BY STEFFIE DRUCKERSTAFF WRITER

The University currently faces about $600 million in deferred maintenance costs, seeing the consequences of “dramatic expansion” without “corresponding increase in funds for maintenance,” according to a Senate Executive Committee report.

“Having some deferred maintenance isn’t unhealthy,” said Randy McCarthy, a chair of the Urbana-Champaign Task Force on Faculty Issues and Concerns.

The real p r o b l e m , M c C a r t h y said, is a lack of steady funding for maintenance costs.

“Everyone likes to build a castle, but nobody likes to wash the windows,” he said. “It’s easy to get someone to give you the money to build a big glorious building in their name, but it’s hard to get someone to give you the money to take care of it.”

The exact amount of current deferred maintenance, the postponement of buildings and equipment upkeep due to lack of funds, is unknown. In 2001, the Board of Trustees commissioned an assessment of the campus’ deferred maintenance. The plan was to have the agency who performed the assessment come back every two years and assess 20 percent of the campus at a time so that, within 10 years, the entire campus will have been assessed.

Assessments were performed in 2002, 2004 and 2006, but stopped since the money was better spent actually doing maintenance, said Ben McCall, chair of the Senate Committee on Campus Operations.

The University is not alone in this issue. Doris Reeser, coordinator of capital maintenance planning said the University is on par with other institutions of its size and mission, according to reports the University receives from an agency called Sightlines.

The University evaluates deferred maintenance with the facility condition index, which is the ratio of deferred maintenance to the current replacement value

of campus b u i l d i n g s used as a b e nch m a rk to compare the relative condition of a group of facilities.

The campus’ index has shifted quite a bit over the years. In 2002, the index stood at

about 15 percent and grew to 23.5 percent by 2007. The University stepped up its efforts in 2007 to address the deferred maintenance backlog, and now the index has returned to 16 percent. An index of 10 percent is considered acceptable by industry standards, according to the report from the Senate Executive Committee Task Force on Faculty Issues and Concerns.

“In prior years, the state would fund large renovation projects for universities and other state agencies,” Reeser said. “We’re not getting that kind of funding every year or even every other year.”

BY JULIANNE MICOLETASTAFF WRITER

Next spring, the College of Business is offering a new 3-D printing class to 21 students from the colleges of Engineering, FAA and Business.

“Because 3-D printing is going to be bigger than the Internet,” said Aric Rindfl eisch, executive director of the Illinois MakerLab and Business professor. “It’s the next big thing that’s going to change the world as we know it.”

3 -D pr i nters a re manufacturing tools that create physical objects from digital designs by layering materials to construct a three-dimensional product. Due to their additive approach, they can produce complex designs that are diffi cult to manufacture using conventional techniques.

They can be used to make a variety of objects ranging from toys to household devices. Commercial 3-D printers are commonly used for design and prototyping in a variety of industries, including aerospace, architecture and automobiles, and are employed in the dental and medical fields as well, Rindfl eisch said.

Currently, the use of 3-D printing is on the rise. It has been

identifi ed by the U.S. government as a key component for regaining U.S. competitiveness in the manufacturing sector. It is reshaping business and now, business education, he said.

“There is no other class like this,” Rindfleisch said. “The students are going to be broken up into three teams of Engineering, Art and Design and Business students. They are going to conceptualize

a design and manufacture a product during the course, and their grade will be dependent on performance outcome.”

Rindfleisch is looking for fi ve more engineering students to take the course that will be held three hours a week at the MakerLab.

“This class is going to be giving students the ability to work closely with this transformative technology,”

Rindfl eisch said. “A lot of it is going to be collaborative and there’s going to be a lot of peer learning involved. It’s going to give students an opportunity

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Settlement reached over Chief Illiniwek

UI maintenance costs deferred

Increased rental registration fees resolve home inspection ineffi ciency

MakerLab provides open printing for all

UI sees consequences of expansion without increase in funds

New 3-D printing class offered

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTThe University Board of

Trustees and the Honor the Chief Society, Inc. have come to a settlement agreement, end-ing a fi ve-year dispute over the Chief Illiniwek trademark.

In 2009, the Honor the Chief Society fi led an application to register the trademark Chief Illiniwek in connection with dance and educational servic-es, as well as community festi-vals, including sporting events. The University fi led in opposi-tion to this application.

After the new agreement is fi nalized, Honor the Chief must abandon its fi rst application and agree not to fi ll out any other trademark applications consist-ing of the term Chief Illiniwek.

According to the new agree-ment, the University cannot object to the term “Chief” in “Honor the Chief Society.” The University also cannot object, but does not approve, sponsor or endorse, the Society’s events that honor the history of Chief Illiniwek or the Society advo-cating the reinstatement of Chief Illiniwek as the offi cial symbol of the University.

The events can include a performance that is a choreo-graphed tribute to the dance

that was performed by previ-ous chiefs, as long as the events comply with the terms of the agreement and University policies.

The Society will not be allowed to use the term “Chief Illiniwek” or the Chief logo. The Society also cannot refer to people as Chief Illiniwek or say they are the next Chief Illiniwek.

Finally, the Society must include this disclaimer on its website: “The Honor the Chief Society is not sponsored, licensed, approved or endorsed by the University of Illinois.”

Roger Huddleston, member of the Honor the Chief Society, said he is very satisfi ed with the agreement.

“Basically, we have to make it known that all of our actions are not supported by the University of Illinois,” Huddleston said. “It gives us a right to promote the Chief’s traditions.”

The agreement was signed by Huddleston on Oct. 14 and by University Board of Trust-ees Comptroller Walter Knorr on Oct. 23.

“We are happy that our trade-mark and our logo are being protected,” Robin Kaler, cam-pus spokeswoman said.

The Board of Trustees announced in February 2007 that Chief Illiniwek would no longer be a symbol of the Uni-versity or perform at Universi-ty events, according to the Hon-or the Chief Society’s website.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIThe Business Instructional Facility’s MakerLab has 3-D printers that create plastic objects.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIThe 3-D printers create physical objects from designs on computers and use a layering technique.

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BY ELI MURRAYSTAFF WRITER

Urbana City Council voted 6-1 to increase the rental reg-istration fees to bring in an esti-mated additional $48,500 annu-ally for the city. The vote took place on Oct. 21 and will allow the city to hire a third housing inspector.

The rates for single-fami-ly homes, duplexes and multi-family homes are $55, $70 and $65 per building, respective-ly. Additionally, multi-fami-ly homes must pay an extra $16 per unit. Previously, sin-gle-family homes, duplexes and multi-family homes were charged $50, $60 and $45 per building, respectively. The pre-vious additional fee for multi-family homes was $12 per unit.

Libby Tyler, the Community Development Services direc-tor for the city, said there were nearly 800 houses and duplex-es that haven’t been inspected since the inspection program was put into effect six years ago.

“Something’s going to have to change,” said Bill Brown, Ward 4, noting that the inspections weren’t being completed in “any reasonable cycle.”

A memo from staff at the Department of Community Development Services recom-mends the ordinance in order to “add capacity to the housing program so that the inspectors can better meet the demands of the program and provide for a more acceptable cycle of sys-tematic inspection.”

Currently, Urbana employs two full-time housing inspec-tors who systematically review the 8,900 rental properties in Urbana, respond to tenant com-plaints and inspect motel and hotel properties.

Eric Jakobsson, Ward 2, said he had mixed feelings about the fee schedule.

“I really hate the idea of ramping up the fees on good landlords for problems that are necessitated by the bad land-lords,” he said.

Mike Madigan, Ward 6, was

the only council member to vote against the ordinance.

“What we’re talking about here is increasing fees on the good landlords, not just on the distressed properties,” he said. “We’re talking about rais-ing everyone’s rent. Don’t ... be under the illusion that (these fees) will not be passed on (to residents), because (they) will.”

Under Jakobbson’s proposal, a motion was passed 4-3 to have city staff conduct a study as to the feasibility of lowering rent-al registration fees for land-lords who receive high marks on their inspections, therefore not costing the city as much for continued inspections.

Esther Patt, director of the Champaign-Urbana Tenant Union, said she didn’t think a graduated fee would effectively address the issue.

“If you looked at (the grad-ing list) ... you would see that more than four out of fi ve build-ings are graded B,” she said. “If

Base feesSingle family/mobile home (per building) — $55Duplexes (per building) — $70Multi-family (3+ units)(per building) — $65Additional multi-family fee (per unit) — $16

Additional feesSingle family/mobile homes late registration — $25 (per month)Multi-family late registration — $100 plus $10 per unit (per month)Incomplete registration — $50Re-inspection (no-show/missed deadline) — $100 per visitFailure to register — $300

“Everyone likes to build a castle, but

nobody likes to wash the windows.”

RANDY MCCARTHYCHAIR OF TASK FORCE ON

FACULTY ISSUES AND CONCERNS

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WEATHERPOLICE

Champaign Aggravated discharge of

fi rearm was reported in the 2400 block of North Neil Street around 5:30 a.m. Sunday.

Burglary was reported at Kap-pa Alpha Theta, 611 E. Daniel St., at around 11:30 a.m. Monday.

According to the report, the vic-tim said his vehicle was damaged while it was parked at the house.

Theft of a motor vehicle was reported on the 300 block of East Daniel Street around 12 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, the vic-tim said her car was stolen some-time after 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

UniversityTheft was reported at Iken-

berry Dining Commons, 1202 S. First St., around 9 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, a color

guard rifl e prop, which was left unattended, was stolen. The rifl e has an estimated value of $50.

Theft was reported at Sher-man Hall, 909 S. Fifth St., at 8 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, a purse and scarf were stolen from the victim’s room. The items have an estimated value of $200.

Theft was reported at the Transportation Building, 104 S. Mathews Ave., at 9 p.m. Friday.

According to the report, a bicy-cle, which was locked to a rack outside the building, was stolen. The bicycle has an estimated val-ue of $300.

Urbana Domestic battery was report-

ed in the 400 block of West Uni-versity Avenue around 10 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, the

man and woman are dating and sometimes live together. The argument started as a verbal argument which both say turned physical, although no injuries were evident and confl icting sto-ries were given.

A 22-year-old male was arrested in the charges of bur-glary from a motor vehicle on the 600 block of North Goodwin Ave-nue around 10 a.m. Monday.

According to the report, the suspect allegedly entered a vehicle and searched for items to take.

Identity theft was reported in the 1900 block of North Lincoln Avenue at around 5 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, an unknown offender opened a cred-it account in the victim’s name.

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to be at the forefront of this economic revolution.”

The MakerLab that recently moved to the Business Instructional Facility early this month is the world’s fi rst business school-based 3-D Printing Lab, according to Director Vishal Sachdev.

The lab is equipped with 12 MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3-D Printers, 3-D design software and two 3-D scanning devices.

“The idea of the MakerLab is to make 3-D printers accessible to students and faculty,” Sachdev said. “There are other 3-D printers around campus, but the ones that we have here are less expensive and much more low-tech and with some orientation, you can start printing stuff yourself.”

The process is relatively simple; the only complications can arise from using the modeling software. However, there are “Lab Gurus,” students in Engineering, marketing and design who are experts in 3-D printing, available in the lab to help students out.

“I’m in here to help people out with the printers, scanners or the software TinkerCad,” said junior in LAS Ryan Hurley. “We also offer open tutorials, open house or open printing sessions. We offer a lot of different orientation; however, the idea of the lab is for it to be self-suffi cient.”

Prints are priced by weight at fi ve cents per gram for students, 10 cents for faculty departments and 15 cents for all other users.

“Everybody comes in here,” Hurley said. “We get architecture students that come in to make models, art and design students that come in here to be creative, faculty members and even people with their 9-year-old son.”

Though the 3-D printers in the MakerLab only create objects using a type of thermoplastic, commercial 3-D printers can make objects from a wider variety of materials, including wood, glass and metal.

“This course is going to be giving students a chance for some hands-on experimental learning with digital manufacturing,” Rindfl eisch said. “A lot of big companies like Boeing are trying to experiment with this technology, and there’s a strong corporate interest in this. This will give students the chance to be a part of this new movement — to be a part of the future.”

Julianne can be reached at micolet2@dailyillini.com.

3-D PRINTINGFROM 1A

BY EDWARD GATHERCOALSTAFF WRITER

Initially launched in August, the University’s LinkedIn page already boasts more than 200,000 followers as of press time, dozens of statistics regarding alumni careers and a multitude of posts from gradu-ates and employers.

The University was one of 200 schools selected by LinkedIn to be part of a beta test group and help start-up its Universi-ty pages, which are aimed at providing information on these various colleges, said Allison Vance, editorial associate for Public Affairs.

“This seemed like a really great opportunity to bring all the people who are interested in Illinois on LinkedIn into one central page,” Vance said.

She said that one of the goals for the University’s LinkedIn page is to connect alumni with what is currently happening on campus.

“Being part of the Public Affairs office at Illinois, we always want to be telling the Illinois story,” Vance said. “There are so many amazing

things going on at the Univer-sity. We have amazing students, we’re super innovative, have amazing research, fantastic jobs and internships.”

The University has one of the largest bases of living alumni in the country with more than 425,000, Vance said. Part of the goal of the LinkedIn page is to connect these alumni and recent graduates with jobs.

The LinkedIn page has a vari-ety of statistics of what alumni study, what field they currently work in and what company they work for. There are also posts beneath the statistics that allow businesses to share job open-ings and hire alumni.

Morgan Scheelhaase, edito-rial associate at Public Affairs, said they are still working towards using the page as an outlet for recruiting alumni.

“We are still in the beginning steps of launching the Universi-ty page,” she said. “We’re defi-nitely learning more about it so that we can grow and do that really well.”

Vance also said Linke-dIn recently lowered the age at which people can create a

LinkedIn account to 14. This establishes a new goal for the University’s page to attract a wider base of high school stu-dents as they begin thinking about which college to attend. Meetings with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions have begun to determine how to effectively reach this young-er audience.

Vance said the project began on Aug. 19 and, within the beta test group, there is a private forum that allows the Univer-sity to communicate with Linke-dIn and collaborate with other colleges and universities to see what has worked well for them regarding their pages.

“LinkedIn has been very helpful,” Vance said.

Recently, to accommodate the University’s LinkedIn page, Chancellor Phyllis Wise was approached to become a Linke-dIn Influencer and further pro-mote the University.

“Really, the only reason I’m even being asked to step into this role is because of the hard work of the entire Illinois fam-ily,” wrote Chancellor Phyllis Wise in one of her blogs titled

“Becoming a LinkedIn Influ-encer.” “Through your tire-less work, enthusiasm, success and generosity, Illinois has gained a reputation as a pre-eminent public research uni-versity. We are privileged to hold an impressive reputation.

When LinkedIn went looking to recruit Influencers in educa-tion, they weren’t thinking of Phyllis Wise, they were think-ing of Illinois.”

Edward can be reached at gatherc2@dailyillini.com.

UI LinkedIn page connects alumni, attracts new students

you’re trying to (charge fees) based on grading, it’s not going to work because most of the properties get the same grade.”

Instead, Patt recommend-ed that the council use fi nes to address problem landlords rather than a graduated fee structure.

“The way to go is to go after the folks who are causing the problem,” Madigan said. “This is not, in most cases, neglect on the landlord’s part. It’s repeat-ed abuse by bad tenants. We are failing to address that (with fee increases).”

Eli can be reached at ejmurra2@dailyillini.com.

REGISTRATIONFROM 1A

Currently, deferred mainte-nance is addressed using a multi-tude of funds. The primary fund for deferred maintenance is the Academic Facilities Maintenance Fund Assessment, a student fee that draws about $20 million per year, according to the report. How-ever, bringing the index down from 16 to 10 percent is estimat-ed to cost $213 million.

The University has been making great strides in addressing deferred maintenance. So far, since the Deferred Maintenance Program’s founding in 2007, about $275 million worth of projects have been funded, said Steve Breitwieser, media communication specialist for facilities and services. There are also a number of initiatives working toward addressing deferred maintenance, including Chancellor Phyllis Wise and Provost Ilesanmi Adesida’s recently announced a $70 million initiative to upgrade classrooms across campus.

However, there are still many other features of campus, such as laboratories, faculty offi ces, lounges and meeting rooms, that need to be modernized. McCall said he thinks that the Task Force on Faculty Issues and Concerns needs to work with the administration to come up with a serious plan to address deferred maintenance in the long term.

“We need to identify continuing streams of funds to reduce the deferred maintenance backlog and prevent it from growing again,” he said. “It’s the kind of subtle issue that lurks in the shadows that nobody seems to pay attention to but it’s such a critical thing.”

Steffi e can be reached at sdrucke2@dailyillini.com.

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Editor’s note: The name of an illegal immigrant was changed in this story to protect his identity.

As cities in Illinois still recov-er from the loss of tax revenue caused by the recession, a group of Illinois mayors coordinated with each other to sign a let-ter to members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation ask-ing them to support immigra-tion reform. It was sent to the delegation on Oct. 23.The mayors, including Ur-bana Mayor Laurel Prussing and Champaign Mayor Don Gerard, said that granting citi-zenship for 11 million immi-grants would add $1.5 trillion to our economy over the next ten years.

“We cannot hope to achieve the growth necessary to repair the damage done by the reces-sion without bringing eleven million people out of the shad-ows and fully integrated into our

economy,” the letter said.According to the Illinois Coali-

tion for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, one of every eight Amer-icans is an immigrant, and near-ly one of every seven Illinois residents is an immigrant .

“Given the recent polit-ical postur-ing and hack-ery regarding shutting down the govern-ment, I want-ed to add my name to those who believe it is time to stop being politi-cians and start being pub-lic servants,” Gerard said.

Prussing said she signed the letter because she viewed it as a human rights issue.

Ricardo Diaz, committee

member of the Champaign-Urbana Immigration Forum, a local advocacy group, said the immigration reform will allow immigrants to be acknowledged

correctly. “The reform

will make it so that a lot more people are on the books ... for safety rea-sons it’s good for them to be identifi ed,” Diaz sa id . “Immigrants are already making a con-tribution to the county. They’re living here and working here.”

Diaz has made it his pri-

ority to continue to fi ght for their rights.

“Immigrants should have a chance to be apart of the society and recognized as regular peo-

ple and have their contribution be acknowledged,” Diaz said. “They’re making contributions and are not being acknowledged; they’re being acknowledged as scapegoats.”

Jose, an illegal immigrant, said he came to America to make a living that he couldn’t have achieved in his home country.

“It’s a whole different way of life because in Mexico you can work a week and you can win $30,” he said. “$1 is like 11 pesos if you work here one week (for) forty hours you get $300. It’s almost 3,000 pesos, 3,000 pesos!”

Prussing said business own-ers are having problems fi nding employees, and that immigra-tion reform could help in this regard.

“We do have a shortage of skilled workers for well-paid manufacturing jobs such as at Kraft in Champaign.” Prussing said. “However, I don’t think this is a method to help the local economy as much as a basic

issue of treating people fairly.”Graduate student Jie Ding,

who is originally from China, agreed.

“We are equal right?” Ding said. “No matter what kind of background you are from, what kind of race you are, people should be equal and they should be acknowledged by their hard work instead of their national-ity and race.”

Gerard said immigration reform is about creating oppor-tunities and unlocking Ameri-ca’s future.

“No matter from where a tal-ented individual may come, we should be able to afford them the opportunity to keep their talents here if they so wish,” Gerard said. “Champaign has one of the most dynamic tech and engi-neering talent pools learning and honing its skills and we have the companies who would love to keep them right here.”

Nyajai can be reached at nelliso2@dailyillini.com.

BY MIKAYLA OSTENDORFCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After fi ve months of build-ing renovations, Q Smokehouse brought its authentic Deep South taste of smoked barbecue to Green Street with its opening Wednesday.

Troy Reed, one of the restau-rant’s managers, said Q Smoke-house was packed for opening day and sold around 200 meals. Business doubled, if not tripled, last Thursday, Reed said.

“(On Friday), we sold our-selves out of product and had to close early. That’s how well we’ve done,” Reed said.

Reed expected business on Sunday and Monday to be slow-er after the rush of homecom-ing weekend, but customer fl ow picked up and Reed now expects this week to be as successful or even more successful than the last.

Terren L. Gaither, Q Smoke-house employee, said the restau-rant did not do any promotional advertising before opening.

Instead, the restaurant trained employees and fi xed computer problems during the fi rst week to increase service and product quality, Reed said.

Another employee, Maria Gas-par, learned to work the restau-rant’s Point of Service system, make a burrito and provide posi-tive customer service, all in one week.

Restaurant owner Sean Mahaffey closed Smoke ‘Que and Brew, his previous restau-rant once located at 2411 Vil-lage Green Place in southwest Champaign, to open a campus location with a different menu, said restaurant manager Steve Sappenfi eld.

“The menu that (Mahaffey)

wanted to serve (is) more con-ducive to the student population in a quick service environment,” Sappenfi eld said.

The smaller menu features homemade in-house selections, whereas Smoke ‘Que and Brew’s menu contained many shipped-in, pre-made items, Reed said.

Instead of Smoke ‘Que and Brew’s classic waiter and wait-ress set up, Q Smokehouse has an order-and-seat-yourself style. Q Smokehouse customers fi ll out an order form, bring it to the register and watch as their food is made, in a similar fashion to the procedure at Jimmy John’s or Chipotle, Reed said.

“(Customers) are a lot happi-er, because they basically get to do what they want to do,” Reed said. “They get to do practical-ly everything but put the food together themselves.”

Gaspar said she has already noticed customers coming back. These returning custom-ers seem to enjoy the restaurant and like the sauces offered, Gas-par said.

The two-level restaurant, which contains about 97 seats, hasn’t fi lled up yet, but Reed believes this is because many people order food to-go. The res-taurant may add more tables if customers start frequently fi ll-ing up the top fl oor.

Q Smokehouse’s menu fea-tures pulled pork, beef briskets, pulled chicken, smoked sausage, burnt-end sandwiches and ribs. All meat is smoked and prepared fresh daily, Gaither said.

Large-portioned sandwiches range from $5.50 to $7.99, and they come with a corn muffi n, a fried pickle and two toppings of the customer’s choice, according to Reed. Additional toppings are

50 cents each. Homemade sides include barbecue beans and Carolina slaw. Q Smokehouse also features bacon chocolate chip cookies and bourbon apple dream bars, Sappenfi eld said.

Q Smokehouse plans to run daily specials within a few weeks, Sappenfi eld said. The restaurant is considering offer-ing lunch discounts for Univer-sity staff and students.

“We are kind of just waiting to see how things go fi rst,” Sap-penfi eld said. “We want to get

up and open and go from there.”Sappenfi eld said he looks for-

ward to gaining customers and building customer relationships.

“(We have) a very friendly staff, and hopefully that and the high quality food will keep people coming back,” Sappen-fi eld said.

Gaspar said that all the employees are getting along so far. She said she enjoys her coworkers and said that it is a positive work environment.

On a regular basis, eight work-

ers and two managers work at Q Smokehouse, Reed said. As a front of house manager, he moni-tors cashiers, food preparation and restaurant appearance. The back of house management supervises meal preparation, Reed said.

The restaurant is open sev-en days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Customers can contact Q Smokehouse at 217-344-5849.

Mikayla can be reached at ostndrf2@dailyillini.com.

BY JONATHAN S. LANDAYMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. intelligence offi cials on Tuesday staunchly defended the Nation-al Security Agency, all but con-fi rming that the White House knew about the tapping of for-eign leaders’ telephones, denying that millions of European citi-zens’ telephone data were swept up and asserting that the Euro-pean allies assist the NSA even as they spy on U.S. offi cials.

“We only do what the policy-makers writ large have asked us to do,” Director of National Intel-ligence James Clapper said at a House Intelligence Committee hearing.

The hearing came amid a grow-

ing outcry at home and in Europe over disclosures of some of the NSA’s most secret communica-tions collection programs in doc-uments leaked to news media by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. They included the tap-ping of telephones of 35 world leaders, including German Chan-cellor Angela Merkel.

The revelations have strained trans-Atlantic relations, prompt-ed lawmakers to introduce leg-islation in Congress to tighten restrictions on NSA operations and ignited a Senate Intelli-gence Committee review of all U.S. intelligence-gathering operations.

The leaks have created new headaches for President Barack

Obama, who was expected to order a ban on the monitoring of allied leaders’ communica-tions as part of an administra-tion review aimed at balancing U.S. intelligence-gathering pro-grams with privacy and civil lib-erties protections. The admin-istration also has acknowledged that additional restraints may be required given the power of the technology now used by U.S. intelligence agencies.

The White House has cited the secrecy of intelligence oper-ations in steadfastly refusing to answer in public questions about what Obama knew, espe-cially whether he authorized the eavesdropping on Merkel and other leaders. At the same time,

a stream of news media reports have appeared this week in which anonymous administration offi -cials insisted that the president wasn’t aware of the monitoring of Merkel.

As they defended the NSA’s operations as legal and autho-rized, however, Clapper as much as confi rmed that members of Obama’s National Security Coun-cil staff knew about the tapping of the telephones of foreign leaders.

Responding to what appeared to be closely coordinated ques-tioning from sympathetic House Intelligence Committee Chair-man Mike Rogers, R-Mich., Clap-per described how the require-ments for U.S. intelligence

collections and analyses are set in an annual National Intelli-gence Priorities Framework.

“It’s a fairly rigorous pro-cess,” which collates intelli-gence requirements from State, Defense and other departments “as well as those of the national security staff, and, accordingly, the president’s requirements are embedded in that document,” he explained.

Knowing the intentions of for-eign leaders, Clapper said, helps U.S. offi cials understand policies and perspectives that impact the United States. He agreed with Rogers that “the best way” to obtain that information is to “actually get communications of a foreign leader.”

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Halloween: The season of that disgusting can-dy corn stuff and excus-es to be someone you’ll never actually be. But

because the day revolves involves pranks and questionable costumes, it’s important to be aware of your surroundings. So, when you’re out and about on Halloween, here are some tips to make sure you have a smooth time.

1. Don’t think everything is just a prank on Halloween

Halloween is full of screams, fake blood and pranks you play on your friends. But just because it’s Hal-loween doesn’t mean everything is a joke. If you see something odd, check it out before you write it off as just another Halloween scare.

2. Dress appropriately for the cold or stormy weather

Dressing up as Video Music Awards Miley? Consider your personal comfort and the weath-er outside as you plan your exploits. Eight-inch heels may make or break your cos-tume, but they get pretty painful pretty fast. Additionally, per the National Weath-er Service, there is a 90 percent chance of rain, 25 mile-per-hour winds and an expected low of 46 degrees for Thursday. It may not fi t your costume, but a coat might not be a bad idea.

3. Don’t wear a costume with anything that could be confused as a real weapon

There are people everywhere playing pranks that can go wrong. And Halloween is tricky enough for cops. So, it’s even worse when people are carrying around fake

weapons that can be confused for real ones. Don’t get yourself arrest-ed. And don’t think those fake, me-tallic police badges are fooling any-one, either.

4. If you’re a parent, be careful when you take your child trick-or-treating

If you’re a student or professor with a child, you’ll undoubtably want to keep them safe while out trick-or-treating. But for those of you who are new to the University, keep in mind that there will be college students partying on campus and off campus. Make sure you check the area you’ll

be taking your child to trick-or-treat before your child is exposed to hun-dreds of roaming college students. That, or turn it into a fun learning experience about the horrors of col-lege life.

5. Be aware of what you are drink-ing

Halloween parties, especially on a college campus, will probably in-clude mixed-drinks aimed to be fi t for the creepy occasion. Don’t drink something if you’re not sure what is in it. Especially on Hal-loween when people are drinking

in excess, know what is in your cup or don’t

drink out of open containers. 6. Be careful when you’re walking

in the dark Sure, this goes for every night,

but on Halloween people are in dark costumes and it’s harder to spot them. Be careful when you’re walk-ing down the street because drivers and bikers might not see you. Also, because most people will be in cos-tumes, you might not know who is walking around you. Use the buddy system.

7. Follow the buddy system for the inevitable Halloween parties

Ever lost your friends at a par-ty? Costumes strongly amplify that problem, especially when you’ve had a bit too much pumpkin brew. Buddy up with someone and agree

on regular points to check-in with each another. Coming up with

a hand signal to signal your friend can be helpful for

loud parties. Take it from bad horror movies: Split-ting up tends to have deleterious conse-quences.

8. Be careful with your costumes and fi re (no really)

From Jack O’ Lanterns to can-dles to cigarettes, there are many fi re sources you might encounter during your Hal-loween romp. More

important than re-membering what

you’re wearing, re-member what your

costume is made out of. Costumes can pres-

ent some unique problems if they drape or drag (think:

cloaks, wigs, accessories) or are excessively baggy. If possible, buy or wear fl ame-resistant fab-ric. Or just don’t wear anything that can easily catch on fi re.

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1. Don’t think everything is just a prank on Halloween

Halloween is full of screams, fake blood and pranks you play on your friends. But just because it’s Hal-loween doesn’t mean everything is a joke. If you see something odd, check it out before you write it off as just another Halloween scare.

2. Dress appropriately for the cold or stormy weather

Dressing up as Video Music Awards Miley? Consider your personal comfort and the weath-er outside as you plan your exploits. Eight-inch heels may make or break your cos-tume, but they get pretty painful pretty fast. Additionally, per the National Weath-er Service, there is a 90 percent chance of rain, 25 mile-per-hour winds and an expected low of 46 degrees for Thursday. It may not fi t your costume, but a coat might not be a bad

3. Don’t wear a costume with anything that could be confused as a real weapon

There are people everywhere playing pranks that can go wrong. And Halloween is tricky enough for cops. So, it’s even worse when people are carrying around fake

keep in mind that there will be college students partying on campus and off campus. Make sure you check the area you’ll

what is in it. Especially on Hal-loween when people are drinking

in excess, know what is in your cup or don’t

7. Follow the buddy system for the inevitable Halloween parties

Ever lost your friends at a par-ty? Costumes strongly amplify that problem, especially when you’ve had a bit too much pumpkin brew. Buddy up with someone and agree

on regular points to check-in with each another. Coming up with

a hand signal to signal your friend can be helpful for

loud parties. Take it from bad horror movies: Split-ting up tends to have deleterious conse-quences.

8. Be careful with your costumes and fi re (no really)

From Jack O’ Lanterns to can-dles to cigarettes, there are many fi re sources you might encounter during your Hal-loween romp. More

important than re-membering what

you’re wearing, re-member what your

costume is made out of. Costumes can pres-

ent some unique problems if they drape or drag (think:

cloaks, wigs, accessories) or are excessively baggy. If possible, buy or wear fl ame-resistant fab-ric. Or just don’t wear anything that can easily catch on fi re.

It seems like some data researchers from Face-book are now audition-

ing for the role of Yenta from “Fiddler on the Roof” for over 1 billion people that subscribe to this very popular social net-working site. Now, before you start singing “Matchmaker,” you might want to know how these data scientists are deter-mining your love interests for you.

One of the fi rst methods that data researchers use to determine that special some-one is called “embeddedness.” In terms of this study, embed-dedness refers to looking at how many mutual friends you have with another person. This method is used to determine the degree of closeness between two people based on the number of their mutual friends.

Well, I can tell you from

personal experience that the person I have the most mutu-al friends with is not my lover. And although 24.7 percent of the time embeddedness pre-dicted an individual’s signifi -cant other, there’s a larger por-tion of people that this method did not work for.

To start, there is a major issue with this method that I am surprised the researchers did not discuss. What happens when the person who you share the most mutual friends with is your best friend?

For some, it may develop into a long and loving mar-riage, but others may real-ize that they should have just stayed friends. That could end up as a pretty rocky friend-ship. If popular media and personal observations serve me right, then dating your best friend is practically a crapshoot.

However, there was one method that was far more suc-cessful than embededdness called “dispersion.” This meth-od relies on you and your pre-

dicted “lover” having a high amount of mutual friends in the same networks. In other words, this method looks at mutual friends who went to the same high school, university or work at the same company as you.

This method makes a little more sense. Instead of just using mutual friends from your high school that you may have attended fi ve or six years ago to determine your match, now they are comparing the num-ber of mutual friends that con-tinue through college and your career. These data research-ers seem to be piecing together your romantic timeline straight from your Facebook timeline, so to speak.

What differentiates dis-persion from embeddedness is embeddedness just looks collectively at your mutual friends, but dispersion looks at the amount of mutual friends that you have in specifi c networks.

The success of the disper-sion method is quite astound-ing. While the embeddedness

method only garnered 24.7 percent accuracy, the disper-sion method was accurate 50 percent of the time. Addition-ally, when researchers used the dispersion strategy on married couples it predicted what cou-ples were married 60 percent of the time.

What makes this process even more interesting is its ability to get around the cov-eted “Facebook offi cial” label. This pre-teen validation may have no signifi cance as these researchers continue to refi ne their methods because they are looking at the number of mutu-al friends in your networks rather than Facebook posts — such as comments, statuses, pictures and likes.

So, that picture of you mak-ing out with Jessica is not the only indicator that you two are clearly in it for the long run. Now instead of having researchers look at your Face-book friends list, just do it yourself.

Dispersion can even deter-mine how healthy a relation-

ship is. The more dispersed a relationship is, or the more integrated each person is with-in each others’ networks, the stronger the two are romanti-cally connected.

The degree of dispersion determines what relation-ships will still be maintained in 60 days. Although this fi nd-ing was only in regards to non-married couples, seeing the results based on the degree of dispersion for married couples could possibly determine the strength of current marriages.

All of this makes me won-der, is this our future? Data researchers are ultimately pulling together numbers on spreadsheets and telling us who we are most compatible with according to their calculations. This theory already exists in another form, online dating.

Sites like eHarmony and Match.com are large vesti-bules for those who are taking a chance on the single men and women who put themselves out there on the Internet. Howev-er, these sites use personality-

based algorithms and research methods to determine who is compatible with who, and they allow the user to select who they like the most .

With embeddedness and dis-persion, there is no personal-ity comparison, only a meth-od comparing numbers of friends that, for the most part, are barely that. I have friends who have almost 2,000 Face-book friends, but I highly doubt that they can say that each one of those people is truly their friend.

While this method seems to be pretty accurate, it is still far from becoming the pro-verbial Yenta of the Internet. As these algorithms become more advanced and accurate, there will always be those cou-ples that are unpredictable. No one will ever truly know how they got together and how they maintained a lasting, loving relationship.

Max is a freshman in DGS. He can be reached at mpfi she2@dailyillini.com.

Facebook friends, not necessarily future romance

Your guide to making the most of Halloweekend on campus

MAX FISHER

Opinions columnist

I dread Halloween. Every year, I wish for the

day to go by unnoticed, uncel-ebrated and virtually ignored by society. And every year I am disappointed because the trick-or-treating children beat on without fail and the onslaught of trashy costumes persists. The truth of the matter is, Hal-loween intimidates me because I’ve never been one to come up with a creative costume idea. Also, the concept of disguising yourself for a day freaks me out a little. When I arrived at this campus as a freshman, I did not

quite understand the magnitude of the Halloween celebration that occurs year after year and thought that I could overcome my distaste for the holiday in the name of having a good time. To avoid any sort of confusion about exactly what the Universi-ty’s reputation is, here are a few things to expect during Hallow-een week on campus.

Here at the University, Hal-loween is not just celebrated on the 31st of October. No, it is observed for an entire week, selfi shly consuming the week-end with parties that demand their attendees to wear cos-tumes, causing the University’s Halloween weekends to become infamous. As a result, college students from all over the Mid-west fl ock to our humble Cham-paign to contribute their own

scream mask costumes to the celebrations.

Many fraternities use the occasion to throw blowout par-ties that often end up over-crowded and under-stocked, if you catch my drift. While all of the fraternity men hosting these parties will insist that you need to be on some elusive list to attend, they usually end up being a free-for-all and any-one is allowed in. How effec-tive is an orange plastic fence anyway? These gatherings are great for the quintessential col-lege experience that is similar to a scene from a movie, how-ever they are sure to be fl ooded with freshmen and are not usu-ally attended by the sophisticat-ed upperclassmen.

While the freshmen play dress-up at a fraternity party,

the upperclassmen frequent the bar scene on Halloween because waiting in an endless line and paying a ridiculous amount for cover is so much fun. While both the fraternity parties and the bars tend to be overcrowd-ed and slightly terrifying due to all the disguised people operat-ing under an alter ego, the bars have a more equal girl to boy ratio and the music is sure to be Halloween themed. Everyone likes to do their best Michael Jackson impersonation and pre-tend they know the “Thriller” dance because it’s played at least ten times at Red Lion.

Where you celebrate the over-hyped holiday is nowhere near as important as when. Now, many of you may be thinking — you celebrate on the day of Hal-loween, duh. And that’s exactly

what you would think, but you would be wrong. Because, like I said before, this is a weeklong event and everyone celebrates it on different days, making it very diffi cult to know exactly when to dress up and when to call it quits on the costume.

Last year, Halloween fell awkwardly in the middle of the week sending the campus into a near frenzy because no one knew which weekend would be dubbed “Halloween weekend.” Because the holiday is such a hit on campus, my friends and I assumed everyone would be dressed up the weekend before and we confi dently strode into the bars decked out in cos-tumes. And no, I don’t mean cat ears and a black sweater. I’m talking about hotdog and ketch-up body suits, the three witches

from “Hocus Pocus” and a zom-bie covered in white face paint. Unfortunately, we were the only ones who were dressed up and the rest of the bar stared at us the entire night. It was either the best or worst night, I’ll let you decide.

Whether you love Hallow-een and thrive at creating mind blowing costumes that even Pin-terest would be envious of, or, if you’re more like me and prefer a witch hat to refl ect your per-sonality, Halloween at the Uni-versity is an event every student should experience. No matter where you go or what you do, you’re sure to end the weekend with stories you will be proud of.

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

KATE CULLEN

Opinions columnist

Tip-or-treat: 8 safety tips for the spookiest night of the year

projection produces better than HD resolution in both 2-D and 3-D features, which add to the Big-D experience.

Platz explained how all of the screens have improved tremendously.

“Our largest screen at the old facility is pretty much our small-est screen in this one, so all of the screens are significantly larger, with five of them being 3-D capa-ble. All of them are equipped with Dolby 7.1 surround sound, a huge improvement from the sound at our old building,” Platz said.

In addition to their new, upscale screens and auditoriums, Car-mike 13 has a sleek, new lobby to match, featuring numerous con-cession areas and Coca-Cola Free-style drink centers. The theater will also have one-stop ticketing and concession stations allowing guests to seamlessly purchase their tickets and concessions before seating themselves.

The theater will also add new concessions to its menu, includ-ing beer and wine. The addition of alcohol to many theaters’ conces-sion stands has stirred up contro-versy across the United States, but some members of the community do not see it as much of a problem.

“I don’t suspect a problem with us selling alcohol. We’re just try-ing to provide another concession item to let people enjoy their expe-

rience at our movie theater which isn’t available at most theaters in the area,” Platz said.

Aneta Basalaj, junior in LAS, also expressed limited concern.

“The new movie theater near my house now serves alcohol and does a good job of ID’ing people, so I haven’t seen any problems and don’t expect to see problems from the Carmike 13 theater if they fol-low the same rules,” she said.

Platz said regular movie tickets will be $9.50 for adults and $7.25 for students. 3-D films add on a $2.50 surcharge and Big-D films a $4 surcharge.

Anyone in the community can experience deals every Tuesday on what the theater calls “Stim-ulus Tuesdays.” On these days, soda, popcorn and candy are

discounted.“We also have what we call

‘Super Bargain Matinee’, in which movies between 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. are only $5.50,” Platz said.

On opening night, “Ender’s Game,” a sci-fi action, and “Free Birds,” a 3-D animated comedy, will be the two major releases expected to show. The theater will also be showing movies that have been recently released.

Platz said the theater expects to see a variety of both college students and members of the community for opening night and hopes that the Big-D expe-rience will keep them coming back.

Elizabeth can be reached at edye2@dailyillini.com.

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BY CHRISTINA OEHLERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Often seen walking around campus with their trainers, ser-vice dogs can make adorable com-panions. Yet, they are more than just cute wet noses; Illini Service Dogs are trained to improve peo-ple’s lives.

Founded in 2010, this registered student organization is the first program to allow University stu-dents to train dogs to positively affect others across the country. The dogs are trained for service throughout their youth by volun-teer students on campus. Once ful-ly trained, Illini Service Dogs are given to someone in need of assis-tance, free of charge.

There are currently four dogs being trained through the pro-gram. Blue, Scout, Willard and Grainger were adopted as pup-pies from donating breeders or shelters. Each dog rotates from handler to handler, called “sec-ondary handlers,” throughout the week while living with one specif-ic trainer, or “primary handler.” Throughout training, the dogs work on a variety of tasks, such as retrieving objects and flipping light switches, while also working on learning civility in public spac-es and their duty as a guide dog.

“Blue lives with me, but sec-ondary student trainers take him throughout the week and train him,” said Amanda Gleason, Illini Service Dogs vice president and junior in Applied Health Sciences.

To become a trainer, veteran members of the RSO teach new members the requirements of the job during their weekly Sun-day meetings at the Wesley Unit-ed Methodist Church, located at 1203 W. Green St. in Urbana. The organization’s funding pays for all necessary provisions and veteri-nary care the primary handlers need to raise and train the dogs.

When the dogs are donated to the Illini Service Dog program as

puppies, they begin their training immediately. The student train-ers work with them daily by tak-ing them to classes, meals and anywhere throughout campus to help prepare them for their future lives as service dogs. The dogs are required to be able to perform necessary tasks needed by people with disabilities before the dogs can “graduate.” Service dogs are given to disabled individuals once the handlers deem they are fully trained, after which the trainers are sent updates about the dogs and their adaptation to their new home.

The trainers are not paid to be primary or secondary trainers, so the program is entirely volun-tary. Students of any major that are interested in training dogs are able to become trainers and assist in handling the dogs.

“My major isn’t animal scienc-es, but I still am a trainer and an active member of the club,” said Kendall Cox, secondary train-er, secretary and treasurer for Illini Service Dogs and junior in Engineering. “I joined my fresh-man year when I saw the booth

on Quad Day.”On the Illini Service Dog web-

site, the trainers keep a regular blog of how the dogs are improv-ing throughout their training, and videos and pictures are posted of the dogs’ training milestones. However, once the dogs are giv-en away, there is a confidential relationship between the new own-ers and the dogs, and updates are only sent to the organization by the new owner.

“We aren’t allowed to contact the new owners of the dogs, but they often send our program updates and we get to see how the dogs have improved,” Cox said.

The program hires new train-ers every fall to handle dogs and teaches them more than 40 dif-ferent commands before their graduation.

“It’s a really cool program because the dogs are given to disabled people entirely free of charge, and we have fun train-ing the dogs in the process,” Glea-son said.

Christina can be reached at oehler2@dailyillini.com.

Volunteers train service dogs to help people with disabilities

ALLISON DIAZ THE DAILY ILLINIAmanda Gleason, a junior in Applied Health Sciences and vice president of Illini Service Dogs, trains her service dog, Blue, to pull off her sock in Huff Hall on Tuesday.

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BY ABBY GLICKMANCONTRIBUTING WRITER

As a triplet coming from a family with little musical back-ground, Ashley Fister was given a rare chance to follow her dreams over spring break of last year. The junior in LAS and member of Del-ta Gamma had the opportunity to record with Tyler Ward Studios in Nashville with her longtime friend Stephen Murphy and to work with Jeremy McCoy, touring bassist for The Fray.

After starting to pursue music professionally in college, Fister and Murphy submitted one of their demos to Tyler Ward Stu-dios in November 2012. A month later, they were then invited to visit and record at Tyler Ward Studios for their upcoming spring break. They ended up also recording with Scotty Rausch, senior in LAS, whom they met upon arriving in Nashville.

“We didn’t know each other before, so we each recorded an individual song and we also record-ed a song together,” Fister said.

Fister’s first single, “Still Believe You Do,” will be coming out Nov. 1 via Tyler Ward Studios. She wrote and recorded the song while in Nashville.

Fister’s expertise is in pop music, but she describes her single as “pop with a country side to it.”

“Originally, we had three songs we planned on recording in Nash-ville, but when we got there we decided to start from scratch,” Fis-

ter said. “Jeremy McCoy helped a lot with the songwriting and the structure of the song.”

Fister has a long history in music and also participated in musical theater at a young age. Since then, she said she has just “never stopped singing.”

“I’ve been singing for as long as I can remember,” Fister said. “At a very young age, I started dance and piano. I’ve always had an inter-est in music.”

Although singing keeps her very busy, Fister manages to bal-ance working on her music, pur-suing her major in communica-tions, sorority life in the Delta Gamma house and extracurricu-lar activities.

“Time management is definite-ly one of the things I’ve learned most in college,” Fister said. “I’ve learned to balance my singing, my sorority, all the extracurricular activities and academics pretty well.”

Fister also enjoys volunteer work. Along with volunteering with the Delta Gamma House for their philanthropies, Fister is on the executive board for Illini Dance Marathon, an event held in March that raises money for Chil-dren’s Miracle Network and ben-efits St. John’s Children’s Hospital in Springfield, Ill.

Despite her busy schedule, Fis-ter values the time she spends with her house and the company of her sisters.

“Joining Delta Gamma was the

best decision I possibly could have made when I came to (the Univer-sity),” Fister said. “My sisters are the ones who are most supportive of me ... I’m so lucky to have them as my friends and my sisters.”

Alyssa Giovannoni, a member of Fister’s pledge class in Delta Gamma and junior in ACES, has seen Fister develop professional-ly within the music industry. She said she feels proud of her accom-plishments and how far she’s come.

“All of us are so proud to have a friend who is so talented and so humble. She works really hard,” said Nicole Polanco, another Del-ta Gamma sister and junior in Business.

Fister showed her dedication to singing during Formal Recruit-ment when she performed every round despite having strep throat. Even while sick, “she sang and everyone got goosebumps every time,” according to Polanco. The gesture greatly impressed Polan-co, who said that Fister “sang perfectly.”

“She deserves everything, and I know she is going to do great things,” Polanco said.

While Fister does not have any immediate plans for future record-ing, she said she is positive she will continue singing, whether it is pro-fessionally or not.

“Music will always be a part of my life,” Fister said. “Noth-ing brings me greater joy, and I couldn’t imagine my life with-out it.”

BY ALICE SMELYANSKYSTAFF WRITER

In Savigny-lès-Beaune, a village in the heart of the Côte-d’Or in Burgundy, France, the vine-yards run far and wide, and silky red and com-plex white wines are in great abundance. Five years ago, alumnus Nicholas Harbour and his wife Colleen could only dream of such a place. But now, away from the corporate world, they reside there on the eastern slope, making gour-met wines and sharing their passion and their story with others.

“Coming here and doing wine, you get to real-ly see the grapevines grow throughout the year, you see the impact of the weather on them (and) you see the impact of the people on them,” Har-bour said. “But I think what really strikes our passion for wine is the human aspect.”

Harbour and Colleen met in high school in Luxembourg, and parted ways when Harbour attended college at the University, and Colleen studied in Canada. After completing their under-graduate studies, the high school sweethearts moved back to Luxembourg in 2008 and both worked in the financial industry for five years. After they got married, they had a discussion about their goals and passions in life and real-ized that finance was not something they want-ed to continue. They quit their jobs in Luxem-bourg and moved to France to explore their true interests.

“Over the course of going to wine school in Beaune, I had to do a few projects for school, like a business plan,” Colleen said. “So I wrote a

business plan about starting a winery, and then thought, ‘Why don’t we just start a winery? We’re here, we’re learning about it, we really don’t have anything to lose. The only thing we can do is try, and if we don’t try, we’ll never know.’”

Harbour studied the technical aspects of wine-making in the wine school in Beaune while Col-leen studied the commercial side of wine. Their winery, a micro négociant vinificateur, is called Maison Harbour.

Business administration professor Jeffrey Kurtz’s Small Business Consulting class, BADM 445, is working with Maison Harbour to devel-op a strategy to import the wines to America.

The class is divided into six teams of stu-dents who each work with a client. Next semes-ter, Kurtz will be looking for 24 clients to pair with the 24 teams in his classes. The students go through the entire consulting process and identify the issues they see in a business to lead it toward success.

“The big takeaway for my students is you get the opportunity to do something that’s unique — defining the problem — which is a very chal-lenging thing to do,” Kurtz said. “Symptoms sometimes masquerade as problems. So it’s a good process for you to get used to — peeling those layers away and asking why all the time.”

While at the University, Harbour was a student of Kurtz’s and reached out to him this year to see how his students could connect him directly to the American market.

“Our goal of our business is to bring (Maison Harbour’s) Pinot Noir and Chardonnay to the American market,” Harbour said. “So since we have this connection to North America, we hope to be able to reach a lot of different consumers in the U.S.”

Through this model, wine from Maison Har-

bour will be shipped directly to customers’ homes instead of partnering with third parties in the U.S.

In order for the wine to reach consumers in the U.S., the product must meet Food and Drug Administration regulations and individual state laws. Harbour and Colleen meet with the stu-dents once a week on Skype, usually with a glass of wine in hand. The students are focusing on cost comparisons between starting an import business and working with an already estab-lished importer of wine, such as selling wine on Amazon.com.

“Hopefully by the end of the school year, they’re going to say it’s better for you to start your own thing because it’s almost the same price and in the end you’ll make more money like that,” Harbour said.

Maison Harbour just completed the winemak-ing process and predicts that the wine will be ready for distribution around next December, at the earliest. In total, from growing the grapes to putting them in the barrel, the winemaking process takes about two years. The wines come from Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits, and the Harbours hope to produce about 10 or 11 bar-rels for next year and double in size the follow-ing year.

“We don’t drink too much wine alone,” Har-bour said. “But we really enjoy to have people over and to open a really nice bottle of wine and talk about where it came from, the year that the grapes were grown ... whether they’re on a steep slope or on a valley. ... That kind of human connection is really what drives our pas-sion for wine.”

Alice can be reached at smelyan2@dailyillini.com.

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Carmike 13 offers features unique to the area BY ELIZABETH DYECONTRIBUTING WRITER

The new Carmike 13 promises “the ultimate movie experience.”

With a screen over three sto-ries tall and 80 feet wide, lux-urious high back leather seat-ing, DLP digital projection and Dolby Atmos digital sound, Car-mike 13 will be Champaign’s lat-est state-of-the-art entertain-ment complex, located at 910 Meijer Drive. Formerly known as the Beverly 18, the theater was closed last February and completely demolished last year to build an entirely new complex with enhanced theater amenities intended to provide an advanced movie-watching experience.

The theater will celebrate its official opening on Thursday, following a pre-opening night charity event on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Some of the pre-opening event’s profits will be donated to the United Way of Champaign County. Attendees can also enjoy discounted prices for admission and concessions, with tickets, popcorn and fountain drinks all $2 each and free refills on fountain drinks. While Wednes-day night’s available movies will not be the latest releases, Thursday’s opening celebration will feature the newest released films.

Scheduled to open last sum-mer, the theater took longer than expected to construct. Martin Platz, Carmike 13 general man-ager, said everything is now on schedule for its Halloween opening.

The over 60-thousand-square-foot theater complex features 13 screens, with enough seating to accommodate over 2,800 movie-goers. The auditoriums feature stadium-style seating, complete with retractable armrests and cup holders. In addition to the wall-to-wall screens and digi-tal projection and sound, the theater is home to the critically acclaimed theater environment known as the “Big-D,” their ver-sion of an IMAX theater, accord-ing to Platz.

Carmike President and CEO David Passman expressed excitement over their new Big-D format, unique to Carmike Cinemas, Inc.

“With the opening of the new location, the Champaign area joins a select and growing list of communities across the nation offering Carmike theater-goers the exciting new Big-D format,” Passman stated. “The Big-D auditorium will seat nearly 600 guests in luxurious comfort.”

Passman went on to say, “The Big-D Experience features cut-ting edge theater amenities, which will immerse the the-atergoer in the movie experi-ence. The Big-D auditorium fea-tures the incredible wall-to-wall screen measuring over 81 feet wide and three stories tall.”

He added that the audio sys-tem is one of the best in the industry and that the new digital

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF MAISON HARBOURNicholas and Colleen Harbour own Maison Harbour in Burgundy, France. Their wines originate from Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits and will be available for purchase around next December.

UI alumnus, wife leave careers to open winery

Now a professional recording artist, Ashley Fister was given the oppor-tunity to visit Nashville last spring to record in Tyler Ward Studios. Turn to Page 5A to read her story and up-coming track, “Still Believe You Do.”

Things have changed since I last saw the Giants.

It was a cold Thursday night in Soldier Field. The lights were on, the air was chilled and the stadium invit-ed fans from Chicago and New York alike. The Bears had lost two straight games and were hosting the winless Giants at home, but an incompatible mesh of optimism and doubt made the atmosphere tense.

On the third play of the opening drive, Eli Manning threw an intercep-tion to Zack Bowman — a discourag-ing mistake that was righted when the defense held the Bears on 4th-and-2 to reclaim the ball for the offense.

The tensions held for the next four plays until Giants fans fi nally let their guard down. Two rushes for 21 yards loosened them up; one pass for 20 had them on their feet. They were hope-ful, they were happy and much like the fi rst quarter last week, they believed.

The very next play was picked off and returned for a touchdown, giv-ing the Bears a lead they would never surrender.

These were the Giants we had

gotten know to this season. They were the winless team that had fall-en from Super Bowl grace, with a poor defense averaging 34.8 points allowed per game and an unwatch-able quarterback who had already thrown 15 picks. But something even stranger has happened entering Week 9.

The Giants still have a chance to make the playoffs.

After two straight wins, the Giants are just two games out of fi rst place in the NFC East, sitting behind the 4-4 Cowboys, the 3-5 Eagles and the 2-5 Redskins. While half the season is yet to come, they are starting to look like a different team — a better team.

Playoffs are a long shot at best for the Giants, but that’s what the Giants are best at. Remember, they were 7-7 at Week 15 in 2011, and they went on to win the Super Bowl. What’s impor-tant to know is that the Giants aren’t done fi ghting, and that could be great news for fantasy owners.

With only eight games left, the Giants can’t just be good. They need to be great, and so do their players. So for those of you with Eli on your bench, have faith. If you’re looking at new running backs, don’t be afraid to pluck Brandon Jacobs or Peyton Hillis from the waiver wire. Whatev-er you do, don’t count on the Giants

to bow out. They’ll keeping fi ght, because it’s what they do best.

No major fantasy players went down for the count in Week 8, but that doesn’t mean your fantasy doc-tor isn’t here for you with Week 9 pickups and drops.

Bye Weeks: Arizona, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, New York Giants, San Francisco

PICKUPSAndy Dalton (quarterback, Bengals,

43.5 percent owned in ESPN leagues) — The fact that Dalton isn’t owned in more than 50 percent of leagues sur-prised me the most. Aside from two bad games, Dalton has scored 13 points or more every week (the last three 24

BY SEAN HAMMOND SENIOR WRITER

Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase addressed the media for the fi rst time since his father was arrested at Sat-urday’s Homecoming game for resisting a peace offi cer.

Nate Creer, Scheelhaase’s father, 51, of Champaign, was arrested after getting into an altercation with another fan at the Illini’s game against Mich-igan State. Offi cers took him outside the stadium to calm him down at which point he “approached (a) sergeant in a very aggressive manner,” Dep-uty Chief of Police Skip Frost said Monday.

Creer was arrested and released that night. The Uni-versity Police Department banned him from all Univer-sity property for one year, which includes Memorial Sta-dium. The Illini have two home games remaining in what is Scheelhaase’s senior season.

Scheelhaase addressed the situation Tuesday.

“I’ve kept it as a family mat-ter,” Scheelhaase said. “When you’re a senior, you’ve kind of been through the whole gambit. You know there’s going to be different distractions through-out your career.

“The best thing I have is a bunch of people in here that are focused on this next game, focused on what we need to do every day. When you come in and you’re surrounded by those people that you’ve been around for years now, it makes life really easy.”

Creer declined to comment on Saturday’s incident or the University ban for this story.

Scheelhaase’s teammate and close friend Miles Osei said Scheelhaase was doing well and was focused on Illi-nois’ game at Penn State this weekend.

Wide receiver Steve Hull, a fi fth-year senior like Scheel-haase, said he didn’t know if the situation was affecting his quarterback.

“The really good thing about

Nate is he’s very strong, and if he was a guy that wasn’t as strong in his faith ... he’s above and beyond what anybody else would be,” Hull said.

“We defi nitely checked on him and asked how he was doing. He said, ‘Yeah, I’m good.’ And there was nothing else to be said about it.”

Scheelhaase said he was treating the situation as any other distraction. He said every player deals with off-the-fi eld issues, from family to fi nal exams to girlfriends. For him there hasn’t been a problem setting the distractions aside.

“It hasn’t been bad at all,” Scheelhaase said. “That’s the great part about being in the thick of the season. There’s a new team that you’re preparing for week to week, and it doesn’t matter what’s going on.

“Penn State doesn’t real-ly care about that. The great thing about that is that it gives you a chance to focus in on what you really enjoy.”

Scheelhaase — a Kansas

City, Mo., native — is nearing the end of his career at Illinois, during which he has been the starter for each of the last four seasons. Creer moved to Cham-paign from Kansas City some-

time after Scheelhaase com-mitted to play for Illinois.

Sean can be reached at sphammo2@dailyillini.com and @sean_hammond.

BY LANRE ALABISTAFF WRITER

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

In the 83rd minute of Illinois soc-cer’s game against Michigan State, junior forward Janelle

Flaws placed down the ball just a couple of yards outside the Spartans’ penalty area in preparation for an Illinois free kick. Flaws’ strike sailed into the top cor-ner of the far post to put the Illini 2-0 up over their opponents and retain hopes for qualifi cation into the Big Ten Tournament.

It also gave Flaws her 19th goal of the

season, and the title of the most prolifi c goal-scoring season in Illinois soccer pro-gram history along with it. She’s currently one goal behind fi rst place in the country in goals scored.

“It seems like it’s from nothing to lead-ing goal scorer in the country, but what’s been happening for two years behind the scenes is what people don’t understand,” head coach Janet Rayfi eld said. “Janelle studies the game, and as she does that, she becomes instinctive. She’s hard to stop — in terms of goal scoring — because she can do a lot of different things and physi-cally, she’s in the place to do them.”

Coming from a great athletic pedigree certainly played a huge part in Flaws’ for-mative years. In addition to older genera-tions producing athletes on the collegiate level, Flaws recalls a certain point during

high school when nine cousins attended Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Ill., and all participated in a sport.

In addition to earning a letter for soccer all four years in high school, Flaws was a member of Glenbrook South’s basketball and volleyball teams.

“Basketball actually used to be a big-ger infl uence early in high school, but in basketball I was more of a defensive player, and I liked the offense of soccer,” Flaws said.

Flaws netted 43 goals for the Titans in her fi nal season but tore her ACL in the fi nal game of her high school career (against current teammate Vanessa DiBernardo’s Waubonsie Warriors), and she had to miss her fi rst season in college.

SPORTS1BWEDNESDAY

Cancer is a pretty scary thing. When it strikes someone you know, it can be even scarier.

Everybody in Boston knows Jon Lester, and during his rookie sea-son in the majors in 2006, the Red Sox ace pitcher was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After undergoing treatment and chemotherapy, Lester was cancer-free in time to win the clinching game of the 2007 World Series for the Red Sox.

Fast forward to 2013. Lester has gone 2-0 for the Sox in the World Series, striking out 15 Cardinals and giving up just one run along the way. He has been the defi ni-tion of an ace for the Red Sox, who have ridden him to the brink of their third World Series Cham-pionship in the last 10 years.

Lester is a professional ath-lete, but that does not shelter him from the reality of cancer. During Game 4 of the World Series, there was an on-the-fi eld tribute to the ongoing fi ght against cancer. FOX ran advertisements explaining how to contribute to the MLB’s efforts to fund cancer research and treatment.

It is obviously a terrifi c thing that professional athletes and sports leagues choose to highlight cancer as an enemy to be eradi-cated, but who decided to limit things to just cancer? In profes-sional football, Breast Cancer Awareness Month is observed during October, and players, coaches and fans all wear pink attire and accessories.

Why isn’t every month in the NFL commemorated as “Fill-in-the-blank-disease Awareness Month”? Where is the place for autism, cerebral palsy, Alzheim-er’s and cystic fi brosis?

In October, awareness and mon-ey are raised for fi ghting a dis-ease that is one of the most well known affl ictions in the world. The other four months of the NFL season hold no charitable signifi cance.

Before his downfall as a profes-sional doper (cyclist), Lance Arm-strong helped the cancer-sports connection with his immense-ly powerful and money-gobbling charity Livestrong. Armstrong was one of the fi rst athletes to use his success to highlight a cause, and since then, the popularity of the cancer cause has increased tenfold.

Finances should be no road-block to charitable expansion: pro-fessional leagues should just skim off a certain percent of merchan-dise and ticket sales each month and donate the lump sum to a dif-ferent worthy cause. Goodness knows the owners could suffer through fewer pairs of silk under-pants and fur coats (I just got you to picture NFL owners in silk underpants).

Jon Lester is the rare athlete who has fi rst-hand experience with cancer. Therefore, it is even more important that professional sports shine their spotlight on as many charitable causes as pos-sible. His recent success only puts more emphasis on how discon-nected most people in professional sports are from normal people.

Sports are a place we go to escape everyday life, which makes them the perfect place to highlight the folks who aren’t lucky enough to enjoy everyday life because they have to focus on their disease.

Professional sports are so popu-lar and so lucrative; it is almost criminal not to direct as much money as possible toward chari-ties. Despite screams of protest from owners’ and players’ wallets, they don’t need four Benzes and a Bentley. That money could be pulled from their checkbooks and put into the checkbooks of Autism Speaks, Susan G. Komen or the American Cancer Society.

Cancer is out there, it is scary, and it does affect a lot of people. But there are a lot of other scary things out there, many of which aren’t going away anytime soon. You know what’s also not going away anytime soon? Professional sports. The sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can use the power of one to fi ght the other.

Peter is a freshman in Media. He can be reached at baileyw2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @pbaileywells22.

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YONG KIM MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEPhiladelphia Eagles’ Brandon Boykin goes after New York Giants’ Eli Manning during the second quarter in Philadelphia on Sunday.

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JANELLE FLAWSSecond in nation, junior forward sets Illinois record for goals scored in a single season

Scheelhaase reacts to father’s arrest

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DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Nathan Scheelhaase (2) looks for a pass during the Homecoming game against Michigan State at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Saturday. The Illini lost, 42-3.

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Honorable mentionsAlexis Viliunas (volleyball) — The sophomore setter turned in a complete performance, recording 44 assists and a career-high 20 digs against NorthwesternKatie Porada (women’s cross-country) — The senior cross-country runner ended her fall season by winning the Illini Open.

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BY K.C. JOHNSONCHICAGO TRIBUNE

MIAMI — Jimmy Butler almost never came off the court during last spring’s Bulls-Heat playoff series.

Perhaps that’s why the third-year swingman doesn’t view begin-ning a full season as the starting shooting guard any differently.

“Basketball is basketball,” But-ler said. “You always have to be able to execute at both ends.”

Butler played all 48 minutes in three of the five games against the Heat and close to 46 minutes in a fourth. Dating to the first-round series against the Nets, Butler at one point logged a staggering 160:41 of consecutive playing time.

“I’m super comfortable,” he said of his new role. “That’s what all this work has been about this sum-mer, just coming in ready. We’ve got guys on our team that tell me to play with confidence and to not be afraid to make mistakes.”

Butler scored 20 points in 30 minutes Tuesday, taking an early seat for Mike Dunleavy with two fouls in the first 3:29 and playing only 5:55 in the first half.

Deadline day: The Bulls have until Thursday night to exercise the third-year option on point guard Marquis Teague. While typi-cally a formality for first-round picks, management continues to mull the decision. Previously, the Bulls checked his tepid trade value around the league.

Teague’s $1.12 million option is only about $250,000 more than a league-minimum deal. So the

decision isn’t tied to a fear of the repeater tax, which the Bulls will avoid.

Collectively bargained during the lockout that delayed the start of the 2011-12 season, the repeater tax is strongly punitive on teams over the luxury-tax threshold for three straight or four of five sea-sons. The Bulls will be a tax team for the second straight season after this one and will be rough-ly $8 million over the $71.7 mil-lion tax line this time, triggering a penalty of $1.75 for every $1 over.

Star power: As usual, these rivals didn’t exchange pregame handshakes other than Joakim Noah and Carlos Boozer bumping quick fists with Chris Bosh. But LeBron James said he’s “happy” for Derrick Rose’s return.

“It’s great for the league,” James said. “He looked like Derrick Rose in the preseason. He’s an unbeliev-able talent. I’m happy that he’s healthy.”

Memory lane: Tuesday marked the second time in franchise histo-ry the Bulls endured an opponent’s ring ceremony. The last time came in 2006 in the same building when the Bulls crushed the Heat 108-66 behind Kirk Hinrich’s unlikely 26 points. It’s the largest opening-night defeat for a defending cham-pion in NBA history.

“It was so long ago,” Hinrich said when asked for memories. “But I remember we were a young team highly motivated to try to prove ourselves. I remember we played great. Everything went well for us.”

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HECTOR GABINO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEMiami Heat’s LeBron James, left, and the Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose (1) compete for a loose ball in the third quarter at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami on Tuesday. The Heat won 107-95.

Packers remain team to beat in NFC North BY DAN WIEDERERCHICAGO TRIBUNE

MINNEAPOLIS — Jordy Nel-son was the last Packer out of the visitors’ locker room at Mall of America Field late Sunday. He had showered and dressed, did inter-views with a large media throng, and as he slipped into his suit jack-et, finally heading for the bus, he took a deep breath.

“Long day,” Nelson said. “Tough day.”

He looked spent. But then the sixth-year receiver was remind-ed of the night’s final score — Packers 44, Vikings 31 — and the time of possession (40 minutes, 54 seconds) that contributed to his fatigue.

“Any long day is a fun day when we’re successful like that,” Nelson added with a grin.

Nelson contributed seven catch-es, 123 yards and two touchdowns Sunday, both on first-half throws from Aaron Rodgers that sizzled through windows no bigger than a toaster.

Running backs Eddie Lacy and James Starks added rush-ing touchdowns, and the Packers rolled up a ridiculous 451 yards on their first six possessions, delivering convincing evidence they remain the class of the NFC

North as long as Rodgers contin-ues to operate with such conta-gious confidence.

Next up: a “Monday Night Foot-ball” clash with the Bears. And if Sunday’s outburst was any indica-tion, the Bears defense will need an ultra-sharp week of prepara-tion to have any chance of defus-ing a Packers offense that has lost several big-time playmakers to injury (receivers James Jones and Randall Cobb and tight end Jer-michael Finley) yet somehow has only gained explosion.

This might not be the ideal first test for a Bears defense that will be without linebacker and leader Lance Briggs for the first time at Lambeau Field.

In Sunday’s massacre in Min-neapolis, the Packers passed with precision, ran with purpose and continually converted third downs. And then there was that time-of-possession dominance that drained every ounce of ener-gy from the Vikings defense.

“We did that too,” Lacy said.Right guard T.J. Lang joked

that he felt the offense never left the field. It seemed that way with three of the Packers’ scor-ing drives lasting longer than 13 plays and 7 minutes.

Rodgers’ third-down numbers:

10-for-10, 172 yards, two TDs plus three rushes for 29 yards.

“He makes those (pinpoint) throws time after time after time,” Lang said. “It doesn’t real-ly impress me anymore. He’s just so consistent with it, so accurate.”

In the name of balance, the Packers piled up 182 yards on the ground. Lacy has 395 over his last four games.

Even with a reshuffled cast of targets, Rodgers hasn’t flinched. His aplomb, receiver Jarrett Boykin said, was obvious in the huddle all night Sunday, generat-ing noticeable urgency, especial-ly after Vikings rookie Cordar-relle Patterson opened the night with a 109-yard kickoff return touchdown.

“Aaron’s a very confident, emo-tional leader,” Boykin said. “He basically told us that we needed to put points on the board right away, keep putting them up and prove our identity.”

True to form, Rodgers scrubbed in and went into surgery. He fin-ished a 14-play, 90-yard opening drive with an 11-yard pass to Nel-son, noticing a single-high safety look and beating blanket cover-age from Josh Robinson with a perfect throw.

Rodgers connected with Nel-

son again a quarter later, this time recognizing blitz pressure, eyeing Nelson as his hot read and pinpointing a slant pass 3 inches above the inside shoulder of linebacker Chad Greenway and between both Vikings safe-ties, sending Nelson dashing to a 76-yard score.

“It’s all about Aaron’s quick release,” Nelson said. “He can diagnose a defense extremely fast and get the ball out of his hands. And we do a good job with our hot reads and having the feel for what he wants done.”

That feel has the Packers boast-ing the NFC’s most potent offense, averaging 438.9 yards per game and preparing to host an inju-ry-riddled Bears defense that has been ineffective in creating pressure.

After an open date, the Bears should be somewhat rejuvenated. Yet while Nelson, Rodgers and the Packers wore themselves out Sun-day, they did so by scoring every time they had the ball until two game-ending kneel-downs.

Said Rodgers: “We expect greatness out of our guys. We expect guys to be prepared for the routes they’re running, the blocks they’re making, and guys did a great job.”

MARK HOFFMAN MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE Minnesota Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph picks up 18 yards on a reception before being tackled by Green Bay Packers strong safety Morgan Burnett on Sunday at Mall of America Field in Minneapolis, Minn.

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BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

The Illini hockey team isn’t out of troubled waters yet, but at least they’re swimming.

Weighed down by the toughest month in one of the most difficult schedules of any hockey team in the nation, the Illini (7-6-1) have dropped seven of their past eight games after starting the season with six straight wins.

No. 16 Illinois’ losses have all come against top-15 teams such as No. 1 Arizona State, No. 3 Robert Morris, No. 7 Iowa State and No. 13 Lindenwood.

Despite losing most of their games over the past month, the Illini began to wake up last week-end against No. 13 Lindenwood. Prior to the series, Illinois was on a six-game losing streak in which it was outscored 29-5 by its oppo-nents and shutout in three of the games.

But this past weekend, the team scored more goals than it had in the previous three weeks, burying six goals and splitting the series with its conference rival.

The Illini offense was producing for the first time in nearly a month and kept the team in the game for most of each night, even earning a 3-2 comeback victory Friday night.

Illinois’ loss Saturday night wasn’t from a lack of goals but instead from its poor penalty kill, another area of play that has crippled the team this season.

Illinois allowed three power-play goals to the Lions, as well as a shorthanded goal, which became the difference in the game.

The Illini welcomed 12 fresh-men to the roster just three months ago. Senior winger John Scully said as the young team con-tinues to mature together, the wins will come sooner rather than later.

“As long as we kind of keep step-ping in the right direction, I think we’ll be OK,” Scully said. “We’re definitely not hitting the panic but-ton yet.”

Although the Illini aren’t where they want to be in the rankings, head coach Nick Fabbrini said it’s early in the season and the team still has a chance to climb back up in the polls.

“Losing as many games as we did in the way we did definitely doesn’t help our cause, but we have plenty of time to get back to where we want to be and where we need to be,” he said.

The Illini still have series against No. 3 Robert Morris, No. 7 Iowa State and No. 13 Lin-denwood left this season, which

offers an opportunity for redemp-tion against the teams who beat them early on. The team also still has a chance to make a statement against No. 2 Minot State, the defending ACHA national cham-pions, as well as No. 5 Central Oklahoma, No. 8 Oklahoma and No. 11 Ohio.

Even after falling eight spots in the national polls in two weeks, Fabbrini said the team is focused on controlling what it can control on the ice.

Illinois’ special teams is still holding the team back from its full potential, having given up 11 power-play goals and three short-handed goals in the past eight games. But as the team’s goal scor-ers begin to produce, they begin to slowly solve the issue of poor offensive production by starting to play with the intensity expect-ed of them at the beginning of the season.

“I think we’ve gotten our confi-dence back,” Fabbrini said. “Fri-day night was probably as good as we’ve played all year, but we’re still working to find that consistent level of energy and effort.”

Sean can be reached at spneuma2@dailyillini.com and @Neumannthehuman.

Illini hockey rallies in wake of losing streak

BY BLAKE PONSTAFF WRITER

For the first time this season, the Illinois volleyball team will be facing a team for a second time. Unfortunately for the Illini (9-11, 5-5 Big Ten), they’ll be facing the No. 11 Cornhuskers (15-4, 8-2), this time in Lincoln, Neb., where wins have been scarce in Illinois history.

When these two teams first played in September, the result was ugly for the Illini. Not only did the Illini get swept, but nei-ther their offense nor their defense played at a high level, as Illinois hit .144, its second lowest output of the season, and allowed Nebraska to hit .255.

“We didn’t execute our game plan well at all last time,” head coach Kevin Hambly said. “We played soft, we played scared and the biggest thing is we need to be tougher.”

The Illini will also be coming into the match on a seven-game losing streak against the Husk-ers, with Illinois’ last win coming in 1993. Despite the recent strug-gles, sophomore setter Alexis Vil-iunas said the team isn’t feeling any pressure after being swept by Nebraska earlier this season.

“We’re a whole totally differ-ent team than we were the first time we played them,” Viliunas said. “It can really go either way. We’ve grown up a lot since that match (Sept. 28), and we’ve gotten so much better. It’ll be a tough one, but it’ll be fun.”

Part of the Illini’s matura-tion process has been closing out games. After giving up a handful of close games, including a jar-ring, five-set loss to Northwestern in which Illinois took the first two sets, the team has since vowed to be less susceptible to breakdowns at the end of sets. The Illini dis-played their resiliency and will to finish in their last match, when they once again took the first two sets but were able to close out the match in four against No. 16 Wisconsin.

“We didn’t necessarily know how to win certain games,” junior outside hitter Liz McMahon said. “We knew how to play well, but we didn’t really know what that extra piece was to win the game. I think we’re starting to figure that out.”

To finish their matchup with Nebraska, the Illini will have to get themselves into that position first. Something the team hasn’t been able to do all season and will

need to do against Nebraska is put together an equally strong show-ing on both sides of the ball.

“I think it’s natural when we want to be offensive to have this attacking mentality or intensity,” McMahon said. “We need to trans-fer that to defense, too. ... It’s hard to sustain that intensity for a whole game, but I think we just need to work on that and it’ll level out.”

The Illini will have to try and slow down Nebraska’s twin outside hitters Kadie and Amber Rolfzen to get within reach of match point. Although Amber was held to a mere .048 hitting percentage in the teams’ last meeting, she made up for it defensively by registering five blocks and seven digs. Kadie provided the offense for Nebras-ka, racking up 14 of the team’s 38 kills to the tune of a .242 hitting percentage.

“(Amber) completely abused my blocks, so we’re going to have a bet-ter game plan against her,” McMa-hon said. “I know (the duo’s) style of play now. I know their swing now, and I know how to defend them. But they’re good, they don’t play like freshmen at all.”

Blake can be reached at pon1@dailyillini.com.

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points or higher). He averages two touchdowns per game and has yet to throw for fewer than 200 yards in a game this season. The only drawback to Dalton is his interceptions, seven in eight games, but is that really a rea-son not to pick him up? I think not. Pick him up.

Kenny Stills (wide receiver, Saints, 1.1 percent) — Stills is getting opportune looks from Drew Brees, which is some-thing that should be sending all fantasy owners to the waiv-ers. With a mere three catches, Stills showcased his talent by breaking out for 129 yards and two touchdowns. For some rea-son, Brees seems to have devel-oped a connection with Stills,

and it’s churning out great num-bers. Add the low-ranked Jets passing defense into the mix and Stills becomes one of the week’s hottest options.

DROPSJared Cook (tight end, Rams,

81.4 percent) — The Rams haven’t proven to have a con-sistent passing game, espe-cially one that includes a tight end. Sam Bradford is gone for the season, which transitions the Rams pass production from bad to abysmal. They also play two of the better pass defens-es in the next two weeks (Ten-nessee and Indianapolis). But everything else aside, Cook just doesn’t get the job done. He’s managed no higher than four points for seven straight weeks. If you still think he’s good for

your team, you may as well assume your roster’s tight end spot a wash.

Brandon Meriweather (safe-ty, Redskins, who cares?) — OK, so maybe you can’t actu-ally drop Meriweather. But if you could, you should. This isn’t based on Bears pride or his pub-lic shots at Brandon Marshall; it’s based on his bad attitude, poor play style and disrespect for the game. Changes to the rules were made to help keep players safer, not to encour-age defensive players to operate under the mindset that they’ve “gotta end people’s careers,” as he was reported saying. I know it would just be symbolic, but drop Meriweather.

J.J. is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at jjwilso2@dailyillini.com.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Alexis Villunas sets the ball to Anna Dorn during the game against Nebraska at Huff Hall, on Oct. 1. The Illini will take on Nebraska for the second time this season in Lincoln, Neb.

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She joined the Illini on the field for the first time in 2011, starting in only one of 22 games and fin-ishing the season with three goals and three assists. She reinjured her leg during the 2012 preseason and missed her second full year of college soccer.

“I wasn’t as prepared as I should have been (in 2011),” Flaws said. “Having only three goals, I have never been on a soccer team where that has been the case before. The second time around with the ACL, I was making sure that when I got the chance to get back on the field, I would be prepared.”

Flaws focused her energy on strength and fitness-building exer-cises during her rehab sessions.

She said she wanted to make sure she was fully prepared to face the rigor of a full collegiate season.

That change from two seasons ago is apparent in Flaws’ play. She had surpassed her former career-high tally with five goals by the fourth game of this season, and she has two hat tricks so far.

Megan Pawloski is the other half of Illinois’ forward duo and says the strides Flaws has taken

have improved their partnership.“We’ve learned to play very well

together this season,” Pawloski said. “I know I can always find someone in the middle of the box who can score goals, and I enjoy playing with her.”

In the years before high school, Flaws and current teammate Kas-sidy Brown helped their club team ELA Elite win two state titles (2003, 2004) and a Region II title

(2007). Over the years of watch-ing her teammate develop, Brown said she has been impressed by a consistent aspect of Flaws’ personality.

“She is intense,” Brown said. “In every part of her life she is very competitive but with a fun nature.”

After overcoming two major injuries and a 14-year-old record, Minnesota is next on Flaws’ check-list. Her team needs a win over

Minnesota or a loss by either Iowa or Wisconsin this weekend to secure a spot in the Big Ten Tournament the Illini will host this November.

“We have to go out there like how we approach every game,” Flaws said.

Lanre can be reached at alabi2@dailyillini.com and @WriterLanre.

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