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Urbana offers bike education classes in May BY SARI LESK STAFF WRITER

The city of Urbana will host its fi rst bike education course next Thursday. The course serves as an option to reduce the $100 fi ne normally given for biking offences. During the month of May, two classes will be offered and serve as a trial run for a potentially permanent option for bicyclists written tickets. The program was put together by Lt. Bob Fitzgerald of the Urbana Police Department. “We thought it would be better to educate the people rather than writing them $100 tickets,” he said. Fitzgerald said a recent increase in the number of people riding bicycles has led to an increase in complaints about bicyclists, mostly in the campus area — especially around Lincoln Avenue. In 2012, the city of Urbana decided to more heavily enforce the city ordinance against biking violations . Unlike traffic violations by drivers, the tickets for bikers do not go against their driving records and do not require an appearance in court. As of March 1 this year, ticketed bicyclists were offered the option to either pay the $100 fi ne or pay $30 and attend a bicycle education class. The city of Urbana decided to offer an option similar to driver’s education for motorists who receive tickets. “We thought if we could come up with a class where you can educate them and teach them how to be safe, we thought that would be better than just writing them a ticket and saying, ‘That’s it,” Fitzgerald said. “It would be a more productive and a better relationship between the police officer and the person.”

Two classes are scheduled to be held in May May 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. May 29 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Both classes will be held at the Urbana City Building, 400 S. Vine St. Most of the complaints have been about student bikers. Lt. Bob Fitzgerald of the Urbana Police Department, said he would like to offer classes in the fall when students return to the University campus.

About 20 people are currently signed up for the two May classes. The classes will be taught by Rebecca Bird, a city planner for Urbana. Bird is a certified instructor by the League of American Bicyclists. She said the class will teach about the major causes of crashes and teach people to be safer on the roads as bicyclists. “There are a lot of things that people don’t understand about riding a bicycle, and particularly with traffic,” she said. “We learn to ride bikes when we’re kids, and we don’t necessarily have a formal education in the safe way to ride a bicycle.” The option to take a bicycle education class represents one of three parts to a larger campaign about bicycle safety by the city of Urbana. Bird said the city is encouraging people to ride bikes more frequently because they represent a more sustainable mode of transportation. With that comes enforcement, Bird said,

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Volunteers serve traditional Indian food for free to bring awareness of the Sikh faith at an event hosted by the Sikh Student Association.

Free lunch raises religion’s awareness Sikh Student Association luncheon brings hundreds to Engineering Quad BY AMIRAH ZAVERI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Sikh Student Association gave out free vegetarian Indian meals to over 1,500 students on the Engineering Quad Wednesday. The event aimed at raising awareness of the Sikh religion and to promote interfaith acceptance. The SSA is a registered student organization whose main goal is to encourage this acceptance and was recently reestablished on campus three years ago, according to Irwinpreet Bagri , president of SSA and senior in Business . A Langar or “Free Kitchen,”a central aspect of Sikhism, is a traditional gathering where

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Piato’s Organic Food Nanny serves community

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Local food delivery program increases customer list, prepares homemade meals BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER

Instead of a greasy, cheesy pizza, 60 Champaign-Urbana residents Tuesday ordered in a healthy meal of all-organic chicken and rice soup, challah bread, mixed greens and apple pies. Over the last two years, the program that supplies this food, Piato’s Organic Food Nanny, has increased its customer list by 50 percent. This weekly food delivery program is run by Piato’s Cafe, 300 S Broadway Ave. The program prepares homemade meals using allorganic and locally grown produce for families, professors and retirees. Vicki Mahaffey, professor at the University, has been a customer of the program for four years. “It’s wonderful, it’s always a surprise, always different, always good and it’s just fun,” she said. “It’s cheaper than going out to eat and more fun. You never know what you will get.” Correlative to a U. S. Department of Agriculture economic research study, the production of organic food is on the rise, and demand for the program is also increasing. While the organic food trend

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“It’s an economic circular loop,” Quigley said. “We support Common Ground. They in turn are more economically sound. If we can keep them strong, they are a resource for us and our clients.” PrairiErth Farm as well as Blue Moon Farm also participate in Urbana’s Market at the Square, which will begin its 34th season May 4. Natalie Kenny Marquez, Market at the Square director, said staff has been busy preparing for the estimated 5,000 people who will attend the market each Saturday of the summer and early fall.

“They come because the food is local,” she said. “You can’t fi nd that amount of local food anywhere else in our region. That means its only produced in the state of Illinois.” Marquez believes the local community is more concerned about where their food comes from. “The area is so close to access to local food in the lush midwestern area,” she said. “I think the people generally care about supporting our local farmers.”

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similar to the Langar, Sandhu said. “There have been small scale hate crimes in Boston against Muslim women,” she said. “Even though we’re different religions, there’s a solidarity between us because we face the same discrimination. (There’s a) huge problem in the media; we are misrepresented and seen as terrorists just because we are different.” A m r ut h a P r a s ad , an attendant of the event and freshman in L AS , shared similar views. “The discrimination Sikhs face has definitely gone up since 9/11,” she said. “Also, this Langar increased awareness and let the community know who Sikhs are.”

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has been catching on for a while, there has recently been a push to eat local food. While Meaghan Quigley, office manager of Piato’s, said she believes the increase is due to better education of the benefits organic eating has on the body, she believes it’s more important to the members of the community that the food is local. “When we can support a local farm, that makes our entire local and state economy stronger. People recognize that,” she said. We b s i t e s such as EatL ocalChallenge.com, a blogging website that focuses on the importance of locally and sustainably grown food, have spread awareness across the Internet that buying locally can have benefits for a local economy. Quigley said through the program, Piato’s is able to help support six Champaign-Urbana farms and local companies, including USDA- certified PrairiErth Farm, Blue Moon Farm and Common Ground Food Co-op. Because all of the produce used in the program comes from farms within a 50-mile radius of Urbana, the program has helped support a piece of the local economy.

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people come together to share in a communal meal. “The main purpose of the Langar is to show who we are, not who we are perceived to be, and to spread awareness of discrimination and foster equality and acceptance,” she said. This is the first University Langar held on a campus in the Midwest region. Student volunteers as well as members from the Chicago Sikh and Danville community helped in creating this Langar. “All of the food was made by volunteers, and without their time and effort this would not be possible,” said Amrita Bamrah , vice president of SSA

and junior in LAS. The event began at 10 a.m., but by 5:30 p.m. the volunteers ran out of food. Board members expected 500 to 800 people to attend the event, but by the end of the day this prediction was almost tripled, and the tent stayed open an additional half an hour to serve the overflow of people. Simran Sandhu , treasurer of SSA and junior in LAS , said that as a result of this success, more students on campus are aware of the true nature of the Sikh religion. Since 9/11, Sandhu said many in the Sikh community face discrimination and fall victim to hate crimes. In wake of the Boston bombings, the SSA is aiming to prevent the same discrimination by raising awareness and hosting events

The Eastern Illinois Foodbank, which serves Champaign County, is currently in the running to win a $45,000 grant from Wal-Mart and its partners. “We know hunger is a big issue and as the nation’s largest grocer, we have a responsibility to help change this reality,” said Scott Pope, senior manager of National Media Relations for Wal-Mart, in an email. Wal-Mart is holding its third Fighting Hunger Together competition for nonprofit org a n i z at io n s through Facebook. Users can visit the application, My Local Walmart, on Facebook and vote for any organization of their choosing. “Fighting Hunger Together brings together local and national non-profits, community leaders, customers, Wal-Mart associates and some of the most recognizable food companies in America in a joint effort to battle hunger,” Pope said. EIF serves a total of 14 counties with the mission to alleviate hunger in Eastern Illinois, said Julie Melton, director of marketing and development at EIF. The food bank distributes to food pantries and soup kitchens in those counties, which then serve the public. One program the food bank has implemented is the Healthy Futures Initiative, which

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Melton said is an approach to distributing healthy food to children. Through this initiative, the food bank hosts the Backpack Program, where food banks send students home from school on Fridays with a backpack of food. Melton said that with 918 kids being served every Friday, the program costs about $225,000, and the money from the grant will help sustain it. “We serve about 100,000 individuals each year and about one third of those individuals are actually children,” Melton said. “This $45,000 grant is specifically for child hunger.” Restoration Urban Ministries in Champaign runs a food pantry that buys food from EIF. Lisa Cramer, office manager and volunteer coordinator for the ministry, said she hopes the food bank wins the grant. “The more grants that they get the more food they can afford to give us,” Cramer said. “If they get a grant, then they reduce the price that we pay, and we can feed more people.” There are 123 other food banks in the competition. The 40 organizations with the most votes will receive $45,000 grants and the following 60 with the most votes will receive $20,000 grants, according to the Wal-Mart app. Users can cast votes until April 30.

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GOP leaders postpone vote on Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health care law BY JIM ABRAMS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An effort by House Republicans to highlight problems with President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health care law by bailing out a program for people with pre-existing medical conditions appeared to backfire Wednesday. GOP leaders postponed a scheduled vote after the measure met strong opposition from two directions: from conservative groups resistant to any federal role in health care and from Democrats who objected that the Republicans planned to pay for the highrisk patient program by raiding a disease prevention provision the administration says is essential to the overhaul. The legislation, a departure from the usual GOP efforts to kill the Affordable Health Care Act outright, also faced a White House veto threat. Erica Elliott, spokeswoman for Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy of California, said in a statement, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had good conversations with our members and made a lot of solid progressâ&#x20AC;? on the bill. But she said there was â&#x20AC;&#x153;still work to

do,â&#x20AC;? and with members leaving for the Bush Presidential Library dedication, â&#x20AC;&#x153;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll continue the conversationsâ&#x20AC;? when the House returns in May after a recess next week. The GOP bill would provide up to $3.6 billion to shore up the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan, or PCIP, which is intended to be a stopgap measure for uninsured high-risk patients until the end of this year, when full consumer protections under the health care act go into effect. Under the plan, those who have been uninsured for six months would be subsidized so they could buy insurance at average rates. The original goal was for the plan to reach more than 300,000 before it disappeared at the end of this year, but the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costs were higher than anticipated and it enrolled slightly more than 100,000 before the administration announced in February that it would stop taking new applications. Republicans, who in the past session of Congress tried several dozen times to dismantle what they call Obamacare, sought to use

their new â&#x20AC;&#x153;Helping Sick Americans Now Actâ&#x20AC;? to point out defects in the pre-existing conditions program. Their bill, said Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;needed piece of relief for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who were promised by their president that they would be covered under the Affordable Care Actâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan and then were told as of Feb. 1 of this year, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sorry, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re closed.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? The money for the plan would come from the Prevention and Public Health Fund, a provision of the health care law that Republicans have assailed as a slush fund for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Republicans are also critical of the use of some $300 million from that fund to publicize the new health insurance markets coming this fall under the health care law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to stop Obamacare and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to the fund, the slush fund, that Secretary Sebelius is using for the implementation of the bill,â&#x20AC;? House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said.

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The White House, in its veto threat, said the legislation would effectively eliminate funding for three years for a program that â&#x20AC;&#x153;supports critical investments such as tobacco use reduction and programs to

reduce health-care-associated infections and the national burden of chronic disease.â&#x20AC;? Health and Human Services, in its breakdown of the prevention program, said that among its allocations in 2012 were $91

million for immunization, $60 million for tobacco use prevention and $146 million to support community-level efforts to reduce chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

Failure to share intelligence may have contributed to Boston City still adjusting to scars left by bombings BY DAVID CRARY, DENISE LAVOIE AND KIMBERLY DOZIER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY DAVID KLEPPER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PROVIDENCE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rhode Island is on a path to becoming the 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry after a landmark vote in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senate on Wednesday. The Senate passed gay marriage legislation by a comfortable 26-12 margin, following a House vote of approval in January. The bill must now return to the House for a largely procedural vote, likely next week, but the celebration began Wednesday. Hundreds of people fi lled the Statehouse with cheers following the vote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I grew up in Rhode Island and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to retire in Rhode Island,â&#x20AC;? said Annie Silvia, 61, who now lives with her partner of 30 years just across the border in North Attleboro, Mass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No. 10 is a nice round number, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like it to be bigger. Fifty sounds good to me.â&#x20AC;? Heavily Catholic Rhode Island is the last remaining New England state without gay marriage. Marriage legislation has been introduced in the state for nearly two decades, only to languish on the legislative agenda.

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Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. An effort by House Republicans to highlight problems with President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health care law by bailing out a program for people with pre-existing medical conditions.

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Rhode Island state Sen. Donna Nesselbush, D-Pawtucket, center, reacts seconds after the state senate passed a same-sex marriage bill at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday. Supporters mounted a renewed push this year, and the Senate vote was seen as the critical test after the House easily passed the bill. Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent, called Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vote historic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very much looking forward to signing this,â&#x20AC;? he told The Associated Press as he congratulated supporters. The fi rst gay marriages in Rhode Island could take place Aug. 1, when the legislation would take effect. Civil unions would no longer be available to same-sex couples as of that date, though the state would continue to recognize existing civil unions. Lawmakers approved

civil unions two years ago, though few couples have sought them. Hundreds of opponents also gathered at the Statehouse for the vote, singing hymns and holding signs as the Senate deliberated. Rev. David Rodriguez, a Providence minister, said he was disappointed by the vote. He said he planned to continue to stand up for traditional marriage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marriage between a man and a woman is what God wanted,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will continue to do what we know how to do: Keep praying and preaching.â&#x20AC;? The Roman Catholic Church was the billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most significant opponent.

BOSTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lawmakers are asking tough questions about how the government tracked suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev when he traveled to Russia last year, renewing criticism from after the Sept. 11 attacks that failure to share intelligence may have contributed to last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deadly assault. Following a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill with the FBI and other law enforcement officials on Tuesday, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear yet that anyone â&#x20AC;&#x153;dropped the ball.â&#x20AC;? But he said he was asking all the federal agencies for more information about who knew what about the suspect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There still seem to be serious problems with sharing informa-

BIKING FROM PAGE 1A because people have to abide by the rules of the road while biking. She understands that ticketing bicyclists does not seem intuitive to most people, but said that an active campaign

tion, including critical investigative information ... not only among agencies but also within the same agency in one case,â&#x20AC;? said committee member Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. Lawmakers intensified their scrutiny as funerals were held Tuesday for an 8-year-old boy killed in the bombings and a campus police officer who authorities said was shot by Tsarnaev and his younger brother days later. A memorial service for the officer, 26-year-old Sean Collier, is scheduled for Wednesday. Vice President Joe Biden is expected to speak. Also Wednesday, Boylston Street, where the blasts occurred, reopened after being closed since the bombings. Two construction workers guarded fresh concrete still drying on the sidewalk where one of the bombs exploded. A Starbucks allowed customers to retrieve purses, school bags and cellphones left under tables in the chaotic aftermath of the explosions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going

to be a sense of normalcy for a while,â&#x20AC;? said Tom Champoux, 48, who works a few blocks away, as he pointed to the fresh concrete and boarded-up windows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are scars here that will be with us for a long time.â&#x20AC;? While family said that the older Tsarnaev had been influenced by a Muslim convert to follow a strict type of Islam, 19-yearold brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remained hospitalized after days of questioning over his role in the attacks. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a shootout with police last week. Conflicting stories appeared to emerge about which agencies knew about Tamerlan Tsarnaevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s six-month trip to Russia last year. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee on immigration legislation that her agency knew about Tsarnaevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey to his homeland. But Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the FBI â&#x20AC;&#x153;told me they had no knowledge of him leaving or coming back.â&#x20AC;?

on bike safety is the only way to ensure that people behave on the roads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a municipality, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not trying to be heavy-handed and write a bunch of people tickets,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about getting bicyclists to think about the responsibility of sharing the road with others.â&#x20AC;?

Rene Dunn, public information officer for the Champaign Police Department, said bike safety classes have not been discussed for the city of Champaign, and that she could not offer an opinion or comment on the topic.

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Boy Scouts of America compromise still flawed solution

early 20 years following the Boy Scouts of America’s formal decision to exclude gay individuals from being scouts or adult leaders, they have proposed a compromise. Well, that’s what they’re calling it. Last Friday, the BSA proposed lifting the ban for youth members, but would continue excluding gay adult leaders. The proposal followed pressure from gay rights groups and withdrawn support from countless organizations for the BSA’s anti-gay policies. The BSA wouldn’t be making a compromise at all; they would still excluding gay members just as they have over the years. Sure, gay youth would be allowed to join the BSA, but only temporarily. As soon as they wish to extend their membership as adult leaders and mentor youth scouts, they are forbidden from doing so. The BSA would create an even larger disassociation between what it means to be a youth member and adult leader. Being a gay scout is OK, being a gay adult leader is not. Heterosexual adult leaders may lead and mentor gay scouts, but gay adult leaders aren’t worthy of doing the same. Being gay as a youth is far more acceptable than being gay as an adult. Being gay, however, is not a phase. The BSA’s proposal is a half step in the right direction, marred by its inability to accept that being gay will likely not fade into the past once its members reach adulthood. Excluding some gay individuals and not others is not a win for anyone. Instead, it’s reinforcing and strengthening the fact that being gay is OK, but only some of the time. The decision should be all or nothing. Either allow gay individuals membership in any position or don’t allow them membership at all. The supposed compromise is ultimately taking broad exclusion and making it more specific: from not allowing any gay individuals to only allowing some. What message is an organization dedicated to preparing “young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes” sending to our youth? One that is certainly ambiguous. The gay community doesn’t need pity or compromise, it desires acceptance. The gay community, not just gay youth and not just gay adults, deserves to be members of the BSA if they so desire. Clearly, the BSA’s agenda extends no further than appeasement. Taking 20 years for the BSA to even consider lifting the ban on only some gay individuals is not progress, it’s caving in to pressure. Pressure that has caused companies such as Chase Manhattan Bank, CVS, Intel, Verizon, Google, UPS and even Steven Spielberg, who was an Eagle Scout himself, to withdraw their support and donations. When the BSA introduces a proposal that allows for gay youth and gay leaders to be members, then we will start listening. When the BSA decides to sacrifice exclusion for tolerance — that’s the real compromise.

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they capitalize on them by creating terms and conditions and policies that are unfair and inconvenient to the people they should be serving. For example, if “your ticket is used for transportation on the wrong date or trip or between the wrong stops, you agree to pay the applicable full fare plus $100.” In a public statement that was in response to Jeremy Leval, the student who confronted the bus driver for making discriminatory comments, they referred to him as, “a meddling, self-aggrandizing student who has chosen to use this incident to promote his own agenda, which seems to be to call as much attention to himself as possible.”Soon afterwards, Dennis Toeppen, the owner of Suburban Express, said in an email, “We take our obligation to serve all passengers with respect and professionalism very seriously.” There is a double standard if I have ever heard one. Suburban Express has been perpetuating its unethical business practices on this campus for far too long. They thought wiping Lex out of the business would make things easier for them, but it turns out they don’t even need another company to ruin its reputation. Their tedious policies, response to the Jeremy Leval incident, and abundance of lawsuits is enough for them to do it on their own. Whether this is the last straw with Suburban Express I don’t know. But what I do know is that competing bus companies can certainly expect an increase in their tickets sales within the upcoming weeks.

he moment Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stepped out of a Watertown home’s backyard in handcuffs, Bostonians erupted in applause, cheers; the Twitterverse exploded with excitement; and humanity collectively cried, “Hallelujah!” After a 24-hour stretch of nearconstant consumption of TV and all media relating to Boston’s manhunt, Tsarnaev’s capture came as cathartic relief to us all. In the hour following his arrest, however, a phone call from my mom unsettled my mind: “Hey Nora...you should think about taking down that you’re a Muslim on Facebook...” My mother is concerned that my religious alignment will affect how people perceive me, a girl who looks and seems white, but has a splash of Arab. “Because who would’ve suspected a guy like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? A white, Muslim Chechnyan? A kid?” For the entirety of the last couple weeks, Muslim-Americans held their breath. Anticipating all kinds of discrimination and hate speech, many of us waited to see how fast the public would respond to the Tsarnaev brother’s Muslim identities. And suddenly, even before the FBI released the identities of the suspects, the lash out began. In Boston, a man in his 30s punched a Palestinian doctor with her daughter, shouting, “F--k you Muslims! You are terrorists! I hate you! You are involved in the Boston explosions! F--k you!” Fox News contributor Erik Rush tweeted, “Everybody do the National Security Ankle Grab! Let’s bring more Saudis in without screening them! C’mon! #bostonmarathon,” and “They’re evil. Let’s kill them all.” Very suddenly, we endangered ourselves by identifying as persons of Islamic faith, because it has become an underlying (or not so underlying) assumption that all individuals of the Muslim community are supporters of terrorism. Suddenly, Muslims needed stories like NPR’s “Muslims on Boston’s Bombings: We’re All Disgusted” to defend ourselves. Suddenly, Muslims halfway across the world felt obligated to vehemently criticize extremism and express that, yes, Muslims are humans, too. Muslims have to support their humanity and distance themselves from individual acts of terrorism, because the world will continue to look for possible motives by their religious affiliation. “Regardless of how these two people viewed themselves religiously, how deeply they associated themselves with Islam or the Muslim community, it seems the media only saw it necessary to probe their actions under a religious microscope,” wrote journalist Deanna Othman in the Chicago Tribune. “When the perpetrator is Muslim, the motive is Islam.” What this line of thinking does is rob us of the chance to see the nuances in each act of terrorism. We don’t see the psychological underpinnings of the story nor the family history. We ditch any possibility that there were financial problems or outside pressure. Instead, we’ve found a clean explanation that only requires a word to encompass it all: Islam. Whoa there, does all of this Islam explain why I skipped class yesterday, or why I drove 5 mph over the limit, or why I watched a pirated movie? (Hint hint: It doesn’t.) I have not removed my religious affiliation from social media sites, and I don’t plan to. The unfortunate unfolding of last week’s events will make it difficult for Muslim-Americans for now, but my religious ties will stay up as is, because here’s the thing: The Islam that the Tsarnaev brothers observed did not dictate for death and injuries of people. Their religion did not tell them to commit atrocious acts anymore than their brown, curly hair did.

Matt is a freshman in LAS. He can be reached at mpasqui2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @matthewpasquini.

Nora is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at ibrahim7@dailyillini.com. Follow her on Twitter @NoraAIbrahim.

Media, men should stop objectifying women JOANNA ROTHENBERG Opinions columnist

bjectification of women is an epidemic in this country and all over the world. And too few people speak up about it. Yet, we see women being objectified daily. We see it in magazines. Women’s long and slender legs being used to sell us something that we do not really need. Women blending in an advertisement as the beer bottle. Not drinking one like “a man” but portrayed as the actual beer bottle — something that can be taken a hold of, taken advantage of. We see it online. Advertisements on the Internet are everywhere with women posing seductively. When men mirror those same images, we laugh; we find the humor in the poses. But when women pose seductively, we just accept it as part of life. We do not laugh. We do not think it is cute. We as a culture accept it. We see it on television and in movies. Impossibly thin women being shoved in front of us: think Angelina Jolie. Advertisements by Carl’s Jr. that portray eating a burger to be sexy. I don’t know about any of you, but in real life, I have never ever equated eating fast food with being sexy. Speaking of things that should never be sexy: Even Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck and a few other beloved Disney characters were slenderized and sexualized thanks to Barneys New York last year. Minnie suddenly dreamt of being

a model. What? Are we really OK with filling young children’s minds with these images? We must be if Barbie and Bratz dolls are still on the shelves at stores. Or is it less about being OK with it and more of just not noticing? Until I took a class that covered women’s portrayals in media last semester, I knew this was going on, but I admittedly did not notice it. I did not realize just how much the sexualization and objectification of women is portrayed in the media. People want to sell their products, but there has to be a way to do it that does not say everything should always be about pleasing a specific set of hormones. Yet, it is. That’s why we end up with advertisements of beer bottles designed to look like a woman’s midriff. This gets into the minds of young women everywhere. Even though we aren’t objects, somewhere, in the back of many people’s minds, they start to think the only way we can be beautiful is if we allow ourselves to become objects rather than people. I’m not saying all campaigns and advertisements do this — the Dove commercials use “real women” to advertise their products. And even more recently, they added “Real Beauty Sketches” to their campaign where one woman describes herself to a forensic sketch artist, and then the artist draws accordingly. A stranger who the woman only met briefly then describes that same woman to the artist. The stranger seems to describe the woman prettier than the original woman did about herself. But even in this power-

ful commercial, they are all fairly attractive women. They are mostly wearing makeup and dressed well. The concept is good, but it does not get the job done. And it certainly can’t undo so many years of what has been ingrained in our minds as to what is outer beauty. Which then leads us to buy things to make ourselves feel better about ourselves and then we become the advertisement — we become the object. And even then, it still is not good enough in the media’s eyes. And it bothers me that we let it happen here on campus to some extent. When women go for a run outside, they are going for exercise, for training, for a chance to escape from the world for a while. But many times, men see this opportunity as a chance to call them out on it. They honk, they cat-call. That woman, for a few split seconds is nothing more than an object to them versus a woman trying to better herself — because the constant advertisements surrounding them say it is OK when it really is not. If women ever want to be seen as something more than an object to men in real life, the first step is to change how we view women in the media. Maybe by starting to support a company like Dove or go even further than that. But until the media starts to take women seriously, not as objects but as real people with real thoughts and feelings, I fear realistic representation is too far off.

Joanna is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at rothenb2@dailyillini.com.

Suburban Express causes its own problems MATT PASQUINI Opinions columnist

bout two weeks ago, I was surfing the UIUC subreddit website. I came across a post that called on students to boycott the local bus company, Suburban Express. The post stated that allegedly, a student accidentally gave the bus driver the wrong ticket and was fined $150. I showed my roommate the Reddit post and I pointed out what I thought was its absurdity. I claimed that it’s not that hard to double check and make sure you’re handing the bus driver the right ticket and he stared and me and just responded by saying, “Dude, you’re an idiot. Suburban Express sucks.” We shortly debated the legitimacy of Suburban Express. I said that in all the times I’ve used their services, not once have I experienced any problems. He said that he’s had bad experiences with Suburban Express. He told me about other encounters he has read about on Reddit and also cited some nasty reviews the company received on Yelp. I took him at his word, but halfheartedly. Being my occasionally stubborn self, I still thought they were an OK company and didn’t think much about them. I later read a report by The Daily Illini about an incident where a student was banned from using Suburban Express for confronting a bus driver after he allegedly made discriminatory comments to an international student for being unable to understand the instructions she was being told.

Earlier this week, a Reddit post surfaced on my Facebook newsfeed that claimed that Suburban Express filed 96 lawsuits against students. In disbelief, I found out that Suburban Express filed numerous lawsuits for minor tort and contract damages that range from $0.01 to $250. I was taken aback by all the scandals surrounding Suburban Express, so I asked my roommate to show me the posts he read from Reddit and Yelp and I was shocked at the things people had to say. Normally, if there are one or two bad reviews you take them with a grain of salt. But there weren’t one or two bad reviews, there were pages of them. I was slightly infuriated with some of the things I read and I finally decided that enough is enough, I have to say something about this. Time and time again, posts and forums have been surfacing about Suburban Express. After considering the allegations, I can comfortably say that I have never seen a company that lacks as much integrity and professionalism as Suburban Express. Since my first day here on campus, I’ve noticed that Suburban Express has made itself very salient. They disrupt the learning environment by posting flyers in classrooms, I’ve seen flyers that emphasize the word “sex” of Suburban Express so that it is the first word that jumps out at you, and they pushed forward a smear campaign that took advantage of the downward spiral of Lincolnland Express, one of its largest competitors, until LEX was eventually shut down by the government.. Instead of considering the extraneous circumstances that could potentially plague its customers,

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BALDWIN FROM PAGE 6A the position. Baldwin has the ability to ensure that everyone has a voice during debates while keeping business on track, he said. “She’s never really gotten in a heated dispute. She’s well-respected and listened to in the student senate,” Dayton said. “She critically looks at things, and if she feels the need to voice some sort of opposition, critique or endorsement, she’ll do that. But for the most part, she lets it go to the vote — which I think is drastically important in the vice president.” Much of her aptitude for leadership stems from her time management and organizational skills. When she’s not serving as VPI, internal affairs committee chair or LAS student senator, Baldwin can be found at one of her two part-time jobs: working as a secretary for her church on campus or as an office assistant for Weston Hall. “It’s crazy, but I really do enjoy (being busy),” she said. “I don’t take it on unless I know I can do it well.” Majoring in history and political science, Baldwin is also a member of Phi Alpha Theta, a history honors society. She also participates in the Campus Crusade for Christ, or Cru. However, Baldwin said ISS is the biggest time commitment in her schedule. Her passion for student government started in middle school in her hometown of Waterloo, Ill. From her experience on the student council, Baldwin said she has always enjoyed bringing the faculty and students together to tackle pressing issues. Baldwin lived in Garner Hall’s LEADS living-learning commu-

KNUDSEN FROM PAGE 6A like many of his fellow senators, he said he has been in love with the University even before he enrolled. As a political science undergraduate, Knudsen became interested in law school after working on multiple campaigns, including that of Alexi Giannoulias, the former Illinois state treasurer. He said he saw the law degree as a powerful instrument for his chosen career path: politics. And no matter the subject — the sports he played in high school, his sister, his schoolwork, his travel experiences — Knudsen somehow ties it back to politics. But he doesn’t do it in a brash, in-yourface kind of way, and it’s not that he is overly opinionated — it’s more that he exudes the knowhow and control of someone who has been there and done that, like many of the politicians and world leaders he admires. All the while, he remains quite humble. “Whatever he does, he always has this cool balance between humbleness and confidence,” said his older sister, Kristin, who is now an elementary school speech pathologist in Knudsen’s conservative and affluent hometown of Wheaton, Ill. In Wheaton, his home wasn’t too partisan. He said that while many of the people he had grown up with based their political stances on what their families had taught them, he wanted to go his own way, trying to see every issue from all sides. “A lot of people like to just adapt to their surroundings, and I don’t like to do that,” the self-proclaimed moderate Democrat said.

BOLDEN FROM PAGE 6A have the public service component that’s serving the educational needs of students.” Bolden said it was all of the efforts of his parents, teachers, principals, aunts, uncles and grandparents that has made him so motivated. “You know the old cliche, ‘It takes a village to raise a child’? I’m the greatest example of that,” he said. “So, I think to whom much is given, much is expected, and I have to make the village proud.” One person who had a significant impact on Bolden is his mentor and godfather, Louis Mauldin. “He has made it his job to expose me to things in life that I never thought or never could think of as a teenager or as a young adult,” Bolden said. Mauldin started mentoring Bolden when he was in grammar school, and he soon realized Bolden’s potential. “I saw an opportunity to take a kid and move him to a different level,” Mauldin said. “You have to keep him challenged, and the more of a challenge you get to give to him, the more you’ll get out of him.” Mauldin made an effort to expose Bolden to “positive black male history,” Mauldin said, such as taking him to meet the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the first African-American fighter group in World War II. Bolden also credits his love for jazz and orchestra to Mauldin, who took Bolden to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera of Chicago as a kid, where he first saw performances such as Sweet Honey in the Rock and Winter Marsalis. “Often I get stuck in the now, the very near future,” Bolden said.

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nity for her first two years at the University. It was there that she first heard about ISS and decided to join. Baldwin first became an intern during her freshman year and shadowed the VPI. From becoming clerk as a sophomore, she realized that she wanted to pursue a position on the executive board. As a junior, she became chief of staff. Baldwin was on what could be called the internal track of ISS, a path that would lead to becoming VPI, explained Jim Maskeri, LAS senator emeritus and senior in LAS. However, when the then-vice president-external Ryan Young was notified that he retroactively graduated in January and had to resign, Baldwin was approached by Maskeri and Young to run for the position. She was elected that month after being nominated by Dayton. Much to Baldwin’s surprise, she ran unopposed. “I definitely thought that she was the best candidate available,” Maskeri said. “Obviously, it’s difficult to transition into something part way through a term, but I think she’s done it with grace.” Baldwin admits that taking on the VPX role for three months was challenging. But now, after serving two different vice president positions within the same semester, Baldwin said she has a larger understanding of the organization as a whole. “It opened my eyes a lot to how the Senate is seen by other groups on campus, and the students in general,” Baldwin said of her experience as VPX. “I can see where we’re falling short on the outside, and ... so often that means that there’s problems on the inside. I’m going to bring those things back to VPI and hopefully fix things so ... that will help us project a better image outside.”

For Baldwin, a major push for next year will be to keep senators active throughout the term. “It’s hard to keep those new members. It sometimes gets to be a very negative environment, when all you see is the 7 p.m. meetings in the Pine Lounge when everyone’s yelling,” she said. Baldwin said she hopes to remind senators of why their roles are important to this campus. Senators should be pushed to reach out more to students, which will in turn will encourage students to contact their senator, Baldwin said. By making the senate fun, ISS will be able to retain more senators to help unify a cohesive, interactive body. However, outside of ISS, her mother will always be her lifelong role model. “She’s the strongest woman I’ve ever met,” she said. “She is incredible – totally self-sacrificing in ways that I don’t think I could ever be.” As the first of her siblings to go to college more than an hour away from home, Baldwin said she is very close with her family. They Skype every Sunday, and she hopes her ability to keep in touch with her family and the mediation skills they have taught her will positively affect her in her role as VPI. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about every single one of them,” Baldwin said. “There’s five kids in my family, and I’ll tell you, none of us are the same. And so we each have our own strengths and weaknesses, and recognizing that and being able to apply that to a larger organization like (ISS) is so important.”

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Many of Knudsen’s interests lie in foreign policy, but he has chosen not to be too public about them with the other senators, as he doesn’t want those issues to cloud the ones the senate has before it. He credits his two study abroad trips, one to Rome during his undergraduate years and one to the Middle East last summer, as solidifying these interests. While abroad, Knudsen said he gained an interest in journaling, and he’s kept it up since his return. In his leather Italian messenger bag, he keeps the small blue book with a red ribbon bookmark that his sister gave him after graduation to record his thoughts, when he can. Whenever he needs a pickme-up, he’ll flip back through his journals. “When I get stressed out here — because law school has been so different from anything, and it’s just how the movies show it to be — I’ll go back and read my journals, like when I was in Rome and I felt like I had complete freedom and no obligations,” Knudsen said. To help cut down on some of that stress, he also does yoga regularly and works out every afternoon at the ARC, where he’ll try to do some studying on the machines. Without the constant exercise, he said he can’t sleep well at night. But with the hectic law school life that Knudsen leads, sometimes he doesn’t sleep at all. “When I know I am going to pull an all-nighter, I dress up because I never know what I am going to have to do the next day,” he said. On these occasions, he’ll pull on a good pair of pants, a button-up shirt, a tie and a blazer. One night after Knudsen stayed up working on his appellate brief for his legal writing class, he was invited to lunch with a prominent environ-

mental lawyer. Luckily, he had a blazer — just not the energy. And when he’s not cramming between meetings and classes (because he says it’s “really scary to get called on in class”) or studying at Caffe Paradiso in Urbana, he said he tries to squeeze in social time. At least once every month or two. Knudsen keeps up with many of his friends from high school and undergrad. Every now and again, he’ll leave his law school friends at the “grown-up” bars, like those in downtown Champaign, and maybe meet up with his old friends to go to KAM’S, his favorite bar on campus. “It’s embarrassing, but absolutely,” Knudsen said of the bar, which he said is so traditional, so “U of I.” Despite the self-deprecating humor and the rare night out, he is focused on what he wants: a public office — perhaps to be a senator one day. But there’s one more immediate goal that he would let sidetrack him, and that would be working on the campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “I mean literally if she runs I will campaign for her,” Knudsen said. “I will leave law school early.” But until then, his focus is this campus, working to better his home of the last five years with the senators who share the same passion for this University as he does. “ISS isn’t just a joke or a place for people to get a title on their resume,” Knudsen said. “There are a lot of good, hard-working kids in there.”

“But (Mauldin) always pushes me to think bigger picture, to see how different things connect, how different social activities or different skill sets put me above my peers.” Bolden is not just a man of politics. He is a member of the University of Illinois Black Chorus, a group he considers his “second family.” He has worked at the African-American Cultural Center as a programming intern since his freshman year, and during the summer, he interns at Loop Capital, an investment bank in Chicago. When he’s not focusing on academics, the senate, his job at the cultural house or chorus, Bolden enjoys “me time,” which he defines as spending time with his friends, watching “The Cosby Show,” or listening to Stevie Wonder. “He’s just a fun guy to be around, and he’ll definitely tell you what’s on his mind 99 percent of the time,” said Ryan Young, Bolden’s roommate and former student body vice president external. It is this that will aid Bolden as student body president, Young said. “He’s definitely willing to stick his neck out for what he believes,” Young said. “He’ll tell you what he thinks, but when it comes down to it, he knows how to make a compromise and really knows how to get what’s best for the entire student body.” As the University’s third African-American student body president, Bolden does not want to be remembered for his race, but rather, for what he accomplishes. “I hope that when people remember my impact on campus, that it would be ‘Wow, he really did great things for the student body, he really represented the interests of all students on campus, undergraduate, graduate and professional students alike,’” he said. “That is what I want to be at

the forefront of who I am, the forefront of my presidency,” In terms of the goals the senate will have this coming school year, Bolden said they will not be “looking for a fight.” They hope to mend and uphold good relationships with administrators, as well as be more approachable to students. “We (want to) effectively represent the student body without having to worry about, ‘Do students know who we are? Do they know what we do?’” Bolden said. “That shouldn’t be a worry, you know, students should be able to approach us with any problems.” Bolden is also excited to work with his vice presidents and “executive team.” “We have a friendship and a bond and a working relationship that, in my time here at Illinois, I have not seen of members of the student government,” he said. His father said he is very proud of Bolden’s accomplishments. This is something he has been working toward for years. “He’s been really planning and mapping this out,” Howliet said. “This is just another one of his goals, and a small step in his journey and in his career.” Bolden, who is majoring in agricultural and consumer economics, said that when he graduates, he plans to be involved in local politics in Chicago and hopes to one day be mayor of Chicago. However, he said he will always keep his options open. “I think I came off as someone who genuinely cares for the University and genuinely cares for students,” Bolden said. “My fellow senators could tell that my heart was in the right place, and that I will represent the student’s interests better than anyone else could.”

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KNOWING ISS INSIDE AND OUT

BY LIZ AMANIEH

STAFF WRITER

he Illinois Student Senate is an organization of students committed to improving the University by acting as the voice of the student body. Members of ISS have responsibilities that include serving as a medium between the students and University administrators, making amendments to the Student Code and sponsoring various student programs. The senators are both graduate and undergraduate students who are invested in the interests of the student body and who want to enrich their academic and campus environment. ISS comprises four executive officers, a student trustee and 54 student senators who make up six standing committees and five subcommittees. Senators are elected in March by students in their respective colleges, and the senators then elect the four executive officers: president, vice president-external (VPX), vice president-internal (VPI) and treasurer. The VPX handles the public relations aspect of the organization: speaking with local media and other organizations and managing ISS’ reputation on campus. The VPI oversees and facilitates all interactions among senators and between senators and their constituents. The VPI ensures that the senators have a voice while keeping business on track. The senate is a medium through which students can express their confl icts and concerns regarding the University and propose solutions to those problems. Senators encourage their constituents to come speak during the public comment portion of their weekly meetings, which take place every Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Illini Union’s Pine Lounge. Normally, a student senator will go through a lengthy process of drafting a resolution that addresses a campus issue. Once a resolution is constructed, the senator then must present it to the senate. If the senate does not have a unanimous opinion on the subject, revisions can be made before the senate votes on the resolution. After a vote, the issue is delegated to a committee that takes proposed measures to carry out any changes. More recently, ISS has addressed the student outrage over the late announcement of a snow day on March 25 . The issue has since been tabled in the committee of campus affairs, according to Shao Guo, senator representing DGS and junior in ACES.

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Knudsen’s sights on political office, campaign trail

New president has passion for service

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When Jenny Baldwin, the newly-elected vice president-internal described her views about the Illinois Student Senate, a common word she used was “family.” The junior in LAS said she believes that the next assembly will become “one giant family” because the inner dynamics of the organization are so similar to her own family’s. With three older sisters and a younger brother, being amid a debate’s crossfire during the University’s student government weekly meetings is not new territory for Baldwin. “I feel like growing up in a big family really helped me with cooperating and compromising,” Baldwin said. “Sibling rivalry was huge in my family, so you learn to solve those disputes quickly and fairly.” After being sworn in as vice presidentinternal on April 17, Baldwin applied the same negotiation skills she uses with her family to manage the senators’ interactions within the organization and with the student body. Christopher Dayton, senior senator emeritus for the College of LAS and senior in LAS, has known Baldwin since his sophomore year. With a laugh, he admitted Baldwin will have to manage “interesting characters” within the senate, but he has no fear or hesitation in her holding of

Politics is almost second nature for Timmy Knudsen. On April 17, inside the Illini Union’s Pine Lounge, he sits in the middle of the room, outwardly calm and relaxed, waiting for the outgoing Illinois Student Senate President Brock Gebhardt to begin Wednesday’s weekly meeting. Tonight, Knudsen will be sworn in as the next vice president-external of the student senate, replacing Jenny Baldwin, junior in LAS, who will soon be the new vice president-internal. The vice president-external is one of the few positions in ISS that can speak on behalf of the senate as a whole, and one of his goals is to focus on its perception by students. Knudsen, once a political columnist for The Daily Illini, said he has learned a thing or two about how the media works, and wants to use it to improve how students, or constituents as they are sometimes called, perceive the senate. With his left hand lightly supporting his definitively square jaw, he adjusts his blue and orange tie, smiling in reaction to the bickering, as he calls it at times, of some of the out-going senators behind him. He doesn’t say anything, though. Knudsen is finishing up his first year of law school at the University. He’s been here for nearly 10 semesters now, and

When the newly elected student body president was asked at his preschool graduation, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” his answer was nothing short of ambitious. “I remember saying that I wanted to be President of the United States of America,” said Damani Bolden, junior in ACES. “Now I don’t want to be President of the United States of America, but at that time, I didn’t know that you called it being a public servant, or a politician. I just knew that the president helped people, and that’s what I wanted to do.” With his father, Brandon Howliet, working as a juvenile probation officer, and his mother, Rachelle Howliet, working for the Cook County Retirement Fund, Bolden credits his desire to work as a public servant to the example set by his family. Although he may be new to the University’s presidential seat, he is no stranger to the position. Bolden served as student body president for both his grammar school and high school in the Chicago neighborhood of Wrightwood. He also served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education. “I have a love for public service and I have a love for education,” he said. “And the great thing about student government is that you fuse them both together, so you

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READY FOR THE NEXT LEVEL Preparing for NFL draft is more than just working out BY SEAN HAMMOND STAFF WRITER

Akeem Spence strode up to the lectern in the Memorial Stadium press box on a December afternoon wearing a purple button-down and a pair of black thick-rimmed glasses. His eyes glanced from his prepared notes to the cameras before him as he began to speak. “First off,” he started. “I would, uh, like to thank the University of Illinois for giving me the opportunity to become a, uh, great student-athlete.” He shifted his weight from his right foot to his left and back again as he thanked his coaches, Illinois fans and his father. He hesitated, smiling to himself, appearing to have lost his place in his notes. He fumbled for a moment, and then thanked everyone who had ever been there for him. Then he said, “Without further ado, I’ve decided to forego my senior year and enter the 2013 NFL Draft.” Thus began a journey unlike anything the 21-yearold defensive tackle had ever experienced, or likely will ever experience again.

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Illinois’ Akeem Spence (94) pressures Penn State’s Matt McGloin (11) during the game at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 29. Spence has entered the 2013 NFL Draft.

Former Illini reflect on transition from college to NFL BY PATRICK KELLEY STAFF WRITER

Whitney Mercilus sat among family and friends, waiting to hear his name and position called by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in New York. “With the 25th pick in the 2012 NFL draft, the New England Patriots Select Dont’a Hightower, Linebacker, Alabama.” The anxiety continued. Making the leap from college football to the NFL is a daunting task — only 254 athletes are selected, and not every one makes an openingday roster. The process is a stressful one, and the draft is just the first step in making the NFL. It’s an anxiety that every NFL player experiences, whether their name gets called or not. After his final season as an Illini in 2011, Mercilus went through the pre-NFL gauntlet — hiring an agent, performing at the NFL combine,

working out for teams at the Illinois pro day and going through the interview process with squads from around the league. His entire body of work, his performance in college and multiple individual awards, coupled with unrelenting scrutiny by the biggest decision makers in the multi-billion dollar business, led to the moment when Roger Goodell walked across the stage to announce the 26th pick in the NFL draft when the Houston Texans selected Mercilus. “Just a lot of anticipation, that’s what it is,” Mercilus said. “Just sitting there ... watching the whole draft come by, and your agent will hear things like ‘you might go here, you might go there,’ and you see somebody else get picked up, and it’s a little disappointing. “But once your name finally gets called it’s exciting, exhilarating, once in a lifetime chance. Not many people get the chance to be called in the first round.”

Mercilus is a member of an elite crew. Only 32 players are fortunate enough to have their anxiety end during the inaugural round of the draft. For many others, like former Illinois offensive lineman Jack Cornell, their performances in college and in training thereafter won’t earn them the chance to have their name called out at Radio City Music Hall, but that doesn’t mean they wont see the gridiron in the NFL. In a league where practice rosters and depth charts must be filled, many players sign after the draft as free agents and subsequently invited to a team’s training camp in the summer. “I felt that there could’ve been a possibility that I could’ve been drafted, but I wasn’t banking on it,” Baltimore Ravens offensive linemen Jack Cornell said. “I expected to not be drafted and was more concerned about what

It’s rare that a person has the biggest job interview of their life in their early 20s. But for hundreds of former college football players across America, that is all they have been doing in the months since bowl season ended. They devote every moment of the day to the goal of hearing their names called in the NFL Draft, which begins Thursday in New York City. For many, the decision is made for them. The majority of the players that will be drafted this weekend have used up all of their college eligibility. Some, like Spence, choose to leave early (although Spence graduated the day after his announcement with a degree in communications, having redshirted his freshman year). Spence is the eighth player to leave Illinois early for the NFL since 2008, including three in 2011. “Seeing Corey (Liuget), Whitney (Mercilus)go off and make millions of dollars ... I’ve been in the room, played with them, lined up next to them,” Spence said in his news conference that day. “So I felt like it was my turn. I just try to imitate everything they do.”

Preparation With so many former Illini in the NFL, finding an agent isn’t hard for Illinois players with aspirations at the next level. Former Illinois offensive lineman and NFL hopeful Hugh Thornton said he found his agent through recommendations from coaches and former players. “It’s a different process for everybody,” Thornton said. “Some of the former players and coaches (recommended) good guys who knew what they were doing as far as offensive line and as far as getting people from Illinois to the league.” But the agent is just the beginning. Then it’s about finding a training facility and spending the next two months preparing to showcase themselves for

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Here’s a look at the top rated Illini prospects compared to the best at their positions MICHAEL BUCHANAN AKEEM SPENCE

Defensive tackle 6-1, 307 lbs. CBS: 12, 131, fourth round Combine measureables: 40-yard-dash: 5.15 s Bench: 37 reps Vertical jump: 30.0 inches Broad jump: 107.0 inches 2012 season stats: 72 tackles seven tackles for loss one sack one forced fumble started every game of career (38 straight) Honorable mention All-Big Ten 2012

STAR LOTULELEI Defensive tackle, Utah 6-3, 311 lbs. CBS rankings: (1,5, first) Combine measureables: 40-yard-dash: 5.41 2012 season stats: 44 total tackles 11 tackles for loss five sacks three forced fumbles

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Defensiveend 6-5, 255 lbs. CBS Rankings: (13 position, 150 overall), 4-5 rounds Combine measurables: 40-yard-dash: 4.78 Bench press: 22 reps Vertical jump: 33.0 inches Broad Jump: 113.0 inches 2012 season stats: 57 total tackles 4.5 sacks 7 tackles for loss one interception

HUGH THORNTON

Guard 6-3, 320 lbs. CBS rankings: 6, 106, third-fourth rounds Combine measureables: 40-yard-dash: 5.11 seconds Bench press: 27 reps Stats: 35 career starts. Second-team All-Big Ten by coaches in 2012, honorable mention by media

Cornerback 6-0, 195 lbs. CBS: 21, 177, fifth-sixth roundsv Combine measurable: 40-yard-dash: 4.44 seconds Bench press: 13 reps Vertical jump: 35.5 inches Broad jump: 116.0 inches 2012 season stats: 44 total tackles six pass break-ups seven pass deflections one interception

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EZEKIEL ANSAH Defensive end, Brigham Young 6-5, 271 lbs. CBS Rankings: 1, 7, 1st round 40-yard-dash: 4.63 Bench press: 21 reps Vertical jump: 34.50 Broad jump: 118.0 2012 season stats: 62 total tackles 4.5 sacks 13 tackles for loss one interception

CHANCE WARMACK Guard, Alabama

6-2, 317 lbs. CBS Rankings (1, 8) first Combine Measureables: 40-yard-dash: 5.49 seconds Broad jump: 5.49 inches Stats: 37 career starts. First-team All-American by the media in 2012

Cornerback, Alabama 6-0, 201 lbs. CBS rankings: (1, 6) first Combine measureables: 40-yard-dash: 4.37 Vertical jump: 36.0 Broad jump: 122.0 inches 2012 season stats: 54 total tackles 22 deflections two interceptions

Women’s basketball picks up Missouri transfer for 2014-15 roster BY MICHAEL WONSOVER STAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s basketball team added yet another piece to its roster for next season and took a key player from a rival in the process. Illinois head coach Matt Bollant announced Wednesday that Missouri guard Kyley Simmons will transfer to the Illinois. Because of NCAA transfer rules, Simmons will redshirt next season and retain two years of eligibility beginning in 2014-15.

“Missouri has been great for me these past two years, and it is a difficult decision to leave,” Simmons said in a press release. “But, due to personal reasons, my family and I agree that it is in my best interest to continue my education and career elsewhere.” Bollant is happy to welcome another ball handler to his roster, which had a sixplayer rotation last year. “We are thrilled to have her join our family,” Bollant said in a press release. “She was one of the top guards that we

saw coming out of high school that year.” Simmons will fit nicely into Bollant’s 3-point system. The Iowa native made 60 threes in her two seasons at Missouri. The Tigers made an SEC-leading 8.2 threepointers per game last season. Simmons has started 58 of the 63 games of her career, including all 31 for Missouri as a freshman. During her freshman campaign, Simmons led Missouri in assists with 111 and finished third in the Big 12 in 3-point percentage at 39. Her first-year success

earned her a spot on the Big 12 All-Freshman team. Simmon’s saw a dropoff in play during her sophomore season at Missouri. Her field goal percentage dropped from 41 to 33 percent while her 3-point percentage fell from 39 to 29.1 percent. Her playing time decreased to 24.5 minutes per game as a sophomore after ranking fourth in the Big 12 the year before. Missouri freshman guard Lianna Doty, who led the team with 151 assists, played a factor in Simmon’s diminished role. Mis-

souri also struggled as a team, finishing 17-15 and 6-10 in the SEC. With Amber Moore graduating after next season, Simmons could enter the starting rotation once she becomes eligible in 2014-15. “Kyley is a very talented combo guard,” Bollant said in a press release. “She shoots the ball extremely well, is a very good passer and she plays extremely hard.”

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It’s not possible to love both LeBron and the Bulls ARYN BRAUN Sports columnist

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Miami Heat forward LeBron James celebrates during the second half of Game 2 in their first-round playoff series against the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday. James finished with 19 points as the Heat won 98-86. Columnist Aryn Braun argues that it is not possible to like LeBron and be a fan of the Chicago Bulls.

almost got kicked out of Espresso Royale on Monday afternoon for hating LeBron James. Looking back, I guess it wasn’t so much the hating LeBron part, but more the fact that there was a lot of yelling and banging on tables involved. I should probably apologize to management, or at least not show my face there for a while. There aren’t many athletes who can incite such passion in people, either positive or negative, like LeBron James can. It’s not a question of whether or not the guy is good at basketball. He’s an absolute monster. It’s how he acts and presents himself that turns people off. Do I think people hate him more because he is so talented? Yes. If he were a less important player, the fact that he is insufferably pretentious wouldn’t be so much of a problem. But he is an undeniably impressive basketball player, and therefore he has the spotlight and the platform to say whatever he wants. And he does. I realize that as a Chicagoan I may hate LeBron more than the average person, the Miami Heat being our Eastern Conference rival and whatnot. But it is precisely for this reason that I was so astonished to fi nd out that a friend of mine,

who claims to be a diehard Chicago Bulls fan, worships the ground James walks on. Hence the ensuing screaming match in the basement of Espresso Royale. Maybe I hold loyalty to a higher standard than most, but how can a person, in good conscience, profess love for a player who embodies everything that is contrary to your team’s success? I get it. He’s a great player. He’s the reigning MVP. He’s one of the best of all time. Notice I don’t say the best of all time. Let’s be real, we all know who that title is reserved for — MJ, I’ve got your back. I’m not saying you can’t have loyalty to more than one team or be a fan of an individual. Personally, I follow Illinois and Alabama athletics. But being a fan of LeBron and the Bulls is like rooting for both Alabama and Auburn. Perhaps not quite on that level, but it gets closer every year. If you know what’s good for you, you pick a side. The Miami Heat is that team people love to hate. Everyone is aware of their superior talent, and because of that love to see them crash and burn. Chicago fans would have been ecstatic no matter who ended the 27-game win streak, but because it was the Bulls that made it happen it was extra sweet. Wouldn’t a situation like that be conflicting to someone who swears fealty to both the Bulls and LeBron?

The Big Three — Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James — all have player options on their contracts with the Miami Heat starting summer 2014. This has the basketball world wondering who plans on staying and who might be tempted by another team’s offer. It’s no secret that the Bulls were in the market for members of the Big Three back in 2010 and lost out when LeBron decided to “take his talents to South Beach.” Many have speculated that Chicago will once again try to woo Bosh, Wade or James away from their current home in Miami. Some think LeBron will return to Cleveland. Others say Cleveland won’t want him back. To that sentiment most reply: “Everyone wants LeBron.” Not me. After all the rivalrous passion he incited in Chicago fans these past few years, it would feel like our great city is selling its soul to win a championship. I’d rather wait a few years and have a healthy Derrick Rose and crew lead us to the Promised Land. That being said, it would seem the Heat are poised to make a deep run in the playoffs, meaning my LeBron-loving friend will win all coffee shop arguments until the Bulls can get back to NBA championship form.

Aryn is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at braun17@dailyilini.com. Follow her on Twitter @ArynBraun.

Women’s tennis to open Big Ten tournament against Michigan State BY STEPHEN BOURBON STAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s tennis team has a short week before heading to Bloomington, Ind., for the Big Ten Tournament. The Illini only had one practice at home before embarking on the three-hour trip Southeast to Indiana University on Wednesday, and the team will face Big Ten bottom-feeder Michigan State in the fi rst round on Thursday. “We’re just focusing on how we played them,” sophomore Melissa Kopinski said. “We know they did fight, though, so it’s going to be competitive either way.”

Illinois (13-10, 6-5 Big Ten) already beat the Spartans (1115, 1-10) this month, a 6-1 decision on April 7. Despite that, and Michigan State’s abysmal record in conference play, the Illini are not overlooking their opponent. “They’ve been playing well as of late,” head coach Michelle Dasso said. “I expect them to be peaking and playing some of their best tennis. We’re going to be ready for them.” Michigan State had a successful weekend last week, as the Spartans snapped an 11-game losing streak by beating Ohio State 5-2 at home on Senior Day. Even with the win, however, the con-

ference season has been brutal for the Spartans. The team is a combined 16-50 in singles matches against conference foes this season and outside of a strong pairing of Julianne Gruber and Emily Meyers, the doubles team combines for a 4-16 record in the Big Ten. While the Illini are excited to be facing the last-place team in the conference, it is a game with little reward but high risk. Illinois was ranked No. 43 in the latest ITA rankings, and the team is still firmly on the bubble for the upcoming NCAA tournament. A win would only slightly boost their stock — with Michigan

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State being on the bottom of the Big Ten — but a loss would all but end the Illini’s tournament hopes. “We understand that we can’t look past anyone. But at the same time, we’re fired up to play against Michigan State,” Dasso said. “And we’re fired up to have another crack at Purdue, because we certainly felt like that was our match but we let it slip away from us on Sunday.” The Illini did manage to split their last weekend of matches, but they felt like the match against Purdue was a winnable one. Illinois lost three singles matches in the third set to create the 5-2 margin last Sunday.

If Illinois is able to get past Michigan State on Thursday, the Illini will have that coveted rematch with the Boilermakers in Friday’s quarterfinals. Despite the loss, Illinois still feels as though it is peaking at the right time, as the team has won seven of its last nine matches dating back to March 29. “Our coaches have been reinforcing that fact,” Kopinski said. “They’ve been saying forget about that (Purdue) match and focus on the Big Ten Tournament.”

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“We understand that we can’t look past anyone. But at the same time we’re fired to play against Michigan State.” MICHELLE DASSO, head coach

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Illini hope for 1st-round NFL picks The Illini have had 15 players drafted in the last five years, including 11 in the previous three. Though no Illinois player is projected to get picked in the first round this year, Akeem Spence, Hugh Thornton, Terry Hawthorne and Michael Buchanan are among those hoping to hear their names called this weekend. If no Illinois player is chosen Thursday, it will be just the second time since 2007 that no Illini player was chosen in the first round.

2012: WHITNEY MERCILUS; first, No. 26; defensive end; Houston A.J. JENKINS; first, No. 30; wide receiver; San Francisco JEFF ALLEN; second, No. 44; offensive tackle; Kansas City TAVON WILSON; second, No. 48; defensive back; New England

2011: COREY LIUGET; first, No. 18; defensive tackle; San Diego MIKEL LESHOURE; second, No. 57; running back; Detroit MARTEZ WILSON; third, No. 72; linebacker; New Orleans NATE BUSSEY; seventh, No. 243; linebacker; New Orleans

ARRELIOUS BENN; second, No. 39; wide receiver; Tampa Bay JON ASAMOAH; third, No. 68; offensive lineman; Kansas City MICHAEL HOOMANAWANUI; fifth, No. 132; tight end; St. Louis

2009: VONTAE DAVIS; first, No. 25; defensive back; Miami XAVIER FULTON; fifth, No. 155; offensive lineman; Tampa Bay WILL DAVIS; sixth, No. 204; defensive lineman; Arizona

2008: RASHARD MENDENHALL; first, No. 23; running back; Pittsburgh

FROM PAGE 1B I was gonna do once I got in, and not how I was gonna get into the NFL.” When a contract is signed, what was once a large part of the former student-athletes’ lives becomes their biggest responsibility. Around this time last year, former Illinois kicker Derek Dimke was an undrafted free agent who signed with the Detroit Lions, getting his first taste of the post-college world.

FROM PAGE 1B scouts. Players from this year’s Illinois class spent time in places like Chicago, Florida, Arizona and Ohio. Defensive tackle Glenn Foster spent his winter training at Athletic Edge Sports Performance Center in Bradenton, Fla. Many facilities, like Athletic Edge, focus on training professional athletes, and some even focus primarily on preparing football players for the NFL Combine. More than 30 current NFL players train with Athletic Edge, including Victor Cruz of the Giants and free agent Joseph Addai. Foster was at Athletic Edge from early January to late February. He and Thornton, who trained with Poliquin Performance in Northfield, Ill., both said the experience was tough, but not as bad as they thought it would be. “I over-anticipated the grind,” Foster said. “But it was worth it because I got my body in shape, I got my mind right and focused. It was a big sacrifice and you’ve got to put everything into it to get the best results.”

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“Some people may not consider playing in the NFL a real job, but it is,” Dimke said. “We’re there (practice) from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. like most people at the job that they have. It’s a tough transition going from college to the real world. Most people consider going to KPMG or Deloitte or doing something like that as their real job and playing in the NFL would be a walk in the park, but it’s really not that fun. It’s a lot of work.” Once camp begins, all of the signed players that made it to their respective team’s training

Every spring, hundreds of NFL hopefuls descend upon Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting Combine. Four Illini were invited to this year’s combine: Spence, Thornton, Michael Buchanan and Terry Hawthorne. But what most people don’t understand is that the combine is about more than 40-yard dash times and bench pressing. The majority of the players’ time is spent off the field, being probed by NFL scouts. “For me, I was prepared because I had guys, former teammates, former offensive linemen who had been there,” Thornton said. “They kind of walked me through the process. Then I got there and there’s really no preparing for it.” The interview process is grueling. And on top of that there are the personality and psychological tests. Teams want to know anything they

camp are evaluated each day before the regular season begins. In a multi-billion dollar industry, clubs can’t afford to keep players around who are underperforming. If a player loses a step, he might also lose his job. Former Illinois defensive end Derek Walker knows the reality of short-lived NFL contracts, having been a member of four different franchises in four years. “This is how you make money, this is how you’re living, and every day is evaluated,” Walker said. “So if you have a bad day, you can get cut.”

possibly can about a player before they draft him. Often, the interviews are as important than the on-field performance. And running a fast 40 or lifting a lot of weight doesn’t always translate to success on the field. That makes it all the more important to make a good impression on scouts in the interviews. “It was a grind,” Thornton said of the combine. “But at the same time it’s exciting because people are getting to know about you. It’s pretty much a big job interview with all the teams in the NFL.”

Pro Day Foster was in the gym training at Athletic Edge when his agent came in and told him he hadn’t been invited to the combine. The announcement came as a disappointment for Foster, who had been putting up big numbers in his workouts and thought he might be near the top of his position at the combine. “I really kind of shoved it off like, ‘It’s all good. I know what I’m capable of doing,’” Foster said. “Pro Day is my goal, that’s what I’m training for. It was that or go home.” For the players who weren’t invited to the combine, Illinois’ Pro Timing Day was their combine. It was their best chance to prove themselves. On March 7, 39 NFL scouts representing 18 teams showed up to the Illinois football facilities to watch the former Illini showcase themselves in the weight room and on the field. Foster especially left scouts wide-eyed. He bench pressed the 225-pound barbell 29 times and ran an unofficial 4.79 40-yard dash. And the evaluations didn’t end there; Foster spent more than an hour working on a psychological exam for one scout after the workouts. Foster’s draft stock skyrocketed after his Pro Day performance. He is likely to go somewhere in the middle rounds of the draft. Williams and Justin Green also impressed, Green running an unofficial 4.40 40-yard dash.

In recent years, the Illini in the NFL have seen mixed success. After being cut from the Lions before the regular season, Dimke, who graduated in 2012 with a degree in Finance, returned to Champaign to study for and take financial exams to prepare for his life after football; however, after recently signing a contract with the New York Jets, football will be a big part of his life again. Like Dimke, Walker bounced around from franchise to franchise until his most recent endeavor with the Chicago Rush in the Arena Football League.

Team Workouts On April 10, Foster, along with Buchanan, Spence and Hawthorne, found themselves watching game film in the Illini football facilities with Bill Belichick. Foster said Belichick questioned them on their football knowledge and technique. They also worked on agility drills in the indoor facility. “It was humbling,” Foster said of working with the three-time Super Bowl-winning coach. “It’s something you want to do when you’re a kid.” Most of the former Illini have spent the months since Pro Day working out in Champaign. Many of them work out together, and with other former Illini already in the NFL, such as Jeff Allen. But maybe one of the most important parts of the entire draft process is the individual team workouts, when coaches — like Belichick — get to work with the players in an intimate setting. Teams have one last chance to meet with a player and get an understanding for what type of person they are. And for the players, it means they’re coming down the home stretch.

Draft Weekend Every player handles draft week differently. Thornton will be watching with his family in Boise, Idaho. Foster doesn’t even want to watch it. He said he would be hopefully playing a round of golf — while keeping his cell phone nearby. When it’s all said and done, a handful of Illini, whether drafted or undrafted, will be seeing their name next to an NFL team. Foster will be glad when his job interview is over. “It’s one of the toughest things to go through because you’re in the dark for four months of your life,” he said. “No job, no career, just staying in shape. You’re in the black because you don’t know where your destiny’s going to take you.”

Sean can be reached at sphammo2@ dailyillini.com and @sean_hammond.

But many Illini from the 2012 draft class have steadily held their positions on an active roster, with some in starting roles. Last season, Mercilus started at defensive end for the Texans, who won the AFC South, with the help of his 25 tackles, six sacks and two forced fumbles. The Illini even saw a matchup of two 2012 grads in the Super Bowl when Jack Cornell’s Ravens defeated A.J. Jenkins’ 49ers in New Orleans. Regardless of how the former Illini made it to the NFL, they are all singular in their advice

to soon-to-be rookies, saying the most important part is to enjoy the process. “Have fun, of course, that’s what makes it worth it,” Cornell said. “But go in everyday with a professional mindset of: ‘I gotta get better every day.’ But enjoy it, enjoy every minute of it because someday, I realize, I wont be able to play football anymore, and I realize that. And I don’t want to have any regrets looking back.”

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