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ISS gives $6,000 for UI bike paths BY MEGAN JONES STAFF WRITER

After hearing many students’ concerns over the state of the campus’ current bicycle transportation system, the Illinois Student Senate at its Wednesday meeting allocated $6,000 as subsidy to Facilities and Services to repaint three miles of existing bike paths during the Spring 2014 semester. David Mischiu, senator and senior in the FAA, said Facilities and Services lacks a unit for bicycle-related planning; therefore, the department struggles every time an allocation for funds arises, as they do not know who will pay for the repairs. The resolution passed with a vote of 26-1 with three abstentions. After Amelia Neptune, the department’s previous bicycle coordinator, left her job, Facilities and Services has yet to hire a replacement. In the meantime, the department is working with students who previously worked with her in order to help “transition us until we can find a replacement,� said Stacey DeLorenzo, Transportation Demand Management coordinator. All funds for bike paths are allocated from the Transportation Demand Management budget, which currently does not have enough money to repaint University sidewalks, Mischiu said. He added that Facilities and Services is asking for the senate’s allocation out of necessity. “Their budget right now is

MEET BERT PHOTO COURTESY OF VISHNU NATH KAMALNATH UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS

Bert, a robot the Language Acquisition and Robotic Group uses to research artificial intelligence, readies his Nerf gun. Recent graduate Vishnu Nath Kamalnath programmed Bert to shoot a target and measure the error, each shot more accurate than the next.

UI students teach robot autonomy, solve problems BY AUSTIN KEATING

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Meet Bert. He’s a robot. He can solve puzzles, shoot Nerf guns and move his arms; but he’s more than just a machine — Bert does all of these things autonomously. Bert can mimic intelligence. Housed in a lab at the Beckman Institute, the iCub robot is the Language Acquisition and Robotics Group’s primary means of researching artificial intelligence, said graduate student Onyeama Osuagwu, who works in the lab. It is made to reflect a three-and-a-half-year-old human child in its physical and neural characteristics. “I hate the word artificial intelligence,� Osuagwu said. “There is no such thing as artificial intelligence — the systems may not be what you see in the natural world, but intelligence is intelligence, so we just study intelligence, or what has been deemed lately ‘cognitive computing.’’’ The group studies this “cognitive computing� in several ways, and recent graduate Vishnu Nath Kamalnath was recently awarded the Hind Rattan Award, one of the highest awards the president of India gives to non-resident Indian

citizens, for “exceptional contributions to science and technology� with his work in the lab. There are two camps in cognitive computing — strong AI and weak AI — and Kamalnath was given this award for his attempts to bridge the two. “Weak AI is the part where you use AI for simple, practical purposes like credit card fraud detection,� Kamalnath said. “Strong AI is a purely academic field right now. The difference is that it encompasses everything that weak AI does, but it also has what we call ‘consciousness.’� He said that right now, nobody has reached anywhere close to strong AI, but in his research for his master’s thesis, he tried to come as close as possible to strong AI with something he called deep learning. He programed a skeletal program into Bert and put a 3D puzzle in its hands. With the program, Bert could realize where the ball was and where the edges of the 3D maze were, but from there, how it solved the puzzle was its own prerogative. “If you give a robot a maze and you program it to roll the ball from A to B, B to C — yes, it’s very easy

for the robot to do that,� Kamalnath said. “But now, let’s say I give the robot the maze and the robot looks at it and then can figure it out ‘OK, there is a path that exists, or there isn’t a path that exists, and if there are multiple paths, I need to figure out the best possible path.’� Kamalnath said this problemsolving ability makes it so Bert understands his impact on his environment, much like when a small child hits a rattle and realizes the impact causes a noise. “The causation effect is being analyzed,� he said. “It can understand that by tipping the board in its hand, the ball starts rolling, and it goes from point A to point B, ‘Interesting, now I can move the ball whatever way I want and finally bring it to the end position.’� Kamalnath added that the maze work he conducted sets itself apart from other work in the field. “Maze solving in general is a very established algorithm, but just programing a robot to solve a maze is like child’s play — anyone can do it,� he said. “The point is that we’re not just looking for traversal of the maze, we’re looking for using learning to solve the maze.�

In addition to this, Kamalnath’s former colleagues at the lab look at other aspects of AI and machine learning. Graduate student Logan Niehaus, for example, worked on movement recognition, and in extension, taught Bert how to wave. “We also do language acquisition with the robot as well; we’re in the vein of a gentlemen of Norbert Wiener, who is the founder of cybernetics, so we’re actually learning language autonomously, language cues and so forth,� Osuagwu said. For his bachelor’s thesis, Kamalnath turned Bert into what he playfully called “a terminator.� Bert would shoot a Nerf gun at a

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Come the start of second semester, there will be a difference statewide — but not one that students are likely to notice on campus. In January or February, Illinois will start granting concealed carry permits to residents, though firearms will still be prohibited on campus. Illinois became the last state in the nation to legalize concealed carry when state legislature passed the Concealed Carry Act on July 9, giving the Illinois State Police 180 days to set up a system to review applications for permits. To obtain a concealed carry permit, citizens must meet a list of requirements, complete an application and complete a 16-hour firearms training course, said University Chief of Police Jeff Christensen. Instructors are

already being certified and are holding courses throughout the state. Students on campus are not likely to see a change because in order to obtain a concealed carry permit, citizens must be 21 years old, and the University prohibits weapons on campus. “We don’t (have any safety concerns),� Christensen said. “Our concerns are educating everybody and doing what we need to do in terms of meeting the requirements of the act. Our statute is very much like other states where it’s prohibited on campuses, and it has not been problematic.� The law does not change the unlawful use of weapons. Instead, it allows people with concealed carry permits to carry firearms, though there are certain exceptions, such as schools, Christensen said.

BY STANTON POLANSKI STAFF WRITER

The doors along the two long hallways of Trelease Hall’s top floor are nothing out of the ordinary for a residence hall, each adorned with a peephole and a couple of names. Just beyond the elevators at the end of each hallway is a door framing glass layered over with black paper to prevent outsiders from seeing in. The four names tagged onto the black paper resemble the normal dorm doors down the hallway, but this is actually a lounge that students have been living in temporarily. Freshmen Nick Gamsby, Randy Lam, Ryan Steckler and Oscar Montes are the last lounge dwellers in the building. Every year the University guarantees all students housing. But because they cannot be certain how many students will resign for another year or predict

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how large the freshman class will be, the target of 7,000 incoming freshmen set by University Housing is often surpassed, said Kirsten Ruby, associate director of Housing for marketing. This year, their estimation was surpassed by 481. As they wait for standard dorm rooms to become available, converted lounges become home for many students at the start of the school year. On Sept. 4, 184 students were in temporary housing, according to University Housing’s fall contracts report. But this temporary housing, despite what the makeshift door might imply, is well-equipped for those who missed out on the standard rooms. “I don’t mind it at all,� said Lam, who is in LAS. “Having four roommates is not that bad.

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$130,000, and they need $124,400 just for street painting within the coming year, which would leave them with ($5,600), which is not enough to even pay their employees’ paychecks,� Mischiu said. Facilities and Services has already invested $16,000 into its 2013 Campus Bicycle Network Master Plan project this summer; signs were posted around campus, and 3.1 miles of bike paths were repainted. However, additional funds are now needed. “There’s a bucket of money from (Transportation Demand Management) for all the projects that we need to take place, but that includes all the streets, stripping and the signs,� DeLorenzo said. “So there’s nothing at this time specifically just for the bike program, but we hope to get to that eventually.� In 2010, the University wrote its Illinois Climate Action Plan, iCAP, which works toward creating a carbon-neutral campus by 2050; iCAP identified a severe lack of funding in the area of bicycle-related infrastructure and planning, according to the resolution. “This is a question of students getting along and finding it easier and safer to travel to class without worrying about a biker hitting them or a pedestrian accidentally walking into their path,� Mischiu said. “I myself have noticed the bike lanes on this campus, and a lot of them are

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SNAP cutbacks affect local residents BY ELEANOR BLACK STAFF WRITER

During its monthly food distribution night Nov. 21, Wesley Evening Food Pantry was filled with families waiting to be called up so it could pick up any food items it may need. One of those waiting was Nicole Sechrest of Urbana, who said she has been on food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, since 1999. Like many other households across the country, she had recently found out that SNAP benefits were cut starting Nov. 1. Her benefits were cut by $20, the maximum for a two-person household. Her initial reaction was shock, then worry about what the cut would mean for her family. “I kind of was shocked, like, ‘No, it’s not going to get cut, we’ll be just fine,’� she said. “‘But if it

does get cut, then we go to the food banks. But what if the food banks shut down?’� Sechrest found out about the cuts from one of her friends, then had to confirm the news with her caseworker, whom she meets with once a week. “I just had to figure out by myself (about the cut) and it was kind of scary,� she said. “You had to ask questions and then you hear a bunch of bull about it.� The cut came as a result of the end of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s temporary boost to the program, initiated in response to the recession, which increased monthly benefits by 13.6 percent. David Lloyd, policy analyst at Voices for Illinois Children, a children’s advocacy group, said the boost was made to stimulate both the economy and aid families who

were personally impacted by the recession. “SNAP benefits are considered one of the best ways to stimulate the economy, mostly because when people receive them they immediately spend them because food is a necessity,� he said. “Economists basically estimated that whenever we give an extra dollar of SNAP benefits out, there’s a multiplier effect that benefits the economy. There’s big bang for your buck.� Lloyd said the cuts will affect about two million people, including about 900,000 children. “It was essentially a 7 percent cut on average, or about $9 per person, per month,� he said. “Now the average benefit per person per meal is less than $1.40. It has extremely negative effects on families who are still struggling around the country and in Illinois.�

He added that so far, the immediate effects have been on food retailers, especially as the cuts started during the holiday season. Donna Camp, the director of Wesley Evening Food Pantry, said it was too early to tell how people would be affected but she imagined that there may be an increase in attendance. “It could be that the first month or so, people may just be trying to get by. It will be as the SNAP cuts continue, that three months from now, six months from now, somebody has a health issue and their car breaks down, now they’re really having to decide, ‘What do I pay for?’� she said. “If they know that they can get food here, then that helps them be able to take care of some of their other needs.�

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Urbana police see rise in car burglaries BY BRITTNEY NADLER STAFF WRITER

“But for example, somebody that is going hunting or target shooting, they’re not covered by that, so you still can’t have any weapons on University property.� Aleksander Dapkus, senior in LAS, is the president of Illini on Target, a registered student organization that allows students to shoot at a nearby range. He is also a member of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, an organization that has chapters on campuses nationwide to fight for the right to carry a concealed firearm on campus. “There’s always the potential for (danger),� Dapkus said. “(Concealed carry) should be allowed on campus mainly for the fact that crime in this area is not completely unheard of. We get Crime Alerts of some pretty bad robberies.� Dapkus said some campuses do allow concealed carry, and there have not been any issues, mainly due to the age limit. If permit owners break the requirements of the law, their permit will be revoked. “There’s a ton of rules when it comes to concealed carry, and there’s tons of reasons why the government can take away your license to carry,� Dapkus said. “Even the smallest little slip-up with the law and the right to own a license is taken away. It takes a different type of person that really takes the responsibility of carrying more seriously.� Elizabeth Ambros, senior in

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don’t think lounge living is any worse off than their permanently housed peers. “I’ve never lived in a normal room but I think (living in a lounge is) about the same as living in the other ones except you just have more roommates,� Lam said. They think about their current home similarly to how others in temporary housing have over the years, Ruby said. “You’d think they might be clamoring and calling us every day, ‘when can I move?’� she said. “It’s more of the opposite: ‘Gee, I really like it here, can I stay?’� The move for Lam, Gamsby, Steckler and Montes will likely take place sometime early next semester. But the four randomlyassigned roommates, who found a way to get along, might be separated by being assigned different dorms. “I already know my roommates, and getting another roommate next semester is going to take some adjusting,� Lam said. “Hopefully they’ll move us out in twos.� Though all four of them have made a point to give each other enough space, it was never too much for the lounge on the top floor of Trelease. “You always have somebody to talk to,� Gamsby said. “Somebody that’s there to hang out with.� Next semester, the thought of giving roommates space may slip away, but there won’t always be somebody around anymore.

ISS helps fund bike paths The highlighted portion within the map still needs to be painted and its cost will be funded by the Illinois Student Senate.

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You get to know them. It’s fine. You respect their space. I don’t know — I kind of prefer temporary housing, but that’s just me.� Inside the room is a pair of bunk beds divided by a stack of portable closets. Just inside of one door is a cut-in countertop with cabinets. Lam said he stores a lot in that space. “I don’t know if other lounges have that space over there,� he said. “But I find that it definitely feels like there’s a lot more space it the temp housing rooms than other rooms. Sometimes when other people come in, they walk in and are like, ‘Whoa, you guys have so much more space in here.’� After the May 15 priority housing deadline, housing assignments are made in the order that applications are received. Lam applied for housing about two weeks after the deadline. He hoped that he would get a standard assignment, but he figured he might be in temporary housing. The emails he had received over the summer from University Housing gradually matched his intuition. Lam moved in at the start of the school year with two other randomly assigned roommates: Montes and Steckler. Gamsby arrived later. Originally, it had been Gamsby’s plan to commute to and from school because his family lives only 45 minutes away. But early on, the plan lost its traction, and

he applied for housing one week into the semester. “I have all 8 a.m. (classes), so I was pretty excited to be on campus so I could to get to class,� Gamsby said. Across the middle of the carpeted floor lays a router and blue Ethernet cables that flow to the bunk beds like rivers branching away from a lake. The setup in the room is not quite perfect. “We’ve got it figured out, but in the beginning it was a bit of a hassle getting everything to work,� Lam said. Because floor meetings typically take place in lounges, meetings for the 12th floor take place elsewhere in the building. Though he lives in a converted lounge without couches and other amenities a standard lounge would have, he has never been in another floor’s lounge. Still, he feels his floor might be missing out. “Sometimes I feel sorta bad for taking up the lounge space because all the other floors have lounges and from what I hear, lounge is a chill place where everyone hangs out,� he said. “Taking away that, it kind of feels bad a little bit.� University Housing moves students living in lounges without windows into their permanent rooms as soon as they can. Because the lounge on the 12th floor has windows, it will be one of the last to make the transition back to a normal lounge like the other floors. But Lam and Gamsby are fine with that. The four roommates have “meshed� despite minimal privacy, and they say that they

Brittney can be reached at banadle2@dailyillini.com.

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Wallig said. “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to steal stuff out of a car, especially an unlocked car, and, if it’s there, it’s just an open invitation to everybody.� Wallig has noticed the efforts from the Urbana police and has informed her neighborhood about them through the neighborhood association’s Listserv and Facebook page. “If things are stolen from their cars and their cars are unlocked, obviously the person who stole it is the first person you want to condemn for that, but the police can’t be everywhere, every single minute keeping their eye on something that really is an individual’s responsibility to take care of,� she said. The Urbana police are holding a community meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, 2200 S. Philo Road. The meeting will educate residents on vehicle safety and vandalism, Fitzgerald said. “We want to live in a nice, quiet, crime-free area, I think that’s everybody’s desire, but people are people,� Wallig said. “There’s good people, there’s bad people. That’s just the way it is. Life happens. So do what you need to do.�

faded, unpainted and in disrepair.� The idea of bike path renewal began last year when Mischiu sought something meaningful for the senate to positively impact campus life. He began thinking about how bicycle transportation is important in terms of encouraging carbon-neutral forms of transportation. He began working with Amy Liu, a sophomore in FAA and the chair of the senate’s Environmental Sustainability Committee. Liu said the University has experienced higher instances of bike usage when bike lanes are present, and many students do not feel comfortable riding their bikes alongside cars on the street. “Students are obviously tight for money, and they need the freedom to get to places they need to be without a car, so bikes are a very good method for that,� Liu said. DeLorenzo said Facilities and Services has not spent a lot of money on bike path maintenance in recent years, which is why the department currently needs the allocation. “Given the context of the chorus robes last week, the financial affairs committee has been behaving really differently, particularly with these multi-thousand dollar allocations,� Mischiu said. “Unlike chorus robes, these improvements will benefit the entire student body, not just one (registered student organization).� Parliamentarian Christopher

Boidy added that this will benefit the severely visually impaired, and reminded senators that the University is a disability friendly campus. Facilities and Services is currently updating an “extensive� campus bike plan, which is in its final draft. DeLorenzo said she doesn’t think they will ever be done making improvements due to the nature of maintaining bike paths and lanes. Brian Siegel, the only senator who voted no, said it’s important for Facilities and Services to reprioritize their budget for bike path improvements, as he believes more students travel by bike than by car. While he is for repairs toward bike paths, he does not believe the student fee money should go toward this project. “They need to make bike lanes more of a priority rather than coming to the senate,� said Siegel, senior in Media. “The 1.2 miles will not even finish the whole project. It’s important for F&S to come forward with bike lanes as a priority with a grand plan to the senate.� Mischiu said not being able to see the paint on bike lanes makes all the difference. “I ride my bike around here, and the network has got a lot of distance to go before it’s really functional in my view, but the least we can do is paint these bike lanes because it is a safety issue,� Mischiu said.

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cle is if (burglars) want to get in there, they will break something,� Enghausen said. “Alarm systems are handy as a deterrent.� He said the cost at Hanson’s Auto Repair for replacing a broken window could be $100 to $200 depending on the vehicle, with an additional $100 for installation. A broken side-view mirror could cost between $50 and $150, along with an $80 labor cost for the hour it takes to install the part. Kathy Wallig, a long-time Urbana resident and member of the Southeast Urbana Neighborhood Association, subscribes to daily crime reports from crimereports.com to stay updated with the crime in her area, especially since her daughter-in-law’s car was robbed. “My daughter-in-law was parked in my driveway for less than five minutes,� Wallig said. “She came inside to pick up my grandkids. Less than five minutes, she got out to the car and her purse was gone.� Wallig said she lives on a “quiet, secluded� street that sees few pedestrians, leading her to believe that whoever stole her daughter-in-law’s purse lives nearby. “Every single one of those cars (robbed) has been unlocked — they’re crimes of opportunity,�

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The Urbana Police Department is advising residents to keep their cars locked after a sharp increase in burglaries this year, Urbana police Lt. Robert Fitzgerald said. Urbana car burglaries have increased from 121 in 2012 to 196 so far this year, Fitzgerald said. Of the last 36 burglaries reported, every car was left unlocked, allowing easy access for thieves. During this time of year, the Urbana Police Department sees a spike in car theft due to the holiday season. “People are opportunistic,� Fitzgerald said. “So people are going around searching car doors and ... opening up stuff, looking for loose change, taking things out, especially when you get close to the holiday season. People leave stuff wrapped in the back ... so people are looking for that.� Potential robbers are aware that college students are leaving items in cars on campus, especially when they are moving home for the holiday break. “We’re asking people if they see people loitering in their neighborhood late at night to give us a call, not to approach them, but to call us,� Fitzgerald said. “The officers are going to be out

there. We want to identify these people to make sure they’re not up to no good.� The Urbana police have put extra patrols in southeast Urbana and the areas that have been hit heaviest, Fitzgerald said. He sent emails to several neighborhood watches and other groups to remind residents to keep car doors locked, windows rolled up and garage doors closed. “In one of the details we did last week, an officer went out and found several garage doors open and went to talk to the people,� he said. “Then we put out a blast message to these groups saying, ‘Hey, don’t leave your garages open overnight.’ So we’re being proactive. This is not just a southeast Urbana problem, this is a county-wide problem.� Urbana police are also enforcing a “Lock It or Lose It� campaign to encourage residents to lock their car doors. Officers put flyers on car windshields and hand out pamphlets as they pass people to remind residents of possible car burglaries. Brett Enghausen, vice president of Hanson’s Auto Repair in Urbana, said he has not seen an increase in burglary repairs because burglars haven’t had to actually break into vehicles. “The downside to a locked vehi-

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AHS, and Mark Esposito, junior in Engineering, started a concealed carry education business to teach students how to shoot. Ambros served six years in the Navy as a combat medic for the Marines, and Esposito became a rifle and pistol expert in the Marines. “We wanted to instill the principle of gun safety in our local city here in Champaign,� Ambros said. “We feel a lot of the residents of Illinois are unaware of what the different gun rules are, what owning a gun entails, how guns work. We feel that educating populations is going to be one of our greatest contributions.� Ambros thinks it is important for students to be educated about firearms regardless of whether they wish to own one or not, because, as evidenced throughout history, the more knowledgeable people are on guns, the safer they will be. “There are some people who are physically unable to defend themselves,� Esposito said. “You can have all the martial arts training in the world, but, if you’re a 110-pound female against a 250-pound guy, you’re not defenseless, but I think the gun is a great equalizer in that case.� For more information, visit immediateactiondefensivetraining.com.

Steffie Drucker contributed to this report. Brittney can be reached at banadle2@dailyillini.com.

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BERT target, and using its programming, he would measure the error and fire again, each shot being more accurate than the next. “It’s almost guaranteed to miss the first time around because it’s just a trial shot,� he said. “Once you’ve given the first shot, it measures the error, and then it sequentially goes to reduce the error in such a way that you almost get an accurate shot in like, the fourth try.� He’s going to come back for his doctorate next year, and when he does, he will rejoin the lab and continue working on Bert. “It could move even further along by recognizing different people, talking to people and integrating natural language processing with the learning,� Kamalnath said. “I want to integrate more of the five senses humans have to see how far it affects the learning.� In addition to this, he said he hopes AI will grow in consciousness, not only with deep learning, but also in public consciousness. “AI should be a lot more visible and shouldn’t just be associated with terminators,� Kamalnath said. “Things like this will slowly start having a lot more mainstream effect on the public, that’s what I see the future of AI going toward.�

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How to stay alive and succeed during finals week With the end of the semester, the blight draws near. But worry not fellow students; cast away your fear. Finals return, forty thousand brains go numb. But there are many wise finals’ tips to draw from. With hope of removing some of the drear, The Editorial Board wishes to leave you with some tips right here.

Get some sleep.

Don’t go through finals week as a zombie — get some Zs. As tempting as it is to be a cliche college student, pulling allnighters during finals week really isn’t a good idea. A lack of sleep can hinder your ability to both study for and take your final and, in most cases, napping by itself is not enough to keep you at optimal performance. In fact, most students require 8.5 to 9.25 hours of sleep a day to stave off a variety of maladies related to sleep deprivation, such as drowsiness and low energy.

Know when to stop and take a break.

You can only retain so much information during any one study session, so don’t overexert yourself. Periodic concentrated study sessions interspersed with breaks can ensure you remain fresh while prepping for your exams. Consider taking in the beauty of our fresh frozen tundra with a study break walk around campus. If that doesn’t wake you up, check your pulse.

Keep some variety in your studying.

Spice up your study sessions by regularly changing subjects. Instead of, “Today I will focus on Molecular and Cellular Biology,� consider allocating two hours to one exam, taking a break, then two hours to a different course, and so on. Planning out regular alternation can help ensure equal preparation across your classes and keep you from burning out on a particular subject.

Keep a regular workout schedule.

Don’t use finals as an excuse to skip the gym. Keeping your body fit is a good step toward a sharp mind. Swim at the ARC, workout at CRCE, do crunches in your dorm room. Many students have a regular workout regime during the school year. Don’t upset the rhythm your body has fallen into just because you have finals, plan around the them. Regular exercise can be a great way to relieve exam stress and anxiety.

Eat well.

While it can tempting to stress eat a bounty of junk food during finals, consider keeping some healthier alternatives on hand that may also boost your brain function. Consider fish or nuts as means of getting your daily omega-3 fatty acids, linked to learning and memory. Snack on fresh berries, many, like strawberries, cranberries and blueberries, contain antioxidants and flavonoids that can increase blood flow to the brain and improve memory. Nuts and beans are great ways to get some protein while maintaining your glucose level, the fuel your brain runs on.

Take a rain check on finals week parties.

Is your best friend’s 21st birthday the day before your Astronomy exam? As much as you may want some kind of escape from your textbooks, consider skipping on parties that cut out significant chunks of your study time that will probably leave your ability to study impaired.

Treat a final as final.

After that brief sense of relief following handing in your exam to the proctor, the pains of uncertainty begin: “What if I marked A instead of C?� “Was the z-score really 15?� “Were there questions on that last page?� While some of this rumination is inevitable, don’t let it control the rest of your finals or winter break. After you finish a final, close the book on that course and move on. Continuing to think through how you could have done on a final can create unneeded stress that could prove detrimental to your success on later exams. Not discussing exam specifics with others can also help.

New GM CEO sets benchmark for women in technology ANDREW HORTON Opinions columnist

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ast September, CEO of General Motors Dan Akerson did some foreshadowing. He stated at a Detroit conference on leadership that, “The Detroit Three are all run by non-car guys. Someday, there will be a Detroit Three that’s run by a car gal.� The board of GM announced on Tuesday that product chief Mary Barra will replace Akerson who is retiring in January. This will make Barra the first woman to ever lead one of the Big Three U.S. automakers, and will make her one of the highest-profile female CEOs in the world. This is a significant achievement as the U.S. auto industry has been notoriously dominated by males. Barra began at GM as an 18-year-old co-op student, pursuing an electrical engineering degree at what is now Kettering University (formerly the General Motors Institute). Quickly moving up the ranks of GM and earning an MBA from Stanford, she has become a tremendous example of the potential that women have to impact technology.

Granted, this is certainly not anything new. Other prominent female technologists include Ginni Rometty of IBM, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo! and Ursula Burns of Xerox. However, the club is still relatively small. Barra’s accomplishment represents a benchmark in how far women have come, but also can serve as inspiration for future achievement. There is still a tremendous gender gap within the fields of science, math and engineering. For instance, women only represent 18 percent of the engineering student body at the University of Illinois, the Daily Illini reported in November. Overall, in 2011, women only accounted for about 18 percent of all engineering bachelor degrees awarded in the United States, according to a study by the American Society for Engineering Education. The future economic success of the American economy requires that we can harness the power that women can bring to the table. The trouble is that American STEM education tends

to resemble a leaky pipeline or a sex-based filter, which removes women along the way to STEM careers. This is not a problem that your average plumber can fix. It’s not that women can’t handle the coursework, it’s that they are often deterred by certain societal stereotypes. Civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, Angela Bielefeldt, told PBS in an interview, “Women tend to leave engineering with higher grade point averages than the men ... but they perceive that their technical skills are sometimes different. And they’re not different, in reality.� She went on to say that men are often quick to delegate more menial tasks to women in group work, and can end up easily dominating the group if the women are not assertive enough to push back. These behaviors can lead women to feel isolated, and cause them to leave the STEM fields. Thus, the troubling cycle continues in which women are

Barra’s accomplishment represents a benchmark in how far women have come.

deterred from succeeding in technology because a disappointing amount of history depicts them doing so. This is why we need to hear more success stories like that of Mary Barra, to inspire women to stay the course even if it may seem that the odds are stacked against them. There have been many initiatives aimed at trying to keep women in the STEM fields — targeting girls when they are young, trying to highlight the aspects of science and engineering that are glamorous (such as promoting creativity and impacting society), and even the intriguing idea of introducing a female statue to accompany “Grainger Bob� on the Illinois Engineering Quad (though this idea remains quite controversial). While there is no simple solution to this problem, part of it should certainly be highlighting role models like Mary Barra for excelling with a STEM education. Making celebrities of these individuals could be an important step in ingraining the notion in our youth that when it comes to technology, girls can play with the big boys.

Andrew is a junior in Engineering. He can be reached at ajhorto2@ dailyillini.com.

Majors are unimportant compared to passion NICKI HALENZA Assistant opinions editor

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a media and cinema studies major, I am notoriously asked, “Well, what are you going to do with that?� To satisfy the onslaught of further interrogation, I simply respond by saying that I plan to work in a social media agency or for some publication. But the real answer? These are two fields I am interested in, but how should I know exactly what I am going to do with the rest of my life? The reason I don’t know specifically “what I’m going to do with that� is not because I don’t have ambitions or goals for any career, but rather because I don’t know what opportunities I will be presented with in the future and where exactly I will end up — I can only guess. And while many people may have these long-term plans of internships and job prospects (myself included), it is still nothing more than hope and a prediction. However, it seems many students have been misled with this perception that you must come into college with a “solid� major, one that will guarantee you a specific job with financial

security in the future, and in doing so, you might have to risk putting your own interests and passions on the sidelines. When in reality, that should not be the case, because doing something you love tends to drive you to go further within a particular field, and that in itself can lead to a financially successful future. It’s not like your major is a life sentence — there is more that defines your desirability in the workforce, such as leadership involvement and experience in the field. With my particular major, though, passion is not an issue. I enjoy my classes, I’m intrigued by my homework assignments and I care about what my professors have to say. In other words, doing the whole “school thing� is not a chore because I am excited and willing to learn about my major. And that motivation is what drives me toward obtaining a job in this particular field. But unfortunately, the same can’t be said for everyone. Keith Marshall, executive director of the Campus Center for Advising and Academic Services says, “Many freshmen end up going into majors in fields like business, biology and engineering, despite the fact that they do not have a particular interest or aptitude for these areas,� The Daily Illini reported last week.

The trouble with this strategy is that it could generate a sense of apathy toward these students’ majors. If students are choosing majors solely based on infamous job security and prestige, then that leaves the risk of them doing jobs in areas they don’t particularly care about or might not even be good at. I would never choose to have a doctor that carelessly or emotionlessly does his job just because he can. I want a doctor who wants to be doing what he is doing and is motivated to help me. We need to be more than a generation of apathy — mindlessly, robotically doing our jobs. Having a major you love is what will spark future success in whatever field you enter. Take the example presented in a New York Times article of David Muir, an anchor and correspondent for ABC World News, who majored in journalism (a major often criticized for a lack of job prospects) at Ithaca College. He also works with a slew of people who weren’t journalism majors. Not only does Muir’s case emphasize that an uncommonly prosperous major can lead to a successful career, it also demonstrates that job opportunities extend beyond your major in college. By the end of these four years, it is not always about what

the degree says, but the skills that stand behind what it took to get that degree. As author Jeffrey J. Selingo says, majors are “fungible� — they are interchangeable; they are not set-in-stone. The major you choose should not be the end-all-be-all decision for the rest of your life that locks you into one position, so picking something that you enjoy is worth it. It is more about the fact that you worked hard to earn a degree, which indicates a level of devotedness, ability to meet deadlines, maintaining responsibility and several other important skills that ultimately any job would be looking for. And if you carry desire behind it all, then it can only make your case that much stronger out in the workforce. So when people ask me, “Well, what are you going to do with that?� I truthfully want to say that I don’t know — and neither do many other people. I can’t predict exactly where my journey will take me, but because of the excitement, desire and experience I have with my media and cinema studies major, I look toward my future with great confidence.

Nicki is a junior in Media. She can be reached at halenza2@ dailyillini.com. Follow her on Twitter @NickiHalenza.

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SMILE HEALTHY the organization Donate to Dental Service and looking for ways to obtain dentures for the program’s clients. In both projects, students designed and created brochures that provided helpful information about purchasing low-cost dentures, as well as facts on Promise Healthcare’s free medicine program. Salata said the project she worked on was in partnership with the Head Start Dental Clinic, a clinic that focuses on caring for families without health/ dental insurance in Rantoul, Ill. “We wanted to make (the office) a little more kid-friendly,” she said. Salata and her team painted the walls of the clinic and put up decals of trees and animals to make it livelier and “more welcoming.” “It’s a serious thing (being afraid of the doctor),” Salata said. Brittany Burd, senior in LAS, has worked alongside Salata this semester and has been a SmileHealthy volunteer since January 2013. As a volunteer, Burd works closely with SmileHealthy’s Edu-

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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD cation Coordinator Jeana Shroyer and Volunteer Manager Rovee Fabi. “I’ve created several educational PowerPoint presentations and handouts for events, such as college health fairs,” Burd said. “I also formatted lesson plans to teach parents of children, ages 0 to 3, about proper dental care,” she said. Burd said a consistent challenge she has faced in her volunteer work and projects is “targeting the audience” (and) making sure that her presentations appeal to the appropriate age groups. Greenwalt recalled a previous LINC class that created an oral health campaign for teenagers, which was “edgy and topical.” “They talked about tobacco use, oral piercings and drug use,” Greenwalt said. She said that these are situations that teens face in their own lives. Salata and Burd said that, as LINC students, creating a dialogue and being an active listener is important for their projects’ goals to be met, but sometimes, projects take more than a semester to make it happen. Salata explained she was also working on a side project this

semester, where she tried to raise money for SmileHealthy to obtain Nitrus, commonly known as “laughing gas.” Nitrus is used to help “stabilize” and “soothe” children for dental procedures like “pulling out a tooth” or “removing cavities,” Salata said. Salata said SmileHealthy has been looking to acquire Nitrus to broaden their services, but the resource is not in their budget. Although she was unsuccessful in raising any money, Salata was able to spread the word about the organization’s need for Nitrus and build relationships with other dental partners interested in donating to SmileHealthy in the future. “That’s the thing,” Salata said. “You get attached. You feel bad when things don’t turn out the way you’d hope.” Despite the challenges, Salata said that she plans to continue working on the Nitrus fundraiser even after the semester is over. And that’s what makes LINC classes so special, according to Greenwalt. “They teach you about life beyond finals,” she said.

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How to stay healthy over the winter holidays

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BY MARA SHAPIRO STAFF WRITER

It can be difficult to find the motivation to eat healthy and stay active during winter. The eggnog and pies are calling, and mom’s cooking does not help either. However, it is important to maintain a healthy body even when all we want to do is pig out on holiday treats and watch Netflix. Erica Nehrling Meador, assistant director and dietician of dining services, explained how people can fall into the trap of eating more than necessary during this time of the year. She said that people are usually all-or-nothing thinkers, either overloading on one food item or taking huge servings instead of pacing themselves. Nehrling Meador also stated people often mindlessly eat during the holidays and do not take into consideration what or how much food they are putting into their bodies. She also explained people can fall into the trap of eating simply because they see others eating. To avoid taking in more calories than necessary, Nehrling Meador suggested students stick to smaller portions. “Students can start with bigger servings of vegetables and meat and smaller servings of starches,” Nehrling Meador said. When it comes to beverages, water and skim milk can counteract high-calorie foods, she said. She also said alcohol around the holidays cause people to lose their inhibitions, resulting in students not caring about what food they consume. “It helps to go middle of the road. It’s hard to say, ‘One day I ate unhealthy, (the) next, perfect,’” Nehrling Meador said. Nehrling Meador said she doesn’t necessarily disapprove of snacking during the holidays. “Try veggies and water or a low-calorie beverage prior to a meal,” she said. The University Housing chefs are trained to decrease salt and fat content while still making the food flavorful. For example, the Dec. 10 menu at Illinois Street Residence Hall had salmon and roasted vegetables, cream of potato soup and assorted cheesecakes for dessert. Nehrling Meador stressed that while healthy options are available, comfort foods are also necessary. “It’s so easy to gain weight. We hit Thanksgiving and don’t get back on track until Jan. 1. People make all-or-nothing New Year’s Eve resolutions where they give up everything,” she said. “Try to do 50 percent; do better 50 percent of the time in stepping towards being healthier.” University Housing Dining Services has also tried to remedy excess food intake. One of the benefits of the University’s

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TOP: Caroline Smrokowski, sophomore in FAA, demonstrates a leg lift at the ARC on Dec. 6. She works for Campus Recreation as a personal trainer and program assistant for the personal training department. BOTTOM: Smrokowski demonstrates a push-up at the ARC on Dec. 6. Students are encouraged to stay healthy over winter break by being mindful about portions and mindless eating, and continuing to stay active even in adverse weather. decision to eliminate dining hall trays in 2008 is that it decreases the amount of food a student puts on his or her plate, as well as decreases the amount of uneaten food thrown away, Nehrling Meador said. Besides eating healthy, students also should continue their workout regimes during the winter. Kenneth Wilund, associate professor in kinesiology, and Caroline Smrokowski, Campus Recreation personal trainer and program assistant for personal training, both stressed the importance of staying active during the winter. “Most people over break tend to lose a lot of what they were working on. They get less active. It’s a lot easier to maintain weight than to lose. It’s harder after having time off,” Wilund said. Smrokowski explained the inclement weather often decreases students’ motivation to work out throughout the winter. “In winter, people stay in, versus over the summer, they’ll go out and do different activities. It can be harder to work out, but it can be very beneficial for your health,” she said. Smrokowski recommended students utilize the resources offered by Campus Recreation, including circuit training. Students can choose a few exercises, such as squats or dips with a certain amount of repetitions during each exercise. Using stairs is another convenient way to exer-

cise. At Campus Recreation, other activities include cycling, using kennel bells or participating in suspension training, where a student can hold onto a rope and pull himself or herself up. Students still can work out even if they can’t leave their apartments. They can do pushups and burpees in the convenience of their living spaces. A burpee is when a person is in standing position, jumps down into a pushup, does the pushup, and jumps back up into a standing position. When it comes to working out during the winter, it is not uncommon for people to rely on their New Year’s resolutions. “If you can try it out prior to New Year’s Day, it’s better to see if it will actually work. If you can’t do it in December, you won’t do it in January,” Wilund said. Wilund said good motivational tools include keeping records of food intake and having achievable goals. He also warned against not working out all parts of the body. “People need a well-balanced program, a mix of cardio and muscular strength,” Wilund said. “Don’t just stick with one exercise. You won’t get bored. You should always challenge yourself and constantly be changing it up. Build up intensity and don’t let your body plateau,” Smrokowski added.

Mara can be reached at meshapi2@dailyillini.com.

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SmileHealthy collaborates with UI LINC program BY F. AMANDA TUGADE STAFF WRITER

‘A SEASON OF JOY’ COMES TO KRANNERT Stephen Alltop conducts holiday concert for third time BY REEMA ABI-AKAR

na Symphony Orchestra before? SA: I have twice. I’ve conducted it for my audition concert with the music director search last March, and then I conducted my first concert as music director in October — October 5th. This will be my third time.

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Just over 53 years ago, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra performed its first concert at Smith Music Hall. More than 250 performances later, the ensemble is still going strong, showcasing a variety of local musical talent. On Thursday, the CUSO is presenting “A Season of Joy,� conducted by music director and maestro Stephen Alltop. The holiday concert will feature seasonal classics like George Frideric Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus� and Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride.� Alltop is a seasoned veteran in the music world. He has conducted ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Apollo Chorus of Chicago, and has made appearances at Carnegie Hall, Basilica Cathedral of St. Denis in France, and on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.� He currently serves as music director of the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra and Apollo Chorus of Chicago, among others. He is also a music lecturer at Northwestern University. The Daily Illini had the chance to speak with Alltop about the CUSO concert and his musical background. The Daily Illini: Could you talk about the highlights of this performance? Stephen Alltop: This will be a very communityoriented event, because it will feature the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, it will have the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (BACH) — which will be featured in Bach’s “Magnificat� — and the Illinois Children’s chorus, which will sing not only in Bach’s “Magnificat,� but they’ll join with the adult singers on the second half of the program, too, in our carol sing and the suite from music from the film “It’s a Wonderful Life.� DI: Have you ever conducted the Champaign-Urba-

DI: What made you want to work with the CUSO? SA: Because Champaign-Urbana is a great community, and the orchestra has terrific musicians in it, and they get to play in one of the greatest concert halls in our country. And it’s also a community with a wonderful university. I’m a faculty member at Northwestern, and so I love the fact that our orchestra includes not only faculty and community members, but students, because it’s a great opportunity for them. DI: How did you choose the music for this holiday performance? SA: Well, this is a holiday program, so we wanted to have music of the season, which everything on the program is. And the nice variety from really wellknown, popular things like Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride� to fun, lesser-known things like the overture on “We Wish you a Merry Christmas� that is done in a baroque style. And that precedes a Bach masterwork, which is the “Magnificat.� And that’s the most serious classical piece on the program. So I’m really glad that we have this mix from light and popular holiday things to Bach’s “Magnificat,� which will also involve not only the choirs I mentioned, but we also have five young soloists who will be featured in the Bach. DI: How long does it take to practice and prepare for the concert? SA: Well, the choirs have been working for some time, and the orchestra (met this) week and (put) everything together. And I’ve been working with the soloists, and I do individual work with the soloists before they work with the orchestra. DI: What do you do when you’re not working with

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TOP: Stephen Alltop conducts the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra in front of an audience at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on March 9.

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BOTTOM: Stephen Alltop raises his baton to conduct at the Chicago Symphony Center.

the CUSO? SA: Well, I teach full-time at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and I’m music director of a few other organizations including the Apollo Chorus of Chicago ... and the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, who I’ve been music director for a number of years. And I also have a summertime involvement in Wisconsin with (Green Lake Festival of Music), where I’m music director. DI: What made you want to work in the music field in the first place? SA: That’s something that came from very deep inside me. I love music; I love the sound of it. It’s something I feel really deeply inside me, and I really feel very happy that I get to make music and lots of it. DI: Is there anything else you’d like to mention about this upcoming performance? SA: I know that it’s an exam week on campus, but I think that students would really love it, and I think the community folks will also have a great time. It’s a wonderful program to bring kids to because we will do a version of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,� and we will also have a visit, of course, from Santa Claus.

Reema can be reached at abiakar2@ dailyillini.com.

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Women’s basketball shows two court faces BY STEPHEN BOURBON STAFF WRITER

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Illinois' Jennifer Beltran digs the ball during the game against Minnesota on Nov. 30. The Illini lost 3-0. Illinois will play Purdue on Friday with the hopes to advance to the Elite Eight.

Illinois to face Purdue in Sweet 16 The teams face off 3rd time this year in bid for Elite 8 BY NICHOLAS FORTIN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The Illini have been here twice before, but not quite like this. When Illinois faces Purdue on Friday, it will be the teams’ third meeting. Two major components will differentiate this match from the first contests: the venue and the stakes. In the rubber match of their series, the two teams will compete at State Farm Center for a chance to advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament.

“They’re a great defensive team,� head coach Kevin Hambly said. “They know us. We know them. It’s going to be about execution. “We’ll make adjustments. They’ll make adjustments. That happens, but I don’t think there will be any major tweaks, you kind of are who you are at this time of year.� In their two games against each other this season, Illinois and Purdue have split, each winning at home. The Illini lost the match on Oct. 11 in four sets before returning home to sweep

the Boilermakers. Despite the recent win in the series, though, Hambly said the Illini shouldn’t be overconfident. “There’s a little bit of confidence in that but also teams are out for revenge,� Hambly said. “There’ll be some revenge coming at us, which could be a good thing or a bad thing. To me when this team (Illinois) believes that they should win, they compete a little bit harder, they’re a little bit more comfortable.� The Illini’s road to the Sweet 16 seemed to be a fairly easy one. Illinois beat Morehead State in three sets in the first round before taking down foe Marquette in four sets in the second round. The Illini were outplayed in the first

set against the Golden Eagles but rebounded, winning the next three sets on the back of strong play from libero Jennifer Beltran and outside hitters Jocelynn Birks and Liz McMahon. “I think the biggest thing is that we’ve been working really hard just when it comes to being scrappy, picking up balls, making really great plays on defense,� Beltran said. “We’re a really defensive-minded team, and that’s something we definitely pride ourselves on and it’s something we’ve been pushing ourselves to do every single day, so it kind of sets the tone for everything.� Purdue’s road to the Sweet 16 looks similar to Illinois’. The Boilermakers beat Central

Arkansas in three sets and knocked off Missouri, the No. 4 overall seeded and highest in the regional, in a 3-1 win. The Illini will have to face a well balanced, defensive minded team with good middle blocker KiKi Jones. Because of the familiarity between the two teams, Beltran feels the match will come down to whether Illinois can execute. “We know if we do our part and do what we need to do we’ll take care of them,� she said. “I think we’re hungry. We see the opportunity that’s ahead of us and there’s a big chance for us to go and take it.�

Nicholas can be reached at fortin2@dailyillini.com and @IlliniSportsGuy.

Illini face fiercest challenger to date in No. 15 Ducks BY SEAN HAMMOND SENIOR WRITER

After a 72-65 win over Dartmouth on Tuesday, Illinois head basketball coach John Groce sat between center Nnanna Egwu and freshman guard Malcolm Hill and told the media how happy he was that his team would finally have a day off. “I’d love to be around these guys every day, but we’ve been going now for a while,� Groce said. The Illini had just finished a stretch in which they had played three games in eight days and made two separate trips to Atlanta and back. Groce and his staff only had one day to prepare the players for Dartmouth. “The big fella here has been under the weather and has still yet to tell me,� Groce said. Egwu, his head down, just barely cracked a smile. He didn’t let anyone see it for long. “He just won’t tell me, won’t say anything,� Groce continued. “I really appreciate him and the way he’s handled himself. He’s tried to play through it and he’s probably looking forward to (the

day off) more than anybody.� Egwu and his teammates finally got that day off on Wednesday. But it will be a quick turnaround. On Thursday the Illini will begin preparation for No. 15 Oregon. Illinois travels to Portland, Ore., to play the undefeated Ducks on Saturday. Oregon, which reached the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA tournament, already has wins over Georgetown and Ole Miss this season. The game will be played at Portland’s Moda Center, home to the Portland Trailblazers of the NBA, in what is technically considered a neutral-site game. But Groce knows the Ducks will have a distinct home-court advantage, playing a little more than 100 miles from their campus. “Any time you get to play a team as good as Oregon in a semi-away game, that’s a great opportunity,� Groce said. Egwu knows it’s not going to be easy to walk out of Portland with a win, but Illinois already made one trip out west and came away with a W over UNLV on Nov. 26. “There’s a lot maturity that’s

There’s been two distinct teams that show up for the Illinois women’s basketball team. One team scorches the net with one of the best offenses in the country and wreaks havoc on opposing offenses by forcing turnovers. The other can’t keep up on the scoreboard and gives up huge runs at a time that keep the Illini from being close. Illinois (6-5) is still searching for consistency on the floor but haven’t been able to compete for the most part against teams from the six power conferences: Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12, ACC, SEC and Big East. The Illini hold a 1-4 record against such teams. The lone victory was a 20-point comeback victory Monday night against Seton Hall, which looked as though it might turn into another defeat by blowout fashion. “Just believing, that’s been the phrase we’ve been using the past few days,� senior Amber Moore said after the Seton Hall game. “We have the talent. We just have to believe in ourselves.� Illinois is being outscored by 19.2 points per game against power conference teams and has missed out on chances for quality wins for its tournament resume. The Orange and Blue are winless in four chances against ranked teams or those earning votes in the latest NCAA poll. Facing teams from smaller conferences, Illinois is 5-1, but they face only one more team from a non-power conference in the team’s final 18 games. The team has feasted on traditionally weaker schools this season, outscoring such teams by 30 points per game so far, including a school-record 84-point victory over Alcorn State on Nov. 17. The main difference has been the Illinois offense not being able to keep up. The Illini put up 85.2 points per game in victories this season but have been held to 65.6 in the team’s five losses. With the Big Ten conference looming — a conference with five teams at least getting votes in the rankings — the Illini will need to step up against tougher competition if they want to reach a postseason tournament for a second consecutive year. “It’s a real fine line when you schedule. You want to get some games to build confidence, but you also want to be tested,� assistant coach Mike Divilbiss said. “It’s a real balance, it’s a real fine line, and we’re in a really tough stretch right now. So when we come out the other side of this, we’re going to be stronger for it and be a better basketball team because of it.�

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Illinois' head coach John Groce instructs his team during the game against Darthmouth at State Farm Center, on Tuesday. The Illini won 72-65. involved in it,� Egwu said. “We’ve got to understand that we have to be prepared for this team just like any other team we’ve played.� The Ducks (8-0) are ranked high, but like the Illini (9-1), have benefited from a favorable schedule. Oregon has won all six of its home games. The win over Georgetown was played at a U.S. Army base in South Korea, about as neutral as a court gets. The game against Ole Miss was won

on the road in overtime. As of Wednesday, the Ducks’ 91.4 points per game ranked second in the country and their .529 field goal percentage was good enough for fifth in the nation. Oregon features six players averaging double-figure points, led by junior guard Joseph Young’s 20.2 points per game. The Ducks are also the 10th best 3-point shooting team in the nation, knocking down longrange shots at a 43.8 percent clip.

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If nothing else, Oregon can put the ball in the basket. The Ducks will test the Illinois defense more than any team it has faced. “We’re going to have to play better than we did (Tuesday),� Groce said. “Our guys know that. We have to have two really good days of practice in preparation.�

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Illinois' Amber Moore shoots the ball during the game against Seton Hall on Monday. The Illini won 71-70.

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Rookie goaltender gains confidence Olen No. 1 contender for goalie next season BY SEAN NEUMANN STAFF WRITER

Kneeling down on one knee with one arm slugged over a railing, Joe Olen is fi nally getting used to taking questions from reporters. If you would have asked him a question about Illinois hockey three months ago, he might have been able to force out a brief sentence or two before looking away and breaking eye contact. But now, three months and 426.9 minutes of collegiate ice time later, he’ll laugh and maybe even make a joke about fighting another team’s goalie. Head coach Nick Fabbrini said the rookie goaltender will start at least one game this weekend against Northern Illinois, Olen’s former school. Olen made 45 saves in Saturday’s 3-2 loss to No. 2 Robert Morris and has a 4-2-0 record as the Illini’s backup goaltender this season, looking to add another game to the win column this weekend against the Huskies. “It’s cool to see him grow and grab and that confidence and kind of believe in himself, which translates to our play,” senior winger John Scully said. “If he has confidence in himself, we’ll have confidence in him, and I think that really makes it a lot easier on us.” Olen began playing goalie around age 10 and said he benefited as a goaltender from being able to grow up practicing with his brother John, Illinois’ leading goal scorer who is currently playing overseas with Team USA. “He could always shoot on me and we helped each other out,” Olen said. “I think that’s one of the reasons we got as far as we did, really.” The Hawthorn Woods native said he fi rst learned to play hockey as a skater but was then put in net because of his size. “I was really small,” Olen remembered, now standing at 6-foot-1. “I would just get destroyed physically. I was really skinny and I was just getting bossed around, so goalie was my position after that.”

Illinois' Joe Olen looks to block a shot during the game against Michigan State at the Illinois Ice Arena on Sept. 28. The Illini won 7-4. Olen’s attitude is refl ective of a player who has adapted to playing against bigger opponents throughout his career. That’s to say he plays smart. When a scrum erupts inside his crease after a play, Olen swiftly skates away from the altercation — something unfamiliar to Illini hockey fans who’ve spent the past couple of years watching Nick Clarke scratch and claw his way into every scrap he can get into around his net. But Olen’s avoidance of scrums isn’t born out of fear. It’s strategy. “I try to get the refs on my side,” Olen laughed. “Then whenever something happens, I like to get a couple penalties and calls go my way. But I’ll go down there and challenge the goalie one of these games. We’ll see what happens, depending on how big the goalie is.” Olen remembered a time

when he had the chance to drop the gloves with the other team’s goalie a few years ago. “Everyone was fighting on the ice and the goalie was 6-foot5, so I just turned around and drank water the whole time,” Olen said, laughing. Then he remembered the closest he ever came to fi ghting another goalie. It was during his time between the pipes with the Phoenix Junior Coyotes when a line brawl broke out on the ice. He remembers skating the length of the ice, ready to drop the gloves with the opposing goaltender before being grabbed by a referee at the last second. “That was the closest I ever came,” Olen said. “I was five feet away.” The 20-year-old’s willingness to jump into unanticipated action is what has helped

make him a successful backup goaltender for the Illini, already allowing Clarke to rest for six games so far this season. “You’ve just got to be ready no matter what,” Olen said. “Even if you’re not starting games, you should always be prepared just in case something happens.” With four goaltenders on the Illini roster coming into this year, Olen wasn’t aiming to do anything more than get himself back into the flow of playing hockey after taking last season off. Now, he fi nds himself as the No. 1 contender for the starting job come next fall. “It’s just what happens when you work hard,” Olen said. “You get chances and then you’ve got to make the most of your chances.” Olen said he and Clarke work together in practice, but he’s learned the most from the

senior goaltender by simply watching him on the ice. At the beginning of the season, Clarke said he hoped to lead by example and act as a model for younger players, and that’s exactly what helped Olen the most earlier in the season, according to the rookie goaltender. “It’s kind of how I got my game back, just watching him,” Olen said. “I wasn’t really concerned with position or the depth chart. I was just trying to get my game back, and that’s still where I’m at right now.” By putting all his focus on getting back into the motions of a goaltender, Olen now finds himself in the midst of a season long changing of the guard. When the 2013-14 season eventually comes to a close, Olen will be the man trying to replace Nick Clarke — one of the most celebrated goalies in

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Illini hockey history. And so far this season, Olen has been doing his best to live up to Clarke’s All-American standard. He has a higher save percentage (89.27 percent) than Clarke (86.80 percent) and only has two fewer wins than his senior mentor, who’s started 10 more games this season than Olen. But Olen is trying his best not to worry about the responsibilities he’ll face when this season ends. Right now, he said his mind is only on one thing: Northern Illinois. “I don’t look forward that much,” Olen said. “I just try to live in the now. I’m thinking about the next game Friday, that’s all I’m thinking about.”

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

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Six Heisman Trophy hopefuls head to New York ARYN BRAUN Sports columnist

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McCarron won’t win the Heisman, and it’s a damn shame. “A quarterback will never win the Heisman playing at Alabama.� “Anyone can play quarterback for the Crimson Tide and be that successful.� “He just hands it off to the running back.� Or maybe McCarron just makes it look easy. The Heisman Trophy is awarded to the most outstanding player in college football each year, and with McCarron at the helm, Alabama has made three straight BCS bowl appearances. The Sugar Bowl is no national championship, but it’s nothing to scoff at, either. And two national titles in a row? Jeez, what a resume. Sure, the run game is big for Bama, but remember that 99-yard pass to Amari Cooper that put the Tide ahead of Auburn in the fourth quarter of the Iron Bowl? Perfect ball placement and a “job well done� from Nick Saban himself. Not that it mattered, as Auburn shocked the world and made sure Alabama kicker Cade Foster would regret this game for the rest of his life.

Melodramatic? Maybe. But you better believe that coaching staff is going to recruit the best kicker they can find to avoid a repeat. If Johnny Manziel wins the Heisman, I will lose faith in college football. He’s a great player, and his stats are off the charts, but he’s no longer “America’s Candidate.� Last year he was “Johnny Football,� Texas A&M superstar who could do no wrong. This year he played under constant suspicion of foul play and lost the respect of many fans for his callous behavior. While Manziel passed for more yards and threw more touchdowns, his rushing numbers are way down from a year ago. In fact, they are almost cut in half. Repeating is almost unheard of. The only other player to win the Heisman Trophy twice was Ohio State’s Archie Griffin in the ‘70s. Then there’s Tre Mason. Where the heck did he come from? Oh yeah, he’s relevant because Auburn is the luckiest team in America. No one knew his name until the Iron Bowl, and even then he wasn’t a Heisman contender. Mason put himself in the running after rushing for 304 yards against Missouri in the SEC Championship Game. In his postgame interview with CBS’ Tracy Wolfson, Mason admitted his desire to win the Heisman.

That simple sentence, that gall, is what got him a ticket to New York. It made people think, “Hey, this guy believes he’s the best player in the nation, so maybe he is.� Jordan Lynch is representing for the Mid-American Conference, for all the great players that don’t get recognition because of who they play for. The Northern Illinois quarterback was a force to be reckoned with. If they hadn’t lost to Bowling Green in the MAC Championship, NIU would be heading to a BCS Bowl. But no, they’ll be facing Utah State in the S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. What a mouthful, and what a disappointment. Boston College’s Andre Williams joins Tre Mason as the two running back candidates to earn a ticket to New York. Despite his impressive numbers — 2,101 yards rushing and 17 touchdowns — Williams doesn’t have the national recognition necessary to win the Heisman. He can’t compete with household names like Manziel and McCarron. Rounding out the six finalists is Jameis Winston, the Florida State quarterback who narrowly escaped being prosecuted for sexual assault just last week. Known affectionately as “Famous Jameis,� this freshman led the Seminoles to an undefeated record and a berth in the VIZIO BCS National Championship Game.

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Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston fights for extra yardage against Duke during the second quarter in the ACC Championship game at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., on Saturday. Winston is a Heisman Trophy finalist. Can these bowl names get any longer? If Winston wins the award, as many expect him to do, he’ll be the second straight freshman to earn the honor, following in the footsteps of Johnny Football. Maybe having a good nickname is a prerequisite for winning the Heisman. Just ask RGIII.

The ceremony will take place this Saturday and will allow one of these athletes to taste the closest thing college football has to immortality: the Heisman Trophy.

Aryn is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at braun17@dailyilini.com. Follow her on Twitter @ArynBraun.

Yankees’ offseason spending doesn’t ensure wins PETER BAILEY-WELLS Sports columnist

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Boston Red Sox’s Jacoby Ellsbury drives in a run with a single in the seventh inning against the St. Louis Cardinals during Game 5 of the World Series at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Oct. 28.

he MLB offseason is not yet two months old, and the New York Yankees have committed close to $300 million to players who have not played a single game in pinstripes. The Bronx Bombers have $153 million lined up for Jacoby Ellsbury, $45 million for Carlos BeltrĂĄn, $16 million for Hiroki Kuroda and $85 million for Brian McCann. Some things never change. Once again, the Yankees are compensating for a poor season with a lavish offseason and hoping it solves their problems. It won’t. Full disclosure: there is no team I hate more in the sporting world than the New York Yankees. Being from Boston, I could say, “Yankees suck!â€? before I could walk, and as a toddler I instinctively punched children wearing stripes. (Neither of those things are actually true, but I just wanted to fully air my bias as a complete and utter Red Sox fanatic.) That said, it would be foolish to deny the success the Yankees have endured. From the Murderer’s Row lineup to the Steinbrenner

era, the Yankees have always been the team to beat. Their recent success has relied more and more on the acquisition of highly priced free agents, especially after the Red Sox won the World Series. In 2004, the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years. In 2005, the Yankees swiped Boston fan-favorite Johnny Damon for four years and $52 million. In 2007, the Red Sox won the World Series again, and in 2008 the Yankees signed Mark Teixeira and CC Sabathia, whose contracts totaled $341 million. So first of all, wow. Second of all, how many World Series titles has the Evil Empire won since the Sox captured the crown in 2004? Just one. To go with this month’s signings, the Yankees passed on the chance to resign Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson. Cano signed a deal with the Seattle Mariners worth $240 million, and Granderson was given a $60 million deal by the Yankees cross-town little brother, the New York Mets. Cano has spent all nine of his years of pro baseball in Yankee Stadium, and it’s surprising the Yanks wouldn’t have gone after the most talented player on their roster. Next year’s Yankees projected starting lineup (assuming the suspension of Alex

Rodriguez sticks) features just a single player (captain Derek Jeter) who was on the team before the Yanks won their 2009 title. In contrast, the Red Sox presumptive starting lineup next season will feature four players who have spent their whole careers with Boston, and an additional one, David Ortiz, entering his 11th year with the team. Boston is the poster child for the lack of success of high-powered free agents. Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez came into Boston in 2010 with high expectations and hefty contracts, but ended up being unable to prevent the worst late-season collapse in team history (2011) and the worst season in the last 40 years of the franchise (2012). They were promptly shipped to Los Angeles, and the Red Sox used that money to sign lower-cost free agents like Mike Napoli, Shane Victorino and Johnny Gomes, who were key to their 2013 World Series triumph. The bottom line is the Yankees and their fans should temper expectations for next season. All that free agency cash hasn’t guaranteed success in the past. Money can’t buy happiness, and it definitely cannot buy a World Series ring.

Peter is a freshman in Media. He can be reached at baileyw2@dailyillini.com Follow him on Twitter @pbaileywells22.

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Packers’ Rodgers still not medically cleared BY TOM SILVERSTEIN MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was moving around, throwing lasers and taking snaps with the No. 1 offense in practice Wednesday just as he did before breaking his left collarbone on Nov. 4 against Chicago. And he was doing it without pain. Yet Rodgers might as well have been wearing a question mark on the back of his jersey instead of his customary No. 12 given all the uncertainty surrounding his return to action. Until he gets clearance from team physician Patrick McKenzie, Rodgers will be traveling to Dallas this weekend as a spectator. “Aaron still is not medically cleared, and I think it’s important to stay in tune with that because the topic of ‘Is he playing in the game?’ vs. ‘Is he medically cleared?’ those are two totally different issues,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. “So, Aaron’s obviously very important to our organization. He’s the face of our franchise. “Until he’s medically cleared, just like any other player going through a significant injury, that’s really where the focus will be.” One way to interpret McCarthy’s comments is that Rodgers may have resembled the guy who won a Super Bowl MVP award at Texas Stadium three years ago, but it doesn’t mean he’s ready to

compete there again. As Rodgers stated Tuesday, until a CT scan shows that significant healing has taken place in the fracture area, the Packers aren’t going to clear him. The biggest concern is that if the bone isn’t healed and he were driven into the turf the way he was against the Bears 5 {weeks ago, he could suffer a displaced fracture, which would sideline him for good this season and could require surgery to attach a plate to his collarbone. “I’m very optimistic that he’s going to get back to full strength, and when that time comes I’m sure we’ll let everybody know about it,” McCarthy said. “I clearly understand the importance of Aaron to the team, to the NFL, but we’ve got to make sure we do our due diligence and go through the process of getting him healthy.” A hurdle Rodgers seems to have cleared after a frustrating time last week is practicing without pain. When he tried to do anything more than throw from a stationary position last week, he experienced discomfort, which forced him to suspend his workouts. In individual drills Wednesday that were conducted during the portion of practice the media is allowed to watch, Rodgers was far more mobile and in one drill ran around and through blocking dummies and threw across his body while rolling to the left. The throws had a lot of steam on them.

Asked about Rodgers’ pain level, McCarthy said, “I don’t think he was in pain today from what I saw. That’s a question for him.” Rodgers rescheduled his weekly session with reporters for Thursday, so he was not available for comment. McCarthy indicated Monday that Rodgers would be re-examined after practicing on Wednesday, so it’s possible the news conference was pushed back a day so that results of the latest scan were known. Though McCarthy did not specify what Rodgers did in practice, tight end Andrew Quarless spilled the beans when asked whether he had seen anything to make him think Rodgers would be ready this week. “Twelve looked real good today,” Quarless said. “It was good to see him out there, really working with the offense. He was out there before but wasn’t working as much with the offense, but today he took some offensive reps, which is a great thing for the team, definitely.” When asked if Rodgers had taken snaps with the No. 1 offense, Quarless said, “Yes, sir.” That information may not even help the Cowboys. Dallas coach Jason Garrett said in a conference call earlier in the day that the defense was already preparing for Rodgers. If Rodgers can’t play they would have spent valuable time preparing for a guy who won’t be in uniform. The decision the Packers face

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Quarterbacks Matt Flynn and Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers are shown during the fourth quarter of their game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Nov. 17. The New York Giants beat the Green Bay Packers\ 27-13. in whether to clear Rodgers is familiar to Cowboys quarterback and Burlington native Tony Romo. Romo broke his left collarbone on Oct. 26, 2010, and missed the final 10 games of the season. The big difference is that Romo suffered a displaced or complete fracture of the clavicle whereas Rodgers only suffered a crack along the same bone. But Romo said figuring out

when you’re ready to come back isn’t as easy as just showing the medical staff you can throw the ball. “It’s very difficult,” Romo said in a conference call Wednesday. “Obviously, the discomfort _ if you’re feeling it at all _ you can’t come back and play, but even more than that, even when you get relatively where you feel like it’s pain-free, it still doesn’t

mean you’re ready to play just because it’s such an easy thing to hurt again. “And it’s a little different in the sense that if you come back right when you feel like you’re healthy, there’s just so many cases of people come down with another collarbone injury, the same one just re-injuring it. That really plays a big role in determining when you come back.”

Here we go again: Rams reduced to playing out the string

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Arizona loss that his focus is on New Orleans, whom the Rams play Sunday in the Edward Jones Dome. He also repeated several times that “we’re gonna get better.” To fans and observers, that sounds suspiciously like “Shoot, we’ll fix that” at the end of the Mike Martz coaching tenure, or similar musing by Steve Spagnuolo or Scott Linehan. “It’s really frustrating because we are doing the right things,” Long said. “Coach is doing a great job of putting us in positions to make plays. We’re just not making enough plays. We’ve had some bad breaks, but that’s no excuse for some of the mistakes we’ve made. “It’s disappointing. It’s more disappointing these days when you lose ballgames, especially when you feel like you can win them. Because you know you have enough to win.” For Long, “having enough to win” means he thinks the team is talented enough to be better than 5-8. And it’s a sentiment shared by other veterans in the locker room. But the record says 5-8. And the last thing the Rams want is a situation where

a player is seen swinging a golf club in the locker room in the waning weeks of a lost season. (As if getting an early start on the offseason.) That actually happened several years ago at Rams Park. Quarterback Kellen Clemens says any kind of a late-season letdown won’t take place. “I think that the veterans in this locker room will probably step up,” Clemens said. “We’ve already heard from some of them. We’re gonna go back to work. I think the thing that we want to see now going forward is: finish. Finish the season strong. We want to see improvement.” “We’ve gotta approach every day like we’re going to the playoffs,” defensive end Eugene Sims said. “Like we’re making a run to the playoffs.” There’s another reason for pushing through the final three games against New Orleans, Tampa Bay and Seattle. It’s the reason the NFL stands for Not For Long to many players. “Everybody’s gonna get critiqued now for next year’s roster,” Sims said. “Everybody’s fighting for a position on this team. I’m pretty sure everybody

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ST. LOUIS — It’s that time of year again at Rams Park — time for playing out the string. Three games to play and nowhere to go. And unlike college football, there are no consolation prizes in the form of a zillion bowl games. With many bodies aching and wearing down as the long NFL season winds down, one of the biggest challenges is to keep going hard and keep giving maximum effort when there is no reward on the horizon in the form of postseason play. Sunday’s 30-10 drubbing at the hands of the Arizona Cardinals mathematically eliminated the Rams from playoff contention. And unfortunately for the Rams, it’s an exercise in frustration they are all too familiar with, having not made the postseason since 2004. “I’ve been here before, unfortunately too many times,” said defensive end Chris Long. A 2008 draft pick, Long is the most tenured Rams player in terms of continuous service on the team. So what keeps this Rams team going?

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Hardwood floors. Large rooms

502 E. Springfield, C.

3

F

2 BA, W/D, newer, balcony/patio

505 E. Stoughton, C.

3

F

Newer, balcony/patio, 2 BA, W/D, D/W

Burnham 310 Apartments

www.burnham310.com

310 E. Springfield, C.

F Spacious, modern fitness center. Full service movie room

St.,1,2,3

Hunsinger Enterprises

www.hunsingerapts.com

Hunsinger Apartments

Eff,1,2,3,4

F

Group Houses

4, 5+

F

217-239-2310 217-337-1565

Engineering campus, some remodeled, C/A

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301 S. Fourth, C

2

F

205 E. Green, C.

1

F Large, great location, security doors

Ramshaw Real Estate

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Newed, W/D, D/W, walk-in closets, 2 full BA

217- 359-6400

www.ramshaw.com

MISC.

58 E. Armory, C.

1

F

$630, includes one parking

610 W. Stoughton, U.

1

F

$520, includes water & one parking

1004 S. Locust, C.

1

F

$675, parking $50

1009 S. First, C.

3,4,5

F

Remodeled units. Hardwood floors. D/W

507 W. Church, C.

1

B

$500-$535, includes water and one parking

1105 W. Main, U.

3

F

Near Siebel Center, Grainger & Engineering

511 W. Church, C.

1

B

$530-$575, includes water and one parking

202 E. White, C.

3,4

F

Fireplace, D/W, Balconies, Secure Entry

58 E. Armory, C.

2

F

$910, includes one parking

806 W. Stoughton, U.

4

F

House! Free Parking! Hardwood Floors!

201 E Armory, C.

2

F

$970, parking $70

1004 S. Locust, C.

2

F

$680-$890, parking $50

Rob Chambers

217-840-5134

www.robsapartments.com

707 W. Elm, U.

2,3,4

F

Balcony in the trees, free parking, fireplace, 1 & 2 baths

1009 W. Clark, U.

2

F

$795, includes one parking

503 E. Clark, C.

Eff.

F

Secure bldg. Free water

1010 W. Clark, U.

2

F

$885, includes one parking

101 W. Park, U.

1,2

U

EZ bus to campus, free parking, fiber optics

511 W. Church, C.

2

B

$705-$765, includes water and one parking

506 E. White, C.

3

F

Balcony, secure bldg. Free water & parking

201 E. Armory, C.

3

F

$1335, parking $70

Roland Realty

217-351-8900

www.roland-realty.com

Tenant Union

www.tenantunion.uiuc.edu

217-333-0112

501 S. Sixth

3,4

F New building, spacious, luxury living, Engineering Quad

Tenant Union!

905 S. First St

St.,1

F On-site maintenance, access to pool

The Tower at Third

907 S. Third

2,4

F Great location, secure, balcony

302 E. John St.

404 E. Stoughton

2,3

F Steps from Engineering School!

903 S. First

1,2,3

F On-site maintenance, free laundry room, pool access

906 S. Locust, C.

Eff.,4

F

56-58 E. Daniel

2

F Modern, affordable, complete utility package

908 S. Locust, C.

1

F Heat/water paid

304 S. Fifth

5+

F

House near Engineering

705 S. First, C.

3,4

F

22 E. Chalmers

4

F

Renovated House

112 E. Green

2,4

F Brand new building. TV in all bedrooms

206 S. Fourth, C.

3

F

307 E. Daniel

4

F Huge bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, with large terrace. New!

906 W. Springfield, U.

1

F Water & trash included! Pet friendly

404 E. White, C.

3

F Dishwasher, all utilities included. Pet friendly

603 W. Green, U.

2,3

U Dishwasher! Pet friendly! Heat, water, trash & parking incl.

502 W. Green, U.

4

F

Royse & Brinkmeyer 1,2,3

U Fireplaces, garages, lofts

Shlens Apartment

2

F Save $300 with no admin fee. No security deposit.

Tri County Management Group

217-352-1129 217-344-290

www.shlensapts.com

217-367-0720

www.tower3rd.com

Weiner Companies, Ltd

www.roysebrinkmeyer.com

Royse & Brinkmeyer

Free apartment help! Issues with landlords! Lease reviews and landlord compalint records!

217-367-2009

www.tricountymg.com Quiet Location

Parking $40/mo

217-384-8001

www.weinercompanies.com

Pets welcome! Hardwood floors, dishwasher. House!

Condo - pets allowed! Dishwasher

1004 W. Stoughton

4

F

Most units have 42’’ flat screen TV, Near Eng Campus

705 W. Main, U.

St.,1,2,3

F Pet friendly! Most include all utilities!

904 W. Stoughton

2,3

F

Covered parking, 2 units with W/D. Most w/ 42'' flact sc TV

703 W. Nevada, U.

1

U Cats allowed. Water, trash & parking included

1009 W. Main

2

F

1 Block from Beckman Institute

704 W. Nevada, U.

1,2

U Water, trash & parking incl. Heat w/ most. Cats allowed

1102 W. Stoughton

3

F

Most units have 42" flat screen TV, 1 Block from Beckman

700 W. Oregon, U.

3

U

217-384-1925

604 W. Nevada, U.

St.,1

U Cats allowed! Heat, water, trash & parking included

403 E. Elm, U.

1

U

Smith Apartment Rentals 507 W. Church, C.

www.smithapartments-cu.com

Eff.

F

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