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BY EDWARD GATHERCOALSTAFF WRITER
The Engineer-ing Quad was dotted with over 1,100 white flags on Monday, rep-resenting the approximate number of
college students that com-mit suicide each year.
The event was held to start off National Suicide Prevention Week (NSPW), held from Sept. 7-13. The campaign strives to raise awareness about the issue and reduce the stigma that surrounds it. They also aim to support those who have attempted suicide and encourage people to seek mental health assistance.
“Mental health, in gener-al, is something that often goes unacknowledged as being difficult for col-lege students,” said Ryan Nemethy, paraprofession-al graduate assistant at the Counseling Center. “Any-way to help other students
and acknowledge that there are people out there that care. It may be just a lit-tle thing that affects a few people, but I think it’s really helpful.”
Students passing through had the opportunity to show their support by writing encouraging messages on the flags.
“It is estimated that annu-ally over 1,000 students commit suicide on national campuses, and of those, a number of them never seek help at their college coun-seling center,” said R.J. McNicholl, clinical counsel-or at the Counseling Center. “(This event) is not only for students to understand that they can offer support and be supportive, but also for those students who may be experiencing those thoughts to realize that they have a large support network here at our University.”
The Suicide Prevention Team is a collaboration between the Counseling Center, McKinley Health Center and the Office of the
Dean of Students.“Our goal is to pro-
vide them (the students) with support and helpful resources but also to ensure their safety and the safety of the campus,” McNicholl said.
At the Pennsylvania Ave-nue Residence Hall, the Counseling Center hosted a workshop where students could take part in an online training program called the Kognito At-Risk Suicide Pre-vention Training program. Stephen Edwards, intern at the Counseling Center and graduate student in social work, said that through this online system, students can interact with avatars and learn how to better identi-fy, support and connect dis-tressed students with cam-pus resources. These booths will also be set up at the Stu-dent Dining and Residential Programs (SDRP) Building on Wednesday, Sept. 10 and Thursday, Sept. 11.
Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for college students, according to the
Counseling Center.Nationwide, suicide is
the 10th leading cause of death annually in the U.S. as of 2011, According to the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), which sponsors NSPW.
“When it comes to sui-cide prevention, I think it is one of the most impor-
tant topics on college cam-puses today,” said McNich-oll. “Really I think it is about getting involved in a cause that saves lives.”
The Counseling Center is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and on call after 5 p.m. seven days a week.
World Suicide Prevention
Day is hosted on Sept. 10th and is hosted by the World Health Organization, the World Federation for Men-tal Health and the Interna-tional Association for Sui-cide Prevention.
Edward can be reached at [email protected].
Breaking down suicide stigma: • More than 1,088
college students complete suicide each year
• Suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students
• Almost 7 percent of students seriously considered suicide in the past 12 months
• 18 to 24-year-olds attempt suicide more often than any other group
• Roughly 3,100 students at the University have considered suicide in the past year
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY’S COUNSELING CENTER
More than just faces in the crowd
PHOTOS BY MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINIFlags flap in the wind on the Bardeen Quad during an event sponsored by the Counseling Center for National Suicide Prevention Week, which started Monday. Workers from the Counseling Center placed 1100 flags on the quad yesterday.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MAI-LIN POONThe Intercultural Horizons interns sit in front of the #WeAreIllinois art exhibit sponsored by the Asian American Cultural Center on Monday. #WeAreIllinois was inspired by Humans of New York and tells the stories of UI students.
National Suicide Prevention Week raises campus awareness
“It may be just a little thing that affects a few people, but I think it’s really helpful”
RYAN NEMETHYGRADUATE ASSISTANT AT THE COUNSELING CENTER
DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTAfter months of silence,
Steven Salaita will make his first public comment during a press conference Tuesday to address his rescinded job offer at the University.
The press conference will take place at 12:30 p.m. at the University YMCA,
1001 S. Wright St. and is open to the public.
This is Salaita’s first time speaking publicly after his position was not forwarded to the Board of Trustees in early August, after tweet-ing about Israel’s invasion of Gaza .
Salaita had accepted a tenure position in the
American Indian Studies Program before the inci-dent; however, his approval was not final.
Since the incident, multi-ple departments cast votes of no confidence in Chan-cellor Phyllis Wise, and many professors around
Salaita to speak publicly for 1st time
BY ELEANOR BLACKSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois Student Sen-ate’s Committee on Campus Affairs will hold a special session Tuesday, to dis-cuss a proposed resolu-tion regarding whether or not they support Chancel-lor Phyllis Wise’s decision to rescind Steven Salaita’s job offer.
The resolution was intro-duced at last week’s meet-ing in a statement written by Student Body President Mitch Dickey in support of Wise’s decision, but is pending senate approval.
“We recognize the situa-tion for its entirety, so the fact that the hiring process had basically been com-pleted, that (Salaita) was going to be on campus with housing,” Dickey said. “But we also recognize that the Inclusive Illinois principles ... would say that (Salaita) crossed the line of what we would consider for a fac-ulty or potential faculty member.”
Dickey said he does not
believe Salaita would have created a comfortable and inclusive environment on campus.
During Tuesday’s meet-ing, the committee will discuss the resolution and make any changes they find necessary. If the res-olution is approved out of the committee meeting, it will be put on the agenda for Wednesday’s ISS meet-ing and discussed in an offi-cial capacity.
The purpose of the res-olution, Dickey said, is to give an official voice to the student body because so far, there has not been any formal action taken by students, only faculty.
“My hope is that we can have some really great discussion on this; that we as students can voice our opinions,” he said. “Aside from the few students that are doing the protesting, there really hasn’t been an official voice of the stu-dents on this issue, and one that’s been really well thought out and taken both
sides into consideration.”He added that he hopes
the resolution is passed out and approved to be voted on at the board meeting, so that board members know there is an official student statement on the issue that they can take into consideration.
Matt Hill, Vice Presi-dent-External, also shared his hopes that the resolu-tion will positively impact University students.
“My hope is that the stu-dent body can see that the student senate is really dedicated to our campus’s Inclusive Illinois initia-tive,” Hill said. “My hope is that the resolution will help facilitate and encour-age more dialogue about issues that students care about on this campus and that we can effectively weigh in on this issue.”
The resolution has also added one important aspect since its introduction last week: a suggestion from
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A 20-year-old male was arrested on charges of domestic battery in the 900 block of North Third Street around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
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BY JOSEPH SERNAMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — A wild-fire in Yosemite National Park that prompted author-ities to airlift hikers out of harm’s way has tripled in size, growing to nearly 2,600 acres as of Monday morning.
Several water-dropping helicopters and airplanes were assisting hundreds of firefighters on the ground as the Meadow fire burns near Half Dome peak and Mer-ced Lake, said park ranger Scott Gediman.
There was no estimate of how contained the fire was.
The Meadow fire, believed to have been started by lightning strikes last month, had been smoldering for 49 days at just under 20 acres.
Park officials had been letting it burn to restore the area’s natural fire patterns, and given its high elevation (8,000 feet) and slow pace, there was no threat to public
safety, officials said.But when winds pushed
the flames into bone-dry brush near hiking trails on Sunday, the fire explod-ed and ended up cutting off dozens of mountain climb-ers and hikers from park exits. Some 40 Half Dome hikers had to be evacuated and others were airlifted out, officials said.
East of the park, fire crews gained the upper hand on the Bridge fire, which has burned about 300 acres and was 70 percent contained. At least 700 homes remained threatened by the fire, but officials have lifted evacua-tion orders for homeowners, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
And in Northern Califor-nia, the Happy Camp Com-plex fire has grown to 99,200 acres as it pushes west. The wildfire, currently the big-gest in California, was 30 percent contained.
BY TONY PUGHMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON — Health care providers nationwide have been told to watch for an increase in a respirato-ry illness among children after the outbreak of a rare and sometimes serious virus strain that has hospitalized dozens of youngsters in Chi-cago and Kansas City, Mo.
The U.S. Centers for Dis-ease Control and Preven-tion is conducting tests to determine whether active clusters of enterovirus D68 are present in about 10 oth-er states.
“We believe the unusual increases in Kansas City and Chicago may be occur-ring elsewhere over the weeks ahead and we want people to be on the look-out,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of the CDC’s National Center for Immu-nization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a confer-ence call.
Although 10 million to 15 million Americans contract at least one of more than 100 types of enterovirus-es each year, most patients have only mild symptoms, such as upper respiratory problems or rashes with fever that don’t require hospitalization.
The D68 strain of entero-virus is much less common than other types, but it’s more likely to cause severe respiratory problems, such as wheezing and difficulty breathing, that can require mechanical ventilation in extreme cases.
Children’s Mercy Hos-pital in Kansas City treat-ed more than 300 cases of respiratory illness over the s u m m e r , including roughly 45 p a t i e n t s who were placed in the inten-sive care u n i t , a c c o r d -ing to the Missouri D e p a r t -ment of H e a l t h and Senior Services.
Subsequent testing of 22 Children’s Mercy patient specimens by the CDC found that 19 of those patients had EV-D68. The 19 patients ranged in age from 6 weeks to 16 years. Thir-teen had histories of asthma or wheezing, five had high fevers and four required mechanical ventilation to
help them breathe.Similar CDC tests showed
positive results for the virus in 11 of 14 youngsters from the University of Chi-cago Medicine Comer Chil-dren’s Hospital.
No fatalities or adult cas-es have been reported.
Beside Missouri and Illi-nois, the CDC is investi-gating suspected cases of EV-D68 in Alabama, Colora-
do, Geor-gia, Iowa, K a n s a s , Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Okla-homa and Utah.
First dis-c o v e r e d in 1962, the virus s p r e a d s t h r o u g h respirato-ry secre-
tions such as saliva and mucous during coughing and sneezing. Touching infected surfaces and then touching the face, eyes and mouth can also spread the disease.
Although infants, chil-dren and teens are more likely to become sick upon infection, it’s unclear which populations are most vulner-
able, which states are most at risk and how widespread the virus may be.
“The situation is evolv-ing quickly,” Schuchat said.
Authorities aren’t cer-tain why the unusual virus strain emerged this year, although summer is the prime season for enterovi-ruses to spread. Schuchat is urging people to wash their hands for at least 20 seconds with soapy water and to disinfect toys, door-knobs and other surfaces that might harbor the virus.
Health officials in Mis-souri are asking health professionals to tell their patients to avoid kissing, hugging and sharing cups or eating utensils with sick people and to stay home when they feel sick. While there is no vaccine, Schuchat said the annual flu shot could help prevent infections that would make children vulnerable.
Because respiratory viruses spread quickly across the country, health care personnel are urged to report unexplained increas-es to local and state health agencies. Unique patterns of respiratory illness-es involving certain age groups of children should also be reported.
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GENARO MOLINA MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE Silvia Padilla, from left, stands next to her daughters Katheryn Varela, 13, and Dayana, 9, in the living room of their apartment on July 24. The sisters are hoping to receive political asylum in the U.S. after fleeing their home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
JOHN STILLWELL MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEThree month-old Prince George of Cambridge at his christening in central London, on October 23, 2013. George will be a brother with the royal family expecting another child.
the senate to the Board of Trustees regarding their appointment process.
“We vehemently urged the Board of Trustees to change their appoint-ment process, so that the appointment of a mem-ber of the faculty that will start in the fall will be done in the summer,” Dickey said. “So they shouldn’t have their final appoint-ment after they’ve already
begun their first day of work here.”
The meeting will take place at 6 p.m. in the Stu-dent Government Complex, located on the second floor of the Illini Union.
“It’ll be another inter-esting week,” Dickey said. “This is a really big deci-sion, and I hope that all of our student body realizes what this means for us in the world of academia.”
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the nation are boycotting the University.
Several speakers have also canceled their vis-its to the University and a national conference sched-uled to be held on campus was canceled.
Robert Warrior, direc-tor of the American Indi-an Studies program, will also speak at the confer-ence with Salaita.
“I was the one who origi-nally recommended (Salai-ta), and I am still commit-ted to him coming to join
our faculty,” he said. The press conference
will follow a civil walk-out by students support-ing Salaita, which is sched-uled to begin at 11:30 a.m. The walk-out encourages students to leave class and rally on the quad.
Other speakers will include Michael Rothberg, English department head, and University students Eman Ghanayem and Rico Kleinstein.
Salaita is being repre-sented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Maria Lahood, senior attor-ney with the organization, will be in attendance.
BY CHRISTIE D’ZURILLAMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Yes, Prince George is going to be a big brother: There’s a second royal baby on the way for Prince Wil-liam and Catherine, Duch-ess of Cambridge.
“Their Royal Highness-es The Duke and Duch-ess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their second child,” according to a state-ment from Clarence House on Monday. “The Queen and members of both fami-lies are delighted with the news.”
Alas, Catherine, the for-mer Kate Middleton, is suffering once again from severe morning sickness, which may have prompted the announcement Monday even though, according to World Now, she’s still in her first trimester.
In December 2012, the announcement of Prince George’s pending person-hood was prompted by Cath-erine’s hospitalization for hyperemesis gravidarum so she could receive fluids and intravenous nutrition while experiencing extreme, per-sistent vomiting. At the time, she couldn’t attend public events as sched-uled, so an explanation was needed.
This time around she’s being treated by doctors at Kensington Palace, not at a hospital, Clarence House
said, but she still won’t be making it to an engagement in Oxford Monday with her husband.
Kate and William mar-ried in April 2011. George was born July 22, 2013, and is third in line to the British throne behind his grandfa-ther, Prince Charles and his dad, Prince William.
That said, Royal Baby No. 2 might already have more political sway than his or her older brother. At least when it comes to the outcome of an upcoming decision on Scot-tish independence from the United Kingdom.
With the number of break-away supporters pulling close recently with those who would keep Scotland’s governance as is, there are some who see the announce-ment of a new and presum-ably cute-as-heck British royal on the way as a possi-ble scale-tipper for the “no” movement. Because who doesn’t love a royal baby?
Then again, according to the Telegraph, Scottish love of the royal family might not be overwhelming. Of those who support inde-pendence, almost 60 per-cent wouldn’t want to keep the queen as monarch.
If an independent Scot-land wanted to keep roy-al ties, it could in theory stay in the Commonwealth of Nations even as it sepa-rated from Britain. So hav-ing it both ways might be possible.
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BY KATE LINTHICUMMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — When Silvia Padilla was pregnant with her second daughter, she and her husband, Mar-vin Varela, hatched a plan that broke their hearts: They would go to America and leave their girls behind.
Marvin left Honduras with a smuggler one night in 2004. Silvia joined him in Los Angeles three years later and immediately want-ed to go back. “She didn’t think she could endure life without them,” Marvin said. “But time passed and she adapted.”
For seven years they lived with other immigrants in small apartments near MacArthur Park. Using fake identification papers she bought on Alvarado Street, Silvia found a job at a fac-tory. Marvin worked for the building contractor who had paid his way to the United States. At the end of every month, they wired money to Honduras.
In Internet video chats, they watched as their daugh-ters lost their baby teeth and grew taller. “Come home,” the girls sometimes begged.
Their parents told them that one day, when they had earned enough, they would return to Tegucigalpa, open a store and build a house.
And then, through ner-vous phone calls, friends and relatives in Honduras started telling them the gang that had long roamed the dirt streets of their slum was getting bolder. Several of Marvin’s child-hood friends were killed for refusing to join. His mother and brothers were threat-ened. One day while Kather-yn, their elder daughter, was at a soccer match, assassins armed with automatic weap-ons walked up to a spectator and shot him to death.
So Marvin and Silvia forged a new plan. In Octo-ber, they wired $8,000 to a stranger to smuggle their daughters north.
For six days, the parents waited and worried. Then Silvia got a call from a Border Patrol agent. Their daughters had been caught while trying to cross the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas.
The girls were flown to a temporary children’s shel-ter in Oregon. Govern-ment prosecutors would file deportation paperwork, but while the girls waited for their cases to be heard in court, they would be released into the custody of their parents.
Silvia drove all day and night to reach them. When she finally gathered them in her arms, she sobbed.
Katheryn, 13, and her sis-ter, Dayana, 9, are among more than 60,000 unac-companied children, most-ly from Central America, who have been apprehend-ed at the border in the past 10 months. The surge, which has overwhelmed feder-al authorities and reignit-ed the immigration debate, seems to have leveled off for now. But its effects are just beginning to be felt in cities across the country.
About 85 percent of the young immigrants have been released to relatives, according to federal sta-tistics, with nearly 4,000 turned over to guardians in California during the first seven months of this year. Los Angeles, home to some of the nation’s largest com-munities of immigrants from El Salvador and Hon-duras, has been the destina-tion for many.
When the girls arrived in L.A., Silvia and Marvin’s friends held a party to cel-ebrate the reunion. Beer
was chilled and carne asa-da grilled. Marvin, on a rare break from work, lifted the girls into the air again and again.
It had been a decade since he had seen Katheryn. It was the first time he had ever held Dayana.
Silvia enrolled the girls in school. In the evenings, all four of them slept in one bed; Katheryn and Dayana didn’t want to be separated from their parents, not even for a single night.
But quickly it became clear that living together as a family was an acquired skill, and they were out of practice.
In Tegucigalpa, the girls were spoiled by their grand-parents — especially Day-ana, whose big brown eyes and warm manner can be hard to deny. Now her anger flares when her mom refus-es her treats. Katheryn, naturally quieter and more distant, has entered the eye-rolling phase of adoles-cence. She bristles at Sil-via’s demands that she go to sleep at 8:30 p.m. and that she and Dayana stay inside to play.
In the early months, Sil-via felt overwhelmed. Her daughters both look like her — short, with glossy black hair and round cheeks — but sometimes it seemed like they were strangers.
“It was like starting over,” Silvia said. “Like getting to know each other for the first time.”
Several months ago, Silvia went to Katheryn’s school and asked for parenting advice. She was connect-ed with a group that pro-vides free counseling, and now the family meets with a therapist once a week. They talk about what dis-tance does to relationships, and how to work through disagreements.
“It’s a process, little by little,” Marvin said. “We’re adapting to each other, and trying to understand each other.”
The couple spent months looking for lawyers for the girls, but most attorneys charged thousands of dol-lars just to take on a new case.
This summer, shortly before Dayana’s first depor-tation hearing in a case that will take many months to be decided, they discovered a law firm called El Rescate that paired them with a law-yer for only a small fee.
The attorney, Alex Hol-guin, said their best shot was filing for asylum. He asked Katheryn and Daya-na to write about the gang violence they had seen in Honduras, and the threats against their family.
But he also leveled with them. “The vast majority of these cases are denied, to be honest with you,” he said.
One morning last month, she and Dayana boarded an elevator in an unassuming office building near Pershing Square. They passed through a metal detector and walked into a small courtroom.
It was Silvia’s first time in court. Even though Day-ana’s attorney had assured her that her own immigra-tion status wouldn’t be ques-tioned if she attended the court proceeding, Silvia was nervous, twisting her fingers in her lap.
Most of the cases on the docket involved adults. Day-ana, the only child in the courtroom.
The judge called Daya-na’s name, and she and Sil-via approached the bench shyly. “I see that your client is accompanied by an adult,” the judge asked their attor-ney. “Who is that?”
He answered quickly: “Her mother.”
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Over the summer, there was a brief stint when a particular Tumblr blog
generated discussion, and even sparked controversy, among many casual Internet browsers.
The Tumblr was called “Women Against Feminism,” and it was constructed around the idea that as independent, equal members of society, women shouldn’t need to be in support of an institution fueled by a “toxic culture,” rife with supposed double-standards and misandry.
One particular feature of the Tumblr page was a segment in which these supposedly anti-feminist women posed with signs on which they explained their disinclination toward feminism with a single state-ment. Examples varied in their content and level of serious-ness, but some general exam-ples were:
“I don’t need feminism because I don’t want to politi-cize my gender.”
“I don’t need feminism because being whistled at on the street isn’t oppression.”
“I don’t need feminism because I don’t need to demon-ize men.”
The posts gained a signifi-cant amount of negative atten-tion. In most cases, feminists deemed the sign writers and
photo subjects to be misin-formed, naive and disgustingly egocentric. But were the sign writers against the true ide-als of feminism, or were they against their own understand-ing of feminism? Chances are, these sign writers’ understand-ing of feminism came from some uneducated post on the Internet. This is highly prob-lematic, though, because often times both sides of the femi-nism argument perpetuate ven-omous discussions on a basis of misinformation.
Put generally, feminism is the collection of movements that work to establish equal-ity — politically, economically and socially — for all wom-en. The idea is great. Equal-ity is great. But, all “-isms” appear that way on paper. It’s when they are put into practice and individuals are allowed to establish “their take” on the “-ism” where things get out of hand, and meanings become misconstrued.
One major circumstantial factor which distinguishes con-temporary feminism from its preceding movements is the large role the Internet plays in its presentation. Third-wave feminism isn’t completely new — it began around 1992 — how-ever, one of the primary ways it shares its many ideas and subjects of debate is through the Internet.
The Internet, as a collec-tive whole, is arguably one of the loudest and farthest reach-ing advocates for feminism. Through blogs and social net-
working sites, millions of indi-viduals and organizations are able to express their thoughts surrounding the movement. And while it’s great that so many people possess the ability to spread their inner thoughts, it doesn’t always create the most productive environment.
In this particular case, fiery, aggressive online advocates of feminism mislead an unin-formed crowd (the sign writ-ers), who may have based their own opinions on a skewed view of feminism.
Chances are these sign writ-ers would probably be in sup-port of the views of feminism if they fully understood its intentions.
When you’re online and post-ing opinions, you are doing so in an environment that is very much isolated from the people by whom your opinion will be received. Through this isola-tion, you gain an increased sense of confidence and safety since you will probably nev-er come into physical contact with this ambiguous audience.
This, in some cases, might lead you to structure your online opinion in a way that is more forward and inherently aggressive than the way you would voice the same opin-ion in the world outside your desktop. The result in the case of this Tumblr example shows how bold statements can develop into emotionally-driv-en rants with very few facts. This is not a terribly effec-tive way to help educate the
uninformed. Scrolling through the com-
ments section of a particu-larly thought-provoking piece is consistently a nightmare. Once you sift through the vast array of misspellings, improp-er grammar use and innuen-do-laden usernames, you’ll find a disgusting collection of personal, aggressive, stabbing accusations. You’ll find faulty logic. You’ll find logic backed by absolutely nothing, and this is how this Tumblr page came to exist.
I think that feminist ideas are vitally important to almost everybody in one way or another. And it goes without saying that the Internet is a tremendously useful tool by which to spread the doctrines of contemporary feminism in a way that is fast, easy, and effectively able to reach large quantities of people.
However, using the Inter-net as the dominant means by which feminist topics are spread is a dangerous notion. The simplified versions of feminist ideas, uneducated remarks mistaken for fact, and “cheap” sensationalist rep-resentations of this popular “-ism” dangerously miscon-strue feminism and what it strives to do for women.
Such misconstructions are damning for feminism, and the result is a widespread aware-ness of misinformation.
Carly is a junior in FAA. She can be reached at [email protected].
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To feminists against anti-date rape nail polish
Four students from North Carolina State University recently developed a nail
polish that changes color in the presence of common date rape drugs. The idea is that by painting your nails and dipping your fingers into your drink, you can detect whether it has been tampered with.
Recently, this product has been subject to criticism, as some feminists call it a mis-guided approach to prevent sexual assaults.
Katie Russell from Rape Crisis England & Wales claimed a product like this “implies that it’s the woman’s fault and assumes responsi-bility on her behalf.”
Some feminists like Rus-sell think that raising aware-ness and teaching men not to rape is the only strategy that should be used to address sexual assaults. They have condemned safety measures against sexual assault — like self-defense, concealed carry and, now, this nail polish — as means of victim blaming.
A recent study released by the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention found that nearly one in five women have been raped in their life-times. I, as a woman, assert
that with statistics this stag-gering, all efforts to try to prevent sexual assaults — awareness and protective measures alike — should be applauded and encouraged.
The reality is that there will always be bad people in the world who will hurt oth-ers to get what they want — money, power, sexual gratifi-cation, dominance, whatever. And they can still do so with the knowledge that what they are doing is wrong. In fact, research has found that, with-out accounting for the num-ber of unreported assaults, 39 percent of rapists of adult women are repeat offend-ers. This means we can try to raise awareness, “punish” offenders and avoid blam-ing victims all we want, but that won’t always stop people from acting maliciously.
Take our own University for instance. All freshmen are required to attend a First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape Education, or FYCARE, session to learn about rape on campus. But even with this program, an estimated one in six women here will be sexually assaulted before graduating.
In my opinion, it’s narrow-minded for some feminists to assert that trying to teach men not to rape is the only acceptable method to prevent sexual assault, because it’s naive to assume that raising awareness will eliminate the
problem entirely. They focus only on stopping criminals before they act and condemn people who take reaction-ary measures of defense as “accepting the blame.”
Women who choose to use this nail polish are no more at fault for being assaulted than women who don’t. This nail polish doesn’t shift responsi-bility to the victim, nor does it erase the accountability of criminals.
I agree that in a perfect world, no sexual assaults would happen. There would be no robberies, we wouldn’t lock our doors, security cameras wouldn’t exist, we wouldn’t receive any Illini Alerts and everyone would act morally with good intentions.
But, it seems that some feminists can’t wrap their heads around the fact that we don’t live in an ideal world. In our world, we can’t prevent all crime, and security mea-sures of all kinds exist to try to protect us. They don’t exist to shift the blame from per-petrators to victims.
This isn’t to say that sex-ual assaults are inevitable. I admit that trying to change society can help reduce the frequency of assaults, but products like this nail pol-ish and other safety mea-sures can also help reduce assaults and, thus, shouldn’t be criticized.
What is shocking to me is that these feminists aren’t
retaliating against home security systems, bike locks, car theft systems, Safe Rides or any other measure out there meant to help keep individuals safe. The fact that door locks exist doesn’t alleviate robbers of the blame for successfully rob-bing a house.
As was put so eloquent-ly by columnist Robyn Urback, “Protecting one’s self or one’s property does not somehow exonerate the unlawful actions of others.”
In the eyes of some femi-nists, this somehow holds true for every crime except for assaults against women.
For someone to say that they are disgusted that a product like this nail pol-ish exists means they might as well puke at the sight of a door lock.
I can take measures to pro-tect myself from any danger — rape, robbery or assault — and feel like no less of a woman because of it. In fact, I feel empowered that prod-ucts like this nail polish can help me take my safety into my own hands rather than be stuck with just raising awareness and crossing my fingers that everyone I inter-act with acts morally.
Stephanie is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @syoussef22.
S ometimes college seems to be noth-ing but stressful, especially on such a large campus.
With all of the various pres-sures lingering in students’ minds, sometimes college can feel completely unbear-able. For others, sometimes life can feel unbearable.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, and for that reason, we find it imperative to make sure this problem is acknowl-edged and understood. In doing so, we can hopefully make more of an effort in preventing suicide on col-lege campuses.
Information from Camp-bell University proclaims five causes of suicide among college students are identity problems, academ-ic competition, social iso-lation, financial pressure and depression. These five causes can have various implications on a student’s life and these are issues all of us may experience to some degree, which is why this is so important.
While the rate of sui-cide on campuses has not changed since 1980, with over 1,000 suicides on col-lege campuses per year. We, and many other organiza-tions on campus, think it should.
This week, for National Suicide Prevention Week, many organizations on campus will be spreading awareness about the dan-gers of bottling up suicidal thoughts.
There are many resourc-es at the University that are offered to help people who may believe they or a friend is at risk for suicide. Under a joint program between the Counseling Center and the McKinley Health Cen-ter, students can receive the help and guidance they need by talking to profes-sional health care provid-ers. The center is located in room 206 at the Fred H. Turner Student Services Building. It is also impor-tant to know that a crisis line is available 24/7 and can be accessed by dialing 359-4141.
While there are many large organizations out there who understand the causes of suicide and want to help, students should be informed as well. It is important for us to realize that there are people sit-ting right next to us in class who may feel the effects of stress and depression, and it is our duty to be aware of this issue.
What we can do as stu-dents who care about our campus and the students who live here is reach out and listen to people who may be suffering, and know what resources we can direct them to if needed. Whether it be a friend or a stranger, it is important to identify suicidal symptoms and be the person that lends an ear. Always keep your limitations in mind and seek professional help when applicable.
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Naperville-native still missing 1 year later
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BY MELISSA JENCOMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — For Karen and Mike Laspisa, every birthday, every hol-iday, every month is one more without Bryce.
On a recent weekend they reached another milestone — one year since their son, a Naperville, Illinois, Cen-tral High School graduate, went missing in California.
“Mike and I, we live this every day, and how does someone just vanish?” Kar-en Laspisa said. “But I know he’s not the only one because we’ve been thrown into a world of people who have loved ones missing.”
Laspisa last spoke to her then-19-year-old son about 2 a.m. Aug. 30, 2013, as Bryce was driving from Sierra Col-lege near Sacramento to his family’s home in the South-ern California city of Lagu-na Niguel. Bryce called her to say he was tired and was going to sleep in his car.
Six hours later, the high-way patrol showed up on the family’s doorstep to report they had found Bryce’s 2003 Toyota Highlander lying on its side unoccupied near Castaic Lake about 90 miles away. His cellphone, laptop and wallet were still inside.
Rescue workers per-formed an extensive search of the lake and the surround-ing area, but never found Bryce.
To mark the one-year anniversary, the Laspisa family is asking people to perform a random act of kindness and to hand out a card with information about Bryce.
“That’s the purpose to be able to continue spread-ing the awareness about Bryce still being missing and Bryce has a very kind heart,” Laspisa said.
The Laspisas are still trying to wrap their heads around Bryce’s disappear-
ance and keep replaying their many unanswered questions. Did he inten-tionally run away? Laspisa acknowledges it’s possible, but said it seems unlikely. She said she and her hus-band had a good relationship with Bryce, and he hadn’t been in trouble.
They hired a private investigator and a forensic analyst who scoured Bryce’s laptop and phone, but could not find evidence he was planning to run away.
Did someone harm him? The case remains in the hands of homicide detec-tives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Depart-ment. The detectives work-ing the case could not be reached.
Did he suffer memory loss in the crash and wander off? Tips continue to come in via a Find Bryce Laspisa Face-book page with more than 15,000 followers. There have been reported sightings in Washington, Oregon, Cali-fornia and Nevada, but so far none has led to Bryce.
“We have little pockets of what we call our little angels out there doing their own thing and keeping an eye out for Bryce and spread-ing the word and giving out fliers,” Laspisa said.
But because of the time that has passed and the difficulty of the terrain around the lake, there are
no ongoing organized search efforts.
Daily life for the Laspi-sas has become what they call “our new normal.” They check the Facebook page set up to find Bryce multi-ple times a day and other-wise try to keep busy with volunteer work and seeing friends.
“We live without him in our lives every day, and we wear our (‘Find Bryce Laspisa’) bracelets and say a prayer every night, but we have to take care of our-selves,” Laspisa said. “That was very difficult the first couple months.”
Despite the time that has passed, Laspisa said she continues to hold out hope her son is alive, since his body has not been found.
“The other part is you keep hope in your heart because you love your child and have wonderful mem-ories of him and with him and want to create more,” she said.
Bryce’s former coach with the Naperville Base-ball Association, William Quinn, expressed senti-ments about Bryce’s uplift-ing nature and said he was like an assistant coach.
“He was full of energy,” Quinn recalled. “He was a go-getter. He would go through and motivate the team.”
Laspisa asks that anyone who believes they may have seen Bryce send the family a photo if possible at [email protected]. They are offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to him. They also have set up a tip line at 949-292-4400, and the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department can be reached at 323-890-5500. Cards for those participat-ing in the random act of kindness campaign can be found at facebook.com/findbrycelaspisa.
BY MANDY LOCKE AND FRANCO ORDONEZMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON — Treat-ing workers as independent contractors isn’t a business decision that company owners have the right to make with-out considering federal laws.
The Internal Revenue Ser-vice and the U.S. Department of Labor have the final word. Each agency has a list of rules and tests — sanctioned by the courts — to figure out whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor.
The federal government sets these limits for good rea-sons. If a worker gets hurt on the job, it’s the company’s duty to cover hospital bills. If the company falters and needs to lay off or furlough work-ers, it must tap unemployment insurance to protect the work-er from further hardship.
There’s another purpose: The company acts as a tax collector of sorts. Before employees pick up their pay-checks each week, the com-pany siphons off the pieces of it that Uncle Sam demands in taxes.
The IRS says it collects 99 percent of what it’s owed from employees on the payrolls of companies.
Workers treated as contrac-tors, on the other hand, often elude tax collection. The IRS estimates that those work-ers who file taxes for income they must declare them-selves under-report their wages by 56 percent. This includes workers receiving 1099 forms. Those operating cash-intensive businesses are even less compliant, report-ing as little as 19 percent of
their income to the federal government.
Though the government has ways to ensure that 1099s filed with the IRS by company own-ers reappear in tax filings by workers, its efforts are often thin. According to a 2009 Government Accountability Office report on misclassifi-cation of workers, less than 3 percent of the companies the IRS marked as having the potential to have misclassified because of a red flag during the 1099 matching process were audited.
The IRS tries to spend its limited resources on the greatest return possible, so low-wage earners and the small employers that hire them get little attention. The construction industry is mostly small employers with workers earning less than $25,000 a year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
How commonly have employers missed the mark in determining whether workers are truly indepen-dent? Consider this: The IRS has a voluntary process in which workers and employ-ers can solicit its opinion as to whether workers fit the bill for employee status. Only 3 percent of the time, accord-ing to the 2009 GAO report, did the IRS agree that the worker was an independent contractor.
Seventy-two percent of the time, the IRS deter-mined the worker should be an employee.
For a full list of the factors the IRS and the Department of Labor use to judge wheth-er a worker is an employee or an independent contractor,
visit www.irs.gov and search for “independent contractor.”
Consider this scenario. At one low-income housing proj-ect in North Carolina, two-thirds of the workers hired to pour concrete, paint, shingle roofs and hang drywall were treated as independent con-tractors. Here’s what would have needed to happen with these 100 workers to pass the federal tests:
— Each worker could come and go as he pleased, setting his own hours and schedule.
— Each worker owned and used his own tools and supplies and had enough of a line of credit with vendors to buy the necessary materi-als, such as HVAC equipment and siding.
— Each worker tackled the work as he saw fit, not heed-ing direction and correction from superiors.
— Each worker secured enough compensation to allow him to earn a living and cover the overhead that a self-employed person must handle.
— All 100 of these work-ers earned from $7.25 to $20 an hour.
DON BARTLETTI MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEKaren and Mike Laspisa sit in their son’s bedroom in their Laguna Niguel, Calif. home with clothes and pictures of Bryce, who was 19 when he went missing about one year ago.
“We live without him in our lives
every day ... but we have to take care of
ourselves.”KAREN LASPISABRYCE’S MOTHER
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very Monday and Wednesday night, the South Quad becomes a fierce battlefield for
approximately 100 students.Their medieval-inspired garb
may confuse passing pedestri-ans as they travel past the bat-tlegrounds. But the knights, marshals and commanders are hard at work as the fights and battles begin.
The foam-covered wooden shields and swords are put into play as club members run up and down the field striking and “killing” each other, in what is described as a medieval fighting sport — Belegarth.
Originating in 1979, the Bel-egarth Medieval Combat Soci-ety has allowed men and women to get their own medieval com-bat experience through foam combat.
Belegarth is a game in which participants harness elements of both history and fantasy to fight in different realms and with various participants in each battle. The fantasy ele-ments are typically used from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” books.
The University’s realm of Belegarth, Numenor, has been around for around 25 years, according to Brendan Neunaber, previous president and active member.
Neunaber, a 2014 alumnus in Engineering, went on to explain that this specific realm of Bel-egarth started as a complete-ly independent entity of the University.
Some people from the sur-rounding area started practic-ing the sport without formal organization but soon started to capture the attention of Uni-versity students. This led it to becoming an official Registered Student Organization, Neunaber said.
Many current members said they learned about this activity at this year’s Quad Day.
Zoe Travis, sophomore in ACES, explained she knew noth-ing about the martial-arts-style sport prior to Quad Day but after learning more was quick-ly hooked.
“I just saw it on Quad Day, and it looked really cool,” she said. “I just came out and never left. It’s a great group of people.”
Despite Belegarth realms existing across North Ameri-ca and even crossing over into Europe, many participants said they were unfamiliar with the
sport until they came to the University and were formally introduced to everything it has to offer.
Brendan’s brother, Scott Neunaber, is the current president of the Numenor realm and a senior in LAS. Scott explained that anyone can get involved in whichever part of the sport they find the most
interesting. “While some members exclu-
sively enjoy the fighting aspect, others enjoy making and design-ing the garb, and there are individuals who are especial-ly talented when crafting and building the foam weapons and shields — there is so much the sport can offer,” Scott said.
The actual fighting is what draws most participants’ inter-est though.
To those who are unfamiliar with the Belegarthian world, the fighting appears to be a combina-tion of precise, sharp and deci-sive martial-arts-inspired moves.
The goal is to “kill” someone,
Travis said, which essentially means either hitting their abdo-men region or what is consid-ered his or her body for a total of two points. Striking a combi-nation of two of an opponent’s limbs also totals two points.
Along with their biweekly practices, the group also par-ticipates in events that span the course of a day, weekends and even entire weeks.
According to Travis, these events consist of tournament-style fights, banquets and feasts, and other social events for mem-bers of other Belegarth realms to meet and stay connected with the larger community.
Scott Neunaber calls the tour-nament scene, “the trick,” or the way to really get people inter-ested and involved.
“There are many foam fight-ing sports, but Belegarth is one of the largest,” he said. “Tour-naments are a way for new mem-bers to grasp that.”
While Numenor is a RSO at the University, the group also has participants from the sur-rounding areas and University alumni that continue to want to stay involved in the sport and continue to foster relationships they have made through the organization.
“We’re all looking for our home away from home and some stability,” Scott said. “It really does become your family.”
Samantha can be reached at [email protected].
Hendrick House fine dining hits the roadBY TAYLOR LUCEROSTAFF WRITER
After a two-year search for the right vehicle, Hen-drick House now has its own food truck that can be seen out and about in the Cham-paign-Urbana area begin-ning in early to mid-October.
Hendrick House’s Diane McNattin said they began to look for a truck after read-ing about the growing pop-ularity of the food service trend in magazines.
“The outpouring of calls asking us where we’re going to be and what we’re going to be serving has been way more than what I had ever anticipated, and actually we weren’t really prepared for that,” McNattin said. “But I think that that’s just a testa-ment to the great food that we provide.”
The truck does not cur-rently have a routine route but instead will work at
events. McNattin said serv-ing Hendrick House’s cur-rent clients, such as its Greek and dormitory cus-tomers, will be the truck’s main use this fall.
The only time the food truck is planning to drive and sell food, outside of working events, is during summer or spring break, according to McNattin. It is during these times that Hen-drick House does not serve its current clients.
Hendrick House Greek Accounts Manager and food truck chef Adam Whobrey said the truck is one of the ways Hendrick House can display its message about fresh, sustainable and organic food.
“... (We) thought one of the more fun ways to let peo-ple on campus know that we have that message and that idea would be to see if there’s a food truck avail-
able for us so that we can go around and actually show people,” Whobrey said. “(We wanted to) bring the food to them, essentially, rather than find a way for them to come to us.”
Due to some of the restric-tions from Champaign’s ordinances, Whobrey said he “can’t necessarily just drive around with it.”
Instead, he said the truck may take on tail-gating events or lunch appearances.
Whobrey compared work-ing for Hendrick House’s dining hall and working on the food truck to “apples and oranges.”
“The food truck is a much smaller scale vol-ume-wise, but at the same time, you run into a lot of planning issues, like you have to make sure that you have everything complete-ly planned out and thought
out,” he said.One example he gave
was how big of a problem not having a cutting board can be. In the dining hall, it is easy to simply access the supply of kitchen equip-ment. It becomes a problem when Whobrey is on the truck, miles away.
Former Food Truck Man-ager Liz Mansfield worked the food truck for part of the summer. She said the food truck gives chefs the chance to “do fine dining, except it’s on the road.”
People can hire the truck and discuss the menu with Hendrick House, according to Whobrey. Because of the size of Hendrick House’s kitchen, Wobrey said cook-ing on the food truck gives him the opportunity to change the menu depend-ing on what the event is.
“We’re really going to use this semester as a lot of tri-
al runs and working things out and seeing how exactly we can maximize the food truck’s potential,” he said.
The food truck’s next major event is the Pyg-malion Festival in down-
town Champaign. The food truck’s time and location is to be determined.
Taylor can be reached at [email protected].
TAYLOR LUCERO THE DAILY ILLINIBetween working events, the Hendrick House food truck sits in the parking lot of the West Green Street location on Wednesday.
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The results are there, but it hasn’t been pretty.
The Illini have made two consecutive fourth quarter comebacks to start the season 2-0, defeating Youngstown State and Western Kentucky.
“We had enough leadership and enough fi ght to continue to do what we believed in, instead of trying to kick ourselves in the butt for not doing the things right,” head coach Tim Beckman said. “We ended up pulling together as a unit and doing exactly what we needed to do.”
While Beckman said the team is deserving, there’s still concern among Illini nation heading into this week’s matchup with Washington, who defeated the Illini 34-24 at Soldier Field last season.
But Illinois has a different look this season, working with a young receiving corps who has gelled well with sophomore quarterback Wes Lunt and a defense that stepped up in big situations
Saturday — forcing three Western Kentucky turnovers.
Defense coming up bigIllinois’ defensive depth
has allowed the team to remain fresh in late-game situations — the Illini played 11 defensive linemen against Western Kentucky.
“We’re playing numbers and I’m happy with those numbers,” Beckman said. “Our defensive front — the pass rush, the pressure we’re putting on quarterbacks — I hadn’t seen that at all last year.
A credit goes to those young guys who have stepped up their game — Jihad Ward coming in, Smoot, Woods.”
Beckman said the pressure caused by the Illini’s front four is resulting in better coverage from the secondary — which saw defensive back Taylor Barton return a 77-yard interception for a touchdown late in the game Saturday.
“Any takeaway as a defensive player is a big
play — it’s something you’re excited about,” Barton said. “Scoring just adds to it. It’s a good feeling. Any defensive big play just swings momentum, that’s why defense is important.”
Passing game fl ourishesThe Illini’s young
receiving corps has made an impact early in the season. Freshman Mike Dudek, who was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week, has
two touchdown receptions in his fi rst two games.
Six Illini receivers are new to the team, as well as Lunt, who took home Co-Offensive Player of the Week honors from the Big Ten after throwing for three touchdowns and 456 yards.
“It takes a little bit of time, but we knew he had the talent to do it,” Beckman said. “We needed wide receivers (in this program).”
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For the second con-secutive weekend, the Illinois cam-
pus was swept up in the frenzy that is high-stakes recruiting.
It was Jawun Evans’ turn to take an official visit to Illinois, where he got to experience first-hand the enthusiasm of an Illini fan base that is eager for a commitment.
Fans wished him well on the street and at the football game against Western Kentucky. They flooded his mentions on Twitter and his inbox on Snapchat.
Evans was also wowed by the presentations from the Illinois coaching staff during the visit.
The 2015 point guard out of Dallas enjoys the attention and appreci-ates the love the Illini fans showered him with throughout the week-end. I spoke with his AAU coach and mentor, Lamont Simmons, who had a chance to talk to Evans about his visit.
“He definitely enjoyed it, I can tell you that now,” Simmons said. “He loved the fans, the atmo-sphere. The campus was very impressive.
“But even more
(impressive was) the coaching staff’s presenta-tions they put in front of him, things they planned on doing if they got him.
Their plan of build-ing him, building his body and building his fundamentals and skills and getting him to the next level was very impressive.”
Illinois head coach John Groce and his staff had already built a strong relationship with Evans prior to the week-end’s visit, and it was Groce’s integrity that piqued Evans’ interest in Illinois, according to Simmons. After gaining the trust of Evans, the staff didn’t disappoint when it came time to visit Illinois for the first time.
“They did a great and phenomenal job with the visit,” Simmons said.
While fan hype and speculation is inevita-ble during a high-profile visit, there were some unexpected circumstanc-es that Evans had to deal with before the visit even officially began.
Due to severe weath-er Friday night, Evans’ flight, which was sched-uled to land at Willard Airport, was diverted to Indianapolis.
Despite numerous offers from die-hard Illini fans to give him a lift to Champaign, Illi-nois assistant coaches
drove to Indy late Friday night to pick him up. He arrived on campus just after midnight.
On Saturday morning, Evans attended the home football game, matching Groce in an Illini hoodie.
He was introduced to Illini coaching legend Lou Henson in the press box and visited the stu-dent section, which has become customary for Illinois recruits on visits.
Groce then hosted a team dinner at his home Saturday evening, where Evans got the chance to mingle with current Illini players.
On Saturday night, online Illinois fan forums lit up amid rumors from anonymous posters that Evans had given a “silent verbal” commitment to the Illini coaching staff.
However, a source close to the situation stressed that Evans had not given any type of silent commitment to the staff.
After a Sunday morn-ing breakfast with Groce at the Original Pancake House in Champaign, Evans left campus with-out any announcement of a commitment.
Following two week-ends devoid of any con-crete developments, things are poised to become more clear Wednesday.
Rivals.com recruiting analyst Eric Bossi con-firmed that Groce’s oth-er top target, 2015 point guard Jalen Brunson, is set to announce his col-lege decision Wednesday
at 4:30 p.m. Brunson is choosing between Illinois and Villanova.
Since Brunson and Evans play the same position, Simmons said he feels that there is no room for both point guards to be added to Groce’s 2015 class.
“Being honest, if they get another point guard, I don’t see the place for two specialty point guards coming in,” Sim-mons said.
When asked if Evans shared that sentiment, Simmons answered yes.
Evans will visit Oklahoma State next on Sept. 24, and is still not sure if he will take his last official visit to Texas.
But he will definite-ly wait until after the visit to Oklahoma State before making a decision, according to Simmons.
Groce and Villa-nova head coach Jay Wright are both sched-uled to have an in-home visit with Brunson on Tuesday.
So we know that a Brunson decision is imminent, and we know that it could have impli-cations on Evans’ final decision.
At this point, we don’t have a clear picture on where either is heading.
But we do know that Wednesday will set things in motion.
Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.
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Decisions loom for Illini targetsJawun Evans was the latest of top 2015 recruits to visit the Illini
BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER
For the fi rst time this sea-son, the Illinois volleyball team was faced with adver-sity Friday night.
The Illini, who until this weekend hadn’t dropped a set, were swept by UCLA and dismantled by the Bru-ins outside hitter Karsta Lowe.
“(In) the match against UCLA, we really struggled to compete and play with the energy that we needed to play with,” head coach Kevin Hambly said.
Even though Illinois ulti-mately lost its next match, a fi ve-set contest against then-No. 2 Stanford, it was the way the team responded after being outplayed in the fi rst match of the weekend that gave sophomore setter Allison Palmer a more posi-tive outlook on Illinois’ play.
“We can learn a lot from that match,” Palmer said. “I think that we know that if we execute the game plan we will win, and right now it’s just about executing.”
Although Illinois lost to Stanford, the team received key contributions from players who didn’t play to their potential against UCLA.
After having just 11 com-bined kills against the Bru-ins, senior outside hitters Jocelyn Birks and Mor-ganne Criswell each had 16 kills against the Cardinal.
“I think overall we learned a lot and played pretty well (on Sunday),” Birks said. “I thought our defense and our passing was a lot better (on Sunday).”
After proving that a loss won’t weigh on the team emotionally, the Illini should now focus on clos-ing out each match to have success moving forward.
“We have to just go and take the win,” Palmer said. “I think that’s what we took away from this one. When we’re staying together and staying connected and play-ing our ball, we can com-pete with everyone and it’s just about that execution toward the end of the sets and toward the end of the match.”
Illinois awestruck by Lowe’s performance
All it took was three sets.Three sets for UCLA’s
senior outside hitter Karsta Lowe to break her career
Power rankingsDAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTEditor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff ranks the football teams in the Big Ten 1-14 and compiles the lists into its own Big Ten power rankings.
1. WISCONSIN (LAST WEEK: 3) After a slow start in the fi rst half, the Badgers exploded for 28 points in the fi nal two quarters for a dominating 37-3 win over Western Illinois.
2. MICHIGAN STATE (1)The Spartans let a 27-18 lead slip away in the second half and squandered their 11-game winning streak with it. Oregon outscored Michigan State 28-3 in the fi nal two quarters, exposing the secondary for 318 passing yards.
3. OHIO STATE (2)It was only a matter of time before the loss of starting quarterback Braxton Miller hurt the Buckeyes. Freshman J.T. Barrett threw three interceptions and only completed nine passes against the Hokies.
6. NEBRASKA (4)The Cornhuskers were nearly upset by McNeese State on Saturday, relying on a 58-yard touchdown reception from Ameer Abdullah to seal the game with 20 seconds left.
4. IOWA (6)The Hawkeyes avoided becoming another Big Ten upset this week, scoring a last-minute touchdown to give them a late win over Ball State.
5. PENN STATE (7)The big news for the Nittany Lions is their reinstated bowl eligibility and that could mean a lot more if the team continues playing the way it has been — Penn State nearly shut out Akron 21-3 Saturday, throwing for over 300 yards.
7. MICHIGAN (5)The Wolverines were dominated by Notre Dame, getting shut out 31-0. Quarterback Devin Gardner threw three interceptions and failed to reach the end zone both through the air and on the ground, where he ran 11 times for just fi ve yards.
8. MINNESOTA (9)The Golden Gophers are quietly gaining steam after a 2-0 start with the rest of the Big Ten faltering early. Running back David Cobb must remain healthy, as the Gophers’ offense heavily relies on his performance — the senior had 220 rushing yards Saturday against Middle Tennessee while the passing offense threw for just 67.
9. MARYLAND (8)The Terrapins had six turnovers against South Florida on Saturday. Maryland scored 10 points in the fourth quarter to complete the comeback, but holding on to the ball is a major concern for head coach Randy Edsall.
10. ILLINOIS (12) The Illini have yet to remain consistent, needing another fourth-quarter comeback to win Saturday against Western Kentucky. The team’s fi rst big test comes this week against Washington and will look to build on a productive passing game and defensive takeaways.
11. INDIANA (11)The Hoosiers were idle in Week Two and will take the fi eld again Saturday against Bowling Green, looking to utilize their rushing game with junior Tevin Coleman, who had 247 yards on 23 carries in Week One.
12. NORTHWESTERN (10)The Wildcats are heading in the wrong direction after dropping their fi rst two games. The loss of senior running back Venric Mark has hurt the team this season. They gained just 72 yards on 37 rushing attempts against Northern Illinois.
13. RUTGERS (13)The Scarlet Knights defeated Howard 38-25 but were outscored 18-7 in the second half. Rutgers allowed 21 points to Washington State in Week One, bringing up the concern of endurance when Big Ten play begins.
14. PURDUE (14)The Boilermakers weren’t expecting a winning season, but they weren’t expecting to lose to Central Michigan on Saturday. Purdue had three turnovers and seven penalties, making it diffi cult for a productive passing game to carry the team to a win.
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllini basketball coach, John Groce, shares a laugh with former Illini football player, Steve Hull, (left) and basketball recruit Jawun Evans.
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois head coach Tim Beckman reacts after having a referee decision go against Illinois during the game against Western Kentucky at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The Illini won 42-34.
Illini volleyball can learn from weekend losses
Despite two wins, Illini football has room to improve
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BY LORI FALCEMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
The Nittany Lions scored big Monday as the NCAA accepted recommendations from George Mitchell’s latest report on Penn State’s prog-ress, restoring postseason play this year and scholar-ships next year.
In his second annu-al report, issued Monday, Mitchell lauded the univer-sity’s progress and made recommendations to fur-ther roll back the unprece-dented sanctions levied by the NCAA.
“Penn State has continued to fully comply with the AIA (Athletics Integrity Agree-ment) and has continued its commitment to reform,” Mitchell said. “First, I rec-
ommend that the NCAA restore Penn State’s bowl eli-gibility for the 2014-15 foot-ball season. Second, I recom-mend that the NCAA restore Penn State’s football grants-in-aid to the maximum num-ber permitted under NCAA regulations for the 2015-16 football season.”
Mitchell and his law firm, DLA Piper, made the announcement Monday, releasing a report describing Penn State’s efforts to con-tinue work on its obligations under the athletic integrity agreement and the consent decree.
He pointed to accomplish-ments, including “a wholly new and comprehensive com-pliance program that places oversight of athletics com-
pliance outside of the athlet-ics department and ensures direct access to the univer-sity’s senior leadership and board of trustees.”
Mitchell also pointed toward recommending an end to the oversight in the near future.
“Should Penn State con-tinue its current course of progress during this upcom-ing third year, I will in my next annual report consid-er recommending that the NCAA and Big Ten conclude the monitorship substantial-ly earlier than scheduled,” he said. The babysitting period was set at five years originally.
“Earlier today, I presented my report and recommenda-tions to the Big Ten Confer-
ence and the NCAA execu-tive committee and Division I board of directors. I am pleased that they accepted my report and adopted my recommendations,” Mitchell concluded.
One penalty not addressed were the 111 victories vacat-ed from former head coach Joe Paterno’s tenure.
The NCAA wasted no time in announcing its acceptance.
“Penn State’s commitment to the integrity of its athletics department and its progress toward meeting the require-ments of the Consent Decree are clear,” said Northern Ari-zona President Rita Hartung Cheng. “We thank Senator Mitchell for his meticulous and exhaustive work over the past two years.”
This weekend was sup-posed to be the Big Ten’s chance to prove
everyone wrong. Instead, everything went
wrong. Michigan State had a chance to earn the confer-ence some respect in one of the biggest nonconference games of the year against Oregon. Instead, the Ducks flew right over the stout Spartan defense. Ohio State lost its first home opener since 1978. Michigan was shut out for the first time since 1984. Two MAC teams beat Big Ten teams, and Nebraska needed a miracle to beat McNeese State.
In short, Saturday looked like doomsday for the Big Ten and any of its playoff hopes. But all is not lost. There’s still a glimmer of hope because this was only Week Two. The start of the
season has not been kind to the Big Ten, but there’s a long way to go and a lot can happen from now until the College Football Playoff teams are set in December.
Right now, Michigan State and Wisconsin still look like viable contenders. After an ugly home loss to Virgin-ia Tech, Ohio State seems like an afterthought without Braxton Miller.
Both Sparty and Bucky Badger looked fantastic for a half against premiere opponents. Michigan State put up 20 unanswered points on Oregon and took a nine-point lead in the third quar-ter. Connor Cook looked great and the “old-school” Spartan offense was having better success than Ore-gon’s “Blur” offense. Two weeks ago, Wisconsin got out to a 17-point lead against a tough LSU team. The Bad-gers led the entire game until the fourth quarter.
Of course, it doesn’t mat-ter how good these teams looked for part of the game, in the end, both lost and
brought on more mockery to the Big Ten. But it would be wrong to define these teams by two early losses.
Wisconsin returned the second fewest starters in the nation (9) and quarter-back Tanner McEvoy’s first start against the Tigers went terribly. Once the Bad-gers get a few games under their belt, they’ll still prob-ably rip through the Big Ten West on the back of run-ning back Melvin Gordon. The Spartans hung with the Ducks until the fourth quar-ter; they just couldn’t finish the job. Down by 12, they were driving when Oregon’s Ifo Ekpre-Olomu made an incredible interception to seal things up for the Ducks. MSU will get even better as the season goes on.
Let’s all remember that the Spartans, Rose Bowl champs and one of the nation’s best teams last year, lost to a pretty medio-cre Notre Dame team and still finished ranked No. 3 a year ago. An early season loss doesn’t have to derail
all Big Ten hopes for the playoff, especially a loss to a team like Oregon or LSU.
Nothing is ever set in col-lege football. Last year, it looked like there would be no SEC team in the national championship game after the “Kick-6,” but even in the last week of the sea-son, an upset shook things up when MSU knocked off Ohio State in the Big Ten title game. Weird things happen over the course of the year. Countless highly ranked teams end up fall-ing to the Iowa State’s and Arizona’s of the world (see Oklahoma State 2011, Ore-gon 2013).
There will be playoff spots up for grabs. A Big Ten champion Michigan State team with a single loss to Oregon would be hard to overlook. All isn’t lost for the Big Ten yet. Things are just getting started.
Chris is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected].
Two weeks into the 2014 NCAA football season and one-
fourth of my playoff prediction is in jeopardy.
I originally picked Michigan State to win the Big Ten securing one of my spots in the inaugural College Football Playoff. However, I am no longer confident about that pick after seeing the Spartans performance in their loss to Oregon.
And it’s not just about Michigan State — it’s about the Big Ten securing a spot, no matter who wins the conference.
Over the weekend, Jim Delany said he still believes a team can make it. But who?
Michigan State lost the most important game on their schedule. If the Spartans win out, the 13 voting members will highlight the loss to Oregon as the biggest drawback.
Ohio State is done without Braxton Miller. As great as Urban Meyer is, his system relies on talented quarterbacks. J.T Barrett is not Miller — yet. The Buckeyes loss to Virginia Tech, at home nonetheless, was embarrassing. Road wins will be an important factor when choosing a playoff team, and if a team cannot even win at home, why should it make it?
Wisconsin? For the first half, the Badgers led Western Illinois 2-0; those two points were scored on a fluke safety. The bigger issue for the Badgers is their lack of a true quarterback. Starter Tanner McEvoy is taking snaps after moving from safety, and it’s showing. He has struggled passing the ball, as he currently has completed 59.6 percent of his passes. Melvin Gordon was a legitimate Heisman contender, but he only managed 38 yards on 17 carries
against the vaunted Leathernecks’ defense.
Nebraska and Michigan? Michigan was shut out against Notre Dame, in part because Devin Gardner led an offense that turned the ball over four times, including three interceptions. Nebraska? The Huskers won at home ... barely. They almost fell to McNeese State.
Problems are aplenty throughout the conference and the weekend only highlighted them. And these have been problems long brewing. 2002 was the last time a Big Ten team won a national championship, and that was Jim Tressell’s Buckeyes.
Since 2010, the Big Ten is an astounding 8-29 against ranked opponents from the Power 5 conferences. That alone shows how far behind the conference is.
This is also a conference where Purdue and Illinois have combined for less wins over Big Ten opponents in the past two seasons than Northern Illinois. And NIU is a MAC team.
There is no one event that points to the Big Ten’s decline. Rather, it’s just been a cyclical thing. Top high school recruits are going to where the fun and success is, be it Pac-12, SEC or other powerful programs from the Power 5.
Some team will have to win the Big Ten this year, yet that team will not receive an invite to the playoffs.
There are just too many better, more deserving programs, even if those teams do not win their conference or have a loss on their resumes.
Sorry for the doom and gloom Maryland and Rutgers. Enjoy your stay in the Big Ten.
And no refunds.
Erik is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] or @e_prada
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Junior college transfer Geronimo Allison said the new receivers are clicking together well with the quarterback.
“We work on and off the field, watching film together, out there at practice and after practice,” said Allison, who had 97 receiving yards Saturday. “Our other receivers are on the same page, also. We go out there with a mindset that we’re confident and we can make every play.”
Fixing special teams mistakes
In order to reach the goal of becoming the fifth Illini team to go 3-0 in the past 25 years, Beckman said there is still a lot to perfect.
Illinois’ kicking team has had a rough start to the season, with starter Taylor Zalewski missing two field goals (on attempts of 34 and 50 yards) Saturday. Zalewski and backup Ryan Frain have combined for three penalties in the first two games for kicking the ball out-of-bounds on the kickoff.
“We can not kick the football out-of-bounds, that’s inexcusable,” Beckman said. “And when we have the opportunity to score points, we need to score those points. I’ve never been a big stat guy, but we’re last in our kickoff coverage because we’ve kicked three of them out of bounds and we are last in field goals because we haven’t made one yet.”
Illinois is looking to avoid relying on a late offensive explosion by capitalizing early, having trailed in both games heading into the final quarter.
“To win, you have to score points,” Beckman said. “We’ve got to be able to do that anyway we can.”
Sean can be reached at [email protected] and @Neumannthehuman.
high in kills with 29 against Illinois.
“She was just playing out of her mind,” Birks said. “She was hitting every sin-gle shot on the court.”
Both Hambly and the Illini talked about slowing down Lowe as a key to Illi-nois’ success, but the Illini were unable to do so. Lowe, who had averaged 6.25 kills per set in Stanford’s first two matches, averaged 9.67 kills per set in a per-formance against the Illini that Hambly said was one of the most impressive he had ever seen.
“Karsta Lowe was unstop-pable,” Hambly said. “We couldn’t do much with her.
“She was physically real-ly high and she hit really hard and she’s really good.”
Inexperienced players perform well for Illini
Although the Illini dropped both matches on the weekend, the play of newer contributors was a bright spot for Illinois.
Freshman libero Bran-di Donnelly led the team in digs in both matches, recording 18 and 26 digs against UCLA and Stan-ford, respectively. The Illini only had three other players record double digit digs in either game on the weekend.
Sophomore outside hit-ter Katie Roustio gave the Illini life on Friday, as she was moved into the rotation after a senior outside hitter Morganne Criswell started slow against the Bruins. Roustio recorded six kills on 12 attempts and finished with a .417 hitting percent-age in the match.
“Morganne struggled a little bit against UCLA, so we tried (Roustio) and she did a great job,” Hambly said.
Nicholas can be reached at [email protected] and @IlliniSportsGuy.
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CHRIS KENNEDY
Sports columnist
ERIK PRADO
Sports columnist
Despite rough start, Big Ten playoff hopes still alive
Ravens release RB Rice after video
NCAA lifts major restrictions on Penn State football
The Big Ten will not be represented in this year’s inaugural playoff
NUCCIO DINUZZO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEMichigan offensive linesman Graham Glasgow loses his helmet as he tries to tackle Notre Dame safety Max Redfield after an interception during the second half at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind., on Saturday.
BY JEFF ZREBIECMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
The Baltimore Ravens are standing by Ray Rice no longer.
The team announced Mon-day afternoon that it has ter-minated the contract of the 27-year-old running back on the same day a new video sur-faced showing him striking his then-fiancee.
NFL Commissioner, Rog-er Goodell announced that Rice has now been suspend-ed indefinitely.
Those decisions come about seven months after the running back was arrested and initially charged with simple assault following an altercation with Janay Palm-er, now his wife, in an Atlan-tic City, N.J., casino. It caps a stunning fall for Rice, who had been suspended from two games by the NFL for violat-ing the league’s personal con-duct policy.
Coach John Harbaugh and
Ravens players are expected to speak to the media Mon-day night.
The video released Mon-day by TMZ Sports appears to show that after Rice and Palmer hit each other in a Revel casino elevator, Rice threw a punch with his left fist, knocking Palmer off her feet and into a railing. A previously released video showed the aftermath, with Rice dragging his now-wife out of the elevator.
The release of the new vid-eo comes less than 24 hours after the Ravens lost 23-16 to the Cincinnati Bengals with Rice serving the first game of his suspension, and 10 days after the NFL announced more severe punishment for domestic violence.
An NFL spokesman said league officials had not seen the video from inside the ele-vator until Monday.
“We requested from law enforcement any and all
information about the inci-dent, including the video from inside the elevator,” league spokesman Greg Aiel-lo said. “That video was not made available to us and no one in our office has seen it until today.”
In announcing the new domestic violence penalties on Aug. 28 after public back-lash to Rice’s two-game sus-pension, Goodell said in a let-ter to all 32 NFL owners that he “didn’t get it right” when he handed down Rice’s pun-ishment in July. The new pen-alties include six games for a first offense and a poten-tial lifetime ban for a sec-ond offense.
“My disciplinary decision led the public to question our sincerity, our commitment, and whether we understood the toll that domestic violence inflicts on so many families. I take responsibility both for the decision and for ensuring that our actions in the future properly reflect our values. I didn’t get it right,” Goodell wrote.
Rice was charged with felony aggravated assault in the case, but in May he was accepted into a pre-trial intervention program that allowed him to avoid jail time and could lead to the charge being eliminated from his record.
KENNETH K. LAM MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNERunning back Ray Rice was cut by the Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL after a video surfaced of him hitting his wife Janay in an elevator.
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Well it’s safe to say that could have gone better, a lot better.
An overtime loss at home to the Buffalo Bills is obviously not how the Bears and their fans envisioned the start to the season. What’s worse is the way it happened.
More bad defense, more poor decisions from quar-terback Jay Cutler and more unimpressive special teams.
After an offseason filled with several flashy defen-sive signings, declarations that Cutler could contend for league MVP, and end-less expectations, the Bears looked awfully pedestrian in their season opener.
Perhaps all that excitement
and buildup was for nothing? Let’s hope not.
There were still some bright spots the team can build off of. The offense scored easily on its first drive of the game led by Cutler who put on a clinic and went 4-for-4, including a 12-yard touchdown pass to tight end Martellus Bennett to cap the drive. Sadly, this was the best the offense would look all day.
Running back Matt Forte seemed to be in midseason form already. He essential-ly carried the offense in the second half by both receiving and rushing the ball excep-tionally well. He finished the game with more than 160 total yards.
The defense wasn’t hor-rible. In theory, they played good enough to win. That’s more than could have been said about them for a major-ity of the losses last season. The unit came up with a
timely interception that led to a touchdown and did well to hold Buffalo to field goals after being forced to defend a short field due to some turn-overs by the offense.
However, in the end, it just wasn’t good enough.
The overtime period was pretty depressing for the Bears on both sides of the ball.
Chicago was gifted the first possession of the period after winning the coin toss, but was unable to do anything with the ball. The offense just seemed to be out of sync and ended up having to punt after gaining just one first down on the short drive.
What ensued next on the defensive side of the ball was even more dishearten-ing. The Bills took the ball and ran it down the Bears’ throats.
Literally. Well, almost literally.
On the third-to-last play of the game, Buffalo running back Fred Jackson busted through the line of scrim-
mage for a 38-yard run to the Bears’ 1-yard line. He fin-ished off his run with a fero-cious stiff-arm to the throat of Bears’ safety Chris Conte, knocking him to the ground like a practice dummy. Buf-falo kicked a field goal two plays later to win the game.
After the Bears’ rushing defense was the worst in fran-chise history last year, there was hope that the signings of defensive linemen Jar-ed Allen and Lamarr Hous-ton would bring help to a unit that desperately need-ed it. However, Sunday, and in particular the final drive of the game, showed that the Bears’ run defense still has a ways to go.
To add injury to insult, sev-eral key players for the Bears left the game with injuries. Among these players was starting receiver Alshon Jef-frey as well as starting offen-sive linemen Matt Slauson and Roberto Garza — all of whom are essential parts to an explosive Bears’ offense. The Bears certainly missed
them in overtime. They will need to be healthy and in the lineup if the Bears have any chance of bouncing back in Week Two.
Up next on the schedule are the San Francisco 49ers. Widely regarded as the class of the NFC along with the Seahawks, the Bears will have their hands full. After an utter dismantling of the
Cowboys in their season opener, the Niners will be a good measuring stick to see just how good the Bears real-ly are.
I just hope the answer to that question is one that I want to hear.
Mubarak can be reached at [email protected] and @justmubar.
Bears’ season in jeopardy after Week One loss to Bills!e Bears’ high-powered o"ense unable to come through in clutch
ANTHONY SOUFFLE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEChicago Bears running back Matt Forte runs the ball during the second quarter of their game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.
USC’s AD #ned for inappropriate conduct
WALLY SKALIJ MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNESouthern California athletic director Pat Haden, right, was fined $25,000 for inappropriate sideline conduct in Saturday’s game.
JOE PETRO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEFormer South Carolina end and Texans linebacker Jadeveon Clowney could miss six weeks with a right knee injury.
RON T. ENNIS MCCLATCHY TRIBUNEHeat small forward Luol Deng was the subject of a racist remark by the Atlanta Hawks’ owners. Clowney could miss
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Southern California Ath-letic Director Pat Haden and coach Steve Sarkisian were reprimanded and Haden was fined $25,000 by the Pac-12 Conference for “inappropriate sideline con-duct” during the Trojans’ 13-10 victory over Stan-ford on Saturday, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott announced Monday.
Sarkisian summoned Haden to the sideline late
in the third quarter after the coach was called for an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty. Haden, a member of the College Football Playoff selection committee, inter-acted with officials.
Haden’s actions sparked controversy and calls for him to be removed from the committee.
“Such actions by an administrator in attempt to influence the officiat-ing, and ultimately the out-come of a contest, will not be tolerated,” Scott said in a statement.
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Texans rookie outside line-backer Jadeveon Clowney is expected to miss four to six weeks after suffering a torn meniscus cartilage in his right knee during Sunday’s 17-6 season-opening victory over Washington.
Clowney, the first pick in the draft, suffered the inju-ry while rushing quarter-back Robert Griffin III late
in the first half. He’s expect-ed to undergo arthroscop-ic surgery to repair the damage.
Clowney (6-5, 266 pounds) underwent an MRI, and the results showing the damage will be known Monday.
“I don’t know what hap-pened on the field,” coach Bill O’Brien said after the game. “I’m not sure what happened on that one. We’re consulting with the doctors and trainers right now.”
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Everyone in the world has someone who is special to them, and
you would never want that person to be physi-cally assaulted. Anyone responsible for such a crime should be punished accordingly.
That’s the attitude the Ravens took Monday after-noon when they cut run-ning back Ray Rice. TMZ released footage of a vid-eo taken inside the eleva-tor when Rice cold-cocked his then-fiancée, now-wife Janay Palmer. Shortly after-ward, the NFL suspended Rice indefinitely.
The Ravens should be applauded somewhat for
their actions, but do not give the NFL any credit for the decision that was handed down today.
The NFL previously sus-pended Rice for two games and fined him more than $50,000 — in addition to over $470,000 lost from two game checks — as a result of the incident. Since then, the NFL has been heavily criticized for its approach to domestic violence situ-ations leading to a change in league policy to inflict harsher penalties on future abusers. The NFL followed the Ravens decision on Mon-day by suspending Rice indefinitely.
What the Ravens did was the right move, but not the perfect one. Rice should have been cut from the team as soon as he was arrested. The same argument can obviously be made about the NFL. It shouldn’t have tak-
en video proof to reveal to the team and the league that domestic violence incidents are a whole lot more seri-ous than a two-game penalty would indicate.
Speak however you like about the culture of foot-ball and how teams and the league set a standard for behavior, but not enough players are cut for mis-deeds. The Patriots may not have monitored Aaron Her-nandez’s behavior correctly, but to the Patriots’ credit, as soon as he was charged with murder, he was off the team.
Rice certainly didn’t kill anyone, but watching the TMZ tape indicates he very well could have killed Palm-er if he hit her hard enough and she had fallen the wrong way.
What should follow this decision is a national con-versation about violence in football and the effects of playing an aggressive game. Anyone who has ever played football competitively knows that it takes a spark
of insanity to be good at football. It takes more than a spark to be great. With the possible exception of quar-terbacks, kickers and punt-ers, aggression is celebrated in football.
I wasn’t bound to play college football because, as decent as I was at football in high school, I had zero anger toward my opponent. Those who succeed in the sport have a level of aggression that is prized on the field but can be dangerous off of it.
I love football. It is the only sport I played compet-itively past the age of 13, and it will forever be the game that I hold most dear. But I am troubled. There are many hurts plaguing the NFL, and in this doctor’s opinion, they are not going to be easy to heal.
Peter is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @pbaileywells22.
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Soccer takes scoring by committee approach Seven di!erent Illini have scored so far this season
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KARL MERTON FERRON MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEOn Monday, Ravens running back Ray Rice was let go from the team after a video surfaced from TMZ showing Rice knocking his then-fiance unconscious in a casino elevator.
BY ELISEO ELIZARRAZSTAFF WRITER
Six games into the season, the Illinois soccer team has had seven different players get on the score sheet.
Jannelle Flaws has picked up where she left off last sea-son, netting four goals so far after last year’s unprec-edented tally of 23 goals that saw her top the NCAA scoring charts. Perhaps her productivity in front of goal was to be expected. Howev-er, this year’s Illini team has scored goals from all sides of the pitch.
On the defensive end,
freshman Abby Elinsky and junior Amy Feher have both n e t t e d two goals a p i e c e . E m i l y O s o b a , R e a g a n Robishaw and Alli-son Stuck-ey have all scored as midfielders, while freshman Kara Marbury joins Flaws as this season’s two goal-scoring strikers.
Illinois picked up a pair of wins over the weekend, beat-ing the College of Charles-
ton and UAB to improve its record to 5-1. It was a week-end that included a monu-mental feat for head coach Janet Rayfield. The victory over Charleston proved to be
her 200th c a r e e r victory as a head soc-cer coach. Rayfield, a l r e a d y the pro-gram’s all-time lead-
er in wins, improved her career record to 201-154-32 over the weekend. There were three first-time scorers on the weekend, as Marbury and Robishaw both scored against Charleston on Friday
and Osoba adding one of her own against UAB.
Junior midfielder Nicole Breece leads the team with five assists so far this sea-son. She is joined by five other Illini on the assists sheet: Robishaw, Flaws, Marbury, Stuckey and sophomore defender Hope D’Addario. With confer-ence season just around the corner, the Illini will need their offense to be clicking on all cylinders.
“I was just happy that we were getting to the end of crosses and taking advan-tage of our opportunities,” Breece said.
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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Janelle Flaws leads the team with four goals this season. Flaws is one of seven Illini to score a goal.
Jannelle Flaws has picked up where she left off last season.