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Caterpillar Inc. to build new data lab BY ANGELICA LAVITO STAFF WRITER

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University Provost Ilesanmi Adesida waits to be interviewed on Monday before the “Washington Journal” series which features university officials during a C-SPAN Bus tour of the universities of the Big Ten Conference.

Caterpillar Inc. celebrated the 15th anniversary of its Champaign Simulation Center with plans to build a data analytics center. The Simulation Center was established in Research Park in 1999 and has since provided University students with internships and employment opportunities. “The new lab will foster real world innovation by bringing together University researchers and Caterpillar analytics professionals from engineering, computer science, statistics and economics to work on challenges and opportunities raised by technological and cultural change,” said Barbara Cox, spokeswoman for Caterpillar. Research Park Director Laura Frerichs thinks Caterpillar’s addition of a data

analytics lab reflects Champaign’s growth as a hub for big data. Earlier this year, a report identified data analytics as an area of potential economic development at the University. “We think that Champaign is a great location for computing, but more specifically, analytics as a growing market opportunity, with many companies seeing the information they have as increasingly valuable in making more data-driven decisions for their business,” Frerichs said. She added that the lab will open the Caterpillar experience to a wider scope of students, like those in mathrelated majors. When the Caterpillar Simulation Center opened, there were three employees and

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UI study shows community college students confused on health care law BY ALEX SWANSON STAFF WRITER

Seon Campbell, a nontraditional freshman at Parkland College, feels like many of his peers don’t fully understand the change to their health care plans brought on by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Campbell, 28, is studying to become a licensed practical nurse and works with the Wellness Center on campus. “A lot of the students that come here are fresh out of high school, and they have not yet been educated about (Obamacare),” Campbell said. Campbell thinks the confusion over their health care benefits could be a problem for students if their health suddenly declines. A study to be published by 10 researchers from the university’s Urbana-Champaign and Chicago campuses provides statistical evidence

that many community college students aren’t aware of how the change in health care affects them. The study results show around 20 percent of surveyed students were in favor of the ACA, 48 percent were against it and 32 percent had no opinion. Laura Payne, co-author of the study and associate professor in sports, recreation and tourism, was surprised by the depth of confusion felt by community college students. Payne also serves as a member of Extension, an educational program within the College of ACES, which helped fund the study. “I guess we were a little surprised at the extent of the confusion and the lack of knowledge that a lot of our survey participants expressed through their answers,” Payne said. The survey had participants from six Illinois com-

munity colleges: John Wood, Kankakee, Kaskaskia, Lakeland, Lewis & Clark and Rend Lake. Payne said community colleges usually have a very diverse student population because they have many students entering from high school, as well as adult students returning to further their education. The survey sample was 75 percent female and 88 percent white. Payne said that the team chose to study community college students because the ACA relies on young people, under the eligible age for Medicare, to sign up. Additionally, Payne commented that community college students frequently take their health for granted and assume they will stay in good health. “Young adults happen to be one of those groups who happen to have bulletproof vest syndrome,” Payne said.

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Campbell agreed, adding that part of the problem is that many students do not consider health care coverage an immediate need.

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Committee aims to appoint president by Thanksgiving BY JOSH WINTERS STAFF WRITER

The Presidential Search Committee met on Wednesday to continue the University’s hunt for a new president. “We’re looking for the best person in the country for this job,” said Douglas Beck, co-chair of the Presidential Search Committee. “I think we’re making good progress.” Tom Hardy, University spokesman, said the committee is still considering over 100 candidates. He said they will likely announce who will replace current President Robert Easter by Thanksgiving.

The Board of Trustees will approve the new president at its January meeting, however, the new president won’t take over Easter’s role until July 1, 2015. The committee is also discussing the proposal of a raise for the position. Easter currently makes $552,375, including an annual bonus. Out of all salaries for presidents in the Big Ten, Easter’s falls in the bottom five. While the average salary for Big Ten presidents is $780,000, Hardy says the Board of Trustees will ultimately decide how much the new president will make. Before the committee went

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into executive session to discuss prospective candidates for the position, Beck summarized the status of the search. Since the committee met last in August, members have continued to reach out to prospective candidates as well as identify new prospects. Additionally, the Committee has considered suggestions from leaders in higher education. One of these leaders, Parker Executive Search, is an executive search firm that specializes in recruiting senior executives for corporate, sports, higher education

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University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise speaks with the Daily Illini Editorial Board on Wednesday.

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In an open letter, 330 University faculty members called on Chancellor Phyllis Wise, President Robert Easter and the Board of Trustees to restore core principles of academic freedom and faculty governance. The letter, released on Wednesday, Sept. 10, was given to the Chancellor, the President and the Board following the Board’s Sept. 11 decision not to appoint Steven Salaita to a tenured faculty position in the American Indian Studies program. The letter also asked for a reversal of that decision. The campus’ Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, CAFT, is currently conducting an investigation of the Salaita case, which could lead to an investigation by the American Association of University Professors, AAUP. The AAUP advised the Chancellor on Aug. 29 that her Aug. 1 action was “an

improper summary dismissal and insisted that Salaita receive pay while the issues surrounding his appointment are investigated by CAFT, the campus mechanism through which such issues are typically resolved,” according to a press release from UIUC Faculty. Pending the outcome of the CAFT investigation, the AAUP could eventually vote to censure the University, which is its most severe and consequential response to an investigation. If placed on the AAUP censure list, the consequences could be detrimental to the future of the University as members of the AAUP are encouraged not to accept appointments at an institution that has been placed on this list.

Bryan Boccelli and Miranda Holloway contributed to this report.

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CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Today is an 8 — Continue to get personal thoughts down on paper. Carry a journal. Circumstances dictate your destination. Your experience is appreciated. It might be wise to get assistance if a communication’s not getting through.

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Consumer prices fall for 1st time in 16 months due to lower gas costs Consumer prices fell in August for the first time in 16 months as lower gasoline costs helped keep inflation tame, the Labor Department said Wednesday. The report should ease pressure on Federal Reserve policymakers, meeting this week, to start raising nearzero interest rates. Many GRANT JEFFERIES MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Barack Obama talks to military personnel at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday.

Obama reiterates that U.S. forces have no ‘combat mission’ in Iraq TAMPA, Fla. — Emphasizing the American military’s unrivaled expertise, President Barack Obama thanked service members Wednesday and repeated that U.S. forces taking on the Islamic State militant group would not serve in combat, a day after his top general repeatedly

raised that prospect. American forces “do not and will not have a combat mission,� Obama told troops at the U.S. Central Command headquarters here. “They will support Iraqi forces on the ground as they fight for their own country against these terrorists.�

analysts and some Fed officials have urged an increase to avoid a potential surge in inflation as the economy improves. The Consumer Price Index, a closely watched inflation measure, decreased 0.2 percent last month after a 0.1 percent rise in July, according to the Labor Department.

Advocates discuss future of FCC’s controversial net neutrality law Applying 20th-century laws to 21st-century technology is not the answer to protect the free Internet, antiregulation advocates told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a hearing on net neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission’s controversial net neutrality proposal has drawn fire because it would allow companies like

Google, Netflix and Skype to pay extra for a faster pipe that would ensure speedier streaming for their content. The vast majority of the 3.7 million comments filed to the FCC by Monday’s deadline urged the agency to reclassify the Internet as a public utility, like telephone services, to prevent big Internet companies from charging extra for such “fast lanes.�

Trade, border dispute on agenda during Xi’s 3-day visit to India NEW DELHI — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in India Wednesday for a three-day trip aimed at boosting trade and investment between the two countries and to give a push to the resolution of a decades-old border dispute. Xi, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan and a high level delegation, land-

ed to a grand welcome at Ahmedabad, the principal city in the western state of Gujarat, which is also Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state. Setting aside protocol, Modi waited to greet Xi as he arrived at a local hotel, where they held brief one-on-one talks followed by the signing of three agreements.

at their rock-bottom level for “a considerable time� after the bond-buying program ends. The program is on track to conclude in October. The Fed also downgraded its economic projections for this year and 2015 from estimates made in June. The Fed now forecasts the economy will grow between 2 percent and 2.2 percent this year compared with a June forecast of 2.1 percent to 2.3 percent.

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Cal Fire strike crews battle the King fire in El Dorado County, California, on Wednesday.

The fast-growing King fire in Eldorado National Forest now threatens nearly 2,500 structures, more than half of them homes, as thousands of firefighters try to get a handle on the out-of-control blaze. The fire is just 5 percent contained after burning 12,780 acres, and mandatory evacuation orders are in place for a wide swath of the region as the fire burned up and over ridge after ridge, officials

reported Wednesday. Nearly 2,500 firefighters were assigned to the blaze, which was first reported just after 6:30 p.m. Saturday near the community of Pollock Pines east of Sacramento. So far, no structures have been reported damaged or destroyed, but as the fire spreads east, north and west, 1,632 homes and an additional 816 structures are threatened, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

Complications lay ahead for Scotland BY MATTHEW SCHOFIELD MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

STIRLING, Scotland — Seven hundred years ago, Robert the Bruce reclaimed Scottish independence here with the help of a two-handed sword. Thursday, Scotland’s current first minister, Alex Salmond, hopes to repeat that success with the help of 16-year-old voters. The cynical view is that Salmond’s Scottish National Party, which supports a lower voting age in general, demanded that 16-year-olds be enfranchised because it thought that younger voters were more likely to vote with their hearts and would therefore back the romantic option of independence and change. The reality, said Thomas C. Lundberg, a political scientist at the University of Glasgow, is that it’s been hard to effectively poll voters so young, and what polls there have been suggesting is that these youngest of vot-

ers are likely to vote “no� on independence. Such speculations color predictions about the outcome of Thursday’s referendum more than two years after Salmond kicked off the effort for independence, and more than a year after Scots learned that they would be asked to decide just a single, simple question when they go to the polls: “Should Scotland be an independent country?� But however the question is answered — results are expected early Friday morning — it’s become clear that complications will be great, whether it is “yes� or “no.� The notion of unentwining these lands has convinced experts and politicians that the ramifications of this election will extend far beyond Scotland’s southern border, no matter which side wins. Politicians from the south, led by British Prime Minister David Cameron,

“They really don’t see their health declining,� Campbell said. “They look at that as someone being old.� Campbell feels more could be done on a federal level, as well as on his campus, to help students understand the ACA. “I think the government could do more as far as making teenagers and young adults aware,� he said. Additionally, he commented that the Wellness Center at Parkland could find methods to distribute information about health care to students in more effective ways. Payne added that community colleges typically do not offer their students health insurance in the same capacity as traditional four-year universities. While the Parkland College Wellness Center is a center for health-related information and referrals, it does not administer health services, as the University’s McKinley Health Center does. Researchers found that about 18 percent of the surveyed students did not have health care, while 50 percent of students had not seen or heard any messages about health care reform. Julian Reif, co-author of the study and assistant pro-

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Fed cuts stimulus another $10 King fire threatens more than billion, holds steady on interest rates 1,600 homes in Northern California Federal Reserve policymakers on Wednesday cut their monthly bondbuying stimulus program by another $10 billion and held interest rates steady at near zero, offering no suggestions that they will raise them any time soon as the economic recovery improves. In a statement after a two-day meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee said it expected that interest rates would remain

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in recent weeks have clearly sensed that their initial views — that independence was a sure-fire loser — were wrong. In recent weeks, however, polls have shown the race is neck and neck. In a last-ditch effort to head off support for independence, Cameron and other power brokers in the United Kingdom Parliament have made wide-ranging promises of new powers for Scotland in hopes that they will persuade voters to stay. Those promises are almost certain to prove controversial, especially one that would let Scotland set its own income tax levels. The British Parliament in London would have to approve the change. “Nothing will be more divisive,� said Iain Begg, a U.K. policy expert at London’s Chatham House think tank. The problem, Begg noted, is that if Scots set their own taxes, residents

in the rest of the United Kingdom will wonder exactly why the Scots will have any say on financing outside of Scotland. Still, there’s no going back for Cameron and his supporters. There’s been some head scratching among British experts as well about other deals Cameron struck that led to this point. For one, he apparently rejected a proposal Salmond had offered of adding a third option to the ballot, beyond the yes or no to independence. That third option was called “maximum devolution,� and it is essentially what Cameron is now offering Scots if they’ll vote no. Cameron initially rejected it because the prime minister thought that faced with independence or the status quo, Scots would choose the status quo. Now Scotland and the rest of Great Britain are just hours away from knowing if that was correct.

CATERPILLAR four students working in conjunction with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, according to Cox. Since then, they have worked with over 350 students, of which approximately 100 are now employees. One of those employees is Ann Peedikayil, alumna, who received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering in 2003 and a bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics in 2006. She started as an intern with Caterpillar and is now senior engineer at the Champaign Simulation Center. “I think it’s an exciting time for everybody involved at Caterpillar, just to be part of something that is evolving,� Peedikayil said. “To me, it’s going to be really exciting to see the change.� Peedikayil said the Simulation Center is a place to develop new technology and as the name suggests, create simulations that will help engineers test their designs. Interns work with employees like Peedikayil on real proj-

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PRESIDENT and academic health science positions. Beck explained that Parker has continued to provide the Presidential Search Committee with lists of university presidents, chancellors, provosts, vice presidents and vice chancellors that could potentially be recruited as the University’s new president. Parker Executive Search also provided the committee with candidate lists from academia, government, businesses and NGOs. Beck said that the next step in the search was to reach out to qualified candidates by establishing phone

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fessor of finance and economics, feels this problem extends beyond community college students. “The confusion is not limited to community college students,� Reif said. “It’s a general statement one could say about the public at large.� This year, the team is planning to investigate how to provide students with information about health care. The team will use different forms of communication for different campuses and compare the success rates. The communication forms include face-to-face communication, traditional media and social media. Payne testified to the importance of the implementation of the ACA, as it is indicative of a shift in the theory behind the country’s health care system. Instead of focusing on immediate care for the sick, the country will be working on general wellness and sickness prevention. “The general public does not understand this bigger step, this bigger paradigm shift that the government is taking the lead on — you know shifting our health care system to this prevention and wellness model,� Payne said. “So, it is really important; we’ve needed to do this for a long time.�

Alex can be reached at amswans2@ dailyillini.com. ects, giving them hands-on experience. Peedikayil said working with student interns from the University is a learning opportunity for her too. She said they bring fresh perspectives and often ask questions that help her improve her own skills. “It’s really refreshing,� Peedikayil said. “The last time I finished a degree here was 8 years ago, so what’s exciting is all the different perspectives they have. They help keep my skill set fresh.� This is Peedikayil’s 10th year at Caterpillar and said she has seen the company evolve greatly over the years. She is excited to see how it continues to evolve after the expansion. Caterpillar and the University will begin planning for the new data analytics lab later this year, according to a press release. “We’ve seen a fantastic response from the local community, and our Champaign team is very engaged with our business partners at the University to move forward with the project,� Cox said.

Angelica can be reached at lavito2@dailyillini.com. contacts. Parker Executive Search, Beck and Pamela Strobel, co-chair of the committee, have already reached out to several prospects who remain nameless. Beck said he believes phone contacts are instrumental in helping develop candidacies. “The key thing, I think, for this process is to find a good fit, and that means having candidates think through the position and where they are in their careers,� Beck said. “Similarly on our side, we have to learn about the candidates and what their capabilities are and ... decide for ourselves whether it’s a good fit.�

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t’s about time the president gets a raise. We sure don’t pay current University president Robert Easter like he heads the University with first place national ranking in civil engineering, undergraduate engineering science and physics. We don’t pay him like he administers the number 11th public school in the nation either. Bob Easter currently has a base salary of $462,375, but with a bonus, a total of $552,375 a year. That puts him as the fifth worst-paid president in the Big Ten. The highest paid president in the Big Ten, Eric J. Barron of Penn State, makes a total salary of $1,200,000. Easter’s replacement likely won’t get that much, but he will see a well-deserved raise from the salary of his predecessor. The presidential search committee continues to search for Easter’s replacement and will likely reach a final decision by its Nov. 14 Board of Trustees meeting. A president’s job is not easy, and we believe a good job is worth the money, especially since we don’t skimp on our athletic department salaries. Our head football and basketball coaches make roughly three times the amount of our president. Now don’t get us wrong, we love our Illini athletics. We’d be nothing without our Saturday tailgates and that sea of orange and blue on game days. However, we don’t believe the president who heads those athletics should bring in about a million dollars less than Tim Beckman and John Groce. A president’s job is the face and foundation of our universities principles. With over 40,000 students, 17 colleges and thousands of faculty members to budget for, we don’t want just anybody taking the reins. We hope that the search committee will take into account our past mistakes in choosing the person who will guide our University. Easter has served as president since 2012, joining the University after a bad streak of ousted presidents. His predecessors, Joseph White and Michael Hogan, were both removed within two years of employment due to ethical scandals on campus. As the presidential search committee continues to find our match and adjust the position’s salary, we hope they keep our University principles in mind. What we want is a president with integrity — someone who cares about the students who are talented enough to step onto our campus and excel in their fields. We want a president who integrates, diversifies, recruits, and continues to build upon the Illinois tradition. We want a president who is up to the task, and the University should be willing to pay for it.

Dive in to campus clubs LUKE VEST Opinions columnist

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f you’re from a small suburb in Illinois like many of my fellow freshmen, you likely understand how difficult it can be to find fun things to do while at home. Sure, you could watch some corn grow or ride a four wheeler, but that gets dull after a while. In an effort to find something interesting to do at home, I joined the swim team. Try to imagine having fun by moving back and forth through a pool for two hours while staring at a black line on the floor — hey, it’s better than watching corn grow. As a result of my interest in swimming, I quickly signed up on Quad Day for all water-related sports and numerous other clubs that interested me, because I like to try new things. I don’t go to every meeting, and I delete tons of

emails, but through this process of choosing which meetings to attend, I discovered my new love: underwater hockey. Underwater hockey is more difficult to visualize than it is to play. Initially, I pictured a member of the Chicago Blackhawks fully dressed in hockey gear jumping into a pool and frantically flailing his arms just to stay alive. Sounds like fun, I thought. My friend and I went to the first practice quite unsure of what we were diving into. We arrived at the ARC indoor pool one hour late for practice, yet the members of the underwater hockey team were extremely enthusiastic to help us prepare our gear and teach us the game. The gear includes a water polo cap, a mask and snorkel, fins, a footlong hockey stick and a silicone glove to protect your hand from scraping the bottom of the pool. Gameplay is relatively simple. Six players on a team take the

positions of left, center, right forwards and backs. The forwards are always ahead of the puck while the backs are behind it. The three-pound puck is placed in the center of the pool. When the game starts, forwards rush to snag the puck and pass it to their teammates. A point is scored by shooting the puck into the opposing team’s goal. Sounds simple, but it’s not. Right when you’re on a fast break to score the winning goal, you realize that you’re under eight feet of water and that neglecting to grab some oxygen will make the lifeguard earn his paycheck. You rush to the surface and gasp for air, but instead take in a huge gulp of water because you forgot to clear your snorkel. Then you struggle to float for five minutes as your teammates fight to regain the puck that you gracefully gave up for “more important things.�

The game is a struggle, but I realize that as I play more and more, my five-minute breathers might shorten to four minutes. Despite the difficulty, I am drawn to return to practices because of the sport’s unique characteristics. As you watch the game from above, players thrash to steal the puck only to be met by a fin to the face. Defenders collide with offenders, and tempers flare. Even though there is much chaos to be seen, there is no sound; only the soft whooshing of water can be heard. Players cannot express anger with one another, and violent sounds are extinct. I guess I appreciate this so much because I always used to get yelled at for daydreaming in the outfield. Either way, the singular facets of this game keep me coming back for more. I never would have thought that I’d be playing hockey in a pool as I prepared to leave for college

this summer. I never thought that I would be able to write for a paper available to over 40,000 students, along with countless alumni, faculty members, parents and community members, but I’ve accomplished all this in my first few weeks on campus. As students, we have endless opportunities, and we should be taking full advantage of them. I’m eager for what’s next, and other students should be eager too. Continue to nurture the talents that you have and discover new ones. We’re here to learn facts and skills, but I think it’s important that we learn about ourselves as well by trying new things. So join the debate team or maybe even the space society, because one thing’s for sure: It’s better than watching corn grow.

Luke is a freshman in Engineering. He can be reached at lvest2@ dailyillini.com.

Making ‘impressive’ seem normal YUNJO JEONG Opinions columnist

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am a newbie to American culture, to American life. As an international student, life in the United States manages to give me both a hard time and teach me hard lessons. For a student who has come from across the Pacific, everything is different. My world, as I knew it, was filled with Koreans, Koreans, Koreans. It was my Earth, except for when I was in Canada from 2006 to 2008, but I was too young to know anything then. My experience with the United States was through vacations, when I’d travel around the coasts of the country with my family. From the smallest things, such as the food, to the largest things, like the culture, what must be natural for most of the U.S.-born students at the University is refreshingly foreign for most international students. And there are many things a newbie like me sees in his new world. Back in Korea, I’d read books about the United States, so I had a preestablished belief that freedom was important to Americans. And I wasn’t wrong; for the

short time I’ve been here, I’ve seen the little aspects of life that show Americans’ love for liberty. Every person has the right to do what he or she wants, although of course within the parameters of the law. Meaning, people don’t seem to worry as much about others watching them, quite unlike back in my home country, where people are always aware of one another. To me, this principle of freedom seems to be the foundation of American culture, with peoples’ mindsets also focused on freedom. Even University life is freer than I had expected. Class attendance isn’t as strictly mandated as in high school. Although such characteristics may not be the domain of only universities in the U.S., I couldn’t help but notice the vastly liberated yet controlled environment here that students in South Korea could not experience. These weren’t the only differences I noticed. Unlike where I’m from, people with disabilities find it much easier to move around on this campus, with automatic doors and kneeling buses. Unlike where I’m from, bike paths are much more organized here. And unlike where I’m from, people do not need to rely on traffic lights at every single junction to prevent car accidents. So I was impressed with

American culture. With an emphasis on was. Now, I am not so sure. I’m beginning to think what had impressed me so much was actually just what is natural in the culture. Maybe there is nothing to be impressed by here in the United States; this is essentially just another culture in just another part of the world. Feeling so awestruck at what is normal for the more than 300 million people living in the United States is more characteristic of a tourist than a student. Up until now, I’d been living in a country where only a small portion of public transportation was equipped with facilities for people with disabilities, and where people worried more about how they might look to others. And I was perfectly happy, completely ignorant to how such a system could limit freedom. I had failed to see the deeper meaning of the shirtless joggers and automatic doors on virtually every building on campus. It was something unseen in South Korea. Everybody there is expected to walk easily and wear a shirt when going outside, and I’d never thought those things could be the shackles limiting our own freedom. These things are different from laws; laws are meant to keep people’s freedom from stretching too far and hin-

dering others’ freedom. But the culture of South Korea is such that citizens limit their own freedom in a way, but not necessarily in a bad way. It is just different. My experience in the U.S. is no longer all about being impressed by the new culture; it’s more about learning lessons from everyday aspects of life. Of course, I’m not saying that my country is a land of boring idiots. I’m proud of my country, and there are many things the U.S. could learn from South Korea. But I am here to learn, and I am learning from the everyday, humdrum lives of Americans. I’ll get used to this life of what I saw to be based on freedom and respect, of caring for the minorities. But stop signs, buses and bike paths are not all that touch my perspectives. I could go on and on about the differences. Yes, I think of myself as a newbie. Everything I’d considered natural isn’t necessarily natural in this place, and I’m learning over again what people here consider obvious. And though the differences are overwhelming, I could get used to them.

Yunjo is a freshman in Engineering. He can be reached at opinions @dailyillini.com.

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During the semester, the classes at the Meat Lab cycle through the different types of meat — beef, pork and lamb — that dictates what is butchered and processed. According to Stites, pigs are butchered and processed in the highest quantities, and the staff can sell between 10 and 20 pigs worth of product a week during the school year. When cattle is butchered and processed, it is anywhere from five to ten in a day. That product can last for three to four weeks. On special occasions, though, Stites said they prepare to slaughter more than they typically handle on a weekly basis. “In October, we have got one week where we are killing 96 pigs that week, we will do that in two days and then we will be off a week. Then we will do another 96 that following week later,� he said. “That is quite a bit of product for us because we really aren’t set up to handle that type of volume regularly.�

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from the Meat Lab’s profits from the salesroom are directly put back into the program, according to Stites. With the excess revenue brought in over the past few years, Stites said he has plans to do some remodeling of the facility this fall and winter, including new air conditioning units and a new refrigeration unit in the salesroom. “Basically we have a revolving account that all the student labor is paid out of, all the equipment, all the supplies that I purchase or use comes out of my account,� he said. The student labor is a direct driving force of the Meat Lab. With the exception of Stites, all the other employees of the facility are students. “The Meat Lab is a great place to work just because of the fact that the staff is very interconnected and we are all friends,� said Emily Matlak, a student employee who works the salesroom and senior in LAS. “You learn a lot through this program because you are learning about all the cuts of meat, learning how to cut, how to process and all the standards that go along with it from the state and the government.� Matlak, who has worked at the Meat Lab for three

years now, said she never anticipated working at the facility for as long as she has, especially as a history education major. But for Matlak, the experience of working there was much different from any of her incoming expectations. “I mean it is one of those things‌ you walk in and you don’t really know what to expect at first, and then you realize it is not as bad as maybe people assume it’s going to be,â€? she said. “It is going to be better quality than anything you are going to get in the store, we only do choice or higher.â€? For Stites, the Meat Lab allows a venue to not only conduct research and teach University students what he grew up doing, but it also allows him to serve the community. “It is about as local as you can get,â€? he said. “Once people do come here and they try our products, and especially once they do build a relationship with us, they trust us full-heartedly with giving them products that are going to be satisfactory to them, they are going to be safe, they are going to taste good and going to be a good value and a good variety.â€?

Declan can be reached at dharty2@ dailyillini.com.

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SEATTLE — It may be wedged into a busy intersection in downtown Seattle, but the Recovery Cafe remains a mystery to most. The Recovery Cafe is a community, built from the heart of a woman named Killian Noe. For 10 years, Noe, 56, has been the center of this place, which serves those battling drug and alcohol addiction. She greets, she listens, she hugs, she shares, she remembers every name. And she believes in people who have all but stopped believing in themselves. “You walk in the door and you’re broken,� she explained to me recently. “You’ve been told that you’re not worth loving or knowing. But everyone longs to be known and loved and part of a community. Your life matters.� On Sept. 24, the Recovery Cafe will mark its 10th anniversary at its annual Standing in the Gap Breakfast, where Noe is unofficial star, the one people are eager to connect with, be it a confessional chat or a wave from across the room. Noe’s specialty is standing on the dais and explaining the cafe’s community to those who have never set foot inside. “I always feel exposed, but in a good way,� she said of her speeches. “I look out and I see people hungry for a deep connection. “When we claim our connection with those who are suffering and being left out, then we will want to work for justice on their behalf. But it’s really on our behalf as well, because in reality we belong to each other.� Noe learned about community at an early age. Her father was a preacher in North Carolina, where everyone knew her and she knew everyone. “Community has always been central for me,� she said. “I’ve always had a passion for learning from different communities and nurturing community. It’s one of the deepest things in me.� At 21, she went to the Middle East to do volunteer work with teenagers there. When she returned to the

U.S. three years later, she return, they have to attend was stunned at the number an orientation, where the of homeless people on the rules of the place are made streets. clear: Her mentor, the late You must attend a weeksocial-justice pastor Gor- ly recovery, or “loving don Cosby, who founded accountability circle,� as Church of Our Saviour in Noe prefers to call it; and Washington D.C., told her contribute to the running of that instead of tourists see- the place, be it cleaning or ing homeless when they cooking, and aid in the healvisit a city, they should ing of others. “Everyone has to work,� see a rebuilt community “Where those who have fall- Noe said. “The services are en through the cracks can given freely, but one of the rebuild their lives.� requirements is to operate As Noe recalled this, she the facility.� Members may also take looked out of her window at the people in the cafe’s main classes in meditation, yoga, room. Some ate lunch in ani- dance, as well as resume mated groups, others sat writing and conflict resolualone with a cup of coffee. tion. (“From the practical “What I see in every per- to the sublime,� Noe said). Once they stabilize in son who walks through this door is someone who has their recovery and sobriety, suffered with not just one the Recovery Cafe helps trauma, but one after anoth- them find housing. er and another,� she said. She and her husband have “There’s so many layers of been married for 32 years hurt and pain that for us, it’s and have two grown daughlike triage.� ters, Kietrie, 25 and PhoeNoe has spent most of her be, 23. The girls live togethlife honing practical and er in New York City, where pastoral skills and search- Kietrie works in the fashing for just the right formu- ion industry and Phoebe la to heal works for hearts and a nonprofit that helps lives. In 1999, victims of she moved sex trafto Seatficking and domestic tle with violence. her husband, BerEvery nie Noe, year for the past 15 who had years, the accepted KILLIAN NOE family has a job as OWNER OF THE RECOVERY CAFE traveled to the head Nicaragua, of T he where they L a keside School. have “nurtured� a school in She visited with nonprof- a slum outside of Managua. its, and learned that 50 to At home, Noe refuels by 70 percent of the people walking her dogs. “I find in Seattle’s shelters were just being with them and addicted or mentally ill. walking them is restful,� In 2004, she launched she said. the Recovery Cafe to offer She is working on a book those people the recovery about the cafe: “Whatevsupport that some housing er we’ve learned about the programs can’t. (It moved commitments and ingredito a new location in 2009). ents that guide this commu“They can’t look you in nity, I’d like to put in writthe eye when they come in ing, in case they can be the door because the pain helpful to others.� is so heavy,� she said “But But it will not be her story when they plant themselves alone. It belongs to everyone in the soil of an authentic who ever wondered enough community, we literally see about this place to become them come back to life.� part of it. Anyone can come to the “There is a magic here,� Recovery Cafe for one day, Noe said, “that is greater as long as they are clean than what any one individand sober. If they want to ual brings.�

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RIGHT: Ben Peterson, graduate student and assistant manager at the University of Illinois Meat Science Laboratory, helps a customer with their order.

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espite a name like the Meat Science Laboratory, or better known as the “Meat Lab,” there are no mutated cows, experimental rats in small iron cages nor any two-snouted pigs. The small brown brick building sits at 1503 S. Maryland Ave. in Urbana, nestled on a small patch of land between Alpha Tau Omega’s fraternity house and Mount Hope Cemetery. Typically, it remains unnoticed in most students’ daily routines. But inside, the Meat Lab is an agent for research, a thriving meat processing facility and a learning experience for College of ACES students according to Chuck Stites, manager of the Meat Science Laboratory and an academic professional for the College of ACES. “Our mission is to service the research teaching extension activities that the college needs,” Stites said. “We are a federally inspected meat processing facility that allows us to go ahead and sell the meat to the general public, or we could market it wholesale.” The facility sells choice or higher cuts of meat through its salesroom, which is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Outside of business hours, ACES students learn and participant in the facility’s operations along with the Meat Lab’s own staff. The class, Animal Science 219: Meat Technology, is an introductory course for students to better understand the process behind the meat processing. The facility’s selection of approximately 70 items is also offered to various different organizations throughout campus. Its partnerships include The Bevier Café, certain Campus Dining events and the concession stand at Memorial Stadium, State Fare. “We are very attuned to our clientele that come in, and there are certain cuts of meat that we offer that we didn’t used to,” Stites said. The menu items range from 16 different kinds of sausages to ribs and New York Strips, and many other beef, lamb and pork cuts. Still, many international customers go beyond the traditional selections of pork and beef. “On Tuesday, the day that we slaughter when we open at 1 p.m., we have generally got a line of 10 to 15 (international students) there,” Stites said.

A fresh start The current Meat Science Laboratory is just part of a long history ACES and the University has had within the food industry and meat processing. The meats program began in 1911 when Professor Sleeter Bull was hired and later went on to teach and conduct meat research. The program, which was based in Davenport Hall at this time, began to blossom and a slaughter facility was built near the Stock Pavilion on the South Quad in 1955, according to Chuck Stites, manager of the Meat Science Laboratory and an academic professional for the College of ACES. It was in 1982 that the current

“We now (sell) ears, tails and snouts and cheek meat as well as the livers, hearts and kidneys ... neck bones, pork bones — anything that has got skin or bone.” For many customers, the draw to the Meat Lab over other grocers lies in the process of how the meats get to the salesroom. “It isn’t a grocery store, it isn’t a meat market kind of thing,” said Michael Sullivan, a weekly customer and resident of Champaign. “I think the quality of the meat is great ... it is local-grain fed, all that kind of good organic stuff that I think is just better to eat all the way around.” With the rise of media and marketing exposure in recent years, Stites said the program has seen tremendous gains. “Here in the last four to five years, we have been a net-revenue, positive revenue generating (facility),” Stites said.

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Getting to the meat of it The Meat Lab gets its livestock from farms located in the Central Illinois area. Stites said the swine farm is located south of Windsor Road in Champaign, while the beef facility is located in Urbana. For lamb, Stites said the livestock used for the Meat Lab programs are brought down from a farm in Lexington, Ill., as part of an agreement the University has with Illinois State University. When needed, the sheep are typically kept on the beef farm until they are ready to go to the Meat Lab or other University research facilities. The livestock is then slaughtered at the Meat Lab, as part of the program, and is processed into meat following an inspection. “Livestock is brought up from the farms generally the afternoon before. The meat inspector comes in first thing in the morning and looks at the animals,” Stites said. Stites said the meat inspector verifies that the livestock and carcasses are clean and healthy to be processed and eaten when the meat is slaughtered. On other days, the meat inspector does what Stites referred to as “patrolling assignments,” in which the inspector checks anything from cooler temperatures to looking at the facilities records. The number of animals that Stites and his team slaughter varies upon many factors, including time of year, the public demand and the College’s demands for research purposes

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building became the home of the Meat Lab, just one year before Stites would begin to work there as a student in the fall of his undergraduate senior year. After a few years and promotions, Stites was named manager of the Meat Lab in 1985 while he was a graduate student. He has been working there ever since. “I grew up on (a) farm, hunting and fishing,” he said. “We butchered our own livestock at home, and deer and things. So I kind of had some interest in it anyway.” After being the program and facility’s leader for three decades, he has seen the Meat Lab transition through various stages. “When I came here, we made a breakfast sausage, we made

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at a noticeable rate. It was then that Stites saw an opportunity to continue to get the business in the public eye. “I was approached by one of the local radio stations about advertising on the radio. ... I went ahead and talked to our departmental business office manager and the department head what they thought about it, and they said to go for it,” Stites said. Over 2008, the Meat Lab began advertising through local radio stations to compete with local businesses. The increased exposure gave the facility the push it needed to change from a losing or break-even business to a profitable revenue business, Stites said.

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BY SEAN NEUMANN STAFF WRITER

Smiling, Bill Cubit remembers a time in high school when he slid into third base. He had just slapped a triple into the outfield and when he stood up on the bag, he locked eyes with his father on the other side of the fence. Bill Cubit Sr. wasn’t supposed to be there — he had a meeting two and a half hours away that night. But what the teenage Cubit had learned growing up was that his father was always there. “It didn’t make a difference

where I was, he was always there for me,� said Cubit, now Illinois football’s offensive coordinator. “That’s why with these kids, you want to be around them because some of them don’t have their family here after every game and I always had that. It was always comforting for them to be there.� Cubit’s father died before the 2013 season, his first with Illinois — a large part of the reason why minutes after receiver Justin Hardee’s mother passed away, Cubit was one of his first calls. “I still remember that call,� Cubit said. “I was outside of a high school in Florida. He called me and he was

bawling his eyes out. I said, ‘What’s the matter?’ He says, ‘Coach, I just lost my mom.’ And you sit there and go, ‘Holy smokes, this kid’s calling me five minutes after his mother dies?’ “When you step back and you go, ‘Why did he call me?’ � Why Cubit? For Geronimo Allison — a wide receiver from Tampa, Florida — it’s about having a father figure when many players lack one as a college student. “He strives for perfection and he has his set ways that he wants it. If

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busy basketball weekend on campus just got even busier. Elijah Thomas, one of the best forwards in the country in the Class of 2015, was already set to visit campus this weekend. Now Jalen

Coleman, another highlyranked prospect, is scheduled to join him. Coleman is ranked as an elite combo guard in the 2015 class and is one of the best players in Indiana. It was reported by hoops247.com that Coleman will move his official visit to Illinois up a week, from Sept. 26 to this weekend. Illinois has been recruiting Coleman hard as of late, and head coach John Groce watched Coleman work out

at his high school in Indiana on Tuesday. Coleman was long thought to be a Notre Dame lean, but one Notre Dame recruiting outlet (@NDHoopsRecruits) has claimed on Twitter that the Irish have given up on Coleman altogether as of this week. He is also considering UNLV, but has already taken an official visit to the Las Vegas campus. With only two schools realistically still in play

— Illinois and UNLV — it would be reasonable to expect a Coleman decision soon after his Illinois visit. While Coleman has kept his recruitment close to the vest so far, Thomas is somewhat of a different story. He regularly teases fans on Twitter with shoutouts and retweets, with most feedback coming from Illini fans. Thomas also has a monthly blog published on USA Today’s website,

which provides insight into his ongoing recruitment. He last updated his blog Wednesday and shed some light on what he enjoys most about each school. Similar to other Illini recruits, Thomas sang the praises of Groce, crediting him with establishing a strong relationship between the two. Thomas had a lot of other positive thoughts about Illinois in his post, highlighted by anointing

the Illini faithful “the best fan base (he’s) ever seen.� Some Illinois fans worry that Thomas, the original star of the weekend, might feel overshadowed by the presence of Coleman on his visit. The reality is, scheduling these two visits at the same time is potentially a good move by Groce. Much of Thomas’ blog outlined his desire to play

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No. 22 Illini host SoccerFest after road trip BY JOEY FIGUEROA STAFF WRITER

After five straight matches on the road, No. 22 Illinois (6-2-0) will return home this weekend for a pair of contests against Big Ten rivals Indiana (4-4-0) and Purdue (5-2-1). Posting a 4-1-0 road record away from home this season hasn’t been a problem for the Illini, but being around familiar surroundings makes matches easier. “We’re excited just to be on our home turf and be in our locker room,� junior defender Aliina Weykamp said. “It’s just nice to be home for a little bit.� The Illini’s only road loss came last weekend against Iowa in Illinois’ Big Ten

opener. Head coach Janet Rayfield attributed the rough start in conference play to the older players worrying too much about helping the younger players along. “They spent their energy on that instead of doing what they’re supposed to do and what they’re good at,� Rayfield said. “I don’t think we could have had a much bigger gap between our performance on Sunday and our performance on Thursday, it was a night and day difference.� The Illini will try to carry the momentum from Sunday’s victory against last year’s Big Ten champion, Nebraska, into this weekend’s games.

First up is Thursday’s bout with Indiana, the team that knocked Illinois out of last season’s Big Ten tournament. The Hoosiers lost each of their first two conference matches to Ohio State and No. 8 Penn State, which has them at the bottom of the Big Ten. Rayfield isn’t overlooking them, however. “I think it was a tough weekend in terms of results, but if you look at the games, they did some great things in those games,� Rayfield said. “It’s an athletic team that has some dangerous threats. (They’re) hard to break down, they’ll get numbers behind the ball, and they don’t give up goals easily.�

Illinois has a 10-5-3 alltime series lead over Indiana, including a 6-2-1 record in games played in Champaign and three straight victories over the Hoosiers before last season. With five goals and 23 shots this season, junior midfielder Jessie Bujouves will be the Hoosier to keep an eye on. After two days of rest, Illinois will take on Purdue at home for the fi rst time since 2011. The Boilermakers split their first two Big Ten matches, with a narrow 1-0 defeat to a tough Penn State team and a rebound win over Ohio State. Illinois is 10-6-3 alltime against Purdue, but has owned the matches in Champaign, posting an 8-0-

Illinois vs. Indiana, Illinois vs. Purdue When: 2:30 p.m., Thursday, 1:00 p.m., Sunday Where: Illinois Soccer Stadium TV/Radio: Illinois vs. Indiana — Big Ten Network Illinois vs. Purdue — WDWS AM 1400 Quick notes: The Illini

did not have a win against Indiana or Purdue last season, losing two matches against the Hoosiers, and one against the Boilermakers. Hidden stat: Illinois is 142-1 combined all-time in games against Indiana or Purdue at home.

0 record in which the Illini have outscored the Boilermakers 19-5 and only let one goal in the last five matches. Regardless of past results, the Illini are going to focus on themselves to achieve the

results they want. “Certainly now we know what we’re capable of at the Big Ten level and we’re going to hold ourselves to that stan-

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Volleyball looks to bring renewed energy to Creighton game BY STEPHEN BOURBON SENIOR WRITER

Kevin Hambly isn’t one for making dramatic speeches. The head coach for the Illinois volleyball team says they don’t necessarily work in motivating a team. The Illini (5-3) are still searching for answers on how to bring consistent energy to the court heading into this weekend’s Creighton Classic. “I could give them a ‘Win one for the Gipper’ speech and try and get them fired up, but I think that’s hollow,� Hambly said. “I think it’s more of them deciding of when they’re going to come out with energy.� Hambly cited a lack of energy in a loss last weekend to Virginia Tech. The team’s record has been directly tied to its willingness to bring energy to the court, regardless of what team is across the net. “We talk about how it has to happen all the time, not just a match day thing,� middle blocker Anna Dorn said. “What we really focus on is reminding each other all the time during practice is to bring energy to drills or when we’re competing in practice. It has to become a habit, it’s not quite there yet.�

Creighton Classic — No. 16 Illinois vs. Creighton, Colorado vs. No. 16 Illinois, South Dakota vs. No. 16 Illinois When: 7:00 p.m., Friday, 10:00 a.m., Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Saturday. Where: D.J. Sokol Arena, Omaha, Neb. Radio: WDWS 1400 AM Quick notes: In the final

nonconference matches of the season, the Illini take on a trio of opponents at the Creighton Classic. Senior Liz McMahon has been named to three consecutive All-Tournament teams. Hidden stat: Illinois is 2-3 on the season away from Huff Hall. This is the third consecutive tournament on the road for the Illini.

The Illini will face Creighton (6-4) on Friday night before a doubleheader against Colorado (8-1) and South Dakota (4-5) on Saturday. Colorado rolls into the weekend on a blistering hot streak — the Buffaloes have won eight matches in a row after dropping their season opener to Northwestern in five sets. Opposite side hitter Ali Stark admitted there is an added danger to facing a team on a winning streak. “I think it’s definitely going to be a challenge for us,� Stark, a junior, said. “They’re going to be hot. We can’t get sucked into playing the way they play, we need to make them

play the way we want them to play.� Creighton opened the season ranked at No. 23 but is 0-3 against ranked teams this season. The Bluejays are led by middle blocker Kelli Browning, who leads the team in both kills and hitting percentage on the season. The Illini have already faced one of the nation’s top middles in the country: Stanford’s Inky Ajanaku. When the teams faced off on Sept. 7, the junior got loose for 16 kills with a .500 hitting percentage on the match. Hambly said the strategy for shutting down a premier middle comes down to

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Illinois’ Ali Stark (13) and Katie Stadick (12) attempt to block a hit. The team will try to boost its energy level on Friday.

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SOCCER dard going forward,” Rayfield said. Sunday’s match is expected to draw one of the largest crowds of the year because of Illinois’ ninth-annual SoccerFest. This year’s fan perks include free Jimmy John’s for the first 1,000 attendees, postgame autographs and a fan zone comprising of games, prizes, face painting and even a bounce house.

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VOLLEYBALL the Illini’s serving. “Middles are tough or they can be really easy, depending on how the team passes,” Hambly said. “If you can serve the way you want to, you can take them out of the game. If you can’t, you’re in trouble.” These are the last matches before Big Ten play opens up for the Illini. One of the reasons Hambly perennially schedules one of the toughest slates in the country is to learn lessons each week before the grind

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“I think the freshman being in an atmosphere like that will really enjoy it just as much as our upperclassmen do,” Jannelle Flaws said. ”It’s a great chance to get more fans out, and it’s definitely a more high-energy fan base. It’s exciting and always fun to play in a crowd like that.” Home-field advantage will be at full tilt for the Illini this weekend.

Joey can be reached at jfiguer2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3. the media. Look for Thomas to bask in the fan hysteria during his time on campus. Coleman will be the third elite guard to visit campus this fall, with Evans and Jalen Brunson before him. Unlike the other two, Coleman is more of a shooting guard rather than a pure point. At 6-foot-3, he is comparable to a Brandon Paultype player, but Coleman already possesses a quicker and more accurate jump shot than Paul. Having both Coleman and Thomas on campus makes this one of the biggest recruiting weekends in recent memory for Illinois basketball. With Evans still in limbo in regard to his decision, Illini fans will once again be aching for a commitment during the weekend. You can be sure that Groce will push both Coleman and Thomas to commit this weekend, but whether they do is anyone’s guess. We’ve seen the frenzy when one top-30 recruit visits campus. But two? Prepare for twice the hype, twice the speculation and twice the fun.

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of Big Ten play. “Every week, you’re adding pieces and learning lessons,” he said. “Sometimes you don’t know what the lessons are, but you’re just looking for the opportunity to teach.” Last week’s lesson centered on energy. This week’s lesson is to be determined. “I don’t know what Colorado is going to teach us, I don’t know what Creighton is going to teach us, but they’re going to teach us something.”

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Hockey takes on in-state rival ISU BY BRETT LERNER STAFF WRITER

The Illini hockey team continued its roller coaster start to the season in its opening weekend of play. Illinois lost a scrimmage to the Springfield Jr Blues on Friday, then came back to rout Northern Illinois in the regular season opener, 7-2. The up and down trajectory to the beginning of the Illini’s season has been mainly caused by the closing of the Illinois ice rink. Head coach Nick Fabbrini has been holding practices 45 minutes from campus in Danville, to which players are driving themselves. September 18 will end the Illini’s wait to return home, as that is the date the arena reopens. Between finally being able to practice at home again and getting into the regular season routine, the Illini are hoping to settle in. “Our guys are starting to gel after playing together for more than a couple of weeks now and coming home for our first practice back in our rink. It will give

us an extra little boost this weekend,” Fabbrini said. The reopening of the Big Pond seems to have come at a perfect time, considering the way the Illini’s schedule looks. Illinois will play two games almost every weekend from now through November, and will be on the road for the remaining two weekends in September. With the heavy travel for the next few weeks, it seems that eliminating the travel back and forth from practice should benefit the Illini at the beginning of the season. This weekend, Illinois will continue to go up against instate teams by hitting the road to face Illinois State. The teams will face off on both Friday and Saturday night, something that is usual for the program. Most every weekend that the Illini hit the ice, they play the same team twice in order to make the most of travel costs. Because of this normality, Fabbrini said the game plan doesn’t often change between the first and second games. He did add,

however, that adjustments were key in the Illini’s opening weekend. “For it just being our second game I liked how well we were able to make some adjustments and to come back and respond after a tough game on Friday night and play a pretty good game overall on Saturday,” Fabbrini said. One of the team’s main flaws last season was goal scoring, which seemed to have been addressed in the opener. Not only did Illinois net seven goals, but they also put up 48 shots. Captain John Olen was the leader of the offensive attack, netting two goals against Northern Illinois. “I like to position myself well and try to spread the ice open to fi nd myself open areas,” Olen said. “On both of those goals I really just got good passes and I was kind of in the right area.” The problem that Fabbrini wants to address moving forward is discipline, something many teams have issues with to begin seasons. The Illini commit-

Illinois at Illinois State When: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday Where: US Cellular Coliseum Quick notes: Both teams come into the game undefeated, Illinois (1-0), ISU (2-0). Both teams have first year starters in net, Zev Grumet-Morris for Illinois and Joey Garapolo for ISU.

ted six penalties against the Huskies, with five of them coming in the first period. “(Discipline) is something that’s easy to control,” Fabbrini said. “I think we saw that when we do control our emotions and stay out of the box to play teams five-onfive that we’re a pretty good hockey team. I’m hoping that’s one of the bigger lessons we learned Saturday.”

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Illini Invite has loaded field BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY STAFF WRITER

Illinois tennis player Aleks Vukic, from Sydney, said he loved his fi rst taste of college tennis. “I enjoyed it a lot. I played a Georgia guy at Georgia with the whole of his team watching, cheering him on, but I loved it,” Vukic said. “Even though they weren’t cheering for me, I loved it.” After a semi-finals appearance at last weekend’s Southern Intercollegiate Championships, Vukic get another experience of NCAA tennis in his second tournament at the Fighting Illini Invitational this weekend in Olympia Fields, Illinois. Four of the six teams competing fi nished in the ITA Top 25 last season: Notre Dame, Memphis, Kentucky and the host, Illini. Memphis knocked off the Illini in the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA tournament, while the Illini beat Notre Dame and Kentucky in dual meets last year. NC State and Miami (FL) will round out the field. While some sports start the season with smaller events to get athletes back in the swing of things, this weekend, the men’s tennis

team will jump straight i n agai nst big-name competition. “That’s what our program is,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “I think that’s what people come here for. They want to be exposed to playing against good players. That’s why we do it.” This will be the Illini’s eighth year playing at Olympia Fields Country Club just outside of Chicago. Dancer said he’s grateful for the chance to co-host the event and play at such a prestigious club. Dancer also said hosting an invite near Chicago helps recruiting, as several Illini come from the area. Illinois will have four players competing at Olympia Fields: Vukic, fellow freshman Toshiki Matsuya, ITA preseason No. 6 Jared Hiltzik and No. 44 Tim Kopinski. Kopinski says the more matches he gets to play, the better he performs, so playing in the early season invite provides a chance to get his match count up against quality opponents. The OFCC/Fighting Illini Invite is also one of the few collegiate meets in the country played on clay courts. Kopinski said it

Olympia Fields Country Club/Fighting Illini Invite When: Friday through Sunday in Olympia Fields, Ill. Quick notes: Four Illini will compete in this loaded early-season tournament. Freshman Aleks Vukic is coming off of a semifinal appearance last weekend, and preseason No. 6 Jared Hiltzik last helps that the Illini have prepared for the unusual surface by practicing on the Champaign Country Club’s clay courts, but Vukic will feel be right in his element. “I went to Spain in January (and) February, and basically for six months, I played on clay, so this feels like home right now,” Vukic said. “I’m looking forward to playing some Americans on clay, that’s for sure.” While it’s an early season meet, Dancer knows what he wants to see from the Illini. “I want them to compete their tails off,” Dancer said. “I want them to rep-

played in the inaugural American Collegiate Invite at the US Open. The Illini will face Memphis, who outed them in last year’s NCAA tournament. Hidden stat: Kopinski is a part of the nation’s preseason No. 2 doubles team. He went 4-0 at this tournament last year and was named Most Outstanding Player.

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resent their school with class, dignity, toughness (and) sportsmanship.”

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Peterson faces uncertain future after deactivation BY ROCHELLE OLSON AND MATT VENSEL MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

If Adrian Peterson won’t play for the Vikings until his legal case comes to a conclusion, he might not play again this season. After the Vikings placed the star running back on the exempt/ commissioner’s permission list early Wednesday, his lawyer hinted a trial for Peterson in Texas wouldn’t happen until 2015. Rusty Hardin said no plea negotiations were occurring and that he has “no reason to believe” the case, in which Peterson is charged with a felony for injuring one of his children during discipline, won’t go to trial in about nine months as Montgomery County (Texas) prosecutors previously indicated. Hardin said he will know more about the schedule after Peterson’s fi rst hearing Oct. 8 in front of District Judge Kelly Case. In a written statement, Hardin said Peterson wants to “continue his work in the NFL and contribute to his team and community. In order to do so, he is prepared to resolve this matter in the appropriate legal forum rather than the court of public opinion.” The Vikings benched Peterson in the face of public pressure, two days after reinstating him. “We made a mistake,” said coowner Zygi Wilf at a morning news conference, “and we needed to get this right.” The move will keep him away from the team, but he will be paid. General Manager Rick Spielman said the Vikings initiated talks with the NFL to determine a course of action. “Only the commissioner can grant that exemption,” Spielman said. “We worked very hard with Adrian and his agent, Ben Dogra, to work through this. “This can only be granted in unique cases.” Minneapolis-based Target told its stores on Wednesday to remove all Peterson-related merchandise from its sales floors. “Taking into account the feedback from our guests, and in light of team’s most recent actions, we are opting to remove Peterson merchandise from our stores and Target.com,” Molly Snyder, a Target spokeswoman, said in an email.

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Vikings running back Adrian Peterson makes his way to the bench in Cincinnati on Dec. 22. Peters has been charged with a felony for injuring one of his children during discipline, but his lawyers hinted that he wouldn’t go to trial until 2015. Wednesday’s actions appeared to satisfy one large corporate sponsor—US Bank. US Bank spokesman Dana Ripley said the company “agrees with the Minnesota Vikings’ decision to place Adrian Peterson on the NFL’s exempt list until the legal proceedings are completed. We have been in close communication with the Vikings organization for the past couple of days fi rmly expressing our perspective.” The NFL released a statement saying, “This is a good decision that will allow Adrian Peterson to resolve his personal situation and the Vikings to return the focus to the football field.” The 2012 NFL MVP issued a statement on Monday defending his discipline of children while also regretting the extent of the

use of a switch on the 4-year-old. The NFL Players Association also released a statement Wednesday morning saying, “Adrian Peterson made a decision to take a voluntary leave with pay to take care of his personal and legal issues. The NFLPA and NFL worked with Adrian and the Minnesota Vikings to resolve this unique situation. We support this decision and hope the best for him and his family.” Nike suspended its contract with Peterson, and a spokesperson for Radisson, which on Monday was the fi rst corporate sponsor to at least temporarily sever ties with the Vikings, said Wednesday the company would not change its stance in light of the team deciding not to play Peterson.

“We’re standing fi rm on the suspension, for right now,” said Molly Biwer, vice president for communications and public relations for Carlson and Carlson Hotels, the corporate umbrella for Minnesota-based Radisson. “Obviously, as you’ll see from [today’s] news conference, our banner will not be displayed.” Peterson was deactivated by the Vikings on Friday, after a warrant was issued in his home state. Peterson was not at TCF Bank Stadium on Sunday as the Vikings lost their home opener 30-7 to the New England Patriots. The team’s top decision makers decided a day later to welcome Peterson back. By early Wednesday morning, however, the Vikings had reconsidered and issued a statement

from the Wilfs, which read in part: “This has been an ongoing and deliberate process since last Friday’s news. In conversations with the NFL over the last two days, the Vikings advised the League of the team’s decision to revisit the situation regarding Adrian Peterson. In response, the League informed the team of the option to place Adrian on the Exempt/ Commissioner’s Permission list, which will require that Adrian remain away from all team activities while allowing him to take care of his personal situation until the legal proceedings are resolved. After giving the situation additional thought, we have decided this is the appropriate course of action for the organization and for Adrian.”

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Quick start is the key for Illini

After a tough loss on the road last weekend, Illinois looks to bounce back against Texas State BY CHARLOTTE CARROLL STAFF WRITER

Head coach Tim Beckman was the first through airport security after the Washington loss. Instead of rushing through the gates, he stopped and asked each team member the score of the second half as they walked past him. This is the message he will try to carry over to Saturday as the Illinois football team takes on Texas State (1-1) at home after a tough 44-19 road loss. “To show them that we have to play four quarters — there’s no question about it — but we did come out of the locker room and play the way we can play (in the second half),” Beckman said. “Not everybody did realize that we won 7-6 in the second half. But a majority of

our players realized that we did make strides. And they realize that if you take 21 points off that scoreboard — that’s a long touchdown pass and then the two turnovers — and it’s a 23-19 football game.” Saturday will be a question of whether Illinois (2-1) can overcome the embarrassing national TV loss and pick up one more win before Big Ten play begins. More importantly, it will be a test to see if Illinois can start fast and keep playing that way to avoid falling behind early. Against Washington, Illinois gave up 464 total yards and 11 penalties that cost the Illini 110 yards. The Illini gave 38 of those points up in the first half. Quarterback Wes Lunt is looking to get back to

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his record-breaking game two weeks ago after struggling this past week against Washington: he had only 230 yards, recorded one interception and was sacked four times. “With him, I thought he was moving around a little too much,” offensive coordinator Bill Cubit said. “His pocket presence wasn’t as good, wasn’t as clean ... didn’t handle it as well. I thought last year was the same way with Nate. Speed became so fast for us that we didn’t handle it well.” But Cubit praised Lunt’s ability to gather the team after the loss. “The great thing about him is that he owns up to it,” Cubit said. “He comes over and says ‘It’s my fault.’ He rallies the troops. In the locker room, he’s one of

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direction of head coach Dennis Franchione, who is in his fi fth year with the program. With 204 career wins, he is one of only four NCAA Division I FBS active coaches with 200 career victories. Illinois is hoping to keep that win total at 204 this week, and are looking to start the game with a strong first half. “It’s getting back to where we need to be,” junior linebacker Mason Monheim said. “It’s a matter of few hours, maybe a day at most. You can’t dwell on the past, it’s moving forward and getting better.”

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NOV. 1 AT OHIO STATE — 7 p.m.

SEPT. 6 VS. WESTERN KENTUCKY (W: 42-34)

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NOV. 15 VS. IOWA — TBA

SEPT. 13 AT WASHINGTON (L: 44-19)

OCT. 11 AT WISCONSIN — TBA

NOV. 22 VS. PENN STATE — TBA

SEPT. 20 VS. TEXAS STATE — 3 p.m.

OCT. 25 VS. MINNESOTA — 11 a.m.

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Illinois ranks last in the Big Ten in rushing defense. Running back Robert Lowe leads the Bobcats in rushing with 242 yards and 62 passing yards. Quarterback Tyler Jones has 509 passing yards and 133 rushing yards, compared to Lunt’s -40 rushing yards. “The quarterback is pretty dynamic with the ball in his hand,” Banks said. “They run a lot of what we call ‘run adjust’ plays, where it looks like he’s running the draw but all of a sudden, he’ll pull that thing out and throw it. So I haven’t quite seen it the way they do it, but it’s going to present some challenges for us, but hopefully if we work on it enough this week, we’ll be up for that challenge.” Texas State is under the

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the fi rst guys in there. He doesn’t hide, goes in says ‘I screwed up, I apologize and it won’t happen again.’ Got to love a leader like that.” Illinois will look to its leader this Saturday against Texas State. According to Beckman and Cubit, the offense will focus on starting fast and putting points on the board early to avoid falling into a hole. The Bobcats are coming off a 35-21 loss to Navy. Linebacker David Mayo leads the Texas State defense with 25 tackles, but has recorded 10 or more in four straight games, extending back to last season. He racked up a season-high 15 tackles against Navy. But it’s the dual threat of a running and passing game that will the concern the Illinois defense this weekend.

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SAN JOSE STATE AT MINNESOTA - 3 p.m.

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The Illini defense has forced four fumbles. Illinois returned an interception for a 77-yard touchdown against Western Kentucky. The defense has 18 tackles for a loss, led by Earnest Thomas III with three. Illinois has six sacks, dropping opposing QBs for a total loss of 41 yards.

The sophomore is 45-for-61 passing this season, gaining 8.3 yards per completion. Jones has thrown for 509 yards in his first two games. The quarterback has thrown five touchdowns to three different receivers. Jones has connected with 13 receivers throughout the first two games.

Of note: Illinois ranks 11th total defense in the Big Ten (and last in rushing defense), an Illini victory will depend on how they handle Texas State’s offense.

Of note: Texas State’s offense lit up Arkansas Pine-Bluff in their season opener, shutting them out 65-0. But 11 penalties held back the Bobcats’ booming offense last week in a 35-21 loss to Navy.

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QB Wes Lunt 12 RB Josh Ferguson 6 WR Geronimo Allison 8 WR Martize Barr 9 WR Justin Hardee 19 TE Matt LaCosse 11 TE Jon Davis 3 LT Simon Cvijanovic 68 LG Alex Hill 52 C Joe Spencer 71 RG Ted Karras 69 RT Michael Heitz 74

DEFENSE

DE Jihad Ward 17 NT Austin Teitsma 44 DT Teko Powell 93 LEO DeJazz Woods 90 WLB Mason Monheim 43 MLB T.J. Neal, Jr. 52 STAR Earnest Thomas III 9 CB V’Angelo Bentley 2 CB Eaton Spence 27 SS Zane Petty 21 FS Taylor Barton 3 K Taylor Zalewski 17 P Justin DuVernois 18

ILLINOIS LEADERS PASSING

RECEIVING

Wes Lunt 75-for-114, 971 yards, 9 TD

Geronimo Allison 16 catches, 300 yards, 2 TD Mike Dudek 12 catches, 159 yards, 2 TD Malik Turner 10 catches, 98 yards, 0 TD Justin Hardee 9 catches, 131 yards, 1 TD

RUSHING Josh Ferguson 36 carries, 125 yards, 1 TD Donovonn Young 23 carries, 91 yards, 1 TD

EYE ON THE ILLINI: RUNNING BACKS

Josh Ferguson and Donovonn Young have been lousy so far this season. Ferguson was expected to be a game-changer for Illinois, and so far he has only averaged 3.5 yards per carry. Young has been equally unimpressive, totaling just 106 yards through three games. When coverage down the field is good, Wes Lunt needs to rely on these two out of the backfield. So far they have not been able to deliver. This week will be a test for this group, as they go up against a Texas State front seven that was rattled last week by Navy.

EYE ON THE ENEMY: LINEBACKERS

Texas State boasts a formidable crew of backers, including David Mayo and Michael Orakpo, both preseason All-Sun Belt Conference first team selections. Orakpo is also on the Butkus Award watchlist for the best linebacker in the NCAA. He is the younger brother of former Texas All-American Brian Orakpo, who plays for the Redskins. This group is definitely the cream of the Bobcats defense and will clog up the Illini’s running lanes.

LAST WEEK FOR TEXAS STATE The Bobcats lost 35-21 to Navy in San Marcos, Texas. The Midshipmen ran the ball 57 times for 352 yards against the Texas State defense and added two passing touchdowns. Texas State quarterback Tyler Jones threw for 231 yards and ran for 82 more. The Bobcats were penalized 11 times for 124 yards, which is more yards than Navy gained through the air. The Bobcats trailed 28-0 with about seven minutes to go in the first half.

TEXAS STATE OFFENSE

QB Tyler Jones 2 RB Robert Lowe 28 WR Brandon Smith 5 WR Ben Ijah 1 WR C.J. Best 9 TE Bradley Miller 84 LT Adrian Bellard 64 LG Brandon Sarabia 62 C Matt Freeman 56 RG Charlie Will Tuttle 72 RT Ryan Melton 76 P Will Johnson 38

DEFENSE

DE Michael Odiari 55 DT Dallas McClarty 63 DT Mershad Dillon 42 DE Kris Petersen 82 LB David Mayo 3 LB Michael Orakpo 1 LB Stephen Smith 40 WS Aaron Shaw 9 SS Colby Targun 27 CB Craig Mager 25 CB David Mims 22 K Jason Dann 48

TEXAS STATE LEADERS PASSING

RECEIVING

Tyler Jones 45-for-61, 509 yards 5 TD

Jafus Gaines 8 catches, 174 yards, 2 TD Bradley Miller 8 catches, 70 yards Robert Lowe 6 catches, 62 yards Ben Ijah 5 catches, 34 yards

RUSHING Robert Lowe 30 carries 242 yards 2 TD Tyler Jones 25 carries 133 yards 1 TD

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FEATURE it’s not that way, he’s going to make sure he puts you in the position to get it right,� Allison said. “That’s basically what a dad does: He’s going to steer you in the right direction and make sure you get there.� Cubit’s coaching style echoes the similarities of his own father’s lessons. “There were certain guidelines,� Cubit said. “I never went to a party in high school because he didn’t want me there. I never wanted to disappoint him. I remember plenty of talks where he’d go, ‘This is what I expect,’ and that’s what I did.� For starting quarterback Wes Lunt, it was the coach’s ability to remain personable during a tough quarterback battle in training camp and through exhausting team meetings that made him

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realize he was a part of a family at Illinois — not just another football team. “He’s not afraid to talk and just ask you how you’re doing,� Lunt said. “With those long meetings and that grind of camp, just to take time out of your day just to ask how everybody is doing, I think that means a lot. “He just really cares. It’s way more than football.� And for Cubit, it’s always been about something more than football. Sports were always a way to connect with his father. Cubit Sr. attended nearly every game his son was ever a part of — from high school football, basketball and baseball, to college football at Delaware, to a coaching career that has taken him from the likes of Sharon Hill High School in Pennsylvania to Illinois. “Before our fi rst game last year, I had his mass card and I was tearing up a little,� Cubit said, recall-

ing the first game after his father’s death. “Somebody asked me what’s the matter and I said this is my first game my dad hasn’t seen me or been there or watched on TV. And then somebody said, ‘Well, he’s got the best seat in the house.’� If Cubit Sr. was watching, he would’ve seen his son make an immediate impact with a troubled football program. In the coach’s first year with Illinois, the team improved offensively. The Illini scored 156 more points in Cubit’s first season, while the team’s total offensive yards went up from 296.7 yards per game to 426.7 yards per game. “You want them to win, because they put so much time and effort into it and you see it everyday,� Cubit said. “You see the work ethic that they put into it. At the end, you’re responsible. But at the same time, you’ve got to work with those kids who

put in all that time and it didn’t work for them. That, to me, drives you more as a coach, you know? What can you do more so that they don’t have that feeling?� The Illini have been slowly raising their numbers in the win column, too. The team went 2-10 the year before Cubit arrived, then went 4-8 in his first season. Now, Illinois is off to a 2-1 start and is looking to qualify for a bowl game. It’s Cubit’s outlook that drew a slew of junior college transfers to Illinois last season, including Allison and even defensive end Jihad Ward — a player who spends his time on the opposite side of the ball but connects with the coach, having grown up without a father. “In JUCO and in high school, you don’t really get a lot of positive things,� Ward said. “You get tired of that and you don’t want to be around negativity all the time.�

Without the student-athletes being able to clear their heads, they wouldn’t be able to focus on football, according to the coach. “These kids have got issues too,� Cubit said. “You’re in there almost every single day dealing with it. I mean, it’s never ending. Everybody looks at (being a college football player) and thinks it’s just one big happy utopia, but it’s not. These kids have got some real-life issues like everybody else does. Then you’ve got to go out there in front of everybody and perform.� In his year and a half with the Illini, Cubit has erased what he calls a “victim mentality� in many players’ minds — thinking the coach was picking on them in practice or being harsh. Cubit’s been able to easily connect with the Illini roster and said there’s always different ways to push each player for them to reach their potential on and off the field.

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“I told them a few weeks ago: ‘Who are you playing for? When you walk off the field, will the person you’re playing for be disappointed in your effort?’� Cubit said. When his players are on the field, Cubit is their No. 1 fan. And it’s clear he’s not just pulling for results on the scoreboard, but also in the players’ personal growth — whether it’s maturing their personality or learning to fight through the battles life throws at them. “You’ve got to be there for them every second of the day,� Cubit said, echoing the same mantra his father took with him. Now in Hardee’s first season after losing a parent of his own, he goes up to Cubit before every game to remind him: “Hey Coach, two angels are looking down on us.�

Sean can be reached at spneuma2 @dailyillini. com and on Twitter @neumannthehuman.

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aise your hand if before the season you thought Illinois would beat Washington in Seattle. If you’re now reading this with your hand held high, you’re probably in the minority. Illinois fans might have freaked out a little bit watching the first half of the Illini’s game at Washington. The 35-5 score at one point didn’t look good. But Illini fans shouldn’t be up in arms after that loss. I know I chalked that one up for a loss long ago. But I’ll agree — the first half was unexpectedly terrible, almost to a comi-

cal extent. It was a ‘here we go again’ moment for Illinois fans everywhere. After last week, Illini fans need someone to calm them down. They certainly don’t want to listen to me. So I’ll let linebacker Mason Monheim take the stage. When I want a calm and honest answer about Illinois football, Monheim is the go-to source. Even with his long hair and scruffy beard, Monheim is soft-spoken and always has well though-out answers for the media. I asked Monheim where this team is through one quarter of the season compared to where it was hoping to be. “We’re defi nitely not close to where we want to be and where we need to be,� Monheim said.

“We need to get on track, especially before the start of the Big Ten. We need a great week.� OK, that’s not really a surprising answer. It sounds simple, but sometimes that’s the way it is. Coaches and athletes so often give answers riddled with sports cliches. Defensive coordinator Tim Banks is brimming with them. In answer to the same question he said: “Every game is going to be judged on what you do that particular week. We didn’t get it done. Hopefully we get it done this week, and then we move on to the next. And I know that sounds really cliche, but there’s a reason why coaches stand by it. At least for me, because it’s the truth.� So, Banks wants to talk about this week, let’s talk about this

week. I asked Monheim what he knew about Texas State. I asked him this mostly because I don’t know anything about Texas State football. Who outside of central Texas does? After a pause, Monheim said, “I mean, I’ve heard their quarterback’s pretty athletic, running back’s pretty good.� But what he was really saying — in my words — was, I don’t know anything about Texas State, and I don’t care. “We need to focus on us,� Monheim continued, “on getting back to where we need to be, being consistent on every down and we’ll be fi ne.� Granted, I was talking to Monheim on Monday and he undoubtedly knows much more about the Bobcats now than he did earlier this week.

But this game is not about Texas State. This game is about Illinois. You could substitute any subpar FBS school in for Texas State. The opponent doesn’t matter — the Illini should win Saturday. This game is about seeing continued improvement on both sides of the ball. Illinois struggled through two early games against subpar opponents — Youngstown State and Western Kentucky. Now it’s time to see what the Illini learned in Seattle. It’s time to see the improvement the team keeps talking about.

Sean is a senior in Media. He can be reached at sphammo2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @sean_hammond.

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WES LUNT VS. QB TYLER JONES

ILLINOIS VS. 3RD-DOWN CONVERSIONS

ILLINI AND BOBCATS VS. PENALTIES

Illinois quarterback Wes Lunt might as well be called “Mr. Fourth Quarter,� for his performances late in games so far this season. He put up a historical passing game against Youngstown State in week two, tallying a remarkable 456 yards. However, against Washington this past weekend, he threw 16-for-26 for 230 yards, but five sacks, a fumble and a costly interception resulted in a performance he wasn’t happy with. Another emerging sophomore quarterback, Tyler Jones, recorded 329 of Texas State’s school-record of 697 yards in the team’s 65-0 shutout of Arkansas-Pine Bluff. He came up short in week two against Navy, but had a career-high 82 rushing yards.

The Illini were 1-for-10 on third-down conversions against a Washington defense that struggled against the pass in its first two games of the season. It’s difficult for Lunt to continue his resilience in the fourth quarter when the linemen are fatigued and missing assignments. On a positive note, the Illinois defense showed great signs in the second half, allowing the Huskies to put only six points up on the scoreboard. Illinois head coach Tim Beckman continues to preach “having faster starts� for his football team. This is essential against a Texas State offense that’s just as sharp as Illinois’.

This game might be a shootout in most fans’ eyes, but perhaps not the way they expect it to be. Both teams committed 11 penalties against their last opponent. Illinois’ penalties resulted in 110 yards, while the Bobcats gave up 124 yards. Whether that’s a face mask or a delay of game, these penalties can take one team out of rhythm. One thing for sure is that it all depends on how the refs call the game and how disciplined both teams can be.

Torrence is a senior in Media and can be reached at tmsorre2@dailyillini.com and @TheRealTS4.

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SOCCER dard going forward,” Rayfield said. Sunday’s match is expected to draw one of the largest crowds of the year because of Illinois’ ninth-annual SoccerFest. This year’s fan perks include free Jimmy John’s for the first 1,000 attendees, postgame autographs and a fan zone comprising of games, prizes, face painting and even a bounce house.

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ROUX alongside the other talented players at each school that is recruiting him, most notably stud prospect Ben Simmons at LSU. Since Thomas seems to want to surround himself with other top-fl ight talent, it is safe to assume he won’t mind sharing the weekend with Coleman. Having Coleman alongside him may even help Thomas visualize a brighter future and better situation if he were to pick Illinois. Thomas has also seriously entertained the idea of playing with fellow Illini recruit and friend Jawun Evans. So the more surrounding talent the Illini can offer, the better. It’s not like Thomas should worry about being overshadowed, anyway. The forward from Lancaster High in Texas is ranked No. 29 on ESPN’s top 100 and features a smooth touch around the basket to complement his bruising rebounding and interior skills. Thomas has a big personality to match his 6-foot-9, 255 pound frame. Aside from his constant fan interaction on social media, he comes off as bright and personable in interviews with

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VOLLEYBALL the Illini’s serving. “Middles are tough or they can be really easy, depending on how the team passes,” Hambly said. “If you can serve the way you want to, you can take them out of the game. If you can’t, you’re in trouble.” These are the last matches before Big Ten play opens up for the Illini. One of the reasons Hambly perennially schedules one of the toughest slates in the country is to learn lessons each week before the grind

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“I think the freshman being in an atmosphere like that will really enjoy it just as much as our upperclassmen do,” Jannelle Flaws said. ”It’s a great chance to get more fans out, and it’s definitely a more high-energy fan base. It’s exciting and always fun to play in a crowd like that.” Home-field advantage will be at full tilt for the Illini this weekend.

Joey can be reached at jfiguer2@dailyillini.com and on Twitter @joeyfigueroa3. the media. Look for Thomas to bask in the fan hysteria during his time on campus. Coleman will be the third elite guard to visit campus this fall, with Evans and Jalen Brunson before him. Unlike the other two, Coleman is more of a shooting guard rather than a pure point. At 6-foot-3, he is comparable to a Brandon Paultype player, but Coleman already possesses a quicker and more accurate jump shot than Paul. Having both Coleman and Thomas on campus makes this one of the biggest recruiting weekends in recent memory for Illinois basketball. With Evans still in limbo in regard to his decision, Illini fans will once again be aching for a commitment during the weekend. You can be sure that Groce will push both Coleman and Thomas to commit this weekend, but whether they do is anyone’s guess. We’ve seen the frenzy when one top-30 recruit visits campus. But two? Prepare for twice the hype, twice the speculation and twice the fun.

Alex is a junior in AHS. He can be reached at roux2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @aroux94.

of Big Ten play. “Every week, you’re adding pieces and learning lessons,” he said. “Sometimes you don’t know what the lessons are, but you’re just looking for the opportunity to teach.” Last week’s lesson centered on energy. This week’s lesson is to be determined. “I don’t know what Colorado is going to teach us, I don’t know what Creighton is going to teach us, but they’re going to teach us something.”

Stephen can be reached at sbourbo2 @dailyillini.com and @steve_bourbon.

Hockey takes on in-state rival ISU BY BRETT LERNER STAFF WRITER

The Illini hockey team continued its roller coaster start to the season in its opening weekend of play. Illinois lost a scrimmage to the Springfield Jr Blues on Friday, then came back to rout Northern Illinois in the regular season opener, 7-2. The up and down trajectory to the beginning of the Illini’s season has been mainly caused by the closing of the Illinois ice rink. Head coach Nick Fabbrini has been holding practices 45 minutes from campus in Danville, to which players are driving themselves. September 18 will end the Illini’s wait to return home, as that is the date the arena reopens. Between finally being able to practice at home again and getting into the regular season routine, the Illini are hoping to settle in. “Our guys are starting to gel after playing together for more than a couple of weeks now and coming home for our first practice back in our rink. It will give

us an extra little boost this weekend,” Fabbrini said. The reopening of the Big Pond seems to have come at a perfect time, considering the way the Illini’s schedule looks. Illinois will play two games almost every weekend from now through November, and will be on the road for the remaining two weekends in September. With the heavy travel for the next few weeks, it seems that eliminating the travel back and forth from practice should benefit the Illini at the beginning of the season. This weekend, Illinois will continue to go up against instate teams by hitting the road to face Illinois State. The teams will face off on both Friday and Saturday night, something that is usual for the program. Most every weekend that the Illini hit the ice, they play the same team twice in order to make the most of travel costs. Because of this normality, Fabbrini said the game plan doesn’t often change between the first and second games. He did add,

however, that adjustments were key in the Illini’s opening weekend. “For it just being our second game I liked how well we were able to make some adjustments and to come back and respond after a tough game on Friday night and play a pretty good game overall on Saturday,” Fabbrini said. One of the team’s main flaws last season was goal scoring, which seemed to have been addressed in the opener. Not only did Illinois net seven goals, but they also put up 48 shots. Captain John Olen was the leader of the offensive attack, netting two goals against Northern Illinois. “I like to position myself well and try to spread the ice open to fi nd myself open areas,” Olen said. “On both of those goals I really just got good passes and I was kind of in the right area.” The problem that Fabbrini wants to address moving forward is discipline, something many teams have issues with to begin seasons. The Illini commit-

Illinois at Illinois State When: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday Where: US Cellular Coliseum Quick notes: Both teams come into the game undefeated, Illinois (1-0), ISU (2-0). Both teams have first year starters in net, Zev Grumet-Morris for Illinois and Joey Garapolo for ISU.

ted six penalties against the Huskies, with five of them coming in the first period. “(Discipline) is something that’s easy to control,” Fabbrini said. “I think we saw that when we do control our emotions and stay out of the box to play teams five-onfive that we’re a pretty good hockey team. I’m hoping that’s one of the bigger lessons we learned Saturday.”

Brett can be reached at blerner2@dailyillini.com and @Blerner10.

Illini Invite has loaded field BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY STAFF WRITER

Illinois tennis player Aleks Vukic, from Sydney, said he loved his fi rst taste of college tennis. “I enjoyed it a lot. I played a Georgia guy at Georgia with the whole of his team watching, cheering him on, but I loved it,” Vukic said. “Even though they weren’t cheering for me, I loved it.” After a semi-finals appearance at last weekend’s Southern Intercollegiate Championships, Vukic get another experience of NCAA tennis in his second tournament at the Fighting Illini Invitational this weekend in Olympia Fields, Illinois. Four of the six teams competing fi nished in the ITA Top 25 last season: Notre Dame, Memphis, Kentucky and the host, Illini. Memphis knocked off the Illini in the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA tournament, while the Illini beat Notre Dame and Kentucky in dual meets last year. NC State and Miami (FL) will round out the field. While some sports start the season with smaller events to get athletes back in the swing of things, this weekend, the men’s tennis

team will jump straight i n agai nst big-name competition. “That’s what our program is,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “I think that’s what people come here for. They want to be exposed to playing against good players. That’s why we do it.” This will be the Illini’s eighth year playing at Olympia Fields Country Club just outside of Chicago. Dancer said he’s grateful for the chance to co-host the event and play at such a prestigious club. Dancer also said hosting an invite near Chicago helps recruiting, as several Illini come from the area. Illinois will have four players competing at Olympia Fields: Vukic, fellow freshman Toshiki Matsuya, ITA preseason No. 6 Jared Hiltzik and No. 44 Tim Kopinski. Kopinski says the more matches he gets to play, the better he performs, so playing in the early season invite provides a chance to get his match count up against quality opponents. The OFCC/Fighting Illini Invite is also one of the few collegiate meets in the country played on clay courts. Kopinski said it

Olympia Fields Country Club/Fighting Illini Invite When: Friday through Sunday in Olympia Fields, Ill. Quick notes: Four Illini will compete in this loaded early-season tournament. Freshman Aleks Vukic is coming off of a semifinal appearance last weekend, and preseason No. 6 Jared Hiltzik last helps that the Illini have prepared for the unusual surface by practicing on the Champaign Country Club’s clay courts, but Vukic will feel be right in his element. “I went to Spain in January (and) February, and basically for six months, I played on clay, so this feels like home right now,” Vukic said. “I’m looking forward to playing some Americans on clay, that’s for sure.” While it’s an early season meet, Dancer knows what he wants to see from the Illini. “I want them to compete their tails off,” Dancer said. “I want them to rep-

played in the inaugural American Collegiate Invite at the US Open. The Illini will face Memphis, who outed them in last year’s NCAA tournament. Hidden stat: Kopinski is a part of the nation’s preseason No. 2 doubles team. He went 4-0 at this tournament last year and was named Most Outstanding Player.

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resent their school with class, dignity, toughness (and) sportsmanship.”

Christopher can be reached at cmkenne2 @dailyillini.com.

Peterson faces uncertain future after deactivation BY ROCHELLE OLSON AND MATT VENSEL MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

If Adrian Peterson won’t play for the Vikings until his legal case comes to a conclusion, he might not play again this season. After the Vikings placed the star running back on the exempt/ commissioner’s permission list early Wednesday, his lawyer hinted a trial for Peterson in Texas wouldn’t happen until 2015. Rusty Hardin said no plea negotiations were occurring and that he has “no reason to believe” the case, in which Peterson is charged with a felony for injuring one of his children during discipline, won’t go to trial in about nine months as Montgomery County (Texas) prosecutors previously indicated. Hardin said he will know more about the schedule after Peterson’s fi rst hearing Oct. 8 in front of District Judge Kelly Case. In a written statement, Hardin said Peterson wants to “continue his work in the NFL and contribute to his team and community. In order to do so, he is prepared to resolve this matter in the appropriate legal forum rather than the court of public opinion.” The Vikings benched Peterson in the face of public pressure, two days after reinstating him. “We made a mistake,” said coowner Zygi Wilf at a morning news conference, “and we needed to get this right.” The move will keep him away from the team, but he will be paid. General Manager Rick Spielman said the Vikings initiated talks with the NFL to determine a course of action. “Only the commissioner can grant that exemption,” Spielman said. “We worked very hard with Adrian and his agent, Ben Dogra, to work through this. “This can only be granted in unique cases.” Minneapolis-based Target told its stores on Wednesday to remove all Peterson-related merchandise from its sales floors. “Taking into account the feedback from our guests, and in light of team’s most recent actions, we are opting to remove Peterson merchandise from our stores and Target.com,” Molly Snyder, a Target spokeswoman, said in an email.

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Vikings running back Adrian Peterson makes his way to the bench in Cincinnati on Dec. 22. Peters has been charged with a felony for injuring one of his children during discipline, but his lawyers hinted that he wouldn’t go to trial until 2015. Wednesday’s actions appeared to satisfy one large corporate sponsor—US Bank. US Bank spokesman Dana Ripley said the company “agrees with the Minnesota Vikings’ decision to place Adrian Peterson on the NFL’s exempt list until the legal proceedings are completed. We have been in close communication with the Vikings organization for the past couple of days fi rmly expressing our perspective.” The NFL released a statement saying, “This is a good decision that will allow Adrian Peterson to resolve his personal situation and the Vikings to return the focus to the football field.” The 2012 NFL MVP issued a statement on Monday defending his discipline of children while also regretting the extent of the

use of a switch on the 4-year-old. The NFL Players Association also released a statement Wednesday morning saying, “Adrian Peterson made a decision to take a voluntary leave with pay to take care of his personal and legal issues. The NFLPA and NFL worked with Adrian and the Minnesota Vikings to resolve this unique situation. We support this decision and hope the best for him and his family.” Nike suspended its contract with Peterson, and a spokesperson for Radisson, which on Monday was the fi rst corporate sponsor to at least temporarily sever ties with the Vikings, said Wednesday the company would not change its stance in light of the team deciding not to play Peterson.

“We’re standing fi rm on the suspension, for right now,” said Molly Biwer, vice president for communications and public relations for Carlson and Carlson Hotels, the corporate umbrella for Minnesota-based Radisson. “Obviously, as you’ll see from [today’s] news conference, our banner will not be displayed.” Peterson was deactivated by the Vikings on Friday, after a warrant was issued in his home state. Peterson was not at TCF Bank Stadium on Sunday as the Vikings lost their home opener 30-7 to the New England Patriots. The team’s top decision makers decided a day later to welcome Peterson back. By early Wednesday morning, however, the Vikings had reconsidered and issued a statement

from the Wilfs, which read in part: “This has been an ongoing and deliberate process since last Friday’s news. In conversations with the NFL over the last two days, the Vikings advised the League of the team’s decision to revisit the situation regarding Adrian Peterson. In response, the League informed the team of the option to place Adrian on the Exempt/ Commissioner’s Permission list, which will require that Adrian remain away from all team activities while allowing him to take care of his personal situation until the legal proceedings are resolved. After giving the situation additional thought, we have decided this is the appropriate course of action for the organization and for Adrian.”

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Safety flagged for targeting will miss 1st half of game against Pitt Panthers

game-winning 42-yard field goal and probably would’ve no matter who the free safety was. The ejection just hurried Iowa’s demise. “I knew it right away,� Lomax said of the fi rsthalf suspension this week. “I knew the rules for it. I just have to stay in the fi lm room and be there for the guys who will be playing in the fi rst half.� That guy is Gair, a 6-2, 200-pounder from Plano, Texas. Other than the offsides, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz thought he was OK against the Cyclones. It was a small sample size, less than a quarter, and Iowa’s defense was crumbling in a contain mode, so it’s difficult to draw any conclusions. “He’s going to have to do well this week because he’s going to be out there the fi rst half,� Ferentz said. “He stepped in and did a competent job. Hopefully, now he can build on that.� Tackling and getting defenders to the ball will be front and

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IOWA CITY — The other half of Jordan L oma x’s ta rgeti ng penalty kicks in this week. The junior free safety, ejected in the fourth quarter of last week’s loss to Iowa State, will have to sit out the fi rst half when the Hawkeyes (2-1) travel to Pitt (3-0) on Saturday. T he sudden ness of Lomax’s ejection threw Iowa’s defense. Sophomore Anthony Gair replaced him and in his fi rst series was called for an offsides penalty. Iowa State qu a r ter b ack Sam Richardson was in the process of putting kicker Cole Netten in position to boot the

center this week. Pitt is a multithreat offense, but its main cog is 250 -pound running back James Conner, who’s fourth in the country with 181.0 yards a game. Running up and meeting Conner in a violent manner will be one of Gair’s main jobs Saturday. “I think I’ll be OK,� Gair said. “I got some of the nerves out last game. I’ll just focus on what I have to do and just get my mind right.� Targeting remains a touchy subject. No one will question the rule’s intent, which is player safety. The “intent� part of the rule is probably the most difficult element to swallow for coaches, players. Straight from the NCAA rule book: Rule 9-1-3 — Targeting and initiating contact with the crown of the helmet. No player shall target and initiate contact against an opponent with the crown (top) of his helmet. When in question, it is a foul. Rule 9-1-4: Targeting and initiating contact to

head or neck area of a defenseless player. No player shall target and initiate contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent w ith the hel met, forearm, fist, elbow or shoulder. When in question, it is a foul. Ninety-eight percent of targeting calls come from hits on receivers, roughing the passer penalties, hits to the ball carrier, either the quarterback or a runner, in one of two positions, upright or going to the ground or blindside blocks. The rule specifically defi nes a “target� this way, “to take aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with an apparent intent that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball.� Another key element is where the contact is initiated (high on the player’s body or head) and it goes beyond contact with the helmet. In this case, Lomax hit ISU wide receiver Jarvis West in the head

with his shoulder. West left the game and didn’t return. He’s expected to be OK this week.

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This was the first time since the rule was enacted in 2013 that the Hawkeyes have had a player ejected. Last season at Ohio State, OSU cornerback Bradley Roby was ejected for a high hit on tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz. “Most people would agree, it’s a hard rule to offi ciate,� Ferentz said. “There are going to be a lot of mixed opinions. My feeling when it all started was

“but it’s easier said than done.� “ . . . It’s one of those things, like a lot of bangbang plays. It’s open to interpretation. I think the intent of the rule is outstanding. To me, when everybody in the stadium says, ‘Whoa, look at that, that’s targeting.’ That’s how I look at it. We saw one of those last year, helmet to helmet on a guy that didn’t have a chance to defend himself. I get that. “It’s a tough thing. It’s the way it goes. You still have to play aggressively.� The teaching moment from this is . . . “All you can do is know when to lay off,� cornerback Greg Mabin said. “Don’t duck your head and don’t lean your shoulder into it. (But) you really can’t even think about it. You can’t go out there and play scared. You can’t think about it, you have to react. You try your best to avoid it, but if it happens, there’s nothing you can do about it.�

when everybody in the stadium says, ‘whoa,’ that’s when a guy should get tossed out. That’s my personal feeling, personal commentary. A tough rule to officiate.� What does Iowa defensive coordinator and secondary coach Phil Parker tell his players in regard to this rule? “He tells us to aim low,� Lomax said. “If we do get into a situation like that, make sure to keep your head up. That makes it a harder call for the refs. If you have your head up, they usually won’t call it.� The fl ag came out. The play was reviewed, and that’s the change for this season. If a player is deemed not to have committed the targeting penalty, the fl ag is picked up. In this case, Lomax was called for a personal foul (15 yards) and targeting was upheld in review (ejection). “I t hought he was trying to avoid targeting. That was my view of it,� Ferentz said,

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Jameis Winston has been suspended for the first half of No. 1 FSU’s game Saturday after making a sexually lewd comment on the Florida State campus Tuesday. Florida State interim president Garnett Stokes and athletic director Stan Wilcox, in a joint statement, announced the suspension of the Heisman Trophy winner following “offensive and vulgar� comments he made on campus Tuesday. “Student-athletes are expected to act in a way that reflects dignity and respect for other,� the statement read. Winston also will “undergo internal discipline� and the athletic department will have no further comment, according to the statement. As a result, Winston will

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FSU quarterback Jameis Winston reportedly stood up on a table on campus and yelled a sexually obscene remark, which students then tweeted about. The remarks led to his suspension from the first half of FSU’s game on Saturday.

“We’re deciding and talking as things go on right now,� Fisher said. When the coach was asked if he was frustrated, Fisher responded, “You don’t ever want any kind of instances, but we have to keep learning and educating. But we have to make better decisions, we have to make good decisions on things. And we’ll try to continue to do that. And try to educate.� Winston has been praised for his on-field accolades during the past year. But for all the goodwill he’s accumulated on the gridiron, he is struggling to stay out of the spotlight off the field. It’s unclear whether the student tweets are accurate. The Orlando Sentinel asked FSU officials for comment repeatedly Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, but the school opted not to address the issue.

miss the fi rst half of a key ACC home game against No. 22 Clemson Saturday. Sean Maguire, a redshirt sophomore, is expected to start in place of Winston. During an ACC teleconference Wednesday morning dominated by questions about Winston, FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said he was disappointed in the star quarterback’s conduct. The Heisman winner was the subject of tweets from Florida State students on Tuesday. The FSU quarterback reportedly stood up on a table on campus and yelled a sexually obscene remark that is supposed to be a reference from a popular online video-turned meme. Deadspin reported the tweets first. Fisher said he spoke with Winston about the incident. At the time, Fisher was still mulling whether to suspend Winston.

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presented with the option to watch only one football game Thursday night, what will you choose? Will you watch No. 5 Auburn travel to No. 20 Kansas State, or will you watch the 0-2 Buccaneers face off against the 1-1 Atlanta Falcons? Clearly the answer is the college game, a nd this discussio n i sn’t even close. Though the calendar only reads September 18, this game will resemble a high-stakes November matchup. Teams ranked fifth in the nation usually do not play these huge, non-conference games this early in the season, let alone on a Thursday. Auburn is coming off of a berth in the national

title game, and will face its first serious test, and first road game, as it attempts to defend its SEC title. K-State took a downturn last season after a Fiesta Bowl appearance. By all accounts, the Wildcats look better than last year’s 8-5 squad. Tonight’s matchup also provides some history, as this will be the first time Kansas State has hosted a top-five opponent in 46 years, since No. 2 Penn State visited in 1969. It is also only the fourth meeting between the two, and Auburn emerged victorious in the previous three. It’s still e a rly i n both seasons, but ever yone knows that one loss carries a lot more weight for a college team than an NFL team. A win for Auburn boosts its playoff resume, should the Tigers remain unscathed in the brutal SEC West division. A win for Kansas State

Clearly the answer is the college game, and this discussion isn’t even close.

pushes the Wildcats near the top of the Big 12, ranked behind Oklahoma and Baylor. The Big 12 as a whole desperately needs this win to boost the conference’s national profile. That last paragraph sounds pretty odd. The Big 12 is home to Oklahoma and Texas, two perennial powerhouses, and Baylor, an emerging program. Former-BCS buster TCU joined the conference a few years back and Oklahoma State always has a puncher’s chance to win the conference. But alas, such is the life for a conference that isn’t the SEC or the PAC-12, who dominate their competition and the college news cycles. The NFL has surely been dominating the news cycle the last week, but there is minimal excitement for tonight’s game. It is a divisional matchup, but the Buccaneers are just plain bad and Atlanta’s offense has no protection for Matt Ryan. Neither of these teams are serious Super Bowl contenders. Last week’s SteelersRavens matchup had a spike in viewership, which can be attributed to the ongoing Ray Rice story-

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Tigers defensive end Dee Ford sacks Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston in the BCS National Championship game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 6. line. Even without controversy, the NFL will have more viewers than the NCAA on Thursday night, simply because it’s the NFL. It’s a shame though, because I do believe college games played on Thursdays are truly spectacular. Who can forget

when No. 15 Rutgers upset No. 3 Louisville, and a sea of red swarmed the field? Or when Oregon State upset No. 1 USC in 2008? These games become borderline insane when the regular season is nearing the end. Any upsets that occur on Thursdays set the tone for the rest of the

weekend. College football is a wacky sport, and Thursday games serve as that reminder.

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Notre Dame responds to fraud investigation SOUTH BEND — In an address to the university’s faculty Tuesday afternoon, Notre Dame president the Rev. John I. Jenkins, addressed a number of topics, including the ongoing academic fraud investigation that involves five Irish football players. According to The Observer, Notre Dame’s student newspaper, Jenkins said the athletic

department’s compliance office became aware of “a potentially problematic situation involving a current student athlete as well as a student who served for a brief time as a paid student employee of the athletic department, although that position had no role in academic tutoring or advising of student athletes.� Irish coach Brian Kelly, whose team is 3-0 and ranked No. 9 nationally, said Sunday that, as of Friday, none of the five had gone through a hearing process before an honesty committee.

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Ty Isaac of Southern California scores a 4-yard touchdown as Chad Whitener of Cal tackles from behind on Nov. 9. Isaac will not be on the Wolverines roster this season.

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Wavier denied: Michigan’s Ty Isaac leaves field until 2015 ANN ARBOR — Michigan football coach Brady Hoke said yesterday that running back Ty Isaac will not be on the Wolverines roster this season. Hoke said that the NCA A denied Isaac’s appeal of a hardship waiver, which would h ave a l lowed Isaac

to play immediately. The NCAA denied the initial waiver request last month. Isaac, a former five-star recruit and a 6-foot-3, 225-pound tailback, transferred from Southern California to Michigan earlier this summer to be closer to his family in Joliet, Illinois. Hoke said Isaac is currently working with Michigan’s scout team. He will be eligible to play in 2015 and will have three seasons of eligibility.

Oklahoma State’s Chris Perry hangs on to Penn State’s Matt Brown on Feb. 16. Penn State hopes to break an NCAA attendance record when it faces Iowa on Feb. 8.

Rivals Penn State, Iowa to take floor UNIVERSITY PARK — Get ready to rumble. The Penn State wrestling team will host Iowa at 2 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Bryce Jordan Center, the athletic department announced Wednesday. Penn State set an NCAA attendance record last season when the Nittany Lions

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Wide receiver DaVaris Daniels of Notre Dame catches a pass. An ongoing academic fraud investigation at Notre Dame involves five Irish football players. As of Friday, none have gone through a hearing process.

beat Pittsburgh 28-9 in front of 15,996 fans at the Bryce Jordan Center. They’ll try to break that mark against bitter rival Iowa. Since taking over the Penn State program before the 2009-10 season, coach Cael Sanderson went 2-3 against Tom Brands’ Hawkeyes. The two programs have combined to win the past seven NCAA team championships, with Penn State winning the past four.

Bears’ rookie CB Fuller wows with 1st career interception against 49ers BY DAN WIEDERER MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

The kid’s athleticism was obvious. Go ahead and review Kyle Fuller’s first career NFL interception from Sunday night, the one he made in the fourth quarter against the 49ers, breaking on a pass toward receiver Michael Crabtree, swatting at the ball and somehow clawing it right into

his belly. Then, in a blur, Fuller was off on a 20-yard return. His instincts pack plenty of promise too. Fuller’s second career pick came only 4 minutes after the first, a result of his vision and feel. On that play, he felt secure enough to drop off his primary coverage responsibility on Crabtree in order to cut off a Colin Kaepernick pass deeper down the

field toward tight end Derek Carrier. “Just in the right place at the right time,� Fuller said. In a blink, two takeaways led to two crucial Bears touchdowns with both requiring a combination of poise and aggressiveness. From a rookie. But go deeper than that with Fuller. That’s what veteran receiver Brandon Marshall suggested. When

asked in the postgame revelry after the Bears’ 28-20 win at Levi’s Stadium what specifically has impressed him about the 22-year-old’s skill set, Marshall thought it through. Sure, there’s the quickness, the toughness and the intelligence. But then there’s the rookie’s almost preternatural composure. “He has no fear,� Marshall said. “There’s no wide

receiver and there’s no moment that’s bigger than him. He has a great skill set. But better yet, his attitude is amazing.� The Bears suddenly will need all of that and more from their first-round pick. With the news Monday that 33-year-old cornerback Charles Tillman is headed for injured reserve and lost for the season with another injury to his right tri-

ceps, Fuller’s workload and responsibilities are about to spike significantly. Rookie mistakes will be inevitable. But with seemingly no moment too big for him, Fuller delivered in a big way Sunday, providing what could become two of the biggest moments in the season to steer the Bears from the 0-2 cliff they were headed toward.

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