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Faculty discuss unionization, split opinions Some don’t want to break trust with administrators

BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER

Faculty member opinions were split on the issue of unionization at an Urbana-Champaign Senate meeting Monday.

Professors Randy McCarthy and Nicholas Burbules presented their opposing sides.

McCarthy, professor of mathematics, is in favor of a faculty union and said a “strong, active voice is needed” to protect faculty members in the areas of pension and healthcare.

“I believe that a democratic faculty union would give us an independent voice that lies outside the scope of the existing institutional faculty,” McCarthy said.

Faculty unionization would not necessarily cause the chaos among faculty members and administrators that is often associated with the capability of striking, said Monica Bielski, assistant professor in labor and employment relations. She, as well as several other senators, said union leaders would be elected transparently, and

unionization would allow faculty members to make decisions democratically.

But Burbules, who is a professor of education policy, organization and leadership, is opposed to collective bargaining.

He said the University’s current system of shared governance does not need to be changed, as it is a collaborative partnership between faculty members and administrators.

“That doesn’t mean we don’t get into arguments, but it’s the relationship of trust and mutual respect,” Burbules said.

Many faculty members also agreed with him, including Joyce Tolliver, associate professor of Spanish. She said collective bargaining would lead to faculty members paying for the union out of their salaries.

Faculty members discussed both sides, but there was no decision to take any action on either side.

Lauren can be reached at rohr2@ dailyillini.com.

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Uduimoh Umolu, African Cultural Association historian, emcees during ACA's show "Africa, The Cradle of Life" held at the Krannert Art Museum on Saturday. February is national Black History Month.

UI celebrates Black History Month Concerts, film presentations, lectures and forums scheduled for month-long festivity

BY JACQUELINE OGRODNIK STAFF WRITER

UC Senate approves new engineering degree programs

BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER

In addition to a Master of Science program in Engineering, the University will soon begin offering a Master of Engineering, if it receives the proper approval.

Top engineering schools such as Cornell, Stanford and MIT also offer similar degrees, which are generally course work based, not research based and for students who aren’t considering a PhD. The University’s Chicago campus already offers the degree through online-only course work. The

program would be almost completely covered in funding by tuition.

The Urbana-Champaign Senate approved a proposal to incorporate this degree along with several other new programs at its meeting Monday.

These include the addition of graduate programs for the College of Engineering, such as new major in materials engineering and a new graduate concentration in energy systems.

Other programs approved included a new graduate minor

See NEW PROGRAMS, Page 3A

The University is celebrating Black History Month through events scheduled this year for the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Events range from film presentations to concerts to lectures and forums. The events will continue to take place around campus throughout February and in early March.

“It is important to spur discussion about Black History Month because it will spur discussions about history,” said Ronald Bailey, head of the department of African American Studies, in an email.

Bailey served as a consultant to the filmmaker of one of the films that will be presented this week. The film, a documentary by Katrina Browne called “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North,” explores the economic contribution brought on by the slave trade that led to industrial revolutions in the U.S. and Great Britain.

“I thought Ms. Browne was attempting a very thorough and honest exploration of a piece of history that was important, and doing it through the lens of family history, which made the story up close and personal,” Bailey said in an email.

The viewing will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Lincoln Hall Room 1092.

Bailey invited Browne to campus, and she will be available after the film to discuss the project with students, faculty and staff.

Menah Pratt-Clarke, member of the planning committee and associate chancellor, said she encouraged students to partake in the month’s events.

“It would be wonderful if every student on our campus could attend at least a few events,” Pratt-Clarke said.

“They are very rich, out-of-classroom learning experiences.”

Jacqui can be reached at ogrodni2@ dailyillini.com.

STAFF WRITER

The LGBT Resource Center celebrated its 20-year anniversary on Monday. About 85 students, staff and community members gathered to share lunch while discussing future plans for the center as well as celebrating its accomplishments.

Curt McKay, former LGBT Resource Center director who retired in 2008, was a panelist at the lunch and said the campus atmosphere has improved for LGBT students since the center’s opening in 1993. McKay was involved with a group of faculty and staff in 1993 who wanted to change that atmosphere.

“There’s still lots of work to

be done, but we’ve come a long way in 20 years,” McKay said.

“But it’s up to us to keep facilitating their (students’) ideas, to help them figure out what they want to do and develop as leaders to do the things they think are important to keep us moving forward.”

Jim Hall, associate dean for student affairs and medical scholars program, was also a panelist at the lunch and discussed the evolution of the center’s name.

“It’s important to be open to possibilities,” Hall said. “First, it (the group) started as the Gay Illini, then the Lesbian-Gay Illini, then the People for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Concerns, and that’s where the current office

“Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North” Film screening and discussion Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.

Lincoln Hall, room 1092 Sweet Honey in the Rock performance African-American women a cappella ensemble Saturday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Tryon Festival Theatre at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts National Youth Summit on Abolition webinar Webinar hosted by Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Monday, Feb. 11 “Freedom Riders” Film screening Monday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m.

Ikenberry Student Dining and Residential Programs Building, room 2025A For the complete list of events, visit inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/MLK/ emanproc.html.

Five arrests made for possession of drugs in Krannert garage

LGBT Center celebrates and discusses progress

BY JANELLE O’DEA

Upcoming events in celebration of Black History Month

BY LAURA SHAY DAYTIME ASSISTANT EDITOR

ROCHELLE WILSON THE DAILY ILLINI

Members of an LGBT panel discuss the concerns and progress of the LGBT community on the UI campus. The LGBT Resource Center celebrated 20 years of activism by holding a luncheon for students on Monday at the Union. name came from.”

He said that after Leslie Feinberg, a transgender speaker and author, spoke on campus in the ’90s, the center decided to include transgender in the

name.

McKay said these topics weren’t being discussed in 1993 when the center opened.

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University police arrested five people on drug-related charges after finding numerous narcotics and cash in a vehicle in the parking garage of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday.

According to the police report, an officer in an unmarked car had approached the men, who were standing near a vehicle, and saw one of the men drop a bag of pills. He then stopped and searched the vehicle after finding cannabis. The search resulted in the discovery of cocaine,

ecstasy, LSD, marijuana, nitrious oxide and $3,000 in cash.

Five men were arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

Those arrested were: Marshall F. Giorango, 19; Sam D. Kacerovskis, 19; Thomas P. Rekasius, 20, all of Orland Park, Ill.; Shaji Ahmed Ali, 24, of Chicago; and Ieva Sobulevskyte, 19, of Westmont, Ill. University Police Lt. Matt Myrick said the offenders are not University students and that just Ali and Giorango are still held in Champaign County jail.

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POLICE

Champaign Aggravated battery was reported at Red Lion, 211 E. Green St., around 2 a.m. Sunday.

Q Domestic battery and theft were reported in the 2400 block of North Neil Street around 3 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, one credit/debit gas card and one cellular phone were stolen.

Q Attempted first degree murder and reckless discharge of a firearm were reported in the 2000 block of Cynthia Drive around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, the victim was leaving a residence when two offenders confronted him and shot at him multiple times. The two offenders left the area before officers arrived on scene.

Q A 21-year-old male was arrested on the charge of aggravated battery at Brothers Q

Night editor: Ryan Weber Photo night editor: Zoe Grant Copy editors: Chelsea Clark, Lindsey Rolf, Kirsten

Urbana Q A 34-year-old female was found with multiple in-state warrants around 2:00 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, the offender reported she was kidnapped, and it was discovered she had multiple in-state warrants.

University Q Five people between the ages of 19-24 were arrested on drug related charges in the parking garage of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave. Q A 21-year-old male was arrested on multiple charges near the intersection of First and Daniel streets around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

According to the report, the suspect was arrested on the charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident and leaving the scene of an accident.

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jealousies. Join a good team. Travel’s good, too.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)

Today’s Birthday

. Social fun and partnership thrive for the first half of 2013. Consider family when making career decisions with long-lasting implications. Keep delivering on your promises, especially around finances. An exciting career opportunity arises this summer, and the spotlight is yours.

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 an 8 — Allow others independence, as you free your own imagination. Your thoughts wander a lot these days. You may choose different tactics than planned. Take advantage of the moment.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)

Today is an 8 — Maintain your finances with savings. A task that strengthens your home strengthens you. Evaluate resources. You can borrow or barter for what’s needed.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)

Today is a 9 — You’ll get great insights from your dreams. Use them to plan your direction, and anticipate some resistance. Expand your creativity with wild practicality.

Today is an 8 — Go with a creative leader. Your partner has a lot to say.

Don’t believe everything you learn ... they’re just “guidelines.� Offer encouragement. Controversy arises.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)

Today is a 7 — Friends offer good advice. Also, you may find a way to earn more without increasing work.

Make sure you know what’s required.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) Night system staff for today’s paper

Bar & Grill, 613 E. Green St., around 1 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, the male offender was issued a notice to appear for battering a security staff member.

Q Domestic battery was reported in the 2100 block of West White Street around 5 p.m. Sunday.

According to the report, no one was arrested.

Q Criminal damage to property was reported in the 2700 block of Sheridan Drive around noon Saturday.

According to the report, an unknown offender damaged the victim’s vehicle. One backpack/sports bag was reported stolen.

Today is an 8 — Intuition inspires your work. Check out new career options.

Don’t overlook anybody to avoid

Today is a 9 — Shop very carefully now. Develop necessary processes before proceeding with projects.

Listening works well over the next month. Increase your family’s comfort by clearing clutter. You’re attracting admiration.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)

Today is a 9 — Don’t behave is if

you’re made of money, even if you are. For about three weeks, you really understand people. Conscious and subconscious alignment occurs. Listen to intuition.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) Today is a 9 — You can afford it; set your sights high. You’ll have a strong nesting instinct; clean, sort and organize. Discuss core goals with family members.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)

Today is a 7 — Friends and lovers may compete for attention. Look at it from another perspective. Your curiosity is aroused. Surprise each other. Plan, and provide motivation. You’re advancing naturally.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)

Today is an 8 — Do the job yourself, or make more money doing something else and hire somebody. Just get it done. Find what you need nearby.

You have what others want. Minimize distraction.

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Today is a 9 — You’re exceptionally perceptive for the next few weeks. You inspire others, and they tell you so.

Speak out, and voice your point of view.

Love flows abundantly. Send invoices.

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Ill. legislature considers boost to transit funds

BY JOHN O’CONNOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois House Spe a ker M ichael Madigan is proposing more money for state programs in a plan that takes advantage of new road building funds, shifts money saved from prison closures to child-welfare services that could also spare up to 1,900 jobs.

The Chicago Democrat’s legislation includes a $675 million boost to transit construction highly prized by businesses and labor unions.

The plan is part of an annual exercise aimed at shoring up parts of state government that are running short of money halfway through the fiscal year.

T he House Execut ive Committee was scheduled to consider the appropriations bill Monday.

Also part of the plan is $25 million that Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn expects to save from closing correctional facilities.

Quinn wants the money shifted

LGBT FROM PAGE 1A “Even in the ’90s, it was a big deal if there was a gay character on a TV show,” McKay said.

“Now, it’s almost commonplace...

We’re (LGBT individuals) just so much more a part of the common fabric of everyday life...and I’m sure that’s reflected on campus.”

The center has expanded its physical space three times, which the panelists said has allowed for a better sense of community for students.

“It helps students be more visible and receive the kind of services they need,” McKay said.

“All kinds of things (could happen with more space), ranging from things like the drag show the Illini Union Board puts on, to (bringing to campus) serious people like Keith Boykin, who show how our commonalities cross lots of boundaries.”

Boykin, political strategist and author, visited campus Monday to discuss his latest book “For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of

to the Department of Children and Family Services. The agency will use the money to add child-abuse investigators and other employees to recruit foster parents and more quickly reunite children with their birth families.

The bill also includes $12 million for community mental health grants, $83 million for workers’ compensation claims, $25 million for rental housing assistance, $5.7 million for job-training programs, and $5 million for construction of a 200-bed veterans’ home.

The so-called supplemental appropriation — including the infusion of road money and the transfer of childprotection funds — failed after political bickering in the Senate during the final days of the last legislative session in early January. A committee controlled by Democrats voted it down when senators objected to funding going to or being withheld from areas such as public schools or horse racing.

Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home.”

Leslie Morrow, current director of the center, said despite these improvements, she would still like to see more expansion because the center has outgrown its current space.

“We’re the only space under the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations where our (Quench Series) lunches don’t take place in our space because it is way too small and not easily accessible,” Morrow said.

Josh Pagan, vice president of PRIDE and senior in LAS, said center has provided some of the most important resources he’s utilized on campus.

“My high school didn’t really have an organized Gay-Straight Alliance, so I was never able to have sense of community with other LGBT individuals,” Pagan said. “I think that it’s important for any campus to have lots of LGBT activities and programs, but I think it’s even more important to have a place that students can meet with each other.”

Janelle can be reached at jnodea2@ dailyillini.com.

JOE SONGER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Armed law enforcement personnel station themselves near the property of Jimmy Lee Sykes, Monday, in Midland City, Ala. Officials say they stormed a bunker in Alabama to rescue a 5-year-old child being held hostage there after Sykes, his abductor, was seen with a gun.

Ala. police rescue 5-year-old boy, kill 65-year-old abductor

BY KATE BRUMBACK AND TAMARA LUSH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

M I DL A N D CI T Y, A la.

— Authorities stormed an underground bunker Monday in Alabama, freeing a 5-year-old boy who had been held hostage for nearly a week in the tiny backyard shelter and leaving the boy’s abductor dead.

After days of fruitless negotiations, ta lks had deteriorated with an increasingly agitated Jimmy Lee Dykes, who had kidnapped the child from a school bus after fatally shooting the driver.

Dykes had been seen with a gun, and officers concluded the boy was in imminent danger, said Steve Richardson of the FBI’s office in Mobile.

Officials refused to say how the 65-year-old died.

“Ever since this started, there’s never been a moment that (the boy) wasn’t on my mind,” said Michael Senn, pastor of a church near where reporters had been camped out since the standoff began. “So when I heard that he was OK, it was just like a thousand pounds lifted off of me.”

The rescue capped a long drama that drew national attention to this town of 2,400 people nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields that has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of “love thy neighbor” and the power of group prayer.

The child’s plight prompted nightly candlelight vigils.

Throughout the ordeal, authorities had been speaking with Dykes though a plastic pipe that went into the shelter.

They also sent food, medicine and other items into the bunker, which apparently had running water, heat and cable television but no toilet. It was about 4 feet underground, with about 50 square feet of floor space.

Aut hor it ies sa id t he k i nderga r t ner appe a red unharmed. He was taken to a hospital in nearby Dothan.

Officials have said he has Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

FBI bomb technicians were clearing the property for explosive devices and planned to look more closely at the scene when it’s safe, FBI spokesman Jason Pack said.

Daryle Hendry, who lives about a quarter-mile from the bunker, said he heard a boom Monday afternoon, followed by what sounded like a gunshot.

Melissa Nighton, city clerk in Midland City, said a woman had been praying in the town center Monday afternoon. Not long after, the mayor called with news that Dykes was dead and that the boy was safe.

“She must have had a direct line to God because shortly after she left, they heard the news,” Nighton said.

Neighbors described Dykes as a menacing, unpredictable man who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm.

Government records and interviews with neighbors indicate that Dykes joined the Navy in Midland City and served on active duty from 1964 to 1969.

His record shows several awards, including the Vietnam Service Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. During his service, Dykes was trained in aviation maintenance.

He had some scrapes with the law in Florida, including a 1995 arrest for improper exhibition of a weapon. The misdemeanor was dismissed. He also was arrested for marijuana possession in 2000.

He returned to Alabama about two years ago, moving onto the rural tract about 100 yards from his nearest neighbors.

Ronda Wilbur, a neighbor of Dykes who said the man beat her dog to death last year with a pipe, said she was relieved to be done with the stress of knowing Dykes was patrolling his yard and willing to shoot at anyone or anything that trespassed.

“The nightmare is over. It’s been a long couple of years of having constant stress,” she said.

On Sunday, more than 500 people attended a memorial service for bus driver Charles Albert Poland Jr., who was hailed as a hero for protecting the two dozen other children on the bus before he was gunned down and the little boy grabbed.

“This man was a true hero who was willing to give up his life so others might live,” Gov. Robert Bentley said in a news release after learning of the boy’s rescue.

Momentum building in Congress behind marijuana law reform

BY GENE JOHNSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Barack Obama greets law enforcement officers after speaking on ideas to reduce gun violence Monday at the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations in Minneapolis. “We should restore the ban on military-style assault weapons,” Obama said.

Obama promotes gun control policies

BY JULIE PACE AND NEDRA PICKLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — President Barack Obama declared Monday on his first trip outside Washington to promote gun control that a consensus is emerging for universal background checks for purchasers, though he conceded a tough road lay ahead to pass an assault weapons ban over formidable opposition in Congress.

“We should restore the ban on military-style assault weapons and a 10-round limit for mag-

NEW PROGRAMS FROM PAGE 1A in queer studies in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and an undergraduate minor in food and agribusiness management in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics.

Phillip Geil, emeritus professor of materials science and engineering, is the sponsor of two of

azines,” Obama said in a brief speech, standing firm on his full package on gun-control measures despite long odds. Such a ban “deserves a vote in Congress because weapons of war have no place on our streets or in our schools or threatening our law enforcement officers.”

The president spoke from a special police operations center in a city once known to some as “Murderapolis” but where gun violence has dropped amid a push to address it from city lead-

ers. Officers stood behind him, dressed in crisp uniforms of blue, white and brown.

The site conveyed Obama’s message that a reduction in violence can be achieved nationally, even if Americans have sharp disagreements over gun control.

That includes among members of his own party in Washington.

Suggesting he won’t get all he’s proposing, he said, “We don’t have to agree on everything to agree it’s time to do something.”

The president unveiled his

gun-control plans last month after the shootings at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.

But many of the proposals face tough opposition from some in Congress and from the National Rifle Association.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he wants to give the bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines a vote. But he will not say whether he will support either, and advocates and opponents alike predict they are unlikely.

the proposals: the new major in materials engineering and the combined bachelor of science in materials science and engineering and master of engineering with a major in materials engineering. He said these programs are aimed at helping engineering students who are looking to pursue a career in business and industry-related fields of engineering.

Gay Miller, chair of the senate’s educational policy commit-

tee, said the goal of these additional programs is to enhance students’ knowledge of their fields of study. She added that the programs could bring in more funding because of the additional tuition dollars.

“We hope, of course, that (the new programs) bring new students, but it’s also about increasing students’ capabilities and being recognized as professionals in their fields,” Miller said.

The proposals for these pro-

grams will be brought to the University board of trustees and the Illinois Board for Higher Education for approval. If passed, the proposals return to the provost’s office for implementation.

The proposals list a desired enactment date of fall 2013, but Miller said she is unsure whether or not the programs will be in effect by then.

Lauren can be reached at rohr2@ dailyillini.com.

SEATTLE — An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax.

While passage this year could be a longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jared Polis of Colorado plan to introduce Tuesday, Blumenauer told The Associated Press.

Polis’ measure would regulate marijuana the way the federal government handles alcohol: In states that legalize pot, growers would have to obtain a federal permit. Oversight of marijuana would be removed from the Drug Enforcement Administration and given to the newly renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana and Firearms, and it would remain illegal to bring marijuana from a state where it’s legal to one where it isn’t.

The bill is based on a legalization measure previously pushed by former Reps. Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Ron Paul of Texas.

Blumenauer’s bill would create a federal marijuana excise tax of 50 percent on the “first sale” of marijuana — typically, from a grower to a processor or retailer.

It also would tax pot producers or importers $1,000 annually and other marijuana businesses $500.

His office said Monday it doesn’t yet have an estimate of how much the taxes might bring in. But a policy paper Blumenauer and Polis are releasing this week suggests, based on admittedly vague estimates, that a federal tax of $50 per ounce could raise $20 billion a year. They call for directing the money to law enforcement, substance abuse treatment and the national debt.

Last fall’s votes in Colorado and Washington state to legalize recreational marijuana should

push Congress to end the 75-year federal pot prohibition, Blumenauer said.

Washington state officials have estimated that its legal marijuana market could bring in about half a billion dollars a year in state taxes.

“You folks in Washington and my friends in Colorado really upset the apple cart,” Blumenauer said. “We’re still arresting two-thirds of a million people for use of a substance that a majority feel should be legal. ...

It’s past time for us to step in and try to sort this stuff out.”

Advocates who are working with the lawmakers acknowledge it could take years for any changes to get through Congress, but they’re encouraged by recent developments. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell last week came out in support of efforts to legalize hemp in his home state of Kentucky, and U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., is expected to introduce legislation allowing states to set their own policy on marijuana.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has indicated he plans to hold a hearing on the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws and has urged an end to federal “mandatory minimum” sentences that lead to long prison stints for drug crimes.

“We’re seeing enormous political momentum to undo the drug war failings of the past 40 years,” said Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, who has been working with lawmakers on marijuana-related bills. “For the first time, the wind is behind our back.”

The Justice Department hasn’t said how it plans to respond to the votes in Washington and Colorado. It could sue to block the states from issuing licenses to marijuana growers, processors and retail stores, on the grounds that doing so would conflict with federal drug law.

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DANE GEORGES THE DAILY ILLINI

Error-plagued vote on campus symbol is meaningless

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y ou voted for a new symbol through Campus Spirit Revival’s process Thursday, you may not have seen the same ballot someone did Friday.

Halfway through Campus Spirit Revival and the Illinois Student Senate’s vote for a new University symbol, a “no change” option was added. That meant some people may not have been able to voice their dislike for a new mascot.

Beyond that, some people may not have known such an option was available and opted out of voting altogether.

By changing the rules of the voting in the middle of it, despite any attempts to justify the change, the vote is illegitimate.

Even if no one had voted before the change, the vote is not valuable because it suggests the organization that initiated hadn’t considered the vote enough. That thought leads us to wonder if there are not other problems with the process of trying to select a new symbol for the University.

Students may have felt the need to vote so that something like the kraken didn’t win, but in all reality, they probably just don’t want a new mascot at all.

Imagine if halfway through the Nov. 6 presidential election, the government changed the ballot to include some option that wasn’t previously available. Naturally, choosing a new mascot is not as important as choosing the next leader of the country, but it does not deflate the fact this vote was incredibly unplanned.

This process was not as organized or thought out as well as it could have been, and the vote should not have been so rushed.

The chance to submit an idea was announced less than a month ago, and voting was open for two days with 49 available options.

Out of the 49 possible mascots, 11 resemble the old Chief symbol, five involve Abraham Lincoln, three were some sort of kraken and 10 were hand-drawn.

On top of the different submissions, the whole legitimacy of this vote has been compromised.

Every person who voted did not have the 49 options, and the students who didn’t want to see a change in the mascot weren’t even aware that was going to be an option.

So now, the student body is faced with a vote is unlikely to result in a new mascot — and it’ll be a week yet before the public learns the results. The vote, regardless of the results still doesn’t sufficiently rid the University of any pro-Chief feelings.

The vote will supposedly show that the students have narrowed down the list of possible new symbols to five, some of which still have some resemblance to the Chief.

And even if the student body has unanimously voted for one specific symbol, it is not the student body’s decision, nor is it Campus Spirit Revival’s or the senate’s. It all comes down to the University. The administration has the final say.

With the rushed process, the botched vote, the lingering Chief sentiments, this vote cannot sincerely address a possibly new University symbol.

If Campus Spirit Revival and ISS want to be serious with this process, they must admit to the mistake, be sure they have considered all implications and related issues with the selection, and start the vote over, at least giving the the student body the chance it deserves.

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ability to think creatively, find new ways to train athletes and extract the potential out of his students. Not on a well-rounded, liberal education.

Is $200,000 a sound investment for someone like me? Probably. As a student studying accountancy and finance, the market requires credibility, experience and determination. But do I think someone who studies accounting without university courses is able to do the job as well as his peer who followed the conventional university route?

It’s debatable, but I would say yes.

The problem though, I could never become a certified public accountant because I wouldn’t meet the education requirements for the job: 150 semester credit hours. Surprising fact: only 30 of those hours deal with accounting and another 24 deal with business, about a third of the total. By the way, every accounting scandal in the past decade from Enron, WorldCom and more recently Hewlett Packard’s acquisition of Autonomy involved, supposedly, the best auditors and CPAs in the world.

Our society suffers from near inescapable delusions of grandeur.

Kids are treated as cookie cutters, configured into perfect, little helpers that merrily go on their way — and this needs to change. Although I have been extremely pessimistic lately, I do believe there is an underlying shift in the mentality of today’s youth that will positively impact the future and allow us to surpass previous generations. We are starting to think for ourselves and to strive for excellence in what we want to do, not what we’re expected to do.

hey are how you flirt with the hottie from last night without seeming too desperate. They are insurance against texting your father “in that tone.” They keep the conversation light and the reader engaged. They are emoticons, and they are the symbols that save us all when our words are just not enough.

In a world where face-to-face conversations have long been on the decline in favor of text messaging, email and social networking, we are filling our emotional void through these simple but very powerful little faces.

An emoticon, or emotional icon, is a configuration of letters, punctuation marks or other keyboard symbols that act to represent a human facial expression. And whether you’re using Korean, Japanese or American-style emoticons, chances are you will at least get the gist of the emotional message.

That’s because symbols like common emoticons play off of universal archetypes — common experiences we all share. I hope that, no matter how bad midterms get — you don’t forget before mid-March what a smile looks like. You’re pretty confident that your friends, your family, anyone you text will remember, too. Because you are familiar with smiling, you recognize a colon and a left-parenthesis as a face to represent a grin.

Critics call emoticons a devolution of language. The written word may suffer, but communication — getting a message across with accurate understanding — is enhanced through emoticons. Their power comes from the fact that they serve a purpose that words alone cannot.

We all more or less grew up with text messaging. Some of us may even remember AOL Instant Messenger.

For all that written word has given us, a collection of letters cannot accurately convey emotion or even intent the way a facial expression can. For all our intelligence, the human brain still sees a symbol as a more powerful means of communication than words on a page.

For instance, :) is much more effective than the word “happy,” even though most people who read the word “happy” understand the positive association of feelings. But just how happy? Instead of writing excited or ecstatic, digital media communication favors :D. Professional they are not, but emoticons do prove effective socially. No respectable job candidate has a winky face on her resume, even if her dream job involves communication design. But if you want to express a light-hearted message, you may consider including a :) instead of a simple message reading “I need to talk to you,” as such a phrase is wide open to misinterpretation.

But not all emoticons may be as clear as a sideways smiley face. If the message you are sending is mute — that is, you’re saying through text message you’re speechless or otherwise tonguetied, only the most tech-savvy or those deeply invested in computer culture may understand a :-&.

Even with the ease and general acceptance of emoticons, they still may not be quite so simple to understand. Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, but technology quickly gets complicated. Sarcasm is something that can trip up effective emoticon interpretation. The :) may be a taunt instead of a representation of happiness. Emoticons are supposed to bridge the gap between sterile messages and face-to-face conversation, but a cynical or teasing texter may be just as bad as someone who forgoes emoticons entirely, at least when it comes to guaranteeing that the message will be understood.

Another unintentional disconnect to emoticons may be a gender difference.

Women use emoticons more than men, according to a recent Rice University study. Perhaps more revealing in the study is that the researchers conducted the study at all. In fact, they even used an emoticon in the study’s title. But this was just one study and may not speak for this generation of humanity as a whole.

If effective communication is judged by how quickly and accurately a message is understood, emoticons have earned at least a participation award, if not a medal for innovation. The use of symbols is present even before we have records of written alphabets, but we have now come full-circle — we started using symbols for letters, now we are using letters as symbols. They are a part of culture that marks this era as one where humans adapt to overcome the obstacle of technology by adding emotion to an otherwise monotone message.

Use them or not, emoticons may just be the communication innovation of the age. Let’s just hope they don’t infiltrate spoken language, lol. ;-P

Tommy is a senior in Business. He can be reached at opinions@dailyillini.com.

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

UI treats us as numbers, not students SARAH FISCHER Opinions columnist

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concerned about us, University. I was nervous when I got to campus to pursue my degree. You chewed up one of my friends, so he dropped out.

That first semester, you gave me the lowest GPA I’d ever had. You helped me figure out what I was interested in, grow my voice and become a better student. Now I’m graduating. I can fill that first line of my resume with your name across the top. But I’m worried that name doesn’t mean as much as I thought it would when I showed up in front of Alma Mater three years ago.

Last semester, after meeting with my academic adviser every semester — sometimes multiple times just to ask: “Hey, are these classes OK? These keep me on track, right?” — I was informed (after the add-drop date) that instead of being on track as I had thought, I was actually two upper-level courses behind. Now I had options: I could take 24 credit hours the final semester of my senior year, I could stay another semester, or I could drop my minor.

I’ve been told many times that it’s just a minor, but I wanted that distinction on my transcript. I wanted employers and graduate schools and everybody else to know that I love Saussure as much as I love Tolkien.

That I love reading “Paradise Lost” as much as I love learning how propaganda shaped advertising during World War I. I embarked on a mission to save

my minor. I talked to the dean of LAS, asking what could be done. The way I saw it, I had taken the necessary upper-level courses, they just weren’t allowed to count for both my major and my minor. The way LAS saw it, I was taking two classes too few and therefore not completing the minor. I talked to one of the assistant provosts, who said they had no control over what makes a major and minor. That’s a decision made by individual colleges. I went back to LAS — and made no progress.

I learned what I really am to the university: not a student, not a person, not even a paycheck, but a number. One of 32,000.

What frustrates me most isn’t the fact that I couldn’t keep my minor.

It’s not the fact that the University illustrated that it didn’t care for its students. It’s not even the fact that I couldn’t rely on my advisers to help me graduate as I wanted to. No, it’s the reason ultimately given to me for why I couldn’t get the minor.

Making an exception for me, I was told, would “lessen the value” of the degree.

Lessen the value of the degree?

What lessens the value of my degree is students who don’t put in the work. Who come to class without material read. Who don’t engage in classroom discussion. Who don’t turn in their work on time. Who can’t be bothered to review my essays and give me critical feedback that could, I don’t know, actually help me improve as a student.

What lessens the value of my degree is students who come to college because they think they should.

Who think a college degree will get them a job. Who don’t like to learn.

Who wish they were anywhere else but the cramped classrooms in Greg Hall. Who show up just to sign the attendance sheet. Who sleep during lecture.

Roughly 30 percent of Americans hold a bachelor’s degree. In 2012, 1.9 million people with a bachelor’s were unemployed. Nearly half of the nation’s recent college graduates have jobs that don’t require a degree. When we leave the University, our insulated sphere of college, and try to make our way outside the Champaign-Urbana bubble, my resume will read the same thing as the student who worked to earn enough to come back and get his degree. It will read the same as the student who got drunk every Thursday night and skipped all his Friday classes. It will read the same as the student who read her textbook the night it was assigned and reviewed it the morning of her class. It will read the same as the student who prides herself on not completing readings, who shops for shoes while in class.

U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Illinois as 46th in the nation. We are at this school paying an exorbitant sum of money to become educated. This is not simply a line on a resume. This is not four years of free time before the proverbial “real world” sets in.

This is not extended high school without the parental supervision.

This is not the time to slack and reap the rewards of a professor so tired of poor grammar he gives up on written exams and makes them all multiple choice.

This is the time to grow up.

Sarah is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at fische19@dailyillini.com.

Is college worth it? I would say no TOMMY HEISER Opinions columnist

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he quality of undergraduate education in the United States has diminished significantly through the years. The vicious circle of rising tuition costs and government financing coupled with the onslaught of online for-profit universities have degraded the bachelor’s degree into a useless piece of paper.

Reading a newspaper each day is more beneficial than a four-year degree. Students are brainwashed at such an early age that their GPAs or test scores will determine their success in life.

The unfortunate expectation that kids must attend college and outperform their peers adversely encourages them to take the path of least resistance — taking the easy classes just to get an A. As long as it boosts your GPA, it doesn’t matter if you learn anything. Now, this doesn’t really play to higher education’s golden standard of a well-rounded, liberal curriculum for all majors.

Students shy away from hard classes to save their GPA and at the detriment of learning more. Instead, they end up taking classes like Severe and Hazardous Weather, which was an amazing class, but I’m not sure how it will make me, for example, a better certified professional accountant.

As a consequence of our system, students end up in majors with no clear implications on career paths.

They don’t consider the job market four years down the road. The uncertainty involved with picking a major is an incredible challenge 17-

and 18-year-olds must take because once you’ve picked a major, the way the University structures its majors, it’s too difficult to change it two years in and graduate in four years.

So, fresh grads finish with barely any relevant skills for competing in the workforce and fall behind their peers.

The tremendous pressure to conform to society’s expectations hinders our ability to think creatively, think differently and think ambitiously. Attending college may not be the answer for everyone. Should the entrepreneur or the inventor or the athlete be forced into this mechanistic system? We should be pushed to pursue what we want, not what we have to because a university tells us to. Eliminating the dogma surrounding the unconventional can help kids make smarter choices for themselves and follow their passion.

Is $200,000 a sound investment for the future pilot? My brother would tell you no. He tried it at one of the best aviation universities in the country. Two of them, actually.

They both failed him. One year after what would be his graduating class, he is now flying for one of the largest airlines in the world. All without a college degree. Did he need to learn about some of these wild gened requirements the University has us take? Will Contemporary Nutrition help him determine the amount of thrust required for takeoff? None of this makes him a better pilot. He will determine his own success.

Is $200,000 a sound investment for the tennis pro? My other brother would tell you no, too. He tried it, here actually. What he learned traveling at a young age to tournaments around the world far surpassed the education he could receive at any university. His living depends on his

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DISH OF THE WEEK

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A twist on beloved bacon Destihl combines new, unexpected flavors to create unique bacon, jalapeno dish

BY ELIOT SILL STAFF WRITER

When Brian Carey comes to the University to recruit engineers, there’s one place — one dish, moreover — in downtown Champaign he simply won’t miss.

The native of Stow, Mass., who is an electrical engineer for Analog Devices, always brings his coworkers for a plate of Destihl’s deep-fried, beer-battered jalapeno bacon. “If it’s your first time in town, you have to try the bacon,� he said.

The dish uses specially made jalapeno bacon, is beer battered and deep fried, and topped with a chipotle-maple mayonnaise.

The combination of flavors may sound absurd, but the appetizer that is often shared with a friend or two seems to find a perfect balance. It is one that Carey and his co-worker Dan Andesse described as “ten times better� than regular bacon.

Located at 301 N. Neil Street in downtown Champaign, Destihl has only one other location, in Normal, Ill. Destihl has been open in Champaign since April 20, 2011, and has found its bacon to be a cult hit. According to general manager Brian Durkin, chief executive chef Manny Martinez makes sure that each dish has a unique twist and a full palette of flavor. “It’s a lot of balancing flavors in your mouth — balancing sweet and salty and spicy within our dishes — so that there’s not too spicy in one dish or too sweet or anything like that,� Durkin

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Deep-fried jalapeno bacon at Destihl Restaurant in Champaign. said. “All the flavors always balance out.�

A self-described “gastrobrewery,� Destihl, according to its website, “creatively combines and reinvents craft beer and full-flavored dishes from America’s melting pot using many local ingredients and both modern and traditional techniques.�

Durkin said of the restaurant’s multitude of craft beers, the deep-fried bacon is best enjoyed with something dark. “I would go with more of a dark, malty beer,� Durkin said. “It holds up against some of the spiciness of the bacon and also the smokiness and the sweetness of the chipotle.�

Destihl also offers a slightly healthier deep-fried option: deep-fried asparagus.

Durkin confirmed that the deep-fried asparagus is one of the restaurant’s best sellers. It is served with the same maplechipotle sauce and a grilled lemon. Harbour said grilling the lemon helps to bring out its sweetness.

Sous chef Brad Neal said he’s impressed with how consistent both dishes were able to be made, particularly the bacon. Though he’s only been working at Destihl

for eight months, Neal said when he came there it wasn’t his first time deep-frying bacon. “If you’re in a kitchen, sooner or later you end up frying something,� Neal said.

The drawback of the deepfried jalapeno bacon with the maple-chipotle sauce is, predictably, its calorie count. When asked what the calorie count of the dish was, Harbour, Durkin and Neal all said pretty much the same thing: “High.�

Durkin explained that being a local, small-scale restaurant, nutritional information is difficult to nail down and not cheap to obtain.

Though it’s a relatively new restaurant, Durkin said they are looking into opening more locations around Illinois, and that at Destihl, there’s something for everybody. “It’s a place that you can come in for just a casual meal, enjoy a beer and a burger or you can come in and enjoy a nice steak dinner or whatever you’re trying to go for,� he said. “We kind of cater to all different aspects of the dining experience.�

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was half past midnight and I quickly threw on anything that would keep me warm.

I walked out of my room waddling like a penguin, feeling like a stuffed teddy bear with three layers under a bright red onesie, boots, a hat and my favorite scarf for good luck. I would definitely need it for the night.

My friends and family thought I was crazy for wanting to sleep outside in the snowfall, but I knew I had to be part of “One Winter Night,� an event hosted by the Christian organization C-U at Home to raise awareness and funds to aid the homeless in Champaign-Urbana.

It didn’t matter to me whether I’d be one of a few or one of many sleeping in a cardboard box on the Quad Friday night. I wanted to seize the opportunity to experience a mere glimpse of what it means to be homeless.

I still had irrational doubts, anxious thoughts and worries of catching hypothermia or getting frostbite. As the snow increased and the chilly weather started to break through my many layers, my stomach began to feel uneasy.

But all those concerns became irrelevant when I finally reached the Quad. With a warm blanket and sleeping bag in hand, I smiled at the sight of my new, temporary home. Thirty cardboard houses congregated on the field with a group of people huddling beside a fire nearby.

Though I didn’t know a single person there, I felt like I belonged to a community, united by the passion of wanting to help the homeless and the desire to experience homelessness for a few hours ourselves.

With the help of others, my home was quickly set up using three boxes: one as the base to cover the snow-covered ground and two to create a tent-like structure that prevented snow and cold air from coming in. It

COCA-COLA FROM PAGE 6A higher risk of weight gain.�

Duff said that some of the most successful campaigns in food industries are ones that are unapologetic toward presenting their product line. Around the time of McDonald’s super size controversy, Burger King revealed the “Meat’normous� omelet sandwich that clocked in at 45 grams of fat. Duff said these campaigns make sense because they focus on a company’s target audience.

wasn’t much. Nevertheless, it looked beautiful.

I curiously looked around to see other homes and chuckled at the creativity people used constructing various shapes, sizes and modes of construction. Some were built rectangularly, while others opted for the traditional tent-like structure.

Some used blankets to seal the entrance and exits, while others used duct tape. We really did succeed in making a tiny village, and this made my heart warm.

As time passed, however, the cold and discomfort quickly began to weigh down my spirits.

There was barely any room to move within the confines of my home. The ceiling was about a foot away from my face and I only had two or three inches for wiggle room.

Though I’m not claustrophobic, I found it hard to breathe as my body worked to regulate a normal temperature.

The cold wind began to seep through the openings of my home and I had nothing to seal them with. It was then that I realized what I had committed to and the battle for sleep began.

Normally, I can sleep anywhere, any time and under any conditions. But the conditions of that night proved to be different. My body became sore and my limbs became cold as I constantly shifted positions to find the most comfortable way of sleeping.

To be honest, I couldn’t wait to go back home and sleep in the warmth of my bed. My brain tirelessly counted down the minutes left before it was time to leave.

Then it dawned on me: Why was I sleeping outside in a cardboard box? Was it truly for the purpose of raising awareness?

Or was it a selfish ploy to glorify the act of sacrificing my time, money and health for the sake of

fulfilling my civic duty as a good person and Christian?

Then the words of Melany Jackson, the founder and executive director of C-U at Home, replayed in my mind: “Listen with your hearts. Listen with your ears. And treat them with dignity.� This comes not with knowledge or awareness, but experience.

Jackson began to empathize with the homeless after seeing the brown, frostbit hands of a homeless man in ChampaignUrbana two years ago.

It was then that she sold all her belongings to raise money to help this cause, eventually experiencing homelessness herself for 19 months. She lived in the same shelter as many of the homeless citizens she had encountered. Ate the same food as they did. Held conversations about life with them and lived the full experience to understand the lives of this often stigmatized group of people.

This was the lesson I learned.

It was through this experience of spending the night in the cold that I had come to understand more about the people affected by homelessness. My eyes shed some of the ignorance that had previously blurred my vision from looking into the circumstances that leads a person to homelessness.

Behind every cardboard sign, every plea for spare change and every frostbitten hand is a person living day by day with hope for help. Sometimes this may be in the form of money or food.

But in most cases, it is through the simple act of meeting them eye-to-eye to acknowledge that they’re more than their problem of homelessness — they are dignified people in need of help, just like the rest of us.

Duff, whose professional background in advertising features past work with Burger King and Noodles & Co., says that certain health promotions for products are ineffective so far. “I haven’t seen any evidence in food and beverage consumption caused from advertisements like calories displayed on the front of products,� Duff said. “In New York City, they mandate fast food to display health numbers, but there hasn’t been any difference in how much people ordered in terms of calorie numbers.�

It remains to be seen how Coke will play the campaign out in the future. Coca-Cola did not reveal anti-obesity advertisements during the Super Bowl, focusing instead on a multimedia plan that had already garnered its own controversy as well.

Depending on students’ point of view toward Coca-Cola’s anti-obesity campaign and other endeavors, the old good deed saying may have become even more ironic.

To be honest, I couldn’t wait to go back home and sleep in the warmth of my bed.

My brain tirelessly counted down the minutes left before it was time to leave.

Stephanie can be reached at skim108@ dailyillinimedia.com.

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Champaign restaurant attracts customers with deep-fried bacon dish Topped with a chipotle-maple mayonnaise, DESTIHL’s deep-fried, beer-battered jalapeno bacon has become a cult hit among customers.

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diorama of a small man in a suit standing outside of a tall, white building that reads “The Lottery” in Spanish hangs inside Radio Maria’s main dining room.

This piece of art, as well as most of the pieces that David Spears creates for his co-owned multinational cuisine restaurant, are “for art’s sake.” However, Spears conceived “La Lotería” from parts of a typewriter and a sewing machine for himself.

Original artwork like this decorates the interior of Radio Maria, making it a destination for those looking to enjoy an interesting atmosphere.

Spears, a sculptor, runs the art-driven restaurant at 119 N. Walnut St. with his partner of 20 years, painter Sharon Owens. After Spears graduated with a master’s from FAA at the University, he met Owens at a local bar.

“We decided we should do something for ourselves,” Spears said. That was when the artists decided to open the Radio Maria dining room 16 years ago.

“People thought we wouldn’t last a month,” Spears said. “(Downtown Champaign) was a questionable area at the time, with the homelessness and such.”

At the time, Spears and Owens envisioned Radio Maria as a restaurant to provide organic food made from indigenous ingredients with a personal touch. The artists decided to repurpose local materials by making artwork from them and displaying their pieces in the dining room.

As member of the Preservation and Conservation Association, Spears has access to these local materials dating back to the Industrial Revolution. “(The material) could last for thousands of years, but it gets torn down before then,” Spears said.

Restroom counters and stall partitions were made from the old shower stalls of the women’s dormitory Linden Hall.

The tables in the main dining room were crafted from the University’s Harker Hall doors. The restaurant’s pendant lights that hang above customers originally belonged to Gibson City Elementary School.

“For me, it’s a quest to find (materials) that have some significance or reference,” Spears said.

Fast forward to 2007, when the space next door to Radio Maria became available. After the landlord purchased the addition, Spears and Owens turned the room into a tapas lounge and bar.

“It was a way of us fulfilling a couple of dreams ... that was making the restaurant a more full-service restaurant,” Spears said.

Spears and Owens turned the expansion into an opportunity to add more artwork and continue repurposing.

“All the lighting fixtures, I built,” Spears said. The chandelier above the lounge is made from an aluminum disk from the Champaign Cinema Theater, a Holophane globe from an old subway lamp and an oiler from a Ford Model T car.

Behind the bar, Spears hung his piece “The Mask,” made out of puzzle pieces from a local creative reuse marketplace called The I.D.E.A Store.

He also designed and mounted “The Wheel” on the front window, a work inspired by an old grandfather clock. The tap handles in place of a clock’s hands reference Radio Maria’s circular beer dispensing system designed and patented by Spears himself, called the Hydratapper.

The owners further developed the addition into an outlet for local artists to display and sell their work to customers.

“We don’t take commission for works sold here,” Spears said. “It’s just a place where other artists have opinion.”

Today, Ron “RJ” Karlstrom features his paintings along the wall across from the bar — a series of acrylic pieces.

“It is a process of application and removal,” Karlstrom said. “My secret weapon is an electric eraser. I can get very detailed.”

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Radio Maria in downtown Champaign features various works of art created by owners David Spears and Sharon Owens. Their displays include a small diorama, several paintings and a wheel made from beer taps.

Spears and Karlstrom agree that most customers gravitate toward “Backwater,” an acrylic on-panel painting with a limited color palette valued at $700.

“It’s a more unified piece than the others,” Karlstrom said. “It is definitely a landscape — the other ones are more fantasy-oriented.”

While Karlstrom also displays two large paintings in the dining room, many of the pieces next door remain unmoved.

“La Lotería” is one of them. According to Spears, the diorama was designed to explain how he works.

“Turn the crank and the businessman spins in the circle,” Spears said. “Life is a lottery.”

Lyanne can be reached at alfaro2@dailyillini.com.

Coca-Cola campaign draws criticism from health officials

BY ADLAI STEVENSON STAFF WRITER

“No good deed goes unpunished” sounds easy enough to apply to any good-natured but ill-fated action destined for an unfortunate outcome. But the saying may gain a new sense of meaning when applied to a particular subject. Coca-Cola’s new anti-obesity advertising campaign appears altruistic but it has drawn heavy criticism from multiple health officials as many question how goodnatured Coke’s motives behind the campaign really are.

“It’s an image-building response to recent efforts against what the beverage company stands for,” said Shahbaz Gill, adjunct assistant professor in Business Administration.

“Coca-Cola is trying to manage the damage that’s being done to their market.”

In the new advertisement, Coca-Cola promotes their own health endeavors that they say

will play an important role in fighting obesity. Their efforts include 180 different low and no-calorie drink choices and smaller-portioned sizes, which Coca-Cola plans to supply 90 percent of the country with by the end of this year.

Initiatives of the company were also mentioned, such as removing full-calorie drinks from elementary and middle schools and displaying nutritional information on the front of their products.

Gill said the main push for Coke’s anti-obesity promotion comes from New York City’s ban on soda beverage containers larger than 16 ounces. This notion, now present in additional city and state governments, reveals stricter control and growing public concern over soda products, he said.

“Their market share is dropping gradually and the standards that they impose on themselves are being questioned,”

Gill said. “Corporate organizations within this industry are self-regulated ... in New York, the government intervened ... (These corporations) are applying the same concepts to themselves.”

Brittany Duff, assistant professor of advertising, also connected Coke’s anti-obesity advertisement and promotions to the New York soda serving restriction. Duff also sees the campaign as a way for CocaCola to avoid the government regulation cigarette companies have faced over time, which included tax increases and limitations in advertising.

“I think (Coke’s) argument there is, ‘we’re making it very easy for someone to know what they’re consuming,’” Duff said. “It’s not costing the government millions of dollars to put the message out there since Coca-Cola is paying for it ... they’re not trying to hide things. They’re maybe trying to

be proactive by getting ahead of that (government intervention).”

Duff later added that it is easy to consider why many have evaluated Coca-Cola’s campaign as disingenuous.

“Companies invite a kind of cynicism when they start to spend millions of dollars telling people all the good that they’re doing,” Duff said. “The idea that they just want it from the bottom of their hearts can pass when they market themselves.”

Gill applied an analogy to the campaign of Coke bruising someone then avoiding punishment by applying ointment. He said that companies in the past have used similar approaches of a technique titled societal marketing to maintain profits and satisfy their consumer base.

“As obesity levels rise, eyes will turn toward these industries, and Coke claims other cultural issues,” Gill said. “They need to establish loyalty and so they support and invest in

causes so people will say, ‘Oh, this is a wonderful company.’

It’s a two-way effect: they are building their image as well as increasing sales.”

This method and other corporate strategies that purport social good are not without past controversies. Much of the debate around Coke’s anti-obesity campaign centers on its promotion of calorie value.

The prominent commercial, titled Coming Together, claims that “All calories count, no matter where they come from.” But nutritional experts argue that stance misses out on key health facts.

“It’s misleading because certain foods, like fruits and vegetables, contain essential vitamins and minerals in addition to calories,” said L. Karina Diaz Rios, graduate assistant in nutrition. “A calorie from soda lacks nutritional essentials and with a

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“Companies invite a kind of cynicism when they start to spend millions of dollars telling people all the good that they’re doing.”

BRITTANY DUFF, assistant professor of advertising

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Illini thrive in Bollant’s new system Every starter on women’s basketball performs better under new head coach

Adrienne GodBold

BY MICHAEL MAROT

Illinois’ team MVP and Sixth Player of the Year last season has developed into a leader for the Illini after sitting out the first 11 games due to academic ineligibility.

GodBold leads the Illini with 18.6 points per game, almost twice her average of 9.6 points last season, and she can score

BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGER STAFF WRITER

defensive system. The Illini now tout a unique Buzz defense — a 2-1-2 trap new coach patrols the sideline — and an aggressive man-to-man as for the Illinois women’s well. The systems have helped Illinois basketball team this season. lead the Big Ten in forced turnovers He talks of his love for the and steals. game and for his players. He came to Bollant brought more than a change Illinois with a 148-19 record at Green in system; he also brought a change in Bay, a unique Buzz defense and an practice routines from the previous up-tempo offense. He had never lost coaching staff. more than eight games in a season.

“Last year was really tough. The But head coach Matt Bollant and practices were mostly running, so we his styles are the only changes. The didn’t really have legs all the time,” Illinois women’s basketball team that he senior Adrienne GodBold said. “Now, we inherited returned largely the same cast shoot. We run plays. We play basketball. of characters, with four starters and That’s what we do now.” the team’s sixth player, who averaged Bollant said he could see the players starter minutes. getting better while The new coach has also raising their found success early on. basketball IQs. Illinois (13-8, 6-3 Big “I just think all of the Ten) finds itself with fundamental stuff, all more wins overall (13) the footwork stuff that and in the Big Ten (six) coach (Mike) Divilbiss than the 2011-12 team has brought just makes (11-19, 5-11). us better and more And each member sound,” Bollant said. has had significant Illinois’ players have allowed the coaches increases in to change the team’s productivity this season. culture.

“I told them the first “This year, it’s like day on the job that night and day, to be we’re 10 points better quite honest,” GodBold than they were last year said. “We’re playing as MATT BOLLANT, because the system fits a team, the coaching head coach them,” Bollant said. staff came in and “They were really everything is going athletic, but, in the past, well, and everyone they didn’t really run a style that fit that loves them. When they came in, and now we’re running a style that fits everyone accepted them and we didn’t that.” give them any problems.”

Illinois is nearing Bollant’s goal. The The team has recently installed a new Illini average 72.1 points per game this motto: Enjoy the fight.

“One thing that they emphasize a season, compared with 63.4 points last lot that we’re not used to is enjoying season.

Each of Illinois’ starters has increased the fight,” junior guard Amber Moore her scoring average by at least four said. “We never heard that and you think points, and players have become better about it when we’re in the games, we should enjoy the fight, it shouldn’t be shooters overall.

“We’ve got a really complete package stressful, and, now, I enjoy it.” offensively, and that makes us really hard to guard,” Bollant said.

Johnathan can be reached at hetting2@ Bollant has also brought in a new dailyillini.com and @jhett93.

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“I just think all of the fundamental stuff, all the footwork stuff that coach (Mike) Divilbiss has brought just makes us better and more sound.”

Ivory Crawford

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FG %

3-pt %

RPG

SPG

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9.6

47.5

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4.2

1.9

33.6

18.6

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34.2

7.9

3.6

Karisma Penn Senior Karisma Penn has doubles and finishing in double been Illinois’ leading scorer her figures in scoring in all but one sophomore and junior year. game this season. Penn anchors Penn’s numbers dipped her junior the team’s defense with 2.9 year, but she has experienced a steals and 2.5 blocks per game. resurgence this season.

She has been Illinois’ only She has been consistent for true post player for most of the the Illini, averaging 18.5 points season after injuries sidelined and 10.1 rebounds per game, forwards Kersten Magrum and while recording 10 doubleKierra Morris.

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PPG

FG %

3-pt %

RPG

SPG

30.1

13.4

48.1

22.2

7.3

1.5

35.4

18.5

49.8

23.5

10.1

2.9

Amber Moore Junior Amber Moore has increased her productivity in almost every facet of her game. The 5-foot11 wing has increased her points, rebounds, steals and assists per game while converting more field goals, 3-pointers and free throws.

Moore attributes her increased productivity to her coach’s new system and better shot selection.

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Sophomore Ivory Crawford percent on 3-pointers) but she started last season but only also shows aggression driving to averaged around 21 minutes the basket. She also handles backper game. This season, she has up point guard duties when Smith emerged as another scoring is off the court. threat for Illinois by doubling her Crawford is aggressive on offensive production from 6.6 the defensive end, averaging points per game to 13.

2.5 steals and 4.7 rebounds per Crawford has been comfortable game, but she has also fouled out scoring from beyond the arc (35 of six games this season.

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from beyond the arc and by driving to the basket. She has also had a large defensive impact by grabbing 7.9 rebounds and 3.6 steals per game.

The senior’s main deficiencies occur from mental mistakes, both on offense (4.5 turnovers per game) and defense (has fouled out in seven of 10 games).

Illinois is 9-1 when Moore makes three or more 3-pointers, and the deep threat that she provides helps spread opponents’ defenses to keep track of her.

Moore has also developed into more of a leader in her fourth season. She is one of the team’s best communicators on the defensive end.

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PPG

FG %

3-pt %

RPG

SPG

31.2

9.3

36.8

32.9

2.9

1.2

37.1

13.1

38.4

37.4

4.3

1.6

Alexis Smith

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FG %

3-pt %

RPG

SPG

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6.6

34.0

31.5

3.9

0.97

31.5

13

39.8

34.4

4.7

2.52

Indiana returns to No. 1 in college basketball polls

Alexis Smith’s role has increased more than any other Illini. Illinois’ starting point guard played just 5.6 minutes per game last season but now averages 34.1 minutes per game.

The sophomore has been instrumental in instituting the team’s new offense, and she has done a solid job, averaging 7.7

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points and 5.4 assists per game.

Smith has been aggressive driving to the basket, and she is third on the team in free-throw attempts.

Her inexperience is still visible, as she averages 4.8 turnovers per game, but she has progressed with the season, and she averaged 6.7 assists and only three turnovers during Illinois’ 3-0 stretch last week.

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Tom Crean’s whirlwind week got even crazier Monday.

Upon returning home from the Super Bowl, the Indiana coach found out he’s leading America’s No. 1 college basketball team. Again.

It was another crowning moment in a week full of big wins for the Crean clan. Indiana beat No. 13 Michigan State, archrival Purdue and No. 1 Michigan in a seven-day span, before Crean headed to New Orleans. There, he watched one brother-in-law beat his other brother-in-law for the Super Bowl title.

Finally, he saw the Hoosiers reclaim the top spot in The Associated Press poll after seven weeks.

“Our guys appreciate winning.

They appreciate the task that it is and I think because our older guys have been through so many hard times, they appreciate it that much more,” a weary-sounding Crean said during Monday’s weekly Big Ten conference call. “And I think our younger guys were raised on winning. Guys like Yogi (Ferrell), Cody (Zeller), Remy Abell, those guys were really raised on winning, and that helps.”

Indiana’s next matchup is Thursday in Champaign against Illinois in the two teams’ only matchup of the regular season.

The Hoosiers’ grasp of the nation’s top spot marks the fifth straight week there is a new No. 1 team.

Duke started the current streak and was followed by Louisville, Duke again, Michigan and now Indiana. The last time there were five No. 1s in as many weeks was the last five polls of 2008-09, when it was Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Connecticut again, North Carolina and Louisville.

The Hoosiers, the preseason No. 1, held the top spot for the first five weeks of the regular season. They moved up two spots Monday after their win over the Wolverines and then-No. 2 Kansas’ loss to Oklahoma State. They received 58 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel, while Florida, which jumped two spots to second, got the other seven.

Michigan, which made its first appearance atop the Top 25 in more than two decades last week, dropped two spots to No. 3 and was followed

by Duke, Kansas, Gonzaga, Arizona, Miami, Syracuse and Ohio State.

The change at the top of the poll came as no surprise in Bloomington.

Even before Saturday’s game ended, fans were chanting “No. 1, No. 1.”

“We’ve been playing with a chip on our shoulder since the day I got here,” junior swingman Victor Oladipo said Saturday. “We’ve got to continue to play with that chip because it can be taken away at any time.”

Indiana found that out the hard way with an overtime loss to thenunranked Butler on Dec. 15.

For the next seven weeks, the Hoosiers were trying to get back to No. 1.

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Men’s basketball defense struggles; Paul benched

Five Big Ten teams in AP top 25

Illini give up rebounds, free throws to Badgers

BY ETHAN ASOFSKY SENIOR WRITER

Three days after criticizing Brandon Paul for his defense in Thursday’s loss against Michigan State, John Groce benched his senior guard during Sunday’s home game against Wisconsin.

That’s just how the last month has gone for the Illinois men’s basketball team, which many believed would go as far as Paul would take the team. Over that stretch, Paul has shrunk from a national player of the year candidate to needing wake-up calls before crucial Big Ten games. Despite Groce’s best efforts, it still didn’t click Sunday, and the Illini lost their sixth game in seven tries behind another abysmal defensive performance.

Statistically, Illinois is one of the worst defensive Big Ten teams since the start of conference play. At the top of the Big Ten, Wisconsin allows 55.6 points per game. Opponents are scoring an average of 67 points per game on 43 percent shooting against Groce’s Illini, who are also second-to-last in the Big Ten in defensive rebounds, averaging just 20.8 per game.

“All in all, the end that I’m focused on right now is the defensive end,” Groce said following Sunday’s 74-68 loss. “The one thing I’ll say about following this league over the years and being in it previously, if you don’t guard, you’re going to be very ineffective. You have to defend in this league.

We have not done that very well the last couple games. I feel like we have a lot of holes in our defense right now that we have to patch.”

While Illinois has struggled to defend teams, one could arguably say that defense has turned into the Big Ten’s calling card. Less than 10 minutes before Groce strolled into

the Assembly Hall’s press room for postgame comments, Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan sat before the microphone and chastised the media for not giving the Big Ten enough credit for its defenses.

“It’s time you people did that,” Ryan said. “People watch a Big East game, and it’s 49-46 and it’s ‘a great defensive battle.’ Wait a second, when we were in one of those it was termed a little bit differently. People just tell me, they say different things, so I don’t read and I don’t listen. I know what I call it — trying to play fundamental basketball.”

And that’s what Illinois has struggled to do since its Jan. 5 blowout win over Ohio State. Groce’s team has completely lost track of its fundamentals.

Michigan State shot 88 percent from the field in the second half on Thursday, and Wisconsin scored on 56 percent of tries after the break on Sunday.

Groce said his team couldn’t front, never provided backside help on Wisconsin’s cutters, struggled to get through screens and lost trust in each other on the court.

“The disappointing thing was Thursday night it was ball screens in the second half,” Groce said. “(Sunday), it was screens off the ball. At some point, we’ve been doing this since October the 12th. We’ve got to execute the simple things... That will allow us to be better defensively. But to do that, you have to trust the system and trust each other at a high level.”

Wisconsin never shot a free throw in its 58-49 loss to No. 10 Ohio State on Jan. 29; the Badgers followed that performance by converting 42 free throws on Sunday against the Illini,

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Illinois’ Brandon Paul attempts to draw the foul during Illinois’ loss to Wisconsin at Assembly Hall on Sunday.

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Indiana

20-2

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Florida

18-2

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Michigan

20-2

4

Duke

19-2

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Kansas

19-2

6

Gonzaga

21-2

7

Arizona

19-2

8

Miami (FL)

17-3

9

Syracuse

18-3

10

Ohio State

17-4

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Louisville

18-4

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Michigan State

18-4

13

Kansas State

17-4

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Butler

18-4

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New Mexico

19-3

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Creighton

20-3

17

Cincinnati

18-4

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Minnesota

17-5

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Oregon

18-4

20

Georgetown

16-4

21

Missouri

16-5

22

Oklahoma State

15-5

23

Pittsburgh

18-5

24

Marquette

15-5

25

Notre Dame

18-4

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Europol investigates alleged match-fixing

BY MIKE CORDER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Organized crime gangs have fixed or tried to fix hundreds of soccer matches around the world in recent years, including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games, Europol announced Monday.

The European Union’s police agency said an 18-month review found 380 suspicious matches in Europe and another 300 questionable games outside the continent, mainly in Africa, Asia and South and Central America. It also found evidence that a Singaporebased crime syndicate was involved in some of the match-fixing.

Europol refused to name any suspected matches, players, officials or match-fixers, saying that would compromise ongoing national investigations, so it remained unclear how much of the information divulged Monday was new or had already been revealed in trials across the continent.

Even so, the picture painted by Europol was the latest body blow for the credibility of sports in general, following cyclist Lance Armstrong’s admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs in all seven of his Tour de France wins.

“This is a sad day for European football (soccer),” Europol Director Rob Wainwright told reporters. He said criminals were cashing in on soccer corruption “on a scale and in a way that threatens the very fabric of the game.”

Europol said 425 match officials, club officials, players and criminals from at least 15 countries were involved in fixing European soccer games dating back to 2008.

Ralf Mutschke, director of security at FIFA, the world soccer body, said the report highlighted the need for soccer authorities and police to tackle corruption together.

“The support of law enforcement bodies, legal investigations, and ultimately tougher sanctions are required, as currently there is low risk and high gain potential for the fixers,” he said.

Mutschke said that while FIFA can ban players, referees and club officials, it is powerless to sanction people not directly involved in the sport.

“For people outside of football, currently the custodial sentences imposed are too weak and offer little to deter someone from getting involved in match-fixing,” he said.

Europol is not a police force but provides expertise and helps coordinate national police across the 27-nation European Union.

It said 13 European countries were involved in this match-fixing investigation, poring through 13,000 emails, paper trails, phone records and computer records.

Its probe uncovered €8 million ($10.9 million) in betting profits and €2 million ($2.7 million) in bribes to players and officials and has already led to several prosecutions.

“This is the tip of the iceberg,” said German investigator Friedhelm Althans, who also said two World Cup qualification matches in Africa and one in Central America were among those under suspicion.

Wainwright said that while many fixed soccer matches were already known from criminal trials in Europe, the Europol investigation lifted the lid on the widespread involvement of organized crime. “(That) highlights a big problem for the integrity of football in Europe,” he said.

He said a Singapore-based criminal network was involved in the match-fixing, spending up to €100,000 ($136,500) per match to bribe players and officials.

“The ringleaders are of Asian origin, working closely together with European facilitators,” Europol said in a statement, but adding that “Russian-speaking” and other criminal gangs were also involved.

Wainwright said the soccer world needed a “concerted effort” to tackle the corruption.

UEFA, which oversees European soccer and organizes the Champions League, seemed surprised by the breadth of Europol’s accusations. It said it expected to get more information on their investigation shortly.

“Once the details of these investigations are in UEFA’s hands, then they will be reviewed by the appropriate disciplinary bodies in order that the necessary measures are taken,” UEFA said in a statement.

Previous investigations have found that a World Cup qualifier between Liechtenstein and Finland in September 2009 was fixed by a referee from Bosnia, whom UEFA banned for life.

Last year, UEFA expelled a Malta player implicated in fixing a European Championship qualifier between Norway and Malta.

CHARLIE RIEDEL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Fans and members of the Baltimore Ravens and 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. Despite the blackout, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “I fully expect that we will be back here for Super Bowls.”

Superdome power outage cause unknown

BY KEVIN MCGILL AND MICHAEL KUNZELMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS — Who turned out the lights?

The day after the 34-minute blackout at the Super Bowl, the exact cause — and who’s to blame — were unclear, though a couple of potential culprits had been ruled out.

It wasn’t Beyonce’s electrifying halftime performance, according to Doug Thornton, manager of the state-owned Superdome, because the singer had her own generator. And it apparently wasn’t a case of too much demand for power. Meters showed the 76,000-seat stadium was drawing no more electricity than it does during a typical New Orleans Saints game, Thornton said.

The lights-out game Sunday proved an embarrassment for the Big Easy just when it was hoping to show the rest of the world how far it has come since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But many fans and residents were forgiving, and officials expressed confidence that the episode wouldn’t hurt the city’s hopes of hosting the championship again.

To New Orleans’ great relief, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the city did a “terrific” job hosting its first pro football championship in the postKatrina era, and added: “I fully expect

that we will be back here for Super Bowls.”

Fans watching from their living rooms weren’t deterred, either. An estimated 108.4 million people saw the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers 34-31, making it the third mostviewed program in television history.

Both the 2010 and 2011 games hit the 111 million mark.

The problem that caused the outage was believed to have happened around the spot where a line that feeds current from the local power company, Entergy New Orleans, connects with the Superdome’s electrical system, officials said.

But whether the fault lay with the utility or with the Superdome was not clear.

Determining the cause will probably take days, according to Dennis Dawsey, a vice president for distribution and transmission for Entergy. He said the makers of some of the switching gear have been brought in to help figure out what happened.

An attorney for the state board that oversees the Superdome said the blackout did not appear to be related to the replacement in December of electrical equipment connecting the stadium to Entergy. Officials with the utility and the Superdome noted that an NFL game, the Sugar Bowl and another bowl game were played

there in recent weeks with no apparent problems.

The blackout came after a nearly flawless week of activity for football fans in New Orleans leading up to the big game.

“I hope that’s not what they’ll remember about this Super Bowl,” French Quarter artist Gloria Wallis said. “I hope that what they’ll remember is they had a great time here and that they were welcomed here.”

Ravens fan Antonio Prezioso, a Baltimore native who went to the game with his 11-year-old son, said the outage just extended the experience.

“The more time we could spend at the game was a good thing, as long as it ended the way it did,” he said, laughing.

The city last hosted the Super Bowl in 2002, and officials were hoping this would serve as the ultimate showcase for the city’s recovery. The storm tore holes in the roof of the Superdome and caused water damage to its electrical systems, and more than $330 million was spent repairing and upgrading the stadium.

Sunday’s Super Bowl was New Orleans’ 10th as host, and officials plan to make a bid for an 11th in 2018.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu told WWLAM on Monday that the outage won’t hurt the city’s chances, and he joked that the game got better after the

blackout: “People were leaving and the game was getting boring, so we had to do a little something to spice it up.”

Jarvis DeBerry, a columnist for nola.com and The Times-Picayune, wrote that the power outage gave the media “an opportunity to laugh at the apparent ineptitude or suggest that the ghosts of Hurricane Katrina were haunting the Superdome.”

“That’s not the kind of attention the city was looking for, obviously,” he wrote, “but it’s certainly too soon to say if people will remember the power shortage over San Francisco’s furious comeback attempt against Baltimore or if this will harm the city’s future opportunities to host the Super Bowl.”

Bjorn Hanson, dean of New York University’s Center for Hospitality and Sports Management, said the episode shouldn’t hurt the city’s reputation as a big convention destination. “I think people view it for what it was: an unusual event with a near-record power draw,” he said. “It was the equivalent of a circuit breaker flipping.”

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons will meet in New Orleans. Patty Anderson, director of meetings, said of the blackout: “I never even gave it a second thought. To me, the city is bigger, stronger and more vibrant than it’s ever been.”

BRIEF Giana O’Connor becomes 2nd Illinois gymnast to win Big Ten Freshman of the Week DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

Illinois gymnast Giana O’Connor won Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors on Monday after finishing second in the all-around competition against Nebraska.

O’Connor, who picked up her first conference award, scored 39.050 in the event and placed in the top 10 in every event. The Streamwood, Ill., native finished fifth on the balance beam and the floor exercise, sixth on vault and ninth on bars.

The No. 22-ranked Illini lost Friday to the No. 7 Cornhuskers 195.750-194.750 in Lincoln, Neb. With an average score of 38.906 over four meets, O’Connor is now ranked 61st nationally in the all-around. She comes in 35th on the beam — her best event — with a 9.819 average.

She becomes the second Illinois gymnast to win the honor; junior Amber See became the first in February 2011 and won the award two weeks later.

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Giana O'Connor competes her floor exercise routine at Huff Hall on Saturday. She was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Monday.

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Seniors lack mental toughness Late-season collapse, late-game collapse vs. Wisconsin show lack of mental poise DANIEL MILLERMCLEMORE Basketball columnist

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osers of five of their last six games entering a rematch against Wisconsin, the Illini menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team desperately needed to right the ship, at home, against the only unranked team they would face in a five game stretch spanning two weeks.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve followed Illinois basketball in recent years, there should have been no surprise at the ensuing events.

The Illini and the Badgers gritted through a tight first half, Illinois failing to capitalize on multiple opportunities to build a lead, before Wisconsin used a 10-2 run to close the half.

Illinois benefited from two missed free throws from Ben Brust to start the half and Badger center Jared Berggren picking up his third foul with less than a minute into the second half. The Illini cut the lead to five and looked to be surging. Tracy Abrams forced a turnover and an Illinois breakaway to send Assembly Hall into a frenzy ... until Myke Henry missed the dunk.

Brust nailed a trey out

INDIANA FROM PAGE 1B The only stumble was a home loss to Wisconsin. But last week, they played their best basketball all season, leading almost from start to finish in all three games and handing Purdue its worst home loss ever.

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Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Nnanna Egwu stretches to grab the ball during Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; loss to Wisconsin at Assembly Hall, on Sunday. Egwu said the team needs to play harder and have a better mentality. of the ensuing media timeout, Brandon Paul carelessly turned the ball over, Illinois gave up an offensive rebound on the resulting layup, fouled and sent Mike Bruesewitz to the line. Paul missed a three on the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next trip, and another Badger three extended the lead to 13.

Those opening minutes, a five-and-a-half-minute stretch, essentially summed up Illinois in a nutshell. Flashes of talent and glimmers of hope prefacing a precipitous implosion.

The Illini couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come

up with the defensive stops needed to crawl back in the game, their leaking sieve of a defense allowing the Badgers just their second 70-point outing in Big Ten play (with the only other time being against, you guessed it, Illinois!). â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just gotta play harder,â&#x20AC;? center Nnanna Egwu said following the loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the main thing. You just gotta go back to practice, keep practicing the same things. And at the end of the day, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just kinda like Coach Groce has been saying since the beginning of

the year. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mentality. At some point, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let it be acceptable for them to score the way they did.â&#x20AC;?

But when will that point be?

When will that mentality kick in?

It looked like Illinois had turned a corner under Groceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new direction this season during its 12-0 start, but the Illini have regressed to the mean and far beneath it during this string of losses.

Egwu was right: At some point, someone will have to step up and say enough is

enough. Groce canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it. It has to come from within. It has to come from a player, or group of players, to set the standard, to finally be so fed up with Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; national perception of a laughingstock, an annual joke which will reliably falter during conference play.

Mentality starts at the top, and it may simply be that this group of seniors doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have it in them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly something they have never shown over the course of their careers to this point.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a scene early in

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Batman Beginsâ&#x20AC;? when Carmine Falcone, the mob boss in Gotham City, tells a young Bruce Wayne about the disparity of Gotham, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes ... sometimes things just go bad.â&#x20AC;?

He might as well have been speaking about the state of the Illini because for the second season in a row, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone bad.

And Sunday was the breaking point.

For Crean, that was just the start of the whirlwind weekend.

He flew on a private plane Sunday morning to New Orleans, where he watched the Super Bowl with his wife, Joani, the sister of John and Jim Harbaugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really hard certainly for Joani and her parents because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got such great joy for one and such pride,â&#x20AC;? Crean said.

He received a text message Sunday from Celtics coach Doc Rivers, who has had three children play college sports, that Crean showed to his father-inlaw late that night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said as a parent, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only as happy as your unhappiest child, and I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an amazing statement and one of the most profound things that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve

ever heard, and it probably fits what Joaniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents are going through,â&#x20AC;? Crean said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But in a sense, it could be a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredible joy in being able to be a part of it and see it.â&#x20AC;?

Crean was scheduled to return home Monday afternoon, in time for practice after a mostly sleepless night.

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remaining in the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately right now, I think our answer at times to playing hard when we get behind is to foul and be undisciplined,â&#x20AC;? Groce said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a team game as much on the defensive end as it is on the offensive end.â&#x20AC;?

FROM PAGE 1B with 31 of those coming in the second half. That second-half number is inflated because the Illini fouled to stop the clock toward the end of the game, but Wisconsin had still reached the double bonus with eight minutes

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