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ISS discusses emergency phone network expansion BY LIZ AMANIEH STAFF WRITER

The Illinois Student Senate discussed a possible expansion of the University’s emergency phone network at its meeting last Wednesday. Following discussion, the issue was referred to the Committee on Academic Affairs pending further discussion. The University has a network of 68 emergency phones that are stationed in all campus buildings, parking garages and numerous bus shelters. But the functionality of these phones is of concern to Illinois Student senators Kevin Huang and Rachel Heller. Huang, a sophomore in LAS, said this expansion is necessary. “This resolution is for the safety of the students,� Huang said. “We have seen a lot of the emergency phones have been broken, ineffective or unclean.� The proposal explains that “an observable amount� of the emergency phones seem to be outdated and not user-friendly, which makes them unreliable and unusable. Emergency phones can pre-

vent incidences of crime, help report crimes or provide assistance during emergencies. According to the University’s Annual Security Report for 2011, the number of criminal offenses on campus decreased from 2009 to 2011, which ISS says can be associated with the success of emergency phones around campus. After this proposal was introduced during the meeting, senators addressed the issue of student fees funding emergency phones. Rhonda Kirts, ISS adviser, explained that students pay a $56 transportation fee a semester, which goes toward ChampaignUrbana MTD bus extended hours and SafeRides. “Working at the Office of the Dean of Students, I buy safety whistles with your student fee money,� Kirts said. “Other than the transportation fee that you can point for the safe rides, there is no safety fee.� Damani Bolden, student body president and senior in ACES,

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A young man stood inside the gazebo of Champaign’s West Side Park playing Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’� while community members held up signs proclaiming their support for immigration reform. Some used cards provided by Organizing for Action, a non-profit organization that held the event, to explain why they “#StandWith� immigration reform, while others made their own; one sign asked Rep. Rodney Davis, R-13, where he stood on the issue. OFA-Illinois held the event “to send a message to Rodney Davis that Champaign and its constituents support a pathway to citizenship and immigration reform,� said Scott Cross, chapter leader for OFA-Springfield. Cross said he wants to see Davis join with some of his fel-

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low Illinois Congressmen, like Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill. and Rep. Aaron Schock, R-18, by changing his views on immigration reform. Saturday’s event had 13 speakers from several levels of government. The ChampaignUrbana community was represented by small business owners, faith leaders, members of immigration-related organizations and State Rep. Naomi Jakobsson, D-103. The headliner was Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who watched his fellow speakers while standing amongst the crowd. “I feel very strongly about this comprehensive immigration reform and particularly about the DREAM Act, which I introduced 12 years ago,� Durbin said. “We have a chance to make history and to make America a stronger country.� The focus of comprehen-

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Top: Sen. Dick Durbin spoke at an event hosted by Organizing for Action this Saturday at West Side Park to talk to Rep. Rodney Davis about passing immigration reform. Other republican representatives from Illinois have showed that they realize there needs to be reform.

Bottom: Advocates of immigration reform hold up signs to show their support during an event hosted by Organizing for Action this Saturday at West Side Park. sive immigration reform is an earned pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country,

US case for attack on Syria said to be flawed, inconsistent BY HANNAH ALLAM AND MARK SEIBEL MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

WA SH I NGTON — The Obama administration’s public case for attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on circumstantial evidence, undermining U.S. efforts this week to build support at home and abroad for a punitive strike against Bashar Assad’s regime. The case Secretary of State John Kerry laid out last Friday contained claims that were disputed by the United Nations, inconsistent in some details with British and French intelligence reports or lacking sufficient transparency for international chemical weapons experts to accept at face value. After the false weapons claims preceding the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the threshold for evidence to support intervention is exceedingly high. And while there’s little dispute that a chemical agent was used

in an Aug. 21 attack outside of Damascus — and probably on a smaller scale before that — there are calls from many quarters for independent, scientific evidence to support the U.S. narrative that the Assad regime used sarin gas in an operation that killed 1,429 people, including more than 400 children. Some of the U.S. points in question: The Obama administration dismissed the value of a U.N. inspection team’s work by saying that the investigators arrived too late for the findings to be credible and wouldn’t provide any information the United States didn’t already have. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq countered that it was “rare� for such an investigation to begin within such a short time and said that “the passage of such few days does not affect the opportunities to collect valuable samples,� according to the U.N.’s website. For example, Haq added, sarin can be

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President Barack Obama, joined by Vice President Joe Biden, delivers a statement on Syria in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. detected in biomedical samples for months after its use. The U.S. claims that sarin was used in the Aug. 21 attack, citing a positive test on first responders’ hair and blood — samples “that were provided to the United States,� Kerry said on television Sunday without elaboration on the collection methods. Experts say the evidence deteriorates over time, but that it’s simply untrue that there wouldn’t be any value in an investigation five days after an alleged attack. As a

New York Times report noted, two human rights groups dispatched a forensics team to northern Iraq in 1992 and found trace evidence of sarin as well as mustard gas — four years after a chemical attack. Another point of dispute is the death toll from the alleged attacks on Aug. 21. Neither Kerry’s remarks nor the unclassified version of the U.S. intelligence he referenced explained how the U.S. reached a tally of 1,429, including 426 chil-

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A University professor is using Roman technology developed over a thousand years ago to help advance his work in biological detection. Gang Logan Liu, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, is being recognized for his work in nanotechnology inspired by a 1,600-year-old cup. The Lycurgus Cup is kept in the British Museum in London and, according to the museum’s website, dates back to the fourth century. The cup depicts mythical King Lycurgus attacking Dionysos, god of the grape harvest, and one of his followers, Ambrosia. He then calls out to Mother Earth, who turns Ambrosia into a vine so she can entrap Lycurgus while Dionysus tortures him. Ralph Mathisen, Roman history professor, said the cup

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was probably used for religious purposes and revels in the fact that there is nothing made quite like it anymore. The cup is an example of dichroic glass, which, in this case, contains tiny particles of gold and silver that causes it to change color from green to red when held in direct light. “How they did it, no one exactly knows,� Mathisen said. “It’s hard for people in the modern day to understand. It’s hard for them to admit that people back in ancient times were smarter than us.� Liu has taken what he referred to as an “engineering masterpiece� and received inspiration from it. Since the cup is being preserved in the British Museum, Liu couldn’t perform any experiments on it, so he recreated a much smaller plastic version using nanotechnology. Liu said he discovered that when different organic liquids were poured onto the surface of the plastic, the color changed dramatically, meaning that there was high activity in the vibrating

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IMMIGRATION cess that includes paying a penalty and back taxes, learning English and passing a background check. “That’s not amnesty, that’s an earned pathway – they have to show and go through all these steps,” Cross said. “These people want to pay taxes, some of them do pay taxes now, and they don’t have to, (but they do) because they know as part of the legislation they’ll have to.” The issue of immigration can be seen on college campuses across the country, Durbin said. “You may meet someone in your class who’s a DREAMer – undocumented, has the same aspirations and goals you do in life, but they’re stopped because of our current legal system,” he said. Durbin defined a DREAMer as a “person who was brought to the United States before the age of 16 and who is not here legally, today. They have to finish high school, have no serious criminal record and then go on to finish at least two years of college or enlist in the military, at which point they’re eligible for citizenship.” One of those DREAMers is 24-year-old Lucy Cruz, who

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spoke to the crowd about the struggles she faced after her immigration to the United States at the age of 13. Currently living in Champaign, she works with the Champaign-Urbana Immigration Forum and is now documented with a 2-year work authorization. As an undocumented immigrant, Cruz was unable to follow the paths of many of her peers. “I guess I didn’t realize the effect that it had until it was time to go to college and apply,” Cruz said. “That’s when it really hit me, plus it was time to get a driver’s license and do all these things that normal people do, except me, because I couldn’t ... That’s when you really realize, ‘What am I going to do?’” By telling her story, Cruz said she wants to send a message to her peers who do have opportunities as citizens of the United States. “If you can vote, if you have a voice, tell your congressmen to support comprehensive immigration reform ... I’m sure you probably know someone who is undocumented, maybe some of your friends have the same situation as me,” she said. “Just get involved, and tell them that we want immigration reform.”

64-yearEnglish class offers old lessons to students, swims comfort to the ailing 110 mi. BY MELISSA DRIBBEN MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

PHILADELPHIA — Saadiya Ali, Erica Tuttle and Nancy Manion could not say goodbye. When they reached the screen door of Manion’s neat little Bensalem house, they hesitated on the threshold, hugging one another, promising to stay in touch, fighting back tears. The three women had met only in mid-July. They had spoken only a half-dozen times. And Manion had done most of the talking. But in those six weeks, they had given one another the kind of comfort, kindness and enlightenment that some friends — and many relatives — never achieve in a lifetime. “It’s like I’ve got my grandma again,” said Ali, 20, a premed student at Drexel University. “It meant so much to me, hearing stories from back in the day,” said her classmate Tuttle, also 20, a biology major preparing to become a veterinarian. “My girls,” Manion said, stroking their hair. “They helped me get through some very bad days.” Their brief but intense relationship began in an English class — “It’s a Beautiful Life” — that was offered for the first time at Drexel over the summer. Designed in cooperation with Crossroads Hospice, an agency that provides care and comfort to the terminally ill, the class assigned students to interview dying patients and write their life stories. Nancy Manion’s husband, John, an 86-year-old retired professor of accounting at Temple University, had volunteered to be interviewed by students. But a few days before Ali and Tuttle were scheduled to meet him, he died of a stroke. To honor John’s memory, his widow asked if she could tell his story to the students. And so, once a week for six weeks, she dug out scrapbooks and old photographs, brewed a pot of Eight O’Clock coffee, sat down with the young women at the plastic cherry-print tablecloth in her kitchen, and regaled them with tales. Tales like the one about how they met in the blizzard of 1996, when he, the chivalrous neighbor, offered her a ride across Roosevelt Boulevard. The one about how, when John learned she had allowed a cashier to undercharge her for a box of Miracle-Gro, he shamed her into donating the ill-gotten gain to charity. And the one about how he was such a proper dresser that he sometimes wore a suit when he mowed the lawn. “He was a very unassuming man that did so much good quietly,” Manion said. “Talking about him, it was a break from the heartache.” Drexel English professor Ken Bingham, who teaches the course,

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said that from the moment it was proposed, the concept struck him as brilliant. “I teach Shakespeare, Dickens, theater,” said Bingham, 53. “But this is a class about life. You go into teaching because you want to make a difference. And that is exactly what this course has done.” It is common for hospice patients to question the meaning of their lives, said Kimberly Mumper, volunteer coordinator for Crossroads Hospice. They benefit from the therapeutic comfort that comes from having someone’s undivided attention, someone who is interested in hearing about childhood traumas, regrets and victories, however small, memories of parents long gone and bits of hard-won wisdom. And they find, Mumper said, that the telling itself can provide unexpected perspective on the past. Few of the patients had the fancy degrees or jobs that earn public recognition. They were gravestone engravers, factory workers and homemakers. Yet describing all they have seen and experienced “gives the patients a sense of accomplishment.” For many of the students, the listening turned out to be comforting as well. “Most of them are young,” Bingham said. “They’re afraid of death. By facing it, they find it’s nothing to be afraid of.” The students’ journals, he said, “have been breathtaking.” One young woman wrote: “I got off on the fourth floor of St. Ignatius and immediately the fear struck. There were patients everywhere, sitting, talking to themselves, laughing, singing. It was the most melancholic scenery I’ve ever experienced. I wanted to run home. I have no idea what kept my feet moving. I found 427A and knocked lightly on the door. ... “I pulled up a chair and he flew. The words came rushing out as if they had been cramped inside him for decades. There is so much beauty in the soul of this man; it’s hard to believe light didn’t pour out with his words.” In class Aug. 27, the last day of the course, students presented projects they had done for and about the patients they had followed. A scrapbook with photographs of Gloria, who loved gardening, cleaning and smoking cigarettes and who died Aug. 2 at 90 with the rich scent of nicotine still on her breath. And, finally, a collection of stories and photographs, with a sound track, that Ali and Tuttle made for Nancy Manion. “I think sometimes you don’t value a person until you’ve lost them,” Ali said. On the doorstep, when they left her after their last visit, they promised to return.

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In the end, emerging from the great big ocean wearing a blue swimming cap and goggles — and having swum roughly 110 miles in 52 hours and 54 minutes — Diana Nyad still had enough strength to walk ashore Monday. Failing four times over the years, on her fifth and final attempt this weekend, the 64-year-old Nyad officially became the first swimmer to go the distance from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Upon reaching shore at Smathers Beach in Key West, Fla., Nyad had three things to tell the mob of onlookers who had watched her achieve a lifelong dream. “One is, we should never ever give up,” said a slightly dazed Nyad, whose slurred remarks were received with a roar by the crowd. “Two is, you’re never too old to chase your dreams. “Three is, it looks like a solitary sport, but it’s a team,” Nyad concluded, and then was taken away on a stretcher for medical examination. The crossing from Cuba to Florida has been attempted several times before, often punishing swimmers with jellyfish stings, sunburns, blisters and hallucinations. Australian Susie Maroney, then 22, used a shark cage to complete the crossing in 1997

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MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Pena Nieto, facing a sudden downturn in his political fortunes, vowed Monday to forge ahead with a sweeping restructuring of the state despite a slumping economy, promising that “the great transformation of Mexico is possible.” Pena Nieto ca lled on legislators not to back down in the face of surging civil unrest against proposals that he said would improve schools, put the economy on sounder footing and unshackle the nation’s energy potential. “Let’s be audacious and dare to make the great leap in our development,” Pena Nieto said in an annual address to the nation. Pena Nieto tried to reverse public sentiment that he may be unable to curb violent crime and deliver the rapid economic growth he promised on taking office nine months ago. In the past two weeks, his government

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Bottom: Diana Nyad swims the last few strokes into Smathers Beach to complete her 110-mile swim on Monday. She completed the swim in 52 hours, 54 minutes. and fainted on live television after reaching the beach in Florida. Another Australian, Penny Palfrey, then 49, made it 76 miles north of Havana last year before calling it quits; she was then hospitalized to receive IV drips and pain pills to deal with dehydration, jellyfish stings and a blistered tongue. Nyad, beating back worries over possibly having caught a cold, left Hemingway Marina in Havana on Saturday morning with a small flotilla of support staff, which included kayakers and shark divers to protect her from jellyfish and sea trash that might hinder her swim. By Monday morning, on an official website that tracked the swim, Nyad’s staff report-

ed that her tongue and lips had become swollen and that her doctors were “concerned about her airways.” The waters had also gotten so cold at night that Nyad had not stopped to eat in the hopes that continuing to swim would keep up her body temperature. In a 2011 live chat with the Los Angeles Times, Nyad said that in her first attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida, she lost 29 pounds in less than two days of swimming before she had to stop. The weight loss was inevitable, she said, in that swimming uses up more calories than she’s able to take in during a swim. That raises the question of why one would attempt such a punishing feat in the first place.

“I am stunned, at age 61, at how fast it all flies by,” she said in the chat, explaining her motivation to keep going. “My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don’t want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.” Two miles from the end of the swim Monday morning, Nyad stopped to address her support crew. “This is a lifelong dream of mine and I’m very, very glad to be with you,” she told her team, according to an update on her website. “Some on the team are the most intimate friends of my life and some of you I’ve just met.”

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Top: After receiving water and intravenous fluids, Diana Nyad began to show signs of life before being taken by ambulance to the Lower Keys Medical Center after finishing her historic swim from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Fla., on Monday.

dren. The only attribution was “a preliminary government assessment.” Anthony Cordesman, a former senior defense official who’s now with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, took aim at the death toll discrepancies in an essay published Sunday. He criticized Kerry as being “sandbagged into using an absurdly over-precise number” of 1,429, and noted that the number didn’t agree with either the British assessment of “at least 350 fatalities” or other Syrian opposition sources, namely the

has faced widespread street protests, a setback in congress, and a sharp downgrade in Mexico’s outlook to a lackluster 1.8 percent economic growth. Analysts said the clock is ticking on the honeymoon period in which he can expect to push through the bulk of an ambitious restructuring agenda. Pena Nieto said an array of his proposals affecting energy, schools, taxation and poverty eradication have the potential to alter Mexico’s destiny far into the 21st century. “In the next few months, we will be deciding what history we will write for the coming decades,” he said. “We have 120 days left so that 2013 may be remembered as the year of great transformations, the year in which Mexico dared to take off.” Pena Nieto hailed the Chamber of Deputies for approving a proposal late Sunday that would take away control of school jobs from powerful unions and require teachers to face evaluations. The Chamber last

week suspended the vote as tens of thousands of striking teachers flooded the capital’s streets. The 47-year- old leader delayed his speech for a day and issued it in the safety of Los Pinos, the presidential residence, rather than brave a journey across the city to the National Palace. Teacher protests have shut down major boulevards and led to clashes with riot police. “Education reform will advance. I say it with all conviction,” Pena Nieto said, adding that it was part of his government’s broader efforts to reduce entitlement and economic advantage enjoyed by a minority of Mexico’s 118 million citizens. “This has been done so that quality education, wealth and opportunities in Mexico do not continue being the privilege of a few,” he said. Pena Nieto said he was launching a pilot program to give laptop computers to fifthand sixth-graders in several

poorer states. Mexico’s economic slump marks a sharp reversal from barely six months ago, when the nation was in the eye of investors around the world, seen as part of the high-growth MIST countries — Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey — likely to step up as China and India faltered. New York Times columnist Thomas F riedman called Mexico a likely “Comeback Kid” while The Economist newsweekly hailed “Mexico’s Moment.” The question these days is if Pena Nieto overplayed his hand in the past month, piling on reform proposals too quickly. Just as he announced a watershed proposal Aug. 12 to open the state oil industry to foreign investment, striking teachers began to congregate in the capital. They’ve since been joined by leftists opposed to relaxing a state grip on the national oil company and a smattering of anarchists.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has confirmed at least 502. “President Obama was then forced to round off the number at ‘well over 1,000 people’ — creating a mix of contradictions over the most basic facts,” Cordesman wrote. He added that the blunder was reminiscent of “the mistakes the U.S. made in preparing Secretary (Colin) Powell’s speech to the U.N. on Iraq in 2003.” An unclassified version of a French intelligence report on Syria that was released Monday hardly cleared things up; France only confirmed 281 fatalities, though it more broadly agreed with the United States that the regime had used chemical weapons in the Aug. 21 attack.

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pointed out the factors of urgency regarding this approval. “I hope that (Huang) and (Heller) both reach out to Facilities and Services and figure out what’s already happening, but also I hope (Huang) reaches out to the University Police Department to see if they have any plans in the works to enhance our campus safety,” Bolden said. “If it is something we need to address right away, I hope that the senate will step up and address this issue on behalf of the student body.”

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Damascus areas of influence and areas reportedly affected by Aug. 21 chemical attacks

A look at Syria’s past As the U.S. contemplates intervention following allegations of Syrian use of chemical weapons, the question lingers: To strike or not to strike? Syria has come a long way since it gained independence in 1946— essentially rattling the country into a time of coups and conflicts within the Middle East. But since President Bashar al-Assad came to power, Syria has been involved in periods of civil unrest, constantly grabbing the attention of the international community.

1920-1946: Following the defeat of the Central powers in World War I, the San Remo conference was held by the major Allied powers — Britain, France, Italy and Japan — to split the lands of the Middle East formerly controlled by the Ottoman Empire. French forces controlled modern day Syria, Lebanon, Alexandretta (Hatay) and portions of Turkey. After France fell to Germany in 1940 during World War II, Syria proclaimed its independence, but it wasn’t until French troops left in 1946 that Syria finally became independent. MAP COURTESY OF THE WHITE HOUSE

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In June 2000, President Hafez al-Assad died and was succeeded by his son, Bashar al-Assad. In April 2001, the Muslim Brotherhood resumed political activity after being outlawed in Syria. President Bashar al-Assad continued on the path of the authoritarian state imposed by his predecessor, Hafez al-Assad.

September 2006: Four gunmen attacked the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria, killing one Syrian security guard and wounding several people. The attack was allegedly carried out by Islamic guerrillas.

September 2007:

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Israel bombed an “unused military� House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with President Assad, and shortly thereafter, site in Syria, following escalating tensions between the two countries’ military Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Foreign Minister Walid Muallem. The presences along the Golan Heights. The two meetings had been the first in U.S. accused North Korea of assisting Syria in building a nuclear reactor at several years involving high-level U.S. the bombsite after evidence surfaced that and Syrian officials. the site was actually a nuclear facility under construction.

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Syrian and U.S. government diplomats and officials hold numerous talks regarding peace in the Middle East. In 2010, President Barack Obama named Robert Ford as ambassador to Syria, the first in nearly 10 years. However, in May 2010, the U.S. renewed sanctions in Syria, accusing the country of supporting terrorist groups, pursuing missile programs and weapons of mass destruction, and expressing concern over Israel’s allegations that Syria was arming Hezbollah, a Shi’a Islamic militant group based in Lebanon.

Protests began around Syria’s capital of Damascus. Anti-regime protesters demanded the release of political prisoners; Syrian security forces killed several of these protestors. To ease tensions, President Assad released several political prisoners and lifted the country’s 48-year state of emergency. However, in May, army tanks entered into the central city of Hama. In June, more than 10,000 people fled to Turkey following the escalating of violence in Jisr al-Shughour, which is about 300 kilometers north of Damascus.

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President Obama called for President Assad to step down after allegations of crimes against humanity.

Russia and China vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Syria by imposing non-military sanctions in Syria. President Obama made it explicit that Assad will be held accountable if Syria uses its chemical stockpile. By December, President Obama hinted at possible intervention if Syria continued to advance or use its chemical weapon stockpile.

March 2013: A chemical attack occurred in Aleppo, nearly 360 kilometers north of Damascus. Escalating violence in June prompted the debate for the U.S. to arm Assad’s opponents, following advances by Syrian forces and involvement of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah.

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In May 2002, Syria is listed Following allegations that Syria had by U.S. as an “axis of evil� been acquiring chemical weapons by senior officials. In April 2003, and aiding fugitive Iraqis, the U.S. Syria denied U.S. allegations of imposed economic sanctions on obtaining chemical weapons and Syria. aiding Iraqi refugees. By March 2004, at least 25 were killed in the Qamishli riots, where Syrian forces reportedly opened fire on Kurds during a football match.

After siding with Arab states during the ArabIsraeli War to protest the establishment of Israel as a state, Syria experienced several coups within the span of a few years. Col. Husni al-Za’im led the coup d’etat in March 1949, Col. Sami al-Hinnawi in August 1949 and Army officer Adib al-Shishakli in December 1949. In February 1954, al-Shishakli was overthrown with the help of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, and veteran nationalist Shukri al-Quwatli became Syria’s president from 1955-1958.

1958-1963: After Syria and Egypt joined the United Arab Republic under the power of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in February, nearly three years later, Syria resisted Egyptian control and seized power in March 1963 headed by President Amin al-Hafez.

1963-1973: General Salah Jadid, leader of the left-wing military opponents of the Ba’ath Party, overthrew Amin al-Hafez, and Hafez al-Assad became defense minister of Syria. In March 1971, Hafez al-Assad was elected president, but sparked riots after he ended a constitutional requirement that the president be Muslim.

1973-1980: In October 1973, Syria and Egypt prompted the Yom Kippur War, aimed to regain the Golan Heights, seized by Israel during the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. In June 1976, Syria intervened in the Lebanese civil war, but aimed to maintain good relations with Israel via the Camp David accords.

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The White House presented information gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies saying that Assad’s regime had used chemical weapons, specifically a nerve agent called sarin, against Assad’s opponents.

Violence continued into August when Syrian opposition reported chemical attacks near Damascus, killing many Syrian citizens. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama joined forces to condemn the Syrian government, vowing that the violence carried out by Assad’s regime will not go unpunished.

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The British Parliament rejected a proposal for a military strike in Syria. Germany, France and Britain had previously called on Assad to step down.

U.S. intelligence concluded that they have “high-confidence� that Assad carried out chemical attacks near Damascus, killing 1,429 Syrians.

President Obama authorized a limited military strike to punish Syria. However, Obama said he will seek authorization from Congress before carrying out an attack.

Following the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Assad emphasized Islam as Syria’s religion. That same year, the Muslim Brotherhood, a formerly outlawed Islamic political organization in Syria, attempted to assassinate Assad. In September, Syria supported Iran in the Iran-Iraq war. In June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and attacked Syrian forces, only to have Syrian forces send troops to Lebanon again in February 1987 to enforce a ceasefire in Beirut.

1987-2000: After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, Syria joined forces with the U.S against Iraq. By October 1991, Syria had joined the Madrid Peace Conference, an attempt to negotiate between Israel, Palestinians and Arab countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Nearly eight years later, the U.S. led talks between Israel and Syria regarding the Golan Heights territory.

President Obama should act cautiously before pursuing military action against Syria The buzzword surrounding any action (or inaction, for that matter) in the Syrian civil war is “precedent.� Last week, President Barack Obama asked for Congressional approval for military action in the country, where several authorities have concluded Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons. Because Obama essentially asked permission to punish Assad, he may have weakened his ability to go forth with military action on his own in the future. If Congress says no, his calls for action now and in the future will be weakened. He’s made it clear that he wants to uphold the international law that bans chemical warfare, as he should, but he needs the support of both Congress and the international

community to move forward. Even if Congress green lights action in the Middle Eastern country, the United States will be seen as the policing bully of the world once more. The U.S. has established itself as a selfelected enforcer of international laws, and many Americans and international citizens express their disapproval of its global role. Obama could once again put the United States in a poor diplomatic position if he goes in alone. Chemical warfare should not be tolerated, but exacting military action to combat an already bloody war likely will not work. Seeking peaceful settlements between Syria and the rebel forces is paramount. Should the United States enter the conflict, it must do so with the support of more than just a handful of countries —

Britain has already voted to sit this one out. But if Assad goes unpunished for his illegal use of chemical weapons that killed more than 1,400 people, a dangerous precedent of acceptance of such combat could develop. A staunch defense of the international law must be pursued, but doing so at all costs could be more damaging than the weapons Assad used. This is a war that has gone unnoticed by countless Americans, and because many of them are new to the conflict, sensitivity is at an all-time high. Public opinion on the issue could be rapid and difficult to change. Obama needs to act as cautiously as possible and continue to wait for an appropriate decision in Syria.

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Amanda Tugade serves this week’s dish of the week, a revamp on the college staple of traditional ramen noodles. Adding just a couple of ingredients, like eggs and vegetables, can add a gourmet twist to this quick and easy dish without breaking your budget.

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Revamping ramen: not your typical noodles AMANDA TUGADE Contributing writer

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7 p.m. and you’ve just gotten home from work. After a long day, you’re exhausted; the last thing you want to even think about is cooking. You drop your backpack on your bed, take your shoes off and head straight to the fridge. You’re looking forward to eating last night’s dinner, a meal you’re actually quite proud of because you had the best ingredient of all time. You open the door and find that it’s not there anymore. Is this a trick? You examine each shelf, looking behind every oversized condiment. Profanities are spewing out of your mouth, and you quickly assume your roommate didn’t realize you were saving last night’s dinner for lunch. Now you feel hopeless, and your stomach is screaming for food. You hurry over to the cupboards, but nothing

is there. You enter a state of panic. Ordering food tonight is not an option, since paying for this month’s electricity and rent cut a huge hole in your miscellaneous spending. All of a sudden, an orange flap glistens in the kitchen light. You’re overwhelmed by excitement. Ramen noodles save the day, but eating plain ol’ ramen isn’t enough. Sometimes, you just need a little more. Here’s a recipe for revamping your ramen noodles.

Ingredients: 1 package of ramen noodles, any green vegetables that you have available, 1 egg, pot, fork and bowl 1. As you would, follow the instructions on the back of the package. Boil water. (Tip: If you don’t want to use water, you can use chicken broth, which will give your Ramen more flavor). 2. Put the noodles in the boiling water. 3. Add the seasoning and stir. Lower the fire. 4. There are two ways you can cook the egg. The first way is simple. Make a hard boiled

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documentary called “Out of Nowhere: The Champaign Music Scene� on Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Both the concert and the movie screening are complements to ELLNORA and will set the tone for the rest of the festival. Spanning from the 1960s to the present, the film chronicles the C-U music community, includes rare performance footage and features exclusive, o n - c a me r a i nte r v i ew s with local musicians. The documentary was directed by Bob Zimmerman. “It was a great match for the festival and we’re glad to partner with Bob and The Art Theater to present the film the night before the festival formally begins,� Lee-Calfas said.

that no matter how complicated your password is, if someone really wants to break into your account, they will. But there are several things you can still do to keep your email and school accounts safe.

Saher can be reached at smkhan3@dailyillini.com.

Install basic virus and adware protection on your computer. This will help defend it from picking up any viruses or other harmful programs when browsing the Internet. AVG Antivirus is a good program that is offered for free and helps shield you from most common threats.

Avoid visiting suspicious websites. You can have the best antivirus software in the world, but if you visit enough fishy websites, eventually something will slip through. Common signs of a harmful website include

egg. Cook for 10 minutes to achieve a perfect hard boiled egg. Once the egg is cooked, drain the water, and pour cold water into the pot. Leave for a couple minutes. The cold water makes the egg easy to touch and peel. Peel off the egg shells, and thinly slice the egg. Put the egg slices into the soup. The second way is a little bit more difficult. Using the fork, crack the egg over the pot, and slowly drain the egg’s white. Don’t throw away the yolk! Let it simmer for 2 to 3 minutes, where you will see the egg’s whites forming, creating an egg drop soup. Stir for another minute. 5. Place the yolk into the soup. Let it simmer for 2 to 3 minutes or until yolk is hardened. 6. Turn the stove off and add the vegetables. The steam from the heat of the soup will soften the vegetables. Let it steam for 2-3 minutes. 7. Pour the soup into a bowl, and enjoy!

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It turns out Uranus has a cosmic companion as it circles the sun from nearly 1.8 billion miles away. Scientists have detected a Trojan — an asteroid-like object that shares a planet’s orbit — moving ahead of the ice giant. The discovery of 2011 QF99 was reported this week in the journal Science. And it was found almost by accident. Mike Alexandersen, a doctoral student in astronomy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, wasn’t looking for a Trojan. Nor was he studying Uranus. He and his colleagues were surveying the transneptunian region of the outer solar system, hoping to see what kinds of orbits the objects there followed. (The transneptunian region is more or less the same thing as the Kuiper Belt. Studying the patterns of objects’ orbits in the region helps scientists understand how the solar system formed some 4.5 billion years ago.) As Alexandersen and the team examined images snapped using the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope during 2011 and 2012, they

noticed one object that was moving across the field of vision more quickly than the others. It was an indication that the object was closer to Earth than the rest. That part wasn’t a surprise. But seeing something that moved the way 2011 QF99 did was a shocker. The scientists had expected to see objects known as Centaurs, which often move toward the center of the solar system along quirky paths. But over the course of a year of observations, they realized that this particular space rock was traveling in an orbit very much like that of Uranus. That made it seem more like a Trojan, gravitationally bound to its planet. The mysterious object also oscillated the same way a Trojan would. “It was, in fact, a Trojan,� said Alexandersen, who added that the team members “were certainly not anticipating finding something as cool as this.� University of California at Los Angeles planetary scientist David Jewitt, who is credited with detecting the first Kuiper Belt object in 1992, said that the transneptunian region is the source of all sorts of objects hurtling about the solar

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Amanda is a senior in Media. She can be reached at tugade1@dailyillini.com. excessive pop-ups, repeated firewall alerts from your computer and demands for your personal information. Trust your instincts and stick to wellknown websites.

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Be mindful of what computer you are using. Generally, it’s a good idea not to access any website accounts that have your personal information stored, such as credit card information, birth date and social security number, on any computer besides your own. While it may be OK to occasionally access your email account on the University library computers, be aware that many other people use those computers every day. In 2011, library computers at Manchester University were found to have key loggers installed on them. Avoid using public computers to access your personal accounts.

Brian is a senior in LAS. He can be reached at brianyu1@ dailyillini.com.

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system, providing an Armada-like “rain of stuff� cascading inward toward the sun. As they move about, they get caught up in planets’ gravity _ either getting hurled away or thrown further inward. Chunks that float around in the zone of the giant planets are called Centaurs. Those that make it into the inner solar system, heating and vaporizing in the sun’s heat, are known as comets. Trojans are the bits that get captured in particular locations in a planet’s orbit where gravity from the sun and gravity from the planet interact to lock them in place. Some Trojans — around Mars, Neptune and especially Jupiter — are permanently bound to their planets, and have been for billions of years. Others, like 2011 QF99 and Earth’s Trojan 2010 TK7, are only temporarily trapped in their orbits. “The planets are playing ball with this thing,� Jewitt said of the newly detected object. “Eventually they’ll lose control of it.� Alexandersen and his colleagues conducted a computer simulation that showed that the Trojan - which is about 37 miles wide - is only temporarily bound to Uranus.

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LOCAL TALENT KICKS OFF ELLNORA WEEK BY SAHER KHAN STAFF WRITER

The Champaign-Urbana community hosts a thriving music scene, and this week its musicians will be celebrated in pre-ELLNORA festival events. On Tuesday at 6 p.m., the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts will host Local Heroes Night, a free pre-festival concert showcasing local musicians of varying genres and talent, in Krannert’s lobby. “It’s a great opportunity to get a quick overview of the C-U music scene,� said Tim Donaldson, curator of the Local Heroes Night lineup. “It’s a way to see a little bit of everything the C-U has to offer and an example of different genres and diversity within the music scene here.� Donaldson and his blues-rock band, Timmy D and Blind Justice, are veterans in the local music community, having performed at the ELLNORA festival two years ago. “Tim has been part of the Krannert Center family for a long time and is a wonderful supporter and enthusiast of ELLNORA and a talented collaborator,� said Bridget Lee-Calfas, advertising and publicity director of Krannert. “He was an obvious choice this year to curate the lineup and headline the performance.� Lee-Calfas said the C-U community is so fortunate to have a long-standing and vibrant local music scene. The Local Heroes Night is about celebrating that element of the community and sharing it with the national platform they receive because of the festival. “Local musicians have always been an essential part of ELLNORA, so we’re glad to continue that tradition,� she said. Donaldson said he thinks that instead of ELLNORA having an impact on the music scene in ChampaignUrbana, it has just enhanced it. “The music scene in C-U is extremely vibrant,“ Donaldson said. “There are tons of venues, tons of bands and there’s live music every night somewhere. The live music scene is a huge deal and ELLNORA compliments that nicely.� Michael Carpenter, guitartist and vocalist in Decadents, is one of the local musicians Donaldson recruited to perform at the pre-festival events. “I have not been to ELLNORA before, so opening for them is quite an introduction to it,� Carpenter said. “It’s not like I opened for Buddy Guy, but years down the road I’ll be able to tell my grandkids that I played in the same festival as him, and that is so cool.� Carpenter said it is an honor to open for ELLNORA and to be in the same lineup as so many local artists who have been around the community for so long. “For someone like me, it’s especially cool because I’m still an apprentice,� Carpenter said. “With local musicians, there are people going to be on that stage who have been around this area forever that are incredibly talented. So to be asked to do a couple of our own songs at this thing is validation of some sorts and it shows that this music scene is cross-generational.“ Carpenter mentioned that the drummer in his band is Ben Donaldson, the son of Tim Donaldson and the drummer of Timmy D and Blind Justice. He added that no rivalry exists between the groups, but rather they are a testament to the cross-generational and open music scene that can be found in the ChampaignUrbana community. “Festivals like ELLNORA and gigs like Local Heroes Night fosters the abundance of musicians we have in the area because it is such a receptive community for musicians and live music,� Donaldson said. “I think the music scene itself helps foster new and younger musicians.� Donaldson said Local Heroes Night is a great community event that will bring all the artists together to perform for the community and work together as a fellowship. Following Local Heroes Night, the Art Theater Co-Op in downtown Champaign will screen a

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he other day, I received an email from CITES stating that my AD and Enterprise password had expired, and I was required to change them. This was not unexpected, as CITES requires all students, faculty and staff at the University to change these passwords every year. While it is annoying and causes a few weeks of confusion until I can get used to entering in my new password every time I log in on Compass or the University wireless Internet, I understand that it is a necessary security precaution, especially in wake of last year’s ECE hacker. However, what frustrated me was not changing my password but coming up with a new one. CITES has a particularly stringent set of rules for its passwords. Your password must be between eight and 12 characters long, you have to use at least one number and both a lowercase and upper case letter, you may not have numeric or alphabetic sequences, you cannot have English words over five characters; the list goes on. It took me seven tries before it accepted my new password. I understand why CITES needs to implement this criteria for users to meet when making passwords; it prevents people from using their name, birth date, abc123 or other commonly used passwords, and it forces to them to come up with longer and therefore, theoretically, more difficult to guess passwords. That was the case until last week, when a password-cracking software called oclHashcat-plus was updated to include the capability of deciphering passwords up to 55 characters in length. oclHashcat-plus is a free-to-use program that uses your computer’s graphics card or graphics processing unit to make as many as eight billion guesses per second to crack a password. Obviously, with a typical computer, that number goes down to around one hundred- to-two hundred thousand guesses per second, but the Oxford English Dictionary has 600,000 entries. While most passwords are a combination of words and numbers, this still means that a typical computer running Hashcat can probably break your password in a little over a minute. Of course there is a lot more to cracking passwords than simply running a program. For example, most hackers will need access to the database of passwords for any particular site in order to circumvent the login attempt limit imposed by most sites. However, the release of this software goes to show

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Illini QB wins Big Ten honor Scheelhaase named offensive player of week after victory over Salukis BY SEAN HAMMOND SENIOR WRITER

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Illinois' Donovonn Young (5) celebrates his touchdown with Matt LaCosse (11) during the game against Southern Illinois at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Young’s touchdown helped the Illini to a 42-34 victory over the Salukis.

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In a game in which scoring fireworks dominated the game, it was a rare defensive stop that sealed a victory for the Illinois football team. The Illini held on to a 42-34 victory in the nerve-wracking final minute to survive a furious comeback effort by Southern Illinois on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. While the Illini held a 25-7 advantage at halftime and 42-24 margin with just more than seven minutes left in the game, the Salukis made a charge that brought them within three yards of the potential game-tying two-point conversion attempt. Driving methodically down the field, Southern Illinois

drove 54 yards in six plays, with help from a sideline interference penalty on Illinois defensive coordinator Tim Banks before stalling out near the goal line. On a 4th and goal from the 3-yard line, SIU quarterback Kory Faulkner sailed a pass over 6-foot-7 tight end Adam Fuehne’s head, and only then could the Illini breathe easy. “You got to stay out the way,� Banks said about the penalty. “But we got put in a position where you got to get it done and last year, I’m not sure we make that play.� Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase had a career game with 416 passing yards and two touchdowns to fuel new offensive coordinator Bill Cubit’s uptempo attack. On the first play from scrim-

After arguably the best passing game of his career, Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase was named Big Ten offensive player of the week on Monday. His 416 passing yards against Southern Illinois on Saturday were a career best. He also tossed two touchdowns en route to an 8-point victory. This is the second time Scheelhaase has won the award and the first since Nov. 1, 2010, following a fourtouchdown performance against Purdue as a redshirt freshman. Former Illinois wide receiver A.J. Jenkins is the last Illini to win the award. He did so after racking up three touchdowns and 268 yards in a comeback win against Northwestern in 2011. While Scheelhaase doesn’t get much more than a pat on the back for winning the award, it does seem to signal the return of something resembling an offense for Illinois after the lack of any such thing in 2012. Scheelhaase’s 416 yards matched nearly one-third of his total passing production in 2012. With the two touchdowns, he’s already halfway to his season total from a year ago.

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Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase winds up for a throw during the Illini’s win over Southern Illinois at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. mage, Scheelhaase found senior wideout Ryan Lankford for 52 yards on a play action pass – reminiscent of the duo’s 64-yard connection on the team’s first drive of last season against Western Michigan.

“Yeah, it’s a bit of a tradition to do it again for the last time, the first last time,� Lankford said. “We had been working on it all week. Coach Cubit just told

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Between Scheelhaase and backup Reilly O’Toole, Illinois quarterbacks were sacked five times against the Salukis and forced into quick decisions countless other times. At his weekly news conference Monday, head coach Tim Beckman expressed his displeasure in the protection of his quarterbacks. “We must protect him better,� Beckman said. “There was just too much pressure on Nathan. That’s not just the front five; that’s backs, that’s tight ends, that’s everybody involved.� Beckman said he hopes to have injured right guard Ted Karras back when Cincinnati comes to town this weekend. Karras missed the opener with an ankle injury. Redshirt freshman Joe Spencer made his first career start in Karras’s place. Beckman said the offensive

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“dubya� is most definitely a “dubya.� Beckman’s postgame mantra reflects pretty accurately on an Illinois football team that got away with one after easing up on Southern Illinois. The Illini escaped with a 42-34 victory. Illinois hasn’t experienced a “dubya� since the last time it faced an FCS opponent, Charleston Southern, and is off to a 1-0 start in 2013. This team will take a win because losing has haunted it since early last season. Wiping away 11 months and nine consecutive games’ worth of losing, the Illini have something to build off. That’s important. Nathan Scheelhaase looked free, throwing to 10 different receivers, long and short, making plays with his arm instead of just his legs. He finished the day with 416 yards passing, a career high. This isn’t Bill Cubit’s offense, though, supposedly. Beckman and Cubit maintain that they want the offense to be balanced, and that Donovonn Young and Josh Ferguson are to co-captain the run game, despite Ferguson outshining the junior from Katy, Texas.

False start Starting a football season is a tall order. The last two years, Illinois has done it in style. This year, Ryan Lank-

ford’s big opening-drive catch went for 52 yards instead of 64, and he didn’t carry it into the end zone. Your first play on offense should be a projection of your offensive identity. I wrote last week how Illinois should start with running game, and Cubit promptly disobeyed me, flashing the big guns with Lankford shaking single coverage for a big gain. It’s not that I’m against 50-yard passes, it’s just that everyone in the stadium knows that’s not what the offense is going to be like this season. At least not when the Big Ten defenses come to town. Young and Ferguson did some things wrong in the run game during the first half. Young was looked to after the big pass to finish the first drive, and he stalled en route to a field goal. They both ran east and west instead of north and south. On a couple occasions, Young looked to shake to the outside in lieu of hitting a hole provided for him by the offensive line. Illinois had minus 19 rush yards at halftime. Yikes.

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Secondary surrenders too many big plays On the defensive side, the Illini coaching staff was not happy with the performance of the secondary in the second half. SIU quarterback Kory Faulkner threw 228 of his 312 yards in the second half and all three of his touchdowns. Beckman said cornerback Eaton Spence was the only player in the Illini secondary who performed up to par with what the coaches expect. And even though cornerback V’Angelo Bentley gave Illinois a boost with a 100-yard kickoff return in the third quarter, his performance on defense was questionable. Said Beckman: “I told him this: After he returned the kickoff, he didn’t play up to the capabilities he needs to play if he wants to be an all-Big Ten cornerback. And he knows that. “We have to find ways to create pass rush and do a better job of covering passes.�

A formidable foe Illinois will get its first test against an FBS team this weekend when the Bearcats of Cincinnati make the trip to Champaign. Cincinnati thumped Purdue 42-7 on Saturday. Quarterbacks Munchie Legaux and Brendon Kay spread the wealth, hitting 12 different receivers. Legaux also ran for 55 yards and a score. But the Illini have a defensive coordinator who knows the Bearcats well. Tim Banks spent two seasons at Cincinnati prior to coming to Illinois last season. “I don’t know how much an advantage it is,� Banks said. “But knowing the quarterback and some of the personnel (helps). I can give the kids the information, but once the game starts it’s up to us to go out and execute.�

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

Four-star forward commits to Illinois BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGER STAFF WRITER

en minutes left in the fourth quarter. The Illini had just held the Salukis to a field goal, and Reilly O’Toole was inserted into the game with the lead at 15, 42-27. On his third play from center, O’Toole was hit and coughed up the ball, turning it back to the Salukis, who took just 50 seconds to go 31 yards to get within one possession. Needless to say, the 400yard passer returned to the field, and handed it off twice before being sacked on 3rd and 5 to give Southern a chance to make Illinois look foolish. O’Toole hadn’t seen the field until that point in the game, despite Cubit and Beckman saying they wanted to get him involved. O’Toole does not fit into this team on a situational basis — he is the backup quarterback. Thus, if you’re putting your backup quarterback in the game, you’re making the statement that you’ve won. You

John Groce finally got his man. The Illinois men’s basketball team gained its highestprofile recruit during Groce’s tenure when forward Leron Black told coaches Sunday that he would be coming to Illinois for college. Black, a 6-foot-7 forward from Memphis, Tenn., is the highest-ranked recruit to commit to the Illini since 2010 McDonald’s All-American Jereme Richmond. Black is a consensus top40 recruit, ranked No. 22 by Rivals, No. 36 by ESPN and No. 38 by 247sports. He had been committed to Baylor but decided to open up his commitment. He was still considering the Bears, along with Indiana and Tennessee, and planned to visit the schools this fall. He told the News-Gazette, which originally reported the commitment, that he will no longer be visiting the other schools. Black becomes the second member of Illinois’ 2014 recruiting class, after Champaign Centennial’s 6-foot-9 forward Michael Finke gave his commitment last December. Black and Finke cannot officially sign with the Illini until Nov. 13 As of now, Black takes the final scholarship spot for the 2014-15 team. One more spot could open up if the eligibility waiver for Oregon State transfer Ahmad Starks is granted by the NCAA. Starks, who averaged 10.4 points per game as a junior last season,

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Illinois Nathan Scheelhaase (2) is brought down after rushing the ball during the Illini’s 42-34 win over Southern Illinois at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. Though Lankford was the most consistent pass-catcher, Illinois used various other weapons to punch home their scores. Ferguson scored the first touchdown of the season by taking a dump off for 53 yards, which was the longest touchdown pass for Illinois since Lankford’s season opener last year. Young got his later in the quarter, pounding in a two-yard run for six. The 95-yard drive to end the half was capped with a short out pass to Jon Davis from 11 yards out. Scheelhaase was already honing in on a career high by half with 340 yards. In the second half, the scoring continued, albeit with a few hiccups. Scheelhaase was hit as he threw a second down pass, leading to an intercep-

HIS TEAM WILL TAKE A WIN BECAUSE LOSING HAS HAUNTED IT SINCE EARLY LAST SEASON.

The second quarter saw the Illini nab 22 points, including seven on a cutthroat 95-yard, 75-second drive to end the half. Scheelhaase got rolling with his receivers, particularly Lankford, who had 115 yards by half.

line simply did not play well enough. He was not pleased with the performances of any of the big guys up front.

tion and eventually a touchdown for Southern. When he got the ball back, he led the offense downfield with help from a 34-yard Ferguson run and a 33-yard scamper by tight end Tim Clary, who was tripped up (very casually, I might add) on the two. In came Aaron Bailey, fourstar freshman out of Bolingbrook, Ill. Bailey is an inch shorter and 15 pounds bulkier than Scheelhaase, and took a QB draw up the middle for six. Later in the third, defensive back V’Angelo Bentley took a kickoff 100 yards for six. It came from special teams, it came from the running game, it came from the passing game, it came from the quarterback runs. When this offense got rolling, it was very balanced. It’ll be interesting to see which forms of production hold firm as the schedule gets tougher.

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Volleyball goes 2-1 at Long Beach Invitational BY BLAKE PON STAFF WRITER

The Illinois volleyball team got off to the start it wanted, winning two out of three matches over the weekend against two AVCA top-25 ranked teams at the Long Beach State Mizuno Invitational in Long Beach, Calif. The Illini opened up the season by sweeping No. 18 Florida State 3-0 before dropping three consecutive sets after taking a 1-0 lead against host Long Beach State later that day. The Illini bounced back against No. 17

Kentucky the next day, winning in five sets despite dropping two of the first three. “It was good to come out 2-1 in this tournament,” head coach Kevin Hambly said. “It’s a tough tournament. We of course would rather have been 3-0 and thought we had a chance to, but we just didn’t play up to our level in the second match against Long Beach State. I think we learned a lot about our team, we saw and tested our depth.” Freshmen Katie Stadick, Katie Roustio, Maddie Mayers

and sophomore Kathryn Polkoff made their debut over the weekend, each making contributions against top competition. “I was a little nervous, but I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I would be (heading into the game),” Mayers said. “I definitely felt good going into the first match this weekend.” Hambly said his team learned a lot in its first matches of the year. “I think everyone played except for one person on the weekend,” Hambly said. “Every-

one contributed and made plays and did things, and that’s exciting to see. I think we learned how to compete and fight, especially in our last match versus Kentucky.” Of the players who made their debut, Mayers made the biggest impact after redshirting last season. The freshman middle blocker garnered 11 kills in 16 attempts to hit .625 against Florida State and hit .458 with 13 kills to go along with nine blocks against Kentucky in the team’s second win of the season. She also recorded seven blocks

against Long Beach State. “I think (redshirting) helped me immensely,” she said. “I definitely got stronger. I got quicker. I loved it.” Sophomore setter Alexis Viliunas turned in a strong but inconsistent performance, Hambly said. Viliunas registered a total of 117 assists in the three contests, including 50 in the team’s five-set win against Kentucky. She also added 23 digs overall, but Hambly thought another stood out. “Jennifer Beltran was really

good all weekend,” Hambly said. “I thought she was exceptional. She was probably the one that stood out as the most consistent player.” Beltran led the team in digs over the weekend, tallying 51 through the three matches. Illinois will head to Ames, Iowa, this weekend for the Iowa State Challenge, where it will face San Diego and host Iowa State.

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Illini’s DiBernardo to suit up to for national squad BY ALEX ORTIZ STAFF WRITER

Vanessa DiBernardo is no stranger to playing for her country, but when the midfielder was called up to replace the injured Megan Rapinoe on the senior U.S. Women’s National team against Mexico Tuesday, she knew she accomplished something rarely done among her peers. “It means a lot,” she said. “I’ve thought about this for a very long time, and it’s been a dream of mine and kind of a goal that I’ve set for myself.” DiBernardo suited up for Illinois in Friday’s match against Charleston but missed Sunday’s contest against Illinois State to prepare for the match with Mexico. Making a senior national team’s roster is one of the highest individual achievements for a soccer player. DiBernardo will be one of only three college players on the national team. She played for the Under-20 team and helped them win the 2012 U-20 World Cup in Japan. Overall, she’s appeared 20 times and scored three goals at the U-20 level. That experience will help her, she said, but she is still focused on not being too “nervous.” If she actually sees the field, she would be the first daughter of a past Men’s National Team player to play for a senior team.

Her father, Angelo DiBernardo, appeared 20 times for the U.S. between 1979-85. “I’ve always heard of what he’s done and his accomplishments,” she said. “So it’s kind of made me want to have those same accomplishments.” DiBernardo said her journey to the national team was made possible by her experience at Illinois and the lessons she’s learned from head coach Janet Rayfield. Rayfield said she’s been “honored” to be able to coach a player like DiBernardo and that coaching her has been easy. “She’s worked a lot from the time she started playing this game,” Rayfield said. “She’s done everything she could to take her game to the next level, and this is someone saying: ‘We think you’re there.’” Rayfield is confident the Women’s National Team made the right choice and that the U.S. soccer selection process is working. She said because DiBernardo was selected to the team, it declares her one of the best college players in the country, something many have believed true for some time. Still, DiBernardo remains hungry for the next challenge and admits there are a number of areas in her game she needs to improve if she plans on continuing to play at the highest level.

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Illinois midfielder Vanessa DiBernardo jostles with her opponent for the ball during the Illini’s 6-2 win over the College of Charleston at the Illini Soccer and Track stadium Friday. “I think I just need to keep improving and not really set a top goal for myself,” DiBernardo said. “Just always continuing to make new goals and learn from my mistakes.” It’s the goal of many players

to wear their nation’s colors and compete at the highest level, and DiBernardo might have an opportunity to do both Tuesday. Her and Rayfield both understand the meaning of the selection. “Maybe the easiest way to

describe it is if you have some dream you’ve had since you were a kid and someone calls you ... and says: ‘Hey, I’m going to make your dream come true,’” Rayfield said. “ I think it had to be that kind of day for Vanessa.”

The U.S. will play Mexico at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. Tuesday at 7 p.m. on Fox Sports 1.

Alex can be reached at ajortiz2@dailyillini.com and @AlexOrtiz2334.

Defense improves, offense explodes as Illini take 2 at home BY LANRE ALABI STAFF WRITER

What a world of difference one week makes. The Illini were 1-1-0 last Sunday after they conceded eight goals between their first two games. The team mentioned it needed to improve its defensive organization if it was to stand a chance at achieving its season goals; in the week since then, they have done just that. In its first home games this season, Illinois defeated the College of Charleston 6-2 on Friday evening and followed that with a 5-1 victory over Illinois State on Sunday night. Illinois made some small personnel and position changes, but there is a simpler reason for the marked improvement. “I think we’re taking more pride in our defense,” junior forward Janelle Flaws said. Flaws completed a hat trick with three goals for the Illini on Sunday and had a total of four goals over the weekend’s games. Flaws has been plagued with injuries throughout her collegiate career, and head coach Janet

Rayfield emphasized her importance to the team this season and what it will mean to keep her healthy. Illinois’ offensive production has not come from Flaws alone. This weekend, the team scored 11 goals and those goals were shared among seven players, none of whom were team captain Vanessa DiBernardo. DiBernardo provided two assists on Friday but was called up to the USA National team for their game against Mexico in D.C. on Tuesday and she missed Sunday’s fixture. On Sunday, Allie Osoba scored her second goal of the weekend just 16 seconds into the game, three seconds behind the quickest goal scored in school history. In their last 3 games Illinois has totaled 16 goals, equaling the second-best tally in any threegame span in school history. The impressive goal-scoring feats are a far cry from the one-goal performance they put in against Notre Dame in the season opener. “(To keep the scoring going,) we have to do what we do best,” Flaws said. “Moving off the ball. Everyone

is moving together. Instead of three people making different runs, three people making runs that go together. As long as we keep reading each other well and working for each other I think it will be a good sign for us.” Twenty different players saw game time on Friday and the same number made an appearance Sunday as Rayfield utilized her substitutes often. In the absence of their star player, DiBernardo, the team didn’t appear to miss a beat when they were getting forward with the ball and they got a better defensive performance out of their players. The team defense that was once described as a sieve is now receiving strength in its numbers. Going forward, the team has no shortage of attacking threats. Just four games into the season, 10 of the 22 outfield players on the roster have gotten their names on the score sheet with 17 goals between them. “Especially on the offensive side of things, we’ve got a lot of depth and experience,” Rayfield said. “Janelle Flaws is eligibility-wise a sophomore, but experience-wise she’s been around

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Illinois forward Jannelle Flaws finesses the ball into the net for a goal during the Illini’s 5-1 win over the Redbirds at Illini Soccer and Track stadium on Sunday. for a long time. Having those kinds of players that are your depth on the roster is certainly helpful. We also have some freshmen who are stepping up and providing us with some great

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Tennis sophomores serve as source of leadership

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The Illinois men’s tennis sophomore class knows it is under pressure to learn from last season’s second round exit in the NCAA championships. Entering their second season, sophomores Jared Hiltzik, Alex Jesse, Brian Page and Julian Childers are striving to reaffirm the promise of 2012’s highly touted recruiting class. “We are clearly under more pressure this season after we underachieved last year,� Childers said. “Once we got up to the No. 13 ranking in the country, we became a little arrogant. After the rankings came out, we lost some of our focus and ended up losing to teams we were probably better than.� The class of 2016 entered last season as the No. 6 ranked recruiting class in the country — one of the best under head coach Brad Dancer. The class was led by top-ranked recruit Hiltzik, five-star prospects Jesse and Childers and No. 12 ranked blue-chip recruit Page. While last season’s freshmen had a great deal of talent and potential, inconsistency was the biggest downfall collectively for the quartet. “All four of us had our peaks at different times in the season, and we weren’t all able to put together a consistent effort at the same time,� Jesse said. “For me, I started out pretty slow, only to end the season playing some of the best tennis of my season. Overall, we had inconsistency week-to-week, which killed us and kept us from matching our expectations.� Outside of Jared Hiltzik — who was the most consistent of the class at 29-11 in singles — the rest of the freshmen went a combined 34-33 in singles play. Much of the quartet’s inconsistency came from inexperience and immaturity. After going 12-15 last season, Page said he personally struggled balancing his academic workload and tennis, which led to poor performances. “We are all a lot more mature than we were as freshmen,� Hiltzik said. “We know how much is riding on this season for the program, so there is no excuse to not show one week.

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Jared Hiltzik hits the ball during the game against Penn State on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. I’m confident that won’t happen this year.� Hiltzik added the team has learned a lot from its losses, and it won’t let any loss or any win get them too low or too overconfident this season. Though all four are still young in the scheme of college tennis, they will be expected to play with more poise and show a greater degree of leadership — especially after the Illini graduated two seniors, Bruno Abdelnour and Stephen Hoh. With only three juniors and the sophomore quartet, Dancer met with the players individually to make it clear that the bar was set much higher this season, and they would each be responsible for setting examples for their teammates. “All of us are willing to try and lead this team, and when we take that role, the culture of the team only gets better,� Childers said. “That’s the type of culture we want to build on this team: one where everyone wants to step up, and one where everyone is pushing each other to get better.� One of the biggest benefits for the four sophomores is the familiarity level they have with another. Three of them — Hiltzik, Page and Childers — were recruit-

ed out of the Chicago area, while Jesse was recruited out of Mequon, Wisc. Prior to arriving on campus, all four had a great deal of experience playing together and competing against each other in high school. Childers said the familiarity with each other’s personalities and playing styles leads to little conflict and personal issues to act as distractions from their on-the-court play. The sense of community among all four makes it easier to develop chemistry more naturally and authentically, and they expect to only grow closer as all four live together in same apartment. The 2013-14 season will pressure the four sophomores as the Illini aim to take back the Big Ten crown from rival Ohio State and return to the top 10 of the national rankings. “We still have pretty high expectations for this season, if not higher expectations than last year,� Page said. “While we definitely fell short last season, we have gotten better and prepared ourselves to make a run this year.�

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rallying their way toward an upset. Credit should be given to the defense for getting back up for the final possession, and forcing a poor throw from Salukis quarterback Kory Faulkner to clinch the game. Next up, a ferocious Cincinnati team awaits. The Bearcats thrashed Purdue 42-7 in their opener and look to double up on Big Ten victories next week when they come to town. Adjustments need to be made, and Illinois hopes to avoid a letdown similar to the one they experienced last season against Arizona State. I’ve harped on this before, but the difference is competitiveness. Getting blown out and giving up is not an option. A close game will show growth for the Illini. And while a 42-34 nailbiter against Southern Illinois doesn’t instill a whole lot of confidence, it didn’t do much to hide the team’s flaws, and there were some strengths to take away as well. If the Illini keep up the competitiveness, and continue to share the wealth on offense, you’ll see greater returns than in 2012. That doesn’t mean a lot, given last year’s performance, but it’s a start, and that’s more than Beckman got last season.

scenery as much as Scheelhaase could probably use him off his back. It’s not Reilly’s fault. He’s been let down by the program. But it’s hard to deny at this point that it’s anything but the best option to let Nate have sole control of the offense. Should Scheelhaase suffer an injury, O’Toole would be a valuable backup. Prized, even. But the only thing he did Saturday was turn the game around in the wrong way.

SILL don’t need your most competitive lineup out there because you can win without it. This was a product of Illinois wanting to blow out Southern. Cubit and Beckman likely wanted to insert O’Toole in an out-of-reach situation. “Thought Reilly was deserving of getting in,� Beckman said. “Just a matter of when and where. Reilly O’Toole deserves to play in the game.� There’s your tragedy. He’s Reilly O’Toole — so highly touted out of high school. Many thought he would put Scheelhaase in a Miles Oseilike, converted wide receiver role. But he just hasn’t worked out here at Illinois. His insertion into the game takes away rhythm Scheelhaase builds. He’s not a quickhitting, in-and-out substitution like Bailey proved to be. He’s a starting-caliber quarterback. It hasn’t come together for him as a changeof-pace player, and games like Saturday’s show why it’s time to give up on O’Toole being a contributor at Illinois. He could succeed in a different program, with sole reins to the offense, but as a leader on a drive here, a drive there, it doesn’t work. Beckman had no hesitation playing him; he clearly likes the kid. And it’s sad, but O’Toole could use a change of

Hold on, and move on If you’re a defensive player and your team has just inserted your backup quarterback, how can your mind set not change to that of the game being over? Suddenly, you’re back on the field and your home stadium is chanting the initials of the other program. There’s 30 yards between your back and the end zone and you had been hoping to take a breather right about now because it’s ludicrously hot outside. Likewise, Scheelhaase’s day was done until O’Toole fumbled. It became undone. He was rhythmless, and he was sacked in his one dropback after being reinserted. On the field, the Illini knew they had no time to think about the larger context of allowing the Salukis back in it. Jonathan Brown and Eaton Spence were pumping up the crowd as though they were

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FOOTBALL me, ‘Run it down.’� Scheelhaase notched 407 passing yards in the first three quarters before the Illinois offense stalled most of the final quarter. It was the first 400-yard game for Illinois since Juice Williams threw for 462 yards against Minnesota in 2008. After a Southern Illinois field goal brought the margin to 42-27 with 7:08 remaining in the game, the Illini benched Scheelhaase in favor of backup Reilly O’Toole. While trying to burn clock, the Illini were assessed a delay of game penalty to turn a 2nd and 1 into a 2nd and 6. Two plays later, O’Toole scrambled to his left and was hit by the Salukis’ Tyler Williamson and fumbled. SIU recovered the ball at the Illini 31-yard line. That led to a quick Salukis touchdown and, after an Illi-

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nois 3-and-out, led to the gamedeciding drive with 3:10 remaining in the contest. “We’re not the kid on the street with the shiny shoes, big house, nice car,� Scheelhaase said. “We have snot in the nose. We’re going to go out and grind.� Although Scheelhaase and the offense were clicking for most of the game, the Illini received some unexpected support on special teams when cornerback V’Angelo Bentley took a kickoff coast-to-coast for a 100yard touchdown return. It was the first kick return touchdown since A.J. Jenkins took back a 96-yard return against Indiana in 2008. Although the game may have been too close for the comfort of Illini fans, Scheelhaase said he preferred a close game to the blowout some expected – the Illini were 17-point favorites.

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BLACK transferred to Illinois to be closer to his ailing grandmother, a reason that could allow him to play immediately. Groce has two more high-profile 2014 recruits considering Illinois. Four-star point guard Quentin Snider, who decommitted from Louisville, is scheduled to visit Sept. 28, while five-star center Cliff Alexander, the No. 2 recruit in the nation, visited the Illini over the summer and tweeted Tuesday that he is still considering Illinois. Alexander further fueled speculation when he tweeted “Leron is not a 4 (power forward) he’s a 3 (small forward)� denying that he and Black play the same position, possibly saying Black’s commitment would not stop him from coming to Illinois.

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Penn State QB Hackenburg shines in debut; O’Brien cautiously optimistic BY JOE JULIANO MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Bill O’Brien is cautioning Nittany Nation not to go batty over freshman Christian Hackenberg after only one win. Hackenberg made an impressive debut Saturday for Penn State, going 22 of 31 for 278 yards in a 23-17 victory over Syracuse at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. You can tell that O’Brien is loving the chance of being able to coach the young Virginian every day for the next three months and beyond. But hey, it’s one game, and the Penn State coach said plenty of work needs to be done. “He’s only 18, he’s got a tremendous future,� O’Brien said after Saturday’s game. “But we’re not ready to waltz him into the College Football Hall of Fame, certainly not the NFL Hall of Fame. “Look, he’s a talented guy, he’s got a long way to go. It’s one game. He made some nice throws, he made

some mistakes. I made some bad play calls and put him in bad situations. We’ll just have to keep learning from each other. He’s a fun guy to coach.� It’s evident O’Brien has built a nice relationship with Hackenberg since recruiting him out of Fork Union (Va.) Military Academy. He was trusting enough to allow the kid — a freshman starting at quarterback in his fi rst game on national television — to stand in front of about 50 inquiring reporters after the game, something that Joe Paterno never allowed. Hackenberg handled himself well. “It’s a big change,� he said. “I was defi nitely nervous. The guys really helped me through that. But once the game starts, at the end of the day, it’s just football. “It’s been a big transition. I was playing (high school) baseball a little while ago. But I just tried to come in here and immerse myself, doing what I can to reach my potential.� Hackenberg was asked about the fact that he is leading a unit of much

older players. Four members of his starting offensive line are 22 years old. “It’s a big adjustment,� he said. “I’m only 18 years old and some of these guys are 20-22. So just being able to talk with them is great. They look at me and I look at them with the same respect.� O’Brien disclosed that he had reached a decision on a starter between Hackenberg and sophomore Tyler Ferguson two weeks ago. He chided reporters for suggesting he was indecisive just because he hadn’t revealed his choice publicly. The coach said the battle was a close one. Hackenberg “made his share of mistakes. They both did,� he said. “I’d say it was pretty even. I wouldn’t say one guy blew the other guy out of the water. I think it was fairly even. I had to make the decision for the team.� The decision might appear to be a good one. But as O’Brien says, there’s plenty of time left in the season.

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Penn State’s Christian Hackenberg, middle, celebrates with teammates after a 23-17 victory against Syracuse at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Saturday. Hackenberg threw for 278 yards in the win.

Kelly downplays Michigan-Notre Dame history as teams prepare to put rivalry on indefinite hiatus BY BRIAN HAMILTON CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Wearing a white ball cap cocked to the left as Saturday evening settled upon Notre Dame Stadium, TJ Jones nevertheless had one thing straight: In a week he would be playing Michigan for the fourth time, and he could not imagine a career without barreling into that supercell at least once. “I can’t,� said Jones, the senior receiver and captain. “The Michigan rivalry has become part of playing at Notre Dame. It’s one of those things you look forward to. And I’ve never thought about Notre Dame in the past — before I even got here — as not playing Michigan.� Consider it now a reality series. The Irish’s scheduling demands will put matchups with the Wolverines on indefi nite hold after 2014, and the dynamic

Jones can’t fathom will take form. But, oh, will there be grease fi res and empty fi re extinguishers everywhere until then, especially when coaches keep striking matches. It was Brian Kelly’s turn Sunday, when Notre Dame’s coach — who also has run programs at two Michigan universities — dared downplay a rivalry that began in 1887 even a little. “I really haven’t seen it as one of those historic, traditional Notre Dame rivalries,� Kelly said during a conference call. “I’ve seen it as just one of those great football games that Notre Dame has played. “I’ve been in Michigan a long time, so I’ve always felt the Notre Dame-Michigan game was a big regional game. But in the Notre Dame history books, this game has (been) played,

but obviously there’s been stuffed with button-popping Kel ly d id some years where it hasn’t been c onsequence. played for number of years as deem it “a great rivalry� and well. From my perspective ... “special.� If nothing else, the these have been initial ho-hum really hardappraisal fought, highfurther ensured profi le games.� that a hiatus So kernels of won’t numb the underlying truth to Kelly’s musi ngs do acrimony of it ex i s t . The all. “It’s huge,� prog ra ms Irish safety will meet for Matthias Farley the 41st time said. “It’s a big in 126 years rivalry, and on Saturday; Notre Dame has it gets bigger TJ JONES played Army, ever y ye a r. NOTRE DAME WIDE RECEIVER Pittsburgh and And knowing Northwestern we’re not going more. And Irish to play them in fans likely would fi nger USC as the near future, it makes it that their most visceral rival. much bigger.� Still, Notre Dame-Michigan Said cornerback Bennett is outsize, the games often Jackson: “We know Michigan

“The Michigan rivalry has become part of playing at Notre Dame. It’s one of those things you look forward to.�

doesn’t like us, and we don’t like them, and we’re just going to go play. Of course there may be a little more tension in the air. But we treat every game the same.� There is the matter of that game, and how Notre Dame’s season can turn on it. The Irish should be at full strength, with receiver DaVaris Daniels expected to be full-go by Tuesday after a minor groin pull suffered against Temple. There are a few impact swing games on that will determine if it’s BCS-or-bust, and this is one of them, rendered before 107,000-plus in Week 2 in Ann Arbor, Mich. “I don’t know if you fi nd out where you stand, but I think you fi nd out where you’re headed,� Jones said of the Michigan game. “And where your team has the potential to be.� It was Michigan coach Brady

Hoke who fi red the salvo in May that Notre Dame was “chickening out� of the series. On that, Kelly wouldn’t bite Sunday. “ Everybody knows the challenges we have as an independent when it comes to scheduling,� Kelly said. “We’re a team that a lot of people want to play, including Michigan, obviously, or Brady wouldn’t comment in that regard. “We’re trying to do the best we can maintaining our independent status and our relationship with the ACC. We’d like to play everybody. Unfortunately, we can’t. There’s going to be a little bit of hiatus on the game but we’ll work hard to get them back on the schedule.� Everybody will be ready, turnout coats and fi re goggles for all.

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