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Student sparks new sexual assault policy

BY DARRAH PERRYMAN STAFF WRITER

Editor’s Note: The Daily Illini contacted the alleged perpetrator described in this article, but the perpetrator did not feel comfortable providing comment. A Freedom of Information Act request was filed, but information is protected by the involved students’ Family Education Rights and Privacy Act rights.

Lincy Pompilus, junior in LAS, was sexually assaulted by a resident adviser in a dorm over a year and a half ago — and not a day

that goes by that she doesn’t think about it.

Since the attack, anxiety cripples her every move. She questions her safety during daily activities, from walking to class to hanging out with friends. She constantly dances with the threat of potentially running into her alleged perpetrator, who is still present on campus. “There’s not a day that I don’t make a decision that is not informed by (the perpetrator’s) presence,� Pompilus said. “It’s the driving force behind the things that I do on a daily basis.�

Fed up with what she

described as faults within the University’s disciplinary system, Pompilus wrote an open letter about her sexual assault to Chancellor Phyllis Wise on April 21.

Within hours of posting the letter on Facebook, which gained more than 200 shares, Wise emailed her to set up a meeting. Pompilus said they met Monday, and Wise discussed potential new sexual assault policies.

The Urbana-Champaign Senate Committee on Student Discipline created a new, separate section under

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Madigan pushes to end sexual violence in Act

BY CAELI CLEARY STAFF WRITER

Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act earned majority approval from the Illinois House.

She has received praise for her efforts as she continues to push for senate approval.

Karyn Bass Ehler, chief of the Civil Rights Bureau in Madigan’s office, said this act makes sure all state schools in Illinois will have a sexual violence prevention plan, which will include

programs and resources for students to report and respond to violence committed against them.

She said the act will create a framework for institutions on how to improve their practices and initiatives concerning sexual assault and sexual violence on campus. “Our goal is to raise the floor for all Illinois students so no matter where they go to college they’ll have access to the same quality resources,� Ehler said.

Matt Hill, Illinois Stu-

dent Senate vice presidentexternal, said the It’s On Us campaign is one way the University approaches the prevention of sexual assault.

He said it is aimed at changing the culture around sexual violence, and Madigan’s new legislation will further aid university efforts to combat sexual assault. “A state law is just going to be another piece of the puzzle to fit into address-

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Board to discuss budget cuts The Board of Trustees will meet Thursday for the fi nal time this academic year to discuss the CarleIllinois College of Medicine and budget cuts, among other recommendations.

It will be the last Board of Trustees meeting for President Robert Easter, where he is expected to receive the title President Emeritus. Timothy Killeen will succeed Easter, and he will assume the position on May 18th.

The Governance, Personnel and Ethics committee of the Board of Trustees discussed cyber security issues and reform for the State Universities Civil Service System at its April 23 meeting.

The committee recommended the board allow out of state recruiting for civil service positions. Michael Hites, senior associate vice president and executive CIO for the Administration Information Technology Services, said the recruitment would be important to universities, such as those

close to the Illinois border where the metropolitan area spans into other states.

Hites also gave a presentation on the University’s cyber security system.

He said some high-risk items the University needs to protect include intellectual property, research data, credit card information and donor data. Hites said the University fights security problems through staff training, software protection and legal services.

Currently, the University’s cyber security status is good and up to date.

Maureen Parks, associate vice president of the University Office for Human Resources, presented recommendations to reform the State Universities Civil Service System. Parks said she also presented the recommendations to the merit board.

She said the State Universities Civil Service System is rooted in a statute from the 1950’s, and several of the procedures have not been updated since that time.

Parks said members of

the Merit Board, chaired

by Trustee James Montgomery, are interested in the recommendations. Rep. Carol Ammons, D-103, is in support.

The Healthcare Systems committee met April 23, where it recommended the approval of several purchase recommendations and the establishment of the Doctorate of Philosophy in Biomedical Health Informatics at the College of AHS in Chicago.

The committee gave a presentation on the history of collaboration on a novel anticancer drug between the University campuses.

There was also an update on the search for a Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, a report from the Chief Medical Officer and a compliance report.

The Audit, Budget, Finance and Facilities Committee will recommend the Board of Trustees vote to maintain the University’s fiscal year 2015 operating budget, despite Gov. Bruce Rauner’s 31.5 percent proposed budget cuts

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in state appropriations to the University. “We don’t know how the budget process will go,� said Edward McMillan, committee and board chairman. “We hope that it will get resolved by the end of May, but we’re not sure that’s going to happen.�

The University’s total operating budget for fi scal year 2015 was $5.6 billion, according to the Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Operating Budget Executive Summary. The committee hopes to submit a fi nal budget to the Board of Trustees by the September meeting.

The committee will also recommended increasing the budget for renovations of Everitt Laboratory from $50 million to $55 million.

Geoffrey Lisle, representative for BSA Life Structures, the company completing the renovations, said the project requires an additional $5 million to fulfi ll its mission of providing an active learning environment while also accommodating

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University members call for increased wages at the University YMCA Wednesday.

UI employees ask for better wages Many employees live in poverty

BY MAGGIE SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER

Joyce Snider smiled as she held a poster brandishing the words “We Deserve Respect.� Snider has been a University employee in civil engineering department for 30 years. “What do we want? Contract! When do we want it?

Now! What do we want? Fair wages! Respect!� Snider chanted, still smiling.

Snider was one of many University employees gathered at the University YMCA Wednesday to ask the University what they consider to be a living wage. The employees present were part of the American Fed-

eration of State, County and Municipal Employees. “Part of the University’s mission is to lift Illinois residents out of poverty,� said Dave Beck, a staff representative of the union’s council. “The irony that the University’s employees are forced to live in poverty is lost on the administration.�

Beck said the starting pay for a childcare assistant is as low as $9.40. The average hourly wage for an employee in the University of Illinois Extension program, which offers health and food-based education to Illinois communities, is $11.15 per hour,

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Attention all vegan shoppers: You’re definitely in the right place.

Fish-free “toona”? Check.

Sweet potato dog treats?

Absolutely. Coconut bacon?

Yep. And Bryan Zurek working the check-out stand — a 27-year-old who hasn’t used an animal product since 2006, who plays in a punk band and whose right arm is covered with “animal revenge” tattoos. (More about those later.)

You’re wandering the well-stocked aisles of Food Fight!, a rare, all-vegan grocery store in the middle of what is billed as the world’s fi rst vegan mini-mall. In Portland. In Oregon. Of course.

Not just because Portland is the U.S. capital of food carts, singular facial hair, craft breweries and bicycle commuters. Not just because Rose City stars in a television show focusing on its most twee characteristics, which are abundant.

But because Portland has a vegetarian pedigree that stretches back to the late 1800s. That’s when members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, who adhere to strict health and dietary rules, began to settle here, and the Portland Sanitarium Food Co. opened.

“Portland already had four vegetarian eating establishments by the start of the 20th century,” Heather Arndt Anderson writes in “Portland: A Food Biography,” which “reveals much about the city’s long history of supporting alternative lifestyles and esoterica.”

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Brian Thomas Wilson, one of the founders of Portland’s vegan strip mall, owns Scapegoat Tattoo. He shows off his latest skin art, a wizard done with all vegan products.

These days, Portland is at or near the top of most lists of vegan-friendly cities. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals calls it “a mecca for all things vegan.” There’s a vegan strip club, where the food is free of animal products and so is the dancers’ scanty attire. No fur, no leather, no silk, no pearls.

No. 7 on VegNews magazine’s vegan bucket list is a visit to Portland’s vegan mini-mall, where those who shun animal products can “leave with a tattoo, cookie, message T-shirt and a few snacks for the road.”

Those snacks are among the bestselling items at Food Fight!, where the shelves are stocked with

“Stonewall’s Jerquee,” hold the beef, and “Rescue Chocolate,” a confection that comes in flavors such as “Peanut Butter Pit Bull” and whose proceeds go to animal rescue efforts.

This is where you can buy a few naturally occurring vegan products — oranges and kale, carrots and broccoli — and a whole lot of the less-than-naturally-occurring, like “Julie’s Original” white cake mix.

At $7.50 a box, the cake mix is “gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, nut-free, soy-free, non-GMO, all natural, no preservatives.”

Two doors down from Food Fight! in the low-slung green building on Stark Street is Sweetpea Baking Co., where the butter cream

is butter-free. The purses at Herbivore are pricey pleather and the T-shirts explain that “bacon had a mother.” And no animals were harmed fi lling the needles at Scapegoat Tattoo.

What makes a vegan tattoo parlor — beyond the fact that its owner and artists avoid animal products as much as possible?

Regular tattoo inks can contain animal byproducts, particularly black inks, which can be made with bone char or shellac from beetles. Glycerin can contain animal fat.

The tracing paper used to transfer outlines to skin can have lanolin in it, which comes from sheep.

A vegan tattoo parlor uses none of the above.

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the victim’s apartment and stole a computer and cell phone.

Q Domestic dispute was reported in the 900 block of East Harding Drive around 10 a.m. Tuesday.

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UI helps students de-stress

BY MICHELLE REDONDO STAFF WRITER

It’s that time again.

The Starbucks line is out of the store, bags magically appear under students’ eyes and the libraries are at full capacity.

As finals week approaches, the University will provide services for students to de-stress and detox before, during or after exams.

University libraries Services have been provided to students at the Undergraduate Library for a few years, and now the University has recently expanded its assistance to students who study at the Grainger Engineering Library and the Funk Library, said David Ward, Undergraduate Library reference services librarian.

According to its blog, the Undergraduate Library offers therapy dogs and chair yoga. “The dog therapy is some-

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BUDGET CUTS a traditional learning style, depending on the preference of the professor.

The committee also endorsed and will recommend naming the University’s newest residence hall Wassaja Hall, in honor of Carlos Montezuma, the first Native American student to graduate from the University.

The hall will begin housing students in the fall of 2016, and if approved, will bear Montezuma’s birth name Wassaja, which means “to beckon� in his native language.

B. Joseph White, presi-

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POLICY the Student Code of Conduct titled “sexual misconduct� that will go into effect this fall. This section will detail specific procedures that must be followed when dealing with a student’s disciplinary case for sexual misconduct, said Justin Brown, interim associate dean of students and interim director for the Office for Student Conflict Resolution.

While the code varies case-by-case, a perpetrator can currently petition for reinstatement into the University after a sanctioned period of time, along with meeting other requirements, such as community service time or completing an educational course.

Under the new policy, Brown said the victim will now “have a right to participate in the petitioning process� when the perpetrator seeks reinstatement.

Currently, the Senate

thing students respond to well,� Ward said. “We get a lot of positive feedback during the event and people will talk to us later or tweet at us about how much they enjoyed the opportunity.�

This year, the libraries are adding chair yoga therapy for students to relax during their hours of studying. “This time of the semester we see a lot of students who are using some of our services for the first time and don’t realize they need to build in extra time for some of these services,� said Lori Mestre, professor and head of the Undergraduate Library, in an email.

Mestre encourages students to use the library, its staff and other students to help them prepare and relax for finals.

Library partnered to create a new app called “Illini Spaces.�

The app, which allows students to preview over 100 campus spaces, is available on cell phone, tablet and desktop or laptop platforms, according to a press release from Technology Services.

The app employs Google Maps to help students find a study spot. From there, students can zoom in on a chosen space to see how many seats are available.

Students can also use filters to determine if the space is open, allows food or has printers.

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tion specialist at McKinley, said the center offers students the opportunity to schedule appointments to address stress-related concerns and needs.

The center also offers free and downloadable online relaxation exercises for students to take a break and relax from studying.

There are also workshops available with stress management facilitators in order to learn how to handle stress while on campus.

Stress relief packs filled with snacks, fun gadgets, stress tips and a stress ball, are currently available as well, Carson said.

Zach Kahley, junior in ACES, said he finally feels like he can manage his stress with finals this year. “I’m excited that the dog therapy is starting at ACES Library,� Kahley said. “My girlfriend and I used to walk dogs all the time, and it’s really relaxing for me to hang out with them.�

To help students find their favorite study spot, Technology Services at Illinois and the University

As well as scheduling appointments with the Counseling Center, the McKinley Health Center has a stress management department to help students during finals week.

Jennifer Carson, stress management coordinator and wellness promo-

dent emeritus, spoke as the leader of the task force President Easter appointed to address concerns about the establishment of the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine. White said the task force, with the help of Dean Dimitri Azar of the Urbana regional College of Medicine, determined the Urbana regional college of medicine should be consolidated into the Chicago, Rockford and Peoria regional medical campuses and will recommend a plan for consolidation to the board. “In no case do we have multiple versions of the same professional school on any of our campuses, and I don’t think we should,�

White said.

White said the last operating year of the Urbana regional college of medicine would be 2021-2022, to accommodate the current medical scholars who are enrolled in the eight year program.

Finally, each campus gave academic unit review reports to the committee in order to determine how to handle Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed 31.5 percent budget cuts in state funding.

However, Karen Hasara, committee chair, said the reports did not provide substantial information to make the best decisions. She asked each campus to gather more information for the September meeting.

The committee will also

recommend appointments to the faculty, administrative, professional and intercollegiate athletic staffs; appointments of faculty fellows of the Institute for Humanities in the College of LAS in Chicago; and the establishment of a Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical and Health Informatics in the College of AHS in Chicago.

Additionally, they will recommend the elimination of the Bachelor of Science in teaching of chemistry in the College of LAS in Chicago, and the elimination of the Bachelor of Science in horticulture in the College of ACES in Urbana.

Committee on Student Discipline does not have the power to expel a student. “Even if we don’t believe a student would ever be able to successfully petition back to the University, we still have to put some time frame into it — that’s just the nature of the sanction,� Brown said.

In Pompilus’ letter, she explained her experience, and the faults within the current disciplinary system, which allowed her perpetrator to petition to return to the University while she was still attending.

The perpetrator petitioned a semester after being found guilty of violating the Student Code, according to an email from the former director of the Office for Student Conflict Resolutions, which was obtained by The Daily Illini from Pompilus.

Under the rules of conduct within the Student Code, the committee decided the alleged perpetrator violated Student Code/1-302.b.1 and Student Code/1-302.b.2.

The sections deem that “any form of sexual penetration without consent� and “any intentional or knowing touching or fondling by either person, directly or through clothing, of the sex organs, buttocks or breasts of either person for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal of either person without consent,� are prohibited behaviors and violate the code.

The perpetrator’s petition was successful and they returned to the University this spring.

It didn’t take long for Pompilus to realize “justice� wasn’t possible for her individual case through the University.

Pompilus is still advocating for more changes to the current disciplinary policy regarding sexual assault by working with members of the Illinois Student Senate.

Matt Hill, vice presidentexternal for the Illinois Student Senate, and Pompilus have started the discussion on campus and are propos-

ing that if an individual performs any sexual misconduct, he or she should not be allowed to initiate the petition process until after the survivor has graduated.

The student senate has spearheaded the University effort of the national “It’s On Us� campaign to create

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awareness of sexual assault. “One of the things we have been preaching with ‘It’s On Us,’ is creating a supportive and safe environment for survivors,� Hill said. “Having to confront your perpetrator on campus is not a

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MADIGAN ing sexual assault on campuses nationwide,� Hill said. “There are lots and lots of different rules and regulations that universities are scrambling to comply with, but we need this.�

Ehler said the Act provides for flexibility in how the prevention program and education is presented, but it requires annual training for students and staff members.

Molly McLay, assistant director of the Women’s Resources Center, said the University already has several procedures and programs in place to prevent sexual violence. The Act would be another avenue for the University to use its resources to target combatting sexual violence and assault. “Students have a number of mechanisms in which to report a sexual assault

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Staci Sessler, a University Extension employee, spoke about her personal struggle to earn a living wage. “I love my job,� Sessler said. “But I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that we community workers are paid so little that we still qualify ourselves for public assistance.�

While she loves her job, Sessler does not love being a full-time University employee and still falling below the poverty line. She said she is lucky her three daughters qualify for free lunches; otherwise she would not be able to feed them.

Joanna Justice, an office support associate, said she supportive nor a safe environment that we want any student to be in.�

Currently, if a student violates sexual misconduct statutes of the Student Code, a disciplinary officer is assigned to their case and a thorough investigation is conducted, Brown said. If the case is deemed serious enough for a hearing, a committee will be presented with the evidence surrounding the case. After a decision is reached, the parties involved have the opportunity to appeal the decision.

But while the proposal has gained a great deal of traction with the student body, enforcing it could be difficult because of the case-bycase basis that determines the outcome, said Kaamilyah Abdullah-Span, senior associate director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Access. “Sexual assault is not black and white,� AbdullahSpan said.

There are many factors that the committees must

either confidentially or non-confidentially,� McLay said. “We offer a number of programs and lectures throughout the year on sexual assault prevention and we also are leaders in the ‘It’s On Us’ campaign, which does a lot with public awareness.�

According to the Women’s Resource Center website, the center offers sexual violence prevention programs such as the First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape Education Workshop and Bystander Intervention Training, which are designed to educate students on ways to prevent sexual assault, while also providing resources to victims. “I think we’re doing good but we have to do better,� Hill said. “Students on campus are a lot more aware of this problem, but we need to make sure that justice is served against perpetrators and that those people are not allowed to be a part of our community.�

mgclear2@dailyillini.com was not as lucky as Sessler to qualify for public assistance.

Justice said she applied for utility assistance but was denied because she works at the University. As a University alumna, she said she is grateful for the University and her job, but she needs to be respected and get the pay she deserves. “It frustrates me to no end to hear about bonuses and deals for higher-up people who probably don’t know that I exist,� Justice said.

Beck said Wal-Mart has also been criticized for underpaying its employees — many of whom qualify for public assistance — and he believes institutions of higher learning should do better. “We call on U. of I. to realign its priorities and fulfill its mission of providing a living wage to employees,�

Beck said.

mesulli2@dailyillini.com take into consideration when a sanction is issued, she said. “I don’t think we are at a point unequivocally that a student can’t return until the victim has graduated, and again, because there are a number of factors that go into that,� she said.

Abdullah-Span said the hearing body ultimately determines the outcome based on the evidence.

From her activism efforts and the widespread support she has received in response to her letter, Pompilus was motivated to file charges against her alleged perpetrator with the University Police Department on Wednesday. “Don’t let anyone tell how you should feel, act or react or even anything pertaining to your case. Unless they’re supportive — no one else’s thoughts matter,� Pompilius said. “I want to help create policies that could help thousands of people, rather than just myself.�

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Change your approach to Campustown panhandlers

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students and community members, we see panhandlers every day walking down Green Street, asking if we can spare some change for food or shelter.

This week, The Daily Illini published a three-part series on panhandling which showed the many facets of what panhandlers deal with, what students’ opinions are and what effective resources could help them.

While it is important to help and give back to the community and its members who may be struggling, giving directly to panhandlers is not the correct answer, and there are other more effective ways to give aid.

Despite good intentions, there is no way to ensure the money we give to panhandlers goes toward the right purposes. While students may give money with the hope of it helping provide these people nutrition or safety, many panhandlers suffer from alcohol and drug abuse and will put their money directly toward those vices, said Skip Frost, University of Illinois Police De-

partment deputy chief.

Throughout the three-part series, our reporters saw panhandlers exiting a liquor store and participating in video gambling; they also heard a story of one panhandler with an expensive video game system.

One panhandler said to The Daily Illini he typically receives $45 a day on Green Street.

Frequently, poverty seems systematic and cyclical. For people relying on the money they receive from a day on Green Street, it might be hard to break out of the cycle and head toward positive life changes. So, to encourage positive change in their lives, students should instead give directly to charity organizations, such as United Way or C-U at Home, which help ensure the money is used effectively.

On campus, an easy way is to donate to the Make Real Change program run by the Champaign Center Partnership. People can put change in designated parking meters, and the funding will go toward Community Elements, a nonprofit organization that runs the TIMES Center.

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Panhandler Jason Easterly holds a sign in Downtown Champaign on April 29. Students can help by giving directly to charity.

The meters are located outside of T.I.S. Bookstore and Campustown Urgent Care and have raised $30.88 so far this year. If all the money given to panhandlers daily was instead given to these meters, enough funds could be consistently raised to help steer panhandlers to-

Senior’s parting words: Work hard BOSWELL HUTSON Opinions columnist

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hen I was younger, probably like most of you, I idolized my older cousins. I’m an only child, and outside of my close friends growing up, peers my age were relatively hard to find. So instead, I looked up to my cousins. That’s probably not a terribly unique concept — I’m sure many of you have experienced it.

My cousin was a swimmer and a damn good one at that.

In fact, he was an NCAA AllAmerican swimmer and came closer than you or I will ever come to qualifying for an Olympic Games. As a child, it always amazed me to walk through his bedroom whenever we came to visit and gaze at the medals upon medals on his shelves.

I wanted to be like him.

I wanted the medals on the shelves and all the shiny trophies, but I didn’t have the athletic talent of my cousin.

Instead, I was a slightly-above average left-side midfielder — even that is generous.

One particular Christmas, when we were over visiting his family, I went to open the door to one of the rooms in his house, and I noticed a small piece of paper taped to the doorknob, on it was written: “Hard Work Pays.�

When we returned home, I shook the shackles of the car door and ran to the printer to print off as many strips of paper as I could and promptly proceeded to write “hard work pays� on them and put them everywhere. Literally... everywhere. I taped one to the toilet handle, I put one on the bottom of the bathroom mirror, and perhaps most importantly, I taped a full 8.5 by 11 inch sheet of paper and taped it to my bedside nightstand, so it would be the last thing I saw before I closed my eyes every night.

I still don’t know why my parents never took these down. Surely they thought it was weird reading that after every day, plastered over everything like some kind of ridiculous self-help scheme.

Maybe they thought it was just some cute childish thing or that it was just a phase, but I think they let them stay stuck to those surfaces for all these years because even at that age, they understood how important those three words really are.

Now, I’m about to graduate college and enter the real world, and unlike Benjamin Braddock from “The Graduate,� I feel more prepared than I’ve ever felt for any-

thing in my life, due in part to those simple three words that have been embedded in my mind ever since that Christmas holiday.

At the risk of sounding like a Hallmark card, college has taught me that if someone is willing to work hard, they have at least a fair shot at doing anything they want to in this world. I came into school from a small town, wanting to become a lawyer, and I’m exiting thinking I might actually have a legitimate chance to work in the music industry, something I am truly passionate about.

If someone had told me that was even an option four years ago, I would have probably cut them off and called them an idiot — but lo and behold, here we are. None of this would have been possible without the self-motivation to take risks, step outside of what is comfortable, and most importantly, work really damn hard when you find something you love.

Other peers from my town are going on to become engineers at Microsoft, well-spoken journalists and cuttingedge scientists, and I can confidently say they’re doing these things because they worked hard enough to afford themselves the opportunity.

The University of Illinois offers to bridge the gap from improbable to plausible for anyone willing to try, and for that I am incredibly thankful.

I’ve by no means made it to a stable point in my life — I’m not even an example of success yet. But more than anything, college has set me up to actually follow my dreams, an ability not so easily afforded to many around the world. We really are lucky for all this environment has given us.

So please, future students of the University, realize the power that lies inside you.

The University has set you up, now it’s your job to use it to make anything possible.

The tools are all here.

My cousin was right — hard work does pay. Maybe all of us aren’t going to have boxes and boxes full of medals to show for it, but maybe we’ll have a newfound passion, talent or at least a degree to vouch for it. There are times here when I wish I worked a little harder (I’m looking at you, Latin 101). But all in all, I think I enjoyed my time here so much because of the time I spent devoting to my interests. Maybe that meant not studying enough for that World Music exam, but in the long run, it’s probably worth it.

It’s been real, U of I. We sure had us a time, didn’t we?

Boswell is a senior in LAS. hutson2@dailyillini.com

ward hopeful success.

Even though it is hard to walk past people in need who deserve care, there are more organized services in place in Champaign-Urbana that can help the homeless and panhandlers in more permanent, effective ways.

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As if the hearts of Directioners weren’t broken enough, Louis Tomlinson started yet another Twitter fight with producer Naughty Boy today. This time, however, former bandmate Zayn Malik got involved, causing tension between the two old friends. We just hope for the sake of teenage girls everywhere (and some 20-year-old ones as well) that the two end up working it out.

Well, Illini, we’ve done it...Almost. With just about a week left until the end of the year, it’s time to throw up our hats — both graduation caps and otherwise — in celebration. This semester has seen Joe Biden, beautiful weather and the return of the Starbucks Frappy Hour. While we’re sad it’s over, let’s get this summer started!

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While we’ve often used the comment box of Pizza Hut to ask for extra cheese or pepperoni, Cheryl Treadway used the comment box to ask her local Pizza Hut employees to call 911 because she and her children were being held hostage. Thankfully, the alarmed Pizza Hut employees spotted what Treadway had written and called the police.

You know when you were a kid and wanted to have an underwater tea party, but couldn’t because it’s hard to stay at the bottom of a pool? Well, someone took that to the next level by putting two fake skeletons — complete with a fun sign, sunglasses and lawn chairs — at the bottom of the Colorado river.

At least the skeletons weren’t real!

Dealing with the ‘finals’ stretch STEPHANIE YOUSSEF Opinions columnist

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he long-distance run of the semester began in the frigid and snowy conditions of January. We kept our pace through the icy streets of February, the windy roads of March and the rainy mud trails of April. Now that May is here with its warm spring sunlight settling on campus, the only hurdles left to jump before we cross the finish line ending the semester are final exams.

Where the end of a race is usually met with cheers of support and encouragement to cross the finish line, campus is instead roaring with complaints of stress and anxiety from students feeling the pressure of final exams. “I have four final exams this semester.� “Oh yeah, I have five finals.� “Well, I have two in the same day!� “I have so many projects and essays to do in addition to my exams!�

In a time that is miserable for the entire campus, students should take finals as an opportunity to grow academically rather than to complain and perpetuate misery.

Our classes are ending with exams, projects and final assignments that have been on the class syllabus since day one, and the final exam schedule came out a long time ago. We are students with a lot of studying to do after reading day and that doesn’t

make any of us unique. Everyone on campus is in the same stressful boat and it’s sailing through a long and miserable trip through final exams.

Some may complain because they are having problems dealing with their stress. However, stressed students complaining to other stressed students doesn’t resolve stress, it perpetuates it.

As a more productive way of resolving anxiety issues, there are plenty of campus resources for stress management, such as the Stress Management coordinator at McKinley Health Center meant to help students overwhelmed with finals. The vast majority of the complaints that I have heard are just snarky and annoying whines rather than cries for real help.

Additionally, some students use their complaints to make their finals schedule seem worse than everyone else’s. It’s as though these students get some weird satisfaction in trying to out-compete everyone else with how much work they have to do or how many exams they have.

There is no award for having the worst final exam schedule.

There is no level of respect one can earn by belittling everyone else’s struggles with their own.

These students need to recognize that finals affect the majority of campus, acknowledge that everyone has work to do, and move on.

The reality is that, by now, almost all of us have been through finals at least once, and the feeling that we have so much to do and so little time is nothing we haven’t experienced to some degree before. As college students, we are prepar-

ing for careers that will demand diligence and hard work for the rest of our lives. Thus, as adults preparing for the work requirements of the real world, we need to recognize that incessant complaining is not a healthy way to address the stresses and difficulties that are thrown at us in life.

Difficult assignments and cumulative final exams make us feel frazzled and stressed and, in many respects, that’s a good thing; they take us of our comfort zones and challenge us to grow academically — as does anything worth doing.

Despite the character building that comes with finals, I understand that people aren’t necessarily going to be smiling through every late night study session at Grainger. Even I’ll admit that I get overwhelmed looking at the list of Powerpoints, papers and book chapters that I have to get through for finals. But no matter how much complaining I do, the list doesn’t get any smaller.

Whether you have a really demanding finals schedule or you are having trouble dealing with stress, complaining to your peers perpetuates misery and robs you of the opportunity to mature as a student.

With every minute you spend complaining, you are delaying what needs to get done. Come to terms with the fact that you have multiple exams, acknowledge that studying is the most productive way to prepare, face your challenge as an adult, and get to work.

Stephanie is a junior in LAS. syousse2@dailyillini.com

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Belgian exchange student lives her American dream

BY KATRIEN ENGELS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“Welcome to the 87th Oscars!”

Laura Vander Kerken’s eyes light up when she hears Neil Patrick Harris announce the opening of the 2015 Academy Awards on TV. “Oscar day,” as she calls it, has been marked for several weeks on her calendar.

“I’ve been waiting so long for this moment,” she says from a friend’s dorm couch, surrounded by friends, a basket of popcorn and a Coke.

A year ago, Laura could never have imagined she would be watching the Oscars in Champaign.

“I am grateful to be here.” she exclaimed.

She first traveled to the U.S. from Belgium at 18, after graduating from high school and saying goodbye to her mother for a year.

“That was one of the hardest things to do for me, saying goodbye to my mum,” she said. “But I felt it was time to do something on my own.”

So Laura, 22, decided to re-do her senior year in the U.S. — in a place she’d never heard of: Pataskala, Ohio.

The move would change her life. She came to a country of free soda refills in restaurants and clerks who pack grocery bags.

“Home in Belgium was never the same after that year in Ohio,” Laura said.

Now, five years later, thanks to an exchange program with her home university in Antwerp, Belgium, Laura is in a dormitory, listening to the speeches of Patricia Arquette, Julianne Moore and other actors at the Oscars.

“I just had to go back to the States,” she said.

As an aspiring actress, Laura sees the Oscars as “the climax of a movie year ... And, most of all, it is a hell of an American show!” It is when Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu takes the stage to receive the Oscar for Best Director that touches Laura .

The native Mexican director symbolizes what Laura hopes to be one day: “an immigrant in the United States.”

Every night, Laura searches the Internet to find a job in the U.S. “I came across this job in San Francisco. The phone interview went well until at

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GRADUATION Farm Center staff and the department of Public Affairs all play vital roles in arranging the event.

Wilhelm-Barr also works with each college to plan unit convocations.

“Basically every venue on this campus starting at noon on Saturday is being used for a ceremony,” said Barbara Hall, who is coordinating the department of communication Convocation. “Anything of any size is used.”

Each college hosts their own convocations in addition to the campuswide ceremony. Ceremonies are divided based on department size and are assigned a venue by the special events department within the Office of the Chancellor, Hall said.

There is one major difference between Commencement and Convocation: Each students’ name is called.

“For most students, that’s what they want,” Hall said.

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FELLOWSHIP speech was what he wanted to do. Harris said he feels prepared for his future job because of the skills he learned at the University.

He described how being an Illinois tour guide and a member of the Illini Union Board allowed him to meet and understand people from different backgrounds.

“That’s essentially what public diplomacy officers do. There’s a lot of contact with people, and it’s constant.

You’re speaking with them, you’re trying to learn about their background, you’re trying to learn what they’re interested in, trying to create long-lasting cultural ties,” Harris said.

Harris also said he enjoys meeting new people and dispelling myths about certain cultures.

Last year, he said he had the opportunity to speak at the United Nations on behalf of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

While he was there, he listened to a speaker condemn U.S. leaders for withdrawing aid from African countries

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the end the lady asked me if I had legal authorization to work in the U.S. When I told her no, she said she would run it through HR.” That was weeks ago, and Laura hasn’t heard back. Yet, she keeps trying to get her U.S. lawful permanent residency or her “green card.”

Finding love in the U.S. is also something she thinks about. Laura dated an American boy in Ohio, but on their first date, Laura never expected what would happen.

“He took me out on the most controversial date I have ever been on,” she said. “He picked me up, and we drove for at least one hour. We stopped at a house of friends of his in the middle of nowhere. ... He opened the trunk and pulled out two guns, a handgun and a shotgun. I got to shoot both.”

A marriage proposal might have been in her future but, after a month, Laura had to return to Belgium. Still, Laura thinks about it: “What if I married him?”

It’s the middle of an Illinois winter, and Laura is dressed in layers of clothes, a fluffy hat and scarf to battle the cold.

“It’s not that different than Ohio here: The cornfields, the cold, the people, the food. It is the Midwest, and it is just amazing,” she said. “Yet it has not been easy to make American friends, not in Pataskala, not in Champaign.”

“It’s a cliché to think American people are really approachable ... from the first time you meet them,” Laura said. “Everyone knew me in high school. I was the Belgian girl, but I knew no one.”

After a couple of weeks, she discovered the secret of friendship: sports. Although she hates playing sports, she

joined the swim team. She never felt left out again. But she also learned something about American teens: “Once you are friends with them, they are friends for life.”

The sometimes conservative beliefs of Americans did surprise Laura. “In Belgium, we even had a gay prime minister for four years, who cares?”

Yet Laura still considers Americans the most nonjudgmental people.

“Belgians are always aware of their looks and how they need to act in a certain situation. Students at my Belgian high school wore the same ... brands. I wore whatever I wanted, and I remember girls gossiping about my outfit ... I can wear whatever I want here and no one will judge me,” she said with a smile.

She has also been surprised by the American work ethic. “People work so hard here. ... Once my teacher in Pataskala showed me pictures of his house being ruined by a tornado. ... His reaction was, ‘Well, it is just the Midwest. I’ll just have to rebuild it.’ Last summer a hailstorm hit my hometown.

None of the houses were damaged but, still, there was a national outcry simply because some of the cars were dented.”

Laura finds the can-do attitude of Americans amazing and admirable.

“Their optimism and sense for putting everything in perspective struck me very much.”

Despite her love for all things American, Laura knows she must return home by the end of May. “If I could,” she said, “I would just stay here forever.”

Hall said she has been coordinating Convocation for her department since it was part of the school of humanities, and she encounters the same issues every year.

“The big thing on students’ minds is, ‘Did I reserve a cap and gown?’ and ‘Where are my tickets?’” she said. “They don’t think about what will actually happen that day.”

Jean Drasgow, who is coordinating the ACES Convocation for the first time, agreed.

“I’m really surprised at the handful of people who are mad at us when they didn’t follow the instructions,” she said about families needing tickets.

The ACES ceremonies are held in Huff Hall and the Colwell Playhouse at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts. Drasgow organizes both.

She compared the seating arrangements in Huff Hall to a matrix because the seating has to take into account how many graduates will come from each department.

“You have to make deci-

sions before May 1 if you’re having a giant party May 17,” Drasgow said.

There is added difficulty because students are frequently on and off of the expected degree list, which is what Drasgow uses to plan the seating.

“If we waited a month and had our ceremonies a month later, it might be easier in some regards,” she said with a laugh.

Hall said the stress and planning is worth it when she sees students walk, especially those who she knows have struggled for their degree.

“For a lot of students, it can be the last best memory,” Hall said.

For Wilhelm-Barr, the pressure of a successful graduation is constant.

“You want that last moment for students to be a great experience,” she said. “You want it to be something that they thought, “Wow, that was fantastic, I’m so glad I came to the University of Illinois.’”

because of the harsh measures the countries placed on their LGBT citizens. The speaker said it was an issue of culture.

“I didn’t agree with that at all,” Harris said. “I didn’t think it was a problem with culture; I thought it was a problem with human rights … I went to go talk to her just to understand where she was coming from, and just that experience itself taught me a lot.”

He said it showed him that diplomacy isn’t about being right or proving someone else wrong — it’s about bridging differences.

“I noticed that, instead of changing policy, we have to change hearts,” he said.

During his time as a student, Harris gained Timothy Wedig, the associate director of the LAS global studies program, as his mentor.

Wedig said he and Harris began discussing political science and Harris’ career goals after Harris took a few of his classes. “We’ve developed a mentoring relationship over the past two years,” Wedig said.

Wedig said that this fellowship is the perfect fit for Harris.

“It’s his enthusiasm, his joy for life, that I think draws

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lbarkle2@dailyillini.com people to him, makes him a natural leader and somebody who’s going to have a huge impact throughout his career,” Wedig said.

But Harris acknowledges that there is still room for his own personal improvement.

He hopes that the fellowship will make him more open-minded with better critical thinking skills and “the ability to truly listen to someone without having the intent of just responding.”

“I want to be able to read something and immediately be able to just start analyzing it and picking out any biases or pick out my biases while I’m reading,” Harris said.

In the future, Harris said he hopes to be placed in either the Middle East or Africa as a public diplomacy officer. While there, he wants to focus on human rights concerning the LGBT community.

Wedig said he sees Harris as accomplishing “anything that he wants to do.”

Harris’ goals for himself are simple but powerful.

“I’ve always said that if I’m able to just improve the life of just one person, I’ll be happy,” he said.

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A home away from home Belgian exchange student Laura Vander Kerken returned to the country she loves most while studying at the University this year.

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BEGINNING OF THE END After a year of planning, faculty, staff prepare for the final stretch of Commencement, Convocation

BY LILLIAN BARKLEY STAFF WRITER

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efore diplomas are conferred, before honored guests voice congratulations and before students file onto the field of Memorial Stadium, faculty across the campus have been working to print out programs and order regalia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think people kind of walk into Memorial Stadium and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand,â&#x20AC;? said Laura Wilhelm-Barr, director of special events.

The Commencement section in the Office of the Chancellor has three employees and one student volunteer who organize everything for the May 16 ceremony in Memorial Stadium. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a university this large, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty complex event,â&#x20AC;?

Wilhelm-Barr said, gesturing to her two-inch binder full of Commencement plans.

She expects 3,000 graduates to participate, which is standard based on the participation of the last few years.

Wilhelm-Barr has coordinated six Commencements and was in charge of moving the ceremony to Memorial Stadium two years ago when the State Farm Center was under construction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The decision was made to do one single ceremony and move it to Saturday morning,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be the kickoff, hallmark event of the whole Commencement weekend.â&#x20AC;?

Starting from scratch was difficult because the ceremony had been done inside for 50 years, but there were some advantages, she said.

In the past, Commencement was composed of two ceremonies, one in the morning and one in the evening, on Sunday.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It had been difficult in the past to get a Commencement speaker to basically stay all day and do the speech twice,â&#x20AC;? she said.

The move to Memorial Stadium also meant an outdoor ceremony and new weather considerations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outdoors is great as long as the weatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great,â&#x20AC;? Wilhelm-Barr said.

The department orders ponchos for students and has to decide to cancel the ceremony in the event of inclement weather.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Student Convocation, which was also organized by Wilhelm-Barr, was canceled due to heavy rain and lightning. She said this was upsetting, but served as a good learning experience.

The ceremony on the football field also requires extra setup, including covering the field before adding tents, the

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Illinois graduates place their arms around each other as they sing "Hail to the Orange" at the end of the campuswide commencement ceremony on May 17. stage and seating, WilhelmBarr said. She added that the entire process takes one week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great experience for students to be on the field and have their parents and guests behind them,â&#x20AC;? she said.

In the weeks leading up to Commencement, after more than a year of planning, Wilhelm-Barrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s department is

busy making final communication, compiling scripts and arranging stage directions for the big day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We look to a lot of divisions all over campus to help us,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just try to bring it all together.â&#x20AC;?

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Student earns fellowship, job offer from US Department of State

BY EMILY SCOTT STAFF WRITER

The 2008 presidential election gave Larry Harris his start in political science. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of my high school teachers would always talk about the elections, so I started following the election and following state elections,â&#x20AC;? said Harris, senior in LAS and a first-generation college student.

Since then, Harris focused his interest on foreign public diplomacy. After working and studying in the field, he has been selected for the Charles B. Rangel Graduate

Fellowship Program. The fellowship will fund two years of graduate school, a stipend for living expenses, two mentors and, eventually, a position with the U.S. Department of State after graduation.

Harris said he will pursue his Masters of Public Administration at Cornell University. His internships will take place in Sen. Dick Durbinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foreign policy office and in an overseas state department.

After graduation, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll head back to Washington D.C. to complete training at the Foreign Service Institute

and be assigned to a foreign country as a foreign service officer.

Harris said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great feeling having such a large portion of his future mapped out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically, the next seven years are all planned out, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with my dream job at that,â&#x20AC;? he said.

After completing two internships with the U.S. Department of State, Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; career path was solidified.

Last semester, he completed an internship at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Austria. He said it was

a â&#x20AC;&#x153;fantastic opportunityâ&#x20AC;? that made him certain that he wanted to become a U.S. diplomat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually got to do the work that diplomats do, and I learned that rather than being a career, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more of a lifestyle,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s truly ingrained in every single fiber of your life once you take it, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not really any off day.â&#x20AC;?

The internship led him to discover that public diplomacy with a focus in human rights and the freedom of

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Gosea returns after worldwind semester

BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY STAFF WRITER

Where in the world was Farris Gosea?

In 2014, Farris Gosea took an enormous step forward.

After playing mostly at No. 6 singles for the Illinois menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis team during his sophomore year in 2012, Gosea had climbed to become the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 singles player, won Big Ten Player of the Year and was an All-American in singles.

He was nowhere to be found in the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s line-up this past fall.

Where was Gosea? While the Illini traveled around their fall circuit of top-flight collegiate tournaments, Gos-

ea was traveling the world on the professional Futures circuit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was good experience to see how to manage yourself from week to week and just how much different is,â&#x20AC;?

Gosea said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I traveled a lot to try to maximize the time I had ... Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredibly hectic I would say, you got to be able to deal with situations you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be in, but you just have to get through and just win matches.â&#x20AC;?

From the first day of classes to his return to the team on January 21, Gosea traveled nearly 17,600 miles. He played in tournaments in Mexico, Canada, Texas, Florida, California,

France and Great Britain.

For stretches of the fall he played in tournaments for as many as six weeks straight.

While Gosea and the rest of the Illini play professional tournaments over the summer to try to win professional points and improve their ATP rankings, life on the tour was something new. Instead of returning to Champaign for the fall, Gosea took the fall semester off of school to continue the tournament circuit he played over the summer.

He talked to head coach Brad Dancer and assistant coach Marcos Asse after a successful summer, and they thought it was a good

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idea. Gosea was alone. While he frequently called Dancer and Asse, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the same as having a coach there to watch his matches.

Asse said that Gosea accomplished â&#x20AC;&#x153;everything he wanted to and moreâ&#x20AC;? in

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accumulating points and rising in the ATP ranks. His fall campaign was highlighted with a tournament title at the Mayfair Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $15K Futures tournament in Markham, Canada, on September 21, which skyrock-

eted him from 893 to 616 in the rankings.

After a little over a semester of playing on the tour, Gosea sits at No. 563 in the world.

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Baseball back home for final stretch of season

BY JOEY FIGUEROA STAFF WRITER

After a whirlwind weekend in the spotlight following a nationally publicized sweep of Ohio State, the Illinois baseball team is back to business.

Set to play three of its final six games of the regular season, Illinois (40-61, 16-1 Big Ten) will put its 21-game winning streak on the line against Rutgers (1731-1, 5-13) this weekend at Illinois Field.

As they should, the Illini have gained plenty of media recognition because of their school-record streak, but head coach Dan Hartleb is just happy to be back home to finish off the regular season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always nice to be home,â&#x20AC;? Hartleb said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have a little bit of a routine when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you know your surroundings, you stay in your own bed. Especially with exams coming up, too, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be nice not to have to rush through those.â&#x20AC;?

It hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mattered much whether the Illini have played at home or away this season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their home and road records are nearly identical. However, Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; only conference loss was on the road against Michigan State.

The Illini outscore their opponents by nearly more than a full run at home than they do on the road.

Junior pitcher Kevin Duchene said playing at home is easier than on the road and is looking forward to extending the streak in front of the home crowd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had great turnouts the last several home weekends, and we really appreciate that a lot,â&#x20AC;? Duchene said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It changes the whole environment of the game, and we love being here. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing worse than going for a six-hour bus ride, so we love playing here and keeping the streak alive is a lot easier when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not in hostile territory.â&#x20AC;?

There have already been record-setting crowds at Illinois Field this season, and weather permitting, huge crowds are expected again this weekend.

The Scarlet Knights may be hoping for some cloudy skies, though. Rutgers will come into the weekend having lost five of their last six contests and have only won a single Big Ten series this season. In fact, the Scarlet Knights have lost ninestraight conference games.

Rutgers ranks in the bottom three of the Big Ten in

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Quick notes: With just six games remaining in the regular season, Illinois will look to extend its record winning streak against Rutgers at home this weekend.

Hidden stat: Illinois has swept all but one of its Big Ten series this season. hitting, pitching and fielding and is tied with Northwestern for next-to-last in the conference standings. All but one of the Rutgers pitchers who have started at least one game have ERAs over 5.00, and the batting order boasts two hitters with averages over .280.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that Illinois and Rutgers are on opposite ends of the success spectrum this season, but the Illini remain focused and wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take their opponent lightly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have won 21 in a row, and our rankingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s higher this week, yet the guys (were)

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Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kevin Duchene throws a pitch during the baseball game vs. Northwestern at Illinois Field on April 3. Illinois will play three of its final six games against Rutgers this weekend. very focused already with the start practice,â&#x20AC;? Hartleb said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a group that just comes out to take care of business and has a lot of lofty goals.â&#x20AC;?

With the season winding down, Illinois has a chance to secure its first Big Ten Championship since 2011.

Iowa is just a game and a half behind Illinois and will take

Softball ready for Big Tens

BY COLE HENKE STAFF WRITER

The Illinois softball team will travel to Columbus, Ohio, to start its postseason run at the Big Ten Tournament this weekend.

The tournament starts Thursday, and the Illini (26-26, 14-9 Big Ten) enter as the No. 5 seed. Their first opponent will be 12th-seeded Purdue (30-24, 7-14 Big Ten).

Illinois was fourth in the standings for most of the conference season, but two losses to Nebraska last weekend allowed Northwestern to pass the Illini. The top four seeds in the tournament get a bye to the quarterfinals.

Having to play an extra game doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t faze the Illini. Head coach Terri Sullivan said the team sees every game as a learning experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our team enjoys being out on the field,â&#x20AC;? Sullivan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would have liked the bye, but we just like playing games. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter what jerseys are on the other side.â&#x20AC;?

Illinois is on the same side of the bracket as No. 1 seed

Michigan, but Sullivan said she is only concerned with Purdue for the time being.

The tournament has a single-elimination format, so the Illini canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford a loss.

If they lose, their season comes to a close â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; only shot at an NCAA berth is if it wins the conference tournament. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody is better entering the Big Ten Tournament,â&#x20AC;? Sullivan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seeds really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter when it comes to this tournament.â&#x20AC;?

The Illini won two of three games against the Boilermakers two weekends ago.

Both ends of a doubleheader went to extra innings, with the teams splitting the games.

The Boilermakers are led by ace Lilly Fecho, who, with a 19-16 record and a 1.98 ERA, is one of the best pitchers in the Big Ten With Fecho leading the charge, Purdue boasts one of the best pitching staff in the conference, only giving up three runs per game, but the Illini enter the game with one of the best offenses in the conference, scoring 6.2

runs per game.

The Illini are led by their two first team All-Big Ten players, second baseman Allie Bauch and centerfielder Carly Thomas.

As a junior, Bauch has experience in the Big Ten tournament. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the first time I have gone into the tournament at .500,â&#x20AC;? Bauch said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are going in with a lot of confidence, and we know that we can play with anybody.â&#x20AC;?

Bauch is one of the captains on a team full of young contributors. Five of the nine regular starters for the Illini are underclassmen, and are entering a high-pressure situation this weekend.

Sullivan said she prefers having younger players, and this team fits the mold. Even though the team may lack experience, Sullivan insists that her players are ready to play in the tournament. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do have a lot of young players,â&#x20AC;? Sullivan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we throw them into the fire early here, and while they may have struggled earlier in the season, they are definitely at their best now

because of it. Look at Carly Thomas for evidence of that.â&#x20AC;?

Thomas hit .372 this season with 42 RBIs and nine home runs, third on the team in each category.

The Illini are relying a lot on sophomore Jade Vecvanags to take on most of the pitching duties. While she is a sophomore, Vecvanags did not pitch in the Big Ten Tournament last season.

Vecvanags gave up 13 runs to Purdue over the course of three games, but is not planning on changing her approach to the game.

In the doubleheader against the Boilermakers Sullivan referred to the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play as â&#x20AC;&#x153;sloppyâ&#x20AC;? and said they â&#x20AC;&#x153;did not pitch well.â&#x20AC;?

Vecvanags is only looking forward as she heads into the game against Purdue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know that I can trust my stuff and my teammates,â&#x20AC;?

Vecvanags said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is all I need for this game. Experience doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have anything to do with it for me.â&#x20AC;?

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on Minnesota this weekend at home.

Even with a long winning streak and regular-season accolades on the line, Duchene said the players are just enjoying each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s company. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This a recurring answer, but this team is just so much fun to be a part of,â&#x20AC;? Duchene said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so

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Quick Note: Illinois took two out of three games

loose and just able to be themselves. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel any pressure from this win streak or postseason aspirations, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking it one game at a time, and as long as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to just do our jobs, this team is good enough to keep the streak alive.â&#x20AC;?

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against the Boilermakers two weekends ago.

Hidden Stat: This is the first time the team has finished with a winning percentage of .500 or better since 2010.

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TENNIS Where in the world is Farris Gosea?

Now, Gosea is in Champaign, getting ready for a first round NCAA Tournament match against UWGreen Bay. “(I’m) definitely real excited to kick off at home,” Gosea said. “Everyone’s just really looking forward to Friday. People don’t want to practice anymore; people just want to play.”

Gosea has reason to be excited. This 25-4 Illini team is the best that he has been a part of in his four years at Illinois. The Illini are the No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

But Asse said that it took some time for Gosea to get back in the swing of things after his fall on the professional circuit.

“All the travel and downtime maybe took its toll a little bit in the beginning of the season,” Asse said. “He lost a few matches I don’t think he should’ve lost just because he wasn’t in quite as good of shape.”

Gosea recognizes that college tennis is a completely different game.

“While in college tennis, there’s all the fans and everything getting a bit crazy; sometimes it kind of takes away from the tennis aspect of it,” Gosea said.

He’s come back to leave a mark on the team’s excellent 2015 campaign, playing mostly at the No. 1 and No. 2 singles spot. In a thrilling third-set tiebreaker against then-No. 2 Brayden Schnur, Gosea clinched the then-No. 8 Illini’s upset win over thenNo. 6 North Carolina on January 31.

The Atkins Tennis Center was electric, and Gosea was swarmed by teammates and fans after the win. Dancer called it the night that “the legend of Farris Gosea” was born. Gosea was integral to the Illini’s dominating Big Ten championship run — he was one of two Illini to win all three of his tournament singles matches.

Where in the world will Farris Gosea be?

Gosea’s official Fighting Illini biography says that he wants to play professional tennis or be an astronaut. For now, Gosea’s plan is to stay on Earth and play professional tennis after graduation.

Asse says that it’s hard to tell if players will succeed at the next level after college, but Gosea has the tools to do so.

“We have no idea who has the ability to make it,” Asse said. “He’s already proven that he’s a very good player.

Whether or not we’re going to be watching him on TV or not someday is anybody’s guess, but he certainly has a lot of the physical attributes

to show that he can survive on the tour.”

After his experience in the fall, Gosea can jump more fully into the Pro Circuit. He said the points he accumulated will allow him to enter Futures tournaments as a seeded player and get him into some Challenger tournaments, the next level before the ATP World Tour.

Illinois has had success in getting players to the next level: Kevin Anderson, Amer Delic and Rajeev Ram are some of the more prominent to have successful pro careers. Anderson is currently No. 17 in the world, Delic peaked at No. 60, and Ram is top-150.

Gosea’s long-term goal is to become the highestranked Illini ever to go pro.

In the short term after the season ends, Gosea wants to go to England to play British Challengers, with the hope of vying for a wild card bid into Wimbledon.

But Gosea isn’t ready to say goodbye to college tennis just yet. He said it will be hard to reflect until he plays his last match with Illinois. And Gosea hopes that doesn’t come until he goes on one more trip with the Illini: to Waco, Texas, with the hopes of bringing home an NCAA Championship.

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Illini Moment of the Year: Rayvonte Rice’s buzzer beater

BY PETER BAILEY-WELLS SPORTS EDITOR

Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sat down during its last meeting of the year and voted on the moment in the Illini sports calender that was the most noteworthy.

When Rayvonte Rice stuck his foot in the hardwood and bounced back behind the 3-point line, his defender seemed to freeze.

It was as if the senior Illini guard had paused the Scottrade Center with a remote control. The defenders didn’t move, the coaches didn’t move and the orangeclad Illinois fans behind the basket stood stock still, their hearts in their mouths.

Then Rice hit play, rose up over two defenders and buried a 3-point dagger to give the men’s basketball team a 62-59 win over Missouri in the annual Braggin’ Rights game in St. Louis.

Decked out in Flyin’ Illini throwback uniforms, Illi-

Honorable Mentions: Football beats Minnesota on Homecoming: Wearing special gray Galloping Ghost uniforms, quarterback Reilly O’Toole led the Illini to a 28-24 comeback win over the Gophers. The win was head coach Tim Beckman’s first over a top 25 team and second in Big Ten play since he arrived at Illinois in 2012. nois players streamed off the bench and mobbed Rice on the floor in front of the scorer’s table. The team was wildly inconsistent against the Tigers that night — the Illini’s largest lead of the game was six points and they fi nished 4-of-18 from 3-point land. The Tigers tied the game with 17.8 seconds left, but Rice would dribble out every last second of the

Men’s tennis sweeps Big Ten Tournament at home: In the Illini’s first Big Ten tournament championship since 2012, freshman Aron Hiltzik secured the win, beating Ohio State in a 4-0 sweep. The Illini had the tournament’s No. 1 seed and won all three of their tournament matches 4-0.

Illini’s possession before sealing the game.

The win was the second in a row in the series for Illinois and improved the team’s record to 9-3.

The three was Rice’s second of the game and was arguably the biggest shot of his two-year Illinois’ career.

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llinois fans received some bad news on Wednesday, as an Illini hoops target announced he will not finish his college career in Champaign.

Dylan Ennis, a 6-foot-2 graduate transfer guard from Villanova, has committed to Oregon.

He was also considering Illinois and Baylor.

Illini head coach John Groce was pursuing Ennis in hopes that he could land a veteran ball-handler to take over the point guard position in 2015-16.

Ennis announced his decision to transfer from Villanova in early April, citing his desire to take on the role of a primary ballhandler his senior season.

As a junior, Ennis averaged 5.1 points and 1.6 assists on a stellar 29-5 Wildcats team last season, and is eligible to play immediately next season due to the NCAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduate transfer rule.

With the addition of Charlotte graduate transfer Mike Thorne, adding Ennis would have given Illinois a completely new-look and veteran-laden team in 201516. But with Ennisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decision to play elsewhere and barring a potential commitment from high-profile 2015 target Marcus LoVett, the Illini point guard position will be up for grabs between junior Jaylon Tate and redshirt senior Tracy Abrams.

Alex is a junior in AHS. roux2@dailyillini.com @aroux94

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Villanovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dylan Ennis and Phil Booth go after the basketball against Creightonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Austin Chatman during the second half at The Pavilion in Villanova, Pennsylvania, on Jan. 25. Ennis committed to Oregon over Illinois and Baylor on Wednesday.

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NYRA caps Belmont Stakes crowd at 90,000 for Triple Crown race

CAROLYN COLE TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Horses break from the gate in the 146th Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., June 7, 2014.

Ex-Pistons president may join friends at New Orleans Pelicans

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pionship trophies in the regular season finales in Fort Worth, Texas, following TCU’s win over Iowa State and in Waco, Texas, after Baylor’s win against Kansas State.

The coaches had voted every year of the league’s existence to award cochampionships, and the lack of a single champion is believed to be part of the reason neither TCU nor Baylor stacked up against Ohio State for the final spot in the four-team playoff.

In addition, Ohio State had the benefit of playing and winning an extra contest, the Big Ten championship game.

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Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby will never need to visit two stadiums on the last day of the season again.

He will hand out only one trophy in football next year.

The league agreed on a championship tiebreaker Wednesday during its meetings at the Arizona Biltmore hotel, acknowledging that the “conference champion” label will help its top team land a spot in the College Football Playoff.

“One of the four criteria they use is championships won,” Bowlsby said. “It’s one of the things we said we were going to take into account, and we need to.”

Bowlsby presented cham-

ager Dell Demps’ contract expires this summer, with the team holding an option for the 2015 -16 season.

The Pelicans did not make Demps available for a season-ending news conference with coach Monty Williams last week and have made no indication of a new deal coming. New Orleans was swept by the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

Dumars, 51, served as Pistons president in 200014, until he was replaced by Stan Van Gundy. Dumars was named executive of the year in 2003, and the Pistons went to six straight Eastern Conference finals (2003-08), winning a title in 2004 and coming up a game short in 2005.

Dumars was born in Shreveport, about a fivehour drive from New Orleans.

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217-366-3500

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Hunsinger Apartments

309 E. Green, C.

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Hunsinger Apartments

309 E. Green, C.

4

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Klatt Properties

Advantage Properties C-U, LLC

www.advantageproperties.com

1002 W. Clark, U.

2

F

908 W. Stoughton, U.

2

306 N. Harvey, U

217-344-0394

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Joe Dumars, President of Basketball Operations, talks with reporters about the draft and the future of the Detroit Pistons on May 25, 2010.

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Big 12 agrees on tiebreaker to improve overall performance

Could Joe Dumars be headed to the Big Easy? A pair of reports suggest so.

WDSU in New Orleans reports that Dumars, the former Detroit Pistons star and team president, could be hired by the New Orleans Pelicans in some capacity this offseason, possibly as a senior executive.

Dumars, a Louisiana native, is a longtime friend of Pelicans vice president of basketball operations Mickey Loomis.

He met with Loomis and other members of the Pelicans brass during several Saints road games during the 2014 season, according to nola.com. Dumars also is friends with Saints coach Sean Payton.

NBA sources confirmed to NOLA the possibility of Dumars to the Pelicans, but nothing is imminent.

Pelicans general man-

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TCU Horned Frogs wide receiver Josh Doctson gets congrats from teammate and a lift from Cliff Murphy.

If American Pharoah wins the Preakness May 16 and is going for the Triple Crown on June 6 at Belmont Park, the demand for tickets could exceed supply.

New York Racing Association CEO Chris Kay said Wednesday that regardless of the Preakness result, the crowd on Belmont Stakes day will be capped at 90,000.

When asked why NYRA settled on that figure, Kay said, “We thought for our facilities 90,000 is the right number to maximize attendance and the enjoyment of the experience.”

If the Kentucky Derby winner falls short next weekend at Pimlico, it’s highly unlikely that NYRA’s ticket cap will come into play.

The past three times no Triple Crown was on the line, Belmont day’s highest attendance was 55,779.

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409 W. Elm

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712 W. California

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705 W. California

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203 N. Gregory, U.

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710 W. California

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603 W. High

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Armory House 1109 or 1113 Arbor, C.

217-384-4499

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Bailey Apartments

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217-344-3008

ONE Illinois

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217-337-7500

901 W. Springfield, U.

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1321 N. Lincoln, U.

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911 W. Springfield, U.

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111 S. Lincoln, U.

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Rob Chambers

1004 W. Springfield, U.

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1010 W. Springfield, U.

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Bankier Apartments

2.5 blocks to Quad

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217-328-3770

www.robsapartments.com

217-840-5134

506 E. White, C.

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707 W. Elm, U.

2,4

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Live on Elm St. without the nightmares., free parking

Roland Realty

www.roland-realty.com

106 S. Coler, C.

3

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Patio/Balcony. 2 full baths

903 S. First, C.

202 E. Green, C.

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Royse & Brinkmeyer

505 S. Fourth, C.

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Royse & Brinkmeyer

519 E. Green, C.

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Smith Apartment Rentals

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1107 S. Second, C.

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1004 S. Locust, C.

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217-239-2310

507 W. Church, C.

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511 W. Church, C.

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217-328-3030

53 E. Chalmers, C.

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Burnham 310 310 E. Springfield, C.

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217-351-8900

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1,2,3

217-352-1129

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217-384-1925

Campus Property Management

www.cpm-apts.com

106 S. Gregory, U.

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58 E. Armory, C.

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107 E. Springfield, C.

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201 E. Armory, C.

2

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303 E. Green, C.

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1004 S. Locust, C.

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304 E. Daniel, C.

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1009 W. Clark, U.

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48 E. John, C.

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1012 W. Clark, U.

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51 E. Green, C.

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804 W. Illinois, U.

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201 E. Armory, C.

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Capstone Quarters 1901 N. Lincoln Ave, U.

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Castle On Locust 1007 S. Locust, C.

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Faron Properties

217-367-7368 217-840-1070

F Internet, cable, and trash included www.faronproperties.com

217-352-8540

The Tower at Third 302 E. John, C.

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217-367-0720

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Tri Count Management

www.tricountymg.com

906 S. Locust St.

4

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Quiet, $40 Parking

705 S. First St.

3,4

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Balcony, $40 Parking

217-367-2009

Faron Properties

1,2,3

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The Weiner Companies, Ltd.

www.weinercompanies.com

713-15-17 S. Randolph, C.

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Seasonal pool, balcony, Near DT, C.

603 W. Green, U.

3

U Only pay electric! Free laundry!

502 W. Green, U.

4

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Pet friendly! 2 Bathrooms! PRICE REDUCED!

700 Oregon, U.

3

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Pet friendly! 2 Bathrooms! House! PRICE REDUCED!

Green Street Realty 314 E. White, C.

www.greenstrealty.com Studios,2,3,4 F

217-356-8750

NEW CONSTRUCTION! Sec.bldng, Flat Screen, Modern Furniture.

217-384-8001

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