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Event to aid homeless raises $40K

Dancing through the February blues

Just 75 of expected 200 participants took part BY ATOOSA SAYEH STAFF WRITER

About 40 students and community members slept outside in cardboard boxes Friday to raise awareness for homelessness in Champaign County. The sponsor of the event, C-U at Home, is a local chapter of a national campaign called 100,000 Homes, which seeks to house 100,000 chronically homeless individuals by July 2014. The second annual One Winter Night event was expanded to include a second location on the Quad this year in addition to the downtown Champaign location along Neil Street, where about 35 people attended. Participants arrived for the event at 6 p.m., when they constructed their own shelters out of cardboard boxes. The intent was to spend 12 hours outdoors, but some participants went into the Illini Union to warm up. “Sacrificing a warm place to sleep is making a statement that we want to help people who live like this every day,” said Melany Jackson, executive director of C-U at Home. Jackson said she was expect-

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Student dancers in the College of Fine and Applied Arts participate in February Dance at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts on Saturday. February Dance is a weekend-long event put on by the Department of Dance to showcase the talent of the students that put the show together.

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ISS proposes constitutional changes Revisions would offer greater voice for graduate students, direct election of ISS president BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER

Graduate student senators may have more of a voice and the student body may elect the student body president and other leaders under a new Illinois Student Senate constitution proposal. The senate met Friday to discuss these changes to its constitution, among others, but adjourned early because it was not able to keep a required 25 senators at the meeting, ending with 22. The senate will convene again during its regular meeting Wednesday. Some of the constitutional revisions were responses to changes that were implemented the last time the senate’s constitution was amended in spring 2011, said Jim Maskeri, undergraduate co-chairman of the Commission on Constitutional Reform.

graduate student senators more autonomy. The student body will also have more of a say in senate leadership in the proposed document, which would require that the student body president, vice president and treasurer are elected from and by the student body. Currently, these positions are filled by student senators and are elected by the senate. Having the “direct mandate” of the student body, Maskeri said, the president will also be encouraged to take on additional responsibilities on behalf of the senate outside of meetings. Because the senate currently elects the student body president, he or she acts as the speaker of the senate. “The powers remain within the student senate; however, we’re giving some additional authority to the executive branch to really work outside of the student senate structure and work for the student body,” Maskeri said. If approved at Wednesday’s meeting, the senate will then need to gather 5,000 student signatures, representative of 5 percent of the student body,

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The last revision altered the senate’s structure by minimizing the role of graduate students within the senate by reducing them from a standing committee to a subcommittee. The senate then created a special standing committee for graduate and professional students until a new constitution could be ratified. In the proposed constitution, the Graduate and Professional Council would be formed, made up of 30 council members from different academic backgrounds. A graduate leader would also be elected from the graduate student population as a representative. Maskeri said the senate’s structure accurately represents the undergraduate to graduate ratio on campus, but the new constitution will give

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to announce the results of the Campus Spirit Revival symbol selection survey by Friday. Read about it on our website,

before petitioning the Campus Student Election Committee to place the new constitution on the spring elections ballot for the March 5-6 election. “We are going to have the ability to effectively advocate for students’ needs, and we are going to be able to fulfill the promise that this University makes to every student,” said Carey Hawkins Ash, graduate co-chairman of the Commission on Constitutional Reform. Hawkins Ash said he was eager for Wednesday’s discussion. “I was inspired today,” he said. “I look forward to Wednesday’s meeting to put a document before the student body and say: ‘This is what we want you to approve. Will you support us in making sure that we have a strong student government moving forward?’”

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Students build cardboard shelters in preperation for sleeping outside Friday night as part of One Winter Night, an event to help the homeless.

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Urbana to discuss annexing home STAFF WRITER

After the failure of a home’s septic tank on the outskirts of town, the Urbana City Council will discuss an emergency connection to city sewers at its regular meeting Monday. If the connection is approved, the property will be designated within Urbana’s city limits. Susan Bruce’s family was in the process of putting their Coler Avenue home on the market this winter when they noticed a problem with their septic tank. Because a city sewer line runs through the property’s back yard, the family is requesting that the Urbana City Council approve an

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emergency connection to the city line. Bruce said the annexation is necessary because they were not given the option to replace the septic tank. “This was a surprise,” she said. “We never had any problems with it. But as part of an inspection, it’s something you discover.” Robert Myers, planning division manager for Urbana, said failure of the septic tank is leading to sewage that is not properly disposed. “They need to either install a new septic, which is very expensive — $6,000 to $10,000, typically — or they need to hook up to the public sewer system.”

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If the annexation is approved, the property will be designated within the Urbana city limits. This means the homeowners will have access to all city services but will have to pay higher taxes. To offset the increased tax burden, annexed property-owners are offered a tax rebate for several years. Brad Bennett, senior civil engineer of Urbana, said homeowners wishing to be annexed into the city lines incur the costs to run their line to the city line, but there are no associated fees with annexation. Myers said rural properties ask to be annexed into the city sewer lines once or twice a year, but the

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ing about 200 participants between both locations, but turnout was low, which she attributed to the cold weather. She said the most participation came from members of student organizations like the Stamps Scholars and Marching Illini. Anthony Bruno, member of the Stamps Scholars Program and junior in Engineering, said the organization participated last year as well. “It was just a great experience knowing that such a small sacrifice of a warm bed is a small thing to give up, but it makes a world of a difference for some people,” Bruno said. “It’s great knowing (that we’re) making such a big impact.” A 2011 Community Report released by the United Way of Champaign County reported that an estimated 418 people in the county are homeless at any given time. “It’s very important for people to come out here and understand that this is happening all around us,” said Heather Clark, event volunteer and graduate student. “I think that people

BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER

Members of the UrbanaChampaign Senate will vote to approve proposals for the establishment of new degrees, majors and minors at Monday’s meeting. These proposals include the addition of new graduate programs for the College of Engineering, a new graduate minor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, a new undergraduate minor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and a new graduate major in the Department of Plant Biology, according to the meeting’s agenda. Programs will ideally go into effect in Fall 2013 if approved. Also at the meeting, members of the senate will review

requests are becoming more frequent than in years past. Alderman Eric Jakobsson, Ward 2, said the annexation will be routine for the city council. However, he said it is still important to discuss zoning for the property, as it will be considered a part of the city of Urbana. “I think the area will be annexed to the city and will rezone to a single-family residential district, which I think is highly appropriate,” Jakobsson said. “This is a very successful residence. I don’t think that area is appropriate for multifamily zoning.”

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a proposal for a Center for Farmland Research. The center will be a unit in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and will be committed to providing research opportunities and outreach activities “related to agricultural asset valuation and financial performance,” as stated in the proposal. Another proposal under review will be for the Confucius Institute, a unit within International Programs and Studies. This institute is designed to provide support for Chinese programs and activities on campus. The proposal will also seek to enhance knowledge of the Chinese language and culture throughout the community.

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Fun and romance blossom like early spring flowers. July and December are ripe for career advancement this year. Explore promotional opportunities around April; June’s great for launching. Keep to your financial plan, and your status rises through community participation. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)

Today is a 7 — Travel at your own risk. News affects your decisions for the next two days, so remain flexible. Don’t stress; keep studying. Cut the fluff. Keep a low profile.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)

Today is a 9 — Appearances deceive, and changes require budget revisions. Craft inspiring goals that push the boundaries of what you consider reasonable. No boredom allowed.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)

Today is an 8 — Vivid feelings and expression of love occupy you for a while. Good judgment is still

Today is an 8 — The next few days get busy. Don’t spend over budget, speculate or take financial risks. Discipline is required. Get team opinions before committing. A wide perspective sees farther.

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Today is a 9 — Morale gets a boost.

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Bars see large profits in video gambling machines THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Some Illinois bar owners say they’re already making big profits from video gambling machines that became legal late last year, and pending applications are expected to put even more money in their pockets. Bob Waddell owns a bar outside Keyesport in Clinton County in southwestern Illinois. He made $9,778 in video gambling in December, according to a report in the (Belleville) News-Democrat. “I have not been disappointed with the results,” he told the newspaper. Players fed more than $1 million into machines operating in 35 establishments located east of St. Louis in December. These players lost $350,000 that month. Statewide, players lost nearly $7 million in December, while establishments kept $2.45 million, the state earned $1.75

million and cities and counties combined made about $350,000. Video gambling became legal in bars, clubs and truck stops in October. While it’s early to tell how the profits will help the state’s dire financial problems, early numbers have shown it’s been a popular idea. Many applications are pending, including 251 in southwestern Illinois. Lawmakers have talked of reviving a gambling expansion, including a casino in Chicago. Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed expansion legislation last summer citing ethical and oversight safeguards, but has since said he’s open to compromising. State law provides how video gambling profits must be divided. The establishments get 35 percent, the vendors supplying the machines get 35 percent, the state gets 25 percent, and the 5 percent left goes to the municipality or county that authorized

the liquor license to the bar. All stakeholders may see their revenue increase soon after the Illinois Gaming Board licensed dozens more bars two weeks ago. Each establishment can have up to five machines. But the staggering profits aren’t making everyone happy. Anita Bedell, the director of the Illinois Church Action on Alcohol and Addiction Problems, said the communities will gain “very little” out of people’s losses. “We’ve got a truck stop outside Springfield where last month people lost over $82,000,” Bedell said. “It’s a big windfall for some of these bars.” The state’s annual revenue from video gambling has been broadly estimated. It ranges from $106 million to about $534 million. The low estimates are based on Cook County’s ban on the machines.

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In this Oct. 12 photo, sailors participate in M4 rifle small arms qualification on the flight deck onboard the USS Underwood while patrolling in international waters near Panama. on Oct. 12.

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A worker looks over solar panels at the NRG Solar and Eurus Energy America Corp.’s 45-megawatt solar farm in Avenal, Calif. The state has been mandated to get 33 percent of electricity from renewables by the end of the decade.

California solar farmers rush for land after new mandate BY TRACIE CONE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FRESNO, Calif. — There’s a land rush of sorts going on across the nation’s most productive farming region, but these buyers don’t want to grow crops. They want to plant solar farms. With California mandating that 33 percent of electricity be generated from renewables by the end of the decade, there are 227 proposed solar projects in the pipeline statewide. Coupled with wind and other renewables, they would generate enough electricity to meet 100 percent of California’s power needs on an average summer day, the California Independent System Operator says. And new applications for projects keep arriving. Developers are flocking to flat farmland near power transmission lines, but agriculture interests, environmental groups and even the state are concerned that there is no official accounting of how much of this important agricultural region’s farmland is being taken out of production. “We’ve been trying to get a handle on the extent of this for quite a while now,” said Ed Thompson of American Farmland Trust, which monitors how much of the nation’s farmland is absorbed by development. The California Department of Conservation, which is supposed to track development on privately held farmland, has been unable to do so because of staff and funding reductions, officials say. “I’d love to say we have all of that information, but we really don’t,” said Molly Penberth, manager of the land resource protection division. “We’re going to play catch up getting that information, particularly in the San Joaquin Valley.” Planning department records in four of the valley’s biggest farming counties show about 100 solar generation plants already proposed on roughly 40,000 acres, or about the equivalent of 470 Disneyland theme parks. Planners in Fresno County say their applications for solar outnumber the ones they received for housing developments during the boom days. Solar developers have focused on the southern San Joaquin Valley over the past three years for the same reason as farmers: flat expanses of land and an abundance of sunshine. Land that has been tilled most often has fewer issues with endangered species than places such as the Mojave Desert, where an endangered tortoise slowed solar development on federal land. Much of the solar development is proposed for Kern, Tulare, Fresno and Kings counties, which are home to more than 400 crops that pump $30 billion into the economy and help sustain U.S. food security.

Almost always, developers In January, the farmland trust released a report projecting that chose sites because there’s a willby 2050 more than 570,000 acres ing seller in the vicinity of existacross the region could be lost ing transmission lines, experts to development as the Central say. California population explodes. Transmission is the biggest Farmland losses due to hous- reason for the holdup of a masing, solar development, a warm- sive project that energy planing climate, cyclical drought and ners, agriculture interests and ongoing farm water rationing to environmentalists agree is perprotect endangered fish, plus the fectly situated — the Westlands state’s signature transportation Solar Park in remote Kings and project — the High Speed Rail — Fresno counties. It’s planned for are all issues the trust is trying 47 square miles of farmland fallowed because of high levels seleto monitor. “These are things that don’t nium in the soil. make headlines, but come under Developers say the project ultithe category that you don’t know mately could provide 2.7 gigawhat you’ve got until it’s gone,” watts of electricity — enough for Thompson said. 2.7 million homes. But the wait No statewide plan or policy for approval from the California exists to direct projects to areas Independent System Operator to where land is marginal for farm- tap into transmission lines for a ing and power transmission lines large project proved too long so exist or can be easily routed. How- they got out. For now. ever, groups as “We realized it diverse as the would be a sevenDefenders of to-10 year process,” said Joshua Martin, Wildlife and the solar company’s the independent state overchief financial offisight agency cer. “We could easily have spent $7 milLittle Hoover lion in fees to stay C om m i s sio n in line, but it doesn’t have issued studies calling make good business ED THOMPSON for one. American Farmland Trust employee sense. It’s a messy Projects are market right now approved by and things need to elected county boards of supervi- calm down.” sors, or if larger than 50 MW, the Ten years might be wishful California Energy Commission. thinking. An email the ISO sent “There’s no consistent to stakeholders on Jan. 18 said approach county to county in that it could be 12 years or londeciding what gets approved on ger before the needed upgrades farmland,” said Kate Kelly, a in transmission infrastructure planning consultant who is study- could be complete for solar projing the environmental impact of ects currently waiting for transvalley projects for Defenders of mission hookups in the Fresno area. Wildlife. Westlands Solar Park is betWhile one of the nation’s leading solar trade groups has not ting that environmental obstacles taken an official position on con- and connection costs will force version of farmland to solar, Kath- many of the projects in the pipeerine Gensler of the Solar Energy line statewide to be abandoned. Industries Association says more But what they’re hoping in the thought must go into location. meantime is that state regulaThe largest solar facility oper- tors eventually will direct solar ating so far covers 500 acres 60 development away from prime miles northwest of Bakersfield farmland. and produces enough electricity Next month the California for 36,000 homes. Energy Commission is set to Just three weeks into 2013, make a move in that direction five valley farmers have told the with adoption of a report that Department of Conservation that will recommend a coordinated they want to cancel low agricul- approach placing solar in “zones ture tax rate contracts to devel- with minimal environmental or op solar on their property. None habitat value,” near existing or takes advantage of a year-old law planned electric system inframaking it easier to cancel on mar- structure. The agency would also ginal land, Penberth said. collaborate with the Department County boards of supervisors of Conservation to identify areas are attracted to the promise of of the state with marginal land. clean energy construction jobs. Martin says the move likely is Some of the projects are on prime too late to help the projects that land as small as 20 acres, some are stalled and in danger of misson habitat shared by threatened ing out on federal tax incentives or endangered species such as that expire in 2016. the kit fox, Swainson’s hawk and “Someone needs to take a blunt nose lizard. The 9,000-acre role and say what lines should Maricopa Sun project in western be built and which aren’t in Kern County is on prime land that the state’s best interest,” said the county says lacks a reliable Martin. “So far we have been water supply. underwhelmed.”

“We’ve been trying to get a handle on the extent of this for quite a while now.”

The crew members aboard the USS Underwood could see through their night goggles what was happening on the fleeing go-fast boat: Someone was dumping bales. When the Navy-guided-missile frigate later dropped anchor in Panamanian waters on that sunny August morning, Ensign Clarissa Carpio, a 23-year-old from San Francisco, climbed into the inflatable dinghy with four unarmed sailors and two Coast Guard officers like herself, carrying light submachine guns. It was her first deployment, but Carpio was ready for combat. Fighting drug traffickers was precisely what she’d trained for. In the most expensive initiative in Latin America since the Cold War, the U.S. has militarized the battle against the traffickers, spending more than $20 billion in the past decade. U.S. Army troops, Air Force pilots and Navy ships outfitted with Coast Guard counternarcotics teams are routinely deployed to chase, track and capture drug smugglers. The sophistication and violence of the traffickers is so great that the U.S. military is training not only law enforcement agents in Latin American nations but their militaries as well, building a network of expensive hardware, radar, airplanes, ships, runways and refueling stations to stem the tide of illegal drugs from South America to the U.S. According to State Department and Pentagon officials, stopping drug-trafficking organizations has become a matter of national security because they spread corruption, undermine fledgling democracies and can potentially finance terrorists. U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske, pointing to dramatic declines in violence and cocaine production in Colombia, says the strategy works. “The results are historic and have tremendous implications, not just for the United States and the Western Hemisphere, but for the world,” he said at a conference on drug policy last year. The Associated Press examined U.S. arms export authorizations, defense contracts, military aid and exercises in the region, tracking a drug war strategy that began in Colombia, moved to Mexico and is now finding fresh focus in Central America, where brutal cartels mark an enemy motivated not by ideology but by cash. The U.S. authorized the sale of a record $2.8 billion worth of guns, satellites, radar equipment and tear gas to Western Hemisphere nations in 2011, four times the authorized sales 10 years ago, according to the latest State Department reports. Over the same decade, defense contracts jumped from $119 million to $629 million, supporting everything from Kevlar helmets for the Mexican army to airport runways in Aruba, according to federal contract data. Last year $830 million, almost $9 out of every $10 of U.S. law enforcement and military aid spent in the region, went toward countering narcotics, up 30 percent in the past decade. Many in the military and other law enforcement agencies — the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, FBI — applaud the U.S. strategy, but critics say militarizing the drug war in a region fraught with tender democracies and long-corrupt institutions can stir political instability while barely touching what

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the U.N. estimates is a $320 billion year, and the Defense Department global illicit drug market. estimates about 850 metric tons of Congressman Eliot Engel cocaine departed South America (D-N.Y.), who chaired the U.S. last year toward the U.S., down 20 House Subcommittee on the West- percent in just a year. The most ern Hemisphere for the past four recent U.S. survey found cocaine years, says the U.S.-supported use fell significantly, from 2.4 milcrackdown on Mexican cartels lion people in 2006 to 1.4 million only left them “stronger and more in 2011. violent.” He intends to reintroduce Aboard the Underwood, the a proposal for a Western Hemi- crew of 260 was clear on the missphere Drug Policy Commission sion. The ship’s bridge wings bear to evaluate antinarcotics efforts. 16 cocaine “snowflakes” and two “Billions upon billions of U.S. marijuana “leaves,” awarded to the taxpayer dollars Underwood by the have been spent Coast Guard comover the years to mand to be “proudly displayed” for combat the drug trade in Latin its successful America and the interdictions. Caribbean,” he Standing on said. “In spite of the bridge, Carour efforts, the pio’s team spotted its first bale of positive results are few and far cocaine. And then, between.” after 2 1/2 weeks At any given plying the Caribmoment, 4,000 bean in search of U.S. troops are drug traffickers, deployed in Latthey spotted anothin America and er, and then many as many as four more. U.S. Navy ships “In all we found GIL KERLIKOWSKE, are plying the 49 bales,” Carpio U.S drug czar Caribbean and said in an interPacific coastview aboard the lines of Central America. U.S. ship. “It was very impressive to pilots clocked more than 46,400 see the bales popping along the hours in 2011 flying anti-drug water in a row.” missions, and U.S. agents from at Wrapped in black and white least 10 law enforcement agencies tarp, they were so heavy she could spread across the continent. barely pull one out of the water. The U.S. trains thousands Later, officials said they’d collectof Latin American troops, and ed $27 million worth of cocaine. The current U.S. strategy began employs its multibillion dollar radar equipment to gather intelli- in Colombia in 2000, with an eightgence to intercept traffickers and year effort that cost more than $7 billion to stop the flow from the arrest cartel members. These work in organized-crime world’s top cocaine producer. Durnetworks that boast an estimated ing Plan Colombia, the national 11,000 flights annually and hun- police force, working closely with dreds of boats and submersibles. dozens of DEA agents, successfulThey smuggle cocaine from the ly locked up top drug traffickers. only place it’s produced, South But then came “the balloon America, to the land where it is effect.” most coveted, the United States. As a result of Plan Colombia’s One persistent problem is that pressure, traffickers were forced in many of the partner nations, to find new coca-growing lands in police are so institutionally weak Peru and Bolivia, and trafficking or corrupt that governments have routes shifted as well from Florida turned to their militaries to fight to the U.S.-Mexico border. drug traffickers, often with violent Thus a $1.6 billion, 4-year Merresults. Militaries are trained for ida Initiative was launched in combat, while police are trained 2008. Once more, drug kingpins to enforce laws. were caught or killed, and as car“It is unfortunate that militar- tels fought to control trafficking ies have to be involved in what routes, increasingly gruesome are essentially law enforcement killings topped 70,000 in six years. engagements,” said Frank Mora, Mexican cartel bosses, feelthe outgoing deputy assistant ing the squeeze, turned to Censecretary of defense for Western tral America as the first stop for Hemisphere affairs. But he argues South American cocaine, attracted that many governments have lit- by weaker governments and cortle choice. rupt authorities. “We are not going to turn our “Now, all of a sudden, the tide backs on these governments or has turned,” said Brick Scoggins, these institutions because they’ve who manages the Defense Departfound themselves in such a situ- ment’s counter-narcotics proation that they have to use their grams in most of Latin America militaries in this way,” Mora said. and the Caribbean. “I’d say northMora said the effort is not tan- ern tier countries of El Salvador, tamount to militarizing the war Honduras, Guatemala and Belize on drugs. He said the Defense have become a key focus area.” Department’s role is limited, by The latest iteration is the $165 law, to monitoring and detection. million Central America Regional Law enforcement agents, from the Security Initiative, which includes U.S. Coast Guard, Customs and Operation Martillo (Hammer), a Border Protection or other agen- year-old U.S.-led mission. The cies are in charge of some of the operation has no end date and is focused on the seas off Central busts, he said. But the U.S. is deploying its own America’s beach-lined coasts, key military. Not only is the Fourth Fleet shipping routes for 90 percent of in the Caribbean, the Pacific and the estimated 850 metric tons of the Atlantic, but the Marines were cocaine headed to the U.S. sent to Guatemala last year and the Contributing to this report were AssoNational Guard is in Honduras. The Obama Administration sees ciated Press writers Dario Lopez aboard these deployments as important the USS Underwood in the Caribbean, missions with a worthy payoff. Garance Burke in San Francisco, Frank Hundreds of thousands of kilo- Bajak in Lima, Peru, and Alberto Arce in grams (pounds) of cocaine are Tegucigalpa, Honduras, along with Romiseized en route to the U.S. every na Ruiz-Goiriena in Guatemala City.

“The results are historic and have tremendous implications, not just for the United States and the Western Hemisphere, but for the world.”

ing, utilities and taxes for the homes they help provide for the homeless. Despite this, Jackson said in an email Saturday afternoon, they were $10,000 short of their fundraising goal of $50,000, although they will continue accepting donations. C-U at Home uses a “vulnerability index” that the main organization behind 100,000 Homes created, which uses an algorithm to determine risk of death. It is

based on length of time on the street, age, emergency room and hospital visits, physical and mental health, and substance abuse. “C-U at Home specifically helps the ones that are most vulnerable, the ones that are most likely to die living on the streets ... those that need housing the most,” said Gabby Sorich, volunteer and senior in social work.

Atoosa can be reached at asayeh2@ dailyillini.com.

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Student senate needs to focus on UI’s students, not itself

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last week’s Illinois Student Senate meeting, senator Mark Rosenstein voiced his concern over the senate’s spending. He pointed out the senate’s public service announcements, which cost $9,000 and contained a typo referring to ISS as the “official voice of the student senate.” It was meant to say ISS is the “official voice of the student body.” Rosenstein also pointed out other flaws in ISS’ budget, including using money to rent out a facility for senate meetings that only benefits ISS members and spending about $500 dollars on pizza. He put it best when telling the senate, “We couldn’t even do our due diligence on this $9,000 fund allocation, and quite frankly it’s starting to look like this is pretty accurate because we’re promoting ourselves, we’re not standing up for our student body right now and I think that needs to change,” as reported in a Thursday Daily Illini article. With what we’ve seen from this senate’s term, we can’t help but agree with Rosenstein and continue to ask, what are you doing for the student body, ISS? It’s pretty bad when one of ISS’ own senators thinks the spending is absolutely ridiculous. The point of the PSAs, which are played at the men’s and women’s basketball games, is to increase the senate’s presence among the student body. To the senate’s dismay, they are a fairly insubstantial consideration in the average Illini’s day. ISS has claimed that general attendance at senate meetings has increased. But even if this is a victory for the senate, it doesn’t truly benefit the students at all, including the ones who now attend the meetings. Aside from the little ISS did for the smoking ban last semester, the senate has barely contributed anything beneficial to the student body. So, here we are again — another failure and waste of money from the student government that essentially hasn’t represented anyone. Time after time, ISS makes poor decisions, wasting the money allocated to them. We are ecstatic that more and more senators are speaking up about the poor financial management of the senate, but so far it’s still only talk. This group of students is playing politics, carrying out resolutions that have such a small impact on this campus and within students’ lives. But if ISS is the “official voice of the student body,” disregarding the typo in the PSA, then we need to see more programs funded that benefit students. If the University has several contractual limitations on the senate, then the exact job of the senate is to figure out how to benefit students despite the University. Here’s to finishing out another school year where a do-nothing senate continues to do what it does best. Unless, of course, the senate starts representing more than itself, regardless of the PSA’s typo.

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continues to eliminate jobs and economic realities have forced other jobs overseas. One result of this has been a harsh reality for those who have to move home to mom and dad with no job in sight. Another result can be seen each and every day on this campus — hard work and innovation. Both terms are commonly overused, or even misused, but here at the University, we know what it really looks like. Students banded together to produce prosthetic body parts to be used in developing countries. Students from a variety of disciplines collaborated to produce a high-quality lifestyle publication, called IMPULSE Magazine. Students joined together to bring the famous and inspiring TED talks to this campus through TEDxUIUC. The fact that this paper is produced both in print and online five days a week is a testament to the sheer work ethic of students on this campus who all make up Generation Y. The list could go on for pages, but the one clear takeaway is that our generation and, in particular, students on this campus will not settle for less. Instead, we are fighting to prove ourselves in a world that built us up and now tries to tear us down. Unlike our parents, though, we must do so in the midst of a new world where the roads to the American dream are not paved as clearly. In the process, we are becoming the next great generation.

should be angry with Aaron Swartz. As an Internet visionary and activist, Swartz has an association with everything from RSS feeds to Reddit and the campaign against SOPA. At one point, Swartz downloaded a huge portion of the academic database JSTOR, supposedly with the intention of releasing it for free on a file-sharing site. U.S. attorneys threw the book at him, bringing up charges worth up to 35 years in prison. Before the charges could go through, Swartz committed suicide on Jan. 11. I should be angry. He stole the hard work of researchers like myself. I should be furious. But I’m not. In fact, a small part of me wants to cheer for his cause. It’s tempting to treat Swartz like just another Internet pirate, but there is an important distinction between the pirating of a scholarly article and the pirating of, say, a movie: The creator of the scholarly article is not harmed directly (or, arguably, indirectly) by pirating his work. I do not know off-hand of a single research journal that pays the authors of its articles. Not one. Piracy does not result in “lost sales” for the author because there was nothing sold in the first place. I once refereed a paper (I was the peer in the “peer-review process”). I didn’t get paid for that either. Publishing, refereeing and editing articles are all part of the duty of being an academic, often subsidized by our salaries. The benefit we gain from these duties is largely in terms of prestige: It’s a big deal to get published in a top-tier journal. It’s a stamp on your career saying yes, you have done good work. That has its personal importance for obtaining tenure, but, really, as soon as the article has been published and the stamp given, academics have reaped most of the benefits they can. Let me be clear, though: Had Swartz publicly released those files, it certainly would have harmed someone. Piracy harms the publishers of academic journals and archives like JSTOR. But it does not directly harm academics themselves. If anything, the sudden easy access to scholarly work would be a boon to many academics, especially those working from smaller universities that can’t afford the high price of research journals. That’s why part of me wants to cheer for what Swartz did (even though JSTOR is far better than, say, Elsevier, which I have written about in the past). I did not write those articles to sit behind a paywall and be ignored; I want them to be read, used and improved by my fellow researchers. For a long time, journals and their associated costs were necessary to disseminate results. The easiest way to communicate with the community of researchers across the world was to publish in a widely read journal. The journal would then be printed on high-quality paper, bound up nicely and shipped around the globe. All of this took a fair amount of money. Today, there are far easier ways of making one’s work known. The Internet is a vast, and vastly more cost-efficient, disseminator of academic work. The practice of uploading completed drafts of papers to publicly accessible archives or personal Web pages has become widespread. Of the eight papers I have written, only one is not available to the public in some form. Journals do still serve a purpose: quality control. Journals stake their reputation on the quality of articles inside. They employ editors and referees to make sure that someone with knowledge in that area has reviewed the content of each article they publish. As we reach further into the digital age and the need for printing journals diminishes, how much of the remaining cost of publication is necessary? Can all of it be shifted onto pro bono work by the academic community, much as refereeing is already? Should it? To give a better idea of how tectonic a shift is occurring in the publishing circles right now, I recently saw support from a noted mathematician for epijournals. Epijournals are bare-bones journals, little more than a collection of links to articles held at public archives. But the epijournals would still enforce quality standards. The shift in journals’ focus from dissemination to quality control is happening — slowly but steadily, it is. The economic mechanisms have not yet been worked out. Different journals are experimenting in different techniques to keep themselves solvent while lowering the cost of access. But many other journals are digging their heels in, keeping to unsustainable business models, and the academic community is being hurt by it. They need a swift kick in the rump. And I’m almost sorry that Swartz wasn’t able to deliver it.

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

Joseph is a graduate student in Mathematics. He can be reached at vandehe2@dailyillini.com.

Get invested in local primaries, politics TOLU TAIWO Opinions columnist

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one had to tell me when the 2008 national primaries were. Though I couldn’t vote at the time (if only I were born a year earlier), I was on the up-and-up about all the candidates and their stances. Would it be Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama? Obama or Clinton? I watched the world tiptoe back and forth between the Illinois senator and the former first lady and then waited until the two fought to the bitter end. This year, there was no national Democratic primary to look forward to, but I did have a field day with the Republican one. The whole primary period gave me candidate choices that were ice-cream-flavor limitless, and though, admittedly, I didn’t vote, it was interesting to watch each candidate battle it out until Romney came out on top. Since 2008, I’ve been itching to vote in a Democratic primary. I caught the bug with Clinton vs. Obama, and I am counting off the weeks until the 2016 showdown. So imagine my surprise when I realized that there will be a primary. In my own city. In about 20 days. And I missed the voting registration by three days. Fantastic. But I wasn’t alone. The general reaction I got from my Urbana friends was that no one voted. Some knew about the candidates, some didn’t, but when it came to going into the voting booth and choosing between Laurel Prussing and Les Stratton for Democratic frontrunner for Urbana mayor, no

one I knew did it. And apparently, not a lot of Urbanites did it, either: according to Champaign County Clerk Gordy Hulten, only 500 people have registered since the November elections. Why did we miss it? Or, more essentially, why didn’t we vote? There’s always the argument one of my friends made — independents don’t necessarily want to pick a bipartisan side yet, so primaries aren’t their friends. This makes sense. But what if you’re a Democrat or a Republican? Why aren’t we attracted to local politics? My guess? It’s the apathy from the small window of time we live here. Many of us are only here for four years (or less, depending on our academic standing), and not a lot of us will stay here for work or for grad school. We don’t feel super-connected to the community. So why should we put our vote out there when we may be out of here soon? In reality, we may not see a completely new building built or a significant decrease in living fees during our time here, but we could see a different set of changes. These candidates are tackling every issue from the economy to building projects. Prussing wants to put $2 million into fixing up the Urbana Landmark Hotel, while Stratton is focusing more on the money-making aspect of the hotel. Prussing is a big supporter of the Boneyard Project (an effort to clean up Boneyard Creek), while Stratton wants to put some of the spending from that project into local businesses. And while Stratton’s big issue is building good roads, Prussing wants to focus on public safety and tearing down shoddy apartments. These are potential issues that will affect us in the short time we’re here. And these are just the

tip of the iceberg. We can’t forget about the Republican candidate Rex Bradfield or the general Champaign mayor race in 2015 or the council member race this year. Voting in any primary is important. It’s a way for you to pick the best choice from your party, to make sure that your niche needs are heard. It’s the difference between getting a candidate who strongly believes in cleaning up the global economy or who strongly believes in cleaning up the world. But I would argue that voting in a local primary is the most important primary voting that there is. It’s our way of saying whom we think others should vote for in the larger elections for office to make a difference in our community. We can vote on whether money should go into different projects that make our towns aesthetically pleasing or into small businesses. We could vote on potentially cleaning up the creek or fixing up apartments that we may live in next year. And those are just the issues on the front burner. We can push candidates for safer streets and more police control or lower taxes. The sky’s the limit. So where do we go from here? Well, if you did register to vote in either primary for either city, don’t blow this opportunity. Pick your favorite candidate and get in the race. But, if you’re like me and you missed the chance, don’t even worry about it. Urbana has its mayoral election on Apr. 9. We still have a chance to have a say. It isn’t the Obama vs. Clinton showdown of the year. But it’s better than that because it’s our showdown.

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

Generation of innovation, hard work JOHN BUYSSE Opinions columnist

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uch of the discussion about Generation Y has been negative. Older generations seem to have written us off as entitled, selfish and unable to surpass or even live up to their achievements. These claims are based on overall shifts in the ways we communicate and choose to live our lives as new media forms have encouraged us to share our deepest (and shallowest) thoughts while a down economy forced many young adults to move back home after college. One might think baby boomers are right about us being the beginning of the human race in decline. Oddly enough, though, it might mean we are the next great generation. Tom Brokaw coined the term “the greatest generation” in discussing those who came of age during the Great Depression and who went on to bring the country back economically and fight during World War II. Brokaw was absolutely right. They were a generation of hard workers who embodied the American dream of working hard to pursue the happiness they truly deserved. That generation produced a baby boom generation. The baby boomers have been successful, working hard for a better life than their parents provided for them. In the process, many of the baby boomers constructed a way of life for their children in Generations X and Y

that is more comfortable and more privileged than the one they lived. I have reaped the benefits of the Generation Y advantage because my parents have worked tirelessly to open every possible door for my siblings and me, just as their parents did for them. These doors include more than just the one into college. They opened doors that allowed me to play baseball until I was in high school and allowed my sisters to dance for many years. They also allowed us to have cell phones when we were in high school — ultimately to allow us to be in constant communication to ensure we were staying out of trouble. These things may sound materialistic (and are to some degree), but they display the comfortable world constructed by the baby boomers. This comfortable world has become the reason for the general lack of confidence and trust that we, as Generation Y, will be able to take society to the next level. This deficit of confidence in Gen Y is not fair. The world must begin to wake up and see the true magic in our generation. We now find ourselves in a time that challenges the foundations of comfort and entitlement we grew up with and has put us at a crossroads similar to the one our grandparents found themselves at during the Great Depression. During that time, people were forced to find new ways of achieving the American dream. Old industries began to change, and the way America worked changed with it. We find ourselves in the exact same situation today as technology

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Women lack opportunity in India Gang rape victim’s parents mourn loss of their daughter BY MUNEEZA NAQVI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW DELHI — Her parents called her “bitiya,� or little daughter. She was her family’s biggest hope. In a country where women are routinely pushed into subservience, this 23-year-old who dreamed of becoming a doctor was going to lift them out of poverty. “Without her we are lost,� said her father, rocking on the edge of a bed in the family’s tiny basement apartment, hugging himself as if to hold in the grief. The sadness enveloped him as he talked of his daughter, who died after she was gang-raped in a moving bus in New Delhi in December, a case that galvanized public anger in India over sexual attacks and the inability of authorities to stop them. Indian culture has a deeply rooted preference for sons, and many daughters are expected to spend their lives caring for first their brothers and later their husbands. Yet these parents encouraged their bright, hardworking daughter to shine. The time for the two younger boys would come later, when their sister had a toehold in life. “I never discriminated between my sons and daughter. I could see nothing else in this world but my children. They had to study at any

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Protesters try to break through a police cordon Dec. 30 during a protest after the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi. The sadness enveloped her father as he talked of his daughter, who died at a Singapore hospital Dec. 29. cost,� the father said, gracious even in his loss, handing steel cups of tea to a reporter. Because of a legal gag order, the victim and her family cannot be identified until the end of the trial of alleged rapists. The family reflects a small but growing part of Indian society that is changing. When their daughter said she wanted to go away to study physiotherapy in a hill town far from New Delhi, her father didn’t think of holding her back. He asked the older son, who is in his late teens, to delay enrollment at an engineering college until his sister finished her studies. Money was scarce, and she was first in line.

“She was the hero of the film in our family. Always happy. Always laughing,� the father said. For most women in this country of 1.2 billion, there are few real choices. Tradition says they will get married and become mothers, preferably of boys. If they work, the money will go to their fathers or their husbands. “I always told my children, if you study hard you can escape this poverty. All my life I believed that,� said her mother. “Now that dream has ended. My faith has left me.� Three weeks after her daughter died, her final exam results were announced. She had passed.

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Egyptian riot police beat a man after stripping him and before dragging him into a police van during clashes against protesters critical of President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo on Friday.

Thousands denounce Morsi after Egyptian police assault protester BY AYA BATRAWY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO — Egypt’s interior minister vowed Saturday to investigate the beating of a naked man by riot police that threatened to further inflame popular anger against security forces, but suggested that initial results absolve the police of direct abuse. The beating was caught on camera by The Associated Press and the video was broadcast live on Egyptian television late Friday as protests raged in the streets outside the presidential palace. The AP video showed police trying to bundle the naked man into a police van after beating him. Fewer than 24 hours after the incident, several thousand anti-government demonstrators marched again on the palace Saturday, denouncing the police and Islamist President Mohammed

Morsi after a week of violent protests that claimed more than 60 lives nationwide. Speaking to reporters after Friday’s assault, Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said that initial results from the public prosecutor’s investigation show that 48-year-old Hamada Saber was undressed by “rioters� during skirmishes between police and protesters. He was then hit in the foot by a bird shot, the interior minister said, stopping short of saying if the injury was a result of police firing into the crowds. “The central security forces then found him lying on the ground and tried to put him in an armored vehicle, though the way in which they did that was excessive,� said Ibrahim. In the AP footage from Friday, at least seven black-clad riot police beat Saber, whose pants

are down around his ankles, with sticks before dragging him along the muddy pavement and tossing him into a police van. The beating happened as thousands of protesters chanted against Morsi, throwing firebombs and firing flares at the presidential palace as police pumped volleys of tear gas and bird shot into the crowd, killing one protester and wounding more than 90. The Interior Ministry said in a rare statement that it regrets the beating and that it is investigating the incident. But it also sought to distance itself from the abuse, saying that “what took place was carried out by individuals that do not represent in any way the doctrine of all policemen who direct their efforts to protecting the security and stability of the nation and sacrifice their lives to protect civilians.�

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SAN FRANCISCO — The social media giant Twitter acknowledged that it has become the latest victim in a number of cyber-attacks against media companies, saying hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users. The company said in a blog posting that earlier this week it detected attempts to gain access to its user data. But Twitter discovered that the attackers may have stolen user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250,000 users they describe as ‘a very small percentage of our users.� Nonetheless, the company reset the pilfered passwords and sent emails advising the affected users. The online attack comes on the heels of recent hacks into the computer systems of U.S. media and technology companies, including The New York

Times and The Wall Street Journal. Both American newspapers reported this week that their computer systems had been infiltrated by China-based hackers, likely to monitor media coverage the Chinese government deems important. China has been accused of mounting a widespread, aggressive cyber-spying campaign for several years, trying to steal classified information and corporate secrets and to intimidate critics. The Chinese foreign ministry could not be reached for comment Saturday, but the Chinese government has said those accusations are baseless and that China itself is a victim of cyber-attacks. “Chinese law forbids hacking and any other actions that damage Internet security,� the Chinese Defense Ministry recently said. “The Chinese military has never supported any hacking activities.� Bob Lord, Twitter’s director of information security said in the blog that the attack “was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident.� “The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe oth-

er companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked,� Lord said. “For that reason we felt that it was important to publicize this attack while we still gather information, and we are helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users.� One expert said the Twitter hack probably happened after an employee’s home or work computer was compromised through vulnerabilities in Java, a commonly used computing language whose weaknesses have been well publicized. Ashkan Soltani, an independent privacy and security researcher, said such a move would give attackers “a toehold� in Twitter’s internal network, potentially allowing them either to sniff out user information as it traveled across the company’s system or break into specific areas. In a telephone interview Friday, Soltani said the relatively small number of users affected suggested either that attackers weren’t on the network long or that they were only able to compromise a subset of the company’s servers.

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Boy Scouts recite the Scout Oath during the annual Boy Scouts Parade and Report to State in the House Chambers at the Texas capitol in Austin on Saturday.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Sunday that gays should be allowed in the Boy Scouts and women should be allowed in military combat roles, weighing in on two storied American institutions facing proposals to end long-held exclusions. The president’s comments in a pre-Super Bowl interview on CBS come ahead of this week’s meeting of the Boy Scouts’ national executive board. A proposal to open up the Scouts’ membership to gays is expected to be discussed and possibly voted on at the gathering in Texas. The Boy Scouts emphatically reaffirmed the no-gays policy just seven months ago, but announced last week they were considering changing the stance. Instead of mandatory exclusion of gays, the different religious and civic groups that sponsor Scout units would be able to decide for themselves how to address the issue — either maintaining the exclusion or opening up their membership. The White House said in a statement last August that Obama opposed the gay ban. Obama, like presidents for the last century, serves as honorary president of the group. The president’s comment Sunday was his first since the group announced it was considering a policy change. “My attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does in every institution and walk of life,� Obama said. “The Scouts are a great institution that are promoting

young people and exposing them to opportunities and leadership that will serve people for the rest of their lives. And I think nobody should be barred from that.� Obama also had previously issued a statement supporting the Pentagon’s decision last month to open up front-line combat jobs to women, but the interview with CBS’ Scott Pelley included his first publicly spoken comments on the matter since the announcement. He said women are already serving in combat “as a practical matter.� “When they’re in theater in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, they are vulnerable,� he said. “They are wounded, and they’ve been killed. And they have carried out their jobs with extraordinary patriotism and distinction.� The policy change overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units, and is expected to open up more than 230,000 combat positions that have been off limits to women. Obama said he meets “extraordinary women in uniform who can do everything that a man can and more.� He gave the example of one of his military aides, who he estimated is only about 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. “You put a 50-pound pack on her, and she can do things that you or me would keel over doing. And so the truth is that women are serving. They are taking great risks. What we should not do is somehow prevent them from advancing in an institution that we all revere.� On the economy, Obama said although more revenue has to

be raised to reduce the deficit, it can be done without raising income tax rates again. He said the answer is “smart spending cuts,� reducing waste in the health care system and closing loopholes and deductions like offshore tax havens that benefit a few high income earners but not most Americans. “There’s no doubt we need additional revenue coupled with smart spending reductions in order to bring down our deficit,� he said. “We can do it in a gradual way so it doesn’t have a huge impact.� Coming before the Super Bowl, Obama had to expect he’d be asked about his recent comment that if he had a son, he would have to think long and hard about letting him play football because of safety concerns. Obama said he feels differently about the NFL, where the players are well-compensated adults who know the risks, but the threat of concussions has to give parents pause about letting youth and children play. “I want to make sure we are doing everything we can to make the sport safer, and that means the game’s probably going to evolve a little bit,� Obama said. “For those of us who like to see a big hit and enjoy the rock ‘em, sock ‘em elements of the game, we’re probably going to be occasionally frustrated... but I do think we want to make sure that after people have played the game, that they’re going to be OK,� he said. The Obamas were hosting their own Super Bowl party for friends and family at the White House.

School reform criticized by low-income, minority communities BY CHRISTINA HOAG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — The federal government’s push for drastic reforms at chronically low-achieving schools has led to takeovers by charter operators, overhauls of staff and curriculum and even school shutdowns across the country. It’s also generated a growing backlash among the mostly lowincome, minority communities where some see the reforms as not only disruptive in struggling neighborhoods, but also as civil rights violations since turnaround efforts primarily affect black and Latino students. “Our concern is that these reforms have further destabilized our communities,� said Jitu Brown, education organizer of Chicago’s Kenwood-Oakwood Community Organization. “It’s clear there’s a different set of rules for AfricanAmerican and Latino children than for their white counterparts.� The U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights office has opened investigations into 33 complaints from parents and community mem-

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bers, representing 29 school districts ranging from big city systems such as Chicago, Detroit and Washington D.C. to smaller cities including Wichita and Ambler, Penn., said spokesman Daren Briscoe. Two additional complaints are under evaluation, and more cities, including Los Angeles, are preparing their filings. Last week, Secretary Arne Duncan fielded complaints at a public forum in Washington. The forum was attended by some 250 people who boarded buses, vans and planes from around the country to demand a moratorium on school closings and present a reform model that calls for more community input, among other items. The recurrent theme is that communities are fed up with substandard education, but want solutions that will not create upheaval at the schools, which are often seen as pillars of stability in neighborhoods where social fabric is fragile. Instead of focusing on dramatically changing the structure of a school, officials should invest in improving teaching, learning,

equipment and community engagement, which happens more often at schools in white, affluent neighborhoods, Brown said. “But the response of the school district is to throw a grenade into our schools,� Brown said. Reformers say civil rights complaints are misguided because school failure disproportionately impacts minorities in the first place. Turnarounds are efforts to improve that, said Michael Petrilli, executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education think tank. However, he noted that turnarounds are often a “Band-Aid solution. Most of the turnarounds aren’t going to succeed because the school continues to exist in a dysfunctional school system. Radical change at the district may be what’s needed.� Federal officials said they are open to working with communities to lessen the impact of turnarounds. “On the ground, these policies can have an impact we don’t see,� Briscoe said. “But there’s no promise that we’ll be able to satisfy all people.�

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Disappointment reigns with Illini loss to Badgers BY THOMAS BRUCH STAFF WRITER

It started with indignation. John Groce refused to leave the court at the end of the first half, airing boisterous grievances to the referees at Assembly Hall on what he thought was a foul on Brandon Paul’s final shot of the half. Groce was assessed a technical foul, which felt like a frustrating culmination to Illinois’ disappointing conference season so far, trailing to Wisconsin at home 33-24. But there was still a second half to be played, and Wisconsin guard Ben Brust missed the two technical free throw to begin the half. Instead, an Illini team that sorely needed a second-half ignition fell flat on its way to a 74-68 loss. A maligned and ineffective defense reared its increasing-

ly ugly head once again for Illinois. A Wisconsin offense that had not eclipsed 50 points in the past three games scored 74 points, mostly on easy looks close to the basket. The only other time Wisconsin scored more than 70 points in Big Ten play was in its earlier meeting against Illinois, when the Badgers scored 74 points in a blowout win. “At some point, you can’t let it be acceptable to score the way they did,” said Nnanna Egwu, who scored 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds. “We make too many mistakes on the defensive end.” Boosted by a home crowd of 15,073 fans, Illinois stayed even with Wisconsin for most of the first half, finding itself in a power position down 14-13 but with Wisconsin’s top scorer and sec-

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Illinois’ Jared Hiltzik reacts during his match against Duke at the Atkins Tennis Center on Friday. After beating Duke, the Illini lost to Tennessee on Saturday.

Tennis topped by Tennessee Illinois defeats No. 5 Duke, shut out for 2nd time against Tennessee this year BY J.J. WILSON STAFF WRITER

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Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky (44) shoots the ball during the game at Assembly Hall on Sunday. Wisconsin beat Illinos 74-68.

After the excitement of defeating No. 5 Duke in a close 4-3 match the night before, the No. 25 Illinois men’s tennis team was shut out for the second time in eight days by No. 15 Tennessee, falling to 3-3 on the season. The Illini upset the Blue Devils in a victory that came down to a three-set, singles decider between Illinois freshman Jared Hiltzik and Duke’s Fred Saba. Hiltzik ignited the Atkins Tennis Center with cheers as he finished off Saba 7-6, 4-6, 6-3. “Jared did a good job of staying in the moment,” head coach Brad Dancer said. “He was able to capitalize, had a calm equilibrium and was what we needed him to be for the match.” Dancer said the biggest struggle was the

Illini’s erratic doubles play with faults and missed shots that make it the team’s “Achilles’ heel” so far in the season. “Our whole (doubles) percentage is far below what would be average,” Dancer said. “We have to figure out a way to fix that.” In a rematch with Tennessee, the Illini fought back on court three of doubles after evening the score with a win on court two. Crowd energy fueled Illini sophomore Farris Gosea and Hiltzik as they came back from 5-0 to tie up the set 6-6. “I think it was great to have the support of the Net Nuts,” Dancer said of the student fan organization. “They did superb in terms of galvanizing our players.” It was Volunteer sophomores, Hunter Reese and Brandon Fickey, who won the team point, finishing off the Illini duo 8-7 (7-5 tiebreaker).

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Women’s basketball wins 5th straight Big Ten road game from downtown after making a 3-point field goal for the third The Illinois women’s bas- straight game at the 17:14 ketball team did something mark. on Sunday that the No. 7 team Although Wisconsin got off in the country failed to do only to a quick start by recording three days earlier: beat Wis- four of its first five field goal consin in Madison. attempts, two of which were One game after the Badgers 3-pointers, its five turnovers knocked off first-place Penn early kept Illinois close. State at home, the Illini (13-8, After Illinois took a 30-sec6-3 Big Ten) picked up a 64-56 ond timeout trailing 10-5, Godvictory against the Badgers Bold hit a 3-pointer out of the (10-12, 2-7), giving Illinois break to bring the score to 10-8 more conference wins than it with 15:46 remaining in the had last season. Senior guard first half. The Illini continAdrienne GodBold led Illinois ued their hot shooting, makwith 18 points, 13 rebounds, ing 5-of-11 3-point attempts six steals and a in the first half. Illinois entered block. The win gives Illinois Sunday with its fifth conb a ck- to - b a ck secutive road games with a win in the Big season-high 11 Ten for the first 3-pointers. time in proM i d w a y gram history in through the one season. The first half, IlliIllini also won nois already MATT BOLLANT, in Madison for forced eight head coach the first time turnovers — since 2007. leading to six “Today was kind of a grind- points — six of which were it-out day as our third game in steals, giving the Illini a 20-14 a week,” Illini head coach Matt lead at the 10:30 mark. Bollant said. “Wisconsin is a Every time Illinois was very physical team that tries about to pull away in the first to control the tempo, so today half, junior guard Morgan was one of those days where Paige kept Wisconsin in it. you just have to find a way. We Paige led the Badgers with 18 lost a couple of those games in first-half points. the first semester, so for us for Illinois led 34-31 at halftime, three games in a row now to led by GodBold’s 14 points, six step up and make the plays and rebounds, three steals and a defend well down the stretch block on 6-for-9 shooting from the field. Junior guard Amber (is great).” The first half was back and Moore also chipped in five forth, with neither team lead- points, three rebounds, two assists and two steals in the ing by more than six. Senior forward Karisma Penn gave Illinois a good start See WOMEN’S BBALL, Page 3B BY MICHAEL WONSOVER STAFF WRITER

Short power outage put game on hold BY HOWARD FENDRICH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS — A power outage at the Super Bowl put the nation’s biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour Sunday, interrupting an otherwise electric, back-and-forth game that ended with Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens as NFL champions thanks to a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Flacco, voted the MVP, threw three first-half touchdown passes to cap an 11-TD, zero-interception postseason. Jacoby Jones returned the second-half kickoff 108 yards, a Super Bowl record, to give Baltimore a 28-6 lead. Moments later, lights lining the indoor arena faded, making it difficult to see. When action resumed, Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers scored 17 consecutive points, getting as close as 31-29. But Baltimore stopped San Francisco on fourth-and-goal from the 5 with under two minutes left when Kaepernick’s pass sailed beyond Michael Crabtree in the end zone. The biggest deficit a team has ever overcome to win a Super Bowl is 10 points, and there were moments were it appeared San Francisco had a chance to better that mark. Instead, the 49ers lost

Illinois’ game got rough shortly after, losing five of the first six sets. “Such a close doubles point was lost, and we just got off to a rough start in singles,” sophomore Ross Guignon said. “We had guys fighting and kind of prolong the match, but we never really changed the momentum.” The relentless assault continued into the second sets and the Illini were skunked by the Vols, 4-0. No excuses were made, Dancer said, Tennessee just played a better game, like last time. “It was a really hard, tough situation (for Tennessee), to come back here back to back weeks and win both of these matches,” Dancer said. “I think it says a lot about their program and coaching staff.” Illinois will host its fifth, back-to-back home game against No. 9 Kentucky next Saturday, when Dancer said he wants to recalibrate, resettle and figure out how to become a more consistent team. “Our preparation for this week was good, and we’ll just do it again for Kentucky,” Hiltzik said.

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Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco is lifted into the air by teammates after defeating the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday in New Orleans. Flacco was voted MVP. for the first time in six trips to the Super Bowl. The AFC champion Ravens (146), a franchise that moved from Cleveland to Baltimore 17 years ago, improved to 2-0 in the big game. They also won the championship in 2001, when linebacker Ray Lewis was voted the game’s MVP. Lewis was not a major factor this time, but he was a center of attention, playing in the final game of his 17-year career before retiring. The 49ers struggled early in the first Super Bowl coaching matchup between brothers: Baltimore’s John Harbaugh is 15 months older than San Francisco’s Jim Harbaugh. Baltimore led 28-6 after Jones opened the second half with the longest kickoff return in a Super Bowl, his eyes glancing up at the videoboard, presumably to watch himself sprint to the end zone. The 49ers showed they were capable of a comeback in their previous game: They trailed by 17 against

the Atlanta Falcons before winning the NFC championship game. Shortly following Jones’ return, the sudden, odd power outage arrived. Escalators weren’t working. Officials stopped play about 1 ½ minutes into the third quarter, and the bizarre delay lasted 34 minutes in real time before action resumed. Some players sat. Others stretched. Some fans chanted, “Let’s go, Ravens!” Others passed time by doing the wave. When play resumed, NFC champion San Francisco (13-5-1) began making things more interesting, scoring 17 points in less than 4 ½ minutes. First, Kaepernick threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to Crabtree, pulling them within 15 points midway through the third quarter. Ravens defensive backs Cary Williams and Bernard Pollard missed tackles on the play. Then, with 5 minutes left in the third quarter, Frank Gore swept around right end for a 6-yard TD run, making it 28-20, before Ravens running

back Ray Rice’s fumble gave the ball right back to the 49ers. San Francisco tacked on David Akers’ 34-yard field goal to get within 28-23 after he missed from a longer distance but the Ravens were whistled for running into the kicker. How close was it heading into the fourth quarter? Each team had exactly 17 first downs. Total yardage was nearly the same, with the 49ers slightly ahead, 317-315. Time of possession was nearly split down the middle, too. About 2 minutes into the fourth quarter, rookie kicker Justin Tucker made a 19-yard field goal to stretch the Ravens’ lead to 31-23. Not long later, Kaepernick’s 15-yard run around the left side — the longest TD run by a quarterback in Super Bowl history — made it 31-29. A 38-yarder by Tucker made it 34-29 with 4:19 left in regulation. Baltimore purposely gave up a safety in the closing seconds to run time off the clock, setting the final score.

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Super Bowl humor rife in Twitter, commercials

Swimming falls to Purdue, Minnesota and Wisconsin

Power outage alters game momentum, but Ravens still victorious

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ELIOT SILL Staff writer

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a game where we had about 16 “defining” storylines that each lasted about half a quarter or so, Twitter was rife with joksters making for an enjoyable and totally disengaging experience. I resided here to the chagrin of my friends to bring in the big game. At first, the game was boring, and for refuge, we had commercials. From the night in total, there was one clear winner. “Mmmm! Nothing gets my appetite going like extreme close-ups of trembling octogenarians gumming into a 99-cent taco. #TacoBell” —Joel McHale, “Community” This commercial grabbed the lead for best commercial early and held on. A Spanish-language cover of fun.’s “We Are Young” was relieving in that it wasn’t an English version of fun.’s “We Are Young.” Shown is an octogenarian gentleman breaking out of his nursing home so that he can go have a night on the town (or at least the hidden part of town comprised solely of old people), then the gang all ends the wild night with a face full of Doritos Locos Tacos. Just like grandma and grandpa used to do, not that they ever told you. Other favorites were PSY’s pistachios commercial, Budweiser’s adorable Clydesdale commercial and Dodge’s commercial in which they brought back the smooth-whiskey voice of Paul Harvey in a speech about how farmers are the greatest thing ever, which I now believe. Then Joe Flacco’s dominating performance became the story, as the “elite?” quarterback augmented his numbers to 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions by hitting Jacoby Jones on the winning highlight of the first half. “There’s your time capsule highlight; 56-yard bomb from Flacco to Jacoby Jones, who fell, then got back up and weaved into end zone. Classic.” —David Haugh, Chicago Tribune Then we had the halftime show, and the world got to see Destiny’s Child again. “I can’t figure out if I think this halftime show sucks because I’m turning into a cranky old man or because it actually does suck.” —Mark Titus, Grantland

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Fans and members of the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers wait for power to return in the Superdome during an outage in the second half of Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday in New Orleans. The Ravens won 34-31. There’s an enormous amount of groupthink that goes with the Super Bowl halftime show, and that’s probably why we always end up thinking it’s bad. Infinity budget for someone with infinity ego (and infinity dopplegangers) will lead to crazy, dazzling production. You really have to take time to digest what you just saw. So, naturally, the Twitterverse was in awe for a few minutes before dissenters ruled the day. In the end, I think, we just wanted Hova. Then after a brief, totally lost-inthe-void instant, Jacoby Jones made a case for MVP by returning the second half’s opening kick for six. Then... “Did the power just go out in here?” —Judy Battista, The New York Times Ms. Battista tweeted that out at 7:37 p.m. The outage sent CBS scrambling, and with the booth broadcasters out of commission, Steve Tasker and Solomon Jones did a commendable job taking on more airtime than they had anticipated. “I wonder if they actually prepared for a power outage during the #SuperBowl?..” —Chris Bosh, Miami Heat And that was tweeted at 7:58, after more than 20 minutes of general confusion and improvisation. No, Chris, “they” probably weren’t prepared. Whether he was referring to the players, the CBS production team or the advertising bookies, it’s unknown. But all parties were more prepared than Stephen A. Smith. “This is sickening. If somehow B’More’s momentum in thwarted here, what do you say. I’d ban the SB from New Orleans for next 20 yrs for this!” —Stephen A. Smith, ESPN

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Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco passes against the San Francisco 49ers during Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday in New Orleans. Reason. That’s what you get with the analysts of ESPN’s “First Take.” And the power outage, whatever you want to say about what it, did to momentum, was the turning point in the game. Afterward, San Francisco surged back and made a game of things. But in the end, a disputed defensive holding no-call, an intentional safety and a gallon of Ray Lew-

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is tears brought an end to a Super Bowl that, without going too far, was more entertaining than last year. Final score: Baltimore 34, San Francisco, 31. “Turn out the lights.” —Adam Schefter, ESPN

“I feel good after the winter, going into Big Tens, and I feel like I’m right back where I was in previous seasons.”

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Game had high stakes for both Big East contenders BY GARY GRAVES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Russ Smith scored 18 points, Peyton Siva added 14 and No. 12 Louisville shot 52 percent to run away from No. 25 Marquette 70-51 on Sunday. The lopsided outcome was somewhat surprising considering what was at stake for both teams in the Big East. Marquette had an opportunity to take a one-game lead on Syracuse, but the Golden Eagles were left settling for a first-place tie with the Orange. The Cardinals (18-4, 6-3), meanwhile, moved a half-game closer to both schools with their second straight win, remaining in a four-way tie for third. The Cardinals finished 27 of 52 from the field after an 0-for-8 start while holding the Golden Eagles (15-5, 6-2) to 36 percent shooting (19 of 53). They also outrebounded Marquette 38-26. Gorgui Dieng added eight points and eight rebounds for Louisville. Vander Blue had 17 points and Trent Lockett 16 for the Golden Eagles, who have dropped two of their last four games. The Cardinals unveiled all-white uniforms for the school’s “White Out” promotion that even involved coach Rick Pitino, who was resplendent in an all-white suit. But early on, Louisville’s offense was as blank as its outfits. The Cardinals trailed 9-1 behind 0-for-7 shooting and three turnovers, going nearly six minutes before Montrezl Harrell scored their first basket with a dunk at the 14:19 mark, 12 seconds after he entered the game. Marquette controlled the game for several more minutes, but the freshman forward’s shot helped shake the Cardinals from their listless start. A 24-9 run followed over the next nine minutes as the Cardinals made 10 of their

Losses to No. 13 Minnesota, Purdue and Wisconsin aren’t going to wound the Illinois swimming and diving team heading into the final run of the season toward the Big Ten Championships. Illinois fell hard to all three of its opponents in the final act of Big Ten Quad Meet this weekend in Madison, Wis. Minnesota produced the biggest loss deficit at 291-62, while the Illini put up a 85 and 143 to Purdue and Wisconsin’s 268 and 210, respectively. Despite falling to 2-7 on the season (1-6 Big Ten), Novitsky said the lack of rest for her swimmers has had an effect on this year’s performance, which is something intentional she did to train them to perform well when tired and sore. “We had a pretty challenging January and first few days of February,” Novitsky said. “Now, it’s all staying healthy and making sure they’re as rested as possible, so they can have peak performances (at Big Tens).” The Illini have had close calls in the conference, having squeezed a win out of Michigan State and falling just short of a win to Northwestern early this season. This leaves Novitsky’s strategy some potential regardless of the record. “I think it’s mostly just staying focused and not letting yourself fade into the background,” senior Kathleen Knight said of the upcoming Big Tens. “It’s easy to give yourself a pass because you might not be as fast as the swimmers next to you. But really, there’s no pressure and there’s no reason why we can’t step up, make a bold move and have fast swims.” Novitsky had a returning weapon in senior Erin Lamb, saying she stepped up and swam some season best times in the quad meet, which will be important when it comes to Big Ten free relays. Lamb suffered a neck and shoulder injury in the spring, resulting in a threemonth setback from training. “I was having a hard time dealing with the fact that I wasn’t as fast as I’d been in previous seasons (in the beginning of the season),” Lamb said. “Right now, I feel good after the winter, going into Big Tens, and I feel like I’m right back where I was in previous seasons.” Illinois will have two and a half weeks to tweak and fine-tune itself before the team has to bring the best it has to the Big Ten Championships on Feb. 20. “We just need to keep our thoughts really close to home and hone all of our details, staying sharp, for the next couple of weeks,” Knight said.

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Louisville’s Russ Smith, left, attempts a shot over the defense of Marquette’s Chris Otule on Sunday in Louisville, Ky. Louisville defeated Marquette 70-51. next 15 attempts. Louisville’s bench provided the spark as Wayne Blackshear, who missed the previous game with a shoulder injury, returned to hit three of his first four shots. He finished with nine points. Stephan Van Treese added three rebounds in the half while Harrell put a body in front of 6-foot-8, 290-pound Golden Eagles reserve forward Davante Gardner, who went to the bench with his second foul midway through the half. Marquette struggled getting the ball into the paint and fell victim to Louisville’s pres-

sure defense several other times. The result was 10-of-31 shooting in the first half and a 38-24 deficit to the Cardinals, who hit 16 of 32 and outrebounded the Golden Eagles 26-13. Louisville’s starters found their games, as well, with Smith scoring 12 points and Siva nine in the first half. The Cardinals stretched their lead to 53-30 about six minutes into the second half when Luke Hancock made backto-back 3s on feeds from Siva. The Cardinals’ lead reached 23 in the second half and Marquette didn’t get closer than 15 the rest of the way.

For the second week in a row, an Illinois runner broke a school record. After setting the Illini men’s track and field record in the mile at the Indiana University Relays, senior Graham Morris broke the school record in the “Meyo Mile” at Meyo Invitational in South Bend, Ind. Morris led going into the final 100 meters, only to finish second in the event with a time of just over four minutes. “Graham came out strong and ready to go after another solid week in practice,” head coach Mike Turk said. “He has made a name for himself and has led our long-distance guys very well.” While Morris highlighted the Illini’s effort in South Bend, the sprinters were competing 700 miles away in New York at the Armory Collegiate Invitational. Leading the way for the Illini was Stephon Pamilton, who ran in four events over the weekend, including setting a careerbest time in the prelims of the 400-meter dash and boasting the fastest split in the 4x400 meter relay. “I thought I came out and ran some good events today,” Pamilton said. “Every week, I’m getting back into shape and running stronger, but I’m still looking to improve.” Sophomore Bra ndon Stryganek delivered other notable performance in the 200 -meter dash. Stryganek matched his indoor personalbest time in the 200, finishing sixth with a time of 21.43 seconds. The 4x400m squad of DJ Zahn, Malcolm Taylor, Corey Hammon and Juan Green placed

fourth with a time of 3:11.75. The squad’s time was a team and season best. In the weight throw, sophomore Davis Fraker placed third in the event with a mark of 19.31 meters. “Overall, there were plenty of good things that we saw in New York and certain things that we can improve upon going forward,” Turk said. “I was mostly happy to see us come in and show some fight against several of the nation’s elite teams and showed we can respond to a stressful competitive environment. The experience of this meet will pay dividends for us down the road.” At the Meyo Invitational, Kyle Engnell and redshirt freshman Tommy King had strong showings in the 3,000. Engnell finished fourth overall with a personal-best time of 8:25.51, improving upon his previous best of 8:30.85. King also set a PR after placing sixth with a time of 8:26.62. Sophomore Josh Jones improved his personal-best 800 time, finishing in 1:53.48. In the field events, junior pole vaulter Matt Bane placed first for the Illini after he jumped 5.20 meters. “I really want to see us manage our expectations more effectively. We have higher expectations for many of our guys than in recent years, so we have to ensure that we don’t get too high or too low after a meet or event,” Turk said. “It really comes down to our mental toughness, and that will be our main focus.”

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Penn State’s Nico Megaludis holds on to Illinois’s Jesse Delgado at Huff Hall on Sunday. Megaludis and Delgado started off the meet, where Megaludis pinned Delgado and to give Penn State a 6-0 lead. Illinois lost the meet 37-0.

Wrestling suffers sweeping defeat by Penn State BY DAN BERNSTEIN STAFF WRITER

After falling to No. 5 Ohio State on Friday for its third loss in a Big Ten dual meet this season, the No. 6 Illinois wrestling team was dominated by No. 1 Penn State at Huff Hall on Sunday afternoon. In front of a season-best crowd of 1,247, the Illini dropped their second dual meet of the week 37-0. The meet started off with the 125-pound weight class in which No. 3 Jesse Delgado took on Penn State’s No. 2 Nico Megaludis. Delgado recorded an early takedown in the first period and an escape in the second to take a 3-0 lead into the final period. Megaludis chose down to begin the third period and recorded

WOMEN’S BBALL FROM PAGE 1B first half. Although the Illini were outrebounded 17-14 in the first half, Illinois forced 12 Wisconsin turnovers, including 10 steals, leading to six Illini points. At the 7:52 mark of the second half, up 50- 44, Illinois had

an escape to make the score 3-1, just before Delgado was penalized for stalling, giving Megaludis another point, trimming the lead to 3-2. With 15 seconds remaining in the third period, Megaludis turned Delgado on his back and pinned the Gilroy, Calif., native in 6 minutes, 45 seconds to give Penn State the early 6-0 lead. “Jesse quit being offensive and he put himself in a bad spot trying to hang on,” head coach Jim Heffernan said. “Those two guys are (Nos.) 2 and 3 in the country, they are evenly matched, he’s got a lead, he changed what he was doing and that was the difference in the match.” At 133 pounds, No. 7 Daryl Thomas was defeated by Penn

State’s Jordan Conaway by an 8-6 decision. The Illini’s Steven Rodrigues then fell against the Nittany Lion’s Bryan Pearsall 2-0 at 141 pounds, before No. 7 Andrew Alton of Penn State defeated Caleb Ervin to extend the lead to 15-0. The 157-pound matchup between Illinois’ Matt Nora and Penn State’s Dylan Alton did not fare any better for the Illini, as Nora fell by a 14-6 major decision. “A couple of our guys looked like they didn’t think they could win until the last minute and thought, ‘You know what, I got a chance,’ and started pushing the pace a little bit harder instead of doing that right from the getgo, and that’s what’s disappointing to me,” Heffernan said.

At 165 pounds, No. 7 Conrad Polz took on Penn State’s defending national champion No. 2 David Taylor. Polz recorded a near fall at the end of the third period, but Taylor proved to be too much to handle, as he defeated Polz 13-7. No. 8 Jordan Blanton was then taken down by Penn State’s No. 4 Matt Brown at 174 pounds before No. 16 Tony Dallago was pinned by No. 1 Ed Ruth in 47 seconds to increase the lead to 31-0. The 197-pound matchup proved to be no better for the Illini, as No. 10 Mario Gonzalez was defeated by No. 4 Quentin Wright by a 4-2 decision. “That guy was a national champ, but I felt like I had him, but I just wasn’t committing on my shots while I was wrestling.

numerous chances to take its biggest lead of the game. After multiple misses, freshman guard Nicole Bauman collected the rebound and went up court to nail a 3-pointer to bring Wisconsin with in three with seven minutes remaining. Missed second-half free throws kept the Badgers in the game despite 27 Wisconsin turnovers, leading to 21 Illini points. Illinois shot only 11-for-

18 from the stripe, many of which came down the stretch. Turnovers ultimately did the Badgers in after Paige’s cough up — her ninth of the game — led to GodBold’s layup with 1:30 left, giving Illinois its largest lead of the game at 58-51. After struggling throughout the game from the line, sophomore guard Alexis Smith and Moore combined for four consecutive free throws with

under 33 seconds left, icing the game for the Illini. Illinois won despite only shooting 2-for-9 in the second half from downtown and being outrebounded 35 -31. The Illini entered the game with a 5-8 record when they were outrebounded.

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FROM PAGE 1B ond-leading rebounder, Jared Berggren, on the bench with foul trouble. An unlikely Badger filled in for Berggren, though, and gave Illinois fits for most of the game. Frank Kaminsky, a Lisle, Ill., native who accumulated seven minutes of playing time in his five games previous games, amassed 19 points and five rebounds in 23 minutes off the bench.

Mired in a tailspin and looking for answers anywhere, Groce elected to bring his leading scorer, Paul, off the bench and started sophomore Joseph Bertrand. Paul responded with 13 points on a dismal shooting night that saw him miss 10 out of his 13 shots from the field. “It means we’re accountable for all of our actions at the end of the day,” Egwu said while addressing Paul’s benching. “I don’t think it really matter who starts anyway,” Bertrand said. “We have a lot of guys who can start the game. Different line-

ups work for different games.” Bertrand didn’t contribute much in the first half but sprang into action in the second half, scoring 15 of his team-leading 17 points while trying to mount a comeback. His efforts were for naught, as Illinois could not make a stop on defense, allowing Wisconsin to shoot 55.6 percent from the field and 31 free throws after halftime. The Badgers shot no free throws in their last game, a loss to Ohio State. “Unfortunately, right now, I think our answer at times to playing hard or getting behind is to foul

and be undisciplined,” Groce said. Groce, in the wake of watching his team lose six out of its last seven games, struggled to fathom his team’s utter lack of defense entering the pivotal month of February, “We’ve been doing the same thing since Oct. 12,” Groce said. “That’s the disappointing part. I’ll be honest with you, they got to trust one another more that they’re going to be there for one another defensively. You can’t be on five different islands on defense.”

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“It’s definitely hard to be sitting out. I want to be able to help my team as much as I can. My hands are kind of tied right now because it’s not up to me.” B.J. FUTRELL, two-time All-American

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Missed 10ths once again plague women’s gymnastics BY NICHOLAS FORTIN STAFF WRITER

Illinois head coach John Groce reacts to the game against Wisconsin at Assembly Hall on Sunday. Illinois lost the game 74-68.

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At the end, he was exhausted, I felt,” Gonzalez said. Penn State completed the 10-bout sweep over Illinois, as Jimmy Lawson defeated the Illini’s Chris Lopez 9-4 during the heavyweight match to give the Nittany Lions the 37-0 win. Due to injury, the Illinois wrestling team was still wrestling without its two-time AllAmerican at 141 pounds, B.J. Futrell. “It’s definitely hard to be sitting out,” Futrell said. “I want to be able to help my team as much as I can. My hands are kind of tied right now because it’s not up to me. If it was up to me, I’d be out there competing.”

As has been the case all season, the Illinois women’s gymnastics team’s meet against No. 7 Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb., was decided by missed 10ths. In the end, the 10ths added up to a full point, and the No. 19 Illini lost their upset bid Friday to the Cornhuskers 195.750-194.750. “After coming off such a strong performance last week, I was really disappointed with our overall performance this week,” Illinois head coach Kim Landrus said. “We stumbled on floor a little bit and we gave away too many 10ths in landings in the other events.” Illinois started the meet on bars, where the team hit its season average of 48.775. Senior Alina Weinstein recorded a team high in the event with a 9.800 and placed fourth overall. “I think that the team did a good job on bars, but we opened the door for the judges to take 10ths away for our handstands and for our landings,” Landrus said. Weinstein agreed. “Honestly, we hit our routines on bars and they were good,” she said. “But I don’t think that we were confident enough to make the changes that we have been making in practice, with sticking dismounts and hitting our handstands, and that’s what really made the difference on bars this weekend. It was good, but we want to be a great team.” Next, the Illini moved to vault, where they would cut into the Cornhuskers’ lead by scoring above their season average. Weinstein led the team for a second straight event, as she hit a career-high 9.900, placing her second overall. Freshman Giana O’Connor finished sixth overall and second for Illinois with a score of 9.800. “My goal every week is to stick my vault, and it’s a lot easier said than done, so it was really exciting to go out and do that this weekend,” Weinstein said.

After two events, Illinois only trailed Nebraska 97.975-97.625, well within striking distance. “After the first two events, I saw an opportunity in front of us and I knew that our girls were capable of taking advantage of that opportunity, so when we weren’t able to do that it was disappointing,” Landrus said. In their third rotation, the floor, the Illini stumbled. Junior Amber See finished first for Illinois and third overall with a 9.800. O’Connor placed second, tying for fifth with 9.775. The team also counted scores from junior Sarah Fiedler and sophomores Kelsi Eberly and Jordan Naleway but didn’t count Weinstein’s score because she stepped out of bounds on her final tumbling pass. “What happened was I didn’t go as high as I should have for my second pass, and as a result, I knew immediately when I punched off the ground that I wasn’t going to be able to go for the second part of the skill and land it, so I made a decision in the air that I was just going to stop after the first part of my pass. And as a result, I didn’t get the connection value that I’m supposed to get in my routine,” Weinstein said. On the beam, in which the Illini were ranked 11th in the nation, the team didn’t perform as well as it could have and finished the night with a 48.500. Weinstein placed third overall with 9.800, and O’Connor finished fifth with a 9.750. O’Connor placed ahead of Weinstein in all-around for the first time this season, scoring a 39.050 to Weinstein’s 39.000. “We’re going to have to change our mind-set a little bit and really be determined to make it happen,” Landrus said. “We’re a talented group of kids and we have the ability to repeatedly perform like we did last weekend, and now we just have to figure out a way to make it all click on the same night consistently.”

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