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BY CLAIRE HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER
Each year 31 million tons of plastic goes to the landfi ll and doesn’t leave. Through his research, Brajendra Kumar Sharma hopes to inspire the addi-tion of another “R” to a familiar phrase: reduce, reuse, recycle — recover.
Sharma, head researcher on this project and senior research scientist at the Illinois Sustain-able Technology Center, is spe-cifi cally looking into the ways plastic grocery bags can be recy-cled into biofuels. Americans use almost 100 billion plastic grocery bags each year, most of which end up in landfi lls. But if they don’t, then they are found along roads, in trees and eventually, if not dis-posed of properly, in water ways and then the ocean, Sharma said.
His research aims to break down plastic grocery bags into crude oil before converting it to
gasoline, diesel and vacuum gas oil, he said. This process runs at an 80 percent conversion rate, which means eight pounds of material, between 700-800 plastic grocery bags, produce one gallon of crude oil he said.
From the converted crude oil, Sharma said researchers can be converted to 20 percent gasoline, 60 percent diesel and the remain-ing 20 percent is vacuum gas oil.
Vacuum gas oil can be used as a base stock for producing lubri-cating base oils that can have various applications, such as two-stroke engine oils, chainsaw oils and other hydraulic oils.
He said they have not done spe-cifi c economic calculations but he would guess that the converted oil will be cheaper than the cur-rent methods of extracting crude oil because they are converting the material almost for free from
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Students warned that bad decisions follow into future
Students invited to severe weather preparedness program
BY STEFFIE DRUCKERSTAFF WRITER
Thomas Betz says he’s prob-ably the only person who hopes the average temperature next weekend is 15 below zero.
“And I hate the cold,” said Betz, the director of student legal services. “I’d like to see less partying on Unoffi cial. I think students should save their money and go to Cancun ... for spring break and enjoy some warm weather while they party a little bit rather than do it here.”
However, Betz, who has been with the University since 1986, has experienced each Unoffi -cial and knows that bad weath-er hasn’t stopped young people from traveling to Champaign-Urbana from out of state to cel-ebrate the event.
In fact, he said, of the several hundred city or misdemeanor tickets issued during each Unof-fi cial, “overwhelmingly, most of these cases are from other universities.”
Betz says he’s noticed that University students “have been very well-educated on Unoffi cial. They’re used to the alcohol cul-ture on this campus.” Because non-University students aren’t as familiar with local policies and law enforcement, they tend to run into trouble more often.
“Because they’re away from home, they have a different atti-tude about us and the community ... they get in more trouble than they ordinarily would,” said Ste-ven Beckett, director of the trial advocacy program at the Univer-sity and “of counsel” to Urbana fi rm Beckett and Webber.
“They don’t see the conse-quence that our students do,” Betz said. While University dis-ciplinary offi cials don’t have authority over students from other schools, Betz said, “that information gets shared. Peo-ple naively think that they’re out of town so they can do as they please — but that’s a big mistake.”
The consequences of Unoffi -cial extend beyond the criminal
justice system. “Just because you pay the
$330 doesn’t mean it’s over,” Betz said. “It’s the other con-sequences that come back to haunt.”
If Champaign, Urbana, Uni-versity or state police arrests a University student, Betz guar-antees that the report will go to the University Offi ce of Confl ict Resolution.
“There is a code of conduct for students on campus, and any sort of violation of the law poten-tially subjects a student to that code,” he said.
The nature of the offense can affect a student’s transcript or their ability to stay at the Uni-versity, he added.
Betz stresses to students that consequences can extend beyond the University and affect their adult lives in later years.
“In terms of employment and housing discrimination, felony conviction is not a protected class so you can be discriminat-ed against,” he said. “And many states permit discrimination in cases of misdemeanor for hous-ing, depending on the nature of the misdemeanor.”
Beckett agreed that there are many different outcomes for students that interact with law enforcement on, or as a result of Unoffi cial, and that these out-comes depend heavily on the circumstances of the individu-al incident. Student Legal Ser-vices only covers misdemean-or charges, and for any federal charge students must seek other legal council.
“There are lots of options and lots of variables,” he said. “The more complex your case gets, the more you need a lawyer.”
Before students get to that point, though, Beckett and Betz have advice as to how to interact with law enforcement offi cials.
First and foremost, remain calm and polite with the offi cer, Beckett advised.
“You should refer to the offi cer
PHOTO COURTESY OF JEFFREY FRAMEA lightning bolt from a supercell thunderstorm near West Point, Neb, on June 14.
BY JESSICA RAMOSCONTRIBUTING WRITER
During National Severe Weather Preparedness Week from Sunday-Saturday, the National Ocean-ic and Atmospheric Administration is inviting all people to “Be a Force of Nature” by taking part in severe weather preparations in coming months and advocating for others around them to do the same.
In taking an active role in preparedness, Illi-nois Public Media, in conjunction with the Univer-sity, will host “Becoming Weather Aware: Severe Storm Preparedness with Meteorologist Dr. Jef-frey Frame,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the Beck-man Institute. Frame, meteorologist and clinical assistant professor in atmospheric sciences, will cover thunderstorm basics, lightning, fl ash fl oods, high winds, hail, tornadoes and promote severe weather safety.
Illinois’ severe weather peak occurs during mid to late spring and early summer, Frame said, adding
that it is important for people to refresh their mem-ory or learn what to do when severe weather hits.
“The No. 1 thing is being weather aware,” Frame said. “If you don’t hear the warnings you’re not being warned. You won’t be able to take the weath-er precautions.”
Frame recommends paying attention to local fore-casts, utilizing websites such as the National Weath-er Service as well as listening to local or weather radio to stay up to date with warnings.
One very important fact to know, Frame said, is the difference between a weather watch and a warning. A watch means there is an elevated risk of severe weather — usually in a portion of sever-al states, for several hours. Nothing has yet been sighted — it is simply a call to attention. A severe weather warning means a storm spotter or radar has detected incoming severe weather. It is impor-tant to take shelter in this situation, Frame said, and listen to information provided.
According to the National Weather Service, each year, Americans experience an average of 100,000 thunderstorms, 10,000 of which are severe; 5,000 fl oods; 1,000 tornadoes; and an average of 21 and falling deadly hurricanes.
Champaign County is considered StormReady, a National Weather Service program that pre-pares communities with safety and communica-tion skills in the case of an emergency. Communi-ties that are StormReady are more prepared for severe weather events due to advanced planning, education and awareness according to the National Weather Service.
The University has an overall campus emergen-cy action plan, guiding overall campus emergency operations as well as building emergency action plans, managed by Sherry Wooten, emergency plan-ning coordinator and University Police Depart-ment Lt. Todd Short, director of the Emergency Planning Bureau.
“When it comes to building emergency action plans, the idea with those specifi c plans is to get information out to the employees that work in those buildings to assist all the people with evacuation and/or shelter place issues during the time of an emergency situation,” Short said.
A designated map indicating all emergency-pre-pared buildings on campus is not currently avail-able; however, it is in the process of being created. Over the last 18 months, building fl oor plans have been created for the 200 buildings on campus that have been assessed. Short said the department has a long way to go until the campus has complete plans.
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BY MEGAN JONESSTAFF WRITER
Candidates running for student trustee met on Thursday night to debate several campus topics. The election will be held through an online ballot Tuesday and
Wednesday. Lucas Frye, junior in ACES, serves as
the president of the ACES Council and a member of Student Alumni Ambassadors. Nick Reinberg, junior in LAS, serves as a member of the Illinois Student Senate and
sits on the subcommittees for Student Debt Awareness as well as the cultural, interna-tional and minority Student Affairs.
Megan can be reached at [email protected] and @meganash_jones.
LUCAS FRYE NICK REINBERG
ADDITION OF GENDERCONFIRMATION
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TUITION INCREASES
If trustee, he would vote against the addition, as he said it sets a precedent for the future and how the board evaluates whose medical needs are the most important.
If trustee, Reinberg would vote in favor and said students can opt out of the student health insur-ance plan.
“That’s something we cannot necessarily change. We can’t tomorrow say we are going to lower tuition.” He hopes to increase the value of students’ education by compiling a calendar so students can take advantage of more opportunities.
While agreeing that tuition cannot be lowered, Rein-berg believes the trustee can stop tuition bumps by voting no. He wants to lobby the state to pay the University back its debt.
Student trustee candidates face off in debate
UNIONIZATION
He believes unionization would keep student tuition stable; however, he believes that this will take away “some of our most prestigious faculty” and make it harder for the University to hire new faculty, which could hurt student’s education.
He said if campus faculty does unionize, he hopes they will not strike. However, if they were to go on strike, he would try to meet with the Union heads.
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Champaign Burglary from a motor
vehicle was reported in the 900 block of South Second Street at around 6 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown offender broke the victim’s driver’s side window and stole the stereo out of the car.
Theft was reported at T.I.S. Bookstore, 707 S. Sixth St., at around 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, an unknown white male suspect set off the anti-theft alarm sound while leaving the store. The male suspect then fled the scene. One book/magazine was
stolen. Theft was reported in the
1100 block of South First Street at around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the victim’s iPod Nano was stolen.
Urbana Disorderly conduct was
reported in the 1300 block of East Michigan Avenue at around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the victim loaned the suspect’s sis-ter money. The victim asked the suspect’s sister for her money back. The suspect then threat-ened the victim with bodily harm.
A 28-year-old male was arrested on the charges of pos-session of cannabis of 30 grams or less in the 500 block of East Elm Street at around 8 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, the suspect already had a warrant out for his arrest. When he was found, he was in possession of cannabis.
Theft was reported at Cir-cle K, 1501 N. Lincoln Ave., at around 6 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, an unknown offender pumped gas and left the gas station without paying.
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BY NANCY BLACKTRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Today’s Birthday Prosperity comes with time-tested methods and creative collaboration this year. Domestic bliss occupies you until August, when service, work and health take the spotlight. Launch bold initiatives after 7/20. Young people inspire you to pursue fun and passion. This strengthens your heart (and can be quite pro!table). Spirituality and romance uplift, especially over summer. Focus on love.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (MARCH 21—APRIL 19)Today is a 7 — There’s no room for padding. Choose your words carefully. Meditation leads to a brilliant insight. Let your partner handle arrangements. Keep your surprise a secret. Step carefully and avoid a disappointment. Gather valuable information.
TAURUS (APRIL 20—MAY 20)Today is a 5 — Don’t try a new trick now. An amazing development requires steady feet. Someone makes sure you have what you need. Take time to let your mind wander. The pressure on you eases soon. Rest and relax.
GEMINI (MAY 21—JUNE 20)Today is a 5 — Hear from an
unusual point of view. Keep talking until you reach a compromise, for a pleasant surprise. Figure out what you want to accomplish !rst. Someone who seems dumb is actually brilliant. Listen openly.
CANCER (JUNE 21—JULY 22)Today is a 5 — You know exactly where your work will take you now. Upgrade your technology. Adventure beckons. Become fully involved. Follow through, then you can relax. A brilliant suggestion or idea could postpone chores. Your credit rating’s going up.
LEO (JULY 23—AUG. 22)Today is a 6 — Suddenly your thoughts come together. Consider relevant theories. Don’t advertise your winnings. Find out how much you really have. Provide verbal leadership. Put all your ideas on the list. Save a bunch on household items.
VIRGO (AUG. 23—SEPT. 22)Today is a 6 — Start with an intellectual connection. Listen to an expert you admire and learn a new angle or technique. Don’t make assumptions. Put it to the test. Be careful not to break things. Provide well for family.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23—OCT. 22)Today is a 6 — You gain insight about a work issue, but don’t know how to solve the problem yet. There’s a possibility for error. Talk over what you’re learning. Get advice from partners. Create an optimistic view. Use imagination.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23—NOV. 21)Today is a 7 — Don’t get over-
impressed with your greatness. Nourish your inner child with a sense of humor and humility. Do a good job at work. Have fun with it. Invest in your infrastructure and equipment. Advancement could seem sudden.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22—DEC. 21)Today is a 5 — Controversy arises, draped in chaos. Confront authority. Get answers in private. A change in the game surprises. Try new tactics. Friends think you’re brilliant. Consider sentiments when engaging in reorganization or new structures. A party ensues.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22—JAN. 19)Today is a 5 — Prepare to do the backstage research. Do what you promised. Everyone wants to be at your house. Ask them to help with dishes. Spend wisely. Take care with details. Relax without worry. It works out.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20—FEB. 18)Today is a 5 — Postpone social activities and extensive travel for a bit. Take care of business now. You’re especially convincing, and a project needs your talents. Follow a hunch ... the crazier the better. Later, results can beat expectations.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is a 7 — You’re good at solving puzzles. You may disagree with a critic. Power your way through tasks. Heed a partner’s considerations. Go out on a limb. Don’t get stopped by past failures. The response rewards.
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landfi lls and recycling.“This may be a good source
because we have so much plastic that we landfi ll,” he said. “I am seeing in the future that we may be mining the landfi lls for the plas-tics ... then taking those plastics and start converting it into oils.”
It is a simple process, he said — the material is heated in the reactor in the absence of oxygen and the plastic breaks down. The oil comes out as a vapor, which is condensed in cold water where the oil fl oats to the top and can be collected.
Dheeptha Murali, analytic chemist on the project, said she tested the oil after the plastic bags ran through the reactor. Then, she ran it through a system to see where the material boiled because gasoline, diesel and vacuum gas oil boil out at different temper-atures. This enabled her to fi nd which materials were present in the crude oil from the plastic bags.
She said it was not tough and is more straightforward than peo-ple think it would be, adding that she thinks the more they reach out and explain the research the more likely people will be to support it and recycle their used plastics for making fuels.
“I think this is great and it seems really promising,” Murali said. “This is one way to reduce the plastics in landfi lls and to make the world greener and cleaner.”
The rates of plastic recovery are low — so far only nine percent of generated plastic is recycled, so the other 91 percent is going some-where else, Sharma said.
“Even though it is really recy-clable, the plastic bags are not being recycled,” said Jennifer Deluhery, process chemist on the project. “People don’t think of it as very valuable material, they think of it as just something very easy to throw away,”
Deluhery said she likes that this process can be used for dif-ferent types of plastics and she is hopeful to apply this research to harder-to-recycle plastics. Now,
the researchers are looking at pre-scription bottles, contaminated by medicine waste, as a resource for creating crude oil.
Sharma said he hypothesized that within the next two to three years, some commercial plants will be converted to plastic to oil plants. Three companies are already looking into this research in the U.S., he said.
“I don’t think that there is any one solution that is going to com-pletely fi x our fossil fuel prob-lem and our energy crisis that we are going to be facing, but I think anytime we can fi nd something that we would normally throw away and get a useful energy product out of it is going to be benefi cial to people,” Deluhery said.
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as ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’ as the case may be, or ‘offi cer,’” he said.
Students must also be coopera-tive and truthful. “If they ask for an ID you should give them an ID and it should be legitimate,” he said. Presenting an offi cer with a fake ID could result in a charge of obstruction of justice, he added.
“For God’s sakes, never take off running,” Betz said.
Betz said the biggest mistake students make is arguing with
offi cers. “I always joke with students
that (offi cers) have a gun and you don’t,” he said. “There’s no point in the argument. The place for the argument is in court, not on the street.”
If a student commits a violation and the offi cer wants to pat them down for offi cer safety, Beckett warns students not to overre-act, as it can lead to more serious charges.
If a student is going to be arrest-ed, “they do have a right to remain silent,” he said. “It isn’t being uncooperative to assert that right.
You can’t be charged because you said ‘I’m not going to answer any of your questions.’”
Students hosting parties at their residences also have cer-tain responsibilities to be aware of. According to the Social Host Law , which took effect on Jan. 1, 2013, those hosting a party where minors are knowingly served will be fi ned $500 and guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. If that minor’s actions result in great bodily harm or the death of another person, the host of the party is subject to a Class 4 felony.
According to a pamphlet of
party guidelines put out by stu-dent legal services, hosts may not charge cover or for items (brace-lets, stamps, etc.) that represent purchase of a right to drink. They may not charge for cups. They also may not charge for cups of alcohol without a retail liquor license. No more than one keg (including empty kegs) is allowed on the premises with-out a K-license.
Betz also emphasized the importance of reading the lease before throwing a party, as some leases may prohibit parties and noise during certain hours.
“The cops might not even bust the party, but the landlord may say ‘You’re outside the terms and conditions of the lease. I’m fi ling a notice to have you evicted,’” he said. “In this weather, you don’t want to be moving your stuff.”
Despite all the potential for run-ins with the police dur-ing this event, Beckett said law enforcement isn’t out to get stu-dents or stop them from having a good time.
“The objective of law enforce-ment is ‘Can we get through this weekend? Can everybody have the good time they want to have
but can they do it in a good, con-trolled way?’” he said.
Betz and Beckett both said they hope to see an end to Unof-fi cial in the future.
“Every university has some-thing that is a little bit of a blem-ish,” Betz said. “This has been turned into a real commercial, ugly ‘drink until we drop event.’ And, I think it’s kind of embar-rassing that this goes on. I think it gives the University a really ugly name.”
Steffi e can be reached at [email protected].
Based on construction design, architecture and engineering of the building Short and Wooten work with Facilities and Services’ Code Compliance and Fire Safety section to review areas that can be used as storm shelter locations as well as areas of rescue.
The buildings’ fl oor plans indi-cate storm shelter locations, evac-uation station areas, exits and also includes areas of rescue.
On its website, the Division of Public Safety hosts a list of the campus buildings with completed fl oor plans.
“The important thing to remem-
ber — if you are a student — is that when you go into a building, look for those fl oor plans posted on the walls,” Short said. “If you can see that map, the storm shel-ter locations will be posted for reference.”
He also said the most important
thing to remember is to sign up for Illini Alerts, which will warn users if, for example, a tornado warning has been issued for the campus area.
Jessica can be reached at [email protected].
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“(These) are the things that I want to focus on: that any group on cam-pus has a unifi ed structure, so if they ever have a cause ... they can come up with an actual solution and a way to obtain it.”
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LUCAS FRYE NICK REINBERG
“I’d like to see the University be ranked No. 1 on issues of LGBT friend-liness. I strongly support gender-neu-tral dormitories on campus, and until we have such options, students should be able to opt out of living in dorms.”
Selection of severe weather prepared buildingsGrainger Library, 1301 W. Springfi eld Ave., UrbanaActivities and Recreation Center, 201 E. Peabody Dr.,
ChampaignHenry Administration Building, 505 S. Wright St., UrbanaUrban Outfi tters, 507 E Green St, ChampaignUndergraduate Library, 1402 W. Gregory Dr., UrbanaVan Doren Hall, 1213 S. 4th St., Champaign
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BALANCING IN-STATE AND OUT-OF-STATE
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BY ALEX SWANSONCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Illinois Emergency Man-agement Agency awarded the fi rst Ready to Respond Campus desig-nation to the University on Feb. 20. Nine campuses, from small com-munity colleges to state universi-ties, participated in the pilot pro-gram that led to the University’s designation.
The Ready to Respond Campus initiative is designed to improve safety, preparedness and response efforts in higher education campus-es across the state. This program is endorsed by Illinois Campus Law Enforcement Administrators and supported by the Center for Pub-lic Safety and Justice as well as the Illinois Emergency Manage-ment Agency.
University Police Department Lt. Todd Short spearheaded the University’s effort to attain the Ready to Respond Campus des-ignation and emphasized that the designation was largely a result of the effective safety and prepared-ness plans the University already had in place.
“It’s been a decade in the works,” Short said. “A lot of the things that we had already done allowed us to go back and systematically go
through the planning process and fi ne tune a lot of our emergency processes.”
Patti Thompson, communica-tions manager for Illinois Emer-gency Management Agency , stressed that this designation is diffi cult to obtain, even for campus-es with extensive planning already in place, like the University.
“While they had very good planning in place already, this has expanded their coordination with the surrounding communi-ty,” Thompson said. “It has com-ponents to have outreach for stu-dents and to try to get students more involved in the preparedness and understanding.”
Joan Carnduff, campus security coordinator for the Public Center of Safety and Justice, predicts that the University’s designation will have a statewide impact on cam-pus safety.
“This will encourage other schools across the state,” she said. “Other schools will look at the Uni-versity of Illinois’ designation and ask, ‘Are we ready?’”
Now that the Ready to Respond Campus program’s pilot is fi nished, the program is open to any campus-es in the state on a voluntary basis.
If a campus is awarded the des-
ignation, the university can use the logo on school property and mer-chandise for three years. After three years, new documentation must be submitted for review.
The application and criteria form for the Ready to Respond Campus states that the designation may have possible advantages even beyond those of safety, prepared-ness and response. These possible benefi ts could include better mar-keting to parents and students, improving relationships with local fi rst responder agencies and insur-ance benefi ts in the future.
Thompson also spoke as a parent of a University student and felt this designation would have a positive impact for the University’s reputa-tion, as well.
“This is something that I think parents would be interested in knowing. Not only do they have plans in place, but they’ve gone the extra mile,” Thompson said. “They have more complete plans and have reached a higher benchmark.”
The Ready to Respond Campus program is part of a larger state-wide initiative as the program already has a community branch.
Alex can be reached at [email protected].
He hopes the University will look into a disaster awareness plan in light of the shooting at Purdue. He hopes to add this plan into every course syllabus.
Reinberg hopes to raise the Univer-sity’s campus safety and expand the Safe Rides program. He added that the snow and ice on campus this win-ter was unacceptable for the students.
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“Some of the best conversations that you can have in the classroom are with people from around the world.”
International students play an impor-tant role and perspw=ective in the Uni-versity; however, he believes that the University needs to broaden recruit-ment within the state and nation fi rst.
Tomorrow, March 4, student elections begin and we can start casting our votes. There
will be a multitude of important items for us to vote on, from pro-posed changes in the student fees we pay for with our tuition to the selection of our next student senators, but there is one item in particular that is most deserv-ing of our attention — something all students should keep in mind while voting.
On this year’s ballot, the Stu-dent Sustainability Commit-tee (SSC) will be awaiting our approval on a measure that will ensure the continuation of its funding, which dramatically improves the quality of life for the entire student body.
The SSC is a committee of 10 students and 11 faculty and staff members who are charged with the responsibility of distribut-ing the $1.1 million dollars that are levied through two student fees — the Sustainable Campus Environment Fee and the Cleaner Energy Technologies Fee.
The fees that fund the SSC have a tangible and visible impact on our experience at the University in a positive way and students should vote yes to con-tinue this funding so our campus community can continue to lead universities across the country in sustainable practices.
One way SSC funding has con-tributed to improving our expe-rience as students on campus is through the expansion of sustain-able farming practices. In total, the SSC has allocated $352,550 to projects whose goals are to expand sustainable farming prac-tices on campus.
The Sustainable Student Farm is a large beneficiary of SSC
funding and it has been essential in helping feed the students who live in University Housing and aid University Dining in working to reach its goal of having at least 20 percent of its food be locally grown.
Even more, it serves as a resource to the rest of the student body, educating us about the chal-lenges of local food production and how to overcome them. We should have invested interest in this as students because the secu-rity of our future depends on the development of sustainable farm-ing methods that will allow us to sustain a globalizing food system. It’s an investment in the future.
But more importantly, this is our food that we eat. We want to make sure that our food is prop-erly grown in a manner that’s safe for the environment and our bodies. Knowing that our food comes from a farm run by stu-dents, for students, it’s reassur-ing knowing that the producers of our food have the same inter-ests as us.
SSC fees also provide fund-ing for initiatives that promote sustainable transportation. Our campus’ bike infrastructure is essential to the student body con-sidering bicycling in one of the main modes of transportation for students across campus.
The SSC has funded projects like the expansion of bike park-ing around campus in areas such as the Main Library, Armory, Loomis Laboratory and other strategic locations that more readily accommodate bikers. But more importantly, it makes it more appealing for students to bike on campus because many are often turned away by the lack of adequate bike parking.
Having students bike on cam-pus instead of driving cars reduc-es the amount of carbon dioxide in our environment and makes the air around us cleaner and saf-er to breathe.
Finally, the SSC has funded
various projects around campus that promote carbon reduction through the support of renewable energies and energy efficiency.
In the spring of 2009, the SSC funded the initiative to put more occupation sensors in buildings around campus. These occupa-tion sensors automatically turn off lights after 30 minutes of inactivity in a room. It is project-ed that these sensors could cre-ate a savings of nearly $143,000 and cut 88,000 pounds of car-bon dioxide emission over their lifespan.
I had a chance to speak with one of the faculty advisors of the SSC, Brian Deal, and we talked about the innovative aspect of what we’re doing to promote sus-tainable measures as a campus community.
He told me how the SSC is com-pletely separated from our Uni-versity’s administration and is run solely by students, faculty and staff that are passionate and committed to creating a more sustainable campus for students.
Furthermore, funding is avail-able to every single person on campus. If you’re a student who wants to make a green impact on our lives, the SSC is there to sup-port your mission.
“This campus is leading the nation on this front [sustainabil-ity] ... Every other campus asks our students how we go about it and how we get it done.”
Voting for the continuation of these fees will allow our Uni-versity to maintain the standing in paving the way for a greener and more sustainable future. But most importantly, it will signal to our administration that we are ready to move beyond fossil fuels and inefficient energy consump-tion and move forward to clean and efficient energy use.
Matt is a sophomore in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewPasquini.
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If you can remember any grade school his-tory lessons at all, you probably recall the Jim Crow laws that segregated the South.
These laws promoted the “Whites Only” or “Blacks in Back” signs outside businesses, and have become synonymous with inequality and denial of civil rights.
The opponents of Arizona’s SB 1062, a reli-gious freedom protection law amendment, have used the negative connotations of the Jim Crow laws to scare the public from enacting needed safeguards of religious liberties. Illi-nois should disregard these misconceptions and take action to bring about similar reforms.
Illinois made a bold statement last year when it hastily granted legal marriage to gay couples. However, Illinois is putting the reli-gious rights of its citizens in jeopardy by fail-ing to pass reforms to its discrimination laws in the wake of this change.
Illinois needs a bill similar to Arizona’s SB 1062 to adequately protect all of its citizens from infringement of freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is more than freedom to believe, but freedom to act in pursuance of these beliefs.
SB 1062 was a proposed amendment to an existing law that would have extended to all persons the protections against state action (including discrimination lawsuits) Arizona currently offers to religious institutions. The amendment was passed by the Arizona legis-lature in response to recent lawsuits in other states against Christian businesses that have refused services to gay couples for the cou-ples’ wedding ceremonies. However, Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the bill on Feb. 26 due to concerns of unintended consequences.
The biggest “consequence” was the miscon-ception that this amendment would create a mass of state-sponsored discrimination that would divide the state as Jim Crow laws did. Specifically, opponents claimed this law could make it so that individuals could refuse any service to anyone based on religious beliefs, such as homosexual couples.
SB 1062, and any similar laws, would not create another “separate but equal” state of businesses defining what groups they will sell to, and it probably will not increase the amount of legal discrimination in any industries but the wedding and sexual industries. When leg-islatures create laws with more than one inter-pretation, they rely on existing case law and future judicial decisions to properly declare the meaning of the amendment, and keep it in line with the legislative intent. The legisla-tive intent is not to allow for refusal of service in everyday business, but in providing service that would violate a religious belief.
Denying every service to a certain group cannot be consistent with religious beliefs because if you cannot sell sandwiches to Group A without any other reason other than membership in Group A, the religion would not allow selling sandwiches at all.
The amendment provided a defense to discrimination, but requires the individual accused of discriminating to prove that (1) the action was because of a religious belief (2) he/she is sincere in the religious belief and (3) the lawsuit would place a substantial burden on the religious belief.
These requirements present a safeguard to any expansive definitions given to the amend-ment because religious beliefs held by one individual must be consistent with all others held. Thus, any individual acting on a religious belief that also believes in redemption (such as Christianity, the main victim of the current lawsuits) cannot also hold that committing a religious violation, no matter how many times, is permanent disbarment from the religion.
A main example for opponents was Christian restaurants denying all service to gay individ-uals. However, properly applying the require-ments of the defense shows how this is untrue.
A Christian owner could not deny all ser-vice, on any ordinary day, because the first requirement could not be proved. Refusing regular service would require a religious belief that is opposed to the mere existence of gay individuals and provides no way for such individuals to ever be redeemed. With Christianity, this is not so, for anyone can be redeemed.
However, he or she could prevail for refusal to cater a gay wedding. So long as homosexu-al weddings is counter to his or her interpre-tation of Christianity, he or she could claim that participating in such an event would be in direct violation of his or her religious view. Such a belief is not incompatible with redemp-tion and would likely stand up in court.
This example applies solely to Christianity. Each interpretation of religion would have to be examined to insure that it would not pro-vide the mass discrimination that opponents fear. The examination is and would be the responsibility of court systems if such a law were passed.
Current Illinois law presents the same religious freedom pitfalls that Arizona’s does.There is no legal defense to discrimina-tion lawsuits when the individual feels com-pelled to refuse service because of religious beliefs. If the individual does not refuse ser-vice, then he or she could be aiding or abetting a violation of his or her religious code, which can be just as bad.
Illinois is forcing individuals to choose between religion and civil liability. Without a law such as SB 1062, Illinois is and will con-tinue to expose individual’s religious rights to state infringement.
Brad is a graduate student in Law. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @b_rad_barber.
There has been a lot of recent discussion around the inclusion of gender confirmation surgery (GCS) in the proposed student health insurance plan. While many students require the care that this coverage would pro-vide, and have been working for months to secure this, others have varying levels of reservations. While we can debate the issue from polarized ideological or mor-alistic standpoints, it is important to remember that this medically necessary treatment could save students’ lives.
While it may seem controver-sial, serious discussion about trans* health has been growing significantly in the past decade. In fact, the American Psychologi-cal Association recognizes gen-der dysphoria and its treatment through gender confirmation sur-gery in the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statisti-cal Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Unfortunately, this dys-phoria can have negative implica-tions on students’ physical, psy-chological, social and academic lives.
Many of our friends in the Big Ten have taken action on this growing discourse including Uni-versity of Michigan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Northwestern University, the Ohio State Univer-sity, Pennsylvania State Univer-sity, and even the University of Illinois at Chicago, where GCS is provided in their student health insurance plans.
I would like to clear up miscon-ceptions of how much the inclu-sion of GCS in the student health insurance plan would actually cost students. The current pro-posal will raise the price of the student health insurance plan by roughly $37 for undergraduates to $291, and $48 for graduates to $376. The total cost per student
per semester for GCS coverage will be $2.22 for undergraduates and $2.88 for graduates, less than 1 percent of the total cost of stu-dent health insurance. As I write this and sip on my $3.88 latte from Espresso Royale I wonder: At what cost do we value human life?
Additionally, the protest of the cost of GCS in particular — as a seemingly cosmetic procedure — seems fairly peculiar when almost 90 percent of the price increase will go to the mandat-ed Affordable Care Act coverage and related fees, which includes cost coverage for bariatric sur-gery, chiropractic services and massage therapy. While there are some things that will not be cov-ered under our new student health insurance plan, let us not deny health care rights to our proactive students on these grounds.
Something worth mentioning here is that the University has the lowest health insurance price per student in the Big Ten and will continue to have the lowest price after the coming increase.
The last time that student health insurance costs were com-piled at the Big Ten level was for the 2012-13 academic year, according to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation Stu-dent Fee Survey, where the sec-ond cheapest plan — which was at the University of Iowa — was still more than three times the price of the plan at the University of Illi-nois. Students and administrators at the University work tirelessly to ensure that students are pro-vided with quality and affordable health care.
Some are concerned because GCS is permanent and can be sterilizing. First, it must be noted that the decision to have GCS can-not be made overnight. As per the Standards of Care for the Health
of Transsexual, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People — the global medical consensus on care for trans* people — a student will need to go through at least six months of psychological evalua-tion by multiple doctors and spe-cialists in order to even quali-fy for the surgery. Additionally, students will then be required to sign a form of consent — some-thing everyone is allowed to do in regards to their health care when they are legal adults.
Finally, there are some con-cerns raised by our student trust-ee, Michael Cunningham, mostly around the lack of notification or mandated involvement in the student health insurance renew-al process. Fortunately for our trustee, there are experts dealing with many aspects of campus life year-round so that he need not be stressed by the continuous and laborious processes of running a world-class university. The discussion of the student health insurance plan was done public-ly in committees, town halls and other meetings throughout the year and his presence would have been appreciated.
Students have been working for months to secure these ben-efits in our student health insur-ance plan, and our trans* com-munity has support throughout campus and around the world. Do we deny requested health care to our proactive students because we do not want to give up a cup of coffee, or do we use this opportu-nity to take a step toward being a truly inclusive Illinois and teach-ing our students that if they work hard they can make the changes that they want to see at the Uni-versity? I’m going to fight for the latter.
JUSTIN OSTROWSKIsenior in LAS and student senator
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Students should support SSC fundingMATT PASQUINI
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EDITORIAL CARTOON STEVE SACK MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Frye promises realistic changes
Promising what current student trustee Mike Cunningham did a year ago, candidate Lucas Frye, junior in ACES, wants to establish a cabinet of student
leaders, composed of major student organizations and representatives of each college.
“You can’t stand alone,” he told attendees of the student trustee debate Thursday. He’s right.
Frye, if elected as student trustee, like other trustees, needs to know what’s happening on all corners of our campus — whether it’s a Greek house, one of the four cultural houses on campus or one of thousands of registered student organizations.
A confluence of leaders from these student groups would accurately reflect a campus of more than 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
Mobilizing students is among Frye’s first priorities — and an admirable one at that, as it will establish a clear avenue for students who have concerns they want to communicate and to be acknowledged. But the biggest challenge remains where Cunningham left off: Frye will need to have student leaders committed to the council, and that could be difficult given the apathetic voting turnout each spring.
In addition, he would vote against adding gender confirmation surgery to our health insurance, for now — a move by the trustees that we have supported. But Frye has a point: The board giving its blessings to this measure will set a precedent for other medical needs, such as optical, dental or prescription drug benefits.
On the topic of tuition hikes, Frye states: “That’s something we cannot necessarily change. We can’t tomorrow say we are going to lower tuition.”
These are just a few examples of Frye’s structured, attainable plans if he were to be elected as a student trustee. And he has the experience — as president of ACES council and working with the Student Alumni Ambassadors — to make those plans become realities.
A mong the first priorities of candidate Nick Reinberg is an issue that’s been brought up to the trustees numerous times, reviving the Beyond
Coal campaign. Yet, it’s never been from a student trustee’s vantage point.
Trustees have heard from the Beyond Coal organization during the public comment session of meetings, yet the issue often goes by the wayside after the time to speak out is up for the organization.
Within board committees, Reinberg’s voice could be powerful — something trustees can’t easily ignore as they have done in the past, at least publicly.
This is just one part of his five-point plan, which also includes addressing college affordability. Reinberg was a member of the Illinois Student Senate subcommittee on Student Debt Awareness, which has been largely successful, relative to other initiatives of the student senate. Yet as a member, his voice was quiet during the Student Debt Awareness Week, just as it has been during his tenure with the Illinois Student Senate.
However, Reinberg has many ideas we agree with, such as adding gender confirmation surgery to the student health insurance plan.
We can learn much from our sister campus in Chicago, he has said, and we should strive to become one of the most LGBT-friendly campuses in the country.
His focus on major issues facing the LGBT community — something that is hotly debated here and at other universities — is arguably the biggest asset for his campaign at the moment.
Reinberg — who also participates in a club sport and is involved in the Greek community — said, during the student trustee debate, he’ll vote in line with the student body’s opinions. If he were to step into the student trustee role, nothing says representation more than leaving his personal opinion behind.
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Gender confirmation surgery necessary step toward making our University wholly inclusive
Illinois should enact similar law to
Arizona’s religious billBRAD BARBER
Opinions columnist
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Revive resolutions with colorful edamame saladBY STEPHANIE KIMSTAFF WRITER
With shredded carrots, spinach leaves, cherry tomatoes and more, this colorful edamame salad will give you a fresh start to Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ National Nutrition Month.
It may even revive short-lived New Year’s resolutions related to healthy eating. Whatever the case may be, one thing is for sure: you will achieve the campaign’s theme for March: “Enjoy the Taste of Eat-ing Right.”
I found this recipe from the Uni-versity of Illinois Wellness Cen-ter’s Recipe Box, a website that compiles healthy recipes submit-ted by students and community members.
Of the options listed under the category “Salads,” the “Colorful
Edamame Salad” caught my eye. According to eatright.org, a
website sponsored by Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, edam-ame is the only food with plant protein of the same protein qual-ity found in meat and eggs. These small green soybeans are also a good source of vitamins, miner-als, potassium and fi ber. Plus, they are just as fun to eat as they are to say. Edamame resemble lima beans without the dreaded pasty aftertaste. Its subtle butter fl avor, smooth texture and soft crunch make it the star of any salad.
Ingredients:4 cups spinach leaves and lettuce
(original listed Romaine lettuce)1 cup shredded carrots2 cups cherry tomatoes
1 cup sliced cucumber1/2 cup chopped red onion 1 1/2 cups cooked shelled
edamame
Directions:1. Rinse the vegetables and chop
if need be. 2. Boil three cups of water and
cook the edamame for four min-utes. Rinse under cold running water and peel shells to remove the cooked beans.
3. Toss and mix fresh vegetables.4. Add salad dressing if desired.
For fewer calories and a more nat-ural taste, try adding a handful of seeds and dried fruit instead.
Stephanie is a senior in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].
BY CLAIRE HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER
Sugarcane satisfies your sweet tooth, but thanks to Uni-versity researchers, it may also appease a government biofuel mandate.
The PETROSS, Plants Engi-neered to Replace Oil with Sug-arcane and Sweet Sorghum, research team is working to genetically engineer sugarcane in three main areas. Their goals are to make the plants more cold tolerant, increase rate of pho-tosynthesis by 50 percent and increase the oil in the stem by 20 percent, said Ank Michielsen, PETROSS project manager.
Sugarcane and sweet sorghum are some of the most productive plants in the world, she added.
“If you get oil in the stem, you can, in the end, get vegetable oil out of it and then it’s quite easy to get biodiesel,” Mich-ielsen said, “That’s quite excit-ing because there is a big need for biofuel.”
Under the Energy Indepen-dence and Security Act, the energy industry is required to produce 36 billion gallons of renewable transportation fuel per year by 2022. Currently, 13 billion gallons per year are renewable fuels.
Stephen Long, director of PETROSS projects, the research-ers presented their work to the U.S. Department of Energy and companies in the industry and bioengineering companies. The PETROSS project is funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy, a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Ener-gy and is in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laborato-ry and the Universities of Flor-ida and Nebraska.
Michielsen said right now photosynthesis has been increased in sugarcane by 30 percent which means a larger yields when the crop is harvest-ed. Increased from negligible amounts, there is one and a half percent oil in the stem, “which doesn’t seem like a lot,” she said, but even one percent yields two times as much biodiesel per acre than soybeans, the current crop used for making the fuel.
Michielsen said right now sug-arcane can only be grown on the
southern tip of Florida and Tex-as so the team wants to increase cold tolerance so the crops can be grown farther north. She said there is approximately 23 mil-lion acres of land in the south-eastern U.S. that is not being used for growing food crops. If the crops could be grown on this land, and all other goals are met, these two crops alone could produce 52.7 billion gallons of biodiesel, or 147 percent of the 2022 government mandate.
Long said plant metabolisms produce oil and then break it down into sugar. They are add-ing additional genes and promot-ers which increase the expres-sions of those desired traits, he said.
“We are up-regulating the genes which produce oil, and down-regulating those that con-sume it. We are also inserting a protein that forms a coat around the oil to stop the oil (from) being degraded,” Long said.
To retrieve the oil from the crop, the stems are crushed and washed with hot water to dis-solve out sugar, when this hap-pens the oil will fl oat to the top and is easily separated, Long said.
The researchers said it would be an easy transition to incorpo-rate these crops for commercial use because farmers already have the equipment and know how to harvest sugarcane, and know how to separate the oil out.
Vijay Singh, professor of agri-cultural and biological engi-neering, said farmers in Bra-zil have been using sugarcane to make ethanol for years and they have proven it works and is cost effective.
He added that with the same amount of land, sugarcane can produce 10 times more biofuel than soybeans and that these projections are being made through computer simulations.
A sugar refi nery typically operates for seven months of the year, and the other fi ve months the plant sits idle and some work-ers are without jobs, Singh said. This is where the sweet sorghum comes in, this second crop can keep the plant running the other months of the year optimizing productivity because it can be harvested more often.
Haibo Huang, post doctor-ate researcher, said that right now, the biodiesel made from soybeans is priced at about $4 per gallon. This price takes into account the government subsi-dies the producers receive for making the fuel. Even with no government subsidies for the sugarcane, companies can still make money, he said.
“So without a government sub-sidy, it is really diffi cult for a biodiesel plant to survive but according to our techo-eco-nomic model simulation, our set biodiesel production cost from our sugarcane is much lower,” Huang said.
The sugarcane-produced biodiesel could be $3 per gal-lon or even less than $3 without a government subsidy, he said.
If the plants can be engi-neered to produce 20 percent more oil, be more cold tolerant and have a 50 percent increase in photosynthesis, companies could make $1.56 per gallon assuming no government subsi-dy, equalling $82 billion in addi-tional revenue.
“We’ve got a start and we are showing these changes can be done,” Long said, “This isn’t going to appear tomorrow but within the decade.”
Claire can be reached at [email protected].
and succeed and contribute,” Dan-iels said. “But he left that to come back, and do more and be more, and better himself. But, also be better for other people to help them, and to me personally it is an inspiration to see somebody else do it. It makes me know I can do it too.”
Though Jarrell has inspired many by simply coming back to school, he hopes to spread a mes-sage about education and confront a recent growing trend that he views as problematic. Jarrell said he was weary that students are not pursuing real world experi-ences, which are necessary to be successful in the classroom, particularly in higher degrees. Instead, they are simply going through schooling years to simply fi nish before entering the market.
“Degrees are important,
degrees you attain knowledge through your education, but then you need to go and apply it. And then you come back to the school,” Jarrell said. “Go to the Univer-sity, get a degree, gain knowl-edge, go out and work before you
come back. Don’t stay in academia because you aren’t really going to get all of the skills you need at the school.”
Declan can be reached at [email protected].
JARRELLFROM 6A
More informationIn light of National Nutrition Month, here are “Tips for Healthy Living” provided by McKinley Health Center:
Savor every biteEating slowly can help you enjoy your meal more. Give yourself some extra time to relax while your mind and body recharge.
Leftovers aren’t always bad Just because a plate is a certain size doesn’t mean you have to fi ll it — or fi nish it. If you have leftovers, don’t throw them away. Save them for another meal or eat them as an afternoon snack. One important step to healthy eating is to stop eating when you feel satisfi ed or full.
SOURCE: MCKINLEY HEALTH CENTER
PHOTO COURTESY OF J. ASHLEY JARRELLJ. Ashley Jarrell, the University’s fi rst doctoral candidate in mind conducting and visiting assistant director of bands, conducts a concert at Foellinger Great Hall on Feb. 20.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE INSTITUTE OF GENOMIC BIOLOGY
University researchers harvest genetically modifi ed sugarcane to test the amount of oil in the stem.
UI researchers optimize sugarcane biodiesel potential
BRIAN YU THE DAILY ILLINIColorful edamame salad, a recipe from the University of Illinois Wellness Center’s Recipe Box, is a healthy dish to try during March, which is Nutrition and Dietetics’ National Nutrition Month.
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S urrounded by the board game-covered walls of The Gaming Goat, a mass of young adults gather in the
center of the room. One can hear spurts of laughter and heated debate as the students exchange cards at a quick pace.
It is a Friday at The Gaming Goat, a game shop located within an old brick building on 723 S. Neil St. in downtown Champaign, and that means magic. Specifically, Magic: The Gathering.
These tournaments, based on the popular trading card game, are held every Friday night at The Gaming Goat. Kevin Huang, soph-omore in Business and president of the Magic: The Gathering RSO on campus, typically sits among the long plastic tables, crowded between players.
Wanting to get more exposure to the card game he loves, Huang started the Magic: The Gathering RSO earlier this year.
“Prior to this year, there was a lot of people that played and we all met up, but we didn’t actual-ly have an RSO,” Huang said. “I, and a couple other guys, decided to make an RSO so we could get more people to join and play.”
Magic: The Gathering, Huang explained, is a card came that can be played by two or more players using decks of printed cards. Each player is known as a “planeswalk-er,” a wizard, that uses the spells and creatures on each card to defeat his or her opponent.
“It was created in 1993 and has since grown to include over 12,000 different cards with millions of people that play it worldwide,” he said.
The trading game is available both online and in card form. There are numerous complex rules, depending on which format the game is being played in. How-ever, the main objective of the game is simple, Huang explained.
“Basically, everyone has 20 lives, and the goal of the game is to get your opponent’s life down to zero,” Huang said, “There are other ways you can win, but that’s the main one.”
The deck that the player has can determine whether he or she loses or wins the game.
“In order to win, you don’t have to put a lot of money in your deck, but you have to have a good deck,” said George Jabbour, sophomore in LAS and avid Magic player. “You can get one by trading cards a lot or, if you have a lot of money, you can buy really good decks.”
Magic cards range in price depending on how rare or neces-sary a card is. Huang explained a standard card deck costs around $100 to $200, but he has one of a slightly higher price range.
“I have a deck that’s worth $10,000, so its totally blinged out,” he said.
Huang began playing the card game in middle school, but then stopped shortly after. It was not until his senior year in high
school, where he found out that one of his teachers played the game, that he began playing seri-ously himself. He has now been a “hard core” player for more than three years.
Jabbour began playing the game in high school and has been crazy about it since.
“I play because I really enjoy the game. It really challenges you. There’s a lot of strategy involved. It’s like a mix between chess and poker,” Jabbour said. “With chess, all the information is there and you can figure out what moves your opponent plans on taking, but with this game, you have your own cards and your opponent can’t see them, like in poker.”
The Magic club meets every Wednesday at 6:40 p.m. in the Illi-ni Union basement. During these meetings, members can buy and trade cards and play with other members to garner more experi-ence and skill.
In addition to these meetings, tournaments are held at The Gam-ing Goat most Fridays at around 6:30 p.m. Here, participants can pay $5 to enter the tournament and have chances to win store credit and other prizes. Members can also travel to larger out-of-state tournaments with the club.
Mike Keplinger, co-owner and manager of The Gaming Goat, and his business partner had been huge fans of the fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. In college, they would
frequent gaming stores all over the state when they traveled for tournaments. After many years of contemplation, the two officially opened their own game shop last September.
Since the store’s opening, Keplinger has loved the attention his store has been receiving for hosting the weekly Magic tour-naments. He thanks Huang for a part of his business’s growing popularity.
“Kevin’s a very central figure in the Magic and gaming communi-ty,” Keplinger said. “And when we have a Magic event going on, Kev-in helps spread the word and gets more people who otherwise would not have heard about the event to come and come back again the next week.”
While the RSO currently has over 40 registered members and about 20 non-registered members, the club has some arguably unsur-prising demographics.
“We have two or three female members,” Huang said. “It’s most-ly guys right now.”
Huang hopes more girls realize how fun the game is and are not scared away by the male-domi-nant atmosphere these types of games sometimes boast.
“I don’t judge,” Huang said. “Magic is Magic, and I’m just going to play with people who like to play too.”
Elizabeth can be reached at [email protected].
Trick of the Hand
From student to teacher and back to studentBY DECLAN HARTYSTAFF WRITER
While most University students are here to work toward their careers and bolster their resumes, Jonathan Ashley Jarrell has returned to being a student after 10 years as an educator for one pur-pose: to learn.
Jarrell, the University’s first doctoral candidate in wind conducting, spent his first 10 years after receiving his master’s degree as a middle school and high school teacher. Now standing as both a stu-dent and teacher with the University, Jarrell hopes to continue to better himself as an educator and stresses the importance of real-world experience.
“I think a teacher is a teacher regardless of the level of the student,” Jarrell said. “If you have that spark, you want to give that information, you want to share, that is what a teacher does, is really share information. That is true for any level, but that is why I wanted to come back to just gain more knowledge.”
In addition to being a student, Jarrell holds the title of visiting assistant director of bands. He teach-es courses in conducting and conducts the Hinds-ley Symphonic Band. Jarrell has conducted vari-ous performances, and he will be conducting the Hindsley Symphonic Band on March 11 at Foel-linger Great Hall at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
With his 10 years of experience as an educator, Jarrell brings excitement and knowledge to the classroom, no matter what level of education he is teaching.
“I don’t think it matters the student that Ashley is in front of,” said Linda Moorhouse, interim direc-tor of bands. “He is a very vivacious person when it comes to being a teacher. He is a pied piper. There is a wonderful energy in the room when he is there, he is a happy person, and the students enjoy being with him in class.”
Jarrell’s success at the University would not be possible without his previous teaching experience.
Jarrell taught at Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet Pearl High School in Nashville, Tenn., and received his bachelor’s degree in music education from East Tennessee State University and his mas-ter’s degree from Middle Tennessee State Univer-sity in instrumental conducting.
Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet Pearl High School is a public school from grades 7 to 12 that requires an application process to be accepted. The school, according to Jarrell, had more than 300 students involved in the band program, making it that much harder for him to leave. But even with the many differences in the education levels, Jarrell still believes there is only one difference between the University and his former employer.
“You might have to say the same thing several times in order for them to get the concept,” Jarrell said. “But at the University level ... you can move on to the next thing, and they’ve got it. Obviously, at the University level, the biggest difference is that you are able to cover more material because they move quicker.”
Even with his growing education and experience, Jarrell said he began where most musicians do — with a great teacher.
“Well, I think for a lot of people, the spark comes from a great teacher that they had, and my sto-ry is no different,” Jarrell said. “I had a fantastic high school mentor/teacher who was my high school director, his name was Terry Jolley, and he is actu-ally still teaching. It meant a lot to me that he was very talented, but that he had an enormous amount of patience for his students to learn.”
Jarrell said Jolley managed to spark a curios-ity in students of music, and “opened up this whole new world.”
Returning for his doctoral degree was something Jarrell always planned on doing. Though Jarrell is the first candidate for a doctorate in wind con-ducting, the program’s blue prints have been in place in the School of Music, Moorhouse said. The department was required to have courses approved through a variety of committees including the School of Music and the Office of the Provost. Jar-rell has paved the way for future candidates; next year, the University will welcome two new gradu-ate conductors in Wind Conducting, according to Moorhouse.
Since Jarrell began his doctoral studies in fall 2011 at the University, he has brought inspiration to others, according to Terri Daniels, University bands business manager.
“I think he brings inspiration to those of us who want to continue because he has done what so many of us have done; he has gone out and worked and done everything that he can to advance his career
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SPORTS1BMONDAY
BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER
EAST LANSING, Mich. — You can’t win if you can’t score.
After a worst-in-the-coun-try offense in January led to an 8-game losing streak, the Illinois men’s basketball team knows that better than most. And they’re put-ting that knowledge to use, mak-ing sure other teams can’t put the ball through the basket.
For the fourth straight game, the Illini (17-12, 6-10 Big Ten) held their opponent to fewer than 50 points on their way to defeating No. 18 Michigan State (22-7, 11-5) 53-46 for the program’s fi rst win at the Breslin Center since 2006 — Dee Brown’s fi nal year in Orange and Blue.
In the fi rst meeting between the two teams this season, Illi-nois’ defense was unrecognizable. The Spartans made 55.8 percent of their shots, including 40 per-cent of their 3-pointers, while out-rebounding the Illini 38-25 in a 78-62 Spartans victory.
Saturday, however, it was Michigan State’s offense that was unrecognizable. Anchored by center Nnanna Egwu’s post defense, the Illini held the Spar-tans to a season-low 46 points on
39.1 percent shooting, including a 31.8 percent clip in the second half. The Spartans made just 33.3 percent of their 3-point attempts, going 2-for-8 in the second half alone.
Michigan State also turned the ball over 16 times, while Illinois had a season-high 14 steals, and juniors Tracy Abrams and Ray-vonte Rice had fi ve steals apiece. Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo said the Spartans’ 12-16 assist-to-turnover ratio was “a joke.”
Overall, Illinois has been play-ing not only its best defense of the season, but also its best defense in the last 66 years, as the Illini held their fourth straight oppo-nent under 50 points for the fi rst time since the 1947-48 season.
“It’s unbelievable for us to do that, but we’re that good. Defen-sively, we’ve shown that all year. That’s what we hang our hat on,” Egwu said. “In the losing streak, the margin for error wasn’t a lot. Take away this mistake here or this mistake there, and our record is a lot different right now.”
Illinois head coach John Groce made one thing clear: Illinois hasn’t peaked. Not on defense. Especially not on offense.
“As soon as you act like you’ve arrived, you’re going to fall pretty quickly,” Groce said.
Illinois made 47.7 percent of its shots and 44.4 percent of its 3-pointers, improving to 11-0 when outshooting its opponents. Abrams
led the way with 12 points and four assists, and Malcolm Hill and Rice each added 10 points. Kendrick Nunn and Jon Ekey had eight and seven points, respectively.
March Madness is under-way, people.
Illinois declared that loud and clear with a 53-46 stunner over No. 18 Michigan State in East Lansing, Mich., on Saturday.
Maybe all Illinois needed this season was for everyone to get going at the right time. Against Michigan State on Sat-urday, Illinois showed what it could do on full blast.
This is the team John Groce has been waiting for all sea-son. Players stepped up on both ends of the fl oor and didn’t take their foot off the pedal for 40 minutes.
Abrams showed the on-court leadership of which he’s capa-ble. He played some inspir-ing basketball against Mich-igan State. The junior has gone through a season-long slump, failing to score a fi eld goal in three of his previous fi ve games, but Abrams put it all together Saturday. The point guard led Illinois with 12 points, four assists and fi ve steals in one of the best indi-vidual efforts from an Illini player this season.
Abrams kept his composure throughout the game, even when Michigan State ended the fi rst half on a 19-7 run. He effectively ran the offense, penetrated at will and started showing a confi dence he has lacked this season. He com-peted on the defensive end, dis-rupting passing lanes, running up and down the fl oor, and dog-ging any Spartans player he guarded. Abrams played some old school, in-your-face basket-ball and the rest of his team followed.
The freshman duo of Mal-colm Hill and Kendrick Nunn stepped up again — what’s new? Hill had an effi cient 10 points on 4-for-5 shooting from the fi eld while Nunn contrib-uted eight points, six rebounds, four assists and two 3-point-ers. The two didn’t play like it was their fi rst game in East Lansing.
Jon Ekey was quiet for much of the day, but he hit a dag-ger 3-pointer at the top of the key to give Illinois a 50-43 lead with 3:42 left in the game. Ray-vonte Rice also chipped in 10 points to help round out an effi -cient offensive attack by the Illini. Illinois shot 47.7 percent
against Michigan State thanks to a slowed, grinding offen-sive approach. Despite the surprisingly effi cient offense from Illinois, this game was all about its nonstop defensive effort.
Illinois has suddenly become a defensive juggernaut. The Illini have allowed fewer than 50 points for four straight games now, but none of their performances compared to the effort displayed Saturday.
Michigan State isn’t a strug-gling offensive team such as Ohio State or Nebraska; the Spartans have the 14th best offensive effi ciency in the nation. Illinois made Michigan State work for every shot and never let up throughout the game. The Spartans shot just 39.1 percent from the fl oor and were clearly thrown off by the Illini’s defensive urgency.
Groce deserves some credit for his defensive game plan against the Spartans. The Illi-ni played tighter than usual on the perimeter, forcing the Spartans to drive at Nnanna Egwu. That didn’t go well for Michigan State.
Egwu was sensational defen-sively. The 6-foot-11 center disrupted shots at the rim throughout the game, forcing Michigan State to think twice before attacking him. Egwu blocked three shots but altered many others. One play in par-ticular sticks out, when Egwu forced Gary Harris to come up short at the rim, leading to a 2-on-1 fast break for Illi-nois. When Egwu got into foul trouble thanks to some ques-tionable calls, Groce went to a zone.
The 2-3 zone defense slowed down the Spartans offensive attack and coaxed them into taking long jumpers. Keith Appling, with his injured wrist, isn’t a shooting threat anymore, nor is any Spartan besides Harris. Michigan State shot only 33.3 percent from behind the arc, with fi ve of its six longballs coming from Harris.
That tight Illinois defense also forced Michigan State to turn the ball over 16 times. Fourteen of those turnovers were Illinois steals. There’s no better recipe for a struggling offense than turnovers, and Illinois took advantage.
Illinois couldn’t be peak-ing at a better time. The Illini will now take a three-game winning streak into a Senior Night matchup with fi rst-place
BY J.J. WILSONASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Illinois baseball wasn’t worried about a slow start to its season, and this weekend showed why.
Through a four-game sweep in Florida, the Illini bats were consistent, with double-digit hits in three of four games.
Neither Florida Gulf Coast nor No. 23 Florida had an answer for the Illini defense, which held both teams to two runs or fewer in two games apiece.
Illinois even got the oppor-tunity to fl ex its pitching depth with multiple relief saves, which helped the Illini to their fi rst winning record of the sea-son, as they ended the week-end at 6-4.
“This weekend just brought out our true identity,” sopho-more Ryan Nagle said. “I think we showed that in pitching and on offense.”
Lingering disappointment from the Illini pitching staff’s fi rst two outings dissipated this weekend when each of its four starters chalked wins.
In his season debut, sopho-more Ryan Castellanos held Florida Gulf Coast to two runs in seven innings. The regular rotation followed him by allow-ing just two runs in the next three games, including a 6-0 shutout by No. 1 starter Kevin Duchene.
“It makes it so much easier when you’re throwing up zeros, it doesn’t put as much pressure on the offense,” Duchene said.
The relief recorded anoth-er six strikeouts and two saves throughout the weekend. Junior
Reid Roper relieved Nick Blackburn in the ninth Friday afternoon and closed out the Eagles with two strikeouts and the save.
Sophomore Tyler Jay made the second save against Flor-ida when he relieved Drasen Johnson in the seventh. Jay struck out two and allowed the only run of the 5-1 win. But the pitching staff, as a whole, got some relief this weekend.
“You can ask any pitcher, on this team or any other, it’s so much easier to pitch with the lead and with more room for error,” Duchene said. “And that’s because of our offense.”
After edging out Florida Gulf Coast 3-2 in Friday’s fi rst game, the Illini bats went to work. On the weekend, Illinois record-ed 42 hits and scored 23 runs while the opposing bats were only able to connect for 23 hits and four runs.
Nagle led the way with 10 hits on the weekend, including four RBIs and two doubles. Mean-while, junior David Kerian add-ed a double and a triple along with four hits and three RBIs.
Illinois’ success this week-end offered more than a lesson in identity, though.
“It’s tough sometimes to han-dle failure, and, at the same time, it’s tough to handle suc-cess,” head coach Dan Hartleb said. “We have to do a good job of moving forward and under-stand we need to be better this week and work hard in practice like we did last week to get bet-ter and better.”
But Hartleb said he isn’t con-cerned about success going to his players’ heads. The Illini
played hard, smart and com-plete baseball this weekend, and he knows they will contin-ue to prove themselves as the season continues — and so do they.
“I said back when we were 2-4 that our record doesn’t really refl ect on how special this team could be,” Duchene said. “We got it all clicking this weekend, and I think this team really realizes now how good we have the opportunity to be.
“I would expect to see a lot more of this in the upcoming weeks and for the rest of the season.”
J.J. can be reached at [email protected] @Wilsonable07.
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Tracy Abrams shoots a 3-pointer during the game against Michigan State at the Breslin Student Events Center on Saturday. The Illini defeated the Spartans 53-46.
JOSEPH J LEE THE DAILY ILLINI Illinois’ Rayvonte Rice goes up for a layup against Michigan State at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing, Mich., on Saturday. The Illini beat the Spartans 53-46.
For the 1st time since 2006, Illini win in East Lansing
Illinois solid on both sides of court in win
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Basketball columnist
Baseball sweeps series against Florida and Florida Gulf Coast
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BY SEAN HAMMONDSENIOR WRITER
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The reward was Chicago-style pizza from East Lansing’s Pizza House. At least that’s how some of the Illi-nois basketball players celebrated their victory over Michigan State on Saturday.
Decked out in Illinois sweat suits, players munched on pizza with friends and family in the Breslin Center’s bleachers over-looking the court where they took down the Big Ten’s brass.
Thirteen white banners with green lettering indicating con-ference championships hang from the arena’s rafters. The Spartans’ chances of hanging another took a serious hit Saturday. With the 53-46 loss to Illinois, Michigan State falls two games back of bitter rival Michigan in the Big Ten race.
With three games to play for
both teams, it’s possible Tom Izzo’s squad can right the ship. But a lot of things have to fall into place. For Illinois, all the pieces fell into place Saturday.
The Illini won a basketball game in East Lansing. The last time they did that, Malcolm Hill was in the fifth grade. That would be March of 2006.
“To get a win like this, this is big for us, especially late in the season,” Hill said. “I think we’re showing good composure. We could have called it quits when we were on the losing streak.”
The 2013-14 Illini are likely des-tined for the NIT or some other fate lesser than the NCAA tour-nament. But they haven’t quit, because it isn’t just about 2014.
It’s about the 13 banners hang-ing form the ceiling. Any Big Ten coach wants to build what Izzo has built in East Lansing. He can’t
account for all 13 banners, but the Spartans have earned seven of them — more than half — under his leadership.
Saturday, the Breslin Center was full and the crowd was amped even though the opponent was in the bottom half of the confer-ence. It wasn’t always like that. The Spartans had gone eight years between conference titles before Izzo won his first in 1998.
Illinois’ drought will extend to nine seasons when this season is over. These days the Big Ten cham-pion usually has to go through the Spartans. It did in 2005.
“There are just too many things (we) have had to go through, so maybe a slap in the face is good for us,” Izzo said after the game. “It reminds me of 2005, maybe that’ll wake us up. We got hit today.”
Illinois beat Michigan State and won the Big Ten that year. But the
Spartans reached the Final Four along with the Illini.
Groce’s squad beat a talented Michigan State team Saturday that is capable of making a deep run in March. It’s just more proof of how tough the Big Ten is.
“My wife will tell you I’m wrong about a lot of things,” Groce said. “But before the year I said, this is going to be the deepest we’ve seen this league.”
Every team in the conference has five wins in league play. That’s happened only three times before. This was Illinois’ sixth and prob-ably its best all season.
While the pizza probably wasn’t the most rewarding part of the night, it likely tasted a little bit better Saturday.
Sean can be reached at [email protected] and @sean_hammond.
BY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER
The Il l inois women’s gymnastics team was unable to steal a win Friday from No. 2 Oklahoma as the Illini fell 197.250-195.850 in Norman, Okla.
“Going into tonight, we knew it was a huge opportunity to compete against the No. 2 team in the country,” head coach Kim Landrus said Friday. “And I think our girls went in, and they performed their routines. And unfortunately, we had some small errors that cost us some tenths.”
Landrus said the errors had a lot to do with the amplitude and landings, which was most evident when Illinois began the meet on the uneven bars.
The event’s anchor, junior Sunny Kato, only put up a 9.600. Senior Sarah Fiedler was the lone Illini to score above a 9.800 on the apparatus. Her 9.825 earned her second place in the event. Kato’s score was the lowest in the lineup and was dropped to give Illinois a team score, 48.775. The Illini trailed after the Sooners scored a 49.400 on vault.
Illinois came back strong on
vault, though, and put together a team total 49.050, its second best vault score of the season and third score above 49 this season.
Statistically speaking, vault was Illinois’s worst event when the season began. It wasn’t until the fourth meet that the team achieved a 49 on the apparatus. Since then, the scores have improved and shown the growth the vault lineup is making.
“It’s been an area of focus that we’ve had for the season, and the girls have worked really hard,” Landrus said. “And they came out today and did some really good vaults.”
Just one week after her perfect vault, senior Amber See’s vault highlighted the lineup with a 9.875. This gave the senior a tie for third place while freshman Erin Buchanan tied for fifth with a 9.850. Despite the comeback, though, Illinois still trailed 98.575-97.825 halfway through the competition.
From there, the Illini moved on to floor, their best event of the night. Buchanan, See and sophomore Giana O’Connor each earned scores above 9.800 to contribute to the 49.100 team score. See anchored the event and again scored the team high with 9.875. Her performance gave her third on floor.
Illinois completed the night on the balance beam. Three of the gymnasts scored a 9.800, but the team’s 48.925 wasn’t enough to steal the win.
“Our sport is based on perfection, and we need to make sure that we’re very definitive in everything we do,” Landrus said Friday. “And unfortunately tonight, we just had little things that cost us in the end result.”
Ashley can be reached at [email protected] and @wijangco12.
BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois softball team went into the weekend 11-3 and came out 11-3, after five games were rained out in the Long Beach Invitational Tournament this weekend.
Illinois was supposed to play Oregon State, Utah Valley, Nevada, California State-Fuller-ton and No. 5 UCLA over a span of three days, but all their games were canceled because of heavy rainfall.
Friday’s matchups against Ore-gon State and Utah Valley were the first to be called off with wet field conditions not permitting the games. Saturday saw more can-
cellations against Nevada and Cal State Fullerton because of wet field conditions.
However, Illinois was able to schedule a game on Saturday afternoon against California-Santa Barbara on one of the oth-er fields, which at the time was deemed playable. The Illini were able to take a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Senior Alex Booker hit an RBI triple and sophomore Allie Bauch went 2-for-2 with a run scored.
Yet, after three innings of play, the game was called off because of large thunderstorms moving into the area. The two teams were unable to restart the game at a dif-ferent time. The game was not offi-
cial and the statistics earned will not count because the teams had not played five innings.
Sunday saw yet another new scheduling as Illinois was pitted against Long Beach State rath-er the previous matchup against UCLA. Long Beach State was com-ing into the Illinois game with hav-ing won its last two games in the tournament on Thursday against Nevada and Utah Valley before the weather canceled the remainder of the tournament for the team.
But the rain struck once again and forced another canceled game.
Charlotte can be reached at [email protected].
BY STEPHEN BOURBONSTAFF WRITER
For the Illinois women’s bas-ketball team, it was more of the same to end a frustrating regu-lar season.
Iowa (23-7, 11-5 Big Ten) over-powered Illinois in an 81-56 victo-ry to push the Illini’s losing streak to 10 games.
The Orange and Blue (9-20, 2-14) finished the season without a win at home in the conference season — the team’s last win at State Farm Center came on Dec. 21 against Tennessee-Martin.
“They were better than us today,” head coach Matt Bollant said. “They moved the ball really well, they shot the ball really well. They did a lot well on the offen-sive end.”
Iowa used early runs of 12-3 and 15-5 to push to lead to 20 before finishing the first half with a 40-22 advantage. The lead swelled to 35 points with 10 minutes left in the second half as Iowa’s crisp ball movement to dissect the Illinois defense.
The Hawkeyes recorded assists on 20 of 27 made baskets, led by their Swiss Army knife Saman-
tha Logic.Logic leads the team on the sea-
son in points, rebounds, assists and steals and put together another all-around performance Sunday. The junior put up 12 points, seven rebounds and five assists to go with three steals. Theairra Taylor led Iowa with 17 points.
Early on, Iowa tried to shoot Illinois out of its trapping zone defense, but it was shots inside the arc that hurt the Illini. In the first half, the Hawkeyes were 9-for-10 from two-point range, while they were 5-for-15 from beyond the line for a 56 percent clip overall.
Sunday was the final home game for the team’s lone senior Amber Moore, and she recorded 14 points. Moore finishes as the Illini career all-time leader in 3-pointers with 291 makes. Moore checked out with 51.8 seconds to a standing ovation.
“It’s just weird that I’m done playing here,” Moore said. “That’s just something that I’ll cherish, playing here.”
Offensive struggles continued for Illinois. The Illini hold an 8-2 record this season when topping 70 points but haven’t hit that mark
since Jan. 15 against Northwest-ern. The team shot 37.5 percent from the field and 19 turnovers hindered Illinois’ offensive pro-ductivity. The Illini normally dom-inate the turnover margin, lead-ing the conference with a plus-5.5 margin coming into the game, but were minus six in the turnover bat-tle Sunday.
Jacqui Grant made her return for the Illini after sitting out the past six games with mononucle-osis. Grant finished with sev-en points and one rebound in 20 minutes.
“Obviously, she didn’t look phys-ically back,” Bollant said. “It’s tough being out for three weeks, so hopefully today will help her for Thursday. Mono is a tough thing to come back from.”
One bright spot for the Illini was Ivory Crawford, who broke the 1,000-point barrier on a layup with 3:41 remaining. Crawford is the 27th player to achieve the feat and the 15th to do so in three seasons.
Stephen can be reached at [email protected] and @steve_bourbon.
Illini win hurts Spartans’ Big Ten title hopes
JOSEPH J LEE THE DAILY ILLINI Michigan State’s Breslin Center has 13 Big Ten title banners in the rafters. The Spartans likely won’t add a 14th after a loss to Illinois.
DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI Illinois’ Amber Moore drives the ball against Iowa at State Farm Center on Sunday. Sunday‘s loss was Moore’s final game at State Farm Center. She ends her career as Illinois’ all-time leader in 3-pointers made.
Illini end regular season on a 10-game losing streak
Softball returns from California without playing an official game after 5 matches are canceled
Women’s gymnastics comes up short vs. No. 2 ranked Sooners
Michigan on Tuesday. Illinois has numerous resume-build-ing opportunities left in No. 16 Michigan, a matchup with No. 20 Iowa on the road to end the
regular season, and the Big Ten tournament.
“We’re getting on a roll right now,” Joseph Bertrand said Thursday. “Hopefully we can win the Big Ten tournament and go on from there.”
At the time, this quote from Bertrand seemed like player
speak and understandable confi-dence in his own team. But now, who knows? Maybe he’s right.
Michael is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @The_MDubb.
Despite making seven percent-age points higher than its season average from the field, Illinois turned the ball over 15 times and made just three of its seven free
throw attempts.Rice, who Groce admits car-
ried the team for much of the sea-son, said he’s noticed his team-mates stepping up on both ends of the court and he sees even more room for growth.
“It feels good to have guys step up,” Rice said. “By the end of the
season, we’re playing our best basketball. We’re finally start-ing to figure it out.
“When people step up and con-tribute, you get results like this.”
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“Our sport is based on perfection and we
need to make sure that we’re very definitive in
everything we do.”KIM LANDRUS
WOMEN’S GYMANSTICS HEAD COACH
The NFL requires a player be three years removed from his senior year in high school to
be eligible for the draft.The rule doesn’t require that
those three years be spent in col-lege, but it’s more than likely they are.
It makes the average age of NFL draft eligible players around 21.
The NBA requires players to only be one year removed from high school. As a result, the NBA has a number of players that are barely 19.
This discrepancy in age causes problems.
Most glaring is the quality of play and lack of developed play-ers. It’s not fair to compare foot-ball and basketball players. It
may not even be completely fair to compare juniors and seniors entering the draft to freshmen.
There is still one thing that cannot be ignored: time.
Even if a college football play-er redshirts one season, he still has three years in a college sys-tem. That’s three years spent learning the game; three years growing into and developing his body.
Granted there are physical specimen in college basketball and football that could probably jump right into their respective professional leagues, the real-ity is that they are few and far between.
A lot of players could benefit from more time at the collegiate level.
NBA general managers have used the term “upside” ad nau-seam. Upside is their justifica-tion for drafting — and to some point convincing — college kids to the NBA after one year on the
collegiate level. They float this word around in hopes the player will develop into whatever vision they have created. If it doesn’t look promising after a few years, management quietly dismisses them. After all, it is a business.
Is there some specific work-out regiment for these players with upside? Is constant individ-ual attention placed into these players daily to assure they are developing like you would have at the college level?
Just a guess, but I’m going to say no. A multi-million dollar organization doesn’t have time to tend to the development of one player between balancing pay-roll, game preparations and man-aging the super egos that exist.
The end result: a lesser qual-ity of play that is evident in the arena.
Maturity becomes a question when allowing these 19-year-olds in the NBA.
Obviously, there is no scale to
measure maturity. The conversa-tion can go on forever, but there is no debating that 19 is 19.
Consider the timeline of events in a 12-13 month span for some of these kids. They go from prom to the dorms to signing a multi-mil-lion dollar contract.
Many of these young players have never had a job or an apart-ment, and now they’re asked to manage millions. Staying in school three years doesn’t guar-antee a different outcome. Three years away from home with responsibility could make a dif-ference, though.
It’s no secret that money man-agement is an issue among ath-letes. I’d argue that 19-year old millionaires are the most volatile taking into account their lack of maturity and life skills.
Between the awe of more mon-ey than they’ve ever seen, bad investments, family, entourage and maintaining a lifestyle they assume they’re supposed to live,
the money goes quickly.If the player doesn’t make
good on his “upside” and is released, what’s next for him?
An argument that’s been pick-ing up steam these past few months is changing the rule to two or three years removed from high school, effectively requir-ing the players to be nearly 21 to jump to the NBA.
There are some — Kentucky’s coach John Calipari — who believe it would be effective to change the age limit if the ath-letes were paid. That’s an entire-ly different discussion altogether.
An interesting note that favors raising the age limit came from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Cuban argues that it is ques-tionable whether a lot of these one-and-done players actual-ly go to class. There is also the hypocrisy of categorizing one-and-done players as student-ath-letes if they only go to class for a
semester.Raising the age limit not only
raises the quality of play, but it puts more students in positions to earn degrees. Even if the mini-mum were two years, it would allow the student-athlete to com-plete half of his degree, leaving the door open should he decide to complete it later.
As far as the college basketball landscape, it could have great effects there as well. Two or three years with top-level talent make it easier to build programs. It may also level the recruiting scene. Players won’t make their choice based solely on jumping straight to the NBA, but over-all what program allows them to excel and grow into an adult.
The NBA’s new commissioner Adam Silver will have his hands full sorting through this one.
Spencer is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Eastern Michigan’s players used their sticks more as weap-ons than instruments for playing hockey this weekend.
Heated words turned into slashes, and slashes turned into shoving back-and-forth between the Eagles (13-24-3) and the No. 18 Illini (21-17-2), who defeated Eastern Michigan in both games.
Officials handed out 94 com-bined penalty minutes to the two teams during Illinois’ week-end sweep, with the majority shared between Eastern Michi-gan brothers Bobby Gasser and Tony Gasser (49 combined pen-alty minutes).
Referees ejected Eagles cap-tain Bobby Gasser from Satur-day’s game after amassing 23 penalty minutes and refusing to lessen his aggression late in the game with the Illini already up 5-1. His younger brother, Tony, was ejected from Friday’s con-test with 16 penalty minutes after he swung his stick at Illini fans above the penalty box.
“That’s way too far, and it’s inappropriate,” Illinois defense-man Cody von Rueden said of the incident. “Fans are here because they’re fans and love the game. It was just absolutely unaccept-able. Fans and players do inter-act, especially here since this is one of the craziest places to play in the ACHA, but that’s definitely not needed. I’m happy that guy got kicked out.”
The fragile emotions on the ice led to a high, blindsided hit on Illini defenseman Austin Zima early in the third period Friday night, leaving the freshman lay-ing face-down on the ice for more than five minutes.
Zima was diagnosed with a concussion after being lifted off the ice by assistant captain Matt Welch and an Illini trainer. It’s his fourth concussion in just two years.
“I don’t think Zima ever saw him coming,” Illini head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “Whenever you see anybody down on the ice, it’s upsetting and alarming. It was nice to see him sit up.”
Zima said he will visit with
doctors Monday morning to eval-uate the extent of his concussion and find out if he can play in Illi-nois’ opening round game against No. 15 Arizona this Thursday in the ACHA National Tournament.
Freshman forward Matt Flo-si, who’s known for being Illi-nois’ agitator on the ice, said he thought this weekend’s physical-ity was taken to a further extent than necessary.
“I think there was a little intent to injure out there and that’s the kind of stuff you don’t need on the ice,” Flosi said. “There’s a differ-ence between going out there and trying to make a big hit on some-body and trying to injure them and take them out of the game. I think that’s just unacceptable.”
Illinois outshot the Eagles 101-39 throughout the weekend on its way to a 7-0 shutout Friday and a 7-1 win Saturday. In a pair of one-sided games that didn’t affect Illinois’ league standings, Fabbrini said the Illini aimed to treat the series like any oth-er, but were conscious of risky plays.
“We obviously don’t want to back down and be physical-ly intimidated,” Fabbrini said. “(Our team) is a tight-knit group and guys want to stick up for each other. I’m all in favor of that, but it’s got to be within the flow and the context of the game.”
Fabbrini said he reminded the Illini to not lose composure throughout the weekend.
“It was just important for us to remember that we have a huge game on Thursday,” Fab-brini said. “We need everybody healthy and everybody eligible to play.”
Just a few days before the national tournament, Illinois is now facing the possibility of entering the tournament down a defenseman who’s played nearly every game this season.
“Hockey is a physical game, and it can get cheap and get nas-ty,” von Rueden said. “You can get injured every time you step onto the ice.”
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Illinois sweeps pair of games vs. Eastern Michigan over weekend
MICHAEL BOJDA THE DAILY ILLINIAustin Bostock (22) is helped off the ice after a slash in the first period of Saturday night’s game at the Ice Arena that resulted in two minor penalties to Eastern Michigan’s aggressive Gasser brothers.
Increased NBA age limit would give players time to matureSPENCER BROWN
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