Over the last few weeks, the University administration and academics from across the country have come to a divide over the rescinded position of Steven Salaita.

Oct. 3, 2013 Salaita receives offer to be an associate professor position in the American Indian Studies program.

Mid-July Salaita publishes vulgar tweets about Israel’s involvement in Palestine.

July 21 Campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler emails The News Gazette acknowledging the tweets and confi rming Salaita’s employment to start Aug. 16.

The University starts to receive emails from donors threatening to stop giving money if Salaita’s position is approved.

Aug. 1 Salaita receives an email from Chancellor Phyllis Wise, explaining his position would not go on to the Board of Trustees for approval.

Aug. 20 - Sept. 2 Six professors cancel lectures and conferences on campus.

Aug. 22 Wise sends mass email explaining that her decision rests on protecting diverse dialogue.

Board of Trustees sends mass email supporting Wise.

Protestors hold sit-in during an executive committee meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Aug. 24 – Sept. 2 Four campus departments and the Graduate Employees Organization submit votes of no confi dence in Wise and the Board of Trustees.

Aug. 26 Roughly 100 people protest outside the Swanlund Administration Building.

Aug. 29 The American Association of University Professors sends a letter to Wise urging her to suspend Salaita with pay until an investigation is carried out.

Sept. 1Wise meets with protesters in private meeting.

Sept. 3 Wise addresses the Illinois Student Senate on the issue.

Sept. 11 Board of Trustees will meet for its fi rst regular meeting. of the year to appoint new faculty.

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Emails between Chancellor Phyllis Wise and opponents of Steven Salaita’s appointment to the American Indian Studies program reveal that Universi-ty donors, alumni and current students lobbied Wise to rescind what was said to be an “indefi nite” tenure track offer of employment.

The Daily Illini received the emails under the Illinois Freedom of Infor-mation Act.

On Oct. 3, Salaita received an offer letter signed by interim LAS dean Brian Ross for a position as associate profes-sor in AIS. The email clarifi ed, howev-er, that the position was still subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees.

In an email dated July 21, campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler responded to The News Gazette, acknowledging Salaita’s tweets with this statement: “Faculty have a wide range of scholarly and political views, and we recognize the freedom of speech rights of all of our employees.” In the same email, Kal-er confi rmed that Salaita would begin his position as scheduled on Aug. 16.

Shortly after, dozens of emails began rolling in from donors, explicitly threat-ening the withdrawal of fi nancial sup-port if the University moved forward with Salaita’s appointment. Donor names are blacked out on the docu-ments, however, to protect the send-ers’ personal information.

“We will now cease our annual con-

tributions to the University and will let our fellow alumni know why we are doing so,” an alumnus said in an email, dated July 24. “We will encourage oth-ers to join us in this protest, as perhaps fi nancial consequences will sway you even though morals, common sense and decency did not.”

Another University alumnus expressed dissatisfaction over Salaita’s hire, stating, “You also damage the rep-utation and standing of the University in the world, in the academic communi-ty, and will undoubtedly also affect the support of what is otherwise a fi ne insti-tution from alumni, including myself.”

However, on Aug. 1, Wise sent an

BY MEGAN JONESASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Looking back, Chancellor Phyllis Wise said she would have handled Ste-ven Salaita’s case differently by being more deliberate and consulting with more people before sending him a let-ter on Aug. 1.

At the end of July, she believed the Board of Trustees would not approve Salaita’s appointment to the American Indian Studies program and time was ticking, as he was scheduled to arrive on campus the third week of August.

“Because of the timing of this issue ... I felt it was more humanitarian to let him know that he is unlikely to be appointed as soon as possible,” Wise said.

However, hindsight is 20-20, she said, and it is easy to look back and say what one should have done.

***Now, the University is faced with fi ve

votes of no confi dence from depart-ments, a nationwide boycott and sev-eral canceled lecture appearances.

Recently, the English department

and the Graduate Employees Organi-zation issued votes of no confi dence in the University administration’s han-dling of Salaita’s case.

Looking forward, Wise plans to create seminars to discuss academic freedom and meet with campus col-leges within the next two weeks to listen to their concerns and correct misinformation.

Additionally, she is looking for guid-ance from the Urbana-Champaign Fac-

BY ALEX SWANSONSTAFF WRITER

Gov. Pat Quinn signed leg-islation to protect pregnant women against discrimi-nation in the workplace on Women’s Equality Day, the 94th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.

The law amends the Illi-nois Human Rights Act with respect to employ-ment and stipulates that upon a request from a preg-

nant woman, including any necessary documentation such as a doctor’s note, an employer will make reason-able accommodations for the employee’s well-being.

Reasonable accommoda-tions could include breaks for pregnant workers from heavy lifting, access to more places to sit, more frequent bathroom breaks and a mod-ifi ed work schedule. After childbirth, women are enti-

tled to more time to recov-er and a separate area for breast-feeding at their place of employment.

It is now considered a civil rights violation if an employ-er refuses to provide rea-sonable accommodations. Additionally, the law pro-hibits employers from deny-ing employment opportuni-ties or benefi ts to pregnant women who are otherwise the strongest candidate to

be hired or promoted.However, if the employ-

er argues that a requested accommodation is not rea-sonable and will cause an undue hardship on the busi-ness, the employer may not have to provide the accommodation.

State Rep. Mary Flowers, D-31, and State Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-40, spon-sored the bill. Flowers fi rst introduced the bill in Dec.

2012, and it was signed on Aug. 26.

“Before this legislation took effect, discrimination against pregnant workers had dire consequences for many families,” said Eliz-abeth Gedmark, a staff attorney and director of the southern offi ce at A Better Balance. The organization promotes equality at all income levels so men and women may care for their

families without fearing job losses.

“There have been a lot of employers, really nation-wide, that have declined these accommodations. And then pregnant women

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Champaign Burglary was reported

in the 600 block of Stough-ton Street around 8 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender en-tered the victim’s unlocked apartment and stole an elec-tronic gaming system and games while the victim was asleep.

University Theft was reported at

Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall, 1005 S. Lincoln Ave., Tuesday.

According to the report, a student reported that his bi-cycle had been stolen from a bike rack near the resi-dence hall. The bike has an estimated value of $250.

Theft was reported near the Animal Science Labora-tory, 1207 W. Gregory Dr., at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

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ter she set it down near the laboratory. The phone has an estimated value of $200.

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BY ANGELICA LAVITO STAFF WRITER

The owners of Clinton Landfi ll, Inc. have fi led an appeal against the deci-sion to keep polychlorinat-ed biphenyl, PCB, waste out of its site. The landfi ll is located directly above the Mahomet Aquifer, which supplies water to about 750,000 East Central Illi-nois residents.

In July, Gov. Pat Quinn directed the Illinois Envi-ronmental Protection Agen-cy, IEPA, to take immedi-ate action against allowing PCB waste to enter the land-fi ll . Clinton Landfi ll is now appealing the limitation with the Illinois Pollution Control Board, IPCB.

“On Aug. 28, the board received appeal of IEPA’s decision to modify the per-mit of Clinton Landfi ll,” said

Connie Newman, spokesper-son for the Illinois Pollution Control Board. “The board will be deciding whether or not to accept appeal at tomorrow’s board meeting.”

If the board accepts to hear the appeal, the peti-tioners and IEPA will sub-mit the documents IEPA used to make its decision and a public trial will follow.

The board will also have 120 days, or until Dec. 26, to reach their decision. They can uphold the per-mit changes, reject them or modify them, according to Newman.

The chemical waste land-fi ll is located above the Mahomet Aquifer, which supplies drinking water to 14 counties, including Champaign County.

“There’s a unique geologi-cal situation with the aqui-

fer where there are sand-bars, clay and different things,” said Champaign Mayor Don Gerard. “You quite simply cannot map and detect how these things seep in and how these things get in there.”

The decision to disallow PCBs from entering the landfi ll came in July, after the DeWitt County Board submitted a letter to IEPA stating they “did not autho-rize the disposal of TSCA-regulated PCBs in its Sept. 12, 2002 siting approval,” according to a press release.

Illinois law allows IEPA to modify a permit upon dis-covery that a decision was made using false or mislead-ing information.

Angelica can be reached at lavito2@dailyillini.com.

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTA University student and his friend, both 18, were arrested Saturday morning after an incident in a University residence building, Lundgren Hall, 1201 S. Fourth St.

Ali Mahmoud Issa was arrested on the charges of aggravated assault, reck-less conduct and interfer-ing with a 911 call; Ieva Simulyte was arrested on the charges of reckless con-duct and illegal consump-tion of alcohol by a minor,

according to a University police report.

Hall staff witnessed the two assisting their 18-year-old male friend up to a dorm room. The male was intoxi-cated and unresponsive.

When hall staff tried to help the ill male, the stu-dent pushed them away and threatened them. When they witnessed hall staff calling 911, Issa threatened the staff member and tried to knock the phone out of his hand, said University Police Sgt. Tom Geis.

The two then brought the intoxicated male to a dorm room, locked the door and then left.

The hall staff unlocked the room and emergency responders attended to the male, who had been vomit-ing, according to Geis.

“It was a very dangerous situation for the guy that they locked in the room,” Geis said.

The intoxicated male was transported to the hospital and the two were then locat-ed by police.

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or fi red altogether,” Ged-mark said. “They often lose their health benefi ts, and the economic consequences are really disastrous for these families.”

She also remarked that this kind of discrimination disproportionately affects low income workers and workers with high physical demands in their job.

Gedmark said that many of these issues have already been brought up in court and are oftentimes unfairly set-tled in favor of the employer. “The law will work to cor-rect the unfair fi ndings in favor of the pregnant work-ers,” Gedmark said.

“You hear all of these hor-ror stories,” Flowers said. “Women who were preg-nant, who lost their unborn child ... who lost their jobs ... destroyed their family by losing their job and los-

ing their income because an employer would not make a reasonable accommodation.”

Flowers said that these kinds of actions are discrim-ination, as there is only one group of people who have the ability to get pregnant.

Director of Equal Oppor-tunity Policy at Women Employed, Melissa Josephs commented that the law is only supporting people who want to keep working, and that could be benefi cial to the worker, as well as the employer and the economy.

“These are workers who want to keep working, so instead of the employer having to spend money to replace or retrain work-ers, here’s a worker who wants to keep working and just needs an adjustment,” Josephs said.

The bill was well support-ed on a bipartisan basis in both the state’s Senate and House of Representatives. The fi nal text of House Bill 8 passed both houses unanimously.

Josephs felt that, after some back and forth, most legislators knew it would seem ridiculous not to sup-port this legislation in its fi nal form.

“It was almost a joke, the legislators would say, ‘You’re actually going to come out against this? Who’s going to be against this?’ Because, it is so reasonable,” Josephs said.

Flowers believes that this law will be able to increase the standard of the work for pregnant employees across Illinois.

“No one should have to make the choice of not hav-ing their baby or having a miscarriage because of their job, because of their livelihood,” Flowers said. “A lot of women will be able to maintain their families, maintain their livelihood and be respected and pro-tected under this law.”

Alex can be reached at amswans2@dailyillini.com.

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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT A 21-year-old female

was arrested in the early morning hours Saturday for resisting police, criminal damage to state-supported property, aggravated fl eeing and eluding, leaving the scene of an accident, driving with a suspended license and not having valid insurance.

Jemika Butler was arrest-

ed at 2 a.m. Saturday. She fl ed after police tried to pull her vehicle over after reports Butler’s vehicle had struck vehicles that were parked in lot D-15, 1201 W. Oregon St.

The University police were nearby helping close a busy Canopy Club when the incident occurred, Universi-ty Police Sgt. Tom Geis said.

The vehicle then fled the area, and Butler drove

south on Goodwin Ave-nue then west on Gregory Drive.

When the vehicle reached Sixth Street, it jumped the median and crashed into the Business Instructional Facility, Geis said.

The building sustained minimal damage, but both of the vehicle’s left tires were fl attened and the car had to be towed from the scene.

Police arrest woman who crashed car into BIF

ulty Senate on what process she should go through when faced with situations like this. The senate will vote on cre-ating a committee to review instances for when the chan-cellor or provost fi nd a reason not to proceed with a tenure-track hire that was already approved by a department.

According to documents obtained under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, several emails were sent to Wise from opponents of Salai-ta’s appointment, who threat-ened to pull donations or drop out of the University if he was hired.

However, Wise explained that donors did not infl uence her decision at all.

“I think it is absolutely crit-ical that we raise more money because the state is gradual-ly decreasing the amount of money [we receive], but that was not any factor in my deci-sion,” she said.

***Wise and Provost Ilesanmi

Adesida listened to students’ comments regarding Salai-

ta’s rescinded job offer at an Illinois Student Senate meet-ing on Wednesday, Sept. 3.

Public comments ranged from concerns about the infl uence of donors to wheth-er Salaita’s political tweets regarding Israeli confl ict affected his appointment.

Many students quoted the harshness of Salaita’s tweets, such as “If you’re defending #Israel right now, you’re an awful human being.”

Students in support of Salaita cited Wise’s mass email stating that the tweets were not factored into the decision to rescind Salai-ta, and continued to remind the audience of academic freedom.

However, students in oppo-sition of Salaita cited the Uni-versity’s Inclusive Illinois goals, adding that Salaita’s tweets can be considered hate crimes and disrespect-ful against minorities.

Ryan Brown, senior in Business, cited professional-ism, stating that if any stu-dent tweeted similar content, they would not be hired. He questioned why it is any dif-ferent at the University.

“I personally would be

very scared to be in his class,” Brown said. “Not only would I be scared due to his hate speech, but because I am more professional than him.”

Alicia Kozma, graduate student, said the actions tak-en have disregarded aca-demic freedom and shared governance.

“By silencing those who have unpopular viewpoints and refusing to let them inter-act with this campus, you are signaling your lack of faith in the UIUC student body,” Kozma said.

Student Body President Mitch Dickey said that mem-bers of the American Indi-an Studies program have a right to be upset, “as a poten-tial faculty member and his family had shared meals with them, were invited into their homes, and were welcomed to Illinois...” Dickey wrote in a statement.

The student senate voted to forward Dickey’s statement to a subcommittee, where it will be reviewed and could be adopted at a further meeting.

Megan can be reached at majones5@dailyillini.com and @MeganAsh_Jones.

email to Salaita stating his appointment would not be for-warded to the Board of Trust-ees because its approval was unlikely.

While a majority of the emails were forwarded to Board of Trustees Secre-tary Susan Kies and did not receive direct responses from Wise, one correspon-dence chain appeared to mer-it special attention directly from the chancellor.

In the email thread, one correspondent expressed their desire to talk with Wise over the phone or meet in per-son to discuss Salaita’s hire, and attached their schedule in the message.

“If I move a couple of meet-ings around, I could leave from Chicago,” Wise wrote. “If I do that, would you be free to meet around noon-1 p.m.?”

Buried in a several hun-dred page PDF packet are over a dozen identical emails sent to Wise between July 29 and July 30. The only unique feature about these emails

were their subject lines, although there was little variation. Subject lines read, “Anti Israel Professor” and “Anti Semitism in Champaign Urbana.”

While the names of the senders were redacted, many of the emails were signed by “the Jewish Community of Champaign Urbana.”

Chancellor Wise previ-ously told The News Gazette that the decision to withdraw Salaita’s job offer was not infl uenced by pressure from donors.

“On this, I have heard from people who supported me, as well as those who criticized me. In coming to a decision, I was not infl uenced by any of them,” Wise said. “My prima-ry concern was for our stu-dents, the campus and the University.”

Despite many attempts made by The Daily Illini, the Offi ce of the Chancellor could

not be reached for comment.In a special meeting held

on Sept. 1, Wise met with sev-en student protesters hop-ing to reinstate Salaita to a rescinded job offer.

While the students initially

called the meeting with Wise a success, University Spokes-man Tom Hardy clarifi ed Wednesday that as far as he knew, Salaita would not be on a list of faculty to be approved by the Board of Trustees at its next meeting on Sept. 11, contrary to what protesters said they were led to believe.

Following the meeting, Stephanie Skora, senior in LAS and one of the students in attendance at Monday’s meeting, expressed her sat-isfaction with the chancellor, who allegedly stressed that the Board of Trustees would determine Salaita’s future.

Hardy said he believes the Board of Trustees sup-port Wise in her decision not to reconsider Steven Salaita.

In an interview with The Chicago Tribune on Satur-day, Christopher Kennedy, board chair, said the board was open to a fi nancial settle-ment with Salaita.

However, Hardy denied to comment on any personal or legal matters when asked to confi rm the information.

Josh can be reached at jjwinte2@dailyillini.com.

Two arrested, 1 hospitalized at Lundgren

BY DON BARTLETTIMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Denis taught me how to tame The Beast.

We met in Tapachula, Mexico, not far from the Guatemalan border. I had climbed the iron rungs to the top of a car. I peered over and saw Denis curled up on a bed of gravel. It was the summer of 2000, and I was there to docu-ment the journey of the stowaways who rode the freight train that lurched through the Mexican coun-tryside. Migrants called it The Beast.

Denis — his last name was Contreras — shoved his hand into the pocket of blue trousers. “I want to see my mother because I don’t know her,” he said. “ She lives in the state of Los Angeles.”

For three months I slept on top of more than a dozen freight trains to capture the experiences of youngsters heading to the border. Work-ing with reporter Sonia Naz-ario, we produced a series published in The Times in 2002.

Fourteen years later, I was in Denis’ hometown, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Before heading to Hon-

duras, I had copied a page from my journal dated Aug. 3, 2000. Denis had careful-ly printed his address in that journal. Now, I wanted to fi nd him again. It wasn’t easy to fi nd, so we drove to the barrio’s police sta-tion and found the offi cer in charge in the dirt park-ing area.

“ Who are you looking for?”

“Denis Contreras.” He took the lead on his

bicycle. The TV was loud so I knocked and yelled, “Hola, Denis?” A girl stared at us

Mabel invited us in. Soon I spotted a sleepy-eyed man. I blurted out in English, “Oh

my God, Denis ! Remem-ber me? We rode the trains together!”

I already knew some of Denis’ history. He found his mom. But he drifted into trouble and his mom sent him to Honduras. Then, four years ago, he called to say he was back. We met in La Jolla at his landscaping job.

He told me that he had been deported . Denis agreed to an interview the next afternoon. “Meet me after work. I’m off at 3.” The next day, I waited outside an offi ce building in the Altia Business Park.

“I just want to forget about everything.”

Journalist remembers Honduran immigrant

DON BARTLETTI MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEDenis Contreras, 12, gets food and water in 2000

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BY JOSEPH NEFFMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The 31-year nightmare that swallowed the lives of Henry McCollum and Leon Brown ended on a sticky Wednesday afternoon on a modest street here, the day after a judge declared them innocent of a brutal 1983 rape and murder.

Brown, fresh from a Greene County prison, stepped from his cousin’s car, blinking in the sunlight, unsure where to go or what to do after three decades behind bars and prison guards dictating his every move.

McCollum, in a smart tweed jacket and silvery black tie instead of the bright red khakis of death row, looked intently at his broth-er before deliberately cross-ing the street.

As the two brothers hugged, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews broke into applause.

McCollum, 50, was silent and misty-eyed. Brown, 46, smiled: “Free now. It’s over.”

For three decades, the brothers have been the poster children of young men gone wild, convicted of gang-raping an 11-year-old girl, Sabrina Buie, and kill-

ing her by stuffi ng her pant-ies down her throat with a stick.

On Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Douglas Sass-er declared them innocent and ordered them freed. The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission had found DNA evidence tying the killing to Roscoe Artis, a sexual predator with a long history of attacking women, including a similar rape and strangulation of a young Red Springs woman one month after the arrest of Brown and McCollum.

Robeson County District Attorney Johnson Britt con-sented in the exoneration.

Prison is over, but freedom will certainly carry new and bewildering challenges for McCollum and Brown, who have been locked up their entire adult lives. Both are mentally challenged, with IQ tests scoring in the 50s or 60s. They struggle with basic reading and writing, and they have lived three decades in a world being ordered around by others.

Like exonerated inmates before them, the two entered the free world with no out-reach or help from the state that imprisoned them. They will rely on family, McCol-

lum living with his father and stepmother outside Wilmington and Brown with his sister and cous-ins in Fayetteville. A social worker from the Center for Death Penalty Litigation has been trying to help establish residency, locate birth cer-tifi cates and line up social services.

They will likely consid-er reparations: A pardon of innocence from the gov-ernor could bring a max-imum of $750,000 each. Other wrongfully convict-ed inmates have fi led civil rights lawsuits that have won settlements in the millions of dollars.

Brown said his last night in prison was uneventful: Few knew he had won his freedom. He looked forward to walking to the grocery store with his sister Wednes-day evening.

McCollum returned to Central Prison in Raleigh on Tuesday to a hero’s welcome. Everyone - inmates, offi cers, administrators - wanted to shake his hand. Peter Kuhns, a psychologist, treated him to sour cream potato chips and a honey bun.

“Everyone was clapping, everyone was really happy for me,” he said.

After 31 years behind bars, brothers fi nally come home

CHUCK LIDDY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE Tracey O’Neal, right, and her sister Michelle Wallace hug their cousin Henry McCollum as he arrives at his sister’s home in Fayetteville, N.C. Wednesday. McCollum and his brother Leon Brown were released after 30 years in prison when DNA evidence cleared them of the rape and murder of an 11-year old Red Springs, N.C. girl in 1983.

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

There is something so right about a good ’80s roman-tic comedy. That moment

in “The Breakfast Club” when Judd Nelson throws his fist in the air in celebration of land-ing the right girl and the scene in “Say Anything” when John Cusack, as a grand gesture, stands outside his girl’s window with a boom box.

From a very young age, we all believe that someday we will meet someone, form a connec-tion and start dating; the rest will be history. Romantic come-dies fill our minds with ideas of what dating should be and what we have to look forward to when we find the person who is right for us. Although the plot and characters aren’t always realis-tic, most of us hope to eventu-ally form relationships at least somewhat like the ones movies portray.

And our college years should be a time to do that — to explore dating and see where the pro-cess takes us. However, these days, it is not that simple.

Throughout my last three years on campus, I have noticed, increasingly, that we are part of a culture that is more focused on casual hook-ups and less on commit-ted dating relationships. This “hook-up culture” emphasiz-es and encourages casual sex, lack of commitment and little attachment.

This culture makes meaning-ful dating in college really dif-ficult, and if we are not careful, I think it could extinguish the process all together.

In an Elite Daily article regarding hook-up culture, another good point is made that whichever partner cares less seems to come out on top. Becoming attached to someone, showing interest and pursuing that interest seems frowned upon, and, far too often, the one who cares more is labeled as a “stage-five clinger.”

Being the first person to send a text, ask the one you’re inter-ested in out on a date, or pick up the phone to call them are all behaviors I have seen labeled as clingy.

In my opinion, traditional chivalry and courtship, from both men and women, are tough to come across on our campus. With such a high focus on “hav-

ing fun,” people often forget what it is like to actually date another. They forget how nice it can be to have a loving confi-dant to spend quality time with. Pressures from social groups also make it difficult to decide to commit to someone, espe-cially if your friends are not on board with the idea.

The sad reality, I have noticed, is that when you meet someone at a bar on campus, there is often an underlying expectation for it to go further than just a causal get-to-know-you conversation. The media and common beliefs about col-lege campuses seem to glorify casual sex and make it seem like the norm.

While casual hook-ups might make you feel like you are get-ting the college experience, it is hard for me to believe that one can start a meaningful relation-ship without getting to know a prospective partner before things get physical. More often than not, a hook-up is just a hook-up.

All of us on campus should have fun and meet new people, but that doesn’t have to happen at 2 a.m. after the bars close. We should promote a culture that doesn’t focus so heavily on hooking up. I am very much a

believer of committed dating relationships, and, in order to change the hook-up culture, stu-dents should be brave enough to break the mold.

If you see someone in a class, on the quad, at a bar or on your floor that you like, tell them. There is nothing wrong with refusing to conform to hook-up culture.

Personally, I believe there is something nice about going on an old-fashioned date to get food or even going on a walk around campus. It’s so rewarding and refreshing to know there are people who are genuinely inter-ested in learning about you as a person.

And although hook-up culture does make dating a little more difficult in college, there is still hope if both parties are willing.

If they are, it might end up like some of those ’80s mov-ies, which remind us just how great it can feel to fall for some-one. Although dating in college can be messy, with a little bit of effort and courage, we can step out of the hook-up culture and find our own Judds, Johns and Molly Ringwalds.

Rebecca is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at kapolne2@dailyillini.com.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” was the ques-

tion we were asked as kids. In college, it progressed into: “What are you majoring in?” Next comes, “What do you want to do with that?”

In essence, it’s the same question we were all asked in our younger years, and it has come back to haunt us. Being forced to figure out now what you want to do when you grow up is just as daunting as being asked that same ques-tion as a young child.

The simple response, “I don’t know,” has been stigma-tized in various ways — and it shouldn’t be. This response often provokes a sense of bewilderment from those who believe they need to have everything figured out by the time they apply to college, and, truth is, they don’t.

I grew up always hearing my mother say, “If you find a career you truly love, you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”

The journey of career exploration is a long one and should not be rushed. Making yourself vulnerable is a way to guarantee never having to work a day in your life.

By hanging out with a new group of friends, peo-ple become vulnerable to rejection or might even find out they click with a certain group better than their cur-rent circle of friends.

The same goes for getting involved with new registered student organizations or tak-ing classes outside of your major — by doing so, you make yourself vulnerable to the idea that there’s an activ-ity or subject you enjoy more than the one you’re currently involved with.

College is a unique time when students can try new things and open themselves up to the outside world. They make themselves vulnerable, and they become subject to the unknown consequences of doing so.

It can be a terrifying expe-rience, especially if you’re a student like me who thought he knew what he wanted to do from the first day of college. But it’s an experience worth going through, especially if it results in the discovery of a passion you never thought you had.

From the beginning of my college career, I always thought I wanted to pursue a career in politics (and no, I didn’t want to be a politician — just someone behind the scenes).

I’ve always made clear my obsession with being up to date with the news. Being

aware of the news helps me identify the problems we face as a society, and my close fol-lowing of politics allows me to see the issues at hand as well as the means of fixing them.

I felt that every oppor-tunity I took advantage of brought me that much closer to finding an “in,” and I was simply doing the things I was because I thought they’d make for a strong resume for someone who wanted to pur-sue a career in politics. But when I first started working as a resident advisor for Uni-versity Housing at the begin-ning of my sophomore year, I fell in love with the job. I would briefly entertain the idea of entering a career in student affairs but immedi-ately shut it out — I wanted to be in politics.

This past summer, I took on another student affairs job with the admissions office and also worked on a political campaign. As they say, hind-sight is 20/20, and I now real-ize that I had always known my inclination toward work-ing in student affairs (admis-sions, housing, other nonaca-demics). I realized through my experiences this summer that my inclination toward working in student affairs was stronger than my previ-ous inclination toward work-ing in politics.

When I moved back in the residence halls at the start of

this year and began my sec-ond year of being a resident advisor, it all came togeth-er. I realized that I shouldn’t spend my time working in a field that I thought might impress people, but rather a field that I found a true sense of satisfaction with.

Oftentimes, we find our-selves pursuing the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

Concerning career choic-es, we may choose one over the other because it can impress others in conversa-tion or because it’s a profit-able industry where money can be made.

We fear the fake response of, “Wow, that sounds real-ly cool,” or the head tilt response that is a result of the obscureness of your desired profession.

If anything, I’ve just learned to embrace it. The feeling of pursuing your pas-sions is much greater and more honorable than the feel-ing you get compromising them just to impress others — I learned from experience. Why work unnecessarily hard for something your gut is fighting against when you can find something you love and never have to work a day in your life?

I’m not going to, and you shouldn’t either.

Matt is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at mpasqui2@dailyillini.com.

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EDITORIALNew law a

promising step toward workplace

gender equality

MATT PASQUINI

Opinions columnist

REBECCA KAPOLNEK

Opinions columnist

Vulnerability now ensures happiness later

College hook-up culture kills commitment

As most of us are already keenly aware, women, on average, are

worse-off in the workplace than men. For example, full-time working women make an average of 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, and there are many stereotypes and discriminatory activities targeted at female workers. There’s also the glass ceiling effect, the invisible barriers that often prevent women from reaching the highest levels of employment.

While women are already an oppressed group, further layers of disadvantages exist when gender intersects with various other categories. One such intersectional group is pregnant women and mothers.

As such, we find it beneficial, but also long overdue, that Governor Pat Quinn signed House Bill 8 into law to combat discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace on Aug. 26. The bill says that pregnant women are to receive certain workplace accommodations from their employers upon request. As stated in The Daily Illini, these accommodations include providing sitting areas, avoiding heavy lifting and recovery time post-birth.

While we would like to think that, in this day and age, these accommodations would already be provided without question or problem, that simply hasn’t been the case.

And although these are all reasonable and necessary steps to combating the issues pregnant women face on the job, it is also important that people begin to acknowledge and understand the other stigmas that pregnant women and mothers face in the workplace.

A 2007 article from the American Journal of Sociology contains an in-depth discussion regarding a phenomenon known as the “motherhood penalty,” which describes the issues mothers and pregnant women face in the workplace. Shockingly, between mothers and non-mothers under the age of 35, there is a larger pay gap than between men and women, which demonstrates that this truly is an issue.

The article also indicates a very covert form of discrimination going on in which mothers in the work environment are judged by evaluators to be less competent and less committed to their jobs. In addition, visibly pregnant managers are seen as less authoritative, but warmer, more emotional and more irrational than other female managers.

It seems that, oftentimes, many employers force mothers and pregnant women into having to choose between devotion to their families and commitment to their work, when each inevitably affects the other.

We are in absolute support of this new legislation that protects pregnant women in the workplace for the very reasons discussed above. The issues women face in the workplace are evident and highly problematic, and the issues that specific, intersectional groups of women face in the workplace are sometimes even more problematic. In the future, we hope to see more legislation that protects women from various discriminations in an effort to work toward gender equality.

Q U I C K COMMENTARY

THROWBACK THURSDAYRemember that time (well, those times) about eight months ago when students risked losing their appendages to frostbite when being outside for more than five minutes? Yay for warm weather! Sure, during the first few weeks of school we students might be perpetually sweaty, showing up to class glistening (or, for some of us, dripping), and we sure complain about it a lot, but it’s much better to the opposite extreme. We know many who are enjoying the current lack of physical pain associated with going outdoors in cold weather. It’s the little things in life, right? Enjoy the heat while it lasts!

THE NAKED TRUTHA very creepy, sad hacker obtained explicit photographs of about 20 celebrities and shared many of them online. Affected personalities include Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Victoria Justice and Mary E. Winstead, among others. Many have yet to comment on the alleged photographs of themselves, while others have confirmed them as real or dismissed them as fake. Invasion of privacy is very uncool, as is judging others for what they do in their personal time behind closed doors. If you say you’ve never done something you wouldn’t want the whole world to know about or see, you’re lying.

PENN STATE GIRL GOES NUTS FOR SQUIRRELSFor most of us on campus, we feel a particular fondness to our feisty, furry little squirrel friends who leap around the Quad. However, our squirrel-loving clearly doesn’t run as deep as it does in one Penn State student. Apparently, this student has been deemed the “squirrel whisperer,” as she is able to dress up one particular squirrel in party hats and get him to hold doll-sized props. She even named him Sneezy. While we love the University squirrels, I’m not sure if we love them that much. We think this girl might need to get out more often.

UTAH WOMAN STILL HOT FOR EX-BOYFRIENDPeople do a lot of weird stuff to get the attention of their ex-significant other when the passion is still high. However, one woman topped them all when she started a fire at her ex-boyfriends house — with bacon. Apparently the fire was started using a pound of many people’s favorite pig product that the woman left on a lit burner. We imagine the house smelled quite good once the whole ordeal was over, and we also imagine the ex-boyfriend didn’t take her back. But the icing on the cake (or the grease on the bacon, if you will) to this story is that the woman’s last name is Crispi — and there’s nothing we like more than a good pun.

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was born when a group of faculty including Roth-berg and Keller met in the fall of 2013, wanting to do something to commemo-rate the centennial. After brainstorming, Keller said they decided they did not want anything too academ-ic, with the usual confer-ences and specialists. He said they wanted to create something that appealed to students, which is why they included the art and

fi lm series. “We have performance

coming together with schol-arship, (all) coming togeth-er with history,” Salerno said. “People are approach-ing the same idea from all these different angles and disciplines.”

Keller also said the wide range of events can help students learn how signifi -cant the war is outside the United States.

“(It is) a way of approach-ing the war from multiple viewpoints including inter-national viewpoints because it was a world war, not just a French or German event,”

Keller said.In the end, the initiative

is an attempt to capture the essence and impact of World War I. It is a unique oppor-tunity for students that will only be available until December.

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Annabeth can be reached at aecarls2@dailyillini.com.

RICK LOOMIS MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEIldiko Tabori is a psychologist who counsels comics at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood. "It's a very insular, isolated group," she says of her comedian clients.

Laugh Factory shrink helps counsel comediansBY CHRISTOPHER GOFFARDMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

LOS ANGELES — Ildiko Tabori has never stood on a stage trying to make strang-ers laugh, doesn’t write jokes and admits that she’s not great at telling them. Try-ing to recount something clever she heard, she makes advance apologies: “I’m not going to do it justice.”

But if you make a living being funny, Tabori under-stands the particulars of your pain better than most: For the last three years, she’s been an in-house shrink at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood.

“Being a comedian is truly the hardest job in the enter-tainment industry,” Tabori says. “You have a lot of late nights. You have good sets, you have bad sets. It is kind of a lonely existence at times.”

She knows about the con-stant pressure of fi nding gigs. The uncertainty of whether the routine that worked yes-terday will work tonight. The front-row drunk, ruin-ing your set. The allure of drugs and alcohol. The hard-to-describe emptiness that attends interactions with fans, who mistakenly believe they know you because they related to a joke.

And the strain of watch-ing fellow comics shoot to stratospheric success, some-times as fresh arrivals on the scene. “I do hear that a lot,” Tabori says. “ ‘Why is this person successful, and why am I not?’ ”

Robin Williams’ recent suicide was a reminder of why she’s there. Club owner Jamie Masada hired Tabo-ri after he became alarmed by the number of premature deaths in the comic world, including Richard Jeni’s sui-cide in 2007 and Greg Giral-do’s fatal overdose three years later.

“He felt the comedians needed some support from a professional,” she says. “He’s not trained to recog-nize someone who’s going to go kill themselves, and I am.”

During the day, she sees patients at her West Los Angeles offi ce. Two or three nights a week, she drives to the Sunset Strip club around the time comedians start tak-ing the stage.

Clients follow her up a narrow staircase, past the bar and VIP lounge, to a third-fl oor offi ce where they sit on an old-fashioned red couch that used to belong to Groucho Marx.

“Initially people were skeptical of Dr. Tabori because, A, she’s a female; B, they didn’t think they needed any help; and C, how could this doctor who never did stand-up comedy under-stand them?” says veteran comic Sunda Croonquist, who has been seeing her for three years.

She says Tabori helped her get through “a horrible, dark time in my life” precipitated by a lawsuit by her in-laws,

who were angry at her depic-tion of them in her act.

“She’s hard-core,” Croon-quist says.

A Los Angeles native and daughter of a former runner from the Hungarian Olympic team, Tabori grew up absorb-ing what she calls “an East-ern European work ethic.”

As a girl, she fell in love with Johnny Carson and had pet cockatiels named Mork and Mindy. She originally wanted to be an ethnogra-pher, “to see the world and study customs,” and now “I guess I am kind of an eth-nographer. I study this cul-ture.” Often, she stands in the back of the club watching her clients perform. It can pro-vide clues as to what’s hurt-

ing them.For years she counseled

inmates at L.A. County jails and sex offenders for the state parole board, which is one thing she tells people when they ask how a non-comic could possibly under-stand a comic’s pain.

“I don’t have to live that experience to under-stand what’s going on with them,” says Tabori, 43, who is divorced with an 8-year-old daughter. “I’m not bipolar, but I can work with someone who has bipo-lar disorder. Emotions are universal.”

Masada, the club owner, says he interviewed dozens of psychologists before he found Tabori. “She under-stands comics,” he says.

In casual conversation, Tabori exudes easy cheerful-ness, but she describes her approach with patients this way: “I’m not a touchy-feely Earth Mother. I’m the type of therapist who is going to call you on your crap.”

Research shows that depression and bipolar dis-order are more pervasive in comics than in the general population.

Show business is brutaliz-ing, competition is cutthroat and the road where many comics make their money shuttling between stages in nowhere towns is a lonely place.

“They’re sitting alone in an icky, dark hotel room, and that loneliness creeps in,” she says. “I get a lot of calls from hotel rooms.”

Tabori’s clientele is sup-posed to be a secret, of course, though it’s a joke at the Laugh Factory that every-one knows who she counsels.

One of them is Rajiv Saty-

al, 38, who’s been doing com-edy full time for eight years. He says comics often speak of the microphone as an arrow, pointing right at them.

“The rejection is public,” he says. “I’ll never know how good my friends are at their jobs — they’re doctors or law-yers — whereas you know how good of a stand-up I am. You can see me.”

When he worked in the marketing department at Procter & Gamble, he says, a co-worker might inch up a rung on the corporate lad-der. In comedy, your peers’ success means they are rich and famous. “The feeling of inadequacy is fed by the industry.”

Brett Riley, a 15-year com-edy veteran, says he began seeing Tabori because he didn’t want his infant daugh-ter to be harmed by his free-fl oating anxieties about his job.

“This is one of those pro-fessions that is not a good career choice,” says Riley, 35. “You’re not guaranteed anything. You’re a trapeze artist without a net.”

For all their onstage vul-nerability, comics work in a macho culture, and there’s still a stigma attached to see-ing a shrink, he says.

On a recent night, Riley was three jokes from fi nish-ing his 20-minute set when a woman in the audience began heckling him, loudly and bra-zenly. His comeback included an unfl attering description of the circumstances of her conception.

But it gave him little sat-isfaction, and he spent the rest of the night apologiz-ing to other performers and club staff, though everyone agreed she had had it coming.

Recently, as Tabori’s cli-ents try to make sense of Williams’ death, she’s seen the initial shock giving way to something else.

“The anger is starting to hit,” she says, recalling a comic who noted that Wil-liams left children behind, and who also felt guilty for his anger.

Tabori’s assistant, James Harris, 39, who is both a psychologist-in-training and a comic, says the suicide unnerved comics in part because Williams represent-ed the pinnacle of talent and success in their fi eld.

“It’s scary because so many people think the answer to their happiness is going to be that kind of accomplish-ment,” he says.

Tabori had been waiting for a patient at her day job when she saw the news on Facebook of Williams’ death. She sent Masada an email saying, “Please remind the comedians I’m here.”

The next morning, she says, one of her comedian cli-ents sent her an email that said, “Thanks for keeping me and my friends alive.”

“I have it saved and fl agged,” she says. “That one I’ll keep forever.”

“You have a lot of late nights.

... It is kind of a lonely existence

at times.”ILDIKO TABORIPSYCHOLOGIST

BY ANNABETH CARLSONSTAFF WRITER

Exactly 100 years ago in the late summer of 1914, World War I had just begun. Countries either banded together or were against each other, creating innova-tions in industry, warfare, propaganda and entertain-ment, all while a deadly, tragic conflict consumed them all. Now in 2014, all of these occurrences will be remembered and learned about at the University, beginning with The Great War Opening Event this week.

The Great War Opening Event, which will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkhead Pavilion on Thurs-day, will kick off a semester-long initiative filled with art, music, films, lectures and more — all in honor of the centennial of World War I.

Michelle Salerno, the event’s programming assis-tant and Ph.D candidate in the Department of Theatre, said that the opening event is a fun way to commemo-rate the start of the war.

She said the evening’s pro-gram includes remarks from Barbara Wilson, the dean

of LAS, and Edward Fes-er, dean of FAA, who both supported the initiative. It will also feature a poetry reading, song performance and the exhibit “La Grande Guerre: French Posters and Photographs from World War I.”

“I see it as our semes-ter is building with each event and our conversation is growing, and I am excit-ed for the beginning event so these conversations can start,” Salerno said.

Salerno worked with Marcus Keller and Michael Rothberg to coordinate the event. Keller is an associate professor and head of the Department of French and Italian, and Michael Roth-berg is a professor and head of the Department of Eng-lish and Director of the Ini-tiative in Holocaust, Geno-cide and Memory Studies.

“The opening event will be very exciting because this work has now come to fruition,” Keller said.

Keller explained that the opening event is just the beginning of great semester events, such as the exhib-it “First Global Conflict: Contemporary Views of the Great War, 1914-1919,”

a film series with movies such as “What Price Glo-ry?” (1952) and “Joyeux Noel” (2005) and a perfor-mance by the St. Louis Sym-phony. He said he plans to attend as many as possible. A core course aligned with the initiative is even offered for undergraduate students, titled HIST 258: World War I and the Making of the Glob-al Twentieth Century. More events can be found on the website — www.thegreat-war.illinois.edu.

Alexander Jesse, junior in LAS, said he is interested in attending some of The Great War events.

“My grandfather is from Greece and has always talk-ed about (World War I),” Jesse said. “He’s a big histo-ry guy; it rubbed off on me.”

Salerno said she is espe-cially looking forward to the “Oh, What a Lovely War!” performance in November by the Illinois Theatre.

“I am writing my dis-sertation right now and it’s on American theatre per-formance during the first world war, so it is a really nice pairing,” she said.

The Great War initiative

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LIFE CULTURE

“The Great War: Experiences, Representations, Effects”

Schedule of Events: What: Exhibit opening of “La Grande Guerre:!French Posters and Photographs from World War I” When: Sept. 4, 6 to 8 p.m. Where: Light Court and Gelvin Noel AnnexKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion

What: Program and exhibit opening of “First Global Conflict: Contemporary Views of the Great War, 1914-1919”When: Sept. 10, 3 p.m. Where:!346 Library, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library

What: Program and exhibit opening of “WWI in Champaign-Urbana: The Local Story of the Great War”When: Sept. 18, 7 p.m. Where: Archives Research Center, 1707 S. Orchard St., Urbana, IL 61801

What: “En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I” lecture by Teri EdelsteinWhen: Sept. 29,!5 p.m. Where: Room 62!at Krannert Art Museum!

What: “The French Poster and!World War I” lecture by Ségolène Le MenWhen: Oct. 1,!5:30 p.m. Where: Room 62!at Krannert Art Museum!

What: “World War I and the Making of Modern American Culture” symposium !!When: Oct.10, all dayWhere:!Lucy Ellis Lounge in Foreign Language Building!

What: “Chicago’s ‘Fighting 8th’ (370th) and ‘Harlem’s Rattlers’ (15th/369th): Two Black Regiments, One Black Metropolis in the WWI Era” lecture by Jeffrey Sammons When: Oct. 22, 4 p.m. Where: Rare Book and Manuscript Library!

What: “Denying the Armenian Genocide: A Turkish National Security Concept” lecture by Taner AkçamWhen: Nov. 3rd, 3 p.m.Where: 210 Illini Union!

What: “From the Great War to the Bloodlands: Rethinking Europe’s History” lecture by Timothy SnyderWhen: Nov. 10, 3 p.m. Where:!Knight Auditorium in Spurlock Museum

What: “Literature and War” conversation with Jim HicksWhen: Nov. 11, 5 p.m. Where:!Room 212,!Campus Honors Program, 1205 W. Oregon St., Urbana

What: “All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914” and closing eventWhen: Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. Where:!Foellinger Great Hall,!Krannert Center for the!Performing Arts

New art exhibit marks 100 years since WWIKrannert Art Museum hosts lectures, art, movies on Great War

GROUNDEDINHISTORY

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BY SAHER KHANSTAFF WRITER

The earth often offers more than just food and sustenance to society. On Friday, it will also be giv-ing people a history lesson at the Native American House during the Lessons From the Soil Chat ’N Chew.

Seven different units participate in the Office of Inclusion and Intercultur-al Relations’ lecture series called the Chat ’N Chew. The series aims at promot-ing dialogue among the cam-pus community on topics pertaining to diverse cul-tures. From noon to 1 p.m., the Native American House will have food and drinks for people to enjoy as they lis-ten to a presentation given on what soil does for soci-ety and the community and how much of Midwestern pioneer life relied on adopt-ing Native American geog-raphies and ways of life.

The speaker, David Horst Lehman, a third-year Ph.D candidate in the Universi-ty’s history department, got

interested in soil because of his hometown.

“I grew up in Goshen, Indiana, in Elkhart county, and there I stumbled upon two maps — one was a soil map that showed a patch called Elkhart prairie in the middle of the woods and the other showed what years people bought land patents from the U.S. government,” Lehman said. “A Potawat-omie village had been in that area for the rich soil, and that land provided soil to grow corn and timber to makes homes.”

In regards to soil, Lehm-an said that “it’s impor-tant to think about it as not just a natural resource that showed up out of nowhere, but something that had to do with how native people were living in the area.”

Beverly Smith, assistant director of the Native Amer-ican House, said that hav-ing discussions like these are enriching.

“I think it’s important for students or anyone that’s interested in wanting to

inform themselves about Native American people, cultural history and issues,” Smith said. “Our mission is to present this information in a positive and accurate way so that all who attend gain a realistic perspective of Native American people.”

Aroob Askari, senior in AHS, said that she would definitely be interested in attending a discussion like this.

“You never think about something like soil and how it affects the environment,” Askari said. “It would be interesting to learn more about something like that and also Native American culture along with it.”

In Lehman’s lecture, he will discuss how Native American people changed the soil and in turn changed the environment, and how the environment they changed was the land that settlers wanted to settle in. He said it is important to look at the relationship between what is going on in the soil, in plant life and in

people’s lives, and how they are all interrelated.

Lehman said that grow-ing up, he took advantage of the rich soil that was in his backyard. While he could dig a one-foot hole and find soil that cultivated growth and life, he did not realize that other people in other places had to pay for the soil he had for free in his yard.

He said he wants people to understand and appre-ciate the impact of Native Americans and the soil that resides in their very own community.

“Here at Illinois, we’ve got the Morrow Plots and we’re big on agricultural science and stuff. I just want that to seem very connected to this history of native set-tler interaction. Things like the corn and the soil are big themes for life around this country, but it’s something that’s older then the United States,” Lehman said.

Saher can be reached at smkhan3@dailyillini.com.

Midwest soil is good for more than just food, lecture says

PHOTO COURTESY OF BEVERLY SMITHStudents gather at the Native American House during its semester-long Chat ’n Chew presentation series last year. As part of the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations’ Lunch on Us series, each presentation provides a free lunch and runs from noon to 1 p.m.

PORTRAIT BY ZOE GRANT THE DAILY ILLINIDavid Horst Lehman, a third-year Ph.D candidate in the University’s history department, will be presenting a “Lessons from Soil” lecture on Friday at the Native American House,1206 W. Nevada St.

BY BRETT LERNERSTAFF WRITER

The Illini Hockey Club is without a home — at least for the month of September.

With the Ice Arena shut down due to mechanical issues, the team has held its fi rst six practices in Bloomington and currently plan to practice in Danville for the duration of September.

The team, being a club sport, doesn’t receive money from the athletic department. Instead, it relies on revenue from home games and money out of the players’ pockets.

Holding practice at differ-ent sites places a heavy fi nan-cial burden on the club and its players.

Not only will the club be spending much more to reserve ice time than they do at the campus rink, a heavy burden also gets put on the players who will have to drive themselves the 34 miles to Danville for all of the team’s practices.

“(The fi nancial impact) is a pretty big deal for us,” head

coach Nick Fabbrini said. “We’re trying to fi gure out ways to help meet our budget, whether it’s different fundrais-ing activities or cutting costs.”

Aside from dealing with the fi nancial issues, Fabbrini is still focused on coaching hockey in an important off-season for a new-look Illini team. With the season-opening scrimmage on Sept. 12, Fab-brini is trying to replace seven seniors, including John Scully, the team’s leading scorer, with a highly touted freshman class.

“This year, we’ve got some older freshmen, some guys

that have a lot of junior expe-rience, and I expect that to translate to our league very well,” Fabbrini said. “Those guys are going to come in and have a big impact for us.”

The Illini especially need help on offense.

“We need to score a lot more goals this year,” Fabbrini said. “That translates directly out of practice. If you’re hungry to score goals in practice, it’s going to carry over to games.”

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

SPORTS1BTHURSDAY

BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

For the No. 9 Illinois volleyball team, this week-end’s match against UCLA isn’t about getting revenge.

Senior opposite side hitter Liz McMahon said she isn’t thinking of avenging the Illini’s 2011 NCAA championship loss to the Bruins, but is more focused on the opportunity to get better by playing such high-level competition.

“I just always love playing Pac-12 schools because you don’t always see that all the time and they’re always a strong conference,” McMahon said.

Illinois (3-0) will start its second weekend of play with a matchup against UCLA (2-1) on Friday before playing No. 2 Stanford (2-0), possibly the Illi-ni’s toughest competition of the season, on Sunday afternoon.

Illinois will have to contain UCLA’s outside hit-ters. Illini head coach Kevin Hambly said the team will need a gameplan for senior outside hitter Karsta Lowe, who is second in the Pac-12 in kills with 50 this season. Hambly added that Illinois will also focus on freshman outside hitter Olga Strantzali.

“The Bruins have good tempo,” Hambly said. “They got a kid, Karsta Lowe, who has six and a half kills (per set) or something. She’s a beast. And they got a little Greek lefty on the outside that will present a different challenge because she’s a left-handed outside.

“(The Challenge will be) fi guring out how to stop those two players, just putting together a good game

Illini head to Stanford

Illinois vs. UCLAWhen/Where: 10:30 p.m. Friday, Stanford, Calif.TV/Radio: Pac-12 Network/WDWS 1400 AMQuick notes: This will be Illinois’ fi rst match in the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge. The Illini have opened the season 3-0 and will look to continue its undefeated streak against the Bruins.Hidden stat: Illinois hasn’t played UCLA since the 2011 NCAA Championship match, which the Bruins won 3-1.

Illinois vs. StanfordWhen/Where: 1 p.m. Sunday, Stanford, Calif.TV/Radio: Pac-12 Network/WDWS 1400 AMQuick notes: Illinois will try to slow down Stanford’s middle blocker Inky Ajanaku in its second match of the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge.Hidden stat: Illinois was 1-1 against the Pac-12 last year as the Illini beat Arizona State before losing to Washington.

BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER

Danny Dudek assured Illini fans in the stands that all his lit-tle brother Mike needed to calm freshman jitters on Saturday was a simple 5-yard catch.

Instead, the younger Dudek raised the stakes; scoring a touch-

down on an 8-yard pass from quar-terback Wes Lunt, his fi rst career reception as an Illini.

And the elder Dudek went wild, jumping out of his seat and nar-rowly avoiding hitting the man in the row in front of him.

“I felt more nervous watching him play (Saturday) than I’ve ever

felt myself being in a game,” Dan-ny said with a laugh. “I was so ner-vous that when my brother scored, I was shaking. Man, I swear that game took 10 years off my life.”

For the two brothers, football has been a common ground since they found a love of the game sparked by their grandfather, Leonard Milazzo. It was Grand-pa Milazzo who dressed them in pads and helped coach their fi rst practice.

The two continued to play

together for the Naperville, Ill., Patriots youth football program and ended up at the same high school: Neuqua Valley.

Now 20, a year older than his brother, Danny was playing var-sity football during his junior year when Mike got called up for the teams’ fi rst playoff game against current Illini quarterback, Aar-on Bailey’s Bolingbrook Raiders. Though the Wildcats lost to the soon-to-be Class 8A state champs, Mike performed well, leading

the team in receptions. “From that point on, we knew

he was something special,” Nequa Valley coach Bill Ellinghaus said. “He’s truly just an extremely gift-ed athlete. As far as being fast, he glides through the air. But all that stuff, that’s really secondary to the fact that the kid works his butt off in everything he does. That’s when I knew he was going to play Division I football, because the kid

Another weekend, another high-profi le recruiting visit for John Groce and the Illinois

basketball program.Jawun Evans, a 6-foot, 160-pound

guard out of Kimball High in Dal-

las is set to take an offi cial visit to the Illinois campus Sept. 5-7. Like Jalen Brunson, who visited last weekend, Evans is considered to be one of the top point guards in the Class of 2015, and he is one of the Illini’s highest-ranked targets.

The challenge for Groce and his staff will be to convince Evans that he is a top priority, less than a week after the Brunson left the Illinois campus along with the fan

frenzy that occurred during his visit. Brunson is more of a house-hold name in Illinois, being the top player in the state and considered by some to be the best point guard in the country. Evans may or may not be as good as Brunson on the court, but at this point he is less established on the average Illini fan’s radar.

It’s easy to imagine that Evans might feel like he’s playing second

fi ddle at this point, and I’m sure Groce and his staff will do every-thing it can this weekend to erase that notion in Evans’ mind. In real-ity, landing a commitment from either Brunson or Evans would be a huge accomplishment for Groce and a big step forward for Illinois basketball.

Why Illinois wants EvansI may sound like a broken record

in this section if you read last week’s Brunson piece, but Groce’s desire for a top point guard in the 2015 class cannot be understated. Evans has shown the ability to cre-ate off the dribble and he projects as an elite fl oor general, capable of running Groce’s ideal fast-paced offense.

The Illini are also recruiting

Top PG Evans next up on the Illini recruiting watch list ALEX ROUX

Basketball columnist

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIThe Illinois Ice Arena is closed, leaving the Illini Hockey Club without a place in Champaign-Urbana to practice.

FAMILY POWERS

Freshman WR delivers in 1st game, high expectations moving forward

Hockey homeless for Sept.

KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Mike Dudek attempts to catch a pass during the Illinois v. Youngstown State game on Saturday. Mike’s older brother, Danny, watched from the bleachers.

SEE DUDEK | 3B

SEE BASKETBALL | 4B

SEE VOLLEYBALL | 4B

FOOTBALLILL VS WKUSAT, 11 A.M. MEMORIAL STADIUM

VOLLEYBALLBIG TEN/PAC-12 CHALLENGEFRI: AT UCLA 10:30 P.M. SUN: AT STANFORD 1 P.M.

SOCCERILL AT CHARLESTONFRI: 6:30 P.M.ILL AT UABSUN: 11 A.M.

MEN’S CROSS-COUNTRYILL AT PORTLAND SAT. NOON

WEEKEND ROUNDUP:

DUDEK

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois secondary better be ready because it’s going to face its fi rst real challenge Saturday.

Western Kentucky runs a quick offense. Its no-huddle approach is set up to call off a fl urry of plays and catch the defense off guard — the Hilltoppers ran 97 plays in Saturday’s 59-31 win over Bowling Green.

Western Kentucky quarterback Brandon Doughty had a career game in its season opener against Bowling Green last week, setting school records for total yards (569), touchdowns (six) and completions (46).

“He runs their offense extremely well,” Illini head coach Tim Beckman said. “He has great precision with his passes, especially the deep ball.”

Doughty completed eight 20-plus yard passes Saturday — three of which went for touchdowns.

Hilltopper wide receiver Antwane Grant, who caught two touchdown passes, said the Western Kentucky offense believes it’s not a “one-game wonder.”

“The offense was

clicking,” Grant said. “The running game and passing game was clicking. Everybody was on the same page. It wasn’t a surprise to us.”

Western Kentucky has depth in its offensive threat as well. The Hilltoppers rushed for two touchdowns and 139 yards, while the passing game fl ourished. Six different players scored touchdowns for the team as they set a school record for most points since they joined the FBS in 2008.

“We’re going to have to be ready to stop the pass because that’s what their fi rst motive was — to pass the football,” Beckman said.

Illini defense may fl ourish

Despite the 28-point rout, Western Kentucky showed cracks against Bowling Green. The offense fumbled the ball three times. Illinois’ defensive line is coming together better than most expected, combining for three sacks and seven tackles for a win Saturday against Youngstown State.

“We’ve got to be able to affect the quarterback with four guys,” defensive coordinator Tim Banks said. “We’re going to pressure him — that’s what we do — but if you can get there with four guys, it makes everybody’s job a little bit easier.”

The Illini secondary will be under the most pressure against Western Kentucky’s passing offense Saturday, while the defensive line will look to hurry Doughty in the pocket. “I think we’re ready for it,” defensive back Zane Petty said. “I’m just anxious to see what our secondary can do against an offense like that.”

Illini look to take advantage

Western Kentucky’s 59 points is the big threat for Illinois, but the Hilltoppers allowed 31 points against Bowling Green and how they allowed it is good news for the Illini.

Western Kentucky allowed 313 passing yards on 465 yards of total offense. Illinois quarterback Wes Lunt threw for 155 yards and

three touchdowns in the fourth quarter alone after a slow start in the fi rst half.

“I just got more comfortable as the game went on,” said Lunt, who was content with the victory but not his early performance. And Beckman agreed with the quarterback’s self-assessment, while

u nderst a nd i ng t he sophomore transfer has a tall order this season.

“There’s a lot on the plate of our quarterbacks,” Beckman said. “As he progresses in this offense, he’s only going to get better.”

With the Hilltoppers allowing 17 fi rst downs

through the air and an average of 12.5 yards per catch last week, Saturday’s matchup with Western Kentucky is a game where Lunt’s arm will be relied upon.

Sean can be reached at spneuma2@dailyillini.com.

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EYE ON THE ILLINI: DEFENSIVE LINE

Last week, the Illinois D-Line helped hold Youngstown State to 17 points and recorded 7 TFL in the process,

including 3 sacks. Led by Austin Teitsma, this group will need to have

a big game this week in order to keep the high-scoring Hilltoppers in check.

EYE ON THE ENEMY: QUARTERBACK

Doughty put up impressive numbers last week against Bowling Green, throwing for

569 yards and six touchdowns against Bowling Green. He led the Hilltoppers’

offense to a school record 702 total yards. He was also named Conference USA

Player of the Week.

LAST WEEK FOR WKULast weekend the Hilltoppers beat

defending MAC champions Bowling Green 59-31 in head coach Jeff

Brohm’s debut. Quarterback Brandon Doughty set school records with 569

yards and 6 TDs, making him just one of six FBS quarterbacks in the

last decade to put up a single-game yardage total that high.

ILLINOIS STARTERS

ILLINOIS LEADERS WKU LEADERS

WESTERN KENTUCKY STARTERS

WESTERN KENTUCKYILLINOIS

ILLINI SCHEDULE

BIG 10 SCHEDULE

BIG 10 STANDINGS

Aug. 30 vs. Youngstown State

(W: 28-17).

Saturday, Sept 6.McNeese State @ Nebraska

11 a.m.

Oct. 11 @ Wisconsin,

TBA

Sept. 20 vs. Texas State,

TBA

Nov. 15 vs. Iowa,

TBA

Sept. 6 vs. Western Kentucky

11 a.m.

Oct. 25 vs. Minnesota

(Homecoming), 11 a.m.

Sept. 27 @ Nebraska,

3 p.m.

Nov. 22 vs. Penn State,

TBA

Sept. 13 @ Washington

3 p.m.

Nov. 1 @ Ohio State,

7 p.m.

Oct. 4 vs. Purdue,

TBA

Sept. 6 @ Northwestern,

TBA

Akron @ Penn State11 a.m.

Western Kentucky @ Illinois 11 a.m.

Central Michigan @ Purdue 11 a.m.

Howard @ Rutgers11 a.m.

Western Illinois @ No. 18 Wisconsin — 11 a.m.

Ball State @ Iowa - 2:30 p.m.

Maryland @ South Florida 2:30 p.m.

Northern Illinois @ Northwestern — 2:30 p.m.

Middle Tennessee @ Minnesota — 2:30 p.m.

No. 7 Michigan State @ No. 3 Oregon — 5:30 p.m.

Michigan @ No. 16 Notre Dame — 6:30 p.m.

Virginia Tech @ No. 8 Ohio State — 7 p.m.

Hilltopper offense will be Illini’s big test

OFFENSEQB Brandon Doughty 12

RB Leon Allen 33WR Willie McNeal 10WR Taywan Taylor 2

WR Jared Dangerfi eld 21TE Mitchell Henry 80LT Forrest Lamp 76LG Brandon Ray 51

C Max Halpin 70RG Darrell Williams 62RT Cam Clemmons 52

DEFENSEDE TJ Smith 16

DT Devante Terrell 98DT Bryan Shorter 94DE Gavin Rocker 88LB Terran Williams 31

LB Nick Holt 10LB Dejon Brown 17CB Cam Thomas 19

CB Prince Charles Iworah 30S Ricardo Singh 38S Marcus Ward 8

PK Garrett Schwettman 56KO Mike Mugler 39P Kylen Towner 81

OFFENSEQB Wes Lunt 12

RB Josh Ferguson 6WR Geronimo Allison 8

WR Martize Barr 9WR Justin Hardee 19TE Matt LaCosse 11

TE Jon Davis 3LT Simon Cvijanovic 68

LG Michael Heitz 74C Alex Hill 52

RG Ted Karras 69RT Christian DiLauro 67

DEFENSEDE Kenny Nelson 58NT Austin Teitsma 44

DT Teko Powell 93LEO DeJazz Woods 90

WLB Mason Monheim 43MLB T.J. Neal, Jr. 52

STAR Earnest Thomas III 9CB V’Angelo Bentley 2CB Eaton Spence 27

SS Zane Petty 21FS Taylor Barton 3

K Taylor Zalewski 17P Justin DuVernois 18

BRANDON DOUGHTY !QB" VS. BOWLING GREEN:

INEXPERIENCED OFFENSIVE LINE:

Defense allowed 314 passing yards (465 total)

Defense allowed 12.6 yard average per catch

Defense allowed 12.6 yard average per catch

18 fi rst downs on pass plays

18 fi rst downs on pass plays

EAST DIVISIONIndiana 1-0

Maryland 1-0Michigan 1-0

Michigan State 1-0Ohio State 1-0

Penn State* 1-0Rutgers 1-0

WEST DIVISIONIllinois 1-0Iowa 1-0

Minnesota 1-0Nebraska 1-0Purdue 1-0

Northwestern 0-1Wisconsin 0-1

*Penn State is ineligible for postseason play.

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BRANDON CARTER WESTERN KENTUCKY HERALD

THE GOOD: THE GOOD:THE BAD: THE BAD:

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINI

WES LUNT !QB" VS. YOUNGSTOWN STATE:

ILLINOIS’ ROUGH START:

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ V’Angelo Bentley and the rest of the Illinois secondary will face a strong passing offense in Western Kentucky, which scored 59 points last week.

24-for-38 passing for 285 yards and four touchdowns.

Trailed 9-7 heading into fourth quarter 46-for-56 passing for 569

yards and six touchdowns

702 total offensive yards

Nine different receivers caught passes

Nine different receivers caught passes

Lunt was 15/27 on completions in fi rst three quarters

Only 42 rushing yards on 12 carries in fi rst three quarters

Fumbles: 3

Secondary didn’t get tested: Youngstown State ran on 59/83 plays

All four starting linemen are upperclassmen

3 sacks

7 tackles for a loss (25 yards)

EXPERIENCED DEFENSIVE LINE:

7/10 linemen are underclassmen

PASSINGWes Lunt 24-38 285 yards 4 TD

PASSINGBrandon Doughty

46-56 569 yards 6 TDRUSHING

Josh Ferguson 11 carries 43 yards 0 TD

RUSHINGLeon Allen

28 carries 93 yards 1 TD

RECEIVINGMalik Turner

4 catches 42 yards 0 TD

RECEIVINGTaywan Taylor 12 catches

185 yards 1 TD

OURPICKS

SEAN NEUMANN

SEANHAMMOND

ALEXORTIZ

CHARLOTTE CARROLL

TORRENCESORRELL

ERIKPRADO

ILLINOIS VS.

WESTERN KENTUCKY

TEXAS VS. BYU

No. 13 STANFORDVS.

No. 14 USC

No. 16 NOTRE DAMEVS.

MICHIGAN

No. 3 OREGONVS.

No. 7 MSU

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Every week, The Daily Illini football staff makes predictions

for fi ve college football games. Some of us do so with more accuracy than others. But we are always sure to include the Illinois game in those fi ve picks.

Two years ago, I sat in Legends on game day eating a late lunch with my family trying to explain to my dad why I thought Louisiana Tech would beat Illinois.

That year, Louisiana Tech ran an air raid offense that put up more than 50 points in each of its fi rst two games. Illinois was 2-1, but had drubbed an FCS opponent and been whipped by an average Arizona State team.

The game was at night and my family planned to leave early if the game wasn’t close so they could get a head start on the drive home.

“Well,” I told my family. “If it’s going to be lopsided, it’s going to be lopsided in favor of Louisiana Tech.”

The story goes that as soon as I left the restaurant to go cover the game, my dad proceeded to tell the rest of my family why I was crazy and why my prediction was wrong.

My family ended up staying the entire game, but not because it was close and not because Illinois was winning. Louisiana Tech won 52-24 and I got to gloat for a while about picking that game right.

So this week, Illinois draws a Western Kentucky team that put up more than 700 yards of offense in a 59-31 opening win over Bowling Green.

When asked who Western Kentucky resembles, Illinois defensive coordinator Tim

Banks said: “Louisiana Tech comes to mind.”

Uh oh.Hilltopper quarterback

Brandon Doughty threw for 569 yards and six touchdowns against a team that won 10 games and the MAC championship. I think many would agree with me that a good MAC team is about equal to Illinois the past few years.

This game should send up red fl ags for Illinois fans.

Five hundred and sixty-nine yards. Are you kidding me? That’s nearly half of Nathan Scheelhaase’s 2012 season total.

This dude plays Madden on Rookie diffi culty level, while the rest of us are stuck on All-Madden. Was Bowling Green playing with 10 defenders? Is anyone sure Bowling Green was even on the fi eld?

OK, the fi lm proves Bowling Green was on the fi eld. It also proves Western Kentucky can score. Illinois has an untested secondary that was pretty bad a year ago. The Hilltoppers are going to score a lot of points. It’s going to come down to whether Illinois’ offense can keep up with Western Kentucky’s.

So call me crazy if you’d like Dad. I’m picking Illinois in this one.

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

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SEAN HAMMOND

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BY SAM SHERMANSTAFF WRITER The Illini are 1-0 after de-feating Youngstown State in a less-than-impressive 28-17 victory. This week-end, they take on a West-ern Kentucky Hilltopper team that put up 702 total yards on Bowling Green in its opener. While the oddsmakers are currently siding with the Illini, this week’s game will be any-thing but easy for a team whose defense will be put to the test.

Illini defense vs. QB Bran-don Doughty

Western Kentucky quar-terback Brandon Doughty put up ridiculous numbers against Bowling Green, going 46-for-56 passing with 569 yards and six touchdowns. Bottom line: This team can score. The question is whether the Illini defense will hold up. Against Youngstown State, the Illini defense mostly

held its own. The main issue is that the Penguins hardly tested the Illini sec-ondary, only throwing for 177 yards on 24 attempts.

Josh Ferguson vs. Hilltop-per defense

Even though Wes Lunt has gotten all of the atten-tion this season, Josh Fer-guson is still the most important part of this year’s Illini offense. Last year, the speedy Fergu-son was the spark for Illi-nois’ offensive resurgence under Bill Cubit. This year, with so many inex-perienced offensive play-ers, Ferguson may very well need to play that role again. In the opener, the Illini had a tough time get-ting anything going on the ground as Ferguson only ran the ball 11 times for 42 yards.

Wes Lunt vs. Slow startIn his first game as an

Illini, Wes Lunt came out of the gate looking a little out of place. He made up for the slow start with a bril-liant fourth quarter, but if the Illini want to contend this year, slow starts will

be unacceptable. Consider-ing it was his first start in a almost two years, he may have just been shaking off the cobwebs. Time will tell if he can put it all together for a full game.

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never stops working.”And the pair of brothers

seemed ready to conquer Danny’s senior season and Mike’s fi rst as a varsity start-er. However, a torn ACL side-lined Danny for the year and the brothers didn’t get the chance to compete together again.

Instead, Danny supported from the sidelines through his recovery process, never missing games or team func-tions unless rehab got in the way. While Mike shined on the fi eld, Danny provided the continued support for his brother and teammates. Danny, who was slated to be the team’s starting run-ning back, ended his career at Neuqua Valley with the school’s record for yards per carry (7.2).

“I’m sure at home it was hard, but as far as on the fi eld, Mikey is such a driv-en athlete, an athlete that doesn’t get phased by any-thing,” Ellinghaus said. “He just played right though it and focused on getting bet-ter each and every practice.”

Those Friday nights under the lights, though brief, meant so much to the pair, who, only one year apart, share the same birthday: Aug. 21. It was a chance for the two to play together, sometimes even in a forma-tion with both in the back-fi eld, darting to opposite sides in almost the same position.

It’s a bond and a support system that has continued even as the brothers went their separate ways. Danny went off to the University of Dayton, where he redshirt-ed his 2013 freshman year and then decided he no lon-ger wanted to continue play-ing football. Mike headed to Illinois, where he enrolled in January in order to partici-pate in spring practices.

As time has gone on, Mike has adjusted to college life and the family has been along for the ride. His parents, Rick and Lynn, have visited in addition to Danny coming down multiple times.

But it was his mom who had more diffi culties with homesickness than Mike or Danny.

“I was a mess and I told Mikey after he graduates, he owes me another six months

at home,” Lynn Dudek said with a laugh. “Danny had left for Dayton in August and then Mikey that January. To be honest, the anticipation was worse than the reality.”

As Mike has adapted, the family has begun to look at Champaign as home too. They even have found a new favorite shop in The Cook-ie Jar, where Rick has the owner’s number and calls in advance to request a few doz-en cookies when the family comes down.

The changes for the fam-ily have happened infre-quently, with some separa-tion between visits, but wide receiver coach Mike Bella-my has seen changes in Mike every day.

Hearing Mike’s name, Bel-lamy thinks of his little son, also nicknamed Mikey, but Dudek is anything but child-like when the team hits the fi eld.

“He’s a little boy, but when he goes out on that fi eld, he carries the weight of a grown man.” Bellamy said. “That’s something that’s just respon-sibility and comes with the game. He’s accepted the role and grasped everything that’s gone along with it.”

Danny admits the pres-sures of a Big Ten program would drive him crazy. But he said they are pressures that Mike has thrived on.

“There’s a lot of people that count on you,” Danny said. “He’s 19 years old, so that’s a lot for a young teenager to deal with. But so far I think he’s dealt with it greatly, he’s been very humble and hope-fully he’ll keep doing it out on the fi eld.”

So for Mike, that fi rst touchdown was a moment to celebrate and a chance to thank his grandfather who died a year ago from meso-thelioma. It was an oppor-tunity to play in front of 40 members of his family and friends and demonstrate how he’s grown as a college athlete.

“When he scored his fi rst touchdown, I’d say half us were crying and hugging and going crazy,” Lynn said. “We are Sicilian ... We all saw him point to the sky and we knew he was pointing at his grand-pa. It was a moment none us will ever forget.”

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

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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Josh Ferguson rushed for 42 yards on 11 carries in the season opener, but should be a larger part of the offense going forward. Ferguson led the Illini in rushing last season.

“The Hilltoppers are going to score a lot of points. It’s going to come down to wheth-er Illinois’ offense can keep up with Western Kentucky’s.”

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plan and executing.”On top of dealing with Lowe and Strant-

zali, the Illini will be challenged by the Bruins’ speed. McMahon called UCLA “very fast offensively.”

The Illini’s matchups with the Bruins and the Cardinals are part of the larger Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge that is taking place over the weekend. Fellow Big Ten conference member, No. 1 Penn State, will also compete in the Challenge, facing Stan-ford on Friday in a meeting of the top two teams in the nation.

After dealing with UCLA’s speed and its outside hitters, Illinois will be tasked with slowing down Stanford’s middle blocker Inky Ajanaku, who is second in the Pac-12 in hitting percentage with a .512 hitting percentage this year.

“They’re a loaded team,” Hambly said. “Every position can score. They all have their strengths and weaknesses as play-ers but they’re very balanced. They got one of the best players in the country in Inky Ajanaku.”

Both the Bruins and the Cardinal run a 5-1 rotation system that the Illini are famil-iar with. Illinois currently runs a 6-2 but have run a 5-1 in the past, which may give Illinois an edge going into the weekend.

“We see it all the time,” Hambly said. “We do it in practice.

“We ran a 5-1 every year until this year so we have some idea what that’s like.”

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

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Evans’ AAU teammate, 2015 big man Elijah Thomas, also out of Texas. There is specula-tion that if Evans commits, there might be a greater incentive for Thomas to join him in Champaign.

Thomas and Evans are considered the two best Texas players in their class, and the Illi-ni are pushing hard to land both of them. An early commitment from Evans would allow Groce to sell Thomas on the prospect of join-ing his friend and teammate in what would be a legendary Illini recruiting class.

Why Evans should choose IllinoisGroce’s selling points to Evans should be

similar to the perks he was able to pitch to Brunson: playing time, a new arena and a large fan base that is hungry for success. But Evans’ situation could carry a unique spin. Deron Williams, the most successful point guard in Illinois history, also played high school ball in Texas. With the NBA being Evans’ ultimate goal, the draw of fol-lowing in Williams’ footsteps could prove to be appealing.

At this point in the recruiting season, pro-jections show that the Illini are likely in the driver’s seat in Evans’ recruitment. Seven of eight analysts on 247sports.com have picked Illinois as the most likely destination for Evans. But until he signs a letter of intent, predictions are just hearsay.

The competitionEvans is fresh off a visit to USC last week-

end, where he made the rounds with Tro-jan head coach Andy Enfi eld. He plans to visit Oklahoma State on Sept. 24, with Tex-as rounding out the list of his fi nal four schools. USC is considered a dark horse to land Evans, and the point guard has yet to schedule an offi cial visit with the Long-horns. I’d have to believe it’s a two-horse race between Illinois and Oklahoma State at this point.

The visitGroce has already visited Evans at his home

twice during his recruitment, and now Evans is fi nally coming to him. The visit will likely follow a similar script to Brunson’s week-end, with the exception of no home volleyball match for Evans to appear at this weekend. Look for Evans at the football game on Satur-day, where he’ll get a chance to interact with students and fans.

While the public appearances generate hype and give Evans a sense of the environ-ment that campus has to offer, the real action takes place behind closed doors. During pri-vate tours and meetings throughout the week-end, Groce and his staff will continually make their sales pitch to Evans and his family. Illi-ni fans can do their part and show Evans love, but it ultimately comes down to whether Evans buys what Groce is selling.

With only one more offi cial visit lined up for Evans, his decision could be right around the corner.

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

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BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDYSTAFF WRITER

Jake Stewart is returning home. Born and raised in Kelso, Washington, he grew up as much at his home as he did at Tam O’Shara Park, where the Kelso High School Hilanders’ cross-country course lies. He spent hours on long bus rides through the Cascades to the Washington State Meet and on runs after dark through wintry Kelso with a fl ashlight in hand.

Jake was raised on the sport of cross-country. Today, he’s the head coach for the Illini men’s cross-country team. He’s been on the path to be a coach his entire life. This weekend, Jake returns to Kelso, coach-ing his team against the No. 7 Portland Flyers.

Kelso is an old lumber town on the banks of the Cowlitz River, 30 miles from Mount St. Helens.

“It was a place where you grew up and you worked hard,” Jake said. “It’s an industrial-driven town, it’s a lumber town.”

The man who was able to take the town’s hard-work-ing culture and turn it into cross-country success was Jake’s father, Joe Stewart.

“It wasn’t a running town. Kids started running because my dad got them out and he developed them,” Jake said.

Joe is a legend in Kelso. He coached the Kelso High’s cross-country and track teams for 30 years. He’s a Washington high school hall of fame coach for both sports. His record speaks for itself: He holds a dual meet record of 339-15, and 60 of his runners went on to run in college. Joe has been in Kelso forever. Jake says his parents’ current home, the same one he grew up in, is less than a mile from where Joe grew up.

“Suburbia is where so many great runners and ath-letes come from, but this is not a suburban town,” Joe said. “It’s amazing, really, what has occurred here.”

Out of all the great run-ners who have come through Joe’s program at Kelso, he’s most proud of Jake.

“Any memory at this point in my life that I can remem-

ber, I’m associated with the team,” Jake said.

Jake was around the team his whole life. Since he was 3 years old, Joe said that Jake would make the trip with the team across the mountains to the state cross-country meet. The Stewart home in Washington features a pic-ture of a young Jake at the state meet wearing his Kelso stocking cap.

“I was never forced to go on these trips or do any-thing like that, but I wanted to,” Jake said. “I wanted to be a part of it.”

After a childhood of rid-ing the bus with the team, holding the fi nishing string and handing out place cards at meets, Jake fi nally got an opportunity to run for his dad in cross-country and track from 1997-2001.

“My last race was proba-bly one of the saddest expe-riences of my life,” Jake said. “I loved running for Kelso, I loved representing Kelso and running for my dad.”

There were times in high school where Joe said that Jake willed the team onward.

“I just felt like he put so much into it. The other guys put a lot into it, but Jake grew up with it,” Joe said.

One of Jake’s fi nal home meets at Kelso was a district championship his senior year against that same Battle Ground team that had beaten them the year before. He laid it all on the line, fi nishing as the Hilan-der’s fi fth man and outkick-ing Battle Ground’s fi ve to tie the meet. Kelso’s sixth man beat Battle Ground’s sixth and Jake went out with a win at home.

Joe recalled Jake’s team his senior year as “medio-cre,” with Jake the driving force behind it.

“It was his will that got us to the state meet that year,” Joe said.

With that will came abso-lute dedication to the sport he had been surrounded by his whole life. Jake also played basketball in high school, but he didn’t let it get in the way of his running.

“They played basketball games on Friday night,” Joe said. “He would get done,

he’d take off his basketball suit and then go run on the dike in the dark. That’s the only time he could fi t that in.”

The qualities Jake dis-played in high school con-fi rmed what Joe had thought ever since Jake was young.

“He was destined to coach,” Joe said.

Jake knew he wanted to coach. He said he never felt extra pressure from being the son of such a successful one. On the contrary, Joe thinks Jake has already sur-passed him as a coach.

“I think he’s actually a much better coach than I was,” Joe said. “He has the right temperament for it, he’s very patient.”

And another Stewart is starting on the same path. Griffi n Joseph Stewart will be 10 months old next week. Jake says he’s already out at practices and known by all the Illini runners.

“You just know that’s going to happen, he’s going to be on the bus with him,” Joe said.

Thirteen years after graduating from Kelso and leaving his father’s pro-gram behind, Stewart will be back on the course where he grew up. The dual meet with Portland will also be the fi rst event held at Kel-so’s newly resurfaced Joe Stewart Track.

It will be special for all the Stewarts, especially as Joe said he’s never had the chance to see Jake coach. Last year, he and his wife attempted to make a road trip to see Jake in Illinois, but their trip was prema-turely ended by heavy snow.

Now they will get a chance to see Jake’s run-ners compete. He’s made it as a Division I coach at Illi-nois and is ready to return to the town and the course where he was raised.

“I’m sure there will be parts of it that will be unlike anything I’ve ever experi-enced,” Jake said. “For our family, and for a family that appreciates the sport as much as we do, it’ll be a really neat thing.”

Chris can be reached at cmkenne2@dailyillini.com

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FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ outside hitter Liz McMahon won Big Ten Player of the Week last week. The Illini play UCLA and Stanford in a roadtrip to California this weekend.

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Raise your hand if you correct-ly predicted the Idaho Vandals would be entering week two of

its season undefeated after opening against the Florida Gators. In The Swamp.

The Gators and Vandals did indeed play, but only managed one kickoff before the game was suspended due to the weather and poor field conditions. This was on the heels of a nearly three hour delay. On that single play, the Vandals surrendered a 64-yard return.

It had been nearly seven years since a game had been suspended at The Swamp, so of course it had to happen during the opening week.

But none of us were going to watch Florida take on a team that went 1-11 last season.

No, we were all watching Flori-da State take on Oklahoma State in Dallas. It was a close affair in Jerry World, as the Seminoles edged out the 37-31 win.

The biggest takeaway? Florida State is not invincible.

Despite the hopes of his detrac-tors, Winston did not miss the game for stealing crab legs, but did rely on his legs for a spectacular 28-yard touchdown run in the third. He put up his stats, but not in the same dominating fashion he displayed out of the gate in 2013. Winston’s two interceptions on Saturday were as many as he had thrown through week four of last season.

Expect the Seminoles to be involved in many close games this year. It is very, very hard for teams to go undefeated in one sea-son, let alone two. For as cliche as it is, every team will give it its all to deny the Seminoles a chance at repeating.

Spartans can make a loud statement

There are a handful of great matchups this weekend, from USC-Stanford to Ohio State host-ing Virginia Tech, but none are bigger than No. 7 Michigan State visiting Autzen Stadium to take on No. 3 Oregon in the first Septem-ber weekend.

Could there be a better early sea-son matchup? Everyone knows how fast Oregon plays and how good a defense the Spartans field. Each team also wears a shade of green, but it’s anyone’s guess if Oregon will actually don green.

Don’t be fooled by how differ-ent these teams play. This game carries much more weight than any nonconference game. It could decide who makes the College Football Playoff.

A Spartans’ victory Saturday, added with a Big Ten champion-ship, would almost guarantee the team a spot. But a loss dramatically reduces its chances, because out-side of Oregon, its schedule is not difficult.

Ohio State can challenge in November or Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game, but the Buckeyes’ offensive line was a mess against Navy, and Melvin Gordon of the Badgers is now battling a hip inju-ry. Both teams’ seasons can take dramatic turns in the coming weeks.

The Spartans have much more to lose than Oregon because the Ducks can lose, win out and still secure a playoff spot because the PAC-12 is a stronger conference than the Big Ten.

The end of a rivalry, for now

The Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry started in 1887 and Sat-urday’s game has the potential to be historic because it is the last scheduled matchup between the two teams who’ve had annual

games (with the exception of three seasons) for more than 125 years.

Both of these programs are in a gray area. Brian Kelly’s team has not matched his 2012 BCS runner up squad (yet), while Brady Hoke is on the hot seat, with many outsid-ers begging Michigan to become elite again. The Big Ten is reel-ing in the public eye, and noth-ing would please traditionalists more than a rejuvenated Wolver-ines team.

But this game doesn’t scream “important” in the grand scheme. Too many other teams are just as talented, if not more talented, than the Irish and Wolverines. It also doesn’t help that Irish players keep getting kicked off the team.

The Irish are ranked at No. 16, and this is before they embark on a five-game stretch where they face three ranked opponents, including top-ranked defending champion Florida State.

At the end of the game, one reminder should stand out: how the 2000s and 2010s have been unfa-vorable to two historic programs. Notre Dame and Michigan com-bined have gone 1-7 in the eight BCS bowl games the programs have made since 2000.

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JARRAD HENDERSON MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEMichigan State safety Kurtis Drummond urges on the crowd during the fourth quarter against Stanford in the 100th Rose Bowl on Jan. 1. No. 7 Michigan State will take on No. 3 Oregon this weekend.

W ith the Illinois men’s golf sea-son approaching

quickly, the No. 6 Illini are primed for another long and successful season. As avid Illinois sports fans know, the golf team is one of the best athletic pro-grams on campus. This leads golf fans to won-der how Illinois, which is located up north where it is cold for a majority of the year, has created a

niche in the golf recruit-ing market.

I remember watching the NCAA Championships over the summer. I real-ized that Illinois was liter-ally the only school left in the competition from the north. Of the final eight teams, two of them were from the west coast, Stan-ford and UCLA, and the other five were from the south, Oklahoma State, Alabama, SMU, Georgia Tech and LSU.

To me, this makes sense. As an average-at-best golfer in high school, if I somehow drastically improved my game and was getting college offers,

my first inclination would be to go to a school with nice weather. This imme-diately puts Illinois at a disadvantage in the eyes of prospective players, because there is snow lying around campus and on the neighboring golf courses during the winter.

I find this topic fasci-nating because it doesn’t make sense that our best sports team on campus is so in conflict with our weather. It really goes to show how good of a recruiter head coach Mike Small is.

Small, in himself, is a unique character. Aside from coaching the Illini,

he is also a current mem-ber on the PGA Tour and just won the Illinois PGA Championship.

When I was the golf beat reporter last year, all of the players on the team mentioned how big of an impact Small had on their collegiate decision. You could see how com-fortable he was with the players, and vice versa. When I would show up at the course to interview the team before practice, he would always head out with the team and play the practice rounds with them.

The weather is defi-nitely a disadvantage to the Illinois golf program,

but it allows the team to show off one of its great-est strengths: adaptabil-ity. Maybe the team is prevented from going out on the course occasion-ally because of weather, but they have learned how to practice just as well indoors. This in turn has provided the team with an advantage in tournaments with spotty weather.

I try to keep my brag-ging about Illinois to a modest amount, but with this situation, it is hard for me to control myself. There are tons of great universities located up north that offer both great academics and sports, but

Illinois has been the only one who has been able to find success in the golf world.

Coach Small has taken a difficult situation and relished the fact that Illi-nois is very different from other schools. When think-ing about the university’s golf team in the future, make sure to remember how impressive the strong foundation of the program is.

Kieran is a sophomore in Business. He can be reached at hampl2@dailyillini.com or follow him on Twitter @KHampl95.

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