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BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER
The College of Engi-neering is partnering with the University of Chica-go’s Chicago Innovation Exchange to bring under-graduate students together to promote the development and growth of new startup companies in Illinois.
“Early, the opportunity was to put together the best minds in engineering and the best minds in business between the Booth School (of Business) and the Uni-versity of Illinois College of Engineering; two of the top programs in the coun-try in those respective fi elds,” said John Flavin, CIE executive director.
The CIE announced the partnership when it launched Oct. 16. The partnership aims to build relationships between stu-dents at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and Univer-sity engineering students to combine students’ tal-ents and ideally create numerous in-state startup companies.
Sunil Kumar, dean of the Booth School of Business, said in a press release that he believes the program will go a long way toward improving the climate of innovation in Illinois.
“Both schools have a tre-mendous history of entre-preneurship and innova-
tion,” Kumar said in a press release. “Through this partnership, Booth students and faculty will have more opportunities to connect with top-tier engineering talent and an expanded network of inno-vators building start-ups in Illinois.”
Seniors from the Univer-sity and Booth will partici-pate in a year-long course based on the Urbana cam-pus, where they will study product design and early-opportunity identifi cation, as well as collaborate to potentially lay the founda-tion for new companies.
Flavin said CIE’s
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Sundiata Cha-Jua threw his hands up, gesturing to his small offi ce in the African American Studies building.
“You see this place ... this is an old house that was built in 1901,” Cha-Jua, associate pro-fessor of African American Studies, said. “They’ve been talking about a new space for African American Studies — a building, not a house — for at least more than a decade, and there’s been very little movement in that regard.”
Cha-Jua said the build-ing seems to refl ect a senti-ment many African-Ameri-cans have on campus — that African-American-related issues aren’t a priority to the University.
Over the last decade, the African-American popula-tion on campus has faced a heavy decrease.
Only 356 African-Amer-ican freshmen enrolled in the fall semester, of the 945 that were accepted into the University, according to the Division of Management Information .
“We’ve been charting it since 2006, which was a high point in terms of black stu-dent enrollment, but since 2006, there’s been a steady decline,” Cha-Jua said.
The yield — the number of students that enrolled in relation to those accepted - has fallen below that of the incoming class of African-American freshmen in fall 1968, the year “Project 500” took place.
Project 500 was an initia-tive to boost African-Amer-ican enrollment following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The project surpassed its goal by enroll-ing 565 students and enacted a benchmark goal for future years.
“They should never have an incoming class that’s smaller than Project 500,” Cha-Jua said.
Cha-Jua believes the pri-mary reason for the decline is an increase in student tuition in hopes to offset a decrease in state funding.
Corey Evans, Men of Impact president and senior in AHS, agreed that the increase in tuition plays a potential role in turning Afri-can-American students away.
Men of Impact is a student organization that addresses challenges faced by minor-ities on campus and helps them to become more inter-active members of society.
“I would say that the tuition increase is probably one of the biggest factors
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“It might not be something particular that the University of Illinois is doing, but African-American students are looking for that more welcoming feel, and they weren’t getting that from the University of Illinois. The University is trying to do more programs to get people aware of these situations, and I feel that that’s a great fi rst step.”
“But you also have to consider the fact that college rates in general are going down and less people are going to school, so we’re just one of the subgroups that are also going down.”
“It has me asking ‘Is the University working to retain African-American students? Is that a priority, or is it not, and if it’s not, then why?’ If we’re supposed to be a diverse ‘Big 10’ University, then we should refl ect that, and we also need to look attractive to African American students.”
“I think maybe less African-American students have been applying here, but I don’t think the administration has been personally picking less of them. It’s pretty shocking that it’s gone down by that much, but I guess I can tell by looking around campus that it’s been decreasing.”
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The Alma Mater statue, adorned with homecoming banner and regalia, has scratches on its eyes from vandalism that was fi rst reported by a University employee on Friday.
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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTA University employee
reported on Friday after-noon that someone damaged the Alma Mater statue at the corner of Wright and Green streets.
“On the Alma Mater her-self, it looks like someone took a sharp object and scratched up the eyes,” Uni-versity Police Detective Sgt. Tom Geis said.
He added that the eyes
on one of the fi gures next to Alma, known as “Labor,” also had similar scratches on it.
Police are reviewing the 24/7 video footage from the area and trying to fi nd the time frame in which the act was committed.
If the perpetrators are caught, they will be charged with criminal damage to state supported property, Geis said.
Robin Kaler, campus
spokesperson, stated that the offender could also be sub-ject to repercussions from the University.
The Conservation Sculp-ture and Objects Studio, the same company that complet-ed the conservation efforts on the Alma Mater earlier this year, is assessing the damages on the statue and will determine the repairs that need to be done, Kaler said.
Scratches found on eyes of Alma statue
Chicago Booth, UI engineering students collaborate on startups
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UI staff member ‘goes boldly’ in her fi ght against breast cancerThree-time survivor Anna Mehl refl ects on the biggest journey of her life.
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WEATHERPOLICE
ChampaignTheft was reported from
the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house, 313 E. Chalmers St., around 11 a.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, an unknown offender stole a fl ower pot.
University Theft was reported at the
Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., around 2 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report,
an employee of Illini Union Student Services reported that someone had stolen two blowup fi gures that were stationed on the south side-walk of the Illini Union. The fi gures, made of parachute material, have an estimated value of $1,000.
Urbana Theft was reported on
the 1300 block of North Lin-coln Avenue around 4 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, an unknown offender stole a package from outside the vic-tim’s apartment.
Forgery was reported on the 100 block of West Univer-sity Avenue around 10 a.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, over the last few months offenders have forged checks using the bank account of the victim’s business: Precious Nurses Healthcare.
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because, statistically speak-ing, it’s harder for African-Americans coming from low-er-income families than other students,” Evans said. “With-out scholarships or fi nancial aid support, it might be hard to come up with the money to attend the University.”
Founded in 1991, Men of Impact was origi-nally aimed at helping A f r i c a n -A mer ic a n men on cam-pus; howev-er, in recent years, it has been extend-ed to various minorities to a cer-tain degree, i n c l u d i n g females on campus.
“We’ve been talking with (the Bruce D. Nesbitt Cen-ter) director and giving our thoughts about why the decline has been happening and how we can help improve that number,” Evans said. “Basically, a lot of brain-storming to come to a conclu-sion with how we can actually increase that number, but for us to do that we need to fi nd out the cause.”
Evans also said the organi-zation had reached out to the administration, but “hadn’t been receiving much word from them.”
Keith Marshall, associ-ate provost, said in an email that the administration mon-itors admissions data and enrollments carefully, and the Offi ce of Undergraduate Admissions has been aware of the decline in African-American enrollments “for some time.”
With respect to the cause for the decrease, Marshall said surveys conducted suggest that students who applied to the University but chose not to attend did so pri-marily due to the high cost of tuition and the lack of suffi -cient fi nancial aid.
Marshall said that the administration considers the issue a priority.
“The University of Illinois is committed to enrolling a diverse freshman class, and the decreasing enrollments of African-American students is unacceptable to anyone com-mitted to that goal,” Marshall said. “The Offi ce of Under-graduate Admissions is work-ing with a variety of groups around campus to increase applications and yields of African-American students.”
Rory James, director of the Bruce D. Nesbitt Afri-can American Cultural Cen-ter, said the falling numbers are not a surprise to him.
“I think administration has been very transparent in let-
ting us know not only their concerns, but also our con-cerns, so that we can come to the table and have candid conversation about how we can work to improve the num-ber of African-American stu-dents on this campus,” James said.
James said he has con-sidered the tuition a major factor in the decline, and
that despite the fact that tuition increase is an issue for institutions across the country, he is sensitive to the fact that the Uni-versity is a land-grant institution.
“I just fi nd it personal-ly, and pro-fessionally, problematic when black s t u d e n t s from Illinois
who really want to come here can’t come to a land-grant institution,” James said. “I would like to see more oppor-tunities for our students of color to fi nd scholarships and aid that would assist them in paying the tuition.”
In relevance to solving the problem, Cha-Jua said he thinks these issues are solv-able, but they are a question of will and priority, which he does not believe the Univer-sity maintains.
“Whenever there’s a problem that predominant-ly affects African-Ameri-cans, this institution, like the broader society, acts as if the problems are unsolv-able.” Cha-Jua said. “They act as if they have neither the intelligence or the resources to solve the problem; all we hear is the good intentions, but we see no movement toward change.”
However, Marshall said the University is working toward change by creating a telecounseling unit to help recruiting efforts for faculty and students in Chicago The administration is also work-ing to enhance peer recruit-ment programs and looking to dedicate more funding toward scholarships and fi nancial aid, he said.
James said he has faith in the University to increase the numbers, if the center con-tinues to engage in conversa-tion with University admin-istration to come up with solutions to encourage more African-Americans to attend the University.
“We have to make (Afri-can-Americans) feel like they’re welcome and we have to make them feel like they’re wanted here; I think when we start doing those things, we’ll see the numbers increase.” James said.
Faraz can be reached at [email protected].
BY FATIMA FARHASTAFF WRITER
The National Institute of Health awarded $9.34 mil-lion in funds to the Univer-sity’s Institute for Genomic Biology to develop a center that will form a collabora-tion between computation-al and biological research.
The University respond-ed to an initiative from the National Institute of Health called Big Data to Knowledge, or BD2K. The center at the University is called Knowledge Engine for Genomics, or KnowEnG, and is one of 12 Centers of Excellence working on the project. The center current-ly has no plans to use the funding toward building a structure.
Victor Jongeneel, senior research scientist at Nation-al Center For Supercomput-ing Applications, said this is an important project because it will bring atten-tion to biological research at the University.
“This is maybe not the fi rst time, but certainly the fi rst and most visible occur-rence of NIH acknowledg-ing that they really would like people who are com-puter scientists who real-ly know in-depth of how computers work, to work on biomedical problems,” Jongeneel said. “This actu-ally marks a huge opportu-nity for the University to become more involved with medical research – biomedi-cal research — by contrib-uting its expertise into areas where it’s strong.”
One of the main focuses of the center is the devel-opment of a genomic data analysis tool, according to Saurabh Sinha, associate professor in Bioinformat-ics and Computational Biol-ogy. He said the tool will allow for further analysis of data and better understand-ing regarding the human genome.
“What everyone realiz-es is that we’ve done very well in generating data and studying biological systems by generating data, but we have lagged behind in inter-preting that data,” Sinha said. “The analysis tools, which are basically soft-ware and algorithms, have lagged behind.”
“There is a vast amount of biological data out there waiting to be analyzed, and this tool will analyze that data effi ciently,” Sinha said.
Charles Blatti, PhD can-didate in Computer Science, said that with this tool, a researcher or scientist will be able to better under-stand their data on genes because they will be able to use knowledge from other users in the public domain. This is called the commu-nity knowledge, which is a compilation of various data from many different sourc-es, he said.
“The tool is meant to be, one user has their own par-ticular data and they try to understand their own par-ticular data,” Blatti said. “They like to see what in their data relates to other things in the community
knowledge and what in their data is consistent with oth-er data in the community knowledge.”
The KnowEnG project also includes a collabora-tion with the Mayo Clinic, which will aid with person-alized medicine practice and research.
“It’s understandable that the people there have to be at the very forefront of medical research, not just practice,” Sinha said. “And people doing medical research in this day and age have to be connected to the best computational facili-ties because today, health practice is intimately tied to analysis of genomics data.”
The government has always supported genom-ics-based health practice by heavily investing in the fi eld, Sinha said. He add-ed that this has been suc-cessful in terms of measur-ing data, but there is still a need for interpretation of that data.
“All the medical practice in the last 150 to 200 years has been with microscopes, today you see it through genomics,” Sinha said. “To make this dream a reality, you need this complemen-tary part, which is analysis. The way it can impact the world is it can complete the dream of genomics-based health practice.”
Fatima can be reached at [email protected].
NIH awards UI funds for bio research
Components of the University’s Center of Excellence• Creating a single
Knowledge Network on campus
• Developing computational methods for analyzing genomic data
• Implementing scalable software that can be used in a public or private cloud
• Designing and implementing a web-based interface to enable user-supplied data analysis
• Testing the functionality and usefulness of the KnowEnG project with three large-scale projects in: » Physical sciences
(pharmacogenomics of breast cancer)
» Behavioral sciences (identifi cation of gene regulatory modules underlying behavioral patterns)
» Drug discovery (genome-based prediction of the capacity of microorganisms to synthesize novel biologically active compounds)
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Large parts of downtown Ottawa were on lockdown Wednesday after a gun-man shot and killed a sol-dier standing guard at a war memorial, and gunfi re erupted in Canada’s Parlia-ment. A suspect was also killed, authorities said.
It was the second fatal attack on a member of the Canadian armed forces this week, raising fears that the country was facing a terror-ist assault. On Wednesday, a man suspected of Islamist radicalization killed a sol-dier and injured another in
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Authorities did not imme-diately release details about the suspect in Wednesday’s shooting or his possible motives. But the Globe and Mail newspaper, citing fed-eral sources, said he was Michael Zehef-Bibeau, a man in his early 30s who had recently been designated by the Canadian government as a “high-risk traveler” and had his passport seized.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. will soon require every airline passenger from Sier-ra Leone, Guinea, and Libe-ria who arrives in one of six states to undergo 21 days of offi cial monitoring for symp-toms of Ebola.
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Under the new protocols, visitors must provide contact information to local health authorities who will main-tain daily contact with them, search for those who don’t comply and arrange trans-portation for the sick to med-ical facilities.
partnership with the Uni-versity was received with excitement at the Booth School of Business; with-in the fi rst 48 hours, more than 130 MBA students had voiced interest in the program.
“The benefi ts to the stu-dents, of course, would be the ability for Chica-go Booth students to work with engineering talent to be able to design and build a product that could be part of a startup that they could launch here in Illinois,” said Flavin. “For the engineering student, it could be the ability to inter-act with a Chicago Booth school student with experi-ence in business that could help them with their idea and with their business experience, the ability to help bring the idea to the market.”
Meghan Fisher, asso-ciate director of the Pol-sky Center for Entrepre-neurship and Innovation at the University of Chica-go, hopes the partnership between the University and the CIE will raise students’ awareness of the resources that are available to aspir-ing entrepreneurs within Illinois.
“I think by making sure people are aware that they have resources here and that people really want to support them, we can pro-mote (economic) activity here as well,” Fisher said.
A pilot program similar to the new partnership was conducted in the Spring 2014 semester.
“We had a surgeon at the University of Chicago Med-ical Center pair up with some engineering students around a surgical room app that can better manage the fl ow of utensils in and out of the surgery room,” Fla-vin said.
He said the app improved the effi ciency of the oper-ating room and was
very well received. Bill Bell, spokesman for
the College of Engineer-ing, said products, simi-lar to the app, stem from the core principle of the partnership between the two universities: problem solving.
“It’s really problem solv-ing that is the heart of it,” Bell said. “If it’s an app that is what’s going to both attack that problem and has a good business model to go with it, I think you would see an app grow out of it.”
He said student-made products that would be produced by the program would not necessarily be apps; they could take any number of forms such as hardware or machinery.
Already, 25 seniors in electrical and computer engineering, as well as 15 students from Chicago Booth, have signed on to participate in the program, according to Fisher.
“They’re great problem solvers, they’re world-class engineers from a technical prospective, but many of them come to us as under-graduates ready to look for entrepreneurial opportu-nities,” Bell said. “There are 10,000 engineers, more and more of them with that entrepreneurial interest and drive, so this gives us a great way to expand that out.”
Bell hopes that programs like this will expand to include students across multiple departments, giving University stu-dents a competitive edge as entrepreneurs.
“You’re talking about one of the best MBA pro-grams in the world and one of the best engineering pro-grams in the world, so one of the important things to remember is that the sky is the limit here,” said Bell. “There are all kinds of pos-sibilities that can grow out of this that we can’t even imagine at this point.”
Josh can be reached at [email protected].
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Weall have that friend: The friend who looks
fabulous in just about anything but always poses the question, “Do I look fat in this?” Or, maybe we are the person who has these worries.
Either way, “fat talk,” or speaking negatively of one’s body and reinforcing the thin-ideal standard, is far too prevalent in today’s society.
It is something we hear on a day-to-day basis, and it is the inspiration for Fat Talk Free Week, which is in progress and is put on by the national Delta Delta Delta women’s fraternity, Illinois Panhellenic Council and the Counseling Center to combat negative body image, according to an event press release.
Negative body image is something I have always been surrounded by.
I was a competitive gymnast for most of my life, and being thin has been a priority for as long as I can remember. Being thin not only made doing skills a lot easier, but it also is the body type many people expect
gymnasts to have. I don’t remember the exact moment I realized I had body image problems, but I do remember that it has consumed me for a majority of my life.
This is why Fat Talk Free Week hits so close to home for me. Having initiatives like this to bring awareness to these problems is essential in changing people’s outlooks.
In high school, I quit gymnastics but my body image issues stuck with me. I was obsessed with being as thin as I was when I competed, and I did not want to settle for anything less. I was always a size extra-small in leotards, and I had the same standards for my everyday clothing.
All of this pressure led me to make very poor dietary choices, and it deeply affected my health and well-being.
For the next couple of years, I had to work my way out of disordered habits and learn to eat healthy and love myself again.
My story is not that
unique. Eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder are extremely common, especially on college campuses.
According to the Anorexia Nervosa Associated Disorders group, 91 percent of college women surveyed tried to control their weight in some way, and 25 percent have tried to binge and purge in order to control their weight. These statistics illustrate that body image is a major problem.
And the disorders associated with it do not just stop at college-aged women; it also affects men and people of all ages.
The negative attitudes many people have about body image need to stop.
Because of my personal experiences, I feel having initiatives on college campuses like Fat Talk Free Week are extremely beneficial for all students and should be encouraged more widely.
While we might not be able to completely end “fat talk” due to the way our society idolizes thinness and throws it at us on a daily
basis, promoting awareness and actively trying to work past it will help put an end to these problems.
Throughout the week, members of the Panhellenic Council and the Counseling Center have hosted booths around campus and handed out information promoting positive body image.
Just having this presence on campus helps to put positive messages in students’ heads, and I think it is a great way to show college-aged students that they shouldn’t hate their own bodies.
Fat talk and putting myself down seems unavoidable for me, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
This week has helped me take steps to move past my own insecurities and work to stop my own fat talk. In addition, throughout this week, I have done my best to encourage others to love themselves and their bodies, and I hope the rest of the Illini community will do the same.
While Fat Talk Free Week might be close to an end, we can encourage positive body image every week. And we should start by avoiding fat talk in our own day-to-day lives.
Rebecca is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].
I want to make a confession — I used to have a prejudice against
universities in my home country, South Korea. I’d always thought that Korean universities were a place where students relaxed after their hard work in high school by partying. Meaning, Korean college students didn’t put enough effort into academics and instead walked around downtown with friends, socializing and having fun.
At least, that was what I had heard from my high school friends who entered Korean universities. And I didn’t think this would be the case with American universities; it was one of the reasons I initially chose to attend one.
I couldn’t have been more wrong to think that Korean universities weren’t serious or that universities in the United States were exclusively centers for academic development. My assumptions weren’t based on much knowledge, only on rumors.
But I had always imagined where I’d be studying would have a perfectly academic environment, void of such
distractions. For example, I’d never
imagined parties at American universities occurring right next to where I lived. I knew there were parties; I just didn’t realize they could take place in so many different locations, not just at the bars. I thought parties would be less prevalent than they are at South Korean universities, but now, I know that’s not the case.
It’s not good or bad, just different than I thought.
Additionally, after speaking with a few friends of mine, I also changed my views about Korean universities. From what I have been told, students there seem to be busier and more hardworking than I’d expected. Even though they spend nights socializing, they also must spend some evenings studying for exams and doing homework.
These perspectives were new to me and they contradicted my assumptions. Though things are different from my expectations, I’ve still found value in other factors of life in America, and I’m not regretful that I came here.
One of my friends, whom I’d met in middle school, now attends a Korean university. She described university life much like what I’m experiencing here. She, and all other university students
in South Korea, are allowed to take the courses they want to take when they want to take them and are expected to manage their own time — just like university students in America.
University life is, I concluded, generally quite similar no matter where the university is, whether it be in South Korea or the U.S.=
Because of that, some people ask me why I came to the United States for college. Why go through so much trouble to come to this foreign land just to go to college when I could have a similar experience in my home country?
These are legitimate questions, but I don’t regret my decision. I think it was wise to attend college in America, despite the fact that my assumptions were incorrect.
As much as life itself is quite generally the same as it would be if I were in school in South Korea, the people I meet here are very different. Back in my country, almost all the friends I could make were
Koreans, and foreigners were difficult to find.
This reduced variety made for less global experience.
Here, it’s different. Foreigners are all I see.
I’ve met people from America, Bangladesh, France, Britain and other places. And from foreigners, I learn what I cannot learn in my own culture. It’s what makes all my troubles worth it, what lets
me know that I am having valuable experiences here.
I came here for a different experience. I knew that already. Although the academic environment isn’t exactly what I expected, the global experience I’m getting exceeds my expectation. My fantasies that American college life was more arduous and academic than Korean college life — quite absurd, in hindsight — have been lost, but I still know that my troubles are worth it.
Yunjo is a freshman in Engineering. He can be reached at yjeong12 @dailyillini.com.
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College fantasies revised
Eliminate fat talk in everyday life
F or a campus that em-phasizes diversity, of-ten we don’t feel the University meets this expectation. Diversi-
ty goes beyond bringing in a high number of students from other countries, which the University has done. Diversity also means having a vast representation of people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
After the assassination of Mar-tin Luther King Jr. in 1968, the University instituted Project 500, bringing in 500 African-Ameri-can students as a way to encour-age enrollment from the black community and set a benchmark for recruiting more black stu-dents.
But recently the number of Af-rican-American students at the University has been declining. In 2014, only 356 of 945 accept-ed African-American freshmen enrolled in the University. This number compares to 719 Hispan-ic, 1352 Asian and 3198 white stu-dents this year.
This decrease of African-American students has made us question not only whether the University’s diversity efforts are strong enough, but whether our campus is providing a welcome space for students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Chancellor Phyllis Wise has consistently voiced her efforts to expand diversity projects on campus to encourage conversa-tion between students and fac-ulty of different ages, religions, races, ethnicities, financial back-grounds and experiences. To her, diversity equates to excellence, and we agree.
In many ways, Wise’s projects have shown positive results. For the second straight year, the Uni-versity was presented with the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award for its projects on diversity and inclusion. Today, the University has more interna-tional students than ever before, roughly 22 percent of the student body population, who come from an abundance of different coun-tries.
Yet, what has us concerned is the falling number of African-American students, which sits at a mere 4.87 percent of the stu-dent body.
The University should continue to focus on recruiting a diverse campus, and that includes Afri-can-American students. Our cam-pus benefits from having people from diverse backgrounds. Class-room discussions and new ideas should be influenced by a variety of voices, and African-American students shouldn’t be left out of the conversation.
While the University obvious-ly has a role in this, there also needs to be a larger effort made by the campus community to create a welcoming, inclusive en-vironment for black students.
We also think a more integrat-ed campus could help promote and encourage people of dif-ferent racial and ethnic back-grounds to come together. And we want all students to feel com-fortable here.
We agree with Wise that diver-sity equals excellence. We be-lieve the voices of a diverse stu-dent body population will lead our fellow students and profes-sors to greater understanding, discussion and invention.
The University definitely has a major part to play in making sure that students of all back-grounds have the opportunity to come here, but our campus com-munity also has an obligation to make sure people from all back-grounds feel welcome and are encouraged to be here.
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Barbie has left her Dream-house for the Quad.
Fat Talk Free Week is a campaign to promote healthy body image and is on cam-pus from Monday to Friday. On Monday, the campaign set up a booth on the Engi-neering Quad, then moved to the Main Quad on Tues-day and Wednesday. The campaign will return to the Engineering Quad today and tomorrow.
On Monday, the booth was worked by Georgia Christus, sophomore in Education, and Chloe Peterson, sophomore in LAS. Both girls are members of Kappa Alpha Theta and said they became involved with Fat Talk Free Week through the sorority. Peter-son said members of Sigma Delta Tau, Delta Gamma and Delta Delta Delta will also participate in working the booth throughout the week.
The booth features a life-size Barbie made by the Coun-seling Center. The dimen-sions include a 39-inch bust, 18-inch waist and 33-inch wide hips. The figure is propped up on a metal frame because a woman with those dimensions would not be able to hold up her own head or even stand on her feet.
“Barbie is extremely unre-alistic, and this demonstra-tion here shows that this is not how any person looks,” Peterson said, “Why are we trying to achieve this?”
Students who visit the booth are encouraged to sign a pledge promising to elimi-nate “Fat Talk,” or negative comments about their bod-ies, from daily conversation.
“I think girls honestly are just too hard on themselves,” Christus said.
She said that most negative body talk comes from within, not from another person call-ing someone fat.
Peterson said that there are ways to discourage neg-ative self-talk in others. This can be as simple as reassur-ing someone that they look good.
“I would say, as cliche as it sounds, love your body. As long as you’re living a healthy lifestyle, eating right and
feeling good about yourself, stop worrying about what’s on the scale,” Christus said.
There are many factors that contribute to insecuri-ties over body image.
“Our generation is so obsessed with the media and everything social, so we are very influenced by if we see something on TV or on Ins-tagram, Twitter, Facebook, even the news, we totally let that overtake us. It becomes our main concern,” Christus said.
Peterson said it is dis-couraging for girls who try to work out and eat healthy too because they cannot achieve the standard set by society. The media’s fixation on weight gain can cause peo-ple to worry they will be the subject of vicious rumors, too, Peterson said.
“Be confident in your own skin, eliminate unrealis-tic things that you want to achieve about your body,” Peterson said.
Laurie Seimetz, junior in LAS, is a Counseling Center paraprofessional who works on the Eating Disorders and Disturbances Treatment Team and was integral in putting the booth together.
According to Seimetz, there is a beauty standard for males as well as females, but males may feel that they will be stigmatized if they admit they have body image issues.
“In our Western culture, it’s mostly that you have to be big and strong, and that’s equated with masculini-ty. I think that can be real-
ly rough,” she said. “Both men and women come in all shapes and sizes. It doesn’t determine their self-worth.”
The booth also serves to raise awareness of the pro-grams available to students through the Counseling Center if they feel they or a friend may have an eating problem.
“Students can go to the Counseling Center and get a consultation for any types of issues they are having, and after the initial assessment, keep seeing a counselor if they want to,” she said.
There are also workshops offered to discuss things like eating disorders, media images and body image and self-worth.
Xuanyan Ouyang, senior in Media, heard about the event through her Gen-der and Women’s Studies course, which also looks at body image. She stopped by the booth while it was on the Main Quad on Tuesday.
“I think this event is mean-ingful because it asks us not to view our body physically. Look beyond the mirror and explore more about yourself,” she said.
For Seimetz, the booth serves as a reminder that people are much more than appearances.
“We need to look at our-selves holistically, with all the qualities that we have. We are our bodies, but we are also so much more than that.”
Isabella can be reached at [email protected].
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ily were hit with her second diagnosis of breast cancer.
It occurred in the same spot as the first. But this time Anna wanted to move past her diagnosis, so she went on to get a bilateral mastectomy.
“We just decided it just wasn’t worth the risk,” Anna said. “So I didn’t want to have to deal with going to the doc-tor and surveilling that tissue, I just wanted it gone — I just wanted to live my life.”
It was during her second experience with breast can-cer that Anna said she began to feel the impact of others’ support.
Along with other breast cancer survivors, Anna became heavily involved with the Young Surviv-al Coalition’s local chapter. While Anna said the group is no longer active, it provided her an opportunity to learn mo=re about breast cancer and know what to expect. She also joined the Sinai Temple in Champaign before her sec-ond diagnosis, which she said provided her a community of faith.
But quickly after her bilat-eral mastectomy, Anna’s sup-port was needed more than ever.
On July 9, 2013, Anna learned that she was facing a third breast cancer diagnosis.
A bilateral mastectomy can prevent risk of breast cancer occurring by near-
ly 90 percent in women who have a strong family history of breast cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute; however, Anna found herself in a rare situation.
Her doctors classified her as “not a textbook case,” she said.
But even though she had already been through two separate breast cancer expe-riences, this time was differ-ent for Anna.
This time the cancer was invasive.
She said she was imme-diately fast-tracked at Car-le, and she would eventually seek further treatments at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
“I had told my doctor, ‘I want the absolute, most-aggressive treatment plan. I don’t care what you have to do; I will suffer. I will do whatever you tell me to do,’” Anna said. “I wanted to do the most aggressive thing, so after much consideration, it came back that the best way to proceed was chemo.”
Anna’s chemothera-py treatments were then followed by radiation treatments.
Anna lived in the Ameri-can Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge in St. Louis during her radiation treatments, which she received daily. Due to the donations received by the American Cancer Society, Hope Lodge provides patients a free stay at the facility.
“I was close to a lot of peo-ple at the Lodge and helped
a number of them,” she said. After six weeks at Hope
Lodge, Anna was “disease-free.” For Anna’s husband, Mark Althouse, program coordinator in ACES, Anna’s three bouts with cancer all held something different; however, Anna always con-tinued to fight through them.
“She was very, very resil-ient and really tough, espe-cially the third time through,” Mark said.
Both Althouse and Dara were a part of the stabil-ity that permitted Anna to continue through her battle and all three diagnoses and treatments.
“He is such a rock,” Anna said of her husband’s support. “In some ways, cancer diag-noses can be harder on the partner than it can be on the actual person because I am actually doing something. I am going in and getting treat-ment, but you know, he has to stand there and wait to hear what happens next.”
It’s been eight months since Anna’s final treatment.
Her daughter is now 11 years old, and she is her 11th year of marriage to Althouse, but cancer is still a prevalent part of Anna’s life.
“For me, this is not over. I won’t ever close the book on breast cancer. I’m ready,” Anna said. “Because it can come back, and if it does I’m ready.”
Declan can be reached at [email protected].
YIWEI ZHANG THE DAILY ILLINIStudents Georgia Christus and Chloe Peterson work next to a human-size Barbie on the Engineering Quad on Monday.
plans the African-American Homecoming events, and because the board is made up of students, they are able to respond to what the student population wants in the event line-up. The cancellation of the CRCE party was a dis-appointment to some board members, and they are hope-ful that this year’s event will produce a better turn out.
“The pageant and also CRCE party are rooted in a lot of peoples’ freshman expe-rience,” said Jaylin McClin-ton, vice president of policy for IUB and junior in LAS. “I had a cousin who went here and talked about both the pag-eant and CRCE party and a lot of the other events, and I think that if we can build that type of energy again for new students, then the events will be successful.
The loss of events is not the only change this year. The issue of inclusivity and the debate over African-Amer-icans self-segregating have
become controversial and important topics currently on campus. This year, the pag-eant did not include “African-American” in the event title. Instead, it was renamed: Mr. and Ms. U of I Pageant.
With the change, there is a lot more diversity present at the Mr. and Ms. U of I Pag-eant. But as historic Afri-can-American events begin to diversify, the long-term effects leave some students on campus weary and ner-vous about what the changes could potentially lead to.
“If there was a non-black winner, I feel like (black stu-dents) would be perfectly fine with it, but if it happened con-secutively, then I feel like black students wouldn’t even apply because they would feel like it’s not for them,” Wil-liams said.
The African-American Homecoming was created to make black students feel safe and comfortable on a segre-gated campus, but the Uni-versity may have reached the point where the program no longer serves its original purpose.
“When other cultural groups come together for events, it’s just them cel-ebrating their culture, but when African-Americans come together for an event, it’s labeled as ‘self-segrega-tion,’” said Damian Azubui-ke, senior in Business. “Afri-can-American Homecoming brings the black community together, caters to different musical preferences and pro-vides a sense of belonging.”
By changing the names of the Homecoming events, the IUB hopes to increase partici-pation and promote inclusiv-ity to the fullest.
“These are Homecoming events; they are for everyone. I think when you have names like that, students feel a little confused if they are welcome to go to it. It is not just for one community,” Ramnarayan-an said. “I think Homecom-ing is Homecoming. Every-body should feel welcome at all times, and if they’re not, there’s something that needs to be done about it.”
Darrah can be reached at [email protected].
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Racial animosity lit up campus in 1969 when Char-lynn Chamberlain, an Afri-can-American student, was crowned Homecoming queen. The controversy and racial backlash African-Ameri-cans faced slowly lead stu-dents to host African-Ameri-can events of their own in an attempt to celebrate their cul-ture and make the University feel more like home.
“There was a big need for (the African-American Homecoming) at the time that (Illini Union Board) started it off,” said Snegha Ramna-rayanan, the vice president of programs for the IUB and senior in Engineering. “I think things have changed a lot since we fi rst started it. But no matter what we decide to change, something like
that should always be there to cater to students.”
What was originally cre-ated to foster a safe place for African-Americans on a seg-regated campus has evolved, and today it welcomes stu-dents from all backgrounds. In the past, the African-American Homecoming Week included several events: a step show, a fashion show, a pageant, a talent show and the African-American Home-coming Party at Campus Rec Center-East. However, over the years, participation has hit an all-time low, causing the event calendar to fl uctu-ate from year to year. This year, the African-American Homecoming includes only the pageant — which crowned one male and one female as Mr. and Ms. U of I — and the IUB African-American Homecoming Party.
“IUB strives to put on events for the students. If we see that students aren’t attending or aren’t respond-ing to a certain event, we as a board have that discussion to either change the event or take it off the schedule for that year,” Ramnarayanan said. “Some events have been cut, but that is because stu-dents haven’t been respond-ing to them.”
The loss of events leaves the African-American communi-ty on campus with varying experiences and perceptions of what the African-Ameri-can Homecoming actually is. Last year, for example, the CRCE Dance — the fi rst event added to the African-Ameri-can Homecoming by IUB — was canceled due to low tick-et sales. This left an entire class of freshmen and trans-fer students unaware of one of
the most prominent and long-standing traditions of Afri-can-American Homecoming.
“What I saw my freshmen year and the experiences I
had with African-American Homecoming made me want to join IUB,” said Ayanna Williams, vice president of fi nance for IUB and senior
in LAS. IUB is the primary orga-
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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIContestants for the Mr. and Ms. U of I Pageant 2014 display their talents in front of judges and peers at the Illini Union on Oct. 21.
Setting a new body standardThe Counseling Center and four sororities are taking this week to stop negative body image. Turn to Page 5A to learn about the booth they’re running on the Quad.
BY DECLAN HARTYASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
Anna Mehl has always been a fan of “Star Trek.” In particular, the fi ctional alien animal on the show — Tribbles .
Tribbles are fl uffy, ball-shaped ani-mals that are fi rst seen in the episode “Trouble with Tribbles.”
In the show, the animal is born preg-nant and is widely considered harm-less until it continues to produce en masse.
Similar to Tribbles, they told Anna that the risk was minimal, that it wouldn’t be coming back.
But when Anna put on her swimsuit
in the summer of 2013, she couldn’t believe what she felt under her left arm.
It was a tumor, and she knew all too well what that meant — a third bout with breast cancer.
It was her own form of Tribbles.“I didn’t even feel like I deserved
to wear a pink ribbon or call myself a survivor after the fi rst incident,” said Anna, lead program coordinator for the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at the University. “But if you don’t nail those Tribbles the fi rst time, and they come back, they’ll get you. You can die if you don’t get them
under control, and that is the thing about breast cancer, if it’s not caught early and treated correctly. We talk a lot about breast cancer, and we do a lot of things. But what people don’t know is that it’s not boobs that are at risk. It’s women’s lives. It will kill you.”
It was 2005 when the then 37-year-old and mother of one was fi rst diag-nosed with breast cancer. Anna, now 47, said she always feared that breast cancer would be a part of her life because her grandmother passed away from the same disease at the age of 39.
Her daughter, Dara, was only 18
months old at the time, and even though the cancer was Stage 0 , she still wanted to fi ght the disease right away.
Anna went on to seek treatment at Carle Foundation Hospital, where she would have a lumpectomy and radia-tion treatments.
Following her treatments, Anna was deemed “disease-free” and said her doctors determined the likelihood of reoccurrence to be low, but they would maintain caution.
Then in 2009, Anna and her fam-
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Looking out the window of the eighth fl oor press box at Memorial Stadium, Reilly O’Toole points out that the same fi eld he runs onto every Saturday is the same one Harold “Red” Grange once played on.
“It defi nitely gives you chills,” O’Toole said, thinking about the for-mer Illini halfback.
Grange is arguably the greatest col-lege football player of all-time.
O’Toole has heard everything about him for most of his life, having gone to the same high school, Wheaton Warrenville South, and college as him.
He’s heard all about Grange’s leg-endary performance against Michi-gan 90 years ago. The halfback scored four touchdowns in the fi rst 12 minutes against a Wolverines defense that pre-viously led the team to 20 consecutive wins, earning him the nickname the “Galloping Ghost.”
O’Toole has read books on him, heard pregame speeches about him and won awards with his name on it.
But sitting above the fi eld Grange once dominated, O’Toole’s spent the last four years feeling like a ghost of his own.
***The senior has spent most of his col-
lege career as a backup, taking solace in any opportunity to get on the fi eld. Even if it meant being the guy holding the ball for kicks.
“I mean, I’ve done a little bit of everything — from playing one play at a time, to one series at a time, to playing until I mess up — I’ve pret-ty much done it all,” O’Toole said. “It really doesn’t matter to me at all. I just want to win.”
Tim Russell, a former Illini tight end who spent much of his career hold-ing kicks, joked with O’Toole earlier
in the year about his role.“Congratulations, you’re in elite
company,” O’Toole remembered Rus-sell tell him after holding down a kick.
O’Toole may not be in the “elite company” of historic players like Red Grange, but he’s in the “elite company” of effi ciency, dedication and selfl ess-ness on the fi eld. In an era of Illini foot-ball when the train has all but derailed, O’Toole has been one of the lone marks of consistency helping guide it along the tracks.
Illinois has been 16-28 (3-24 Big Ten) since O’Toole joined the team in 2011. He’s taken just 308 snaps during that time.
“He’s handled everything like a champ,” running back Donovonn Young said. “How do you go from thinking you’re going to be the start-ing quarterback to just being happy with something?”
***The quarterback came to Illinois
with big expectations after high school, having led Wheaton Warren-ville South to two consecutive state titles and been named the Gatorade Player of the Year in Illinois in 2010, throwing 42 touchdowns for more than 3,000 yards.
But O’Toole was quickly slated into the backup role with quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase already secured as the starter. He played in just 10 games — the most he’s ever played in his college career — completing 40 passes for 270 yards.
The quarterback spent his fi rst three years backing up Scheelhaase, waiting along the sideline for a chance to go in.
Scheelhaase graduated last sea-son, but by the time O’Toole’s senior year came around, Illinois had recruited transfer quarterback Wes Lunt, another sure starter. For O’Toole, it meant another sure year of
waiting for a chance.“This year has been the epitome of
who he is,” Young said. “With Wes com-ing in, it’s almost like a heartbreak. It’s like, ‘Damn, Nate just left, and it’s sup-posed to be my turn,’ and it’s not any-more because somebody else came in.”
Young understands the feeling, fi ght-ing for a starting role throughout his college career as well, currently split-ting time with junior Josh Ferguson.
O’Toole and Young are two of the closest players on the Illini roster with their friendship starting before they even arrived at camp freshman year.
The two players have experienced a lot together at Illinois: winning the 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, a change in coaching staff, a 2-10 season, and even living together during winter and summer breaks from school — all while fi ghting for starting roles.
“Nobody really knows he’s going through what he’s going through,” Young said. “When you’re the back-up, people don’t focus on you.”
***This season, the focus shifted onto
O’Toole when Lunt began to have inju-ry troubles in late September, even-tually fracturing his fi bula against Purdue.
Illini coach Tim Beckman gave O’Toole the start against Nebraska, where the quarterback threw three interceptions and was sacked four times.
“If you ever really pay attention to Reilly and the way he plays, it’s the way he lives his life,” Young said. “He was getting the living you-know-what kicked out of him in that Nebraska game, and he got up every play. You could tell some of those hits hurt and he got up and was like, ‘What’s the next play?’ ”
BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER
The Illinois volleyball team knows what is at stake this weekend.
When state border rivals Indiana and Purdue come to Huff Hall this weekend, the Illini (14-5, 6-2 Big Ten) will have a chance to usurp the Boilermakers (17-3, 7-1) at the top of the conference.
Before that, however, the Illini will be holding their annual Breast Cancer Awareness match against the Hoosiers (12-8, 3-5) on Friday.
The Illini will wear pink jerseys which were auc-tioned off in September to raise money for the Mills Breast Cancer Institute in Urbana. Winners of the auc-tion will place a name of their choosing on the back of the jerseys to honor someone who has dealt with cancer.
The team has raised more than $5,000 this season and plans to donate around $4,000 after offsetting the costs of the pink jerseys.
“It means a lot. Raising money is something that is in our culture,” setter Alexis Viliunas said.
On the court, the Illini made an offensive change back to a 5-1 system in the past three matches, with Vili-unas as the lone setter. Since then, the Illini offense has been more aggressive, with the tradeoff of committing more attacking errors. Illi-nois had 36 errors against Iowa on Oct. 15 and had 27 errors in four sets against Nebraska last Saturday.
Head coach Kevin Ham-bly believes the team will learn to limit those mistakes as long as the Illini contin-ue to play with an attacking mentality.
“We’re scoring points fast-er and we’re giving up a few more errors. We want to play aggressively, and I think the
errors — if we continue to play this aggressively — will dissipate over time,” he said.
The match against No. 13 Purdue will feature two of the top outside hitters in the conference. Purdue’s Annie Drews leads the conference in kills per set, while Illi-nois junior Jocelynn Birks is ranked third. Drews has signifi cantly increased her production from last season, where she only averaged 1.92 kills per set.
“She’s been good for three years,” Hambly said of Drews. “She’s putting up good numbers, but so is (Birks) and so is (Liz McMa-hon). It’s going to be a heavy-weight battle.”
Purdue boasts one of the
Indiana at No. 10 IllinoisWhen: 7 p.m., Friday, Huff HallTV/Radio: 1400 WDWSNo. 13 Purdue at No. 10 IllinoisWhen: 5 p.m., Saturday, Huff HallTV/Radio: Big Ten Network, 1400 WDWSQuick notes: The match against the Boilermakers will be for fi rst place in the Big Ten and will feature some of the top outsides in the conference. Purdue’s Annie Drews leads the Big Ten with 4.21 kills per set, while the Illini’s Jocelynn Birks is third at 4.13. Hidden stat: Purdue eliminated Illinois in the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA tournament.
Illini volleyball dons pink against Indiana
BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER
During a tough stretch in which it has managed just one point in its last fi ve matches, the Illinois soccer team will look to get itself back on track during an extended stay at home.
Illinois (9-6-1, 4-5-1 Big Ten) will welcome Michigan State (9-6-1, 3-5-1) to the Illi-nois Soccer Stadium on Fri-day night for what should be a hard-fought Big Ten match-up in front of a rowdy Home-coming crowd.
Illinois and Michigan State are separated by just one point in the Big Ten stand-ings and both have plenty to play for heading into the fi nal stretch of the regular season. The Illini hope play-ing at home will give them
the edge they need.“I think it’s defi nitely an
advantage for us,” junior midfi elder Reagan Robishaw said. “There’s nothing like playing under the lights here. We have a great stadium and a great fan base. So I think it’s something that we have to really use.”
The Spartans are fresh off of their own homestand, during which they defeated Ohio State 2-1 before falling to No. 4 Penn State in anoth-er close 2-1 match. Michi-gan State has been stingy on defense all season, averag-ing less than one goal allowed per game, and its goalkeeper Courtney Clem leads the Big Ten in saves by a wide mar-gin, with 93 on the year.
The tough defense will be a challenge for the Illini, who
haven’t scored more than one goal in their last fi ve games.
“I think we just have to execute,” senior forward Jannelle Flaws said. “Against Rutgers I thought we had a really great game tactically. I think if we can just execute
like we did and execute in the fi nal third, I think we should be good.”
Following Friday’s bout with Michigan State, Illinois will face Michigan (11-4-1,
Illinois vs. Michigan StateWhen: Oct. 24 at 7:00 p.m. at Illinois Soccer Stadium
Illinois vs. MichiganWhen: Oct. 26 at 1:00 p.m. at Illinois Soccer StadiumRadio: WDWS AM 1400
Quick Notes: The Illini are hoping to earn their fi rst win since the end of September in front of a large crowd at the Illinois Soccer Stadium during homecoming weekend.Hidden Stat: The Illinois offense has struggled lately, scoring no more than one goal in its last fi ve games.
Soccer back home for last stretch of Big Ten play
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Reilly O’Toole is sacked by Purdue’s Ja’Whaun Bentley on Oct. 4. O’Toole came in to his freshman year as the backup quarterback for Nathan Scheelhaase. Entering this season as a senior, he was slated as the backup to transfer Wes Lunt.
Longtime backup is running out of chances to make a lasting impression
FOOTBALLILL VS. MINNESOTA SAT: 11 a.m.MEMORIAL STADIUM
VOLLEYBALLILL VS. INDFRI: 7 p.m.ILL VS. PURSAT: 5 p.m.HUFF HALL
SOCCERILL VS. MSUFRI: 7 p.m.ILL VS. MICHSUN: 1 p.m.ILLINOIS SOCCER STADIUM
MEN’S TENNIS T&M CONFERENCE CHALLANGEFRI-SUN: ALL DAYCOLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
WEEKEND ROUNDUP:HOCKEYILL vs. OHIOFRI: 7:30 p.m.ILL vs. OHIOSAT: 7:30 p.m.
MEN’S CROSS-COUNTRYILLINI OPEN FRI: 4:40 p.m.ILLINOIS ARBORETUM
WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRYILLINI OPENFRI: 4 p.m.ILLINOIS ARBORETUM
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Janelle Flaws and the Illini will return home after scoring a single point during their game against the Minnesota on Oct. 12.
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllini volleyball team celebrates a point at George Huff Hall, on Sept. 27. The Illini will host their annual Breast Cancer Awareness match this weekend.
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BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER
Amidst the hype sur-rounding new uniforms, a parade and a pep rally, the big focus this week for Illinois football will be bat-tling Minnesota in Satur-day’s 104th Homecoming game.
Coming off a bye week, the Illini are looking for their fi rst Big Ten victory this season.
With quarterback Wes Lunt still out, Illinois will utilize Reilly O’Toole and Aaron Bailey.
“You’ll see both of them this week,” head coach Tim Beckman said. “Anyone that gets on that football fi eld is someone we think can win a football game for us. We have capabili-ties with two quarterbacks that have shown that they can run an offense. I think for (Minnesota) to prepare
for two is always a little bit more challenging than just to prepare for one.”
Both O’Toole and Bai-ley played in the team’s last game, a 38-28 loss to Wisconsin.
O’Toole was 12-for-19 passing for 96 yards and two touchdowns, but was sacked four times. Bai-ley went 2-for-5 passing with one interception and 39 passing yards. He led the Illini in rushing with 75 yards on 12 carries and one touchdown.
Though the Wisconsin game was his fi rst time playing all season, Bailey feels confi dent about com-ing into Saturday knowing he’ll get time on the fi eld.
“I feel great about it,” Bailey said. “I’m just wait-ing for my opportunity. I don’t know who is playing fi rst and I really don’t care, I’ll just get out there and do
what I have to do when my time comes.”
Minnesota is coming off a 39-38 win against Purdue that helped it remain unde-feated in Big Ten play.
Running back David Cobb rushed for 194 yards and a touchdown against the Boilermakers. While the Gopher’s running game ranks in the middle of the Big Ten, their pass-ing offense ranks last in the conference.
For Illinois, the chal-lenge will be stopping the running game while watch-ing out for the play action, according to defensive coordinator Tim Banks.
But it will also be about using whatever and who-ever it takes to stop Cobb.
“Whether it’s a defen-sive lineman getting off the block, linebackers get-ting down fi eld, safeties fi t-ting inside, out of corners,
coming off the edges — you know everybody,” Banks said. “Everybody has a chance to get this guy on the ground because we need to know where he is.”
While the bye week was a chance for Illinois to work with the two quar-terbacks, it also gave Min-nesota a chance to catch up on Illinois’ playbook. Satur-day will be an opportunity
for the Illini to come out and possibly surprise again with two different quarter-back styles to prepare for.
“You just can’t run two plays, three plays out there,” offensive coordi-nator Bill Cubit said. “But it’s not as easy as every-body thinks it is and just go in there and run the same plays. Wisconsin, they were practicing against a cer-
tain offense. And I know this first-hand because it was told to me afterward and the other thing gave them confidence. Well now, it’s on tape. So they’re going to game plan against that.”
Charlotte can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @charlottecrrll.
O’Toole, Bailey both expected to play
ILLINI SCHEDULE
STANDINGS SCHEDULE
SATURDAYMINNESOTA AT ILLINOIS - 11 a.m.MARYLAND AT WISCONSIN - 11 a.m.RUTGERS AT NEBRASKA - 11 a.m.
MICHIGAN AT MICHIGAN STATE - 2:30 p.m.OHIO STATE AT PENN STATE - 7 p.m.
AUG. 30 VS. YOUNGSTOWN STATE (W: 28 -17)SEPT. 6 VS. WESTERN KENTUCKY (W: 42-34) SEPT. 13 AT WASHINGTON (L: 44-19)SEPT. 20 VS. TEXAS STATE (W: 42-35)
SEPT. 27 AT NEBRASKA (L: 45-14)OCT. 4 VS. PURDUE (L: 38-27)OCT. 11 AT WISCONSIN (L: 38-28)OCT. 25 VS. MINNESOTA — 11 a.m.
NOV. 1 AT OHIO STATE — 7 p.m.NOV. 15 VS. IOWA — TBANOV. 22 VS. PENN STATE — TBANOV. 29 AT NORTHWESTERN — TBA
WEST DIVISIONEAST DIVISION
MICHIGAN STATE OHIO STATEMARYLANDRUTGERS MICHIGANPENN STATEINDIANA
3-0 6-12-0 5-12-1 5-21-2 5-21-2 3-41-2 4-20-3 3-4
CONF. OVERALL
3-0 6-12-1 6-12-1 5-22-2 3-41-1 4-21-3 3-50-3 3-4
MINNESOTANEBRASKAIOWANORTHWESTERNWISCONSINPURDUEILLINOIS
CONF. OVERALL
VS.
DAVID COBBMinnesota is likely to attack Illinois on the ground on Saturday. The Illini defense has struggled to stop opponents’ running game, allowing more than 100 yards rushing in every game this season. Cobb already has two 200-yard rushing games this season
and is responsible for 41 percent of the Golden Gophers’ total offense.Of note: Cobb is fourth in the nation in rushing with 1,013 yards in his fi rst seven
games. The senior back’s 144.7 yards per game match up against an Illini defense that ranks 122 in the country and worst in the Big Ten with nearly 2,000 yards
allowed this season.
ILLINOIS MINNESOTAMASON MONHEIM
The Illinois defense will look to improve upon its run defense, an area that has been a struggling point in past games. Illinois, led by junior linebacker Mason Monheim, will look to defend David Cobb. The Illini rushing defense is ranked 122 out of 125
teams and has allowed 1,898 total rushing yards. Monheim has 64 tackles, including 25 solo tackles which has him ranked fi fth in the Big Ten for tackles.
Of note: The Illini have failed to consistently stop the run game, which has often forced defensive backs to make critical tackles. Zane Petty, a safety, leads the team
in tackles with 65 total, including 26 solo tackles.
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Aaron Bailey (15) runs the ball for a touchdown during the game against Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis. on Oct. 11. The Illini lost 38-28.
Head coach Tim Beckman said this week that both Aaron Bailey and Reilly O’Toole are both going to play
against Minnesota. Offensive coordinator Bill Cubit has said that he isn’t used to employing a quarterback platoon. Demanding fans want to see Bailey display the skills he fl ashed two weeks ago in garbage time against Wisconsin. Without Wes Lunt, the quarterback position is a question mark. Either Bailey or O’Toole has to step
up if the Illini want to play well at all.
ROSTERS
PASSINGReilly O’Toole
46-for-76 524 yards, 3 TDs
RUSHINGJosh Ferguson
87 carries, 470 yards, 5 TDsDonovonn Young
49 carries, 166 yards, 4 TDs
RECEIVINGMike Dudek
37 catches, 598 yards, 3 TDsGeronimo Allison
30 catches, 469 yards, 5 TDs
Josh Ferguson28 catches, 263 yards,
2 TDs
DEFENSEDE Theiren Cockran 55
DT Cameron Botticelli 46DT Steven Richardson 96DE Michael Amaefula 98
LB De’Vondre Campbell 26LB Damien Wilson 5
LB Jack Lynn 50CB Eric Murray 31
CB Briean Boddy-Calhoun 29SS Antonio Johnson 11FS Cedric Thompson 2
K Ryan Santoso 18
MINNESOTA
MINNESOTA LEADERS
OFFENSEQB Reilly O’Toole 4 OR Aaron Bailey 15RB Josh Ferguson 6WR Geronimo Allison 8WR Mike Dudek 18WR Justin Hardee 19TE Matt LaCosse 11TE Jon Davis 3LT Simon Cvijanovic 68LG Michael Heitz 74C Joe Spencer 71RG Ted Karras 69RT Patrick Flavin 75P Justin DuVernois 18
TH
E
DEFENSEDE Jihad Ward 17
NT Austin Teitsma 44DT Jarrod Clements 99 OR
Rob Bain 96LEO DeJazz Woods 90 OR
Dawuane Smoot 91WLB Mason Monheim 43
MLB T.J. Neal, Jr. 52STAR Earnest Thomas III 9
CB V’Angelo Bentley 2CB Eaton Spence 27
SS Zane Petty 21FS Taylor Barton 3
K David Reisner 38 OR Taylor Zalewski 17
OFFENSEQB Mitch Leidner 7RB David Cobb 27FB Miles Thomas 41WR Donovahn Jones 4TE Maxx Williams 88TE Drew Goodger 83LT Josh Campion 65LG Zac Epping 52C Tommy Olson 58RG Joe Bjorklund 73RT Ben Lauer 78P Peter Mortell 37
ILLINOIS
ILLINOIS LEADERS
The Golden Gophers squeaked out a 39-38 victory over Purdue last week. The Boilermakers jumped out to a 31-20 lead by halftime, but the Minnesota defense stiffened
and only allowed a single touchdown in the second half. Cedric Thompson snagged two interceptions and David Cobb rushed a whopping 35 times for 194 yards
and one touchdown. The Golden Gophers remained undefeated in the Big Ten, at 3-3, and have the top spot
in the Big Ten West.
EYE ON THE ENEMY
Minnesota is another in the long line of Big Ten teams that can run all over the Illini defense. David Cobb is ranked fourth in the Big Ten in rushing yards and is obviously the No. 1 option in the Golden Gopher’s offense. In addition, quarterback Mitch Leidner has rushed for 161 yards this season, and has scored
more touchdowns on the ground than Josh Ferguson has this season. It looks to be another long day for the
Illinois rushing defense.
LAST WEEK FOR MINNESOTA
EYE ON THE ILLINI: QUARTERBACKS
39 38
PASSINGMitch Leidner
59-for-109 847 yards, 5 TDs
RUSHINGDavid Cobb
189 carries, 1,042 yards, 5 TDs
Mitch Leidner47 carries, 161 yards, 6 TD
RECEIVINGMaxx Williams
15 catches, 247 yards, 4 TDs
Donovahn Jones9 catches, 163 yards, 1 TD
Drew Wolitarsky9 catches, 71 yards
HISTORYILLINOIS RECORD VS. MINNESOTA: 28!35!3
THE LAST TIME THE TEAMS MET...The Illini lost to the Gophers 17-3 in 2012. Minnesota
became bowl eligible with the win, while the Illini fell to 2-8 on the season in Tim Beckman’s fi rst year.
DID YOU KNOW?Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill has a long history with the
state of Illinois, serving as head coach at both Southern Illinois and Northern Illinois before going to Minnesota.
AUG. 28 VS. EASTERN ILLINOIS W: 42-20
SEPT. 6 VS. MIDDLE TENN. STATE W: 35-24
SEPT. 13 AT TCUL: 30-7
SEPT. 20 VS. SAN JOSE STATEW: 24-7
SEPT. 27 AT MICHIGANW: 30-14
OCT. 11 VS. NORTHWESTERNW: 24-17
OCT. 18 VS. PURDUE W: 39-38
OCT. 25 AT ILLINOIS 11 a.m.
NOV. 8 VS. IOWATBA
NOV. 15 VS. OHIO STATETBA
NOV. 22 AT NEBRASKATBA
NOV. 29 AT WISCONSINTBA
GOPHERS SCHEDULE
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Now, Beckman said the team will look to split O’Toole’s time with soph-omore Aaron Bailey, who replaced O’Toole in the fourth quarter in Illinois’ last game — a 38-28 loss to Wisconsin.
“He maintained the course,” Young said. “I’m elated every time I see Reil-ly on the fi eld. If he has 400 yards, I’m happy. If he has 100 yards, I’m happy. At least he got a chance to go out there, play and do what he loves.”
With just fi ve games left in his career and Lunt — now off crutches — recovering
more each week, O’Toole’s time is running out before it seemed to begin. Oppor-tunities were a phantom — always in sight but nev-er able to be grasped.
W h e n he’s gone, O ’ T o o l e ’ s name won’t be engraved in any stat-ue outside of Memo-rial Stadi-um next to Red Grange. There won’t be a sign when you enter Wheaton that reads, “Home
of Reilly O’Toole.” And in 90 years, it’s unlikely Illini
fans will remember his name.
In a time when the p r o g r a m needs pos-i t i v i t y most, the memory of Gra nge’s historic six-touchdown game nine d e c a d e s ago is being r e m e m -b e r e d t h r o u g h commemo-
rative gray Illini jerseys they will wear Saturday.
The senior had to think for a second earlier this week when asked what he wants out of his fi nal games with Illinois. The self-sacrifi c-ing answer was what you’d expect: a few more wins for the team.
Because a victory, wheth-er he’s playing or not, is “up there with the greatest feel-ings” in the world, according to O’Toole. And at the same time, he said that’s what makes losing so tough.
“You put in all the hard work and it doesn’t pay off. You question, ‘What more can I give?’ ”
Sean can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @neumannthehuman.
“I’m elated every time I see Reilly on the fi eld. If he has 400 yards,
I’m happy ... 100 yards, I’m happy.”
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HOMECOMING FESTIVITIES VS.
THE CROWDIllinois football is not inspiring a big fanbase this homecoming weekend, especially with the volleyball team playing as well as it is. With so many more festivities, just how large of a crowd will show for the an 11 A.M. kickoff? Perhaps the new “Galloping Ghost” uniforms will fi ll up the seats? If you’re going to lose, why not look cool doing so?
DAVID COBB VS.
ILLINOIS RUSHING DEFENSEMinnesota is a one-dimensional team — they average 222.4 rushing yards per game. Senior halfback David Cobb is a big reason why, having rushed for 1,013 yards and fi ve touchdowns. Yet, as Illinois’ performance against Wisconsin showed, the Illini defense can be beat even if they know what their opponent will do.
LINEBACKER DAMIEN WILSON VS.
ILLINOIS OFFENSE Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill has called Wilson an “NFL-ready player,” and his stats thus far show why: 37 solo tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks. Expect the Big Ten’s leading tackler to be all over the fi eld chasing running back Josh Ferguson and Illini quarterbacks.
BY ERIK PRADOSPORTS WRITER
It’s week nine of the college football season and while most of the nation is focused on the four teams that will be chosen for the inaugural College Football Playoff, here in Champaign, patience is running thin. Illinois is coming off a bye week after falling to Wisconsin, while the visiting Minnesota Golden Gophers cracked the USA Today Coach’s Poll at No. 24. Here are three matchups to keep an eye out for as Tim Beckman looks for his second-ever Big Ten win halfway through his third season as the Illini head coach.
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MINNESOTA VS.
ILLINOIS
NO. 5 AUBURNVS.
SOUTH CAROLINA
NO. 22 WEST VIRGINIA VS.
OKLAHOMA STATE
NO. 3 OLE MISS VS.
NO. 24 LSU
NO. 1 MISSISSIPPI ST. VS.
KENTUCKY
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I t’s hard to get excited for Illinois football games at this point. It’s especially
hard to get excited for an Illinois football game when it’s Homecoming and there are so many better options for an Illini sports fan.
The No. 10-ranked Illi-ni volleyball team plays at home this weekend, as do the soccer team, hockey team and both men’s and women’s cross-country teams. I’ll admit, cross-country isn’t all that thrilling to watch, but it’s got to be better than watching the Illini defense try to stop an opponent.
So, which team gets to run all over the Illini this weekend? The 6-1 Minneso-ta Golden Gophers. Did you ever think you’d hear that? Minnesota is 6-1.
Head coach Jerry Kill has worked wonders with that football program.
Three years ago, the Gophers topped the Illini in an ugly game the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It was just Minnesota’s third win of the year and it was the last game Ron Zook would ever coach at Illinois.
Illinois could learn a few things from its Big Ten counterpart from up north. It might be too late for Tim Beckman, but who-ever coaches this team in 2015 can look at what Kill has done in Minnesota as a blueprint.
The two programs are pretty similar historically. Illinois has 17 bowl appear-ances to Minnesota’s 16. The Illini have played in fi ve Rose Bowls to the Gophers’ two. Illinois has 15 confer-ence titles to Minnesota’s 18.
No, Minnesota hasn’t played Nebraska and Wis-consin yet. But wouldn’t Illinois football fans do just about anything for a six-win season at this point?
In Kill’s four years at Minnesota, the Gophers
recruiting classes have ranked 55th, 59th, 66th and 57th nationally, according to 247sports.com. Those numbers are unimpressive, yet the Gophers won eight games a year ago and could win more this year.
In Beckman’s three years, his recruiting classes have ranked 64th, 49th and 72nd by 247sports. Not much dif-ferent, really. I know rank-ings are just numbers, but the point is, positive things can be done with the talent level Illinois is capable of recruiting.
Minnesota is doing it. I’m not going to pretend to know Jerry Kill’s methods. But his teams fi nd ways to win with a similar talent lev-el as Illinois. The Gophers will be bowling for the third straight year. Illinois, in all likelihood, is going to be watching from the sidelines for a third straight year.
Illinois needs a winner’s mentality, something that’s much too late for Beckman to establish. That’s the big-gest difference between the programs: Minnesota believes it can win every game.
That being said, it’s impor-tant to remember that this is a winnable game for the Illini. When you throw out the records and just look at the teams, they are pretty comparable. With Wes Lunt, Illinois could win this game. Without him — well, nobody really knows.
Illinois looked pretty good when Aaron Bailey came in against Wisconsin two weeks ago. But with such a small sample size, it’s impos-sible to know what the Illini are capable of with Bailey under center.
So if you’re an Illinois football fan, try to get excit-ed for this game. Minneso-ta is 6-1, but it’s far from an intimidating 6-1. The Gophers really aren’t that different from the Illini.
Sean is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @sean_hammond.
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For head coach Nick Fabbrini, this weekend is about more than just getting a win. It’s about brag-ging rights.
The Illinois hockey team will take on Ohio at the Illinois Ice Arena this weekend. This will be the team’s first series against a CSCHL opponent, which has enhanced the intensity of the entire team.
“I’m a little bit more focused this week than I have been to this point in the season,” Fabbrini said. “Ohio, for me, is our biggest rival ... I think we are going to be ready. The players get pumped to play Ohio too. I think they get some of that from me. We have played great games against them the last two years, both here and there.”
The Bobcats will be differ-ent this weekend than in years past because of their new coach, Sean Hogan, who recently helped coach Arizona back to promi-nence. Hogan has led Ohio to an 8-1-1 record this season, and in the most recent ACHA poll, Ohio
was ranked 8th, five spots ahead of Illinois.
Despite the coaching change, Fabbrini still expects Ohio to be his team’s toughest challenge thus far, especially for the Illi-ni offense. According to Fabbri-ni, Ohio has always had a strong defense, and he expects the games to be low scoring.
“I know that they have six or seven defensemen who are all very talented both offensively and defensively,” Fabbrini said. “They mirror us in a lot of ways in the way they play defensively, espe-cially on the penalty kill. They like to go high pressure. They had a good hard-nosed defensive iden-tity in the past.”
Illinois plans to counter the Bobcats’ defensive presence with its speed. Fabbrini said the key will be to wear down their defend-ers by going at them the whole game.
Ohio also plays on a smaller than regulation size ice, which gives the team’s defensemen an advantage when contributing on offense. That advantage is taken
away on Illinois’ larger-than-reg-ulation ice that Fabbrini said is about double the size of Ohio’s.
Illinois has also been working on perfecting its special teams play. Fabbrini said the team did outstanding this past weekend on the penalty kill, but it still needs to improve on the power play in terms of moving the puck around. Special teams is one of the areas Fabbrini believes can give the Illi-ni an advantage over opponents moving forward.
Injuries and suspensions, how-ever, will hurt the team this week-end. The Illini will be without their leader in points, John Olen, for Friday’s game, after he was sus-pended for a fight in the Saturday game against Michigan-Dearborn.
Fabbrini is not making any excuses for the team. He is approaching this weekend with a “next man up mentality” and expects all of the players to step up their games moving forward.
Defenseman Austin Zima returned from his head injury last weekend and made an immediate impact by scoring a goal during
the Illini’s comeback against the Wolverines. He and the rest of the team are increasing their intensi-ty for this series, and he believes the Illini are capable of making a statement this weekend.
“When it’s an opponent like Ohio, there is always a little more grit in your stick,” Zima said. “We
know how big these games are, not only in terms of showing the conference who we are, but we also want to send a message to the whole league.”
Daniel can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @ddexter23.
7-2-1) on Sunday afternoon.The Illini stole an overtime
win at Michigan in last year’s final match of the 2013 regu-lar season, so the high-scoring Wolverines will look to return the favor at Illinois Soccer Sta-dium. The Big Ten’s third-best offensive team is also fresh off a homestand in which it lost 1-0 to Penn State and tied with Ohio
State.It has been a roller-coaster
season for the Illini, and with some sore players getting rest and three straight matches at home, they are looking to gain some momentum heading into the postseason.
Returning key players like junior defender Amy Feher, who hasn’t played during this recent five-game skid, and freshman forward Kara Marbury will pro-vide the depth Illinois needs to garner that momentum.
“I think all of them are going to do their best to be able to com-pete on Friday,” said head coach Janet Rayfield. “And being at home helps that. There’s noth-ing better than sleeping in your own bed, eating food you know and having the training room 24/7. And they’ll be using all of those things to get themselves ready to play.”
Joey can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3.
top offenses in the country as the Boil-ers are seventh in the nation in hitting percentage as a team at .293.
The Boilermakers were defeated for the first time in conference play by Penn State last Friday, but remain tied with Wisconsin atop the Big Ten standings.
Purdue beat Illinois twice in three matches last season, including a Sweet 16 matchup during the NCAA
tournament at State Farm Center in December.
While both teams have changed in the 11 months since, the intensity on the court will be the same.
“(Purdue is) a big rival for me, and I think the rest of the team,” Viliunas said. “They’re such a great team, but a lot of things have changed since then. We’re both a lot better than we were then, so it’ll be a battle come Saturday.”
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Hockey anticipates tough defensive challenge vs. Ohio
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ John Olen (16) intercepts the puck at the Illinois Ice Arena on Sept. 27. He leads the team in points, but will not play on Friday.
Of all the major sports in North America, col-
lege football has been the most controversial when it comes to crowning a champion at season’s end.
It used to be the Associ-ated Press that named a champion. Other publica-tions and algorithms have also crowned champi-ons, sometimes with two teams claiming the title at season’s end. This hap-pened during the 2003 season, when LSU and Southern California each claimed the title.
The confusion and lack of a coherent pro-cess is what led to the creation of the BCS, and for the most part, that system worked. It gen-erally matched the top two teams in the country against each other. But it was not without faults, as rankings played heavily into the algorithms. Mid-majors were often left
out, but Utah, Boise State and TCU defined the term “BCS-buster.”
Everyone knew the sys-tem could be better. The NCAA finally wised up and created the College Football Playoff, in which four playoff teams are chosen by a committee.
The NCAA didn’t quite get it right. It needs to revamp the playoff sys-tem before things official-ly start.
There are going to be so many worthy teams that will claim a playoff spot. Assuming Florida State and Ole Miss or Mississip-pi stay undefeated, they’ll secure spots. And the oth-er two? What’s to stop the committee from picking one-loss Alabama over Big Ten champion, and one-loss Michigan State? If there is only one spot left, would the commit-tee choose Pac-12 champi-on Oregon over Michigan State, simply because the Ducks defeated the Spar-tans head-to-head?
So here’s my radical format for the College Football Playoff. Ready?
Eight teams. The Power Five conference winners
automatically secure a seed. Three at-large bids. Done.
Here is how this playoff system would look today, based on my projected conference winners:
One-seed: Florida State. Two-seed: Ole MissThree-seed: OregonFour-seed: TCUFive-seed: Michigan
StateAs for the at-large bids,
those can be selected based on highest rank-ings after the conference games. So in this case, I would choose:
Sixth-seed: Notre DameSeventh-seed: AlabamaEighth-seed: Georgia The playoff would be
seeded just like any other sport: one versus eight, two versus seven and so on. The first round would be hosted by the high-er seed, with the semifi-nals and championship alternating between the New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day bowls, thus keeping tradition intact.
This is not a perfect system and I realize that. Notre Dame, being the stubborn independent it is, will always feel slight-
ed if the top five seeds are based on conference winners. Yet this could finally force them and other independents to join conferences. Mid-majors also have a better shot with three at-large bids. Choosing those at-large bids will be tricky, how-ever, because it’s entire-
ly possible the loser of a conference game (like the SEC’s) can get in.
This hypothetical, eight-team system is bet-ter than having only four team.
In every other sport, most teams have a realis-tic shot to win a title, save for a select cellar-dwell-
ing teams. An altered playoff
makes for more fairness and more football. That can’t be bad.
Erik is a senior in Media. He can be reached at eprado3 @dailyillini.com or on Twitter @e_prada.
STEPHEN M. DOWELL TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEFlorida State receiver Rashad Greene (80) makes a catch early in the first quarter against Notre Dame on Oct. 18. Prado slots Florida State in the first-seed and Notre Dame in the sixth-seed.
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BY ALEX WALLNERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Illinois wom-en’s cross-country team returns to the Illinois Arbo-retum on Friday for the Illini Classic. This week-end is the last competition for Illinois before the Big Ten championships in Iowa City, Iowa.
With the Big Tens com-ing up on Nov. 2, distance coach Scott Jones has decided to rest his two best runners, Alyssa Schneider and Amanda Fox.
“We felt doing workouts this week would serve them better than racing,” Jones said.
Jones added that the new runners will have another competition under their belts, and it will help him see how they’ve improved from the b e g i n -ning of the season.
F r e s h -men Denise B r a n c h and Court-ney Acker-man will be competing in their sec-ond event of the season, and Jones is excited to see how they’ve pro-gressed. Freshman Nicole Choquette will be making her college debut.
Jones is excited to have freshman Samantha Lapp back as well. Lapp, who has competed in two meets this year, returns from a mid-season illness that side-lined her for the last two competitions.
Junior Colette Falsey is hoping for a strong perfor-mance on Friday to set her up for Big Tens.
“Having a good perfor-mance this week will help
reaffirm our belief in our-selves that we are fit and ready to run against the girls in our conference,” Falsey said.
Falsey added that getting out to an early lead would be a big factor on Friday. She also mentioned that it is an opportunity for others to get their feet wet with more competitions.
A third win of the sea-son would give this team even more momentum, and without its two best run-ners, would show the rest of the conference the depth the Illini possess.
The Big Ten is one of the best cross-country confer-ences in the country, and the Illini are using Friday’s tournament as preparation for Iowa City.
“I’m viewing this race as a tune-up for the Big Ten Con-fe r e n c e race next w e e k -end while still look-ing at it as a vital part of the train-ing I will need in order to perform well in
the more important rac-es coming up,” sophomore Hanna Winter said.
The Big Ten has three teams in the top 10 nation-ally: No. 1 Michigan State, No. 4 Michigan and No. 8 Wisconsin. The Illi-ni can prepare for those top squads by putting in a strong performance on Friday.
Alex can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @awallner93.
Women’s cross-country hosts tune-up
DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOThe Fighting Illini men’s track and cross-country team start their race during the Illini Challenge at the UI Arboretum on Aug. 29. The Illini will host the Illini Open on Friday.
“Having a good performance this
week will reaffirm ... that we are fit and
ready to run against the girls in our conference.”
COLETTE FALSEYJUNIOR RUNNER
BY MATT GERTSMEIERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
For most of the Illi-nois men’s cross-coun-try team, the Illini Open means a chance to run in front of friends and fami-ly. However, for junior Liam Markham, his family will be just as far away as they are when Illinois races in Minnesota.
Friday’s Illini Open will be the final meet of the regular season and second home meet of the year for the Illini.
Markham’s family resides in Clare, Ireland, a coun-ty on the west coast, 3,674 miles away from the Uni-versity of Illinois. After a successful senior season at St. Flannans (high school), Markham was recruited by Illinois. In his three seasons running for the Illini, his parents have yet to attend one of his meets.
“As of yet, they haven’t been over to see me race,” Markham said. “It’s diffi-cult with injuries and racing schedules coming out late
and not knowing for sure when I’ll be racing and if I’ll be racing and what not.”
The beginning of Markham’s season was uncertain. Battling a stress fracture in his shin that he suffered during last year’s track season, Markham grooved his way slowly back into the cross-country sea-son. Racing this Friday at the Illini Open, Markham has a chance to go up against seven other teams, includ-ing conference opponents Northwestern and Pur-due. Friday is the last meet before Markham and Illi-nois will head to the Big Ten Championships in Iowa City, Iowa.
“My season has been a bit different from the oth-ers coming back from an injury, so I’m still trying to find that race sharpness and get that racing mentality,” Markham said.
The other runners Head coach Jake Stewart has cho-sen for Friday include fresh-men Alex Gold and Alex
Notton and sophomore Ryan Burgoon. For these three underclassmen, Friday will be their final chance to race this season.
Stewart hopes that the younger guys, who will not be racing at conference and don’t have as many oppor-tunities to race as the other runners on the team, take advantage of Friday’s meet.
“Every race we have and every time we put a uniform on, we need to feel like it’s an opportunity for us to get better,” Stewart said. “If we continue to do that, then we’re going to get to a point where it’s just second nature for us to be ready to race.”
Gold, who has ran in five meets for the Illini this season, sees Friday as his chance to end the season on a high note.
“I want to finish knowing that I gave it everything I had and there wasn’t any-where in the race where I could have pushed more or covered a move more,” Gold
said. “I want to make sure I competed well.”
Gold also wants to take advantage of the season finale to run alongside Markham for the last time this year.
“He has a lot of running experience, so he is kind of a leader on the team,” Gold said. “Everyone learns from running with a guy like that.”
According to Stewart, the strategy for Markham this Friday will be to come out aggressive in the first 3,000 meters and deal with oxy-gen fatigue the remainder of the race.
“Me personally, I want to be as aggressive and as confident as possible,” Markham said. “I want to get that last confidence booster and race prepared-ness before Big Tens next Sunday.”
Matt can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier.
Cross-country holds Illini Open