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Washington, Ill., residents push forward to holidays BY CLAIRE HETTINGER STAFF WRITER

The morning weather in Washington, Ill., was fine, except Zach Schildt thought it looked like it was going to rain. The 21-year-old left his home on Sunday, Nov. 17 and drove to work at 7:45 a.m., and in his absence, a 170 mph wind ravaged his hometown and tore his home into pieces a little more than a week before the holiday season began. For any of Washington’s residents who lived in one of the 1,000 homes destroyed or damaged in their town, it is hard to imagine what the holiday season may bring now that they no longer have a place to hang their stockings. However, the season is famous for its miracles, and the stories from Washington are no exception. Nancy McMullen, another Washington resident, learned about the tornado warning when she was shopping at the local Dollar General. At first, she stayed put, planning to wait out the storm. In another part of town, Schildt was working at Todd’s Service Center, the local auto service business, which has a police scanner. He heard the radio buzz about a tornado touching down in a field somewhere in Washington. He grabbed his phone and texted his friends to tell them about the approaching funnel. As McMullen idly waited, she changed her mind. Desensitized by previous false alarms, she didn’t expect that outside, conditions were perfect for a tornado to form at any moment. She wanted to make it home before the hail started. Considering the looming heavy rain, she avoided the crowded main roads and instead chose to drive through the subdivision behind the store. As she traveled homeward, she saw the clouds forming into a tornado. She watched it touch down, growing larger and larger until it was a massive funnel. “All I could see in my mirror was that tornado,” McMullen said. About a minute after the police report, Schildt looked outside to see a “giant, huge, swirling, crazy looking — I can’t even describe it” storm cloud approaching. He said it sounded like a lawnmower-chainsaw-huge-train approaching in the distance. That’s when Schildt decided

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University takes advantage of growth in Big Data field BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER

A message pops up on a smartphone screen: “Twitter would like to use your current location.” At that moment, with the simple tap of the screen, the owner of the phone has become a contributor to big data — huge sources of information that scientists and companies compile to use in their research, marketing plans and business strategies. On Friday, the University’s Research Park hosted the Big Data Summit at Champaign’s I Hotel, which gathered leaders in big data to discuss future applications and analyses in this field. “The purpose of this event is to really start a discussion with companies who are on the Research Park and with other companies ... about how they can utilize big data and data analytics,” said Laura Bleill, assistant director of external relations at the University’s Research Park. Big data has become an increasingly popular topic in science and research in recent years, said Michael Welge, Research Park big data executive-in-residence. In the past two years, 90 percent of world data was created, which calls for more data storage and analytics, Welge said. “There’s been data analysis going on for 25 years,” Welge said. “The data set sizes because of the numbers of sensors placed in the field and the number of applications on your phone are producing vast amounts of data

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The Schildt family home was destroyed during the Nov. 17 tornado that devastated the area. Only the front wall now stands. he had to leave. There was no place for him to take cover at the garage. He figured since he was dead anyway if the tornado was coming at him, he would try and find someplace safer to hide. Anxiety raced through McMullen’s veins as she raced the tornado home. She noticed the funnel was heading in her direction, so she double-checked the intersection ahead of her and ran the red light. Schildt ran out into the street in panic and tried to get one of the passing cars to give him a lift. Nobody stopped. In the distance, he saw the flashing lights of a police vehicle, so he ran to it and the officer unlocked the doors and let him in. McMullen made it into her driveway and, still thinking the tornado was heading toward her,

rushed to the front door, and her husband let her inside. The subdivision which Nancy had driven through mere minutes before was destroyed. “My husband and I decided I missed (the tornado) by a minute and a half,” she said. “Everything around where I was driving in the neighborhood is just total mass destruction. There are no homes — it was in the direct path of the tornado.” Schildt’s home, the only one he’s ever lived in, is in a similarly destroyed neighborhood — with his father inside at the time of the storm. The policeman dropped Schildt off at Hardee’s, where he then immediately tried to contact his family. His calls would not go through, and he spent the next 10 minutes deciding what to do. As soon as he remembered

his mother was right across the street at the church, he ran to make sure she was okay. Schildt’s panicking mother explained that she had been talking to his father just before the phone went dead. His last words were, “It’s coming toward the house.” In an attempt to see if his dad was OK, Schildt and his mother drove toward their neighborhood in a friend’s car, but had to turn back because downed power lines made it too dangerous to drive through the residential area. Back at the church, they waited for some word from him. His dad showed up 40 minutes later in their neighbor’s car. He informed them that everything was gone, but Schildt didn’t

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John A. Rogers, a University professor of materia ls science and engineering, is the recipient of this year’s S m it h s o n i a n M a g a z i ne American Ingenuity Award for the category of physical sciences. The Smithsonian M aga zi ne a nd Rogers’ colleagues have called his research in the past year “revolutionary.” Rogers is responsible for a host of different inventions, many of which contribute to the medical industry. His most-noted brainchild this year is his research on flexible electronics. Turning his cell phone around in his hands, Rogers explained that the inner workings of a phone depend on a series of silicon chips. The silicon is a hard, rigid material, which is why the phone is also rigid. “For a phone, this kind of geometry is fine,” Rogers said. “But if you want to take this kind of (electronic) functionality and use it to study the body or deliver electrical stimulation to the body ... it’s not a very good shape because the body is soft and textured.” While one of the solutions could have been to use stretchy plastics or rubbers for medical devices, silicon is still a much better conductor of electricity.

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Fast-food workers around the country are on strike again in 100 cities with supporters rallying in 100 more last Thursday, marking over a year of sustained unrest among low-wage workers in the US. This time members of the Central Illinois community will rally in support of their effort to improve their lives, known as the ‘Fight for $15.’ The group gathered at McDonald’s on Neil and Kirby in Champaign at 5 p.m. on Thursday. everybody, it would help get the economy going again.” University physics professor George Gollin, who is running for Congress in Illinois’ 13th district, also discussed the larger econom-

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ic impact low wages have. “When you do a real full accounting of things, what you find is that to get cheaper hamburgers, cheaper goods, we’re having to put tax revenues into

important programs like food stamps and other forms of aid,” he said. “You pay either right there at the counter when you buy some-

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that describe behavior and characteristics — that can be very valuable to companies.” In the Research Park, companies have started to use these massive data supplies to make their businesses more lucrative. For example, Anheuser-Busch uses its lab in Research Park to analyze consumer habits and trends in order to create more effective marketing plans or to predict the number of products consumed by each region of the country, said Bud Analytics Lab Director Rafael Pinterich. “With big data we can go into a deeper relationship with our

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Therefore, Rogers and his fellow researchers perfected ultra-thin silicon, changing the silicon material from rigid to stretchy, which better suits the body. Rogers’ ideas for how ultra-thin silicon can be used in medical devices are extensive. “With a pacemaker, you just have one wire connecting into the tissue,” Rogers said. “But if you could wrap the whole heart with an integrated circuit, then you could pulse it and stimulate it in a much more complex and sophisticated way.” Rogers is a lready i m pl e m e nt i n g f l ex i bl e electronics commercially. A company called MC10, founded by Rogers, worked with Reebok to release an electronic skullcap this past July. Athletes who play contact sports can wear the form-fitting skullcap under their helmets, and a stretchy electronic inside the cap can measure and record the physical severity of any hits to the head. Besides flexible electronics, the American Ingenuity Award also recognizes Rogers for his development of medical devices that not only stretch and flex, but also dissolve. Rogers foresees this being useful, for example, for when medical devices are no longer

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C-U workers protest for higher wages Despite the cold, ChampaignUrbana community members stood outside the McDonald’s, located at 1605 S. Neil St., carrying signs and chanting phrases such as, “Keep your burgers, keep your fries, make our wages supersized!” The rally was one of hundreds taking place Thursday in support of the “Fight for $15” movement. The movement seeks to raise minimum wage to $15 and give fastfood workers the right to form a union without retaliation. Ricky Baldwin, co-chair of Central Illinois Jobs With Justice, said the movement has been gaining political strength throughout the country. On Tuesday, the Washington, D.C. City Council unanimously voted to endorse the state’s minimum wage from $8.25 to $11.50 per hour — one of the highest in the nation. The legislation will be put through a final vote and sent to the Washington, D.C. mayor, Vincent Gray. “It would be so much better if McDonald’s and other corporations — who can afford it — would pay more,” Baldwin said. “Then those workers would have more money to spend, and it would help

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TORNADO realize what that meant. “I thought, ‘Oh well, our house is gone, we can rebuild it,’ but our entire subdivision — everything was just gone,” he said. Later when he went to his home to see if anything could be salvaged, the true state of things was inconceivable. “It looked like a war zone,” he said, “I’ve lived there all my life, and I just couldn’t believe my eyes seeing all of the destruction.” Not much could be saved from his family home other than a few items of clothing, some of his homework, two calculators and textbooks from his last semester classes at Illinois Central College. He did save a pair of shoes, filled with insulation and debris, but he still has to clean them out. Schildt was overjoyed when he realized two rather furry possessions weathered the storm as well. One under the couch in the basement and one in a closet upstairs, Rusty and Sugar survived the storm. “Which was awesome,” he said. “I was so worried about my cats.” The tornado hit close to home for many who live on the University’s campus. Jessica Weston wanted to go home and help as soon as she heard the news but traffic into the town was regulated, and not many people were being allowed in. Unphased, she then decided to do something for Washington from Champaign. She, with the help of three other coordinators and the entire Illini community would fill a truck. Seniors Weston, LAS, Mandy McGuire, ACES, Dani Frye, AHS and Allison Canty, LAS, are all from Washington and created the “Fill the Truck” campaign to provide relief to their friends and neighbors whose lives were changed by the tornado. They would gather the most necessary and immediate supplies for the victims of the tornado, and they would take them home on Friday when they left for Thanksgiving break. Monday morning, there was an empty trailer. Monday afternoon, there were four boxes on Weston’s doorstep. Friday afternoon, there was a trailer so full not even another box could fit. Illini Fighting Hunger, Orange

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DATA consumers and build connections with consumers,” Pinterich said. “Not only do we connect with consumers, but we experience a part of the consumer life.” Pinterich spoke to academics and industry leaders during a panel on social media at the summit, specifically referring to one instance in which data from social media allowed the Budweiser company to make an even

Krush, fraternities, sororities, other registered student organizations and citizens donated water, food, cleaning supplies, clothing, pillows, blankets and baby items, among other items, to accomplish their goal and help their fellow townspeople in need. Weston called Washington Mayor Gary Manier as the trailer that took two hours to load rolled into town. He directed them to the Sunnyland Plaza donation drop off, and in a matter of 20 minutes, the ready and willing volunteers emptied the trailer. In addition to the truck, more than $2,000 were donated to the Washington Secret Santa, a group focused on providing children with presents and restoring some normalcy to their holiday season. The Interfraternity Council also donated $4,000 to Washington Helps Its People, the local food pantry. Victims and volunteers have used Facebook as a main form of communication. In the early aftermath of the tornado, a page called “Washington, IL Tornado Recovery” served as a source of available resources as well as a place for people to ask questions about encountered problems. This page has received more than 178,000 “likes” as of press time and thousands of posts from people across the nation. Schildt and his family have received much support from friends and strangers in the aftermath of the disaster. They have been staying at the Hampton Inn in East Peoria, Ill., which has given discounted rates to tornado victims. They have also received meals and help with insurance questions, to name a few things. Schildt went to a Red Cross shelter after the tornado. He excitedly spoke about the comfort dogs that he played with that first night. He thought it was hilarious that they brought in the dogs and found it especially funny that they have their own Facebook page. He claims that the shoes he received from the volunteers of the San Antonio Shoe Company are “the most comfortable shoes ever.” Volunteers made sure people made homeless by the tornado had somewhere to gather for Thanksgiving. Schools and churches were turned into make-shift cafeterias for those who had nowhere else to go, like Schildt and his family. larger profit. “We just found through data analytics and social media that there is a huge correlation between hockey and Budweiser,” Pinterich said. “Normally there is a peak during the goals — people celebrate and they are willing to drink — so that was a big opportunity for us, and we needed to take advantage of that.” Based on information gathered from social media sites like Twitter, Budweiser crafted a new marketing plan that targeted hockey fans and predicted where extra

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Volunteers dropped off supplies for the “Fill the Truck” campaign at Jessica Weston’s house to support Washington, Ill., residents affected by the recent storm. Schildt spent his Thanksgiving eating at a local school while his parents ate at a local church. He just kept thinking if they had a home they would be together. It was awful for him to be separated from his family and to have been reduced to eating at a church and a school, rather than sitting at his dining room table eating a nice Thanksgiving meal of turkey. They should be talking to each other, having a nice family conversation. Above all, he just kept thinking that they should be together. The citizens of Washington continue to plan their next move. As time passes, people are slowly but surely fitting the pieces of their lives back together. Schildt and his family will move into a rental home, trying to return their lives to normal. Some people did not have homeowners’ insurance, and Schildt said he feels much worse for them than for himself because they literally lost everything. Though it’s approaching fast, Schildt said Christmas is the last thing on people’s minds. Affected Washington residents are just trying to figure out what they are going to do and where they are going to live. Nancy said most people she knows are trying to pick up where they left off with what little they have and go from there. She knows people who are trying to get Christmas trees to add some normalcy for their children. Some victims, however, did not even have shoes let alone Christ-

mas ornaments and decorations. The Schildt family Christmas decorations were in the basement of their house, so some were able to be saved. Schildt’s father was able to salvage some of the decorations Schildt had made while in preschool — decorations that were important to his parents. Despite the hardships, Schildt said morale in Washington remains high. He said the help he has received has been incredible, and he is definitely going to write the volunteers a thank you note. To McMullen, everything has been overwhelming. She said the outpouring of help and volunteerism from the community as well as the nation makes her think about how fortunate everybody is to be in Washington. She doesn’t think anybody could say anything negative about the help that has been received. “The whole community is very strong, and we are doing the best we can,” Schildt said. “Almost anyone you talk to is going to have a positive outlook on this, and they are just going to get through it, and they are glad to be alive.” Soon, the air will get colder and the snow will fall. Schildt said if the winter is mild, his family may be able to have their home rebuilt by this time next year, but that seems to be the earliest estimate. For now, the weather is fine — but there is nothing left to block the wind.

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thing from a place that’s not paying its workers well, or you pay because we have to subsidize people so they don’t starve to death.” Other than fighting for a raise in the minimum wage, fast-food workers are fighting for their right to unionize. “A lot of times in this country when workers try to form a union, even though legally it’s a protected right, they will find themselves fired or disciplined or have their hours cut back — and the employer says it’s for another reason,” Baldwin said. “Somehow, coincidentally, it’s always the folks who are most active in trying to start the union.” He added that even if employers are convicted of illegal antiunion activity, the fine is minimal, so large corporations like McDonald’s — who he said reported earnings of $1.5 billion last quarter — do not have to worry about such consequences. The plight of fast-food workers does not just affect the community on an economic level, but also on a personal one. “If people think about it, most people probably know someone or have a family member, if not they themselves, that have worked in fast-food,” Baldwin said.”All of

amounts of Budweiser would be purchased so the company could ship extra product to those areas at a faster rate, Pinterich said. Laura Frerichs, director of the University’s Research Park, hopes that the University will be able to capitalize on big data expansion by encouraging companies to move to the Research Park and take advantage of the big data processing services that the University offers, she said. “From our side, we see this as part of our economic development mission,” Frerichs said.

“In showing Champaign-Urbana and the University as one of the premier locations where data analytics expertise has existed for a long time because of computer science, (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), informatics and statistics ... We hope companies will consider our community as one of the best in the country.” The University offers a number of resources for companies and researchers: scholastic prestige, the NCSA, which is the University’s supercomputing center, and

relationships with leading companies, Frerichs said. “This is a very rapidly growing field and a fast-moving train,” said Shaowen Wang, professor of geography and geographic information science. “One of the biggest challenges is that we are missing workforce and that is where the University of Illinois is in position to be a major contributor. We train that workforce that our industrial partners might need very quickly.” Frerichs said the NCSA’s ability to do massive calculations with

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Wi-Fi, pension to be discussed at Senate BY MARYCATE MOST STAFF WRITER

Limited wireless access has caused faculty and administrators to jump into action, developing the 2013 IT Strategic Plan that proposes a 0.1 percent increase in the University’s investment in IT. The proposed plan will go before the Urbana-Champaign Senate at its meeting at the Illini Union on Monday. “This resolution was surprisingly fast,” said John Hart, Information Technology Committee chair and Engineering professor. “I did not expect it to get to the (full) Senate so quickly.” If passed, the plan will call for an increase in the total percentage of the University budget spent on IT, from 3.8 percent to 3.9 percent. Even with the proposed increase, Hart said the Uni-

versity falls behind the average percentage of IT spending in education, which is currently at 4 percent nationwide. “The strategic plan is longerterm, and it focuses on data driven scholarship,” Hart said. “We are trying to set up a campus IT infrastructure to support moving large sets of data across campus.” The Senate is also set to discuss pension reform, Senate Executive Committee Chair Roy Campbell said. “The opinion will be pretty much aghast (about the pension plan),” Campbell said. “One of the things that we are going to look at is compensation. What will the University do in terms of benefits?” Campbell said there is some concern that when faculty are deciding what universities to

teach at, pension plans at the University might be a deterrent. “What it could do is really disenchant people that are living in Illinois,” Campbell said. “A lot of faculty are international, and it is not like they have family in Champaign-Urbana. It puts us at a serious disadvantage with competing universities.” The Senate meeting will provide an opportunity to open discussion on how to address the plan. There has already been talk of the University providing some kind of pension supplement, and at the University’s Chicago campus, faculty have started to unionize and are planning to strike, Campbell said.

MaryCate can be reached at most2@dailyillini.com.

Electronics competition award to be broadcast from Champaign BY CLAIRE EVERETT STAFF WRITER

Instead of putting your old cell phone in a box never to be used again, sustainable options are being created to reuse its materials. What started as an industrial design class at the University in 2009 turned into the International Sustainable Electronics Competition. The competition focuses on the reuse of electronic waste and the prevention of unsustainable use. A panel of experts judge products and non-products, such as policies and educational campaigns. This year’s winners were announced at a ceremony at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center on Thursday, which was also broadcast as a webinar.

The winner of the product contest from Swinburne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, was awarded a $3,000 prize for his idea for smart phones to be remanufactured as cow collars to monitor the health and location of the animal. The farmer would be able to tell when the animal is fed and if it is sick. In the non-product category, students from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Puebla in Mexico won the $3,000 prize for their children’s game concept. Children would build toys out of a game kit of recyclable materials to create a moving toy. “Some students have had been interested in bringing their ideas to market,” said Joy Scrogum, emerging technologies resource

needed in the body so that surgery won’t be necessary to retrieve it. “We thought about whether there would be a set of materials that could go into the body, survive for a time period that’s relevant for its mode of use, but then once its job is done, then it would just dissolve away,” Rogers said. Rogers’ colleagues affirm his innovation. Ralph Nuzzo, a Un iversit y chem i st r y professor, has followed Rogers’ work since they worked at Bell Laboratories together in the 1990s. They are currently both interested in the area of flexible electronics. “He’s got this very rare attribute,” Nuzzo said. “He’ll come up with an innovative idea and reduce it to a form of practice at the level of technology in a way that just

specialist at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center. “Often in the past, we’ve had people who have seen the winners and say, ‘I really love that idea, I wish I could buy one of those.’” Now, the Technology Entrepreneur Center in the College of Engineering is offering feedback for projects to make prototypes and production in the marketplace a feasible option. “It was nice this year because all of the winners were international this year, and we could unmute them on the webinar to make comments,” Scrogum said. “It’s always really interesting to see the great ideas that students come up with.”

Claire can be reached at everett5@dailyillini.com.

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blows your mind.” Sanat Bhole is a first year master’s student who is part of the Rogers research group. He and other researchers are currently working daily in a lab to try and develop cancerpreventing, skin-mountable UV sensors based on Rogers’ flexible electronics technology. “ Rogers is i n fi n itely responsible for formulating the ideas and the theories that we implement, whether it’s the actual process of how to fabricate something or the theories behind how a certain device will work,” Bhole said. When asked for words of advice for aspiring inventors, Rogers suggests thinking big. “Choose grand challenge levels to work on that you’re passionate about. Go for the big problems,” Rogers said. “The small problems will work themselves out.”

Zila can be reached at zrenfro2dailyillini.com. those people are making low wages. About half of them, on average, have to rely on some kind of public assistance to get by.” Gloria Von Behren, area chapter president of SEIU, has been part of the food service community for 30 years and is a secondgeneration food service worker at the University. She said she started working in military dining halls for $1.10 per hour when she was a teenager. “We’ve got to start somewhere with bringing back what we deserve, with a job with dignity and the opportunity to get ourselves above what it costs us to live,” she said. “There is too wide of a disparity between what minimum wage is, what cost-of-living is and what a living wage is. If they continue to bring those definitions closer together, we may not have an issue.” With this movement, Von Behren is looking to make changes to the way that fast food workers are viewed and treated by corporations. “They can’t tell me that it’s an uneducated person, they can’t tell me that it’s an entry-level position, don’t demean my profession,” she said. “If [employers] think their floor is our ceiling, we will raise the roof.”

Eleanor can be reached at eablack2@dailyillini.com big data makes it a tool worth utilizing. “It happens that we have some of the biggest and strongest supercomputers in the world,” Frerichs said. “Every major corporation knows the University of Illinois has the big supercomputers, and that certainly, when making a decision to go anywhere in the world, will make them come to the University of Illinois.”

MaryCate can be reached at most2@dailyillini.com.

Materialism amplifies anxiety, post-traumatic stress, says study BY JULIANNE MICOLETA STAFF WRITER

With the advent of the holiday shopping season, new research co-authored by Aric Rindfleisch, a University marketing professor, tells a cautionary tale about materialism and its secondary effect on making traumatic events even worse. The research, conducted by Rindfleisch and co-authors Ayalla Ruvio, of Michigan State University, and Eli Somer, of the University of Haifa in Israel, explored the amplifying effect of materialism on the experience of trauma through an Israeli field study and a U.S. national survey. It was published in July. “The basic idea is that people who are materialistic seem to suffer more than people who are not materialistic,” Rindfleisch said. Materialism is the value that people have toward object and how they see material possessions as a source of happiness, he said. The Israeli component of the study was conducted in two parts: they looked at the consumption practices among participants from an Israeli town under extreme rocket attacks from Palestine for about six months in 2007 and compared it with another Israeli town not exposed to the hostilities. “We compared two villages with similar demographics, and what we found is that the participants in the village under terrorist attacks suffered higher levels of post-traumatic stress disorder, more impulsive buying and more compulsive consumption than their less materialistic counterparts in the other Israeli village,” Rindfleisch said. The U.S. part of the study commissioned a survey of U.S. residents and asked them about their materialistic nature and fear of death. It found that these indirect effects are due to the fact that materialistic people exhibit lower levels of self-esteem, which reduces the ability for someone to cope with traumat-

ic experiences, according to the redirect gifts to the less fortupaper. nate, Chaplin said. “If you are a true shopahol“The U.S. study was interesting because obviously, not many ic and just enjoy shopping, then of our towns are being bombed redirect your gifts to those who so what we did in the survey is really need it,” Chaplin said. try to simulate these sorts of “This is especially important conditions by asking people to to teach children who are growtell us about their level of death ing up in a highly materialistic anxiety, and those who had more world. When all they see is buyanxiety toward death were simi- ing more and more stuff without lar to the participants in the vil- much generosity towards others, lage under terrorist attacks,” they will grow up just taking and Rindfleisch said. taking without giving back.” However, traumatic events For LAS freshman Nehal Patel, are not limited to just terrorist Black Friday shopping has been a tradition attacks. in her fam“It can mean anything from ily for years, being in a car but she feels accident, natthat it takes ural disasters, advantage of severe termithe sales of nal illnesses the shopping or near-death season out of necessity. experiences,” “It’s a day to Rindfleisch said. get the stuff W it h the ARIC RINDFLEISCH that I absoluteMARKETING PROFESSOR ly need,” Patel upcoming holsaid. “My pariday shopping ticipation in season, RindBlack Friday f leisch said shoppers should take extra cau- and holiday sales is determined by what I need. If I am in dire tion with buying into hype. “I think that’s what these sales need for boots, a new phone and are designed to do,” he said. some clothes, then I will go to “They’re designed to take advan- shop. I don’t do it to make myself tage of these tendencies because happy or feel good about myself.” in times of stress, people seek Similar to the study done by solace through shopping. The Rindfleisch, Chaplin’s research research suggests that there is finds that low self-esteem causes some fix with retail therapy and materialism. When her research Black Friday shopping and the team experimentally raised rest of the shopping season plays children’s self-esteem, they into that.” observed a decrease in level of Though Lan Chaplin, associ- materialism. ate professor of marketing at “We also found that materialUniversity of Illinois at Chica- ism heightens around early adogo, said consumers can com- lescence when teens are hyperbat materialism during the hol- critical of themselves. Their iday shopping season through self-esteem drops and their generosity. materialism increases,” Chap“Try to think of everyone and lin said. “There’s good news everything you are grateful for,” though because by late adolesChaplin said. “I bet you’ll real- cence around ages 16 or 17, teenize how much you have and you agers’ self-esteem rebounds and won’t feel the need to acquire materialism decreases.” more stuff.” Another way to beat materi- Julianne can be reached at alism this holiday season is to micolet2@dailyillini.com.

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was only in July that Gov. Pat Quinn halted Illinois lawmakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pay (later deemed unconstitutional) for failing to agree on a pension reform solution that has evolved into a nearly $100 billion deficit. Last week, nearly five months later, Illinois finally introduced and passed a plan to fully fund the pension system by the end of Fiscal Year 2044. Although a set goal is reassuring, and not to mention the bipartisanship of a consistently split General Assembly, the effects on Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nine public universities are unclear. In 2011, the State owed these nine universities more than $550 million. But the University receives the largest appropriation from the State, thus resulting in the State also owing the University the most money, about $456 million. University President Robert Easter, in coordination with the chancellors at the other three Illinois campuses, expressed his disappointment and opposition to the reform bill. Although they acknowledge the need for retirement security and supplemental retirement programs, the process of recruiting and retaining faculty may be the hardest hit facet of Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pension reform. As a University that has a high focus on research, it is pertinent that we bring in faculty that will continue to move our status as a top-research institution forward. A salary cap of $109,971 will be applied to all employees. Faculty exceeding the cap will likely not receive fair pension in return; there are currently 2,984 University employees who make more than the salary cap. The irony is that the faculty with the largest salaries, and arguably those who make the largest contributions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether research- or teaching-related â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are receiving the least number of pension benefits in return. Prospective faculty members at the University may be inhibited by the idea that once they achieve a particular status of prestige at the University, they are no longer eligible for fair pensions in return. Professor Harriet Murav, president of the Campus Faculty Association, said in a Dec. 3 Daily Illini article that someone in the middle of his career who is planning his retirement would not be attracted to the school. The University, to maintain competitiveness within the State and among other Big Ten universities, plans on recruiting 500 new employees over the next five years, according to the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Strategic Plan. But the first problem will be recruiting â&#x20AC;&#x153;old,â&#x20AC;? top talent, that will likely flock to other Big Ten universities because they already make salaries close to or above the new salary cap. The second problem will be retaining new talent, who may have less incentive to stay at the University once their contributions and consequent salaries near the cap. Older faculty at the University who have contributed a large amount to the University may feel as if the cap is leaving them in the dust. But the effects of the salary cap go beyond fair pensions for highearning faculty. If we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recruit top faculty, then we are missing the chance to move the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status as a top research and land grant institution forward. Our University loses out just as much as our faculty does. Sure, implementing pension reform in a state that has been struggling with $100 billion in unfunded pensions for years is essential. But as Rep. Naomi Jakobsson, D-103, and Sen. Mike Frerichs, D-52, voted against pension reform, we wonder: Is this also in the best interest of the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public universities?

Study abroad gives students a taste of unfamiliarity BOSWELL HUTSON Opinions columnist

y the time this column is published, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have 25 days left in the United States. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not leaving the U.S. to go on a vacation, nor will I be joining the ranks of the military abroad or journeying with the Peace Corps. Instead, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m studying abroad, a seemingly ubiquitous process that hundreds of students at the University â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and around the country â&#x20AC;&#x201D; participate in every year. Hell, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to London, England, a cosmopolitan environment where they speak English. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s familiar, comfortable and far removed from a dangerous country in political turmoil. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine myself feeling unsafe or frightened while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m over there, but as much as I tell myself that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be fine, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to shake the feeling of fear. Coming from someone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lived within half-an-hour of campus for my entire life, the fact that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll soon be living in a city of eight million is still daunting for me to

fathom. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to be forced to come to terms with it soon enough. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my lack of exploration away from my hometown, or the fact that I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to see my friends or people I work with for the entire time while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gone. That frightens me a lot. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m certainly not trying to dramatize my situation more than is necessary because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m only going to be abroad for four months, and, thanks to technology, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to keep in touch with my family and my loved ones better than I could ever imagine. And while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m incredibly thankful and honored to have this opportunity and chance for a positive experience, it also could be a scary one. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned these past few months, however, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take things, especially those in the present, for granted. The fact that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to leave my entire life behind for a while has taught me to amplify the importance of each moment, even those which seem ordinarily mundane, such as daily interactions with friends and family. Even the simplest things such as playing some Madden football

in my living room, eating dinner with my parents or walking across the street to visit my girlfriend have become moments both deeply enjoyable and important to reflect upon. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just something sweet about that. This, in turn, has given me a great perspective on time as a whole, and how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always changing. I know that sounds vague and obvious, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I had a full grasp on this concept until I realized that soon, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be leaving all forms of familiarity. Our lives are rapidly changing. University, at a base level, is merely a holding area to groom us to be thrust into the real world. We only have a short amount of time to take advantage of the great relationships, academic ventures and social opportunities that the University setting has to offer. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one facet of preparing to leave the country for a prolonged amount of time has taught me, it is that this period, like every other one in our lives, is finite. My friends and acquaintances, much like everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, will likely get scattered across the country after graduation due to various career obligations, and thus, this feeling that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m experiencing

for studying abroad will probably become more prevalent for everyone later. Please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get me wrong, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not saying that college is the best time in all of our lives because it prepares us for the real world; I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that remotely. I think we, as college students, have some of the best opportunities of anyone, but unfortunately, this means not necessarily remaining in a static place. The actual process of coming to terms with the notion of constantly moving is the intimidating part. No period in our lives is infinite. People come and go, opportunities call and separation is a given fact of life. Study abroad has simply been a way for me to realize this pattern in human existence. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure, somewhere along the line in my time abroad, I will do some more growing up, but I already realize that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m learning loads about myself and I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even left yet. Or maybe I just have anxiety problems. I guess weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find out soon enough.

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

Religious accommodation an opportunity, not a threat SEHAR SIDDIQUI Opinions columnist

omething as simple and necessary as young girls learning how to swim has been branded as Sharia law. A Fox News correspondent declared, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sharia law is now changing everythingâ&#x20AC;? after a local YMCA in Minnesota collaborated with the Somali-American community to start a once-a-week, hour-long private swim session for young Muslim girls. Sharia law is a broad idea interpreted differently by Muslims across the world, but the general concept is that it advises Muslims on how to conduct their lives on a day-to-day basis. Part of this involves beliefs about modesty, which are critical to Muslims practicing their religion. The importance of modesty in Islam is why young girls learning how to swim would need privacy to learn this skill comfortably. Since wearing clothing that is not revealing is an important facet of Islam, the private swim lessons would provide a fair opportunity to learn this skill while still keeping in line with their religious practices. Saying Sharia law is chang-

ing â&#x20AC;&#x153;everythingâ&#x20AC;? is a negatively charged, lofty statement. Allowing young Muslim females to learn how to swim in an environment that is comfortable for them and in accordance with their religious beliefs is hardly changing â&#x20AC;&#x153;everything.â&#x20AC;? And the change that this program does introduce is a positive one. Closing off the pool once a week for only an hour would hardly inconvenience anybody. In fact, this program could benefit more people than it would harm. What this program is not, though, is an example of extremism seeping into the U.S. government. Equating an opportunity for young girls to learn a necessary life skill to Sharia law â&#x20AC;&#x153;changing everythingâ&#x20AC;? is a slippery slope. I would venture to assume that nobody in the Minneapolis-St. Paul YMCA was collaborating with any extremist group to put this plan into action. I highly doubt there were extremist intentions behind the program, either. The people who are going to be most impacted by this are the girls learning how to swim. Setting aside a block of time once a week for these swim lessons isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to cause a Sharia law infiltration of the local and national government. This small blip on the radar of inclusivity has caused an uproar because Fox tends to snatch up

any reason to perpetuate fear of a minority group. Fox News and Western culture have a habit of focusing on the extremist interpretation of Sharia law, so any religious accommodation for Muslims can be easily stuck under the extremism category. Instead of taking the time to understand the importance of Muslim women learning how to swim in modesty, Fox took the situation as an opportunity to imply extremist mechanisms of Sharia at work. Rather than applauding the YMCA, the Somali-American community and the police department for creating such an inclusive environment for young Muslim females, Fox completely distorted their intentions and made these swim lessons something ominous: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep watching this story for you.â&#x20AC;? Right, because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much to fear and watch out for in a developing story about young girls learning how to swim. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When will these girls learn how to breaststroke? When will they finally start to use the diving board?â&#x20AC;? And the obvious next question, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When will they infiltrate the government with their extremist Sharia views on swimming in modesty?â&#x20AC;? Oh, the terror. Even more ridiculous than these swimming lessons being an example of Sharia law is Fox attempting to legitimize Sharia law â&#x20AC;&#x153;chang-

ing everything.â&#x20AC;? Despite this being a ridiculous claim, if Islamic extremists were to attempt to â&#x20AC;&#x153;change everything,â&#x20AC;? theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d need a larger body of people than only about one percent of the U.S. population. Although Sharia Law does include the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;law,â&#x20AC;? the nature of it observed popularly among Muslims is far from political and focuses more on an appropriate lifestyle. There is a difference between Islam influencing local and national governments and Islam motivating a local YMCA to give young Muslim women the opportunity to swim in an accommodating environment. That tiny one percent still deserves the right to utilize local pool facilities. The fact of the matter is, this supposed change of â&#x20AC;&#x153;everythingâ&#x20AC;? is only changing Muslim womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to swim. The only difference between now and then for this YMCA is that the pool is now more accessible to a larger percentage of the community than it was before. The saddest part is that Fox took a story that could have boosted Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perceptions of diversity into a positive light and instead made it into a negative story about extremism that perpetuates fear mongering.

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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

More to farming advancement in Africa than unity Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: This letter is a response to a previous article, â&#x20AC;&#x153;College of ACES to join in on agricultural education program,â&#x20AC;? published in the Dec. 2, 2013, edition of The Daily Illini. The writer, Miranda Holloway, describes the potential advancement of African farming based on educational improvements and unison among farmers.

The article states the importance of helping farmers improve their methods to shift from subsistent to commercial farming. The article fails to recognize the idea that competing at a commercial level would not help the situation in Africa. Before any idea of international competition can be approached, the long term effects of pesticide use needs to be taken

into account. Research has proven that continual use of pesticides has various negative effects including harm to the environment, people, wildlife, consumers and a culminated link between these chemicals and cancer. Commercial competition would lead to increased use of pesticides, which would continue to contribute

negative effects. Holloway believes farmers can maximize their production to compete at a commercial level. However, this article fails to address the long-term effect of intense commercial farming and the effects of pesticides.

Abby Ohrnstein, freshman in LAS

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WEEDON On the morning of the event, he went for a run on campus and came across the Tuskegee University Campus Cemetery. When Weedon stepped inside the cemetery, he realized he was standing in between two great people in history â&#x20AC;&#x201D; George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grave didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have so much a headstone, more of a concrete sarcophagus, but the inscription on it, it changed me forever,â&#x20AC;? Weedon said. Part of the inscription read, â&#x20AC;&#x153;He could have added fortune to fame. But caring for neither he found

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INFLUENZA lege town.â&#x20AC;? Viruses spread more quickly in college dorms because of the close contact residents have with one other, Duprey said. She advised if anyone is planning on getting an influenza vaccine, now is the best time to do so because the virus tends to spread more quickly during colder months. Although the Flaurix Quadrivalent vaccine carries four strains of the virus, there will always be more out there because of the constantly changing nature of influenza. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to get the flu shot because I work at a hospital,â&#x20AC;? said Karen Smith, a patient care technician at Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really guarantee that you wont get the flu ... This is because there is no way to accurately predict what the strain of the virus is active this season.â&#x20AC;? However, Smith said she still advises her patients to get the vaccine because there is always

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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I read that and I realized that my life wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about making money ... My life was really about making the world a better place and ultimately, the students that I trained hopefully will continue to do that,â&#x20AC;? Weedon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was an epiphany.â&#x20AC;? In 2011, Weedon moved to Illinois from North Carolina to become Champaign County Humane Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shelter veterinarian, through which he mentors fourth-year veterinary students in their shelter medicine rotation. Two years later, he became a part-time visiting clinical instructor at the College of Veterinary Medicine to expand the shelter

medicine program, and in August 2013, he became a clinical assistant professor of shelter medicine. Regarding his job as an educator, Weedon said he cannot think of anything else he would rather be doing. He follows the philosophy of Erwin â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ervâ&#x20AC;? Small, a late associate dean from the UI College of Veterinary Medicine, who once visited Weedonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s class at Purdue in fall 1977. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to spend the next 30 years getting up every morning saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh God, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to go to work,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Weedon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always remembered that.â&#x20AC;?

the chance that it will help their immune system if they contract any of those particular strains. According to McKinley Medical Director Dr. Maureen Malee, one of the most common side effects of the vaccine is soreness in the site of injection. However, there are some other possible side effects that may appear within seven days of receiving the vaccine, including a cough, runny nose, sore throat, chills and tiredness. These are more common in adults ages 19 through 49. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, other more serious side effects may include ocular and respiratory symptoms having to do with oculorespiratory syndrome. This side effect will typically develop within 24 hours of receiving the flu vaccine and should clear up around 48 hours after symptoms begin. Such symptoms include â&#x20AC;&#x153;red eyes, cough, wheeze, chest tightness, facial swelling, difficulty breathing and sore throat.â&#x20AC;? Though serious side effects exist, the chances of experiencing them are very low. Around 10 to 20 patients out of 1 million have

experienced any of the symptoms that are listed. Although McKinley encourages everyone to get a flu shot this season, there are certain people, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;high priority groups,â&#x20AC;? that should get the vaccine more so than everyone else. This â&#x20AC;&#x153;high priorityâ&#x20AC;? system is only put into effect when supplies of the flu vaccine are limited, and it includes pregnant women, those with chronic diseases, young children and the elderly. Those looking to get the flu shot can receive a free influenza vaccine at McKinley Health Center, located at 1109 S. Lincoln Ave. in Urbana. The center offers the free service from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. According to Dr. Malee, McKinley has distributed over 10,000 flu vaccines this flu season. Malee confirmed that there are side effects to receiving the flu vaccine, as stated above; however, in her opinion, the side effects are more manageable then actually contracting the flu virus.

Alison can be reached at akmarco2@dailyillini.com.

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Q-and-A with Illini creators of confessions, crushes pages BY ANNABETH CARLSON STAFF WRITER

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Illini Crushes & Confessionsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;UIllinois Crushesâ&#x20AC;? are popular Facebook and Twitter pages that allow students to anonymously post about their crushes or get something off their chests. Started in March, the Facebook page has more than 4,200 likes, and the Twitter account has more than 3,600 followers. Until now, the identities of the pagesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; creators were unknown, much like the students who send posts to them. The creators are students Uttam Rajan, senior in Business; Shail Shah, junior in Engineering; and Sukeer Khoch, sophomore in Engineering. They sat down with The Daily Illini last week to explain their motivation and future plans for the Facebook page and Twitter account.

Daily Illini: How did you get the idea to start the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Illini Crushes & Confessionsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;UIllinois Crushesâ&#x20AC;?? Uttam Rajan: Last semester, I was bored in my class and went on Facebook and saw my friend being tagged in this thing called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rutgers Crushes.â&#x20AC;? I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh this is pretty cool,â&#x20AC;? and I tried to (look up) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twitter U of I crushesâ&#x20AC;? and nothing came up. I thought, why not start this? It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really get big until this semester actually. Now we have over 3,700 followers. And then we decided to make a page out of it (on Facebook). We decided to (add) confessions, too, because it attracts a lot of people.

DI: How many messages do you receive a day? Rajan: I check it like 3 to 4 times a day and every time we get 20 or 30, so more than 100 (messages) per day. Right now, we have 900 that we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t covered yet, so we are really behind.

DI: Why do you think Illini Crushes is popular with students? Sukeer Khoch: I think students like it because in college you want to get in a relationship with somebody, or you just want to meet people, right? If you see someone that you want to talk to but you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the confidence, you can at least post through this, and that way they

will know about it. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we wanted to do this. We wanted to make it easier for college students to connect with each other on a relationship basis. Shail Shah: It is like the perfect medium for it and, you know, why not?

DI: Do you have a favorite post so far, or what is the funniest post you have seen? Khoch: There was one that we posted about Harry Potter, and it got like 600 likes in a matter of a day. Shah: And I talked to some of my friends and told them it was me and a lot of them say that it makes their day. Rajan: We usually post late at night so people see it when they wake up in the morning, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first thing they see. Some of them are pretty funny.

DI: I noticed that some of the submitted Facebook posts are sad, and that you posted an encouraging message saying that suicide is not the answer. How do you deal with depressing posts? Rajan: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to read them, realizing that there are people feeling that way around campus, and (you) feel sad for that person. Khoch: Whoever submits it, they (will) read it later and see what the comments are. So when someone posts something like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m suicidalâ&#x20AC;? and stuff like that, they get some feedback and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good feedback, like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You should talk to other people,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Talk to your friends,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry, we have a lot more things to look forward to in life.â&#x20AC;? I think we are helping people in a way, but they are the ones starting that conversation. Rajan: And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anonymous, and what I like about it is people are messaging me to help out this person and they post, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Message me if you want to talk more.â&#x20AC;? So I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to have someone to talk to and it could save their life. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helping out people, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we want to do.

DI: So, the whole goal of the page is about helping others? Rajan: Basically. And once in

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DI: Have you ever heard of someone ending up together because of the posts? Shah: No, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we are actually working on a website. People want to know who it was that posted about them and we want to figure out a way to do that. During Thanksgiving break, I was thinking about making a website where you log in through Facebook so the admins know who you are, and we could organize something that way and they could meet up. Khoch: We are also working on an Android app, because we found that a lot of times people will say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw this cute girl on the bus,â&#x20AC;? so we want to make an app so you can post either on Facebook or Twitter on the spot with your app so that way it is easier.

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DI: Do you know when you will have that up and running? Shah: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m aiming for after winter break, beginning of second semester. Khoch: Eventually, we want to get restaurants and bars involved. And if people want to meet up, they can go to that bar and confirm that they went there (and) get a discount at that bar or restaurant. This is in the future, like long-run stuff, but if we do that, it would be really cool because then you have incentive to go somewhere. Shah: We are trying to make it specific to the U of I campus, but in the future, if this works out perfectly or as we want it, we might move to other campuses around the Midwest.

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DI: Has anyone ever sent in a crush message about any of you? Rajan: There was one about me and my brother; it was pretty funny. I kind of blushed a little bit. I wanted to find out who it was.

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Meet the creators of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Illini Crushes & Confessionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; After posting and tweeting the thoughts of anonymous Illini, the creators of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Illini Crushes & Confessionsâ&#x20AC;? got the chance to voice their own. Turn to Page 5A to read the q-and-a with the three University students who started the popular social media pages.

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Vaccine myths give negative view of flu shots

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Consisting of Weedon and four people from the health department, the program developed a business plan on how to develop, design and build an on-site spay/neuter facility. They accomplished their goal. The team created the facility and an adoption play area, and Weedon completed the first sterilization at the facility in September 2004. The program changed Weedonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way of thinking and course in life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During the year, I gained an appreciation for the importance of public health and had so much fun and learned so much that I decided to do a masters,â&#x20AC;? he said. In 2002, Weedon finished his masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Afterward, he continued his private practice and started teaching epidemiology in UNCWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biology department for pre-professional students. Katherine Hughes, a doctor of veterinary medicine and UNCW graduate, met Weedon during the summer of 2006 through her internship at the local hospital. In the fall, she joined UNCWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pre-vet club, of which Weedon was the adviser. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He really opened my eyes as to what the multitude of opportunities that I would have with a DVM degree,â&#x20AC;? Hughes said. Weedon retired from private practice in 2009 to work for Global Alliance for Rabies Control as the veterinary outreach coordinator. His first speaking engagement for the organization was in October 2008, before he worked there, at Tuskegee University for their inaugural Merial Rabies Symposium. The occasion changed Weedonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective on his role as a veterinarian and educator.

Alicia Walsh, an exchange student from Swansea University in Wales, refuses to get the flu vaccine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got the flu shot once when I was younger, and it made me sick,â&#x20AC;? Walsh said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember not feeling right a few hours after I had gotten the shot ... My mom had to call me out of school.â&#x20AC;? When it comes to the flu shot, or influenza vaccine, there seems to be more myths spreading than the virus itself. Some, like Walsh, believe the vaccine can adversely cause sickness rather than prevent it. Still, health care centers across the nation encourage the preventive measure during every fall and winter season. But what exactly does the vaccine do? National Influenza Vaccination Week, running Sunday to Saturday, aims to emphasize that it is still important to get the flu vaccine throughout the winter season, especially for people who are at a higher risk of contracting the virus. This week can be used as an educational opportunity to learn about the truths of the influenza virus and vaccine. According to the Office of Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health, the influenza virus â&#x20AC;&#x153;attacks the nose, throat and lungs and can cause mild to severe illness,â&#x20AC;? including pneumonia, ear and sinus problems, and in some cases, death. The virus is much worse then the common cold but often begins with the same symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that â&#x20AC;&#x153;influenza viruses typically circulate widely in the United States annually from the late fall through early spring.â&#x20AC;? That makes this month the opportune time to take preventive measures. There are actually three different types of the influenza virus, with only two causing seasonal epidemics: influenza A and B. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the main difference between the two is the severity, with type A generally causing more extreme reactions and accounting for the majority of large epidemics. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s influenza vaccine has now been available in the U.S. for several months, with the McKinley Health Center offering free vaccines for all students, faculty and staff. McKinley is using the Fluarix Quadrivalent vaccine, which carries four different types of dead influenza viruses. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, this vaccine was approved by the FDA in December 2012. The vaccine includes two influenza A and two influenza B strains to best ensure the maximum amount of protection. Michelle Duprey, senior in Nursing, has given out more than 200 influenza vaccinations through her clinicals and is a firm believer in the flu shot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe everyone should get a flu shot,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is beneficial to not only them but to the people around them, especially in a col-

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Dr. Robert Weeden (right) watches over Jason Lyn and Annie Strong as they spay a dog at the Champaign County Humane Society.

Vet helps expand shelter medicine BY ALISON MARCOTTE FEATURES EDITOR

Robert Weedon does not need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his passion for his job is what gets him out of bed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yesterday morning I woke up at 4 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock. I was wide awake and was excited to start the day,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This morning I slept in; I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get up until 5:30.â&#x20AC;? Weedon is a clinical assistant professor of shelter medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine and a shelter veterinarian at the Champaign County Humane Society. He has a half-time appointment at CCHS and half-time appointment with the University to expand the shelter medicine program. Weedon has practiced veterinary medicine for 28 years, been involved in public health organizations and taught pre-veterinary students throughout the country. Weedonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former colleague Jean McNeil described him as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;jack of all trades.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those who never has a dull moment,â&#x20AC;? McNeil said. On Oct. 23, the College of Veterinary Medicine received a $323,000 grant from PetSmart Charities, the largest grant the shelter medicine program has ever received. The grant will pay for supplies and fund an intern veterinarian, a veterinary technician and a mobile sterilization trailer. Weedon and Brenda Betts, associate dean for advancement in the College of Veterinary Medicine, were the primary people who worked on applying for the grant, a process that took almost a year. Betts said Weedon is passionate about the shelter medicine program, and it was great working with him on the grant. It was wonderful when they received word that the grant had been approved, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so pleased that PetSmart Charities has partnered with us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a great

opportunity, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so grateful for it,â&#x20AC;? Betts said. The University has to first put the mobile sterilization unit out for bid. Once it is purchased in late spring or early summer, the unit will allow the shelter medicine program to more easily provide sterilization services at other shelters, such as the Human Society of Danville, Douglas County Animal Shelter and Coles County Animal Shelter. During the 2011-12 academic year, the shelter medicine program sterilized 1,003 animals at the CCHS. Last year, the program went to other shelters in addition to CCHS and sterilized 2,300 animals. Weedon said from the help of the grant, the shelter medicine program will be able to sterilize 3,500 animals this year. Weedon said the grant is beneficial for both the students and C-U community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Students are getting more training, which benefits the animals in the community. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a win-win situation,â&#x20AC;? he said. As well as overseeing the shelter medicine program, Weedon is a faculty adviser for the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shelter medicine club, the Illinois Student Chapter of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians. Weedon and Amy Fischer, teaching associate in the animal sciences department and faculty adviser for the club, helped form ISCASV in fall 2011. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the stars aligned,â&#x20AC;? Fischer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had these great vet students who really had leadership abilities to bring people together, and then Bob came in. The club has done so much.â&#x20AC;? The student organization, which has about 150 members, supports the shelter medicine program and gives members experiential training in the area of shelter medicine. Weedon said the group organizes weekend sterilization clinics for shelters and low-income members of the

community. Weedonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demonstrated passion for veterinary medicine can be traced back to his years growing up in Carmel, Ind., a small town just outside of Indianapolis. He recalled how his family lived near a stable, where they kept their horses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always believed that kids that grow up with responsibilities for animals ultimately have a better appreciation for human life,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got four cats and two dogs, and my life kind of revolves around them.â&#x20AC;? In 1977, Weedon earned his bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in animal science at Purdue University. He moved to North Carolina after receiving his doctor of veterinary medicine in 1981 at Purdue University. In Wilmington, N.C., he worked in a seven-doctor practice at College Road and Carolina Beach animal hospitals. Weedon also taught at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for 12 years. He said teaching gave him a different kind of satisfaction than saving a sick puppy or fixing a broken leg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Certainly those make you feel good. But seeing students get it, and seeing them grow and flourish, is what really gives me a lot of personal satisfaction,â&#x20AC;? he said. After 20 years of private practice, Weedon began looking for new challenges. McNeil was the animal control director for New Hanover County Animal Control Services. In 2001, she invited Weedon to participate as a community partner in the Management Academy for Public Health, a yearlong pilot program with the goal of training middle-level public health managers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He immediately said yes. Of course, I had no idea how much it would turn into something as big as it was,â&#x20AC;? McNeil said.

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when we were hosting. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to keep living in the moment and not get ahead of ourselves and not get worked up or anything like that.â&#x20AC;?

With or without head coach Matt Bollant, the Illinois womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to shake its recent tailspin. For the third consecutive game, the Illini (5-5) couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to mend their problems on both sides of the ball. Poor shooting and poor defending caused Illinois to lose its third consecutive game by more than 20 points, as No. 11 Colorado (8-0) dominated the second half of the game to win 79-56 at home. Assistant head coach Mike Divilbiss coached the team in place of Bollant because he was experiencing flu-like symptoms prior to the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did not shoot the ball very well,â&#x20AC;? Divilbiss said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re beating ourself. ... We feel like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played against a very good team tonight, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very proud of our effort, but we keep making mistakes.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just trying to grow and get better still. We have grown a lot. ... Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really pleased with them, but we still have to keep growing.â&#x20AC;? Down just eight points at half, Illinois struggled coming out of the break, as Colorado held Illinois to just 20 percent shooting in the half. The Buffaloes shot 48.4 percent for the game to the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 30.8. The Buffaloes also shot 42 percent from beyond the arc to the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 27.8. Illinois played relatively well defensively, forcing Colorado to commit a season-high 21 turnovers. But the Illini could not take advantage of the Buffaloesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mistakes, as they were only able to get 15 points off the turnovers. Colorado dominated the paint, grabbing 51 rebounds to Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 30. Colorado also outscored Illinois 15-5 on second-chance points. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t convert turnovers into baskets,â&#x20AC;? Divilbiss said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had opportunities and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t convert them. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we took too many bad shots tonight. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get sped up. ... We did a great job tonight of not doing that. I thought our choices were a lot better, but we just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t convert.â&#x20AC;? Jacqui Grant was the lone Illini to shoot over 50 percent from the field, hitting seven of her 12 shots overall and two of three from the 3-point line. She finished with 20 points, seven rebounds, two assists and one block. The next best Illini was Amber Moore, who had 16 points, but shot 5-for-16 from the field. The Buffaloes got a concerted effort from forward Arielle Roberson, center Rachel Hargis, guard Jasmine Sborov and reserve forward Jen Reese. All four players scored over 10 points in the game, with Roberson leading the way with 17. The Illini get only a dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rest before returning to State Farm Center to face Seton Hall (7-1) on Monday night.

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Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jocelyn Birks spikes the ball during an NCAA tournament second-round match against Marquette at Huff Hall on Saturday. The Illni won 3-1.

Illini advance into Sweet 16 BY BLAKE PON STAFF WRITER

The 2013 season is looking a lot like 2011. Similar to the 2011 teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s run to the NCAA championship game, the 2013 Illinois volleyball team was matched up with Marquette in the tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second round. And just like in 2011, the Illini prevailed, this time 3-1, by scores of 19-25, 25-17, 25-13, 25-13. Illinois swept Marquette in the teamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2011 tournament meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Marquette) came out hot and on fi re and they came out to attack us,â&#x20AC;? head coach Kevin Hambly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought the kids could have went one or two directions after that fi rst set. They could have got nervous or anxious and made a lot of errors, but instead they stayed calm and found the right arousal level and we kind of steadied out and figured them out a little bit. Overall, I think we performed really well in the last three sets. As good as we have, maybe, in a while.â&#x20AC;? The Illini started off the match much like their fi rst-round matchup against Morehead State, somewhat disconcerted. A four-point run early on in the fi rst set had Illinois trailing by five, a deficit the team couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recover from. Despite the setback in the set, the Illi-

ni, like the Huff Hall crowd around them, never lost confidence. Illinois improved dramatically defensively over the course of the match, holding Marquette to .171, .097 and .000 hitting percentages in the fi nal three sets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought defensively we made some great adjustments, and we defended them really well,â&#x20AC;? Hambly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold that team to zero. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a really efficient team. â&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an easy task what we did to a very, very good offensive team.â&#x20AC;? Sophomore outside hitter Jocelynn Birks, who starred in the fi rst round, was held to a .133 hitting percentage the fi rst two sets; however, Hambly utilized junior Liz McMahon and his middle blockers Katie Stadick and Anna Dorn on the offensive. McMahon became the focal point of the offense, taking pressure off Birks, as the junior hitter racked up 17 kills on a .406 hitting percentage. Stadick and Dorn combined for 12 kills, a .523 hitting percentage and 10 block assists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Stadick) was huge for us offensively and defensively,â&#x20AC;? McMahon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She came in and stuffed the ball right away. â&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an easy transition for us to make between the middles and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great.â&#x20AC;? The win pits the Illini in the Sweet 16, where they will have to move a few

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Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball defeats Auburn 81-62 BY MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

ATLANTA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Illinois menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team was back in Atlanta a few days after its collapse at Georgia Tech and the Illini left town with little doubt they are back on track. Illinois dominated Auburn for an 81-62 victory Sunday at Philips Arena to bounce back from its fi rst loss of the season Tuesday at Tech. The Illini led Tech by 12 points with less than seven minutes to play before fading to a 67-64 defeat. Illinois (8-1) showed no ill effects from that disappointing defeat while dispatching Auburn (4-3). Illini coach John Groce said he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;intriguedâ&#x20AC;? to see how his team responded to the Tech loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mentally they seemed really good, but now letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s see if we are going to be ready to go physically,â&#x20AC;? Groce said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are we going to come out and put our money where our mouth is? And we did. I thought guys played with pride. They played hard.â&#x20AC;? The Tigers opened the season with victories in four of five games, but tougher

opponents have shown why SEC comfort zone.â&#x20AC;? Illinois was paced media picked Auburn to fi nish by junior guards Rayvonte Rice last in the league. (22 points) and Tracy Abrams The Tigers lost 99-70 at No. 16 (17 points, seven rebounds, five Iowa State on Tuesday and also assists) while forward Jon Ekey were no match for the Illini, who made 4 of 6 3-point attempts. beat Auburn 81-79 in Chicago last K.T. Harrell led Auburn with 23 December. Auburn made just 6 points. of 23 field-goal attempts while Illinois made five of 10 threefalling behind 41-17 at halftime pointers while building a 26-13 and the Tigers lead, with were down by A bra ms a nd Ekey each makas many as 32 ing two of three poi nts before attempts during I l l i nois went that span. The deep into its bench. Illini closed the â&#x20AC;&#x153;We couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t half with an 18-4 make layups, we run that Abrams couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make capped with a 3-pointer at the jump shots, we buzzer. couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make RAYVONTE RICE â&#x20AC;&#x153; We just anything,â&#x20AC;? JUNIOR GUARD came out and Auburn coach threw the first Tony Ba rbee said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Give them pu nch ,â&#x20AC;? R ice credit; they made shots. But when said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were definitely mad you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put any pressure on the about the loss at Georgia Tech, opposing team by being anemic but we came out and got the as we were on offense in the fi rst win.â&#x20AC;? Auburn had averaged 78.2 half, then there is no pressure points in its first six games but on them. We put them in their struggled to score against the

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were definitely mad about the loss at Georgia Tech, but we came out and got the win.â&#x20AC;?

Illini. Guard Chris Denson, who entered the game leading the SEC with 21.8 points per game, scored just four points. Denson couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fi nd much room to drive to the basket because of Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sharp help defense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really talented and has a great knack for drawing fouls,â&#x20AC;? Groce said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we wanted to try to do the best we could defending him without fouling and I thought our guys did that.â&#x20AC;? Not many Auburn fans showed up to cheer the basketball team a day after the Tigers won the SEC football championship at the Georgia Dome. The basketball Tigers barely topped the 59 points scored by the football team. The majority of the sparse crowd was pulling for the Illini, who also had a sizeable group of fans at the Tech game. Among the Auburn supporters was Charles Barkley, the SEC player of the year for the Tigers in 1984 and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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llinois was fl awless Sunday. Auburn basketball may not hold the same clout as Auburn football, but Illinois dominated every facet of the game in an 81-62 win.

Tracy Abrams probably wishes he could play Auburn every game. The junior point guard has struggled mightily this season, entering the game with a 31.0 field goal percentage, but he led a potent offensive attack against Auburn. In last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s matchup against Auburn, Abrams had arguably his best game of the season with 27 points, eight rebounds, five assists, and four steals in an

81-79 win on Dec. 29. Abrams had 11 points, four rebounds, two assists, two steals and three 3-pointers in the fi rst half alone Sunday. Illinois played its best 20-minute stretch of the season in the fi rst half against Auburn. Illinois shot 60 percent in the half while holding Auburn to only 26.1 percent shooting from the field. Illinois entered halftime with a ridiculous 41-17 lead

after ending the half on a 24-6 run. There must be something up with Phillips Arena in Atlanta. Only two days after Kyle Korver broke the NBA record for consecutive games with a 3-pointer at 90 in the same arena, the Illini kept the 3-point line warm in the sharpshooterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence. Illinois drained 12 threes in the game at a 52.2 percent clip.

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WONSOVER This was as unselfish as Illinois has been all season long. Abrams and Rayvonte Rice cut out the “dribble for five seconds and jack up a 3-pointer” routine and instead helped facilitate a balanced Illini attack. Six different players made 3-pointers for the Illini. Most of the 3-pointers were set up off penetration. Jon Ekey especially benefitted from the kickouts, as he connected on four 3-pointers, most of which were from his favorite corner spot. Rice has solidified himself as the best player on this team. He led Illinois with 22 points on Sunday, becoming the first Illini newcomer to score double digits in the team’s first nine games of the season since 1993-94. Rice can’t be contained on the drive, but what has made him unstoppable is his newfound stroke. Rice has now made at least two 3-pointers in five straight games after drilling two against Auburn. If Rice continues to knock down perimeter shots with regularity, he’s almost unguardable. Auburn was flustered at the offense end from the onset of the game. Illinois started the game in a 2-3 zone and later switched to a tight man-to-man defense that threw off the Auburn offense. Auburn’s leading scorer, Chris Denson, who entered the game averaging the 19th best points per game in the country at 21.8, could never get it going Sunday. Denson finished with a season-low eight points, with all of his scores coming in garbage time. You know it was going bad for Auburn offensively when the Fox Sports Midwest announcers asked Charles Barkley if he still had eligibility remaining. The question was a joke, but really, Auburn could’ve used him. Illinois needed this game. The heartbreaking loss to Georgia Tech is now in the past. After the cupcake game against Dartmouth on Tuesday, Illinois faces its stiffest competition yet in consecutive games against Oregon and Missouri. If Illinois plays like it did Sunday, they’ll have more than enough to pull off the upsets.

Michael is a senior in Media. He can be reached at wonsovr2@dailyillini. com. Follow him on Twitter @The_MDubb.

Illinois’ Caleb Ervin wrestles Iowa’s Brody Grothus during the Illini’s loss to Iowa at Huff Hall on Feb. 8. The Illini fell short to Cornell this weekend 19-18.

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Wrestling loses 19-18 to Wisconsin BY DANIEL DEXTER STAFF WRITER

In their first chance to prove themselves against Big Ten competition, the Illini fell short by one point against Wisconsin this weekend. Following the loss to Cornell, the coaches of the Illinois wrestling team said their match against Wisconsin should serve as a confidence booster for the team; however, Illinois lost the duel 19-18, despite winning as many matches, five, as Wisconsin. Head coach Jim Heffernan was frustrated with the loss but said health is still an issue for the team as starters Jackson Morse and Caleb Ervin missed the dual with injuries. Aside from health, Heffernan believes maturity is an issue with some younger wrestlers on the team who struggled against their higher ranked opponents,

which led to bonus points for Wisconsin. Redshirt freshman Zac Brunson was disqualified in his match for stalling, and heavyweight redshirt freshman Chris Lopez lost by major decision. “I think that we need to do more with some individuals to make sure we are getting the most out of them,” Heffernan said. “We need put them in situations where they need to get a little bit tougher.” Redshirt freshman Zane Richards agreed with Heffernan, adding that he thinks confidence was an issue for him in his loss to No. 4 Tyler Graff. Richards said he allowed his opponent to control too much of the pace in the match and was never able to get into his rhythm. “I wanted to win the match, but I didn’t believe and know that I was going to win the match prior,” Richards said. “If I really know that I can beat a guy, then I

should whoop him. Instead I was a little hesitant, and I had a little bit of doubt in the back of my head. That needs to be fixed by the end of the year.” Heffernan did praise the perseverance of some of the veterans on the team, such as 141-pound Steven Rodrigues. He was able to come away with a victory in his match after scoring a reversal with six seconds remaining to take the lead. Rodrigues returned to action the previous weekend after having to sit out the start of the season recovering from his ACL surgery. He used the time off to study the sport more, which he felt helped him in his comeback victory Friday. “I needed to win a gutsy match,” Rodrigues said. “Last year, I lost a lot of those matches, and I needed to have that win to boost some confidence. I feel like I didn’t wrestle my best, but I won

a gutsy match.” The Illini now have three weeks off before traveling to Evanston, Ill., for the Midlands Championships. With the time off, some wrestlers will have the opportunity to rest and get healthy. Others will continue their training in preparation for tougher competition in the second half of the season. “I really believe that each individual guy has to want to make a change and make themselves tougher,” Richards said. “There’s not really a method to it. There’s not really a system or a pattern or anything you can really do technically for it. We just have to decide that we are going to be tougher guys and grow up a little bit and be what we said we were going to be.”

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

Robert Morris bests Illinois hockey twice Illini focus on needed wins to make ACHA national tournament as 2 games left before month-long break BY JOEY FIGUEROA STAFF WRITER

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Illinois’ Alison Meng swims the backstroke leg of the 200 yard medley event during the annual Orange and Blue exhibition meet at the ARC on Oct. 13. The Blue team won 120.5 to 100.5, and the Illini took second place overall.

Swimming takes 2nd, breaks records BY MICHAL DWOJAK STAFF WRITER

The Illinois swimming and diving team finished second in a field of eight at the threeday Miami (Ohio) Invitational over the weekend as many Illini swimmers put their name in the record book. “I was impressed with the ladies’ overall level of toughness, mentally and physically, each session,” head coach Sue Novitsky said. “The athletes continued to make adjustments from race to race and that is a big improvement for us and shows that we are maturing as athletes and as a team.” The Illini had 17 top-10 finishes in program history and 31 lifetime bests during the three

days of competition at the Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center. The 800-yard freestyle relay team of Gabbie Stecker, Megan Marchuk, Amelia Schilling and Courtney Pope started the weekend with a first-place finish of 7 minutes, 19.05 seconds, making it the fastest time in Illinois history. Junior Alison Meng won the 100 backstroke with a time of 54.55, which placed her first in Illini history. She also placed first in the 100 butterfly (55.20), which placed her second on Illinois’ all-time fastest individuals list and earning her ninth event victory of the season. The Illini continued with two more relay event victories. The 400 medley relay of Meng, Erica

Lynn, Sarah Sykstus and Pope won with a time of 3:44.77 while the 200 medley team of Meng, Lynn, Lori Lynn and Pope finished with a time of 1:42.71. Both had record finishes that placed third in Illini history. Senior Courtney Pope won the 200 free with a time of 1:49.25. It placed her sixth all-time among Illini. The past month has been filled with hard practice and attention to detail. The last time the Orange and Blue competed against Kansas in November, the team broke school records. Novitsky was proud of those achievements, and hoped that broken records would motivate other swimmers to do the same. “With the way the team has

been training we thought there could be some changes to the record books,” Novitsky said. Illinois finished second at the eight-team field invitational with 1704.5 points. Host Miami (Ohio) finished first with 2,332 points. The team will have another month off from competition before it hosts Rutgers on Jan. 10. “We are in a good place heading into the second part of the season,” Novitsky said. “Now we will get back to work in the pool and continue to work on making improvements.”

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

It was a tightly contested but disappointing weekend for the Illinois hockey team. No. 15 Illinois made the short trip to Chicago to face a familiar foe in the No. 2 Robert Morris Eagles and returned to Champaign with two tough losses. Saturday night’s 3-2 defeat was the more heartbreaking of the two, as the Illini allowed the game winning goal with just three minutes left in the game. Senior forward Matt Welch scored the opening goal of the game for Illinois, and after losing the lead, senior forward John Scully netted the game-tying goal late in the third period while the Illini were short-handed on offense. “I thought the energy and the effort was there, and we showed a lot of heart coming back and tying the game late the way we did short-handed,” head coach Nick Fabbrini said. “Overall, unfortunately, it wasn’t enough this weekend.” The Eagles were able to break the tie within a minute of Scully’s goal, and finished the game with a 3-2 victory. Robert Morris responded quickly to both of the goals scored by Illinois on Saturday, scoring in less than a minute after each of them. “Momentum goals are something we’ve talked about and they hurt us again, twice,” Fabbrini said. “Their first and third (goals) were both within a minute of us scoring. It makes it tough to win games when that kind of stuff happens.”

The Illini received a gritty effort on Saturday from backup goaltender Joe Olen, who got the start over senior goalie Nick Clarke after the tough 5-2 loss on Friday. Robert Morris outshot Illinois overwhelmingly, as they racked up a 48-19 advantage, but Olen found a way to keep his team in it. “He was lights-out last night,” Scully said of Olen. “Of the only goals he gave up, one was a bad bounce and the other one was just us not picking up guys, so he made every save that he should have made. I think both goalies were OK this weekend, and it’s more on the forwards to pick it up for them.” Clarke was called for a fiveminute major penalty for slashing in the final minutes of Friday’s game, which Fabbrini said was a factor in his decision to give him the night off Saturday. Ultimately, though, he just wanted to get Clarke some rest and give Olen an opportunity. The Illini have just two more games before the month-long semester break and will focus on winning enough games to qualify for the ACHA national tournament. “Really all that matters now is wins,” Fabbrini said. “We’re really not in a position to look for moral victories, we need to win games and get in the national tournament. We need to win as many games as we can between now and then and it starts next weekend against Northern Illinois.”

Joey can be reached at jfiguer2@dailyillini.com and @joeyfigueroa3

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Dunleavy keeps his faith in Bullsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chances BY K.C. JOHNSON CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Two of the main reasons Mike Dunleavy spurned more money elsewhere to sign with the Bulls last summer were to play with Derrick Rose and for a winner. Playing with Rose, at least for the first half of Dunleavyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twoyear, $6.5 million deal, is gone. The veteran who has seen a little bit of everything in his 11-plus years in the NBA firmly believes the latter is still possible, even as the injury-riddled Bulls lurch from impressive victory to desultory defeat.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;You just know no matter what happens this group isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to fold at any point,â&#x20AC;? Dunleavy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter who is out there, who is injured or who is not, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a high character group. There are a lot of teams where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just as much talent and things donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go their way and they fold. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what gives me confidence about this team going forward. We wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get it right.â&#x20AC;? Dunleavy knows dysfunction. He has never played on a winning team in the NBA and has only sniffed playoff basketball twice, losing to the Bulls with the Pac-

ers in the first round of the 2011 playoffs and getting swept out of the first round by the Heat with the Bucks last season. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine career playoff games for someone who teamed with Carlos Boozer and former Bulls Jay Williams and Chris Duhon to win a national championship at Duke and being drafted third by the Warriors in 2002, one slot behind Jerry Krause drafting Williams to the Bulls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is going to sound crazy, but this season has been pleasant for me,â&#x20AC;? Dunleavy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be able to compete and have a chance

every night and go into the game thinking youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to win, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big change for me. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been on some pretty dysfunctional teams. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do a lot of things well, particularly at the defensive end. We also usually rebound well. We have to shore up our 3-point defense. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in a lot of close games that could go either way. You can make those games up over the course of an 82-game season.â&#x20AC;? Indeed, the Pistons dropping a season-high 63.2 percent from 3-point land on the Bulls continued a season-long problem area. The Bulls rank 29th in opponentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

3-point percentage at 40.3 percent. Jimmy Butler (turf toe), who should play at some point this week, will add a versatile wing defender. And Luol Deng said after Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loss he hoped to return from his sore left Achilles at some point in the Bullsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stretch of four games in five nights that starts Tuesday at home. Dunleavy is keeping the faith. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just been a little bit of everything, with things you can control on the court and things you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t with injuries,â&#x20AC;? Dunleavy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In one sense, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Man, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so tough.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; On the other, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re

right there.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we get healthy, we can make a run here. We just have to stick with it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long year. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be all right.â&#x20AC;? Layups: Marquis Teague scored a season-high 10 points and tied a season high with three assists and no turnovers against the Pistons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought he was comfortable out there,â&#x20AC;? coach Tom Thibodeau said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Offensively, he was very good. Defensively, he could be really good so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an area I want him to continue to work and concentrate on.â&#x20AC;? ... The Bulls took Sunday off.

Cutler, McCown to make or break Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gametime BY BRAD BIGGS CHICAGO TRIBUNE

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be a football lifer or have the eye of a scout to determine Jay Cutler is a superior athlete to Josh McCown with a much stronger arm. Similarly, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to have an analytics background to determine the offense scores more points with McCown than it does with Cutler, something that dispels a popular notion these days about No. 6 and the struggles of the offense in the red zone in recent weeks with McCown. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right. The Bears are more productive with McCown at quarterback. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to suggest the Bears should choose McCown over Cutler after this season, when general manager Phil Emery has a decision to make about the future of the franchise at the most important position. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth thinking hard when you consider the value â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in terms of millions of dollars â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for Cutler moving ahead. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Emery has to weigh when determining if he should commit to Cutler in 2014 and beyond or find another quarterback or maybe two, a vet-

eran and a draft pick, for coach Marc Trestman to work with in his system. Because the quarterbacks have shared time against the Redskins and in the second game against the Lions, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t compare them by starts. To determine how many points they have produced, you remove the six return touchdowns scored by the defense and special teams. Similarly, you subtract points from them for the touchdowns Cutler and McCown have created for the opponent by fumble and interception returns â&#x20AC;&#x201D; points scored against the Bears directly attributable to the quarterbacksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; turnovers. Do the math and the Bears are scoring 2.06 points per possession with McCown, or one point every one minute, 27.1 seconds of possession. With Cutler, the offense is scoring 1.75 points per possession, or one point every one minute, 27.8 seconds of possession. In calculating the figures, kneeldown possessions were removed because no effort was made to advance the ball. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not talking about a wide margin here, but quarterback discussions in recent weeks have

suggested the offense is better off with Cutler, who hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finished a start since the Oct. 10 game against the Giants, than McCown, who has put up big yardage totals in losses the last two weeks at Minnesota and St. Louis but fallen short on the scoreboard. Crunch the numbers, and McCown comes out ahead when it comes to points. Cutler, 30, and McCown, 34, are coming out of their contracts. Emery could attempt to re-sign both, one or neither. McCown will make his fifth start Monday night against the Cowboys at Soldier Field, with Cutler still sidelined with a high ankle sprain. Cutler practiced twice last week but was held out as a precaution Saturday. The Bears might not practice again until Thursday because it is a short week, and that would leave Cutler two practices to get medically cleared and prepare for the Browns on Sunday in Cleveland. The Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roster will undergo far more turnover after this season than it did in the transition from Lovie Smith to Trestman. No decision is greater for Emery than what to do at quarterback with only four games remaining.

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Bears quarterback Josh McCown avoids a pass rush by Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen (97) and defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd (95) during the game Dec. 1. The Vikings won, 23-20, in overtime.

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