BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER The University of Illinois’ financial condition is about aver- age, relative to its peer institu- tions, according to a budget update presentation given at the Senate Executive Committee’s meeting by senate budget com- mittee chair Michael Sandretto. He said the University system has significant cash, little debt, strong state funding and a small endowment when compared with its peers. As of June 30, the University had $1.8 billion of unrestricted cash. Sandretto said this does not mean the University has $1.8 bil- lion of unneeded cash to spend, as he estimates that about $700 million of that amount is avail- able for one-time costs. Addi- tionally, the University has a net income of $300 million, but allocation requests against that amount exceed $300 million. The University has accrued $1.5 to $1.8 billion in deferred maintenance cost — about double the amount of available cash. In reducing these deferred mainte- nance costs, the University could reduce its operating expenses in the future. These costs grew as the Uni- versity increased its cash by beginning to postpone deferred maintenance in 2009. In 2012, the University continued to defer maintenance, although its cash was adequate, because of the pos- sibility it may need to assume responsibility for its portion of the State Universities Retire- ment System, SURS. Now, Sandretto noted that the state’s pension funds are “seri- ously underfunded.” From fiscal year 2004 to 2013, Sandretto said SURS has decreased from being 66 per- cent funded — underfunded by $6,492.30 — to being 41.5 per- cent funded — underfunded by $20,110.50. He noted that these estimates were calculated using some “pretty charitable assumptions.” In summary, Sandretto said even if the courts reject the revised pension rules, it is unlikely that Illinois will be able to fund the current plan and that SURS will still be significantly underfunded under the new pen- sion rules. The state’s ability to provide catch-up funding will largely depend on the economy. To offset the underfunded nature of SURS, an Ad Hoc Com- pensation Review Committee has been formed to review possible alternatives for retirement. The SEC voted to endorse the committee’s senate resolution on Supplemental Retirement Sys- tem, which calls for the Board of Trustees to establish a supple- mental retirement system for all SURS-eligible University system employees. This system must be designed to be flexible enough to allow the University to make adjustments as needed to achieve a competitive position, as con- ditions and legal environments change. While finance professor Jeff Brown said the committee was not prepared to make final rec- ommendations, he did give a sta- BY JOSHUA WINTERS STAFF WRITER The Illinois Student Senate allocated around $6,800 to add world flags and commemora- tive plaques at the Activities and Recreation Center, Campus Recreation Center East and the Ice Arena to celebrate the Uni- versity’s cultural diversity. The senate passed this res- olution with a vote of 19-2 on Wednesday, April 2 and the plaques and flags are scheduled to be put on display in late April or early May. All locations will be given a world flag, as well as a com- memorative plaque recogniz- ing the tenth assembly of the student senate, who passed the resolution. In addition to the flag and plaque, the ARC will also receive a cultural heritage mural, which will be placed on the second floor. “Our hope is that students will enjoy the addition of this colorful display and be proud that they are part of a campus with such a rich opportunity to be involved with people from around the globe,” said Tracy Kleparski, assistant director of inclusive recreation at the ARC. Student senate Vice Pres- ident-External Carey Ash, a joint law and doctoral student in education policy, organiza- tion and leadership, proposed a campus beautification initiative in an effort to give back to the campus tangibly. Ash sees the campus monuments and land- marks initiative as the largest and most visible celebration of the University’s diversity to date. “The inspiration to hang the ARC’s cultural heritage mural and the other venues’ cultural heritage flags came from Chi- cago O’Hare’s Hall of Flags in terminal three,” Ash said. “The ARC’s architectural design is nearly identical to terminal three, so I thought it fitting to celebrate our campus’ cultural diversity in a way that is unique- ly identifiable with our state and the University of Illinois.” To secure the $6,800 budget for the project, Ash had to make sure the initiative would be sup- ported by several key members of the student senate, as well as representatives from Cam- pus Recreation. Along with Stu- dent Body Treasurer Brian Sie- gel, Ash met with members of Campus Recreation where he received overwhelming sup- port for the initiative. “Our goal from day one has been to cre- ate a warm, welcoming Illinois family,” said Siegel, senior in Media and former Illini Media employee. “With our campus growing from an internation- al standpoint, it is important for the students’ representa- tive government to show its unyielding support for a global community.” The resolution to estab- lish campus monuments and landmarks was un`animously approved by the student senate’s Financial Affairs Committee, and received widespread sup- port when it reached the senate floor. It was approved after an hour and a half of debate. Ash is optimistic that Univer- sity students will appreciate the new displays of the University’s pride in its diversity. “I am confident the student body will appreciate the visi- ble reaffirmation of our com- mitment to diversity,” Ash said. “The campus monuments and landmarks I’ve worked to estab- lish will serve as reminders of our highest principles and val- ues for generations to come.” While there are currently no plans to expand the Campus Monuments and Landmarks ini- tiative past its initial three loca- tions, the student senate could move to expand the project in future assemblies. Joshua can be reached at [email protected]. INSIDE Police 2A | Horoscopes 2A | Opinions 4A | Crossword 5A | Comics 5A | Life & Culture 6A | Sports 1B | Sudoku 3B | Classifieds 4B THE DAILY ILLINI TUESDAY April 8, 2014 51˚ | 33˚ WWW.DAILYILLINI.COM The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Vol. 143 Issue 103 | FREE @THEDAILYILLINI, @DI_OPINION, @DI_SPORTS THEDAILYILLINI THEDAILYILLINI DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS @THEDAILYILLINI BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER Black students in Champaign- Urbana are more likely than white students to be disciplined and are less likely to enroll in higher-level courses, according to public school data from the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights 2011 Data Collec- tion report. These self-reported numbers fall in line with the report’s over- all national data, which show that black students make up 18 percent of the report’s sample, yet receive 39 percent of total discipline, while their white peers make up 51 percent of the report’s sample and receive 34 percent of total discipline. Additionally, the report shows nearly half all students enrolled in local early childhood educa- tion programs are black. In both Urbana School District 116 and Champaign Unit 4 schools, these programs function as an alter- native to private pre-schools for at-risk children who may come from low-income families. A correlation between race and income exists in Champaign- Urbana, as in most American communities, said Mark Aber, an associate professor of psy- chology who has prepared racial climate studies on Unit 4. “These are not new problems. We’re dealing with the contem- porary manifestation of pretty old problems,” he said. Discipline Although black students are disproportionately more likely to be disciplined than their white peers in Unit 4 and District 116, Unit 4 Superintendent Judy Wie- gand said disciplinary action is taken only when students display certain behaviors that require it. “Why is it that certain minori- ties display that type of behavior on a more frequent basis than other groups?” Wiegand said. “Is it because they may be disen- franchised with the public school system? Is it because they don’t feel they can be successful with- in the school? I think there is a variety of reasons students act out within the schools.” In Champaign’s 2011 report, black students make up 73 per- cent of all students disciplined while comprising 34.8 percent of the district’s 9,372 enrolled students. The 2011 disciplinary rate represents a decrease from a peak of 82.7 percent reported in 2006, which followed a report- ed 68.1 percent black students disciplined in 2000. In contrast, white students made up 13.8 percent of stu- dents disciplined in 2011 while making up 40.7 percent of dis- trict enrollment. This rate has been up and down for the past four reports on file, with a high of 28.7 percent in 2000 and a low of 14.5 percent in 2006. To address these disparities, Wiegand said Unit 4 has been trying to make more holistic approaches by looking at what is causing that behavior in the first place via the ACTIONS pro- gram — “Alternative Center for Targeted Instruction and ONgo- ing Support.” Rather than giv- ing a student an out-of-school suspension, the student is sent to another building where the issues that may have led to the suspension are dealt with. Similarly, Urbana School District 116 Superintendent Don Owen said the district has been seeking new approaches to address the racial disparities in discipline. When working with discipline, he said any plans need to be long-term solutions, rather than quick fixes. On the high school level, Owen said the administration has shared the disciplinary data with students, which has been very powerful. The students pre- pared a research study on the discipline data in which they interviewed and surveyed stu- dents, teachers and administra- tors, focusing on the most com- mon offenses that were getting students suspended. “The high school administra- tion actually used that data to incorporate into their school improvement plans when it came to addressing issues of racial dis- parity in the area of student dis- cipline,” Owen said. In District 116, black students made up 58.8 percent of total stu- dents disciplined, seeing a net gain of 1.7 percentage points since 2000. In 2009, the rate had risen to 62 percent before falling to 58.8 percent in 2011. In 2011, black students made up 36.9 per- cent of District 116’s 4,343-stu- dent enrollment. SEE INEQUALITIES | 3A SEE SEC | 3A Inequality in the classroom 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 2,588 864 457 127 83 CHINA SOUTH KOREA INDIA TAIWAN INDONESIA 16% INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 84% LOCAL STUDENTS SOURCE: UI DIVISION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION AUSTIN BAIRD THE DAILY ILLINI Here is a by-the-numbers look at the diverse international student population at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Variety of international students count for 16% of undergraduates This breakdown shows the 16% of undergraduate students who come from outside of the US by home country including the top five countries that international students call home. Total international undergraduates: 4,990 ISS passes Campus Monuments and Landmarks initiative UI budget chair: SURS ‘seriously underfunded’ In Champaign-Urbana, data shows public school racial disparities persist SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Urbana) (Champaign) 2000 9,080 4,460 Number of Students 4,040 9,260 2009 4,343 9,372 2011 Total district enrollment by race for public schools in Urbana and Champaign Percentage of disciplinary action taken against black students out of total discipline 57% 68% 62% 82% 58% 74% Black students do not represent a majority of students enrolled in Urbana School District 116 and Champaign Unit 4 School District but receive a disproportionately larger amount of discipline. The pie charts represent the percentage of black students disciplined out of total disciplinary action taken against students in Champaign-Urbana. Black American Indian or Alaska Native Asian or Pacific Islander Hispanic White SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S CIVIL RIGHTS DATA COLLECTION SCOTT DURAND THE DAILY ILLINI LIFE & CULTURE, 6A CALLIGRAPHY AT THE JAPAN HOUSE Shozo Sato teaches Japanese culture through calligraphy SPORTS, 1B UCONN WINS 4TH NCAA TITLE Huskies top Wildcats 60-54
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BY TYLER DAVISSTAFF WRITER
The University of Illinois’ fi nancial condition is about aver-age, relative to its peer institu-tions, according to a budget update presentation given at the Senate Executive Committee’s meeting by senate budget com-mittee chair Michael Sandretto.
He said the University system has signifi cant cash, little debt, strong state funding and a small endowment when compared with its peers.
As of June 30, the University had $1.8 billion of unrestricted cash. Sandretto said this does not mean the University has $1.8 bil-lion of unneeded cash to spend, as he estimates that about $700 million of that amount is avail-able for one-time costs. Addi-tionally, the University has a net income of $300 million, but allocation requests against that amount exceed $300 million.
The University has accrued $1.5 to $1.8 billion in deferred maintenance cost — about double the amount of available cash. In reducing these deferred mainte-nance costs, the University could reduce its operating expenses in the future.
These costs grew as the Uni-versity increased its cash by beginning to postpone deferred maintenance in 2009. In 2012, the University continued to defer maintenance, although its cash was adequate, because of the pos-sibility it may need to assume responsibility for its portion of the State Universities Retire-ment System, SURS.
Now, Sandretto noted that the
state’s pension funds are “seri-ously underfunded.”
From fiscal year 2004 to 2013, Sandretto said SURS has decreased from being 66 per-cent funded — underfunded by $6,492.30 — to being 41.5 per-cent funded — underfunded by $20,110.50.
He noted that these estimates were calculated using some “pretty charitable assumptions.”
In summary, Sandretto said even if the courts reject the revised pension rules, it is unlikely that Illinois will be able to fund the current plan and that SURS will still be signifi cantly underfunded under the new pen-sion rules. The state’s ability to provide catch-up funding will largely depend on the economy.
To offset the underfunded nature of SURS, an Ad Hoc Com-pensation Review Committee has been formed to review possible alternatives for retirement.
The SEC voted to endorse the committee’s senate resolution on Supplemental Retirement Sys-tem, which calls for the Board of Trustees to establish a supple-mental retirement system for all SURS-eligible University system employees. This system must be designed to be fl exible enough to allow the University to make adjustments as needed to achieve a competitive position, as con-ditions and legal environments change.
While fi nance professor Jeff Brown said the committee was not prepared to make fi nal rec-ommendations, he did give a sta-
BY JOSHUA WINTERSSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois Student Senate allocated around $6,800 to add world fl ags and commemora-tive plaques at the Activities and Recreation Center, Campus Recreation Center East and the Ice Arena to celebrate the Uni-versity’s cultural diversity.
The senate passed this res-olution with a vote of 19-2 on Wednesday, April 2 and the plaques and fl ags are scheduled to be put on display in late April or early May.
All locations will be given a world fl ag, as well as a com-memorative plaque recogniz-ing the tenth assembly of the student senate, who passed the resolution. In addition to the fl ag and plaque, the ARC will also receive a cultural heritage mural, which will be placed on the second fl oor.
“Our hope is that students will enjoy the addition of this colorful display and be proud that they are part of a campus with such a rich opportunity to be involved with people from around the globe,” said Tracy Kleparski, assistant director of inclusive recreation at the ARC.
Student senate Vice Pres-ident-External Carey Ash, a joint law and doctoral student in education policy, organiza-tion and leadership, proposed a campus beautifi cation initiative in an effort to give back to the campus tangibly. Ash sees the campus monuments and land-marks initiative as the largest and most visible celebration of the University’s diversity to date.
“The inspiration to hang the ARC’s cultural heritage mural and the other venues’ cultural heritage fl ags came from Chi-cago O’Hare’s Hall of Flags in terminal three,” Ash said. “The ARC’s architectural design is nearly identical to terminal three, so I thought it fi tting to celebrate our campus’ cultural
diversity in a way that is unique-ly identifi able with our state and the University of Illinois.”
To secure the $6,800 budget for the project, Ash had to make sure the initiative would be sup-ported by several key members of the student senate, as well as representatives from Cam-pus Recreation. Along with Stu-dent Body Treasurer Brian Sie-gel, Ash met with members of Campus Recreation where he received overwhelming sup-port for the initiative. “Our goal from day one has been to cre-ate a warm, welcoming Illinois family,” said Siegel, senior in Media and former Illini Media employee. “With our campus growing from an internation-al standpoint, it is important for the students’ representa-tive government to show its unyielding support for a global community.”
The resolution to estab-lish campus monuments and landmarks was un`animously approved by the student senate’s Financial Affairs Committee, and received widespread sup-port when it reached the senate fl oor. It was approved after an hour and a half of debate.
Ash is optimistic that Univer-sity students will appreciate the new displays of the University’s pride in its diversity.
“I am confi dent the student body will appreciate the visi-ble reaffi rmation of our com-mitment to diversity,” Ash said. “The campus monuments and landmarks I’ve worked to estab-lish will serve as reminders of our highest principles and val-ues for generations to come.”
While there are currently no plans to expand the Campus Monuments and Landmarks ini-tiative past its initial three loca-tions, the student senate could move to expand the project in future assemblies.
Joshua can be reached at [email protected].
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Black students in Champaign-Urbana are more likely than white students to be disciplined and are less likely to enroll in higher-level courses, according to public school data from the Department of Education Offi ce of Civil Rights 2011 Data Collec-tion report.
These self-reported numbers fall in line with the report’s over-all national data, which show that black students make up 18 percent of the report’s sample, yet receive 39 percent of total discipline, while their white peers make up 51 percent of the report’s sample and receive 34 percent of total discipline.
Additionally, the report shows nearly half all students enrolled in local early childhood educa-tion programs are black. In both Urbana School District 116 and Champaign Unit 4 schools, these programs function as an alter-native to private pre-schools for at-risk children who may come from low-income families.
A correlation between race and income exists in Champaign-Urbana, as in most American communities, said Mark Aber, an associate professor of psy-chology who has prepared racial climate studies on Unit 4.
“These are not new problems. We’re dealing with the contem-porary manifestation of pretty old problems,” he said.
Discipline
Although black students are
disproportionately more likely to be disciplined than their white peers in Unit 4 and District 116, Unit 4 Superintendent Judy Wie-gand said disciplinary action is taken only when students display certain behaviors that require it.
“Why is it that certain minori-ties display that type of behavior on a more frequent basis than other groups?” Wiegand said. “Is it because they may be disen-franchised with the public school system? Is it because they don’t feel they can be successful with-in the school? I think there is a variety of reasons students act out within the schools.”
In Champaign’s 2011 report, black students make up 73 per-cent of all students disciplined while comprising 34.8 percent of the district’s 9,372 enrolled students. The 2011 disciplinary rate represents a decrease from a peak of 82.7 percent reported in 2006, which followed a report-ed 68.1 percent black students disciplined in 2000.
In contrast, white students made up 13.8 percent of stu-dents disciplined in 2011 while making up 40.7 percent of dis-trict enrollment. This rate has been up and down for the past four reports on fi le, with a high of 28.7 percent in 2000 and a low of 14.5 percent in 2006.
To address these disparities, Wiegand said Unit 4 has been trying to make more holistic approaches by looking at what is causing that behavior in the fi rst place via the ACTIONS pro-gram — “Alternative Center for Targeted Instruction and ONgo-
ing Support.” Rather than giv-ing a student an out-of-school suspension, the student is sent to another building where the issues that may have led to the suspension are dealt with.
Similarly, Urbana School District 116 Superintendent Don Owen said the district has been seeking new approaches to address the racial disparities in discipline. When working with discipline, he said any plans need to be long-term solutions, rather than quick fi xes.
On the high school level, Owen said the administration has shared the disciplinary data with students, which has been very powerful. The students pre-pared a research study on the discipline data in which they interviewed and surveyed stu-dents, teachers and administra-tors, focusing on the most com-mon offenses that were getting students suspended.
“The high school administra-tion actually used that data to incorporate into their school improvement plans when it came to addressing issues of racial dis-parity in the area of student dis-cipline,” Owen said.
In District 116, black students made up 58.8 percent of total stu-dents disciplined, seeing a net gain of 1.7 percentage points since 2000. In 2009, the rate had risen to 62 percent before falling to 58.8 percent in 2011. In 2011, black students made up 36.9 per-cent of District 116’s 4,343-stu-dent enrollment.
SEE INEQUALITIES | 3A
SEE SEC | 3A
Inequality in the classroom
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
2,588
864
457
127 83
CHINA
SOUTH KOREAINDIA
TAIWAN
INDONESIA
16%INTERNATIONAL
STUDENTS 84%LOCAL
STUDENTS
SOURCE: UI DIVISION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATIONAUSTIN BAIRD THE DAILY ILLINI
Here is a by-the-numbers look at the diverse international student population at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Variety of international studentscount for 16% of undergraduates
This breakdown shows the 16% of undergraduate students who come from outside of the US by home country including the top five countries that international students call home.
Total internationalundergraduates: 4,990
ISS passes Campus Monuments and Landmarks initiative UI budget chair: SURS ‘seriously underfunded’
In Champaign-Urbana, data shows public school racial disparities persist
SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(Urbana) (Champaign)
2000
9,080
4,460
Num
ber o
f Stu
dent
s
4,040
9,260
2009
4,343
9,372
2011
Total district enrollment by race for public schools in Urbana and Champaign
Percentage of disciplinary action taken against black students out of total discipline
57% 68% 62% 82% 58% 74%
Black students do not represent a majority of students enrolled in Urbana School District 116 and Champaign Unit 4 School District but receive a disproportionately larger amount of discipline. The pie charts represent the percentage of black students disciplined out of total disciplinary action taken against students in Champaign-Urbana.
Black American Indian or Alaska Native Asian or Pacific Islander Hispanic White
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S CIVIL RIGHTS DATA COLLECTION SCOTT DURAND THE DAILY ILLINI
LIFE & CULTURE, 6A
CALLIGRAPHY AT THE JAPAN HOUSEShozo Sato teaches Japanese culture through calligraphy
SPORTS, 1B
UCONN WINS 4TH NCAA TITLEHuskies top Wildcats 60-54
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WEATHERPOLICE
ChampaignA 23-year-old female was
arrested on the charge of driv-ing under the influence near the intersection of Marketview and Anthony Drive around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
According to the report, the suspect was pulled over for com-mitting a traffic signal violation. The victim proceeded to fail a breath-alcohol test.
A 19-year-old male was arrested on the charges of posses-
sion of cannabis and drug para-phernalia in the 300 block of East Green Street around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
UrbanaDomestic dispute was report-
ed in the 1700 block of East Flori-da Avenue around 10 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the victim and offender have children together. The offender entered the victim’s home and refused to leave.
A 29-year-old male was arrested on the charge of assault at Walmart, 100 S. High Cross Rd., around 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
According to the report, the suspect, who is an employee at Walmart, was cursing loudly in front of customers. When his supervisor asked him to stop, the suspect became angry and threatened his supervisor with physical harm.
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Today’s Birthday This year of creative fertility begins with an Aries Mercury bang. Communications uncork your thriving. Home roots strengthen as your circle widens. Resolve past con!icts with compassion. Review structures, plans and priorities before 5/20. Make repairs, and release clutter. Summer brings a fun game. A personal revelation in autumn sparks a passion for freedom and truth. Play with artistry and "nesse.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)Today is a 6 — You’re especially lucky in love today and tomorrow. It’s your light-hearted demeanor. Talk about what’s most important to you, and discover something new about yourself. Play with friends and family, and learn a new game. Share your appreciations with the ones who’ve earned them.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)Today is a 5 — Household issues demand attention today and tomorrow. Fix something that doesn’t work as you’d like. Desires align with the energy to ful"ll them. Dig in the garden, and sow seeds for future beauty and sustenance. Someone’s happy to help if you ask.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) Today is a 6 — Get into the books today and tomorrow. Study new developments, and check all angles. Compare "nancial notes. A new assignment’s coming. Watch out for hidden agendas
or a misunderstanding. Present con"dence in your communications. Talk, rather than action, gets farther. Get your data together.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Today is a 7 — Today and tomorrow could get pro"table... gentle persistence works better than force. Enlist some help with a project. Lay a new foundation. Stay out of somebody else’s argument. Your efforts could seem blocked... try a charm offense. Move slowly and prepare.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) Today is a 7 — Consider the consequences of actions before taking them. Use your power responsibly and with compassion. Don’t strain or push too far. Keep your goals in mind. Avoid expensive distractions and time-sucks. Go for practical, achievable outcomes. Say what you want and your network provides.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) Today is a 5 — Stick close to home today and tomorrow, and take time for quiet contemplation. Consider a loved one’s wishes. Handle old jobs to make way for new. Let go of some distracting baggage you’ve been carrying around. Pick it up later if you want. Or not.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Today is a 6 — Your efforts could seem stuck. Push too hard and there’s breakage. Your friends are a big help today and tomorrow; they come to the rescue. Align your new course with your core values and principles. Rely on the team to help sort it all out.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) Today is a 6 — Work takes priority today and tomorrow, but circumstances may not follow
plans. You could overstep bounds if you force the action. There’s still a way to win. Flexibility and a sense of humor advance your cause. Anticipate changes, and roll with them. Rest and relax.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)Today is a 6 — Make time for an outing over the next few days. It’s a good time to set long-term goals. Rather than launching into action, consider different strategies and directions "rst. Study, research, and enjoy fascinating conversation with someone who enjoys the same subject.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Today is a 6 — For the next two days, track calls, orders, and income carefully. Review "nancial arrangements, keep paperwork current, and rely on your schedule and budget. Consider an investment in your own education. What would you love to learn about? Speculate, and get feedback from a partner.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) Today is a 6 — A new associate could become a valuable partner. Keep your promises, and plug away to get the work done. Avoid office scandals, gossip or controversy. Someone’s willing to help, so create a win-win situation. Trade, barter and negotiate for creative solutions. Collaborate.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) Today is a 5 — Actions could seem blocked or thwarted. Huddle up and put your heads together. Take it slow. Focus on making money today and tomorrow. Make note of what works (and doesn’t). Review what needs to be done before the pace quickens. Breathe deep.
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PARIS, Texas — Deep in the heart of East Texas, gently slop-ing fields, fertile cropland and wil-lowy pine trees stretch as far as the eye can see.
Horses and cattle roam the grassy land, sometimes just feet above an underground pipe-line stretching from Cushing, Okla., to the Texas coast that has sparked an international battle over politics, the economy and the environment.
While the debate rages over the northern part of the project, the $2.6 billion southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is already pumping crude 487 miles to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
The part of the pipeline that began operating in January was fast-tracked by President Obama and has been called an economic boon, a job creator, a way to help the U.S. become more energy inde-pendent and one of the “safest” pipelines built to date.
But some who live along the TransCanada pipeline say they
fear the day a leak occurs and the contamination it could unleash on Texas land and waterways.
In recent years, the highly emo-tional issue prompted legal chal-lenges and spurred protesters to turn out, staging hunger strikes, chaining themselves to equipment and camping in trees, hoping to prevent progress along the route or cause Texas refineries to shut down or opt out.
“What’s good and bad about it is in the eyes of the beholder,” said Bill Fisher, a professor of geo-logical sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. “But this is a main way that we move crude oil around. It’s still the dominant way of transport.
“If you are interested in an ample energy supply and trans-porting crude oil in the United States ... the pipeline is by far the most common way of transport,” he said. “If you have a pipeline across your ranch, you’re likely
to not be very happy about it.”In this midterm-election year,
Obama has yet to say whether he will approve the northern portion.
That doesn’t ease the minds of some Texans who have spent years trying to keep the southern pipe-line off their property and worry-ing about a leak.
“There’s going to be a leak some-where,” said Julia Trigg Crawford, a Northeast Texas landowner who unsuccessfully fought for years to keep the pipeline off her family’s land. “It’s not a question of if it will leak but when it will leak.
“We are all watching for some-thing to happen.”
The Keystone XL Gulf Coast Project stretches 36-inch-wide crude oil pipeline across 487 miles to pump oil into Nederland to serve the Gulf Coast marketplace.
If TransCanada gains presiden-tial approval, the northern leg will stretch to Canada and boost the oil that flows toward Texas.
tus update to the SEC. In argu-ing for a supplemental retirement plan, he noted that the University system falls short in contribut-ing to employee retirement plans. University Tier I faculty receive a grand total of contributions of 15.5 percent, while Tier II receive 14.5 percent and self-managed plans receive 15.6 percent. The Big Ten averages a grand total of 26.4 per-cent, while University of Minne-sota tops the chart with a grand total of 27.9 percent.
Sandretto said the SEC should expect a draft report from the committee by the end of the semester.
John Kindt, chair of the Sen-ate committee on faculty and aca-demic staff benefits, said SURS is trying to get a trailer bill passed that would correct many of the problems found in Illinois pension reform bill SB-1.
He said the earliest a trailer bill of this kind could be passed would be in May; however, he said “there’s not a lot of optimism that it will be passed in a timely fashion.”
He noted that SB-1 has many nebulous dates and definitions in it which are inconsistent with cur-rent Illinois law.
“This trailer law is a real neces-sity regardless of what happens in the court cases,” he said.
Tyler can be reached at [email protected] and @TylerAllynDavis.
BY FRANK SHYONGLOS ANGELES TIMES
LOS ANGELES — Bruce Lazen-by remembers the spring morn-ing when the management staff of Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whit-tier gathered in a boardroom, baf-fled by the events of the weekend.
In two days, the cemetery had seen Dodger Stadium-size crowds of Chinese mourners. Their cars backed up traffic for miles.
The staff later learned that the crowds were celebrating the Qin-gming Festival, a Chinese holi-day on which families tend the graves of relatives and leave food offerings.
Lazenby, the cemetery’s execu-tive director, said that weekend in 1991 was a wake-up call.
“At that point, we began to real-ize how important our Chinese business was,” he said.
For most of its 100-year history, Rose Hills has attracted custom-ers reflecting the region’s diverse history. Former California Gov. Goodwin Knight is buried here, as are legendary East Los Ange-les educator Jaime Escalante and Compton rapper Eazy-E.
But in the 1980s, waves of Chi-nese immigrants poured into the San Gabriel Valley and the cem-etery found itself at the center of
the largest Chinese diaspora in the country.
The 1,400-acre cemetery, so large that mourners need maps and cars to get around, began a massive transformation to com-pete for an increasingly lucrative Chinese funeral business that has seen some family “estates” go for six figures.
Over the last decade, it increased the size of the Chinese-speaking staff by more than seven times, to 160. Executives learned about Chinese astrology and stepped up construction of feng shui ameni-ties. Salesmen built relationships with feng shui masters.
The cemetery became part business, part cultural adviser. For Chinese immigrant fami-lies, burying relatives in Amer-ica means putting down roots. But after years of assimilation, some struggle to remember the old rituals.
“Sometimes they know what to do, sometimes they don’t,” said Kear Theng Ly, a pre-planning adviser at the cemetery. “We help them figure it out.”
Michael Liu hefted two sloshing buckets of water and trod care-fully to his grandmother’s grave, stepping around the headstones to avoid bad luck.
The three months since his grandmother’s death have been consumed by a daunting review of old Chinese funeral traditions. Over a mourning period of 100 days, elaborate and exacting cus-toms reach into every sphere of life. Different rites must be per-formed at the grave site every sev-en days for the first seven weeks. Some traditions demand a vege-tarian diet, while others decree that all mirrors be removed from homes.
Sometimes it’s as simple as green grass at your grandmoth-er’s grave. His family takes turns watering, fertilizing and weeding.
His family was never strictly Buddhist, Liu said, “but there were certain things they had to make sure we followed.”
His grandmother was the first relative to die in America, and every decision they made about her funeral set a precedent. They consulted a feng shui master to cal-culate the correct angle at which to bury the body. They referred to an almanac to identify the most ele-mentally harmonious day for the funeral. Their grandmother had taken care of the rest _ she bought a family plot at the cemetery 15 years ago for $1,500.
Since then, increased demand from Chinese buyers has driven up prices by 10 times, Liu said. Espe-cially desirable properties are rumored to exchange hands after-market for even higher prices.
The Liu family arranged can-vas chairs in a loose circle around a headstone for their first Chi-nese New Year without their grandmother.
They used to celebrate with red envelopes full of money and feasts at their grandmother’s house. Today, it was green tea in plas-tic cups and a Tupperware con-tainer of fried red bean cake at her grave.
For the last two months, fam-ily members have visited the grave at least three times a week. They know that Chinese tradition requires prayers to be said every seven days, but Liu says they come simply because they miss her.
Death tends to magnify the importance of tradition, even after generations of assimilation, said Karen Leonard, a professor at the University of California, Irvine. “Birth and burial practices are anthropologically the ones people hold on to most strongly,” she said.
But strict tradition cannot entirely control the shape of the Lius’ grief. For their first Christ-mas without their grandmother, they erected a tiny Christmas tree behind a white picket fence festooned with strings of battery-powered lights. For the Chinese New Year, they had hung red paper cutouts of the Chinese character for spring.
Meeting tradition’s require-ments is more about love than belief, Liu said.
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Students from all three Uni-versity of Illinois campuses will head to Springfield, Ill. this Tuesday for Student Advocacy Day at the capitol. Students will be given the opportunity to lobby the Illinois legislature on behalf of the University system.
In the past, the annual event was a joint effort between stu-dents and alumni. This year, there will be two separate events: a student-focused day and an alumni-trustee day at the capi-tol, said Marissa McCord, assis-tant vice president for alumni advocacy at the University of
Illinois Alumni Association. The event is open to all Uni-
versity of Illinois students, who are encouraged to voice their thoughts on issues around campus.
“One of the things they’re talk-ing about is the alcohol immu-nity bill, which gives students who help students get home safe-ly immunity from receiving a drinking ticket,” said Jenny Bald-win, vice president-internal of Illinois Student Senate. “These are issues that are prevalent on campus and it might be going up for a vote soon in the legislature,”
Students also hope to address
other issues such as budget cuts and the Monetary Award Pro-gram grant funding, McCord said.
“MAP grants helps students afford to come to the University,” McCord said. “We always make sure to share with our legislatures the importance of MAP grants in how they help students attend the University of Illinois, and, if they were to be cut, how that would affect students who are current-ly participating in the program.”
Baldwin said the day at the cap-itol allows University students to connect with legislators who make the policies that directly affect them.
“I think it’s a good opportunity for students to reach out to their leaders on the state level.” Bald-win said. “The leaders on campus now have this opportunity to con-nect with leaders from the legis-lature and to talk to them about the issues that are affecting them as students. It’s a very effective way to get voices heard, getting concerns out there and making real action happen. That’s why we do this.”
Buses will depart at 8:15 a.m. from The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St., and will depart from Springfield, Ill. at 4 p.m., follow-ing the event.
Comparatively, in 2011, white students made up 23.3 percent of all students disciplined in Dis-trict 116. This rate has continued to decrease since 2000, when the rate was 38.8 percent. White stu-dents made up 38.8 percent of stu-dents enrolled in 2011.
“All of these things take a lot of time and a lot of concerted effort (to fix), and we’re never satisfied when we see a lot of these dispari-ties,” Owen said.
Early childhood education
Both Unit 4 and District 116 offer early childhood education services to children as young as 3 years old through the Illi-nois Preschool for All Program, which allows schools to provide early childhood education to stu-dents who are deemed to be at risk of academic failure because of home and community environ-ment, among other disadvantag-es. Students also qualify if their family income is less than four times the federal poverty level.
Black students make up the majority of those enrolled in both Unit 4 and Urbana’s early child-hood education programs.
Both Owen and Wiegand said these programs serve as an alter-native to private preschool pro-grams for students who would not otherwise have access to early childhood programs.
“The design of our preschool program is to prepare this group of students to be successful at the elementary school level,” Owen said. “It’s really designed to be kind of a seamless introduction into kindergarten for students that maybe wouldn’t necessar-ily have a formal schooling situ-ation without this program in the community.”
Advanced middle school programs
Despite the higher represen-tation in early childhood edu-cation programs, the data col-lection report shows that black students tend to be disproportion-ately underrepresented in Cham-paign’s gifted and talented edu-cation program and Urbana’s seventh and eighth grade Alge-bra I enrollment, both offered in middle school as a means to prepare students for high school courses. This is something that both districts have been trying to address for a number of years.
In Urbana, algebra enroll-ment by eighth grade has been increasing over the years, but Owen said he is not fully satis-fied with the higher numbers alone.
“I do want our eighth grade algebra to look like our rep-resentation of the total demo-graphics of the school,” he said.
As of 2011, that is not yet a reality for District 116. Black students make up 10.9 percent of those enrolled in Algebra I by seventh or eighth grade, decreasing from 21.1 percent in 2009, while white students make up the majority, at 63 percent, remaining steady from 2009.
However, it should be noted that Hispanic students made up 4.3 percent of those enrolled in middle school Algebra I in 2011, previously not represented in 2009, although the sample size decreased from 95 students to 92.
In Unit 4, Wiegand said that even though black students are underrepresented in Unit 4’s data, “The gap is beginning to close.”
On the whole, Unit 4’s 2011 gifted and talented enroll-ment data seems to be relative-ly racially equitable, although minorities aside from Asian students remain somewhat underrepresented.
In 2009, black students were best represented in gifted and talented enrollment compared to the 300 students reported to be enrolled in middle school Algebra I; however, in 2011, no students were reported to be enrolled in middle school Alge-bra I, and Unit 4’s gifted and tal-ented enrollment numbers had increased from 1,250 to 1,738.
Nationally, white students made up the majority — 57 per-cent — of those enrolled in mid-dle school Algebra I. Hispanic students made up 21 percent, and black students made up 11 percent. These results seem to mirror the reports of Unit 4 and District 116, although both dis-tricts have lower Hispanic dis-trict enrollment than the nation-al sample, and Unit 4 appears to better represent black students. Additionally, both districts have larger percentages of black stu-dents enrolled overall, and in algebra courses, than the nation-al Algebra I sample size and algebra enrollment percentage.
In these districts and other racially similar districts, this under-representation in advanced programs holds true, Aber said.
“I think it reflects primari-ly the fact that our schools are not as well designed to meet the needs and interests of African-American youth as they are to meet the needs and interests of white children,” he said. “You could also say that our schools aren’t well designed to meet the needs and interests of low-income kids as they are to meet the needs and interests of kids from middle and upper-income families.”
Higher-level courses and Advanced Placement
In Unit 4 and District 116, black students are overrepresent-ed in chemistry enrollment num-bers. In both districts, chemistry is a required class for graduation.
Wiegand said chemistry acts as more of an entry-level science class in Unit 4, while in District 116, Owen said chemistry is likely a class students would end with.
In both districts, black students are underrepresented in calcu-lus and physics courses. Wiegand said these are junior and senior courses in Unit 4, and sometimes students just don’t take them.
“If you’re going on to a four-year college or university, phys-ics or calculus are courses that you’ll need,” she said.
For 116, Owen said the district does offer other options for math courses that are not represent-ed by the Office of Civil Rights reports, adding that physics is more an elective than chemistry.
While black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in physics and calculus enroll-ment, white and Asian students are overrepresented in both of these courses in both districts and, in District 116, underrepre-sented in chemistry enrollment.
Both districts will subsidize the cost of Advanced Placement tests for low-income students — Cham-paign will cover whatever cost is needed and Urbana will pro-vide scholarships to help students with the costs. Still, the majori-ty of students taking at least one AP course in each district are shown to be white. Among those few minorities who enrolled in an AP course and chose to take the exam, the data shows that no black students passed any of their AP exams in either district. Aber said complex social dynam-ics are involved in these low pas-sage rates.
“Because African-Americans are vastly underrepresented in those contexts, they don’t feel particularly safe in them,” he said.
He noted that African-Amer-ican students often report that the teachers and students in those classrooms don’t under-stand what their lives are like, what they care about, and, some-times, those teachers and stu-dents devalue or do not under-stand the language or actions of black students.
“They often feel like they are viewed as not as smart and not as capable in those courses,” Aber said. “I think that contributes to them not being quite as success-ful as you’d hope they would be.”
He added that black students probably take their AP exams with less preparation, perhaps in part because there is motiva-tion on the district’s part to try to increase minority enrollment in those higher-level classes, and it’s hard to make that shift mid-stream in the course of a student going through school. Aber noted that the students best prepared for AP courses are those identi-fied very early and taught how to perform in those kinds of rigor-ous courses.
“I think it’s connected to the failure to engage effort in Amer-ican kids in gifted and talent-ed programs at the elementary school level and at the honors programs in the middle school, which help set the kids up to suc-ceed in the AP courses at high school,” Aber said.
Curriculum adaptation
In terms of curriculum chang-es to adapt public schools to meet the needs of black youth, Aber said he believes there is value in trying to connect what is taught in the curriculum to lived experi-ences, as well as a focus on proj-ect-based learning.
He said there has been good national demonstration that proj-ect-based learning, which gives students the opportunity to work on concrete projects related to real issues and concerns in their communities, is a way to bring to life the value of traditional cur-ricula concerns.
Additionally, Aber added that curricula could be better con-nected to the historical experi-ence of African-Americans in the U.S. and prior to it, showing how the history of African peo-ple plays into the history of the United States and the implica-tions of how our society is struc-tured and what social relations across race look like today. When school boards and teacher staffs are not representative of the com-munity, they do not do as good of a job in representing the inter-ests of certain groups as they do in representing the interests of others, Aber said.
“African-American students and families are underrepresent-ed in terms of their needs and views in various decision-making places, and that makes its way into policy and practice,” Aber said. “It changes how we make decisions.”
He said when parents or stu-dents don’t have the power or freedom to advocate or sit in on committees or other meetings, their interests naturally don’t compete as well against other interests being expressed and advocated for.
“Democracy works for those who are able and willing to participate.”
Tyler can be reached at [email protected] and @TylerAllynDavis.
Students to lobby in Springfield for MAP grants, alcohol immunity
Chinese families uphold traditions in cemetery
Oil pipeline fears run deep among some landowners in Eastern Texas
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ROBERT GAUTHIER MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEIncense and fruit line the graves of family members at Rose Hills Cemetery in Whittier, Calif., where hundreds of families engage in ancient rituals to honor dead family members in celebrating the Chinese New Year on January 31.
MAX FAULKNER MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEJulia Trigg Crawford looks at the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline valve station just south of her land in Direct, TX, on March 23. Homeowners fear the pipeline will leak and unleash contaminants.
Rose Hills Memorial Park witnesses massive crowds of Chinese mourners
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‘Wedo not joke about hazing” was one of the first things I was told when I joined my sorority. Upon hearing
this I was immediately overcome with relief, as I realized that one of my worst fears would not become a reality during my time in the Univer-sity Greek system.
When I came to Illinois as a freshman, I was dead set against joining a sorority for one rea-son — I was terrified of hazing. I had seen mov-ies, heard stories and read articles that made it seem like hazing is the norm for new members in Greek organizations at large universities.
During this time of year on campus, the Greek system is finishing up initiating its spring classes, and houses are preparing to welcome more new members in the fall. During the 2013-14 recruit-ment season, hundreds of students joined Panhel-lenic Council sororities and Interfraternity Council fraternities.
In my experience, hazing is not as prevalent as people might perceive it to be.
The University Student Code defines hazing as “an act that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of any person, or that defaces, destroys, or removes public or private property for the purpose of initiation into, admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in, a group or organization.” Hazing
can be extremely demeaning and incredibly dan-gerous; however, it is not something that occurs within every fraternity and sorority at the Uni-versity — and it should not occur at any. Accord-ing to University policies, every Greek house on campus must have a strict anti-hazing policy.
While some might choose to break the anti-haz-ing rules, others — like Sigma Kappa, my sorority — take them to heart.
Squashing the misconception that hazing is the norm is not only vital for the reputations of Greek houses on campus and their members, but it could also play a major role in getting more students to give the Greek system a try.
At Sigma Kappa, we are not allowed to use the word “pledge,” and we do not classify anyone by the age or number of years they have been in the house. Calling someone a pledge automatically labels them and makes them unequal to their active member counterparts. My sorority even hosts an entire week dedicated to raising awareness about hazing and anti-hazing laws called “Respect Week.”
In addition, many fraternities on campus that I’ve interacted with pride themselves on the fact that they are non-hazing fraternities. By tak-ing this title seriously, they promise that they do not haze their members in any way before they become initiated.
Some fraternities also avoid the word pledge and call their class associates or new members as a sign of respect.
Brotherhood is the main focus of these fraterni-ties, and it is extremely respectable to see frater-nity men shattering the mold of the stereotypical “Animal House” fraternity experience.
With the University Greek system continuing to
grow, it is more important than ever for students, parents and faculty alike not to assume that haz-ing is inevitable. With the strict University haz-ing rules in place and the extreme consequences chapters will shelter if they are caught hazing, it is becoming even more common to join a house and not be hazed.
But if we are not careful, misconceptions that indicate otherwise could discourage incoming freshmen from rushing.
Like I said, I almost did not go through recruitment.
I was convinced I would be forced to chug vodka from the bottle or be woken up in the middle of the night to go clean a fraternity house in order to fit in with my sisters. I could not have been more wrong about my experience with the Greek system, and I do not know where I would be without my sisters. I was treated with nothing but respect when I was a freshman, and I still have gotten the full Greek experience.
The Greek system should be all-inclusive, and students should not be afraid to join because of per-ceived hazing culture. There are so many sororities and fraternities on this campus, and from what I’ve seen, many of them do not haze. People should stop assuming otherwise, or the future of the Greek sys-tem could be in jeopardy.
I went through recruitment. I joined a sorority. I was treated like an equal. I was not hazed, and I met my best friends.
My experience is really more common than you think.
Rebecca is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at [email protected].
Throughout time and space, we’ve had a list of classic returns. There was the “Return of the King,” in which Aragorn assumes his
rightful role as King of Gondor and helps Fro-do complete his quest to destroy the Ring of Sauron.
There was also the “Return of the Jedi,” in which Luke Skywalker confronts the villain-ous Emperor Palpatine and helps his father, Darth Vader, come back from the Dark Side of the Force and ultimately, put an end to the evil empire.
But mark your calendars because April 9 brings another sure-to-be-classic: Return of the Alma Mater.
The Alma Mater statue will make her long-anticipated return to campus where she will be returned to her platform to silently watch over the University and its students.
All of us have missed her presence on campus. The Alma Mater is an iconic piece for the Uni-versity and a popular backdrop for student grad-uation pictures.
But she’s more than just a monument to pose with in a photo. With her arms outstretched in welcome, she serves as a representative of what it means to be part of the University. To me, her arms represent the ideas of inclusivity and invi-tation for all.
The two figures behind her shaking hands represent Labor and Learning, the University’s motto. The man and woman shake hands to show that labor and learning work together to achieve success.
We learn through the classes we take here on
campus and through the many experiences we have during our time here. This includes time spent with Greek houses, student organizations, co-workers or friends.
And most of all, the Alma Mater represents tradition. The University is rich in history and tradition, and she represents our connection to it.
The quote on the base of the Alma Mater shows that this University has been here a long time (“To thy happy children of the future those of the past send greetings”). There have been many students before us and there will be many students here in the future.
We are part of something big. She has missed out on many things since she
left. After being gone for almost two years now, obviously, many things have changed, even during this semester alone. In her absence, we have succeeded and failed to live up to her expectations.
Fortunately — but maybe unfortunately — she missed the fire-storm that occurred after Chan-cellor Phyllis Wise sent a mass email to students and faculty informing them that classes and University operations would still be on schedule on Jan. 27, despite inclement weather.
I don’t have to go into details because we remember what followed.
Though it wasn’t our campus’ proudest moment, the important take away I would stress to Alma was the way Chancellor Wise respond-ed to the student backlash after the racial slurs. I like to think she channeled her inner Alma Mater in her response to the event where she used it as an opportunity for us to learn, grow and remember that “diversity is the route to excellence.”
Another big event during Alma’s absence was the addition of gender confirmation surgery to the student health insurance plan. The addition encourages a more trans-friendly culture on
campus, and this is another step toward that all-inclusive campus that the Alma Mater stands for and would be proud of.
And when she returns, I hope she will serve as a reminder to be empathetic to others and be open to new ideas.
Our beloved Alma Mater was taken away on Aug. 7, 2012, and sent to a conservator for resto-ration, and she will return looking lovelier than ever.
It was a big deal when she was taken away for renovation. The class of 2013 didn’t have the Alma Mater to take a photo with. The Univer-sity tried to replicate the photo experience with replica statues and using green screen photos with a virtual Alma Mater, but it just wasn’t the same.
She’s going to remind us that we are part of a proud tradition, and that to learn requires labor, and vice versa. She’s here to tell us that it’s not going to be easy where we’re going, but it’s going to be worth it.
When the King and Jedi returned, it implied that they were once there but then were gone. Aragorn turned his back on the Throne, and the Jedi were nearly exterminated by the Sith and the Empire. But they returned to bring peace to Middle-Earth and the Star Wars Galaxy.
When the Alma Mater comes back to her right-ful place, maybe it won’t seem as triumphant as when Aragorn and Luke Skywalker returned. Our campus isn’t under attack by Sauron or being controlled by the Empire. She won’t offer the same kind of peace as Aragorn and Skywalk-er — she’ll offer another type: peace of mind.
Whether she’s physically present, the Alma Mater will always be there to remind us what we stand for as a campus.
Thaddeus is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @Thaddingham.
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On April 2, $6,800 was allocated by
the Illinois Student Senate toward purchasing three world flags as a way to represent the diversity found at the University; these three flags will be placed at the Activities and Recreation Center, Campus Recreation Center East and the Ice Arena.
While the flags would be aesthetically appealing, they don’t seem truly necessary to promote a diverse environment. These funds could be better spent on programs that actually promote diversity on our campus by getting people together and talking about the subject, as opposed to simply presenting an image of the University as diverse.
Flags do not have the same effect as a program like I-Connect, which is a workshop designed around teaching students how to communicate, collaborate and learn in diverse environments. By taking part in this mandatory workshop, students are able to have discussions about inclusivity and learn about embracing other cultures firsthand.
Additional funding and promotion of the I-Connect program and others like it could help students embrace and acknowledge campus diversity while also challenging students to make the necessary changes that would make the University a more inclusive environment.
During #OneCampus: Moving Beyond Digital Hate, an event that addressed the impact social media has on the way people interact following the Twitter attacks on Chancellor Wise, there was a resounding theme: Talks like these have to continue in order for the University to truly be an inclusive campus — one that accepts individuals from all backgrounds.
Putting up flags around campus, however, does not aid in actually becoming an “Inclusive Illinois” especially because the purpose of the flags is not particularly overt.
Individuals looking at the flags wouldn’t necessarily come to the conclusion that these flags are meant to represent the diversity of the University. Placing these flags at the ARC, CRCE and the Ice Arena would ultimately only serve decorative purposes.
There are better ways to represent the culture that is present at the University than through three individual flags.
First and foremost, our campus community should focus on teaching and promoting inclusivity through various programs and workshops, and then we can rightfully represent our diversity outwardly to the world.
One step shouldn’t be taken without the other, and after witnessing the remarks made about the Chancellor, it’s clear we have a long way to go before the purchase of these flags can be made and have them truly signify what they are meant to convey.
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from ‘SaveMoney.’ It was short, but it showed me how to make bet-ter music from this.”
In 2011, he began collaborating with Kids These Days after show-ing them a remix he had done of their track, “Be.” Leone has now opened for other artists at The Canopy Club, such as The Kid Daytona and Alex Wiley. He has also worked with artists such as Antidote, ProbCause, The GTW
and other big names in the Chica-go music scene. Over the years, Leone has gained a following for his music.
“There’s a certain buzz that’s building right now,” Leone said. “This year, a couple of my songs like ‘BUMP in the Night’ and ‘Twenty 14’ have helped me gain followers, and hopefully it keeps getting bigger.”
Leone believes his success comes from his hard work and dedication to music.
“I just worked really hard and fell into the right group of people,”
Leone said. His future goals include con-
tinuing to promote “#EnterWILD” and going on tour this summer. Leone also hopes to one day work with his own musical inspira-tions: Frank Ocean and Chance The Rapper.
“I just want to keep mak-ing weird things people haven’t heard before,” Leone said. “I’m just going to keep making good things and inspire people.”
Christine can be reached at [email protected].
BY REBECCA JACOBSCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Sam Dewey and Olivia Foor, seniors in LAS, see stars in the night sky differently than peo-ple from big cities at the Univer-sity. They reminisce about how bright the stars are in the coun-try versus how faded they look under the micro-urban lights on campus.
Dewey and Foor said they met when they lived on the same floor in Scott Hall during their fresh-man year, but their friendship was sealed through their small-town connection.
“I think that’s one of those instant connections and why Dewey and I are such good friends still,” Foor said.
It is friendships like these that the Morrill Land-Grant Acts of 1862 aimed to foster. 2012 was the 150th anniversary of the land grant that established the Uni-versity. This celebration remind-ed the campus that the grant expanded “access to higher edu-cation beyond the privileged few” in Illinois to less wealthy citizens.
Dewey is from Germantown Hills, Ill., which has a popula-tion of almost 3,500 people. Foor is from Tower Hill, Ill., with a population of about 600 people. They both attended feeder high schools — larger high schools in neighboring cities that took in small-town students. Still, Foor said there were only about 110 people in her graduating class.
Lanae Ringler, junior in ACES, and Sondra Monier, senior in ACES, formed a similar bond. Monier is from Sparland, Ill., where she said there is only one stoplight in the county.
“If you didn’t know how to change a spare tire, drive a trac-tor or combine, you were the minority,” Monier said.
It is “critical societal needs” programs, such as agriculture and mechanical arts, that the grant also encouraged.
“I think that rural students have a unique story to share with others that did not grow up in a similar community, as do stu-dents who did not grow up in a rural community with us,” Moni-er said.
Even so, The News-Gazette reported in late March that the
population of University rural students, all from “noncore” counties in Illinois, has shrunk 42.7 percent from 1993 to the 2013-2014 school year. Dewey and Foor echo the same remark.
Because of the close connec-tions in small towns, Dewey and Foor said they realize it is dif-ficult for many to leave home. When Foor goes to a gas station in Tower Hill, she knows every-one there by name.
“A lot of kids don’t have any desire to get out past the edge of their county,” Foor said.
Before leaving Tower Hill to come to the University, Foor did not know what an Advanced Placement class or test was because they were not offered at her high school. Dewey said his high school only offered two AP classes.
Dewey and Foor noticed that students who come to the Univer-sity with AP credit get ahead in class registration, giving them more opportunities than rural students who do not.
“That was really frustrating coming in and seeing so many people on my floor were literally a year or two ahead of me, and I don’t feel there was anything I could’ve done personally. It was just geographic, so that’s frus-trating,” Dewey said.
Money is another issue that affects rural students. Foor said she cannot think of 10 people that could afford to come to the Uni-versity. These students said that many rural students from their hometowns go to junior colleg-es instead of big universities because small towns direct more
scholarships toward the junior colleges.
Dewey will be the first in his family to earn a bachelor’s degree. Still, every May, he con-templates whether he can afford to return to the University.
Dewey and Foor commend the University for recognizing the need to recruit more rural stu-dents, but they said they think recruiting is not necessarily the first step.
“Although we think it’s a good effort by the University of Illi-nois to recruit from downstate schools, we think it would be more effective to help the down-state students who are already here,” Dewey said.
Dewey and Foor said they believe one way to assist is through financial-need scholar-ships, which would benefit rural students who cannot afford to go to the University. They said they think that would help rural stu-dents who are disadvantaged in academic scholarships compared with Chicago suburb students.
Dewey and Foor said their big-gest fear is that they will have to return home after college. In the eyes of a small-town community, Dewey said moving home after going away to a big university means you “failed.”
Ultimately, Dewey and Foor are proud of attending the Uni-versity. According to Foor, succeeding at the Universi-ty after coming from a small town “makes success a lot more gratifying.”
Rebecca can be reached at [email protected].
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PHOTO COURTESY OF SONDRA MONIERSondra Monier (left) sits with her two sisters, Jillian (middle) and Hannah, at the Marshall-Putnam Country Fair in July 2012. Monier came from Sparland, Ill., a small-town population of 396 that she feels gives her a unique perspective at the University.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ZACH DALZELLFrank Leone, freshman in Music, is preparing for the release of his first full-length project, “#EnterWILD,” expected to come out in late May or early June. As an up-and-coming rapper, Leone has collaborated with several major musicians in the Chicago music scene.
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A land-grant school, UI educates students across all of Illinois
answer the fundamental ques-tion of “Who am I?” through Zen philosophy.
“What is personality if you don’t know who you are and don’t know how to express yourself?” Sato asked. “That is the core of Zen as well. Until you know who you are, constantly, you are bound against a wall.”
Students will achieve this by choosing a Zen philosophy state-ment that represents their lifelong motto, according to Sato.
“(It is) trying to enlighten your-self through what you’re writing, and that’s the whole idea,” he said.
Sato said he discovered his per-sonal Zen statement when he was 20-years-old, after trying to find himself “through different medi-ums of art since the age of 4.” Sato
said his Zen statement is: “The way of art is the way of Buddha.”
Sato said his Zen statement can be explained in reference to Buddhism.
“(It’s) going back to the purity in the process of creativity. Through the concentration of actions, you will be purified and will find suc-cess in your work. That’s why I like this statement,” Sato said.
But apart from what he can teach about calligraphy and Zen philosophy, Sato said he cherish-es the enjoyment he sees from his students the most.
“The excitement in their eyes is something you cannot buy with money,” he said. “That’s love of teaching, love of students, to see what they can do. How they can be exposed to another culture, anoth-er medium. That excitement in their eyes is something you can’t find in any other place.”
Sato’s experience and skills
have continued to bring students and community members back to learn more about the art.
“(I come back for) Shozo. It’s his peacefulness. His Zen-ness,” said June Volkening, a regular student of the class since last fall. “I want to learn calligraphy and hopeful-ly I can put some of the strokes I learn on my pottery.”
For Sato, the University is not like any other — it is his “second home.”
“Here, I established life in America,” he said. “I established the Japan House. I established understanding of Asian culture on this campus. So, this is my second home in my life, and my first home in America. But I don’t want to just sit in my own home but share what I have learned and gained in knowledge.”
Stephanie can be reached at [email protected].
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BY CHRISTINE OLIVOSTAFF WRITER
With the upcoming release of his new album “#EnterWILD,” rapper Frank Leone is bringing music that he calls “unique, loud and powerful” to the music industry.
Leone, also known as Samuel Flan-nigan, freshman in Music, performed Thursday night at The Canopy Club and promoted the future release of his fi rst full-length project, “#EnterWILD,” expected to come out in late May or early June. The album, produced entirely by Leone, centers around his outlook on the world and social issues going on today.
“It revolves around my perspective and how I view the world and people and kids my age,” Leone said. “I just think I speak on certain things that need to be spoken about more. I don’t think there are many artists that think how I do.”
Nayeli Miranda, freshman in DGS and concert attendee, said Leone’s style of incorporating real world problems into his songs is what makes him unique.
“He talks about big issues that are happening in his songs,” Miranda said. “In one of his songs, he talked about peo-ple calling gays insulting names. It’s important.”
Leone also believes “#EnterWILD” will be unique to the music industry because its infl uences are not usually linked with his genre of music.
“The production is interesting,” Leone said. “I got a lot of infl uence from Broad-way, world music and things that I like to listen to that I don’t think are neces-sarily grouped in with hip-hop or that style of music.”
Before Leone went on stage, fellow rappers Saba, Mick Jenkins and Klevah opened the performance. Once Leone began interacting with the audience, he gave shout-outs and told the audience to “go crazy.” He also did a call-and-answer to energize the crowd.
“When I say ‘enter,’ you say ‘wild!’” Leone said beginning the call-and-answer. Although it was a smaller con-cert, attendees were singing along and jumping to the beat of Leone’s music.
Diana Flores, freshman in Education and show attendee, said the crowd had a good vibe.
“There are a lot of people enjoying him here,” Flores said. “I think the size of the crowd is good enough for the performer.”
Leone said he felt the concert went great and fulfi lled all expectations he had for the night.
“It sold out, and I had great people opening for me that I’m huge fans of,” Leone said. “To be honest, Champaign isn’t huge on rap, but it’s good to see who can come out when you do a show like this. It was a great experience.”
Leone started to create his own music during his sophomore year in high school by playing piano and writing lyr-ics. That summer, he had his fi rst real performance at a youth program for a talent show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ended up winning with his rap skills.
“I performed for 5,000 people there,” Leone said. “I’ve been chasing that num-ber ever since.”
Before creating “#EnterWILD,” Leone released other tracks in high school.
“I released an EP called ‘Deep Ocean’ that came out my senior year of high school,” Leone said. “I did it with Vic Mensa from ‘Kids These Days,’ and guys
Frank Leone ignites rap scene
BY STEPHANIE KIMSTAFF WRITER
alligraphy can be considered a silent waltz with the brush. Shozo Sato, Japan House founder and pro-fessor emeritus of the University , takes the lead.
Sato has returned to campus to teach a series of calligraphy classes at the Japan House .
With a degree in multiple Japanese arts — including tea ceremony, painting, Kabu-ki dance and fl ower arrangement — Sato aims to further the understanding of Asian culture on campus through his experienc-es and expertise.
Sato said that different cultures express their traditions uniquely, and calligraphy functions as a display of Japanese culture.
“Learning a culture is like learning another language,” he said. “In a sense, this calligraphy class is comparative culture of how to create a line (between cultures).”
The fi rst class was held Monday evening, and the series will continue on April 14, 21 and 28. Each class will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the cost is $20 for Tomonokai mem-bers and students, and $25 for others . A $5 fee may be charged for brushes and ink, if needed .
Since the Japan House’s establishment in 1975 , Sato began teaching these cal-ligraphy classes early on as part of the house’s programming and overall mission, said Cynthia Voelkl , Japan House assis-tant director.
“The mission of Japan House is really to teach and explore the traditional arts of Japan,” Voelkl said. “By exposing people to the traditional arts of that culture, the idea is that you become more aware and tolerant of one culture and it kind of opens you up to all cultures.”
The Japan House, though small, brings many elements of Japanese culture to campus including pottery, gardening and origami.
As one of the key traditional arts of Japan, participants can expect to prac-tice hands-on techniques for calligraphy during the class. However, because of the challenging nature of the class, Sato has to make a special announcement before the workshop begins.
“I have to touch your hand,” he said. “By doing so, you know when to give pressure to the brush and pull up and all that. It takes a few years of experience to learn. But if somebody guides you, you learn instantly.”
According to Sato, calligraphy differs from Western writing because of the dis-cipline it requires. Sato said each ideogram has certain directions to follow, and there-fore, “you cannot do anything you want.”
It is only until the basic skill is learned that someone can move a little “freer” and input their own personality. But he said this cannot be done until someone can
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PHOTOS BY SAISHA SINGH THE DAILY ILLINICalligraphy workshop with Shozo Sato, an internationally renowned master of Japanese Zen arts, organized by the Japan House on Monday evening. He teaches his students how to write by putting his hand on students’ to guide them in writing.
Shozo Sato returns to teach calligraphy classes
“The mission of Japan House is really to teach and explore the traditional arts of Japan.”
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BY BLAIR KERKHOFFMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
ARLINGTON, Texas — Head coach Kevin Ollie walked to the Connecticut fans corner, raised his hands, stretched his fingers and hid his thumb.
Four, as in four national championships for the Huskies.
UConn brilliantly slowed the pace of the NCAA final and in the process cooled off the hot Kentucky Wildcats 60-54 on Monday night.
UConn played every late possession to near perfection, bleeding the clock and usually getting points.
The biggest one came from guard Ryan Boatright, who splashed a 10-foot floater as the shot clock buzzer sounded to make it 56-50 with 4:09 remaining.
The Wildcats answered with an Alex Poythress slam, but he missed a free-throw that would have cut it to three, and after DeAndre Daniels scored inside for the Huskies, Kentucky never got the ball back with a chance to tie or take the lead.
UConn senior point guard Shabazz Napier, voted the Final Four’s most outstanding player, was a maestro throughout the tournament and
especially Monday. His 22 points led the way. He set the early tone with 3-point shooting, and controlled the action late.
Napier’s three with 6:52 remaining after Kentucky had closed the gap to 48-47 was huge. Teammate Niels Giffey followed with a corner three, and at the moment it looked like UConn could pull off the improbable.
This national champion had lost to Louisville by 33 points late in the
In today’s world of college basketball, Kentucky is inevitably at the center
of the debate about the “one-and-done” issue that has overshadowed the sport.
This NCAA tournament brought more post-season success for the Wildcats, who were once again carried through March on the backs of freshmen destined for NBA stardom. Kentucky has become a one-and-done factory under head coach John Calipari, who markets his school to recruits as the quickest ticket to NBA success.
The chatter around the issue seems to grow louder every year since the NBA instituted its minimum age requirement of 19 in 2006. In the eight years since the creation of the rule, NCAA schools have been the temporary home for basketball prospects that are basically forced into accepting at least a year at school before they can test their talent in the NBA. Oftentimes, these players stay only one year before bolting to the league.
I believe this system is hurting college bas-ketball as well as the athletes that the rule is supposedly protecting. The minimum age requirement should be changed back to 18 in order to allow any adult male to enter the NBA Draft if he chooses.
Even the man whose career relies on the success of 18-year-old freshmen doesn’t endorse the one-and-done system himself.
That’s right, Calipari himself doesn’t even like the rule. Even though he’s a bit of a hypo-crite, I don’t blame him. After all, it was just last season that he saw his own player, like-ly No. 1 overall pick Nerlens Noel, go down with an ACL tear during his obligatory fresh-man season. The injury cost Noel millions of dollars, as he fell to being drafted sixth overall when he likely would have gone higher.
The NBA created the age requirement in order to protect its franchises from drafting “busts” due to an inadequate
gauge on players’ abilities straight out of high school. Well, NBA GMs are still draft-ing busts. Since Noel was crippled after last season, the Cleveland Cavaliers drafted Anthony Ben-nett out of UNLV No. 1 over-all. Bennett was a huge disap-pointment in his rookie year, averaging just 4.1 points per game. He was a bust. So in the
W ith the first pick in the 2013 NBA draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers selected Anthony Bennett of UNLV.
Fast forward 10 months to today, the one-and-done forward is averaging less
than 13 minutes per game and only four points per game in his rook-
ie season and he has admitted to having trouble adjusting to
the speed of play and length of the NBA season. Ben-
nett is the most recent name to be included in the argument that bas-ketball prospects should spend more time craft-ing their game at the
college level. I know it’s impossi-
ble to argue with play-ers making the leap to
the pros with the guaranteed mil-lions staring them down. In spite of
that, new league commissioner Adam Silver has presented the idea of raising
the age limit to make players stay in col-lege for two years, which would be best
for not only the prospects themselves, but also the NCAA and NBA.
The main problem for the players is adjust-ing to the game speed and the length of the
NBA season itself. When a player goes from being a high school senior to a pro with only one college season in between, he simply isn’t ready for the level of play in the NBA. Many of college basketball’s top freshman take almost their whole first year of college to begin to adjust to the faster speed of play. Take, for example, Kentucky in this year’s NCAA tournament, whose starting lineup consists of five freshman. Kentucky under-achieved all year and didn’t seem to adjust until the last few games of its season. Imag-
ine if these players all came back next sea-son, allowing them to fully adjust to the speed of the college game. This would make the jump to the pros much more reasonable. Basi-cally, players who only stay one year in col-lege find themselves trying to adjust to the NBA game before they really even get adjust-ed to the college game.
The other issue is that there is no stepping stone for players when they go from college to the pros like there are in other sports. The D-League is supposedly a “minor league” for
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Transition to the NBA would be easier if players spent a couple of years in college
POINT-COUNTERPOINTSHOULD THE NBA DO AWAY WITH THE ONE-AND-DONE RULE?
ALEX ROUX
Illini columnist
BRETT LERNER
Staff writer
The main problem for the players is adjustment to the
game speed and the length of the NBA season itself.
The system of essentially forcing players to go to college needs to end.
UCONN WINS TITLENapier, Huskies win 4th national championship in program history
UConn’s basketball programs beat outblue bloodsHuskies short on history, big on recent success
There are several universities across the United States that can be identified as
basketball-crazy.A couple of those are in North
Carolina, one sits in Kansas, a few more exist in the state of Kentucky, and there is even one right here in Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
Basketball schools litter the country from the Big Ten to the ACC and beyond. Choosing the best among them is difficult except for the fact that there is one school that exists above all of them. It isn’t one of college basketball’s traditional blue bloods, but in terms of recent success, this school is second to none.
Connecticut is the best basketball school in the country.
Really? Not Kentucky? Not Duke or Kansas or Indiana or John Wooden’s beloved UCLA?
Nope. Because UConn has something that none of those schools have: the best women’s program in the history of college basketball. This season marks the second time that the Huskies have made an appearance in both the men’s and women’s championship games in the same season. Only Louisville and Duke have sent both teams to the championship game in the same year and neither school won both. In 2004, UConn’s men’s and women’s teams knocked off Georgia Tech and Tennessee to capture both the men’s and the women’s titles.
Many March Madness fans don’t put a lot of stock in women’s basketball. Unfortunately for them, the UConn women’s team is too good to ignore. 2014 marks the ninth championship game appearance for Geno Auriemma and the UConn women’s squad. With the exception of Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Lady Volunteers, no other women’s program even enters the conversation with UConn for greatest women’s basketball program.
Obviously the women’s team isn’t the only part of UConn’s basketball landscape that stands out. The men’s team has brought some of the most exciting players the NCAA tournament has seen in the last 10 years. Kemba Walker, Emeka Okafor, Ben Gordon, Hasheem Thabeet and Shabazz Napier have put up some of the most notable tournament performances of the last few years.
Forget that the men’s team hadn’t made a Final Four before
RICHARD W. RODRIGUEZ MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEConnecticut players celebrate as the Huskies beat the Kentucky Wildcats 60-54 in the NCAA national championship game on Monday.
RICHARD W. RODRIGUEZ MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNEHuskies guard Ryan Boatright celebrates after the Huskies beat the Wildcats 60-54 in the NCAA national championship game on Monday. Boatright scored 14 points in the win.
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UConn brilliantly slowed the pace
of the NCAA final and in the process cooled off the hot
Kentucky Wildcats.
BY J.J. WILSONSTAFF WRITER
Eastern Illinois isn’t just another game on the schedule for the Illinois baseball team. Most of the players will have other thoughts in the backs of their minds when they play.
When the Illini pile into their dugout Tuesday night in Mattoon, Ill., they will be without head coach Dan Hartleb for the fourth straight game, the sixth in the last two weeks.
In that time, Hartleb has made three separate trips home to Hamilton, Ohio, to be with his ailing father.
He made his third trip just before the series opener last Friday against Northwestern, and on Saturday afternoon, his dad passed away at 86.
“We all stick together like a family, so obviously when we lose somebody, it hurts,” said associate head coach Eric Snider, who has served as head coach in Hartleb’s absence.
Despite the circumstances, the Illini know they can’t be too distracted Tuesday night. The Panthers have lost 22 of 31 games this season, but 11 of those losses have come against teams ranked in the top 25.
Eastern Illinois has also collected 11 more hits than Illinois in one less game played.
Junior Caleb Howell upped his batting average to .431 over the weekend, which leads the Panthers by far. He also leads his team in runs (30) and hits (53).
As of March 30, his batting average ranked 12th in the nation at .429.
Lately though, the Illini have been on a hot streak. They have won 10 of their last 12 games, coming off of five straight wins over Purdue and Northwestern.
Illinois’ offensive output is as consistent than it’s been all season, having scored at least six runs in five of its last seven games.
Playing without No. 1 starting pitcher Kevin Duchene hasn’t slowed Illinois down much on the mound. While the left-handed sophomore has been cautiously ruled out with a forearm strain for nearly a month, other Illini
pitchers have effectively filled his place.
Illinois shut out Northwestern in two of three games over the weekend and held them to just
two runs in 16 hits in the series. In Duchene’s absence, the
Illini have started four different pitchers and utilized another eight in relief to improve the team’s record to 17-11.
“We know that if we (the starters) get in trouble, someone is coming behind us to pick us up,” said sophomore pitcher Rob McDonnell, who will start Tuesday night.
Without Hartleb, the Illini’s game plan hasn’t change. But players and coaches both know a win does more than just extend the steak.
It also sends a bit of good news to a person who needs it most.
“I think until he comes back and is with us again, he’ll definitely be on our minds,” shortstop Adam Walton said of Hartleb. “(We’re) definitely playing for him and his dad.”
J.J. can be reached at [email protected] and @Wilsonable07.
BY NICHOLAS FORTINSTAFF WRITER
When the Illinois baseball team took the field on Sunday for its third game against North-western, the Illini weren’t just playing for themselves.
Head coach Dan Hartleb hadn’t been with the Illini for their first two wins in Evan-ston, Ill., as he had traveled to his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, to be with his father. Hartleb’s dad, also named Dan, passed away on Saturday afternoon at the age of 86.
After hearing the news Satur-day, sophomore shortstop Adam Walton said the team went out and won Sunday’s game for Har-tleb and his father.
“He sent (the team) a text saying his dad was going to be watching us and we sent him a text back saying we’ll get the win for him,” Walton said. “I don’t think it was really on our minds throughout the game, but it was definitely in the back
of our minds. I think we defi-nitely pulled through for him yesterday.”
The Illini won Sunday’s game against the Wildcats 1-0 on an RBI single by sophomore catcher Jason Goldstein to complete the three-game sweep, securing the win promised by the team, but the loss suffered off the field was much greater than the wins on it for Illinois.
“All the adversities that every-body deals with and the expe-riences that people go through, you look for support,” associate head coach Eric Snider said. “Dan, his wife, his whole fam-ily, they handled it very well. It’s a tough situation. I always say it sucks when you lose somebody.”
The elder Hartleb was initially hospitalized in mid-March after experiencing congestive heart failure following surgery.
Although Hartleb didn’t tell his players what was happening right away, the Illini began to suspect something was wrong as they saw their coach travel back and forth between his hometown and Champaign.
Walton said the team realized it was “pretty bad” after Hart-leb was forced to miss the first two games of Illinois’ opening
weekend of Big Ten play against Purdue between March 28-30.
Hartleb, who returned to coach the last game against Pur-due, finally told his team what had been happening after the final game of the series.
“That was the first time he had really talked to us about it, but
we had known what was going on just because he had been in and out the past couple of weeks,” Walton said.
Walton added that Hartleb had kept the news away from the team so as not to distract the players from their jobs on the field.
“He kept it between him and his family,” Walton said. “He allowed us to just worry about what we were doing baseball-wise.”
Hartleb is expected to be back at the end of this week in time for the Illini’s home series against Michigan.
Snider said the best thing the team can do for its coach is to show support but not lose sight of the team’s goals.
“Knowing we’re there for you, with you,” Snider said. “Again, we’re a family, we’re a team. It’s a tough situation but, like we always say, ‘you still have a job to do.’ I just think guys will stay focused on what they need to do to be better.”
Walton said helping Hartleb regain a sense of normalcy will also be important.
“You want to be there for him as much as you can,” Walton said. “If we’re winning, if we’re doing well it’s going to make him feel better. It might help him not forget about it — because he’s never going to forget about it — but put it aside for a few hours and let him focus on baseball and us winning.”
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season.But in the second year under
Ollie, the Huskies were never deterred. They were underdogs in the national title game against a team that seemed even more destined.
Youth made Kentucky the story entering the game. When the starting five took the floor, it marked the second time in NCAA Tournament history that an all-freshman squad opened a championship game. It happened in 1992 when Michigan faced Duke.
This was an eighth-seeded team that has lost 10 games during the season.
But the inexperience hadn’t been a factor in the tournament as the Wildcats took down Kansas State, Wichita State, Louisville, Michigan and Wisconsin to reach the Final Four for the second time in three years.
And in the previous four games, the Wildcats won in clutch fashion. Guard Aaron Harrison was the hero in the previous three with a stretch of late-moment game-winning shots unparalleled in the tournament’s history.
UConn had been equally, if less spectacularly, impressive. The Huskies grounded Iowa State and Michigan State in the regional and took out top-ranked Florida in the national semifinal to become the first No. 7 seed to reach the national championship game.
Kentucky’s pattern of falling behind by a deep margin and rallying back before halftime repeated itself.
It happened against Michigan,
Louisville and Wisconsin.This time the margin was
the Wildcats’ greatest of the tournament, 15 points. UConn’s Niels Giffey swished two free throws at the 5:59 mark to make it 30-15 in favor of the Huskies.
The Wildcats’ comeback was sparked by two whistles, fouls on Daniels and Boatright, over the next minute.
Daniels hadn’t been much of factor on offense, but both were playing excellent defense.
Ollie decided not to risk further foul trouble and pulled both, and the Wildcats smelled blood.
Kentucky buried three triples over the next two minutes, a pair by James Young, and UConn was reeling. Julius Randle’s layup with 2.9 seconds left in the half reduced the margin to 35-31, the closest the Wildcats had been since the early moments.
Toward the end, missed free throws were especially damaging to the Wildcats. They missed three in a late two-minute stretch, including the front end of a bonus.
Against a UConn team that was making the most of every possession, that couldn’t happen.
the NBA but in reality it has minimal developmental func-tion for the NBA. This means that players need to use col-lege as their main develop-mental platform because play-ing five minutes a night and sitting on the end of the bench in the NBA doesn’t result in much growth.
The benefits of raising the age limit extend beyond just the players being able to develop further. An increased age limit would also enhance the level of play in both col-lege basketball and the NBA. The NCAA tournament was undoubtedly exciting this year, but when you look beyond the overtime games and buzzer-beater attempts,
there’s a glaring flaw in the level of play. Turnovers, missed free throws and stag-nant offenses are controlling the game. The NBA is also near an all-time low in level of play, with below-.500 teams consistently making playoff appearances.
Taking the money and head-ing to the pros is a decision that no one can fault players for making, but one more year in college would do wonders for the development of their skills. Players like Anthony Bennett would miss out on the money for one more year, but they’d probably have a bet-ter chance of getting a second contract too.
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past year alone, the NBA age requirement has put at least one player’s career in jeop-ardy and failed to prevent its teams from drafting players that clearly weren’t ready for the league.
The rule can also unneces-sarily prolong hardship for players’ families. Many play-ers that would make the jump straight from high school if they could come from rough backgrounds and poor families.
The NBA should not have the right to prevent a player from cashing in on his ath-letic abilities if he is perfect-ly capable of competing at the highest level, especially since a lot of these athletes legitimately need a paycheck. It’s not the same as the NFL, where there could be physical
danger if high school players skipped college. Kevin Gar-nett, Kobe Bryant and LeB-ron James all made smooth transitions straight from high school to the NBA.
The system of essentially forcing players to go to col-lege needs to end. An 18-year-old basketball player should be able to turn pro just as eas-ily as a 16-year-old golfer or tennis player.
I believe the NBA would be better off adopting a system similar to Major League Base-ball: Players can either turn pro straight out of high school or go to college for at least two or three years.
As it stands now, the school-ing of these players is a joke, and the athletes are the punchline.
Alex is a sophomore in AHS. He can be reached at [email protected] and @aroux94.
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“I think until he comes back and is with us again, he’ll definitely be on our
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DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOIllinois’ Coach Dan Hartleb listens to a player during the game versus Bradley on April 27, 2010.
they won it all in 1999. I’m talking about right now. Go to Storrs, Conn., and see how passionate fans are about their Huskies. No, they don’t have a Cameron Indoor Stadium, or an Allen Fieldhouse or an Assembly Hall. But those fans care, and their squads have rewarded them with lots of winning.
Going into 2014, the Huskies had collected eleven NCAA championships between the men’s and the women’s teams. This may not seem like a huge number over the course of all of college basketball’s history, but all
of UConn’s championships, men’s or women’s, have come in the last 20 years. That’s more than John Wooden won in 20 years at UCLA. Kevin Ollie, the successor to the legendary UConn men’s coach Jim Calhoun brought his team to the championship in just his second season, which is a testament to the top-to-bottom strength of the program.
No other fanbase is quite like the Cameron Crazies, no other chant is quite like “Rock Chalk Jayhawk” and no other program wins quite like UConn.
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Hartleb takes time away after father diesBaseball team tries to stay focused with head coach absent
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handled it very well. It’s a tough
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Editor’s note: Ralph Cooper is a member of the Illinois football team and has been keeping a regular football log for The Daily Illini throughout the spring practice season.
W ith the annual Orange and Blue spring game only a few
days away, this year’s spring practices have been very productive. We have been making strides toward becoming one of the best teams in the Big Ten and the team we know we are capable of being.
This past Friday, spring practice No. 10 was held in the capital, Springfi eld, Ill. We had the opportunity to practice at Sacred Heart-Griffi n High School and its state of the art facilities.
Just like at our practice at Gately Stadium in Chi-cago, before we began prac-tice we were addressed by former Illini. The enthusi-asm and passion that alumni express about being a part of the Illini family always makes you want to go out and play that much harder, because you know that one day you’ll have to hang your cleats up.
Once the scrimmage began, the offense came out fi ring on all cylinders. The connection between quarterback Wes Lunt and receiver Geronimo Alli-son was like poetry in motion and is something I look forward to seeing a lot this season. The fl ow of the offense is continuing to gain momentum under the guidance of seniors Reilly O’Toole, Donovonn Young,
Martize Barr and Simon Cvijanovic.
Offensive coordinator Bill Cubit is an offensive mastermind. He always has something up his sleeves that can catch the defense off guard. With all of the weapons we have on the offensive side of the ball, there should be big plays all over the fi eld this season.
As for the defense, we have increased the inten-sity of our play, but we still have not fulfi lled our full potential. One of the guys who had a great time get-ting to the ball and making plays was sophomore Dil-lan Cazley. He’s one of the many young guys that we are depending on to make plays for us throughout the course of the season.
There were sparks of brilliant defense during the scrimmage, but there were also those times when a missed assignment here or there allowed for a big play. The main goal for us as a defense is becoming con-sistent and not allowing big plays to occur because of minor mistakes.
This year’s spring game will be the last of my career here at Illinois, but it will be the start to a great senior season. We are going into the game as if were a Sat-urday afternoon in the fall. Each team gets prepared in separate locker rooms. This game will have a lot of big plays and will be a great preview of what to expect from Illinois football this season. We look forward to having a big crowd and full support from Illini nation.
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After tossing a solid first game, the Illinois pitching staff had trouble against Nebraska’s batters.
Junior Shelese Arnold saw a lot more playing time this weekend, as she was the only pitcher to throw in all three games. She got the save in the first game, but four illegal pitch calls derailed her start in the second game,and she was then pulled in the third inning after giving up four runs on four hits.
Freshman Brandi Needham started the first and third games for the Illini. She held Nebraska’s batters at bay in the first game, but lost her rhythm in the third game when she allowed eight runs through 1 2/3 innings.
Head coach Terri Sullivan praised the Cornhuskers’ hitters after the third game, and was proud of her team for fighting through adversity.
“(Needham) just didn’t throw her pitches well and wasn’t trusting them,” Sullivan said. “So much of pitching is rhythm and so much of hitting is timing. The pitchers are looking to upset that timing.”
Hitting shined in lone victory of the weekend
The Illini put on a strong hitting performance against Nebraska in their first game, which led to the upset of the No. 20 Huskers.
The team produced four-run innings in the third and sixth. The
team’s 10 hits were two less than Nebraska, but Illinois capitalized on its hits with nine runs batted in, while Nebraska only had four.
Left fielder Alex Booker started the scoring off with a solo home run in the first inning.
“We always have the same game plan,” Booker said. “It’s nice to see us stick to it regardless of what the scoreboard says or what the other team does. We just want to play our ball and get our runs.”
Softball draws record attendanceThe softball team’s doubleheader
on Saturday drew 1,289 fans to Eichelberger Field, which is the second-largest number of fans in the ballpark’s history.
Saturday was a special occasion for the softball team, as it was also the day of its annual World’s Largest Softball Tailgate.
Head coach Terri Sullivan said she didn’t want the players to get distracted by the large crowd, but the atmosphere certainly added to the team’s 11-4 victory over Nebraska in the weekend opener.
“I thought it was a great environment all day,” Sullivan said. “There is the sixth man in basketball, but for us as well, you can really feed off that energy and Orange and Blue in the stands.”
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BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Alex Booker swings at a pitch against Nebraska on March 15.
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