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A crowded 13 South Silver MTD bus leaves from Transit Plaza on Tuesday afternoon. MTD plans to add eight to 10 buses to the Yellow, Teal and Silver lines.
Low temperatures increase bus need More lines to be added because of record ridership BY YELE AJAYI STAFF WRITER
With an average temperature of 28.5 degrees last month, the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District saw a 16 percent increase in bus ridership for the month of January compared with the first month of 2012, when the average temperature was 31.7 degrees.
The MTD set its highest record known for the month of January, carrying more than 1 million passengers, as opposed to about 928,000 in 2012. This past month also brought all-time single-day records. On Jan. 31, when the low temperature was 6 degrees, MTD set the single-day record with 63,174 passengers. This number beat the previous record of 61,359 on Jan. 21, 2011, when the low was also 6 degrees. Bill Volk, managing director of CUMTD, attributed the increase in ridership to the cold weather and economic hardships.
“Due to high tuition fees and less financial income at home, students have no choice but to take advantage of the public transportation system,” Volk said. Because of this increase in ridership, Volk said the company is sending out an additional eight to 10 buses for morning service on the Yellow, Teal and Silver lines, which are heavily trafficked by students in the mornings. Zakia Williams, freshman in LAS, said the amount of buses seems to be adequate. “There’s a bus stop on every corner, and they are always
frequent,” said Williams, who travels off-campus frequently. “It’s very convenient for me.” Champaign Mayor Don Gerard said in an email that the greater MTD ridership will help by decreasing the demands for parking in the Campustown area. Once spring comes, Volk said he expects ridership to decrease. “We expect people to be happy to walk again once spring comes around,” Volk said.
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Police change policy on citizen complaints Champaign department must forward complaints to community relations BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER
Complaints against the Champaign police will receive a second layer of review after a new process announced last week goes into effect in April. The process will require the police department staff to consult with the city’s community relations office before investigating a complaint. The office will have the chance to recommend additional steps or request that the city form a review committee. Karen Foster, council member at-large, said the department, which received 18 complaints last year, has been trying to improve the complaint process for several years. “We got a new police chief last year, (and) this has been one of the items that he has been working towards: to have a more citizen-friendly complaint process,” Foster said. Lt. Jon Swenson proposed the change to the process and said it has become routine to review it regularly. “We made significant revisions in 1999, 2007 and 2010, and this (change) would be the next one in the series,” Swenson said.
“We will be continuing to tweak the process as we go on when we find better ways to do things.” Citizens who would like to discuss officer conduct must fill out a complaint form, which must be filed within 30 days of the incident and must be available for an inperson interview afterward. If an individual is not satisfied with the conclusion of an investigation, an appeal will go to the city manager. Foster said the feedback during the study session points to a positive impact of the change. “It adds another layer for someone to look on, making sure that everything that needed to be investigated is investigated,” she said. Urbana works a bit differently. Complaints in the city go through the police department, which conducts investigations when necessary. The city’s Civilian Police Review Board, a task force created in 2007, handles the appeals process for citizens unsatisfied with the results of a police investigation. Todd Rent, human resources officer for the City of Urbana, said they prefer using the civilian board versus a city office. “It is important to remember that there are several ways to approach the issue,” Rent said. “And this approach fits well with us.”
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“We made significant revisions in 1999, 2007 and 2010, and this (change) would be the next one in the series. We will be continuing to tweak the process as we go on when we find better ways to do things.” JON SWENSON, liutenant
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The Illinois Student Senate brought legislation to restrict concealed carry on Illinois college campuses to an Illinois General Assembly judiciary committee hearing Tuesday. Student senator Christopher Dayton, senior in LAS, brought proposed changes to a concealed carry law to a House Judiciary hearing but was unable to testify. He said no individuals, other than those representing special interest group, were able to testify. The General Assembly is currently holding hearings on the issue in the wake of a federal court decision that rejected the state’s concealedcarry ban in December and demanded the Illinois Legislature adopt some form of firearms possession law. In his proposal, Dayton included letters of recommendation from the Illinois Student Senate, the mayors of Champaign and Urbana, the Urbana student trustee and three private certified housing managers. Dayton’s proposal seeks a framework for universities to restrict concealed firearm carry on their property. It would also allow cities in areas with a high student population to also enforce bans on concealed carry. In addition, Dayton’s proposal allows for similar restrictions in any
university or community college certified housing. Greek and non-Greek houses would be required to follow a chartered policy on concealed carry created by their associated institution. “The whole intent ... is the ability for us to not only tailor a policy that will fit our university and provide other universities that opportunity to tailor their system, but rather also give the ability for us to change it fairly rapidly,” Dayton said. “Approaching the state Legislature can be a very slow and laborious task.” After the hearing, Dayton approached state Reps. Brandon Phelps, D-Harrisburg, and Naomi Jakobsson, D-Urbana, and state Sen. Mike Frerichs, D-Champaign. Dayton also gave the proposal to several other members of the Judiciary Committee. Dayton said his next step will be to get in touch with other universities and create a system based on his framework that works for all campuses. “I’m not trying to create this policy that would directly affect every campus,” he said. “It’s more or less allowing us to, as college students with the unique situations we are in, to work with our local population and to work with our local governments to create a policy that would best fit us.”
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Children’s book sale continues
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Katie Boucher, graduate assistant in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, looks through a book box at the 12th annual book sale Monday. “I’m a huge collector of children’s comic books adopted from graphic novels,” she said. The sale continues through Wednesday at the school’s Center for Children’s Books, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign, Room 24, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Ballot to address renovation, Chief BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER
A question on a $25 fee to renovate Assembly Hall and on the support for Chief Illiniwek will likely appear on University students’ spring 2013 ballot, though the questions are still up for review by a student commission. With the petitions for the referendum questions due Tuesday evening, Campus Student Election Commission chair Adam Joines said the commission will need to review signatures, approve the submitted petitions and certify referendum language before an item can appear on the ballot. The official referendum questions will not be finished until Thursday at the earliest, he said.
On the ballot, Joines said he expects to see a proposal to add a $25 fee for Assembly Hall renovations, assuming the petition received its required 2,800 signatures, as well as a question gauging the student support for Chief Illiniwek as the symbol of the University. He added that the language of both items considered has “not been distinctly certified yet, so we are unsure as to how they will appear on the ballot.” Referendum questions brought forward by the Illinois Student Senate for a new student government constitution and a student government fee will most likely not appear on the ballot, Joines said, as it appeared the senate was unable
to collect the required signatures. Student trustee candidates will also be listed on the spring ballot. Joines said academic deans from various colleges certify each candidate individually, checking criteria such as enrollment status, GPA and residency. In addition, Renee Romano, vice chancellor for student affairs, said she submitted two referendums to continue the Krannert Fee and the Collegiate Readership Fee, which are part of the student-initiated fees that students pay each semester. All fees within the student-initiated fee category must be reaffirmed by the student body every four years.
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Hunger strike fuels conflict outside prison in West Bank BY NASSER ISHTAYEH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAWARA, West Bank — Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers at a pair of rallies in the West Bank on Tuesday in support of four imprisoned countrymen on hunger strike, as hundreds of inmates said they were refusing food for the day in a show of solidarity. The unrest escalated already heightened tensions over the hunger strike, which has prompted anti-Israel protests across the West Bank in recent days. In unrest in the northern West Bank town of Huwara, about 200 youths hurled rocks and exploding fireworks at soldiers, who fired back tear gas and sound bombs. During the clashes, a Palestinian speeding on a motorbike knocked over a soldier. The army said he was lightly injured. Much of the attention has surrounded prisoner Samer Issawi, whose health has severely deteriorated after an on-again, offagain hunger strike stretching more than 200 days. Issawi, 35, suffered a new setback on Tuesday when a Jerusalem judge rejected his request to be freed on bail. Issawi is set to be sentenced this month for violating the terms of an earlier release from prison. Later Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged a swift solution to resolve the plight of Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Ban was deeply concerned about the rapidly deteriorating condition of the hunger strikers, especially Issawi. Israel is holding some 4,500 Palestinians for charges ranging from throwing stones to undertaking deadly militant attacks. Their incarceration is an emotional issue for Palestin-
ians, who see them as heroes of their struggle for liberation from Israeli occupation. Virtually every Palestinian knows someone who has served time in an Israeli prison. Issawi and another hunger striker, Ayman Sharawneh, were prisoners who were freed as part of a 2011 exchange that released hundreds of Palestinians, many of them militants involved in deadly attacks, in exchange for an Israeli soldier held by Hamas-backed militants. Israel’s prison service said Issawi served six years of a 26-year sentence for militant activity. Israel says he was arrested in July for violating the terms of his release by leaving his Jerusalem home and entering the West Bank three times. He was convicted this month for violating the terms of his release, and for pressuring an eyewitness to lie to interrogators about his location, lawyer Andre Rosenthal said. He is expected to be sentenced later this month, Rosenthal said. Issawi was hospitalized over the weekend after he lost consciousness, but his lawyers say his condition improved after receiving an IV drip containing vitamins and minerals. Sharawneh has refused food for more than 70 days. He halted his strike for a month and resumed it two weeks ago. Sharawneh, who was arrested in January 2012, has not been sentenced. Israel’s high court is expected to hear Sharawneh’s appeal on Feb. 20. There were no details on the original accusations against Sharawneh or how he had violated the terms of his release. The other two hunger strikers are being held on administra-
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A masked Palestinian throws back a gas canister previously shot by Israeli forces, not pictured, during a protest to support Palestinian prisoners outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Tuesday. Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers Tuesday in support of four imprisoned Palestinians on hunger strike, as hundreds of inmates said they were refusing food for the day in solidarity with the fasting inmates. tive detention, a system where prisoners can be held without being charged for months at a time. Amani Srahna of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, a group representing the interests of Palestinians held by Israel, said 800 inmates in three prisons were participating in Tuesday’s one-
day hunger protest. The prisoners include those belonging to the militant Islamic Jihad faction, which has led previous mass hunger strikes. In the West Bank, dozens of youths, their faces masked, others with the colorful red-greenwhite-and black Palestinian flag tied around their necks, set tires
alight, threw rocks and hurled others with slingshots at Israeli forces at the Ofer military prison near the city of Ramallah. Soldiers fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets in response, the army said. Six youths were moderately injured by rubber bullets and live fire, said Palestinian
Bloomberg heavily involved in Chicago race BY JENNIFER PELTZ AND SOPHIA TAREEN ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg waded deeper Tuesday into the Chicago-area election to replace former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., defending his super PAC’s $2 million in anti-gun ads attacking a former congresswoman and candidate in the race. Gun control has emerged as a main issue on the campaign trail, and television commercials and mailers paid for by Bloomberg’s super PAC, Independence USA, have been brought up in candidate forums, news conferences and biting emails from the 20 candidates who’ll appear on the Feb. 26 primary ballot. The ads focused on two Democrats, former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson and state Sen. Toi
Hutchinson, who have had high ratings from the National Rifle Association. Then Hutchinson unexpectedly dropped out of the race last week and put her support behind another Democrat front-runner, former state Rep. Robin Kelly, who supports an assault weapons ban. Halvorson, who doesn’t support a ban, has since accused Bloomberg of trying to “buy an election” and colluding with Kelly. Bloomberg, a vocal advocate of strict gun control, said his concern is beefing up gun laws and said — without naming a candidate — that the NRA has convinced lawmakers that they can’t win without the organization’s support. “It’s just an outrage, and the public ... should stand up,” he told reporters in New York. “I’m part of the public. I happen to have some
money, and that’s what I’m going to do with my money — try to get us some sensible gun laws.” It’s not surprising for the Democrat-turned-Republican-turnedindependent to take such a vocal stance on guns: He’s the co-chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and has spoken widely on the issue. But singling out one race on the issue is a bit more unusual, and the action has drawn attention since it’s mid-cycle. Bloomberg launched his super PAC weeks before the November election and spent more than $12 million to back seven candidates nationwide. Guns were an issue in the election of newly-elected Rep. Gloria Negrete McLeod, a California Democrat who ousted incumbent Democrat Rep. Joe Baca with Bloomberg’s help. How-
ever, Bloomberg’s backing hasn’t always equaled success. His super PAC supported former Rep. Robert Dold, R-Ill., who lost to a Democratic businessman, Rep. Brad Schneider. Bloomberg said there wasn’t anything in particular about the Illinois race that prompted his involvement, aside from attention to gun violence. Halvorson — who favors universal background checks and strict gun registrations but not an assault weapons ban — and other candidates said they didn’t buy it. “He’s trying to buy a seat in Congress is what he’s trying to do,” she said. Halvorson, Chicago Alderman Anthony Beale and others said the super PAC money had compromised the election.
health official Ahmed Beitwai. The military said Israeli forces did not use live fire against the demonstrators. In Ramallah, men and women held signs calling for the release of prisoners. It was the second consecutive day of protests across the West Bank.
CONCEALED FROM PAGE 1A He said the more voices that are behind his policy, the more likely it would be included in the final state law on June 10. Jessica Koh, freshman in DGS, favors of further campus concealed carry restrictions. “I understand the reasons and the benefits one could have if one were to carry a concealed weapon, but on some basic level I feel really uncomfortable if I knew that there was a classmate who was carrying a weapon,” she said. Dayton said it’s important to realize that there are many different interest groups struggling for their language to be included in this legislation, such as the National Rifle Association and the Illinois State Rifle Association. “This is a fight, don’t let any student or anyone think that this is not a fight,” he said. “The state was mandated in 180 days to come up with something, and you have a lot of parties who are fighting this and looking for any which way to twist the argument.”
Tyler can be reached at tadavis2@dailyillini.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Israel’s Ethiopian birth control story reflects deeper problem BY TIA GOLDENBERG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Accusations that Israel deliberately tried to curb birth rates among Ethiopian immigrants have reopened a debate over discrimination against the group — highlighting the state’s uneasy relationship with a community that has yet to fully settle into the Israeli mainstream. Women’s activists and a series of media reports contend that Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel over the past two decades were coerced into taking a controversial birth control drug without being properly informed of its side effects or being offered alternative contraceptives. While the allegations have been strongly denied by the government, it remains unclear why so many Ethiopian women were receiving Depo-Provera, a longacting birth control injection that is rarely prescribed to other Israelis. Israel’s Health Ministry has denied any wrongdoing and ruled out an investigation. Nonetheless, last month it ordered the country’s HMOs to stop prescribing the drug to Ethiopians unless they are fully aware of the potential side effects, which can include decreased bone mineral density and difficulty getting pregnant for up to two years after the injections stop. The controversy has shined a fresh light on the Ethiopian community and its place in modern Israel. Believed to be descendants of the lost Israelite tribe of Dan, Ethiopian Jews spent millennia isolated from the rest of the Jewish world. Israel began rescuing groups of Ethiopian Jews from war and famine in clandestine operations in the 1980s, and larger numbers followed in the 1990s. Today, some 120,000 people of Ethiopian descent live in Israel. Yet two decades after first arriving, Israel’s Ethiopian population continues to struggle. Many work in low-paying menial jobs as security guards and cleaners, and roughly 41 percent of Ethiopian families live in poverty. While the younger generation has made some gains, it is still struggling compared to other
Israelis and many say they still face discrimination. The latest birth control controversy has taken these grievances to new heights. “This story reeks of racism,” said Itzik Dasa, the head of Tebeka, an Ethiopian legal aid group that along with five other rights organizations is collecting testimonies from dozens of Ethiopian women, with the aim of taking the matter to court. Dasa doesn’t think Israel necessarily imposed a policy aimed at reducing birth rates among Ethiopian women, but rather that underlying racist sentiment allowed the matter to perpetuate unchecked. Shlomo Molla, a former Israeli lawmaker and Ethiopian immigrant, said he believes the Health Ministry continued to give the women the injections, which were first administered in Ethiopian transit camps, once they arrived in Israel out of negligence. “It was a failure of the Health Ministry. It shouldn’t have given the women what they received in Ethiopia automatically,” he said. Depo-Provera has been used under controversial circumstances in the past. Testing and use was limited almost exclusively to women in developing countries and poor women in the United States, leading to charges that SEBASTIAN SCHEINER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the test subjects were coerced or In this Feb. 4 photo, an Ethiopian Israeli, who asked not to be identified, is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem. Accusations that Israel ill-informed. The accusations in Israel first deliberately attempted to curb birth rates among its Ethiopian community have reopened a charged debate over discrimination against the immigrants, highlighting emerged in 2008, when the Yediot the state’s tenuous relationship with a community that has yet to fully settle into the Israeli mainstream. Ahronot newspaper published a report showing a disproportionate effects. The report, broadcast on ant, about three years after she are internationally funded, offers — lower than the Israeli average number of Ethiopian women were the state-run educational channel, started the injections. Today, she both the pill and the injection. of 2.9. receiving injections of Depo-Pro- concluded there was a deliber- and two other women are suing Israeli officials deny there was Molla, the Ethiopian immigrant vera, which is administered once ate plan to keep down Ethiopian their HMO, alleging they were not ever a plan to reduce the Ethi- and former legislator, said the every three months instead of as birthrates. informed about side effects. She opian birth rate. Yet critics say decline is likely due to the realOne immigrant, speaking to spoke on condition of anonymi- the Health Ministry directive ities of everyday life in Israel, a daily pill. The issue resurfaced in Decem- The Associated Press, said she ty because the issue is sensitive last month ordering HMOs to where it can be difficult to have ber when an investigative TV was offered both the pill and Depo within her family and community. stop prescribing the injection to as many children as in Ethiopia. Dr. Rick Hodes, who runs the Ethiopian women was an admisThe Depo-Provera affair is report claimed that Ethiopian Provera injections by employees just the latest clash Israel has women were told before they of the Joint Distribution Commit- JDC clinic in Gondar, said the sion of guilt. “There was a clear trend to had with its Ethiopian commuimmigrated that raising chil- tee, a Jewish humanitarian orga- group offers family planning as dren in Israel is expensive and nization that runs a clinic in the part of the U.N.’s Millennium give these women Depo-Prove- nity. Last year, Israel’s rabbis that they should use birth con- Ethiopian city of Gondar. She said Development Goals, one of which ra,” said Hedva Eyal, who wrote began working to phase out the trol to ease the transition. The TV she felt pressured to take a con- is universal access to reproduc- a 2009 report on the matter for community’s clergy, whose relireport interviewed more than 30 traceptive — and chose the injec- tive health. the women’s activist group Isha gious practices are at odds with “I do not know why offering L’Isha. “The result is control over the rabbinate’s Orthodox Judawomen, some of whom said they tion because she thought the pill family planning would be con- their fertility, which means fewer ism, sparking large protests. In feared they wouldn’t be allowed would be more expensive. to immigrate if they didn’t take The 42-year-old Jerusalem resi- sidered negative or even con- children.” the late 1990s, it was discovered the drug. dent, who works as a cleaner at an troversial, especially since our Eyal and others point to offi- that Israel’s health services were Some said they were not assisted living center for seniors, JDC program is 100 percent vol- cial figures that show the Ethio- throwing out Ethiopian-Israelis’ offered any other form of contra- said she switched to the pill once untary,” he said in an email. The pian birth rate plummeted from blood donations over fears of disceptive and were not told its side the side effects became unpleas- clinic, like others in Africa that 4.6 children in 1996 to 2.5 in 2011 eases contracted in Africa.
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State House, Gov. Quinn should make Illinois the 10th state to legalize same-sex marriage
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started with Massachusetts in 2004, and if the Illinois state House allows it as the state Senate did Thursday, Illinois will be the 10th state in the country to legalize same-sex marriage. So far, supporters of same-sex marriage in Illinois are anxiously awaiting the House to call a vote on the marriage legislation just passed by the Senate 34 -21. Gov. Quinn has already promised his John Hancock for the bill, and we fully expect him to follow through on it. But now, it’s a waiting game. The House, once it is sure it can pass the bill, will easily push it on through. Because of the chamber’s Democratic supermajority, the question is not if it will pass, but when it will pass. For years, the hesitation with changing the laws regarding the issue was surely its religious overtones. Marriage began as a religious institution, and governments the world around began to codify its existence in the law books. But as Americans have become more accepting of same-sex marriage, that viewpoint is shifting faster and faster. A state with as large and diverse of a population as Illinois can prove to be an effective testing ground for new ideas like marriage legislation. As more and more states pass laws allowing for two people of the same sex to wed, more will jump on the bandwagon. Furthermore, the higher the success rate for such an idea, which was once considered to be overtly radical, the more likely other states will do the same. Even those states in which lawmakers and citizens stand staunchly opposed to this kind of legislation will eventually crop up as a form of political socialization of sorts. No matter the institution, given enough pressure from others, states will cave and join the shift. With enough pressure, no norm — religious or political — can remain unchanged. Among all of this change, the value and importance of heterosexual marriage will not be tarnished, it will not be broken, it will not be devalued or scarred. By giving someone else the freedom to make a choice about their longterm relationships in front of the law takes nothing away from heterosexual marriage. About 15 percent of the current U.S. population resides in states where same-sex marriages are legal and adding Illinois to the mix would raise it to 19.7 percent. All of these states tend to lean liberal in national elections, which doesn’t provide a clear example of success for a state that is more conservative. Even with conservative politicians hesitant to go forward with this, one Illinois state senator, Jason Barickman of Champaign did. And with that courage, we hope the House passes the bill.
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The benefits of pre-K aren’t confined just to childhood, but above and beyond. Early educational intervention is as much targeted for adolescents and adults as it is for children. Children receiving early education were more likely to graduate high school and more likely to attend a four-year college than those receiving no early education. In the famed Abecedarian experiment, 4-year-olds in an early education program experienced an IQ boost of 0.75, and even at age 15, children in the treatment group were still experiencing a 0.33 gain in IQ. At age 21, these children reported fewer depressive symptoms. High-quality early education is no longer just a viable option; it’s become a necessity. And not just for low-income families. The increasingly competitive world and education system are affecting all families. Even families in suburban communities with high-achieving school systems are looking elsewhere, and that includes preschools. Regardless of socioeconomic status, children in high-quality pre-K programs are more likely to graduate high school, have higher earnings as adults and are less likely to be dependent on welfare. This goes back to that whole mobility theme mentioned earlier. The only way up is, well, to get off your feet. And if we don’t give children the chance, the opportunity to rise out of inherent disadvantages, then the inequality they face, will only grow stronger and more persistent with age. For children who are behind and need that lift, early education is the solution. And for families who need better access to early education programs, universal pre-K is the solution.
his past weekend, students celebrated Black History Month by showing off their talents in a variety show, their sense of style in a fashion show and their sense of fun during several parties at the annual Cotton Club. As one of the largest events on campus, people from all over the state headed to campus to celebrate. However, I missed this year’s festivities for a much smaller celebration. And for me, smaller proved to be better. College is rewarding, but often challenging — and sometimes you need a break. Lately, I’ve been beyond stressed out. At times I’ve felt tired, irritable and overwhelmed. When you finish one assignment, another one sneakily waits around the corner. The work seems to never end, and quite frankly I needed to escape. So I went home. This weekend proved to be the best weekend I’ve had in a long time. To restore my mind and refocus, I needed to surround myself with the people who know me the best. I needed to be around the people who would encourage me to move forward. I needed to be around people who could deal with my complaining and wouldn’t mind telling me to snap out of it. I needed to be around the people I love: my closest friends. Don’t get me wrong, I cherish the friendships I’ve made in college, and I’ve met wonderful people. My friends here are supportive and motivational as well, but sometimes you need to reconnect with the people that have been there through it all. For the first time in a while, my friends and I happened to all be home at the same time. We all needed a break. With the chaotic schedules of our individual lives, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with each other, especially after high school. However, this weekend provided our own mini-celebration and proved to me why it’s important to maintain our connection. Most times, it’s not about what you do, but about who you do it with. Did we throw a huge party? Absolutely not. In fact, it was the complete opposite, but the fun surpassed comparison. We simply enjoyed each other’s company. The closest we got to partying was watching Beyonce’s HBO Documentary, “Life Is But A Dream,” and eating out at Buffalo Wild Wings. During this time we talked about personal struggles, such as our life plans, fears of the future, the difficulties of school and the friendships we had lost. We also reminisced about old times, which drew laughter and temporarily made us forget about the current pressures we were facing. We took turns encouraging each other and acting as a support system. Often, I would complain about not wanting to return to school. I was dreading the pile of never-ending work that accumulates daily, like projects for my television class, reading history and deriving topic ideas for this column. Although rewarding, these assignments prove to be a struggle for me. But my friends were there urging me to press on and not give up. They reminded me of my goals to be a journalist (It hasn’t changed since grade school) and all that I had already accomplished on my way to achieving that dream. It’s true. Friends are supposed to catch you when you fall, and this weekend my friends made an effort to prevent the fall from happening in the first place. While my close friends and I lead separate lives, we strive to keep in contact. Every so often, we will talk on the phone, text, tweet or Facebook each other. We aim to cultivate these relationships to stand the tests of time. As we move through life, our friendships either grow and evolve or simply come to an end. The latter is all too common, which is why we should maintain the connection between those who started with you. The same should apply to new friendships as well; there were people I was close to freshman year and am no longer close to now. And this weekend wasn’t just about me. I was there to encourage as well. With my best friend newly adjusting to college life, it is my responsibility to keep her motivated and uplifted too. They need me as much as I need them. We are each others’ support system, all six of us.
Adam is a junior in ACES. He can be reached at huska1@dailyillini.com.
Ta’les is a senior in Media. She can be reached at tllove2@dailyillini.com.
Opinion of one doesn’t reflect the whole RYAN WEBER Opinions editor
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well-designed Gallup or Pew Research poll is not necessary for this: Most newspaper readers believe bias runs rampant in American journalism. With the onslaught of blogs, amateur or professional, social media and columnists all purporting some opinion or perspective, drawing the line between subjective and objective is far from easy. Clouding the media is a widespread lack of knowledge about how a newspaper is run day to day, so to clear the air, I want to explain briefly how The Daily Illini does it every day of the week. For starters, the content of the opinions section — the editorials, cartoon, letters and columns — are solely my responsibility: Sports, features and news have no say. Their job is to report as unbiased what is happening on campus. Columns that run in their sections are at the discretion of the sections’ editor and are usually meant to enhance other content. The job of opinions is different. We critique, analyze, question and understand. Sometimes that means heavy research and reporting of our own, and other times it’s simply about stating our observations just as we see them. Often, it means
saying what everyone else was too afraid to say, like a view of studying abroad, a look into the Greek system or the observed preferential treatment of athletes on this campus. When a columnist writes something in opinions section, it is their product and their opinion alone — that opinion is never the endorsed opinion of The Daily Illini or of any of its staff, whether that’s editors, reporters or even those who work in advertising and sales. At the end, the ultimate goal of Opinions is spark discussion among readers in a way a straight news story couldn’t. Those in opinions are entitled to their opinion, and I, the managing editor above me or the editorin-chief above him reserve the right to pull an opinions piece if it’s unreasonably offensive. Of course, we will edit what we can without encroaching on the columnist’s opinion. Lastly, there is a difference between a column and an article: A column has a perspective, a bias or an opinion of sorts. Articles do not. While our editorial board, which writes an editorial every day, is made up of editors from all other sections in the newsroom, it is not an expression of that editor’s individual opinion. Frequently, members of the board remain divided and sometimes apathetic to a topic. Just to make sure the air is clear, I’ll explain a few commonly misunderstood newspaper practices.
Q Reporters rarely if ever write their own headlines. Copy editors do that after they have factchecked everything as best as possible and ensured the copy (the article or column) is up to DI style. Q Spellings (like theater vs. theatre), phrases (like undocumented person vs. illegals) and grammar (like not using an Oxford comma) are governed by the Associated Press’ stylebook. As a member organization, we use its rules to maintain consistency. Q Advertising and content production are distinct and neither has say over the other. Advertising sells and places the ads on the page, then the editors fill the space in between, regardless of the ad. Q We produce this paper five days a week. Every weekday, editing begins around 4 p.m. and the top editors meet at 5:30 p.m. to explain their content for the next day. There, we decide where stories should be placed and what art should accompany it. Then for the next five to six hours, we fiercely edit, design and re-edit stories until our deadline to our printer at 11:30. Rinse and repeat. If ever you have a question about something, you can contact our Editor-in-Chief Samantha Kiesel at editor@dailyillini.com or me at opinions@dailyillini.com. After all, our job is to inform you, our readers.
Ryan is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at weber34@dailyillini.com.
Preschool offers kids a valuable head start ADAM HUSKA Opinions columnist
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course I expected President Obama to address the big issues in his State of the Union speech: cutting energy waste, comprehensive immigration reform and ... universal preschool education? Addressing the little guys — I didn’t see that one coming. The little guys — 4-year-olds across America — they made the agenda this year. Nuzzled between rebuilding the housing market and redesigning America’s high schools, it was an easy proposal to overlook. But I’m a child development major; I notice these things. A proposal offering high-quality preschool to every child in America is as important to our country’s future, families and parents as it is to our children. Providing about 1.85 million children from low and middle class families with an opportunity to start their education is monumental. But so is the number of American children living in poverty — nearly 16 million. The whole purpose of early education is to do exactly that — start early. The goal: mobility. The time when early education is most effective is also the time where inequality starts. Whatever wealth a child is born into is the wealth they inherit. If a child is born into a lowincome family, they inherit the disadvantages that go along with it: cognitive and behavioral developmental delays, lack of access to health care and food insecurity. Early education aims to offset these disadvantages by putting children at par with those who are from middle- to high-income families, who have easy access to highquality preschool education. With
a head start and an equal playing field, children get that same chance for upward mobility and success. The University’s Child Development Laboratories are exemplars in early childhood education programs. Besides being a training and research site for students and early childhood educators, it is an accredited preschool too, even offering low-income undergraduate students with children financial assistance in covering the preschool’s tuition while pursuing an undergraduate degree through the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program. Working as a student teacher in a classroom of 2-year-olds certainly made Obama’s proposal come to light. I watched 2-year-olds spell their names every morning until they got it right, share building blocks (and even say please) with each other to build abstract structures and sit in group time silently unless called on. The skills seem basic, mostly because they are. But what’s important is that they’re lasting and relevant even into adulthood. What’s important is that the focus isn’t just on cognition and intelligence, it’s on life skills too. The immediate advantages to early education are to the child; the long-term advantages are to society. Obama’s vision extends beyond the classroom. Through investing more money in early education, Obama said that we save money later “by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing violent crime.” These are the same factors that affect children exposed to poverty and those who are from low-income families. Early education indirectly affects parents too. Parents who work long hours can send their children to preschool knowing they will be cared for. Families in crime-susceptible communities can send their children to preschool knowing they’ll be kept safe.
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CURTISS FROM PAGE 6A Sarah has spotted a store worker and is inquiring on the whereabouts of any parsnips. The worker checks, but the store is out. Sarah sighs. “When you can’t have so much — like, I can’t have a lot of the really common green vegetables — eating the same things over and over again can get boring.� Fluorescent walls of temptation and torture glare at Sarah as she strolls down the frozen dairy aisle. She is diligent. She is strong. But her eyes wander. She is stopping. Abandoning her cart, Sarah bends down to inspect the label on a box. “Oh, are these Fudgesicles? And they’re made with coconut milk — this is so exciting!� She tosses the eight-pack into her cart and flees the scene. A week later she will discover that the thrill of the kill wasn’t quite worth the purchase of another box. She prefers coconut in macaroons instead of Fudgesicles. Growing up, Sarah ate regular ice cream. She didn’t have to think about allergies. She played with cats and dogs, slept on beds without special liners and ate whatever her father put on the table. Every Christmas, there would be Belgian waffles for breakfast and spaghetti for dinner. Her sisters both grew up with asthma, so Sarah did learn about managing serious health conditions. And although it has been five years of living with it, she sometimes still forgets about her extreme allergies.
“I’ve made stupid mistakes even recently, like ordering lemonade at a restaurant,� she says, “I just wanted something other than water to drink and got so caught up in the fact that it was homemade without any fillers or artificial flavors that I forgot: ‘I can’t have lemons!’� Doctors still don’t know everything about EE. Treatments may change, but there is no cure. There are alternatives to Sarah’s diet. She could take steroids twice a day for the rest of her life. But uncertainty of any side effects, coupled with the monetary cost, keeps Sarah set on her diet. Sarah is resilient, but she is also human. This year means a huge change for Sarah’s family — no more Belgian waffles on Christmas morning, and they will have ham instead of spaghetti that night for dinner. She is surrounded by a supportive family: parents who are willing to change tradition, a husband who doesn’t mind eating in much more than dining out. Her friends bring their own bread to her home for dinner parties. But most of the discovery, stress and responsibility of living with eosinophilic esophagitis falls on Sarah. She has to think about what’s safe to eat for the rest of her life, maybe even for the lives in her future family. “I guess I’m optimistic, but I never really saw it that way,� Sarah shrugs, smiling with a slight laugh. “I’m not going to get offended if you eat cake in front of me.� Sarah can’t have cake. But that’s okay — she’s having coconut macaroons for dessert.
RenĂŠe can be reached at wunderl1@dailyillini.com.
Students shouldn’t fear career change, alums say BY SARAH SOENKE STAFF WRITER
It can be a stressed student’s regretful thought and a concerned parent’s top anxiety. Once a bachelor’s degree is earned and four years worth of tuition has been spent, the last thing a college graduate wants to prepare for is switching careers. But when about 60 percent of students change their majors during their undergraduate study, what are the odds of having to make the switch post-degree? They’re not as low as students would like. According to a Fast Company article, the changes in the job market have created a Generation Flux — a demographic designation that “embraces instability, that tolerates — and even enjoys — recalibrating careers, business models and assumptions.� In this era, success is not really based on the skills learned for specific purposes, but the ability to learn new skills. Dominic Hahn, 2011 University alum and creator of Noshfolio, an online portfolio of Champaign-Urbana restaurants, recognizes the value of this skill. “I think the argument for college is that it gives you a structured environment to learn new things, and a lot of different opportunities are presented around you,� he said. “I definitely think the value of college for me was just learning to become interested in new things.� After becoming a neuroscience major in his sophomore year, Hahn always made sure to fit in at least one class irrelevant to his major each semester, such as philosophy, history or literature. During the summer after his junior year, he began to consider pursuing a career in management consulting, when he instead became fascinated by entrepreneurship. Hahn was able to seek advice from friends in the industry, people that had about a decade of experience in the professional world. “What they told me was, ‘You’re in your 20s, you don’t have anyone depending on you — you just
have your own lifestyle to maintain. If you want to take any risks, this would be the time to do it,’� he said. “As long as you’re getting some good experience out of it, it’s going to be useful somewhere down the road.� The recession has also forced many college graduates to reconsider their careers. Matt Schlachter, 2007 University alum, and Chris Craine, 2006 University alum, both majored in architecture during their time at the University. Neither of them currently work in the architecture field. Schlachter was hired by a highend custom residential architecture firm right out of college, but was laid off after the field was hit hard by the recession. After a year of unemployment, he considered pursuing his other passion, music, and obtained a two-year degree from the Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy for audio engineering. He moved to Nashville, Tenn. in search of internships, before he became project designer at Steven Durr Designs. “I’m basically fusing my two degrees into designing acoustical environments, and, on top of that, we have a recording studio, so I run recording sessions, mix music and do audio production,� Schlachter said. “I think I’ve found my place. I absolutely love what I do. ... It’s hard to convey a struggle because I’m in such a good place now, but it took a lot to get here.� After working for different firms, Craine realized the architecture he learned in school — theoretical and hands-on — didn’t match the practice in real life. He obtained his master’s in architecture at the University of Southern California, although he reflects now that it was a platform to buy himself more time. Pursuing film-related work had always been in the back of his head, and he thought Los Angeles was the place to do it. Graduating in Spring 2009, Craine knew architecture firms were not likely to hire in the middle of the recession. He had to make a decision.
“It was actually easier to get into film than it was into the field that I went to school for,� Craine said. He began working in the art department, creating sets and the overall look for films, where he was able to fuse his love of architecture, design and film into one. In 2012, he moved to New Orleans and has worked under titles including assistant art director, production designer and concept illustrator. He gained experience with movies such as “Cowboys & Aliens� and the upcoming “Grudge Match,� which stars Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone. Craine has also recently released his first feature film with his brother, “Get Serious.� Craine said he and his brother reflected a lot on their experiences finding work during the recession to create the film. “I wouldn’t say I’m exactly living my dream yet. I have a long way to go. But I think things now are more on a path that I’m happy with than they were even a year ago,� he said. When it comes to the advice they would give to others, all three graduates said to prepare for and embrace the changes that come, which includes being willing to move in order to pursue work. Most of all, they said to pursue work that one genuinely enjoys. Craine reflected on a piece of advice he received from one of his professors during graduate school. “If there’s that one thing that you keep going back to, even though you try to move on and you try to go into a different subject, ... you know that is what you’re meant to be doing.� While a bachelor’s degree might put someone a step ahead, it doesn’t necessarily guarantee every recipient job security, or even a job in the first place. In this ever-changing, fast-paced job market, it’s best to have a back-up plan, just in case.
Sarah is a sophomore in Media and can be reached at soenke2@dailyillini.com.
Technology brains: Symptoms of FOMO that keep you awake at night ALICE SMELYANSKY Staff writer
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you’re reading this article while scrolling through tweets, texting your mom and catching glimpses of the latest episode of “Saturday Night Live,� you have FOMO. But no need to worry — there is a cure. FOMO, as defined by Urban Dictionary, is the “fear of missing out.� Most often, it’s an incessant need to remain connected to your technology devices for fear of missing something great. FOMO isn’t a new ailment, but it’s not getting any easier to conquer either. According to the Pew Research Center, more than four in five teenagers sleep with their phone on or near their bed. The study concluded some of the motivations behind this action are to ensure 24-hour connectivity and an alarm clock for the morning. Yet, in 2008, researchers from Wayne State University and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute found that participants exposed to mobile radiation “experienced headaches, changes of moods, confusion, and trouble in sleeping.�
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Even with the evidence that sleeping next to your phone may indeed incite these harmful effects, breaking the cycle of connectivity is no easy feat. If college is a time of exploration, how can one experience all there is to do if your handy-dandy lifeline is not by your side? Especially when your calendar is filled with tedious homework assignments, exams and obligatory social events, putting the phone down seems counterintuitive. And when you miss Wine Night at Cly’s (which you shouldn’t), the pictures from last night will inevitably invade Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all at once, creating quite a predicament for someone attempting to avoid FOMO. However, if you don’t remedy the condition soon enough, it will keep you up at night — whether you like it or not. A Swedish study discovered that heavy cellphone use — defined as maintaining a permanent connection to your phone — contributed to sleeping problems. Setting your phone on vibrate is a step in the right direction, but it’s not a strong enough measure to truly enjoy that well-earned night of rest. Experts now say that sleep texting is becoming increasingly more common among teenagers, which means your
FOMO may accompany you into your dreams. The vibrations from your phone won’t stop you from responding to a text message while you’re half-awake in bed. And if you’re not sleeping, you’re susceptible to a whole slew of other problems such as overeating, lower levels of concentration and acting overemotional. Unfortunately, these issues could lead to feelings of anxiety, which will only aggravate your FOMO. However, FOMO is not a permanent condition; the cure lies in the decisions you make every day. The best exchange of the year, the funniest tweet of all time and The Walking Dead Season 3 finale (watch it later) can occur without you, as long as you let them. If you have time to be everywhere at once, you’re lucky. But since so few of us can spontaneously transfigure into three different people, knowing when to say yes and when to turn off your phone is the best way to kick your FOMO to the curb. The next time you find yourself anxious over missing some awesome event, just remember, FOMO won’t be there for you when you begin to look like the characters on The Walking Dead, but your pillow will.
Alice is a freshman in Media. She can be reached at smelyan2@ dailyillini.com.
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arah Curtiss can’t eat corn. She can’t eat broccoli, cantaloupe or pretty much any form of dairy. Seafood is out. Lemons, tomatoes, squash, mustard and barley are all bad. And if a restaurant puts wheat or soy fillers in its burgers and hot dogs, she can’t eat those either. Sarah, a 29-year-old graduate student in human development, has eosinophilic esophagitis, or EE, a long name for an elusive autoimmune disorder where heartburn and difficulty swallowing are linked to specific dietary allergens found in so many of her forbidden foods. The allergies from EE are so vast that some may never realize they have the disease. Sarah’s diet focuses on whole foods — mostly fruits and vegetables with lean meats for protein — and resembles dietary recommendations for all Americans, not just those with EE. What Sarah originally thought would alter her life has actually in many ways enhanced it. When Sarah would eat any of her forbidden foods, her white blood cells would overproduce and leach ridges of scar tissue inside her esophagus, causing structural damage that kept her from swallowing. She had tubes shoved down her throat, saw photos of her insides; her esophagus like a fluffy cake donut. She was referred to Cincinnati Children’s Center for Eosinophilic Disorders and matched with both an allergist and a gastroenterologist. During all this, Sarah graduated with a bachelor’s in psychology, married her long-time friend Caleb, bought a house, started graduate school and went about a seemingly normal life in Champaign. She made trips back and forth to the center, going through the painstaking process of identifying every food she needed to stop eating for her esophagus to stop swelling. It would take three years to pinpoint every allergen. In the meantime, meals would mean a lot of guesswork. What would make her esophagus swell? Would she even know if it did? She hadn’t felt the initial damage. Indeed, one false ingredient wasn’t going to cause her throat to close up instantly. But too many allergens absorbed over too long would push her body too far. And Sarah’s allergies don’t stop at food. Her wedding band and engagement ring, a modest round-cut diamond surrounded by white gold, has been specially treated so she doesn’t break out in hives. A dust mite-resistant liner is on her mattress and all her bedroom pillows. When she was a child, she had a bad reaction to penicillin — another allergy. And if she gets too close to her cat, Buffy the Mouse Slayer, or her dog, Bubba, she has a sneezing fit. Buffy and Bubba both came from the Champaign County Humane Society, and they’re not going back. Sarah says she’s too stubborn to give either of them up. They are part of her family, and family is special to Sarah. When Sarah and Caleb are ready for children, their family may include more cases of EE. “In many ways, I’d be prepared if we had a little guy with dietary issues,� Sarah says. “There is prenatal testing — it is genetic.� Sarah and Caleb know the child could have extreme food allergies. They would recognize the signs a lot sooner than parents who didn’t have firsthand experience living with eosinophilic esophagitis. The question of how likely it would be that their little guy would not be able to accept milk is not stopping them when it comes to thinking about having children. Like many students, Sarah’s work can be all-encompassing. Some nights, she is so exhausted she has no energy to cook. When she first started her allergen-free diet in January 2012, Sarah would sometimes be overwhelmed by the amount of preparation needed just to make dinner. She found herself fed up, snacking on a bag of carrots; her brain too fried, her body would be too exhausted to orchestrate a meal. But those nights are few and far between now that she has time to plan meals. She scours MarthaStewart.com and The Food Network and reads old cookbooks looking for inspiration. When she does find something that sparks her interest, she runs through the list of ingredients, sometimes literally taking her index finger through the page or hovering over the computer screen, making sure she doesn’t skip over any ingredients she may later have to substitute. Corn is the hardest thing to avoid, since it’s in everything. Corn is a flavor in fruit juices, corn oil cooks french fries, and corn is often used as a filler in artificial sweeteners, vitamin supplements and even some mouthwashes. Corn metaphorically, geographically and literally surrounds Sarah. Three crows are inked across her back, swarming around a cornstalk on her right shoulder blade. Apparently the crows can swallow corn, even if she can’t. Modeled after painter John James Audubon’s “Crows On Corn,� corn was something Sarah knew she could commit to on her back, if not in her stomach. A single gray-blue wingtip of the tattoo peaks out from the back of her sweater’s crew neck as Sarah’s cart squeaks and veers slightly to the side — she is in the produce section of a local grocery store and the front wheel is stuck. But Sarah doesn’t notice because she is on a mission: Do they have parsnips? She likes parsnips as a hearty filler for beef stew, and they’re fairly inexpensive. But most importantly, she’s not allergic to them.
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Sarah Curtiss, a Ph.D. student in ACES, vacuums her house while wearing a face mask to filter dust. In addition to being allergic to corn, broccoli, seafood, lemons, squash, barley and tomatoes, Curtiss’ dust allergy requires her to wear a mask whenever she or someone else is vacuuming in her house.
“When you can’t have so much — like, I can’t have a lot of the really common green vegetables — eating the same things over and over again can get boring.� SARAH CURTISS, Ph.D. student with eosinophilic esophagitis
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JEFF KIRSHMAN Sports editor
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Alina Weinstein
The senior broke two school records in helping her team beat Iowa by a 10th of a point over the weekend. BY NICHOLAS FORTIN STAFF WRITER
Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down Sunday nights and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Student-athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.
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lina Weinstein is in shock. She has just broken the floor and all-around school records for Illinois women’s gymnastics, feats that will win her another Big Ten Gymnast of the Week honor — her second in as many weeks — and help Illinois beat rival Iowa by a 10th of a point. “It took me a day to really have it all sink in and to realize what that day meant to me,” Weinstein said. “Honestly, the only thing I really remember was our assistant coach, Jess (Jessica Santos), picking me up and twirling me around and just everyone being happy and just, it was awesome. Can’t really recreate that experience.” After the jumping and spinning and rejoicing came, both teams lined up as they had done for intros and listened as the announcer read off the
From there, the Illini moved to names of gymnasts who had scored bars where another stuck landing a 9.825 or higher on an event. Weinstein, who scored 9.875 on brought her second 9.875 of the day. her first three events and a 9.975 on “It’s always nice to do a routine floor, gave away four shirts for the and stick the dismount,” Weinstein second time this season, the first of said. “We talk about the little things every weekend and those little things which to her mom. “The first thing I thought of was are just the hardest things. Doing a my mom,” Weinstein said after earn- routine and sticking my dismount at ing the shirts, one the end and leaving for each score higher it all on the table is than the benchmark. awesome.” “My mom lives far While on bars, away and it’s hard junior Amber See fell and was forced for her to come to all of the meets and to leave the competition due to injury. so that was a really special moment. ... The Illini were rattled, but after a talk She’s been my biggest supporter, and with head coach even though I’m a litKim Landrus and tle embarrassed by Weinstein, a team ALINA WEINSTEIN, how over the top she leader, they were senior women’s gymnast able to regain comis, she’s great, she’s my biggest fan and posure and finish so that was for her.” the meet. Weinstein started her historic day “We’ve been in a situation before on vault with a 9.875 and a stuck where we’ve had an injury, and it’s a landing, something she says isn’t really hard thing to come back from the easiest. we just had to tell the team that our “That’s something that I strive for thoughts are with her, but nothing every weekend and it’s such a hard we can think or worry can help her feat for me so it was really exciting out, so we have to just go out there for me to go out and do it,” Wein- and do our job.” stein said. While the team was down to Iowa
“It took me a day to really have it all sink in and to realize what that day meant to me.”
Groce, coaches on midseason recruiting trail
More online: To see an
interview with our Illini of the Week, Alina Weinstein, and to hear more about her record-setting weekend at the Gym Jam vs. Iowa, visit DailyIllini.com. heading into the final rotation, Weinstein stepped onto the mat to preform her floor routine. Her thought: “Let’s do this.” She tumbled and danced her way through some of the most impressive gymnastics maneuvers of her
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Jeff is a senior in Media. He can be reached at sports@ dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @jkirsh91.
STAFF WRITER
“Chewy (Chowaniec) was cherry picking and I sauced it to him, he pulled a nice toey around the defensemen, dangled him and nipped top corner.” — Josh Baker While Baker’s quote may seem like a foreign
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Before he coached under the hot lights on the collegiate stage, Groce was a teacher — specifically, a math teacher. As he sat with media members in a news confer-
Kevin Johnson (baseball) — The senior struck out six batters in six innings of work aiding the Illini’s 13-2 victory over Tennessee Tech.
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Just like geometry class
Pepper Gay (softball) — The right-hander tossed three complete games, grabbing victories against Houston and DePaul, with her only blemish coming against sixth-ranked Texas.
Guide to decoding hockey jargon
Bertrand, Indiana’s Sheehey vying for 6th man award After almost a month of trepidation on the state of Illinois basketball, head coach John Groce finally has the wheels turning with his team in the midst of a four-game winning streak and an NCAA tournament bid all but likely. As important as the program’s present is the program’s future, and Groce spent Monday on the recruiting trail for a highly touted prospect in the Class of 2014. According to a tweet from recruiting analyst Horace Neysmith, Groce and assistant coach Jamall Walker were in Memphis, Tenn., to visit Leron Black. Neysmith said in the tweet that Black is a “(b)ig target for Illinois, in good with (him).” Black, who is listed on ESPN as the No. 11 prospect in the 2014 class, decommitted from Baylor in early January and has reopened his recruitment. Black stands 6-foot-7 and 215 pounds and plays the small and power forward positions. Scout.com portrays Black as a hot commodity with interest from schools like Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, Ohio State and Florida in addition to Illinois.
Honorable mentions
ou may have read an article in The Daily Illini’s opinions section Tuesday questioning the roles of athletes on college campuses. Renée Wunderlich, an opinions columnist and not a member of The Daily Illini’s sports staff, wrote a piece titled “Student athletes: The kings, queens of campus.” It received more page views than the average Daily Illini article. It also caused ire in many Illinois athletes. “Sports rule,” Renee started her column, and she’s right. Sports do play a prominent role on campus. They play a diversion from our everyday lives. Premier athletes, like the many enrolled at the University, help fill that void. This is not to say they are more important than nonathletes, just that they receive more attention; thousands of cheering fans don’t fill Foellinger Auditorium to watch students take exams. Sports rule in the same way capitalism rules in America. An athletic scholarship is an exchanging of goods. It’s fair to question whether Tim Beckman should be the highest-paid employee in the University’s history at $1.6 million per year after finishing 2-10 when Michael Bragg, dean of Engineering, earns $316,667. Is football more important than engineering? Hardly. But these salaries aren’t indicative of Beckman’s societal contributions. Six of the University’s top-10 earners in 2012 were members of the athletic department, but the University paid none of them for services. Rather, it was the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics, which pays for nearly everything with its own revenue, not with tax dollars and tuition costs. The DIA also funds Irwin Academic Center. Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase and his teammates started their day with practice from 5:50-7:30 a.m. on Tuesday. They spent the rest of the morning and the early part of the afternoon in the classroom before weight lifting, watching film and additional practices into the evening. That was offseason training. And then he worked on schoolwork. No, athletes don’t go to the coalmines every morning to earn just enough to feed their family of six. But an abundance of athletes’ lives are spent working, both mentally and physically. And with the contributions made to the University, it’s sensible that academic services be provided because very few athletes actually play professionally after college. “It’s an honor and something we appreciate every day,” Scheelhaase said. “We signed up for this. But what you have to understand is that we don’t have a lot of freedom in our lives as athletes.” Is someone more worthy of a scholarship because they won the genetic lottery 100 times over, that they can crank a leather-bound ball over a fence 300 feet away with an aluminum rod? The DIA’s revenue says yes, and that is who is paying for them to attend the University. Sure, sports are of modest significance in comparison to real-world problems. No one is denying this. There are plenty of reasons to challenge the virtues of college athletics — conference realignment, improper benefits and every other money grab conceivable to man, just to name a few — but if you’re going to question student-athletes receiving academic help after traveling to and from California to play four games in a three-day span, as the softball team is scheduled to do this weekend, it’s a little more understandable that Irwin and other perks be made available.
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Illinois’ Joseph Bertrand drives to the rim during Illinois’ win over Purdue at Assembly Hall on Feb. 13. ence Sunday after drubbing Northwestern, Groce likened his team’s progress to that of his former students who, at first, puzzled over their geometry homework. “When students were trying to solve proofs, they couldn’t solve them unless they knew the theorems,” Groce said. “For us, I think our guys are starting to know the theorems instinctively now, so they’re able to solve things instinctively. It went from becoming just knowledge to habits. And I think that’s a big difference.”
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Dangle/Deke — verb When a player makes move with the puck that fakes out a defender or goalie. “Did you see that sick dangle I just had?” Cherry picking — verb When an offensive player sits on the other team’s blue line waiting for a pass to lead to a breakaway. “Patrick Kane is a big cherry picker.” Snipe/Nip — verb When a player picks a spot in the goal and fires a slap shot or a wrist shot to the chosen spot scoring a goal. “Olen nipped that tendy on the power play.” Bender — noun A bad skater whose ankles bend inward while skating “That guy is terrible, he’s a real bender” Duster — noun A player who sitting on the bench so long you are collecting dust. (See Grocery Stick) Tendy — noun A goaltender “Nick Clarke is the tendy for the Illini.” Chirping — verb To talk trash. “They got loud mouths, they’re chirping up a storm.” Bucket — noun A player’s helmet “He got hit so hard he lost his bucket!” Sauce — verb An airborne pass where the puck stays parallel to the ice, not wobbling, resembling a flying saucer. “Did you see that sick backhand sauce?”
dialect, it is really just the language of hockey. Like other sports, hockey has its own jargon that many outside the game may not understand. With a little help from the hockey dictionary, you can talk with your friends about how that bender “should’ve never deked our tendy in the third.”
Hoser — noun An older term used for members of the losing team that would have to hose down the rink after a loss. (pre—zambonie era.) “Did you see that sick backhand sauce” Grocery stick — noun A player on the bench who never sees playing time. This player often splits the defense and the forwards. “He never touches the ice, he’s just a grocery stick.” Wheeling — verb To hit on or pick up girls. “He put his rollerblades on, he was wheeling last night.” Tilly — verb To fight during the game. “Ah nice tilly ” Mitts — noun A player’s gloves. “They dropped mitts at center ice and squared off.” Swamp Donkey — noun An unattractive female that regularly attends hockey games. “You see that chick in the stands? What a swamp donkey.” Toey/Toe drag — verb To use the end or toe of the stick to drag the puck around a defender. “He pulled a nice toey around the defensemen.” Bingo bango pipe show snipe show — phrase A quick series of passes between two players where one of the players fires the puck at the goal resulting in a bar down goal. Bar Down — phrase When the puck hits the top bar of the goal and goes in for a goal.
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Rooting for rival to lose just part of being a fan JACK CASSIDY Sports columnist
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Illinois’ Courtney Pope swims the 500-yard freestyle during Illinois’ loss to Nebraska at the ARC on Jan. 26. Illinois will compete in the Big Ten Championships in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Illinois heads to Big Ten Championships Illini hope to improve on 10th-place finish with intense practice, veteran experience BY J.J. WILSON STAFF WRITER
The end of the 2012-13 season draws near for Illinois swimming and diving, but the team has one more shot to put up its best performances at the Big Ten Championships. From the start of the season, head coach Sue Novitsky has kept her swimmers exhausted from the constant intensity of practice, hoping to raise them to peak performance shape for the finale. “We have to break them down in order to build them back up,” Novitsky said. Illinois is 1-3 this season in head-tohead matchups against other Big Ten schools, winning over Michigan State in the meet’s final race. A close scrape between Northwestern may present hope
that a more-rested Illinois team has what it takes to come out on top. With last year’s 10th-place finish over Nebraska and Michigan State, it is no secret the Illini are looking to finish higher this year. While Novitsky said her team’s ultimate goal is to record best times, she also said how her team finishes at the Big Tens will reflect how hard the squad has worked this season. “It’s a different team that we bring each year,” Novitsky said. “It’s just about the veterans having more experience (than last year) and the freshman being able to step up and perform in a challenging environment.” Junior Courtney Pope and other upperclassmen have done their part to help the
McDermott is one of nine seniors — team’s younger swimmers prepare for what to expect at the Big Tens, sharing six swimmers and three divers — who their experiences from previous years. will compete for the final time with “Sue just reminds us that it’s just the team. But she said excitement triany other meet and that we’re here and umphs over the nerves heading into worked hard and are ready to race,” Pope competition. said. “We’ve got a lane and a block. It’s “You always look to them for the leadership because it’s the same old thing.” W hile swimmers their fourth time here,” work out the nerves of Novitsky said of her not having competed seniors. “You want to in three weeks, senior see them go out with a bang and, for some of diver Darragh McDermott said experience them, it might be their Big Ten Illinois from the Minnesota (1-3 Big Ten) Championships last races and to just let it go and have some Challenge two weeks ago has the divers in a great ones.” Wednesday - Saturday different state of mind. Novitsky’s intense Minneapolis “We’re excited and training strategy for The Illini will be looking to redeem comfortable,” McDerher swimmers will get their 10th-place finish at last year’s mott said. “Everya chance to prove its Big Ten Championships. one’s feeling confident worth. because we were on the boards recently and comfortable with J.J. can be reached at jjwilso2@dailyillini.com the pool and boards.” and @TheWilson9287.
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Illini have much to gain at No. 7 Nittany Lions BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGER STAFF WRITER
On an eight-day break last week, Illinois senior Adrienne GodBold decided to kick back, flip on the television and watch the Penn State women’s basketball team play Michigan State. While scouting her upcoming opponent, GodBold perked up when she heard the announcers mention Illinois. “It was like, ‘They have Penn State coming up next week, and, Illinois, you probably don’t want to play them right now because they’ve got some fire up in their butt,’” GodBold recalled. “I felt good about that. You don’t usually hear that. It gave me a little more confidence.” The Illinois women’s basketball team has been the subject of a lot of talk lately. Talk that was unfamiliar to the team before first-year head coach Matt Bollant took over. For example, after Monday’s win over Wisconsin, senior Karisma Penn smiled at even being asked about earning a top-four seed and first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament. “That’s unheard of for us,” Penn said. “We always go into the Big Ten Tournament at the bottom and have to battle up.” Penn and GodBold have finished eighth, 11th and ninth in the conference during their first three years. The Illini are tied for third in the conference with Purdue and Michigan and hold the tiebreaker with second-place Nebraska. A win at No. 7 Penn State on Wednesday night would go a long
way in securing the first-round bye, as well as an NCAA bid for the Illini. But a win would be no easy task. The Nittany Lions are at the top of the Big Ten standings and haven’t lost in Happy Valley since Jan. 7, 2012. Illinois hasn’t won in University Park, Pa., since 1998 and has only won at Penn State twice in school history. Big Ten Player of the Year candidate Maggie Lucas leads Penn State with 19.8 points per game. “First of all, you have to stop (Lucas) before she starts because once she gets on a roll, you done,” GodBold said. Lucas is joined in the backcourt by Alex Bentley, who averages 13.7 points per game. “Bentley and Maggie are a good pair,” GodBold said. “But once we stop them, they become weak.” After Lucas and Bentley, no Nittany Lion averages double figures in scoring, though four average more than seven points and 20 minutes per game. “I can’t really point out one weakness,” GodBold said. On paper, it is hard to find Penn State’s weaknesses. The Nittany Lions only rank in the bottom half of three statistics nationally: 3-point field goals per game, assists per game and fouls per game. The Nittany Lions are second nationally in 3-point field-goal percentage, but they rank in the bottom half of made 3s because they shoot from behind the arc less than most teams.
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Illinois’ Adrienne GodBold tries to break through her opponents’ locked hands during Illinois’ win over Wisconsin at Assembly Hall on Monday. Illinois earned a top-four seed and first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament, but still faces an uphill battle against No. 7 Penn State on Wednesday. “I can’t really point out one weakness,” GodBold said. Penn State has also had six days to prepare for the Illini, while Illinois will be playing on one day’s rest. Wednesday’s matchup with be Illinois’ fourth against a top-25 squad this season. The Illini are 2-1 against the top 25 so far this season with wins against then-No. 6 Georgia and then-No. 24 Iowa. The only loss was against thenNo. 14 Purdue. The Illini are also 5-1 in Big Ten road games, tied for the most conference road wins in program his-
tory. For this year’s squad to set a new record, it must top another top-25 team, either Penn State or No. 22 Purdue on March 3. The strain of the quick transition makes it difficult for Illinois to prepare for Penn State. “We’ve got to go be us and go be at our very best we can be,” Bollant said. “If we compete and play hard, we’ll let the end result take care of itself.”
Johnathan can be reached at hetting2@ dailyillini.com and @jhett93.
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Wednesday, 6 p.m. University Park, Pa. Illinois has only won at Penn State twice in school history, with the last win coming in 1998.
The big 10 of the
Strength of Big Ten projected to invade NCAA tournament BY ETHAN ASOFSKY AND THOMAS BRUCH SENIOR WRITER AND STAFF WRITER
Editor’s note: Big 10 of the Big Ten is a collection of tidbits from around the conference. This weekly feature provides a recap from the previous slate of games and also serves as a preview to the upcoming basketball week.
on his bracket, while Michigan State and Michigan are both No. 2 seeds. Illinois is currently a No. 10 seed, playing No. 7 North Carolina State in Philadelphia.
Hoosier woes at Breslin Center
Entering their head-to-head matchup on Tuesday night, Michigan State and Indiana were tied for first in the Big Ten. Both boasted records of 11-2, two games ahead of Michigan.
Indiana’s historic program has been through all sorts of peaks and troughs in the past 22 years, but one thing it hasn’t done is win at the Breslin Center since the year 1991. Some members of both squads were not even alive when that last victory took place. That changed Tuesday with Indiana’s 72-68 win over Michigan State.
Experts say
Game of the week
In ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi’s latest mock selection, the Big Ten is projected to get seven teams into the field. Indiana is the overall No. 1 selection
You saw it last night: No. 1 Indiana at No. 4 Michigan State for possession of the conference crown. Michigan State also plays at No. 18 Ohio State on Sunday.
Leaderboard
The Buckeyes that good? The only team Ohio State beat that was ranked at the time of its win was then-No. 2 Michigan at home. Other than that, the Buckeyes are 1-7 against teams that are ranked. They did defeat Wisconsin on Jan. 29, but the Badgers weren’t ranked at the time.
To the ice It’s not basketball, but No. 18 Wisconsin defeated No. 2 Michigan in the OfficeMax Hockey City Classic at Soldier Field. More than 50,000 fans were in attendance.
the top four in the Big Ten standings for the 12th consecutive year under head coach Bo Ryan.
Postgame celebrations with Ke$ha Two Big Ten teams had postgame victory celebrations go viral in the past week. What was the common thread in both Wisconsin and Minnesota’s celebrations? Ke$ha’s club-banger “Die Young” was the background music for each, including Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith showing off some impressive dance moves.
Bo Ryan’s genius
Ken Pom’s stats back the Big Ten
Here’s a stat that will make your jaw drop: Wisconsin, sitting in fourth place in the Big Ten, is five games away from finishing in
Ken Pomeroy’s tempo-free statistical rankings are now mustreads for college hoops fans and even coaches, John Groce and
Butler head coach Brad Stevens included. This week, Pomeroy has eight Big Ten teams ranked in the top 30: Indiana, Michigan State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio State and Iowa.
Iowa lurking The Big Ten’s strength and depth crops up in almost every discussion involving college basketball, but one team that is not receiving as much love is Iowa. The Hawkeyes (17-9, 6-7 Big Ten) have marquee victories over Minnesota and Wisconsin. Two other resume builders remain on the schedule, Illinois and Indiana, but even if the Hawkeyes win only their other three games, that will put Iowa at 9-9 in conference play.
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here is a disturbing — perhaps politically correct, if you want to call it that — trend floating around the sports world right now that says, “Just root for your team.” What it means is this: Don’t root against other teams, just root for yours. And I say, no, no, no. Here is why. Sports encourage a certain type of greed. The greed doesn’t involve money — the public chides $200 million athletes and teams (the Yankees) that “buy players.” It doesn’t involve trades or free agency, either, proved totally and completely by the LeBron-to-the-Heat fiasco. Basically, it does not apply to the bad stuff — business, money, lockouts, etc. This greed is only at the pure heart of sports — the games, the wins, the championships. Call it “Victory Greed.” Michael Jordan has six rings. He’d rather have 16. Jack Nicklaus owns 18 major championships. He wishes it was 80. If you win 25 straight games, you’d have preferred 26. Or 27. Score 60 points? It could have been 70. Hit four home runs in a game? Five would have been even cooler. This greed especially applies to the quality of each victory. Beating the No. 1 team in the country is sweet. Beating them on a buzzer-beater is even sweeter. Our victory greed tells us the sweeter the win, the better the experience, and the greedy want the best experience possible. And it is this greed that tells this whole “just root for your team” garbage to curl away in a corner somewhere and die. Rivalries are nothing more than Victory Greed. When a rival takes the court, field, ice or diamond in hopes of defeating your team, the quality of the game reaches its peak. The pressure of each moment is amplified because you don’t just want to win. You want to watch the other team lose. The game means more. Thus, the victory is sweeter. Go back to the previous example. Beating No. 1 — sweet. Beating them on a buzzer-beater — sweeter. Beating No. 1 on a buzzer-beater and it’s your archrival — oh, man. Mount your high horse, trot along the high road and disagree with me if you wish. But then you just aren’t being honest with yourself. You’re saying when you watched Tyler Griffey lay in that buzzer-beater, and you didn’t enjoy watching Indiana sulk off the floor with their heads down? I sure did. If that game was against No. 1 Florida, the victory would have been sweet, but not as sweet. We don’t hate Florida. I traveled home to Peoria — home of Illinois shooting guard D.J. Richardson — this weekend and watched my high school alma mater, Peoria Notre Dame, play its archrival, Richwoods. (D.J. played at Peoria Central.) The place was bumping. Both schools were represented by impressive student sections, each yelling at each other with hostility, each screaming with each made basket and each totally and completely hating one another. It was fantastic. The players fed off of the energy and played with urgency. The atmosphere was electric. That’s just the way it is with rivalries, with hatred. Further proof lies in the professional ranks as well. When Chicago Cubs tickets go on sale, the matchups against the St. Louis Cardinals will be the first to sell out because if a dad is going to drop a few hundred bucks to take him and his family to Wrigley Field, he wants that trip to be as sweet as possible. He wants to see them beat the Cardinals. Same goes for Bears fans (Packers), Blackhawks fans (Red Wings), Duke fans (North Carolina) and any other fan. The call to “just root for your team” is a call to abolish the hate, to abolish the wish to watch certain teams lose, to abolish rivalries. That’s not a call I will answer. A world where the Cubs don’t hate the Cardinals, the Bears don’t hate the Packers, Illinois doesn’t hate Indiana and everyone just gets along handsomely, patting each other on the back with a Good Job! after every championship... That’s not a sports world I want to live in.
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Indiana gets first win at Michigan State since 1991 BY LARRY LAGE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Victor Oladipo’s go-ahead putback, dunk and free throws in the final minute lifted top-ranked Indiana to a 72-68 win over No. 4 Michigan State on Tuesday night. Indiana (24-3, 12-2 Big Ten) broke a first-place tie in the conference and moved a step closer toward earning top seeding next month in the NCAA tournament. The Hoosiers had lost 17 straight — since 1991 — on the road against the Spartans. Michigan State blew opportunities at the line. Trailing by three with 3.7 seconds left, Gary Harris was fouled on a 3-point attempt. He missed the first one and then after making the second, missed the third on purpose. Indiana got the rebound — Oladipo got to it, of course — and he hit two free throws to seal the win. Keith Appling had missed the front end of a one and one with a little more than a minute left.
Michigan State (22-5, 11-3) had won five straight and 11 of 12 with its only loss during the stretch at Indiana. Oladipo, who sprained his left ankle in his last game, had 19 points, nine rebounds and five steals. Cody Zeller had 17 points — nearly doubling what he had in the previous matchup against Michigan State — while Jordan Hulls and Christian Watford scored 12 each for the Hoosiers. Harris had 19 points, Adreian Payne scored 17 and the rest of their teammates struggled offensively. Appling, Michigan State’s leading scorer, was held to six points on 1-of-8 shooting, Branden Dawson scored eight and Derrick Nix had eight points and some of his contributions offensively late in the game looked like they were going to help the school win its second game in the regular season against a No. 1 team. Nix made a go-ahead shot — after grabbing rebounds off two
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The Indiana bench celebrates near the end of their 72-68 win over Michigan State, Tuesday, in East Lansing, Mich. of his misses — to put Michigan State ahead 64-63 lead with 3:08 left and scored again in the post on its next possession. Harris made one of two free throws with 1:38 remaining to give the Spartans a game-high, fourpoint lead. Watford responded with a three-
point play on the ensuing possession to pull Indiana within a point and Oladipo did the rest. The game marked the first time two top-five teams have met at the Breslin Center. It was the third matchup of top-four teams in college basketball this season, and the sec-
Wrestling ironically unites Iran, America BY BRIAN MURPHY AND NASSER KARIMI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN, Iran — The caretakers of the Olympics may have inadvertently accomplished what has eluded diplomats: Galvanizing Iran and the U.S. on a common goal. Wrestling officials from the arch foes appeared to be in bonding mode Tuesday on the sidelines of a Tehran tournament less than a week after the stunning decision by the International Olympic Committee that will force the ancient sport — as old as the Olympics themselves — to lobby for a spot at the 2020 Games. Already, the fight to keep wrestling in the Olympics has brought the U.S. and Cuban federations into a possible alliance. But close cooperation between Iran and America would be an even more remarkable display of common cause with almost everything else driving them apart — led by an impasse over Tehran’s nuclear program and Western sanctions that have upended the Iranian economy. It’s unlikely that any kind of wrestling detente would spill over into the wider issues, but it’s certain to at least draw attention to the power of sports as a low-risk icebreaker going back to the historic 1971 “pingpong diplomacy” between China and the U.S. U.S. freestyle coach Zeke Jones,
speaking to The Associated Press by phone from Tehran, said that officials from 10 of the world’s top wrestling nations will meet Wednesday in Iran. Delegations from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, the United States, Russia and Turkey will gather to discuss how to reverse the IOC’s decision. Jones said that those countries were chosen because they finished in the top 10 in the freestyle competition at the 2011 world championships, the last time team scores were held at a major international meet. “We’ll be standing arm-in-arm with Iran, and we’ll be standing with Russia as we will with lots of other countries,” said Mitch Hull, national teams director for USA Wrestling, in an interview in Tehran with AP Television News before the World Cup Tournament. “Those (countries) really do make a difference because politically we’re not always on the same page, or politically with Russia, but in wrestling, there’s no doubt that we are all together in this effort and we consider Iran one of our strongest allies in the sport of wrestling,” Hull said. Hull described them as “sport rivals, but they are friends in sport, too.” “We have great confidence that we can work with the Iranian wrestling federation, Iranian wrestlers and the Iranian people
to show the world that, no matter determinedly,” Khatib was quotwhat’s happening politically, we ed by the semiofficial Mehr news have the same goal and the same agency as saying. “We should show belief and passion about the sport our unity in the current event.” On Monday, U.S. wrestling offiof wrestling,” he said. Jones said that the World Cup, cials agreed to create a special which ranks below only the world committee charged with seeking championships in annual impor- to save Olympic wrestling, which tance, has come at a “perfect will remain in the 2016 Summer time,” given the IOC’s recent Games in Rio de Janeiro. But it move. must compete against seven other Though Jones acknowledged events — including squash, roller that relations between interna- sports and wakeboarding — for one open slot in tional wrestling the 2020 Games, teams like the which have yet to U.S. and Iran be awarded to a can be difficult, he said such comhost city. petitions usually Iran also has foster the kind of said it is lookcamaraderie and ing to join wresfriendship the tling’s “big powsport desperateers” to reverse ly needs. the IOC decision. “You’ll have Last week, Iran’s wrestling federaabsolutely zero problem with the tion and its OlymMITCH HULL, countries being pic committee said national teams director unified on saving they would send a for USA Wrestling wrestling,” Jones protest letter to the said. “The counIOC. tries will do anything in working For Iran, it’s a mission of serious together to keep Olympic wres- importance. Wrestling is considtling in the program.” ered by many to be something of Hojatollah Khatib, the head of a national sport — not as popular Iran’s wrestling federation, said as soccer or with the deep Persian the tournament would offer “the roots of polo, but one that gives best opportunity to confront the Iran a chance to shine in internadecision” to drop the sport from tional competitions. Wrestling also the Olympics. is Iran’s major medal sport at the “We should resist the decision, Olympics.
“We’ll be standing arm-in-arm with Iran, and we’ll be standing with Russia as we will with lots of other countries.”
ond for Indiana, which beat then top-ranked Michigan It’s just the fourth with a pair of Big Ten teams since 1997. The highly anticipated and hyped game lived up to the billing with end-to-end action, scrambles for loose balls, 3-point shots, blocks in the lane and plenty of physical play.
WEINSTEIN FROM PAGE 1B career, getting the crowd into it in the process. But when her music stopped, Weinstein said she wasn’t impressed. “I was like ‘shoot,’” she said. “It didn’t feel like my best routine. I felt like I had done better routines, so I was worried a little bit just because we didn’t have Amber in the lineup so I was working on trying to help our team out with a big score. I was a little worried and I really was pleasantly surprised. “I didn’t expect that big score and I was thrilled.” Weinstein broke the floor record with her 9.975 and the allaround mark with a 39.600. The all-around record had previously been held by 2011 alumna Allison Buckley, a gymnast who Landrus said left her mark on the program. Buckley has been influential to Weinstein, who said she was a great friend in and out of the gym. “She was a great leader to me. She was a mentor, and we’re actually still really good friends now,” Weinstein said. “We see each other a lot and she’s been supportive through the whole thing. I bet that it’s a bittersweet feeling for her because you want your name to be in the record books, but I look at it as our program moving forward and I know that that’s what she wants in the end.” Buckley, who said she had been at every home gymnastics meet in each of her six years at Illinois, was ironically absent during Weinstein’s record-setting night.
National pundits have pegged Indiana small forward Will Sheehey as the nation’s premiere sixth man for his contributions on the No. 1 team in the land. Sheehey earned the role through efficient production off the bench, but as Illini faithful know, another Big Ten team possesses a similar weapon. Joseph Bertrand, a springy junior guard, has wowed spectators with athleticism and photograph-worthy finishes around the rim. His statistics, though, bear more than a slight resemblance to Sheehey’s numbers. Sheehey averages 10.2 points per game on 51.3 percent shooting and 38.6 percent 3-point shooting, 3.7 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 0.9 steals in 22.3 minutes per game. Bertrand is not far behind, and actually ahead, in some of those categories: 8.3 points per game on 52.7 percent shooting and 34.1 percent 3-point shooting, 4.6 rebounds, 0.7 assists and 0.9 steals in 23.5 minutes per game. Sheehey will likely run away with the “best sixth man in the nation” moniker, but Bertrand will be mentioned right alongside of Sheehey in any conversation on the topic.
Thomas can be reached at bruch2@ dailyillini.com and @ThomasBruch. “They’re two very, very gifted athletes,” Landrus said. “Allison really left her mark here at Illinois, and she has the most event titles of anybody that has come through our program and she was such a phenomenal athlete, so for Alina to break her record, it says a lot about Alina as well.” Even though she wasn’t there, Buckley was still watching the scores on her phone and sent Weinstein a congratulatory text after the performance. Weinstein said when that day comes when another Illinois gymnast breaks her record, she’ll know just what to say. “I’ll tell her that I’m ecstatic,” Weinstein said. “I hope that it doesn’t happen too soon because I want my name to be there for a little bit, but I hope that the girl who breaks it does an amazing routine and feels exactly the way that I did. That will just be a really special moment, it gives me the chills just talking about it because that’s my one mission, to move Illinois gymnastics forward.” As for how soon is too soon, Weinstein has an answer for that, too. “I hope in a couple years it will be beaten,” she said. “Honestly it’s really humbling,” Weinstein added later. “I came in as a freshman and I never would have thought to see myself in the record books. Those were the people I looked up to. I looked up to Allison Buckley and so I never expected to be hanging with them.”
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