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Activist challenges gender binary BY CHARLOTTE COLLINS ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
Stephanie Skora speaks at a rally for the non-tenure faculty coalition on the Main Quad.
Stephanie Skora’s hair has been a point of issue for her. She didn’t want a short cut for fear of projecting the traditional male image, consistent with the gender she was assigned at birth, but something about growing the long tresses stereotypically expected of women didn’t fit her quite right either. “I wanted nice, long luxurious hair, I wanted a cute little braid,” said Skora. “And then I realized, why am I trying to conform to what people tell me femininity has to be? I’m going to make my own femininity.” Skora had gone from feeling trapped at home by her mother’s rules for how to keep her hair to feeling constrained at college by traditional notions of femininity. She had simultaneously grappled with what hairstyle and general look she thought would be fitting for her gender identity and what exactly that gender identity was. Now a student activist in her final year at the University, Skora comfortably identifies outside of the gender binary. As a freshman, she learned surgery wasn’t a required step for her to iden-
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tify as a gender other than the one she was assigned at birth, and for several years identified as a trans female. She said her gender and women’s studies major has led her down a path of self-discovery. “I started to question my own gender more,” Skora said. “I started to look at myself and think about who I was and how I identified, and I decided that ‘woman’ didn’t quite fit me anymore; ‘woman’ fit me like a size 10 shoe on a size 11 foot, and so I identified from that point on, and I still do, as a genderqueer woman.” Genderqueer-ness is an umbrella term for people who do not fit within the gender binary. While much of the western world recognizes male and female as the only genders, there are a variety of cultures throughout human existence that recognize many other genders. Sulawesi Indonesian natives called the Bugis recognized four different genders, while indigenous Siberian Chukchi people recognized seven genders outside of the binary. Even in North America, prior to the influence of European settlers, native tribes of the Great Plains were among
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Refugees to be refused Syrian refugees denied entrance BY ALI BRABOY AND CHARLOTTE COLLINS STAFF WRITER AND ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Despite Gov. Bruce Rauner’s announcement to temporarily suspend Illinois accepting new Syrian refugees, there are many people within Illinois who believe more refugees should be accepted into America and at a faster rate. R au ner ’s Mond ay announcement was made in regards to the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks, according to a press release from the Governor’s office. The Islamic State has claimed credit for causing the Paris attacks, and various news organizations are reporting that more than 120 were killed from the terror attacks. Illinois is now one of several states that is not taking in Syrian refugees. Texas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Arkansas will not accept refugees either. On Sept. 16 — two months before Rauner’s announcement — in a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced the U.S. should be prepared to accept 100,000 Syrian refugees, far outpacing the number the administration stated it would accept. According to the Department of State, Illinois has accepted around 131 Syrian refugees this year. Syria’s civil war has led to many Syrians fleeing the country, and as of Nov. 3, there were 4,287,293 registered Syrian refugees, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. To be resettled into the U.S., one must be residing
prove they are not a threat to the U.S. Many refugees also face a culture shock, she said. Some of these refugees might not have had jobs in years, and refugee children might have not been in school for years either. Hlavna believes many are traumatized, and she said most are grateful to be able to get on with their lives. “They’re not a threat,” Hlavna said. Ben Marter, communications director for Durbin, said the senator is asking for a higher acceptance rate of refugees to be accepted in the U.S. and be able to be accepted at a faster rate. He
outside of their country because of persecution or a well-founded fear, according to the U.S. embassy’s website. The applicant must be able to prove they aren’t firmly resettled in another country. Deborah Hlavna, co-director of East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center in Urbana, said refugees face many challenges after being resettled. Most, she said, do not come over with more than a suitcase, and sometimes they come with just the clothes they’re wearing. She said the process to be accepted for resettlement in the U.S. takes quite a long time, and those refugees jump through hoops to
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Cities in Illinois that have accepted Syrian refugees in 2015
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The University has reduced lobby spending in recent years BY SAMANTHA JONES TOAL STAFF WRITER
Higher education had the third-highest number of lobbyists among industries in 2014, according to a recent study from the Center for Responsive Politics. Higher education lobbyists came in third, following technology and drug manufacturing. Universities and colleges all across the country have representatives to push for the causes involving higher education, and Illinois is no exception. The University spent $280,000 in total lobbying expenditures in 2015, which is significantly
States that will not accept refugees as of Monday
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less than what the University has spent in previous years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The University reached its peak in lobbying expenses in 2012 when it spent $510,000. Since 2012, lobby expenditures have reduced each year. Part of this money is spent on lobbying representatives, who relate various issues the University is facing to Capitol Hill. Lobbying is conducted at the local, state and national levels. And, despite the high number of paid university lobbyists, students still lobby for causes on their own. This year, Mitch Dickey, Illinois Student Senate president, has been lobbying representatives to renew the Monetary Award Program grant. Last week,
UI Lobbying expenses Colleges and universities employ more lobbyists in Washington than any industry other than drug manufacturing and technology. The University of Illinois’ total lobbying expenditures are: $280,000 -2015 $400,000 - 2014 $420,000 - 2013 Nationally, higher education employs the third most amount of lobbyists among industries in 2014: Health Products - 1,430 Electronics - 1,090 Higher Education - 1,020 SOURCE: THE CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS
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Researchers develop app to help combat bullying BY LILLY MASHAYEK STAFF WRITER
Researchers are now looking to apps as a means to develop safer environments within high school communities. Project Student Opportunities for After-School
Resources, SOAR, will be looking at ways to improve schools’ learning environments in the coming years due to a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Justice to IRIS Educational Media, an Oregon-based behavioral research and
development firm. “The project is focused on the development and testing of a comprehensive school safety framework,” said Claudia Vincent, research associate at IRIS Educational Media. The app, available to stu-
dents, teachers and parents, will have several features including resources for the school community on restorative problem solving, a school climate survey, and a place to report issues that arise within the schools, Vincent said.
“It would be an application where they don’t necessarily have to go to the school office,” said Dorothy Espelage, co-principal investigator of the project and professor in education psychology. “We do see that youth in high school have agency, and they
do see what’s going on.” While the app is primarily focused on high school students, Brion Marquez, research associate at IRIS Educational Media, said that having a safe way for college
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Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson released a statement Monday in response to the vigil held by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and a number of other student organizations on the Main Quad on Thursday. The vigil was held to discuss racism and discrimination present at the University. Students shared stories, in the form of student-written narratives and poetry, that described their experiences. “Universities like ours must be places where all are respected, where everyone believes their voice will be heard and where views may be freely and safely expressed and debated,“ Wilson said in the release. “Our students are courageous in calling attention to the challenges we face in making this a campus that is truly welcoming to all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background.” The vigil took place just a week after protests at the University of Missouri in Columbia heated up, when students camped out on the Missouri campus to protest racial discrimination. The student group Concerned Student 1950 called for Missouri system president Tim Wolfe’s resignation, following his failure to address issues of dis-
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Changes possible for tenure review system BY CHRISTIN WATKINS STAFF WRITER
The academic senate discussed a new system for reviewing tenured faculty appointments at its meeting Monday evening. The Committee on University Statutes and Senate Procedures recommended that the Board of Trustees delegate its responsibility of reviewing tenured faculty appointments to the president, who will then delegate this responsibility to the chancellor and provost. This proposed revision is aimed to improve the efficiency of appointments made “and thereby maintain the University’s competitiveness in attracting the best faculty to the University,” the proposal stated. “This amendment to the statute gives the Trustees the direction of doing that delegation,” said William Maher, professor of library administration and chair of University Statutes and Senate Procedures committee. Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson acknowledged
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SKORA many peoples to interpret gender on a spectrum rather than as a binary. Some would argue, Skora included, that gender binarism is inveterate in the modern western world; the first thing mentioned upon welcoming a baby into the world is often a declaration of the sex of the newborn. Job titles, like waiter or waitress, and fill-in-the-blank boxes with “male” or “female” as the only options can be seen as reinforcements of the blackand-white nature of gender binarism. Specific pronouns pertaining to gender suggest that it is ingrained into the English language, while many languages worldwide, including Estonian, Yoruba and Finnish, do not define gender with pronouns and instead refer to people in
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DURBIN said Durbin would like to increase the total number of refugees screened for possible acceptance of resettlement in the U.S. Marter said those who oppose accepting refugees think it would lead to opening the doors open to terrorists. Scott Constantine, sophomore in LAS, has done geographic analysis on the numbers of Syrians who have been internally displaced within Syria. He found that many Syrians over time have left areas where the Islamic State
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BULLYING students to voice their concerns is important as well. “Look at what’s going on in (Mizzou), people don’t feel safe,” Marquez said. “There’s no form for them to express this lack of safety, so this could be adapted to colleges.” Vincent said that threats and bullying within schools was one of the reasons that the application has a feature for students to report any issues that they see around the school. “Bullying is one of the primary areas of concern for many students,” Vincent said. “It’s a very sensitive issue and one that’s of great
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Killeen to hold office hours P resident Timothy Killeen will be holding “office hours” to open discourse with students, according to a massmail sent Monday morning by Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson. Wilson said the initiative is part of a plan to “help set goals for our system for the next five years.” Killeen will hold the office hours at all three University campuses in Illinois. Additionally, he will be holding town halls as a part of the effort to connect with campus communities. The fi rst town hall meet-
the potential need for policy revision to improve this process at the meeting. “I actually think there are several different paths going forward,” Wilson said. “I think the Board wants to have this conversation. I think they understand these issues.” Douglas McDonald, chemistry professor, said the issues could create conflicts of interest. “One of the problems was meddling by the Board among University administrators, particularly the chancellor,” he said. A proposal to move forward with Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) budget cuts was also discussed at the meeting. The current CAS budget is over $1 million — $422,000 accounts for faculty support, $374,000 for the salaries of five faculty members and $227,000 for other administrative and event expenses said Peter Schiffer, vice chancellor for research. The proposed cuts aim to reduce administrative costs
while maintaining the integrity and reach of the programs provided by CAS. “There are some efficiencies to be gained,” Schiffer said. These cuts would reduce the number staff members and delegate those responsibilities to the salaried
faculty. “If you cut staff, you cut capacity,” said Susan Davis, communications professor. “If you cut capacity, you’re cutting quality. It is just not possible to argue any other way.”
gender-neutral terms. Hints of non-binary gender-inclusion are beginning to surface in the U.S.: boxes for “other” are popping up on forms where previously only “male” and “female” existed as options, and the introduction of gender neutral and inclusive pronouns such as “ze” and “hir” are changing the nature of the English language and how people are referred to. The national prominence of Caitlyn Jenner for some might suggest a movement toward general public tolerance and celebration of trans people. However, violence against queer and trans people in the United States would suggest that the notion is not accepted nationwide. A 2011 study reported that 78 percent of transgender and gender expansive students grades K-12 experienced harassment, 35 percent experienced physical
assault and the dropout rate was nearly one-sixth. 2014 saw an 11 percent increase in anti-LGBT homicides, most of whom were people of color. Skora keeps a death count. She said she’s not alone in her accounting of death across the queer and trans community. The numbers for death by violence differ across the board because some people aren’t identified as trans or gender expansive upon their deaths and thus are not included into studies meant to take their deaths specifically into account. “(Trans/gender expansive) deaths are completely made invisible because we are assigned a death narrative by the state and we actually make up a massive part of the trans community,” said Skora. “Everyone has their own count because everybody knows someone who’s died or everybody knows someone who’s lost someone
every year.” She also notes suicides should be factored in when measuring trans and queer death where they often are not addressed in studies. In total, Skora estimates she’s participated in approximately 50 organized protests in her time at the University. “If you’re looking at a protest as you go outside and you chant and you hold a sign and you say ‘roar roar,’ that’s a very specific definition,” said Skora. “But another way to look at a protest is when you are taking direct action to disrupt the actions of a being or an entity or multiple people who have power and trying to shape or alter their actions in a way where it can provide more access or more power or more resources to people who are being ignored. And I do that every day.”
inhabits, and many of those who have been internally displaced, went to the borders of Syria. Constantine is in favor of the U.S. accepting these refugees. He said if he were in the situation these refugees are in, he “would want somewhere to turn.” Rauner announced Monday in a statement that the state of Illinois will not be admitting Syrian refugees in the aftermath of the Paris attacks Friday. The attacks were made by Belgian and French nationals affiliated with ISIS.
Rauner was among several other governors, such as Massachusetts Gov. Jim Baker and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who issued statements declaring Syrian refugees will be barred entry from the states. “We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security or our citizens,” Rauner said in the statement. “The state of Illinois will temporarily suspend accepting new Syrian refugees and consider all of our legal options pending a full review of our country’s acceptance and security processes by the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security.” Federal law gives the governor responsibility for administering and supervising the refugee resettlement programs in their states, said Catherine Kelly, press secretary for the governor’s office. Kelly said the governor “has simply taken the responsible and prudent step of suspending the resettlement of Syrian refugees pending this ongoing review of our participation in the refugee resettlement program.” According to the Department of State, Illinois has taken in a total of 169 refugees from Syria from 2010-2015.
concern.” Espelage said that the application may include a tip line that could allow kids to anonymously report issues, such as bullying, in their school. However, students are encouraged to not report anonymously. “It would be confidential, but students are encouraged to participate in the problem- solving process,” Marquez said. “Bullying is a relational behavior, so it makes sense to resolve it through relational processes.” Project SOAR advocates for restorative problem solving techniques, meaning students who misbehave are not simply punished but are asked to participate in problem- solving techniques as opposed to punitive tech-
niques such as expulsion or suspension. Vincent said that this allows for the school community to receive better support to solve the issues. “The app will produce a bunch of data, and this data can be used by school staff to interpret what is going on in the school,” Vincent said. “Based on the data patterns they can engage in problem solving.” The five-year project will start on Jan. 1, 2016 and will focus on high school students in a school district in Oregon and another school district in central Illinois. “(Project SOAR is) committed to staying in central Illinois,” said Espelage. “We will do some real in-depth focus work first couple of years.”
The project will largely be a collaboration amongst everyone in the school community. “We’re going to establish strong relationships with students, parents and teachers that are sustainable,” Espelage said. “The end product will have everybody’s hands on that product.” As far as why the project is focusing primarily on high school students, Espelage said that there is a need in the high schools. “Less programming is available for high schools, and the programming is not working,” she said. “Every student wants to go into a safe school.”
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2016 Commencement ceremony will be held at Memorial Stadium The University’s 2016 commencement ceremony will not be held in State Farm Center, as it won’t be renovated until the end of the spring 2016 semester. Memorial Stadium is the only location large enough for the campuswide commencement. At the Academic Senate meeting on Monday, the Committee on Commencement recommended the University hold a single campus-wide ceremony on Saturday, instead of holding two ceremonies on Sunday. Commencement has been held this way for the past two years. Bettina Francis, a chair on the Senate Committee on Educational Policy, said the Commencement Committee has had to ask to change the ceremony on a year-to-year basis. “What we’re really doing here is asking for the third year since the State Farm Center won’t be ready in May,” Francis said. “We’re asking for a third temporary year.” The agenda states holding the ceremony on Sunday in the past has meant students and guests must stay an extra day on campus. As a result, many students and families would only attend their unit ceremonies and did not stay on campus for Commencement. Additionally, Mother’s Day falls on May 8, 2016 and often coincides with Commencement.
The proposal specifically takes note of an instance in which a Commencement Speaker, Cokie Roberts, did not speak at the afternoon Commencement because she wished to spend the day with her elderly mother. The Committee on Commencement believes more students, and possibly faculty attend the event if the ceremony is moved to Saturday. If the proposal is passed, this would change the date of Commencement from May 15, 2016, to May 14, 2016. Because the Commencement can’t take place in the State Farm Center, weather could potentially affect the event. Laura Wilhelm-Barr, Director of Special Events, said the University has an inclement weather program in place for events such as Commencement. She said if it is light rain the ceremony will continue, but if it is dangerous weather, the ceremony will be canceled. If passed, the new Commencement date may impact the unit convocations; the unit convocations may then need to be rescheduled and moved to a different location. Some unit convocations have also been located at the State Farm Center in the past; these convocations will have to be moved regardless of whether the Commencement date is changed.
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students may potentially have to drop out of school without those funds. “Higher education is a core function of our state government,” he said. “Not only in the entirety of how our economy in the state works, but also for the betterment of the people that come here.” Laura Reimers, senior in LAS, assisted Dickey with the planning of the student lobby day on Oct. 20. “No one’s going to do it for us,” she said. “Typically, students aren’t always paying attention to what happens in Springfield but when they do show up in such high numbers, that makes a huge statement to legislators.” She said the day was a “free-for-all.” Three hundred students participated and found their legislators and pulled them off the floor to specifically talk about the importance of education and MAP grant funding. “Most legislators, even if they disagree with us, are open to listening,” Reimers said. “I’ve had legislators that told me it was very memorable that there were so many students there.”
LOBBYING administrators announced that due to state budget constraints, MAP grants may not receive funding. If the program is not funded, students would be required to pay these grants back. Dickey said 130,000 students in the state of Illinois have the MAP grant. There are 5,667 MAP grant recipients enrolled at the University. “Legislators have not been able to brush off that MAP and higher education funding,” he said. “The reason they can’t brush it off is because we’ve been putting a lot of pressure on.” The Illinois Student Senate spent $986 on stamps to initiate a letter writing campaign to the Illinois General Assembly in support of higher education and the MAP grant. “This is the most basic but effective way to communicate to a representative about what matters to us as constituents,” he said. Dickey spoke about the risk many students are in because of the potential termination of the MAP grant, stating that some
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erve up some “thank yous” this Friendsgiving. The turkeys have gone into hiding, you’ve decided to ignore this week’s worth of homework and you’ve woken from dreams of the oven timer going off only to discover that sweet sound you were hearing was really just your alarm clock reminding you to get to your 9 a.m. These are a few signs that Thanksgiving is fast approaching and you’re ready to be overwhelmed by smoochy relatives and enormous quantities of comfort food. But before you hop on that plane, train or automobile and return to your kin, take time to cel-
ebrate Friendsgiving with your on-campus companions. Although it’s always a great idea to tell your friends you appreciate them, Thanksgiving is a great reminder for us to express thanks to the people who are most important to us in our life at the University. When eating exorbitant platefuls of sweet potatoes isn’t an option, who is there to get you through those three consecutive midterms? When there’s no turkey leftovers to speak of, who’s going to order Jimmy John’s with you at 2 a.m.? In the times we are stressed, bored or excited, our best friends are our comfort food. For freshmen, this is the first extended break after making new
college friends; many international students will be spending break on campus while many others go home. Next week’s break will give us time to relax, but it still means saying goodbye to people who may live all over the country. Even though it’s just a week break, showing appreciation to our friends before leaving is a perfect way to kick off the holiday. Before just saying a generic “thank you” to your pals, think about the special qualities you value most in them. Maybe you love your friend who comes off a little sour but is secretly sweet like cranberry sauce. Maybe you mash best with people who are on the softer side like those potatoes and gravy. Others
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oming from a high school that didn’t allot much time to sexual health awareness, my first year at the University of Illinois was definitely a shock. While I lived there during my freshman year, Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Hall held a “Condom Carnival,” an effort to promote sex education and sex positivity. Students staying in dorms received free condoms as well as pamphlets detailing various topics relating to sex and body knowledge, while also being able to enter raffles, play sex-ed related games and more. Every freshman also needed to attend First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape Education, a sexual assault awareness program on campus that opened discussion of what constitutes safe sex and what constitutes rape. With all the resources I saw the University provide regarding sexual health, it was certainly discouraging to see our campus come out 38th of 140 universities across the nation on the annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card. This, too, showed our rank has fallen from securing spot 14
in 2014 and the number one spot in 2012. While there are ample sexual health resources provided on our campus, our University cannot be stagnant in how we treat sexual health. After all, only 54 percent of college students consistently use condoms during intercourse, and four percent use condoms during oral sex. This draws on the importance of sexual health, as the number of STDs and rates of HIV/ AIDS can be easily preventable through education and resources that universities should constantly be providing. Trojan used Sperling BestPlaces researchers to look into these resources across campuses to determine rankings with criteria including: quality of sexual health information and resources online, availability of contraceptives, testing for HIV and sexually transmitted infections, sexual assault prevention, outreach programs, hours of operation, accessibility of health centers and more. Our University actually does provide most of these resources, all thanks to McKinley. The health center has a peer program called Sexual Health Peers Educators. This program is available every week to answer any questions students have.
Not to mention, there is continuous free HIV and STD testing available, over 15 free contraceptive options and even condom packages and latex barrier packages you can pick up every two weeks free of charge. This isn’t even including the pages upon pages of online information on McKinley’s website regarding any questions you might have on sex-ed, nor our campus’ prominent role in sexual assault prevention with programs such as It’s On Us and FYCARE. With all the available resources for sexual health on campus, it’s easy to wonder why the school continues to drop in the rankings every year. Bert Sperling, lead researcher of the Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, said, “Other schools are being very innovative in their programs and the types of materials they are putting out. University of Illinois has done very well, but things have remained static over the past couple of years . . . It’s really a matter of other schools being exceptional.” So while the University may not be decreasing the amount of sexual health resources provided to its students, it certainly isn’t measuring up to other universities across the nation. Take, for example, the
most Sexually Healthy University, Oregon State University. The school not only scored perfect among the Trojan criteria, but went above and beyond to develop SexPositive, an app that brings comprehensive sex information to students’ phones. It contains contraceptive methods, videos on safe sex practices and more. Other universities are even starting to also integrate this app on their campuses. Meanwhile, the third most Sexually Healthy College, the University of Georgia, offers a programs called Condom Express. This is a free, discreet, mail-delivery service to students that include safe sex supplies such as male condoms, female condoms, dental dams and lubricants. Each shipment even includes instructions on proper use and sexual health resources on campus. With all these changes other schools are making toward their sexual health curriculum, the University cannot stay stagnant. While our campus certainly provides more resources than most, the University must continue to develop new, innovative ways to keep students safe in the bedroom.
Kaanan is a sophomore in LAS. kraja2@dailyillini.com
Sexual assault as a form of sexism ALEX SWANSON Opinions columnist
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exual assault remains one of sexism’s ugliest and least discussed manifestations. In a recent conversation, a friend notified me that sexism is no longer an issue in America. A little bewildered, I pushed back — I responded that, among a multitude of other issues, sexual assault is still prevalent. “Yes, of course,” he answered, “but that’s not sexism. That’s biology.” That conversation was one of many in which I have heard someone make the incorrect claim that sexism and sexual assault are mutually exclusive. Women are certainly not the only sociological group affected by sexual assault. Men are, just as surely, not the sole perpetrators. Further, I adamantly believe that, when discussing social harms such as sexual assault, we must be meticulously careful not to marginalize or discount the identity of any victim. It is just as imperative, however, that we recognize that the nine out of 10 victims of sexual assault are female while 99 percent of sexual offenders are male. These wildly disproportionate statistics have to signify some sort of societal undercurrent. The reality is that sexism is partially and significantly responsible for the prevalence of sexual assault. Sexual assault is not biological, but is rather sociological.
Domestic abuse, much of which is sexual assault, has been documented, diachronically, in most every society across the globe — but not within non-patriarchal societies. Sexual assault at least partially occurs when genderprejudice permeates into the sexual aspects of our lives. It is, in a reductive form, another way in which a man can express dominance over a woman, another expression of sexism. In our patriarchal society, we tell men that being sexually active is part of being a real man. If you “can’t get it up,” then the inaccurate idea is that something is seriously wrong with your manhood. Alternately, we teach women to do their best to be beautiful, and then we idolize them as sexual objects. Those gender roles are psychologically significant in regard to creating the mindset that fosters sexual assaults. In addition to stemming from sexism, sexual assault can actually breed further sexism, which more closely establishes the tie between the two phenomena. This is exemplified in how women are societally tasked with the responsibility of raising children, which often contributes to the unequal pay scale of 77 cents on the dollar. That form of discrimination can very well extend into the realm of assault. As many as 32,000 women are impregnated against their will each year, and in most states the rapist can sue for visitation rights. Women who are involuntarily impregnated face three
away from oneself. When we accept that sexual assault is a sociological issue, we have to also accept responsibility for creating and participating in the culture that allows these assaults and then consciously resist it. We do, however, make up sociology, and when we come to an agreement that sexual assault is unacceptable, we will be able to affect the necessary sociological change. The possibility of eliminating sexual assault is very much within our grasps; #It’sOnUs.
choices: abortion, adoption or raising the baby — with potential visitation rights from the father. All of which can definitely result in financial and emotional distress. Now, to address the notion of sexual assault as being a biological impulse — to remark that “boys will be boys” is to assert that rape is natural. It is not. The physical and psychological effects of sexual assault, including PTSD, STIs and depression, clearly evidence the unnaturalness of rape. This biological explanation for sexual assault only serves to shift the responsibility of eradicating assault
Alex is a senior in LAS. amswans2@dailyillini.com
Sexual health and sexual assault across America Americans age 15-24 make up. . .
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These are programs unique to each university and does not include the services provided by their health centers, which tend to be the same comprehensive care at most schools. University of Michigan - Ranked 4th A wide variety of workshops provided to students about healthy relationships, sexual assault and harassment and more are taught from an individual to societal level. University of Iowa - Ranked 7th Student Health and Wellness provides students with various sexual health programs called SEXopoly, Sex Jeopardy, Expert Competition and Choosing Contraception. Michigan State University - Ranked 11th Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Program and Sexual Assault Firstyear Education are administered to first year students. Indiana University - Ranked 12th Home to the Center for Sexual Health Promotion that provides education and training to their campus community University of Maryland - Ranked 14th Their Sexual Health And Reproductive Education peer program aims to increase student’s knowledge about safe sexual practices. University of Minnesota - Ranked 18th Home to the Sexual Health Awareness and Disease Education program, which functions as a peer education group that largely addresses strategies for safe sex. Northwestern University - Ranked 20th “Introduction to Reproduction” is an online class offered to first-year students and is meant to provide “everything first-year students need to know about sex and reproduction.” University of Wisconsin-Madison - Ranked 23rd Their program put on by University Health Services is titled “Tonight” and aims to educate students on sexual assault, consent and a slew of other relationship-related issues. Rutgers University - New Brunswick - Ranked 25th Sexual Health Advocates program provides assistance for students and helps them make informed choices regarding sex and sexual health, among other things. University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Ranked 26th “Understanding and Preventing Sexual Misconduct” training video was sent out via email earlier this year. The video educates about on-campus policies and campus resources. The Ohio State University - Ranked 28th Buckeyes ACT and Sexual Civility and Empowerment presentations and programs are aimed at combatting sexual misconduct and relationship violence. Pennsylvania State University - Ranked 30th Penn State AWARE program educates students about sexual assault and relationship violence. HealthWorks peer education program educates students about wellness, including sexual health. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ranked 38th The FYCARE program is required for first-year students and educates about rape and consent, paired with the national It’s On Us campaign to rally against sexual assault on college campuses. Purdue University - Ranked 120th The Purdue Student Health Advocates is a program to inform and empower students about many issues, one being sexual health.
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on a show and getting the crowd fi red up. “We created this from scratch and yes, it did initially start out as a group of our closest friends, but it has since grown (into) this bigger production. It takes a ton of work to pull off, and we so far have had a lot of success doing it,” said Joanna Troutman, vice president of CLAW and onstage personality, “The Slice,” a pizza-themed wrestler. Sheckels said that when she takes the stage she doesn’t consider herself Melanie anymore, but rather the character she is trying to portray. “I think that I become a different person. When I was Feral Hannah, I was joyfully launching Cheetos at people’s foreheads. I’ve never done anything like that as Melanie,” Sheckels said. Andrea Black, secretary of CLAW, said she will take on the role of Rusty Bozongas’ for the Nov. 20 show. “I feel like I am a lot more aggressive (when performing), my character is a lot grumpier than I am,” Black said. Black said while she does get nervous at times, it feels invigorating to perform on stage and become someone completely different.
of community for the students because of its size. He said it is “very cool to go to class with your friends.” There are only nine students in his junior class. “Having that for acting is great because you have a network of people who know you really, really well, and they’re going to be the ones who can help you the best,” Farbota said. “You just have all these people who are on the same page as you trying to do the same thing, which is great support for an actor.” Knowlden said the real sense of community in the acting program comes from the fact that the students are very different from one other but all have the common goal of bettering themselves as actors. “It’s such a weird thing because I think (the acting majors) all have different views of (acting),” Connelley said. “Yeah, we’re all in the same room together, but because of the way we work and because it’s so personal, we’re all affected in different ways by the coaching.”
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The Thighmaster and Dusty Bazongas fight at a past match. Dusty Bazongas’ brain was salvaged from her decaying body and placed into the head of a robot known as Rusty Bazongas for an upcoming match. “I usually am trying frantically to run over all of my moves in my brain over and over again, (and then) I am partially thinking about my facial expressions and getting the audience pumped up,” Black said.
In the past few years, women’s wrestling has progressed, especially with E! channel’s reality TV show, “Total Divas,” about WWE female wrestlers. “There is defi nitely this attitude that says ‘Don’t you ladies hurt yourselves’
and it’s kind of like ‘We’ll be fi ne,’” Troutman said. Troutman also said that while she feels a lot of encouragement from her male friends, she defi nitely feels that there is a stereotype that says women should not wrestle.
“I think I just experience an adrenaline rush. I feel very powerful, alive, stronger than I actually am,” Sheckels said. “We’re not delicate flowers and it’s okay if we take a bump.”
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Cooking show victory publicizes hunger Sister attributes her talent and victory to God BY MANYA BRACHEAR PASHMAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
CHICAGO — Sister Alicia Torres became the “Chopped” champion on the Food Network’s reality TV cooking show, winning $10,000 for Our Lady of the Angels Mission to provide more home-cooked meals for neighbors in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. “The Lord gave me this talent,” Torres told the show’s judges who ribbed her for harboring some secret culinary training. “I believe the kitchen is my canvas where I get to express myself creatively.” Torres, 30, was one of four chefs cooking with the typical makings of a conventional Thanksgiving dinner — turkey, green beans, potatoes and cranberries — on the special volunteer edition of the show that aired Oct. 9. Bonnie Kepplinger, 74, a volunteer for the Crib, a Chicago homeless shelter that draws many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
youths, survived one round but lost the entree portion. In the appetizer round, Torres transformed leftovers into Mexican-style quesadillas. Kepplinger made deep-fried turkey croquettes and potato balls with a green bean salad and cranberry dressing. For the entree, Torres made a Mediterranean-style dish with curry turkey, a sweet potato cranberry hash and a dipping sauce with goat cheese and green beans. Kepplinger braised a turkey, blanched green beans and created a tart cranberry salad, but failed to get the potatoes on the plate. “I think time did get the best of me, but I also think my muse just conked out,” Kepplinger said on the show. The Night Ministry, the Chicago nonprofit that oversees the shelter where Kepplinger volunteers, still received a donation from the Food Network, as did the other charities represented on that show. In an interview Monday, Kepplinger, recalling the 1966 fi lm “The Singing Nun,” said she was so impressed with Torres that she expects the “cooking nun” to be a regular on TV soon.
Torres said she has not entertained offers to host her own cooking show. But she does know that whatever the future holds, it “will be for God’s glory and to help serve my brothers and sisters here on the West Side and wherever God calls me to serve.” Torres helped found the Franciscans of the Eucharist of Chicago on the city’s West Side and recently professed vows. The new Franciscan community is devoted to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, evangelization and service to Chicago’s poor. “Perhaps being on national TV and winning this competition will bring some attention to the issue of hunger,” she said, “and to the reality that God’s love is so strong and so big, he can take this little nun from Chicago who never went to culinary school to compete. ... Literally nothing is impossible with God.” About 25 neighbors and friends joined Torres on Monday night to see the show and hear about her experience. Guests enjoyed her trademark flourless chocolate cake and chocolate chip cookies with coconut oil topped with goat cheese and Chardonnay frosting.
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Sister Alicia Torres, right, prepares couscous for a dish of her own creation which blends Mediterranean and Italian flavors on Oct. 30, in Chicago. Torres is the champion of “Chopped” and hopes to use the winnings to provide more home-cooked meals for people in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.
“Perhaps being on national TV and winning this competition will bring some attention to the issue of hunger and to the reality that God’s love is so strong...” SISTER ALICIA TORRES
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Amateur wrestlers try new personas CLAW match scheduled at The Highdive
apy at a nuclear power plant. Each wrestler develops their character and comes up with a story to coincide with the personality. “(My) character is a BY ABBY PAETH little bit maniacal and STAFF WRITER obsessed with chemical When Dusty Bazongas, a warfare and pop tunes,” grumpy old woman known said Melanie Sheckels, for her signature move, the president of CLAW. Bazonga Dust, took the Sheckels was previstage, audience members ously a character known were unaware that this as “Feral Hannah,” but would be her fi nal perfor- said that she is excited to mance. But shortly after announce her new onstage Bazongas’ match with the personality, Cher Nobyl. Thighmaster, she passed “Some characters are away due to natural causes. inherently the same, but For the t hey do woman of e v o l v e The Chamover time,” p a i g n S h e c kL a d i e s els said. Amateur “ We’r e Wrestling, really tryor CLAW, ing to build long-term the characters they n a r r a play in the tives and m a tc h , get people MELANIE SHECKELS such as i nterestPRESIDENT OF CLAW D u s t y ed in our character’s B a zongas stories as a nd t he Thighmaster, are a way they progress.” of life. Sheckels, a founding However, on Nov. 20 at member of CLAW, said The Highdive in Cham- that the idea came from paign, a new legend will a close friend of hers who arise. With advanced tech- had previously done a nologies, Dusty Bazon- similar wrestling group gas’ brain was salvaged in Kalamazoo, Michigan, from her decaying body about 20 years ago. and placed into the head “I love having this creof a robot known as Rusty ative outlet with all of Bazongas. these amazing, interestThe ladies will take ing (and) smart women,” the stage this Friday at she said. “I also really love 8 p.m. and will introduce performing, and I didn’t eight new wrestlers, along know that before I startwith a few new characters ed this.” including Rusty Bazongas Sheckels explained that and Cher Nobyl, a 1980s one of the most important Cher who has contracted parts of CLAW is putting an incurable disease and undergoes radiation therSEE CLAW | 5A
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Program develops life, acting skills BY MARIAH SCHAEFER STAFF WRITER
Telling a story. That is what acting is all about. However, being an actor is not that simple. It can require a lot of dedication and training, and many aspiring actors study the craft before jumping into the business. According to the Division of Ma nagement Information, only 30 out of 32,878 undergraduate students are acting majors at the University. “What’s so great about being an acting student at U of I is that you get a conservatory-style training while also being part of a major university with a liberal arts education,” said Claire Floriano , senior in FAA. The acting program is different from many majors at the University because of the way it is structured. Students audition to be accepted into the college but must also pass a performance review during the fall semester of their sophomore year in order to be accepted into the studio program and continue as acting students on campus. Floriano said that passing the performance review comes down to being dedicated about acting, which she said everyone in the program is. “I think (the review) challenges everyone to decide whether that’s what you’re truly passionate about, and if you are, you’ll do all the right things — you’ll work hard, you’ll show up to class, you’ll be
prepared and do all the right work,” she said. Lauren Farbota , sophomore in FAA, is currently going through the performance review process. Farbota said her nervousness goes on and off as she waits for the decision because very few people have been cut from the program in past years. After passing the performance review and entering their junior and senior years, the students in the acting program mostly only have classes tailored to acting. Acting classes go from
“...One of the most fulfilling things about being an actor is chang(ing) ... someone(’s) views.” HARRY BELDEN JUNIOR IN FAA
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every day, and then students have some general education and outside classes in the afternoon. After that, they rehearse every night from 7 to 11 p.m. “It prepares you for the real world when you’ll have a day job, and then you have to go to rehearsal at nighttime. It teaches you a lot about time management and how to set your priorities,” Floriano said. “That is one thing that I will say I really have gained from this program is just the ability to become more of an adult and a professional because you have to.” Janjay Knowlden, junior in FAA, said that studying acting at the University makes him feel like
he is actually putting in the hard work to become an actor. “There is all the creative things and all the skills that you learn here, but there is also a thing taught here that’s like being accountable for yourself,” he said. “Not only how to be a good actor but also how to be a good person — how to be someone that people actually want to work with.” Dylan Connelley, senior in FAA, said that being an acting major on campus can be a bit isolating because acting students are always working on themselves. “It’s very easy to click into a small group of actors,” he said. “Yes, we party, and yes, we have our fun, but we really need to take care of ourselves. It is part of our job; our body is our instrument.” Connelley said the biggest thing about studying acting is finding balance. He said acting students need to be “physically, spiritually and emotionally balanced.” However, Harry Belden, junior in FAA, said there is something fulfi lling about being an actor: transforming others’ perceptions of the world. “I think one of the most fulfilling things about being an actor is being able to change the way someone views something, whether that’s an element of society or the way certain people act and why – just being able to influence people’s opinions on things and just show them different sides of things that they haven’t considered,” he said. Belden said the acting program at the University fosters a sense
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eing a student-athlete is a tricky thing. It’s an emotional thing, it’s a mental thing, and it’s a physical thing. And as surprising as this may sound, I haven’t found many outside-of-college sports that are able to do justice to just how amazing an experience it is. But balancing all of these feelings isn’t necessarily the type of “tricky” that I’m referring to. I’m talking about the trickiness of the Illinois athletic department. The one that Chicago media loves to bash, and the one that has received an “interim only” reputation. But to us student-athletes, those interim titles aren’t necessarily a bad thing. So far, they’ve been a great thing. Because for us, the athletic department is starting something positive: a new atmosphere — a winning, positive atmosphere.
But forget about that for a second. Illinois athletics — if it wasn’t before this year of change — is strong. Our student-athletes are strong, our morale is strong, and our community has an unparalleled family-like atmosphere. And what’s better than that: We’re about to get stronger.
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One of my favorite memories is my first home tournament in the fall of my freshman year. I was excited for my first matches at home. And the thing that amazed me the most was that my roommate from the soccer team and the other friends that I had made within the studentathlete body were even more excited than I was. I still remember the week before that tournament. My friends sent me messages asking if the schedule was out, and the day that the matches finally started I remember the warmth I felt when they all showed up with signs and posters, the loudest fans in the stands.
Over the past week, I spent quite a bit of time talking to other studentathletes about the direction of the athletic department and the atmosphere that we have created for ourselves. Many of them shared experiences very similar to mine. When I sat down with Joe Spencer on Thursday, he mentioned that the outside community — professors on campus all the way back to the DIA’s academic staff — seemed to have the team’s back and had kept the spirits of the program high. But aside from the outside support, the one thing that stuck out the most, and the one story the football team’s center described that was the most similar to mine, was the support he received from the other student-athletes at his games. “We eat three meals a day together, we hang out, go to each other’s games,” Joe said. “You can always see, it’s cool (in Block I) we have that little patch in the corner of all the athletes, so we can see everybody supporting each other. So, I think at Illinois it’s just kind of one big family.”
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Other athletes agreed with Joe’s observation. Out of the 10 athletes — from 10 different teams — that I spoke to this week, six of them voluntarily used the word family to describe our community. Brock Ervin, a sophomore on the wrestling team, was one of them.
“The student-athlete community here at Illinois is a great program and is an honor to be a part of,” Brock said. “However, I look at it more as a family than a community. The guys on my team would do anything for me and I would do the same for them.”
Softball player Ruby Rivera said that her team atmosphere this year is the best it’s been in her three years at Illinois. The softball program was one of the three that received a new head coach before the start of the school year.
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Cain steps up in midst of injuries plaguing the Illini BY CHARLOTTE CARROLL STAFF WRITER
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Wide receiver Desmond Cain makes a leaping catch between two Ohio State defenders in Saturday’s game at Memorial Stadium.
Geronimo Allison has been relatively quiet the past few games as opposing teams have increased coverage on the senior wide receiver in an effort to silence him. Allison is just 206 yards short of a 1,000-yard season. But he hasn’t had more than 40 yards receiving since the Wisconsin game, when he caught eight passes for 99 yards. Against Ohio State, Allison had just one catch for 38 yards. Illinois has been short staffed with the injuries. In the beginning of the year, Allison picked up a lot of the work. Recently, it’s been a different wideout — Desmond Cain. Cain had a career day against the Buckeyes, lead-
ing the receiving corps with 10 catches for 102 yards, causing quarterback Wes Lunt to reminisce about a former Illini freshman. “The difference between those two is that Mikey (Dudek) came in and had immediate success,” Lunt said. “Des really has worked for everything he’s gotten. He’s continued to progress game by game … Having both of those guys next year in the slot will be pretty nice cause they’re both different players. Mikey has more top-end speed. Des has quick twitch speed and just has a knack for catching the ball.” There’s been miscommunication between Lunt and his receivers throughout parts of the season. But head coach Bill Cubit and other players are confident
that Cain’s attitude can benefit the Illini. “You could just tell he was going to be a good player because of his attitude,” Cubit said.
Injured Illini Cubit told the media at his usual Monday press conference that the injury report is “pretty extensive, as you can imagine.” He joked that the report is two pages long. During the Ohio State game, Illinois lost a few players for parts of the game. Ke’Shawn Vaughn underwent concussion protocol and sat out the second half. Cubit said Vaughn is doing well and will hopefully participate in non-
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Illinois basketball relies on Hill, Thorne early in season BY ELI SCHWADRON STAFF WRITER
Malcolm Hill is the unquestioned leader of the 2015-16 Illinois men’s basketball team, but the junior from Fairview Heights, Illinois, has struggled with his shot through the opening two regular season games. Hill averaged 14.4 points per game over his sophomore campaign, which included 27 points and a game-winner versus Penn State and a career-high 28 points in a win over Maryland. It’s no wonder opposing defenses are now keyed in on the 6-foot-6 guard, who shot a combined 9-for-29 from the floor this weekend. But “guard” doesn’t encapsulate everything head coach John Groce is asking him to do. “I’m asking (Hill) to be the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker,” Groce said. “Be a captain, be efficient scoring – if you don’t mind, could you play four positions tonight? Guard the other team’s best player on most of the possessions. Push
the ball on offense, be the first guy back on defense to stop their break, and go buy everybody popcorn while you’re at it.” Despite a poor shooting percentage, Hill’s per-game averages are solid — 16.5 PPG, 7 RPG, 5 APG in 36.5 MPG through two games. With point guard Jaylon Tate sidelined with an open dislocation on his right pinky, Hill has taken over the primary ball-handling role. Additionally, Hill is sometimes tasked with guarding power forwards and centers. “He can handle it, he’s got broad shoulders,” Groce said. “He’s gotten to that point in his career as an individual player (where) he wants to win, and anything we give him, he just kind of rolls with it right now. He’s defended every position on defense. That’s unheard of.” Hill played a major role in leading the Illini back from a 14-point halftime deficit Sunday afternoon against North Dakota State. He dished four of his game-high five assists
in the final 20 minutes and drained a momentum-shifting, midrange jumper to knot the game at 57 with six minutes remaining in regulation — the first tie since the first minute of the first half. Center Mike Thorne Jr. was on the receiving end of a few of Hill’s assists. The graduate transfer has been a force down low, averaging 23 points and 11 rebounds on 63.1 percent shooting. Thorne’s frontcourt mate Leron Black returned to action Sunday after sitting out one month with a meniscus tear. “(Leron) has a special (quality) — it’s hard to put your finger on it — if you’re playing with him, you think you can run through every wall in here and knock it down,” Groce said. “I didn’t know if he was gonna be able to go until right before the tip, to be honest.” Meanwhile, center Maverick Morgan posted a careerhigh 10 points against the Bison. He’s 8-for-10 from the field through two outings and
has shown strides on defense as the main communicator in the team’s 2-3 zone. “We call it the air traffic control,” Morgan said. “That would be me or Big Mike, in the zone, we’re the back guy, we see everything, we’re calling out corners, cutters. We have a more significant role as far as talking in zone as we do in man-to-man.” Freshman Jalen Coleman-Lands has been another pleasant surprise just 10 days removed from his first practice coming off a stress fracture. He dropped 15 points against NDSU, including eight in a span of under four minutes. But Groce said he wants people to temper their expectations about his top recruit. “(In the exhibition against Illinois-Springfield), he shot it well,” Groce said. “One of my biggest fears was everybody was gonna reincarnate him as the next Steph Curry.” TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINI
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Mike Thorne Jr. beats a defender and makes a shot off the backboard during the game against North Florida at Prairie Capitol Convention Center on Friday.
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Zone defense helps Illinois defeat Ohio Bollant’s adjustment is the difference in win BY JON JOFFE STAFF WRITER
When Ohio University got off to a 7-0 lead over Illinois to start its Sunday game, Illini head coach Matt Bollant knew he needed to make an adjustment. Bollant implemented a zone defense late in the first quarter against the Bobcats in hopes of pushing the tempo and forcing them into bad shots. In the eyes of star center sophomore Chatrice White, the switch was everything. “I think our defense was definitely a key for the game,” White said. “We played them zone, and that just really sped them up a little bit and made them take some outside shots and force it to places that they didn’t want to go to, and that just really helped us pull it off.” Bollant thought his players did a good job of zeroing in on Ohio’s best player, Kiyanna Black, and preventing the
Bobcats from getting into a rhythm. Bollant felt like the switch was just what his team needed to get over the hump. “We were having trouble guarding off the dribble, and I think we were a little tentative, and I just felt like ‘let’s try to stop their penetration first,’” Bollant said. “Certainly that made a difference.”
Learning from mistakes On paper, it seemed as if Illinois’ faceoff against Ohio was going to be a walk in the park, but the team soon realized it was wrong. Bollant noted the Bobcats got going right away and were quicker off the dribble than the Illini expected — Ohio shot 50 percent from the field in the first quarter and held a 12-point lead at the end of the period. Nevertheless, Bollant felt that overcoming a deficit like that to win a game — the Illini eventually won by a score of 62-53 — can be a positive early on in the season. “I think any time as a coach when you have closegame situations, when you win them, you feel like you learn,” Bollant said. “We did a good job executing the sideinbound, we got to the rim,
and I felt like our leadership today ... Kennedy (Cattenhead) got us going in the second quarter, and then Kyley (Simmons) and Chatrice (White) in the second half, which is great, and you want your returning players to make plays.” Ohio’s play exposed Illinois’ weaknesses and showed Bollant what needs to be shored up in the coming days of practice. The Bobcats made him aware that his team needs to improve in man-to-man defense.
An emerging identity Bollant calmed his players after facing a 12-point firstquarter deficit and told them to let the offense come to them as oppose to forcing the issue. He wanted his players to cut down on taking quick shots and urged his team to drive to the basket in order to draw fouls. His team did just, improvJUSTIN WOLFE THE DAILY ILLINI ing its shot percentage – Illi- Chat rice White shields the ball from a defender during Sunday’s game against Ohio nois shot 50 percent from the University at Parkland College. field in the second half – and overcoming the margin en through it,’” White said. “For looked “excited” out of the and it wasn’t quite as fast route to its win. us to come back and pick up gates, but liked how the Illi- and more where we were “Coach said after the game after we were down today ni subsequently calmed down attacking the rim.” ‘That just shows how much really showed our character in the second half and found a resiliency we have as a team’ and who we are as a team.” rhythm suitable for success. joffe2@dailyillini.com and how ‘We’re not going to Bollant was under the “Second half we got @Jonny_Joffe give up, just keep fighting impression that his team more off our type of shot,
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Latest news in wheelchair basketball BY THOMAS POLCYN STAFF WRITER
After two weeks off, both the men and women’s wheelchair basketball teams will make their annual trip to Wisconsin-Whitewater for a tournament. Whitewater’s tournament is one that the Illini always like to play in, and features some of the country’s top collegiate competition. Teams participating this year include the defending men’s — Whitewater — and women’s — Alabama — national champions. For the women’s team, it will be its first college tournament of the season. The men’s fi rst tournament — the Southwest Minnesota State tournament — came at the beginning of the year. Although both the men’s and women’s team went winless in their last tournaments, they aren’t hanging their heads. “We have a team that trusts each other,” head women’s coach Stephanie Wheeler said. “That is huge for us. It’s obviously still developing but even when we make mistakes we know another teammate is going to fix it.” The women’s team has relied heavily on Gail Gaeng for offensive production. She leads the team in points, rebounds and assists. Wheeler said if the team wants to succeed, it will need to put in a stronger effort on offense. “Gail has been great,” Wheeler said. “But we can’t rely on her to carry the offense every game. We need Kendra (Zeman) to have a big weekend, as well as Megan Blunk. When other teams take away Gail they are two of the girls we really need to step up.” The men’s team is looking for a bounce-back performance after the tough last weekend. One boost is that its head coach, Matt Buchi, is returning from kidney surgery and a week
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FAMILY Ruby said that she has always felt cared about by other student-athletes. “The student-athletes around me have a lot of respect and I have a lot of respect for them,” she said. “I’m very grateful for the friends and student-athletes that I’m surrounded by. I know that we all work hard and that we’re all there for each other. We all support each program and support each other, and that’s probably one of the big things that makes us a big family.” Even the athletes that transfer here seem to notice our support right away. New to Illinois as of this year, swimming
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FOOTBALL contact drills in Tuesday’s practice. While Josh Ferguson said he wasn’t tired after returning from injury last week against Purdue, he didn’t play as much in the second half against Ohio State
Power rankings DAILY ILLINI FOOTBALL STAFF Editor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff ranks the football teams in the Big Ten 1-14 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings. 1.OHIO STATE (LAST WEEK: 1) — Urban Meyer’s team looked sloppy for much of its game against Illinois but managed to escape Champaign with a 28-3 win. J.T. Barrett impressed upon his return from a onegame suspension, finishing with 150 passing yards and 74 rushing yards. 2. IOWA (2) — The Hawkeyes continue to
plug in successful running backs. LeShun Daniels rushed for a career-high 195 yards and three touchdowns as Iowa held off Minnesota 40-35 — it’s 10-0 for the first time in school history.
3. MICHIGAN (3) — Jim Harbaugh’s squad survived another close game on the road, this time a double-overtime game in Bloomington, Indiana. Jake Rudock threw for 440 yards, six touchdowns and one interception in the Wolverines’ 48-41 win over the Hoosiers. 4. MICHIGAN STATE (4) — The Spartans made easy work of Maryland in their 24-7 win but lost their quarterback during the game. Connor Cook left the game with a shoulder injury but doesn’t expect to miss Saturday’s game against Ohio State. 5. WISCONSIN (5) — The Badgers have an 8-2 record and are 5-1 in the Big Ten, but their loss to Iowa will likely ruin their chance of going to the Big Ten Championship. Wisconsin has the second-best total defense in the conference and ranks sixth in total offense. KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINI
Illinois’ Gail Gaeng readies up for a shot during the wheelchair basketball game v. UWW at the ARC on Feb. 13. of coaching Team USA in Japan. Derek Hoot — one the Illini’s biggest contributors — played for Team USA. “It will be nice for them to get back to the system before we leave for Wisconsin,” Kate Rougeau said. Rougeau said the men’s team will look to keep up its solid effort on the defensive side of the ball. But she said offense has been a bit of a different story. “It’s a bit of a work in progress,” Rougeau said. “We’ve played great defense together but the offense is
something we’re going to have to continue to work on as a team.” Ryan Neiswender leads the Illini in scoring, followed by Mak Nong. Though Neiswender and Nong have been solid, Rougeau said Illinois needs to run a more team-oriented offense. “Spencer (Heslop) is one guy I think could really put up some points this weekend,” Rougeau said. “He’s looked really good in practice all week and with his confidence right now I think we’ll see a lot from him.” Both Illini teams will be
playing through a tough time. Timothy Nugent, founder of Illinois’ wheelchair basketball program, passed away on Nov. 11. “We’ll be playing through his funeral this weekend,” Rougeau said. “It’s going to be very difficult but we believe it is what he would want us to do. It is a huge loss to our program and to wheelchair basketball, but he’s given us so much and we are thankful for the opportunity to play this weekend.”
and diving junior Audrey Rodawig said: “I can definitely tell that the Illini are a family. And that’s been so awesome because I feel very welcomed here, and that’s all you can really ask for as a transfer.” Even the student-athletes that didn’t use the word “family” are pleased with the group’s support system. After six years here, Jannelle Flaws spoke highly of her team atmosphere, the improvements within the athletic department and the support she received on and off the field from athletes on other teams. “It’s probably been the best part of college for me, just being in the student-athlete community,” she said. “There’s a lot of people on other teams who
I’ve become great friends with. It’s a very fun atmosphere to be in when you have had friends on other teams that come and support you.”
ing success and more success on the field.” The outside world seems to think that a need for change means that our whole program was shot, that we were broken, when that really wasn’t the case. Change can be good, especially when you’re around good people every single day. Our student-athlete community is a special thing. It’s an emotional, mental, physical, studentathlete kind of thing. It’s our kind of thing that we’ve created, and that we experience with no one else. We’re the Fighting Illini, and we’re a family.
because of fatigue. Cubit wants both running backs healthy. He said alternate Henry Enyenihi will likely be out against Minnesota, but he hopes to have him back against Northwestern. Cubit said the team feeds off Ferguson’s energy, but having a healthy Vaughn is necessary to making sure
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Joe noted the strength amongst the student-athletes and sees the athletic department’s changes as a positive way to move forward on the field and in the athletic administration. “I think we’re all pretty strong-minded people and we’re all pretty close where you know if it’s one coach on a certain team changing or if it’s the AD changing we all reach out to each other and have each other’s back,” Joe said. “I think you’ll keep seeFerguson can perform at his top level.
Minnesota’s Losing Streak The Minnesota Gophers are on a four-game losing streak, which includes three top-25 teams. The Gophers’ most recent loss was a 40-35 defeat to No. 6 Iowa. But Illinois is not focused on past opponents. Lunt said
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Alexis is a junior in Media and plays for Illinois’ women’s tennis team. that Saturdays have been crazy for the entire conference and that one week doesn’t always indicate what will happen in the next. “They’re still fighting for a bowl just like we are, and that’s just something that will probably add a little to the game,” Lunt said.
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6. NORTHWESTERN (6) — It took a late Justin Jackson touchdown for the Wildcats to get past Purdue in their 21-14 win. Jackson rushed for 116 yards, and Clayton Thorson threw for 82 yards and an interception. 7. PENN STATE (7) — The Nittany Lions have a 7-3 record and 4-2 record in the conference but are fourth in the Big Ten East. Christian Hackenberg ranks ninth in the conference in passing yards per game and eighth in pass efficiency. 8. ILLINOIS (8) — Illini defenders made
all the right plays for their team to pull off an upset over Ohio State, but the offense and special teams struggled in the team’s 28-3 loss. Lunt threw for 241 yards, and Josh Ferguson rushed for 49 in the team’s final home game.
9. NEBRASKA (10) — Mike Riley’s Cornhuskers have bounced back after a tough start to their season. Tommy Armstrong Jr. threw for 188 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions in Nebraska’s 31-14 win over Rutgers — the Cornhuskers need one more win to become bowl eligible. 10. MINNESOTA (9) — The Golden
Gophers almost handed Iowa its first loss of the season, but Minnesota couldn’t finish the job on the road, losing 40-35. Mitch Leidner threw for 259 yards and one touchdown, and Minnesota needs to win its remaining two game to become bowl eligible.
11. INDIANA (11) — Mitchell Paige almost caught a touchdown that would’ve forced a third overtime against Michigan, but the receiver bobbled the ball, and the Hoosiers couldn’t pull off the upset, losing 48-41. Nate Sudfeld threw for 220 yards and one touchdown while Jordan Howard rushed for 238 and two touchdowns. 12. MARYLAND (12) — The Terrapins
lead the bottom dwellers of the conference after a solid performance in their 24-7 loss to Michigan State. Perry Hills threw for 140 yards and an interception, and Anthony Nixon had two interceptions on defense.
13. PURDUE (13) — The Boilermakers
almost bounced back after their blowout loss to Illinois but fell short against Northwestern. David Blough threw for 287 yards, one touchdown and one interception in the 21-14 loss.
14. RUTGERS (14) — A tough year for the
Scarlet Knights continues after their 31-14 loss to Nebraska. Chris Laviano threw for 165 yards and two interceptions as Rutgers enters the final two weeks of the season at 3-7.
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Size no object for Illinois women’s golfer Dana Gattone She attended a golf open house for prospective golfers at Saint Viator. Drewes heard about Gattone from her brothers, Rick and Joe, who were members of the Lions men’s golf team. “When she walked away, I thought, ‘Oh my god, that kid looks like she’s 10 years old.’ She was so little,” Drewes said. Drewes, like some NCAA coaches, was a bit skeptical about Gattone’s talent. But a year later, at the Saint Viator women’s golf tryouts, he was in for a surprise. On one hole, Gattone drove one shot left into some trees. Along with her mom, Sue, Gattone went searching for her ball. Drewes spotted the pair in the woods and told Gattone he liked her chances of parring the hole. She drove the ball out of the woods and, just as Drewes predicted, parred the hole. That was only the beginning. Gattone kept getting stronger and better, thanks to what Drewes called an “unbelievable” work ethic and the upper-body strength she retained from her multi-sport experiences. She may have needed clubs with a shorter shaft to accommodate her size, but most observers couldn’t tell. “For such a tiny person, she packs a punch.” Susan McNamara, an assistant in the Saint Viator High School’s athletic department, said. In one drill at practice, Drewes put five balls in a circle around the hole to improve players’ putting. He joked with Gattone about her making 25 putts in a row. But she took it seriously. She did just that and then asked, “What else?” After a while, Drewes started asking her for advice — he said she putts like a professional. Gattone lives near the Medinah Country Club, the home of five PGA tournaments and the 2012 Ryder Cup. She often went there and practiced with her brothers and Blue Kelly, a member of Tulsa University’s 1987-88 NCAA championship women’s golf team. Kelly
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After Dana Gattone finished the 18th hole of the Illinois High School Association state championship, Saint Viator High School head coach Mick Drewes walked over to her with a University of Illinois hat, and he asked for an autograph. Gattone started crying. Her golf career at Saint Viator, a Catholic school in Arlington Heights, Illinois, had come to a close. And she was about to enter the next chapter of her life: she was headed to play Division I golf. Despite reaching the high school state finals three times, not many colleges expressed interest in Gattone because she is exactly 4 feet 10 and one-fourth inches tall and could not hit the ball as far as some of her taller competitors. Some coaches did not think she would succeed at the collegiate level. In fact, she traveled to the East Coast from her Addison, Illinois, home to have one coach from a team that was ranked around 160th in the nation tell her she was not good enough. But looking back, those coaches who doubted Gattone may want to reconsider. “(Being doubted by coaches) never bothered me,” Gattone said. “It actually gave me motivation.”
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Golf was not always Gattone’s main sport. Before joining Saint Viator’s golf team her freshman year, she was, for nine years, a gymnast, which required a tremendous amount of upper-body strength and balance. She also tried softball, ice skating, hockey and basketball. But she wanted to compete in a sport that she could play for the majority of her life. So, in the summer of her eighth grade year, she made the tough decision to leave her teammates on the gymnastics team and pursue golf. Would she miss gymnastics? No, she’d just miss her six-pack abs.
was, as Gattone says, another mother. “I love her (Gattone),” Kelly said. “She’s an inspiration.”
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All Gattone’s hours of practice with Kelly paid off. The Lions’ golfer was named MVP of her team every year, after reaching the Illinois High School Association Class 2A state tournament four times and its finals three times. But high school days move quickly, and as a senior, Gattone was still unsure about which college she wanted to attend. In the summer before her senior year of high school, she qualified for the United States Golf Association Junior Amateur — the only woman to do so since Kelly in 1984. “This is only the beginning,” Kelly said after mailing her 1984 USJG hat clip to Gattone to show how proud she was. This was, in fact, only the beginning. Gattone started getting attention from several Big Ten schools, including the University of Illinois Drewes was contacted by Illinois women’s head golf coach Renee Slone, who competed against Kelly in college. Slone expressed interest in Gattone’s continued improvement on the course with little golf experience. Drewes’ response to her: “How long do you want me to take? Because I can go on and on.” Gattone decided to visit Illinois. She met most of the women golfers, unlike any other school she visited. She could relate to the Illini, and the coaches and administrators made her feel welcomed. Plus, she already knew thenfreshman Stephanie Miller, a native of Elgin, Illinois, from golf tournaments. Things just seemed to click at Illinois. Slone then “went out on a limb,” according to Gattone, to present her an irresistible offer. She convinced Gattone to verbally commit to Illinois in September and sign a letter of intent in November of her
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Illini women’s golfer Dana Gattone tracks a putt. Gotten stands at 4 foot 10 inches and came to Illinois from Saint Viator High School. Now a sophomore at Illinois, she can hit a 3-wood onto the green from 190 yards. She says she can bench press more than her body weight. Last season, she tied the ninth-lowest single-round score and shot the eighthbest stroke average in school history. She won her debut tournament, which included a hole-in-one.
senior year. Gattone felt Slone’s trust in her to succeed. Gattone promised she would not disappoint her new coach. “When she signed the letter of intent to go to Illinois, she said, ‘You know, coach, I’ll probably be the littlest athlete in the Big Ten,” Drewes said. “I said, ‘Yeah, but they’ll learn your name real quick.’”
All the life experiences of being turned down by coaches to now competing in a Big Ten school made Gattone even stronger. “It’s a really accomplishing feeling,” she said. “It just shows me what I can overcome. It kind of puts no limits on what I can do in the future.”
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Illinois hockey splits with Iowa State
Big Pond in big trouble with rough, melting ice BY ETHAN SWANSON STAFF WRITER
The sophomore duo of James Mcging and Eric Cruickshank has been an offensive powerhouse all season. Tied for the team lead in points with 20, Mcging has racked up 17 assists while his line mate Cruickshank has netted 13 goals in 14 games played. However, the pair of second-year stars also lead the Illini in a far less productive statistic: penalty minutes. In Illinois’ loss to Iowa State on Saturday night, both players were unavailable for the game’s shootout due to major penalties, and the Cyclones scored both their regulation goals on the power play resulting from Mcging’s player misconduct call in the third period. Cruickshank talked back to a referee after a call and wouldn’t return to the ice. Together, the sophomores have accumulated 105 penalty minutes, accounting for nearly half the team’s total. Cruickshank leads the team
with 56 minutes of his own. “It’s unacceptable,” head coach Nick Fabbrini. “Especially in that point in the game, we need those guys on the ice if we want to accomplish what we know we can.”
Water on the “Big Pond” Ask players and they’ll typically say that their home ice, known as the “Big Pond,” is a major advantage for the Illini.After last weekend, the Illini might change their mind. During the overtime and shootouts in both games, the Big Pond actually looked like a pond. There were visible puddles of water on the ice near the locker room entrance, and the sections that were still frozen were gashed by the extended skate time. On a balmy November weekend, the outside temperature got up into the 60s at its highest. The weather made for a successful Dad’s Weekend for many — during the weekend’s games, many of the fans in attendance were dads and their children — but left the ice choppy and rough. “When the ice is choppy I’m just looking to shot,” John Olen said. “It’s very difficult to stick handle the puck when the ice is in that condition. There’s some sections they definitely need to fix.”
Joe Olen tracks the puck and makes a save in the shootout against Iowa State on Saturday.
Shots, shots, shots It’s impressive that the Illini only allowed five goals in regulation over the weekend considering the plethora of shots the Cyclones were able to fire at junior goalie Joe Olen. Iowa State totaled 99 shots on goal over the week-
end. There was not a single period of play where the Cyclones didn’t tally at least 10 shots on goal, getting 40 in the third periods of Friday and Saturday’s games combined. He allowed just a single shootout goal across both games.
It is defensive performances like last weekend’s that have given Olen 326 saves in 10 games played this season. Yet, Olen is still only allowing 1.88 goals per game, good for 12th in the ACHA. “Our defensive zone struggled a bit,” John Olen
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