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INSIDE Police 2A | Corrections 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Sudoku 5A | Sports 1B | Classifieds 4B facebook dailyillini, DailyIlliniSports twitter @TheDailyIllini, @di_sports YouTube — thedailyillini tumblr thedailyillini The Daily Illini Monday April 15, 2013 The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 138 | FREE BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER Kavya Gundavaram has not been back to India for a year now but said she feels closer to home than ever. Saturday’s Holi festival, the Hin- du spring festival of colors, felt dif- ferent and colder than what she is used to. But she said she was able to revive nostalgic feelings of home while students celebrated the festi- val by throwing different colored powders and water balloons at each other, creating a spectrum of color in the air at the lawns of the Busi- ness Instructional Facility ³ more than 8,000 miles away from what she considers home. “It’s great celebrating in here because there’s a lot of college stu- dents, so everyone is my age,” said Gundavaram, freshman in Engi- neering. “I’m celebrating with my friends, even though my family is not here today.” She said to her, every single Holi meant having a good time, but the University’s festival is an oppor- tunity for her peers to experience Indian culture. “It makes U of I really diverse and really including of all cul- tures,” she said. “Everyone gets to experience, even if you’re not Indian so I think it’s a really cool opportunity for people who have never seen it before.” One of the many purposes of the event is to introduce Indian culture to the University, said Vrashank Shukla, graduate student. Shukla is the president of the Reg- istered Student Organization Asha and the co-chair of Asha for Edu- cation, the organization that hosted the event in partnership with Delta Kappa Delta sorority. This is their third year hosting the event. He said Holi is a festival to cele- brate the spring awakening. “It welcomes the spring in India,” he said. “Lots of students miss cele- brating this back home, and it’s real- ly good to have this here, and they can all come to have fun.” All proceeds from the event are expected to go to Asha for Educa- tion, an organization that supports children in India who need money for education. More than 800 people participated in the event this year, Shukla said. One of many participants of the event, Svitlana Koval, sophomore in LAS, enjoyed her first Holi festival. She said she wasn’t able to make it last year but is glad to have had a chance to experience Holi. “Everyone is just completely for- getting about all boundaries – just going out and clustering with each other,” Koval said. Families also enjoyed the festi- val as an activity to celebrate Moms Weekend. Priyanka Bhargava, a resident of Champaign-Urbana, came out with her husband to celebrate spring and spend time together as they used to in India. “It’s nice to see everybody enjoy- ing in the spirit of the holiday,” Bhargava said. “The colors are fantastic, the mood and everybody seems to have a good time.” Bhargava said Holi began when ancestors celebrated victory over evil by using colors to symbolize life. Carina can be reached at lee713@ dailyillini.com. BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER Sylvia Sullivan walked back and forth through a swinging door Sunday morning, bringing out hot French press pitchers filled with fresh coffee and antique floral plates piled with homemade Welsh wedge cakes. The mothers and families sitting at the table chatted about events at their children’s Greek houses and wondered when they would see each other next — for several of them it would be their sons’ graduation next month. “It’s an experience versus a place to stay,” said Howard Nussbaum, a father visiting with his family for their first Moms Weekend. Sylvia’s Irish Inn, 312 W Green St., a bed and breakfast situated in the historic Lindley House, has gained a reputation over the last ten years as a homey place for moms and families to stay during the University event, Moms Weekend. Sylvia Sullivan, co-owner of the Inn with her husband, Ernie, began booking rooms for Moms Weekend on January 1 and were reserved by the end of the month. The inn wasn’t the only local lodging that saw increased business. Although the Urbana Landmark Hotel has only been open to customers for less than a year, Xiao Jin Yuan, owner of the hotel, said it also saw an increase in business because of the event. On an average weekend, Yuan said he sees around 15 to 20 percent of the rooms filled. However, this weekend saw around 80 percent of the rooms rented by moms celebrating with their children. Several vendors from the Boneyard Arts Festival rented the remaining rooms. “They like the decoration and old style,” he said. “The customers feel this is a unique place. Most of the people when they travel usually stay in chain hotels, but they seldom have a chance to stay in this kind of old style hotel.” Cynthia Johnson, director of the Urba- na Business Association, said downtown Urbana sees increased foot traffic as a result of Moms Weekend and the Bone- yard Arts Festival taking place in the same weekend. “It’s purposely geared to the same weekend to target the moms,” she said. With the Urbana Landmark Hotel connected to Lincoln Square, Yuan said he believes businesses in the mall and KELLY HICKEY THE DAILY ILLINI Two students laugh during Holi, the Indian celebration of the victory of good over evil. The event was held on Saturday and was put on by Asha as a fundraiser for the education and advancement of underprivileged people in India. ZACH DALZELL THE DAILY ILLINI Samuel Jung, an academic advisor for global studies, is pushed into a pool of painted water by a group of students on the Business Instructional Facility Lawns for Holi on Saturday. Holi, a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus as a festival of colors, was put on by Asha, a group working to further education in India. Local lodgings host weekend visitors BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER After three weeks of discus- sion, the Urbana City Council will decide whether to elimi- nate parking on Kinch Street to make room for bike paths con- nected to the city’s Bike Master Plan. In order for the project to be included in the summer con- struction supported by the Safe Routes to School Grant, a final decision needs to be reached during Monday’s meeting. Brandon Bowersox-Johnson, Ward 4, said the decision is not an easy one. However, he said he believes the safety of the corridor outweighs the parking inconvenience. “I know it will be a hardship for neighbors to park across the street, but it will be a huge safety benefit for the cars that will be encouraged not to speed down that street and for all the kids and grown-ups who bike to school or work,” he said. Many residents have attended the meeting in the weeks passed to express concerns of safety, including speeding cars and lack of street lighting. Bowersox-Johnson said the council will work to address those issues in future ordinanc- es. He said the traffic commis- sion will look into implementing a stop sign at Michigan Avenue and Kinch Street in coming months. However, it may take a few years to raise enough funds from the Community Develop- ment Block Grant to fund street lighting. Corinne can be reached at cruff2@ dailyillini.com. URBANA CITY COUNCIL UCC to make Kinch Street parking decision See MOTHERS, Page 3A Baseball: Illini complete 3-game sweep of Boilermakers SPORTS, 1B Hail to the blue Spring game presents budding talent SPORTS, 1B Davis speaks to students on US-Israeli relations Moms weekend shows rise in Urbana business COLORS OF HOLI Festival of colors teaches students about Indian culture High: 61˚ Low: 49˚ 2AM in the evening BY TYLER DAVIS ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Rep. Rodney Davis, D-13, said Israel is America’s number one ally in the Middle East at a dinner hosted by the American-Israeli Student Coalition at Destihl, 301 N. Neil St., on Sunday. The dinner was the second annual AISC campus leadership event where campus leaders from groups such as the Illinois Student Senate, College Democrats and College Republicans were invit- ed to celebrate and understand the importance of the relationship between the United States and Israel, said Alana Rubin, presi- dent of AISC and junior in LAS. “We have shared values with Israel, and it’s necessary to advo- cate on behalf of those values,” she said. Following dinner, guests were asked to sign AISC’s leadership statement, which would be sent to members of Congress and shared on Facebook. The state- ment affirms support for the Unit- ed States’ relationship with Israel and condemns a nuclear-capable See DAVIS, Page 3A STEVE SHENG THE DAILY ILL INI 2AM, a three-person vocal team composed of Keon Ho Min, Steven Chon and Jung Min Kim, performs at the Korean Student Association organized talent show event Sunday at Foellinger Auditorium.
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The Daily IlliniMondayApril 15, 2013

The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 138 | FREE

BY CARINA LEESTAFF WRITER

Kavya Gundavaram has not been back to India for a year now but said she feels closer to home than ever.

Saturday’s Holi festival, the Hin-du spring festival of colors, felt dif-ferent and colder than what she is used to. But she said she was able to revive nostalgic feelings of home while students celebrated the festi-val by throwing different colored powders and water balloons at each other, creating a spectrum of color in the air at the lawns of the Busi-ness Instructional Facility more than 8,000 miles away from what she considers home.

“It’s great celebrating in here because there’s a lot of college stu-dents, so everyone is my age,” said Gundavaram, freshman in Engi-neering. “I’m celebrating with my friends, even though my family is not here today.”

She said to her, every single Holi meant having a good time, but the University’s festival is an oppor-tunity for her peers to experience Indian culture.

“It makes U of I really diverse and really including of all cul-tures,” she said. “Everyone gets to experience, even if you’re not Indian so I think it’s a really cool opportunity for people who have

never seen it before.”One of the many purposes of the

event is to introduce Indian culture to the University, said Vrashank Shukla, graduate student.

Shukla is the president of the Reg-istered Student Organization Asha and the co-chair of Asha for Edu-cation, the organization that hosted the event in partnership with Delta Kappa Delta sorority. This is their third year hosting the event.

He said Holi is a festival to cele-brate the spring awakening.

“It welcomes the spring in India,” he said. “Lots of students miss cele-brating this back home, and it’s real-ly good to have this here, and they can all come to have fun.”

All proceeds from the event are expected to go to Asha for Educa-tion, an organization that supports children in India who need money for education.

More than 800 people participated in the event this year, Shukla said.

One of many participants of the event, Svitlana Koval, sophomore in LAS, enjoyed her fi rst Holi festival.

She said she wasn’t able to make it last year but is glad to have had a chance to experience Holi.

“Everyone is just completely for-getting about all boundaries – just going out and clustering with each other,” Koval said.

Families also enjoyed the festi-val as an activity to celebrate Moms Weekend.

Priyanka Bhargava, a resident of Champaign-Urbana, came out with her husband to celebrate spring and spend time together as they used to in India.

“It’s nice to see everybody enjoy-ing in the spirit of the holiday,”

Bhargava said. “The colors are fantastic, the mood and everybody seems to have a good time.”

Bhargava said Holi began when ancestors celebrated victory over evil by using colors to symbolize life.

Carina can be reached at [email protected].

BY CORINNE RUFFSTAFF WRITER

Sylvia Sullivan walked back and forth through a swinging door Sunday morning, bringing out hot French press pitchers fi lled with fresh coffee and antique fl oral plates piled with homemade Welsh wedge cakes. The mothers and families sitting at the table chatted about events at their children’s Greek houses and wondered when they would see each other next — for several of them it would be their sons’ graduation next month.

“It’s an experience versus a place to stay,” said Howard Nussbaum, a father visiting with his family for their fi rst Moms Weekend.

Sylvia’s Irish Inn , 312 W Green St., a bed and breakfast situated in the historic Lindley House , has gained a reputation over the last ten years as a homey place for moms and families to stay during the University event, Moms Weekend.

Sylvia Sullivan, co-owner of the Inn with her husband, Ernie , began booking rooms for Moms Weekend on January 1 and were reserved by the end of the month.

The inn wasn’t the only local lodging that saw increased business. Although the Urbana Landmark Hotel has only been open to customers for less than a year, Xiao Jin Yuan , owner of the hotel, said it also saw an increase in business because of the event.

On an average weekend, Yuan said he sees around 15 to 20 percent of the rooms fi lled. However, this weekend saw around 80 percent of the rooms rented by moms celebrating with their children. Several vendors from the Boneyard Arts Festival rented the remaining rooms.

“They like the decoration and old style,” he said. “The customers feel this is a unique place. Most of the people when they travel usually stay in chain hotels, but they seldom have a chance to stay in this kind of old style hotel.”

Cynthia Johnson , director of the Urba-na Business Association , said downtown Urbana sees increased foot traffi c as a result of Moms Weekend and the Bone-yard Arts Festival taking place in the same weekend.

“It’s purposely geared to the same weekend to target the moms,” she said.

With the Urbana Landmark Hotel connected to Lincoln Square, Yuan said he believes businesses in the mall and

KELLY HICKEY THE DAILY ILLINI

Two students laugh during Holi, the Indian celebration of the victory of good over evil. The event was held on Saturday and was put on by Asha as a fundraiser for the education and advancement of underprivileged people in India.

ZACH DALZELL THE DAILY ILLINI

Samuel Jung, an academic advisor for global studies, is pushed into a pool of painted water by a group of students on the Business Instructional Facility Lawns for Holi on Saturday. Holi, a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus as a festival of colors, was put on by Asha, a group working to further education in India.

Local lodgings host weekend visitors

BY CORINNE RUFFSTAFF WRITER

After three weeks of discus-sion, the Urbana City Council will decide whether to elimi-nate parking on Kinch Street to make room for bike paths con-nected to the city’s Bike Master Plan. In order for the project to be included in the summer con-struction supported by the Safe Routes to School Grant, a fi nal decision needs to be reached during Monday’s meeting.

Brandon Bowersox-Johnson, Ward 4 , said the decision is not

an easy one. However, he said he believes the safety of the corridor outweighs the parking inconvenience.

“I know it will be a hardship for neighbors to park across the street, but it will be a huge safety benefi t for the cars that will be encouraged not to speed down that street and for all the kids and grown-ups who bike to school or work,” he said.

Many residents have attended the meeting in the weeks passed to express concerns of safety, including speeding cars and lack

of street lighting.Bowersox-Johnson said the

council will work to address those issues in future ordinanc-es. He said the traffi c commis-sion will look into implementing a stop sign at Michigan Avenue and Kinch Street in coming months. However, it may take a few years to raise enough funds from the Community Develop-ment Block Grant to fund street lighting.

Corinne can be reached at [email protected].

URBANA CITY COUNCIL

UCC to make Kinch Street parking decision

See MOTHERS, Page 3A

Baseball: Illini complete 3-game sweep of Boilermakers SPORTS, 1B

Hail to the blueSpring game presents budding talent SPORTS, 1B

Davis speaks to students on US-Israeli relations

Moms weekend shows rise in Urbana business

COLORS OF HOLIFestival of colors teaches students about Indian culture

High: 61˚ Low: 49˚

2AM in the evening

BY TYLER DAVISASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Rep. Rodney Davis, D-13 , said Israel is America’s number one ally in the Middle East at a dinner hosted by the American-Israeli Student Coalition at Destihl, 301 N. Neil St., on Sunday.

The dinner was the second annual AISC campus leadership event where campus leaders from

groups such as the Illinois Student Senate, College Democrats and College Republicans were invit-ed to celebrate and understand the importance of the relationship between the United States and Israel, said Alana Rubin , presi-dent of AISC and junior in LAS.

“We have shared values with Israel, and it’s necessary to advo-cate on behalf of those values,”

she said.Following dinner, guests were

asked to sign AISC’s leadership statement, which would be sent to members of Congress and shared on Facebook. The state-ment affi rms support for the Unit-ed States’ relationship with Israel and condemns a nuclear-capable

See DAVIS, Page 3A

STEVE SHENG THE DAILY ILL INI

2AM, a three-person vocal team composed of Keon Ho Min , Steven Chon and Jung Min Kim , performs at the Korean Student Association organized talent show event Sunday at Foellinger Auditorium .

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Champaign

Criminal damage to property was reported in the 100 block of East John Street around 8 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the victim reported an unknown offender broke his windshield.

Criminal damage to property was reported in the 500 block of East Chalmers Street around 11 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the victim reported an unknown offender broke his windshield.

Criminal damage to proper-ty was reported in the 700 block of South First Street around 7:30 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the offender reported an unknown offender dented his truck and broke the windshield.

Criminal damage to property was reported in the 600 block of South Second Street around 10 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, an unknown offender broke the vic-tim’s windshield . Four auto parts and accessories were reported damaged .

Urbana

Theft was reported near Lincoln and West Pennsylvania avenues around 6:30 a.m. Thursday.

According to the report, the unknown offender removed a city manhole cover at an unknown date and time .

A 23-year-old female was arrested on the charges of bat-tery and theft of labor services at Kentucky Fried Chicken, 410 W. University Ave., around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.

According to the report, the suspect received a ride from the business. She disputed the amount she was charged and refused to pay for the ride. The suspect struck the cab driver while arguing with him .

Criminal damage to property was reported at the Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green St., around 6 p.m. Thursday.

According to the report, an unknown offender threw a chunk of concrete through the rear win-dow of the victim’s vehicle .

A 30-year-old male was arrested on the charge of domes-tic battery in the 1300 block of

North Lincoln Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Friday.

According to the report, the suspect and victim were in the process of ending their dating relationship. The suspect became upset with the victim during an argument and physically bat-tered her. The suspect was tak-en to the Champaign County Jail .

University A 41-year-old male was

arrested on an outstanding war-rant for the city of Champaign at the Illinois Terminal, 45 E. Uni-versity Ave., at 7 p.m. Thursday.

According to the report, the suspect failed to appear in court to face trespassing charges. An offi cer aware of the warrant rec-ognized the suspect .

A 30-year-old male was arrested on an outstanding war-rant for the city of Champaign at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

According to the report, the suspect failed to appear in court to face minor in possession of alcohol charges. An offi cer aware of the warrant recognized the suspect .

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Today’s BirthdayDiscover and act on new opportunities through communications. It’s easier to advance, and words go farther. After June, home and family draw your attention. Flexibility with changes allows grace and ease. So does renewing your space and practices for health and happiness. Include love.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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MARINE CLOUD BRIGHTENINGMarine Cloud Brightening is a proposed geoengineering technique where widespread marine stratocumulus clouds are seeded with microscopic sea salt particles that increase the number of droplets in the clouds and the amount of sunlight refl ected back to space, effectively cooling the atmosphere. Climate models suggest that the cooling has the potential to counteract the effects of global warming up to the point of a doubling of carbon dioxide. This lecture will discuss the science behind Marine Cloud Brightening, and the technical and scientifi c problems we face with implementing with the technique.

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April 17th, 2013 3:00 - 4:00NCSA AuditoriumRefreshments to follow

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Sen. Joe Manchin , D-W. Va., becomes emotional as he meets in his offi ce with families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.

BY DINA CAPPIELLOTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers gained the backing of one Republican and the potential support of a second Sunday as sponsors said the vote expected this week was too close to call.

The plan would “strengthen the back-ground check system without in any way infringing on Second Amendment rights,”

Maine Sen. Susan Collins said in a state-ment explaining her support for the mea-sure. But she added that “it is impossible to predict at this point” what will be in a fi nal bill.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has a B+ rating from the National Rifl e Association, said he was “very favorably disposed” to the proposal that has emerged from Sens. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.

Collins and Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois are the only two Republicans besides Toomey who are expected to vote for the compro-mise as of now.

It will take 60 votes to pass, meaning that more Republicans will have to come on board because some Democrats from gun-friendly states are expected to oppose the measure.

“It’s an open question as to whether or not we have the votes. I think it’s going to be close,” Toomey said.

The measure requires background checks for people buying guns at gun shows and online. Background checks currently apply only to transactions handled by the coun-try’s 55,000 licensed gun dealers.

Private transactions, such as a sale of a gun between family members, would still be exempt.

Gun bill sponsors search for GOP votes

Florida senator backs strictly enforced immigration reform

BY PHILIP ELLIOTTTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A biparti-san deal on immigration legisla-tion would need tough enforce-ment and even stricter penalties for those who came to the Unit-ed States illegally, a leading Republican at the center of negotiations said Sunday.

Sen. Marco Rubio, who’s among the eight senators writ-ing a plan that’s expected to come out Tuesday, tried to pro-mote and defend the framework for the emerging overhaul that would provide a path toward cit-izenship for those who came to the country illegally or over-stayed their visit.

While the deal does include a long and diffi cult process for the 11 million individuals in ques-tion, Rubio insisted the proposal does not include an “amnesty” provision that fellow conserva-tives have called a deal-breaker.

“We’re not awarding anybody anything. All we’re doing is giv-ing people the opportunity to eventually earn access to our new, improved and modernized legal immigration system,” said Rubio, a Florida Republican and Cuban-American.

But among some of his fellow Republicans, there are serious doubts.

“I’m not convinced,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. “I know Sen. Rubio’s heart is exact-ly right. And I really respect the work of the ‘Gang of Eight.’ But they have produced legis-lation ... that will give amnes-ty now, legalize everyone that’s here effectively today and then there’s a promise of enforce-ment in the future.”

Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Repub-lican, added: “The pathway to citizenship, right now, before those other elements are in place, is the deal-breaker for me.”

He said he could consider supporting the proposals only if the fi rst priority were border security.

Rubio said he would abandon the overhaul effort if enforce-ment, border security and oth-er elements are softened to his dissatisfaction.

With an eye on a possi-ble White House run in 2016, Rubio has been careful not to appear weak on border securi-ty or create political problems among the conservatives who have great sway in picking the GOP’s nominee.

Rubio also told those immi-grants that it would perhaps be easier if they returned to their home countries and started the process from scratch rather than use the process Rubio is proposing.

“So I would argue that the existing law is actually more lenient, that going back and waiting 10 years is going to be cheaper and faster than going through this process that we are outlining,” he said.

Other lawmakers helping to write the legislation acknowl-edged the political challenges of the issue.

“A lot of my conservative col-leagues have signifi cant ques-tions and they’re legitimate,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. “This is the start of a process, this is a vehicle that requires hearings, requires input and we welcome all of that. ... I am guardedly optimistic that we will see fi nally the end of this long, long trek that a lot of us have been on for many years.”

The measure would put mil-lions who are in the U.S. illegal-ly on a 13-year path to citizen-ship, while toughening border security requirements, man-dating that all employers check the legal status of workers, and allowing tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled work-ers into the country with new visa programs.

The legislation is expected to include a new emphasis on merit-based immigration over family ties.

“This is a very balanced bill. The American people have told us to do two things: one, prevent future fl ows of illegal immigra-tion; and then, come up with a common-sense solution for legal immigration. And that’s what our bill does,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

All of this, however, is contin-gent on the border security and enforcement, Rubio said.

“If you are undocumented here now, if you are illegally in the U.S., then you can’t even apply for this until these plans are in place and they begin to implement them,” Rubio said. “And then you’re going to have to pay a fi ne. You’re going to have to pay an application fee. You’re going to have to pass a background check.”

Without those pieces, the path to citizenship is unavailable, and the proposal is available only for those who arrived in the United States before Dec. 31, 2011. Any-one who came after that date would be subject to deportation.

Rubio pressed his case dur-ing interviews on ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’ “Face the Nation,” CNN’s “State of the Union”, “Fox News Sunday” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He also was booked on the Spanish-language net-works Telemundo and Univision. Sessions and Schumer were on ABC while McCain appeared on CNN.

Government bombing kills 25 as confl ict persists in Syria

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This citizen journalism image taken on Sunday shows Syrian citizens search for bodies in the rubble of damaged buildings that were attacked by Syrian forces airstrikes.

BY RYAN LUCASTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Syrian government warplanes carried out airstrikes on a rebellious neighborhood in the capital and a village in the country’s northeast on Sunday, killing at least 25 people, includ-ing a dozen children, activists said.

With its ground forces stretched thin, President Bashar Assad’s regime has relied heav-ily on its fi ghter jets and helicop-ters to try to stem rebel advances in the country’s civil war. The air raids frequently hit civilian areas, drawing criticism from the international community.

A Human Rights Watch report last week accused the Syrian government of committing war crimes by using indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate air-strikes against civilians, killing at least 4,300 people since the summer.

On Sunday, a government jet bombed rebel-held areas in the predominantly Kurdish village of Hadad in the northeastern province of Hassaka, accord-ing to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said at least 16 people were killed, including two women and three children.

A Hassaka-based activist who was in Hadad when the plane struck said the bombs sent huge plumes of black smoke billowing over the town. He spoke on con-dition that he be identifi ed only by his nickname of Abu Qasem — by which he is widely known among his comrades — out of fear of reprisals.

Another airstrike on the Damascus neighborhood of

Qaboun killed at least nine chil-dren, the Observatory said.

The government frequent-ly targets Qaboun, where reb-els pushed into early this year. The district has been ravaged by heavy street clashes and shell-ing since then as the military tries to expel the anti-Assad fi ghters.

The SANA state news agen-cy said “terrorists” fi red mortar rounds that struck a bus station in the Damas-cus suburb of Jaramana, kill-ing four people and wounding 20. The Syrian regime describes those trying to topple Assad as “terrorists.”

SANA said the attack caused sig-nifi cant damage to cars and bus-es parked at the station.

The Obser-vatory, which relies on a net-work of activists on the ground, also reported that four civilians died after being tortured in a jail in the town of Zakyeh. It did not provide any further details.

In Idlib province in northwest-ern Syria, regime troops on Sun-day reached the embattled mili-tary bases of Hamadiya and Wadi Deif near the city of Maaret al-Numan, Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said.

The government forces killed more than 20 rebels in an ambush in the area on Saturday, opening the way for supplies to

reach the facilities. The military had been forced to drop supplies in by helicopter because rebels controlled the area.

Syria’s rebels — a mosaic of various factions with different ideologies and no united com-mand — have pried much of the country’s north from regime forces, and captured their fi rst provincial capital — the city of Raqqa along the Euphrates River — last month.

Rebels also have made sig-nifi cant gains in recent weeks in southern Syr-ia near the bor-der with Jordan, capturing mili-tary bases and territory that could provide anti-Assad fi ght-ers with a stag-ing ground for an eventual assault on Damascus.

The push in the south has coin-cided with what Western and

Arab offi cials say is U.S.-backed training of opposition fi ghters in Jordan and an infl ux of for-eign-funded weapons into the south. The rebel advances have given the opposition momentum and put the government on the defensive in the two-year civil war that the U.N. estimates has killed more than 70,000 people.

The fi ghting has spilled over on several occasions into neigh-boring states, including Leba-non, Turkey and Israel, stoking fears that those countries could be dragged into the confl ict.

On Sunday, two rockets fi red from Syria exploded in the Leb-anese border village of al-Qasr, killing one person and wounding two, a Lebanese security offi cial said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters. Two more rock-ets landed in a nearby village of Hawsh, killing a 13-year-old boy and damaging two homes, the offi cial said.

It’s unclear who fi red the rock-ets from Syria, the offi cial said.

There has been heavy fi ghting near the frontier in recent days as Syrian government troops try to regain control of the strategic area from rebels.

Also Sunday, the main West-ern-backed opposition bloc expressed concern about the Islamic extremist rebel faction Jabhat al-Nusra’s pledge of alle-giance to al-Qaida last week.

In a statement, the Syrian National Coalition urged Jab-hat al-Nusra, one of the most powerful and effective rebel groups, “to stay within the ranks of nationalistic Syrians, to con-tinue its efforts in fi ghting the Assad regime, and in support-ing and protecting the freedom of all Syrian sects.”

Jabhat al-Nusra’s pledge of fealty sparked concern that the allegiance to al-Qaida means the group will be beholden to non-Syrian interests.

But the broader rebellion desperately needs the extrem-ist group’s fi ghting skills in its battle to oust Assad. Jabhat al-Nusra itself has sought to ease concerns by saying it remains dedicated to the Syrian upris-ing’s cause of toppling the Assad regime.

around town also benefi t from the visiting mothers looking for breakfast and things to do.

Without the University, Ernie Sullivan said he doesn’t know where business at Sylvia’s Irish Inn would come from.

“It’s all about location,” Ernie Sullivan said. “Without the Uni-versity, what would this be, farmland? And who would trav-el out here to see farmland?”

Sylvia Sullivan said some-times the place is quiet for a few weeks, and she wonders why she bothers cleaning the antique European furniture. But as soon as Moms Weekend or football season come around, she looks

forward to seeing her customers that come year after year.

“It’s exciting,” she said. “It’s great to see the same faces over and over again, and then fi nally at their (child’s) graduation.”

Karen Johnson and Rogelia Trevino are two of those custom-ers. They met three years ago during their fi rst Moms Weekend visit when they realized their sons were fraternity brothers. They have been coming back to the inn every year since.

Now, with graduation less than a month away, Johnson hugged her friend Trevino goodbye and confi rmed plans to see her at the inn at least one more time for their sons’ graduation.

Corinne can be reached at [email protected].

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Iran, which Davis said would be a disaster.

“Obviously, when you look at North Korea and Iran, there’s a drive for nuclear capability,” Davis said. “Many countries like those two look at having nuclear capability as a bargaining chip, and I think that’s indicative of the nuclear arms buildup that we saw with the Soviets and the United States when I was growing up.”

He said it scares him, not for his own safety, but for that of his chil-dren, this generation and future generations.

“I don’t want anyone to grow up with the fear that I had — that’s what we thought went away in the 1990s,” Davis said.

He said, unlike Russia, he is not sure that Iran and North Korea have governments that can keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of “rogue nations or organizations.”

“We’re generations away from those who actually witnessed a nuclear bomb being utilized,” he said. “Remember, there’s not been a nuclear bomb that’s been dropped since World War II.”

Davis also praised American commerce within Israel and said

he wants to encourage more.“Global trade means jobs in Illi-

nois, and a lot of times politicians lose sight of that,” he said. “If we don’t think globally, we don’t have access to jobs.”

Brock Gebhardt , ISS student body president, said there are many economic and social con-nections between the United States and Israel, and a lot of businesses are connected as well.

“We share a lot of the same dem-ocratic values like freedom of the press, justice, equality for every-one, and there’s no closer ally in the Middle East, so that’s why I think it’s important for us to learn more about it,” he said.

Gebhardt said he’d also like to ensure that Iran cannot become nuclear capable, as he said this would be a problem for Jewish and Israeli University students.

Davis said he sees his job as a way to work bilaterally with other nations to forge not only security and defense alliances but also edu-cational alliances.

“We need to continue to look for other opportunities and ensure that students ... have the opportu-nity to utilize that relationship,” he said, adding that he hopes to visit Israel this summer.

Tyler can be reached at [email protected].

“Terrorists fi red mortar rounds that struck a bus station

in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana killing four people

and wounding 20.”SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY,

Syrian state news agency

Senate bill would expand background checks on guns

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This week’s Presidential Address to the nation was a first for President Obama —

he did not utter a word. It was Francine Wheeler who addressed the entire nation via radio and YouTube.

The profound impact of Ms. Wheeler’s rhetoric was not root-ed in the fact that she gave the address instead of the president. The majority of people were clue-less as to who Ms. Wheeler was. But her emotional plea for gun control measures stemmed from the loss of her 6 year-old son, Ben Wheeler, who was tragically and senselessly murdered during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

More than the emotion and rea-soning present in Ms. Wheeler’s address, something larger was made obvious. We were reminded of the fact that every person has a voice and every person needs to use that voice. Though Ms. Wheeler’s words were specific to the heated debate on gun control, she, in the big picture, exempli-fied an important democratic ide-al: To see change in our lives, we must all contribute to the public discourse.

Making visions of change come to fruition takes collec-tive effort. Passionate, commit-ted people banding together for a cause is vital to effectuating nec-essary change. On the flipside, the absence of unity can often under-mine a movement before it even

begins. This applies to all aspects of society including our own campus community. We can see with the recent Service Employ-ees International Union Local 73 strikes that an organization or institution must stand up for what it believes is right and for what it believes is wrong.

Today, as students, we face a multitude of issues: student debt, academic work, friendly and inti-mate relationships. Our shared issues are both small and large. Regardless of the size, howev-er, each issue is important to our progress as individuals and, there-fore, how we positively impact those around us.

Acknowledging a problem or issue takes courage. The bliss of ignorance serves no greater good.

Naturally, at times all of us get wrapped up in our hectic sched-ules. We struggle to look past the pile of homework or upcom-ing social event and see any real issue that needs to be addressed. We think we are too busy. We think that “it’s not my problem.” We think someone else will take

care of it. But it is precisely then that we must take into account a famous quote by Freedom Rider John Lewis, “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”

Recognition of a problem is only the first step; your voice must be heard. It is crucial. The expres-sion of an opinion is often the foundation of further action. Your voice reaches a community who shares your views. At our cam-pus, there are plenty of people — friends, teachers and advisers — who are willing to help perpetuate change. All we have to do is speak and then go from there.

Modern technology allows us all to voice our opinions in vari-ous forms. Yes, you can still write a letter to your local representative or make a phone call. Unlike older generations, we can tweet at them. We can post a Facebook status. We can start our own blogs. We can send texts. You get the idea — the options you have are virtually at your disposal. The changing medi-ums of communication are allow-ing us to connect like never before.

Change only happens when we put our words to action. Whether you are an opponent or proponent of an issue, it is our duty as citizens of a democracy to speak our minds. It is a right we are all given.

I’m often reminded of the prov-erb, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” What about your opinion? If you have an opinion and don’t voice it, does it exist in the first place? The choice to see a change in your life is in your own hands. Don’t let it slip through your fingers.

Imran is a sophomore in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected].

Geek and nerd though I may proudly be, full-fledged mov-ie geek I am not. So, I feel

unqualified to give Roger Ebert the send-off he deserves on this page. But I cannot simply do nothing.

Therefore, dear reader, I want to share some thoughts he inspired on the topic of the illustrated book — and, in particular, of the illustrated self-published book.

It’s not a big leap to go from mov-ies to illustrations. After all, many movies are based upon books, but they condense ideas and cut scenes until only those who read the book can follow the story. To these devoted readers, the movie is the ultimate illustration, and why else attend but to see your favorite characters, places and scenes come to life.

If a book’s following is strong enough, making a movie of it — with all the spectacle of Hollywood — can mean big bucks. Just look at how much the Harry Potter mov-ies made and how much they had to slice out from the books.

And yet, at the same time, the humble penciled, penned or paint-ed illustration has been relegated almost exclusively to the realm of children’s books.

The one illustration that most books allow themselves to have is the main cover, and there’s no guarantee that it will actually illus-trate anything. It might depict a thematic device (the bloody dag-ger on a mystery novel) or a non-descript setting (a generic small town for a novel about a generic small town): no actual characters, events, or places from the book may be realistically depicted.

The notable exceptions I can think of are the old, pulpy, mass-produced, paperback genre nov-els — science fiction, fantasy and romance especially. The publish-er doesn’t want you to wait until page 80 to find out that this book has flying tigers in it. They’ll slap a picture on the cover that shouts, “Look! Here! Flying tigers!”

There is an art to creating a book cover. Different covers can appeal to wholly different readers.

So it is with illustrations.I’ve had some of my own short

stories illustrated. It dramatical-ly alters the reader’s perception of the story. My image of the char-acters has to be expressed solely through the medium of words, and words can produce different imag-es in the minds of different read-ers. That freedom to imagine is one of the powers of a good book. But when an artist steps in and draws the characters, the image they pro-vide can override all others.

It’s not a better or worse experi-ence, merely a different one. There is a long distance between the prose-only novel and the graph-ic novel, room for varying levels, amounts and uses of illustrations. And for the most part, we don’t use them.

This would be a purely academ-ic debate if not for the rise of self-publishing. With e-readers becom-ing ever more prevalent and with Amazon, Barnes & Noble and oth-ers all offering online publication methods, a growing share of the book market is being taken up by self-published books. Some esti-mate a quarter of all e-books sold in the U.S. are self-published, and many self-published books have found their way onto best-seller lists.

Under traditional publication methods, the author has almost no control over the book outside of the words it contains. The publisher hires an artist to do the cover, the publisher picks the font, the pub-lisher does the dust-jacket blurb. For that matter, in a newspaper like The Daily Illini, writers often don’t even write their own column titles.

The rise of self-publishing means that authors have much greater control over the artwork in their story, on the cover or in illustra-tions. On the low end of things, this can mean some god-awful covers by authors who have no ability in the visual arts at all (seriously, go read through lousybookcovers.com)

But authors who can hire an art-ist to create illustrations have a new source of readers: I can tell you without fear of contradiction that the artists who illustrated my stories have much bigger names with much bigger fanbases than I. They were certainly bigger draws for potential readers than I was.

The future of books may be won-derfully visual.

Joseph is a graduate student in Mathematics. He can be reached at [email protected].

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I llinois is discussing a bill that would allow minors to seek medical help for alcohol poisoning with-out fear of prosecution

for underage consumption of alcohol. Neither the mi-nor reporting the incident nor the minor who is intoxicat-ed would be prosecuted un-der this bill. Currently, only a handful of states have any kind of medical amnesty laws. Today, the Illinois Student Senate will discuss and vote on a similar policy proposal for the University.

Both proposals are neces-sary; student safety comes first. If a student fears get-ting help for another student based on possible charges that will be held against them, the University is not doing its job in keeping its students as safe as possible.

Currently, the University, Champaign and Urbana have unwritten but widely under-stood medical amnesty poli-cies. When it comes down to it, the responding officer has the authority to determine whether to press charges. A written policy would codify this rule and ensure students’ protection from charges.

The ISS proposal, called the Medical Amnesty and Good Samaritan policy, would only apply to University policy. According to the proposed policy, as long as a minor that calls in help for another mi-nor stays with the student and cooperates with the offi-cers, the caller will be grant-ed medical amnesty. Addition-ally, the student who needs the medical assistance will be granted medical amnes-ty, yet he may be required to complete an alcohol education program.

In 2002, Cornell University was one of the first universi-ties to grant medical amnes-ty to its students, and sever-al universities have followed suit. Cornell conducted a sur-vey in 2000 that found that 19 percent of respondents had thought about calling for help for someone who was intoxi-cated, but only 4 percent ac-tually made the call. The sec-ond-highest reason cited for not making the call was the fear of getting the “distressed individual” in trouble.

It is essential that this pol-icy is passed, especially on a campus where the drinking culture is so large. Although there is an unwritten rule, a law would more than allevi-ate the fears of students in critical need of medical at-tention. Although officers say they value the life of the indi-vidual over writing citations, a law would guarantee a stu-dent’s safety.

But while this would be a great policy for the Univer-sity, we encourage Cham-paign and Urbana to adopt it as well. Only then can stu-dents be sure that when they call in for help they will not be charged.

We hope that the ISS pass-es this proposal. While its passage does not necessarily mean that the University it-self will implement the policy, we are happy that this issue is being discussed, and we sup-port the ISS in its intentions.

Last Tuesday, student Dylan Quick went on a violent spree at Lone Star Community College in

Cypress, Texas, wounding 14 peo-ple. The key factor that makes this school attack a little different than more recent ones isn’t what type of gun Quick used, but the fact that he didn’t use a gun at all: Quick’s weapon of choice was a razor utility knife.

When I got the news alert on my phone, I was beyond shocked. Of course, I felt this way for the obvi-ous reason: Aggravated assault has no place on a college campus. But oddly, I was also shocked at the way Quick went after his school. In my naïve head, I have always associat-ed murders and assaults on college campuses with guns. Because in the last two years, there have been about 10 highly publicized shootings at different schools — from elemen-tary schools to college campuses. So yes, when I heard about Lone Star Community College, I was shocked.

However, Quick’s actions made me realize that a campus attack can come in any form. But one thing stays the same — many, if not all, of the attackers have some kind of mental illness. For Quick, it was the fact that he fantasized about can-nibalism and necrophilia, and he premeditated the attack, looking up videos of mass stabbings the week before the attack.

Maybe, then, we’re not looking at the issue correctly. Instead of focus-ing solely on gun control, maybe it’s time for us to start talking about how campuses handle mental health.

These problems that are happen-ing with student-initiated violence do not start at the moment someone starts shooting, or begins stabbing.

The root of the problems happen with a mental illness, be it depres-sion, pent up rage from a traumat-ic incident or any other possibility that may drive a student to murder. To get to the root of the problems, to potentially stop campus massacres from happening, it’s better to take the proactive route and get students to counseling centers, than to look back and take the reactive route and blame these school attacks on weapons.

I’m not saying that gun control is not a factor in all of these attacks. Columbine in 1999. The University of Arizona in 2002. Virginia Tech in 2007, the most deadly school shoot-

ing rampage in U.S. history. And Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. A common denominator with all of these incidents is the weapon used: a gun.

I like that President Obama is cur-rently pushing for gun control, that he recently gave a speech encour-aging Americans to persuade Con-gress to pass new gun regulation legislation. And I’m down for the talk in the Senate about mandatory background checks for gun purchas-ers. However, stricter gun control isn’t the only direction we should be heading toward. We should also

look at the strength in counseling resources.

Lone Star Community College failed to pick up on Quick’s prob-lems, which, in a sense, is almost understandable, because many thought he was a friendly guy who got good grades. But there are bet-ter steps to take if we suspect a student of being troubled. This is the dilemma colleges face: Do they underreact because they don’t want to assume a student has men-tal health problems? Or is it better to overreact and be wrong than to ignore a potential problem and end up with a wide-scale one?

More importantly, if Quick want-ed to talk to a counselor, would he be able to easily find one to go to? While I know that Lone Star Community College has counselors that respond to crises, the main focus of their counseling services, according to their website, is academic counsel-ing, career counseling and disabil-ity services. All important things, but mental health needs to be there as well.

I don’t mean to speak only to Lone Star Community College; many col-leges may need to re-examine the way they deal with and run their counseling centers. As wonder-ful as our own Counseling Center is there are still only 21 clinicians that attend to 40,000 students, which decreases the chance for students to see counselors in a timely manner — a problem that could start to change if we put more funds towards mental health. In fact, if students pay $20 a year, the University could get about 16 additional clinicians.

Universities should make coun-seling centers and mental health a huge priority. Whether that means more funding for better resources and staff, or a better policy to get students to receive counseling aid, it needs to be done, simply for the safety of the campus community.

At our campus, there are plenty of people — friends, teachers

and advisers — who are willing to help

perpetuate change.

Stricter gun control isn’t the only direction we should be heading

toward. We should also look at the strength in counseling resources.

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22 Relative of an ostrich24 Red gems25 One nipping Nipper,

maybe26 Be short of27 Flanders of “The

Simpsons”29 Brain section34 Jazz chanteuse Anita36 Amherst school,

informally37 ___ slaw38 ___ Kringle39 Big ball in space40 Spays, e.g.41 “The Lion, the Witch

and the Wardrobe” writer

43 “Polly want a ___?”44 German measles

45 Letters on an ambulance

48 “Gee, that’s really too bad”

49 Forever ___ day51 Catch, as a calf at a

rodeo52 Research facilities:

Abbr.56 Treated, as a sprained

ankle57 ___ à la mode58 Song syllable

repeated after “Da Doo”

59 Big fuss60 Encountered61 D.C. winter hrs.

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ACROSS 1 Noggin 5 Sturdy walking stick10 Bug14 Folklore villain15 Part of the eye16 Rest ___ (roadside stop)17 Prankish activity19 Not quite all20 No-tell motel get-togethers21 Attic accumulation22 Before, in verse 23 Double-whammy

economic condition28 Lose30 The “A” of Chester A. Arthur31 Sought-after rock32 ___ no good33 Did some figuring35 Without a stitch on39 Again42 Farm unit46 Hi-___ graphics47 Came down on a branch,

say48 Men’s grooming scent50 Impromptu, wide-ranging

conversation53 Stomach muscles,

informally54 Oolong and Earl Grey55 “Ain’t gonna happen”57 Church seats58 Shoddy and unsturdy62 Part of the eye63 “___ a Nightingale”64 Slithery fish65 Bygone U.S. gas brand66 “Untrue!”67 “Dang!”

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At 65 years old, Israel remains a work in progressBY ARON HELLERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — In 65 years, Israel has surpassed the dreams of its founders, emerging as the Middle East’s strongest military force, a global high-tech power-house and a prosperous home-land for the Jewish people.

Yet it remains a divided society, and its most intracta-ble problem — peace with its Arab neighbors — has yet to be resolved.

On the eve of the 65th anni-versary of its creation, the Jew-ish renaissance in the Holy Land remains a work in progress.

Dominating the short term is Iran’s nuclear program, which Israel believes is aimed at developing an atomic weapon that could be used against the Jewish state, despite Iranian denials. Unrest along Israel’s borders is equally worrisome.

Over the longer term, reach-ing peace with the Palestinians remains elusive, with the sides unable to agree even on how to restart negotiations. Palestin-ians consider creation of Isra-el a catastrophe that caused a

stubborn refugee problem.The 46-year occupation of Pal-

estinian territories also ignites domestic and international ten-sions. Without a partition, Arabs could one day outnumber Jews, threatening Israel’s democrat-ic nature.

Israel began observing its annual Memorial Day on Sun-day evening, honoring fallen soldiers and victims of militant attacks. At 8 p.m., air raid sirens sounded nationwide to mark a minute of silence. A two-min-ute siren was set for Monday morning.

At sundown Monday, the coun-try abruptly shifts its mood to mark its 65th Independence Day with fireworks, military proces-sions and picnics. The transfor-mation from grief to joy is an annual ritual meant to show the link between the sacrifices and the accomplishments.

“Today there are also those who rise up against us and threaten to destroy us. They did not succeed in the past, and they will never succeed,” Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Memorial Day ceremony Sun-

day. Netanyahu’s older brother, Yonatan, was killed in a military operation in 1976.

Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948. Israel marks the day according to the lunar Hebrew calendar. This year the Hebrew date comes out April 15-16 on the calendar used in the West.

Since Israel’s creation, it has been in a constant state of con-flict with its neighbors, most recently eight days of exchang-es last November with Pales-tinian militants firing rock-ets from the Gaza Strip. It has signed peace treaties with just two Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan.

Yet the country is thriving in other ways. It has weathered the global financial crisis better than most, with unemployment below 7 percent and a growing economy. As a “startup nation,” it has pioneered breakthroughs, including Wi-Fi technology, the computer firewall and instant messaging.

In the past decade, Israeli sci-entists have won six Nobel priz-es in chemistry and economics.

US, China and Japan fear rewarding North Korea for continued belligerenceBY BRADLEY KLAPPER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO — The United States and Japan opened the door Sun-day to new nuclear talks with North Korea if the saber-rattling country lowered tensions and honored past agreements, even as it rejected South Korea’s lat-est offer of dialogue as a “crafty trick.”

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in Tokyo that North Korea would find “ready partners” in the United States if it began abandoning its nuclear program.

Japan’s foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, also demanded a resolution to a dispute concern-ing Japanese citizens abducted decades ago by North Korean officials.

The diplomats seemed to point the way for a possible revival of the six-nation talks that have been suspended for four years.

China long pushed has for the process to resume without con-ditions. But the U.S. and allies South Korea and Japan fear rewarding North Korea for its belligerence and endless repe-tition of a cycle of tensions and failed talks that have prolonged the crisis.

Kerry’s message of openness to diplomacy was clear, however unlikely the chances appeared that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s government would meet the American’s conditions.

“I’m not going to be so stuck in the mud that an opportunity to actually get something done is flagrantly wasted because of a kind of predetermined stub-bornness,” he told U.S.-based journalists.

“You have to keep your mind open. But fundamentally, the concept is they’re going to have to show some kind of good faith here so we’re not going to around and around in the same-old, same-old,” he said.

Tensions have run high on the Korean Peninsula for months, with North Korea testing a nucle-ar device and its intercontinen-

tal ballistic missile technology.The reclusive communist state

hasn’t stopped there. It has issued almost daily threats that have included possible nuclear strikes against the United States. Ana-lysts and foreign officials say that is still beyond the North Koreans’ capability.

While many threats have been dismissed as bluster, U.S. and South Korean say they believe the North in the coming days may test a mid-range missile designed to reach as far as Guam, the U.S. territory in the Pacific where the Pentagon is deploying a land-based missile-defense system.

Venezuelans await election results

BY ALEXANDRA OLSON AND FRANK BAJAKTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARACAS — Voters chose Sunday between the hand-picked successor who campaigned to carry on Hugo Chavez’s self-styled socialist revolution and an emboldened second-time chal-lenger who warned that the late president’s regime has Venezuela on the road to ruin.

Nicolas Maduro, the long-time foreign minister to Chavez, pinned his hopes on the immense loyalty for his boss among mil-lions of poor beneficiaries of gov-ernment largesse and the power-ful state apparatus that Chavez skillfully consolidated.

Maduro’s campaign was most-ly a near-religious homage to the

man he called “the redeemer of the Americas,” who succumbed to cancer March 5. He blamed Ven-ezuela’s myriad woes on vague plots by alleged saboteurs that the government never identified.

Challenger Henrique Capriles’ main campaign weapon was to simply emphasize “the incompe-tence of the state,” as he put it to reporters Saturday night.

Maduro, 50, was favored to win, but his early big lead in opinion polls was cut in half over the past two weeks in a country struggling with the legacy of Chavez’s man-agement of the world’s largest oil reserves. Millions of Venezuelans were lifted out of poverty under Chavez, but many also believe his government not only squan-dered, but plundered, much of the

$1 trillion in oil revenues during his tenure.

Venezuelans are afflicted by chronic power outages, crum-bling infrastructure, unfinished public works projects, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages, and rampant crime. Venezuela has one of the world’s highest homicide and kidnapping rates.

“We can’t continue to believe in messiahs,” said Jose Romero, a 48-year-old industrial engineer who voted for Capriles in the cen-tral city of Valencia. “This coun-try has learned a lot and today we know that one person can’t fix everything.”

In the Chavista stronghold of Petare outside Caracas, the Mad-uro vote was strong. Maria Velas-quez, 48, who works in a govern-ment soup kitchen that feeds 200 people, said she was voting for Chavez’s man “because that is what my comandante ordered.”

Candidates for president Maduro, Capriles hold polarized stances

TSAFRIR ABAYOV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Israeli soldiers stand still as a siren marks the annual Memorial Day for fallen Israeli soldiers near the Israel border with Gaza Strip on Sunday.

PAUL J. RICHARDS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, salutes as he prepares to depart Capitol International Airport in Beijing for Tokyo on Sunday. At left is Kerry Senior Staff member Glen Johnson.

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BY JASON STRAZIUSOTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NAIROBI, Kenya — The U.S. official who oversees American efforts to counter al-Qaida and other militants in the online battlefield keeps a quote on his desk from a “Most Wanted” jihadi from America’s South. The Alabama native wrote that “the war of narratives has become even more important than the war of navies, napalm and knives.”

“I keep that on my desk because that is true,” Alberto Fernandez, the top official at the State Department’s Center for Stra-tegic Counterterrorism Communications, told The Associated Press. “It doesn’t mean I think he’s a great thinker or anything. I just thought that was right.”

The wanted fighter behind the quote is Omar Hammami, who joined the Somali militant group al-Shabab about seven years ago and is a prolific user of Twitter, where he nostalgically posts about America — like the U.S. children’s television show Reading Rainbow or his grandmother’s cooking — as well as analyses of al-Shabab’s battle-field strategy.

Fernandez’ Digital Outreach Team has had online exchanges with Hammami in Arabic, though Fernandez says that while Hammami is engaging, silly and flippant in English, his Arabic is “staged and formal, as if someone is doing it for him.”

One example of that flippancy: After

the U.S. recently announced a $5 million reward for Hammami he responded on Twitter: “As I’m a bit low on cash, how much is my left leg going for?”

Hammami, Fernandez says, has respond-ed to the U.S. online efforts “in superficial ways ... he hasn’t engaged in a substan-tive way.”

“We are focused on specifics on al-Qaida/al-Shabab actions in Somalia, their violence and brutality against the Somali people, the disconnect between their words and their actions,” Fernandez said in a tele-phone interview from Washington. “A week ago they beheaded an 80-year-old Somali imam for disagreeing with them.”

The Digital Outreach Team tweets, posts updates on Facebook and uploads video to YouTube in Arabic, Punjabi, Somali and Urdu. The 50-member team is comprised of Americans and foreign nationals who are native speakers of the four languag-es. The unit had more than 7,000 what it terms “engagements” — postings, updates or uploads in 2012, its second full year in

operation.For example, on Wednesday the Digital

Outreach Team said on its Arabic Facebook page that Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the most powerful Islamic militant groups fighting alongside Syrian rebels against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, is not in Syria “to support the revolution and the Syrian people, but to impose al-Qaida’s political agenda.”

Foreign fighters once mostly confined their online conversations to militant chat rooms and forums, but they have been migrating to more public Internet platforms in recent years, Fernandez said.

“The goal is to contest space that had previously been ceded to extremists, to confront them, to expose the bankruptcy and contradictions, the incoherence of al-Qaida, their friends and allies,” said the Arabic-speaking Fernandez. “Previously they could monopolize, they could post their lies and no one was there to challenge them. And now we’re there to challenge them on whatever platform they’re at.”

BY DAVID GERMAINTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Baseball has scored a rare hit in Holly-wood, while another American institution — Tom Cruise — has delivered his latest hit overseas.

The Jackie Robinson tale “42” took in $27.3 million to claim the weekend box-office champion-ship domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The film has yet to open over-seas, where the sport is a hard-er sell. But Cruise knocked it out of the park with a $61.1 mil-lion international launch in 52 countries for his sci-fi thriller “Oblivion.”

That bodes well for the domes-tic debut of “Oblivion” next Fri-day. The film stars Cruise as a workman on a devastated future Earth who lands in a battle with aliens.

If “Oblivion” packs in compa-rable domestic crowds, it will help maintain the action-star momentum Cruise regained with 2011’s “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.” That return to box-office luster came after some fitful years that followed odd turns in his personal life, culminating with the breakup of his marriage to Katie Hol-mes last year.

Released by Warner Bros., “42” easily beat the domestic start of an established franchise in “Scary Movie 5.” The Wein-stein Co. sequel opened in sec-ond-place with $15.2 million, the smallest debut for the horror-comedy series.

Three of the previous four “Scary Movie” installments had debuts of $40 million or more.

On the other hand, “42” out-did the usual expectations for baseball movies, which usual-ly do modest business at best.

Box-office trackers had expect-ed “42” to pull in less than $20 million.

The previous weekend’s top draw, Sony’s horror remake “Evil Dead,” tumbled to No. 5 with $9.5 million, raising its domestic haul to $41.5 million.

The $27.3 million opening for “42” is a record for a baseball flick in terms of straight dol-lars, topping the $19.5 million debut of “Moneyball” in 2011. Factoring in higher ticket pric-es, the $13.7 million debut of 1992’s “A League of Their Own” would have been on par with “42” in terms of inflation-adjust-ed dollars.

The film stars Chadwick Bose-man as Robinson and Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers boss Branch Rickey, who brought No. 42 onto the team in 1947 as the Major Leagues’ first black player.

“It’s a story that has so much emotion to it. Jackie Robinson’s life had such an influence on our country,” said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., who noted that all Major League players will wear No. 42 on Monday for Jackie Rob-inson Day, the 66th anniversary of his Dodgers debut. “Think of what a tribute that is for what he accomplished. Every player wearing 42 on his back.”

With generally good reviews, “42” drew in older crowds, with 83 percent of the audience over 25, Fellman said.

“Scary Movie 5” was the fran-chise’s first installment in seven years and had the same luke-warm reception as another Wein-stein series that returned after a long lag. In 2011, “Scream 4” opened 11 years after the fran-chise’s last movie and took in just $18.7 million, a fraction of

the $30 million-plus debuts for the previous two sequels.

The previous low for the “Scary Movie” series was the second one, which opened with $20.5 million in 2001. “Scary Movie 3” had the best debut, with $48.1 million in 2003, though its total domestic haul of $110 million fell well short of the $157 million take for the 2000 original.

“Sometimes, when there’s too

big of a lag, people lose interest. If it’s a ‘Star Wars’ movie, nos-talgia works in your favor. The long lag works in your favor. People are loaded with anticipa-tion,” said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office track-er Hollywood.com. “Other fran-chises, if you go too long, they lose that pop and excitement, and it’s hard to get that back.”

It didn’t help that “Scary Mov-ie 5” got the franchise’s worst

reviews. Critics haven’t much cared for any of the “Scary Movie” flicks, but reviews for the latest were almost univer-sally bad.

In limited release, director Terrence Malick’s drama “To the Wonder” had a modest start, taking in $130,000 in 18 theaters for an average of $7,222 a cin-ema. That compares to a $9,074 average in 3,003 theaters for “42.”

“To the Wonder” stars Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem in a dreamlike, poetic musing on love.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, accord-ing to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest internation-al numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

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This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in a scene from “42,” by writer-director Brian Helgeland. Remembering Robinson’s accomplishments is more important than ever, say people involved with “42” and baseball historians alike. And because he was such an inspiring cultural figure, it’s more important than ever to get his story right.

Congressional Research Service report casts doubt on Ill. FutureGen project

Countering terrorism on social media in Middle East

Report raises questions about delays, asks whether power industry has proper incentives

State Department puts Facebook, Twitter to use

BY DAVID MERCERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHAMPAIGN — A new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm raises questions about the future of the Future-Gen clean-coal project in Illi-nois, citing delays and other concerns.

The report by the Congres-sional Research Service says the project’s many delays raise questions about how close the project will be to demonstrating its carbon-capture and seques-tration technology by the time its $1 billion in stimulus fund-ing expires in 2015. The money makes up the bulk of Future-Gen’s $1.3 billion in financing, and the current timeline calls for construction to start in 2014 and finish in 2017.

The report, published April 3 but obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, also questions whether the power industry has enough incentive to use the car-bon-capture technology, or CCS, that FutureGen is intended to demonstrate.

“Despite congressional and Obama Administration commit-ments to the FutureGen 2.0 proj-ect, particularly the $1 billion appropriation from (the Amer-ican Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act), questions remain as to whether or not FutureGen 2.0 will succeed,” the report states.

“Nearly 10 years and two restructuring efforts since FutureGen’s inception, the proj-ect is still in its early develop-ment stages,” the report says.

Ken Humphreys is chairman of the FutureGen Alliance, the companies working with the U.S. Department of Energy to build the project. He said Thursday that he believes the $300 million FutureGen has, beyond the stimulus financing, will carry the project through to 2017.

“FutureGen 2.0 is on sched-ule to achieve a 2017 operating date, which will be followed by twenty years of power genera-tion using CCS,” he said in an emailed statement.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, the project’s big-gest backer in Congress, said he, too, disagrees with the report’s findings.

Report author Peter Folger declined comment through a Congressional Research Ser-vice spokeswoman because the reports are considered confi-dential. They’re produced at the request of members of Congress or committees, or when CRS staff members anticipate inter-est on the part of lawmakers, spokeswoman Janine D’Addario said. She declined to say if the FutureGen report was request-ed by anyone.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This image, downloaded from the internet on Thursday, shows the Facebook page of the U.S. Digital Outreach Team. A 50-member group of U.S. government workers comprised of Americans and foreign nationals called the Digital Outreach Team is countering extremist propaganda on sites like Facebook.

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TO LIFE

BY SEAN HAMMONDSTAFF WRITER

First-year offensive coordina-tor Bill Cubit’s stamp could be seen all over the fi eld during the Orange and Blue Spring Game on Friday night at Memorial Stadium. Quarterbacks Nathan Scheelhaase and Reilly O’Toole threw a combined 84 passes as Scheelhaase’s Blue team got the best of O’Toole’s Orange team 35-28.

O’Toole threw the ball 52 times, completing 34 passes for 362 yards and two touchdowns with four interceptions.

Scheelhaase was more effi -cient, completing 24 of his 32 passes for 210 yards and throw-ing one touchdown with no passes picked off.

While passing was abundant, it was running back Donovonn Young who stole the show. The junior’s 86 yards led both teams, and he cashed in three touch-downs on 19 rushes.

Young put the Blue team on top fi rst with a three-yard touchdown run on its fi rst possession of the game.

Scheelhaase followed the score

with an 8-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Lankford on the Blue team’s next possession.

Former quarterback-turned wide receiver Miles Osei threw an interception on a wide receiv-er pass on Orange’s ensuing drive, which led to another Young touchdown to give the Blue team a 21-0 lead.

“The difference between last year’s spring game and this year’s spring game is points and offensive production,” Young said. “I think we can do a lot of good things with this offense. They called the right plays at the right time and they jelled.”

“He’s not anywhere near where he’s going to be in September,” Cubit said of Young. “We’re going to get him better, even still, and I think now he tastes it.”

The Orange team would ral-ly to get within a touchdown. O’Toole threw an 8-yard touch-down pass to tight end Evan Wilson with just under a min-ute remaining in the fi rst half, fi nally getting the Orange team on the board. He followed it up with a 12-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tim Clary on the Orange team’s fi rst possession of the second half.

After Young’s third touch-down for the Blue team, run-ning back Dami Ayoola’s scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns

for the Orange team, cutting the lead to 35-28.

Head coach Tim Beckman decided to skew the rules and keep things exciting, giving the Orange team the ball back with just over two minutes remaining when it should have been the Blue team’s possession.

O’Toole’s game-tying drive

was cut short when he was picked off by Blue team linebacker Mason Monheim in the game’s fi nal minute.

“A couple of them were tipped,” O’Toole said of his four interceptions. “And if you look at it again, they were high (throws). We always talk about getting the ball below the shoulder pads.

That’s on me. It looks like it’s (the receiver’s) fault, but it’s really mine when it tips off their hands, even if it’s helmet level.”

With temperatures dipping into the low forties, the offi cial crowd was an extremely sparse 2,100 people, a large portion of

BY ELIOT SILLSPORTS EDITOR

Illinois Director of Athletics Mike Thomas announced Saturday that head basketball coach John Groce and the University agreed to a contract extension that will keep the energetic Groce in Champaign until 2018.

The agreement extends Groce’s current contract one year beyond the length of the original deal, and provides a raise of $200,000

more per year. The salary bump evens him with head football coach Tim Beckman as the University’s highest-paid employee. The extension is pending Board of Trustees approval.

Illinois went 23-13 under Groce’s leadership, including a victory over Colorado in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Illini missed the postseason entirely the previous year in what was Bruce Weber’s fi nal season.

“We are pleased to extend John Groce’s contract by a year and reward him for an outstanding job in his first season at Illinois,” Thomas said in a press release. “The arrow is defi nitely pointing up for Fighting Illini basketball, and this helps solidify the commitment by both the University and John to continue moving the program to a championship level.”

Groce’s tenure with Illinois

began promisingly, as his team won its fi rst 12 games, including a Maui Invitational championship and victory over eventual-No. 1 seed Gonzaga. The Illini rose to as high as No. 10 in the rankings before a slump knocked them out of the top 25 for good.

Illinois lost six of seven games in conference play before a victory over then-No. 1 Indiana spurred a stretch in which the Illini won six of seven games to all

but secure an NCAA tournament berth.

A Brandon Paul buzzer-beater carried Illinois over Minnesota and into the second round of the Big Ten Tournament, where it lost to Indiana. After beating Colorado in the fi rst weekend of March Madness, a hard-fought 63-59 loss to Miami ended Groce’s fi rst season at the helm for Illinois.

“This was one of the most gratifying seasons of my career

because of how much I enjoyed coaching this group of players,” Groce said in a press release. “They bought in from Day One, had great attitudes, and gave tremendous effort, which allowed us to have success.

“We are very excited about the direction Illinois basketball is moving.”

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Postillion inspired by mother’s shared passion for golfBY ALEX ORTIZSTAFF WRITER

It wasn’t until three years ago that Samantha Postillion was able to best her mother, the woman who introduced her to the game, in a golf tournament.

Defeating her mother was no easy task. Kerry Postillion played college golf at Washington before turning professional.

Even though she had to put her professional dreams on hold after just one year, she continued to compete as an amateur once she met her husband and started having children.

Around the time Samantha was born, she was ranked the No. 1 amateur women’s golfer in the world.

“She, despite having kids, was able to accomplish a lot,” Samantha said. “And she probably could have turned pro (again), but that just wasn’t her focus. Her focus was raising a family.”

The Postillion family would grow to have four children,

Samantha being the third eldest of four. While her main sport was not golf early on in her life, she did eventually dedicate herself to what had become a family activity.

Her parents and older brothers are all avid players, but it was her mother who was the catalyst for her playing career.

“My mom has had a huge impact on my game,” she said. “She’s always motivated me to get out and play, and she’s never been one to push me into golf, so she’s always made it a decision of my own. But being able to see her do well tournament after tournament, I grew into wanting to do the same thing as she did.”

Samantha recorded rounds of 71, 75 and 73 at last week’s Marsh Landing Invitational, tying for 11th place and recording a team season-low tournament score for the year. Her fi rst round 71 also ties her for a low round of the year for the Illini.

“Right now, I think it’s

all just coming together for her,” assistant coach Jackie Szymoniak said. “She’s one of our more mechanical players. She works quite a bit on mechanics leading up to a tournament. This past tournament was by far the best short game that she has had all season long.”

Her up-and-down score — the percentage of times a player can get the ball “up” onto the green and “down” into the hole in two shots from off the green — was 94 percent for the tournament. S z y m o n i a k described this as an “extremely impressive” score, especially on an unfamiliar course.

The performance comes during a time in which Postillion says she is feeling confi dent in her overall game, even the parts that are not the most consistent.

“She has put a lot of time in with her putting recently because that is one of those areas that has kind of been a little bit on the streakier side for her,” Szymoniak said. “Yet, that’s an area that she also feels is a strength of hers. So

she’s worked on a couple things with that, and it was awesome to see it pay dividends.”

Even with such a solid per for ma nc e , both Postillion and her coaches know there is still room to get better.

“This past tournament, she actually did not

have her ‘A’ game and she would readily admit that,” head coach Renee Slone said. “But she was able to fi nd a way to score ... and obviously her short game was absolutely phenomenal, and that’s what really saved her and

carried her through.”Slone has also noticed a “new

level of maturity” in Postillion throughout this season.

“She’s a competitor, and she isn’t one to get frazzled,” Slone said. “If a bad shot, a bad swing happens, she is able to put that behind her ... it motivates her in a way. She finishes a number of rounds strong.”

At the Insperity Lady Jaguar Invitational at Augusta, Ga., back in mid-March, Postillion shot an 85 in her first round.

She finished her next two rounds with scores of 77 and 74 to come in second among her teammates.

Her coaches also point out that her quietly confident approach to the game also tends to rub off on her teammates, who very much appreciate it.

“She’s been such a great addition to the team,” teammate and roommate Kaitlyn Wampler said. “Sam’s an extremely hard worker, probably one of the hardest workers we have on the team. She loves to be competitive, and so she

encourages competitiveness within the team, which is something we need and something that makes us better.”

T h e c o m p e t i t i v e encouragement that comes from Samantha can be traced directly back to her mother. Just as Samantha has done with her team, her mother used the game of golf to keep her family close. The family’s passion survives years after her mother moved on from her professional career.

“Now, I just want to accomplish even more than she was able to accomplish,” Postillion said. “She’s really driven me to play the best golf I can.”

Alex can be reached at [email protected] and @AlexOrtiz2334.

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Last season, the New Era that Tim Beckman wanted to usher in during his fi rst

season was that of change.The 2012 spring game

featured fans calling plays and an edible incentive to the victor. The 2012 season started with a victory over Bill Cubit’s Western Michigan Broncos and ended with a 50-14 blowout in Evanston to the “team up North,” the ninth consecutive defeat for the Illini .

Despite featuring projected future NFL talent on the defensive side of the ball, like Akeem Spence , Terry Hawthorne , Michael Buchanan and Illinois Pro Day surprise Glenn Foster , the defense battled through depth issues, injuries and continually being out of place week after week.

Beckman retained defensive coordinator Tim Banks , and Year Two at the helm defi nitely won’t have the talent on paper the fi rst season did.

After the turnover both the Illinois roster and coaching staff encountered during the offseason, the biggest takeaway from Friday night’s spring game was Cubit’s up-tempo and varying offense.

Fired after eight seasons at Western Michigan , Cubit has been coaching offenses since the ’70s and was the offensive coordinator at Missouri, Rutgers and Stanford prior to his head coaching tenure in Kalamazoo, Mich .

The man knows offense, and this season’s unit has some talent in place for Cubit to use. As he’s mentioned since he arrived at Illinois, he prides himself on building up an offense, and his track record shows that his schemes cater to the players that surround him.

The main hurdle, as everyone knows, is on the offensive line. Losing Graham Pocic and Hugh Thornton is one thing. Starting some combination of underclassmen and a senior who’s been riddled by injury will pose

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The Blue squad, the winners of the Orange and Blue Spring Game, raise their trophy up after the Orange and Blue Spring Game at Memorial Stadium, on Friday.

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Blue team linebacker Mason Monheim tackles Orange team running back Dami Ayoola during the Orange and Blue Spring Football game on Friday. The Blue team won the game with a score of 35-28.

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Heat set franchise record for home wins with 105-93 victory over Bulls

White Sox beat Indians, snap 5-game losing streak

BY TIM REYNOLDSTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI — Carlos Boozer turned his shoulder and knocked Dwyane Wade to the floor, while Nate Robinson shoved LeBron James as the NBA’s reigning MVP leaped near the basket.

It was physical, rugged and exactly what the Miami Heat needed as part of their preparations for the playoffs, which start this coming week-end. James scored 24 points, Wade finished with 22 and the Heat set a franchise record for home wins in a season by topping the Chicago Bulls 105-93 on Sunday.

“It was good, especially against this team,” said James, who had seven rebounds and six assists. “You’re definitely not just going to show up and win against these guys. You’re going to have to work for it. So for us, to continue to get better and for us to have a really physical game, good game, testy game, we liked it.”

Chicago had more fouls (30) than field goals (29), the first time the Bulls have managed that in a regular-season game since Nov. 19, 2008.

The Bulls sent Miami to the line a season-high 41 times, and at times were so reliant on the 3-point shot that they went more than 16 min-utes to open the second half without a single 2-point basket.

“We’re trying to get ready,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “And you play a team that’s physi-cal like this, it gets you ready.”

The Bulls shot 35 percent, and were far better outside the 3-point arc (11-for-26, 42 percent) than inside it (18-for-56, 32 percent). Robinson missed 11 shots himself. Miami’s “Big Three” of James, Wade and Chris Bosh missed 12 — combined.

“That’s the best team in the NBA as of right now,” Robinson said.

Mario Chalmers and Chris Andersen each scored 15 for Miami, which improved to 36-4 at home — topping the 35-6 mark by the 2004-05 Heat. Bosh had 12 points, nine rebounds and four blocks for Miami, which also got 11 points from Mike Miller.

Miami is at Cleveland on Monday, with Wade, Udonis Haslem and Shane Battier not even mak-ing the trip. James said he would be a game-time decision Monday, but “leaning toward” not play-ing against his former team.

Boozer finished with 16 points and 20 rebounds

for the Bulls, who snapped Miami’s 27-game win-ning streak last month. Luol Deng led Chicago in scoring with 19, Robinson and Kirk Hinrich scored 14 apiece and Jimmy Butler added 13 for the Bulls, who played without Joakim Noah (foot), Taj Gibson (knee), Richard Hamilton (one-game NBA suspension) and of course, Derrick Rose, who has been out all year while coming back from a knee injury.

“We just have to keep moving forward and concentrate on improving,” Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. “Hopefully we will get a couple of guys back soon. I don’t want us thinking about the playoffs. I want us thinking about the game (Monday) against the Orlando Magic.”

The loss keeps Chicago in the No. 6 spot in the Eastern Conference, just behind Atlanta. Miami has wrapped up home-court advantage through-out the playoffs, and opens the postseason at home next weekend against the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Bulls (43-37) are a game behind Atlanta (44-36), though Chicago would own the head-to-head tiebreaker. Chicago is at Orlando on Monday and plays host to Washington on Wednesday. “We need to play well these last two games and get as healthy as we can be,” Hinrich said.

For the Heat, that get-healthy mission has

been the mantra for a few weeks now, with Wade, James, Bosh, Haslem and Battier all among those dealing with nagging issues of late.

And after Sunday, there might have been a few more bumps and bruises.

There were no fewer than six instances of Heat players ending up on the floor in the first 6 min-utes alone.

James made his first seven shots, one of them a dunk off a bounce pass by Chalmers to give Miami a 46-31 lead midway through the second quarter. The dunk was with such force, Hinrich found himself flinching to get out of the ball’s way.

The Bulls bounced back quickly. A 23-10 run to end the first half got Chicago within 56-54 at the break, and briefly took the lead when Jimmy But-ler converted a four-point play to make it 61-60.

But the Heat regained control before long. Up 78-71 with 3:40 left in the third, Wade tried to throw a soft lob to James, on the play where he got leveled by Boozer and Robinson sent James into an awkward collision with the basket stanchion.

A clear-path foul against Boozer was called, the lead went to 82-71 on that sequence and the Heat still were up nine entering the fourth.

“I thought we played very well as a team from the start of the game to the end,” Wade said.

Athletes in smaller sports provide support through competing, cheerleading

I had never been to a tennis match before Friday afternoon.

It wasn’t that I had anything against tennis. I watch the majors and can hold my own in “Topspin 3.” I just had never made my way out to the Atkins Tennis Center to watch a match.

When I arrived, I was overwhelmed by the amount that was going on. With three doubles matches on three different courts, I couldn’t tell which I was supposed to watch. I decided to just follow the lead of the Net Nuts,

the men’s tennis student section. They kept their heads on a swivel, switching their focus between Alex Jesse and Jared Hiltzik; Ross Guignon and Tim Kopinski; and Brian Page and Farris Gosea.

I said in my first column last week that I would shed light on the teams that don’t get as much recognition. The men’s tennis team did very well. It gave Ohio State all it could handle in a 4-3 loss. Freshman Jared Hiltzik upset the No. 9 player in the country in two sets. But that isn’t what stood out to me.

What stood out the most was the fans.

They amazed me. They all knew who to watch and how to cheer, just the way I know what to do at football or men’s basketball games. There were 20-30

members of the Net Nuts in attendance, all sporting orange shirts, and many wore bandanas. They knew the Illini by name and sprinkled advice into their cheers.

In addition to the Net Nuts, there was a large contingent of older people, and children clad in tennis garb.

The man sitting next to me drove from Toledo, Ohio, to watch the Buckeyes. Though he had never played tennis before, the Buckeyes fan drove five and a half hours for the competition.

The biggest fans, however, were the teammates of the competitors. Both Illini and Buckeyes flew around the courts whooping and hollering.

Throughout the doubles matches, the loudest cheers came from the student-

athletes. They sprinted around, giving everyone a little love. They were able to make up for the quiet demeanor of the small, but loyal following.

“It has to start,” Illinois men’s tennis head coach Brad Dancer told senior Bruno Abdelnour.

Illinois had jumped out to a 1-0 lead against No. 5 Ohio State, becoming the first Big Ten team to beat the Buckeyes in doubles play. The crowd, which had been rowdy as Illinois’ top two doubles teams claimed victories, was beginning to quiet down, with standing fans dropping like flies to their seats.

But Dancer didn’t want that.He wanted the crowd in the match,

and he wanted his injured senior leader to make it happen.

Abdelnour grabbed freshmen Julian

Childers and Page and got them to start the familiar “I-L-L, I-N-I” chant.

After much prodding from the Illini trio, the crowd started to respond.

“Great job. Don’t stop,” Dancer told his players as they got the crowd more involved.

Eventually the trio was able to liven up the crowd and help will Hiltzik to victory, though the Illini failed to take down the Buckeyes.

Abdelnour, Page and Childers are not outliers. The Buckeyes athletes had the same role. Athletes on Olympic sport rosters everywhere know the deal: Compete and cheerlead.

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

Men’s tennis splits weekend vs. Big Ten foes

BY J.J. WILSONASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

At the start of March, it would have been hard for anyone to believe the Illinois men’s tennis team would find strength in doubles play.

For its third consecutive weekend, Illinois (13-9, 6-3 Big Ten) split Big Ten play, edged out 4-3 by Ohio State on Friday before shutting out Penn State on Sunday. But capturing the first point in each of its last five conference matches has given the Illini the push they have needed.

The intensity was high Friday as no doubles match ended with more than a three-point deficit. The No. 19 sophomore tandem of Ross Guignon and Tim Kopinski pulled out 9-8 (7-3) win over No. 16 pair Peter Kobelt and Connor Smith, rising to 10-1 overall and 5-0 against top-25 opponents when paired together. Illinois clinched the doubles point when freshman duo Alex Jesse and Jared Hiltzik prevailed over No. 32 Devin McCarthy and Ille Van Engelen at 9-8 (7-3).

“We talk a lot,” Guignon said.

“A lot of teams don’t like to talk too much strategy, and we’re really comfortable changing things. We’ve got a real good one-two punch together.”

Taking the doubles point from Ohio State, a first for any Big Ten squad this season, Illinois attempted to carry its momentum into singles play, with No. 36 Hiltzik at the helm and set to take on No. 9 Blaz Rola.

Even with senior Bruno Abdelnour sitting on account of a contusion to his right quad, the Illini brought a tough battle against five top-100 players. Hiltzik defeated Rola, and the Illini took three matches into a third set; however, four courts couldn’t stay alive, and they were forced to surrender the match to the Buckeyes.

“Ohio State is a great team,” Dancer said. “I give a lot of credit to McCarthy, I give a lot of credit to Kobelt, and in a match that’s close like that, it can go either way. You don’t know how it’s going to go.”

Illinois missed its second-to-last opportunity to play an

outdoor home match on account of rough winds. The Illini didn’t drop the chance to remind Penn State who the better conference team is, though, shutting them out with ease 7-0.

Illinois mixed its pairs in doubles, separating Kopinski and Guignon, but that didn’t faze them as they claimed all three courts for the doubles point. The charged Illini squad rolled right into singles and

put the Nittany Lions down for good with the last six points all earned in the first two sets.

But even the shutout, which echoed the same success the team had over Iowa and Nebraska earlier this season, wasn’t enough to deter the Illini from their constant, match-by-match mindset and integrity.

“No matter who we’re playing, Ohio State, Penn State, any team in the Big Ten, we have

a standard of how we want to play,” Guignon said. “That’s our main focus, not really who we’re playing.”

Dancer said the team has made his job difficult in the sense of determining which players will be his top-six singles guys. There isn’t a set, six players who stand out as the elite, and everyone is playing on similar levels and competing hard. But he also said figuring

out the team lineup, in this case, isn’t his main concern.

“We’ve got to play to a certain standard, play to a certain performance level, that’s it,” Dancer said. “Get obsessed with that. Just get absolutely obsessed with what we want out of goals this year and get really clear and focused on that.”

J.J. can be reached at [email protected] and @wilsonable07.

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Illinois sophomore Tim Kopinksi hits the ball during the Illinois men’s tennis match against Penn State on Sunday. The Illini defeated the Nittany Lions 7-0.

Illinois falls to No. 5 Ohio State 4-3, dominate Penn State 7-0

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Health of key Miami players a main concern leading into the playo!s

Scott becomes 1st Australian to win green jacket

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Adam Scott, of Australia, celebrates after making a birdie putt on the second playoff hole to win the Masters golf tournament Sunday in Augusta, Ga.

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CLEVELAND — The Chicago White Sox final-ly found the formula to win on the road.

Jake Peavy struck out 11 in seven innings, Paul Konerko homered and the White Sox defeat-ed the Cleveland Indians 3-1 Sunday.

Not only did the White Sox break their five-game losing streak, they won for the first time this season away from U.S. Cellular Field.

Chicago began the day as the majors’ only winless team on the road. The White Sox were swept three games in Washington before drop-ping the first two against the Indians. Chicago avoided its first 0-6 start on the road since 1968.

“In this five-game skid, we’ve had a chance to get that big hit and make that big pitch and we just haven’t been able to do it,” Peavy said. “It’s not like we’ve been getting boat-raced every night.”

Peavy (2-1) gave up a home run to Michael Bourn on his first pitch of the game — a line drive that landed in Chicago’s bullpen — but held the Indians to five hits overall and didn’t walk a batter.

“I didn’t expect Bourn to swing there,” Peavy said. “He got me.”

Indians manager Terry Francona gave full credit to Peavy, who retired 12 straight batters at one point and improved to 4-0 in five career starts against Cleveland.

“Bournie kind of ambushed him the first pitch of the game, but after that we didn’t have many opportunities to score until late,” Francona said. “He’s just a really good veteran pitcher.”

A day after watching left-hander Chris Sale allow a career-high eight runs in 4 1-3 innings, White Sox manager Robin Ventura liked what he saw from Peavy.

“He was just sharp today,” Ventura said. “It was one of those (games) where he just seemed to be hitting the glove.”

The White Sox have made a habit of playing close games in the early going. Chicago has played 12 games, with 11 being decided by three runs or less. The exception was Saturday’s 9-4 loss.

“It looked like after that first few innings it was going to shake out to be a tight ballgame, as it was,” Peavy said. “We were fortunate enough to come out on the right side of things.”

Giambi made his first appearance for the Indi-ans, starting as the designated hitter and going hitless in four at-bats. He began the season on the disabled list with a strained back and was activated Friday.

The Indians again played without second base-man Jason Kipnis (sore left elbow) and catch-er Carlos Santana (bruised left thumb) in the starting lineup. Kipnis was also out on Satur-day while Santana, who walked as a pinch-hitter in the ninth, had missed three straight games.

The Indians are off Monday and begin a three-game series Tuesday against Boston at Progres-sive Field. Francona will face the Red Sox, the team he managed for eight seasons, for the first time since being replaced following the 2011 season when Boston collapsed down the stretch. Francona led the Red Sox to World Series titles in 2004 and 2007.

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which consisted of the band. The game was played under

the lights so it could be televised live on the Big Ten Network in primetime. The loudest cheer of the night came from the band when Scheelhaase kneeled to kill the remaining time on the clock, allowing the band and the rest of the crowd to escape the cold.

The Spring Game was the culmination of Illinois’ spring practice season.

The Illini will not have any more offi cial practices until training camp in August. While the extent of Cubit’s infl uence over the offense won’t be known until the season opens, the Spring Game made it apparent what can be expected.

Joked Cubit after the game, “We only threw it like what, fi ve or six times?”

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

BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER

Illinois’ weekend series against Minnesota was odd, to say the least.

Minnesota (25-13, 8-3 Big Ten) swept Illinois (11-25, 1-10), who played this weekend’s three games at home as a road team after a winter storm in Minneap-olis forced the teams to relocate the series. The Illini squared off against a Gophers offense that saw almost all of its power come from its leadoff hitter.

“We have to take our hats off to (Tyler) Walker,” head coach Terri Sullivan said. “She sin-gle-handedly carried her team on her back and really deliv-ered some blows to us at key times. We had opportunities to get her out, and when we didn’t, she made us pay. She deserves National Player of the Week for what she did this weekend.”

Walker went 6-for-7 on the weekend with fi ve RBI and six runs, including a three-run

homer in the third game just one pitch after Illinois failed to catch a pop-up in foul territory.

“We don’t think we look like an 11-25 team,” Sullivan said. “We look like we can do some good things, and now we just have to do it. We also had a little bit of our mojo back today, and we needed that. Obviously, we just have to play that next game and do some things better.”

The Illini started their week-end with a doubleheader Satur-day, in which the team gave up 17 total walks. Minnesota capi-talized on Illinois’ mistakes and won both games 5-1 and 2-0, respectively.

“(Shelese Arnold) really threw well,” Sullivan said. “When Pepper (Gay) threw aggressive pitches, she was pretty tough to face, and Jackie (Guy) had a lot of courage and got out of a bas-es-loaded jam. We had a couple walks there, so we gotta work to clean that up and trust that defense.”

Guy added that the defense played well, and the pitchers still have to step up and focus on limiting the walks. She felt the Illini gave too many free pass-es, which hurt the team over the weekend.

Though Illinois came into the weekend struggling on offense, it was still able to put the ball in play and get some much-need-ed hits.

“We did a better job,” Sullivan said. “We were facing one of the best pitchers in the country, who gets her strikeouts, but we put the ball in play from the start. Some of our players, who have been dying for a hit, focused on putting the ball in play, and we got some hits after that.”

Freshman outfielder Jade Smith added that the hits came in succession and in key moments where there weren’t as many strikeouts.

Defensively, the Illini were solid all weekend, highlight-ed by freshman Allie Bauch

recording an unassisted dou-ble play in the third game, and Smith and sophomore Brittany Sanchez making critical catches near the wall.

The Illini seemed energized in the third game and came out swinging. Illinois traded runs with Minnesota and brought what was a 5-1 lead to 5-3 before the Gophers pulled away and

won the third game 9-3.“Today I thought our team

was right there,” Sullivan said. “We’re battling, but there are still some critical times in the game where we still have to make plays, whether that’s pitching better strikes or get-ting those key hits.”

Sullivan said the team still believes it is better than what

its record says, and that the fi ght it showed against Minnesota this weekend proved it. But looking forward, Guy said the team has one thought in mind.

“I think we just need to go on a run right now.”

Nicholas can be reached at [email protected] and @IlliniSportsGuy.

Illini softball swept by Golden Gophers

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Illinois center fi elder Jade Smith slides into second base against Minnesota on Sunday. The Illini lost 9-3.

problems as it did in 2012, but as was on display Friday night, Cubit plans to use running backs Donovonn Young and Dami Ayoola as they’re intended: to run north-south.

Josh Ferguson , the third running back that will see time in the fall, was a late scratch to the spring game due to an ankle injury, but he’s the smaller of the backs and has the speed to complement the bruising styles Young and Ayoola.

Even with the inconsistency on the line and in the passing game, Young, Ayoola and Ferguson averaged 4.4, 4.5 and 4.2 yards a carry, respectively. The signs for an effective running game are there.

New offensive line coach A.J. Ricker worked under Cubit at Western Michigan last season, and his prior knowledge of the way Cubit

runs his offense should keep the offensive line in tune with the quick throws and up-the-middle runs.

Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase battled injury and a lack of weapons last season, but defensive back Steve Hull and quarterback Miles Osei will play receiver this season, along with junior college transfer Martize Barr , adding to Ryan Lankford , Darius Millines and spring game standout Justin Hardee .

If tight ends Jon Davis and Evan Wilson can remain healthy, there’s a plethora of talent for Cubit to work with, and though the win column may not increase much, don’t expect a repeat of the 16.7 points per game the Illini scored last season.

Cubit’s Broncos did only win four games last season , but averaged 29.3 points per game in the process. The man knows how to score points.

Dan is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and @WELINandDEALIN.

Freshmen lead Illini to victory at Lee Calhoun Invitational

BY DAN ESCALONASTAFF WRITER

While the 400-meter relay fl oun-dered to a disqualifi cation, the Illi-nois men’s track and fi eld freshmen led the team to its second meet win of the season at the Lee Calhoun Invitational in Macomb, Ill .

“We did not have a ton riding on the outcome of this meet, but it was still great to see the guys put in the effort to pull out a win,” head coach Mike Turk said .

The Illini dominated in 3,000 meters with four runners fi nishing in the top fi ve, and freshman Will Brewster taking fi rst with a time of 8 minutes, 30 seconds — a meet record. Redshirt freshman Paul Zeman and senior Nathan Troes-ter tailed Brewster, fi nishing sec-ond and third, respectively. Junior Mark Donohue fi nished fi fth .

“The 3,000 was a lot of fun for

us,” Turk said. “The freshman in that event put in the effort to help us come away with key points. This will be one of results that we will look at down the road sometime as big in the growth of our younger guys in the long distance events.”

Illinois freshmen Cam Viney and Nathan Loe also came up big over the weekend in the fi eld and hurdles events .

Viney raced to his fi rst outdoor season-title with a time of 53.05 in the 400-meter hurdles. The fresh-man hurdler also fi nished second in the 110-meter hurdles with a

time of 14.37 .In the hammer throw, Loe

recorded a distance of 60.83 meters, which was third best in school history .

Junior Cody Klein and freshman Mitch Mammoser tied the meet record in the pole vault with vault heights of 5.05 meters . Though both tied with an identical vault height, Klein was awarded the tie-breaker over his pole-vault counterpart.

“Nathan really stepped it up in hammer throw as he is taking the place of Davis (Fraker) in the line-

up,” Turk said. “Once again, the pole vaulting crew with Cody and Mitch leading the way has contin-ued to be a model of consistency for us so far.”

While the Illini received a multi-tude of successful results from its inexperienced athletes, the team experienced trouble in 4x100 once again. The 4x100 squad was dis-qualifi ed for the second time in the outdoor season following a botched exchange between the fi rst and second legs. Prior to the meet, Turk employed a lineup change by replacing the injured junior Vani-

er Joseph with sophomore Jade Ackerman .

“It was just tough knowing that our major focus in trying to improve in the 4x1 was our exchanges, and that’s what hurt us again,” sophomore Brandon Stryganek said . “We know it’s not the end of the world since this meet wasn’t that important for us, but we know we have work to do before the Drake Relays.

Dan can be reached at [email protected].

Brewster sets meet record in 3,000m event

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FOOTBALL

Illinois baseball sweeps Purdue

BY JEFF KIRSHMANSTAFF WRITER

There was a noticeable grating sound to Ryan Castellanos voice following Illinois’ 17-6 victory against Purdue on Sunday.

Was he sick?“I was just yelling,” Castellanos

clarifi ed. “I was losing my voice. When your offense puts up 17 runs, you’re not going to have a voice left.”

Castellanos enthusiasm was understandable. Less than a week after an 8-4 loss to Eastern Illinois in which the Illini went eight innings without recording a hit, Illinois (22-10, 5-4) responded with an offensive output featuring two games in which it recorded 20 hits in a three-game sweep over Purdue (11-22, 4-8).

“I could have pitched terribly and I still probably would’ve won the game,” said Castellanos, who allowed four runs over six innings to improve his record to 2-0 and perhaps solidify a spot

in head coach Dan Hartleb’s starting rotation.

Hartleb saluted Castellanos ability to keep the ball low and force ground balls during a particularly windy day that allowed for fi ve home runs, though only one by the Boilermakers.

“I was as comfortable with him as anybody on our staff, next to Kevin Johnson, just because of the type of pitcher Ryan is,” Hartleb said. “He mixes pitches, and that’s exactly what you need when the wind’s blowing out. ... You don’t fi nd that with a lot of players at this level, and when you look at the fact that he’s a true freshman, it’s impressive.”

Yet it’s the Illini’s offense that deserves the most recognition

for the weekend sweep. David Kerian hit a three-run inside-the-park home run in Friday’s 17-12 win. Reid Roper belted a game-winning two-run home run to top the Boilermakers 6-4 on Saturday, and Justin Parr extended his career-best hitting streak to 20 games by hitting for the cycle in Sunday’s 17-6 victory.

Roper fi nished the weekend 7-for-14 with three home runs, eight RBIs and fi ve runs scored.

The Illini batters displayed a propensity for placing the ball away and in the middle of the fi eld, which Parr said Illinois’ coaching staff made a point of emphasizing in practices leading up to the weekend. When Purdue’s pitchers left the ball

high in the zone, the Illini made sure to capitalize.

Parr recorded a double, home run and single in his fi rst four at-bats with one last shot at a triple in the eighth inning. He cracked the 2-1 pitch into right-center fi eld that was nearly carried over the fence by the wind.

“Off the bat I thought it was gone,” Parr said. “It just kind of hung in the air a little bit. I knew about halfway to fi rst base that the ball wasn’t going out and it was just gonna hang, so I started legging.”

Illinois improved to 5-4 in the conference with it sweep of Purdue, which entered the weekend last in the Big Ten

in ERA and opposing batting average, a signifi cant downgrade from a Boilermakers team that swept the Illini last year.

“We knew their bullpen wasn’t as strong as it has been in the past,” Parr said. “We were just really patient at the plate, got pitches and made them pay for it.”

Illinois’ sweep was its fi rst one at home against a Big Ten opponent since it took three against Indiana on May 11, 2011. Sunday’s crowd of 2,547 was awarded free food for the Illini’s Bleacher Bum BBQ promotion, which brought in a considerably larger amount of fans than Friday’s spring football game. Don Gerard threw out the

fi rst pitch, while Illini basketball standout Brandon Paul took in the game from the East stands.

The Illini will look to continue its momentum Tuesday against Illinois State in Bloomington. Many members of Illinois expressed disappointment with their effort following the lost to Eastern Illinois, and the team will look to avoid a similar outing against the Redbirds.

“The guys can enjoy this weekend for another six to eight hours and then we’re back at it,” Hartleb said. “What happened this weekend doesn’t matter anymore.”

Jeff can be reached at [email protected] and @jkirsh91.

Costellanos’ ability to keep the ball low, force ground balls contributes to victory

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Donovonn Young celebrates his touchdown with his teammates during the Orange and Blue Spring Game at Memorial Stadium on Friday.

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Illinois’ Ryan Castellanos pitches Sunday afternoon against Purdue at Illinois Field. Illinois won 17-6 behind a barrage of offense.

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