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INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 3B | Sudoku 3B THE DAILY ILLINI WEDNESDAY September 18, 2013 85˚ | 66˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 14 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI Nugent Hall model for University of Florida facility Disability-accessible residence hall at UI serving as archetype BY TAYLOR ODISHO STAFF WRITER As the University maintains its status as one of the most accessible college campuses in the nation, one university works to do the same. The University of Florida will create a new resi- dence hall that will offer more accessibility to handicapped students. The new hall, which will open in August 2015, is modeled after the University’s Nugent Hall. The UF chose Nugent Hall as an archetype for the Resi- dence Hall Project for a num- ber reasons, one of them being its staff’s ties to Illinois. “As a former student at the University of Illinois, I’m well aware of the very long commit- ment and excellent reputation the University has in its regard for having facilities that are accessible and well beyond the ADA (Americans with Disabil- ity Act) standards in the United States,” said Dave Kratzer, vice president for student affairs at UF. Sharon Blansett, assistant to the associate vice president for Student Affairs at UF, said UF housing administrators and the Association of College and University Housing Officers- International referred the proj- ect’s team to Beckwith Residen- tial Support Services at Nugent Hall. “All Student Affairs and Housing staff keep tabs on inno- vative programs nationwide through regional and national organizations,” Blansett said. Patricia Malik, director of Beckwith Residential Support Services, said the University is known for innovation and going above and beyond the ADA’s standards. “The Beckwith Residen- tial Support Services ... is not required by law,” Malik said. “The only thing required by law ZACH DALZELL THE DAILY ILLINI Crops grow on the Hendrick House’s farm field that is on loan from the Sustainable Student Farm on Monday. Hendrick House use organic practices, no pesticides or chemicals, to help feed three dorms — Hendrick House, Presby Hall and Armory House — and around 30 fraternities and sororities. Local food a growing movement Hendrick House, new law raise awareness for eating local BY ELEANOR BLACK STAFF WRITER Within the Sustainable Student Farm, located on the outskirts of campus, lies a half-acre plot filled with rows of vegetation. This plot belongs to Hendrick House and grows tomatoes, let- tuce, beans and other vegetables to provide food for private certi- fied housing on campus. The farm is just one part of Illinois’ local food movement. In August, Gov. Pat Quinn approved “Eat Local, Buy Illi- nois Products Day,” which is recognized statewide and will occur on the first Saturday of every month. Naomi Jakobsson, D-103, co- sponsored the bill in the Illinois General Assembly before Quinn signed it into law. “Well, I think it’s certainly a very good thing for this area, for economic development, for local businesses,” Jakobsson said. “Some of them are small and really trying to make it, and others have been around, but it’s also important to support them. It also helps people find out where all the products and local businesses are.” This movement would promote the fresh produce from the Hen- drick House plot, as well as other locally grown food. Hendrick House Chef Ann Swanson is in charge of the plot, which she started preparing in May. With the plot, Swanson said her goal is for Hendrick House to become more sustainable by sourcing more than 95 percent of its vegetables through her. “The benefits are just count- less. One, it cuts down on emis- sions because you’re not ship- ping products across the country, (and) you can control exactly what you’re doing to the plants, so you know exactly how it’s going to taste,” she said. “Of course, it’s being harvested out of the ground that day, so you really can’t get a fresher prod- uct than what we’re serving right now.” Drew Thomason, outreach coordinator at the Illinois Stew- ardship Alliance, said the day serves as a way to raise aware- ness about local food. “It gives people a taste of buy- ing local, and hopefully through- out the month they’ll (continue),” he said. Thomason said the most quan- tifiable benefit of buying local- ly is its effect on the economy. He said Illinois consumers buy about $4.3 billion worth of food every year, with about $3.9 bil- lion of that leaving the state and going to growers in California, Mexico and Florida. “That is money that’s kind of being drained from our econ- omy,” he said, “At the same time, we’ve got some of the best farmland in the world. So, what we’re saying is, use this day as a springboard to buy local to keep some of that money locally.” He added that if Illinois con- sumers bought 15 percent of their food from local producers, it would bring $639 million into our economy annually. ISA has started a “10% Campaign” that asks chefs, cooks and restaurant owners to pledge to try and buy 10 percent of their food locally, 29% ARE NOT GETTING TESTED GETTING TESTED INSURED WOMEN UNINSURED WOMEN AUSTIN BAIRD THE DAILY ILLINI SOURCE: WWW.CANCER.ORG More insured women getting mammograms than uninsured Regardless of rising mammography rates, many women are still not having their breasts examined for signs of cancer. 68% ARE NOT Donation funds mammograms for uninsured women $10,000 donation provides women free breast and cervical examinations BY JACQUI OGRODNIK STAFF WRITER Presence Covenant Medical Center’s Foundation donated $10,000 to the Champaign-Urba- na Public Health District in early September to finance free breast and cervical cancer screenings for uninsured women, more than 700 of which are on a waiting list. “Women from 35-64 years of age who do not have access to care, do not have health insurance or Medicare or any of those ser- vices ... can enroll through us for screening services,” said Cathy Propst, Illinois Breast and Cervi- cal Cancer program coordinator at the CUPHD. Propst said the program pro- vides women with a clinical breast exam, pelvic exam and Pap test. When they turn 40, a mam- mogram — an X-ray of breast tissue used to look for masses or abnormalities that indicate breast cancer — is added to the service. Louise Fellmann, women’s health patient navigator and program coordinator at Pres- ence Covenant Medical Center, said she recommended that any woman over the age of 40 or any woman who has a family history of breast cancer should discuss scheduling yearly mammograms with her doctor. “If a woman doesn’t have a mammogram every ten years, a lot could change, and they could have a mass that has gotten larger spread more to the other organs, possibly,” she said. Fellmann said the early detec- tion screenings the program is offering to uninsured women will help women in the commu- nity stay healthier and live longer. “I feel that it will help in a lot of ways, because the woman who couldn’t afford a mammogram will now have a better chance of survival by having a screening done and finding (a mass or cal- cification) early,” she said. However, Propst said funding for the program has been diffi- cult because of budget cuts from state and federal funding sourc- es in the last three to four years. “It has dropped enough that we don’t always have enough money each fiscal year to serve all the women in our communities that need those services,” Propst said. Since November, Propst’s office has adapted a priority system in which the highest priority women are served according to a wom- an’s statistical risk in developing cancer. The first-level priority is for women who are symptomat- ic with a breast lump or a nip- ple discharge, indicating that they potentially need diagnostic services. The second level is for wom- en who are over the age of 50 because the risk for developing breast cancer increases with age. The third level is for women who are 40-49, and the fourth level is for women who are 35-39. “When Presence learned that there were women in Champaign County who are waiting for ser- vice because of our funding dif- ficulty, they offered us to partner with their ‘It’s All in the Jeans’ campaign,” Propst said. When a company registers for “It’s All in the Jeans,” a Presence campaign, it asks its employees to pay $5 to wear jeans on the first Friday of October, because Octo- ber is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year, the campaign will be held on Oct. 4. Angela Reinhart, development specialist with Presence Cove- nant Medical Center’s Foundation, said the purpose of this campaign is to raise funds for community education programs, patient care packs for individuals at the hos- pital and, for the first time, mam- mography scholarships. “This year, we were in the position where we could donate $10,000 in scholarships to CUPHD for individuals on a waiting list to receive a mammogram,” Rein- hart said. “We’ve been raising funds in the past, and this year we were able to get a consider- able amount.” About 60 companies and 3,000 participants have registered for the “It’s All in the Jeans” campaign. Reinhart said she is expecting about 160 companies and 5,000 participants because there is usually a rush at the end of the registration period. She said the campaign raises roughly around $30,000 per year. Among the sponsors for the campaign are PepsiCo, Acoustic MedSystems Inc., Champaign- Urbana MTD, College of Engi- neering Career Services and Walgreens. The screening services are not provided at the CUPHD office. Rather, the office has contracts with local providers, including hospitals, large clinics and pri- vate doctor offices. “We hold contracts with provid- ers throughout the county area, so the women enroll with us, and they go to the medical provider close to their home for the actual hands-on services,” Propst said. “Then we actually pay the bills out of our office.” If any of the women are diag- nosed with cancer, the program is able to transfer them to receive medical care, which is not paid for by the CUPHD. Jacqui can be reached at [email protected]. Insurance changes for students, University loom Next phase of Aordable Care Act starts at month’s end BY ZARA SIKANDAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER The state-operated health insurance marketplace will go online in less than two weeks, which will begin another large phase of the Affordable Care Act. Millions of Americans will be able to shop the health insurance marketplace as it becomes part of their monthly budget. As the ACA expands Medicaid to cover adults between the ages of 19 and 64, who are currently not eligible for Medicaid, experts say it can increase health care costs over the short term. Jeffrey Kemp Rinderle, representative of the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District, explained how people can make the best out of the situation. “People can buy insurance from private health plans that cover a comprehensive set of benefits, including doctor PHOTO COURTESY OF STUDENT AFFAIRS AT UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SEE ACCESSIBILITY | 3A SEE EAT LOCAL | 3A SEE HEALTH CARE | 3A How is CITES monitoring your Internet traffic? See inside. In the opening weekend for the men’s tennis team, Kopinski showed he’s ready for a big year. Turn to Page 1B Illini of the Week: Tim Kopinski

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Page 1: The Daily Illini: Volume 143 Issue 14

I NS IDE P o l i c e 2 A | H o r o s c o p e s 2 A | O p i n i o n s 4 A | C r o s s w o r d 5 A | C o m i c s 5 A | L i f e & C u l t u r e 6 A | S p o r t s 1 B | C l a s s i f i e d s 3 B | S u d o k u 3 B

THE DAILY ILLINIWEDNESDAYSeptember 18, 2013

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WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 14 | FREE

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Nugent Hall model for University of Florida facilityDisability-accessible residence hall at UI serving as archetypeBY TAYLOR ODISHOSTAFF WRITER

As the University maintains its status as one of the most accessible college campuses in the nation, one university works to do the same. The University of Florida will create a new resi-dence hall that will offer more accessibility to handicapped students.

The new hall, which will open in August 2015, is modeled after the University’s Nugent Hall.

The UF chose Nugent Hall as an archetype for the Resi-dence Hall Project for a num-ber reasons, one of them being its staff’s ties to Illinois.

“As a former student at the University of Illinois, I’m well aware of the very long commit-ment and excellent reputation the University has in its regard for having facilities that are accessible and well beyond the ADA (Americans with Disabil-ity Act) standards in the United States,” said Dave Kratzer, vice

president for student affairs at UF .

Sharon Blansett, assistant to the associate vice president for Student Affairs at UF , said UF housing administrators and the Association of College and University Housing Offi cers-International referred the proj-ect’s team to Beckwith Residen-tial Support Services at Nugent Hall.

“All Student Affairs and Housing staff keep tabs on inno-vative programs nationwide through regional and national organizations,” Blansett said.

Patricia Malik , director of Beckwith Residential Support Services, said the University is known for innovation and going above and beyond the ADA’s standards.

“The Beckwith Residen-tial Support Services ... is not required by law,” Malik said. “The only thing required by law

ZACH DALZELL THE DAILY ILLINICrops grow on the Hendrick House’s farm fi eld that is on loan from the Sustainable Student Farm on Monday. Hendrick House use organic practices, no pesticides or chemicals, to help feed three dorms — Hendrick House, Presby Hall and Armory House — and around 30 fraternities and sororities.

Local food a growing movementHendrick House, new law raise awareness for eating localBY ELEANOR BLACKSTAFF WRITER

Within the Sustainable Student Farm, located on the outskirts of campus, lies a half-acre plot fi lled with rows of vegetation . This plot belongs to Hendrick House and grows tomatoes, let-tuce, beans and other vegetables to provide food for private certi-fi ed housing on campus .

The farm is just one part of Illinois’ local food movement.

In August, Gov. Pat Quinn approved “Eat Local, Buy Illi-nois Products Day,” which is recognized statewide and will occur on the fi rst Saturday of every month .

Naomi Jakobsson, D-103 , co-sponsored the bill in the Illinois General Assembly before Quinn signed it into law .

“Well, I think it’s certainly a

very good thing for this area, for economic development, for local businesses,” Jakobsson said. “Some of them are small and really trying to make it, and others have been around, but it’s also important to support them. It also helps people fi nd out where all the products and local businesses are.”

This movement would promote the fresh produce from the Hen-drick House plot, as well as other locally grown food.

Hendrick House Chef Ann Swanson is in charge of the plot, which she started preparing in May. With the plot, Swanson said her goal is for Hendrick House to become more sustainable by sourcing more than 95 percent of its vegetables through her.

“The benefi ts are just count-less. One, it cuts down on emis-

sions because you’re not ship-ping products across the country, (and) you can control exactly what you’re doing to the plants, so you know exactly how it’s going to taste,” she said. “Of course, it’s being harvested out of the ground that day, so you really can’t get a fresher prod-uct than what we’re serving right now.”

Drew Thomason , outreach coordinator at the Illinois Stew-ardship Alliance, said the day serves as a way to raise aware-ness about local food.

“It gives people a taste of buy-ing local, and hopefully through-out the month they’ll (continue),” he said.

Thomason said the most quan-tifi able benefi t of buying local-ly is its effect on the economy. He said Illinois consumers buy

about $4.3 billion worth of food every year, with about $3.9 bil-lion of that leaving the state and going to growers in California, Mexico and Florida.

“That is money that’s kind of being drained from our econ-omy,” he said, “At the same time, we’ve got some of the best farmland in the world. So, what we’re saying is, use this day as a springboard to buy local to keep some of that money locally.”

He added that if Illinois con-sumers bought 15 percent of their food from local producers, it would bring $639 million into our economy annually. ISA has started a “10% Campaign” that asks chefs, cooks and restaurant owners to pledge to try and buy 10 percent of their food locally,

29%ARE NOTGETTING

TESTED

GETTINGTESTED

INSUREDWOMEN

UNINSUREDWOMEN

AUSTIN BAIRD THE DAILY ILLINISOURCE: WWW.CANCER.ORG

More insured women getting mammograms than uninsuredRegardless of rising mammography rates, many women are still not having their breasts examined for signs of cancer.

68%ARE NOT

Donation funds mammograms for uninsured women$10,000 donation provides women free breast and cervical examinationsBY JACQUI OGRODNIKSTAFF WRITER

Presence Covenant Medical Center’s Foundation donated $10,000 to the Champaign-Urba-na Public Health District in early September to fi nance free breast and cervical cancer screenings for uninsured women, more than 700 of which are on a waiting list.

“Women from 35-64 years of age who do not have access to care, do not have health insurance or Medicare or any of those ser-vices ... can enroll through us for screening services,” said Cathy Propst, Illinois Breast and Cervi-cal Cancer program coordinator at the CUPHD .

Propst said the program pro-vides women with a clinical breast exam, pelvic exam and Pap test. When they turn 40, a mam-mogram — an X-ray of breast tissue used to look for masses or abnormalities that indicate breast cancer — is added to the service.

Louise Fellmann, women’s health patient navigator and program coordinator at Pres-ence Covenant Medical Center , said she recommended that any woman over the age of 40 or any woman who has a family history of breast cancer should discuss scheduling yearly mammograms with her doctor.

“If a woman doesn’t have a mammogram every ten years, a lot could change, and they could have a mass that has gotten larger spread more to the other organs, possibly,” she said.

Fellmann said the early detec-tion screenings the program is offering to uninsured women will help women in the commu-nity stay healthier and live longer.

“I feel that it will help in a lot of ways, because the woman who couldn’t afford a mammogram will now have a better chance of survival by having a screening done and fi nding (a mass or cal-cifi cation) early,” she said.

However, Propst said funding for the program has been diffi -cult because of budget cuts from state and federal funding sourc-es in the last three to four years.

“It has dropped enough that we don’t always have enough money each fi scal year to serve all the women in our communities that need those services,” Propst said.

Since November, Propst’s offi ce has adapted a priority system in which the highest priority women are served according to a wom-an’s statistical risk in developing cancer.

The fi rst-level priority is for women who are symptomat-ic with a breast lump or a nip-

ple discharge, indicating that they potentially need diagnostic services.

The second level is for wom-en who are over the age of 50 because the risk for developing breast cancer increases with age. The third level is for women who are 40-49, and the fourth level is for women who are 35-39.

“When Presence learned that there were women in Champaign County who are waiting for ser-vice because of our funding dif-fi culty, they offered us to partner with their ‘It’s All in the Jeans’ campaign,” Propst said.

When a company registers for “It’s All in the Jeans,” a Presence campaign, it asks its employees to pay $5 to wear jeans on the fi rst Friday of October, because Octo-ber is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year, the campaign will be held on Oct. 4.

Angela Reinhart, development specialist with Presence Cove-

nant Medical Center’s Foundation, said the purpose of this campaign is to raise funds for community education programs, patient care packs for individuals at the hos-pital and, for the fi rst time, mam-mography scholarships.

“This year, we were in the position where we could donate $10,000 in scholarships to CUPHD for individuals on a waiting list to receive a mammogram,” Rein-hart said. “We’ve been raising funds in the past, and this year we were able to get a consider-able amount.”

About 60 companies and 3,000 participants have registered for the “It’s All in the Jeans” campaign. Reinhart said she is expecting about 160 companies and 5,000 participants because there is usually a rush at the end of the registration period.

She said the campaign raises roughly around $30,000 per year.

Among the sponsors for the

campaign are PepsiCo , Acoustic MedSystems Inc. , Champaign-Urbana MTD, College of Engi-neering Career Services and Walgreens .

The screening services are not provided at the CUPHD offi ce. Rather, the offi ce has contracts with local providers, including hospitals, large clinics and pri-vate doctor offi ces.

“We hold contracts with provid-ers throughout the county area, so the women enroll with us, and they go to the medical provider close to their home for the actual hands-on services,” Propst said. “Then we actually pay the bills out of our offi ce.”

If any of the women are diag-nosed with cancer, the program is able to transfer them to receive medical care, which is not paid for by the CUPHD.

Jacqui can be reached at [email protected].

Insurance changes for students, University loomNext phase of A! ordable Care Act starts at month’s endBY ZARA SIKANDARCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The state-operated health insurance marketplace will go online in less than two weeks, which will begin another large phase of the Affordable Care Act. Millions of Americans will be able to shop the health insurance marketplace as it becomes part of their monthly budget.

As the ACA expands Medicaid to cover adults between the ages of 19 and 64, who are currently not eligible for Medicaid, experts say it can increase health care costs over the short term. Jeffrey Kemp Rinderle , representative of the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District, explained how people can make the best out of the situation.

“People can buy insurance from private health plans that cover a comprehensive set of benefits, including doctor

PHOTO COURTESY OF STUDENT AFFAIRS AT UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

SEE ACCESSIBILITY | 3A

SEE EAT LOCAL | 3A

SEE HEALTH CARE | 3A

How is CITES monitoring your Internet traffic? See inside.

In the opening weekend for the men’s tennis

team, Kopinski showed he’s ready for a big year.

Turn to Page 1B

Illini of the Week: Tim Kopinski

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2A Wednesday, September 18, 2013 THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM

WEATHERPOLICE

Champaign Theft was reported in

the 500 block of South Fourth Street around 10 a.m. Monday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole a bicycle.

Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported in the 1000 block of West Bradley Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, unknown offenders damaged the victim’s door handle in an attempt to gain entry.

Theft was reported at Cir-

cle K, 1101 N. Prospect Ave., around 12 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, a clerk reported activating a phone card before collecting payment, and the offender then left without paying.

University Theft was reported at Scott

Hall, 202 E. Peabody Drive, around 5 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, a student’s bicycle was stolen Friday. The bike was locked to a rack outside the residence

hall and has an estimated val-ue of $350.

Urbana Residential burglary was

reported in the 1300 block of South Vine Street around 9 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s apartment through unknown means and stole his laptop computers and a stereo.

Compiled by Hannah Prokop

HOROSCOPESBY NANCY BLACKTRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES

Today’s BirthdayYour next solar year begins auspiciously; discipline and authority amplify power and regeneration. Perseverance can lead to a revolutionary shift. Group efforts bear greatest fruit this year, so increase community participation and leadership. Careful !nancial management allows growth. Love blooms.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 — Infuse love into your efforts and activities today. Put more into the household account. No need to rush. Build your partner’s self-esteem. Compassion and passion go together. Apply creativity at home for impressive results.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Today is a 7 — Use what you’ve learned for success. A discovery supports what you know by experience. Plan your verbal campaign. Foreign contacts love your ideas. The money looks better. Add to your hidden treasures. Beautify your surroundings.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is a 7 — Be frugal with a windfall pro!t. A surprising development allows for a shrewd new plan. Get more for

less. You’re testing the limits. Make a bene!cial addition at home. Enjoy it with good company.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Today is an 8 — You have what you need. Back up your ideas with practical data. Allow your decision to carry you forward. Good news comes from far away. Get something you’ve been saving appraised. Make plans. Include your love.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is a 7 — Balance all the factors. An older individual offers an interesting opinion. Advance to a whole new level. Let friends advise you. Make a tantalizing promise. Don’t insist on making your own mistakes. Learn from others.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is an 8 — Make a positive commitment. Use what you’ve been saving. Working at home increases your bene!ts. Abundance can be yours. Lose yourself in an art project. You don’t need to reveal your agenda, yet.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is a 9 — Take care of family. Take a phone call in private. You hear from a distant relative. Decide what to learn next. Consider comfort and pro!t. Okay, you can go now. Never give up.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is a 7 — Fix up your place. Find the perfect solution. You have what you need. It’s

also a good time to travel. Enlist support. Associates nail down practicalities. You’re making a good impression. All ends well.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is a 6 — Work faster and earn more. You gain career stature with a lucky break. Don’t try a new idea just yet. Take a moment. Dig in your claws and maintain decorum. Prepare to venture farther out.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is a 7 — Collect a debt. It’s all for the family. Be loose with your imagination. Help arrives. Shop carefully, and store away extra provisions. There’s another pro!table development. Roast a feast and toast your client.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 9 — Streamline your work routine and make more. Monitor results. Friends help you make an important connection. Share information. Get your message out. Friends act as mediators. Party big or party small, but celebrate.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 9 — Finishing old tasks satis!es. Provide excellent service. Collect a nice paycheck. Invest in your business. Keep practicing. Strengthen your infrastructure. Allow for household improvements. Go for romance and other personal aims.

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Adam Whobrey, chef at Hen-drick House, said the movement would help support local farmers and operations like the Sustain-able Student Farm and the plot. Hendrick House provides food service for other housing units on

campus, including Presby Hall, Armory House and more than 30 sororities and fraternities.

“As chefs, it’s important to us that the food is good,” Whobrey said. “‘You are what you eat,’ is what my mom always told me growing up. This is real food. This is the way that it’s supposed to be done.”

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is an accessible room, so what the University of Illinois does, and has done from the beginning, is say, ‘What’s the minimum?’ But we always go beyond the min-imum in terms of what’s been practiced and how we can help support students the best we can in terms of accessibility.”

Before finalizing the proj-ect, UF housing administrators toured the Nugent facility and

talked with University staff to determine how they can build a similar facility at UF. A second visit was with design team mem-bers including architects, engi-neers, the UF ADA Compliance Administrator and UF housing staff, Blansett said.

“UF administrators were interested in both facility and program design elements in order to support students with higher levels of mobility chal-lenges, many of whom may be veterans,” Blansett said.

The new hall at UF will include elements from Nugent Hall such

as proximity card readers in ele-vators, which allow wheelchair users to bump an elevator’s wall for their floor level, hallways that are 8 feet wide and rooms large enough to allow caregivers to live with students, if needed, Kratzer said.

The UF will also include Sure-Hands Lift & Care Systems, which are railroad-like contrap-tions mounted to the ceiling to help students move around the room and bathroom, and teach-ing kitchens to help students live independently.

As the UF works toward more

advanced accessibility, Malik said the University is always try-ing to maintain its status of being a leader in accessibility.

“Right now, for example, DRES (Disability Resources and Educational Services) is work-ing with faculty and services, as well as electrical engineer-ing staff, on a remote control ele-vator project to make elevators (in buildings other than Nugent) accessible to students that can-not reach the button to use them,” Malik said.

Not only is the University working to make the campus

physically accessible to students with disabilities, it is also devel-oping more programs to help stu-dents succeed in other areas.

“I think that we sometimes for-get that the vast majority of peo-ple on this campus with disabili-ties have disabilities that are not (physical),” Malik said. “They’re learning disabilities (or) psychi-atric post-traumatic stress dis-orders, and so we provide a lot of support for those students.”

The University also discussed with UF ways to both recreate Nugent Hall and enhance the facility with new ideas and new

technology, which, Malik said, was one of “the best things that (the University) could have done.”

Kratzer commended the Uni-versity for its assistance with the project.

“I think every place we go, we really credit the University of Illinois and Nugent Hall for being such great partners and helping us and sharing the infor-mation that they have gained through the years,” Kratzer said.

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visits, hospital stays, preventive care and prescriptions,” he said.

Rinderle said plans in the marketplace must treat people fairly; they can’t deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions. With a single application, people can also see if they qualify for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program or other savings programs they can use right away to lower health insurance premiums.

The ACA aims at catering to a large population, allowing parents to extend their health benefits to their children until they reach the age of 26. On the other hand, those individuals who don’t have health care coverage, especially undocumented immigrants, can face heavy penalties for remaining uninsured. The ACA requires people to have health insurance, and those who don’t comply will face heavy taxes.

ACA and studentsStarting in 2014, students

can receive health insurance through their families, university or new exchanges that the law calls on states to set up. Kimberly Dalluge, supervisor at Student Health Insurance, said in an email that the students who will be affected are those employed by the University in some capacity.

“If a student is receiving a paycheck from the University of Illinois they must have health insurance,” Dalluge said.

She said if the students already have insurance and if they are exempted out of the Student Health Insurance plan, then they satisfy the requirement, and nothing further is needed.

“However, if a student who exempted out of this plan lost their insurance and they never bothered to reinstate into the Student Health Insurance plan or purchase another comparable plan, then they would be required to either reinstate into the Student Health Plan or purchase another plan,” she said. “The exchanges would be one place they could purchase a plan.”

ACA and extra help employees

The University has about 3,450 extra help employees in areas that involve maintenance, pr ofe s s i o n a l s e r v ic e , secretarial, accounting and information technology-related responsibilities. Because extra help employees work in temporary assignments, there are no benefits associated with the employment.

Katie Ross, senior director at the University Human Resources Office, said the University provides medical benefits to all of its permanent employees, but those who work on need-based status will need to seek other options.

“As the provision has been postponed (until) 2015, the University is considering

its options for extra help employees, but no decision has been made so far,” she said.

The ACA has a provision that requires employers to provide health benefits to employees who work 30 hours a week or more.

Michael Leroy, professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations and the College of Law, said that in coming years, part-time employees will be in a very tough position.

“Obamacare requires everyone to have a health insurance. With limited resources, it is difficult for uninsured or underinsured to consider enrolling for a health plan,” he said.

Leroy also suggested some possible solutions. He said in addition to expanding health care coverage to the uninsured, the ACA can help bring relief to the underinsured, or the millions of people who have health insurance but who have plans with inadequate coverage that leave them exposed to unaffordable medical costs. Health reform has the potential to help by providing premium assistance and lowering out-of-pocket costs, he said.

Ross said the University remains undecided if it will provide extra health employees with health benefits, as per ACA provisions.

ACA and small businessesAccording to the Kaiser

Family Foundation, more than 48 million Americans were uninsured in 2011. The ACA requires small business owners to provide their employees, working more than 30 hours, with health benefits. Leroy said the provision may be good news for some employees, but many small businesses that can’t afford this additional cost.

Those unable to afford health care benefits for part-time employees are reducing the number of hours their employees work, so they are below the 30-hour limit, Leroy said. Although the mandate has been postponed to Jan. 1, 2015, many businesses are thinking of alternatives.

Rinderle explained how the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) can simplify the process of buying health insurance for small businesses.

“Employers can control the coverage they offer and how much they pay toward employee premiums,” Rinderle said.

He said employers may qualify for a small business health care tax credit, worth up to 50 percent of premium costs. Additionally, the SHOP Marketplace will be open to employers with 50 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees in 2014.

Ac c ord i ng to t h e Congressional Budget Office, two million fewer people may receive their insurance through their employers in 2014. The number is not directly related to the new provisions of ACA but to the overall cost of health benefits.

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Camp fosters girls’ interest in scienceUI Extension, 4-H camp encourages 5th, 6th grade girls to enter STEM !eldsBY SOPHIA SOPUCHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Female University educators see the potential in involving more girls in science. The University of Illinois Extension and 4-H spear-headed an overnight science camp, STEM Education Outreach, Tuesday for fifth and sixth grade girls focused on involving more women in STEM fields.

“Even though girls excel in science, they still aren’t going into the fields. This camp will make science more applicable towards girls and get them inspired as they meet role models in the field,” said Becky Buckrop, marketing and local fund development coordina-tor for the University of Illinois Extension.

Buckrop said she thinks that attracting girls to science at an ear-ly age will encourage them to take more science classes later on in their schooling.

The camp, held at the Niabi Zoo in Coal Valley, Ill., featured three female speakers involved in different fields of science. Dr. Anita Pinc led a session on obstetrics and gynecology, Stephanie Fuhr of Augustana College informed campers about soap making and bee-keeping and Dr. Lia Nightingale of Palmer College of Chiropractic led a program on the chemistry behind food science.

Diane Baker, a University 4-H extension educator, said the Sci-ence Siesta “is really about sparking interest in girls and expos-ing them to all the possibilities out there so they will later become involved in STEM programs.”

Her oldest daughter has previously attended the camp. Baker said she also noticed that many of the girls who attended the camp return later as teen volunteers.

The University has its own I-STEM Education Initiative that helps

foster accessible and effective science, technology, engineering and mathematics teaching as well as learning.

Many STEM fields, especially engineering, have a large gender discrepancy, said Betsy Innes, web master for I-STEM.

Innes said the National Science Foundation — in many of their grants to the University — encourages under-represented groups to get involved in science.

Women hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs, although they fill almost half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, according to statis-tical findings by the Department of Commerce published in 2011. Women in STEM fields earned 33 percent more than comparable women in non-STEM jobs, resulting in a smaller gender wage gap in STEM fields.

Buckrop and Baker agree that camps such as the Science Sies-ta encourage girls to not shy away from these male-dominated occupations.

“Many of the University projects are seeking to expose girls to other science disciplines so that they can see A) yes, science is fun and B) they can do it,” Buckrop said.

Sophia can be reached at [email protected].

Navy Yard shooter had previous gun arrestsDetails emerge about shooter’s mental health, history of military infractionsBY KEVIN G. HALLMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

WASHINGTON — A day after a bloody rampage at the Wash-ington Navy Yard left 13 dead in the nation’s capital, troubling new details emerged Tuesday about the psychological state of gunman Aar-on Alexis and why his life appeared to have suddenly unraveled.

Among the revelations: Alexis legally purchased a Remington 870 12-gauge shotgun Saturday, two days before the shooting, in Lorton, Va. A new police report said Alexis was hearing voices, and Navy officials said the for-mer Navy reservist had at least five military infractions.

Alexis apparently passed all of the background checks required in Virginia to buy the weapon, which raised new questions because of two prior arrests for gun-related incidents in the states of Washing-ton and Texas and, more impor-

tantly, what appears to have been a psychotic break little more than a month before the killings.

An Aug. 7 police report from the Newport Police Department in Rhode Island that was released Tuesday afternoon said officers were dispatched to a Marriott hotel for a harassment report from Alexis. When they spoke to him, he explained that he’d been in an argument before boarding a flight from Virginia and that two men and a woman were sent to follow him and “keep him awake by talk-ing to him and sending vibrations into his body.”

The officer’s report said the naval station police were notified and local police were advised that there would be a follow-up to deter-mine whether Alexis, a reservist until 2011, was actually a defense contractor.

The newly released police report raises questions about what hap-

pened to that information. His employer, a defense subcontrac-tor for Hewlett-Packard called The Experts, issued a statement Tues-day that said Alexis worked for the firm for six months, and Alexis underwent two routine background checks plus two more comprehen-sive reviews to obtain secret-lev-el clearance from the Defense Department.

“The latest background check and security clearance confirma-

tion were in late June of 2013 and revealed no issues other than one minor traffic violation,” the com-pany said.

The Navy announced Tuesday that it was conducting a review of its security clearance proce-dures. A senior Pentagon official confirmed that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel would order a review of physical security and access at all Defense Department installa-tions worldwide.

OLIVIER DOULIERY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEA police officer stands guard at the front gate of the Washington Naval Yard on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

“It’s really about sparking interest in girls and exposing them to all the possibilities out there.”

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Sunday evening as I settled into my couch for a relax-ing, homework-free night,

I turned on the TV in search of a mindless, moderately funny show that would entertain me. As the television screen came to life, so did the Miss America Pageant.

My first instinct was to change the channel immediately, so as not to grant the circus-like scheme a single second of my time. But as the women trailed past the announcers with their stiff, curled hair and flowing gowns, I was drawn in. And just like that, I was fascinated with the concept of it all.

I was utterly amazed that in the year 2013 we, as a society, still find it acceptable to watch women prance around on stage in string bikinis as they attempt to prove their talents to the world, just so they can be granted the esteem of wearing a crown for a few months. Yes, because apparently some of us never left kindergarten and still want to wear crowns.

As I sat there, I wondered — wasn’t there just a Miss America pageant a few months ago? And the answer is both yes and no. Yes, it was a pageant, but no, it was not Miss America. Miss USA aired its pageant a few months ago. Obvi-ously, there has to be both a Miss

America and a Miss USA; only hav-ing one would be ridiculous. For viewers like me who are not pag-eant savvy, both competitions seem identical — swimsuits, gowns and live questions accompanied by hys-terical answers; however, it turns out that the difference between the two pageants is that Donald Trump and NBC Universal own Miss USA, and the crowned winner then goes on to compete in the infamous and wildly elaborate Miss Universe, which is also owned by Trump and NBC Universal, while Miss Amer-ica is a separate organization that, unfortunately for its winner, does not hold the prospect of winning more crowns. Sigh.

In addition to different owner-ship, the pageants also have differ-ent criteria for their competitors. All the Miss America contestants endure personal interviews, display their selected talents (yes, baton twirling is an option), strut around in swimsuits, revisit prom by wear-ing bedazzled dresses and try their hardest to successfully answer live questions on stage without becom-ing a YouTube sensation.

Miss USA is totally different. You can’t even put them in the same category. Unlike Miss Amer-ica, only Miss USA finalists have to answer on-stage questions, and Miss USA contestants do not have to prove their talents to the audi-ence. The lack of baton twirling is appalling, and I question the effect it has on the pageant’s ratings.

Even with these differences, Miss USA appears to be more popu-

lar, as many characterize it as sex-ier and more glamorous compared to the more traditional Miss Amer-ica that was founded in 1921. And by more traditional, I mean that the bikinis worn by the Miss Amer-ica contestants are less stringy.

My amazement of the pageant world stems from the fact that there is not just one monstrous organization promoting the degra-dation of women by judging them based on their physical appear-ance; there are two of these orga-nizational beasts running around America indoctrinating viewers.

Miss America does have an edge to it: It provide scholarships to the winners. Though Miss America serves as one of the leading schol-arship distributors and stresses its role as a platform for women to express their opinions to further philanthropic needs, it is mind bog-gling that the competition is cen-tered on superficial characteristics.

The connection between the company’s statement of purpose and the criteria by which it judges its contestants is comical — clearly how a woman looks in a swimsuit directly correlates to how well she can support her philanthropy of choice. Everyone knows that. The worst part about the scholarship concept is that these are smart, educated women who voluntari-ly place themselves in degrading positions to be judged by American voters. That’s scary.

Though demeaning as it may be, the pageant machine continues to drudge on as countless women still

aspire to one day wear the over-sized crown and carry the bounti-ful flowers as tears stream down her face. And for the life of me, I cannot understand why. Why any woman would voluntarily place herself on a pedestal to be put down and critiqued by thousands is beyond me. Inevitably, view-ers do not care about the contes-tants’ philanthropy; they want to be entertained — they want sex appeal and nonsensical answers about why Americans cannot locate their own country on a map.

As I watched the pageant on Sunday, I could see the hopeful-ness in the women’s eyes as they stood glimmering under the stage lights, ready and waiting for their respective states to be called. With heavy makeup and smiling faces, they stood, unaware that they represent a movement that continues to debase women and allow society to judge them based on their appearance.

Unfortunately, these organiza-tions will continue to exploit wom-en by masking this intent with the face of philanthropy, and the viewers will proceed to eat it up as they are blinded by the fluo-rescent white teeth and sparkly dresses.

Congratulations, Miss New York, you’ve ascended into the realm of pageant royalty. Don’t let the crown get too heavy.

Kate is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

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M any journalists in-volved in federal cas-es may no longer have to answer this question: Would I be willing to go

to prison to protect a source for my story?

A federal shield law passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and the legislation is now headed to the full Senate. This is the first hurdle in legally protecting con-fidential sources, which has been dif-ficult for senators to clear because a similar bill was defeated in 2005 and stalled in 2009.

The Free Flow of Information Act first and foremost addresses what every shield law should: It protects journalists from being forced to re-veal sources who requested to re-main anonymous or who requested confidentiality. It protects journalists from choosing between jail time and breaking an agreement between the journalist and source. And most im-portantly, it protects the act of jour-nalism during a time when accessi-bility to other mediums of sharing information becomes more and more prevalent.

As a news organization and as jour-nalists, we support the bill. Even de-spite the bill’s introduction as a result of pressure from the Obama admin-istration, which has been marred by a series of leaks such as the Depart-ment of Justice’s acquisition of phone records from The Associated Press’ and FOX News’.

But there’s still work to be done. The Free Flow of Information Act limits what types of journalists are protect-ed by and qualify under the law.

Obviously, when national security matters are at stake, journalist or not, you will more than likely be forced under a court of law to reveal your in-formation. This act, however, has fi-nally addressed the question that com-mittee members have contemplated for far too long.

Who is a journalist?The easy answer is that a journal-

ist is a writer whose byline is next to a story. Or the reporter who is at the crime scene for a local news channel.

But looking beyond those vague definitions is what many senators have failed to do.

The proposed version doesn’t ex-plicitly address bloggers, citizen re-porters and some freelance journal-ists. Senators are missing the point here: A journalist isn’t defined by his or her employment status. It’s about committing to the act of journalism, or performing the service of inform-ing fellow citizens, which many peo-ple have the opportunity to do.

Consider a whistleblower revealing documents that show how money is used in an organization. How is that different from a journalist’s mission?

In the end, both whistleblowers and journalists are enlightening the pub-lic on the mishaps of an organization, although in different manners.

Sure, it’s not ideal to open up the protection to the masses. But a defi-nition that better encompasses non-traditional journalists needs to be set if the law is expected to function properly and protect, for example, bloggers and freelance journalists. As we’ve seen before, even a feder-al shield law — favoring traditional journalists — will bring a new set of questions.

Media shield law should protect

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Awaking to horrific acts of vio-lence seems to have become unfortunately routine. Infa-

mous shootings have become all too regular, with those such as the devasting event at Columbine, the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook and now a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.

According to current reports, there have been 13 deaths, includ-ing the suspect, and several inju-ries. Even with one of the sus-pects, Aaron Alexis, caught, closure for the victims’ families and the country as a whole is far away.

What is to be said of all this vio-lence? What can we learn?

Time after time we come together as a nation to heal and mourn, but no real change takes place.

It’s guns, and how to control their awful side effects, that have been at the forefront following these incidents.

In fact, these mass shootings funnel money back towards gun makers. After the Sandy Hook shooting, gun sales in December doubled to $2.8 million. Before that, the biggest spike came after President Obama’s re-election.

Do you want fewer innocent people dying? Then limit mass shootings. How do you limit the

amount of mass shootings? Now there is the question everyone and his shotgun-toting grandmother are trying to answer.

Limiting guns is tricky. Peo-ple are very hesitant to give up what has been ingrained into their mind as a necessity of American culture. I used to think that back-ground checks and limiting assault rifles would be enough, but now I know it isn’t. Well, we could arm every public official — teachers, con-gressmen, DMV clerks — creat-ing a society of fear where no one moves on the presumption of being shot. Or, we could just limit those pesky guns in the first place.

I believe the right to bear arms is a right that has no place in modern American culture.

After Columbine, this sort of thing should never have become a regular occurrence. After Sandy Hook, gun proponents claimed that school faculty and teachers were not properly defended.

Now, after the most elite navy in the world is attacked in its own backyard, what are people say-ing? Personally, I can’t wait to see

how the National Rifle Association spins this one.

First of all, background checks are not always effective, and just limiting assault rifles does not keep someone from obtaining another type of weapon. I believe that there is only one course of action we can take that will allow

us to live in a soci-ety that is not rid-dled with mass shootings and oth-er acts of horrible violence: change our culture.

There needs to be a continental shift in our way of thinking. Although it might be too late for our parents’ generation, there is hope for our generation and our children’s genera-tion to make the necessary steps toward remov-ing guns from our culture.

Our genera-tion has grown up

among some of the most violent domestic events in our nation’s history. Sept. 11, the Boston Mara-thon bombing and numerous mass shootings have scarred our ideas of security and safety. Hopefully, this will instill a desire for peace that will translate into a new gen-eration of lawmakers and citi-zens that understand that guns no longer have a place in American

culture.Where does this entire pro-gun

sentiment stem from anyway?Well, the gun industry has some

of the best and most ruthless lob-byists. Lobbying organizations like the NRA keep a strong base of around 3.1 million members. That’s a lot of guns.

Even the argument that guns in the home will help defend you against unwanted intruders is ludicrous. For example, Sheila, a typical American citizen, lives in a suburban town with relatively little crime.

However, she is horrified by all the shootings that have been tak-ing place, so she buys a gun to respond to what she believes is an uptick in crime, but is really most likely embellishment by the media. Because there is relative-ly no crime in her neighborhood, she doesn’t have to use the gun for numerous years. Finally, let’s say nine years later, an intruder shows up to her door. Are we real-ly supposed to believe that she has been keeping up with proper gun maintenance, and has been going to the gun range to practice accu-racy and precision shooting? Once again, doubtful. She will probably be unprepared, nervous and a dan-ger to herself with a gun that she barely knows how to shoot.

Sheila’s gun won’t help her any-way. Sheila does not need her gun, and we do not need ours.

Max is a freshman in DGS. He can be reached at [email protected].

MAX FISHER

Opinions columnist

There is hope for our generation

and our children’s generation to make the

necessary steps toward removing

guns from our culture.

To end mass shootings, America’s gun culture must end

Well, an Indian-American woman won the Miss America pageant, and Americans are outraged. Like, she’s not white, so she can’t be American,

right? WRONG. Time for a brief lecture:

1. All Americans are, in fact, foreigners.2. An Indian-American is an American, just as an African-American is an American.3. Skin color does not equal place of birth.

Congratulations, Nina Davuluri, on being crowned — and for the much-needed history lesson.

It’s 2013, and the University of Alabama is just now acknowledging the segregation that exists in its

sorority system. As if the two black recruits being rejected from 16 sororities wasn’t a big enough hint.

It’s unfortunate that our country still sees in black and white. It’s even more unfortunate that students in this generation see the same as students in the Jim Crow era. Diversity is fetch, and yes, we can

make it happen.

OK, please tell us you saw the Salt Lake City Home Depot flash mob engagement. Spencer Spout proposed to his boyfriend Dustin Reeser, and it

was just amazing. A flash mob choreographed a dance to Betty Who’s “Somebody Loves You.” We’re

not embarrassed to say we broke down when the grandparents joined the dance. Or when Reeser’s

entire family showed up and, well, they tried their best to remember the steps. Or when the guy in the next aisle just wanted a hammer. Kidding. OK, crying.

There’s nothing quite like the constant, epic battle between pedestrians and bicyclists. Pedestrians

wander like lemmings and bicyclists have no problem taking down a student — or five. Now, bicycles chained to improper areas — such as lampposts and stairs — could be booted with a lock if a new proposal goes through. OK, not to say that this will eliminate either party’s erratic

behaviors, but it’s a start. Bikers, you’re operating a vehicle. Pedestrians, learn some boundaries.

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a knickers-clad lead guitarist

10 Potluck choice11 Spouse’s refusal12 Earth movers?13 Literary sleuth ___

Lupin21 Do a supermarket task22 Ending of many an

e-mail address27 French seasoning29 Grammy-winning Eric

Clapton tune30 ___ diavolo31 Potter or Klink: Abbr.32 Valhalla ruler34 Cambodian currency37 Marseilles Mrs.38 Bro, for one39 Flapper’s do40 Struggling at the plate,

say43 Amasses, as debt

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pocket” sloganeer, once

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says “Thou art a vil-lain”

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on a guitar11 Decryption org.14 Square dance group, e.g.15 ___ curiae (friends of the

court)16 Done, to Donne17 Author Zora ___ Hurston18 Sells in the stands19 Insult, slangily20 Norwegian import in the

dairy case23 Windsor’s locale: Abbr.24 Bit of ink, for short25 “Aw, hell!”26 Some book jacket blurbs28 Links33 Not so risky35 Youngest

600-homer man, informally36 You can hardly believe it41 Oscar winner Jannings42 Inappropriate for the easily

offended, say45 Bit of equipment for an

outdoor kids’ game51 Help (out)52 Electronically scored duel53 Western treaty grp.55 ___-Blo fuse56 What 20-, 28-, 36- and

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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

BY JED LACYSTAFF WRITER

In the wake of her mother’s unexpected death, 20-year-old Lauren Morenz, a recent grad-uate from Parkland College, found herself at a stand-still. The year was 2008, and like oth-er recent alumni, Morenz found herself struggling to juggle the many stresses that come with adulthood. She had just gotten married, had abruptly lost her mother to lymphoma, and now was unhappy with her job at a publishing company.

Around the same time, Kristen Duffy, a 2002 University alum-na, made a career-changing decision. She purchased Fetch! Pet Care, a pet-sitting franchise located at 1100 W. Bloomington Road in Champaign, from their corporate branch. Fetch! is a pet-sitting service that saves clients the inconvenience of having to take their pets to a boarding facility while they are away by bringing services directly to the homes of their clients. In addi-tion to pet-sitting, the company also provides dog walking ser-vices, doggie play groups and other various specialty services.

It had long been a dream of Duffy’s to run her own business, and through Fetch!, she believed her dream could become a real-ity. However, Duffy also had plans to become a lawyer, and she had been accepted to John Marshall Law School in Chica-go — about 150 miles away from Champaign.

Unsure of how she was going to run a business in Champaign

while simultaneously earning a law degree in Chicago, Duffy said she knew she needed to find some help.

Fast-forward to June 2009. Morenz, still unhappy about where her life was heading, sat at her desk, trying to think of odd jobs she could pick up. While sit-ting at her desk, she pulled up the Google homepage and typed “dog walking” into the search engine. The Fetch! website popped up, and she clicked on it.

“I started reading about Kris-ten (the owner of Fetch!) and I thought I would take a shot in the dark and call her,” Morenz said.

The timing could not have been more perfect. Morenz said she had no idea at the time, but her call to Duffy would serve as one of the most pivotal moments of her life.

“I originally applied just to be a pet sitter,” Morenz said. “We met for the first time and did an interview while we walked a dog named Ranger. We got to talk-ing about the ways that I would be interested in growing with the business.”

Within two weeks of Morenz’s hire, Duffy offered her an oppor-tunity to buy into the business.

“We ended up working so well together, I decided to offer to her to buy in (after two weeks),” Duffy said. “It was then that we started working more as team. Lauren has come up with a lot of great ideas,” Duffy said.

In the four years since Morenz has joined the Fetch! team, the duo has worked to continuously

grow the Fetch! brand. Today, Duffy spends most of her time away from the Fetch! office and can be found in Chicago pursuing her law career. In her down time, she focuses on Fetch!’s busi-ness operations and deals with their financial statements, tax returns and billing. Morenz, on the other hand, resides in Cham-paign and handles the day-to-day operations.

This year, Morenz and Duffy decided to expand their work further. They created “Pet Stop, LLC,” a sister company to Fetch! that builds on the success of Fetch! by offering services including behavioral training, pet massages, pest supply inven-tory and pet massages.

At the time of Morenz’s hire, the business had no paid employees or contractors, and it served 25 clients. Now, the team employs five staff mem-bers and 18 contractors, and its client base of nearly 750 includes Champaign-Urbana residents, students and Univer-sity administrators.

Jeff Brown, graduate student in LAS, uses Fetch! for his 25 different pets: two cats, four geckos, five frogs and 14 fish. He said he views Duffy and Morenz’s business as “profes-sional” and “courteous.”

“It is clear that Fetch! is an extremely well-run business, and that is demonstrated by how much they seem to care about their clients,” Brown said.

Jed can be reached at [email protected].

Recent UI, Parkland alumnae find success in dog service businesses

Astronomers offer tentative, hopeful estimates on Comet ISON’s potential BY CYNTHIA DIZIKESCHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — When Adler Plan-etarium astronomer Mark Ham-mergren first heard the buzz about comet ISON last fall, he felt a familiar tinge of excitement.

The brightest comet in the last century. As vivid as a full moon in the night sky over Chi-cago. A once-in-a-lifetime, blaz-ing spectacle.

But as ISON zips closer to Earth’s orbit, the hunk of ice and dust has done something typically cometish: upended expectations.

Compared with original esti-mates, ISON is already dimmer than expected, reviving bitter memories of the “great” comet Kohoutek. Hyped in 1973 as the comet of that century, Kohoutek fizzled into an unspectacular dud above the southern horizon.

Hammergren, who was a kid at the time, recalled being led out-side after sunset to view the com-et. But instead of a brilliant tail of gas and debris lashing the night sky, all Hammergren saw were contrails.

“There is a great saying about comets being like cats,” Hammer-gren said. “They both have tails and they do what they want.”

Although the society has already begun to plan viewings, astronomers at the Adler and oth-er observatories are taking a wait-and-see approach, ready to stage events if ISON should suddenly brighten or public interest spikes.

Comet ISON was first spotted in September 2012 by scientists working with the International Scientific Optical Network, or ISON for short. At that time, the comet was unexpectedly bright for being so far away, fueling speculation that it would grow to record-breaking radiance by the time it swung around the sun in late November.

For now, ISON can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere through a powerful telescope- a faint smudge in the constellation

of Cancer about 183 million miles away from the sun, said astrono-mer and Northwestern Universi-ty lecturer Michael Smutko.

ISON is expected to make the celestial equivalent of a fly-by when it passes 730,000 miles above the sun’s surface on Nov. 28.

Around that time and into December, astronomers antici-pate that ISON will become vis-ible to the naked eye, burning low in the eastern sky.

Exactly how bright ISON will become, how wide and long it will grow, and whether it will put on a strictly suburban show remain unknowns.

ISON is currently speeding through the cosmos at roughly 67,000 mph and is expected to accelerate to about 844,000 mph as it swings around the sun. But because ISON and other com-ets are so far away from Earth, unlike meteors, they appear rela-tively static in the sky.

Comets are huge chunks of ice, frozen gases, dust and rock, a makeup that gave rise in the

1950s to the so-called dirty snowball model.

As comets fall closer to the sun, heat vaporizes the ice, releasing plumes of gas and dust. Sunlight reflects off that debris, illuminating the comet.

Particularly bright comets are dubbed “great comets” and have typically appeared about once every 10 years.

The last truly great Northern Hemisphere comet, according to many astronomers, was Hale-Bopp, which was first spotted in 1995 and eventually remained visible for a record 18 months.

A comet’s brightness depends on how close it passes to Earth and the sun. But it also comes down to size and composition, making predictions tricky.

“I’m still hoping that it goes through some kind of major out-burst and reverses its recent behavior,” Hammergren said. “You maybe have one shot in a decade of seeing a comet. They are still very special events, very beautiful events and very ephemeral.”

COURTESY OF FETCH! PET CARE

NANCY STONE CHICAGO TRIBUNEMark Hammergren, astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, is photographed on September 12, with an image of the comet ISON on his computer.

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LIFE CULTURE

Dynamic duo teams up to offer pet care in C-UUniversity alumna Kristen Duffy and Parkland alumna Lauren Morenz co-own Fetch! Pet Care in Champaign, offering their pet sitting and dog-walking services to residents and students in the Champaign-Urbana community. Find out more on Page 5A.

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BY JOLIE HUANG STAFF WRITER

To produce a successful televi-sion broadcast, there needs to be a production staff, writing team, camera crew, TV hosts, stylists, makeup artists, advertising staff and, of course, hundreds of hours of hard work. This is a task that Cory Holbrook, exec-utive producer of the “SeeYou Weekly” TV show and senior in LAS, is all too familiar with.

The newest student-run proj-ect is a talk show-style TV broad-cast that features current issues and events around campus every Friday. In April, Holbrook start-ed Ignite Media, a subcommit-tee of the Journalism, Advertis-ing and Media Studies Students registered student organization, which serves as the multimedia production branch of the broad-cast. It offers students indepen-dent creation resources to cre-ate short films, podcasts and documentaries.

The idea for “SeeYou Weekly” sparked in May 2013. Without any faculty advisers or profes-sional funding or help, Holbrook worked around the clock dur-ing the summer, writing pro-posals, designing basic graph-ics and promoting the show so that other Ignite Media members could understand the process of initiating an independent media project.

“Part of the reason why I wanted to produce a show like

‘SeeYou Weekly’ was to promote Ignite Media,” Holbrook said. “I wanted to show members that it was really possible to start a project from the ground up.”

The show aims to not only entertain the student body, but also give the students involved a learning experience.

“We don’t want ‘SeeYou Week-ly’ to be just news,” said Andrea Medina, senior in LAS and Media and co-host of “SeeYou Weekly.” “We actually want it to be an entertainment outlet that feature RSOs, events and people around campus. The main pur-pose is really to entertain, but it’s also so that other students in media, like me, can have experi-ences working on a set and pro-ducing before entering the pro-fessional world.”

“SeeYou Weekly” held audi-tions for the host positions in late July. Students were sent a mass email detailing the posi-tion, and interested applicants posted a two-minute video show-ing off their broadcasting tal-ents. Medina and co-host Mariah Ashley Sutton, junior in Media, were chosen based on their vid-eos’ number of views as well as Holbrook’s opinion.

“The video was supposed to discuss any topic of our choosing and be three minutes, at most,” Sutton said. “I have no prior experience hosting or being on camera, so this opportunity was

very exciting for me.” The show was first broadcast

Sept. 13. It was posted on the broadcast’s YouTube channel and filmed at a dance studio and the Richmond Studio in Urba-na. The 15-minute segment fea-tured ConglomeratE representa-tive Shontierra Porter, a hip-hop dance team and a roundtable dis-cussion, hosted by Sutton.

The roundtable gave students a chance to engage in a free-flowing discussion about seri-ous issues in the world. Topics developed by the writing team ranged from Russian criminal-ization of homosexuals to recent pop culture scandals.

The format of each show will be consistent, typically includ-ing an introduction, a round-table session, a special guest and announcements. However, the length of these segments will vary based on the material the writers and staff have for the week and if new segments, such as a contest portion or short comedic sketches, are added.

“We’re still working out some logistics, but I think it would be really great, especially for us hosts, to go live at some point,” Medina said.

Although basic teleprompting will be used in all shows, going live will give the hosts more of a chance to ad-lib and practice important improvisational skills taught in their classes.

Still, producing a live show will take some time. The staff of “SeeYou Weekly” follows a schedule of writing, rehearsing, filming and editing to produce a broadcast every week. Having that much control is necessary for a new show and will help the adjustment process for the still-growing 17-person staff.

“Collaborating with everyone has been the best part of this experience,” Sutton said. “This show is Cory’s baby, so we’re glad to know he trusts us with it.”

While Holbrook will gradu-ate this year, he hopes that both Ignite Media and “SeeYou Week-ly” will continue to thrive.

“Years from now, I want them to be well-oiled machines,” he said. “I want students to real-ly have the opportunity to cre-ate whatever they desire, and I know these two groups can offer them that.”

Although he isn’t ready yet, he also hopes to pass down the reigns once he leaves.

“I don’t want to sound like a Sith Lord, but I am looking for an apprentice before I gradu-ate,” Holbrook said.

To view the “SeeYou Week-ly” broadcasts, visit their You-Tube channel at youtube.com/ignitemediauiuc.

Jolie can be reached at [email protected].

SARI LESK THE DAILY ILLINIAndrea Medina, senior in LAS and Media, rehearses her lines in preparation for the filming of the “SeeYou Weekly” round table segment on Sept. 11. The first episode aired on UI-7 and YouTube on Friday.

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BY DAN ESCALONASTAFF WRITER

The newest member of the Illi-nois men’s tennis team, junior Blake Bazarnik, opened his career with a strong showing at the OFCC Invitational in Olym-pia Fields, Ill., this past weekend. Bazarnik — a transfer from Van-derbilt — fi nished the weekend with a record of 3-1, which includ-ed three straight-set victories .

“I think Blake has been on an upward path since he arrived on campus,” head coach Brad Danc-er said. “This weekend was over-all a very positive experience for him.”

Bazarnik defeated Virginia’s Alex Schienman (6-0, 6-1) on Fri-day. He would go on to defeat Bil-ly Pecor of Notre Dame (6-1, 7-5) on Saturday and Sudanwa Sitar-am of Texas (6-0, 6-3) on Sunday. His only blemish of the weekend came on Saturday in a defeat to Notre Dame’s Eddy Covalschi (6-4, 7-6).

Although Dancer said he was proud to see Bazarnik play well in his fi rst match as an Illini, he still wants to see further growth and progress from the junior transfer.

“We saw some positive things from him, but at the end of the day he still needs to continue on that upward path since he’s not playing at his full potential yet either,” he said.

Guignon expects to return this month

The Illini were without one of their top players over the week-end with the absence of junior Ross Guignon, who took last weekend off to rest with infl am-mation in both knees over the last few weeks.

“We always had the option of having Ross compete over the weekend, but we both mutually decided that we didn’t want to take any risks with his overall health,” Dancer said. “We were not willing to possibly have him reaggravate the injury issues he has had with his knees, especially given that we have some impor-tant meets down the road.”

Guignon used the weekend off from competition to continue to rest and get ready for the Illini’s next meet late this month. He said, though not at 100 percent, he expects to make his season debut in the ITA All-American meet in Tulsa, Okla.

“I will defi nitely be playing at the next meet for us,” he said. “Certainly, I won’t be at 100 per-cent, and I probably won’t until the start of the spring season, but I still want to get out there and compete.”

Dan can be reached at [email protected] and @danescalona77.

Transfer Bazarnik debuts with 3-1 record

It’s one of those beautiful moments.

Andrew Luck drops back on 1st and 10 with minutes left in the half. The Dolphins defense pushes toward him. He looks down the right sideline and spots his target. The arm fl ows forward, the ball releases and fans’ hearts seem to skip a beat,

as they do on most deep passes.They use the near-four-sec-

ond hang time to ask questions. Did he throw it far enough? Is the receiver in position to make a play? What about the corner-back? Does he see the ball com-ing? Is he going to make a play instead?

These are questions even Luck might have been asking as the ball dropped from the sky toward his receiver, T.Y. Hilton. But as cornerback Brett Grimes puts his arms out to make the interception, Hilton goes air-borne. With fi nesse, his arms

weave over Grimes’ head and his hands snatch the ball out of the air, coming down with it on Miami’s 13-yard line for a 47-yard gain.

As much credit is given to quarterbacks in the NFL, we can’t forget the receivers who make terrifi c plays like these. Hilton was just one of many in Week 2 to be responsible for big gains in the air. He and oth-ers like him are also behind the grins and cheers of fantasy own-ers everywhere who, without those grabs, would have lost the week.

We go on and on about quar-terbacks. Yeah, Manning and Rodgers did great again. Same story with the running backs, as Marshawn Lynch made his much-expected resurgence in fantasy this weekend. But whether you’re in a PPR league or just have two wide receiver slots to fi ll, we fantasy owners can’t forget the value of receiv-ers — the ones who can make plays like Hilton’s to help us edge the competition.

That’s why for this week’s starts and sits, I’m dedicating all four spots to wide receivers

— to honor some of the playmak-ers who rack up the big num-bers and to talk you out of mak-ing mistakes with the sure-to-be duds of Week 3.

STARTEddie Royal (wide receiver,

Chargers) — I don’t buy that Eddie Royal is going to be the next great receiver, just like I didn’t buy into Danny Amen-dola last season with the Rams. That said, I do believe he’s worth picking as a fl ex — maybe a No. 2 receiver if you’re feeling

gutsy.In Week 2, Royal caught seven

of eight targets for 90 yards and three touchdowns (27 points) , but things have changed for Week 3. Malcom Floyd is doubtful with a neck injury, making Royal the most likely favorite for throw-happy Philip Rivers. He may have to share some big grabs with Antonio Gates, but expect big things to keep coming for Royal.

Julian Edelman (wide receiv-er, Patriots) — New England’s

Fantasy doctor: Welcome to wide receiver Wednesday

The Illini sit at 2-1 one quarter of the way through their season . It’s some-what of a surprise, and we’ve estab-

lished this team is clearly different than the 2012 rendition. As Illinois heads to its fi rst of two bye weeks, now’s as good a time as any to take a look at how the team’s done so far.

QuarterbacksIt seems Reilly O’Toole has been

bounced from the regular offensive rota-tion , and that’s a good thing. Tim Beck-man and Co. know that O’Toole deserves to play college football, but it doesn’t make sense for him to take away pos-sessions from Nathan Scheelhaase, who has been on fi re this season. Scheelhaase has 902 yards and eight touchdowns, and has already hit 13 different receiv-ers . He’s also limited turnovers, with just two interceptions and no lost fumbles . He struggled with accuracy against Wash-ington, completing just nine of 25 passes for 156 yards . The Huskies had commit-ted extra defensive backs to cause this, and Scheelhaase hit them in the second half with designed quarterback runs. Freshman Aaron Bailey has yet to throw a pass but has been effective running in short-yardage situations.

Grade: A-

Running backsDonovonn Young and Josh Ferguson

haven’t performed up to expectations in the young season. Combined, they have

57 rushes for 253 yards for an average of 4.4 yards per carry . Ferguson has had more success, accruing 125 yards on just 22 carries, but Young had his best game against Washington. His 58 yards don’t really stand out, but coming on 13 car-ries, it was his most consistent effort yet .

Ferguson has supplanted Young as the go-to pass-catching back, having proven himself dangerous with seven catches for 185 yards and two touchdowns . Mean-while, Young caught his fi rst pass of the season against Washington and was stopped for no gain. Young led the Illini in receptions in 2012.

Dami Ayoola, who saw limited action in 2012, was kicked off the team after Week 1.

Grade: C+

Wide receiversThis position has been the lifeblood of

Bill Cubit’s rejuvenated offense. Steve Hull and Miles Osei were dormant play-makers for Illinois last season. Hull’s conversion from safety has fulfi lled the objective of keeping him healthy thus far and has also added another pair of hands. Osei’s conversion from quarterback has kept a supreme athlete from being buried on the depth chart and brought him to the forefront as a threat to catch and even to throw on a trick play situation as he did against Washington.

Martize Barr, a junior college transfer, has been sensational for Illinois, and his 10 catches lead the team. Not to be out-shined, however, is Ryan Lankford, the No. 1 receiver on a team that thrives by spreading it around. He’s proved himself to be a big play threat unlike any other on the roster.

The tight ends have proven valuable as

Illini exceeding our expectations early

BY DAN ESCALONASTAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down Sunday nights and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.

Tim Kopinski was merely looking for a respectable start to his junior season and the 2013-14 Illinois men’s tennis campaign. But by the middle of the afternoon on Sun-day, he had put together one of his better weekends as an Illini.

At the season-opening meet at the OFCC Invitational in Olympia Fields, Ill., Kopins-ki would go undefeated in singles play with a record of 4-0. His strong season debut allowed him to be named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.

“I wasn’t really thinking about winning Most Outstanding Player at the time,” he said. “I was just focusing on my own match-es and not worrying about too much else.”

For Kopinski, the success he had over

the weekend was somewhat unexpected — he had not been impressed with his play in the weeks leading up to the meet.

“I was not playing sharp tennis at all,” he said. “It wasn’t until a few days before, during practice, that everything started to click, and that carried pretty well into the weekend.”

Much of the success Kopinski has attained throughout the weekend can be attributed to his renewed focus on a calm-er, more stress-free mentality on the court.

“I tend to be a very anxious tennis play-er, very wired and with a lot of energy,” he said. “It’s very important for me to stay calm during the match because if I do not, I make lots of uncharacteristic mistakes. Staying calm just allows me to clear my head and remain focused on the match at hand.”

Kopinski also noted that his on-the-court mentality has been inconsistent and is something he has emphasized fi x-ing this season. These inconsistencies in his approach throughout his collegiate career, he said, have kept him from reaching his

maximum potential — evidenced by his 22-18 record in singles play last season.

“It’s been very sporadic in the past; some matches I would compete with a calm men-tality, and others I would play anxiously with too much emotion,” he said. “(Head coach) Brad (Dancer) has preached a lot to me on the importance of being a profes-sional on and off the tennis court, and that defi nitely has made a big difference for me entering this season.”

Though just one meet into the season, Kopinski has already characterized his ear-ly success as a by-product of what he has learned in his fi rst two seasons at Illinois.

“I played tennis matches over the last year and over the summer, and, win or lose, they help me fi gure out something new about myself,” he said. “I take all those experiences with me, and I think they helped me out a lot in this tournament.”

Kopinski noted that his success was all the more important to him, especially con-sidering the competition he and the team faced at Olympia Fields over the weekend. The competition included perennial nation-

al powers, including the defending national champion Virginia, along with Kentucky and Wake Forest.

“I think that shows that I belong in

ILLINIWEEK

OF THE

TIM KOPINSKIThe junior racketeer went 4-0 and was named Most Outstanding Player at the OFCC Invitatonal.

Men’s tennis team buoyed by newest addition’s output

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Nathan Scheelhaas is tackled close to the sideline during the game against then-No. 19 Washington at Chicago Homecoming at Soldier Field in Chicago on Saturday. Illinois lost 34-24.

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Honorable mentionsJonathan Brown (football) — The senior linebacker currently leads the nation in tackles with 38 after recording 15 total tackles, one sack and 1.5 tackles for a loss against Washington.Maddie Mayers (volleyball) — The redshirt freshman middle blocker record 24 kills and 15 blocks on the weekend against No. 3 Washington, No. 6 Texas and No. 18 Arizona State.

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Chip Kelly’s offense scored 89 points last weekend.

OK, Kelly may not be the head coach at Oregon any-more, but his offensive sys-tem, which is still utilized in Eugene, put up 59 points against Tennessee on Satur-day. Kelly’s new team in Phila-delphia endured an offensive explosion of its own the next day, scoring 30 points against the San Diego Chargers. May-be Kelly’s offense can actually translate from college to the pros.

Kelly’s system is a no-hud-dle, spread-out, fast-paced offensive attack. Although other teams utilize a two-min-ute offense in short-clock situ-ations, Kelly’s offense push-es the tempo at all times. An important aspect of Kelly’s sys-tem is maximizing the usage of his playmakers. He loves quarterbacks who can throw and run at a high level, demon-strated by his quarterback at Oregon last season in Marcus Mariota. He put up stellar num-bers in his freshman season, passing for 2,677 yards and 32 touchdowns to only six inter-ceptions, while rushing for 752 yards on 7.1 yards per carry.

Running back Kenjon Barner was a workhorse, rushing for 1,767 yards and 21 touchdowns. Kelly’s X-factor was running back De’Anthony Thomas, who was regularly used as a pass target in the backfield while being a threat as a returner as well. The 5-foot-9 Thomas rushed for 701 yards and had 445 yards receiving last sea-son while scoring 18 touch-downs overall (11 rushing, five receiving, one punt return and one kick return). The weapons at Kelly’s disposal have only improved in Philadelphia.

Few players in the league are a better fit for Kelly’s offense than quarterback Michael Vick. Vick fits the profile of a Kelly-based offense with quick feet and the ability to throw on the move. The 11-year veteran struggled mightily last sea-son while being limited to only 10 games due to various inju-ries. Vick has already benefited from the new system, throwing four touchdowns to no inter-ceptions in the Eagles’ first two games this season. In both con-tests, Vick threw for two touch-downs without an interception, a feat he accomplished once in 2012.

Vick had a masterpiece of a game in a losing effort against the Chargers on Saturday, passing for a career-high 428 yards. Vick is clearly comfort-able operating out of shotgun on almost every play. Shotgun formations are nothing out of the ordinary in recent years with the increase in pass-heavy offenses in the NFL, but shot-guns on nearly every play is something out of a college play-book. Of course Kelly utilized Vick’s speed too, as he rushed for a score in each of the Eagles first two games. Vick

has already found his favor-ite targets in wide receiver DeSean Jackson and running back LeSean McCoy.

The Seans have been quite the duo for the Eagles this sea-son. Jackson has been targeted 24 times in Philadelphia’s first two games with Jeremy Maclin sitting out the season with an ACL tear. The much-maligned wideout has reeled in 16 of those targets for 148.5 yards per game, including a 193-yard explosion Sunday. McCoy’s two games so far have been vastly different from each other but nonetheless effective.

McCoy was used in Phila-delphia’s first game against Washington in a way similar to how Kelly utilized Barner at Oregon. McCoy carried the ball a ridiculous 31 times for 184 yards and a touchdown in a 33-27 win. McCoy rushed for just 53 yards against the Char-gers on Sunday but had 114 yards receiving, replicating Thomas at Oregon. Running backs thrive in Kelly’s system, and McCoy is off to a hot start.

Like at Oregon, Kelly has maximized the use of his best players on offense in Philadel-phia, sacrificing touches for lesser playmakers in the pro-cess. Backup running back Bryce Brown has carried the ball just 12 times in the team’s first two games, while no wide receiver beside Jackson has been targeted more than three times in both games. Quarter-back Nick Foles threw a pass in Sunday’s game only because Vick sat out a play after get-ting drilled. Kelly knows who his best players are and makes sure they’re involved whenever possible.

The Eagles have already scored 30 points or more this season more times than all of last season. This team was so awful at offense in 2012 that the New York Jets out-scored the Eagles by one-tenth of a point per game at 17.6. If a Mark Sanchez-quarterbacked team puts up more points than you, that’s saying something.

Kelly has already done an outstanding job of changing course and completely revamp-ing what was a horrible offense last season. The players have bought into the system, and more importantly the play-ers have executed the uncon-ventional offense. Vick, Jack-son, McCoy and Co. are more than capable of extending this type of play throughout a sea-son. There will be bumps along the way, but the best aspect of Kelly’s offense is its abil-ity to adjust. If a team puts eight players in the box to pre-vent the run, then have Vick air it out. If teams are clog-ging up the secondary instead, feed McCoy. Just when the Eagles offense seems vulner-able, Vick’s rushing ability will help extend plays when nothing seems available. This offense will look different week to week and preparing for that kind of variability will give defensive coordinators night-mares throughout the season.

Michael is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Illini soccer relying on possession, versatility to create scoring chances

Volleyball’s Conard shows improvement, consistency during sophomore season

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jannelle Flaws attempts to dribble around her opponents during the Illini’s 3-2 win over Indiana State at the Illini Track and Soccer stadium, on Friday.

JOSEPH LEE THE DAILY ILLINIIllini volleyball’s Julia Conard (2) serves the ball at the first game against the Alumni team at Huff Hall on Aug. 24.

BY ALEX ORTIZSTAFF WRITER

If there are two things the Illi-nois soccer team has focused on offensively, they have been pos-session and versatility.

Illinois constantly refers to itself as a “possession-oriented team.” Almost without fail, once the team receives possession to start the game, opponents have found it hard to regain possession. The first 10 minutes of most games look like field-wide passing clinics.

“I think we’re a technical team who likes to keep the ball ... and work with each other and get num-bers around the ball,” senior mid-fielder Vanessa DiBernardo said.

When midfielders are looking for a passing lane, what they do with the ball is just as important as what their teammates do with-out the ball. This aspect of mov-ing without the ball can go unno-ticed, but is vitally important in the game. With a player like DiBernardo, who attracts so much attention, other players can bene-fit and help her attack weak spots.

If she even looks like a threat to receive the ball, multiple defend-ers keep an eye on her, which can open up an entire side of the field.

Forwards, such as junior Jan-nelle Flaws, are also needed to make runs behind defenders, while staying onside to give their teammates space, time and options. Flaws has scored eight goals this season due in part to her field awareness and how she positions her body in a way to best receive a pass.

“As a forward, you’re trying to either slow down the pace if we’re frantic,” Flaws said. “Or trying (to) pick it up by making runs in behind and threatening backlines.”

One of the other luxuries the Illini enjoy is having so many weapons that can strike at any time. Illinois’ 28 goals in eight games have been scored by 11 dif-ferent players this season. The scores have ranged from fresh-man defender Casey Conine jump-ing over opponents on set pieces to Flaws firing from outside the

box. The offense can score in any way possible.

“We said coming into this sea-son (that) one of our goals is to get seven players in the game with a shot on frame,” head coach Janet Rayfield said. “So that a team has to defend all of us, and we’ve done that almost every game of the season.”

Last Sunday’s match against Florida International was an example of such versatility. Both Reagan Robishaw and Megan Pawloski came off the bench and scored two goals a piece for the 4-0 victory. Illinois also likes to crowd the box, making it difficult for opponents to cleanly clear the ball due to intense pressure. Rob-ishaw and Pawloski scored off rebounds, and there were a num-ber of other teammates who could have taken advantage.

Finally, to have a solid offen-sive showing, the Illini have paid attention to the details. Every-thing from what side a cross comes from to which foot a player angles toward the goal on a turn

against a defender matters.“You put them in the best posi-

tion to score goals,” Rayfield said. “You talk about framing the goal. You talk about where your body position is. You talk about where the serve comes from and what gives us the highest percentage ... of getting a person free in the box.”

It may seem like a relatively simple formula, but the execu-tion of it is what makes a game of such finesse so difficult. Through eight games, Illinois has executed it about as well as any team in the country as it ranks second in the nation goals scored.

“Our team is a good offen-sive team,” Rayfield said. “And it doesn’t matter who gets to the end line and who’s making the run in the box ... and that makes us a difficult team to defend because you’re defending our team, not just a person.”

Alex can be reached at [email protected] and @AlexOrtiz2334.

BY BLAKE PONSTAFF WRITER

Julia Conard hasn’t started a match this year, but the soph-omore defensive specialist has started to raise her level of play for the No. 16 Illinois volleyball team.

Conard saw limited action on the court for the first few weeks of the season, playing in just nine of the team’s first 19 sets. She didn’t even see the floor in the Illini’s opening two games against No. 17 Florida State and Long Beach State.

Now, Conard has cemented herself as a key piece on the team’s back row. In what was the toughest series of the season up to date last weekend, Conard

earned the right to play in every set against some of the nation’s top competition in the Illini Clas-sic. Conard played a key role in all 14 sets against No. 18 Arizona State, No. 3 Washington and No. 6 Texas, the defending national champions.

“I really enjoyed being out there,” Conard said. “Any chance I get, I’m just out there to make plays. ... I play better when I’m more involved, which I was, and it was just a lot of fun being able to contribute as much as I did, and I hope I can continue.”

In those matches, Conard accumulated 32 of her 45 digs on the season, including a sea-son-high 14 digs against Texas. She also recorded double-digit

digs against the Longhorns and the Huskies. Conard ranks third on the team (amongst non-libe-ros) in digs per set with a 1.96 average and fourth in total digs with 45, despite playing in few-er sets than those ranked above and below her.

“This year (Conard) is calm-ing down a bit more and under-standing how we play a little bit more,” head coach Kevin Ham-bly said. “She’s doing a good job.”

When asked if Conard would be trusted in more big time situa-tions this year, Hambly affirmed that he has always had faith in her play and that she would be used whenever the team faces a potent offensive front row.

Conard saw time in 26 of 30 matches last season, making six starts. She never received con-sistent playing time, though, but she now looks for that to change this season.

“I think there was a huge dif-ference (in my play this year),” Conard said. “I think ‘Stuff Huff’ was when I noticed it most because I remember in my freshman year being just shaky and nervous. Coming out here in my sophomore year, I noticed a complete difference. I was hav-ing a good time, I wasn’t as ner-vous, I was relaxed and it was a lot more fun.”

Blake can be reached at [email protected].

BY RICH CAMPBELLCHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — Lance Briggs has experienced enough disappoint-ments, enough unrewarded defen-sive excellence, during his 11 sea-sons with the Bears to appreciate not only the team’s 2-0 start but also how it won both games.

The offense has supported the defense with two fourth-quarter rallies, a novelty that has allowed the Bears to push forward under coach Marc Trestman in an uplift-ing environment instead of one choked by panic.

“When you’re 0-2, you’re cir-cling the wagons,” Briggs said Monday. “You’ve dug yourself into a hole and you have to sal-vage that season, so you have to get back to even. Being 2-0, in the history of us winning more games in the beginning, we know we give ourselves a chance of getting into those playoffs.”

In mid-September, the postsea-son is beyond the horizon, espe-cially with significant room for improvement evident in the first two games. But the Bears’ place alone atop the NFC North beats the alternative.

Even Trestman, who was not here last year when a tiebreaker cost the Bears a playoff spot, rec-ognizes how fortunate they are to have navigated what he described as the “extremely thin” margin for error in the NFL.

“We’re two or three plays away from sitting here on the opposite side of both games, no doubt about it,” he said.

The Bears don’t have to apolo-gize, though. They earned their

two wins with enough positive plays at decisive moments.

In Sunday’s 31-30 victory, the defense held the Vikings to a field goal at the 4-yard line with less than 4 minutes remaining. That positioned quarterback Jay Cut-ler to lead the offense 66 yards in 10 plays for the game-winning touchdown pass to tight end Mar-tellus Bennett with 10 seconds remaining.

It was a defining sequence for a team that continues to evolve under their new coach.

“The identity that’s being creat-ed is ‘clutch,’” Briggs said. “When the chips are down, some Bear is going to make a play.”

The Bears wouldn’t have to rely on that if they addressed a few concerns Trestman detailed after his Monday film analysis.

The Bears turned the ball over four times. Trestman actually counts five, including the penal-ty for too many men on the field during a Vikings’ first-quarter punt. That gave the Vikings an automatic first down.

Trestman lamented losing some big-play opportunities because of a lack of communication or coor-dination on the offensive line.

Positive elements outweighed the negatives, though. Trestman praised the kickoff return unit for Devin Hester’s 249 return yards. The defense limited reign-ing league MVP Adrian Peterson to 3.8 yards per carry. And the Bears’ eight penalties through two games were the fifth-fewest in the NFL entering the Monday night game between the Steelers and Bengals.

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After representing Illinois as part of a doubles tandem in the NCAA tournament last season, junior Melissa Kopinski will again represent the Orange and Blue at a prestigious invitational. This time, however, she’ll have a new doubles partner.

Senior Allison Falkin will replace Rachael White, who graduated, for the Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships, to play as a doubles tandem with Kopinski. They will also compete individually.

Both players qualified for the same tournament last season. Kopinski and Falkin were invited back to compete in the tournament, which begins on Sept. 28 in Westwood, Calif.

“It’s a very prestigious tournament,” head coach Michelle Dasso said. “They (Kopinski and Falkin) have experience under their belts, so I’m really looking forward to them getting a chance to compete.”

Kopinski and Falkin also received national recognition when they were named to the preseason national rankings, which were released on Sept. 6. Kopinski is ranked as the No. 102 singles player in the nation, and Falkin is ranked 13 spots higher at No. 89. They will also compete at the Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American

Championships as the No. 35 ranked doubles duo in the nation.

After making early singles exits, both Kopinski and Falkin said they are looking to build on their performances at last year’s Riviera tournament.

“(I want) to at least make it to the main draw and see how far I can get from there,” Falkin said.

On the doubles side, Kopinski and White set the bar high at last year’s Riviera tournament with a run to the quarterfinals.

Kopinski hopes to emulate their performance this year with Falkin by her side.

“Knowing that last year Rachael and I had a great showing in doubles, I now know what to expect,” Kopinski said. “Allison and I are looking to do some damage.”

Following the prequalifying rounds at UCLA’s campus on Sept. 28 to 29, the tournament will move to Pacific Palisades, Calif., for the qualifying rounds and main draw action. Dasso is making sure Kopinski and Falkin are prepared for the competition.

“I’m excited about it,” Dasso said. “We’re playing practice matches to make sure they’re sharp and ready to go.”

Alex can be reached at [email protected] and @aroux94.

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well, with Jon Davis acting as a threat receiving and rushing from the back-field with 12 runs for 74 yards.

A couple drops from this corps have caused some pains early, but noth-ing compared to what Illinois fans expected.

Grade: A

Offensive lineThe return of Ted Karras helped,

at least for a little while. Cincinnati in Week 2 was unable to bring down Scheelhaase, but four sacks in the first half alone stifled Illinois drives and put Scheelhaase out of rhythm. Consider-ing the loss of two starters from what wasn’t thought of as a great line to begin with, it’s hard to be disappointed.

Grade: C

Defensive lineTwo years removed from boasting

one of the best D-lines in the land, Illi-nois has not pressured quarterbacks with much consistency, with just four sacks so far. Senior Tim Kynard has one of those sacks, but Houston Bates at the LEO position has been as big a force up front defensively.

Grade: C-

LinebackersAs a hybrid linebacker-defensive end,

Bates could be mentioned among the team’s best linebackers, too. But Jona-than Brown is the unquestioned leader of this corps and of the defense as a whole. Long removed from the days of crotch-shotting Northwestern players (but not so long as for me to not men-tion it here), Brown has developed into a vocal and exemplary leader, and is third in the country in tackles with 38. Mason Monheim has followed Brown’s lead in his sophomore season, and is second in tackles with 30. Mike Svetina has stepped into his role nicely in what is also his second campaign.

Grade: A-

Defensive backsBehind Brown and Monheim, Eaton

Spence and Earnest Thomas III are third and fourth in tackles, respective-

ly, and that’s not a good thing. As great a season as Scheelhaase is having, Illini opponents have more passing yards, and that’s due in part to an inexperi-enced secondary. Thomas, a junior, is the only member of the secondary that started in 2012.

Beckman has said the second-ary is improving and will continue to improve. They’ll need to use the bye week more than anyone perhaps, and hope for a good showing against Miami. Unless they’ve gotten much better by the first week of conference play, they’ll be in for it against dynamic Big Ten offenses like Nebraska and Ohio State.

Grade: D+

Special teamsThe special teams have been up and

down, characterized by none better than punter Justin DuVernois. The senior shanked his only two important punts in Week 1 against Southern Illinois, but two weeks later, Duvernois’ consistent leg-work pinning Washington deep earned him conference special teams player of the week honors.

A kickoff return for a touchdown in Week 1 showed promise for V’Angelo Bentley and Osei in the return game. Though there hasn’t been any similar big runbacks, Illinois has outgained oppo-nents 367 yards to 308 on kickoff and punt returns combined.

Kicker Taylor Zalewski missed what

turned out to be a crucial field goal in Week 3 at Soldier Field, and Illini fans hope he can become more consistent as the year goes on.

Grade: B

OverallNo one believed in Beckman head-

ing into the season. I think that tide could begin to change if Illinois keeps playing the way it has. If nothing else, Beckman can start believing in him-self, and the efforts he’s put in to turn-ing a program into a family. Bill Cubit has been everything Illini fans have hoped for and then some. The defense isn’t where it needs to be to compete for a conference crown, but the offense will keep Illinois competitive and, more importantly, keep Illini football worth watching. In a year where pundits like myself were scouring for the sched-ule for a second — let alone a third — win, we have to give the Illini cred-it. Overall, I’d say Illinois’ 2-1 record, given their opponents is worth about a B. But provided the context surround-ing this team entering the season, these three games were more than Illini fans could’ve hoped for. Next quarter, we won’t be so lenient. For now though, hell yeah, Illinois football.

Grade: A+

Eliot is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @EliotTweet.

house is a mess. The tight ends have fallen, Gronkowski to injury and Her-nandez to the color orange. Amendola is likely weeks away from seeing the field again. Tom Brady needs someone he can trust, and who else is there but five-year veteran Edelman?

Edelman has a history with injuries and isn’t necessarily a star, but he’s about all they’ve got. At 20 receptions for 157 yards and two touchdowns this season, he’s deadly in a PPR league. And as the Patriots offense starts to come together in Week 3, Edelman is a nice man to have at WR2.

SITCecil Shorts III (wide receiver, Jag-

uars) — OK, maybe I just wanted to say his name. But c’mon, guys, he’s owned in 99 percent of ESPN leagues? Are any of you actually playing him? Take

a minute to remember Chad Henne and Blaine Gabbert are the two trusted with throwing to him. Not only that, but on 24 targets, Shorts has only made 11 catches. Sure, he has an adequate 133 yards, but 13 points total after two weeks? Bench him, if you haven’t already.

Eric Decker (wide receiver, Broncos) — Demaryius Thomas, Wes Welker, Julius Thomas — these guys are all rea-sons why you shouldn’t invest much fan-tasy stock in Eric Decker. Nine catches for 87 yards isn’t bad, especially if he had actually gotten a touchdown. But the fact is that Peyton Manning just has too many weapons. There’s not enough love to go around. Decker’s eight points in Week 2 may have seemed to have fantasy potential for a moment, but know that those moments will only come around every now and then.

J.J. is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @Wilsonable07.

BRIAN YU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Donovonn Young (5) gets taken down by Washington’s Thomas Tutogi (50) during the game against then-No. 19 Washington at Chicago Homecoming at Soldier Field in Chicago on Saturday. Illinois lost 24-34.

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the same category as a lot of the top players,” he said. “In the past, I have always seen myself as a level behind those players, but I think after this weekend it shows that I can compete with the best.”

As a junior — and one of the older players on the team — he has realized

his successful play sets a standard that the younger players will strive to achieve. Although Kopinski did not refer to himself as a leader, he said that he hopes the expectations he sets for himself serve as an example for the younger players on the team to follow.

Kopinski will gladly take the success he had over the weekend, yet he knows there’s a great deal of progress yet to be made. He said that he still needs to improve his serve in the weeks and

months ahead.Dancer expects Kopinski to continue

working to reach his potential. “Tim is a tremendously diligent,

motivated and hard-working player for us,” he said. “This is a very nice feather in his cap, and I’m extremely confident that he knows what to do to get better.”

Dan can be reached at [email protected] and @danescalona77.

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