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Government shutdown focus of local protest BY ELEANOR BLACK STAFF WRITER

Not even the threat of rain could stop members of the Champaign-Urbana community from meeting outside of Rep. Rodney Davis’ Champaign office to ask him for his vote in reopening the government. As the government shutdown entered its third week, MoveOn, a progressive public policy advocacy group, organized protests at more than 50 congressional offices across the nation. About 30 members of the community attended the protest for the 13th district, which was organized by Robert Naiman, policy director at Just Foreign Policy. “We want Rep. Davis to disassociate himself from the extreme Republican right wing that has shut down the government in order to try and take health insurance away from millions of Americans who are getting it through the Affordable Care Act,” Naiman said. “We want him to vote to raise the debt ceiling without attaching these hostage-taking demands on health care, social security and Medicare.” Many other attendees at the event also voiced their support for the ACA, including Jim Duffett, executive director at Campaign for Better Healthcare. “We believe that health care is not a privilege, but a right. We’ve been pushing for affordable, accessible guaranteed health care for everyone for nearly 25 years,” he said. “Obamacare gets us extremely close, and it has already been operating.” He added that the ACA would help hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans, who would previously have been unable to receive health insurance. “For any party, Democrat or Republican, whether you don’t like a certain bill and you want

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A group of students walk past a memorial that was placed in front of McKinley Health Center, where University student Mimi Liu died after being hit by a truck on Lincoln Avenue on Oct. 9.

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Mimi Liu Accident victim remembered as talented pianist with a big heart

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Mimi Liu’s smile could light up the whole room. The loving, optimistic 20-year-old is remembered best by her friends as a musically talented pianist with a big heart and a bright future. On Oct. 9, Ms. Liu, of Chicago, was killed by a pickup truck on Lincoln Avenue. Since then, candles have been placed along the sidewalk in memory of her life. “She was the type of person who, if you ever needed anything, she would drop

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whatever she was doing and just be there for you,” said Winnie Mei, Ms. Liu’s roommate and junior in ACES. Mei said she met Ms. Liu their freshman year of college. They spent a lot of time together their sophomore year, even though they didn’t live together. The two became close friends and lived in an apartment together this year. Mei said Ms. Liu loved to play piano, cook and be with friends. She was also involved in the Minority Business Students Association, where she was on the

place award at a CFAS concert. A winner’s concert, held in November at the Chicago Cultural Center, will also be dedicated to Ms. Liu. Ms. Liu has been competing in the CFAS’s competitions since she was young and has won several awards, including the Virginia Geyser

The Chinese Fine Arts Society in Chicago, where Mimi has been a member since 2003, is naming a scholarship award after her at their music festival this Sunday, according to Christini DeMarea, executive director at CFAS. The scholarship will be given as the first

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Mimi Liu attended the Merit School of Music in Chicago. She is shown playing the piano at the Performathon concert in February 2009.

publicity committee. At the University, Ms. Liu was a junior who transferred from DGS into ACES this year. She was majoring in agricultural and consumer economics with a concentration in agribusiness, said her academic adviser Jessa Barnard. Barnard was Ms. Liu’s adviser since August of this year. Although their relationship was primarily academic, Barnard said Ms. Liu was proactive in seek-

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Scholarship for playing in an ensemble, DeMarea said. For the past two summers and last spring break, Ms. Liu also worked as an intern for CFAS. She was the project manager of the music festival and worked on the planning, even when she was away at school, DeMarea

to use it as extortion for shutting down the government and causing this country to default ... is appalling,” Duffett said. Davis released a statement on Oct. 1 condemning the shutdown, adding that Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama must negotiate in order to reopen the government. “Like most of those I represent, I remain opposed to Obamacare, but a government shutdown is absolutely unacceptable,” said Davis in the press release. In addition to voicing his support for the ACA, David Green, a social policy analyst at the University’s Center for Prevention Research and Development and 13th District Democratic Congressional candidate, went to the protest to push for the reopening of the government. “I came to this protest because the immediate need is to get the government funding again, get people back to work, get people the services they need and oppose the extortionist tactics of the Tea Party and the Republican leadership in Congress,” he said. Green is asking for Rep. Davis and Congress to work for “genuinely people-driven social programs in this country,” which he believes Davis has not done. Similar to Green, Gov. Quinn criticized the government shutdown at a press conference held in Urbana on Monday. “I asked every elected official in Illinois, I’ve written letters to Boehner, the Speaker of the House. I’ve written letters to our Congressional members of the House,” he said. “We’re in a very serious emergency and we have to reopen the government right away.”

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said. During her time in college, Ms. Liu would also come back to play concerts at CFAS. “Honestly, I’ve worked with a lot of young people in my life and she was very special; she stands out,” DeMarea said. “I hope her parents know that she is in our hearts and I think she impacted a lot of people ... the MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINI

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Walking down Green Street, students come across panhandlers who ask for spare change and shake their cups. Instead of simply dropping in a quarter or two, students now have the opportunity to directly help fund agencies that provide aid to the homeless. Four blue parking meters, located on the sidewalks of downtown Champaign and within Campustown, were set up as a part of the “Make Real Change” initiative.

Resolution in Syria distant, say some campus Syrians

Make Real Change allows for direct donations The Make Real Change initiative hits the streets of downtown Champaign and Campustown in an effort to reduce panhandling and direct the homeless to the community’s offered resources. All proceeds from the listed parking meters will support Community Elements, a mental health agency that provides shelters to the homeless.

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with the OPCW so the U.S. could avoid a military strike. Many from the University, including students, alumni and faculty with Syrian ties offer different takes on Assad’s rule and the future for the country. Ryan Hendrickson, visiting political science professor of international relations at the University, said that if the U.S. did intervene in Syria, it would have a short, limited strike in Syria. Whether that would do anything to resolve the issues in Syria, Hendrickson said, “no one really knows.” “The conditions are just absolutely awful in Syria, so

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SYRIA it’s hard to see how it can get much worse,” Hendrickson said. “When a leader of a country is killing children, mothers and (the) elderly, it’s hard to see how it can get much worse.” Adham Sahloul, junior in LAS, had a similar sentiment and said that the regime “blatantly needs to be punished.” Sahloul was a research intern during the summer of 2012 with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, an advocacy group that supports the Syrian opposition. Sahloul said he questioned what the role or power the international community has “if they’re not going to punish” the Syrian regime. On Friday, the OPCW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its role in ridding Syria of chemical weapons. But the extent of the impact of this continues to have its critics. “Why does it matter?” Sahloul asked. “Assad has used chemical weapons already multiple times ... he can continue to kill people with conventional weapons.” Hendrickson pointed out that aside from the issue of chemical weapons, there are three very strong factions in Syria that will play a role in keeping it fragmented with or without the country’s chemical weapons present. “Even after global intervention, there will be continuing civil war; the government, the rebel groups and al-Qaida elements will still be there,” Hendrickson said. Sahloul, a Syrian-American student who’s family comes from Homs, Syria — a place he said today is like “hell on earth” — believes that progress in Syria will be years down the road. Sahloul recalls how the current confl ict started on the coattails of the Arab Spring and gradually escalated to the problems we see today. Some kids in the town of Daraa, south of the Syrian capital city Damascus, wrote on a wall “Your time is next, Doctor,” addressing Assad, who had previously worked as an army doctor. Soldiers from the Syrian Army’s Fourth Armored Division, which is headed by Assad’s brother Maher al-Assad, then detained these kids, tortured them and dropped them back at their parent’s homes. This mistreatment led to outrage, and protests erupted throughout Syria. The Syrian regime responded by shooting, detaining and torturing people and using their army to keep people in line. Because of the government’s tactics, many soldiers defected and joined the opposition. This was two-and-a-half years ago. Today, the confl ict, violence and number of casualties have grown. Sahloul said that an intervention should have been done years ago, but a lack

of involvement and attention from the global community has allowed Syria to escalate to the tragic situation we have today. “You have all these young people, with nothing to live for and everything to die for,” Sahloul said. “These are people willing to do whatever it takes to protect themselves and their families.” Sahloul’s times with SETF allowed him to spend time with activists who frequently visit Syria and who analyze the country’s situation fi rst hand. Sahloul said that SETF is in Syria at least every two months and because of this, he believes that the longer this issue drags on, the window of peaceful nuance will go away as sectarian hatred grows and atrocities continue. Sahloul’s father is heavily involved with the country’s issues, and works for the Syria American Medical Society. He visits Syria every two months to set up medical camps and provide aid. “The medical situation there is dismal,” Sahloul said. “People say you’re better off being dead than injured in Assad’s Syria.” Deena Darwan, senior in Media, is a Syrian native whose family lived in Damascus. “In 2006, we moved from America to Syria and we’ve lived there ever since, but now the last person in my family to leave Syria was my dad in December,” she said. She said she was visiting her family in Syria in March 2011 when the uprisings began. “I was in Lebanon at school when it all started and would visit my family in Damascus. But once the uprising started, check points increased and soldiers would search our stuff and look through our laptops,” Darwan said. “And soldiers would do whatever they wanted to us when we crossed the checkpoint.” Darwan said that she could feel the tension in the atmosphere during the early days of the uprisings and said it is drastically different than the atmosphere in the United States. “We were scared that if one of us said something against the government, another one of us would get kidnapped,” she said. “Honestly right now I can’t even imagine how people are still living there.” But through the tragic times, rays of good grace are still evident, Darwan said. She explained that people who have left the country are not selling their homes, but are rather letting families from the affected areas sleep in their houses and take shelter there if their homes are in safer areas. “Their cities are completely demolished, and they have nowhere to go, so people want to help in anyway they can,” Darwan said. In Sahloul’s opinion, true progress for Syria will not occur

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until Assad no longer has power. “We have to move Syria to its next chapter in history. What is going on is bad for the global economy and a terrible example for international law,” he said. “In Syria, no one sees the light at the end of the tunnel, but you will not SEE the light at the end of the tunnel, you have to imagine it. The Syrian people want what I have: the ability to think freely,” Sahloul said. Yassar Bittar, University alumna, is a community outreach coordinator for the National Coalition of Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, which she describes as an official political opposition body. She is a Syrian American whose family comes from Homs as well, a city she said she believes is mostly demolished. Bittar explained that despite the atrocities occurring in Syria, a better future is possible through international negotiations. Bittar is also a member of The Syrian American Council, an organization that provides humanitarian aid to Syria and information to the United States about what is happening abroad. Through this council, she said she visited liberated areas in Syria twice in the past year, and, while on her trips, witnessed the horrors of Syrian life. Although they were in liberated territories, these areas were still prone to air strikes and bombardment, Bittar said. “I witnessed a fighter jet drop a bomb on a building 300 meters away from me. The windows of the building I was in shattered. This killed 18 people, 10 of whom were actually children,” Bittar said. Bittar also imagines the light at the end of the tunnel for Syria and believes that the humanitarian work she saw while in Syria greatly helps the country’s grim situation. “I saw grassroots organizations that had come together to run the daily needs of the people and the town, whether it be humanitarian work or security work,” she said. She said that other groups within the liberated areas were also forming to organize cities and towns and bring people simple resources like electricity. “Amazing things were going on, there were Syrians, for the fi rst time, able to democratically elect their leaders, and they lived life. It was unreal for me to see,” Bittar said.“Yes, the longer this confl ict drags on the more difficult it will be for reconciliation efforts to take place. You will see sectarian tensions rising, you will see the extremists that are unwanted by the Syrian people rising, but the goal is political settlement. We want a transitioning body that will keep the institutions that I saw slowly rise, as well, stay in place.”

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NCSA hosts Petascale Day, celebrates big computing BY BRITTNEY NADLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications hosted Petascale Day on Tuesday. The Blue Waters supercomputer was open to the public in a “celebration of big computing and big data.” A petascale supercomputer refers to a computer capable of performing a quadrillion calculations a second, also referred to as a petaflop. It is a feat Blue Waters can tredecuple as it runs more than 13 quadrillion calculations per second. A human would need to perform one calculation each second for the next 31 million years to run one quadrillion calculations, according to the NCSA website. Blue Waters contains 25 petabytes of disk space as well, which is enough space to store all of the printed documents in all of the world’s libraries, according to the NCSA website. Petascale Day is a chance for NCSA staff to talk about the power of the supercomputer, how it’s used and how it benefits scientists, engineers and the University, said Trish Barker, NCSA public affairs coordinator. “I think for anyone who is associated with the University of Illinois as a student or as a faculty member or as a staff (member), it’s an interesting thing you can brag about ... that we have one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world right here on our campus,” she said. “We have these amazing researchers on our campus who are really tackling these huge problems and learning new things every day.” Petascale Day was a two-part event that included self-paced tours of the supercomputer as well as 15-minute viewings of 3D visualizations of scientific phenomena at the NCSA building. The date of the event is no coincidence. Oct. 15 was derived from the fact one quadrillion in scientific notation is one times 10 to the fifteenth power. Currently, the supercomputer is being used to study molecular dynamics, space weather and climate change, among other topics,

Barker said. “The type of computing we’re talking about with the supercomputer is really different from the type of computing most people do in their everyday lives, so it’s an interesting moment, a revelation in a way, of this different type of computer, this different type of way to use computers,” Barker said. A marked floor path and informational signs guided visitors through the building all the way to the supercomputer, where visitors could get a feel for its immense size, Barker said. She added that Blue Waters is around 5,000 square feet and is very loud. Scientific data transformed into animations and images was displayed at the NCSA building, including the Orion Nebula and hurricane simulations, created by NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Laboratory, Barker said. The laboratory creates datadriven scientific visualizations that have been viewed at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, IMAX theaters, planetariums and other venues. “What’s exciting for the people at NCSA is that (they) really get to help be pioneers in this space every day ... (they) get to be explorers,” said Evan Burness, NCSA private sector program manager. “We get to open our doors and show the community what we get to work with, and that’s really exciting because we’d like to share our work with others.” Guides from public affair groups and technical support staff were available at both the Blue Waters and NCSA facilities to answer questions. A common question Barker often answers is, “What is the supercomputer doing?” “We can explain a little bit about the types of scientifi c research people use the supercomputer for ... and we can talk a little bit more about how some of those things actually have an impact on our lives,” she said. Blue Waters is available for tours year-round, and some professors at the University use the

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supercomputer as an educational opportunity. Indranil Gupta, associate professor of computer science, sent his Distributed Systems class on a tour in order for his students to see where the programming they’re being taught actually goes into effect. “Exposure is important,” Gupta said. “It’s curiosity, which is that almost everyone uses some piece of software that resides on a data center like Blue Waters, whether you’re using Gmail, whether you’re using Facebook or whether you’re just using something like Skype. It concretizes some of these notions that otherwise are not known for general public.” From class field trips to family tours to even going alone, Blue Waters staff encourage everybody to experience the facility. “I absolutely encourage everyone to come out and visit because they’re going to see something really special,” Burness said. “Even if they don’t fully understand it, that’s okay, I don’t fully understand it. You don’t have to. This is one of the truly special and arguably unique resources in the country for doing this kind of work.”

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Award-winning writer highlights LGBT activism

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Dustin Lance Black, Academy award winning writer of “Milk” and civil rights activist, spoke at the I-Rooms in the Illini Union on Tuesday.

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METERS Each coin collected will help fund TIMES Center, a transitional living program that serves Champaign County homeless men. This center is a part of Community Elements, which is a mental health agency that provides treatment services for individuals and families. “If you were to just hand money to a panhandler, you don’t know what they are using it for,” said Erin Lippitz, Champaign Center for Partnership’s executive director. Moe Burtson has been panhandling for the last thirty years and said he spends the money he receives on “beer, hamburgers and weed.” Sitting on a bench outside of Noodles & Company on Green Street, he said a typical day is sad, dirty, cold and broke, and “if I wake up at all, it’s a good day.”

Make Real Change The Champaign Center for Partnership teamed up with the City of Champaign and Community Elements to address the issue of panhandling, wanting to create a recognizable place where people can redirect donations. Community Elements handles distribution of the funds, while the City of Champaign collects money from the meters and the Champaign Center for Partnership promotes the initiative. The first four meters were installed by Champaign Public Works and funded by the city. TJ Blakeman, Champaign Center’s former executive director, inquired about the meters after seeing similar programs in cities like St. Louis. The center, which serves as a downtown association that promotes member businesses throughout Champaign, received several recent panhandling complaints from business owners. Between Aug. 16, when the program began, and Sept. 1, the city collected $34. “We don’t expect this to bring in thousands of dollars every month. It’s just not that type of program,” Lippitz said. “The point is to make people aware of the issue and encourage them to direct their giving to places that actually help people.” Community Elements offers a variety of resources, including the TIMES Center. Sixtyfive cents will provide a meal at the center, while $29 provides a night of care at the shelter; this includes meals, assistance with employment skills, budgeting and a medical screening, said Community Elements CEO Sheila Ferguson. Ferguson said the organization started a relationship with the city, knowing they could not meet the needs of all the homeless within Champaign County without support. “This helps us serve more people with the limited funds that we have,” Ferguson said. “The cost of the TIMES Center is a little more than what people would anticipate for a shelter but that’s because we really want to provide the services that people need to move to self sufficiency.” Ferguson hopes that with the national attention to mental

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MEMORIAL ing out opportunities for her future. Barnard was also Ms. Liu’s instructor in Careers in Agribusiness, a career preparation seminar. “She really blossomed throughout the semester in that course,” Barnard said. “She was very thorough in her journal writing (and) in her paper writing.” Barnard added that an email was sent to students in the department of agricultural and consumer economics about gathering cards and letters to give to Ms. Liu’s family. Ms. Liu attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School and the Merit School of Music in Chicago, where she played piano. She was also involved with The Chinese Fine Arts Society in Chicago. Throughout high school, Ms. Liu studied piano at the Merit School of Music, said Timothy Riordan, who was the artistic director at the school when Ms. Liu attended. Riordan said he knew Ms. Liu for a long time, and she was one

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0RUH RQOLQH See more According to a bi-yearly report on this story featured in released by the Champaign Countoday’s Vidcast. Visit ty Continuum of Care, there were 214 homeless in Champaign Coun- www.DailyIllini.com ty in Jan. 2013. However, these numbers reflect new criteria which resulted in fewer people “I give because I feel guilty, being classified as homeless com- and I want to be nice,” Rosales pared to previous reports. said. “One came into my work Jason Greenly, a member of the and could not afford food, so I Neighborhood Services Depart- bought him some, and then he ment, noted that not all who are started creeping me out. I had my homeless panhandle and not all coworker ask him to leave. I’m panhandlers are homeless. going broke because I feel like all “The majority of our homeless my tip money is going to them.” people are not panhandling on the Rather than directly giving street, but they are going out and funds to panhandlers, Lippitz trying to find jobs,” Lippitz said. encourages people to tell the “We kind of feel they (panhan- homeless that they are putting dlers) are trying to make a busi- money in the blue meters and that ness out of it.” they should seek help at CommuFerguson said the soup kitchen nity Elements. at TIMES Center alone is servThe University of Illinois ing more than 69,000 meals, and Police Department interacts it is not Champaign County’s only with panhandlers “as close to soup kitchen. As the weather gets daily as you can find,” said Skip colder annually, the number of Frost, deputy chief of police. Both homeless people the center sees UIPD and the Champaign Police increases. But more than 40 out Department deal with Campusof 50 beds are already being used, town panhandling. which means they will quickly “Of course you have compasbe at capacity when the weather sion and want to help, but by doing so you are reaffirming what they worsens. “I think homelessness is a big are doing and making it worthy issue everywhere right now with for them to continue coming the economy,” Lippitz said. “Per- back,” Frost said. “Our students sonally, I’ve noticed a lot more are great and very compassion(panhandling) in the last couple ate, so they are generous even of years. Every time I go to camif they do not have much money pus, I see more, too, and it’s start- themselves to give.” ing to spread out.” Because of Campustown’s large Lippitz said the center has population density, panhandling received several complaints, will always be an issue, Frost which she reports to the city. said. Even if one out of every 10 Additionally, JSM Development people gives money, Frost said owns several locations on Green panhandlers will still make a Street and works on an ongoing decent amount. basis with the Champaign Police Department. Future of Make Real Change “Aggressive panhandling does have negative impact on our busiLippitz is currently discussnesses and our visitors,” said Jill ing with University officials how Guth, director of commercial to address students on the issue leasing and marketing for JSM, of panhandling, especially freshin an e-mail. “Many times, visi- men and transfer students. Liptors and students may be intimi- pitz hopes to create a Universidated by the aggressive nature ty student coalition on campus and shy away from entering the so they can work together on the business.” initiative. Having worked in the CamIf the community supports the pustown area since 1997, Guth four meters that are in place, said panhandling seems to be all three organizations hope to cyclical. At certain times of the install more meters throughout year, it seems to lessen, she said, Champaign to raise money for but when the student population other organizations such as the Center for Women in Transition, returns, it increases. Ferguson said. They also plan to look into creating SMS-based Panhandling in Champaign payment plans because many stuCounty dents use debit cards instead of Though panhandling is not carrying spare change. technically illegal, it can be if “We want to keep building on it becomes aggressive, such as this pilot and give people more when someone feels threatened options to donate,” Ferguson or in danger. Panhandlers are not said. “Sometimes, panhandling allowed to follow anyone or ask is a way to support addictions that more than once. people have.” “It puts a bad face on campus and a bad face on Champaign,” Champaign city council Lippitz said. “You don’t want a member Michael LaDue, community of homeless people District 2, said time will tell harassing you and sleeping on the how effective the program sidewalk. Students have a right to is. He said the city has been working on programs similar feel safe on campus.” Crystal Rosales, freshman in to these since 1995 and “every ACES, comes into contact with penny counts.” panhandlers a couple times each week as she walks to work at Megan can be reached at Chopstix, a Chinese restaurant majones5@dailyillini.com and located at 202 E. Green St. She @meganash_jones. admits to giving spare change each time she sees them.

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of the school’s top students. She won many awards, including the Victor DeGrazia Endowed Private Lesson Scholarship, the Andrew M. and Bonnie G. Stein Endowed Private Lesson Scholarship and the Ann R. Monaco Endowed Private Lesson Scholarship. “She was widely respected, by students and faculty alike,” Riordan said. Riordan remembered how Ms. Liu would always wear beautiful dresses for her solo performances — dresses which she made herself, he said. Lauren Cheung, junior at Brown University, knew Ms. Liu since they were in seventh grade and attended high school and the Merit School of Music with her. “The first time I ever saw her play (piano), it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen a woman so in her element,” Cheung said. “I always thought that eventually she would go back to music in some way. ... Honestly, I thought she could do anything.” In high school, Ms. Liu and Cheung were also involved in the Asian American Club, where they led a dance performance at the

end of the year. Cheung said Ms. Liu was the kind of person who would invite her friends to lunch if she knew they were upset — the type of girl who spent most of her time trying to make her loved ones happy. “She loved more people than she ever expected to love her back,” Cheung said. “That was probably one of the best attributes about her and one of the reasons why I respected her as much as I did, or still do.” Ronke Sokunbi, junior at the University of Miami and another close friend, said in her group of friends from high school, Ms. Liu was the one who would be laughing in the background, while her friends were acting stupid. “She was really optimistic, and that’s how I’m trying to view this situation myself because even when things were not very good, she would always say things would get better,” Sokunbi said. Mei said that Ms. Liu had the biggest heart and always looked for the good things in people. “She was always so happy and friendly,” Mei said. “You just couldn’t not like Mimi.”

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Sports teams should consider meaning behind names

veryone has weighed in at this point: Redskins or just Washington?

Those in the sports world (and even those outside of it) arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t unfamiliar to controversy regarding team names and what they represent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just look at Chief Illiniwek over the past decade. In 1968, the National Congress of American Indians suggested that the Washington, D.C.-based football teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Redskins,â&#x20AC;? a racial descriptor for Native Americans, in its team name is offensive. Fans and non-fans alike are participating in the lengthy back-and-forth debates regarding the Washington Redskinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nickname. Even President Barack Obama suggested earlier this month that if he were the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d consider changing the nickname. And so the conversation is once again thrust back into the spotlight. Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder vehemently opposed the notion that the current nickname is offensive. To justify his point, he cites various polls as well as testimony from Native Americans that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find the name offensive. But what about the Native Americans that do find it offensive? Well, if the term is, in fact, offensive, then we should also shy away from using any term that would specifically and negatively refer to those of Asian, Hispanic or African-American descent, especially in regards to sports teams that are widely known. Unfortunately, the Washington Redskins controversy highlights the idea that we certainly have not moved past racial identification of groups of people. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perpetuated by our general ignorance of the offense, particularly toward Native Americans. We see representations of Native Americans in popular media, such as in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pocahontas,â&#x20AC;? based on a fictional account of the Native Americanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s encounters with English settlers. Or through accounts of Christopher Columbusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; journey to the Americas and his first-hand confrontations with Native Americans. We often glorify these folklore as if they are accurate representations of Native Americans. We associate real people with fictional accounts of their experiences. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of where our ignorance arises. And these images still permeate throughout American culture today. There doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear to be an end in sight. Even prominent sportscaster Bob Costas added his two cents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the middle of a Sunday night game between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, during which he said the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;Redskinsâ&#x20AC;? is undoubtedly a slur and an insult. Other news organizations and sports columnists have protested the nickname, opting to use â&#x20AC;&#x153;Washingtonâ&#x20AC;? instead while referring to the team. Politicians have pushed back as well; earlier this year, a bill was introduced in the U.S. House to void the use of the Redskins trademark. But in the end, all these efforts are futile, unless Snyder and the fan base realize itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to move on. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much different from other Native American symbols and trademarks in sports, most notably the former Chief Illiniwek mascot at the University and the Chicago Blackhawksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; name. After Obama criticized the ownership publicly in early October, a team lawyer went on radio and asked: Why arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the Blackhawks being questioned? It has been, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as loud as the questions about the Redskins. Chicago has eluded much of the national attention during a time when many other pro sports teams have moved to more politically correct images and mascots. Even after the NCAA declared a ban on the use of Chief Illiniwek as the official University symbol, the pro- and anti-Chief debates are still very much alive today. However, hope is rising that the Washington Redskins will make the right choice and will serve as an example to other sports teams and organizations using potentially offensive names. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell also remains optimistic: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m confident (Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) listening. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m confident he feels strongly about the name but also wants to do the right thing.â&#x20AC;? If Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intentions were all about doing the right thing, we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be having this conversation.

Group study sessions: effective or pointless? MATT FISHER Opinions columnist

common and popular form of studying throughout academia is group studying, but how effective is it? When you get together with your friends or classmates to study you may not be as efficient as you set out to be. On numerous occasions I have brought schoolwork over to my friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dorm as part of a group study session. When we all finally congregate, the first five minutes are pretty productive. We are focused and quiet, but then someone does something remotely humorous, one of us starts laughing, and then we all fall apart. Our group studying time ends up being a social talk-a-thon. What causes groups to fall apart so often? Is it the type of people that determine how group studying turns out, or is it the group dynamic itself, or maybe the location in which a group is studying? I believe it is a combination of all three. Admittedly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the kind of person that always wants to talk to the people that I am around, and many times when I start talking I get a little off track. Then there is the group dynamic itself. Friends gathered around studying are just asking for a long night of socializing rather than an efficient time studying. Another problem that may arise when studying in a group with

your peers is when the group falls victim to groupthink. According to the American Psychological Association, groupthink occurs when members of a group aim to reach a consensus on an issue and may therefore ignore other important factors. When you work together and you fall into this trap, you may find yourself working toward the wrong answer because the groupthink process has blinded you from the correct answer. One other variable that may determine the success of your group studying is the location. For example, group studying at your dorm is probably not the best decision. You have to deal with too many interruptions, like your other roommate or suitemateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schedules and the noise level of your fellow residents. If the room above you is throwing a huge rager then it will be quite difficult to have a quiet and focused study session for that Spanish midterm. Personally, the only circumstance in which I was successful studying in my dorm was in the afternoon by myself, door locked and my phone off. Once dinner hits and you see your friends, you can often get pressured into going to parties and other social gatherings, so you push back that seemingly unimportant exam review. Then you realize that you had no extra time to push back important studying time for an exam that is worth 50 percent of your grade. Now youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re done for. If you want to study in a group, the most successful location is most likely in our local, all-access Undergraduate Library. With group study rooms

that can be reserved by any University student, it provides the perfect environment for efficient studying. Plus, some of these rooms come equipped with features like whiteboards and laptop-to-television connectors, which could be helpful for practicing presentations. Additionally, with the thousands of resources in the form of text, digital databases and technical equipment, completing projects and researching for a paper is made that much easier. Nevertheless, studying with others has unique advantages over studying alone. For instance, with a group of people you have more sets of eyes to look over term papers and projects. Sometimes, that second review can find something that truly needs to be fixed. In fact, proofreaders and editors are some of the most important people in our society, as they are our last defense against looking dumb, rather than sounding intelligent. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any ideas for your project or term paper yet: a group could help in that situation as well. Bouncing ideas off of the group can be helpful when you

decide what direction to take your project or how you should develop your argument in a paper. The more people that you have to bounce ideas off of, the higher chance you have of formulating a quality idea. Even though group studying can end up as a total disaster, many times it can be the most productive time of your week. Remember that just like in real estate itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about location, location, location. If you study in a noisy, distracting environment, expect to be off-track and inefficient. Also, remember to choose your group wisely. Adam might be a good friend, but he talks a lot so maybe it is best if you tell him you will meet up with him at the ARC later rather than studying with him. Even though everyone has his or her own approach to studying, it may be worth your time to make an effort to try some of these suggestions. Now get off the Internet and start studying!

Now youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re d one for. If you want to study in a group, the most successful location is most likely in our local, all-access Undergraduate Library

Max is a freshman in DGS. He can be reached at mpfishe2@ dailyillini.com.

An open letter to Ciley Myrus KATE CULLEN Opinions columnist

have no interest in the spectacle that has become the transformation of a childhood star to an adult porn star â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I mean pop star. But if I did, I would write an open letter about it. Apparently theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all the rage. It would go a little something like this: Dear Ciley Myrus, It would have been easy enough for you to simply release your album, but no, you had to create an extravaganza turned social movement to act as a precursor to your already over-hyped music. Your full-on takeover of the entertainment industry is not only excessive, but also a little selfish. Would it be so difficult to leave room for the other underrated celebrities to get a moment in the spotlight? I can only imagine how Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have been duking it out behind the scenes for a small segment on E! News. T-Swift has probably made

an online dating profile just to get a little attention away from your nude pictures that never quite seem to stop. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m getting ahead of myself, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go back to where it at all began. You know what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the MTV Video Music Awards. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to say your performance was all planned in advance and that those kind of moves canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be taught, but we all know you came out of that teddy bear like a deer in headlights and did your best to play it off. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing your costume and, sure, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call it â&#x20AC;&#x153;dancing,â&#x20AC;? was so distracting or else the audience would have had to focus on the actual song you were singing. Poor Robin Thicke. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the last thing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll say on the subject. First there was the YMCA, then the Cupid Shuffle and now your outbursts on various forms of social media have prompted

a new dance craze: â&#x20AC;&#x153;twerking.â&#x20AC;? And may I say there was never another dance move that required less talent or rhythm. This move consists solely of moving around erratically while having a total disregard for the music. I can see why youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d want to adopt this move as your own considering your plethora of talents. Well played, Ciley Myrus, well played. From all the backlash youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been receiving from your dance moves and your MTV performance, it makes sense to try to make the transition from the music industry into construction, but unfortunately sex does not sell in that field of work. Now, I hate to be critical, but I think your hair gel might have seeped into your brain and clogged it up because everyone knows you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work in construction naked. You should have been wearing a hard hat.

And may I say there was never another dance move that required less talent or rhythm.

Wrecking balls are dangerous. Rookie move, Ciley. I have to say I expected more from you. But not really. For some strange reason, you seem to think people want to see pictures of you in compromising positions, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry to be the one to tell you â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you are sorely mistaken. We all know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no accident that the second the media buzz around you diminishes slightly, sneaky pictures of you in very uncomfortable looking leotards surface on the Internet. Ciley, while you think you are producing art, you are merely allowing yourself to be exploited because there is nothing calculated about being a stripper. With all of the hype surrounding you, I do hope you find time to actually sing your little songs, or whatever it is you do. Because clearly everyone is so focused on your media shenanigans that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve completely forgotten the purpose of it all. Sincerely, Someone who could not care less

Kate is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at cullen9@ dailyillini.com.

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CURSIVE others launch it. The six Campus Cursive members at the University meet about once a week at coffee shops or in the Union to write “love letters” to be placed around campus. Letters may be found in bathroom stalls, inside newspapers, by water fountains, the Quad, the Undergraduate Library or the Union. In the future, they hope to get sororities involved as a philanthropic opportunity. This Thursday, Campus Cursive will be lining Lincoln Avenue from Pennsylvania Avenue to Ohio

Street with letters in memory of Mimi Liu, the 20-year-old University student who died there in an accident on Oct. 9. The group hosted two events in the Union this past Monday and Tuesday, which were open to all students wishing to write letters to line the street. Adrienne Soong, senior in Media, came to the event after seeing a Facebook post about it, she said. She was specifically interested in writing letters for Liu, but expressed how nice the letter writing idea is. “It’s nice to get a surprise like that; it makes you smile,” Soong said. Students can be on the lookout

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for an upcoming event in November in which Campus Cursive will partner with International Justice Mission (IJM) and Carry the Fire to write letters to women who have been affected by sex-trafficking. Around Thanksgiving, they also hope to make “I’m thankful for you” cards and care packages that students can purchase for the holidays. Students interested in joining Campus Cursive can contact them through their University Campus Cursive Facebook page, where the group will also be posting information about upcoming events.

Bridget can be reached at bhynes2@dailyillini.com.

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KREWELLA diverges from several other EDM artists, and you’ve been praised for this often, but there are critics that say it’s hard to know what your voice really sounds like in an album because of the processing of music like this. Do you hear critiques like that often and how do you

respond to that? JY: We don’t hear critiques like that often. Ever since we started in 2007, we’ve been completely open to embrace technology. But moving forward with the next album, I want to have more of an organic sound in the vocals because I know people crave that.

JY: Working hard is obvious. Take risks. I don’t think there is an easy route. You can’t let when people say you’re not talented get to you. This is a very cut-throat industry. You have to persevere, which is one of the most important things I can tell someone.

DI: What advice do you have for people who want to do what you do?

Ryan can be reached at weber34@dailyillini.com and @ryanjweber.

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Krannert’s got mail: Display inspires local children’s art BY MATT RUBY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The New York Times reported in August that the U.S. Postal Service lost a net total of $740 million in the third quarter, an improvement from the previous quarter in which the post office lost $1.9 billion. It is unexpected, then, that mail is the focus of one of the Krannert Art Museum’s latest exhibitions: “Return to Sender: Ray Johnson, Robert Warner and the New York Correspondence School.” Despite what seems to be society’s decreasing use of what is dubbed “snail mail,” it has become the focal point of theory and research for Miriam Kienle, the exhibition’s curator and an art history doctoral candidate at the University. “Maybe (the exhibit) is, for me, a sort of revisiting of this massive public structure that was so much a part of people’s lives,” she said, pointing out that there might be some benefits to the traditional postal service that visitors can ponder in her exhibition. “The material trace of the mail object that you (take) time to make has some trace, and it sits with you. It’s not just instantaneously gone,” she said. “I think there’s some value in people understanding what the structure of the post office is.” Her exhibit focuses on the artwork of Ray Johnson and his protégé, Robert Warner. Johnson, who has been known as one of the world’s “most famous unknown artists,” has made many collages throughout his career. The ones on display at the Krannert Art Museum are compilations of “ephemera,” as Kienle calls it, or things of no lasting significance. Work from other artists involved in the so-called “New York Correspondence School” also accompany Johnson’s pieces. Some of the pieces contain ephemera considered to be from “mail art” and some of the pieces contain objects that were never actually mailed out. The name of the exhibit quotes

one of Johnson’s favorite messages that he would write to his fellow artists before sending them one of his pieces: “Return to sender.” Johnson would send pieces off to fellow artists, ask them to add or subtract to what he had and then ask them to send the pieces off to another artist until they eventually made it back to him. “You can think of it as kind of like a game of telephone,” said Kristin Romberg, an associate professor of art history at the University. Similar to a game of telephone, the pieces would transform into something completely different from what Johnson had originally made. The end products, while often considered visually overwhelming, are nonetheless stimulating and catch the eye. “This stuff is much more intricate than it comes across in the reproductions that I’ve seen,” said Margery Osborne, Krannert Art Museum patron and professor in Education. “It’s really cool to be able to come and see somebody who is this kind of cutting edge and famous but isn’t a mainline artist ... It’s a real surprise out here in the middle of nowhere to have a museum that has this kind of stuff in it.” One thing about Johnson’s artwork that interests Kienle is how they can appear to be difficult to understand. “I think Ray Johnson really loved that. He really loved when people misunderstood each other because, for him, they were trying to connect and make a correspondence, but they never exactly correspond,” she said. “In a global world, he sees it that we have to kind of traverse difference and observe it in some way.” This idea of communication, its relation to how artists market themselves and how people interact with each other have guided not only Kienle’s study, but also the learning of fifth grade students in Urbana. Rusty Clevenger, an art teacher at Wiley Elementary School,

and his student teacher, Kamila Glowacki, showed their students Kienle’s exhibit as part of an ongoing project they are doing on communication. Clevenger said that — much like how Johnson expressed himself and his individuality in the form of repetitive icons — the students created their own symbols and incorporated them into postcards on display in the Krannert Museum’s basement. “When (the students) made their artwork, we kind of looked at the Ray Johnson stuff and tried to articulate his process so the students (could) make something that relates to themselves,” Clevenger said. Museum patrons can take copies of some of the students’ postcards, add to them and — in the spirit of Johnson’s “return to sender” — modify the postcards before sending them to Wiley Elementary as part of a larger art project there. The students initially studied Kienle’s exhibit as part of an art immersion program called “Krannert Art Museum – Week at the Museum,” or KAM-WAM, put on by the art museum on campus. Students spent hours in the museum at different exhibits, but Clevenger and Glowacki both liked Kienle’s exhibit as a potential starting ground for students to then make their own artwork. “I like that it’s not a completely serious form of art. It’s much more loose,” Glowacki said. Kienle said that she has sometimes thought of Johnson as an informal prelude to the Internet and electronic social media in his attempt to connect people. Now, in an age of digital and instantaneous communication, Kienle said, it is almost impossible to misunderstand someone. “There’s seamless communication,” she said, but she thinks Johnson challenged this idea. “Ray Johnson says, ‘No, let’s look at the seams. It’s not seamless.’”

Matt can be reached at maruby2@dailyillini.com.

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Snail mail inspires exhibit One of the latest Krannert exhibits, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Return to Sender: Ray Johnson, Robert Warner and the New York Correspondence School,â&#x20AC;? features collections of â&#x20AC;&#x153;mail artâ&#x20AC;? ephemera. Read more about the exhibit and how it inspired a local elementary school classroom to create art of its own on Page 5A.

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Music industry doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;easy routeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Krewellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jahan Yousaf advocates risk taking BY RYAN WEBER MANAGING EDITOR

In September, the electronic dance music trio Krewella, which began in the Chicago suburbs, released their first full-length album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get Wet,â&#x20AC;? which the group has since taken on the road. Since they released â&#x20AC;&#x153;Play Hardâ&#x20AC;? in the summer of 2012, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been quickly rising to fame. Krewella, which consists of sisters Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf and their friend Kris â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rain Manâ&#x20AC;? Trindl, will perform to a soldout crowd at the Canopy Club in Urbana on Wednesday at 9 p.m. The Daily Illini interviewed Jahan to learn more about the new album, the message behind the music and what fans can expect next.

Letter writing spreads love and encouragement

DI: The songs on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get Wetâ&#x20AC;? are fairly distinct in their sound. Was that distinction a conscious choice, like what we hear in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Human,â&#x20AC;? which is much slower than the rest? JY: Writing that song meant so much to us because we started realizing that we have a deeper connection with our fans, way deeper than a party jam. We got letters from fans and messages on Twitter, and we realized that we stand for so much more than club anthems, which we still love to write. That song reminds everyone that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not the only one.

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wenty-three-year-old Hannah Brencher sat down at her computer in New York City on Dec. 7, 2011, and wrote a â&#x20AC;&#x153;love letterâ&#x20AC;? to college students going through finals. To these students, she gave words of encouragement, even suggesting that one day they would miss â&#x20AC;&#x153;the 24/7 sweatpants apparel for at least two weeks,â&#x20AC;? and reminding them, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a book. It is a test. It is a paper. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all.â&#x20AC;? She posted the letter to her website moreloveletters.com and overnight it went viral. Emails came flooding in from college students across the nation who said they cried reading her letter; they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold themselves together. For Brencher and her global organization â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The World Needs More Love Letters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that was the beginning of the Campus Cursive initiative. Campus Cursive is the college branch of the organization The World Needs More Love Letters - a volunteer, web-based organization founded by Brencher in September 2011 with the purpose of writing and mailing encouraging letters to those who need them. For Brencher, the popularity of her letter to college students during finals was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;light-bulb moment,â&#x20AC;? in which she realized, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things spread on college campuses. That is the powerhouse group.â&#x20AC;? From there grew the idea of Campus Cursive, and it was launched in September 2012. As of now, more than 100 campuses, including the University, have Campus Cursive chapters that sponsor letterwriting projects throughout the school year. From Brencherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standpoint, letter writing is more than just the pen and paper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it symbolizes intention; I think it symbolizes presence to one another and connection. Letter writing demands your full attention, and a lot of things in society donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require that of us,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a rare thing that somebody would sit down, take out a pen and paper, and think about what they wanted to write to you.â&#x20AC;? Within the first few weeks of this semester, Campus Cursive was launched at the University as a registered student organization. The chapterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to spread love and

DAILY ILLINI: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changed since 2012 when you performed at the Canopy Club? JAHAN YOUSAF: When we were there in Urbana, that was on our first college tour. We were promoting our â&#x20AC;&#x153;Play Hard EP.â&#x20AC;? Now, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll notice that compared to the last one, this is predominantly Krewella-original material. And I think our fan base has grown.

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Christine Choi, a Junior in AHS, decorates a letter as part of the pop-up event for Campus Cursive for the car accident that occurred on Lincoln Avenue last week. Students like Choi gathered at the Illini Union on Tuesday to write encouraging letters to scatter where the accident occurred. encouragement on campus through handwritten love letters.â&#x20AC;? Jennifer Kim, campus founder and senior in Media, saw letter writing as particularly helpful when she interned for an advertising agency this summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes the workload could be stressful, so I was looking for ways to brighten mine and other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s days,â&#x20AC;? Kim said. She began writing letters and leaving them on the desks of her coworkers, saying things like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;have a great weekend, catch up with you Mondayâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;good luck on your presentation.â&#x20AC;? She began to see a change in the way people interacted with her and observed that their smiles became a little brighter. Kim learned that â&#x20AC;&#x153;when people think that other people believe in them, they have a lot more power, they have a lot more confidence.â&#x20AC;? She

hopes to bring this same level of empowerment to campus. Before school began, Kim got in contact with Angela Yang, intern at More Love Letters and sophomore in Media. Yang helps coordinate between More Love Letters and the Campus Cursive branch, assisting campuses with starting chapters. Yang herself has been an advocate of letter writing ever since she and her best friend had to split up for college. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We decided instead of just â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Facebookingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; each other and text messaging, we would write each other letters,â&#x20AC;? Yang said. Although sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a member of the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chapter, Yang helped Kim and five

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DI: Were there any stories that were particularly influential in creating the album? JY: Absolutely. We were playing a show, and a group of fans wanted to meet us because their friend had passed away, and his favorite song was â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alive.â&#x20AC;? They came backstage to tell me about how â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aliveâ&#x20AC;? was the song he would listen to every single day. They would ride in the car together and listen to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alive.â&#x20AC;? And he passed away because he committed suicide, and it was the song that they played at his funeral, and it brought me to tears. It changes the way you make music because you realize that you want to send a better message, but not necessarily censor yourself. And youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re crafting the lyrics around that to send a better message. DI: Krewella is an EDM group that is led by women, something we see pretty rarely in this kind of music. How does that feel? JY: We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think about it that much because we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t treat ourselves as victims or as extra special just because we are women. Yasmine and I, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put beauty and image and fashion before music. Because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not looking pretty and polished and fashionable, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about raging as hard as you can. Yasmine and I literally just ignore that whole train of thought, and we are just doing our own thing. DI: Where do you see Krewella going in the future? JY: I think one of the most important things is that an artist does not stay stagnant, so we really challenged ourselves with this album. But on the next album, how do we write compelling lyrics and have even tighter production? How do we evolve the dance music genre? We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have a set plan. DI: You do shows with live vocals, which

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Freshman victory leads to Miller sharing meaningful insight about her coach and family BY ASHLEY WIJANGCO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down Sunday nights and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.

here have only been three competitions for the Illinois womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf team this season. In just her third collegiate tournament, Stephanie Miller was able to pull off a first-place finish. The freshman defeated 72 other golfers this past weekend at the Diane Thomason Invitational in Iowa City, Iowa. At the end of the first day of play, the Elgin, Ill., native led the individual competition by 3 strokes. In the end, she won by 10 strokes with a 3-underpar 213. Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outright win was the first by an Illinois freshman since Becky Biehl won the 1992 Big Ten Championship. Although there is not much to refer to, she credits her success to the collegiate experience she has gained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the previous two tournaments kind of prepared me for it,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of sticking your feet in the water for college experience.â&#x20AC;? Head coach Renee Slone said what made more of an impact was the Minnesota Invitational. At the event, Miller placed second individually, jumping 13 spots from her first competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think she learned a lot from Minnesota, having been in that position, and seeing how she reacted, and realizing what approach she needs to take to be successful,â&#x20AC;? Slone said Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I think she learned from that and

applied it today. It served her very well, having been in that experience previously. And the gratifying thing was that she actually learned from it and used it to her advantage.â&#x20AC;? After winning in Iowa, Miller discovered that, as a freshman at Illinois, Slone also won her third tournament. In a way, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s following in her coachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s footsteps, and in that pursuit, the two have developed a strong relationship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spent a lot of time together during the rounds, so our bond has gotten a lot closer,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really enjoy having her out there. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never really been able to talk to my actual golf coach when I was playing, and having her there to talk to is different in a way. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like a caddy because sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not giving me advice. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just encouraging me and keeping a positive attitude, which really helps me in a lot of ways.â&#x20AC;? This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only bond Miller cherishes, though. Despite the short amount of time she has known her teammates, Miller has been able to truly enjoy their company while having them be a positive aspect of her golf game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all have the same funny, goofy personality,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we all like to have fun. We all have common interests. Like our big thing is eating on the team. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of eating, and we talk about food and just bonding over that.â&#x20AC;? Miller was more excited about the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-place finish than her own due in part to that bond with her teammates, which is something she hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always had. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything we do as a team is much more enjoyable than doing it by yourself,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know that because at Stevenson (High School), it was me, and then the other girls were not as interest-

ed in golf as I was. And so they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put in as much effort like I would, and I would always be alone at the top or going to state â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I went to state four years without a team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so nice to have girls that have the same interest and same drive as I do.â&#x20AC;? Even though Miller is just now being able to share her passion of golf with her team, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that she has in common with both her 77-year-old grandmother and her dad. Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandmother still continues to play the game and also loves to come watch her granddaughter play; however, her father, a former track student-athlete at Kansas, is her inspiration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He knows everything Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going through right now, between the workouts and practice and competing,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He knows how to push me in the right way but not too much to where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an overwhelming, protective, living-through-your-child kind of thing. And he knows so much about golf. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to have a parent that is so into the same thing that you are, so it really helps.â&#x20AC;? Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success comes as a breath of fresh air to a team that consistently finished toward the bottom in tournaments last season. The chance to help turn a program around attracted Miller to Illinois. Miller committed to play as an Illini at the end of her junior year in high school. But golf isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a game she excels in. Even after years of playing the game, Miller is still able to see it as a hobby, not just a competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much fun,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had a round where I was too focused and not enjoying myself when I was playing. I can play with anybody, of any age really. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my favorite part about the

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When the lights come on at Memorial Stadium on Saturday night and the crowd fi les in, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be the battle in the trenches that decides the game. Illinois is going to have to get its offense rolling after a poor showing at Nebraska two weeks ago, and it all starts up front. Wisconsin boasts the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fi fth-best defense in terms of points scored against, and two players stand out when looking at the Badgers on tape. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beau Allen at the nose (guard),â&#x20AC;? offensive lineman Corey Lewis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see him being physical up front, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to do a good job against him if we want to be effective in the run game. He kind of opens things up for their linebackers, like (Chris) Borland.â&#x20AC;? Borland is one of the Big Tenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best linebackers and one of the best in the nation. When Illini running back Donovonn Young hears his name, the fi rst thing he thinks of is a play in the second quarter of Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; game at Wisconsin last year. With Illinois leading 7-0 at Camp Randall Stadium last year, Borland â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all 240 pounds of him â&#x20AC;&#x201D; jumped clear over Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 6-foot-3 tight end Jon Davis to get in on a Josh Ferguson tackle. Walking back to the Wisconsin side of the line of scrimmage after the play, Borland winked at Davis and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;all better not run that play again.â&#x20AC;? Young can laugh about it now, but he knows on the field Borland is nothing to laugh about.

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Jannelle Flaws (soccer): After scoring two goals in the win over No. 20 Wisconsin, the redshirt junior leads the Big Ten in goals scored with 15 and is tied for second best in the country. Jennifer Beltran (volleyball): The senior libero recorded 30 digs on the weekend for Illinois against then-No. 20 Purdue and Indiana. She also broke the school record for digs with 1,929.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty good â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not pretty good â&#x20AC;&#x201D; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great football player,â&#x20AC;? Young said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an intense guy. He has a good motor, always running to the ball.â&#x20AC;? But like Lewis said, Borland canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make plays if Allen isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t creating space for him. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the offensive lineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job to stop Allen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very physical up front,â&#x20AC;? Lewis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able to take two guys sometimes, opening up lanes for their linebackers. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why their linebackers are so successful.â&#x20AC;? Wisconsin has been known for having physically big guys on the line in recent years, and Allen is no exception. At 6-foot3, 325 pounds, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the biggest defensive linemen Illinois has faced this season. But sophomore lineman Ted Karras doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think size is everything. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to have big guys in the Big Ten,â&#x20AC;? Karras said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wisconsinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s known for having the beefy guys. I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just as big as they are, especially on the O-line. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to get after them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be won on the ground.â&#x20AC;? Illinois struggled to protect quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase at Nebraska. But offensive line coach A.J. Ricker was happy with the way his unit was able to propel the running game against the Huskers. Creating space for Ferguson, who has emerged as Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; top playmaker this season, will be the key for the O-line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be able to run the football,â&#x20AC;? Ricker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anybody in this conference. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bland statement. Hopefully, even though we lost, it gave us confidence against Nebraska that we can run the football.â&#x20AC;?

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

game is that you can play all the way up until my grandmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s age even, which is 77, and even after that. I knew a lady who was 92, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still playing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lifelong game, and you can travel anywhere for it.â&#x20AC;? Although sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s having fun playing golf, Miller still makes sure to keep her determination at a high level because as Miller put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;golf is that sport that can bring you down really fast because you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be perfect at it.â&#x20AC;? Even so, golf is the one sport that has provided Miller success, a competitive outlet, delight and an interest that allows for special relationships.

Ashley can be reached at wijangc2@dailyillini.com and @wijangco12.

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Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Aaron Bailey runs the ball during the game against Miami of Ohio at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 28. The Illini will need to neutralize Wisconsinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defensive line in order for plays like this to succeed.

New wheelchair basketball coach provides familiar style, enthusiasm Endurance will be key in negating height weakness BY DANIEL DEXTER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Beginning at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday mornings, a series of pump-up songs can be heard playing in the southeast corner of Memorial Stadium. The music accompanies shouts of encouragement from Matt Buchi, head wheelchair basketball coach, as his team endures its weekly ramp workout. The

two-hour practice, sprinting up and down the elevation ramps in the stadium, is part of Buchiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preseason plan to work on the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conditioning. While some members of the team have a hard time enjoying the workouts, captain Jacob Tyree loves the benefits it brings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know it really stinks that we have to do this, and we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to shoot a basket for two weeks,â&#x20AC;? Tyree said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has just been all conditioning stuff, but I know that if we keep this up, no team will be able to compete with us. We will be able to press the entire length of a game, while some teams will

start to fall apart towards the end of the third quarter.â&#x20AC;? Buchi is in his fi rst year as head coach of the program following the departure of former coach Mike Frogley, who left to be director of Wheelchair Basketball Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Academy. Frogley was coach of both the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teams for 16 years. In his tenure as coach, he won 11 combined national championships, including one in 2008 with Buchi as player on the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really consider (Frogley) to be the godfather of wheelchair basketball,â&#x20AC;? Buchi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of drills and defenses

that happen in the college division among all the schools that he has incorporated into the game. He has really adapted and developed the sport really well. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some big shoes for me to fi ll.â&#x20AC;? Both Frogley and Buchi claim to have similar coaching styles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the ramp practices originated with Frogley â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but Frogley did acknowledge one difference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buchi is probably a little bit more fun-loving, but I think we both bring a lot of energy to our coaching,â&#x20AC;? Frogley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of things I see in Buchi that I saw in myself when I was a young coach.â&#x20AC;? The team will play its fi rst

games in the Illini Classic, which begins Nov. 2. The Illini will take on various adult league teams in the tournament. Tyree said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a warm-up for the actual regular season, but it will give the team a chance to play against its weakness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not a team of height,â&#x20AC;? Tyree said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So if we can bring some teams that have these huge tanks of players that just sit by the basket and shoot layups all day long, it will help us prepare for when we play college teams with those types of players.â&#x20AC;? Despite the height disadvantage, Buchi feels the team will be able to compete because of its

ability to shoot the ball. The players have also bonded off of the court through gatherings at Buchiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house to watch football and helping each other with homework. According to Buchi, the team plans on taking a trip to a shooting range to learn gun safety and practice fi ring pistols. The time spent together outside of practice is something freshman Ryan Neiswender believes will serve the team well during games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the beginning (of preseason) when we were doing different sprints and different

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Fantasy doctor: Why you should never quit on your losing team J.J. WILSON Fantasy doctor

ay attention. Six weeks have passed since we kicked off the fantasy fun, and a dominant team or two has probably emerged in your league. Most of us are holding the middle ground, fighting every week to not be eliminated from the playoff contention. Most likely, though, we all have that one team sitting at 0-6 or 1-5 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the problem starts. Say youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re that 0-6 team.

Every week, you fi nd yourself staring at your roster like puzzle youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been trying solve since high school. Something has to be done when your kicker is one of your top scorers. But what can you do aside from starting shoddy waiver pickups and pleading to your friends for trades? Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it: if this is you, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably starting to lose hope. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give up, though. Your league still needs you. Although a win may seem less likely than the world forgetting about Justin Bieber, you have an obligation to see it through. Yes, you signed up to win, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably not going to happen at the rate youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going.

But if you bow out and let your team become a guaranteed win, you ruin the fun for everyone. By giving up, you affect the entire league. No one can blame you for losing, so long as you put forth the effort. Just quitting, though, makes you a poor sport. If you quit when things get bad, your friends will start to notice. Maybe next year they decide to leave you out. You are unreliable after all. Now, because you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the most out of the hand you were dealt, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even get to sit at the table. Take a look at the Jacksonville Jaguars. To say they are bad is almost an insult to the word itself. Maurice

Jones-Drew is a wilted mess, Blaine Gabbert is below average and they have almost allowed 200 points scored against them in six weeks. Last Sunday afternoon in Denver, though, they seemed determined to give the Broncos a run for their money. Although the 35-19 score didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly spell out achievement, the Jaguars fought hard, against all odds and displayed solid football. So before you think about giving up, before you consider your team worthless without Julio Jones, think about how your actions affect your league. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just accept your team as a bust; embrace the constant title of underdog. Keep trying,

keep fighting, and you may fi nd a way to stick it to your friends yet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even if it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until next year. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my selection of pickups and drops for Week 7. Signed, your always-faithful fantasy doctor.

PICKUPS Justin Blackmon (wide receiver, Jaguars, 53 percent owned in ESPN leagues) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The only concern with Blackmon is his groin and hamstring injury. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being held out of practice today, but the Jags just look to be taking a precaution. If all seems well heading into the weekend, look to Blackmon for some big numbers. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turned

out back-to-back 19-point weeks, with 19 catches for 326 yards and a touchdown. The Chargers may have been able to hold the Colts to mere nine points Monday night, but a lot of blame can be assigned to dropped catches. The Chargers still post one of the worst pass defenses in the league, which makes a healthy Blackmon a great option. Jarrett Boykin (wide receiver, Packers, 0.1 percent owned) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Randall Cobb is out for six to eight weeks, James Jones is questionable with a knee injury, and Aaron Rodgers is suddenly left with holes to fi ll in his receiver

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Criswell seeing increased playing time BY BLAKE PON STAFF WRITER

Morganne Criswell’s high school career was full of accolades. The former Lutheran School Association of Decatur (Ill.) and Illini Elite outside hitter was a four-time Under Armour AAU All-American, who committed to Illinois after her freshman year. She helped her school win four consecutive conference titles, was named to the all-state second team as a junior and was ranked No. 33 nationally as a senior by prepvolleyball.com. But Criswell, now a junior at Illinois, hasn’t had the same opportunities that allowed her to blossom and become the decorated player she was in high school — until now. In Criswell’s two years prior to this season, she managed to get into only 56 sets, accumulating 84 kills. Criswell has already played 40 sets this season, seeing time on the court in all but one match, and has garnered 68 kills. She also got her first two starts of the year this past weekend, setting career highs with 15 kills and 45 attempts in the Illini’s 3-0 win against Indiana. “I guess (playing sparingly) was kind of hard because I wasn’t used to that role,” Criswell said, referring to her role as an offensive sparkplug off the bench. “I would say that now, at the beginning of this year, I was kind of used to it. (Head coach Kevin Hambly) told me that would be my role, so I had time to get acclimated and get used to it.”

Criswell attributes her expanded role to her willingness to diversify her skill set by improving her passing and blocking, two aspects of her game that previously hindered her from seeing extended periods on the court and allowing fellow outside hitter Ali Stark to spend more time on it. “I think she just brings so much fire when she’s in,” sophomore outside hitter Jocelynn Birks said. “She’s just doing really, really well on the outside, scoring lots of points in clutch time, so I think she’s doing really great.” Birks also pointed to Criswell’s positive energy as something that helps fire up the team. It’s tough not to notice Criswell when watching the Illini play, even when she’s not one of the six players on the floor. Criswell can be seen demonstratively stomping her feet or jumping in the air in exuberance every time the Illini win a point. “I think (my energy) came from the fact that I was playing in spurts,” Criswell said. “My role was, ‘When I come in, to bring fire and energy,’ and I am a really energetic person, so I just try to relate what we have on the bench and take it to the court, so I just use that energy.” Criswell is a former ballerina, and while she may no longer be the center of attention on stage wearing a pink leotard, she’s earned the chance to be the center of attention on a different type of stage, wearing orange and blue.

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Illinois’ Morganne Criswell (1) spikes the ball during the match against Iowa at State Farm Center on Friday, Sept. 27. Criswell has been given more opportunities to demonstrate her skills on the court as of late.

Illini soccer’s Feher improving 2-way game BY LANRE ALABI STAFF WRITER

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Illinois’ Amy Feher chases the ball down during the game against Nebraska at Illini Track and Soccer Stadium on Sept. 29. Feher has found a comfortable fit in a defensive role this season.

Her role doesn’t receive much fanfare, but sophomore defender Amy Feher performs her job regardless. The pacey outside back is in her second season for the Illini and has proved to be a dependable player on head coach Janet Rayfield’s team. Rayfield said Feher’s versatility is a major strength she brings to the team. After spending time struggling in an offensive role, she has found a better fit on defense, helping the offense by getting chances started. “I can’t really put the ball in the back of the net. I just help other people do it,” Feher said. In her first year in college, Feher played in the attack and midfield for Illinois. She played in 17 of the team’s 18 games last season, and this year she’s started all 14 games for Illinois at left back. Her collegiate career has been a journey through several positions, and she has welcomed each one with open arms. Each role has taught her how to read the game from a different perspective and they all work to strengthen her current role. “Given the system that we have, it’s very important that our outside backs get involved in the attack,” Rayfield said. “We ask outside backs to be able to play on both sides of the ball, and she has the ability to impact the game offensively but yet is a staple of our defensive presence. You put those two things together and that’s a player who’s making a difference in our season.” To be a force on offense and defense Feher has to make several runs forward and chase down opposing players at the back. In her role she has to be

dependable on both ends of the floor on every possession without taking plays off. Her task requires some dedication to fitness, and that’s what she did. Feher remained on campus during the summer to work with the team’s fitness trainer on her speed and endurance, and she is seeing the payoff this season. “I don’t notice when I run that much, I just run and try to help the team when I can,” Feher said. “Some of the runs poop me out, and I get tired but that’s soccer and I love the sport.” The impact is not just visible to her; other members of the Illinois lineup have noticed her growth. Feher has been the most constant piece of an evolving Illinois defense this season. For most of the games this year she started at outside back, playing next to the heart of the defense, Christina Farrell. The development of Fehe has solidified her and Farrell’s partnership in the left half of the defensive line. “I think Amy and I work well together because I trust her,” Farrell said. “I know she’s going to work hard, take care of her job and support me.” As her resume continues to grow, Feher is entrusted with more responsibilities for the Illini. Her play on the field is doing all the talking, but off the field she is accepting another mantle. She is beloved by teammates for her endearing personality and her ability to lighten the mood. “Amy is a great athlete, a hard worker and a smart player,” Farrell said. “A lot of it is just making sure she’s building the confidence she deserves. She’s doing everything right, so confidence and leadership are the next step.”

Lanre can be reached at alabi2@ dailyillini.com and @WriterLanre.

How to make fantasy basketball worth playing Ditch the standard format MICHAEL WONSOVER Staff writer

t’s that time of fantasy football season where the haves and have-nots are apparent. Only a select number of teams still have a realistic shot at winning the league, and sorry, your 1-5 team isn’t among them. Luckily for you fantasy losers out there, another season has just begun. That’s right people, fantasy basketball is back. OK, I understand fantasy basketball isn’t very popular. Heck, even many NBA fanatics can’t stand fantasy basketball. Whether it’s the tedious scoring system or the long season, sometimes joining a basketball league just isn’t worth the time commitment. Not anymore. Here are some tips on how to make your fantasy basketball league enjoyable.

Most standard fantasy basketball leagues utilize a scoring system based off categories. The winner of a head-to-head matchup is determined by whoever wins the most categories. Those categories include points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, 3-pointers, field goal percentages and free throw percentages. The problem with this format is that players, such as Serge Ibaka, emerge as top-10 players because they thrive in one category (in Ibaka’s case, he was the only player to average more than three blocks per game last season). A scoring system more similar to fantasy football is much more ideal. Fantasy football combines multiple categories while ignoring efficiency. Passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, field goals, defense and, of course, touchdowns are combined into a point total. Yards per carry, completion percentage and yards per reception don’t matter. Fantasy basketball should be the same.

Throw out field goal percentage, free-throw percentage and turnovers. This way stars such as Blake Griffin and Dwight Howard won’t kill teams by bricking free throws. This also limits the effectiveness of pure dunkers, such as DeAndre Jordan, who sport ridiculous field goal percentages. Stick to the essential categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks and 3-pointers made. Points, rebounds and assists are worth one point each, while the rarer categories — steals, blocks and 3-pointers made — are worth two points. This points format is not only easier to understand, but it also allows for the best players in real life to be the best players in the fantasy realm. For example, Ibaka finished eighth on ESPN’s player rater last season based on standard scoring while Howard ranked 65th. Ibaka dropped to 66th overall when adjusting for the simpler scoring system while Howard

surged to 11th. The Houston Rockets wouldn’t have signed Howard to a four-year $88 million contract this offseason if he was the 65th best player in the league.

Simplify the lineups Fantasy football, once again, is the inspiration for this idea. Few people are going to keep up with daily lineups during an 82-game season. That’s why it’s best to switch to a weekly format. I know an NBA team can play 3-4 times a week, but it makes a lot of sense. Even the most avid fantasy basketball owners are unlikely to remember to change their lineup every day. A weekly lineup allows the owner to set a rotation once a week without having to worry about checking the daily statuses of players. In addition to the weekly setting, owners should switch to a more traditional lineup. ESPN standard leagues include each position, point guard through center, and

then a guard spot, a forward spot and a utility spot. The guard and forward spots are too confusing. Is Andre Iguodala a guard or forward? What about Paul George? By eliminating this confusion, you can only play Iguodala at positions he plays — shooting guard and small forward — and can’t interchange him with point guards or power forwards in your utility spots. Keep a starting lineup consisting of a point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center. Maybe add three utility spots to the starting lineup, but keep the roster at 12 players max. Fifteen-player rosters are unnecessary in a stardominant league. (If you own Kirk Hinrich, you’re doing it wrong.)

Put it all on the line This may seem obvious, but fantasy sports are not enjoyable unless something’s at stake. With basketball it’s even more important since the

long season can tune out fantasy owners. There needs to be some incentive to keep fantasy owners active throughout the season. Sometimes rewarding the first place finisher isn’t enough. Once the bottom teams realize they don’t have a chance, there’s little reason to continue trying. Well, unless your league penalizes the stragglers. Think of it like the relegation system in professional soccer leagues. If you finish last, you have to pay for it. Some ideas include being dropped from next year’s league, paying an additional sum of money, or my personal favorite; showing up to Olive Garden in a suit with a blowup doll as your date. (Yes, this actually happened in a league I was in.) Handing out fines for forgetting to set your lineup or starting Andrew Bynum every week is another option. Don’t be that guy.

Michael is a senior in Media. He can be reached at wonsovr2@dailyillini.com.

Blackhawks duo of Oduya and Hjalmarsson could make Olympics BY CHRIS KUC CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — Slightly balding, with glasses perched on his nose, the man resembled a college professor more than an influential hockey coach. But Par Marts had traveled a great distance to watch, among others, Blackhawks defensemen and countrymen Johnny Oduya and Niklas Hjalmarsson. As coach of Sweden’s national team, Marts will help decide which players will represent the country in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He has seen two NHL games on his tour to assess talent, both involving the Hawks — including their 2-1 victory over the Sabres on Saturday night at the United Center.

What Marts observed is what the rest of the league is beginning to discover: Oduya and Hjalmarsson are becoming one of the NHL’s top defensive tandems. “Both are good on their skates, first of all, so they can be there for each other,” Marts said. “They have a good sense for the play, too, and that’s perhaps the most important thing so they can read the situations very well.” Oduya and Hjalmarsson are in their second season as regular blue-line partners and while they don’t receive the recognition that top pairing Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook often do, the Swedes’ contributions also helped lead the Hawks to the Stanley Cup in 2013 and a

fast start defensively in the first five games this season. With matching plus-4 ratings, Oduya and Hjalmarsson lead a Hawks team that has yielded seven even-strength goals while starting 3-1-1. Hjalmarsson is a stay-at-home defender who can lay crunching hits and sacrifices his body to block shots. Oduya is a more fluid skater with a strong first pass out of the zone and a good stick. Their contrasting styles mesh well. “He’s very smart and very consistent,” Oduya said of Hjalmarsson. “I know what he’s doing all the time. He’s just easy to play with. Hopefully, we can keep playing well.” Of his fellow Swede, Hjalmarsson, 26, said: “You like to

play with a player like that who is a little bit more comfortable with the puck maybe and good on his skates. We complement each other pretty well.” The pair’s contributions aren’t lost on another coach — the Hawks’ Joel Quenneville. “They have a really strong gap, they control the puck as best they can, they simplify around the net and their coverage is very good,” Quenneville said. “They block shots and have good sticks. They read the situations well and, game in and game out, that predictability you want on the back end has been there for us. They welcome that challenge of being out there big minutes. It’s been a real nice fit.” There’s also an offensive com-

ponent to the duo. Hjalmarsson is tied for second on the Hawks with four assists and Oduya has chipped in a goal. “We try to play both ways,” Oduya, 32, said. “We want to be some type of a threat and join in on the offense, too, when we can. On the other hand, we want to take away as much as possible from the other guys.” Both players said being Swedish and speaking the same language helps — to an extent. “We talk about plays sometimes,” Oduya said. “At certain points during games, maybe, but in general I don’t think it has much to do with where you’re from, it’s the style we play that matches up pretty well.” A bigger contributing factor is the familiarity of play-

ing alongside one another for a second consecutive season. “It’s always easier to play with someone when you played with him the whole year before,” Hjalmarsson said. “It felt like we kind of started the season where we left off. We’re happy with the start.” If they can maintain their efforts throughout the first three months of the season, Oduya and Hjalmarsson just might find themselves playing next to each other in Sochi in February. With limited practice sessions and little time to develop chemistry, Team Sweden could decide to take the players as a pair for the Olympics. “It could be an option, yes,” Marts said.

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Vikings need improvement in key areas BY CHIP SCOGGINS MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — The Minnesota Vikings went about business as usual at Winter Park on Monday, 24 hours after their season drifted closer to an abyss that eventually could bring organizational changes. Leslie Frazier announced no changes, and he attempted to remain upbeat after a 35-10 home loss to the Carolina Panthers left his team with a 1-4 record. Several veterans vented in the postgame locker room, with defensive end Jared Allen offering a particularly blunt salvo. “When you lose, heads roll,” he said. “That’s just the way it is.” Frazier doesn’t need any reminders that a 1-4 start in 2011 deteriorated into a 3-13 nightmare. What transpired Sunday had a similar look and feel. “It’s not a lost season,” Frazier said. “There has to be a sense of urgency, there’s no question about it. We can still get things turned, but we’re going to need everybody believing that, as well.” Here are four areas that need immediate improvement to avoid a repeat of 2011:

1. A never-ending quarterback carousel On Wednesday, the Vikings could announce their third different starting quarterback in six games. That’s never a good sign. Frazier said he hopes to choose his quarterback that day so the starter — presumably Josh Freeman — can get the majority of snaps in practice this week. Freeman received a crash course on the offense after signing last Sunday night. Frazier said he wants to talk to Freeman to gauge his

comfort level with the new system. Given Matt Cassel’s two interceptions against the Panthers and the team’s overall record, Freeman looks like a safe bet to start because the Vikings need to evaluate him to determine if he is a longterm answer in their never-ending quest to solidify that position. Cassel and Christian Ponder have accounted for nine of the team’s 12 turnovers and their combined 76.5 passer rating ranks 24th in the league. The coaches said they will need to condense the playbook for Freeman because he is learning on the fly, but at this point, there’s no downside to evaluating how the offense functions with him at the controls. Freeman’s strong arm could bring a legitimate vertical aspect to an offense that lacks a consistent downfield presence.

3. Too many blades of grass

2. Defense equally at fault

4. Blocking breakdown

The Vikings rank 31st in total defense, 30th in scoring defense, 29th in pass defense and 31st in third-down defense. Can’t win that way. Their deficiencies are particularly glaring on third down. Opponents are converting 49.3 percent of their third-down opportunities, which essentially means it’s a flip of the coin whether the Vikings make a stop and get off the field. Their third-down defense is even worse than in 2011 when they allowed 44 percent of conversions. Not surprisingly, the Vikings also are allowing more points per game than in 2011 — 31.6 vs. 28.1. Frazier has resisted changes in scheme or personnel and instead pointed to a lack of execution. “You’ve got to execute your assignments,” he said.

The offensive line was expected to be an area of strength this season, but that group’s performance has fluctuated week to week. The entire offense revolves around Adrian Peterson’s running and the line’s ability to open holes and clear lanes for him. Peterson is averaging 96.6 yards rushing per game and 4.7 yards per carry. Those numbers are pretty similar to his career averages. But of Peterson’s 102 carries this season, 21 have resulted in zero or negative yardage. That puts the offense in unfavorable situations on second and third down. Opponents will continue to commit extra defenders to stop Peterson so the Vikings must be able to control the line of scrimmage for their offense to properly function.

Anyone have a number for Pat Williams? Remember when the Williams Wall — Pat and Kevin — anchored the best run defense in the NFL? The Vikings used to be so stout against the run that their motto was “blade of grass.” Give them a blade of grass and they could defend it. The Vikings became the first team since the 1970 merger to lead the NFL in rushing defense three consecutive seasons (200608). They ranked second in 2009. And now? They rank 17th in rush defense after finishing 22nd in each of the two previous seasons. The Vikings once prided themselves on being able to make teams one-dimensional and thus predictable. But their inability to stuff the run puts even more pressure on their beleaguered secondary.

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Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton breaks away from Minnesota Vikings’ Brian Robison and Kevin Williams to score a touchdown at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sunday. The Vikings defense has ranked as one of the worst in the league this season.

Foles potential Eagles’ starter as Vick remains out of play BY ZACH BERMAN MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

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Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III scrambles against the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Sunday. The Redskins hope to improve their 1-4 record this weekend by defeating the Bears.

Nick Foles is likely to make his second start of the season Sunday when the Dallas Cowboys visit the Eagles. Both Foles and Michael Vick practiced on Tuesday, although it was a light practice and Vick said his training was similar to last week. A big test for Vick will be Wednesday’s practice, but early indications are that he still needs more time to recover from a pulled left hamstring. He called the injury a “bad pull” and said he’s still not at 100 percent. “I feel it get better,” Vick said Tuesday. “It’s just when I try to work it, it’s still there. I think another week of rehab will put me in a position where I can gain some confidence in it and doing the things I normally do.” Foles continues to take the first-team snaps at practice. Offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur said that the Eagles would continue going with Foles and that coach Chip Kelly would address the quarterback decision when both Vick and Foles are healthy. “I’m going into this week like I always do. I work every day like I’m a starter,” Foles said. “You get more reps with (the first-team offense). But no matter what happens — if I’m not getting reps, I’m getting mental reps and what throws I didn’t get if I’m not getting the first-team reps, I’m going to throw after, so it sort of works the same way.” When Vick was asked if the decision to return is his to make, he conceded there are multiple factors. “We have too good of a (backup) quarterback to push it,” Vick said. Foles’ first start left the Eagles in a strong position, although it also left them with uncertainty about who will start the remainder of the season. The Eagles’ No. 2 quarterback went 22 of 31 for 296 yards and three touchdowns against Tampa Bay, along with a rushing score. He did not turn the ball over. Since that performance, Kelly has declined to address who will start when Vick is healthy, essentially stimulating the quarterback controversy. With an unequivocal answer, there would be no debate. With the uncertainty, there is intrigue. The quarterbacks say they don’t think about it in those terms. Eventually, they’re going to need to think. Certainly, Kelly must. “I’ll leave that for Chip,” Vick said. “I’m not focused on what could be or what should be. Right

now, I have to rehab and I have to get myself back to 100 percent so I can help this team. I’m not going to try to make that determination right now.” Vick conceded that the timetable for his return would be different if he were a drop-back quarterback. But because of his running ability, he said he sees and feels the game differently than other quarterbacks. Further injury would push him back another two or three weeks, he said. He noted that hamstring injuries are common for “fast guys,” but they’ve never bothered him. However, he tried a different stretching regimen before he was injured against the Giants and tried overstriding rather than leaning when he ran. Vick said he knows what he did wrong and it will not happen again. “I was just trying to do too much,” Vick said. “That’s how much I wanted to win the game.” Vick was healthy enough to be an emergency quarterback last week, but not healthy enough to start. He said he could play in an emergency situation, but it would be like a seven-on-seven drill. “But seven-on-seven is kind of unrealistic on Sundays, because you’ve got people coming at you,” Vick said. “So being an emergency guy, that’s what I’m going to be, if that’s the case.” Foles’ performance would seem to instill the 24-year-old with confidence, but he insists he puts any performance behind him after 24 hours. In college, there were games that infused Foles with confidence and affected his next performance. His quarterbacks coach at Arizona, Frank Scelfo, instilled in him the notion of the “24-hour rule,” and Foles said it has helped him avoid the emotional turbulence of playing quarterback. “As soon as those 24 hours are up, you move on,” Foles said. “No matter what. You can throw four touchdowns, you can throw whatever. You can’t go out here after you have a great game and have a horrible practice. What does that show the team?” That’s why Foles’ attention is now on the Cowboys game. He’ll likely start, and another sterling performance could continue to muddle a once-clear quarterback situation. But if there’s any overt excitement from a victory that served as an endorsement for his ability to start, Foles refused to show it. “When I see the game, I’m excited we won, it’s exciting,” Foles said. “But I also know from playing this game for a long time, last week’s win can’t win this week’s game

Bears to take RG3 seriously despite Redskins’ current rut NFL kickoffs becoming rare, are expected to disappear BY DAN WIEDERER CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — RG3 just isn’t the same. That’s the swirling sentiment around the NFL as Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III struggles to pull his team out of its 1-4 funk. The latest setback came Sunday, when Griffin lost a fumble and threw an interception in the Redskins’ 31-16 loss to the Cowboys. Griffin’s numbers are way down from his attention-grabbing rookie season, furthering a belief that he is far from fully recovered from the severe right knee injury he suffered in January. But as the Bears head to Washington this weekend, their defense knows it can’t afford to take Griffin lightly. “He’s a threat,” cornerback Tim Jennings said Monday. “We’ve just got to be able to come in and take away some things he wants to do.” Jennings knows Griffin can be at his most dangerous when improvising. “He’s one of those guys who can buy time, like a Ben Roethlisberger,” Jennings said. “Of course he’s looking to run the ball more than Ben. But he’s got guys on all sides that can make plays. ... You just have to try to contain him. Take something away from him and make him feel uncomfortable in the pocket.” Help on the way: Defensive tackle Stephen Paea participated in Monday’s practice. After missing the last two games with a sprained toe, Paea has grown restless and hopes to be on the field Sunday. “With the trainers, it’s up to them when they’re going to put me in or not,” Paea said. “I just do

what they tell me to do.” Paea’s return would be welcome for a defensive front that has lost fellow tackles Henry Melton and Nate Collins for the season with knee injuries. Cut of Cutler: Jay Cutler continues to gush about his comfort level in 2013, fully on board with a new coaching staff in a new offense with an offensive line that’s making him feel more comfortable. Coming off a winning effort against the Giants in which Cutler threw for 262 yards and two scores without being sacked or committing a turnover, the quarterback’s confidence elevated again. “This year, we’ve got guys that can play football,” Cutler said on his weekly radio show Monday on WMVP-AM 1000. “We’ve got a coaching staff that understands offensive game plans and what we’re doing. “By no means are we where we need to be or where we want to be. There’s still a long road ahead. ...But for the first time since I’ve been here, I really like the direction that we’re going offensively.” Extra points: Cornerback Charles Tillman (knee), tight end Martellus Bennett (knee, shoulder) and linebacker James Anderson (back) were held out of Monday’s practice. Asked on WSCRAM about his knee and whether he’ll play Sunday, Bennett said: “Not too shabby, not too great. ...I’m always going to play.” The Bears signed defensive tackle Tracy Robertson to their practice squad. The team had an opening after promoting defensive tackle Christian Tupou to the active roster last week.

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DAVIE, Fla. — When the NFL moved kickoffs from the 30 to the 35-yard line in 2011, New England coach Bill Belichick said his understanding was that the ultimate goal was to phase them out of the game. Three years into the change, the league is on that path. Statistics indicate that this will be the first season in which there will be fewer kick returns than touchbacks — and the number of returns is down drastically. In 2010, under the old rule, more than 80 percent of kickoffs were returned. So far this year, the total is less than 38 percent, although that figure is likely to rise as cold weather limits how far kicks carry. Teeing the ball up at the 35-yard line makes it far easier for kickers to boom the ball into the end zone and discourage returns. That is the goal of the NFL, which has grown more concerned about safety of players and sees the kick return as one of the game’s most dangerous plays. Dolphins reserve cornerback R.J. Stanford, who plays on the kick coverage and return teams, said he can understand Commissioner Roger Goodell’s concerns about kickoffs.

“You see more concussions, because you’re able to blind-side (guys),” Stanford said. Despite safety issues, Dolphins return specialist Marcus Thigpen thinks the rule change stinks. “I don’t like it at all, but it’s out of my control,” he said. Thigpen has taken a knee on 19 of 29 kickoffs, meaning he’s run out only 34.5 percent, despite the fact that special teams coach Darren Rizzi has given him the green light every time. “Every opportunity I have, I try to bring it out, even if I’m 8, 9 (yards) deep,” Thigpen said. “Coach doesn’t have a problem with that; if we make the right blocks and get the right read we can still make something happen.” It hasn’t happened very often lately. Thigpen has gotten past the 20 only four times, while being stopped short of it five times. Although the kickoff is often now nothing but a formality, most special-teamers want to preserve it for obvious reasons. Defensive lineman Jared Odrick said he expects kickoffs to be out of the league within 10 years. But if that happens, Stanford said, they’ll be missed by both players and fans. “It can be a game-changer in a lot of ways,” he said.

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Penalties killing production of Illini hockey BY SEAN NEUMANN STAFF WRITER

Players in the penalty box canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t score goals, and the Illini hockey team has learned that lesson the hard way over the last two weekends. Illinois (5-3-1) is on a fourgame losing streak, during which it has been outscored 21-4 by opponents and has only scored one goal in the last 180 minutes of play. The Illini have been shut out twice during the streak and were nearly blanked a third time but managed to score a late thirdperiod goal on the power play of their 6-1 loss to No. 2 Arizona State on Saturday. The team has yet to beat a Division-I ACHA opponent and is expected to drop again in the national rankings, one week after falling three spots following a pair of losses to No. 4 Iowa State. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to bear down,â&#x20AC;? defenseman Cody von Rueden said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we want to be a top team in the country, we need to execute and do the little things right.â&#x20AC;? The little things have resulted in big problems for the Illini. The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tendency to run into

penalty trouble has forced it to play shorthanded for 78 minutes in the past four games â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 18 minutes more than an entire game. On Friday, the Illini allowed eight Arizona State goals, more than double the number they had let up in a game up to that point. Illinois also had 48 penalty minutes in the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you throw five guys out there against four, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to stop them every single time,â&#x20AC;? senior John Scully said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fiveon-five, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a pretty good team and we can compete with anyone.â&#x20AC;? Scully said erasing the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discipline problem is tough because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not something the players can work on together in practice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mental preparation,â&#x20AC;? Scully said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as much Xâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of compete level and things like that.â&#x20AC;? During Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practice, head coach Nick Fabbrini talked with the players about keeping their level of competition high for the entire game. Illinois had trouble starting games with intensity early on in the year, but now the team is dealing with keeping its energy up after the

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Two months into his first season at Illinois, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crosscountry head coach Scott Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coaching style of open communication has been a welcome change for the young team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been able to get the team on a carefree level that has been able to relax the team in a good way,â&#x20AC;? senior Stephanie Morgan said. Jones was hired in August by Ron Garner to be the new womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross-country head coach and the distance coach for the track and field team. Jones was an assistant womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track and field coach at Illinois from 19941996 before moving to Akron University, where he spent 17 seasons. He was the head coach for five of those years, earning two MAC Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cross-Country Coach of the Year Awards and two conference championship teams. However, Jones felt

it was time to move on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a certain sensation of having done what you can do there,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was able to have great coaching colleagues who helped educate me.â&#x20AC;? The team was relieved to finally know who its head coach would be after a summer of mystery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard not knowing,â&#x20AC;? senior Katie Porada said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That uncertainty was scary for us a little bit, but the team stuck together, which made it a bit easier.â&#x20AC;? After being hired, Jones had just a few days to prepare himself before his team joined him on campus. When they finally did, the team was happy to see that he was going to work with them and help create an environment that would help the team grow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to develop a personal relationship,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One where trust is important, as well

as being a good listener, giving the appropriate amount of space as well as being accessible to the teamâ&#x20AC;?. This relationship has not only helped Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; team to succeed on the field, but also in the classroom. All of his teams since 1998 have received USTFCCCA AllAcademic recognition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first I gave myself a pat on the back, but then I realized that women cross country runners are usually very smart and tend to have high GPAs,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. This is reflected in the way Jones approaches his team at practice. He tries to apply scientific principles and other techniques he knows his team will be able to understand. The runners respect his confidence and intelligence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is definitely very smart,â&#x20AC;&#x153; Porada said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It not only makes it very easy for us to receive him but also for us to trust him.â&#x20AC;? It is through this trust that

FANTASY corps. When injuries strike, young players get their chance to shine, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what could happen for Boykin. The secondyear receiver had his share of spotlight jitters, catching only one of six targets - but that one was taken for 43 yards. He has potential, and you can bet the Packers will be working closely with Boykin in practice this week. If you are looking for some breakout receivers, snag Boykin from the waivers. He could surprise you.

DROPS Texans (defense/special teams, 94.3 percent owned) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Texans allowed 38 points to the Rams last week. They may have had a picksix, but does it really mean much against Matt Schaub, who has thrown at least one pick in every game this year? Houston has a weak run defense, and against a backfield threat like Jamaal Charles, Week 7 could be very bad news for the Texans (as if they need any more). Even J.J. Watt and Brian Cushing arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to keep the ship from sinking against the undefeated Chiefs. Toss them to the waivers and find something more stable. Daryl Richardson (running back, Rams, 81.6 percent owned) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Guys, câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mon. Have you looked at his numbers? Even 12 catches for 104 yards doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t redeem 58 carries for 167 yards. I could talk about how Carolina is the No. 3 rush defense in the league, but if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had the displeasure of owning Richardson in your league, I have a feeling you already know it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter. He canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t produce. At all. So despite the 81.6 percent of you who seem to think hanging on to him is a good idea, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wrong. Ditch him faster than the Patriots ditched Aaron Hernandez, and do it now.

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Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cody von Rueden passes the puck during the game against Iowa State at the Ice Arena on Oct. 5. The Illini face No. 5 Rober Morris coming off a four-game losing streak. has given up goals in 18 of its last 19 periods of regulation, something the offense was able to cover up until finally running dry, scoring just one goal in its last three games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re too easy to play against at times,â&#x20AC;? Fabbrini said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;That comes back to being mentally prepared to play the same way for a full 60-minute game. Not when we feel like it.â&#x20AC;?

Sean can be reached at spneuma2@dailyillini.com and @Neumannthehuman.

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Jones not only hopes to finish in the top half of the conference by the end of the season, but also help his team grow as athletes, students and people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want this to be an experience where they learn about themselves and their capabilities, how to interact with other people, how to be successful, something that extends beyond a track meet and into the rest of their lives,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. He said he hopes the relationships heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s built can serve as a foundation for the program and offer an opportunity to all those who are willing to work for it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not everyone has had equal opportunities,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to give people who havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been as fortunate the opportunity to make something of themselves.â&#x20AC;?

workouts, we were silent and doing our own thing,â&#x20AC;? Neiswender said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But as our team has come together, we encourage each other more to keep going. I think that is a big part of why we are going to be successful this year.â&#x20AC;? Buchi thinks the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strengths can carry to a national championship this season, a feat the team last accomplished in 2010. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping that other teams are not expecting a lot from us and we become this underdog position because I love being the underdog,â&#x20AC;? Buchi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love when people say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new coach, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not really a big team. They are probably going to do OK, but wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come close.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And I want to come in and just shock and awe.â&#x20AC;?

Michal can be reached at dwojak2@illinimedia.com and @bennythebull94.

Daniel can be reached at dadexte2@illinimedia.com and @ddexter23.

J.J. is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at jjwilso2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @Wilsonable07.

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