Ebola 101 panel dispels myths

MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINIUniversity alumnus Mabinty Tarawillie speaks during the Ebola 101 Teach-In on Monday.

BY CAMILLE MURRAYSTAFF WRITER

Several University depart-ments held an Ebola 101 Pan-el Discussion on Monday to dispel misconceptions about the recent viral outbreak and to help inform the pub-lic about the University’s involvement with the affect-ed areas.

The event was held at the Siebel Center and organized by the University’s Center for Global Studies, Center for African Studies, Global Health Initiative and the Uni-versity YMCA in response to the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa, particularly in the countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

“We have a relationship with a university in Sierra Leone, and we had students and faculty who were in Sier-ra Leone over the summer and developed some relation-ships there,” said Jeremie Smith, outreach coordina-tor for International Pro-grams and Studies. “When the Ebola outbreak began, there was an initial feeling that we should learn more about what’s going on so we can help.”

The event was free and open to the public.

“I think one of our objec-tives is just to provide an opportunity for accurate information,” said Gregory Damhorst, head of the Uni-versity’s Global Health Ini-

tiative. “What the general public is hearing about Ebola is often either misguided or somehow politically exploit-ed. A lot of the fear, I think, has come from that.”

He added that the gener-al public has heard all about the few people in the United States who have contracted the virus, but not as much about the thousands of people in West Africa who have been affected, both directly and indirectly by economic con-ditions and school closings.

The discussion panel for Monday’s session of the event consisted of several Univer-sity faculty members, includ-ing Gay Miller, professor of pathobiology; Brenda Wil-son, professor of microbiol-ogy; and Robert Palinkas, director of McKinley Health Center.

Mabinty Tarawallie, a Uni-versity alumna from Sierra Leone, also spoke at the dis-cussion. Tarawallie spoke about how the outbreak has negatively affected her home country in terms of educa-tion, travel and personal interactions.

Because schools have been shut down, the government is using radio and television as a means of education, though not everyone has access to such technology, Tarawal-lie said.

“Ebola is threatening to reverse years of education-al progress in West Africa,

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BY FARAZ MIRZA STAFF WRITER

Supporters of James Kilgore rallied on Monday to urge the Board of Trust-ees to reconsider the former African Studies professor’s employment status at its upcoming meeting.

Although the Board of Trustees will meet in Chica-go on Thursday, there is no item on the agenda pertain-ing to Kilgore’s employment.

William Sullivan, pro-fessor of architecture landscape and member of The Friends of Kilgore, addressed a small crowd outside the Henry Admin-istration Building.

“This has been a long story, hasn’t it?” Sullivan asked. “Let me put this in plain English: the commit-tee found that no errors were made, no corners were cut, no policies were violat-ed in hiring Dr. Kilgore over these past four years.”

The Friends of James Kilgore was formed by ten-ured faculty members, fol-lowing Kilgore’s unemploy-ment, and advocates for his rehire. The group protests that the decision to recon-sider his contract was made in response to political pres-sure and not based on his performance or academic contributions.

“We appreciate the many thousands of people, on our campus and beyond, who have signed petitions, writ-ten email messages to the Board of Trustees, taken action and seeked to rein-state James Kilgore to the University,” Sullivan said.

Kilgore, former non-ten-ured lecturer and African Studies researcher, was told in April by Provost Ilesanmi Adesida that he would be no longer be employed by the University after his contract expired on Aug. 15. Though he was not given an explicit reason, this occurred after media attention was drawn to Kilgore’s past criminal record as a member of the radical Symbionese Lib-eration Army, known for the kidnapping of Hearst Media Company heiress Pat-ty Hearst. He was involved in a 1975 bank robbery, in which one woman was killed, though he was not the gunman.

Kilgore went into hid-ing following these crimes, until he was caught in Cape Town in 2002 and served six years in prison in the Unit-ed States.

Following the conclusion of his sentence, Kilgore joined his wife Teresa Barnes, teaching at the Uni-versity until his dismissal inMay.

In response to strong backlash from students and faculty, Adesida appointed a committee on May 13, chaired by Professor Mat-thew Wheeler of the Depart-ment of Animal Sciences, to investigate the hiring pro-cesses used to hire Kilgore.

“The provost asked the committee to look closely at the policies for evaluat-ing criminal background of future employment,” Sulli-van said.

According to the com-mittee’s recommendation

released on Aug. 26, it did not support a permanent exclusion of employment for Kilgore.

“The committee submits that barring Mr. Kilgore from employment while those policies and proce-dures are created would single him out unfairly and unnecessarily, given his creditable employment record with the University,” the recommendation stated.

Sullivan read a brief selection from the commit-tee’s report during the con-ference, which stated:

“Specifically, we would endorse the professional judgments of units wishing to hire Mr. Kilgore during the Fall 2014 semester pur-suant to the hiring practices currently in place.”

Merle Bowen, director of the Center for African Stud-ies, also voiced her support for Kilgore, stating that he is a tremendous asset to the University.

“At the Center for African Studies, he wrote numerous successful grant proposals and played a leading role in developing our U.S. Depart-ment of Education Title 6 application, that was fund-ed in the amount of $2.2 mil-lion,” Bowen said. “In addi-tion, he played a key role in conceptualizing and devel-oping our outreach and edu-cational programs.”

Dede Fairchild Ruggles, professor of landscape architecture, said the com-mittee has also recommend-ed that the University devel-op a criminal background check policy that requires

all new hires to be subjected to a criminal history review — a recommendation she considers problematic.

“They are not a body of expertise in this issue ... the implication is that virtual-ly everybody with a crimi-nal record poses a potential threat to the University,” Ruggles said. “I want to remind us that we are talk-ing about people who have already been put through a process of law, been judged, served their time. Who are we (to) retry them?”

On behalf of The Friends of Kilgore, Sullivan called on the Board of Trustees to do four things: to fol-low the recommendations of the committee and rein-state Kilgore, to issue a pub-lic statement commending the committee for its review of the case, to refrain from further interference in the hiring decisions made by executive officers and to recognize the authority of campus administration to carry out their designated duties and responsibilities.

Barnes concluded the con-ference by thanking her husband’s supporters and everyone in attendance. She went on to say that academic freedom and transparency is necessary to maintaining academic institutions.

“We call on the Board of Trustees to absolve the matter of reinstating James Kilgore positively this week,” Barnes said.

Faraz can be reached at famirza2@dailyillini.com.

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTThe Board of Trustees will meet for a daylong special meeting on Tuesday held in executive session at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare hotel to review candidates for the president of the University, as confirmed by Trustee Karen Hasara.

Hasara said she does not know how many candidates the presidential search com-mittee has placed on the list for the board to review, and it will be the first time the board looks at the names. Hasara said she believes the meeting Tuesday was put in place in preparation for Thursday’s Board of Trust-ees meeting, to give the board the possibility of vot-ing on a candidate.

“It would be wonderful if we could come out with the person we think is the best candidate, but if we can’t do that (Tuesday), we certainly don’t want to rush into any-thing,” she said.

Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting will be

held in Chicago. It was orig-inally scheduled to be held in Springfield.

The 19-person presiden-tial search committee was formed in April. Since this summer, the committee has narrowed a list that original-ly started at 200 nominees.

Previously, Douglas Beck, co-chair of the committee, said he predicted the com-mittee would be able to for-ward a list of names to the board by Thanksgiving, but the schedule is still sub-ject to the flexibility of the candidates.

“I think it means hopeful-ly we are right on schedule of where we want to be,” she said. “I’d say we all pretty much agree we want some-one who can lead the Univer-sity into the future and has strong academic and lead-ership abilities — someone (who) gets along well with people and the media.”

Beck and Pam Strobel, co-chairs of the Presiden-tial Search Committee could not be reached by press time.

BY JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITER

Governor-elect Bruce Rauner tapped University Chancellor Phyllis Wise and Trustee Ed McMillan to be part of his transition commit-tee on Thursday.

“I am excited and honored that the University of Illinois will be among the voices rep-resenting higher education

and helping the new governor to ensure our state remains a national and global lead-er,” Wise said in an emailed statement. “I look forward to joining the other members of this transition effort and to the work we will do.”

The transition committee is comprised of business, faith, community and politi-cal leaders who will help the new governor acclimate to his new office by identifying problems that Illinois is fac-ing and working to devise solutions to these problems.

McMillan also expressed enthusiasm for his appoint-ment, and said that he plans to be an advocate of the Uni-

versity of Illinois. He said he also hopes to see increased state funding for higher education.

“It’s a real honor to be asked to be a part of a tran-sition team for any elected official, but I’m particularly honored to be on governor-elect Rauner’s team,” McMil-lan said.

He added that he will push for new programs to improve Illinois’ agriculture industry.

Rauner said he prioritiz-es an increase in education funding using tax revenue, but does not support raising taxes to do so.

Josh can be reached at jjwinte2@dailyillini.com.

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ed in the 500 block of East Stoughton Street around 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, an individual reported that she heard someone in her roommate’s room who was not her roommate. She called the police after the intruder left and a tablet was reported as stolen.

University A 20-year-old male was

arrested on the charges of retail theft, disorderly con-duct and underage alcohol consumption at Ikenberry Commons, 301 W. Gregory Dr., around 11:30 p.m Fri-day.

According to the report, the man attempted to steal food and yelled at a food service worker for inter-vening.

Theft was reported at the Foreign Language Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., around 5 p.m. Friday.

According to the report, an unattended lock box full of cash from a fundraiser held by the Graduate Stu-dents of French organiza-tion was stolen from out-side an offi ce.

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BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER

The Senate Executive Committee met Monday to discuss future collabora-tion with the National Tai-wan University and the pro-posed College of Medicine, while setting the agenda for the academic senate’s Nov. 17 meeting.

Provost Ilesanmi Adesi-da informed the committee about his recent trip to the National Taiwan University, where he attended a work-shop and talked with Univer-sity leaders about future col-laboration between the two universities. Adesida said any engagement depends on fac-ulty, and he believes the Uni-versity will hold a workshop here next year in an effort to build a solid relationship.

He said the University needs to focus on worldwide collaboration with key peer institutions.

“Which institutions, stra-tegically, can we actually collaborate with?” Adesida asked rhetorically in an effort to get the senate thinking about future collaborations.

The committee then dis-cussed the University’s pro-posal for a College of Med-icine, which will not be decided upon until March, after a new University pres-ident is announced.

“I think it gives everybody time to put everything togeth-er and think about where it is that the whole direction of the University is going, and that’s why I think the presi-dent looking at this will actu-ally be beneficial,” said Roy Campbell, SEC chair. “We can pace ourselves and get this stuff in the right time frame and absolutely nailed right.”

The University’s Chicago campus already holds a medi-cal program and proposed to use its current facilities for

an= engineering-based Col-lege of Medicine. The com-mittee reviewed whether the Urbana and UIC’s proposals are competitive. It was clari-fied that UIC does not believe the University should have a College of Medicine, but will help when necessary to make it possible. UIC has also proposed creating col-leges similar to the Institute of Genomic Biology and the Beckman Institute on Chica-go’s campus.

However, UIC’s propos-al will have to pass through both campus’ senates.

“From a process point of view, that has no standing. In terms of discussing a propos-al, approving a proposal for the statutes,” Joyce Tolliver, SEC member, said.

The committee discussed two items to appear on the academic senate agenda on Nov. 17. A new procedur-al document, Communica-tion 26, will be introduced, regarding how specialized faculty members in non-tenure positions can be promoted.

University units without a teaching researcher on the tenure track will need to create promotional criteria. However, it is essentially the same process that has been on campus. Communication Nine, the existing procedur-al document for promotions, will not be amended imme-diately so departments can make the necessary transi-tion and avoid delaying pro-motions that are already underway.

Communication 27 will also be introduced, regard-ing shared governance for academic units. This com-munication is in its first draft and explains the best prac-tices for shared governance between all faculty units, including sharing all com-munications with faculty.

Additionally, John Hart, information technology chair, proposed a transpar-ent email system that would allow senate members to con-tinue discussion in between meetings. He said the system would automatically send all emails sent through the sen-ate list-serv to a public, online forum.

Some senators were weary of the idea, raising questions about members entering meetings with pre-formed decisions, because of dis-cussions taking place online. Supporters argued that no business could be transacted online. No motions passed, so everything would still be dis-cussed during senate meet-ings and people will still be able to attend meetings and voice their opinions.

Gay Miller, education-al policy committee chair, advised her peers to ask themselves, “Does it real-ly save time or make better decisions?”

The new online forum is being reviewed by the Uni-versity’s legal counsel. If a formal proposal is written and approved, senate mem-bers suggested running a pilot program, testing the system with the Senate Exec-utive Committee first before making the service available to all senate members.

Abbas Aminmansour, SEC member, informed the com-mittee that a campus elec-tronic communications pol-icy was developed with the IT Security and Privacy com-mittee and is ready to be pre-sented to the Provost. It is a collection of relevant infor-mation from existing docu-ments, that will provide one central place for users to learn about University com-munications policies.

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particularly Sierra Leone,” she said.

During the presentation, the panel covered a variety of factors of the Ebola out-break, including disease transmission, microbiologi-cal perspective of the virus, symptoms, public perception

and social impact of the dis-ease in affected areas. They also addressed several com-monly asked questions that have come up since the begin-ning of the outbreak, such as why a vaccine has yet to be developed for the Ebola virus.

“It has a lot to do with the fact that there haven’t been that many outbreaks before,” Wilson said. “We’re seeing a huge outbreak now, but prior

ones were relatively limited.”Toward the end of the

event, audience members were able to direct any ques-tions they had to the panelists.

Another session of the Ebola 101 discussion is scheduled for Nov. 17 and will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Urbana Free Library.

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BY EDWIN HSIEHSTAFF WRITER

The University ranks sev-enth in highest-paid educa-tion graduates, according to a recent ranking compiled by College Factual.

The national average for a starting salary in the educa-tion field is $33,800 and the average mid-career salary is $51,400. The average start-ing salary for a University graduate pursuing a career in education is $39,000 and the average mid-career sal-ary is $72,000, according to the ranking, which used data from PayScale, a company that com-piles infor-mation on salaries, b e nef i t s and com-pensation.

S a r a h Lubiens-ki, profes-sor in the College of Education, explained why she bel ieves graduates from the University have a higher pay than the nation average.

“Our program positions graduates to quickly become leaders in their schools and districts, and this can lead to increased pay,” Lubiens-ki said.

Illinois is the fourth larg-est number of employees in education, training and library occupations, total-ling roughly 410,000 employ-ees in 2013, according to

Bureau of Labor Statistics, However, enrollment into

the College of Education has been decreasing. In 2009, there were 1,449 stu-dents and in 2014, there are 1,132 students in the College, according to the Division of Management Information.

Sarah McCarthey, direc-tor of teacher education and a professor in the Col-lege of Education, said the decrease in education stu-dents is a major concern not only for the College, but for the nation.

“It is a concern certain-ly across the states. Part

of it is the media rep-resentation of teachers. There are also strict a c c o u n t -a b i l i t y structures, and there are just i n c r e a s -ing chal-lenges in becoming teachers,” McCarthey

said.The College recently

launched its new, under-graduate program “I-Teach, I-Lead” for the 2015-2016 school year, which includes redesigned teacher licensure programs.

“We have these licensure programs that are being refined to implement the best practices we know from research and to continual-ly improve our program,” McCarthey said.

McCarthey added that every student in the College must take at least two meth-od classes in literacy studies, science or math, which gives the students an opportunity to explore different fields.

“We also have a real-ly strong field experience component where we start our students in actual class-rooms early on in their pro-gram, and those are super-vised by the graduate students and former teach-ers who give them feed-back of their performance,” McCarthy said.

Eurydice Bauer, associ-ate professor in the College of Education, said many dis-tricts compete to hire grad-uates from the Universi-ty because of the College’s reputation surrounding the strength of the program.

“Our students are gener-ally taught by faculty who are national leaders in math, literacy and bilingual educa-tion to name a few, and we strive to help students better connect theory to practice,” Bauer said.

McCarthey said the Uni-versity is working to recruit more students to the College.

“We are going to hire a recruitment person, we have some prints materials that we’re developing around how and why to become a teacher, and we are highlighting the revision and changes in our new program,” McCarthey said. “We believe it will be really attractive to new students.”

Edwin can be reached at eehsieh2@dailyillini.com.

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Chancellor gives State of the Campus

Education grads ranked 7th in starting salary

Committee discusses College of Medicine

DAVID ZUCCHINO TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEIraqi Army Sgt. Ahmed Hassan stands sentinel in an army guard tower in the town of Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad.

CARLINE JEAN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEHomeless advocate Aaron Jackson serves pizza to homeless residents of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in front of city hall on Monday. Jackson was cited for his deed.

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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTChancellor Phyllis Wise

gave a State of the Campus address Monday to over 500 donors and alumni in Chi-cago. She plans to give the address at other locations around the state.

The luncheon was held at the Palmer House at 11:30 a.m. and cost $50 to attend. It was also live-streamed on the University’s website.

Ryan Baker, an alum-nus who emceed the event, opened by announcing it had the highest attendance the event had ever seen.

“I am delighted to be

here today,” Wise began her address. “It’s a wonder-ful time to be giving you the message of our successes as well as our plans for the future, our vision to be the preeminent research uni-versity with a land grant mission and global impact.”

Wise addressed the alum-ni, crediting them as the source of success to the Uni-versity during her last four years as chancellor.

She elaborated on how the goals of the Universi-ty’s strategic plan, unveiled last year concerning four areas: faculty, students,

research, discovery and scholarship; and the abili-ty to use resources wisely, have translated into action with their help.

As examples, Wise cited increased international and academic diversity on the campus, which is the high-est it has ever been.

She also cited the prog-ress of the proposed Col-lege of Medicine at the Urbana-Champaign cam-pus, which aims to create a hybrid degree for students to learn skills in engineer-ing and medicine.

“We are at a very excit-

ing time in the practice of medicine and that is that engineering and technology and the interface in between engineering and technology and medicine are getting so close that you’re not going to be able to tell the differ-ence,” she said. “It means training a different kind of medical doctor, a different kind of person to be able to do this.”

The proposed college is still seeking at least $135 million, which Wise hopes to raise through philanthropy.

“Since we have such a great college of Engineer-

ing, we will be able to build a college of medicine on the backs of our great college of Engineering,” she said. “There is really no other university that can do it the way we can.”

Wise also stated the University is meeting the goals of the strategic plan by ensuring departments have the latest technology, such as online classrooms and blended learning. Wise encouraged attendees to vis-it the new energy-neutral Electrical and Computer Science Engineering build-ing, for which donors pro-

vided over 50 percent of the $93 million cost.

In light of Veteran’s day Tuesday, Wise stated the campus is building a cen-ter for wounded veterans, which was also paid for through donations. The cen-ter is set for completion by next fall and will provide veterans with education and medical care.

Wise ended her address by speaking about the importance of Chicago not only to the University but to her personally. Her fam-ily immigrated to the city from China.

NEWS BRIEFSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

With ISIS advance to Baghdad faltering, relative peace falls on some Iraqi fronts

New laws on feeding homeless stir upcontroversy in Fort Lauderdale

With the Internet facing stricter regulations, Obama supports Internet freedom

Obama makes Asia appearance, applaudes new visa policy between US and China

BEIJING — On his first day of a week-long Asia trip, President Barack Obama was multitasking Monday: He sought to counter perceptions that he’s a weakened leader, tried to dispel claims that he seeks to “contain” China and yet obliquely criti-cized Beijing’s human rights record and trade policies.

Obama, speaking at the Asia-Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation summit, announced an agreement to make it easier for Chinese and U.S. citizens to travel between their coun-

tries. He praised President Xi Jinping for helping to broker the new visa policy, which he said would facilitate business, education and tourism on both sides of the Pacific.

Yet he also noted several economic chal-lenges the Pacific Rim faces, including widespread corruption and the discrimi-nation women confront in starting busi-nesses in male-dominated societies. While he didn’t mention China by name, some of his comments were clearly aimed toward APEC’s host country this year.

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq — All seems calm at the moment, at least by Iraqi stan-dards, in Abu Ghraib, where the army, assisted by Shiite Muslim militiamen, is seeking to hold off the Sunni militant group that has chased government forc-

es out of much of western and northern Iraq since spring. This city is the west-ern gateway to Baghdad, the final bas-tion against an Islamic State onslaught toward Baghdad International Airport and the capital.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Mayor Jack Seiler is telling anyone who will listen that the city doesn’t deserve the bad rap it’s getting for how it treats the homeless.

Seiler’s making his case while the national media focuses on Arnold Abbott, the 90-year-old widower who faces poten-tial jail time after being cited twice by police for running afoul of the city’s

new law that regulates outdoor homeless feedings.

Seiler’s concerned about “distortions of the truth” false reports that Abbott had been arrested and that the city has banned feeding the homeless. But he’s see-ing changes in opinions since he and the city began spreading the word about things the city has done for the homeless.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has called on federal regulators to toughen proposed net-neutrality rules for Internet traffic, including taking the controversial step of changing the way the law treats broadband providers so they are subject to stricter utility-like regulation.

In a two-page statement and a two-min-ute online video Monday, Obama came out in favor of the toughest possible regula-tion of Internet service providers on an issue that has flooded the Federal Com-

munications Commission with a record of about 4 million public comments.

“Ever since the Internet was created, it’s been organized around basic princi-ples of openness, fairness and freedom,” Obama said in the video posted on the White House website.

“There are no gatekeepers deciding which sites you get to access. There are no toll roads on the information superhigh-way,” he said. “Abandoning these princi-pals would threaten to end the Internet as we know it.”

“Our program posi-tions graduates to quickly become lead-ers in their schools.”

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Provost suggests future research collaboration, conferences with National Taiwan University

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The Internet was abuzz last week with rumors suggest-ing Lena Dunham con-

fessed to molesting her young-er sister, Grace Dunham, when the two were children.

In her recently published memoir, “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s ‘Learned,’” Dunham revealed the ways in which she fed her young curi-osity through touching her sister’s genitals and coercing her into engaging in intimate contact — for example, offer-ing her younger sister “three pieces of candy if [she] could kiss her on the lips for five seconds.”

Dunham goes so far as to admit that “anything a sexu-al predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.”

Anybody familiar with Dun-ham’s HBO series “Girls” knows that the comedian’s sense of humor is quirky, and at times dark and borderline inappropriate. Given this con-text, we can establish that in comparing herself jokingly to a sexual predator, Dunham didn’t really mean to suggest that she is literally comparable to a sexual predator.

However, there still exist problems with the aforemen-tioned passages from Dun-ham’s memoir — both with regard to the passage’s context, as well as in Dunham’s defen-sive response to critics.

I do believe that Dunham’s childhood “curiosity” crosses the fine line between healthy, childhood experimentation and premeditated, inappropriate actions. But, more than that, I believe the reactions to the pas-sages — Dunham’s, as well as her critics — illustrate multiple gender double standards preva-lent in our society.

For her memoir’s controver-sial subject matter, Dunham received a large helping of crit-icism, from fans and otherwise. But she’s also been defended almost as many times over.

The progressive, contempo-rary rhetoric that girls ought to more readily and outwardly embrace their sexual identi-ties is such that it allows for an abundance of fine lines and gray areas, and, often, double standards. What is classically deemed as clear acceptable and unacceptable sexual behavior for males is often glossed over for females.

Dunham and some of her defenders almost go so far as to praise her forceful explo-ration, because it shows that the female anatomy is neither a sacred flower that must be locked away nor one that needs male protection. It is accessible

and it is natural. According to author Alissa

Quart, Dunham wrote some-thing of “questionable taste” and it is simply “being mis-read.” Bloggers fronting the defensive line express their outrage that Dunham is being persecuted simply “for describ-ing her experience.”

It’s great that Dunham has found a medium through which to channel her experiences and subsequent revelations. It’s great that she reaches a recep-tive and progressive audience, willing to give Dunham the benefit of the doubt and enter-tain the notion that it’s benefi-cial and educational to have questions about our growing bodies.

I would love to see the pub-lic’s response, however, to an eccentric and famous male humorously recounting the ways he, out of mere childhood “curiosity,” fondled and manip-ulated his younger sibling. I’ll be so bold as to say that it wouldn’t fly.

We see evidence of this double standard everywhere. A male teacher “seduces” a much younger, female pupil and he is immediately charged. But should a female teacher happens to engage in intima-cies with a much younger, male pupil, the pupil probably wanted it, or encouraged the teacher’s advances. Somehow, there always seem to be more gray areas to investigate when

the prosecuted individual is female.

Those who defend Dunham argue that the inclusion of this “curiosity” in her mem-oir depicts not molestation, but, rather, the innocent, childhood exploration of a precocious and curious child.

Fine. Why, then, does she still perceive such behavior as inherently innocent and not at all questionable? The mem-oir’s subtitle implies that the work will contain snapshots of what Dunham has “learned.” Clearly, we must regard the titular quotation marks around “learned” with great seriousness.

I am of the viewpoint that Dunham might have had a misguided and questionable childhood. I am strongly of the viewpoint that Dunham should perhaps find a better editor, one more suited for giving the talented young woman practi-cal, reasonable advice regard-ing things probably best left unmentioned in one’s memoir endeavors.

But regardless of where my opinion rests, I believe the con-troversy that Dunham’s mem-oir has inspired serves as an apt and important illustration of the ways gendered double standards plague our contem-porary world.

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

Vote to improve

campus bike infrastructure

B iking on campus provides stu-dents with the freedom to get to places around

campus faster than waiting around for a bus or walk-ing, and provides us with a sort of independence to get around rather quickly, es-pecially for those of us who lack cars on campus.

Better yet, biking is also a more sustainable prac-tice as we reduce gas emis-sion and traffic — an im-portant factor for a school who values our green cam-pus.

However, as we indi-cated in one of our earli-er editorials this semes-ter, the bike infrastructure on campus is bombarded with a slew of issues such as lane inconvenience, lack of safety, poor path clari-ty and high pedestrian/bik-er traffic.

For these reasons and more, we encourage stu-dents to vote in tomor-row’s school-wide referen-dum. The referendum will ask students whether they favor a $1 student-initiat-ed fee to be spent toward bicycle-related projects, such as improving the bike lanes and paths.

Projects also include cre-ating educational materi-als on biking, helping fund the Campus Bicycle Shop, hiring a bicycle coordina-tor and expanding the bike-rental program.

Facilities and Services released an infrastructure plan last year, detailing $4 million worth of projects that could help biking on campus. The plan current-ly sits in limbo though, as no specific funds are allo-cated toward bicycle-relat-ed planning.

The fee proposed on the referendum would gener-ate roughly $80,000 a year, as students would pay $1 per semester. However, Grace Kyung, supporter of the fee and graduate stu-dent, hopes the passing of the fee will also show ad-ministration the immense support for biking on cam-pus. With the continual lack of state-funding, up-dating bike lanes does not seem to be of great con-cern to the University.

Most of the paths were created in the 1960s and 1970s and are in dire need of an update. Some paths were added later, but not all of them follow the same lane pattern, leading to lack of lane clarity.

Additionally, the League of American Bicyclists deemed the University’s campus as a bronze-lev-el bike friendly campus — something that could be changed to a silver or gold level with these improve-ments.

While we understand that fees are a drag for every-one, only $2 a year will not crack the piggybank (hey, that’s less than half the cost of an eight-inch Jim-my John’s sandwich), and the money would go toward providing a safer and more accessible campus.

Take advantage of one’s ability to vote and make sure to cast your opinion in the referendum by voting online on Wednesday and Thursday.

Democracy, which aspires to be an egalitarian uto-pia, seems to represent

the most idealistic of political philosophies.

It has been a cornerstone of the modern world, providing the foundations for a struc-tured society in which econ-omy and technology have flourished.

But our imperfect reality has no space for perfect ideolo-gies, and like any other ideol-ogy, the application of demo-cratic principles and process to the real world has always been riddled with flaws and obstacles.

What is undeniable, though, is the fact that, at every step, democratic ideology strives to put power in the hands of the common man.

That power only exists if those eligible take advantage of it.

The 2014 midterm election presented Americans with an opportunity to vest this pow-er, with the ballot box as their tool. Despite this, the voter turnout was pitiful.

In a country with over 146 million registered voters, only 36.5 percent cast a ballot.

More striking is the fact that only 13 percent of those who turned up to vote belonged

to the 18- to 29-year-old age group. This isn’t much better than the 2010 midterm turn-out, when the group made up only 12 percent of the voting public.

The awfully low numbers of young voters, often chalked up to voter apathy, represent a very complex obstacle to the democratic process.

The lack of young voter par-ticipation is crucially detri-mental to democracy. As the most dynamic age group liv-ing in such a tumultuous time, 18- to 29-year-olds have unique problems that require fair representation.

I’m not a U.S. citizen, there-fore I cannot vote, but I want-ed to understand the afore-mentioned voter apathy in this country for myself. In the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections, I decided to ask friends and acquaintanc-es whether they were going to vote and why.

I spoke to about 15 people, and only two of them said they were going to vote. The rea-sons for not voting ranged from complete indifference to politics to people feeling that they didn’t know enough about the candidates to cast an informed vote. Others felt their vote wouldn’t make any tangible difference, or that they were powerless in the democratic process.

The midterm elections, which determine governors, state representatives and local officials, are deeply important

to the community. They pro-vide an opportunity through suffrage to affect change in one’s immediate surroundings, town, county and state. This exercise is at the very heart of democracy — in fact, it is what democracy is all about.

The fact that young voters refrain from participating in this process is a serious fail-ure of democracy at the grass-roots level. Young people are at the forefront in every coun-try of this rapidly changing world. They occupy today’s universities and workforce. They will shape the decisions of the future.

Their voices in the gover-nance of the country remain largely unheard when they should be echoing deep in the chambers of Congress.

While I sympathize with the refusal to vote in face of unin-spiring candidates and inef-fectual political campaigns, I refuse to believe that the indi-vidual vote wields no power.

Some young voters are con-vinced that his or her ballot affects little to no change, but they must realize that democ-racy is, and has always been, a cumulative process.

A single ballot might appear to make no difference, but the power of suffrage is in the col-lective vote.

Each individual ballot not cast lessens that power.

Young people, who play an absolutely vital role in the technology, social, economic

and entrepreneurial sectors, have the ability and opportu-nity to vest their power in suf-frage in order to get the gov-ernment to cater to their needs and shape the development of the country in the mold of their vision for the future.

They must act together, and they must also be patient because it will take a certain degree of time to see their vote make a tangible difference.

For democracy to suc-ceed, it takes time. It is the price democracy pays to meet its goals of equality and liberalism.

Older democracies such as the United States and the Unit-ed Kingdom have much more efficient and streamlined gov-ernance systems than younger democracies such as the ones in India or Turkey.

But, still, voting today does not mean change tomorrow. But it does mean change, which many people, especial-ly those in younger age groups with instant gratification life-styles, seem to forget.

To vote, then, is to put faith in an ideology that has served us quite well so far.

Not to vote, as many young people chose to do, is to accept stagnancy and to surren-der power put in the hands of the common man by the Constitution.

Shivam is a senior in Engineering. He can be reached at opinions @dailyillini.com.

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Taking our voting rights for granted

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The Offi ce of Volunteer Programs is joining togeth-er with the University com-munity to make a differ-ence in the lives of local families with Thanksgiv-ing rapidly approaching.

From Nov. 3 to Nov. 17, the OVP is hosting a Thanksgiving basket drive in an effort to collect 250 baskets of food for families in need. The baskets will then be given to and distrib-uted by Stone Creek Church in Urbana.

The baskets are full of nonperishable items that would aid a family in pre-paring a Thanksgiving meal, along with a $25 gift card for perishable items.

This year, all of the bas-kets will be donated to fam-ilies in the Champaign-Urbana area.

“The people can sign up at six registration sights, and they actually have to show an ID to prove that they live here,” said Alli-son Collins, OVP event organizer and sophomore in DGS. “After that, they get a ticket and on a cer-tain date they go pick up their meals.”

Charlene Gandiya, an intern staff member at Stone Creek Church who is in charge of the drive this year, also explained that it is on a fi rst-come, fi rst-serve basis.

“Individuals usually sub-mit individual items, but we encourage donating whole baskets,” said John Race, program advisor for

the OVP. This is one of the many

drives that the OVP pro-vides throughout the school year. For this event, they are hoping for more stu-dent participation than the offi ce has seen in the past.

“We met our goal for Cans Across the Quad, but it was off in the sense that we didn’t get as much stu-dent participation as we were hoping,” said Alicia Robinson, graduate assis-tant at the OVP. “We had a lot of offi ces that would participate. Our goals for the remainder of the year are to target stu-dents across campus. So far, we’ve had one student organization that was real-ly excited about making a donation. They can donate one or multiple baskets. It’s really exciting that it was a student organiza-tion, because that was one of our targets — to make sure that students are able to participate and engage in the community.”

This is the eighth year both the OVP and Stone Creek have hosted the drive. While the OVP has contributed 200 to 300 bas-kets each year, according to Race, Stone Creek collects a total of 1000, which they refer to as their “big give.”

“It started with one of our staff members. She had a heart for people and want-ed to provide Thanksgiving dinner for them because almost everyone celebrates it no matter what religion they are,” Gandiya said.

Gandiya explained that

the church has a partner-ship with Meijer grocery store to complete the rest of the baskets.

In order for a group to donate, a team leader must be decided on to coordi-nate with OVP and select how many baskets will be donated. Then, a group must be registered at www.go.illinois.edu/basket, and the items must be gath-ered in a laundry basket and dropped off by Mon-day in room 288 at the Illi-ni Union. Individual items and donations are also accepted.

Maddie can be reached at features@dailyillini.com.

Each laundry basket must contain:1 large can of green beans1 can of mushroom soup1 can of french fried onions1 large can of yams1 bag of marshmallows1 bag of brown sugar1 can of corn or greens1 can of cranberries1 box of stuffi ng1 box of mashed potatoes1 large can or box of gravy1 disposable roasting pan for turkeyDisposable utensils $25 gift card to be used for perishable items

Thanksgiving basket drive seeks donations

US to propose safety provisions for turtlesFour species to be protected from overseas trade

OVP aims to collect 250 baskets to help families

BY CHRIS ADAMSTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is propos-ing a new level of protec-tion for certain freshwa-ter turtles, concerned that a massive increase in over-seas demand for the reptiles could hurt their long-term prospects.

The proposal from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice involves four species: the Florida softshell, the smooth softshell, the spiny softshell and the common snapping turtle.

While none of the four species is at risk of extinc-tion, federal offi cials and biologists say that a boom-ing international trade in turtles had prompted con-cerns about the animals’ long-term survival. And existing laws, which vary from state to state, have not been completely successful in preventing the unauthor-ized collection and trade of the turtles, offi cials said.

“These turtles are suf-fering declines in large part because they are being collected in the wild and shipped overseas for food or pets or medicine,” said Collette Adkins Giese, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, a non-profi t conservation group that petitioned federal offi -cials for the protective sta-tus. “Turtles are slow to mature, and their popula-tions depend on having large adults. That’s what the tur-tle trappers are catching.”

According to Adkins Giese, turtle shells are used in traditional Chinese med-icine, which ascribes great power to the turtle to purify the blood, cure diseases and bestow longevity or virility.

In its offi cial proposal to list the turtles, the Fish and Wildlife Service docu-mented a massive increase in softshell turtle exports over the past few years.

Among the Florida soft-shell, exports of live tur-tles were up 71 percent from 2009 to 2011, the most recent year included; a total of 367,629 live Florida soft-shell turtles were exported that year.

Common snapping turtles saw exports jump 24 per-cent — to 811,717 — over the same period. Exports of spiny softshell turtles, as well as snapping turtle meat, were also up.

Those numbers come from U.S. export records and are likely low, given that the Florida and other soft-shell turtles aren’t now list-ed, and so exporters aren’t legally required to declare turtle shipments by spe-cies. It’s also unclear how much of the trade is of tur-tles caught in the wild or of those raised on turtle farms, as many in Florida are.

“We don’t know how much is farm stock versus wild,” said Clifton Horton, a biolo-gist with the Fish and Wild-life Service. “This listing may help us get this infor-mation as well.”

And there’s no question smugglers are doing what-ever it takes to get the turtles outside the Unit-ed States. Federal offi cials have been involved in cas-es in recent months where traders attempted to spir-it out protected turtles — including a man in Detroit in August who federal offi -cials said was caught with 51 turtles stuffed inside his pants as he entered Cana-da. Those weren’t Florida or

other softshell turtles.The Florida softshell tur-

tle is found in all parts of the state, as well as in South Carolina, Georgia and south-ern Alabama. The harvest of them in Florida primarily comes from the southern part of the state and goes on year-round.

According to the Flori-da Fish and Wildlife Con-servation Commission, the capture of live freshwater turtles is tightly controlled, with a limit of one turtle per person per day from the wild for noncommercial use.

The action by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service involves listing the turtles in a special appendix to an international treaty aimed at protecting species from the negative effects of over-harvest for international trade. The listing includes animals that offi cials say are in need of international trade controls; U.S. offi cials want to list the four turtles to better monitor existing trade and ensure that it is legal.

Once an animal is listed, any international trade — live species, parts, prod-ucts — will require a spe-cial permit signifying the animal was caught proper-ly, according to state laws, and that it is being shipped humanely. Shipments of a listed animal will receive greater scrutiny than ones of a non-listed animal.

The permit process also will give federal offi cials insight into how many wild turtles are actually leaving the United States — infor-mation that could help offi -cials manage the species’ long-term survival. The pro-posal is open to public com-ments before it is fi nalized.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF VOLUNTEER PROGRAMSThe Offi ce of Volunteer Programs will be collecting baskets of donated goods for a Thanksgiving drive until Nov. 17. The baskets will then be distributed by the Stone Creek Church to families in Champaign-Urbana.

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Sharing a turkey feastThe Office of Volunteer Programs is holding a Thanksgiving basket drive until Nov. 17. Turn to Page 5A to learn how you can give to local families for the holiday.

Beverly Smith’s out-of-office email sig-nature includes the quote:

“Education is the ladder, my children take that ladder.”

The quote is from Chief Manuelito, a principal war chief of the Diné tribe in the 1800s, citing the Navajo Treaty. Smith, assistant director of the Native American House since September 2011, was brought up on this convic-tion and has carried it with her since.

Though her beliefs have weaved their way into her life in unexpected plac-es, she still carries this quote along with the idea of “Walking in beauty, walk-ing in balance,” a phrase that resonates with mean-ing and history to the Navajo philosophy.

“Those were the over-arching themes of my childhood. ... Those two principles related to my identity and being resilient and being self-sufficient,” Smith said. “It means liv-ing happy, living healthy and being balanced.”

Smith hosted an event on Monday entitled “Through the Eyes of My Ancestors: One Woman’s Navajo Nar-rative” at the Women’s Resource Center. Her dis-cussion took students and faculty into her experience finding herself, includ-ing how she learned about her identity and where she comes from.

“Knowing where you come from and who you are, you’re able to have that resilience in any kind of environment,” she said.

Smith is a member of the Diné tribe, a word that translates as “the people” in Navajo. The Navajo are one of the biggest tribal groups in America and they have reservations located in parts of Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

“My experience as a native woman is very dif-

ferent, but I mean, that’s just it,” said Yvonne Tiger, office associate for Amer-ican Indian Studies. “We have such varied experienc-es and that doesn’t make us any less native, especially those of us that identify and strongly adhere to our tradi-tions. I don’t think there is any one box you can fit us in. Speaking about herself demonstrated to (Smith’s) audience that there is no one way to be native, especially in this day and age.”

Smith was born in a bor-der town in Arizona near the Navajo Indian reserva-tion. A few years after her birth, her family decided to move back to the reserva-tion and throughout grade school and middle school she went between an Indian boarding school and a pub-lic school. In high school, she also attended an Indi-an residential boarding school and a public school at the same time. Because of this, Smith has spent a lot of her life both on and off the reservation.

“I’m grounded wherev-er I am otherwise, but it is just more peaceful there (on the reservation). I don’t have any distractions of Internet or text messages or phone calls,” she said. “Things are simple there, I am more relaxed there.”

Smith attended a trib-al college and university to earn her undergraduate degree in American Indian Studies.

If individuals can meet the criteria outlined by their tribe, they may be able to get a scholarship for college.

“We are the only race in the United States that have to defend our identity as an American Indian by being tribally enrolled; proof to show we exist, proof to our rights. There’s over 567 dif-ferent tribes represented in the U.S. that does not include state recognized tribes and that doesn’t include Amer-ican Indians who are not enrolled and indigenous peo-ple throughout the world,”

Smith said. The criteria and the pro-

cess varies from tribe to tribe, but for the Navajo Tribal Scholarship, an indi-vidual has to be enrolled with the Navajo tribe, has to have graduated from high school and has to have tak-en a Navajo history or lan-guage class in high school to earn a certification, as well as be enrolled in a four-year degree program.

“In your classroom every-one would know each oth-er’s tribes,” Smith said of her time in college. “It was a life-changing experience because I was able to get to know a lot of different tribes and learn about them and meet them. ... I have lifetime friends from that.”

After college, Smith worked at a museum to experience how native cul-ture is managed in muse-ums. She also worked at AmeriCorps for two years and interacted with stu-

dents from kindergarten through the graduate level. Her work ranged from after school programs for urban American Indian children to American Indian art pro-grams. She then went on to receive a master’s degree in Education Counseling with an emphasis in Stu-dent Affairs.

After leaving her home-town in Arizona to pur-sue her doctoral degree at the University in the Col-lege of Education’s Policy, Organization, and Leader-ship higher education pro-gram, Smith said she found her way in a new environ-ment with the support of her family and with the commu-nity that the Native Ameri-can House fosters here on campus.

“It’s an open door poli-cy (at the Native American House) ... You can ask us anything you want,” Smith said.

The Native American

House is hosting events throughout the month to educate students about Native American Heritage Month and to help students deal with identity issues that they may encounter on a predominately white campus.

Some students come to the Native American House because they don’t know anything about where they come from, Smith said. Smith and the Native Amer-ican House then can help students get in touch with the resources they may need to learn more about where they come from.

In Smith’s lecture on Monday, she reflected on how she became educat-ed about where she comes from. The lecture brought students from all over cam-pus together to hear her unique story.

“I really enjoyed it and I really appreciate that she was comfortable and able

to speak with us about her story, her ancestry and her background in such a per-sonal way,” said Gabrielle Smith, a graduate assistant and volunteer coordinator for the Women’s Resource Center and graduate stu-dent in Social Work.

In a world where Native American identity is eas-ily misperceived by oth-ers, Beverly Smith said she finds her strength in the values and customs that her family raised her to embrace.

“There’s a type of com-munity that not only exists in Navajo culture, but in dif-ferent tribes too, because they also have reciprocity,” Smith said. “I never discon-nect myself from home, it’s a constant thing for me, it’s a principle — it’s a value ... You always remember who you are.”

Darrah can be reached at perryma2@dailyillini.com.

How a complicated educational journey led one woman to IllinoisBY DARRAH PERRYMANCONTRIBUTING WRITER

THE JOURNEY UP THE LADDER

“Knowing where you come from and who you are, you’re able to have that resilience in any kind of environment” — BEVERLY SMITH,

— NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

JASMINE DINH THE DAILY ILLININative American House assistant director, Beverly Smith, talks about Native American relations and populations at the Women's Resource Center.

SPORTS1BTUESDAY

BY ALEX ROUXBASKETBALL COLUMNIST

The NCAA college basket-ball season runs for roughly five months, from November through March.

College basketball coach-es spend that time of year under a microscope and bright lights as their teams play dozens of games per season on national TV. But every year, March even-tually ends, and the lights dim until the following November.

For coaches, the end of the season is merely a shift in priorities, and it doesn’t mean it’s time to relax. For Illinois head coach John Groce and his staff, a long summer of recruit-ing awaits. It’s through the recruitment of high school talent that Groce builds the future of his program.

The month of July marks

the beginning of a feeding frenzy for college coaches, as AAU tournaments are played all across the coun-try. As September comes around and fall approach-es, coaches must orches-trate visits with recruits, both on campus and in play-ers’ homes. During this time of year, Groce and his staff take on a lifestyle that calls for most of their time to be spent in private planes, hotels and basketball gyms.

Illinois recruits with the big boys, as Groce and his staff have pursued some of the best players in the coun-try in hopes that they will commit to the Illini. To do this, they must cast a wide net geographically in order to get in front of the best recruits. The top AAU tour-naments are played in cities like Las Vegas, Atlanta and Chicago. In the past year

alone, some of Illinois’ top targets have lived in Dallas, Cleveland and just outside Toronto.

Groce has implement-ed a strategy of relation-ship-building with his tar-gets, which requires a large amount of face-to-face time with them. In order to grab players’ attention, Groce and his staff must hit the road hard.

He has three assistant coaches at his disposal — Jamall Walker, Paris Parham and Dustin Ford — who help him recruit on the road. All four of them criss-cross the country while recruiting, try-ing to form bonds with play-ers, their families, their men-tors and whoever else may be involved. So far, it’s been that effort that’s helped the Illi-nois staff get its foot in the door with some of the nation’s top talent.

“That’s how you build a relationship with a kid: trust,” Ford said. “And how do you get trust? By putting forth effort, communicat-ing, seeing someone (play)

and working hard. People respect that.”

Sometimes building that kind of trust requires Groce and his staff to go to incred-ible lengths to impress a recruit.

Carlton Bragg, a forward from Cleveland, is one of the best high school players in the country in the class of 2015. Groce and his staff first noticed Bragg when coaching at Ohio, and have been involved in his recruit-ment from the beginning. According to Bragg’s men-tor, Michael Graves, at least one Illinois basketball coach has been at every single AAU game of Bragg’s in the last two years, a feat that has helped the Illini remain in the hunt for Bragg’s services.

Seeing as most top-flight AAU teams play 50 games a year all across the coun-try, the staff must sacrifice much of its personal time in the summer to accom-modate the schedules of top recruits. Summer days

On the road again and again

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

Wes Lunt will return for the Illini this Saturday.

The starting quarterback has missed four of the last five games since fracturing his fibula.

Illinois coach Tim Beck-man said the sophomore will start Saturday against Iowa.

“I feel good,” Lunt said. “The bone, they said it’s four-to-six weeks, but it’s healed enough to withstand hits.”

At the time of the injury, Lunt was ranked 10th in the nation in completions per game (25.4) and 14th in pass-ing yards per game (313.8).

Lunt said he’s looking to get into a similar rhythm Saturday and gain back confidence.

“Getting timing back is going to be the biggest thing,” Lunt said. “Not being able to play was tough.”

Although the injury wasn’t announced until early Octo-ber, Lunt said he thinks the injury happened during Illi-nois’ 44-19 loss to Washing-ton on Sept. 13.

“After that game, I felt some pain in my leg and I thought it was a Char-ley horse, so I never got an X-ray,” Lunt said. “It just kept getting worse and worse through Texas State and Pur-due, and just through prac-tice and getting hit, it just got worse.”

Offensive line injuries

The Illini have also been dealing with injuries on the offensive line.

Right guard Ted Karras tore his ACL and MCL dur-ing Illinois’ 55-14 loss at Ohio State last week.

The junior had started every game at right guard this season.

Beckman said left tackle Simon Cvijanovic will start against Iowa. The senior left late in the game against Ohio State.

As a unit, the offensive line has allowed more than three sacks per game, which is tied for 111th in the nation.

With an injury-prone quar-terback returning, Illinois is desperately looking for bet-ter protection on the line.

“If that means keeping

Lunt back in starting lineup post-injury

BY ALEX WALLNERSTAFF WRITER

Growing up in Arling-ton Heights, Illinois, Han-na Winter was never much of a runner. She did other things.

One of those things was read, which she still does today.

“Reading helps me take my mind off things such as sports and school,” Winter said. “(It) provides me with a good balance.”

Winter was also an active swimmer and soccer player.

“She was always very

active and a standout on her teams,” said Mark Winter, Hanna’s father. “We discov-ered her running talent in fifth grade when she ran for her small, Catholic elemen-tary school and dominated the races.”

Each sport helped Winter in different ways.

“Soccer and swimming were a good test of my endurance and I wanted to see how that would trans-late into running,” Hanna said.

Sophomore runner a promising talent

BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER

Check Illinois men’s cross-country results from the last three years, and one name is consistently at the top: Jan-nis Toepfer.

This season is his last for the Illini and then the 25-year-old graduate student will finally end his collegiate running career.

But if not for one family’s open arms, and one coach’s open mind, Toepfer may have never ended up at Illinois.

He grew up in Bochum, Germany, and his athletic ability emerged at an early age.

His elementary school held a field day every year, but because he won every event, Toepfer was excluded from the competition.

In 1995, 5-year-old Toepfer and his parents moved from Germany to Japan, due to his father’s job. While there, Toepfer was exposed to a new culture, and a found new pas-sion: traveling.

In 1998, Toepfer and his family moved back to Ger-many, where he began get-ting involved more competi-tively with athletics. The first sport he fell in love with was basketball.

Toepfer played for VFL Bochum BG, a local club, but the coach of the region-al selection team was also the coach of a rival. Toepfer believes that because of his loyalty to VFL Bochum BG he received less calls to play for the regional selection team.

“At some point I didn’t get invited anymore,” Toepfer said. “I’m 16, I just want to have fun, what the

f--- this about?”A frustrated Toepfer

turned his attention to run-ning at TV Wattenscheid O1, a local track club.

Along with a growing inter-est in running, Toepfer rekin-dled his taste for travel, espe-cially to the United States.

After his freshman year of high school, Toepfer cre-ated an application through the American Field Service, sent it in and was assigned to a family.

“It was a total coinci-dence,” he said. “I could have also ended up (anywhere), a friend of mine was in Alas-ka, another was somewhere in Texas, you know all over the place.”

But Toepfer was headed to St. Louis, Missouri.

***Judy Taylor remembers

the first day Toepfer came into her family’s lives.

Her daughter Aliyah was a member of the interna-

tional club at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School. The club was looking for a host family and Aliyah thought it would be a great way for her family to learn about a new culture and to teach an exchange student about American culture.

Judy and Aliyah were the only representatives of the Taylor family there to meet Jannis at the airport.

“It was really kind of strange and awkward because we’re not the outgo-ing ones of the family,” Judy said.

Despite an initial awk-wardness, the Taylor family quickly became comfortable with Toepfer. In a matter of months, he became family.

“He really became a mem-ber of the extended family as well,” Judy said. “He would take part in all the fami-ly events, he would go and visit the elderly aunts. He’s a unique person because he

puts everything into every-thing he does — he does noth-ing halfway.”

His year living with the Taylors and attending MICDS was a new experi-ence for Toepfer. Just like in Germany, Toepfer tried bas-ketball and was on the team at MICDS, but for a reason Toepfer doesn’t understand to this day, he never played.

“I don’t know if it had some-thing to do with me being an exchange student or whatev-er so that was also part of the reason why I decided to stop (playing) basketball,” Toep-fer said.

Toepfer began gravitating towards running.

“Running is about who is the best runner,” Toepfer said. “There’s nothing you can argue with, whereas bas-ketball the coach has the ulti-mate authority. He can play whoever he wants.”

Toepfer celebrates last season

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“I went to Dallas, then had to be up at 4:30 the next morning to catch a flight back to Bloomington-Normal. (From there) I had to drive up to Chicago (then) drive back out to Waukegan.”

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become a blur, as Illini coaches will visit up to four cities in one day while jug-gling recruits. The coaches often pass the time on plane rides catching up on sleep or watching game fi lm.

For the Groce and his staff, every day becomes a game of “Where are they now?”

“I went to Dallas, then had to be up at 4:30 the next morning to catch a fl ight back to Blooming-ton-Normal. (From there) I had to drive back up to Chi-cago (then) drive back out to Waukegan (to watch a game),” Parham said of what a busy day on the recruiting trail entails.

Walker and Ford told similar tales of days spent in airports, rental cars and red-eye fl ights, all while attempting to make it back to Champaign for afternoon practice with the actual team. While the assistants are more likely to drive and take commercial fl ights, Groce has a private plane at his disposal, gassed up and ready to fl y on short notice.

“We’re very blessed at Illinois,” Groce said. “The resources we have at Illi-nois are off the charts. The fact that I’m able to take a plane helps to get from spot to spot.”

Those resources allow Groce to bounce from city to city, always boomerang-

ing back to Champaign in time for practice.

“You know, he’s the head coach, (the current players) need to see his face a lot,” Parham said. “He needs to be here for practice, he needs to be here to watch fi lm. Having that plane for him is bigtime. He’s here no matter what.”

During the heat of recruiting season, Groce and his staff will meet once a week, when they sched-ule their practices, trav-el arrangements and visits with recruits. For them, the key words are balance and communication. In order to balance their schedules while managing the recruits on their radar, Groce and his staff keep clear lines of communication open every single day.

“It starts with John at the top,” Walker said. “He has us prepared to do what we need to do. It’s communica-tion amongst all of us. It’s like we say, we’re one big family, so you’ve got to com-municate what you’re try-ing to do. And everybody’s on the same page with what we’re trying to do on the court and in recruiting.”

The nature of recruit-ing takes its toll on each of the coaches, wearing them down occasionally. One of the biggest strains is put upon the coaches’ families. Groce, Walker, Ford and Parham all have wives and children. Though the reg-ular season requires trav-el for games, it’s the sum-

mer that they are away from home most.

Their time with their fam-ilies dwindles. A coach may only see his family one day a week. Last summer, Parham missed all 52 of his son’s AAU games because he was on the road recruiting.

“It’s hard,” Groce said. “It’s hard when you have an 8-year-old, a 5-year-old and a pregnant wife. My wife understands, she gets it. She’s an important part of our recruiting efforts, as are the other wives.”

Groce, his staff and their families have formed a sup-port system between them that helps ease the burden of constant travel. Much like Groce stresses togeth-erness to his recruits and current players, there is a strong family-oriented culture within the coach-es’ inner circles. After all, as Parham points out, you can’t sell your basketball program as “family fi rst” if you’re not doing it in your own home.

While on the road, Groce and his staff try as much as possible to stay involved in the lives of their wives and kids. And when time allows the coaches to spend time with them, they make it count. Parham puts it sim-ply: When the coaches are off, they’re at home.

Though recruiting sea-son is a grind, it’s an aspect of the level of excellence Groce demands of himself and his staff. Groce’s work ethic in recruiting corre-

lates directly with his inner drive, and that effort rubs off on his assistants.

“He’s tenacious; it’s in anything he does, he’s a com-petitor,” Ford said of Groce. “He wants our offense to be the best, he wants our defense to be the best, he wants our baseline out of bounds plays to be the best, he wants our recruiting to be the best. That’s just how he’s wired, and the same way he coaches our team is the same way he recruits.”

Groce is attempting to establish the kind of culture he wants to instill at Illinois from the ground up. Groce and his staff pride them-selves on being themselves.

It’s the nature of the recruiting the nation’s best players that a coach will be rejected more often than not. But it’s Groce’s ambi-tion that the efforts of him and his staff will resonate with the players he’s trying to bring in.

“Here at Illinois, we say to do well here, you gotta love ball and you gotta love other people,” Groce said.

“That’s who we are, and I would hope (recruits) would say that it’s genuine. My staff is that way too. I hire staff that way. My guys on staff, they love other peo-ple and they love ball. I think hopefully that shines through a little bit.”

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at roux2@dailyillini.com and @aroux94.

2B Tuesday, November 11, 2014 THE DAILY ILLINI | WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM

Power rankingsDAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT Editor’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.

2. MICHIGAN STATE (1)The Spartans’ defense fell apart Saturday, allowing Ohio State 568 yards of total offense.

1. OHIO STATE (LAST WEEK: 2)Buckeyes quarterback J.T. Barrett threw for 300 yards and three touchdowns in his team’s 49-37 win over Michigan State, leaving the question: What will Ohio State do with its starting quarterback position next year?

3. WISCONSIN (3)Running back Melvin Gordon had 205 yards on the ground in the Badgers’ 34-16 win over Purdue.

4. NEBRASKA (4)The Cornhuskers are averaging 280.7 rushing yards per game through nine games this season.

7. IOWA (5)The Hawkeyes defense allowed nearly 300 rushing yards to Minnesota in a 51-14 loss Saturday.

5. MARYLAND (6)The Terrapins’ strength comes in its special teams, leading the Big Ten with perfect accuracy on 14 fi eld goals this season.

8. MICHIGAN (10)The Wolverines squeaked out a 10-9 win against Northwestern Saturday, putting up all 10 points in the second half.

10. PENN STATE (8)The Nittany Lions offense has been rough this season, averaging just 20.3 points per game on 86.6 rushing yards.

9. NORTHWESTERN (7)The Wildcats have struggled offensively this year, averaging just 18 points per game.

13. ILLINOIS (13)The Illini are hoping a healthy starting quarterback in Wes Lunt may help settle a spiraling season, losing fi ve of its last seven.

12. PURDUE (11)The Boilermakers’ re-energized offense might not be enough, as their defense allowed Wisconsin nearly 500 total yards Saturday.

6. MINNESOTA (9)The Golden Gophers’ rushing game fl ourished Saturday, with nine players combining for 291 yards on the ground against Iowa.

14. INDIANA (12)Running back Tevin Coleman is pulling the weight for the Hoosiers this year with 1,371 rushing yards, which is second in the nation.

11. RUTGERS (14)Rutgers is looking to end a three-game losing streak against Indiana on Saturday, its best chance at a win for the rest of the season with its remaining games against Michigan State and Maryland.

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

Kendrick Nunn is expect-ed to play this weekend for the Illini.

Head coach John Groce said the sophomore guard will be back for Illinois’ sea-son opener against Georgia Southern on Friday night.

“Doctors have done a phe-nomenal job,” Groce said after Illinois’ 91-62 exhibi-tion win over Quincy this weekend. “They’ve done a good job with keeping his conditioning up, which is hard to do. He obviously still has to get game-type conditioning, but we antici-pate him being full-go next week.”

Nunn averaged 6.2 points per game in 35 games as a freshman for the Illini.

Groce said adding the 2013-14 Big Ten All-Fresh-man selection to the mix will make the offense even more balanced. The Illini put up 91 points with four players scoring double dig-its in their exhibition game against Quincy.

Leron Black is for real

Illinois’ depth is already looking strong, even in the absence of Nunn and senior Tracy Abrams, who is out for the year with a torn ACL.

Freshman forward Leron

Black made his Illini debut Friday night, and scored 15 points with eight rebounds and a blocked shot against Quincy.

Black received a standing ovation from the crowd at State Farm Center, impress-ing both Illini fans and teammates.

“He’s fun to watch,” senior center Nnanna Egwu said. “He still has a lot to learn, so it’s kind of scary to see when he fi nally really learns all that’s going on how great he’s going to be.”

Black’s block came in transition and on the heels of an Egwu block just moments before, igniting the Cham-paign crowd.

“It feels good that the fans already love me,” Black said. “I feel like they’re going to continue to start to like me, the more they see me play.”

Defense needs early tuning

Black’s defensive pres-ence will be needed along-side Egwu.

Illinois had trouble defen-sively against Quincy in the teams’ exhibition game Fri-day, allowing 61 points to the Division II school.

“It’s kind of frustrating giving up 40 points in the second half,” Egwu said. “That’s not what we do.”

Despite Black and Egwu

grabbing a combined 21 rebounds for Illinois, the team only out-rebounded Quincy by one (38-37).

Groce also wasn’t happy with his team’s defensive performance.

“I don’t think we defend-ed very well,” Groce said. “We didn’t go to the basket-ball very well, we got in rota-tions too much, they got us on the glass.”

But now, heading into the

team’s regular season open-er Friday against Geor-gia Southern, Groce knows what needs fi xing this week in practice.

“Offensively, we’re going to be fine,” Groce said. “But we’ve got to be better defensively.”

Sean can be reached at spneuma2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @neumannthehuman.

Nunn expected to return for season opener

***Jim Lohr was skeptical

about Toepfer’s arrival.Lohr, a cross-country and

track coach at MICDS, had heard the story many a times. A foreign exchange student was coming and was suppos-edly the “next big thing.” But as soon as Lohr saw Toepfer, Lohr’s attitude changed.

“I could tell from the time I met him that this was a special young man,” Lohr said. “He was so mature for a kid who was a sophomore and so excited to be where he was, excited to meet new people, excited to do well at this school and to have an opportunity to compete for a team that needed someone who can be their leader. He walked into that role imme-diately that day.”

Toepfer’s fi rst race is the only race he can remember vividly at MICDS.

Toepfer started the race out hard, but after leading for most of the race, run-ners caught up with a gassed Toepfer. Exhausted, he was unable to run straight in the fi nal stretch: He wobbled his way to the fi nish line, passed out and threw up.

The next day Judy asked him, “Is this going to happen everyday?”

But, despite Judy’s wor-ries, Toepfer emerged as a talented runner at MICDS.

As he performed well, word spread about Toepfer and people became curious. The Missouri State High School Activities Association launched an investigation

trying to fi gure out if Toepfer had been specifi cally chosen as an exchange student for the purpose of improving the school’s cross-country team.

After proving documents in the application process never mentioned Toepfer’s running ability, the investi-gation was dropped.

“First of all, it’s awesome because you see that people care, in Germany you always feel like people don’t really care as much about running,” Toepfer said. “On the other hand, it was weird. I didn’t understand it, why was it such a big deal?”

Toepfer fi nished seventh at the state cross-country meet and broke some MICDS records during the track season.

At the conclusion of the 2006-07 school year, Toepfer returned to Germany.

Even though Toepfer was heading home, to the Taylors and Lohr, it felt like he was leaving home.

“We were visibly upset when he left,” Judy said. “It was just hard to let him go.”

*** Toepfer returned to Ger-

many and spent two more years at Graf-Engelbert-Schule before graduating in 2009.

Because of his experience with fl ying and travelling, Toepfer was interested in a career involving aerospace engineering.

A friend of his father’s was a professor at Delft Univer-sity in the Netherlands and recommended it to Toepfer. Delft has one of Europe’s best aerospace engineering pro-grams and that won Toepfer over.

In Europe, most universi-ties and colleges do not have athletics. This meant Toep-fer would have to train on his own and go back to Germa-ny every other week to train and compete with TV Wat-tenscheid O1. This routine became tough on Toepfer.

Unable to train consistent-ly, Toepfer accumulated half the mileage he was used to. He also spent many sleep-less nights swamped with schoolwork.

“I was pretty sick of train-ing by myself and Delft because they don’t have a school sport system and they were not supportive at all with my running,” Toepfer said. “I had huge issues with my scheduling and things like that and it was just a pain in the ass.”

In his second-to-last semester at Delft, Toepfer became involved in anoth-er exchange program. This time, he would be heading to Texas, where he wanted to continue his education and run for the Longhorns.

Then, an issue arose with Toepfer’s credits. At Texas, he was considered a non-degree seeking student and was ineligible to compete athletically.

After his exchange with Texas, Toepfer returned to Delft, but his dream to run for an American university still lingered.

Toepfer got in contact with Lohr, and informed him that he wanted to try to run in the U.S. again.

Lohr who had been a graduate assistant at Illinois under men’s cross-country coach Gary Wieneke, got in touch with the University. He

called Jeremy Rassmussen, who was the women’s cross-country coach at the time for Illinois.

Lohr called Rassmussen and said, “I have this guy that I coached in high school, and he’s an outstanding young man, he runs 8:50 in the stee-plechase, he’s from Germany, and he’s looking for a school he can go to and compete that has a great engineering campus.”

Rassmussen said he would pass the name along to the men’s coach, but couldn’t guarantee anything.

A short time after talk-ing with Rassmussen, Lohr received a call. Toepfer was going to be an Illini. ***

Head coach Jake Stewart knows Illinois won’t be the same without Toepfer next season.

“He’s someone who comes everyday and rarely does he not perform in a practice or a race in a way we’re not expecting,” Stewart said. “He’ll be tough to replace.”

Toepfer doesn’t believe in destiny.

“There are opportunities and you need to use them,” Toepfer says. “Illinois was there at the right time and that’s what happened.

“I could have never (gone abroad) in the fi rst place, which probably would have been the easier solution. But when you run 120 miles a week, you don’t really go for the easy solutions every time.”

Matt can be reached at gertsme2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier.

extra players in to protect or whatever that means, we’ve got to be able to have that happen,” Beckman said.

But Illinois is running out of linemen. The line is already jumbled heading into Saturday’s game, with linemen Michael Heitz, Alex Hill and Joe Spencer all starting while simultane-ously backing each other up on the depth chart.

“It’s a big concern,” offen-sive coordinator Bill Cubit said. “We’ve just got to be smart.”

Illinois’ opportunities dwindling

Beckman has stressed his belief in treating the season like four quarters all year.

Now, his team fi nds itself

in the “fourth quarter” of the season, needing two wins in its next three games to reach bowl eligibility.

This season marks the lat-est point in a season the Illi-ni have been bowl eligible under Beckman.

“We have been very suc-cessful in the fourth quarter of football games,” Beckman said. “We’ve talked about fi nishing and we’ve talked about what we need to get accomplished in these last three football games.”

But while Beckman’s Illi-ni have performed well in fourth quarters, outscoring opponents 87-56 in the fi nal quarter, the team still needs to come away with wins — something it has only done twice in its last seven games.

Sean can be reached at spneuma2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @neumannthehuman.

According to Mark, Han-na was never all that inter-ested in races, but realized she had a unique talent.

She ran at small Saint Viator high school, earn-ing IHSA All-State three times, and qualifying for the state tournament four times in cross-country and three times in track.

Her high school success led to a career with Illinois, where she found running a lot different, but rewarding in a new way.

“Running for the Univer-sity of Illinois has given her a new outlook because she runs with so many tal-ented girls and they’re all friends,” Mark said. “Her teammates are now her family.”

Hanna was also one of two freshmen on the team to compete at the NCAA Midwest Regional, fi nish-ing fourth for Illinois.

She also fi nished fourth for the team at the Big Ten championships and at the Pre-National Invitational, and fi nished fi fth for the Illini at the Boilermaker Invitational.

After her decorated high school career, Hanna wasn’t used to fi nishing in the mid-dle of the pack.

“At times, running for the small schools was challeng-ing, because her talent sur-passed many of the other athletes and the expecta-tions of her success were high,” Mark said.

Pressure was also a diffi -culty for her in high school,

according to her father.In college, Hanna’s coach

and teammates have helped her through pressure and she’s not intimidated by big races.

“She now looks forward to the challenge of a big race, and is proud to wear the orange and blue,” Mark said.

Hanna’s second big race of the season was one in which head coach Scott Jones said she surpassed all expectations.

“She has handled the responsibility of being an athlete the team can count on very well,” Jones said. “At the Big Ten meet, she beat some really good run-ners by performing at her best in a high-pressure environment.”

Hanna was the Illini’s top fi nisher at the Big Ten Championships. She came in 38th overall.

The Illini’s next competi-tion is the NCAA Regional Championships on Friday in Peoria, Illinois, on a course the team has run and won on before. Hanna did not perform well in Peoria at the Bradley Invite in Octo-ber, but Jones is confi dent Hanna will run well.

“Hanna’s race mirrored the team’s performance,” Jones said. “I expect Han-na to race better the second time on this course. There is more at stake, but I think she has the experience and composure to build on her Big Ten race.”

Alex can be reached at awallne2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @awallner93.

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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Kendrick Nunn will return to the lineup this Friday when the Illini tip off the season against Georgia Southern. The sophomore guard missed the team’s lone exhibition game last Friday.

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER

In her third season as the Illini’s No. 1 offensive option, junior Jocelynn Birks is on pace to set offen-sive records at Illinois.

With six matches left in the regular season and the NCAA tournament follow-ing, Birks is already ninth on the all-time kills list with 1,385.

In her first two seasons in Champaign, Birks record-ed 510 and 500 kills, respec-tively, in her freshman and sophomore seasons. Birks is one of just nine players ever to join the 500 kills club in one season and could hit that mark again this season. The junior is averaging 3.95 kills per set, meaning the Illini must play in 126 sets this season to hit the mark — which would be two more sets than last season and three more than 2012.

Looking forward to next

season, if Birks is able to put together her fourth consec-utive 500 kill season — a feat that no Illini has ever accomplished — she would set the program record for kills in a career. The cur-rent mark is held by Lau-ra DeBruler, who smacked 1,833 kills from 2007-10.

While setting the Illinois record for career kills is plausible, the conference record is further out of reach. Ohio State’s, Stacey Gordon put away 2,798 kills from 2001-04 for the Buck-eyes. That ranks third in the NCAA, although that was under the 30-point scoring format where each set was played to 30 instead of 25.

Illini finish pair of matches in one week against Northwestern

Under the new Big Ten schedule, there are just 20

conference games for 13 opponents. Illinois experi-enced an unusual week of matches this past week, as they faced Northwestern twice in four days. The two teams split the two matches, with the Wildcats pulling out a five-set victory on Wednes-day and the Illini earning a four-set decision Saturday.

“It’s interesting to play the same team twice,” head coach Kevin Hambly said. “Both teams sort of know what they’re going to do with the ball and know the tendencies a little bit more. I can’t imagine playing a play-off series of seven games in the NBA.”

One of the main improve-ments that turned a loss into a win was the Illini’s pass-ing. Illinois improved its hit-ting percentage from .177 to .210 and held the Wild-cats to a .071 hitting per-centage — 66 points lower than the mark they hit on Wednesday.

“I thought our passing was a lot better,” Birks said after Saturday’s match. “There were a lot of things

that we were more focused on (Saturday). We talked about paying attention to details and I think we did that.”

Updating the conference standings

With just three weeks left in the regular season, the No. 12 Illini sit firmly in third place in the Big Ten standings. Wednesday’s loss to the Wildcats may subma-rine the Illini’s chances at the regular season confer-ence title — Illinois is now two games behind first-place Wisconsin in the standings.

The Badgers claimed the first meeting between the two teams at Huff Hall on Oct. 4, although the two teams will square off Nov. 19 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Penn State is in second place, one game behind Wis-consin, with a 12-2 record in Big Ten play.

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

Bad things are always swept under the rug.

I believe humans are inherently positive. Opti-mism tugs at the heart of every person, especially in sports. That’s why anyone involved with sports loves underdogs, comeback kids and redemption stories.

But does that positiv-ity mean we lose sight of important things?

The NFL season is in full swing and both fans and media alike are wrapped up in all the on-field storylines this season has produced. Are the Patriots for real? Is Peyton Manning the great-est ever? Are the Bears

really that bad?But, we’ve all been duped

by our own positivity; we forgot what really matters.

The NFL is destroying people’s brains, and we’ve forgotten about that.

Sounds dramatic, right?In August 2013, a set-

tlement worth nearly $800 million was reached between the NFL and thousands of former play-ers who claimed to suffer from football-induced head injuries.

That settlement was mod-ified in July of this year in an effort to remove a cap on the damages that may be paid to current and former players. Both happened dur-ing the offseason and gar-nered significant attention. For context, $800 million could buy any one of sev-eral different professional sports franchises.

I’m not a doctor. I don’t know the exact specifics of dementia, Alzheimer’s or chronic traumatic encepha-lopathy (commonly known as CTE).

But I have had a concussion.

I was concussed during my senior season of high school football during a game against our biggest rival. I don’t know on which play I was concussed, but that’s not because I blacked out or lost vision; in fact, I suspect it was on a play during which I wasn’t even knocked to the ground.

My head hurt after the Friday night game, but if you play football, your head usually hurts after a game; you just pop two ibuprofen tablets and expect to feel better in the morning.

The next Monday morn-ing I was diagnosed with

a mild concussion by the school’s athletic trainer. My head hurt for the next three weeks, but after being concussed on Oct. 19, I returned to play in my final football game ever just a month later.

I only played serious var-sity football for two years. I wasn’t a lineman or a linebacker or a running back. I was a wide receiv-er who caught just a single pass my entire high school career. I made twenty or thirty tackles on defense at corner and safety and nev-er really got “hurt” on any big hits.

But what about practices? What about those hundreds of hits I absorbed during Oklahoma drills, blocking drills or during full-team scrimmages?

I loved playing football, and if I had to choose, I’d do

it all again in a heartbeat.Did you really care all

that much about my high school football career?

You probably didn’t, but it’s the best example I have of how many hits a foot-ball player takes simply in a career that extends until the age of 17. Double that and you’re looking at the age of current Bears’ line-backer Lance Briggs, who turns 34 on Wednesday. How many hits has he tak-en? How many concussions has he suffered?

We’ve forgotten about concussions. It seems to just be a hot topic during the offseason, but it needs to be a topic now.

Carson Palmer tore his ACL on Sunday, and on the NFL’s Week 10 inju-ry report, there were 84 players with knee-related injuries, compared to 22

players listed with head injuries. But don’t think for one moment that head injuries aren’t the most common injury in the NFL right now, because they are.

Honestly, I don’t know how the NFL can address brain injuries. I’m not an expert, but I do know that the NFL should be held accountable and not just financially accountable. On the issue of concus-sions, as well as on a host of other things, including domestic violence, I know the NFL needs to be held accountable.

It needs to be held mor-ally accountable.

Peter is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at baileyw2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @pbaileywells22.

When healthy, Chi-cago Bulls’ point guard Derrick Rose

is an unbelievable talent — arguably one of the top-five players in the NBA.

The key words, however, are when healthy. For the past two years, Rose has been anything but that.

Prior to this season, Rose had played only 10 games out of 162 regular season games. Already in this short season, Rose has missed four games due to minor injuries to both his ankles.

What is most disappoint-ing about Rose’s continu-ous injuries is his inability to play through them.

Sure, injuries are a part of the game, but when you are just a little banged up or are able to play through the pain, you should be out on the floor. Minor aches and bruises should not keep players off the floor on a consistent basis.

Now, I’m not saying Rose should play no matter what his injury is, conse-quently risking the longev-ity of his career as well as the Bulls’ franchise. What I am saying is as a Bulls’ fan, I need to see more out of him on the court.

It’s no secret that Rose is the key to the Bulls’ sea-son. If they want any shot at being a serious champi-onship contender this year or in the near future, Rose needs to be playing at his best.

Rose’s teammates have played through pain in the past, so why can’t he?

Center Joakim Noah has been playing through plan-tar fasciitis in his right foot the past few seasons. Plantar fasciitis is a pain-ful condition that affects the heel of one’s foot due to ligament damage to the foot’s plantar fascia. Not only has Noah played through the pain, he has done so at an extremely high level, winning the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award and being named to the NBA All-First Team a year ago.

Bulls’ forward Jimmy

Butler is another Chicago Bull who is playing despite not being completely healthy. Butler sprained his left thumb late in the preseason and was expect-ed to miss the first week of the season. However, But-ler has fought through this pain and has only missed one game this year. He is a key reason for Chicago’s early season success.

I hope Rose is taking note.

By constantly missing time, Rose is hurting his team. The sporadic inser-tion and removal of Rose in the lineup causes the team’s rhythm and chem-istry to be totally out of sync. With several key additions, the team needs time to mesh together but cannot do so if the most important player is always on the bench.

Two years ago, after Rose tore his ACL for the first time, he was declared ready to play by doctors, right around the start of the playoffs. For whatev-er reason, Rose decided not to come back, leav-ing his teammates and his city hopeless. This

was the first time he had done so, but it was just the beginning.

While I will never understand the wear and tear put on the body of a professional athlete or the day-to-day grind of the NBA, I do understand the concept of responsibility.

I understand that as the superstar of your team, the most integral part of your teammates’ success, it is your responsibility to be on the court when you can.

Rose cannot continue to force his teammates to carry the load when the team is built around him. It’s not fair to the team, the fans or the city of Chicago.

It’s very simple: When Rose is on the floor, he is magical. The Bulls are magical. The United Cen-ter is magical.

I just hope him being on the court becomes as sim-ple as it sounds.

Mubarak is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at msalami2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @justmubar.

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Illinois hockey disappointed with home splits

A!er week against Wildcats, Illini sit at third in standings

BY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER

The Illini did not have much momentum in the first and second periods during Saturday’s loss to Aurora. In the third period, however, Illinois looked more aggres-sive and nearly mounted a comeback.

Head coach Nick Fabbri-ni credits his team’s senior leadership with sparking the third period run.

“A lot of it came from the older guys on the team,” Fab-brini said. “We’ve got pretty good senior leadership and I know that they were fired up in between periods and after the game. I think some pride took over.”

Senior forward Jacob Matysiak was one of the lead-ers that started the third peri-od rally.

“We got the boys togeth-er on the bench and I told them, ‘Let’s get a goal right here,’ we ended up getting two quick goals, which was huge,” Matysiak said. “(In the) third period, we kind of regrouped, we knew their backs were against the wall and they knew we were com-ing and we did bring it for a little bit, but it was just too late in the game.”

Illini unhappy with split at home

Friday’s win snapped a three-game losing streak for Illinois. After taking Friday’s game, the Illini hoped to win on Saturday and complete the sweep against Aurora.

“I thought we should have smoked them both games,” Matysiak said.

Matysiak felt the only dif-ference in Friday and Satur-

day’s games was that Auro-ra was more aggressive on Saturday.

“We were soft all-around and they won pretty much every battle up to the second period,” Matysiak said. “We didn’t want it as much as the other team did.”

Splitting a series at home is something the Illini try to avoid, according to Fabbrini.

“Nobody’s happy,” Fabbri-ni said. “Splits are not what we’re looking for, especial-ly at home. We’re too good of a team to come out and play like this, especially in front of our home fans.”

The Illini’s next opportuni-ty at home will be this week-end against Iowa State.

Players face less ice timeAfter committing only five

penalties in Friday night’s win over Aurora, the Illini were penalized 11 times in Saturday’s 7-4 loss.

Three of Aurora’s sev-en goals came off of power plays. Fabbrini felt that hav-ing some of his top players in the penalty box hurts his team’s ability to get more shots on goal.

In a game where tensions ran high, Fabbrini thought his team lost composure, and as a result, committed ill-advised penalties. To solve this problem, Fabbrini thinks he must start limiting ice time for some of his players.

“The only thing that chang-es decision-making around here is lack of playing time,” Fabbrini said.

Matt can be reached at gertsme2 @dailyillini.com and on Twitter @MattGertsmeier.

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jocelynn Birks spikes the ball past Northwestern’s block during the volleyball game versus Northwestern at Huff Hall on Saturday. Birks is on pace to break the program record for kills at Illinois.

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ head coach Nick Fabbrini observes his team during the game versus Aurora University at the Ice Arena on Friday.

CHRIS SWEDA TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose scores under the basket in the first half against the Cleveland Cavaliers at the United Center in Chicago on Oct. 1.

MUBARAK SALAMI

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While baseball and football are consid-ered America’s pastimes, rugby is a sport that is rapidly gaining popularity and atten-tion in the United States.

Not only is rugby growing nationwide, but it is also becoming more relevant here at the University thanks to the Illinois men’s rugby team.

“Technically, Illinois men’s rugby is a club sport. However, we take it as seri-ously as a varsity sport when it comes to practicing, competing and representing our school,” said Rich Daniels, vice presi-dent of the team.

Rugby is one of the fastest growing team sports in America of the past fi ve years according to the Sports and Fitness Indus-try Association, and rugby participation grew almost 350 percent in the United States between 2004 and 2011 alone.

Perhaps the area of the country that has seen the biggest boom in the prevalence of rugby is the Midwest, and popularity has grown specifi cally in Illinois. Earlier this month, Chicago’s Soldier Field played host

to the most-attended international match on U.S. soil ever, with a crowd of 61,500. Even though the USA Eagles lost to the New Zealand All Blacks, this undoubted-ly shows the increase in the popularity of rugby in the Midwest.

The Illinois men’s rugby club wants to try to con-tinue this upward trend of popularity in the Unit-ed States while also trying to increase participation on the Champaign-Urba-na campus. One of the many ways the club does this is by competing in the most competitive division of collegiate rugby in the nation, Division 1-A. Col-legiate rugby is operated by USA Rugby, and is not controlled by the NCAA.

“As a D1-A team, it is imperative that we help grow rugby so that we can appeal to athletes on campus to help grow our team,” Daniels explained. “If we fail to do this, we will quickly fall behind, because each

year the league becomes more and more competitive.”

Rugby will also be a part of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, which has given the sport increased media atten-tion and has contributed further to the

growth of the sport world-wide. Rugby has not been in the Olympics since the 1924 games in Paris.

Daniels is as excited as any rugby fan in the country.

“Having rugby in the Olympics is huge for the growth of the sport in the U.S.,” Daniels said. “It is another opportunity for elite athletes to show them-selves and represent their country on an internation-al scale. We are very excit-

ed to see how this will affect our genera-tion and future generations of the game.”

Rugby is gaining attention and popularity faster than any other sport in the nation, but Daniels and his team are anything but

satisfi ed.“For Illinois men’s rugby, our ultimate

goal is to reach as many people as possi-ble on campus and introduce them to the game,” Daniels said. “One of the only things holding us back is the fact that rugby is still foreign to many people. But, if we could somehow familiarize the game with ath-letes and the University of Illinois com-munity in general, we could have a much larger impact in collegiate rugby as well as have more support and a larger follow-ing on campus.”

For Illinois men’s rugby, playing the sport is not only a hobby, but a passion, and the team’s goal is to get other students on campus to fall in love with rugby the same way that the team has.

While the fall rugby season may be com-ing to a close, Illinois will be back in action in the spring as the team continues to help the growth and development of rugby on campus.

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF ILLINOIS MEN’S RUGBYThe Illinois men’s rugby team is a club sport, although the club is working to promote its popularity on campus. The team is in the most competitive league, Division 1-A, operated by USA Rugby and not by the NCAA.

“We are very excited to see how this will affect our generation

and future generations of the game.”

RICH DANIELSILLINOIS RUGBY VICE PRESIDENT

With rugby joining the Olympics in 2016, Illini men’s team looking to capitalize on sport’s rapid growth