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GOP holds onto 13th District Republican candidate Rodney Davis wins the seat after Rep. Tim Johnson retires from public service DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

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Rodney Davis, then Republican candidate for Illinois’ 13th Congressional District, left, speaks during a press conference held on the factory floor of HL Precision Machining Inc. in Champaign on Sept. 26..

Republicans held on to their seat in Congress at the end of a contentious and expensive race in Illinois’ 13th District after GOP candidate Rodney Davis won this November. “I am humbled to have the honor to serve as Congressman for the 13th District and am ready to get to work,” Davis said in a press release days after his victory.

Four-time congressional candidate David Gill did not concede the race until three days later, saying at the time that uncounted votes could turn the tide of the election. “The closeness of this race (less than 1/2 percentage point) demanded that we diligently check the numbers,” Gill said in a press release. “The incredibly close outcome of this congressio-

nal election, along with the reelection of President Obama and a Democratic Senate, have proven that knee-jerk conservative policies will not succeed in this country nor be accepted by most of the people in this district.” At 46 percent of the vote, this was the closest Gill has come to clinching the Congressional seat,

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“I am humbled to have the honor to serve as Congressman for the 13th District and am ready to get to work.” RODNEY DAVIS, representative-elect

No-smoking policy set for fall of 2013 BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER

After more than a yearlong discussion about a smoking ban, University officials announced in October their plans to prohibit smoking tobacco on campus beginning November 2013. According to the Campus Administrative Manual, current rules state that smoking is not allowed inside any University-owned buildings and facilities or within 25 feet of entrances, windows and ventilation intakes. The new policy will build upon these rules. “We want to ensure a healthy environment for our entire campus community,” Chancellor Phyllis Wise said in a mass email. “There is incontrovertible evidence that smoking is a dangerous addiction and that secondhand smoke affects everyone.” In spring 2011, Keenan Kassar, student senator and senior in Business, proposed the idea of a “smoke-free Quad,” but the resolution never carried in the senate. From there, former student trustee Hannah Ehrenberg and Kassar worked together to create a student referendum recommending the issue be put on the fall 2011 student ballot. After 7,123 of 10,354 students voted in favor of University administration exploring the idea of a smoke-free campus in November 2011, Wise created an ad-hoc committee to discuss and consider the issue. Michele Guerra, Wellness Center director, said in October that the committee submitted a proposal to Wise in August, recommending that Wise continue to enforce the current smoking policy while also implementing a smoke-free campus. The proposal also suggested that Wise consider the options of a completely tobacco-free institution. Although Wise said there has been a lot of consultation already regarding the ban, she said there are still many steps to take in figuring out how to enforce it when the time comes. She said she is in the process of gathering members of the campus community into groups to groups or committees to cover all possible issues that may result from the smoking ban. Despite some negative feedback from students, Kassar said in October that this new policy will benefit the campus, as he thinks it reflects the opinion of most students on campus. With this policy, the University will join five other Big Ten universities that have smoking prohibited from their campuses. Kassar said this policy will result in a more positive image for campus. Renee Romano, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said in October that she believes that the smoking ban is the result of great student involvement and positive student activism. “Our goal is to make the campus as healthy as possible — to make the people on campus as healthy as possible — and we know that smoking and secondhand smoking is dangerous to people’s health,” Romano said. “So, (the smoking ban) helps us move toward a healthier environment on campus.”

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University, GEO agree on contract Agreement guarantees tuition waivers, raises for teaching, graduate assistants BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER

The Graduate Employees’ Organization worked with the University this semester to secure a new contract for graduate employees over an eight-month period, meeting with the University more than 20 times since last April. The University and GEO agreed on a finalized contract on Dec. 7, securing tuition waivers for the next five years. Before coming to this agreement, the GEO came close to a strike, voting for the formation of a strike committee to make work action plans in late November. The principal issue for graduate students on campus during the contract negotiation process was tuition waivers. For many GEO members, tuition waivers are essential for the continuance of their work and education at the University.

“We feel that tuition waivers are necessary for access to higher education for people of all incomes and diversity. We think it’s really important that tuition waivers are maintained,” GEO member Erin Heath said. “I couldn’t afford to go here if I didn’t have a tuition waiver.” In addition to the contract, the University came out with a side agreement in which the University administration agreed to abide by the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board’s ruling regarding violations of the previous contract. Those violations came in 2010 when the University reduced waivers for graduate students in the College of Fine and Applied Arts. The University has agreed to repay affected assistants with 7 percent interest. The GEO is now working to get a list of those members together, Seawell said. She said

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Top: ToJo Tallie, a graduate student in LAS, hugs a fellow GEO member at the Wesley Foundation Student Center after the announcement that a tentative agreement had been reached on a new contract. Bottom: Christina De Angelo, a Spanish instructor in the department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, attends the Graduate Employees’ Organization work-in at the Illini Union. De Angelo is not a member of the GEO but went to support the members. she cannot speculate how long that will take. During negotiations, the GEO hosted various work-ins, rallies and other meetings in order to raise the attention of and increase communication with the undergraduate students they instruct. On Nov. 9, the GEO hosted its “We Want to Work” rally outside of the Undergraduate Library. At “Unity at the Union,” a work-in hosted on Nov. 26, some GEO mem-

bers stayed at the union overnight as an “act of symbolic civil disobedience” at the “center of campus community at this University,” according to a GEO news release. GEO spokeswoman Stephanie Seawell said more than 30 people stayed at the Union past midnight and more than a dozen stayed all night.

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Rutgers, Maryland accept invites to join Big Ten academic consortium BY EMMA WEISSMANN STAFF WRITER

Rutgers University and the University of Maryland accepted invitations to enter the Big Ten’s academic consortium, The Committee on Institutional Cooperation, as its 14th and 15th members. They will formally join July 1, 2013.

Consortium provosts voted unanimously to invite the schools to become members on Dec. 2, about a month after the universities joined the Big Ten Conference. The universities will join other the Big Ten Conference Universities and the University of Chi-

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country, said Barbara Allen, executive director of CIC. With the addition of Rutgers and Maryland, CIC universities will collectively engage in $9.3 billion in funded research each year, an increase from its current $8.4 billion, according to the release. “(When you) connect research-

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Champaign ! Theft of a motor vehicle was reported in the 700 block of South Locust Street around 8 a.m. Thursday. According to the report, the victim’s car was stolen from a metered parking spot. ! Theft was reported at Mobil Super Pantry, 3604 N. Mattis Ave., around noon Tuesday. According to the report, four lottery tickets were stolen from the store. ! Theft was reported at the Illinois Terminal, 45 E. University Ave., around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. According to the report, the victim reported her wallet was stolen from the terminal. The wallet contained three identification items and one credit/debit/gas card. ! Criminal damage to proper-

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University ! Indecent exposure was reported at Grainger Library, 1301 W. Springfield Ave., around midnight Friday.

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According to the report, a University student reported that an unknown male offender exposed himself to her while she was studying at the library. University police officers are searching for the man. Responding officers chased a suspect but were unable to catch him. ! A 52-year-old male was arrested on charges of theft of lost property and possession of drug paraphernalia at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. According to the report, a patrol officer stopped the suspect because he matched the description of a man sought by the Champaign Police Department for theft. The suspect claimed the bike he was using was one he had found. The suspect was also in possession of a drug pipe.

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GEO FROM PAGE 1A The GEO and the University are now working alongside each other to proofread and complete the contract that the GEO voted to ratify Dec. 7. Seawell said the process takes “a bit of back and forth, but it’s moving.” After the contract is signed and in place, she said University administration will start to go back and pay members who have not yet been given their raises since the contract negotiations began last August. Some departments had already begun to give graduate employees the 2.5 percent raise in anticipation of the contract being passed. Seawell said the compensation would appear in either the January or February paychecks for graduate employees. Seawell said she feels the GEO ended up in a good place, but negotiations could have been more productive. She said she is pleased that the GEO had secured tuition waivers, however. “Hopefully this issue of tuition waivers is settled, and the administration will realize that this is important, and we won’t have to revisit this in five years,” she said.

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Gov. Pat Quinn speaks during a press conference announcing the successful funding of the Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education, held at the Khan Annex of Huff Hall on Dec. 6. The center, which will provide housing and support to disabled veterans on campus, was funded jointly by University alumnus and veteran Ron Chez, the "Illinois Jobs Now!" plan signed by Gov. Quinn and University donors.

Lawmakers try to correct pension system BY CHRISSY PAWLOWSKI STAFF WRITER

Illinois lawmakers proposed a new plan Dec. 5 to correct the Illinois’ pension system, which is currently the most underfunded in the nation. The bill was introduced by Elaine Nekritz, D-Northbrook, representative and chairwoman of the House Personnel and Pensions Committee, State Rep. Daniel Biss, D-Evanston, and other colleagues. House Bill 6258 called for an eventual raise in employee contributions by 2 percent, later retirement ages for younger employees and limited cost-of-living adjustments. It would affect all five of Illinois’ pension agreements, including the State Universities Retirement System that manages pensions for University employees. “We need to do something, and we need to do something sooner rather than later,” said State Rep. Dave Harris, R-Arlington Heights, and sponsor of House Bill 6258. “Our state is being ruined financially by our increasing pension obligations.”

In April, Gov. Pat Quinn drew attention to the pension problem, which has about $96 billion in liability, and continued his efforts to raise awareness by launching the “Thanks in Advance” online campaign Nov. 18. When Quinn came to speak on campus Dec. 6, he said he was confident there would be a bipartisan majority for pension reform by the time new legislators, which create a Democratic supermajority, are sworn in in January. “I think it’s very helpful for the public to have a bipartisan showing of support for pension reform,” he said. “We have 34 days until Jan. 9, and we really have to use this opportunity after the election — so politics is kind of behind us of the Election of 2012 — (to) get everybody to work for the future of Illinois, for the common good.” The General Assembly discussed pension reform at the veto session held Nov. 27-29, but further discussion will have to take place when the assembly reconvenes for a lame duck ses-

sion Jan. 3-8. Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon said she feels this step closer toward pension reform is both important and necessary. “Without action, the strain pension payments place on our budget will crowd out funding for other priorities like education, public safety and health care,” Simon said in a press release Dec. 5. Michael Zalewski, D-Summit, explained the impact the bill would have on University employees. “SURS employees, depending on their age and salary, might see a slight increase in their pension contribution and increase in their retirement age,” Zalewski said. “The University of Illinois stands to benefit if this legislation passes. If we gain control of our mounting pension debt, we can begin to address serious funding shortages that have left our universities without adequate resources.” The Senate Executive Committee discussed this at their meeting Dec. 10. John Kindt, chair of

faculty and academic staff benefits, stressed the importance of voicing concerns as a decision regarding the bill has not been made. “If people want to indicate their general concerns about any particular issue, now is the time,” Kindt said. “The ripple effect of anything that you say to a decision maker really does have an impact.” Several University professors made their opinions known by submitting a reform proposal to the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, which has been an active participant in the pension discussion, on Dec. 10. Authors Avijit Ghosh, professor of business, and Jeffrey Brown and Scott Weisbenner, professors of finance, along with Northern Illinois University professor Steven Cunningham discussed changes to the bill that would specifically affect SURS. The IGPA had proposed a new retirement system on Feb. 9 to reduce state government’s contributions into the University pension system. These payments are

supplemented by worker and University contributions. Currently, the University estimates its pension payments for the upcoming fiscal year to be about a billion, an increase of $227 million from the previous year. The new proposal now calls for lower employee benefits in exchange for lump-sum payments that would be deposited into a self-managed account. The plan also suggests ending state tax exemption and increasing University tuition to ensure current plans are funded and old pension promises are fulfilled. Nekritz, though, said she plans to listen to and support other reform ideas because she feels that reform is necessary. “We have supported other reform legislation and would definitely consider other good ideas moving forward,” Nekritz said in a press release Dec. 5. “But we must continue to push this issue forward and not let excuses get in the way of progress.”

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after the 2010 redistricting that observers said made the new 13th district significantly more competitive for Democrats. In 2010, Gill lost to incumbent Tim Johnson, R-15, with only 44 percent of the vote. Independent candidate John Hartman from Edwardsville, Ill. walked away with 7 percent of the vote this year. The competitiveness of this district was largely driven by the amount of outside spending that flowed into the district — more than $7 million of it. Leading those numbers was the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which gave $2.76 million for advertisements opposing Davis. The conservative group American Action Network Inc. had spent about $1.48 million on advertisements opposing Gill. The race was even closer leading up to the election when expected incumbent Johnson dropped out of the race soon after the Republican primaries in April, saying he no longer wished to make the personal sacrifices that came along with the office. The former U.S. Representative will teach a class in political science at Illinois State University and formally retire on Jan. 3 when Davis is sworn into office.

“The single proudest thing I can look back on is the legacy of the fact that there is a real face associated with real public service,” he said, in reference to his relationship with his constituency.

Blue Waters computing project nearly ready for operation, use BY AUSTIN KEATING STAFF WRITER

The petascale computing project Blue Waters, which has been under construction since November 2008, is nearly ready for operation. The supercomputer has been completely installed since earlier this year. However, the organization that operates the system, the University’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Cray, the contractor that built the system, are still in the acceptance testing process. “(We are) working with Cray to test the performance of the supercomputer ... (and) collecting data to show how it will perform,” center spokeswoman Trish Barker said. The National Science Foundation, which funded the project, requires these acceptance tests in order to give final approval of the supercomputer before it enters operational phase, Barker said. Greg Bauer, Blue Waters advanced user support program

BIG TEN FROM PAGE 1A research dollars through peerreviewed government grants, private foundations and other contributions, Allen said. Richard Edwards, executive vice president for Academic Affairs at Rutgers, said in a press release that he thinks Rutgers is comparable to other Big Ten universities in the consortium, as the schools have many shared characteristics. He also said he also thinks Rutgers’ membership will benefit the university academically. “Because we are heavily involved in research, being a member of the CIC gives us greater opportunities for our faculty and students to engage in collaborative research,” Edwards said. Besides research benefits, the addition of Rutgers and Mary-

manager, said the acceptance tests are broken up into different phases and that the current one is the friendly-user period, which allows Blue Waters staff to test the system’s operation by having researchers use it. “The friendly-user period provides a way for the researchers to run their applications on the machine and lets us test different aspects of the machine,” Bauer said. “We put the machine through its paces and make sure we’re not missing something before finishing.” Blue Waters is among the top supercomputers in the world, Barker said. With the ability to make 11.5 quadrillion calculations per second, compared with trillions per second in the past, Blue Waters will give scientists more detailed data for their research than previous supercomputers. University physics professor Klaus Schulten already used an earlier version of the system during an early testing period to simu-

late part of the HIV capsid and to give input in early performance tests. “We have a lot of work ahead of us,” Schulten said. “We took the first step right away when Blue Waters came out ... but we still need to complete it, and for that, we need Blue Waters.” The date by which Schulten and other researchers will be able to use Blue Waters depends on when acceptance testing is finished. But Barker said the supercomputer will likely go into operation before the opening party on March 28. “We are very pleased with Blue Waters with meeting, and even exceeding, a lot of expectations,” NCSA spokeswoman Liz Murray said. “We expect to report additional achievements and improvements as the SPT (sustained performance testing) benchmark test team continues.”

land will add 8 million library volumes and over 5,600 fulltime faculty to the consortium’s resources. “We have a delivery system that operates among the campuses so you get 24-hour delivery of books between campuses,” Allen said. “Lots of faculties take advantage of that, but it’s also open to students.” The consortium is also working with Google to digitize all library materials, so that they will be available to the students and faculty of all its universities through an online database, Allen said. “Looking at local catalog, these will just appear in there as a part of the Illinois connection,” Allen said. “It’s seamless to you, but you get access to it because of the work behind the scenes.” Other benefi ts include an expansion of study abroad programs across the campuses,

specialized language courses and new research opportunities for graduate students, Allen said. “(We are) behind the scenes making these connections so that to the student or faculty member, it looks like a resource from their local campus,” Allen said. “It’s really because we have in place these partnerships.” Chancellor Phyllis Wise said the addition of the universities to the consortium is “an exciting new step for the Big Ten,” and the University is “pleased to welcome” them as members. “Together they bring new perspectives, academically and geographically, which will help to advance the reputations of all our universities, in classrooms and laboratories and on our athletic fields,” Wise said.

Austin can be reached at akkeati2@illinimedia.com.

Emma can be reached at wessmnn2@dailyillini.com.

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University of Illinois president Robert Easter stands outside the President's House in Urbana. Easter officially began his two-year term as president of the university on July 1.

New president Robert Easter steadies University after Hogan’s troubled tenure BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER

Robert Easter has been a member of the University community for 40 years. Aside from attending the University as a graduate student, he has held a number of leadership positions, including the dean of the College of ACES and interim chancellor. So when former University President Michael Hogan announced his resignation amid growing concerns about his leadership in March, Hogan immediately recommended Easter to take over his position, board of trustees’ chairman Christopher Kennedy said . “Basically, I said, ‘You (Hogan) can’t quit until you fi nd your replacement’ because we didn’t want to leave the University without somebody in charge,” he said. The board held an emergency meeting the day after Hogan announced his resignation, during which Easter’s appointment was approved. University offi cials responded warmly to this change in leadership.

“(Easter) is a leader with a vision and a passion, while also a good listener who will cultivate the best ideas across campuses to move our great University forward,” said Don Chambers, University Senates Conference member. After working with Hogan, as well as the University’s vice presidents and chancellors, throughout the spring 2012 semester, Easter cited a “smooth transition” from president-designate to the full position. Easter’s official two-year term began July 1. To continue acclimating to his new role, he said he was continuing to familiarize himself with all three campuses. With multiple administrative turnovers in recent years, Easter said at the start of the Fall 2012 semester that one of his main goals was to develop and keep a sense of stability at the University. But stability is not the only thing he hoped to smooth out during his tenure. In an extensive interview with The Daily Illini, Easter said one of his biggest concerns was the University’s budget and increasing tuition.

At the board of trustees meeting in November, Easter said he thinks it is the University’s responsibility to keep education affordable and accessible. Tuition costs have more than doubled since 2002 to compensate for a lack of revenue from the state, Easter said. “Access is truly one of the attributes that defines the land-grant university,” he said at the meeting. “Sustaining accessibility for all young people, all who desire to enroll and are qualified to, is something that’s truly important.” The board will make a recommendation for tuition for the 201314 academic year in January. Student trustee David Pileski said that as he has gotten to know Easter better, he has become even more confident in his ability as president, stating that his dedication to the institution makes him an exceptional leader. “(Easter) has a strong devotion to his students,” Pileski said. “He wants them to have the best experience possible.”

Lauren can be reached at rohr2@dailyillini.com.

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Opinions

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will events from the past semester

E F F E C T C H A N G E in the coming semester? JOHN BUYSSE Opinions columnist

Opinions columnist

John is a junior in Media. He can be reached at jbuyss2@dailyillini.com.

RENÉE WUNDERLICH

Opinions columnist

he 2012 football season sure did mark the “dawn of a new era” — an era of utter disappointment, that is. As a member of the Marching Illini, I stood in Memorial Stadium for the entirety of every home football game this season. And it’s not a bragging point when I say that not many others can say the same. As the season progressed and the Illini’s record continued to be bottomheavy, I watched the stands thin, and the mass exodus of fans leaving the stadium during the second half increase. I listened to friends gripe about the losing streak and their loss of hope and confidence in the team. As a tour guide for Illinois, it has been difficult to answer questions about school spirit on campus, because frankly, there isn’t any. Until now. While Memorial Stadium closes down for the year, Assembly Hall is heating up, and fast. The Illini men’s basketball team is currently undefeated and ranked No. 10 in the country, the first time the Illini have broken the top ten since 2006. The team is still very early into its regular season, as they have not played any conference games yet. But Illinois’s win against thenNo. 10 Gonzaga (we were ranked No. 13 at the time) on Dec. 8 is a promising sign that this season will be an exciting one, and one that can hopefully overshadow the stain of the football season. Because as much as the University is about academics, the quality of athletics plays a big part in the atmosphere of campus and how others look at the University. When a school can boast a top-50 ranking by the U.S. News & World Report and either a successful basketball or football team, its attractiveness increases exponentially for prospective students. And most importantly, current students can be excited about going to games and can take part in the spirit that is so closely associated with a Big Ten university. After all, college really isn’t all about academics. We’ve got to have fun too. It would do the University a huge favor if the team can continue to be a powerhouse. There’s a long way yet to go in the season, hopefully bringing excitement that flows out of Assembly Hall and into the spirits of the students on campus. The team can bring meaning to the new motto coined by the Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics: “Illinois. Our state. Our team.” Let’s put our faith and support behind this team. Go Illini!

Kirsten is a sophomore in Media. She can be reached at kekellr2@dailyillini.com.

It’s

the end of an era for Newsweek. The magazine will run its last print edition Dec. 31. After Newsweek’s merger with online publication The Daily Beast, they both now make up the creatively named The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, having merged in November 2010. Changes to Newsweek’s business plan, not to mention its coverage, may foreshadow this new age of professional journalism of which professionals and professors are equally speculative. This puts a distinctive point on the media timeline this era of on-line reporting and digital technology. And we may see the results of Newsweek’s absence as soon as next semester. Magazine readers are turning to online subscriptions, and half of America now own either a tablet or a smartphone. Many own both. “Get Newsweek on your iPad,” the bottom of each online article boasts. This saddens me. As much as I love the ease of an online search, there is something so tangible — literally — about magazine writing that’s printed in a physical magazine. But beyond mere portability, the style in which articles and columns are crafted in magazines is unique; taking important national and global news stories, breaking them down in a way that would be interesting and approachable, especially to those who wouldn’t pick up a newspaper or tune into an evening broadcast. The magazine industry has, for those well-established publications, defied the apocalyptic prediction of all that is print will fail. The 21st century has all but spared the newspaper. Does Newsweek’s final publication signal a change in the literary consumer? Maybe. There are hopeful reporters like myself who truly believe that print will never die. It is a mantra held by many journalism schools and news editors alike that, no matter the medium, the content would remain. But what if in the next few months, steps are taken online that will change magazine writing itself, online or on the printed page? Editor-in-chief of Newsweek and The Daily Beast Tina Brown described the development as a “marriage between Newsweek’s journalistic depth and the vibrant versatility The Daily Beast has realized on the Web.” But Newsweek and The Daily Beast are still in the honeymoon stage, which may explain why Newsweek is willing to drop everything print, swept off its nonexistent feet to start a new life exclusively online. Let’s hope those two can keep the romance alive.

Journalism’s Future

Tolu is a senior in Media. She can be reached at taiwo2@dailyillini.com.

KIRSTEN KELLER

Go Illini

Smoke-free Campus

So.

We’ve finally joined the ranks of some other Big Ten schools. I’m not talking about winning eight consecutive football games. We do, however, now share a ban that Wisconsin, Michigan and others have adopted — a smoking “ban.” Chancellor Phyllis Wise emailed the student body in October to declare a smoke-free campus, with a plan to end smoking activities on campus by November of next year. I’m friends with different sets of diverse crowds, so I’ve seen a variety of reactions about the news. My smoke-enthusiast friends are claiming that the ban is a violation of their rights and that smoking is a personal, private choice that one can’t dictate. My healthguru friends are excited at the possibility of clean air, better lungs and fewer encounters with second-hand smoke. Now, the idea of a smoke-free campus is going to make a huge impact come November, regardless if you light up regularly or have never touched a cigarette. Maybe a smoke-free campus will change smoking attitudes, and, in the future, we may see a sharp decrease in smoke activities. However, the changes go much deeper than that and will even start to impact us as soon as next semester. First of all, when the boundaries for campus are clearly defined, people are going to get into the habit of smoking off-campus. Declaring a smoke-free campus gets a bit ambiguous, because the University sprawls so far, and there isn’t a clear defining ending point or boundary line. Is it to the end of Lincoln and Green, or does campus touch where Orchard Downs ends? No one knows — but when we do, you can bet that there will be a smoke migration to where the end of the line is, and beyond. One thing is for sure: it is nearly impossible to predict that in November, everyone will automatically put their cigarettes down and vow never to smoke around campus property. This isn’t a jab toward the effectiveness of implementation but more so about how tough it is for anyone to quit cold turkey. Because of this, we will need to see more programs devoted to quitting smoking, as Wise suggested there will be. The main purpose of a smoke-free campus is to care about the health of students, faculty and staff, so the smoke-free committee needs to develop these health programs as soon as spring starts. In 11 months, we’ll join the ranks of some other schools. But the change — whether you think it’s for better or for worse — is shaking us up now.

No Scandals

TOLU TAIWO

ypically when we look back on a semester, we focus on things that happened. When it comes to this past semester, the wildly unsuccessful football season, the narrowly avoided strike and the general absence of the Alma Mater statue stand out as some of the most noteworthy occurrences. However, more notable is something that didn’t happen: a scandal. Aside from weathering a fiscal dilemma for the last several years, the University has suffered a number of humiliating, brand-damaging scandals. The drama began after a 2009 revelation that several students had been admitted to the University after receiving preferential treatment because of special connections with politicians and school officials. This discrepancy in admissions standards was pointed out by the Chicago Tribune and received relentless coverage that ultimately led to the resignation of both University President B. Joseph White and the chancellor of the Urbana campus, Richard Herman. The 2010 school year began in hopes of a fresh start as new leaders took the helm. President Michael Hogan took charge of the University and the many messes that both the scandal and a down economy had left behind. Hogan was viewed as a success after his first year, but the University would see another bump in the road in the fall 2011 at the hands of a law school admissions dean. It was uncovered that Paul Pless had falsified admissions data of law students for multiple years to better the highly important rankings of the program. This scandal further damaged the Illinois brand and brought the University’s integrity back into question. Later that fall, President Hogan’s chief of staff, Lisa Troyer, came under fire after being accused of anonymously sending emails to faculty senators, pushing them to support an unfavorable admissions plan Hogan had proposed. Troyer resigned from the position in January and resigned from the University altogether in July. Because Hogan’s leadership was in question, he too finished his rocky tenure at the University by resigning in March. Clearly, the last three years have brought clouds of doubt, shame and embarrassment to a University that was seen as a global leader in public education. This past August, though, the clouds cleared up. With Robert Easter as president and Phyllis Wise as chancellor of this campus, the University has found itself under stable, respected leadership for the first time in years. This new era is coming at a time that the University system and this campus need it most and things will only continue to improve with each coming semester.

Renée is a senior in Media. She can be reached at wunderl1@dailyillini.com.

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Checkup on Illini Alerts

Students and faculty receive many Illini Alerts each semester but often don’t hear much about what happened besides what is included in an email or text. The following is a checkup on many of the alerts and advisories from this semester. Police confirmed that the cases listed below as “unresolved” are still being looked into; the rest were resolved and usually resulted in an arrest.

Burglary

Batteries and thefts

RESOLVED

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A public advisory was sent out Sept. 5 to inform about a burglary happened at 309 E. Green Street. At 9:10 p.m., the offender approached the victim while she was taking a shower. The offender attempted to watch the victim by kneeling by her tub. As the victim screamed, the offender tried to reenter the bathroom but fled the scene. A suspect, Curtis D. Harper, of Danville, was caught by University police Sept. 6.

Barricaded subject

A public advisory was sent out Oct. 3 about six similar incidents that may have been connected involving batteries and thefts. Victims were punched in the head by someone in a group of offenders, consisitng of three males and three females. The incidents occurred between 1:30 a.m. and 3:22 a.m. Two females and a male were located by the Champaign police department and were arrested.

Armed robberies

Sexual assault

UNRESOLVED On Nov. 2, a public safety advisory was sent about a sexual assault investigation regarding an incident in the 200 block of East Green Street. According to the report, the offender approached the victim around 3 a.m. After the victim ignored him, the offender grabbed her from behind and dragged her to the grass near the creek and assaulted her. The offender, who was described as a black male of medium complexion with short black hair in hie early 20s, fled after the assault.

Fire

RESOLVED An Illini Alert was sent Nov. 4 about a barricaded subject in an apartment at 109 E. John St. The first alert was sent around 3:30 a.m., and an all-clear was sent at 6 a.m. According to the report, two roommates at the apartment were involved in an incident when Daniel Chang, 22, shot at his roommate. No injuries were reported. Chang was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated discharge of a firearm. David Lu, 22, was charged with criminal damage to property after damaging the squad car’s backseat.

Armed robbery

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RESOLVED

Two armed robberies were reported Nov. 17. The first occurred around 2 a.m., when two victims were westbound in the 400 block of East Healey Street. According to the report, the offender approached the victims from behind with a handgun and demanded money and a cellphone. The offender took the money and fled. A second armed robbery occurred about 20 minutes later, when two other victims were walking east in the 600 block of East Clark Street. According to the report, the offender displayed a handgun. The offender demanded the victims to get on the ground and empty their pockets. When the victims got down on the ground, the offender took the property and ran toward the University Avenue.

An Illini Alert was sent on Nov. 28 around 3:30 a.m. about a fire at 105 E. John St. An all-clear was sent around 5 a.m. According to the report, Austin Povilaitis, 22, was attempting to make a smoke bomb in the kitchen while a visitor, Evan Hayes, 21, was at his apartment room. The attempt sparked the fire and caused black smoke to surround the apartment. Povilaitis is charged with reckless conduct, a Class A misdemeanor. Povilaitis paid $100 bond to be released from jail, and he is expected to appear in court Jan. 29.

Armed Robbery

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An armed robbery occurred Nov. 29 at 401 South Busey Avenue in Urbana. The incident occurred around 8:45 p.m. According to the report, the victim was entering his apartment building when he was struck in the head from behind. The offender took his personal belongings at gunpoint and fled southwest on foot.

An armed robbery occurred the night of Dec. 3 in the 200 block of South Wright Street. According to the report, the victim was entering his apartment building in and the offender approached him asking for money. The offender punched the victim in the month and indicated that he had a gun or a knife and took the victim’s wallet. The offender fled the northbound.

An Illini Alert and public advisory were sent on Dec. 14 around 8:45 p.m. regarding an armed robbery at the intersection of Springfield and Mathews avenues. An all-clear notice sent around 10:30 p.m. stated that police were unable to locate the suspect at the time. The suspect is described at a black 20-yearold male with a crew cut and was last seen wearing a brown, waist-length coat. Police are still investigating the incident.

Request to put chemicals in landfill under review Mahomet Aquifer receive soleClinton Landfill’s request for a source designation. Such desigpermit from the EPA to dump poly- nation which would mean that it chlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, supplies 50 percent or more of at its site in Clinton, Ill., located the drinking water for this serdirectly above a major region- vice area with no available alteral water source, has been a hot- natives in the case of contaminaly debated topic this year. The tion, according the EPA’s website. aquifer is a water source to about The designation would add to 750,000 residents. The request is the overview necessary for any project planned over the aquifer, still undergoing review. “(The company) hustled the which received federal funds. process along so quickly, people All members of the coalition didn’t realize there was a public shared in paying for the about comment opportunity until it had $55,000 cost of applying. closed,” Champaign Mayor Don Many of these local governGerard said in ments and more October. have already Although the voiced support for carrying out legal chemical waste action if the landlandfill would be fill is to receive its lined with a triple layer of plaspermit. tic liner to sepaWith a bill footed by Chamrate it from the paign, Urbana, ground, oppoNormal, Bloomnents are concerned that acciington, Savoy, dental leakage of Piatt County and PCBs — which Champaign Counthe U.S. EPA desty, the group has ignates a “probalready brought able carcinogen” in two attorneys JOE HOOKER, — could endanger Champaign assistant city attorney in preparation for the aquifer. such a lawsuit. A coalition — “We’re hopeful made up of the cities of Cham- of course that they don’t approve paign, Urbana and Decatur, the it, and that’ll end that, but if they village of Savoy, the town of Nor- do, we’re preparing for possimal and the University — recent- ble litigation,” said Joe Hooker, ly submitted an application to the Champaign assistant city attorEPA to request that the nearby ney, at a townhall meeting in May. DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

“We’re hopeful of course that they don’t approve it, and that’ll end that, but if they do, we’re preparing for possible litigation

Alan Kurtz, chair of the environment and land use committee for the Champaign County Board, said the board thinks the risk of drinking-water contamination is high. “Guaranteeing that this can never leak is being less than ingenuous,” Kurtz said in January. “(There are) 750,000 people who take their drinking water from the Mahomet Aquifer and only the Mahomet Aquifer — we can’t take the risk that something that could pollute that water.” The Illinois EPA has said PCB waste in the Clinton landfi ll would not jeopardize the drinking-water supply. Stan Black, community relation coordinator for the Illinois EPA, said the landfi ll holding the waste would have a special system to prevent unknown leakage. “The landfi lls are required to have a large number of monitoring wells all surrounding the landfi ll,” Black said in January. “Those are monitored periodically, and we get reports on those. We would know if there was any kind of release that could possibly be threatening the surrounding private wells as well as the public wells, and there is no such threat.” It is not clear how much more time the EPA will need before coming to a decision. If solesource designation is received, the aquifer would be the first in the state.

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Recent massacres bring up gun control questions BY ILYA GUREVIC STAFF WRITER

A vigil Saturday night near the Alma Mater platform honored the victims of a Friday morning shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., in which 26 were killed. The shooting rampage last week paralleled similar tragedies earlier in 2012. Rashaad Young, one of the event organizers and junior in ACES, led the attendees in prayer for a better future, free of violence for children in America. Young encouraged students to think of the even

younger people who were killed in the shooting. “It’s time to for us to come together as a community,” Young said, urging attendees to pray for the victims and their families. “It’s not about us anymore. It’s about a younger generation.” Students at the event said they wished to stand in solidarity with the grieving families of victims. “I feel like as a nation ... we just have to recognize (the victims),” said Charlie Dao, sophomore in LAS. “No one at a very early age and no one at all

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Beata Bednarczyk, sophomore in AHS, covers her candle during a vigil held for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting Saturday evening.

deserves to die because of someone’s problems.” Other students valued the sense of community at the vigil. Cristina Morales, senior in AHS, said the event brought students together at a difficult time. “(This is) a way for us to feel a connection with each other after the tragedy,” Morales said. “It’s a way for us to mourn together.” Young and Devyn Spear, co-organizer of the event and freshman in ACES, also touched on the wider issue of gun control brought to mind by the massacre. Young vowed to take to social media to publicize a campaign of letter-writing to public officials on the issue. “It’s time for a change,” he said. “At the University of Illinois, we know we have power. We might as well use it. We need to get politicians to a point where they can change gun laws.” Champaign City Council member Will Kyles, District 1, also attended the event. As the parent of a kindergartener, Kyles said he laments the loss of life. “It’s definitely sad,” he said. “These things keep happening around our country. It went from adults to high schoolers. Now kids? There’s definitely something in our society that we need to work on.” For many, the incident in Connecticut likely brought back

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Paige Jendrycki, sophomore in DGS, covers her candle during a vigil held for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting Saturday evening. memories of other gun violence earlier in the year. Back on July 20, a gunman opened fire on a midnight showing of “The Dark Night Rises,” killing 12 people and wounding at least

58. The shooter, James Holmes, was a 24-year-old dropout Ph.D. candidate from the University of Colorado Denver. Another shooting followed a few weeks later when, on Aug.

5, Wade Page killed six people and wounded three others at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis.

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Illinois Student Senate strives to get message out “We decided one of the best ways to help (ISS) is to raise In order to increase its campus awareness directly toward the stuvisibility, the Illinois Student Sen- dents at U of I,” Ihrig said. “You ate upgraded its publicity cam- want to raise awareness here with paign from paper fliers in the the students that you represent.” Union to the jumbo screen in the Ihrig said their focus is to reach United Center this December. For out to the highest quantity of stuthe first time, the senate is spon- dents possible, and the timing of soring the men’s and women’s bas- the promotional videos will reflect ketball teams with $7,500 to get that. their faces up on the big screen. “We are your voice, and we are The senate taped four 15-sec- here to help,” Ihrig said. ond public service announcements Kevin Seymour, ISS treasurer, that will be shown at the remain- said the idea is a new and creative ing home basketball games. The way for the senate to reach out to resolution also included an adver- students. tisement on the Fighting Illini “Most people don’t know about website for a cost of $1,500. us, and if they ever had an issue, The announcements were aired they’d need to know who to go to for the first time to talk about these at the Dec. 11 issues,” he said. men’s basketball While debating game against the issue in the Norfolk State and senate, other senagain on Dec. ators, however, 12 at a women’s were concerned game against with spending Oregon. such a big porDamani Boldtion of the senDAMANI BOLDEN, en , c a mpus ate’s budget on Illinois student senator affairs chair and self-advertising. junior in ACES, Matt Gold, senior wrote the resolution that passed in LAS, said the announcements in the senate on Sept. 26 and make up part of what he considsaid at least 15 senators par- ers wasteful spending. “Advertisements to promote ticipated in the creation of the announcements. ourselves are a waste,” he said. “There are four versions all “I think the senate should pubinviting students to come to the licize itself through helping the meetings and encouraging them community, volunteering and to come see us,” Bolden said. “We being out and about. That’s how represent them and we are their they should know about us, not official voice, and if they have any because we make commercials concerns or issues, they should at basketball games.” come to us.” Bolden said he plans to propose After the purchasing order was a similar resolution at the next approved by the University last assembly, sometime in April, to week, Bolden worked with Jon- sponsor men’s football for fall athan Ihrig from Fighting Illini 2013 in hopes to reach out to a Sports Properties, the Universi- bigger demographic of students. ty’s official multimedia company, to write the script and film the Corinne can be reached at cruff2@ announcements. dailyillini.com. BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER

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Reverend Larry Lewis of the Bethel A.M.E. Church addresses members of the Champaign-Urbana community as part of a panel gathered in Douglas Annex Senior Center on Dec. 1 to discuss the movement to introduce broadband internet to the underserved parts of the Champaign-Urbana area.

UC2B finally speeds up Internet in C-U Big Broadband Project completes construction BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI WEBSITE EDITOR

During the past semester, some Champaign, Urbana and Savoy residents have been cruising along the web at speeds unrivaled by most communities in the nation. The problem? “Some” isn’t the goal of the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband project, and it’s unclear when some becomes “all”, or at least “most”. The souped-up speed is the result of the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband project, or UC2B, comprised of $30 million of fiber optic rings laid beneath the streets of Champaign County. The construction to lay the infrastructure of the project, seven massive fiber optic rings, was completed during the summer, and residents began sign up starting in May. UC2B has been a long time com-

ing, and local efforts to bring fiberbased internet access to the area go back all the way to 1997, when then local internet business owner Mike Smeltzer proposed a similar project. Now CITES director of networking and acting director of physical infrastructure, Smeltzer has been able to see his 15-yearold pipe dream finally bear fruit. “We’re finally doing it,” he said in an interview in late August. “Right now, we can say to a family that they’ll have a better connection from their child’s bedroom to the school district’s resources than they would even have from the classroom.” Smeltzer said Sunday that about 600 locations are currently running on UC2B fiber, with another 15 to 18 new installations daily, so long as snowfall remains minimal. Federal stimulus money as well as state funding brought UC2B to reality, and the project represents the result of broad collaboration between the cities of Cham-

paign and Urbana, the University and the US Ignite project, which builds applications that leverage the incredible speed of fiber-optic connections. But UC2B has a somewhat limited scope and has been offered to only the areas most chronically underserved by existing Internet infrastructure. These areas were determined through a 2009 survey conducted by a group of students, faculty and staff in the Graduate School of Library Science. After dividing Champaign-Urbana (as well as parts of Savoy) into census blocks, the group found that 11 blocks with less than 41 percent of residents with high-speed internet, qualifying as “underserved” according to federal guidelines. As the school year began, canvassers were already moving through the 11 blocks, knocking on doors and signing up residents, businesses, as well as powerful connections to community organizations like schools and hospitals.

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Sports Big Ten adds Maryland, Rutgers BY DARSHAN PATEL ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

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Brandon Paul (3) dribbles the ball during the game against Norfolk State at Assembly Hall on Tuesday night,

John Groce restores fans’ faith BY ETHAN ASOFSKY SENIOR WRITER

John Groce wasn’t Illinois’ first or second choice to fill Bruce Weber’s job. Shaka Smart and Brad Stevens both turned down offers to become head coach of the Illini men’s basketball team last April, in part because of the fan base’s lofty recruiting expectations in Chicago. The Illini lost their last 12-of-14 games after starting the season 10-0. Not only were they forsaken from the NCAA tournament, but they were denied a bid to the National Invitation Tournament. They then lost 7-foot center Mey-

ers Leonard to the NBA Draft. And Weber, who had once been regarded as a legend in Champaign for taking the 2005 Illini to the national championship, was considered a dead man walking for the last few weeks of the season. What a difference nine months, and just 11 games, can make. With an undefeated season still intact, a Maui Invitational title under his belt and a top-10 national ranking for the first time since 2006, Groce has restored relevancy to a program that’s had its heart trampled over and over again since that national championship appearance seven years ago.

He’s also made true on the promise to recruit the big fish, signing a top-25 recruiting class with elite Chicago talent, even with a late start. While he’s seemingly missed out on Chicago’s darling recruit from next year, Jabari Parker, Class of 2014’s No. 2-prospect Jahlil Okafor from Chicago’s Whitney Young Magnet High School said he’s still strongly considering Groce and the Illini. Simeon commits Kendrick Nunn and Jaylon Tate both said they signed on with Groce because he was honest in his recruiting pitch and seemed like he could offer mentorship to

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With the additions of Maryland and Rutgers, Big Ten athletic directors will use the spring to take up the issue of intraconference realignment. No format has been discussed, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said Nov. 20 after dismissing a report that said Illinois’ spot in the Leaders Division was in jeopardy. “But I can tell you that I think that since we arrived at a set of compromises that the quality is high up, preservation of rivalries second and geography third,” he said. “We are a national conference in many ways, but even geographically we’re spread, and as a result I think that geography will have to play probably a more important role in the evolution of the next divisional structure.” The Big Ten could contest the 2014-15 season — the year when Maryland joins the conference — with only 13 members, as the Scarlet Knights are at odds with their current conference, the Big East, over a $10 million exit fee and a 27-month notice for departing members. Rutgers in early December filed a lawsuit against the Big East, contending that the conference should waive the requirement so it could join the Big Ten with Maryland. Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia who have all been able to negotiate earli-

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Illinois volleyball doesn’t live up to high hopes, goals BY ELIOT SILL STAFF WRITER

Illinois volleyball begun the year as the No. 7 team in the country, brimming with optimism as the team added young talent to a roster that had several key pieces from a 2011 national championship run. But this season proved to be much different than the last, a fact that made itself evident in the team’s first weekend of play, when it went 1-2. The 2011 team started its season by winning its first 20 games. Head coach Kevin Hambly assembled one of the most challenging preconference schedules in the country, playing five-of-10 nonconference games against ranked opponents. Illinois, enduring early growing pains that were exacerbated by a nagging injury to redshirt freshman Ali Stark, lost three of those five ranked games on the way to a 5-5 nonconference record. Illinois was able to topple No. 15 Iowa State in its home opener in three sets and take out Texas two weeks later. The Longhorns, who won the national championship Saturday, were ranked No. 6 at the time and

would be the highest-ranked opponent Illinois would beat. The Illini headed into the conference season riding a three-game win streak fresh off their best victory of the young season, with redshirt freshman Jocelynn Birks averaging 16.6 kills per game. Illinois would have its momentum cut off by Minnesota, in the teams’ first conference game. The Illini split their first two conference weekends heading into a critical weekend with homes matches against No. 19 Ohio State and No. 1 Penn State. Both games resulted in gut-wrenching defeats. The Illini held a 2-0 set lead over Ohio State before losing three straight sets and held a 14-10 fifth-set lead over Penn State (one point away from victory) before losing the set and the match. “It felt like we were in control of our own destiny, we just didn’t execute,” Hambly said after the Penn State loss. A loss at Michigan the following week extended an Illinois losing streak to four games. Hambly then decided to insert

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Illinois’ Annie Luhrsen (11) watches the ball over the net during the match against Michigan, held at Huff Hall on Senior Night on Nov. 17. After going to the championship game last year, the Illini failed to achieve an NCAA tournament berth.

Optimism faded fast during the new era of Illini football BY SEAN HAMMOND STAFF WRITER

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Illinois’ Nathan Scheelhaase, right, is shoved by Minnesota’s Troy Stoudermire on Nov. 10.

Third-year Illinois starting quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase’s first completion of the 2012 season was a 64-yard touchdown pass to receiver Ryan Lankford. Things went downhill from there. It’s safe to say nobody expected this Illini squad to have double-digit wins and play in a January bowl game. But nobody expected this. “A New Era BECKons.” That’s what the 2012 Illinois “Loyal-Tee” shirts designed before the season said in block letters across the front in reference to the arrival of first-year head coach Tim Beckman. With a new coaching staff and momentum following two straight bowl victories, there was optimism in Champaign. But after a 2-10 season, one would be hard pressed to find an Illini fan

wearing the 2012 “Loyal-Tee” shirt proudly. Nothing went right for the Illini on the field. Their lone victories came against a bottom-feeder MAC team and a sub-.500 FCS team. They lost all eight Big Ten games (14 straight dating back to 2011) and finished the season on a nine-game losing streak. The Illini ranked second-to-last in the FBS in both points per game and total offense. As with any team sport, fingers can’t be pointed at just one person. There was an abundance of dysfunction. While he was injured for a couple of games, Scheelhaase threw for only 1,361 yards and four touchdowns on the season. His opening touchdown was Illinois’ longest play from scrimmage the entire year (a season that fittingly

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er exits, but Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti has said that no start date is set in stone. The Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors unanimously accepted Maryland Nov. 19 and Rutgers the next day after the school’s wait-and-see approach. The Terrapins and the Scarlet Knights became the third and fourth teams to join the conference since 1954. Nebraska was added to the Big Ten for the 2011 season, leaving what is now called the Big 12 after over 100 years of competition. Discussions with Maryland heated up in the few weeks before the announcement, Delany said after the move, but talk between Rutgers and the Big Ten has been ongoing for a few years These two schools — located in College Park, Md., and Piscataway, N.J., respectively — will be the farthest from the Big Ten headquarters in Illinois. The moves create a bigger East Coast presence with the Washington, D.C., and New York City television markets, opening the door for lucrative deals with cable operators. So, according to a Sports Business Journal report, the Big Ten is considering keeping select Maryland and Rutgers football and men’s basketball games off its network until cable operators include the channel in the basic tier — a money move. But Delany told reporters Nov. 20 that there was an overemphasis by the media regarding the possibility of richer TV contracts. “I just thought the amount of words devoted and the emphasis were a little overplayed,” he said. “I never suggested that Big Ten Network or ESPN aren’t factors. What I tried to say was it didn’t drive the decision.” For Maryland and Rutgers, this means long-term financial stability, as both schools have cut select Olympic sports in the last decade. Maryland will begin reinstating some of the seven teams it eliminated, while Rutgers “will focus first and foremost on making the 24 sports we have here as healthy as we possibly can,” Pernetti said.

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Illinois sees success in postseason BY TORRENCE SORRELL STAFF WRITER

After its up-and-down regular season, the Illinois soccer team made its second consecutive appearance in the Big Ten championship game and later securing a spot in the NCAA tournament. But Illinois were outplayed against North Carolina in the second round, ending their season. Illinois came into the 2012 season ranked No. 19 in the NSCAA preseason poll after winning the 2011 Big Ten Tournament. With five seniors graduating last spring, six starters returned to head coach Janet Rayfield’s team along with seven newcomers. Top returners were senior goalkeeper Steph Panozzo, who came off one of her best seasons in picking up 75 saves, and NSCAA AllAmerican second-team junior midfielder Vanessa DiBernardo, who led the team last year with 17 goals and 39 total points. DiBernardo missed nonconference play because she was competing with the U.S. in the under-20 Women’s World Cup in Japan. She, including Rayfield, brought home gold as the U.S. defeated Germany 1-0.

Interim coach Jeff Freeman was put in charge during Rayfield’s absence, as the team went 3-3 during nonconference play. “It was a great way for some of our younger players to get experience,” Rayfield said of multiple freshmen gaining playing time while DiBernardo was away. DiBernardo wasted no time in her first game back, scoring her first goal within the first four minutes of the game against a thenundefeated Iowa team. Later in the first half, freshman standout Nicole Breece tallied the gamewinning goal. Illinois faced its biggest challenge against then-No. 11 Penn State on Sept. 23. The Nittany Lions scored three unanswered goals — including two by standout Maya Hayes — in the first 18 minutes, leading to a 4-0 victory. In mid-October, the Illini lost three straight conference games to sub-.500 opponents in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Northwestern, in part because of injuries battled by Breece, Taylore Peterson and senior Shayla Mutz. But then things turned around. Battling for position in the conference, the Illini finished as the

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Illinois’ midfielder Vanessa DiBernardo (20) sprints through the midfield during Illinois’ 2-1 loss to Northwestern at the Illinois Track and Soccer Stadium on Oct. 18. Illinois had an up-and-down season but managed to make it to the second round of the NCAA tournament, losing to North Carolina. No. 5 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, with help from a comefrom-behind overtime victory against Michigan, a team that fi nished third in conference standings. After defeating Minnesota in the fi rst round of the Big Ten Tournament, Illinois went toeto-toe with a Penn State team that was then ranked No. 3

nationally. Breece tallied the lone goal for the Illini to give them their fi rst win over a topthree opponent in program history. But Illinois couldn’t win its second straight title as the team lost to Ohio State 2-1 in the fi nal. Panozzo was a force in the fi rst round of the NCAA tournament, as she made two consecutive saves to help Illinois defeat

Missouri 1-1 (3-0) on penalty kicks. The second round featured a match against Rayfield’s alma mater in North Carolina. But the Tar Heels, who would go on to win the national championship, defeated the Illini 9-2. “I think this team achieved some great things,” Rayfi eld said. “There were moments where I think the team reached their

potential and that is always a successful season, but I think you also look and see that we had a lot of young players who have a lot of experiences now that they can draw on to make this team better moving forward.”

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Hockey’s new coaching staff sets clear goals Illinois shows inconsistency, mixed results this fall season BY STEPHEN BOURBON STAFF WRITER

tory over the Ducks. “A two-game winning streak feels good,” Bollant said. “We’re headed in the right direction.”

Nick Fabbrini’s goals were clear from the moment was hired as the Illinois hockey team’s head coach. “Obviously it’s our goal to win the CSCHL (Central States Collegiate Hockey League) regular season, the CSCHL playoffs and the national championship,” Fabbrini said before the season in August. “We’ve got as good of a shot as anyone.” In his first year as coach replacing Chad Cassel, Fabbrini’s squad has seen mixed results, though the team is in a much better position to achieve its goals than last season. Illinois hockey was a disappointment in Cassel’s farewell tour of 2011-12, as it missed the ACHA tournament altogether. While inconsistency has kept the Illini (14-72) from becoming a truly elite team this season, they have shown the ability to compete with anyone on the ice. Fabbrini’s debut in the regular season on the bench was a bit rough, as the Illini lost to Michigan State in penalty shots, a team that Illinois had beaten in nine of its previous 10 games. Illinois got hot after the initial speed bump, peeling off six consecutive wins, including a 3-00 showing at the ACHA Showcase. In an atmosphere that will be similar to the national tournament in March, the Illini played some of their best hockey of the year and swept three games in three days, including a 5-1 thrashing of nowranked No. 7 Davenport. “Davenport is one of the best teams we’ll face all year,” Fabbrini said after the win. “Winning 5-1 over a team of that caliber shows that we have what it takes to be one of the top teams in the nation.” From that point, though, the team struggled to fi nd any consistency, particularly on Saturday games. Illinois dropped six of its next seven matches on Saturdays following its performance in the Showcase. The highlight of the season thus far was the 5-0 beating that the Illini handed to then-ranked No. 2 Ohio on Nov. 2. Illinois had come into the week extremely confident and came out and backed it up on the ice by handing the Bobcats their first loss in regulation. “This is right up there in my top-three wins of my career,” goaltender Nick Clarke said after pitching the shutout. “This one was huge, especially at home. That was the biggest crowd we’ve had all year. The fans were into it, it was awesome.” Coming into the semester break after a sweep of No. 24 Indiana, No. 8 Illinois is looking to take its game to the next level after the layoff. With series still to come against No. 2 Robert Morris and a rematch with No. 9 Lindenwood — which saw the two teams devolve into an all-out brawl in their last meeting — the Illini will have plenty of chances to move up in the rankings before the ACHA tournament. Fabbrini won a national championship in his first year as a player at Illinois. He would like to do the same in his first year of coaching.

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Illinois head coach Matt Bollant looks towards his team during the Fighting Illini’s loss to Colorado at Assembly Hall on Dec. 1.

Illinois women’s basketball ‘headed in the right direction’ New coach brings new up-tempo, dribble-motion offense BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGER STAFF WRITER

First-year head coach Matt Bollant brought the Illinois women’s basketball program a new coaching staff and a new system this offseason. After finishing 11-19 last season, the Illini are off to a 6-4 start. Illinois went 6-8 in nonconference play last season. While Illinois struggled under former head coach Jolette Law, Bollant led Green Bay to a 31-2 record and No. 9 national ranking last season. He brought his schemes that helped him achieve such success with him, and he has started to install them in Champaign. A new up-tempo, dribble-motion offense has been one of Bollant’s installations. The Illini have new freedom in the system, and sophomore point guard Alexis Smith has gone from six minutes per game to 35 and ranks second in the Big Ten in assists per game. Senior forward Karisma Penn leads the team in scoring for the third straight season, but she has improved her points per game from 13.4 last season to 18.9. Sophomore guard Ivory Crawford has also seen a significant bump in her scoring average, improving from 5.6 points per game to 15.7. Junior guard Amber Moore also has benefited from the new system. Bollant said he thinks Moore can be an All-Big Ten player, and he wants her shooting at least 10 3-pointers per game.

Illinois has continued to play a man-to-man defense, but associate head coach Mike Dvibillis has also brought his Buzz defense to Illinois. The 2-12 trapping zone played a key role in the success at Green Bay, and, after initially struggling, Illinois has been able to have some success in the new defense. “The full-court Buzz, that was the best it ever looked,” Bollant said of Wednesday’s 80-62 win against Oregon. This far into the season, Bollant’s biggest concern has been Illinois’ defense. Out of 343 teams in the NCAA, the Illini rank No. 297 in scoring defense. Because of this, Bollant has restructured practices, focusing on defense first and offense second. Illinois has been playing without two players so far this season. Senior guard Adrienne GodBold was academically ineligible for this semester. GodBold hopes to be eligible for a Dec. 28 matchup with Georgia. Sophomore center Kierra Morris was forced to have surgery after she broke her fifth metatarsal during practice before the season. Morris, who only played three minutes during her freshman year because of injuries, hopes to return for Big Ten play on Jan. 2. After opening the season 3-1 against mid-major opponents, Illinois faced four staright BCS foes. The Illini went 1-3 against the power conference teams but were able to rebound with a road win over Memphis on Sunday. The Illini followed up with an vic-

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Illinois’ Karisma Penn (00) looks at the ball after its knocked loose during the Fighting Illini’s win over Oregon at Assembly Hall on Wednesday.

Men’s golf wraps up so-so fall, prepares to win championships in the spring BY CLAIRE LAVEZZORIO STAFF WRITER

Competing for the fi rst time in four years with four-time Big Ten champion Luke Guthrie, the Illini began the 2012-13 season unranked. But this wasn’t going to stop the Illini from having a successful season. The team closed out the fall ranked No. 19 in the Golf World/Nike Coaches poll. Illinois began the season with two straight wins at the Wolf

Run Invitational and the D.A. Weibring Intercollegiate. Coming off of a great start, the Illini then headed to the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational. The team attended without two key players, defending national champion Thomas Pieters and freshman Thomas Detry, who were representing Belgium at the World Amateur Team Championships. Without these two players, the Illini dropped to a 10th-place fi nish.

Next up was the Isleworth Collegiate Invite. Illinois put freshmen Charlie Danielson, Thomas Detry and David Kim, along with sophomore Brian Campbell and fi fth-year senior Mason Jacobs, in its lineup. The tournament featured eight ranked teams, including the top three teams in the country. Illinois played with No. 1 California and No. 2 Texas throughout the three-day tournament. Campbell’s rounds of 71

and 72 on the tough 7,544-yard Isleworth course helped the Illini end with a ninth-place fi nish at the event. After the conclusion of four tournaments this fall, Pieters holds a team-best 72.00 stroke average after just playing in two events. He posted a pair of top10 fi nishes, along with fi nishing sixth and a ninth. Danielson ended the fall season with the second-best average on the team, a 72.67. He fi n-

ished in the top 12 in three of four tournaments: seventh at D.A. Weibring, 10th at Wolf Run and was the top Illinois fi nisher at 12th place in Olympia Fields. Illinois men’s golf coach Mike Small has always said, “Win tournaments in the fall, win championships in the spring.” Based on this saying, Illinois has done just that. With two wins under their belt, the Illini will be preparing for the Big Ten Match Play, their

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fi rst major tournament of the spring season. Once again, Illinois will be the top seed, ready to attest to their national talent.

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Beckman, coaches and players look for 2013 team identity DAN WELIN Football columnist

hen a coach is bought out with two years left on his contract, change for the better is the logical interpretation of such a move. But when former head coach Ron Zook was fired, the reported whereabouts of athletic director Mike Thomas and lack of interest in the program left few candidates on the table. Was it really that surprising for a program that has a losing identity? The reported candidate — Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin — appeared interested, but essentially leveraged the Illini to pressure his current employer to up the ante, which the Aggies did. Sumlin would’ve been a great fit for no reason other than he would’ve brought his aerial attack offense to Champaign, or what I like to call an identity. Though with a more-talented SECcaliber roster, Sumlin has the Aggies averaging 44.8 points a game (third in the nation), and his team will play Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 4. Thomas eventually hired Tim Beckman, who started changing the way things were done from the first day. But the change that he failed to make was on the field. The 2012 season was an absolute

mess, and instead of improving on things like a six-game losing streak and forgetting the score, Beckman and his team lost nine straight and had some epic sideline incidents of their own — i.e. tobacco gate at Wisconsin and Beckman getting knocked down at Northwestern. Cue the Chumbawamba. I mean come on, one of the worst seasons in Illinois history ended with a safety — an ending almost too storybook of how bad the season was. Departing talent and an improved nonconference slate won’t make the second season of the “New Era” much easier, but developing an identity on the field and a system that players can be plugged into is one way to start turning things around. There are identities among the nation’s best, as well as average teams: Oregon loves speed, while Navy lives and dies with the triple option. Alabama head coach Nick Saban is so good at reloading his smash-mouth, stout defensive mentality that he’s had two Heisman winners and the same number of national championships in the last three years. Even though the team is no better than Illinois, Indiana even has the reputation of a high-powered offense. Indiana football has an identity. The Hooisers don’t win, but with that identity, their games are watchable. Point is, more than likely, changes will be made within the Illinois football staff and one of the changes that needs to be made is to develop an identity around the program so that when

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Illinois head coach Tim Beckman wipes his head at Memorial Stadium on Homecoming during a tough season for the Illini. they take the field on Saturdays, fans know what they’re going to see. Before head coach Mike Leach was fired, Texas Tech fans knew they were going to see an offensive explosion each time their team took the field. Under Zook, future NFL running backs Rashard Mendenhall and Mikel Leshoure had the Illini first in the Big Ten in rushing twice and in the top five the other three years. Beckman adopted a defensive unit that was ranked seventh in the

nation in 2011, and he has a defensive background. It seemed like it would be a good transition, but the 2012 season said differently. Signing day now is the focus point for the Illinois coaching staff, and there’s one particular commit that can help Beckman change the identity starting next season. Assuming four-star quarterback Aaron Bailey signs on the dotted line in the spring, a new blueprint could be drawn up or he might even be the blueprint.

Who knows? If 2012 proved anything, it was that the transition from one head coach to another can be seamless like it was in College Station, Texas, or rocky like it was in Champaign. Each one is different. Forgetting 2012 will be hard, but establishing an identity is the quickest way for Beckman to overcome a bad start and win back the fan base.

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Men’s, women’s cross-country sporadic outdoor seasons end on high note Mickow, Hebert lead Illinois men’s cross-country this season BY DAN ESCALONA STAFF WRITER

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Sophomore Colette Falsey won the individual title at the fifth annual Illini Open on Oct. 19. Illinois took second out of four teams.

The 2012 season was one of change and newfound success for the Illinois men’s cross-country team. The Illini began the season with a new head coach in Jake Stewart, bringing expectations of success in the Big Ten, especially with two senior runners, Hunter Mickow and Jordan Hebert, to lead a very inexperienced squad. The team was primarily filled by freshmen and redshirt freshmen in what Stewart called the nation’s toughest long-distance running conference. The first major test for Illinois came in the Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Ind., on Sept. 28. That meet was a point in the season in which the Illini’s top-two runners emerged as the team’s success stories. Mickow finished 24th in the meet, while Jannis Toepfer — a graduate student from Germany — finished behind his teammate in 27th. Their performances contributed to a 14th-place overall finish for the Illini. Though two runners boosted the team’s placement, Stewart said he hopes his squad improves on the sizeable time gap between his top-five runners. The Illini’s toughest challenge came in the following meet at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational two weeks later in Madison, Wis. The Illini contended with 20 nation-

ally ranked teams and nine Big Ten rivals. Once again, Mickow and Toepfer led the team, finishing first and second for the Illini, respectively. Both athletes set personal records in the 8K race. Redshirt freshman Ian Barnett also had a successful showing, placing third and setting a personal best. Illinois came away with a 24th-place finish as a team. Stewart said the meet provided a great deal of experience going into the conference championships. Illinois’ preparation was put to the test in the Big Ten Championships in East Lansing, Mich. In a meet that they historically underperform in, the Illini fought their way to a fourth-place finish and a berth in the NCAA Midwest Regional. For the third straight meet, Mickow and Toepfer — who both garnered All-Big Ten honors — led the Illini. Toepfer ran the 10th-fastest time in school history, finishing a second ahead of Mickow. The team’s success at the Big Ten Championships put Illinois on the cusp of its first appearance in the NCAA Championships in 26 years. With a berth in the national meet on the line at the Midwest Regionals in Springfield, Mo., the duo once again gave the Illini strong performances. Mickow led the team, placing sixth overall — the highest finish for an Illinois runner since Trent Hoerr in

2007. Toepfer finished 13th overall. Both earned all-region selections, which qualified them for their first national meet in their collegiate careers. For the second season in a row, the Illini sent two runners to the national championship. While Illinois did succeed on the individual front, it finished fourth in the regionals. But much to their disappointment, the Illini barely missed out on a chance to clinch a spot in the national championships due to the results of other regional meets. Heading into the NCAA Championships, Mickow and Toepfer were confident that they would be able to achieve All-American status at the meet. By the end of the meet in Louisville, Ky., Mickow missed the cut to reach All-American status. In his final meet of his collegiate career, Mickow finished 46th, six spots away from becoming an All-American. Toepfer placed 64th. “We made plenty of great strides during the season,” Stewart said. “The performance throughout the season from both Jannis and Hunter were big steps forward for the program. Going forward, I’m excited to see how our group of redshirt freshmen develop during the track season and during the summer.”

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Women’s cross-country shows improvement, promise during season; senior Courtney Yaeger shines BY NICHOLAS FORTIN STAFF WRITER

The Illinois women’s cross-country team’s season can best be described as sporadic. There were ups, including a first-place team finish at the Illinois Intercollegiate meet, and downs, such as a 17th-place finish at Pre-Nationals. “I would say that we took a big step forward in our confidence and culture,” senior Courtney Yaeger said. “The next step is to make it show on the track.” Illinois started the season by placing fifth out of eight teams on its home course in the first race of the season, the Illini Challenge. The Illini followed that up with a better

BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1B the two prospects. From the moment Groce stepped on campus, he’s done things his way. A new NCAA rule allowed him to work with his new players over the summer, giving the first-year coach a head start on conditioning his team to play within his system, a fast-paced, ball-screen offense mixed with a ball-hawking defense that likes to create turnovers and run. His system offered freedom, and the Illini

performance in Normal, Ill., as they finished first out of six at the Illinois Intercollegiate Championships. Yaeger finished first for the Illinois and second overall, leading to Big Ten women’s cross-country co-Athlete of the Week honors. Illinois then had arguably its best performance of the season at the Notre Dame Invitational. The Illini placed fifth, behind four teams who were then ranked in the top 20 nationally. Illinois head coach Jeremy Rasmussen said the team’s success was based largely because the group ran well together, with Yaeger leading the way and its second- and third-place runners finishing within a second of one another, as well as the fourth- and fifth-place finishers.

already had an experienced group of returning personnel to handle the transition. Perhaps no player has benefited more from the new system than Brandon Paul, who has emerged as a player of the year candidate and potential NBA Draft pick behind a team-leading 19 points per game, 4.7 rebounds per game and 3.5 assists per game. He’s already earned the MVP at the Maui Invitational, won Big Ten Player of the Week and national player of the week for his 35-point domination of then-No. 10 Gonzaga. After struggling with consistency

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 1B Alexis Viliunas, a freshman who had been redshirting, into the starting lineup for senior Annie Luhrsen at the setter position. Hambly’s intent seemed to be to start Viliunas at setter for the remainder of the season, and he called the decision to bench Luhrsen “probably the hardest one I’ve faced as a head coach.” Viliunas’ play produced immediate, but not lasting, results. After two wins, Illinois lost seven of eight, as Luhrsen found her way back into the rotation. Illinois finished the season winning its final three games after the team’s 16th loss secured a sub-.500 record that put NCAA tournament hopes to rest. The Illini lost eight matches in five sets — the team’s most since 2007. They

Illinois then split the squad to compete at both the Bradley Invitational and the Pre-National meet. At both meets, the Illini showed youth, Rasmussem said, but it was a learning experience. Illinois finished 17th out of 38 teams at Pre-Nationals and placed only one runner in the top 100 at Bradley. From there, Illinois moved onto the Illini Open, the second and final home meet this season. The Illini ran a strong race on their home course with sophomore Colette Falsey taking first overall, and three of the other four Illinois runners placed in the top 10. The team took second out of four teams to Bradley, one of the top Midwestern teams this year. At the Big Ten Championships, Illinois

through his first three seasons at Illinois, Paul has matured into one of the finest complete players in a loaded Big Ten. The road will surely get bumpier once the Illini reach conference play. Illinois has already had its fair share of struggles handling lesser-conference teams, needing last-second shots to defeat Gardner-Webb and Hawaii and almost coming unraveled against Norfolk State and Western Carolina. But the Illini also turned out terrific performances against big names like Gonzaga, USC and Butler, appearing like the team its cur-

will lose Luhrsen, middle blocker Erin Johnson and defensive specialist Jackie Wolfe to graduation, but return all other regular rotation players, including AllBig Ten hitter Liz McMahon and All-Big Ten Freshman and team kills leader Birks in her second season. If the pair can lead Illinois back to the postseason next season, the duo can look at the 2012 campaign as a learning experience that prepared them for success. “If I had to give it a word, I’d say we were ‘close.’ We were close often,” Hambly said. “We gave ourselves opportunities to win lots of matches, and we were very competitive in a lot of matches and we were close. But close isn’t good enough. We have to figure out a way to win those.”

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improved three spots from its last-place finish last year. But the mood was somber after the race though, as the Illini had been hoping for a top-five placing. The season ended for most Illini with the Hoosier Open — the only non-teamscored meet this season — in which the team placed all of its runners in the top 25. Illinois’ final competition was the NCAA Midwest Regional, a meet in which the Illini came away with bittersweet victories. The team, with its ninth-place finish, did not place high enough to advance to the national meet but did have two stellar individual performances. Yaeger, after a fall that more than likely cost her a top-10 finish, ran one of her best races of the season, placing 25th over-

rent ranking dictates. The stark contrast is an occupational hazard to the team’s skillset — Illinois will live and die by the 3-point shot. So far, the Illini are shooting 40 percent from three this season and have only shot under 37 percent from downtown in four games — Norfolk State, Western Carolina, Hawaii and Gardner Webb. Illinois has six legitimate threats from downtown in Paul, D.J. Richardson, Tyler Griffey, Myke Henry, Joe Bertrand and Tracy Abrams. All have caught fire at times this season and disappeared during others.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1B ended with a safety on the last offensive play). As a team, the Illini rushing attack barely eclipsed the 1,500-yard mark. The defense wasn’t much better, surrendering more than 32 points per game. “You want your kids, just like you want your sons, to experience winning, and we didn’t experience winning this year,” Beckman said. “It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever been through.” “We’ve just been kind of in a bind that we’re not able to crawl out of,” Scheelhaase added. “It’s been tough. (I’ve) got one more year left, don’t want to have that feeling again.” It was not the start any new head coach hopes for. While the Illini suffered their ninth losing season since 2000, Northern Illinois finds itself preparing for the

all. Redshirt freshman Alyssa Schneider finished 12th, pacing the Illini throughout the race. Both runners finished with all-region honors for their performances. Rasmussen described the season as progressive. “Obviously we fell short of some of the goals we set at the beginning of the year,” Rasmussen said. “But we definitely made progress forward. Our group has become a lot more confident, and it’s still a young group, so I think with the things they learned this year, they can step up and make this team the successful team that they want it to be.”

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Despite the early struggles, the Illini have had the veteran experience to pull out games down the stretch. Groce has probably grown accustomed to the phrase “a win is a win” more than he’d like, but he’s always acknowledged the Illini are a jump-shooting team, and as such they will go through their ebbs and flows. Searching for consistency and starting games with energy will be the focus going forward, as Illinois looks to continue what it couldn’t last season. But if there’s any specific way Groce has differentiated himself

Orange Bowl and Northwestern — or “the team upstate,” as Beckman calls it — won nine games and will be playing Jan. 1. The outlook for 2013 is bleak. But fans shouldn’t forget that Ron Zook began with back-to-back two-win seasons before leading Illinois to a Rose Bowl appearance. “Huge evaluation time right now,” Beckman said. “You utilize December, and to be honest with you, I haven’t utilized December much. I’m usually practicing for a bowl game. So we have to now utilize this month of December under NCAA rules and the number of hours you’re allowed to use. Every one of our coaches will be evaluated. Every one of our coordinators will evaluate our offensive coaches and vice versa.” The Illini will return all the key offensive weapons from 2012. The defense is another story. Gone will be defensive linemen Michael Buchanan and Glenn Foster, along with the entire starting secondary: Terry Hawthorne, Justin Green, Supo San-

from Weber, it’s his energy. Don’t expect that to let up. Groce isn’t afraid to show emotion on the sidelines, and he often appears more winded than the players in postgame news conferences. He’s punched the scorer’s table on several occasions and even ripped a hole in his suit crouching into a defensive stance to motivate his players. So far, he’s everything the Illini were looking for in a coach, even if they didn’t see it right away.

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ni and Ashante Williams. Juniors Jonathan Brown and Akeem Spence have decisions to make. There will likely be some interest from the NFL. Spence said in October that he wasn’t worried about how such a catastrophic season might reflect in his draft stock. He said his primary concerns were graduating and playing football. He said losing would not influence his decision either way. While other teams prepare for bowl games, Illinois looks ahead to 2013. With Cincinnati and Washington on tap, the nonconference schedule is no cakewalk. It’s difficult to know what type of performance the Illini will follow 2012 with. But one thing is for certain: With four years remaining on his contract, the Beckman era is here to stay. It just may not be beckoning as strongly as some had hoped.

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