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43-year-old male was arrested on charges of aggravated battery and child abuse in the 900 block of West Tremont Street around 5 p.m. Friday.

In the June 24-30, 2013, edition of The Daily Illini, the article, “Zeta Tau Alpha house considered as historic landmark” incorrectly stated Zeta Tau Alpha as a sorority. It is a women’s fraternity. The Daily Illini regrets this error.

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26-year-old female was arrested on a charges of vehicular noise in the 1000 block of Pomona Street around 11 p.m. Thursday.

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24-year-old male was arrested on a charges of public urination in the 00 block of Main Street around 11 p.m. Saturday.

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21-year-old male was arrested on a charge of possession of cannabis near the corner of Bradley Avenue and Neil Street around 12:15 a.m. Saturday.

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26-year-old male was arrested on a charge of criminal trespass to statesupported land around 2:15 p.m. Thursday in the 600 block of South Wright Street in Champaign. According to the report, the suspect had previously been issued a no trespassing letter.

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19-year-old males were arrested on a charge of resisting or obstructing arrest around 2:45 a.m. Friday in the 700 block of South Mathews Avenue in Urbana.

According to the report, the suspects were crawling into a manhole, and the suspects ran when the police tried to arrest them.

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50-year-old male was arrested on a charge of obstruction of justice around 5:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of West Springfield Avenue in Urbana. According to the report, the suspect fled a traffic stop, going in excess of 70 mph on residential streets. The suspect was questioned and arrested the next day.

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25-year-old male was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday in the 00 block of East Daniel Street in Champaign.

According to the report, the suspect was initially stopped for not having operating headlights.

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19-year-old female was arrested on a charge of violating noise prohibition laws around 12:45 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of Austin Drive. According to the report, loud music was coming from a car parked in a driveway and around 20 people ran away when officers approached.

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30-year-old female was arrested on charges of burglary and parole violation around 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the 2500 block of Philo Road. According to the report, the suspect stole liquor, jewelry and clothing.

The burglary violated the suspect’s parole.

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20-year-old male was arrested on a charge of illegal consumption of liquor by a minor and driving without lights around 1 a.m. Sunday in the 400 block of East University Avenue. According to the report, the suspect admitted to consuming alcohol prior to the stop and failed field sobriety tests before being arrested.

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Gay rights advocate Vin Testa waves a rainbow flag in front of the Supreme Court at sun up in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. In a major victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California.

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Judge to decide restatement of Suburban Express lawsuits Bus company also requested information from the University on UIUC Subreddit moderator

BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER

The Suburban Express legal drama may seem to have settled down as students migrated north to the suburbs for the summer, but on July 30, Ford County Judge Steve Pacey will decide whether to reinstate 21 of the original 126 lawsuits the bus company previously withdrew.

Kim Evans, Ford County circuit clerk, said Suburban Express filed a motion on April 28 to reopen the cases without prejudice, a decision that would allow the company to reopen those cases in the future.

Suburban Express declined comment on why certain cases were being reinstated despite its previous statement, which said, “We recognized that this legal approach of trying to uphold our agreement with customers carries with it a negative perception that we do not intend.”

Within a month of withdrawing the cases, Suburban

Express requested information from the University under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, including communications from Joel Stenfeldt of the Office of Public Affairs, which mentioned UIUC Subreddit moderator Murph Finnicum or graduate student Jeremy Leval.

Finnicum said the University did not notify him that the company had requested the information.

“I Googled myself looking to see if I could find my phone number online, and I came up on FOIA request,” Finnicum said. “I would have never known.”

After requesting the same information, Finnicum was provided with a 100-page document that he uploaded to Reddit for others to read.

Eight days after the FOIA request, Finnicum received a second letter from Suburban Express’ lawyer James Long, asking him to remove a claim on a Reddit thread, which said the bus company is “likely to sue.”

In a letter of response, Finnicum said he does not plan to remove the information, which Finnicum believes constitutes as free speech as well as a matter of public awareness.

In light of this information, Ken White, First Amendment rights attorney and legal blogger, who brought awareness to the lawsuits after a blog posting on Popehat.com, has become involved once again in conversation on the subreddit.

White said he is aware of two cases of defamation on the subreddit, in which he is researching to help provide free legal service.

“I don’t like bullies, and I don’t like people that chill online speech with bogus claims,” White said. “I don’t like people manipulating and abusing the legal system.”

White said he is preparing to write a sequel to his first Suburban Express blog post on his blog Popehat.

Corinne can be reached at cruff2@dailyillini.com and @corinnesusan.

Student loans rates to double on July 1 Illinois student senators, members of Congress to fight increasing loan rates

BY ELIOT SILL STAFF WRITER

Student loan interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans are set to double on July 1 from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.

This could wind up costing students an additional $1,000 over their four years of taking out college loans. Congress has been pressured by various organizations, including the Illinois Student Senate, to act to ensure that students don’t get stuck with the higher rates.

Even though the deadline of July 1 is likely to pass without action, Congress could still figure out a deal before students are forced to sign up for their loans when the fall semester starts in August.

Student Senator Tony Fiorentino said there is a student debt crisis in America’s colleges, and while it’s important that students avoid paying double the interest rate, the issue of loan interest rates is merely a “superficial symptom” of a larger problem. That is to say, the rates are not the crisis, just one of its side effects.

Fiorentino does believe the immediate issue of interest rates is critical for students. Fiorentino said ISS supports Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) newly proposed plan that would tie Stafford loan interest rates to the rate at which banks borrow from the federal reserve. The plan would mean a decrease from a 6.8 percent interest rate to a 0.75 percent rate.

Warren’s plan has garnered a lot of support from students and college administrators, but still faces an uphill battle in Congress.

“It’s not very popular,” Fiorentino said. “In fact, it’s as unpopular in Congress as it is popular with students.”

Other proposed plans include a one-year extension of the current interest rates, like the one-year extension Congress passed last year with the deadline approaching; a permanent extension of the current rates; and tying interest rates to market rates. Fiorentino said the latter plan, which has been proffered by President Barack Obama, is “upsetting” in light of the fixed-rate deal the banks get from the federal reserve.

In an effort to spark change, Fiorentino and the Illinois Student Senate is planning to launch a student debt awareness campaign in the fall in an effort to better inform the student body about the “predatory lending system” into which students enter when they take out loans

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Members of the Illinois State Senate meet with congresswoman Jan Schakowsky. to pay for school.

“What you have is a system where it is more profitable for student loan corporations and student loan guarantors, and also the Department of Education, when the student defaults on their debt, rather than when they keep their debt in good standing,” Fiorentino said.

Fiorentino and other ISS members have been regularly meeting with members of Congress to talk about the student loans. The issue of interest rates is something of a jumping-off point, Fiorentino said, of a much larger conversation.

“In an immediate sense, the doubling of the interest rates have been a great opportunity, a way for us to get in the door to have a much larger discussion about systemic failures when it comes to student loan policies,” he said.

Those “systemic failures” include a lack of bankruptcy protection, which every other kind of loan has, and the lack of a statute of limitations, which allows collection even more than 50 years after the loan is taken out.

ISS has met with Sen. Dick Durbin and Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-9), Bill Foster (D-11), Tammy Duckworth (D-8), Rodney Davis (R-13), Peter Roskam (R-6), Randy Hultgren (R-14) and Bill Enyart (D-12), and will continue to meet with more lawmakers in the future, including Brad Schneider (D-10) and Bobby Rush (D-1).

Fiorentino said these meetings have, for the most part, gone poorly.

“I get the sense that though Congress members are liv-

ing in a very rarified, distant world, I think many of them don’t understand what it’s like,” he said.

An exception to this has been Sen. Durbin, Fiorentino said, who came out against the forthcoming doubling of interest rates.

“I think that is fundamentally unfair,” Durbin told reporters in a news conference in June. “Student debt is the fastest growing debt in America. We have more student debt than credit card debt in this nation. It is only eclipsed by mortgage debt in terms of the total debt packages, and it’s growing fast.”

While Durbin has been supportive of their cause, he lies in the minority among lawmakers.

“We’re working with Senator Durbin, but by and large, we would say the response from Congress has been disappointing, to say the least,” Fiorentino said.

He said the reason lawmakers are so willing to back high interest rates is because the banks who lend to students are donating money to fund campaigns, and in return expect legislation that keeps interest rates high. Fiorentino said the only way to topple this systemic alignment is for students to come out in numbers and show support for fundamental change within the student loan system.

“They’re not gonna do anything until they see students in the thousands coming out and demanding economic justice,” Fiorentino said.

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Ground broken on future site of Leonhard Recreation Center

BY KAT BOEHLE

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After a year of planning, the Champaign Park District has broken ground on its new Leonhard Recreation Center that is due to open in spring 2014.

Wednesday’s groundbreaking was attended by many park district employees and board members including Joe Petry, park district president.

“Staff and the board are all very excited about the new facility,” Petry said. “It will be a great addition to the community.”

The new recreation center will be located near Centennial Park in Champaign at the corner of Sangamon Drive and Kenwood Road and will boast many new features that the current recreation center does not have, including a much desired geothermal heating and cooling system, said Bobbie Herakovich, executive director of the Champaign Park District.

“Parents of day campers are also thrilled as the summer day camp held at Leonhard becomes very hot during the summer without air conditioning despite staff efforts at fans and misters and outside activities,” Herakovich said.

Other new features will be an indoor playground, a walking track, basketball courts, volleyball courts and new activity rooms.

“The gym will have wood floors and air conditioning which we do not have in the current Leonhard Recreation Center,” said Joe

DeLuce, director of recreation at the park district. “We also think the indoor playground and fitness rooms will be very popular for our residents.”

Herakovich said that the board is still deciding on what to do with the current recreation center building, but that it will likely become a support facility for the tennis courts located around the center.

Last year, the park district did an evaluation of the current recreation center and estimated that it would need around $400,000 worth of repairs, including a leaky roof, Herakovich said.

“So we decided to build a new facility to better meet today’s recreational needs,” she said.

Herakovich said that after they received the IPARC grant of $2.5 million last year for the project, the park district evaluated residents to see what they wanted in a new recreation facility.

Not only will the new recreation center have the new physical features, but the park district will also be offering sports and fitness programs along with special interest classes. It will also continue to be the primary place for the summer day camps that the park district currently offers and has over 800 participants in.

“We are confident the community will be as excited about the facility as we are,” Petry said. “We are excited to get it built!”

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The site of the new Leonhard Recreation Center, which broke ground Wednesday, will open in spring 2014.

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EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY: Your guide to Independence Day celebrations Rantoul National Aviation Center

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Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve

Danville Boat Club

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Rantoul Where: Rantoul National Aviation Center’s Frank Elliott Field When: 5:30 p.m. — 11 p.m.

Admission: $5 for 15 and older, free for children, 5k runners, walkers, and veterans

Champaign Event: Champaign County Freedom Celebration Where: Lot E-14 (next to State Farm Center) Admission: Free, donations suggested Other activities: Musical entertainment, food vendors and children’s activities before and after fireworks

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Large protests over health care issues, transportation sweep Brazil

Belting the blues

Vicosa saw nearly 5,000 people gather in the streets Tuesday night

BY CLAIRE EVERETT STAFF WRITER

VICOSA, Brazil — Close to 5,000 people took to the streets of Viçosa on Tuesday night as a part of the mass protests sweeping Brazil during the Confederations Cup soccer tournament.

The demonstrations were initially organized to protest the increase in bus, train, and metro prices in the city of São Paulo. However, these demonstrations catalyzed a reaction of demonstrations throughout Brazil about issues in various topics such as health, education and the misappropriation of investments.

On Tuesday night, people in Viçosa protested for quality health care. The protest began in the city square called “Quatro Pilastras” and protestors chanted, “vem pra rua!” meaning “come to the street!” as the mass moved forward.

Medical students wore their lab coats and clown noses — a symbol throughout Brazilian protests to signify people no longer want to be treated like clowns.

“There is a complete lack of interest and investments in the public system created by the government itself,” said Marcelo Sasleria, junior in geography at the University of Federal Vicosa. “I am protesting so that there will be real change, not just ideal change that never actually happens.”

People chanted over and over, “Dr. Celito não é legal e, o povo morre na fila do hospital.” In English, this phrase means, “Dr. Celito, it’s not cool, the people are dying

in line at the hospital.”

Celito Francisco Sari, whom of several protest chants were directed at, is a doctor and the mayor of the city of Viçosa.

“I am protesting for a better Viçosa,” Agnes Sontos, senior in engineering at Federal Vicosa, said. “For a better Brazil. For justice.”

In light of the protest, Brazil’s president has suffered a steep drop in the polls. In a poll released Saturday, 30 percent of voters say they’ll cast their ballot for Dilma Rousseff in October 2014 — that is down from 51 percent just a few weeks ago.

“The protest movement that began two weeks ago isn’t necessarily a movement against the (ruling) Workers Party nor Dilma personally, it’s a protest against the entire ruling class,” said Pedro Arruda, a political science professor at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo. “If polled, the unpopularity would be of all politicians. The people are protesting all the parties.”

Rousseff is expected to deliver a formal proposal to the Brazilian congress early next week on a political reform plebiscite she wants held in the coming months. She hasn’t yet released any details on what political reforms she will suggest nor how or exactly when a plebiscite would occur.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Illinois gay rights advocates celebrate recent Supreme Court rulings Anticipation for legalization of gay marriage in Illinois rises in light of DOMA, Proposition 8 decisions

BY CARLA K. JOHNSON AND SOPHIA TAREEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Advocates of gay marriage in Illinois celebrated landmark rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, saying the clarity on a federal marriage act and California ban will benefit same-sex Illinois couples married in other states and fuel momentum to legalize gay marriage in President Barack Obama’s home state.

The high court struck down a key provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, meaning that legally married same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples. In a separate, narrower decision, the court also paved the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of California’s gay marriage ban didn’t have the right to appeal rulings that struck down the ban.

The DOMA ruling is expected to affect numerous same-sex couples who were legally married in other states and live in Illinois, a number that’s not officially tracked but advocates estimate is in the thousands.

“I am thrilled beyond belief,” said Courtney Reid, a 51-year-old Illinois resident who married her longtime partner last year in New York. “It certainly means a lot for my wife and me.”

The benefits include filing joint taxes, receiving breaks on estate taxes and receiving Social Security survivor benefits. But there were still lingering questions about the ruling’s full impact on married couples living in Illi-

nois. For example, immigration law focuses on where people married, but eligibility for survivor benefits essentially depends on where a married couple is at the time of a death.

Obama on Wednesday directed the Justice Department to work with other executive branch agencies to begin implementing the court’s decision, so more guidance for states like Illinois may follow. The Illinois Attorney General’s office is reviewing the decision for its impact on Illinois, according to a spokeswoman.

A couple that is legally married in another state and resides in Illinois is recognized as a civil union in the state, even if the couple hasn’t applied for one. The number of couples in civil unions in Illinois — who may or may not be legally married elsewhere — is roughly 5,300.

Illinois allowed civil unions in 2011 but hasn’t legalized gay marriage, despite a push from Obama, Gov. Pat Quinn, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and lobbying from well-organized gay rights groups.

“It just underscores the fight for the freedom to marry,” said Bernard Cherkasov, the CEO of Equality Illinois. “We’re going to take that message to the lawmakers in our districts.”

Gay marriage supporters gathered late Wednesday in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision. Speakers asked the crowd to contact their representatives in Springfield to urge passage of legislation legalizing gay marriage in Illinois.

Bob Hansen, 53, is a mail carrier from the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook Terrace who attended the rally with his partner.

Hansen was carrying a sign proclaiming: “Our 23 year 2 month 22 day wait is almost over!” He said he and his partner haven’t entered into a civil union because they want marriage. They had one planned for summer but then the Illinois House didn’t vote on the proposal.

“At least this is in place now for when Illinois does pass it, and I’m pretty sure they will eventually,” Hansen said, adding that he was amazed and stunned this morning. “I didn’t think it was going to happen.”

Efforts to legalize gay marriage in Illinois were halted earlier this year when lawmakers decided not to call the matter for a vote. The sponsor of the measure, Democratic Rep. Greg Harris, said he simply didn’t have the votes needed in the Illinois House and wanted to give his colleagues more time to think it over in their home districts.

The move received some criticism from Chicago’s active gay rights lobby, which has made an intense push since last year. There was also short-lived talk of barring politicians from the city’s annual Pride Parade, which took place last weekend. The festive event attracts hundreds of thousands of people each year, including elected officials and those running for office.

Harris said the court’s decision on Wednesday would help and that a same-sex marriage bill will be revived in the fall session.

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“Illinois must step up and join our brother and sister states,” Harris said. “It’s now more important than ever.”

But opponents of same-sex marriage said they would continue to fight efforts in Illinois.

Earlier this year, several black megachurches were part of intense efforts to fight legislation in Springfield and launched aggressive robocall campaigns.

One group, the African American Clergy Coalition, vowed to continue, saying that marriage is between one man and one woman.

“The people of the state of Illinois, along with 38 other states, still have the right to determine if gay marriage should become law in their respective states,” the group said in a statement.

Some opponents of same-sex marriage focused on the lack of clarity when it came to benefits for married couples in Illinois.

“It creates an interesting question, are you entitled to that benefit or not?” said Paul Linton, special counsel to Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm that opposes gay marriage.

Efforts to legalize gay marriage in Illinois are also ongoing in the courts.

Kerry Lester contributed to this report.

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Supreme Court bounces UT vs.

Fisher down to lower courts Affirmative Action decision

by Supreme Court still leaves much undetermined THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has sent a Texas case on race-based college admissions back to a lower court for another look.

The court’s 7-1 decision Monday leaves unsettled many of the basic questions about the continued use of race as a factor in college admissions.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said a federal appeals court needs to subject the University of Texas admission plan to the highest level of judicial scrutiny.

The compromise ruling throws out the decision by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the Texas admission plan.

Kennedy said the appeals court did not test the Texas plan under the most exacting level of judicial review.

He said such a test is required by the court’s 2003 decision upholding affirmative action in higher education.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the lone dissenter.

Justice Clarence Thomas, alone on the court, said he would have overturned the high court’s 2003 ruling.

Justice Elena Kagan stayed out of the case, presumably because she had some contact with it at an earlier stage when she worked in the Justice Department.

Abigail Fisher, a white Texan, sued the university after she was denied a spot in 2008.

She has since received her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University.

The challenge to the Texas plan gained traction in part because the makeup of the

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University of Texas President Bill Powers arrives for a news conference on June 24 in Austin, Texas. Affirmative action in college admissions survived Supreme Court review on June 24 in a consensus decision that avoided the difficult constitutional issues surrounding a challenge to the University of Texas admission plan. court has changed since the last time the justices ruled on affirmative action in higher education in 2003. Then, Justice Sandra O’Connor wrote the majority opinion that held that colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies.

O’Connor retired in 2006, and her replacement, Justice Samuel Alito, has shown himself to be more skeptical of considerations of race in education.

Another factor fueling Fisher’s lawsuit was that the university has produced significant diversity by automatically offering about three-quarters of its spots to graduates in the top 10 percent of their Texas high schools, under a 1990s state law signed by then-Gov. George W. Bush. The admissions program has been changed so that now only

the top 8 percent gain automatic admission.

More than 8 in 10 African-American and Latino students who enrolled at the flagship campus in Austin in 2011 were automatically admitted, according to university statistics.

Even among the rest, both sides acknowledge that the use of race is modest.

In all, black and Hispanic students made up more than a quarter of the incoming freshmen class. White students constituted less than half the entering class when students with Asian backgrounds and other minorities were added in.

The university said the extra measure of diversity it gets from the slots outside automatic admission is crucial because too many of its classrooms have only token minority representation, at best. At the same time, Texas

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argued that race is one of many factors considered and that whether race played the key role in any applicant’s case was impossible to tell.

The Obama administration, 57 of the Fortune 100 companies and large numbers of public and private colleges that feared a broad ruling against affi rmative action backed the Texas program. Among the benefits of affirmative action, the administration said, is that it creates a pipeline for a diverse officer corps that it called “essential to the military’s operational readiness.” In 2003, the court cited the importance of a similar message from military leaders.

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Chicago prepares for possible passing of concealed carry gun legislation

BY DON BABWIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — This city, where violent street gangs shoot it out dozens of times a week despite some of the nation’s toughest restrictions on guns, now faces a new challenge: Wellmeaning citizens with the legal right to hit the streets with loaded firearms, whenever they want.

As Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn mulls whether to sign off on eliminating the country’s last concealed carry ban, the question in Chicago is whether it will matter in the crime-weary city. Will a place that long had some of the nation’s tightest restrictions on handguns be more at risk? Or will it be safer with a law that can only add to the number of guns already on the street?

Neighborhood leaders, anti-crime activists

and police officials worry about additional mayhem in Chicago. But other residents, including some who live in Chicago’s more violent areas, believe more guns will allow them to defend themselves better.

At City Hall, where Chicago’s anti-gun campaign has centered for years, the reaction to concealed carry legislation has been relatively quiet. The reasons seem to boil down to this: The city can do little about stopping the law because a federal appeals court ordered Illinois to end its public possession ban by this summer.

The bill sitting on Quinn’s desk is a hardfought compromise between conservative downstate lawmakers who opposed most gun restrictions and anti-gun lawmakers from Chicago and other urban areas. The legislation requires state police to issue a concealed-

carry permit to any gun owner with a stateissued Firearm Owners Identification card, and who passes a background check, pays a $150 fee and undergoes 16 hours of training.

Most significantly for gun control advocates, the legislation does prohibit guns in places like schools, buses, trains, bars and government buildings.

Quinn, a Chicago Democrat, has been quiet on his intentions with the legislation, his office saying he’s “reviewing the bill carefully.” But what he decides may be moot, given that the Legislature passed it by wide enough margins to override any veto.

Once the law is in place, Dart said he expects a flood of applications for permits, something that happened in November 2011 in Wisconsin, where within hours of becoming the 49th state to have a concealed carry

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law, tens of thousands of people downloaded applications. By the end of 2012, the state had issued nearly 110,000 permits.

During 2012, the first full year the law was in effect, Milwaukee’s total for homicides and rapes remained virtually the same as the year before. As for robbery, the kind of crime that concealed carry supporters say would be reduced if more regular citizens had weapons, Milwaukee saw a 17.2 percent drop between 2011 and 2012. But police say so far this year the number of robberies has climbed by 19 percent.

Whether the law will have similar effects in Chicago is a matter of contention. Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest and activist on the city’s South Side, doesn’t believe criminals will hesitate out of some concern their victims might be armed.

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Bloomington car company shows of parade of Corvettes State Farm Center lawn hosts longestrunning continuous national Corvette show

BY SARAH FISCHER STAFF WRITER

If the incredulous looks on the faces of the ticket office staff when asked how many tickets they’d sold for the weekend is any indication, the Bloomington Gold Corvette Show is a massive success.

The show, held this past weekend outside the State Farm Center, celebrates the 40th anniversary of Bloomington Gold Corvettes USA. Bloomington Gold, according to their website, stands as the longest running continuous national Corvette event. The show invited members of Bloomington Gold, as well as general Corvette owners to show off their cars.

“Everybody’s got their niche,” Bev Larson, a staffer at one of the information tables, said while directing the masses of people to the various parts of the event. On the southwest side of the State Farm Center stood the pace cars from every Indianapolis 500, including the car that led during this year’s race. Two parking lots of vendors selling everything from Corvette parts to car insurance sandwiched a small food court on the north.

The I-Hotel hosted the Great Hall, a collection of 10 cars and 10 figures who significantly influenced the “Corvette Phenomenon.” This year marked the fourth year of the Great Hall. When the Hall ends at next year’s event, Bloomington Gold will have named 50 people and Corvettes the “gold standard.”

The “gold standard” car for this year’s show was the 1963 Corvette, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and acted as Grand Marshal for the GoldTour, a tour of the Corvettes in attendance. The Bloomington Gold website states that the GoldTour currently holds the Guinness World record

for the longest tour of a single type of car with 2,223 Corvettes participating.

A different collection of Corvettes, from 1954 to 2013, were for sale at the Mecum auction which began at noon on Saturday.

The cars typically range from $10,000 to $250,000, but according to Mecum employee Julie Querry, it depends entirely on the car.

“Eleanor, the car Nicolas Cage drove in ‘Gone in 60 Seconds,’ went for $1.3 million,” she said, as her tent filled with patrons looking to register for the auction.

Apart from the auction, judging Corvettes remains a mainstay of the show. According to Bloomington Gold staff members Sandy and Bernie Christian, Corvettes competing in the judging are grouped into six categories, C1 through C6, which designate the class of Corvette. Since the Corvette was introduced in 1953, there have been seven classes, but only six were judged at the Bloomington Gold Show.

“Cars get judged based on how close they are to what they would have looked like leaving the factory,” Sandy Christian said. Four components of each car gets checked: the interior, the exterior, the chassis, and the engine compartment. Cars must also pass a driving test. This year, 115 cars in attendance participated in judging.

Those in attendance ranged from super enthusiasts with bright cars in racing stripes, while others only came to enjoy the beauty of shining metal and smooth, aerodynamic curves.

“People are crazy about their cars. My favorite is, ‘That’s my Corvette over there,’” said Larson, smiling, and gesturing off into a mass of multi-colored Corvettes. “Because that narrows it down.”

Sarah can be reached at fische19@dailyillini.com.

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Corvettes show off at the Bloomington Gold Corvette Show held this past weekend in Champaign.

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Supreme Court rulings huge victory, but fight is not over yet

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states that permit such marriages.

Next on the chopping block was the California ballot initiative Proposition 8, which stopped samesex marriages there.

After the dust settled toward the end of the week following the historic rulings, one thing was matter how anyone quite clear: The fight for equality looks at the sameis not over. Same-sex marriage is sex marriage rulings Wednesday, only legal in roughly a quarter of the United States, and we may be they were huge years away from complete marriage wins for gay rights advocates and equality. But we’ve come along way a momentous move toward greater in this country since Massachusetts equality. Still, only 13 states and legalized same-sex marriage in Washington, D.C. permit same2004, the first state to do so. sex marriage while 37 have either Legal experts agreed that it was explicitly banned it or offer lessthan-equal civil unions, which is the possible for the Supreme Court to have widely ruled and declared best option yet for Illinoisans. same-sex marriages constitutional First to be struck down by the across the country, but it didn’t.

United States Supreme Court was In fact, the two rulings both the part of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage made it through the court on a 5-4 decision, a divide that has come as between only one man and one to be expected of the court in woman, which until Wednesday denied thousands of federal benefits recent years. Only 30 percent of Americans live in a jurisdiction that to same-sex couples who live in

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legally permits same-sex couples to wed, yet only half of the country supports it.

So while California carries on with the slew of weddings set since the ruling and while three states’ samesex marriage laws go into effect this summer, Illinoisans wait for their right. For most in Illinois, little impact from Wednesday’s rulings will be felt (aside from those who married outside of Illinois — they will reap the federal benefits from DOMA’s death), except that there may be a renewed and hopefully stronger push for legalization of same-sex marriage.

Last May, the Illinois legislature’s spring session came to a close without passing a Illinois Senateapproved bill to allow gay couples to marry in the state. The bill, which passed the Senate on Valentine’s Day, has support from several Illinois politicians including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn, who has said numerous times that he will sign it when its on his

desk. Of course, former Illinois U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, supports the legislation, too.

Gay rights activists and supporters in Illinois should have a more influential and rallying voice when the House resumes, which we can only hope pushes the Illinois legislature to join the right side of history. Even then, the fight will not be easy and likely won’t happen until January.

Since the rulings last week, several naysayers have shared their disappointment in the Supreme Court’s decision. Perhaps the loudest opposition directly following the decision was Michele Bachmann, who said, “Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.”

But if the trend toward an acceptance and support of same-sex marriage continues as it is, then to naysayers, we side with U.S. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi in her response to Bachmann: Who cares?

Nothing wrong with Fisher challenging affirmative action for colleges KIRSTEN KELLER Opinions columnist

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bigail Fisher is a brave girl.

In 2008, Fisher went in front of the entire nation, of which about 25 percent is non-white according to the 2010 census, and said she did not get accepted to the University of Texas at Austin because she is white.

Now, brave does not mean right. And brave does not necessarily mean heroic.

What it means is that Fisher said through a megaphone what a lot of us may be afraid to say aloud: “Where would I be if race was never a factor?”

Most everyone knows an extremely intelligent, high-achieving student that did not get into his or her dream school. And to that, they’ll say: “If he or she didn’t get in, who does? Maybe things would be different if he or she were a minority. Maybe it wouldn’t.”

This is a thought, in a perfect society, that we don’t want to consider. But each year when college decisions come out, those thoughts cross through many students’ minds.

These thoughts also work in reverse.

When an extremely intelligent, high-achieving minority student is accepted to a good

school, other people may question if he or she really had the intellectual merit to get in.

In an attempt to bring more diversity and equality to college campuses nationwide, affirmative action has, in some ways, pitted the races against each other. All behind closed doors though.

Except for Abigail Fisher.

On June 24, the Supreme Court ruled ambiguously in favor of affirmative action.

It upheld that race is and can still be a factor in admissions decisions, but colleges have to prove that race-based admissions policies are needed and done so with the utmost judicial scrutiny. The court also suggested that admissions offices consider race-neutral policies to attain more minority students.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925, which was the first to mention the term “affirmative action.” This order, which created the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, mandated that projects using federal funds were to execute “affirmative action” policies to make sure there were no racial biases in hiring.

Ever since, affirmative action has pushed on — not without a few setbacks, however.

But overall, it has increased diversity in multiple areas of life — the workplace and college campuses being two large components.

The University of Texas uses a combination of race-neutral and race-conscious policies in its admissions process. Its Top 10 Percent Plan, which was in effect when Fisher applied to the university, automatically admitted the top-10 percent of all applicants in Texas high schools. Since adjusted, the top-8 percent of applicants for the 2013-14 academic year will be admitted. This is widely considered a race-neutral plan. Because of the high population of minority students in Texas high schools, this plan successfully increased the amount of minorities accepted to Texas universities.

The remaining applicants are reviewed holistically, with race as one of many components.

The University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign does not have an automaticadmit program. Its system for putting race into consideration for admissions is less structured. But this is not to say it is not legitimate.

On the University’s admissions requirements webpage, it states that the personal characteristics of applicants are taken into account: “In order to continue to provide an atmosphere that values students who have a unique set of experiences and knowledge, readers consider each applicant’s background. This includes diversity, veteran status, geographic location, and first-generation status.”

Interestingly, these two different

approaches by two different universities wielded similar results in campus diversity. The largest difference was in Hispanic population.

Diversity on college campuses is extremely important. It brings more viewpoints to the table and opens students up to many different types of people.

The matter of how universities choose to bring in diverse students is what is controversial.

And it probably will always be controversial.

But Abigail Fisher has opened up the conversation again, which keeps lawmakers and admissions offices on their toes.

And there is nothing wrong with that.

Kirsten is a junior in Media. She can be reached at kekellr2@dailyillini.com

Diversity on college campuses is extremely important. It brings more viewpoints to the table and opens students up to many different types of people.

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CHICAGO CELEBRATES 2ND CUP IN 4 YEARS

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Chicago Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane holds up the Stanley Cup during a rally in Grant Park for the Stanley Cup champions Friday in Chicago. The Blackhawks beat the Bruins in six games.

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BOSTON — An NHL-record unbeaten streak to start the lockout-shortened season.

Three straight victories to clinch the title.

From beginning to end, the Chicago Blackhawks skated away from the rest of the league.

Bryan Bickell and Dave Bolland scored 17 seconds apart in the fi nal 1:16 and the Blackhawks struck quickly to win Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final 3-2 on Monday night for their second NHL championship in four seasons.

“I still can’t believe that finish. Oh my God, we never quit,” said goalie Corey Crawford, who made 23 saves. “I never lost confidence.

No one in our room ever did.”

Jonathan Toews returned from injury to add a goal and an assist in the fi rst fi nals

between Original Six teams since 1979. Patrick Kane, whose overtime goal in Game 6 beat Philadelphia to win the 2010 championship, was voted the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as this year’s playoffs MVP. “In 2010, we didn’t really know what we were doing. We just, we played great hockey and we were kind of oblivious to how good we were playing,” said Toews, who scored his third goal of the playoffs to tie it 1-1 in the second period, then fed Bickell for the score that tied it with 76 seconds to play.

“We played great hockey and we were kind of oblivious to how good we were playing.

“This time around, we know definitely how much work it takes and how much sacrifice it takes to get back here and this is an unbelievable group,” Toews said. “We’ve been through a lot together this year and this is

a sweet way to fi nish it off.”

Trailing 2-1, Crawford went off for an extra skater and the Blackhawks converted when Toews fed it in front and Bickell scored from the edge of the crease to tie the score.

Perhaps the Bruins expected it to go to overtime, as three of the first four games in the series did.

Because they seemed to be caught offguard on the ensuing faceoff. Chicago skated into the zone, sent a shot on net and after it deflected off a player and the post it went right to Bolland, who put it in the net and started the Chicago celebration with 59 seconds left in the game.

The Blackhawks on the ice gathered in the corner, while those on the bench began jumping up and down. It was only a minute later, when Boston’s Tuukka Rask was off for an

extra man, that Chicago withstood Boston’s final push and pored over the boards, throwing their sticks and gloves across the ice.

The Bruins got 28 saves from Rask, who was hoping to contribute to an NHL title after serving as Tim Thomas’ backup when Boston won it all two years ago. The sold-out TD Garden began chanting “We want the Cup!” after Milan Lucic’s goal put the Bruins up 2-1 with eight minutes left, but it fell silent after their team coughed up the lead.

The arena was almost empty — except for a few hundred fans in red Blackhawks sweaters who filtered down to the front rows — when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman handed the 35-pound Cup to Toews, who left Game 5 with an undisclosed injury and wasn’t confi rmed for the lineup until the morning skate.

Illini track and field pioneer makes ‘tough decision’ to leave alma mater DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

Women’s track and field coach Tonja Buford-Bailey is leaving Illinois.

She has agreed to take on the associate head coaching position for Texas’ newly combined programs, the school announced Wednesday. She leaves the Illini after spending 10 years with the program, five as the women’s coach. She also coached men’s sprinters for three seasons.

“It was a tough decision to leave my alma mater,” Buford-

Bailey said in a statement. “The University of Illinois allowed me to grow as person, athlete and coach. They have been a family to me and I appreciate all the support I’ve received over the years and even during this process.”

Buford-Bailey built the track program at Illinois, starting with sprinters. Andrew Riley won titles in the 100-meter dash and the 110-meter high hurdles in his final season at Illinois in 2012. And Ashley Spencer has recorded back-to-back NCAA titles in 400 meters under the guidance of Buford-Bailey. Both

will be competing at the World Championships later this year.

Buford-Bailey coached her athletes to 25 All-America honors, including six NCAA titles.

The Daily Illini named her the No. 1 female athlete in the last 40 years to forward athletics at Illinois in honor of the 40 year anniversary of Title IX last year.

Buford-Bailey earned the NCAA title in the 400 hurdles, while competing for Illinois in 1992. Since then, she participated in three Olympic games: Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney.

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Bulls improve outside shooting with draft picks Chicago takes Snell then Murphy, hopes to improve upon 21st-ranked 3-point shooting

BY ANDREW SELIGMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DEERFIELD, Ill. — The Chicago Bulls decided big help on the outside was a bigger need than a big body down low, so they addressed it in the draft on Thursday — twice.

First, they grabbed New Mexico wing man Tony Snell with the 20th pick and added another outside shooter in the second round, going with Florida’s Erik Murphy at No. 49.

“I think we addressed a need,” coach Tom Thibodeau said. “(General manager Gar Forman) and his staff worked very hard all year watching these guys. Both guys shoot the ball extremely well. He feels that Snell has a big upside, and he feels that way about Erik Murphy.”

It’s not hard to see why the Bulls looked to beef up their outside shooting. Just look at the NBA finals.

Whether it was Danny Green delivering a series-record 27 3-pointers for San Antonio, Ray Allen making a season-saving 3 for Miami or Shane Battier nailing six from long range for the Heat in Game 7, the value of outside shooting was there for everyone to see on the biggest stage.

Throw in the fact that Derrick Rose is expected to be back, drawing collapsing defenders, and that Nate Robinson and Marco Belinelli could be gone, and it made sense that the Bulls looked for outside help.

“It was crazy knowing I went to the Bulls,” said Snell, who could have a role behind Luol Deng and Jimmy Butler. “I watched (Michael) Jordan play my whole life. I watched Derrick

Rose. He’s a really great player. I can’t wait to work with him and help the team win.”

Snell converted 39 percent of his 3-pointers while averaging 12.5 points as a junior for the Lobos last season and helps fill a big need on the outside for Chicago. He is considered a solid defender who can guard multiple positions, which had to please coach Tom Thibodeau.

Murphy is known as much for his ability to connect from the outside as his inside play even though he’s 6-foot-10. He averaged 12.2 points and led the SEC in 3-point shooting at 45.3 percent as a senior last season, earning first-team, all-conference honors.

Now, both players are joining a team eyeing a return to contention in the Eastern Conference with Rose poised to come back from his injury. The former MVP sat out last season after having surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee.

How effective he’ll be, at least at the start, remains to be seen. But Rose’s return makes the Bulls far more compelling after a 45-win season in which they were in more of a holding pattern, waiting for the return of a superstar that never happened.

Just about every other key player got banged up at some point, and the ailments continued to add up in the postseason, whether it was Joakim Noah’s foot problem, Kirk Hinrich’s badly bruised left calf or Deng’s reaction to a spinal tap, which landed him in the hospital.

Despite all that, the Bulls managed to knock out Brooklyn in the first round before

bowing to eventual champion Miami in five games.

On Thursday, Forman said the medical reports were all good.

“Joakim’s feeling a lot better,” he said.

“Derrick’s in here, he’s working every day.

He continues to feel good and is making progress. Luol I think is feeling better, and Kirk’s been in here pretty much every day working out. I think we’re heading in the right direction there.”

Deng’s name has surfaced in trade rumors lately. There were also reports that the Bulls were discussing an extension with one year remaining on his contract.

“We value Luol as you all know,” Forman said. “You’ve heard Tom talk about it during the season and you’ve heard us talk about it for years. Luol’s a big piece of what we’re doing. He’s been a big piece of the success we’ve had the last couple of years and he’ll continue to be a big piece of what we’re doing moving forward. We don’t talk about contract negotiations publicly, but obviously, we’re very high on Luol and look forward to him coming back healthy and having a great year next season.”

As for the draft, there were a number of ways the Bulls could have gone, given their need for another big man to support Noah and their issues on the perimeter. Chicago ranked 21st in 3-point accuracy, and two of the biggest outside threats could be gone, with the streaky Robinson likely leaving and Belinelli possibly landing a bigger role with another team through free agency.

So the Bulls went with Snell, who played with San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, Calif.

“Both of us are hard workers,” he said.

“I’ve seen how hard he works, and I know what it takes to be a great player. The position he’s in right now, he did a fantastic job and I hope I can do the same thing.”

He also credited former New Mexico coach Steve Alford for improving his footwork, defense and mental toughness. The Bulls were the first team Snell worked out for after the combine, and he had a good feeling he might wind up in Chicago after that.

“I felt really good, had a little taste of what it’s going to be like,” he said. “I really felt great throughout the workout.”

Snell sees himself as a player who can come off curls, catch and shoot. He’s also considered a solid passer, but at 200 pounds, he probably needs to add some muscle.

The Bulls could still use another big man given Noah’s plantar fasciitis in his right foot and the departure of Omer Asik to Houston as a free agent last offseason, and at least one prominent fan made it clear he thought that was the direction the Bulls should go.

During a toast at a state dinner in Dakar on Thursday, President Barack Obama said he hoped the Bulls drafted Senegal’s Gorgui Dieng. He called the 6-foot-11 shot-blocking and rebounding force from Louisville an “outstanding big man” and added “maybe the Bulls will get him.” Dieng wound up being drafted by Utah at No. 21 and traded to Minnesota.

Blackhawks deal center Bolland to Maple Leafs for three draft picks Team keeps Bickell with new 4-year, $16 million contract Stanley Cup final with a sprained right knee.

Bryan Bickell is sticking with Chicago.

But the 27-year-old Bickell, drafted by Dave Bolland is on his way to Toronto.

Chicago in 2004, wanted to remain with the Bolland’s Game 6 game-winner that gave Blackhawks and was open to giving the team the Blackhawks their second Stanley Cup a discount in order to stay. in four years was the last goal he’ll score “We have a great core of guys and we won for the team. two Cups in four years and there’s going The Blackhawks traded to be many more to come,” Bolland to the Maple Leafs he said after Chicago won for three draft picks Sunday the Stanley Cup Monday in at the NHL Draft. Chicago Boston. “And I’m willing to received the 51st and 117th do it because it’s fun and picks this year, and a fourthwinning is fun.” rounder next season.

Bickell provided a physical “Thank you for everything presence in front of the net Chicago! Such amazing that proved crucial in the memories,” Bolland wrote march to the Stanley Cup, on Twitter. “I look forward especially in the last two to playing in front of my rounds against the Los home fans wearing the Maple Angeles Kings and Bruins.

BRYAN BICKELL, Leaf.”

He had the tying goal Blackhawks left wing Bolla nd’s depar ture with 1:16 left in the third allowed Chicago to sign period and Bolland scored Bickell to a four-year deal. Bickell was 17 seconds later in Chicago’s 3-2 win that eligible for unrestricted free agency clinched the title. and cashed in after coming up with a big Bolland missed the entire first-round postseason despite against Boston in the series versus Minnesota with an injury.

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“We have a great core of guys and we won two Cups in four years and there’s going to be many more to come”

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Chicago Blackhawks center Dave Bolland (36) celebrates his game-winning goal against the Boston Bruins with Chicago Blackhawks center Marcus Kruger (16) during the third period in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final last Monday in Boston. The Blackhawks won 3-2.

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Paul lands in Minnesota for summer league Former Illini standout will vie for roster spot in Vegas after going undrafted

BY STEPHEN BOURBON STAFF WRITER

While Brandon Paul is in the NBA, it probably wasn’t the route he would have liked.

The former Illinois guard didn’t hear his name called in Thursday’s NBA Draft but was selected for a spot on the Minnesota Timberwolves’ summer league team. The circuit is in Las Vegas and runs from July 12 through July 22. “I’m excited to work hard and show what I can do,� Paul said. “I’m going to come in with a chip on my shoulder, though.�

The Timberwolves signed Paul after some wheeling and dealing on draft night. They initially drafted Michigan point guard Trey Burke but traded him for the rights to UCLA small forward Shabazz Muhammad and Louisville center Gorgui Dieng. The team also drafted North Carolina State point guard Lorenzo Brown and Montenegrin power forward Bojan Dubljevic in the second round.

Entering the summer, Minnesota has four point guards and one shooting guard on the roster — not including Paul who said that the team wants him to primarily be off the ball — which leaves Paul an opportunity to make the team. “They’re pretty set at point guard,� Paul said, referring to starter Ricky Rubio and veterans J.J. Barea and Luke Ridnour. “I’ll come in and play the two and try and prove myself.�

The Timberwolves’ only other shooting guard, Alexey Shved, a second-year player from Russia, averaged 8.6 points per game in 77 games, including 16 starts. Minnesota traded guard Malcolm Lee, along with Andre Roberson, the No. 26 pick in the draft, to Golden State for a 2014 second-round pick and cash.

Lee started 12 games for the Timberwolves in 2012-13 and averaged 4.9 points per game.

Paul played both point guard and shooting guard for the Illini and took over primary ball handling duties when starting point guard Tracy Abrams left the floor. Paul averaged 16.6 points per game his senior year and set career highs in points, field-goal percentage,

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Before the draft, the former Illini star worked out with 16 different NBA teams and worked out on two different occasions for the Timberwolves. He said he appreciated all of the teams bringing him in for workouts and was excited to get a chance to continue his career.

As for adjusting to the life of a professional player, Paul said he has been talking with former Illini and current Portland Trail Blazer center Meyers Leonard about what to expect

from the NBA. Although the summer league invite is a necessary step for an undrafted player to becoming a contributor in the NBA, it isn’t the end goal for Paul.

It doesn’t guarantee a roster spot for the regular season, and until Paul has a permanent spot on an NBA team, he said he won’t feel like he’s “made it� in the NBA.

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Hambly talks team trip to Italy, recruiting for future Entering quiet period of summer, Illini volleyball coach reflects on spring training season

BY STEPHEN BOURBON STAFF WRITER

The Illinois volleyball team completed its spring practice schedule and kicked off the summer with an eight-day trip to Italy to face Italian competition. The Daily Illini caught up with head coach Kevin Hambly to discuss the latest in Illini volleyball.

The Daily Illini: We haven’t talked since Italy, how was the trip?

Kevin Hambly: It was everything we wanted it to be, it was perfect. We got better as a volleyball team, and the training time beforehand was huge. I feel like we got a lot better during that time. The bonding time that the girls had there was great, and I thought everything about it was fantastic, including having a good time and also the girls getting to know each other and the staff better. It was exactly what you would hope from the experience.

train, especially when you’re going two-a-days, certainly it helps steepen the learning curve, and we learned a lot.

I think they really came together, and we approached the spring that we were going to do that, and we were going to have a couple more weeks to train, and we did a lot of six-versus-six. We refined our system, our offensive system, our defensive system so that training time was great for us, and it was exactly what I wanted to get out of it.

DI: Was there any player that stood out, whether it be in the spring or in Italy, that surprised you with how well she played?

Hambly: Bergamo, actually. It wasn’t one of my favorite experiences necessarily, but it was kind of a cool, sleepy little town, and it had a really cool castle that we walked to the top of. It was my favorite by far.

Hambly: The whole team worked hard. I thought the most improved were our two middles, Maddie Mayers and Kathryn Polkoff. Lizzie McMahon was incredible the last two nights in Italy. She was as good for those two nights as any of the players I’ve had, she was remarkable. I think she had over 20 points against the Italian national team and she tore up the Italian junior national team. Jocelynn Birks got better, especially in the back row with defense and passing. Everyone got better but Lizzie stood out at the end, and I thought the two middles were the most improved.

DI: We’ve talked before about this being a young team, do you think this kind of trip sort of accelerates their learning curve?

DI: So what now? You can’t contact the team right now, is that right?

DI: What was your favorite city on the trip?

Hambly: So in the spring, we have six weeks, 30 days, that we can train for 20 hours a week. And we had eight days to train and then two days off so over 10 days we had eight days to train. So it was almost a third more training time and when you get that much more time to

Hambly: That’s right. Well, we can contact the team, we’re in communication with them but we can’t train them.

DI: OK, so all of the practices and workouts that they’re doing

now is run by players?

Hambly: Yeah, Jennifer Beltran is doing a lot of that.

She’s been managing all of the practices.

DI: So for you, is this a little bit of time off?

Hambly: No, this is a real busy time for us, actually. I just got back from Orlando last night around 11:30 p.m., we’re here for three days and have a recruit on campus, and then I leave for five or six more days to go to Dallas for another recruiting opportunity. Then, I’m home for three more days until we start camp which is a few weeks long and two days after that we go and do some more recruiting. So, this is actually one of the busiest times of the year for us.

DI: Yeah, sounds like you’ve been out of town a lot. So in recruiting, are you already looking at certain players or just going to big events to look at a big group of players?

Hambly: Little bit of both. There’s kids we’re familiar with and kids we’re trying to identify with potential.

DI: Gotcha. I think you’ve mentioned before that volleyball recruiting is super young, right?

Hambly: Yeah it is, we’ve been looking at 2017’s, which are eighth-graders. Well, we’re not recruiting them necessarily, but we’re definitely looking at them.

DI: Okay, well try not to work too hard.

Hambly: Well I’m willing to work hard, we got to get better.

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