BY TEA LOJANICASTAFF WRITER

Kristin Williamson, Republi-can candidate for the 103rd rep-resentative seat, answered ques-tions from University students in a forum Tuesday night regarding her campaign, state policies and the University. The Illinois Stu-dent Senate sponsored the event in the Illini Union to increase stu-dent political participation and knowledge of the Nov. 4 midterm elections.

Williamson said her main goals as the potential House representa-tive would be to create more jobs and a better state of the econo-my for Illinois. She said sever-al things she would do include reforming the workers’ com-pensation system and making it easier for people to start small businesses.

Students asked questions pri-

marily concerning student debt and student loans. Williamson said she supports keeping inter-est rates on student loans down, but also wants to create a healthy, friendly, business environment in the community. She said she does not support raising the minimum wage in Illinois.

Williamson said the ongoing pension crisis is the biggest issue related to campus.

“This makes the University not as competitive as other Big Ten schools and makes it harder to recruit top tier faculty,” she said.

Williamson also took a stance against for-profi t MAP grant funding and said she would sup-port a bill that would no longer allow the grants to be used at for-profi t universities.

She stated her support for vari-ous student interest issues in the community, including fi rst-time

homebuyer tax credit, medical amnesty and the decriminaliza-tion of marijuana.

Garrett Hill, Williamson’s spokesman, said the campaign intended for the event to be an opportunity to engage with stu-dent voters.

“The University of Illinois is the economic engine of Champaign-Urbana,” he said. “The student body could sway the election.”

William J. Lynch, Committee on Community and Governmen-tal Affairs chairman and graduate student, said the committee origi-nally asked Carol Ammons, Dem-ocratic candidate for the seat, to participate in a debate with Wil-liamson for the event. Howev-er, due to scheduling confl icts, Ammons was unable to attend.

Tea can be reached at lojanic2@dailyillini.com.

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In many ways, local medical offi cials believe Champaign County is prepared for the possibility of Ebola cases in the area.

Carle Foundation Hos-pital has had a number of emergency management plans in place for years, which address events such as pandemic occurrenc-es, according to Dr. Dan-iel Bronson-Lowe, infection preventionist at Carle.

The Ebola epidemic, which is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection from an Ebola virus strain, is currently the largest out-break of the virus in histo-

ry, according to the Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention. It has affected multiple countries in West Africa and killed 4,555 peo-ple as of Oct. 20, including one American, Thomas Duncan . Five Americans have been affected by the Ebola virus.

“The current outbreak in West Africa is the result of several concurrent events, including the geographical spread of the virus among fruit bats, the practice of butchering animals which carry the virus, ritual buri-al practices, urban pover-ty, poor health care access and inadequate commu-

C-U plans Ebola safety measures

The Illinois Poison Center will be taking calls to the Ebola hotline, which was activated Thursday, and runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Public Health Sheila Porter said the hotline was created because of the concern surrounding Ebola. The hotline is a customer service for Illinois residents to help them get a better understanding of the infectious disease. As of Oct. 21 the hotline has received around 400 calls, since it launched. Porter said the hotline will continue as long the public has a need for it. The hotline can be reached at 1-800-889-3931.

Symptoms of the Ebola virus:

FeverSevere headache Muscle pain Weakness DiarrheaVomiting Abdominal pain Unexplained bleeding or

bruising

Symptoms may appear anywhere from two to 21 days after exposure to the Ebola virus; the average is eight to 10 days. Recovery from the virus depends on clinical care and the patient’s immune response. People who recover from an Ebola infection develop antibodies that last at least 10 years.

SOURCE: CENTERS FOR DISEASES CONTROL AND PREVENTION

BY ERIC FRIESSTAFF WRITER

Beginning this fall, applicants to the University will not have the option to apply early. The Uni-versity will have a single decision period and all applicants will be notified on Feb. 13 if they have been admitted or denied.

Applications will be due Dec. 1 for all prospective students. However, priority consideration for honors programs will be given to students who submit their application by Nov. 1, the former early application deadline.

The changes will not apply to transfer or graduate applications; only freshman applications will be affected.

Nancy Walsh , director of admissions operations, said the changes were made in response to rising numbers of early applicants.

“In December, it was getting harder and harder to make a true final decision on those students,” she said.

As a result, more students were

Republican House candidate details views to students

Early admission eliminated

Audit fi led for UI high schoolBY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER

Due to an accounting error that charged salaries to a closed account for sev-eral years, the University Laboratory High School has accumulated nearly $1 million of debt.

Jeff Walkington , direc-tor of the high school, said they are still not sure how the error happened.

The University fi led a request for an audit in September, which is now underway. School offi cials hope the audit will tell more than just how the error occurred.

“We hope that from this audit we will fi gure out how the error happened and also how fi nances can be better monitored,” Walk-ington said.

The audit will eventually reveal the error, but will not be complete for sever-al months.

In the meantime, the school created a budget task force, composed of school officials, to find where the school can make cuts and where it can gen-erate new funds, Walking-ton said.

Keith Marshall, associ-

ate provost of the Univer-sity said the Offi ce of the Provost is working with the high school to create a defi -cit reduction plan aimed at fi nding ways to “increase revenue or decrease cost without affecting the qual-ity of students’ education.”

The high school was originally funded by the

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SOURCE: University of Illinois Admissions ANNA HECHT THE DAILY ILLINI

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The percentage of students deferred has increased from 19.3 percent in 2010 to 30 percent in 2014.

OLIVIER DOULIERY TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEA protester stands outside the White House asking President Obama to ban fl ights in an effort to stop Ebola, the deadly epidemic that has already reached American soil, on October 17, 2014 in Washington, D.C.

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIKristin Williamson, Republican candidate for the 103rd representative seat, answers the questions of University students at the Illini Union on Tuesday night.

MATT HEBRON THE DAILY ILLINIUniversity Laboratory High School in Urbana is now over $1 million in debt due to an accounting error.

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WEATHERPOLICEChampaign

Criminal damage to property was reported at Beta Theta Pi, 202 E. Dan-iel St., around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

According to the re-port, an unknown offend-er threw a brick through a window at the fraternity.

Theft was reported in the 900 block of South Third Street around 4:30 p.m. Monday.

University A 24-year-old male was

arrested for two outstand-ing city of Champaign war-rants for failing to appear in court on the 500 block of East University Avenue around 9 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, the man was in a vehicle that was pulled over when an offi cer believed the oc-cupants matched the de-scriptions of people sus-pected in a recent battery.

Urbana A 23-year-old female

was arrested on the charg-es of domestic battery, criminal damage to prop-erty and trespassing in the 1200 block of Brookstone Court around 2 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, the offender and one of the victims are siblings and used to live together.

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nity sanitation,” said Dr. Robert Palinkas, director of McKinley Health Center.

Carle initially started to plan for potential Ebola cases in conjunction with McKinley, said Bronson-Lowe. Palinkas said McKin-ley has been preparing for the Ebola virus since the summer.

“We have engaged with various local health part-ners to arrange for safe care and transport, should the need arise. We initiat-ed screening to detect the presence of individuals who may have Ebola infection and have established proto-cols for managing patients who may have Ebola infec-

tion,” Palinkas said.Carle wants to expand

the amount of screening it is doing by identifying people with Ebola symp-toms who have had recent travel history to the affect-ed regions or anyone who may have had contact with an individual that might have contracted the Ebola virus, Bronson-Lowe said.

Bronson-Lowe said Carle is also working on develop-ing groups who would care specifi cally for patients with the Ebola virus. The hospi-tal is aiming to create a ded-icated team, which would limit the amount of people exposed to the patient. They are also identifying which isolation rooms they would use if there was a potential case, he said.

The rooms Carle has set

up are based on the CDC standards, and Carle is pre-pared to use any number of the rooms if necessary, Bronson-Lowe said.

Palinkas said in the case of a major outbreak on cam-pus, an Infectious Disease Work Group at the Universi-ty would recommend Ebola initiatives to the Chancellor.

“It’s been almost 40 years we’ve known about (Ebo-la).” Bronson-Lowe said. “There have been roughly 30 outbreaks in that time that have involved humans; most of them have been rel-atively small.”

The difference this time, he said, is that the disease got into a major urban cen-ter and was not immediate-ly contained, which made it extremely diffi cult to stop the virus from spreading.

“Media attention is play-ing a role in the high U.S. concern; thousands of peo-ple in the U.S. die every year from the fl u in the U.S., yet little is said about these deaths,” Palinkas said.

In 2010, Infl uenza and pneumonia were the ninth leading causes of death in the U.S. with a total of 50,097 deaths, according to the CDC . About three to fi ve million cases and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths of Infl uenza occur worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization.

Ebola has been wide-spread in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, accord-ing to the CDC. The Uni-versity currently has one student from Sierra Leone and no students from either Liberia or Guinea, accord-

ing to the Division of Man-agement Information.

However, the commu-nity is still taking steps to prepare in the case of a possible outbreak. The Champaign Fire Depart-ment began training the force to cover Ebola virus responses Tuesday, and will continue throughout the week, according to a press release.

The Champaign Fire Department is collaborat-ing with the Champaign Urbana Public Health Dis-trict, Urbana Fire Depart-ment, Pro Ambulance and Arrow Ambulance to pre-pare for a possible Ebola case in the area.

“If something does occur, and a case does arrive in our community, I think that the processes that we have

in place are going to go a long way toward protecting those individuals — protect-ing everyone, really,” Bron-son-Lowe said.

Melaney Arnold, commu-nications manager for the Illinois Department of Pub-lic Health, said the depart-ment is working to keep the community informed. The Illinois Poison center activated an Ebola hotline Thursday.

“We encourage people to educate themselves about Ebola and to call the hot-line with any questions,” Arnold said. “Concerns without accurate informa-tion and answers can lead to overreaction and unnec-essary fear.“

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University of Illinois as a means to experiment with curriculum, but most of the investment was withdrawn when it became a unit with-in the Offi ce of the Provost in 1983.

Marshall, said that while the high school is a unit of the Provost’s Offi ce and therefore a part of the Uni-v e r s i t y, its fi nanc-es are h a n d l e d different-ly because it is also a pub-lic high school and does not follow the same protocols.

The high school receives a $3 million yearly bud-get. Walkington said the school’s finances are very complicated, mainly because the school’s mon-ey “passes through many hands.”

Those hands include the high school’s business offi ce, its department of grants and contracts and the University’s business

offi ce. On the same note, Marshall stated that this is an odd accounting error due to the complexity of the school’s fi nances.

Despite being a public school located in the Urba-na school district, Univer-sity High does not receive funding through Urbana’s taxes. Instead, the school is funded mostly by the per-

pupil dis-t r ibut io n f i n a n c e d in the Illi-nois state b u d g e t and sup-plemented through an allocation from the Universi -ty Office of the Pro-vost, as wel l as parent and a l u m n i

donations. Thus far, no plans have

been made to cut any stu-dent programs.

Faculty salaries, which are already set for the year, will not be jeopardized and this should not affect Uni-versity students, Marshall said.

“We haven’t talked at all about cutting any pro-grams,” Walkington said. “Right now we’re looking for creative ways to bring

in money.”Marshall said until the

audit is complete, the two entities will work together to fi x the debt and create safeguards for the future.

Despite the circumstanc-es, Walkington said most of the parents and students have been supportive while school offi cials work on the issue.

“Parents, students and faculty have stayed extremely positive,” he said. “We all love Uni and want to support the school as best we can while we work to untangle this mystery.”

The University of Illinois Offi ce of University Audits declined to comment, stat-ing they could not disclose specifi c cases.

The public high school was established in 1921 on the northern edge of the University’s campus at 1212 W. Springfield Ave. and has a reputation for its alumni — three of whom have been awarded Nobel Laureates and one who was a Pulitzer Prize winner. Additionally, the high school was recognized by Newsweek as a “public elite” school in 2006 and 2007 based on students’ SAT scores.

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being deferred. With the new policy in place, all applicants will be con-sidered together, which will remove the need for deferrals.

Walsh said she thought the University was not sending the best mes-sage to students who were deferred. Since the num-ber of early applicants was rising, she said, the University was forced to defer qualified students.

“It seems to us that it would be more fair that we’re telling everybody, ‘You’re not going to hear until February,’ ” Walsh said.

Lisa R. Micele , director of college counseling at the University of Illinois Laboratory High School, said it is much better for students to hear back in February with the rest of the applicants, rather than be deferred in December and have to wait until the February date.

“The deferral was con-fusing and often turned students off as they were feeling unwanted or con-fused as to what the defer-ral meant. Students often believe that deferrals are glorified denials,” Micele said in an email.

However, some students feel the early application period was a useful way to let applicants get a head start on the process. Elliot Lee, freshman in LAS, said he thought the ear-ly application period was beneficial in separating the students who really want to attend the Univer-sity from those who think of it as a safety school.

“I think the early admis-sion process was a good way to find out who really cared,” he said.

Micele added that the later acceptance date could have negative effects for students who would have been accepted early. Since the later date would delay their possible acceptance by a couple of months, she said students would have to apply to more universities in case they were not accepted to the University of Illinois.

Other students, like Amy Narotsky, senior in ACES, believe the new system will benefit the admissions process.

“If there’s one deadline, then everyone finds out at the same time and then people can stop freaking out in October whether they’re hearing back from the early admissions dead-lines,” she said.

Walsh also said the yield rate, or the percent of

deferred students who are ultimately offered admis-sion and decide to enroll, has been declining.

The University hopes the new policy will reduce anxiety and confusion over deferrals, and will increase the number of students who ultimate-ly choose to attend the University.

“If they’re admitted, hopefully there won’t be that sour taste of ‘well, I was sort of second-mind in that pool,’ which real-ly wasn’t the case,” Walsh said.

She also said the Feb. 13 deadline still leaves plen-ty of time for accepted students to decide whether to enroll, since many stu-dents wait until late April to make a final decision on where to attend college.

Walsh said there is some nervousness among the admissions faculty over the changes, but overall there is agreement that this seems to be what is best for the University and for the students. Lisa R. Micele said she thinks the single date will be ben-eficial in the end.

“I support anything that creates a more humane admissions process,” Micele said.

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BY BILL HANNA AND GORDON DICKSONTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

DALLAS — UT Southwestern Medical Center will staff one of two designated biocontainment centers in Texas, providing spe-cially trained workers and equip-ment to treat Ebola and other infectious diseases, Gov. Rick Per-ry said on Tuesday.

The hospital will provide doc-tors, Methodist Health System will provide a building in Richardson and Parkland Hospital in Dallas will provide a laboratory, lab and pharmacy technicians as well as nurses for the unit. The second con-tainment hospital will be at Uni-versity of Texas Medical Branch Galveston.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hos-pital, where the fi rst Ebola death in the nation occurred Oct. 8, was not included in the partnership. Per-ry said Presbyterian “had paid a heavy price” in the battle against the virus — two of its nurses are infected.

Nurse Nina Pham’s condition improved from fair to good Tues-day, according to the National Insti-tutes of Health Clinic Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where she is being treated. Nurse Amber Vinson reportedly is doing well.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jen-kins said “it would be inhumane and not in their best interests nor in any-one else’s best interests” for Pres-byterian to continue treating Ebola

patients. In a press release, Texas Health said offi cials they would con-tinue to provide input, using their experience.

Both Presbyterian and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been criticized for their handling of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian Ebola patient who died at the hospital.

“As the fi rst U.S. hospital to face the challenge of both diagnosing and treating Ebola patients, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dal-las will continue to share our learn-ings with health offi cials at all levels of government, our fellow hospitals and the broader health care com-munity,” a statement from the hos-pital says.

The Methodist Campus for Con-tinuing Care in Richardson has empty beds and space for safely taking protective gear on and off. Up to two new Ebola patients could be admitted by Wednesday if nec-essary, said Dr. Sam Bagchi, chief medical information offi cer for Methodist Health System.

“This is a fully contained facil-ity, just like Nebraska and Emory,” Bagchi said. The only biocontain-ment centers for Ebola patients are the biocontainment unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and St. Pat-rick Hospital in Missoula, Montana.

Perry said at a news confer-

ence in Dallas Tuesday that the goal in Texas is “to rival the most advanced facilities in the world.”

Combined with Dallas County’s ability to test for Ebola, having two dedicated units to treat for Ebola is signifi cant for Texas, said County Judge Clay Jenkins.

Brett Giroir, director of the Tex-as Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response, said the “novel, collaborative partner-ship” between the three health care groups fi lls a pressing need.

“Only four days ago, we delivered our initial recommendations — the most critical and immediately nec-essary is the establishment of at least two Ebola, or more appropri-ately, two bio-containment treat-ment centers, trained and equipped to provide the highest levels of spe-cialized clinical care and health-care worker protection for Ebo-la patients and potentially other patients in the future with similar high consequence infectious dis-eases,” Giroir said.

The task force also made rec-ommendations about an Ebola triage protocol in hospitals. The protocol is under review at the Texas Department of State Health Services.

“Our capabilities encompass experts in biocontainment and are reinforced by a history of solving scientifi c and public health issues through fundamental and applied research as well as the clinical care we provide patients,” UT South-

western President Daniel K. Podol-sky said.

Parkland CEO Frederick Cerise said Parkland stands ready to par-ticipate and has a lengthy history of dealing with disasters includ-ing Hurricane Katrina. Cerise said Parkland would send a “spe-cial pathogen strike team” of 50

nurses and support personnel that are trained to deal with the haz-ards of Ebola.

“The team is trained to func-tion in enhanced personal protec-tive equipment, or PPE, in a high-threat environment so they’ll be safe while providing this care,” Cerise said.

Ebola treatment centers to open in Texas

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MICHAEL AINSWORTH TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEDr. David Lakey, Commissioner of the Texas Department of Health Services, with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and local hospital offi cials, announce the creation of special Ebola treatment centers, to open in Texas, during a press conference at UT Southwestern Medical Center on Tuesday.

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BY CAMILLE MURRAYSTAFF WRITER

The Urbana Fire Department recently began preparing respond-ers to deal with the possibility of earthquake effects in the area.

On Oct. 13, the Urbana Fire Department conducted train-ing drills for earthquake-related issues, such as trench and rope rescues. Capt. Dave Wisher of the Urbana Fire Department said the department’s technical rescue team has also been performing scenario-based team training to practice responding to the effects of earthquakes, such as how to deal with confi ned spaces, high angles and collapses.

“The chances of an earthquake occurring in Champaign Coun-ty are not very high,” said Timo-thy Larson, senior geophysicist at the Illinois State Geological Sur-vey. “But the chance of us feeling the effects of an earthquake from other regions in the area is much higher.”

The county’s proximity to the New Madrid and Wabash Val-ley seismic zones, which stem into southern Illinois, increases the possibility of nearby earth-quakes disturbing the area. The

latest signifi cant earthquake inci-dent in the Midwest occurred on April 18, 2008, when a 5.4-magni-tude earthquake, with an epicen-ter in southern Illinois, was felt in central Illinois and nearby states.

“The New Madrid earthquakes that we know of in our history have been the largest ones in the cen-tral United States, so people are concerned about a repeat of those earthquakes that happened in the New Madrid area,” Larson said.

Wisher said infrastructure could cause further problems if an earthquake were to occur because buildings in the area are not built to withstand earthquakes.

Still, John Barker, chief of the training and development division at the Champaign Fire Depart-ment, said Champaign County is overall well-prepared for earth-quakes and other crises.

Barker said both the Champaign Fire Department and Urbana Fire and Rescue Services are part of the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System, a response system for emergency situations.

“Because we’re a part of the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System, we can call on resources from all around the state,” Barker said.

“They have teams positioned in Decatur, Danville, Charleston, Bloomington, Springfi eld — all over the place.”

Both Champaign and Urbana are part of Mutual Aid Box Alarm System division 28. Champaign is in charge of the hazardous materi-al response team, which deals with problems concerning the handling of dangerous substances. Urba-na manages the technical rescue team, which deals with problems such as building collapses and people being trapped in confi ned spaces.

“You’ve got the best of both worlds, per say, by having two teams in the local area,” Barker said. “So if an earthquake did hap-pen, and we had a building col-lapse, or infrastructure failure that would cause a chemical spill or leak, we have teams here that can deal with it.”

Barker said that if an earth-quake were to occur, the fi re department’s primary concern would be life safety. They would also be faced with other issues, he said, including securing utili-ties, protecting people from bro-ken electrical and gas lines and checking on the welfare of those in

elderly and handicapped facilities.Wisher added that he hopes to

bring in other rescue teams from the region to participate in col-laborative training next spring. His department is also working on setting up further team train-ing in November.

Even though the chances of an earthquake are slim, Wisher

stressed the importance of being prepared and remaining composed if a situation were to occur.

“Just try to remain calm,” he said. “Because we do have a lot of good resources and people will be coming.”

Camille can be reached at cmurra24@dailyillini.com.

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HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTOR

Nothing makes us happier than a feel-good story — and that is exactly the case with the story of a newlywed couple in New York. Matt Ficarra, a New York resident who has been paralyzed from the chest down for the past three years, was able to walk down the aisle to his bride on Saturday, thanks to the magic world of technology. Ekso, a battery-powered robotic exoskeleton, was used to assist Ficarra in the walk toward his beautiful bride. While technological innovations can often scare us with their immense capabilities, they can also allow for amazing, life-changing things to happen. Happy honeymooning!

We may be halfway through Homecoming week, but there is still much fun to be had. We hope that campus is swimming in orange and blue today for Wear Orange Wednesday and Spirit Day — and, ideally, we’d love to see these colors across campus for the rest of the week. Among the other fun that is to come this week is the Illi-ni Block Party and the Homecoming Parade, both on Fri-day evening, and we can’t forget the football game bright and early on Saturday. Sure, we may be at the bottom of the Big Ten rankings, but in our insanely biased opinion, we are still number one. Per yesterday’s editorial, let’s show some Illini spirit!

When fall rolls around each year, we welcome the chang-ing leaves and crisp, sunny weather, but many of us think of it as the grace period before the time of year we really yearn for: The holiday season. One woman must have been a bit too anxious for Santa’s arrival this year, because she got herself stuck in a chimney. The motive behind the Southern California woman being in the chim-ney in the first place is unknown, but illegal activity is suspected. She had to be removed by chiseling away at the chimney and lubricating it with dish soap. Needless to say, despite the excitement many of us hold for Christ-mas, none of us are excited enough to try the old chim-ney entrance. And we are still going to assume that Santa has a magic glitter that makes him and his sack of pres-ents miniature-sized as he makes his way into our homes because Santa is real. ... right? Right.

University of Illinois Homecoming celebra-tions began in 1910 to

attract past alumni back to the school for a football game against a rival team. This cre-ated a long-standing tradi-tion at the University, giv-ing alumni an excuse to visit their former home, reconnect with old friends and celebrate the memories they made on campus.

But, today, one might ask, why should Homecoming mat-ter to us in the age of social networking?

In today’s world, Home-coming could easily be seen as a thing of the past. With social media and the Inter-net, Homecoming could seem unnecessary. People are eas-ily able to stay connected with one another and the Universi-ty through websites like Face-book and Twitter long after they graduate.

But in the pre-Internet world, it made sense for Homecoming to be a large event that many looked for-ward to and attended. Obvi-ously, there were no social

network sites to keep people connected. But despite our relatively new ability to main-tain connections, Homecom-ing remains important, as it always will.

The connections one has with their school and return-ing to it run deeper than social networking sites ever could.

Homecoming has become a tradition that unites us more deeply and in a different way than most social networks. It lets us share a face-to-face experience and celebrate our school with classmates and former students.

Another bonus: I don’t have to sift through countless selfies that get posted “just because.”

Homecoming brings people of all ages together to cele-brate the University. While we may all come from differ-ent places around the world and work in different indus-tries, we can all unite as one to celebrate the campus that made each of us who we are.

Gatherings like these are a rarity in today’s world.

Once it has brought us together, Homecoming allows us to share stories and memo-ries with one another, face-to-face. I have always associated the Homecoming atmosphere with school spirit, nostalgia

and pride, which creates a welcoming and fun environ-ment unrivaled by a website that we often check on a glow-ing computer screen when we’re bored.

I’ve been coming to the Uni-versity of Illinois Homecom-ing events with my father, an Illinois alumnus, since I was young. He would always show me around the University and tell me about his time here as a student. We would watch the parade, and I would marvel at all of the different clubs and groups the University had to offer, dreaming that I would one day be a part of this institution.

Now, as a University stu-dent, I’ve made my own mem-ories in these places.

As I look forward to cel-ebrating Homecoming yearly as a current student, I am also excited to be able to return for the event after I gradu-ate. While I can scroll though posts and pictures from my campus experience, Home-coming will give me an oppor-tunity to fully reflect on my time at the University.

About a month ago I went to my hometown’s Homecoming event. There was a parade, a football game and gatherings for former classes around town. Being an alumnus, rath-er than a student, reminded

me how different my life was before college.

Sure, there are plenty of statuses and pictures posted from high school classmates, especially for the social media trend #ThrowbackThursday, but being there and retrac-ing the steps I once walked as a high school student gave me an experience that social media cannot provide.

By returning to my old school, football field and friends, I saw a different per-spective of my high school. Being older and having expe-rienced more academically and socially, I realized just how small and simple things are in high school and how many of the things that I thought of as important then do not matter to me now.

Reflecting on this part of my past made me realize how someday I will probably look back on college in a similar way.

Homecoming is an event that is still relevant and rewarding even in today’s dig-ital world. It is a time when everyone is in the same place, connecting and reconnecting in ways that cannot be done with a computer.

Camron is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at cowens8@dailyillini.com.

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In my LAS 101 Freshman Seminar class, you can find an assortment of students

fit for “The Breakfast Club:” There’s the boy who sits three seats behind me who can solve Calculus II derivatives in his head, but can’t seem to draw a simple stick figure, the girl who always forgets her pen-cil and even sometimes where class is located, but can start a riveting conversation with any-one she meets; and me — with my knack for tripping over anything solid and my odd ability to quote any sitcom tele-vision show for hours on end.

Despite our different abili-ties, I know one thing: Every single one of us is intelligent in our own way.

People usually associate high grade point averages and honor rolls with intelligence. However, intelligence can be seen differently by each individual.

When looking up the word “intelligent,” one can find a definition that reads, “having or showing the ability to eas-ily learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations.”

Surely, this definition can’t be limited only to the num-ber of cities you memorize for

your Western civilization class or whether you can solve the daily crossword puzzle in the newspaper. I believe every-one is intelligent in their own unique way.

The wonderful thing about intelligence is that it knows no bounds; it goes much fur-ther than “street smarts” vs. “school smarts.”

What makes someone intel-ligent can be what they’re pas-sionate about, what they under-stand or simply what they’re good at. And some researchers agree with me.

Notable American psycholo-gist Howard Gardner first for-mulated this with his theory of multiple intelligences in his book “Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligenc-es.” This theory states that there are actually nine differ-ent types of intelligence that can manifest in an individu-al. Since then, this theory has gained incredible attention and accreditation within the field of education and in psychology books.

While this can include intel-ligence forms in such things as math and reading, it also includes unconventional types of intelligence. Intelligence forms such as intrapersonal, having self-awareness, and kin-esthetic, having strong body control, are often overlooked types of intelligences that exist among people like you and me.

This is not to say that we are all on the same level of intel-

ligence, but rather, we each have a strong suit in a specific type of intelligence.

Your ability to speak a for-eign language well after sim-ply living in a country for a couple of months shows incredible linguistic intelli-gence, while another’s ability to recall and sing any song or melody shows strong musical intelligence.

Bruce McCandliss, psychol-ogy professor at Vanderbilt University, who has published multiple studies on the subject, describes this well. “A lot of people have this intuition that if you’re bad at one thing, then you’re going to be bad at other things,” he said. “We should think of all children as a mosa-ic of things that they’re excep-tional at and things they might struggle with.”

The idea that there are multiple types of intelligenc-es could upset “book smart” individuals with A’s scrawled across their math tests and awards lined up against their mantel. Even more, this idea could anger those who believe that actual intelligence is only for people who know how to live in the “real world” — “street smart” people.

Those who disagree with this idea should realize that this does not discount the idea that “book smarts” or “street smarts” aren’t important. If anything, both are incorporat-ed into Gardner’s theory. It’s simply stating that the idea of

being intelligent doesn’t have to be reserved for the few.

When we reserve the word “smart” for people that meet our conventional standards of intelligence, we discount those who simply express their intel-ligence in other ways — often making them feel inferior.

Students on campus might experience this feeling of rejection if they didn’t meet the specific types of intelli-gence standards that some classes call for. For instance, an art major needing to take a statistics class to fulfill a gen-eral education requirement, or a computer science major needing to take Rhet 101: Col-lege Writing I — both can feel inferior about themselves if they don’t reach the caliber that students in that major reach.

That is why it is so impor-tant to stress the idea that there are multiple types of intelligence — each student has so much to offer at our university. To discount one of them would be to throw away their abilities.

Instead, let’s incorporate the notion that intelligence is not exclusive, but expansive. Like most things, the beauty of intelligence lies in its diver-sity. Just like you, me and my LAS 101 class, intelligence is as unique as we all are.

Kaanan is a freshman in LAS. She can be reached at kraja2@dailyillini.com.

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EDITORIALAdmission

changes make Illinois less competitive

When the students who applied to attend the Uni-versity for the 2015-2016 aca-

demic year receive their ad-missions decision letters, each of them will know immediate-ly whether they were accept-ed. Unlike in previous years, no prospective students will be deferred to a wait list.

Additionally, prospective stu-dents no longer have the option to be notified of their admission early. This year, there is only one application deadline (Dec. 1) and all prospective students will receive word of their sta-tus on the same date (Feb. 13).

While these changes to the admissions process were made with good intentions — to pre-vent students from feeling less valued than others and there-fore deciding to attend another school — we think they will do more harm than good for the University and the students in-terested in attending it.

The biggest problem we see with the aforementioned changes is that they hinder prospective students’ abili-ty to plan for their futures. Se-nior year of high school can be a stressful time for many stu-dents, and many students who intend to go to college put in a lot of time and planning in terms of their applications.

Many submit their appli-cations early and therefore should be able to reap the ben-efits of receiving decisions ear-lier.

Before, students had the op-tion to receive notification of their admittance to the Univer-sity by mid-December at the earliest, giving them nearly five full months to weigh their choices and look at other insti-tutions before the May 1 deci-sion deadline.

The December notification option also informed prospec-tive students of their admis-sions status early enough that they could still apply to many other institutions if they were deferred or denied by the Uni-versity. On the flip side, the early notification could also save students the hassle of needlessly wasting time and money on applications to insti-tutions they were less interest-ed in attending.

Unfortunately, because of the changes to the admissions pro-cess, prospective students can no longer enjoy those benefits. Our University is competitive, and it’s unlikely that students would apply to it without hav-ing a back-up plan if they didn’t get in. As such, they should have the option to know ahead of time if they should pursue that back-up plan.

Additionally, many other rep-utable Big Ten schools, such as Northwestern and the Univer-sity of Michigan, still offer De-cember decisions, which could potentially harm our Univer-sity. For example, if a student didn’t want to spend his or her last semester of high school applying to universities and ironing out details, said stu-dent might choose to apply to institutions that notify of ad-mittance status in December, regardless of interest in our University.

Overall, we feel that mak-ing these changes to the ad-missions process creates more challenges than benefits. While one admission date and one pile of applications might be eas-ier for administrators to sift through, it has the potential to hinder students’ decisions to attend or apply to the Univer-sity.

KAANAN RAJA

Opinions columnist

Frito-Lay got a little bit funky this week as the winner of the “Do Us a Flavor” contest, Wasabi Ginger, joined the ranks of Frito-Lay’s United States potato chip flavors. Sur-prisingly, this was probably the least weird submission out there. Among Wasabi Ginger’s final competitors were Bacon Mac & Cheese, Mango Salsa and — wait for it — Cappuccino. In other countries, some winners have been Shrimp, Sunday Roast and Pickled Cucumber. We appre-ciate a diverse food palette, but are some of these flavors worth making a hybrid baby with the beloved crunchy, savory potato chip? We sure don’t think so. We’ll take a bag of Barbecue, please.

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BY BRITTNEY NADLERSTAFF WRITER

Juggling drums with their feet, kicking bowls while rid-ing unicycles, diving through hoops and contorting are only a few of the acts the Nation-al Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China will be performing Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

“This group is travel-ing to the U.S. right now, so we’re glad to welcome them on tour,” said Bridget Lee-Calfas, advertising and publicity director for Kran-nert. “There is something so enchanting about circus art. It’s such an old tradition and one that we all can feel famil-iar with at some level.”

Columbia Artists Man-agement Inc. is managing the troupe and has worked with the University before, Lee-Calfas said. The per-formances they sent here in the past were “incredibly popular,” which led Kran-nert to book the National Acrobats.

To become a National Acrobat, talent scouts choose young acrobats to train at the Institute for Acrobatic Schooling, Training, and Rep-ertoire in Beijing at age six. They work six days a week and spend half of the school day training. They begin by

learning how to do a hand-stand and then advance in areas of tumbling, flexibility and dance.

More than 50 teachers work with 500 students, and after 10 years of practice, only a select few are chosen to actually perform for the company.

“Having a company come internationally ... they’re able to share not only what they do, but something about Chi-nese culture as well. This company is really going to blow people away with incredible acrobatics,” Lee-Calfas said.

Although the art has been around for thousands of years, the company was established in 1951 and has performed in Germany, Tur-key, Taiwan, Singapore, Bra-zil, Mexico, Israel and Chile, among others.

Cirque Peking is a cul-tural event for LAS Honors students to attend for free. This is the first event of its kind that more than 50 hon-ors students will attend, said Dr. Kirsten Bartels, director of LAS Honors.

“We really want to broad-en the horizons and experi-ence different cultures that will impact our students, and we thought this was a great idea,” Bartels said. “We decided rather than

go to a traditional play like we normally go to, that we were going to try something different.”

LAS Honors has gone on trips to the Japan House for tea ceremonies and other performances at Krannert, but this event can expose students to something they have never seen before, Bar-tels said.

“We know how we tradi-tionally view theater, and I like the idea of going to some-thing that’s a little non-tradi-tional,” she said. “(Students) have such incredible oppor-tunities to go and experi-ence different enrichment and cultural activities that you’ve got to try it. For ten bucks, you can go see some world class performances and productions.”

Brittney can be reached at banadle2@dailyillini.com.

BY BRITTNEY NADLERSTAFF WRITER

It’s called the Red Zone — the period of time at the start of the school year when most college sexual assaults occur.

Although the time period is debated, ranging from the first six weeks of school to any time between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, more than half of all campus sex-ual assaults occur between August and November.

During a time when thou-sands of students are living on their own for the first time and are exposed to a new party culture, students are more vulnerable than ever for an attack, accord-ing to Molly McLay, assis-tant director of the Women’s Resources Center.

“The issue isn’t with the behavior of the first year students — the issue is with these people in power who create the party scene, who create the bar culture,” she said. “that is created to prey on the vulnerability and lack of information that students coming in may have.”

According to The Campus Sexual Assault Study by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2007, freshmen and sopho-more women are more like-ly than upperclassmen to be assaulted. McLay expressed that this does not equate to responsibility. Just because someone does not have the knowledge of assault does not mean they should be more likely to be attacked.

“A lot of the focus is on how do we teach women how to not be vulnerable in those situations,” McLay said. “The real change is going to occur when we shut down this party culture that’s set

up to get people in the door.” First-year students are

also still signing up for FYCARE and may not have any knowledge about sex-ual assault, said Alex Nel-son, graduate assistant at the Women’s Resources Cen-ter and a graduate student in Social Work.

“I think that’s usually the first instance where people

get to learn about sexual assault in a formal setting, in a space designed purely to talk about sexual assault,” Nelson said.

According to the report, fraternity men are more likely to be perpetrators while sorority women are more likely to be assaulted than non-Greek members. Those in Greek life tend to drink more, which puts them at a higher risk for assault.

On campus bars, alcohol plays a large role in assaults. According to McLay, when someone is buying drinks for another person, there can be an expectation that the receiver is obligated to hook up with that person.

“You feel like you can’t say no,” she said. “I’ve cer-tainly had people try to buy me drinks at bars, and I felt

weirded out and didn’t have an out.”

At least 50 percent of assaults involve the use of alcohol or drugs by the per-petrator, survivor or both, according to the study.

While she was at a cam-pus bar, McLay said she was groped by a college-aged man. She informed the bouncer, who immediately knew the man she was talk-ing about.

“The guy asked, ‘Is it this guy? He’s been a problem,’” she said.

Anthony Cortese, chief marketing officer at Fort-ney Companies, which is the corporate office for Broth-er’s, said that all sexual assault cases would imme-diately be turned over to authorities.

“Any normal bar or any restaurant open late at night should have their own secu-rity personnel, which we do, and they’ll try to head some-thing off as quickly as they can,” Cortese said. “The training that we give to our security personnel is to try to cease the incident as soon as possible in a non-violent way.”

Women who experience sexual assault before enter-ing college are almost seven times as likely to experience assault in college, accord-ing to the study. Nearly 58 percent of attacks occur at a party.

“You can’t change the cul-ture in a night, but every individual bit does have an impact,” Nelson said. “Even if you only intervene once or in one way, it changes the culture one day at a time.”

Brittney can be reached at banadle2@dailyillini.

Krannert Center hosts China’s National Acrobats

Increased risk of sexual assault in fall semester in party culture

majorly impacted dining and the University.

“It has strengthened our partnership with ACES, which has opened oth-er doors for collaboration efforts on campus, serving local produce from farm to table,” Anderson said.

In addition to producing high quantities of produce for University Dining, the farm is also consistently researching better ways to achieve harvestable pro-duce during the winter months. This includes suc-cessfully transitioning into

different seasons.The Farm also sells extra

produce on the Main Quad every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., May through November.

Having the ability to har-vest year-round also allows students to have continuous options for volunteering.

The farm welcomes all volunteers Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tess O’Leary, sopho-more in DGS, heard about the farm from her art pro-fessor, Steve Kostell, who makes paper out of prairie grasses, corn and soy.

“I volunteered on the farm because I love plants and

have always been very into the environmental move-ment,” O’Leary said.

After volunteering on the farm, O’Leary felt she gained a better idea about what it takes to grow her own food and the methods used to promote sustainable food growth.

“Not enough people recog-nize the perpetuated habits that degrade our very plan-et and take action to change our unhealthy behaviors,” she said. “The education is prevalent, but the action is limited.”

Frances can be reached at fwelch2@dailyillini.com.

peteers completely visible to the audience.

Blind Summit’s puppe-teers use dry, sarcastic and sometimes very adult humor as well as snappy improvisa-tion to bring the character of Moses to life, Down said. Both Moses and the puppe-teers break the third wall by interacting and joking with each other during the per-formance, making Moses seem more like an actor than a man-operated pup-pet. This is, in Down’s opin-ion, what makes “The Table” so unique.

“Our work is very char-

acter driven and character-improvisation based. It’s aimed at adult audiences whereas a lot of puppetry is aimed at children. We’re very interested in telling puppet-driven stories, and my ambi-tion is for a puppet to perform as well as a great actor does, for a puppet to really be a star of the show,” Down said. “Our work is very known for being quite funny, and we tend to try and explore the relation-ship between the puppet and the puppeteer.”

Scott Salvatierra, soph-omore in DGS, expressed enthusiasm for the unique delivery that the combina-tion of puppetry and British humor will bring to the stage.

“I’m a huge fan of British

comedy and the dry humor that comes with it,” he said. “I’m excited to see how the puppet plays in delivering that kind of comedic style, especially since it doesn’t have other puppets to inter-act with and feed off of.”

Down said he simply hopes audiences appreciate the puppetry and enjoy the performance.

“I hope first of all they have a really good time, and they laugh, and they think and they’re moved,” he said. “I hope people are touched by it. I hope that they open their eyes to the possibility of puppetry.”

Elizabeth can be reached at edye2@dailyillini.com.

PUPPETEERSFROM 6A

FARMSFROM 6A

What: National Acrobats of the People’s Republic of ChinaWhere: Krannert Center for the Performing ArtsWhen: 7 p.m. WednesdayCost: Free for LAS Honors students and $10 for other students

A lot of the focus is on how do we

teach women how to not be vulnerable in

those situations.”MOLLY MCLAY

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

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BY FRANCES WELCHSTAFF WRITER

At its intersection with South Windsor Road, Lincoln Avenue turns into a gravel driveway that leads to barns, sheds and a fenced-in sev-en-acre area of plots full of rows of plants. With only a few greenhouse frames and vari-ous crops outside, the Sustain-able Student Farm is so much more than what it appears.

“The main purpose of the SSF is to be a seasonal pro-duce farm that sells produce strictly to the dining halls,” said Zack Grant, manager and farm director of the SSF. Grant, along with Bruce Bra-nham and Wes Gerald, played a key role in the birth of the farm back in 2009.

The established relation-ship between the SSF and Uni-versity Dining formed when Bruce Branham, professor of Crop Sciences , and Dawn Aubrey , associate director of Housing for Dining, had a conversation about sustain-able food production.

“It only seemed logical to have produce that was pro-duced locally, which also

achieved our academic mis-sion,” Aubrey said. “I think it’s just another form of edu-cation. It gives us an opportu-nity to support the academic mission and also educate our students about sustainabil-ity. By 2050, it is estimated that we will not have enough protein to supply the growing population, so we have some-thing called Be-Flexitarian; having one meal a week that is vegetarian and vegan.”

Grant said from a con-sumer standpoint, this farm is a great way to show indi-viduals that it is possible to grow different types of pro-duce year-round if one uses the techniques and systems demonstrated by SSF.

One technique that is new to SSF during the colder months is high tunnel production, which they are transitioning into this month.

“When you look at it, the fi rst thing most people say is, ‘Oh that’s a greenhouse.’ It can be, but it is a passive-ly solar-heated greenhouse. This means that there is no heat input or cooling involved in it,” Grant said. “It’s a steel

structure with plastic cov-ering, and you’re creating microclimates.”

The high tunnels are con-nected to a moveable track so it can be rolled from one plot to another. This gives shelter to the crops that can no lon-ger survive outside and can then thrive during whichev-er microclimate the high tun-nels create.

For the winter, as the nor-mal outdoor production is coming to an end, the SSF begins to plant winter-sus-tainable crops, such as salad greens and root crops. As it continues to get colder, the high tunnels protect these crops from exposure through winter, which allows SSF to continue supplying produce to University Dining.

During the winter months, most farms are unable to pro-duce any type of crop, but the high tunnel protection allows the farm to harvest all the way through Christmas break and February.

“After Christmas break, we’re really into the winter months, and at that point, most farmers are doing nothing.

For us, if crops like spinach and kale grow nicely, we can then harvest what is still har-vestable in the middle of win-ter,” Grant said. “Even in Jan-uary, we can bring produce to dining, replant the same set again and have a second set ready for March.”

The ability to supply

fresh produce 12 months out of the year allows the SSF to supply one to fi ve percent of produce to all of University Dining.

Carrie Anderson, exec-utive chef for Residential Dining, feels that SSF has

BY ELIZABETH DYESTAFF WRITER

Blind Summit Theatre , whose colossal 60-foot tall Voldemort puppet performed at the 2012 London Olympics , has returned to the United States from England with a tour that includes one 2-foot tall, three-man-operated pup-pet and a table as the prop.

Inspired by both British playwrights and world reli-gion, “The Table” stars a cantankerous puppet that intends to tell the story of Moses through his own per-formance. But as he per-forms his version of the story, he becomes distracted with his life questions and drifts off into his own humorous, existential crisis, while the puppeteers who control him improvise and interact with

both him and the audience. As part of its U.S. tour

and its fi rst-ever perfor-mance at the University, the British group, Blind Sum-mit Theatre, will perform “The Table” on Wednesday through Friday at 7:30 p.m. as well as Saturday at both 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Krannert Center for the Per-forming Arts . Tickets for the shows range from $10 to $38, and can be purchased over the phone or at Krannert’s ticket offi ce.

“One of the inspirations for the show was to do a full show with just one puppet, where one puppet does the whole show like a stand up comedi-an would,” said Mark Down, cofounder of Blind Summit and artistic director for “The Table .”

Moses, the cardboard-headed star puppet of the production, is a cranky, argu-mentative old man puppet, who spends the entire hour-and-10-minute runtime of the show, performing on one sin-gle table .

Down said he believes that much of the show’s ability to be relatable and improvisa-tional stems from the scen-ery of the show — the single table. This allows the puppet to talk and joke with the audi-ence as if there is no stage separating them.

While Down voices the puppet, he is joined by Sean Garratt and Laura Caldow in operating the puppet’s move-ments. These three puppe-teers are the only cast mem-bers on stage for the entire duration of the show. The

puppet is split into three por-tions with one puppeteer con-trolling the head, one oper-ating the hands, and one maneuvering the feet. The show is performed in a form of traditional Japanese pup-pet theatre — Bunraku — which leaves the three pup-

Blind Summit Theatre arrives at Krannert

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ZACH GRANTTop: The Sustainable Student Farm operates year-round to bring fresh produce to University Dining. Food is grown in the high tunnels during winter to and in the farm’s fi elds during summer. Above: A tractor trailer is loaded with produce from the farm.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NIGEL BEWLEYBlind Summit Theatre will perform “The Table,” starring a cantankerous puppet, on Wednesday through Friday at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

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BY BRITTNEY NADLERSTAFF WRITER

Juggling drums with their feet, kicking bowls while rid-ing unicycles, diving through hoops and contorting are only a few of the acts the Nation-al Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China will be performing Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

“This group is travel-ing to the U.S. right now, so we’re glad to welcome them on tour,” said Bridget Lee-Calfas, advertising and publicity director for Kran-nert. “There is something so enchanting about circus art. It’s such an old tradition and one that we all can feel famil-iar with at some level.”

Columbia Artists Man-agement Inc. is managing the troupe and has worked with the University before, Lee-Calfas said. The per-formances they sent here in the past were “incredibly popular,” which led Kran-nert to book the National Acrobats.

To become a National Acrobat, talent scouts choose young acrobats to train at the Institute for Acrobatic Schooling, Training, and Rep-ertoire in Beijing at age six. They work six days a week and spend half of the school day training. They begin by

learning how to do a hand-stand and then advance in areas of tumbling, flexibility and dance.

More than 50 teachers work with 500 students, and after 10 years of practice, only a select few are chosen to actually perform for the company.

“Having a company come internationally ... they’re able to share not only what they do, but something about Chi-nese culture as well. This company is really going to blow people away with incredible acrobatics,” Lee-Calfas said.

Although the art has been around for thousands of years, the company was established in 1951 and has performed in Germany, Tur-key, Taiwan, Singapore, Bra-zil, Mexico, Israel and Chile, among others.

Cirque Peking is a cul-tural event for LAS Honors students to attend for free. This is the first event of its kind that more than 50 hon-ors students will attend, said Dr. Kirsten Bartels, director of LAS Honors.

“We really want to broad-en the horizons and experi-ence different cultures that will impact our students, and we thought this was a great idea,” Bartels said. “We decided rather than

go to a traditional play like we normally go to, that we were going to try something different.”

LAS Honors has gone on trips to the Japan House for tea ceremonies and other performances at Krannert, but this event can expose students to something they have never seen before, Bar-tels said.

“We know how we tradi-tionally view theater, and I like the idea of going to some-thing that’s a little non-tradi-tional,” she said. “(Students) have such incredible oppor-tunities to go and experi-ence different enrichment and cultural activities that you’ve got to try it. For ten bucks, you can go see some world class performances and productions.”

Brittney can be reached at banadle2@dailyillini.com.

BY BRITTNEY NADLERSTAFF WRITER

It’s called the Red Zone — the period of time at the start of the school year when most college sexual assaults occur.

Although the time period is debated, ranging from the first six weeks of school to any time between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, more than half of all campus sex-ual assaults occur between August and November.

During a time when thou-sands of students are living on their own for the first time and are exposed to a new party culture, students are more vulnerable than ever for an attack, accord-ing to Molly McLay, assis-tant director of the Women’s Resources Center.

“The issue isn’t with the behavior of the first year students — the issue is with these people in power who create the party scene, who create the bar culture,” she said. “that is created to prey on the vulnerability and lack of information that students coming in may have.”

According to The Campus Sexual Assault Study by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2007, freshmen and sopho-more women are more like-ly than upperclassmen to be assaulted. McLay expressed that this does not equate to responsibility. Just because someone does not have the knowledge of assault does not mean they should be more likely to be attacked.

“A lot of the focus is on how do we teach women how to not be vulnerable in those situations,” McLay said. “The real change is going to occur when we shut down this party culture that’s set

up to get people in the door.” First-year students are

also still signing up for FYCARE and may not have any knowledge about sex-ual assault, said Alex Nel-son, graduate assistant at the Women’s Resources Cen-ter and a graduate student in Social Work.

“I think that’s usually the first instance where people

get to learn about sexual assault in a formal setting, in a space designed purely to talk about sexual assault,” Nelson said.

According to the report, fraternity men are more likely to be perpetrators while sorority women are more likely to be assaulted than non-Greek members. Those in Greek life tend to drink more, which puts them at a higher risk for assault.

On campus bars, alcohol plays a large role in assaults. According to McLay, when someone is buying drinks for another person, there can be an expectation that the receiver is obligated to hook up with that person.

“You feel like you can’t say no,” she said. “I’ve cer-tainly had people try to buy me drinks at bars, and I felt

weirded out and didn’t have an out.”

At least 50 percent of assaults involve the use of alcohol or drugs by the per-petrator, survivor or both, according to the study.

While she was at a cam-pus bar, McLay said she was groped by a college-aged man. She informed the bouncer, who immediately knew the man she was talk-ing about.

“The guy asked, ‘Is it this guy? He’s been a problem,’” she said.

Anthony Cortese, chief marketing officer at Fort-ney Companies, which is the corporate office for Broth-er’s, said that all sexual assault cases would imme-diately be turned over to authorities.

“Any normal bar or any restaurant open late at night should have their own secu-rity personnel, which we do, and they’ll try to head some-thing off as quickly as they can,” Cortese said. “The training that we give to our security personnel is to try to cease the incident as soon as possible in a non-violent way.”

Women who experience sexual assault before enter-ing college are almost seven times as likely to experience assault in college, accord-ing to the study. Nearly 58 percent of attacks occur at a party.

“You can’t change the cul-ture in a night, but every individual bit does have an impact,” Nelson said. “Even if you only intervene once or in one way, it changes the culture one day at a time.”

Brittney can be reached at banadle2@dailyillini.

Krannert Center hosts China’s National Acrobats

Increased risk of sexual assault in fall semester in party culture

majorly impacted dining and the University.

“It has strengthened our partnership with ACES, which has opened oth-er doors for collaboration efforts on campus, serving local produce from farm to table,” Anderson said.

In addition to producing high quantities of produce for University Dining, the farm is also consistently researching better ways to achieve harvestable pro-duce during the winter months. This includes suc-cessfully transitioning into

different seasons.The Farm also sells extra

produce on the Main Quad every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., May through November.

Having the ability to har-vest year-round also allows students to have continuous options for volunteering.

The farm welcomes all volunteers Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tess O’Leary, sopho-more in DGS, heard about the farm from her art pro-fessor, Steve Kostell, who makes paper out of prairie grasses, corn and soy.

“I volunteered on the farm because I love plants and

have always been very into the environmental move-ment,” O’Leary said.

After volunteering on the farm, O’Leary felt she gained a better idea about what it takes to grow her own food and the methods used to promote sustainable food growth.

“Not enough people recog-nize the perpetuated habits that degrade our very plan-et and take action to change our unhealthy behaviors,” she said. “The education is prevalent, but the action is limited.”

Frances can be reached at fwelch2@dailyillini.com.

peteers completely visible to the audience.

Blind Summit’s puppe-teers use dry, sarcastic and sometimes very adult humor as well as snappy improvisa-tion to bring the character of Moses to life, Down said. Both Moses and the puppe-teers break the third wall by interacting and joking with each other during the per-formance, making Moses seem more like an actor than a man-operated pup-pet. This is, in Down’s opin-ion, what makes “The Table” so unique.

“Our work is very char-

acter driven and character-improvisation based. It’s aimed at adult audiences whereas a lot of puppetry is aimed at children. We’re very interested in telling puppet-driven stories, and my ambi-tion is for a puppet to perform as well as a great actor does, for a puppet to really be a star of the show,” Down said. “Our work is very known for being quite funny, and we tend to try and explore the relation-ship between the puppet and the puppeteer.”

Scott Salvatierra, soph-omore in DGS, expressed enthusiasm for the unique delivery that the combina-tion of puppetry and British humor will bring to the stage.

“I’m a huge fan of British

comedy and the dry humor that comes with it,” he said. “I’m excited to see how the puppet plays in delivering that kind of comedic style, especially since it doesn’t have other puppets to inter-act with and feed off of.”

Down said he simply hopes audiences appreciate the puppetry and enjoy the performance.

“I hope first of all they have a really good time, and they laugh, and they think and they’re moved,” he said. “I hope people are touched by it. I hope that they open their eyes to the possibility of puppetry.”

Elizabeth can be reached at edye2@dailyillini.com.

PUPPETEERSFROM 6A

FARMSFROM 6A

What: National Acrobats of the People’s Republic of ChinaWhere: Krannert Center for the Performing ArtsWhen: 7 p.m. WednesdayCost: Free for LAS Honors students and $10 for other students

A lot of the focus is on how do we

teach women how to not be vulnerable in

those situations.”MOLLY MCLAY

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

The atmosphere at the “Big Pond” is unlike any other in college hockey.

Students and locals alike fi le up the stairs to sit in the upper deck of the Illinois Ice Arena. Those lucky enough to get to the rink early are rewarded with front-row seats that allow fans to lean right over the ice. Others are rewarded with a good view of the rink and the team’s ban-ners — reminders of past champion-ships on the walls.

Being an opponent at the rink is what some might consider a night-mare. Outside of the bigger rink, the home fans are relentless. At player introductions, visitors are met with chants that are not suitable to pub-lish. An opposing goalie dare not make a mistake or he risks hear-ing chants of “it’s all your fault.” And if an opponent does something that upsets fans, the student section, conveniently placed right above the opposing bench, will let him have it.

With an atmosphere like this, you might think that Illinois hockey is a Division I program.

It’s not, however.

SPORTS1BWEDNESDAY

Recruit Thomas commits to Texas A&M over IllinoisBY ALEX ROUXSTAFF WRITER Elijah Thomas, the No. 29 player in the Class of 2015 according to ESPN.com, has committed to Texas A&M over Illinois and three other schools.

The 6-foot-9 forward picked the Aggies over the Illini, LSU, SMU and Oklahoma State.

Thomas’ recruitment had many Illini fans hopeful that he would end up committing to Illinois and head coach John Groce following a successful offi cial visit to the Champaign campus last month. Following the visit, Thomas named Illi-nois the leader in his recruit-ment, and reaffi rmed that sen-timent two weeks before his announcement.

However, the Illini couldn’t sustain their momentum, as Thomas became the latest high-profi le target to spurn Groce and go elsewhere.

Illinois was the geograph-ic outlier for Thomas, as Tex-as A&M is much closer to his Dallas home, as were the other three schools on his fi nal list.

As the recruiting of the

Class of 2015 begins to shrink and basketball season approaches, the Illini will be sure to put a full-court press on Carlton Bragg out of Cleve-land. Bragg is one of the best players still remaining in the class and is considering the Illini along with Kansas, Kentucky and UCLA. Expect Groce and his staff to moni-tor guards Marcus LoVett of Chicago and Jamal Murray of Canada into the spring as well.

A return of 6-foot-8 forward Darius Paul to the Illini ros-ter in 2015-16 is not out of the question either. Paul is cur-rently serving out a one-year suspension while playing at a junior college in Texas, but will be available to return to the Illini if he takes care of business off the court, accord-ing to Groce.

Aaron Jordan, D.J. Williams and Jalen Coleman-Lands cur-rently make up Groce’s 2015 class.

Alex can be reached at roux2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @aroux94.

Fans should get excited for this basketball team

Is anyone else ready for basketball season to start?

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to watch actual Illinois basketball, featuring actual Illini players.

You can only do so many fantasy projections of lineups two years down the road, hap-pily plugging in every fi ve-star recruit on John Groce’s radar into the Illini’s 2016 National Championship roster. I don’t blame you. I do the same thing every fall while averting my eyes from the disaster that is Illinois football.

No, Illinois didn’t get Eli-jah Thomas on Tuesday. The Illini didn’t get Jalen Brunson or Jawun Evans, either. Illi-nois hasn’t had much luck with public press conference-style announcements since Austin Colbert donned an orange and blue cap back in 2012.

Recruiting is an interest-ing thing to follow, and it’s easy to see why fans track it closely. It’s fun to speculate about who might be suiting up for the beloved team down the road, and it can be entertain-ing to watch how recruiting classes shake out. Fans also tend to put recruits on a pedes-tal, overestimating their shiny new toys and valuing them above the old, reliable ones they’ve had for years.

I’ve said before that Groce has already landed a solid recruiting class in the form of Aaron Jordan, D.J. Williams and Jalen Coleman-Lands. It’s true. All three will likely be very good college basketball players. But they still won’t play for the Illini this season.

This season starts in 23 days, and the window to land players in the recruiting class of 2015 is closing fast. Sure, Groce will keep an eye on potential spring targets, but his focus will be on the 2014-15 version of Illinois basket-ball. At this point, our focus should be too.

So, since no one is expecting any major recruiting develop-ments for a while, all of this pent-up Orange Energy has to go somewhere, right? What are the people who tweeted “#Illijah” non-stop for the past month going to do now?

Let’s pour that attention into the current Illini squad. Remember, these guys were all recruits too at one point, and they actually chose to play for Illinois.

Show some love for senior Nnanna Egwu, who seems to

be on a mission to leave a last-ing legacy at Illinois in his senior year. Groce has been heaping praise on the guy, and fans should too. He will be a huge key to the success of this team.

How about a shout-out for the shooters? Ahmad Starks, Aaron Cosby and Kendrick Nunn, who will stretch oppos-ing defenses this year. Last year’s Illini sorely lacked an outside threat, which likely was the difference between an NCAA berth and an NIT bid.

The bruisers deserve a bump too. Rayvonte Rice, Mal-colm Hill and Leron Black will fi ll up stat sheets this year, thanks to their individual tal-ent combined with the afore-mentioned three-point marks-men opening up driving lanes.

If Illini Nation can show support for some guys that might someday play for Illi-nois, they should be able to show it for our current ros-ter, too. That includes Colbert, point guard Jaylon Tate, back-up centers Maverick Morgan and Michael Finke, and walk-ons Mike LaTulip, Alex Aus-tin and Cam Liss. Don’t for-get injured point guard Tracy Abrams either, who will be an off-the-court leader for the Illini this season.

Illinois fans who are down about last season’s NIT appearance need to realize the Illini were playing NCAA tournament-level basketball down the stretch last season, and that was without anyone who could consistently shoot the ball. This is an NCAA tournament team this year, period. I believe Groce will have the Illini in the Top 25 for the majority of the season, as well.

Don’t get too down about this latest recruiting setback. Actual basketball season is just around the corner, and it’s going to be a good one. Let the national media, who have picked the Illini to fi nish any-where from sixth to tenth in the Big Ten this year, sleep on this team. I bet they’ll be voting the Illini into the polls before you know it.

Groce deserves praise for his recruiting efforts this fall. But his current team deserves your attention going forward, and it will deserve credit soon enough.

Illini fans didn’t get to drive the fl ashy, brand-new car off the lot on Tues-day. Good thing the current one runs just fi ne, and just might go farther than anyone expects.

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

ALEX ROUX

Basketball columnist

Homecoming marks 1-year anniversary of last time Hardee saw his mother healthyBY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER

This year Homecoming will be different for wide receiver Justin Hardee.

His mom, Estella Per-ryman, won’t be sitting behind the 35-yard line. They won’t go to his apart-ment after the game to eat. And he won’t hear her say ‘I love you.’

It was at last year’s game where he saw his mom as herself for a fi nal time.

She wasn’t lying in a hospital bed; rather she was alive and well, cheer-ing on her son and his fel-low Illinois football team members.

“When I went back home, it was when she was real-ly sick,” Hardee said. “She wasn’t herself. So it was just real special to know that the last time I did see her was at an Illini football

game.”Perryman died later

that year in December at the age of 55 after battling lung disease for close to 15 years. The disease had been a constant theme in Hardee’s life, as he grew up watching his mother go to doctors’ offi ces, take medi-cation and use a breathing machine on a regular basis.

And while Hardee made it home to Cleveland in time for her passing, it wasn’t the same. He got to be with her and the rest of his fam-ily, but ultimately it’s the memory of Homecoming that is the moment he last considers her “alive.”

While Perryman didn’t know much about football, she did know how to push her son when it came to academics. And this drove him back to school to take fi nal exams in the weeks

just after her death.“It was tough, but my

mom was a strong person and that was one thing I wanted to remain,” Hardee said. “Just strong, because I could hear her in my ear telling me now what to do in certain situations and to always be positive. I want-ed to come back to school just because I wanted to show people that is possible to go through tough things and still do the right thing.”

He took those exams and is set to graduate with his bachelor’s in communica-tion this December after just two and a half years of classes because he came into college with so many credits. He will fi nish his football eligibility by start-ing a master’s program and continue on the academic path his mom set him on.

As Hardee has focused

on his school work, football has given him another out-let to center his attentions on. And his mother’s death made him realize how close of a family Illinois is for its players and coaches.

“Ever since then, the team has really had my back,” Hardee said. “That’s why I love this team and I wouldn’t trade them for anything.”

Defensive back V’Angelo Bentley is one teammate whose brotherhood with Hardee extends well beyond college.

The pair met when they were kids playing for the East Cleveland Chiefs, a Pop Warner team. That friendship carried on as the two went to The Ginn Academy together and then on to college.

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JOE OLEN Illini goalie enables a win for the team, preventing 26 attempted goals by Michigan-Dearborn.

BY DANIEL DEXTER

STAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down on 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.

Goalie Joe Olen needed his team-mates to bail him out.

Midway through the third period, the Illinois hockey team found itself down by two goals against Michigan-Dearborn at the Illinois Ice Arena.

Then with less than four minutes to go in the game, the Illini clawed their way back. Defenseman Aus-tin Zima found the back of the net to bring the team within one. With just over a minute left, center Josh Bel-mont tied the game up at 4-4 to send it into overtime.

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Bentley called Perryman a very loving person who would often give the two rides to school and always check in that they were doing their school work.

He remembers the last time he saw Perryman as well, giving her a hug and talking with her in her car after that Homecoming game. And he remembers Perryman teasing the two on what they should have done and that they missed certain tackles in the game. Because, he said “that’s what (their) moms do.”

And he’s seen the change in attitude in Hardee through-

out the year.“I’ve seen him mature and

become more focused,” Bent-ley said. “He’s just become more focused on his goals. I would definitely say now he has a ‘why’ as to why he plays the game. (I’m) not saying he didn’t before but having your mom pass can be detrimental to anyone, so I think his focus tightened up and he worked his butt off to become the player he is.”

In the year since his mother’s death, Hardee has worked hard to become a more consistent player. In six of the team’s seven games he’s played in, he has already had 16 receptions for 201 yards. His total yardage has more than doubled from the 2013 season, when he record-

ed only 95 receiving yards on 11 grabs.

And while Homecoming may be different this year, it doesn’t change how often he thinks of his mom.

“It’s been something that he thinks about every day,” head coach Tim Beckman said. “He still has pictures up of his mom even in lock-ers and stuff of that nature. That’s what a relationship is all about. And when he lost his mother, he took it extremely hard. I think he’s really matured through it and he knows now what he plays for every week.”

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

Olen got his opportu-nity to repay his team-mates. Illinois scored the first goal of the shootout, and that was all it needed.

In front of a packed house at the Big Pond, Olen stepped up his game and made all three shoot-out saves to complete the comeback. The pressure didn’t get to him. He had been there before and knew what it took to pull through.

“Shootouts are almost a different game,” Olen said. “You are kind of focusing on little details. It’s all about timing.”

Timing wasn’t in Olen’s favor in the second peri-od as Michigan-Dearborn found the back of the net twice in a span of six seconds.

Head coach Nick Fab-brini stayed the course with Olen. The score wasn’t telling the whole story of how his goalie was playing.

The first of the two quick goals came as a result of a defen-sive breakdown, which allowed Michigan-Dear-born’s Eric Rosteck to get past the defenders. Six seconds later, a shot hit off a teammate’s stick to knock in a goal for the Wolverines to give them a 3-2 lead.

“The puck changed direction on him,” Fab-brini said. “It’s tough, especially given the tim-ing of it. He bailed us out with some huge saves ear-ly in the game, and then again later in the game.

Our guys know he is going to give us a chance to win every game.”

For Olen, a short mem-ory and the support of his defense was the key for him to recover and help the team in overtime.

As much as Olen relies on his defense for support in tough situations, the defensemen find comfort in having a leader to back them up in the goal when they are facing a deficit.

“In that kind of situ-ation, it’s great to have Joey O between the pipes because you can turn around and know you are going to have some-body there that’s going to work for you just as hard as you are going to work for him,” Zima said. “The defenseman and their goaltender need to be on the same page. Not just communication wise but also comfort wise.”

Despite the strong fin-ish, Olen wasn’t satisfied with his play.

He believed that the game shouldn’t have been as close as it was, and he proved it the following night.

Illinois’ scoring came alive in the game Satur-day, and the defense was a big part of it. With the Illini leading 3-0, Michi-gan-Dearborn scored its first goal midway through the second period.

Olen dropped his head as the horn sig-naled a goal. He knew he shouldn’t have let the goal through.

He didn’t make that mistake again, and that one goal became the only blemish in an otherwise perfect game, which he finished with 26 saves.

“It was pretty much the same game as the night before,” Olen said. “I just thought I had a lit-tle bit more confidence. I was more comfortable in the net than the game before.”

Olen has recorded a victory in all of his out-ings in goal thus far, and the Illini are cruising toward conference play with an 8-1-0 record.

Fabbrini attributes Olen’s success to his size, athleticism and anticipa-tion in the goal. He poses a challenge for any oppo-nent with his play on the ice and leadership off it.

“He is quietly one of the most competitive guys on the team,” Fabbrini said. “He hates giving up goals, whether it’s in a game or in practice. That’s what we expect out of him. We expect him to keep bat-tling out there. These guys feed off that.”

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Students pay to watch the club team play. More importantly, the players pay to play a sport that they’ve played for most of their lives. It was possible that the team wouldn’t have had a place to play this season when the Ice Arena was forced to close for repairs.

Despite the obstacles, there is hope. If a plan were put into place now, it would be possible for there to be a Division I hock-ey team at Illinois in five years.

There are two major hurdles schools have to face when con-sidering adding a new athletic team on campus: finances and Title IX.

The main financial concern for a potential Division I hockey program would be its home. The 1,200 seat Ice Arena is too small to house a Big Ten hockey team. Penn State’s Pegula Ice Arena has the lowest capacity in the Big Ten, 6,014 but is also some-thing that provides a glimmer of hope for a potential Illinois program.

Pegula Ice Arena was built after alumni Terry and Kim Pegula made a $100 million dona-tion to help build the stadium and the program. Illinois has alumni around the country that might be able to help fund a new stadium or a major renovation of the Ice Arena. Alumnus Shahid Khan, the owner of the NFL’s Jackson-ville Jaguars, is a potential donor the University could approach about a donation to help build a new arena for the team to play in.

Another potential home for the hockey program could be State Farm Center. Both Wiscon-sin and Ohio State use their bas-ketball homes as their hockey homes, too.

It’s convenient that State Farm Center is undergoing renova-tions. As of right now, the ren-derings for the bowl of the sta-dium do not appear to be big enough to hold a hockey rink. The good news is that there’s been no work on the bowl area yet, as that is set to start in March 2015. If the plan were developed soon, changes could be made to host a hockey team in the arena too.

There are other expenses that a varsity team will incur, includ-ing equipment costs, ice mainte-nance and travel. The first few

years of a varsity program might not show big gains, but eventu-ally, Illinois hockey could turn a profit.

In 2010, the five hockey schools in the Big Ten — Penn State was a club team then — reported $19 million in profit, according to the U.S. Depart-ment of Education. After the Big Ten started sponsoring hockey in the 2013-14 season, the Big Ten Network announced that each school would receive $2 million dollars from the network. The schools in the Big Ten used to play in the CCHA and the WCHA conferences.

An Illinois varsity program would most likely garner large student crowds. With the recent success of the Chicago Black-hawks, hockey is popular on campus. A Division I program would encourage students to come out and watch the team play. The locals might be skep-tical at first, but a winning pro-gram will be well supported by the community.

The program will also have great potential for success. A recent Chicago Tribune article mentioned that Illinois’ hockey talent has no in-state program to attend. Illinois has hockey talent that can compete with states like Minnesota and Massachusetts. A new program would draw pros-pects from in-state and maybe even from other states.

The second roadblock to a varsity hockey team is Title IX. Title IX was created in 1972 “to prohibit sex discrimination in educational programs that receive Federal financial assis-tance.” For Illinois, that means that it would have to add anoth-er women’s varsity team. If the University was to build a new stadium or use State Farm Can-ter, it would be logical to have a women’s hockey team. There is a club women’s team that would surely benefit from the promotion.

Although it’s not realistic to expect this to happen in two or three years, there is a poten-tial for there to be a Division I program in the near future. If things are treated with a sense of urgency, Illinois hockey fans will be able to provide a varsity team with home-ice advantage as early as 2020.

Michal is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at dwojak2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @bennythebull94.

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Men’s golf ends winning streak with 4th place finishBY LAUREN MROZCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Illinois men’s golf team’s No. 1 ranking was put to the test Oct. 19-21 at the Tavistock Col-legiate Invitational at the Lake Nona Golf and Country Club — a course well-known for its diffi-culty. Competing with a talented group of fifteen teams that includ-ed ten of Golfweek’s top 50 teams, the Illini needed to be at the top of their games this week in order to continue their undefeated fall season.

The Illini opened the tourna-ment with a strong first round, posting a 12-under-par 276. That was only enough to land them a fourth-place finish, which is where they would stay for the remainder of the tournament. After a poor second round on the forest-lined, lake-surrounded course in Orlando, Florida, the Illini sat 15 strokes behind first-place Vanderbilt.

Freshman Dylan Meyer showed the only sign of consistency for the Illini in the second round. He stood at 2-under-par through 16 holes before making his first bogey of the round on the par-3 17th hole. His round landed him in 12th place, tied with teammate junior Charlie Danielson. Meyer’s steady stride did not continue into the final round as he found him-self in 29th to tie with teammate senior Brian Campbell.

Freshman Nick Hardy led the

team in the final round, shooting a season-best 5-under-par 67. Dan-ielson added a 3-under-par 69. The Illini bounced back to finish with the second-best round of the day (-12) at 276 but had too wide a mar-gin to overcome, contributing to their first loss of the season.

Coming off a tournament win at the Sagamore Fall Preview Oct. 13-14 and Big Ten Golfer of the Week honors, junior Thomas Detry struggled in Orlando. A 78 in the second round dropped him from 16th place to 50th. He made up some strokes in the final round, however, and finished at 217, tied for 40th.

This week’s loss concludes fall play for the Illini, along with end-ing their undefeated season. It was Illinois’ best start since Steve Stricker led the 1988-89 team to a 4-0 fall season.

“I thought it was some solid golf,” head coach Mike Small said. “As a coach, you have to take the good with the bad at times. This wasn’t bad by any means, but it wasn’t our best. I’m proud of the guys for finishing up the way they did. With a fourth place finish in an event like that, a lot of teams would take that.”

The loss also puts the team’s No. 1 ranking in jeopardy. Illinois’ spot at No. 1 marks the first time since 2001, when the coaches’ poll started, that a northern school has claimed the top spot in a nation-ally recognized poll.

“I’m proud of the guys.” Small said. “They’ve earned the rights to be selected out. They’ve worked hard for this. They deserve to get some of the fruits of their labor. That being said, a lot of these teams will get better over the win-ter, so we need to continue to get better ourselves.”

The Illini head back to Flori-da January 24 for the Tinervin Cup in Placida where they will compete against the Illinois State Redbirds for the competitors’ 11th annual face off. Illinois has won all ten of the previous matchups.

Lauren can be reached at lmroz2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @MrozLauren.

Freshman Marbury returns, helps the injury-riddled Illini BY JOEY FIGUEROASTAFF WRITER

There’s no place like home.After two emotionally and physi-

cally draining matches at Rutgers and Maryland over the weekend, the Illinois soccer team may have never looked forward to a home stand more.

The Illini (9-6-1, 4-5-1) returned home on Sunday with a well-earned road point after tying 1-1 with Maryland. The draw was Illi-nois’ lone point in five matches. The Illini have been banged up all season, and even with some players return-ing from extend-ed absences, the list of injuries is not becoming any shorter.

“We’ve played some really physical games,” head coach Janet Rayfield said. “People have taken some pretty tough fouls and hard falls, so off of a two-game weekend with the trav-el in between I wouldn’t say any-body who practiced today was 100 percent at this point in the season.”

Just this past weekend, three different Illini weren’t able to play their normal minutes.

Junior defender Amy Feher has missed the last three games after being hit in the face in the match against Northwestern. She just

returned to practice this week with a mask to guard her injured nose, and her availability this weekend is questionable.

Junior midfielder Nicole Breece took a ball to the face over the weekend and wasn’t practicing on Tuesday. She has a history of concussions, so the training staff wanted to be cautious with her even though she’s been symptom-free and should be able to play this

weekend.After playing

the full 90 min-utes in almost every match so far this season, even versatile fresh-man Abby Elin-sky was shaken up after a hard hit on Sunday. She was only able to play 53 min-utes in the double overtime thriller in Maryland, but has been practic-

ing this week.With just three matches left in

the season, it isn’t an ideal time for Illinois to have its depth tested. However, there is a silver lining, and her name is Kara Marbury.

The freshman forward returned to action this past weekend after missing the previous eight matches and brought stability up front next to senior striker Jannelle Flaws.

“It was really nice having Kara back up top,” Flaws said. “Every-one that’s been playing up top has

done a good job, she just really understands the game with her ability to hold the ball up top. She just doesn’t quit, she could be abso-lutely exhausted and you would have no idea. It’s really fun to play with a player like her.”

Marbury has had a cast on her foot since before conference play began, so she is still getting used to the intensity of Big Ten soccer.

“I was super nervous the night before, it was a rough sleep,” Mar-bury said. “I think your first con-ference game is always a big deal, so for me that was pretty exciting to be starting after being out for a while.”

Marbury admitted her fitness isn’t where she would like it be yet, but with another week of practice she is looking to get her shooting touch and stamina back for the remaining schedule.

Even though the nagging inju-ries remain, Rayfield knows that staying healthy is just part of the game and she is confident that her team is on the right track to put it all together in the season’s final stretch.

“We’ve got to put the pieces of the puzzle together, and now we’ve got some of those pieces healthy,” Rayfield said. “I think we’re ready to peak going into these last three home games and I’m excited about the kind of soccer that this team knows it can play.”

Joey can be reached at jfiguer2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3.

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Justin Hardee runs for a touchdown against Western Kentucky at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 6.

SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois does not have a Divison I hockey program but offers a unique environment for fans and players. In 2010, the five hockey schools in the Big Ten reported $19 million in profit, before the Big Ten Network.

Honorable MentionsMorganne Criswell (volleyball) — The senior outside hitter had 21 kills against Nebraska and 17 against Iowa.

Thomas Detry (men’s golf) — The junior won the Sagamore Fall Preview by three strokes and was named Big Ten Golfer of the Week.

Summary: Florida State Tavistock Collegiate Invitational; Illinois finishes in 4th

Key Performer: Nick Hardy shot a season-best 5-under par 67 Hidden Stat: Nick Hardy finished tied for 20th. He finished in the top 20 in all four fall tournaments

Up next: vs. Illinois State, Jan. 24, Coral Creek Golf Club, Placida, Florida

“We’ve got to put the pieces of the puzzle together, and now we’ve got some of

those pieces healthy.”JANET RAYFIELD

HEAD COACH

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BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

For junior setter Alexis Viliunas, the awards don’t mean much.

While it’s nice for Vil-iunas to be recognized among some of the best setters in the Big Ten, it’s better that the Illinois vol-leyball team has found a rhythm.

“I’m pretty happy with it for the most part,” Vil-iunas said of her play. “I think I’m getting back into it, sort of. Getting used to running the 5-1.

“It’s nice to be in rhythm. Sometimes, running the 6-2, when you get in rhythm you’re subbed out. It takes a little bit to get back into it. I like the rhythm that we’ve been in with the 5-1.”

The No. 10 Illini (14-5, 6-2 Big Ten), started the season with a new 6-2 rotation sys-tem, but switched back to the 5-1 system they played last year. With the change came the wins and the accolades for players like Viliunas, who was named Big Ten Setter of the Week for her performance over the week.

Viliunas set and reset her season-high in assists dur-ing the week as she start-ed it with a 54-assist per-formance against Iowa on Wednesday and finished it up with a 56-assist showing

at then-No. 13 Nebraska on Saturday. Viliunas’ previ-ous season high for assists was set the weekend before, when, in the first match in which the Illini played the 5-1, she tallied 47.

Illinois is 3-0 since the switch. Much of the suc-cess can be attributed to the comfort level the team and its setter have with the old system.

In the 6-2, Viliunas was one of two setters who transitioned in-and-out of the match. With the 5-1, Viliunas has re assu med her role as the team’s lone setter and orches-trator of the game plan.

“ ( I ’ m ) a c t u a l l y running an offense the whole match, rather than just those three rotations,” Viliunas said. “I’m happy with it and hoping to get better as we practice it more and I get more used to it.”

Viliunas has attacked the opposing defense herself in the 5-1. Since she is playing in the front row, Viliunas has picked her opportuni-

ties and tries to record kills for herself in the last three matches.

Although the opportu-nities to get a kill haven’t come often, Viliunas has recorded some kills which she says may be her favor-ite part of a match. She recorded three kills against Penn State and Nebraska and another two against Iowa. Before the system switch, her lone kill on the season had come in the Big

Ten open-er against Maryland.

“I mean, you have a bunch of hitters who get all of the rec-ognition, which is awesome,” she said. “I don’t need rec-o g n i t i o n at all, but sometimes

getting a few kills makes you feel a little bit better.”

Viliunas said there’s also a bit of a competition between setters as to who can record the most kills.

Although Viliunas has received recognition for her offensive output since the system switch, head coach Kevin Hambly said

her impact on defense is more impressive. While in the front row, Viliunas helped hold Nebraska soph-omore outside hitter Kadie Rolfzen to a .046 hitting percentage.

“More importantly, Lex did a good job of defend-ing,” Hambly said. “She was matched up on one of the better outsides in the league in Kadie Rolfzen and did a really nice job against her.”

While Hambly praised her defense, senior outside hitter Morganne Criswell praised Viliunas’ sets as of late. Criswell, after being shut out against Penn State, bounced back with 17 and 21 kills against Iowa and Nebraska, respective-ly, and said that Viliunas’ play contributed to her own recent success.

“Her sets have been real-ly great and she’s been working really hard on it so that helps a lot when the sets are on point,” Criswell said.

So while the weekly awards and the recogni-tion is nice, Viliunas hopes the Illini keep their level of play up no matter what sys-tem they are in.

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

Viliunas thrives in old Illini system

W ith this year being the 10th anniver-sary of the 2004-

05 Illini men’s basketball team that finished 37-2 and lost to North Carolina in the national championship, I thought that there was no better time to reflect on that season and where that team’s leaders are today.

Despite not winning the title, this Illini team is regarded as one of the best teams of all time and was recently named “The Greatest Team to Not Win the National Champion-ship” by a Sports Illustrat-ed fan vote.

The team’s “Big Three” consisted of guards Deron Williams, Dee Brown and Luther Head. These three combined for more than half of the team’s points during the season, and made over 80 percent of the team’s three-pointers.

After the season, Brown was named Big Ten Play-er of the Year and was a consensus first-team All-American. Head and Wil-liams were both selected as consensus second-team All-American and were both also selected to the NCAA Final Four All-Tour-nament Team.

We all know how great of a team it was, how talented

the three guards were and how disappointing it was that they couldn’t pull off the finishing touches to an almost “perfect” season in the eyes of Illini fans. But what’s happened to that team’s stars since?

After the loss against UNC, both Head and Wil-liams declared for the NBA draft, leaving Brown to finish his senior year at Illinois.

Williams, who had the worst shooting statistics of the three, but led the team with 264 assists, was selected third overall in the draft by the Utah Jazz.

Williams has had by far the best career of the Illinois prodigies, hav-ing been selected to three NBA All-Star teams and winning three gold med-als with Team USA. In his career with the Jazz and the Brooklyn Nets, he has averaged 17.4 points and 8.7 assists and he is the only one of the Illinois trio still playing in the NBA.

In the same year that Williams was drafted, Head was selected No. 24 by the Houston Rockets.

Head was in the NBA from 2005-2011. He start-ed his career with reason-able success, averaging 8.8 points and 2.7 assists per game in his rookie sea-son. His performance was strong enough to help him make the NBA All-Rookie Second Team. He followed his rookie season with the best year of his career in 2006-07, averaging 10.8

points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game.

Despite his strong soph-omore campaign, the rest of Head’s NBA career was derailed by devastating injuries.

Last year, CB Vallado-lid, of the Spanish league, signed Head to a contract after he had played a sea-son in China.

Brown had a strong performance during his senior year at Illinois and took most of the point guard minutes left by the absence of Williams. The Utah Jazz also drafted Brown, a year later with the 46th pick.

The biggest impact that Brown ever made in the NBA was as a fill-in-starter for the Wizards when Gil-bert Arenas was hurt. In his brief stint, he averaged 2.4 points and 1.9 assists.

Since, Brown has played for many different teams overseas including teams in Turkey, Israel, Italy, China, Puerto Rico, Lat-via and Romania. Despite barely being in the Unit-ed States, Brown has kept close ties with the University.

Maybe the careers of the three Illini stars didn’t end exactly where they had envisioned, but they all made memories in 2005 that will never be forgot-ten by Illini fans.

Kieran is a sophomore in Business. He can be reached at hampl2@dai-lyillini.com.

There was something about that move that triggered a sense of familiarity within

me.Pau Gasol threw a lob up to Jim-

my Butler in the right post. But-ler was calling for the ball, but by the time he got it, Gary Neal closed out on him. That’s when But-ler saw Kirk Hinrich open in the right corner.

Kemba Walker quickly closed out on Hinrich in the right cor-ner, but it didn’t make a differ-ence. Hinrich beat Walker off the dribble, taking two dribbles to the right. He stopped before putting up a 21-foot, right-wing jumper while slightly fading to the right. It went in.

I had seen that shot both made and missed before, mostly during Hinrich’s early years as a Bull. Once the shot fell through the net, though, I knew it was one of those nights: Hinrich was going to score big.

Hinrich ended Sunday night’s 101-96 win over the Charlotte Hor-nets with 26 points, two assists and a steal in 32 minutes. He went 11-for-14 from the field, 2-for-4 on threes and 1-for-3 from the charity stripe. It really shouldn’t be that

big of a deal since it was only pre-season, but it was still the highlight of my weekend.

If there’s one thing that makes me happier than watching the Chicago Bulls play basketball, it’s watching Kirk Hinrich play for the Bulls, because I can’t imag-ine anything better than watch-ing my favorite player compete for my favorite team, but for some-one who’s also a huge fan of super-stars like Derrick Rose and LeB-ron James, saying Kirk Hinrich is my favorite seems ridiculous. Sometimes it feels like I’m the only basketball fan left who still likes Hinrich.

If it were 2006, I’d seem rea-sonable for saying Hinrich is my favorite. He was at the top of his game, made the NBA All-Defen-sive second team and was the lead-er of the “Baby Bulls.” Even if it were 2010, I’d seem more sane. He averaged double figures in points, and that was also the year that he became the Bulls’ all-time leader and made three-point field goals, but now it’s 2014. Hinrich’s almost 34 and in his 12th NBA season. He’s definitely not the player he once was.

“He can’t shoot. He can’t even score. He’s too old. He’s too slow to be the good defender he was before. He’s always hurt.”

I’ve heard all of that too many times. Regardless of whether any of that is true, absolutely none of that has changed and will never

change the fact that Hinrich is my favorite. My appreciation of Hin-rich is about much more than the numbers I see next to his name in the box scores.

Tom Thibadeau has said it sev-eral times before: You can’t mea-sure his value through statistics, and I completely agree with him, but even all the charges he takes and hustle plays he makes don’t define why he’s my favorite. It’s

about love and loyalty.I first heard about Hinrich

after the Bulls drafted him with the seventh overall pick in the 2003 draft. My older brother told me about him, and he was the first Bull I actually knew about whose name wasn’t Michael Jor-dan or Scottie Pippen. I eventu-ally came to remember him as someone who shot threes and

hustled, which I loved.With more time and knowl-

edge, I was able to acknowledge other aspects of his game, like his play-making ability, leader-ship and defense. I ended up lik-ing Hinrich so much that not even Derrick Rose’s speed and flashy plays could dethrone Hinrich as my favorite; Hinrich had made too much of an impact on me as a basketball fan. His trade to the Wizards and eventually the Hawks couldn’t change that either. It sim-ply meant I didn’t get to watch him play as often, and that’s where the loyalty really kicked in.

Finding out Hinrich was trad-ed to the Wizards for essentially nothing in June 2010 was one of the most upsetting moments of my life. I never wanted to see him play for any team besides the Bulls, but I toughed it out. Getting to see him play at all, even on a horrific Wash-ington team, was worth the pain. Seeing Hinrich in Atlanta was eas-ier, though, since the Hawks were a playoff team.

Hinrich’s time away from Chi-cago was worth it, because it made his homecoming so much better.

Nothing was ever certain, but I always knew Hinrich was going to come back to the Bulls. When I found out he verbally committed to sign with Chicago as a free agent on July 8, 2012, I was ecstatic.

I didn’t know quite what to expect once Hinrich returned to the hardwood sporting a Bulls jer-

sey again, but I never expected him to suffer so many injuries. I, like him, thought he was past the injury-plagued seasons he suf-fered in Atlanta.

Unfortunately, I was wrong, and with those Hinrich’s injuries came shooting struggles I didn’t want to happen, but going through tough times comes with being a fan. Most people associate loyal-ty with being a fan of a particu-lar sports team, but it’s something that should be applied to liking particular athletes too. The two differ, because teams eventually get better with time while athletes peak and go downhill, so I under-stand why there are people who don’t support Hinrich anymore. I just don’t agree with them.

I’m not going to stop supporting a player after having done so for years just because he got worse. He’s human, so it’s inevitable. The good, productive days have pretty much passed. They’ll occasion-ally reappear, but loyalty isn’t about just appreciating the good times. It’s about going through everything. I wouldn’t have truly appreciated Kirk’s 26-point per-formance without that loyalty, and I certainly wouldn’t be the basketball fan I am today with-out him.

Ashley is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at wijangc2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @wijangco12.

Player loyalty depends on more than play

2005 men’s basketball: Where are they now?

KIERAN HAMPL

Illini columnist

ASHLEY WIJANGCO

Sports columnist

BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Alexis Viliunas is the team’s main setter in its return to the 5-1 rotation. The Illini are 3-0 since the switch from the 6-2 rotation they started the year with.

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois’ Deron Williams raises his arms to celebrate points scored by teammate Dee Brown during the second half of the game at the University of Iowa on Feb. 11th, 2005. Williams now plays for the Brooklyn Nets, while Brown plays overseas.

Not even Derrick Rose’s speed

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favorite.

“I’m happy with it and hoping to get better as we practice more

and I get used to it.”

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Don’t look now, but the most fascinating, enigmatic and contro-

versial player in soccer is primed to return later this week.

Luis Suarez, the serial bit-er, will return from his four-month suspension Saturday for Barcelona following his infamous biting incident at the World Cup.

Not only is his return good news for Barca, and bad news for the rest of Europe, but the timing of his return cannot possibly be better him and the team.

Suarez will make his debut for Barcelona against rival Real Madrid in the lat-est edition of El Clasico.

For the uninitiated, El Clasico is easily one of the most heated rivalries in soccer — and possibly all of sports. The rivalry devel-oped during the Spanish Civil War and the stakes are always high in one of Europe’s fi ercest derbies.

Injecting the energy brought by Suarez adds an irresistible layer of zest into an always intense El Clasico affair.

For all we know, Suarez might just be brought out onto the pitch with a muzzle strapped to his mouth — a la Hannibal Lecter. One can never know.

The implications of his return from suspension, though, are much bigger

then simply one game for Barcelona.

Adding Suarez into the mix to an already star-stud-ded lineup, which includes Leo Messi and Neymar, makes Barcelona the team to beat in Europe.

Thus far into the La Liga season, even without Suarez, Barca is undefeated in eight matches. It has outscored opponents by 22 goals, and most remarkably, has yet to concede. It’s clear the team’s been on fi re out of the gate.

With Messi up to his usu-al tricks and the emer-gence of Neymar following an uneventful 2013 season, bringing Suarez into the fold gives Barcelona a lethal trio of strikers.

Perhaps the most infuri-ating aspect of the Suarez fi asco in June is the fact that the incident caused many to neglect the value he brings on the fi eld. His clearly ill-advised actions turned him into essentially a caricature. Getting back on the pitch and being able to contrib-ute right away, and of course stay away from controversy, will do a great deal in fi xing up his reputation as a player.

This was the leading scor-er in the Premier league last season after all.

By simply comparing the play of Liverpool with and without Suarez, one can easi-ly see how much of an impact he has on any team.

Thus far in the season, Liverpool has had a diffi -cult time replicating the pace and attacking ability Suarez brought. He nearly led his former club to its fi rst EPL title a season ago, so his

value cannot be overstated.Suarez’s greatest asset

is the energy and constant movement he brings for 90 minutes. His high-octane, never say die attitude on the fi eld wreaks havoc for every opposing defense he encounters.

His energetic style of play is incredibly contagious and he has the ability to change the momentum of any match on a dime.

Of course, Suarez wears his heart on his sleeve and is an emotional player on the pitch (maybe sometimes too emotional). If he can keep his behavior in check, that ener-gy and emotion that come with the Suarez package can only benefi t Barcelona.

Barca is already loaded and well-balanced with two world-class strikers, a stin-gy defense and a knack for controlling the possession. By throwing another elite score into the fold, Barce-lona could potentially win a treble (La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League) this season.

While Suarez will not be the focal point of the Barce-lona attack, playing a com-plementary roll up front to Messi and Neymar may be the ideal role for him.

As for Suarez, his sus-pension may have been the antidote he needed to fi x his behavior. Previous inci-dents of biting other players already ended his playing days at Ajax and Liverpool. The most recent incident during the World Cup cost him the most in terms of reputation, so it should be obvious at this point that

Suarez will no longer take his career for granted.

Suarez vowed not to do something stupid on the pitch again, and I give him the benefi t of the doubt. He has a lot to prove to the entire soccer community, especially that he can con-

trol himself and not let his emotions get the best of him.

Suarez’s road to soccer redemption will begin the Saturday, in no more cli-mactic fashion than against Real Madrid at The Santiago Bernabeu.

Let’s just hope that he

doesn’t attempt to take a chomp out of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Dan is a junior in Media. He can be reached at descalo2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @danescalona77.

El Clasico marks return of Suarez

CHUCK MYERS TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICEUruguay forward Luis Suarez waves to supporters during the London 2012 Summer Olympics . Suarez returns to play for Barcelona on Saturday after a four-month suspension following the biting incident at the World Cup.

DAN ESCALONA

Sports columnist