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AAUP: UI censure is probable

BY ABIGALE SVOBODA NEWS EDITOR

While Steven Salaita’s controversial tweets sparked questions about his professionalism within the University administration, their response provoked even more questions about academic freedom at the University.

Salaita’s offer of employment was rescinded in August when he sent seemingly anti-Semitic tweets regarding the confl ict in Gaza. Chancellor Phyllis

Wise emailed Salaita stating his hiring recommendation would not be forwarded to the Board of Trustees for approval.

Salaita was set to begin teaching weeks later, and the Board had never previously disapproved of a new faculty member recommendation.

The American Association of University Professors released an official report about Salaita’s case,

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Students protest the University’s decision to rescind Steven Salaita’s appointment to the department of American Indian

Salaita still seeks University employment

BY ABIGALE SVOBODA NEWS EDITOR

Steven Salaita still wants to teach American Indian Studies at the University, after a year of protests, speeches, lawsuits and writing.

In August, Salaita sent c ont roversi a l t we ets regarding the confl ict in Gaza. Chancellor Phyllis Wise sent Salaita an email soon after stating Salaita’s hiring recommendation for the department of American Indian Studies would not be forwarded onto the Board of Trustees for approval .

Salaita expressed his concern about the state of academic freedom at a press conference at the University on Sept. 9 at the University YMCA. He continued speaking about academic freedom

at various college campuses around the country, garnering the support of students and academics around the world, including members of the American Association of University Professors.

On Aug. 7, Rudy Fichtenbaum, AAUP president, and Hank Reichman, AAUP vice president, released a statement regarding the case.

At the time, several facts about the situation were unclear, including whether a formal, written offer had been made. On the assumption a formal offer was extended, Fichtenbaum and Reichman wrote they were already skeptical about the University’s actions.

“If the information communicated in yester’s report is accurate,” the report stated. “There is

good reason to fear that Professor Salaita’s academic freedom and possibly that of the Illinois faculty members who recommended hiring him have been violated.”

Members of the association expressed their concern again, when the Board of Trustees confi rmed it would not hire Salaita at its Sept. 11 meeting and again when the Board reiterated its stance at its second meeting of the academic year on Jan. 15 .

The association officially confi rmed its disapproval of the University’s handling of the situation on April 23 with a report about academic freedom at the Urbana-Champaign campus.

Meanwhile, Salaita fi led two lawsuits against the University. The fi rst was

fi led on Nov. 29 in Champaign County Circuit Court. Salaita fi led the suit with his lawyer, Anand Swaminathan of Loevy and Loevy in Chicago , after his Freedom of Information Act request for all emails between University administrators with keywords regarding Salaita was denied and regarded as “unduly burdensome.”

The University fi led a motion to dismiss the suit stating Salaita should have fi led the complaint since he fi led the FOIA request.

Judge Chase Leonhard denied the University’s motion but did grant permission to strike unnecessary text from the record.

The second hearing will take place June 12 .

Salaita fi led a second law-

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Censure facts and impact on University What is Censure?

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Universities’ administrations who fail to uphold principles of academic freedom and tenure, as stated in the American Association of University Professors’ statement of principles, are placed on a censure list. The list informs the academic community that the university’s administration is not endorsed by the AAUP.

schools on the censure list currently

IF ADDED,

the University would be the only Big Ten school on the list.

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The goal of censure

JUNE 13 The AAUP will vote on the University’s status.

is to move an administration to reform its policies and practices and provide due compensation to the fired professor.”

— John Wilson, co-editor of the AAUP Academe Blog

WHO IS AFFECTED? Administration:

Among peers, the institution looks bad and could lose its reputation and quality of education.

Students:

Could receive a lesser education because the University may face a harder time recruiting quality professors.

Faculty:

Potential hires will be less inclined to join, thus keeping current faculty from working with some of the best in their fields. Additionally, many guest speakers and seminar leaders will not visit censured Universities.

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SOURCE: Anita Levy, AAUP secretary

Killeen to replace Easter May 18

BY ABIGALE SVOBODA NEWS EDITOR

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Vice President Joe Biden greets University students at the Campus Recreation Center East on Thursday after speaking

Biden encourages end to all sexual assault

BY MAGGIE SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER

Vice President Joe Biden visited the University to celebrate students’ efforts with the “It’s On Us” campaign to end sexual assault on college campuses.

T he W h ite House launched the “It’s On Us” campaign in October and the University quickly led the pack in student pledges.

The campaign, which

was brought to campus through the Illinois Student Senate, promotes sexual assault awareness by urging students to sign a pledge stating they will take action against sexual assault.

Over 3,000 University students have taken the pledge since October, according to Matt Hill, vice

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Timothy Killeen will serve as the next University of Illinois President, taking over for President Emeritus Robert Easter.

Killen served as the former State University of New York Vice Chancellor for Research President.

At a Champaign press conference on Nov. 19, Killeen said working at the University is a homecoming of sorts because all of his past work led him to Illinois.

The 62-year-old Wales native and U.S. citizen has over 30 years experience in higher education, serving roles in administration and as a researcher in geophysics and space sciences at the University of Michigan.

He also earned his Ph.D. from University College London at age 23 and has received three achievement awards from NASA. “I am a genetic optimist, which is not a scientific term.

I have one gear and that’s moving forward with optimism,” Killeen said.

The University president is the chief executive officer of the University, as well as the executive agent of the board.

“State funding is one prob-

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President Robert Easter and President-designate Timothy Killeen listen to Chancellor Phyllis Wise speak at Killeen’s introduction to the University on Nov. 19. lem — investment support, research, grant funding, there are many pieces which contribute to this problem,” Killeen said.

As president, Killeen will make an annual base salary of $600,000. With potential performance and retention bonuses, he could make up to $730,000 per year. Killeen will outearn his predecessor

by $121,442 a year. His compensation is ranked seventh out of all Big Ten presidents.

Killeen will discuss his goals at a town hall meeting titled, “A Conversation About Our Common Future,” on May 18 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Easter, who has said he is excited to help Killeen tran-

sition but is also looking forward to retirement, said at the board’s May 7 meeting that he believes the University is in good hands.

“There’s almost a feeling of relief that the torch will soon be passed to an incredibly able and well-fit successor,” Easter said.

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BY CAELI CLEARY STAFF WRITER

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Illinois governor Bruce Rauner gives a preview of the State of the State at the I-Hotel Ballroom on Jan. 29. plans for economic growth and job creation, student and career success, taxpayer empowerment and governmental reform.

Rauner began implementing his Turnaround Agenda in February when he presented his budget plan to the General Assembly, featuring major cuts for the University.

Under the proposed budget for fiscal year 2016, funding for higher education would decline by 31.5 percent and the University’s budget would be cut nearly $209 million dollars.

“A budget cut of that magnitude would substantially harm our students and the people of Illinois by most severely impacting the University’s core education and research missions,” said President Robert Easter in a statement.

Rauner also proposed cuts to local city governments, the Regional Transportation Authority and Medicaid. On the other hand, funding for K-12 education would increase by $300 million.

Rauner signed the 2015 fiscal year budget concerning appropriations and finance on March 26. The bills cut Uni-

versity funding by $15 million dollars for the upcoming fiscal year.

Tom Hardy, University spokesperson, said in a previous interview with the Daily Illini the cuts will affect research and staffing.

“I think that there’s a lot of recognition by elected officials in Springfield of the importance and the impact of the University of Illinois and the vital asset that it is in Illinois,” Hardy said. “Yet they’re struggling to balance the priorities the state has in a critical fiscal circumstance.”

Rauner also announced the creation of the Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform.

The commission was created to address the overcrowding of prisons in Illinois and is aimed at providing solutions to reduce the number of prisoners in the state.

“We need to reform the system to stop the costly and vicious cycle of recidivism and help those who’ve left prison get the help they need to become productive members of society,” Rauner said.

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Campus racism reported

BY MAGGIE SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER

Tanisha King, director of the University Tenant Union, said an undergraduate professor at the University once told her as a student that, “Black people don’t go backpacking because they are poor.”

In response to the comment, King said she complained to the department, but was told by administrators she was only complaining because she was upset by her grade.

“That’s micro-invalidation,” King said. “You’re invalidating the experience I had by telling me it’s not true.”

Stacy Harwood, associate professor of Urban and Regional Planning, and her research team released “Racial Microaggressions in the Classroom” in March.

The report included the researchers’ findings from a 2011-2012 online surveyregarding racial microaggressions students of color face at the University.

The report defines microaggressions as behaviors or verbal remarks that convey rudeness, insensitivity and demean an individual’s racial heritage or identity.

“Going into the classroom is a little bit like a battleground,” Harwood said.

“And we need to change that.”

Of the Urbana campus’ 10,800 students of color who were eligible for the survey, over 4,800 participated.

Fifty-one percent of students who took the survey reported experiences of stereotyping in the classroom. Twenty-seven percent reported they felt their contributions to class discussions were minimized because of race, and they were made to feel inferior when they spoke. Thirtynine percent of students reported feeling uncomfortable on campus because of their race, and the place most cited for discomfort was “fraternity or sorority certified housing.”

“You’re not alone, and

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CENSURE titled, “Academic Freedom and Tenure: The University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign” on April 23 after months of investigation and new proceedings.

The report was crafted by members of the AAUP’s Committee A, who stated in the report the climate of academic freedom at the University is “at best uncertain.”

The report found the University’s handling of Salaita’s rescinded appointment to be in violation of the asso-

Locations of Reported Discomfort

Places on campus where students reported feeling discomfort because of their race

GREEN ST Green Street 402 responses

Fraternity/Sorority Certified Housing 731 responses

Shortly after being sworn into office, Gov. Bruce Rauner proposed a new budget for fiscal year 2016, which would cut state funding for many programs, including a major cut in state appropriations for higher education.

Rauner proposed to cut state funding for higher education by 31.5 percent, which would eliminate $209 million cut in state appropriations for the University.

“A budget cut of that magnitude would substantially harm our students and the people of Illinois by most severely impacting the University’s core education and research missions,” President Robert Easter said in a statement.

According to Renee Romano, vice chancellor of student affairs, state appropriations allow for many of the student services on campus.

A decrease in appropriations will lead to significant declines in the kinds of service the University offers, such as the Hirellini initiative, which connects employers with students, along with programs for leadership initiatives or conduct hearings, Romano said.

In a previous Daily Illini interview, Romano said the budget plan was a setback for the University because it will face a budget shortfall after deciding to freeze tuition. Regardless, the tuition freeze will stay in place.

“The University is really committed to trying to keep the cost of education down,” Romano said. “(The cuts) really put the University in a doubly difficult position.”

Rauner’s proposed budget cuts have already affected several services and programs at the University.

Last month, he announced that The Autism Programwill no longer receive funds for the rest of fiscal year 15, and will face severe budget cuts for fiscal year 16.

There are 19 TAP facilities run by institutions and not-for-profit organizations, and several will close due to the budget cuts. Accord-

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BIDEN Public Transportation 344 responses

Classrooms and labs 324 responses

Residence Halls 299 responses

Academic Departments 299 responses

The Quads 211 responses

Libraries 228 responses SOURCE: “Racial Microaggresions in the Classroom”

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Vice President Joe Biden led a rally at Campus Recreation Center East on April 23 to celebrate the success of the campaign on campus.

“There is no time, no circumstance, beyond selfdefense, when a man has the right to raise his hand to a woman period. That’s the standard,” Biden said.

“And any time consent is not given or cannot be given, it is sexual assault.”

Biden spent much of his career in the Senate advocating for an end to domestic violence with his Violence Against Women Act. In his remarks, Biden said he had trouble moving the act through Congress because it was a conversation people did not want to have.

Rep. Rodney Davis, R-13 and actress Jessica Szohr joined Biden at the rally, both advocating for sexual assault awareness. Mitch Dickey, student body president, introduced Biden, culminating a year lead-

you’re not the only one experiencing these things,” King said.

Harwood and her panel of student research assistants held a discussion on their findings in the report at the Spurlock Museum in April.

“It’s easier to deal with situations of inequality when it’s overt,” said Chancellor Phyllis Wise at the presentation. “It’s much more difficult to deal with topics of microaggression, where if you’re not careful, you might not even realize it’s happening.”

The report was issued while the University received criticism for its low enrollment of students of color, especially African-American students.

According to the University’s Division of Management Information reports, African-American students comprised less than five

percent of the total student population for 2014-2015 academic year.

According to Harwood’s report, actions such as developing critical thinking, increasing intellectual engagement and broadening cultural awareness can enrich higher education. However, the report stated minority students who add diversity to the University’s campus often feel unwelcome.

It also stressed the importance of students, faculty and staff working together to end racial microaggressions and make students feel more welcomed at the University.

“Part of it is trying to get people to talk, think more proactively and not be passive,” Harwood said.

“Learn to talk about it. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.”

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suit on Jan. 29 in the federal court of the Northern District of Illinois. Salaita sued University administrators, the Board of Trustees and unnamed donors for violating his constitutional rights, promissory estoppel and intentional infliction of emotional

ciation’s 1940 “Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure,” and therefore concluded that Salaita’s rights had been violated, too.

According to the report, investigators sought to answer five questions about Salaita’s case: the sequence of events leading up to Salaita’s dismissal; Salaita’s status with the University at the time his appointment was rejected; the relevance of extramural expression; the role of “civility” in assessing faculty qualifications; and the overall climate of academic freedom at the University.

The committee deter-

mined Salaita’s tweets were extramural — albeit related to his field of study — because they were addressed to the larger public and had “social, political, economic or other interest,” the report stated.

Additionally, the report stated Salaita should have been treated as a University employee and was therefore entitled to a trial before being dismissed, per University statutes.

Roy Campbell, Academic Senate chair, said it became clear the AAUP’s view of Salaita’s employment differed from the University’s in March after Committee A members met with Uni-

versity members to discuss Salaita.

AAUP President Rudy Fichtenbaum, LAS Dean Barbara Wilson, and Cary Nelson, former AAUP president and University professor, have all said they believe censure is likely.

Fichtenbaum said if the University administration is censured, it would need to complete several steps to be taken off the list, including a desire not to be censured. He said there would need to be “clear redress for the individual who was harmed.”

Additionally, University policies would need to change. However, Fichten-

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Budget cuts reign in Rauner agenda After being elected last November, Rauner’s time in office so far has included several budget cuts and financial agendas for more economic stability.

Republican Bruce Rauner defeated Democrat incumbent Pat Quinn in the Illinois gubernatorial elections on Nov. 4.

This marks the first time in Illinois’ history the state has had a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature.

This race raised over $100 million dollars in the election, shattering the previous 2010 record.

Prior to being elected governor, Rauner was a businessman working at the investment firm Golder, Thoma, Cressey and Rauner, GTCR. He joined the firm as a startup in 1981 and helped build it into one of the most successful businesses in Illinois, according to Rauner’s website.

Rauner was inaugurated in Springfield on Jan. 12. During his inauguration speech he spoke about the budget crisis, job creation, financial stability and education.

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ing to the TAP website, the program provides services for those with autism spectrum disorder. Without the necessary funds, the program will not be able to provide families with resources such as screenings and social therapy.

Aaron Ebata, co-director of the TAP at the University and professor in the department of human and community development, said in a previous interview with The Daily Illini, the center will not be able to hire student interns. TAP interns usually help facilitate program services and assist families.

“The reason TAP was developed was because there was a relative lack of services for families with autism, so this cut will mean that a lot of services won’t be there or some people will have to travel or try and purchase services,” Ebata said.

“People who can’t afford insurance, they’re going to be really left with practically nothing.

Rauner’s budget proposal also includes a 4.4 percent cut in the Regional Transportation Authority and an estimated 1.5 billion cut to Medicaid, which provides health insurance to lowincome families.

Local governments will also see a three percent reduction in their overall budget, and $600 million less from state appropriations for the next fiscal year.

The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District could also suffer from the proposed budget cuts.

According to Bryan Smith, CUMTD chief operating officer, recently, the CUMTD faced a 20 percent cut in transportation funding; if approved, the $220 million currently provided would be reduced to $150 million.

Smith said the budget cut could lead to a 69,000 hour reduction in CUMTD service, 25,000 of which are provided for University students. The bus system may also have to change some of its routes, which will affect the transportation of many students on campus.

“This isn’t something where we’d just be able to trim expenses without cutting service,” he said in a previous interview with The Daily Illini. “We have two main sources of expense.

The first is labor and the second is the cost of running the buses down the road.”

ing ISS in efforts to fight sexual assault.

“Our generation must take this issue upon ourselves to hold each other accountable for our actions,” Dickey said. “And to remember — it’s on us, all of us.”

In April, Dickey and Hill traveled to Washington, D.C., to fight the Department of Education recommendation that students should not participate in sexual assault case hearings.

“It’s really important that students be included in these conversations, because it’s students deciding who should and shouldn’t be a part of their community,” Dickey said.

Dickey and Hill also represented the University at an event called Big Ten on the Hill, where they met with other Big Ten student government officers, “It’s On Us” campaign managers and policy leaders in the United States’ Department of Education, Hill said.

While in Washington, Hill and Dickey said staff members from Davis’ office reached out to them

regarding amending the current sexual assault bill on the floor in the House of Representatives.

Hill said he would like to see an amendment that allows universities the option to keep students on the panels in sexual assault cases if they so choose.

“We don’t have formal language for an amendment, it’s more just an idea for now, but hopefully we’ll be able to work on that,” Hill said.

The Illinois Student Senate has continued to hold events aimed at preventing sexual assault and raising awareness on college campuses.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act recently earned a majority in the Illinois Housemp. Madigan was also present at the It’s On Us Campaign rally.

“This is a culture change, and changing culture isn’t easy, but we have to,” Hill said. “Students that intervene in situations shouldn’t feel social reprisal — they should feel like a hero.”

damage.

Salaita is seeking monetary relief and the position for which he was originally hired.

The case has yet to be settled, but Salaita’s lawyer, Gretchen Helfrich of Loevy and Loevy, said Salaita is always open to settling.

Salaita wrote a book during the almost nine months since his appointment was rescinded.

According to Haymarket Books’ website, in his book, “Uncivil Rites,” Salaita “combines personal reflection and political critique to shed new light on his controversial termination.

He situates his case at the intersection of important issues that affect both higher education and social justice activism.”

baum said it does not seem the University administration is concerned with avoiding censure.

In the conclusion of its report, the committee noted Salaita’s case is similar to the 1963 University case involving Professor Leo Koch. Koch, professor of biology, was suspended and later dismissed after writing a letter published in The Daily Illini defending trial marriages and premarital sex.

After evaluating Koch’s dismissal — which led to the University being censured from 1963 to 1967 — the association stated it hoped the University would take a

broader view of its function in the world and the value of academic freedom.

It stated the University must act in the community in which it is located but consider the national and global implications of its actions, as well. The 1963 censure led to serious revisions of University policies and procedures on academic freedom and speech.

The report states, “More than half a century later, the undersigned subcommittee expresses its similar hope that the current controversy will ultimately yield a similar result.”

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OPINIONS Wrapping up the year

The Daily Illini Editorial Board rounds up the past school year by revisiting the University’s major events — everything from our visit with Joe Biden to the Steven Salaita controversy.

In remembrance The University grieved through the loss of three Illini: Vicente Mundo, Christian Zamora and William Hempy, all found dead after being reported missing in three separate cases. Mundo, who was killed in January, was a junior studying statistics and is remembered as a funny and generous role model. A 2014 graduate, Zamora’s death was accidental. His body was found in early March after his disappearance in December. He was known as energetic, kindhearted and universally talented. Hempy was reported missing from his Minnesota home during spring break. His body was found April 26, and while cause of death is currently unknown, no foul play is suspected. He was a senior studying computer science and was described by his family as having being intelligent with many interests and talents. Though they are gone, they will never be forgotten and will forever be members of the Illini family.

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Steven Salaita: University controversy on a universal level From Academic Senate meetings to discussions about social media use, Steven Salaita’s name has been everywhere — except the classroom. Salaita was hired as a tenured professor in the American Indian Studies department in October 2013, set to begin teaching in August 2014. However, before school started, Salaita sent a number of controversial tweets regarding the Gaza conflict. Chancellor Phyllis Wise emailed him shortly after, stating she would not be forwarding his hiring recommendation onto the Board of Trustees for approval, citing the tweets. Since his employment was rescinded, Salaita has traveled the country speaking about academic freedom, filed two lawsuits and written a book which will be published in November 2015.

Gender-inclusive bathroom plan approved Honoring its mission to remain inclusive for the diverse students we host, the University recently proposed a housing plan for select dorms to become gender-inclusive this upcoming fall 2015. Both Allen Hall and Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Hall will host one wing with gender-inclusive restrooms and floors, allowing freshmen of next year to be able to select a gender-inclusive restroom option when selecting for dorm rooms. This plan is the very first of its kind here.

While this is one of the University’s first steps toward gender inclusivity, this new plan attempts to address issues many transgender and other non-binary students face.

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Friends, family, and students gather at the La Casa Cultural House to mourn the loss of Vicente Mundo on Feb. 2.

A new college for the University As one of the nation’s top research universities, the University announced this year it is adding to its arsenal of scientific learning institutions by establishing the College of Medicine, the first new college in 60 years to hopefully start in fall 2017. This college comes from a $100 million commitment from Carle Foundation Hospital over the next 10 years along with other fundraising efforts. The new college, to be located in Urbana, will focus on engineering and medicine. If successful, the college will not only make the University more prestigious, but offer truly groundbreaking research to help people around the world.

Don Gerard replaced by Deborah Frank Feinen Deborah Frank Feinen unseated incumbent and C-U personality, Don Gerard, in the Champaign mayoral election in early April. Throughout his four years in office, Gerard dealt with a great deal of controversy and praise from both the community and from the student body.

Members of the community call the position of Champaign mayor frivolous because of the city manager position — but for the student body, the mayor is a face and a representative, someone to know and seek help from, which is something Gerard succeeded at. We will miss Gerard and his attitude toward students, but we are excited for the next four years with Mayor Feinen, and we know Don Gerard isn’t going anywhere.

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Illinois governor Bruce Rauner gives a preview of the State of the State at the I-Hotel Ballroom on Jan. 29.

New governor, new budget After Governor Bruce Rauner’s election this past year, he proposed cutting state funding for higher education by 31.5 percent, which, if it goes into effect, would result in $209 million being cut from the University. Students, faculty and community members alike have expressed that this is not the right decision for the state of Illinois to take. The University fosters the education of students so they can graduate and create a better world. Whether students become engineers, teachers, doctors, lawyers or any other position imaginable, continual financial support of higher education by the state is critical. The Illinois government is still finalizing budget plans for the next fiscal year, which starts in July.

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Rehiring professor James Kilgore

University faces potential censure The American Association of University Professors stepped in after the University revoked Steven Salaita’s offer of employment in August and academics from around the world vocalized concerns about academic freedom and tenure on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Officials from the AAUP’s Committee A on academic freedom visited campus in March to investigate, and on April 23, the association released a formal report stating Salaita’s rights were violated. The association will formally decide whether to censure the University at its annual meeting in Washington D.C. on June 13, but many have said it is likely.

At their Nov. 13 meeting in a reversal of an earlier decision, the University of Illinois Board of Trustees decided that academic units at the University could choose to employ former professor James Kilgore. Kilgore came under fire last spring when media reports arose concerning his status as a convicted felon and former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. At that time, the University seemingly caved to this outside pressure and chose not to reappoint Kilgore without giving much thought to his life and work since his earlier indiscretions. Kilgore did eventually return to a position with the University, but only after a semester-long absence that never should have happened in the first place.

A new president for UI As the University says goodbye to President Robert Easter, we thank him for the amount of time he contributed to our institution. He has been an Illini for 33 years from a professor, department head, interim dean, dean of ACES and University president. While Easter referred to himself as the “accidental president,” many people on this campus claim Easter’s ability to bring the University stability and normalcy was more than just accidental, and in fact, needed. We look forward to seeing what Timothy Killeen is able to accomplish and know that we are in good hands.

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Vice President Joe Biden waves at the crowd of students listening in on his speech at the Campus Recreation Center East on Thursday about the “It’s On Us” campaign and its developments since its 2014 inception.

The Vice President visits the University The Illinois Student Senate’s promotion of their “It’s On Us” campaign to stop campus sexual assault brought Vice President Joe Biden to the University, in what was decidedly one of the coolest moments of this year. His visit brought a slew of Secret Service agents to campus, shut down part of Gregory Drive and inspired Leslie Knope/Amy Poehler jokes at every turn. Biden, alongside Gossip Girl alumna Jessica Szohr, spoke on the importance of ending sexual assault and applauded our campus’ efforts. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have such an important public figure come to campus and recognize us for the good work our campus is doing.

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Feinen begins to serve term as 2nd female mayor

BY CAELI CLEARY STAFF WRITER

After winning the mayoral elections with 41 percent of the votes, Feinen was sworn in last week.

Just over than a month after Deborah Feinen won the Champaign mayoral election with 41 percent of the vote, she was sworn into office as the official mayor of the city of Champaign on May 5. She is the second woman to serve as mayor for the city.

Before her mayoral campaign and election, Feinen served as an at-large Champaign City Council member and as commissioner and chair of the Regional Planning Commission. She is also a partner and practicing attorney at Tummelson, Bryan & Knox LLP. While serving as mayor, Feinen said she plans to focus on decreasing gun violence by working with the police department. She said she also wants to push for more economic development of the city’s broadband infrastructure.

In a previous interview

with The Daily Illini, Feinen said there needs to be communication among the citizens and the police department to decrease gun violence. “We have to work with our chief of police and the officers — I think they are beginning to have some community conversations,� Feinen said. “Those conversations are starting to happen, and I think in the next few months we’ll be having a study session with the chief to talk about it.�

Since, the Champaign Police Department has invited community members to discussion forums and considered the possibility of police officers wearing body cameras.

Feinen also previously told The Daily Illini that one of her main focuses will be on how the city’s broadband will promote economic development. “We have some of the fastest Internet available to us in the country,� Feinen said. “Now that we have the infrastructure in place, we need to

really develop it for economic development, get new businesses here and really use it for education.�

At-large Champaign city council alderman Tom Bruno, who served with Feinen on the city council, said he remained neutral throughout the campaign, but is eager to see what Feinen will bring to the city as mayor.

Bruno said he and Feinen will be visiting Washington Monday to lobby the U.S. Congressional delegation and advocate for transportation funding, high speed-rail and support for Amtrak with Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Mark Kirk. “Deb has always been a strong advocate for personal freedom, social justice, LGBT issues, environmental issues, she’s a fiscal conservative; she and I may differ a little bit on that,� Bruno said. “But she’s a principled person and open-minded and she works hard and that’s all we can ever ask of our fellow council members.�

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Allen, PAR go gender-neutral

BY JANE LEE STAFF WRITER

Housing announced a historic decision in April when it announced it would implement gender-neutral bathrooms in some residence halls.

With two protests that occurred last year for transinclusive healthcare, Stephanie Skora, senior in LAS and president of Campus Union for Trans Equality and Support, said in a previous interview with The Daily Illini that she would have hated to protest again because there should not be a need to protest every time something needs to be done.

In late January, University Housing surveyed Allen Hall residents and gave students an option to implement gender-inclusive restrooms for a weeklong pilot program. “Allen Hall is a very diverse dorm. It’s a very queer-friendly dorm,� Skora said. “That’s why this is the best place to really start. If you are queer identified and you come to U of I, you’ll have heard about Allen Hall.�

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director of housing for communications and marketing, said in a previous interview that a 75 percent threshold was needed for housing to run a trial of gender-inclusive restrooms on one floor of Allen. The survey closed Jan. 30. “Right now we are just exploring. We’ve heard, anecdotally, students say we would like these options and students say we are interested in these options, but we don’t want to just take one or two or ten people saying this,� Ruby said.

The threshold was not met in February, but Housing continued to reach out to students at Allen Hall and held floor meetings to generate further interest about gender-inclusivity.

The increased efforts eventually allowed the housing department to implement a new gender-inclusive dorm plan for fall 2015.

Sarah Mowitz, senior in FAA and president of Women of Pride, said in a previous interview she understands why students may be uncomfortable with genderneutrality, but it is important for students to know what it means to be gender-neutral. “I think to be pro genderneutral living is to, usually, have kind of a comprehensive understanding of (being transgender) and to truly

understand what it means to be a student that lives outside the gender binary,� Mowitz said.

Ruby said the goal in implementing gender-neutral restrooms is to make housing and the University more inclusive.

She said University Housing decided to create genderneutral restrooms in Allen 1 North, a wing on the first floor of Allen Hall. The dorm will be co-ed by door, meaning men and women will be next door to each other.

Additionally, the first floor in Saunders of the Pennsylvania Avenue Residence hall will also be co-ed by door.

The bathrooms in Saunders will not have multiple shower stalls, but instead have multiple single-use bathrooms on each floor.

Ruby said there is little cost in different privacy installments.

Mowitz said the new gender-inclusive plan will be a form of education for students who don’t fully understand gender-inclusivity. “I think it’s really great.

I think it’s something that is very, very necessary and I think it’s the next step in (resident) life,� Mowitz said. “Honestly, I think it’s coming at a very good time so I’m very happy about it.�

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Kilgore returns despite controversy

BY ABIGALE SVBODA NEWS EDITOR

James Kilgore returned to the University for the spring 2015 semester after he was unable to teach for a semester due to his criminal past.

Kilgore’s criminal record was not a public issue until articles detailing his past were published in The NewsGazette. Following the public’s reaction, Kilgore was told his contract with the University, which expired Aug. 15, 2014, would not be extended.

He served six years in prison for his involvement in a 1975 bank robbery and was also a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, known for kidnapping Hearst Media Company heiress, Patty Hearst.

University and community members, as well as parents and alumni throughout the country, quickly raised concerns about having a former convicted felon employed at the University.

Provost Ilesanmi Adesida appointed a committee in April 2014 to review Kilgore’s status, which ruled no policies were violated in his hiring. According to Kilgore, the University was fully aware of his past when he was hired; however, the Board of Trustees officially approved new

background check policies at its May 7 meeting.

Provost Communication #3 has been updated to contain guidelines on faculty search and hiring policies at the University. It lists policies for the hiring of 13 University positions, including executive officer appointments and tenure and non-tenure appointments.

The update includes policies for appointments requiring prior approval by the provost, appointments that don’t require prior approval by the provost, and two-level review requirements, as well. “This document creates an explicit process for discussing any employment questions that might arise prior to employment,� said Katherine Galvin, associate provost of administrative affairs, at the May 4 Academic Senate meeting.

Before the new policies were in place, at its November meeting, the Board voted to allow Kilgore to be hired at the University again. He was later hired as an adjunct lecturer by the global studies program to teach an eightweek class titled, “Sweat Shops or Flat World Opportunities? Exploring the New World of Work.�

Kilgore had several supporters at the University

who urged the Board to allow Kilgore into the classroom again. “Dr. Kilgore is an excellent scholar, a committed and engaging teacher (judging from student feedback), and a colleague who gives of his time generously to the University and its diverse programs,� said D. Fairchild Ruggles, professor in landscape architecture, in a previous interview with The Daily Illini.

Kilgore was hired despite donor Richard Hill’s threat to revoke $4.5 million of his $6.5 million pledge to the bioengineering department at the University of Illinois Chicago campus. Hill, a UIC alumnus, wrote in a letter to University officials stating he no longer wanted to be associated with the University if Kilgore was officially rehired. “I think it’s a good step for the University that they have at least recognized that people who were formerly incarcerated, like myself, can change their lives,�

Kilgore said in a previous interview with The Daily Illini. “They can transform, and can make useful contributions to educational institutions.�

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Left: Friends of Mundo comfort each other at a vigil held after his disappearance

THE DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTO; TOP RIGHT: PHOTO OF VICENTE MUNDO COURTESY OF THE MUNDO FAMILY. BOTTOM RIGHT: PHOTO OF CRISTIAN ZAMORA COURTESY OF THE ZAMORA FAMILY.

The Mundo and Zamora families reached out to one another for support system

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icente Mundo was reported missing from his apartment on campus on Jan. 27. He had been missing since Jan. 25 after he left his apartment between 6 and 7 p.m. He told his roommates he would be right back.

On Jan. 31, a body found near a rural Tolono road was identified as Mundo’s.

The junior in LAS was an avid video game player, a statistics major, a Blackhawks fan and according to his older sister, Julieta LaMalfa, he had a childlike gentleness about him.

“Please remember him as someone who is very kind, very loving, very innocent, full of life, full of hope, and that he had a great experience here,” LaMalfa said.

Daniel Gonzalez and Reginald Scott were arrested Feb. 2 in connection with the murder. According to Champaign County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Christopher Darr, the two had plans to rob Mundo of cannabis and cash during a drug deal previously planned between Mundo and the two.

Plans to meet Mundo in his apartment were changed last minute to the garage of the apartment instead, in Gonzalez’s car. Scott hid behind

the passenger’s seat and when Mundo discovered that the nature of the meeting had changed and that he was going to be robbed, he tried to escape from the vehicle. Scott emerged from behind the passenger’s seat and confessed later that his pants got caught up in the trunk from his concealed position. He panicked as a result and shot Mundo.

The two disposed of his body by a row of trees in Tolono where it was found approximately a week later.

Cristian Zamora went missing from his Urbana apartment on Dec. 31.

He had graduated from the University in May 2014 and according to his family, he had plans to write a book. His aunt, Jeannie Douglas, called him a “go-getter.” His friend and 2011 University graduate, Brian Kung, described him as a “bright flame” in the lives of those who knew him. To his friend and University junior, Cody Jones, his optimism was contagious. To his mother, Sandra Carrion, he was kind, friendly, a goal-setter and a dancer. “(Dancing is) his passion,” said Carrion. “Everywhere he would go, he would start dancing. It was amazing. It is amazing.”

Zamora was reported missing

by Carrion on Jan. 5. He was found dead the afternoon of March 6, sub-

merged under the ice of Crystal Lake Park in Urbana. The Champaign County Coroner said in a press release on March 7 that the autopsy revealed no evidence of trauma or foul play and ruled the death an accidental one from drowning in cold water.

Gioconda Guerra Perez, director of La Casa Cultural Latina at the University, provided space for the families of Mundo and Zamora while the searches were ongoing for both.

She also worked to organize a vigil for Zamora at La Casa and spoke of the importance of coming together as a community in the wake of a loss.

“We hope there isn’t another tragedy, but at least the students and their family know that if something happens, they have a place here where they could get the support that they need,” Guerra Perez said. “That, for me, is community, that people back home in Chicago or New York or Argentina or whatever their home is, they know that somebody here cares about them.”

The two families were a support system for each other during the overlapping times of their missing loved ones.

“Nobody should have to go through this,” LaMalfa said.

She asked Zamora’s family to spend time with them during the

some of the period in which the two were both missing. The Zamora family had previously reached out to Mundo’s sisters when they saw coverage of Mundo’s disappearance on the news.

“I reached out (to the Mundo family),” Carrion said. “We were going through this for three weeks already, we knew exactly how she was feeling in the trying times.

We just wanted to, as support, just so they’ll know what we’re going through, to know that we are here.”

Even when the search was over for Mundo, LaMalfa maintained hope to find Cristian and to find closure for the Zamoras.

“My biggest worry was always that he was suffering,” LaMalfa said of her brother. “At least I know he’s not suffering.”

LaMalfa said she was in attendance at Zamora’s wake.

She feels she has found closure for herself and that her family members have each been healing in their own ways. She wants people to know about a quote her brother posted online in 2011 which she feels embodied him. It will be engraved on his urn.

“No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile.”

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BY ETHAN SWANSON STAFF WRITER

On Jan. 23, No. 4 Illinois hosted No. 12 Nebraska at Huff Hall for a Friday night Big Ten wrestling matchup.

Illinois was fresh off a grueling road trip just a weekend prior, facing the top-two teams in the nation, Iowa and Minnesota, in just three days. The Illini lost both bouts, the latter loss of the weekend a crushing 20-19 defeat at the hands of No. 1 Minnesota. As a result, the Huskers upset the Illini 22-9 at home.

“We were emotionally hungover,” head coach Jim Heffernan said. “It wasn’t as much what they did as much as it was what we didn’t do.

There was a lack of hustle.”

With its third consecutive loss and two-time defending national champion Jesse Delgado out indefi nitely with a torn labrum, Illinois’ season seemed to be teetering in the wrong direction.

However, the team’s struggles only allowed the Illini’s lone star through that point in the season to shine even brighter: freshman Isaiah Martinez.

Martinez was undefeated and had won both the Roadrunner Open and Midland Championships entering the matchup with Nebraska. Although the freshman was the No. 3 wrestler at 157 pounds, he was unproven at the time and was yet to justify his ranking.

“I love the sport; I love the challenge,” Martinez said.

“When I got to college, I started paying attention to who was No. 1 and ranked highly. Seeing those guys, I thought to myself: ‘I work just as hard as they do, so why can’t I be the No. 1 guy?’”

The freshman was slated to face No. 4 James Green, a three-time All-American and by far the toughest opponent Martinez had faced all year.

When the two took the mat, team scores became irrelevant. The only thing that mattered to the Illini faithful was seeing if this kid was for real.

And he was.

Martinez never let Green out of his grasp and had the Husker on his back for the majority of the match.

Although it was only a 2-0 margin of victory, his lowest of the season, it was clear Martinez had control the entire match. As the

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ISAIAH MARTINEZ

The freshman wrestler had an undefeated season and captured the 157-pound national championship.

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ILLINI OF THE YEAR NebrasThe vicka meet, tory finalthe team ly earned rallied him the behind Martinez’s success No. 1 overall ranking in the and won their next five country he had been looking meets, but the freshman for all season. himself was the real story “The Big Ten is the best of the season. conference for wrestling, Martinez finished the and there’s a lot of pride season 35-0, becoming that goes along with runonly the third wrestler in ning the gauntlet in the

“Seeing those guys, I thought to myself: ‘I work just as hard as they do, so why can’t I be the No. 1 guy?’”

Big Ten,” Martinez said.

“Going through that rigorous schedule prepared me for the grind of the national tournament.”

At the NCAA championships in St. Louis, Martinez dazzled once again.

Martinez marched his way through the 157-pound bracket, only trailing for less than 45 seconds the entire tournament — to his old foe James Green in the semi-fi nals.

The freshman returned to his dominant form in the championship match, handling Cornell’s Brian Realbuto with ease in a 10-2 win — a scene where Martinez once again flexed his biceps and rose his fist in the air victorious for the 35thstraight time.

“In November, Isaiah told me he was going to win the national championship,” Heffernan said. “All freshman talk when they get to college, but he was the only kid I ever actually believed.”

After winning it all, still

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Illinois (19-14, 9-9 Big Ten) dealt with injuries, suspensions and other obstacles in a season full of setbacks and in the end the Illini just couldn’t cope with the offcourt complications as the team fi nished the season disappointed.

The Illini came into the season with optimism, as the team looked like it would be led by a seniorheavy starting lineup that was hungry for a run in the NCAA Tournament.

Illinois’ optimism took its fi rst blow before the fi rst tip-off of the year — senior guard Tracy Abrams was lost for the season to an ACL tear during fall practice. As the year progressed, the Illini dealt with other problems, including the injuries and suspensions to both Rayvonte Rice and Aaron Cosby as well as subpar play from both seniors and younger players alike.

The Illini started the season 6-0, beat Baylor and rose to No. 24 nationally before the team got its fi rst taste of reality. Illinois lost to Miami and dropped two of its next three to tough competition.

The team put together a three-game winning streak to end the nonconference portion of its schedule before the downward portion of an up-and-down season struck again at the beginning of Big Ten play.

“That one blindsided me. We expected to play well today and just didn’t.”

JOHN GROCE HEAD COACH

In conference Illinois’ play fluctuated just as much as it had done earlier in the year. The Illini knocked off Michigan State at home but lost to Nebraska on the road.

Illinois’ inconsistency was reflected in its 9-9 mark in the Big Ten. Even after all the ups and downs the Illini still had a chance to make the Big Dance if Illinois could knock off Michigan in the Big Ten tournament. Although head coach John Groce talked up his team’s stellar practices leading into the game, the Illini were dismantled by the Wolverines and ended up losing the game 73-55.

“I didn’t see that one coming at all,” Groce said after the game. “That one blindsided me. We expected to play well today and just didn’t.”

After the game, sophomore guard Malcolm Hill was candid about Illinois’ chances of making the NCAA tournament after

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Illinois’ Malcolm Hill attempts a layup during the game against Rutgers at State Farm Center, on Feb. 3, 2014. The Illini won 66-54.

Graduate O’Toole extended football play to postseason

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Illinois’ Reilly O’Toole throws a pass during the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl against Louisiana Tech at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas on Dec. 26. The Illini lost 35-18.

Without Reilly O’Toole, the 2014 Illinois football season might have been head coach Tim Beckman’s last.

But then the senior quarterback rose to the occasion against Minnesota, throwing one touchdown and rushing for another to help the Illini to a 28-24 Homecoming victory over Minnesota.

He again rose to the occasion at home against Penn State. With Illinois on the brink of missing out on postseason play for the third-straight year, he led a 54-yard drive that culminated in a David Reisner 36-yard field goal to put the Illini up 16-14 with eight sec-

onds remaining.

Visiting Northwestern on the last day of the regular season, the three-year backup put on his best performance as an Illini, throwing for 147 yards, rushing for 147 yards and accounting for three touchdowns in a 47-33 victory over the Wildcats.

Those three Big Ten wins brought Beckman’s conference win total from one to four in his third year as Illinois’ head coach and secured the Illini a trip to the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl. There, Louisiana Tech handed Illinois a 35-18 defeat in the Cotton Bowl, but the bowl loss did not end Beckman’s Illinois career — after the sea-

son, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mike Thomas guaranteed Beckman would be back for the 2015 season.

The Illini fi nished 6-7 overall and 3-5 in the Big Ten. “Reilly O’Toole helped this football team win,” Beckman said after the win over Northwestern. “He’s one heck of a leader, a competitor, and he’s one of those names I’ll remember forever, as long as I coach.”

O’Toole replaced sophomore Wes Lunt when the Oklahoma State transfer went down with a broken leg following the Texas State game. Lunt played

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Baseball set to close historic winning season

BY MICHAL DWOJAK STAFF WRITER

The players of the Illinois baseball team answered reporters’ questions inside the Irwin Indoor Practice Facility on a cold January day. Each player faced the same question: How good can this team be this year?

With the experience from the Illini that were returning, expectations were set high for the team.

No matter how high the standards were, few could’ve imagined the historic season the Illini would have. The 2015 team began the season with its best start in program history, set record overall and Big Ten winning streaks and hold the best wining percentage in the NCAA. It’s been a special team

to be a part of, and players know there’s a job to do.

“This team is so much fun to be a part of, everybody’s so loose and able to be themselves,” pitcher Kevin Duchene said. “We don’t feel the pressure of a win streak or postseason aspirations, we’re taking it one game at a time.”

The Illini escaped the fi rst three weekends with a 9-2-1 record — it was the fi rst time the team tied in 10 years. The true test for Illinois came against thenNo. 10 Oklahoma State. The team showed its true colors in the rubber match in Stillwater, Oklahoma, after taking the fi rst game and dropping the second. David Kerian hit the go-ahead home run in the top of the 10th inning and the Illini

won the series.

Illinois only lost three of its next 11 games before starting a historic run. With their 13-9 win over Michigan State to win the series, the Illini started a 24-game winning streak, which is tied for the longest this season with Texas.

Both the Illini offense and pitching staff have been consistent throughout the season. When Illinois fails to get anything going at the plate and only scores a few runs, the pitchers pick up the load and vice versa.

The staff leads the Big Ten with a 2.27 ERA and are led by junior lefties Tyler Jay and Duchene. Jay and Duchene rank second and third in the nation with 0.73 and 0.78 ERAs, respectively.

The team’s batting aver-

age of .293 is tied with Michigan State for second in the conference. Kerian leads the Illini with a .366 average but five players have at least a .300 batting average.

“Everyone’s been doing their job and taking quality at-bats,” Kerian said.

“Nobody tried to do too much and got the jobs done to get the wins.”

The records and national accolades are fun but they aren’t the goal the Illini set at the beginning of the year.

Coming off a sweep of Rutgers, Illinois will close out the season against Nebraska at Illinois Field. Illinois is projected to host a NCAA Super Regional but there are still things left undone.

The Illini will travel to Minneapolis and try to capture its fourth Big Ten

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Illinois’ Kevin Duchene throws a pitch during the baseball game vs. Purdue at Illinois Field on April 11. Illinois won 10-5.

Championship before it sets to play in the NCAA tournament and tries to leave Omaha, Nebraska, with its fi rst College World Series Championship.

“Our guys are already focused with the start of

practice,” head coach Dan Hartleb said. “This is just a group that comes out to take care of business and has a lot of lofty goals.”

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BY JOEY FIGUEROA STAFF WRITER

When a team doesn’t perform well for an extended time, the coach often takes the blame. When a team is successful, the players usually garner most of the credit.

But when a team wins 24 consecutive games and has been as successful as the Illinois baseball team has this season, recognition is deserved at every level. And while he would never admit it, head coach Dan Hartleb has been the driving force behind arguably the best team to ever play at Illinois Field.

At 43-6-1, Illinois is off to its best start in school history and is seven wins away from tying the program record.

Hartleb has coached his team to the best winning percentage in the nation and hasn’t seen a different number in the loss column since March.

Since his first year as head coach in 2006, Hartleb hasn’t come close to the type of success he’s experiencing this season. He insists nothing has changed, though.

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FOOTBALL in the first half of the Minnesota game before Beckman went with O’Toole, who finished the season as the team’s starter.

With O’Toole’s graduation, all signs point toward Lunt starting the 2015 season as Beckman’s signal caller.

Freshman wide receiver Mike Dudek was the breakout star of the year for the Illini, catching 76 passes for 1,038 yards and six touchdowns. But the fresh-

“We haven’t done anything different,” Hartleb said. “I think you get in trouble when you do too many things different. Obviously you tweak some things at times to try and keep things fresh, I think if you look at good programs at any level, there’s some continuity there and they do things the same the majority of the time.”

“When you continue to win, it’s always a lot of fun.”

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Hartleb has been on the Illinois coaching staff since 1991, when he came over from Southern Illinois as an assistant coach for head coach Itch Jones. Upon Jones’ retirement in 2005, Hartleb took over the helm in 2006 and has experienced consistent success. Since Hartleb’s promotion, Illinois has yet to man All-American tore his ACL during a noncontact drill at spring practice and is expected to be sidelined until at least October.

Besides Dudek, the lone Illini named to the All-Big Ten team was senior punter Justin DuVernois, who finished second in the Big Ten with 44.4 yards per punt.

No Illinois players were drafted in April’s NFL draft, but senior tight ends Matt LaCosse and Jon Davis were signed as undrafted free agents — LaCosse with the New York Giants and Davis with the Dallas Cowboys.

finish a season under .500, has made the Big Ten Tournament all but two seasons and has a conference record of 130-104.

Back when the streak was at a mere five games, the 49-year-old achieved his 300th career coaching win to finish off a sweep of Northwestern. Following a celebratory Gatorade shower, a humbled Hartleb gave credit to everyone except himself.

“It’s nice,” Hartleb said of his milestone. “It means we’ve had good players. It comes down to having great support from the administration here, having a number of good players that have done a great job during their careers and again having great players this year.”

Hartleb’s coaching style is calm and collected, just like his demeanor. Even in the midst of school record win streak, it’s rare to see Hartleb’s modesty break to crack a smile. He’s a skipper who never gets too high or low, but doesn’t stand in the way of his players when they want to celebrate.

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Illinois’ Dan Hartleb observes the game between the Illini and Purdue at the Illinois Field on April 13.

“When you continue to win, it’s always a lot of fun,” senior outfielder Will Krug said. “You really don’t feel the pressure.”

With the pressure that undoubtedly comes with a streak as long as the Illini’s, Hartleb has done a great job managing expectations and keeping his players levelheaded throughout. He has consistently stressed the importance of maturity and not panicking, and with 20 comeback wins on the season, it is apparent Hartleb’s tranquility has rubbed off.

That lack of intense pressure to keep the streak alive may be the defining reason

why it has lasted so long.

“No one’s going to win every game,” said sophomore outfielder Pat McInerney. “You come to the ballpark thinking you’re going to win, but one of these days we’re not going to win and it’s not going to be the end of the world.”

Once the day does come when the Illini finally lose a game, Hartleb will allow his players an hour to reflect, just as he allows them an hour to celebrate every win.

And then it’s on to the next streak.

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na Egwu and Ahmad Starks.

Illinois will return three starters and a number of juniors who will hope to make next year’s Illini a deep team. Abrams will be back to contribute for the team. The Illini will also welcome in several new freshmen faces as well as senior center transfer Mike Thorne Jr. from Charlotte University.

Thorne will replace the hole in the frontcourt left by Egwu. He will have one year of eligibility remaining.

Groce is also still in the process of recruiting another guard, incoming

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“I mean, I don’t like to say ball team win.”

TIM BECKMAN HEAD COACH

The Illini begin the 2015 season under the lights on a Friday night: Sept. 4 at 8 p.m. against Kent St. at Memorial Stadium.

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we’re about to play in the NIT,” Hill said. “But we just have to do our best in that, I guess.”

Just as had been the case all season, the Illini weren’t able to find their rhythm in their lone game in the NIT. Illinois was blown out by host Alabama in a game that was never close: The Crimson Tide won 79-58.

The Illini will see the graduation of Rice, Nnan-

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more accolades began to pile up for Martinez. He was unanimously named Big Ten and InterMat Wrestling Freshman of the Year following the NCAA final. He was also named one of four finalists for the 2015 WIN Magazine/ Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy, wrestling’s equivalent to the Heisman. Last week, Martinez won his final award by being named Amateur Wrestling News Rookie of the Year.

“As far as I look at it, he’s only going to get more dominant,” assistant coach Mark Perry said.

“The upside that he has is unbelievable. He still has a lot of areas where he can improve. As long as he’s thinking that way, I think the winning and dominance will continue.”

“Winning the national champion was a dream my dad and I have had ever since I got on campus,” Martinez added. “But I know I can get more out of myself. I’m already ready to do undefeated and win it again next year.”

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This season will leave a sour taste in the team’s mouth, and the three departing seniors will leave a large void both in leadership and production.

With the experience of next year’s team and the year-toyear movement in the Big Ten, the Illini will look to be a contender as long as they can find their rhythm first.

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Tennis set for Sweet Sixteen Illini travel to Baylor for NCAA Championships

BY CHRIS KENNEDY STAFF WRITER

The Illinois men’s tennis team started the spring season with a big win in Waco, Texas.

The Illini hope the season ends with a few more — they are headed to Baylor for the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Championships. Their Round of 16 match is a rematch of one of their biggest wins of the spring: No. 4 Illinois will face No. 13 North Carolina on Thursday.

“When you advance to Sweet Sixteen, you feel like you’re part of an elite group there,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “Obviously these guys want more and we know that it’ll be a big challenge for us come Thursday.”

That first trip to Waco on Jan. 21 kicked off a fantastic spring campaign for Illinois. In his first collegiate dual match, Aleks Vukic clinched a victory over Baylor in a thrilling third set tie-

breaker. It was revenge for Illinois against a Baylor team that had been trouble for the Illini in 2014. The Bears were the only team to shut out the Illini — they did it twice — and they knocked Illinois out of the NCAA Tournament in the Sweet Sixteen. It was the start of a big spring for Vukic. He now holds the team record for singles wins in a season with 44 and counting.

The Illini played host to the ITA Team National Indoor Championships at Chicago’s Midtown Athletic Club. They swept California in the first round but fell to Georgia in the second, with Farris Gosea dropping a third-set tiebreaker to seal the deal. The highlight of the tournament was the Illini’s consolation round victory over Ohio State. It was the first Illini victory over the Buckeyes since 2012.

Before the conference slate began for Illinois, the team went on its “March through Texas” — three

road matches in three days against top-20 teams in the Lone Star State. The team started things off with a 4-2 win in Austin against No. 8 Texas and followed it up with a win a 4-2 win in College Station over No. 9 Texas A&M. Three freshmen notched singles wins for the Illini that day: Vukic, Aron Hiltzik, and Toshiki Matsuya. Even with a roster that didn’t lose any players from last season, three freshmen were key contributors throughout the season.

The Illini couldn’t carry their momentum to their third Texas match; they were swept for the first and only time this season against TCU in Fort Worth, 4-0. The Texas trip was also significant as the first time with a significant shift in the Illini doubles line-ups. After early season struggles with the doubles point, Dancer split-up top doubles duo Tim Kopinski and Ross Guignon to distribute their doubles expertise across two courts. The decision paid dividends for the Illini and would hold the rest of the season.

Illinois rolled through the first part of the Big Ten schedule, highlighted by its first sweep of Ohio State since 2002. The victory snapped Ohio State’s 97-match regular season Big Ten win streak.

The tide turned in the rivalry between Illinois and Ohio State this season.

Prior to the spring, Illinois had beaten Ohio State three times in the last 10 years. The Illini beat the Buckeyes three times this season alone.

The Illini rattled off sixstraight Big Ten wins before falling to Minnesota on April 17. The loss left them in a three-way tie for the regular season conference title and something to prove at the Big Ten Tournament.

But the Illini rolled through the tournament, sweeping all three opponents 4-0. The championship match came against Ohio State, and Aron Hiltzik clinched it to give the Illini their first Big Ten tournament championship since 2012.

The Illini also played host to the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament last weekend. They swept UW-

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Illinois’ Aleks Vukic swings for the ball during the first round of NCAA Men’s Tennis Regionals against Green Bay at Atkins Tennis Center on Friday. The Illini hope to win big at Baylor.

Green Bay for the second time this season in the first round but were met with a challenge in round two from the Drake Bulldogs on Saturday. It was a tense, backand-forth match, but the Illini pulled it out 4-2 to advance to Waco, Texas. It’s the first match Illinois has dropped a point in since its loss to Minnesota.

Now, the Illini head to a familiar court to face a familiar foe. The Illini have championship aspirations, but it’ll

be a tough road. The Tar Heels are formidable, and a possible Elite Eight matchup with TCU looms in the next round.

“We made it, it feels great, hopefully try and make a deep run. But as I said, every team’s going to come fight you,” Gosea said. “We really just got to take it match by match and take it down smaller and just go point by point.”

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Women’s basketball looks to new players after rough season

BY JOEY FIGUEROA STAFF WRITER

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Illinois’ Chatrice White attacks the rim during the game against Ohio State at the State Farm Center on Feb. 14. White was a top recruit who lived up to the hype.

Heading into the 2014-2015 season, the Illinois women’s basketball team had nowhere to go but up.

Led by new veteran transfers and a five-star recruit, the Illini may have even exceeded expectations and stayed on the right track in head coach Matt Bollant’s rebuilding process.

Illinois finished the season with an overall record of 15-16 and were 6-12 in the Big Ten — a major turnaround from its 2-14 conference performance the year before.

It was a season that must have Bollant feeling optimistic, especially because of the way freshman center Chatrice White performed. The prized 6-foot-3 recruit lived up to her preseason hype with per-game averages of 14.5 points, seven rebounds and two blocks. She shot over 44 percent from the field and even led all players with at least 60 attempts with a

36-percent success rate from 3-point range.

The Nebraska native earned Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors on three separate occasions and finished the season with an allBig Ten Honorable Mention.

Bollant raved about his top recruit’s skills all season long.

“She’s everything that we hoped she would be,” Bollant said early in the season. “One thing about talented players: They only tend to get better.”

White had her fingerprints all over some of Illinois’ most memorable moments of the season. The freshman phenom was Illinois’ leading scorer with 23 points in its upset win over No. 9 Kentucky early in the season. In her first return to her home state of Nebraska in late January, White drilled four 3-pointers during another 23-point performance in a narrow 59-57 loss to the Huskers. And as a sign of things to come for

the program, White scored a career-high 30 points to lead Illinois to a win over Michigan in the final game of the regular season, clinching a first-round bye in the Big Ten tournament.

White wasn’t the only new addition that contributed last season, though. Guards Kyley Simmons and Brittany Carter started every game and added veteran leadership after transferring to Illinois the year prior, and freshman Amarah Coleman solidified herself as the team’s first option off the bench.

The new group meshed well together until senior scoring leader Ivory Crawford went down with a torn meniscus in early January, which led to a seven-game losing streak that derailed a promising season. Illinois stumbled into the Big Ten tournament having lost 11 of its final 15 games and were eliminated in the opening round by Nebraska.

Crawford fought valiantly

in her final game as an Illini and leaves as the program’s 13th leading scorer all-time.

She also left her mark as an example for the younger players on the squad.

“With Ivory, I just learned how she played the game and it made me see the game differently and look for different opportunities,” White said. “I had a great group of seniors that I really looked up to this year and I’m really going to miss them.”

With Crawford and Carter graduating, and forward Jacqui Grant’s decision to transfer to DePaul, Illinois will be without three of its five starters next season.

Bollant locked down another solid recruiting class, though, and will work with a roster fully comprised of his own recruits next season.

And with a talent like White, Illinois already has a player to build a program around.

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Disappointing postseason ends for Illinois volleyball

BY NICHOLAS FORTIN STAFF WRITER

For the second straight year, the Illinois volleyball team made the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament.

And for the second straight year, Illinois (26-8 16-4 Big Ten) was eliminated in that round, this season by Florida. For the Illini, the final match was a bitter finish to yet another great season.

“We’re supposed to be beyond this,” said head coach Kevin Hambly about the Sweet Sixteen before Illinois squared off with Florida. “(With) all the kids that we’ve recruited, we’ve been talking about making Final Fours, winning national titles, trying to put banners up and not just advancing to the tournament.”

After starting the season 8-3, the road got tougher for the Illini once the team reached conference play.

Against tougher Big Ten competition, Illinois still excelled.

The Illini rattled off both three- and five-game winning streaks in conference play, and in the process achieved something that hadn’t been done since Oct. 8, 2011. Illinois knocked off Penn State at home, a feat that had only been accomplished by a nonIllinois team once in the Nittany Lion’s past 97 home matches.

Illinois finished the regular season strong with a

three-game winning streak and a 16-4 conference record that put the Illini in third in the Big Ten on the season.

They moved into the postseason with momentum.

The team played host to the first two rounds of the tournament. After sweeping Murray State in the first round, Illinois swept Iowa State, the school that would play host to the Illini in the next round of the tournament.

Illinois traveled to Ames, Iowa, confident in its play despite going up against No. 1 Florida and its freshman phenom middle blocker, Rhamat Alhassan.

“Yeah, they won a bunch of games,” said sophomore defensive specialist Danielle Davis about Florida before the match. “But they haven’t played us yet.”

In the end Alhassan proved to be too much for the Illini — the middle blocker put away seven kills on 10 attempts in the third set alone — as the Gators went on to win the match in five sets.

After eluding the injury bug for most of the year, Illinois suffered an injury to junior setter Alexis Viliunas when it hurt the most.

While the injury turned out to just be a rolled ankle that she recovered from, and played in the remainder of the match against Florida on, her play seemed somewhat hindered and the Illini’s tournament run ended.

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Illinois’ Danielle Davis walks to the locker room with the rest of the team after the NCAA First Round against Murray State at Huff Hall on Dec. 5. Despite the dissapointing finish to the postseason, the Illini are looking forward to next season.

After losing three seniors to graduation — middle blocker Anna Dorn, outside hitter Morganne Criswell and opposite side hitter Liz McMahon — the Illini wasted little time filling their spots for the 2015 season.

Illinois signed three incoming freshman — setter Jordyn Poulter, middle block-

er Ali Bastinelli and outside hitter Beth Prince — who are all in the top-50 of Volleyball Magazine’s Fab 50 list.

The Illini also landed junior transfer Naya Crittenden from Oregon. Crittenden will add depth to an already deep Illini frontcourt and will compete for the opposite side hitter position left

The Illini will need to surpass the point they reached in the NCAA tournament this season.

“No one is satisfied with where we are,” Hambly said before Illinois played Florida. “There’s more to do.”

vacant by McMahon.

While the Illini lost three valuable senior leaders to graduation, the depth of next year’s team will make Illinois a favorite in the Big Ten yet again next season.

For Hambly, the team will need to do more than just compete in conference to win his approval.

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The next two matches, the Westbrook Spring Invitational and the Hurricane Invitational, were both rough finishes for Illinois, as it finished eighth and tenth, respectively. However, freshman Jan Prapassarangkul put herself on the map with two-straight top-three finishes, shooting 3-under 213 at the Westbrook Spring Invitational and 1-over 214 at the Hurricane Invitational.

Illinois leveled out its play throughout the next three tournaments, placing fifth, fifth and sixth at the Briar’s Creek Invitational, Web.com Intercollegiate and Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational, respectively.

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The Illini underperformed in the final match of the year and failed to qualify for the NCAA Regional; however, they improved from last season and appear to be trending in the right direction.

Illinois will bring back all five of its starters for next year and appear poised to make the climb up the Big Ten.

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The Illini women’s golf team struggled through the 2014-15 season, but saw improvement from last year’s less-than-stellar campaign.

The team came into the season with little playing experience, routinely starting three freshmen and two sophomores. However, periodically a few Illini seniors would step in and join the lineup.

to beat No. 6 Boston College, No. 1 Indiana and No. 4 Fresno State to win the title.

Following two-straight victories, Illinois fell flat at the Jim West Challenge in Boerne, Texas, on Nov. 2-3.

The team finished eighth in a field of 12 to cap off its fall season. Miller led the team with a 10th place finish, shooting 8-over 224.

Possibly the lone bright spot for the Illini in the spring season was their opening match win against Illinois State in the Illinois Challenge. Illinois won 8-4 in match play and fourball competition over the Redbirds. The win was the seventh-straight victory for the Illini in the Illinois Challenge.

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son Invitational on Oct. 4-5.

The Illini defended their title in Iowa City, Iowa. Gattone took home individual medalist honors with a 10-over 226. The Illini as a whole shot 57-over 917 on the three rounds and posted the only sub-300 team round of the tournament, 3-over 291 in the final round.

The streaking Illini continued their success at the Hoosier Fall Invitational two weeks later, where they notched their second win of the season. The tournament consisted of a stroke-play round followed by a tournament-style match-play portion. Out of the eight-team field, the Illini were the third seed going into the matchplay portion. Illinois went on

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The fall season was when the Illini did the most of their damage throughout the year.

Illinois opened its season at the Colonel Wollenberg Ram Fall Classic on Sept.

8-9 with a third-place finish at 17-over par 881. Freshman Dana Gattone led the team with a score of one-over 217 on the tournament. Following Gattone, sophomore Stephanie Miller posted a 4-over 220 and freshman Grace Park with a 5-over 221.

The Illini struggled at their next event, the Minnesota Invitational, carding an opening-round 319, which was a tournament high score.

Illinois failed to have a player finish in the top 20.

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