BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

Construction stopped for an hour at the corner of Race and Main streets in downtown Urba-na on Monday morning, though only for an announcement that more construction is on its way.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced a $6.4 million invest-ment in transportation infra-

structure for eastern Illinois at a speech in Urbana on Monday, including $1.4 million for proj-ects in Champaign County. The investment is through Quinn’s $31 billion Illinois Jobs Now! construction program that was passed in 2009.

This is the fourth year of the five-year program, which will offer almost $500 million dol-lars to local governments in Illinois for transportation con-struction. The money allows local governments to make

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BY F. AMANDA TUGADESTAFF WRITER

With wire glasses resting on his nose and a loosely fitted tie wrapped around his neck, Roy Zimmerman stands in front of a microphone with his feet planted on the stage. His seamlessly unwrinkled polo shirt with rolled up sleeves and dark-fitted slacks make him a mirror image of a politician ready to address his

audience candidly. His guitar is his only compan-

ion, accepting the role of a polit-ical aide, campaign manager, confidante and friend. Without much adieu, Zimmerman begins set with a smile — a collection of songs satirically targeting the issues surrounding the political sphere.

The singer-songwriter per-forms songs about social issues,

peace, war and justice. The San Francisco native is in the mid-dle of an eight-week tour across the country called “Funny Songs and Bad Advice,” which is exactly what it is, according to Zimmer-man. He will be performing a free show at 7 p.m. in Allen Hall’s Main Lounge on Tuesday.

Laura Haber, program and aca-demic director of Unit One, invit-ed Zimmerman once again to per-

form at the University. “We’ve brought him before, and

many of our students seem to like his visit and his performance,” Haber said, adding that Zimmer-man’s “thought-provoking and funny” songs are an interesting approach to political issues.

Andrew LaPointe, senior in LAS, has seen Zimmerman per-

BY MARYCATE MOSTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

When Professor Rini Bhat-tacharya Mehta was in India filming her movie “Post 489A: Shades of Domestic Violence,” she noticed one thing about the women that she interviewed: They had very little in common. Mehta’s observations led her to believe that domestic violence knows no bounds; it can touch anyone’s life, regardless of social class, ethnicity, religion, wealth or geographic location.

“The film focuses on the com-plex problem of domestic vio-lence within a democratic soci-ety in a country that is way more diverse than the United States,” said Mehta, professor of comparative and world liter-ature. “The fact that modernity and globalization cannot solve every problem in the world is both depressing and thought-provoking, and should make us think twice before we offer a global solution to a problem.”

Mehta’s film, which was

screened to an audience of pro-fessors, students and other Uni-versity employees at the Univer-sity Women’s Resource Center on Oct. 10, is one of the many events planned by the Resource Center in observance of Domes-tic Violence Awareness Month.

Throughout the month, the Center is working to raise awareness about domestic vio-lence, help students deal with domestic violence in their lives and prevent future incidences.

According to the Domestic Violence Resource Center, one out of every four women expe-riences some form of domes-tic violence in her life. Rachel Storm, assistant director of the Center, said many are surprised to hear how many people are affected by domestic violence.

“In the ‘80s women were see-ing that a lot of veterans were getting lots of plaques and memorials showing how many men died in the war,” Storm

BY JACQUI OGRODNIKSTAFF WRITER

After finishing a class in Cham-paign, a student boards a train to the University of Illinois at Springfield to attend his next class on that campus.

Once that class is finished, the student waits at the station for the next train to Chicago’s campus so he can attend a professor’s lec-ture. After a long day of classes, the student then takes the train home just in time for dinner.

This kind of high-speed rail ser-vice has yet to be built in Illinois, but according to a recent study by the University’s Rail Transporta-tion and Engineering Center, or RailTEC, and the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Urban Trans-portation Center, the cost of build-ing such a service, while substan-tial, is feasible.

Funded by the Illinois Depart-ment of Transportation, the study concluded that a 220-mph high-speed rail service con-necting major Midwest cities could be financially sustainable year-to-year.

The rail service would con-nect O’Hare International Airport through Chicago to Champaign-Urbana before splitting between St. Louis and Indianapolis, ser-vicing Decatur, Springfield and Kankakee in Illinois, among oth-er cities.

Express high-speed trains are estimated to travel from down-town Chicago to Champaign in 45 minutes, to Springfield in one hour and 20 minutes, and to St. Louis or Indianapolis in two hours, accord-ing to the study. Rail tickets would cost less money than plane tickets.

Mohd Rapik Saat, techni-

cal manager of the project and research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineer-ing, said the main goal of the study was to determine technically and financially if the system was fea-sible to be developed in the future.

The researchers began focus-ing on the connection between Chicago and Champaign before expanding the area of study to include St. Louis and Indianapolis.

“By including these two other major cities besides Chicago, we could potentially have a larger rid-ership to support such a system,” Saat said.

Richard Harnish, executive director of Midwest High Speed Rail Association, said this kind of connection among these cit-ies ends up tying together a very large piece of the Midwest.

It would bring the Universi-ty closer to Chicago, make the government in Springfield more accessible to the public, and help maintain the relationships between money markets and the professors and staff, he said.

“Champaign is a critical uni-versity that needs to have a much stronger access to both downtown Chicago and O’Hare,” he said. “Champaign students would have a much easier time to get home or to get to school, possibly go downtown to Chicago to see the plays or whatever you want to do downtown.”

Saat said with a 45-minute con-nection to Chicago, Champaign would become just a suburb of Chicago.

“This increased mobility would be something beyond what we could think of today because of the level of connection we have to

the cities,” he said. “So we want to connect the brain in Champaign with the money in Chicago,” refer-ring to researchers and investors.

This connection could grant access to added resources, which could indirectly support a higher level of graduate student enroll-ment, develop new classes, and develop new research areas for the faculty, Saat said.

Although the operating costs for the service would be covered by the estimated fare revenue, the key challenge is to come up with the capital cost, which has been estimated to be between $20 bil-lion to $50 billion.

“Based on our present esti-mates of our ridership and rev-enues, they would not be enough to cover all of the capital costs, so the government or some kind of public-private partnership would be necessary to develop the capi-tal funds necessary to build the system in the first place,” said Christopher Barkan, principal investigator and professor of civ-il and environmental engineering.

The researchers also estimated the economic benefit of a high-speed rail that they did not quan-tify in terms of dollars, such as employment, reduction in envi-ronmental pollution and accident rate.

“When you build a large trans-portation facility, it often tends to generate revenue-producing activities, such as retail stores, apartment buildings and offices buildings,” Barkan said, which can be observed overseas in Japan or Hong Kong, where high-speed rail services exist. “There are large concentrations of people traveling through these trans-portation systems, so the stations become very desirable places for a range of activities that generate financial activity and revenues.”

Current students might not be able to experience such connec-tivity before graduation since it takes many years, sometimes decades, to completely build a high-speed rail system. This proj-

Midwest high-speed rail cuts travel timeFrom Chicago, it would take 45 minutes to reach Champaign, 80

minutes to reach Springfield and two hours to reach St. Louis.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF SCOTT HURST PHOTOGRAPHYSatirical singer-songwriter Roy Zimmerman performs on his 50 State Tour in Fort Worth, Texas. Zimmerman is performing a free show at 7 p.m. in Allen Hall’s Main Lounge on Tuesday.

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Champaign A 26-year-old male was

arrested on charges of aggra-vated battery, resisting/obstructing/disarming an offi-cer and trespassing to land/real property at KAM’S, 618 E. Dan-iel St., around 2 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, the suspect hit an employee and continuously disobeyed orders from the staff and the officer.

Domestic battery was reported on the 400 block of South State Street around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the two male subjects involved are in a dating relationship.

Theft was reported in the 1100 block of South First Street around 2 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, a female victim reported that jewelry was stolen from her apartment.

University A 21-year-old male was

arrested was arrested on charges of resisting/obstruct-ing a police officer, refusing to aid a police officer and can-nabis possession at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house, 1101 W. Pennsylvania Avenue, around 4 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, police were at the house sev-eral times that morning inves-tigation complaints that a par-ty there had become out of control. The suspect hindered police efforts to contact the

house president and obstruct-ed the investigation.

Theft from a motor vehi-cle was reported in parking lot B-2, 1101 Clark St., Urbana, at noon Friday.

According to the report, the firearms were in the locked topper of his pickup truck and had an estimated value of $1,175.

Theft was reported near Lincoln Avenue and Illinois Street around 9 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, a student’s backpack, which con-tained his laptop computer with an estimated value of $800, was left unattended near an outdoor fountain and stolen.

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WASHINGTON — Only weeks ahead of what forecasters say could be a brutal winter, human-itarian aid agencies working on the Syrian conflict are sounding the alarm that little is being done to provide assistance to a refu-gee population that’s expected to reach 3 million by the end of the year.

The United Nations has col-lected only half the $5 billion it needs to provide assistance, and humanitarian aid groups say they’re resigned that they’ll be able help only some of the 2 mil-lion refugees outside Syria and the millions more who have fled their homes but remain in Syria.

“The reality is, a huge amount of aid is needed and as long as countries are sending guns and ammunition rather than food or blankets, the crisis is only going to worsen,” said Noah Gott-schalk, senior humanitarian pol-icy adviser for Oxfam America, an international aid group that focuses on poverty and hunger.

“It’s not too late, but it’s getting closer and closer. The clock is ticking,” Gottschalk said, refer-ring to the narrow window of opportunity to mobilize winter aid before communities begin to suffer and roads to some areas become impassable.

There’s no sign of an urgent aid mobilization on the scale that would be needed to help hundreds of thousands of refu-gees, particularly the so-called invisible Syrians who are living, unregistered, in urban areas in

Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. While there are stepped-up efforts to get families win-ter kits with items such as plas-tic sheeting, heating stoves and blankets, the need greatly out-paces the resources.

Winters are always hard on vulnerable populations, human-itarian workers say. But this year, Syrians are expected to face even more miserable con-ditions for several reasons.

In Lebanon, the huge flow of refugees has forced tens of thou-sands of families to sleep under flimsy shelter in areas with high altitudes and heavy snowfall. The conflict has gone on so long that families’ savings are deplet-ed, just as rents go up because of the high demand.

The already slim prospects for finding work — both in Syr-ia and in neighboring countries — become even slimmer in win-ter, when construction and agri-cultural jobs dry up. Fearful of not having sturdy shelter when the cold sets in, some refugees already are selling some of their aid on the black market, to avoid eviction.

“It is sort of a perfect storm of negative market forces com-bined with a bigger and bigger influx of refugees with a total lack of means,” said Erin Weir, the protection and advocacy adviser for the Middle East at Norwegian Refugee Council, an Oslo-based humanitarian non-profit organization.

Lebanon, to which as many as 1 million Syrian refugees have fled, will be hardest hit because

of the proliferation of what aid workers call “informal tented settlements,” with clusters of refugees living in makeshift tents, unfinished buildings and other vulnerable structures. Last winter, there were 41 such set-tlements across Lebanon. Today there are 450, with their popula-tions accounting for 16 percent of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon, according to Oxfam America.

Aid workers say that even the phrase “tented settlement” is a misnomer because much of the shelter is cobbled together from scraps of cardboard, tarpaulins and other materials that aren’t waterproof and are sure to buck-le under snowfall.

Another place of concern is the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, where 63,000 Syrians have fled in just the past couple of months, bringing the total there to more than 220,000 according to the U.N. refugee agency.

Weir just returned from a trip to northern Iraq, where she found Kurdish officials frantical-ly trying to keep up with the flow, putting refugees in stadiums, youth centers, and practically any other free space. But even with the construction of several new camps, she said, there’s little more than tents for shelter, and Iraqis are so overwhelmed by the influx that they haven’t had time to reinforce them before the area’s notoriously bitter winter.

“They’re really struggling,” Weir said. “All these new camps are tents, and I don’t think win-terization has begun on anything like the scale that’s needed.”

BY TIM JOHNSONMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

PANAMA CITY — They’ve been called “suicide mosqui-toes,” dead-end bugs and even Franken-skeeters.

They’re gene -a ltered mosquitoes, and Panama is among a growing list of countries that are testing to see whether they have a place in the public health arsenal in the war against mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever.

Dengue, which isn’t well-known outside tropical regions, is on the rise worldwide, with outbreaks reported this year in Texas and Florida. The mosquito that carries the dengue virus has spread to 100 countries and potentially exposes 2.5 billion people to the excruciating disease, also known as bone break fever. Some 50 million to 100 million people contract dengue each year, of which about 25,000 die, the World Health Organization reports.

“A person with dengue will be prostrate for several days,” said Dr. Carlos Galvez, the head epidemiologist for Panama’s Health Ministry. “They grow dehydrated very fast. In a matter of hours, the cases can grow more complicated.”

This has been a particularly bad year for dengue in the Western Hemisphere, with the Pan American Health

Organization reporting 1.4 million cases. The Florida Department of Health issued an alert in late August amid an outbreak there, and the state had reported 19 cases by mid-September, none lethal.

Panama has one of the most developed public-health systems in Latin America, a legacy of the U.S. military presence during much of the 20th century to oversee the operation of the Panama Canal. Yet even Panama struggles to cope with a type of mosquito known as Aedes aegypti, an aggressive urban dweller originally from North Africa that’s the principal carrier of the dengue virus.

Teams patrol the streets fumigating with insecticide in a constant battle against the mosquito, and public service ads remind Panamanians to drain standing water in eaves, buckets, flowerpots and old tires, where mosquitoes breed.

Before long, public health officials may have a new tool — OX513A — a genetically modified mosquito from a British biotech company, Oxitec Ltd. of Abingdon, England, that’s a spinoff from Oxford University.

Oxitec mosquitoes have been altered to contain a “lethality gene.” When the mosquitoes, all male, are released into the wild, they mate with females but the offspring don’t survive. That’s why they’re called “dead end” bugs. Only if they’re exposed to tetracycline, an antibiotic, do the transgenic mosquitoes survive.

If Panama’s National Biosafety Commission gives the green light, sometime early next year technicians will release tens of thousands of gene-altered mosquitoes in Arraijan, a bedroom community that’s across the canal from Panama City at the canal’s Pacific end.

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form before at the University and is excited for his return.

LaPointe said that the reason why he enjoyed Zimmerman’s previous performance is because the singer-songwriter points out the “ridiculousness of what’s going on.” LaPointe admitted that he does not follow politics, but lis-tening to Zimmerman’s songs do provide access to the current issues, as well as entertainment.

“College students are at a place where ideas are forming and bouncing off of each other. They’re about to step out into the real-world political fray, you know,” Zimmerman said.

Zimmerman added he is inter-ested in hearing students’ views about fracking, the drone project or Affordable Care Act, as well as projects that they are working on.

In the 2012 presidential elec-tion year, Zimmerman made a stop on campus as part of a “cam-paign promise” to perform in all 50 states before the Republican National Convention.

Zimmerman found the differ-ences in touring during an elec-tion year and an off year to be “funny.”

“If you toured this kind of stuff during an election year — during like last year when people were so interested in the election, so into it — minute-by-minute (coverage) like a sporting event; people know what to make of it. People hear satire and they say, ‘Oh. I know what it’s going to be,’” Zimmer-man said.

“In an off year, it’s funny because after an election year, people’s interests in politics kind of wanes a little bit,” Zimmerman continued.

He explained that people who are working on making politi-cal strides, as in speaking about certain issues that affect govern-ment, social and economic situa-tions, get discouraged. He said people resist understanding poli-tics because it’s “too hard.”

“How do you make good things happen in the world, in this coun-try and all that?” he asked.

That’s where the bad advice comes in, Zimmerman said.

“Give up ... You say that to peo-ple, and people get the message, ‘May be I shouldn’t give up,’” he added.

Zimmerman is a natural come-dian, recalling his junior high music antics as the starting point of his career, which tran-scended to forming small duos and trios in high school. In the 1990s, “the Clinton years,” Zim-merman began The Foreman, a

comedy folk quartet that signed to Warner/Reprise Records. With a little over 20 years of perform-ing under his belt, his work has gained attention from outlets such as NPR, Siris Radio, HBO and Showtime. He has also shared the stage with fellow musicians, comedians and politicians like Frank Black from The Pixies, Bill Maher, John Oliver and former president Bill Clinton. The sing-er-songwriter has collectively released 11 albums, six of which were solo albums.

Zimmerman brought his music to YouTube, where his videos have encountered over seven mil-lion views.

A solo performer for the last 17 years, the singer-songwriter col-laborates with his wife, Melanie Harby, through lyrics. Examples of their work include “I’m In,” a song inspired by the 2012 presi-dential election about the prog-ress being made, and “The Vagi-na Dialogues,” a song based off of Michigan State representative Lisa Brown’s argument against an anti-abortion bill.

“We work really hard to make the lyrics not only funny, not only rhyme well, but actually have some depth and analysis to it,” Zimmerman said.

Zimmerman said that although humor comes easily to him, find-ing the funny in the Afghanistan War or the War on Drugs is dif-ficult. He said his focus comes from “human responses,” such as noticing a politician’s ego or spotting an audience member’s curling lip.

Zimmerman creates songs like “Creation Science 101” — which looks at the teaching of creation in the public school sys-tem — and “Defenders of Mar-riage,” which covers same-sex marriages and the contradictory lines among religion, government and social institutions. Both songs critique the hegemonic relation-ship between government offi-cials and their constituents.

“Part of doing good work in the world is to say that this part of it is ridiculous and laugh at this part of it, while you work seriously on this part of it,” Zimmerman said.

Zimmerman said that he has been accused of “preaching to the converted.” However, he said a satire show is similar to a lecture in class, where one has to come in with prior knowledge.

“But I think of it as entertain-ing the troops,” Zimmerman said. “I’m not trying to change anybody’s mind, you know, but I am just trying to be a part of the conversation.”

Amanda can be reached at tugade1@dailyillini.com.

ect is the first step in a many-year process to develop a rail network in the United States.

“It’s a really big step,” Harnish

said. “It’s really exciting that Illi-nois continues to push forward high-speed rails, and it really is critical that we start getting real-ly serious about building it.”

Jacqui can be reached at ogrodni2@dailyillini.com.

said. “It is not that these wom-en didn’t find that appropriate, but they just had the recognition that if they listed all the names who died at the hands of domes-tic violence, the list would be even longer.”

For students that find them-selves in abusive relationships or students coming from a home with domestic violence, the Women’s Resource Center offers counseling sessions and hosts other events to help victims feel more confident in themselves, such as the Love Your Body Spa Day, which is scheduled to take place on Oct. 16, Storm said. Oth-er services include the Domes-tic Violence Awareness walk in the Homecoming parade on Oct. 25 and a Candlelight Vigil on Oct. 23 recognizing all those who have died due to domestic abuse.

Onni Gust, research asso-ciate at the Uni-versity, attend-ed Mehta’s film screening and e mph a s i z e d the impor-tance of raising awareness and encouraging conversation about domestic violence.

“It will have an impact on how people u n d e r s t a n d their own rela-tionships and give them a better framework for under-standing and thinking about their rights,” Gust said. “Whilst I think it’s most important to offer support and a way out to the victims of domestic violence, it is also important to address the deeper causes that lead to domestic violence.”

Storm and volunteers at the Women’s Resource Center have organized a list of events that aims to do just that. Storm said she specifically hopes to address the causes of domestic violence by aiming program-ming at parents and their chil-dren. By eliminating stereo-types and encouraging equality early on in child development, Storm said she hopes to see a reduction in domestic violence.

“Women are often raised and socialized within a culture that says that women are subservi-ent, that women are expected to

be unassertive and that women are expected to be care-taking and put their needs last,” Storm said. “Then men have this ‘bot-tle-up your emotions’ socializa-tion, and we wonder why there is violence. I believe that the source of domestic violence starts from a very young age.”

Storm said students on cam-pus may be affected by domes-tic violence in a variety of ways. Abuse can be found within straight relationships as well as same-sex relationships and can occur within any social class, ethnicity and religion.

“We try to ensure that the events and programming are diverse because we know that social identity doesn’t bear much on domestic violence and that domestic violence affects everyone,” Storm said. “But social identity may impact how someone is able to access resources if they are experi-

encing domes-tic violence.”

In some cas-es, coming to the Universi-ty may be the first time that they are away from domes-tic violence, Storm said.

“Whereas in other places we might say that (domestic violence) has to exist within a home, here on the Univer-sity campus domestic vio-lence is rele-vant because students might

not only be in abusive relation-ships here ... but they might also be carrying with them the trauma of ongoing domestic vio-lence at home,” Storm said. “We do a lot of work to also define what a healthy relationship is, not just what a troubling rela-tionship is.”

Mehta said the awareness events at the University will have a strong impact on students.

“It is encouraging to see the involvement of so many wonder-ful young minds in spreading the message against domestic violence and other social injus-tices,” Mehta said. “Such pro-cesses of inculcating positive values for social justice and resisting ignorance are wor-thy of the tradition of this great public university.”

MaryCate can be reached at most2@dailyillini.com.

their own decisions about what to invest the funds in, and it comes in addition to money that local governments will receive from a Motor Fuel Tax, Quinn said.

The announcement comes at a time when Illinois’ unemploy-ment rate is second highest in the nation at 9.2 percent, sec-ond to only Nevada, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Champaign County’s unemploy-ment rate is 8.4 percent, while nearby Vermillion County, home to Danville, and Macon Coun-ty, home to Decatur, have rates of 11.3 percent and 12.0 percent respectively according to the Illinois Department of Employ-ment Security.

Quinn said investment in infrastructure not only helps create construction jobs but also benefits other businesses.

“Illinois is in the heart of the heartland,” he said. “We are the distribution center for all of the Midwest and all across North America, frankly. And in order for us to do that well, we’ve got to have good transportation and that means local streets, as well as our state highways and our bridges. We have to commit our-selves to do that.”

Illinois Transportation Secre-tary Ann Schneider said more than $750,000 has been given to Urbana as a part of the project, both improving quality of life and creating jobs for residents.

Champaign Mayor Don Gerard was present at the announcement. He said Cham-paign, which is set to receive $326,804 from the announced funds, has over $50 million in ongoing construction projects, most of which comes from pri-vate investments.

“We’re fantastically pleased that the governor is taking care of us in this arena,” Gerard said. “We fully expect as we come out of the recession, as the economy recovers, that we will have an immense return on our invest-ments, and we’re grateful to have a few extra dollars to put into that.”

Quinn said the original bill is “only scratching the surface”

of what could be done, and he expects a new public works bill next year.

“We’ve never invested so much money in transportation, but we have more to do,” he said.

The Champaign and Urbana communities benefited from the original project in more than just roads and bridges, Quinn said. Since the project’s incep-tion, funds have been given to the University to help with the renovation of Lincoln Hall and the construction of the new Elec-trical and Computer Engineer-ing Building, as well as upgrades to Willard Airport. Quinn said he would expect more investment in education in the next bill.

“We have to invest in edu-cation, to make sure we have strong minds, and infrastruc-ture, so we have strong bridges and roads,” Quinn said.

When Quinn announced it was time for questions from the press, many concerned retirees in the crowd used the opportu-nity to ask the governor about pension reform.

One retiree complained that the state was abandoning its former employees. He said the entire state benefited from the diversion of funds away from pension benefits, so the entire state should have to pay to help restore it.

Quinn responded calmly, acknowledging the concerns and why the retirees were upset.

“The people who did the work and are on the front lines, I’m really sympathetic to,” Quinn said. “I didn’t create this. I inherited this. I just became gov-ernor four years ago, 40 years before me governors and legis-lators didn’t put enough into the pension funds, and what do you do about that? Well, you have to straighten it out and that’s what I’m doing.”

Quinn, who has not taken a paycheck since July 1 to protest the lack of pension reform, said it is the state’s top priority.

“The best way to help our economy and jobs is to resolve this $100 billion liability and pension cloud over the econo-my of Illinois,” he said.

Johnathan can be reached at hetting2@dailyillini.com and @jhett93.

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BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

The Senate Executive Com-mittee discussed progress made on recommendations to address faculty concerns at their Mon-day meeting.

At September’s senate and SEC meetings, Randy McCar-thy, Nicholas Burbules and Joyce Tolliver, chairs of the Task Force on Faculty Issues and Concerns, gave a report of the task force’s recommenda-tions. Both bodies then had dis-cussions about the best way to implement these recommenda-

tions. SEC Chairman Roy Camp-bell said the specific committee that will handle each of the rec-ommendations has not yet been determined.

“We’re looking at which com-mittees will be the best fit,” Campbell said. “Once I know the committees will accept work, I will go forward and make some announcements about that.”

In her remarks to the com-mittee, Chancellor Phyllis Wise mentioned the recent progress report on the strategic plan, say-ing that 180 faculty searches have been authorized for this

academic year, in addition to searches for the deans of LAS and ACES. Wise also mentioned the University’s lack of philan-thropy compared to its peers.

The SEC approved the agenda for the senate meeting, which will include changes to bylaws and nominations for honorary degrees, which will be decided in full session rather than exec-utive session following a rule change in the spring.

Johnathan can be reached at hetting2@dailyillini.com and @jhett93.

SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

“We try to ensure that the events and programming are

diverse because we know that social identity doesn’t bear much on

domestic violence.”RACHEL STORM

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER

OPINIONS4ATUESDAY

Spoken word poetry puts meaning behind beliefs

If you’re not satisfied with the way you’re living life, change it

6 things Tatyana McFadden could

beat in a race

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While listening to it, you can sense how deep of a place it comes from. It’s passionate

and moving; it ignites action; and it showcases the true power of words.

I’ve been drawn to spoken word poetry since the first time I heard it back in high school. It’s a medium for expressing feelings and emotions in a way I’ve never experienced.

Members and allies of the LGBT community have utilized this medi-um to shed light on the issues most pressing to them, and it is undoubt-edly the most effective mode of allowing people to feel their strug-gles, especially regarding religion.

We often hear debates on TV and radio over a wide array of issues. While debates allow a person to see the competition of two or more ideas, they always end in a way where one idea or set of beliefs comes out on top.

The biggest problem with debates is that they negate the fact that the ideas and beliefs we hold come from a place close to the heart. You can use all the claims and support-ing evidence you want, but that’s not enough to get to the core of your beliefs. They are unwavering, and people hold strong convictions.

But we live in a world where everybody is always looking to

change each other’s minds. It’s not impossible, but it doesn’t happen overnight either.

The way minds are changed isn’t simply by letting other people know where you are on a particular issue but by engaging in dialogue and help-ing people understand where your beliefs come from. When someone can truly understand opposing viewpoints, their beliefs become much more mod-erate if not completely changed.

In contrast, debate is all about who can make the better argument, while dialogue is about processing and understanding someone’s point of view.

I’ve come across some amazing poets who have used their words to advocate for a broad spectrum of LGBT issues while exploring the art of spoken words poetry. There was one poet in particular whose words really struck me and took me aback in a poem titled “God is Gay.”

I came across this poem early in the semester as performed by Elliot Darrow at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational at Barnard College in New York City.

“God is Gay” is controversial without question, but the poem helps suggest the hypocrisy in cer-tain denominations of the Chris-tian faith when it comes to beliefs regarding people of the LGBT community.

Darrow’s first implication comes after he says, “[Garden of Eden] was designed by queer, I mean divine eye for the straight guy.” He goes on to say, ”A history lesson: A

faggot is a bundle of sticks ... But Moses came across wood on fire and saw God in it. What is a burn-ing bush but bundles of branch-es on fire, isn’t it funny how fag-gots and God can look the same sometimes?”

He later goes on to show how the Bible possibly even says that it’s OK to have two dads by saying, “Jesus had two dads and turned out just fine/In fact, Jesus had two dads and a surrogate mother/That never had sex with either of them/Maybe Mary was a lesbian.” And ironically exposed how, “Now all the homosexual Homo sapiens/Stand more united under God’s rainbow/Than all of his denomina-tions do around the cross.”

I think the best words to describe his poetry are shocking and provocative, but doesn’t he make a point?

A faith founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ, a man of peace and love, who said all of God’s cre-ations are perfect just the way they are, has been warped and skewed by contradicting biblical teachings. Some consider a handful of God’s creations abominations despite the belief that only God may pass judgment.

It can be easily argued that noth-ing clashes more than religion and non-traditional sexual identities. Their relationship has been a story of the oppressed versus the oppres-sor. Inclusion versus exclusion.

Yet in this poem, the poet synthe-sizes the two.

He brings into question how God’s most conservative follow-ers would react if they learned that God is gay. Would they still, “holler hate speech to the hilltops/In His name?/Or do you think they would reread the scriptures/They say they swear and survive by.”

Darrow doesn’t deconstruct and point out flaws of the Christian faith or argue that one is better than the other. Yes, his words are provocative, but in the name of a fighting cause.

In the end, he reclaims his own Christian faith. He talks about his understanding of God as perfec-tion, protection and love. Not hate.

In this dialogue, you understand where he’s coming from as he makes the case that the image of God that has been created by fun-damentalists is warped.

Spoken word poetry puts things in ways that make you think criti-cally about the beliefs you hold. It fosters a forum to rise above debate and transition into a dia-logue in which others try to under-stand people’s backgrounds and reasons of why they hold the beliefs they hold.

If you want to change minds and attitudes, you have to provide engaging and prolonged dialogue. The performers of spoken word poetry do just that.

Matt is a sophomore in LAS. He can be reached at mpasqui2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewPasquini.

MATT PASQUINI

Opinions columnist

Life is fragile and can end in an instant.

Campus and the community were reminded of this on Wednesday when Mimi Liu, a junior in ACES, was struck and killed by a recklessly driven vehicle on Lincoln Avenue by the McKinley Health Center.

For some reason, this accident felt more real than others. Perhaps it is because the situation was entirely out of the hands of Mimi and Spandana Mantravadi, a junior in Business, the other student injured in the accident.

Mimi and Spandana were not attempting to cross the street at a bad time — they were simply walking on the sidewalk when the truck came barreling at them.

It also happened in a high-traffic area. Cars are constantly driving on Lincoln Avenue. Students who live in Urbana cross Lincoln to get to campus. Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall sits right by where the accident occurred.

In other words, the accident did

not go unseen.Additionally, Mimi was a high-

achieving student — one who had plans and a bright future ahead of her. At 20 years old, Mimi had just transferred into the College of ACES from the Division of General Studies. She was pursuing a career in agribusiness. She was a member of the Chinese Fine Arts Society in Chicago, the Asian American Student Association, the Minority Business Students Association and Illini Guides.

Mimi could have been any of us.

***

The suddenness of this accident should make us stop and think.

At 21 years old, I have yet to start a career in journalism. I have yet to buy my first car, my first house. I have yet to get married and start a family.

These are major events that, if they were not to occur, I would

not be satisfied with my life. And ideally, everyone should have the chance to experience life events such as these.

But unfortunately, not all of us will.

So, looking at everything leading up to the point in life where you

are right now, are you enjoying yourself? Are you happy with how you are living your life? If the answer is no, something needs to change. We only get one shot at life.

Of course, we can’t be happy with every one of our days. Maybe we are pulling all-nighters to prepare for three tests in the span of one week. Maybe we just had a fight with a friend. Or maybe we are dealing with depression. But in the grand scheme

of things, are we making moves to make ourselves happy, and to be a person we would be proud of?

Be good to others. Go out of your way for friends and family. Smile

at the random stranger you pass on the Quad. Volunteer to take someone’s shift at work. Don’t be so quick to criticize.

Be good to yourself. Exercise, eat Cocomero, go out on a Wednesday night. Find out what you love to do, and pursue it. Be positive.

***

As I live in an apartment building on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Iowa Street, every day I bike past a makeshift memorial dedicated to Mimi and Spandana that rests at the base of a tree near McKinley Health Center. The memorial has been growing, currently with bouquets, candles and a poster that says, “Our thoughts and prayers are with you.” It is signed by members of the 4-H House Cooperative Sorority, with entries including, “I pray for Love and Strength for the family and friends of the Loved ones” and “You won’t be forgotten! Forever with us.”

Let’s not forget Mimi and the delicacy of life.

Kirsten is a junior in Media. She can be reached at kekellr2@dailyillini.com.

KIRSTEN KELLER

Opinions columnist

T atyana McFadden is un-stoppable. She’s one of the fastest wheelchair racers in the world — one of the fastest ath-

letes in the worldOn Sunday, she became the first

woman to win three of the major marathons in a row: Boston, Lon-don and now Chicago. She could make the grand slam in New York on Nov. 3.

Like we said: unstoppable. Fast. Faster than the return of the Alma Mater — which, by that standard, isn’t that quick, really.

Tatyana McFadden, senior in ACES, is faster than all of the things on this not-so definitive list of really fast things:

1. Freshmen running away from a busted party on a Friday night

A first bout with alcohol has a

funny way of livening an 18-year-old’s step. Toss in some sirens and yelling police officers, and even a gazelle would face some stiff com-petition. No matter, McFadden would still be faster. (We couldn’t conclusively determine if she’d be faster than underage drinkers sprinting from a party on Unoffi-cial, however.)

2. KAM’S filling up on Tuesdays for Country Night

Toby Keith’s and Tim McGraw’s honky-tonk tunes rope in youn-gins faster than a cowgirl can yell, “Yeehaw!” The Daniel Street bar fills up quickly, but McFadden is quicker. Arguably, she has an ad-vantage: Anyone at KAM’S will be slowed because of the sticky floors.

3. Girls running toward their new houses on Bid Day

This may be the toughest com-petition yet, because these girls are speedy. Girls run from the Quad faster than the screams of joy erupt and the streams of tears flow, but they are still no match for the Mighty McFadden.

4. The parking enforcement

staff for both Champaign and Ur-bana

You think to yourself, “I’ll just leave my car parked here for less than a minute without pay-ing: I’ll be fine.” Nope. You come back to find four tickets plastered to the windshield. They are swift folks. That is, until you put them up against McFadden. She’s so fast that she could ticket all of the cars in both cities before the park-ing enforcement staff could write even one. She could do it, but we beg that she doesn’t. Please.

5. Jimmy John’s delivery

Headquartered in Champaign, its “freaky fast” delivery has yet to be matched by the fast-food in-dustry (and it’s certainly faster than the line at Chipotle on Green Street). McFadden would definite-ly win. Likely, the Jimmy John’s delivery dude would slip on some mayo or something.

6. Tyler Griffey’s buzzer beater

to take down Indiana last February We were initially reluctant to

write this one because both Mc-Fadden and Griffey are fast sons-of-guns. Griffey won the game for the Illini 74-72 with one second left and McFadden won the Chi-cago Marathon by three seconds. This apples-to-oranges comparison made it tricky for us to calculate who would win. In the end, we had to give it to McFadden.

McFadden is the fastest thing on campus. But who are we kidding? She is the fastest. Good luck in New York.

So, looking at everything leading up to

the point in life where you are right now, are you enjoying

yourself?

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Greek life provides several opportunities for fall philanthropyBY DECLAN HARTYSTAFF WRITER

On the weekends of the fall semester, Frat Park and Greek houses across campus are typi-cally filled with everything from mud-covered students, inflat-able bounce houses, flag football games and barbecues. The mid-dle of October normally marks the high point for members of Greek life and other students to participate in the remaining Greek life fall philanthropies.

Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council chapters are now preparing to put on the final fall philanthropies in the coming weeks through bringing together students to help raise money for a variety of different organizations and charities, all for a multitude of causes.

“Being a member of Pan-hellenic Council, you agree to uphold six values and one of those values is service,” said Celeste Niemann, PHC vice president of service and senior in LAS. “The fact that service is one of our six values is because we feel it is so important to give back to not only the campus, but the community.”

Here is a preview for the sea-son’s remaining philanthropies:

4-H House Bake SaleWHEN: Oct. 17, 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.WHERE: 4-H House. located at 805 W. Ohio St. in UrbanaCAUSE: Journey

Journey is 4-H’s philanthro-py established to honor two for-mer 4-H house members, Jen-nifer and Jackie Esworthy, who were killed in a drunk driving accident in 1997.Jennifer, a 1997 graduate of the University, was a former president of the 4-H House along with many other positions. Jackie would have been an incoming freshman stu-dent and was planning to join the 4-H household.

“We later learned that the drunk driver was a repeat offender and that he had lost his license,” said Hope Cam-den, junior in LAS and 4-H House’s philanthropy chair. “So our Journey philanthropy goes to purchase cameras to be placed in local police vehicles to attempt to catch repeat drunk driver offenders and help get them off the road.”

Gamma Phi Beta Crescent Classic Kickball TournamentWHEN: Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.WHERE: Campus Recreation Softball Fields in UrbanaCAUSE: Girls on the Run

For the first time, Gamma Phi Beta will be donating the proceeds from this year’s Cres-cent Classic to Girls on the Run, a national non-profit organiza-tion that focuses on improv-ing middle-school-aged girls’ confidence, goal setting and self-encouragement.

“I don’t think many organiza-tions focus on young women, and I think that it is nice we get to be a part of that,” said Emily Mohr, Gamma Phi Beta’s internal phi-lanthropy chair and senior in

LAS. “Especially because every girl and a ton of boys have to go through this, it is something that is close to all, which is nice.”

Mohr stated that they hope to have a personal connection with the girls that they raise funds for, as they plan to meet them at a 5K next spring. Additionally, she hopes the girls can see posi-tive female role models through the Gamma Phi Beta members that will attend the 5K.

The Crescent Classic Kickball Tournament is open to the entire campus community and will fea-ture a variety of Greek houses and clubs, such as teams from the Evans Scholars house and the hockey team.

Mohr hopes that everyone has a great time and said all are encouraged to donate. All dona-tions raised from the event will be matched in its entirety by the Gamma Phi Beta International organization.

“I hope people appreciate that their time, effort and donation is being put toward a good cause,” Mohr said.

Kappa Alpha Theta’s Theta HoopsWHEN: Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.WHERE: Kappa Alpha Theta House, located at 611 E. Daniel St. in ChampaignCAUSE: Court Appointed Special Advocates

Kappa Alpha Theta will host its annual Theta Hoops philanthropy, a three-on-three basketball tournament that will take place on Daniel Street between Espresso Royale and the Illini Union Bookstore. The block will hold three courts, and all students are welcome to participate in the event.

T he T het a Ho ops philanthropy’s proceeds go toward CASA, an organization that aims to help children who go through the court system and migrate between homes frequently.

Suzanne Kirk, Kappa Alpha Theta’s internal philanthropy chair and junior in LAS, said the children are assigned a representative to stand up for them in court and to act as a voice for the children who can’t speak for themselves. The representatives assist with the legal processes and ensure they are placed in a stable home and a safe place. The Champaign CASA currently serves approximately 400 children.

Alpha Epsilon Phi and Psi Upsilon Floor Hockey Tournament

WHEN: Nov. 17, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.WHERE: Campus Recreation Center East in UrbanaCAUSE: Sharsheret

Alpha Epsilon Phi and Psi Upsilon will co-host their first-ever Chicago Blackhawks-themed floor hockey tournament called “Face off with Phi’s” at CRCE. They will be holding a philanthropy dinner the night before, featuring wings, hamburgers and other bar

foods. The events’ purpose is to raise money for breast cancer.

At the tournament and the dinner, the chapters will sell pink T-shirts with the words “Puck Cancer.” The event is open to anyone on campus. Alpha Epislon Phi will release more information on how to purchase tickets by the end of the month. The sorority hopes to raise about $4,000 from both the floor hockey event and the dinner.

Sharsheret, a non-profit Jewish breast cancer organization focused on supporting young women and their families across the nation, will receive the events’ proceeds.

“They know that breast cancer is a disease that you have to live with,” said Mara Dubnow, Alpha Epsilon Phi’s philanthropy chair and junior in LAS. “They have local support groups around Champaign-Urbana that we have actually visited and it was founded by Alpha Epsilon Phi alumni, so we have that connection.”

Declan can be reached at dharty2@dailyillini.com.

Additional Philanthropies:Alpha Phi’s PHIestWhat: Bags tournament, photo booth, pumpkin painting and dinnerWhen: Oct. 18, 4 to 7 p.m.Where: Alpha Phi House, located at 508 E. Armory Avenue in ChampaignCause: Kristy Burgener Foundation

Alpha Delta Pi Campus Cup Soccer TournamentWhat: Soccer TournamentWhen: Oct. 20, 12 to 3 p.m.Where: Turf Soccer Fields (First and Stadium)Cause: Ronald McDonald House Charities

Chi Omega Spookghetti Pasta DinnerWhat: Pasta DinnerWhen: Nov. 1, 5 to 7:30 p.m.Where: Chi Omega House, located at 907 S. Wright St. in ChampaignCause: Make-A-Wish Foundation

Alpha Tau Omega RecessWhat: Three-day event featuring soccer, volleyball and football games, DJ, dunk tank and T-shirts saleWhen: Nov. 1 to 3Where: Frat Park and Sand Volleyball Courts located between Third and Second and Chalmers and Daniel St. in Champaign Cause: Ronald McDonald House Charities

Apple’s plan for new, ecofriendly headquarters awaits approval BY PATRICK MAYMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Apple Inc.’s Peter Oppen-heimer, the baby-faced high priest of finance for the world’s most valuable company, gazed up at the oversized map on the wall.

“Let me begin by showing you the sea of asphalt,” Apple’s chief financial officer said, pointing to the abandoned husk of Hewlett-Packard’s former Cuperti-no, Calif., campus, the site of Apple’s proposed new spaceship-shaped headquarters that goes before the city council Tuesday for a vote. The plan: Flip a 175-acre site that’s now 80 percent asphalt and buildings into one that’s 80 percent open space and parkland, then drop a spectacu-lar ring of polished glass into the middle of it all.

Perhaps channeling his for-mer boss Steve Jobs at one of his high-anticipation product launches, Oppenheimer quickly went into full Apple pitch mode.

“You see the energy and the love and the attention to detail that we’ve put into this,” he told the San Jose Mercury News dur-ing a sneak peek of a top-secret, living-room sized model of the building. “We have treated this project just as we would any Apple product. And this will be a place for the most creative and collaborative teams in the indus-try to innovate for decades to come.”

Oppenheimer had every right to be gushing. With its jaw-drop-ping design from architectural superstar Sir Norman Foster and his team, its stellar environmen-tal credentials and a tax-revenue windfall promised for Cupertino and the region, Apple Campus 2 promises to bring a world-class real-estate project - along with a lot of traffic congestion - to the heart of Silicon Valley.

During a recent and rare 45-minute visit with Oppen-heimer, who most often appears publicly as the disembodied voice beside CEO Tim Cook on Apple’s quarterly-earnings conference calls, the message was as crystal clear as Goril-la Glass: this particular Apple product, dreamed up by the late Steve Jobs and massaged with the help of company design guru Jony Ive and the same folks who brought us the iPhone and iPad, is all about green and all about innovation.

“The concept of the building,” said Oppenheimer, “is collabora-tion and fluidity. It’ll provide a very open-spaced system, so that at one point in the day you may be in offices on one side of the circle and find yourself on the other side later that day.”

He said that urgency for work-ing side by side, much as Jobs and Ive once did, led naturally to the design of the building. “We found that rectangles or squares or long buildings or buildings

with more than four stories would inhibit collaboration,” Oppenheimer said. “We wanted this to be a walkable building, and that’s why we eventually set-tled on a circle.”

And, said Dan Whisenhunt, Apple’s director of real estate and facilities, that circle has been placed within a greenscape that’s planet-friendly. In fact, designers have shown an almost obsessive-compulsive take on the project’s ecosystem: a natu-rally ventilated space with radi-ant cooling that avoids the need for air-conditioning 70 percent of the year; LED lighting and smart-control systems adapted to the site’s microclimate con-ditions; on-site recycling of all excavated dirt into berms, elimi-nating dust-heaving trucks rum-bling through the neighborhood during the three-year construc-tion expected to begin later this year.

“This will be one of the most environmentally sustainable developments on this scale anywhere in the world,” said Whisenhunt, pointing to the mod-el filling an entire room inside a high-security workshop located in the footprint of the new cam-pus. “A building like this will use 30 percent less energy than a typical corporate building in the Valley. And that’s 100 per-cent renewable energy, which is unheard-of on this scale, with most of it produced on-site.”

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Located on Fifth and Green streets, the Starbucks Pump-kin Spice Latte puts a fall spin on the classic latte. This fall drink consists of espresso, pumpkin-fl avored syrup and steamed milk. Emily Findling, junior in LAS, said it is her go-to drink as soon as September rolls around. She said Starbucks gives just the right amount of cinnamon to compliment the pumpkin fl avor without overpowering it. Not only is Starbucks serving up pumpkin-fl avored drinks, but they provide a variety of pumpkin-spiced bakery items as well. Some of their most popular items include a pump-kin cheesecake croissant, pumpkin cream cheese muffi n, pumpkin scone, pumpkin bread and reduced-fat pumpkin cream cheese loaf cake. For students looking to get into the fall spirit without wanting the pumpkin fl avor, Star-bucks also offers pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies.

For those who may prefer an alternative option, Dunkin’ Donuts, located at 607 E. Green St., also offers a pumpkin latte. However, Jensen Rafool, junior in LAS, said her favor-ite fall treat from Dunkin’ Donuts is their pumpkin muffi n. Rafool said the cinnamon and sugar-topped muffi n is one of her all-time favorite fall desserts. Not only are pumpkin muffi ns on Dunkin’ Donuts’ menu, but the eatery has also debuted a new pumpkin doughnut this fall season.

For students still searching for more pumpkin pastry options, Panera is also known for their year-round pump-kin treats. They have everything from pumpkin muffi es (which is basically equivalent to a pumpkin muffi n without the bottom portion) to pumpkin bread. Tara Hill, junior in ACES, said she prefers buying her pumpkin spice latte from Panera Bread. She said their addition of caramel syrup to the top of the whipped cream makes it a sweet combination.

Rebecca Calderone, junior in Education, quenches her pumpkin craving by adding a bit of a kick to her favorite fall pumpkin drink. An avid fan of Wedge Tequila Bar & Grill, located at 415 N. Neil St in Champaign, Calderone found her new favorite fall drink just this past week. She said Wedge is now offering a pumpkin margarita for a lim-ited time during the fall season. This fall special margar-ita is infused with Silver Tequila, according to Calderone, and packs a punch.

So where can one fi nd the freshest source of pumpkins? Curtis Apple Orchard is now open for pumpkin picking. Located on 3902 S. Duncan Road, Champaign, the Curtis Farm allows its patrons to get as close to their produce as possible. For those students who would prefer to have their pumpkin treats already made, they also offer a complete pumpkin bar at their Flying Monkey Café. For more infor-mation visit curtisorchard.com. Happy pumpkin picking!

ith the fall season in full swing, local University shops have taken notice. Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Panera Bread, to name a few, have reorganized their menus to satisfy the classic taste

of fall: pumpkin. Students at the University were asked to weigh in on their favorites and explain why one pump-kin treat may rival the other. For anyone looking to appease their pumpkin needs, these students have nar-rowed it down to the best.

Craving pumpkin treats and drinks? Visit these

hot spots this season.

BY CHRISTEN MCGLYNNSTAFF WRITER

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BRENTON TSE AND EUNIE KIM THE DAILY ILLINI

Bake sales, kickball tournaments and pasta dinners are among the philanthropy events that Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council chapter members are holding in the upcoming months. Turn to Page 5A to read more.

SPORTS1BTUESDAY

Badgers highly ranked on both sides of the ball

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER

Although Wisconsin is ranked No. 25 in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll, the sta-tistics say the Badgers are one of the best teams in the country.

Wisconsin (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) owns the ninth-best offense — churning out 519.5 yards per game — as well as ranking fi fth in the nation in total defense at 267.3 yards allowed per game.

Leading the attack for the Badgers’ offense is its two-headed monster at run-ning back with senior James White and sophomore Melvin Gordon. Although White has started fi ve of the six contests in 2013, Gordon is of the best running backs in the country.

The sophomore was tops in the nation in 2012 with 10.0 yards per carry and hasn’t seen a signifi cant decline this year . In 2013, Gordon is averaging 9.7 yards per attempt and 145 yards per game.

After allowing 335 rushing yards two weeks ago, Illinois (3-2, 0-1 Big Ten) head coach Tim Beckman sees similarities between Nebraska and Wisconsin’s rush-

ing attacks.“Extremely big and physical,” he said,

referring to both team’s offensive lines. “Our players understood that they were manhandled a little bit in Lincoln. Again, it’s moving them around and getting them in the right position and making tackles in the open fi eld.”Illini offense looking to rebound

After moving the ball well against Nebraska, the Illinois offense was unable to put it in the end zone with consistency, scoring a season-low 19 points.

“The biggest thing for us is to keep our composure when things start fl ying around,” offensive coordinator Bill Cubit said. “We’ve just got to get comfortable, and I knew that was going to be an issue. It was an issue in the fi rst half of the Wash-ington game and parts of this past game.”

The Illini accounted for 372 yards and 24 fi rst downs, but a four of 15 mark on third downs ended many drives before Illinois got into scoring range.

Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase had his worst game of the season statistical-ly, throwing for only 135 yards and com-pleting just 50 percent of his throws. The Illinois offense struggled at times with the blitz and Cubit said that one of Scheel-haase’s strengths was a weakness against

Do you remember 1998? Life was good and simple then.

Michael Jordan was still a Chi-cago Bull, Tommy Pickles infl u-enced toddlers everywhere, a kid could walk around town with his Pikachu and the Bowl Champion-ship Series was created.

You’re right — maybe that last one wasn’t so great. The Bowl Championship Series, or BCS, made its debut in 1998. After a somewhat questionable tenure, the BCS will be no more come the end of the 2013-14 college

football season. Unfortunately it’s coming a

season too late. Alabama, Ore-gon, Ohio State, Clemson and Florida State are the top fi ve teams in college football. Flor-ida State and Clemson play this week, so assuming everyone else holds fi rm, we’ll have four unde-feated championship candidates. One could make a strong case that every one of those teams are playing just as well as any other on that list; however, as college football’s current playoff system is structured, the BCS, these top teams will not have the chance to battle one another to vie for the crown if the season were to end today.

The BCS is a system designed to pit 10 of the top-ranked college football teams in fi ve bowl match-

ups. The top two compete for the National Championship.

The selection process is done through polls and computer calcu-lations. Seem legit?

It reeks of subjectivity. The goal of the BCS is to crown

an undisputed national champion and eliminate the controversy of split titleholders.

Naming a game the BCS Nation-al Championship Game pretty much clears up any confusion.

The problem with the BCS boils down to two issues.

What if three of four teams are comparable to one another? How do you decide which two are wor-thy of competing for a national championship? What about the other one or two teams? There is no consolation prize for being denied the opportunity to ingrain

your team into college football history.

As it stands now, there are at least two worthy teams that will be left out of the big game. More than likely, if the season ended today, the championship game would include Alabama and Ore-gon. How do you justify exclud-ing Ohio State, Clemson or Florida State, who are playing at just as high a level as anyone?

You can’t.College football is the only

major team sport in America where just two teams have the chance to compete in the postsea-son for a title.

Some would argue that it makes the regular season that much more important.

Bowl Championship Series thankfully coming to an end

BY ALEX ORTIZSTAFF WRITER

After missing last season with an ACL tear, junior forward Jannelle Flaws has been on a roll this season. Against Wisconsin on Saturday, she scored her 14th and 15th goals to propel the Illi-nois soccer team to the 3-2 win.

Flaws’ 15 goals in 14 games are the most in the Big Ten. She is also the conference leader in points, points per game, shots and shots per game. Flaws is also tied for second in the nation in goals with Rachel Daly of St. John’s.

As Flaws continues her offensively dominant season, she is paying for it physically. Opposing defenders have taken notice and have stepped up the physicality with which they defend Flaws.

Even the fi rst goal the Illini scored Saturday happened because of Flaws’ dangerous run in the box. She collided with a Wisconsin defender and took a hard fall and was on the ground for several seconds. Sophomore midfi elder Taylore Peterson converted the penalty kick because Flaws was too shaken up to take the kick. Flaws was subbed out soon after but came back very quickly and played a total of 79 minutes. This was the fi rst time in fi ve matches in which Flaws did not play every minute.

Following her two-goal performance against Wisconsin, Flaws acknowledged that there was still work to do on her part, despite her impres-

sive season so far.“I think I defi nitely could have done better,”

she said. “(With) certain fi nishing situations and just passing situations.”

Flaws is currently tied for third on Illinois’ all-time single season record list in goals. She needs just three more to match Emily Brown’s 18 goals scored during the 1999 season.

Rayfi eld continues to move and rely on different pieces

Against Wisconsin, seniors Vanessa DiBer-nardo and Kassidy Brown were out of the start-ing lineup. DiBernardo continues to recover from a knee sprain she suffered against Iowa on Sept. 27 and Brown missed the match to attend her sister’s wedding.

Situations like these have forced head coach Janet Rayfi eld to dig deep into the roster. Sopho-more midfi elder Megan Green recorded only her second start against Wisconsin last Saturday. Junior midfi elder Noelle Leary, who only totaled 16 minutes on the fi eld in her fi rst two years, played 58 minutes. Other players like freshman midfi elder Allison Stucky and sophomore mid-fi elder Anastasia Medellin have been subbing in more frequently over the past few matches.

Opponents taking note of Flaws’ performance

1. Ohio State (last week: 1)

3. Nebraska (5)

Editor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff ranks the football teams in the Big Ten 1-12 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.

Wisconsin made a statement Saturday with a convincing 35-6 win over Northwestern, and may have become the fi rst team that really deserves the second spot on The Daily Illini’s Big Ten power rankings. All season long it has been a question which team will fi ll the slot behind Ohio State, but this week it was never in doubt. The Badgers (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) boast the Big Ten’s best offense, in terms of total yards and best rushing attack. Next up for Wisconsin is a meeting with Illinois (3-2, 0-1) under the lights at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Saturday.

6. Michigan State (6)

It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Northwestern. Saturday’s thumping at the hands of Wisconsin was a letdown after coming so close to toppling Ohio State a week earlier. The Wildcats (4-2, 0-2) are stilling looking for their fi rst Big Ten win and the next two weeks might be their best chance to do so and possibly get themselves bowl eligible. Northwestern plays Minnesota (4-2, 0-2) at home next week and then travels to Iowa City, Iowa, for a matchup with the Hawkeyes (4-2, 1-1) the next week.

8. Illinois (8) 10. Iowa (9)

Power rankings

4. Michigan (2)

9. Indiana (7)

7. Penn State (11)

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The Nittany Lions jumped four spots in the power rankings after a thrilling — albeit ugly — four-overtime victory over then-undefeated Michigan. True-freshman quarterback Christian Hackenberg played older than his years, leading Penn State (4-2, 1-1) back from a 10-point fourth quarter defi cit with less than seven minutes remaining against the Wolverines (5-1, 1-1). The Nittany Lions have a week off before heading to Columbus, Ohio, to battle Braxton Miller and the undefeated Ohio State Buckeyes.

2. Wisconsin (4)

5. Northwestern (3)

11. Minnesota (10)

This disastrous 2013 season is only halfway over in West Lafayette, Ind. Purdue (1-5, 0-2) came within a touchdown of Notre Dame on Sept. 14, but hasn’t been close in any of its four other losses. The Boilermakers’ sole victory was a 20-14 squeaker against Indiana State of the FCS on Sept. 7. Purdue has surrendered more than 30 points in all fi ve of its losses and more than 40 points in four of the fi ve defeats.

12. Purdue (12)

MARK HOFFMAN MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEWisconsin wide receiver Jared Abbrederis evades a tackle by Northwestern’s Collin Ellis before fumbling the ball during the fi rst quarter on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis. The Badgers cruised to a 35-6 victory.

MARK CORNELISON MCCLATHCY-TRIBUNEAlabama Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron looks to pass against Kentucky on Oct. 12 in Lexington, Ky. Alabama is in the driver’s seat to play in the BCS Championship game.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jannelle Flaws shoots the ball during Illinois’ win over Wisconsin at Illini Track and Soccer Stadium on Saturday.

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SPENCER BROWN

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BY PAUL SULLIVANCHICAGO TRIBUNE

Derrick Rose paused for a sec-ond when asked last week wheth-er coach Tom Thibodeau was more intense during games or in practice.

After all, he just had witnessed Thibodeau in midseason craze, working the referees, scream-ing at the players, barking at the scoreboard operator to fix the score and pacing back and forth like a caged wildebeest.

Rose repeated the question out loud before answering “practice.”

“In games I think he knows there are TV (cameras) and peo-ple around,” Rose said. “In prac-tice it’s just us. No cameras, no nothing. It gets very, very crazy in practice.”

What goes on in practice stays in practice, especially when the windows of the gym are cov-ered with garbage bags, as they were at Saint Louis University as the Bulls prepared to face the Grizzlies. And it’s safe to say Thibodeau isn’t the only hyper-active coach in the sports world, even if he sticks out like a sore thumb in the post-Ditka era in Chicago.

But with a veteran team like this year’s Bulls, would manage-ment prefer Thibodeau to lighten up just a tad?

“Oh, no,” general manager Gar Forman said. “I’ve said it before, we have as good a coach as there is in the NBA, and he creates a culture on the floor that has been really, really good for our guys.

“We feel, from (Chairman) Jerry Reinsdorf on down, the foundation of trying to build a championship caliber team is defensively, and obviously he has brought a real defensive philoso-phy to our team.”

Forman hired Thibodeau in the summer of 2010 and has watched him become one of the game’s most successful and respected coaches in only three seasons. But with success comes added scrutiny, and now Forman and Thibodeau are fighting the per-ception they’re locked in a pow-er struggle, fueled by a recent Yahoo report that quoted an unnamed source pointing to their “toxic relationship . . . that will ultimately derail” the Bulls.

The Chicago Tribune first reported in July the incident that lifted the curtain on the frayed relationship, Forman’s ouster of lead assistant and Thibodeau friend Ron Adams. The Tribune reported the incident as a power play to isolate Thibodeau further from management.

Forman said there is no so-called “cold war” between him and Thibodeau.

“Tom and I work very well together,” he said. “We talk dai-ly and usually several times a day on a number of things going on with our team. It doesn’t bother me at all.

“Whoever the guy (who report-ed it) is, he’s not around our team. I don’t know how he would write something like that.”

As the Bulls traveled to Rio de Janeiro for a few days of practice and their third exhibition game, performing their duties as NBA missionaries, there have been no outward signs of friction or awkward conversations between Forman and Thibodeau. The only thing that could be described as loud before a game in St. Louis was Forman’s shiny, blue sports coat, which appeared to be cut out of a velvet Elvis painting.

The escape to Brazil has been highly anticipated by Bulls’ play-ers, for obvious reasons. But Thibodeau repeatedly said he wants to establish “winning hab-its” immediately, so this will be an important trip in the process.

“We’re not going there to have a party,” he said.

BY IRA WINDERMANMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

MIAMI — Shane Battier remembers the drill. It was the rare time an NBA player would spend more time watching the clock than the scoreboard.

Hubie Brown was coaching the Mem-phis Grizzlies, a team with a significant depth of talent, and was taking a most unique approach.

“He said, ‘I’m not going to sub you in. At the six-minute mark of every quar-ter’ — the fourth quarter was a little different — ‘I want you to go up to the scorers’ table and check yourself in,’ “ Battier recalled.

So Battier, Bonzi Wells, Stromile Swift, Earl Watson and Jake Tsakali-dis would enter in place of the likes of Pau Gasol, Mike Miller, Jason Williams, James Posey and Lorenzen Wright. Five for five.

“I had not played a platoon style rota-tion probably since sixth-grade intramu-ral basketball for Derby Middle School,” Battier said. “At first we were very skep-

tical, ‘This could never work.’ But we loved it.”

No, it probably won’t happen again in the NBA.

But if any argument could be made for a revival, it might be from this sea-son’s Miami Heat.

Only instead of Hubie Squared with the Grizzlies from 2002-03 to 2004-05, an argument could be made it could be something closer to Heat Cubed.

Consider:Should the Heat return with a start-

ing lineup of Chris Bosh, Udonis Has-lem, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers ...

It would leave enough talent for a sec-ond unit of Chris Andersen, Michael Bea-sley, Battier, Ray Allen and Norris Cole ...

And enough left over for a third unit of Greg Oden, Joel Anthony, Rashard Lewis, James Jones and Roger Mason Jr.

“We have,” Battier said after a week-end practice at AmericanAirlines Arena, “a video game roster.”

Or, as James previously noted, “We

can bring in five guys off the bench and sit the whole starting lineup if we need to, because we have that type of talent. Guys are learning, getting better. That’s definitely a luxury. We can do some real-ly special things.”

The depth very much is by design.“That’s been our focus ever since the

2011 Finals,” coach Erik Spoelstra said of that matchup against the Dallas Mav-ericks, the only playoff round his team has lost since adding James and Bosh alongside Wade.

“We were beat up going into that last round, and we didn’t feel we had the nec-essary depth to be able to survive the unpredictable injuries.

“So we’ve tried to build up our roster every single year, knowing that you have to get the right kind of pro, the right kind of guy to buy into the sacrifice.”

No, there won’t be a three-for-all when it comes to units featured by Spoelstra.

Even Hubie 2.0 would appear unlike-ly, considering not all are treated equal when there is a Big Three present, with

Spoelstra committed to keeping at least one of those three on the court at all times while a game is in the balance.

“We’ll have to see how it plays out,” Spoelstra said Sunday. “But we’ll likely get to a consistent rotation.”

And yet ...“If any team could pull it off, it’s

this team,” Battier said as he remi-nisced about equal opportunity with the Grizzlies.

“The way Hubie did it was pretty mechanical. I don’t think Spo’s that mechanical. Spo likes to massage the game a little bit more.”

Yet just as Brown would have play-ers take issue with being removed while holding the hot hand, Spoelstra has play-ers strong in their belief that more could be offered if only the minutes were there.

Jones, Lewis, Beasley and even Mason all have had their moments through the first three games of an eight-game exhibition schedule that continues Tuesday on the road against the Washington Wizards. Yet none are

guaranteed regular-season minutes.Asked if it’s possible to keep such a vol-

ume of talent content, Battier said, “If you win everyone’s happy. Or it’s tougher to be unhappy if you’re winning.”

Rarely has Spoelstra gone beyond nine deep, and even then somewhat grudging-ly. This only can prove to be the Heat’s deepest team if that depth of talent is actually utilized.

But Battier notes that the majority of players on the roster signed on after the Big Three free-agency coup in July 2010. So they know what they got themselves into. The next Heat player to openly com-plain about minutes would be the first such player from this group.

“I think it’s different here,” Battier said.

“Especially with our roster, the way it is now, I think it’s a different mindset. You have to be ready to be thrown into a situation where it could change on a nightly basis and your role might change and what’s asked of you changes. So you have to have more of an open mind.”

BY RICH CAMPBELLCHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — There was no sack. No quarterback knockdown, even. But the Bears’ embattled defensive line can review the third play of Thursday’s 27-21 victory over the Giants and justify its optimism that better days are ahead.

On one surge, at least, the patchwork unit did its job and helped force an interception that set the game’s tone. The Giants had six blockers against six rushers, but the Bears won the play with design and execution.

So as coaches spend this weekend looking for ways to improve the defensive front, how the pass rush created Zack Bowman’s interception seems as good a starting point as any.

“We’ve called it the ‘next man up’ mentality, and guys went in and played hard until the end,” coach Marc Trestman said of the defensive line. “We’re certainly not where we want to be.”

The winless Giants kept the outcome in doubt until the final possession largely because they averaged 4.7 yards per carry, up from their 3.26-yard average in their first five games.

That, and the clean pocket quarterback Eli Manning enjoyed at times, perpetuated uneasiness about a defensive line that continues to search for answers in the wake of season-ending knee injuries to tackles Henry Melton and Nate Collins, and tackle Stephen Paea’s sprained toe that has sidelined him for the last two games.

Defensive end Julius Peppers is on pace for less than three sacks this season, a dropoff from the 10.2 he averaged during his first three seasons with the Bears. Sacks aren’t an exact measure of pass-rush production, as Bowman’s interception proved, but that’s one area in which Peppers, 33, has excelled his entire career.

The Giants occasionally used a running back to chip him, but Peppers

did lose some one-on-one blocks. Asked specifically about Peppers’ play, Trestman spread the blame.

“It’s a combination of rushes and people inside and moving people around and how stunts are put together,” he said. “It’s (not) about one guy here. It’s about us collectively continuing to find ways to get a pass rush going. We got close, and Julius got close a couple times, too. We just didn’t get close enough.”

Shea McClellin, the club’s 2012 first-round pick, also is under the microscope because of his draft status.

On second-and-15 in the third quarter, he beat right tackle Justin Pugh with an outside spin move, but the running back stayed in and prevented him from hitting Manning before the throw.

The Giants repeatedly used only one blocker against him in the running game. On Brandon Jacobs’ 4-yard touchdown in the first quarter, the 301-pound Pugh blocked the 260-pound McClellin out of the play despite the fact McClellin got his hands into Pugh’s chest while Pugh’s hands were low coming off the ball.

“Shea is a work in progress,” Trestman said, “but certainly there’s evidence that he can be that guy. We’ll continue to try to do some things to move him around as well.”

Rookie David Bass rotated at end, while the interior rotation included Corey Wootton, who has converted from end, recently-signed free agent Landon Cohen and undrafted rookie Zach Minter.

Trestman said they all did some good things.

“I thought Cohen did a good job again mixing it up, replacing Nate,” Trestman said. “Minter got a few shots and held the point pretty well. Bass got some penetration, got near the quarterback a couple of times, so we’re excited about working our guys, the next man up.”

Wootton got more comfortable at tackle as the game progressed. That was most evident in how he penetrated on a third-quarter run and helped stop Jacobs for a loss of 2. He stayed lower than right guard David Diehl and shed Diehl’s block.

“The biggest thing inside is just to be able to get off and try to get them off

you,” Wootton said. “I definitely think the more time I get, the better I could be. My length inside, you don’t see too many people that have this kind of arm length.”

As the Bears’ defensive coaches consider the data and evaluate possible solutions up front, they will see an example of success on the game’s third play.

McClellin and Peppers stunted, apparently confusing the Giants. McClellin began from a standing position over the right guard, while Peppers was in a three-point stance wide of the right tackle. When they crossed, three linemen — the center, right guard and right tackle — each accounted for them, which turned the six-on-six numbers matchup in the

Bears’ favor.That left slot cornerback Isaiah Frey

unblocked on his blitz from Manning’s front side. Manning, after catching the shotgun snap, slid to his left, away from Frey but into the path of Wootton and Bass.

Wootton commanded a double team immediately after the snap, occupying left tackle Will Beatty long enough for Bass to arrive and get his hands into Beatty’s chest. Their surge prevented Manning from stepping into his throw, which sailed errantly into Bowman’s hands.

Peppers smiled and nodded when asked about his role in the play. There was no sack to his name, but collectively the production was evident. The Bears know they need more of that.

BY TYLER DUNNEMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

GREEN BAY, Wisc. — Injuries have plagued the Green Bay Pack-ers since the first day of train-ing camp.

On Monday, they may have suf-fered their most significant blow yet.

Wide receiver Randall Cobb will miss the next six to eight weeks with a fractured fibula, according to a source. The third-year receiver suffered the injury on a low hit by Baltimore’s Matt Elam in the Packers’ 19-17 win Sunday. The source indicated that Cobb nearly broke the fibula entirely.

Green Bay is hopeful the injury is not season-ending.

Meanwhile, James Jones suf-fered ligament damage to his knee that is not serious. The source indicated Jones has a chance to play Sunday against the Cleveland Browns.

Coach Mike McCarthy wouldn’t discuss injuries in detail Mon-day, only saying that Cobb would miss “multiple weeks.” Either way, replacing Cobb instantly becomes the No. 1 challenge fac-ing the Packers.

“I appreciate everyone for all the love & support,” Cobb tweeted Monday night. “Thank The Lord

we bit a bullet w/ what it could’ve been.”

The collision occurred with 30 seconds remaining in the first half. From the right slot, Cobb ran a quick out and up. When he reached for the pass from Aaron Rodgers, Cobb was chopped low by Elam. The rookie safety struck Cobb’s knee, and the receiver writhed in pain. He fractured the fibula, the smaller bone that runs lateral to the tibia.

Elsewhere this season, Hous-ton Texans tight end Owen Dan-iels also suffered a fibula injury and is expected to miss four to six weeks.

If Cobb is forced to miss the full eight weeks, he’d return for Green Bay’s game at Dallas on Dec. 15.

This is a cruel dose of deja vu for the Packers. A year ago, top wideout Greg Jennings missed eight games with a core muscle injury. Jordy Nelson missed four

games, too. Yet with Jennings out, Green Bay found a way. The three-receiver sets of Nelson, Cobb and Jones became the bed-rock of the offense and Green Bay won 10 of 11 games to take a sec-ond straight division title.

Now, the Packers must evolve again on offense. With Cobb out, there’s a good chance tight end Jermichael Finley will see more time in the slot and/or at wide receiver anywhere on the field.

Second-year wideout Jarrett Boykin will see an expanded role. And if there is one silver lining for Green Bay through this avalanche of injuries it’s the running game. Expect more games of 20 to 25 carries for Eddie Lacy.

With Cobb out and Jones hob-bled, Green Bay is actively shop-ping for another wide receiver.

There’s a chance the team will promote Myles White to the 53-man roster Tuesday.

After 27-21 victory, Bears look ahead

Receiver Cobb to miss next 6-8 weeks

Forman likes how Bulls are shaping upGM’s relationship with coach is positive

Miami Heat are full of talent, yet many players not guaranteed regular season minutes

JOHN J. KIM CHICAGO TRIBUNEChicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings returns an interception for a touchdown in the first quarter against the New York Giants at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday, The Bears won 27-21.

RICK WOOD MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEGreen Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb is carted off the field after a serious injury at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Sunday. The Packers defeated the Ravens, 19-17.

Packers victory over Ravens bittersweet a!er losing two key receivers to injury

Defensive line still a work in progress but improves daily

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The Illini women’s tennis team had three members reach the round of 16 in singles at the ITA Midwest Regionals at Michi-gan this past weekend. Two Illini doubles tandems also reached the round of 16, narrowly missing the quarterfi nals.

Head coach Michelle Dasso called the performance a “good showing” before adding that the team wasn’t satisfi ed and strives for more success going forward.

“It’s certainly nice having play-ers in the last couple of rounds,” Dasso said. “But we want to have more of them, and there was a couple of matches we could have won.”

No. 102 Melissa Kopinski advanced the furthest of the six Illini participating in the tourna-ment, reaching the quarterfi nals in singles before falling to No. 59 Sarah Lee of Michigan . After Kopinski took the fi rst set 6-2, Lee turned the tables by taking the second set by the same score. Lee won the deciding third set 6-4.

The reigning All-American Kopinski was encouraged by her performance but shared her coach’s sentiment that opportuni-ties may have slipped away.

“It could have gone better, of course,” Kopinski said. ”It looks like all the stuff I’ve been work-ing on in the summer has fi nally come into play. Just working on getting to the net, hitting a solid

ball and trying to create opportu-nities; that went really well at this tournament.”

Dasso agreed and was impressed by Kopinski’s singles performance.

“Melissa had a good run,” Dasso said. “She’s looking stronger than ever. She worked very hard this summer, and I think it showed.”

Freshman Alexis Casati and senior Allison Falkin joined Kopinski in the round of 16 before losing. Casati’s 6-1, 6-3 loss to Veronica Corning of Northwest-ern was her fi rst singles loss of the season, dropping her record to 6-1. Casati was one of three freshmen to compete at region-als alongside Louise Kwong and Jerricka Boone . It was the fi rst

collegiate tournament for Kwong and Boone.

“I was impressed with our three freshmen,” Dasso said. “They have a lot of room for growth.”

In doubles, the Illini had two of their three doubles teams reach the round of 16. Kopinski and Falkin, the No. 3 ranked doubles team in the tournament, defeat-ed Michigan’s Kristen Dodge and Annie Wierda 8-4 following an opening round bye.

The pair then moved into the quarterfi nals by topping Notre Dame’s Britney Sanders and Mol-ly O’Koniewski , again by an 8-4 margin.

Their run came to an end in the quarterfi nals at the hands of Northwestern’s Veronica Corning

and Alicia Barnett .Kwong played alongside senior

Misia Kedzierski as the tandem made an appearance in the dou-bles round of 16, winning con-vincingly in two matches before being knocked off by Belinda Niu and Brooke Rischbieth of Northwestern.

“Misia and Louise had a great showing,” Dasso said. “(Misia) is night and day with her comfort level playing in doubles. When she was a freshman, she hated it. She’s turned into one of the most developed players we have on our squad.”

While Dasso was pleased with the overall experience her team gained in Michigan, she noted there is still room for

improvement. The Illini have more than a week

to prepare for their next tourna-ment, the fi rst and only home tour-nament of the fall season, which begins Nov. 1 at the Atkins Tennis Center. Looking ahead, Dasso took away positives from the weekend that showed her team can compete with the top teams in the region, such as Northwestern, Michigan and Notre Dame.

“We’re right there,” Dasso said. “We’ve got six players that showed me that there’s little things that we can work on, that we are going to work on, and we’re knocking at the door.”

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That’s true, but that argument has holes.

The most obvious hole is the struc-ture of the postseason in other levels of football. High school and the NFL have made a playoff system work since the dawn of time. Why should college be any different?

Another hole, a bit subtler, is the ego of big-time college programs. Polls make a world of difference when deciding who will play in which BCS game. The easi-est way to move up the poll as a lesser ranked or unranked team is to defeat a team ranked higher than your own.

If your team is not fortunate enough to play in one of the power six conferences where these higher ranked foes reside, you must schedule a nonconference game with these opponents.

Programs like Alabama and Oregon can’t schedule everyone in America and won’t schedule just anyone. Also, these schools will not schedule a true road game against a nonconference opponent on the road because it provides an advan-tage to a lesser school and these big time programs have everything to lose and nothing to gain.

As a result some teams play an entire season knowing they will never have a chance to win a championship no matter how well they play.

So why has the BCS sustained such a long run?

Money.As currently constructed, sponsors

tend to make an untold number of mil-lions by attaching their logo to every piece of paraphernalia associated with the bowl game they are sponsoring. The student-athletes, of course, will never see a dime of these millions. But that’s anoth-er story for another day.

A more traditional playoff format elim-

inates the predictability of the matchups through the course of the playoffs. From a marketing standpoint, it is a lot easi-er to promote a predetermined match-up such as an Alabama versus Oregon. Those are two big programs with hefty fan bases. The BCS eliminates the dark horse or Cinderella of the postseason like a Butler or George Mason. You eliminate that factor, then you don’t have a strate-gic marketing nightmare on your hands.

These bowl games are also set in pre-determined venues. Usually they are somewhere where the weather is nice and the arena is large, another plus for those sponsoring. Again, eliminating the Cinderella with the smaller fan base and lack of popularity is a great thing for the sponsors.

But what is a great thing for football?Ultimately money alone could not over-

shadow logic and fairness. Those attri-butes come in the form of the college football playoff.

The college football playoff will take two bowl games, from a group of six, and have them serve as semifi nals to the championship game. It will be on a three-year cycle. The fi rst year will be the Rose and Sugar bowls as the semifi nals. The next year will be Orange and Cotton, then Fiesta and Chick-fi l-A.

Not quite the spectacle of the col-lege basketball 68-team March Madness festival, but it’s a baby step in the right direction.

Sponsors keep making money and more teams get an opportunity at greatness.

It’s a shame that, in the event those top teams stay undefeated, we must deal with one more year of scrutiny and exclusion.

Beginning with the 2014-15 season, we will be heading back to the good and sim-ple life. Just like 1998.

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“Certainly that’s a place where, without Vanessa’s presence, there’s a lot of work that has to be done in that midfi eld to make up for some-one like Vanessa in terms of the workload,” Rayfi eld said.

Among the slightly more veteran players, sophomore defender Amy Feher took more of a midfi elder role Saturday. She ran all over the fi eld to help pick up the slack in the midfi eld while also blocking shots and marking opponents on defense. Rayfi eld also said Peterson has had to bear more of the work recuper-ating the ball and starting posses-sions in the midfi eld as well.

To sustain offensive production, wing defenders are encouraged to help out when needed. Those long runs free up midfi elders to occu-py opposing defenders and create scoring opportunities. Rayfi eld has given players, like Feher, license to attack when she sees fi t.

“She defi nitely let’s me do what I want to do a little bit,” Feher said. “As in, like if I feel like I want to

attack, I kind of just go.”Even Brown’s absence in the

back forced senior defender Chris-tina Farrell to move to the outside and sophomore Aliina Weykamp, who is usually a midfi elder, to defender.

DiBernardo’s status for Thurs-day’s match at Northwestern remains uncertain and is still day-to-day. Although Northwestern is at the bottom of the Big Ten stand-ings, the Illini are not taking any Big Ten opponent lightly because they want to play in the Big Ten tournament, which they are host-ing. Even without a complete ros-ter, Rayfi eld knows a full-team per-formance is needed from here on out like she saw against Wisconsin.

“There’s a lot of people now who performed in a way even bet-ter than what they had been and played with a little bit more com-posure,” Rayfi eld said. “I think right now everybody’s going to have to play well for us to be suc-cessful in games like this.”

Alex can be reached at ajortiz2@dailyillini.com and @AlexOrtiz2334.

the Cornhuskers.“Sometimes your strengths are

really a weakness,” Cubit said. “He can run, but sometimes that becomes a weakness. Sometimes you get back there and get a little antsy and you abandon things a lit-tle too quick. If you stay in there another .2 or .3 (seconds), somebody is going to come open.”

DL Williams, Powell back for Illini

If the Illinois defense is going to respond against the power rushing attack of Wisconsin, adding depth along the defensive line will be key.

Some good news for the Illini is the return of defensive linemen Teko Powell and Vontrell Williams for this week after being cleared to play from injuries. Powell has played in three games this season and record-ed three tackles, while Williams has yet to see action after redshirting the 2012 season.

“That’s big for us on the defensive front,” Beckman said. “That’s two guys we haven’t had and it’s going to make our football team better.”

Beckman said that while Williams is healthy, he might not play because he’s missed “a couple months” and needs to get acclimated to the scheme and playing football again.

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Illini hockey making no excusesBY JOEY FIGUEROACONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Illinois hockey team returned home from its conference matchup against No. 2 Arizona State with two more losses, extend-ing its losing streak to four. But despite their opponent’s top-tier talent, the Illini are mak-ing no excuses.

“There’s not a lot of time to feel sorry for ourselves,” head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “We’ve got another really good team coming in, so we’re right back at it again this week. I think our competitive level needs to be higher. We’re going to re-emphasize a lot of things that we’ve kind of been stressing since the beginning of the year and hasn’t really got-ten all the way through yet.”

A large focus in practice this week will be avoiding penalties and defending the power play, as the Illini players were in the penalty box for a total of 56 minutes over the weekend.

When asked about the team’s discipline, senior forward John Scully said it isn’t some-thing that can necessarily be worked on in practice.

“That’s something where you’ve kind of just got to bear down and focus,” Scully said. “Everyone on the team’s guilty of it, myself included. We put Arizona State on the pow-er play a couple times and they made us pay for it almost every time. But if we don’t give them those chances and we capitalize on ours, it might be a completely different weekend and it might be a different outlook going into next weekend.”

Along with the problem of discipline, Fab-brini put an emphasis on Illinois’ lack of goal scoring last weekend.

“We’re going to be trying some different line combinations this week in practice,” Fab-brini said. “We’ve got to fi gure something out. We’re scoring not many goals at all the last couple games. That wasn’t something I fore-saw being an issue for us this year. That’s something we’re going to have to work on this week and the next couple of weeks to get better at. It’s tough to win hockey games if you’re not scoring at least 3 goals.”

Fabbrini said that focusing on different line combinations in practice this week won’t auto-matically fi x all of the team’s issues, though.

“You can try different personnel and hope they develop some chemistry from that quick-ly, but aside from that, ou r top guys need to be ou r top guys,” Fabbrini said. “We have a lot of talent and a lot of guys who can score goals and we just need them to start doing it.”

When asked about the team’s recent rough patch, senior captain Austin Bostock had one simple message :

“We just keep moving along .” Bostock said he is not happy with the recent

losses and even though he’s one of the team’s leaders, he doesn’t think there is much he can say in the locker room to fi x their troubles.

“I think things just need to be changed on the ice,” Bostock said. “I think enough has been said. I’m personally done with all the talk and the chit chat, I think it just needs to be done. Action needs to be taken on the ice. As much talk as I can do in the locker room or others can do, I think it’s important for guys to just do good out on the ice. Actions speak

louder than words at this point.”Illinois has now dropped to No. 7 in ACHA

Division-I. The Illini are deep into their toughest stretch of the season, facing top-15 teams for the next three weekends. Fabbrini believes they need to give maximum effort to establish themselves as a top- fi ve team mov-ing forward.

“At the start of the year — I don’t think we have this anymore — we had this sense of accomplishment because we’re a top-fi ve team, like we’ve done something,” Fabbrini said. “We haven’t done anything. I think these guys realize it now and understand what it takes to be a top-fi ve team. You can’t just show up and expect to win. It’s being mentally pre-pared and being disciplined in all phases of the game, it’s maximum effort all the time, and that’s something we’re working on still.”

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BRIAN YU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ John Scully faces off with his opponent during a game against Michigan State at the Ice Arena on Sept. 28. The Illini won 7-4. They lost two games to Arizona Sate this weekend.

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volleyball with head coach, setterEditor’s note: The following is a partial transcript from an Illini Drive interview with Illinois volleyball head coach Kevin Hambly and sophomore setter Alexis Viliunas .ILLINI DRIVE: You guys went to Indiana, got to play Purdue and Indiana, lost that fi rst game against Purdue, came back and got a win on Saturday. Breakdown the weekend, what you guys thought and your assessment of how you played?ALEXIS VILIUNAS: We’ve been working on a lot of things in practice about execution and just fi ghting. I think we’ve gotten a lot better at it from the middle of the season, and we’ve kind of lulled, but we’re up on the uphill climb. I think we’re headed in the right direction.KEVIN HAMBLY: I would agree with what she said. I think we had to work through some things, preconference was tough, and I think we lost some confi dence. We need to fi gure out how to fi ght again. I thought we started out fi ghting, and we learned how to fi ght. And I thought we competed, which the difference is that you execute to compete, not just fi ght. I thought we were really competitive this weekend. We just didn’t execute at a high enough level in a couple of those sets. We had chances, and we didn’t make the plays to make it happen, but we played at a high level. And then against Indiana, we executed. In Indiana, we executed at a real high level. It was probably the cleanest match we’ve played all year.

I think there is still some growing up for us to do, but I sure liked the way it ended, and I liked the way we played against Purdue as well. I just would have liked to have gotten that win.ID: How similar do you feel to last season?KH: It’s not even close. Like last year we felt, at times, like we were scrapping to even fi ght. And we’re close to being really good. We’re 3-3 in conference, we’re in sixth place. We’ve played one of the tougher schedules, but there’s a lot more wins out there for us this year than there were last year. Last year, we were scrapping to win. It doesn’t even feel close to the same as last year.AV: I agree, a lot different. I think we’ve matured over the spring and even from last season, and in the summer we worked hard. Over the summer, we were in the gym pretty much four days a week trying to get better for this season, and it’s just a big difference. KH: I don’t think people realize how much more diffi cult our schedule is this year than last year, and last year was tough, but we’ve played the teams. You look at top 10, we’ve played seven of those teams, and that’s why we have the losses we have. In conference, we’re 3-3, and the only one to be kind of disappointed about is Purdue because I felt like we could get that one. But Michigan State may be the best team in the country and Nebraska a top-10 team. I’m not saying we couldn’t beat those teams,

but still they’re great teams, and last year we were losing to teams that weren’t even close to that. We’ve had great losses. It’s just, we’ve got to get eligible. If get eligible, we could have a serious run at the tournament.

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“I think we’ve matured over the spring and even from last season, and in the summer we worked hard. Over the summer, we were in the gym pretty much four days a week trying to get better for this sea-son, and it’s just a big difference. ”ALEXIS VILIUNASILLINI VOLLEYBALL SETTER