BY CAMILLE MURRAYSTAFF WRITER

While many shoppers fl ocked to big box stores and retail chains this Black Friday, several local busi-nesses offered their own holiday specials.

Various shops and ser-vices throughout Cham-paign, Urbana and Savoy launched sales in honor of Black Friday and its online counterpart, Cyber Monday. Shoppers had an assortment of local deals to choose from, including sales and discounts at busi-

nesses such as Art Mart, Checkered Moon, Carle Auxiliary Resale Boutique and Babyland. For some stores, the holiday weekend helped bring larger packs of customers.

“Since there’s a lot of families that come togeth-er this weekend, the people that come in our store have been in bigger crowds,” said Mahetom Eatoma, a store and warehouse asso-ciate at Babyland in Savoy.

However, Black Friday isn’t the only day local businesses use to promote

sales. For many, the days leading up to or following Black Friday have become the main promotional focus, due to competition with bigger stores.

“We defi nitely had less

customers,” said Mary Gorman, assistant man-ager at Briella’s Boutique in Savoy. “It was defi nite-ly slower in here. I think

BY ELYSSA KAUFMANSTAFF WRITER

Due to recent allegations of sexual assault, upcoming performances by popular comedian Bill Cosby were canceled at Champaign’s Virginia Theatre.

“This is the fi rst time the theatre has had this type of situation,” said Joe DeLu-ce, executive director of the Champaign Park District. “The show has been can-celed because of the alle-gations continuing to grow, and it was not appropriate to show him at this time.”

So far, 20 women have publicly accused Cosby of sexual assault.

The decision was made by the Champaign Park District Board of Commis-sioners, the executive direc-tor of the park district and

director of the Virginia Theatre.

Cosby was scheduled to perform two shows on April 11. In the past, DeLuce said the Virginia Theatre has only canceled shows due to a lack of ticket sales.

“We feel that by canceling the show, we have said what we need to say,” DeLuce said.

Cosby’s alma mater, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, also cut ties with the comedian, announcing he will no longer be a part of the school’s $300 million fund-raising campaign, accord-ing to Tribune News Ser-vice. Cosby received a Ph.D. in Education from the univer-sity in 1977.

The Berklee College of Music will no longer award scholarships in Cosby’s name, and he was removed from the board of advisors of High Point University.

Elyssa can be reached at eskaufm2@dailyillini.com.

BY FARAZ MIRZASTAFF WRITER

For Patricia Starks, a vet-eran deployed in Iraq from 2009 to 2010, it was hard to fi nd common ground with other students when she fi rst came to the Universi-ty in 2011.

“The challenges that I faced as a student veteran were assimilating back into and not knowing too much about the student lifestyle,” said Starks, vice president of Illini Veterans. “Being older and being amongst students who are 18 years old was challenging.”

In hopes of better relat-ing to veterans and help-ing them assimilate into universities, the College of AHS will open a Center for Wounded Veterans in High-er Education in Fall 2015. The center will focus on providing services to sup-port injured veterans and their families through high-er education as they pursue their academic degrees.

Though primarily funded by the Chez Family Foun-dation, the $14 million cen-ter also received an undis-closed amount of funding from the state and a num-ber of private donors, said Kyle Kostelecky, director of the center .

Kostelecky said the cen-ter, which has been in the planning stages for several years, aims to support all those who have been “griev-ously injured”, while giving them the opportunity to go to school and realize the dream of a career they may have not thought possible.

The construction was approved at a Board of Trustees meeting on Jan. 24, 2013. Starks said before the construction for the cen-ter began, the University took the fi rst steps toward helping disabled student veterans by constructing a Student Veteran Lounge in the Illini Union base-ment, where disabled vet-erans can go to study, relax or talk.

Although the lounge cur-rently remains separate from the center, Starks said it has the potential to be combined in the near future.

“The center falls under the Applied Health Sci-ence college, while the Stu-dent Veteran Lounge falls under the Veteran Student Support Services,” Starks said. “I think in the future

what the student veterans would love to see is collabo-ration and a connection that encompasses it all.”

The University, which has been serving students with disabilities since 1948, has been ranked 37th on the Military Times’ 2015 list of “Best for Vets” colleges. Colleges are put on this list based on the accommoda-tions and services they offer to military and veteran stu-dents, as well as an assess-ment of the students’ suc-cess rates.

Starks, a senior and social media strategist for the Cen-ter for Wounded Veterans, said that the idea of the cen-ter is to have veterans that are already on campus guide incoming disabled veterans and serve as mentors.

“I think the big thing is that it’s a way to con-nect the student veterans who don’t suffer from any major injuries versus those who are looking to receive a very expensive and severe rehab, to build a relation-ship among them and a sup-port network,” Starks said.

Starks said the Illini Veterans have also raised

BOWL BOUND

W ith Saturday’s 47-33 win over rival North-western in

Evanston, Illinois football became bowl eligible for the fi rst time since 2011. Illinois (6-6, 3-5 Big Ten) is likely heading to either the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit or the Heart of Dallas Bowl in Dal-las. Both games are Dec. 26.

Illinois Athletic Direc-tor Mike Thomas also announced Sunday that head coach Tim Beckman would return for the 2015 season.

The bowl appearance will

be the team’s fi rst under Beckman after a 2-10 sea-son in 2012 and a 4-8 season last year.

“Our student-athletes have played their best foot-ball of the season down the stretch of a tough schedule that included nine bowl-eligi-ble opponents,” Thomas said in a press release from the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics. “It’s my expecta-tion that with the upcoming bowl and another off-season of development, that Tim’s continued leadership will keep Fighting Illini football

moving forward and even more competitive in the con-ference and nationally.”

Illinois beat Penn State and Northwestern in con-secutive weeks to end the season, qualifying for the postseason with the win over the Wildcats on Satur-day. It was Beckman’s fi rst victory in the Illini’s rival-ry game with Northwestern.

Beckman will make $1.9 million next season. He is under contract for two more seasons. There was no mention of a contract extension in the DIA’s press release. There was also no mention of any coaching changes among Beckman’s assistants.

“This is all about our team

and the seniors who are our leaders,” Beckman said Sun-day. “We all understand that this is a work in progress and that we need to continue moving forward in a posi-tive way. I’m very proud of our six wins so far this sea-son and the toughness we showed down the stretch.”

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Criminal damage to property was reported at the Alpha Chi Rho fraterni-ty, 311 E. Armory, around 6 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, a window was damaged.

Disorderly conduct was reported in the 300 block of South Second Street around

8 p.m. Friday.According to the report,

the victim’s neighbor con-fronted him while holding a knife.

Theft was reported in the 500 block of West Heal-ey Street around 7 p.m. Fri-day.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole packages from the victim.

University Identity theft was re-

ported around 4 p.m. Tues-day.

According to the report, a student believes some-one used his ID to open ac-counts and purchase items.

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Today’s BirthdaySpread your wings this year. Jot down your wildest ambitions before 12/23, when a new personal power phase launches (through 12/19/17). Clarify plans over summer. Entertaining travels and adventures arise through August, when your career grows. Domestic changes after 3/20 hold your focus. Love ! ourishes naturally.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is a 9 — Separate business from personal. Work smart, not hard. Make the commitment you’ve been considering. Stick to the standards you’ve set. Reinforce your ideology with facts. Keep digging and " nd what you’re looking for. Pour on the steam and results surpass imagination.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is an 8 — Study for more options. Think it over before making big decisions. Bring in an expert with practical experience. Complete an emotionally charged project. Work at home if possible, and take advantage for simultaneous lounging and productivity. Get comfortable, and crack those books.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is a 7 — Handle your end of the business, especially details. Magnify the impact by collaborating with partners and friends. Your discipline

is admirable. Clean up and organize. Refurbish an old piece you can’t part with. Make sure you get what you bargained for. Follow your heart.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is a 7 — Today’s work leads to career advancement. Fix something before it breaks. Fit short-term tasks to your long-range plans. Stay in close communication with your team. Make sure everyone has what they need to get the job done. Chop wood, carry water.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is an 8 — Work out like you mean it. Greater effort wins greater reward. Get help with the heavy lifting, and get household chores out of the way. An amazing discovery unveils. Set work aside a bit early. Repay a favor. The action is behind the scenes.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 7 — It’s smart to work hard now. An older friend provides just what you need. Group effort pays off big. Collaborate to grow family resources. Take care of others and your own needs get met. Disciplined actions get results. Store those nuts for winter.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is an 8 — Get into action! A collaboration’s red hot. Consider the future result desired, and then look back to get the logical previous step, to the present. You’re gaining notoriety, respect and income. A business opportunity is there for the taking.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is a 9 — Put your back into your work and a fat haul is possible. Do what you promised, and stick to the

plan. Use a friend’s in! uence to advance even farther. Provide excellent, respectful service. Satisfy your clients. Grasp a business opportunity.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is a 7 — Your desires and effort seem aligned. Find ways to economize. Don’t let go of what you’ve achieved. Let your partner take the lead. Handle business along the way. Action comes easily, and things fall together effortlessly. This could get fun.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is an 8 — The next two days are good for making changes at home. Make household decisions and clean up a mess. Neatness counts. Increase peace with compassion. Take care of business. Get in action on an old project. Then think of the places you can go.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 7 — Work smart for career advancement. Keep track of earnings. A business opportunity comes your way. Go by the book, and go for it. Your ability to concentrate seems extra keen for the next two days. Study, without pressure. Find safe places to stash your treasure.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is an 8 — Business takes center stage, and it’s starting to heat up. Let your subconscious mind solve the problem. Your work now pushes your career in an enticing direction. Improve your working environment and increase your family’s comfort. Set your infrastructure up to support everyone.

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Maybe not since the Pig War has a San Juan Islands farmer caused such a rhubarb.

Of course, that little 19th century border dispute didn’t get a lot of press beyond the swirling kelp beds of Rosario Strait.

In 2012, a humble farmer in the off-the-beaten-track archipelago fired anoth-er shot — purely a politi-cal one this time — in the form of a citizen initiative. Like the fi rst skirmish, it raised few eyebrows. But it might help shape Northwest agriculture.

The subject: GMOs, or genetically modifi ed organ-isms, and the crops grown from them.

Depending on who’s talk-ing, either GMOs will save the world from climate change and feed human-

ity — all 9.6 billion of us, as projected by 2050 — or they’ll corrupt the natural order and bring the “Silent Spring” that much sooner.

From San Juan County the crop ban has spread to Oregon, where two coun-ties passed bans in May. In the past year lawmakers in Connecticut, Maine and Vermont passed measures aimed at labeling of GMO foods.

Labeling is the same issue that last fall in Washington state generated a record $21 million “no” campaign — bankrolled by such large companies as Monsanto and Coca-Cola — before 51 per-cent of voters rejected the idea (the same margin as in California a year earlier). The defeat was even nar-rower this month in Ore-gon, where the issue again attracted record spending.

When Lopez Islander Ken Akopiantz fi led his San Juan County initiative in 2012, he just wanted to protect the purity of bucolic spreads. .

Yet the Union of Con-cerned Scientists warns about the potential for new

allergens, and San Juan Island’s Bruce Gregory cites the creation of “super-weeds” immune to Roundup.

So the debate continues as life goes on. Marney Reyn-olds now heads GMO-Free San Juans (gmofreesjc.org), dedicated to educat-ing islanders on the issue.

Two years after passage of his initiative, Ken Ako-piantz isn’t doing anything

much different. If the San Juan law helps

change the outside world, it seems of only minor con-cern to him. 95 percent of what he grows on Lopez stays on Lopez. He and his wife, Kathryn, like it that way. They rarely have to go anywhere else to market their products.

“We don’t like going any-where else,” he says.

BY FATIMA FARHASTAFF WRITER

Cats are natural hunt-ers. When they are cooped up inside a house that does not let them hunt, they may become agitated and behave in ways that are hos-tile to their owners and oth-ers around them.

To combat this problem, three electrical and com-puter engineering gradu-ate students have created a robotic mouse called Mousr.

The modern cat toy is the fi rst product of a start-up company called Petronics, founded by ECE students Michael Friedman, Dave Cohen and David Jun.

Friedman said the mouse will behave like a real mouse, giving cats the chance to behave the way they naturally would.

“This gives them a chance to really hunt something that moves with intelligence as opposed to something like current electronic toys that just sit and spin around randomly,” Friedman said. “And, it’ll move according to how the cat chases it.”

After attending a four-month crash course in Chi-na, the group built the fi rst prototype in 2013, which they introduced to their own cats.

Jun said Mousr is actu-ally aware of its surround-ings, something that elec-

tronic toys have never been able to do.

According to Cohen, the cat can feel like it is hunt-ing, as opposed to when it plays with its owner.

“Even when you play with your cat you’ll get them a lot more excited, but our belief is that they still know that they are playing,” Cohen said. “It’s still not the same thing as hunting because they can see you playing, and it’s a game for them.”

The students agree that the project has required more than just engineering. Particularly, the group said business and marketing are what will help Mousr thrive.

To help push Mousr into the global market, Petron-ics is using Kickstarter, which allows them to raise funds from the public by advertising the device online.

With its Kickstarter, Petronics hopes to gain suf-fi cient funding for its proj-ect to further develop it.

As of print time, the team has reached their goal of $100,000 in funding with almost 800 backers on the project and fi ve days left of the campaign.

The website includes background information about the device, the prog-ress the design has made so far and photos to adver-tise the product, along with a video showing the latest

product, and a sadly hilari-ous series of depressed cats with their current toys.

According to the web-site, Mousr is “the most engaging cat toy ever built. Period.”

Kickstarter incorporates a concept called crowd-sourcing, which brings together thousands of users to work toward a large goal that would be impossible for an individual.

“None of us have this kind of cash,” Jun said. “But if you open it up to the Inter-net, and a thousand people can donate $10 or $20, and all of a sudden you would get the kind of capital you need to make this a reality.”

Since advertising their device online, Cohen said they have found Mousr is something people want to support.

“Being able to see all these people who we don’t know looking at this thing and putting down a hundred dollars or more for a toy for their cat is really cool and it’s validating what we’re doing, and we’re really onto something that people want to see in their homes,” Cohen said.

Other ECE graduate students, such as Andres Guzman-Ballen have sup-ported the project through donations and hope to see it grow.

“By having a robot that

would actually respond to the way a cat behaves would be much more fun for the cat interacting,” Guzman-Ballen said. “I have a lot of hope for what the device is going to be.”

Petronics hopes to con-tinue to stay based in Cham-paign because of the numer-ous resources available at the University.

Cohen said the communi-

ty at the University is “very approachable” and works to “make things happen.”

As for future plans, Cohen said they hope to fur-ther develop the device and incorporate artifi cial intel-ligence so it will be able to interact not only with cats, but also with humans.

Fatima can be reached at news@dailyillini.com.

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State’s lawmakers debate labeling, banning GMOs

Severance denied for Wilson

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PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID JUNMousr now has 360 degree vision, eyes that change color to indicate its mood or battery level as well as interchangeable tails, and there are hopes for even more improvement.

everybody’s doing their big shopping, getting their TVs and their really big pur-chases on Black Friday.”

The day after Black Fri-day, called “Small Business Saturday” has become a big selling day for local busi-nesses. American Express launched the fi rst Small Business Saturday in 2010 with the hopes of encour-aging shoppers to buy from smaller businesses to help support their communities.

Katie Turk, manager of Karen’s Kloset in Cham-

paign, said Small Busi-ness Saturday is her store’s main focus because it is diffi cult for their business to compete with the bigger sales held at larger store chains.

“(Black Friday) just doesn’t really fi t into our pricing structure; we’re not really able to compete with those huge discounts,” Turk said. “So we really focus on Small Business Saturday, and just reach-ing out to customers to say, ‘Come in on Saturday, it’s a good time.’ It’s a fun type of atmosphere that we offer.”

In addition to the wide-

spread sales held on Fri-day, Saturday and Monday, consumers are also being encouraged to participate in one of the newer pro-motional holidays — Giv-ing Tuesday.

The idea behind the day is for nonprofi ts. Fami-lies, businesses and peo-ple around the world have the opportunity to come together to celebrate gen-erosity and give more to others.

According to the Illinois Donors Forum, the state’s goal for this year’s Giving Tuesday is to raise $12 mil-lion from 100,000 individu-al donors and Illinois non-

profi ts in one day. The Courage Connec-

tion program in Champaign County will be one of the local organizations par-ticipating in Giving Tues-day, held Dec. 2. Their goal this holiday is to provide 31 safe nights of shelter. People can donate to the cause through the Courage Connection website, which states that $60 can provide shelter and supportive ser-vices for a single woman, and $185 can provide the same for a family.

Camille can be reached at cmurra24@dailyillini.com.

money for the center over the past two years through fundraisers, including the Illini Veterans Memorial 5K held in April.

“We see it as a place that is a national resource,” Kostelecky said. “We hope to and expect to serve wounded and disabled vet-erans from all over the country.”

Kostelecky said this cen-ter will provide a “compre-hensive, holistic” service to the veterans, not only assisting them in academ-

ics, but also helping them learn to adjust to the chal-lenges presented by their disabilities.

He also said the third fl oor of the building will be able to house up to a dozen of wounded veterans that need care throughout the day, while the center con-tinues to support 150 to 165 more students not in need of persistent care.

“There’s no other center in the country, at any Uni-versity, that does anything like this,” Kostelecky said.

Faraz can be reached at famirza2@dailyillini.com.

VETERANSFROM 1A

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“This gives them a chance to really hunt something that moves with intelligence.”MICHAEL FRIEDMANPETRONICS FOUNDER AND UI ALUMNUS

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Scientists say worried over what climate change means for sea life

California’s Proposition 47, a ballot measure that reduced penalties for cer-tain crimes, has already led to the release of hundreds of jail and prison inmates statewide and inundated courts with scores of appli-cations from people who want their records cleansed of felonies.

The retroactive measure

reduced several nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors — slashing sentences for those in prison — and made it pos-sible for people who were convicted decades ago to have their felony records disappear. Judges expect that tens of thousands of Californians may seek to have felony convictions reduced.

Two decades after the U.S. began to scale back its nuclear forces after the Cold War, a number of mili-tary strategists, scientists and congressional leaders are calling for a new gen-eration of hydrogen bombs.

Warheads in the nation’s stockpile are an average of

27 years old, raising seri-ous concerns about their reliability, they say. Pro-vocative nuclear threats by Russian President Vlad-imir Putin have added to the pressure to not only design new weapons, but also to conduct underground tests for the fi rst time since 1992.

To those shopping at the Nordstrom department store off North Michigan Avenue Sunday, it was just a normal day at the luxury department store.

A few employees exchanged hugs in the accessories department on the fi rst fl oor where police say Marcus Dee, 31, shot his ex-girlfriend Friday night

before turning the gun on himself in what police described as a domestic-related shooting.

Nadia Ezaldein, 22, was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon after she had been put on life support. Ezaldein had been work-ing at the store as a sea-sonal employee since Oct. 21, Darrow said.

The 2014 Atlantic hurri-cane season, which ended Sunday, extended Florida’s increasingly remarkable run: For the ninth straight year, the longest stretch on record, not a single hurri-cane struck the state.

It’s the kind of lucky

streak residents love and forecasters fear.

Forecasters worry about growing public complacen-cy, because when it comes to hurricanes in Florida, calm never lasts. The longest pre-vious respite lasted only fi ve seasons, from 1980 to 1984.

The shellfi sh pathogen that hit California’s Channel Islands in the 1980s began to quickly kill one of the tide-land’s most important ani-mals — black abalone.

But what unnerved scien-tists was what they learned next: Whenever ocean waters grew warmer, the deadly infection known

as withering syndrome spread and killed even more abalone.

By the 2000s, this phe-nomenon had helped trans-form black abalone into an endangered species—and a symbol of how much climate change may one day infl u-ence the spread of marine diseases.

BY STEVE GIEGERICHTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEFERGUSON, Mo. — Mayor James Knowles III Sunday announced measures intended to increase the minority presence in the police force, open a dialogue between residents and law enforcement and encourage more offi cers to reside in Ferguson.

In a message directed at activists continuing to protest the death of Michael Brown, Knowles said that the city will not award a severance pack-age to Darren Wilson, the Fer-guson offi cer who resigned Saturday nearly four months after shooting Brown on a Ferguson street.

“As far as the city of Fer-guson is concerned we have now severed ties with Offi cer Darren Wilson,” the mayor said at a news conference. “It is important for us to talk about issues directly related to the city of Ferguson and what issues we can directly address as a city moving for-ward to bring our community together.”

Knowles said Wilson informed Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson of the res-ignation by telephone. A res-

ignation letter was delivered to the city attorney Saturday night, several hours after Wil-son’s lawyers released its con-tents to the news media.

A decision by a St. Louis County grand jury not to fi le criminal charges against Wil-son in Brown’s death sparked renewed rioting Monday night.

Demonstrations in the ensuing days — including protests at area shopping malls over the holiday week-end — have remained mostly peaceful.

Knowles listed a series of initiatives the city is under-taking to “bridge the gap” between members of the com-munity “who feel there is a divide between them and law enforcement.”

Chief among those steps is a previously announced civil-ian review board, compris-ing residents, business own-ers and law enforcement, to address grievances arising from interactions between police and residents.

Knowles also said the city will redouble its effort to recruit minority offi cers through a tuition agreement with the police academy.

Knowles indicated he is not

optimistic that Wilson’s res-ignation and the measures announced Sunday will bring an end to protests over police tactics which, spawned by Brown’s death, have spread nationwide.

“I think people will con-tinue to express frustration and look for change,” the mayor said. “But I hope peo-ple understand that the city of Ferguson has been respon-sive. We hope that will help bring the community of Fer-guson together, and I hope others will start to recognize that going forward.”

In a statement issued Sat-

urday night, a group of local activists announced they have no intention of slowing a movement dedicated to what they believe is gaining justice on behalf of Brown.

“While we feel pain and anger along with many other members of the community, we have not participated in and will not participate in acts of violence against people or damage to local businesses,” the statement says.

“We will continue to protest peacefully and look for ways in which we can help enact changes and improvements in our community. ”

ROBERT COHEN TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEFerguson Mayor James Knowles, right, delivers a statement during the fi rst meeting of the Ferguson City Council on Sept. 9 following the police shooting of Michael Brown.

KEN LAMBERT TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEKen Akopiantz of Horse Drawn Farms prepares a fi eld for replanting using a cultivator, almost 100 years old, hitched to his horses, Dave and Jim, on Lopez Island, Wash. Akopiantz spearheaded San Juan County’s ban on GMO crops.

This week, social media played one of the most important and illuminating

roles in current events thus far. Facebook and Twitter exploded after news that the grand jury of the Ferguson, Missouri case ruled not to indict a police offi-cer after shooting an unarmed 18 year old, Michael Brown.

Though it is certainly argu-able to infinite ends now that the case evidence has been released (and seemingly every-one is an expert), the decision of the grand jury in Missouri not to take this case to trial is final. The 12 members of the jury spent time looking at evi-dence more thoroughly than I will ever be able to, and thus this column is not going to try to examine evidence to prove a point contrary to what the jury decided.

Of course, the news chan-nels flocked to cover Fergu-son like it was a war zone or pre-game at the Super Bowl, and the population followed suit, taking strident stances on starkly opposing ideologi-cal sides. Another unarmed black man was shot and killed by the police, and in a city that is already the sixth most segregated city in the United

States, racial tensions started to explode.

In the inevitable firestorm of political commentary that fol-lowed the verdict announce-ment, I learned that there is a sadly sizeable portion of my Facebook acquaintances who apparently have no memory of the Civil Rights era, and one Facebook friend even stated that the police should turn the water cannons on the protes-tors in Ferguson — a clear ref-erence to brutal police tactics used in Birmingham, Ala-bama during the Civil Rights movement.

That comment got eight “likes” on Facebook.

Think about that for a sec-ond — this is a tactic that was employed by cruel police chiefs to oppress African-Ameri-cans’ political advancement in the 1960s and upon its invo-cation in a modern context, it was “liked” by this particular Facebook audience more than it was opposed. I don’t know if the person who posted this comment (and those who sub-sequently supported it) never paid attention in any history class after second grade, or if they just live in a literal bubble, but either way, this is one of many obscene instances that occurred following the verdict announcement played on the field of social media.

Posting something like this to Facebook or Twitter, with

no inkling of historical context or prior research, is almost unthinkable. All students see idiotic opinions posted to Face-book every day, but when it gets racial, I’ve realized that maybe Facebook and Twitter are an outlet to be used spar-ingly when it comes to large, controversial issues.

Too many people say blatant-ly inaccurate and provocative things across these mediums — and too often, it’s considered a source of news.

What one can gather from the reaction, however, is that we (myself included) are quick to form opinions or leave com-ments about things we haven’t really had the chance to exam-ine. I believe wholeheartedly in the idea that we should all be able to post whatever we want to our own personal forums — I like to write, and Facebook and Twitter provide an instant out-let for that.

After this week, though, when I found out through social media that many of my friends can’t even admit that white privilege exists or understand basic important aspects of his-tory from 50 years ago, per-haps the instantaneous nature of these sites does more harm than it does good.

However, many of our social media behaviors are indicative of an underlying problem — racial tensions in America still absolutely exist, and we are far

from a post-racial society.If we don’t recognize our

problem, there’s no way we can fix it, and thus, if you posted to Facebook suggesting that police turn water cannons on protestors, you are part of the problem. If you are someone who posted to Facebook perpet-uating this ignorance by refer-ring to all protestors, peaceful or not, as “thugs” or “pieces of trash” (as I saw from two sepa-rate friends), you, too, are a part of the problem.

If you deny that there is a problem, you’re part of the problem.

If social media’s response to Ferguson has taught me one thing, it’s that what’s really important isn’t debating about the specifics of a case none of us will probably fully under-stand (especially when the details are a little fuzzy), but, rather, admitting and focusing on fixing broader, more system-ic problems that Ferguson has illuminated.

We need changes that address police brutality, mili-tarism and transparency alike, but by unfortunate coincidence, these larger problems often times get obscured, no matter how badly we need them, and social media is often not of any help.

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

A few weeks ago at my sorority chapter, we had a special guest speak-

er: University police officer Ryan Snow. He came to talk to us about self-defense during attacks and possible instances of sexual assault.

At one point, he asked us if we wore heels and skirts when we went out.

My stomach immediately hit the floor — I was not about to sit through a lecture of him telling us that sexual assault is a woman’s fault if she’s wear-ing a certain type of clothing, which seems to be a pattern.

But that’s not the direction he was headed, luckily.

Instead, he asked us to con-sider how that would affect us if we were under attack. For example, do we think we would be able to run away easily with heels on?

When our answer was no, he nodded in agreement. But then he explained: That doesn’t mean don’t wear heels out, nec-essarily, but if you do, don’t use running as your defense mechanism.

A heel is pretty effective when you use it for defensive

stomping, after all.A talk I was initially ner-

vous about ended up teach-ing me the importance of self-defense and taking my safety into my own hands. It’s impos-sible to rely on others to save you before an attack happens. Instead, we have to start rely-ing on ourselves to combat potential attackers.

Acts of aggression seem to be approached with “Oh, it won’t happen to me” atti-tudes. But, in reality, Univer-sity Crime Alerts seem to be sent out quite frequently to students, and, furthermore, it is said that one in four col-lege females will be sexually assaulted.

I realized how utterly unpre-pared I was if I were ever attacked — both in cases of sexual assault and battery or robbery.

Officer Snow’s talk made me think about the importance of standing up for myself if I ever found myself in a dangerous situation.

For both men and women, this unpreparedness is nerve-wracking. Being unprepared for an attack leaves one vulner-able to becoming a victim.

The statistics tell us how omnipresent acts of assault are. While people will gradu-ate from college without ever being assaulted, I doubt that

anyone will graduate without ever feeling nervous about a potential attack.

Heck, if someone is walk-ing behind me on the street, I take my phone out and make a fake call.

It’s important to know what we’re going to do in case that initial nervousness turns into actual threatening danger. We have the opportunity to save ourselves from life-threaten-ing situations and situations that will eternally haunt us.

Instead of being made vic-tims, we can be our own heroes.

In an ideal world, sexual assault, or attack education in general, would consist of the phrase “don’t assault and attack people.” Everyone would hear it, learn it and live it.

But since that doesn’t seem to be happening, and it isn’t a foolproof defense, I think it’s time that we start taking our safety into our own hands.

Just recently, a crime alert was emailed to the Universi-ty student body about an on-campus attack. After stealing the victim’s purse, “the vic-tim chased the offender and he dropped the purse after he slipped and fell near the Vivar-ium Building (606 E. Healey Street, Champaign). The vic-tim then kicked the offender in the face.”

This is a perfect example of someone relying on their own power to fend off an offender — a person rescuing themselves.

With so many different self-defense strategies, it’s not that hard to find ways to defend yourself that you’re personal-ly comfortable with. This can be as easy as arming your-self with pepper spray or as planned as moves you learned in a self-defense class.

Or, like Officer Snow taught us, using the heels on our shoes. Maybe a combination of all of these.

Campus police even offer self-defense classes for both men and women to teach self-defense preparedness.

I don’t want to be a victim. I want to be able to save myself from situations. Relying on other people not to attack me doesn’t make me progressive or forward-thinking. It makes me ill-prepared and ignorant.

If we take our safety into our own hands, we have the oppor-tunity to try to save ourselves if and when an attack happens. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather try to put up a fight than automatically be made a victim.

Emma is a sophomore in LAS. She can be reached at egoodwi2@dailyillini.com.

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While many of us were enjoying our comfy, cozy Thanksgiving break, chaos ensued in other parts of the country. Early last week, a St. Louis County grand jury came to the decision not to indict Darren Wilson, a Missouri police officer responsible for the shooting of African-American teenager Michael Brown over the summer. Protests and riots erupted in many cit-ies across the country, including Chicago. While we respect everyone’s right to react to this major event and shed light on prevalent tensions in this country, we wish to emphasize the importance of safety and civility in the midst the mayhem.

Standing behind President Obama during this year’s annual turkey pardoning were his teenage daugh-ters Sasha and Malia, whom Elizabeth Lauten, a com-munications director for a U.S. representative, gave negative attention to. Lauten went on a social media rant about both the girls’ outfit choices and body lan-guage in a way that was tasteless and unnecessary. In the girls’ defense, we’re sure they didn’t know the fashion police would be present, and, hey, we were all angsty, crossed-armed teenagers at one point. Word to the wise, Elizabeth: Social media silence is golden.

Idina Menzel, less commonly referred to by John Travolta as Adele Dazeem, recently announced that a Frozen 2 was in the works. While it will be interesting to inevitably see Elsa find a prince or something, it’s a little upsetting that in the list of Pixar’s scheduled releases, all but two of the films are sequels. We would love to see some more orig-inal material added to the mix instead of history repeating itself over and over and over again. Our desire to see Frozen 2 is equal to our desire to see Toy Story 4 — very, very low.

It’s finally December which means the start to the best holiday season ever — delicious food, shop-ping and cold weather as the perfect excuse to never leave our couches. But the holidays wouldn’t be the same without ABC Family’s “25 Days of Christmas” where they air some of our favorite holiday movies (as well as some extremely corny and poorly directed made-for-TV movies — but we’ll ignore those). The festivities kick off at 3 p.m. tonight, but the real draw is “Elf” tonight at seven. Make sure you have your syrup-covered spaghetti and loads of hot cocoa ready.

As students pursuing degrees in a wide array of different fields, we take our classes and our ed-

ucations seriously. Many of us come in to the University with intended areas of study and po-tential plans for future suc-cess. Among one of the many decisions we make when pur-suing a major is whether we ought to declare a minor to ac-company our major or whether we should enter more than one area of study.

Minors are an invaluable ad-dition to any student’s academ-ic experience and can be a way to diversify his or her educa-tion. With about 80 minors to choose from at the University, many students do take advan-tage of this academic opportu-nity.

Often, though, it seems stu-dents have a preconception that a minor or other course-work should correlate specif-ically with a given major, or that what they are studying here must be focused into some narrow tunnel, aimed in one di-rection. However, that is not necessarily the case.

And based on a recent arti-cle from The Daily Illini, oth-ers are adopting this mindset as well.

Having an interdisciplinary education and studying in two seemingly unrelated fields can do nothing but enhance stu-dents’ well-roundedness and readiness for the workforce later on.

Many of us might think that if you major in finance, for ex-ample, pursuing a minor in business is the natural and most obvious choice. Or if you major in advertising, a minor in communications might con-tribute greatly to your success in advertising.

And while combinations of related areas of study are rele-vant and applicable, and an in-telligent choice for many, pur-suing areas of study dissimilar from a given major are equally as beneficial to students’ suc-cess.

Having an interdisciplinary set of skills is something that allows us to be more market-able and can expand our knowl-edge and understanding of oth-er areas. Good at calculus? Great. Interested in Spanish? Fantastic. Pursue both. Chanc-es are, having both sets of skills will prove worthwhile.

As indicated in The Daily Il-lini, some departments are recognizing the need to ac-knowledge and expand aca-demic paths. More specifi-cally, there are movements aimed to bridge the apparent gap between arts and science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Typically when thinking of a student majoring in engineering here at the Uni-versity, we tend not to think that student would, or even should, pursue art as well.

Guen Montgomery, art and design advisor, said, “It is nec-essary to understand your world. STEM majors are in-tertwined with arts so close-ly. Artists are helping to create our world; they are helping to create the media that we con-sume. And I think that if you balance these things, then you understand your world.”

We take that a step further and say that broader applica-tion of academic fields is rele-vant to many combinations of academic paths. By diversify-ing classes through pursuing a minor or another concentra-tion, students are able to devi-ate from their major and gain valuable knowledge that will be vital for future success and adaptability in the workforce.

the businesses that were damaged by rioters since the shooting in August. So far, I Love Ferguson has donated $15,000 to busi-nesses from donations and sales, and the nonprofit plans to donate $35,000 in December.

Merchandise has been sold to all 50 states in the country and to 30 other coun-tries in the world. Store vol-unteers said people come in the store with big donations all the time.

Even though I Love Fer-guson was closed on Sunday, the door was left unlocked for people to come in. Some-one donated paint for win-dow volunteers. Two men from Los Angeles and Flor-ida came in to say they had to get shirts before they left town.

Sandy Sansevere is a vol-unteer at I Love Ferguson and has lived in Ferguson for the past 27 years. The Tuesday morning after the riots from the grand jury decision, Sansevere said she was in the store with other volunteers in tears from the

destruction.“We do what we do best,”

she said. “We’re going to rebuild and come back bet-ter than before.”

Rebecca can be reached at rrjacob2@dailyillini.com.

REBECCA JACOBS THE DAILY ILLINIDarcy Edwin paints a tree on Ferguson Optical to symbolize how Ferguson is growing in strength as a family. Edwin has been painting since the morning after the riots on Nov. 24.

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BY ALEXANDER VASSILIADISSTAFF WRITER

Chocolate peppermint crunch, salted caramel, chocolate ganache and lem-on ginger.

These are only a handful of the fl avors of French macar-ons that Sarah Heller, Cham-paign-Urbana native, makes and sells at her business — Sugar by Sarah .

Sugar by Sarah operates primarily out of the year-round Urbana Market, locat-ed at Lincoln Square Mall in downtown Urbana, and sells various baked desserts, such as macarons, cookies and cakes. In addition to the market, Heller takes orders via phone, text messages and email for both mass orders and private events like show-ers and weddings.

While her French macar-ons are the money makers, Heller’s passion lies else-where, she said. Cake and cookie decorating is at the core of her love for baking. She bakes and decorates cakes and cookies for spe-cial events like showers and weddings.

“I consider my cakes and cookies to be a different sort of medium for my creativ-ity,” Heller said. “The cake is a canvas. I can draw little tiny details or big sweeping designs. The decoration of a cake or a cookie is so much more versatile than baking a macaron.”

Heller got degrees in Eng-lish and music from the Uni-versity of Iowa. Following college, she worked multi-ple jobs, including copy edi-tor at Source Books and a high-school English teacher. She was given the opportu-nity to pursue baking at the Urbana Farmer’s Market in summer 2013. She was a full-time teacher at the time and

baking was simply a hobby; however, her products sold quickly with overwhelming-ly positive feedback from all customers.

“It took off really fast and about mid-July of the same summer, I realized I had to make a choice: either keep baking as a hobby and teach full time or make baking a full time job,” Heller said.

Heller chose baking, and Sugar by Sarah was born. Heller started the business out of her home at fi rst and worked under the Cottage Food Act . Since then, she has been able to obtain a commer-cial kitchen, increasing her output tenfold, she said.

“It’s still just me,” Hell-er said. “Sometimes I even make my husband do the dishes.”

Heller’s husband, Sid Majumdar, helps out with the baking from time to time .

“I do occasionally mix the dry ingredients for the French macarons, but that’s it as far as food prep,” Majum-dar said. “Mostly I just do dishes and help with sales.”

Heller primarily sells French macarons at the Farmer’s Market during the summer and the Urbana Holi-day Market in December. She is able to set up at the mar-kets with textured table lin-ens, glasses and cake stands. She creates a type of boutique feeling, almost as if one has just walked into a traditional French bakery.

“I put a lot of work into making sure my macarons are authentic; the texture and the presentation,” Hell-er said. “There aren’t many places one can buy French macarons in Central Illinois, and I’ve had a lot of positive feedback from people who have been to Paris and New York in stores that sell solely

French macarons.” Heller’s main demograph-

ic of customers are females between 18 and 35 years old, she said. She caters to her customers with a very per-sonal approach.

Heller said she typically has customers buy a macaron at her booth, and two days lat-er she will receive a text ask-ing for a mass order. There is no online order process or any typical business setting that requires a phone call to place an order. This works for her because Heller boasts accessibility.

“I am not at all picky about my business. I have no prob-lem taking orders over Face-book, text messages and even emails,” she said.

Katie Bogner had her wed-ding in August and employed Sugar by Sarah to provide the deserts for the wedding. Hell-er was able to make a des-sert table with three fl avors of macarons, two fl avors of cake pops, mini-vanilla cup-cakes, sugar cookies and a small cake for cutting.

“We gave her samples of our wedding colors, and she matched them perfectly,” Bogner said. “She even made tiny pinwheel decorations for the cookies that matched our center pieces.”

Heller said she hopes to have a kitchen with a dessert counter open on Fridays and Saturdays in the future. The rest of the time she would spend working on orders for special events like showers and weddings.

“I think Sarah is happi-est doing sugar cookies and cakes, particularly those where she can fl ex her artis-tic muscle,” Majumdar said.

Alexander can be reached at vassili2@dailyillini.com.

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BY MADELINE GALASSISTAFF WRITER

With powerful women and celebrities constant-ly preaching feminism and female empowerment, it seems as if it is the season’s hottest trend. The Univer-sity certainly hasn’t missed out on it.

A new registered student organization, Smart Girls Group (SGG), has been start-ed on campus with the goal to inspire, power and unite women.

The group’s self-pro-claimed purpose is “a one-stop shop that arms young women with the tools they need to succeed in all facets of life,” according to their Facebook page.

Smart Girls isn’t exclusive to campus. It was originally founded by Emily Raleigh, junior at Fordham University in New York, after she wrote a book for her sister about the tools she needed to survive in high school and realized she

wanted to continue spread-ing her message. In April of 2012, she published a digi-tal magazine called “Smart Girls Guide,” and it continued to grow across the country.

“The group was started to create a community of girls that can be together and encourage each other to pursue goals, so I thought it would be really cool to start a chapter here,” said Ellen Guo, sophomore in LAS.

The structure of the group revolves around meetings called “Smart Seminars.” The topics of meetings have ranged from setting goals to networking advice.

Guo began the process of creating the RSO this sum-mer, when she contacted the executive members of the Smart Girls Group.

“When Ellen fi rst told me about the idea of starting SGG on campus, I thought it was a great idea,” said Ken-nedy McKay, secretary of the executive board for SGG and sophomore in FAA. “I was very excited after she told me about this opportunity, because SGG is such a unique organization, and I wanted to help start this group as a new RSO. Everything that SGG stands for is incredibly

inspiring.”Another general member,

Skylar Johnson, junior in Engineering, joined SGG in its beginning stages.

“I didn’t know anything about Smart Girls until my friend Ellen started organiz-ing it last year,” Johnson said. “It offers several workshops and volunteer opportunities.”

With SGG being such a new RSO, they are excited to recruit and meet new mem-bers. This makes it simple for anyone with an interest in the group to join.

“To join, you literally just join. There are no require-ments. Someone who would want to be a member would just go to the Smart Semi-nars,” Guo said.

To stay updated, interest-ed students can like their Facebook page, “Smart Girls Group UIUC.”

Smart Girls has created a distinctive opportunity on campus for girls to join together and empower one another while teaching valu-able life skills. Smart Girls can also be found on Twitter @SmartGirlsuiuc.

Madeline can be reached at mgalass2@dailyillini.com.

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In addition, the media plays an important role in creating a “thin ideal” and a “healthy ideal.” The thin ide-al, which is what media tell us we should look like and what we sometimes focus on, is not attainable, while the healthy ideal is, Kroencke said.

“In the fashion industry, there is only one body, and there aren’t many opportu-nities where all body types are celebrated. The industry doesn’t cater to individuals of

size and a lot of times people of size struggle to fi nd clothes in their size that are still con-sidered stylish,” Storm said.

Fashion alone does not cre-ate these issues with body images; however, retail-ers do not necessarily help individuals foster a positive body image, especially when the whole spectrum of sizes aren’t represented in their stores, Hale said. Urban Out-fi tters, for example, does not carry extra large, despite the collection of people that do wear extra large.

“I think that goes further beyond fashion, it goes to

the media and popular cul-ture and what we (society) consider beautiful, and that affects how people feel about fashion,” Hale said.

The issues surrounding body perception may pre-vail all year long, but Hale is hopeful that fashion can be used in a positive way to pro-mote self-identity.

“Fashion can highlight the best of anyone’s features, it is just a matter of knowing what works for you and your body type,” Hale said.

Darrah can be reached at perryma2@dailyillini.com.

BY REBECCA JACOBSSTAFF WRITERFERGUSON, MO. — Store windows along Florissant Road in Ferguson, Missouri, are boarded up, but the win-dows won’t be drab for long.

Volunteers are painting the plywood where rioters and looters damaged proper-ty the night of Nov. 24 follow-ing the grand jury decision not to indict Offi cer Darren Wil-son in the killing of Michael Brown.

On Aug. 9, Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Brown in Ferguson. Following the grand jury decision, some protestors became violent, looting busi-nesses and breaking windows. Now the people of Ferguson are trying to rebuild from the damage done.

The morning of Nov. 25, Darcy Edwin, a Ferguson resi-dent, walked with her husband along Florissant Road to see the aftermath of the damage. The couple asked workers at Ferguson Optical if they could

paint a positive message on the windows the workers were boarding up, and the workers said yes.

Since the Michael Brown shooting, Ferguson Opti-cal had a sign out front that read, “Stay strong Fer-guson. We are family.” Edwin has incorporat-ed that sign into her painting of a multi-col-or tree that symboliz-es that the citizens of Ferg us on are family, and they grow strong together.

“We felt kind of hopeless,” Edwin said. “This isn’t going to fi x the big issues, but it shows we care about the com-munity and the strength of the community.”

Edwin said that hundreds

of people have come by and asked her about the painting, thanking her for her volun-teer work.

But Edwin isn’t the only one out painting. Down the street, Anya Toler, a resident

of Crestwood, M i s s o u r i , which is about 30 minutes away from F e r g u s o n , was painting a snow globe on a boarded window. Tol-er said she got involved when she saw a Facebook group called Painting for

Peace looking for volunteers.“The goal is to have all the

boards painted by Christmas,” said Toler, explaining that the Facebook group wants to make the street bright and cheerful for the holiday season.

Toler said once the own-

ers replace the windows with glass, the Facebook group plans to auction off the paint-ed boards to raise money for what was destroyed.

Along Florissant Road, groups of painters are also writing positive messag-es on storefronts. One large window had a line from Dr. Suess’s “The Lorax,” which read, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better; it’s not.”

Common messages on signs were “Ferguson Strong” and “We Love Our Businesses.” Many of the boards had the word “open” in giant letters so people knew the stores were still open despite the board-ed-up look.

On Florissant Road is a nonprofi t store called I Love Ferguson, which sells mer-chandise promoting positive messages about the commu-nity to raise money to rebuild

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REBECCA JACOBS THE DAILY ILLINIA painting covers a boarded store window in Ferguson, Mo., on Sunday. The windows are being painted by volunteers after damage by looters after the grand jury’s decision on the Michael Brown case.

“We do what we do best. We’re going to rebuild and come back better than

before.”SANDY SANSEVERE

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LIFE CULTURE

Urbana Market’s sweet spot Sarah Heller’s business — Sugar by Sarah — is a dessert business run out of the Urbana Market that creates homemade French macarons, cakes and cookies. Turn to Page 5A to learn more about the business.

Merry Christmas!

A Lecture Featuring

Charles OgletreeProfessor, Harvard Law School

Wednesday December 3, 2014Noon - 1:30pmBallroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center601 South Lincoln Avenue, Urbana

Professor Ogletree will share his refl ections on the past 50 years of civil rights activity, and his thoughts about the road ahead, especially in the aftermath of the Ferguson decision.

Event is free and open to the public.

After 50 Years of Civil Rights Laws

ARE WE STILL ON THE RIGHT PATH TO JUSTICE AND EQUALITY?

Volunteers rebuild in Ferguson

BY DARRAH PERRYMAN STAFF WRITER

Campus will take a sharp plunge into the arctic abyss, summoning sweaters and scarves while crop tops and short-shorts become a distant memory.

Although the new season brings layers and thick sweaters to shield the skin, for some the prospect of having a perfect body is a constant battle that follows them with every season.

“I think issues related to body image are year-round,” said Janet Kroencke, assistant director of Student Wellness at the ARC. “It is not something that only comes up in the winter.”

Kroencke has worked at Student Wellness at Campus Recreation for almost 16 years. She oversees the ARC Instructional Kitch-en Healthy Cooking programs and collabo-rates with key wellness campus partners surrounding topics such as body image, fi t-ness and healthy eating.

The ARC is just one of the prominent resources available to students who face negative body image perceptions on cam-pus. In addition, the Women’s Resources Center works with students and the campus as a whole to combat negative body images.

“The Women’s Resources Center offers support to students who may be battling negative body image,” said Rachel Storm, assistant director of the Women’s Resources Center. “We have a lot of different programs that address body image, and students can always come here for that support.”

While students have several outlets avail-able to them to combat low self-esteem and negative body image perceptions, Alexis Hale, store manager of Urban Outfi tters, believes the trick to feeling good about one-self is understanding what one’s best quali-ties are and using fashion to compliment them.

“Fashion is great because it is an opportu-nity to have an infl uence on how people per-ceive you,” Hale said. “Fashion can be a way to tell people about yourself, your mood or how you’re feeling, without having to say any words. It is a way to voice your individuality.”

Although fashion can be a form of expres-sion, those who battle deep body image chal-lenges may feel like they cannot participate in fashion, Storm said.

“(Society) needs to silence the voices around us that tell us we are not good enough and recognize that there is nothing wrong with us,” Storm said. “We need to push back and demand for more representation of bod-ies of all sizes in the media.”

“I grew up in Canada, and it is a lot colder there, so adjusting to the cold here isn’t that bad. ... My wife bought me this coat, it was probably on sale.”

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BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITEREVANSTON, ILL. — It was nearly gift wrapped for Illinois.

The Illini football team became bowl eligible with a 47-33 win over Northwestern on Saturday at Ryan Field – the first time the team has been bowl eligible since 2011.

Northwestern entered the game missing a handful of starters — senior quarter-back Trevor Siemian, top-receiver Kyle Prater, and defensive backs Traveon Henry, Godwin Igwebuike and Nick VanHoose.

The Wildcats were forced to go with junior Zack Oliver, who made his first career start at quarterback, while he was backed up by redshirt freshman Matt Alviti.

Illinois forced a season-high five turnovers in the win.

Head coach Tim Beck-man, whose job was in ques-tion in the last half of the sea-son, said Saturday’s win was his most gratifying with the Illini.

“These players have bought in,” Beckman said.

Illinois opened up the scor-ing late in the first quarter with a 10-yard pass from quarterback Reilly O’Toole to freshman Malik Turner.

Just eight seconds later, Illini defensive back Ear-nest Thomas III intercepted a pass, and Illinois had the ball again. And just 45 sec-

Illini top in-state rival Wildcats

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jihad Ward forces Northwestern’s Zack Oliver to fumble the ball during the game at Ryan Field in Evanston, Ill., on Saturday. The Illini won 47-33.SEE FOOTBALL | 3B

Beckman proves many wrong in reaching bowl

EVANSTON, ILL. — Say what you want about Illinois football. Say what you want about Tim Beckman.

With a 47-33 win over North-western in the season finale, Illi-nois exceeded expectations this season. The Illini are bowl eligible and Beckman should keep his job. Such a statement seemed laugh-able some two months ago, when Illinois went on a three-game skid that included a loss to a pitiful Purdue team.

But it is reality.The Beckman-led Illini are

going bowling. Where exact-ly the game will be and who the opponent is are both yet to be determined.

But does it really matter?The scene after the game was

something few predicted. Fans clad in orange and blue clustered along the front rows at Northwest-ern’s Ryan Field as the team cel-ebrated. Chants of “BECK-MAN, BECK-MAN,” were heard. The Land of Lincoln Trophy was hoist-ed into the air. It was a euphoria not felt by Illini players and fans in a long time.

They have a right to relish the victory over “the team from up north.”

Saturday’s game was the quint-essential Illinois vs. Northwest-ern battle. Both teams entered the game 5-6 in a fight to see which mediocre team would reach post-season play. For two programs that have seen their fair share of losing seasons and mediocrity, it was fitting.

Illinois quarterback Reilly O’Toole played arguably the best game of his career. He passed for

147 yards and three touchdowns and added another 147 yards with his legs. But it was Illinois’ defense that carried the team in the first half and boosted it out to a 26-7 halftime lead.

Illinois caused five turnovers. For a team that came into the game ranked 107th in the nation in turnover margin, that was the difference. At one point in the first half, the Illini forced turn-overs on four straight Northwest-ern possessions.

“The ball bounces your way, you’ve got to capitalize,” said linebacker Mason Monheim, who scored a touchdown on a 49-yard interception return in the fourth quarter. “We always preach turn-overs. It’s a game changer.”

Northwestern made a second half push, pulling within eight, but couldn’t maintain it for long. Monheim’s touchdown all but

SEAN HAMMOND

Sports editor

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Reilly O’Toole high fives fans after the game against Northwestern at Ryan Field in Evanston, Ill. on Saturday. The Illini won 47-33.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllini volleyball watches the NCAA selection at head coach Kevin Hambly’s house on Sunday. The Illini were seeded 11th.

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Illinois basketball headed to the Las Vegas Invita-tional knowing it would

receive its first true test of the young season.

That test didn’t come Thanksgiving Day, as the Illini easily dispatched Indiana State 88-62 in the first round of the tournament.

It came on Friday, in the form of the previously undefeated Baylor Bears. The Bears entered Friday’s matchup with the Illini at 5-0, following a blowout win over Memphis late Thursday.

In the end, Illinois over-came a cold shooting night and an athletic Bay-lor squad to win 62-54 and remain undefeated at 6-0. The win clinched the tour-nament championship in front of a large pro-Illini crowd in Vegas.

Thursday’s Indiana State win pushed Illinois to 5-0, marking five straight games for the Illini against clearly inferior opponents. Credit them for taking care of business, and the quality of Illini opponents essen-tially improved incremen-tally leading into the Bay-

lor matchup. There’s no question the Bears were the first big step up in com-petition for Illinois.

Baylor proved it was the best team Illinois has played so far on Friday night, and came out swing-ing in the championship game.

The Bears jumped to a quick 7-0 lead, and Illi-nois struggled mightily from the field in the first half. Once again, Ray-vonte Rice’s efforts kept the Illini afloat, but Bay-lor’s zone defense caused major issues for Illinois’ high powered offense.

Groce knew Baylor would play zone for most (ended up being the entire-ty) of the game, but Illinois c o u l d n ’ t capita l ize off open looks. Mal-colm “zone-buster” Hill picked up two early fouls, fur-ther hin-d e r i n g the Illini’s o f fe n s ive efforts.

T h e Bears were big, strong and athletic, and predictably killed the Illini on the boards, finish-ing with a 47-33 rebounding advantage. Rico Gathers finished with 15 rebounds on his own. They were an above average defensive team and dragged Illinois into a slow paced slug fest with their stifling length.

Although Baylor took a 25-21 lead into half, they

did not play especially well in the process, committing 10 turnovers in the first 20 minutes. It was clear Illi-nois was the deeper and more talented team, and you just got the feeling going into half that the shots would start falling and they would grab the lead and not look back.

That’s how the narrative played out. Illinois opened the second half with eight straight points and with-stood several Baylor runs to shut the door on the Bears behind Hill and Rice, who had 17 points each.

As has been the theme this year for the Illini, contributions came from all corners of the floor in their winning effort. Nnan-

na Egwu was a s t u d d e f e n -s i v e l y (a g a i n) . L e r o n B l a c k provided e n e r g y and six p o i n t s off the b e n c h . A h m a d S t a r k s

hit a pair of big threes and showed off his under-rated passing ability with a thunderous alley-oop to Rice and clutch dishes in the lane. Kendrick Nunn again was the perfect X factor, as the sixth man played aggressive defense and finished with seven crucial points.

Illini hoops passes 1st big test in Las Vegas

ALEX ROUX

Basketball columnist

Once again, Rice carries Illinois through poor shooting night

Illini volleyball to host 1st 2 rounds of NCAA tournament

MEN’S BASKETBALLLAS VEGAS INVITATIONALTHURS: ILL 88, IND. ST. 62FRI: ILL 62, BAYLOR 54LAS VEGAS

VOLLEYBALLILL VS. MICHSAT: ILL 3, MICH 1HUFF HALL

WRESTLING ILL VS. LEHIGH SAT: LEHIGH 24, ILL 15HUFF HALL

WEEKEND ROUNDUP:FOOTBALL ILL AT NUSAT: ILL 47, NU 33Evanston, Ill.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLPARADISE JAMTHURS: ILL 77, KENTUCKY 71FRI: USF 67, ILL 61SAT: OKLAHOMA 78, ILL 76ST. THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS

BY STEPHEN BOURBONSENIOR WRITER

While the Illinois vol-leyball team played its last home match of the regu-lar season on Saturday, the Illini aren’t done in Huff Hall.

Illinois (24-7, 16-4 Big Ten) is the No. 9 overall seed in the NCAA tourna-ment and will host the first two rounds at Huff Hall. The Illini will face Mur-ray State on Friday.

If the Illini are able to advance, they will face the winner of the Iowa State vs. Western Kentucky match-up on Saturday. The team learned the path it would have to take in the tourna-ment at a selection show viewing party at head coach Kevin Hambly’s house in

Champaign on Sunday.“Teams are afraid to

come in and play in front of our crowd. It’s intimi-dating,” setter Alexis Vili-unas said. “I think that’s an advantage for us for sure.”

In the Illini’s quadrant of the bracket, the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 will be in Ames, Iowa. If Illinois is able to get to the round of 16, a potential matchup with No. 8 Florida looms. The Gators finished 25-3 and won 20 consecutive match-es to close out the season.

Headlining the bracket is the No. 1 overall seed, Stan-ford, whom the Illini lost to in five sets on Sept. 7.

“I thought we’d be a nine or 10,” head coach Kevin Hambly said of the seeding.

“There’s some land mines for all of us, but we’re focused on Murray State.”

Six Big Ten teams made the field of 64, although none are in the Illini’s quad-rant of the bracket. Hambly said the familiarity of play-ing a conference opponent could have made things eas-ier for the Illini.

“The thing about Big Ten teams is you know who they are and have good informa-tion. For Murray State, we have nothing right now,” Hambly said. “It’s not always bad to play in your conference.”

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

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Bears were the first big step up

in competition for Illinois.

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The Illinois volleyball team ended its regular sea-son on a high note.

The No. 11 Illini went 3-0 in their fi nal three match-es of the regular season. Illinois (23-7, 15-4 Big Ten) swept Indiana (15-17, 6-14) Nov. 22 on the road and came away with both a fi ve-set vic-tory over No. 10 Nebraska on Wednesday and a four-set win against Michigan on Saturday at Huff Hall.

Hambly said the team improved defensively over its last three matches and the Illini learned how to adapt quicker, two skills Illinois will need if it wants to make a run in the NCAA tournament.

“It will come down to how fast can you fi gure teams out and defend,” Hambly said. “Can you pick the lock fast enough to give yourself a chance to win?”

Against the Cornhuskers on Wednesday, the Illini proved they could adapt to both injury and illness dur-ing the course of a match.

Eight players from the Illini bench saw action against Nebraska as Ham-bly fi ddled with the Illini lineup.

Jocelynn Birks left the match in the fi fth set with a knee injury that proved to be nothing serious. Her replacement, Morganne Criswell, was recover-ing on the bench from her own knee injury. Jocelynn made her return in the game against Michigan. Junior setter Alexis Viliunas’ play in the match was hindered by the fl u.

Illinois and Nebraska (20-9, 14-6) split the fi rst four sets Wednesday. The Illini took the fi rst and third sets with scores of 25-16 and 25-18, respectively, and the Cornhuskers won the second set 22-25.

Nebraska negated the 2-1 Illinois set lead and answered back in the fourth set, winning it by a score of 24-26.

Even without Birks, who led the Illini with 22 kills and 10 digs in the match, Illinois fi nished the match and took care of Nebraska in the fi fth set by a score of 15-10.

Hambly saw the bright side in the Illini being banged up against the Corn-huskers. He said the expe-rience gained by the eight

players off the Illinois bench will be invaluable in the NCAA tournament.

“It was nice to get a lot of people a lot of time to play,” Hambly said.

While its match against Nebraska showed Illinois could overcome adversity, its match against the Wol-verines proved the Illini dominate when the offen-sive attack is varied.

Illinois had seven players

record a kill against Michi-gan and although Birks yet again led the team in kills, with 16, it was sophomore middle blocker Katie Sta-dick who fi nished with eight kills and nine blocks that led the way for the team.

“Our passers did a really good job of getting (Alex-is Viliunas) good passes so we could get the middles involved,” Birks said. “The middles did a really nice job

of getting up and working hard. It’s awesome that we can do that and have such a spread out offense.”

Although they dropped the fi rst set to the Wolver-ines, the Illini won the match convincingly by scores of 22-25, 25-20, 25-14 and 25-14.

As the regular season draws to a close, Stadick said it’s a good thing the Illini picked up their ener-gy and intensity and have

played well going into the tournament.

“It will defi nitely help us moving forward because that’s what teams will be doing in the tournament,” Stadick said. “It will be somebody’s last game no matter what.”

Nicholas can be reached at fortin2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @IlliniSportsGuy.

BY LAURA ARENSCHIELD AND BILL RABINOWITZTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Columbus police say a body found this afternoon in the University District is that of missing Ohio State football player Kosta Karageorge.

He apparently died of a self-infl icted gunshot wound.

A search had been ongo-ing for Karageorge, who had been missing since walking out of his E. 7th Avenue apart-ment around 2 a.m. Wednes-day. The body found today was near that location.

Karageorge’s body was found in a dumpster at 6th Avenue and Courtland Ave-nue in the University District section of Columbus. A 911 caller informed police of the discovery.

Police said he died of a single gunshot wound that appears to be self-infl icted. The gun was found in the dumpster. Karageorge’s body was identifi ed in part because of his tattoos.

The walk-on senior defen-sive lineman was reported missing by his family after

he left his apartment about 2 a.m. Wednesday. Shortly before he left, he sent a text to his mother apologizing “ if I am an embarrassment, but these concussions have my head all f---ed up.”

Karageorge, 22, graduat-ed from Thomas Worthing-ton High School and wrestled for three years as a Buckeye before joining the football team in August. He appeared in one game, against Penn State.

When Karageorge did not show up for practice Wednes-

day and then Thursday, the team and his family grew more concerned.

On Friday, about 150 peo-ple held a search party in Grandview Heights orga-nized by Jeremiah Web-ber, who was Karageorge’s wrestling coach at Thomas Worthington. That was near the location that police last detected the GPS from Kara-george’s phone.

Karageorge would have been one of 24 seniors recog-nized at Ohio Stadium on Sat-urday before their fi nal home

game against Michigan.After the other seniors

were introduced, a picture of Karageorge was shown on the stadium’s video board, asking for help fi nding him.

In postgame interviews, his teammates expressed hope that he would be found safe.

“It’s very tough because Kosta was one of those guys who did whatever we need-ed,” defensive tackle Adol-phus Washington said on Sat-urday. “If we needed a look as a D-line, he would play

offense to give us that look.“It’s hard to move on

through the week knowing we don’t know where he is. He’s one of our brothers and it’s just hard.”

Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer was asked this after-noon on a teleconference for the Big Ten championship game about Karageorge. He said that he had talked with someone close to the fam-ily and that there were no updates.

About an hour later, the 911 call came.

Illini volleyball ends season on 3-win streak

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Jocelynn Birks goes for the attack against Michigan at Huff Hall on Saturday. The victory capped the Illini’s regular season with a 3-win streak.

Team’s focus turns toward NCAA tournament

Missing Ohio State football player found dead

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onds after the touchdown pass to Turner, running back Josh Ferguson’s 1-yard run made it 13-0.

The Wildcats went on to commit turnovers on four straight drives — a pair of interceptions and fumbles that led to three Illinois scores to make it 19-0.

Northwestern couldn’t capitalize on opportuni-ties and momentum shifts throughout the game.

The Wildcats ran back an 89-yard kick return for a touchdown in the second quarter. Then, Northwestern allowed the Illini to extend their lead to 26-7 at the half on an 82-yard touchdown drive led by O’Toole.

The senior quarterback had 294 all-purpose yards, earning 147 yards both pass-ing and rushing, while throw-ing for three touchdowns.

O’Toole credited the offen-sive blocking for career-high 147 rushing yards.

“It’s pretty evident that I’m not fast, so if you see me in the open fi eld, it’s got to be because of blocking of some sort,” O’Toole said. “I was just running my slow self 10 yards down the fi eld.”

The Wildcats picked off O’Toole on the fi rst play of

the second half, setting their offense up on the Illinois 42-yard line. But Northwest-ern had to settle for a fi eld goal and let Illinois score another touchdown fi ve min-utes later for a 33-10 lead.

And when Northwestern running back Justin Johnson cut the Illini lead to just eight with back-to-back touch-downs, Ferguson answered with a 46-yarder of his own.

The Illini linebacker Mason Monheim took a 49-yard interception back for a touchdown to ice the game.

Monheim said this is the most confi dent the Illinois defense has played in years, while lineman Jihad Ward — who recovered a fumble in the second quarter — said it was the happiest he’s ever been.

“I believed I would go to a bowl game, so I knew we were going to win the game,” Ward said.

Beckman expressed his pride for the Illini seniors who extended their careers by one more game with Sat-urday’s win. Even more important, the Illini’s sixth win to reach bowl eligibility came against the team’s big-gest rival.

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

sealed the game and sealed a bowl.

Postgame festivities were emotional. Beck-man told the media after the game of the last time he had been at Ryan Field, in 2012 when Illinois fi nished its season 2-10 after a 50-14 beat down at the hands of the Wildcats.

“I walked in here and was as disappointed as a football coach as I could ever have been,” he said. “Not with our players, but the with way that our program had turned out. I felt that we needed to give more.

“I asked these seniors two years ago, then sopho-mores, to build this team to the future. Now we’re back and we’ve got six wins under our belt.”

Beckman knows expec-tations were low. He knows few people thought Illi-nois could beat Penn State

and Northwestern in back-to-back games to reach a bowl.

That must make this win a little bit sweeter. Beck-man will tell you him-self: It’s not about him, it’s about the players. But this

has to feel good — both on a team level and a per-sonal one.

Athlet-ic direc-tor Mike Thomas announced Beck-man would return in 2015 on

Sunday and the decision makes sense. You ask the man to come in here and win games. That’s what he’s done. No one said he had to make it pretty.

Once again, say what you want about Illinois football. Say what you want about Tim Beckman. But the 2014 Illini are heading to a bowl game, and nothing you say can take that away from them.

Sean is a senior in Media. He can be reached at sphammo2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @sean_hammond.

And don’t forget Aus-tin Colbert, who made his fi rst appearance off the bench late in the second half and helped stop Bay-lor’s fi nal push. The Bears were on a 7-0 run when Col-bert snagged an offensive rebound and converted a put back bucket to give the Illini a fi ve point lead.

When the threes aren’t raining down for the Illi-ni — and they certainly weren’t Friday — that’s how they’ll win games: Toughness, grit and every-one chipping in.

But make no mistake, this game belonged to Rice and Hill once again. Thursday’s Indiana State game saw the duo com-bine for 38 points and 15 rebounds, and the Baylor contest saw more of the same. Rice and Hill com-bined for 34, including a late 3 pointer and then a driving, old fashioned left handed 3 point play from Hill to help seal the game.

So what does this victo-ry mean? For starters, it means Illinois passed its fi rst big test. Baylor was a solid team that has poten-tial to make noise in the Big 12 this year and will

likely be a fringe NCAA tournament team. Yes, they were missing starting point guard Kenny Cherry due to a foot injury. But if a Baylor fan tries to play the Cherry injury card, you can whip out a Tracy Abrams injury card of your own.

The win also means the Illini had enough to maneuver around a bad matchup on paper. Bay-lor’s strengths — zone defense and rebounding — have proven to be two of Illinois’ weaknesses so far. It’s encouraging that the Illini were able to over-come a rough 3 point (6-for-23) and free throw (10-for-18) shooting night to stay undefeated.

However, Groce and his players can only gaze at the hardware they’re bringing home from Vegas for so long. A Tuesday matchup with No. 17 Miami in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge awaits.

It will be another uptick in competition for the Illi-ni, and another chance to prove to the country that they’re for real.

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at roux2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.

SCHEDULEAug. 30 Youngstown State — W 28-17

Oct. 11 @ Wisconsin — L 38-28

Sept. 20 Texas State — W 42-35

Nov. 15 Iowa — L 30-14

Sept. 6 Western Kentucky — W 42-34

Oct. 25 Minnesota — W 28-24

Sept. 27 @ Nebraska — L 45-14

Nov. 22 Penn State — W 16-14

Sept. 13 @ Washington — L 44-19

Nov. 1 @ Ohio State — L 55-14

Oct. 4 Purdue — L 38-27

Nov. 29 @ Northwestern W 47-33

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The Illini scored a season-high 47 points against Northwestern

Illinois’ defense forced a season-high fi ve turnovers

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GAME TO FORGET: DAVID REISNER

Coming off a game-winning fi eld goal against Penn State, the Illini kicker missed a fi eld goal and an extra

point Saturday against Northwestern. Reisner was replaced in the fi rst half by junior Taylor Zalewski, who lost the job to Reisner earlier in the year for the same

reasons.

GAME TO REMEMBER: ILLINI DEFENSE

The Illinois defense has been an issue for the team all season long, but on Saturday it forced fi ve turnovers

against Northwestern (three interceptions, two fumble recoveries). The Illini were able to force four turnovers on four-straight Wildcat drives during a 19-0 run in the

fi rst half.

QUOTE OF THE GAME“This group of guys, nothing much had to be said. We’ve worked so hard, to give up, that would be

disgraceful.”

REILLY O’TOOLEQUARTERBACK

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O’Toole leads Illini to victory, bowl eligibilityBY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER

EVANSTON, ILL. — A throng of fans greeted Reil-ly O’Toole after the season-ending victory. They waited in the stands. They waited by the stairs and by the pavement path leading to the visiting locker room.

Security held them back, but the sound of his name echoed as he went down the line of fans and gave high fi ves. The big grin that started on the sidelines as the clock ticked down nev-er left his face. Even in the postgame interviews.

It was under the guidance of O’Toole and running back Josh Ferguson that the Illini sealed a 47-33 rivalry victo-ry at Northwestern at Ryan Field. Illinois walked away with the Land of Lincoln Trophy and a bowl game berth.

Illinois had its best rush-ing game of the entire sea-son with 291 yards.

“I think it was the best 60 minutes we’ve played all year,” O’Toole said. “And it’s a great time to do so at the end of the year.”

O’Toole went 17-for-28 passing with 147 yards, one interception and three touchdowns. But he added to that with a career-high 147 rushing yards on 21 carries.

Offensive coordinator Bill Cubit said O’Toole knew the team had faith in him and fi nally showed that he cut down on his mistakes.

“He would do good things, but he would always make the big mistake,” Cubit said. “Well, he’s not making big mistakes anymore.”

For freshman Mike Dudek, the feeling of win-ning hadn’t set in right after the game. He credits O’Toole with leading the team. Dudek fi nished with a team-high 63 receiving yards and one touchdown on seven catches.

“It was awesome; you

could just see the fi ght he had,” Dudek said. “He’s been a backup his whole career and these past two weeks, he’s just come out and given it everything he’s got. He really put the team on his back today and led us to a victory.”

Josh Ferguson was anoth-er huge player in the run game. Ferguson sat out the fi rst quarter last week against Penn State and car-ried the ball only fi ve times for just nine rushing yards.

But this week, Fergu-son added spark to the Illi-ni offense and was second in the teams rushing and receiving yards. Ferguson fi nished the game with 95 rushing yards on 15 carries and had two touchdowns. He added 37 receiving yards on two catches.

Ferguson said O’Toole and his rushing yards allowed the team’s running game to really do well.

“It’s tough to guard,” he said. “It makes the run-ning game a lot smoother for the running backs when you have a quarterback who can run.”

Ferguson said the team was fi nally able to turn a claim into a fact.

“This is our state, our team. Whenever we play Northwestern, we should be able to beat them. Today was just a product of all our hard work,” Ferguson said.

But for the two, their con-tribution was clearly about the team and taking a rival-ry victory. It was about the chance to keep playing and to prove wrong those who didn’t believe a bowl game was possible just weeks ago.

“This group of guys, noth-ing much had to be said,” O’Toole said. “We’ve worked so hard; to give up - that would be disgraceful.”

Charlotte can be reached at cmcarro2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @charlottecrrll.

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“Now we’re back and we’ve got six wins under our

belt.”TIM BECKMAN

HEAD COACH

BASKETBALLFROM 1B

BY AUSTIN KNOBLAUCHTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Nebraska fired Coach Bo Pelini on Sunday on the heels of a 9-3 campaign that included late-season losses to Wisconsin and Minnesota that dissolved the Cornhusk-ers’ chances of playing in the Big Ten championship game.

Pelini’s firing is effective immediate-ly, Nebras-ka Athletic D i re c tor S h a w n E ic h o r s t said in a statement.

“ E a r -lier this morning, I informed C o a c h Bo Pelini of our decision to move forward in a new direction. Coach Pelini served our university admi-rably for seven years and led our football program’s tran-sition to the Big Ten Confer-ence. We wish Coach Pelini and his wonderful family all the best and thank him for his dedicated service to the university.”

Pelini served as Nebraska head coach for seven sea-

sons, compiling a 66-27 over-all record and a 3-3 record in bowl games.

Pelini recorded at least nine wins in each of his sea-sons with the Cornhuskers. However, Nebraska, which has won fi ve national titles in college football, includ-ing three from 1994-97, was never in the hunt for a

champion-ship under Pelini. The Cornhusk-ers have failed to win a con-f e r e n c e title since 1999.

Nebras-ka start-ed the sea-son 8-1 and was tied at the top of

the Big Ten West Division standings until it suffered a 59-24 blowout loss at Wis-consin on Nov. 15. The Corn-huskers then lost at home to Minnesota before closing out conference play Friday with a 37-34 overtime win over Iowa.

Nebraska later announced assistant coach Barney Cot-ton will serve as the team’s interim coach for the remainder of the season.

KENNETH K. LAM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICERavens running back Ray Rice and his wife Janay made statements to the media regarding his assault on her.

JULIAN H. GONZALEZ TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICENebraska head coach Bo Pelini is seen on the sidelines in the second half against Michigan. The Michigan Wolverines defeated the Nebraska Cornhuskers, 45-17, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Nov. 19, 2011. Pelini was fi red on Sunday after leading the Cornhuskers to a 9-3 season.

Now that Ray Rice has been reinstated by the NFL, sources with knowledge of the situa-tion said nothing concrete has developed quickly in terms of teams pursuing the former Ravens run-ning back.

Although Rice has already been linked to teams, sources said noth-ing has been arranged as

far as tryouts or visits. Conversations regarding Rice were characterized by sources as preliminary.

Sources close to Rice said he has been working out on a regular basis and is in shape and prepared physically and mental-ly to join a team for the stretch run heading into the playoffs.

Rice is also realistic, according to sources, and realizes that playing for a team in 2015 is a more likely scenario.

ST. LOUIS, MO — Any hope of a revival sparked by the fi rst win of the sea-son was obliterated in a his-torically bad fi rst-half as the Raiders fell 52-0 to the St. Louis Rams on Sunday.

The Rams scored fi ve touchdowns and a fi eld goal in six possessions and while the Raiders were

busy with three-and-outs and turnovers.

The Raiders trailed 38-0 intermission, at which time the Rams had 307 yards on 26 snaps.

St. Louis, ranked 27th on offense coming in to the game, had failed to score 20 points in six games this season.

The 52-point margin of victory was the second-worst in a regular season game for the Raiders, dat-ing back to a 55-0 loss at Houston in 1961.

BUFFALO, NY — John-ny Football couldn’t res-cue the Cleveland Browns against the Buffalo Bills. Johnny Manziel, the Browns’ much-hyped rookie quarterback, relieved Brian Hoy-er in the fourth quarter and took his team on an eight-play, 80-yard touch-

down drive to bring the Browns within 10 points of the Bills, 20-10. Buf-falo, responded with a 10-play, 64-yard drive that ended with a fi eld goal to open a 23-10 lead. On the Browns’ next possession, Manziel appeared to be sacked, fumbling the ball, where it was recovered for a Bills touchdown. After review the play was ruled an incomplete pass.

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The weekend follow-ing Thanksgiving typical-ly marks the beginning of Christmas festivities, but there wasn’t much holi-day cheer to be found in Huff Hall Saturday. The No. 9-ranked Illinois wres-tling team suffered its fi rst dual meet loss of the sea-son, upset 24-15 by No. 18 Lehigh.

Lehigh is the most tal-ented squad the Illini have faced in a dual meet this season, boasting a start-ing lineup with multiple nationally-ranked individ-ual wrestlers. Illinois head coach Jim Heffernan was well aware his team would be tested on the mats at every weight class.

“They’re a talented, well-coached bunch,” Heffernan said. “We knew coming in

we’d have to wake up and start doing things differ-ently if we wanted to win.”

Injuries and a sluggish start doomed a talent-ed Illini squad from the beginning.

The meet started with a heavyweight bout featur-ing the Illini’s Brooks Black and Lehigh’s Douglas Vol-laro. After the third period, the match was knotted up at one point apiece, but Vol-laro registered a takedown in overtime and ultimately defeated Black 3-1.

For the second straight meet, three-time All-Amer-ican Jesse Delgado did not participate due to an undis-closed injury, forcing the Illini to forfeit the 125 pound match.

“Jesse is practicing and rehabbing like we want him to,” Heffernan said. “Jes-se is a special kid, and he’s

a smart kid. We just don’t want to take any chances this early in the season.”

After Dominic Olivieri lost a 6-3 decision to fi fth-ranked Mason Beckman at 133 pounds and at 141 pounds, Steven Rodrigues found himself pinned beneath Lehigh’s Randy Cruz just 90 seconds into the match, Illinois faced a 18-0 defi cit just halfway through the meet.

“You just can’t fi nd your-self on your back in a meet like this,” Hefferna said. “We started too slow, we can’t wait until the third period to score.”

Luckily, a surge from the Illini middleweights made the meet interesting. Kyle Langenderfer registered the fi rst win for the Illini, besting Lehigh’s Drew Lon-go in a 17-7 major decision. Shortly after, sixth-ranked

and undefeated Isiah Mar-tinez scored a 25-9 tech-nical fall against William Switzer. A pair of nation-ally ranked upperclass-men in Jackson Morse and Zac Brunson soon followed Martinez’s victory with two minor decision wins of their own to bring the team scores to 18-15.

Illinois’ 15 unanswered points ultimately were in vain. The early 18-point hole proved to be just too much to overcome as Illini Nikko Reyes and Jeff Koepke lost the fi nal two matches of the day by a combined total of two points.

“Those were very win-nable matches,” Heffernan said. “We just couldn’t fi n-ish and fi nd a way to win.”

Despite losing the meet and bringing an end to Illi-nois’ winning streak, coach Heffernan acknowledged

the importance of wres-tling a quality opponent early in the season, serv-ing as a transition into the Big Ten season.

“It’s important to wres-tle good teams this early,” Heffernan said. “It’s a good measuring stick for where we’re at mentally and physi-

cally. It’s also a measuring stick for trainers, it shows what we need to do to have success moving forward.”

Ethan Swanson can be reached at erswans2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @EthanSwanson88.

Illini wrestling vs No. 18 Lehigh

Summary: Injuries and slow start hurt the Illini at home.Key Performer: Redshirt sophomore Zac Brunson is named Big Ten Wrestler of the Week after defeating Lehigh’s Marshall Peppelman to remain undefeated.

Quote of the Meet: Coach Jim Heffernan — “It’s good to wrestle good teams early. ... It’s a measuring stick.”Hidden Stat: Heffernan spent two years as an assistant coach at Lehigh after graduating from Iowa. Next: Dec. 29-30, Midland Championships, Evanston, Ill.

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ED SUBA JR. TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEThe Buffalo Bills defeated the Cleveland Browns, 24-14. Rams wide receiver Danny Amendola (16).

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Wrestling falls to Lehigh in 1st dual meet loss

“We wish Coach Pelini ... all the best and thank him for

his dedicated service to the university.”

SHAWN EICHORSTNEBRASKA ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

Nebraska fi res head coach Pelini

BY RUSTIN DODDTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

LAKE BUENA VIS-TA, Fla. — Michigan State coach Tom Izzo has built a Hall of Fame career and a top-10 pro-gram on the hallmarks of rebounding and toughness.

On Sunday after-noon in the champion-ship game of the Orlan-do Classic, the Kansas Jayhawks beat Izzo and the Spartans at their own game. No. 11 Kansas took down No. 20 Michigan State 61-56 in a back-and-forth slugfest inside the HP Fieldhouse.

Trailing 36-35 at half-time, the Jayhawks out-rebounded Michigan State 44-46 and held the Spartans to 24.2 percent shooting in the second half, securing the Jay-hawks’ first early-season tournament title since they won the four-team

CBE Classic in 2012.Sophomore guard

Frank Mason — who had 10 points, 10 rebounds and five assists — helped keep the Spartans at arm’s length with a steal and bucket that pushed Kansas’ lead to 59-52 with more than two min-utes left.

Mason also grabbed a key rebound after Mich-igan State cut the Kan-sas lead to 59-56 fol-lowing a 3-pointer from point guard Travis Trice. Junior forward Jamari Traylor hit two free throws on the other end, helping to ice the game.

Junior forward Per-ry Ellis finished with 17 points and nine rebounds while being selected tournament MVP. Fresh-man guard Svi Mykhail-iuk had 11 points while hitting three three-pointers. Kansas coach Bill Self improved to 5-6 all-time against Izzo and

Michigan State.The Jayhawks reeled

off a 12-4 run in the open-ing minutes of the second half, taking a 47-42 lead with 10:37 left. Kansas had trailed 38-35 after Michigan State’s Bran-den Dawson opened the second half with a jump-er, but the Jayhawks would hold Michigan State without a field goal for the next six minutes.

The Jayhawks stretched the lead to 50-44 on another 3-point-er from Mykhailiuk, and then 54-46 on a three-point play from fresh-man Cliff Alexander with 7:33 remaining.

In the final seconds of the first half, Mykhaili-uk buried a three-pointer that sliced the Spartans’ halftime lead to 36-35. Mykhailiuk, a 6-foot-7 freshman, pump-faked once, then stepped to his left, drilling the three as time expired.

The pro-Kansas crowd came to life as the Jay-hawks survived a hot half of shooting from Michigan State. The Spartans hit five of eight from 3-point range in the first half.

Trailing 7-3 in the early minutes, Michi-gan State pieced togeth-er a 15-5 run to take an 18-12 lead with 11:15 left in the half. The Spar-tans attacked the lane and made the Jayhawks pay from deep, taking a lead to 23-16 with 8:48 left. However, Kansas responded with a quick 8-0 run; the key bucket coming on a 3-pointer from Mykhailiuk that cut the Michigan State lead to 23-21 with more than seven minutes to play.

The Jayhawks then led 24-23 after a three-point play, but Michigan State quickly retook the lead and maintained it for the rest of the half.

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The Illinois women’s basketball team’s trip to the Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam turned out to be a lot like a dysfunc-tional family vacation.

There are many ups and downs of a vacation with the whole family. One day the family is having a great time on the beach, and the next day every-one is arguing over day trip plans.

Illinois’ trip followed a similar path over Thanks-giving break, starting out on an all time high for the program, but the Illini fi n-ished the tournament at 1-2.

The Illini opened the Paradise Jam by defeat-ing No. 9 Kentucky, 77-71. Illinois last beat a ranked team in 2012, but the 5-0 start to this season was something of a rarity. It was the fi rst 5-0 start by an Illinois team in 12 years.

The Illini shot better from 3 point range and

from the free throw line than they had all season. With just over two minutes left, Kentucky cut the Illi-nois lead to three points but junior Kyley Simmons closed the win out for Illi-nois by going 9-of-10 from the free throw line.

“I just had to take them one at a time,” Simmons said. “My teammates and coaches give me all the confi dence, and I was able to hit them.”

Reigning Big Ten Freshman of the Week Chatrice White led the Illini with 23 in the upset.

“I think everyone underestimates us,” White said. “I think we made a statement tonight. It was crazy, we were so hyped in the locker room. It was a great feeling.”

Whether it was an upset hangover or a reality check, head coach Matt Bollant’s squad came crashing back to reality in their next two games.

In the second game of the tournament, Illinois showed a familiar weak-

ness in a 67-61 loss to USF.

The Illini finished the game with 12 fewer rebounds than the Bulls. Bollant pointed to the dis-parity as one of the main issues.

“We had a fi ve point lead in the second half, but they stepped up and made a lot of plays,” Bol-lant said. “They hit some threes and got to the line and got offensive rebounds, but I thought we showed a lot of heart and a lot of fi ght. We just didn’t get enough defen-sive rebounds and that was the difference.”

After the fi rst loss of the season, Illinois took another blow. The Illini fell to Oklahoma 78-76 in overtime in their fi nal game of the tournament. The Illini once again got beat on the glass, but Bol-lant cited a different rea-son for the loss after his team blew a 10 point lead in the second half.

“Late in the game, we got caught up in the end

result and that hurt us,” Bollant said. “Hopefully a learning thing was that one play, one rebound, one not turning the ball over and you see a difference in the game. I thought we played our hearts out to build that lead and put ourselves in that situa-tion, we just didn’t fi nish it unfortunately.” Although Illinois lost twice, anoth-er bright spot during the tournament was the play of senior Ivory Craw-ford, who averaged over 24 points per game.

Like any vacation, the Illini will come back home and move forward with a positive experi-ence under their belt.

“We learned a lot about ourselves, that we can compete with the very best,” Bollant said. “I don’t think we knew that coming in, so that’s a really good thing.”

Brett can be reached at blerner2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @Blerner10.

Illini fi nish trip to Virgin Islands with mixed results

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINI Illinois freshman Chatrice White shoots the ball against Memphis on Nov. 20. White had 23 points in an upset win over No. 9 Kentucky in the Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands. The women’s basketball team went 1-2 on the trip.