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THE DAILY ILLINI
MONDAY April 30, 2018
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Students eating in University dining halls are not at risk for falling ill due to the recent E. coli outbreak in crops of romaine lettuce that was reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC issued a warning for all lettuce grown in the Yuma, Arizona, region, including salad mixes, hearts and whole heads of romaine lettuce, said Jim Roberts, environmental health director at the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District. University students should not have to worry about this outbreak because romaine lettuce stocked by University Dining is from California, not the region reportedly supplying the contaminated lettuce, said Aubrey Dawn, associate director of University Housing for Dining Services. “Food safety is a high priority, and we are vigilant to make sure that we never serve a product that may be unsafe,” Dawn said. According to the CDC’s
case count map, 84 people have reported E. coli infections after eating romaine lettuce as of April 24. Only one case has been reported in Illinois so far. Dawn said after the CDC issued a warning on romaine lettuce, University Dining’s supplier chose not to ship any products from Yuma, Arizona, even though products they would have shipped were never under investigation or recalled. In the event of a recall, dining staff checks to see if its inventory contains any recalled product, Dawn said. If University Dining were to find any recalled product, it would take the product out of service and notify its suppliers and the campus community. Dawn said they do not often stock recalled products because their suppliers keep a close eye on the products they purchase. “The growers for your distributor to the U of I have never been under investigation by the CDC and never SEE E. COLI | 3A
Cryptocurrency startup opens in Research Park Jump Labs now acccepts applications for students BY HAIPEI WU STAFF WRITER
Two-and-a-half years after opening as a research and development office for Jump Capital and Jump Trading in the University’s Research Park, Jump Labs is now accepting applications for its cryptocurrency startup incubator. Jump Trading is known as one of the biggest cryptocurrency traders in the world, while Jump Capital invests in crypto-infrastructure companies, said Peter Johnson, vice president of Jump Capital. The recently launched incubator will take Jump Trading’s sponsorship one
step further, offering people who are accepted into the program an investment from $35,000 to $50,000 to start their own cryptocurrency company. Johnson said the goal of the incubator is to invest in students and professors, while providing them with mentorship and market data. “We think cryptocurrency is going to change the world,” Johnson said. “We think a lot of applications will now be decentralized, and we believe it’s going to be the next asset class that institution investors and retail investors will invest in.” Andrew Miller, professor in computer science who has received a sponsorship from Jump, said he thinks cryptocurrency is an exciting area to do research in. “In cr y ptocurrencies, there is a broad and SEE CURRENCIES | 3A
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A journey reenvisioned A Ph.D. student’s dedication to adaptive sports
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The high bar in men’s gymnastics stretches just under 8 feet wide and is raised just over 9 feet into the air. Joey Peters is in the middle of a routine, and as he spins around the bar, he releases his left hand, spins 180 degrees and then reattaches it to the bar. Now, with his eyes facing the mat, Peters drops the full weight of his body and uses its momentum for his next three clockwise spins. The bar bends and shakes, and then Peters lets go. All eyes are on him and for a brief moment, he is suspended in the air, flipping, turning and twisting his body before he grabs onto the bar, and those watching erupt with joy. Peters finishes his routine with three more spins around the bar and then casually jumps off.
With summer break approaching, some University students are facing the problem of what to do with the belongings they cannot take home with them. University Housing does not offer summer storage and encourages students to look for self-storage off campus, said Chelsea Hamilton, senior assistant director for communications and marketing for University Housing, in an email.
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His friends rush the mat, grab him and hug him. Peters just pulled off a Brett Schneider after a year away from gymnastics. “It’s a double-twisting Kovacs on high bar,” said men’s gymnastics head coach Justin Spring. “I think he is the first American to ever catch it. There’s only five guys that I found caught it in the world.” Spring said the move was invented by German gymnast Andreas Schneider just a few years ago and is the hardest skill to complete on high bar. “When you do gymnastics your whole life and then you stop, it’s kind of like a withdrawal,” Peters said. “You kind of want to seek out some of those cool experiences and moments that you got from the sport and the adrenaline.” It was a memorable
moment for Peters, but also a bittersweet reminder of what was and what could have been. He didn’t complete the skill in a home competition at Huff Hall. He didn’t even travel with the Illini when they won their 28th Big Ten title. And when Illinois closed out its season with a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships in Chicago, Peters could only watch from the sidelines. Instead, he made history at Kenney Gym, the men’s gymnastics practice facility, in front of just his former teammates and coaching staff. Peters spent five years on the Illinois men’s gymnastics team and officially ended his career in 2017. During his time, Peters was honored as an All-Around All-American in 2013 and was named to the All-Big Ten Second Team in 2015.
He won 13 career events, but he was never able to reach his full potential. In what was supposed to be his final season with the Illini, Peters’s body began to break down. In addition to wrist and bicep injuries, he tore his right rotator cuff and blew out his left knee. “I tore all of the menisci stuff, so they had to drill into my femur to try and regrow some of it back.” Peters said. “I got back-to-back-to-backto-back surgeries, and I had to redshirt my senior year.” Peters graduated with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology in 2016, and because of his medical leave, he still had one season of eligibility left. Since he was no longer a scholarship athlete, the only way he could remain on the team was if he enrolled in graduate school. SEE JOURNEY | 3A
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“This also includes bikes,” Hamilton said. “Bikes left on campus will not be here when students return in the fall. Students need to either take their bike home, donate it or have another plan for self-storage off campus.” One storage option available for items such as bikes is Collegeboxes. Amber Doherty, customer service employee at Collegeboxes, said in an email Collegeboxes offers services in summer storage and shipping for both domestic
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and international, as well as services in study abroad storage and shipping, school shipping services and anytime shipping. “With our service, we provide in-room pick up, storage over the summer (or shipping home) and delivery back to campus in the fall,” she said. “Students can store any amount of items with us; there is no minimum or maximum number of items we can store.” Doherty said students store a wide range of items
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that may be difficult to transport if they live far from campus. “Many students attend school far from home and bringing items back and forth just doesn’t make sense,” she said. “Bringing things home like refrigerators, bicycles and futons just sometimes is not possible when you need to take a plane to get home.” Storage Squad is another company that many UniSEE STORAGE | 3A
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