August 31, 2011 Volume 64 Issue 1 By Alissa Groeninger News Reporter Features Blue Crew back with plans to be better than ever Page 6 Women’s ‘D’ holds strong, men fall late Page 11 Athletics By Colten Bradford Assistant Editor for News Photos by Colten Bradford SGA continued on Page 2 Welcome Week puts students in a trance Top: Hypnotist Fredrick Winters comments on senior John Bauman’s pose as he thinks he is sunbathing. Bottom Left: Even some audience members fell under hypnosis. Kranti Kripakaran comments that she received a pinch by someone behind her after Winters shouted ‘UIS.’ Bottom Right: Winters ‘gives’ the participants ice cream which he said is dripping down their arms. Admissions focuses on recruiting students abroad F or the second consecutive year, UIS continues to en- roll over 5,000 students. While UIS has reason to celebrate, Lori Giordano, Director of Admis- sions, notes two major differ- ences in enrollment in compari- son of this year and last. While the enrollment of undergradu- ate international students has increased from five to about 30 students, the number of freshmen has decreased by about 50. Giordano said while applica- tions for freshmen students have decreased this year, total admits are down around 30 compared to last year. “But where we are down is the students accepting to come here.” Because of this, the Admis- sions Office is sending out for- mal surveys in hopes to find out why students are not accepting the offer to attend. The data for these surveys should be collected within the next couple of weeks. “Some of the things we have been hearing from the students that we have talked to, a lot of them are staying closer to home because of finances or going to the community college,” Gior- dano said. While Giordano says that finances are a major factor in the freshmen decline, Ill. demo- graphics play a role as well. “We have less high school students SGA shows displeasure with sister campus in UIUC Admissions continued on Page 2 Student government leaders and UIS faculty are upset with Univer- sity Counsel Members who repre- sent the University’s sister campus in Champaign. “They do not like the idea that we’re one university, three campus- es,” David Ballard, Student Gov- ernment Association external vice president, explained. Monday night, Student Gov- ernment Association members ap- proved a resolution to show support for the UIS campus, and to vocalize frustration about a summer faculty meeting, said Erin Wilson, senior in political science and legislative studies and SGA president. Faculty representatives from UIS gathered with UIUC and UIC representa- tives in June as part of the Univer- sity Senates Conference. The senate conference allows faculty to review decisions lo- cal units have made on their own campus, said Tih-Fen Ting, UIS as- sociate professor in environmental studies. Ting also serves as the chair of UIS’s campus senate. The conference is also held to maintain harmonious relationships among faculty at the three Univer- sity of Illinois campuses, she added. The conference is comprised of 20 faculty members, with the majority coming from Urbana-Champaign because of campus population size. Faculty members put two names on the slate for vice-chair and in a 13-7 majority UIUC professor Nicholas Burbules won, passing over Ting. While not stated in the
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August 31, 2011 Volume 64 Issue 1
By Alissa GroeningerNews Reporter
Features
Blue Crew back with plans to be better than ever
Page 6
Women’s ‘D’ holds strong, men fall late
Page 11
Athletics
By Colten BradfordAssistant Editor for News
Photos by Colten Bradford
SGAcontinued on Page 2
Welcome Week puts students in a trance
Top: Hypnotist Fredrick Winters comments on senior John Bauman’s pose as he thinks he is sunbathing.Bottom Left: Even some audience members fell under hypnosis. Kranti Kripakaran comments that she received a pinch by someone behind her after Winters shouted ‘UIS.’Bottom Right: Winters ‘gives’ the participants ice cream which he said is dripping down their arms.
Admissions focuses on recruiting students abroad
For the second consecutive year, UIS continues to en-
roll over 5,000 students. While UIS has reason to celebrate, Lori Giordano, Director of Admis-sions, notes two major differ-ences in enrollment in compari-son of this year and last. While the enrollment of undergradu-ate international students has increased from five to about 30 students, the number of freshmen has decreased by about 50.
Giordano said while applica-tions for freshmen students have decreased this year, total admits are down around 30 compared to last year. “But where we are down is the students accepting to come here.”
Because of this, the Admis-sions Office is sending out for-mal surveys in hopes to find out why students are not accepting the offer to attend. The data for these surveys should be collected within the next couple of weeks.
“Some of the things we have been hearing from the students that we have talked to, a lot of them are staying closer to home because of finances or going to the community college,” Gior-dano said.
While Giordano says that finances are a major factor in the freshmen decline, Ill. demo-graphics play a role as well. “We have less high school students
SGA shows displeasure with sister campus in UIUC
Admissionscontinued on Page 2
Student government leaders and UIS faculty are upset with Univer-sity Counsel Members who repre-sent the University’s sister campus in Champaign.
“They do not like the idea that we’re one university, three campus-es,” David Ballard, Student Gov-ernment Association external vice president, explained.
Monday night, Student Gov-ernment Association members ap-proved a resolution to show support for the UIS campus, and to vocalize frustration about a summer faculty meeting, said Erin Wilson, senior in political science and legislative studies and SGA president. Faculty representatives from UIS gathered with UIUC and UIC representa-tives in June as part of the Univer-sity Senates Conference.
The senate conference allows faculty to review decisions lo-cal units have made on their own campus, said Tih-Fen Ting, UIS as-sociate professor in environmental studies. Ting also serves as the chair of UIS’s campus senate.
The conference is also held to maintain harmonious relationships among faculty at the three Univer-sity of Illinois campuses, she added. The conference is comprised of 20 faculty members, with the majority coming from Urbana-Champaign because of campus population size.
Faculty members put two names on the slate for vice-chair and in a 13-7 majority UIUC professor Nicholas Burbules won, passing over Ting. While not stated in the
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Chancellor Susan J. Kochand the entire UIS community
graduating every year, so there is more competition among univer-sities.”
Whatever the reason, the few-er admits has affected Housing. According to John Ringle, Di-rector of Housing, Lincoln Resi-dence Hall is only 85 percent full, which is not as full as it has been in the past.
Although the decline of fresh-men has negatively affected Housing, Ringle sees the increase of international students as posi-tive. For Housing, this fall marks the first semester of the Interna-tional House in Marigold Court.
Ringle said that this house is located toward the center of cam-pus in order to give the students living there easy access to impor-tant areas. The court consists of students from the United States, India, Vietnam, Peru, Tanzania, China and Thailand.
“I think there will be a wealth of knowledge and experiences from our international students who are new to this campus that will bring the world to Central Il-linois,” Ringle said.
Ringle looks forward to con-tinuing the International House
as UIS moves forward to increas-ing the number of international students.
According to Giordano, be-cause the number of graduating high school students is declining, recruiting international students became even more important. Not only would it bring diver-sity to campus, but it would also make up the declining freshmen numbers.
“We are trying to recruit more international undergraduates to diversify the student body,” Ellie Haag, international admissions counselor, said. “Up till now the vast majority of our 200 or so international students, at any one time, have been graduate stu-dents.”
Currently, recruitment is being focused in China and Vietnam.
“We travel overseas two or three times a year to attend re-cruitment fairs and visit schools and colleges,” said Haag. “In both China and Vietnam we have set up ‘2+2’ agreements with universities which means that we get transfer students from there who then complete the last two years of their education at UIS.”
English as a Second Language Coordinator Dana Atwell has helped with the recruitment of
international students by going to the recruitment fairs to build relationships and give tests to potential students to check their English skills.
“We are able to accept those students through the intensive English program or into the de-gree programs and help them build their English skills to get them language ready because they are really smart students who are really dedicated and perform really well in their high schools and universities,” Atwell said.
Once the student is on campus, Atwell says the students are now offered an intensive year around course as well as the opportunity to have an American conversa-tion partner and extra tutoring.
“Diversifying the campus can only help our students,” Gior-dano said. “We live in a very global society and if you learn how to work and interact with people from other countries, it is only going to help you in the job market later. You gain a very different view of the world by interacting with international students.”
Admissionscontinued from Page 1 conference bylaws, the chair and
vice-chair of the conference rotate between the three campuses, and have since UIS entered the confer-ence in 1997, Ting said. The vice-chair usually becomes chair in the next year. Ting said it’s “unprec-edented” to put two names forth.
“It was really kind of an insult when they overlooked Tih-Fen (Ting),” Wilson said.
A vocal minority of Urbana-Champaign professors consider the University of Illinois to only be in Urbana, and they do not look to the other campuses, Ting said.
“... The spirit and intent of the rotation are clear – that is, to main-tain harmonious relations within the University, to acknowledge a degree of parity among the cam-puses, and to exemplify our spirit of shared governance at the Uni-versity of Illinois,” Ting wrote in a letter to the conference members. “Although the three campuses dif-fer in size and orientation, each has equally valuable educational and social roles to play in Illinois.”
In addition to the SGA reso-lution, the UIS campus senate is considering a resolution that would call for explicitly adding rota-tion instructions to the conference code.
The current and out-going con-ference chairs could not be reached for comment.
Current vice-chair Burbules was unavailable to speak. Former conference member Joyce Toll-iver, from the Urbana-Champaign campus, said there are no rules about chair and vice-chair selec-tions rotating. The three-campus conference is relatively new, and the rules say more than one person can be nominated, she said. Toll-iver has no official capacity in the current conference, but said there was probably an expectation in Springfield for a UIS professor to become vice-chair and then chair the following year.
“There should be synergy, more coordination and collabora-tions among campuses,” Ting said. “The whole is greater than some of its parts if we use our strengths wisely.”
The Student Government Asso-ciation will meet again on Septem-ber 18. SGA is also holding elec-tions Sept. 14 and 15. Interested parties must file the appropriate forms in the Student Life Office by this Friday, Sept. 2. The SGA is looking for two at large senators, as well as senators to represent transfer students, undergraduate students, freshman students, online students, graduate students and stu-dents from the Peoria campus.
SGAcontinued from page 1
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Campus senate began the fall semester with
a greeting from the new chan-cellor, Susan Koch. The senate also welcomed new members, including a civil service repre-sentative Laurie Atkinson.
The meeting ensued with reports from the committee members. Provost Lynn Pardie reported that undergraduate enrollment was down slightly, however, graduate admission has increased 3 percent.
The major item on the agen-da was the first reading of res-olution 41-11 Revisions to the Statutes , Article II, Section 2, University Senate Conference (Campus Rotation of Leader-ship Positions).
The resolution begins “The three campuses of the Univer-sity of Illinois differ in size and orientation, and each has equally valuable educational and social roles to play in Il-
linois and beyond.” The resolution further
states that the University Sen-ate Conference (USC) has not been following the long tradi-tion of rotating the leadership positions among members of the three University of Illinois campuses.
The University Senate Con-ference is made up of sen-ate members from each of the three campuses. Each campus should have equal representa-tion.
Recently, campus senate Chair Tih-Fen Ting was voted out in USC’s vice chair elec-tion, leaving two leaders from the Urbana-Champaign cam-pus.
The resolution calls for a representative from UIS take the chair position fall semester 2012. The second reading and voting on this resolution will take place at the senate’s next meeting on Sept 9.
Campus senate reads resolution to create equality with other U of I campuses
Finding a piece of the puzzle
Imagine a star 100 times larger than the one located
in our solar system, swelling with energy, and becoming so bright, it outshines every single star visible in the night sky, and then exploding to become a su-pernova. Yet, this star, survives the explosion, and continues to shine. This is what John Martin, an UIS Assistant Professor of as-tronomy and physics, is studying with the help of a new grant.
The National Science Foun-dation awarded Professor Martin a grant of $62, 092 to study su-pernova impostors over a three-year period. It has been put to use since August 1 of this year.
“A supernova is a massive star one-hundred times the mass of the sun which explodes,” Martin explained. “A supernova impos-tor survives the explosion and remains intact.”
There are even further dif-ferences within supernovas. “A Type I supernova is a White Dwarf star, which orbits another star, grows, and explodes,” Mar-tin said. “These types of stars are used to measure the expansion of the universe by judging the dis-tance with the White Dwarf star’s brightness. A Type II supernova is a massive star that explodes.”
Professor Martin continued, “There are seven supernova im-postors that we know of that be-come as bright as a supernova. The star, Eta Carinae became a supernova impostor during the 1850s and was the brightest star in the sky for 10 years.”
The research is also being done in collaboration with Uni-versity of Minnesota, who will be assisting with analyzing the data collected from the UIS ob-servatory.
The grant is already being put to use at the UIS observatory. “Right now we are purchasing some new equipment for the lab-oratory,” Martin said. “Money will also be used to help students with summer research projects and for travel expenses to con-ferences.”
This research will expand data collected on stars, supernovas, and supernova impostors, and
also raises questions and answers about the history of the universe.
“The calcium in our bones, the oxygen we breathe, and the car-bon in our blood all come from supernovas,” Martin said.
According to a January 2011 article on NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center website, “In addition to making elements, supernovae scatter the elements that are made by both the star and supernova out into the interstellar medium. These are the elements that make up stars, planets and everything on Earth, including our bodies.”
“Hopefully, the supernova impostors will tell us more about the evolution of the universe,” Martin said. “The study of su-pernova impostors also brings in new possibilities of physics. They contain immeasurable lev-els of heat and density that can-not be studied here on Earth.”
With the help of funding, new equipment and research as-sistance from the University of Minnesota, Professor Martin hopes to unlock some of the his-tory of the universe.
“It’s rare,” he stated in regards to finding supernova impostors. “It’s like a finding a piece of the puzzle.”
UIS professor to study supernova impostors
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Graduating Without a Clear Direction? Take a 48-State Drive.
The day I threw my gradu-ation cap into the air - and
hoped it wouldn’t stab me in the eye on the way down – I was filled with mixed emotion. On the one hand, I was elated to be done with homework, teachers, with everything my life had thus far been about. One the other hand, I was terrified. What the heck was I supposed to do now?
A few months after my Illi-nois graduation, a combination of cloudy economy and cloudier idea about my direction soon plopped me into a job an overnight new editor, with a weekend gig as a bouncer at a local bar. A fellow bouncer (who day lighted as a mortician) and I joked that we’d found the only three industries immune to economic downturn: news, booze, and death. We’d chuckle, and then look down at the floor as waves of soul-crush-ing depression washed over us.
It was frustrating to find that no silver platter awaited me at the end of college, that the road ahead was foggier than ever. But then one day, something clicked over in my brain.
If I didn’t know yet what my career was going to be, I thought,
I should at least do something I’d never be able to once I had a career. Something ridiculous. Something that 60-year-old me could tell my grandkids about, as a partial explanation for why my student loans still weren’t paid off.
My “something ridiculous” was to borrow my parents’ beat-up blue van and drive to all 48 contiguous United States.
I scraped together graduation checks and what meager savings I had, ignored (for now) my eighty grand of tuition debt, and set out with a cooler of PB&J’s and a two-foot road atlas. I drove from Minnesota to Maine to Florida to Washington to California and back, zigzagging to pick up Texas and the Dakotas, doing whatever I’d always wanted to do in every state. I stayed with friends where I had them, but most of the time I slept in the car. I ran into prob-lems, strangers, and had a LOT of time alone behind the wheel to think.
The trip wasn’t easy. I often had to get outside myself and do things I wasn’t comfortable with. I became very lonely at times, and felt guilty about turning my back on everything I was “supposed” to do. And then there were the middle-of-nowhere breakdowns,
tornados, and at least one swim in a snake-filled river in search of lost car keys. One morning I woke up on the roof of my car in a strange park in Idaho and realized I hadn’t seen anyone I knew in six days, hadn’t showered in seven, and that I was almost out of mon-ey and had no idea where I was. And that was the moment realized I was the happiest I’d ever been.
I learned a lot on the trip – about myself, about direction, about where not to accidentally sleep in one’s car to avoid trouble with the police (daycare centers are a big one). Looking back eight years later, I’ve realized ev-erybody has their own “road trip” where they figure out their path, and some people have known all along. For those who know their road: go after it, and don’t let fear and doubt stand in the way. But for those who don’t: go do some-thing else. Something ridiculous.
There will be time for your career – in fact, you’re going to spend most of your life doing it. Maybe now’s the time for a de-tour.
Paul Jury is the author of “States of Confusion”, about a misadventure-filled direction-finding road trip to 48 states. You can learn more about the book at www.PaulPJury.com
Wearing a top hat isn’t quite so strange here
Fellow UIS students,
While most of us were still at home enjoying our last few days of summer vacation, the UIS men’s soccer team kicked off their season with a “midnight madness” practice. However, the players weren’t the only ones out at Kiwanis Stadium. The UIS Blue Crew, under new leadership of Tony Vetter and Tyler Scherer, also joined the Prairiestars at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 15 to show their support for the soc-cer program.
I admit, until this event, I was skeptical of these two being able to bring Blue Crew back to the campus but now I believe they can and they have my 100 per-cent support.
As the former captain of the soccer team, I can assure you that it’s much easier to get psyched up for a game when you have the support of your peers at the game. I encourage everyone to get involved in Blue Crew this year. In the past few years, I know many people have seen it turn into a cliquey group where not everyone feels welcome. I guarantee you it’ll be different this year. For those of you who love sports and for those of your who complain about the lack of a big-school feel, here’s your op-portunity to start changing the culture here on campus.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, the UIS soccer program was one of the best in the nation and won several national cham-pionships during that span. Ev-ery game was a sell-out and fans stood all around the field to catch a glimpse of the game. This ex-citement was still present during my first season at UIS in 2008 but slowly dwindled in 2009 and then even more in 2010. I think a similar trend could be found in all of the sports at UIS.
Please help bring UIS athlet-ics back to their glory days. I’m not promising championships, nor am I even promising a win-ning season for every team, all I’m saying is join Blue Crew, have a blast and support your student-athlete peers who train year-round and give 110 per-cent effort every season. To join blue crew, contact Tony Vetter at [email protected] or Tyler Scherer at [email protected].
Michael Waldo309-648-3648
Letter to the Editor
Last semester, I finished my final exams on a
Thursday morning in May. On Friday, I unpacked my college stuff and packed up three suit-cases, grabbed my passport and
student visa, and got on a plane. Saturday morning, I arrived in London.
Cars whirred past me on the wrong side of the road as I walked down the street to the apartment, “flat” as they say there, that I would share with eight others in the program. We would soon
learn that we were living only a few blocks from Victorian red brick homes of Baker Street, the fabled block of Sherlock Hol-mes.
For the next 12 weeks, we would work as interns for a Member of Parliament, the UK equivalent of a Member of Con-gress, take two classes on British politics, and do an independent study on public policy. It was an absolutely awesome experience, a once in a lifetime summer.
As I look back and reflect on my summer, chronology and se-quence fade away, as the thou-sands of moments come back to me.
I look back and think of my days spent in Parliament, re-searching briefs, writing press releases, and immersing myself in a foreign political system. I constantly compared their system to ours. They are having debates
on healthcare and government spending too.
But while our debates are loud in the media because of obsession with sound bytes and “gotcha” interviews, the debates in the House of Commons were more substantive with genuine argumentation and confronta-tion; and more entertaining with lots of shouting, finger wagging and laughing.
I remember getting lost look-ing for an obscure room for a lecture at the London School of Economics. The classes in England are very different. The grading scale was genuinely odd from an American perspective. A 70 was an equivalent to an A, or so I think.
While I missed the Fourth of
Columncontinued on page 6
By Paul Jury
Guest Columnist
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Assistant Editor for Features
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Blue Crew back with plans to be better than ever
“We just want more excite-ment,” Tony Vetter said of UIS’s sports fans.
Think you can handle it? Well then, look no further than this year’s Blue Crew. With new stu-dents in charge, the Blue Crew is back and ready to cheer on ath-letes at UIS.
Vetter, a junior biology major at UIS is the president of the Blue Crew this year. His right hand man and vice president is Tyler Scherer, a political science and communication double major.
In past years, students may have seen athletes or their friends wearing “It’s Game Day” t-shirts, and the Blue Crew has adapted this idea to everyone on campus. The Blue Crew is trying
to promote Game Day Blue. This is simply a school wide wearing of UIS blue to support the Prairie Stars on game days.
Vetter and Scherer want to get as many people as possible out to the games. “We will try to get at least a small group of people out to every game,” Vetter said. The Blue Crew will be focusing their energy and large groups of fans on attending men’s soccer, vol-leyball and men’s basketball.
“People just get burnt out, so we have a focus. We want to support all of the sports though,” Vetter said. They will be focus-ing on women’s soccer for Wom-en Under Lights Night, when the men play first and the women play second.
Both Vetter and Scherer want-ed to actively promote school spirit. They each went to a high school with a lot of excitement
when it came to sports. “We thought it would be even
better when we came to college,” said Vetter. When they heard that the Blue Crew was really great a couple of years ago they won-dered what happened to the club. Vetter and Scherer want to get it back to the level it was then, or better.
Vetter and Scherer admitted that they would probably end up about 80/20 for a positive to negative ratio for their cheering and chanting. “It is college and we can’t really expect people to be positive all the time,” Scherer said. Their actions aren’t harsh, mainly chants such as “You can’t do that,” and turning around when the other teams starting line ups are announced.
They plan to blow Vuvuzelas and other noisemakers at the soc-cer games.
“We just thought: if they could do it two years ago why cant we do it now?” Vetter said of the Blue Crew.
Not only will the Blue Crew be rallying fun-loving students for games, but they will be pull-ing in larger crowds with bonuses this year. Athletics is teaming up with the Blue Crew to give away fun prizes to the first group of students at various games.
The Blue Crew kicked off their support Aug. 26 and 27 when they supported the Prairie Stars in their exhibition games. Saturday’s game had the club’s first give away, and handed out pom poms to the group of fans that came out to support the men’s soccer team.
If you are interested in join-ing the crowd at athletic events, head out to soccer games or in to volleyball games. You can also
“Like” the Blue Crew on Face-book. They coordinate game groups and post updates on this page. Vetter and Scherer are also gathering game groups by send-ing mass texts.
“Before the games I texted like 50 people, and Tyler did as well,” Vetter said of their efforts.
“Before the women’s exhi-bition game we walked around campus and told people when and where the game was. We also made announcements in the dorms,” Vetter and Scherer said.
The Blue Crew will be out and active all year, so be sure to find them and help cheer on your Prairie Stars. Look for the Blue Crew on Sept. 9, also Alumni Night, for the Blue Crew Cook-out.
Whatís happening this weekend?
Friday 2: “Smoke on the Mountain” is premiering at the Hoogland Center for the Arts and continues through Sunday. Tickets are only $17 for students. For more information or tickets visit hcfta.org.
Saturday 3: The Ethnic Festival will be at the State Fair ground from 12 to 11 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday. For food and music head on out. Admission to this event is free.
Sunday 4: Head to the old state capitol for a free concert from the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. They will be performing baseball themed music starting at 6 p.m. Baseball themed food will also be available for purchase, and civil war era baseball demonstrations will be performed from 4-6 p.m.
Monday 5: Labor Day Slip and Slide will be on the South Quad. Head out there from 4 to 5 p.m. if you want to participate.
By Kati Maseman
July, we travelled to France for their national holiday, on the 14th of July, Bastille Day. All of Paris seemed to pause as thousands of red, blue, green, purple and gold fireworks burst over a glittering Eiffel Tower. The cheers remark-ably similar to those we would all hear in my hometown, albeit with French flare.
I remember wearing a top hat to a horse race and that being not strange, but socially acceptable.
I remember going to play squash every morning and walk-ing through a graveyard on a
cobbled path beside the graves of Daniel Defoe and William Blake. Pretty cool for an English Major.
I also remember when my friends and I would chat with Gary, the owner of a local pub called the Monkey Puzzle, about life in the United Kingdom, and later helping him design a web-site for the pub.
I remember the sunrise over the Thames, and the sunset be-hind Buckingham Palace. I re-member the friends I made, the people I met, and the dozens of times I had fish ‘n chips.
But the summer came to an end as it always does on a bitter-sweet day came on July 30 when I boarded a plane to go home. I was sad my summer was over, but ready to come home, back to my own country, and own cul-ture. Over the course of my time in the UK, I learned many of the ways the US is similar to, but also different from the UK.
Three weeks later, I packed my college stuff, grabbed my backpack, and got in a car. Three hours later, I was back at UIS. The colonnade fountain was still lapping; UHB was still standing in the prairie. Everything looked the same, but my perspective changed, my thoughts accented by a British perspective, altered by a summer abroad.
While my program was not a UIS program, UIS supported me. I highly suggest talking to the Office of International Programs and looking at study abroad op-portunities.
Studying abroad is an experi-ence that doesn’t end when it is over. Like the best memories in life, I take London with me, ev-erywhere I go.
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A New International ExperienceStudying abroad provides the opportunity to learn about yourself and your own and other cultures and to develop skills that can be very beneficial to your education and your career aspirations.
You can develop real competitive advantages over those who do not study abroad, such as
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Walking into the office of Jesse Miech, one
might notice the posters behind his desk, or one might take note of Miech’s young appearance, but once the first-year UIS men’s head soccer coach opens his
mouth, it is easy to infer that he means business.
The 2005 graduate from Morningside College in Souix City, Iowa, draws coaching ex-perience from all levels ranging from prestigious St. Louis Scott Gallagher Metro Soccer Club in Collinsville to the D1 level from such programs as Virginia Tech and Clemson.
“I have worked with players on all levels, from young kids to national team players,” com-mented Miech on his coaching history. “You have to treat every-one differently; and to teach you have to be able to push different buttons.”
Coach Miech brings insight not only from his past coaching positions, but his playing career as well.
The UIS soccer coach played collegiately at Creighton for two years and was a member of the 2000 squad that advanced to the College Cup final. He also earned NAIA All-America honors as a senior after transferring to Morn-ingside College and set school records for saves, save percent-age, shutouts and wins.
Miech looks to strengthen the UIS defenses as he draws from
his goal keeping expertise; the UIS coach holds a USSF “A” license and earned the USSF National Goalkeeping Diploma. He also holds the NSCAA Di-rector of Coaching Diploma and an NSCAA Advanced National Goalkeeping Diploma.
However, Miech looks be-yond the realm of soccer when it comes to his players, “We have one goal as a team, be the best person you can be every day.”
The Stars cannot hope to win with defense alone. In this re-spect, Miech will be looking to a group of offensive minded play-ers including Nikita Fadeev, Car-lo Cubero and Brandon Belcon. But one of the most interesting stories comes from a player who was on campus last year, but not on the pitch, sophomore Mark Czarny.
According to Meich, Czarny “came in and shocked the team with how good he was. He’s 6’3’’, he’s fast, and he’s left-footed.”
In order to build the UIS of-fense, Miech is taking the team back to the basics, “They are things I work with ten year old kids, and we are not above it; I don’t think anybody is. Even guys at the professional level go back to their foundations to make sure they are on the same page.”
Heading into the regular sea-son, the Illinois Springfield men’s soccer team was picked 15th by the coaches, while defend-ing national champion Northern Kentucky was chosen first. The Prairie Stars welcome back both of their leading goal scorers from last season, Brandon Belcon and Ahmedtayib Haji, who each put two in the back of the net.
Also returning for the 2011 season are goal keepers Jack Tur-anchik and Cole Wardlow, who combined for 100 saves.
Miech comes from a coaching family, his father John is the head football coach at Wisconsin-Stevens Point while his mother, Sheila is the head women’s soc-cer coach for the Pointers. She ranks fifth in NCAA Division III history in victories. As Coach Miech starts his career as a Prai-rie Star, the UIS community, in-cluding the ever-growing Blue Crew will watch with great inter-ests as the season gets underway.
By Carson BussAssistant Editor for Sports
Miech to lead UIS Men’s Soccer
Prairie Stars search for a new baseball coach
After a promising inau-gural season, the Prairie
Stars baseball squad will again be looking for a manager to lead the team. On Aug. 18, head coach Brian Grunzke announced that he would be leaving the UIS baseball team in order to take a job offer from Dave Schrage at
South Dakota State University.“First I want to thank the ad-
ministration at the University of Illinois Springfield for the oppor-tunity they gave me,” Grunzke said. “It has been a very reward-ing experience to start a baseball
program. I know the program is on the right track to get better. Dawn and I are excited to start our new chapter in our lives.” Grunzke said in a statement re-leased by the UIS athletic depart-ment.
Grunzke concluded his mana-gerial career at UIS with an 8-35 mark in his lone season. Coach Grunzke was at the helm when the Prairie Stars won their first game, 19-14 in an 11-inning af-fair at Divison 1 Alcorn State.
Another highlight of Grun-zke’s season was the team’s first Great Lakes Valley Conference win, a 7-3 victory over Maryville last April. Grunzke was also instrumental in the recruitment process, helping UIS field a team with great potential for future success.
“On behalf of UIS athletics, we are very appreciative of Bri-an’s contributions to UIS base-ball as well as the athletic depart-ment,” Director of Athletics Kim Pate. “Brian has done an incred-ible job laying the foundation for UIS baseball and has con-tributed strong leadership within the athletic department earning the esteem and high regard of the athletic staff along with the University community. This is a wonderful opportunity for him and we wish him great success with his future endeavors.”
The search for Grunzke’s re-placement will begin immedi-
ately and will be orchestrated by new UIS Athletic Director Kim Pate, and will be conducted ac-cording to the University’s guide-lines for hiring a new coach.
Currently the assistant coach-es Ben Norton and Jim Clayton are in charge of fall practices while the search for a head coach continues. Unlike some instanc-es in collegiate sports these days, both assistant coaches contracts are guaranteed for the upcom-ing season, and each will have the chance to work with the new head coach.
Pate is focusing the coaching search on candidates with head coaching experience with a Di-vision 1 or 2 programs, but she wouldn’t rule out hiring on an assistant coach from a successful Divison 1 program.
Pate explained that continuity in the program would go a long way in developing a successful baseball program here at UIS.
“Its very important for us to find a coach who can take the program to the next level. We want to find someone who will stay here for many years, show-ing continuity and commitment to building the program. We also want someone who is going to come in and be involved with the development of our new baseball complex.”
Pate hopes to find a new head coach within the next 6 to 12 weeks.
Jesse Miech Head Men’s Soccer Coach
By Nick DowSports Reporter
Brian GrunzkeFormer Head Baseball Coach
UIS Prairie Star soccer squads finished up their
preseason tune up games this past weekend. The UIS women were able to balance their at-tack and defense as they kept pace with Parkland Community College last Friday at Kiwanis
Stadium. The 0-0 tie wraps up the preseason exhibitions for the Prairie Stars.
The men were also able to bal-ance defense and attack in their final exhibition against Lincoln College. Going into half time tied 2-2, the Stars were looking to come out striking, and they nearly did as a header from a UIS forward went off the top of the
frame. Unfortunately, Lincoln was
able to strike goal later in the half, taking the lead for good and defeating the Stars 3-2.
Both Men’s and Women’s squads will be opening the sea-son on the road at Oakland City Sept. 4 before returning for their home opener against GLVC op-ponent Maryville.
By Carson Buss
Assistant Editor for Sports
Women’s ‘D’ holds strong, men fall late
The men’s soccer team huddles up before their game against Lincoln College. Next game the Prairie Stars take on Oakland City.
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This season the UIS Prairie Stars women’s golf team
will have a new face on the team, but the Springfield area will be welcoming back one of its former prep stars. Jenna Fox, a graduate student with one year of eligibil-ity remaining, has come to UIS from Eastern Illinois University.
Fox completed her under-
graduate degree at EIU and while looking at masters programs at UIS women’s golf. Coach Nich-ole Inkle approached Fox asking whether or not Fox wanted to use her final year of eligibility.
“It didn’t take me long to de-cide,” Fox commented. “I knew this was a good opportunity for myself and the team.”
Fox played for Coach Inkle as a prep golfer and Inkle remains
one of Fox’s favorite coaches. Fox brings experience to the UIS golf team as competing D1 level has honed her skills.
“The courses that we played were amazing but yet, very dif-ficult, which helped me become a better player, both mentally and physically.”
Fox also prides herself in be-ing a student-athlete her entire collegiate career. While being
an accomplished student athlete, Fox is still excited about the pos-sibilities for this season.
“The thing I’m most excited about for this upcoming season is our home tournament at Pip-er Glen and also just getting to
know my teammates better,” Fox said.
Fox and the UIS women’s golf team will be back on the course this weekend in Jacksonville at the Illinois College Tournament.
By Carson BussAssistant Editor for Sports
Jenna Fox, a transfer student from EIU, will bring D1 experience to the UIS woman’s golf program.
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August 31, 1990: Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. became the first father and son to play on the same team. Both players went 1-4 in the Mariners game. The father-son duo would eventually hit homeruns in the same game later in the season, marking a first in baseball history.
September 2, 1962: Stan Musial’s 3,516th hit moves Musial into second all-time behind only Ty Cobb. Musial has since been passed in career hits by Hank Aaron and Pete Rose, but still is remembered as one of the greatest ballplayers of all-time. Musial smacked 475 homeruns and drove in 1,951 runs on his way to a career .331 batting average. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Just last year, President Obama awarded the 24-time all-star with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
September 3, 1977: Japanese ballplayer Sadaharu Oh hit his 756th career homerun to pass Hank Aaron for the world record. Oh would go on to hit 868 homeruns in his career for the Yomiuri Giants. The Giants were able to win 11 championships in Oh’s tenure with the team, with Oh winning the Most Valuable Player Award nine times.
September 5, 1995: Cal Ripken Jr. tied Lou Gehrig’s record of playing in 2,130 straight games. Viewed as one of baseball’s most se-cure records, many baseball experts believed that Gehrig’s record would never be broken. Ripken finished his career in 2001 with 3,184 hits, including 431 homeruns. The two-time American League Most Valuable Player was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007.
September 6, 1977: Dave Kingman was traded to the Angels from the Padres for cash. Only nine days later he was traded to the Yan-kees, becoming one of the few players to play for a team in every division during one season. Kingman hit 442 homeruns in his career, but struck out nearly 2,000 times. Kingman became the first player to hit over 400 homeruns, but not get inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame when in 1992 he appeared on only two ballots, furthering disqualifying himself from possible future induction.
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