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INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B | Sudoku 4B THE DAILY ILLINI WEDNESDAY March 12, 2014 30˚ | 12˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 92 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER The Illinois State Board of Higher Education has indicat- ed that a 12.5 percent cut in state funding to state universi- ties may be foreseeable in the next year, University spokes- man Tom Hardy said. “Nothing has been settled or determined yet,” Hardy said. “This is a possibility. It would have a broad impact if it hap- pens, but it is important to say that it is very preliminary.” The potential cut to the Uni- versity’s funding would come as a result of the expiration of a temporary income tax increase that is set to end in January, Hardy said. In Fiscal Year 2014, the University is set to receive $647 million from the state of Illinois, the same total as FY2013. With a $647 million appropriation, a 12.5 percent cut would mean the University would lose out on $80 million annually. Over the past five years, the appropriation has dropped from $697 million to $647 million, a $50 million, or sev- en percent, decrease. Rev- enue from state appropria- tions accounts for 14.5 percent of the University’s overall budget. In his address to the Urba- na-Champaign Senate on Mon- day, Roy Campbell, Senate Executive Committee chair- man, discussed steps senate leaders and administration will take to counter potential budgetary difficulties, spe- cifically in regard to pension reform costs and cuts to state funding. Campbell emphasized the importance of shared gov- ernance in this process. “It is not necessarily pos- sible that we can give you our instant comments on this, because sometimes it can get very complicated, but those discussions do exist,” he said to faculty senators. Chancellor Phyllis Wise also addressed concerns about pen- sion and state funding in her remarks to the senate. “It is very important to con- sider in the face of the uncer- tainties related to the pen- sion that the administration is working really hard to try and figure out ways that we can have fringe benefits that are very comparable and com- petitive with our peers,” Wise said. “The possible sun setting of the income tax that was sup- posed to happen at the end of 2014 is something that we have to plan for and make sure that we have accommodations to deal with that very substan- tial cut in our budget.” The University will know whether the cut in state fund- ing will be occur in May after the governor and state leg- islators decide whether to extend the temporary tax increase. The State Board of Higher Education does not have a final say regarding the income tax but plays an advisory role in the decision. “The State Board of Higher Education does planning and recommendations and devel- ops budgetary parameters to the governor,” Hardy said. MaryCate can be reached at [email protected]. UI preparing for potential funding cuts BY JESSICA RAMOS STAFF WRITER Several students who took part in the silent protest Being Black at Illinois met with University offi- cials on Monday in an effort to address race issues on campus. During the meeting, students voiced their concerns to Renee Romano, vice chancellor for stu- dent affairs, and Charles Tuck- er, vice provost for undergrad- uate education and innovation. They expressed that they want more than a dis- cussion — they want action. Students were primarily con- cerned that the University does not require any form of diversi- ty education for graduation, an issue that Roma- no said falls in Tucker’s purview. “I always think it’s important to hear from students about their experiences because until you hear it directly from a person, you can’t really appreciate what they’re talking about,” Romano said. Helen Neville, counseling psy- chology chair in the College of Education, said issues of racial microaggression — a theory that interaction between people of dif- ferent races can be interpreted as acts of nonphysical aggression — can affect students psychological- ly. She said she supports students in their efforts to address racial climate issues on campus. “I know how difficult and chal- lenging that could be,” she said. “As a faculty (member), I am com- mitted to creating a campus cli- mate in which all students feel as though they are respect- ed and valued members of the community.” Neville said it is important that students begin to articu- late and define their experi- ences. This would conse- quently edu- cate the cam- pus by showing that racism still happens, and it could begin to bridge the gap between racial communities on campus, she said. “We need to push for ways to establish meaningful connec- tions and interactions across racial groups that create a per- sonal, meaningful relationship,“ Neville said. To be more informed, Neville recommends students take cours- es dealing with topics of diversi- ty, a suggestion students made to Romano and Tucker. Some of Neville’s research focuses on black racial identity. She has found that experiences with racial microaggression can have a negative effect on a per- son’s psychosocial well-being. Through meta-analysis, a meth- od that hopes to identify patterns within studies, she has found that there is a relationship between perceived racism and higher lev- els of depression. Neville is interested in finding ways to overcome this. She said addressing the concern through activism and providing social sup- port can be helpful. “It’s important to address it (the issue of racial microagression) ... to acknowledge that it actually happens,” she said. “People try to create an ideology that race doesn’t matter, it’s not important. What we know, and another part of our research, is that it’s not true.” Neville also said the Univer- sity should focus on increasing the representation of the black community. Black students currently com- prise about 5 percent of the cam- pus’ student population, accord- ing to the Division of Management Information. The most recent data compiled in the 2007 cohort from DMI states that black students hold the lowest six-year retention rate at 71.9 percent. The students involved in Being Black at Illinois will continue sharing experiences of racial acts of microaggression through posters while their mouths remain taped shut on the Quad for the rest of the week. Neville said the silent state- ment helps to increase people’s awareness about students’ expe- riences, as it puts a face to some of the experiences so that people can develop a sense of empathy. “It’s empowering for students to name their experiences,” she said. “It can inspire (people) ... to also take a stand.” Romano said the group of stu- dents agreed to have further con- versations regarding inclusivi- ty. The students plan to regroup and discuss their next step. She expressed that listening to their experiences and getting a sense of their experiences on campus was a good idea. Jessica can be reached at [email protected]. Student protesters address racial inclusivity with faculty BY ANDREW YOON CONTRIBUTING WRITER A popular campus restaurant will be forced to shut down on March 21, after failing to meet contractual obligations with the Illini Union. The restaurant, Crepe De Licious, opened in the Illini Union food court in July 2010 and has become popular because of its unique menu and fresh ingredients. Lori Holmes, manager of ven- dor contracts at the union, said they are terminating the con- tract because of business rea- sons, despite the restaurant’s popularity. “I would be happy for him to stay,” she said. “He’s not doing a bad job — he just hasn’t met the standards of his contract. “We have sent him several warnings, but if you don’t meet the obligations, you are breaking the contract.” Owner Rakesh Chopra started the business after he approached the Canadian company about opening a chain in Urbana, but he eventually made his own vari- ation of the restaurant to retain creative control over the menu and ingredients. After a health decline in 2012, Chopra gave up management to local business owners. When he returned in the summer of 2013, he found that the restaurant was six months behind in paying rent and utilities, Chopra said. “At fi rst, (the Illini Union Board and) I agreed to pay $500 a week to catch up in what I was behind in,” Chopra said, “And then they started asking me to speed up the payments.” Chopra said he didn’t want to raise prices on his food to keep- up in the increased payments for the student’s sake. “It’s the student first, business second,” he said. “Higher sales don’t necessarily mean higher profitability. I have made-to- order fresh quality ingredients for an economical price for stu- dents. Quality ingredients means a higher food cost. I serve free coffee and tea to any student — even those who do not buy anything.” Crepe De Licious is the only restaurant in the food court that serves a Muslim menu with “Halal” food, and this is one of the reasons why Fera Moham- ad, junior in LAS, toyed with the idea of starting a petition to keep the restaurant open. “There is no hesitation buy- ing food from here since the price is so low and the taste is very good,” she said. “The owner takes the time to remember stu- dents as well, and this encourag- es me to come here more.” Chopra intends to leave cam- pus on good terms and thanks his customers for their contin- ual support. “As a small business owner, I may not have the backup of the larger corporations, but I have my students, who are like my kids, backing me up. That itself may not save my store, but the support really touches me. I want to thank all the stu- dents who have patronized Crepe De Licious and wish all of them well.” Andrew can be reached at [email protected]. Crepe De Licious, restaurant in Illini Union, to close March 21 BY ELEANOR BLACK STAFF WRITER With one week until the Illi- nois general primary, the ear- ly voting station located in the Illini Union opened Tuesday at 10 a.m. It is one of eight early voting locations in Champaign County and is mandated by law as the campus early voting location, said Gordy Hulten, Champaign County Clerk. “The nice thing about the early voting location in the Illini Union is that any vot- er (registered in Champaign County) can vote there no mat- ter where they live,” Hulten said. “So they don’t have to fig- ure out where to vote, they can just go to the Union.” This applies to all early vot- ing locations, which election judges David “Dutch” Pow- ell, of Champaign, and David Hickman, of Savoy, said has Early voting open for business in Illini Union University could lose out on $80 million reward from budget PORTRAIT OF AJA BECKHAM BY KEVIN VONGNAPHONE BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINI Julio Luna prepares a crepe at Crepe De Licious in the basement of the Illini Union on Tuesday. The restaurant is set to close this semester. SEE EARLY VOTING | 3A DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT U.S. News and World Report’s rankings for 2015 were issued Tuesday, placing the University in a six-way tie at 41st for nation- al universities, maintaining the school’s ranking from last year. The other schools tied with the university were Boston Univer- sity, Lehigh University, Rens- selaer Polytechnic Institute, University of California San- ta Barbara and University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a three-way tie with Califor- nia and Wisconsin, the university ranked 11th among public univer- sities, also no change from last year’s ranking. Other rankings for the univer- sity in the report included com- ing in sixth for best engineering graduate school, 26th for edu- cation graduate school, 35th for business graduate school and 40th for law schools. Princeton University, Harvard University and Yale University rounded out the top three spots, respectively, on the National Uni- versity ranking list. “We know that prospective stu- dents pay attention to rankings, and it’s always nice when they recognize our excellence,” said Robin Kaler, University spokes- woman in an email. “However, they do not represent the met- rics by which we measure our success and impact.” UI holds onto No. 41 rank 0RUH RQOLQH For more information regarding the protest and faculty meetings, visit DailyIllini.com. “We need to push for ways to es- tablish meaning- ful connections across racial groups.” HELEN NEVILLE, COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY CHAIR Tuesday’s numbers suggest a higher turnout than normal for a primary LEAVING HIS MARK ON THE ILLINI As Illinois turns its focus to the Big Ten Tournament, Jon Ekey reflects on his season in Champaign. LIFE & CULTURE, 6A SPORTS, 1B Dining hall workers emigrate from Greece, find balance Dimitris and Maria Yfantis enjoy keeping busy while working for the University.

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BY MARYCATE MOSTSTAFF WRITER

The Illinois State Board of Higher Education has indicat-ed that a 12.5 percent cut in state funding to state universi-ties may be foreseeable in the next year, University spokes-man Tom Hardy said.

“Nothing has been settled or determined yet,” Hardy said. “This is a possibility. It would have a broad impact if it hap-pens, but it is important to say that it is very preliminary.”

The potential cut to the Uni-versity’s funding would come as a result of the expiration of a temporary income tax increase that is set to end in January, Hardy said.

In Fiscal Year 2014, the University is set to receive $647 million from the state of Illinois, the same total as FY2013. With a $647 million appropriation, a 12.5 percent cut would mean the University would lose out on $80 million annually.

Over the past fi ve years, the appropriation has dropped from $697 million to $647 million, a $50 million, or sev-en percent, decrease. Rev-enue from state appropria-tions accounts for 14.5 percent of the University’s overall budget.

In his address to the Urba-na-Champaign Senate on Mon-day, Roy Campbell, Senate Executive Committee chair-man, discussed steps senate leaders and administration will take to counter potential budgetary diffi culties, spe-cifi cally in regard to pension reform costs and cuts to state funding. Campbell emphasized

the importance of shared gov-ernance in this process.

“It is not necessarily pos-sible that we can give you our instant comments on this, because sometimes it can get very complicated, but those discussions do exist,” he said to faculty senators.

Chancellor Phyllis Wise also addressed concerns about pen-sion and state funding in her remarks to the senate.

“It is very important to con-sider in the face of the uncer-tainties related to the pen-sion that the administration is working really hard to try and fi gure out ways that we can have fringe benefi ts that are very comparable and com-petitive with our peers,” Wise said. “The possible sun setting of the income tax that was sup-posed to happen at the end of 2014 is something that we have to plan for and make sure that we have accommodations to deal with that very substan-tial cut in our budget.”

The University will know whether the cut in state fund-ing will be occur in May after the governor and state leg-islators decide whether to extend the temporary tax increase.

The State Board of Higher Education does not have a fi nal say regarding the income tax but plays an advisory role in the decision.

“The State Board of Higher Education does planning and recommendations and devel-ops budgetary parameters to the governor,” Hardy said.

MaryCate can be reached at [email protected].

UI preparing for potential funding cuts

BY JESSICA RAMOSSTAFF WRITER

Several students who took part in the silent protest Being Black at Illinois met with University offi -cials on Monday in an effort to address race issues on campus.

During the meeting, students voiced their concerns to Renee Romano, vice chancellor for stu-dent affairs, and Charles Tuck-er, vice provost for undergrad-uate education and innovation. They expressed that they want more than a dis-cussion — they want action.

Students were primarily con-cerned that the University does not require any form of diversi-ty education for graduation, an issue that Roma-no said falls in Tucker’s purview.

“I always think it’s important to hear from students about their experiences because until you hear it directly from a person, you can’t really appreciate what they’re talking about,” Romano said.

Helen Neville, counseling psy-chology chair in the College of Education, said issues of racial microaggression — a theory that interaction between people of dif-

ferent races can be interpreted as acts of nonphysical aggression — can affect students psychological-ly. She said she supports students in their efforts to address racial climate issues on campus.

“I know how diffi cult and chal-lenging that could be,” she said. “As a faculty (member), I am com-mitted to creating a campus cli-mate in which all students feel

as though they are respect-ed and valued members of the community.”

Neville said it is important that students begin to articu-late and defi ne their experi-ences. This would conse-quently edu-cate the cam-pus by showing that racism still happens, and it could begin to

bridge the gap between racial communities on campus, she said.

“We need to push for ways to establish meaningful connec-tions and interactions across racial groups that create a per-sonal, meaningful relationship,“ Neville said.

To be more informed, Neville recommends students take cours-es dealing with topics of diversi-ty, a suggestion students made to Romano and Tucker.

Some of Neville’s research focuses on black racial identity. She has found that experiences with racial microaggression can have a negative effect on a per-son’s psychosocial well-being. Through meta-analysis, a meth-od that hopes to identify patterns within studies, she has found that there is a relationship between perceived racism and higher lev-els of depression.

Neville is interested in fi nding ways to overcome this. She said addressing the concern through activism and providing social sup-port can be helpful.

“It’s important to address it (the issue of racial microagression) ... to acknowledge that it actually happens,” she said. “People try to create an ideology that race doesn’t matter, it’s not important. What we know, and another part of our research, is that it’s not true.”

Neville also said the Univer-sity should focus on increasing the representation of the black community.

Black students currently com-prise about 5 percent of the cam-pus’ student population, accord-ing to the Division of Management Information. The most recent data compiled in the 2007 cohort from DMI states that black students hold the lowest six-year retention rate at 71.9 percent.

The students involved in Being Black at Illinois will continue sharing experiences of racial acts of microaggression through posters while their mouths remain

taped shut on the Quad for the rest of the week.

Neville said the silent state-ment helps to increase people’s awareness about students’ expe-riences, as it puts a face to some of the experiences so that people can develop a sense of empathy.

“It’s empowering for students to name their experiences,” she said. “It can inspire (people) ... to also take a stand.”

Romano said the group of stu-dents agreed to have further con-versations regarding inclusivi-ty. The students plan to regroup and discuss their next step. She expressed that listening to their experiences and getting a sense of their experiences on campus was a good idea.

Jessica can be reached at [email protected].

Student protesters address racial inclusivity with faculty

BY ANDREW YOONCONTRIBUTING WRITER

A popular campus restaurant will be forced to shut down on March 21, after failing to meet contractual obligations with the Illini Union.

The restaurant, Crepe De Licious, opened in the Illini Union food court in July 2010 and has become popular because of its unique menu and fresh ingredients.

Lori Holmes, manager of ven-dor contracts at the union, said they are terminating the con-tract because of business rea-sons, despite the restaurant’s popularity.

“I would be happy for him to stay,” she said. “He’s not doing a bad job — he just hasn’t met the standards of his contract.

“We have sent him several

warnings, but if you don’t meet the obligations, you are breaking the contract.”

Owner Rakesh Chopra started the business after he approached the Canadian company about opening a chain in Urbana, but he eventually made his own vari-ation of the restaurant to retain creative control over the menu and ingredients.

After a health decline in 2012, Chopra gave up management to local business owners. When he returned in the summer of 2013, he found that the restaurant was six months behind in paying rent and utilities, Chopra said.

“At fi rst, (the Illini Union Board and) I agreed to pay $500 a week to catch up in what I was behind in,” Chopra said, “And then they started asking me to speed up the payments.”

Chopra said he didn’t want to raise prices on his food to keep-up in the increased payments for the student’s sake.

“It’s the student fi rst, business second,” he said. “Higher sales don’t necessarily mean higher profi tability. I have made-to-order fresh quality ingredients for an economical price for stu-dents. Quality ingredients means a higher food cost. I serve free coffee and tea to any student — even those who do not buy anything.”

Crepe De Licious is the only restaurant in the food court that serves a Muslim menu with “Halal” food, and this is one of the reasons why Fera Moham-ad, junior in LAS, toyed with the idea of starting a petition to keep the restaurant open.

“There is no hesitation buy-

ing food from here since the price is so low and the taste is very good,” she said. “The owner takes the time to remember stu-dents as well, and this encourag-es me to come here more.”

Chopra intends to leave cam-pus on good terms and thanks his customers for their contin-ual support.

“As a small business owner, I may not have the backup of the larger corporations, but I have my students, who are like my kids, backing me up. That itself may not save my store, but the support really touches me. I want to thank all the stu-dents who have patronized Crepe De Licious and wish all of them well.”

Andrew can be reached at [email protected].

Crepe De Licious, restaurant in Illini Union, to close March 21

BY ELEANOR BLACKSTAFF WRITER

With one week until the Illi-nois general primary, the ear-ly voting station located in the Illini Union opened Tuesday at 10 a.m. It is one of eight early voting locations in Champaign County and is mandated by law as the campus early voting location, said Gordy Hulten, Champaign County Clerk.

“The nice thing about the early voting location in the

Illini Union is that any vot-er (registered in Champaign County) can vote there no mat-ter where they live,” Hulten said. “So they don’t have to fi g-ure out where to vote, they can just go to the Union.”

This applies to all early vot-ing locations, which election judges David “Dutch” Pow-ell, of Champaign, and David Hickman, of Savoy, said has

Early voting open for business in Illini Union

University could lose out on$80 million reward from budget

PORTRAIT OF AJA BECKHAM BY KEVIN VONGNAPHONE

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIJulio Luna prepares a crepe at Crepe De Licious in the basement of the Illini Union on Tuesday. The restaurant is set to close this semester.

SEE EARLY VOTING | 3A

DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTU.S. News and World Report’s

rankings for 2015 were issued Tuesday, placing the University in a six-way tie at 41st for nation-al universities, maintaining the school’s ranking from last year .

The other schools tied with the university were Boston Univer-sity, Lehigh University, Rens-selaer Polytechnic Institute, University of California San-ta Barbara and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In a three-way tie with Califor-nia and Wisconsin, the university ranked 11th among public univer-sities, also no change from last year’s ranking.

Other rankings for the univer-

sity in the report included com-ing in sixth for best engineering graduate school, 26th for edu-cation graduate school, 35th for business graduate school and 40th for law schools.

Princeton University, Harvard University and Yale University rounded out the top three spots, respectively, on the National Uni-versity ranking list.

“We know that prospective stu-dents pay attention to rankings, and it’s always nice when they recognize our excellence,” said Robin Kaler, University spokes-woman in an email. “However, they do not represent the met-rics by which we measure our success and impact.”

UI holds onto No. 41 rank

For more information regarding the

protest and faculty meetings, visit DailyIllini.com.

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“We need to push for ways to es-

tablish meaning-ful connections

across racial groups.”

HELEN NEVILLE,COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY CHAIR

Tuesday’s numbers suggest a higher turnout than normal for a primary

LEAVING HIS MARK ON THE ILLINIAs Illinois turns its focus to the Big Ten Tournament, Jon Ekey refl ects on his season in Champaign.LIFE & CULTURE, 6A

SPORTS, 1B

Dining hall workers emigrate from Greece, fi nd balance

Dimitris and Maria Yfantis enjoy keeping busy while working

for the University.

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Today’s Birthday (03/12/14).Mars enters Aries today (until 4/20), providing an energy boost to launch your next year. It comes in handy, with all this creativity propagating. Play with passion projects, revise routines for efficiency at home and work, and enjoy young people. Summer gets romantic, and a career leap in August occupies your energy. Relax regularly. Keep love in focus.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 5 — A surge of power and energy accompanies Mars in Aries (until 4/20). Don’t steamroll anyone with your feisty enthusiasm. Today and tomorrow seem lucky and playful. Keep it respectful, and play full out. Push your favorite game forward.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is a 5 — Attend to domestic projects today and tomorrow, with a surge of creative energy. Keep it manageable. Mars moves into Aries today (until 4/20), providing a power boost.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)Today is a 7 — Graceful communications serve you well today and tomorrow. Ignore a rude remark. Keep track of all

expenditures, and stick to your budget. Friends help move the ball forward, with extra energy (now that Mars is in Aries).

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)Today is an 8 — The most expensive choice isn’t always the most beautiful. Today and tomorrow business booms, especially with Mars in Aries (until 4/20), for added oomph. It gets pro! table and exciting.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)Today is an 8 — You’re strong and creative today and tomorrow. Pay your way, and ask for what you want. Tempers could get short. Don’t let it crimp your style. With Mars is in Aries (until 4/20), blast ahead with new energy.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)Today is a 7 — Today and tomorrow favor thinking and consideration over big action, although Mars enters Aries today for a power-boost (until April 20). Compromise and plan the course. Listen to what your team says. Take a philosophical view.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)Today is a 7 — Fun with friends could either distract from work, or conversely, bene! t it. Your team inspires today and tomorrow. Your superpowers seem charged up, now that Mars is in Aries (until 4/20). Use them to clean a mess.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)Today is a 7 — Consider new opportunities today and tomorrow.

You’re attracting the attention of an important person. Take direction, and use it. Practice makes perfect. With Mars in Aries, extra energy abounds. A rise in status becomes available.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is a 6 — Plan for the future and schedule actions (including travel) over the next two days. Check your agenda. Clarify the request. Get lost in your studies. Wash everything in sight. There’s a trickle of cash.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)Today is a 7 — Mars moves into Aries, powering and energizing your next month. Join forces to get the funding you seek. Diplomacy’s useful here. Stay out of somebody else’s argument. Wheeling and dealing may be required. Discuss shared ! nances.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)Today is a 7 — Let others help today and tomorrow, especially with a new assignment. Compromise with your partner. Choose romance over righteousness. Be respectful, even as you jump into action with Mars in Aries (until 4/20). Don’t overpower. Collaborate.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)Today is an 8 — Dive into work with a month-long energy burst, as Mars enters Aries. Everything moves forward with more velocity... try not to run anyone over. Sort through feelings as they arise. Follow a female’s lead.

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Theft was reported on the 500 block of South Sixth Street at 11 a.m. Monday.

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had their laptop stolen from the residence.

Aggravated battery was reported near White and Sixth streets at 10:30 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, an unknown offender battered the victim while she walked down the sidewalk.

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already affected early voting numbers. Last year they had 19 total voters at the Union location for the entire week; by the end of the day Tuesday, they had 39.

These voters were a mixture of upperclassmen, graduate students, faculty members and other University workers, Pow-ell and Hickman said. Powell added that early voting usually does not see a large number of younger students because they may still be registered in their hometowns.

“Today is surprising; on mid-terms and primaries you don’t see a lot of voting in gener-al,” Powell said. “You expect the vote to turn out to be well below the 35 percent, which is the average for a presidential election.”

He said voter turnout for mid-terms and primaries is typi-cally around 15 percent, but he believes this year’s primary may see a higher turnout based on Tuesday’s attendance.

Hulten said that compared to voting on Election Day, vot-ing early has a multitude of benefi ts.

“If you vote early, you don’t have to worry about something happening on Election Day that could prevent you from vot-ing,” Hulten said. “If there is, for some reason, a problem with your voter registration or a mis-take has been made on your vot-er registration or you need to

update some information, if you fi nd that out during early vot-ing there’s probably still time to fi x it.”

Both Powell and Hickman said early voting helps lessen the traffi c at some polling sta-tions. One big difference when voting early is that identifi ca-tion and address verifi cation is required, Powell said.

One early voter, James Quisenberry, associate direc-tor of Housing for Technology Services at the University, said early voting provides conve-nience benefits. He said some people may not be able to get away from work on Election Day, so having hours the week before, including on Saturday, allows more opportunities for voters.

The Union polling location will be operating from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Friday, and will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday.

“I believe strongly in early voting. I like the idea that vot-ing isn’t based on one particu-lar day. As many people as we can get to vote as possible is good,” he said. “Having this week where anybody can come to the Union and vote is great.”

Four polling places will open on campus for the March 18 pri-mary and will operate from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. The location peo-ple are able to vote at depends on the address provided when they registered to vote.

Eleanor can be reached at [email protected].

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BY CLAIRE HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

University research suggests that one gene in particular plays a role in how well a person recov-ers from a traumatic brain injury.

Aron Barbey, study leader and professor of speech and hearing science, psychology and neurosci-ence, explained that patients with different variations of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene react differently to brain injury.

The variants involve a change in either the valine or methionine amino acids in this gene. The gene combinations are either Met/Met, Met/Val or Val/Val, depending on which genes were received from parents.

“What our fi ndings indicate is that if an individual has the Val/Val combination then their per-formance on a battery of cogni-tive tests was remarkably lower than that of individuals who had the Val/Met or Met/Met combina-tion,” he said.

This research found a molec-ular genetic marker predicting cognitive outcome following a brain injury. It shows that patients with certain genes will react to injuries in certain ways, and it predicts their recovery, Barbey said.

The participants of the study were found on the Vietnam Head Injury Study registry, which includes American male veterans who all suffered brain damage from penetrating head injuries during the Vietnam War. These veterans did not show any differ-ence in general intelligence prior to their brain injury.

After their injury however, those with the Val/Val gene vari-ant scored an average of eight points lower on general intelli-gence tests.

The brain-derived neurotroph-ic factor gene is involved with the growth factor and the production of new neurons in the brain, Bar-bey said. The study also consid-

ered the relationship between the gene variation and the preserva-tion of general intelligence after a traumatic brain injury. Gen-eral intelligence is measured by standardized tests of intelligence including verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory and processing speed.

Barbey said the research team was interested in understanding how individuals recover from trau matic brain injury because little is currently known. They wanted to study individuals with previous brain injuries and identi-fy specifi c principles that predict recovery or continued problems following traumatic brain injury.

Jim Monti, postdoctoral research associate at Beckman Institute, said there are three lev-els of traumatic brain injury — mild, moderate and severe. These are classifi ed by how long a per-son is unconscious — mild being zero to 30 minutes, moderate 30 minutes to 24 hours and severe

more than 24 hours, he said.He said brain injuries can

occur when any force acting on the body “causes the brain to rap-idly accelerate and decelerate.” He explained that these injuries can come from many situations ranging from a person falling and hitting their head, to the whiplash of a car accident or a bomb going off near a person.

“There is definitely grow-ing interest on our campus in doing (traumatic brain injury) research,” said Rachael Rubin, postdoctoral research associ-ate at Beckman Institute who is involved in traumatic brain inju-ry research.

She said her research seeks to revamp traumatic brain injury classifi cations. She said the cur-rent system of mild, moderate and severe has been used since the 1970s and is outdated. Things like concussions are considered a mild brain injury, and penetration of the brain is usually considered

severe, she said.“The term ‘mild’ is mislead-

ing, because there can actually be pretty severe consequences as a result,” Rubin said.

She said it would be better to characterize a range of brain inju-ries to better understand what impairments a patient has at neu-rological and behavioral levels.

“It is a challenge developing treatments and therapies for trau-matic brain injury just because there are so many different kinds of traumatic brain injuries that we are not always sure what the underlying cause is,” she said.

If the specifi c variant of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene is known, then treatment can be tailored to fi t the needs of the individual, Barbey said. A patient with the Val/Val combination, as the study found, is more likely to need treatment focused on their cognitive functioning ability.

“We want to understand ... what principles predict the kind of cog-

nitive impairments an individual might have following a brain inju-ry and the time course of those impairments, like how long and to what extent can individuals recover over time,” Barbey said.

He said patients may be test-ed in the future following a brain injury to see which gene variant they have and that this informa-tion may help guide clinical ther-apy and identify a specifi c treat-ment approach that is tailored to the needs of the patient.

“These fi ndings also empha-size the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to under-standing traumatic brain injury that incorporates neuroscience, psychology, molecular genetics, and medicine — to understand the mechanisms and treatment approaches that make recovery from traumatic brain injury pos-sible,” Barbey said in an email.

Claire can be reached at [email protected].

Study: Gene may infl uence brain injury recovery

BY ALEX SWANSONCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the Universi-ty of Illinois have began a study titled “INSIGHT” to study dif-ferent brain training methods to enhance human intelligence and reasoning.

The results of the INSIGHT study have the potential to enhance abstract and logical thinking through brain training. Beckman researchers are examining brain training methods in four catego-ries: cognitive, physical fi tness, neuroscience and nutritional.

Almost a year ago, President Barack Obama launched the BRAIN initiative and called on the scientifi c community to conduct research to further understanding of the human brain. The INSIGHT study aligns with the initiative’s goal to “better understand how we think, learn and remember.”

This study, along with the mul-titude of other cognitive research studies done at the Beckman Insti-tute, answers Obama’s call to bet-ter understand the human mind.

INSIGHT will be one of the larg-est scientifi c studies to examine fl uid intelligence. About 2,000 people will be organized into four categories to assist with research, according to Beckman Institute’s website. Beckman scientists expect the study to take place over a three-and-a-half year period.

The study is still seeking par-

ticipants between the ages of 18 and 44 to participate in training programs for 18 weeks to improve reasoning and problem solving skills. The sign up link is on the Beckman Institute’s website, and participants can receive up to $1,020 for participation.

University Speech and Hearing Sciences Professor Aron Barbey heads the INSIGHT study with co-investigators including Neal Cohen, Randall Engle, Wai-Tat Fu, Arthur Kramer and Aptima researcher Alexandra Geyer.

INSIGHT supports the Strength-ening Human Adaptive Reasoning and Problem-Solving Program, or SHARP, which is managed by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, and project manager Adam Russell.

“If brain training proves effec-tive in improving adaptive rea-soning and problem-solving, the INSIGHT project — along with the other SHARP projects — will help to highlight what works about brain training, why it works, if there are individual differences between people that make it more or less effective,” said Russell in an email. “Even if ... brain training does not prove effective, the proj-ect will have advanced the science to better inform future research in this area,” said Russel about the potential combined impact of SHARP and INSIGHT projects.

IARPA has funded the INSIGHT study with more than $12.7 mil-lion over the last several months,

according to Beckman Institute’s website.

Barbey has extensive experi-ence with human performance research as he has performed mul-tiple studies examining brain inju-ries in study participants to bet-ter understand cognitive function. Additionally, he has studied gen-eral intelligence’s relationship to social and emotional intelligence.

“Our goal is to develop evi-dence-based tools and methods that improve the quality of human judg-ment and reasoning in complex, real-world environments,” Barbey said.

In addition to the potential scien-tifi c and research related benefi ts of INSIGHT, the program also has a positive impact for the Universi-ty, as discussed by INSIGHT proj-ect manager Patty Jones.

“This study is a very cool exam-ple of the interdisciplinary collab-oration work Illinois can do,” Jones said.

Speech and Hearing Sciences Department Head Karen Kirk spoke about the positive impact of Barbey’s research on the depart-ment and the University.

“It’s a wonderful recognition for what goes on among our faculty — we’re very proud...” Kirk said. “It also provides an opportunity for our students to have our graduate students or from the campus as a whole get involved with cutting edge research.”

Barbey also said he thinks the study will positively affect the University.

“It’s great for Il linois,” Barbey said. “It once again shows high-quality inter-disciplinary collaborative research.”

Alex can be reached at [email protected].

Beckman Institute’s INSIGHT launches brain studyMore insight on INSIGHTINSIGHT stands for “An integrative system for enhancing fl uid intelligence (Gf) through human cognitive activity, fi tness, high-defi nition transcranial direct-current brain stimulation, and nutritional intervention.”

INSIGHT is a comprehensive brain training system that incorporates:1. An adaptive cognitive

training protocol2. An advanced, high intensity

aerobic and strength training program

3. High-defi nition transcranial direct-current brain stimulation

4. Nutritional supplementation for enhancement of neural plasticity and optimization of mental performance

SOURCE: ARON BARBEY, BECKMAN INSTITUTE

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

I’m a second semester freshman — already.It’s strange to think how time passes

so quickly, and how the same fear and excitement I had almost a year ago while visiting this campus has either amplified or evaporated. My perception of being a freshman college stu-dent versus actually being a freshman college student has shifted completely.

With Admitted Student Days spanning through the months of February to April at the Univer-sity, I cringe at the fact that I’m almost going to be a sophomore — a grade level which is often known as the “awkward” year; we aren’t con-sidered babies who are fresh to campus, but we aren’t experienced juniors or ruling seniors. We’re just, there. Living on campus and experi-encing college life for almost a year, though, has taught me a lot. Many of the myths my peers and I thought were true have transformed.

Myth 1: No one takes attendance in college — so you don’t have to go to class.

High school had always been an endless tor-ture of avoiding tardies and absences. As a high schooler, I used to look forward to being a col-lege student — being able to make my own deci-sions of when I want to go to class. A lot of class-es on campus, however, have teachers who do take attendance. Even in big lecture classes, we have i>Clickers, which tally who is there and who is not. And even if you do not care about i>Clicker points, because participation is a small grade, you definitely will not absorb the materi-

al in the same way as if you went to class. After all, textbooks and lecture slides are completely different for many teachers, and you will only break down the lecture slides in class. Personal-ly, the guilt kills me when I don’t go to class. My parent’s are paying thousands of dollars for me to attend, so by sleeping in and missing my mac-roeconomics class, I’ve just flushed their money down the drain.

Myth 2: You don’t get enough sleep.

I’ve spent many of my high school days with groggy eyes and a messy attire because I only got four hours of sleep the night before. And while it’s true that this happens in college too, there is something wonderful about not tak-ing back-to-back classes as I did in high school. Nothing is more satisfying than going back to my dorm and being able to nap. According to the Center of Advancing Health, just 8 percent of high school students get enough sleep. Most col-lege students, on the other hand, get between six and seven hours of sleep per night, which falls within the range of the recommended six to ten hours. With the flexibility of schedules and proper planning, it is possible to be awake in your classes and function properly during the day. By keeping a planner and timetable, you can schedule in hours to work, hours for break and hours to sleep. If you have major exams coming up, you should get a good night’s sleep instead of cramming information last minute. Regard-less of a college student’s busy schedule, getting enough sleep is possible.

Myth 3: You’ll be pressured into drinking.

We’ve constantly been told in high school, through our health education classes and par-ents, that we’ll be pressured into drinking. While

it’s true that we are exposed more to drink-ing culture, it’s not true that if we don’t suc-cumb to it then we won’t fit in. Of course, if a student is trying to befriend a certain friend group who does these activities, then it may be tough, as social pressure might get to them. But it comes down to choice and sensibility. We are put in such environments to test us and see how much we have learned from these lectures about drinking we’ve received. But in all honesty, I haven’t been pressured at all to succumb to any of these drinking activities. In fact, none of my friends have. If people want to drink, they’ll drink, if they don’t, then that’s acceptable too. It is a personal choice.

Myth 4: You don’t learn anything in large classes.

It can be difficult to learn anything in large classes. In fact, that’s why I avoided choos-ing some universities over others after hearing their class sizes. However, I’ve come to realize that that’s not the case. In every large class I’ve had at the University, I’ve had TAs who have discussion sections in which we go over class material. Professors also have office hours in which you can discuss questions and concerns. We also have technology where one email can clarify any misconception. Learning is up to you and how much effort you put in, but there are resources available at college at the end of the day.

Overall, freshman year has been an experi-ence — however, any of the preconceived notions I’ve held have changed, if not reversed. College is about personal choice and building your own lifestyle, one that fits you.

Simran is a freshman in Media. She can be reached at [email protected].

In the truest sense of chivalry and feminism, they just cannot coexist.

While I view chivalry as concerning itself with honorable and gallant behavior toward women, I believe feminism focuses on the impor-tance of advancing women’s rights as human rights. The actions of chivalry aren’t so much the issue, but the fact that a man feels the need to do something nice for someone solely because the individual is a woman is a problem.

I don’t think women need special treatment by men or in general, but they do deserve to be treated equally in all areas of everyday life, whether in terms of salary in comparison to men or having more women represented in politics.

But special treatment of women from the mac-ro-perspective, even in a seemingly harmless chivalrous sense, is still treating women differ-ently from men. Chivalry makes it seem as if there is something inherently unique about wom-en — such as the view that they are the weaker of the sexes — which causes men to treat them with special care.

For example, a man might perceive going out of his way to help a woman carry her heavy belongings as chivalrous. But to a woman, she might perceive this action as indicative of the man’s perception that she is physically weaker, despite her showing no signs of being weak or of needing help.

This situation can be extrapolated to other sit-

uations in which women are treated differently and often unfairly.

In another example, it is common knowledge that in the workplace, women are often not seen as leaders and therefore typically hold less pow-erful positions than men do. Even though females are just as capable as males at performing a vari-ety of work tasks, the perception of women as weaker and therefore incompetent may contrib-ute to them receiving fewer executive roles than men.

This notion that a woman should be treated in some special manner because she is of “the fairer sex,” or a fragile woman, is at the core of everything against feminism. However, this same idea is one of the main facets of modern day chivalry. It’s quite the oxymoron considering one goal of feminism is to promote the indepen-dence of women.

Like pretty much any other individual, a wom-an should be able to help herself. Doing things for a woman in consideration of her sex, despite her not expressing any desire to be helped, implies that she needs it. Therefore treating a woman differently because of her sex, to me, is a direct violation of her independence and the core of feminism.

The differentiation of the sexes that comes along with chivalry is already an issue in itself. Consider linguistic differences, such as when men refer to women as “fair.”

The connotation of “fair” places an emphasis on the physical traits of a woman, implying that they are “more delicate” than men. But how often do you hear a woman refer to a man as “fair?” You don’t: We use words such as handsome and strong instead.

Sure, referring to a woman as “fair” might be

justified in a chivalrous sense, but when we con-sider what sex we refer to as “fair” — women, not men — and what it places emphasis on — physi-cal characteristics — it automatically implies that men are the stronger and more able-bodied sex.

This is a problem because once you start dif-ferentiating the two sexes from a single charac-teristic, you open doors to differentiate them in other ways, too.

Since a goal of feminism is to realize that female capability equals male capability, plac-ing emphasis on the differences between men and women, which chivalry ends up doing, strays away from the core concepts of feminism.

Although chivalry might seem harmless, it isn’t excluded from the category of sexism as men’s behavior toward women indirectly puts them down. As described by an article from the American Psychological Association, “Portray-ing women as wonderful but childlike, incompe-tent, needing men to protect them, and therefore best suited for low status roles, benevolent sex-ism justifies gender inequality.”

Although chivalrous acts aren’t always car-ried out from the perspective of a man believ-ing he has authority over a woman, the intentions behind them hint at societal paradigms of misog-yny and women being weaker than men.

As long as these ideas of female incompetence are rooted in acts of chivalry, we will continue to see harmful distinctions made between the gen-ders, and subsequent actions that conflict with feminism will ensue.

Sehar is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @Nimatod.

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EDITORIALNew student trustee has good intentions but does not o!er any concrete plans

Freshman year could debunk preconceived college myths SIMRAN DEVIDASANI

Opinions columnist

L ucas Frye, the new student trustee, says he wants your voice to be heard among a cho-rus of 40,000 University of Illi-nois students.

Frye’s predecessor, Mike Cunning-ham, made similar promises to promote and increase student engagement (both began their terms wanting to build a consortium of registered student orga-nizations), but we haven’t seen it work yet.

The Daily Illini Editorial Board spoke with Frye on Monday night to learn more specifically what he plans to do now that’s he been elected. Frye’s cam-paign focused on this RSO forum, in which 20 to 30 student leaders from ma-jor organizations — such as the Inter-fraternity Council or the various cultur-al houses — would meet to give RSOs on campus a louder voice. Part of this ini-tiative includes creating a mechanism that would allow these RSOs, among other organizations on campus, to pres-ent their events calendars, making them widely available to students.

We think Frye is onto something here: It’s impossible to meet with the thou-sands of RSOs, which vary in size and popularity, and equitably represent them. But if we’re going to try, he said, let’s start with the major organizations on campus and go from there.

But the mere presence of an RSO fo-rum isn’t enough because students need to be incentivized to take advantage of it. Frye wants to give the Illinois Stu-dent Senate more visibility on the illi-nois.edu homepage, for example, so that students can know the agenda of the largest student lobbying body on cam-pus. Regardless of how visible ISS is throughout campus, we fear students won’t see an incentive to seek out the information even if it were more visi-ble. Or they may not feel compelled to act on the information, say, to figure out how to get a campuswide referendum in the spring election.

Frye does not have a definitive plan to incentivize students to use these re-sources, and we continue to see that as a problem. Without a concrete plan ready to go by July 1 when he’s officially sworn in, his largest plans are doomed to fail like those of his predecessors. Still, Frye is setting goals and making decisions while bearing in mind that, as student trustee, he needs to be realistic about what he can do.

Over the course of the next year, we expect that the search committee tasked to hire University President Robert Eas-ter’s replacement is open and trans-parent, especially given the poor hires we’ve had in the past. We also expect Frye to advocate for an open search committee, even if he isn’t directly in-volved in the search. He said that he thinks it would be impossible to inform the public of every step in the search, but that there should be some form of public vetting. He’s trying to be realis-tic about it, even though we disagree. An open search process, especially for a position as significant as University president, could become disorganized, and even hinder the ability of the search committee to fulfill its duties optimally.

We’ve argued that the University needs to keep in check its continually growing out-of-state population because, as a land-grant institution, it has a duty to Illinois students first. It also has a duty to create a campus that reflects a diversity of students and an increasing global presence. And Frye knows that we need to strike a balance between the in-state students this University should serve and the out-of-state students who give the University and students global value. Whether he’s awarded the official vote among the student trustees at the Chicago and Springfield campuses, we will look to see that he works to main-tain a productive balance.

Though we don’t know if Frye will hold the official vote on the Board of Trustees, he nonetheless has the will to spark constructive change on our cam-pus. Increasing accessibility and trans-parency is the first step in uniting such a diverse campus, and Frye could make it happen.

Chivalry sexist, in direct opposition with feminism SEHAR SIDDIQUI

Opinions columnist

Here are highlights from the week’s most creative headlines:

“Amanda Bynes Reveals Her Hidden Talent”Surprisingly, discreetly throwing bongs out of

windows isn’t it.“Julianne Hough Proves Short Shorts Season Is Back”

That’s fine, as long as cargo shorts season remains extinct.

“Shakira Makes A Surprising Confession”Only one of her hips doesn’t lie.

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If you have not watched Zach Galifianakis’ episode of “Between Two Ferns” with President Obama, do yourself a favor, stop reading this and watch it. As per usual for Galifianakis, the quirky, six-minute Internet clip is filled with uncomfortable

eye-contact, awkward silences, comedic stabs and other examples of his unique humor — and Obama sure knows how to keep up, equally returning the

hilarious pokes back. We can’t fully explain it’s hilarity in a couple hundred words, so

just go watch it.

The joke is seriously getting old, Madre Nature. Tuesday we’re walking across the Quad in shorts and

crop-tops (we guess not unlike a typical Saturday night), and now we’re all putting in last-minute orders

for parkas. It’s been a long winter, Madre. Is it too much to ask to reinforce the fact that grass still

exists under the snow?

Hallelujah, “The Bachelor” is finally over and we can stop hearing about Juan Pablo Galavis and all of the drama in the relationships between him and 50 women that we don’t even know. Now let’s enjoy

the downtime before we are bombarded with yet another season of unrealistic, semi-scripted love

stories.

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“We’re still in a very early stage. The process is more like hacking it together, and then we try to reach out to customers,” Chen said. “So I think one of the validations and interest we received online was just by peo-ple emailing us that this is some-thing that they really need.”

However, after competing in SSM, the StylePuzzle team does not see its second place victory as the end means of the app’s success and develop-ment. Rather, the group sees it as another opportunity to increase exposure and public interest.

“You don’t actually win until you make the app successful,” Gong said. “It’s not like you win the competition and that app

automatically goes for a billion dollars.”

Although the second place victory helped to boost their confidence in success of their mobile app, their end goal remains the same.

“(We) want people to like our idea and use it every day. That is (our) goal,” Tobias said.

Stephanie can be reached at [email protected].

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BY SAMANTHA ROTHMANSTAFF WRITER

The day before heading back to begin his final year at the Uni-versity, Steven Hollon, senior in Business, stopped in to see his doctor for a regular checkup. After a routine physical, Hol-lon’s doctor shared with him that something may not be right with his health, and the first round of tests was administered. After driving down to Champaign to begin the fall semester, Hollon had to turn around and return home for a second round of testing.

The result: Stage two testicu-lar cancer.

After Hollon returned to the University, he went straight to a community where he knew he could get support: his fraternity, Sigma Chi.

“They were so encouraging, supportive and helpful,” Hollon said.

Hollon, the philanthropy chair of the University’s chap-ter of Sigma Chi, soon had to not only balance schoolwork and the demands of being a college stu-dent, but he also had to endure multiple rounds of chemothera-py as a part of his treatment plan during the fall 2013 semester.

Since then, he has seen his health improve and continues to have regular checkups with his doctors.

“(Second semester’s) been kind of tough because I have to do monthly checkups and test-ing every month to make sure everything’s going right and

to make sure the cancer hasn’t come back,” Hollon said. “But I’ve been able to balance it pret-ty well this semester.”

This positive progress is some-thing Hollon said he thhinks his friends, family and specifical-ly his fraternity brothers have helped propel. Kevin Campbell, fellow Sigma Chi brother and senior in Business, said he kept in touch with Hollon by texting him and getting updates on his diagnosis.

“We went up to see him a few times, talked to him, just to see how he was doing,” Campbell said. “(Hollon) came down here to visit. ... It gave him a sense of normality.”

Support from the Greek chap-ter has come in other forms as well. For example, fundraisers for Hollon’s treatment were set up by his fraternity brothers at on-campus bars such as KAM’S, Joe’s and the Clybourne.

“My girlfriend and one of the brothers in the house set up bracelets (as a fundraiser) and sold those around campus for me,” Hollon said.

Additionally, the funds from Sigma Chi’s fall philanthropy event, Derby Days, went toward supporting Hollon in his battle with cancer. The event involves “teams” from many sorori-ties on campus and features a week of different events and competitions.

“The biggest thing was run-ning Derby Days for me,” Hollon said. “I had no idea. They kind of surprised me with that.”

Beyond the support of his fra-ternity brothers, Hollon spoke highly of the entire Greek com-munity and their outward sup-port and kindness toward him.

“I was in awe of how the Greek community came together. ... It was really cool to see.”

Throughout this journey, Hol-lon’s friends have said he has continued to be confident, adapt-able and motivated throughout the past few months.

“He’s really never said any-thing negative,” said William Renwick, fellow Sigma Chi brother and senior in LAS.

Staying positive seems to not only be something Hollon embodies, but also a way of life he recommends in regards to any situation.

“See the positive in every situ-ation you’re in. Being a college student, we get super stressed from (your) girlfriend/boy-friend issues, school (and) try-ing to find a job. ... See the posi-tive about the situation and keep your head up, see the benefits,” he said.

Hollon said that the support of the community has made the entire process easier.

“Yeah, I’m going through a terrible thing, but (I) try to see the positive side of it,” he said. “I saw who my real friends were. I saw how close not just my house is, but the entire Greek commu-nity is, and that made it a lot easier to go through.”

Samantha can be reached at [email protected].

BY ELI MURRAYSTAFF WRITER

Lizzie Duckworth Carter has drawn national attention after her song “Let’s Move!” was fea-tured in the National League of Cities newsletter commemorat-ing the 4th anniversary of the Let’s Move! initiative.

Duckworth Carter, of Urbana, said she was inspired to write the song while working in the Lier-man Neighborhood Community Garden. Aldermen Diane Mar-lin, Ward 7, and Dennis Roberts, Ward 5, had heard about Duck-worth Carter’s original composi-tions and approached her to write a song for the garden.

Writing the song, she said, was a quick process.

“It just came to me while I was working there,” she said. “I could hear it — the spirit sing-ing to me.”

The music video features

Duckworth Carter singing along with family members and former collaborator Lametrius Carter, who helped her to record the album ”God is Love,” which is available at the Urbana Free Library. Duckworth Carter said her granddaughter created the group’s choreography for the video.

Marlin said Let’s Move! Urba-na has asked the National League of Cities to forward the music video to the White House in hopes of hearing from First Lady Michelle Obama.

The song commemorates a community garden started by the Lierman Neighborhood Action Committee. The Lierman Neighborhood Action Committee was started as a response to a high rate of emergency calls and economic distress in the area, said Robin Arbiter, president of the committee. She said the gar-

den has had the help of 70 vol-unteers and provided produce to more than 200 households in 2013.

Arbiter said the idea of a com-munity garden was a natural extension of what was already happening in the community.

“People were already garden-ing and sharing with their neigh-bors,” she said.

The community garden became a way to bring more community members together, Arbiter said.

The garden project began in 2012, and Arbiter hopes to see it continue to grow in years to come. Right now, the action com-mittee rents the land for $1 a year from the city, but she said she would like to see a more per-manent deal worked out.

Eli can be reached at [email protected].

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Greeks unite to support brother who has cancer

Music video set in Urbana solicits national attention

during each summer, they are reunited with their family and friends in Greece.

Maria originally is from Milia, Greece, and Dimitris grew up in Agora. Maria moved to the U.S. in 1966 to meet her brother in Chicago.

“We were kind of poor (in Greece), and I chose to come to America for a better life, which I think I got,” Maria said.

In America, she met her first husband, and they started a family with three children. However, her husband died due to an aneurism while driving. Seeking a fresh start, Maria moved back to Greece in 1977. It is there that her

brothers introduced her to their friend, Dimitris, in 1977.

“I liked her, and I saw that we could communicate together nicely – and she’s beautiful,” Dimitris said.

They were married at a monastery in Pandali, a suburb of Athens, in 1982.

Maria’s son Kostas decided to attend the University of Illinois in 1992. Two years later, Maria followed Kostas back to the U.S. She settled in Champaign and found work at Bromley Hall and Christie Clinic. Dimitris visited them in 1995 and moved to the U.S. to join them in 1997.

The Yfantis have traveled to California, Las Vegas and Arizona. Dimitris most enjoyed the trip to California, yet he misses the weather, the sun and

the sea of Greece.“I cannot find that (Greek)

water anywhere else,” Dimitris said.

Maria also misses Greece, where their daughter, son-in-law and 7-year-old grandson live. Every year during their trip, they choose a new Greek island to visit and celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in August.

“Greece has a different beauty — we have the sea, the weather is better in Greece. Definitely the life is a little bit better,” Maria said. “But over here, the difference (is that you have) more convenient things, more money because you have work.”

Mikayla can be reached at [email protected].

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BY MIKAYLA OSTENDORFSTAFF WRITER

At 4 a.m., 72-year-old Dimitris Yfantis showers and then wakes up his wife Maria, age 70, 30 minutes later. By 5:20 a.m., they are in the car traveling to campus for another day of work in the campus dining halls.

Dimitris, a kitchen helper at Bromley Hall, whistles as he walks across the cafeteria, cleaning counter tops, setting the salad bar and replacing napkins. He stops at tables to greet students by name and takes the time to ask how their day is.

Dimitris and Maria both work five days a week. After seven and a half hours, Dimitris picks up Maria after her 6 a.m.-to-2:30 p.m. shift at Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall. Maria then heads to Champaign’s Christie Clinic to clean from 4:30 to 10:30 p.m., as Dimitris goes to Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Church to tidy the church around 7 p.m.

“Our minds are just continuously thinking and being busy, and I think it’s wonderful for our age,” Maria said.

Dimitris and Maria enjoy the social aspect of their jobs and say they do not plan on retiring for three years. Dimitris said every year brings new friends.

“Dimitris is one of the guys if you leave him in the middle of the desert, he will find friends,” Maria said. “He likes to have friends around him.”

Although Dimitris is not fluent in English, he still manages to make conversation and connections with the students, said Kristi Hogan, a Bromley front desk worker.

“(The residents) all love him. He’s a good ambassador for employees to the students,” Hogan said.

In Dimitris’ early years as a Bromley employee, he worked in the food line where he was told to dish only one serving per resident; however, he could not resist serving two spoonfuls, which earned him praise from hungry students on Facebook: “If you want to eat good, go to Dimitris’ line.”

Dallas Donahue, freshman in ACES, said she met Dimitris when he took the time to ask how her day was.

“He has a very positive attitude about everything. It’s always nice to see him — he lightens the mood if you’re having a bad day,” Donahue said. “He’s the friendliest employee.”

Stephanie Kuhns, a Bromley Hall cafeteria employee, recalled seeing Maria around Bromley when Maria came to bake.

For Easter, Maria always prepares homemade dough and uses Bromley Hall ovens to bake 20 dishes of tsoureki, a Greek sweet bread similar to Hawaiian bread. She leaves one or two loaves for the workers, donates some to the church, and then keeps the rest at home. Maria enjoys praying at church, a habit of faith she finds comfort in after losing her first husband and her daughter in the last 40 years. Maria and Dimitris are thankful to Bromley Hall and to the University for allowing them time off to travel to Greece for their daughter when she was struggling with leukemia.

“She’s very outgoing. She’s extremely nice,” Kuhns said. “I would say the same thing about Dimitris — he’s extremely personable and outgoing, and cares a lot about other people.”

The Yfantis have met many friends through the church, whom they cook traditional Greek foods for. They are able to keep their Greek culture alive this way; Dimitris loves tiropitas, or a cheese-egg mix wrapped in phyllo dough, and Maria enjoys pastitsio, a Greek baked pasta dish. Still,

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BY STEPHANIE KIMSTAFF WRITER

On Monday, graduate students Liz Li, Gong Chen and Tobias Lei won second place among eight finalists at Student Start-up Madness, a national entre-preneurial competition. Their submission, a mobile app called StylePuzzle, is designed to cre-ate outfits tailored to a user’s closet and fashion preference.

As a result of placing as the

top three teams, the StylePuz-zle team was awarded $5,000 of credits for Google Cloud Plat-form to help build web applica-tions and mobile app backends.

Student Startup Madness first launched in 2012 at South by Southwest Interactive Festi-val, an annual festival in Austin, Texas, featuring emerging tech-nology. As the director of the Center for Digital Media Entre-preneurship at the Newhouse

School at Syracuse University, Sean Branagran developed SSM as a way to acknowledge student entrepreneurial efforts and phe-nomenal business plans.

“These students amaze me because they’re off executing and they become inspired by each other,” he said.

Looking to put their skills into practice, Li, Chen and Lei were inspired to create StylePuzzle after a friend asked for fashion

advice last October. Initially, StylePuzzle worked as a Q-and-A forum in which users could exchange questions and answers about their fashion dilemmas. But after they competed in start-up contests and worked with pro-fessionals such as Plug and Play Tech Center in California, they amended StylePuzzle to make it more personal to its users.

“We found out that people have problems but don’t want

to post it online and want people to answer,” Li said. “They want-ed instant, real-time solutions to their fashion problems.”

After several months of coding and marketing, the mobile app is currently in the private beta version, mean-ing that a select few subjects test the product for efficien-cy, usefulness and overall performance before it goes out to the public.

“We want to let a few people try it out first and then improve,” Li said. “So we’re moving step-by-step, little-by-little.”

And yet, although the mobile app is not available to users, fashion fanatics already await its debut from places in the U.S., Europe and Japan, evident by emails and tweets the StylePuz-zle team has received.

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After Steven Hollon, Sigma Chi brother and senior in Business, returned to the Uni-versity for his senior year last fall, he was diagnosed with cancer. Turn to Page 5A to read about how the University’s Greek community has supported Hollon through his battle.

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BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down Sunday nights and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.

J on Ekey has always been a procrasti-nator. He waits until the last minute to write papers and do homework.

So when he had an entire regular sea-son to make a lasting mark in the collective memory of Illinois men’s basketball fans, he waited until the last second.

With the score tied at 63 at Iowa on Satur-day and the clock ticking down under 10 sec-onds, point guard Tracy Abrams dribbled up the court. Ekey, hovering on the perimeter, came to set a screen but pulled away, roll-ing left to the top of the arc. Ekey’s defender, Aaron White, didn’t immediately follow, cre-ating a large enough gap for Abrams to pass the ball to Ekey. He squared up for a shot he’s hit countless times in his years playing bas-ketball, but never with so much pressure on the line. He got his feet under his shoulders, lifted off the ground, adjusted his trajectory to avoid White’s 6-foot-9 frame, and let it fl y.

With 0.5 seconds remaining in the regular season, the ball swished through the rim. Ekey had hit the biggest shot of the season — and made his lasting mark.

At least in the memory of fans.Head coach John Groce said that although

this may be what fans remember, Ekey has already made a lasting imprint.

Since his arrival on campus over the sum-mer, Ekey has been a leader. He helped shep-herd the eight other newcomers over the sum-mer and made sure the team took advantage of its limited time together.

He quickly learned Groce’s offensive and defensive schemes and was able to help the new players pick up on the intricacies of the system.

“He’s a very smart guy,” freshman Malcolm Hill said. “He almost knew the system off the jump, as a new guy.”

After just a few months with the team, before he had played a game for Illinois, his teammates elected him as a captain.

“I think his leadership by example for our newcomers has been terrifi c,” Groce said. “That in itself is a tangible aspect is as, or more, valuable than the production piece, which obviously he’s produced.”

Ekey opened the season quietly, with two points in his opening game against Alabama

State, but fans quickly learned his name. In both the fourth and fi fth games of the season, Ekey hit fi ve 3-pointers and fi nished with 19 points.

In the next game, against UNLV, he scored just three points, but it was his fi rst big shot at Illinois — a crucial jumper with 2:21 remain-

JON EKEYA 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds on the clock beat Iowa on Saturday,

but Ekey has been impressing his coaches and teammates all season long.

BY SEAN HAMMONDSENIOR WRITER

At this point in the season, there are no secrets. Illinois basketball knows Indiana well, and Indiana knows Illinois well. That’s the nature of conference play, and it’s the nature of the Big Ten Tournament.

When the Illini and Hoosiers face each other in the early morning game Thursday in Indi-anapolis, it will be the third time the teams have squared off this year. The Illini bested the Hoo-siers in Champaign on Dec. 31 and the Hoosiers returned the favor in Bloomington, Ind., on Jan. 26.

“Conference tournaments are unique because you’re playing teams for the second or third time,” Illinois head coach John Groce said. “Familiarity breeds contempt. There’s not a lot of secrets with video today and scouting.”

Kendrick Nunn is no longer a secret outside of Champaign. Neither is Noah Vonleh a secret outside of Bloomington. The two freshmen — both named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team this week — have made their mark on their respective teams this season.

Vonleh, the conference’s freshman of the year, has posed a challenge for defenders all year long. He nearly averages a double-double with 11.4 points per game and 9.1 rebounds per game as Indiana’s center. But the problem he poses is his versatility.

Illinois center Nnanna Egwu said Vonleh doesn’t quite com-pare to any player he’s ever been matched up against.

“He can face up, he can drive to the basket, he can pick and pop, shoot the three. He’s an all around player,” Egwu said. “He doesn’t play like a freshman. He

does things that veterans do and he’s just a really good player.”

Vonleh will present challenges for Illinois, especially if Egwu fi nds himself in foul trouble.

Another thing that could pres-ent a challenge for both teams is the early time slot. Illinois and Indiana tip off at 11 a.m. in the tournament’s opening game.

Groce doesn’t fi gure the start time to be a problem though. He and his staff have prepared the team for that all year, schedul-ing practices both early and late in the day throughout the year. Illinois has not played a game earlier than 1 p.m. this year.

“I’ve played some early games before,” Groce said. “You have to adjust how you do things. But you’ve got to be unconditional. I tease the guys all the time; we can’t control the dates of games or times of games. It’s not like we can tell the Big Ten to change the time.”

Illinois has a chance at an NCAA Tournament bid. But a lot has to happen this weekend. The Illini fi gure to need three or four wins to secure a spot in March Madness. Anything less than that likely results in a trip to the NIT, in which Illinois last participated in 2010.

“Everybody’s record is 0-0,” freshman Malcolm Hill said. “I expect it to be fun.”

It doesn’t matter what the oth-er 349 Division I college bas-ketball teams are doing on that particular day. March is about matchups. Thursday is about Illi-nois and Indiana. There are no secrets.

“This time of year it’s simply trying to be better than the team you’re playing that night,” Groce said. “It’s us and them.”

Sean can be reached at [email protected] and @sean_hammond.

BY DAN BERNSTEIN STAFF WRITER

The Illinois men’s golf team was able to prove why it’s the No. 6 team in the nation this week, as it defended its title at the 54-hole Louisiana Classics tournament in Lafayette, La., to a fi eld of 12 teams.

While winter weather in Champaign has prevented the team from practicing outside this year, the Illini were still able to showcase their talents Monday and Tuesday at the par-72, 7,098-yard Oakbourne Coun-try Club.

The Illini fi nished fi rst in the

team standings, largely due to their record-breaking team score Monday afternoon. They fired an 18-under-par team score, which broke the record for the lowest team score in relation to par in school histo-ry. Junior Brian Campbell and senior Jonathan Hauter led the way with respective scores of 66 and 67, while Thomas Detry and Charlie Danielson also con-tributed to the record-breaking performance with scores of 68 and 69, respectively.

“The second round won us the tournament,” head coach Mike Small said. “We had guys mak-

ing a lot of birdies and shooting 5 and 6-under-par, which fl ip-fl opped us from being down in the fi rst round to being up in the second, which gave us enough of a lead to hold on.”

After 36 holes of golf Monday, all fi ve of the Illini were in the top 10 in the individual stand-ings, while the team led by 13 shots in the team standings over Louisiana State. Campbell held a one-stroke lead at 9-under-par after the fi rst two rounds, while Detry was in fourth place at 5-under. Danielson and David Kim were tied for fi fth at 4-under-par, while Hauter was

in a four-way tie for 10th.In recent years, Illinois has

been a longer-hitting team capa-ble of hitting the golf ball deep down the fairway to use length to its advantage. This year, Small thinks of his team as a group of fi nesse players, mean-ing each player needs to focus more on utilizing their own skill set to attack golf courses. The Illini still have guys who can hit the ball a long way, but being able to score will result more from being solid around the greens.

“I didn’t hit the ball as well as I did on Monday, but I managed

to make a couple good up-and-downs and a couple of putts,” Detry said. “Overall, I’m pret-ty happy with my game. The course was pretty wide open, so in upcoming tournaments I’m going to need to work on hitting more fairways.”

Despite rain during the fi nal round of play Tuesday, the Illi-ni were able to manage the con-ditions well enough to win the team championship outright. Danielson and Detry put up respective scores of 3-under-par 69 and 2-under-par 70 Tuesday, both fi nishing tied for second in the individual standings. Daniel-

son was able to card fi ve birdies and only two bogeys in his fi nal round, while Detry carded three birdies and only one bogey.

“Winning here is a big plus,” Detry said. “Mentally for the team, winning always feels good. We all saw that we are able to shoot some low scores, make some birdies and get a win.”

Campbell carded a fi nal round of 77 to fi nish tied for sixth, while Hauter fi nished tied for 13th and Kim tied for 20th.

Dan can be reached at [email protected] and @yaboybernie11.

Illinois men’s golf places 1st at Louisiana Classics

Jon Ekey’s last-second shot sunk the Hawkeyes on Saturday. To hear from the senior

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» » » » » »Honorable mentionsIllinois women’s gymnastics team — The Illini posted their best team score in program history with a 197.100 against Lindenwood on Saturday.Jesse Delgado (wrestling) — Delgado, the No. 2 wrestler at 125 pounds, beat rival No. 1 Nico Megaludis of Penn State 3-2 in double overtime to win his second straight Big Ten conference title.

Illinois draws Indiana for opening game

“Familarity breeds contempt. There’s not a lot of secrets with video

today and scouting. ”JOHN GROCE,

HEAD COACH

As expected, the Chicago Bears shook up their defense Tuesday after-

noon when NFL free agency began, but not the way most thought they would — and that’s just fi ne.

The Bears released eight-time Pro Bowl defensive end Julius Peppers on Tuesday night, which broke the hearts among the Chicago faithful.

Since his arrival in 2010, Julius Peppers has stunned as a pass-rushing monster. Eight sacks in his fi rst year improved to 11 in his second, and 11.5 in his third season in 2012. That year, Chicago’s defense had 13 more takeaways and averaged the third lowest points allowed per game, which was largely due to a lethal pass rush from Julius Peppers and his fellow linemen.

Those were the glory days, when the Bears’ offensive blun-ders could be concealed behind the iron fortress that was their defense — fully equipped with pass-rush cannons and interi-or strangleholds that left few survivors.

But guys, if 2013 proved any-

thing, it’s that those days are gone. It’s time for a change.

Now, I’m aware of the cir-cumstances. I can speculate what losing Charles Tillman and Lance Briggs to injuries did to the atmosphere of the defense last year. Losing lead-ership is never easy. I can also look at both players’ ages and guess what lengthy injuries might mean for their futures in Chicago.

When Brian Urlacher was injured in Week 13 of 2012, he followed it up by retiring at 34 years old in the offseason. Till-man and Briggs are in similar situations, both at 33. It’s awful-ly risky to place much stock in either in a league that seems to get younger every year. And it’s even riskier to rely on 34-year-old Peppers, who turned in one of his worst performances since entering the league in 2002 while healthy.

Fans are notorious for fear-ing change, especially chang-es involving big-time players. There are other numbers at work here than age, though. Just take a look at Chicago’s poor excuse for a defense in 2013.

The Bears allowed 6,313 yards last season, nearly 2,000 more than Seattle. Their rush defense was ranked last — I’ll say it again: last — in the league by more than 400 yards. For God’s

sake, they were bottom dwellers in nearly every defensive cat-egory. That’s not something that calls for subtle change; that des-perately screams for a total rei-magining — and reimagining is exactly what Chicago is doing.

Tuesday also marked the beginning of Lamarr Hous-ton’s career with the Bears, the 26-year-old former defensive end for the Oakland Raiders.

At 6-foot-3 and 300 pounds, Houston doesn’t seem like an ideal fi t for the position in a 4-3 scheme, but he brings variety to the lineup. He gives the Bears a chance to try something new on defense, and new is exactly what is needed to bury last season’s travesty.

Houston’s signing doesn’t just fi ll the void of Peppers on the Bears starting line; it reinvigo-rates it with a new presence and play style. Peppers likely won’t be the only veteran released in the coming months, either. Chi-cago seems to be committing to change. With that there can be no half measures. Out with the old, in with the new is the only way to go.

That’s not to discredit any-thing Peppers or the other defensive veterans have done for the team. For years, Tillman has been my favorite defend-er to watch play the game. But that game is changing. Younger

defensive units are developing, and Chicago clearly wasn’t on pace with that in 2013.

Personally, I’m no more fond of hanging up my Peppers

jersey than I was when I put away No. 54. But if a shake-up is Chicago’s best chance at a championship, hand me a hanger.

J.J. is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @Wilsonable07.

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JOSE M. OSORIO CHICAGO TRIBUNEJulius Peppers (90) of the Chicago Bears rushes Joe Flacco (5) of the Baltimore Ravens at Soldier Field in Chicago on Nov. 17, 2013. The Bears released Peppers, who joined the team in 2010, on Tuesday

J.J. WILSON

Assistant sports editor

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BY J.J. WILSONASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Head coach Dan Hartleb doesn’t need to analyze trends to figure out why Illinois base-ball has lost three of its first four weekends on the road. He knows what happened, and he isn’t mak-ing excuses.

It’s not that the competition is too tough. He believes his team can compete with any team in the country. Youth may factor in, but it’s not the main issue, either. And asking him about fur-ther pregame scouting will yield the same answer — he never has over-analyzed an opposing team and never will. The most impor-tant trend to him is the one his team is trying to correct.

“If you look at our entire team, it’s just consistency,” Hartleb said. “It’s having those consis-tent games, having those consis-

tent bats and not letting failure affect you.”

After the Illini offense opened the season with 29 runs in three games, it managed just five runs the next weekend.

Meanwhile, the Illini pitchers worked opposite their offense, dropping their earned runs allowed from 27 to 7 in the sec-ond week. They also lowered the numbers of hits and walks.

It wasn’t until the third week-end, where Illinois swept Florida and Florida Gulf Coast in four games, that both pitching and hit-ting stayed consistent. The Illi-ni bats cranked 42 hits and 23 runs on the weekend, which took enough pressure off the pitchers and allowed them to hold the two teams to 23 hits and four runs.

This start to the season (6-7) is most similar to its 16-game road stretch in 2011, when it returned

home at 6-10. That year, the Illini scored six or more runs in each of their wins while the pitch-ing staff held opposing offens-es to four or fewer runs in five of those six wins. Inconsistency in the other 10 games, however, resulted in losses.

“You just need everyone firing on all cylinders,” pitcher John Kravetz said.

The 2011 Illini squad also reinforced that youth has lit-tle correlation to rough starts. It might be easy to point to last year’s 13-4 start and blame this year’s struggles on the loss of five position players in the offseason; however, 2011’s squad started mostly upperclassmen and was inconsistent.

To Hartleb, consistency is a mind set. He believes the Illi-ni need to bring the same level of effort every week for them

to start proving their value as a team, which is part of what makes season-opening road stretches so important.

RPI for the NCAA tournament factors in every game, including midweek games against in-state clubs such as Illinois State and Eastern Illinois.

These midweek matchups have also been known to stump the Illi-ni. In 2011, Illinois rebounded from its poor start and pushed its record to 30-27 overall. And yet, they were 2-5 in midweek games.

“I think what happens some-times in midweek games is when you don’t have good pitch-ing depth, it affects those games greatly, and I know that’s what’s happened to us in the past,” Har-tleb said.

Leadoff hitter Will Krug isn’t making excuses, either. He

knows constant effort is the only trend that matters to his team’s success.

“After the first week, I feel like everything is the same,” Krug said. “I think once everything gets clicking, it’ll be very impor-tant for us.”

Hartleb has said it since the preseason: The only thing Illinois can control is itself, and that’s where the focus will remain — on bringing the same effort every game.

“We need to have a mentality where people have to stop us,” Hartleb said. “And if people are trying to stop us, then we’re only worried about our club, and that’s the mentality I want the guys to have.”

J.J. can be reached at [email protected] and @Wilsonable07.

Illini baseball plagued early by inconsistency

ing that tied the game for Illinois. Despite the limited scoring, center Nnanna Egwu said Illinois wouldn’t have won that game without him.

“UNLV that three was big,” Egwu said. “Talk about Mizzou, those two 3-pointers he hit were even bigger. He’s been making marks throughout the whole year.

“If you take Ekey off the team, even with all the tough losses we’ve had all year, we’d have even more without him.”

In Big Ten play, Ekey’s produc-tion fell off, his playing time fell along with it.

With Illinois on an eight-game losing streak, head coach John

Groce took Ekey out of the start-ing lineup and replaced him with Hill. Ekey not only shared a posi-tion with the freshman but had mentored him during the season.

“I’ve just been learning from him. He’s been talking to me, teaching me, especially on the defensive end,” Hill said. “(With-out him,) I wouldn’t be as good off-the-ball player as I am now.”

Groce said Ekey adapted to his new role well.

His senior handled it well, another classy act by a “pro’s pro,” teaching the younger guys how to take disappointment in stride.

Ekey said being in the starting lineup didn’t matter. All he cared about was winning. And that’s what the team did.

In Ekey’s first game on the

bench, Illinois broke its eight-game losing streak, and the Illini are 5-3 since Ekey and fellow senior Joseph Bertrand were replaced by Hill and freshman Kendrick Nunn.

“It doesn’t really matter when you get in the game,” Ekey said. “It doesn’t matter who they put where, we’re good no matter where you put us.”

Ekey didn’t start against Iowa, but he played when it counted most.

And Groce appreciates not only the shot, but everything the senior’s done for the program.

“He truly has been a godsend for our program,” Groce said. “I just hope that he’s enjoyed it as much as I’ve enjoyed coaching him.”

Johnathan can be reached at [email protected].

I llinois alumnus Rashard Mendenhall is retiring from the NFL at 26, and I think his

decision is inspired.Before I read Mendenhall’s

explanation appropriately titled “Why I retired at 26” in the Huffington Post, I thought it was a ploy for attention. Maybe he felt overlooked and anxious when his contract with the Ari-zona Cardinals expired, and this was a last-ditch effort to ignite enough attention to merit the interest of a new team.

Or maybe he was done.Now I accept the latter expla-

nation. I didn’t know Menden-hall professed himself as a writer, and I was pleasantly sur-prised as I read his blog posts. He is articulate and relatable, and apparently finished with football. It is because of his writing that I understand why.

The Skokie, Ill., native was a staple of Illinois football in the mid-2000s. Running backs have found success at Illinois, and Mendenhall was one of the greats.

Illinois fans will forever remember Mendenhall’s 2007 season, especially his 79-yard touchdown run against USC in the Rose Bowl. He earned first-team All-Big Ten and Offensive Player of the Year accolades and was a Doak Walker Award Semifinalist — an honor award-ed to the top running back in the nation. He was also a semi-finalist for the Maxwell Award, which goes to college football’s player of the year.

Mendenhall left school a year

early and was drafted No. 23 overall by the Pittsburgh Steel-ers in the 2008 NFL Draft.

Illinois football was probably pretty proud.

But after five years with the Steelers and one with the Car-dinals, Mendenhall is choos-ing to walk away from the NFL — from fame and fortune and also from a constant place in the spotlight — and he seems pretty fine with it.

In his blog for Huffing-ton Post Sports, Mendenhall explains the constant criticism associated with playing on the professional level of sports. Because of his mild demean-or and varied interests, Men-denhall was often regarded as seeming apathetic to football.

“People in the sporting world have sometimes questioned whether or not I love the game of football. I do. I always have,” Mendenhall said. “I have always been a professional. But I am not an entertainer.”

This is an important distinc-tion in a sporting society where fantasy leagues sometimes seem to take precedence over the actual sporting event.

Professional sports are a forum for entertainment, with athletes acting as players on an international stage. And for a mild-mannered man who professes a love of literature and travel, Mendenhall was done playing the part of macho athlete.

We’ll never know how much of Mendenhall’s somewhat elab-orate explanation for his retire-ment reflects his true reasons for leaving football. But if we take him at his word, Menden-hall holds his right to a person-al life in higher esteem than a place in the public eye.

He played football because he

loved it, not because he wanted to be on the cover of magazines or have the coolest touchdown dance. Though, I’m sure those things weren’t scoffed at when he was new to the NFL.

Mendenhall thinks football has changed, and while I agree, change in professional sports isn’t a new concept.

Technology turns the grid-iron into a stage for millions, and social media makes athletes more accessible to fans. But in the 1940s, when sports were first broadcast on television, or in the 90s when the internet began to play a role, athletes had to adjust in the same way.

Professional sports will con-

tinue to evolve and athletes along with it. They are enter-tainers as much as they are ath-letes, and Mendenhall seems nostalgic for a time that never was. Professional athletes have always been in the public eye.

So while Illinois fans will miss watching Mendenhall on Sundays, it seems that he made

the right decision for the life he wants to lead.

Football was a phase. He got everything he wanted out of it, and now it’s time to move on.

Aryn is a senior in LAS. Contact her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @arynbraun.

Mendenhall moves away from the sports spotlight

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOFormer Illini running back Rashard Mendenhall rushes during a game against Ball State at Memorial Stadium on October 27, 2007. Mendenhall has decided to retire from professional football after five seasons with the Steelers and one with the Cardinals. He spent three seasons in Champaign before declaring for the NFL Draft. Mendenhall is calling it quits at the age of 26.

ARYN BRAUN

Sports columnist

Bennett re-signs as Seahawks linemanBY TODD DYBASMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

SEATTLE — Monday morn-ing Michael Bennett was tout-ing suspense.

The Seattle Seahawks’ versa-tile defensive lineman was mak-ing a television appearance with his brother, Martellus, about a day before he could become an unrestricted free agent.

There were reports that Ben-nett would not re-sign with the Seahawks during the team’s exclusive negotiating period from March 8-11. Others tout-ed the likeliness he would sign with the Chicago Bears to play with Martellus, who is a tight end there and openly recruit-ed him.

Bennett played it up on TV.Then came Monday after-

noon. Bennett was wearing a Seahawks winter hat inside their practice facility. Walking toward a slew of cameras, he asked, “They make y’all work on your day off?”

Everyone was back to work because Bennett signed a four-year deal reportedly worth $28.5 million, with $16 million guaran-teed, to stay with the Seahawks.

At the NFL combine in India-

napolis, Seahawks general man-ager John Schneider labeled Bennett a top offseason prior-ity. Three weeks later, Seattle was able to check Bennett off its to-do list before he hit free agency.

The new contract also comes 10 days after they released defensive end Red Bryant. Essentially, Bennett’s new salary —he made $5 million last season on a one-year deal—replaces Bryant’s, which will help the Seahawks further man-age the salary cap.

Bennett played defensive end and tackle last season for the Seahawks when he led the NFL’s top defense with 8.5 sacks. Amplifying the thought he took less money to stay was the five-year, $42.5 million con-tract Minnesota Vikings defen-sive end Everson Griffen signed Sunday.

Griffen played 699 snaps to Bennett’s 598 last season. Despite the more than 100-snap difference in playing time, Ben-nett had more sacks (8.5-5.5), combined tackles (31-28) and stuffs (5-3). Yet, he ends up with less money.

Nobody pushed Bennett hard-

er to sign somewhere else than Martellus. Michael said Martel-lus understood why he chose to stay with Seattle and not go to the Chicago Bears.

“It’s all on me, not really him,” Bennett said.

After signing a one-year deal with the Seahawks last year, Bennett had said he was better prepared to deal with free agen-cy this time. Though, that didn’t make it much easier.

Bennett also said he’s not con-cerned if he has the same role next year, saying he just wants to win games.

Up next for the Seahawks will be a handful of other moves. They have to determine the mar-ket for unrestricted free agent wide receiver Golden Tate, who led them in receptions and yards last season.

Defensive end Chris Clem-ons and tight end Zach Miller each carry large salary cap hits. Seattle will likely look to cut or restructure the contracts of each.

Those decisions will come when free agency fully starts Tuesday at 1 p.m. Early on, the Seahawks have accomplished their stated top goal.

“We need to have a mentality where people have to stop us ... then we’re only worried about our club, and that’s the men-tality I want the guys to have.”DAN HARTLEB,HEAD COACH

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Bickell hopes erratic season is on upswingBY CHRIS KUCCHICAGO TRIBUNE

Talk to Bryan Bickell long enough and the Blackhawks wing-er will eventually utter the word “confidence.”

Either he has it or he’s in search of it.

Bickell, who turned 28 on Sun-day, isn’t shy when it comes to dis-cussing his psyche, how it affects his game and what he does to com-bat lulls in confidence in his hock-ey skills.

Often, the solution is right at his fingertips.

“Sometimes when I’m down and I feel I need a little boost, I go on the Internet and check out video clips — it helps,” Bickell said. “I go on YouTube and check out the fans and how much the Blackhawks mean to the city and how they show the passion they have, and it kind of gets you into the game and emotionally fires you up.”

Then there are meetings with James F. Gary, the Hawks’ men-tal skills coach who is a fixture at home and on the road. Gary has had Bickell listen to motivational tapes, and the two confer at times throughout the season.

While some players seeming-ly brim with confidence wheth-er they are producing on the ice

or not, others need cajoling or a kick in the pants, usually from the head coach.

“Every player is a little bit dif-ferent with what you say, what you do, whether you communicate by ice time or whether you verbal-ly say things,” Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said.

The biggest confidence build-er for Bickell is scoring goals, which he has done twice in the five games since the Olympic break.

It has been a roller-coaster sea-son for Bickell. After a stunning performance in the playoffs last season helped the Hawks win the Stanley Cup, he signed a four-year, $16 million contract exten-sion. That led to high expectations for 2013-14 that haven’t been met.

Bickell was limited to 7 minutes, 22 seconds of ice time during the Hawks’ 2-1 win over the Sabres on Sunday night and sits at 10 goals and two assists in 48 games.

A knee injury suffered Nov. 19 against the Avalanche caused him to miss a month, and a run of rough games while his knee con-tinued to heal resulted in being scratched for three games at the end of January. So is he back phys-ically to where he was before the injury?

A strong motivating factor is

the looming postseason. Bickell anticipates reaching the level he did a year ago, when he often dom-inated games and finished with nine goals and eight assists dur-ing the 23-game run to the Cup. That followed a regular season in which he had nine goals and 14 assists in 48 games.

The postseason performance had Bickell in consideration for the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs.

“The first three quarters of this season wasn’t what I was looking for, but I feel more my game is playoffs and I need to pick it up,” Bickell said. “You want to have a good regular season, but you need to get into the playoffs to make yourself that player. We have a good team, and to have a good push again, I know I’m going to help out in any way. Hopefully, I can do what I did before.”

Upon learning of that desire, Quenneville said: “Let’s hope so. He was a big factor. He was like a different player. He assumed a bigger role, his quality ice time changed dramatically and he influenced a couple of outcomes in series or games. This year, hope-fully that trend is clicking at the right time.”

SCOTT STRAZZANTE CHICAGO TRIBUNEAvalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov stops a shot by the Blackhawks’ Bryan Bickell at the United Center in Chicago on Jan. 14. Bickell’s strong performance in the playoffs last year hasn’t yet been repeated this year.

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BY JEFF BARKERMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

For years, the Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball tour-nament has had a distinctly North Carolina flavor, characterized by barbecue joints, sweet tea, Waf-fle House restaurants and south-ern drawls.

As familiar as Maryland became with Greensboro (N.C.) Coliseum, the Terps — who play there Thursday against Florida State in their final ACC tourna-ment before departing for the Big Ten — could never quite shake the sense that they were guests at somebody else’s party.

Maryland had its share of tour-nament success — winning titles in 1958, 1984 and 2004 — and its fans developed cherished road-trip traditions often involving golf, drinking, barbecued ribs, or all three.

But the Terps, who are 47-56 in the tournament since it began 60 years ago, sometimes felt dimin-ished in a sea of Carolina or Duke blue.

“It was always like we were the visiting team,” said former Mary-land coach Lefty Driesell, citing the proximity of Wake Forest, Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State, all within a 75-min-ute drive from Greensboro, which has hosted the tournament more than any other city.

Driesell’s teams lost five straight tournament champion-ship games — each one to a North Carolina-based school — before finally prevailing over Duke in 1984. Driesell couldn’t help but notice that the crowds weren’t excited about his team. It was as if the non-North Carolina schools were preliminary concert acts, and the Dukes, North Carolinas and North Carolina States were the headliners.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzews-ki was asked several years ago what he thought about playing in Greensboro, about 60 miles from the Duke campus in Durham.

“It’s been the best place to have it,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s a place — a neutral site. It’s where our

conference offices are.”But Maryland never considered

Greensboro — or Charlotte, N.C., where the tournament has been held eight times since 1990 — neu-tral territory.

Including this year, the tourna-ment has been held in North Caro-lina 19 times since 1990 and out-side the state five times.

Maryland lobbied for years to bring the tournament north. The games did come to the Wash-ington, D.C., area in 1976, 1981, 1987 and 2005. When it was held in downtown Washington for the first time in 2005, the Terps lost the opening game of the tourna-ment to Clemson.

In November, the ACC announced that the 2016 tourna-ment will be held at the Verizon Center in Washington, a 25-minute drive from Maryland’s campus. Since the Terps will be in the Big Ten by then, some have wondered whether the ACC is trying inten-tionally to make the school feel left out. The conference remains in a legal battle with Maryland

over the legality of a $52 million exit fee it says the school must pay for leaving for the Big Ten, effec-tive in July.

The conference said in Novem-ber that it selected Verizon Center because it has first-class amenities and an established track record in hosting big events, and because Washington is “an appealing tour-ist destination.” ACC officials indi-cated this week that the possibility of returning to Washington was considered before Maryland made its decision in November 2012 to leave for the Big Ten.

The Big Ten’s men’s basket-ball tournament, which began in 1998, has either been held in Chi-cago or Indianapolis throughout its history.

Next season, the ACC tour-nament will return to Greens-boro minus the Terps. Mary-land’s absence will surely sadden some longtime fans who have grown fond of making annual March treks south — even if out-numbered by the local schools’ supporters.

BY GREG LOGANMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Some would argue that it’s not the Big East Tournament that the late athletic director/com-missioner/visionary Dave Gavitt brought into being back in 1980. And it’s true that heavyweights Syracuse and Connecticut and the crowds they brought to Mad-ison Square Garden (MSG) are gone along with the likes of schools like Pitt, West Virgin-ia, Louisville and Cincinnati, who added to the aura in later years. But founding members St. John’s, Georgetown, Providence and Seton Hall remain along with Villanova, which joined the sec-ond year, and most important-ly, the basketball-only roots are firmly in place.

FavoritesVillanova (28-3) — The Wild-

cats are ranked No. 3 in the coun-try but have managed to fly under the radar all season: a neat trick. Some might point to their three blowout losses — one at Syracuse

and two to league rival Creighton — as a sign of weakness, but they have quality wins over Big 12 champ Kansas, CAA champ Del-aware, Iowa of the Big Ten and A-10 contender Saint Joseph’s. They also have a dynamic perim-eter trio of wing men James Bell and Darrun Hilliard and point guard Ryan Arcidiacono. Nova can score (79.0), defend (66.7) and is the best rebounding team (37.1) in the league.

Creighton (24-6) — Big East newcomer Creighton has the favorite for national player of the year in 3,000-point career scorer Doug McDermott and the No. 14 Bluejays lead the conference in scoring (79.9), field- goal percent-age (49.6) and three-point per-centage (42.0) and are second in free-throw percentage (74.8). Defenses that focus on McDer-mott risk the hot outside shooting of forward Ethan Wragge (10.7 points), and the guard combina-tion of Grant Gibbs and Austin Chatman knows how to swing the ball and find open shooters for easy baskets. McDermott

bypassed the NBA for a special senior year and is inspired to greatness.

Dark horseSt. John’s (20-11) — Often

described as the “most talent-ed” team in the Big East, the Red Storm disappointed with its 0-5 start in league play, and even after rebounding to finish 10-8 in league play had to deal with late-season turbulence off the court. But if freshman point guard Rysheed Jordan gets into the scoring mix with prov-en vets D’Angelo Harrison and JaKarr Sampson and shot-block-er Chris Obekpa anchors an ath-letic defense, then watch out for a surprise champ.

Others contendersXavier (20-11) — Musketeers

were inconsistent, going 5-7 at end. Post man Matt Stainbrook has been ruled out until the tour-ney final with knee injury, hurt-ing chances.

Providence (20-11) — Long Island’s Tyler Harris adds to core vets Bryce Cotton, LaDon-tae Henton and Kadeem Batts. Quarterfinal vs. St. John’s is big for NCAA hopes.

Georgetown (17-13) — Guard combo of Markel Starks and D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera is ter-rific, and Hoyas can beat any-one when they’re on as Michi-gan State win at MSG shows.

Story linesNew Big East at MSG. Atten-

dance might suffer without travel-ing throngs from Syracuse, UCo-nn and Louisville. A St. John’s run would do wonders for the gate.

How many NCAA bids for Big East? Old league dominated NCAA bracket routinely, includ-ing record 11 bids. Only Villanova and Creighton are sure bets.

Doug McDermott showcase. The son has dreamed of giving father, Creighton coach Greg McDermott, place in the Garden spotlight and, ultimately, a Final Four trip.

Players to watchDoug McDermott, Creigh-

ton, F — Nation’s leading scorer at 26.5 points adds 7.2 rebounds per game. Watching him move with the ball is a clinic.

Bryce Cotton, Providence, G — Versatile point guard is second in Big East scor-ing (21.7), first in assists (5.9), first in minutes played (40.1). Indispensable.

D’Angelo Harrison, St. John’s, G — Junior rebounded from season-ending suspension as a sophomore to regain leadership role, average 17.6 points, play tough in crunch.

Semaj Christon, Xavier, G — Outstanding scorer (17.0) and floor leader (4.1 assists, 1.4 steals), he embodies Musketeers’ tough-minded approach.

Ryan Arcidiacono, Villano-va, G — Wildcats wings James Bell (14.9 points) and Darrun Hilliard (14.4) are superb, but Arcidiacono (10.0, 3.5 assists) is the glue.

BY SHANNON RYANCHICAGO TRIBUNE

Depending on perspective, the Big Ten is either enjoying a renais-sance or is in the middle of a mess.

The Big Ten tournament, which begins Thursday in Indianapolis, might sort that out.

If Nebraska’s upset victory Sun-day night against Wisconsin is any indication, the conference tour-nament should be a place where anything can happen. The Corn-huskers locked up the No. 4 seed, earning a first-round bye along with top seed Michigan, No. 2 Wis-consin and No. 3 Michigan State.

A tournament trophy is at stake, but teams are vying just as much for NCAA tournament seeds.

The conference is likely to send at least six teams to the NCAA tournament, but the highest seeds probably will be No. 2 slots for Michigan and Wisconsin. A Big Ten tournament title would bol-ster the hopes of landing a No. 1 seed should a team like Villanova slip up in the Big East tournament.

With a No. 1 seed and a bye in the Big Ten tournament, the Wol-verines are on a five-game winning streak. Wisconsin’s nine-game winning streak ended against the Cornhuskers.

But is there a dominant team in the Big Ten?

The conference as a whole is perplexing. The No. 2 seed just blew it against Nebraska. The No. 3 seed, Michigan State, has lost seven of 12.

No. 6 seed Iowa, which was picked as a preseason dark horse, has collapsed. The Hawk-eyes have lost five of their last six games as they head into Thurs-day’s tournament opener against No. 11 Northwestern.

The No. 5-seeded Buckeyes, who will play No. 12 Purdue on Thursday, aren’t sitting pret-ty either. Their regular-season stretch run included losses at Penn State and Indiana before they bumped off the struggling Spartans.

Like Nebraska, Minnesota enters the conference tournament with something to prove.

The Golden Gophers helped themselves by beating Penn State on Sunday. They face the No. 10-seeded Nittany Lions again on Thursday.

No. 9 Illinois and No. 8 Indi-ana will kick off the tournament Thursday morning with both teams hoping for a miraculous tournament run.

BY SHANNON RYANCHICAGO TRIBUNE

Before two home games this sea-son, a black cat crossed the path of Nebraska coach Tim Miles outside Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Miles can’t pinpoint the oppo-nents they played those nights, but he remembers the results.

“I was like, are you kidding me?” Miles recalled on Monday. “But it didn’t matter. We still won. The black cat must’ve had some white on it somewhere, some white paws.”

This is a curses-be-damned kind of season for The Cornhuskers will enter the Big Ten tournament as the No. 4 seed with a first-round bye Thursday. They’ll play the Pur-due-Ohio State winner Friday.

The team that upset Wisconsin in the regular-season finale Sun-day, sparking a celebration usual-ly reserved for the football team, has quickly become the Big Ten darling. If they keep it up and earn their first NCAA tournament bid since 1998, expect this year’s Cin-derella to be wearing overalls.

After all, this is the team that was picked to finish last at Big Ten media day in October. The team that started Big Ten play 0-4.

The same program that went just 4-14 in the Big Ten in 2011-12, resulting in Doc Sadler’s firing. A team that a year ago, in Miles’ first season, earned just five Big Ten wins.

And now?The Cornhuskers (19-11, 11-7)

are on the verge of an NCAA tour-nament bid that, along with its sparkling new arena, could help take the program to the next level.

Along with regular-season champion Michigan, Nebraska is the Big Ten’s hottest team, win-ning 10 of its last 12. The Husk-ers hadn’t beaten a top-10 pro-gram since 1993-94 but have done it twice this season.

“We were ready for a winning culture,” said Miles, who started in NAIA and Division II before coaching at Colorado State. “... I just didn’t feel like any of those preconceived notions existed for us.”

And it hasn’t been with a com-plicated formula. Just one, he says, that produces good karma.

“It’s simply you recruit the right kind of guy,” Miles said. “Coach him the right kind of way. Good things happen.”

Breaking down Big East tournament

Nebraska’s turnaround leads to a bye in Big Ten Tourney

Maryland prepares for last ACC tourney

Big Ten tournament: Expect surprises, upsets along the way

CHUCK MYERS MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNECreighton guard Devin Brooks drives between Georgetown forward Reggie Cameron and Georgetown guard Jabril Trawick in the first half at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., on March 4. Georgetown defeated Creighton, 75-63.

SAM GREENE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEMichigan State Spartans guard Denzel Valentine turns over the ball against the Ohio State Buckeyes at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday. The Buckeyes defeated the Spartans, 69-67.

CHUCK LIDDY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNENorth Carolina's Marcus Paige and Duke forward Jabari Parker battle for a loose ball in Durham, N.C., on Saturday. The two teams will be playing in the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C., this week.

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Marching Illini to tour, perform through IrelandBY DECLAN HARTYSTAFF WRITER

Though most identify St. Pat-rick’s Day and Ireland with the color green, the Marching Illi-ni will be celebrating in blue and orange. On March 17, they will march down the historic winding streets of Dublin, Ireland, in the St. Patrick’s Day parade.

The trip to Dublin is nothing new for the band; this will be its seventh trip and its fi rst since 2008. Barry Houser, director of the Marching Illini and athletic bands, said that while he hopes the band can par-ticipate in the parade on a consis-tent basis, the trip is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

“For a lot of our students, this may be the last opportunity that they have to do some international travel to this extent,” Houser said. “I think most importantly is just the fellowship that each of them has with one another. We talk with our students a lot that these are performances and experiences of a lifetime — just being a member of the Marching Illini — that they aren’t going to have these experi-ences later on in life.”

The Marching Illini will travel to Ireland to see a variety of tour-ist attractions and perform for the seventh time in the St. Patrick’s Day Festival Parade in Dublin. The band will depart Thursday from Chicago’s O’Hare airport, and the trip will last a total of six days and fi ve nights.

The trip has been a trademark for the band since 1992, with one having been planned every three to four years. However, according to Houser, due to a variety of tran-sitions in leadership in the band program, they had a “brief hiatus” in holding the trip. Now in a stable place, the band looks forward to continuing the tradition.

“They have been wanting us to

get back there for a couple of years now,” Houser said of the festival organizers, students and alumni. “I think a lot of that is just built from the history back to 1992, and a lot of our alums have great memories of those trips and they want to see our current students experience the same things. So it made such great sense to continue with that tradition.”

This trip has been in the works for over a year, Houser said. While the trip typically fell over spring break in past years, students attending this year will miss four days of classes with the academic schedule’s recent shift.

Despite missing classes, the band will given opportunities throughout the trip that cannot be experienced in central Illinois.

Throughout the trip, the band will spend the fi rst two nights in Limerick and fi nish with two nights in Dublin. The Marching Illini will see not just tourist attractions like the Cliffs of Moher, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Guinness Store-house, but will also be allotted time each day to tour the areas of Limer-ick, Dublin and the town of Ennis, a traditional Irish town with a popu-

lation of more than 25,000.Even with the Marching Illini’s

amount of travel to games and ath-letic events across the county, the opportunity to perform in another nation is something that excites students and puts the band in a dif-ferent element.

“I mean, being in a different country gives you a different vibe as compared to game day,” said Ilona Widomska, drum major and senior in FAA. “Game day is really exciting and really just cheering on the football team or basketball team or wherever performing. But over there, we will be performing for people of a different country. So I think (there will be) a different vibe — especially being in Ireland and an area that we aren’t famil-iar with.”

On St. Patrick’s Day, the March-ing Illini will perform as the fi nal group in the parade, which begins at noon in Ireland or 7 a.m. in Illinois.

The parade is the highlight and one of the fi nal events of Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Festival, which lasts from March 14 to March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. This year’s parade has taken on a theme of “Let’s make history,” according to the festival’s website . The theme focuses on the past and is a part of a three-year sequence in which the festival will explore the past, present and future.

“I think it is a good representa-tion of Illinois in general,” Widom-ska said of what the Marching Illi-ni brings to the parade. “I think it also brings more of an excitement of a collegiate marching band over there, just seeing a different vibe.”

The parade will last approxi-mately two hours long, Houser said, and the route is approximate-ly 1.5 miles long in downtown Dub-lin. Ending just past St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the parade will pass the

O’Connell Bridge over River Liffey and near Trinity College Dublin.

Following the parade, the band will take a trip to the Guinness Storehouse, one of Ireland’s larg-est tourist attractions , where they will play a 15-to-20 minute perfor-mance. Amy Bischoff, music sec-tion leader for trumpets and senior in FAA, said that because the band will be standing on one of the three levels of the building, they will be able to “throw in our own personal grooves and personal dance” for a lot of the songs.

Despite the performances being

in such prominent settings, the trip for students is much more than just an opportunity to perform.

“I like that it is broken down, it is a trip for us,” Bischoff said. “It isn’t just a performance; it is a trip. I expect the performances to be good quality, but I don’t expect it to be mentally exhausting.”

The trip will bring a total of 325 people, Houser said, with 275 of them being members of the March-ing Illini. A variety of faculty, staff, parents and alumni will also join the band for the trip.

Despite the struggles of man-

aging the varying hotel and room situations, traveling and setting up the performances, Houser said that his main focus for the trip is the students.

“I am excited that our students get this experience ultimate-ly,” Houser said. “I hope the stu-dents enjoy it, and that is where my greatest satisfaction will come from ... (seeing) them have a great time and having those performanc-es of a lifetime.”

Declan can be reached at [email protected].

PHOTO COURTESY OF BARRY HOUSER The Marching Illini wear their warm-up suits and march down the streets of Dublin, Ireland, in the St. Patrick’s Parade in 2008. On Monday, the Marching Illini will perform in the parade for the seventh time since 1992.

“It isn’t just a perfor-mance; it is a trip. I expect the perfor-mances to be good quality, but I don’t

expect it to be men-tally exhausting.”

AMY BISCHOFF,TRUMPET SECTION LEADER


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