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BY LIYUAN YANG STAFF WRITER In Champaign County, 222 people were homeless as of Jan. 28, according to the Champaign County Continuum of Care. There are kitchens and shelters throughout the community that help the homeless pop- ulation, including the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen, which is in the process of mov- ing its location to downtown Champaign. The nonprofit, volunteer- run organization is moving from the New Covenant Fellowship at 124 W. White St. to its own location on 118 N. First St. The new loca- tion is the former Emerald City Lounge building. The transition will take eight months to com- plete and will cost about $400,000, which is entire- ly funded by private dona- tions, said Ellen McDowell, president emeritus of the Daily Bread. The Daily Bread has five crews that volunteer their time from Monday to Friday. Jeff Carns, Daily Bread weekend crew chief, has volunteered at the orga- nization since it opened in 2009. He said the move is good for the Daily Bread. “We are just two blocks away from the main termi- nal, so wherever they are in Champaign-Urbana, people can get on a bus and get to us easily,” Carns said. The Daily Bread cur- rently rents the lobby of New Covenant Fellowship where it serves lunch five days a week from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for 200 to 300 community members, according to McDowell. The organization would like to offer lunch throughout the week, but the church needs the space on the weekend, which is one of the reasons it is moving, she said. “... Although the church has been very good and we have gotten along well with the church, we want to have our own autonomy; we want to make our own decisions. That’s difficult when you are renting from someone,” McDowell said. McDowell added the cost BY ANDREW NOWAK STAFF WRITER Students will have the rare opportunity to have their voices heard on the creation of a new college that will be the first of its kind. The Illinois Student Senate has created an ad hoc committee to get stu- dent input as the proposal on the University’s College of Medicine develops. Matt Hill, vice president external of ISS, original- ly proposed the commit- tee after noticing student interest and talking to colleagues. “We are going to be reviewing any proposal and plans that the Univer- sity and Carle put forward, getting student opinions on it, and then sort of formulat- ing a report that encompass- es the student perspective on the creation of the Col- lege of Medicine,” Hill said. Last Wednesday, all 10 students who applied to become members of the committee were selected. The committee is composed of six students from LAS (including Hill), two from Engineering, two from AHS and one graduate student in Education. Kendal Hellman, senior in AHS and student senator, FARAZ MIRZA STAFF WRITER The proposed College of Medicine could be up and running in three years, according to Chancellor Phyllis Wise. In a video conference Monday with the Board of Trustee’s University Healthcare System com- mittee, Wise presented a new business plan for the proposed college, stat- ing it still needs $135 mil- lion from donors and $100 million from Carle Health System. The plan lays out how the college would be funded leading to fiscal year 2024- 2025. The proposed college aims to reinvent health- care through engineering and technological advanc- es in research, as well as the healthcare education of physicians. “We’re in an exciting place, where medicine, engineering and technolo- gy are converging quick- ly, and where the shape of regional, national, and glob- al healthcare is being total- ly redefined,” Wise said. The outlined budget of the college demands major financial commitments from Carle, the Universi- ty’s partner that will aid in financially supporting and overseeing the college. INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Letters 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 3B | Sudoku 3B THE DAILY ILLINI WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM 5he independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 144 Issue 041 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI Board considers tuition raise for 2016 University struggles to maintain elite status on current budget BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER The Board of Trustee’s committee on Audit, Budget, Finance and Facilities reviewed the effects of increasing the tuition for the 2016 fiscal year. The official vote on whether to decrease or increase tuition will take place in January 2015. Monday’s meeting began with a presentation from Christophe Pierre, vice president for academic affairs, who stated that tuition is a “key instrument in the University budget.” Pierre said there will be an estimated $35 million increase in the budget in 2016, partly due to an increase in tuition revenues. If the University does not increase tuition for the 2016 fi scal year, there will still be a $16 million revenue, he said. This is because graduating seniors are paying lower tuition rates than incoming freshman will pay, even without an increase. Currently, the University tuition is “frozen” for four years so students will pay the same rate during their entire time at the University. Pierre said this limits the University’s ability to react to funding changes. Every time tuition is decided, the University is making a four year commitment, something he suggested the University considers when setting new tuition rates. Pierre said key factors in determining tuition include, protecting access and affordability of higher education, sustaining and enhancing the quality of education and recognizing fi nancial challenges. He said the University is aware of tuition costs keeping students from attending. However, the University needs more money in order to maintain the same quality of education and resources. Additionally, the University and state are facing financial uncertainty, especially in regards to state appropriations for higher education. Pierre said approving tuition for the 2016 fiscal year by January 2015 will help the University in both financial planning, as well as in recruiting students. State appropriation has continued to decrease, now at $643 million, while tuition and fees continue to increase, now at $1098 million total. This year, in-state undergraduate tuition totals to $25,000, including room and board. Tuition and fees exceed $15,000. In January 2014, tuition was increased 1.7 percent. “Because tuition is high, and the fees are as well, a lot of students cannot readily afford higher education at the U of I and we need to increase significantly in financial aid,” Pierre said. Currently, $10,000 is the most need-based aid students have received from Monetary Award Program grants and Pell grants, he said. In total, University students receive about $344 million in various forms of aid. Roughly 15 percent of students pay nearly no tuition or fees. Alternatively, about 60 percent of University students pay full tuition and fees, Pierre said. Tuition has not increased since 2013 for Purdue University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska, University of Iowa and Ohio State University. Many of the schools have approved, or are in the process of approving, a 0 percent increase for its 2016 fiscal year, according to the presentation. “Our tuition is significantly higher than those of our geographic peers and we are indeed losing many Illinois students to them,” Pierre said. Despite an increase in the number of applications, and number of admitted students, the number of enrolled students has lay stagnant since 2007. As a result, the University yield has decreased from 48 percent to 33 percent in the past seven years. Pierre attributed this partly to the increased ease of college applications now, stating people apply to more schools. He also said cost is really the main reason that students eventually go to other Pandemonium over Pandamonium’s new location PHOTO COURTESY OF PANDEMONIUM DOUGHNUTS Since Urbana’s Market at the Square ended on Nov. 1, Pandamonium Doughnuts will move its food truck to Goodwin Avenue outside Krannert Center for the Performing Arts from Tuesday to Saturday. The company will sell a variety of flavors from 7:30 a.m. until they run out of doughnuts. The food truck frequently sells out early due to high demand at Urbana’s Market at the Square. James Kyung, founder and owner of Pandemonium, said in September that he considers his doughnuts to be a work of art. “When I approach my food and design my doughnuts, I try to make them look very pretty and very appealing to the eye,” he said. “So I guess that in itself is art, so you can kind of look at it that way.” LIYUAN YANG THE DAILY ILLINI A volunteer serves lunch to a community member at 132 W. Church St. in Champaign on Saturday. College of Medicine business plan revealed If accepted, rst class would start in fall of 2017 Students given chance to have their voices heard ISS committee created to discuss College of Medicine development SEE TUITION | 3A SEE MEDICINE | 3A SEE ISS | 3A SEE HOMELESS | 3A After years of commercialization, Green Street enters final stages of transformation OUTCOME OF MIDTERM ELECTIONS WILL AFFECT HIGHER EDUCATION PAGE 6A PAGE 4A Champaign soup kitchen relocates BASKETBALL GUIDE Get to know everything about the 2014-15 Illinois basketball team · INSIDE “Because tuition is high, and the fees are as well, a lot students cannot readily afford higher education at the U of I.” CHRISTOPHE PIERRE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Daily Bread leaves church space in favor of new private property

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Page 1: The Daily Illini: Volume 144 Issue 41

BY LIYUAN YANGSTAFF WRITER

In Champaign County, 222 people were homeless as of Jan. 28, according to the Champaign County Continuum of Care. There are kitchens and shelters throughout the community that help the homeless pop-ulation, including the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen, which is in the process of mov-ing its location to downtown Champaign.

The nonprofi t, volunteer-run organization is moving from the New Covenant

Fellowship at 124 W. White St. to its own location on 118 N. First St. The new loca-tion is the former Emerald City Lounge building.

The transition will take eight months to com-plete and will cost about $400,000, which is entire-ly funded by private dona-tions, said Ellen McDowell, president emeritus of the Daily Bread.

The Daily Bread has fi ve crews that volunteer their time from Monday to Friday. Jeff Carns, Daily Bread weekend crew chief,

has volunteered at the orga-nization since it opened in 2009. He said the move is good for the Daily Bread. “We are just two blocks away from the main termi-nal, so wherever they are in Champaign-Urbana, people can get on a bus and get to us easily,” Carns said.

The Daily Bread cur-rently rents the lobby of New Covenant Fellowship where it serves lunch fi ve days a week from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for 200 to 300 community members, according to McDowell.

The organization would like to offer lunch throughout the week, but the church needs the space on the weekend, which is one of the reasons it is moving, she said.

“... Although the church has been very good and we have gotten along well with the church, we want to have our own autonomy; we want to make our own decisions. That’s diffi cult when you are renting from someone,” McDowell said.

McDowell added the cost

BY ANDREW NOWAKSTAFF WRITER

Students will have the rare opportunity to have their voices heard on the creation of a new college that will be the fi rst of its kind. The Illinois Student Senate has created an ad hoc committee to get stu-dent input as the proposal

on the University’s College of Medicine develops.

Matt Hill, vice president external of ISS, original-ly proposed the commit-tee after noticing student interest and talking to colleagues.

“We are going to be reviewing any proposal and plans that the Univer-sity and Carle put forward, getting student opinions on it, and then sort of formulat-ing a report that encompass-es the student perspective

on the creation of the Col-lege of Medicine,” Hill said.

Last Wednesday, all 10 students who applied to become members of the committee were selected. The committee is composed of six students from LAS (including Hill), two from Engineering, two from AHS and one graduate student in Education.

Kendal Hellman, senior in AHS and student senator,

FARAZ MIRZASTAFF WRITER

The proposed College of Medicine could be up and running in three years, according to Chancellor Phyllis Wise .

In a video conference Monday with the Board of Trustee’s University Healthcare System com-

mittee, Wise presented a new business plan for the proposed college, stat-ing it still needs $135 mil-lion from donors and $100 million from Carle Health System .

The plan lays out how the college would be funded leading to fi scal year 2024-2025 . The proposed college aims to reinvent health-care through engineering and technological advanc-es in research, as well as the healthcare education of physicians .

“We’re in an exciting place, where medicine, engineering and technolo-gy are converging quick-ly, and where the shape of regional, national, and glob-al healthcare is being total-ly redefi ned,” Wise said.

The outlined budget of the college demands major financial commitments from Carle, the Universi-ty’s partner that will aid in fi nancially supporting and overseeing the college .

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Board considers tuition raise for 2016 University struggles to maintain elite status on current budget

BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER

The Board of Trustee’s committee on Audit, Budget, Finance and Facilities reviewed the effects of increasing the tuition for the 2016 fi scal year. The offi cial vote on whether to decrease or increase tuition will take place in January 2015.

Monday’s meeting began with a presentation from Christophe Pierre, vice president for academic affairs, who stated that tuition is a “key instrument in the University budget.” Pierre said there will be an estimated $35 million increase in the budget in 2016, partly due to an increase in tuition revenues. If the University does not increase tuition for the 2016 fi scal year, there will still be a $16 million revenue, he said.

This is because graduating seniors are paying lower tuition rates than incoming freshman will pay, even without an increase.

Currently, the University tuition is “frozen” for four years so students will pay the same rate during their entire time at the University. Pierre said this limits the University’s ability to react to funding changes. Every time tuition is decided, the University is making a four year commitment, something he suggested the University considers when setting new tuition rates.

Pierre said key factors in determining tuition include, protecting access and affordability of higher education, sustaining and enhancing the quality of education and recognizing fi nancial challenges. He

said the University is aware of tuition costs keeping students from attending. However, the University needs more money in order to maintain the same quality of education and resources. Additionally, the University and state are facing financial uncertainty, especially in regards to state appropriations for higher education.

Pierre said approving tuition for the 2016 fi scal year by January 2015 will help the University in both fi nancial planning, as well as in recruiting students.

State appropriation has continued to decrease, now at $643 million, while tuition and fees continue to increase, now at $1098 million total.

This year, in-state undergraduate tuition totals to $25,000, including

room and board. Tuition and fees exceed $15,000. In January 2014, tuition

was increased 1.7 percent. “Because tuition is high,

and the fees are as well, a lot of students cannot readily afford higher education at the U of I and we need to increase significantly in financial

aid,” Pierre said. Currently, $10,000 is

the most need-based aid students have received from Monetary Award Program grants and Pell grants, he said. In total, University students receive about $344 million in various forms of aid. Roughly 15 percent of students pay nearly no tuition or fees. Alternatively, about 60 percent of University students pay full tuition and fees, Pierre said.

Tuition has not increased since 2013 for Purdue University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska, University of Iowa and Ohio State University. Many of the schools have approved, or are in the process of approving, a 0 percent increase for its

2016 fiscal year, according to the presentation.

“Our tu it ion is significantly higher than those of our geographic peers and we are indeed losing many Illinois students to them,” Pierre said.

Despite an increase in the number of applications, and number of admitted students, the number of enrolled students has lay stagnant since 2007. As a result, the University yield has decreased from 48 percent to 33 percent in the past seven years.

Pierre attributed this partly to the increased ease of college applications now, stating people apply to more schools. He also said cost is really the main reason that students eventually go to other

Pandemonium over Pandamonium’s new location

PHOTO COURTESY OF PANDEMONIUM DOUGHNUTSSince Urbana’s Market at the Square ended on Nov. 1, Pandamonium Doughnuts will move its food truck to Goodwin Avenue outside Krannert Center for the Performing Arts from Tuesday to Saturday. The company will sell a variety of fl avors from 7:30 a.m. until they run out of doughnuts. The food truck frequently sells out early due to high demand at Urbana’s Market at the Square. James Kyung, founder and owner of Pandemonium, said in September that he considers his doughnuts to be a work of art. “When I approach my food and design my doughnuts, I try to make them look very pretty and very appealing to the eye,” he said. “So I guess that in itself is art, so you can kind of look at it that way.”

LIYUAN YANG THE DAILY ILLINIA volunteer serves lunch to a community member at 132 W. Church St. in Champaign on Saturday.

College of Medicine business plan revealedIf accepted, ! rst class would start in fall of 2017

Students given chance to have their voices heard

ISS committee created to discuss College of Medicine development

SEE TUITION | 3A

SEE MEDICINE | 3A

SEE ISS | 3A

SEE HOMELESS | 3A

After years of commercialization, Green Street enters fi nal stages of transformation

OUTCOME OF MIDTERM ELECTIONS WILL AFFECT HIGHER EDUCATION

PAGE 6A

PAGE 4A

Champaign soup kitchen relocates

BASKETBALL GUIDE Get to know everything about the 2014-15

Illinois basketball team · INSIDE

“Because tuition is high, and the fees are as well, a lot students cannot readily afford higher education at

the U of I.”CHRISTOPHE PIERRE

VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Daily Bread leaves church space in favor of new private property

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2A Tuesday, November 4, 2014 THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM

WEATHERPOLICEChampaign

Aggravated battery and mob action were report-ed in the 00 block of East Green Street around 5 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the victim was battered by three offenders .

University

A 24-year-old male was arrested on the charge of possession of a controlled substance near Fourth Street and Armory Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Friday.

According to the report, the man’s vehicle was stopped for having a rear light out. A further search uncovered a small bag of cocaine.

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of renting the space, among other expenses, is another reason the orga-nization is moving.

During reconstruc-tion, the Daily Bread will continue to offer service at its current location. The food served at the Daily Bread is either bought at a food bank or donated by sororities, fraternities and other organizations that meet Public Health standards, said McDow-ell. Along with donating food, many students at the University also vol-unteer with other com-munity members at the soup kitchen. “The stu-dents are excellent vol-unteers, and that’s one of the reasons that we want to serve on Saturday and Sunday because that’s when they can come,” she said.

The Daily Bread also helps homeless individ-uals by paying for state IDs and birth certifi -cates, and offering free bus passes twice a year in the spring and fall. Last week, over 95 peo-ple registered for bus passes, said McDowell.

Some members of the community expressed concern over the move at the Champaign City Council meeting last week. They said there are people outside of the kitchen that urinate and drink during the day, which they believe will be bad for business.

McDowell said she understands how these community members feel and she plans on cooperating on fi nding a solution.

“We will do everything we can to make sure the soup kitchen does not interfere with their busi-ness,” she said.

McDowell said mer-

chants do not need to worry because the soup kitchen will only oper-ate for two hours a day and then the people must leave.

“They will fi nd out we are good neighbors,” McDowell said.

Carns added there are troubles in any group of people, not just with the homeless.

“Among our popula-tion, of course, there is even a little bit higher probability because peo-ple that live on the street are poor, often times they may have men-tal problems, they may have health problems, substance abuse prob-lems, things that make it harder for them to be good citizens, act prop-erly,” he said.

Carnes said those who act poorly may not be allowed back to the soup kitchen for a certain period of time. However, Carnes said most people

are nice and respectful of the rules.

Junnie Kieu, fresh-man in the College of Business and future resi-dent on First Street, said she thinks soup kitchens make the community a better place, but she does have some concerns.

“I like their efforts to help the community, but I’m still concerned about the safety of myself and other students. But the pros do outweigh the cons,” Kieu said.

The Daily Bread is open to anyone who is hungry or who is look-ing for a place to feel welcome, Carns said.

“It’s important that we reach out to our brothers and sisters. It’s a satisfy-ing feeling that you know you are helping people over the years,” he said.

Liyuan can be reached at [email protected].

was one of the 10 students selected for the commit-tee. Hellman wanted to be involved in the process of forming the proposed col-lege and was interested in part because of her pre-med track.

“It is a different form of medical school,” Hell-man said. “It is more focused on engineers because we are one of the top engineering schools in the country, and so I thought that was an inter-esting way to look at it, being a non-bio major myself. It is different going to medical school than if you are going as a bio major.”

Although the Univer-sity’s College of Medi-cine may not be in her future, Hellman said she has many reasons why she wants to work on the committee.

“Even though I person-ally won’t be able to use it, my classes have been about how we have areas in health that aren’t nec-

essarily as well repre-sented,” Hellman said. “And it is really hard to bring research into clin-ical practice, and so this is like one way that U of I is trying to bridge that gap, I feel. It brings in more people who aren’t bio majors.”

Andreas Cangellaris, dean of the College of Engineering, said the plan for the proposed col-lege would give the cam-pus community a “blank slate” in terms of how the study of medicine is viewed. Cangellaris dis-cussed the role engineer-ing would play in the pro-posed college.

“Engineering matters because it provides the technology, it provides the quantitative elements for the analytics,” Can-gellaris said. “But at the end of the day, having it as a unit on a university, and through that, infl u-encing the way the next generation of students think about the future of medicine, is where the big advantage is.”

Cangellaris said that the interdisciplinary

aspect of the proposed college is part of its appeal and he sees the importance of student involvement in the pro-cess of its creation.

“Unless we have the conversation campus-wide, I don’t think we are positioning ourselves to benefi t the most out of the investment we are try-ing to make in this new College of Medicine,” he said.

The committee would meet ahead of any vote regarding the College of Medicine in the academ-ic senate, Hill said, in order to present a report to inform the student senate.

Hill said more meet-ings may be needed as the committee already has plenty of things to work on, including a sur-vey that will be emailed to students in the coming weeks.

Hill said the 101-page business plan for the col-lege was released, and the committee will study the document and fi le a report on it before the academic senate votes on it.

Whether there will be a vote on this report at the academic senate meet-ing depends on what the SEC decides at its Nov. 10 meeting, Hill said.

The committee’s fi rst meeting is Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Student Gov-ernment Complex, locat-ed on the second fl oor of the Illini Union, and is open to all students.

Cangellaris reiterated the importance of stu-dent involvement in the process of developing the proposed college.

“I would like our stu-dents to be the fi rst ones to have an opinion about this, to think about it, to think boldly about what it is we are going after,” Cangellaris said. “It is not just that we want to have a (college of) medi-cine because others have it and we don’t. That is not what we are going after. This is a new college of medicine. And once you start something new, the sky is the limit.”

Andrew can be reached at [email protected].

Carle will contrib-ute $100 million over the course of 10 years . Additionally, it will give $1.5 million annually, extending beyond the fi rst decade.

According to the pro-posal, the University plans to raise a mini-mum of $135 million from donors over the next eight years to help meet the ongoing operat-ing and capital needs of the college .

The College of Medi-cine would be subject to

the control of the Board of Trustees, and would be governed by a Joint Liaison Committee , con-sisting of members from the University and Carle. The chairmanship would alternate between the two.

In addition, the new College of Medicine would function inde-pendently from the College of Medicine at UIC, remaining sepa-rately accredited with a distinct curriculum . However, a contractual agreement may be put in place to make appropri-ate resources available to both colleges.

“This resolution is still in draft; we’re still working with it,” Presi-dent Robert Easter said. “At the end of the day, I think we need to come to grips with the questions and resolve it.”

Tuition rates for stu-dents would cost $45,000 in-state and $60,000 out-of-state . If approved, the college’s fi rst 25 students are expected to enroll in Fall 2017 .

By the fiscal year 2024-2045, $12.5 million is expected to go toward salaries for faculty and staff.

The proposed College of Medicine is expected

to generate more than 7,600 jobs statewide by its full maturity in 2035 . Its total economic impact on the state of Illinois is expected to exceed $1 billion annually .

“There is no Universi-ty in the country better positioned to take advan-tage of this future than our own.”

Wise said she hopes the committee will bring a fi nal resolution regard-ing the business plan to the Board of Trustees at its Nov. 13 meeting .

Faraz can be reached at [email protected].

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institutions. “The tuition increase

over the years is certainly a concern and we should take that into account when considering the next

tuition increase,” Pierre said.

Trustee Koritz told those in attendance he has seen Illinois residents choose other state schools firsthand.

He said that high-achieving students can often receive in-state

tuition at other state schools, he believes the University should keep that in mind when deciding tuition.

Pierre said the cost of higher education is a major national concern and the drop in University yield refl ects that. Additionally,

aid has not increased as much as need and student and family debt rates are higher than in the past.

He said these factors are important to consider but it is also important to remember the true cost of a quality education.

“We keep adding a lot

of competition to recruit top faculty and staff and salary programs are very important. Best in class faculty are expensive,” Pierre said.

No recommendation was made, the goal of Pierre’s presentation was to begin the discussion about tuition

in relation to campus needs and wants.

The Board will continue to discuss the upcoming budget at its Nov. 13 meeting.

Abigale can be reached at [email protected].

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BY ALI BRABOYSTAFF WRITER

Administration and fac-ulty members of the Univer-sity are attending a forum on “Smart Cities, Healthy Cities” Monday and Tues-day in Taipei, Taiwan to dis-cuss the impact of increas-ing urbanization. Chancellor Phyllis Wise, Vice Chancel-lor for Academic Affairs and Provost Ilesanmi Adesi-da, and Vice Chancellor for Research Peter Schiffer will attend the forum and con-tinue to build a relationship with the National Taiwan University .

A number of University employees including three deans and 24 faculty mem-bers will also attend the two-day forum.

Director of the Illinois Strategic International Part-nerships Timothy Barnes said two faculty members, William Buttlar, civil and environmental engineering professor, and William Sulli-van, professor in landscape architecture , were major contributors to the research that will be discussed

in the forum. Buttlar said to serve the

society of today and tomor-row, the community will need smarter, better and more comprehensive solu-tions to face challenges.

“Our campus really understands the need to do interdisciplinary research,” Buttlar said. “If we’re going to solve the remaining grand societal challenges, we’re going to have to use new research methods.”

Barnes said as urbaniza-tion increases, research-ers studying this topic are looking into making cities more livable by focusing on cleaner water, traffi c con-trol, greener infrastructure, better access for people with disabilities, proper disposal of waste. He said research-ers are also considering how diverse populations can live and work with each other.

Sullivan has been work-ing for the past 20 years to determine nature’s impact has on people.

“When people have access to green spaces, a whole bunch of good things hap-

pen,” Sullivan said. “Peo-ple being able to pay atten-tion more effectively, to recovering from stressful events more quickly, to hav-ing stronger ties with their neighbors.”

Melissa Edwards, direc-tor of research communi-cations, said the faculty and administration visit-ing Taiwan are promoting research collaborations regarding approaches to the challenges that come with urbanization.

“Our researchers are focused on addressing soci-ety’s most pressing problems by doing what we do best — interdisciplinary research that drives positive change in our communities, our state, our nation and the world. This is just one of the many, many research areas that our faculty have been pursu-ing for years,” Edwards said.

Barnes said these are not issues that one person can deal with on his or her own, which is why faculty attend-ing the forum come from many different Universi-ty departments, including:

FAA, ACES, Social Work, Applied Health Scienc-es, Engineering, LAS and Education.

According to Barnes, the relationship between the University and east Asia goes back to Edmund J. James, the University’s pres-ident from 1904 to 1920 , who encouraged Theodore Roos-evelt to give scholarships to Chinese students to receive higher education in the U.S. He added that an increase in the amount of students from east Asia during that time is what led to the establish-ment of a strong connection between the University and the National Taiwan Univer-sity. He added that more than 70 faculty members from the National Taiwan University have received a doctorate degree from the University.

Sullivan said the Univer-sity members are meeting

with members of the Nation-al Taiwan University to col-laborate on papers and joint research on some of the most pressing problems that soci-ety faces today. The Univer-sity and National Taiwan Uni-versity plan to continue the “Smart Cities, Healthy Cit-ies” forum annually for at least the next two years. Next year, the forum will be held at the University.

“The benefi t to the students is the same as the benefi t to the faculty and the benefi t

to the community around us and the Chicago community,” Barnes said. “We’re bring-ing the campus and position-ing it in a place where it can address signifi cant sociocul-tural issues more effective-ly, by teaming with a part-ner institution that is doing similarly innovative and cut-ting edge work, research and education.”

Ali can be reached at [email protected].

NEWS BRIEFSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

DENVER — The costliest mid-term election in history draws to a bitter close. Control of the Sen-ate tilts toward Republicans. Governors in red and blue states alike face anti-incumbent anger.

Republican challengers in tight Senate races have strength-ened due to growing GOP mo-mentum. This bolsters the ex-pansion of the party’s House majority. Competitive contests push deeper into Democratic-

held territory, including Las Ve-gas and California.

But unlike a conventional wave election, Tuesday’s re-sults could bring a more mixed showing, as Republicans fi ght to protect governorships and Senate seats in the strongholds of Kansas, Georgia and Ken-tucky. Democrats are battling to keep the governor’s offi ce in Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts and Colorado.

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Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson says the company’s space travel program will press on following last week’s crash of one of its spaceships, which killed one pilot and injured another.

In his fi rst live interview since the crash, Branson hit the morning show circuit Monday, saying space

travel is still “absolutely ... worth the risks.”

“It’s a grand program which has had a horrible setback,” Branson told “Today” host Matt Lauer, “but I don’t think anybody watching this program would want us to abandon it at this stage.”

A" er deadly crash, Richard Branson says space travel still worth risk

JERUSALEM — Rainy days in Jerusalem haven’t doused the heightened emotions that continue to flare around the contested city, where the Temple Mount has been reopened to visitors but restrictions remain imposed on Muslim worship and leaders strain to keep a lid on unrest.

In a bid to calm the volatile air after several days of violence

focused around the sensitive site, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on both Israeli and Palestinian offi cials to act with restraint.

“The Temple Mount is the most sensitive kilometer on Earth,” Netanyahu told his cabinet Sunday, cautioning that “it is easy to start a religious fi re but much more diffi cult to extinguish it.”

Jerusalem remains tense as Prime Minister Netanyahu calls for restraint

Battling for control of the U.S. Senate, Democrats have drilled many of their Republican oppo-nents on issues affecting wom-en — from abortion to minimum wage — arguing that their party would champion gender equali-ty while the other side wages a war on women.

Retiring Senator Tom Harkin seemed to belittle the appeal of Joni Ernst, who would become Iowa’s fi rst female senator if she wins against Harkin on Tuesday.

“In this Senate race, I’ve been

watching some of these ads,” Harkin said at a Story Coun-ty Democrats’ barbecue, ac-cording to video obtained by BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski that was posted on Sunday night. “There’s this sense that, ‘Well, I hear so much about Joni Ernst. She is really attractive, and she sounds nice.’ I got to thinking about that. I don’t care if she’s as good looking as Taylor Swift or as nice as Mr. Rogers. If she votes like Michele Bachmann, she’s wrong for Iowa.”

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TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Kern County Sheriff offi cers watch over wreckage of the Virgin Galactic Spaceship Two on Saturday after its crash in the Mojave Desert.

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A few days ago, I was talk-ing with a friend, a music education major, about the

subjects we learn in school.She said she thought it was

odd how curriculum in prima-ry, secondary and college-level education is often focused on European culture more so than cultures from other parts of the world.

As I hope to graduate with a degree to teach English, I con-sidered what she said, and I wanted to refute her. I was for-tunate enough to attend very high-performing, progressive elementary, middle and high schools.

I wanted to believe that we weren’t like that — that we didn’t focus on the education of one culture more than another. But as I thought about it, my schools were highly focused on American or European cultures in our humanities classes.

White, male American and European authors wrote much of the literature I read in my English classes.

And in 2010, Time Maga-zine compiled a list of the top 10 books that are most read in schools across the coun-try. Out of the authors of those books, nine out of ten were male, and each one was either European or American.

My friend’s point was: Why not teach more culturally broad literature and history? We should be reading more translations of works from South America, Africa, the far East, the Middle East, etc.

On a similar note, the bands I played for in high school and in college performed almost exclusively classical music, usually American or Europe-an. Students should study clas-sical music that emerged from European culture in conjunc-tion with indigenous, as well as contemporary, music from different non-Western areas in the world to expand cultural understanding.

The history I learned was heavily concentrated on the Western hemisphere. That phenomenon was not specific to just my high school.

School curriculum needs to expand beyond Western cul-ture in all subjects that deal heavily with culture; subjects such as history, music, art, dance, theatre and English.

Focusing in so severely on Western cultural practices when learning about differ-ent subjects in the humani-ties gives the impression that Western culture is above any other because it receives more attention than any other.

Teaching history, art and lit-erature from cultures heavily differing from our own should lead to more open-minded stu-dents, and ultimately to less prejudice and ignorance in regards to other cultures.

But I recognize the need to

learn deeply the history and culture of America. That kind of education leads to a sense of identity and patriotism that is imperative for Americans to have. But we have to be learning about more than just our own country — we need to understand the rest of the world.

I also recognize that there are American school districts that make an effort to offer classes that recognize world cultures and histories. There are schools that have class-es specifically geared toward examining non-Western cultures.

Obviously, this is an idea for education majors at the Uni-versity to keep in mind when planning how they will teach in their own classrooms.

We need to broaden the teaching of cultural education because it will better equip students to understand the world and different cultures.

It would also universalize education in a way. Students, or their families, come from a variety of different back-grounds, obviously not all of which are European. There-fore, it isn’t fair to place so much emphasis on European culture and history.

This is also something that could, perhaps, be imple-mented at the University level as well. As undergradu-ate students, we are required to take two cultural studies classes: one Western and one non-Western.

Even the fact that the cul-

tural classes are divided into Western and non-Western seems to imply that there is already a heavy emphasis on Western culture, not just American culture. Why would Western vs. non-Western be the divide? Why not Ameri-can culture vs. non-American culture?

It’s wonderful that we are required to take a non-Western cultural course at the Univer-sity. But, I think there needs to be more cross-cultural edu-cation for those who are not already majoring or minoring in a cultural studies field.

That non-Western cultural class is the only one of its kind required by the University for all majors. I think there should be more, and that non-West-ern culture should be better integrated into other academic areas at the University.

The point of having gener-al education requirements at the University is to produce well-rounded graduates who are able to succeed in a global sense.

We’ll only be well-rounded if we are able to understand the world around us and have some kind of understanding of the different cultures. That’s why it is great that we are required to take a non-West-ern course, but also why there needs to be more emphasis on these courses at all levels in education.

Alex is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].

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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS | [email protected] with the subject “Letter to the Editor.” The Daily Illini reserves the right to edit for length, libel, grammar and spelling errors, and Daily Illini style or to reject any contributions. Letters must be limited to 300 words. Contributions must be typed and include the author’s name, address and phone number. University students must include their year in school and college.

According to an article published in the Seattle Times, Seasonal Affec-

tive Disorder may be caused by “a decrease in exposure to natural sunlight, which leads to decreased levels of sero-tonin in the brain.” SAD mani-fests itself in depression-like symptoms where individu-als affected by SAD “tend to sleep more, have an increased appetite (especially for carbo-hydrates), (are) irritable, gain weight, have a sensation of heaviness in the arms or legs, and have trouble with inter-personal relationships.”

Whether you choose to label the negative effects of limited daylight as Seasonal Affec-tive Disorder or not, I argue that lethargy, changes in diet and a general shift in mood are effects that many individ-uals — and college students, in particular — experience as we approach the conclusion of daylight saving time.

I am of the opinion that whether or not one has been officially diagnosed as suffer-ing from SAD, many individu-als do experience symptoms of mood and lifestyle chang-es resulting from a lessened exposure to light; in my own

personal experience, it’s a lot harder to get out of bed and greet the day when the major-ity of that day consists of trudging through icy sludge, dodging winds that seem to come from all directions and writing midterm essays.

As a result, with the help of the Mayo Clinic and various health sources, I’ve compiled a list of changes a University student can implement into his or her life to lessen the nega-tive effects of seasonal mood shifts, and remain produc-tive and happy as the climate grows cooler and the days grow shorter.

1. Try to make it to the gym. Over the summer, I ran an average of five miles a day. This was due to a variety of situational factors, namely the heightened amount of free-time I had, but also as a result of the long hours of sunlight available. Although it might be a gigantic test of one’s will-power, I find that it is quite beneficial to incorporate some amount of regular exercise into one’s lifestyle in the fall and winter months. According to the Mayo Clinic, exercise can offset the impact of stress and anxiety, which are corre-lated with SAD symptoms. A mere half hour of exercise a couple times a week can work wonders.

2. Increase your exposure to natural light. If weather per-mits, substitute riding the bus

or driving to class with walk-ing. Exposure to outdoor light is helpful in combating the negative effects of SAD. The American Psychiatric Associa-tion says melatonin — “a sleep-related hormone” — has been related to depression. Melato-nin is “produced at increased levels in the dark.” Thus, when you combine the natural short-ened span of daylight with setting the clocks back, this becomes a problem. Even if the extent of one’s exposure to the elements is limited to a walk across the Quad, every bit of exposure helps. Addi-tionally, one might choose a seat in the lecture hall closer to the window. Open-ing the blinds of your apart-ment or dorm room serves as an additional way you can increase your daily exposure to sunlight.

3. Eat healthfully. It’s so easy to indulge in the carbo-hydrate-laden treats offered in the dining halls. And if you live independently of Univer-sity housing, it’s almost easier to fall into the trap of order-ing a pizza or Chinese food for delivery in lieu of cook-ing and venturing into the cold to fill one’s pantry with foods more substantial than Ramen and beer. What you eat greatly effects your energy levels and productivity. For this reason, it’s important to choose health-ier meal options. For those who live in the dorms, become

a more frequent visitor of the dining halls’ salad bars, and substitute muffins and bagels in the morning for whole grain cereals and fruits.

4. Maintain a consistent sleep schedule. According to Dr. Phyllis Zee of Northwest-ern Memorial Hospital’s Sleep Disorders Center in Illinois, disturbed or irregular sleep-ing patterns — which may arise as a result of the end of daylight savings, and the shortened length of fall and winter days — is “associated with depression, memory and learning impairments ... and impaired ability to fight infec-tion.” Therefore, try to regu-late your sleep patterns as well as possible.

5. Take advantage of the support systems offered through the University. If self-implemented lifestyle changes do little to alleviate depressive-symptoms or leth-argy associated with SAD, it might be worth one’s while to look into the services offered through McKinley Health Cen-ter, as well as the Counseling Center.

As the days grow short-er and the infamously brutal Champaign winter approach-es, consider implementing these techniques into your schedule.

Carly is a junior in FAA. She can be reached at ccharle2 @dailyillini.com.

THE DAILY ILLINI

EDITORIALWhat you’re voting

for and why it matters for higher

education

EDITORIAL CARTOON JOHN DARKOW COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE

CARLY CHARLES

Opinions columnist

ALEX SWANSON

Opinions columnist

P at Quinn or Bruce Rauner will play a sig-nificant role in shaping the future of the Uni-versity, depending on

who is elected today. We believe it’s important for

all voters to be aware of the in-fluence the governor can have on the future of higher educa-tion in the state of Illinois. In voting for the next governor, they are choosing a leader who will make decisions that will have a significant impact on the University.

It is the role of the governor of Illinois to appoint the nine members of the University’s Board of Trustees, six of whom will be up for reappointment during the future governor’s next term.

The trustees vote on and ulti-mately decide every important issue regarding the University. The board must approve all fac-ulty positions at the Universi-ty, and the board decided not to appoint Steven Salaita — some-thing that an overwhelming number of University members, and even non-University mem-bers, showed great care and concern for.

The trustees must approve the annual budget and the price of tuition and fees. They approve building renovations. They will approve the next president of our University.

The governor can’t completely tip the scales, as the Universi-ty is required to have a five-to-four ratio of each political party on its board. But the governor’s decisions on who to appoint can change its balance.

Democratic trustee Chris Ken-nedy has been the chair of the Board of Trustees since 2009, when he was appointed by Quinn after the clout scandal. Kenne-dy helped guide the Universi-ty through the aftermath of the scandal, when former President B. Joseph White stepped down from his position and many oth-er University leaders resigned. And three years later, Kenne-dy’s leadership added a layer of stability when more controversy led to the resignation of White’s successor, Michael Hogan.

Kennedy’s term is up in 2015, and the next governor will de-cide whether he will be reap-pointed.

The next governor will also have the responsibility of fix-ing the state of Illinois. For years, the state’s funding of the University has dwindled. For years, the state tried to change the pension system for the Uni-versity’s employees (before the Illinois Supreme Court ruled against the reform). And for years, the state has been late on its payments to the University.

If the governor can turn the state around, it may become a reliable partner that faculty members can place some trust in. It may help the University attract and retain faculty mem-bers concerned with future re-tirement and pension benefits.

If the state’s problems con-tinue, the University will con-tinue to have difficulty attract-ing the best faculty members in the country. And that could ulti-mately deter the best students in the country from attending the University.

The Editorial Board isn’t en-dorsing a particular candidate. We do, however, believe it’s im-portant for the public to know and understand the governor’s role in the future of public high-er education so they can make an educated vote.

The future of the University is in your hands — do something with it.

Students need more non-Western classes

Don’t let ‘falling back’ make you SAD

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Today, students may not have to fl oat down Green Street, but instead they are forced to navigate around the construction sites for the opening of new busi-nesses and apartments.

“It’s defi nitely irritating while construction is going on,” said Isabel Ahrendt , senior in LAS. “But there is no doubt that it’s good for campus when the construc-tion is done.”

It was vision that led the Champaign communi-ty to make the decision to launch Streetscape, a three-stage project that began in 2002 with the demolition of Green Street from Wright street to Fourth street .

“Students today ... they don’t realize how bad it was,” Blakeman said. “It was fast ... The sidewalks were crumbling.”

In 2002, work began at the core of campus and construction lasted a total of nine months in the fi rst stage of the project.

”We narrowed the streets from four lanes to three lanes, we widened the side-walks out to ten feet. We tried to create a much more pedestrian-friendly envi-ronment; we added street trees and added new light-ing,” he said.

The final stage of Streetscape will begin in 2016 and will involve the reconstruction of Fourth to Neil streets .

“The new sidewalks from Fourth to Neil will go from four feet to seven feet, there will be street trees and we are narrowing the actu-al street as well,” Blake-man said. “There will be bike lanes, new seating

and a new design.”Since the launch of

Streetscape, Campustown alone has generated $355 million in reinvestment and Blakeman said the city hopes the reconstruction from Fourth to Neil streets will be just as successful.

“I’m very proud of Cam-pustown,” he said. “It has been a remarkable transformation.”

For Krassa, the campus developments from 1984 to its current state have yield-ed positive results for stu-dents and the community.

“It is definitely more visually appealing now,” he said. “Green Street just feels safer because traffi c isn’t going as fast now.”

The construction may be an inconvenience for stu-dents, but the city sees the redevelopment as an asset to the community at large.

In addition to Streetscape, Green Street will see other additions next year includ-ing the opening of Campus Center by JSM, a location that will contain apart-ments, a parking deck, a Marriott hotel and a retail space. The JSM project will be at Lot J and they are expected to open the hotel, retail and parking deck in June 2015 and the apart-ments in August 2015 .

“We’ve always thought a hotel was missing in the Campustown area,” said Jill Guth , director of commer-cial leasing and marketing for JSM . “If you look at oth-er Big Ten campuses, most of them have a signifi cant hotel presence right in their core Campustown area, and that was something that JSM has believed for a long time was missing here.”

Looking forward, Blake-man said he hopes to see more integration between

the Champaign communi-ty and University students.

“When I was a student, students did not go down-town, they do now though. We are seeing more of that blending, and I want it to go the other way too. I want the community to feel more comfortable going to Cam-pustown because it is a remarkable environment. It is the most urban experi-ence that you will fi nd out-side of Chicago in Illinois,” Blakeman said .

As Green Street has changed, it is only natural that it has become a space that students and faculty members predominately occupy. On the contrary, downtown Champaign has been the downtown for community members. But these trends are changing as more students begin ven-turing outside of Campus-town and into downtown Champaign.

“I don’t really spend a lot of time on Green Street any-more; I spend most of my time downtown,” Ahrendt said.

Today, Green Street has evolved to become the heart of campus. While con-struction may interrupt its rhythm for now, Campus-town’s rich history is still reflected in its streets. Although Streetscape’s third phase will end in 2016, the Campustown area will continue growing and changing with every year, according to Blakeman.

“There will be continued projects ... People will take buildings down and put new buildings up. It will never be done. A city is never done.”

Darrah can be reached at [email protected].

BY STACY ST. CLAIRTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO — Nik Wallenda completed his controversial skywalk Sunday, breaking two world records and defy-ing critics who claimed that his stunt was too dangerous to perform without a harness.

Wallenda, 35, walked more than two city blocks across the Chicago River from the Marina City west tower to the Leo Burnett Building. The stunt — which took 6 minutes, 51 seconds and was done at a 19-degree slant — set the world record for steepest incline for tightrope walk-ing between two buildings.

After reaching the Bur-nett Building, he took an ele-vator down to the street and returned to the west tower, where he wore a blindfold as he crossed to the east tow-er. The feat was completed at more than 500 feet, mak-ing it the highest blindfolded walk ever recorded.

“You guys watching think

I’m crazy, but this is what I’m made for,” Wallenda said after his fi rst few steps on the fi rst wire.

Police estimated that more than 50,000 spectators turned out to watch the stunt, which Wallenda undertook without a harness or safety net.

During the fi rst walk, Wal-lenda repeatedly acknowl-edged the cheering crowds below.

“Listen to that roar,” he said. “I love Chicago and Chi-cago defi nitely loves me.”

Wallenda’s average height over the Chicago River was about 630 feet, roughly the same height as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Wallenda walked into the wind as he crossed the river, though he downplayed the wind’s impact.

“It’s not bad, but it (the cable) is defi nitely moving,” he said.

The Discovery Channel had planned to cut away from the broadcast if Wal-

lenda fell, producers said. The program was shown on a 10-second delay.

Wallenda had planned to grab onto the wire and stay there if he lost his balance or slipped. He frequently prac-tices slipping and then clutch-ing the cable at his training grounds in Sarasota, Fla.

The 35-year-old married father of three said he has the strength to hang there for up to 20 minutes while waiting to be rescued. His crew can reach him in about 90 sec-onds anywhere on the cable.

Wallenda changed his game plan somewhat after weather-related delays during the high-wire’s installation.

The cable between Mari-na City and the Leo Burnett Building was at a 19-degree incline to address some unex-pected wire-tension issues that arose over the week-end, Wallenda said. He had planned — and practiced — to walk at a 15-degree incline .

Acrobat completes walk across Chicago skyline

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Conrad. The pictures were accompanied with a piece titled, “For Pasha,” which he composed.

Conrad majored in Clas-sical Languages at Frank-lin and Marshall College with a minor in music. He went on to receive a Mas-ters in Arabic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and later a degree in law at Dickinson School of Law at Penn State University. Con-rad also served in the Air Force for four years as a Chinese linguist.

Despite his many talents, Conrad’s one true passion was always music. His moth-er, Dr. Marion Conrad, took to the podium Monday to recall his early love for the piano.

“When he was about 7 years old, my husband and I bought him a piano,” Mar-

ion Conrad said. “When he saw the delivery truck from the driveway, he ran across our lawn and into the house. He was just so happy. Piano was his life, and it was in his soul. I used to always say I had the best music to clean by than any other moth-er around. He was always entertaining me.”

Throughout the ceremony, a single picture was shown on the stage of Conrad danc-ing in the hills of County Clare, Ireland. The image was taken on a trip with The Chorale. When asked by his colleagues what he was doing, he responded by say-ing that he was reenacting the “Sound of Music.” Dur-ing his time as accompanist for The Chorale from 2004 to 2009, he also traveled to Scotland and Italy, as well as performing at the Vatican.

As well as instructing in the Department of Theater, Conrad was staff accompa-nist and taught piano, piano

accompanying and piano lit-erature at Eastern Illinois University since 2007. He led Department of Theater trips to Shanghai, Beijing, Hohhot and Inner Mongo-lia. Before his sudden pass-ing, Conrad was starting rehearsals for “Oh, What A Lovely War.”

Conrad will be missed by his family, friends and co-workers for his brilliance, friendship and passion for music.

“I think that that’s what he did for all of his students ... he always had a sense of lightness about him as a per-son,” Sudia said. “We just really wanted to celebrate him today. He was always so hopeful — hopeful for young singers to become stronger singers. I think that sing-ing a song fi lled with such hope is the best tribute I can think of to honor him.”

Sarah can be reached at scnolan2dailyillini.com.

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JOSE M. OSORIO TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICENik Wallenda, an American acrobat, walks on a tightrope across the Chicago River between Marina City's west tower and the Leo Burnett Building in Chicago on Sunday.

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BY SARAH NOLANCONTRIBUTING WRITER

On the fi rst day of his 2005 trip to Italy with his local community choir, Dr. Kent Conrad performed on the organ in front of a crowded St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Holly Jordan, a close friend of Conrad’s, will never forget the moment.

“The organ was facing the choir, so we could see his face,” Jordan said. “He had on his usual perfor-mance face, but his eyes were very wide.”

On Monday, family and friends gathered in the afternoon to share similar stories at the Kran-nert Center for the Performing Arts and celebrate the life of Dr. Kent Conrad, an instructor in the Department of Theater. Dr. Con-

rad, 52, died unexpectedly on Sept. 5.

The Eastern Illinois University Faculty Brass Quintet, the Unitar-ian Universalist Church Choir and The Chorale, a local community chorus, performed compositions during the two-hour service. Col-leagues from the Department of Theater and the School of Music performed tributes as well and recalled fond memories of the professor.

Conrad was the organist and accompanist since 2004 and music director since 2008 at the Unitar-ian Universalist Church Choir. Axel Gehrmann, a close colleague at the choir and opening speaker at the memorial, described him as “treasured, admired and loved by many people.”

“He could be equally at ease playing pieces by Bach or belting out show tunes,” Gehrmann said.

Bri Sudia, a University alumna, sang “With So Little To Be Sure Of.” Sudia, who graduated in 2012 with a Master in Fine Arts in act-ing, recalls taking Conrad’s musi-cal theater class.

“I remember I had to record music for an audition and he took time out of his day to play for me,” Sudia said. “He recorded it as many times as I wanted to until I was happy. He was always ready to help, always ready with kind words. An overall wonderful man.”

During the ceremony, a video was shown on stage with pictures friends and colleagues captured of

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streets when campus awak-ened to fi nd Green Street nearly submerged in a watery world of chaos. It would not be the last fl ood to terrorize Green Street in the 1980s; the continu-al fl oods would become a core obstacle in preventing Green Street from evolving.

“Campus had a severe fl ooding problem,” said T.J. Blakeman , a Champaign city planner . “The Bone-yard was an open chan-nel and would over fl ow its bank. It was actually a creek that ran behind all of the buildings on Green Street.”

Green Street was origi-nally a location for soror-ities, fraternities and residential homes for pro-fessors and faculty mem-bers in the early 20th centu-ry. But when an increase of students populated the cam-pus after World War II, the commercialization of Green Street became a reality to both the residents on Green and the University at large.

In the 1950s, the process began and small businesses were added, slowly morph-ing the street into a “down-town” area for students.

But despite the addition of businesses, the city failed to make any real changes to the streets or sidewalks of Green until 2002. Much of this lack of change was rooted in the fl oods that occurred during the 1980s from the Boneyard Creek.

“The water would be knee deep,” said Michael Krassa , political science professor. “The stores at street level would fl ood almost every year.”

Krassa has been on cam-pus since 1984 and has seen the campus go through vari-ous changes.

The fl oods plagued Cam-pustown and prevented future businesses from wanting to — or being able to — establish themselves on campus. However, once the city enforced a seri-ous project to control the fl ooding, the reconstruc-tion of Campustown was inevitable .

Evolution ofGreen Street

PHOTO COURTESY OF T.J. BLAKEMAN2010: Phase I and Phase II of the project resulted in a newly landscaped Green Street from Wright to John streets .

PHOTO COURTESY OF CITY OF CHAMPAIGN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

1996: Although a few chain stores and restaurants lined Green Street, overall development hit a standstill.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CITY OF CHAMPAIGN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

2002: The fi rst phase of construction for Streetscape began and lasted a total of nine months .

PHOTO COURTESY OF CITY OF CHAMPAIGN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT1980s: The waters of Boneyard Creek, which ran behind Green Street businesses, frequently spilled over and fl ooded storefronts located on the ground fl oor.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE URBANA FREE LIBRARY 1940s-1950s: Before World War II, sororities, fraternities and residential homes were located on Green Street. The infl ux of students during the 1950s prompted commercialization.

BY DARRAH PERRYMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Final phase of construction brings new life to Campustown

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Memorial held for theater director

MARIAH MATTHEWS THE DAILY ILLINIStudents, faculty, staff and members of the community joined together in Foellinger Great Hall to celebrate the life of Kent Conrad. Conrad died unexpectedly on Sept. 5.

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The Chicago Cubs for-mally introduced new manager Joe Maddon on Monday. In doing so, team president Theo Epstein sent a message to Cubs fans and the rest of baseball: The Cubs intend to win, and they intend to win now.

Five consecutive losing seasons on the North Side have led to an embarrass-ment of riches in a Cubs minor league system that is poised to break through. Now, it appears that Epstein is ready to accelerate the process further by hiring Maddon.

At the conclusion of the 2014 season, Epstein said the Cubs’ goal in 2015 would be to win the NL Cen-tral. I believe they can do it, and even if they don’t, they’ll be in strong conten-tion for a Wild Card spot.

The Cubs’ record in 2014 was 73-89 , good for last place in the NL Central. Much of the losing occurred during a 13-27 start and a seven-game slide in July following the trade of ace Jeff Samardzija to the A’s. But no sport can be accu-rately broken down to its core quite like baseball. Thanks to advanced ana-lytics, we can take a look at how the Cubs truly per-formed last season.

In an August 2014 article for Foxsports.com, Dave Cameron called attention to a FanGraphs formula called BaseRuns, which analyzes the performance of a given MLB team by removing randomness and

“luck” from the equation. According to the BaseR-uns formula, the Cubs’ expected record in 2014 was 79-83, meaning they essentially played like a .500 team last year despite being 17 games under .500. The Royals, who were two runs away from a World Series title, had a BaseR-uns record of 81-81. The Cubs could very well be 2015’s version of the Roy-als (albeit built on power rather than defense) if they perform better with run-ners on base — the “luck” factor in the equation.

The Cubs roster was in turmoil last season due to trades and injuries, and it didn’t truly take shape until their highly-touted prospects began to see major league action. Jorge Soler only played the fi nal month of the season, but showed Rookie of the Year potential in right fi eld and will be a major factor in 2015. Arismendy Alcan-tara and Javier Baez both showed fl ashes of promise and could be very nice piec-es next year if they’re able to cut down on strikeouts. National Minor League Player of the Year Kris Bryant should be at Wrig-ley Field by May 2015, and fi gures to be an imposing presence in the middle of the Cubs lineup.

Maddon is known for developing young talent with the Rays and will look to build his roster of prospects around All-Stars Starlin Castro and Antho-ny Rizzo . With a solid bull-pen and a nearly complete positional lineup already in place, the Cubs must add starting pitching in free

SPORTS1BTUESDAY

Football has work to do

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. MICHIGAN STATE (LAST WEEK: 1)The Spartans boast the best offense in the Big Ten with 515.3 yards per game heading into a huge matchup with Ohio State on Saturday night.

2. OHIO STATE (2)The Buckeyes are coming off a dominating 55-14 win over Illinois in which the Illini had four turnovers.

3. WISCONSIN (4)The Badgers shut out Rutgers 37-0 with the help of running back Melvin Gordon’s 128 yards and two touchdowns.

4. NEBRASKA (3)Heisman hopeful running back Ameer Abdullah went down with an injury early in the Cornhuskers’ 35-14 win over Purdue, causing concern in Nebraska.

5. IOWA (5)The Hawkeyes made quick work of Northwestern, putting up 38 points in the fi rst half while holding the Wildcats to just 75 passing yards in a 48-7 win.

6. MARYLAND (9)Four turnovers helped the Terrapins pull out a close 20-19 win over Penn State, gaining just 33 yards on the ground.

10. MICHIGAN (10)Wolverines quarterback Devin Gardner led Michigan past Indiana with two touchdowns on 220 passing yards.

8. PENN STATE (7)The Nittany Lions fell apart late in Saturday’s 20-19 loss to Maryland, allowing 13 fourth quarter points.

7. NORTHWESTERN (6)The Wildcats were just 9-for-24 passing the ball with only 75 yards through the air, losing to Iowa 48-7.

13. ILLINOIS (12)The Illini had four turnovers in their 55-14 loss at Ohio State on Saturday.

11. PURDUE (11)Boilermaker quarterback Austin Appleby’s 216 passing yards weren’t enough for Purdue, losing to Nebraska 35-14.

9. MINNESOTA (8)The Golden Gophers have forced 19 turnovers in their fi rst eight games, one of the best in the conference.

12. INDIANA (13)Running back Tevin Coleman had another 100-plus yard rushing game, but it wasn’t enough as the Hoosiers fell to Michigan 34-10.

14. RUTGERS (14)The Scarlet Knights were unable to get anything going in Saturday’s shut out loss to Wisconsin, gaining just 63 passing yards and 76 yards on the ground.

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER Conference play makes up two-thirds of Illinois’ schedule each year.

For the last few seasons, the Illini have struggled during that portion of the schedule.

Illinois’ 55-14 loss to Ohio State was a familiar outcome for the Illini, who have lost 25 of their last 27 Big Ten games.

Defensive coordinator Tim Banks said it was hard to fi nd any positives from Saturday’s loss after he felt the Illi-ni defense was prepared for Ohio State.

“They didn’t really surprise us with anything they were doing,” Banks said. “We just, for whatever reason, weren’t able to execute and weren’t able to make the plays that we needed to make to play against a team of this caliber.”

Dating back to 2011, Illinois has just two conference wins — a 20-16 victory over Purdue in 2013 and a 28-24 win over Minnesota this year on Oct. 25.

Opponents have scored more than double the Illini’s points during that stretch (941-466) , while no Big Ten team has been worse than the Illini in confer-ence play since 2011.

In the two Illinois conference vic-tories since then, the team has had to come from behind and win the game

in the fi nal quarter.The team has lost all four road games

this season (Washington, Nebraska, Wis-consin and Ohio State), in places where the average stadium capacity is 85,601. Memorial Stadium in Champaign holds just 60,670 and the Illini have struggled to fi ll two-thirds of the seats.

Illinois coach Tim Beckman com-pared Ohio State’s crowd to Nebraska and Wisconsin, saying, “It’s defi nitely an environment for college football.”

But the Illini have struggled in those college football environments this sea-son, getting outscored 182-75.

“We haven’t played very good in environments like this,” Beckman said. “We have to learn to react to any environment.”

Turning over the gameIllinois’ turnover margin is the sec-

ond-worst in the Big Ten, and the team’s offensive mistakes were costly Satur-day; they committed four turnovers against the Buckeyes.

“We can’t put the defense in that spot out there,” offensive coordinator Bill Cubit said. “We’ve got some work to do.”

Cubs fans thought they were shown a light at the end of the tunnel this past week when the franchise hired former Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon.

Even before the hire, I was hearing Cubs fans say that if the team hired Maddon, they’d be playoff bound next year.

Sorry Cubs fans, but your light at the end of the tunnel is more than a year away.

Maddon became the Rays’ manager in 2005. The 2005 Rays were very similar to the 2014 Cubs: full of young prospects but missing a few pieces. The only thing the Cubs have that the Rays didn’t is a lot of money to spend in the offseason.

In 2011, the Cubs hired former Red Sox GM Theo Epstein, and so far he has done a good job bringing in young prospects, and the franchise is set up to be better than it has been in recent memory, as long as they can bring in one or two big names during free agency. Improving the team’s rotation is particularly important. The Cubs lack a true ace, but hope to bring one in. James Shields is a strong candidate, due to his history with Joe Maddon in Tampa Bay, but as it always is, free agency is a gamble.

The problem here, though, is not whether the Cubs will be good, but whether they’ll be good enough to make the postseason. The Cubs play in what is probably the deepest division in baseball, the NL Central. Every year there

are at least three teams vying for the division title.

This past year it was Pirates, Brewers and Cardinals, with the Cardinals taking the title. In 2013, it was the Pirates, the Reds and the Cardinals, with the Cardinals taking the title. In 2012, the Reds ran away with it, but the Cardinals squeaked into the second wild card spot with the Brewers a few games behind.

The Brewers and Pirates aren’t going to disappear next season, and the Cardinals have been one of the top teams in baseball for more than a decade. The Cardinals are coming off an NLCS birth and return a healthy Michael Wacha and Yadier Molina, and a well-rested Adam Wainwright. With John Lackey currently signing for a veteran minimum, the Cardinals freed up some cap space to make some moves in free agency.

As a Cardinals fan, I hope the Cubs improve, so what should be one of the best rivalries in baseball isn’t a joke, like it has been in the last few years.

The Cubs are going into next season full of young players who don’t know what a tight division race feels like with a new manager. It’s going to take some adjusting. Maddon didn’t take the Rays to the playoffs until 2008. Not even one of the best managers in baseball can completely fl ip around a franchise in one offseason.

Lastly, the Cubs are the Cubs; a team that has not won the World Series since 1908 and hasn’t even appeared in it since 1945.

The universe toys with

BRIAN CASSELLA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe Chicago Cubs named Joe Maddon its 54th manager in franchise history on Monday.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Taylor Barton (3) tackles Ohio State’s Ezekiel Elliott (15) during the game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. The Illini lost 55-14, which was the team’s fourth road-game loss.

COLE HENKE

Sports columnist

ALEX ROUX

Sports columnist

Up against long odds With just three games left to play and a record of 4-5, the Illini face long odds as they try to reach their fi rst bowl game of the Tim Beckman era. According to ESPN’s College Football Power Index, Beckman’s squad will be 70.7 percent, 68.9 percent and 69.2 percent underdogs when they square off against the Hawkeyes, Nittany Lions and Wildcats, respectively. There are eight different ways the fi nal three games could play out. Using ESPN’s probabilities for each of the Illini’s three remaining games, the Illini have just a 22.1 percent chance of reaching six wins, the minimum required for bowl game eligibility. Additionally, the Illini have just a 2.7 percent chance of winning out and a 33.7 percent chance of losing all three of their remaining games. JASON PELLETTIERE

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Cubs are primed for future success

Maddon hire gives fans false hope

POINT-COUNTERPOINTCAN JOE MADDON LEAD THE CUBS TO THE PLAYOFFS IN 2015?

Maddon is unique in that he can improve the Cubs before he ever manages a game.

Not even one of the best managers

in baseball can completely fl ip

around a franchise in one offseason.

Illini look to regroup in bye week

SEE HENKE | 2B

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agency in order to make a postseason run next year.

Maddon is unique in that he can improve the Cubs before he ever manages a game. In firing incum-bent manager Rick Rente-ria and hiring Maddon, the Cubs immediately become a more attractive option for free agent pitching targets like Max Scherzer and Jon Lester. I believe they’ll land at least one major free agent pitcher to add to their rotation. With Jake Arrieta and Kyle Hendricks already

in the mix, they would have a staff that should compete in the ultra-competitive NL Central.

The secret’s out in base-ball. The Cubs are coming, and they’re on track for a Cardinal-esque run in the next decade.

In my eyes, the Cubs were poised for a Wild Card run with Renteria at the helm. Maddon makes their postseason prospects in 2015 even brighter.

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.

Soccer makes final pushBY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITERThe regular season is over, and with the Big Ten tournament kicking off Wednesday, Illinois soccer has shifted into postseason mode.

Illinois (10-7-2, 5-6-2 Big Ten) lost in the first round of last season’s Big Ten tour-nament, but clinched an NCAA tournament berth. That might not be a luxury this year’s team will have.

After their scoreless draw with Wisconsin on Friday, the Illini are 66th in the NCAA Women’s Soc-cer RPI rankings. With 64 spots open in the tourna-ment, and 30 of those spots automatically going to con-ference champions, Illinois appears to be on the outside looking in.

Head coach Janet Ray-field is aware the Illini are on the bubble, but hasn’t used that as motivation heading into the Big Ten tournament.

“We haven’t really talked about that because up until a week ago, our goal was getting in the Big Ten tour-nament,” Rayfield said. “I think we’re trying to take this one game at a time and certainly know that we’ve got to win some games to get in.”

Winning at least two games in the tournament could mean a rise to the high 50s in the RPI rank-ings, which is what may be the minimum ranking the Illinois could afford. The Illini’s surest bet to clinch a spot in the NCAA tourna-ment would be to win the

Big Ten championship.The Illini know the impli-

cations of each game they play from here on out.

“We all know that if we lose, we could possibly be done with the season, so we know that we have to put everything out there and try as hard as we can to win,” sophomore defender Hope D’Addario said.

Wheatley earns Big Ten honors

Following an impres-sive 10-save performance against No. 11 Wisconsin on Friday, Illinois goalkeeper Claire Wheatley was named the Big Ten Defensive Play-er of the Week.

Wheatley said she was

excited to earn the first conference honor of her career, but credits her team in achieving Illinois’ eighth shutout of the season.

“It’s not all me,” Wheatley said. “My defense is doing an amazing job this year, and I cannot thank them enough for that. A lot of the shutouts you can credit to them.”

Wheatley battled gusting winds and low temperatures through two overtime peri-ods and still recorded a sea-son-high 10 saves against the second-highest scor-ing offense in the Big Ten. Wheatley has 62 saves on the season and is fourth in the Big Ten with a 0.83 goals against average.

Injury updateJust as it has been all

season, Illinois is banged up heading into the Big Ten tournament and may be missing three players Wednesday.

Freshman defender Abby Elinsky took a spike to the ankle and wasn’t able to fin-ish Friday’s match. Fresh-man defender Sarah War-ren also suffered an ankle injury on Friday, and even though she finished the match, her status is questionable.

With sophomore mid-fielder Casey Conine con-firmed to miss her fourth straight game, junior defender Aliina Weykamp may move up to the midfield, which leaves holes in the

defensive backline.The Illini have been rotat-

ing positions all season, though, so their versatility is no longer a question.

“I don’t think there’s anyone that’s incapable of anything,” D’Addario said. “I think it says a lot about our team chemistry just because we can shuffle in and out and not really have a problem with it.”

Freshman Katherine Ratz subbed into the back-line on Friday and is expect-ed to do the same if Elinsky and Warren are unable to play against Wisconsin.

Joey can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3.

Cubs fans by allowing them all significant false hope before ruthlessly ripping it from the franchise’s grasp at the last moment.

Cubs’ fans have a reason to think there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but it will take at least three years for them to reach it. Just don’t be surprised if that tunnel collapses halfway through.

Cole is a freshman in DGS. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @cole_Henke.

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Women’s tennis ends fall season

BY COLE HENKESTAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s ten-nis team had to look outside of the win/loss column to see signs of improvement as it concluded its fall season.

The team split up this weekend; four players traveled to the USTA Clay Court Invitational in Orlan-do, Florida, while the other four went to Purdue Uni-versity for the Schwartz Challenge.

Seniors Melissa Kopins-ki and Julia Jamieson, and sophomores Louise Kwong and Alexis Casati, made the trip to Orlando for the Illini. While Kwong was the only one able to get out of the first round with a win, Casati posted a 2-1 record, the best Illini performance of the weekend.

After waking up on the first day of the tournament feeling under the weather, Casati came out and gave Tristen Duwar, the five seed from Clemson, all she could handle as Casati fell in a tight three-setter.

Casati was pleased with her match and was happy to get a shot at a ranked player.

“I just tried to do my best, because it’s hard to come across ranked play-ers, and whenever you do, you have to try to take advantage of it,” Casati said.

Casati went on to win her final two matches in the consolation draw. Jamieson also added in a win against Korac from Stetson Univer-sity on the last day.

Kopinski had a rough weekend, as she was

unable to pick up a win in her three matches. While head coach Michelle Das-so thought Kopinski could have played much better, Dasso was pleased with bits and pieces of Kopin-ski’s game.

“In the first set of her last match, Kopinski played the smartest tennis she has played all fall,” Dasso said. “She was very patient and waited for her shots. It was great to see.”

Sophomores Madie Bail-on and Jerricka Boone, along with freshmen Grace Tapak and Jade Hilton, traveled to Purdue Uni-versity. The results were similar to those in Orlando.

Transfer Bailon fin-ished the Schwartz Chal-lenge with a 2-1 individu-al record, the best posted by the Illini at the event. Boone and Tapak both went 1-2 on the weekend, while Hilton was unabale to win a match, finishing 0-2.

Balion has impressed Dasso all fall with how well she has adjusted.

“She has improved a lot over the fall. Being a Cham-paign native and a transfer from Illinois State, I feel as if her confidence has grown a lot,” Dasso said.

Despite the losses, Das-so sees the team’s level of competition as a good sign heading into the winter break and especially the spring season and Big Ten play.

Casati’s match against Duwar was especially promising for Dasso.

“(Casati’s) first match just proved to me that she compete with anybody in the country.”

Cole can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @cole_Henke.

Donnelly earns honorsBY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

Julia Conard just likes playing on the road.

For the junior defensive specialist, the draw of the road comes from playing in a gym full of opposing fans and enjoying a good nights sleep in a queen-sized hotel bed the night before.

After this weekend, both Conard and the No. 9 Illinois volleyball team as a whole have a new reason to like the road.

“We have a decent team that can compete with any-body,” head coach Kevin Hambly said. “We’ve figured out ways to win over our last seven matches.”

The Illini (18-5, 10-2 Big Ten) swept the Michigan weekend, beating Michigan State in four sets on Friday and coming back from a 2-0 deficit to knock off Michigan in five on Saturday. The two wins put the Illini at 7-2 over-all away from home, includ-ing significant road wins over Nebraska and Penn State.

Illinois’ weekend wins marked the first time the team has beaten both Mich-igan and Michigan State away from home in Ham-bly’s tenure with the team. The last time Illinois was

able to accomplish this feat was 2003.

The wins are the latest in a streak of impressive road victories for the Illini this season. Prior to the Michigan weekend the Illini knocked off then-No.13 Nebraska for the first time since 1992 and Penn State in Universi-ty Park, Pennsylvania, for what was only Penn State’s third home loss since the 2011-2012 season.

While Illinois always seems to play well at Huff Hall, accumulating an 8-1 record at home, the team’s play against Michigan shows that they are just as capa-ble of winning on the road as well.

Even to Hambly, who usually comes across as understated, the wins were impressive.

“This is a big deal,” Ham-bly said.

Illini continue to improve

The Illini still have a lot to learn and if you ask Hambly, that’s a good thing.

While Illinois beat both Michigan and Michigan State on the road in the same weekend for the first time in 11 years, Hambly said the Illini could still improve

across the board.“The thing I liked is that

we’re winning and we’re still this team that’s unfin-ished,” Hambly said. “I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

“There’s a lot more growth in this team.”

Although he pointed out areas where the team could make improvements, Ham-bly also praised Illinois for its will to win over the week-end. The Illini are in the midst of a seven-match win streak.

“ We ’ r e w i n n i n g matches,” H a m b l y said “This team is le a r n i n g how to win and is find-ing ways to win, but we still have a long ways to go as a team.”

Libero honored for play For the third time this sea-son Brandi Donnelly was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week.

The freshman libero fin-

ished the weekend with 44 digs and nine assists in two matches against Michigan State and Michigan over the weekend.

Donnelly averaged 4.89 digs per set over the two matches.

Hambly said Donnel-ly’s on-court growth can be attributed to the extra time she put in last spring with former libero Jennifer Beltran.

“She had to learn how to get in the right spots and what to see,” H a m b l y said. She’s still learn-ing a lot. She’s far from per-fect, but I think she’s way ahead

of where she would have been if she just came in as a freshman.”

For Donnelly, it looks like her work with Beltran is pay-ing off.

Nicholas can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @IlliniSportsGuy.

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Brandi Donnelly digs the ball during the game against Purdue at George Huff Hall on Oct. 25. Donnelly was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for the third time this season.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois goalkeeper Claire Wheatley saves the ball during the game against Michigan State at Illinois Track and Soccer Stadium on Oct. 24. Wheatley was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week.

“The thing I liked is that we’re winning

and we’re still this team that’s

unfinished.”KEVIN HAMBLY

HEAD COACH

The turnovers allowed Ohio State premium field posi-tion, starting seven drives in Illinois territory.

“There’s a lot of things that went wrong,” Cubit said. “There were a lot of things going on in that game and unfortunately not a whole lot was really in our favor.”

Allowing big playsIt’s been no secret Illi-

nois’ struggles have stemmed from the defense this season.

Four Ohio State touch-downs came on plays that were for 20-plus yards, as well as another 19-yard pass for a score.

Illinois’ defense has allowed a conference-worst average of 483.1 yards per game.

Every week, Banks said the defense focuses on the fundamentals of tackling — one of the main issues for the Illini this year.

And without consistent tackling, the Illini have allowed simple plays to turn into big ones, putting the Illi-ni in early holes they cannot dig themselves out of.

Sean can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @neumannthehuman.

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mer vacation times three.That’s the life Mel Kiper Jr. and

Todd McShay live. The premier NFL Draft analysts in the known world jump on television right after the college football season ends in January and head back into the shadows at the end of the draft in April.

All told, these guys are relevant for about three months every year, but that’s not quite the case for the draftees who become players. See, Kiper and McShay talk about all these prospects as if they cease to exist after they are drafted, tend-ing to forget that the players have to play once fall rolls around. Now, at the midpoint of the NFL sea-son, I’m putting on my Mel Kiper hat and grading the top-five picks from this spring’s NFL draft as well as two bonus picks.

Grades are given on an A to F scale.

No. 1 pick: Jadeveon Clowney, Texans DE/LB

Clowney has played two games and recorded two tackles. He was criticized this week for surfing Instagram while sidelined by a sickness. His talent is undeniable, but so far, the No. 1 overall pick has made little-to-no impact.

Grade: D

No. 2 pick: Greg Robinson, Rams OL

Robinson has shuffled around on the Rams line, starting three games at guard but currently pre-

paring to start Sunday’s game at left tackle. Linemen are always tough to grade because their on-field performance is difficult to quantify. That said, since Robinson was put into the starting lineup, the Rams have two division victo-ries: one against the Seahawks and one against the 49ers. They only gave up one sack across the two games.

Grade: B

No. 3 pick: Blake Bortles, Jaguars QB

The perennial basement-dwell-ing Jaguars have struggled, but Bortles has proven that he isn’t totally outmatched by NFL play. He has completed 63 percent of his passes, just shy of Tom Brady and better than Russell Wilson and Matt Stafford. What’s Bortles’ downside? Brady, Wilson and Staf-ford have thrown 13 interceptions combined, which is the amount Bortles has thrown. He’s the NFL leader in that category. Bortles might have been rushed into the starting spot, but he’s got the phys-ical tools to succeed eventually.

Grade: C-

No. 4 pick: Sammy Watkins, Buffalo WR

Watkins has been the best of the top-five picks thus far. He’s recov-ered from a broken rib and is one of the reasons the Bills’ offense is clicking. He has the 15th most receiving yards in the league and is racking up more than 15 yards per catch. He’s my pick for Offen-sive Rookie of the Year.

Grade: A

No. 5 Khalil Mack, Raiders LBThe Raiders are awful. But

Mack hasn’t been so bad. The rookie has 50 total tackles at the season’s halfway point and although the Raiders haven’t won

a game, they have to be happy with the consistent production of Mack. He’ll be a force as he gets experience.

Grade: B+

Bonus pick No. 1: Johnny Manziel, Browns QB

Manziel hasn’t seen much of the field, except on a weird trick-play pass that was negated by a penalty. The Browns are 5-3, so it seems like waiting on Manziel might have

been the right choice, especially if he can take advantage of this sea-son to develop his knowledge of the playbook and the pace of the NFL. There’s not enough of a sam-ple size to grade Manziel.

Grade: N/A

Bonus pick No. 2: Zack Martin, Cowboys OL

Martin has been the biggest difference-maker in this year’s draft, starting right away on a line

that has put DeMarco Murray on a record-breaking rushing pace. He was drafted 16th overall and certainly has proven that the Cow-boys were right to pass on home-town kid Manziel. He’s my highest-rated rookie, with Watkins a close second.

Grade: A+

Peter is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @pbaileywells22.

GERRY MELENDEZ TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICESouth Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney (7) tips a pass attempt by Wisconsin quarterback Curt Phillips (10) on Jan. 1. Assistant sports editor Peter Bailey-Wells gives Clowney a D-grade.

PETER BAILEY-WELLS

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