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Two face sexual assault charges Student posts bond, must wear electronic monitoring bracelet BY CARINA LEE

KEEPING IT LOCAL

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Robert Sena, Common Ground Food Co-op employee, converses with a customer as he stocks shelves on Wednesday at the opening of the co-op's renovated section of the store.

Common Ground Co-op expands, continues commitment to give back to Champaign-Urbana farmers, community BY CLAIRE EVERETT STAFF WRITER

Since opening its doors four years ago in the Lincoln Square Mall , Common Ground Food Co-op has tripled in sales, leading to the construction of a new wing that opened Wednesday. For now, all groceries have been moved to the new wing, but the store’s expansion will be complete in October, when the wall separating the old and new wings is torn down. Common Ground is a consumerowned company with 3,000 owners who have a share in the business. The business provides the community with fresh food choices, mainly from local farmers. Marketing manager Joy Rust said in 2008, the co-op was paid local farmers a collective amount of $115,000. Now, with increasing popularity and community support, revenue from the renovation is expected to

reach about $900,000, which will be have cooking classes for free and for a cost, as well as other classes, paid to local farmers, Rust said. Last fall alone, Common Ground like canning classes, classes on raisFood Co-op raised $1 million in ing chickens and eating healthy on loans from their owners, said Kris- a budget.” ti Emilsson , grocery Customer Jan Kalmanager. mar has been involved “We were amazed,” in the co-op for about Emilsson said. 30 years and said the “That’s a million dolrenovation is continuing to bring jobs to lars from people that the community. believe this business is a profi table busi“The renovation ness they want to be has made the co-op a part of.” not only stable but The new wi ng introduced a beauincludes classrooms, tiful model of doing so the community can business for local KRISTI EMILSSON, participate in free organic systems,” grocery manager Kalmar said. cooking classes and provide extra in-store Common Ground seating for the espresso and salad Food Co-op also gives back to the bar. Room for storage was also part community through events and through a round-up service offered of the addition. “I’m really excited for our com- at the register. As part of the sermunity kitchen,” Rust said. “We’ll vice, customers can round up the

“This is a Co-op that four years ago was in a basement of a church, and here we are now.”

New file-storage service will replace NetFiles by December Faculty members praise new service for its convenience BY MADDIE REHAYEM STAFF WRITER

No more NetFiles. A new fi le-sharing system called Box will be made available Friday to all University students. Box will replace NetFiles, which will be retired and permanently shut down Dec. 21, according to the NetFiles website. Faculty and staff members were able to use Box over the summer. Marie-Christine Brunet , assistant dean of Engineering, uses Box for her Engineering at Illinois class, which she said is “speaker-based.” “I sent an email to the speakers so that they can actually drop their PowerPoint presentations (in Box),” Brunet said. She said using the system makes it easier to keep track of presentations and that Box is very accessible. “I can really access it from anywhere because it’s Web-browser based, so I don’t need any special connection, so that’s very convenient,” she said. Konstantinos Yfantis, acting manager of Teaching and Learning Services at CITES, said the program will also be useful for collaboration because it “allows for concurrent editing” and also “inte-

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grates with Google Docs.” “(Box) has features such as ‘versioning’ on documents, so if there is a team that is working on a paper, you can upload multiple versions of the document,” he said. Box additionally offers security for users when uploading and sharing fi les. Mike Corn , chief privacy and security officer for the University, sponsored the project that brought Box to the University. Corn said the system has “industrial-grade security behind it.” “We’re very comfortable telling faculty, for instance, that they can store student information in Box, and it’s very secure,” Corn said. He said security settings can also be adjusted for students’ needs. Box includes other features, such as a desktop sync function similar to that of Dropbox, as well as mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry, Corn said. It can also integrate with Google Apps and Microsoft Office in addition to the “full-featured Web interface.” The application for enrollment in Box will be available Friday at uofi .box.com , and Corn said he encourages students to sign up. “I think that (they) will pick it up instantly if (they’re) at all computer-savvy,” he said. Box will feature five gigabytes of storage for students and 15 gigabytes for faculty and staff when they sign up, according to a press release from CITES.

total of their change at the register and donate the difference to a nonprofit. “You think about how much money Wal-Mart or Shnucks makes, and then the number of people that are benefited by that money being invested locally and having local returns,” Emilsson said. Although older community members make up most of the demographic that shop at the co-op, some University students, such as Patrick Heddins, senior in AHS, also choose to shop at the co-op. “The quality of the ingredients in the food is exceptional, and I like to support local farms,” said Heddins, who has been a patron for two years. With the expansion of knowledge about healthy eating and the benefits of supporting local farmers, business is better than ever, Emilsson said. “This is a co-op that four years ago was in a basement of a church, and here we are now,” Emilsson said.

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A University student was released on bond Wednesday after being charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault of another student. Brian O’Donnell, senior in AHS, went out drinking at the bars Thursday night with his personal assistant as well as the victim. After returning to Nugent Hall, O’Donnell, who uses a wheelchair, allegedly sexually assaulted the victim in his room with the help of his assistant. Champaign County State’s Attorney Julia Rietz said O’Donnell was charged Tuesday. He was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault. On Wednesday, bond was initially set at $250,000 but was reduced to $100,000 during a hearing. O’Donnell was released after paying $10,000, or 10 percent of his bond. “He was not taken to jail, and the reason is because of his disabilities,” University police Capt. Roy Acree said. “The jail would not be able to handle the types of disabilities he has.” Along with O’Donnell, his personal assistant Thomas Roman Jr., senior in ACES, was arrested Sunday on two charges of aggravated sexual account. Acree said Roman’s bond was set at $50,000. “The judge ordered (O’Donnell) to wear a GPS monitoring ankle bracelet,” Rietz said. “He is not allowed to contact the victim and the residence hall. Housing has moved him to a different residence hall.” The victim also has a physical disability, according to court records. The case will continue on Oct. 23 for O’Donnell, and Roman is expected to find an attorney for arraignment on Sept. 18. Acree said the police interviewed the victim Tuesday. “We have touched base with the victim,” he said. “As far as we can tell, she is doing fine.” Aggravated criminal sexual assault is a class X felony and could result in a six- to 30-year sentence.

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Doug Zhu, freshman in Engineering, spins for a prize at the International Engineering Fair. Students could win prizes ranging from keychains and flash drives to discounts on study-abroad fees. There was even a chance to have the fee entirely waived for a summer term. Zhu won a $200 discount for any study-abroad program offered by International Programs in Engineering.

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Theft was reported in the 1300 block of Silver Street around 3 p.m. Monday. According to the report, the victim let a friend borrow his cell phone. The phone was left outside in a common area of an apartment complex for a short time. Upon returning to it, an unknown offender had stolen the phone. ! Residential burglary was reported in the 100 block of North Poplar Street around 8 p.m. Friday. According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s residence and took three necklaces without permission. There was no sign of forced entry and the resident admitted the front door does not secure properly. ! Domestic battery was reported in the 1100 block of Division Avenue around 3:30 a.m.

A 20-year-old female was arrested on the charges of illegal possession of alcohol by a minor and resisting/obstructing a police officer near Fifth and Green Streets at 2 a.m. Wednesday. According to the report, a patrol officer found the suspect lying on a sidewalk and stopped to check on her. The officer said the suspect refused to supply identification and became combative. ! Two 19-year-old males were arrested on the charges of trespassing, possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia at Mt. Hope Cemetery, 611 E. Pennsylvania Ave., at 3:30 a.m. Monday. According to the report, an officer stopped the suspects after seeing them leave the cemetery.

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Mass. judge rules in jail case

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Years ago, in a darkened parking lot in the middle of the night, Kathy Padilla would meet with fellow transgender people who sought support from one another in a society that treated them like outcasts. How things have changed since then for transgender men and women in America, who have made great strides in recent years toward reaching their ultimate goal: to be treated like ordinary people. On Tuesday, they won another victory when a Massachusetts judge became the first to order prison officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery for a murder convict, saying it was the only way to treat her gender-identity disorder. The ruling marked the latest milestone in the increasing visibility of a class of people once roundly derided as freaks or used as a punch line. “Now there are transgender delegates at the Democratic National Convention,” said Padilla, a 55-year-old transgender woman from Philadelphia who has been an advocate since 1984. “And a number of transgender people have been invited to the White House.” In recent years, more than a dozen states have revised antidiscrimination laws to include transgender people, giving them hate-crime protection and providing rights as basic as restroom access. Transgender officials have helped raise the movement’s profi le by winning elective office in city halls, landing coveted appointments in the White House and, yes, sending delegates to political conventions. The Massachusetts court ruling shines a light on what many advocates view as the worst form of discrimination still faced by transgender people: lack of access to medical care. “Transgender people are still denied health care access all the time,” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. “There’s insufficient training, insufficient cultural competency, and insufficient humanity sometimes.” Transitioning from one sex to another can involve a variety of treatments, including hormone therapy, but the most expensive one is a sex-change operation, which can cost up to $20,000. Even though the American Medical Association and other medical experts recommend coverage of services for transgender people, a small but growing number of companies that actually provide it — including Apple, Accenture and American Express — are still the exception. Federal health care that covers treatment for gender-identity disorders is virtually nonexistent. U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, who filed unsuccessful legislation in 2008 to ban the use of tax money to pay for the surgery for prison inmates, said surgery for the inmate at the center of Tuesday’s ruling would be “an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars. The nation as a whole has not yet embraced the idea that a gender reassignment surgery is a medically necessary procedure that could have dramatic health benefits, advocates say. “If somebody doesn’t receive treatment, it can lead to very serious incidents of self-harm,” said Jennifer Levi, a professor of law at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western New England University in Springfield, Mass. “One of the things that the judge recognized is that there’s a lot of public misunderstanding about the experience of transsexualism. And there’s a lot of bias and prejudice.” In the Massachusetts case, the judge noted that inmate Michelle Kosilek’s gender-identity disorder has caused her such anguish that she has tried to castrate herself and twice tried to commit suicide. “There are still people who believe that being a transgender person is a choice, or exotic or bad,” Keisling said. “And you know, those people are becoming fewer and fewer all the time.” This year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that sex discrimination laws cover transgender people, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ruled that transgender and gay people are protected from discrimination in federally funded housing, which includes Section 8 housing and homeless shelters. “More and more people in the public are recognizing that transgender people are people,” Keisling said. “And that being a transsexual or having gender identity is an actual, real, core component of a person’s identity.”

NEW ORLEANS — Waves from Hurricane Isaac uncovered oil previously buried along Gulf Coast beaches, exposing crude that wasn’t cleaned up after the BP spill in 2010. Since Isaac made landfall more than a week ago, the water the storm has receded and tar balls and oil have been reported on shores in Alabama and Louisiana, where officials closed a 13-mile stretch of beach Tuesday. BP said Wednesday some of that oil was from the spill, but said some of the crude may be from other sources, too. “If there’s something good about this storm it made it visible where we can clean it up,” BP spokesman Ray Melick said. BP still has hundreds of cleanup workers on the Gulf Coast after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and leading to the nation’s largest offshore spill. Melick said the company was working with the Coast Guard, state officials and land managers to clean up the oil on the Fourchon beach in Louisiana. He said crews would be there Thursday. Isaac made landfall near Fourchon on Aug. 28 as a Category 1 storm, pummeling the coast with waves, wind and rain. Seven people were killed in Louisiana and Mississippi. Ed Overton, a chemist and oil spill expert at Louisiana State University, said the exposed oil was weathered and less toxic, though it could still harm animals — such as crabs, crawfish and bait fish. He said the storm helped speed up natural processes that break down oil and it might take several more storms to stir up the rest of the oil buried along the coast. “We don’t like to say it, but hurricanes are Mother Nature’s way of taking a bath,” he said. The reappearance of oil frustrated state officials. Garret Graves, a top coastal aide to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, accused BP of not being aggressive enough with its initial cleanup. “If they would put just a fraction of the dollars they’re putting into their PR campaign into cleanup, we’d certainly be much farther ahead than we are now,” he said. BP has spent millions of dollars on its public relations campaign, but the company has not said exactly how much it has invested.

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Sam Lee, senior in LAS, serves the ball during a beach volleyball tournament to raise money for Alternative Spring Break on Wednesday night. Lee says he went on an ASB trip 2 years ago, and a friend invited him to participate in the tournament.

NASA spacecraft orbits asteroid, then moves on to dwarf planet BY ALICIA CHANG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Next and fi nal stop: The biggest object in the asteroid belt. After spending a year gazing at a giant asteroid, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Wednesday began the cruise toward an even bigger target — a voyage that will take nearly three years. Ground controllers received a signal from Dawn that it successfully spiraled away from the asteroid Vesta and was headed toward the dwarf planet Ceres. The departure was considered hohum compared with other recent missions — think Curiosity’s white-knuckle “seven minutes of terror” dive into Mars’ atmosphere. Firing its ion propulsion thrusters, Dawn gently freed itself from Vesta’s gravitational hold Tuesday night. Because its antenna was pointed away from Earth during the maneuver, NASA did not get confi rmation until the next day. It was “smooth and elegant and graceful,” said chief engineer Marc Rayman of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $466 million mission. Launched in 2007, Dawn is on track to become the fi rst spacecraft to rendezvous with two celestial bodies in a bid to learn about the solar system’s evolution. Dawn slipped into orbit last year around Vesta — about the size of Arizona — and beamed back stunning closeups of the lumpy surface. Its next destination is the Texas-size Ceres. Vesta and Ceres are the largest bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that’s littered with space rocks that never quite bloomed into fullfl edged planets. As cosmic time capsules, they’re ideal for scientists trying to piece together how Earth and the other planets formed and evolved. During its yearlong stay at Vesta, Dawn used its cameras, infrared spectrometer, and gamma ray and neutron detector to explore the asteroid from varying altitudes, getting as close as 130 miles above the surface. Dawn uncovered a few surprises.

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An artist rendering shows the NASA Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. After spending a year examining Vesta, Dawn is poised to depart and head to the dwarf planet Ceres, where it will arrive in 2015. Scientists have long known that Vesta sports an impressive scar at its south pole, likely carved by an impact with a smaller asteroid. A closer inspection revealed that Vesta hid a second scar in the same region — evidence that the asteroid had been

whacked twice within the last 2 billion years. The collisions spewed chunks of debris into space; some fell to Earth as meteorites. With its rugged exterior — complete with grooves, troughs and pristine min-

erals — and iron core, Vesta acts more like an “almost planet” than garden-variety, lightweightasteroids. Vesta was “on its way to planethood if it continued to grow,” said chief scientist Christopher Russell of the University of California, Los Angeles.


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Student voters must pay attention to campaigns to ensure they can relate to, trust the candidates to work on the issues that matter to them

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ore than half the country’s registered voters pay only some attention to the campaigning efforts of either Gov. Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama, according to a CBS poll. Even fewer to senatorial or local elections. In two months, the country will have spoken, choosing either the incumbent or a new face. During this crucial time, candidates need every vote they can get, even from college students. However, the nominees’ efforts seem almost invisible to several campuses, except for the few in swing states. Of course, inevitably, most college students will remain apathetic to the entire election no matter a candidate’s efforts, but some of us do care. And we want information presented in our language. We do want honesty. We want to know what you are going to do, not what the other candidate is doing poorly. We need to figure out who we will entrust this country to for another four years. In terms of our language, Obama’s appearance on Reddit last Friday was a step in the right direction. We were able to relate to a man who has an incredible amount of power. As one commenter wrote, “ONE OF US. ONE OF US.” It may seem like a step below the presidency, but appearing live on social media is how you get our attention. Part of what makes a candidate attractive to a population that may tend to think more with its emotions than its thoughts is relatability. At both national conventions, the wives of Obama and Romney talked about their husbands in their youth. If we can’t relate to or trust our candi-

dates, how can we trust that we will have a health care system that’s best for us, an economy that will get us a job after graduation, or costs of education that will be low enough to keep us off food stamps? While these campaign strategies do seem effective, they may only be so in the short run. We need to see these type of conversations repeated with appearances on late night TV, presence on social media or images of the candidates doing what Americans do — attending basketball games, walking their dog or vacationing on a Florida beach. We want to see what they are like outside of their job. However, they are filling two important roles, and we need to know how they will succeed in both. The president needs to be both the face of the country and the ultimate decision maker. As college students, we must know how he will fix college tuition and unemployment — the issues that matter to us. Otherwise, the 18- to 29-year-old demographic won’t vote. We need to know the facts. The negative ads tell us nothing. It is a back-and-forth fight that does not benefit anyone. It is a petty, dishonest disservice to our level of intelligence. Bashing each other is not the solution we need. We need to know decisively what you’re going to do to put this country right, not news clippings taken out of context in a dramatic political commercial. This information goes to all candidates for all elections that will happen Nov. 6. If you want the younger generation to vote, then you need to give us a reason to choose you. Stop the negative attitude and provide us with the information we deserve to know. With every bit of truth attached to it.

Diverse campus advantageous for university prestige and student experience but comes at a high price for non-Illinois-residents and international students

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iversity at the University is perhaps one of its greatest attributes. Scattered throughout the campus are several campus cultural houses, which represent many of the minority groups, including a women’s center and an office for LGBT students. The multicultural presence contributes significantly to students’ classroom experience, giving students new academic and social perspectives. As a university with one of the highest enrollments of international students in the world, almost a fifth of our peers hail from overseas, Chancellor Phyllis Wise has pushed the “Global University” slogan as the image of the University this year. Wise has said on many occasions that increasing diversity is one of her top priorities, and looking at these numbers, it’s hard to disagree. And this is a good thing. It’s hard to think of another place where Americans could simultaneously converse with students from all four hemispheres, attend school alongside 3,379 Chinese students , or sit on a bus for 10 minutes and not hear a word of English. Our own newsroom wouldn’t be the same without the depth of views that international students offer. Nonetheless, it’s still concerning when you factor all of this in with the rising cost of higher education, or at

least the offset of who’s paying for it. International students pay $800 in tuition each year more than out-of-state students, and another $15,000 more than students from Illinois . Per capita, the burden rests much more heavily on out-of-state students, who along with international students pay a larger proportion than seats they fill. It comes down to the uncomfortable fact that international and out-of-state students are bankrolling this university. We are all numbers. Our GPAs, our SAT and ACT scores, our financial aid, our country of origin, even our race – all are processed into packets of quantified data. If the University feels that certain numbers are more advantageous for the school’s prestige and functionality, it can continue to increase those numbers. If our fellow students come from all corners of the world, that is certainly an advantage for the rest of the school. Non-Illinois-residents are making up more of the student body each year. But as the total enrollment of the University continues to rise, we aren’t seeing the case yet where in-state students get the boot to allow space for students with higher profit margins. This is the ultimate win-win scenario; students from around the world and instate students alike are able to attend the University.

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Eastwood overshadows Romney’s speech at RNC JOANNA ROTHENBERG Opinions columnist

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ast week, Tampa, Fla., hosted the Republican National Convention where the Republican party officially nominated former Gov. Willard Mitt Romney of Massachusetts to represent them in the 2012 presidential election. According to the Nielsen Company, 33 million Americans tuned in live to watch him accept it. I, however, was not one of them. The Los Angeles Times reported 17 percent fewer Americans watched Romney accept the nomination than Sen. John McCain four years earlier in St. Paul, Minn. I fi nd this to be fascinating in a year where many Republicans think they have a chance against the incumbent. Clearly the American people disagrees. Either that or they just don’t care. After the lack of a substantial poll boost, that is very possible. But in reality, every one of us should have watched the RNC, or at least take this opportunity to catch up on some missed coverage online. Why? It was entertaining. Because the convention is designed to showing the party at its best, there is no way the Republicans would allow someone to go up to the podium in front of the entire audience and the American public and ad-lib a speech — that would be a terrible idea. Oh, wait. They did. The Oscar-winning director and actor Clint Eastwood yelled at an empty chair the night Romney accepted the Republican nomination. It seemed so awkward of an “interview” that it felt like it was thrown together right at that moment. I would have thought they would want to avoid that situation because national conventions give parties the chance to have a solid few days of news to themselves and that news should be surrounding the nominee, not a guest speaker at the convention. Overall, it seems that Eastwood’s speech was popular from political pundits to students alike. While it would seem fitting that Romney would be the focus on the night he formally accepts the nomination, Eastwood and the invisible president took in, it seems, just as much press. Just walking around campus, I heard people mention Eastwood and his

bizarre rant to Invisible Obama, and not once did I hear anyone mention Romney’s speech. Of course, if time allows, you should watch the governor’s speech as well, but, just to warn you, it lacked the entertainment of Eastwood’s. Romney knew how to get the crowd going. He spoke of his “humble beginnings” (his father was a former governor of Michigan), to opening his own business, to the love of his family, and of course his displeasure with the current administration. My favorite Romney line: “I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.” Somehow, Mitt, I doubt that. If he succeeded, you would not be standing in front of millions of people and have the opportunity to say such a thing. Another good line from the governor came just under halfway through his speech. He questioned that if people felt something special was happening when the president was elected, why were they not feeling that way now? “If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama?” Sir, your audience probably did not feel something special was happening during that election. And many Americans seemed to think the passing of the Affordable Care Act was special, in case you were wondering. Aside from the entertainment value, however, as being part of the voting population, we should make informed decisions about who we cast our ballots for in the fall. Whether you are a Republican, Democrat or independent, it is worth watching a wide variety of speeches to get a feel for other parties’ ideas and platforms. This way, if the party you want does not win, at least you will be prepared for the incoming administration, or maybe know what the rest of America is getting itself into while you pack your bags for Canada. Finally, even if I missed most of the live coverage for the RNC, I still hope to catch some major speeches at the Democratic National Convention this week, including the president’s speech tonight. Maybe if I am lucky, someone on the left side of the aisle will start yelling at an inanimate object too.

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

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are America. The land where percentages fabricate the rigorous line between citizenry’s aristocrats and bourgeois. The land where our freedoms are no longer antiqued by voice but by superficial outlets such as social networking. In many ways we are still the timely and orthodox “land of the free and home of the brave.” If you asked me, however, we are just a nation mocking the border between radicalism and liberalism and pushing the boundaries of how we express beliefs: We are the selfconfessed opinionation. Perhaps I am living some brainstorming-induced fallacy, or perhaps I am rounding third and about to head home. But the culture of opinion has been thriving since the days of Plato’s “The Republic,” highlighting the divided line that disjoints the visible and intelligible world. Even daring to categorize opinions and illusions (Eikasia) as the lowest level of reality, eternal and unchanging. Needless to say the Founding Fathers must be shaking in their graves ... in perfect unison. The culture of opinion has appeared to manifest itself more recently than ever, sparking what I consider a miniature revolution. Most notably paved by the independent Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for their extreme stances on topics such as homosexuality, religion and race. Supplemented by the Boy Scouts of America’s exclusion of openly homosexual members and Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy denouncing same-sex marriage. Yet through the overly public right-and-wrong tug-of-war, passion is not overlooked and certainly not underestimated. Some of my views may cohabitate peacefully with those of these major organizations, and some are just ready for a divorce. Regardless, it is not the opinion that matters. What matters is that the opinion is expressed. Prior to the recent opening in downtown Chicago, I had never eaten at a Chick-fil-A. I had not been aware of the Westboro Church’s picketing protest at the funeral of Matthew Shepard who was beaten to death due to his sexual orientation in 1998. Yet now I am actively involved, across religious and geographical terrain, in joining the opinionation. My involvement spawned years after these events took place; I was reliving a history that may have not been of my time but certainly of personal significance. As a gay man, I should not have to feel that it is my obligation to combat the views of Chick-fil-A, the Westboro Church and the Boy Scouts of America — because I sure as hell don’t. Rather I feel as though it is my duty to combat those misconstruing the extremes of freedom of speech. What is stopping me from sending flowers to the doorsteps of Fred Phelps, Wayne Perry and Dan Cathy? Are they not instigating Americans to become more voiced and active in modernity’s hottest debates? And are they not also testing the very foundations on which our country’s freedoms lie? Protests thought of and constructed in just a day’s work, common citizens sharing their opinions directly with America’s famed and prestigious, youth finding the courage to express themselves via viral videos. These are true American concepts. These are the methods of expression we allow to be overshadowed by the sometimes harshness, powerfulness and timidity accessorizing the content of some opinions. It is almost ironic how the word tolerance is consistently thrown around while addressing major issues such as religion, sexual orientation and ideology differences. America is preoccupied with a standstill between left and right, neglecting the passion that ignites the two. In fact, I see people preaching tolerance of opinion being the most intolerant of them all. We must conform to the notion that opinions are interpretations of facts and interpretations only. Breaching this notion leads to what I consider the downfall of the opinionation, acting on opinions as though they are facts. We become vulnerable to an ambition so potent that we violate our own morals to raise awareness. Two millennia later, Plato still has it spot on. Opinions and illusions ... they are the farthest from reality, inferior by empirical and theoretical science and philosophical understanding. They should not consume us, they should drive us. They should not make us stubborn, they should make us broad-minded. They should not induce fear, they should produce bravery.

Adam is a junior in ACES. He can be reached at opinions@dailyillini.com.


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Even though cancer, in all its different types, is a serious, lifealtering disease, there are ways to help give those who are affected a chance at being cured and to lead a normal life. That’s where Illini 4000 comes in. It’s a non-profit organization that sends a group of thirty students on a cross-country bike ride to raise funds for cancer research while spreading awareness in a unique way. “Illini 4000 was founded by two guys who thought there wasn’t enough funding for cancer research,” said Alex Massey, director of marketing. “So they put together this organization because they wanted to raise money and also bike across the country.” Thursday is their first fundraising event of the year, the Underwear Mile. Students will run in their underwear or a funny costume from Washington Park, all the way down Green Street, and on to the Quad, in front of Foellinger Auditorium. There will be a raffle for prizes, but the cost of participating, $5, is one way to help them reach their fundraising goal. “We all met up (last year) around 8:30 and started our run at 9:00. We ran down Green

donations. Many contact their friends, families or write letters to various organizations asking for support. During the fall they start conditioning and training, and progress to longer bike rides into the spring semester. The actual ride from New York City to San Francisco takes place from the end of May through the beginning of August. As they progress — meeting new people affected by cancer along thee way— they try to document their experiences. “By interviewing people, which can be anyone on the route — mothers, daughters, friends, or family — we put together a portrait, which is us interviewing whoever we meet and talking about their experience with cancer and how it has affected their lives. It consists of a picture of the person, a short video inter-

friends or family that have been affected by cancer. All these interviews and stories are then uploaded onto “portraitsproject.org,” through which people can view and connect themselves to other people who have been affected by cancer. The project also shows others how cancer affects so many people from all walks of life across the country and how they deal with it. Through Illini 4000, people get a chance to help cancer patients both through raising money to find cures, as well as by documenting the experience of those living with cancer, making patients feel connected, open and comfortable during trying times.

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The Underwear Mile What: UIUC Underwear Mile; Students will run in their underwear or a funny costume from Frat Park, all the way down Green Street, and end at Foellinger Auditorium on the Quad. Participants will also be automatically entered into a raffle to win prizes.

PARTY SCHOOL FROM PAGE 6A Joe’s draws a large number of non-Greek students in addition to Greeks. Despite the University’s party scene, bars and parties are not the only forms of entertainment on campus. Paddy Lusk, a senior in LAS, is the director of special events for the Illini Union Board (IUB), which is an organization that provides alternatives to drinking and the party scene. “We have Illinites, which is a late-night program we do once a month on Fridays. It is a time where kids can come to the union and we have comedians and musicians and all sorts of fun activities for them to do,” Lusk said. In reaction to the list, Lusk echoed Grady and felt that the University was ranked so high compared to other schools

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because many people gravitate here from other universities. “The mix of students plus everyone else who visits just equals a larger scale of people who go out and there are more opportunities here to go out than other schools,” Lusk said. “I think a good amount of students here participate in the social scene, its not reserved for just students who are a part of the Greek life. Nerds can go out and have fun too.” The Princeton Review’s ranking may lead to a lot of stereotypes about the University, but students like Taich and Lusk demonstrate how partying isn’t the only thing that goes on here. Taich points out that in addition to the Princeton Review’s party school list, the University was ranked number one in PayScale’s “party schools with the highest mid-career salaries,” according to a Huffington Post article published last year. PayScale is a financial survey com-

pany that surveyed 1,003 colleges and ranked them for the highest mid-career salary. They then measured those results with the Princeton Review’s list of biggest party schools and came up with a new list called “Party Schools that Pay.” This examination is one example that combats the stereotypes that go along with a party school reputation. “U of I is the college where you can get the whole college experience. Yes, you can go out and party, but you are also going to get one of the best educations that the country has to offer here, you just have to take advantage of it,” Lusk said. “You’re going to have a lot of opportunities to do a lot of different things, just go out when you can and work when you have to and learn to balance everything.”

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PRIDE FEST FROM PAGE 6A Pride, the second part of the event, is the festival itself. On Saturday, local LGBT advocates will occupy the Lincoln Square Mall for music, workshops and parties. “We’ve grown in terms of the variety of performances and activities that we are providing,” Bowersox-Johnson said. Pride Fest will feature three stages — two indoors and one outdoors. There will be artists such as Chicago DJs, Jericho from “American Idol” and drag show performers. Children’s entertainment during the day include carnival games, inflatables and foam parties. The festival will also hold conferences to discuss current political campaigns and how they relate to the local LGBT community. Once the festival ends, the floor will open for an adult foam party. “I’m really excited for the drag show,” Hakes said. “I know for Pride Fest they always get a

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Drag king Freddie Fahrenheit performs outside 88 Broadway in Urbana’s Lincoln Square Mall during the C-U Pride Fest on Aug. 20, 2011. bunch of local drag queens and kings, which is great.” Post-pride features a brunch called Dish It Up at 10 a.m. Saturday at 88 Broadway. Hakes believes that Pride Fest this year will be more diverse than in past years. “A lot of people that come to Champaign-Urbana think that it

is just cornfields,” Hakes said. “This festival will show that there is a support system here and that there are people with many different mind-sets, and (will help others) break away from the stigma of us being rural and small.”

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Sports Bare Cupboard— Arizona State returns the fewest starters (10) of any team in the Pac-12. The Sun Devils lost 6-foot8 quarterback Brock Osweiler, who opted to skip his senior season to enter the NFL Draft.

Offensive Machine— Graham is known for leading high-powered offenses. In 2007, his Tulsa team led the nation in total offense, averaging 543.9 yards per game. His 2008 Tulsa squad scored 661 points, second most all time in the modern NCAA era. Graham also hired Gus Malzahn as his offensive coordinator at Tulsa; Malzahn went on to take the same job at Auburn the year the Tigers won the NCAA championship. In his coaching debut with Arizona State this season, Graham coached the Sun Devils to 63 points in its opener against Northern Arizona.

Betrayal— Graham resigned abruptly after one year in Pittsburgh to fill the vacancy at Arizona State following the firing of Dennis Erickson. Looking back on it, Graham admitted he made a mistake in taking the Panthers job. His Pittsburgh players were shocked and felt betrayed when they got wind of Graham’s departure.

Journeyman— Todd Graham has coached four teams over the last seven years and three in the last three years. Graham took over Rice in 2006 before moving to Tulsa in 2007, where he coached until 2010. He then took the job at Pittsburgh in 2011 before moving onto Arizona State after leading the Panthers to the BBVA Compass Bowl.

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Arizona State head coach Todd Graham, center, leads his team out against Northern Arizona on Aug. 30 in Tempe, Ariz. The Sun Devils won their season opener 63-6.

Tight end named MVP, captain after leading Illini in rushing yards BY SEAN HAMMOND STAFF WRITER

Anyone following the Illinois football team would have agreed before Saturday’s matchup against Western Michigan that the departure of senior running backs Jason Ford and Troy Pollard after 2011 left many questions for Illinois’ backfield in 2012. Still, few would have expected sophomore tight end Jon Davis to be the Illini’s leading rusher after their seasonopening win against Western Michigan. Davis pulled his weight Saturday while featured backs Josh Ferguson and Donovonn Young floundered. Davis amassed 54 yards on just six carries, including a 17-yard run that proved to be the longest of the game. Throughout the game, he lined up in the backfield, at tight end and as a wideout. “Well, I’ve never kicked before,” Davis joked when asked about his versatility. “Honestly, last week I didn’t know how many carries I’d get. I go in, I know the game plan and I just go from there.” Head coach Tim Beckman awarded Davis the Offensive MVP of the Western Michigan game, which means he will be a captain against Arizona State — calling the coin toss for an Illini team with no true captains. Beckman acknowledged that

as a defensive-minded coach, if he had to face the Illini, he would be concerned about where Davis is on every play. Co-offensive coordinator Billy Gonzales added that Davis’ size adds an element that Ferguson and Young do not have. “(He’s) a 240-pound guy carrying the rock,” Gonzales said. “That adds another dimension to your game. We’ve got a couple of quick guys, not to say that Josh and D-Y aren’t strong, but you’ve got a bigger guy (in Davis).” Ferguson and Young could not get anything going against Western Michigan. Young especially looked less than stellar. He netted just two yards on 11 carries. Ferguson had 38 yards on the same number of touches. Young, however, did contribute 24 receiving yards on six catches. Neither running back was consistent from the backfield. Ferguson had the longest run of the two, going for 12 yards in the fi rst quarter. He said the production from himself and Young was simply not good enough. Young characterized his play on Saturday as “lackluster.” Despite the poor numbers against the Broncos, Beckman said he thought the running backs were “outstanding” Saturday. He said the offensive line is what needs to improve.

“We’ve got to come off the ball and we’ve got to make things happen up front,” Beckman said. “This game’s still very simple to me. You’ve got to win on the line of scrimmage and we’ve got to do a better job with that so that we can utilize our rushing attack better.” Only five players entered the game on the offensive line against Western Michigan. Beckman and offensive line coach Luke Butkus are still tinkering with the line and expect to play more than five players against Arizona State. Nathan Scheelhaase’s injury throws in another potential wrench for the Illinois rushing attack. Scheelhaase has played a large role in the Illinois ground game since he became the starter two years ago. With the possibility that he may not play against Arizona State because of the ankle injury he sustained against Western Michigan, there is added pressure on the running backs to carry the load. “It defi nitely changes things for us, but we don’t see it as too much of a hassle or a setback,” Young said. “We just see it as a road bump. I feel like this week a lot of the offense is going to depend on the running

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“We’ve got to come off the ball and we’ve got to make things happen up front. This game’s still very simple to me. You’ve got to win on the line of scrimmage and we’ve got to do a better job with that so that we can utilize our rushing attack better.” TIM BECKMAN, head coach

Semi-pro hockey player to join Illini BY BLAKE PON STAFF WRITER

You probably couldn’t skate a mile in John Olen’s ice skates. Only two years ago, Olen was living the life of a semi-pro hockey player. He no longer lived with his family. Instead, he lived with a homestay family, known as billet families in hockey, located in Janesville, WI., where he was a member of the Janesville Jets, a junior A-level hockey club. Olen, unlike most athletes his age, had forgone education just to play the game he loved. “Hockey is a little different than sports like baseball, basketball and football,” Olen said. “Most of those guys go straight from high school to the NCAA. In hockey, the developmental process is a little more drawn out.” Junior level hockey is the breeding ground for every college and professional prospect. High school age players who want to continue playing hockey during college or even professionally usually go through junior hockey at some point. At the conclusion of Olen’s youth hockey career, he was drafted into the United States Hockey League. The USHL is the U.S.’s premier developmental league, being the only junior league in the country where players are drafted into the NHL. During this year’s NHL Draft, the USHL set a record for having six firstround draftees. The USHL’s Des Moines Buccaneers selected Olen after his midget major level season in Chicago, where his team won the championship. Olen got his first taste of junior hockey at its highest level, but, unfortunately, he fell just short of making the final cut. “The whole process started with tryouts,” he said. “About 120 other players were invited to try out. I made the initial cut down to 30, where I was then invited to the team’s training camp. The final cut down to 23 is where I got the call that I was traded to Janesville.” Before playing for the Illini, Olen was traveling to the Midwest and Northeast, playing games weekly in the North American Hockey League. The NAHL is the U.S.’s second-tier junior league. Olen planned to take community college classes in Des Moines, Iowa, if he made the cut in the USHL, but his unexpected move to Janesville halted his opportunity. “Junior clubs want players to do something other than sit around and just play hockey,” he said. “Everyone either takes classes or works on the side. I did volunteer work.” The perks of junior hockey rival those of most NCAA Division-I teams, Olen said. “You don’t get paid to play,” he said. “But you do get just about everything else taken care of for you. Other than paying for your shelter, junior teams pay for your food, travel and equipment. You also don’t have to pay fees just to play, as you would during youth hockey.” “Since I was off of school for two years, ... I don’t think it’s too bad for me to go back to doing homework and studying,” he said. “For most people, I feel that

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Hambly utilizes redshirts to take full advantage of eligibility Redshirt allows player to get stronger, observe, adjust to college lifestyle BY ELIOT SILL STAFF WRITER

The reason for redshirting a player is simple. “We don’t waste years,” Head coach Kevin Hambly said. It is all but official that the freshman setter Alexis Viliunas will sit the season out before taking the reins next year, when she will be the team’s only returning player at that position. Viliunas said she was under the impression she would redshirt when asked about her status — a far from a certain answer, especially with Hambly describing the move, in kind, as “likely.” Hambly clarified, though, that the only thing keeping Viliunas from redshirting is the possibility of injury for starting setter Annie Luhrsen . Viliunas can remain eligible both to play and to redshirt as long as she doesn’t enter the game. He also said that, were it possible, he would redshirt every player for their freshman season. Redshirting allows for the player to observe the college game, get stronger, get adjusted to the college lifestyle and learn the team’s system while saving the stress that comes with playing in games and saving a year of eligibility. Last season, Jocelynn Birks redshirted despite suffering no injury and being a top recruit at the head of a class of three outside hitters, including Ali Stark and Morganne

Criswell. Birks confided in her former teammate, Viliunas, who was still in high school, that she was going to be sitting out. “It was — not upsetting, but of course you’re not gonna be as happy as you are about (sitting on the bench) as you are about (playing),” Birks said. It didn’t take Birks long, however, to realize that Hambly was right about sitting her out her fi rst year. “I understood why he wanted to do it,” Birks said. “It was a really good idea, and I realized even after the fact ... I had so much time to get strong physically and watch the game and learn some things from the older players.” Those “older players” included All-American seniors Michelle Bartsch and Colleen Ward , whose dominance at the outside hitter position played a large role in Hambly’s prompting Birks to redshirt. “Some of it we talk about in the recruiting process, like, ‘Hey, look, it’s gonna be tough for you to beat this kid out, so instead of wasting a year let’s redshirt you,’” Hambly said. “It seems like it’s a hard thing the fi rst year, but I think when they’re seniors, they’ll look back and go: ‘That’s awesome. I’m glad I redshirted. Now I had four years where I could start.’” For Birks — and Viliunas — Hambly introduced the idea of redshirting just before the team’s alumni match, which takes place a week or so before the season begins. As Hambly said, however, he cannot redshirt every player, so when Ali Stark got surgery on a broken fi nger, she redshirted as well, leaving Morganne Criswell as the lone member of the class of three outside hitters who played out her year of eligibility. “I think it was a good spot to be in last

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Illinois’ Jocelynn Birks bumps the ball against Iowa State at Huff Hall on Friday. Birks benefited from redshirting in 2011.


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Illinois’ Miles Osei (8) throws warmup passes before Saturday’s game at Memorial Stadium. Osei may start against Arizona State if Scheelhaase can’t play.

Scheelhaase’s status unknown heading into Arizona State game BY JAMAL COLLIER STAFF WRITER

Normally during Illinois football practices, injured players are easily identified by their wearing purple jerseys. But as Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase completed practice Wednesday, he was wearing a red no-contact jersey, just like other quarterbacks. Scheelhaase was carted from the sideline during Saturday’s game against Western Michigan with an ankle injury, and his status for this week’s game against Arizona State is officially undecided. However, Illinois head coach Tim Beckman said he felt his quarterback looked much better than he had at any point during the week. Scheelhaase told Beckman that he felt fi ne after practice. The biggest key is how Scheelhaase feels Thursday morning. Beckman reminded everyone that ankle injuries tend to progress, so he won’t make his fi nal decision until after Thursday’s practice. Beckman was unwilling to release much more about Scheelhaase’s status and won’t announce his final decision, in an attempt to derail the Sun Devils’ preparation. If Scheelhaase misses Saturday’s start, it’ll break his streak of 27 consecutive starts.

Then Illinois will have to turn to backup quarterbacks Reilly O’Toole or Miles Osei, who both have had more reps with the first team than Scheelhaase this week. The coaching staff has said it doesn’t plan to platoon the two if Scheelhaase doesn’t play. Beckman said both O’Toole and Osei are “neck and neck” in the competition for who starts. In other injury news, defensive backs Steve Hull and Supo Sanni are still question marks to play Saturday. Beckman said Hull has had more practice time throughout the week than Sanni has.

Illini players will have to deal with heat Defensive end Michael Buchanan jokingly understated Arizona’s temperatures Monday. “I hear it’s hot over there,” he said. The expected temperature Saturday in Tempe, Ariz., is a dry 102 degrees. During football meetings, players are given full Gatorade bottles that they have to finish before they can leave the meeting. “We try not to worry about it,” said defensive coordinator Tim Banks, adding that he’s had way too much Gatorade this week. “We worry about what we can control and that’s getting enough rest, hydrating ... taking care of

our bodies.” An advantage for the Illini for dealing with the heat is the ability to substitute more players, especially on the offensive line. More offensive linemen will get playing time as the players are finally getting healthy, and Simon Cvijanovic returns from suspension this week. It’ll provide more depth to a group that played the entire game last week. On the defensive line, Justin Staples also returns from suspension, giving the Illini another fresh body to use Saturday. Another challenge for the Illini is competing in a different time zone. The game will kickoff at 9:30 p.m. Central Time Saturday. The majority of the Illini’s games this season, especially at Memorial Stadium, kickoff during the morning. Beckman, who’s used to more night games from his time in the Mid-American Conference, plans to get the Illini off their feet during the day as much as possible with walkthroughs.

Challenge accepted Once again, Illinois defensive players have to answer questions about a team that scored 60 points. Last week, the questions were about the 66 points Western Michigan scored on Beckman’s Toledo team last year. Illinois’ defense responded, and the seven

points it held the Broncos to last week were the fewest against the Illini by a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent in the last nine years (UCLA scored six in 2003). Last week, Arizona State romped Northern Arizona, 63-6, and when the Illini defense sees points of that magnitude, it only motivates the players. “Yeah, it gets their attention right away,” Banks said. “We don’t care who they’re playing. At the end of the day, they scored a ton of points, had a ton of offense so we understand it’s going to be a great challenge going into their place and having to play in front of their crowd.” Linebacker Houston Bates said he is looking forward to the challenge of seeing where the Illini stand as a defense against a team in a BCS conference like Arizona State. Bates believes the Illini defense is underrated, citing that many people thought they’d take a step back after losing key players to the NFL Draft. The defense has again found a way to play with a proverbial chip on its shoulder. “They’re a high-rated offense and high-powered,” Bates said. “It’s always nice to prove people wrong and go in there and show them what we’re made of.”

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Illinois’ Morganne Criswell (1) sets the ball during the match against Iowa State at Huff Hall on Aug. 31. Criswell was the only freshman to not redshirt this season.

year,” Criswell said. “I didn’t get as much playing time maybe as I would have liked, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I think last year was awesome.” As her former high school teammate did last season, Alexis Viliunas looks to redshirt her fi rst year at Illinois. It will be a year where she can practice with the team, get her body into better shape and fully acclimate herself to Hambly’s system without experiencing that learning curve during game situations. “Before, like when I was coming in, I knew there was a chance that I could play because me and Kevin talked about it,” Viliunas said. “So

After the U.S. women’s wheelchair basketball team advanced to the semifinals Tuesday, the men’s side followed suit with a win over Germany. And on the track, Tatyana McFadden earned her second gold medal of the 2012 Paralympic Games on Wednesday. Unlike the U.S. women, who had little contributions from its Illini duo of Jennifer Chew and Sarah Castle on Tuesday, the U.S. men’s leading scorer Wednesday was Illinois graduate Steve Serio. Serio led the U.S. with 10 points and grabbed four rebounds in a 57-46 win. Team captain and former Illini Will Waller also added four points and three rebounds to help the Americans advance to the semifinals. The game was tied heading into the fourth quarter, but the U.S. dominated the last quarter, outscoring Germany 20-9. Andre Bienek led Germany with 18 points and 13 rebounds. The U.S. men’s team will face Australia in a semifinal Thursday, after the Austrians defeated Poland 76-53. Both of the Illinois players on Australia, Grant Mizens and Dylan Alcott, did not score, but their teammates picked up the slack. Brad Ness led Australia with 26 points, five rebounds and four assists. Former Illini Patrick Anderson and Canada continued its dominance Wednesday in a 77-51 win over Spain. Anderson finished with 16 points, 14 rebounds and six assists to help undefeated Canada advance. Canada will face Great Britain, which defeated Turkey on Wednesday, in the second semifinal, The highlight for Illini track and field athletes came Wednesday, when McFadden won gold in the women’s 800-meter run of the T54 classification, a distinction for athletes with spinal cord injuries. The junior finished in 1 minute, 47.01 seconds. McFadden’s first gold medal came Monday in the women’s T54 400 meters. McFadden and Illinois freshman Ray Martin are the only Illini competitors with multiple gold medals so far during the 2012 Games. McFadden was not the only Illini

HOCKEY FROM PAGE 1B taking two years off and coming right back into school is kind of difficult.” After fi nishing up the past season in Janesville, Olen reapplied to Illinois after admission in 2010. He’s currently a 20-year-old freshman and is poised to make an immediate impact on the hockey team.

there was a lot of pressure on me, and I just wanted to be perfect. I wanted to do whatever I could to get in the game.” And while Viliunas gets acclimated to not playing in volleyball games — an odd transition for someone who garnered Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year and Chicago Tribune Player of the Year awards in 2011 — she’s already starting to appreciate the sacrifice she’s making for the team and for herself. “There’s defi nitely a lot less stress,” she said. “I know that I can be prepared for the game, but I know that I don’t have to be as prepared as the people who are actually going in the game. I just have to be there for my team. Support them.”

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2012 Paralympics medal count as of Wednesday 1. China — 159 total, 60 gold, 50 silver, 49 bronze 2. Great Britain — 92 total, 25 gold, 36 silver, 31 bronze 3. Russia — 73 total, 28 gold, 25 silver, 20 bronze 6. U.S. — 62 total, 21 gold, 18 silver, 21 bronze to win a medal Wednesday. Former Illini Josh George won a bronze medal in the men’s T53 800 Wednesday. George finished with a time of 1:41.50. Brian Siemann, a senior at Illinois, finished in 1:43.09, which was good for eighth place. Richard Colman of Australia finished in 1:41.13, taking the gold medal. George, who had not won a medal at the 2012 Paralympics before Wednesday, tweeted, “What’s up medal stand. Finally got my souvenir. #800m #bronze #NaturallyPowered #Paralympics.” A disappointed Siemann tweeted, ““Was hoping for a better place in that race, but it was a good race nonetheless. So happy for @jsgeorge and his Bronze, he’s a beast.” Illinois graduate Jessica Galli finished third Wednesday in the final of the women’s T53 800. She finished the race in 1:53.12. Amanda McGrory of the U.S. finished seventh at the event with a time of 1:54.48. Hongzhuan Zhou finished the race in 1:52.85, taking home another gold for medal leader China. An excited Galli tweeted: “Bronze medal in the 800m!! Honored to represent Team USA on the podium!” Illinois graduate Ryan Chalmers had a busy day Wednesday, competing in two prelims. In his first competition, the men’s T54 800, Chalmers finished seventh in his heat with a time of 1:45.86, failing to qualify for the finals. Later in the day, Chalmers also missed out on the finals by finishing the men’s T54 400 in 56.63, which was good for fifth.

Michael can be reached at wonsovr2@ dailyillini.com and @The_MDubb. “John Olen, I think, is going to be a really good player for us,” head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “We expect him to come in and contribute right away for us.” “I feel a little bit of pressure since I’m 20 and considered a freshman,” Olen said. “I should be a junior, so yeah. I think I should be contributing immediately as if I’d been here before.”

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FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1B game. And I feel like me and Josh are ready for it.” Last year, Arizona State held the Illinois rushing attack to 105 yards on 45 attempts and forced two fumbles. Scheelhaase was the leading rusher for the Illini in that game, contributing 67 yards. Whether Davis gets as many carries as he did Saturday is not something the Illini will decide before the game. Gonzales said the coaching staff would stick with whatever is working against the Sun Devils. “It depends on what we’re doing,” he said. “It’s a chess game. We’ve got to put our best chess pieces on the

board so we can get those matchups.” Gonzales also expects Dami Ayoola to get some touches from the backfield in Tempe, Ariz. Ayoola, a 5-foot-10 true freshman from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., did not get any carries in the opener. Whether it’s Ayoola, Ferguson, Young, Davis or Scheelhaase, the running game will have to pick up the slack for a passing attack that netted only 133 yards. If Davis plays like he did Saturday, expect him to continue to get carries from the backfield. Just don’t expect him to start kicking anytime soon.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck has been watching Julius Peppers and Brian Urlacher most of his football life. On Sunday, after spending a full week studying the Chicago Bears’ defense, the rookie quarterback will finally get a chance to see the two Pro Bowlers in action. He’s just hoping not to get too close to them. “I think at first when you turn the fi lm on, you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, that is Julius Peppers standing up there.’ But you have to get that out of your system and you can’t go out there and stare in awe of those guys,� Luck said. “Obviously, you watch them growing up, but you’re not trying to get autographs from them, you’re trying to win a game.� Luck knows he cannot afford to be star struck when he makes his NFL debut Sunday.

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LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Jay Cutler wasn’t quite sure what the results will be this time around. The last time he and Brandon Marshall were together, they were impressive, though. Now the quarterback and Pro Bowl receiver are reunited in Chicago after forming an explosive tandem in Denver, and the Bears are eyeing a big run, starting with the season opener against Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. How much better can they be this time? “We’ll see,� Cutler said Wednesday. “We did some good stuff when we were in Denver. We were young. I think Mike Shanahan and (assistant) Jeremy Bates were very good about putting us in situations for us to be successful; being very safe, at the same time trying to be explosive. So expectations are high.� They soared after the Bears acquired Marshall in a blockbuster trade with Miami, giving Cutler the go-to target he had lacked since he arrived from Denver. Even better, it was someone he knows well, a familiar target. And they certainly put up big numbers the last time they were together. Marshall began a run of five straight seasons with more than 1,000 yards in 2007 and made the fi rst of his three Pro Bowls the following year. Cutler also made the Pro Bowl in 2008 with a team-record 4,526 yards passing before a fallout with then-coach Josh McDaniels in the offseason that led to him being traded to Chicago. Marshall vowed they’ll be better this time around. He said in the spring that he cringes when he looks at their old clips, that he sees immaturity and missed opportunities and that they now have a chance to get it right. “Jay defi nitely is a better quarterback, as we would expect from a few years ago,� Marshall said. “But it’s still the same game.� If nothing else, the other receivers figure to get some chances with the defenses focusing on him. Either way, the Bears appear to be in a better spot.

Every play call and every throw will be dissected by national analysts. Every Colts fan will make the inevitable comparisons between Luck and his predecessor, Peyton Manning. Every scout will be trying to gauge whether they got it right when they tabbed Luck as the most NFL-ready quarterback since Manning entered the league in 1998 or John Elway in 1983. They’re not alone. Inside the Colts’ complex, staff members and teammates are also curious to see how the No. 1 draft pick performs. Defensive players are eager to fi nd out if they’ve taught Luck enough over the past 6½ weeks. Luck understands he still has plenty to prove on the field. Yes, he fi nished the preseason 41 of 66 with 522 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions, but those numbers don’t mean a thing. The real games begin now.

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Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler talks with wide receiver Brandon Marshall (15) in Lake Forest, Ill. on May 23. Marshall vows the two will be better this time around and looks at this season as a chance to get it right.

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St. Louis Cardinals rookie pitcher Shelby Miller delivers a pitch against the New York Mets on Wednesday in St. Louis. The Mets won 6-2 despite Miller’s best efforts. He threw two scoreless innings that featured four strikeouts.

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ST. LOUIS — Except for winning the game, St. Louis Cardinals rookie pitcher Shelby Miller couldn’t have asked for a better major league debut. Miller, a fi rst-round pick of the Cardinals in 2009, was called up by St. Louis on Tuesday and got into action on Wednesday. He was impressive in tossing two scoreless innings that featured four strikeouts — including striking out the side in the seventh — but the only blemish was that the Cardinals were beaten 6-2 by the New York Mets. “I’m happy for Shelby that he got his fi rst game in and he obviously threw the ball well,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “It’s obviously a nice way to break into the league.”

After shooting through the lower minors, the 21-year-old Miller fi gured to be the fi rst pitcher called up from Triple A. But Miller struggled — going 4-8 with an ERA over 6 in 17 games at Memphis — and others, such as Joe Kelly, jumped over him. In his last 10 starts, Miller went 7-2 and earned his trip to the majors. He showed Wednesday that he wants to stick around. “I didn’t really think I was going to go in,” Miller said. “When I fi nally got the call, it was crazy. There were so many things going through my head. Everything worked out really well.” Miller topped out at 94 mph. Usually a starter, Miller said he tried to take the same approach

coming in from the bullpen. “I just treated it as a regular start, pretty much,” Miller said. “(I) went in there and just tried to throw strikes and get hitters out. That’s the only approach I really had.” The Mets did most of their damage off of starter Adam Wainwright (13-12), who allowed five runs and eight hits in five innings. However, Wainwright delivered the Cardinals’ fi rst run when he led off the third inning with a home run against R.A. Dickey, who earned his major league-leading 18th win. It was Wainwright’s fi rst homer of the season and the sixth of his major league career. “Not good,” Wainwright said. “I wasn’t sharp by any means. I was battling my arm slot again.”

Rios propels Chicago to 6-2 win over Minnesota in Walters’ return THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — If P.J. Walters is auditioning for a spot in Minnesota’s 2013 starting rotation, he’d probably prefer a mulligan for Wednesday’s performance. Alex Rios homered twice off Walters and drove in a careerhigh six runs to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 6-2 win over the Twins. Rios hit a grand slam in the first inning and a two-run shot in the sixth to help extend Chicago’s lead in the AL Central to 1 1/2 games over Detroit, which plays Wednesday night. Walters (2-3) returned from the disabled list and allowed six runs in five-plus innings and walked three. It was his fi rst start since June 13 due to shoulder inflammation. “Six runs, we lost, bad day,” Walters said. “I wasn’t missing by a whole lot but enough to be balls and that, to me, that’s the big part of the game — not so much the homers, but the three walks. I don’t walk those three guys ... maybe it plays out a little different.” The Twins erupted for 18 runs against Chicago pitching Tuesday, but White Sox starter Jake Peavy (10-10) silenced Minneso-

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Chicago White Sox’s Alex Rios hits his second home run against the Minnesota Twins during the sixth inning on Wednesday in Chicago. ta’s bats a day later, allowing one run on six hits to win for the first time since Aug. 1. Rios gave Peavy all the support he would need with his firstinning slam. Following Dewayne Wise’s leadoff single and walks to Kevin Youkilis and Adam Dunn, Rios ripped a 1-1 slider from P.J.

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