BY SEAN HAMMONDSENIOR WRITER

The jewel of John Groce’s eye spurned Illinois and his home state school in favor of Bill Self’s Kan-sas Jayhawks. Chicago native and Curie Metropolitan High School center Cliff Alexander verbally committed to play at Kansas in a televised announcement.

Alexander was the No. 3-ranked player overall in the class of 2014 according to ESPN.com and the No. 4-ranked player overall according to Rivals. He will join

the Jayhawks beginning with the 2014-15 season.

The decision had been narrowed down to four schools: Kansas, Illi-nois, DePaul and Memphis. Alex-ander made his announcement at his high school minutes after top-ranked players Jahlil Okafor, of Chicago, and Tyus Jones, of Apple Valley, Minn., committed to play at Duke.

Alexander fi rst grabbed the Illinois hat and raised it partway toward his head before putting it back down and grabbing the Kan-

sas hat.“I did what was best for me and

what was best for me and my fam-ily,” Alexander said.

Alexander’s announcement came on the same day that Illi-nois lost a commitment from Lou-isville, Ky., point guard Quentin Snider. Snider had been commit-ted to Illinois until he switched his commitment and signed with Lou-isville on Friday morning.

Illinois has already signed pow-er forwards Leron Black, of Mem-phis, and Michael Finke, of Cham-

paign. Black is a four-star recruit and a top-40 recruit, according to multiple recruiting websites.

Groce spoke to media Saturday but didn’t discuss Alexander or Snider’s decisions.

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

BY CLAIRE HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

The University YMCA recently lost an annual Catholic Campaign for Human Development grant, which supported their immigrant projects, because of a connection the campaign found to be con-trary to the moral teachings of the Catholic church.

This decision came after the campaign added a new condition into the grant, stipulating that the YMCA must cut ties with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, an organi-zation that the YMCA receives much support from. The YMCA decided not to comply.

“We were notifi ed when we reapplied for a second year of funding that it was going to be raised to $60,000, I think refl ect-ing the good work that was hap-pening here,” said Mike Doyle, executive director of the Univer-sity YMCA. “But with that came the condition that we would have to withdraw from this state-wide organization that we work close-ly with because they had come out in support of same-sex mar-

riage.” He added that the YMCA does not have a stance on same-sex marriage.

The fi rst grant the YMCA received totaled $4,000 from the local Catholic church, and the second one was for $37,000 from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Doyle said.

“The bishops of the United States don’t want to fund groups that have taken positions con-trary to the moral teachings of the Catholic church,” said Don Clemmer, assistant director of media relations to the U.S. Con-ference of Catholic Bishops.

He said because there are many people who live in poverty, the grants from the campaign are really competitive, which plays a big role in deciding which organi-zations receive grants from year to year.

“The philosophy behind the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is this notion of the church supporting people who are going out into the world to help empower low income and mar-

BY MEGAN JONESSTAFF WRITER

While the debt clock continues ticking away without pause, Americans owe more than $1 trillion in student loans, which is more than the country owes in credit card debt. In 2011, college seniors in Illinois graduated with an average of $26,000 of debt per graduate, according to The Institute for College Access & Success.

Welcome to the age where 50- and 60-year-olds are still

repaying their student debt loans, said Tony Fiorentino, a graduate student in the College of Law who has been working with the Illinois Student Senate for the past year to address student debt issues.

“I think the biggest problem facing the student loan system is that the students are treated unequally under the law, particularly in respect to our bankruptcy laws,” Fiorentino said. “Students cannot fi nd

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The University Board of Trustees voted to dismiss Engineering professor Louis Wozniak at its meeting Thurs-day in Springfi eld.

“This has been a long and deliberative process gov-erned by the University stat-utes,” University President Robert Easter said. “The goal throughout has been to give due process to the professor, and we have now arrived at a decision.”

Wozniak’s tenure has now offi cially been revoked, though he had already been suspend-ed for actions including send-ing inappropriate messages to students, disregarding student

privacy and creating a hos-tile environment in his class, according to a Board of Trust-ees report.

“This is a unique experience in the history of the Universi-ty,” Easter said. “It has been very diffi cult for us having to make a decision.”

The termination process will now be invoked, and the campus will work with Woz-niak on his transition out of

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MEGAN JONES THE DAILY ILLINI Tony Fiorentino, graduate student and Illinois student senator, sits on top of the Alma Mater base during a student debt awareness rally on Friday. He spoke about how the Alma Mater used to stand with her arms open and how college affordability should be avaliable to all.

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Today’s Birthday Your muses inspire you this year, especially in autumn and next April. These creative bursts boost career and finances, with a late summer megaphone. Partnership holds it all together, supporting all this growth. Apply discipline to your art, and this passion infuses everything. Travel for new philosophies and flavors. Document and express. Share what you love.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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the University, said University spokesman Tom Hardy.

Easter said this is the fi rst time in the history of the Uni-versity that a professor has been dismissed by the board.

“There have been other instances in which faculty have opted to leave the University after dismissal proceedings,” he said.

Easter defended the deci-sion, stressing the necessity to remove Wozniak for student safety.

“We have clear obligations relative to our students and to the families they come from to protect a great number of their rights,” Easter said. “The con-cern rose to a level that we felt this action was necessary.”

Wozniak’s pension, however, will not be revoked.

Wozniak began working at the University as a professor in 1966, and his teaching privileg-es have been suspended twice, totaling 10 years of suspension. His professorship in the depart-ment of industrial and enter-prise systems engineering had been on hold since 2010, when he taught his last class.

Also at the meeting, trustees discussed how the University will work around fi nancial bar-riers that it has been dealing with recently.

The University is still fac-ing signifi cant diffi culty when it comes to budgetary issues and debt, said Comptroller Walter Knorr during a presen-tation from the board’s Audit, Budget, Finance and Facilities Committee.

“On the quantitative features, we are positive on everything but the state relationship and the state rating,” he said.

Knorr said, in terms of debt capacity, the University is still hoping to maintain an AAA rat-ing on the Moody’s Corporation credit rating scale. This rating puts the University ahead of Ohio State University and Uni-

versity of Michigan, but behind all other Big Ten universities. University debt is currently sitting at more than $1 billion, Knorr said.

Administrators have also been concerned regarding the Medicaid trust fund running short at the University, Knorr said.

“We were made aware in October that we were going to have some diffi culty getting a reimbursement of our Medicaid charges for FY13,” Knorr said. “This was also going to poten-tially effect our FY14 receipts.”

The University is working with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Ser-vices in order to deal with the Medicaid charges, Knorr said, though some issues with the state remain.

Knorr said the Institute of Government and Public Affairs released a report a couple of weeks ago regarding the con-dition of the state.

“It was a rather dismal out-look for the state, even deal-ing with pension and with the increased tax surcharge — still, the state had a lot of problems,” Knorr said.

He also noted that the Illi-nois did have a better year in FY13 than in years past. This past year the state’s debt has decreased by $6.1 billion, which includes its debt to the Uni-versity. Knorr said this is an improvement of approximately $2 billion, but the state of Illi-nois still owes the University $289 million.

In the coming year, the Uni-versity will have to put unfund-ed pension obligations on its bal-ance sheet as well, he said.

“We (need to) get over this pension crisis,” Knorr said. “We are going to be walking on egg shells until we get this pension thing dealt with.”

During the presentation of the Governance Personnel and Ethics Committee, trustees dis-cussed other sources of funding for the University in the future that will be needed in order to rebound from these economic

issues. Tom Farrell, president of the University of Illinois Foundation, spoke on behalf of the committee, emphasizing a need to invest in more commu-nication with alumni around the world in order to increase donor funding.

“We want to improve our communications and branding activities so that we can get our message out to the commu-nity and to the world that we are great,” Farrell said. “It is imperative from an investment point of view.”

Student Trustee of the Chica-go campus Danielle Leibowitz said that she believes that “stu-dents will want to give back,” but she also inquired where the money was coming from to fund the investments that Far-rell addressed.

Knorr said there have been a number of budget meetings with the campuses about how to “round up and fi nish off the support” to fi nd the resources needed to increase investment and eventually return on those investments.

The University of Illinois Alumni Association has been working to expand their net-work, both to contribute more funding from donors to the Uni-versity, and to increase their political infl uence.

Illinois Connection, a Uni-versity networking group with-in the Alumni Association, is working on an initiative to “cul-tivate key contacts” within their group of grassroots workers, said Illinois Connection Direc-tor Amy Eichhorst. The group will begin searching for notable alumni who have connections to key legislators, in order to have a greater infl uence over legisla-tion, which will ultimately ben-efi t the University.

Illinois Connection plans to start building a broader net-work this year and hopes to be fully functional by December 2015.

“We know that we have a very strong grassroots network, and we will continue to grow that,” Eichhorst said. “We will actu-

ally ask (alumni) to be the key contact for (their) legislator so that more and more legis-lators in the state are hearing about higher education and the University.”

By identifying these “legis-lative targets,” Eichhorst said she hopes the University will expand its sphere of interest.

The group will also start to focus in on specifi c issues, working together to achieve particular goals on behalf of the University.

“The key issues that we are advocating for need to be clear and specifi c so that we are all on the same page,” Eichhorst said. “We are really getting sophisti-cated with this and making sure that we know what our alumni are going to ask for.”

In the past, the group has advocated for certain issues by encouraging student letter writing campaigns, meetings with legislators and other advo-cacy, Eichhorst said. This push for more infl uential alumni to become involved is expected to go one step beyond these stu-dents’ actions, she added.

As the Illinois Connection network expands, Eichhorst has seen an increasing number of participants from a young-er demographic. This year, the group has about 5,000 activists between the ages of 21 and 30.

“We also started to reach out as students graduate,” she said. “These are alumni that may not have the fi nancial means to get involved, but they will give us their time and their activism and hopefully someday ... they will be able to give to us fi nan-cially as well.”

Illinois Connection has also started seeing alumni involve-ment occurring on a global scale; the association now has representatives in 41 countries, Eichhorst said.

The Board of Trustees will reconvene at its next meeting, which is scheduled to be held in Chicago on Jan. 23.

MaryCate can be reached at most2@dailyillini.com.

Alumnus honored at climate change talkBY ANDREW MUSURSTAFF WRITER

Former University analytical chemist and alumnus, Charles David Keeling, was honored at an event last Thursday at Noy-es Laboratory by George Mason University Professor Edward Mai-bach. Maibach has been working since 2009 with several meteorolo-gists around the country in order to teach citizens about local cli-mate changes.

“Most Americans are con-vinced the climate is changing and they want solution enacted, but most feel little sense of urgen-cy,” Maibach said.

Keeling, who died in 2005, was a 1948 graduate from the Univer-sity . He was known for his meth-ods of taking precise measure-ments of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which were the fi rst to show the possibility of human contribution to the greenhouse effect and global warming.

Keeling produced a data set known as the Keeling Curve, which shows that the oceans read-ily absorb excess carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.

Keeling helped change the way scientists looked at the world, Maibach said, and was known for changing the way scientists monitor atmospheric carbon diox-ide levels. Keeling received the National Medal of Science in 2002 from President Bush, the nation’s highest award for lifetime achieve-ment in scientifi c research.

Maibach said he wants to edu-cate people on climate change, so

they can see it does matter. “While many Americans are

changing their behavior to do something about climate change, the behaviors they are performing do not make all that much of a dif-ference,” Maibach said.

The ultimate goal for Maibach is to have people understand the importance of climate change through informing meteorologists on his theories, who can then edu-cate the general public.

“TV weather broadcasters now have the ability to show people that climate change is part of a broader trend,” Maibach said.

University students’ opinions stand divided on what they think about Maibach’s presentation.

“Overall the presentation by Maibach was very information-al, and I was able to see the big picture, but I just do not see how this will help us,” said Nick Porti-llo, freshman in LAS. “I know for one, I am too lazy to get up and completely change my life around to stop climate change, and I feel most Americans can agree with that.”

On the other hand, not all stu-dents agree with this viewpoint, such as Natalie Gacek, freshman in Media.

“I really think we are going to change as a society,” Gacek said. “Maibach is opening a door that no one has ever been introduced to, this will change what the world becomes in the future.”

Andrew can be reached at musur2@dailyillini.com.

VICTORIA PAI THE DAILY ILLINIEdward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, discusses climate change and its effect on humans and the environment during his talk titled “Public Opinion on Climate Change: What Is It, What Infl uences It, and Does It Matter?” on Thursday. Former University analytical chemist Charles David Keeling, who died in 2005, was honored at the event.

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debt relief by going to court, no matter how much debt they take on.”

He added that the cost of tuition has risen at two to three times the rate of infl ation for several decades now, leading to catastrophic consequences.

“Students are delaying car purchases, retirement contributions, they are not able to get married or have children as they normally would because they have such large student debt repayments,” Fiorentino said.

The College Board estimates that students will pay 50 percent more toward tuition than a decade ago, after infl ation.

“There’s no way that people can afford that kind of tuition by simply fl ipping burgers over the summer or getting help from their parents,” Fiorentino said. “Most people who are (in) middle or low-income families don’t have the kind of money sitting around in a savings account, so they have to borrow, which is something few people had to do 30 to 40 years ago.”

Because there are no consumer or bankruptcy protections on student loans, students are fi nding themselves taking on huge loans in a lending system that has become predatory, Fiorentino said.

Illinois Student Senate hosts debt awareness week

The Illinois Student Senate

devoted last week to student debt awareness in an effort to bring attention to the lack of consumer protections for student loans, which can weigh heavily on students and their families.

“The purpose is that many students do not understand the relationship between their lack of consumer rights and the infl ated price of college,” Fiorentino said. “Now with $50,000 in credit card debt (from) just buying stupid things, I could get debt relief, but not if I took on the same load of debt trying to get an education.”

Illinois Student Senate hosted a panel Tuesday, Nov. 12, which featured several speakers including Rep. Naomi Jakobsson, D-103, Sen. Mike Frerichs and Alan Collinge, founder of studentloanjustice.org and the nation’s leading activist for legal equality for student borrowers.

“Congress has done nothing for us. I can tell you this problem is not going to be solved without the students,” Collinge said. “We have gotten no federal legislation passed.”

Collinge referenced a story of a borrower who contacted him saying they took out a $5,000 loan, but due to late fees, penalty fees and capitalized interest, their loan had grown to $100,000.

The student senate also hosted a screening of the documentary “Default” on Thursday, which was followed by a town hall discussion with students.

Lastly, a rally was held Friday on the Quad, which included Champaign City Council members, local politicians, members from Student Loan Justice and professors.

“It felt exhilarating,” Fiorentino said. “This is something that so many students suffer silently through and treat it as if it’s their own personal albatross or their own personal struggle, and it’s not.”

Participants marched to the Alma Mater in a symbolic effort to protest against how “the guardian of the past has forsaken the American dream,” said Mitch Dickey, ISS member and sophomore in LAS.

“Your arms are no longer open to all those happy children of the future,” Dickey said. “The true travesty is with our legislators and administrators who have lost focus of making education affordable for all.”

Fiorentino stressed that the idea is not to study hard to make lots of money to pay off loans, because that will not fi x the system, only leaving generations to come with the same problem.

“The idea is to work together and change the law so today’s students have the same opportunities that yesterday’s students had,” Fiorentino said.

The aftermath of student loans

Meet Victoria Weiley, a 55-year-old woman who has paid more than $35,000 in interest without making a dent

in paying off her student loan debt.

Weiley’s father died when she was 12 years old; her mother never graduated high school, which left her with no one to guide her through the higher education system. She graduated from college with honors in 1988, after which she worked two full-time jobs to pay back her loans. After not making a dent in her payments, she sought consumer credit counseling who told her “she seems to be doing everything right.”

She decided to go back in 1998 to earn her master’s degree in hopes of earning more money. In her last semester of school, she opened her student loan statement and was appalled — she was in $72,000 of debt.

“I couldn’t eat or sleep for a couple of days, and I was actually suicidal,” Weiley said. “I suffer from insomnia, and I believe this has contributed to my diagnosis of breast cancer, which I overcame. I also am on antidepressants. However, I refuse to become a victim from this.”

Today, her debt stands at $118,000, and she makes a monthly payment of $550, which only goes toward interest.

Collinge said this is why bankruptcy protection rights need to be enacted, giving people like Weiley some leverage to create better payment programs.

“Every time you mention bankruptcy, people freak

out,” Collinge said. “It’s not so everyone can run out and file for bankruptcy. The importance of this protection is to have a good faith relationship with the lender and to prevent abuse to the consumer.”

He hopes that with these rights in place, the lender will hold the same risk as the consumer. With this, lenders will want to see consumers succeed and successfully pay off their loans instead of simply charging more interest.

Natalie Uhl, graduate student at the University, has been in college for 14 years — a task which would be “impossible” to take on without student loans.

She is currently striving to buy a home in the Champaign community, and after working multiple jobs, where all her income goes towards student loans, she cannot afford a down payment for a house. Her car is as old as her college career, and she can no longer take it on the interstate.

“All I want is a career as a teacher, all I want is a roof over my head, all I want is a car that’s safe,” Uhl said. “The interest is accumulating everyday, and it’s horrifying to watch. I feel like people that work hard and get an education to do a public good, like teach others, should be allowed this common decency.”

Legislation passes, calls on senators

Ja kobsson submit ted a resolution, HR 0620,

to the Illinois House of Representatives, which calls on Congress to restore bankruptcy protections and consumer rights to students that take on loans. The resolution is currently “stuck in committee,” while a similar resolution, written by Fiorentino, was passed in the Illinois Senate by Sen. Frerichs.

“We already have one body, one chamber of our state legislature, that has defi nitely answered this question, and that’s enough for us to get started and rallying around this,” Fiorentino said.

The rally ended with a commitment for next semester: to get state senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk to a town hall meeting to talk about the “horrible failures” of the federal student loan program and how they are leading a generation of students into a “debt trap spiral,” Fiorentino said.

He also said students today should receive the same educational treatment that Durbin received when he went to college and graduated in 1966.

“If that’s the deal Dick Durbin got, he should want today’s students to get the same opportunity. He should want that kind of generational equality,” Fiorentino said. “So, it’s not just equality under the law we want, it’s generational equality.”

Megan can be reached at majones5@dailyillini.com and @meganash_jones.

ginalized people,” Clemmer said. “CCHD is a good example of that kind of work, of doing real work to empower marginalized people.”

The grant funds come from a yearly donation of Catholics across the nation averaging about $10 million, and then the money is distributed according to need, Clemmer said. He said the local bishops must fi rst approve every grant before it is sent to the national offi ce for the grant fund-ing to be distributed.

“You don’t have to be Catholic for the bishops to support your work, but the bishops can’t, in good conscience, take up dona-tions from Catholics across the country and turn around and fund groups that advocate for abortion or gay marriage,” Clemmer said.

Doyle said there were two main reasons the YMCA rejected the new conditions: First, they did not feel comfortable giving a funder the power to tell them who and who not to be affi liated with, and second, it would undermine the work that the Y is doing with immigrants.

“It had nothing to do with some-thing the church was concerned about,” Doyle said. “It had to do with our work around immigra-tion. (The coalition) provided incredible resources and have been supportive of us.”

The Illinois Coalition for Immi-grants and Refugee Rights is one of the strongest statewide groups in the country and has been invaluable to the work they are doing, he said.

The coalition offers informa-tion and instruction on how to apply for services such as the Affordable Care Act and tempo-rary driver’s licenses, its website explains.

An alumnus of the University works with the coalition, and he organizes workshops and series for immigrants at the YMCA as well as informational community meetings to raise awareness about immigration issues, said Saman-tha Busso, president of La Colecti-

va, a student group funded by the YMCA, and junior in LAS.

A few of the groups funded by the grant money are La Colecti-va, a latino/latina mentoring pro-gram, La Linea, a Spanish lan-guage community support line, and C-U Immigration Forum, which was created to bring togeth-er all people in the Champaign-Urbana community who are doing work to help immigrants.

La Colectiva is a social justice organization, Busso said, and its members work closely volunteer-ing with the driver’s license cam-paign helping immigrants regis-ter for temporary driver’s license as well as working with Urbana High School students through mentoring programs.

Lisa Sink, La Linea casework-er, said immigrants use the sup-port line for referral information, interpretation services and case management. She said she meets with people to understand their needs and to help advocate for them to offi cials, such as child sup-port offi ces, to accomplish these needs.

Megan Flowers, communica-tions director of the University YMCA, said the YMCA plans to make up for the lost grant fund-ing through reaching out into the community for support.

Flowers said the coalition is planning to provide some fund-ing to groups like the YMCA for a year while the organizations devise plans to make up for the lost grant funding, but it is not guaranteed that they will receive these funds.

Busso said the YMCA fi nancial-ly supports La Colectiva, so in the future, the group is planning to look for alternative ways to raise funds for themselves and for the YMCA.

“The Yis a type of organization that supports multiple groups; it’s not just certain issues that they address, so I don’t see the Y being an organization where people are like ‘no, we don’t support their decisions so we’re not going to help them fi nancially,’” she said.

Claire can be reached at hettngr2@dailyillini.com.

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Every Thursday, I volunteer to mentor a sixth grader at nearby Urbana Middle

School. I come one day a week, eat lunch with him, help him with his homework and then if we have extra time left, we usually get to play basketball or com-puter games or do something entertaining.

Last Thursday, however, as I was going to pick up my little guy from class to take him to the cafeteria, I overheard a teacher scold a group of seventh graders in the hallway. Her form of rep-rimanding them was to scream, emphatically ending her state-ment with: “Y’all dumbasses was clownin’.”

At first, I couldn’t believe what was going on. I thought it was a joke. There was no way that a teacher, and an English teacher at that, was yelling at this group of students in such an informal way, not to mention the grammat-ical errors in her speech.

In the past few years I have frequently witnessed teachers, whether it be in the classroom or in the hallways, who disci-pline by screaming and through anger as opposed to explanation

and understanding. Many of the teachers and principals I have encountered, both at the middle school and elementary school lev-els, use teaching and discipline tactics that are inappropriate and lack patience.

I’m not saying that every teacher in the Urbana Public School system is bad (in fact, there are many teachers there that are among the most dedicat-ed I have ever seen), or that the school system itself is bad. What is evident, however, is that these schools are clearly not equipped with adequate resources to sup-port their students and teachers.

Last year, only 42.1 percent of students at Urbana High School met their standards on the Prai-rie State Achievement Exam, compared to the 53 percent aver-age for the state. And the school as a whole only averaged a 19.6 on their ACT tests.

I’m certainly not advocating that all the blame for these poor numbers be placed on the teach-ers; there are multiple factors at work here, such as high pro-portions of students from low-income families (64.7 percent at UHS) and property taxes. It’s obvious that districts like the ones right here in our backyard could certainly be given more resources and allocate them as necessary, similar to New Trier High School in wealthy suburban Winnetka, where 89 percent of

students meet PSAE standards.Seeing as Urbana is part of a

college town, and that the Uni-versity of Illinois has an entire college dedicated to Education, you would think that the pool of talent that Urbana public schools has to hire from and the resourc-es available to them would be stronger than they are.

The problem, however, is that often times the top-tier talent is hired away to more affluent areas of the state that have more resources - most notably, the wealthy Chicago suburbs.

This makes sense; the taxes in the suburbs and other affluent areas of the state are higher, and as such, the public schools have more resources — particularly to pay teachers making them much more likely to pursue a teaching job away from downstate schools.

This, in turn, lures those young and ambitious teachers away from the areas that need the most help and into the areas that can afford to pay the highest for the best teachers. It also ensures that schools with the highest property taxes will continue receiving the most resources, and those that don’t will continue to suffer. I’m not saying that top talent doesn’t deserve top money, they certainly do. But the pro-cess by which some school dis-tricts are left behind is blatantly unfair.

The problem I have with this,

specifically, is that it creates a visible line of affluence. In the-ory, all students in the United States of America should receive a public education with the same standards. If all of the exception-al teachers are extracted from the local community, it is then left with a slew of teachers who may not be as dedicated or as qualified.

This certainly doesn’t seem fair to someone like the 12 year-old boy I mentor, who has a legitimate drive to learn, but because of a learning disability, has a hard time finding a teacher with the patience and care to help him succeed.

Why should a student with the same disability from the North Shore, for example, automatically get access to a better teacher sim-ply because of geographical loca-tion? That’s frankly not fair.

I’m not advocating for forcing teachers to stay in the communi-ty - of course they should choose to go where they want. I’m simply stating that it is impossible to say that the standard of public educa-tion is equal across the state.

The best teachers are going to the best places with the best resources, perpetuating a “rich-get-richer” scenario in which many of those who need the most help get the least.

Boswell is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at hutson2@dailyillini.com.

We hate it, we love it, and we can’t stop using it. Whether it’s the peo-

ple on it or the people behind it, Facebook can be pretty annoying.

It’s happened to all of us before: Log onto Facebook and see a banner at the top notify-ing us that things are going to change. We cringe on the inside and wonder, “What have I done to deserve this?” — the dread-ed Facebook update. It’s hap-pened plenty of times and we all adjust — eventually. But it has always a pain to have to navi-gate a new layout when we are so used to things being in familiar locations.

The most recent update is one that has had a lot of people still longing for the older Facebook days. Facebook Timeline is tol-erable now that it’s been around long enough for us to get used to it, but it really does enhance creeper tactics.

Before, said creeper would

have to at least have the patience to sift through hundreds of tagged pictures to see what you were up to three years ago, but now all he would have to do is click on the year “2010” on the side and “BAM!” The creeper suddenly has access to all of your embarrassing status updates from the past, all of your bad hair days and all of your poor ward-robe choices.

Even more annoying are the constant updates the Facebook team decides to make to the pri-vacy settings. Since the nature of Facebook is already a creeper’s paradise, you’d think Facebook privacy setting updates would be helpful rather than the complete opposite.

Just recently, Facebook sent out an email notifying its mem-bers that they were going to adjust the way people could search for you. The email I received stated that, “Anyone will be able to look up your Timeline by your name — but if they go to your Timeline, they’ll only see what they already have permis-sion to see.”

Great, so unless you want to completely block a person, you’ll have to go through your settings

and handpick what that person can and cannot see. This extra time you’d have to go through to ensure that somebody doesn’t see your posts is inconvenient.

And worse than the people who keep making changes to Face-book are the people who are using it.

Guys who post pictures of the progression of their workout need to stop.

I do not want to scroll through my Facebook and see various pic-tures of abs, biceps and forearms the size of a toilet seat. We get it, you’re ripped. Some guys defend themselves by saying, “Well, this is how guys who work out moti-vate each other to get better.” Sure, because there isn’t some-thing called a Facebook group or message option where this can be done privately.

Girls are just annoying online, but in a different way.

I’ve seen too many Facebook statuses of girls “complaining” about some random man who hit on her on the street: “Oh no guys, yet another guy thinks I’m hot. What a pain.” Seriously? Don’t lie, getting hit on really isn’t that awful. As long as the guy doesn’t annoy or pursue you, the experi-

ence is only a little annoying. If anything, it could even be a mini ego boost. Pretending to complain about it on Facebook is more of a cry for attention than a genuine complaint about the antics of ran-dom men on the street.

Finally, the most annoying people on Facebook would have to be the couples who are con-stantly in your face about their love. I get it, some of you have been together since you were fetuses — straight up Cory and Topanga style — but please do not subject the whole Facebook world to every moment you share together.

I’m not saying to never share anything you do with your signifi-cant other on Facebook, but most people would appreciate it if you followed the “less is more” rule.

Despite all the annoyances, Facebook is a pretty good social media site for talking to friends, sharing pictures and making humorous observations — that is, if you can do it without all the creepers watching.

Sehar is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at shsiddi2@dailyillini.com. Follow her on Twitter @nimatod.

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EDITORIALWozniak !ring

shows that tenure not limitless

Standards in education blurred by resource disparity

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BOSWELL HUTSON

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Facebook annoyances are tradeoff for using site

In April 1960, then-assis-tant biology professor Leo F. Koch published a let-ter in The Daily Illini in response to a piece ti-

tled “Sex Ritualized,” written by two students. They outlined scenes from a sorority house to highlight the pre-determined rituals of male-female rela-tionships, dating and sex on campus.

Koch responded by stating that stu-dents, if mature enough, should be able to have premarital sex because contra-ceptives and medical advice are readi-ly available and accessible. The Univer-sity president at the time found Koch’s opinion in the letter reprehensible and fired him with the approval of the Board of Trustees, prompting Koch to fight the decision in court.

The case was the last of its kind that involved the University Board of Trust-ees until last week when it proved that tenure is not always a guaranteed safe-ty blanket. Louis Wozniak, a tenured en-gineering professor, was dismissed by the Board following more than 40 years at the University.

Wozniak, distraught after not receiv-ing a student-selected award that he claims he won in 2009, had his tenure revoked for “sending inappropriate messages to students, disregarding stu-dent privacy and creating a hostile en-vironment in his class,” The Daily Illi-ni reported Thursday, citing a Board of Trustees report.

After testing the limits of professors’ academic freedom in the Koch case in 1960, the Board of Trustees learned that academic freedom stretches only so far.

Academic freedom, then, according to University English professor Cary Nel-son, often follows a hierarchical pat-tern, where different tiers of academ-ic workers receive different degrees of security and protection.

Tenured faculty would inevitably re-ceive the “most secure and protected form” of academic freedoms — such as discretion over course structure and material without influence from the de-partment or other faculty.

Tenure is often the most sought-out status for teachers and professors. It provides select faculty with legal pro-tections against arbitrary dismissal, al-lowing them to speak, write and re-search freely without fearing penalties or loss of employment.

As The Daily Illini also reported last week, non-tenure track faculty mem-bers believe that their contracts lack any clear outline regarding what they are permitted to do and how that per-mission relates to their job responsi-bilities. The obvious relief of tenured faculty includes job security, salary in-creases and resource availability.

Wozniak gained tenure in 1972, just five years after joining the engineer-ing department at the University. Testi-mony from students on the UIUC sub-Reddit recall Wozniak being extremely caring toward his students through his “genuine” yet “eccentric” teaching style.

But students also recall his stubborn-ness.

In the mid-1990s, Wozniak challenged a requirement that he provide his grade books to the engineering department, something he considered a violation of his academic freedom. In May of 2010, Wozniak sent an inappropriate email with sexual overtones to about 100 se-niors he referred to as his “GKs,” or grandkids.

Wozniak’s tenure may have pushed him to test the limits of his academic freedom and freedom of speech, just as much as it was supposed to protect his freedoms.

Although there may have been seri-ous enough allegations to dismiss Woz-niak earlier, his case should serve as a lesson to all tenured faculty that aca-demic freedom and tenure do have limi-tations.

Although the joke may be that ten-ured professors can do as they please, they should also be aware that tenure is not and will not be an excuse for repeat-ed, and inappropriate, misconduct.

BY JOHNNY DIAZMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

They give new meaning to a trek on the beach.

Two intrepid teams, of two men each, have been mapping 825 miles of Florida beaches, lugging backpacks topped with green cam-era globes that shoot 360-degree panoramic views of the shoreline.

These so-called Google Trek-kers are on a sandy mission to show people the beaches online the same way that Google Maps shows them street views of homes and businesses. Google and Visit Florida, the state’s official tourism agency, have been collaborating on the four-month coastal image-collection project, which began in July with one team in the Panhan-dle and North Florida and culmi-nates with another pair of trekkers in South Florida.

Wherever they journey, they turn heads.

“(People) see somebody with a giant ball over their head, they figured something was up,” said Sean McGeever, 23, part of the South and Central Florida duo that started in September. “They rec-ognized us from the Google Street View cameras on cars.”

McGeever and David DeLong, 55, have been clocking about 50 miles a week in their odyssey, which has included inlets (Hills-boro Inlet) and small islands (Pea-nut Island in West Palm Beach).

They mapped North Palm Beach and Lake Worth from Oct. 23 to 24 before kicking up the sand in Pompano Beach and greater Fort Lauderdale on Oct. 25 and 26. This month, they’ve moved into Miami-Dade County and the Keys. The last mile on their 10-week trek was set for Nov. 13 on Miami Beach’s South Pointe Park.

But this hasn’t been a complete day at the beach for them. There were blisters to contend with, and tough terrain.

“Fort Lauderdale was pretty tough,” said McGeever, who was working as a teacher’s aide at a St. Petersburg, Fla., elementary school before becoming a part-time Google Trekker. “(The sand there) will not only be soft but it will be real deep. You put a foot down and you sink your feet into it.”

The sand in Central Florida was tough and flat, they said, which made it easier to hike.

The guys worked weekdays from 8 a.m. to late afternoon, when beaches are less crowded. While one hiked, the other scouted ahead in a car to check on the weather and picks up his teammate at a prede-termined location.

“There were some days that were very, very hot and you are

trudging along and the sand gets really soft and you are going under 3 mph,” said DeLong, a Tampa, Fla., resident and ultra-marathon run-ner and musician.

While the images are stored on a data card, they go instantly to Google offices in Mountain View, Calif.

“The people in Mountain View watch us live as we are walking,” said Nelson Mongiovi, a project manager for Visit Florida. “You may get a call from California and they say, ‘Lens No. 9 is dirty; you need to clean it.’ “

The green globe has 15 lenses, each shooting an image every 2 seconds. Google will take the pho-tos collected by the cameras and “stitch” them together to make the panoramic views available for users next year, allowing people to virtually take a walk on a Flor-ida beach.

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Illini 4000 host cancer awareness gallery event

just concerned I won’t get into the classes I need to get into.”

Barbara Anderson, academic adviser in Media, said that while signing up for classes last can be frustrating to freshmen, the “col-leges do a good job of making sure there are seats open for freshmen in classes they need to get into.”

“Seniors have worked hard to get where they are, and they are out of time,” Anderson said. “Freshmen still have time to be flexible.”

Karduck echoed this sentiment. “We have to give priority to the

older students. Seniors go before freshmen because they have been here longer and need certain class-es to graduate on time,” she said. “It’s part of life that as a fresh-man you go last, but soon enough you won’t be a freshman and you’ll have seniority.”

To make registration easier on students, Karduck suggested that freshmen plan out their sched-ules ahead of time, go through the registration check list avail-able on the University’s Office of the Registrar’s website and watch the registration video tutorial on

the Admissions website.Anderson said that a successful

registration can come down to hav-ing a backup plan and being open to trying something new, even if the classes’ time slot may not be ideal.

“Don’t panic,” Anderson said. “A class you need might be at a time you don’t love, but it could be a class that changes your world view. Forcing yourself to get out of bed might be worth it. And if you aren’t sure what to do, double check with your adviser.”

Christine can be reached at caolivo2@dailyillini.com.

BY TAYLOR ODISHOSTAFF WRITER

Before the summer of 2012, Tori Cross viewed cancer in a way that’s familiar to many peo-ple: it’s a death sentence. After biking across the nation and talk-ing to people affected by the dis-ease, she realized it can some-times be a gift, a blessing or a friend to some.

Cross, junior in neuroscience, is president of Illini 4000 for Cancer, a student-run RSO. Illini 4000 members bike cross-coun-try for approximately 70 days each summer to raise money for cancer awareness and organiza-tions such as the American Can-cer Society and Camp Kesem.

On Saturday, Illini 4000 held its annual Portraits Gallery event, hosted by the Portraits Project at the University YMCA.

The Portraits Project is a sub-project of Illini 4000. During the trip in the summer, students interview people they meet along the way that have been affected by cancer and then write a profile for each person. Those profiles are put on display at the Portraits Gallery the following fall.

“People just want to share their experiences with cancer,” said Casey Fee, junior in Engi-neering and director of portraits for Illini 4000. “We meet them at churches, at gas stations, at stay-overs and people just come up

to us, read our jerseys and say ‘You’re doing this? Let me tell you what happened to me. Here’s my story.’”

Fee said the project has changed her in many ways. The people she met during her ride were actively fighting cancer, were caretakers or doctors and nurses, and they were stronger, happier and more positive than Fee could have imagined.

“It’s just really inspiring,” Fee said. “Life is bigger than we know it and more fragile than we know it. I’ve learned a lot.”

Not only has this project impacted the people in Illini 4000, but it has also helped those that have been profiled.

“The people that we meet, I think it gives them a lot of hope,” Cross said. “It’s really scary to feel very alone while you’re fight-ing the disease and this builds a community for them ... and it really kind of builds this real-ly strange family with everyone that has been affected by it.”

Illini 4000 will be hosting a gala in the spring similar to the Portraits Gallery. Students can get involved with Illini 4000 by signing up to bicycle in the sum-mer, or helping them fundraise during the school year for the trip.

Catherine Kemp, sophomore in ACES and logistics director of the Portraits Project, shared

what motivated her to join the club.

“I joined Illini 4000 for my own personal stories, people I knew who had cancer and passed away, but I think it really opened my eyes,” Kemp said. “It’s not just me and my loved ones. It’s real-ly such a universal thing and we say it all the time — cancer doesn’t discriminate. It affects everyone.”

To join the club, students must apply and interview with the board members. If they’re accepted, they must attend week-ly meetings and mandatory work-outs twice a week. The trip starts two weeks after classes end. The trip starts in New York and ends when riders cross the bridge to San Francisco. There, they are greeted by family, friends and board members.

Eric Baehr, senior in LAS, will take his first ride with Illni 4000 this summer. Although he’s ner-vous to be alone for two months, he’s looking forward to making the trip.

“I’m most excited to meet peo-ple around this country and get to know them and find out what their story is and eventually put together this cool documentary for the Portraits Project,” Baehr said.

Taylor can be reached at odisho2@dailyillini.com.

SADIE TEPER THE DAILY ILLINITwo women look at the portraits and read the stories of the people met along the Illini 4000 on Saturday at the YMCA.

TAIMY ALVAREZ MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEDavid DeLong hikes along a beach in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., carrying mapping gear on Nov. 8. DeLong is a Google Trekker who walks places cars can’t go to get ground-level views for the company’s mapping.

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CULTUREFreshmen prepare to register on their own

BY ABBY GLICKMANSTAFF WRITER

hen young adults go away to college, the independence can be

exhilarating. However, being away from home can cause homesick-ness, especially with the sudden lack of daily parental guidance and care. Luckily, for the women in the University’s Delta Gamma chap-ter, house mother Teresa Mendez, or more commonly known as “T,” has been a mother to generations of Delta Gamma house members for almost 29 years.

Mendez fi rst came to America from Bolivia in 1957 with her hus-band and son while pregnant with her second child. With the help of her husband’s uncle, the growing family moved to Elkhart, Ind. A friend of theirs then convinced them to move to Champaign-Urba-na, where her husband got a job as an engineer and she ran an appli-ance store.

In 1980, Mendez’s husband was relocated to the Middle East through his job, and Mendez joined him about two years later. It was there Mendez lost her husband to a car accident in May of 1985. When she returned to Champaign-Urba-

na six months later to be close to her three children, she heard that Delta Gamma was looking for a new house director. After meeting house members and alumnae, Men-dez felt that the job was a good fi t.

Although most house mothers, or house directors, do not stay in the position for decades, Mendez formed a special relationship after quickly fi nding her home in the Delta Gamma house. Now at age 79, she said she loves her job, the ladies at the house and the oppor-tunities to meet their families. One of Mendez’s favorite memories at the house is when the girls initi-ated her into the chapter as a sis-ter in 1999.

“T wasn’t a Delta Gamma to begin with, but we initiated her,” said Katherine Bertolini, junior in LAS. “Not only is she a DG, but she’s been with us for almost 29 years, which is outstanding.”

Another favorite memory of Mendez’s was her 25th anniversa-ry surprise party at Delta Gamma, which her family attended.

“It’s been incredible for her to give back to the young people,” said Teresa Bray, Mendez’s oldest daughter. “The young people trust her. She’s a confi dante to them

because she doesn’t judge them; she understands what they’re going through. She has always been able to bring a sense of envi-ronment that is positive and uplift-ing wherever she goes.”

Mendez said she cherishes these memories with the house and many more.

“It would take a whole book to write about them,” she said.

The girls in the house said they have fond memories with Mendez as well. She strives to make the Delta Gamma house feel like home, and many sisters appreciate her efforts.

Stefanie Ferrari, Delta Gamma member and junior in LAS, shared a story of when Mendez knitted her a winter headband with a note say-ing, “Here you go, Stefanie. Hope your ears are warm now.”

“She thinks of everything,” Fer-rari said. “She just makes it very homey. She does what a mom does.”

Mendez has watched the girls in the house grow up year after year; within each four-year cycle, she is able to see members grow up into incredible young women and gain more understanding.

“Because she’s been here so long, she knows all our family

histories and relationship issues,” said Nicole Crifase, Delta Gamma member and junior in LAS.

During the summer, Mendez said she has developed a love for traveling after visiting several destinations around the world. She said her favorite place so far has been Paris, and she hopes she can visit Mexico someday because she has never been there.

Mendez also likes to spend time with her three children and four grandchildren. Bray said that all of her grandchildren trust and admire her, as she “creates a sense of home wherever she is.” Whether she’s pampering the girls in the house, traveling the world or spending time with her fami-ly, Bray said she is guaranteed to bring a positive attitude.

“I love that she’s such an opti-mist even though she’s faced such adversity in her life,” Bertolini said. “She has such a positive out-look on everything that she’s a part of and she’s happy for every moment she has. That’s something that we should all try to emulate every day.”

Abby can be reached at glickmn2@dailyillini.com.

BY CHRISTINE OLIVOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Beginning Tuesday and last-ing until Thursday, University freshmen start the process of course registration for spring 2014. Although registration can be stressful for all students, it can be especially intimidating for fresh-men, who are enrolling in classes on their own for the fi rst time.

The registration process is dif-ferent for all students. At the Uni-versity, students are given regis-tration time slots — with honor students, Disability Resources & Educational Services students and athletes having the fi rst pick, then seniors, juniors, sophomores and fi nally, freshmen, according to the Offi ce of the Registrar website. In the summer prior to the start of their fi rst semester, freshmen attend registration and pick their classes in the presence of an advis-er from their respective college. The adviser is there to answer any questions students may have, as well as help them plan out a bal-anced class load. When it comes time to register for their second semester, however, students are expected to use the University’s enterprise system on their own.

Rebecca Waxman, freshman in DGS, expressed her concerns on registering for classes on her own on Tuesday.

“I am a little nervous to register for classes on my own for the fi rst time,” she said. “Especially since I am undeclared, I have more liber-ty on what classes to choose from, and want to pick classes that are going to be worth it.”

Waxman said seeing her advis-er before her time ticket opened and talking to her brother, who is a senior at the University, helped her feel confi dent in picking out class-es she needs for next semester.

“I also went online (before) and chose the certain classes I want-ed, hoping that they will still be open by the time I register,” Wax-man said.

Justine Karduck, academic adviser in ACES, said that while the registration process is relative-ly easy, fi rst-year students should make sure to read all the direc-tions thoroughly and meet with their adviser prior to registering.

“There are a lot of intricacies to the process, and it takes a well-planned student to fi gure out what goes where on their schedule,” Karduck said. “Self-advising can be dangerous. We advise you with the best sections and classes based on your unique situation. We want to make sure we are on the same page as you.”

Karduck said that although some freshmen may fi nd the reg-istration process to be overwhelm-ing, many believe the major stress factor in signing up for classes is knowing they are the last to enroll.

“It makes sense, because upper-classmen need certain classes to graduate and complete their majors, but it is still sometimes frustrating,” Waxman said. “I’m

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FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIOhio State’s Braxton Miller runs the ball during the game at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The Illini lost 60-35.

Illinois falls to Ohio State, Big Ten losing streak hits 20

Beckman, Cubit argue in OSU loss

Wheatley’s gloves move Illinois soccer into 2nd round of NCAA tourney

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER

For the second consecutive week, the Illinois offense put 35 points on the scoreboard, gained more than 400 yards of total offense, and lost by double digits.

The Illini (3-7, 0-6 Big Ten) defense was shredded for big plays on the ground as Illinois couldn’t keep up with No. 3 Ohio State, losing 60-35 on Saturday. The Buckeyes (10-0, 6-0) offense

ran for 441 yards — on an aver-age of 10.5 yards per carry — and wore down the beleaguered Illinois defense as the game went on.

It was the fi rst time that Illi-nois surrendered 60 points since giving up 67 to Michigan in 2010, although this was an average performance for the Buckeyes offense. Including Saturday’s game, the Buckeyes averaged 59.7 points per game in their past

three contests against confer-ence opponents.

“It’s crushing,” defensive coordinator Tim Banks said. “You work so hard for such few opportunities. When you don’t get a chance to cash in on them, it’s tough.”

The Illini had no answer for Buckeyes running back Car-los Hyde on the ground. The senior rushed for 246 yards on 24 carries to go with four rush-

ing touchdowns and one score receiving.

Another slow start early in the game doomed the Illini, who spent the game chasing, but not catching, the Buckeyes. Ohio State — a team that hasn’t lost since New Year’s Day 2012 and are a perfect 22-0 under Urban Meyer — wasted no time getting on the scoreboard.

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Yards of career total offense for quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase. He would become the second player in school history with over 10,000 yards for a career.

Consecutive Big Ten losses by Illinois, which is now the longest streak in the nation after Kansas beat West Viginia 31-19, snapping a 27-game conference losing streak.

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TWEET OF THE GAME

Reilly O’TooleThe reserve quarterback played just one snap, although it was a backbreaker for Illinois. He came in on third and 14 from his own 5-yard line and was sacked, fumbling into the end zone. The Illini recovered for a safety but Ohio State would score on its ensuing

possession to push the lead back to 23 points.

V’Angelo BentleyThe sophomore cornerback made his impact yet again on

special teams, returning a punt 67 yards back for a touchdown. it was the illini’s fi rst punt return touchdown since 2003. Bentley is the fi rst Illini player ever to have a kick and punt return for a touchdown in the same season after he had a 100-yard kickoff

return touchdown against Southern Illinois.

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CincinnatiSept. 7 - W, 45-17

Washington (Soldier Field)Sept. 14 - L, 34-24

Miami (Ohio)Sept. 28 - W, 50-14

NebraskaOct. 5 - L, 39-19

WisconsinOct. 19 - L, 56-32

Michigan StateOct. 26 - L, 42-3

Penn StateNov. 2 - L, 24-17

IndianaNov. 9 - L, 52-35

Ohio StateNov. 16 - L, 60-35

PurdueNov. 23 - 11 a.m.

NorthwesternNov. 30 - TBA

QUOTE OF THE GAME“They’re the No. 3 team in the country. I think that

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“@swirsk054 @34billy42 As an Illinois alum I’m embarrased to see Block I like that. But I can’t blame the students for staying away ”

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SCHEDULE*Games in bold are at home*

BY SEAN HAMMONDSENIOR WRITER

Illinois’ struggles on the foot-ball fi eld came to a head on the sidelines Saturday when head coach Tim Beckman and offen-sive coordinator Bill Cubit were visibly arguing and had to be separated by other coaches.

The argument came moments after backup quarterback Reilly

O’Toole’s fumble in the end zone was recovered by tight end Matt LaCosse for a safety. O’Toole came in on a third down play midway through the third quar-ter with Illinois trailing 35-21 after starter Nathan Scheel-haase’s helmet was knocked off, and he had to sit out for one play.

The safety defl ated much of the momentum Illinois had

built after trailing by as much as 28. After the game, Beckman brushed off the confrontation with Cubit, saying it wasn’t a big deal.

“It was just a heat-of-the-moment thing,” Beckman said. “We both want to be successful. I probably should have called a timeout to get Nathan back in.”

Illinois could have burned a

timeout and Scheelhaase would have been allowed back into the game. Beckman elected not to call the timeout and go with O’Toole instead. It was the only play O’Toole played in the game.

Cubit said Illini fans shouldn’t take anything away from the argument with Beckman.

BY LANRE ALABISTAFF WRITER

After a quarterfi nal exit in the Big Ten Tournament it hosted, Illinois (10-8-3) traveled to No. 21 Washington State (14-3-4) to fi nd success at the NCAA Tourna-ment. After 90 minutes of regula-tion time and two 10 minute peri-ods of overtime, the Illini edged the Cougars 3-1 on penalties to advance to the second round of the tourney.

Before kickoff on Saturday, heavy snowfall in Washing-ton threatened to postpone the NCAA fi rst round match. The teams braved the uncomfort-able conditions to compete, but not without consequence. Due to a mud-logged Lower Soccer

Field, Washington State’s home pitch, both sides found it diffi -cult to mount attacks through ground passes. The game was largely played in the air as both teams resorted to aerial passes and shots from distance.

Illinois was ousted from the Big Ten Tournament by Indiana 10 days earlier, conceding fi ve goals in the process. During the post-game interviews, amid tears at what could’ve been the last game of their collegiate careers, sever-al senior players voiced frustra-tion at the team’s slow start and the easy goals they gave up. The fi rst two goals came from identi-cal shots 18 yards out on the left fl ank and the fourth was struck from around 45 yards away. Illi-

nois’ hopes hinged on the defen-sive improvements they made to counter the effectiveness of long shots. The midfi elders and defenders needed to min-imize the space afforded oppo-nents and close down in their own halves. Most impor-tantly, the Illini needed fresh-man goalkeeper Claire Wheatley to keep those long range efforts out and that is exactly what she did.

“I was just trying to keep my body behind it and not let any-

thing get past me,” Wheat-ley said. “Our practices were great, and I was confi dent so I wanted to just go out there and do it.”

With the lion’s share of possession the Cougars pep-pered the Illini goal early and often. Wash-

ington State outshot Illinois 17-4 forcing Wheatley to make seven fi rst half saves.

After 110 scoreless minutes, the shot count read 29-10 in favor of the home team but Wheat-ley had saved all 11 of the Cou-gars shots on target to keep her team tied and get the game into penalties.

Underclassmen Aliina Weykamp and Taylore Peter-son scored Illinois’ fi rst two spot kicks and Wheatley saved Wash-ington State’s corresponding kicks. After the Cougars convert-ed their third, Allie Osoba’s miss from the spot on Illinois’ third attempt temporarily closed the gap. After the fourth Cougar pen-alty sailed high, the Illini’s fate rested on captain Vanessa DiBer-nardo’s shoulders in her fi rst full game back from injury. The best

of fi ve shootout only needed four rounds to decide a winner as DiBernardo scored the decisive spot kick and sent Illinois into a second round match-up against Portland.

“Claire came up huge today,” coach Rayfi eld said. “Two big time saves early on and just making sure she got her body in front of things and that’s the kind of thing you have to do in this weather. For a kid from Texas to come up here, play in this type of weather and do the kind of job she did today as a freshman, you have to give her kudos for that.”

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

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“I was just trying to keep my body behind it and not let anything get

past me.”CLAIRE WHEATLEY

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Forget about Friday.I know it’s tough. Wheth-

er it’s the image of Cliff Alexander’s switcheroo or Quentin Snider’s Eric Gordon impression, just forget it all. It’s in the past.

The situation was unfortu-nate and will affect the future of Illinois basketball for a long time coming, but the Illini still have a half decent team that’s actually playing now. Just ask Bradley.

Illinois was almost flawless in an 81-55 win over Bradley on Sunday.

You know Illinois had it going when the long ball was falling. Illinois drained 10 3-pointers on Sunday at a 40 percent clip. The team made 13 3-pointers in its first three games combined.

Jon Ekey starred in the 3-point show for the Illini, hit-ting 5 of his 7 attempts from

behind the arc and finishing with a team-high of 19 points. Ekey doesn’t deserve all the credit. Most of his 3-point attempts were set up by the penetration of his teammates.

Nineteen of Illinois’ 28 bas-kets were assisted on against Bradley. Jaylon Tate was a magician Sunday. The fresh-man finished with six assists to only one turnover, with most of his dimes setting up dunks or 3-pointers.

I can’t find a site that tracks alley-oops, but I’m convinced Tate leads the nation in the category. Champaign turned into Lob City as Tate threw a no-look lob to Ekey and fol-lowed it up with a an alley-oop to Rayvonte Rice on the break.

Rice had 13 emphatic points. In addition to his enormous dunk off the Tate lob, Rice also finished two other alley-oops in the game. Someone needs to tell this athletic spec-imen to give up on the long ball and continue attacking the rim.

Rice shot 0-for-6 from behind the arc but convert-ed 6-of-8 attempts inside of

it. Bradley head coach Geno Ford, who is familiar with the Drake transfer’s game from his MVC days, even said Rice is better when he plays in the paint. Ford and his Braves left Rice open by design and he fell for it.

Ford also complemented the play of Nnanna Egwu, saying he “changed the whole game”. Egwu, who entered Sun-day averaging 3.3 blocks per game, added three more rejec-tions to his tally against Brad-ley. The lanky 6-foot-11 center has the whole verticality thing down pat as he consistently keeps his arms up instead of reaching in.

Egwu’s presence in the paint helps the rest of the team defensively. The guards are able to play tighter know-ing that Egwu can bail them out at the rim.

The entire team was com-mitted to the defensive end, holding the Braves to 35.6 per-cent shooting for the game. Illinois also almost doubled Bradley in rebounding at a 49-25 advantage. That “tough-ness and togetherness” motto

that John Groce loves is final-ly fitting his team’s identity. Groce said that he wants his team “to be fearless”. The Illi-ni were just that on Sunday.

The early product is encour-aging. This team may not have the shooting chops of a season ago, but they have athleticism and defense aplenty. Groce is starting to learn which rota-tions work and the players are getting adjusted to their team-mates’ tendencies. The team’s chemistry is building.

The events that took place on Friday were a shock to the Illini fan base. The day won’t be forgotten anytime soon, but let Sunday be a reminder that there’s still some good basket-ball to be played this season.

John Groce said at Satur-day’s signing day news con-ference that Illinois is in a “great place, not a good place”.

He may be right.

Michael is a senior in Media. He can be reached at wonsovr2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @The_MDubb

“There’s no dysfunction,” Cubit said. “It’s in the game. That’s the way it is. Everybody’s out there competing. You’d be shocked at how many times ... it just happens. You get caught up, and it’s one of those things.”

Scheelhaase said he did not see the confrontation between his head coach and offensive coordinator. He said his helmet

came off on the previous play because the chinstrap broke, something that’s never hap-pened to him before.

“I didn’t (see it),” Scheel-haase said. “I was trying to find a helmet. It’s one of those things where emotions are run-ning high. Those things hap-pen. Shoot, it happens between us players all the time.”

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

On the third play from scrim-mage, Braxton Miller took a quar-terback keeper up the middle and went untouched for 70 yards to kick off the scoring. Miller fin-ished with 150 yards passing and 184 yards on the ground.

The Buckeyes utilized two Nathan Scheelhaase intercep-tions, one of which was returned for a touchdown, in the first quar-ter to push the advantage to 28-0 with more than 10 minutes left in the second quarter.

Even with the lethargic start, Illinois made a run in the second half. With the score 35-14, the Illi-ni received the halftime kickoff and drove nine plays amass-ing 75 yards, capped by a 1-yard touchdown from Scheelhaase to Evan Wilson.

A pair of rare defensive stops gave the Illini offense the ball back at its own 9-yard line with a chance to cut into the 14-point deficit. On second down, Scheel-haase was hit on an incompletion and his chin strap broke, causing his helmet to pop off.

“I’ve never in my career had my helmet come off,” the senior quarterback said. “I’d like to say I’m a pretty safe player out there, I always have it strapped up tight. The chin strap, that piece, actual-ly broke off and popped off when I hit the ground.”

Scheelhaase was, by rule, forced off the field, and backup quarterback Reilly O’Toole was forced to come in on a third-and-14 situation from his own 5-yard line. O’Toole was look-ing left the whole way and was hit hard by Ryan Shazier on his right, forcing a fumble. The Illini were able to mitigate the damage by jumping on the ball in the end zone for a safety.

“(O’Toole) got into a blitz pro-tection and one guy didn’t see it,” offensive coordinator Bill Cubit said. “We’re not in a give-up

mode offensive-ly. He’s proved it in practice. He checked to the right blitz protection and trusted it, but it broke down.”

After the play, there was an altercation between head coach Tim Beckman and Cubit and the two coaches had

to be separated. Beckman called it a “heat-of-the-moment type of thing.” After the game, Beckman regretted not calling a timeout before the safety to get Scheel-haase back on the field.

The Illini would pull within 12 at 47-35 but Ohio State’s punish-ing rushing attack took over in the waning minutes of the game. Hyde ripped off touchdown rush-es of 55 and 51 yards in the final four minutes, and Illinois’ Big Ten losing streak reached 20 games.

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

BY BLAKE PONSTAFF WRITER

For the first time since mid-September, the Illinois volleyball team has a record over .500.

Over the weekend, No. 25 Illi-nois (14-12, 10-6 Big Ten) got its 13th and 14th wins of the season, both sweeps, against a struggling Indiana (9-18, 1-15 Big Ten) squad and No. 18 Purdue (16-11, 7-9 Big Ten). The Illini beat the Hoosiers by scores of 28-26, 25-18, 25-22 and Purdue by scores of 25-18, 25-18, 25-21.

“Offensively we did some nice things,” head coach Kevin Ham-bly said. “We didn’t defend as well as we liked, and I don’t think we competed the way we really wanted to until the end of sets. We found ways to win instead of really fighting to execute.”

Strong serving by the Hoo-siers provided trouble for the Illi-ni in the first set, as the teams swapped leads 12 times. Indi-

ana put Illinois on its heels late in the set, taking a 23-21 lead that the Illini eventually tied at 24 after a Hoosiers attack error. The error gave Illinois an extra pair of points to play and gave head coach Kevin Hambly the opportunity to substitute in his best finisher in junior outside hit-ter Morganne Criswell. The move ultimately paid off, as Criswell closed out the match with a boom-ing kill that took the momentum from Indiana for the rest of the match.

In set two, the Illini got off to a 8-4 lead early and never looked back, not once giving up a lead throughout the set. The Illinois defense stifled the Indiana hit-ters, holding the Hoosiers to a .083 hitting percentage. The third set provided more of the same, as Indiana was held to a .075 hitting percentage. The Illini’s attack was balanced, as Criswell, sophomore Jocelynn

Birks and junior Liz McMahon contributed 13, 12 and 13 kills respectively, hitting a combined percentage of .281 for the match.

The first set of the match against Purdue began with both teams trading points early, until a few Criswell kills sparked a 4-0 run that put Illinois ahead 17-12, enough to keep the Illini in the lead for the rest of the set. The Illini went down early, 5-2, in set two, but went on an 11-3 run to pull ahead 13-8, never letting up for the set or the match.

“For me it was an emotional match after losing to them the first time,” said Criswell. “I’ve kind of been ready for this match ever since we played them. I thought it was an awesome, emo-tional match, and sweeping them was even better.”

Criswell led the Illini in kills for the match, accumulating 12 on 23 attempts to go along with three errors for a .391 hitting

percentage. Birks and McMa-hon contributed 10 each.

The weekend sweep caps off a five-match winning streak for Illinois, putting the team in the thick of NCAA tournament con-tention with only four matches remaining.

“I feel like after we beat Mich-igan in that come-from-behind win, we just have this confi-dence,” junior middle block-er Anna Dorn said. “When we were playing against Michigan and Michigan State, it felt like our team was together, we were all playing with the same motive, and we were one. We weren’t six different people on the court, and we were one unit, and I think that confidence combined with that feeling when we play against big teams is going to be really impor-tant going forward.”

Blake can be reached at pon1@dailyillini.com.

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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois Jon Ekey dunks the ball off a missed shot during the game against Bradley at State Farm Center, on Sunday. The Illini won 81-55.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Liz McMahon spikes the ball during the match against Purdue at Huff Hall on Saturday.

Era of participation over for UI football

Illinois defeats Bradley 81-55, forward Ekey scores 19 points

Forget about Friday; Illini basketball is still in a ‘great place’

Volleyball sweeps both Purdue and Indiana in extended winning streak over the weekend

Despite mild teases and laud-able effort, we can all be glad that’s over.

After a week of fearing the lash of Urban Meyer’s Buck-eyes, the Illini were stung early and resilient for the remainder of the game, and now Illinois no longer has to worry about play-ing Ohio State. Or a bowl game. Or ridiculous expectations.

From here out, it’s also no lon-ger okay for Illinois to lose, as it was on Saturday.

Beckman gushed about his players’ fight and competitive-ness after the game, yet when asked whether it was a “mor-al victory,” he said no, because coaches have a code by which they abide even if that means being hypocritical. “No moral victories. Only wins and losses.” And positive moods and good vibes we wouldn’t dare refer to as a “moral victory.”

That part’s over now, it’s on to Purdue, a team that Illinois should beat. Beckman may even be able to experience the feeling Meyer was left fighting against after his team’s win: Not win-ning well enough.

The loss against Ohio State closes the book on the first era of Tim Beckman’s tenure at Illinois. It was an era in which the Illini needed to be goaded just to play their hardest. Jona-than Brown tabbed the will to fight and compete as the biggest improvement for the team from last year to this year. Beckman has praised this team week in

and week out for its capacity to keep trying. That’s about the equivalent of praising a toddler for caring enough to head to the toilet when it has to go potty.

But hey, to its credit, Illinois is growing up. Brown and the rest of the senior class can no longer achieve as seniors. Their only consolation — and it’s not a neg-ligible consolation — would be to “lay a foundation” to get the program some momentum head-ing forward. Brandon Paul, D.J. Richardson and Tyler Griffey would know something about this phenomenon.

As Illinois the program grows up, Illinois the team can be expected to do better. The era of participation is through. It’s time for this program to win.

Illinois faces Purdue and Northwestern to finish out the year, and as high as Northwest-ern was ranked earlier in the year, they are experiencing a collapse similar to Illinois circa 2011. Purdue, meanwhile, is fac-ing problems similar to those Illinois encountered last sea-son. The Illini need to pressure themselves to not just compete, but to win those games. Illinois has managed to be over .500 this season on the moral front. That front no longer matters.

A win against Illinois’ two closest Big Ten rivals would send this program into its off-season with some success. If Illinois is unable to close on a high note, then this season can be considered a failure even with respect to the low expecta-tions surrounding it at the start.

Eliot is a senior in Media. He can be reached at sill2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @EliotTweet.

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“I’ve never in my career had my helmet come off. I’d like to say I’m a pretty safe player out there.”

NATHAN SCHEELHAASEQUARTERBACK

BY SEAN HAMMONDSENIOR WRITER

Sunday was a career day for Jon Ekey, at least in an orange and blue uniform. The Illini forward scored 19 points and snatched seven rebounds as Illinois beat Bradley 81-55 at State Farm Center.

Ekey’s 19 points were the most he’s scored in his short Illinois career and the most since scoring 22 as an Illinois State Redbird in December of 2010. Illinois improved to 4-0 while handing Bradley its first loss of the season after four victories to open the year.

“It was just one of those days where it was going,” Ekey said. “Just feeling good early in the game and guys kept finding me.”

Ekey came out firing from the opening tipoff, hitting three of his first four 3-point attempts. In all, he had 11 points in the first half, including a two-handed tip slam off of a missed Tracy Abrams 3-pointer.

Things got chippy later in the half after Illinois guard Rayvonte Rice was fouled hard by Braves

guard Xzavier Taylor. Rice didn’t take kindly to the contact and got up from the floor shouting. Referees assessed a double-technical foul.

Play otherwise remained clean, with Illinois taking a 34-19 lead into halftime. If that lead wasn’t enough, Illinois came out in the second half and hit a barrage of threes. In the first four minutes of the half Abrams hit two, Joseph Bertrand hit one and Ekey added another.

The Illini shot 7-for-11 from behind the 3-point arc in the second half and hit 10 total 3s for the game, the most its hit all season. Illinois dominated the Braves on the glass, out-rebounding Bradley 49-25. Abrams led the Illini with eight and Rice and center Nnanna Egwu each.

Head coach John Groce has emphasized rebounding to his guards in recent weeks, and it showed with Abrams leading the team.

“Every day coach challenges us to rebound, go in there and dig some out,” Abrams said. “Tonight

we exemplified that pretty well.”

B r a d l e y ’ s Tyshon Pickett led the Braves with 21 points a nd Wa lt Lemon, Jr., put in another 12.

Bradley head coach Geno Ford, brother of Illini assistant

Dustin Ford, thought Illinois simply outplayed his team in the paint. He referenced Egwu’s shot-blocking presence as a key to Illinois’ victory.

“Egwu changed the whole game because he blocked a couple shots early,” Ford said. “We haven’t seen that kind of size and length.

As soon as he did that we did an awful job of finishing in traffic.”

“I think he’s one of the best defensive forwards that I’ve coached,” Groce said of Egwu. “He’s so versatile and can do so many different things. You don’t see guys with that size and that weight move with that type of mobility.”

Illinois cruised through the second half, leading by as much as 26 at the 12:10 mark and again at the final buzzer. Rice and Abrams finished with 13 and 12 points. Rice also had a pair of highlight-reel dunks in the second half on lobs from Bertrand and freshman point guard Jaylon Tate.

“We play together, we share the ball, and we did a great job of that tonight,” Abrams said. “That’s great for us. Coach talks about transition, we’re a good transition team, but we’ve got to play transition defense as well as get out and run.”

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

“It was one of those days where it was

going, just feeling good early in the game.”

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Israel is indeed a major recipient of U.S. aid.Israel receives yearly $3.0 billion, all of it inmilitary aid – nothing in economic aid. 75% of thismilitary aid must be spent with U.S. militarycontractors, making Israel a very large customer ofthose companies.

America’s staunchest ally. A good case can bemade that aid to Israel, all of it military, should bepart of the United States defense budget, ratherthan of the aid budget because Israel is, next onlyperhaps to Britain, by far the most important ally ofthe United States. Virtually without exception,Israel’s government and its people agree with andsupport the foreign policy objectives of the UnitedStates. In the United Nations, Israel’s votescoincide with those of the United States over 90%of the time. The Arabs and other Moslem countries,virtually all of them recipients of American largess,almost reflexively vote against the United States inmost instances.

Israel is the major strategic asset of the UnitedStates in an area of the world that is the cradle ofIslamo-fascism, which is dominated by tyrants andpermeated by religious obscurantism and showsalmost total disregard for human rights. Duringthe decades-long Cold War, Israel was America’sindispensable rampart against the inroads of theSoviet Union. It is now the bulwark against theaggressive intentions of Iran. During Desert Storm,

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