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Damascus given one week to provide inventory of chemical weapon stockpile “We said at the outset that to accomplish our goal, this plan had LONDON — Secretary of State to produce transparency, accountJohn F. Kerry announced Sat- ability, timeliness and enforceurday that the U.S. and Russia ability,” Kerry said. “It must be had agreed on a framework for credible and verifiable. If fully impounding and destroying Syr- implemented, we believe it can ia’s stockpile of chemical weapons meet these standards.” by the middle of next year. “The world will now expect Damascus will be given one the Assad regime to live up to week from now to give an inven- its public commitments,” he addtory of its chemical arsenal and ed. “There can be no games, no will have to allow international room for avoidance or anything inspectors into Syria “no later less than full compliance by the than November,” Kerry said after Assad regime.” a third day of intense negotiations The U.S. and Russia have with Russian Foreign Minister agreed on an estimate of the Sergei Lavrov in Geneva. Syrian government’s chemical If Syrian President Bashar weapons stockpile -- the amount Assad fails to meet the demands, and type of such arms, Kerry then a resolution to enforce com- said. Their destruction would be pliance would be sought at the expedited under the internationU.N. Security al convention Council, Kerry banning chemsaid. The action ical weapons, could include which Assad has pledged to sanctions, and Kerry said that sign. the U.S. would Inspectors reserve the must be grantright to use miled “an immediitary force, but ate and unfetRussia remains tered right to opposed to inspect any JOHN F. KERRY and all sites in any armed SECRETARY OF STATE intervention. Syria,” Ker“Actions will ry said. Lavmatter more rov added that than words,” Kerry warned dur- it would be the responsibility of ing a news conference with Lav- all actors in the Syrian conflict rov. “In the case of the Assad to guarantee and uphold the saferegime, President Reagan’s old ty of the international inspectors adage about ‘trust but verify’... who will descend on the country is in need of an update. And we in the coming weeks. have committed here to a stanThe weapons could be taken out dard here that says ‘verify and of Syria and destroyed elsewhere. verify.’” Kerry sought to downplay the Though he described the plan perception that his remark in as ambitious, Kerry added that London that set the new diplomatsuccess in disarming Syria of its ic drive in motion was casual and chemical weapons “could con- impromptu. In those comments, ceivably be the first critical con- he said the Syrian government crete step” toward a wider peace, could avoid a military strike by a politically negotiated end to the turning over its entire chemicivil war that has engulfed the cal arsenal and at the same time country and already left 100,000 insisted Assad would never agree to such a thing. dead. The announcement of a deal “I purposefully made the statecaps a week of frenzied diploma- ments that I made in London, and cy sparked by a seemingly off- I did indeed say it was impossible hand comment Kerry made dur- and he won’t do it, even as I hoped ing a visit to London on Monday. it would be possible and wanted Russia seized on his remark that him to do it,” Kerry said. “The Damascus could avoid U.S.-led language of diplomacy sometimes military reprisals for its alleged requires that you put things to the use of chemical arms if it rid test, and we did.” itself of those weapons. Moscow After those comments, “I got swiftly mounted a push to make a phone call very quickly from Sergei saying, ‘Let’s see if we can that happen. Western governments have take this and move’” on it, Kerexpressed skepticism over wheth- ry said. “I’m pleased that [Ruser the goal is a realistic one, both sian] President [Vladimir] Putin because of its technical complex- took initiative and Sergei took ity and the uncertain sincerity of initiative, and President Obama Assad in committing to the idea. responded.” BY HENRY CHU

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The Bent Bean chocolate shop at Lincoln Square mall is decorated for the fourth-annual Champaign-Urbana Pride Festival on Sunday. The event was sponsored by the Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County.

UI Board of Trustees approves bonus for Easter, new budget BOARD OF TRUSTEES BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGER STAFF WRITER

University President Robert Easter will be receiving a $90,000 bonus following a performance evaluation, the Board of Trustees decided at its meeting Thursday. The bonus was awarded based on the goals set out for Easter in the past academic year. Easter will receive the bonus in addition to his base salary of $462,375, bringing his total compensation to $552,375. In July, the Board of Trustees extended Easter’s contract through June 2015. Easter has worked at the University for more than 40 years, with the majority of his time at the Urbana campus. Before becoming president in 2012, he worked as interim chancellor, provost and vice chancellor for research after serving as dean of ACES from 2002-2009. In addition to giving the president a bonus, the board unanimously approved a $4.4 billion operating budget for Fiscal Year 2014, an increase of $52.3 million, or 1.2 percent, from FY13. The budget will increase $43.5 million in unrestricted funds, which is the core academic budget for the University, and $8.8 million in funds that will be restricted for specific purposes. The budget increase is the lowest in at least five years, while the growth in unrestricted and restricted revenue wasn’t at the level of recent years. “We’ve been on an upward trajectory, but this year it’s slowing down,” said Dr. Christophe

Pierre, vice president for academic affairs. Pierre cited a low $1.2 million increase in general revenue funding and a $40 million dip in sponsored research funding as reasons for the smaller increase in the budget. The state appropriation is lower than FY1997 and, when adjusted for inflation, lower than in 1966. “The tuition revenues are really the drivers of unrestricted growth,” Pierre said in his presentation to the board. Tuition revenue increased by $52.2 million, $9.3 million more than the increase in the budget for unrestricted funds. Pierre also informed the Board of Trustees of the future financial problems the University may face, saying that it appears state appropriations are on a long, downward trend and that tuition growth is constrained after the large increases in recent years. Comptroller Walter Knorr said much of the uncertainty was caused by the state’s relationship with the University, and it could have a negative effect on the University’s finances in the future.

Service employees protest wage gap Knorr said that, while the overall budget for the University has increased by more than 50 percent in the last ten years, the amount spent on University administration has decreased $6.9 million, or 5.6 percent in the same time.

For some employees, the decrease in money spent by top administrators isn’t enough. While the University Board of Trustees went into executive session and top University administrators took a lunch break, University union employees protested low wages and the large wage gap between service employees and the administration. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, along with support from Service Employees International Union, Graduate Employees’ Organization and the Campus Faculty Association, rallied outside of the Illini Union, holding signs that read “I need a second job in order to feed my children” and “The University works because we do.” Tara McCauley, AFSCME staff representative, called on the board to help improve wages for these employees during the public comment section of the meeting. She said the University has told the union it can’t afford higher wages. “Some of (these employees are) barely starting above $9 an hour,” McCauley said. “In the meantime, we see what is going on at the Board of Trustees meeting where they are constantly increasing salaries for administrators. They are giving a ($90,000) bonus today to the president. That bonus would pay for so many raises for our members, so we feel it’s not an

Robert Easter issue of being able to afford the wages for the employees in bargaining. It’s an issue of not prioritizing (the service employees).” She said the members of the union haven’t received their bonuses from the salary program. “The University has actually withheld those raises from the employees while we’re in negotiations,” she said. “I don’t quite understand why. We think it really is an effort to punish them for organizing a union.”

Board approves new employees The University Boa rd of Trustees also approved the appointments of new academic and administrative

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New urgent-care clinic on Wright and Green streets will offer students ‘quick, easy and friendly care’ BY DANIELLE BROWN STAFF WRITER

Students will now have another health care option near campus. Champaign-Urbana Healthcare will open an urgent-care clinic next month on the corner of Wright and Green streets, at 631 E. Green St. The clinic will only be on the first floor of the building, which previously housed a bank but has been vacant for more than a year. “I think it’s a great location. It’s probably the most premier spot in Campustown,” said Dr. Tom Pliura, CEO of ChampaignUrbana Healthcare.

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Pliura has been an emergency physician for 29 years and has operated multiple outpatient facilities, just like the clinic, throughout the state. T he cl i n ic w i l l offer gynecological care and a minor trauma room, as well as digital X-ray and laboratory capabilities. He said the goal of the new clinic will be to provide alternative health care for students. “It’ll be a great location for somebody with quick and urgent-type needs. It’s just an additional option for health care services in addition to McKinley,” Pliura said. “We will be right down on the thick

of things, as far as location. We think we’re going to be quick, easy and friendly.” Pliura said he has noticed that McKinley Health Center has limited hours, so he is planning for the clinic to be open a minimum of 12 hours on weekdays and weekends. “People don’t always have the time to take the day off or miss a class,” he said. “They’ll be able to come in and quickly get cared for (with this new clinic).” He added that the clinic will not be free, but his decision to open the new clinic near the University was in response to the Affordable Care Act.

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Because of the Affordable Care Act, most students have options that they did not have prior to the act, Pliura said. Under the act, adults can remain on their parents’ insurance until they turn 26. Pliura and his company are planning to open up more clinics near college campuses across the state and said they plan to open clinics at Eastern Illinois University, Illinois State University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in the coming months.

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Illini Chabad, a center for Jewish life, announced it will be serving kosher options at sporting events through its new partnership with Illinois Athletics and the State Farm Center. The Chabad began by providing kosher options at University dining halls and the Illini Union, said Dovid Tiechtel, chapter advisor for Illini Chabad and religious worker at the Office of Dean of Students. Now, kosher options will be available at sporting events as well. Kosher hot dogs will be sold at every weekday men’s basketball game as well as some women’s games. They will also be sold at the Illinois versus Wisconsin football game on Oct. 19. John Rinkenberger, assistant director for hospitality

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management at the State Farm Center, said the kosher products will be sold at a separate kosher stand at men’s basketball games. The full menu for the stand is still being finalized, but kosher candy and popcorn may be added to the menu. Rinkenberger said the University of Kansas is the only other university in the nation, that he is aware of, that provides kosher food at sporting events. Illinois is hoping to serve as a leader in this movement, Tiechtel added that he hopes other schools will start doing it as well. Stan Dayan, sophomore in AHS and a board member on the Illini Chabad, said, “It’s important because there are a lot of Jews on campus. If we’re at basketball games, we do get hungry, and it’s important kosher foods are available.”

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Schools use more inclusive approaches in combating bullying BY VIKKI ORTIZ HEALY CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — Last school year, 11-year-old Ronan Schuelke wasn’t sure what to do when another boy in his class shoved him and called him names in the lunchroom. This year, Ronan has been chosen by his peers at Stratford Middle School in Bloomingdale, Ill., to star in a music video designed to teach respect through a catchy parody of a Katy Perry song. After the school’s students watch the video, Ronan and other student leaders will hand out “Stallion Medallions” to classmates who try to stop bullying or who reinforce positive behavior. Students can score a medallion for telling a classmate to stop picking on someone, by sitting with a new student at lunch or by committing other random acts of kindness. The tokens can be redeemed for school supplies, tickets to plays or other small rewards. The school’s mascot is a stallion. As students settle back into

school hallways where peer pressure lurks and insults await, the new approach at Stratford underscores an ongoing shift in how educators deal with bullying. In the past, administrators often relied on individual conversations, sporadic motivational speakers and other piecemeal attempts focused on telling students not to be mean. But in recent years, media attention, state mandates and research on bullying have prompted dozens of school districts across Illinois — including at least 10 in the Chicago suburbs — to try a more inclusive approach that addresses peer aggression while instilling a broader message of respect, educators say. “Teaching them to show respect to each other is more effective than saying, ‘Don’t be a bully,’ “ said Brian Meyer, operations director for the state’s Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports network. The organization provides schools with information on the latest anti-bullying techniques.

Under the network, schools acknowledge that all students are capable of and vulnerable to “bullying behavior.” Administrators survey students on problem areas, then faculty and students are trained in a schoolwide approach called “Stop, Walk and Talk.” The idea is to give students a rehearsed response aimed at halting bullying instantly. For example, a student who sees someone bullying another could walk up to the aggressor and say, “Stop,” or use a hand signal and then tell a teacher. “This is really focusing on what works and creating an environment for all students to be successful,” Meyer said, adding that the students help determine what the token or reward should be. Many educators and researchers applaud the effort as a way to lower bullying rates, which have remained flat for years. Others worry that rewarding good behavior with tokens or other perks sends the wrong message with short-lived results. It’s esti-

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Students pick up their Expect Respect group shirts on Aug. 29 at Stratford Middle School in Bloomingdale, Ill. mated that 20 to 30 percent of school-age children are either bullied or engage in bullying, reports say. “Extrinsic motivation has limited availability to really promote a love of learning and to promote a moral compass,” said Jonathan Cohen, president of the National School Climate Center and adjunct professor in psychology and education at Teachers College at Columbia University. “Intrinsic motivation is significantly more powerful,” Cohen said. Two decades ago, bullying was often seen as a rare occurrence, where small groups of parents sought protection for their children with the school district.

But when the problem was blamed for widely reported shootings and suicides, parents started lobbying for help and legislators got involved, said Dorothy Espelage, a professor of educational psychology at University of Illinois known for her research on bullying. Since the Colorado shootings at Columbine High School in 1999, 49 states have passed laws requiring schools to have antibullying policies and programs, Espelage said. As educators burdened by tight resources and an emphasis on test scores learned of research that indicated prevention works best when addressed by a schoolwide approach, many principals turned to the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports network.

employees, as well as the contracts of men’s tennis head coach Brad Dancer and new women’s track and field head coach Ron Garner. Peter Constable, currently the head of the department of veterinary clinical sciences at Purdue University, was approved to become the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the Urbana campus, beginning in 2014. Additionally, the board approved Alfred Tatum as interim dean of Education at the Chicago campus. The board also approved the hiring of 121 new faculty members, including 62 at the Urbana campus. Following the vote, Chancellor Phyllis Wise gave a presentation about the declining number of faculty on the Urbana campus and discussed her plan to hire 170 faculty in the upcoming year and 500 new faculty in the next five to seven years. Wise also showed that the University is lower than its peer median in average faculty salary, though the difference has been decreasing in recent years. She added that the University has been struggling with retention issues because of monetary problems, though retention has increased in the last two years.

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Eastern Colorado experiences rainfall of ‘biblical proportions’ BY JENNY DEAM AND MICHAEL MUSKAL LOS ANGELES TIMES

LONGMONT, Colo. — For Carey Scott, life these days is all about watching the angry Big Thompson River, swollen by torrential rains, move closer. Sitting on the deck behind her house, Scott can see the rising floodwaters approach her home in Loveland, a charming mountain town 45 miles north of Denver. She has heard the roar of water in recent days as it overflowed the river’s banks and cut off her subdivision. All bridges to the north are under water. She can’t escape to the west because Highway 34 has buckled. To the south, the town of Longmont is also flooded. Interstate 25 to her east is closed. A building that was visible Thursday was just a memory Friday. “As I look out my window this morning I cannot see a farmhouse,” Scott said, speaking by telephone from her stilldry house. “We’re ready to go. We would go if they told us we needed to evacuate, but we have nowhere to go.” Scott is among thousands of people in Colorado waiting for help as flooding has smacked the eastern chunk of the state with biblical force. Entire towns nestled in the Rocky Mountain foothills are isolated by washed-out roads, mudslides and the record rain that has fallen for five days. Helicopters flew 295 people out of Jamestown, which was cut off by raging water and mud. The Colorado National Guard has used more than 100 troops in 21 military-style trucks to bring in supplies to picturesque towns such as Lyons and Loveland and to bring out those who have been stranded, often without electricity and drinkable water. Others are still searching for survivors, with some rivers flowing at 10 times their normal rate. Scott’s subdivision sits near the

mouth of Big Thompson Canyon. She knows only too well, as do all the locals, the damage from the Big Thompson River flood in 1976, when a flash flood roared out of the canyon and killed 144 people. But she says she is not scared. “Our house sits above the floodplain,” she said. Buildings across central Colorado have been turned into impromptu evacuation centers. Hundreds of people have arrived in school buses at the LifeBridge Christian Church in Longmont, about six miles east of Lyons, one of the towns hit worst by the recent flooding. The church’s administrative pastor, Kevin King, 52, said the church was anticipating 2,000 to 3,000 weary people. “People have been holed up without power or water,” King said by telephone. “Many homes, we don’t know what the inside looks like.” Rain began pelting Colorado early this week, but by Wednesday night it had picked up tempo. As much as 9 to 10 inches fell in the populous parts of the state known as the Front Range. In Boulder, 7.21 inches of rain fell in about 15 hours beginning Wednesday night. That was 50 percent more than the previous record in 1919 — 4.8 inches within 24 hours. The heavy rains began to slacken on Friday, but thunderstorms were still expected through the weekend. At least four people were confirmed dead and dozens were unaccounted for, officials said. The damage was expected to run into the tens of millions of dollars and repairs could take weeks, Gov. John Hickenlooper told reporters on Friday. He has declared a state of emergency, as has President Barack Obama. Some isolated areas of the state have been cut off entirely by rapidly advancing floodwaters, leaving residents unable even to phone

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Floodwaters rush down Cheyenne Creek as storms continue to hit the front range in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Friday. for help. David Sangelo, 49, whose rustic home overlooks the St. Vrain River near Lyons, said he awoke Thursday to a scene of “total devastation.” The river had turned into a violent, muddy rapid that had washed away chunks of the road below his hillside home. His long driveway ended in the muddy swirls. “The whole valley had turned into a raging rapid with debris, propane tanks, whole trees, a refrigerator, a big roof of a house

just floating by. Houses were under water. Everything was totally swamped,” he said. He had no power, no phone, no Internet — no way of knowing what to do. Sensing the house was on high enough ground, Sangelo decided to leave his wife, Lisa, and their two children and try to walk two miles to town for help. He almost made it before high water turned him back. For the next 24 hours, Sangelo and his wife slept in shifts. On Friday morning, still cut off from

all communication, he decided to try the trek again. He followed the contour of the river, picking his way along steep hillsides. “If I lost my footing, I would be dead,” he said. Somehow, Sangelo made it to the Lyons town center, where emergency personnel told him to evacuate. “But my family is back home,” he protested. Floodwaters made it impossible for any vehicle to rescue them. Sangelo headed back alone. Like refugees, he and his family began a perilous journey.

Each child took one backpack. The couple packed a single suitcase. Sangelo knew that if they could just cling to the hillside they could make it out. They held hands in a line, followed by their big Akita dog. “We were holding hands so tight. We were holding on to the kids. We started to slip and slide,” he said. Somehow, they made it to the evacuation zone in Lyons, where they were loaded into military-style vehicles and taken to Longmont.

Spending impulse curbed in California despite large tax increase BY PATRICK MCGREEVY AND MELANIE MASON LOS ANGELES TIMES

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With a rebounding economy and a $6 billion tax increase approved by Californians last fall, the state Legislature’s new Democratic supermajority began the year with the money and power to reverse years of deficit-driven budget cuts and derailed political priorities. But even with a two-thirds majority for the first time in more than a century, the 2013 session featured no spending binge and no recalibration of state law to the far left, despite the dire predictions of some conservatives and the hopes of some liberals. Calls for higher car fees and for an overhaul of Proposition 13, the landmark property tax initiative, went unheeded. A proposed moratorium on oil companies’ controversial “fracking” practices foundered. Even with a projected revenue surplus in the billions, lawmakers acquiesced to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown’s demand to delay restoration of welfare programs thrashed by years of deficits, instead socking away $1.1 billion in reserves. “Everybody knew they were being watched,” said Barbara O’Connor, a public affairs specialist and professor emeritus of political communication at California State, Sacramento. The temperance was driven largely by a need to protect the

party’s moderates. Their victories in a handful of Republican-leaning districts handed the Democrats their bare supermajority — an edge that gave the party enough power to raise taxes without a single Republican vote. Doing so, however, might have meant sacrificing at least some of those moderates in next year’s elections. A nd Brow n repe atedly preached fiscal prudence, threatening to nip any spending spree before California’s economy recovered more firmly. The unified restraint on spending, however, is not expected to last, given the pent-up demand to restore cuts made over the years in social and healthcare programs held dear by Democrats. “They delivered on the promises they made at the beginning of the year because they were calculated, conservative promises,” O’Connor said. “I think that will erupt. (Lawmakers) will be going home to their districts and dealing with problems of their communities.” Still, for those seeking to affirm a view of California as a land awash in tie-dyed, unionized liberals, the Legislature produced enough nuggets to sustain its leftist reputation. Democrats pushed through an increase in the minimum wage to $10 an hour — the highest in the nation. They moved to make driver’s licenses widely available to immigrants in the country illegally and to allow legal, noncitizen immigrants to serve

on juries. They approved overtime pay for nannies and home health aides. California’s strict gun laws became stricter: Nine guncontrol bills passed, including a ban on the sale of rifles with detachable magazines. Brown uncharacteristically weighed in on a few major bills as they traveled through the Senate and Assembly, supporting the minimum-wage increase and driver’s license measures, for example. “When things get a bit stalled, I like to provide a bit of catalyst,” Brown said Friday. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat, said it was a relief to have some room to legislate after years of budget problems. “Now that we have gotten over that hump and we are not dealing with endless budget deficits, we now have the ability to actually build and create, and that’s what we did this year,” Steinberg told reporters. “It’s a much better era beginning here in California than what we have been dealing with during the past half decade.” In addition to an on-time budget this year, Steinberg said, lawmakers’ accomplishments included more money for vocational education, mental health services and scholarships for middle-class college students. Other beneficiaries of Sacramento’s one-party rule were Democrat-friendly public employee unions, which received

new contracts with pay raises. State prison guards won a guarantee that they will be used if the state leases a private prison in California City, one of the options Brown will present to federal judges who have ordered him to alleviate crowding. Teachers unions won a measure to streamline the discipline and dismissal process for their members, passed by the Legislature over the objections of school boards and administrators. But the year was a disappointment for environmentalists — also a reliable Democratic constituency. The oil industry beat back bills that would have stopped hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, at least temporarily. One measure passed that would require a permitting process, public notice of such oil-extraction practices and a study of possible regulations, but only after lobbyists persuaded lawmakers to scale back proposals for stricter regulation. “It was the year of the oily,” said Kathryn Phillips, executive director of Sierra Club California. “The oil industry really managed to direct a lot of policy in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.” And the forest industry, she noted, pushed through lastminute legislation to allow harvesting of larger trees on private property with little state oversight. In addition, all but one of the 38 bills the California Cham-

ber of Commerce identified as “job killers” died. Those included measures that would have doubled fines issued by the Air Resources Board, made it easier for local governments to raise taxes and imposed extraction fees on oil companies. “We are pleased with our success,” said Denise Davis, a spokeswoman for the Chamber. “We fought hard and made sure legislators understood how bad these proposed job killers would have been for California jobs and our economy.” GOP Assemblyman Jeff Gorell said the concerns his party had about the Democratic supermajority never fully materialized, in part because Republicans found an unlikely ally on fiscal matters. “Gov. Brown proved to be one of more conservative Democrats in the building,” Gorell said. He noted that the legislative year also was shaped by the influence of the unusually large freshman class, the influence of newly drawn districts and a “top-two” primary system that favored moderate candidates. The new arrivals “showed a level of thoughtfulness you don’t see in every freshman class. So that I think helped mute some of the more extreme ideas that were coming out of the far left and maybe even the far right,” Gorell said. “There are a number of Democrats who came from very conservative districts whose vote

record reflected that.” Among them is Democratic Assemblyman Steve Fox, a freshman who beat his Republican challenger by just 145 votes. Fox’s district leans conservative, making it a prime GOP target next year. Fox said he made clear to his Democratic caucus that he could not be counted on to toe the party line. “I told them, ‘I’m going to vote my district,’ and they accepted it,” Fox said. “When it comes to Second Amendment rights, I vote with Republicans. When it comes to education, I’ll be with Democrats.... If there’s a tax, I do my best to vote against taxes.” Democratic moderates are likely to be even more riskaverse in 2014, said Allan Hoffenblum, a former GOP strategist and publisher of the nonpartisan California Target Book, which handicaps legislative races. Hoffenblum said many of the moderate freshman squeaked out victories last year because of a large turnout of Democrats supporting President Barack Obama’s re-election. Turnout is expected to be much lower in 2014, and such conditions typically favor Republicans. “If you’re going to have any significant change in regards to Prop. 13 or guns, it would have had to be done this year,” Hoffenblum said. “Big changes come right after the election, not before the next election.”

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Ash caseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dismissal does not mean â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;case dismissedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

onths after the student trustee election in March, an Illinois court handed Carey Ash, graduate student in law and Ph.D. candidate, a disfavorable ruling. In the spring, The Daily Illini Editorial Board endorsed Ash as a write-in candidate for student trustee, although he was not eligible to be on the ballot because of his lack of in-state residency requirements. According to state law, the student trustee must be an Illinois resident, which Ash has spent months trying to prove. The judge dismissed the case as moot because now that the student body chose Mike Cunningham, senior in LAS, the election can not be undone. The legal counsel for Kenneth Ballom, dean of students and defendant in the case, argued that because evidence of repeat violations does not exist nor is it pursuant of public interest, the case should be dismissed. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the defense was wrong. This is in the interest of the public because, especially as the University continues its diversification efforts of pulling in more outof-state and international students, issues of eligibility will likely arise again. Ballom decided before the election that Ash did not meet the requirements for Illinois residency, which disqualified him from fairly campaigning for the top student position in the University of Illinois system. As a last ditch attempt, Ash began a write-in campaign. Had it been successful, he may have had more traction in arguing his case last week. Ashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knowledge of and experience on this campus more than qualified him for the position, but the extenuating residency requirement made all of that null. The student trustee casts votes on decisions regarding the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roughly $5 billion budget and other important issues, and an in-state resident by no means makes one candidate more qualified to make such decisions than an out-of-state resident. Cunningham will remain in his position, but the residency provision of the state law cannot. The caseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dismissal does not lessen its significance, and it should be a message to state lawmakers that the law no longer fits within the mission of the University system, but especially on the Urbana campus. With the law unchanged, it precludes equal representation of the student body. As the Board of Trustees navigates the complexity of the exorbitant amount of debt the University has and its continually downgraded credit rating, an out-of-state or international voice could guide the University. But maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not: We wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know because right now, the student body has no opportunity to decide. Ash could establish residency before the 2014 election and run as an in-state resident, but, even so, the unfair law would remain. No trustee candidate should have to prove residency because being a student at and of the University is the foremost qualification.

Be more than just an academic success, give back to others BOSWELL HUTSON Opinions columnist

long with most people, I find the gruesome pair of stress and uncertainty that comes with being enrolled in a top-tiered public university to be crippling. I know college students like myself are supposed to be focused on getting good marks, landing internships, getting jobs and starting careers, but often times I think this pursuit of ambition clouds our judgement. Lately, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve noticed the people closest to me are becoming increasingly absorbed in their work lives, myself included. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not writing to speak out against the ambition of the student or even the selfish student that the modern academic world creates, but rather the combination of the two. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a workaholic; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the first to admit it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always writing an article, writing a post, checking Twitter or sending an email. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredibly time-consuming and annoying to those around me. I hate it. I also have to do it. As most students, I am of the persuasion that if I work hard now, maybe some day I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to. As Julian Casablancas of The Strokes once said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m workinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; so I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to try so hard.â&#x20AC;? My issue, however, comes with people who are so absorbed in their ambition or career that nothing else matters to them, especially at the university level. College is absolutely a time to professionally expand. In fact, I would say it is exclusively the

time to do so, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a time to expand personally. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a time to learn, experience, serve and love. But when one becomes so wrapped up in his or her work, all of these other things seem to fall by the way-side. A perfect microcosm of the issue I am describing exists right here in ChampaignUrbana. I am involved with a volunteer program, Big Brothers Big Sisters, here in Urbana. I go to a school on the east side of Urbana a couple times a week and mentor a 5th grader. His father passed away seven years ago and he has three little sisters. At the age of 12, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only man in his household. Imagine that for a second: he just started middle school, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the man of the house. Instead of sharing these experiences with his father, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relied on me to take him fishing, teach him how to tie a tie and give him an adult male perspective. I, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure most University of Illinois students, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even fathom the emptiness this child faces on a daily basis. It kills me to see my little guy and an obscenely large number of his peers without fathers or whose parents struggle to feed them every single day. Five blocks west of his school students in Business, Liberal Arts and Sciences and Engineering are so absorbed in their own work that they tend to forget to lend a necessary helping hand. The problem is two-fold, however. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily lie entirely with the individual students, I suspect, but also with academic culture which breeds an attitude that discounts everything but academic success. To those people who give nothing back, I have a message: The world is bigger than you. What youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing is important,

To those people who give nothing back, I have a message: The world is bigger than you. What youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing is important, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the only important thing.

but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the only important thing. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re President Obama, a freshman in psychology, that really happy homeless guy on the corner of Sixth and Green or finding new ways to avoid doing your taxes (thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a jab at you, business students). What youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing is not exclusively important. What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing academically at this University is undoubtedly of some importance, but so is lending a helping hand to someone who needs it so that one day, maybe he or she can be in our shoes. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a great believer in the tenant that personal diversification can do wonders for both community and self. When we have as much time and ability as we do, the fact that C-U volunteer organizations (or any volunteer organizations for that matter) are struggling to find volunteers is immensely disappointing. I know that more times than not, ambition is a defense for uncertainty; the future scares me more than anything, too. What also matters, though, are the futures of individuals who otherwise wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have one. Being wrapped up in purely your work or your social life is selfish. Part of being successful in life is paving the way for others to be successful, too. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only building something for yourself, then whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the point? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean to preach; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m far from perfect. A majority of my stress lies in that I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do as much as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to, especially in the community. Many people I know seem to make absolutely no effort, though. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what irks me the most. I understand that spending time on oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ambition is important, but I would caution people not to forget to give back. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth not going out some nights or skipping work or class one day. At least I think it is. Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busy, but there is probably not a better time in our lives to take the time to change someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. A little goes a long way.

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pparently a new pizza joint cropped up, and the guys who work there probably got pretty bored one night. After a long day of mind-numbing pizza flipping and order taking, they must have really needed some extra stimulation. So it only makes sense that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d change things up a bit and start offering free pizzas for women who flash them. Wait, what? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right, folks. Drewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizzaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employees find it necessary to entertain themselves by asking women to degrade themselves. And if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe me, you can check out some of these (now deleted) tweets from Drewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Twitter account: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pizzas $5 right at Drews or free for titties #uiuc #LATENIGHT 508 e green.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ok now for the next pair #uiuc FREE PIZZA.â&#x20AC;? Obviously Drewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feels no shame despite being called out by multiple news sources since just yesterday they tweeted: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If u got it flaunt it 508 E Green #uiuc #teamdrews #freepizza.â&#x20AC;? What are the employees of Drewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saying about this ridiculous escapade? Well, they seem to be pretty proud of themselves. Huffington Post was nice enough to reference a quote WICD-TV got from one of the employees, Brice Hartman, actually defending their actions (well, at least heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s committed?): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somebody comes in says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m drunk, if I flash you, can I get a free pizza?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Yeah sure, why not? It makes everybody here happy. It makes the crowd happy.â&#x20AC;? Oh, OK. I see now! Were people not happy with just the pizza before? Maybe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sign to close the place down, or the more logical idea, offer pizza for breasts? Students at the University donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be amused, Kim Ziolkowski, a junior in Engineer-

ing, simply stated: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, this pizza better be covered in gold and jewels if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re asking women to flash them for it.â&#x20AC;? Yeah, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really not. Not even close. And what really gets me mad is, yes, OK this is gross. This is degrading. But what about the men? This is unfair. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an outrage! Where can men go for free pizza? Is Drewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also offering free pizzas to men who are willing to flash the goods? Is this double standard fair? But in all seriousness, women should be offended, and if there are men who care about women, then they should be too. Those men are vile and profane and all forms of the word. But I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but also think of how this whole incident just speaks to a larger problem of our society. The fact that these employees are capitalizing on drunken women is an issue in itself. Taking advantage of drunken women is unfortunately nothing new, and frankly thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just disturbing. As Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure many have aptly already pointed out, females under the influence probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think too much about what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to do to get a free pizza. Lots of people are pointing out that these women decided to flash these men by choice, and I completely agree. No one forced them into anything. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not so much the action that bothers me, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the principle of the matter. I would hope these women, even when sober, would think twice before lifting their shirts. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand why we continue to exist in a world where it is OK or even humorous for men to influence women to expose themselves for a pizza. It forces us to think of what the bigger picture could be: What else will we laugh off as pure â&#x20AC;&#x153;influence?â&#x20AC;?

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Will we always write these situations off as acceptable because the women involved â&#x20AC;&#x153;choseâ&#x20AC;? to participate? Drewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Twitter account and some comments on various articles sprouting up online are accusing people who are disgusted by their behavior as not having a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sense of humor.â&#x20AC;? Being offended doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stuck-up or that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a sense of humor. It just shows you have a shard of self-respect, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to feel validated by men throwing pizza at you in exchange for revealing your boobs. I know for a fact that these men arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just some poor souls living a G-rated life. If men want something to look at, there are plenty of other easily accessible outlets. I think the desired outcome here isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seeing a chickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boobs, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fact that girls are essentially flashing FOR these men. (Of course thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pizza involved, but who are the ones offering the pizza and the price?) And I think that feeling can give someone a sense of control, which feels good especially when we have these widespread ideas that a girl who strips down is sexy and one who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t is a prude. And a guy who can get her to do it is the coolest kid on the block. At the end of the day, we have Drewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to thank for feeling thoroughly disgusted and perturbed. Do we really want to support a small business that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care about or respect a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body? Even if Drewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happens to be your favorite pizza place (maybe you just really love their Taco or Taj Mahal pizza), there are plenty of other pizza places to choose from. And they honestly probably taste better and arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t degrading to women in their business propositions.

the late 1940s, South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newly elected National Party legalized the system of strict racial segregation known as apartheid. The regime segregated public institutions, sanctioned whiteonly jobs and prohibited interracial marriages. As resistance built, police forces cracked down on demonstrations with brutality and subsequent torture; many of those taken into custody disappeared forever. While South African citizens continued to fight injustice on the front lines, international groups, outraged at the systemic oppression, launched one of the largest solidarity movements the world has seen. In the 1980s, American college students, eager to support the struggle, protested the financial involvement of their universities, calling on them to withdraw their holdings from the South African government. Social rights activist Desmond Tutu noted that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world...â&#x20AC;? It has been nearly 20 years since the official abolishment of apartheid in South Africa. Nevertheless, injustice still exists, and it is still university sanctioned. Universities across the country have enormous endowments. The University of Illinois has both an active endowment for the Urbana-Champaign campus (about $375 million) and an endowment for the entire university system (standing at $1.7 billion). These endowments are composed of large donations and gifts as well as returns on investments. As its size indicates, the endowments hold tremendous influence. Although the University might make commendable strides for sustainability, as it has in the areas of facility standards and research, these steps are nullified when accompanied by large investments that contradict their end goal. While the Illinois Climate Action Plan is working to end our consumption of coal on campus, the Illinois investment policy is to export the costs of coal elsewhere and profit from it. This presents an unavoidable dilemma; the University administration is championing values in public statements, but funneling thousands (or millions) of dollars into bets against them. Coalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastating impacts on Illinois communities are both diverse and expansive. It forces one to contemplate how a university can claim to be sustainable when it profits from the destruction of natural landscapes and productive farmland, the pollution of drinking water supplies, and the devastation of fish and wildlife species. It is equally perplexing that an institution can genuinely assert an interest in public health when it funds power plants responsible for 621 premature deaths and 1,018 heart attacks annually in the state of Illinois, according to the Prairie Rivers Network. Perhaps most reprehensible is the fact that our University markets itself as a center for diversity when it profits from the disproportionate pollution of low-income communities of color, perpetuating a system of eco-apartheid. There is a clear imperative to develop investment practices that are consistent with our values. Across the country, the call for coal divestment is building. In 2011, the UIUC campaign was one of only three groups in a nascent movement. In the time since, the campaign has collected thousands of petition signatures, passed a resolution through the Illinois Student Senate and earned the support of campus and community groups. In 2013, over 300 colleges, churches, institutions and municipalities are pushing for divestment. Some from coal (as UIUC is working for) and some from a set of 200 fossil fuel companies. Many of these campaigns have already succeeded. Last Thursday, the UIUC Beyond Coal campaign brought this dilemma before the Board of Trustees, the governing body at the University of Illinois. The ask of UIUC Beyond Coal was not that the University divest from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Filthy Fifteen,â&#x20AC;? the most harmful coal mining and utilities companies, immediately, but that the Board of Trustees meet for conversation: -That the Board of Trustees acknowledges and contemplates the body of research that has been developed in support of fossil fuel divestment. -That the Board of Trustees remains open to the fact that we should not invest in companies like Edison International, whose Fisk and Crawford plants in Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods caused 42 premature deaths, 66 heart attacks and 720 asthma attacks each year. -That the fundamental purpose of a university, to prepare an existing generation to confront the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problems, be reaffirmed and acted upon by not contributing to the greatest of those problems. The world has changed since the antiapartheid movement of the 1980s. But in that time, students have stood in solidarity with those on the front lines of the fight for ending genocide in Sudan, cutting off support of tobacco, immigration reform and workerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights. It is clear that injustice has not gone away â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and neither have we.

Sehar is a junior in LAS. She can be reached at shsiddi2@ dailyillini.com.

Tyler Rotche, senior in LAS, co-president of Students for Environmental Concerns

Boswell is a junior in LAS. He can be reached at hutson2@ dailyillini.com.

A slice is nice â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or free if you show your boobs SEHAR SIDDIQUI

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The fact that these employees are capitalizing on drunken women is an issue in itself.

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Student beats the odds, 1st in family to attend college BY ALICE SMELYANSKY STAFF WRITER

For some students who grow up in Chicago Heights, Ill., gang violence can distract students from pursuing postsecondary education. But for Daniel Chavez, going to college was a given, despite the neighborhood violence that surrounded him. “It was not something that I thought was special; it followed the track,” said Chavez, a sophomore in LAS. “It was just normal for me.” Chavez is a first-generation student, the first in his family to attend a university. Both his mother and father are from a small town in Guanajuato, Mexico, where opportunities for education are much harder to obtain and pursue. “Usually people don’t go to the university because it’s so far away, and traveling around the area of Mexico that I’m from is really dangerous because of the cartels,” Chavez said. First-generation college students are faced with specific disadvantages when it comes to higher education. According to the National Education Longitudinal Study, only 47 percent of students whose parents did not pursue higher education enrolled in college the year after graduating from high school, compared to the 85 percent enrollment for students whose parents had college degrees. Out of this year’s University freshman class — about 7,331 — 21 percent are first-generation college students. Chavez comes from parents with differing education levels. After third grade, Chavez’s mom discontinued her childhood education due to hardships in her family’s financial situation.

She started sewing clothes for profit to help her single mother. Chavez’s father was raised in America and finished with a high school education. “They’re really proud,” Chavez said. “I don’t think my dad is as proud of me as my mom. He thinks it’s a given. He would’ve killed me if I didn’t come here. But my mom is really proud of me.” These differing views on education play out for many students who are the first to attend college in their family. Only 44 percent of first-generation college students’ parents expect them to finish with a degree, while 88 percent of second- or higher generation college students are held to that expectation, according to the findings from the Institute of Education Sciences. Chavez’s younger brother, Julian, is also proud of Chavez’s decision to obtain a higher education, but has decided a different path for himself. “I wasn’t really a big fan of school even though I was pretty smart, so I didn’t consider going to college,” Julian said. “But I think my brother is going to do great things in his life and in other people’s lives, too. I know he has the potential to do what he wants and to be who he wants to be because we both are very ambitious and always welcome a challenge.” Though Julian learned how to ride a bike first and Chavez can run faster and longer than him, competition aided both of them in striving to do their best. Chavez developed a competitive spirit as a way to push him not to give up on his goals. “Getting into any college is hard enough, but Daniel perse-

vered and got into an extremely prestigious college,” said Shivam Khanna, a friend of Chavez’s and sophomore in Engineering, “It takes a lot of work and effort on Daniel’s part, considering his parents weren’t really able to guide him through the process of getting to college. It’s a testament to his motivation and intelligence. Basically, he was able to come here because he worked hard and set goals for himself.” Khanna and Chavez met as freshmen in Scott Hall. Khanna found it impressive that Chavez chose to attend the University after learning about the prevalence of gang violence and drug abuse in Chicago Heights. As a college student, the hardest part is prioritizing and managing oneself, Khanna said. “As far as I have seen, Daniel is adept at managing himself and making sure he gets his work done on time, something that will continue to help him succeed as he graduates and begins working,” Khanna said, “He is one of the most driven and hard-working people I have met.” When Chavez is not studying for his psychology classes, he participates in Archery Club, Tae Kwon Do and the Psi Chi Undergraduate Psychology Association. He also has four other younger siblings — Casey, Carla, Leo and Lilly — and he hopes they will follow his lead in the future. “Some of my other siblings don’t have the drive right now, but I think they could. I think it’s all about if you have the drive and if you want to,” he said.

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For-profit colleges leave students in debt, government defrauded BY MICHAEL VASQUEZ

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MIAMI — As a mother of two in the throes of a divorce, Whitney Collins inquired about ATI Career Training Center because she wanted a better life for her young boys. The admissions rep called almost daily, persistent as a car salesman, pressuring her to enroll. Though the $46,000 price tag for ATI’s two-year Ultrasound Technology program seemed awfully steep, Collins was assured that federal grants and loans — paid directly to the school by the government — would make it affordable. She took the bait. Six months into her studies at the Miami Gardens campus, ATI shuttered its doors under the weight of two damaging whistle-blower lawsuits in Florida and Texas that claimed the school was an elaborate fraud, designed to siphon millions in student aid from the government while sticking students with an overpriced, often worthless diploma. The suits were settled last month. ATI, which is in the process of liquidating, agreed to pay a total of $5.7 million. Not one dollar though, will go to making Collins and other Florida-based students whole. Collins has this question for the company’s leadership: “How is it that you can walk away, and wash your hands clean, knowing that you left all these students in financial ruin? “How can you even sleep at night?”

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Arthur Benjamin, former Chairman and CEO of the ATI Career Training Center, talks about his experience at the private career college, on Sept. 5, in Doral, Florida. In the big-money world of for-profit colleges, ATI was something of a bit player. Former CEO Arthur Benjamin, of Delray Beach, says his compensation topped out at about $500,000 or so, and the school’s enrollment was about 18,000 when he stepped down in 2010. That’s tiny compared to the nation’s largest for-profit, the University of Phoenix, which enrolls hundreds of thousands of students, and pays its chief executive more than $25 million — higher than what the head of Coca-Cola or Starbucks makes. But when fueled by a steady pipeline of federal dollars, even a small school like ATI can be lucrative. The school boasted more than $100 million or so in annual revenues. The settlement with ATI followed a familiar pattern: for-profit colleges accused of breaking the rules receive a small fine that amounts to pen-

nies on the dollar compared to the overall federal money they take in. The ATI punishment was a bit harsher in that it forced the school to permanently shut down. The deal also set aside $2 million for “student loan refunds” to former ATI students in Texas who had filed lawsuits against the school. In Florida, ATI had four campuses: Fort Lauderdale, Miami Gardens, Oakland Park and Doral. The Florida whistle-blower suit included evidence that ATI had routinely defrauded the government of student financial aid such as Pell Grants and federal student loans. A former high-ranking ATI employee at the school’s Fort Lauderdale campus provided documentation showing the school would alter students’ grades and attendance records in order to keep them academically eligible.

Twitter files IPO under confidential plan BY PETER DELEVETT AND BRANDON BAILEY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Twitter’s IPO filing Thursday prompted two reactions: “Wow” and “Why now?” While the San Francisco microblogging site has been widely believed to be on the path to an initial public offering, most pundits hadn’t expected it to happen until 2014. Sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital, Twitter’s leaders repeatedly have insisted they’re not focused on going public. But with Wall Street fully recovered from an IPO lull that followed last year’s botched Facebook debut, Silicon Valley’s most anticipated stock offering since — well, since Facebook’s — is officially in the pipeline. “Why go public now? I’d say because it can,” said Bill Tai, a venture capitalist with Charles River Ventures. His firm was among the first investors in Twitter. The number of nationwide IPO filings through August was up more than 50 percent from last year, according to research firm Renaissance Capital. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter noted that Internet stocks such as LinkedIn and Pandora have seen their share prices soar in recent months.

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Answers about the timing — or anything else — weren’t forthcoming from Twitter. Not only is the company now under “quiet period” rules imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it chose to file under new SEC rules that permit many details to remain secret for now. The company used its own Twitter account Thursday afternoon to announce it had filed the confidential IPO plan. A spokesman declined to comment on such details as how much money the company hopes to raise from investors or when the stock offering might take place. But the fact that Twitter is using a confidential filing hints to one detail about its finances: The new SEC rules that permit such filings limit them to companies with less than $1 billion in annual revenue. That’s why Karsten Weide, who tracks online media for the IDC research firm, was among those surprised by the announcement. “Their ad business is growing quickly, but it’s still very small,” he said. Speculation about a Twitter IPO died down after Facebook’s rough Wall Street debut, which saw its shares sink from an initial price of $38 to less than $20 over its first year of trading. Facebook has rebounded of late, how-

ever, pushing to an all-time high of more than $45 on Wednesday after the company’s most recent earnings report showed strong revenue gains. “If Facebook had hit an all-time low, you can bet they wouldn’t be coming out now,” Tai said of Twitter. The warm market conditions notwithstanding, recent hires indicate Twitter’s IPO plans have been in the works a while. Last month, it added the former CEO of Ticketmaster to spearhead new e-commerce efforts, and it also reportedly hired a stock administration analyst who worked on Zynga’s 2011 IPO. Bloomberg News, citing an unnamed source, reported that Goldman Sachs would be the lead underwriter for the Twitter offering. Some observers said that would be a slap at rival investment bank Morgan Stanley, which led Facebook’s IPO but was criticized for missteps that dampened its stock price. “Twitter will learn from Facebook’s flawed playbook,” said Sam Hamadeh, CEO of financial analysis firm PrivCo. He said that while Facebook hurt itself by not going public until its revenue growth began to slow, “Twitter will IPO at just the right inflection point: while revenue grows in triple digits.”

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Lara, junior in AHS, soon found themselves drawn away from the country wear. They gravitated toward the ’80s sports windbreakers, which Cain said “are so cheesy and so popular” that they “just fly out of here.” While Osborn asked Toliver how he looked in his neon multi-colored windbreaker, Lara strutted in a windbreaker decorated with a red, gold and blue circular key design. He posed like an ’80s hiphop rapper in front of his friends, and received a laugh. “Ragstock seems to have a ‘different vibe,’” Pakhnyuk said. “It’s more relaxed, personal and fun.” Ragstock is also preparing for Halloween, Cain said, and is planning to set aside a section specifically for costumes, wigs and Halloween make-up. And, for those chilly winter months? According to Ragstock’s website, “ugly Christmas sweaters” are set to hit stores in November.

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Racks of neon windbreakers, “Thrift Shop”-inspired faux fur jackets and bib overalls line the walls of Ragstock, Campustown’s recently opened new- and usedclothing boutique. The store officially opened Aug. 9 in the basement of 627 S. Wright St., and, according to customers shopping there Friday morning, it has been a great addition to the campus community. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., Ragstock has 25 locations throughout the Midwest, with other campustown locations at the University of Iowa, University of WisconsinMadison and University of Michigan.

but has been working at Ragstock’s Champaign location since Aug. 16. She said that prices generally range from $5 to $25, with more expensive items at about $40. She categorized Ragstock’s clothing as “random and quirky,” perfect for anyone interested in buying costume-like clothing. As the manager of the store, Cain often sends in item requests to two buyers — one in charge of buying new clothing and the other in charge of buying used clothing — based on customer demand and what she thinks the store needs. Lately, she said, customers have turned their attention to barn dance attire. On Friday, Cody Osborn, sophomore in ACES, shopped at Ragstock with two of his friends for the first time, browsing racks of cowboy boots, flannel shirts and bib overalls. They planned to attend the Delta Delta Delta sorority barn dance Saturday evening. Despite the trio’s original shopping plans, they, in addition to Osborn’s friends Molly Toliver, sophomore in Education, and Mark

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JSM, a company that owns 1,400 student apartments in the Champaign-Urbana and Bloomington, Ill. areas, in addition to 450,000 sq. ft. of commercial space, leased the 6,300 sq. ft. of basement space to Ragstock after Follett’s Bookstore, the location’s previous tenant, closed in May. JSM also brought Urban Outfitters to campus in 2008. “JSM has been working for nearly two years to find the right spot for Ragstock,” stated Jill Guth, JSM’s director of commercial leasing and marketing, in a press release in May. “They like quirky spaces and the basement of 627 Wright is perfect for their needs.” Jessica Cain, manager of Champaign’s Ragstock, calls the store’s style “eclectic,” one that allows customers to “mix and match” to create a unique look without breaking their budget. “The possibilities are endless,” Cain said. “And it’s affordable, that’s a big plus.” Lucy Pakhnyuk, Ragstock employee and junior in LAS, formerly worked at Urban Outfitters,

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of the Midway,â&#x20AC;? there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much defense to be found from Illinois at Soldier Field on Saturday. The Illini surrendered 615 yards en route to a 34-24 loss to No. 19 Washington. The game could have swung dramatically in Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; favor on a handful of near-miss plays. Despite both offenses averaging nearly 500 yards per game coming into the contest, neither unit could get any traction in a scoreless fi rst quarter. The Illini offense was able to move the ball early in the game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only to backfi re when it got in scoring range. Illinois marched down the field on its opening drive in seven plays, amassing 46 yards before Ryan Lankford was hit for a two-yard loss and quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase was sacked to push Illinois out of field goal range. Two drives later, the Illini were again knocking on the door at the Washington 15-yard line, but Scheelhaase took another sack, one of four he absorbed in the fi rst half, turning a short field goal attempt into a 41-yard try. Kicker Taylor Zalewski missed it wide right, and Illi-

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nois was kept off the board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make plays when we needed to make plays,â&#x20AC;? head coach Tim Beckman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We left some points out there on the field early in the game.â&#x20AC;? It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until the second half when both offenses hit their strides with the score 10-3 in favor of Washington. The third quarter struggles continued for the Illini, as they surrendered 75 yards on 7 plays to open the half and fall behind 17-3. Coming out strong to begin the second half was a chronic issue for much of last season and the first two contests of 2013 for the Illinois defense. After matching 10 -play touchdown drives on either side, Washington landed what seemed to be a knockout blow with 3:32 left in the third quarter. After a 43-yard completion to Kasen Williams, Washington punched in another touchdown to go up 31-10 and suck the life

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Top: Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kevin Smith frees himself from Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Devin Church (21) and Jaylen Dunlap (28) during Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 34-24 loss to No. 19 Washington at Soldier Field in Chicago. Bottom: Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jaydon Mickens celebrates with his teammates after scoring a touchdown against the Illini. Mickens had eight catches for 51 yards and a touchdown in the 34-24 Washington win. out of the crowd. The Illinois offense would have a quick response as the fi rst play after the Washington score was a 72-yard bomb from Scheelhaase to Lankford brought the game back to two scores.

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Illini drop 2 of 3 matches in weekend play BY BLAKE PON STAFF WRITER

For the first time in the annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stuff Huffâ&#x20AC;? matchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eight-year history, the Illinois volleyball team failed to notch a win. Although the Illini managed to beat Arizona State in their first home game of the season Friday morning in five sets, the team went on to lose its subsequent matches against No. 6 Washington and No. 2 Texas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a tough tournament,â&#x20AC;? head coach Kevin Hambly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew it would be tough. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m disappointed we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get one more (win). I thought going into this weekend we can be 2-1, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough not to get one.â&#x20AC;? In Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first match against Arizona State, the Illini dropped the first set 25-22 but took the next two by scores of 25-23 and 25-17. The Sun Devils bounced back big in the fourth set, winning 25-18 before losing a close fifth set 17-15. The win marked No. 100 for Hamblyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career since taking over as head coach in 2009. He holds a .727 winning percentage in more than five seasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m honored to be the coach

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Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jennifer Beltran (3) bumps the ball during the match against Washington at Huff Hall on Friday. Illinois lost to Washington in the annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stuff Huffâ&#x20AC;? meet. at Illinois,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However many wins and losses I have doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have much to do with it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m lucky to have coached some great kids. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a guy that keeps track of stuff like that ... If you want to talk about how Jennifer Beltran has developed over the last four years, I find that much more rewarding than wins or losses.â&#x20AC;? In front of a crowd of 3,538 for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stuff Huffâ&#x20AC;? game, the No. 14 Illini lost to the Huskies in four sets, splitting the first two 25-21 and 25-22, but then falling apart in the final two, 25-19 and 25-13. Jocelynn Birks and Liz McMahon combined for 26 kills in the match, but Illinois could not stop

Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Krista Vansant, who led the match with 19 kills on an astounding .462 hitting percentage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our passing at times didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily help us and just the fact we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always patient attacking and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really rely on our defense as much as we could have,â&#x20AC;? outside hitter Ali Stark said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We made a lot of mistakes that way.â&#x20AC;? In the final match of the weekend, the Illini got their chance to redeem themselves against the defending national champion Texas Longhorns, which was swept by Arizona State in an earlier match at Huff Hall. In a backand-forth match in which both

teams traded sets, the Longhorns were able to squeak by the Illini in a highly contested fifth set, 15-11. Hambly said he thought his squadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense fared well against Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; athletic front row of Haley Eckerman, Bailey Webster and Chiaka Ogbogu. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Texas is) going to have some freaks and I mean that in a good way,â&#x20AC;? Hambly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eckerman was a great player; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a player-of-the-year candidate, and she showed it. She was special. Webster presented some challenges with her height and athleticism that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see very often.

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A rough start had the Illinois menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf team tied for eighth after the fi rst two days of its lone home meet of the season. The Illini attributed it to a lackadaisical mind-set, and a talk with Illinois head coach Mike Small on Saturday night helped the team focus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He told us we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any pressure because we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything to lose but plenty to win,â&#x20AC;? sophomore Thomas Detry said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We fi nished second in nationals last year, so we all know that we have the ability to play well and shoot low scores.â&#x20AC;? Illinois played like a different team Sunday. As a team, Illinois shot 2-over-par, vastly improved from their previous scores of 15-over and 16-over. The performance was good enough for sixth place in the Fighting Illini Invitational. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to go down like losers the last day,â&#x20AC;? junior Brian Campbell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were going to fight to the end.â&#x20AC;? Campbell led Illinois in the fight, with a 3-under-par 67 in Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fi nal round, the only under-par round for the Illini in the tournament. Illinois fi nished with a fi nal score of 873, 24 strokes behind No. 1 Alabama, which defeated Illinois in the NCAA championship in June. The tournament had eight teams in the top 25. Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; top fi nisher on the weekend was sophomore Thomas Detry, who shot a 72 on Fri-

day and 71 on both Saturday and Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a smooth, consistent player,â&#x20AC;? Small said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was the star of the week to do what he did with this field.â&#x20AC;? Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; top golfer, Campbell, scored 7-over and 6-over in his first two rounds, but he fi nished with the only round under par by the Illini with a 3-under on Sunday. Campbell said he let his new role affect him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, but it defi nitely had a little impact on me, having a new role on the team,â&#x20AC;? said Campbell, who replaced 2012 NCAA champion Thomas Pieters as Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; No. 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one I need to embrace.â&#x20AC;? Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lone senior, Jonathan Hauter, led the way on the fi rst day with a one-over, but struggled the last two days, shooting a 15-over and 7-over, respectively. Hauter hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t competed for the Illini since March 6, 2012. Detry said the strong fi nish should help the Illini at next weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wolf Run Invitational in Zionsville, Ind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It builds confidence after every good round; the last round was very big for confidence,â&#x20AC;? he said. Small headed straight to Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hare International Airport following the tournament to head to England, where he will compete in the PGA Cup from Friday through Sunday. The tournament, which is held

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Lack of Illinois defense leads to Washington victory BY SEAN HAMMOND STAFF WRITER

CHICAGO — After rushing for 67 yards on 17 attempts in the first half against Illinois on Saturday, the Washington ground attack came out and punched the Illini in the gut to start the second half. Leading 10-3 at Soldier Field, the Huskies received the secondhalf kickoff and ran the ball right through the Illinois defense for 75 yards and a touchdown in seven plays. Running back Bishop Sankey broke runs of 25 and 22 yards on the possession. Sankey took five of the handoffs and backup Jesse Callier took two. Sankey finished the drive with a 1-yard touchdown, with the extra kick making it 17-3 in the Huskies favor. “We had seen that on fi lm,” defensive coordinator Tim Banks said of Washington’s strategy to emphasize the run coming out of halftime. “They did the same thing to Boise (State) two weeks ago. We were prepared for it. “They did a good job running the ball. We didn’t tackle well. It’s something we’ve got to clean up.” Poor tackling was the one thing every defensive player or coach on the Illinois side mentioned after the game. “We’ve just got to wrap up,” safety Earnest Thomas III said. “The one thing that will help with that is everyone going to the ball on defense.” There were a number of times throughout the game when Washington quarterback Keith Price got the ball to a Huskie wide receiver in open space and the receiver made an Illini defender whiff on the tackle. Thomas recalled one tackle he missed near the goal line that led to a touchdown to put the Huskies up 31-10 in the third quarter. “It’s a play that I’ve made numerous times,” Thomas said. “I probably got a little lazy on it. I’ve got to keep my fundamentals and make that play. My team’s

counting on me. They know I can make that play 99 times out of 100.” Head coach Tim Beckman wasn’t happy with the tackling, and he wasn’t happy with the 615 yards of total offense that his defense surrendered. “I thought our conditioning showed,” Huskies head coach Steve Sarkisian said of the second half. “Our guys are in great shape and they played hard. I thought Bishop Sankey was a warrior again tonight.” Sankey finished the game with 211 yards rushing and added another 63 receiving. He scored the touchdown to open the third quarter and had another score receiving. But it wasn’t just the ground game that dismantled the Illini. Price picked apart the secondary for 342 yards through the air. He completed passes to nine different receivers. Jaydon Mickens caught eight passes, including a touchdown, and Kevin Smith led the way with 104 yards. The Huskies ran 85 plays from scrimmage, a pace Illinois hadn’t seen all season. But linebacker Jonathan Brown didn’t think it was the pace that affected the Illini defense. “We had been working all week in practice,” Brown said. “I think in practice we had been going faster than they actually were. It was just execution.” Brown fi nished the game with 15 tackles and a sack. Cornerback Eaton Spence added 14 tackles and linebacker Mason Monheim had 12. But it was the tackles that weren’t made that had Illinois defenders scratching their heads after the game. “We’ve just got to keep our focus level up,” Thomas said. “They didn’t do anything that we hadn’t seen before. It comes down to focusing on the fundamentals.”

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QUOTE OF THE GAME “This situation could’ve turned south, but I was proud of the way the guys stood up and fought all the way to the end tonight. The team definitely showed heart and with a performance like that, we can find the things we need to improve on.”

Lankford TD catch proves that Illini won’t be bullied

SCHEDULE *Games in bold are at home* Southern Illinois Aug. 31 - W, 42-34

ELIOT SILL Sports editor

Cincinnati Sept. 7 - W, 45-17

Washington (Soldier Field) Sept. 14 - L, 34-24 Miami (Ohio) Sept. 28 - TBA Nebraska Oct. 5 - 11 a.m. Wisconsin Oct. 19 - 7 p.m. Michigan State Oct. 26 - 2:30 p.m. Penn State Nov. 2 - TBA Indiana Nov. 9 - TBA Ohio State Nov. 16 - TBA Purdue Nov. 23 - TBA Northwestern Nov. 30 - TBA

HICAGO — The 2012 edition of Illinois football was not a prideful beast. The Illini lost six games by at least 28 points, and only once managed a one-possession game in defeat. Saturday night in Chicago, the Illini seemed to be returning to those losing ways. Another sub-90second drive by Washington had put Illinois down 31-10. The Huskies had showed themselves to be the superior team. Illini fans knew the drill: “Here’s my lunch money, please try not to break my nose or knock out my teeth.” The atmosphere at Soldier Field turned from that of a competitive football game into a last call of sorts. “One more beer,” implied the predominantly Illinoisbacking crowd of 47,000, “and we’re out of here.” But Nathan Scheelhaase had a point to prove — Illinois football is done being bullied. Just when you wanted to turn your head away, when the hard-to-watch part was about to start, it happened. Scheelhaase threw a ball that soared into the night, getting lost in the Soldier Field lights before it came down, almost perfectly vertical, into the hands of a sprinting Ryan Lankford. Week 1’s opening tantalization would not be a lie this year. This type of haymaker is something Illinois has in its arsenal. Lankford looked up to fi nd the ball, and saw it was outrunning him. But it wasn’t the time for an overthrow. “I saw the ball just takin’ off,” Lankford said. “So I said: ‘I’d better get goin’.’ I picked it up, picked it up, threw my hands up there last minute, caught it, and ran the rest of the way.” It was as pure a bomb as Scheelhaase has launched in his time at Illinois. He didn’t want to see this team this year get pushed around. So he

swung his hardest. His team swung alongside him. “As a player, that’s fun to be out there with guys who are willing to fight like that, willing to step up when adversity strikes,” Scheelhaase said. “And that’s something that I don’t think we’ve had, I didn’t see that a lot last year.” And he’s right — Illinois didn’t have a single loss like this last year. This was Illinois’ most hard-fought defeat since the 67-65 nota-basketball-game loss to Michigan at The Big House. After the pass, Washington staggered a little, as the Illini defense forced a rare second half Huskies punt. The Illini were unable to capitalize immediately, going three and out. They battled and eventually brought the deficit back to a touchdown thanks to an Aaron Bailey scamper on 4th and The Game. Chicago was enthused. The Washington run game, which had certainly had its way against the young Illinois defense, eventually regained its footing and fi nished the game out strong. Illinois lost. But it got its licks in fi rst. A loss is a loss, but demeanor matters, especially in football. And after the game, nearly every Illini player that talked to the media expressed disappointment, yes, but also a pride in the way their team had played. Against a top-20 team Saturday night in the limelight of Soldier Field, Illinois stood up for itself, and in the process remembered what can be gained in a loss. Scheelhaase’s throw to Lankford wasn’t the only positive of the second half, but it came at a point when everything seemed to be returning to normal, which for Illinois football is a place that best be left abandoned. The Illini may have gotten sent home with a black eye, but I’ll be damned if for the fi rst time in a long time they didn’t at least keep their lunch money. Eliot is a senior in Media. He can be reached at sill2@ dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @EliotTweet.

Illinois linebacker Jonathan Brown his team’s comeback attempt

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Illinois’ Jonathan Brown (45) runs after Washington’s Bishop Sankey during the game against No. 19 Washington at “Chicago Homecoming” at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill. on Saturday.

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Saturday marked the second time in school history Illinois has played at Solider Field — both were Illini losses.

Wide receiver Ryan Lankford notched the third 100yard receiving game of his career and second of the season, with three catches for 100 yards. Illinois failed to capitalize on a sloppy game by Washington, which committed a dozen penalties in a win. Nathan Scheelhaase posted by far his lowest quarterback rating of the season despite rallying the Illini late.

The Illinois defense’s poor tackling led to a staggering amount of total yards allowed.

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Illinois’ Ryan Lankford (12) runs the ball after a reception during the game against No. 19 Washington at “Chicago Homecoming” at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill. on Saturday.

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Jonathan Brown

In the first drive of the game, Hull let a sure touchdown pass bounce off his fingertips. The drop resulted in an eventual Illinois punt. Hull’s lone catch in the game was called back due to an illegal formation penalty.

Amid a plague of missed tackles, Brown managed to accrue 15 tackles on the night, leading the team. He also recorded a sack, one-and-a-half tackles for a loss and two quarterback hits. Brown’s performance cements him as the reliable anchor of an inconsistent defense.

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Illini soccer finishes nonconference play with a pair of wins BY ALEX ORTIZ STAFF WRITER

The Illinois soccer team has been looking to put it all together on the field this season. This past weekend, they just might have done it. Indiana State traveled to Champaign on Friday and was in control for the fi rst half with forward Abby Reedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal to put the Sycamores up 1-0 in the 23rd minute. Solid possessions were hard to come by for the Illini, as they barely tested the Indiana State defense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(At halftime) we kind of just talked about picking it up,â&#x20AC;? junior midfielder Allie Osoba said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly playing our type of game, our style. Really just the mentality that we want to go into every game with, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have.â&#x20AC;? When the teams came out for the second half, Illinois looked like a different team. The Illini controlled possession and fed several balls into the Sycamores box. Osoba was substituted in after Indiana State made it 1-0 and made an impact off the bench. She tapped in her third goal of the season off a corner kick in the 56th minute to even the tally. Less than three minutes later, Osoba drew a foul in the box and senior midfielder Vanessa DiBernardo converted the penalty kick. Her fourth goal of the season made it 2-1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We needed someone who could try to keep the ball for us,â&#x20AC;? head coach Janet Rayfield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And certainly even the foul in the box was (Osoba) holding the ball and making someone foul her to get the ball as opposed to giving it to them.â&#x20AC;? Illinois extended its lead with a flying header by junior forward

Jannelle Flaws off a Reagan Robishaw cross in the 68th minute. It was Flawsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; eighth goal of the year. Indiana State would score only once more â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the 85th minute with Reedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second of the game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but that would be all. Illinois dominated in shots 25-11 and led in corner kicks 7-3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think (in the second half) we just started to play better soccer,â&#x20AC;? Rayfield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Credit to Indiana State. They came out and really put us under pressure and our team didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show up really ready to play.â&#x20AC;? Rayfield also acknowledged that even though it was a win, the team needed to improve its intensity throughout the entire game against Florida International. When the team faced the Panthers on Sunday afternoon, Illinois controlled both sides of the field from start to fi nish. Illinois dominated possession early despite some no-calls that Rayfield and the coaching staff were not pleased with. The defense and Claire Wheatley were barely tested, as the freshman goalkeeper only had to make one save. Robishaw had the biggest impact early as she scored her fi rst goal this year in the 39th minute with a cutback shot on the left side to take the 1-0 lead. The Illini came out for the second half with even more offensive threats and Robishaw again took advantage. She struck a loose ball, following a shot by Flaws, in the box past goalkeeper Paula Zuluaga. The goal came in the 49th minute to give the Illini the 2-0 lead. Illinois continued to show its offensive versatility with senior forward Megan Pawloski scoring her second and third goals of the

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Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Megan Pawloski and Jannelle Flaws celebrate a goal during the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4-0 win over FIU at the Illini Track and Soccer Stadium on Sunday. The Illini won both their games from this weekend, including a 3-2 victory over Indiana State to open the weekend. season in the 55th and 76th minutes to make it 4-0. She benefitted from assists from sophomore midfielder Anastasia Medellin, Flaws and DiBernardo. Pawloski and Robishaw were able to take advantage of not only the offensive efficiency, but also the defensive aggressiveness. Illinois forwards, midfielders and defenders were constantly stepping into the Panthersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; passing lanes. Florida International was under constant pressure and could barely muster any offense

eree struggled to keep control of the match. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those things that you have to learn to play with the game,â&#x20AC;? Rayfield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So certainly (you) canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get pulled into it psychologically.â&#x20AC;? Rayfield and the team were pleased with the match overall as they enter conference play this Friday in Columbus, Ohio, against Ohio State. The Illini expect the competition as a whole, including the physicality, to rise with Big Ten opponents,

as they were outshot 27-7. Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offense and defense came together for its fi rst clean sheet of the season and the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fi rst since Nov. 11 of last season. The Illini had to earn it though, as they played the most physical game of their season thus far. Sophomore midfi elder Aliina Weykamp and DiBernardo both went out in the fi rst half appearing to be shaken up. Both would eventually return but several players from both teams were knocked to the ground as the ref-

but for now, they stand 5-2-1 after fi nishing nonconference play on a high note with the full team performance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told them after the game, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This has got to be the standard,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Rayfield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to play on both sides of the ball, then you just wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play.... Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be able to play that way on both sides for 90 minutes.â&#x20AC;?

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Kopinski leads menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis in season opener with 4-0 singles record BY DAN ESCALONA STAFF WRITER

Tim Kopinski stepped up into his role as a leader for Illinois in its season-opening meet at the OFCC Invitational in Olympia Fields, Ill. The junior went undefeated in singles play over the weekend, including a straightsets win over Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; No. 101 Lloyd Glasspool. Kopinski would go on to be named the tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Outstanding Player. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tim really came out strong this weekend for us and put

together a strong opening weekend,â&#x20AC;? head coach Brad Dancer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He played confidently and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let his emotions get to him too much. He still has a couple things to continue to work on, but he got off to a good start.â&#x20AC;? Kopinski went 4-0 in singles play over the weekend. He defeated Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; David Holiner on Friday (6-2, 3-6, 6-4), Glasspool on Saturday (7-5, 6-2) and Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jordan Daigle in three sets on Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought I did a very good

job of staying calm and taking every point one at a time,â&#x20AC;? Kopinski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought my movement was good, and my patience got me through all my individual matches.â&#x20AC;? Kopinski also had success in doubles play paired with fellow junior Farris Gosea. The tandem had a 2-1 record over the weekend, including a victory over the No. 54 doubles tandem of Johnny Grimal and David Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary of Memphis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Farris and I always bring a good amount of energy to every

doubles match we play together,â&#x20AC;? Kopinski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our energy was a strong point for us, but we still have to get better on our serves and more consistent with our volleys.â&#x20AC;? Also having some success over the weekend with a 3-1 record was sophomore Jared Hiltzik. He also competed in doubles, paired with sophomore Alex Jesse. The tandem boasted a record of 2-1. While the two doubles tandems for the Illini combined for a 4-2 showing, Head coach Brad Danc-

all singles play, especially with the performance of junior Blake Bazarnik â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who went 3-1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; yet still sees a good deal of progress to be had. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really need to see much more consistency outside of our top players,â&#x20AC;? Dancer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While it is only the first meet, our guys have to step it up and play at a higher level than we saw this weekend.â&#x20AC;?

er was not satisfied with the doubles play. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our doubles play was not at the standard that we have seen and hope to see,â&#x20AC;? Dancer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to serve a lot better in doubles; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the bottom-line.â&#x20AC;? While Hiltzik and Kopinski were successful over the weekend, the results of the rest of the team were mixed. Outside of the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top two individuals, the team only went a combined 9-9. Dancer was pleased with certain aspects of the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over-

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Cubit would reach deep into his bag of tricks in the fourth quarter to bring the Illini within a touchdown. Out of the wildcat formation, freshman Aaron Bailey handed off to former quarterback Miles Osei who lofted a pass to tight end Matt LaCosse for a 35-yard gain. Later in the drive on 4th and 1, Cubit went back to the same formation but Bailey kept it on a 10-yard touchdown run. The Illini defense, on the field for more than 19 minutes in the second half couldn’t muster another stop, and the Huskies notched a field goal to push the lead to 34-24 and put the game out of reach. Scheelhaase had by far his worst statistical performance of the season, throwing for just 156 yards and completing 36 percent of his throws. Huskies running back Bishop Sankey finished with 271 all-purpose yards and two total touchdowns as the junior was the focal point of the offense, particularly in the second half. Washington showed offensive balance with quarterback Keith Price finishing 28-35 for 342 yards and two touchdowns. “The obvious miscues was the missed tackles,” defensive coordinator Tim Banks said. “But are we straining off of blocks, and are we in the right position schematically; are things we have to pay attention to when watching the film.”

every two years, is a Ryder Cup-style tournament pits the PGA Professionals of the United States versus the professionals of England and Ireland. This will be Small’s fifth time competing in the tournament, where he has six wins, ten losses and three halves. The United States is 3-1 in his appearances. Small will miss the Wolf Run Invitational, which the Illini will compete in next weekend.

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VOLLEYBALL “It’s fun to play against a team like that because it’s a different kind of puzzle. I thought we put the pieces together at times and we couldn’t at other times, so it’s good preparation for the Big Ten because there are teams who have freaks.” One positive the Illini can take from the weekend is the play of freshman middle blocker Maddie Mayers. Mayers stepped up her game against the Longhorns, hitting .323 on a career-high 15 kills to go with eight blocks. “(Maddie) was our go-to attacker,” Hambly said. “She had a nice matchup where she was matched up on Amy Neil, No. 9, and we tried to exploit that and she did. We need that from her all the time.”

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Minnesota Vikings outside linebacker Chad Greenway (52) pursues Chicago Bears tight end Martellus Bennett (83) on a pass reception at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, Sunday. The Bears defeated the Vikings, 31-30 on a pass to Bennett with 10 seconds remaining.

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Hockey starts strong with 2 wins to open season BY SEAN NEUMANN STAFF WRITER

Illinois is hoping for an ACHA National Championship this season, and the team got off to the right start this weekend. The Illini won their first two games of the season, defeating the Springfield Jr. Blues 4-2 on Friday night and the Northern Illinois Huskies 9-4 on Saturday. Coach Nick Fabbrini said the team was using the nonconference games as exhibitions to help finalize the lineup and get the freshmen some collegiate ice-time. The Illini freshmen seemed more than comfortable Friday night, accounting for three of the team’s four goals — including two from forward Josh Belmont. Illinois took an early 1-0 lead into the locker room after a first period goal from last year’s topgoal scorer, John Olen. But the Jr. Blues’ Davis DeKorte and Jack Sloan scored two quick goals to

put Springfield up 2-1 at the start of the second period. The Illini grabbed the momentum back with goals from Belmont’s freshman winger Matt Flosi, taking the lead 3-2. Belmont was relieved to get his first collegiate goal. “I was a little bit worried about my goal scoring,” Belmont said. “I wanted to get that monkey off of my back early and I was able to do that, so it was a huge confidence boost for me.” Belmont was able to boost that confidence further by adding another goal in the third period to cap off Illinois’ 4-2 victory over Springfield. “It was really good to beat a (North American Hockey League) team,” Belmont said. “They think they’re a lot better than us, so it’s really good to throw it in their face.” Belmont said there was a lot of trash-talking on the ice after the

Jr. Blues took a 2-1 lead early in the second, but second-team AllAmerican goaltender Nick Clarke said he was confident the Illini offense would regain the lead after the two unanswered Springfield goals. “I had the boys to pick me up and get the lead back, and sure enough they did,” Clarke said. “All the freshmen and all the rookies stepped up and no one missed a beat. It looked like we had been playing together for years.” The Illini rookies continued to impress Fabbrini during Saturday’s 9-4 victory over the Huskies, while first-year player Joe Olen earned his first victory between the pipes. “It might not look like he had a great game on the score sheet, but I thought that he played very well for us,” Fabbrini said of his young netminder. “He made some nice saves and it’s been a while since he’s played. He was disappointed

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after the game, but I told him that there was no reason to be down. The goals he let up were ones he didn’t have a chance on.” Illinois grabbed an early 2-0 lead after sophomore Daniel Kerr and freshman Austin Zima netted a couple quick goals in the first period. The Huskies’ Danny Zalesky cut the Illini lead in half with a goal at 8:36 in the first, but senior forward Eddie Quagliata killed the Huskies’ momentum with a late first period goal, putting the Illini up 3-1. The Illini added a shorthanded goal, while freshman Cody von Rueden and senior John Scully scored their first goals of the season after Northern squeaked its second past Joe Olen, giving the Illini a 6-2 lead — chasing the Huskies’ starting goaltender Alex Hare from the game. Northern Illinois’ Nick Leon scored twice for the Huskies in

the third, but the Illini added three goals of their own, capping off a 9-4 victory. Kerr scored twice Saturday, matching his goal total from last season. The line of Daniel Kerr, John Scully and Eddie Quagliata accounted for 11 Illini points for the weekend, something Fabbrini simply called “outstanding”. Illinois outshot the Huskies 52-25 and dominated the game offensively, causing tensions to boil over in the second period when three players were ejected for fighting majors. Northern Illinois’ Jake Juach was tossed from the game, in addition to sophomore John Olen and Matt Flosi for the Illini. Flosi will face a one-game suspension and will be forced to miss Illinois’ home opener against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville on Friday night. Sophomore winger Matt John-

son will also miss Friday’s home opener after being injured during Saturday’s game, adding another player to the team’s long list of injuries. “Other guys are just going to have to step up on the first weekend,” Fabbrini said. “It’s unfortunate we have so many guys out with injuries already, but it gives the other guys a chance to earn a spot in the lineup.” Fabbrini was disappointed in the team’s defense Saturday and said they will work on it during practice this week. But overall he was proud of the team’s success in its first weekend on the ice. “This weekend was good for us,” Fabbrini said. “We learned what we’re good at, what we need to work on and what we need to do to be better.”

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