 2-5-1 record, statistics that are hard to keep up when the team allows opponents 43 shots per game as they did in Saturday’s 5-1 loss to Robert Morris. But Clarke said he’s more worried about the team’s wins and losses, not what his personal stat sheet reflects. The senior pointed to blocked shots, big hits and physical play as things that the team can use to spark its performance on the ice.
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Illinois’ Mike Evans passes the puck during the game against Robert Morris at the Illinois Ice Arena on Friday. The Illini fell 5-1, sending them to 6-5-1 on the season. “Honestly, we could use anything right now to get us going,” Clarke said. “Maybe one of the guys could step up and score a goal, obviously. That would help out, too.”
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Bears’ Cutler, Briggs out multiple weeks with injuries BY DAN WIEDERER CHICAGO TRIBUNE
CHICAGO — The official diagnoses were announced just after noon Monday at Halas Hall. Quarterback Jay Cutler: muscle tear in his left groin, out a minimum of four weeks. Linebacker Lance Briggs: small fracture in his left shoulder, out at least six weeks. Even the most optimistic Bears fans had to take a knee and gasp for breath after that double dose of misfortune. Just like that, a season that once seemed to be sailing toward the playoffs after a 3-0 start had been hit by a torpedo. Two captains, two spark plugs, two playmakers were down. For a while. Sure, nine games remain for the Bears to desperately patch the holes and bail
the water. But they will go forward at least for the next month without Cutler, their franchise quarterback, the triggerman for an offense that has been growing more potent. They will march on without Briggs, a Pro Bowl playmaker and a linchpin leader. “It’s an uphill battle,” said Cutler’s replacement, Josh McCown. “You lose a leader like Jay, a leader like Lance, it’s a blow.” For those focused on the standings, after Sunday’s 45-41 loss to the Redskins, the Bears suddenly find themselves in third place in the NFC North _ based on their loss to the Lions. For realists taking an honest big-picture view of the Bears’ prospects, simply remaining relevant in the playoff picture beyond Thanksgiving will now be con-
sidered a significant accomplishment. Still, coach Marc Trestman insists his team has enough resolve to fuel a rescue effort while Cutler and Briggs are out. “The positive is that they’re not out for the season,” Trestman said. “They’re not done. They’re going to be back and this team has an obligation with the nextman-up philosophy of coming together.”
Tough times ahead No matter how much spin and positive energy Trestman and general manager Phil Emery attempted to inject into the crisis, the Bears know how difficult their climb just became. In the best-case scenario, if Cutler’s rehabilitation and recovery goes perfectly, he would return no sooner than Nov. 24 at St. Louis. That means he’ll miss two crucial division games
at Green Bay (Nov. 4) and versus the Lions at Soldier Field (Nov. 10) in addition to a Week 11 contest against the Ravens at Soldier Field. Briggs, in his best-case scenario, might be well enough to return Dec. 9 against the Cowboys. But at that point, who knows what his incentive will be to test the shoulder in game action? Where will the season be headed at that point with a defense already so decimated and dysfunctional? And what can the Bears realistically expect out of an offense led by McCown? Predictably, neither Trestman nor Emery showed any of the discouragement they may have felt Monday. “I said from the beginning, there would be dust on the highway to get where we want to go,” Emery said. “Our goal is to be in the playoffs, to be in the
championship hunt, to be in a position to win a Super Bowl. We’ve definitely got some dust on the car. We’ve got to clean it up. We’ve stepped in an oil patch or two. We’ve got to get that off our foot and move forward.”
Uncertain future In the middle of a contract year, Cutler may have added motivation to accelerate his recovery. And Trestman seemed to be lobbying for a speedy return Monday, noting that the medical literature he had been given by team doctors offered encouraging feedback on the type of muscle tear Cutler has. “It’s more medical talk than anything else,” Trestman said. “But the bottom line of it is there’s been enough references to say that this is something that Jay could come back with.
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Tennis players fall in regional semifinals BY J.J. WILSON ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
The reign is over. After winning the ITA Midwest Regional doubles title last year, the Illinois men’s tennis team was unable to advance past semifinals in both doubles and singles at this year’s competition. Unlike last year, junior Tim Kopinski was paired with fellow junior Ross Guignon as the No. 1 after experiencing success in the spring last season. His former partner, junior Farris Gosea, teamed up with sophomore
Alex Jesse to form the second unit of the Illini’s two doubles tandem and claim the No. 8 seed. New pairings were enough to send both Illini duos to the quarterfinals, but Notre Dame’s No. 4-seeded pair of Alex Lawson and Greg Andrews proved too much. Lawson and Andrews downed Jesse and Gosea 8-5 in the quarterfinals before overcoming Kopinski and Guignon in a semifinal tiebreaker at 8-7 (5). “It was just tough competition,� Guignon said. “We played all right. We just didn’t capitalize. But it’s good to learn from
these types of matches moving forward.� Although Illinois’ singles game sent two into the semifinals last year, 10-seeded Gosea was the only one to make it that far after defeating No. 3-seeded teammate Kopinski in the quarterfinals 6-2, 6-1. Up against the top-seeded Peter Kobelt of Ohio State, though, Gosea suffered straight-set losses at 6-1, 6-4 to end the Illini’s run. Before regionals, head coach Brad Dancer said he felt his team was capable of winning both ends of regionals, which
gled against the tougher tier of players like Kobelt. “Farris has the skills to do everything on the tennis court,� Asse said. “He just needs to put his mind in it. “He’s just seeing what works and what doesn’t, and what works against weaker teams isn’t always going to work all the time against stronger teams.� The ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships will punctuate the fall season for the Illini; although, it is uncertain whether Gosea will receive a bid for the tournament after
amplified the disappointment associate head coach Marcos Asse expressed following the Illini’s exit. “I think we play any tournament going in to win,� Asse said. “We were disappointed, especially in doubles. We got a little unlucky, and you’re only unlucky if you combine that with full execution. We can pretty much get past any bad luck with good execution.� Asse, who accompanied the Illini in place of Dancer, said Gosea beat all the players he should have beaten but strug-
this weekend’s finish. Illinois has qualified Kopinski and Guignon as a doubles pair and sophomore Jared Hiltzik in singles. “It’s a big tournament, it’s a big deal and it’s a lot of fun, but ultimately, it’s a stepping stone for the spring season and toward our ultimate goal of becoming elite tennis players,� Guignon said. “For right now, we’re really just trying to better ourselves.�
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Despite loss, Illini volleyball proud of accomplishments
Two pennants later, Leyland steps down
eral years. I think he has a lot of respect for what we’re trying to do. ID: The atmosphere in that game compared to some of the year’s past, is it still the same? How was it? AS: I would say the atmosphere against Penn State’s always a pretty intense one. It was awesome. Everyone was dressed up in the Halloween costumes, which was a lot of fun. But Penn State is a rivalry regardless of whether or not they’re our rivals. We always want to beat them, so it’s always intense, definitely, I’d say. KH: It was a good crowd, but it wasn’t our best crowd, to be honest. I think probably in 2010 when we had a chance to beat them and we hadn’t beat them, that crowd was electric. You walked in, you could feel it, you could feel it on your skin; you knew something special was going to happen that night. But it was a great crowd. That was something special, this was really good. If we were winning more, of course it would be better, and that’s on us to win a little bit more and bring the fans in from all across this region. ID: For the breast cancer match on Sunday, with the proceeds and everything, did you guys get a good turnout for that? KH: We made $5,000, which is great. It’s been growing every year. I think one of the coolest things was that the girls read off all the names of the people that they were representing that had breast cancer, and they had that on their jersey. AS: It’s such an honor for us to represent the names we have on our backs and just the additional incentive to play for the person that you’re wearing and obviously just playing the match in general. But it was an honor to play.
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Editor’s note: The following is a partial transcript from an Illini Drive interview with Illinois volleyball head coach Kevin Hambly and sophomore Ali Stark.
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Jim Leyland announced his decision to step down as manager of the Detroit Tigers on Monday in Detroit. “When it’s time, it’s time—and it’s time,� Leyland said during a news conference. In eight seasons as manager, Leyland helped the Tigers win three straight division titles and two American League pennants.
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Illini Drive: You played some volleyball this weekend, started off Friday night against Penn State and went to a five-set match. I’m wondering what your thoughts are on that match. Did you feel good that you battled? Obviously you were disappointed. Ali Stark: It was a disappointing finish, but I think that it’s the best volleyball that we’ve played so far this season. As disappointing as it was to not take away a victory, I still feel like we accomplished a lot of what we wanted to accomplish. And it feels good to know that we’re moving in an upward path. Kevin Hambly: I agree, if we played the way we did in a match against the other team, we beat them. Things have been moving in a great direction, and it’s hard to realize that because we split on the weekend and split on the weekend before; but we’re getting better and better, and I agree with Ali, it’s the best we’ve played. For spurts of time there, it’s the best volleyball with this team this year. I think it gave us a little bit of confidence. We knew what it felt like to play like that. We got into the Ohio State game, and it was a little bit of a hangover, but we got back to that level pretty quick. ID: What did you think of Russ Rose figuratively tipping his hat to the Spike Squad? KH: Russ has a great respect for the game and a great respect for the people that care about volleyball and the crowd, and I’m not surprised. He enjoys coming here. It’s always a battle. We’ve had some great matches with them over the last sev-
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PRADO pace for more than 4,000 passing yards and 25 touchdowns. In 63 games with the Bears, Cutler is already second in Bears history in passing yards and passing touchdowns. Here is some more pathetic Bears quarterback history: Cade McNown, Shane Matthews, Jim Miller, Chris Chandler, Henry Burris, Kordell Stewart, Rex Grossman, Jonathan Quinn, Craig Krenzel, Chad Hutchinson, Kyle Orton and Brien Griese. These fi ne gentlemen have
thrown passes in a Bears uniform since 2000. Remind me which ones had memorable NFL careers. Yet after every loss or interception, why do I see social media clamoring for Cutler to be benched, or after Monday, not resigned? He is the best quarterback the Bears have had. Ever. Is everyone so quick to forget the tight throws Cutler makes that wow fans across the league? This guy is a leader and has the respect of the locker room. More importantly, the offense is in “win-now” mode. A new quarterback will have to learn the system and go through growing pains.
Take a year off Brandon Marshall, Matt Forte and Martellus Bennett. Cutler does not have the gaudy statistics the elite quarterbacks do, nor the signature playoff wins. But they’re coming. Don’t bail now, Emery and fans. Bears fans have suffered too long watching subpar quarterback play. When the team finally has the strong armed quarterback, everyone wants him gone. Just remember how you felt about Cutler when he hoists the Lombardi.
Erik is a senior in Media. He can be reached eprado3@ dailyillini.com.
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WILSON adding new pieces, such as Brandon Marshall and Marc Trestman to help transform its team from a townhouse to a fortress. Renovation and expansion aren’t easy when the same pesky support column is in constant need of repair, though. Chicago is as the old saying goes: one step forward, two steps back. Bears fans rejoice in the offseason about some new addition or productivity, and they fi nd hope for the upcoming season. Things connect at fi rst, and then
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down goes Cutler. Now instead of moving forward, the focus is split between the health of our starter and training the backup. As Bears fans, wouldn’t it be nice to only have to worry about working a new, developing passer into the system instead of facing the dismal chaos following yet another Cutler injury? Don’t misinterpret this as a pitch for Josh McCown as starter. He had a nice game fi lling in for Cutler against the Redskins, but I don’t think he’s the answer, either. I’m also fully aware that 45 points allowed on defense is entirely unacceptable. But poor defense is rarity to this squad,
and the talent is there to correct it before it gets out of hand. Cutler is a different story, though. He is a pattern, he is a problem, and he is making it too hard for too many to believe in brighter days to come. Fans can’t keep clinging to the ’85 season for hope. It’s time for change, and it starts with believing the Bears can win without Cutler. The days of “Cutler Down” need to end. Let’s get back to Bear Down.
J.J. is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached jjwilso2@ dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @Wilsonable07.
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