BY ALEX SWANSONSTAFF WRITER

Students could see an increase in the amount of fi nan-cial aid they receive, Gov. Pat Quinn said in a speech at the University on Thursday.

Quinn’s March 26 budget proposal includes a $50 million increase to the Monetary Award Program, a student aid program that currently provides sup-port to one-in-fi ve University undergraduates. The increase would allow 21,000 more stu-dents across the state to receive MAP grants.

Chancellor Phyllis Wise and University President Robert Easter introduced Gov. Quinn. Easter called Quinn “a great friend of the University of Illi-nois,” while Wise emphasized that MAP funding is “key” to the success of students at the University.

Quinn, a Democrat, is cur-rently running for reelection against GOP candidate Bruce Rauner, a businessman from Winnetka, Ill.

“I do not want the crowd that wants to cut this University by $83 million in this budget year, I don’t want them to win.” Quinn said, “I think that’s a losing hand.”

Quinn said that Illinois can-not afford to cut MAP funding

or education funding at all, and he does not intend to cut Univer-sity funding.

“We’re at a turning point,” Quinn said. “If we go in the wrong direction, we’re going to cut funding for education.”

State Sen. Michael Frerichs, D-52, said he felt the MAP pro-gram has been successful so far in Illinois.

“It’s a great program across the state of Illinois,” he said. “Students in all corners of the state participate in this and receive the benefi ts of the MAP program.”

Candace Mueller, the assis-tant director for external rela-tions at the Illinois Board of Higher Education, said Quinn’s proposal fi ts well with the aims of the IBHE.

“The Illinois Board of High-er Education recommends the budget to the General Assem-bly ... (and) in our budget rec-ommendation, we do request that MAP funding be protect-ed,” Mueller said. “The gover-nor’s proposal to increase fund-

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Volunteers package 147,000 free mealsCommunity and Campus Day of Service kicks o! National Volunteer Week

Debt activists gather to spread awareness

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SARI LESK THE DAILY ILLINIMissael Pale, freshman in Media, participates in the Community and Campus Day of Service by helping pack bags of rice that can be turned into a casserole. The event was held at Memorial Stadium on Sunday.

BY MEGHAN WEBBERSTAFF WRITER

Volunteers gathered at Memorial Stadium on Saturday to participate in the second annual Community and Campus Day of Service.

This year, Illini Fighting Hunger organized the Food Packaging Project as its primary event to help kick

off National Volunteer Week, which takes place from April 6 to April 12 throughout the country.

As facilitators of the event, Illini Fighting Hunger provided leadership and the necessary equipment used to package meals. Although the Food Packaging Project is a daylong event, preparation began six to

eight months in advance to set up the registration and donation processes.

“The Day of Service is meant to bring together students and faculty and staff from the University with members of the community in order to benefi t the larger community that we’re a part of,” said Max Colon, president of Illini

Fighting Hunger and sophomore in LAS. “Through the Food Packaging event, we’re going to be packaging 147,000 meals to benefi t those who are food insecure in the Eastern Illinois Foodbank (coverage area).”

The event attracted an estimated 14,000 volunteers,

BY CHRIS PULLAMSTAFF WRITER

House Resolution 0620, a bill calling on Congress to restore consumer rights to people with educational debt, will receive a hearing at the Higher Education Committee during the General Assembly on Tuesday April 8. The bill, which came from the Illinois Student Senate, passed through the Illinois State Sen-ate last November and must now pass through the House.

Unlike most other forms of debt, student loans do not have consumer protections such as bankruptcy rights, a statute of limitations on collections or the right to refi nance. This means that the government can collect on student loan debt by garnish-ing wages, tax returns, social security benefi ts and disability benefi ts.

Although the bill is a non-bind-ing resolution, passing the bill would serve as an acknowledge-ment that Illinois supports this reform.

Tony Fiorentino, Illinois Stu-dent Senator representing the College of Law, has lobbied for action on student loan reform in the past. He, along with other members of ISS, will testify in Springfi eld on behalf of the bill.

“We’re looking for the stan-dard consumer protections that every other debtor, like people

with credit card debt and gam-bling debt, takes for granted,” Fiorentino said. “In Illinois, for most consumer debt, after ten years debt collectors can’t enforce a collection action on that debt. It’s illegal, except for student debt. They can come after you for the rest of your life.”

This semester, outside of lob-bying HR 0620, ISS hopes to schedule a town hall meeting with Sen. Dick Durbin to inform him that students want to see action on this issue. Fiorentino believes that the bill’s success could send a strong message to Durbin, showing him that reform is needed on both the state and federal level.

In addition, ISS and University YMCA board members reached out to Strike Debt, a coalition of debt resisters that believe people should not go into debt for basic necessities such as education, health care and housing. While the coalition does not focus on student debt, it aims to design a new economy that fi xes many of the same problems that ISS has lobbied against.

Thomas Gokey, a member of Strike Debt, spoke at the Univer-sity YMCA Thursday and Fri-day about the morality of paying back federal and private loans.

BY JESSICA RAMOSSTAFF WRITER

As the weather continues to warm up and students pull their bicycles out from storage, local police departments begin reinforcing the rules of the road for bicyclists.

Last Tuesday, Urbana police began stricter enforcement of bicycle infrac-tions, as 22 people were cited on campus . Sgt. Andy Charles, Urbana Police offi cer, said the department enforces these rules every year to remind the community of the importance of obeying the rules of the road.

“We want to clearly defi ne what our pur-pose is,” Charles said. “The purpose comes down to where we enforce the traffi c laws so that traffi c can move safely and effi -ciently, safety being the fi rst thing and effi ciency being the next.”

The bike violations fall under the Illi-nois vehicle code, stating bicyclists will

follow the same laws as motorized vehi-cles. If the violator pleads guilty, the indi-vidual is subject to a fi ne, which does not work against insurance policies if the vio-lator owns a car. However, bicyclists are given the option of taking a course on their fi rst violation, thus reducing their fi nes for both the Champaign and Urbana police departments through the Bicycle Diver-sion Program, which focuses on educating bicyclists on obeying the rules of the road.

“If we see a car run a stop sign, we enforce that law. If we see a bicycle run a stop sign, we enforce that law. If we see someone dart out into traffi c in the middle of the block, we enforce that law,” Charles said.

Lt. Jim Clark of the Champaign Police Department said the department has issued about 114 city ordinance viola-tions since it started the Bicycle Diver-sion Program.

“The violator has the option to go online

and complete a safety quiz. If they do that, they don’t have to pay a fi ne and that’s the end of it,” Clark said.

He expressed that he has not seen a large increase in compliance yet because the program is still in its infancy. But Clark plans to begin enforcement for bicy-clists as the weather improves because of many nearly missed accidents.

Nicholas Ezyk, sophomore in Engi-neering, received a citation for running a stop sign on Goodwin Avenue. He said he agrees with the police tactics to treat traf-fi c violations from cars and bikes equally, but he holds one specifi c concern in mind: He wants the fi nes to be used to enhance bicycle infrastructure on campus.

“I have popped so many tires on the gravelly, busted-up bike lane on Wright (Street) and have had too many close calls with pedestrians walking in poorly striped lanes,” Ezyk said.

Charles said the most common reasons

the police are stopping students is for run-ning a stop sign or going the wrong way on a one-way street.

The Regional Planning Commission conducted a traffi c safety study several years ago to identify the areas where per-sonal injury and fatality occurred. Some of the highest numbers were in Urbana near Goodwin Avenue, between Grego-ry Drive and Springfi eld Avenue. They primarily involved pedestrians and bicy-clists, Charles said.

Nicholas Picciolini, sophomore in Engi-neering, was also cited for not following the stop sign, and he was given the option of taking the course because it was his fi rst offense. He said he understands the dangers that not following rules might pose.

“Bicyclists ignoring stop signs and weaving in and out of traffi c make for

How to stay safe on the roads of C-U: When a car fails to yield, do

not hug the curb. Watch closely and be prepared to maneuver. Continue to obey traffi c

signals, even if another bike fails to yield. Pay attention to the traffi c near you. Ride with — not against —

traffi c Always ride at least 5 feet

away from parked cars and be cautious of car doors opening. Avoid riding on sidewalks

unless necessary, use bike lanes if available Use hand signals and eye

contact to indicate intention to drivers

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Phi Kappa Phi Announces Spring 2014 InitiatesInitiation Held April 7, 2014 at the Illini Union Ballroom

Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline honor society. Standards for election are extremely high. Membership is by invitation only to the top 7.5 percent of second-semester juniors and the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students. Because Phi Kappa Phi is highly selective, membership is a stamp of excellence that is recognized by graduate and professional school admissions committees and employers alike.Congratulations, Initiates!

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Today’s BirthdayMercury enters Aries to launch your next year with a ! urry of brilliant ideas and actions. Collaborate with family, friends and community on homegrown projects. Streamline practices and structures before summer, when fun games entice you to play with the kids. Autumn brings an upwelling of pro" table creativity, innovation and invention. Devote yourself to your art and passion.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is a 7 — Mercury enters your sign today. Expect high energy and creativity for the next several weeks. Accept a challenge. Some projects won’t bring in any money, but satisfy with concrete impact. Disciplined efforts at home reap rewards.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is a 6 — Continue to increase savings with discipline. For nearly three weeks with Mercury in Aries, ponder a situation and possible strategies. Creative ideas come easier. Your education and experience pay off. You can get whatever you need.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is a 6 — Friends provide inspiration and understanding. For the next three weeks with Mercury in Aries, group activities go well. Your team’s hot. Deadlines could creep up on you... discipline with the schedule keeps it on track,

including booking time for the unexpected.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is a 7 — Speculate on different career pathways over the next three weeks. Hold on to your self-discipline, and your tongue. If you receive unreasonable requests, play it conservative for now.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is a 5 — You can’t be two places simultaneously. Schedule with discipline, and decrease your obligations. Take one step at a time. For nearly three weeks, travel and adventure beckons. Make plans that include intellectual stimulation and creative projects.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 6 — Plans could get disrupted. Go back to the drawing board. Increase organization and decrease clutter. Friends offer solutions. Communication and clever action lead to pro" ts over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Aries.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is a 6 — A change in plans may be required, with differing priorities and new obligations. Figure out tactics and options. Consider details. Communication with partners opens doors over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Aries. Compromise comes easier. Delegate more. Speak your heart.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is a 6 — There’s more creative work coming over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Aries. Express the possibility of a project in writing. Revise plans and budgets for a stable

foundation. Stay quiet, to avoid misunderstanding or a con! ict of interest (and focus on your research).

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is a 6 — Conditions are improving. Articulate the goal, and get playful. For the next three weeks, it’s easier to express your heart with Mercury in Aries. Build up the fun level. Communicate your passion. Tell (or listen to) a romantic story. Write, record and create.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is a 7 — Disciplined efforts with a partner provides solid results. The competition’s " erce. Get into household projects with Mercury in Aries for the next three weeks. Have your home express your family’s special quirkiness. Indulge creative talents and instincts.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 6 — Balance studies and work with time outdoors to decrease stress. Over the next three weeks with Mercury in Aries, words come easily, and you’re sharp as a tack. Capture your research in writing and images. Stand up for an important cause.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 6 — Patience, thrift and quiet efforts behind the scene move your project ahead. Over the next three weeks, use your budget to track spending and " nd ways to work smarter and more efficiently. Develop new sources of income. New information in! uences your personal direction. Quietly consider.

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ChampaignTheft was reported in the

2500 block of Sheridan Drive around 3 p.m. Thursday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole the vic-tim’s boat and trailer out of the victim’s driveway.

Burglary was reported in the 200 block of East Church Street around 5 p.m. Thursday.

According to the report, an unknown offender burglarized an unoccupied residence.

Domestic battery was report-ed in the 500 block of North Prai-

rie Street around 10 a.m. Friday.According to the report, the

victim reported being battered by the offender. No arrests were made at the time.

Urbana Battery was reported in the

1900 block of North Lincoln Ave-nue around 12 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the offender battered the victim dur-ing an argument.

Domestic dispute was report-ed in the 700 block of West Elm Street at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the offender and victim are in a rela-tionship and have a child togeth-er. They were engaged in a loud verbal argument and no arrests were made.

Burglary from a motor vehicle was reported in the 200 block of South Broadway Avenue around 6 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, an unknown offender entered the vehicle parked in the parking lot of a local business and stole the victim’s cell phone.

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a dangerous environment for everyone on the road,” Piccio-lini said.

After receiving a citation, bicyclists were also given a bicycle light. The lights are courtesy of The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign and the Safe Routes to School project.

“(The Bike Project) passed the lights to us with the mes-sage that, again, we’re not inter-ested in raising revenue. What we’re interested in is the safe-ty aspect, and we’re really pro-moting that,” Charles said.

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and according to Lun Ou, an Illini Fighting Hunger awareness coordinator, the organization had to turn down at least 200 hopeful volunteers because of an outpouring of responses to the project.

“All the volunteers at the event work together as though they know each other, as though they are family,” said Ou, a junior in ACES. “This event is a great bonding experience and truly brings people together.”

Volunteers of all ages were present, demonstrating that the event incorporates the community as a whole.

“I really wanted to get my

children involved in some kind of service project, and this was something I thought they could participate in,” said Cati Robinson, a volunteer from Monticello, Ill. “My main goal was to help my kids see that there are families out there who don’t have food readily available like they do.”

In Colon’s opinion, one of the best parts of the Food Packaging Project is seeing the event, along with all the other events taking place during National Volunteer Week, come together for one purpose.

“It’s amazing to see so many people wanting to get involved to help others,” Colon said.

Meghan can be reached at mewebbe2@dailyillini.com.

On Friday, he focused on the Roll-ing Jubilee, a project of Strike Debt, that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but does so to keep it out of the hands of collectors. By purchasing debt from banks and refusing to collect payments, the Rolling Jubilee abolishes debt owed by private citizens.

When the project began, mem-bers hoped to raise $50,000 through donations in order to purchase $1 million dollars of debt. Rolling Jubilee surpassed this mark and has collected over $700,000 in donations, of which $400,000 has been used to pur-chase under $15 million in medi-cal debt throughout the country.

While Rolling Jubilee has prov-en to be an effective method for abolishing debt, the project does not treat the underlying economic issue, according to Gokey. The Roll-ing Jubilee was designed to high-light the issue for the general pub-lic, but Strike Debt has larger plans.

During his presentation, Gokey spoke about the 2012 student strike in Quebec, where students protest-ed against a proposal to increase tuition from $2,168 to $3,793 annu-ally. Students and their supporters marched in what was called ‘cas-serole protests,’ which included banging pots and pans together, and succeeded in shutting down Montreal.

The 75 percent tuition hike was shelved as a result of the protests.

“We could let Congress do this for us and we will get tiny reforms around the edges,” Gokey said, “Or we could organize, make real sacrifi ces and solve the problems ourselves.”

This sentiment is shared by Fiorentino.

“What (reform) would take is for students to make their demands heard by their elected offi cials, but it’s not going to happen until people with this debt start making themselves heard,” he said.

The total of all tuition debt in the US hovers over $1 trillion, according to the Rolling Jubilee’s website, and it is a debt that can-not be paid.

Gokey, who joined Occupy Wall Street and Strike Debt after lis-tening to his students at Syra-cuse University speak about their own student debt, is inspired by the dilemma that many college students face, pointing out that “because I had the audacity to try to get an education, other people will make money.”

According to Gokey, it would cost $12.4 billion annually to make all two- and four-year schools free for students. He argues that although the number sounds large, it is merely a “rounding error for government.”

After a recent audit conducted on itself, the Pentagon acknowl-edged that it wastes $70 billion annually . If Gokey’s calculations are correct, that money could cov-er tuition costs for American col-leges for fi ve years.

“It’s not that we’ve been living beyond our means,” Gokey said. “It’s that we’ve been denied the means in which to live our lives.”

There have been several attempts to reform the student loan system.

In Oregon, the proposed Pay It Forward Program would allow students to attend college tuition-free, but would require they pay 0.75 percent of their annu-al income per year of schooling for twenty to twenty-fi ve years after graduation. According to Gokey, this policy would actu-ally increase tuition by $7,000

depending on an individual’s income.

Gokey offered numerous exam-ples of proposed reform, but argued that none of the propos-als targeted the primary issue.

“You all (students) have your feet stuck in cement shoes and you’re being thrown out of a boat into a lake that is one hundred feet deep, and now Congress is coming along and saying ‘This is a traves-ty, from now on we will make sure that students are only drowned in lakes that are no more than nine-ty-fi ve feet deep,’” Gokey said.

Paul Dolmon, a student rep-resentative on the University YMCA’s board of governors, was one of many people responsible for inviting Gokey to speak on campus. He believes that Gokey showed students a different side to the problems surrounding debt.

“We talk a lot about our nation-al debt to other nations,” Dolm-on said. “But I think what’s more important is our personal debt to each other, from individuals to businesses, and that doesn’t get as much attention as it should.”

Dolmon also mentioned that he has seen much more interest in the student debt issue than in past years.

Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee are vehicles to punch holes in the moral of paying debts, according to Gokey. The members of Strike Debt believe that a hierarchy of debt exists and that morality should play a larg-er role in setting that hierarchy than policy.

“Which debts do we really owe, and which debts don’t we owe? Which debts are just and should be paid, and which debts should be refused?” Gokey said.

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ing for MAP follows right along with our recommendation on the budget.”

Dr. James L. Applegate, the executive director for the IBHE, also said MAP fund-ing needs to be increased, as it could have a positive effect on the University.

“It will make it more possi-ble for our students in fi nancial need and lower income families to be able to consider the Univer-sity of Illinois as a possibility,” Applegate said. “You certain-ly don’t want fi nances to keep qualifi ed students who want to come and take advantage of the University of Illinois to not be able to do so.”

Applegate said the solution to college affordability is two-pronged: MAP funding needs to be increased, but higher educa-tion funding should also increase to help hold tuition rates constant.

“One reason the buying power of MAP has declined is because of rise in tuitions,” Applegate said. “The reason tuitions have risen is because of declining state support for higher education.”

Not everyone was supportive of the Governor’s speech at the Illini Union. Ryan Gleason, a

senior in LAS, along with Alvar Calderon from DePaul Univer-sity, held signs just outside the door where Quinn would be speaking, protesting against the governor’s policies.

“I just feel for students leav-ing this university, having less likely of a chance of obtaining a job and then paying off their higher burden of student debt,” Gleason said. “So that’s why I’m here to demonstrate debt issues with the governor today.”

However, Jason Nwosu, sopho-more at Oakton Community Col-lege and member of the Student Advisory Committee under the Illinois Board of Higher Edu-cation, felt that an increase in MAP funding is essential, and there should be a separate appro-priation for community college students.

Nwosu said many communi-ty college students don’t know whether they will be returning for another semester until a few days before school begins. Often-times, by the time they fi ll out the FAFSA, most of the funding is gone.

Students can apply for MAP grant funding by fi lling out the FAFSA. Dan Mann, director of student fi nancial aid at the Uni-versity, agreed that MAP fund-ing could heavily affect commu-nity college students because community college students

often apply later than Univer-sity students.

“I think this will benefi t stu-dents who attend communi-ty colleges and other schools where they may not be apply-ing for fi nancial aid as early as we have the requirement to apply.” Mann said, “Our stu-dents are applying early now, so most of our students are get-ting the MAP.”

Nwosu also spoke to how MAP funding has affected his own education.

“I am a recipient of MAP grant funding,” Nwosu said, “And without MAP grant funding, I wouldn’t be able to pay for my all courses and get all the necessary textbooks and supplies neces-sary to succeed in my courses.”

Quinn told his audience at the Illini Union there would be a big rally in Springfi eld on April 30. He encouraged students to attend, either in person or via email.

“We have to win this bud-get battle, that’s why I’m here, because I’ll be back.” Quinn said. “But we also have to get folks over to Springfi eld, face-to-face with legislators, to tell them, ‘Don’t be short-sighted. Don’t make a mistake that will harm our future for years to come.’”

Alex can be reached at amswans2@dailyillini.com.

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ALEX SWANSON THE DAILY ILLINIGov. Pat Quinn speaks Thursday at the Illini Union, where he discussed college affordability. “We’re at a turning point,” he said. “If we go in the wrong direction, we’re going to cut funding for education.”

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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS | opinions@dailyillini.com with the subject “Letter to the Editor.” The Daily Illini reserves the right to edit for length, libel, grammar and spelling errors, and Daily Illini style or to reject any contri-butions. Letters must be limited to 300 words. Contributions must be typed and include the author’s name, address and phone number. University students must include their year in school and college.

The history of unionization is about as feel-good as disgust-ing and dangerous working

conditions. The “triumph” of the common-man over the corporate bosses at the labor table in the early 1900s signaled a change in American government and sense of fairness.

This has developed over the past century to the point that gross misconduct of an employer is no longer necessary for a union uproar and possible government intervention — see the troubling Hostess dispute of 2012, where the bakery declared bankruptcy because of union disputes.

Thus, there is now a possible Supreme Court battle over the unionization of college athletes.

Despite the outcome of the ongoing and potentially upcom-ing legal battles, Illini athletes should not seek to unionize now or at the conclusion of this con-troversy, because payment of the athletes would not be realized.

The current litigation involves football players at Northwestern University, which the National Labor Relations Board gave autho-rization to unionize, but the uni-versity says it has plans to appeal.

The athletes and leaders of the Northwestern litigation claim the unionization effort is for bet-ter workplace conditions — such as new concussion protocols and injury coverage. But oth-er than keeping profits made on the backs of athletes’ images and performances, there is no cry of foul play or mistreatment of the athletes (who would be called workers if they win the final rounds of litigation).

However, many think these demands will escalate into a pay-for-play discussion if the union-ization is given the final green light.

Unionization looks very appeal-ing to student athletes because professionals earn roughly half of their respective sports’ rev-enue for essentially the same performance. Although college athletics are not as profitable as their professional counterparts, there would still be a substantial chunk of change to go around to the college athletes if this model were put in place.

However, seeking unionization is unwise because the dispute over how much the athletes would be paid seems too difficult to pro-duce a satisfying answer for all parties. Professional athletes get paid based on a market value, but there is currently no real market for college athletes other than waived tuition costs and access to campus facilities and training.

And any purely financial market sought to be created in order to pay athletes “their half” would be difficult to define because of donations and the impact of alumni, among other factors.

FiveThirtyEight’s Carl Bialik points out that applying the “half the revenue” model used in pro-fessional sports is unlikely.

Professional profits generally are highly related to winning and the players that the team brings in. Collegiate gains are more closely tied to blind loyalty to the program or fans’ fond memories of the programs’ alumni. Win-ning — or the athletes — are not nearly as important for collegiate revenues as they are for profes-sional franchises.

If fans go to athletic events because of the program’s history, as Bialik claimed, then collegiate athletes’ arguments for reve-nues could be extended to alumni claims for payments each year.

If some alumni get paid, then would all alumni get paid? Or would some get paid more or less than others? This is another tan-gled mess that would have to be decided either in the current liti-gation (which is not focused on it because it is centered on the use of athletes’ likeness in video games) or in subsequent litiga-tion if unions are successful.

Past and current behaviors of the NCAA indicate that if colleg-es are required to pay athletes,

then colleges would use this alumni factor, the cost of train-ing and the cost of facilities to negate the pay of athletes to lit-tle or nothing. Meanwhile, the value of the things that athletes receive — the cost of tuition, training, etc. — would be tax-able by the government, which could wipe out earnings for stu-dents or result in athletes owing money.

Colleges wouldn’t have to do this, having the option to pay stu-dents what they deemed a fair share — realizing the pay. How-ever, because they have resisted doing so thus far and are openly contesting the option currently, this seems unlikely.

An attempt to unionize by Illini athletes, even if it were following positive precedent set by the cur-rent litigation, would likely result in little to no gains for the stu-dents themselves. Such a victory, if it happened, would largely be a moral or symbolic victory and would be a hassle to get.

The NCAA may not be correct in its decision to forbid payments to athletes — college athletes deserve more of a share. How-ever a path to achieve fairness for athletes will not be found through unionization.

Brad is a graduate student in Law. He can be reached at bsbarbe2@dailyillini.com or @b_rad_barber.

This weekend, the Universi-ty welcomed mothers from all over to celebrate Moms

Weekend. During the day, festivi-

ties often include some flow-er shows, brunch and a craft show where mothers and stu-dents meander around casually glancing at the beautiful array of flowers and various knick-knacks mothers are inevitably drawn to. Of course there has to be a shopping element to the weekend because if there’s one thing mothers know how to do right, its spend money on things they don’t need.

And after working up an appe-tite browsing the flowers, students often take their mothers to one of Champaign’s finer establishments for lunch, such as Firehaus.

While the daytime activities are innocent enough, when the sun sets over Champaign, the scene of Moms Weekend chang-es completely, as moms who have not been out in 10 years begin to roam the streets with their chil-

dren in hopes of a reliving their college days.

Similar to Dads Weekend, stu-dents often take the weekend with their moms as an opportunity to show them how they really spend their weekends: When students aren’t exclusively at the library during the weekend, the local bars on campus are a popular alternative. And by local bars, I mean KAM’S.

Little did you know that while you were singing along to “Don’t Stop Believing” with your mom on the KAM’S dance floor, a dan-gerous predator was on the loose waiting to pounce. Those of us who have experienced Moms Weekend before may know this predator all too well — the frat star whose main objective and purpose in life is to hit on moms.

In case you don’t want the guy sitting on his balcony wearing a snap back and drinking a Natty Ice to be your new stepdad, listen up because your mother may have fallen victim to his mischievous ways.

And with that, I will describe to you how a frat star snuck his way into your perfectly innocent night and hit on your mother.

As you went to the bathroom and left your mother with the rest of your friends and their mothers,

the frat star took that opportunity to creep up. He probably opened the conversation casually enough by asking your mother if she was enjoying the sticky floors of KAM’S, agreeing with her about how disgusting they are.

Your mother likely won’t think anything of this “nice young man” taking the initiative to say hello and offer to buy her a drink. Because she doesn’t want to bother with trying to track down the ever-elusive bartender, she agrees and takes it as a kind ges-ture and nothing more.

The frat star smiles inside as he silently congratulates himself on potentially picking up a mother. The conversation continues, but soon enough, things take a turn for the creepy. A Lionel Richie song comes on, and your moth-er admits its one of her favorites when the frat star sees this as his golden opportunity to makes his move.

As your mother stands at the bar doing a simple side-step dance move, the frat star grabs her hand and takes her to dance floor. Other creepy frat star onlookers high-five in the back-ground at our main character’s success.

Meanwhile, you’re stuck in the never-ending bathroom line hop-

ing that your friends are enter-taining your mother. Unfortu-nately, you are blissfully unaware that she has fallen victim to one of the most prevalent predators on campus.

Your mother chooses to indulge the young man. After all, it is her favorite song, and she’s allowed to dance whenever she wants. Just as the song ends, the frat star stares dreamily into your mother’s eyes and leans forward slightly when ...

Bam! You return from the bath-room in the nick of time to step between them and notify your mother that the ultimate creeper has been hitting on her the entire time.

Unfortunately, this scene is all too prevalent during Moms Week-end, and hopefully students were able to protect their mother’s from vicious, creepy attacks such as these.

Ideally, this will help you become more prepared for future Moms Weekends, and this time next year you won’t find yourself at your mother’s wedding watch-ing her say “I do” to a dude in a frat tank.

Kate is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at cullen9@dailyillini.com.

America’s favorite cynic, Grumpy Cat, celebrated her second birthday recently with Vogue Magazine. As we can imagine, she

was most likely disgusted by the cake, was disgruntled over receiving presents and hated every minute of attention given to her at the event — and the celebrations aren’t over. On April 29, Grumpy Cat will be celebrating in New York City at her “Super

Terrible 2” birthday bash. We welcome Grumpy Cat to the “terrible 2s” and anticipate many more years of apathy and anger

from that feline femme fatale.

After a few short days of dinners we didn’t have to pay for, wild nights at campus bars, craft shows and lots of laughs, Moms

Weekend has officially come to an end — and the creepy MILF hunters have crawled back into their caves for another year. While we can thankfully go back to living our lives as slobs without being reprimanded, we are sad to see another fun Champaign-Urbana

weekend come to an end. We love you, moms!

Nearly 30 years later, the goonies still refuse to say die — and we still refuse to give up our love for ’80s throwback classics. Last week, “The Goonies” director Richard Donner told fans that a sequel to the 1985 treasure-hunting hit is still to come.

Although the production of “The Goonies” 2 has yet to be officially confirmed, here’s to hoping we can take Donner at his

word and the truffle shuffle will make a comeback.

In an interview that left hearts across the world broken, James Franco admitted Friday morning on “Live! With Kelly

and Michael” that he attempted to pick up a teenage fan on Instagram. The 35-year-old actor asked 17-year-old

Lucy Clode for her phone number, where she was staying, when she turned 18 and if they could meet up. In one fell

swoop, he went from heartthrob to giver of the heebie jeebies. At least we still have Dave.

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EDITORIALProposed

increase to MAP grants

much needed for students

BRAD BARBER

Opinions columnist

KATE CULLEN

Opinions columnist

Unionization not best policy for athletes’ fair share

Beware the bro hitting on your mom

As tuition con-tinues to rise each year, the amount of

grant or scholarship mon-ey given begins to cover less and less of a student’s needs, and payments push deeper and deeper into the check-book.

One in 5 University under-graduate students receive Monetary Award Program grants each year, which allow more students to attend a re-nowned university — for De-Paul and Northern Illinois, it’s one in three.

However, not all students receive MAP grants, and the challenge of figuring out how to afford yearly tuition costs can be daunting for families who do not receive the state-funded assistance.

On March 26, Gov. Pat Quinn recommended an in-crease to MAP grants in his proposed budget, allowing more opportunities for low-income families and adding the possibility of more diver-sity at universities across the state.

An additional 21,000 stu-dents at colleges across the state could receive MAP grants in the 2015 fiscal year, which is 21,000 more stu-dents who would have access to the education they hope for, if Quinn is successful in his push to add $50 million to Illinois MAP funding.

This means everything for the 58 percent of MAP recip-ients who have no other way of paying for college, accord-ing to a press release from Quinn’s office — hence, an in-crease in MAP grants would be immensely beneficial for those others who cannot af-ford higher education.

While $50 million is an ex-pensive amount that may fur-row the brows of taxpayers, this investment is necessary if statewide universities hope to continue boasting a di-verse student body.

Because grant money is given on a first-come, first-serve basis, the state quick-ly runs out of funds, leaving many without any aid. If $50 million was added, this would happen less quickly and ide-ally allow a great number of students to receive higher educations.

For those whose educa-tions are not funded entire-ly by MAP grants, the stu-dent debt clock continues to tick without pause, as Amer-icans owe more than $1 tril-lion in student loans, which is more than the country owes in credit card debt. In 2011, college seniors in Illinois graduated with an average of $28,000 of debt per graduate, according to The Institute for College Access & Success.

While college grads are of-ten plagued by debt, so is the state itself, which some cite as reason to oppose the ad-ditional funding to the MAP grant program. Though Quinn’s proposal lacked a clear description of where the additional funding for MAP grants would from, it’s impor-tant to deeply consider the needs of students and access to education opportunities, because that is 21,000 more people that would be allowed the chance to learn and grow in a university setting.

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SOCIAL WORK

Phone app offers motorists option to pay parking meters without changeBY MAGGIE O’CONNORSTAFF WRITER

No quarters? No Cash Key? No problem.

Drivers on campus can rest assured that the phone-based pay system for parking meters, Pay By Phone, is here to stay and may even be available in the coming years in off-cam-pus locations in Champaign, and Urbana as well.

In 2010, cellphone-activated payments were tested on 200 of the campus parking meters. The technology works through an app called Pay By Phone, which allows patrons to load the meter through their phones with funds for extended periods of time. The app also alerts patrons when the meter is running low, and they can add more money from wherever they are, which prevents the necessity of hav-ing to leave every few hours to put more money in the parking meter.

This year, Campus Parking will begin to emphasize the Pay By Phone payment option, according to Steve Breitwieser, media communications special-ist with Campus Facilities and Services.

“The decision was made after taking a look at current park-ing meter trends and figuring out how to best anticipate future options for campus parking,” he said.

With 11,000 Pay By Phone transactions per month, Bre-itwieser said the increase in transactions indicates that people have become familiar with the service and are more comfortable with using the technology.

Based on its success, Pay By Phone is now available in 1,800

out of the 2,100 metered park-ing spots on campus, according to Breitwieser. He said that the remaining 300 spots will most likely not offer Pay By Phone technology, because the app is intended for spots where peo-ple can park for long periods of time.

Pay By Phone payments are allocated by hour, so someone looking to park for an hour and a half would have to pay the full two hours if they wanted to use the phone technology.

Laura Gibbons, graduate stu-dent in Business, said that it is convenient because she never has change with her, but that paying by the hour — as well as the 30-cent transaction fee — can be a downside to the technology.

The Cash Key is another alter-native to feeding the parking meters with coins. Cash Keys were adopted by Champaign, Urbana and Campus parking departments around 2001, said Elizabeth Beaty, parking admin-istrator for the city of Urbana. She said the technology is still good, but newer technology will not require patrons to go into the parking offices to add mon-ey to the key.

The key, which works like a debit card, allows patrons to put money on the key and insert it in any of the parking meters on campus, Champaign or Urba-na. Sensors in the meter deduct funds from the key. To load the key with funds, patrons need to go to Champaign, Urbana or Campus parking departments and allocate funds to either of the three locations.

On March 15, the vendor increased the price of the Cash Key from $19.50 to $25. The

price increase was one of the factors in Campus Parking’s decision to stop selling new Cash Keys, Breitwieser said. It will, however, continue to sell refurbished keys for $15 and patrons can still sell back their keys for $10, he said.

Champaign will continue to sell new keys at least for the next five to seven years, said Kris Koester, public infor-mation officer for the City of Champaign’s Public Works Department. Efforts to be more customer service friend-ly have brought the conversa-tion of using the Pay By Phone technology to the table, Koes-ter said, but for now Champaign will keep selling Cash Keys.

Beaty also said that Urbana will continue to sell Cash Keys, but its is definitely talking about adopting new technology for its parking meters.

Beaty owns a Cash Key, as well, and said it is very conve-nient, but as the keys get older, they do not work as well. Con-tact with cellphones or elec-tronic devices can cause them to stop working, she said.

Problems with the Cash Key hardware on campus also caused a temporary shutdown of the service on Jan. 29.

With Pay By Phone, Breitwi-eser said, these problems are avoided.

“The technology is very sim-plistic and has a user-friendly interface,” he said. “Especial-ly because students have their phones on them all the time, the convenience is a real benefit. It just doesn’t get any easier than that.”

Maggie can be reached at oconno36@dailyillini.com

a challenge that, according to Red Bull representatives, will “challenge the mind and body” and “challenges will vary in difficulty but all relate to the culture of the particular city or country the checkpoint is in.” Upon completing each challenge, the team gets another case of Red Bull to trade with.

They found out about the contest through Kristen Krumwiede, a friend of Lalla. Krumwiede, senior in Media, is a student representative for Red Bull on campus. When Lalla found out about the contest, he posted in a Facebook group of his friends from back home — all from the Orland Park and Palos Park, Ill. area — asking if anyone would be interested in forming a team with him.

Originally, the team consisted of Lalla, Smulson and Kelsey Vlamis, senior in ACES, but, because of a class requirement, Vlamis was not able to go on the trip.

All of the competition’s teams were chosen based on a video submission process. The “Corn Stars” video followed the team members as they hitchhiked their way to St. Louis for Mardi Gras using only cans of corn, their statement being “if we can do this much with cans of corn, imagine what we can do with cans of Red Bull.” The team had to first make it into the top 40 of video submissions from the United States. From the top

40, Red Bull chose a top 10. The “Corn Stars” came in third of the top 40 and then were selected as one of 10 teams to go to Europe. They were notified of their selection on March 16. Lalla said when he got the email, he was on the fourth floor of Grainger Library doing a lab report and did not know what to do with himself.

“I just started doing laps up and down Grainger trying to find someone to celebrate with,” he said.

Throughout that week, Vlamis tried to persuade her professor to bend some class policies so that she could go on the trip, but her efforts were to no avail.

Finally, on March 20, Vlamis and the other team members chose her roommate, Luzbetak, as a replacement for the trip because the two are very similar in personality and appearance. At first, the team was nervous that Red Bull would not let them switch team members and that the team would be disqualified. Lalla said that if that would be the case, Valmis was prepared to take one for the team, drop the course and take it over the summer. Red Bull, though, accepted the substitution.

“We always laugh because Kailey and Keslsey look exactly alike, they talk the same, they have the same mannerisms,” Lalla said. “Yes, it sucks for Kelsey, but we didn’t lose anything in the transition to Kailey.”

The team then had five days to plan for the trip to Europe. Luzbetak and Smulson were both

on a camping trip to Utah with no Wi-Fi for spring break. Because Lalla traveled to Honduras, he had no Wi-Fi connection, either.

Before their departure, the three members had to pull a few all-nighters while packing for the trip and finishing up schoolwork. All three team members said their professors have accommodated the competition. One of Lalla’s professors even moved back an exam date so that he could take it with the rest of the class.

Although all three team members have friends in Europe, they do not plan on pre-arranging anything with friends for transportation because it is against the competition’s rules, and they think it would take away from the experience of the trip.

“The whole point of the trip is to just wing it and see what happens,” Lalla said.

The three think they make a good team because although they are all very similar in that they are personable, they each bring different skill sets to the table.

“If you gave us all a problem, none of us would come up with the same solution. We all solve problems creatively but differently,” Luzbetak said.

By April 11 at 5 p.m., the team must reach Berlin to complete the competition. Red Bull will host a party for all competitors, and the winning team receives an all-expense-paid trip to any future Red Bull event.

Bridget can be reached at bhynes2@dailyillini.com.

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thought maybe a few people would comment or like it. How-ever, he was overwhelmed by the number of likes the page has acquired — just over 600. The family is also thankful for all of the support and love they have received from everyone, especially from the doctors, nurses and staff at the hospi-tals, Eileen said.

“We’ve been through a lot as a family, and anything that we have accomplished and over-come has only made us stron-ger,” Caleb said. “My mom, grandma and my mom’s boy-

friend have just been so help-ful with everything, and my sib-lings have done a great job of building a support system, espe-cially with the ‘Caleb’s Crew’ page.”

As a member of the Univer-sity’s chapter of Acacia, Phi Gamma Nu and Illinois Busi-ness Consulting, Zach has not had a lot of free time to go home and visit Caleb as often as he would like.

“I feel bad that I haven’t been able to go back home more,” Zach said. “I’ll get a text from Caleb asking if I’m coming home this weekend, and I feel bad telling him that I can’t because I have meetings or other obligations. I want him to know that even

though I’m not there as much as I would like to be, that I’m always thinking about him and worried about him.”

It has been harder for Zach to focus on all of his differ-ent activities, but he appreci-ates all the support from his friends and people he does not even know who are showing their support.

“The Facebook group has been a great way to show that even though our family is so far spread out, we can still build a support system for Caleb,” Zach said. “It really shows a sense of community.”

Raymond can be reached at rsobcza2@dailyillini.com.

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Waking up on Feb. 15 for Zach Miller, sophomore in Business, should have been like any other day — get up, shower and head to class. After class, he was supposed to go to a meeting, but instead, he received a text message from his 17-year-old brother Caleb.

“The doctors here think I have Leukemia,” the text mes-sage said.

Zach was immediately in shock; he felt the news came from left field, because it was so unexpected.

“The first thing that ran through my mind was, ‘Is he going to be alive for the next year? Will he be with us at the next family gathering? Is he going to make it to his next birthday?’” Zach said.

On Feb. 15, Caleb Miller, a junior at Seneca High School

in Seneca, Ill., was diag-nosed with acute lymphoblas-tic leukemia. Two days later, Caleb underwent surgery to put a chemotherapy port on the right side of his torso. He then had his first chemothera-py treatment on the same day.

“The recovery process is going to take about three years and three months, and he will hopefully be cancer free. But if it had to happen to anyone, Caleb would be the one to get through it,” Zach said.

Since discovering the news, Zach went home to see his brother and spend time with him.

“It seemed like nothing was wrong with him,” Zach said. “He’s one of the stron-gest and most resilient kids I know. He’s always happy and upbeat. That’s how Caleb has always been though.”

The treatment is going to be very aggressive for the first sev-

en months, and Caleb will not be able to go to school during the process because of his weak immune system, Zach said.

“The thing that hit me the hardest was that it would take (about three) years,” Caleb said. “And the hardest part of it all is that I won’t be able to go anywhere for the first seven months.”

However, Caleb will be able to go back to school for his senior year, and the treat-ment should not affect any of his college plans or hopes of becoming an auto mechanic, Caleb said.

At the moment, Caleb does not feel sick. Rather, he feels energetic, he said. He is two weeks ahead of schedule in the recovery process and is in remission. As far as the doc-tors can see, the cancer is no longer developing and is no longer in his system. Howev-er, the recovery road is still

going to be challenging and difficult to ensure the cancer will not return, but Caleb said the support of his family and friends has been helping him through it.

“All five of my siblings are spread out, so the way they supported me was by start-ing a ‘Caleb’s Crew’ Facebook page,” Caleb said.

Since the creation of the Facebook page, the support spread to Twitter and other social media sites. Eileen, Caleb’s mother, started a blog, ‘Calebscrew.weebly.com.’

“I started the blog so every-one knew what was going on with Caleb, so they could be up-to-date on everything from chemo appointments to how he’s feeling,” Eileen said.

When he first heard of the Facebook page, Caleb

PHOTO COURTESY OF KAILEY LUZBETAKKailey Luzbetak, Dave Smulson and Tim Lalla carry Red Bull cases of Red Bull to London. The students are members of the Corn Stars team in the 2014 Red Bull Can You Make It competition.

BY BRIDGET HYNESSTAFF WRITER

University students Kailey Luzbetak and Dave Smulson, seniors in LAS, and Tim Lalla, senior in Engineering, are backpacking through Europe using only cases of Red Bull as currency for transportation, food and shelter. The team, dubbed the Corn Stars, are participating in the Red Bull Can You Make It competition, in which 100 teams from 27 different countries were selected to barter their way across Europe using Red Bull

cans and hit checkpoints along the way to earn more cases of Red Bull.

Of these 100 teams, two teams from the University were chosen. The other team is Team Illini, made up of Matt McClone and Carson Masterson, seniors in Engineering; and Naveen Raja, junior in FAA.

Currently, the Corn Stars, referring to corn-heavy Illinois, has reached five checkpoints. As of Sunday, the team is second in amount of cans traded (138) and

has traveled an average of 7 kilometers per can. They began in London, England, and have made their way through the United Kingdom and Belgium. So far along the journey, the team has wake boarded in Liverpool, hitchhiked through England and slept a total of three hours since the competition’s started last Friday at 5 p.m.

Luzbetak said she hopes to possibly see the Swiss Alps, even though it is a bit out of the way.

The game plan is to cover

as much ground and hit as many checkpoints as possible first and then start doing cool things with the Red Bull cans.

They are also planning to hit up universities in Europe, in hopes that college kids will be the most receptive to helping them in the team’s travels.

In terms of food, members of the team think food-place owners may be willing to give them food in exchange for Red Bull cans and the free publicity the team’s page would bring the vendor.

Luzbetak said she might

say something like, “Hey, we have 700 followers on this page. If we post a picture of your sandwich shop, people are going to know about it.”

The only mode of communication the team has with the outside world since the kickoff has been one smartphone, provided by Red Bull, shared among the three members. The phone has only a Red Bull app, which allows them to post blogs, photos and videos of their trip to the team’s website.

The teams try to gain more

“likes” on their page to win more points. They can also get points by hitting more than the required six checkpoints throughout their travels across Europe. There are 40 available stops to choose from, but the teams are not made aware of their locations until kickoff to deter teams from pre-planning. By the end, the team with the most points wins the competition.

At each checkpoint, there is

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Gymnastics qualifi es for Nationals

Illinois sweeps Northwestern

BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s gym-nastics team came into the Minneapolis Regional and seeded second for the fi rst time in program history . As the team left the meet, it became the fi rst Illini squad to advance to consecutive NCAA Championships.

Illinois’ second-place score of a 196.600 at the Minneapo-lis Regional on Saturday solidi-fi ed the team’s spot at Nation-als . When the Illini heard the news, they cried tears of joy and shared hugs. Junior Sunny Kato described it as “one of the best moments of my life.”

The uneven bars lineup played a large factor in the team’s second-place fi nish. In fact, Illinois’ 49.400 on bars was the best total of the night for that specifi c event . It also showed the improvements the gymnasts have made with their handstands and land-ings, something they have been striving to do all season.

“I don’t expect anything less from this bar team because they’ve been doing amazing,” Kato said. “It’s just so exciting ‘cause it all just came together, and for the fi rst time, I think everyone just did awesome. We had fi ve for six sticks, and we hit our handstands. Basically, everything just went right for us. It was nice having that.”

None of the individual bars scores was below a 9.800 . Kato’s 9.925 led the way for the Illini, and she also tied Cali-fornia’s Dallas Crawford for the bars title . Freshman Mary Jane Horth took third place with her 9.900 .

Bars proved to be the high-light of the night for the Illini, but the meet didn’t start that as great. Despite senior Amber See tying for third on fl oor, Illi-nois got off to a slow start with

a 49.025 on the event but the gymnasts didn’t allow that to faze them.

“Regardless of the scores we got on that fi rst event, we had three more events we could pick it up on, and we really did that tonight,” senior Sarah Fiedler said. “We just persist-ed throughout the whole meet and ended up really well.”

After performing on bars, the gymnasts moved on to the last event of the night, the bal-ance beam . Illinois found itself in a close match with Minneso-ta, just as it was in the Big Ten Quad Meet on March 15. This time, though, the Illini had the 147.450-147.050 advantage . Just as the slow start didn’t affect the team, neither did the close score.

“Coming off of bars, the ener-gy was so great, but then we had to remind ourselves, ‘We can’t get too excited yet. We still have one more event that we need to nail,’” Fiedler said. “We just stayed focused. There was a lot of cheering going on. There were a lot of great things hap-pening on other events. We just really stayed focused, stayed united within the team, and we got the job done.”

Fiedler scored a 9.900 on beam to lead Illinois, and she tied with three other gym-nasts for the beam title . She described the fi rst-place fi n-ish as “an added perk,” as making it to Nationals is the real highlight. Head coach Kim Landrus called the event “indescribable.”

“I talked to the team at the beginning of this year, and I knew there was something spe-cial,” Landrus said. “They have had the hard drive and deter-mination the entire season and continued fi ghting.”

Ashley can be reached at wijangc2@dailyillini.com.

BY J.J. WILSONSTAFF WRITER

EVANSTON, Ill. — Illinois base-ball’s weekend sweep of North-western almost came at a cost on Sunday afternoon.

With two outs in the fi rst inning, designated hitter Michael Hurwitz saw his pitch and bolted for sec-ond base. Northwestern’s catcher responded quickly, forcing Hur-witz to slide into second base.

Seconds later, the umpire called him out. But it took several more seconds before the Illinois dugout started to realize Hurwitz wasn’t getting up.

He rose slowly and limped as far as shortstop before falling on his hands and knees with pain in his right ankle. Associate head coach Eric Snider had to help him back to the dugout.

“I think I hit the base,” Hurwitz said, “but we just taped it up and I kept going.”

Four innings later, Hurwitz was back on fi rst after drawing his sec-ond walk and stole second with-out hesitation, refusing to let the soreness slow him down en route to his team’s 1-0 win to complete the sweep.

The only scoring play of Sun-day’s game came in the fourth. Following a single by fi rst base-man David Kerian and a wild pitch that advanced him second, catch-er Jason Goldstein cracked a line drive into center to put the Illini ahead.

One run proved enough for the Illini following eight scoreless innings from starting pitcher John Kravetz . The junior allowed just four hits and struck out sev-en, which is more than in all fi ve of his starts this season combined. His shut out was Illinois’ second of the weekend.

“It was probably as good as I’ve felt all year,” Kravetz said.

“We have all the confi dence in the world right now. We feel like an elite staff right now and are try-ing to keep it going.”

Senior Ronnie Muck closed with one hit and earned the save, his fi rst in nine games this season.

“When you get pitching perfor-mances like that, it’s really help-ful,” Snider said. “You can beat the crap out of someone by beat-ing them 2-1. It doesn’t have to be 11-1.”

Snider served as head coach this weekend while Dan Hartleb returned to his home in Hamilton, Ohio, to be with his ailing father before he passed away Saturday afternoon.

On Friday, the Illini shut out the Wildcats and put up 13 runs in series opener. Starting pitch-er Drasen Johnson allowed four hits in seven innings and tied his career-high with 10 strikeouts. The offense’s 13 runs on 11 hits marks just its second double-digit performance of the season, its last coming in a 19-run win over Geor-gia State on Feb. 15.

“To be honest, Friday night they

helped us out a whole lot,” Gold-stein said. “I think they gave 15 free passes and dropped a couple fl y balls and had some errors.”

Saturday’s game went into an extra inning but dealt the same result for the Illini, who scored four in the 10th to win it, 6-2. With two on base, leadoff hitter Will Krug singled into left fi eld to score the winning run. The Illini capital-ized on another two walks with a two-run double from Kerian and RBI groundout from Reid Roper.

Sophomore pitcher Ryan Cas-tellanos walked none in his seven innings, notching his fi fth straight start walking none. He leads the NCAA with 34 innings without a walk.

The sweep boosted Illinois’ record to 17-11 and moved it to second in the Big Ten standings at 5-1, behind Indiana (7-1) and just ahead of Penn State (4-1).

“We pitched, we played D, and we scored runs,” Snider said. “That’s good baseball.”

J.J. can be reached at jjwilso2@dailyillini.com.

Annual World’s Largest Softball Tailgate draws array of attendees BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER

Unsure of what to expect, the Hearn family left their house in Lawrenceville, Ill., around 7 a.m. on Saturday in order to grab a spot at the World’s Largest Softball Tail-gate. They ended up being the fi rst ones there, if the crew set-ting up the event doesn’t count.

They had no family playing in the Illinois softball team’s doubleheader against Nebras-ka or children who attend the University. Rather, they found the event on Illinois’s website and decided it was the perfect fi t for a family that loves soft-ball and was looking to cele-brate father Tom Hearn’s 50th birthday.

The Hearn group was simi-lar to a lot of the attendees at the tailgate who were there to enjoy Illini softball and a fun atmosphere fi lled with friends and family. Illinois’s 11th annual World’s Largest Soft-ball Tailgate was named the best single-game promotion for an Olympic sport by the Big Ten Conference in 2007.

Tom and Jenifer Hearn brought their daughter, son and their daughter’s boy-friend to experience the col-lege game atmosphere, while soaking up the differences between collegiate and high

school matchups.“I want to see Big Ten col-

lege softball,” Tom said before the games. “I want to see what it looks like on the fi eld. You can watch it on TV, but until you’re here to actually see it, you know I want to see it in person. I imagine it will be a lot faster.”

Though the Hearns arrived early, most tailgaters began pulling into the area outside Eichelberger fi eld around 10 a.m. and continued to fi ll the parking lot until the Game One’s 1 p.m. fi rst pitch.

At 11 a.m., live music from country artist and Watseka, Ill., native Nick Lynch fi lled the air. He had performed on American Idol, ABC’s Count-down Chicago 2014 and ABC’s Windy City Live.

But for Lynch, coming back close to home had its draws. Lynch attended Parkland and played golf for the school before leaving for Ameri-can Idol. He remembers the days where he would go into

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With the Illini down 3-1 the bottom of the second, fresh-man right fi elder Nicole Evans stepped to the plate with a run-ner on and knocked a shot over the right fi eld fence to tie the game in front of a packed crowd at Eichelberger Field.

Evans’ home run gave the Illinois softball team momen-tum as it went on to take the lead with a four-run third inning. Illinois would go on to win Saturday’s fi rst game, the opener of a three game series against the No. 20 Cornhuskers by a score of 11-4.

“(Evans) is a very confi dent kid,” head coach Terri Sullivan said. “She has great power, and we expect her as a young player to really grow as a hitter. She’s going to hit some balls like she did today and she’s going to have some strikeouts too. We don’t want her to change her aggressive mentality at the plate.”

The Illinois softball team (18-

15) would go on to split the dou-bleheader on Saturday against Nebraska (26-12), but the Corn-huskers took the three game series with a convincing win on Sunday.

Two early errors committed by the Illini defense helped Nebraska jump out to an ear-ly lead in the second game. Junior starting pitcher Shelese Arnold, who relieved the previ-ous game, also had issues fi nd-ing her rhythm after she was called for four illegal pitches for leaping.

Sullivan pulled Arnold in the third inning in favor of fresh-man Jade Vecvanags, who has typically served as a late-game reliever for the team. Sulli-van said Arnold has never had issues with throwing illegal pitches and praised the junior for her efforts in relieving freshman Brandi Needham in the fi rst game.

Arnold was confused by the reasoning behind the ille-gal pitch calls, but wasn’t too upset about being pulled early

because she believes in the Illi-ni’s depth in the position.

“We really weren’t worried because we have a staff of pitchers,” Arnold said. “Bran-di and Jade are freshmen, but they play beyond their years.”

Vecvanags allowed fi ve runs through fi ve innings and the Cornhuskers took an 8-1 lead heading into the bottom of the fi fth. The Illini were able to drive in three more runs off the bats of senior left fi elder Alex

Booker and sophomore desig-nated player Kylie Johnson.

“It’s our job to fi ght back, especially as an offense,” Book-er said Saturday. “I take pride in that because that is pretty much the majority of my job. I think we can score more runs off (Nebraska’s) pitcher for sure.”

The Illini then loaded the bases in the bottom of the sev-

Are the Kentucky Wildcats the 2nd coming of Michigan’s ‘Fab Five’?

Kentucky’s freshmen have a chance to do what Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan

Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson couldn’t: win a nation-al championship.

After the Wildcats’ improb-able victory against a 35-0 Wichita State team, I suggest-ed to a colleague that we were

witnessing history. But not because Kentucky derailed one of the great runs to the tourna-ment for a mid-major, or any school for that matter.

No. It was because we were watching the new Fab Five. I was given a facial expres-sion that interpreted my statement as basketball blas-phemy. Apparently my dec-laration was premature and inaccurate.

Yet, here we are on Cham-pionship Monday with the Kentucky Wildcats and their freshman-laden starting line-

up 40 minutes away from immortality.

The new Fab Five bandwag-on is fi lling up rather quickly as these young ‘Cats have put the world on notice and are preparing for college basket-ball’s biggest stage.

But is it fair to proclaim them the second-coming of the greatest recruiting class ever and bestow the moniker ‘Fab Five’ upon them?

No.Let’s call them the Sensation-

al Six. Or maybe the Fab Six. Or whatever catch phrase can

be associated with the number six. It doesn’t matter, as long as we acknowledge the trials and accomplishments of the six freshman talents on this team.

Their path to the champion-ship game isn’t much different than that of the Fab Five.

That 1992 recruiting class had four players ranked in the top 100 high school players in the country, including four in the top 10. Ray Jackson was the only outcast, ranked No. 84. The other four (Webber, Howard, Rose and King) were McDonald’s All-Americans.

It was unheard of at that time to have four McDonald’s All-Americans in one recruit-ing class.

Kentucky coach John Cali-pari had six in this past year’s recruiting class. Julius Randle, Aaron Harrison, Andrew Har-rison, James Young, Dakari Johnson and Marcus Lee made the move to Lexington.

Then Michigan coach Steve Fisher did not start all fi ve freshmen regularly until Feb. 9, 1992, against Notre Dame. The Fab Five scored every point.

Feb. 1 against Missouri is when Calipari decided to go with his all-freshmen line-up permanently. The six All-Americans scored 77 of the team’s 84 points in the win.

Lee, the sixth freshman, rejoined the fray when Willie Cauley-Stein went down with a foot injury against Louisville in the Sweet 16. He has since been a heavy part of the rota-tion and important contributor.

Michigan was a 6-seed in that 1992 NCAA tournament.

SPENCER BROWN

Sports columnist

Nebraska takes series, drops Illinois to 2-7 in Big Ten play

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILLY ILLINIShelese Arnold (12) pitches during the second game of a double header against Indiana on April 20 at Eichelberger Field. The Illini won 1-0. Arnold had four illegal pitches against Nebraska this weekend.

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The Illinois women’s tennis team headed to the state of Michigan this weekend looking to extend its four-match winning streak, but returned home with a streak of a different kind after dropping matches to Michigan State and Michigan.

Illinois (10-8, 3-4 Big Ten) took on Michigan State (16-5, 4-3) on Saturday in East Lansing, where dou-bles proved once again to be the deciding factor. The Spartans drew first blood, taking two of three doubles matches. Freshman Jerricka Boone and junior Melissa Kopinski salvaged one set, making quick work of Michigan State’s Julianne Gruber and Emily Meyers.

In singles, the Illini kept it close as freshman Alexis Casati continued an impressive freshman

season, disposing Erin Faulkner of 6-2, 6-3. Fellow freshman Louise Kwong and senior Misia Kedzier-ski also won in straight sets, as Kwong defeated Meyers 6-4, 6-4 and Kedzierski easily bested Athe-na Trouillot 6-3, 6-1.

Boone was the last Illini to finish Saturday. With the match tied 3-3, Boone took Michigan State’s Olga Chernova down to the wire but fell 7-6, 6-7, 6-4. The loss was the first for Illinois since March 9 at Purdue, and it was Michigan State’s third win in a row. The two teams entered the match in a three-way tie for fourth place in the conference with Purdue.

On Sunday, the Illini headed to Ann Arbor to take on No. 17 Michigan (15-3, 7-0), who had just taken sole possession of first place in the Big Ten with a win over Northwestern on Saturday.

The Wolverines took the doubles point, but Illi-nois made it close. Kopinski and senior Allison Falkin downed the No. 47-ranked duo of Ronit Yurovsky and Laura Ucros 8-3 on Court 2, and Casati and Boone nearly took down No. 66 Sarah Lee and Amy Zhu, but fell 8-7.

Michigan took all six singles points en route to its seventh straight victory. Casati was the only Illini to win a set, as she took No. 22 Yurovsky to a third set. Four individual Wolverines are ranked in the top 125 nationally.

“I think it was a lot closer than the score showed today,” Casati said. “I think we played pretty well, we just needed a few more points.”

Sunday marked the second time Illinois had been shut out this spring. The Illini were also blanked by Northwestern on March 8.

“Against Northwestern, we had trouble show-ing our spirit and getting into it,” Casati said. “But today, we almost won doubles and played pretty well in singles, so today was a lot better.”

Head coach Michelle Dasso continued to change up the doubles lineups this weekend, as she has in each of the past six matches. Only Kedzierski and Kwong played together in both matches this weekend. Illinois is 1-8 this spring when losing the doubles point.

“Difficult times and difficult losses can break teams or make them stronger,” Dasso said in a press release. “The character of our team will show on how we rebound and finish the regular season.”

Thomas can be reached at donley2@dailyillini.com and @Donley_Thomas

Women’s tennis loses matches to Michigan State, Michigan

BY BRETT LERNERSTAFF WRITER

The No. 11 Illinois men’s tennis team finally returned home to the Atkins Tennis Center this weekend after a stretch of six straight road matches. Home matches have meant one thing all season for this Illini team: wins. The Illini are now 16-7 (5-2) after tak-ing down conference foes Michigan State and Michigan this weekend. The wins also improved Illinois’ home record to 9-0.

“Playing for the home crowd is always great, having our home fans I think is definitely an advantage for us,” junior Farris Gosea said.

On Friday, the Illini rolled through their first match of the weekend with a 6-1 win over Michigan State. The Illini were expected to win, as they haven’t dropped a match to the Spartans since 1997.

The match also held a little extra meaning for head coach Brad Dancer. Dancer was an All-Big Ten player at Michigan State in the early 1990s, and also began his coaching career with the Spartans.

“Playing Michigan State is always a special match for me. Coach Orlan-do was my coach my last two years in school and I’ve got a tremendous

amount of respect for him,” Dancer said.

Although Illinois was able to breeze through Michigan State, they weren’t able to do the same to Michigan when the two battled on Sunday. Illinois pulled out a 5-2 win but pushed much harder than the score indicated.

Doubles has been a tough spot for the Illini all season, and they haven’t seen much improvement since the return of Jared Hiltzik to the lineup, losing two doubles points in a row heading into the weekend. The Illini started off in a hole once again against Michigan as they dropped another doubles point. Illinois even had match point in all three of the doubles matches against the Wolverines, but wasn’t able to close them out.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that before,” Dancer said.

Illinois’ slow start to the match didn’t translate into singles play. No. 42 Tim Kopinski once again set the tone for the Illini as he cruised through his match, winning 6-2, 6-2. Kopinski has been on fire as of late, winning his last seven singles matches.

Kopinski’s teammates were able to fol-low his example, and a few had signifi-cant comebacks. Blake Bazarnik came back after a sluggish start in the first set

and Ross Guignon won his third set 6-4 after dropping the second 1-6.

The clinching victory came from Illi-nois’ top singles spot when No. 23 Gosea dramatically went back and forth with No. 115 Alex Petrone, before finally fin-

ishing him off in the third, 6-2. Gosea stayed collected throughout, but when he finally clinched the victory he threw his racket to the ground and gave a huge yell to the crowd.

“Honestly I thought I was going to lose

that in the third, but to come out and win that one was a really nice experience for me,” Gosea said.

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FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Farris Gosea hits the ball during the match against No. 8 Texas at Atkins Tennis Center on Feb. 9. The Illini won that match 4-3. This weekend, No. 23 Gosea defeated Michigan’s No. 115 Alex Petrone.

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When the Illinois volleyball team took the court at the Indy Collegiate Invitational in Plainfi eld, Ind., it wasn’t as one collective team.

The Illini split their 16-player roster into orange and blue squads that competed separately through-out the tournament. Both the orange and blue teams won two of their four matches, but head coach Kevin Hambly said the Illini’s collective goal was deeper than wins or losses.

“I thought there were some really good things going on,” Hambly said. “We competed hard, we played hard. For us, it’s so much about just trying to get us an opportunity to grow and learn, and I think we got all of that.”

The two Illini teams were put into different pools of the tournament, with the orange team in one of the tournament’s two four-team pools and the blue team in one of the three three-team pools. All of the matches consisted of only two sets.

Illinois’ orange team started the day by splitting its fi rst match against Illinois State. The orange team lost the fi rst set against the Red Birds 23-25 before taking the second set 25-20. Illinois’ blue team had an easier time in its fi rst game, beating the Univer-sity of Akron 25-9 and 25-10.

In its second match, the orange team found its rhythm beating Indiana in both sets 27-25, 25-17. After the match against the Hoosiers, the orange team split another match, this time against Kentucky. The orange team lost the fi rst set to the Wildcats 22-25

before taking the second set 25-18.The blue team split its second match against West-

ern Kentucky, losing the fi rst set 19-25 and taking the second set 25-22.

With its performance in the opening round of the tournament, the blue team moved into the fi rst place pool with Ohio State and Louisville. From there, the blue team continued its success, taking both sets in its next match against Louisville, 26-24 and 25-22, respectively.

The blue team wrapped up its night with a one-set match against Ohio State. The Buckeyes took the set 25-20 before the match ended because of what the press release called “time and fatigue.”

Illinois’ orange team took second place in its four-team pool and moved on to play one fi nal match against West Virginia. The orange team took advantage of the opportunity to play again, beating the Mountaineers 25-15 in the fi rst set and 25-16 in the second set.

Hambly said that above all else, the tournament served as a way for younger players to gain experi-ence at the college level.

“We put some kids in some situations they’ve never been in before,” Hambly said. “On both teams, we had four kids who had never really played college volley-ball, except for the spring, so to see them playing all the time and competing hard it was really, really fun to watch and be a part of.”

Although both Illini teams combined to win four matches and dropped only four sets throughout the tournament, Hambly is more preoccupied with help-ing the team learn.

“I don’t really get that caught up in the results of the spring (season),” Hambly said. “I get more caught up in, ‘Are they competing hard?’

“Some people talk to you like they want to win everything, and we want to win because we’re com-

petitive, but that’s not the main focus. The main focus is ‘How good can we be?’”

Nicholas can be reached at fortin2@dailyillini.com and @IlliniSportsGuy.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ head coach Kevin Hambly instructs his team during an NCAA tournament match against Marquette University at Huff Hall on Dec. 7. The Illini won 3-1.

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Women’s golf advances to Web.com tournament

BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER

The last time the Illinois wom-en’s golf team competed, it fi nished 11th at the Briars Creek Invita-tional. Although it didn’t place as well as it hoped, the Illini ended that tournament on a strong note, and they are hoping to use that momentum head-ing into their next competition.

Illinois will compete at the Web.com Inter-collegiate tourna-ment at the Marsh Landing Coun-try Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Illinois is one of 19 teams competing Monday and Tuesday at the par-72, 5,967 yard golf course.

“We are feeling well prepared,” assistant coach Jenny Coluccio said. “After refl ecting on the tour-nament with each player and our team stats, we feel (last) week in practice has been very benefi cial.”

Another reason the Illini feel prepared is because last year’s team competed at this course. Junior Michelle Mayer mentioned the course is “very straightfor-ward,” and that “what you see is what you get.” The team knows what to expect and will be aware

of what kinds of opportunities the course presents.

“The yardages for each hole are identical to last year, but depending on the conditions, it may play differently,” head coach Renee Slone said. “There likely will be some scoring opportunities with short irons

into some greens on the par-5s and a couple of the shorter par-4s. Position-ing ourselves off the tee will be a key area.”

Junior Sam Postillion, in particular, did

well with the par-5s at Marsh Landing last season. She men-tioned her wedge game is still good, which will be benefi cial for the shorter par-5s.

Despite some familiarity, the golfers will still need to be aware of water hazards. “We just all need to be able to trust our games because I know that we’re all capable of scoring really well out of this golf course,” Postillion said. “We got to trust that we can all score well because this course does have a lot of good opportunities.”

Illinois began the spring sea-son at the Westbrook Spring Invitational and played on a course that was also described as “straightforward.” Even so, the golfers were unable to take advantage of those opportuni-ties. That prompted Slone to emphasize to her team how vital that is for success.

Aside from the course itself, there will be 18 opposing teams. The Illini competed in a fi eld of 19 teams to end the fall season, but this will be the fi rst time they have done that during the spring. Neither the coaches nor golfers expect the extra com-petitors to provide more obsta-cles. If anything were to stand in the Illini’s way, though, it would be the pace of play at the tournament.

“Pace of play is going to be interesting since everyone will be riding in carts, which is out of the norm, so we will just have to stay patient with that,” Coluccio said. “However, at the end of the day it is just golf, no matter how many other people are there, all you can do is focus on you and play your own game.”

Ashley can be reached at wijangc2@dailyillini.com and @wijangco12.

The Wolverines had to defeat the top two seeds in their region in back-to-back games to reach the Final Four.

Kentucky, an 8-seed, fended off the one, two and four seeds in its region to get to the fi nal weekend.

Both teams, unfairly, received tons of criticism that spilled beyond the basketball court. Both responded by mak-ing it to the title game when doubters said it couldn’t be done.

Hopefully that is where the similarities end.

We are 21 years removed from the second of two consec-utive losses in the title game by the Fab Five.

For all of the hype, talent and barriers broken by the Fab Five, it never translated into a championship. For that, the fi ve-freshmen experiment could ulti-mately be considered a failure.

Sitting atop that perch of expectations puts a lot of pres-sure on Cal’s Wildcats. That’s assuming they are willing to accept it. By the way Aaron Harrison is knocking down game-winning 3-pointers, it doesn’t look like they feel any pressure at all.

For all the big games though, none compares to the game

tonight.Only UConn stands in the

way of Kentucky and accom-plishing a feat unlike any we’ve seen at the college level.

Though this Wildcat team may not have the cultur-al impact of the Fab Five, a win tonight would defi nitely send ripples through college basketball.

Aside from solidifying Cal as one of the better coaches in the game with his second national title in three years, his recruiting style will gain legitimacy. A recruiting style others will try to mimick and could either help or hurt the game; it really depends on perspective.

That assumption is riding off course on a Kentucky victo-ry. A loss maintains the notion that a national championship cannot be won without some form of experience in your starting lineup, as the original Fab Five learned fi rst-hand.

History has a funny way of repeating itself.

Let’s just hope, for Ken-tucky’s sake, that Julius Ran-dle doesn’t find himself in a late-game situation trapped on the baseline calling a time-out when he doesn’t have one left.

Spencer is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at sebrown2@dailyillini.com.

enth, but weren’t able to make anything of it as the Cornhusk-ers took the second game by a score of 9-4.

In the last game of the series, Nebraska’s batters were able to light up the scoreboard with eight runs off seven hits in the second inning.

Needham struggled to get her pitch going at the start of the game and was relieved in the second inning by Arnold. Needham tried to stay calm during Nebraska’s onslaught, but she just couldn’t get the last out of the inning.

“The only way to react is to try to hit the corners more,” Needham said. “I wasn’t real-ly thinking about each hit they got; I was just trying to focus pitch-by-pitch and get to the next batter.”

Down 8-0, Sullivan pushed her team to fight back, which it did in the form of two home runs from senior catcher Jenna Mychko and sophomore third baseman Katie Repole. The runs weren’t enough as the game ended in the fifth inning by mercy rule with a final score of 12-3.

Sullivan was happy with the way the team competed this weekend against the tough

division rival, which dropped Illinois’ Big Ten record to 2-7. Despite the record, Sullivan is confi dent her team can learn from the mistakes made in the losses in time for next week-end’s series at Wisconsin.

“We aim to play consistent softball,” Sullivan said. “We have a very aggressive sched-ule remaining. Our team knows that, and they like challeng-es. You really have to take the punches and then give them back. I think our team is capa-ble of that.”

Daniel can be reached at dadexte2@dailyillini.com and @ddexter23.

old-town Urbana to check out bands or visit friends at Illi-nois’s Farmhouse International Fraternity. He even attended some softball games when he dated one of the players.

“I love Champaign,” Lynch said. “I loved living here. I love everything about, kind of the ‘Midwestern’ feel down here. There was always something for everybody in Champaign. You could find any way to do anything. You always had a great time.”

It was such an atmosphere on Saturday that brought back the family that made home softball games at Illinois a reality. The Eichelberger reunion section of the tailgate, a staple since the event began, was filled with family and friends of Lila Jeanne “Shorty” and the late Paul Eichelberger.

The field, a major deferred gift in combination with ongo-ing annual gifts, was Eichel-

berger’s honor to her hus-band. She wanted to see the advancement of women’s ath-letics, while he had a passion for softball that derived from his youth.

One of 10 children, including seven boys, Paul played fast-pitch softball on a team with his brothers that traveled all over Illinois. Five of those 10 were on hand for Saturday’s reunion.

“I enjoy all the people that I get to meet that I don’t see all year,” said Marion “Shady” Eichelberger, Paul’s brother and the ninth of the 10 children. “Relatives from out of town come. We have a good time.”

Admitting no one knows him by Marion, Shady got his nick-name at the age of five in a tale that nonetheless relates to his family’s softball past, a name that has stuck for more than 70 years.

“Well, the neighbors used to come down and play ball,” Eichelberger said. “They’d meet on Sundays. And I’d always thought I’d been big enough to play softball with them, but

they wouldn’t let me play. So I’d haul off and hit them with a bat or something and then they’d hit me and I’d cry and go on and sit underneath the shade tree and that’s how I got the name.”

Drawing families, like the Hearns, from hours away or musicians like Lynch who’d indeed been to the field before, the World’s Largest Softball Tailgate brought together a mix of people with a passion for Illi-nois and softball. More impor-tantly, it provided an opportu-nity to make connections with family and friends and to wit-ness the growth of the program.

And though Eichelberger’s face was shaded by the Illinois cap he wore, the emotion was evident, as he described how much his brother would have liked what Illinois softball has become.

“Paul would have enjoyed it,” Shady said. “It’s rough, yeah, but we all got to go. Live and carry on.”

Charlotte can be reached at cmcarro2@dailyillini.com.

Men’s golf fi nishes 4th in AugustaBY DAN BERNSTEIN STAFF WRITER

Before playing in the Augusta Invitational this weekend, sophomore Thomas Detry stressed the importance of playing smart golf.

The 15-team field showcased seven out of the top 25 teams in the nation this weekend in Augusta, Ga.

Detry finished tied for fourth in the individual standings, carding rounds of 71 and 68 on Saturday, followed by a bogey-free round of 69 on Sunday.

“I just played solid golf,” Detry said. “It’s funny because Coach Small talked to us after our rounds on Saturday and emphasized the ability to avoid bogeys as much as we could, and that’s exactly what I did today.”

Detry only missed one green-in-regulation on Sunday at the 7,028-yard, par-72 Forest Hills Golf Club and was still able to manage to get up-and-down to save par.

“If you’re able to avoid bogeys, while throwing a couple birdies in there, you can easily shoot three, four or five-under,” Detry said.

The No. 8 Illini, who finished fourth in the team standings behind No. 7 Central Florida, No. 19 Texas and No. 13 Virginia Tech, also got solid contributions from Charlie Danielson and David Kim.

Danielson finished tied

for twelfth in the individual standing after shooting rounds of 72-70-72.

Kim carded rounds of 71-77-71 to finish tied for 30th.

“We had a couple lapses in the first and second round,” head coach Mike Small said. “We were able to fight back from that, which put us in a good position after the second round which was very important. You can’t control your opponents, but we played better today which is encouraging.”

One of the Illini’s strongest players, Brian Campbell, struggled for most of the weekend, but still managed to tie for 38th after posting rounds of 74-75-71.

“He [Danielson] is a really good player and is capable of shooting very low scores,” Detry said.

“Not having him playing well on Saturday was tough, but overall, we took fourth in a strong field which is not bad at all. After a difficult start, we finished pretty well.”

After competing against some of the top collegiate talent in the country this weekend in Augusta, the Illini will now have the opportunity to watch the best professional golfers in the world at the Master’s practice round on Monday.

Dan can be reached at daberns2@dailyillini.com and @yaboybernie11.

CHARLES BERTRAM MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEThe Kentucky Wildcats celebrate as they beat the Wisconsin Badgers, 74-73, in the Final Four at AT&T Stadium Saturday in Arlington, Texas. Columnist Spencer Brown thinks Kentucky’s Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson could be the new Fab Five.

Illini travel to Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.,to compete in intercollegiate tournament

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