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■ An 18-year-old female was arrested on charges of retail theft in the 300 block of East Stoughton Street around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the suspect and a minor attempted to steal a bottle of liquor from County Market.

■ A 20-year-old male was arrested on charges of battery, mob action, aggravated assault and unlawful use of weapons in the 900 block of South First Street in Champaign around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the victim was sitting on the front porch of his fraternity when he was approached by three males who pulled a gun, which the victim slapped away, before all three suspects fl ed. One suspect was later located and arrested.

University■ A 21-year-old male was arrested on

charges of driving under the infl uence of alcohol at the corner of Green Street and Mathews Avenue in Urbana around 11 p.m. Thursday.

According to the report, the suspect was originally stopped because he made an improper turn.

■ A 43-year-old male was arrested on charges of trespassing on state-support-ed land in the 1300 block of West Spring-fi eld Avenue in Urbana around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday.

According to the report, the suspect had been issued a previous trespassing warning, and the offi cer recognized him walking on the Bardeen Quad.

■ A 39-year-old male and a 63-year-old male were arrested on charges of tamper-ing with a vehicle in the 200 block of South Locust Street in Champaign around 12:45 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, the suspects were sitting in a vehicle that was parked at an auto-mobile repair shop when an offi cer drove by.

Urbana■ A 27-year-old male was arrested on

charges of delivery of cannabis and an out-standing City of Champaign warrant for pos-session of cannabis in the 2200 block of South Philo Road around 6:30 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the offi cers per-formed a drug search and found that the sus-pect had an outstanding warrant as well as cannabis packaged for delivery.

■ A 22-year-old female was arrested on an outstanding City of Champaign warrant for retail theft in the 2200 block of South Philo Road around 6:30 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the offi cers per-formed a drug search and found that the sus-pect had an outstanding warrant.

■ A 21-year-old male was arrested on charges of driving under the infl uence of drugs, possession of a controlled substance and resisting an offi cer in the 500 block of West University Avenue around 8:30 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the suspect was initially pulled over after showing signs of impairment.

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lini, a headline on a story about a new assistant head coach for the Illini Hockey team said he would coach the goalies. The coach, Blake So-rensen, will coach forwards and special teams. The Daily Illini regrets this error.

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Illini head football coach Tim Beckman speaks positively of the team at the Big Ten Media Days in Chicago on Wednesday.

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By Darshan PatelEditor-in-ChiEf

CHICAGO — President Robert Easter will oversee the three campuses a little longer.

The Board of Trustees on Thursday approved a one-year extension and a per-formance-based bonus for Easter, whose contract now runs through mid-2015.

The board’s Executive Committee will be responsible for evaluating Easter’s prog-ress of established goals and awarding additional compensation this September. His base salary is $450,000 per year, which is expected to increase in September when employees are set to receive salary bumps. The salary program will increase employ-ees’ pay by an average of 2.75 percent, with a minimum of 0.5 percent.

Easter’s bonus will be considered during the trustees’ meeting in September, when the board is expected to approve the bud-get for fiscal year 2014.

According to the board’s proposal, it was in the University’s “best interest” to extend Easter’s contract.

“A lot of people think of him as providing stable leadership. I would describe him as being a dynamic leader, even as he has pro-vided stability on a personal level,” Board of Trustees chairman Christopher Kenne-dy said after the meeting.

Easter, 65, agreed to take the position last year after his predecessor, Michael Hogan, resigned. Easter had agreed to serve until mid-2014, “or until a successor has been appointed and is able to assume

the responsibilities of the position.”The trustees opted out of a national

search for a president this year, as Ken-nedy said that it would be conducted a year in advance of Easter’s eventual retirement.

“We’re out as a Board of Trustees speak-ing with important constituents ... through those conversations and more broadly in the entire Illinois community, it became clear there was enormous support to extend President Easter’s leadership,” Kennedy said.

The trustees also took action on a num-ber of dean positions at the Urbana cam-pus. They appointed Andreas Cangellaris and Jan Slater for the permanent positions in Engineering and Media, respectively. John Wilkin was approved as the Univer-sity librarian. The board also signed off on a one-year extension for Robert Hauser in ACES and appointed Brian Ross as the interim LAS dean.

The board also signed off on funding for a multi-million dollar renovation to the Uni-versity of Illinois Medical Center in Chi-cago. The University can issue up to $77 million to help fund the development that includes upgrading the hospitals heating and cooling, electrical, plumbing and ele-vator systems, along with building a two-story addition to the center.

The University says the project should be completed in 2017 and should not affect patient care.

Darshan can be reached at patel174 @dailyillini.com and @drshnpatel.

Board also approves performance-based bonus for Easter

President Easter’s contract extended for another year

Portrait by Melissa MccaBe

President Robert Easter sits on a bench outside the President’s House in Urbana on July 2, 2012. The Board of Trustees recently approved an extension of Easter’s leadership until mid-2015.


By Kat BoehleAssistAnt Assignment editor

University physics professor George Gollin announced his intent to run for Congress Tuesday afternoon at the Champaign County Fair. Gollin will seek the Democratic nomination to run for the 13th Congressional District, a seat currently held by Republican Rodney Davis.

“Washington has plenty of lawyers, I’m a teacher and a scientist,” Gollin said in his campaign announcement. “Certainly law is an honorable profession, but as a scientist, I was trained to discover the facts, and act on them. Lawyers, on the other hand, are trained to argue about the facts. I think we have enough argument in Washington already, and need more facts.”

To broaden on his reasons of running, Gollin said that he got involved in higher education policy back in 2003 when he learned of “diploma mills,” which are criminal organizations that sell fake degrees. He had started to help with federal legislation on this, and when this bill reached the senate, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) had “tanked” most of the legislation.

“This was meant to stop people (from) selling fake medical degrees across state lines, so I was very distressed with that,” Gollin said. “Once the bill got out of a position where I was no longer able to influence it, politics and dirty money got in the way.”

Gollin said that there were other energy policies that went in a similar manner when Congress got involved, and he felt it was time to get involved in the legislative process directly.

“It’s wanting to do public service to make my horizons a little bit broader,” he said.

Gollin said he has lots of policy interests, and he feels that the most pressing issue to work on right now is job creation, more specifically in encouraging people to complete college degrees to help open up the workforce.

Although degree mills is a pressing issue, if elected, Gollin said that he would focus on more important issues.

“We know how to kill off the whole diploma mill industry, it’s just a matter of political will,” Gollin said. “In two years, it will be gone.”

Starting in the spring, Gollin said that he will be taking a paid leave from teaching and research. He said he will continue the paid leave until he “either loses an election or retires from Congress.” Gollin said that, with the University being a state institution, the administration emphasizes public service to faculty and are therefore very supportive of his campaign.

Gollin said he first got involved with

degree mills when he called up a “degree ad” that he was constantly receiving and got a sales pitch on fake degrees. He then did more research on diploma mills and found out that they would go as far as selling degrees to terrorists, which he said makes it a hazard.

“Some very bad people in Spokane saw that I had published a report about them,” Gollin said. “They came after me which led to fight and threats. It was pretty scary, but I got the Department of Justice interested, and the authorities brought me in as an analyst.”

He said that this eventually led to the arrest of those who had came after him in Spokane. The publicity had attracted representatives, which led to the writing of the legislation.

This led to Gollin writing a book, “Dream of Serpents,” that he recently finished and is hoping to get published.

Whether Gollin’s election would be beneficial to the University and students, he said that he believed having an educator as a politician would be beneficial for all educational institutions. He also plans to address the spike in costs of attending college.

“The whole issue on how expensive it is to go to college is something that really needs pressure to be brought to bear on those who set the administrative structure of universities,” Gollin said.

Gollin said that as someone who has worked for the University since 1989, he is well aware of any issues that students are having, which includes the trouble of students registering to vote. “I understand that my first obligation is to be a public servant, to understand the needs of people in the district, and try to defend and protect their interest and their well-being,” he said.

With the primaries in March, Gollin said that he and his campaign are already planning campaign events that emphasize learning more about District 13 and its residents.

“It’s important for someone in office, or running for office, to really learn about the district,” Gollin said. “So what I really want to start soon is to begin a listening tour. I want to go around and have people talk to me about their concerns.”

Gollin concluded saying that in politics, it’s best to be optimistic.

“In my experience, it’s best to be positive and optimistic, because that is actually the way things work,” he said. “There are real problems in our governance, and it seems like nothing can change, but in my experience, there are surprises in how events unfold.”

Kat can be reached at [email protected].

By Kat BoehleAssistAnt Assignment editor

Voter policies were discussed on cam-pus Wednesday morning when Secretary of State Jesse White, State Senator Mike Fre-richs, D-52, and State Representative Naomi Jakobsson, D-103, all joined together at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs on Nevada Street.

White opened up the event discussing the fact that when people want to vote, they go to the Secretary of State’s office.

“I believe that if you don’t vote, you lose your right to complain about anything in society,” White said. “The streets that you walk on, the medicines that you consume, the schools that you attend, the clothes that you buy, someone in the government has had something to say about those issues and more.”

He then introduced the two issues that would be discussed that day, whether a 17-year-old who will be old enough to vote in an election should be allowed to vote dur-ing the primaries, and electronic voting. Gov. Pat Quinn officially signed the bill on elec-tronic voting Saturday.

Jakobsson then spoke on the issues saying that the bills were very important to her and for the state. She added that she has “worked endlessly” to help students on campus vote with getting registered and changing their address from year to year if they move to different apartments.

“If while they’re 17 and they’re going to be 18 in time to vote, it’s really important to let those people participate in our democra-cy right away in the upcoming primary so that they can help shape the general elec-tion as well as participate in it,” Jakobsson said. “This is something that I have always thought was a good idea.”

She also showed her support for the online voter registration saying that anyone who wants to vote should be able to do so in the quickest and easiest way possible.

Frerichs then spoke on how he and Jako-bsson have worked on many voter-registration laws saying that if we want to improve the

state, we have to improve voter participation.“I think (one of) two good ways of doing

that is making sure that young people vote,” Frerichs said. “If you’re 17-years-old and you know you’re going to be able to vote in that general election, you should have a say in who that party nominee is.”

He also pointed out that 10 other states in the nation do it, including Illinois neighbors Indiana and Kentucky.

“It shows that young people want to par-ticipate and it’s time for Illinois to join in,” Frerichs said.

For online registration, Frerichs said that with everything going online these days, it’s good to get voter registration online too.

“There will be some people who will object and say that we need safe-guards in place,” he said. “But once again, Illinois is not taking the lead on this, other states have done this before us and other states have shown how to do it without voter fraud.”

The officials then turned it over to ques-tions where it was asked of White what the state will be doing to get the word out to high school students that they can vote in the pri-maries if they will be 18 years old by the election.

White said that the media will be playing a big role in this, saying that if students are watching, listening or reading the news, they will know about this. He also said that anoth-er way of getting the word out is that offices of the Secretary of State will have brochures on 17-year-olds being able to vote.

Jakobsson also added that senators and representatives who travel around during the primaries will be reminding the audience that 17-year-olds who will be old enough by the election that they can vote.

Frerichs also believed that school officials who are aware of political actions will also be reminding students.

White and Frerichs said that these laws will be in effect in January in time for the March 2014 primaries.

Kat can be reached at [email protected].

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Secretary of State Jesse White came to the Institute of Government and Public Affairs on July 25 to discuss House Bill 226 and online voter registration. He urged the governor to sign House Bill 2418, which would allow 17-year-olds to vote in the primaries if they would be 18 by the next general election.

Sec. of State White questions voter policiesDemocrats assemble in Champaign to discuss voting rules

Desire for facts drives UI professor to CongressTaking paid leave from physics department, Gollin enters race for Democratic nomination


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BY LANRE ALABISTAFF WRITER

The Illinois economy is recovering but quite sluggishly. This was the conclusion reached based on a study conducted by University professor Robert Bruno and Chicago Labor Education Program research associate Frank Manzo IV . Bruno, who is also the director of the Labor Education Program , and Manzo used the data from the current populations survey which is gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau. The survey is conducted monthly for the Bureau of Labor Statistics to help determine variables such as the unemployment rate. The analyzed data for this study was from the March editions of the survey from 1995 until 2012.

“We wanted to take a pre-recession, post-recession snapshot of the state of working in Illinois,” Manzo said in a news release . “What we found is that there’s still a lot of slack in the labor market; in Keynesian terms, we have what’s known as ‘weak aggregate demand.’ The state is in recovery, albeit quite slowly, which means that workers are still worse-off than before the recession. But things aren’t quite as bad as they were during the darkest days of the Great Recession.”

Bruno and Manzo presented some intriguing solutions on how to bring the state economy up to speed, including the recommendation that the Illinois government should invest more into public infrastructure.

“Infrastructure is both hard capital like roads, sewer systems, electrical grids and highways,” Bruno said. “It is also building hospitals, building new schools. It is hiring new teachers. It is putting more money into supporting pre-K through university

education. It is the combination of both hard and soft capital that makes investing in infrastructure viable.”

The duo’s ideas go beyond just a single pronged attack. In an effort for short-term and sustainable long-term boost, Bruno and Manzo want to use a combination of wage variables to help the economy . They advocate a raise in the minimum wage and an implementation of the Earned Income Tax Credit system.

“Illinois is one of six states that administers a fl at tax rate,” Bruno said. “We argue that if you had a slightly progressive income

tax, given the fact that Illinois is a wealthy, very high educated state, you will bring in billions of dollars without signifi cantly hampering anybody’s quality of life. You can then turn that money around and invest it back into the infrastructure.”

The researchers believe the success of the state’s economy is predicated on the lawmakers in Springfi eld. The lawmakers will need to enact more “worker-friendly” policies to make the state more attractive . Professor Bruno said the higher wages and better standard of life will serve as incentives for more workers to come to Illinois. Regardless of the higher cost of production, employers will also be spurred on to move their businesses to and create businesses in Illinois because of the level of education their workers will receive here.

The incentive for the employers lies in higher revenue they can earn in the state.

“There is so much potential in the Illinois labor market that is going to waste,” Manzo said. “We hope that this study can add to a policy debate that needs to happen in the statehouse.”

Lanre can be reached at [email protected].

BY DARSHAN PATELEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

CHICAGO — The student trustee from the Urbana campus will hold the offi cial vote at Board of Trustees meetings.

Gov. Pat Quinn earlier this month awarded Mike Cunningham, a senior studying economics and political science, the offi cial vote after the three student representatives wrote to him about why they should hold the vote.

But the three student trustees, one from each campus, generally voice their opinions in unity.

Before Wednesday’s retreat and Thursday’s regular meeting, Cunningham said he had the chance to speak with the other student board members, making time to go through the items they and the regular board members will be voting on.

Student trustees were offi cially instilled during the morning session. Cunningham will serve on two committees: the Audit, Budget, Finance and Facilities Committee and the Academic and Student Affairs Committee.

Cunningham edged out Brian Siegel, senior in Media and former Illini Media employee, in the student trustee race this past spring by fewer than 200 votes.

Daniel Soso in 2010-11 was the last Urbana student who held the offi cial vote.

Students have served on the board since 1973, and one has had voting power each year since 1998.

Darshan can be reached at [email protected] and @drshnpatel.

Urbana student to hold offi cial vote as trusteeStudy: Different strategy needed

to fi x Illinois economyUniversity professor, research assistant show sluggish but steady recovery

Cunningham awarded vote after writing to Gov. Quinn

“There is so much potential in the

Illinois labor market that is

going to waste.”FRANK MANZO IV,

Chicago Labor Education Program research associate


By Stephen BourBonStaff Writer

The University of Illinois’ dedication to making content accessible to those with dis-abilities has been recognized.

The National Federation of the Blind “high-ly commend(s)” the eText Group, which is a part of CITES at the University for making digital textbooks accessible and available to students. The NFB announced and approved its commendation at its national convention in Orlando on July 5.

The NFB stated that Illinois was recog-nized for “leading the way in higher educa-tion by showing other institutions and learn-ing management systems the full power of a flexible, interactive and well-supported plat-form that is accessible to the blind and geared to a variety of learning styles and abilities.”

The eText platform allows for online text-books and study materials to be accessible on an Internet browser for classes. It can

be accessed through a regular computer as well as other devices such as mobile phones, laptops and tablets. Students can save up to 75 percent on costs by choosing eText over printed textbooks, according to CITES.

“The eText@Illinois team has always believed in not compromising on accessibil-ity,” Milind Basole, lead eLearning profes-sional of eText said in a release. “Validation of our work from an esteemed institution like the NFB is not only profoundly gratifying but

reinforces our resolve. It also reinforces our belief that accessibility and great user expe-rience go hand in hand.”

EText allows accessibility through com-plete keyboard control in the interface as well as other resources to assist those using the product. All multimedia content has cap-tions and any videos on the platform have corresponding transcripts with them. The NFB also recognized the eText’s math equa-tions are easily accessible with text-to-speech application as well as in Braille, something “many mostly accessible platforms struggle to implement.”

The entire program is compliant with Sec-tion 508 of the United States Rehabilitation Act, which requires federal agencies to make electronic information accessible to people with disabilities.

Stephen can be reached at sbourbo2 @dailyillini.com and @steve_bourbon.

Daily illini Staff report

The University of Illinois Foundation announced on Wednesday that it set a record for new funds in a given year.

The University’s fundraising arm raised $428 million in fiscal year 2013, marking the first time the UIF surpassed the $400 million mark. The previous mark was $367.4 million in fiscal year 2007.

The Urbana campus recorded more than $342 million in new gifts, grants, pledges and deferred commitments.

“As we all know, these gifts are essential investments in the University’s mission, and create the ‘margin of excellence’ financial support that sustains the great work of our faculty and the activities and aspirations of our students,” said UIF President Thomas Farrell in a press release.

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GALESBURG, Ill. — Seeking to build momentum for looming fiscal fights, Presi-dent Barack Obama on Wednesday cast him-self as the champion for middle-class Ameri-cans struggling to make ends meet. He chided Washington for having “taken its eye off the ball” and declared that the economy would be the “highest priority” of his second term.

Obama, in an hour-long address that was at times deeply partisan, also accused Republi-can lawmakers of succumbing to “an endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals.” He said gridlock had only gotten worse since his re-election.

“I am here to say this needs to stop,” Obama said in a speech at Knox College. “This moment does not require short-term thinking. It does not require having the same old stale debates.”

Obama, as he often does when criticizing Washington, glossed over his own status as the inhabitant of the city’s most powerful office.

GOP leaders quickly panned the president’s remarks as a series of repackaged ideas and empty promises.

“It’s a hollow shell, it’s an Easter egg with no candy in it,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said.

Indeed, the president’s remarks were void of new policy proposals or fresh solutions for breaking Washington stalemates. And there were no new approaches presented for resolv-ing potential showdowns with Republicans this fall over raising the nation’s borrowing limit and curtailing across-the-board federal bud-get cuts known as the sequester.

For the president’s advisers, a central goal of the speech was simply to refocus Obama’s agenda squarely on the economy ahead of the fall deadlines. The first six months of his

second term largely have been consumed by priorities like gun control and immigration, as well as an array of foreign policy crises and domestic controversies, including the National Security Agency’s domestic spy-ing programs and IRS scrutiny of political groups.

While official Washington’s attention was elsewhere, the economy was slowly but steadily improving. The housing market is recovering, the stock market is soaring, and unemployment, while still high at 7.6 per-cent, is falling.

But the White House fears that standoffs this fall over the debt ceiling and the seques-ter could upend that progress. The president has declared that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling and expects Republicans to lift the borrowing limit without concessions. He’s also pushing to end the federal budget cuts before they extend into the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

The president panned the sequester as a “meat cleaver” that has “cost jobs, hurt our military and gutted investments in Ameri-can education.”

Obama will seek to keep up his renewed economic focus in the coming weeks with a series of speeches on manufacturing, educa-tion, housing, retirement security and health care. Advisers say some of those speeches will contain more specific policy proposals, both for congressional legislation and execu-tive action.

The president said he welcomed ideas from lawmakers of both parties, but wouldn’t stand for reflexive opposition to his own initiatives.

“I’m laying out my ideas to give the middle class a better shot,” he said. “Now it’s time for you to lay out your ideas.”

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President Barack Obama gestures as he talks about his vision for rebuilding the economy on Wednesday at Knox College in Galesburg Ill. The president repackaged his economic message, a six-point plan for putting a floor under the country's diminishing middle class.

Obama rekindles economic focus as sequester loomsStagnant Washington takes heat for gridlock

CITES commended for improving textbook accessibility UI Foundation raises record funds in 2013University fundraising brings $428 million in gifts, grants and pledges

EText allows students with disabilities to access textbooks, study materials online

“The eText@Illinois team has always believed in not

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NEW YORK — Prosecutors said a large volume of evidence including electronic mes-sages, court-ordered wiretaps and consen-sual recordings is stacked against a Con-necticut-based hedge fund that pleaded not guilty Friday to criminal charges accusing it of letting insider trading fl ourish for more than a decade.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Antonia Apps told a federal judge in Manhattan that investiga-tors had “voluminous” evidence against SAC Capital Advisors, a Stamford, Conn.-based fi rm owned by billionaire Steven A. Cohen.

She said the evidence included “electronic messages, instant messages, court-ordered wiretaps and consensual recordings.”

The plea was entered by Peter Nussbaum, SAC’s longtime general counsel, and came a day after the company was charged with wire and securities fraud, accused of mak-ing hundreds of millions of dollars illegal-ly. Federal prosecutors described a culture at SAC that permitted, if not encouraged, insider trading.

Prosecutors said the victims were large companies whose inside information was stolen and traded upon. The next hearing was set for Sept. 24.

Outside court, lawyers for the company including Nussbaum declined to comment and paced on a sidewalk looking for cars to pick them up as the media followed.

SAC said in a statement after the charg-es were announced Thursday that it will continue normal operations. It said it “has never encouraged, promoted or tolerated insider trading and takes its compliance and management obligations seriously.” The company declined through a spokes-

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“When so many people from a single hedge fund have engaged in insider trading, it is not a coincidence,” the prosecutor said. “It is, instead, the predictable product of sub-stantial and pervasive institutional failure.”

He declined to comment on whether Cohen would be charged, saying: “I’m not going to say what tomorrow may or may not bring.”

From 1999 to 2010, the company earned hundreds of millions of dollars illegally as its portfolio managers and analysts traded on inside information from at least 20 pub-lic companies, Bharara said.

The possibility that the criminal case could topple the fi rm, which once managed $15 billion in assets, led the prosecutor to note that the government was not seeking to freeze SAC’s assets. Bharara added that prosecutors were “mindful to minimize risk to third-party investors.”

Still, the government in one lawsuit sought SAC’s forfeiture of “any and all” assets.

The charges came less than a week after federal regulators accused Cohen in a related civil case of failing to prevent insider trading at the fi rm. While the Justice Department’s action targets SAC but not Cohen directly, the civil case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission seeks to effectively shut him down by barring him from manag-ing investor funds.

History of illegal activityto threaten hedge fundAllegations of fraud, insider trading for more than a decade damage SAC Capital Advisors

MARY ALTAFFER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara speaks during a news conference Thursday in New York. SAC Capital, the hedge fund operated by embattled billionaire Steven A. Cohen was hit with white-collar criminal charges.


By MICHAEL BIESECKER And PAuL J. WEBERThe AssociATed Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Stricter voter identification laws, redrawn political maps fortifying Republican majorities, reducing early voting: States with GOP strongholds inten-sified these efforts under President Barack Obama and pro-claimed victory at the Supreme Court.

Now the Obama administration is signaling plans to drag some of these mostly Southern states with histories of minority discrimination into rematches after the high court knocked down a major piece of the Voting Rights Act.

First up is Texas, which rushed to enact a tough voter ID law and new redistricting maps after the justices’ 5-4 rul-ing last month. North Carolina is considered to be another possible target of the administration, and officials in Ala-bama are also digging their heels in for another possible round with the Justice Department.

Other states also are watching closely.“You can imagine a very aggressive Justice Department

trying to get the bar as low as possible and demanding that states be bailed in” back under former voting rights protec-tions, said Rebecca Green, co-director of the election law program at the College of William & Mary.

Predictions that North Carolina is on deck grew late Thursday after its Legislature sent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory sweeping voting law changes, including the end of a popular program that registers high school students to vote in advance of their 18th birthday.

There’s also a strict voter ID measure, slashing early voting by a week and the elimination of same-day registra-

tion. State elections statistics show black voters use early voting in heavy numbers and that more than 300,000 of the state’s residents don’t have a driver’s license, many of them poor and elderly.

North Carolina conservatives call the moves voter integ-rity safeguards and were confident they will stand.

“I think what we’ve seen over the past several years is the Obama administration politicize the voting rights sec-tion in ways we’ve never seen before,” said North Carolina state Sen. Phil Berger, the top Republican in the chamber. “I do not think they are a non-partisan or neutral arbiter.”

North Carolina gave final approval to the measures only

hours after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced he will ask a federal court to tether Texas back to provisions that require permission to change voting laws.

Known as preclearance, the process had been mandatory in all or parts of 15 mostly Southern states with a history of discrimination, until the Supreme Court decision last month wiped out the preapproval.

Holder called the decision flawed and said Thursday he will use “every tool at our disposal” in mounting a new fight over voter protection.

He did not name other states in the sights of the Justice Department but vowed that Texas “will not be our last.”

By PHILIP ELLIOTTThe AssociATed Press

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate compromise on student loans is heading to House, where lawmakers there already have voted to link interest rates with the financial markets.

If lawmakers can iron out the relatively small differenc-es between the House student loan bill and the version the Senate passed Wednesday, students and their parents will find interest rates lower than the ones they faced last year.

President Barack Obama encouraged the House to vote quickly on the legislation so returning students can enjoy lower rates across the board.

“I urge the House to pass this bill so that I can sign it into law right away,” Obama said in a statement.

Critics, including some in the president’s Democratic cau-cus, said borrowing for tuition, housing and books would be less expensive this fall, but the costs could soon start climb-ing under the Senate bill. The compromise would be a good deal for all students through the 2015 academic year. After that, interest rates are expected to climb above where they were when students left campus in the spring, if congres-sional estimates prove correct.

The White House and its allies said the new loan struc-

ture would offer lower rates to 11 million borrowers imme-diately and save the average undergraduate $1,500 in inter-est charges.

The bipartisan Senate bill links interest rates to the finan-cial markets. It is similar to the bill that already had passed the Republican-led House and is like the proposal in Obama’s budget earlier this year.

Undergraduates this fall would borrow at a 3.9 percent interest rate. Graduate students would have access to loans at 5.4 percent, and parents would borrow at 6.4 percent. The rates would be locked in for that year’s loan, but each year’s loan could be more expensive than the last. Rates would rise as the economy picks up and it becomes more expensive for the government to borrow money.

As part of the compromise, Democrats won a protection for students by capping rates at a maximum 8.25 percent for undergraduates. Graduate students would not pay rates higher than 9.5 percent, and parents’ rates would top out at 10.5 percent.

If Congressional Budget Office estimates hold true, rates would not reach those limits in the next 10 years.

For the moment, most lawmakers were emphasizing the low costs immediately available, while a few were already looking for a fix in coming years.

“This bipartisan agreement is a victory for students, for parents and for our economy, and it is consistent with the House Republican bill passed in May,” House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement.

“The House will act expeditiously,” Boehner, R-Ohio, pledged.

The Republican chairman of the House Education Com-mittee, Rep. John Kline of Minnesota, predicted “the bill’s swift passage.” And the top Democrat on the panel, Rep. George Miller of California, similarly urged Boehner to bring up the Senate bill and pass it quickly.

All seemed to portend lower rates for students, a reversal from less than a month ago.

Rates on new subsidized Stafford loans doubled to 6.8 per-cent on July 1 because Congress could not agree on a way to keep them at 3.4 percent. Without congressional action, rates would have remained at 6.8 percent — a reality most lawmakers called unacceptable.

“This permanent, market-based plan makes students’ loans cheaper, simpler and more certain,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Senate education panel. “It ends the annual game of Congress play-ing politics with student loan interest rates at the expense of students planning their futures.”

Southern states scrutinized again over voter ID lawsHolder to mount fight for voter protection

ERIC GAy The AssociATed Press

On Nov. 6, voters wait in line at a polling place located inside a shopping mall on Election Day, in Austin, Texas. Attorney General Eric Holder says Texas is the first place that he will intervene to defend against what he calls attacks on the voting rights of minorities, but it is also the only state where the federal government has a clear opportunity to get involved, experts say.

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DALLAS — From Six Flags to Walt Disney World, there’s no federal oversight of perma-nent amusement parks, and regulations vary from state to state.

The death of a woman who fell 75 feet from Six Flags Over Texas’ Texas Giant roller coaster is reinvigorating discussion among safety experts about whether it’s time to cre-ate more consistent, stringent regulations for thrill rides across the nation.

In Texas, the Department of Insurance requires that an amusement park’s insurance company perform a yearly inspection and carry $1 million liability insurance on each ride, agency spokesman Jerry Hagins said. Six Flags Over Texas was in compliance with those rules at the time of Rose Ayala-Goana’s July 19 fatal fall .

Six Flags Entertainment Corp. President and CEO Jim Reid-Anderson has said it’s using “both internal and external experts” to investigate Ayala-Goana’s death in Arlington.

The park doesn’t need to submit a report to the state on what caused her to fall, and while Arlington police are also looking into the death, they aren’t investigating the ride.

“The question is: Will they release it and will it be complete and comprehensive?” said Ken Martin, an amusement ride safety ana-lyst who owns KRM Consulting of Richmond, Va. “There’s a lot of unanswered questions and because of the way it is in Texas we might not ever have the answer to those questions.”

Martin noted that both the stringency of inspection regulations and which entity oversees those inspections vary across the country.

After an injury that requires medical atten-tion and is possibly due to equipment failure, structural failure or operator error, Texas

parks must shut down the ride and re-inspect it. The Texas Giant has been closed since Ayana-Goala’s death and won’t re-open until the department sees a new safety inspection report, Hagins said.

Amusement park trade group spokeswom-an Colleen Mangone said 44 state govern-ments regulate parks. The six without state oversight — Alabama, Mississippi, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming and Utah — have few amusement parks, if any, she said.

“There is no evidence that federal oversight would improve on the already excellent safety record of the industry,” she said, noting the association’s statistics show the likelihood of being seriously injured is 1 in 24 million; for dying, it’s 1 in 750 million.

“Safety is the number one priority for the amusement park industry and events like the one at Six Flags Over Texas are rare,” she wrote, adding that ride manufacturer guide-lines might require additional inspections beyond daily ones.

Mangone said the statistics come from an injury survey done for the trade group by the National Safety Council, though just 144 of the 383 eligible amusement parks provided some or all of the requested data.

Experts say getting reliable fi gures on inju-ries at amusement parks can be diffi cult.

“We don’t know if they are indeed what the park says they are,” Martin said. “We have to take their word for it.”

Voluntary standards for amusement park rides are issued by ASTM International, a global organization that draws from, among others, industry professionals. Martin said some states have adopted those standards into law.

“The amusement park industry is self-reg-ulated and that’s what the amusement indus-try wants,” Martin said.

LOUIS DELUCA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

On July 20 , this aerial photo shows the Texas Giant roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas. The death of a woman who fell 75 feet is reinvigorating discussion among safety experts about whether it is time to create more consistent, stringent regulations for thrill rides across the nation.

Fatal fall at amusement park in Texas raises discussion of safety regulationsSafety experts consider more consistent, stringent regulations

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Opinions10MondayJuly 29, 2013The Daily Illiniwww.DailyIllini.com

When it comes to the trial of George Zimmerman, I plead ignorance. I did everything in my power to

avoid the trial because, at the time, I believed it was the quintessence of the sensationalist media. But since reading and hearing about people’s responses to the verdict, I’ve been recently reminded that while the era of Jim Crow laws and overt prejudices have mostly vanished, a new and inconspicuous form of racism is becoming increasingly prevalent.

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you Racism 2.0.

This type of racism has been bolstered by the destruction of the ladder of oppor-tunity which has lead to socioeconomic disparity, discrimination and marginal-ization among minority groups — espe-cially among African-Americans.

I hear it all the time: Black people are criminals. They don’t contribute to soci-ety. They have no drive to better them-selves or their families and therefore believe that they can continue living off welfare. That President Barack Obama is “shuckin’ and jivin’” on the economy, deserving of the title as “The Food Stamp President.” And, in the words of Justice Antonin Scalia defending the decision to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, the African-American com-munity’s ability to vote is simply a per-petuation of “racial entitlement.”

But as I looked to debunk these stereo-types, I noticed something incredibly dis-turbing. These stereotypes didn’t mani-fest from thin air — statistics support them.

A study done by Princeton University says that on average, “by age 17 the aver-age black student is four years behind the average white student” and that “black 12th graders score lower than white 8th graders in reading, math, U.S. history and geography.” The American Psycho-logical Association cites that the unem-ployment rate for African-Americans is typically double that of Caucasian Americans. And the NAACP says that as of 2001, one in six African-American men have been incarcerated and we can expect that one in three black males born can expect to spend time in prison at some point in their lifetime if the current trend continues.

Sure, African-American stereotypes can be backed up by statistics, but that

doesn’t make them stereotypes any-more. It makes them supported assump-tions highlighting very real problems. It emphasizes the unequal distribution of resources that crucify communities to the cross of poverty that society has come to assimilate to. It proves that the very assumptions we perpetuate as ste-reotypes reinforce real issues.

At the end of the 2012-13 academ-ic year, the Chicago Public School sys-tem closed 49 elementary schools and a high school program. According to a Chicago Tribune report, these closings will put children in the “line of fire,” or expose them to dangerous environ-ments that would otherwise be avoided by being in school throughout the day. Earlier this month, the Republican-con-trolled house passed a farm bill that com-pletely stripped the Supplemental Nutri-tion Assistance Program (SNAP) which is commonly known for distributing food stamps, despite the fact that 22 percent of recipients are African-American (mind you, they only make up 13 percent of the nation’s population.. And let’s not for-get Detroit which just filed for bankrupt-cy. It is a city where 82.7 percent of the population is African-American and has consistently ranked among the country’s top 10 most violent cities. Even more, the city government says that on average, the police response time is 58 minutes.

Put yourself in the shoes of an inner-city African-American child: Your par-ents might struggle to make ends meet so they seek other ways of supplement-ing their income, your school was closed down so now you have to walk through gang territory to get to your new one, and when you call the police in response to a crime, it will take the police around 58 minutes to respond.

No wonder these stereotypes exist — I think I’d be pretty disenchanted too if I was born into a world where stereo-types are instantaneously attached to me because of my demographics. Where inherited structural inequalities set you behind even at birth, and you spend a lifetime overcoming them.

The prospects for the African-Ameri-can community are bleak, and I can’t live comfortably with myself knowing that solely due to the color of one’s skin, socio-economic status or underlying structur-al inequalities, people can be more sub-ject to lives of scarce opportunity and discrimination.

So much for liberty and justice for all.

Matt is a sophomore in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @matthewpasquini.

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EditorialRankings something to

consider, but nothing to swear by

F orbes, U.S. News & World Report, Princeton: You name it.

Each time a top-universities ranking is announced, students flock

to social media to share their excitement, boasting about how their school compares with other in-state or rival schools. It doesn’t even have to be a prominent publication, and regardless, optimists will find a way to spin the numbers.

But that’s exactly what it is: just a number, as evidenced by the criteria Forbes uses in its annually published rankings.

The business magazine released its rankings this past week, placing the University 10th among public institutions and 53rd overall. The Urbana campus was ahead, in the public rankings, of University of Texas at Austin, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Indiana University.

While there’s no disputing that the University belongs with other top-tier institutions, Forbes’ rankings are just one organization’s thoughts and analyses about where each university belongs in respect to one another. Forbes has its own philosophies on what makes a university better than another, its own experts and its own criteria, a comprehensive one at that.

For example, 15 percent of the student satisfaction measure takes into account how instructors fare on Rate My Professors, where students identify the easiest and more difficult professors based on personal experience. However, rating a professor doesn’t necessarily translate over to how much a class and its content have helped further a student’s understanding of that particular subject.

Meanwhile, the post-graduate success measure, which accounts for 37.5 percent of the total ranking, is misleading. Fifteen

percent is devoted to data from Payscale.com, which places too much value on salary, while 22.5 percent comes from the America’s Leaders List which, again, places too much emphasis on an exclusive list of leaders with achievements far from the reach of many graduates.

The rankings look at return on investment, rather than test scores and admitted GPA, but it leaves out any metric about landing a job. Employment within six months of graduation is this generation’s No. 1 goal after graduation, especially in the final years of college.

Forbes’ rankings miss the boat on what success is: College’s role is to help you prepare for your entrance into the working world, not necessarily to develop you into a top executive, politician or engineer. In another example, just over one-tenth of the total ranking is devoted to nationally competitive awards. Does a school rank less for not having a small science or engineering program? And would a school rank lower for a program that doesn’t compete, such as a strong language program?

However, the magazine did nail the graduation rates and student debt categories.

One further addition might be useful: How does the university use the state’s dollars? How much return investment is the state getting for each dollar it’s giving to public institutions? For example, many post-grads from the University try to find jobs in Chicago. At other universities, in smaller cities, that is less of the case. So how is that factored in to generating dollars for the state’s economy?

Not all rankings are the same, and not one is more correct or accurate than another. They might help students and employers estimate the quality of a school’s education, but no one should swear by them. They really just are numbers.

Unequal situations drive stereotypes into fruition in black community

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By Sean hammondstaff writer

CHICAGO — This time around, Tim Beck-man knows what to expect. The Illinois head coach has a year under his belt at the helm of a Big Ten football program. And Illini fans have had more than enough time to get a feel for their coach.

With college football media days signaling the unofficial beginning of the college football season, Beckman had a clean slate and a pep in his step when he spoke at Big Ten Football Media Days on Wednesday in Chicago.

Like every football coach in the country, Beckman is optimistic in July. His quarter-back, Nathan Scheelhaase, may have said it best.

“You talk to anyone at a media day across the country, you’ll probably hear that the summer went great,” Scheelhaase said, “that they’re looking forward to the season, that they’re ready for Game One. You’re going to hear a lot of the same things.”

So what’s different?Thirty-three new faces is a place to start.

Between transfers and incoming freshmen, the Illini have revamped about one-third of their roster. Add five new coaches to the mix and you have a program that looks vastly different from a year ago, at least on paper.

But games are not won on paper, and Beck-

man knows that. He also knows that there is a lot of pressure on his team and on himself to improve this season.

“We’re not going to let negativity infiltrate our program,” Beckman said. “We’re going to be positive with a great passion toward what we want to get accomplished.”

If anything, Beckman accomplished a recruiting victory over the summer. The transfer of former Oklahoma State quarter-back Wes Lunt, who won’t be eligible to play in 2013, gives the Illini an optimistic out-look for the future. Throw him next to incom-ing freshman quarterback Aaron Bailey and offensive coordinator Bill Cubit has a healthy quarterback battle in 2014.

But it’s not 2014, and Scheelhaase is undoubtedly the Illinois starting quarter-back in Beckman’s eyes.

“I’m sure nobody is picking us to win games or picking us to do anything this year,” Scheel-haase said. “And that’s all right.

“It doesn’t matter what’s going on outside. It matters what’s going on inside our walls.”

Scheelhaase is right: No one is picking the Illini to compete in the Big Ten. And why should they? They haven’t won a conference game in more than 21 months.

When Beckman spoke Wednesday, he was an afterthought. Urban Meyer, targeting rules and NCAA reform, ruled the media

discussion. Expectations are low following a two-win season. In the players’ eyes, the dif-ference between the 2012 and the 2013 Illini is camaraderie.

“We’ve become more close-knit,” Scheel-haase said. “Our talent isn’t as great as it’s been over the last few years, but that’s required us to play as one. It doesn’t guar-antee us anything, but it gives us a greater chance.”

Beckman sat down with his team follow-ing the season-ending pounding Northwest-

ern handed them and examined what needed to be done to turn things around. That plan played out behind closed doors — in the win-ter and in the spring, in the weight room and in the film room.

Only when the Illini take the field against Southern Illinois on August 31 will the suc-cess of that plan be apparent. What Illini fans should expect is not quite so clear.

Sean can be reached at [email protected] and @sean_hammond.

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Football coach, Tim Beckman, addresses the media during Big Ten Media Days on Wednesday. According to Beckman, the Illini will focus on positivity to get what they want accomplished.

Illini football optimistic aboutseason despite outsider doubtsIllinois revamps with array of new players, coaches

By lanre alaBistaff writer

It is a new era in Illinois. This is one of the things that new Illinois women’s track and

field head coach Ron Garner would like Illini fans to remem-ber. Garner returned to Illinois last week, 15 years after he had been an assistant coach here. School is out of session, so there isn’t much pomp and circumstance surrounding his arrival here at the University, but you can’t mistake that for a lack of interest.

The program has been on an uptick in recent years, return-ing to past glory. Garner follows two impressive predeces-sors as the head women’s track coach. He inherits the Big Ten indoor champion squad from the preceding year, a team that includes the reigning Illinois female athlete of the year and female newcomer of the year, but Garner doesn’t believe there is any burden to live up to.

“I don’t think there is any additional pressure,” Garner said. “I think Tonja (Buford-Bailey) is Tonja, Ron Garner is Ron Garner and Gary Winckler is Gary Winckler. Both the previous head coaches had achieved at a high level and for-tunately, I was a part of that. I don’t think there is any more pressure than what you put on yourself. The standards are going to be high because Illinois competes at the highest lev-el, but we still have to improve.”

Garner brings approximately three decades of coaching experience to Illinois. His career has seen him make eight

coaching stops at six institutions. This wealth of experience is what he will look to employ in the years to come. One of the tasks he will have to accomplish as head coach is recruit-ing marquee high school prospects to join the Illini, despite the Midwest’s shortcomings in regards to the weather. The climate is a big part of outdoor track and field, but Garner believes he can overcome that hurdle.

“Don’t compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges,” Garner said. “We’ll go out and recruit the best athletes in the country (who are) excellent students. We are not going to compare to other Big Ten schools; we want to be University of Illinois. The balance between the education that you receive here, and our athletic pursuits are different than other places. Our team allocation might change over time, but we’ll go after the best kids in the country. We might lose some; we might lose a lot, but the ones we get will get it done.”

Ron Garner’s first stint at the University was as an assistant coach to then-head coach Gary Winckler, from 1991-1998. To add some perspective, a young Tonja Buford-Bailey was named an All-American 10 times, won 25 Big Ten titles and was a national champion during the early part of that spell. She went on to be an Olympian several times, eventually coaching the Illinois team and creating Olympians of her own. In that large time span, Garner was part of the success of four other ath-letic programs, including being named the head coach at his alma mater Clemson University. The 15 years in his absence from the University have brought marked changes to Illinois,

but there is one key ingredient that has remained constant.“There have been improvements in facilities here,” Garner

said. “I know that track is down the road of the next phase in development. There is a different administration with differ-ent objectives and different goals. The university is no dif-ferent as an institution than it was before. It has tremendous resources, excellent faculty members and a world renowned institution. That part is still the same.”

As far as school success goes, Garner wants to see pros-perity for all Illinois athletic programs. He feels that each programs’ success can only bolster a winning culture and ultimately elevate the University of Illinois. For some reason or another, Garner has developed some personal favorites amongst the Illinois programs.

“I want all programs to do well,” Garner said. “My wife played volleyball here, so I want them to do well. Soccer was just getting started the year before I left, and coach Rayfield has had a tremendous amount of success. I have two daugh-ters who play softball, so that is also on my watchlist.”

Garner’s tenure begins immediately with the head coach being thrown straight into the mix of things. Sprinters Ashley Spencer and Morolake Akinosun are preparing for the World Championships and World Junior Championships, respectively. He will have to do what he can to prepare them for success at the competitions they will be attending in August.

Lanre can be reached at [email protected].

New era for women’s track and field with return of a familiar faceRon Garner comes back to Illinois as head coach with experience, expectations


By Torrence SorrellStaff writer

CHICAGO — Tearing one ACL is tough but tearing three can hinder an athlete both phys-ically and mentally in just about any sport.

Now in his sixth year as an Illini, senior offensive lineman Corey Lewis is no strang-er to adversity as he played a total of four games in the last three seasons all with the same injury. Even that was not enough to stop the 6-foot-6, 310 pound player for giving up a game that he loves.

“My drive is my teammates and football. I love it so much that I couldn’t see myself just giving it up to injury,” he said.

Lewis also said that his motivation was his family back in his hometown of a small town in Cresco, Pennsylvania. He felt that it was his duty to come back and not let the people who supported him for so long down.

Head coach Tim Beckman sees improve-ment from Lewis in practice since returning from the devastating injury.

“His mindset each and every practice to each and every game has gotten better, bet-ter and better,” Beckman said.

Just a few months ago Lewis was named the Bresee Most Improved Offensive Player dur-ing the spring game on April 12th. Not only has Lewis improved on the field, but he feels he is starting to emerge as a true senior leader for the Illini’s 33 new players.

“When the guys came in the summer, I always made sure that we had a meeting, tell them our goals that we set as a team, just so they all can buy in, and they’re not just run-ning around like a chicken with their head cut off,” Lewis said. “You never want anyone to feel left out, especially the younger guys because the better they can adapt, the better they can perform for us.”

Lewis has set big goals for himself going into his final year wearing orange and blue; he said he wants to be named All-Big Ten and become more of a leader on the offensive line.

Perhaps coming back from those ACL sur-geries may be worth a shot giving him anoth-er chance to someday play in the NFL, and winning the most improved offensive player award is a start.

Torrence can be reached at [email protected].

By Sean HammondStaff writer

CHICAGO — There is no quarterback controversy in Champaign. Tim Beckman made that clear at Big Ten Football Media Days on Wednesday in Chicago.

With the phenomenally low numbers quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase put up last season (1361 passing yards, four touchdowns and eight interceptions in 10 games), it has been speculated that backup Reilly O’Toole or even incoming freshman Aaron Bailey might have a chance to knock Scheelhaase from the starting spot.

“Nathan Scheelhaase is our starting quarterback,” Beckman said, a statement he repeated numerous times during the 2012 season. Beckman reiterated that health was an issue for Scheelhaase, who injured his ankle in the season opener last year and missed the following two games.

“People forget sometimes that Nate led us to back-to-back bowl games,” said offensive lineman Corey Lewis, who is entering his

sixth year at Illinois and has watched the fifth-year quarterback progress through his entire career.

The bowl streak ended with last year’s 2-10 campaign. But a new system under first-year offensive coordinator Bill Cubit might be what is needed to spark an offense that was sluggish in 2012.

Lewis said a look at Cubit’s resume is all it takes to see what he brings to the table.

“Coach Cubit brings a lot of class,” Lewis said. “And he brings a high-powered offense.”

The pace will be one difference — Lewis said the 80 snaps he played in the Orange and Blue Spring Game went by in the blink of an eye — and the play calling will be another. In the spring game, both Illini squads threw a combined 85 passes.

Cubit’s offense has many questions surrounding it, but who it is that will throwing those passes is not one of them.

Sean can be reached at [email protected] and @sean_hammond.

Offensive lineman back for 6th year

Scheelhaase keeps his starting spot for fall lineup

After 3 ACL injuries, Lewis ready to lead

Beckman removes rumors revolving around next season’s quarterback

“My drive is my teammates and football. I love it so much

that I couldn’t see myself just giving it up to injury.”

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Blue Team Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase (2) runs the ball during the Orange and Blue Spring Football game on April 12. The Blue team won the game with a score of 35-28.

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Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase answers questions during an interview at Big Ten Media Days on Wednesday.


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BY MICHAEL WONSOVERSTAFF WRITER

It’s been a busy summer to say the least for Illini track and fi eld athlete Raymond Martin.

The 19-year-old , who was training twice a day in Champaign the entire summer, headed to Los Angeles for the ESPYS on July 17th, only to take a fl ight immediately after the event to compete at the IPC Ath-letics World Championships in Lyon, France from July 19-28 . In Lyon, Martin had to pre-pare to race in fi ve events - the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m - all while dealing with the ill effects of frequent fl ying.

“It was very tough to have to compete the day after I landed in France,” Martin said. “I had a bit of jet lag that followed me to my competition, but I knew this would happen coming in, so I just put my head down and race as hard as I could.”

That’s exactly what Martin did, winning every event offered in his T52 competition at the World Championships and becoming the fi rst male athlete to win fi ve gold med-als in one para-athletics event. This comes only ten months after Martin swept all the T52 races at the 2012 Paralympic Games.

“The World Championships are very important to me,” Martin said. “It’s a great way to keep track of your progression in the sport between the Games. World Champion-ships are held every two years, sandwich-ing the Games. Having the opportunity to

call myself a World Champion is such a great feeling.”

Martin’s fi rst race at the Championships was in the 1500m, the only event he didn’t compete in at the Paralympics.

“The 1500m was a very diffi cult race,” Martin said. “It wasn’t offered in London, and I’ve only done the race three times prior to the World Championships. I knew the fi eld was very competitive, with Thom-as Geierspichler of Austria being a mul-tiple World Championship and Paralym-pic Games medalist, and Steven Toyoji of the USA being very strong in the distance races.”

Despite being inexperienced in the event, Martin had a strategy capture gold in the 1500m.

“The plan was for me to pull the draft on the fi rst lap, Toyoji to pull the second lap, Geierspichler to pull the third and for all the bets to come off on the fi nal lap,” Martin said. “I pulled a hard lap and so did Toyoji, but the pack got scrambled and Toyoji and I ended up doing the majority of the work in this race.”

Martin needed the help of a teammate to come out on top during the fi nal lap.

“At the bell lap, I was actually boxed into lane one. This means that there was some-one in front of me, and another racer next to me, so I was physically boxed in,” Martin said. “Thankfully, my U.S. teammate Toyoji was the one in front of me and I shouted to

him that I was boxed in. He moved out to lane two to give me a path out of the box. I had enough energy left in the tank to sprint the last 400 meters and came out with a tough win over Geierspichler and Toyoji who took the silver and bronze.”

Martin fi nished with a time of 3:51.28 , narrowly edging out Geierspichler’s 3:51.80 . Martin followed up his 1500m performance with back-to-back golds in the 800m and 200m races. He also fi nished fi rst in the 100m and 400m races.

“I took gold in the 800m and 200m in Lon-don, so I had a bit of confi dence heading into these two races,” Martin said. “Thanks to our phenomenal coach at the U of I, Adam Bleakney, I was well prepared to sprint an 800m and do well in my world record event, the 200m.”

Fellow Illini Tatyana McFadden was the only athlete to win more gold medals than Martin at the World Championships as she swept all six of her races, becoming the fi rst athlete to do so at the Championships.

Now that the Championships are over Martin can fi nally rest, but not for long.

“I am really looking forward to some time off,” Martin said. “I have had a very long season. After some time off, I will be doing some longer aerobic training in preparation for the Chicago Marathon this October.”

Michael can be reached at [email protected].

Track athlete sweeps World Championships in FranceMartin becomes 1st male athlete to win 5 gold medals in single para-athletics event

BY NANCY ARMOURTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — It took Brek Shea less than a minute to give the Unit-ed States a goal.

And the Gold Cup title.Shea scored 42 seconds after coming into the game as a substitute,

and his goal in the 69th minute gave the United States a 1-0 victory over Panama in the CONCACAF Gold Cup fi nal. It is the fi fth Gold Cup title for the U.S., but it’s fi rst since 2007. The victory also extended the Americans’ winning streak to a record 11 games, four more than their previous best.

When the fi nal whistle sounded, the Americans on the bench raced onto the fi eld to join their teammates. Several players jumped up and down, and hugs and high-fi ves were exchanged. Coach Jurgen Klins-mann, who watched the game from a luxury box after being suspended for his tirade over the offi ciating in the semifi nal, quickly made his way down to the fi eld, pumping his fi sts in the air as he walked.

The Panamians, meanwhile, could only watch in disappointment. They came into the game full of confi dence after beating Mexico twice during the tournament, but never really threatened the United States.

The only downer on the day for the Americans was another injury to Stuart Holden’s right knee. He collapsed to the ground after colliding with another player in the fi rst half and grabbed at his right knee. He was able to walk off the fi eld on his own, but U.S. Soccer later said he had sprained the knee and it would need further evaluation.

Holden missed almost 2 ½ years because of injuries to his right knee, only returning to the U.S. squad in late May.

The U.S. had been the class of the Gold Cup, outscoring opponents 20-4 in the tournament. Klinsmann used a mostly young team, and its confi dence appeared to grow with every victory.

US overcomes confi dent Panama to win 5th Gold CupSecond-half substitute drives home the goal and the game in CONCACAF � nal

PATRICK SEMANSKY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

United States' Brek Shea (23) heads a ball in front of El Salvador's Xavier Garcia Orellana during the second half in the quarterfi nals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer tournament on Sunday in Baltimore.


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NEW YORK — Alfonso Soriano took one look around Yankee Sta-dium and broke into a big, familiar smile.

“This is my house, this is my home,” he said. “I’m happy I have the opportunity to come back to New York — 10 years.”

The New York Yankees reacquired Soriano in a trade with the Chicago Cubs on Friday, hoping the seven-time All-Star can provide a power boost to a team that desperately needs pop.

Soriano went 0 for 5, scored a run and drove in one while batting cleanup in a 10-6 loss to Tampa Bay. He flied out with the bases loaded to end the third inning, then grounded into a forceout with the bases loaded in the ninth.

“It’s a good day for me today to have a chance to put on the uni-form again,” he said.

“I hope we have a better chance tomorrow,” he said. “It’s a tough day tonight.”

Soriano did more with his glove, catching a fly to start the game, making a throw to help nail a runner and running down a foul ball. It was the first time he played outfield for the Yankees.

“It’s a little different, because, in the old one, I used to play sec-ond base. In the new one, I play left field now,” he said.

The Cubs got minor league pitcher Corey Black and will send almost $17.7 million to the Yankees to cover much of Soriano’s rich contract.

“We’ve obviously been trying to improve our offense, to no avail, throughout this season,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “By far, he is the best available bat to date.”

Soriano outhomered the Yankees all by himself (10-8) in the four weeks prior to the deal. Overall, the 37-year-old hit .254 with 17 homers and 51 RBIs with the Cubs.

The Bronx Bombers led the majors with 245 home runs last year, but have become the Bronx burn-outs this season, ranking next-to-last in the AL with only 88. Banged up, they’ve played most of the year without Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.

Their slump from the right side — Soriano hits righty — is even more acute. It’s been a month since a right-hander homered for the Yankees, with Jayson Nix the last to do it on June 25.

Soriano got a big ovation when the public-address announcer read the lineups and welcomed him with “and once again a Yan-

kee.” Soriano saluted the stadium’s Bleacher Creatures during their roll call, and was cheered again when his past Yankees highlights were shown on the video board.

Wearing his socks high, Soriano got an assist when his throw led to an inning-ending out in the top of the second. He led off the bot-tom half and flied out.

Soriano made his major league debut with the Yankees in 1999 and quickly blossomed into a rare package of speed and power. In 2002, he hit 39 homers and 51 doubles while batting .300, stealing 41 bases, scoring 128 runs and driving in 102.

“He’s not the same player he used to be,” Cashman said, “but he certainly provides some thunder from the right side that we’ve been lacking.”

Cashman hinted, too, that more deals might be in the works.The Yankees are 54-49 and in fourth place in the AL East, seven

games behind division-leading Tampa Bay.

By ANDREW SELIGMANThe associaTed press

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. — The most inter-esting person on the Chicago Bears’ roster?

Easy.“I’m probably the most interesting per-

son on the team,” new tight end Martellus Bennett said.

And who can argue?After all, this is a player who discussed

his lactose intolerance at his introductory news conference in March and was on quite a roll in training camp this week, referring to Spiderman and the Bible and discussing his fascination with dinosaurs.

Along with his funny and quirky nature, he brings an ability to block and catch passes that the Bears lacked at his position.

All that explains why they lured him away from the New York Giants with a four-year deal, hoping he can help them get back to the playoffs after missing out for the fifth time in six seasons.

“There’s never a dull moment with Mar-tellus Bennett in the meeting rooms,” tight end Steve Maneri said.

Or, it seems, when there’s a microphone or notepad in front of him.

Here’s Bennett on who he thinks the cool-est people on the planet are: “Me and my wife (Siggi) are probably two of the coolest peo-ple in the world. It’s like Jay Z and Beyonce, then it’s me and my wife, and then it’s David Beckham and Victoria.”

Here he is on dinosaurs: “I love dinosaurs. They’re my favorite animal. I still do believe that they exist. That may sound crazy, but I do. And, you know, I go by Martysaurus Rex. You can add ‘Saurus Rex’ to your name, too.”

DAvID ZALuBoWSKI The associaTed press

Chicago Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano grounds out to drive in a run against the Colorado Rockies on July 21 in the ninth inning of a baseball game in Denver.

Bears new tight end entertains on and off fieldMartellus Bennett shares his quirks with press, team

Soriano heads back to New York YankeesCubs secure pitcher Corey Black, spend almost $18 million in trade


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